MythTV Verbose Logging

In the process of troubleshooting UPNP/DLNA on our MythTV server, I learned that you can send logging verbosity settings while the server is running. Using the mythbackend binary with the –setverbose flag, you can specify logging level. For example:

mythbackend --setverbose http:debug,upnp:debug

What items can you set levels on? It’ll conveniently tell you — “all” or “none” override existing settings, everything else will update the current logging levels (i.e. if I’ve already got http and upnp in debug, I can use “–setverbose audio:debug” to add audio to the list of things in debug mode).

[mythuser@server /var/log/mythtv/]# mythbackend -v help
Verbose debug levels.
Accepts any combination (separated by comma) of:

all - ALL available debug output
audio - Audio related messages
channel - Channel related messages
chanscan - Channel Scanning messages
commflag - Commercial detection related messages
database - Display all SQL commands executed
decode - MPEG2Fix Decode messages
dsmcc - DSMCC carousel related messages
dvbcam - DVB CAM debugging messages
eit - EIT related messages
file - File and AutoExpire related messages
frame - MPEG2Fix frame messages
general - General info
gpu - GPU OpenGL driver messages
gpuaudio - GPU Audio Processing messages
gpuvideo - GPU video rendering messages
gui - GUI related messages
http - HTTP Server messages
idle - System idle messages
jobqueue - JobQueue related messages
libav - Enables libav debugging
media - Media Manager debugging messages
mheg - MHEG debugging messages
most - Most debug (nodatabase,notimestamp,noextra)
network - Network protocol related messages
none - NO debug output
osd - On-Screen Display related messages
playback - Playback related messages
process - MPEG2Fix processing messages
record - Recording related messages
refcount - Reference Count messages
rplxqueue - MPEG2Fix Replex Queue messages
schedule - Scheduling related messages
siparser - Siparser related messages
socket - socket debugging messages
system - External executable related messages
timestamp - Conditional data driven messages
upnp - UPnP debugging messages
vbi - VBI related messages
xmltv - xmltv output and related messages

To disable debugging, use “mythbackend –setverbose none”

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