[mythtv-users] "Error was encountered while displaying videos" on two specific channels

Skitals hondacrxsi at gmail.com
Tue Mar 18 17:20:16 UTC 2008




Michael T. Dean wrote:
> 
> On 03/18/2008 09:55 AM, Skitals wrote:
>> It seems people were having a lot of trouble with this error 2 years ago
>> and
>> it was long fixed. But this case is very different. Like in the past, I
>> am
>> getting this error (frontend log):
>>
>> 2008-03-18 09:40:42.680
>> RingBuf(/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/4571_20080318094034.mpg): Invalid file
>> (fd -1) when opening
>> '/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/4571_20080318094034.mpg'.
>> 2008-03-18 09:40:42.681 NVP, Error: JumpToProgram's OpenFile failed.
>> 2008-03-18 09:40:42.681 NVP, Error: Unknown error, exiting decoder
>> 2008-03-18 09:40:42.681 TV: Attempting to change from WatchingLiveTV to
>> None
>>
>> I then get spit out to the "error was enountered" screen. Now what makes
>> this weird is that it's NOT random. I get it every single time I try to
>> tune
>> two specific channels on my HDHomeRun. It is the only time I get it, and
>> I
>> get it EVERY time. So you are probably thinking its an encrypted channel,
>> or
>> a problem with the stream. I thought so too, so I tried tuning the
>> channel
>> manually and streaming to VLC. The channel tunes and plays back perfectly
>> in
>> VLC, not a single hiccup in the vlc logs.
> 
> Rescan your channels (or whatever the equivalent is for an HDHomeRun).
> 
> Mike
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Is there any alternative to that? I spent the last day identifying,
renaming, renumbering, and setting the proper XMLid numbers to use
schedulesdirect.

I checked in the database, and all the channel settings seem to be correct.
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