[mythtv-users] How stable is your myth setup?

[Tim Gray]

My Mythbox is 100% stable and has been running
non-stop for 12 days with no problems. I record at
least 2 shows daily on it.

I was only able to achieve this by setting it up on a
slackware 9.1 Base that was stripped down for mythtv
use only, and I use the windowmanager called
ratpoison. for the frontend.

I am using a pvr250 and the AverMedia clone of the
pvr250 in the box.  

the only time I have any problems is during playback
If the linux subsystem is doing one of it's cron jobs
that takes a large amount of disk resources
(rebuilding the locate database) and I solved that by
moving it to run at 3 AM local time.

I am using a cheap motherboard with a soldered on AMD
duron 900 MHZ processor, and using a cheap
scan-converter for video out.

I am a recent convert from freevo and I found that
slackware to be the best platform to build a dedicated
machine on.  I have NEVER had any good stability for a
embedded project like this out of redhat, mandrake or
debian... although I run mandrake for my desktop and
absolutely love it. 

 p.s. I have built at least 30 other embedded linux
projects. I have a pocket network analyzer running a
custom linux distro + ntop, built a robot from a 386
baby motherboard running another custom distro (based
on slack though) and have helped with wearable
computing in the late 90's, as well as many other
projects for work that I cannot go into. so I'm not
just a raving fanboy for slackware... It's just the
best choice for an embedded project like a dedicated
mythtv machine in my opinion. whereas debian and
others  are best suited for servers and workstations.


--- Hanno Wagner <wagner at rince.de> wrote:
> Hiho,
> 
> <zitiere wer="Sabin Dang">
> 
> > I was curious to see how stable everyone else's
> myth setup is.  I
> > personally have to restart myth backend every 3 -
> 4 days.  I run a
> > redhat 9 system with the 2.4.20 kernel,pvr250
> (ivtv version 0.1.9),
> > ALSA, geforce4 for video out, and myth .14 (setup
> using jarod's
> > excellent guide).
> 
> currently I have to reboot (hard, with power off)
> every three days
> or so - it hardly depends on how often I record
> something. I have an
> Epia M2-10000 box with a PVR350, it works fine
> except that sometimes
> it "forgets" sound - or better: it doesn't capture
> it in the stream.
> I can see old records with sound, but current LiveTV
> or recording
> something results in silence. when I reboot with
> power-off,
> everything is fine again.
> 
> (has anyone seen something similar?)
> 
> I use linux-2.4.24, TV-Out of PVR350 and I just try
> to use S-Video
> as output, not the composite one. And maybe I will
> soon be able to
> use the SPDIF-Output from the Motherboard with Alsa
> as general
> output.
> 
> Ciao, Hanno
> -- 
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