Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend)

[Michael Sullivan]

On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 23:15 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 19:20 -0800, Bob Sanders wrote:
> > On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 17:47:19 -0800
> > Bob Sanders <rmsand@××××××××××.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > It seems that something is not stable with the X server or with the card drivers.  For now,
> > > perhaps forget MythTV and just see if you can get a stable input running with something like
> > > tvtime -
> > >
> > > [ N] media-tv/tvtime (0.9.12):  High quality television application for use with video capture cards.
> > >
> >
> > Forget I mentioned tvtime.  It doesn't work with ivtv.  Best one can do is to set the input with
> > ivtvctl, record some test footage - cat /dev/v4l/video0 > test.mpg, then see if it can be
> > played back with mplayer.
> >
> > Bob
> > -
>
> My test footage could be played back in mplayer (although it was a
> little jerky, but I think that had to do with the plugin mplayer was
> using.  I can't get the xv plugin to work.  I tried mythfrontend again
> (after starting mythbackend) and it froze up again.  What's next?

Here is some terminal data from the last time mythbackend ran and
mythfrontend froze up my X server:

2006-01-01 23:14:07.569 New DB scheduler connection
 is defined, but isn't attached to a cardinput.
2006-01-01 23:14:07.603 mythbackend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1
www.mythtv.org
2006-01-01 23:14:07.603 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2006-01-01 23:14:09.591 Reschedule requested for id -1.
2006-01-01 23:14:09.706 Scheduled 0 items in 0.1 = 0.10 match + 0.01
place
2006-01-01 23:14:09.712 Seem to be woken up by USER
2006-01-01 23:14:17.613 New DB connection, total: 3
2006-01-01 23:14:30.270 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2006-01-01 23:14:30.270 adding: camille as a client (events: 0)
2006-01-01 23:14:30.460 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2006-01-01 23:14:30.460 adding: camille as a client (events: 1)
2006-01-01 23:14:30.494 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2006-01-01 23:14:30.494 adding: camille as a client (events: 0)
2006-01-01 23:14:30.551 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2006-01-01 23:14:30.551 adding: camille as a client (events: 0)
2006-01-01 23:14:30.568 adding: camille as a remote ringbuffer
2006-01-01 23:14:30.596 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2006-01-01 23:14:33.122 joined null string in WriteStringList
2006-01-01 23:14:39.442 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None

As you can see, at 23:14:33:122 it says "joined null string to
WriteStringList".  I don't know much about complex programming and
barely anything at all about mythtv itself, but in my experience using
objects that have a null value is not usually a good thing (if ever).
Is this normal for MythTV?

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