[mythtv-users] DVB Playback Problems

[Ben Stanley]

Hi,

I have mythtv-0.15.1 running on FC2. I can watch DVB fine with xine.
Mythtv can record at the backend. I can preview recorded programs in the
little preview window in the recorded programs page. However, when I try
to watch live tv, or try to watch a recording, I get sound OK, but the
screen is black.

When I run 
mythfrontend --verbose playback
I get lots of messages (see end), but nothing very enlightening.

Any ideas on things to try or places to investigate would be
appreciated. I already trawled the mailing lists and my problem seems to
be unique.

I also have a question about configuring sound. It wants to use OSS, but
I have compiled it with alsa support and would rather use that. Where
can I configure that?

Thanks in advance for any help,
Ben.

Full output:

[ben at dragon ben]$ mythfrontend --verbose playback
2004-08-25 22:17:51 mythfrontend version: 0.15.20040525-1 www.mythtv.org
2004-08-25 22:17:51 Enabled verbose msgs : important general playback
mythtv: could not connect to socket
mythtv: No such file or directory
lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
2004-08-25 22:17:54 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2004-08-25 22:17:54 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media
handler
2004-08-25 22:17:54 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media
handler
2004-08-25 22:17:56 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media
handler
2004-08-25 22:18:08 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.2:6543 (try
1 of 5)
2004-08-25 22:18:08 Using protocol version 8
2004-08-25 22:18:08 Using protocol version 8
2004-08-25 22:18:10 Changing from None to None
2004-08-25 22:18:12 All Programs
2004-08-25 22:18:18 Interlaced: -1  video_height: 576  fps: 25
2004-08-25 22:18:18 Estimated bitrate = 256000
Input #0, mpeg, from
'/home/video/1000_20040825221300_20040825222500.nuv':
  Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, 720x576, 25.00 fps
  Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 256 kb/s
2004-08-25 22:18:18 Image size. dispxoff 0, dispyoff: 0, dispwoff: 0,
disphoff: 0
2004-08-25 22:18:18 Image size. imgx 0, imgy: 0, imgw: 720, imgh: 576
2004-08-25 22:18:18 waiting for prebuffer...
2004-08-25 22:18:18 prebuffer wait timed out..
2004-08-25 22:18:18 waiting for prebuffer...
'video_output' mean = '41416.11', std. dev. = '11453.41', fps = '24.15'
0
2004-08-25 22:18:25 Interlaced: -1  video_height: 576  fps: 25
2004-08-25 22:18:25 Estimated bitrate = 256000
Input #0, mpeg, from
'/home/video/1020_20040825145300_20040825150000.nuv':
  Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, 720x576, 25.00 fps
  Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 256 kb/s
2004-08-25 22:18:25 Image size. dispxoff 0, dispyoff: 0, dispwoff: 0,
disphoff: 0
2004-08-25 22:18:25 Image size. imgx 0, imgy: 0, imgw: 720, imgh: 576
2004-08-25 22:18:25 waiting for prebuffer...
2004-08-25 22:18:26 prebuffer wait timed out..
2004-08-25 22:18:26 waiting for prebuffer...
'video_output' mean = '40250.88', std. dev. = '16371.98', fps = '24.84'
0
2004-08-25 22:18:31 Output filters for this recording are:
'linearblend,'
2004-08-25 22:18:31 Interlaced: -1  video_height: 576  fps: 25
2004-08-25 22:18:31 Estimated bitrate = 256000
2004-08-25 22:18:31 Interlaced: -1  video_height: 576  fps: -1
Input #0, mpeg, from
'/home/video/1020_20040825145300_20040825150000.nuv':
  Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, 720x576, 25.00 fps
  Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 256 kb/s
2004-08-25 22:18:31 Position map found
2004-08-25 22:18:31 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2004-08-25 22:18:31 Audio fragment size: 4096
2004-08-25 22:18:31 Over/underscan. V: 0, H: 0, XOff: 0, YOff: 0
2004-08-25 22:18:31 Using XV port 69
2004-08-25 22:18:31 Image size. dispxoff 0, dispyoff: 149, dispwoff:
1280, disphoff: 726
2004-08-25 22:18:31 Image size. imgx 0, imgy: 0, imgw: 720, imgh: 576
2004-08-25 22:18:32 Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded
2004-08-25 22:18:32 waiting for prebuffer...
2004-08-25 22:18:32 prebuffer wait timed out..
2004-08-25 22:18:32 waiting for prebuffer...
2004-08-25 22:18:33 Delaying to next trigger: 163519547
'video_output' mean = '41190.37', std. dev. = '69378.27', fps = '24.28'
-121
'video_output' mean = '39899.43', std. dev. = '65898.56', fps = '25.06'
-110
'video_output' mean = '40021.19', std. dev. = '69990.07', fps = '24.99'
-86
'video_output' mean = '40388.36', std. dev. = '65140.77', fps = '24.76'
-108
'video_output' mean = '43626.65', std. dev. = '70342.31', fps = '22.92'
-513
'video_output' mean = '36008.81', std. dev. = '57287.23', fps = '27.77'
-91
'video_output' mean = '39875.74', std. dev. = '62248.21', fps = '25.08'
-80
'video_output' mean = '40664.74', std. dev. = '72377.07', fps = '24.59'
-90
'video_output' mean = '40133.11', std. dev. = '65065.87', fps = '24.92'
-79
'video_output' mean = '39137.70', std. dev. = '70642.15', fps = '25.55'
-106
'video_output' mean = '40530.05', std. dev. = '66431.34', fps = '24.67'
-151
'video_output' mean = '40239.97', std. dev. = '68688.89', fps = '24.85'
-82
'video_output' mean = '39488.61', std. dev. = '67258.17', fps = '25.32'
-137
'video_output' mean = '40297.51', std. dev. = '72190.71', fps = '24.82'
-167
'video_output' mean = '40336.44', std. dev. = '65412.78', fps = '24.79'
-199
'video_output' mean = '41341.81', std. dev. = '71015.15', fps = '24.19'
-324
'video_output' mean = '39687.75', std. dev. = '66292.24', fps = '25.20'
-307
'video_output' mean = '41486.97', std. dev. = '69574.03', fps = '24.10'
-449
'video_output' mean = '36322.00', std. dev. = '58253.63', fps = '27.53'
-82
'video_output' mean = '40430.99', std. dev. = '66911.20', fps = '24.73'
-147
'video_output' mean = '39667.19', std. dev. = '58723.79', fps = '25.21'
-85
2004-08-25 22:19:58 Changing from WatchingPreRecorded to None
2004-08-25 22:19:58 Changing from None to None
2004-08-25 22:19:59 Interlaced: -1  video_height: 576  fps: 25
2004-08-25 22:19:59 Estimated bitrate = 256000