[mythtv-users] freeze when switch to record
Hello All, I have this EXTREMELY annoying problem. I have an Avermedia M179 card using the ivtv modules. I can record fine if I do a cat /dev/video0 /tmp/somevid.mpg but when I try to record in Myth the moment it starts to record the screen goes with all straight vertical lines and no sound. If I start the mythfronted from terminal, I can see that it is bitching about invalid file handle when opening /var/lib/mythtv/blahblah... and the name of the file is really long. Any ideas on this one?? TIA! -- cybersource.us 115 Richfield Road Williamsville, New York 14221 716-553-8525 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Recording Problems
Cyber Source wrote: Hello All, I have this EXTREMELY annoying problem. I have an Avermedia M179 card using the ivtv modules. I can record fine if I do a cat /dev/video0 /tmp/somevid.mpg but when I try to record in Myth the moment it starts to record the screen goes with all straight vertical lines and no sound. If I start the mythfronted from terminal, I can see that it is bitching about invalid file handle when opening /var/lib/mythtv/blahblah... and the name of the file is really long. Any ideas on this one?? TIA! -- cybersource.us 115 Richfield Road Williamsville, New York 14221 716-553-8525 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] freeze when switch to record
Al McIntosh wrote: Sounds like the either of the following will fix your issue. mkdir -p /var/lib/mythtv/blahblah... Did you enter a location in myth setup where recorded shows to end up on your filesystem? Cyber Source wrote: Hello All, I have this EXTREMELY annoying problem. I have an Avermedia M179 card using the ivtv modules. I can record fine if I do a cat /dev/video0 /tmp/somevid.mpg but when I try to record in Myth the moment it starts to record the screen goes with all straight vertical lines and no sound. If I start the mythfronted from terminal, I can see that it is bitching about invalid file handle when opening /var/lib/mythtv/blahblah... and the name of the file is really long. Any ideas on this one?? TIA! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I FINALLY figured out a solution! As this has happened before and I never found out how the problem got fixed (one day it just started working, on another box). I cruised the http://www.wilsonet/mythtv site and looked under his tips and tricks section and he recommended setting the mythfrontend to run setuid root, I did that and all is well And the performance on the box is WAY better, what a difference!! Hopefully this will help others if they encounter this annoyance as it was driving me NUTS!!! LOL -- cybersource.us 115 Richfield Road Williamsville, New York 14221 716-553-8525 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri
Hello All, I seem to be missing /dev/dri using a pvr-350 with an nvidia card as the myth is bitching about this and i only get a blank screen when recording, I can watch tv OK. Any ideas, TIA -- cybersource.us 115 Richfield Road Williamsville, New York 14221 716-553-8525 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri
Michael T. Dean wrote: Cyber Source wrote: I seem to be missing /dev/dri using a pvr-350 with an nvidia card as the myth is bitching about this and i only get a blank screen when recording, I can watch tv OK. Any ideas, TIA I didn't respond to your other post ( http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/156907?#156907 ) last night because I couldn't figure out what you're talking about and was hoping someone else would interpret your question better than me. So, what do you mean by, i only get a blank screen when recording? Recording is done by the backend and the backend does not affect the screen (the mythfrontend /is/ the screen). Do you mean, When playing back recordings, I only see a blank screen? Or, perhaps, My system records only black with no audio, and I've verified this by playing a recording on another computer with another media player? Or, something different? Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Hello Mike, Thanks for getting back to me. I fully know how mythtv works, backend/frontend, etc.. In my frustation, shorter emails go out, ya know? Anyway, when your watching tv and you select m, it takes you to the schedule and show the current channel in the upper right corner (if that's your option). Then when you hit enter and decide to record that running show, it will change to recording (and watching) the selection you just made because when your recording you can't watch another channel, etc. It's at that point that my screen goes black, no sound no anything. I can hear the drive crunching, look in the directory that the recording is going into, and watch it grow, just it is only recording a black screen, no video, no audio. I have started mythfrontend with -v all option and looking at that see that it is bitching about audio rates that it wants and cant have and that it is dropping frames, so I suspect that it's a sound issue. I had it configured with the onboard via sound card, then installed a sound blaster live, still same results. Sound works fine for watching tv and all other sound functions. Also, if I run cat /dev/video0 /tmp/someshow.mpg, it records beautifully with sound, etc. I must have some setting wrong in my myth record options but this is a pvr-350 and initially thought I had something wrong with the ivtv modules. I have AMD 3000+, FC4, 512MB RAM, 2.6.13-1352 kernel with all options installed as per wilsonet.com/mythtv. Not real familiar with ivtv, I thought that maybe it was trying to record using a different device node, whatever. At this point I am really frustrated, any thoughts? TIA -- cybersource.us 115 Richfield Road Williamsville, New York 14221 716-553-8525 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri
