Mr cctsurf wrote:
From: "Michael T. Dean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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?
OK. I thought you were saying it's not working and sometimes you said
yes and sometimes you said no to the prompt about continuing without
sound. So, if it doesn't ask you whether to continue without sound when
sound is "enabled," you should be OK.
Therefore, it's probably a video output issue.
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.
At the level of logging you've chosen (default), it could be any of a
number of things. To get more detailed info from the logging, use a
command like:
mythfrontend -v playback
or
mythfrontend -v all
Also, search the lists. It seems like at least one person per week
starts a new thread about LiveTV crashing after 1 second or something
like that.
HTH,
Mike
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