[mythtv-users] Terrible live TV experience with HD-PVR

[Saul A. Peebsen]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:21:00 -0500 (EST)
Matt Goebel <matt at goebelnet.com> wrote:

> I've been running MythTV with HD-PVR's for a few years now, MythTV ~
> 8 years. When I first set them up in 0.22 or whatever the release was
> that official supported them things generally worked ok. Watching
> live TV was fairly stable. It was slow but changing channels very
> rarely resulted in either getting kicked out of playback, a frontend
> lockup, or a backend crash. Since ~late 0.24 or 0.25 all that
> changed. Channel changing rarely works correctly and most of the time
> I get kicked out of live TV 10-20 times before I can successfully
> watch another channel. Sometimes I get a frontend lockup, or worse a
> backend crash. Recordings have all worked perfectly fine throughout.
> I just recently upgraded to 0.26 which I was hoping would either fix
> or at least reduce these issues but if anything it's gotten slightly
> worse. My questions are: 
> 
> Is my experience somehow unusual? I'm fairly confident from watching
> this list that it's not... If you guys do have this working? If so
> what secret sauce did you do to get it stable? How does a major
> regression of basic functionality like this go on for so long without
> being fixed? There could be some very valid reasons for it, and I
> don't want to insult any Myth dev's for their hard work, but I'd like
> to understand what the issues actually are. 

Welcome to the club. Yes 0.21 worked, and 0.22 worked. Even 0.23 worked
somewhat, but it goes gradually worse with every version.

-- 
Cheers, Saul