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Mythfrontend does not even start. It exits with the lines:
2008-03-26 18:35:01.097 Unexpected DB Schema version. Waiting to see if DB is being upgraded.
2008-03-26 18:35:06.521 Timed out waiting.
2008-03-26 18:35:06.522 This version of MythTV requires an updated database schema. Please run mythtv-setup or mythbackend to update your database.

I am running mythtv 0.21 on Ubuntu 7.10 all of my other mythfrontends are running fine.

Make absolutley sure you are running 0.21 and not 0.20, I'm running 0.21 from the official ubuntu 7.10 backports repository and didn't have any problems. Also give some more context from the log - it should be saying the DB schema version somewhere there.

Yani

Ca you give a few more clues about video please as I'm still struggling with the settings here.

Live TV will be a non-starter for me as I have 3 dvb-t tuners, but I am trying different transcoding settings. I'm now at 240x240 rtjpeg with 160 setting, and audio set to MP3 32000, and a quality of 5, and it dont work.

I'm getting lots of alsa_dsp_transfer() requested too much data error messages.

Cheers

Gaz

Try setting the bitrate for the mp3 to the lowest (32) and make sure you have extra audio buffering off. If you do those should be the same settings I was using.. make sure you run mythfrontend as root to use realtime priorities and make sure you set the playback to use xvblit/standard (ffmpeg)

Now got video working. Coool.

My settings for anyone who wants to try are.... (all other settings are left as default). Hopefully they will be off assistance.

setup, general, audio
audio output device - alsa:default
passthough - default
max audio channels - stereo
upmix - passive
enable ac3 - off
aggressive buffering - off
internal vol controls - on
mixer - alsa:default
mixer controls - pcm
volumes set to 100
independant muting - off

Setup, appearence, QT
use transparent boxes - off
popup background shading - off
virtual keyboards - off

Setup, TV settings, general playback 1/9
Enable realtime threads - on
extra audio buffering - off
warn on no audio - on
use video as timebase - on
clear saved position - on
alternate saved position - on
jump to program osd - off
contine playback when embedded - off
automatically mark - off
always stream form backend - on
enable picture controls - off
general playback 2/9
4 scaling controls set to 0
video aspect override - off
zoom - off
letterboxing colour - black
pip location - top left
action on playback exit - off
prompt on end - on
Playback profiles 3/9
playback method - a new one was created called nokia only change the settings below.
decoder - standard
renderer - xv-blit
osd renderer - softblend
osd fade - off
primary deinterlacer - none
fallback deinterlacer - none
custom filters - blank
View recordings 4/9
episode sort - sort all subtitles
sort episodes - record date
display thumbnail previews - on
generate thumbnails fron bookmark - on
display live preview - off
start in title - on
recording groups 5/9
password - blank
default group filter - all programs
always prompt for initial filter - off
save current group filter - on
show filter name - off
show live TV" - off
view recordings 6/9
default view - show titles
sort titles - alphabetically
include watch list - off
Seeking 7/9
smart FF - off
sticky keys - off
FF/rew amount - 100
reverse direction - on
seek to exact frame - off
commercial skip 8/9
on my box all left as I do not use.
PVR-350 9/9
use pvr-350 decoder - off

Thanks gazza! I didn't have the patience to list out all my settings

oh and for the playback settings, I thought enabling the onefield interlacer made playback faster than using none, but let me know what you think.

I don't know where that DB error came from, but after I reinstalled my all mythtvbackend packages, mythfrontend on my N800 just works ;-).

Thanks Yani.

Hey Yani, are you on the myth mailing lists? Have you thought about announcing your port on there, should generate some interest.

gaz

I'm not on them, but I was thinking about doing that, I couldn't decide if it should be the developer or user's lists though. I'd like to mainline some of the changes I made.

I've posted to the mythtv-devel mailing list

http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-d...ch/061493.html