[mythtv-users] System freezes, Live TV and recordings

[nightshade at podiluk.com]

Hello,

I have a very frustrating problem with my system, and it sure is not
impressing the wife very much.

My system freezes into a hard lockup and I have to hit the reset button to
fix. This is somewhat a random problem but happens more at certain times
and also at different spots. This is going to be hard to explain and I've
not been able to find anything in the archives.

1. If I am watching live TV and the shows comes to an end it would lock up
the system just between the next show starts. As the show ends I can hear
the hard drive trashing a bit then it dies.

2. If the backend records a show some time during the night or when I'm
not around it some times freezes once the show is over. I usually wake up
to a dead system.

3. When on the recorded shows list I pick a show to watch the front end
goes black and again it freezes. This happens randomly also.

I've run both the back and front ends in verbose mode and the logs don't
seem to have any obvious errors to me. I wont include them here for now as
they tend to be very large with that much debug info being logged, I can
post some if it if it needed.

I've just updated my system with all the latest software including kernel,
nvidia drivers, mythtv, ivtv... I'm running fedora core 6 on a AMD 3200+
1.25G Ram, nvidia motherboard, pvr-150. I have a 600G xfs lvm that I use
to store my recordings on.

I can play back shows I've download from the net, but that uses mplayer.

Logs like dmegs, messages and xorg.log don't show anything. I'm total lost
at what can be going on here... I would say it is a problem with the
capture card but why would it die playing back recorded videos? Maybe an
issue with the file system?

Any suggestions or advise would be very much appreciated.

-Darren