On Saturday 16 December 2006 16:07, 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?
It doesn't lock up, it just throws away data. What else can it do? You
can increase the buffers if required, but any app that requires you to
do that is badly written in any case. The buffer size is already 4 MB
by default.
Hans
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