[mythtv-users] Unable to get video playback in MythTV

[Brian Matthew Sperlongano]

Hi Yan,

Yes, I'm using an intel8x0 card.  I'm running kernel 2.6.7 (had to do
that to get my wireless card to work).  I just compiled and installed
all the latest alsa drivers, and the message that I'm getting now from
mythtv when trying to watch live TV is:

 2004-10-12 19:37:15 taking too long to be allowed to read.. (repeated
several times)

followed by

2004-10-12 19:37:17 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available,
waiting again... (repeated several times

followed by

2004-10-12 19:37:31 Waited 14 seconds for data to become available, aborting
Couldn't read file: rbuf://127.0.0.1:6543/home/myth/buffer/ringbuf1.nuv
2004-10-12 19:37:31 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2004-10-12 19:37:31 Decoder not alive, and trying to play..
2004-10-12 19:37:33 Changing from None to None

Any clues?

Thanks,
 Brian

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:47:53 -0700, Yan-Fa Li <yanfali at best.com> wrote:
> Brian,
> 
> you don't mention what your audio system is.  On board ?  Probably
> Intel8x0 ?  That would be helpful information.  To make a long
> story short, your best bet is to switch to ALSA sound and stay
> away from OSS.  OSS should die the death it deserves.  It's pretty easy
> to install ALSA ontop of redhat, though my preference is plain vanilla
> 2.4.27 + ALSA 1.0.6a compiled with "-Os -march=i686" for your particular
> setup.  Why Os instead of O3 ?  Well you have a celery and it has a tiny
> cache, so if you optimize your kernel for a small footprint it allows
> the L1 and L2 caches to work better.
> 
> Yan
> 
> 
> 
> Brian Matthew Sperlongano wrote:
> 
> > Okay, I am SOOO close to getting this thing working now! I have
> > perfect video and audio in tvtime, and I can schedule and record shows
> > in myth (or at least presumably - the .nuv files show up in the
> > storage directory).
> >
> > The only problem is that I have NO video playback in mythTV! Thus, I
> > cannot watch live tv or recorded shows.
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can try? I've been
> > wracking my brain on this one.
> >
> > I'm using myth 0.16 w/256megs ram and a Celeron 2.4GHz.
> >
> 
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