Michael T. Dean wrote: Cyber Source wrote: no sound no anything. I can hear the drive crunching, look in the directory that the recording is going into, and watch it grow, just it is only recording a black screen, no video, no audio. I have started mythfrontend with -v all option and looking at that see that it is bitching about audio rates that it wants and cant have and that it is dropping frames, so I suspect that it's a sound issue. I had it configured with the onboard via sound card, then installed a sound blaster live, still same results. Sound works fine for watching tv and all other sound functions. Also, if I run cat /dev/video0 /tmp/someshow.mpg, it records beautifully with sound, etc. I must have some setting wrong in my myth record options but this is a pvr-350 and initially thought I had something wrong with the ivtv modules. I have AMD 3000+, FC4, 512MB RAM, 2.6.13-1352 kernel with all options installed as per wilsonet.com/mythtv. Not real familiar with ivtv, I thought that maybe it was trying to record using a different device node, whatever. At this point I am really frustrated, any thoughts? TIA Change your recording profiles in Myth. You should specify an appropriate audio sample rate--use 48KHz. Won't fix your /dev/dri problem, but should allow you to watch recordings. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I did that first off, I remember that from long ago. -- cybersource.us 115 Richfield Road Williamsville, New York 14221 716-553-8525 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri
R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:14:27 -0400, Cyber Source wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: Cyber Source wrote: I seem to be missing /dev/dri using a pvr-350 with an nvidia card as the myth is bitching about this and i only get a blank screen when recording, I can watch tv OK. Any ideas, TIA Also, if I run cat /dev/video0 /tmp/someshow.mpg, it records beautifully with sound, etc. I must have some setting wrong in my myth record options but this is a pvr-350 and initially thought I had something wrong with the ivtv modules. I have AMD 3000+, FC4, 512MB RAM, 2.6.13-1352 kernel with all options installed as per wilsonet.com/mythtv. This could affect all video cards which do hardware acceleration using dri. I am running an Epia SP13000 and have a similar problem with dri (and drm and XvMC) being disabled. I suspect that your blank screen is because the system cannot properly display out through the nvidia card. I think that live TV would use the PVR350' output directly: no further processing required. Please do 2 things: First: look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see if the following snippet exists (it will be well down the lisiting), drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: Open failed big snip (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled Second: See if you have a node /dev/dri/card0 I think that this is a udev problem. The node /dev/dri/card0 does not get created. About 4 days ago I found a web-site about udev development which had a changelog comment from about March, about some change (removal) to the handling of dri. I cannot find that page nowit is not any of the main udev pages. But it is clear that /dev/dri/card0 does not get created at any time by udev or xorg or whatever. And dri seems to have no known major-minor number allowing creation through a mknod or udev rule. Help please. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 Mississauga,Ontario, Canada Facsimile: 905-271-1638 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I have no devices under /dev/dri , I also have no instance of drm in my xorg log. I am using the 3D nvidia driver and you are suppose to comment out the Load dri option, does this have to do with that? If so, why is it trying to use dri vs glx? -- cybersource.us 115 Richfield Road Williamsville, New York 14221 716-553-8525 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri
Michael T. Dean wrote: Cyber Source wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: Cyber Source wrote: no sound no anything. I can hear the drive crunching, look in the directory that the recording is going into, and watch it grow, just it is only recording a black screen, no video, no audio. I have started mythfrontend with -v all option and looking at that see that it is bitching about audio rates that it wants and cant have and that it is dropping frames, so I suspect that it's a sound issue. I had it configured with the onboard via sound card, then installed a sound blaster live, still same results. Sound works fine for watching tv and all other sound functions. Also, if I run cat /dev/video0 /tmp/someshow.mpg, it records beautifully with sound, etc. I must have some setting wrong in my myth record options but this is a pvr-350 and initially thought I had something wrong with the ivtv modules. I have AMD 3000+, FC4, 512MB RAM, 2.6.13-1352 kernel with all options installed as per wilsonet.com/mythtv. Not real familiar with ivtv, I thought that maybe it was trying to record using a different device node, whatever. At this point I am really frustrated, any thoughts? TIA Change your recording profiles in Myth. You should specify an appropriate audio sample rate--use 48KHz. Won't fix your /dev/dri problem, but should allow you to watch recordings. I did that first off, I remember that from long ago. Did you do that in all of your profiles? It sounds like you did it for LiveTV, but not for the Default profile. