diff -r f4be69980934 -r ba9bf90e7c4b gst-plugins-mythtv/src/gstmythtvsrc.c
--- a/gst-plugins-mythtv/src/gstmythtvsrc.c	Wed Nov 22 14:37:47 2006 +0000
+++ b/gst-plugins-mythtv/src/gstmythtvsrc.c	Fri Nov 24 01:51:47 2006 +0000
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@
  
 #define GMYTHTV_TRANSFER_MAX_WAITS		100
 
+#define GMYTHTV_TRANSFER_MAX_RESENDS	5
+
 #define GMYTHTV_TRANSFER_MAX_BUFFER		128*1024
 //( 32*1024  )
 
@@ -114,8 +116,7 @@
 
 static gboolean gst_mythtv_src_handle_event (GstPad * pad, GstEvent * event);
 
-static gint do_read_request_response (GstMythtvSrc * src, guint64 offset, 
-    guint size, guint8 **data_ptr);
+static gint do_read_request_response (GstMythtvSrc * src, guint size, GByteArray *data_ptr);
 
 GStaticRecMutex th_mutex = G_STATIC_REC_MUTEX_INIT;
 
@@ -334,10 +335,13 @@
 }
 
 static gint
-do_read_request_response (GstMythtvSrc * src, guint64 offset, guint size, guint8 **data_ptr)
+do_read_request_response (GstMythtvSrc * src, guint size, GByteArray *data_ptr)
 {
   gint read = 0;
   guint sizetoread = size;
+  guint max_iters = GMYTHTV_TRANSFER_MAX_RESENDS;
+  
+  //*data_ptr = g_malloc0( size );
 
   g_print( "Starting: [%s] Reading %d bytes...\n", __FUNCTION__, sizetoread ); 
 
@@ -345,10 +349,10 @@
    * Retry whilst authentication fails and we supply it. */
   gint len = 0;
   
-  while ( sizetoread > 0 ) {
+  while ( sizetoread == size && --max_iters > 0) {
 
     len = gmyth_file_transfer_read( src->file_transfer,
-	*data_ptr + offset + read, sizetoread, TRUE );
+				data_ptr, sizetoread, TRUE );
 
     if ( len > 0 ) {
       read += len;
@@ -377,7 +381,7 @@
       goto done;
   }
 
-  if ( read < 0 && !src->live_tv )
+  if ( ( read < 0 && !src->live_tv ) || max_iters == 0 )
     goto eos;
 
   goto done;
@@ -386,7 +390,6 @@
   src->eos = TRUE;
 
 done:
-
   return read;
 }
 
@@ -414,9 +417,10 @@
 
   /* just get from the byte array, no network effort... */
   if ( ( src->buffer_remain = src->bytes_queue->len ) < MAX_READ_SIZE ) {
-  	guint8 *buffer = g_malloc0( INTERNAL_BUFFER_SIZE - src->buffer_remain );
+  	guint buffer_size_inter = INTERNAL_BUFFER_SIZE - src->buffer_remain;
+  	GByteArray *buffer = g_byte_array_new();
 
-    read = do_read_request_response( src, 0, INTERNAL_BUFFER_SIZE - src->buffer_remain, &(buffer) );
+    read = do_read_request_response( src, buffer_size_inter, buffer );
 
     if (G_UNLIKELY (read < 0)) {
       if ( src->live_tv )
@@ -428,9 +432,14 @@
     if ( G_UNLIKELY (src->update_prog_chain) )
       goto change_progchain;
       
-    src->bytes_queue = g_byte_array_append( src->bytes_queue, buffer, read );
+    src->bytes_queue = g_byte_array_append( src->bytes_queue, g_memdup( buffer->data, read ), read );
 
     src->buffer_remain = src->buffer_remain + read;
+    
+    if ( buffer != NULL ) {
+    	g_byte_array_free( buffer, TRUE );
+    	buffer = NULL;    	
+    }
 
     g_print( "[%s]\tBYTES READ (actual) = %d, BYTES READ (cumulative) = %llu, "\
 	"OFFSET = %llu, CONTENT SIZE = %llu.\n", __FUNCTION__, read, src->bytes_read,