[mythtv-users] Edit Program locks up my frontend...

[Josh Dalcher]

I'm running 0.16 Myth on a Fedora Core 1 box and a Hauppague PVR-350.  I have been running Myth with little incident for several months, but I'm having difficulty Editing Recorded programs.  Every time I attempt to edit a recording, I hit my Menu button on my remote to bring up the OSD.  When I select Edit Program, the recording and my front end lock up.  After a restart, the program that I was attempting to edit comes up black with audio, and then kills my frontend.  After restarting *again*, things seem to be fine.  This occurs every time I attempt to edit a program.

To troubleshoot this problem, I consulted my backend log to make sure nothing funny was going on there.  There were no errors.  I checked the recorded database for editing flags that were set to 1, there were none.  This is what the frontend logs show when I attempt to start Edit mode (my actions are in brackets):

[ Attempted to enter Edit mode here ]

Using the PVR-350 decoder/TV-out
2004-11-13 16:44:17 Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded
pthread_setschedparam: Operation not permitted
2004-11-13 16:44:18 Running as SUID root would allow some threads to run with
realtime priority, improving video smoothness.

[ Frontend lockup caused a reboot ]

ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 3781, errno = 0
2004-11-13 16:48:55 mythfrontend version: 0.16.20040906-1 www.mythtv.org
2004-11-13 16:48:55 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2004-11-13 16:48:59 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2004-11-13 16:48:59 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media handler
2004-11-13 16:48:59 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media handler
2004-11-13 16:49:00 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media handler
2004-11-13 16:49:07 mythfrontend version: 0.16.20040906-1 www.mythtv.org
2004-11-13 16:49:07 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2004-11-13 16:49:09 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2004-11-13 16:49:09 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media handler
2004-11-13 16:49:09 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media handler
2004-11-13 16:49:10 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media handler
2004-11-13 16:53:58 All Programs
2004-11-13 16:53:58 All Programs
2004-11-13 16:53:59 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5)
2004-11-13 16:53:59 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5)
2004-11-13 16:53:59 Using protocol version 13
2004-11-13 16:53:59 Using protocol version 13
2004-11-13 16:53:59 Using protocol version 13
2004-11-13 16:53:59 Using protocol version 13
Could not bind to UDP notify port: 6948

[ Attempted to watch the recording that I tried to edit.  It was black with only audio. ]

Using the PVR-350 decoder/TV-out
2004-11-13 16:54:04 Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded
Using the PVR-350 decoder/TV-out
2004-11-13 16:54:04 Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded
Writing to videodev: Device or resource busy
pthread_setschedparam: Operation not permitted
2004-11-13 16:54:05 Running as SUID root would allow some threads to run with
realtime priority, improving video smoothness.
QObject::disconnect: Unexpected null parameter

[ At this point, I was able to return to my recorded program listings, sometimes the frontend dies back to my desktop. ]

2004-11-13 16:54:05 Changing from WatchingPreRecorded to None
2004-11-13 16:54:05 Changing from None to None
pthread_setschedparam: Operation not permitted
2004-11-13 16:54:05 Running as SUID root would allow some threads to run with
realtime priority, improving video smoothness.
2004-11-13 16:54:06 Changing from WatchingPreRecorded to None
2004-11-13 16:54:06 Changing from None to None
2004-11-13 16:54:09 All Programs

[ Here I was able to watch the recording that I was attempting to edit, everything is acting normally. ]

Using the PVR-350 decoder/TV-out
2004-11-13 16:54:10 Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded
pthread_setschedparam: Operation not permitted
2004-11-13 16:54:10 Running as SUID root would allow some threads to run with
realtime priority, improving video smoothness.
2004-11-13 16:54:13 Changing from WatchingPreRecorded to None
2004-11-13 16:54:13 Changing from None to None
2004-11-13 16:54:16 Checking xmame version

If there is information that will help someone diagnose my problem better, please let me know.  I'm relatively green when it comes to troubleshooting on Linux.  I would greatly appreciate assistance with this issue so I can edit commercials out of my recordings to save some drive space.  If possible, please respond to mythtv2 at dalcher.com or josh at dalcher.com.
Thank you very much!

Josh
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