[mythtv-users] SVN, Odd LiveTV Behavior

Nasa nasa01 at comcast.net
Wed Sep 29 00:52:29 UTC 2010


----- "Mark Kendall" <mark.kendall at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 28 September 2010 19:42, Nasa <nasa01 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > ----- "Nasa" <nasa01 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> with a fairly recent version of SVN (Revision: 26385) I have
> noticed
> >> some strange stuff with
> >> LiveTV.  Specifically, when I attempt to start it.  Generally what
> has
> >> been happening is that
> >> the "please wait" dialog box will display longer than I have
> patience
> >> for...  After multiple
> >> killing of mythfrontend and/or staring a recorded show, I can get
> it
> >> to work. I have checked
> >> the logs and can't make/see anything wrong in them.  The logs are
> >> located here:
> >>
> >> http://mythtv.pastebin.com/gfGPjhui
> >>
> >> I am using VDPAU for the decoding and Analog/Firewire as my inputs
> >> (analog is what the tuner
> >> defaults to).
> >>
> >> Has anyone else seen this?
> >
> > Am I to guess that I am the only poor soul to see somthing like
> this?  I
> > was trying again last night (monday night football) and took about
> 30 min
> > to get it running.  The one thing that seems to *fix* the problem
> is
> > switching over and starting a recorded program for a few minutes --
> then
> > starting livetv and that worked about 50% of the time.  When LiveTV
> wasn't
> > working, I did note that a file was opened and growing in size --
> just
> > nothing showing on TV or playing any audio.
> 
> Nasa
> 
> I'd suggest you try a more recent (i.e. current) - that looks like a
> lockup that was fixed a couple of days ago.
> 
Thanks Mark,

That seemed to be the ticket...

Nasa


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