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Author:  jimyhunt [ Sun Feb 13, 2011 3:50 pm ]
Post subject:  Upgrade Issues R5f1 to R5.5

Hello, I have been using Knoppmyth for several years now, and i though it was time to upgrade. I chose to upgrade to 5.5 because of my hardware.

I now have a few small issues that I have been trying to sort out.

The main two are:

Schedule recordings will not load. It is as if they are blank. I can watch live TV and then hit record. This will appear in the recordings page and i can watch them. When a scheduled recording starts i can see the back end status is recording the show, but will not load when i go to the recordings page.

Second problem is that when watching TV or a recording the play back sometimes stutters. It never used to on the earlier version. In addition to this the screen seems to shimmer, i think i need to fix the display settings.

Thanks in advance.

Jim

Author:  manicmike [ Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:00 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Upgrade Issues R5f1 to R5.5

jimyhunt wrote:
Schedule recordings will not load. It is as if they are blank. I can watch live TV and then hit record. This will appear in the recordings page and i can watch them. When a scheduled recording starts i can see the back end status is recording the show, but will not load when i go to the recordings page.

This sounds like a database issue. Run mysqlcheck on all the tables in your database. I would run it with the automatic repair option, thusly:
Code:
mysqlcheck -r -u root mythconverg *

jimyhunt wrote:
Second problem is that when watching TV or a recording the play back sometimes stutters. It never used to on the earlier version. In addition to this the screen seems to shimmer, i think i need to fix the display settings.


Make sure you have xvmc installed and enabled first, as this is most likely to take the load off your CPU.

Mike

Author:  jimyhunt [ Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:32 pm ]
Post subject: 

Thanks manicmike, tried to clean the data base. I used -

mysqlcheck -r -u mythtv -p mythconverg

(after stopping the back).

Still no joy.

When I go to watch the recording, it states "the file for this recording can not be found"

I will focus on this problem first and and ask questions about the stuttering later.

Author:  jimyhunt [ Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:37 pm ]
Post subject: 

I have just checked to see if a video file is being created in the tv directory, and there is not.

I ran /usr/local/bin/myth.find_orphans.pl

To find there is a miss match in video files and the database.

This still doesnot help with the problem of myth no starting the recordings. :(

Author:  tjc [ Mon Feb 14, 2011 7:52 pm ]
Post subject: 

Did you check the ownerships and permissions on the directory?

Oh, and check the backend logfile for any errors. (/var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log)

Author:  jimyhunt [ Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:55 pm ]
Post subject: 

Thanks tjc

I have now looked closly at the log

Code:

