This is not a huge deal, but occasionally when I am watching live TV or recordings, the show that is playing freezes almost as if someone hit the pause button (but there is no pause dialog on the screen). The screen will stay in this state (hours and hours) until I hit pause or forward/rewind/etc. It will then pick right back up. Sometimes it happens 2-3 times in a row, sometime it will not happen for several hours. If it has been frozen for hours and hours on Live TV it will let me go through all hours of back recordings. It is not a big deal, I never lose any of the show, it is just slightly annoying and the last item to get a 100% WAF.

There does not seem to be any particular errors in the .xsession-errors file (or anywhere else).

Any ideas or directions to investigate would be appreciated.

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System Specs:
Intel P4 3.2Ghz; Intel mobo; nVid 7600gs AGP (512MB); SoundBlaster Audigy2 Sound; R5.5; PVR-500; HD Homerun; Vizio 42" LCD

You could run the frontend from an xterm. When the problem occurs, <alt><tab> to the xterm and look at the output.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

I trapped .xsession-errors Here is the log entries:


100+ entries:

2006-05-07 12:54:17.351 NVP: prebuffering pause
2006-05-07 12:54:17.362 NVP: prebuffering pause
2006-05-07 12:54:17.373 NVP: prebuffering pause
2006-05-07 12:54:17.384 NVP: prebuffering pause
2006-05-07 12:54:17.395 NVP: prebuffering pause

This is interspersed:

2006-05-07 12:54:17.406 NVP: Timed out waiting for free video buffers.


Then I hit the Pause Key:

2006-05-07 12:54:18.505 NVP: prebuffering pause
2006-05-07 12:54:18.640 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
2006-05-07 12:54:18.640 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out, and
there are not enough free frames. Discarding buffered frames.
[mpegvideo_xvmc @ 0xb73b9620]Next frame is a B frame in findFutureSurface
[mpegvideo_xvmc @ 0xb73b9620]XvMC: Error, decoding B frame and future frame is null!
[mpegvideo_xvmc @ 0xb73b9620]Next frame is a B frame in findFutureSurface
[mpegvideo_xvmc @ 0xb73b9620]XvMC: Error, decoding B frame and future frame is null!
[mpegvideo_xvmc @ 0xb73b9620]Past frame is a B frame in findPastSurface
[mpegvideo_xvmc @ 0xb73b9620]Past frame is a B frame in findPastSurface
2006-05-07 12:54:23.941 NVP: prebuffering pause
[mpegvideo_xvmc @ 0xb73b9620]Past frame is a B frame in findPastSurface
[mpegvideo_xvmc @ 0xb73b9620]Past frame is a B frame in findPastSurface
[mpegvideo_xvmc @ 0xb73b9620]Past frame is a B frame in findPastSurface
[mpegvideo_xvmc @ 0xb73b9620]Past frame is a B frame in findPastSurface
2006-05-07 12:54:24.303 NVP: prebuffering pause



Any ideas?

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System Specs:
Intel P4 3.2Ghz; Intel mobo; nVid 7600gs AGP (512MB); SoundBlaster Audigy2 Sound; R5.5; PVR-500; HD Homerun; Vizio 42" LCD

Hi,
Any pointers on this "free video buffers"? R5A16, R5A26, R5A30 all do it to me on an otherwise faultless running machine. Makes the frontend freeze, desktop is ok. I can't go to the B series as I will loose my web editor and I am not even sure that would be the magic cure.

Sempron +3100 (1.8ghz) e-machine (I like the audio mixer)
512 meg mem
200 gig drive
FX5200 AGP video

Mike

I was seeing something like this. Turning off SMP cleared it up. Might be worth a shot..

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9218

Hi,

Just for some feedback on the frontend issue I had (and you guys also), I unchecked the "Enable realtime priority" under the Setup >Tv playback and so far has been up and running 14 hours continous. Don't know what the connection is, but if it keeps working, I won't complain.

Mike

Sadly I do not have SMP and I did not have realtime priority on (Turning them on made it worse though)

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System Specs:
Intel P4 3.2Ghz; Intel mobo; nVid 7600gs AGP (512MB); SoundBlaster Audigy2 Sound; R5.5; PVR-500; HD Homerun; Vizio 42" LCD

If you didn't recompile your kernel -- SMP is turned on.

It will still cause issues in some systems regardless of if your system has more than one
CPU or not.

Man, it takes awhile to recompile. I have recompiled with SMP turned off. I will let you know how it goes.

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System Specs:
Intel P4 3.2Ghz; Intel mobo; nVid 7600gs AGP (512MB); SoundBlaster Audigy2 Sound; R5.5; PVR-500; HD Homerun; Vizio 42" LCD

No joy, it happen within 30 minutes of the recompile. It does seem to happen on the hour and half hour (almost as if the transistion from one show to another is causing the freeze)

This is the final key to 100% WAF. Any other ideas will be greatly appreciated!

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System Specs:
Intel P4 3.2Ghz; Intel mobo; nVid 7600gs AGP (512MB); SoundBlaster Audigy2 Sound; R5.5; PVR-500; HD Homerun; Vizio 42" LCD

Don't know if its related, but it might give you some ideas.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/m ... ers/202142

I found it by putting "NVP: prebuffering pause" in google.

Since my wife complains about this all the time, I did try everything above and nothing has worked. Does anyone have any other ideas on how to troubleshoot this? I am frustrated since this is the last step to make my system PERFECT and my WAF 100%.

Please help.

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System Specs:
Intel P4 3.2Ghz; Intel mobo; nVid 7600gs AGP (512MB); SoundBlaster Audigy2 Sound; R5.5; PVR-500; HD Homerun; Vizio 42" LCD

This issue appears to be solved in R5D1. 4 days, no lock ups! Yeeehaw.

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System Specs:
Intel P4 3.2Ghz; Intel mobo; nVid 7600gs AGP (512MB); SoundBlaster Audigy2 Sound; R5.5; PVR-500; HD Homerun; Vizio 42" LCD