[mythtv-users] watch recorded or Live hangs system

Chad masterclc at gmail.com
Wed Jun 29 03:46:45 UTC 2005


What's your hardware situation?  Is this frontend/backend on the same
machine?  What versions of software do you have (kernel, myth, ivtv,
pchdtv...)

On 6/28/05, Frostykev <frostykev at yahoo.com> wrote:
> DVD player works fine, and using mplayer to test the
> captured video, that MythTV captured, works fine.
> 
> Intersting note, I get a message:
> The selected video_out device is incompatible with
> this codec.
> VDecoder init failed :(
> 
> But no crash, I never get that message when it
> crashes.
> 
> Not to worried about smooth playback at this point, as
> this is my testing backend, but need it to be stable
> enough and not crash!!
> 
> Ideas?
> 
> 
> 
> --- Frostykev <frostykev at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > I managed to Alt-Tap right after selecting watch
> > recorded video.  Below is what was on the
> > mythfrontend terminal window, had to type it from
> > another computer, as the MythTv one is frozen!
> >
> > Disable DMPS
> > Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.
> > Opening oss audio device '/dev/dsp'.
> > Using XV on port 61
> > Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded
> > Realtime priority would require SUID as root.
> >
> > Hopefully this is something simple that I've
> > overlooked, since I'm pretty new to linux, I
> > wouldn't doubt it!
> >
> > Frostykev <frostykev at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > When I attempt to watch live tv via MythTv, keyboard
> > locks up, system locks up, I get about 2 seconds of
> > sound then either nothing or sound repeating. No
> > video, black screen.
> >
> > No problems when i test the capture with:
> > cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/test_capture.mpg
> > and
> > mplayer -vo xv /tmp/test_capture.mpg
> >
> > I finally figured out how to log the backend so I
> > could observe what it did when it crashed, but that
> > appears to be of little use, see below.
> >
> > Setup: FedoraCore 3, latest MythTv version. PVR250,
> > nVidia generic card outputting to a standard
> > monitor,
> > no tvout with this box. Frontend and backend are on
> > the same system (plan to add second frontend. . . )
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > 2005-06-27 19:30:42.845 New DB connection, total: 1
> > Starting up as the master server.
> > 2005-06-27 19:30:43.023 mythbackend: MythBackend
> > started as master server
> > 2005-06-27 19:30:43.109 New DB connection, total: 2
> > 2005-06-27 19:30:43.217 New DB connection, total: 3
> > 2005-06-27 19:30:43.723 New DB scheduler connection
> > 2005-06-27 19:30:43.735 mythbackend version:
> > 0.18.1.20050523-1 www.mythtv.org
> > 2005-06-27 19:30:43.740 Enabled verbose msgs :
> > important general
> > 2005-06-27 19:30:45.734 Reschedule requested for id
> > -1.
> > 2005-06-27 19:30:46.478 Scheduled 0 items in 0.7 =
> > 0.72 match + 0.02 place
> > 2005-06-27 19:30:46.490 scheduler: Scheduled items
> > 2005-06-27 19:30:46.502 Seem to be woken up by USER
> > 2005-06-27 19:30:53.738 mythbackend: Running
> > housekeeping thread
> > 2005-06-27 19:31:53.891 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
> > Playback
> > 2005-06-27 19:31:53.898 adding: mythmasterbackend as
> > a
> > client (events: 0)
> > 2005-06-27 19:31:54.091 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
> > Playback
> > 2005-06-27 19:31:54.096 adding: mythmasterbackend as
> > a
> > client (events: 1)
> > 2005-06-27 19:31:54.103 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
> > Playback
> > 2005-06-27 19:31:54.106 adding: mythmasterbackend as
> > a
> > client (events: 0)
> > 2005-06-27 19:31:54.250 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
> > Playback
> > 2005-06-27 19:31:54.254 adding: mythmasterbackend as
> > a
> > client (events: 0)
> > 2005-06-27 19:31:54.265 adding: mythmasterbackend as
> > a
> > remote ringbuffer
> > 2005-06-27 19:31:54.339 Changing from None to
> > WatchingLiveTV
> >
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