[mythtv-users] "Error opening jump program file" when switching tuners: is this a known problem and did I really fix it?

Anthony Rooney rooneyo at iinet.net.au
Wed Sep 15 13:07:06 UTC 2010


Hi

I get the "Error opening jump program file" when I try to run Live Tv to
connect to the backend system which has the tuner attached.  If I go to the
Backend system and run the front end application and connect to a known good
channel it all works fine and I can change channels OK.  If I go to one of
either of the other client systems on the network I briefly see the channel
information for half a second before getting the "Error opening jump program
file".  I cannot understand the significance of the 1st channel setting in
the backend as it seems to be only the last channel set when MythTv  was
last used on this system.  I read somewhere to make sure the 1st channel was
set to 3?

What on earth does this error "Error opening jump program file" mean and why
is it so debilitating to completely stop both client machines which
previously worked fine from ever running Live TV.  I cannot get any advice
or assistance to troubleshoot this error yet it has completely broken the
client server functionality.

Regards


Anthony

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Johan
Sent: Wednesday, 15 September 2010 7:24 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] "Error opening jump program file" when switching
tuners: is this a known problem and did I really fix it?

Joe schreef:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:35 PM, David Lasker <dave at altosdesign.com>
wrote:
>   
>> When I first set up the system, I could watch digital TV on the 
>> HVR-1250 and analog TV on the HVR-1600 just fine. But when I tried to 
>> switch to the HVR-1600's digital tuner, the front-end would fail with a
pop-up dialog:
>>
>> "Error opening jump program file"
>>
>> Once this happened, I couldn't start "Watch TV" without getting that
error.
>> I had to kill and restart the FE and BE to watch TV again. I'm not 
>> sure if the backend was working and retrying the failed tuner, or if 
>> it was hung.
>>
>>     
>
> I dealt with the same problem after my recent upgrade to 0.23-fixes.
> I am using a HDHomeRun tuner for the few stations that come in clear 
> QAM from Time Warner Cable, and a PVR-150 connected to the cable box 
> for the others that don't.
>
> Here's my story -- TWC likes to rearrange these on occasion, so I have 
> to do a channel scan to find them.  I did this as part of my upgrade 
> because some channels had recently stopped working.  But, they never 
> get detected with the right names/callsigns/xmltvid's so I have to use 
> LiveTV, tune to each detected channel, figure out what it really is, 
> and update the callsign and xmltvid to get it all right.  Probably 
> 80-90% of the channels that are found are actually NOT viewable.
>
> The interesting thing is that when live TV tries to tune some of these 
> non-viewable (possibly encrypted) channels, it fails back out to the 
> main menu and pops up that "jump file" error -- and after that live tv 
> won't work at all until I restart the FE.  Not all the non-viewable 
> channels had this behavior, but a good portion of them did.
>
> The only workaround I found when I hit one of these was to shut down 
> the FE/BE, go into mythtv-setup and set the starting channel for live 
> tv to something that was likely a good channel, delete the problem 
> channel, and repeat.  Now that I've got all the "bad" channels 
> removed, live tv works OK (although I don't typically use it).
>
> So the short version is I believe it's correlated to getting garbage 
> in the video stream ... but I don't have a real answer either.  I'm 
> interested to hear if anyone else does!
>
>   

Having this problem all the time (but not every time :) ). Channels are
probably still encrypted while Myth tries to put them on screen.
A longer "grace period" before displaying the error message would be nice
for my setup, but as it only seemed to affect me, and only while viewing
live TV, I decided not to dig in to it.

Johan
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