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

[Daniel Frey]

On Jan 30, 2013 6:58 PM, "Daniel Frey" <dmfrey at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 30, 2013 5:16 PM, "Saul A. Peebsen" <jaglover at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:21:00 -0500 (EST)
> > Matt Goebel <matt at goebelnet.com> wrote:
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> > > 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
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> What version of the firmware are you using on the hdpvr1212?

You should check out the firmware section of the wiki page as well:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_HD-PVR
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