[mythtv-users] Re: Crash watching LiveTV or Recording

Sun Dec 5 05:52:00 UTC 2004

I have no idea I am afraid.  As I stated, my problem was the nVidia
drivers and once I was using them again, everything seems to be fine.

Sorry I couldn't help, but do keep us posted if you get it fixed as it
may help others.

Dave

On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 08:42:42 -0700 (MST), Rich
<yahoo.rich at bladeracing.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> I just got the PVR-350 card.  Right now I am hung up on what appears
> 
> 
> to be a similar message from mythfrontend. Problem is that is where the
> similarity stops.  I am running a completely different setup than you are.
> 
> FC3, SMP, PVR-350, NVIDIA 5700, Myth (CVS)
> 
> I get no crashing or lockup, the display is "snow" from the S-Video TV out
> NVIDIA card.  Looking at the command line output from mythfrontend this is
> what I see.
> 
> 2004-12-04 01:05:21.938 Using XV port 293
> X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
>   Major opcode:  141
>   Minor opcode:  14
>   Resource id:  0x4b
> Couldn't get the color key color, and we need it.
> You likely won't get any video.
> 2004-12-04 01:05:22.189 Using realtime priority.
> 2004-12-04 01:05:22.208 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> 2004-12-04 01:05:22.291 Video timing method: RTC
> 
> Sorry I do not have any ideas.  However this may help to know how
> different of a setup I have and I am getting this type of message as well.
> 
> Rich
> 
> 
> 
> 
> mythfrontend -v all > log.file.txt 2>&1
> 
> 2004-12-04 01:39:51.848 Position map filled from Encoder to: 2
> 2004-12-04 01:39:51.848 SyncPositionMap liveTV, from Encoder: 3 entries
> 2004-12-04 01:39:51.848 detectInterlace(Ignore Scan, Interlaced Scan,
> 29.97, 480) ->Interlaced Scan
> 2004-12-04 01:39:51.848 Interlaced: Interlaced Scan  video_height: 480
> fps: -1
> Input #0, mpeg, from 'rbuf://127.0.0.1:6543/hdb1/video/ringbuf2.nuv':
>   Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, 480x480, 29.97 fps
>   Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 384 kb/s
> 2004-12-04 01:39:51.849 Partial position map found
> 2004-12-04 01:39:51.850 Commercial Detection initialized: width = 480,
> height = 480, fps = 29.97, method = 1
> 2004-12-04 01:39:51.853 Killing AudioOutputDSP
> 2004-12-04 01:39:51.853 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.
> 2004-12-04 01:39:51.854 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
> 2004-12-04 01:39:51.857 Audio fragment size: 4096
> 2004-12-04 01:39:51.858 Ending reconfigure
> 2004-12-04 01:39:51.858 kickoffOutputAudioLoop: pid = 4935
> 2004-12-04 01:39:51.865 Over/underscan. V: 0, H: 0, XOff: 0, YOff: 0
> 2004-12-04 01:39:51.871 Using XV port 293
> X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
>   Major opcode:  141
>   Minor opcode:  14
>   Resource id:  0x4b
> Couldn't get the color key color, and we need it.
> You likely won't get any video.
> 2004-12-04 01:39:51.884 Image size. dispxoff 0, dispyoff: 0, dispwoff:
> 799, disphoff: 600
> 2004-12-04 01:39:51.884 Image size. imgx 0, imgy: 0, imgw: 480, imgh: 480
> 2004-12-04 01:39:52.125 OutputAudioLoop: audio paused
> 2004-12-04 01:39:52.125 65536 bytes free on soundcard
> 2004-12-04 01:39:52.126 33      QUERY_RECORDER 2[]:[]IS_RECORDING
> 2004-12-04 01:39:52.126 Using realtime priority.
> 2004-12-04 01:39:52.127 _AddSamples bytes=4608, used=1, free=511999,
> timecode=328
> 2004-12-04 01:39:52.128 61908 bytes free on soundcard
> 2004-12-04 01:39:52.130 58196 bytes free on soundcard
> 2004-12-04 01:39:52.132 Read(): reqd=256000, rcvd=256000, rept=256000,
> error=0
> 2004-12-04 01:39:52.132 53      QUERY_RECORDER
> 2[]:[]REQUEST_BLOCK_RINGBUF[]:[]...
> 2004-12-04 01:39:52.132 54484 bytes free on soundcard
> 2004-12-04 01:39:52.133 33      QUERY_RECORDER 2[]:[]IS_RECORDING
> 
> > Hmmm....a little more searching has shown that this *could* be related
> > to the 'known bug' in CVS where Myth would lockup when pressing record
> > on live TV.
> >
> > Funnything is, I didn't press record, and it was working until a
> > couple of days ago.
> >
> > I a running FC2, AverMedia DVB-T and Myth 0.16.1 as per Jarods guide.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 20:15:34 +1000, David Whyte <david.whyte at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> I have been developing my Myth box for a while, but have been
> >> switching it off after use each day.  Last night I set the resolution
> >> of the my desktop to 1024x768 (or whatever) and tried to use Myth, but
> >> it crashed on watching live TV.  I put it down to an issue with the
> >> resolution.
> >>
> >> Tonight I tried on 800x600, which was working fine last week, but
> >> again I got the crash twice.  It causes a total lock up so I have to
> >> reset the box.
> >>
> >> Anyways I managed to start up the frontend in the terminal and capture
> >> the error message being dumped (typed out as I couldn't copy and paste
> >> due to the total lock up):
> >>
> >> >Using XV Port 54
> >> >X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter authority) 8
> >> >Major opcode 142
> >> >Minor opcode 14
> >> >Resource Id: 0x1b7
> >> >Couldn't get color ke color and we need it
> >>
> >> Searches of the Web and mailing list have been unfruitfil.  I have not
> >> changed anything that I can remember so I can't understand this
> >> problem.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Dave
> >> --
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> >>
> >
> >
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