[mythtv-users] Close to functional, few problems

IvanK. chepati at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 11 16:24:26 EST 2003


What ivtv version are you using?  It is perchance one with -0.12 appended to 
the name?  Those don't work with myth 0.13.  "Upgrade" to one without -0.12.

IvanK.

On Thursday 11 December 2003 04:21 pm, James Pifer wrote:
> OK, so you have the pvr350's tv-out connected to your TV and see the
>
> > myth-gui, correct?
>
> Yes.
>
> If I run mythbackend as a service and try to watch TV I get the following
> error scrolling across the screen: QSocketDevice::writeBlock: Invalid
> socket
> 2003-12-11 16:08:07 Error writing stringlist
> Remote encoder not responding.
>
> > What exactly are the rights set to? I run mythbackend from /etc/init.d
> > and have:
> >
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         127M Dec 11 19:18 ringbuf1.nuv
> >
> > So readable by anyone which probably is what frontend needs.
> > That's debian, I don't know what's the default umask for redhat, you can
> > change it in /etc/fstab for every partition you mount, assuming you
> > mount your mythtv dir on a separate partition.
> >
> > /dev/hda2       /hda2           ext3    defaults        0       1
>
> I do have a separate partition for mythtv called /mythtv. Still trying
> to figure out the fstab part. Maybe redhat is slightly different because
> your settings didn't work. I store TV stuff under /mythtv/tv. The mythtv
> user has full ownership of that directory.
>
> When I start mythbackend as a service it looks like yours, with root
> being owner and group, but mythfrontend can't connect to it. If I kill
> it and start it with the mythtv user, then it does connect. I'll keep
> playing with fstab.
>
> > is my line in /etc/fstab. If redhats default umask is different you
> > might want to change 'default' to umask=066
> >
> > (see 'man mount' and 'man fstab')
> >
> > You aren't running the video through the pvr's decoder, instead myth
> > tries to display it on the framebuffer, which is WAY to slow.
> >
> > Go to Settings/TV-Settings and tick the "Use PVR350 hardware decoder"
> > checkbox. (Don't know the exact naming ATM, but you shouldn't have
> > problems finding it, make sure the output device is set to your
> > decoder's device, usually /dev/video16)
>
> You were right it wasn't checked, BUT, it didn't help. I still get the
> same error. I even went so far as to drop the whole database and go
> through mythtvsetup again. Still does the same thing.
>
> Thanks,
> James



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