[mythtv] issues with current cvs mythtv mythmusic

[Ben de Luca]

On 26/10/2004, at 8:24 AM, Lincoln Dale wrote:

> At 08:48 PM 25/10/2004, Ben de Luca wrote:
>> 2. the front end will not start playing video reliably any more, Im 
>> just using the software video driver. 4/5 time the screen goes blank.
>
> i recently (last week) started using mythtv in earnest.  i too am in 
> australia and am using a DVB-T card (DVICO Fusion DVB-T .... thanks 
> Chris).
>
> a few traps for the unwary that i discovered that weren't particularly 
> well documented:
>  1. ensure that you ALWAYS have a "playback filter" on every channel.
>     i assumed that filters were optional - but without them, there 
> ain't no video.
>     (the error message said something about bad PIDS ...)

There was a update to cvs a few days ago that fixed a problem with file 
handles staying open, this gave an error message about being unable to 
open playback filter.  This is not the problem I am seeing

I think what I am seeing is related to the updates to the audio 
systems.   curtis stanford seems to be having similiar problems so I am 
going to try his suggestion and will see how it goes.





>  2. ensure that you don't have the AC3 audio stream defined in the 
> Audio PID.
>    it may sort-of-work sometimes (i presume on channels that didn't 
> have AC3
>    defined or weren't broadcasting an AC3 stream at the time), but 
> this was
>    causing SEGVs in mythbackend.
>    (i have lots of gdb backtraces on this -- i just put it down to 
> MythTV not being
>    AC3 compatible ... is it meant to be?)
>
>
> cheers,
>
> lincoln.
>
>
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