DVB: LiveTV fails to start occasionally

[Adam Egger]

LiveTV still fails to start occasionally, it shows a black screen for a second and goes back to the main menu.

I'm now running kernel 2.6.15 on an AMD64-3000+ with debian32 sid (DVB-t in Germany) on reiser3.6 with: 2006-01-10 20:16:19.348 mythfrontend version: 8554M, 0.19.20051208-1 www.mythtv.org

mythfrontend -v playback:

2006-01-10 20:34:06.079 Media status changed... New status is: MEDIASTAT_OPEN old status was MEDIASTAT_NOTMOUNTED 2006-01-10 20:34:06.134 Media status changed... New status is: MEDIASTAT_OPEN old status was MEDIASTAT_NOTMOUNTED 2006-01-10 20:34:22.500 Media status changed... New status is: MEDIASTAT_USEABLE old status was MEDIASTAT_OPEN 2006-01-10 20:34:22.501 Posting MediaEvent? 2006-01-10 20:34:22.508 Found a handler 2006-01-10 20:34:23.100 Media status changed... New status is: MEDIASTAT_USEABLE old status was MEDIASTAT_OPEN 2006-01-10 20:34:23.101 Posting MediaEvent? 2006-01-10 20:34:27.386 Found a handler 2006-01-10 20:34:49.229 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingLiveTV 2006-01-10 20:34:49.251 Using protocol version 23 2006-01-10 20:34:50.531 LiveTVChain(live-c64-2006-01-10T20:34:49): ReloadAll?(): Added new recording 2006-01-10 20:34:50.536 RingBuf?(myth://127.0.0.1:6543/11_20060110203449.mpg): OpenFile?(myth://127.0.0.1:6543/11_20060110203449.mpg, 6) 2006-01-10 20:34:50.555 TV: StartRecorder?(): took 18 ms to start recorder. 2006-01-10 20:34:50.557 Disable DPMS 2006-01-10 20:34:50.558 TV: GetLockTimeout?(1): Set lock timeout to 7000 ms 2006-01-10 20:34:51.106 LiveTVChain(live-c64-2006-01-10T20:34:49): ReloadAll?(): Added new recording 2006-01-10 20:34:51.107 Resyncing position map. posmapStarted = 0 livetv(1) watchingRec(0) 2006-01-10 20:34:51.109 Position map filled from DB to: 0 2006-01-10 20:34:51.109 SyncPositionMap? watchingrecording, from DB: 1 entries 2006-01-10 20:34:51.109 SyncPositionMap? watchingrecording no entries from encoder, try DB 2006-01-10 20:34:51.110 Position map filled from DB to: 0 2006-01-10 20:34:51.110 SyncPositionMap? watchingrecording total: 1 entries 2006-01-10 20:34:51.110 SyncPositionMap?, new totframes: 0, new length: 0, posMap size: 1 mpegts_read_header: read_packet() failed 2006-01-10 20:34:51.287 AFD Error: avformat err(-1) on av_open_input_file call. 2006-01-10 20:34:51.288 Couldn't open decoder for: /big/myth/record/11_20060110203449.mpg 2006-01-10 20:34:51.294 TV: StartPlayer?(): took 639 ms to start player. 2006-01-10 20:34:51.294 TV Error: StartPlayer?(): NVP is not playing after 20000 msec 2006-01-10 20:34:51.294 TV: StopStuff?() -- begin 2006-01-10 20:34:51.295 TV: StopStuff?(): stopping ring buffer[s] 2006-01-10 20:34:51.310 TV: StopStuff?(): stopping player[s] (1/2) 2006-01-10 20:34:51.310 TV: StopStuff?(): stopping recorder[s] 2006-01-10 20:34:51.711 TV: StopStuff?(): stopping player[s] (2/2) 2006-01-10 20:34:51.821 TV: StopStuff?() -- end 2006-01-10 20:34:51.821 TV Error: LiveTV not successfully started 2006-01-10 20:34:51.896 Enable DPMS

And the BE log shows: 2006-01-10 20:34:06.519 Running HouseKeeping? 2006-01-10 20:34:18.910 AutoExpire?: ERROR when trying to autoexpire file: /big/myth/record/1033_20051230111415.mpg. File doesn't exist. Database metadata will not be removed. 2006-01-10 20:34:18.912 AutoExpire?: ERROR when trying to autoexpire file: /big/myth/record/4_20051230221502.mpg. File doesn't exist. Database metadata will not be removed. 2006-01-10 20:34:30.881 DVB#0 Using DVB card 0, with frontend 'Zarlink MT352 DVB-T'. 2006-01-10 20:34:30.921 EITScanner: Now looking for EIT data on channel 13 2006-01-10 20:34:31.435 DVB#0 DVB SI Table Parser Started 2006-01-10 20:34:49.258 MainServer::HandleAnnounce? Playback 2006-01-10 20:34:49.261 adding: c64 as a client (events: 0) 2006-01-10 20:34:49.354 TVRec(1): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2006-01-10 20:34:50.331 DVB#0 DVB SI Table Parser Started 2006-01-10 20:34:50.889 Finished recording Highlander: channel 11 2006-01-10 20:34:51.551 TVRec(1): Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None 2006-01-10 20:34:51.615 Finished recording Highlander: channel 11 mpegts_read_header: read_packet() failed 2006-01-10 20:34:54.785 AFD Error: avformat err(-1) on av_open_input_file call. 2006-01-10 20:34:54.807 Couldn't open decoder for: /big/myth/record/11_20060110203449.mpg 2006-01-10 20:34:54.807 NVP, Error: Could not open file for preview.

Do you need a more detailed BE log?