[mythtv-users] Frontend no longer displays HD?!

[Rich West]

Duh.. found the right location for the nVidia drivers.  I'm compiling 
them up now to see if that helps at all...

-Rich

Rich West wrote:
> I upgraded two of my three frontend (Fedora 7 based + ATrpms) systems in 
> an effort to resolve some minor flaky problems, and now neither one will 
> play HD content.  They play SD just fine.  The third system (still 
> running an older nVidia driver) plays the HD content just fine.
>
> All three front ends are identical except for the peripherals attached 
> to them (TV, receiver).  I just didn't upgrade the packages on the one 
> system because it was off.. good thing I did, I guess.
>
> On the problem systems, mythfrontend is just hanging when attempting to 
> play an HD recorded show.  Running mythfrontend -v all gives the following:
>
> 2008-01-23 14:24:56.670 MSqlQuery: SELECT data FROM settings WHERE value 
> = 'CCBackground' AND hostname = 'mythtv2' ;
> 2008-01-23 14:24:56.670 OSD: InitCC708() -- begin
> 2008-01-23 14:24:56.671 MSqlQuery: SELECT data FROM settings WHERE value 
> = 'OSDCC708TextZoom' AND hostname = 'mythtv2' ;
> 2008-01-23 14:24:57.406 OSD: InitCC708() -- end
> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.675 NVP: ClearAfterSeek(1)
> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.675 VideoOutputXv: ClearAfterSeek()
> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.675 VideoOutputXv: DiscardFrames(0)
> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.675 VideoOutputXv: DiscardFrames() 1: AAAAAAAA
> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.675 VideoOutputXv: DiscardFrames() 3: AAAAAAAA -- done()
> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.676 VideoOutputXv: DiscardFrames(1)
> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.676 TV: StartPlayer(): took 4123 ms to start player.
> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.676 write -> 16 53      MESSAGE[]:[]COMMFLAG_REQUEST 
> 4061 2008-01-17T20:00:00
> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.676 VideoOutputXv: DiscardFrames() 1: AAAAAAAA
> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.676 VideoOutputXv: DiscardFrames() 2: AAAAAAAA
> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.676 VideoOutputXv: DiscardFrames() 3: AAAAAAAA -- done()
> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.677 read  <- 16 2       OK
> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.677 TV: Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded
> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.677 MythSocket(1756310:15): socket is readable
> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.677 MythSocket(1756310:15): cb->readyRead()
> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.677 read  <- 15 71      
> BACKEND_MESSAGE[]:[]COMMFLAG_REQUEST 4061 2008-01-17T20:00:00[]:[]empty
> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.678 MSqlQuery: SELECT data FROM settings WHERE value 
> = 'RealtimePriority' AND hostname = 'mythtv2' ;
> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.678 MSqlQuery: SELECT COUNT(name) FROM playgroup 
> WHERE name <> 'Default' ORDER BY name;
> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.678 Realtime priority would require SUID as root.
> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.679 AO: OutputAudioLoop: audio paused
> XvMC: picture structure FRAME
> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.720 write -> 21 49      QUERY_FILETRANSFER 
> 34[]:[]REQUEST_BLOCK[]:[]32768
> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.724 read  <- 21 5       32768
> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.724 Read(): reqd=32768, rcvd=32768, rept=32768, error=0
> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.726 write -> 21 50      QUERY_FILETRANSFER 
> 34[]:[]REQUEST_BLOCK[]:[]524288
> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.776 read  <- 21 6       524288
> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.776 Read(): reqd=524288, rcvd=524288, rept=524288, 
> error=0
> 2008-01-23 14:30:00.997 MythSocket(1756310:15): socket is readable
> 2008-01-23 14:30:00.998 MythSocket(1756310:15): cb->readyRead()
> 2008-01-23 14:30:00.998 read  <- 15 51      
> BACKEND_MESSAGE[]:[]DONE_RECORDING 3 1795[]:[]empty
> 2008-01-23 14:30:01.206 MythSocket(1756310:15): socket is readable
> 2008-01-23 14:30:01.206 MythSocket(1756310:15): cb->readyRead()
> 2008-01-23 14:30:01.206 read  <- 15 51      
> BACKEND_MESSAGE[]:[]RECORDING_LIST_CHANGE[]:[]empty
> 2008-01-23 14:30:03.024 MythSocket(1756310:15): socket is readable
> 2008-01-23 14:30:03.024 MythSocket(1756310:15): cb->readyRead()
> 2008-01-23 14:30:03.024 read  <- 15 51      
> BACKEND_MESSAGE[]:[]RECORDING_LIST_CHANGE[]:[]empty
> 2008-01-23 14:30:04.313 MythSocket(1756310:15): socket is readable
> 2008-01-23 14:30:04.313 MythSocket(1756310:15): cb->readyRead()
> 2008-01-23 14:30:04.313 read  <- 15 45      
> BACKEND_MESSAGE[]:[]SCHEDULE_CHANGE[]:[]empty
> 2008-01-23 14:30:18.465 MSqlQuery: SELECT data FROM settings WHERE value 
> = 'PlaybackExitPrompt' AND hostname = 'mythtv2' ;
> 2008-01-23 14:30:18.465 TV: Attempting to change from 
> WatchingPreRecorded to None
> 2008-01-23 14:30:18.465 TV: StopStuff() -- begin
> 2008-01-23 14:30:18.465 TV: StopStuff(): stopping ring buffer[s]
> 2008-01-23 14:30:18.498 TV: StopStuff(): stopping player[s] (1/2)
> 2008-01-23 14:30:18.498 TV: StopStuff(): stopping player[s] (2/2)
>
>
> And that is where all logging stops.  The interface is unresponsive 
> (even after hitting escape), the load average is way up, and the only 
> way out is to kill off mythfrontend.
>
> I'm at a bit of a lossCould this be an nVidia driver issue, or could 
> something else?  I'd attempt to back down the nVidia driver, but I could 
> only find the i386 drivers in the archive on nVidia's site.. I'm running 
> x86_64.
>
> Thanks!
> -Rich
>