[SATLUG] My MythTV problems

[Vern Davis]

On 9/4/07, toddwbucy <toddwbucy at grandecom.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 11:22:29 toddwbucy wrote:
> > ok so after about a year (on and off) of tryng I have managed to get MythTV
> > up and running on Ubuntu Feisty. (by the way it is much easier to set up
> > now then it was under edgy or dapper) I have a PVR-500 and I can watch TV
> > on my back porch on my laptop now from my workstaition/server in my
> > bedroom.  Only problem is that the MythTV backend keeps crashing on me
> > after about 15-30 min of tv watching.
> > funny thing is it only seems to crashes when I am using the mythtv frontend
> > on my workstation/server.  It does not seem to crash if I am watching tv
> > from one of the other frontends (laptop or the kitchen computer).  It only
> > seems to crash when I am watching TV in my bedroom. Oh yeah and the crash
> > is a hard crash that requires I do a hard reboot.  It completely locks up
> > the system and crashes anyother frontends that I have running.
> > I need some help in trouble shooting this as I can not seem to find
> > anything in any of the log files.
> >
> > any help would be appreciated as I have had little luck googling this
> > problem.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Todd
>
> I just ran across this and thought that it might help someone else out.
> Apperently I needed to optimize my mythdb.  I made the following script
> executable and ran it.
>  /usr/share/doc/mythtv-backend/contrib/optimize_mythdb.pl.
>
> I have only just done this and am currently testing the stability of mythtv.
> If I have no crashes within the next few hours I will consider the problem
> solved.
>
> Thanks
> Todd
> --


Todd;

I'm not sure how much applies to Ubuntu, but there's lots of good info here;

http://www.wilsonet.com/

Happy transcoding!

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vern.davis at gmail.com