mythtv-backend in 0704 & 0710 crashing or having problems

[deffcon]

Hi,

Just a small question, does someone has problems with analog or maybe even with digital tuner cards the problem that when you're switching from one channel to antoher that the mythtv-backend  crashes or even dies? So what i did to test something and maybe someone has an better idea then me, i just killed ( just for testing purposes ) the mythtv-backend proccess, and just in my terminal connected to my laptop ( to see whats happening ) spawned mythbackend ( so not mythtv-backend --> its only a wrapper and ads some logging to /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log and a pid number to kill it in my case ) and just what i thought and i really don't why but it rapidly speeds up mythtv and for sure switching channels with my hauppage pvr-500, and the most important thing off all -----> i switched back and forth with my channels for nearly then minutes and it didn't crashed a single time.

Hope that someone also found this and can tell us more about it ( maybe some scripting )

Happy to share stuff

Dave

[hari]

Hi,

Just a small question, does someone has problems with analog or maybe even with digital tuner cards the problem that when you're switching from one channel to antoher that the mythtv-backend  crashes or even dies? So what i did to test something and maybe someone has an better idea then me, i just killed ( just for testing purposes ) the mythtv-backend proccess, and just in my terminal connected to my laptop ( to see whats happening ) spawned mythbackend ( so not mythtv-backend --> its only a wrapper and ads some logging to /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log and a pid number to kill it in my case ) and just what i thought and i really don't why but it rapidly speeds up mythtv and for sure switching channels with my hauppage pvr-500, and the most important thing off all -----> i switched back and forth with my channels for nearly then minutes and it didn't crashed a single time.

Hope that someone also found this and can tell us more about it ( maybe some scripting )

Happy to share stuff

Dave

iirc that race condition is fixed in the newest mythtv patches but they are not yet included in the beta.

best regards,
Hari

[deffcon]

Hi,

I've installed the Beta 3 successfully, but what i noticed was that in beta something changed in mythtv, now i have even worse problems with this beta 3, for instance,

Beta 3 --> mythtv --> hauppage pvr 500 mce :

- no sound
- changing channels takes really long, and when changed the video is terrible slow.

Can someone tell me what this all is, because i really lost it, i don't wanna go back to mythbuntu because i got used to use linuxmce, but mythbuntu i can watch tv and in linuxmce not.

Please can someone help me?


Dave