[mythtvnz] Mythbackend crashes

[Nick Rout]

On 11:49 am 09/07/06 "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.
>
> Steve
>



how does mplayer dvd:// help? It doesn't test mythtv or dvb.

perhaps you mean mythtv dvb://  ?