Re: Problems after mythtv upgrade

OK, I just figured it out. libmyth-28 was still installed and
apparently that was messing things up. I'm back up and running now
(using nouveau if anyone cares.)


On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Dale Martin <dale@???> wrote:
> 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
>>