[mythtv-users] Channel switching with pvr-350/dc50x

[Mike Perkins]

On 20/07/14 17:14, Don Brett wrote:
>
>> If you ssh in, and start mplayer'ing something *in that terminal session* it
>> is separate from X. It is like booting into "runlevel 3" (I think that is
>> 'multi-user.target now), logging into one console, and starting your mplayer
>> session, and then logging into another console and starting X.   'ps -ae' will
>> show the instances, but will not differentiate the console to which they
>> "belong".
>>
>
> I agree, it is separate from X, but I wasn't trying to do that, just drawing a
> parallel to it.  The Mythfrontend internal player is running in X, so when I
> kill X, the internal player should also get killed...shouldn't it?
>
>> And it *is* quite possible to start more than one mythfrontend session. I have
>> a button on my remote mapped to irexec to start/stop the frontend. On the
>> monitor the only way to tell that you have more than one mythfrontend running
>> (in the X session), is to use Alt-Tab to cycle through the windows/frames in
>> the session.
>
> As a test, I re-created the failure, killed X, restarted X....audio still
> playing.  Using alt-tab, I flipped through all the programs; only one instance
> of mythfrontend was playing.  I was concerned that X wasn't being completely
> killed.
>
> Not sure what else to try, other than to avoid live-tv.  Should I submit this a
> bug?
>
After you kill X, does a 'ps -ef' show any instances of mythfrontend still running?

I'm wondering if the audio is in a separate thread which is why it remains after 
the other threads - that use X - have died.

Note this wouldn't be a separate, console-accessible 'program', which is why 
Alt-Tab wouldn't show it.

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Mike Perkins