[mythtv-users] LiveTV bails out after two seconds

Leif B. Kristensen leif at solumslekt.org
Sat Jul 30 20:45:46 EDT 2005


On Friday 29 July 2005 17:13, James Stembridge wrote:
> On 7/29/05, Leif B. Kristensen <leif at solumslekt.org> wrote:
> > 2005-07-29 16:41:00.897 Channel(/dev/v4l/video0): CheckChannel
> > failed. Please verify channel "3" in the "setup" Channel Editor.
>
> Have you actually tried following this advice? Does channel 3 exist?

I found a page at http://mythtv.info/moin.cgi/XmlTv/MythChannelSetup 
that got me thinking. In mythsetup I opened the Channel editor, and 
changed the freqid field to the frequency numbers instead of the short 
PAL europe-west aliases. In MySQL, it now looks like this:

mysql> select chanid,channum,freqid,name from channel order by chanid;
+--------+---------+--------+-------------------+
| chanid | channum | freqid | name              |
+--------+---------+--------+-------------------+
|      1 | 1       | 287250 | NRK 1             |
|      2 | 2       | 196250 | NRK 2             |
|      3 | 3       | 210250 | TV 2              |
|      4 | 4       | 231250 | TVNorge           |
|      6 | 6       | 259250 | TV 3              |
|      7 | 7       | 266250 | TV4               |
|      8 | 8       | 189250 | SVT 1             |
|      9 | 9       | 217250 | SVT 2             |
|     10 | 10      | 154250 | Discovery Channel |
|     14 | 14      | 252250 | Disney            |
|     15 | 15      | 294250 | BBC World         |
|     17 | 17      | 280250 | Eurosport         |
|     18 | 18      | 161250 | Animal Planet     |
+--------+---------+--------+-------------------+
13 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Now, mythbackend doesn't report any failures at all. But it still won't 
show anything but a blank screen, while the CPU goes full throttle. As 
a collateral damage, it now also borks the access to the video card so 
I can't watch TV with Mplayer without rebooting.
-- 
Leif Biberg Kristensen
http://solumslekt.org/


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