[mythtv-users] freezing with a blank screen

[Ma Begaj]

2007/12/30, Tobias Ceglarek <dev at ceglarek.eu>:
> Any hint out there? I would be glad.
>
> My mainboard is VIA EPIA EX15000G
> and my TV card is Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-SE2.
>
> My operating system is Ubuntu Gutsy.
>
> TC
>
>
> On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 15:46 +0100, Tobias Ceglarek wrote:
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > I am a newbie in MythTV but I have much experience with linux itself.
> > Now I have installed MythTV (both: frontend + backend) on a Mini-ITX
> > board with a DVB-S from Hauppauge (WinTV NOVA-SE2).
> >
> > DVB streaming works fine with mplayer: "mplayer dvb://ZDF" (a little bit
> > slowly because I could not activate the hardware acceleration of my
> > board yet).
> >
> > I have configured MythTV and scanned successfully for channels.
> >
> > BUT every time I am choosing Television in the frontend I get a blank
> > screen. Then I have to make a cold restart.
> >
> > After such a restart MythTV is recording the start channel and I have to
> > delete the schedule e.g. in MythWEB.
> >
> > What's going wrong?
> >
> > Please help me.
> >

when you have some mythtv problems, check the logs (mythfrontend and
backend) first.