
dglbrown at yahoo
Apr 11, 2003, 4:14 PM
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Recording OK, Playing back OK - But not both?
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I'm close to getting myth running properly, but this symptom is stumping me - I can start up mythbackend and mythfrontend, have it record shows just fine. But after I watch those shows, then the recording function doesn't work. I wish it were consistent, but here are the symptoms as best I can describe. Please let me know what extra info would be helpful (? dmesg results, backtrace, IRQ details, etc). I am running 0.8 on redhat 8 on a dell dimension 4550 p4 2.4ghz with alsa using onboard sound (intel 810) and a nvidia gf4mx440 with svideo out. For example, I recorded insomniac last night along with a few other programs. I can watch this show today just fine, but if after watching I try to record another show, then I run into problems: mythbackend reports normal behavior in the console (Changing from None to RecordingOnly audio volume set to '32768' strange error flushing buffer ...) and the file in my /var/video directory begins to grow, but at a much slower rate than it should. And even after mythbackend says Changing from RecordingOnly to None the file keeps growing in size (!). the show is 1/2 hour, which is typ ~850 MB for me, but a half hour after it said it was finished recording, it is only 64MB and growing at a rate of about 1 MB per minute. If I go to watch this recorded show, nothing appears on the screen and no sound either. mythbackend says nothing and mythfrontend fills the console buffer with Audio buffer overflow, audio data lost! and in order to get to record shows again, I have to reboot the machine (or is there another way I can try to force a reset of the system?). yuck. I'll confess that I'm still a linux newbie, but I've been trying my best to work this out myself and with the help of old messages to this list and others out there. I'm now at my wits end and hoping for direction from wiser folks. Thanks very much for your help. Dan ps- one other (related?) thing that I'm struggling with is GLX support with the nvidia drivers - after d/ling and installing the kernel driver and GLX driver I have only been able to run x with the 'load "glx"' line commented out of my XF86Config file ... any connection here? Any suggestions ? I've tried repeatedly, both binary and compile-your-own versions. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com
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