[mythtv] 0.16 Frontend Hang Issue

[brian weatherill]

I have this exact same problem running an Intel northwood P4 and Asus motherboard, ivtv 100+, MythTv 0.16

EVERYTHING else works and on one occasion this week, the live TV feed didnt freeze.. There is one guaranteed way to get out of the freeze though.. RightArrow on the Hauppauge remote will crash the front end, then my script simply restarts it again.. so I'm not out of commission.. but it IS a bug.. been there since my first install..

Installed on FC2 (Linux 2.6.7 custom kernel)
1x350, 2x250MCEs
Nvidia 5200
Audigy sound
2x 250mb ATA drives
Plextor P708A

If you need more information, let me know


Message: 14
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:24:48 +1000
From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish at cloud.net.au>
Subject: Re: [mythtv] 0.16 Frontend Hang Issue
To: mythtv-dev at mythtv.org
Message-ID: <20040923222448.GA9943 at cloud.net.au>
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 02:47:04PM -0500, James L. Reese wrote:
> I'm having an issue with 0.16 and wanted to see if anyone else has 
> seen it.
> 
> If watching live TV and it comes time for the box to record a program, 
> it pops up the dialog asking if you want to watch while it records or 
> cancel the recording.  When you exit the dialog, frontend hangs, the 
> picture freezes and you lose IR control. I have no keyboard on this 
> machine so I do not know if keyboard also goes away.
> 
> The backend continues running and properly records the program.  If I 
> kill frontend and restart it, everything is fine.  It is very 
> consistent.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this problem?  I did not experience this in 0.15.  
> I'm running Axel's RPM's on Fedora 1.  My capture card is a PVR-250.

It depends which option you choose. If you choose the first, which is to watch it while it records, it does sometimes hang for me. The keyboard is also useless and I had to kill mythfrontend.

If you choose the second (record and return to menu), it will often show you the recording rather than quitting to the menu.

It looked to me like the menu handling code was wrong, but I checked it and couldn't spot anything at a glance. However I think it sometimes 
works as intended, making it even more confusing.

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish at debian.org> <hamish at cloud.net.au>


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