Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drives that Actually Work?
I just had my second Western Digital Special Edition 200 GB drive die on me. My company ships hundreds of these every month, with very few problems. Seagate is still our favorite, as far as reliability goes. We were wary of WD when we first started using them (there was a point when Seagate just wasn't making big enough drives for our storage servers), but the WD jb drives (don't bother with the bb, etc) have seemed to be pretty decent, all things considered. Keep in mind that a few drives dying is bound to happen -- there have been had lots where every drive in a group will die within a relatively short period of time -- but when you deal with hundreds, a few here and there is a lot less damaging than when the few are the only two you have. No one in the reliable-storage industry trusts maxtor yet. Their older drives are pretty reliable (I have a 20G that works great), but there was a period where their quality/reliability really sucked, and they have yet to repair the damage it caused to their image. Please also keep in mind that I'm talking about SATA drives. WD's PATA drives were considerably less reliable than their SATA drives are (but still not that bad, all things considered) Personally, I'd go with seagate 7200.7 -- it's what I have running in my pundit, and has been going fine for almost a year now. Seagate also has a longer warranty than the other companies. -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drives that Actually Work?
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 07:53:36 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just had my second Western Digital Special Edition 200 GB drive die on me. Since I'm using an ASUS Pundit, I figured heat was the culprit, so the second drive had a dual-fan cooler on it. No such luck. After about three months of use, performance suddenly degrades, and the journals begin to corrupt. A few days later, I/O errors crop up, and the drive is pretty much useless. Are these drives just not up to the stress of a PVR? I'm interested in hearing what kind of drives people have had good luck with, as I've about had it with these. I'll get my third on warranty, but It won't be going back into a myth box. Thanks, Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I've had good luck recently with seagate drives, and a lot of people recommend the Maxtor Quickview drives. The quickviews are made to be used with a pvr. -- I probably still have a few gmail invites. Drop me a line (off list) if you'd like an account. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] pvr-350 tv-out hanging in live tv
Hi I am using kernel 2.6.8-1 and I had pretty the same problem with the ivtv-driver. But since I have patched my kernel to use software suspend 2 the tv-out has never been hanging again. The software suspend patch breaks the ivtv code, so you have to adapt it (I had to change 2 lines in the driver source code). Second problem: Which Xserver do you use? I really recommend ivtvdev_drv_o. You will find it in the utils directory of ivtv. Do you have DMA enabled on your DVD-Drive? Do you have DMA enabled on your Harddisk? cheers Egon Am Di, 2004-12-14 um 14.03 schrieb Juan C. Gallardo: Hello I just manage to get the pvr-350 work over X. It looks great! and I will like to keep using it, but I am having two problems. The first as says on the title. When I try to watch live tv it hangs, after a minute or something like that. I have selected to use the pvr-350 in the tv setup. My videos plays perfect with mplayer, from inside and outside of mythfrontend. The second problem is that if I try to watch a DVD is vry slow. I am using xine to play DVDs. I am guessing that it has to be something about playing MPG movies over X with the ivtv driver. So is tehre a way to use xine to play dvd over X using the pvr-350 tv output? I think I have read something about a special version of xine to use with the pvr-350. Is that what I should use? if so, where can I found it? Of course, the first problem is the most important. I really want to use the pvr output, it looks s much better than my nvidia output, the colors are perfect. Any idea, anyone? Thanks in advance Juan __ ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- - addr://Rathausgasse 31, CH-5001 Aarau fon://++41 62 823 9355 http://www.terreactive.com fax://++41 62 823 9356 - terreActive AG Wir sichern Ihren Erfolg. - ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drives that Actually Work?
Quoting John Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: funny you should type that i have the exact same drive dead on my table. A friend asked if i could recover it, but its pretty much DOA. I have had alot of luck with seagates, they run cool and extremly quiet. I have about 7 seagates in my home network non have gone belly up as of yet Does anyone have any experience with their laptop drives? I just upgraded my laptop with their 100G model (ST9100823A). [deletia] This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Hard Drives that Actually Work?
