[mythtv-users] Beta of MiniMyth2 RPI2 edition

Peter Bennett (cats22) cats22 at comcast.net
Sun Feb 14 20:43:05 UTC 2016


On 02/13/2016 06:52 PM, Piotr Oniszczuk wrote:
>
>
> I updated MiniMyth2 RPI2 edition.
> Following changes/fixes are in new ver:
>
> Fixes:
> 1.Steep 6 in original install procedure (killing mythfrontend process after BE selection) is not needed anymore. You can skip it.
> 2.Reboot/Shutdown from myth UI now works.
> 3.MCE remote now correctly works OOB. 
>   
> Changes:
> 1.MiniMyth2 now by default uses XCB instead EGLFS. I have good results with XCB. In my opinion now RPI2 platform can be used as low-end mythtv platform. If You still prefer EGLFS, then You should:
> a.sshas root
> b. Type ”systemctl stop mythfrontent-xcb.service”
> c. Type „systemctl start mythfrontend-eglfs.service”
> If all is OK, then You can make it default:
> a. Type „systemctl disable mythfrontent-xcb.service”
> b. Type „systemctl enable mythfrontent-eglfs.service”  
>
> 2.Playback profiles: ‚Normal’ and ‚MiniMyth’ now are fully preconfigured for RPI2. So now, at first run after install, user need only walk across Setup/Video Playback screens without need to define playback profile for RPI2. Simple walk & save should be enough.
>
> Code changelog:
> v7.12.3 (20160209)
>   -update mythtv to r3570
>   -add
>     0104-minimyth-rpi2-video-profiles.patch
>     0105-minimyth-rpi2-general-settings-defaults.patch
>     0297-VO-Threaded-softblend-OSD-rendering.patch
>     0298-Ticket_12643_Fix_Resolution_change_crash.patch
>     0299-Ticket_12644_Fix_sound_when_skip_back.patch
>   -remove 0295-0296-TV-Ensure-OMX-decoder-releases-shared-buffers-before.patch
>     as 0298-Ticket_12643_Fix_Resolution_change_crash.patch superseeds it
>  
> Enjoy and give me pls feedback how it goes for You :-)
>
>
Hi Piotr

I tried this new image

The first time prompt shows me first the country and language prompt and
then the select screen with option "MythTV AV server". If I select this
I get the error message "Unknown Error", and it goes back to the country
and language prompt. The same if I select "Manual". I rebooted a few
times and tried again and I could not get past this error. So I manually
copied the config.xml to the /home/mythtv/.mythtv directory. Then after
reboot, myth frontend starts.

Frontend is working fine, but there is only a small selection for themes
and download themes do not work. On my raspi build for 0.28 the download
themes also does not work. Playing recordings is working fine. (With the
jerkiness in OSD that is always there with xcb).

There is a problem with Live TV. Also on my own build of raspi for 0.28,
it plays for about 30 seconds or 1 minute then stops with a whole lot of
log messages as follows:

2016-02-14 15:10:38.209571 N  Player(1): Waited 103ms for video buffers
ALAAAAAALPPP
..--many more of these--..
2016-02-14 15:10:47.984928 N  Player(1): Waited 9878ms for video buffers
ALAAAAAALPPP
2016-02-14 15:10:48.051265 W 
RingBuf(myth://andromeda/1001_20160214200903.ts): ReadPriv(..32768,
normal) -- waited 10009 ms for avail(0) > count(32768)
2016-02-14 15:10:48.051361 E 
RingBuf(myth://andromeda/1001_20160214200903.ts): ReadPriv(..32768,
normal) -- timed out waiting for data (10009 ms)
2016-02-14 15:10:48.087694 N  Player(1): Waited 9981ms for video buffers
ALAAAAAALPPP
2016-02-14 15:10:48.305056 E  decoding error
                        eno: Unknown error 541478725 (541478725)
2016-02-14 15:10:48.351999 E  decoding error
                        eno: Unknown error 541478725 (541478725)
..--more of these--..

The 0.27 version does not have this problem. I will try to find out what
is going on with this.

I think this LiveTV problem may also exist with the amd64 version of
0.28, but takes longer before it happens, maybe 10 or 20 minutes. I am
doing some testing. I did have it happen once.

Peter


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