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<span style="font-weight: bold;">On Fri Oct 30 17:30 , mark <markhsa@gmail.com> sent:<BR>
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</markhsa@gmail.com></span><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(245, 245, 245); margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px;"><defanged_meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"><defanged_body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> John P Poet wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:2c2a4e250910300856r7e712f02s8f7507066d6e47f1@mail.gmail.com"><pre wrap="">On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:40 AM, mark <a target="_blank" href="DEFANGED_javascript:top.opencompose%28%27markhsa@gmail.com%27,%27%27,%27%27,%27%27%29" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"><markhsa@gmail.com></markhsa@gmail.com></a> wrote:<BR>
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</defanged_body></defanged_meta></blockquote><span style="font-family: Arial;">Thanks for feedback so far.</span><br style="font-family: Arial;"><br style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I`ve done the following:</span><br style="font-family: Arial;"><br style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">created udev rule setting:</span><br style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">first:</span><big style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">KERNEL=="<span style="font-size: 14pt;">video0</span>",MODE="0666",
SYMLINK+="video"</big><br style="font-family: Arial;"><br style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">then:</span><big style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">KERNEL=="<span style="font-size: 14pt;">video0</span>",MODE="0775",
SYMLINK+="video"</big><br style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">finally manually changed permissions to 777, just in case.</span><br style="font-family: Arial;"><br style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">user:grp is root:video, but both mythuser (user) and mythtv are in video group</span><br style="font-family: Arial;"><br style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Behaviour/ backend log are the same, but my frontend log shows:</span><BR>
<span style="font-family: Courier New;">OSD Theme Dimensions W: 1280 H: 720</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:06.404 OpenGLVideoSync()</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:06.406 Realtime priority would require SUID as root.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:06.412 TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching WatchingLiveTV, main) -- end ok</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:06.412 TV: Changing from None to Watching WatchingLiveTV</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:06.412 TV: State is LiveTV & mctx == ctx</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:06.445 Video sync method can't support double framerate (refresh rate too low for bob deint)</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:06.459 Video timing method: SGI OpenGL</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:06.474 TV: UpdateOSDInput done</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:06.474 TV: UpdateLCD done</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:06.474 TV: ITVRestart done</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:06.498 ScreenSaverX11Private: DPMS Deactivated 1</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:06.603 Loading window theme from /usr/share/mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu/schedule-ui.xml</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:09.885 NVP(0): prebuffering pause</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:10.341 RingBuf(/var/lib/mythtv/livetv/3010_20091030204502.mpg): Waited 1.0 seconds for data to become available...</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:10.341 Checking to see if there's a new livetv program to switch to..</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:10.687 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:11.343 RingBuf(/var/lib/mythtv/livetv/3010_20091030204502.mpg): Waited 2.0 seconds for data to become available...</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:11.343 Checking to see if there's a new livetv program to switch to..</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:11.488 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 20 times.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:12.289 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 30 times.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:13.114 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 40 times.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:13.934 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 50 times.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:14.762 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 60 times.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:15.563 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 70 times.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:15.820 Audio 40 ms behind video but already 180 video frames queued. AV-Sync might be broken.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:15.829 Audio 39 ms behind video but already 180 video frames queued. AV-Sync might be broken.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:15.839 Audio 38 ms behind video but already 180 video frames queued. AV-Sync might be broken.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:15.868 Audio 36 ms behind video but already 180 video frames queued. AV-Sync might be broken.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">...</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">...</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">...2009-10-30 20:45:15.987 Audio -91 ms behind video but already 180 video frames queued. AV-Sync might be broken.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:17.827 NVP(0): prebuffering pause</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:17.865 RingBuf(/var/lib/mythtv/livetv/3010_20091030204502.mpg): Waited 1.0 seconds for data to become available...</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:17.865 Checking to see if there's a new livetv program to switch to..