[mythtv-users] Mythtv hanging

[mythtv at codepoets.ca]

Thanks for the response, but I'm not sure that's the problem.  I'm using
the bare X-Windows without KDE.

MythTV completely stops responding to videos, but I think that it's just
*very* slow responding to commands.  When playing music, it eventually
responds to they keyboard or remote, but when a video is on, it never
responds (or I just give up and reboot)  Any ideas?


> It sounds as if it may be this:
>
> From Jarod's (most excellent) Guide
> http://www.wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php#misc :
>
> MythVideo focus issue-
> Yet another problem with MythVideo... When you exit, the remote ceases to
> function. This is because for some reason, KDE shifts focus to the Kicker,
> rather than the MythTV window, so your remote presses are trying to
> execute upon the Kicker, and do nothing. One possible fix is to change to
> a different window manager, but that's a fair amount of work, and outside
> the scope of this document. The easy fix is to change KDE's window focus
> behavior, so that you have focus following the mouse. This is a bit goofy
> for some people if they're trying to use the system as a normal computer,
> but works well if you dump the cursor in the middle of the screen, because
> when MythVideo (mplayer) exits, focus will return to MythTV, and your
> remote will function. You can change the window focus behavior by opening
> Control Center (off the Fedora/Red Hat/KDE menu), Navigating to Desktop �¨
> Window Behavior, and then change the Focus Policy to Focus Follows Mouse,
> and hit Apply.
>
>
>
> You wrote:
> I've been having a problem with mythtv since I installed it. It seems to
> happen primarily with video files, but it happens to a lesser extent with
> audio files as well.
>
> When I try to view a movie mythtv seems to hang or not respond. For
> example if I try to pause the movie, it just keeps playing this is the
> same for all the other commands - FFW, REW, ESC, etc. It's the same if I
> use the keyboard or remote. With audio files, most of those commands
> work. I can pause it, but the mythfronend takes a while to process the
> request. I'm not sure why. My CPU is running at 75% idle when playing a
> movie and higher when playing an mp3. The only thing I can think of is
> that there are so many networked files, that it's taking a while to catch
> up. I've been using Freeco for a while now and I've never had a problem
> with it. Anyone heard of this?
>
> TIA!
>
> The background:
> Athlon 800
> 40 GB hdd
> Most of my video/music files are stored on Samba or NFS shares
> I have about 60GB music files and 80 GB video files
> 768 MB RAM
> I'm using the Hauppauge WinFast XP TV tuner card
> SB Live!
> I have the latest mythtv RPMs installed on RedHat 9, Kernel is 2.4.20-27.9
>
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