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tecta

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Registered: 2005-12-13

Posts: 13

Mythtv Problems

Well i'm having all sort of problems with Mythtv... i start the backend server and when i launch mythtv-setup as root it says:

Can't connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (111)

QSqlQuery::exec: database not open
QSqlQuery::exec: database not open
2006-10-10 15:38:04.938 DB Error (KickDatabase):
Query was:
SELECT NULL;
No error type from QSqlError?  Strange...

As normal user it runs... and also mythbackend starts but it says:

Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed

But when I start mythbackend as normal user it starts good and everything but when i try to watch tv with mythfrontend as normal user it says (in the backend server log):

2006-10-10 15:16:12.621 NVR: Error, unknown audio codec
VIDIOCGCHAN: Invalid argument
2006-10-10 15:16:24.235 TVRec(1): Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
2006-10-10 15:16:24.572 Finished recording The People's Court: channel 1003
2006-10-10 15:16:34.907 Reloading backend settings
2006-10-10 15:16:52.531 Reschedule requested for id 0.
2006-10-10 15:16:52.538 Scheduled 0 items in 0.0 = 0.00 match + 0.01 place
2006-10-10 15:18:10.033 Expiring The People's Court from Tue Oct 10 15:00:00 2006, 1 MBytes, forced expire (LiveTV recording)
2006-10-10 15:18:19.631 Reschedule requested for id 0.
2006-10-10 15:18:19.638 Scheduled 0 items in 0.0 = 0.00 match + 0.01 place
2006-10-10 15:18:27.944 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2006-10-10 15:18:27.944 adding: xetra as a client (events: 0)
2006-10-10 15:18:27.945 TVRec(1): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2006-10-10 15:18:27.945 TVRec(1): HW Tuner: 1->1
2006-10-10 15:18:28.025 Unknown video codec
2006-10-10 15:18:28.025 Please go into the TV Settings, Recording Profiles and
2006-10-10 15:18:28.025 setup the four 'Software Encoders' profiles.
2006-10-10 15:18:28.025 Assuming RTjpeg for now.

Any help would be thankful.
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Echo

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From: Ohio, United States

Registered: 2006-05-16

Posts: 239

Re: Mythtv Problems

2006-10-10 15:18:28.025 Please go into the TV Settings, Recording Profiles and 
2006-10-10 15:18:28.025 setup the four 'Software Encoders' profiles. 
2006-10-10 15:18:28.025 Assuming RTjpeg for now.

Go to Utilities > Setup > TV Settings > Recording Profiles within mythfrontend and play with the settings. You "should" see your tuner card there, select it and change the settings. A good one to start with is LiveTV as you can change the settings then escape and test watching tv.  If you don't see your tuner card then you know you'll have to go back and work on mythtv-setup.

tecta

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Registered: 2005-12-13

Posts: 13

Re: Mythtv Problems

I changed the options but can't seem to get it working same errors =

Echo

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From: Ohio, United States

Registered: 2006-05-16

Posts: 239

Re: Mythtv Problems

Have you successfully tested your tuner card outside of mythtv? If not, that would be step one.

If you have, then I'd suggest starting mythbackend in one terminal and mythfrontend in another terminal as a normal user in that order. Do both start successfully? Does the mythfrontend kick you out to a screen where "english" is highlighted in a list of languages? From your first post I think they will both start without complaint. Which leads us back to the section I snipped out above. If one or both don't start please post the error messages returned.

sash

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Registered: 2005-10-16

Posts: 155

Re: Mythtv Problems

As a normal user, can you login to mysql and use the mythconverg database (you will be asked for your password)?

 mysql -umythtv -p  mythconverg

tecta

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Registered: 2005-12-13

Posts: 13

Re: Mythtv Problems

hmm i tested my card with other programs (xawtv, tvtime) and I can't get them to work with any...

Echo

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From: Ohio, United States

Registered: 2006-05-16

Posts: 239

Re: Mythtv Problems

Okay, you should concentrate on getting the card to work first.

A more basic test of the tuner card is usually a good idea at first too.

What kind of card is it?

tecta

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Registered: 2005-12-13

Posts: 13

Re: Mythtv Problems

Echo and anyone else interested please look at this thread:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=26000

Echo

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From: Ohio, United States

Registered: 2006-05-16

Posts: 239

Re: Mythtv Problems

I'm curious as to the output (if any) when you do the following:

cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg

You can let it run for a while then ctrl+c to stop it. I'm wondering if you just get a blank screen, static or something else?

I don't have one of these cards so I can't tell you exactly what needs to be done. By the way have you seen Gentoo's how to?

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_saa7134

I don't see anything wrong with the output of dmesg in the other post.

tecta

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Registered: 2005-12-13

Posts: 13

Re: Mythtv Problems

says invalid argument

Echo

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From: Ohio, United States

Registered: 2006-05-16

Posts: 239

Re: Mythtv Problems

tecta,

That's not the output I was hoping for.

Have you tried to post your question at MythTVtalk/forum?

http://www.mythtvtalk.com/forum/

Echo