[mythtv-users] TV lasts 1 second then dies

[James Colannino]

Hey everyone.  I've been googling around trying to find a solution to 
this, but haven't found one yet :(  I did find one thread where someone 
had the same problem 
(http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=30704&) but nobody found a 
solution.  Basically, I can view TV for about half a second or so, 
afterwhich the image freezes, mythfrontend doesn't respond for about 
10-20 seconds, and finally I'm dropped back to the Watch TV menu entry.  
I ran mythfrontend in a console and got the following errors:

2005-08-06 11:53:12.251 New DB connection, total: 1
Total desktop width=1280, height=1024, numscreens=1
2005-08-06 11:53:12.256 Using screen 0, 1280x1024 at 0,0
2005-08-06 11:53:12.258 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 
www.mythtv.org
2005-08-06 11:53:12.259 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2005-08-06 11:53:12.554 Switching to square mode (abstract)
2005-08-06 11:53:13.006 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2005-08-06 11:53:14.455 New DB connection, total: 2
2005-08-06 11:53:14.470 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 
(try 1 of 5)
2005-08-06 11:53:14.478 Using protocol version 15
2005-08-06 11:53:14.513 Using protocol version 15
2005-08-06 11:53:16.925 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2005-08-06 11:53:16.925 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2005-08-06 11:53:16.936 Using XV port 145
2005-08-06 11:53:17.065 The realtime priority setting is not enabled.
2005-08-06 11:53:17.086 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-08-06 11:53:17.469 Video timing method: SGI OpenGL
2005-08-06 11:53:18.043 prebuffering pause
2005-08-06 11:53:37.092 ReadStringList timeout (quick).
2005-08-06 11:53:37.093 WriteStringList: Bad socket
2005-08-06 11:53:37.093 ReadStringList: Bad socket
Remote encoder not responding.
2005-08-06 11:53:37.093 WriteStringList: Bad socket
2005-08-06 11:53:37.093 ReadStringList: Bad socket
Remote encoder not responding.
2005-08-06 11:53:37.097 WriteStringList: Bad socket
2005-08-06 11:53:37.098 ReadStringList: Bad socket
Remote encoder not responding.
2005-08-06 11:53:37.176 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
2005-08-06 11:53:37.179 Changing from None to None

It's really frustrating me :(  Here's the output of the backend log:

Starting up as the master server.
Error getting inputs for the capturecard.  Perhaps you have
forgotten to bind video sources to your card's inputs?
us-bcast is defined, but isn't attached to a cardinput.
Starting up as the master server.
Error getting inputs for the capturecard.  Perhaps you have
forgotten to bind video sources to your card's inputs?
us-bcast is defined, but isn't attached to a cardinput.
Starting up as the master server.
Error getting inputs for the capturecard.  Perhaps you have
forgotten to bind video sources to your card's inputs?
us-bcast is defined, but isn't attached to a cardinput.
Starting up as the master server.
Error getting inputs for the capturecard.  Perhaps you have
forgotten to bind video sources to your card's inputs?
us-bcast is defined, but isn't attached to a cardinput.

It says that us-bcast (the name of my video source) isn't attached to 
the input on the card, but it is (I attached it to Tuner 0).  Does 
anyone have any ideas?  Has anyone else had a similiar problem, and even 
better, has anyone solved it?  Thanks very much everyone :)

James
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