[mythtv-users] Video dies every few hours

[Tim Brailsford]

> Tim Brailsford wrote:
> > I am new to MythTV, and have a weird problem that has beaten me so 
> far. 
> > I am using MythTV 0.19 on Ubuntu 5.10 with a Hauppauge PVR-150 - set up
> > using Daniel Hyams superb instructions
> > (hyams.webhop.net/mythtv/myth_ubuntu.html).  Initially everything works
> > just fine, but after I leave the backend running for about 4-6 hours 
> the
> > video dies.  All I get if I try to watch live TV is a black screen, and
> > any scheduled recordings lock up the card for the duration of the
> > recording but end up by just generating a few seconds of the black
> > screen.  When this happens if I try to use Mplayer to watch the video
> > device I get the message:
> >
> >     Playing /dev/video0.
> >     Cache fill:   0.00% (0 bytes)
> >     Exiting... (Quit)
> >
> > After this I can't play video until I reboot the computer, whereupon
> > everything works again - for another few hours.  I can't see anything
> > suspicious in dmesg or /var/log/messages.
> >
> > Any ideas would be very gratefully received.
> >
> > Tim.
> >
> >  
> What does the mythbackend.log show at that point?
>
> Tom
Nothing at all - it is a zero length file - several days out of date.   
I just deleted it and tried to restart the backend without rebooting to 
see what would happen, and I then got the message "select timeout - ivtv 
driver has stopped responding" - so that is the problem, the question 
then becomes why is ivtv dying?  BTW I am using ivtv 0.4.4 - installed 
as per the Hyams instructions.

Tim.


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