Re: [gentoo-user] OT - MythTV problems

[Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com>]

On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 17:36 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 9/15/06, Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 11:04 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
> <SNIP>
> 
> >
> > OK.  I installed the 2.6.17-gentoo-r2 kernel and remerged ivtv, then
> > rebooted.  It still doesn't work.  Here's the info:
> 
> It does look better though. The removal messages are gone.
> 
> I assume you can still cat the video to a file and watch it in
> mplayer, correct? So ivtv is working and the issue is Myth.
> 
> >
> > camille ~ # dmesg | grep 'ivtv'
> > ivtv:  ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
> > ivtv:  version 0.7.0 (tagged release) loading
> > ivtv:  Linux version: 2.6.17-gentoo-r2 SMP mod_unload 486 gcc-4.1
> > ivtv:  In case of problems please include the debug info between
> > ivtv:  the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with
> > ivtv:  any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist.
> > ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250 card (cx23416 based)
> > ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
> > tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> > tda9887 0-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> > saa7115 0-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> > msp3400 0-0040: MSP4448G-A2 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> > ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
> > ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
> > ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB
> > total)
> > ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB
> > total)
> > ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB
> > total)
> > ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB
> > total)
> > ivtv0: Create encoder radio stream
> > ivtv0: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250, card #0
> > ivtv:  ====================  END INIT IVTV  ====================
> > camille ~ #
> >
> > michael@camille ~ $ mythfrontend
> > 2006-09-15 18:50:33.924 Using runtime prefix = /usr
> > 2006-09-15 18:50:34.010 New DB connection, total: 1
> > 2006-09-15 18:50:34.017 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> > localhost
> 
> <SNIP>
> 
> > 2006-09-15 18:50:34.665 Total desktop dim: 1024x768, with 1 screen[s].
> > 2006-09-15 18:50:34.668 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0
> > 2006-09-15 18:50:34.669 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T.)
> > mythtv: could not connect to socket
> > mythtv: No such file or directory
> > lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
> 
> What are the messages above telling us? I know Myth streams the live
> TV video to a specific directory and then plays back from that
> directory. Is that what it's talkign about here? Does that directory
> exist on your machine or has it gotten trashed somehow? Do you
> possibly have stale files left over in that directory that are getting
> in the way of a new file getting created? I beleive it should be empty
> when TV is not playing. I have had times where I ran out of disk space
> because stuff got stranded there.
> 
> 
> > 2006-09-15 18:50:35.099 Joystick disabled.
> > 2006-09-15 18:50:35.236 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
> > 2006-09-15 18:50:36.059 Starting media monitor.
> <SNIP>
> >
> >
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Here's what I see running mythfrontend in a terminal and watching TV
> for a few seconds:
> 
> mark@lightning ~ $ mythfrontend
> 2006-09-15 17:24:55.823 Using runtime prefix = /usr
> 2006-09-15 17:24:55.837 XScreenSaver support enabled
> 2006-09-15 17:24:55.856 New DB connection, total: 1
> 2006-09-15 17:24:55.868 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> 192.168.1.55
> 2006-09-15 17:24:55.872 Total desktop dim: 1280x1024, with 1 screen[s].
> 2006-09-15 17:24:55.875 Running in a window
> 2006-09-15 17:24:55.876 Using screen 0, 1280x997 at 0,0
> 2006-09-15 17:24:55.897 Current Schema Version: 1123
> 2006-09-15 17:24:55.897 mythfrontend version: 0.19.20060121-2 www.mythtv.org
> 2006-09-15 17:24:55.898 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
> 2006-09-15 17:24:56.267 lang0: aar
> 2006-09-15 17:24:56.268 lang: aar
> 2006-09-15 17:24:56.273 lang1: aar
> 2006-09-15 17:24:56.273 lang: aar
> 2006-09-15 17:24:56.455 Total desktop dim: 1280x1024, with 1 screen[s].
> 2006-09-15 17:24:56.458 Running in a window
> 2006-09-15 17:24:56.458 Using screen 0, 1280x997 at 0,0
> 2006-09-15 17:24:56.460 Switching to square mode (Titivillus)
> 2006-09-15 17:24:57.124 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
> 2006-09-15 17:25:01.243 New DB connection, total: 2
> 2006-09-15 17:25:01.249 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> 192.168.1.55
> 2006-09-15 17:25:01.348 Connecting to backend server:
> 192.168.1.55:6543 (try 1 of 5)
> 2006-09-15 17:25:01.360 Using protocol version 26
> 2006-09-15 17:25:01.380 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingLiveTV
> 2006-09-15 17:25:01.395 Using protocol version 26
> 2006-09-15 17:25:02.701 Disable DPMS
> 0: start_time: 0.036 duration: 8589.932
> 1: start_time: 0.026 duration: 0.004
> stream: start_time: 0.289 duration: 95443.795 bitrate=0 kb/s
> 2006-09-15 17:25:05.038 AFD: Opened codec 0x83ee10, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
> 2006-09-15 17:25:05.058 AFD: Opened codec 0x7c9ae0, id(MP2) type(Audio)
> 2006-09-15 17:25:05.097 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.
> 2006-09-15 17:25:05.097 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
> 2006-09-15 17:25:05.352 VideoOutputXv Error: Could not find suitable
> XVideo surface.
> 2006-09-15 17:25:05.353 VideoOutputXv: Falling back to X shared memory
> video output.
>                               *** May be slow ***
> 2006-09-15 17:25:05.503 TV: Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> 2006-09-15 17:25:05.504 New DB connection, total: 3
> 2006-09-15 17:25:05.505 New DB connection, total: 4
> 2006-09-15 17:25:05.591 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> 192.168.1.55
> 2006-09-15 17:25:05.616 Using realtime priority.
> 2006-09-15 17:25:05.617 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> 192.168.1.55
> 2006-09-15 17:25:05.626 Video timing method: RTC
> 2006-09-15 17:25:09.534 TV: Attempting to change from WatchingLiveTV to None
> 2006-09-15 17:25:10.114 TV: Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
> 2006-09-15 17:25:10.122 Enable DPMS
> mark@lightning ~ $
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Mark

Can you send me an ls -l of your TV partition so that I can see what the
permissions should be?  When I ran mythtv-setup it gave me a message
about not being able to create .test because of some permissions issue.
I found a site online that suggested that the error could be caused by a
corrupt filesystem on the TV partition.  I'm going to try that solution,
but some of the files on that partition still work, so I'm in the
process of moving them off that partition so I can reformat it...

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