[mythtv-users] Video dies every few hours

[Kurt Yoder]

On Apr 7, 2006, at 3:56 PM, 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.

Did you put your ringbuffer on a different physical disk than your  
recordings? I seem to recall similar problems when I first started  
using myth until I moved the ringbuffer and recordings onto separate  
disks.

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Kurt Yoder
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