[mythtv-users] 0.21: Issue with freezing LiveTV

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/08/2008 02:55 PM, Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 11:07:30 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> On 05/07/2008 02:29 AM, Warpme wrote:
>>     
>>> I have quite annoying issue with freezing LiveTV.
>>>
>>> Symptoms:
>>> After launch of LiveTV after some time I get "pause". Usually it is 
>>> after 30min...1-2h.
>>>       
>> If it's hanging at program switch (i.e. when the guide says one program 
>> ends and the next begins--or, if you have no listings data, on the 
>> top-of-the-hour and on the half-hour)--even if it's not hanging every 
>> time--it's a known issue (but one that's very low priority to the 
>> devs--who generally don't use LiveTV).
>>     
> Do you mean ticket #2335? That sounds like a different issue, as the I
> need to exit LiveTV using the Escape key. OSD doesn't work when it
> happens.

I mean it's known (even if there's not a good ticket for it, but I'd bet 
there are a bunch of tickets that are/were (if closed) related to the 
issue).  Really, until the /bug/ is identified (versus the symptom of 
the bug), it should not be reported to the /bug/ tracking database 
(Trac), so there shouldn't necessarily be a ticket for it.

(When someone creates a ticket for a symptom--especially a /very/ 
generic symptom like "LiveTV freezes"--many different users begin 
posting log files or "me too's" or ... when they experience the same 
symptom.  However, in many cases, a large number of those symptoms are 
caused by different bugs.  So, a ticket would likely be "abused" if the 
bug itself hasn't been identified.  Instead, the lists should be used to 
discuss the symptom and for various contributers to provide information 
to help identify the bug so that a ticket can be created.  BTW, we have 
many of these "generic symptom" tickets right now and many more have 
been reported in the past.  Sometimes the devs close them.  Other times, 
they leave them open for a while.

In some cases, however, the symptom is specific enough that it's likely 
to map to exactly one bug, so tickets created for those very-specific 
symptoms aren't that bad.

IMHO, all.)

Mike