Personally, I'd go with seagate 7200.7 -- it's what I have running in my pundit, and has been going fine for almost a year now. Seagate also has a longer warranty than the other companies. -Chris ___ Thanks for all the good information everyone! I put in an order for a Seagate 7200.7. Hopefully it will treat me better. Chris, I'm assuming that you are not taking any extra measures for cooling this drive in your pundit? I did some sheet metal modifications to my Pundit drive bay so that I could add cooling. Hopefully with this new drive I can remove the cooler, as it is the noisiest item in the case by far. Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: TiVo cracks down on grammar
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:15:01AM -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote: I thought this was funny: http://news.com.com/Noun+Verb+TiVo+says+its+neither/2100-1041_3-5488370.html TiVo is cracking down on news organizations that use TiVo as a verb. Granted they are protecting their trademark but it strikes me as funny. Well, they do say that verbing weirds language... :-) _/_ / v \ Scott Alfter (IIGS( http://alfter.us/Top-posting! \_^_/ rm -rf /bin/ladenWhat's the most annoying thing on Usenet? ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drives that Actually Work?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just had my second Western Digital Special Edition 200 GB drive die on me. Since I'm using an ASUS Pundit, I figured heat was the culprit, so the second drive had a dual-fan cooler on it. No such luck. After about three months of use, performance suddenly degrades, and the journals begin to corrupt. A few days later, I/O errors crop up, and the drive is pretty much useless. Are these drives just not up to the stress of a PVR? I'm interested in hearing what kind of drives people have had good luck with, as I've about had it with these. I'll get my third on warranty, but It won't be going back into a myth box. Thanks, Paul Aside from manufacturing problems, heat seems to be the biggest issue. One of the reasons I really like the Myth design. Split backend/frontend architecture. My backend has a 120mm fan sitting infront of the drive cage with four drives. My front end has a 5400RPM drive inside a noise insulator. One day I intend to convert it to net boot. Preference: Seagate (5 yr), Hitachi (3 yr), Maxtor/WD (1 yr) I did manage to get a pair of Maxtor quickview (5400RPM) drives recently and so far so evil, but it's early days. I have a stack of failed drives from 2001/2002 and they are from all manufacturers. Ironically my Tivo has two maxtors in it and has been mucho reliable. One thing you can do, once you have your new drive installed is monitor it's heat. Smartmontools are your friend. Most new drives have a temp sensor. I like to try and keep my drives below 40C if I can. Only during the summer is this a difficult goal. Yan ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: TiVo cracks down on grammar
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:32:55AM -0600, Scott Carr wrote: TiVo is cracking down on news organizations that use TiVo as a verb. Granted they are protecting their trademark but it strikes me as funny. I would think they would want the advertising. Oh well... Trademarks are a funny thing. They *have* to take affirmative action to protect them, or they slip, into the public domain. Like Aspirin. Or Cellophane. So it's a fight that, as a corporation, you want to fight as hard as possible... and lose. You do, as a businessman, in general actually want the mindshare that comes from being a semi-generic term for an action. But you want to have it because you're the primary one in the market (like Google). TiVo, on the other hand, are likely nervous. And we likely *are* on their radar. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth AssociatesThe Things I Think'87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system adminstrator. Or two. --me ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: TiVo cracks down on grammar
I thought this was funny: http://news.com.com/Noun+Verb+TiVo+says+its+neither/2100-1041_3-5488370.html TiVo is cracking down on news organizations that use TiVo as a verb. Granted they are protecting their trademark but it strikes me as funny. That's hilarious. TiVo wants to keep its name from going the way of Xerox or Kleenex Too late! Lol! -- Joel ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: TiVo cracks down on grammar
