[mythtvnz] Pixellation Every ~ 20 minutes

[Paulgir]

On Sun, 07 Oct 2012 11:34:33 +1300, Curtis Walker <sultanoswing at gmail.com>  
wrote:


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>
> Will check out processes today and get back - CPU doesn't seem taxed
> at the time of probems (OSD debugging playback info). In the meantime:
>
> 1. Tried changing decoder to ffmpeg (standard) instead of VDPAU - no fix
> 2. Tried running mythbackend as user "root" (/etc/conf.d/mythbackend),
> which is the distro's default behaviour, but I'd changed it to
> 'myusername' so mythfilldatabase ran properly - no fix
> 3.  I can confirm that problems happen every 20-30 minutes, including
> whilst watching liveTV (and are therefore reflected in the damaged
> recording file).
> 4. On the OSD Playback information, all seemed the same pre and during
> pixellation EXCEPT "Available Buffer", which went from 50-70%
> pre-pixellation to 0-20% during and just after pixellation.
> 5. For some reason I can't check live signal strength using Alt+F7
> which would help check if this is a signal/lock problem. I might just
> swivel the aerial to Te Aroha instead of Hamilton Infill today, do a
> retune and see if that helps. I used to use Te Aroha previously (well
> before the current issues though).
>
> Did your system run ok then this pixellation problem start recently?
On my system I have had the problem from the start.

Paul