[mythtv-users] no playback

Nick Bradaschia nickbr at gmail.com
Mon Aug 9 09:34:36 EDT 2004


Michael,
I am using FC2...that means I have XORG, right?


On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 07:31:13 -0500, Michael J. Lynch <mlynch at gcom.com> wrote:
> 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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