[mythtv-users] Remote encoder not responding...

[Magnus Sandin]

Hi everyone!

I have seen this topic in different forums etc. But it seems not to be a
solution for it, so I will try here.

The problem is that I have reinstalled my mythtv box and it is now
running Ubuntu 5.04 (used to run Fedora Core 1).
I have a PVR-350 card which includes a MPEG encoder.

I have tried the ivtv driver versions 0.3.2u and 0.3.3f with the same
result.

I can do cat /dev/video0 > whatever.mpg
I can then play the whatever.mpg without any problems, so it seems like
the ivtv driver works just fine.

The problem is that when switching to LiveTV, I get picture and sound
for about one second, then it just freezes, and after aprox 15 second I
will see the main menu in mythfrontend again.

Any ideas where I should start looking?

I'm running MythTV 0.17 as seen below in the outputs...

The output from the frontend:
2005-04-21 22:47:27.986 mythfrontend version: 0.17.20050130-1 www.mythtv.org
2005-04-21 22:47:27.987 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2005-04-21 22:47:28.385 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T.)
2005-04-21 22:47:29.087 Joystick disabled.
2005-04-21 22:47:29.139 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2005-04-21 22:47:29.602 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543
(try 1 of 5)
2005-04-21 22:47:29.608 Using protocol version 14
2005-04-21 22:47:42.255 Using protocol version 14
2005-04-21 22:47:42.412 Disable DPMS
2005-04-21 22:47:44.812 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2005-04-21 22:47:44.812 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2005-04-21 22:47:44.895 Using XV port 67
2005-04-21 22:47:45.361 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-04-21 22:47:45.374 Using realtime priority.
2005-04-21 22:47:45.395 Video timing method: RTC
2005-04-21 22:47:46.200 prebuffering pause
2005-04-21 22:48:05.367 ReadStringList timeout (quick).
Remote encoder not responding.
2005-04-21 22:48:05.455 WriteStringList: Bad socket
2005-04-21 22:48:05.456 ReadStringList: Bad socket
Remote encoder not responding.
2005-04-21 22:48:05.482 WriteStringList: Bad socket
2005-04-21 22:48:05.482 ReadStringList: Bad socket
Remote encoder not responding.
2005-04-21 22:48:05.507 WriteStringList: Bad socket
2005-04-21 22:48:05.507 ReadStringList: Bad socket
Remote encoder not responding.
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in ../../../../include/qt3/qvaluelist.h (372)
2005-04-21 22:48:05.540 WriteStringList: Bad socket
2005-04-21 22:48:05.540 ReadStringList: Bad socket
Remote encoder not responding.
2005-04-21 22:48:05.897 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
2005-04-21 22:48:05.933 Changing from None to None



And here is the log from the backend:

2005-04-21 22:47:29.613 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2005-04-21 22:47:29.613 adding: pvr as a client (events: 0)
2005-04-21 22:47:33.662 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2005-04-21 22:47:33.662 adding: pvr as a client (events: 1)
2005-04-21 22:47:42.260 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2005-04-21 22:47:42.260 adding: pvr as a client (events: 0)
2005-04-21 22:47:42.323 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2005-04-21 22:47:42.323 adding: pvr as a client (events: 0)
2005-04-21 22:47:42.329 adding: pvr as a remote ringbuffer
2005-04-21 22:47:42.345 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-04-21 22:47:45.366 joined null string in WriteStringList
2005-04-21 22:48:05.956 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None


What is going on?

I would appreciate some help here.

Regards
// Magnus Sandin

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