[mythtv-users] New Install - Hang on entering live tv

[Brian Wood]

On Jan 18, 2006, at 8:42 PM, Nick wrote:

> On 18/01/06, Bob <mythtv at junga.com> wrote:
>> I have searched the archives and googled this topic to no avail.
>>
>>
>>
>> When I select "Watch Live TV" from the main menu…
>>
>> * the screen goes blank
>>
>> * sometimes I hear a brief time of audio then it stops
>>
>> * X consumes 98% of cpu
>>
>> * the keyboard / mouse is unresponsive
>>
>> * both backend and front end continue to run.
>>
>> * I can still ssh in and recover by doing "init 3", "init 5"
>
> Are you running 32-bit or 64-bit Fedora?
>
> Can you successfully record shows and then watch them back within
> MythTV? If you can, I'd think that the LiveTV config was somehow
> causing the problem. If you can't watch recordings, it's possibly the
> video driver itself?

Sorry, haven't really followed this thread, but the 98% CPU usage  
issue I have run into.

Are you using the nVidia drivers? if so the GLX vsync issue may be  
your problem. Try commenting out "load glx" in your X config file, at  
least this solved the problem for me.