[mythtv-users] HDTV & The WB

Jack R Hyde jr at jrh.net
Mon Feb 23 02:38:11 EST 2004


I finally had an entire night record with mythtv and my pchdtv with out 
crashing, fux0rd sound, or anything else. I was very happy to say the 
least, it looks absolutely stunning with the show recorded in hdtv. 
Thanks to the developers, especially those grinding away on the hdtv side.

The  one big problem that i can't solve that i have left is that i can't 
record the WB here south of LA. That's channel 31 digital, 5 normal. I 
can tune to the station with dtvsignal and play it using mplayer or xine 
perfectly fine, but mythtv will not play it live or even record it. I am 
almost always running the absolute latest version of cvs, I have only 
tried kernel 2.6.0 and better, using the driver on the forums at pchdtv. 
So far i have had the best luck running 2.6.3 with driver revision g of 
Ulmo's work. I also try every one of Daniels patches, they help with 
some of the low signal strength stations, but the WB is one of the best 
recieving stations i have, and the only one myth won't work with. 
Anybody have any suggestions of things to look at or try? The WB is the 
one station I most want to record. Below is the output from the front 
and backend that i get (from a week or two ago, but the problem is the 
same in current cvs with out without Daniel's patches).

It usually doesn't crash, i can Esc out most of the time. Would a 
backtrace of either the front or back or both help?


frontend:
2004-02-10 11:42:28 mythfrontend version: 0.15.20040206-1 www.mythtv.org
2004-02-10 11:42:28 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2004-02-10 11:42:28 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2004-02-10 11:42:28 Registering MythDVD Media Handler as a media handler
2004-02-10 11:42:28 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media handler
2004-02-10 11:42:30 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 
of 5)
2004-02-10 11:42:30 Using protocol version 3
2004-02-10 11:42:30 Using protocol version 3
2004-02-10 11:42:30 Using protocol version 3
taking too long to be allowed to read..
taking too long to be allowed to read..
taking too long to be allowed to read..
Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
Waited 14 seconds for data to become available, aborting
Couldn't read file: rbuf://127.0.0.1:6543/mnt/store//ringbuf1.nuv
2004-02-10 11:43:02 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV

and the backend:
Starting up as the master server.
2004-02-10 11:42:26 Maximum signal strength detected: 70% after 1500 
msec wait
2004-02-10 11:42:26 mythbackend version: 0.15.20040206-1 www.mythtv.org
2004-02-10 11:42:26 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2004-02-10 11:42:28 Found changes in the todo list.
2004-02-10 11:42:30 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-02-10 11:42:30 adding: myth64 as a client (events: 0)
2004-02-10 11:42:30 Getting next free recorder : -1
2004-02-10 11:42:30 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-02-10 11:42:30 adding: myth64 as a client (events: 1)
2004-02-10 11:42:30 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-02-10 11:42:30 adding: myth64 as a client (events: 0)
2004-02-10 11:42:30 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-02-10 11:42:30 adding: myth64 as a client (events: 0)
2004-02-10 11:42:30 adding: myth64 as a remote ringbuffer
2004-02-10 11:42:30 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2004-02-10 11:42:30 Maximum signal strength detected: 85% after 0 msec wait
chanid: 31
Couldn't read data from the capture card in 15 seconds.  Game over, man.




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