[mythtv-users] freeze when switch to record

[Cyber Source]

Al McIntosh wrote:

> Sounds like the either of the following will fix your issue.
>
> mkdir -p /var/lib/mythtv/blahblah...
>
> Did you enter a location in myth setup where recorded shows to end up 
> on your filesystem?
>
>
> Cyber Source wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>  I have this EXTREMELY annoying problem. I have an Avermedia M179 
>> card using the ivtv modules. I can record fine if I do a "cat 
>> /dev/video0 > /tmp/somevid.mpg" but when I try to record in Myth the 
>> moment it starts to record the screen goes with all straight vertical 
>> lines and no sound. If I start the mythfronted from terminal, I can 
>> see that it is bitching about invalid file handle when opening 
>> /var/lib/mythtv/blahblah... and the name of the file is really long. 
>> Any ideas on this one?? TIA!
>
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I FINALLY figured out a solution! As this has happened before and I 
never found out how the problem got fixed (one day it just started 
working, on another box). I cruised the http://www.wilsonet/mythtv site 
and looked under his tips and tricks section and he recommended setting 
the mythfrontend to run setuid root, I did that and all is well!!!! And 
the performance on the box is WAY better, what a difference!! Hopefully 
this will help others if they encounter this annoyance as it was driving 
me NUTS!!! LOL

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