[mythtv-users] My PVR is completly borked now!

[Mike Diehl]

Hi all.

I'm struggling through a failed video card on my backend so I'm having to 
resort to a remote frontend to watch recordings/live tv.

Recently, though all of my recordings and live tv have been pitch black.  The 
disk space as well as the database are on a remote server and I've verified 
their health as well as I can.

When I restart the backend and look at the /var/logs/mythtv/mythbackend.log, I 
get:

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2007-04-02 21:49:19.280 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2007-04-02 21:49:19.283 adding: Laptop as a client (events: 0)
2007-04-02 21:49:19.309 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2007-04-02 21:49:19.311 adding: Laptop as a client (events: 1)
2007-04-02 21:49:19.320 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2007-04-02 21:49:19.322 adding: Laptop as a client (events: 0)
2007-04-02 21:49:19.340 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2007-04-02 21:49:19.342 adding: Laptop as a client (events: 0)
2007-04-02 21:49:19.353 adding: Laptop as a remote ringbuffer
2007-04-02 21:49:19.373 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2007-04-02 21:49:19.398 Unknown video codec
2007-04-02 21:49:19.401 Please go into the TV Settings, Recording Profiles and
2007-04-02 21:49:19.403 setup the four 'Software Encoders' profiles.
2007-04-02 21:49:19.405 Assuming RTjpeg for now.
2007-04-02 21:49:19.407 NVR: Error, unknown audio codec
2007-04-02 21:49:19.409 NVR: Error, cannot open DSP ''
open: No such file or directory
2007-04-02 21:49:19.413 NVR: Could not detect audio blocksize
2007-04-02 21:49:19.415 Channel()::Open(): Can't open video device, error "No 
su
ch file or directory"
2007-04-02 21:49:19.417 Tuning Error -- aborting recording
2007-04-02 21:49:19.418 TVRec: Recording Prematurely Stopped
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I've not made any changes to this system and it WAS working.  Any ideas what's 
going on here?  Will replacing the vid card fix it, or am I in deeper than 
that?

TIA,


-- 
Mike Diehl