[mythtv-users] LiveTV bails out after two seconds

[James Fryman]

This error looks like your tuner may not have the channels setup

 > 2005-07-29 16:41:00.897 Channel(/dev/v4l/video0): CheckChannel failed.
 > Please verify channel "3" in the "setup" Channel Editor.

Try populating the database with Channel Information.

WAF was low until I got my box up as well. It'll be worth it once you 
get it going.


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Leif B. Kristensen wrote:
> On Friday 29 July 2005 16:30, James Fryman wrote:
> 
>>It looks like you ran mythsetup as root, you'll need to rerun it as
>>your myth user. Setup your tuner settings for your input card. Also,
>>I would try setting it so that your video directory (I'm guessing
>>/var/video) has read/write access for your user. Give that a shot.
> 
> 
> Actually, I ran it with my ordinary account. But I started mythsetup 
> again, and in the Input connection I changed all the Video sources from 
> (None) to "cable", which is the name I have used for my .mythtv/xmltv 
> settings. After restarting the mythbackend, I still get the same black 
> screen with "1: composite 0".
> 
> 
>>Don't worry about the hair, I'm the president of Hair-Regrow, Inc as
>>well as a client! :)
> 
> 
> At the age of 52, my hair is still thick, albeit rather grey. However, 
> if I don't get MythTV up and running soon, my wife will probably start 
> tearing it out as I've raised rather high expectations about the super 
> multimedia box on which I've been spending quite a lot of money lately.
> 
> Here is the latest output from both ends:
> 
> leif at bellevue ~ $ mythbackend
> 2005-07-29 16:41:00.886 New DB connection, total: 1
> Starting up as the master server.
> 2005-07-29 16:41:00.893 New DB connection, total: 2
> 2005-07-29 16:41:00.897 Channel(/dev/v4l/video0): CheckChannel failed. 
> Please verify channel "3" in the "setup" Channel Editor.
> 2005-07-29 16:41:00.900 New DB scheduler connection
> 2005-07-29 16:41:00.904 mythbackend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 
> www.mythtv.org
> 2005-07-29 16:41:00.904 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
> 2005-07-29 16:41:02.904 Reschedule requested for id -1.
> 2005-07-29 16:41:02.913 Scheduled 0 items in 0.0 = 0.01 match + 0.00 
> place
> 2005-07-29 16:41:02.915 Seem to be woken up by USER
> 2005-07-29 16:41:10.905 New DB connection, total: 3
> 2005-07-29 16:41:28.377 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> 2005-07-29 16:41:28.377 adding: bellevue as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-07-29 16:41:28.395 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> 2005-07-29 16:41:28.395 adding: bellevue as a client (events: 1)
> 2005-07-29 16:41:28.407 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> 2005-07-29 16:41:28.407 adding: bellevue as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-07-29 16:41:28.425 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> 2005-07-29 16:41:28.425 adding: bellevue as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-07-29 16:41:28.433 adding: bellevue as a remote ringbuffer
> 2005-07-29 16:41:28.442 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> 2005-07-29 16:41:44.587 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
> 
> 
> leif at bellevue ~ $ mythfrontend
> 2005-07-29 16:41:23.065 New DB connection, total: 1
> Total desktop width=1280, height=1024, numscreens=1
> 2005-07-29 16:41:23.068 Using screen 0, 1280x1024 at 0,0
> 2005-07-29 16:41:23.070 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 
> www.mythtv.org
> 2005-07-29 16:41:23.070 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
> 2005-07-29 16:41:23.197 Switching to square mode (blue)
> 2005-07-29 16:41:23.640 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
> 2005-07-29 16:41:23.646 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media 
> handler
> 2005-07-29 16:41:23.646 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media 
> handler
> mythtv: could not connect to socket
> mythtv: Connection refused
> lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
> 2005-07-29 16:41:23.718 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media 
> handler
> 2005-07-29 16:41:28.335 New DB connection, total: 2
> 2005-07-29 16:41:28.363 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 
> (try 1 of 5)
> 2005-07-29 16:41:28.371 Using protocol version 15
> 2005-07-29 16:41:28.401 Using protocol version 15
> 2005-07-29 16:41:31.261 Opening audio device 'default'.
> 2005-07-29 16:41:31.276 Using XV port 69
> 2005-07-29 16:41:31.496 The realtime priority setting is not enabled.
> 2005-07-29 16:41:31.517 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> 2005-07-29 16:41:31.527 Video timing method: DRM
> 2005-07-29 16:41:44.653 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
> 2005-07-29 16:41:44.665 Changing from None to None
>