[mythtv-users] Problem with EPG while watching live tv using pvr-350

[Isaac Richards]

On Thursday 27 November 2003 02:07 pm, Dave Anderson wrote:
> It seems I may have finally got the ivtv framebuffer driver loaded and 
> working. I'm using the tv-out of my pvr-350 and things are going good. I 
> have been watching live tv for about an hour now without the system locking
> 
 up. That is until I pull up the EPG.
> 
> When I pull up the EPG the system locks after about 30 seconds or so. With
> 
 the tv-out of the pvr-350, the epg loads transparent,  while using the
> tv-out of the nvidia, it loads solid. I assume that's the framebuffer
> causing the difference. Anyway, when I used the nvidia a preview of the
> channel loaded in the preview window just fine. But using the pvr-350, the
> preview never loads. Instead the system locks up.
> 
> Could this preview be the reason I lock up when I turn on the guide? If so,
> 
 how do I turn off the preview. I wasn't sure where it was in the setup. I
> found one thing about live preview but I thought it was for recordings. Is
> this the option I want to turn off?

It's not trying to load a preview or anything like that when it's using the 
pvr-350 decoder.  If the system locks up, it's the fault of the ivtv driver, 
not mythtv.

Isaac