[mythtv-users] Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv 081103A patches

[Ward Vandewege]

kevin thayer wrote:
> cvs-latest on ivtv.sf.net updated and should be
> current with all jens' patches as of right now

I've compiled the ivtv CVS version from yesterday evening, and the new 
MythTV CVS version. Things run fine until I go to 'watch live tv' or 
'watch recording' and select a recording. Then the frontend segfaults, 
with this error message:

2003-11-09 12:56:44 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2003-11-09 13:54:31 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543
Input #0, mpeg, from '/var/video/2_20031103222500_20031103234000.nuv':
   Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, 720x576, 25.00 fps, 6000 kb/s
   Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 384 kb/s
Unable to open mixer: '/dev/mixer'
IVTVFB_IOCTL_GET_STATE: Invalid argument
2003-11-09 13:54:39 Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded

When I load my alsa driver (don't really need it since I have a PVR350), 
the /dev/mixer error doesn't appear, but the frontend segfaults just the 
same:

2003-11-09 14:02:41 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2003-11-09 14:04:01 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543
Input #0, mpeg, from '/var/video/2_20031103222500_20031103234000.nuv':
   Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, 720x576, 25.00 fps, 6000 kb/s
   Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 384 kb/s
2003-11-09 14:04:07 prebuffering pause
IVTVFB_IOCTL_GET_STATE: Invalid argument
2003-11-09 14:04:09 Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded

694 Segmentation fault      mythfrontend

Any ideas?

With older versions of CVS ivtv/mythtv this problem doesn't exist, but I 
get hard lockups of the whole computer (apart from the PVR350 entirely 
different hardware than when I was reporting this earlier) after a 
number of minutes of watching a recording/live tv. The exact amount of 
time it takes to crash seems fairly random, but not more than 30 minutes 
or so.

Bye for now,
Ward.