[mythtv-users] LiveTV doesn't work at all

Shawn shawnuth at gmail.com
Sat Apr 1 00:44:16 UTC 2006


Piers Kittel wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've been using 0.19 stable for a while now, after been using the SVN 
> version for many months right until 0.19 was released.  I've always had 
> problems with prebuffer pauses and jerks when the video started with 
> only one frontend - all the others works fine.  But now LiveTV never 
> works and I just get pages on pages about prebuffer pauses amongst other 
> errors:
>
> 2006-03-28 12:07:17.404 AFD Error: Unknown decoding error
>
> 2006-03-28 12:07:17.497 GetNextFreeFrame() TryLock has spun 10 times, 
> this is a lot.
> 2006-03-28 12:07:17.513 NVP: Waiting for prebuffer.. 6 
> LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
>
> 2006-03-28 12:07:36.755 Ignoring livetv eof in decoder loop
>
> 2006-03-28 12:07:37.098 VideoBuffers::DiscardFrames(1): 
> LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLAALLLLLL
>
> Playing back a recording on mythtv, watching a video via mplayer, or 
> watching a DVD all works perfectly fine.
>
> Am I doing something wrong or...?  I apologise if this has been 
> discussed lately, but I haven't been following the mailing list as 
> closely when I started using 0.19 stable.
>
> Thanks very much for your help in advance.
>
> Cheers - Piers
>   
What type of capture card are you using? What version of the drivers are
you using?  Are you using a software or hardware encoder?

-Shawn


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