The video flickered for minute or so and then has continued to play, not 
hang as it had done before, for the hour that I've left it running.  As 
you say,
> Playback isn't entirely smooth, but perceptually, it's not bad at all.
The sound has slowly degenerated to constantly stuttering.  I can still 
make out the dialog, but it has an intermittent quality.

/var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log contains a cycling of these messages:

...
2008-02-16 15:59:32.445 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: select timeout - 
ivtv driver has stopped responding
2008-02-16 15:59:38.052 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: select timeout - 
ivtv driver has stopped responding
2008-02-16 16:00:00.832 Finished recording Unknown: channel 1067
0: start_time: 47.198 duration: 8544.637
1: start_time: 47.157 duration: 8544.638
stream: start_time: 523.970 duration: 94940.869 bitrate=88 kb/s
2008-02-16 16:00:00.934 AFD: Opened codec 0x930bb50, id(MPEG2VIDEO) 
type(Video)
2008-02-16 16:00:00.938 AFD: Opened codec 0x930bea0, id(MP2) type(Audio)
2008-02-16 16:00:00.960 TVRec(1): Enabling Full LiveTV UI.
2008-02-16 16:00:01.051 TVRec(1): RingBufferChanged()
2008-02-16 16:00:01.073 Finished recording Unknown: channel 1067
2008-02-16 16:00:50.292 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: select timeout - 
ivtv driver has stopped responding
2008-02-16 16:00:55.899 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: select timeout - 
ivtv driver has stopped responding
...

dmesg contains a large number of these messages:

cx18-0 file: Encoder poll started capture
cx18-0 file: open encoder MPEG
cx18-0 file: Encoder poll started capture
cx18-0 file: open encoder MPEG

Fedora 8, single Pentium 4, 2.6G, 2G RAM, cx18 data:

Linux video capture interface: v2.00
cx18:  Start initialization, version 0.1.0
cx18-0: Initializing card #0
cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge card
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:07.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
cx18-0: cx23418 revision 01010000 (B)
tveeprom 1-0050: Hauppauge model 74041, rev C5B2, serial# 2728115
tveeprom 1-0050: MAC address is 00-0D-FE-29-A0-B3
tveeprom 1-0050: tuner model is TCL M2523_5N_E (idx 112, type 50)
tveeprom 1-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
tveeprom 1-0050: audio processor is CX23418 (idx 38)
tveeprom 1-0050: decoder processor is CX23418 (idx 31)
tveeprom 1-0050: has no radio, has IR receiver, has IR transmitter
cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge HVR-1600
tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx18 i2c driver #0-1)
cs5345 1-004c: chip found @ 0x98 (cx18 i2c driver #0-0)
cx18-0: Disabled encoder IDX device
cx18-0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPEG (2 MB)
cx18-0: Registered device video16 for TS (1 MB)
cx18_reg_dev() Calling DVB Register
cx18_dvb_register()
DVB: registering new adapter (cx18)
dvb_register()
1409 attach Success
mxl500x_attach: Attaching ...
mxl500x_attach: MXL500x tuner succesfully attached
DVB: registering frontend 0 (Samsung S5H1409 QAM/8VSB Frontend)...
Success
cx18_dvb_register() DVB Frontend Registered
cx18-0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2 MB)
cx18-0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1 MB)
cx18-0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM audio (1 MB)
tuner-simple 2-0061: type set to 50 (TCL 2002N)
cx18-0: Initialized card #0: Hauppauge HVR-1600
cx18:  End initialization
cx18-0: loaded v4l-cx23418-apu.fw firmware V00120000 (141200 bytes)
cx18-0: loaded v4l-cx23418-cpu.fw firmware (174716 bytes)
cx18-0: debug: 1 MiniMe Encoder Firmware 0.0.71.0 (Release 2006/12/29)
cx18-0: FW version: 0.0.71.0 (Release 2006/12/29)
cx18-0: Took ~20 mS for FW to start
cx18-0: loaded v4l-cx23418-dig.fw firmware (16382 bytes)

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