[mythtv-users] Blank Video for short periods

Tue May 15 12:17:24 UTC 2012

On May 14, 2012, at 10:24 PM, "Andrew Potter" <drewey at internode.on.net> wrote:

> Occasionally when watching a recording the video disappears for 3 - 8 seconds, the audio remains OK.
> 
> If I skip back then the video is visible so I can be confident the
> recording is OK. This doesn't happen for all recordings but has
> happened for different channels.

Check the GPU temp during playback. I've seen similar behavior with an overheating NVidia card during VDPAU playback. It would only do it on 1080i programs and only then after the program had been playing continuously for a while.