[mythtv-users] I see major trouble ahead ...

[Saul A. Peebsen]

... with my setup and hardware.
I currently use my desktop as my main frontend, secondary output of my
graphics card is split to a secondary monitor and a TV set.
When I sit at my computer I watch live TV on my secondary monitor, when
I go to bed I turn on the TV and continue watching live TV. I know
everybody tells MythTV is not for watching live TV, but this is how I
use my setup.
This seems to come to an end.
The last version that works for me as FE is 317d5b7. I use Gentoo
ebuilds and upgrade as new ebuilds appear in portage - not very often.
The BE works fine with newer versions, currently e4f65c8.
The frontend does not. For some reason it is unable to handle the
MPEG-2 file my Hauppauge 2250 outputs in analog mode. Playback is jerky
and when one show ends and another one starts my FE exits into start
menu or just hangs. All my frontends behave this way.
I've filed a bug but apparently nobody has time to look into live TV
issues (#12295).
I wonder how long I can keep this older version of FE ... Gentoo is
rolling distro and one day it will probably just break ...

Below is the working version.

$ mythfrontend --version
Please attach all output as a file in bug reports.
MythTV Version : 317d5b7
MythTV Branch : tag: v0.27
Network Protocol : 77
Library API : 0.27.20140303-1
QT Version : 4.8.5
Options compiled in:
 linux profile use_hidesyms using_alsa using_oss using_backend
using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python using_bindings_php using_dvb
using_frontend using_hdhomerun using_ceton using_hdpvr using_ivtv
using_libcrypto using_libxml2 using_libudf using_lirc using_mheg
using_opengl using_opengl_video using_qtwebkit using_qtscript
using_qtdbus using_taglib using_v4l2 using_x11 using_xrandr using_xv
using_profiletype using_mythlogserver using_bindings_perl
using_bindings_python using_bindings_php using_mythtranscode
using_opengl using_vdpau using_ffmpeg_threads using_mheg using_libass
using_libxml2 using_libudf

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Cheers, Saul