[mythtv-users] Re:Black screen when running mythtv

[Couvrette, Jeffrey C.]

I have no idea if this would help you or not, but I find that if MythTV
locks up on me, which only happens occasionally, I will get a black screen
when choosing Watch TV that I can only get out of by using ctrl-alt-esc.
After doing that, I need to run mythtvsetup and go to the fourth option and
change the default channel under video0 to 2.  The channel will be whatever
channel it was tuned to when the system locked up, but to get my mythtv
system to work again, I have to change it to 2.  I don't know why this
works, but it does.  I usually do this after a reboot.

If I am giving out bad advice, feel free to flame the "F" out of me.

Jeff

On Thursday 06 November 2003 23:27, Mariano Kamp wrote: 
> Hi, 
> 
> I have mythv-* installed on two boxes: 
> 
> Rock: 
> - cheap bttv grabber card (xawtv) 
> - all mythtv components (0.11-6 from unstable) including mysql 
> - no x-server (actually there is not even a console attached) 
> purpose: record and serve 
> 
> Black: 
> - no grabber card 
> - mythv-frontend (and everything what it depends on according to the .deb)

> purpose: view recorded stuff, manage mythtv 
> 
> When opening an X-Session from black to rock I am able to run xawtv 
> -remote and can watch tv and switch channels. I also ran scantv and it 
> stored all the right channels. I can't listen to it, but I guess that's 
> fine as it is remote. It shouldn't affect the recording, should it? 
> 
> With mythv I don't know how tod configure the channels. I am positive 
> that I specified the right device /dev/video0. At least that is the one 
> xawtv is using as nextview EPG is. I selected german/austrian as region. 
> 
> I believe I read on mythtv.org that the upstream for xmltv is broken. At 
> least I am sure that this was where I found the link for nextview EPG. 
> Anyway I am not able to find it anymore and also haven't figured out how
to 
> tell mythtv about nextview epg. I found how to export the xml file in 
> nextview epg, but don't know where to put it. 
> 
> The next problem might be due to the a.m. problems, still I want to voice 
> it. When running mythv and try to watch (on rock or black) I just get a 
> black screen and nothing is happening. Do I have to switch channels? How?
I 
> haven't found how to stop it, but by ctrl-c on the console. Any ideas?
Btw. 
> syslog is empty and the mythtv log just confirms that there was an attempt

> to connect and that it was successful. 
> 
> The picture quality is pretty bad (with xawtv), but I guess that is due 
> to the fact, that it is just PAL, isn't it? It is way worse then divx or 
> something similar. Just wondering?! 
> 
> Is there a new debian package with 0.12 in the makings? Will it find its 
> way into the official distribution. 
> 
> Will nextview epg be tighter integrated in 0.13? 
> 
> All in all, I am quite impressed what I've seen. Very good job. I am 
> looking forward to use it. 
> 
> Cheers, 
> Mariano
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