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PostPosted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 10:45 am 
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I just rebuilt my system for HD playback:
AMD BE-2400 (2.3Mhz Dual core, low power version of the 4400+)
ASUS M2N-E Motherboard
2GB Ram
MSI Nvidia NX7300GS, 256MB Fanless
2 Hard Drives, Recordings go to one and the OS and database is on the other
2 PVR 150s connected to analog cable
1 PVR 250 connected to a digital cable box
1 HDHomerun connected to an OTA antenna

Everything works great except for the HDHR. I can connect to it fine, and I can watch OTA HD fine for 3 to 4 minutes before the image just freezes. It is very consistant. This is with on other programs recording. Running the frontend in a terminal this is the error message:

NVP: prebuffering pause
Ringbuf(/myth/tv/xxxxxxxx.mpg) waited 1.0 seconds for data to become available
checking to see if there's a new live tv program to switch to . .

This message will keep repeating forever. I am not using XVMC for playback. I tried turning off the deinterlacing, I tried turning off priority threads. While the HD content does play there is no skipping or studdering.

Any ideas?

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 11:51 am 
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have you ruled out power supply?
http://knoppmyth.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=18436

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My power supply appears to be the updated one. To further narrow down the issue I installed both the frontend and backend on my desktop through the ubuntu repos. The HDHR works flawlessly on my desktop machine, so I don't think it is the tuner. I also tried increasing the buffer size, but that made no difference.

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HD recordings stop soon after beginning also, it isn't just live tv

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:39 am 
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Any help in the logs?

They're in /var/log/mythtv/*
NOTE if mythfrontend.log is owned by root. you may need to look in ~mythtv/xsession-errors for frontend info


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PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 10:08 am 
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I set a program to record via mythweb and the recording still quit recording after a couple minutes without viewing anything on the frontend. The frontend log for this time period was empty. I have attached the backend log for this time period. I don't see anything obvious, but if anyone else does please let me know.