</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:18.628 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:18.867 RingBuf(/var/lib/mythtv/livetv/3010_20091030204502.mpg): Waited 2.0 seconds for data to become available...</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:18.867 Checking to see if there's a new livetv program to switch to..</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:19.430 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 20 times.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:19.867 Loading window theme from /usr/share/mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu/schedule-ui.xml</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:20.238 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 30 times.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:23.978 New DB scheduler connection</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:23.980 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: 192.168.253.239</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:24.131 XMLParse: LoadTheme using '/usr/share/mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu/ui.xml'</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:24.162 Unable to find image file: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu/conflicts/con-box.png</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:24.162 UIImageType::LoadImage() - Cannot find image: conflicts/con-box.png</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:24.183 NVP(0): prebuffering pause</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:24.404 RingBuf(/var/lib/mythtv/livetv/3010_20091030204502.mpg): Waited 1.0 seconds for data to become available...</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:24.404 Checking to see if there's a new livetv program to switch to..</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:24.995 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:25.406 RingBuf(/var/lib/mythtv/livetv/3010_20091030204502.mpg): Waited 2.0 seconds for data to become available...</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:25.406 Checking to see if there's a new livetv program to switch to..</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:25.796 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 20 times.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:26.597 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 30 times.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:26.691 Audio 3770 ms behind video but already 180 video frames queued. AV-Sync might be broken.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:26.699 Audio 3780 ms behind video but already 180 video frames queued. AV-Sync might be broken.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 20:45:26.709 Audio 3769 ms behind video but already 180 video frames queued. AV-Sync might be broken.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><br style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Perhaps I should test rca stereo audio capture ->aac next, currently trying s/pdif ->ac3</span><br style="font-family: Arial;"><br style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Any other ideas?</span><br style="font-family: Arial;"><BR>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 22:14:47.265 ProgramInfo, Error: GetPlaybackURL: '3010_20091029212559.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 22:14:47.288 ERROR when trying to delete file: /GetPlaybackURL/UNABLE/TO/FIND/LOCAL/FILE/ON/mythbox/3010_20091029212559.mpg. File doesn't exist. Database metadata will not be removed.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 22:15:02.620 Reschedule requested for id 0.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 22:15:02.745 Scheduled 0 items in 0.1 = 0.05 match + 0.08 place</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 22:17:02.148 MainServer::ANN Monitor</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 22:17:02.201 adding: mythbox as a client (events: 0)</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 22:17:17.841 MainServer::ANN Playback</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 22:17:17.870 adding: mythbox as a client (events: 0)</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 22:17:17.907 TVRec(1): Changing from None to Watching WatchingLiveTV</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 22:17:17.958 TVRec(1): HW Tuner: 1->1</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 22:17:18.048 ret_pid(2991) child(2991) status(0x0)</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 22:17:18.070 External Tuning program exited with no error</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 22:17:18.353 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 12.0 GB w/freq: 15 min</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 22:17:18.672 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: StartEncoding failed</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"> eno: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 22:17:18.709 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: Failed to start recording</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 22:18:04.897 TVRec(1): Changing from Watching WatchingLiveTV to None</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 22:18:04.951 Unknown type, recording width was 0</span><BR>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 22:17:17.904 Spawning LiveTV Recorder -- begin</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 22:17:18.324 Spawning LiveTV Recorder -- end</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 22:17:18.337 We have a playbackURL(/var/lib/mythtv/livetv/3010_20091030221718.mpg) & cardtype(HDPVR)</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 22:17:24.837 RingBuf(/var/lib/mythtv/livetv/3010_20091030221718.mpg): Invalid file (fd -1) when opening '/var/lib/mythtv/livetv/3010_20091030221718.mpg'.</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 22:17:24.838 We have a RingBuffer</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 22:18:04.891 TV Error: StartRecorder() -- timed out waiting for recorder to start</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 22:18:04.891 TV Error: LiveTV not successfully started</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 22:18:04.902 ScreenSaverX11Private: DPMS Deactivated 1</span><br style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">2009-10-30 22:18:04.905 ScreenSaverX11Private: DPMS Reactivated 1</span><BR>
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