[mythtvnz] Mythfrontend hangs hard when starting live tv

[Jason Taylor]

There's is a starting channel under the source in myth setup.. if that
channel does not work then live tv will fail


On 16 May 2014 10:36, Aaron Pelly <apelly at monkeymasters.co.nz> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I've been lurking here for years, and you've helped with the odd question
> before. Thank you.
>
> I've finally, after 6 or 7 years of good intentions, bitten the bullet and
> migrated from GBPVR to myth. I can not begin to tell you what a pleasure it
> is to have crossed this off my todo list. I'm a fairly experienced *nix
> user, no guru, but I get around no problems. Installing myth is no walk in
> the park. Anyway, after a solid day of installation and troubleshooting it
> works a treat. Another day experimenting and setting up preferences and
> recordings and I've completed the transition. Awesome.
>
> Anyway, that's the background. Now, as you are aware, googling for myth
> info relies heavily on good google-fu. I thought I was blessed with this,
> but not on this topic it seems. Maybe my TV lexicon is misaligned with
> myth. That should resolve with experience, but in the meantime I have a few
> niggling questions. I will post each in its own thread for later
> searchability.
>
> /background
>
> I have 2 hauppauge hvr 4000 dvb-s/s2/t cards in my backend (wtf?) I have
> only set up two devices; 2 x dvb-s. I have had trouble setting up the
> channels. I noticed that one of the discovered Prime channels seemed not to
> tune, and caused the frontend (on the server) to hang (error: could not
> read first 2048 megabytes) This required killing mythfrontend.real.
> Subsequent attempts to watch live TV caused the same issue, presumably as
> it attempts to start from the last channel watched. I'm guessing here. The
> backend doesn't seem to complain. Maybe I should adjust some timeout
> somewhere?
>
> If anyone could shed some light on this, or has a relevant troubleshooting
> link handy, I would be grateful.
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron.
>
>
>
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