The problem was pulse audio (Experimental switch). To make my Optical out work I had to "yum remove "alsa-plugins-pulseaudio", reboot and then all worked magically.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Steve Malenfant <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:smalenfant@gmail.com">smalenfant@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Yesterday I brought up my MythTV on Fedora Core 12 with 0.22. Everything worked great after I figured out the firewall problem with HDHR and also the sounds issues with Pulse Audio (Which I use the experimental stuff right now).<div>
<br></div><div>I could watch GPB with no issues. But today I brought down the system to my living room and hooked up my sound receiver with optical input. At first it didn't work but then I had to unmute the port with alsamixer which I couldn't do with the Gnome volume control (Linux is really terrible for audio setup).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyway, was browsing all the local OTA and all except 1 worked. 8_1 which is GPB HD (the 8_2 and 8_3 worked just fine). </div><div><br></div><div>Watch Live doesn't work and completely hangs mythfrontend.</div>
<div>After restarting the backend because it didn't want to record on that channel anymore, I tried to do the same with watching a recording, same issue. Mythfrontend hung up.</div><div>Tried with mplayer, flawless.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I case somebody got an idea...</div><div><br></div><div>mythfrontend log (In Control-C at the end because the frontend hangs) :</div><div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:05.684 mythfrontend version: branches/release-0-22-fixes/mythtv/ [22973] <a href="http://www.mythtv.org" target="_blank">www.mythtv.org</a></div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:01:05.684 WARNING:</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:05.684 WARNING: ***Pulse Audio is running!!!!***</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:05.684 WARNING:</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:05.684 WARNING: You have told MythTV to ignore it.</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:01:05.684 WARNING:</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:05.684 Using runtime prefix = /usr</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:05.684 Using configuration directory = /home/steve/.mythtv</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:06.561 Unable to read configuration file mysql.txt</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:01:06.561 Empty LocalHostName.</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:06.562 Using localhost value of Fedora-E4300</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:06.568 New DB connection, total: 1</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:06.575 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:01:06.575 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:06.599 ScreenSaverX11Private: Gnome screen saver support enabled</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:06.600 DPMS is active.</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:01:06.602 Primary screen: 0.</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:06.603 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:06.604 Using screen 0, 1280x720 at 0,0</div><div>
2010-01-06 17:01:06.621 MythUI Image Cache size set to 20971520 bytes</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:06.621 Enabled verbose msgs: important general</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:06.635 Primary screen: 0.</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:06.635 Using screen 0, 1280x720 at 0,0</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:01:06.636 Using theme base resolution of 1280x720</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:06.643 LIRC, Error: Failed to connect to Unix socket '/var/run/lirc/lircd'</div><div> eno: No such file or directory (2)</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:01:06.643 JoystickMenuThread Error: Joystick disabled - Failed to read /home/steve/.mythtv/joystickmenurc</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:06.668 Using the Qt painter</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:06.873 Loaded base theme from /usr/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/base.xml</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:01:06.919 Loaded base theme from /usr/share/mythtv/themes/default-wide/base.xml</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:06.937 Loaded base theme from /usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/base.xml</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:06.955 Current MythTV Schema Version (DBSchemaVer): 1244</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:01:07.151 Desktop video mode: 1280x720 59.9377 Hz</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:07.321 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:07.366 Registering WebBrowser as a media playback plugin.</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:01:07.536 MonitorRegisterExtensions(0x100, gif,jpg,png)</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:07.662 Current MythMusic Schema Version (MusicDBSchemaVer): 1017</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:07.703 MonitorRegisterExtensions(0x40, mp3,mp2,ogg,oga,flac,wma,wav,ac3,oma,omg,atp,ra,dts,aac,m4a,aa3,tta,mka,aiff,swa,wv)</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:01:07.737 Current MythVideo Schema Version (mythvideo.DBSchemaVer): 1028</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:07.802 Loading window theme from /usr/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/menu-ui.xml</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:07.928 Loading menu theme from /usr/share/mythtv/themes/defaultmenu//mainmenu.xml</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:01:07.942 Found mainmenu.xml for theme 'Terra'</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:07.964 MythContext: Connecting to backend server: <a href="http://127.0.0.1:6543" target="_blank">127.0.0.1:6543</a> (try 1 of 1)</div>
<div>
2010-01-06 17:01:07.965 Using protocol version 50</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:10.221 Loading menu theme from /usr/share/mythtv/themes/defaultmenu//library.xml</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:13.314 Loading menu theme from /usr/share/mythtv/themes/defaultmenu//manage_recordings.xml</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:01:14.623 Loading menu theme from /usr/share/mythtv/themes/defaultmenu//tv_schedule.xml</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:15.912 Loading window theme from /usr/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/schedule-ui.xml</div><div>
