Mailing List Archive: Recording while watching LiveTV problem

Recording while watching LiveTV problem

Oct 27, 2002, 11:06 PM

Post #1 of 4 (1710 views)

Hey guys!

I'm having a bug, and was wondering if anybody had some input:

Let's say I'm watching a live TV stream, and am on channel A.. The time
comes for a recording on channel B..

SOMETHING comes up, though I'm not sure what it is.. it gives me three
"highlightable" options within a translucent black box.. I say I don't
know what this thing is because I can't see any text or anything like
that.. no text in the highlightable boxes either..

At this point, nothing can be done.. I can keep toggling from one
highlightable option to another, but I can do nothing else.. I must kill
myth and mythfrontend to get out..

When I have a little more time, I shall try to reproduce this problem
(it is relatively reliable so far, so shouldn't be a problem).. The 2
things I'm going to do:

1) 800 x 600 (is this still an issue?). i currently am using it at
640x480..

2) a "backtrace" in case that helps at all..

tarek : )

Re: Recording while watching LiveTV problem [ In reply to ]

ijr at po

Oct 28, 2002, 10:50 AM

Post #2 of 4 (1670 views)

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On Monday 28 October 2002 01:05 pm, tarek Lubani wrote:
> A followup on the bug report..
>
> 1) Here is a screen shot: http://tarek.2y.net/myth/snapshot.png .. As an
> aside here, I don't know what the mythepg is doing in the back.. I don't
> see it.. It may be something to do with the snapshot program?
>
> 2) This screen is starting to go away now.. At least in this round of me
> playing around.. It comes up about 30 seconds before a recording is set to
> begin, and right now disappears when the recording begins, setting the
> channel to the correct place and starting the proper recording.. If I find
> out more on when it hangs (this is the first time it *hasn't* hung), I'll
> let you know..

It's the dialog that asks you if you want to let it record a program or cancel
the recording and just watch tv, just not displaying the text. Broke that
when I made the rest of the OSD fade off the screen. It's now fixed in CVS.

Isaac

Re: Recording while watching LiveTV problem [ In reply to ]

tarek at tarek

Oct 28, 2002, 10:53 AM

Post #3 of 4 (1643 views)

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I said it before and I'll say it again.. You're just like God! but you
answer prayers!!

woohoo! : )

tarek : )

> It's the dialog that asks you if you want to let it record a program or
> cancel the recording and just watch tv, just not displaying the text.
> Broke that when I made the rest of the OSD fade off the screen. It's
> now fixed in CVS.
>
> Isaac

Re: Recording while watching LiveTV problem [ In reply to ]

tarek at tarek

Oct 28, 2002, 11:05 AM

Post #4 of 4 (1706 views)

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A followup on the bug report..

1) Here is a screen shot: http://tarek.2y.net/myth/snapshot.png .. As an
aside here, I don't know what the mythepg is doing in the back.. I don't
see it.. It may be something to do with the snapshot program?

2) This screen is starting to go away now.. At least in this round of me
playing around.. It comes up about 30 seconds before a recording is set to
begin, and right now disappears when the recording begins, setting the
channel to the correct place and starting the proper recording.. If I find
out more on when it hangs (this is the first time it *hasn't* hung), I'll
let you know..

3) This error seems to occur whether I'm in 800x600 or 640x480.

4) I reproduce the error with the following steps:

a) start mythfrontend
b) watch live TV
c) hit "m", then pick a program to record on a DIFFERENT channel in the
next half hour
d) go to a console, and set the date to 40 seconds before the recording
should start

Then that screen pops up.. I cannot get a backtrace, as when I try to
debug, it says the following and doesn't let mythfrontend start:

[root@courage]# gdb mythfrontend
GNU gdb 5.2.1-2mdk (Mandrake Linux)
This GDB was configured as "i586-mandrake-linux-gnu"...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/mythfrontend
Probed: /dev/video0 - Television
Probed: /dev/video0 - Composite1
Probed: /dev/video0 - S-Video
Probed: /dev/video0 - Composite3

Program received signal SIG32, Real-time event 32.
0x409c5479 in sigsuspend () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
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