Hello All,<br><br>I am not sure what is going on with my setup, but I am having problems where my frontends get starved for frames. This almost always happens when watching live TV, but I do see small recoverable starvations when watching recorded content. My setup is a fresh install on Mythbuntu 11.04 with Ron Fraziers Ceton patch. I have a gigabit network with a modern triple core AMD backend and five Atom/ION frontends. Below is an example output of my logs. For the record, I have no idea what my kids were watching, "My Wife and Kids "Of Breasts and Basketball"", but channel 2033 is Nickelodeon so keep it clean guys! ;)<div>
<br></div><div>-Tom<br><div><br><br>Backend version:<div>--------------------------<br>MythTV Version : v0.24-243-g9ba3ece<br>MythTV Branch : fixes/0.24<br>Network Protocol : 63<br>Library API : 0.24.20101129-1<br>
QT Version : 4.7.2<br>Options compiled in:<br> linux debug using_alsa using_oss using_pulse using_pulseoutput using_backend using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python using_dvb using_firewire using_frontend using_hdhomerun using_ceton using_hdpvr using_iptv using_ivtv using_joystick_menu using_lirc using_mheg using_opengl_video using_opengl_vsync using_qtdbus using_qtwebkit using_v4l2 using_x11 using_xrandr using_xv using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python using_mythtranscode using_opengl using_vdpau using_ffmpeg_threads using_live using_mheg<br>
<br>Frontend version:<br>--------------------------</div><div>MythTV Version : v0.24.1-69-g515171d<br>MythTV Branch : fixes/0.24<br>Network Protocol : 63<br>Library API : 0.24.20110505-1<br>QT Version : 4.7.2<br>
Options compiled in:<br> linux debug using_alsa using_oss using_pulse using_pulseoutput using_backend using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python using_dvb using_firewire using_frontend using_hdhomerun using_hdpvr using_iptv using_ivtv using_joystick_menu using_lirc using_mheg using_opengl_video using_opengl_vsync using_qtdbus using_qtwebkit using_v4l using_x11 using_xrandr using_xv using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python using_mythtranscode using_opengl using_vdpau using_ffmpeg_threads using_live using_mheg<br>
<br><br>Backend log:<br>--------------------------</div><div>2011-08-30 20:31:29.486 TVRec(8): HW Tuner: 8->8<br>2011-08-30 20:31:29.543 LoadFromScheduler(): Error, called from backend.<br>2011-08-30 20:31:29.556 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 3.0 GB w/freq: 7 min<br>
2011-08-30 20:31:29.729 Finished recording My Wife and Kids "Of Breasts and Basketball": channel 2033<br>2011-08-30 20:31:29.931 TVRec(8): RingBufferChanged()<br>2011-08-30 20:31:29.959 MainServer::ANN Monitor<br>
2011-08-30 20:31:30.055 adding: mythtvbe1 as a client (events: 0)<br>2011-08-30 20:31:30.063 MainServer::ANN Playback<br>2011-08-30 20:31:30.098 MainServer::ANN Monitor<br>2011-08-30 20:31:30.147 adding: mythtvfe4 as a client (events: 0)<br>
2011-08-30 20:31:30.206 adding: mythtvbe1 as a client (events: 1)<br>2011-08-30 20:31:30.257 MainServer::HandleAnnounce FileTransfer<br><br>Frontend log:<br>--------------------------</div><div>2011-08-30 20:31:31.659 AFD: Resetting byte context eof (livetv 1 was eof 0)<br>
2011-08-30 20:31:31.659 AFD: Resetting byte context eof (livetv 1 was eof 0)<br>2011-08-30 20:31:31.666 msg: On known multiplex...<br>2011-08-30 20:31:31.763 Player(0): Waited 100ms for video buffers AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA<br>
...<br>2011-08-30 20:31:32.427 Player(0): Waited 100ms for video buffers AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA<br>2011-08-30 20:31:32.465 VDPAU Painter: Clearing VDPAU painter cache.<br>2011-08-30 20:31:32.468 Player(0): Timed out waiting for frames, and<br>
there are not enough free frames. Discarding buffered frames.<br>2011-08-30 20:31:32.491 MythPainter: 11 images not yet de-allocated.<br>2011-08-30 20:31:32.574 Clearing OpenGL painter cache.<br>2011-08-30 20:31:32.632 VDPAU: Created 2 output surfaces.<br>
2011-08-30 20:31:32.633 VDPAU: Created VDPAU render device 1280x720<br>2011-08-30 20:31:32.752 Player(0): Forcing decode extra audio option on (Video method requires it).<br>2011-08-30 20:31:32.752 AFD: Opened codec 0x95e4e10, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)<br>
2011-08-30 20:31:32.752 AFD: codec AC3 has 0 channels<br>2011-08-30 20:31:32.754 AFD: Opened codec 0x9700560, id(AC3) type(Audio)<br>2011-08-30 20:31:32.755 [mpegvideo_vdpau @ 0x5caeae0]mpeg_decode_postinit() failure<br>
2011-08-30 20:31:32.755 AFD Error: Unknown decoding error<br>
2011-08-30 20:31:32.755 [mpegvideo_vdpau @ 0x5caeae0]mpeg_decode_postinit() failure<br>2011-08-30 20:31:32.755 AFD Error: Unknown decoding error<br>2011-08-30 20:31:32.756 [mpegvideo_vdpau @ 0x5caeae0]mpeg_decode_postinit() failure<br>
2011-08-30 20:31:32.756 AFD Error: Unknown decoding error<br>2011-08-30 20:31:32.784 Player(0): Waited 100ms for video buffers AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA<br>...<br>2011-08-30 20:31:32.808 Player(0): Waited 100ms for video buffers AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA<br>
2011-08-30 20:31:32.812 VDPAU Painter: Clearing VDPAU painter cache.<br>2011-08-30 20:31:32.813 Player(0): Timed out waiting for frames, and<br> there are not enough free frames. Discarding buffered frames.<br>
2011-08-30 20:31:32.839 Clearing OpenGL painter cache.<br>2011-08-30 20:31:32.917 VDPAU: Created 2 output surfaces.<br>2011-08-30 20:31:32.918 VDPAU: Created VDPAU render device 1280x720<br>2011-08-30 20:31:33.026 Player(0): Forcing decode extra audio option on (Video method requires it).<br>
2011-08-30 20:31:33.040 Player(0): Waited 100ms for video buffers AAAAAAAAAAALAAAAA<br>...<br>2011-08-30 20:31:33.058 Player(0): Waited 100ms for video buffers AAAAAAAAAAALAAAAA<br>2011-08-30 20:31:33.096 VDPAU: Added 2 output surfaces (total 4, max 4)<br>
2011-08-30 20:31:33.300 Player(0): Waited 100ms for video buffers AAAAfAAALAAfAAAAA<br>...<br>2011-08-30 20:31:34.125 Player(0): Waited 100ms for video buffers AfAAAAAAfAAALAAAA</div></div></div>