[mythtv-users] Can't view live TV with 0.13 and pvr350

[William Powers]

The IVTV Devel mailing list is chock full of traffic attempting to debug 
system hangs with the latest 350 decoder drivers.  You might want to 
check there and see if what they're working on is consistent with your 
problem.

http://www.poptix.net/ivtv/current/threads.html

Gregg Casillo wrote:
> I have just installed MythTV 0.13 on machine running a fresh install of
> Gentoo Linux.I have a PVR-350 and installed the ivtv driver from CVS
> today. I previously had 0.12 working on the same machine but was running
> a 2.6 kernel which had some problems.
> 
> With my new install, I can view recordings just fine. However, when I
> try to watch live TV, I get a black screen and no audio. I can hit
> escape and quit the frontend; I get a message telling me that the
> backend is nowhere to be found at this point. Indeed the backend appears
> to have crashed. If during the black screen, I hit and up or down arrow
> to switch channels, the frontend crashes with a segmentation fault.
> Here's the output from that:
> 
> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> 2004-01-17 23:17:28 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
> 2004-01-17 23:17:30 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1
> of 5)
> 2004-01-17 23:17:31 ReadStringList timeout (quick).
> Errm, event socket just closed.
> 2004-01-17 23:17:32 ReadStringList timeout (quick).
> QSocketDevice::writeBlock: Invalid socket
> 2004-01-17 23:17:32 Error writing stringlist
> QSocketDevice::readBlock: Invalid socket
> QSocketDevice::writeBlock: Invalid socket
> 2004-01-17 23:17:32 Error writing stringlist
> ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/qt/3/include/qvaluelist.h (372)
> Couldn't find a matching decoder for:
> rbuf://127.0.0.1:6543/mnt/store//ringbuf2.nuv
> 2004-01-17 23:17:32 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> Remote encoder not responding.
> QSocketDevice::writeBlock: Invalid socket
> 2004-01-17 23:17:32 Error writing stringlist
> QSocketDevice::writeBlock: Invalid socket
> 2004-01-17 23:17:32 Error writing stringlist
> QSocketDevice::readBlock: Invalid socket
> Segmentation fault
> 
> Any ideas what this output means and what I can do to resolve this? Do I
> need to give you more information?
> 
> Thanks!
> Gregg
> 
> 
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