> I wrote about this particular problem yesterday ... > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/108116 > > The only thing I can think of ... is that the Live TV has more code > around pausing, getting behind, etc. etc. whereas if you are watching a > recording (nuv file) any errors and you are popped out ....
What kind of network are you using to connect the two boxes? I have been seeing similar issues when I tried to add a remote frontend to my working frontend/backend system with similar error messages on the remote frontend. All are Myth v.16, SuSE 9.2. Using PVR-350 on combo frontend/backend box with no problems recording, playing or otherwise. Remote frontend box is connected via wireless g bridge to the network and I'm viewing through nvidia quadro card to monitor. I see similar issues as you've described, only live tv will also die. Here's the thing, on the remote frontend, live tv is more stable than recordings. Recordings will die within 1-3 minutes while live tv can make it 15 minutes before displaying this behavior. Of course this is pretty anecdotal data-(I didn't perform the test in triplicate and record the times or anything- [but I might tonight]) but the phenomenon was enough that I did make a mental note of it. When I physically move the remote frontend box and make a wired connection to the router to which my backend is directly wired (thereby making a 100mbs connection), it did not crash even when watching recordings- It worked fine for over 30 minutes so I called it stable and moved everything back. As of tuesday morning when I did this test I was thinking that my network is a little flaky (even though there are no other issues with streaming media to windows boxes connected through the wireless bridge), but there may be more to it. I also feel like if there was a way to just bump up the buffering a little bit, I'd be fine... My other thought is to try to transcode, instead of streaming MPEG-2, smaller files should stream better. But, since my main system uses the PVR-350 tv-out, I hesitate to even go down this path as it's not a real long term solution for me. The remote frontend is a workstation and should get minimal use with myth...
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