[mythtv-users] New setup: Frontend won't play recorded programs

Wed Jan 20 00:37:14 UTC 2010

I have still been unable to resolve this problem, but have been researching
it and I think I can rule some things out.  Again the symptoms are that the
system will schedule and record programs, but once recorded the frontend
doesn't show any screenshots of the programs and won't play them
back--attempt shows the screen saying the recording is loading then dumps
back out to the menu.  (The log material I posted before was kind of messy,
so I deleted all the recordings but one and set mythfrontend to make a log,
and the entries for startup and one attempt to play the recorded file are at
the end of this message. )

Some posts suggest the nvidia drivers aren't loaded. My  /var/log/Xorg.0.log
has the following entries for nvidia:

(**) ModulePath set to
"/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia,/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"

(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia/libglx.so

(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"

(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so

(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"

And lsmod shows:

nvidia               9614008  28 

i2c_core               28976  6
lirc_zilog,nvidia,hdpvr,v4l2_common,videodev,i2c_i801

So I think the nvidia drivers are loaded.  

Other posts suggest there is something wrong with the storage group setup.
I have it pointing to /video/recordings and la -la for that shows:

drwxrwxr-x  2 mythtv mythtv 4096 2010-01-19 15:09 recordings

So that seems OK.

This post  http://www.mythdora.com/?q=node/5131#comment-19881 where someone
was getting the same libfaad error says you need a soft link to libfaad.
But that's for mythdora, so I don't know if that would apply for FC12.  Also
not sure how to do it.

This post http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/329967 says the
"Preview process not OK" error can be caused by zero-length files created by
LiveTV, but as of now /video/recordings only has one file in it for a
recorded program that is not zero length

Any guidance on how to debug or fix this would be greatly appreciated.  

Thanks.Steve

2010-01-19 16:57:16.893 mythfrontend version: tags/release-0-22 [0.22]
www.mythtv.org

2010-01-19 16:57:16.893 Using runtime prefix = /usr

2010-01-19 16:57:16.893 Using configuration directory = /root/.mythtv

2010-01-19 16:57:17.759 Unable to read configuration file mysql.txt

2010-01-19 16:57:17.759 Empty LocalHostName.

2010-01-19 16:57:17.759 Using localhost value of mythtv

2010-01-19 16:57:17.764 New DB connection, total: 1

2010-01-19 16:57:17.767 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost

2010-01-19 16:57:17.767 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'

2010-01-19 16:57:17.774 ScreenSaverX11Private: Gnome screen saver support
enabled

2010-01-19 16:57:17.775 DPMS is active.

2010-01-19 16:57:17.776 Primary screen: 0.

2010-01-19 16:57:17.777 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost

2010-01-19 16:57:17.778 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0

2010-01-19 16:57:17.790 MythUI Image Cache size set to 20971520 bytes

2010-01-19 16:57:17.790 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general

2010-01-19 16:57:17.793 Primary screen: 0.

2010-01-19 16:57:17.794 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0

2010-01-19 16:57:17.794 Using theme base resolution of 1280x720

2010-01-19 16:57:17.799 LIRC, Error: Failed to read config file
'/root/.lircrc'

2010-01-19 16:57:17.799 JoystickMenuThread Error: Joystick disabled - Failed
to read /root/.mythtv/joystickmenurc

2010-01-19 16:57:17.816 Using the Qt painter

2010-01-19 16:57:18.010 Loaded base theme from
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/base.xml

2010-01-19 16:57:18.035 Loaded base theme from
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/default-wide/base.xml

2010-01-19 16:57:18.048 Loaded base theme from
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/base.xml

2010-01-19 16:57:18.054 Current MythTV Schema Version (DBSchemaVer): 1244

2010-01-19 16:57:18.190 Desktop video mode: 1024x768 84.9979 Hz

2010-01-19 16:57:18.314 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.

2010-01-19 16:57:18.334 Registering WebBrowser as a media playback plugin.

