[mythtv-users] Both In progress HD recordings and Live Tv dropping frames on frontend.

John reidjr at lineone.net
Wed May 14 19:03:50 UTC 2014


On 14/05/14 16:36, Tom Lichti wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 5:46 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard 
> <jyavenard at gmail.com <mailto:jyavenard at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 14 May 2014 05:06, John <reidjr at lineone.net
>     <mailto:reidjr at lineone.net>> wrote:
>
>     > I am intrigued by what the difference is between the frontend
>     being in the
>     >
>     > kState_WatchingRecording rather than kState_WatchingPreRecorded,
>     as I assume
>     > it is the dBase activity of being in the former state that
>     causes the issue.
>     > As the backend shouldnt care if a frontend is watching somthing its
>     > recording, nulling out that activity seems to make sense.
>
>     as far as the FE is concerned, it makes no difference except that it
>     will know if it needs to query the database for seek tables.
>
>     your BE is obviously too busy to properly serve files while also
>     recording
>
>
> I would have to agree with JYA on this. My setup has 2 HDHR's 
> recording from antenna, an HD-PVR and a PVR-150, and I found that many 
> recordings were damaged or would have dropped sections (especially the 
> HDHR recordings, which led me down the wrong path of thinking it was 
> signal related), until a few weeks ago I upgraded my backend hardware 
> (new mobo), and more specifically moved to faster and dedicated 
> drives. Since I've done that, I have not had any of the issues that 
> you are having, and that I had previously.
>
> Tom
>
>
>
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Tom,
Didnt see your reply before I posted my own. I have no problem with the 
recordings. They can be watched on any frontend AFTER they have stopped 
recording. There is no recording problem as such, just the remote 
playback of in progress recordings on an Ion based frontend.

regards,

John
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