[mythtv-users] MythTV hangs entire system while watching (was MythTv crashes while watching or commercial flagging content recorded from Hauppauge HD PVR)

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/12/2010 01:45 PM, Greg Zornetzer wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Brian Edmonds wrote:
>
>     I've been experiencing this crash with an audio loop for months
>     now, and put it down to a flaky system. Up until yesterday...
>
>     All but one of the crashes have been on a homebuilt 3Gz Core Duo
>     box with onboard Intel video running 0.21 on Debian unstable (and
>     previously Lenny, with the same crashes) connecting to the TV with
>     an AVI to HDMI cable. But yesterday, after getting tired of the
>     crashes (and the cooling problems, and the noise) I built a new
>     system running 0.22 (built from source, as always)
>
> So, it sounds like the computer is not hard-locking, is that correct?  
> Does the caps lock key still work?
>
> There are some cases where mythfrontend has locked on me using 0.21.  
> In those cases, I can open a terminal and kill the mythfrontend 
> process.  Is this possible for you?  If the frontend is just getting 
> caught in a loop, perhaps you can get useful debugging output from 
> mythfrontend itself.  running 'mythfrontend -v playback' and capturing 
> the output may prove useful in debugging this.

Better, try 0.23-fixes as there were significant audio changes since 
0.22-fixes.

Mike