<div>Thank you, I was hoping it would be something simple. That fixed my problem. I never would have though to try turning that option off, even though I don't even run myth as root to allow that option to do anything.
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Greg Lucas-Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:bwobbones@gmail.com">bwobbones@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi,<br><br>I had this problem and I fixed it by turning off realtime priority<br>threads in the Tv Playback settings (sorry can't remember the exact
<br>location in the menus). This had no effect on performance and stopped<br>the crashing!<br><br>Good luck.<br><br>Greg<br><br><br>On 4/29/07, Ryan Rustong <<a href="mailto:ryan.rustong@gmail.com">ryan.rustong@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:<br>> I've been trying to get my MythTV box working smoothly for awhile now and I<br>> think I'm almost there. I finally got HD and SD to play smoothly, but only<br>> by using XvMC for the HD. The problem I have now run into, is that XvMC
<br>> seems to cause my computer to hang (only a hard reset works) when I enter<br>> the program guide. When I first set it up, XvMC didn't seem to work well,<br>> so I tried all the recommended xvmc tweaks and how-to's, and I think what
<br>> finally got it working properly was to uninstall my nvidia drivers and<br>> reinstall using Envy. Now the video plays smooth and I see about 40% CPU<br>> usage while watching HD and commercial flagging at the same time. I used
<br>> the "tweak" to only use XvMC when watching HD, so I can now enter the<br>> program guide successfully while watching SD, and change channels as long as<br>> I don't go to my HD card. To summarize, it seems any time I either go from
<br>> the Program Guide to live tv on my HD card or from live tv on the HD card to<br>> the program guide my system completely locks up. Doing the same while using<br>> my SD card does not cause any problems.<br>
><br>> Here's my Setup:<br>><br>> Ubuntu 6.10 (i386)<br>> MythTV .20<br>> ASUS A8V-Deluxe motherboard (VIA K8T800 chipset)<br>> Athlon 64 3400+<br>> PVR-150 for SD<br>> Kworld ATSC-110 for HD
<br>> GeForce 5200 using DVI out to LCD TV<br>><br>> I'm just as new to linux as I am to MythTV, so I am sure there is more<br>> information that would help troubleshoot this, problem is I don't know what
<br>> that info is. If there are any logs or settings that would be helpful, let<br>> me know which ones and I'll post them. I just started seeing sites talking<br>> about problems with the VIA chipset, but they don't seem to be the same
<br>> problem as mine. Hopefully I accurately described my problem and someone<br>> out there has some insight for me.<br>><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
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