Tom Metro wrote:
> Scott Souter wrote:
>> Sometimes the program will start over when skipping...
>
> Can you clarify what you mean by that?
>
> I see a situation quite often where the first time a commercial skip is
> invoked, the MVP gets stuck on a black frame. Pressing the skip button
> again often causes it to jump back to a point prior to the commercial
> break, and the another press or two will accomplish the commercial skip.
> It then works OK on subsequent skips during that program.
>
> I suspect this is related to the problem where pushing the right arrow
> button to jump forward by 1% will often fail (black screen again) at the
> beginning of a video, but if you stop and restart the video, it'll work
> normally.
>
> And I suspect both are caused by a bug where mvpmc's pointer for where
> it currently is in a video isn't getting properly initialized. Shouldn't
> be that hard of a bug to track down.
>
>
>> ...and other times the boxes just reboot.
>
> I've been running a fairly old dongle for almost a year now, I think,
> and I saw this symptom for the first time just recently. Within a
> certain time frame, skipping forward during a commercial break at any
> point in any show results in a warm restart.
>
> It might have corresponded with a period in which my back-end server was
> heavily loaded. Perhaps if MySQL doesn't respond to one of the
> commercial skip queries quickly enough, something goes off the track.
>
> In my case it seems to have gone away as quickly as it appeared, but if
> you can reproduce it, you might want to capture the log while it
> happens. A review of the commercial skip code might turn up the cause.
>
>
>> Another issue is stuttering video and audio from time to time.
>
> This could be due to network or back-end slowdowns, as Roger mentioned,
> but it is more likely to be due to mvpmc running low on memory. See the
> recent thread where this was discussed.
>
> -Tom
The dongle he is running has the memory leak fixes in it.
I have about 1150 recording and after I found that leak and corrected
it that problem has went away, and that correction was committed quite
a while ago.
Roger
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