[mythtv-users] WatchingLiveTV mode depends on encoders?

Justin Gombos mindfuq at fairfieldi.com
Sun Mar 20 22:25:57 UTC 2005


Does it make sense to you folks that watching live tv would require
encoders to be running?  The following was reported by mythbackend.log
when I tried to watch live tv (at which point I had a blank screen
with audio cutting on and off.
  
  2005-03-20 22:47:52.693 NVR: Multiple bttv errors, further messages supressed
  2005-03-20 22:48:16.438 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
  2005-03-20 23:27:33.047 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
  2005-03-20 23:27:33.051 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
  2005-03-20 23:27:33.082 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
  2005-03-20 23:27:33.095 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
  2005-03-20 23:27:33.105 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
  2005-03-20 23:27:33.102 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 1)
  2005-03-20 23:27:33.130 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
  2005-03-20 23:27:33.144 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
  2005-03-20 23:27:33.154 adding: mythtv as a remote ringbuffer
  2005-03-20 23:27:33.169 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
  2005-03-20 23:27:33.212 Unknown video codec
  2005-03-20 23:27:33.217 Please go into the TV Settings, Recording Profiles and
  2005-03-20 23:27:33.219 setup the four 'Software Encoders' profiles.
  2005-03-20 23:27:33.221 Assuming RTjpeg for now.
  2005-03-20 23:27:33.223 NVR: Error, unknown audio codec
  VIDIOCSYNC: Input/output error
  VIDIOCSYNC: Input/output error
  VIDIOCSYNC: Input/output error
  VIDIOCSYNC: Input/output error
  VIDIOCSYNC: Input/output error
  VIDIOCSYNC: Input/output error
  VIDIOCSYNC: Input/output error
  VIDIOCSYNC: Input/output error
  VIDIOCSYNC: Input/output error
  2005-03-20 23:27:38.763 NVR: Multiple bttv errors, further messages supressed
  2005-03-20 23:28:12.377 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None

I'm not sure what the backend is instructing me when it says: 

  Please go into the TV Settings, Recording Profiles and setup the
  four 'Software Encoders' profiles.

I went there, and there already was a profile group for "Software
Encoders (v4l based)" and "Transcoders".  I created a new group
anyway, and it didn't change anything.  Now I'd like to erase what I
just created, but there seems to be no option for that.


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