Erik G. Burrows wrote: >> 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 >
It does not, it drops frames yes (Dropping data). I had this happen to me and although annoying it does not lock up. Greets Sander _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
