[mythtv-users] no playback
Michael J. Lynch
mlynch at gcom.com
Mon Aug 9 08:31:13 EDT 2004
Are you using an XORG distribution of X11? If so, you may be running
into the following problem:
http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=474
If so, the only fix I've found was to switch to an XFREE86 distro of
X11. The problem occurred for me with both an ATI Mach 64 and an INTEL
815 chipset.
Nick Bradaschia wrote:
>JAC-
>Thanks for the info!
>When I start the frontend w/ the command you provided, I do get to see
>the video and playback recorded vids. within the frontend! Pretty
>exciting! I think that means that my video card is a piece of crap,
>right? It was free, so I don't mind parting with it for something
>better (with hardware acceleration).
>When I run a video w/ the mplayer -vo xv -fs <filename> command, I get
>this error:
>X11 Error BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
>Mplayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
>
>Not sure what it means. I have never set up drivers for my video
>card. I don't know how to do this. I've looked for a driver but have
>not found one that sounds similar to the TV Wonder VE.
>
>Thanks again for the help! I think we're getting to the source!
>
>Nick
>
>On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:23:32 -0400, Joseph A. Caputo
><jcaputo1 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
>>On Monday 02 August 2004 19:25, Nick Bradaschia wrote:
>>
>>
>>>JAC-
>>>Thanks for the reply.
>>>I do have some messages coming at me from the frontend.
>>>When I first start mythfrontend, I get the following:
>>>
>>>mythtv: could not connect to socket
>>>mythtv: No such file or directory
>>>lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
>>>
>>>
>>These are LIRC errors. I'm guessing you haven't set up LIRC on this
>>machine? You can safely ignore them for now; it just means you can't
>>use an IR remote control until you get LIRC properly set up.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>and when I switch to live tv, I get:
>>>
>>>Watching Live TV
>>>2004-08-02 19:00:58 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
>>>X Error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) 11
>>> Major opcode: 141
>>> Minor opcode: 19
>>> Resource id: 0x2a0000
>>>
>>>
>>Well, I don't know what this error indicates, specifically, but I'd
>>guess that at least one of your problems is video output. What's your
>>video setup like? (video card, driver/version, VGA or TV-out, XFree86
>>or X.org ?)
>>
>>Also, just to check, try playing something (any video media you have on
>>hand; a DVD would work) with mplayer using the following command:
>>
>> mplayer -vo xv -fs <filename>
>>
>>This will make sure that mplayer tries to use the same video output
>>method that MythTV uses (Xvideo), so at least you'll be comparing
>>apples & apples, so to speak.
>>
>>You could also try running mythfrontend with the following command:
>>
>> env NO_XV=1 mythfrontend
>>
>>If your playback works using this method, then the problem might lie in
>>your video card/driver's Xv support. Unfortunately, running this way
>>will probably peg your CPU, so it's not a useful long-term solution,
>>but it might help narrow down the problem.
>>
>>
>>
>>>I'm not sure what they mean. I've looked for a mythtv.conf but was
>>>unable to figure out where the init info is stored. Not sure what
>>>the 2nd error mean either... "insufficient resources"??
>>>
>>>
>>There is no "mythtv.conf". Myth gets most of its configuration data
>>from a MySQL database. There is a single file, <prefix>/share/mythtv/
>>mysql.txt (or ${HOME}/.mythtv/mysql.txt) that tells Myth where to find
>>the database when it starts up.
>>
>>
>>
>>-JAC
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