[mythtv-users] Close to functional, few problems

[James Pifer]

OK, so you have the pvr350's tv-out connected to your TV and see the
> myth-gui, correct?
Yes.

If I run mythbackend as a service and try to watch TV I get the following error scrolling across the screen:
QSocketDevice::writeBlock: Invalid socket
2003-12-11 16:08:07 Error writing stringlist
Remote encoder not responding.
> 
> What exactly are the rights set to? I run mythbackend from /etc/init.d
> and have:
> 
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         127M Dec 11 19:18 ringbuf1.nuv
> 
> So readable by anyone which probably is what frontend needs.
> That's debian, I don't know what's the default umask for redhat, you can
> change it in /etc/fstab for every partition you mount, assuming you
> mount your mythtv dir on a separate partition.
> 
> /dev/hda2       /hda2           ext3    defaults        0       1
I do have a separate partition for mythtv called /mythtv. Still trying
to figure out the fstab part. Maybe redhat is slightly different because
your settings didn't work. I store TV stuff under /mythtv/tv. The mythtv
user has full ownership of that directory. 

When I start mythbackend as a service it looks like yours, with root
being owner and group, but mythfrontend can't connect to it. If I kill
it and start it with the mythtv user, then it does connect. I'll keep
playing with fstab.

> 
> is my line in /etc/fstab. If redhats default umask is different you
> might want to change 'default' to umask=066
> 
> (see 'man mount' and 'man fstab') 
> 
> You aren't running the video through the pvr's decoder, instead myth
> tries to display it on the framebuffer, which is WAY to slow.
> 
> Go to Settings/TV-Settings and tick the "Use PVR350 hardware decoder"
> checkbox. (Don't know the exact naming ATM, but you shouldn't have
> problems finding it, make sure the output device is set to your
> decoder's device, usually /dev/video16) 
You were right it wasn't checked, BUT, it didn't help. I still get the
same error. I even went so far as to drop the whole database and go
through mythtvsetup again. Still does the same thing. 

Thanks,
James