Myth : 0.18.1.20050523-1 Issue that's been around since 0.17. A frontend gets confused and leaving an empty value in mythconverg.cardinput.startchan
>From that point on, the capture card is un-usable for LiveTV. Anything scheduled works fine, but any attempts at liveTV fail. until you go force the value in SQL back to something other than NULL, and stop/start the backend. Start with this: mysql> select cardinputid,cardid,tunechan,startchan from cardinput; +-------------+--------+----------+-----------+ | cardinputid | cardid | tunechan | startchan | +-------------+--------+----------+-----------+ | 1 | 1 | 15 | 15 | | 2 | 2 | 15_1 | 15_1 | | 3 | 3 | 15_1 | 15_1 | +-------------+--------+----------+-----------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec) Choose "LIVETV" on a frontend that is somehow confused about what LiveTV means (and this issue stays after stop/start frontend. The frontend will black screen then back to the menu. 2005-07-12 02:22:14.709 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2005-07-12 02:22:14.746 DVB#0 Recorder: Card opened successfully (using TS mode). 2005-07-12 02:22:14.748 DVB#0 ERROR - No PIDS set, please correct your channel setup. 2005-07-12 02:22:15.749 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-07-12 02:22:16.751 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-07-12 02:22:17.753 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-07-12 02:22:18.755 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-07-12 02:22:19.756 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-07-12 02:22:20.758 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-07-12 02:22:21.760 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-07-12 02:22:22.762 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-07-12 02:22:23.764 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-07-12 02:22:24.766 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-07-12 02:22:25.767 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-07-12 02:22:26.769 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-07-12 02:22:27.771 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-07-12 02:22:28.773 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-07-12 02:22:29.775 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-07-12 02:22:29.777 Couldn't read data from the capture card in 15 seconds. Stopping. 2005-07-12 02:22:29.807 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None 2005-07-12 02:22:30.777 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-07-12 02:22:30.778 Closing DVB recorder Now you have: mysql> select cardinputid,cardid,tunechan,startchan from cardinput; +-------------+--------+----------+-----------+ | cardinputid | cardid | tunechan | startchan | +-------------+--------+----------+-----------+ | 1 | 1 | 15 | 15 | | 2 | 2 | 15_1 | 15_1 | | 3 | 3 | 15_1 | | +-------------+--------+----------+-----------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec) Notice the absence of "startchan" some how, some way, any value other than a numeric, or numeric_numeric should be invalid, and take "tunechan" instead. _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list mythtv-dev@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev