[Finished] Improvements to Live TV playback rate matching - for testing (2 Viewers)

[HTPCSourcer]

Hi Owlsroost,

this version does not pre-allocate the timeshift files.

I trust that the original pre-allocation came with some idea in mind. What are the drawbacks when not pre-allocating files now?[/user]

 

[azzuro]

TEsted yesterday the last bin.

Big issue for me ... but don't know if it's due to the TSwritter or my system.
i don't have the logs for now.

what is the result :

The LiveTV stop like @Palm_Maniac explain :
The sound is cut off and the Vidéo lock on last vidéo frame.
must change channel and back to the previous.

Yesterday, i will revert fastly to the previous version ( WAF issue ), because watching Harry Potters .
but the small lock was always present, but less than with the new bin.
And i suspect the DVB EPG, because i have set it to "Disabled" for my DVB-T channel only, and all was fine after that. at least on DVB-T, not tested the DVB-S
i don't have logs. to send i hope in the evening.

 

[Owlsroost]

I need the logs please from when it stops working to find out what is going wrong... (the TV server log folder today will also have the logs for yesterday, so just zip that up and attach it here).

 

[Owlsroost]

Hi Owlsroost,

this version does not pre-allocate the timeshift files.

I trust that the original pre-allocation came with some idea in mind. What are the drawbacks when not pre-allocating files now?

Pre-allocation should in theory stop the files getting badly fragmented, and also means you know you have enough drive space available to hold the entire file *before* you start writing to it.

I suspect the 'timeshift stop' problem Palm Maniac & azzuro are getting now is due to running out of drive space as the file is being written (but I need the logs to find out for sure).

 

[HTPCSourcer]

Pre-allocation should in theory stop the files getting badly fragmented

In my case timeshifting takes place on a RamDisk.

and also means you know you have enough drive space available to hold the entire file *before* you start writing to it.

Right, this is where I feel uneasy. We had a discussion with mm about the use of such files when making full use of the available space and then new streams come along (you participated, didn't you?). I am wondering if one would run into issues when using your alernative version in combination with timeshift files on a RamDisk

 

[Palm_Maniac]

Ok, here are my server logs.

 

[azzuro]

I don't use ramdisk. Look my system spec

 

[Owlsroost]

@Palm_Maniac @azzuro - There are no clues in the server logs about the 'continuity error' failures - are you still having the problems ?

 

[azzuro]

I will retest the last bin.
But with. .2 none issue since i have disabled grab dvbepg when tuner is disabled.

I will try the. .3 this evening

 

[azzuro]

It's OK .

Updating TSwritter to .3 done.

About DVB EPG - i want say : when tuner is idle.
my setting about dvb-epg. since yesterday.

and i don't remember, i think MP2 Server was run too. but all stuff related to SlimTv are removed.
So except the NFOImporter, i don't know, who can do the bug.
but for next test, the MP2-service will be Off.