[mythtv-users] Cannot watch LiveTV

Michael Sullivan msulli1355 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 27 18:38:40 UTC 2011


I am using an external pvrusb2 Hauppauge HVR-1950.  I cannot watch
LiveTV.  I can get video when I order mplayer /dev/video0, but when I
try to play it through mythfrontend, I get a message on the screen
saying Please wait... and then nothing for sixty seconds or more.  It
will finally dump me back at the menu screen.  Here is the output from
mythbackend:

carter ~ # mythbackend
2011-10-27 13:31:38.861 mythbackend version: branches/release-0-23-fixes
[27077] www.mythtv.org
2011-10-27 13:31:38.861 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2011-10-27 13:31:38.861 Using configuration directory = /root/.mythtv
2011-10-27 13:31:38.861 Unable to read configuration file mysql.txt
2011-10-27 13:31:38.861 Empty LocalHostName.
2011-10-27 13:31:38.861 Using localhost value of carter
2011-10-27 13:31:38.865 New DB connection, total: 1
2011-10-27 13:31:38.868 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2011-10-27 13:31:38.868 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2011-10-27 13:31:38.868 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2011-10-27 13:31:38.870 Current MythTV Schema Version (DBSchemaVer): 1254
2011-10-27 13:31:38.871 MythBackend: Starting up as the master server.
2011-10-27 13:31:38.873 mythbackend: MythBackend started as master server
2011-10-27 13:31:38.875 New DB connection, total: 2
2011-10-27 13:31:38.875 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2011-10-27 13:31:38.879 New DB connection, total: 3
2011-10-27 13:31:38.879 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2011-10-27 13:31:40.770 New DB scheduler connection
2011-10-27 13:31:40.771 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2011-10-27 13:31:40.780 Enabling Upnpmedia rebuild thread.
2011-10-27 13:31:41.981 Main::Registering HttpStatus Extension
2011-10-27 13:31:41.981 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
2011-10-27 13:31:41.983 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free
Space: 0.0 GB w/freq: 15 min
2011-10-27 13:31:43.776 Reschedule requested for id -1.
2011-10-27 13:31:44.222 Scheduled 109 items in 0.3 = 0.05 match + 0.25 place
2011-10-27 13:31:44.223 scheduler: Scheduled items: Scheduled 109 items
in 0.3 = 0.05 match + 0.25 place
2011-10-27 13:31:44.224 Seem to be woken up by USER
2011-10-27 13:31:50.773 mythbackend: Running housekeeping thread
2011-10-27 13:31:50.780 UPnpMedia: BuildMediaMap - no VideoStartupDir
set,  skipping scan.
2011-10-27 13:31:53.034 MainServer::ANN Monitor
2011-10-27 13:31:53.034 adding: carter as a client (events: 0)
2011-10-27 13:31:53.035 MainServer::ANN Monitor
2011-10-27 13:31:53.035 adding: carter as a client (events: 1)
2011-10-27 13:31:55.309 MainServer::ANN Playback
2011-10-27 13:31:55.309 adding: carter as a client (events: 0)
2011-10-27 13:31:55.310 TVRec(3): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2011-10-27 13:31:55.312 TVRec(3): HW Tuner: 3->3
2011-10-27 13:31:56.302 ProgramInfo(): Updated pathname '':'' ->
'1002_20111027133156.mpg'
2011-10-27 13:31:56.308 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free
Space: 1.0 GB w/freq: 15 min
 *********************** WARNING ***********************
 ivtv drivers prior to 0.10.0 can cause lockups when
 reading VBI. Drivers between 0.10.5 and 1.0.3+ do not
 properly capture VBI data on PVR-250 and PVR-350 cards.

2011-10-27 13:31:56.330 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Warning: Can't enable VBI
recording (3)
			eno: Invalid argument (22)
2011-10-27 13:31:56.347 ProgramInfo(): Updated pathname '':'' ->
'1002_20111027133156.mpg'
2011-10-27 13:31:56.359 ProgramInfo(): Updated pathname '':'' ->
'1002_20111027133156.mpg'
2011-10-27 13:31:58.549 RecBase(3:/dev/video0):
GetKeyframePositions(16,9223372036854775807,#1) out of 3
2011-10-27 13:31:58.656 ProgramInfo(): Updated pathname '':'' ->
'1002_20111027133156.mpg'
2011-10-27 13:31:58.716 ProgramInfo(): Updated pathname '':'' ->
'1002_20111027133156.mpg'
2011-10-27 13:32:00.773 Expiring 25 MBytes for 1002 @ Thu Oct 27
13:00:00 2011 => Knitting Daily "Whimsical Knits"
2011-10-27 13:32:00.774 autoexpire: Expiring Program: Expiring 25 MBytes
for 1002 @ Thu Oct 27 13:00:00 2011 => Knitting Daily "Whimsical Knits"
2011-10-27 13:32:00.775 ProgramInfo(): Updated pathname '':'' ->
'1002_20111027132918.mpg'
2011-10-27 13:32:00.829 ProgramInfo(): Updated pathname '':'' ->
'1002_20111027132918.mpg'
2011-10-27 13:32:03.780 ProgramInfo(): Updated pathname '':'' ->
'1002_20111027132918.mpg'
^C

The card type I have set in mythtv-setup is IVTV MPEG-2 encoder.  This
seems strange as the output above seems to recommend against carter ~ #
emerge -pv mythtv

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R    ] media-tv/mythtv-0.23.1_p27077  USE="alsa css dbus mmx
perl python tiff (-altivec) -autostart -debug -directv -dvb -faad -fftw
-ieee1394 -jack -lcd -lirc -pulseaudio -vdpau -xvmc" VIDEO_CARDS="via
-nvidia" 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
IVTV drivers.  My mythtv version is:





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