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

Fri Apr 22 19:14:06 UTC 2005

The problem with the colors have been resolved...

It was the Hue Setting that had somehow been screwed up...

// Magnus

*Magnus Sandin
*Cache miss - please take better aim next time

Magnus Sandin wrote:

>It seems like that trick doesn't work for me...
>
>However, it is possible to watch old recordings, as well as record new
>programs.
>After I have recorded a program, LiveTV works until I reboot, then it
>does not work until I record a program again.
>
>Another problem that arise is that I changed video cards and now I get
>inverted colors on my ATI Radeon card when displaying video with XV
>output. Since I can dual boot FC1 and Ubuntu I first noticed it in FC1
>but Ubuntu worked fine with mplayer etc. However, after I successfully
>recorded a program and then switched to LiveTV, everything worked, but
>the next time I watched LiveTV the colors where inverted, and even after
>reboot the colors are inverted....??? Does anyone else seen this problem?
>
>// Magnus
>
>
>*Magnus Sandin
>*Cache miss - please take better aim next time
>
>
>Andrew Bassett wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I had this problem on both Fedora Core and Ubuntu.
>>
>>My solution on Fedora was a dirty hack, but it works :)
>>
>>I found this mailing list post about rc.local and debian:
>>http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/06/msg00215.html
>>
>>add the commands below at the very bottom of the file you create from
>>the above mailing list post :
>>
>>/etc/init.d/mythbackend start
>>sleep 3
>>/etc/init.d/mythbackend stop
>>/etc/init.d/mythbackend start 
>>
>>For what it's worth, I am running ivtv-0.3.2t. I was having major
>>problems with the 0.3.3 branch (don't know why, probably was something I
>>was doing).
>>
>>HTH,
>>
>>Andrew
>>
>>
>>
>>On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 07:20 +0200, Magnus Sandin wrote:
>> 
>>
>>    
>>
>>>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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