Thanks


2008-09-27 10:48:19.352 TVRec(7): ASK_RECORDING 7 0 0 0
2008-09-27 10:48:19.524 TVRec(7): Changing from None to RecordingOnly
2008-09-27 10:48:19.534 TVRec(7): HW Tuner: 7->7
2008-09-27 10:48:19.536 HDHRChan(ffffffff/1): device found at address 192.168.0$
2008-09-27 10:48:19.580 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 5.0 $
2008-09-27 10:48:19.585 Started recording: WordWorld "Superhero Sheep; Pirate S$
2008-09-27 10:48:19.589 scheduler: Started recording: WordWorld "Superhero Shee$
2008-09-27 10:48:27.656 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2008-09-27 10:48:27.661 adding: mediabox as a client (events: 0)
2008-09-27 10:48:28.324 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2008-09-27 10:48:28.327 Empty LocalHostName.
2008-09-27 10:48:28.328 Using localhost value of mediabox
2008-09-27 10:48:28.342 New DB connection, total: 1
2008-09-27 10:48:28.347 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-09-27 10:48:28.349 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2008-09-27 10:48:28.350 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-09-27 10:48:28.352 New DB connection, total: 2
2008-09-27 10:48:28.354 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-09-27 10:48:28.356 Current Schema Version: 1214
2008-09-27 10:48:28.514 AFD: Opened codec 0x82d08e0, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2008-09-27 10:48:28.516 AFD: codec AC3 has 6 channels
2008-09-27 10:48:28.518 AFD: Opened codec 0x82d0e90, id(AC3) type(Audio)
2008-09-27 10:48:28.622 Preview: Grabbed preview '/myth/tv/4091_20080927104800.$
2008-09-27 10:48:29.119 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2008-09-27 10:48:29.123 Empty LocalHostName.
2008-09-27 10:48:29.124 Using localhost value of mediabox
2008-09-27 10:48:29.137 New DB connection, total: 1
2008-09-27 10:48:29.142 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-09-27 10:48:29.144 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2008-09-27 10:48:29.146 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-09-27 10:48:29.148 New DB connection, total: 2
2008-09-27 10:48:29.149 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-09-27 10:48:29.151 Current Schema Version: 1214
2008-09-27 10:48:29.348 AFD: Opened codec 0x82c6670, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2008-09-27 10:48:29.350 AFD: codec MP2 has 2 channels
2008-09-27 10:48:29.351 AFD: Opened codec 0x82c6ac0, id(MP2) type(Audio)
2008-09-27 10:48:29.985 Preview: Grabbed preview '/myth/tv/1028_20080926220000.$
2008-09-27 10:48:30.342 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2008-09-27 10:48:30.346 Empty LocalHostName.
2008-09-27 10:48:30.347 Using localhost value of mediabox
2008-09-27 10:48:30.361 New DB connection, total: 1
2008-09-27 10:48:30.366 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-09-27 10:48:30.368 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2008-09-27 10:48:30.369 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-09-27 10:48:30.371 New DB connection, total: 2
2008-09-27 10:48:30.373 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-09-27 10:48:30.375 Current Schema Version: 1214
2008-09-27 10:48:30.506 Preview: Grabbed preview '/myth/tv/1005_20080926215200.$
2008-09-27 10:48:44.736 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2008-09-27 10:48:44.741 adding: mediabox as a client (events: 0)
2008-09-27 10:48:45.377 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2008-09-27 10:48:45.380 Empty LocalHostName.
2008-09-27 10:48:45.381 Using localhost value of mediabox
2008-09-27 10:48:45.394 New DB connection, total: 1
2008-09-27 10:48:45.399 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-09-27 10:48:45.401 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2008-09-27 10:48:45.402 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-09-27 10:48:45.405 New DB connection, total: 2
2008-09-27 10:48:45.406 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-09-27 10:48:45.408 Current Schema Version: 1214
2008-09-27 10:48:45.506 AFD: Opened codec 0x82d08e0, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2008-09-27 10:48:45.508 AFD: codec AC3 has 6 channels
2008-09-27 10:48:45.509 AFD: Opened codec 0x82d0e90, id(AC3) type(Audio)
2008-09-27 10:48:45.611 Preview: Grabbed preview '/myth/tv/4091_20080927104800.$
2008-09-27 10:48:57.979 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2008-09-27 10:48:57.983 adding: mediabox as a client (events: 0)
2008-09-27 10:48:58.616 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2008-09-27 10:48:58.619 Empty LocalHostName.
2008-09-27 10:48:58.620 Using localhost value of mediabox
2008-09-27 10:48:58.633 New DB connection, total: 1
2008-09-27 10:48:58.638 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-09-27 10:48:58.640 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2008-09-27 10:48:58.641 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-09-27 10:48:58.643 New DB connection, total: 2
2008-09-27 10:48:58.645 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-09-27 10:48:58.647 Current Schema Version: 1214
2008-09-27 10:48:58.745 AFD: Opened codec 0x82d08e0, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2008-09-27 10:48:58.747 AFD: codec AC3 has 6 channels
2008-09-27 10:48:58.748 AFD: Opened codec 0x82d0e90, id(AC3) type(Audio)
2008-09-27 10:48:58.849 Preview: Grabbed preview '/myth/tv/4091_20080927104800.$
2008-09-27 10:49:38.923 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2008-09-27 10:49:38.928 adding: mediabox as a client (events: 0)
2008-09-27 10:49:39.575 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2008-09-27 10:49:39.578 Empty LocalHostName.
2008-09-27 10:49:39.579 Using localhost value of mediabox
2008-09-27 10:49:39.593 New DB connection, total: 1
2008-09-27 10:49:39.597 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-09-27 10:49:39.599 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2008-09-27 10:49:39.601 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-09-27 10:49:39.603 New DB connection, total: 2
