Hi GC... Just wanted to report: I compiled Ozzy's patch and it appears to work. I'll try switching to the more probable solution of calling the ulong instead of the long function later. Jon, Simon, David and Eric appear to be the authors of the effected file (libs/libcmyth/socket.c) - so I'll let them decide on how to fix this - unless I hear otherwise.
I also do not get sound on the MVPMC while watching Standard Definition digitally recorded TV. Actually, I was very surprised MVPMC was able to decode the video. I had thought digital TV was MPEG4 and that MVPMC is only capable of doing MPEG2. Evidently, some digital TV or perhaps Standard Definition programming is encoded as MPEG2. G, I think the sound is AC3 and may not be... hey, wait a minute... we can set up the MPVMC to pass through AC3 data... ...I'll try it... ...well that didn't work. I wonder if the MVPMC / mythTV feature is using the same audio code as the file browser (which I just tested w/an AC3 audio file - and it worked). As I was saying, G, I think to get sound you will need to transcode the AC3 to something MVPMC expects. I also tried an HDTV (720) recording and got nothing. Just a blank screen. However, I was pleased that MVPMC did not crash. I was able to back out of playing the recording and start another show. I understand some people have had success with symbolic links to their HDTV files but renaming the links to <file_name>.dvx. Then, playing them through VLC. I know, lots of hoops and a high pain level w.r.t. ease of use - but it sounds like a way to view these digital files on the MVPMC box. G C wrote: > Sure enough, I found 3 entries in the 'recorded' table of my > mythconverg database with chanid='4294967295'. They were generated by > LiveTV on the new card. The title and program information were empty > because I probably did not yet have program listings for the new > tuner. So I blew away those three entries from my database and 3 > corresponding empty mpeg files and now mvpmc shows my listings again. > > Although now I have a new problem. Recordings made on the new digital > tuner do not play with sound on the mvpmc (either through MythTV or > the filesystem). If I play the recordings on the native myth frontend > or my Windows machine, they're fine. So I guess I'll be doing more > troubleshooting tonight. > > On 1/10/07, G C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I just spent a few minutes comparing the capture log I took against >> the source code and the Myth protocol. It looks like it may not be >> entirely a mvpmc problem. The Myth backend server appears to be >> returning empty fields in this case. The MVPMC issues a >> 'QUERY_RECORDINGS' command to get all the programs and their details. >> The response from the myth server is documented in the protocol at >> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Myth_Protocol_Command_QUERY_RECORDINGS >> . In this case, all the fields are empty or some kind of NULL or >> garbage value. It chokes on the 'chanid' (Channel ID) which is >> returned from the myth server as 4294967295. >> >> So there are two problems here. >> 1.) The myth server is returning no values for one of the entries. >> Maybe I'll have to check my database for a corresponding garbage entry >> and get rid of it. It may have been created when I was setting up the >> new channels on tuner 2 for some reason. >> 2.) MVPMC needs to handle situations like this better. Perhaps >> ignore things like this? The regular Myth frontend seems to work and >> it uses the same mechanism to get its data. So one would have to >> assume that its ignoring this entry. >> >> >> On 1/10/07, Ozzy Lash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> It must not be the file size then, but according to Rick's log, it >>> looks like the string "4294967295" is being received, and being passed >>> to cmyth_rcv_long. Even though the comments in that function indicate >>> that it can handle a 64bit number, the code only handles a 32bit >>> signed int. I am wondering if something on the mythtv side is sending >>> an unsigned long instead of a long and is trying to send -1. >>> >>> You could try the attached patch (I did it quick with no testing) and >>> see what happens. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Mvpmc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users > mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
