So update regarding freezes with PTS inactive:
I can get more or less random freezes on any FTA service type: FTA SD MPEG4 DVB-T, FTA HD MPEG4 DVB-T, FTA SD DVB-S, FTA SD DVB-S2, FTA HD DVB-S2 - the box does not respond to remote, no network access, no up/down on front pannel, not sure about power button on front pannel.
I have not tested the encrypted services yet.
Strike through: PTS problems due to HDD problemEnabling PTS resolves the above mentioned freezes but PTS plugin introduces some other:
1.
Saving the timeshift as movie freezed my box. No remote, no network, no up/down on front pannel, but power button powered down the box. The option was triggered during waching live, with the message that that current service would be recorderd after it had finished. After the restart I checked the recording and it was ~82MB, and should be ~8GB.
2.
The box became very slugish durning the "time shifted" palyback. It had freezes in video & sound. The rewind / fast forward was always sluggish at the same portions of the movie. It was not only sound & video problem. It was the whole box very sluggish at that moments. I had to wait a few seconds for DM box to respond to the remote keys pressed. It was all OK when I returned to live playback finally. But when I tried to record the movie from timeshift (as described in point 1) the box got frozen.
Regards.
EDITED:
Destination for the timeshift-recorded-as-movie is the internal HDD ext3 partition (timeshift itself uses another partition of that drive which is ext2).
EDITED2 (Update):
The freezes with PTS plugin disabled happens on my encrypted channels too. So, without the PTS active I have freezes on any type of channel (DVB-T, DVB-S(2), HD, SD, FTA, Encrypted).
Regards.
EDITED (Again):
Final update: when the box freezes as in PTS inactive scenario: the power button on front panel does not work. When the box froze during saving the PTS, the power button on front panel worked and the box was shut down. And that was the only visible difference in the "freezing behavior".
EDITED (yet again):
PTS section stroke through as that problem was due to HDD problem, most probably. PTS inactive scenario freezes: all stands as stated.
Regards.