[mythtv-users] Prebuffer pause that never recovers

James Emmrich jemmrich at lwp.ca
Sat Mar 5 07:50:44 UTC 2005


Hi everyone, its me again...

Well now that i have my sound going, the next big task is to actually be 
able to watch livetv in myth.

whats happening is that as soon as i click on Watch Live Tv, i shows me 
about 1 second or so of video and sound, then completely pauses.

I alt-tab to the terminal, and it shows the following:

$ mythfrontend
2005-03-05 02:44:37.104 mythfrontend version: 0.17.20050130-1 www.mythtv.org
2005-03-05 02:44:37.105 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2005-03-05 02:44:38.275 Switching to square mode (MythCenter)
2005-03-05 02:44:38.848 Joystick disabled.
2005-03-05 02:44:38.947 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2005-03-05 02:44:39.036 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media 
handler2005-03-05 02:44:39.037 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as 
a media handler2005-03-05 02:44:39.818 Registering MythMusic Media 
Handler as a media handler
SIP listening on IP Address 192.168.1.30:5060 NAT address 192.168.1.30
SIP: Cannot register; proxy, username or password not set
2005-03-05 02:44:45.203 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 
(try 1 of 5)
2005-03-05 02:44:45.209 Using protocol version 14
2005-03-05 02:44:45.285 Using protocol version 14
2005-03-05 02:44:47.678 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2005-03-05 02:44:47.679 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2005-03-05 02:44:47.760 Using XV port 69
2005-03-05 02:44:48.703 Realtime priority would require SUID as root.
2005-03-05 02:44:48.720 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-03-05 02:44:48.992 Video timing method: DRM
2005-03-05 02:44:49.780 prebuffering pause
2005-03-05 02:45:08.723 ReadStringList timeout (quick).
Remote encoder not responding.
2005-03-05 02:45:08.724 WriteStringList: Bad socket
2005-03-05 02:45:08.724 ReadStringList: Bad socket
Remote encoder not responding.
2005-03-05 02:45:08.725 WriteStringList: Bad socket
2005-03-05 02:45:08.735 ReadStringList: Bad socket
Remote encoder not responding.
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (372)
2005-03-05 02:45:08.737 WriteStringList: Bad socket
2005-03-05 02:45:08.737 ReadStringList: Bad socket
Remote encoder not responding.
2005-03-05 02:45:08.756 WriteStringList: Bad socket
2005-03-05 02:45:08.757 ReadStringList: Bad socket
Remote encoder not responding.
2005-03-05 02:45:08.970 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
2005-03-05 02:45:08.981 Changing from None to None

As you can see, i go from "Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV" to 1 or 
2 seconds of video and sound, then "prebuffering pause"m there is a wait 
then it boots me back to the main menu like nothings the matter.

I have a P4 2ghz, with 256 meg ram, ati radeon 7000 vid card
Maybe there is a way to turn this prebuffer thing off? because mplayer 
plays it fine (cept i cant ((i think)) change channels in mplayer)

Thanks for allll your help, ive been at this for days!

James



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