[mythtv] Mythtv and system freeze

[Harondel J. Sibble]

Same thread, somewhat different issue though.

Upgraded from Myth 6 to 7 today, and all was working nicely with the default 
rtjpeg.  I was running the mythtv binary only and hadn't tried out 
mythfrontend yet. I edited settings.txt and switched to mpeg4 (leaving same 
files for recording) and then fired up mythfrontend and selected to watch tv. 
 The live tv window did not pop up and I was unable to shut down the 
frontend, alt-f4 didn't work, shortly thereafter my mouse pointer disappeard 
and I was unable to switch focus to the terminal window to kill it. Some 
keyboard stuff worked though, like hitting the windows button on the keyboard 
brought up the K menu.  Now, no interactive stuff works, and during all this. 
the hard drive light is madly flickering away.

I assume the livetv file is being rewritten to mpeg4 format and I should just 
wait (set at 5gb) ? Or is the system just hung and I should hit the 
reset/power button?  It's been running like this for about the last 10 
minutes or so.
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