[mythtv-users] LiveTV bails out after two seconds

Leif B. Kristensen leif at solumslekt.org
Fri Jul 29 07:49:12 EDT 2005


Hello,
I feel that I'm almost there. I have finally got a live TV picture on 
the screen. Alas, it only lasts for a couple of seconds, then it 
freezes and after a while I'm back in the main menu.

I'm running MythTV on an AMD64 configured as an Athlon-XP. However, I 
have configured the kernel to use frequency stepping with the new 
'conservative' driver, in the Power Management Options -> CPU Frequency 
Scaling. Here's an excerpt from the kernel documentation 
(v2.6.12-gentoo-r6):

# 'conservative' - this driver is rather similar to the 'ondemand'
# governor both in its source code and its purpose, the difference is
# its optimisation for better suitability in a battery powered
# environment. The frequency is gracefully increased and decreased
# rather than jumping to 100% when speed is required.

# If you have a desktop machine then you should really be considering
# the 'ondemand' governor instead, however if you are using a laptop,
# PDA or even an AMD64 based computer (due to the unacceptable
# step-by-step latency issues between the minimum and maximum frequency
# transitions in the CPU) you will probably want to use this governor.  

The beauty of this driver approach is of course that the box is _very_ 
quiet when not working. I'm not quite sure if this is directly related 
to my problem, because I can force the CPU to spin up with another 
program, like setting mencoder to transcode a file for about a minute, 
press Ctrl-C, and immediately start "Watch TV" in Myth. This makes no 
difference at all.

Below is a terminal dump from mythfrontend. I haven't bothered getting 
LIRC to work yet:

leif at bellevue ~ $ mythfrontend
2005-07-29 12:01:20.028 New DB connection, total: 1
Total desktop width=1280, height=1024, numscreens=1
2005-07-29 12:01:20.032 Using screen 0, 1280x1024 at 0,0
2005-07-29 12:01:20.034 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 
www.mythtv.org
2005-07-29 12:01:20.034 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2005-07-29 12:01:20.165 Switching to square mode (blue)
2005-07-29 12:01:20.610 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2005-07-29 12:01:20.616 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media 
handler
2005-07-29 12:01:20.617 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media 
handler
mythtv: could not connect to socket
mythtv: Connection refused
lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
2005-07-29 12:01:20.691 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media 
handler
2005-07-29 12:01:26.024 New DB connection, total: 2
2005-07-29 12:01:26.052 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 
(try 1 of 5)
2005-07-29 12:01:26.060 Using protocol version 15
2005-07-29 12:01:26.087 Using protocol version 15
2005-07-29 12:01:28.472 Opening audio device 'default'.
2005-07-29 12:01:28.487 Using XV port 69
2005-07-29 12:01:28.711 Realtime priority would require SUID as root.
2005-07-29 12:01:28.731 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
libGL error: open DRM failed (Operation not permitted)
libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
2005-07-29 12:01:28.734 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait
2005-07-29 12:01:29.504 prebuffering pause
2005-07-29 12:01:48.732 ReadStringList timeout (quick).
Remote encoder not responding.
2005-07-29 12:01:48.732 WriteStringList: Bad socket
2005-07-29 12:01:48.732 ReadStringList: Bad socket
Remote encoder not responding.
2005-07-29 12:01:48.732 WriteStringList: Bad socket
2005-07-29 12:01:48.732 ReadStringList: Bad socket
Remote encoder not responding.
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/qt/3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
2005-07-29 12:01:48.737 WriteStringList: Bad socket
2005-07-29 12:01:48.737 ReadStringList: Bad socket
Remote encoder not responding.
2005-07-29 12:01:48.802 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
2005-07-29 12:01:48.808 Changing from None to None

I live in Norway, a PAL country, and have altered the Live TV output 
format to 720x576 per the instructions at 
<url:http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV>. That doesn't help 
either. Any hints?
-- 
Leif Biberg Kristensen
http://solumslekt.org/


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