[mythtvnz] Mythbackend crashes

Steven Ellis mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Wed, 6 Sep 2006 14:22:01 +1200 (NZST)


Toby Mills wrote:
> Has anyone had any luck tracing the cause of the recent DVB issues that
> were
> widely reported.
>
> Is anyone running a DVB card and has not experienced crashes over the last
> week, if so could you perhaps post your setups and versions so we can
> perhaps find some commonality.
>
> I'm running a skystar technisat with knoppmyth R5C7 with IVTV upgraded to
> 4.4.
> Mythbackend consumes 100% system resources within about 30 minutes of
> opening the DVB card.
> Tonnes of free disk space and repaired and checked MYSQL tables.
> Nothing odd coming up in any system or myth logs.
>
> My conclusion based on the fact that many people are having the same
> problem
> running various different versions of myth is that either something has
> changed in the DVB signal or there are too many errors or problems with
> the
> signal and either the card or mythbackend isn't coping with it.

Must specific to DVB-S rather than DVB. No issues here with DVB-T based
devices with a similar R5B7 plus patches system.

Steve