[mythtv-users] Frontend crashes when starting to watch some
recordings
Mark J. Small
msmall at eastlink.ca
Fri Jun 3 14:03:23 UTC 2005
Hi everybody,
My TV frontend has started to crash recently. It happens when I start to
watch some recordings (say about 1 out of every 3). If I restart the
frontend and try again, it will work. Once I had to restart twice.
Also, when I start some recordings on my desktop frontend (a beefier machine),
it will play a split second of audio, pause for around two seconds, then play
normally. I think this is related.
Since the TV frontend has no keyboard or mouse, the power button tip here:
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/tips.php is the only thing that makes this problem
slight annoyance instead of a WAF killer.
My setup:
Backend: 3 Freestyle's, 800 MHz Duron, 256MB RAM. 40 GB ext2 / drive, 160MB
jfs /mnt/store/ drive.
TV Frontend: MX440 vga out to Scan converter, 733MHz P3, 256 MB RAM, root
mounted NFS from backend.
Desktop Frontend: Athlon XP 2000+, 256MB RAM, 40 GB drive, Nvidia TNT2.
All systems are running Debian Sarge.
I have made four major changes to my entire setup recently, so I imagine that
one of them is the culprit.
(1) Updated to 0.18 (not 0.18.1 yet)
(2) Upgraded TV frontend hardware from Celeron 433/TNT2
(3) Added 160MB JFS video storage drive to backend
(4) Changed backend motherboard from a VIA chipset to a Sis chipset board.
This fixed any problems I had with recording 2 programs at once.
Any ideas?
Mark
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