My apologies for the lack of information and thank you for responding.<br><br>I'm running a combined backend/frontend mythbuntu installation from packages contained within ubuntu 7.10 based on mythtv 0.20.<br><br>It was previously running. It may have something to do with audio settings in recording. I have included some more information below from a post that I made before which contains some information from the backend log file. Thanks again for your help and for responding!<br><br>...<br><br>2007-11-22 07:23:08.156 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: Error getting codec params u<br>sing old IVTV ioctl<br> eno: Bad address (14)<br>2007-11-22 07:23:08.165 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Warning: MPEG Layer1 does not work<br>properly with ivtv
driver.<br> Using MPEG layer 2 audio instead.<br>2007-11-22 07:23:08.166 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: Could not set MPEG controls<br>2 through 0.<br> eno: Numerical result out of range (34)<br>2007-11-22 07:23:17.914 TVRec(1): Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None<br><br>...<br><br><br><b><i>CHRIS KOTTING <ckotting@wideopenwest.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <meta content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <meta content="OPENWEBMAIL" name="GENERATOR"> <div><font size="2"><b>On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:19:44 -0800 (PST), Bruce Perryman wrote</b> <br>> Hello, <br>>
<br>> I created a thread about blank screen when starting livetv which received no responses. <br>> <br>> In viewing other responses to other posts I saw where I can start the frontend in the command line in verbose mode. When running this command it appears that LiveTV times out because of a failure to start a recording. I don't know what this recording is or how to remove it. Can it be that this problem is due to a bad recording? Please offer your opinions. <br>> <br>> This is the output of mythfrontend -v audio,playback: <br>> <br>> bper@Hosana:~$ mythfrontend -v audio,playback <br>> 2007-11-26 07:04:17.257 Using runtime prefix = /usr <br><snip></font><font size="2"> <br>> 2007-11-26 07:04:24.864 New DB connection, total: 2 <br>> 2007-11-26 07:04:24.865 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost <br>> 2007-11-26 07:04:24.885 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5) <br>> 2007-11-26 07:04:24.904
Using protocol version 31 <br>> 2007-11-26 07:04:24.972 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingLiveTV <br>> 2007-11-26 07:04:24.973 Using protocol version 31 <br>> 2007-11-26 07:04:25.329 LiveTVChain(live-Hosana-2007-11-26T07:04:24): ReloadAll(): Added new recording <br>> 2007-11-26 07:04:25.331 RingBuf(/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1000_20071126070425.mpg): OpenFile(/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1000_20071126070425.mpg, 12) <br>> 2007-11-26 07:04:31.835 RingBuf(/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1000_20071126070425.mpg): Invalid file (fd -1) when opening '/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1000_20071126070425.mpg'. <br>> 2007-11-26 07:04:31.835 RingBuf(/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1000_20071126070425.mpg): CalcReadAheadThresh(1 KB) <br>> -> threshhold(64 KB) min read(0 KB) blk size(32 KB) <br>> 2007-11-26 07:04:31.839
DPMS Deactivated <br>> 2007-11-26 07:05:11.846 TV Error: StartRecorder() -- timed out waiting for recorder to start <br>> 2007-11-26 07:05:11.846 TV Error: LiveTV not successfully started <br>> 2007-11-26 07:05:11.862 TV: Deleting TV Chain in destructor <br>> 2007-11-26 07:05:11.863 DPMS Reactivated. <br>> <br></font></div> <div><font size="2">It would be helpful to know:</font></div> <ul> <li><font size="2">whether this is a combined frontend/backend, or a remote frontend,</font></li> <li><font size="2">what version you are running, </font></li> <li><font size="2">on top of what distribution, and </font></li> <li><font size="2">whther you compiled form source or used a package.</font></li> </ul> <div><font size="2">The text of the messages heps, bit it's still a little difficult to defintiely determine what the problem is. However, some clues:</font></div> <div><font size="2">If it is a backend server with a remote frontend
(rather than a combined FE/BE), you need to change the IP address in Setup to that of the remote server (or to the correct assigned name, if you're using DHCP).</font></div> <div><font size="2">It seems really odd to me that the ringbuffer would be located in a subdirectory of /var/lib. If I recall correctly, the Live TV ringbuffer is usually in the same directory as the recordings. MythTV may not have the permissions required to write to that directory.</font></div> _______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br>mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br></blockquote><br><p> 
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