[mythtv-users] Live TV Program Change Over

Scott & Nicole Harris snharris99 at live.com
Tue Mar 27 22:53:36 UTC 2012


>I have had always had an issue during Live TV during the change over form 
>program to another (not a channel change).
>In < 0.25, there would be an ~5 second “freeze” at the change over point, 
>but
>playback very reliably always continued playing after the freeze.

>With 0.25, the reliability of the continuation of playback has become 
>rather suspect with it frequently crashing
> back to the MythTV menu with the “live buffer failed too many times” 
> (paraphrased).  The
>other night, my wife was up all night with a sick kid and told me that “the 
>TV kept giving me this error message every 30 minutes”.
> I didn’t put 2 and 2 together until tonight when it died on me during the
>local news –> nightly news and then nightly news –> what ever was next.
> So I looked back at what she was watching that night and sure enough, it 
> was all 30 minute sitcom reruns.

>Anyone have any suggestions for addressing this?  I’m wondering if maybe 
>giving Live TV a second storage
> group on a separate disk from the first Live TV storage group might help? 
> It occurs on my MBE/FE >locally as well as my remote FEs.

I got a new error message tonight with this issue.  "Error opening switch 
program buffer". 



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