[mythtv] Problems with v4l LiveTV in current svn

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 00:29 -0400, Wendy Seltzer wrote:
> If I switch to "watch live tv" with a WinTV v4l card configured first,
> current svn gives the pop-up "You should have gotten a channel lock by
> now..."  even while the channel is playing fine.
This should be fixed in SVN now...

> It then fails to change to a different channel on the same card,
> giving first a blank screen, then "Error was encountered while
> displaying video," then a segfault.  
Ouch!
I can't figure out what is wrong from the backtrace, but
I'll do some extensive testing with my PVR card.

> If I hit "R" to start recording on the WinTV, it starts that
> recording, but instead of sending me back to watch the recording, it
> shows a channel from the atsc card. 
Hmmm, I'll have to test this...
I've only tested "R" in LiveTV with the HD-3000.
But I have a PVR in my other machine....

> The HD-3000 is working well, though.
:)

> Here's a bit of backend log -v siparser,channel,record
> 2005-09-29 00:15:11.622 TVRec(1): Starting Recorder
> 2005-09-29 00:15:11.640 TVRec(1): Using profile 'Live TV' to record
> 2005-09-29 00:15:11.650 Unknown video codec
> 2005-09-29 00:15:11.650 Please go into the TV Settings, Recording
> Profiles and
> 2005-09-29 00:15:11.651 setup the four 'Software Encoders' profiles.
> 2005-09-29 00:15:11.651 Assuming RTjpeg for now.
> 2005-09-29 00:15:11.651 NVR: Error, unknown audio codec
Is this the log for a PVR-x50 card or a frame grabber? Perhaps
this explains the segfault too...

> Hope this is helpful.  System was working very well with svn from a
> few days ago (so of course, I had to mess with it :)
> Let me know if you need other logs / tests.
We like testers that provide clear logs and 
simple test cases around here. :)

-- Daniel