[mythtv-users] sound not encoding

[mstrimel]

hello,
I wrote earlier about this problem, thought I fixed it by changing to onboard 
sound, but I was wrong (onboard sound has constant popping so I really need the 
PCI to work)

Nutshell: 
* LiveTV has no sound.
* If I unmute "mic" while playing live TV, I can hear the audio a few seconds 
ahead of the video, so I know the sound is getting to the card.  It's just not 
encoding it.
* If I play back an old recording, I can hear sound.  So I know (?) it's not a 
playback problem.

running "mythbackend -v audio, recording" gives:  
2006-01-29 18:33:56.018 mythbackend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 www.mythtv.org
2006-01-29 18:33:56.019 Enabled verbose msgs : important general record audio
2006-01-29 18:33:58.017 Reschedule requested for id -1.
2006-01-29 18:33:58.339 Scheduled 4 items in 0.3 = 0.31 match + 0.01 place
2006-01-29 18:33:58.348 Seem to be woken up by USER
2006-01-29 18:34:06.024 New DB connection, total: 4
2006-01-29 18:34:08.302 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2006-01-29 18:34:08.302 adding: ubuntu as a client (events: 0)
2006-01-29 18:34:08.308 Getting next free recorder after : -1
2006-01-29 18:34:08.309 Card 1 is local.
2006-01-29 18:34:08.314 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2006-01-29 18:34:08.315 adding: ubuntu as a client (events: 1)
2006-01-29 18:34:08.324 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2006-01-29 18:34:08.324 adding: ubuntu as a client (events: 0)
2006-01-29 18:34:08.335 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2006-01-29 18:34:08.335 adding: ubuntu as a client (events: 0)
2006-01-29 18:34:08.340 adding: ubuntu as a remote ringbuffer
2006-01-29 18:34:08.347 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2006-01-29 18:34:08.355 Using profile 'Live TV' to record
strange error flushing buffer ...
2006-01-29 18:34:16.781 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None


running mythfrontend -v record,audio gives:

2006-01-29 18:34:08.292 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 
5)
2006-01-29 18:34:08.298 Using protocol version 15
2006-01-29 18:34:08.319 Using protocol version 15
2006-01-29 18:34:08.480 Disable DPMS
2006-01-29 18:34:08.745 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2006-01-29 18:34:08.745 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2006-01-29 18:34:08.755 Using XV port 146
X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
  Major opcode:  142
  Minor opcode:  14
  Resource id:  0x1ca
2006-01-29 18:34:08.760 Couldn't get the color key color, and we need it.
You likely won't get any video.
2006-01-29 18:34:09.001 Using realtime priority.
2006-01-29 18:34:09.028 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2006-01-29 18:34:09.102 Video timing method: RTC
X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
  Major opcode:  142
  Minor opcode:  14
  Resource id:  0x1ca
2006-01-29 18:34:16.715 Couldn't get the color key color, and we need it.
You likely won't get any video.
2006-01-29 18:34:17.055 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
2006-01-29 18:34:17.058 Changing from None to None
2006-01-29 18:34:17.059 Enable DPMS


I've tried running the various messages thru google and the archives, but can't 
seem to find anything relevant.  [Video works just fine].  Is it a problem that 
the backend opens both a OSS and Alsa device?   Is there a manual record 
command I can try to check for other errors?

Thanks for any suggestions,
Mary
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[mythtv-users] sound suddenly not encoding -- update

[mstrimel]

UPDATE:
After posting the message below, I tried running mythbackend -v audio to look 
for more info.  I also switched to the onboard sound instead of my installed 
soundcard.  This seems to have fixed both problems, although I confess to being 
completely baffled (I had tried restarting the backend and the machine several 
times before writing but it made no difference).

If anyone knows what this might have been, I'd love to hear it in case this 
happens again.  I've run out of sound cards :)


Hello,
My mythbox has been running great for several months now.  Suddenly, it is 
failing to encode sound and it also refuses to schedule new recordings.  

When I try to watch livetv, the backend log shows "strange error flushing 
buffer."  If I run mythbackend with the "-v all" option, the log shows a very 
long string as follws (not sure if this is an error or not):

2006-01-28 16:22:09.065 6   128000
2006-01-28 16:22:09.097 6   128000
2006-01-28 16:22:09.260 6   128000
2006-01-28 16:22:09.277 6   128000
2006-01-28 16:22:09.308 6   128000
2006-01-28 16:22:09.359 6   128000
2006-01-28 16:22:09.425 6   128000
2006-01-28 16:22:09.460 6   128000
2006-01-28 16:22:09.471 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None

I'm pretty certain it's not a sound card problem, because if I unmute line-in I 
can hear the appropriate sound a few seconds ahead of the video feed, and my 
old 
recordings play sound.  I uninstalled and re-installed lame and toggled many 
sound settings but it didn't seem to help.

I also have a problem where myth will not accept new recordings ... when I hit 
"save these settings," the guide says the show is "not recording."  Yet I can 
record from live tv by hitting "r", with no sound of course.

