[mythtv-users] Record _seems_ to work but playback and watch tv definitely do not

[frank berisford]

Following the guide by Mr. Wilson at http://www.wilsonet.com/mythtv I
was able to get mythtv installed on my Fedora Core 4 box.  1200MHz AMD
Athlon, nForce2 motherboard, 768MB system memory, GeForce 3 with
S-Video out, Hauppauge PVR-150, 2x40GB Seagates, and Turtle Beach
Santa Cruz sound card.

Testing to see if everything works I followed some of the testing
methods in Wilson's guide.  The one that got me most excited was:

# cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/test_capture.mpg    which I let run for a bit
to make sure it had captured something.

then a playback using mplayer
# mplayer -vo xv /tmp/test_capture.mpg

Great!  Video and sound everything seems to be working well.  I go to
fire up my frontend after going through mythtv-setup.  I go
immediately to Watch TV.  The screen goes black for a couple of
seconds and then out comes "Unable to Initialize Video" in the
frontend.  Frontend log is as follows

2005-10-12 21:05:39.288 Broadcasting free space avail
2005-10-12 21:05:39.290 Read(): reqd=128000, rcvd=128000, rept=128000, error=0
2005-10-12 21:05:39.291 write->18 53      QUERY_RECORDER
1[]:[]REQUEST_BLOCK_RI...
2005-10-12 21:05:39.294 Broadcasting free space avail
2005-10-12 21:05:39.297 Broadcasting free space avail
2005-10-12 21:05:39.301 Broadcasting free space avail
2005-10-12 21:05:39.304 Killing AudioOutputDSP
2005-10-12 21:05:39.305 OutputAudioLoop: Stop Event
2005-10-12 21:05:39.306 kickoffOutputAudioLoop exiting
2005-10-12 21:05:39.306 write->17 33      QUERY_RECORDER 1[]:[]IS_RECORDING:
2005-10-12 21:05:39.313 write->17 33      QUERY_RECORDER 1[]:[]IS_RECORDING:
2005-10-12 21:05:39.320 write->17 34      QUERY_RECORDER 1[]:[]GET_FRAMERATE:
2005-10-12 21:05:39.327 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-10-12 21:05:39.328 Decoder not alive, and trying to play..
2005-10-12 21:05:39.328 write->17 32      QUERY_RECORDER 1[]:[]STOP_LIVETV:
2005-10-12 21:05:39.372 Changing from None to None
2005-10-12 21:05:39.491 Read(): reqd=128000, rcvd=0, rept=0, error=0
2005-10-12 21:05:39.494 write->18 33      QUERY_RECORDER 1[]:[]DONE_RINGBUF:
2005-10-12 21:05:40.275 write->12 38     
QUERY_IS_ACTIVE_BACKEND[]:[]MYTH-FR4NK:

I fired back up the frontend without any logging enabled and scheduled
a show to record just to play with the interface a bit.  It looks to
have recorded that show just fine but trying to play it back gives me
the same error as above.  I have a hunch it has something to do with
my GeForce TV-Out but I'm a bit too green to know exactly what.

This mailing list has been quite helpful in getting me this far, even
though this is my first submission.  Thanks, Frank