2010-01-19 16:57:18.375 MonitorRegisterExtensions(0x100, gif,jpg,png)

2010-01-19 16:57:18.396 Current MythMusic Schema Version (MusicDBSchemaVer):
1017

2010-01-19 16:57:18.424 MonitorRegisterExtensions(0x40,
mp3,mp2,ogg,oga,flac,wma,wav,ac3,oma,omg,atp,ra,dts,aac,m4a,aa3,tta,mka,aiff
,swa,wv)

2010-01-19 16:57:18.438 Current MythVideo Schema Version
(mythvideo.DBSchemaVer): 1028

2010-01-19 16:57:18.475 Loading window theme from
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/menu-ui.xml

2010-01-19 16:57:18.558 Loading menu theme from
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/defaultmenu//mainmenu.xml

2010-01-19 16:57:18.560 Found mainmenu.xml for theme 'Terra'

2010-01-19 16:57:18.569 MythContext: Connecting to backend server:
127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 1)

2010-01-19 16:57:18.569 Using protocol version 50

2010-01-19 16:57:22.091 Loading menu theme from
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/defaultmenu//library.xml

2010-01-19 16:57:23.214 New DB connection, total: 2

2010-01-19 16:57:23.214 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost

2010-01-19 16:57:23.215 Loading window theme from
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/recordings-ui.xml

Qt: Session management error: None of the authentication protocols specified
are supported

2010-01-19 16:57:23.511 mythbackend version: tags/release-0-22 [0.22]
www.mythtv.org

2010-01-19 16:57:23.511 Using runtime prefix = /usr

2010-01-19 16:57:23.511 Using configuration directory = /root/.mythtv

2010-01-19 16:57:23.511 Unable to read configuration file mysql.txt

2010-01-19 16:57:23.511 Empty LocalHostName.

2010-01-19 16:57:23.511 Using localhost value of mythtv

2010-01-19 16:57:23.517 New DB connection, total: 1

2010-01-19 16:57:23.520 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost

2010-01-19 16:57:23.520 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'

2010-01-19 16:57:23.520 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost

2010-01-19 16:57:23.523 Current MythTV Schema Version (DBSchemaVer): 1244

2010-01-19 16:57:23.524 New DB connection, total: 2

2010-01-19 16:57:23.524 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost

2010-01-19 16:57:23.706 AFD: Opened codec 0x149a7f0, id(H264) type(Video)

2010-01-19 16:57:23.706 AFD: codec AAC has 2 channels

2010-01-19 16:57:23.707 [libfaad @ 0x38cc9ef6e0]FAAD library: libfaad.so
could not be opened! 

libfaad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

2010-01-19 16:57:23.707 AFD Error: Could not open codec 0x14996e0, id(AAC)
type(Audio) aborting. reason -1

2010-01-19 16:57:23.707 NVP(0): Disabling Audio, params(-1,-1,-1)

2010-01-19 16:57:23.707 Couldn't open decoder for:
/video/recordings/1708_20100118210000.mpg

2010-01-19 16:57:23.707 NVP(0), Error: Could not open file for preview.

2010-01-19 16:57:23.710 Preview Error: Run() file not local:
'/video/recordings/1708_20100118210000.mpg'

2010-01-19 16:57:23.736 Preview Error: Preview process not ok.

fileinfo(/video/recordings/1708_20100118210000.mpg.png) exists: 0 readable:
0 size: 0

2010-01-19 16:57:25.119 TV: Attempting to change from None to Watching
WatchingPreRecorded

2010-01-19 16:57:25.171 TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching WatchingPreRecorded,
main) -- begin

2010-01-19 16:57:25.381 AFD: Opened codec 0x391ed20, id(H264) type(Video)

2010-01-19 16:57:25.381 AFD: codec AAC has 2 channels

2010-01-19 16:57:25.381 [libfaad @ 0x38cc9ef6e0]FAAD library: libfaad.so
could not be opened! 

libfaad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

2010-01-19 16:57:25.381 AFD Error: Could not open codec 0x391f360, id(AAC)
type(Audio) aborting. reason -1

2010-01-19 16:57:25.381 NVP(0): Disabling Audio, params(-1,-1,-1)

2010-01-19 16:57:25.381 Couldn't open decoder for:
/video/recordings/1708_20100118210000.mpg

2010-01-19 16:57:25.382 TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching WatchingPreRecorded,
main) -- end error

2010-01-19 16:57:25.405 ScreenSaverX11Private: DPMS Deactivated 1

2010-01-19 16:57:35.279 AudioPulseUtil: Resume Success

2010-01-19 16:57:35.279 Deleting UPnP client...

2010-01-19 16:57:36.811 ScreenSaverX11Private: DPMS Reactivated 1

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