mythtv stuff

[Robert Dege]

Please post the specs of your system:

Proc, mem, tuner, sound card, and drivers used is a plus :)

-Rob

>    Speaking for my Dad(Pete) and myself(Jesse):
>
>      "You can not use xawtv to determine if your audio is working
> correctly, since xawtv is simply using the the analog sound patched
> through line-in to line-out. It doesn't need to digitize the sound
> unless you are using the recording function." - quoted from the
> MythTV troubleshooting website -
> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-20.html#ss20.12
>
>      We've been hacking away at MythTV for almost a day now, and here's
> our conclusions on what's going on.
> 1. XAWTV works perfect. After we run XAWTV and start up MythTV the channel
> we are on is the channel we left off on with XAWTV. However, when we
> change the channels, everything hangs and crashes and we get those sound
> errors. I happen to think it's a problem with the database now, because we
> tried to remove our MythTV database and start from scratch, but when we
> try to restart MySQL, it fails, and we get tons of "InnoDB" errors in the
> MySQLd log.
> 2. Saying that, does this mean XAWTV and MythTV are directly connected?
> Would it just be crashing because the database isn't correct, and still
> giving us audio errors? Then after it crashes the sound stays running
> playing horrible static noise, and doesn't stop until we run XAWTV and
> close it. BUT! Running XAWTV after MythTV crashes screws up the XAWTV
> configuration and I have to manaually change it back to NTSC and US-Cable,
> so obviously they are connected some way.
> 3. I think it's obvious that something isn't set up right. Whether it's
> the database or the actual sound is what has us confused. Here's some of
> the errors we get when trying to restart MySQL, even when it says it
> starts, it still failed:
>
> 040323 15:18:50  mysqld started
> 040323 15:18:50  InnoDB: Out of memory in additional memory pool.
> InnoDB: InnoDB will start allocating memory from the OS.
> InnoDB: You may get better performance if you configure a bigger
> InnoDB: value in the MySQL my.cnf file for
> InnoDB: innodb_additional_mem_pool_size.
> InnoDB: The first specified data file ./ibdata1 did not exist:
> InnoDB: a new database to be created!
> 040323 15:18:50  InnoDB: Setting file ./ibdata1 size to 10 MB
> InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait...
> 040323 15:18:50  InnoDB: Log file ./ib_logfile0 did not exist: new to be
> created
> InnoDB: Setting log file ./ib_logfile0 size to 5 MB
> InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait...
> 040323 15:18:51  InnoDB: Log file ./ib_logfile1 did not exist: new to be
> created
> InnoDB: Setting log file ./ib_logfile1 size to 5 MB
> InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait...
> InnoDB: Doublewrite buffer not found: creating new
> InnoDB: Doublewrite buffer created
> InnoDB: Creating foreign key constraint system tables
> InnoDB: Foreign key constraint system tables created
> 040323 15:18:52  InnoDB: Started
> /usr/libexec/mysqld: ready for connections
> 040323 15:19:04  /usr/libexec/mysqld: Normal shutdown
> 040323 15:20:42  mysqld started
> 040323 15:20:43  InnoDB: Out of memory in additional memory pool.
> InnoDB: InnoDB will start allocating memory from the OS.
> InnoDB: You may get better performance if you configure a bigger
> InnoDB: value in the MySQL my.cnf file for
> InnoDB: innodb_additional_mem_pool_size.
> 040323 15:20:43  InnoDB: Started
> /usr/libexec/mysqld: ready for connections
> 040323 15:22:33  /usr/libexec/mysqld: Normal shutdown
>
>      Any ideas guys?!?! Any help is much appreciated. Anyone wanna stop by
> and set us straight? Pizza's on us! Thanks, Jesse
>
>
>
> >
> > If you can hear audio when running xawtv, then your setup is incorrect
> > (unless you're using an MPEG2 encoding card).  You need to mute line-in,
> > and just set it to capture.
> >
> > Plus, your sound card needs to suport full duplex, else it won't work with
> > mythtv.
> >
> > -Rob
> >
> >> Hey Mark,
> >>   I am starting to noodle with mythtv, got it working but must have to
> >> do some tweaking because I am getting tons of messages in the command
> >> window bitching   about "Audio buffer overflow, audio data lost!" . I have
> >> sound but the sound and video are not matched, when watching tv (havent
> >> checked anything else), and when I exit the program, the sound still
> >> runs, can't find what's running it and have to reboot to kill the sound,
> >> or I found that starting xawtv then quitting that, kills the sound from
> >> the previous mythtv tv sound running. I remember you telling me a while
> >> back to make sure that the audio sampling rate is set to 48000, and it
> >> is. Any ideas?
> >> other than that, mythtv is too cool!
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > Dege
> >
> > I'm just not up2date on my al-kee-hol-*hic* lingo
> > Although, I do have that slurring part down ;)
> >
>
>



Dege

I'm just not up2date on my al-kee-hol-*hic* lingo
Although, I do have that slurring part down ;)