On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:17 am, John Harvey wrote: > Not related. That is to do with X and if fbdev wasn't working then X > wouldn't start. > > Do you get any other messages when playing live tv? (In particular I'm > interested in messages about dropping buffers).
Thanks for those questions. I see from the log for mythfrontend (see the log at the end) that it seems it cannot find Xv. I am not sure what this is, but after google-ing some I found that I can run xvinfo to get some information. This is what I got: ====================== X-Video Extension version 2.2 screen #0 no adaptors present ====================== From my google-ing it seems I get this when I do NOT tell Myth to use the pvr-350 hardware for playback. However, I have checked this many times (and I just checked again before sending this out). I have "Use the PVR-350's TV out / MPEG decoder" checked and the ÂVideo device for the PVR-350 MPEG decoder:" is set to /dev/video16. Farther down I have "Program Guide Alpha:" is 164. > > Does a recording/mpeg play ok? > Can you just record Ok? I am not sure. I do not have mplayer installed (I think I uninstalled it by mistake at one point and urpmi wants to install the wrong liblirc0.lib, so I have to download/compile it... have not gotten to it yet). I scheduled a recording o Myth and I see the drive light going on every so often, so I assume it is recording. > > For playing an mpeg try > dd if=file.mpg of=/dev/video16 bs=64k > > If that's ok then try > > dd if=/dev/video0 of=newfile.mpg bs=64k > > to record the current tv channel (Use ptune or something to tune the > correct channel first). > > Then see if you can play that recorded mpeg. > And you should probably move this over to the ivtv list since it's really > an ivtv issue. > At one point I did run all these tests and I was able to see just fine. As a matter of fact, I remember I did something like dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 and I was able to see tv just fine. The problem seems to be within Myth. Thanks!! ============myhfrontend log ================= Mon Jan 24 22:41:11 PST 2005 START 2005-01-24 22:41:11 mythfrontend version: 0.16.20040906-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-01-24 22:41:11 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2005-01-24 22:41:13 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin. 2005-01-24 22:41:14 Starting media monitor. Error loading image file: /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/default/NOTHING.png 2005-01-24 22:42:01 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2005-01-24 22:42:01 Using protocol version 13 2005-01-24 22:42:01 Using protocol version 13 2005-01-24 22:42:01 Using protocol version 13 2005-01-24 22:42:09 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-01-24 22:42:09 Audio fragment size: 4096 X Error: XvBadPort 152 Major opcode: 141 Minor opcode: 15 Resource id: 0xffffffff X Error: XvBadPort 152 Major opcode: 141 Minor opcode: 14 Resource id: 0xffffffff Couldn't get the color key color, and we need it. You likely won't get any video. *** * Couldn't find Xv support, falling back to non-Xv mode. * MythTV performance will be much slower since color * conversion and scaling will be done in software. * Consider upgrading your video card or X server if * you would like better performance. 2005-01-24 22:42:10 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV pthread_setschedparam: Operation not permitted 2005-01-24 22:42:11 Running as SUID root would allow some threads to run with realtime priority, improving video smoothness. 2005-01-24 22:42:12 prebuffering pause 2005-01-24 22:42:14 prebuffering pause 2005-01-24 22:42:15 prebuffering pause *** * Your system is not capable of displaying the * full framerate at 720x480 resolution. Frames * will be skipped in order to keep the audio and * video in sync. 2005-01-24 22:42:16 prebuffering pause 2005-01-24 22:42:18 prebuffering pause 2005-01-24 22:42:19 prebuffering pause 2005-01-24 22:42:21 prebuffering pause 2005-01-24 22:42:23 prebuffering pause 2005-01-24 22:42:24 prebuffering pause 2005-01-24 22:42:26 prebuffering pause 2005-01-24 22:42:30 prebuffering pause 2005-01-24 22:42:32 prebuffering pause 2005-01-24 22:42:33 prebuffering pause 2005-01-24 22:42:34 prebuffering pause 2005-01-24 22:42:35 prebuffering pause 2005-01-24 22:42:37 prebuffering pause 2005-01-24 22:42:38 prebuffering pause 2005-01-24 22:42:40 prebuffering pause 2005-01-24 22:42:42 prebuffering pause 2005-01-24 22:42:46 prebuffering pause 2005-01-24 22:42:48 prebuffering pause 2005-01-24 22:42:49 prebuffering pause 2005-01-24 22:42:50 prebuffering pause 2005-01-24 22:42:51 prebuffering pause 2005-01-24 22:42:56 prebuffering pause 2005-01-24 22:42:58 prebuffering pause 2005-01-24 22:42:59 prebuffering pause 2005-01-24 22:43:01 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None 2005-01-24 22:43:01 Changing from None to None ========================================
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