[mythtv-users] System freeze when watching live tv

[Isaac Richards]

On Monday 24 March 2003 09:45 pm, David Tarkowski wrote:
> With MythTV 0.8 (and also 0.7 before it) my system freezes hard when trying
> to change channels while watching live tv.  I've noticed that if I am
> recording with, for example, mencoder and I hit ^Z the same thing happens.
> I'm guessing that this has something to do with the way that mythtv pauses
> (or doesn't pause) the recording when changing channels and my card doesn't
> like it.
>
> I have an AverTV Stereo on a K7S5A board.  I'm running RH8.0 with a 2.4.19
> kernel from kernel.org and alsa sound drivers.
>
> Any thoughts, suggestions?

Might want to try upgrading ALSA to the latest version available.

Isaac