[mythtv-users] 0.26 and Fedora 18 crash-n-burn?

HP-mini blm-ubunet at slingshot.co.nz
Sat Apr 13 19:50:26 UTC 2013


On Sat, 2013-04-13 at 13:01 -0400, Rich West wrote:
> Well, I was wrong about the permissions, kernel drivers, kernel rev, and,
> well, pretty much all of the little issues.  So far, I've gone down several
> different rabbit holes, and in every situation, 0.26 blows up because of one
> reason or another.  I'm wondering if it is the RPMfusion build vs the ATrpms
> built, but now I am grasping at straws.
> 
> My latest incarnation is a fresh install of Fedora18, installing 0.26 from
> RPMfusion via RPMS, copying over my mythtv database, deleting all of the
> tuners via mythtv-setup, adding them all back in, and attempting to run.
> 
> Now, I get new errors.  Egads!  Mythtv complains that the PVR-150 tuners are
> generating an error (nothing more about the error) and when I check the
> card, it's hung.  Further tests showed that the card would hang only if
> mythtv were to touch it.  Running "cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg" for a minute
> or so generated an mpg file that mplayer would happily play.  Once I fired
> up mythbackend and it attempted to record, it would generate that error and
> the card was now hung.

This pops up..
http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2013-January/345762.html
The advice was:
>>> There was a significant fix for PVR-XXX cards that went into master
>>> and 0.26-fixes and 0.25-fixes on or about 29 November last year
>>> [2012].  Anyone with one of these cards should ensure they are 
>>> running reasonable current code.





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