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Joel Anderson wrote: That's hilarious. TiVo wants to keep its name from going the way of Xerox or Kleenex Too late! Lol! Yeah, lots of people 'copied' Xerox and Kleenex as 'blew it'! ;-) -marc ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] pvr-350 tv-out hanging in live tv
So, what wxactly did you do to solve the problem? To the second question. I am using Xorg, with ivtvdev driver from the ivtv-0.2.0-rc3 And I have DMA enable in both my DVD and my Harddisk Juan Egon Burgener wrote: Hi I am using kernel 2.6.8-1 and I had pretty the same problem with the ivtv-driver. But since I have patched my kernel to use software suspend 2 the tv-out has never been hanging again. The software suspend patch breaks the ivtv code, so you have to adapt it (I had to change 2 lines in the driver source code). Second problem: Which Xserver do you use? I really recommend ivtvdev_drv_o. You will find it in the utils directory of ivtv. Do you have DMA enabled on your DVD-Drive? Do you have DMA enabled on your Harddisk? cheers Egon Am Di, 2004-12-14 um 14.03 schrieb Juan C. Gallardo: Hello I just manage to get the pvr-350 work over X. It looks great! and I will like to keep using it, but I am having two problems. The first as says on the title. When I try to watch live tv it hangs, after a minute or something like that. I have selected to use the pvr-350 in the tv setup. My videos plays perfect with mplayer, from inside and outside of mythfrontend. The second problem is that if I try to watch a DVD is vry slow. I am using xine to play DVDs. I am guessing that it has to be something about playing MPG movies over X with the ivtv driver. So is tehre a way to use xine to play dvd over X using the pvr-350 tv output? I think I have read something about a special version of xine to use with the pvr-350. Is that what I should use? if so, where can I found it? Of course, the first problem is the most important. I really want to use the pvr output, it looks s much better than my nvidia output, the colors are perfect. Any idea, anyone? Thanks in advance Juan __ ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drives that Actually Work?
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 07:53:36 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I just had my second Western Digital Special Edition 200 GB drive die on me. Since I'm using an ASUS Pundit, I figured heat was the culprit, so the second drive had a dual-fan cooler on it. No such luck. After about three months of use, performance suddenly degrades, and the journals begin to corrupt. A few days later, I/O errors crop up, and the drive is pretty much useless. I have 12x80GB Seagate Cudda IV's in an array running 24x7 for the last 2.5 years + 2x120GB Cudda V's 18 months old. One 120GB has failed, although I believe my flatmate dropped the PC during a move, and it didn't boot again after this. They are quiet, not the fastest, but I won't buy anything else for myself. At work have various arrays with 16x300GB PATA Maxtors (with one failure in 16 months) and I just received another array with 14x250GB SATA Maxtors in it. Also one 12x300GB WD (with 8MB cache, 3 year warrenty) no failures yet that gets the s**t kicked out of it every day running for one year. I have had a lot of problems with the glass platter IBM's from two years ago 60GXPs from mem won't touch IBM anymore. Plus Seagate have same 5 year warrenty on all of their drives now ... they have my vote. All of the new Dells we buy seem to have WD drives, two failures in 8 months for 20 PC's ... not so great (Touching a lot of wood) HTH's Steve -- Steven Christall [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] wndow mode to full screen key toggle?
Is there a key that can switch the screen from window mode to full screen mode? if not is it possible? its a great feature in things like mplayer to be able to work and watch tv but switch quickly to full screen when you want. Steve -- Steve Berryman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MediaMVP
Is it possible to have MythTV's menus, etc. on the Hauppauge MediaMVP? It's supposedly Linux based. Are these devices any good? How do they compare to a typical MythTV setup with a PVR-350, etc.? ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Extending the change channel callout program?