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users no all of them -- cybersource.us 115 Richfield Road Williamsville, New York 14221 716-553-8525 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri
Michael T. Dean wrote: Cyber Source wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: Cyber Source wrote: no sound no anything. I can hear the drive crunching, look in the directory that the recording is going into, and watch it grow, just it is only recording a black screen, no video, no audio. I have started mythfrontend with -v all option and looking at that see that it is bitching about audio rates that it wants and cant have and that it is dropping frames, so I suspect that it's a sound issue. I had it configured with the onboard via sound card, then installed a sound blaster live, still same results. Sound works fine for watching tv and all other sound functions. Also, if I run cat /dev/video0 /tmp/someshow.mpg, it records beautifully with sound, etc. I must have some setting wrong in my myth record options but this is a pvr-350 and initially thought I had something wrong with the ivtv modules. I have AMD 3000+, FC4, 512MB RAM, 2.6.13-1352 kernel with all options installed as per wilsonet.com/mythtv. Not real familiar with ivtv, I thought that maybe it was trying to record using a different device node, whatever. At this point I am really frustrated, any thoughts? TIA Change your recording profiles in Myth. You should specify an appropriate audio sample rate--use 48KHz. Won't fix your /dev/dri problem, but should allow you to watch recordings. I did that first off, I remember that from long ago. Did you do that in all of your profiles? It sounds like you did it for LiveTV, but not for the Default profile. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users This might be a clue, I always remember under system status, it saying under tuner status that tuner 0 is not recording, it says tuner 1 now, I only have 1 tuner, where can this be checked and changed? -- cybersource.us 115 Richfield Road Williamsville, New York 14221 716-553-8525 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] blank screen when record
Hello all, I have a really weird problem using a pvr-350. All works fine except when I go to record a program, it goes to a blank screen and nothing gets recorded. I can see the *.nuv file get created and grow but nothing shows, any ideas? TIA -- cybersource.us 115 Richfield Road Williamsville, New York 14221 716-553-8525 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] strange sound, no audio some channels
Hello All, I have a strange sound problem with no audio only on 2 channels? Running the latest Myth on FC3. For channel 7 I never have any audio and for channel 17, once in a while, I have no sound. Any ideas? -- cybersource.us 115 Richfield Road Williamsville, New York 14221 716-553-8525 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] strange sound, no audio some channels
Actually I just found this from dmesg; bttv0: timeout: drop=0 irq=1490/1721, risc=1e8e903c, bits: HSYNC OFLOW bttv0: reset, reinitialize bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363). bttv0: OCERR @ 1e8e9014,bits: HSYNC OFLOW OCERR* bttv0: OCERR @ 1e8e9014,bits: HSYNC OFLOW OCERR* bttv0: OCERR @ 1e8e9014,bits: HSYNC OFLOW OCERR* bttv0: OCERR @ 1e8e9014,bits: HSYNC OFLOW OCERR* bttv0: OCERR @ 1e8e9014,bits: HSYNC OFLOW OCERR* I also upgrade bttv today, any thoughts as to what gives? TIA Cyber Source wrote: Hello All, I have a strange sound problem with no audio only on 2 channels? Running the latest Myth on FC3. For channel 7 I never have any audio and for channel 17, once in a while, I have no sound. Any ideas? -- cybersource.us 115 Richfield Road Williamsville, New York 14221 716-553-8525 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Really Bad performance
I took all the same hardware and just changed the mb and the cpu, from asus mb with 850mhz to gigabyte with 2400+ xp cpu, same everything else and the problem went away, and the new system had more ram, 512 vs 384. So I guess I didn't have enough cpu. Jim Turpin wrote: In my experience a hard drive making a crunching noise as you put it typically a bad thingI'd look at your drives and make sure they aren't hosed...or nearing the hosed stage -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cecil Watson Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 12:26 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Really Bad performance Cyber Source wrote: Hello all, I wonder if anyone can help. I've got the latest MythTV running on an AverMedia PCI Tuner card with a SCSI based system. I have had similar setups on other systems with the same type of TV card and SCSI drives but this one is REALLY bad performance. Live TV starts and stops all the time as your watching it, it just pauses then picks up again and when it does that I can hear the hard drive crunch etc. Not really getting anything in the logs like bttv module being reset so I don't really know where to look. Any one have some ideas? Thanks, Peter SCSI based system. doesn't tell us anything. What motherboard, processor, etc. Do you have? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- cybersource.us 115 Richfield Road Williamsville, New York 14221 716-553-8525 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Really Bad performance
