[mythtv-users] Problem with live TV since upgrading to 0.20

[Simon Dyson]

Toby Smith wrote:
> with C4 DVB in UK. In my case I'd probably generalise out to all of
> Multiplex 2 ( ITV1, Channel 4, ITV2, ITV3, More4, E4, ITV4 and a few
> others I don't watch). I have one internal Twinhan card and one Nova-T
> USB. I seem to get the problem on both tuners though.
>
> Initially I had my default recording profile set to record "TV Only"
> for size. Under this setting I seem to be able to get the recordings,
> and they produce files of a suitable size, but I can't play them back
> - both video and audio appear for about 1 or 2 seconds, then crash
> mythfrontend.
>
> I did initially suspect my Via XvMC decoding, but the same crash
> happens through software decoding too.
>
> I changed the default recording profile to record 'Normal' - including
> the interactive data. In this case the recordings can be played almost
> OK. Unfortunately they're very choppy under via XvMC and have one
> pause every 10 seconds under software decoding. That's probably
> related to the power of my mini-itx machine, but other channel
> recordings are fine under XvMC which is the state I'd like to get back
> to.
>
> Recording from other channels under either profile is OK - recordings
> replay fine under Via xVMC no problem.
>
> Live TV on the same channels produces a similar problem, in that the
> frontend also crashes. That is a little odd consider I'd assume this
> was effectively recording and playback of the full 'Normal' stream,
> which it otherwise handles without crashing.
>
> The only faint hint in the logs is a mention of "Parser not found for
> Codec Id: 94212" which seems to also appear in the other logs posted
> in this thread.
>
> Did anybody else find any more information / pointers , or perhaps
> even a reason?
>
> --
> Toby Smith -=- At Home
>   
Toby,

I'm not sure your problem is the same as mine (since I'm only 
experiencing the problem on C4, not the rest of the multiplex) but the 
issue is currently being discussed on the dev list and a ticket has been 
opened: http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/2556

Simon