[mythtv] Live TV in SVN

Kirby Bakken kirby at magnaspeed.net
Wed Nov 30 20:01:50 EST 2005


I've been fighting with getting live TV to work (on HD channels only 
using an HD5000 DVB card), and have therefore tried building/using 
mythtv from the latest SVN (refreshed/rebuilt last night about 
midnight... I forget the exact number).  After seeing that liveTV did 
indeed work MUCH  better (no more stuttering), I somehow ended up with a 
mythbackend that 'mismatched' with my database...  So I dropped the DB 
and re-initialized it.  Then I went back into mythtv-setup and tried to 
rescan my channels...  I think I finally figured out that I have to 
choose 'no' separator character for HD channels...  But even then, I 
can't get LiveTV to work...  I've chosen channel '91' as my starting 
channel, because thats been the best/strongest HD channel in my area 
(Rochester, MN).  But when I go into Live TV, it doesn't work, and the 
mythbackend output says something like this:

2005-11-30 18:58:49.941 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2005-11-30 18:58:49.941 adding: klb1 as a client (events: 0)
2005-11-30 18:58:49.948 TVRec(1): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-11-30 18:58:49.949 TVRec(1) Error: Start channel invalid, setting 
to '10' on input DVBInput instead.
2005-11-30 18:58:49.950 DVB#0 ERROR - Could not find dvb tuning 
parameters for transport 32767
2005-11-30 18:58:49.950 DVB#0 ERROR - Failed to get channel options for 
channel 10.
2005-11-30 18:58:49.950 TVRec(1) Error: Failed to set channel to 10.
2005-11-30 18:58:49.951 TVRec(1) Error: Channel: '91' was not found in 
the database.
                        Most likely, your DefaultTVChannel setting is wrong.
                        Could not start livetv.
2005-11-30 18:58:49.951 TVRec(1) Error: CreateLiveTVRingBuffer() failed
2005-11-30 18:58:49.951 TVRec(1) Error: Failed to create RingBuffer 1
2005-11-30 18:58:49.951 TVRec(1): Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None

Now, I KNOW that the 'default' channel is set to '51' (2nd 'best' 
channel in my area)...  What am I doing wrong?


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