MythTV crashing

[skeptic]

I did some forum searching and it appears there was a problem with MythTV locking up from within LMCE after a few minutes.  As far as I can find, no solution was posted and there hasn't been any talk about it since around December.

I'm have a DirecTV STB outputting to the S-Video port on a PVR-150 card.  I can watch TV, change channels, etc.  However, after a short period of time, maybe as long as a few minutes, it freezes.  At some point before the freeze, the sound stops.  I can ctrl-alt-f2 and login fine.   alt-tab shows the lmce windows, but none of them actually get me out of MythTV.  From what I've found, I can either reboot completely, or ctrl-alt-backspace to kill X, then restart X. 

If someone wants me to try some things and help investigate, just let me know.  If anyone has a solution, even better.

[Zaerc]

See: http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/KnownIssues_0710_Beta4

[skeptic]

I'm not sure what you're getting at.  Are you trying to tell me that the lack of a mention of Myth crashing/freezing in the known issues means it was fixed?

[teedge77]

MythTV affects performance of system because of too verbose logging, sometimes even freezing. The fix was commited (svn rev #19965). To fix it on your machine, follow the steps
- cd /usr/pluto/bin

- mv MythTV_Player MythTV_Player.orig

- wget -c ftp://builder32.linuxmce.com/Download/MythTV_Player-beta4-fix/i386/MythTV_Player (for i386)

or

- wget -c ftp://builder32.linuxmce.com/Download/MythTV_Player-beta4-fix/x86_64/MythTV_Player (for amd64)

- chmod +x MythTV_Player

- reload router

[skeptic]

MythTV affects performance of system because of too verbose logging, sometimes even freezing. The fix was commited (svn rev #19965).

Ah, ok, I didn't realize freezing was part of that issue.  I'll give that fix a try.

[skeptic]

Thanks for pointing out my inability to read (only a couple hours sleep last night), that seems to have fixed it.

[teedge77]

sure thing. glad it worked for you.