<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><br><br><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Greg Moeller" <skywise@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, July 9, 2013 5:47:02 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[mythtv-users] Mac OSx frontend live TV issue.<br><br>
Good afternoon.<br>
I'm trying to get the mythTV frontend working on my media mac mini.<br>
<br>
Here's my setup.<br>
Backend using mythbuntu and 0.26 and two tuners (hdhomerun and
HDPVR)<br>
Frontend using a 10.8 mac mini (i3) and mythfrontend 0.26
(MythFrontend-v0.26.0-175-g7f71e02)<br>
The back end is working perfectly, records shows, librarians them so
plex can understand. (both tuners)<br>
The frontend runs, can see shows, play them. But when I try live TV
i get<br>
Video frame buffering failed too many times.<br>
Sometimes I'll get a single frame, usually nothing at all, sometimes
it plain blows up.<br>
I also tested this on a quad core i7 mac mini, exact same issue.<br>
As a test I built up a mythbuntu frontend install under
virtualbox(on the same mac) and other than some decoding speed
issues (h.264) it worked perfectly.<br>
<br>
So, the problem seems mac related. All networking in the house is
hardwired, giga-bit.<br>
<br>
<br>
I ran a debug with the front end and this seems to be the spot
giving problems...<br>
<br>
2013-07-09 17:19:34.842588 D
SendReceiveStringList(MESSAGE,SYSTEM_EVENT PLAY_CHANGED HOSTNAME
calvin CHANID 1061 STARTTIME 2013-07-09T22:19:34Z SENDER calvin)
called from UI thread<br>
2013-07-09 17:19:34.847536 I
FileRingBuf(/Volumes/public/video/mythtv/1061_20130709221933.mpg):
OpenFile(/Volumes/public/video/mythtv/1061_20130709221934.mpg, 10000
ms)<br>
2013-07-09 17:19:37.135415 W
RingBuf(/Volumes/public/video/mythtv/1061_20130709221934.mpg):
Taking too long to be allowed to read..<br>
...<br>
2013-07-09 17:19:45.849940 E
RingBuf(/Volumes/public/video/mythtv/1061_20130709221934.mpg): Took
more than 10 seconds to be allowed to read, aborting.<br>
2013-07-09 17:19:45.850030 W
RingBuf(/Volumes/public/video/mythtv/1061_20130709221934.mpg):
Peek() requested 2048 bytes, but only returning 0<br>
2013-07-09 17:19:45.850055 E Player(0): OpenFile(): Could not read
first 2048 bytes of
'/Volumes/public/video/mythtv/1061_20130709221934.mpg'<br>
2013-07-09 17:19:45.850273 E Player(0): JumpToProgram failed.<br>
2013-07-09 17:19:45.850319 E Player(0): Unknown recorder error,
exiting decoder<br>
2013-07-09 17:19:45.850982 I Player(0): Decoder thread exiting.<br>
<br>
A quick ls on the same mac gives:<br>
calvin:~ gsd$ ls
/Volumes/public/video/mythtv/1061_20130709221934.mpg<br>
/Volumes/public/video/mythtv/1061_20130709221934.mpg<br>
calvin:~ gsd$ ls -l
/Volumes/public/video/mythtv/1061_20130709221934.mpg<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 gsd staff 21670572 9 Jul 17:19
/Volumes/public/video/mythtv/1061_20130709221934.mpg<br>
<br>
Any ideas?<br>
(BTW, all media is accessable using the same paths on all the
servers but the virtualbox wouldn't have had that path)<br>
<br>
Just tried playing a pre-recorded show and that worked with this in
the log:<br>
2013-07-09 17:39:26.159478 D
SendReceiveStringList(MESSAGE,SYSTEM_EVENT PLAY_STARTED HOSTNAME
calvin CHANID 2505 STARTTIME 2013-07-02T02:00:00Z SENDER calvin)
called from UI thread<br>
2013-07-09 17:39:26.160149 I TV: tv->Playback() -- begin<br>
2013-07-09 17:39:26.169855 I TV: HandleStateChange(0) -- begin<br>
2013-07-09 17:39:26.170020 I TV: Attempting to change from None to
WatchingPreRecorded<br>
2013-07-09 17:39:26.172625 I
FileRingBuf(/Volumes/public/video/mythtv/2505_20130702020000.mpg):
OpenFile(/Volumes/public/video/mythtv/2505_20130702020000.mpg, 2000
ms)<br>
2013-07-09 17:39:26.224782 I TV: StartPlayer(0,
WatchingPreRecorded, main) -- begin<br>
2013-07-09 17:39:26.224800 I TV: Elapsed time since TV constructor
was called: 143 ms<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br>mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br>http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br></blockquote>I have a Mac Mini 3,1 running 10.7, and it worked first time for me, with some stuttering of 1080i video. I installed MythFrontend-v0.26.0-175-g7f71e02, and it just worked. I don't think I'll be using it as a frontend though, the stuttering drives me up the wall.<br><br>Gerald<br><br></div></body></html>