[mythtv-users] Information/Recommendations on a new MythTV

[Timothy Chartier]

> First I'd suggest trying to get video outside of Mythtv by running the
> command:
> cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg
> 

Ok. I did this and was able to get a video that played. Judging by this the ivtv drives and card are set up correctly and thus my problem is with MythTV. At this point I think it is some setting that was mis-set due to user error.

> vbi gets information from the video, like short term scheduling information
> and closed captioning, and dsp has something to do with sound.  I have mine
> set to /dev/vbi0 and /dev/dsp0.
> 
I changed mine to these calues and still nothing.

I did notice a couple of errors upon startup. One invloving QT and one invloveing StartRecorder(). I also moved my ~/.mythtv/mysql.txt to /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt (File name from mymory so might not be 100% accurate).That did not fix the backend issue I was having. Is there a way to dump the mythTV settings? I looked for a .conf file but was unable to find any.

Here is the log with the errors I am seeing.
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2006-11-12 09:57:26.906 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2006-11-12 09:57:26.928 DPMS is active.
2006-11-12 09:57:26.967 New DB connection, total: 1
2006-11-12 09:57:26.974 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: 
localhost
2006-11-12 09:57:26.977 Total desktop dim: 640x480, with 1 screen[s].
2006-11-12 09:57:26.982 Using screen 0, 640x480 at 0,0
2006-11-12 09:57:27.001 Current Schema Version: 1160
2006-11-12 09:57:27.002 mythfrontend version: 0.20.20060828-3 www.mythtv.org
2006-11-12 09:57:27.003 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
2006-11-12 09:57:27.357 Total desktop dim: 640x480, with 1 screen[s].
2006-11-12 09:57:27.359 Using screen 0, 640x480 at 0,0
2006-11-12 09:57:27.360 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T.)
2006-11-12 09:57:27.381 Using the Qt painter
mythtv: could not connect to socket
mythtv: No such file or directory
lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
2006-11-12 09:57:27.656 Joystick disabled.
2006-11-12 09:57:27.858 Loading from: 
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/G.A.N.T./base.xml
2006-11-12 09:57:27.896 Loading from: 
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/base.xml
2006-11-12 09:57:27.939 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2006-11-12 09:57:31.223 New DB connection, total: 2
2006-11-12 09:57:31.225 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: 
localhost
2006-11-12 09:57:31.256 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5)
2006-11-12 09:57:31.259 Using protocol version 31
2006-11-12 09:57:31.267 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingLiveTV
2006-11-12 09:57:31.268 Using protocol version 31
2006-11-12 09:57:31.479 DPMS Deactivated
2006-11-12 09:58:11.486 TV Error: StartRecorder() -- timed out waiting for recorder to start
2006-11-12 09:58:11.486 TV Error: LiveTV not successfully started
2006-11-12 09:58:11.504 TV: Deleting TV Chain in destructor
2006-11-12 09:58:11.514 DPMS Reactivated.
2006-11-12 09:58:15.316 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingLiveTV
2006-11-12 09:58:15.317 Using protocol version 31
2006-11-12 09:58:15.490 DPMS Deactivated
2006-11-12 09:58:55.484 TV Error: StartRecorder() -- timed out waiting for recorder to start
2006-11-12 09:58:55.484 TV Error: LiveTV not successfully started
2006-11-12 09:58:55.503 TV: Deleting TV Chain in destructor
2006-11-12 09:58:55.512 DPMS Reactivated.
2006-11-12 10:00:03.755 Received a remote 'Clear Cache' request



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