[mythtv-users] Recording dies when viewing recordings. Anyone swap capture cards?

[jose rubio]

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 00:04, Malcolm wrote:
> pvr-350 in first PCI slot (/dev/video0)
> pvr-250 in second PCI slow (/dev/video1)
> 
> When I click on "watch recordings" while a recording is in progress it
> seems to be more and more frequent (almost every time now) it kills the
> current recording in progress (I reboot daily at 3:30am so it's not that I
> need to reboot).
> 
> I was wondering if anyone with similar setup to me (mostly the PVR cards)
> has tried swapping them around?  Did it produce any better results?
> 
> My thinking is that when only one recording is taking place it will be on
> the PVR-250 and then when I click on "watch recordings" it will start
> using the PVR-350 and not touch the 250 card at all.
> 
> I won't be able to test my idea till the weekend and I was wondering if
> anyone else has tried that yet?  I'm anxious.
> 
> Thanks guys
> Malcolm
> mytht 0.14
> ivtv 0.1.9
> mandrake 9.2
> kernel.org 2.4.24 patched with v4l2
> ----
> 
I have a 250 and a 350.  My mythbox runs continuosly for days with no
problems at all.  One big diff is that I use myth-cvs and I update to
new one every few days (when I feel adventurous)

IIRC the first recording will go on card1 which in your setup would be
the 350. then when a second recording (or livetv) takes place it will
use the second card.

Now, I assume from your explanation that the recording does not really
stop when you "click whatch recordings" but really when you actually
start watching a recording.  I also assume you are using the 350's
tv-out.  Is that right?

What type of error msgs do you get on the console (if you start
mythfrontend from a console that is)?

Have you tried the system with just the 350 in and no 250?

Just some ideas.  since I've been so lucky that my system works well I
don't think I want to swap cards just to see if I break it.

Another thing you should try is myth-cvs.  It works great for me.


-jose-