[mythtv] Machine hangs on channel-switching with MythTV

[Gregorio Gervasio Jr.]

>>>>> On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:49:15 -0500 (EST), "John" <john@johnsteele.com> said:

j> xawtv also worked for me and I was able to watch live tv with Myth on the
j> initial channel (Actually every now and again I could change channels one
j> time.  But this was very random).  I successfully recorded and then played
j> back a program.  However while recording a second time I switched to
j> another window and started working on something else which caused the
j> hang.  This may mean that the problem is not in the video, sound or
j> network drivers.   That leaves BTTV and hard drive.

        For what it's worth, I started a couple of days ago and am
seeing exactly the same symptoms.  I finally found out that even
NuppelVideo "nuvrec" by itself (which just records) would also hang
the machine so it does suggest a bttv problem.  I tried both
bttv-0.7.100 and bttv-0.9.1 (developmental) drivers and still see the
hangs.

        Since I'm using a Hauppauge WinTV card that everyone else
seems to be succesfully using, I'm wondering if there's some
interaction with other parts of the system.  Has anyone else seen
problems with:

Asus A7V8X board/1.8GHz Athlon/ATI Radeon 8500
RedHat 8.0 (kernel 2.4.18-18.8.0)/ALSA 0.9.0rc5

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Gregorio Gervasio, Jr.
gtgj@pacbell.net