2010-01-06 17:01:19.166 Loading window theme from /usr/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/schedule-ui.xml</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:36.833 Loading menu theme from /usr/share/mythtv/themes/defaultmenu//library.xml</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:37.312 New DB connection, total: 2</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:01:37.312 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost</div><div>2010-01-06 17:01:37.313 Loading window theme from /usr/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/recordings-ui.xml</div><div>2010-01-06 17:02:01.935 Loading menu theme from /usr/share/mythtv/themes/defaultmenu//manage_recordings.xml</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:02:03.118 Loading menu theme from /usr/share/mythtv/themes/defaultmenu//tv_schedule.xml</div><div>2010-01-06 17:02:06.159 Loading window theme from /usr/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/schedule-ui.xml</div><div>
2010-01-06 17:03:12.117 Event socket closed. No connection to the backend.</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:34.674 Loading menu theme from /usr/share/mythtv/themes/defaultmenu//manage_recordings.xml</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:36.318 Loading menu theme from /usr/share/mythtv/themes/defaultmenu//library.xml</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:03:36.792 Loading window theme from /usr/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/recordings-ui.xml</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:36.990 MythContext: Connecting to backend server: <a href="http://127.0.0.1:6543" target="_blank">127.0.0.1:6543</a> (try 1 of 1)</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:03:36.992 Using protocol version 50</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:37.168 MythContext: Connecting to backend server: <a href="http://127.0.0.1:6543" target="_blank">127.0.0.1:6543</a> (try 1 of 1)</div><div>
2010-01-06 17:03:37.169 Using protocol version 50</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:03:39.656 TV: Attempting to change from None to Watching WatchingRecording</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:39.734 MythContext: Connecting to backend server: <a href="http://127.0.0.1:6543" target="_blank">127.0.0.1:6543</a> (try 1 of 1)</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:03:39.735 Using protocol version 50</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:39.782 TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching WatchingRecording, main) -- begin</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:40.010 AFD: Opened codec 0xae4a850, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:03:40.010 AFD: codec AC3 has 5 channels</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:40.011 AFD: Opened codec 0xae49900, id(AC3) type(Audio)</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:40.015 Opening audio device 'default'. ch 6(5) sr 48000</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:03:40.016 Opening ALSA audio device 'default'.</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:40.043 ALSA, Warning: mmap not available, attempting to fall back to slow writes.</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:40.088 Mixer unable to find control Master 2</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:03:40.088 Mixer unable to find control Master 3</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:40.088 Mixer unable to find control Master 4</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:40.089 Mixer unable to find control Master 5</div><div>
2010-01-06 17:03:40.089 Mixer unable to find control Master 2</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:40.089 Mixer unable to find control Master 3</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:40.089 Mixer unable to find control Master 4</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:40.089 Mixer unable to find control Master 5</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:03:40.089 Mixer unable to find control PCM</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:40.090 Mixer unable to find control PCM</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:40.090 Mixer unable to find control Master 2</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:40.090 Mixer unable to find control Master 3</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:03:40.090 Mixer unable to find control Master 4</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:40.090 Mixer unable to find control Master 5</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:40.090 Mixer unable to find control Master 2</div><div>
2010-01-06 17:03:40.090 Mixer unable to find control Master 3</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:40.090 Mixer unable to find control Master 4</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:40.090 Mixer unable to find control Master 5</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:41.232 VideoOutputXv: XVideo Adaptor Name: 'NV17 Video Texture'</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:03:41.410 OSD Theme Dimensions W: 1280 H: 720</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:42.216 TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching WatchingRecording, main) -- end ok</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:42.217 TV: Changing from None to Watching WatchingRecording</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:03:42.218 New DB connection, total: 3</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:42.218 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:42.220 Realtime priority would require SUID as root.</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:03:42.233 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:42.251 ScreenSaverX11Private: DPMS Deactivated 1</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:43.564 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:03:44.895 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 20 times.</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:46.226 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 30 times.</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:47.557 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 40 times.