[mythtv-users] DVB-T tzap versus mythtv 0.19

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Fri Mar 10 03:31:46 UTC 2006


Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 10:18:16AM +0000, Mike Parkins wrote:
>   
>> You are not alone - My 0.19 system takes about 10 to 12 seconds to change 
>> channels. I asked about this once but the only reply I had was from some 
>> bright spark who suggested I should only be watching recorded programs... :(
>>     
>
> I had a similar experience with my twin Nova-t backend.  I upgraded
> from a perfectly working mythtv 0.15.  Recordings work just fine on
> 0.19 as does tzap.
>
> However entering LiveTV just sits there with a blank screen for 40
> seconds then returns to the menu.  The frontend and backend seem to
> miscommunicate about which file the livetv is actually being saved to
> - perhaps because of the very long initial tuning times?
>
> Here are the frontend and backend logs for the period.
>
>   http://www.craig-wood.com/nick/pub/livetvprob
>   http://www.craig-wood.com/nick/pub/livetvprob-fe
>
> To be honest I'm not that bothered about LiveTV.  It would be nice to
> have it working again because it used to work quite well, but I don't
> really need it - watching TV in real time is so 20th century ;-)
>
>   
There are a number of fixes in the 0.19-fixes branch for these types of 
issues (LiveTV filename changing).  Are you running from that branch or 
the stock 0.19 release?

Kevin


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