[mythtv-users] Frontend crashes when exiting Watch-TV and Watch Recording

Pete Frankenberg pete at futrix.com.au
Wed May 25 04:04:14 UTC 2005


Taylor Ralph wrote:

>--- Pete Frankenberg <pete at futrix.com.au> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I have just upgraded to 0.18 (debian package), and
>>now suddenly have the 
>>following probem:
>>
>>Every time I exit Live TV or exit watching a
>>recording (using ESC), the 
>>frontend crashes. Nothing appears in the frontend
>>log file. 
>>    
>>
>This is likely due to the fact that the new 0.18
>debian binary packages have opengl vsync enabled. The
>previous 0.17 packages did not. IIRC, in the past
>Isaac has recommended binary distributions not have
>this enabled.  I'm not sure if the opengl vsync
>segfaults have been addressed with the current cvs,
>but you might give it a try or rebuild the packages
>without opengl vsync.
>
>--
>Taylor
>  
>
I have since discovered that MythGallery does not work, and the 
MythMusic visualisations also don't work, so it does indeed sound like 
an OpenGL issue.

Thank you very much for your suggestion, Taylor. I will attempt to build 
from source instead of using the binaries.


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