[mythtv-users] Frontend stops responding when trying to import a CD...

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/30/2007 12:27 PM, Nicolas Riendeau wrote:
> I recently started compiling MythTV from source and wanted to try the "Import CD" 
> feature.
>
> Each time I try to import a CD (and I tried more than one) the frontend locks up 
> sometimes before extracting anything, sometimes in the middle of the extracting job 
> and sometimes almost at the end. I've tried it with different quality settings and it 
> doesn't make any difference. Depending on where it locks up I sometimes end up with 
> entries in the mythconverg database sometimes not...
>
> I've tried running cdparanoia (which I believe is used to import a cd) manually (I 
> did a "cdparanoia  -B") and it was able to extract the entire CD without problem.
>   

Disc with some copy protection mechanism?  Myth can't import those.

> Where should I look to try to track down this problem?
>
> The version of MythTV I'm using is a checkout of SVN I made yesterday (could I safely 
> downgrade to 0.20.2 to test if I have the problem with that version too?)...
>   

If it's a checkout of SVN's 0.20-fixes branch, probably.  If it's a
checkout of SVN trunk, then no.

Mike