Re: [gentoo-user] OT - MythTV problems

[Michael Sullivan]

On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 09:38 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 9/15/06, Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com> wrote:
> <SNIP>
> > Total size of downloads: 0 kB
> > camille ~ # uname -a
> > Linux camille 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP Fri Sep 15 09:56:25 CDT 2006 i686
> > Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.66GHz GNU/Linux
> > camille ~ #
> >
> > I cat /dev/video0 > temp.mpg and watched it, but there wasn't anything
> > there.  What I mean is, although there was a black background in
> > gmplayer, I didn't see any TV programming.  Can anyone help with this?
> >
>
> MIchael,
>    Sorry you're having these problems. I've been through the same sort
> of thing a number of times.
>
> 1) Until you can cat ivtv output to a file and get video in that file
> don't bother with MythTV.
>
> 2) After you get file playback working my experience is that you
> should delete your current cards and connetions, leaving the Zap2It
> stuff alone, and then recreate the cards and connections.
>
>    Can you rmmod all the ivtv modules - all of them - and then
> modprobe ivtv again and post the output in dmesg? do an lsmod ahead of
> the modprobe so ensure everything is really unloaded.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark

OK.  I did what you said, and I do get a signal from /dev/video0 now,
but mythfrontend still won't show LiveTV.  Here's the output from
mythfrontend:

michael@camille ~ $ mythfrontend
2006-09-15 11:56:00.615 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2006-09-15 11:56:00.659 XScreenSaver support enabled
2006-09-15 11:56:00.744 New DB connection, total: 1
2006-09-15 11:56:00.751 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2006-09-15 11:56:00.754 Total desktop dim: 1024x768, with 1 screen[s].
2006-09-15 11:56:00.759 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0
2006-09-15 11:56:00.772 Current Schema Version: 1123
2006-09-15 11:56:00.772 mythfrontend version: 0.19.20060121-2
www.mythtv.org
2006-09-15 11:56:00.772 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
2006-09-15 11:56:01.257 lang0: eng
2006-09-15 11:56:01.257 lang: eng
2006-09-15 11:56:01.290 lang1: eng
2006-09-15 11:56:01.290 lang: eng
2006-09-15 11:56:01.408 Total desktop dim: 1024x768, with 1 screen[s].
2006-09-15 11:56:01.410 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0
2006-09-15 11:56:01.412 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
2006-09-15 11:56:01.887 Joystick disabled.
2006-09-15 11:56:02.032 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2006-09-15 11:56:02.851 Starting media monitor.
2006-09-15 11:56:05.985 New DB connection, total: 2
2006-09-15 11:56:05.986 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2006-09-15 11:56:06.044 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.3:6543
(try 1 of 5)
2006-09-15 11:56:06.066 Using protocol version 26
2006-09-15 11:56:06.189 TV: Attempting to change from None to
WatchingLiveTV
2006-09-15 11:56:06.198 Using protocol version 26
2006-09-15 11:56:26.656 TV Error: StartRecorder() -- timed out waiting
for recorder to start
2006-09-15 11:56:26.656 TV Error: LiveTV not successfully started
2006-09-15 11:56:26.664 TV: Deleting TV Chain in destructor

If it's helpful, here's my dmesg info:

camille ~ # dmesg | grep 'ivtv'
ivtv:  ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
ivtv:  version 0.7.0 (tagged release) loading
ivtv:  Linux version: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 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  ====================
ivtv0: Removed Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250, card #0
ivtv:  ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
ivtv:  version 0.7.0 (tagged release) loading
ivtv:  Linux version: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 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)
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  ====================
ivtv0: Removed Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250, card #0
ivtv:  ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
ivtv:  version 0.7.0 (tagged release) loading
ivtv:  Linux version: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 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)
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  ====================
ivtv0: Removed Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250, card #0
ivtv:  ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
ivtv:  version 0.7.0 (tagged release) loading
ivtv:  Linux version: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 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)
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 ~ #

Also, I'm using mythtv-0.19_p9163-r1: 

camille ~ # emerge -pv mythtv

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

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild     U ] media-tv/mythtv-0.19_p10505 [0.19_p9163-r1] USE="alsa
debug dvb dvd jack joystick lirc mmx opengl vorbis (-altivec)
-backendonly -dbox2 -frontendonly -ieee1394 -lcd -xvmc"
VIDEO_CARDS="i810 via -nvidia" 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB
camille ~ #


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