These problems seem to have cropped up at the same time but I'm not sure if 
they're related.  I have searched the newsgroup archives, saw some mentions of 
the "flushing buffer' error but no solutions.

Any ideas?
TIA
Mary
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[mythtv-users] sound suddenly not encoding

[mstrimel]

Hello,
My mythbox has been running great for several months now.  Suddenly, it is 
failing to encode sound and it also refuses to schedule new recordings.  

When I try to watch livetv, the backend log shows "strange error flushing 
buffer."  If I run mythbackend with the "-v all" option, the log shows a very 
long string as follws (not sure if this is an error or not):

2006-01-28 16:22:09.065 6   128000
2006-01-28 16:22:09.097 6   128000
2006-01-28 16:22:09.260 6   128000
2006-01-28 16:22:09.277 6   128000
2006-01-28 16:22:09.308 6   128000
2006-01-28 16:22:09.359 6   128000
2006-01-28 16:22:09.425 6   128000
2006-01-28 16:22:09.460 6   128000
2006-01-28 16:22:09.471 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None

I'm pretty certain it's not a sound card problem, because if I unmute line-in I 
can hear the appropriate sound a few seconds ahead of the video feed, and my 
old recordings play sound.  I uninstalled and re-installed lame and toggled 
many sound settings but it didn't seem to help.

I also have a problem where myth will not accept new recordings ... when I hit 
"save these settings," the guide says the show is "not recording."  Yet I can 
record from live tv by hitting "r", with no sound of course.

These problems seem to have cropped up at the same time but I'm not sure if 
they're related.  I have searched the newsgroup archives, saw some mentions of 
the "flushing buffer' error but no solutions.

Any ideas?
TIA
Mary
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[mythtv-users] mythgame not starting xmame properly ... so close ...

[mstrimel]

>Try running the xmame cmdline by itself and you should see the
>problem. The cmdline is in your error message. 

OK, that did help narrow it down.  Mythtv is adding a "." before my path to 
xmame, so it cant' find the binary.  I've rechecked and experimented with the 
settings screen, but no luck.  

How do I get myth to stop adding the "x"?
[or, how do I figure out what path mythtv is running "from" so I can put a link 
there and fool it into doing what I want :)]
thanks,
Mary
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[mythtv-users] logfiles: where?

[mstrimel]

>Try to do a brief (1 minute) recording. That seems to have fixed
>this annoyance for some people:
>

>I think that this was something that cleared up for me after I
>started using the svn.

Thanks!  Once I got the logfiles sorted out, my LiveTv problem was even simpler 
than that.  

What happened was, a while back when I first ran mythbackend, I ran it as root 
(whoops) so it created the ringbuffer with permissions such that the mythtv 
user could not access the file.  Changed permissions, problem solved!
thanks all.
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[mythtv-users] logfiles: where?

[mstrimel]

actually, I have 2 problems.  

1. I created a directory called "/var/log/mythtv", and made sure that mythtv 
has write permissions to it, and restarted several times, but still there are 
no logs there.  Sorry if this is a dumb question but: where are the mythtv logs 
supposed to be?

2. live tv is not working ... I get a blank screen for a few seconds and it 
returns to the menu.  This process seems to break the connection between the 
frontend and backend (i.e., If I try to do other things after attempting 
livetv, mythtv informs me that the backend is not running or is improperly 
configured ).   Everything else works great.  I've searched for other posts 
about this, but they seem to address much earlier versions of myth or are 
otherwise inapplicable (whole system crashes, for example).

my system: $ 200 wal mart box with ubuntu hoary, mythtv 0.18.1 compiled from 
source, PVR-250 [although live tv showed the same exact symptoms with a PVR-150 
installed]

If I can solve # 1, I'll send more information and hopefully solve problem # 2! 
thanks,
Mary
mstrimel(at)comcast(dot)net




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[mythtv-users] Ubuntu mythtv guide?

[mstrimel]

>Does anyone know of a good working guide to install mythtv and >devices from
>fresh install of Ubuntu/Debian?

I had a good experience with this one: 
http://www.abarbaccia.com/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,39/

It is not geared toward the very latest/greatest version of Ubuntu but it lays 
out the whole process clearly.

There are at least 2 other guides posted at www.ubuntuforums.org (just search 
"mythtv howto") ... check those if you run into any trouble with the first one.

Mary
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[mythtv-users] mythplugins won't compile

[mstrimel]

hello,
I have compiled/installed mythtv base 0.18.1 on my Ubuntu 5.04 system and it 
runs fine.  A few weeks later I am trying to compile mythplugins; qmake works 
fine but make fails [error shown below.]  I have rechecked that my environment 
variables $PATH and $QTDIR are set as described in the howto.  I have also run 
the errors through google and this mailing list, but found nothing.  What am I 
doing wrong? something basic I'm sure.

