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[Thomas Mashos <tgm4883@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for helping to improve Mythbuntu by opening this ticket.   I
am marking this ticket as confirmed because it appears to have enough
information to help the developers understand the problem.  It is
possible I am wrong and another more experienced triager or developer
may adjust the status of the ticket to "incomplete" and request
additional information.

** Changed in: mythbuntu
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: mythbuntu
       Status: New => Triaged

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Skip-ahead hangs frontend
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/490229
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Status in Mythbuntu, Ubuntu derivative focused upon MythTV: Triaged

Bug description:
9.10 with latest Mythbuntu MythTV 0.22 updates as of today. Frontend on Intel-based netbook (N270 Atom + Intel IGP), backend over wireless network with NFS mounts for recordings.

Using 'Skip-ahead' sometimes works, but more normally it causes the frontend to completely lock up, so that I can't exit using the keyboard, can't 'Close' it from the taskbar menu, and have to manually kill it from the command line.

The frontend log is full of stuff along the lines of:

NVP(0), Prebuffer wait timed out 6160 times.
NVP(0), Error: Timed out waiting for prebuffering too long. Exiting...
NVP(0), Error: Video frame buffering failed too many times.

Repeated every two seconds.

Which, you know, is fine in a way because I don't expect the wireless connection to be too reliable; I can live with a few glitches and dropped frames. However, this locks up the entire frontend permanently, so that it completely stops interacting with the user. That part is a major problem... there must be a better way of dealing with timeouts.