[mythtvnz] Mythbackend crashes

[Steven Ellis]

Nick Rout wrote:
> On 11:49 am 09/07/06 "Steven Ellis" <steven@openmedia.co.nz> wrote:
>   
>> Steve Hodge wrote:
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>>>  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?
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>> 1. Shutdown mythbackend and mythfrontend
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>> 2. Make sure you have an approrpriate channel map for xine or mplayer
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>> 3. mplayer dvd://
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>> 4. Leave another terminal window open running top
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>> 5. Wait - Even try leaving it like this overnight.
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>> That should sort out if it is the dvb driver or MythTV.
>>
>> Steve
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> how does mplayer dvd:// help? It doesn't test mythtv or dvb.
>
> perhaps you mean mythtv dvb://  ?
>   
Well spotted.. Typo. I did mean

mplayer dvb://

If you have a correct channels.conf it will tune and play your first dvb
channel

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