Thanks for any suggestions!

main.cpp:15:26: kapplication.h: No such file or directory
main.cpp:16:26: kcmdlineargs.h: No such file or directory
main.cpp:17:21: klocale.h: No such file or directory
In file included from tabview.h:4,
 from main.cpp:18:
webpage.h:6:26: kapplication.h: No such file or directory
webpage.h:7:25: kmainwindow.h: No such file or directory
webpage.h:8:18: kurl.h: No such file or directory
webpage.h:9:37: kparts/browserextension.h: No such file or directory
In file included from tabview.h:4,
 from main.cpp:18:
webpage.h:15: error: parse error before `{' token
webpage.h:23: error: parse error before `const'
webpage.h:24: error: destructors must be member functions
webpage.h:28: error: parse error before `public'
webpage.h:30: error: parse error before `&' token
webpage.h:32: error: parse error before `&' token
webpage.h:35: error: `KIO' was not declared in this scope
webpage.h:35: error: parse error before `::' token
webpage.h:39: error: syntax error before `:' token
webpage.h:41: error: parse error before `&' token
In file included from main.cpp:18:
tabview.h:6:26: kapplication.h: No such file or directory
tabview.h:7:25: kmainwindow.h: No such file or directory
In file included from main.cpp:18:
tabview.h:45: error: parse error before `&' token
tabview.h:47: error: parse error before `&' token
main.cpp:27: error: syntax error before `[' token
main.cpp: In function `int main(int, char**)':
main.cpp:65: error: `KCmdLineArgs' undeclared (first use this function)
main.cpp:65: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each
   function it appears in.)
main.cpp:65: error: parse error before `::' token
main.cpp:67: error: `args' undeclared (first use this function)
main.cpp:67: error: parse error before `::' token
main.cpp:78: error: `KApplication' undeclared (first use this function)
main.cpp:78: error: parse error before `(' token
main.cpp:80: error: `a' undeclared (first use this function)
main.cpp:62: warning: unused variable `char usage[53]'
main.cpp:58: warning: unused parameter `int argc'
main.cpp:58: warning: unused parameter `char**argv'
/usr/include/c++/3.3/bits/locale_facets.h: At top level:
main.cpp:25: warning: `const char*version' defined but not used
make[2]: *** [main.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/home/vicki/sourcecode/mythplugins-0.18.1/mythbrowser/mythbrowser'
make[1]: *** [sub-mythbrowser] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/home/vicki/sourcecode/mythplugins-0.18.1/mythbrowser'
make: *** [sub-mythbrowser] Error 2
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[mythtv-users] directv d10-300 ... impossible?

[mstrimel]

I'm trying to get a mythtv box set up for my Mom.  She has a DirecTv with a 
D10-300 receiver.  

I finally found the low-speed data port in the back of the D10-300, hidden by a 
black sticker ... but has anyone actually gotten the D10-300 change channels 
using this port?  I've seen mention on some other lists that the DirecTv 
firmware is purposely "broken" to prevent this port from being used.  
Supposedly this is different from the d10-100 or other models that are known to 
work. Before I buy or solder a serial cable, can anyone confirm that it will 
work with the D10-300.

I already tried a USB-UIRT (before I found the secret port ;) but it seemingly 
does not pick up the signals from the DirecTV remote. It picks up signals from 
other remotes just fine, but to "learn" how to transmit signals for the 
DirecTV, I obviously have to get it to see the DirecTV remote.

If the D10-300 data port cannot be made to work, can anyone suggest an 
easy-to-set up hardware solution for this (given my embarassing failure with 
the USB-UIRT) would it be easiest if I buy Mom a new satellite recever, and 
if so, which one is guaranteed to work?
thanks
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[mythtv-users] USB-UIRT - cross posted

[mstrimel]

hello,
the USB-UIRT IR receiver comes highly recommended on this list so I bought one. 
 Problem is, whenever I plug in the USB-UIRT, my USB wireless LAN interface 
immediately stops working.  Seems to be a USB conflict of some kind (??).

Can anyone suggest how I might begin troubleshooting this?  The wireless USB 
LAN interface is uses the prism2_usb driver ... the model is Microsoft MN510.

thanks for any ideas (even general ones).
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[mythtv-users] USB-UIRT and LIRC question - slightly off-topic

[mstrimel]

It seems many of you are happy with your USB-UIRT devices under LIRC 
(http://www.usbuirt.com/) and there seem to be linux drivers available.  I just 
set up mythtv ... *wow* ... and now really want to get lirc to work.

Did you have to compile a lirc module for the USB-UIRT?  I am using Ubuntu 
Linux with a kernel version 2.6.8.  I have had no success compiling the lirc 
i2c module for my Hauppauge WinTV and radio card (basically, .deb package for 
kernel source tree for 2.6.8 not available, tried to use "headers" package, 
which supposed to work but lirc still unhappy) ... I know it's supposed to be 
possible to compile the module w/o the source tree, I'm just (obviously) not 
smart enough to do it!

So, can I use the USB-UIRT and lirc without without compiling a module?  Or is 
there any other device that would do this? I would happily pay $ to purchase 
such an animal, and not think about kpkg again :)   I am just a humble end user.
thanks,
Mary
mstrimel AT comcast DOT net

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