Happy new year!<br><br>Since I didn't get much answer from you on my last reports, I tried to start from scratch. <br>Installed Mythbuntu 8.10 and started out with blank sheets...<br><br>Got rid of the error statements from the backend, and are managing to get into a viewer up and<br>
running now when attempting to watch TV.<br><br>Signal is 48% on my DVB-T channels in Norway, but there is no lock which the viewer also <br>warns me about. <br><br>Could this have anything to do with the the mpeg4 encoding of the TV signal here in Norway?<br>
<br>Attaching the channels.conf file I used for setting up the channels in the channel editor. I got this<br>from "scan scan.freq > channels.conf" (dvbutils package), where scan.freq contained these entries:<br>
<br>T 706000000 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/8 NONE<br>
T 650000000 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/8 NONE<br>
T 786000000 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/8 NONE<br><br>As stated earlier, I'm getting a nice signal using "vlc channels.conf", but I'm having trouble<br>getting mplayer dvb://102 understand what the heck I'm meaning...<br>
<br>Any ideas?<br><br>Best regards,<br>Helge Fredriksen<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Helge Fredriksen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:helgeingvart@gmail.com">helgeingvart@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Nick Morrott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:knowledgejunkie@gmail.com" target="_blank">knowledgejunkie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On 28/12/2008, Helge Fredriksen <<a href="mailto:helgeingvart@gmail.com" target="_blank">helgeingvart@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> However, I'm getting no signal whatsoever when I'm trying to watch TV in the<br>
> frontend. It just flickers a bit and returns me to the frontpage of the<br>
> program when I select this option. It doesn't give me any error messages on<br>
> the console either when running it in the foreground.<br>
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</div>Are you able to receive EIT programme listings, or record successfully?</blockquote></div><div><br>No, I don't have any program listing under any of the channels I chose<br>"Combine data from several other grabbers" in the Listings grabber in the setup of<br>
video sources. Chose this option, since there was no specific entry for Norway.<br><br></div><div class="Ih2E3d"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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It _could_ be a playback problem, rather than a tuning problem, so<br>
during testing choose the CPU- or Slim playback profile in<br>
mythfrontend's TV Playback settings..</blockquote></div><div><br>Was set to CPU+ per default, tried to change to Slim and CPU--, but no change.<br> </div><div class="Ih2E3d"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>The mythbackend user has to have access to the /dev/dvb* devices. Many<br>
users run the mythbackend daemon as root, and mythfrontend as their<br>
regular user.</blockquote></div><div><br>Tried to run the backend server as root, since the /dev/dvb* was owned by root, but<br>allowed read/execute access though to the adapter0 and adapter1 for group/other.<br> <br></div>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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If you open 2 consoles and run mythbackend in one, and mythfrontend in<br>
the other (or redirect logging from both to two log files), you will<br>
be able see the log ouput from both during a LiveTV session.</blockquote></div><div><br>Ok, that brought forward a bit info:<br><br>root@ultimate:/home/helge# /usr/bin/mythbackend --pidfile /var/run/mythtv/mythbackend.pid<br>
2008-12-29 15:30:19.775 Using runtime prefix = /usr<br>
2008-12-29 15:30:19.776 Empty LocalHostName.<br>2008-12-29 15:30:19.776 Using localhost value of ultimate<br>2008-12-29 15:30:19.780 New DB connection, total: 1<br>2008-12-29 15:30:19.784 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost<br>
2008-12-29 15:30:19.784 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'<br>2008-12-29 15:30:19.784 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost<br>2008-12-29 15:30:19.785 New DB connection, total: 2<br>
2008-12-29 15:30:19.786 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost<br>2008-12-29 15:30:19.787 Current Schema Version: 1214<br>Starting up as the master server.<br>2008-12-29 15:30:19.792 TVRec(1) Error: Problem finding starting channel, setting to default of '3'.<br>
2008-12-29 15:30:19.934 ChannelBase(1) Error: InitializeInputs(): <br> Could not get inputs for the capturecard.<br> Perhaps you have forgotten to bind video<br> sources to your card's inputs?<br>
2008-12-29 15:30:19.935 TVRec(2) Error: Problem finding starting channel, setting to default of '3'.<br>2008-12-29 15:30:19.935 DVBChan(2:1) Error: Opening DVB frontend device failed.<br> eno: Device or resource busy (16)<br>
2008-12-29 15:30:19.935 TVRec(3) Error: Problem finding starting channel, setting to default of '3'.<br>2008-12-29 15:30:19.935 DVBChan(3:1) Error: Opening DVB frontend device failed.<br> eno: Device or resource busy (16)<br>
2008-12-29 15:30:19.936 New DB scheduler connection<br>2008-12-29 15:30:19.936 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost<br>2008-12-29 15:30:19.939 New DB connection, total: 3<br>2008-12-29 15:30:19.939 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost<br>
2008-12-29 15:30:19.945 MediaServer:: Loopback address specified - 127.0.0.1. Disabling UPnP<br>2008-12-29 15:30:19.945 Main::Registering HttpStatus Extension<br>2008-12-29 15:30:19.945 mythbackend version: 0.21.20080304-1 <a href="http://www.mythtv.org" target="_blank">www.mythtv.org</a><br>
2008-12-29 15:30:19.945 Enabled verbose msgs: important general<br>2008-12-29 15:30:19.946 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 1.0 GB w/freq: 15 min<br>2008-12-29 15:30:22.938 Reschedule requested for id -1.<br>
2008-12-29 15:30:22.948 Scheduled 0 items in 0.0 = 0.00 match + 0.01 place<br>2008-12-29 15:30:22.950 Seem to be woken up by USER<br>2008-12-29 15:31:39.939 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 1.0 GB w/freq: 15 min<br>
<br></div></div>Seems like there's a problem with bindings between video sources to card input, even though I have connected them in the <br>setup. Also, it's complaining about default channel, which I also ensured was a valid unencrypted channel.<br>
<br>Best regards,<br><font color="#888888">Helge Fredriksen<br>
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