[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend crash

[Kane Tse]

Well, I managed to figure out it was in the Audio settings.  The "Upconvert
stereo to 5.1 surround", which was previously ON needed to be turned off.
No idea why it makes a difference though, but at least it is working.

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 2:15 AM Kane Tse <kane.tse at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 6:26 AM Jay Harbeston <jharbestonus at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Jun 10, 2019, at 3:45 AM, Kane Tse <kane.tse at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I'm using pretty ancient hardware, a Gigabyte G41M-ES2H that has an
>> on-board Intel GMA X4500, so no Radeon hardware.   Up until my OS HDD died
>> last month, both the on-board video and the existing MythTV playback
>> profile worked fine under Fedora 26 and MythTV-0.27.
>>
>> Try using VAAPI2, and if that doesn’t work, then try VAAPI ( not 2 ).
>>
>>
> Thanks for the suggestion.  I tried both VAAPI2 and VAAPI in that order,
> and the same thing occurs.
>
> It seems to take longer to crash to desktop on the VAAPI2 profile than the
> VAAPI profile.
>
> This is what I see when I run vainfo:
>
> libva info: VA-API version 1.4.1
> libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
> libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/i965_drv_video.so
> libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_4
> failed to open /usr/lib64/dri/hybrid_drv_video.so
> Not using hybrid_drv_video.so
> libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
> vainfo: VA-API version: 1.4 (libva 2.4.0)
> vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver for Intel(R) G41 - 2.3.0
> vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
>       VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointVLD
>       VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointVLD
>
>
> It seems to me that the following line might be the one to focus on:
>
> 2019-06-11 01:30:33.727202 C  signalhandling.cpp:302:handleSignal
>  Received Aborted: Code -6, PID 11635, UID 2001, Value 0x00000000
>
> This line seems to be consistently present in the mythfrontend console
> output when it crashes.
>
>
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