2005-03-26, 00:54
thanks for the fast reply
i think i have an idea about whats going on, and it is a backend issue. you were right about it creating 0 size files. .nuv file was 1.5gb. .nuv.png was 137 bytes?? it appears that having a 0 sized png file caused xbmcmythtv to stall? the pc frontend was able to deal with it ok, although it was slower that usual.
my tuner card, which is about 6 yrs old, seems to be on the fritz. it no longer works in windows at all, and is flakey on linux through tvtime. the nuv file it did create is xtremely poor quality, and the sound is awful. it worked great for about a month, and then decided to go out sometime while i was setting up xbmcmythtv. i guess its time to get a new one
thank you for your help
Quote:1. in order to get debug info from the scripts, you need to set debug in xbmc to an appropriate level and also set debug in the script code itself. debug in the script is a bitmask... so debug=0 actually turns all messages off. i suspect debug=0 was the value you specified in the xboxmediacenter.xml file. also, if you use xbmc as your dash, there is an initial log file that is generated on c: and then the continuation of the log file in the xbmc home directory (e.g. e:\apps\xbmc).i guess cause it said in the readme, that you had integrated debug in with xbmc as of 0.14, that that was the only place i had to enable it. ill enable it correctly tonight.
Quote:2. the backend message you displayed talks about a .nuv.png file. this is not a video file but rather a screenshot from the program. if you go into the recorded show details screen, it instructs the backend to create a screenshot, downloads it from myth, and then displays it. do you see a screenshot before you select "play"?
the only time i've seen something like this is when i had a few zero size video files that myth kept in the database and on disk. this caused problems when trying to generate the screenshots and obviously the shows couldn't be watched. my backend server's tuner card driver failed to initialize completely and so all shows were 0 byte files. the fix at that time was to reboot the box and make sure the driver initialized properly. then delete all the bad shows from the database.
i think i have an idea about whats going on, and it is a backend issue. you were right about it creating 0 size files. .nuv file was 1.5gb. .nuv.png was 137 bytes?? it appears that having a 0 sized png file caused xbmcmythtv to stall? the pc frontend was able to deal with it ok, although it was slower that usual.
my tuner card, which is about 6 yrs old, seems to be on the fritz. it no longer works in windows at all, and is flakey on linux through tvtime. the nuv file it did create is xtremely poor quality, and the sound is awful. it worked great for about a month, and then decided to go out sometime while i was setting up xbmcmythtv. i guess its time to get a new one
thank you for your help