Have either of you looked at the output from mythfrontend yet? Try
starting mythfrontend with "-v important,general,playback" and see if
that sheds any clues.
xorg.log may also be useful...
Void Main wrote:
> This is actually good news (for me anyway). It means I
> am not an isolated case and there really may be an
> issue here. The more people that can add input on the
> problem the easier it might be to find a resolution.
> If only I could get my hands on the old RPMS from my
> list that worked. It would be nice if they didn't get
> removed from the repos so quickly but I understand not
> being able to keep everything for disk capacity
> reasons.
>
> Thanks for the input!
>
> --- Davis Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I can't believe that the problem is with your CPU.
>> I have an Opteron 146
>> with 2 GB RAM, and Myth worked great until my latest
>> update. I, too, get
>> the stuttering, choppy video and near 100% CPU
>> usage. The same system,
>> pre-update, consumed about 40% on HDTV.
>> Unfortunately, I went through
>> several installs/uninstalls to get the system
>> working in the first place, so
>> I can't tell you what I had installed when it was
>> working. I can generate a
>> log of what I have installed now, if you think that
>> would help diagnose this
>> problem.
>>
>> Davis
>>
>>
>> On 10/12/06, Void Main <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>> I think I was running 0.20-137 but even so I am
>> sure
>>> the spec file wouldn't be a lot different. What I
>>> might do is try and check out that exact version
>> from
>>> SVN and build the RPMS. I don't think it's
>> directly an
>>> issue with Myth though but rather one of the
>>> underlying libraries. It definitely seems to be an
>>> issue with playback though.
>>>
>>> I had another interesting problem happen this
>>> afternoon. I started to watch a recording then
>> backed
>>> out of it with the exit button and went to watch
>>> another recording and all I got was a blue screen.
>> I
>>> would only see a blue screen from that point on
>> when I
>>> tried to watch a recording or live TV, until I
>>> rebooted the box that is. The "Preferred MPEG2
>>> Decoder" was set to "Standard" as it always had
>> been
>>> but I tried all settings there with no change.
>>>
>>> Also I notice when the munus are up on the screen
>> it
>>> flikers very pixely/digitaly looking noise under
>> the
>>> transparent on screen menus. Hmmm, maybe I just
>> need
>>> to break down and get a faster CPU. I was so proud
>> of
>>> how little I spent to build this box though. :)
>>>
>>> I really do appreciate the time you've taken on
>> this.
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> --- Axel Thimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 03:06:54PM -0700, Void
>> Main
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Thanks, I'll check a few of those things out
>>>> tonight. I guess
>>>>> regarding my question about there being an
>> archive
>>>> of the older RPMS
>>>>> is there isn't an archives? I would be happy
>> with
>>>> just a history of
>>>>> the *.spec files from each version and worst
>> case
>>>> I could rebuild
>>>>> everything myself.
>>>> They are almost identical, the true difference
>> is
>>>> from the svn fixes
>>>> patches which you can read off the changelog.
>> For
>>>> example:
>>>>
>>>> # diff -dU1
>>>> /usr/src/at/.archives/mythtv-0.20-138.at.spec
>>>> /usr/src/at/.archives/mythtv-0.20-141.at.spec
>>>> ---
>> /usr/src/at/.archives/mythtv-0.20-138.at.spec
>>>> 2006-09-19 15:21:40.000000000 +0200
>>>> +++
>> /usr/src/at/.archives/mythtv-0.20-141.at.spec
>>>> 2006-10-10 11:46:09.000000000 +0200
>>>> @@ -25,3 +25,3 @@
>>>> Version: 0.20
>>>> -Release: 138%{?dist}
>>>> +Release: 141%{?dist}
>>>> URL: http://www.mythtv.org/
>>>> @@ -253,3 +253,7 @@
>>>>
>>>> +%ifarch ppc
>>>> +perl -pi -e"s|^OPTFLAGS=.*|OPTFLAGS=%{optflags}
>>>> -maltivec|" libs/libmyth/mythconfig.mak
>>>> +%else
>>>> perl -pi
>> -e"s|^OPTFLAGS=.*|OPTFLAGS=%{optflags}|"
>>>> libs/libmyth/mythconfig.mak
>>>> +%endif
>>>> perl -pi -e's|^ARCHFLAGS=.*|ARCHFLAGS=|'
>>>> libs/libmyth/mythconfig.mak
>>>> @@ -398,2 +402,11 @@
>>>> %changelog
>>>> +* Tue Oct 10 2006 Axel Thimm
>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 0.20-141
>>>> +- Update to latest svn fixes (r11499).
>>>> +
>>>> +* Fri Oct 6 2006 Axel Thimm
>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 0.20-140
>>>> +- Update to latest svn fixes (r11452).
>>>> +
>>>> +* Tue Sep 26 2006 Axel Thimm
>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 0.20-139
>>>> +- Update to latest svn fixes (r11293).
>>>> +
>>>> * Fri Sep 15 2006 Axel Thimm
>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 0.20-137
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
>>>>
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