From: "Michael T. Dean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv <[email protected]>
To: Discussion about mythtv <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] HELP: System crash when trying to watch live
orrecorded tv
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:00:28 -0400
Mr cctsurf wrote:
Notably it seems that I can record because I can see the show previewed in
a small window (in my theme, below the listing of recorded shows) before
attempting to watch it (I haven't been able to play recordings using Myth
or mplayer, either with transcoding (mpeg4) or without - straight .nuv
file) When I attempt to play back the recording with Myth, I get a
lockup, with Mplayer, I get some attempt to load codecs, but it exits very
quickly. After a mythtv lockup, I cannot do anything but
reset the system, SSHing in doesn't work (in fact, I often have to reset
twice to get a boot).
I assume that I could have a problem with my sound (sblive), but I have at
times disabled it (mythtv asks if I want to proceed without sound (I had
difficulty initially getting the sound devices to be rw for users on
reboot), and when I proceed, it crashes the computer in the same way that
it did with the sound enabled (perhaps this is just the fact that myth
crashes without sound working).
Myth doesn't necessarily crash without sound, but Myth is very likely to
experience problems (which may even result in crashing) on a system whose
sound is not properly configured. My recommendation is to fix the sound
issue and see if that fixes the playback issue.
How do I know when I have Sound working correctly? Is it When I can perform
the test listed in the documentation - Troubleshooting Audio section, which
says to play xawtv and use aplay /dev/dsp to output the audio?
I captured this through a ssh connection:
2005-10-19 02:57:50.808 New DB connection, total: 1
Total desktop width=1280, height=1024, numscreens=1
2005-10-19 02:57:50.907 Using screen 0, 1280x1024 at 0,0
2005-10-19 02:57:50.923 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1
www.mythtv.org
2005-10-19 02:57:50.925 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2005-10-19 02:57:51.517 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
2005-10-19 02:57:53.049 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2005-10-19 02:58:25.370 New DB connection, total: 2
2005-10-19 02:58:25.490 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.1:6543
(try 1 of 5)
2005-10-19 02:58:25.505 Using protocol version 15
2005-10-19 02:58:25.598 Using protocol version 15
2005-10-19 02:58:26.014 Disable DPMS
2005-10-19 02:58:26.396 Opening audio device 'default'.
2005-10-19 02:58:26.582 Using XV port 53
2005-10-19 02:58:27.514 Realtime priority would require SUID as root.
What is going on at the time of the last line?
Nothing much. That's not an error, just a configuration notice. Don't
worry about it (at least, not at this point).
I assume that that would point to what is crashing the system.
No. Something else.
I understand that that's not an error, but if I knew what was going on in
the order of execution at that point, I thought maybe I could direct my
troubleshooting more easily.
Also I note that I don't think XV works for playback in Mplayer, could
this be causing the crash.
Xv is working for Myth, so you've probably just chosen another video output
device for MPlayer.
Mike
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Thanks very much for your help!
cctsurf
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