[mythtv-users] no playback

[Michael J. Lynch]

Yep.  FC2 is where I ran into the problem.  Switched to FC1 (uses XFREE) 
and the problem went away.

Nick Bradaschia wrote:

>Michael,
>I am using FC2...that means I have XORG, right?
>
>
>On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 07:31:13 -0500, Michael J. Lynch <mlynch at gcom.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Are you using an XORG distribution of X11?  If so, you may be running
>>into the following problem:
>>
>>    http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=474
>>
>>If so, the only fix I've found was to switch to an XFREE86 distro of
>>X11.  The problem occurred for me with both an ATI Mach 64 and an INTEL
>>815 chipset.
>>
>>
>>Nick Bradaschia wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>JAC-
>>>Thanks for the info!
>>>When I start the frontend w/ the command you provided, I do get to see
>>>the video and playback recorded vids. within the frontend!  Pretty
>>>exciting!  I think that means that my video card is a piece of crap,
>>>right? It was free, so I don't mind parting with it for something
>>>better (with hardware acceleration).
>>>When I run a video w/ the mplayer -vo xv -fs <filename> command, I get
>>>this error:
>>>X11 Error BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
>>>Mplayer crashed.  This shouldn't happen.
>>>
>>>Not sure what it means.  I have never set up drivers for my video
>>>card.  I don't know how to do this.  I've looked for a driver but have
>>>not found one that sounds similar to the TV Wonder VE.
>>>
>>>Thanks again for the help! I think we're getting to the source!
>>>
>>>Nick
>>>
>>>On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:23:32 -0400, Joseph A. Caputo
>>><jcaputo1 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>On Monday 02 August 2004 19:25, Nick Bradaschia wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>JAC-
>>>>>Thanks for the reply.
>>>>>I do have some messages coming at me from the frontend.
>>>>>When I first start mythfrontend, I get the following:
>>>>>
>>>>>mythtv: could not connect to socket
>>>>>mythtv: No such file or directory
>>>>>lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>These are LIRC errors.  I'm guessing you haven't set up LIRC on this
>>>>machine?  You can safely ignore them for now; it just means you can't
>>>>use an IR remote control until you get LIRC properly set up.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>and when I switch to live tv, I get:
>>>>>
>>>>>Watching Live TV
>>>>>2004-08-02 19:00:58 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
>>>>>X Error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) 11
>>>>> Major opcode:  141
>>>>> Minor opcode:  19
>>>>> Resource id:  0x2a0000
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>Well, I don't know what this error indicates, specifically, but I'd
>>>>guess that at least one of your problems is video output.  What's your
>>>>video setup like? (video card, driver/version, VGA or TV-out, XFree86
>>>>or X.org ?)
>>>>
>>>>Also, just to check, try playing something (any video media you have on
>>>>hand; a DVD would work) with mplayer using the following command:
>>>>
>>>>       mplayer -vo xv -fs <filename>
>>>>
>>>>This will make sure that mplayer tries to use the same video output
>>>>method that MythTV uses (Xvideo), so at least you'll be comparing
>>>>apples & apples, so to speak.
>>>>
>>>>You could also try running mythfrontend with the following command:
>>>>
>>>>       env NO_XV=1 mythfrontend
>>>>
>>>>If your playback works using this method, then the problem might lie in
>>>>your video card/driver's Xv support.  Unfortunately, running this way
>>>>will probably peg your CPU, so it's not a useful long-term solution,
>>>>but it might help narrow down the problem.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>I'm not sure what they mean.  I've looked for a mythtv.conf but was
>>>>>unable to figure out where the init info is stored.  Not sure what
>>>>>the 2nd error mean either... "insufficient resources"??
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>There is no "mythtv.conf".  Myth gets most of its configuration data
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>from a MySQL database.  There is a single file, <prefix>/share/mythtv/
>>>      
>>>
>>>>mysql.txt (or ${HOME}/.mythtv/mysql.txt) that tells Myth where to find
>>>>the database when it starts up.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>-JAC
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>>Michael J. Lynch
>>Gcom Inc.
>>
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