GB Quad+ Timeshift crash

[ccs]

The "fix" has been in ViX for over 2 years, which version have you been trying?

[stargateuser]

That didn't work.

I still get the jumping / sticking on playing recordings back and if I pause live TV then press play it does the same sticking / jumping.

Does anyone have any idea what causes it?
thanks

[stargateuser]

The "fix" has been in ViX for over 2 years, which version have you been trying?

I've tried openvix all, openatv 5.1, openatv 5.2, openatv 6.2, Satdreamgr-6 and currently teamblue 6.1. The time shift going into the usb still happens and this jumping / sticking of playback recording happens on all of them.

[abu baniaz]

Are you saying your mechanical HDD goes missing and your USB device then gets used?

[stargateuser]

No the problem isn't the hard drive going missing. I had 2 problems. One is that sometimes the timeshift ends up on the usb stick, the other is the freezing.

If I watch live tv (timeshift is now hard coded and I can't disable it) it on any channel FTA or encrypted, all is ok on live viewing until I pause it. Once I have paused and then press play the error is cyclical. I can watch for around 3 mins then it just freezes. I can wait and sometimes it restarts playing on it's own sometimes I have to hit the "1, 4 or 7" buttons but "3, 6 or 9" does the same. I do not get smooth playback anymore. It will continue to do this until I stop watching the timeshifted tv.

If I watch a recording I get exactly the same problem. The same cyclical freezing / sticking / jumping.

If I download to my pc and play the recording it plays perfectly, so whatever the fault is it is in the coding. It never used to do this and I used openvix exclusively until about a year ago when I noticed this happening. I have worked away from home overseas for pretty much the last 3 years so used the box mainly for streaming via VLC whilst overseas - it is brilliant for that. My wife told me that it started freezing and sticking. If she paused it, she could no longer play as it would crash the box. I updated to latest OpenVix and that problem went away but then the freezing started and it is now driving me insane.

I know other's have this problem but there is no cure as far as I could find using various forums and search engines. The only solution I can think of is to start going backwards through the 4.x Open Vix's and install to find which one was good. Then hopefully some code wizard will find what changed.

[abu baniaz]

How can timeshift files end up on USB when the default mountpoint is HDD? OpenViX mounts USB devices as HDD if no mechanical HDDs are present. Are you sure your mounts are not moving?

Timeshift starting automatically is disabled by default on OpenViX. User must enable it.

[stargateuser]

Thanks for the reply. The timeshift location isn't really my problem it's the playback once paused live tv and then watching it in timeshift, or watching recordings when it constantly freezes / jumps / jitters. It does not matter which image I use, they all do it. It never used to and now it does. I want to be able to fix that. I have re-initialised my hdd and formatted to Ext4 it makes no difference. It still does the same things

[stargateuser]

OK found the post from fat-tony
https://www.world-of-satellite.com/s...D_experimental << post #3 is EXACTLY the problem I am getting and this was 2014.

[twol]

Thanks for the reply. The timeshift location isn't really my problem it's the playback once paused live tv and then watching it in timeshift, or watching recordings when it constantly freezes / jumps / jitters. It does not matter which image I use, they all do it. It never used to and now it does. I want to be able to fix that. I have re-initialised my hdd and formatted to Ext4 it makes no difference. It still does the same things

You are not answering the question 1) how is the usb formatted? and 2) in MountManager how is it mounted?

[abu baniaz]

Initialising/formatting will not fix a HDD failure/problem. Especially an intermittent one. Seems to me that your HDD has a fault if playback of recordings is affected. Can you try a different HDD?

[abu baniaz]

OK found the post from fat-tony
https://www.world-of-satellite.com/s...D_experimental << post #3 is EXACTLY the problem I am getting and this was 2014.

And in 2017 he said, in this thread.

@birdman - tested your Timeshift.py extensively on my GB Quad+ (now in Permanent TimeShift mode)and have not experienced the crash when pressing STOP key. Seems pretty bulletproof at this point, thanks!

Anyway, hope he responds and confirms the status of play. Are you using the newer bootloader you linked in the thread?

[abu baniaz]

Are you using the newer bootloader you linked in the thread?

There is a newer bootloader here
http://www.openvix.co.uk/index.php/d...s-bootloaders/

[stargateuser]

Ok thanks for the pointers.

/media/hdd is for the HDD
/dev/sdb/ is for the the USB = usb has swap on it

I do have a spare HDD but won't be able to do it tonight.

How can I check the bootloader version? Can it be done from cli? I did update it about a year ago

[ccs]

You don't need a swap file , it will probably do more harm than good.

[abu baniaz]

How can I check the bootloader version? Can it be done from cli? I did update it about a year ago

Just flash it again.