[mythtv] no picture, no sound ... ?
Isaac Richards
mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Sat, 12 Oct 2002 18:45:24 -0400
On Saturday 12 October 2002 06:13 pm, Dr. J. S. Pezaris wrote:
> I tracked the problem down to the "while (!foundit)" loop in
> NuppelVideoPlayer::OpenFile. It never finds the right frame. The info on
> the first few frames looks like:
>
> From then on, we get a mixture of V-1 and V-2 frames interspersed with
> periodic R-T, S-V, S-A frame sequences. The R-T timecodes and packet
> lengths are always the same large number, the S-V time codes increase (but
> at a slower rate than the V-1/V-2 timecodes) but always have 0 packet
> lengths, and the S-A time codes and packet lengths are always 0.
>
> So, Isaac, you were absolutely correct: the player is hanging. Does the
> information above give any indication for what's going on, or where to
> look?
Do you see any frames with a frametype of 'A'? Hm. You wouldn't happen to
have arts or esd or something else hogging the /dev/dsp device, would you?
Isaac