John Biundo wrote: >Simon Lundell wrote: > > >>>Anybody else seen this, or got any clues? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>I have experienced the same thing. After a long pause the screen went >>black. The program was still in the ringbuffer, and was watchable from >>mplayer. If only I have had backed it up before entering live-tv again... >> >> >> >>>I'm fairly new to MythTV, but have decent linux skills and am willing >>>to try to track this problem down if I can get a little guidance on >>>how to best collect data, generate some hypotheses, and test them. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>I am not that familiar with the inner workings of mythtv, so I might not >>be the best person to ask. >>Have you experimented with different ringbuffer sizes? >> >> >> >>>Thanks in advance for any help. This problem has certainly raised >>>some "uncomfortableness" in the household, and has people feeling the >>>need to reach for video tape when something crucial needs to be recorded! >>> >>> >>> >>> >>I also felt a quite negative atmosphere right after the apperence of >>this bug... >> >>//Simon >> >> >> >Hi Simon, > >Thanks for the reply and suggestion. I've also decided to focus some >attention on the ringbuffer. Moving it off LVM, maybe even to a >different filesystem (it's on JFS right now). Maybe resizing it is a >good experiment too. > >It sounds like maybe your problem is in the past -- do you still see it? > If so, do you notice any particular patterns? If not, any ideas what >finally resolved it? > > I guess the problem is still there. I try to avoid long pauses now. I haven't had any time to experiment with it yet.
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