Alright Matt. I went ahead and double checked the installation of all of those files and they are all installed for the current kernel. BTW here's the error's were getting in the frontend log:<br>2007-03-07 22:29:
20.316 PLAYBA 4610 NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1743 OutputVideoLoop: prebuffer wait timed out..<br>2007-03-07 22:29:20.316 PLAYBA 4610 NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1741 OutputVideoLoop: waiting for prebuffer... 2<br>2007-03-07 22:29:
20.451 PLAYBA 4610 NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1743 OutputVideoLoop: prebuffer wait timed out..<br>2007-03-07 22:29:20.451 PLAYBA 4610 NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1741 OutputVideoLoop: waiting for prebuffer... 3<br>2007-03-07 22:29:
20.586 PLAYBA 4610 NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1743 OutputVideoLoop: prebuffer wait timed out..<br>2007-03-07 22:29:20.586 PLAYBA 4610 NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1741 OutputVideoLoop: waiting for prebuffer... 4<br>2007-03-07 22:29:
20.721 PLAYBA 4610 NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1743 OutputVideoLoop: prebuffer wait timed out..<br>2007-03-07 22:29:20.721 PLAYBA 4610 NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1741 OutputVideoLoop: waiting for prebuffer... 5<br>2007-03-07 22:29:
20.856 PLAYBA 4610 NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1743 OutputVideoLoop: prebuffer wait timed out..<br>2007-03-07 22:29:20.856 PLAYBA 4610 NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1741 OutputVideoLoop: waiting for prebuffer... 6<br>2007-03-07 22:29:
20.991 PLAYBA 4610 NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1743 OutputVideoLoop: prebuffer wait timed out..<br>2007-03-07 22:29:20.991 PLAYBA 4610 NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1741 OutputVideoLoop: waiting for prebuffer... 7<br>2007-03-07 22:29:
21.126 PLAYBA 4610 NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1743 OutputVideoLoop: prebuffer wait timed out..<br>2007-03-07 22:29:21.126 PLAYBA 4610 NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1741 OutputVideoLoop: waiting for prebuffer... 8<br>2007-03-07 22:29:
21.261 PLAYBA 4610 NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1743 OutputVideoLoop: prebuffer wait timed out..<br>2007-03-07 22:29:21.261 PLAYBA 4610 NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1741 OutputVideoLoop: waiting for prebuffer... 9<br>2007-03-07 22:29:
21.396 PLAYBA 4610 NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1743 OutputVideoLoop: prebuffer wait timed out..<br>2007-03-07 22:29:21.396 PLAYBA 4610 NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1741 OutputVideoLoop: waiting for prebuffer... 10<br>2007-03-07 22:29:
21.531 PLAYBA 4610 NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1743 OutputVideoLoop: prebuffer wait timed out..<br>2007-03-07 22:29:21.531 IMPORT 4610 NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1749 OutputVideoLoop: prebuffer wait times out 10 times.<br>2007-03-07 22:29:
21.531 DEBUG 4610 videooutbase.cpp:765 EnoughFreeFrames: FreeFrames(30) ? 1<br>2007-03-07 22:29:21.531 DEBUG 4610 videooutbase.cpp:766 EnoughFreeFrames: returns(1)<br>2007-03-07 22:29:21.531 PLAYBA 4610
NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1741 OutputVideoLoop: waiting for prebuffer... 1<br>2007-03-07 22:29:21.666 PLAYBA 4610 NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1743 OutputVideoLoop: prebuffer wait timed out..<br>2007-03-07 22:29:21.666 PLAYBA 4610
NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1741 OutputVideoLoop: waiting for prebuffer... 2<br>2007-03-07 22:29:21.802 PLAYBA 4610 NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1743 OutputVideoLoop: prebuffer wait timed out..<br>2007-03-07 22:29:21.802 PLAYBA 4610
NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1741 OutputVideoLoop: waiting for prebuffer... 3<br>2007-03-07 22:29:21.936 PLAYBA 4610 NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1743 OutputVideoLoop: prebuffer wait timed out..<br>2007-03-07 22:29:21.937 PLAYBA 4610
NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1741 OutputVideoLoop: waiting for prebuffer... 4<br>2007-03-07 22:29:22.071 PLAYBA 4610 NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1743 OutputVideoLoop: prebuffer wait timed out..<br>2007-03-07 22:29:22.072 PLAYBA 4610
NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1741 OutputVideoLoop: waiting for prebuffer... 5<br>2007-03-07 22:29:22.206 PLAYBA 4610 NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1743 OutputVideoLoop: prebuffer wait timed out..<br>2007-03-07 22:29:22.207 PLAYBA 4610
NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1741 OutputVideoLoop: waiting for prebuffer... 6<br><br><br>Then we get one frame of video:<br>2007-03-07 22:29:22.241 PLAYBA 4610 avformatdecoder.cpp:1024 HandleGopStart: positionMap[0] == 38.<br>
<br>and then black:<br>2007-03-07 22:29:22.341 PLAYBA 4610 NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1743 OutputVideoLoop: prebuffer wait timed out..<br>2007-03-07 22:29:22.343 DEBUG 4610 RingBuffer.cpp:892 ReadAheadThread: safe_read(remote_file, ...) ==> 128000
<br>X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8<br> Major opcode: 141<br> Minor opcode: 14<br> Resource id: 0x1cc<br>2007-03-07 22:29:22.344 IMPORT 4610 videoout_xv.cpp:598 InitColorKey: Couldn't get the color key color, and we need it. You likely won't get any video.
