[mythtv-users] frontend: "remote encoder not responding"

[Timo -Blazko- Boewing]

Hello together,

Since four days I am trying to get MythTV 0.15 to work w/ my DVB-s card 
(actually, an Hauppauge Nexus-s). I am using it on Debian sid w/ Linux 
2.6.7. Previously, I got a VDR up and running and mythtv-setup also 
detects the card (test menu reveals signal quality bar).
However, when starting the frontend, I always get the following error 
when trying to watch TV:

 >>>
2004-08-16 22:20:00 mythfrontend version: 0.15.20040525-1 www.mythtv.org
2004-08-16 22:20:00 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2004-08-16 22:20:00 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2004-08-16 22:20:00 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media handler
2004-08-16 22:20:00 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media handler
2004-08-16 22:20:01 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media handler
2004-08-16 22:20:04 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 
of 5)
2004-08-16 22:20:04 Using protocol version 8
2004-08-16 22:20:04 Using protocol version 8
2004-08-16 22:20:04 Using protocol version 8
Errm, event socket just closed.
QSocketDevice::writeBlock: Invalid socket
2004-08-16 22:21:07 Error writing stringlist
Remote encoder not responding.
QSocketDevice::writeBlock: Invalid socket
2004-08-16 22:21:07 Error writing stringlist
Remote encoder not responding.
.
.
.
<<<



This is what the backend says:

 >>>
Starting up as the master server.
2004-08-16 22:20:51 DVB#0 Using DVB card 0, with frontend 
STV0299/TSA5059/SL1935 based.
Resetting slot 0...ok.
Resetting slot 1...ok.
2004-08-16 22:20:51 DVB#0 CAM - Initialized successfully.
2004-08-16 22:20:51 DVB#0 ERROR - Failed to verify channel integrity.
2004-08-16 22:20:51 DVB#0 ERROR - Failed to get channel options for 
channel 3.
2004-08-16 22:20:51 mythbackend version: 0.15.20040525-1 www.mythtv.org
2004-08-16 22:20:51 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2004-08-16 22:20:53 Found changes in the todo list.
2004-08-16 22:20:53 Scheduled 0 items in 0.008299 seconds.
2004-08-16 22:20:53 Seem to be woken up by USER
2004-08-16 22:20:58 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-08-16 22:20:58 adding: vdr as a client (events: 0)
2004-08-16 22:20:58 Getting next free recorder : -1
2004-08-16 22:20:58 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-08-16 22:20:58 adding: vdr as a client (events: 1)
2004-08-16 22:20:58 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-08-16 22:20:58 adding: vdr as a client (events: 0)
2004-08-16 22:20:58 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-08-16 22:20:58 adding: vdr as a client (events: 0)
2004-08-16 22:20:58 adding: vdr as a remote ringbuffer
2004-08-16 22:20:58 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2004-08-16 22:20:58 DVB#0 Recorder: Card opened successfully.
<<<

I am curoius about the channel 3 prob, having also tried to erase this 
channel from the DB (channel, dvb_channel, dvb_pids) and setting no 
initial channel in mythtv-setup.

The rest is running perfectly fine (I installed it using the .deb files 
as referenced on this page. Also, after running tv_grab_de (TV Today 
version, running for ages) and then running mythfilldatabase --manual, 
nothing seems to get into the DB. This i manually inserted settings for 
German TV stations as found from others.
Thus, my additional question: does tv_grab only get the guide or does it 
also contain channel info such as frequency, transponder etc.?
For me, it seems not to... if I only could import my working 
channels.conf from vdr (okay, I found several Perl scripts, but many 
people stated it does not work and also I do not know if my 
channels.conf is in the szap format at all... :-/


Sorry for my long posint, but perhaps anyone can hint me to something 
useful (yes, I alsi read some HOWTOs on that...)

Thanks for any help!

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