[mythtv-users] PcHDTV5500 Questions - NTSC Tuner

Bob Sully rcs at malibyte.net
Tue Jan 2 19:07:54 UTC 2007


Happy New Year, everyone!

Well, I've finally got this system to be fairly functional.  I recorded a
couple of shows in HD yesterday with good results, other than occasional
audio hiccups (minimal).  The digital (dvb, QAM-256) side seems to be
fine.

However, I'm having problems with the analog (NTSC) tuner.

(1) When watching LiveTV - video, but no audio.

(2) I tried recording a show on the analog side this morning, to see if
I'd have sound when I played it back later.  Well, it scheduled the
recording, it went through the motions, there's a listing for it under
Previous Recordings, but there was no file associated with it.  I had been
watching HD live TV last night, so I assume that Myth wasn't able to
switch to the analog tuner to do the recording (??)

Here's the HTML for the "Previous Recordings" page.  The top one is the
one I tried to record on the analog side this morning, the bottom two are
successful HD recordings from yesterday:


 Tue Jan 2, 2007
       Threshold Trees Made of Glass A signal from a mysterious craft
terrorizes the crew of
   a U.S. Navy cargo freighter. 59 - Sci-Fi Channel (Pacific Feed) Default
Tue Jan 2, 2007
   (08:00 AM) 1 hr 4 mins B Delete
   has  commflag:   No  has  cutlist:  No is editing:  No auto-expire: 
[X] has bookmark:  No
   Delete + Rerecord

   Mon Jan 1, 2007
      [1941_20070101134400.mpg.png]  College  Football  Rose  Bowl: 
Michigan  vs.  USC  From
   Pasadena, Calif. 407 - ABC-HD Los Angeles Default Mon Jan 1, 2007
   (01:45 PM) 3 hrs 32 mins 20 GB Delete
   has  commflag:   Yes has cutlist:  No is editing:  No auto-expire:  [X]
has bookmark:  Yes
   Delete + Rerecord

      [1941_20070101075900.mpg.png]  118th Annual Tournament of Roses
Parade The annual march
   takes place in Pasadena, Calif.; filmmaker George Lucas is the grand
marshal. 407 - ABC-HD
   Los Angeles Default Mon Jan 1, 2007
   (08:00 AM) 2 hrs 2 mins 11 GB Delete
   has  commflag:   Yes  has cutlist:  No is editing:  No auto-expire: 
[X] has bookmark:  No
   Delete + Rerecord


Here's the log entries from this AM:


2007-01-02 07:58:02.678 TVRec(1): Changing from None to RecordingOnly
2007-01-02 07:58:02.710 TVRec(1): HW Tuner: 1->1
2007-01-02 07:58:03.757 ret_pid(0) child(22336) status(0x0)
2007-01-02 07:58:04.765 ret_pid(22336) child(22336) status(0x0)
2007-01-02 07:58:04.766 External Tuning program exited with no error
2007-01-02 07:58:04.860 FireRec: Buffered packets 2350 (9400 KB)
2007-01-02 07:58:04.916 Started recording: Threshold "Trees Made of
Glass": channel 1057 on cardid 1, sourceid 1
2007-01-02 07:58:04.962 scheduler: Started recording: Threshold "Trees
Made of Glass": channel 1057 on cardid 1, sourceid 1
2007-01-02 07:58:19.915 FireRec: No Input in 15 seconds [P:0 N:2] (select)
2007-01-02 07:59:00.627 JobQueue: Commercial Flagging Starting for
Threshold "Trees Made of Glass" recorded from channel 1057 at Tue Jan 2
07:58:00 2007
2007-01-02 07:59:00.638 commflag: Commercial Flagging Starting: Threshold
"Trees Made of Glass" recorded from channel 1057 at Tue Jan 2 07:58:00
2007
2007-01-02 07:59:00.879 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2007-01-02 07:59:00.946 New DB connection, total: 1
2007-01-02 07:59:00.978 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2007-01-02 07:59:00.983 New DB connection, total: 2
2007-01-02 07:59:00.985 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2007-01-02 07:59:07.503
RingBuf(/mythtv/recordings/1057_20070102075800.mpg): Invalid file (fd -1)
when opening '/mythtv/recordings/1057_20070102075800.mpg'.
2007-01-02 07:59:07.531 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.9:6543
(try 1 of 5)
2007-01-02 07:59:07.537 Using protocol version 30
2007-01-02 07:59:07.538 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2007-01-02 07:59:07.540 adding: vader.malibyte.net as a client (events: 0)
2007-01-02 07:59:07.541 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2007-01-02 07:59:07.543 adding: vader.malibyte.net as a client (events: 1)
2007-01-02 07:59:07.568 NVP::OpenFile(): Error, file not found:
/mythtv/recordings/1057_20070102075800.mpg
2007-01-02 07:59:07.591 commflag: Commercial Flagging Finished: Threshold
"Trees Made of Glass" recorded from channel 1057 at Tue Jan 2 07:58:00
2007: 0 commercial break(s)
2007-01-02 07:59:07.602 JobQueue: Commercial Flagging Finished, 0 break(s)
found.
2007-01-02 07:59:07.604 Preview Error: Previewer file
'/mythtv/recordings/1057_20070102075800.mpg' is not valid.
2007-01-02 09:02:00.927 TVRec(1): Changing from RecordingOnly to None
2007-01-02 09:02:00.934 Finished recording Threshold "Trees Made of
Glass": channel 1057
2007-01-02 09:02:00.937 scheduler: Finished recording: Threshold "Trees
Made of Glass": channel 1057
2007-01-02 09:02:00.943 Finished recording Threshold "Trees Made of
Glass": channel 1057
2007-01-02 09:02:00.938 Reschedule requested for id 0.
2007-01-02 09:02:00.951 Preview Error: Previewer file
'/mythtv/recordings/1057_20070102075800.mpg' is not valid.
2007-01-02 09:02:00.988 Scheduled 0 items in 0.0 = 0.01 match + 0.04 place


Any clues would be appreciated ... thanks very much!
Bob
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