[mythtv-users] Infinitv freezes - on commercial breaks, in SD

[Steve Greene]

On Sat, 2014-04-26 at 12:14 +0930, Mark Perkins wrote:
> 
> > On 26 Apr 2014, at 10:59 am, "Steve Greene" <sgreene59 at verizon.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Sat, 2014-04-26 at 10:34 +0930, Mark Perkins wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On 26 Apr 2014, at 9:07 am, "Steve Greene" <sgreene59 at verizon.net> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Hello, I'm getting annoying and specific random freezes on the channels
> >>> tuned from Verizon FIOS through my 4 tuner PCI-E Infinitv.
> >>> 
> >>> I get messages like this in mythfrontend.log:
> >>>       Apr 25 19:29:48 [mymythbox] mythfrontend.real:
> >>>       mythfrontend[1461]: W Decoder ringbuffer.cpp:1035
> >>>       (WaitForReadsAllowed)
> >>>       RingBuf(myth://192.168.1.4:6543/2127_20140425232937.mpg): Taking
> >>>       too long to be allowed to read..
> >>> 
> >>> I've tried playing around with the buffer settings, but I think
> >>> something else is going on, since it is pretty specific to SD channels
> >>> on the commercial break. Could the inserted commercials disrupt the
> >>> stream somehow? How can I change the logging to grab more relevant error
> >>> messages?
> >>> 
> >>> TIA,
> >>> 
> >>> Steve
> >>> 
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >> 
> >> Is this in LiveTV only or on playback of recordings as well? And what version of MythTV are you on?
> >> 
> >> Assuming you are not on current fixes/0.27 or above and this is in LiveTV then you may need to update / upgrade to take advantage of some important bug fixes.
> > 
> > Sorry, should have specified. It is in LiveTV only and I'm running
> > 0.27fixes. No issues with HD channels, or with my off-air tuners.
> > 
> > Steve
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> The symptoms sound a bit like a bug that was fixed back in Feb but it was ported to 0.27 so if you are on more or less current that shouldn't be it.
> 
> Maybe try and get a log file from startup of mythfrontend through to a freeze and post so that the experts can have a quick read through it.
> _______________________________________________

It's a long chunk of log file, should I put it in a paste bin?

Thanks,
Steve