Mailing List Archive: System freeze when watching live tv

System freeze when watching live tv

Mar 24, 2003, 7:45 PM

Post #1 of 3 (1615 views)

With MythTV 0.8 (and also 0.7 before it) my system freezes hard when trying
to change channels while watching live tv. I've noticed that if I am
recording with, for example, mencoder and I hit ^Z the same thing happens.
I'm guessing that this has something to do with the way that mythtv pauses
(or doesn't pause) the recording when changing channels and my card doesn't
like it.

I have an AverTV Stereo on a K7S5A board. I'm running RH8.0 with a 2.4.19
kernel from kernel.org and alsa sound drivers.

Any thoughts, suggestions?

Thanks,
Dave

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Re: System freeze when watching live tv [ In reply to ]

ijr at po

Mar 26, 2003, 9:55 PM

Post #2 of 3 (1588 views)

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On Monday 24 March 2003 09:45 pm, David Tarkowski wrote:
> With MythTV 0.8 (and also 0.7 before it) my system freezes hard when trying
> to change channels while watching live tv. I've noticed that if I am
> recording with, for example, mencoder and I hit ^Z the same thing happens.
> I'm guessing that this has something to do with the way that mythtv pauses
> (or doesn't pause) the recording when changing channels and my card doesn't
> like it.
>
> I have an AverTV Stereo on a K7S5A board. I'm running RH8.0 with a 2.4.19
> kernel from kernel.org and alsa sound drivers.
>
> Any thoughts, suggestions?

Might want to try upgrading ALSA to the latest version available.

Isaac

Re: System freeze when watching live tv [ In reply to ]

robert at middleswarth

Mar 29, 2003, 5:40 PM

Post #3 of 3 (1617 views)

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David Tarkowski wrote:

>With MythTV 0.8 (and also 0.7 before it) my system freezes hard when trying
>to change channels while watching live tv. I've noticed that if I am
>recording with, for example, mencoder and I hit ^Z the same thing happens.
>I'm guessing that this has something to do with the way that mythtv pauses
>(or doesn't pause) the recording when changing channels and my card doesn't
>like it.
>
>
See the Archive for more info the system freeze is caused by your audio
drivers not working right when mythtv try to change channels

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/archive/MythTV_C2/Dev_F10/
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/archive/MythTV_C2/Users_F11/

>I have an AverTV Stereo on a K7S5A board. I'm running RH8.0 with a 2.4.19
>kernel from kernel.org and alsa sound drivers.
>
>Any thoughts, suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>Dave
>
>
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