<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Johnny Walker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnnyjboss@gmail.com">johnnyjboss@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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It seems that my whole backend and frontend have become unstable now -<br>
I need to re-read Michael's comments on how channels are tracked in<br>
the database and what I need to know to keep it all straight for the<br>
backend.<br><br></blockquote><div><br>I'd like to chime in on the stability issue - I'm running an HDHR on Charter in Massachusetts. After adding channels via a channel scan, I have to go and tune each one, one at a time, in order to find out what they actually are and modify Myth's channel mappings accordingly. It's a mind numbing, painful process that takes hours. <br>
<br>When I tune to a channel that Myth can't handle, several different things can happen: 1) If I'm lucky, I realize it's never going to come back and am able to tune back to a channel that works. However, if this doesn't work, then Myth 2) Kicks back to the main FE page with an error about opening a jump file, or some other error that I can't remember. However, it's at this point that my FE becomes unstable and will no longer tune any channels. I have to restart mythfrontend. When I relaunch mythfrontend and attempt to watch TV, I have to quickly remember to tune to a good channel, or step 2 repeats itself and I have to restart the app once again. Probably once every five times myth will 3) Crash the frontend app altogether, or even 4)Crash the backend, and I have to manually restart that process.<br>
<br>These are not encrypted channels as far as I can tell, as I have the option to skip encrypted channels enabled. They're just 'bad' channels. And this behavior has been going on since I got my HDHR with .21, and occurs across all my FEs. So if you have a crash in tuning the channel, my recommendation is to restart mythfrontend, or even reboot to be sure everything is as it was.<br>
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