[mythtv] HD3000 issues?

[Steve Adeff]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 18:57, Robert LeBlanc wrote:
> Ok,
>
>  I'm not exactly sure if this is a dev problem, but here goes. I
> downloaded the latest SVN and compiled it in my old environment (same
> machine, 32-bit PVR-500) and it works great. I decided that I would try
> to go to 64-bits again (same machine) and finally try to get the HD3000
> card that's been sitting on my shelf for 6 months to work. So I get
> everything compiled just fine in 64-bits, grab the newest kernel
> 2.6.15.1 because the HD3000 drivers are in the source. I can tune and
> watch about half a dozen channels just fine using QAM. So I spent the
> last two days working to get Myth functioning. Where I am at now is
> mythtv-setup can scan the channels, it locks onto them and add them, but
> when I go to view the channel, the front end spits out tons of:
>
>
>
> 2006-01-18 16:37:56.280 RingBuf(/mythtv//1864_20060118163747.mpg) Error:
> Invalid file descriptor in 'safe_read()'
>
>
>
> And so I check the files with mplayer and nothing, just a black screen.
> The backend shows:
>
>
>
> 2006-01-18 16:46:41.279 adding: picard as a client (events: 0)
>
> 2006-01-18 16:46:41.289 TVRec(1): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
>
> 2006-01-18 16:46:42.563 DVB#0 DVB SI Table Parser Started
>
> 2006-01-18 16:46:42.718 Finished recording Unknown: channel 1864
>
> 2006-01-18 16:46:42.750 Finished recording Unknown: channel 1864
>
> 0: start_time: 5859.060 duration: -9223372036854.775
>
> stream: start_time: 65100.668 duration: -9223372036854.775 bitrate=0
> kb/s
>
> 2006-01-18 16:46:46.052 AFD: Opened codec 0x2aaab1b034e0, id(MPEG2VIDEO)
> type(Video)
>
> 2006-01-18 16:46:46.052 NVP: Disabling Audio, params(-1,-1,-1)
>
> 2006-01-18 16:46:46.052 AFD: Initializing audio parms from audio track
> #0
>
> 2006-01-18 16:46:46.053 AFD: Audio format changed
>
>                         from id(NONE)    -1Hz -1ch   0bps    ; id(NONE)
> -1Hz -1ch   0bps
>
>                         to   id(NONE)    -1Hz -1ch   0bps    ; id(NONE)
> -1Hz -1ch   0bps
>
> 2006-01-18 16:46:46.053 NVP: Disabling Audio, params(0,-1,-1)
>
> 2006-01-18 16:47:13.910 TVRec(1): Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
>
> 2006-01-18 16:47:14.117 Finished recording Unknown: channel 1864
>
> 2006-01-18 16:47:41.755 Running HouseKeeping
>
>
>
> Not sure where to go from here. Any ideas? By the way, I haven't even
> messed with the PVR-500. I want to get the HD3000 squared away first
> before messing with ivtv drivers.
>
>
>
> System - Dual Xeon Hyper Threaded 2.8Gz, HD3000, Nvidia GeForce 6600,
> Debian sarge amd64 vanilla 2.6.15.1 kernel. SVN 8644.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert

are you sure the information for the channels in the db are correct? I know 
for my HD3000 QAM setup mythtv cannot currently properly add the channels and 
it must be done by hand.

I ask because I've only ever run my HD3000 in Debian64.

-- 
Steve