[mythtv-users] Mythtv 0.17, Fedora Core 3

[Charles Mills]

Jarod, et. al.,
Thanks for everyone's help - I'm past this hurdle and onto the next.  

Chuck


On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 18:14:44 -0800, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> On Monday 07 March 2005 17:59, Jay wrote:
> > The reason this is happening is most likely the same reason it happened to
> > me. Make sure your using MPEG2 of course, as RTjpeg is wrong, but the other
> > part of your issue is most likely this:
> >
> > Mythbackend is starting before modprobe ivtv finishes.
> >
> > Reboot your backend. Once its completely done starting up, exit your
> > frontend (if it is loaded). Restart mythbackend. Now try to watch live TV.
> > This probably will fix it. I have to restart mythbackend by hand everytime
> > my backend server reboots, I haven't found any real way to fix this, but
> > the restarting mythbackend makes it work. Let us know if this fixes it for
> > you, I've already talked a few others with FC3/0.17 and they had the same
> > issue.
> 
> I have a patch for rc.sysinit that loads the ivtv drivers really early in the
> boot process (right after udev starts up), long before the backend starts up.
> If that's the problem, Chuck, definitely apply the rc.sysinit patch mentioned
> in my doc. Jay, sounds like you might want to try it as well.
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Charles Mills [mailto:millscl at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 5:02 PM
> > To: Discussion about mythtv
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv 0.17, Fedora Core 3
> >
> > Jarod,
> >     Thanks - I saw that in an earlier thread and double-checked it.  I
> > am selecting the PVR-X50 specific setting in the setup which has me
> > puzzled.  I'm thinking I missed a step somewhere along the way but
> > can't figure out where.  Could there be something somewhere that I set
> > incorrectly to cause it to override this?
> [...]
> > > > 2005-03-03 21:35:51.263 Unknown video codec
> > > > 2005-03-03 21:35:51.267 Please go into the TV Settings, Recording
> > > > Profiles and 2005-03-03 21:35:51.270 setup the four 'Software Encoders'
> > > > profiles. 2005-03-03 21:35:51.272 Assuming RTjpeg for now.
> > > > 2005-03-03 21:35:51.275 NVR: Error, unknown audio codec
> > > > 2005-03-03 21:35:51.321 NVR: Won't work with the streaming interface,
> > > > falling back
> > >
> > > The above errors lead me to believe maybe you configured your card
> > > incorrectly in setup, and specified it as a dumb v4l device instead of a
> > > PVR-x50 w/hardware encoder. You shouldn't see RTjpeg in your logs, only
> > > mpeg2.
> 
> --
> Jarod Wilson
> jarod at wilsonet.com
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