[mythtv-users] TV Error: StartPlayer(): NVP is not playing after 20000 msec (Sort of resolved)

Nedim Cholich nedim.cholich at gmail.com
Tue Nov 20 05:15:40 UTC 2007


On Nov 19, 2007 11:12 PM, Nedim Cholich <nedim.cholich at gmail.com> wrote:
> Urgh!!! Everything worked so fine for so long, and then I "had" to do
> the upgrade...
>
> My setup is Ubuntu Edgy, ivtv, nvidia.
>
> As far as I can tell modules relevant for this problem that got upgraded are
> linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-16-386 2.6.20.6-16.30
> nvidia-glx 1:1.0.9631+2.6.20.6-16.30
>
> The symptom is I watch the show and then exit or let it finish go back
> to the menu and try to start another show and then nothing, just black
> screen. It happens all the time even with videos which don't use
> internal player but mplayer. The fe log shows:
>
> 2007-11-19 22:14:42.947 TV: Attempting to change from None to
> WatchingPreRecorded
> 0: start_time: 2264.795 duration: 167.096
> 1: start_time: 2264.745 duration: 167.112
> stream: start_time: 25163.832 duration: 1857.175 bitrate=15423 kb/s
> 2007-11-19 22:14:43.065 AFD: Opened codec 0x8626df0,
> id(MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC) type(Video)
> 2007-11-19 22:14:43.067 AFD: Opened codec 0x91c9a00, id(AC3) type(Audio)
> 2007-11-19 22:14:43.068 Opening ALSA audio device 'default'.
> 2007-11-19 22:15:02.964 TV Error: StartPlayer(): NVP is not playing
> after 20000 msec
> 2007-11-19 22:15:02.965 TV: Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded
> 2007-11-19 22:15:02.968 TV: Attempting to change from
> WatchingPreRecorded to None
>
> I'm able to switch to terminal and kill the fe process, the whole
> system is not affected, just mythtv.
>
> Any ideas?

So, I downgraded kernel to 2.6.20-15-386 and corresponding restricted
modules and nvidia-glx and things are back to normal. Yay!


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