[mythtv-users] HD-PVR giving up

[Marius Schrecker]

Hi all,
  
Having sorted my SG's and channels, I'm a small step closer to getting liveTV working.

catting /dev/video0 gives perfect results, but playing liveTV thro myth results in lots of audio static and the HD-PVR going in and out of recording mode at about 10 second intervals, accompanied by louder clicks.

Audio is in through s/pdiff, and video is component at 720p, both set as device defaults using module parameters.

I'm not using vdpau yet as I wanted to get one thing sorted at a time so stickin to the default CPU+

Channel change script is set to /bin /true for the moment.

Motorola IP stb turned on first, then hd-pvr and finally the pc. I have manually changed channels since starting the pc and loading the hdpvr module.

System is dual core opteron running at 2.4 GHz per core, 2 GB RAM

Using mythbuntu karmic installed from daily build a few days ago and fully dist-upgraded including Jean-Yves testing repo.

Here's what my backend log says:


TVRec(1): Changing from None to Watching WatchingLiveTV                                                  
2009-10-29 21:25:59.329 TVRec(1): HW Tuner: 1->1                                                                                 
2009-10-29 21:25:59.424 ret_pid(5005) child(5005) status(0x0)                                                                    
2009-10-29 21:25:59.448 External Tuning program exited with no error                                                             
2009-10-29 21:25:59.756 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 12.0 GB w/freq: 15 min                                
2009-10-29 21:26:05.106 RecBase(1:/dev/video0): GetKeyframePositions(1,9223372036854775807,#0) out of 1                          
2009-10-29 21:26:08.993 DevRdB(/dev/video0) Error: Poll giving up                                                                
2009-10-29 21:26:09.045 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: Device error detected                                                        
2009-10-29 21:26:09.082 DevRdB(/dev/video0): Stop(): Not running.                                                                
2009-10-29 21:26:16.751 DevRdB(/dev/video0) Error: Poll giving up                                                                
2009-10-29 21:26:16.808 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: Device error detected                                                        
2009-10-29 21:26:16.846 DevRdB(/dev/video0): Stop(): Not running.                                                                
2009-10-29 21:26:19.506 New DB DataDirect connection                                                                             
2009-10-29 21:26:19.545 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: 192.168.253.239                                             
2009-10-29 21:26:19.571 Scheduler, Warning: Listings source '' is defined, but is not attached to a card input.                  
2009-10-29 21:26:19.649 Speculative scheduled 0 items in 0.1 = 0.00 match + 0.05 place                                           
2009-10-29 21:26:22.605 DevRdB(/dev/video0) Error: Poll giving up                                                                
2009-10-29 21:26:22.648 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: Device error detected                                                        
2009-10-29 21:26:22.681 DevRdB(/dev/video0): Stop(): Not running.                                                                
2009-10-29 21:26:28.830 DevRdB(/dev/video0) Error: Poll giving up                                                                
2009-10-29 21:26:28.856 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: Device error detected                                                        
2009-10-29 21:26:28.894 DevRdB(/dev/video0): Stop(): Not running.                                                                
2009-10-29 21:26:35.029 DevRdB(/dev/video0) Error: Poll giving up                                                                
2009-10-29 21:26:35.067 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: Device error detected
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009-10-29 21:29:05.702 DevRdB(/dev/video0): Stop(): Not running.
2009-10-29 21:29:06.605 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: StartEncoding failed
                        eno: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
2009-10-29 21:29:06.649 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: Can't open video device.
                        eno: No such file or directory (2)
2009-10-29 21:29:06.680 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: StopEncoding failed
                        eno: Bad file descriptor (9)
2009-10-29 21:29:07.434 TVRec(1): Changing from Watching WatchingLiveTV to None
2009-10-29 21:29:07.489 Recording designated 720p because width was 1280
2009-10-29 21:29:07.590 MainServer::ANN Playback
2009-10-29 21:29:07.612 adding: mythbox as a client (events: 0)
2009-10-29 21:29:07.640 TVRec(1): Changing from None to Watching WatchingLiveTV
2009-10-29 21:29:07.684 TVRec(1): HW Tuner: 1->1
2009-10-29 21:29:07.706 Channel(/dev/video0)::Open(): Can't open video device, error "No such file or directory"
2009-10-29 21:29:07.733 Channel(/dev/video0) Error: SetInputAndFormat(1, PAL)
                        while setting input (v4l v2)
                        eno: Bad file descriptor (9)
2009-10-29 21:29:07.755 Channel(/dev/video0) Error: SetInputAndFormat(1, PAL)
                        while setting format (v4l v2)
                        eno: Bad file descriptor (9)
2009-10-29 21:29:07.780 Channel(/dev/video0): SetInputAndFormat() failed
2009-10-29 21:29:07.805 TVRec(1) Error: Failed to set channel to 1. Reverting to kState_None
2009-10-29 21:29:07.830 TVRec(1): Changing from Watching WatchingLiveTV to None


Can anyone say what I'm doing wrong?


Cheers!

Marius