On 1/19/2006 11:51 PM frank s wrote: >Hello, I am a newbie to mythtv and have a setup that >is working fairly well, but is having a problem with >freezes under certain conditions. > >I have been searching the board for MythTV users who >are having a problem similar to what I am experiencing >and have turned up a couple of posts that are similar. > Neither have a posted resolution or are linked, but >they may be the same. > >First a short description of the problem as I am >experiencing it: > >Setup >- HD3000 connected to us-cable (digital) > > Terrestrial here.
>- Dell 4700 w/Pentium 4 Processor 530 with HT >Technology (3.00GHz, 800 FSB) > > AMD 2800+ on Nvidia GeForce2 chipset >- 512 MB RAM > > Ditto. >- 160 GB EIDE SATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM) > > And a 200 GB EIDE Drive in a lvm config with my 160 GB. >- Hauppauge PVR 1081 RT connected to us-cable (analog) > > PVR 250 >- Fedora Core 4 > > Gentoo 2.6.13-r5 kernel. >- MythTV 0.18.1 >- frontend and backend are both on this box > > Same. >Problem symptoms >- watching live HDTV sometimes freezes (mostly with >720p format) >- playing back HDTV recordings made while watching >analog tv usually freeze >- playing back HDTV recordings made while frontend is >idle appear NOT to freeze (7 hours of recordings made >with no freeze) >- when freeze occurs kswapd0 becomes very active and >the disk usage grows with time > > Haven't noticed this but then my HD3000 install is still very new. >- a particular recording will always freeze at the >same point on multiple playback attempts >- skipping past the freeze point does not cause a >freeze, but audio is lost even though the video is >good > > I have this problem too. Suspected either I didn't have something right in my config or due to weak signal. I know my signal strength bounces around (80, 70, 75, 65, 68, 72, etc.) on one station and so far, this behavior has been limited to recordings on that channel. >- playing the recording in the window of the select >recording page allows the video to play right through >the freeze point without freeze occurring (of course >there is no audio at all in this case) > > Haven't tried this as I have thumbnails selected. >- the frontend reports a prebuffering pause when the >freeze occurs > > Same here. >- the freeze occurs at the same point when mplayer is >used to play the recording > > Haven't tried this but I will. >Two previous posts that I found which appear to be >related to this problem are: > >http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2006-January/116465.html >and >http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2005-December/115226.html > >I would appreciate any ideas on how to correct this >issue. Thanks in advance for your help. > > I'll be watching this thread with interest as I have no idea what's going on. :) Cheers, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users