[mythtv-users] Frontend frustration

Richard Morton richard.e.morton at gmail.com
Thu Jul 7 19:12:34 UTC 2011


All mythtv components must run on the same release. Ie all on 23 or all on
24.

Get .22 for your frontend or upgrade your backend and all other frontends to
the same release. I would recommend 24fixes.

R

Please excuse brevity and pistakes this email was composed on a mobile
phone.

Thanks and best regards,

Richard
On Jul 7, 2011 7:35 PM, "Ian Clark" <mrrooster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7 July 2011 14:26, Christopher Kerr <mythtv at theseekerr.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:12 PM, OneBob <onebob at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> My PC which I've just upgraded loads mythfrontend .23 and in doing so
>>> returns "Protocol version mismatch (frontend=23056,backend=56)".
>>>
>>> The point is I can't see why the frontend can't have some flag that lets
>>> it run against an older version, after all Sudu's mythtvplayer
>>> (http://www.sudu.dk/mythtvplayer/index.php?page=home) works even under
wine
>>> (although no video) and pulls back the recordings etc???
>>>
>>> Am I missing something?
>>
>> Yeah - nothing stopping you running a new version of the backend without
>> upgrading the whole system!
>
> Can you do that? Surely schema differences will bite you? Do newer
> backends support older protocols? I thought you should always run
> matched backends and frontends?
>
> [Snip good.22 -> .23 -> .24 advice]
>
>> (conversely, there's nothing stopping you from tracking down the source
to
>> 0.22-fixes and building it for your current system, but I doubt that
would
>> be very much fun)
>
> FWIW (and not because I'm a bit bord at work or anything), I've just
> downloaded 0.22 fixes and built it with no major issues. This is on a
> machine that is running 0.25pre. (Which I build from source; so I do
> have all the necessary dependencies.)
>
> $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/mythtv22/lib
> /usr/local/mythtv22/bin/mythfrontend --version
> Please include all output in bug reports.
> MythTV Version : exported
> MythTV Branch :
> Network Protocol : 50
> Library API : 0.22.20091023-1
> QT Version : 4.6.3
> Options compiled in:
> linux release using_oss using_alsa using_pulse using_arts
> using_backend using_directfb using_dvb using_fribidi using_frontend
> using_hdhomerun using_hdpvr using_iptv using_ivtv using_joystick_menu
> using_lirc using_mheg using_opengl_video using_opengl_vsync
> using_qtwebkit using_v4l using_x11 using_xrandr using_xv
> using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python using_opengl using_vdpau
> using_ffmpeg_threads using_live using_mheg
>
> This was built with:
>
> $ git clone -b fixes/0.22 git://github.com/MythTV/mythtv.git
> $ cd mythtv/mythtv
> $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mythtv22
> $ make
> $ sudo make install
>
> HTH,
>
> Ian
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