[mythtv-users] cannot watch livetv

DG dang at fastmail.fm
Thu Jun 29 00:42:27 UTC 2006


applicable section of mythfrontend log:
2006-06-28 20:18:03.267 DPMS Reactivated.
2006-06-28 20:18:03.314 TV: Attempting to change from None to
WatchingLiveTV
2006-06-28 20:18:03.315 Using protocol version 30
2006-06-28 20:18:04.294 DPMS Deactivated
2006-06-28 20:18:04.385 AFD: Opened codec 0x9020a20, id(MPEG2VIDEO)
type(Video)
2006-06-28 20:18:04.386 AFD: Opened codec 0xa8eeaa0, id(MP2) type(Audio)
2006-06-28 20:18:04.389 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2006-06-28 20:18:04.430 VideoOutputXv: XvMCTex: Init failed
2006-06-28 20:18:04.430 VideoOutputXv: XVideo Adaptor Name: 'ATI Radeon
Video Overlay'
2006-06-28 20:18:04.946 TV: Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2006-06-28 20:18:04.947 Using realtime priority.
2006-06-28 20:18:04.950 New DB connection, total: 3
2006-06-28 20:18:04.956 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2006-06-28 20:18:04.983 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait
2006-06-28 20:18:04.990 TV: Attempting to change from WatchingLiveTV to
None
2006-06-28 20:18:05.203 TV: Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None

applicable section of mythbackend log:
2006-06-28 20:18:03.315 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2006-06-28 20:18:03.320 adding: mediacenter as a client (events: 0)
2006-06-28 20:18:03.325 TVRec(2): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2006-06-28 20:18:03.327 TVRec(2): HW Tuner: 2->2
2006-06-28 20:18:05.049 TVRec(2): Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
2006-06-28 20:18:05.085 Finished recording Unknown: channel 1003

this just repeats a bunch when i select 'livetv'

I have ATI xpress 200M onboard video.  ATI doesn't support MPEG2
hardware offload under linux, right?  Is that whole 'XvMCTex failed'
thing my problem?  How do I disable XvMC?


On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:35:55 -0400, "George Nychis" <gnychis at cmu.edu>
said:
> Can you run "mythtv" from a console and paste the output it gives you?
> 
> I think I have a similar problem to you
> 
> Dan G wrote:
> > I'm running a fully update Ubuntu Dapper install with IVTV 0.4.6 and  
> > mythtv SVN from late last week.  Two hauppauge 150 tuners were  
> > working fine.
> > 
> > I can successfully schedule, record tv, and watch recordings, but I  
> > cannot watch live tv.  When I select 'livetv', the screen just  
> > flashes from tuner to menu and back about once every second.  While  
> > it is doing this, the frontent becomes unresponsive and just records  
> > a series of livetv mpgs, 1 meg each, to disk until it eventually just  
> > gives up and dumps me back to the menu.
> > 
> > I don't think its a permission issue, since it is writing  
> > successfully to the directory.  And it was working up until the most  
> > recent Ubuntu kernel update, with IVTV 0.4.4 and mythtv 0.19.1, but  
> > the new kernel appears to have broken it.  I moved up to the new IVTV  
> > and mythtv SVN, but that didn't fix it.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Thanks ,
> > -Dan
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