[mythtv-users] Re: mythfrontend stopped playing live TV

[Mark Anderson]

Which version of the are you running? If it is CVS then when did you update 
last?

Cheers,
Mark


On Sunday 30 January 2005 09:52, Thomas Haller wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> just found out that my old recordings cat be scanned with tcscan,
> the "new" ones (that mythtv cannot playback) give the following
> error :
> ------------------------
>   [thomas at htpc recordings]$ tcscan -i
> 1001_20050129201500_20050129215000.nuv Contents of file
> 1001_20050129201500_20050129215000.nuv
> (5495324672/0x1478c0000 bytes):
>
>
>
>   *** Error: Expected chunk 'RIFF', found 'ÿÿÿÿ'
> ---------------------
> the found part is different for any of the new recordings.
> Like I said: mplayer/xine have no problem, mythfrontend and tcscan have a
> problem with the files.
> Any clue ? Have I screwed something up in mythbackend ? (though I didn't
> do anything there ...)
>
> Thanks for your help,
> ___
>
>   |homas
>
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 23:09:31 +0100, Thomas Haller
>
> <thomas-ra.haller at swissonline.ch> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > I had a perfectly working setup ... until a couple of days ago I noticed,
> > that when I want to watch TV the screen would go black and a couple of
> > seconds later
> > I am back in the menu.
> > Mythfrontend says:
> > --------------------
> > Couldn't find a matching decoder for:
> > rbuf://127.0.0.1:6543/home/mythtv/buffers/
> > ringbuf1.nuv
> > -------------------
> >
> > Also when I record something now, I cannot playback these recordings with
> > mythfrontend.
> > xine or mplayer play them just fine.
> > All old recordings still work perfectly ....
> > I habe not changed any recording profiles ...
> > What is going on ??
> > Why does mythfrontend not recognise it's own recordings anymore ?
> >
> > Any help appreciated.
> > ___
> >
> >    |homas Haller