[mythtv-users] Can't watch LiveTV with the Hauppauge HD-PVR

[Ian Engelhardt]

Hi JohnnyJboss:

Thanks for the response.

The reason I am not using the default storage location is that when I
installed Ubuntu on this box, I put the bulk of the storage at the
/home mount point. :(  As the system isn't really anywhere yet, I
don't think it would really be a big hassle to rebuild it with the
bulk of the disk space partitioned to the /var mount point.

Thanks for the link on how to "enable the automatic trunk builds".  As
a lot of this MythTV-Linux stuff is a bit mysterious, can you tell me
what exactly is the advantage of enabling this...repository I assume?
Is this to get the latest version of Mythbuntu with all the fixes?

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Johnny Walker <johnnyjboss at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The problem comes with watching LiveTV in the MythFrontend.  Using the
>> gnome desktop, I launch MythFrontend from a terminal.  When I choose
>> Watch TV from the main menu, it just displays "Please Wait..." and
>> then quits.  This is the error that I see repeating ad nauseum in the
>> the terminal window:
>>
>> Error: Invalid file descriptor in 'safe_read()'
>> 2010-03-26 18:38:40.846
>> RingBuf(/home/iengel/Videos/LiveTVcache/1391_20100326183818.mpg)
>>
>> followed by:
>>
>> 2010-03-26 18:38:40.871 NVP::OpenFile(): Error, couldn't read file:
>> /home/iengel/Videos/LiveTVcache/1391_20100326183818.mpg
>> 2010-03-26 18:38:40.871 TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching WatchingLiveTV,
>> main) -- end error
>> 2010-03-26 18:38:40.871 TV Error: LiveTV not successfully started
>> 2010-03-26 18:38:40.873 ScreenSaverX11Private: DPMS Deactivated 1
>> 2010-03-26 18:38:40.874 ScreenSaverX11Private: DPMS Reactivated 1
>>
>
> If this were my system I'd not be asking the mythtv user to write to
> subdir's of my user's home. This may make it easier to fix or remove this
> issue.
>
> Is there a problem having the live tv recordings happen at
> /var/lib/mythtv/livetv?
>
> Have you enabled the automatic trunk builds yet? Info on that is located
> here - http://www.mythbuntu.org/auto-builds
>
> -JohnnyJboss
>
>
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