[Openchrome-users] mythtv freeze

[Simon Kagstrom]

At Thu, 13 Apr 2006 20:40:22 +0200,
Pavol Droba wrote:
> I have VIA EPIA SP13000 system runnig epios (gentoo based distro for
> via boards) with latest updates. This means mythtv 0.19 and
> openchrome driver (snapshot from 2006-03-06).

Same hardware with Debian Etch/Testing, also mythtv 0.19.

> Mythtv is configured to use via xvmc. Everything works smoothly,
> except of one problem.  Occasionally when seeking the recorded shows
> with FF or Rewind buttons, graphical system freezes.

I also have this problem, but I wanted to check a bit more so that I
didn't make any mistake myself :-). Nice to see that other people have
the same problem though. This occurs both with the via driver from
Xorg 6.9 and the openchrome driver.

I've started running without XvMC and then rewinding and FF
works, but at a high cost in CPU usage of course.

> Somethimes I'm able to switch to a text console, but it is not
> always the case. If I remotely kill whole X system, it restars ok,
> but any attempt to play a video using xvmc, gives instantly another
> freeze. This time it just shows a green screen and doesn't allow to
> switch to text console.  So I have to reboot the mashine remotely.

I've noticed that if you let the locked screen stay for a while, it
will every now and then skip one frame forward.

> I'm not sure if the problem resides in mythtv or in openchrome or
> somewhere else. So far I have encountered it only when using
> mythtv. I haven't seen anything unusual in logs.
> 
> I was looking for some info in mythtv and opechrome mailing lists
> archives but without any luck.  Does anybody have an idea what can
> be the problem, how can it be solved or at least where can I ask?

Well, one way of solving it is to run without Via XvMC, but that's
probably not what you want to hear :-)

// Simon