[mythtv-users] Change Channel After Some Hours causes Stop Start AV Cycling - MythBuntu 8.04.1 - Analogue PVRs

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have run up two boxes using the above OS/package, one using a PVR-150 and
> the second a PVR-350.  Both AMD2400's with >2G RAM, NVIDIA 4 and 5 AGP
> series cards trialled.  mythfilldatabse has not yet run successfully, I am
> awaiting a DVB-S card and pulling the EPG off that stream, at least for most
> of it, there will be residual on UHF somewhere.  Both Boxes front/back
> configs all on the same HDD, one is a new 500G IDE.
>
> I find the CPU runs about 20% on live TV.
>
> When I leave it running a few hours, then change channels, they jerk and
> stop and start - about half a second running AV, then stops half a second -
> and continues like this.  CPU Jumps to 95%.  Happens on both boxes!  Exiting
> Myth and starting again fixes it, of course I lose the buffer also - this
> option would preferably be avoided!
>
> Is this a known problem?

Dave, running LiveTV is a known newbie problem :-)