[mythtv-users] HDHomerun and previews (crashes backend)

[Jim Stichnoth]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Blammo <blammo.doh at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 2:07 PM, Michael Tiller
> <michael.tiller at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Now that I really think about it my issues with PBS are actually even
> more
> > specific.  I can go so far as to narrow my problems down to Sesame Street
> > and Bob the Builder.  In hindsight I should have labeled the thread
> "Sesame
> > Street crashes backend" or "Bob the Builder refuses to be thumbnailed".
> :-)
>
> Any progress on this issue/thread?
>
> I just converted to HDHR's over the weekend, and now the backend
> process, which has been up for WEEKS with no issues, has taken to
> segfaulting several times a day.
>
> mythbackend[15893]: segfault at 0000000000000008 rip 000000355e81e0e5
> rsp 00000000504cfdb0 error 6
>
> Sesame Street recorded this morning from 3:00am to 4:00 am. It's
> automagically transcoded, which takes a little over an hour, and
> mythbackend crashed at a few minutes after 5am this morning.
>
> Sesame Street recorded this morning from 9:00am to 10:00am,
> transcoded, and the backend segfaulted a few minutes after 11am.
>
> To be perfectly clear, the ONLY change was the removal of an SBE w/PCI
> tuners, and the addition of the HDHR. No other changes. Hours of HD
> content recorded over the weekend, no issues.
>
>  I'm very happy to supply any debug data as needed.. my WAF is going
> to take a SEVERE dive if the backend is crashing multiple times a day.
> (Thank goodness for the safetynet script)
>

Any chance this PBS station is KQED?  See e.g.
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/348205 which suggests
enabling "Quick Tune" in the HDHR setup.  That worked for me, though I
wasn't seeing a crashing backend.

Jim
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