[mythtv-users] Begging for help with live TV freeze

[Kevin]

        I do not have a bttv card (what is this?) in my system. I just have a PVR-350 but I notice that the bttv drivers are loaded as well. I too am running Mandrake 9.1 and I guess they got installed by default? The ivtv drivers (0.12) are loaded and working fine with the PVR-350 except for this freeze thing going on. As I said in my earlier post, mythfrontend freezes randomly either in Live TV or playing a recording. It does not affect mythbackend at all and it continues to record scheduled programs without any problems. So far I have noticed that when the freeze occurs it is in response to my doing something in mythfrondend such as skipping forward/backward, pausing or whatever. If I kill mythfrontend and try to restart it, it is unable to talk to mythbackend and I have to reboot to get things working again. This, of course, becomes a problem if I am recording something at the time. Again I am running Myth 0.12 on a VIA EPIA M10000.

At 11:44 AM 2003-12-09, bobnvic at everestkc.net wrote:
>Patrick E. McKnight wrote:
>> Alan Snyder wrote:
>> > A number of people, myself included, have reported
>> > frontend freezes in live TV, the symptom being frozen
>> > picture and sound, the frontend spitting out "Waited 2
>> > seconds for data to become available, waiting
>> > again...", and the backend seemingly working normally.
>> >  
>snip
>> 
>> Alan,
>> 
>> Let me see if I can help you here.  I too had the screen freezes 
>> but I 
>> did the following and now it no longer freezes.  First, I 
>> originally 
>> compiled bttv into the kernel - big mistake.  I'm using 2.6.0-
>> test11 on 
>> gentoo and by recompiling the bttv, btaudio, etc as modules, I was 
>> able 
>> to control the driver configs in the modules.conf (or whatever 
>> file you 
>> use to control these things).
>> 
>> BTW, I followed the directions from:
>> 
>> http://www.linuxlogin.com/linux/ati_tv.php
>> 
>> and in particular I used the following (since I was using the ATI 
>> card 
>> myself):
>> 
>> alias char-major-81 bttv
>> options bttv card=1 autoload=0 radio=0
>> post-install bttv insmod tuner type=2
>> 
>> I now have some other niggling problems but I am getting close to 
>> having 
>> a full-working and stable MythTV setup.  So my scientific (!) wild 
>> ass 
>> guess is the kernel drivers.  Have you tried to load them at boot 
>> rather 
>> than compiling them in?
>> 
>
>I have a PVR-250 and a bttv card in my system.  The "waiting for data"
>problems occur with the PVR-250 card while watching LiveTV for me,
>but I suppose it could still be a bttv driver problem.  I'm using
>Mandrake 9.1 with the bttv drivers compiled in by Mandrake.  I'll
>try messing with the ivtv and bttv drivers both.  I've suspected a
>problem with one or both of the drivers anyway.
>
>Bob C
>
>
>
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