[mythtv-users] Live-tv lockup

[malcolm]

Myth 0.14 does not run live tv for more than 6+ hours without crashing or
atleast draging down with jumpy video and skipping sound.  This has been
fixed in CVS.

Malcolm

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Curtis" <doug.curtis at world-mail.org>
To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 8:07 PM
Subject: [mythtv-users] Live-tv lockup


> A friend of mine is running Mythtv and when watching live tv, the frontend
> locks up.  It happens anywhere from 5 to 60 minutes but usually less than
30.
>
> I decided to see to let mine run overnight to see if mine did the same
thing.
> A let it run a couple of nights and both times it kept running for around
6
> and 1/2 hours before the frontend froze.  One of the times I scheduled a
> recording that occured a couple of hours after the freeze, but it recorded
> just fine.
>
> I looked through the archives for a solution but haven't seen one.  The
hard
> is using dma and the X sound server is disabled.  I ran the frontend from
a
> terminal window and this is the last thing that was on the terminal:
>
> 2004-03-17 13:59:23 prebuffering pause
> 2004-03-17 13:59:25 prebuffering pause
> Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
>
> It looks like it did this for about five minutes before finally freezing.
>
> I know that it may be a bit picky but I was wondering how to keep it from
> freezing at all.
>
> Here are some of my system specs.  I can send more info if needed.
>
> mythtv 0.14 installed using apt-get
> Fedora Core 1
> wintv pvr-250 encoding cable-tv
>
> I used the howto at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php to install.
>
> Other than that, everything works pretty well.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug
>
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