[mythtv-users] Input stops working in HD LiveTV

Allen Edwards allen.edwards at oldpaloalto.com
Tue Aug 19 04:11:15 UTC 2008


On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Jason Gillis <spuppet at comcast.net> wrote:
> So, I've got an interesting problem when watching HD livetv in mythtv on my
> appletv (mythbuntu-hardy).
>
> Basically, when I watch LiveTV in myth, input stops working when the program
> is an HD program (720p or 1080i).  Keyboard commands and remote (MCE USB)
> buttons via lirc don't seem to do anything.  The only thing that responds is
> the ESC/exit button to get me out of livetv, but I have to hit that twice
> for it to work.  If I hit 'y' early enough in the beginning of the watch
> LiveTV process, I can switch to a tuner that's not HD and everything works
> fine.
>
> I've verified that both the keyboard and remote work in other parts of
> myth.  I can watch a recorded HD program fine and input functions fine
> there.  Watching a HD recording while recording is in progress works fine,
> too (keyboard or remote).  It's just livetv and HD that seems to be a bad
> combo.
>
> I don't see anything in the logs that would suggest an error, and I can see
> that the IR reciever is working via irw.  Myth just doesn't seem to want to
> do based on user input anything when watching HD except exit.  The system is
> an AppleTV that's configured to use XvMC for resolutions of 720p and
> greater.
>
> Has anyone seen this issue before?  I realize I haven't provided enough
> information in this mail, so if there's something specific that can be
> provided, please let me know what would be good to collect.  None of the
> verbose flags for mythfrontend seem to be ones that would cough up reasons
> for not paying attention to input.
>
> I've done some searches in the archives, but I'm not coming up with a lot of
> promising results.  But, I may have missed something important as there's
> lots of occurences of the keywords I'm looking for (remote, input, etc.).  I
> can't think of any better keywords for the searches I've done.
>
> The frontend reports a version of 18161 on the -fixes branch.  The backend
> is on the same version now:
>
> Jason
>
>
> [jgillis at phoenix ~] $ mythbackend --version
> Please include all output in bug reports.
> MythTV Version   : 18161
> MythTV Branch    : branches/release-0-21-fixes
> Library API      : 0.21.20080304-1
> Network Protocol : 40
> Options compiled in:
>  linux release using_oss using_alsa using_backend using_firewire
> using_frontend using_hdhomerun using_iptv using_v4l using_x11 using_xrandr
> using_xv using_xvmc using_xvmcw using_xvmc_vld using_bindings_perl
> using_bindings_python using_opengl using_ffmpeg_threads using_libavc_5_3
> using_live
> jgillis at appletv:~$ mythfrontend.real --version
> Please include all output in bug reports.
> MythTV Version   : 18161
> MythTV Branch    : branches/release-0-21-fixes
> Library API      : 0.21.20080304-1
> Network Protocol : 40
> Options compiled in:
>  linux profile using_oss using_alsa using_arts using_jack using_backend
> using_dbox2 using_dvb using_firewire using_frontend using_hdhomerun
> using_iptv using_ivtv using_joystick_menu using_libfftw3 using_lirc
> using_opengl_vsync using_opengl_video using_v4l using_x11 using_xrandr
> using_xv using_xvmc using_xvmcw using_xvmc_vld using_glx_proc_addr_arb
> using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python using_opengl using_ffmpeg_threads
> using_libavc_5_3 using_live
>
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A long shot but are you per chance watching KQED?


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