<br><br>Then we have to kill the frontend. The backend log has this in it:<br>2007-03-07 22:29:16.019 GENERA 2695 mainserver.cpp:602 HandleAnnounce: Playback<br>2007-03-07 22:29:16.030 IMPORT 2695 mainserver.cpp
:603 HandleAnnounce: adding: localhost.localdomain as a client (events: 0)<br>2007-03-07 22:29:16.392 GENERA 2695 mainserver.cpp:602 HandleAnnounce: Playback<br>2007-03-07 22:29:16.395 IMPORT 2695 mainserver.cpp
:603 HandleAnnounce: adding: localhost.localdomain as a client (events: 1)<br>2007-03-07 22:29:16.407 GENERA 2695 mainserver.cpp:602 HandleAnnounce: Playback<br>2007-03-07 22:29:16.408 IMPORT 2695 mainserver.cpp
:603 HandleAnnounce: adding: localhost.localdomain as a client (events: 0)<br>2007-03-07 22:29:16.423 GENERA 2695 mainserver.cpp:602 HandleAnnounce: Playback<br>2007-03-07 22:29:16.424 IMPORT 2695 mainserver.cpp
:603 HandleAnnounce: adding: localhost.localdomain as a client (events: 0)<br>2007-03-07 22:29:16.433 IMPORT 2695 mainserver.cpp:634 HandleAnnounce: adding: localhost.localdomain as a remote ringbuffer<br>
2007-03-07 22:29:16.443 GENERA 2695 tv_rec.cpp:584 HandleStateChange: Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV<br>2007-03-07 22:29:16.474 IMPORT 2695 mpegrecorder.cpp:394 SetIVTVDeviceOptions: MPEGRecorder(/dev/video0): Error: Failed to get codec params using ol
<br>d IVTV ioctl<br> Bad address (14)<br><br><br>And I'm not really sure what's up with this one:<br>2007-03-07 22:32:02.551 IMPORT 2695 RingBuffer.cpp:184 Write: IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write()
<br>2007-03-07 22:32:07.357 IMPORT 2695 RingBuffer.cpp:184 Write: IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write()<br>2007-03-07 22:32:12.340 IMPORT 2695 RingBuffer.cpp:184 Write: IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write()
<br><br>All users have rw access to the device, and the file /video/ringbuffers/ringbuf1.nuv<br><br>We're stuck at this one... And since we can't update to the .20 myth I'm not sure what to do next.<br><br><br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matt Rude</b> <<a href="mailto:mythtv@mattrude.com">mythtv@mattrude.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Spam Spam wrote:<br>> I have a client who has been using MythTV to display video for in-house<br>> use. They have been using MythTV v-0.18.1 for several years and have<br>> made several custom modifications to the code so they are reluctant to
<br>> upgrade to a later version at this time.<br>><br>> They are using a PVR350 for video input.<br>><br>> The system was running fine under Fedora Core 6 using the 2.6.18 kernel.<br>> However, recently one of their developers upgraded the machine to
<br>> kernel version 2.6.19 and LiveTV stopped working.<br>><br>> When a user selects Live TV from the menu the system will display one<br>> frame of video and then go to a black screen.<br>><br>> I have connected mplayer to the video input and it plays the video just
<br>> fine. I saved a copy of the ring buffer that was being produced by the<br>> backend while the frontend was displaying a black screen. When I play<br>> the saved ring buffer with mplayer, it plays with a little break up at
<br>> the beginning but then video looks fine as well. It seems to me that the<br>> problem is in getting the video from the backend to the frontend.<br>><br>> Could someone please suggest to me what might be causing this problem?
<br>><br>> Thanks for any assistance you may be able to give me,<br>> Scott.<br>><br><br>Make sure you have all the new kernel info.<br><br>You can try to upgrade the ivtv-firmware with:<br>yum -y install ivtv-firmware
<br>yum -y install ivtv-kmdl-`uname -r`.`uname -m`<br>yum -y install ivtvdev<br>yum -y install ivtv_xdriver<br>yum -y install video4linux-kmdl-`uname -r`.`uname -m`<br><br>I have to run this on my Fedora system with a PVR-350 when ever the
<br>Kernel gets upgraded.<br><br>for LIRC run:<br>yum -y install lirc-kmdl-`uname -r`.`uname -m`<br>yum -y install lirc<br><br>-Matt<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list
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