[mythtv-users] mythbackend hang when switching from livetv torecording

[David Rees]

Sending this to the list as Joe mistakenly sent it to only me.  Now I know
I'm not the only one with this problem...  Any developers on this list, or
should I forward this bug report on to the -dev list?

-Dave

On Wed, January 21, 2004 1at 2:37 pm, Joe MacDonald wrote:
> Dave,
>
> I have the same issue. The entire system works great with one card.
>
> As soon as I activate the second card it still works. Its when I stop
> using the second card which is where I start to have problems.
>
> It doesn't matter if this is using PiP or if the second card kicks in to
> watch live TV because the first card is recording something. when I stop
> using the second card, the frontend loses communications to the backend.
>
> Joe MacDonald
>
> On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 12:22, David Rees wrote:
>> I left mythfrontend watching livetv with PiP (I have two PVR-250s) when
>> a
>> scheduled recording started.
>>
>> The scheduled recording started and and finished on the backend as
>> expected after stopping one of the LiveTV streams.
>>
>> However, as soon as this happenned the front end started producing the
>> "Waited 2 seconds" messages.  While this was going on, one of the LiveTV
>> streams continued displaying properly on the frontend but the PiP had
>> disappeared (as expected) and the frontend no long responded to the
>> keyboard.
>>
>> Restarting the frontend revealed that the backend was no longer
>> responding
>> as well.
>>
>> Restarted both resulted in an operation system again.
>>
>> Anyone else experience this?  Is this a known bug?  Fixed in CVS
>> already?
>> If not, I can look into debugging this issue further.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dave