[mythtv-users] Mythtv on FC3 problems

Fri Apr 1 02:22:46 UTC 2005

--- Dave Fade <sajubien at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Ok, I followed the http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/
> tutorial for installing mythtv, but now I am stuck.
> I
> have installed mythtv-suite via apt-get, and ran
> mythtvsetup. My setup is to have mythtv frontend and
> backend on the same machine...so, I executed
> mythbackend, then mythfrontend from shell. The
> mythtv
> gui came up. everything seemed to work, the
> programming guide was right, and so on, but when I
> go
> to "Watch TV" it just goes to a black screen. I can
> alt tab to the shell windows to see what is the
> problem. Here are some of the messages:
> 
> =================================================
> [messages from the mythbackend end shell window]
> =================================================
> 
> Starting up as the master server.
> 2005-03-31 20:15:44.098 mythbackend version:
> 0.17.20050130-1 www.mythtv.org
> 2005-03-31 20:15:44.134 Enabled verbose msgs :
> important general
> 2005-03-31 20:15:46.098 Reschedule requested for id
> -1.
> 2005-03-31 20:15:46.111 Scheduled 0 items in 0.0 =
> 0.01 match + 0.00 place
> 2005-03-31 20:15:46.116 Seem to be woken up by USER
> 2005-03-31 20:16:34.045 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
> Playback
> 2005-03-31 20:16:34.056 adding:
> localhost.localdomain
> as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-03-31 20:16:34.128 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
> Playback
> 2005-03-31 20:16:34.128 adding:
> localhost.localdomain
> as a client (events: 1)
> 2005-03-31 20:16:34.138 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
> Playback
> 2005-03-31 20:16:34.138 adding:
> localhost.localdomain
> as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-03-31 20:16:34.177 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
> Playback
> 2005-03-31 20:16:34.177 adding:
> localhost.localdomain
> as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-03-31 20:16:34.186 adding:
> localhost.localdomain
> as a remote ringbuffer
> 2005-03-31 20:16:34.195 Changing from None to
> WatchingLiveTV
> Error getting codec params
> IVTV_IOC_G_CODEC:: Bad address
> 2005-03-31 20:16:34.286 TVRec: Recording Prematurely
> Stopped
> 2005-03-31 20:16:36.004 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
> Playback
> 2005-03-31 20:16:36.004 adding:
> localhost.localdomain
> as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-03-31 20:16:36.141 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
> Playback
> 2005-03-31 20:16:36.141 adding:
> localhost.localdomain
> as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-03-31 20:16:36.282 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
> Playback
> 2005-03-31 20:16:36.282 adding:
> localhost.localdomain
> as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-03-31 20:16:36.420 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
> Playback
> 2005-03-31 20:16:36.420 adding:
> localhost.localdomain
> as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-03-31 20:16:36.560 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
> Playback
> 2005-03-31 20:16:36.561 adding:
> localhost.localdomain
> as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-03-31 20:16:36.703 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
> Playback
> 2005-03-31 20:16:36.704 adding:
> localhost.localdomain
> as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-03-31 20:16:36.844 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
> Playback
> 2005-03-31 20:16:36.844 adding:
> localhost.localdomain
> as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-03-31 20:16:36.982 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
> Playback
> 2005-03-31 20:16:36.983 adding:
> localhost.localdomain
> as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-03-31 20:16:37.120 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
> Playback
> 2005-03-31 20:16:37.120 adding:
> localhost.localdomain
> as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-03-31 20:16:37.252 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
> Playback
> 2005-03-31 20:16:37.252 adding:
> localhost.localdomain
> as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-03-31 20:16:37.387 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
> Playback
> 2005-03-31 20:16:37.387 adding:
> localhost.localdomain
> as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-03-31 20:16:37.521 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
> Playback
> 2005-03-31 20:16:37.521 adding:
> localhost.localdomain
> as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-03-31 20:16:37.675 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
> Playback
> 2005-03-31 20:16:37.675 adding:
> localhost.localdomain
> as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-03-31 20:16:37.814 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
> Playback
> 2005-03-31 20:16:37.814 adding:
> localhost.localdomain
> as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-03-31 20:16:37.954 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
> Playback
> 2005-03-31 20:16:37.954 adding:
> localhost.localdomain
> as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-03-31 20:16:37.992 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
> Playback
> 2005-03-31 20:16:37.992 adding:
> localhost.localdomain
> as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-03-31 20:16:38.023 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
> Playback
> 2005-03-31 20:16:38.023 adding:
> localhost.localdomain
> as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-03-31 20:16:38.033 adding:
> localhost.localdomain
> as a remote ringbuffer
> 2005-03-31 20:16:38.043 Changing from None to
> WatchingLiveTV
> Error getting codec params
> IVTV_IOC_G_CODEC:: Bad address
> 2005-03-31 20:16:38.073 TVRec: Recording Prematurely
> Stopped
> 
> 
> ==================================================
> [messages from the mythfrontend end shell window]
> ==================================================
> 
> 2005-03-31 20:15:55.306 mythfrontend version:
> 0.17.20050130-1 www.mythtv.org
> 2005-03-31 20:15:55.306 Enabled verbose msgs :
> important general
> 2005-03-31 20:15:56.621 Switching to square mode
> (G.A.N.T.)
> Found 2 Xinerama Screens.
> Using first Xinerama screen, 800x600+0+0
> mythtv: could not connect to socket
> mythtv: No such file or directory
> lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
> 2005-03-31 20:15:57.353 Joystick disabled.
> 2005-03-31 20:15:57.475 Registering Internal as a
> media playback plugin.
> 2005-03-31 20:15:57.572 Registering MythDVD DVD
> Media
> Handler as a media handler2005-03-31 20:15:57.572
> Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media
> handler2005-03-31 20:15:58.657 Registering MythMusic
> Media Handler as a media handler
> Failed to find network interface eth0
> SIP listening on IP Address :5060 NAT address
> SIP: Cannot register; proxy, username or password
> not
> set
> Destroying SipFsm object
> 2005-03-31 20:16:22.001 Switching to square mode
> (MythCenter)
> Found 2 Xinerama Screens.
> Using first Xinerama screen, 800x600+0+0
> removing stale cache dir:
> /root/.mythtv/themecache/G.A.N.T..800.600
> 2005-03-31 20:16:34.013 Connecting to backend
> server:
> 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5)
> 2005-03-31 20:16:34.040 Using protocol version 14
> 2005-03-31 20:16:34.133 Using protocol version 14
> 2005-03-31 20:16:34.360 Disable DPMS
> 2005-03-31 20:16:34.866 RemoteFile::Read() failed in
> RingBuffer::safe_read().
> 2005-03-31 20:16:35.075 RemoteFile::Read() failed in
> RingBuffer::safe_read().
> 2005-03-31 20:16:35.283 RemoteFile::Read() failed in
> 
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Posting log files is great, but it's also kinda
worthless if you don't let ppl know things like what
capture card you are using, what settings you chose,
etc.  