If you have a use in mind you might go for it, otherwise, I don't see any need for it. If you change with up/down, you might be going through channels you don't get, and I don't see any advantage over switching by number anyways. -Nate On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 19:49:05 -0500, Mike Frisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be worthwhile extending the change channel callout program so it can receive channel up and channel down commands? Any other commands that might be useful? My goal would be to improve the interactive response when using MythTV to control my Star Choice DBS receiver. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MediaMVP
Check out http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net At this point (and probably not ever...), it cannot run a full mythfrontend. It has its own menu system that from a MythTV perspective can be used to watch recordings, view the upcoming recordings schedule, and delete recordings. At this point it cannot schedule recordings and does not read/honor the commercial skip points. Those features are under development, as I understand it. It also does not do any of the ancillary functions, i.e. mythmusic, mythnews, etc. If all you are looking for is a remote frontend for watching shows, it works remarkably well, particularly given the price point. Great TV-out quality, IMHO. Hard to beat for $79-$89, even with the current functionality as-is. It doesn't compare to a standard setup with a PVR-350 since it cannot record -- there is no disk drive or encoder, only an MPEG decoder. - Original Message - From: Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 2:32 PM Subject: [mythtv-users] MediaMVP Is it possible to have MythTV's menus, etc. on the Hauppauge MediaMVP? It's supposedly Linux based. Are these devices any good? How do they compare to a typical MythTV setup with a PVR-350, etc.? ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] OT: TiVo cracks down on grammar
It works both ways. Kodak used to have a slogan that was something like If it's not an Eastman it's not a Kodak if they hadn't dropped it, everyone would probably call a camera a kodak Like in the UK you don't say you are going to vacuum your house (unless you are trying to sound posh), you get the Hoover out, even it is made by someone else. The exception to this is Dyson, people actually call it a Dyson. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott Carr Sent: 14 December 2004 17:33 To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] OT: TiVo cracks down on grammar I would think they would want the advertising. Oh well... Kevin Kuphal wrote: I thought this was funny: http://news.com.com/Noun+Verb+TiVo+says+its+neither/2100-1041_3-54 88370.html TiVo is cracking down on news organizations that use TiVo as a verb. Granted they are protecting their trademark but it strikes me as funny. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Scott Carr OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MediaMVP
Yeah, I love the idea of the mediaMVP, though there is another alternative, if you have lots more time than money. Namely, get an old PC, which you probably can get for free or very cheap from your closet or your company's. Perhaps a ghz level machine with 256mb of memory. Add a TV-out, xvideo capable card (Seen them for under $20. Search for tv-out in froogle. Then make it a diskless frontend. There are two ways to do this. One is ethernet boot such as pxeboot, though older PCs may not have this. The other is to boot off the existing otherwise useless hard drive (probably just a few gb) and do all filesystems over NFS, thus spinning down the hard drive after boot. I've been playing with this a bit, it's a bit of slogging. In fact, I have an NFS filesystem linux but still having trouble getting X to start up on it. But others have done this in a lot of configurations. Rumour is that the knoppmyth project is trying to do this as well. However, this will take you more time than the $80 of the MVP is worth. Of course you would have a fully functioning myth frontend (or backend for that matter) with all the trimmings, and no hard drive noise or heat. My current frontend has a noisy drive in it because I plan to get this working and spin the drive down. There are many howtos on diskless, here is a more recent one: http://www.intra2net.com/opensource/diskless-howto/howto.html My approach however was just to compile in the modules I need into the kernel and not use the initrd. That boots into console linux just fine. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: TiVo cracks down on grammar
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:59:00 -, Neil Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like in the UK you don't say you are going to vacuum your house (unless you are trying to sound posh), you get the Hoover out, even it is made by someone else. The exception to this is Dyson, people actually call it a Dyson. I lived in England for a while (a year of undergrad in Nottingham, a year of graduate school in Cambridge). Hoover was the one bit of British English I just could never get used to. I willingly added u to colour and favourite. I dropped the when talking about someone who's in hospital. I can pull off a really atrocious imitation of a BBC radio newscaster. I wrote cheques (not checks!) with amounts like Five pounds only instead of Five pounds and no/100. I even learned to refer to sports teams as singular entities (America have advanced to the second round of the World Cup!). But I never could get over the use of Hoover to mean vacuum. Cheers, Lane :) -- Meetup with other Myth users! http://mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MUG ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] FYI, steps to get X working on the PVR-350 card.
