[mythtv-users] low family acceptance factor; need advice

Aaron aaron at rb303.net
Wed Jan 6 19:41:34 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:12 PM, mythtv at blandford.net
<mythtv at blandford.net> wrote:
> On 01/06/2010 10:33 AM, Aaron wrote:
>>
>> OK, I moved to Myth not long ago from the MCE camp. I like Linux and
>> can get around quite well; but... the wife and kids are not so
>> impressed.  The wife loves the commercial skip process and personally
>> so do I, but for everything else we are kinda at a loss. Nothing
>> really feels stable to us, the front end will randomly crash (if you
>> stop the TV it sometimes just exits to the desktop). T
>
> Hi Aaron, there are a couple of ways to approach this.  The first is to
> increase the logging from mythfrontend to see why it is dying and resolve
> that issue.
>
> The second, is to modify the process starting mythfrontend.  You  should be
> able to wrap it in a look such that if it dies, it just gets restarted.
>  While this isn't optimal, it will at least prevent any intervention from
> you or the family.
>
>
>> Movies for the kids, just isn't working
>>
>> like I want, I want a movie db, not a list of files. I need it as
>> simple as possible for the kids and wife to just click on the movie
>> they want, maybe this is a over site on my behalf, but it seemed to be
>> a lot of work to just get it to display just movies.
>
> Mythvideo does exactly this.  You may want to read up on it on the wiki.
>
> Mythvideo has several views.  There is a folder view, gallery view, etc.
>  Toggling that view may well give you what you want.
>
> I  am assuming you have also used mythvideo to pull down metadata for your
> videos so you get movie information and covers.
>
>
>> Am I going about this in the wrong way? I need a high WAF, KAF, FAF
>> rating, and I think it's negative right now...(on all fronts).
>
> While myth isn't perfect, you should be able to get the WAF factor high
> enough that the benefits of myth outway the shortcomings and easily beats
> MCE.
>
> Michael
> _______________________________________________

It just crashed again, I did a dmesg and got this:

[ 5154.498185] mythfrontend.re[2938]: segfault at 10479caf8 ip
00007fb6f2b4d539 sp 00007ffffc049f40 error 6 in
libc-2.10.1.so[7fb6f2ad5000+166000]


This is from the mythfrontend.log

2010-01-06 14:36:03.073 MythContext: Connecting to backend server:
172.31.1.20:6543 (try 1 of 1)
2010-01-06 14:36:03.073 Using protocol version 50
2010-01-06 14:36:03.186 Spawning LiveTV Recorder -- begin
2010-01-06 14:36:03.446 Spawning LiveTV Recorder -- end
2010-01-06 14:36:03.452 We have a
playbackURL(/var/lib/mythtv/livetv/2690_20100106143603.mpg) &
cardtype(DUMMY)
2010-01-06 14:36:03.452 We have a RingBuffer
2010-01-06 14:36:03.503 TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching WatchingLiveTV,
main) -- begin
2010-01-06 14:36:03.520 NVP(3): Disabling Audio, params(-1,2,44100)
2010-01-06 14:36:03.621 FilterManager: Failed to load filter
'colorspace', no such filter exists
2010-01-06 14:36:03.622 OSD Theme Dimensions W: 1280 H: 720
2010-01-06 14:36:03.864 New DB connection, total: 5
2010-01-06 14:36:03.866 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: 172.31.1.20
2010-01-06 14:36:03.867 Realtime priority would require SUID as root.
2010-01-06 14:36:03.870 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait
2010-01-06 14:36:03.873 TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching WatchingLiveTV,
main) -- end ok
2010-01-06 14:36:03.873 TV: Changing from None to Watching WatchingLiveTV
2010-01-06 14:36:03.873 TV: State is LiveTV & mctx == ctx
2010-01-06 14:36:03.873 TV: UpdateOSDInput done
2010-01-06 14:36:03.873 TV: UpdateLCD done
2010-01-06 14:36:03.873 TV: ITVRestart done
2010-01-06 14:36:04.041 ScreenSaverX11Private: DPMS Deactivated 1
2010-01-06 14:36:04.056 FilterManager: Failed to load filter
'colorspace', no such filter exists
2010-01-06 14:36:06.912 Loading window theme from
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/MythCenter/schedule-ui.xml
2010-01-06 14:36:06.912 Loading window theme from
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/schedule-ui.xml
2010-01-06 14:36:10.557
RingBuf(/var/lib/mythtv/livetv/2690_20100106143604.mpg): Invalid file
(fd -1) when opening '/var/lib/mythtv/livetv/2690_20100106143604.mpg'.
2010-01-06 14:36:10.557 NVP(3), Error: JumpToProgram's OpenFile failed.
2010-01-06 14:36:10.557 NVP(3), Error: Unknown recorder error, exiting decoder
2010-01-06 14:36:10.582 TV: Attempting to change from Watching
WatchingLiveTV to None
2010-01-06 14:36:11.156 TV: Changing from Watching WatchingLiveTV to None
2010-01-06 14:36:11.177 ScreenSaverX11Private: DPMS Reactivated 1
2010-01-06 14:36:11.198 TV: Attempting to change from None to None
2010-01-06 14:36:11.210 TV: Attempting to change from None to Watching
WatchingLiveTV
2010-01-06 14:36:11.211 MythContext: Connecting to backend server:
172.31.1.20:6543 (try 1 of 1)
2010-01-06 14:36:11.211 Using protocol version 50
2010-01-06 14:36:11.316 Spawning LiveTV Recorder -- begin
2010-01-06 14:36:11.586 Spawning LiveTV Recorder -- end
2010-01-06 14:36:11.592 We have a
playbackURL(/var/lib/mythtv/livetv/2690_20100106143611.mpg) &
cardtype(DUMMY)
2010-01-06 14:36:11.592 We have a RingBuffer
2010-01-06 14:36:11.642 TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching WatchingLiveTV,
main) -- begin
2010-01-06 14:36:11.642 playCtx, Error: Attempting to setup a player,
but it already exists.
2010-01-06 14:36:11.643 TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching WatchingLiveTV,
main) -- end error
2010-01-06 14:36:11.643 TV Error: LiveTV not successfully started
2010-01-06 14:36:11.664 ScreenSaverX11Private: DPMS Deactivated 1
2010-01-06 14:36:11.664 ScreenSaverX11Private: DPMS Reactivated 1


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