Re: [gentoo-user] OT - MythTV problems

[Mark Knecht]

On 9/15/06, Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 11:04 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:

<SNIP>

>
> OK.  I installed the 2.6.17-gentoo-r2 kernel and remerged ivtv, then
> rebooted.  It still doesn't work.  Here's the info:

It does look better though. The removal messages are gone.

I assume you can still cat the video to a file and watch it in
mplayer, correct? So ivtv is working and the issue is Myth.

>
> camille ~ # dmesg | grep 'ivtv'
> ivtv:  ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
> ivtv:  version 0.7.0 (tagged release) loading
> ivtv:  Linux version: 2.6.17-gentoo-r2 SMP mod_unload 486 gcc-4.1
> ivtv:  In case of problems please include the debug info between
> ivtv:  the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with
> ivtv:  any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist.
> ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250 card (cx23416 based)
> ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
> tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> tda9887 0-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> saa7115 0-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> msp3400 0-0040: MSP4448G-A2 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
> ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
> ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB
> total)
> ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB
> total)
> ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB
> total)
> ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB
> total)
> ivtv0: Create encoder radio stream
> ivtv0: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250, card #0
> ivtv:  ====================  END INIT IVTV  ====================
> camille ~ #
>
> michael@camille ~ $ mythfrontend
> 2006-09-15 18:50:33.924 Using runtime prefix = /usr
> 2006-09-15 18:50:34.010 New DB connection, total: 1
> 2006-09-15 18:50:34.017 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> localhost

<SNIP>

> 2006-09-15 18:50:34.665 Total desktop dim: 1024x768, with 1 screen[s].
> 2006-09-15 18:50:34.668 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0
> 2006-09-15 18:50:34.669 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T.)
> mythtv: could not connect to socket
> mythtv: No such file or directory
> lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages

What are the messages above telling us? I know Myth streams the live
TV video to a specific directory and then plays back from that
directory. Is that what it's talkign about here? Does that directory
exist on your machine or has it gotten trashed somehow? Do you
possibly have stale files left over in that directory that are getting
in the way of a new file getting created? I beleive it should be empty
when TV is not playing. I have had times where I ran out of disk space
because stuff got stranded there.


> 2006-09-15 18:50:35.099 Joystick disabled.
> 2006-09-15 18:50:35.236 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
> 2006-09-15 18:50:36.059 Starting media monitor.
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>
>
> Any ideas?

Here's what I see running mythfrontend in a terminal and watching TV
for a few seconds:

mark@lightning ~ $ mythfrontend
2006-09-15 17:24:55.823 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2006-09-15 17:24:55.837 XScreenSaver support enabled
2006-09-15 17:24:55.856 New DB connection, total: 1
2006-09-15 17:24:55.868 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
192.168.1.55
2006-09-15 17:24:55.872 Total desktop dim: 1280x1024, with 1 screen[s].
2006-09-15 17:24:55.875 Running in a window
2006-09-15 17:24:55.876 Using screen 0, 1280x997 at 0,0
2006-09-15 17:24:55.897 Current Schema Version: 1123
2006-09-15 17:24:55.897 mythfrontend version: 0.19.20060121-2 www.mythtv.org
2006-09-15 17:24:55.898 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
2006-09-15 17:24:56.267 lang0: aar
2006-09-15 17:24:56.268 lang: aar
2006-09-15 17:24:56.273 lang1: aar
2006-09-15 17:24:56.273 lang: aar
2006-09-15 17:24:56.455 Total desktop dim: 1280x1024, with 1 screen[s].
2006-09-15 17:24:56.458 Running in a window
2006-09-15 17:24:56.458 Using screen 0, 1280x997 at 0,0
2006-09-15 17:24:56.460 Switching to square mode (Titivillus)
2006-09-15 17:24:57.124 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2006-09-15 17:25:01.243 New DB connection, total: 2
2006-09-15 17:25:01.249 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
192.168.1.55
2006-09-15 17:25:01.348 Connecting to backend server:
192.168.1.55:6543 (try 1 of 5)
2006-09-15 17:25:01.360 Using protocol version 26
2006-09-15 17:25:01.380 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingLiveTV
2006-09-15 17:25:01.395 Using protocol version 26
2006-09-15 17:25:02.701 Disable DPMS
0: start_time: 0.036 duration: 8589.932
1: start_time: 0.026 duration: 0.004
stream: start_time: 0.289 duration: 95443.795 bitrate=0 kb/s
2006-09-15 17:25:05.038 AFD: Opened codec 0x83ee10, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2006-09-15 17:25:05.058 AFD: Opened codec 0x7c9ae0, id(MP2) type(Audio)
2006-09-15 17:25:05.097 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2006-09-15 17:25:05.097 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2006-09-15 17:25:05.352 VideoOutputXv Error: Could not find suitable
XVideo surface.
2006-09-15 17:25:05.353 VideoOutputXv: Falling back to X shared memory
video output.
                              *** May be slow ***
2006-09-15 17:25:05.503 TV: Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2006-09-15 17:25:05.504 New DB connection, total: 3
2006-09-15 17:25:05.505 New DB connection, total: 4
2006-09-15 17:25:05.591 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
192.168.1.55
2006-09-15 17:25:05.616 Using realtime priority.
2006-09-15 17:25:05.617 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
192.168.1.55
2006-09-15 17:25:05.626 Video timing method: RTC
2006-09-15 17:25:09.534 TV: Attempting to change from WatchingLiveTV to None
2006-09-15 17:25:10.114 TV: Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
2006-09-15 17:25:10.122 Enable DPMS
mark@lightning ~ $

Hope this helps,
Mark
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