[mythtv-users] X Freezes blank on 'watch tv'

[Kevin Clayton]

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 15:51:04 -0700, soekul <soekul at gmail.com> wrote:
> Darren,
>  I'm having the exact same problem as you, have you made any progress
> with this issue?

Darren, Luke --

I don't have the answer, but if it helps, you have company.

I am trying to wrap up the creation of my first mythTV box. I'm close.
Jarod's HOWTO and this list proved very helpful in getting this far.

However, I am also having trouble with my myth box 'locking up' or
'freezing' -- it
occurrs if I try watch Live TV or if I try to watch a recorded program.
As reported, if I ssh in to the box, top reports X as taking 96%+ of the CPU.

I have a newer PVR-250 which wasn't recognized at first, but I waited and the
ivtv group made progress and I eventually got a few packages from
atrpms (bleeding or testing, I don't recall) which helped fix that issue.
Now, the tuner is recognized and it's type gets set up.
tveeprom: tuner = TCL 2002N (idx = 85, type = 50)


Here's what works:
- watch a DVD from the DVD drive
- schedule and recording of programs
- when browsing the recorded programs, I get a small window which shows
  the video of the recorded program
- outside of myth, xine will play the recorded program (the nuv files)
- outside of myth, I can use ptune-gui.pl to change channels while
   watching via 'mplayer /dev/video0'

What doesn't work:
- watch LiveTV -- box 'freezes' with black/blank screen, no audio
   have to ssh in and kill -9 X to recover
- watch a recorded program -- same freeze as LiveTV
- outside of myth, mplayer will not play recorded programs (nuv files)

I am thinking the problem is not so much with ivtv as it is with mplayer or X.
(correct me if I'm on the wrong path)

For apt-get, I have freshrpms (core updates freshrpms), atrpms
(at-stable, at-good),
newrpms,  dag's rpms in my sources list.
I updated some X components but the problem remained.
I changed my monitor resolution from 1280x1024 to 800x600, but problem remained.

Here is the version of various packages I'm using:
   
   kernel-module-nvidia-graphics6111-2.6.8-1.521-1.0_6111-60.rhfc2.at
   kernel-module-ivtv-2.6.8-1.521-0.1.10-47_pre2_ck100zz.rhfc2.at
   kernel-module-video4linux-2.6.8-1.521-20040910_121305-50.99.rhfc2.at 
   
   mythtv-suite-0.16-44.at
   
   mplayer-1.0-35_pre5.rhfc2.at
   mplayer-fonts-1.0-6.at
   xine-0.99.2-1.1.fc2.fr

   xorg-x11-6.7.0-9
   gdm-2.6.0.0-3

Next, I may try re-installing any/all mplayer packages.
After that, I don't know what to try next. Suggestions are welcome :)

Kevin.