[mythtv-users] Frozen Picture

[Drew Tomlinson]

I'm running Myth 0.18-r2 built from Gentoo ebuilds on a 2.6.13-r5 
kernel.  Everything was working fine until the machine rebooted a few 
days ago due to a power outage.  Now video is frozen whether playing 
back from a recording or watching LiveTV.  Sound is good.  I know the 
files are fine as they play OK on a Windows XP box with media player.  
Although I don't recall changing anything in particular, I did remove 
"cruft" with eclean from the gentoolkit package sometime prior to that 
power outage. 

I've had this symptom in the past when upgrading my kernel and not 
rebuilding ivtv.  Thus I assume my cruft cleaning may have removed 
something ivtv needs.  I rebuilt ivtv 0.4.0-r3 which is the same version 
I had before and the latest unmasked version in Gentoo portage.  Then I 
rebooted and all was well.

But then I rebooted again and the video froze.  Now it seems that I have 
to rebuild ivtv, run 'revdep-rebuild' (a Gentoo script the checks for 
reverse dependencies and build them if necessary - it never finds any on 
my system), run 'update-modules' (a Gentoo script that generates 
modprobe.conf), and reboot again.  Then it works until the next reboot 
where I start the process over.

Does anyone have any ideas on what I can check to figure out what the 
problem really is?  I just don't get it and am very frustrated.  I'd 
appreciate any assistance.

Thanks,

Drew

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