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

Matt Goebel matt at goebelnet.com
Thu Jan 31 00:26:20 UTC 2013


On 1/30/2013 7:05 PM, Mark wrote:
> On 01/30/2013 05:01 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Jan 30, 2013 6:58 PM, "Daniel Frey" <dmfrey at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:dmfrey at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Jan 30, 2013 5:16 PM, "Saul A. Peebsen" <jaglover at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:jaglover at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:21:00 -0500 (EST)
>> > > Matt Goebel <matt at goebelnet.com <mailto: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
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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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> This has nothing to do with it.  I have tried other firmware versions. 
> Its the Myth code that is not handling them well.  It has gotten worse 
> over the last couple versions, and is now easily crashed and 
> replicated for lots of users.
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Yeah firmware doesn't matter much.  I'm running 1.7.1 now but I've run 
all versions at one point or another.   Just watching TV have always 
been ok, but you can't reliably change the channel anymore!
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