I had a similar symptom (1/2 second of video, then hang) when I first set up my PVR-500.
The solution for me was changing the tuner type (specified in the options when the 'ivtv' module was loaded). I found people using several different settings documented on various forums/sites, and some were wrong. After changing to the correct tuner, I got video. Can you capture video directly from the video0 device, to verify the card is working? ( cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/video.mpg ) At least that way you can narrow it down to a driver problem or a MythTV problem. On 8/6/05, James Colannino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey everyone. I've been googling around trying to find a solution to > this, but haven't found one yet :( I did find one thread where someone > had the same problem > (http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=30704&;) but nobody found a > solution. Basically, I can view TV for about half a second or so, > afterwhich the image freezes, mythfrontend doesn't respond for about > 10-20 seconds, and finally I'm dropped back to the Watch TV menu entry. > I ran mythfrontend in a console and got the following errors: > > 2005-08-06 11:53:12.251 New DB connection, total: 1 > Total desktop width=1280, height=1024, numscreens=1 > 2005-08-06 11:53:12.256 Using screen 0, 1280x1024 at 0,0 > 2005-08-06 11:53:12.258 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 > www.mythtv.org > 2005-08-06 11:53:12.259 Enabled verbose msgs : important general > 2005-08-06 11:53:12.554 Switching to square mode (abstract) > 2005-08-06 11:53:13.006 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin. > 2005-08-06 11:53:14.455 New DB connection, total: 2 > 2005-08-06 11:53:14.470 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 > (try 1 of 5) > 2005-08-06 11:53:14.478 Using protocol version 15 > 2005-08-06 11:53:14.513 Using protocol version 15 > 2005-08-06 11:53:16.925 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'. > 2005-08-06 11:53:16.925 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'. > 2005-08-06 11:53:16.936 Using XV port 145 > 2005-08-06 11:53:17.065 The realtime priority setting is not enabled. > 2005-08-06 11:53:17.086 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV > 2005-08-06 11:53:17.469 Video timing method: SGI OpenGL > 2005-08-06 11:53:18.043 prebuffering pause > 2005-08-06 11:53:37.092 ReadStringList timeout (quick). > 2005-08-06 11:53:37.093 WriteStringList: Bad socket > 2005-08-06 11:53:37.093 ReadStringList: Bad socket > Remote encoder not responding. > 2005-08-06 11:53:37.093 WriteStringList: Bad socket > 2005-08-06 11:53:37.093 ReadStringList: Bad socket > Remote encoder not responding. > 2005-08-06 11:53:37.097 WriteStringList: Bad socket > 2005-08-06 11:53:37.098 ReadStringList: Bad socket > Remote encoder not responding. > 2005-08-06 11:53:37.176 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None > 2005-08-06 11:53:37.179 Changing from None to None > > It's really frustrating me :( Here's the output of the backend log: > > Starting up as the master server. > Error getting inputs for the capturecard. Perhaps you have > forgotten to bind video sources to your card's inputs? > us-bcast is defined, but isn't attached to a cardinput. > Starting up as the master server. > Error getting inputs for the capturecard. Perhaps you have > forgotten to bind video sources to your card's inputs? > us-bcast is defined, but isn't attached to a cardinput. > Starting up as the master server. > Error getting inputs for the capturecard. Perhaps you have > forgotten to bind video sources to your card's inputs? > us-bcast is defined, but isn't attached to a cardinput. > Starting up as the master server. > Error getting inputs for the capturecard. Perhaps you have > forgotten to bind video sources to your card's inputs? > us-bcast is defined, but isn't attached to a cardinput. > > It says that us-bcast (the name of my video source) isn't attached to > the input on the card, but it is (I attached it to Tuner 0). Does > anyone have any ideas? Has anyone else had a similiar problem, and even > better, has anyone solved it? Thanks very much everyone :) > > James > -- > My blog: http://www.crazydrclaw.com/ > My homepage: http://james.colannino.org/ > > "You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth > without it." --G. K. Chesterton > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
