spontaneous massive existence failure
iwasinnamuknow
include enough detail...until now ;)
I've had mythdroid/mdd 4.2 pretty much working with a mythbuntu
(running 0.23-fixes) box for a while now. Recently I updated to
mythbuntu 11.4 which brings me to mythtv 0.24-fixes.
I've removed the old mythdroid and mdd installs and applied the latest
4.4 of both. Everything seems to be setup properly according to the
docs and my memory of the last install.
I've got a few problems that pretty much make mythdroid useless to me
though I hate to say it.
* Cannot access videos list, as some other people seem to be
reporting, connection refused. I have no storage groups, it's all over
NFS.
* Streaming recordings to a galaxy s with the minimum settings
occasionally works (extremely choppy audio - no video), but 95% of the
time just apologises that it can't play.
* No sms/call information being displayed.
As I mentioned, I have managed to find other posts of the videos
problem, but they contain no solution for me. Of course there are
hundreds of posts around concerning streaming to the galaxy s, but
nothing seems particularly relevant or helpful. I could not find
nothing relating to the sms/call osd information not showing up.
As for logs, I've been running mdd with debug mode on but I'm not
getting anything very helpful in mdd.log
When I try to open the videos menu, the log shows every video in the
library along with all supporting info, no errors. No errors for
streaming, shows the vlc command and eventually shows that it stops
correctly. I'm not familiar with the output of vlc, but /tmp/vlc.out
seems to be repeating this for the duration:
[0x8796814] stream_out_transcode stream out debug: late picture
skipped (672173)
This is with standard, untranscoded mythtv records from a DVB-T tuner
(they have no issues anywhere else I've tried to play them).
Debug mode when receiving a call/sms shows absolutely nothing. No
indication that the phone is connected or transmitting.
I'm not sure how much is through mdd and how much is mythtv network
remote thingy, but it appears to my untrained eye that the phone isn't
connecting to mdd properly at all.
Any help would be much appreciated, I love mythdroid and would like to
get this resolved somehow.
foo bar
* Cannot access videos list, as some other people seem to be
reporting, connection refused. I have no storage groups, it's all over
NFS.
This might be because (later versions of) MythDroid attempt to connect to MDD on the backend rather than the frontend to get the list of videos.
'Connection refused' suggests that MDD is not running; is it running on your backend?
* Streaming recordings to a galaxy s with the minimum settings
occasionally works (extremely choppy audio - no video), but 95% of the
time just apologises that it can't play.
I stream to a galaxy s with no problems. Can you send a representative set of /tmp/mdd.log, /tmp/ffmpeg.out and /tmp/vlc.out?
* No sms/call information being displayed.
IIRC, this is probably because the functionality was removed from MythTV 0.24 (it's back for 0.25). Maybe jya's packages have the new functionality backported?
I've put in alternative OSD support based on XOSD but (again, IIRC) that's not in MDD 0.4.4 and it's not documented yet..
When I try to open the videos menu, the log shows every video in the
library along with all supporting info, no errors.
Oh. Doesn't sound like the connection was refused then.. ?
Could you send the mdd.log and the relevant bit of the device log (logcat)?
Debug mode when receiving a call/sms shows absolutely nothing. No
indication that the phone is connected or transmitting.
I'm not sure how much is through mdd and how much is mythtv network
remote thingy, but it appears to my untrained eye that the phone isn't
connecting to mdd properly at all.
MDD is not involved in call/sms display. See above for probable cause.
Regards,
foobum
Matt Harrison
> Hi,
Hi, thanks for the reply
> On 11 July 2011 22:52, iwasinnamuknow<iwasinn...@genestate.com> wrote:
>
>> * Cannot access videos list, as some other people seem to be
>> reporting, connection refused. I have no storage groups, it's all over
>> NFS.
>>
>
> This might be because (later versions of) MythDroid attempt to connect to
> MDD on the backend rather than the frontend to get the list of videos.
>
> 'Connection refused' suggests that MDD is not running; is it running on your
> backend?
It's on a combined BE/FE so I'd say it's running, can't be sure if it's
doing what it claims tho :P
>> * Streaming recordings to a galaxy s with the minimum settings
>> occasionally works (extremely choppy audio - no video), but 95% of the
>> time just apologises that it can't play.
>>
>
> I stream to a galaxy s with no problems. Can you send a representative set
> of /tmp/mdd.log, /tmp/ffmpeg.out and /tmp/vlc.out?
Will follow up with these shortly, I don't think ffmpeg is getting
involved in this on my setup. It seems to call vlc only.
>> * No sms/call information being displayed.
>>
>
> IIRC, this is probably because the functionality was removed from MythTV
> 0.24 (it's back for 0.25). Maybe jya's packages have the new functionality
> backported?
>
> I've put in alternative OSD support based on XOSD but (again, IIRC) that's
> not in MDD 0.4.4 and it's not documented yet..
Ah ok, well I guess I can wait for .25 to stabilise on mythbuntu for this.
>> When I try to open the videos menu, the log shows every video in the
>> library along with all supporting info, no errors.
>
>
> Oh. Doesn't sound like the connection was refused then.. ?
Thats what I was thinking, seems a bit odd. I did read about some
failure parsing colon-separated list or something but that seems to be
with storage groups which I'm not using.
> Could you send the mdd.log and the relevant bit of the device log (logcat)?
mdd.log attached, restarted just before trying to list the videos. I
have installed logcat on my phone but it just scrolls at light speed. I
haven't figured out how to get a useful snip from it yet.
>> Debug mode when receiving a call/sms shows absolutely nothing. No
>> indication that the phone is connected or transmitting.
>>
>> I'm not sure how much is through mdd and how much is mythtv network
>> remote thingy, but it appears to my untrained eye that the phone isn't
>> connecting to mdd properly at all.
>>
>
> MDD is not involved in call/sms display. See above for probable cause.
>
> Regards,
>
> foobum
>
Thanks for the hints :)
Matt
foo bar
On 11 July 2011 22:52, iwasinnamuknow<iwasinn...@genestate.com> wrote:
* Cannot access videos list, as some other people seem to be
reporting, connection refused. I have no storage groups, it's all over
NFS.
'Connection refused' suggests that MDD is not running; is it running on your
backend?
It's on a combined BE/FE so I'd say it's running, can't be sure if it's doing what it claims tho :P
To clarify, you experience this problem when opening the 'Videos' menu?
mdd.log attached, restarted just before trying to list the videos. I have installed logcat on my phone but it just scrolls at light speed. I haven't figured out how to get a useful snip from it yet.
The mdd.log looks ok to me. Perhaps try opening your log viewer after the problem has occurred and saving the log?
Regards,
foobum