[mythtv-commits] Ticket #784: Signal monitoring has several bugs

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#784: Signal monitoring has several bugs
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 Reporter:  brandon/Jack  |       Owner:  ijr
     Type:  defect        |      Status:  new
 Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:     
Component:  mythtv        |     Version:     
 Severity:  medium        |  
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 When entering the signal monitor, most times it fails to start.  The
 frontend prints "Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times" around 10 times then
 mythfrontend displays, "Error was encounted while displaying video".  This
 happens on most channels for me.

 2005-12-10 15:18:53.347 AFD: Initializing video at 1920x1080 pixels.
 2005-12-10 15:18:54.395 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
 2005-12-10 15:18:54.433 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.
 2005-12-10 15:18:54.433 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
 2005-12-10 15:18:54.436 NVP: Enabling Audio
 2005-12-10 15:18:55.643 NVP: prebuffering pause
 2005-12-10 15:18:56.797 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
 2005-12-10 15:18:57.964 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.

 [SNIP]

 2005-12-10 15:19:11.969 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
 2005-12-10 15:19:13.137 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
 2005-12-10 15:19:14.304 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
 2005-12-10 15:19:15.080 ReadStringList timeout (quick).
 2005-12-10 15:19:15.080 RemoteEncoder::SendReceiveStringList(): No
 response.
 2005-12-10 15:19:15.081 NVP, Error: Unknown error, exiting decoder
 2005-12-10 15:19:15.083 LiveTVChain::SwitchTo() not switching to current

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 If it does work and you hit esc when done the frontend goes into an
 infinite loop when trying to access the ringbuffer for video.  You must
 kill the frontend at this point.

 2005-12-10 15:02:53.215 AFD: Initializing video at 544x480 pixels.
 2005-12-10 15:02:53.495 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.
 2005-12-10 15:02:53.495 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
 2005-12-10 15:02:53.511 NVP: Enabling Audio
 2005-12-10 15:03:08.228 NVP: prebuffering pause
 2005-12-10 15:03:08.444 Using time stretch 1.25
 2005-12-10 15:03:08.707 AFD: Opened codec 0x83a67b0, id(MPEG2VIDEO)
 type(Video)
 2005-12-10 15:03:08.707 NVP: Disabling Audio, params(-1,-1,-1)
 2005-12-10 15:03:08.750 AFD: Initializing video at 1920x1088 pixels.
 2005-12-10 15:03:09.386 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
 2005-12-10 15:03:09.928 NVP: Disabling Audio, params(16,-1,-1)
 2005-12-10 15:03:22.655 NVP: prebuffering pause
 2005-12-10 15:03:24.589 NVP: prebuffering pause
 2005-12-10 15:03:25.442 TV: Attempting to change from WatchingLiveTV to
 None
 [mpeg2video @ 0x40ce7110]ac-tex damaged at 8 50
 [mpeg2video @ 0x40ce7110]Warning MVs not available
 2005-12-10 15:03:25.957 NVP: prebuffering pause
 2005-12-10 15:03:26.444
 RingBuf(myth://192.168.13.28:6543/1131_20051210150310.mpg): Waited too
 long for ringbuffer pause..
 2005-12-10 15:03:27.436 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
 2005-12-10 15:03:27.445
 RingBuf(myth://192.168.13.28:6543/1131_20051210150310.mpg): Waited too
 long for ringbuffer pause..
 2005-12-10 15:03:28.448
 RingBuf(myth://192.168.13.28:6543/1131_20051210150310.mpg): Waited too
 long for ringbuffer pause..
 2005-12-10 15:03:28.938 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
 2005-12-10 15:03:29.451
 RingBuf(myth://192.168.13.28:6543/1131_20051210150310.mpg): Waited too
 long for ringbuffer pause..
 2005-12-10 15:03:30.439 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.

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 A third annoyance is when it does display the signal %, at times it
 reports "Bit errors 0" instead of the signal %.  When it switches back and
 forth every couple of seconds it can be quite annoying if you're trying to
 monitor just the signal %.

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