[mythtv-users] can't watch live tv, record static

David W Davis davidw.davis at gmail.com
Tue Sep 13 03:37:19 UTC 2005


Also, I get the same errors when running the frontend as root, so that
doesn't seem to be the issue.  Anyone have any other ideas?



On 9/10/05, David W Davis <davidw.davis at gmail.com> wrote:
> They appear to be:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x    4 mythtv mythtv    36 Sep  2 11:52 video
> drwxr-xr-x   2 mythtv mythtv    6 Sep  9 13:21 buffer
> drwxr-xr-x   2 mythtv mythtv   29 Sep  9 00:38 recordings
> 
> Yes, the LVM is on the backend.  Sorry if I was a little unclear.  I
> have both a master backend/frontend and a remote frontend.  I am
> unable to watch tv on the master backend/frontend.  I haven't tried on
> the remote frontend yet, but I'm guessing it won't work.
> 
> On 9/10/05, Ryan Pisani <mythtv at frouse3.homelinux.com> wrote:
> > Are ACLs setup correctly on /video/buffer? -- Also is your Logical volume
> > on a remote backend?
> >
> >
> >
> > > I'm setting up a FC4 system per Jarod's guide.  Everything seems to go
> > > fine.  But I can't watch live TV.  Here are the terminal messages I
> > > get:
> > >
> > > 2005-09-09 13:21:30.242 RemoteFile::Read() failed in
> > > RingBuffer::safe_read().
> > > Couldn't read file: rbuf://192.168.1.4:6543/video/buffer/ringbuf2.nuv
> > > 2005-09-09 13:21:30.258 LiveTV not successfully started
> > >
> > > Can someone help me out?  I have an athlon XP 2500+ in a K7VTA3 board
> > > with 1 GB ram.  My video directory is a LVM of 3 hard drives.  I have
> > > 3 PVR-250 MCEs.  I have had this up and running on FC3 in a different
> > > mb/processor config.  I thought it might have been related to the
> > > onboard sound after checking out the archive, but putting in a
> > > soundblaster live didn't seem to help.  Any help/ideas would be
> > > appreciated.  Thanks.
> > >
> > > Dave
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