[mythtv-users] mythbackend in La-La land

[James Pifer]

It's possible, but in the past I would usually see errors from ivtv.
Right now I do not. My experience with the ivtv drivers has been that
when you have a problem, you either reboot or reset the card. In this
case I can just restart the backend and it's back to normal again. Plus,
I'm using the same drivers that I've been using for 2-3 months and it
was recording flawlessly until I upgraded Myth. 

I'm trying a 6 hour recording with mythbackend on full debug. I'll see
what happens. 

Thanks,
James

On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 12:24, Josh Burks wrote:
> Are you sure it's mythbackend causing your trouble? Might it be the 
> capture card driver?
> 
> I had similar problems about 2 months ago. When I would try to watch 
> LiveTV I would just get a black screen. I'd drop to a terminal 
> (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and I would see error messages pertaining to the capture 
> card driver (ivtv in my case) paging up the screen. It's hard to login 
> when your cursor keeps saying "ivtv: error, etc, etc,.....".
> 
> I upgraded the card driver and all was well.
> 
> Josh Burks
> 
> 
> 
> 
> James Pifer wrote:
> > I'm still having problems with mythbackend going into la-la land. I was
> > running CVS version from a few days before .15 release. I upgraded it to
> > the released .15 version to see if that would resolve the issue. 
> > 
> > It was supposed to record a show at 9 on one channel. Then a show at 10
> > on another, and lastly a third show at 11, also on another channel. 
> > 
> > It got through the first show, but crapped out half way through the
> > second show. If I try to go to mythweb the pages do not load completely.
> > Everything else on the machine seems fine, Samba, Webmin, SSH. Not sure
> > how to tell exactly, but it seems like the backend is not doing an
> > anything. 
> > 
> > There's nothing in messages to indicate a problem. mythbackend doesn't
> > really show much either, see below. If I restart mythbackend all seems
> > fine again. Any suggestions? Is there a debug mode that I should run
> > mythbackend in?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > James
> > 
> > [root at mythtv root]# 2004-06-01 08:58:45 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
> > Playback
> > 2004-06-01 08:58:45 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
> > 2004-06-01 08:58:45 Reloading backend settings
> > 2004-06-01 08:58:46 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> > 2004-06-01 08:58:46 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 1)
> > 2004-06-01 09:00:04 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> > 2004-06-01 09:00:04 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
> > 2004-06-01 09:00:09 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> > 2004-06-01 09:00:09 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
> > Input #0, mpeg, from
> > '/mythtv/recordings/1005_20040601085800_20040601100000.nuv':
> >   Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, 480x480, 29.97 fps
> >   Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 384 kb/s
> > 2004-06-01 09:00:10 MainServer::HandleAnnounce FileTransfer
> > 2004-06-01 09:00:10 adding: mythtv as a remote file transfer
> > 2004-06-01 09:00:19 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> > 2004-06-01 09:00:19 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
> > 2004-06-01 09:04:28 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write()
> > 2004-06-01 09:12:28 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> > 2004-06-01 09:12:28 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
> > 2004-06-01 10:00:02 Changing from RecordingOnly to None
> > 2004-06-01 10:00:06 Started recording "Dr. Phil" on channel: 1004 on
> > cardid: 1, sourceid 1
> > 2004-06-01 10:00:06 Changing from None to RecordingOnly
> > Input #0, mpeg, from
> > '/mythtv/recordings//1005_20040601085800_20040601100000.nuv':
> >   Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, 480x480, 29.97 fps
> >   Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 384 kb/s
> > 2004-06-01 10:00:08 Found changes in the todo list.
> > 2004-06-01 10:00:08 Scheduled 50 items in 0.267011 seconds.
> > 2004-06-01 10:06:09 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> > 2004-06-01 10:06:09 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
> > Input #0, mpeg, from
> > '/mythtv/recordings/1004_20040601100000_20040601110000.nuv':
> >   Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, 480x480, 29.97 fps
> >   Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 384 kb/s
> > 2004-06-01 10:06:10 MainServer::HandleAnnounce FileTransfer
> > 2004-06-01 10:06:10 adding: mythtv as a remote file transfer
> > 2004-06-01 10:21:14 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> > 2004-06-01 10:21:14 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
> > 2004-06-01 11:00:02 Changing from RecordingOnly to None
> > 2004-06-01 11:12:58 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> > 2004-06-01 11:12:58 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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