[mythtv-users] Tuner not changing channel
David Blevins
david.blevins at visi.com
Sat Jan 22 18:38:38 EST 2005
On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 05:09:12PM -0600, Andy Long wrote:
> Well, for me at least, I was able to find a (sloppy, but pretty easy)
> workaround for it.
Your workaround works for me. Very strange. I never had an issue
like this in 0.14 or 0.15, but I ran those on RH9.
> I've posted to the list and never really got a
> response.
Would be great if someone more knowledgeable would enlighten us as to
what may be going on.
> FYI, I'm running FC3, Kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC1 using the
> mythtv 0.16 (whatever one was avialable via apt-get). Maybe one of
> the new CVS fixes this, but I'm still a n00b and not comfortable
> messing with that yet.
My stats for the archives:
FC2, Kernel 2.6.8-1.521 686,
WinTV PVR 250, ivtv 0.1.10-48_pre2_ck100zz.rhfc2.at
MythTV 0.16
>
> First, exit the frontend. Then try killing and then restarting the
> backend (don't reboot the box or anything). I do it as follows on
> FC3:
>
> # /etc/init.d/mythbackend stop
> # /etc/init.d/mythbackend start
>
> Now go back into the frontend and see if you can change channels (for
> me, I couldn't get audio working without restarting the backend
> either). Can you change channels now? If so, then you had the same
> problem I did.
Sure did. Thanks for sharing the workaround.
> To make this a more permanent workaround, I did the following:
>
> 1) Used the following command to turn the autostart of mythbackend off
> (Jarod's guide shows this way to make it start up automatically, so
> I'm just undoing it if that's how you set up your box).
>
> # /sbin/chkconfig mythbackend off
>
> 2) I then added the following lines to my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file at
> the bottom:
>
> /etc/init.d/mythbackend start
> sleep 3
> /etc/init.d/mythbackend stop
> /etc/init.d/mythbackend start
>
>
> The "sleep 3" statement is in there because it seems it was killing
> off the backend too quickly before it fully started. I played with
> several ways of trying to start the backend, kill it, and then restart
> it whenever the PC would boot, but this is the only way I found that
> works reliably for me. It's very sloppy, and I'd love to know how to
> do it cleaner/easier, but this is what I got.
>
> Let me know if that helps or if you find a better way.
Good enough for me. Though it would be nice to figure out why this is necessary.
Thanks!
-David
>
> -Andy
>
>
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:41:19 -0600, David Blevins
> <david.blevins at visi.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Andy Long wrote:
> >
> > > Just out of curiousity, what does the OSD say when you try change
> > > channels? Does it say something like "0 minutes"?
> >
> > I am also having a channel changing issue and "0" minutes is exactly what the OSD says.
> >
> > Is this an easy one to fix?
> >
> > -David
> >
> >
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