> Mythtv has a design flaw in that it does lots of database inserts in
> the same thread that is reading from the encoder. These can pause
> mythtv long enought for all your buffers to fill. Since it doesn't
> bother many people, they don't seem too keen to fix it.
> 
> If you don't mind compiling your own mythtv, there's a patch at
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/1660 that fixes the defect. It may
> fix your problem.

One might argue that ivtv's behavior of locking up if the reader
application is to slow is a design flaw also. Is this something that can
be corrected?

-Erik G. Burrows

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