[mythtv-users] Playback stops and seg faults mythfrontend after 5-15 mins

[Rob Bongiovi]

Hi! I am banging my head against a wall on this one. I
just hooked my mythtv front/backend onto my new HDTV.
Everything went smoothly until I tried to play video.
It plays (nicely) for 5-15 mins, the crashes
mythfrontend (mythbackend is fine). It does this for
live tv, playback of recorded tv, and, strangly, xine
did the same thing when playing a dvd (via Myth).

I'm running at 720p (1280x720). I've tried to connect
via DVI-HDMI and via a direct VGA connection (the TV
has both).

The frontend log just stops (here is the last few
lines of the log with verbose reporting on):

'video_output' mean = '34955.90', std. dev. =
'7624.43', fps = '28.61'
2005-08-31 08:16:26.941 positionMap[ 1642 ] ==
533501990.
2005-08-31 08:16:27.441 positionMap[ 1643 ] ==
533819430.
2005-08-31 08:16:27.941 positionMap[ 1644 ] ==
534138918.
2005-08-31 08:16:28.441 positionMap[ 1645 ] ==
534478886.
2005-08-31 08:16:28.940 positionMap[ 1646 ] ==
534798374.
2005-08-31 08:16:29.440 positionMap[ 1647 ] ==
535126054.
2005-08-31 08:16:29.940 positionMap[ 1648 ] ==
535445542.
'video_output' mean = '33290.49', std. dev. = '45.40',
fps = '30.04'
2005-08-31 08:16:30.438 positionMap[ 1649 ] ==
535775270.
2005-08-31 08:16:30.938 positionMap[ 1650 ] ==
536100902.
2005-08-31 08:16:31.437 positionMap[ 1651 ] ==
536430630.
2005-08-31 08:16:31.939 positionMap[ 1652 ] ==
536782886.
2005-08-31 08:16:32.435 positionMap[ 1653 ] ==
537079846.
2005-08-31 08:16:32.935 positionMap[ 1654 ] ==
537389094.
2005-08-31 08:16:33.434 positionMap[ 1655 ] ==
537727014.
'video_output' mean = '33291.29', std. dev. = '41.77',
fps = '30.04'
2005-08-31 08:16:33.934 positionMap[ 1656 ] ==
538036262.
2005-08-31 08:16:34.434 positionMap[ 1657 ] ==
538376230.
2005-08-31 08:16:34.933 positionMap[ 1658 ] ==
538693670.
2005-08-31 08:16:35.433 positionMap[ 1659 ] ==
539021350.
2005-08-31 08:16:36.015 positionMap[ 1660 ] ==
539359270.
2005-08-31 08:16:36.431 positionMap[ 1661 ] ==
539676710.
'video_output' mean = '33291.03', std. dev. = '64.37',
fps = '30.04'
2005-08-31 08:16:36.932 positionMap[ 1662 ] ==
540004390.
2005-08-31 08:16:37.431 positionMap[ 1663 ] ==
540332070.

The backend log usually reports this:
2005-08-31 07:57:20.398 New DB connection, total: 1
Starting up as the master server.
2005-08-31 07:57:20.705 New DB connection, total: 2
2005-08-31 07:57:20.935 New DB connection, total: 3
2005-08-31 07:57:21.820 New DB scheduler connection
2005-08-31 07:57:21.953 mythbackend version:
0.18.1.20050523-1 www.mythtv.org
2005-08-31 07:57:22.038 Enabled verbose msgs :
important general
2005-08-31 07:57:23.928 Reschedule requested for id
-1.
2005-08-31 07:57:25.403 Scheduled 53 items in 1.5 =
1.14 match + 0.34 place
2005-08-31 07:57:25.518 Seem to be woken up by USER
2005-08-31 08:01:57.129 New DB connection, total: 1
Starting up as the master server.
2005-08-31 08:01:57.301 New DB connection, total: 2
2005-08-31 08:01:57.363 New DB connection, total: 3
2005-08-31 08:01:58.240 New DB scheduler connection
2005-08-31 08:01:58.274 mythbackend version:
0.18.1.20050523-1 www.mythtv.org
2005-08-31 08:01:58.309 Enabled verbose msgs :
important general
2005-08-31 08:02:00.257 Reschedule requested for id
-1.
2005-08-31 08:02:01.616 Scheduled 53 items in 1.4 =
1.09 match + 0.27 place
2005-08-31 08:02:01.625 Seem to be woken up by USER
2005-08-31 08:02:43.287 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
Playback
2005-08-31 08:02:43.289 adding: mythtvsd as a client
(events: 0)
2005-08-31 08:02:43.303 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
Playback
2005-08-31 08:02:43.305 adding: mythtvsd as a client
(events: 1)
2005-08-31 08:02:43.313 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
Playback
2005-08-31 08:02:43.315 adding: mythtvsd as a client
(events: 0)
2005-08-31 08:02:43.344 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
Playback
2005-08-31 08:02:43.346 adding: mythtvsd as a client
(events: 0)
2005-08-31 08:02:43.352 adding: mythtvsd as a remote
ringbuffer
2005-08-31 08:02:43.363 Changing from None to
WatchingLiveTV
2005-08-31 08:16:37.827 Changing from WatchingLiveTV
to None
2005-08-31 08:16:37.914 WriteBlock: Bad socket
Unable to write to client socket, as it's no longer
there

If I run mythfrontend from the prompt (I usually use a
startup script), it reports a segmentation fault on
exit.

Ideas? I'm kind of a linux noob, so if you would like
to see other output, please let me know. This was
supposed to be my big unveiling to my wife and kids,
so please help!!!

Thanks,
Rob