[mythtv-users] Video dies only when recording!?!?

[Nic Thomas]

Ok...I had been upgrading all the way to the 0.12 release. Then I tried the 
latest cvs update around the Nov 26th date...the cvs version didn't fix the 
problems I was having with the .12 version so I reverted back to .12. The 
problems I had with .12 where minor compared to my current problem. To revert 
I did a make distclean in every module and mythtv before recompiling. I also 
dropped the database via the mysql client. I followed the normal setup 
process as if I had just did a fresh install of .12. I can watch Live TV...I 
can watch videos...I can play music via mythmusic...some things are still 
broken as they where before. But now anytime I try to record anything the 
video dies completely. I can hear everything fine but the video dies.

For an example. Say I'm watching live tv...everything is fine both video and 
audio. Then I goto schedule a recording. When I go to look at the recording 
either while it's recording or after. There is only a black screen but you 
can still hear the audio. Also an icon appears when the recording is selected 
that looks like a tombstone with RIP engraved in it. If I try to view Live tv 
again after the recording takes place I get the same thing...no video but I 
can still hear everything. The only thing that fixes the problem is if I exit 
out of mythfrontend and kill mythbackend and restart mythbackend (note I do 
not have to reload the ivtv module). Then I can watch live tv again.

I have duplicated all the recording profiles to be exactly the same because 
obviously I thought it was using a recording profile that was making ivtv act 
weird. 

Here is my setup...
Mandrake 9.1+PVR250+ivtv+SB Live!+GeForce2 Nvidia drivers`
Everything except the recordings work exactly as it did before I upgraded and 
then reverted. The only other change I'm aware of that I made was upgrading 
xmltv because of the zap2it problem. The ivtv driver is the same one I've 
always used and the same one that worked from the last install/upgrade of 
v.12.

Any help is greatly appreciative!