[mythtv-users] MythTV CVS Build Fails to Play Live TV

[Joseph A. Caputo]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of J. Alexander
> Jacocks
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 11:45 AM
> To: mythtv-users at snowman.net
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV CVS Build Fails to Play Live TV
>
>
> <snip>
>  >> However, I am having a rather silly problem.  While I can schedule a
>  >> recording (and watch that recording) I can't watch live TV.  I tried
>  >> disabling deinterlacing, as was suggested earlier, but this had no
>  >> effect.
>  >>
>  >> Unfortunately, I can't provide more detail, as I don't know much about
>  >> the program (yet).
>  >
>  >
>  >Not even such detail as "when I try to watch LiveTV, such-and-such
>  >happens"?
>  >
>  >-JAC
>
> Sorry...it was late and I wasn't thinking.  Basically, the front end
> hangs when I try to play live TV.  Yes, I am aware that I can't manage
> two streams with only one TV tuner, and I was only running one or
> the other.
>
> As a side note, MythWeather seems to work fine.  I did figure out this
> morning that I had neglected to load the v4l extension in my Xconfig,
> but this did not seem to solve the problem.
>
> As the frontend doesn't dump core, I can't do any core analysis, but I
> will try to take a thread dump this evening.
>
> Thanks!


Sounds like maybe your sound card or driver can't/isn't configured to do
full duplex.  What's your sound setup?

-JAC