[mythtv] MythFrontend crash watching live TV

Ashley Bostock abostock at gmail.com
Sun Oct 24 09:31:53 UTC 2004


Look through the tv settings, there's an option for myth to use the
card thats not already in use.


On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 18:10:33 +1000, Christian Hack
<christianh at edmi.com.au> wrote:
> Got the attached crash while watching live TV. A scheduled recording was due
> to start at 18:00. The "Do you wish to record .. etc" OSD came up. I simply
> ignored it and let it count down. When it came to start the recording you
> can see at the beginning where it's trying to open the file which it claims
> doesn't exist (yet). Sometimes this works and the number of retries doesn't
> reach zero. I don't know why there is such a delay. The system is XP2400
> using DVB cards.
> 
> If the retries gets to zero it ends up in a seeming infinite loop of:
> 
> Attempting to setup a player, but it already exists.
> [New Thread 229391 (LWP 13261)]
> File not found: /mnt/store/recorded/1010_20041024180000_20041024183000.nuv
> 2004-10-24 18:00:11 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> 2004-10-24 18:00:11 Decoder not alive, and trying to play..
> 2004-10-24 18:00:14 Using protocol version 14
> 2004-10-24 18:00:14 Using protocol version 14
> 2004-10-24 18:00:14 Using protocol version 14
> 2004-10-24 18:00:14 Using protocol version 14
> 2004-10-24 18:00:14 Using protocol version 14
> 2004-10-24 18:00:15 Using protocol version 14
> 2004-10-24 18:00:15 Using protocol version 14
> 2004-10-24 18:00:15 Using protocol version 14
> 2004-10-24 18:00:15 Using protocol version 14
> 2004-10-24 18:00:15 Using protocol version 14
> 2004-10-24 18:00:15 Using protocol version 14
> 2004-10-24 18:00:15 Using protocol version 14
> 2004-10-24 18:00:16 Using protocol version 14
> 2004-10-24 18:00:16 Using protocol version 14
> 2004-10-24 18:00:16 Using protocol version 14
> 
> Pressing escape while in this "loop" results in the SIGSEGV. This is
> reasonably repeatable as long as the count down reaches zero.
> 
> Also why doesn't the backend merely use the second card to do the recording
> letting the Live TV card to continue on the first card?
> 
> CH
> 
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