[mythtv] Machine hangs on channel-switching with MythTV
Mark Musone
mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Mon, 18 Nov 2002 17:47:58 -0500
I too have had horrible problems with mythtv hanging my machine..
Redhat 8.0:
I have a SB Live card, it would hang when
mythtv started. (using ALSA)
Using OSS drivers, it worked fine but for some reason would not record from
line-in...dont care because i really want ALSA anyways..
I then ripped out the SB card and used my onboard VIA 82xx..
Using ALSA, the machien would hang when changing channels.
Using OSS, it worked fine..
I was told to try the ALSA CVS..i downloaded it, it WORKS!!!
it works GREAT in fact!
so people may want to give that a try too,
Hope this helps,
Mark
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 02:42:14PM -0800, Gregorio Gervasio Jr. wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:49:15 -0500 (EST), "John" <john@johnsteele.com> said:
>
> j> xawtv also worked for me and I was able to watch live tv with Myth on the
> j> initial channel (Actually every now and again I could change channels one
> j> time. But this was very random). I successfully recorded and then played
> j> back a program. However while recording a second time I switched to
> j> another window and started working on something else which caused the
> j> hang. This may mean that the problem is not in the video, sound or
> j> network drivers. That leaves BTTV and hard drive.
>
> For what it's worth, I started a couple of days ago and am
> seeing exactly the same symptoms. I finally found out that even
> NuppelVideo "nuvrec" by itself (which just records) would also hang
> the machine so it does suggest a bttv problem. I tried both
> bttv-0.7.100 and bttv-0.9.1 (developmental) drivers and still see the
> hangs.
>
> Since I'm using a Hauppauge WinTV card that everyone else
> seems to be succesfully using, I'm wondering if there's some
> interaction with other parts of the system. Has anyone else seen
> problems with:
>
> Asus A7V8X board/1.8GHz Athlon/ATI Radeon 8500
> RedHat 8.0 (kernel 2.4.18-18.8.0)/ALSA 0.9.0rc5
>
> --
> Gregorio Gervasio, Jr.
> gtgj@pacbell.net
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