Hi all,
I just installed Freevo 1.8.3 on a box with a Hauppauge BT878 card and
running Mepis 8. When I watch live TV by selecting a station from the TV
guide, the image that is displayed is either a green screen with video noise
and no audio, or a heavily-ghosted video image from a random TV station (not
the one I picked) with good audio. Here's the relevant section from my
main-1000.log showing childapp.py and mplayer.py:
2009-02-27 14:36:02,359 DEBUG childapp.py (133): Running (list)
'/usr/bin/mplayer -slave -vo xv,sdl,x11, -ao oss:/dev/dsp -autosync 100
-nolirc -nojoystick -autoq 100 -screenw 800 -screenh 600 -fs -nocache tv://
-tv
driver=v4l2:freq=187.250:device=/dev/video0:input=0:norm=NTSC:width=640:height=480:outfmt=yuy2
' with pid 15704 priority -20
2009-02-27 14:36:02,361 DEBUG childapp.py (392): logging stdout child to
"/var/log/freevo/mplayer-stdout-1000-1235774162.log"
2009-02-27 14:36:02,362 DEBUG childapp.py (392): logging stderr child to
"/var/log/freevo/mplayer-stderr-1000-1235774162.log"
2009-02-27 14:36:02,363 DEBUG childapp.py (150): /usr/bin/renice -20 -p
15704
Overlay display enabled (AppTextDisplay)
2009-02-27 14:36:02,795 DEBUG mplayer.py (289): 1235774162.8: started tv
app
2009-02-27 14:36:20,112 DEBUG childapp.py (411): stdout: no data, closing
log
2009-02-27 14:36:20,116 DEBUG childapp.py (411): stderr: no data, closing
log
The last two lines are where I manually exited from viewing live TV. I
included them here to show that no other errors/warnings came up after
mplayer.py launched the TV app at 14:36:02,795 until the time I stopped the
app.
If I copy the mplayer command generated by the childapp as shown in the log:
/usr/bin/mplayer -slave -vo xv,sdl,x11, -ao oss:/dev/dsp -autosync 100
-nolirc -nojoystick -autoq 100 -screenw 800 -screenh 600 -fs -nocache tv://
-tv
driver=v4l2:freq=187.250:device=/dev/video0:input=0:norm=NTSC:width=640:height=480:outfmt=yuy2
and paste it into a terminal session, mplayer has no trouble displaying the
correct TV station video and audio.
I can record TV programs and play them back back fine. It's only watching
live TV from the Freevo TV guide that has a problem.
If I switch the TV plugin mplayer to TVTime, then live TV works fine.
I searched the archives and found a couple of others who reported similar
problems in the past, but it doesn't appear their problems were ever
resolved. One person reported this problem occurred while changing channels
on live TV, but I didn't even have to change channels to encounter this
problem.
Thanks for any help anyone can offer.
Art S R
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