2008-09-27 10:49:39.604 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-09-27 10:49:39.606 Current Schema Version: 1214
2008-09-27 10:49:39.704 AFD: Opened codec 0x82d08e0, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2008-09-27 10:49:39.706 AFD: codec AC3 has 6 channels
2008-09-27 10:49:39.707 AFD: Opened codec 0x82d0e90, id(AC3) type(Audio)
2008-09-27 10:49:39.812 Preview: Grabbed preview '/myth/tv/4091_20080927104800.$
2008-09-27 10:50:42.328 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2008-09-27 10:50:42.332 adding: mediabox as a client (events: 0)
2008-09-27 10:50:42.975 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2008-09-27 10:50:42.978 Empty LocalHostName.
2008-09-27 10:50:42.979 Using localhost value of mediabox
2008-09-27 10:50:42.993 New DB connection, total: 1
2008-09-27 10:50:42.998 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-09-27 10:50:42.999 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2008-09-27 10:50:43.001 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-09-27 10:50:43.003 New DB connection, total: 2
2008-09-27 10:50:43.004 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-09-27 10:50:43.007 Current Schema Version: 1214
2008-09-27 10:50:43.105 AFD: Opened codec 0x82d08b0, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2008-09-27 10:50:43.107 AFD: codec AC3 has 6 channels
2008-09-27 10:50:43.109 AFD: Opened codec 0x82d0e60, id(AC3) type(Audio)
2008-09-27 10:50:43.215 Preview: Grabbed preview '/myth/tv/4091_20080927104800.$
2008-09-27 10:51:24.748 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2008-09-27 10:51:24.753 adding: mediabox as a client (events: 0)
2008-09-27 10:51:25.384 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2008-09-27 10:51:25.387 Empty LocalHostName.
2008-09-27 10:51:25.388 Using localhost value of mediabox
2008-09-27 10:51:25.401 New DB connection, total: 1
2008-09-27 10:51:25.406 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-09-27 10:51:25.408 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2008-09-27 10:51:25.410 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-09-27 10:51:25.412 New DB connection, total: 2
2008-09-27 10:51:25.413 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-09-27 10:51:25.415 Current Schema Version: 1214
2008-09-27 10:51:25.513 AFD: Opened codec 0x82d08e0, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2008-09-27 10:51:25.515 AFD: codec AC3 has 6 channels
2008-09-27 10:51:25.516 AFD: Opened codec 0x82d0e90, id(AC3) type(Audio)
2008-09-27 10:51:25.625 Preview: Grabbed preview '/myth/tv/4091_20080927104800.$
2008-09-27 10:52:04.576 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2008-09-27 10:52:04.579 adding: mediabox as a client (events: 0)
2008-09-27 10:52:05.210 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2008-09-27 10:52:05.220 Empty LocalHostName.
2008-09-27 10:52:05.221 Using localhost value of mediabox
2008-09-27 10:52:05.234 New DB connection, total: 1
2008-09-27 10:52:05.239 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-09-27 10:52:05.241 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2008-09-27 10:52:05.242 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-09-27 10:52:05.244 New DB connection, total: 2
2008-09-27 10:52:05.246 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-09-27 10:52:05.248 Current Schema Version: 1214
2008-09-27 10:52:07.723 AFD: Opened codec 0x82d08b0, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2008-09-27 10:52:07.724 AFD: codec AC3 has 6 channels
2008-09-27 10:52:07.726 AFD: Opened codec 0x82d0e60, id(AC3) type(Audio)
2008-09-27 10:52:07.835 Preview: Grabbed preview '/myth/tv/4091_20080927104800.$
2008-09-27 10:52:20.745 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2008-09-27 10:52:20.746 adding: mediabox as a client (events: 0)
2008-09-27 10:52:33.180 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2008-09-27 10:52:33.181 adding: mediabox as a client (events: 0)
2008-09-27 10:52:37.377 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2008-09-27 10:52:37.379 adding: mediabox as a client (events: 0)
2008-09-27 10:52:40.250 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2008-09-27 10:52:40.253 adding: mediabox as a client (events: 0)
2008-09-27 10:52:43.592 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2008-09-27 10:52:43.595 adding: mediabox as a client (events: 0)

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 11:52 am 
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What size are your hard drives? You mention one for recordings and one for KnoppMyth: are you running LVM or storage groups or something else?


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I have one 300GB drive mounted as root, swap, and myth which holds the database and my ripped DVDs, and then a 500GB drive mounted as /myth/tv for recordings.

Here are the relavent lines from /etc/fstab:
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda3 /myth auto defaults,auto 0 2
/dev/hda2 none swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 /myth/tv/ jfs defaults 0 2

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 8:33 pm 
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I just tried installing a different network card but saw no difference.

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FYI for any other special folks like me, here were the issues:
Apparently I had 2 issues. The first was ram related. But during my diagnosis I setup a temporary backend on my desktop.

Anyway, I never disabled the "temporary" backend server, and while it wasn't set to record anything and was not being used by a frontend or in use in any way, it was periodically polling the HDHR and reseting it. Go figure.

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