When I installed the Mythvideo plugin for MythTV it was working fine until I started assigning IMDB information to my videos. After doing that every time I would try and start mythvideo the whole frontend would crash. There is not a whole lot of talk about this online so I’ll share what I did to fix it and then below give the specs of my system.
When you add IMDB information to the videos, it adds rows in two tables: videometadatacountry, and videometadatagenre. All I did to fix the crashing problem was empty these two tables using phpmyadmin. Seems like this should be a pretty easy bug to take care of….and yet you don’t see me trying to fix it do you.
System Specs:
- Ubuntu Feisty Fawn with a 2.6.20-16-generic kernel
- MythTV .20
- pcHDTV 3000
- Celeron D 2.93 GHz on an Intel brand motherboard
If any developers have further questions, please email me.
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4 responses so far ↓
1 alex // Aug 13, 2007 at 13:03
Yes I had the same problem and the only solution I found was to change from ATI graphics card to Nvidia
2 nedsferatu // Aug 13, 2007 at 17:22
I have heard that people have had luck with disabling the DRI module in the xorg config as well. I would try the database method first since it doesn’t have system wide effects that messing with your video card does. Thanks for the additional info!
3 Fab // Sep 2, 2007 at 14:55
After a day of hacking my box to get DRI working with my ATI x1300 to remove tearing from my videos, this issue stopped MythVideo dead in its tracks. Installed phpMyAdmin and followed your instructions and it worked again! Thanks a lot, mate. You just made my day! :)
4 nedsferatu // Sep 2, 2007 at 18:29
glad it worked for you! don’t you just love it when a plan comes together.
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