[pvrusb2] Mythtv hangs on livetv

[roger]

On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 17:07 -0600, Mike Isely wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Julio Arruda wrote:
> 
> > From a couple of tests I did few weeks ago, is not exactly MythTV hanging..
> > It seems when you start to 'read' from the livetv buffer (or from the 
> > blablabal .nuv 'non-live' recordings in my case also, while they are being 
> > recorded),the pvrusb2 driver can't read from the PVRUS2 box anymore.

I'm pretty sure I'm reading directly from the live tv (or live tv
buffer).  I've taken care this time (unlike recently) to restart
the /etc/init.d/mythbackend server!  So any possible recordings are no
longer taking place accidently (although I have no recordings
scheduled).

Btw, I believe I've also been able to view the same station being
recorded by Mythtv since I've started being able to use Mythtv.  Just
cannot watch any other channel while a channel is being recorded.

Thanks for the attempt Julio. 


> The only clues I see so far are in the log that Roger sent, and it is 
> pretty suggestive of some kind of clash between MythTV and the X server he 
> is running.

You're more then likely right.  (Besides, why lay blame on pvrusb2 when
I've got 1,327 other packages installed? ;-)

~ $ qpkg -I -v | wc -l
1327

> 
> I'll keep an eye out for problems on my end, but so far I haven't seen any 
> (well I haven't seen any *new* problems).


As far as the pvrusb2 logs, I'm seeing pvrusb2 clean up after ~10
seconds after the hangs starts with Mythtv.  My guess is, mythtv is
crapping out someplace... recompiling some other stuff right now to see
if a sys lib is the culprit. :-/

> We need more information here.
> 
>    -Mike

(Although this bug should be posted to the Mythtv lists, thought I'd
take a stab and post this anyways to see if the issue is related to
Mythtv's handling of the pvrusb2 h/w.)

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Tue Dec 13 21:50:13 PST 2005