[mythtvnz] Mythbackend crashes

[Steve Hodge]

On 9/7/06, Steven Ellis <steven@openmedia.co.nz> wrote:
> Steve Hodge wrote:
> > On 9/6/06, Nick & Ann Read <nick.read@engineer.com> wrote:
> >> I've only got 384M/980M swap which WAS fine up until now.
> >
> > Ha, I've only got 256M/512M. My box can only manage about 15mins of a
> > DVB recording now.
> >
> >> Has anyone tried this on the most recent 0.19-fixes? (Mine dates from
> >> January) Or on 0.20-SVN? Should we raise a ticket on the mythtv TRAC?
> >
> > I think someone should try svn before raising a ticket.
>
> Have you tried leaving the unit playing via mplayer or xine?
>
> 1. Shutdown mythbackend and mythfrontend
>
> 2. Make sure you have an approrpriate channel map for xine or mplayer
>
> 3. mplayer dvd://
>
> 4. Leave another terminal window open running top
>
> 5. Wait - Even try leaving it like this overnight.
>
> That should sort out if it is the dvb driver or MythTV.

I just used dvbstream to grab about 30 mins worth without any
problems. That pretty much eliminates the driver, right?

Cheers,
Steve