[mythtv-users] MythTV freezes on Fedora

[Mark Davies]

Hello Hector,

I was having the same problem (as a MythTV newb who has just spent the 
last 4 days playing around with it and a PVR350).  Using the same 
instructions, I kept having the freezing problem.  Ignoring the part 
about "commenting out" certain apt repositories on my last install has 
it up and working quite well.  No freezes, and live TV is watchable, 
recording is working fine.

Regards,
Mark



Hector Vayanos wrote:

> Hi,
> I am encountering a very strange problem with MythTV.
>
> My system characteristics are:
> - Tuner: Hauppauge PVR-250
> - MoBo: ASUS A7N266-VM
> - CPU: Athlong XP1800+
> - Ethernet: built in Nvidia (nvnet)
> - Audio: built in Nvidia (nvaudio - AC97 - intel8x0)
>
> I was a very happy Mythtv 0.12 user. My installation was based on 
> Jarod's guide for RH9.0 and Axel's rpm packages. I recently tried to 
> upgrade to version 0.14 but apt got completely hosed (the dependency 
> file disappeared), so I figured it was a good opportunity to 
> transition to Fedora. I again made use of Jarod's excellent guide.
>
> In general I am quite disappointed by Fedora. It takes extremely long 
> both to boot up and shut down compared to RH9.0 with the same services 
> set up. I did quite a bit of searching on the web but could not find 
> any explanation for this.
>
> MythTV 0.14 on the other hand seems to be a worthwhile upgrade. I 
> really like the status information.
>
> Everything seems to be working fine, except that after watching live 
> TV for about 3 to 4 minutes the image freezes and eventually the 
> back-end service sort of hangs. At first I thought there was a problem 
> with the ivtv driver or with the PVR firmware. By complete coincidence 
> I found that if there is network activity (http or telnet) at the time 
> when mythtv freezes the server recovers.
>
> For scheduled recordings I only get about 9-10 minutes of the show. 
> After that the backend service hangs (it keeps reporting that the 
> tuner is already in use even after the show time is passed). I am 
> assuming that the same thing that happens for live-TV also occurs here.
>
> I am not sure whether this is something to do with Fedora, MythTV, 
> mplayer or my ethernet adapter. I have already followed Jarod's 
> suggestions to stop DPMS. I could not find anything on the web on 
> other power management schemes (apmd is not running) that could lead 
> to such behavior. I would be very interested in hearing any 
> suggestions on what could be causing this.
>
> Thanks,
> Hector
>
>
>
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> Hector Vayanos
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>
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