[mythtv-users] Frontend crashes when exiting Watch-TV and Watch Recording

[Pete Frankenberg]

Pete Frankenberg wrote:

> Taylor Ralph wrote:
>
>> --- Pete Frankenberg <pete at futrix.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> I have just upgraded to 0.18 (debian package), and
>>> now suddenly have the following probem:
>>>
>>> Every time I exit Live TV or exit watching a
>>> recording (using ESC), the frontend crashes. Nothing appears in the 
>>> frontend
>>> log file.   
>>
>> This is likely due to the fact that the new 0.18
>> debian binary packages have opengl vsync enabled. The
>> previous 0.17 packages did not. IIRC, in the past
>> Isaac has recommended binary distributions not have
>> this enabled.  I'm not sure if the opengl vsync
>> segfaults have been addressed with the current cvs,
>> but you might give it a try or rebuild the packages
>> without opengl vsync.
>>
>> -- 
>> Taylor
>
> I have since discovered that MythGallery does not work, and the 
> MythMusic visualisations also don't work, so it does indeed sound like 
> an OpenGL issue.
>
> Thank you very much for your suggestion, Taylor. I will attempt to 
> build from source instead of using the binaries.

Update: Built from the tarball and it now works fine. Thanks again.

Pete