I wrote up a page of notes, for my own future reference on how to get MythTV's frontend (requires X Windows) to appear on the Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 card's television out port. My setup works fine for me, but like I mention in the last two paragraphs there are some configuration changes I would like to discover or someone to enlighten me as to how to tweak it how I would like it. http://www.schaefer.dhcp.biz/pvr350tvout.htm ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] EPIA-M Unichrome xvmc vld
I finally tried to use the cvs/unichrome driver and managed it to have it compiled with X.org release (6.8.1) sources, but when I start X with this driver all colours are wrong, switching back to the original via_drv.o the colours are ok again. Anyone with the same problem? Am Mittwoch, 8. Dezember 2004 16:32 schrieb Steven: Adam Felson wrote: unichrome is now part of Xorg. I got it simply by building getting X/cvs from x.org. Does CVS xorg include the (recent) via unichrome driver and the xvmc libs as well? Won't there be a conflict with the drm kernel module included in the 2.6.8.1-epia1 kernel patchset? Steven ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Audio sync problems with exported Myth recordings - not with manual recordings
On Monday 13 December 2004 12:22, Lane Schwartz wrote: My goal is to archive my PVR-250 MPEG2 recordings to DVD. Setup is FC2. I've hit a big snag - when I export the recordings and cut the commercials with nuvexport (MPEG2-MPEG2), the audio on the exported recording is way out of sync. Note that when I play the original files in Myth or mplayer, the audio sync is just fine. I've used nuvexport with some success, to convert to svcd and vcd. Both work well, (although the transcode time was LONG), with svcd looking very much better than vcd. MY fairly new dvd player (hardware set top box) stutters badly with svcd, and most windows players won't play them either, but the work flawlessly xine and mplayer. Also some of the other formats nuvexport does work well too and are much smaller. Everything seems to be in sync. -- __Jsa_ ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] NEW - BIG PROBLEM! Watching LiveTV is very slow !!!!!
Ryan A. Carris wrote: On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 10:10:41 -0800, Scott Alfter I watch sports and news live; everything else is recorded. It just doesn't make sense to record the morning news, when I only watch 10 minutes of it before going to work. And I really hate watching sports delayed. But, being able to pause and rewind is a feature I wouldn't give up, no matter what or when I'm watching. Have you tried executing the process as root so it can run at a higher slice? Just a thought. -- Scott Carr OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: TiVo cracks down on grammar
Lane Schwartz wrote:
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:59:00 -, Neil Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Like in the UK you don't say you are going to vacuum your house (unless you
are trying to sound posh), you get the Hoover out, even it is made by
someone else. The exception to this is Dyson, people actually call it a
Dyson.
Even worse, if you are going to 'vacuum' your house, how will you live
in it ?
How do you seal the doors and windows to keep that vacuum in ? :-)
If you hear the Dutch word for Hoover/vacuum cleaner: (translated)
Dust-Sucker... Ah well..
But everybody calls it just that.. ('stofzuiger' that is...)
And for Dyson.. ahem.. Well it isn't a vacuum cleaner so why call it
one... ;-)
Gert
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Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drives that Actually Work?
I feel compelled to speak up on one more datapoint here. I'm generally a big fan. Recently there were some rebates on 120 and 160 GB Seagate Baracuda drives. I got one of each, but the 160 is making a continuous, repeating beep-of-death. Although the diag util says it's fine, the machine locks up when it does it. Just figured I'd share... need to get it replaced. Other than that, I'd say that WD and Maxtor are the bottom-run IMO. I don't know about Hitachi/IBM now (I got burned on three DeathStars a few years back). Indifferent on Samsung. -Cory On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, nate s wrote: Another vote for seagate. I have a 200G 7200.7 (PATA version) that's been running great for a while now. It is almost silent, very fast compared to the 60G maxtor that I had before it, and barely even gets warm to the touch. On a side note, I've been looking into getting another of the exact same, to perhaps set up a raid array, and I've notived the price on them has gone up since I first bought it. I guess they've been popular. -Nate On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:18:14 -0800, Chris Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris, I'm assuming that you are not taking any extra measures for cooling this drive in your pundit? I did some sheet metal modifications to my Pundit drive bay so that I could add cooling. Hopefully with this new drive I can remove the cooler, as it is the noisiest item in the case by far. Nope, nothing special. I've even lately taken to keeping my pundit in a cabinet (granted, big hole cut out of the back of it). I do have an optical drive in there, but it's unplugged, so it won't generate any heat like it might if it was plugged in. -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users * * Cory Papenfuss* * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * * ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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[mythtv-users] Re: MediaMVP
Last I heard, only MPEG-2 playback worked. If you transcoded to MPEG-4 to save space, too bad. Has this changed? Romain ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Using v4lctl to optimise recording quality
I read on http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2004-March/037866.html that it's a good idea to use v4lctl -c /dev/video0 setattr 'chroma agc' on to really improve colour quality. I can run this no problem from the command line as root, but when it runs from rc.local at boot up it segmentation faults. Any suggestions on how I can work around this? Also, do people generally agree that it's a good idea to use this or should I not really bother? Finally, when I run v4lctl -c /dev/video0 list I've noticed that the audio mode is mono. Does this mean my recordings will all be in mono. Should I use v4lctl to support stereo recordings? I've tried to do this but it doesn't seem to change the setting from mono to stereo. Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drives that Actually Work?
