Hi all,
I've just joined up to this mailing list and I've been playing with MythTV now for about a month. I'm using SuSE 9.1 with a 2.4.28 kernel (SuSE 9.1 is normally a 2.6 kernel but I had problems compiling software - either lirc or IVTV I can't remember which) and I'm using a PVR 350 for encodeing & playback.
I was having problems with MythTV 0.16 (current release) where the backend would hang once or twice per day. I run gdb on mythbackend and I was able to view the back trace (Segmentation fault ......in memset () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6...from /usr/local/lib/libmythavcodec-0.16.so.0.....in ff_mpeg1_clean_buffers () from /usr/local/lib/libmythavcodec-0.16.so.0) but I couldn't find out any more information on it. Also, if its of any importance, I could kill the frontend, and the maybe IVTV driver, by trying to pause live TV.
So I upgraded to MythTV CVS and the backend seems much more stable (never crashes itself) but now I have a problem with PVR 350 mpeg playback - if I try to playback any recorded programmes the screen just stays black. Sometimes when I try to fastforward/rewind I can bring up a garbled frame from the programme - sometimes some broken sound too (crackle, bleep, buzz, etc).
I can re-install the 0.16 MythTV and I'm back to the crashing backend so I can reproduce the 0.16 (crashing) and 0.17-CVS (no playback) problems over and over.
The /dev/video16 device seems to work fine - I can cat an mpeg recording to the device and it plays on the TV. Having said this I am a bit suspecious that its something to do with the IVTV driver? There are quite a few different IVTV versions (I'm currently running 0.1.9 from the ivtv sourceforge site but I have tried a couple of 0.1.10 pre releases too and I'm getting the same results - no different).
Any ideas or has any one else has these problems? I'm not hung up about running the latest versions of anything and I'd like to get the MythTV box to the stage where my family could press remote buttons without it hanging :)
Thanks,
Derek
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