Based on what we have learned, the issue does not appear to be with the player. It appears that the issue is the mis-configured tuner. It looks like your first tuner is properly configured; your second tuner is not. If this is correct, then all of the bad recordings will occur whenever you try to record two shows concurrently, as that is the only time you will need to use the second tuner. I also suspect that your /myth/tv directory contains mostly files that end in ".mpg" and that those files play properly and come from the first tuner. A smaller number of files will end in ".nuv", and all of them will probably be unplayable as they come from the second, mis-configured tuner.

I've never had this problem, but if I did a quick forum search on the error message and found the thread below -- take a read and let me know if it provides a solution to your problem. If not, we can try to work it some more.

Marc

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Hi Marc,

I think I definately have a problem with my hardware setup and maybe even a bad tuner card. I'll keep playing with it. If I do have to replace it, can you recommend a good card?

Thanks,

Michael

Michael

My experience has been good with the hauppauge PVR-250 & PVR-150 -- I own one of each.

I'm not sure why your suspecting that card is bad, but perhaps it is. Some other thoughts:

1. I am assuming you only have 2 tuner cards. It would be helpful if you posted your total hardware configuration. ie: CPU, mobo, list all tuner cards, list video card, etc.

2. I would try the following: Delete thesecond tuner card; re-create it; re-establisht the input connection; make sure it is still listed as a card of type "x50".

To answer a question you asked earlier: You can restart the backend by typing /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend restart

I forgot the seqquence for restarting the frontend on R5E50, but you can find it by search for forum as I've seen it listed out there before.

Marc

It's: Alt-M Here's the complete list of fluxbox hotkey bindings:

Thanks for the shortcut keys, those are very helpful.

Here is how my tuner cards are set up in mythtvsetup

/dev/video0
Probed Info: Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 [ivtv]
Card Type: MPEG-2 encoder card (PVR-x50, PVR-500)
Default Input: Tuner 1

/dev/video1
Probed Info: BT878 video (Hauppauge (bt878)) [bttv]
Card Type: MPEG-2 encoder card (PVR-x50, PVR-500)
Default Input: Television

I have one video source called Mediacom and this is setup on input connection Tuner 1 for video0 and Television for video1

I deleted all my cards and sources and resetup everything

When I go to view liveTV, /dev/video0 works fine, when I press # on my remote to change sources, I get a black screen for a while and then back to the menu system.

When I look at this logfile this is what it says



So, assuming I have the cards set up correctly, what else could be wrong? Am I looking at a hardware problem?

Thanks,

Michael

I think I just solved my own problem - I changed the card type to V4L in mythtvsetup and the video works now.

The only remaining annoyance I have with myth is that on reboot, sometimes it swaps which card it assigns to /video0 and /video1. That means that the backend won't start correctly. I have to just keep rebooting until it finally gets the assignments to match my setup. Is there a way to force this?

Yes. Search for the posting by bruce_01 that mention udev.

Thanks TJC, I followed the directions and I think it's working now.

ONE more problem - you guys have been GREAT in helping me. Thank you so much.

On reboot, I have to load alsamixer then change the capture to Line and bump the volume up to 100% to get my patched sound working for my bt878 card. Is there a way that I can automate this?

Put the commands in /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh, search for alsactl restore if you don't know how to turn it into something scriptable.

BTW - Cecil prefers that you keep it to one topic per thread...