[mattlach]

Hey all,

Really appreciate this project! Thank you to OP.

I recently switched from XBMC Gotham running on Windows 8.1 using included MythTV PVR plugin, first to Kodi helix 14.1 on Windows (using built in MythTV PVR plugin)

Immediately I started having random channel freezes during live tv watching (which scare the crap out of me, as I am on a plasma, and people in my household leave the TV on and don't look at it, sometimes for hours)

I had planned on switching to a linux base anyway, so as part of troubleshooting this, I went for a Ubuntu 14.04 install, and installed the latest Kodi and Mythtv plugin from the stable PPA.

Still having the same issue.

Surprisingly the freezes are VERY rare on HD channels (I can go weeks without seeing one), but happen regularly (every hour or so) on the only SD channel we watch (Globo Internacional on Verizon FiOS, a Brazilian channel I subscribe to for my Brazilian fiancee)

At first I suspected a signal problem, as the channel sometimes has poor quality, but using the official MythTV frontend makes the problem go away.

Backend is a MythBuntu install on an ESXi server, assigned 4x 2.25Ghz Xeon cores and 4GB of RAM. Tuner is an external Ceton InfiniTV 6 eth, via Ethernet and a Verizon cable card, which is fully validated.

LiveTV writes to a local backend SSD in order to avoid any performance issues.

I suspect the new MythTV PVR plugin is the issue, as with the same setup this never happened in Gotham or with the official MythTV client.

The freezes happen on both HTPC's in the house with very different hardware, which excludes a hardware problem. Both are - however - on Ubuntu 14.04.

One fronted is an AMD Kaveri A10-7850K with 8gigs of RAM using built in GPU
Other is AMD Zacate E-350 with 8GB of RAM using GeForce 630GT GPU

Anyone have any suggestions of what I might try?