[mythtv-users] LiveTV doesn't work

[Thomas Lann]

Thanks for your help Darren.  Actually, I realized the
directory was off by one letter.  It should of been
/var/video/buffers/ instead of /var/video/buffer/ 
I fixed it in the setup.

I fixed this before and forgot to post about it.  Oops

Thomas
--- Darren Hart
<darren-keyword-mythtv?users.66bee7 at dvhart.com> wrote:
> I had a similar problem and fixed it by creating the
> path where it 
> stored live cache, in your case: /var/video/buffer/,
> and making sure 
> the mythtv had write priveleges.
> 
> --Darren
> 
> On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 21:48, Thomas Lann wrote:
> > I'm running FC1 with one 350 card and using the
> TVout
> > of a nVidia MX440.
> > 
> > I can record programs and then watch them while
> they
> > are recording.  Or watch them after they are
> recording
> > but I can't watch live tv.
> > 
> > I start livetv and I just get a black screen,
> > mythfrontend freezes, and mythbackend dies.  I
> have to
> > kill the frontend and restart the backend.
> > 
> > I captured the error log from the frontend and it
> says
> > 
> > 2004-04-23 21:34:47 Media status changed...  New
> > status is:
> > 2004-04-23 21:34:50 Connecting to backend server:
> > 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5)
> > 2004-04-23 21:34:50 20      MYTH_PROTO_VERSION 1
> > 2004-04-23 21:34:50 Using protocol version 1
> > 2004-04-23 21:34:50 22      ANN Playback dhcppc2 0
> > 2004-04-23 21:34:50 17      GET_FREE_RECORDER
> > 2004-04-23 21:34:50 20      MYTH_PROTO_VERSION 1
> > 2004-04-23 21:34:50 20      MYTH_PROTO_VERSION 1
> > 2004-04-23 21:34:50 Using protocol version 1
> > 2004-04-23 21:34:50 22      ANN Playback dhcppc2 1
> > 2004-04-23 21:34:50 Using protocol version 1
> > 2004-04-23 21:34:50 22      ANN Playback dhcppc2 0
> > 2004-04-23 21:34:50 44      QUERY_RECORDER
> > 1[]:[]SETUP_RING_BUFFER[]:[]0
> > Errm, event socket just closed.
> > 2004-04-23 21:34:58 ReadStringList timeout
> (quick).
> > Remote encoder not responding.
> > ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
> > /usr/lib/qt-3.1/include/qvaluelist.h (372)
> > ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
> > /usr/lib/qt-3.1/include/qvaluelist.h (372)
> > ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
> > /usr/lib/qt-3.1/include/qvaluelist.h (372)
> > ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
> > /usr/lib/qt-3.1/include/qvaluelist.h (372)
> > 2004-04-23 21:34:58 Socket error connecting to
> host: ,
> > port: -1, error: Connecti
> > onRefused
> > Could not connect to server
> > 2004-04-23 21:34:58 Socket error connecting to
> host: ,
> > port: -1, error: Connecti
> > onRefused
> > Could not connect to server
> > 2004-04-23 21:34:58 33      QUERY_RECORDER
> > 1[]:[]SPAWN_LIVETV
> > QSocketDevice::writeBlock: Invalid socket
> > 2004-04-23 21:34:58 Error writing stringlist
> > Remote encoder not responding.
> > 004-04-23 21:34:50 adding: dhcppc2 as a client
> > (events: 0)
> > 
> > I get this in mythbackend.log 
> > 
> > ERROR opening file in ThreadedFileWriter.
> > /var/video/buffer/ringbuf1.nuv: No such file or
> > directory
> > 
> > I checked the permissions and made sure everyone
> had
> > read and write accesss.  But that didn't do
> anything.
> > 
> > I'm not sure where to go because there doesn't
> seem to
> > be a similiar problem in the archive.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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