[mythtv-users] Playback problem with epia M 1000

myth at redshots.com myth at redshots.com
Wed Sep 15 16:35:44 EDT 2004


[ I posted this earlier bit it did not seem to send, sorry if I have double
posted ]

I have tried posting to the mini myth board but it seems quite quite there and I
have had no reply so I am helping someone here will be able to help.

I have been setting up mini myth on my epia M10000 and have got most things
working apart from the recording playback. This appears as a small rectangle on
the left of the screen, the height is correct but the width only shows a small
section of the recording. The picture within this section looks good but it is
only about 20% of the screen. The picture is chopped rather than compressed.
sound is perfect while is playing. Sometimes there is also a vertical green
line about 5mm wide on the right hand edge of the small rectangle.

I have the PAL setting for the mini-myth setup. The original recording was made
on the backend using PVR-250. This recording is fine as it plays ok on the
backend machine.

The log files show that it is using hardware decoding.

QSettings: error creating /root/.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
Input #0, mpeg, from 'myth://172.16.0.10:6543/3_20040910202900_20040910223000.nu
v':
  Stream #0.0: Video: mpegvideo_via, 480x576, 25.00 fps
  Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 384 kb/s
2004-09-13 19:31:18 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2004-09-13 19:31:18 Audio fragment size: 4096
Using VIA CLE266 Hardware Decoding
2004-09-13 19:31:19 Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded
2004-09-13 19:31:37 Changing from WatchingPreRecorded to None
2004-09-13 19:31:37 Changing from None to None

I have tried recording as a different resolution but this has the same playback
rectangle:

QSettings: error creating /root/.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
ERROR: couldn't find recorder for in-progress recording
Input #0, mpeg, from 'myth://172.16.0.10:6543/1_20040913193500_20040913193600.nu
v':
  Stream #0.0: Video: mpegvideo_via, 720x576, 25.00 fps
  Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 384 kb/s
2004-09-13 19:36:15 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2004-09-13 19:36:15 Audio fragment size: 4096
Using VIA CLE266 Hardware Decoding
2004-09-13 19:36:17 Changing from None to WatchingRecording

This is the top output while the recording is playing:

Mem: 108952K used, 115016K free, 0K shrd, 16048K buff, 49888K cached
Load average: 0.12, 0.04, 0.01    (State: S=sleeping R=running, W=waiting)

  PID USER     STATUS   RSS  PPID %CPU %MEM COMMAND
  226 root     S        27M   224  0.9 12.3 mythfrontend
  227 root     S        27M   224  0.7 12.3 mythfrontend
  220 root     S        27M   213  0.0 12.3 mythfrontend
  225 root     S        27M   224  0.0 12.3 mythfrontend
  224 root     S        27M   220  0.0 12.3 mythfrontend
  228 root     S        27M   224  0.0 12.3 mythfrontend
  229 root     S        27M   224  0.0 12.3 mythfrontend
  151 root     S <      20M   144  0.0  9.2 X
  216 root     S       2792     1  0.0  1.2 x11vnc
  218 root     S       1308   213  0.0  0.5 fvwm2
  126 root     S       1016     1  0.0  0.4 /usr/sbin/webfsd
   13 root     S        848     1  0.0  0.3 /sbin/devfsd
  223 root     R        744   222  0.0  0.3 top
  144 root     S        612     1  0.0  0.2 xinit
   26 1        S   S        588     1  0.0  0.2 /sbin/portmap
    8 root     S        564     1  0.0  0.2 init
  222 root     S        560   121  0.0  0.2 /bin/sh
  145 root     S        552     8  0.0  0.2 -sh
  146 root     S        552     8  0.0  0.2 -sh
  147 root     S        552     8  0.0  0.2 -sh

Can anyone help ? I not sure what other information would be useful but I can
post more information if required.

Thanks

Paul Chandler





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