Re: Problems after mythtv upgrade

The thing that is really weird is that when I use the nvidia driver,
the logs are happy and the TV even knows its being driven in 1080p,
the screen is just blank. It's very frustrating. I wish I could see
logs for the TV, I think that would be most telling.

I switched back to nouveau and mythfrontend comes up fine. Now I'm
back to the original problem - the UI works but when I try to play
videos it doesn't work. I turned on debugging and here is what
mythfrontend says:
2017-10-14 10:30:18.711521 I [1416/1416] CoreContext tv_play.cpp:1094
(TV) - TV::TV(): Creating TV object
2017-10-14 10:30:18.733970 N [1416/1416] CoreContext
mythmainwindow.cpp:2963 (PauseIdleTimer) - Suspending idle timer
2017-10-14 10:30:18.736596 I [1416/1416] CoreContext tv_play.cpp:1316
(Init) - TV::Init(): Created TvPlayWindow.
2017-10-14 10:30:18.763675 I [1416/1416] CoreContext tv_play.cpp:2277
(HandleStateChange) - TV::HandleStateChange(): Attempting to change
from None to WatchingPreRecorded
2017-10-14 10:30:18.926942 N [1416/1416] CoreContext
audioplayer.cpp:167 (ReinitAudio) - AudioPlayer: Enabling Audio
2017-10-14 10:30:19.011063 I [1416/1416] CoreContext
avformatdecoder.cpp:2081 (ScanStreams) - AFD: codec AC3 has 6 channels
2017-10-14 10:30:19.011560 I [1416/1416] CoreContext
avformatdecoder.cpp:2590 (OpenAVCodec) - AFD: Opened codec 0x20e4fa0,
id(AC3) type(Audio)
2017-10-14 10:30:19.011618 I [1416/1416] CoreContext
avformatdecoder.cpp:2081 (ScanStreams) - AFD: codec AC3 has 2 channels
2017-10-14 10:30:19.012056 I [1416/1416] CoreContext
avformatdecoder.cpp:2590 (OpenAVCodec) - AFD: Opened codec 0x20e5e40,
id(AC3) type(Audio)
2017-10-14 10:30:19.020150 I [1416/1416] CoreContext
avformatdecoder.cpp:2590 (OpenAVCodec) - AFD: Opened codec 0x209a000,
id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2017-10-14 10:30:19.020338 I [1416/1416] CoreContext
audio/audiooutputbase.cpp:823 (Reconfigure) - AOBase: Opening audio
device 'hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1' ch 2(6) sr 48000 sf signed 32 bit
reenc 0
2017-10-14 10:30:19.364972 E [1416/1416] CoreContext
videooutbase.cpp:323 (Create) - VideoOutput: Not compiled with any
useable video output method.
2017-10-14 10:30:19.364985 E [1416/1416] CoreContext
mythplayer.cpp:505 (InitVideo) - Player(0): Couldn't create
VideoOutput instance. Exiting..
2017-10-14 10:30:19.364995 E [1416/1416] CoreContext
mythplayer.cpp:2930 (StartPlaying) - Player(0): Unable to initialize
video.
2017-10-14 10:30:19.378917 E [1416/1416] CoreContext
playercontext.cpp:460 (StartPlaying) - playCtx: StartPlaying() Failed
to start player
2017-10-14 10:30:19.378940 C [1416/1416] CoreContext tv_play.cpp:5868
(StartPlayer) - TV::StartPlayer(): Failed to create player.
2017-10-14 10:30:19.379953 I [1416/1416] CoreContext tv_play.cpp:2640
(HandleStateChange) - TV::HandleStateChange(): Main UI disabled.
2017-10-14 10:30:19.380086 I [1416/1416] CoreContext tv_play.cpp:426
(StartTV) - TV::StartTV(): Entering main playback loop.
2017-10-14 10:30:19.399107 I [1416/1416] CoreContext tv_play.cpp:428
(StartTV) - TV::StartTV(): Exiting main playback loop.
2017-10-14 10:30:19.419614 N [1416/1416] CoreContext
mythmainwindow.cpp:2968 (PauseIdleTimer) - Resuming idle timer
2017-10-14 10:30:22.519358 D [1416/1416] CoreContext
mythcorecontext.cpp:1342 (SendReceiveStringList) -
MythCoreContext::SendReceiveStringList():
SendReceiveStringList(QUERY_IS_ACTIVE_BACKEND,packrat) called from UI
thread
2017-10-14 10:30:24.866574 I [1416/1416] CoreContext
bonjourregister.cpp:28 (~BonjourRegister) - Bonjour: De-registering
service '_mythfrontend._tcp.' on 'Mythfrontend on packrat'
2017-10-14 10:30:24.867256 I [1416/1416] CoreContext
AirPlay/mythraopdevice.cpp:71 (Cleanup) - RAOP Device: Cleaning up.

It also crashes on exit with a complaint about a double free, for what
it's worth.

Thanks for the help Christian, I do appreciate it.

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 9:22 AM, Christian Marillat <marillat@???> wrote:
> On 12 oct. 2017 09:15, Dale Martin <dale@???> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> I know that this list isn't exactly the right place to get help with
>> nvidia drivers on a Sony TV, but I'm only trying to get this working
>> because the newest version of mythtv doesn't seem happy with software
>> rendering on nouveau.
>
> Broken xorg.conf file ? Then try to use nvidia-settings to generate a
> default xorg.conf file.
>
> Do you see errors or warnings in the xorg logfile /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?
>
> Are you sure that xorg really use the nvidia driver ?
>
> Christian
>