[mythtv-users] Waited too long for decoder to pause

[Torsten Schenkel]

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 14:08, Adam Wood wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Sorry for the cryptic subject but that's the error message my
> mythfrontend console keeps throwing up. It just keeps repeating till I
> kill the process. I've searched the archives and others have had the
> same message but no posts about how to fix it. Any one got any ideas?
> I'm running an EPIA-M with Gentoo, and myth 0.12 was compiled with
> support for the via decoder. I can do the ivtv test and cat /dev/video0 

Are you sure you have the Via decoder working? The VIA Binary won't load
on gentoo to my knowledge, and if it loads it grabs video0 to video2,
the ivtv gets video3 in that case. So you probably don't have the via
decoder modules loaded properly.

> to a file which plays fine in mplayer. But when I try to watch live tv
> in myth all I get is a black screen, occaisonaly some (3) thin red bars,
> and everything locks up till I kill myth. I'm going nuts trying to
> figure this out, please help me.Send the output of 'dmesg'

Torsten