[mythtv-users] Myth 0.14 - Version 1.0??

[Jim Hribnak]

I have not used live TV much as the only time I would want to is when I want
to pause live TV/.. Today I was mucking about with Live TV pulled up the
guide and within a few seconds a complete machine lockup, had to power off
and power on again.


Jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "malcolm-mythtv" <mythtv at lds.dyndns.org>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Myth 0.14 - Version 1.0??


> On Sunday 08 February 2004 10:10 am, Brent Borghese wrote:
> > I have been using Myth now for over a year and I have to say Myth 0.14
> > is the best yet!!!!!!
> >
> > Does any body else feel that its time to call it Version 1.0 or maybe
> > 2.0?
>
> No.  Don't know about the rest of you guys but MythTV seems very unstable.
I
> have to reboot at least once a day sometimes several times a day.  If I
hit
> "M" when viewing live TV and navigate the menu it almost guarentees a
crash.
>
> When watching TV for a while and you hit "right arrow key" instead of
skipping
> forward it skips back.  Subsequent presses of right arrow key will then
start
> to skip forward.  Sometimes however it just craps out and the OSD displays
> that you are about 5 seconds behind real time but Disk Usage is 101.xx %.
At
> this point it will not allow you to Pause TV, skip forward or backwards.
>
> I've found the other skip features also crap out while watching Live TV.
> Pressing Q or Z sometimes freaks things out and then you can't use the
arrow
> keys to skip forward or backwards or pause live TV or do anything.
>
> I've also found playing around with "I" and Pause TV, "fast forward" and
so
> forth to much causes my TV output to just freeze solid.  Like the mythbox
> just locked up or something.  Only it didn't lockup.  CPU is idle too, I'm
> not sure what it's waiting on but all of a sudden 20 seconds later or so
the
> TV starts working again.  Usually at this point it's pretty unstable.
> Skipping forward or trying a commercial skip after a so called "freeze"
> usually results in the box locking for real.
>
> I can't play back a DVD to the TV without it been super slow and jumpy.  I
> know this is not MythTV's fault but rather something to do with Xine /
ivtv
> driver and using the PVR-350 out.  Anyhow my point is I can't watch DVDs
yet.
>
> If you leave a web browser open for a long time from another PC browsing
> Mythweb eventually after along time something happens where clicking on
> "system status" just makes httpd2 peg the CPU 100% for 30 seconds and then
> you get an error page.  Closing that browser and opening up the exact same
> browser does not fix the problem.  You have to ssh over to the Mythbox and
> delete your session file from /var/www/html/mythtv/php_sessions/
>
> I can't power up my myth box without a keyboard and mouse plugged in.  If
I do
> Myth has no stations.  You hit "I" (from the remote) and channels are
blank.
> You are stuck on that one channel.  Usually 3 on my box.
>
> You can't edit out commercials like you're supposed to.  From reading the
> mailing lists it looks like some people have it working.  Others I've seen
> have the same issues as me.  It's buggy and doesn't deal with mark points
> quite right and you can't transcode mpeg2 to mpeg2 yet so even if I do
manage
> to get a movie all marked out I can't transcode the recordings made by my
PVR
> cards to save disk space.
>
> Picture in Picture does not work right.  If I hit V I get nothing.  If I
play
> around and hit combinations of V, B, N eventually I see something but it's
> real slow and I can see lags in picture and sound as it's trying to
display.
> Once it's up hitting "B" to change focus doesn't show you which has focus?
> The big picture or the little one.  Only way to tell is to try and change
> channels.  Unfortunatly that's real slow and if the wrong one had focus
you
> have to wait for it to change, then change it back, and then change focus
> again and try changing channels again.
>
> It's 6:00pm and you're watching a movie on channel 6 on capture card 1
about
> 30 minutes behind real time.  You have a recording scheduled at 6:30pm on
> channel 8.  At 6:30pm it automatically just changes the channel on capture
> card 1 to channel 8 and starts recording it.  It should have grabbed your
> idle capture card 2 sitting there doing nothing.  You hit Esc and exit to
the
> main menu, select TV and it now grabs capture card 2.  You go to channel 6
> only to see your movie is over.  The ringbuffer is gone and you just lost
the
> last 30 minutes of your movie.
>
> I've also found if you are watching a recoding that's in progress from the
> "Watch Recordings" menu and then you hit Esc because you decide you no
longer
> want to watch that show right now it will also stop recoding at that point
> (sometimes).
>
> Anyhow I don't want to seem like I'm bashing Myth but just point out no I
> don't think it's ready to be called Version 1 or 2.
>
> I think Myth has some great potential and I'll continue to upgrade as
things
> become available.  Maybe one day it will be stable enough to put on my
main
> TV.
>
> I may not be able to code and fix myth but I sure can test it and let you
guys
> know what's going on.
>
> My setup:
> 2.4 Ghz Celeron, with 512 Megs DDR
> Gigabyte board
> PVR-250
> PVR-350
> SB Live
>
> I have 3 hard drives I've been switching between.  Gentoo, KnoppMyth, and
> Mandrake.  The main one I've had the most success with is my Mandrake
drive
> and compiling everything I need from source so here's it's details.
> Mandrake 9.2
> kernel.org kernel 2.4.24 patched with v4l2
> mythtv-0.14 compiled with native LIRC support
> ivtv 0.1.9
>
> Thanks
> Malcolm
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>