[SATLUG] My MythTV problems

[toddwbucy]

On Tuesday 04 September 2007 12:25:39 Vern Davis wrote:
> On 9/4/07, toddwbucy <toddwbucy at grandecom.net> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 September 2007 11:22:29 toddwbucy wrote:
> > > ok so after about a year (on and off) of tryng I have managed to get
> > > MythTV up and running on Ubuntu Feisty. (by the way it is much easier
> > > to set up now then it was under edgy or dapper) I have a PVR-500 and I
> > > can watch TV on my back porch on my laptop now from my
> > > workstaition/server in my bedroom.  Only problem is that the MythTV
> > > backend keeps crashing on me after about 15-30 min of tv watching.
> > > funny thing is it only seems to crashes when I am using the mythtv
> > > frontend on my workstation/server.  It does not seem to crash if I am
> > > watching tv from one of the other frontends (laptop or the kitchen
> > > computer).  It only seems to crash when I am watching TV in my bedroom.
> > > Oh yeah and the crash is a hard crash that requires I do a hard reboot.
> > >  It completely locks up the system and crashes anyother frontends that
> > > I have running. I need some help in trouble shooting this as I can not
> > > seem to find anything in any of the log files.
> > >
> > > any help would be appreciated as I have had little luck googling this
> > > problem.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Todd
> >
> > I just ran across this and thought that it might help someone else out.
> > Apperently I needed to optimize my mythdb.  I made the following script
> > executable and ran it.
> >  /usr/share/doc/mythtv-backend/contrib/optimize_mythdb.pl.
> >
> > I have only just done this and am currently testing the stability of
> > mythtv. If I have no crashes within the next few hours I will consider
> > the problem solved.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Todd
> > --
>
> Todd;
>
> I'm not sure how much applies to Ubuntu, but there's lots of good info
> here;
>
> http://www.wilsonet.com/
>
> Happy transcoding!
>
> --
> vern.davis at gmail.com

thanks

i will check it out

Todd