srandawa at sbcglobal
Apr 14, 2003, 8:28 PM
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The problem is in that ERROR line. Do you have a /mnt/store directory
that exists and is writable by the user running mythbackend?
Either change the setting for the TV buffer file path (default:
/mnt/store/ringbuf1.nuv) or simply mkdir /mnt/store and make sure it's
writable.
On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 20:06, Tom Erskine wrote:
> On Mythbackend it has:
> Starting up as the master server.
> Probed: /dev/video - Television
> Probed: /dev/video - Composite1
> Probed: /dev/video - S-Video
> Probed: /dev/video - Composite3
> adding: lbox as a player 1
> adding: lbox as a player 0
> ERROR opening file '/mnt/store//ringbuf1.nuv' in
> ThreadedFileWriter.
> adding: lbox as a player 0
> adding: lbox as a remote ringbuffer
> Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> Segmentation fault
>
> mythfrontend simply has:
> connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543
>
> nothing else seems to be on /dev/dsp
>
> Any ideas?
>
> --- Tom Erskine <dealguy2000 [at] yahoo> wrote:
> > Ok, I am very new to this, so I don't know exactly
> > what to ask or what information you need. I am
> > trying
> > to set this up on just one machine for now. I have
> > followed all the steps and have mythbackend working.
> >
> > When I go into mythfrontend, I go to TV, then the
> > next
> > menu comes up, and I press Spacebar on watch TV, and
> > that is as far as I get. The screen doesn't change,
> > everything just locks up. I am using a WinTV-Go
> > capture card, a Matrox G450 video card, on a P4 1.8
> > running Mandrake 9.0 I can watch tv using xawtv,
> > but
> > when testing like the doc says (mute the line in and
> > use aplay /dev/dsp, I just get a few popping
> > sounds,
> > nothing else. I am guessing this is an sounds card
> > problem, I am using alsa with the Intel 8x0 drivers.
> >
> > Any ideas to get this working?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 12:32:30 -0400
> From: Isaac Richards <ijr [at] po>
> To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users [at] snowman>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie - Can't watch TV
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> On Monday 14 April 2003 12:24 pm, Tom Erskine wrote:
> > Ok, I am very new to this, so I don't know exactly
> > what to ask or what information you need. I am
> trying
> > to set this up on just one machine for now. I have
> > followed all the steps and have mythbackend working.
> > When I go into mythfrontend, I go to TV, then the
> next
> > menu comes up, and I press Spacebar on watch TV, and
> > that is as far as I get. The screen doesn't change,
> > everything just locks up. I am using a WinTV-Go
> > capture card, a Matrox G450 video card, on a P4 1.8
> > running Mandrake 9.0 I can watch tv using xawtv,
> but
> > when testing like the doc says (mute the line in and
> > use aplay /dev/dsp, I just get a few popping
> sounds,
> > nothing else. I am guessing this is an sounds card
> > problem, I am using alsa with the Intel 8x0 drivers.
> > Any ideas to get this working?
>
> What's it say on the console you ran mythbackend and
> mythfrontend from,
> is
> anything sitting on /dev/dsp (artsd, esd, etc), etc.
>
> Isaac
>
>
>
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