[mythtv-users] New setup - can't watch Live TV or record from TV

Jeff Rizzo riz at boogers.sf.ca.us
Fri Jun 23 03:46:39 UTC 2006


Well, /myth is a separate XFS partition - 250G, and almost completely
empty.  And, as far as permissions go, in hopes of addressing this, I
chmodded it 777 - no luck.  A file _is_ getting created; it just appears
to be the wrong thing.

+j

Gavin Haslett wrote:
> It actually sounds to me like a corrupted filesystem. Did you create a
> separate filesystem for the recordings, or is it all just one flat? If
> the latter, you might also be hitting off a maximum file number limit
> (one I hit recently with an ext3 filesystem that had similar symptoms
> once it exceeded a certain number of files).
>
> If you can, create a fresh filesystem under the /myth mount. See if that
> helps.
>
> Alternatively, it could be your mythtv account doesn't have appropriate
> permissions to the filesystem.
>
> On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 16:18 -0700, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
>   
>> Hi-
>>
>> I'm setting up mythtv for the first time, and I've already come across
>> a few problems, and addressed them with the help of various FAQs
>> and searching mailing lists - but this one, while it looks like
>> others may have seen the problem, I have yet to find a solution for.
>>
>> Basically, when I run mythfrontend, and go to "Watch TV", I get a black
>> screen for about 20s, and then it comes back to the main screen.
>> In the mythfrontend error messages, I see this:
>>
>> 2006-06-22 16:07:45.753 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingLiveTV
>> 2006-06-22 16:07:45.763 Using protocol version 26
>> 2006-06-22 16:07:45.967 RingBuf(/myth/1007_20060622160745.nuv): Invalid file (fd 14) when opening '/myth/1007_20060622160745.nuv'. 12 retries remaining.
>> 2006-06-22 16:08:06.502 TV Error: StartRecorder() -- timed out waiting for recorder to start
>> 2006-06-22 16:08:06.502 TV Error: LiveTV not successfully started
>>
>> and in mythbackend, this:
>>
>> VIDIOCGMBUF:: Invalid argument
>>
>> Now, when I look in /myth (where I've set the recordings to go), I do
>> see a 1120-byte file called 1007_20060622160745.nuv, but it's unusable.
>>
>> My system has backend and frontend on the same box, running Gentoo 2006.0,
>> and mythbacked --version reports:
>>
>> Library API version: 0.19.20060121-2
>> Source code version: Unknown
>> Options compiled in:
>>  linux release using_v4l using_oss using_alsa using_ivtv using_lirc using_dvb using_dvb_eit using_x11 using_xv using_dvdnav using_xrandr using_xvmc using_opengl_vsync using_frontend using_backend
>>
>> I have a Hauppauge PVR-250 configured with ivtv-0.4.5, and I am able to
>> successfully watch TV by running 'mplayer /dev/video0', so I know that
>> much should be working... I can also watch other .mpg files using the
>> frontend.  What I _don't_ seem to be able to do is get anything that has
>> to do with TV working.
>>
>> Anyone have any suggestions what to try next as far as troubleshooting?
>> I've considered wiping the mysql database and re-configuring in case I've
>> gotten something wrong, but that seems like a lot of work.  :)  I was
>> hoping someone could point me at something more useful to try, as I've
>> been spinning my wheels on this for a couple days now.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> +j
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