Fwd: [mythtv-users] 6200 Firewire issues

[Alex Brekken]

No, I'm running FC3 installed from ATRPM's - so I'm not sure about the
version of gcc.  Let me know if I can be of any help as it sure would
be great to nail this one - currently I'd say about 20% of my
recordings done from FireWire fail for this reason.

On 7/31/05, Mike Cannon <m_cannon at pacbell.net> wrote:
> Alex,
>
> You wrote...
>
> "terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
> what(): St9bad_alloc
> Aborted"
>
> Yes, I get that too.  Do you happen to be running Fedora Core 4 (or
> specifically, was mythfrontend
> compiled with gcc 4?
>
> The std::bad_alloc problem seems to be related to the aspect ratio
> calculated in NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp.
> I'm wondering if maybe the new compiler or runtime is treating inf/nan
> (floating point) differently...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> Alex Brekken wrote:
>
> >Gambit, just to add to your question (without offering any
> >solutions...) I just recently started using firewire via a 6200 on a
> >slave backend on my system.  While I don't experience any issues with
> >channel changing at all, I do get the same 15 second timeout that
> >you're seeing - particularly while trying to watch live TV through the
> >firewire.  Additionally, I will get some recordings that cause the
> >frontend to crash.  They're not zero-size recordings, but something
> >gets "corrupted' to some degree which causes Myth to freak out when
> >trying to view them. They give this error on the frontend logs:
> >
> >"terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
> >what(): St9bad_alloc
> >Aborted"
> >
> > Interestingly, they can be played back successfully using mplayer
> >manually.  Also, they playback just fine in the small "preview" window
> >in Myth on the recorded shows screen.   After searching the mailing
> >lists, I know I'm not alone in experiencing this either.
> >
> >Anyway, I too am searching for solutions to both of these problems as
> >I think many (most?) 6200-firewire users are experiencing them.  Does
> >anyone know if there's been any development recently on anything
> >firewire related? (or if there's anything in the pipeline?)
> >
> >On 7/29/05, Gambit Declined <gambitdeclined at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On 7/28/05, Gambit Declined <gambitdeclined at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>On 7/28/05, Mario Limonciello <mario.mailing at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Possibly the show you are trying to record has protections enabled (or
> >>>>possibly the channel).  Try a show that you know doesn't record.  Just
> >>>>use test-mpeg2 to try to manually record it into a temporary directory
> >>>>and see what happens.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>Ouch! Seperate shows are encrypted? I thought they just encrypted the channels.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Sorry for replying to myself, but I know it isn't seperate encrypted
> >>programs. I have
> >>been able to record the same program on the same channel. Does anyone
> >>know of a way to have the driver (er... what is this called in linux?)
> >>reset itself after each show? Maybe that'll do it.
> >>
> >>BTW: I have tried gscanbus and that doesn't work. :-p
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