[mythtv-users] Frontend no longer displays HD?!

Rich West Rich.West at wesmo.com
Wed Jan 23 20:00:37 UTC 2008


Found this while building up the older module 
http://readlist.com/lists/mythtv.org/mythtv-users/16/82206.html which 
seems to indicate a problem with 169.07 and XvMC.

I rolled back to the previous driver and it is working fine again..

-Rich


Rich West wrote:
> Duh.. found the right location for the nVidia drivers.  I'm compiling 
> them up now to see if that helps at all...
>
> -Rich
>
> Rich West wrote:
>   
>> I upgraded two of my three frontend (Fedora 7 based + ATrpms) systems in 
>> an effort to resolve some minor flaky problems, and now neither one will 
>> play HD content.  They play SD just fine.  The third system (still 
>> running an older nVidia driver) plays the HD content just fine.
>>
>> All three front ends are identical except for the peripherals attached 
>> to them (TV, receiver).  I just didn't upgrade the packages on the one 
>> system because it was off.. good thing I did, I guess.
>>
>> On the problem systems, mythfrontend is just hanging when attempting to 
>> play an HD recorded show.  Running mythfrontend -v all gives the following:
>>
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:56.670 MSqlQuery: SELECT data FROM settings WHERE value 
>> = 'CCBackground' AND hostname = 'mythtv2' ;
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:56.670 OSD: InitCC708() -- begin
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:56.671 MSqlQuery: SELECT data FROM settings WHERE value 
>> = 'OSDCC708TextZoom' AND hostname = 'mythtv2' ;
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:57.406 OSD: InitCC708() -- end
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.675 NVP: ClearAfterSeek(1)
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.675 VideoOutputXv: ClearAfterSeek()
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.675 VideoOutputXv: DiscardFrames(0)
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.675 VideoOutputXv: DiscardFrames() 1: AAAAAAAA
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.675 VideoOutputXv: DiscardFrames() 3: AAAAAAAA -- done()
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.676 VideoOutputXv: DiscardFrames(1)
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.676 TV: StartPlayer(): took 4123 ms to start player.
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.676 write -> 16 53      MESSAGE[]:[]COMMFLAG_REQUEST 
>> 4061 2008-01-17T20:00:00
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.676 VideoOutputXv: DiscardFrames() 1: AAAAAAAA
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.676 VideoOutputXv: DiscardFrames() 2: AAAAAAAA
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.676 VideoOutputXv: DiscardFrames() 3: AAAAAAAA -- done()
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.677 read  <- 16 2       OK
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.677 TV: Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.677 MythSocket(1756310:15): socket is readable
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.677 MythSocket(1756310:15): cb->readyRead()
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.677 read  <- 15 71      
>> BACKEND_MESSAGE[]:[]COMMFLAG_REQUEST 4061 2008-01-17T20:00:00[]:[]empty
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.678 MSqlQuery: SELECT data FROM settings WHERE value 
>> = 'RealtimePriority' AND hostname = 'mythtv2' ;
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.678 MSqlQuery: SELECT COUNT(name) FROM playgroup 
>> WHERE name <> 'Default' ORDER BY name;
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.678 Realtime priority would require SUID as root.
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.679 AO: OutputAudioLoop: audio paused
>> XvMC: picture structure FRAME
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.720 write -> 21 49      QUERY_FILETRANSFER 
>> 34[]:[]REQUEST_BLOCK[]:[]32768
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.724 read  <- 21 5       32768
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.724 Read(): reqd=32768, rcvd=32768, rept=32768, error=0
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.726 write -> 21 50      QUERY_FILETRANSFER 
>> 34[]:[]REQUEST_BLOCK[]:[]524288
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.776 read  <- 21 6       524288
>> 2008-01-23 14:24:58.776 Read(): reqd=524288, rcvd=524288, rept=524288, 
>> error=0
>> 2008-01-23 14:30:00.997 MythSocket(1756310:15): socket is readable
>> 2008-01-23 14:30:00.998 MythSocket(1756310:15): cb->readyRead()
>> 2008-01-23 14:30:00.998 read  <- 15 51      
>> BACKEND_MESSAGE[]:[]DONE_RECORDING 3 1795[]:[]empty
>> 2008-01-23 14:30:01.206 MythSocket(1756310:15): socket is readable
>> 2008-01-23 14:30:01.206 MythSocket(1756310:15): cb->readyRead()
>> 2008-01-23 14:30:01.206 read  <- 15 51      
>> BACKEND_MESSAGE[]:[]RECORDING_LIST_CHANGE[]:[]empty
>> 2008-01-23 14:30:03.024 MythSocket(1756310:15): socket is readable
>> 2008-01-23 14:30:03.024 MythSocket(1756310:15): cb->readyRead()
>> 2008-01-23 14:30:03.024 read  <- 15 51      
>> BACKEND_MESSAGE[]:[]RECORDING_LIST_CHANGE[]:[]empty
>> 2008-01-23 14:30:04.313 MythSocket(1756310:15): socket is readable
>> 2008-01-23 14:30:04.313 MythSocket(1756310:15): cb->readyRead()
>> 2008-01-23 14:30:04.313 read  <- 15 45      
>> BACKEND_MESSAGE[]:[]SCHEDULE_CHANGE[]:[]empty
>> 2008-01-23 14:30:18.465 MSqlQuery: SELECT data FROM settings WHERE value 
>> = 'PlaybackExitPrompt' AND hostname = 'mythtv2' ;
>> 2008-01-23 14:30:18.465 TV: Attempting to change from 
>> WatchingPreRecorded to None
>> 2008-01-23 14:30:18.465 TV: StopStuff() -- begin
>> 2008-01-23 14:30:18.465 TV: StopStuff(): stopping ring buffer[s]
>> 2008-01-23 14:30:18.498 TV: StopStuff(): stopping player[s] (1/2)
>> 2008-01-23 14:30:18.498 TV: StopStuff(): stopping player[s] (2/2)
>>
>>
>> And that is where all logging stops.  The interface is unresponsive 
>> (even after hitting escape), the load average is way up, and the only 
>> way out is to kill off mythfrontend.
>>
>> I'm at a bit of a lossCould this be an nVidia driver issue, or could 
>> something else?  I'd attempt to back down the nVidia driver, but I could 
>> only find the i386 drivers in the archive on nVidia's site.. I'm running 
>> x86_64.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -Rich
>>   
>>     
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