[mythtv-users] mythvideo hangs when starting the MFE from irexec

Justin Smith justin at smithpolglase.com
Sun Apr 22 08:30:36 UTC 2007


Hi,

I'm having a problem where mythvideo hangs when selecting any of the 4 
entry options (browse videos, video list, video gallery, video manager), 
when mythfrontend is started via irexec (I have it mapped to the "power" 
button in my remote).

By "hangs", I mean unresponsive to the extent that I have to kill 
mythfrontend. The 4-item menu remains on the screen. Meanwhile 
mythfrontend consumes a fair amount of CPU (20-30%).

When I run mythfrontend from the terminal, mythvideo works fine.

In both cases, mythfrontend is running under the same user (mythtv). The 
frontend & backend logs report nothing unusual (with -v all) and ditto 
for the mysql log.

Any ideas?

Another unrelated issue: mythvideo takes an eternity to start up. Any 
reason why?


mythfrontend --version

2007-04-22 16:20:44.053 Using runtime prefix = /usr/local2
2007-04-22 16:20:44.064 DPMS is disabled.
2007-04-22 16:20:44.085 New DB connection, total: 1
2007-04-22 16:20:44.095 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: pooper
2007-04-22 16:20:44.097 Total desktop dim: 1280x768, with 1 screen[s].
2007-04-22 16:20:44.100 Using screen 0, 1280x768 at 0,0
Library API version: 0.20.20060828-3
Source code version: 13114
Options compiled in:
  linux release using_xvmcw using_v4l using_oss using_alsa using_arts 
using_jack using_ivtv using_firewire using_dbox2 using_hdhr using_ip_rec 
using_freebox using_live using_lirc using_joystick_menu using_dvb 
using_x11 using_xv using_xrandr using_xvmc using_xvmc_vld 
using_opengl_vsync using_opengl using_frontend using_backend

I use the blootube-wide theme and OSD with media center menu type.


Thanks in advance,
Justin.


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