On Friday 20 January 2006 10:47, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > 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
You guys should seriously consider upgrading to SVN, Lots of fixes for HD, I've had my HD3000, and DCT6200 and a PVR150 all connected and running fine, HD works great, etc. -- Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
