[mythtv-users] Re: Frontend crash when watching live TV

Fedor Pikus fpikus at gmail.com
Mon Jan 2 23:14:27 UTC 2006


On 1/2/06, Doug Bunger <dougbunger at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Does the frontend have MythMusic loaded, and does it
> work?  I had similar problems, which were sound
> related (you are getting a message "2006-01-02
> 12:30:32.665 WriteAudio: buffer underrun").  I found
> that KDE's sound deamon wouldn't share the audio
> device, so I had to kill artsd.  I've not hacked
> enough of the code to tell you why, but live audio
> (ring buffered) is served differently from recorded,
> so one working does not assure the other will work.



So many different ways this stuff can break. Unfortunately, mine is
different: mythmusic was loaded, arts was running (even though I don''t use
KDE), but killing it did not fix the problem, frontend still crashes :(

Fedor

--- Fedor Pikus <fpikus at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have some more information which will hopefully
> > help to diagnose the
> > problem: IVTV problems do not appear to be critical,
> > I can record on both
> > tuners (one of the tuners now gives be a narrow line
> > of blinking pixels
> > along the top).
> >
> > The only thing I cannot do at all is watch live TV
> > (I can even watch a
> > recording which is being recorded, only not live
> > TV). Mythfrontend freezes
> > for a while, then crashes. The log contains this:
> >
> > X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
> >   Major opcode:  141
> >   Minor opcode:  14
> >   Resource id:  0x1ae
> > 2006-01-02 12:30:31.925 Couldn't get the color key
> > color, and we need it.
> > You likely won't get any video.
> > 2006-01-02 12:30:32.182 Realtime priority would
> > require SUID as root.
> > 2006-01-02 12:30:32.183 Changing from None to
> > WatchingLiveTV
> > 2006-01-02 12:30:32.440 Video timing method: SGI
> > OpenGL
> > 2006-01-02 12:30:32.662 prebuffering pause
> > 2006-01-02 12:30:32.665 WriteAudio: buffer underrun
> > 2006-01-02 12:30:52.183 ReadStringList timeout
> > (quick).
> > Remote encoder not responding.
> > 2006-01-02 12:30:52.183 WriteStringList: Bad socket
> > 2006-01-02 12:30:52.183 ReadStringList: Bad socket
> > Remote encoder not responding.
> > 2006-01-02 12:30:52.184 WriteStringList: Bad socket
> > 2006-01-02 12:30:52.184 ReadStringList: Bad socket
> > Remote encoder not responding.
> > ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
> > /usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
> > 2006-01-02 12:30:52.186 WriteStringList: Bad socket
> > 2006-01-02 12:30:52.186 ReadStringList: Bad socket
> > Remote encoder not responding.
> > 2006-01-02 12:30:52.191 WriteStringList: Bad socket
> > 2006-01-02 12:30:52.191 ReadStringList: Bad socket
> > Remote encoder not responding.
> > ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
> > /usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
> >
> > Any sugestions now?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Fedor
> >
>



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Fedor G Pikus (fpikus at gmail.com)
http://www.pikus.net
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