[mythtv-users] Remote encoder not responding...

[Andrew Bassett]

I had this problem on both Fedora Core and Ubuntu.

My solution on Fedora was a dirty hack, but it works :)

I found this mailing list post about rc.local and debian:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/06/msg00215.html

add the commands below at the very bottom of the file you create from
the above mailing list post :

/etc/init.d/mythbackend start
sleep 3
/etc/init.d/mythbackend stop
/etc/init.d/mythbackend start 

For what it's worth, I am running ivtv-0.3.2t. I was having major
problems with the 0.3.3 branch (don't know why, probably was something I
was doing).

HTH,

Andrew



On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 07:20 +0200, Magnus Sandin wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> I have seen this topic in different forums etc. But it seems not to be a
> solution for it, so I will try here.
> 
> The problem is that I have reinstalled my mythtv box and it is now
> running Ubuntu 5.04 (used to run Fedora Core 1).
> I have a PVR-350 card which includes a MPEG encoder.
> 
> I have tried the ivtv driver versions 0.3.2u and 0.3.3f with the same
> result.
> 
> I can do cat /dev/video0 > whatever.mpg
> I can then play the whatever.mpg without any problems, so it seems like
> the ivtv driver works just fine.
> 
> The problem is that when switching to LiveTV, I get picture and sound
> for about one second, then it just freezes, and after aprox 15 second I
> will see the main menu in mythfrontend again.
> 
> Any ideas where I should start looking?
> 
> I'm running MythTV 0.17 as seen below in the outputs...
> 
> The output from the frontend:
> 2005-04-21 22:47:27.986 mythfrontend version: 0.17.20050130-1 www.mythtv.org
> 2005-04-21 22:47:27.987 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
> 2005-04-21 22:47:28.385 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T.)
> 2005-04-21 22:47:29.087 Joystick disabled.
> 2005-04-21 22:47:29.139 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
> 2005-04-21 22:47:29.602 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543
> (try 1 of 5)
> 2005-04-21 22:47:29.608 Using protocol version 14
> 2005-04-21 22:47:42.255 Using protocol version 14
> 2005-04-21 22:47:42.412 Disable DPMS
> 2005-04-21 22:47:44.812 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.
> 2005-04-21 22:47:44.812 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
> 2005-04-21 22:47:44.895 Using XV port 67
> 2005-04-21 22:47:45.361 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> 2005-04-21 22:47:45.374 Using realtime priority.
> 2005-04-21 22:47:45.395 Video timing method: RTC
> 2005-04-21 22:47:46.200 prebuffering pause
> 2005-04-21 22:48:05.367 ReadStringList timeout (quick).
> Remote encoder not responding.
> 2005-04-21 22:48:05.455 WriteStringList: Bad socket
> 2005-04-21 22:48:05.456 ReadStringList: Bad socket
> Remote encoder not responding.
> 2005-04-21 22:48:05.482 WriteStringList: Bad socket
> 2005-04-21 22:48:05.482 ReadStringList: Bad socket
> Remote encoder not responding.
> 2005-04-21 22:48:05.507 WriteStringList: Bad socket
> 2005-04-21 22:48:05.507 ReadStringList: Bad socket
> Remote encoder not responding.
> ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in ../../../../include/qt3/qvaluelist.h (372)
> 2005-04-21 22:48:05.540 WriteStringList: Bad socket
> 2005-04-21 22:48:05.540 ReadStringList: Bad socket
> Remote encoder not responding.
> 2005-04-21 22:48:05.897 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
> 2005-04-21 22:48:05.933 Changing from None to None
> 
> 
> 
> And here is the log from the backend:
> 
> 2005-04-21 22:47:29.613 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> 2005-04-21 22:47:29.613 adding: pvr as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-04-21 22:47:33.662 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> 2005-04-21 22:47:33.662 adding: pvr as a client (events: 1)
> 2005-04-21 22:47:42.260 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> 2005-04-21 22:47:42.260 adding: pvr as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-04-21 22:47:42.323 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> 2005-04-21 22:47:42.323 adding: pvr as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-04-21 22:47:42.329 adding: pvr as a remote ringbuffer
> 2005-04-21 22:47:42.345 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> 2005-04-21 22:47:45.366 joined null string in WriteStringList
> 2005-04-21 22:48:05.956 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
> 
> 
> What is going on?
> 
> I would appreciate some help here.
> 
> Regards
> // Magnus Sandin
> 
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Andrew Bassett
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