[mythtv-users] Strange backend activity

Adam Biskobing tv at badmoon.com
Mon Mar 1 08:58:45 EST 2004


Yes, that was a restart.  The probed messages have started appearing
when I added verbose logging to mythbackend.  I will try recompiling my
kernel tonight without v4l2 to see if this makes a difference.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of jose rubio
> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:54 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Strange backend activity
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 04:33, Adam Biskobing wrote:
> > Chaintech Motherboard
> > Athlon XP 2000 Processor
> > 256MB Memory
> > 80GB & 120GB IDE Discs
> > PVR-250
> > Gentoo Linux
> > Running CVS as of last week
> > 
> > The problem started with version .13, continued into .14 
> and also into 
> > the CVS.  As I came down this morning, I notice that it had done it 
> > again, The only entries in the backend log were:
> > 
> > 2004-02-28 08:45:02 Started recording "The Sting" on 
> channel: 1526 on
> > cardid: 1,
> >  sourceid 1
> > 2004-02-28 08:45:02 External channel change: 
> > /usr/share/mythtv/channel/rca.pl 52 6 &
> > 2004-02-28 08:45:02 Changing from None to RecordingOnly
> > 2004-02-28 08:45:02 Using profile 'Default' to record
> > Starting up as the master server.
> > 2004-02-28 09:17:24 Probed: /dev/video0 - Composite 0
> > 2004-02-28 09:17:24 Probed: /dev/video0 - Composite 1
> > 2004-02-28 09:17:24 Probed: /dev/video0 - Composite 2
> > 2004-02-28 09:17:24 Probed: /dev/video0 - Composite 3
> > 
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I'm out of ideas, 
> and this is 
> > really cutting into the usability of myth.
> > 
> OK, just a shot in the dark here.  I'm assuming you are 
> running ivtv 0.1.9...  But I don't think it's an ivtv problem 
> if it is the backend running up the cpu.
> 
> Looking at your log, I'm curious why you get the msg 
> "Starting up as the master server" in the middle of the log 
> when it should be at the begining.  Unless you restarted the 
> server between 8:45 and 9:17. (did
> you?)
> 
> If not I do not see why myth would be probing for input in 
> the middle of recording.
> 
> I did a grep -r "Probed" * in the myth source tree to see 
> where that msg was coming from (I have never gotten that in 
> my logs).  It seems to be only when using v4l2.  Do you have 
> your kernel patched with v4l2 or did you just use the header 
> in the ivtv/utils directory?
> 
> This could be the diff, I am _not_ using v4l2, just the header...
> 
> Anyway, if you did not restart the backend at about 9:00 then 
> try compiling a new kernel without v4l2... I told you it was 
> a shot in the dark...
> 
> 
> Well I hope I was of some help.
> 
> 
> 
> -jose-
> 
> 
> 



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