[mythtv] MythTv Issues

[Oliver Hine]

I've finally setup mythtv, and ivtv, alsa and nvidia drivers, 2.4.22-1.2163.nptl_34.rcfc1.at

I'm not recieving any weird errors durning startup, or while modprobe'ing devices. 

The issue i'm seeing is after watching livetv for maybe 5-10 minutes the video will pause/freeze, mythfrontend is completely locked up, and i have to manually kill the process. Below is what i see in my log files. The main line i'm worried about is "Unable to write to client socket, as it's no longer there"

Starting up as the master server.
2004-01-30 22:31:52 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2004-01-30 22:31:54 Found changes in the todo list.
2004-01-30 22:32:08 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-01-30 22:32:08 adding: localhost.localdomain as a player 0
2004-01-30 22:32:08 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playbackave to manually kill the process. Below is what i see in my log files. The main line i'm worried about is "
2004-01-30 22:32:08 adding: localhost.localdomain as a player 1
2004-01-30 22:32:08 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-01-30 22:32:08 adding: localhost.localdomain as a player 0
2004-01-30 22:32:08 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-01-30 22:32:08 adding: localhost.localdomain as a player 0
2004-01-30 22:32:08 adding: localhost.localdomain as a remote ringbuffer
2004-01-30 22:32:08 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
Couldn't read data from the capture card in 15 seconds.  Game over, man.
Unable to write to client socket, as it's no longer there

If i've scheduled a recording, it usally records maybe 15-25minutes of the show, before the backend locks up the computer completely. 

I've had to install Fedora about 5 times before i could get everything working correctly, with the last format i installed a new PVR-250 card i just purchased (the bttv drivers wouldn't give be a clean video feed)

I used http://www.wilsonet.com/mythtv/ as a guide to help me setup the box correctly. I've also downloaded the latest firmware for the pvr-250 and manually compiled the ivtv drivers, and nvidia drivers (this got rid of my overlay error messages i was recieving earlier)

I'm pretty impressed with the MythTv Suite, its a powerful little piece of software. I'm actually surprised i was able to get everything working so nicely (the last version of linux i used was rh6)


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