2011-02-15 20:41:53.377 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2011-02-15 20:41:53.841 Reschedule requested for id 1301.
2011-02-15 20:41:54.427 Scheduled 85 items in 0.6 = 0.01 match + 0.56 place
2011-02-15 20:41:54.449 TVRec(1): ASK_RECORDING 1 0 0 0
2011-02-15 20:41:55.157 TVRec(1): Changing from None to RecordingOnly
2011-02-15 20:41:55.166 TVRec(1): HW Tuner: 1->1
2011-02-15 20:41:55.650 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 3.0 GB w/freq: 8 min
2011-02-15 20:41:55.655 Started recording: Gok's Clothes RoadShow: channel 1004 on cardid 1, sourceid 1
2011-02-15 20:42:00.803 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2011-02-15 20:42:00.805 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2011-02-15 20:42:04.418 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2011-02-15 20:42:04.421 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2011-02-15 20:42:05.500 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2011-02-15 20:42:05.502 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2011-02-15 20:42:06.648 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2011-02-15 20:42:06.650 Empty LocalHostName.
2011-02-15 20:42:06.651 Using localhost value of mythtv
2011-02-15 20:42:06.721 New DB connection, total: 1
2011-02-15 20:42:06.729 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2011-02-15 20:42:06.731 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2011-02-15 20:42:06.733 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2011-02-15 20:42:06.741 New DB connection, total: 2
2011-02-15 20:42:06.742 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2011-02-15 20:42:06.761 Current Schema Version: 1214
2011-02-15 20:42:09.566 AFD: Opened codec 0x82d0a50, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2011-02-15 20:42:09.568 AFD: codec MP3 has 2 channels
2011-02-15 20:42:09.569 AFD: Opened codec 0x82d0ff0, id(MP3) type(Audio)
2011-02-15 20:42:09.569 AFD: codec MP3 has 1 channels
2011-02-15 20:42:09.570 AFD: Opened codec 0x82d15a0, id(MP3) type(Audio)
2011-02-15 20:42:09.571 AFD: Opened codec 0x82d1b40, id(DVB_SUBTITLE) type(Subtitle)
2011-02-15 20:42:10.015 Preview: Grabbed preview '/myth/tv/1003_20110215200900.mpg' 704x576@144s
2011-02-15 20:42:11.288 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2011-02-15 20:42:11.313 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2011-02-15 20:42:11.308 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2011-02-15 20:42:11.320 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2011-02-15 20:42:11.512 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2011-02-15 20:42:11.516 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2011-02-15 20:42:11.730 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2011-02-15 20:42:11.733 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2011-02-15 20:42:11.752 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2011-02-15 20:42:11.754 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2011-02-15 20:42:12.683 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2011-02-15 20:42:12.701 Empty LocalHostName.
2011-02-15 20:42:12.711 Using localhost value of mythtv
2011-02-15 20:42:12.966 New DB connection, total: 1
2011-02-15 20:42:13.029 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2011-02-15 20:42:13.041 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2011-02-15 20:42:13.072 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2011-02-15 20:42:13.094 New DB connection, total: 2
2011-02-15 20:42:13.108 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2011-02-15 20:42:13.142 Current Schema Version: 1214
2011-02-15 20:42:14.197 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2011-02-15 20:42:14.199 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2011-02-15 20:42:15.359 AFD: Opened codec 0x82d0a40, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2011-02-15 20:42:15.361 AFD: codec MP3 has 2 channels
2011-02-15 20:42:15.362 AFD: Opened codec 0x82d0fe0, id(MP3) type(Audio)
2011-02-15 20:42:15.363 AFD: codec MP3 has 1 channels
2011-02-15 20:42:15.364 AFD: Opened codec 0x82d1590, id(MP3) type(Audio)
2011-02-15 20:42:15.364 AFD: Opened codec 0x82d1b30, id(DVB_SUBTITLE) type(Subtitle)
2011-02-15 20:42:15.570 Preview: Grabbed preview '/myth/tv/1003_20110215203900.mpg' 704x576@144s
2011-02-15 20:42:15.909 Preview Error: Run() file not local: '/GetPlaybackURL/UNABLE/TO/FIND/LOCAL/FILE/ON/mythtv/1004_20110215204200.mpg'
2011-02-15 20:42:15.916 MainServer: Failed to make preview image.
2011-02-15 20:42:15.938 Preview Error: Run() file not local: '1004_20110215204200.mpg'
2011-02-15 20:42:15.971 Preview Error: Run() file not local: '/GetPlaybackURL/UNABLE/TO/FIND/LOCAL/FILE/ON/mythtv/1005_20110214221100.mpg'
2011-02-15 20:42:15.973 MainServer: Failed to make preview image.
2011-02-15 20:42:51.361 TVRec(1): Changing from RecordingOnly to None
2011-02-15 20:42:51.609 Finished recording Gok's Clothes RoadShow: channel 1004
2011-02-15 20:42:51.625 Reschedule requested for id 0.
2011-02-15 20:42:52.044 Scheduled 85 items in 0.4 = 0.00 match + 0.41 place
2011-02-15 20:42:54.709 Error deleting '/GetPlaybackURL/UNABLE/TO/FIND/LOCAL/FILE/ON/mythtv/1004_20110215204200.mpg' could not open
         eno: No such file or directory (2)
2011-02-15 20:42:54.710 Delete Error '/GetPlaybackURL/UNABLE/TO/FIND/LOCAL/FILE/ON/mythtv/1004_20110215204200.mpg'
         eno: No such file or directory (2)
2011-02-15 20:42:56.887 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2011-02-15 20:42:56.889 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2011-02-15 20:42:58.715 Reschedule requested for id 0.
2011-02-15 20:42:59.169 Scheduled 85 items in 0.4 = 0.00 match + 0.43 place


I can't make what is going wrong. I think it is related to

Preview Error: Run() file not local:

What do guys think?

Author:  jimyhunt [ Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:49 am ]
Post subject: 

Okay i think i have found the problem. I have a redundant DVB card in the machine which is only used for the IR because i couldnt get the dual card to work.

I double checked the input card settings, and i think i have one input assigned to a card that had no arieal input, and therefore wouldnt record.

All sorted on that front.

Thanks for your help, it wasn't all wasted, i have learnt were logs are kept and how to read them, which will help on future bugs.

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