Hello all, I wonder if anyone can help. I've got the latest MythTV running on an AverMedia PCI Tuner card with a SCSI based system. I have had similar setups on other systems with the same type of TV card and SCSI drives but this one is REALLY bad performance. Live TV starts and stops all the time as your watching it, it just pauses then picks up again and when it does that I can hear the hard drive crunch etc. Not really getting anything in the logs like bttv module being reset so I don't really know where to look. Any one have some ideas? Thanks, Peter -- cybersource.us 115 Richfield Road Williamsville, New York 14221 716-553-8525 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Installation problem
Hello All, I've installed Mythtv many times without troubles, now I can't seem to get 0.17 installed. It behaves very strangely, running mythtvsetup gets me to the startup screens but then it will not move between screens, only the esc key seems to work and I can't get the install started. I copied the mc.sql file in and mysql is running fine, although at the terminal screen after I escape out, it complains about not being able to connect to socket. Mythtv user can access mysql fine and the dir's have proper perms. Any clues?? TIA -- cybersource.us 115 Richfield Road Williamsville, New York 14221 716-553-8525 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Installation problem
Colin, Thank you very much, ctrl-enter did the trick and I do have that version of qt. That one would have drove me nuts!!! Thanks again! p.s. Any experience with a PVR-350? I used AverTV cards before with alot of luck, can't seem to get this PVR-350 workin. TIA Colin Smillie wrote: On 4/16/05, Cyber Source [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I've installed Mythtv many times without troubles, now I can't seem to get 0.17 installed. It behaves very strangely, running mythtvsetup gets me to the startup screens but then it will not move between screens, only the esc key seems to work and I can't get the install started. I This sounds like the qt 3.3.4 bug, check the list archives or try ctrl-enter on the setup screens. Thanks, Colin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Signature 115 Richfield Road Williamsville, New York 14221 716-553-8525 inline: logo.jpg___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] more install issues
Hello All, I have managed to get MythTV installed (had that qt problem where you need to hold the ctrl key down when hitting enter through the setup). I can go through all the menu and even capture TV from command line as suggested on Wilsonet's site however when I try to watch tv (using PVR-350) I get many many terminal responses saying Using protocol version 14 (0.17 Mythtv installed) and it says LiveTV not successfully started and Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV and then Changing from None to None then back to many terminal responses with the protocol messages again. I have setup MythTV many times in the past with older versions and with AverTV cards, this is my first time using the PVR-350 and version 0.17. I believe I have it all setup right, channels, tuner, etc. Any clues as to what's going on? p.s. I have the ivtv stuff as suggested on Wilson's site but the ivtv module never gets loaded on boot, does this need to or is it loaded when Myth fires up?? TIA -- cybersource.us 115 Richfield Road Williamsville, New York 14221 716-553-8525 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] more install issues
I'm also getting mythtv: could not connect to socket and mythtv: No such file of directory Cyber Source wrote: Hello All, I have managed to get MythTV installed (had that qt problem where you need to hold the ctrl key down when hitting enter through the setup). I can go through all the menu and even capture TV from command line as suggested on Wilsonet's site however when I try to watch tv (using PVR-350) I get many many terminal responses saying Using protocol version 14 (0.17 Mythtv installed) and it says LiveTV not successfully started and Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV and then Changing from None to None then back to many terminal responses with the protocol messages again. I have setup MythTV many times in the past with older versions and with AverTV cards, this is my first time using the PVR-350 and version 0.17. I believe I have it all setup right, channels, tuner, etc. Any clues as to what's going on? p.s. I have the ivtv stuff as suggested on Wilson's site but the ivtv module never gets loaded on boot, does this need to or is it loaded when Myth fires up?? TIA -- cybersource.us 115 Richfield Road Williamsville, New York 14221 716-553-8525 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