</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:03:48.888 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 50 times.</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:50.218 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 60 times.</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:51.550 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 70 times.</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:03:52.881 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 80 times.</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:54.212 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 90 times.</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:55.542 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 100 times.</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:03:55.543 NVP(0), Error: Timed out waiting for prebuffering too long. Exiting..</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:55.588 TV: Attempting to change from Watching WatchingRecording to None</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:55.616 TV: Changing from Watching WatchingRecording to None</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:03:55.642 ScreenSaverX11Private: DPMS Reactivated 1</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:55.642 TV: Attempting to change from None to None</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:55.668 TV: Attempting to change from None to Watching WatchingRecording</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:03:55.725 MythContext: Connecting to backend server: <a href="http://127.0.0.1:6543" target="_blank">127.0.0.1:6543</a> (try 1 of 1)</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:55.726 Using protocol version 50</div><div>
2010-01-06 17:03:55.777 TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching WatchingRecording, main) -- begin</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:03:55.777 playCtx, Error: Attempting to setup a player, but it already exists.</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:55.777 TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching WatchingRecording, main) -- end error</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:55.799 ScreenSaverX11Private: DPMS Deactivated 1</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:03:56.873 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 110 times.</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:56.873 NVP(0), Error: Timed out waiting for prebuffering too long. Exiting..</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:56.873 NVP(0), Error: Video frame buffering failed too many times.</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:03:58.204 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 120 times.</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:58.204 NVP(0), Error: Timed out waiting for prebuffering too long. Exiting..</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:58.204 NVP(0), Error: Video frame buffering failed too many times.</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:03:59.535 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 130 times.</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:59.535 NVP(0), Error: Timed out waiting for prebuffering too long. Exiting..</div><div>2010-01-06 17:03:59.535 NVP(0), Error: Video frame buffering failed too many times.</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:04:00.866 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 140 times.</div><div>2010-01-06 17:04:00.866 NVP(0), Error: Timed out waiting for prebuffering too long. Exiting..</div><div>2010-01-06 17:04:00.866 NVP(0), Error: Video frame buffering failed too many times.</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:04:02.197 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 150 times.</div><div>2010-01-06 17:04:02.197 NVP(0), Error: Timed out waiting for prebuffering too long. Exiting..</div><div>2010-01-06 17:04:02.197 NVP(0), Error: Video frame buffering failed too many times.</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:04:03.528 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 160 times.</div><div>2010-01-06 17:04:03.528 NVP(0), Error: Timed out waiting for prebuffering too long. Exiting..</div><div>2010-01-06 17:04:03.528 NVP(0), Error: Video frame buffering failed too many times.</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:04:04.859 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 170 times.</div><div>2010-01-06 17:04:04.859 NVP(0), Error: Timed out waiting for prebuffering too long. Exiting..</div><div>2010-01-06 17:04:04.859 NVP(0), Error: Video frame buffering failed too many times.</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:04:06.190 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 180 times.</div><div>2010-01-06 17:04:06.190 NVP(0), Error: Timed out waiting for prebuffering too long. Exiting..</div><div>2010-01-06 17:04:06.190 NVP(0), Error: Video frame buffering failed too many times.</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:04:07.521 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 190 times.</div><div>2010-01-06 17:04:07.521 NVP(0), Error: Timed out waiting for prebuffering too long. Exiting..</div><div>2010-01-06 17:04:07.521 NVP(0), Error: Video frame buffering failed too many times.</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:04:08.852 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 200 times.</div><div>2010-01-06 17:04:08.852 NVP(0), Error: Timed out waiting for prebuffering too long. Exiting..</div><div>2010-01-06 17:04:08.852 NVP(0), Error: Video frame buffering failed too many times.</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:04:10.183 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 210 times.</div><div>2010-01-06 17:04:10.183 NVP(0), Error: Timed out waiting for prebuffering too long. Exiting..</div><div>2010-01-06 17:04:10.183 NVP(0), Error: Video frame buffering failed too many times.</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:04:11.514 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 220 times.</div><div>2010-01-06 17:04:11.514 NVP(0), Error: Timed out waiting for prebuffering too long. Exiting..</div><div>2010-01-06 17:04:11.514 NVP(0), Error: Video frame buffering failed too many times.</div>
<div>2010-01-06 17:04:12.845 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 230 times.</div><div>2010-01-06 17:04:12.845 NVP(0), Error: Timed out waiting for prebuffering too long. Exiting..</div><div>2010-01-06 17:04:12.845 NVP(0), Error: Video frame buffering failed too many times.</div>
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