Paul == [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul I just had my second Western Digital Special Edition 200 GB Paul drive die on me. Since I'm using an ASUS Pundit, I figured Paul heat was the culprit, so the second drive had a dual-fan Paul cooler on it. No such luck. After about three months of Paul use, performance suddenly degrades, and the journals begin Paul to corrupt. A few days later, I/O errors crop up, and the Paul drive is pretty much useless. Are these drives just not up Paul to the stress of a PVR? I'm interested in hearing what kind Paul of drives people have had good luck with, as I've about had Paul it with these. I'll get my third on warranty, but It won't Paul be going back into a myth box. In the past I have had lots of problems with hard disks on my 24x7 Linux server. Hard disks (from all major brands) were dieing between 3 months and 13 months (one month after warranty). I ended up paying more for 4 hard disks (WD) with 3 year warranty. The hard disks in my Linux server are still working perfectly - I am a bit suspicious of the hard disks in my mythtv system (once I tried to boot up and one hard disk didn't come online - I took the computer apart, pulled the IDE connector out, and put everything back together and it suddenly started working again... However, I sometimes get bad looking hard disk error messages on boot up when I look...) -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] not registered v4l2
When I do a [EMAIL PROTECTED] sbickfor]# /bin/dmesg |grep ivtv ivtv: START INIT IVTV ivtv: version 0.1.10 (0.1.10-48.4_pre2_ck100zz.rhfc2.at) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.9-1.6_FC2 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.3 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist. ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 350 card ivtv: Found an iTVC15 based chip ivtv: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32) ivtv: pci: VIA detected device: 0x0305 vendor: 0x1106 ivtv: i2c attach [client=Hauppauge IR,ok] ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[0],ok] ivtv: Tuner Type 47, Tuner formats 0x1000, Radio: yes, Model 0x00ad2598, Rev ision 0x0001 ivtv: NTSC tuner detected ivtv: Radio detected tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0 ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok] saa7115: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005) ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7115[0],ok] ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7127[0],ok] ivtv: i2c attach [client=MSP3448W-A2,ok] ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040024 ivtv: Decoder revision: 0x02020023 ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 350 card with 9 streams ivtv: Create DMA stream 0 using 128 buffers of size 32768 ivtv: Create DMA stream 1 using 128 buffers of size 32768 ivtv: Create stream 2 using 128 buffers of size 52224 ivtv: Create DMA stream 3 using 128 buffers of size 32768 ivtv: Create stream 4 ivtv: Create DMA stream 5 using 16 buffers of size 32768 ivtv: Create stream 6 using 128 buffers of size 4096 ivtv: Create stream 7 ivtv: Create DMA stream 8 using 16 buffers of size 32768 ivtv: Setting Tuner 47 tuner: type set to 47 (LG NTSC (TAPE series)) by ivtv i2c driver #0 ivtv: Setting audio matrix to input 3, output 1 ivtv: Switching standard to NTSC. ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 350, card #0 ivtv: END INIT IVTV ivtv-osd: Framebuffer module loaded (attached to ivtv card id 0) ivtv-osd: Framebuffer is at decoder-relative address 0x0051 and has 1704960 bytes. ivtv-osd: screen coords: [0 0] - [720 480] ivtv-osd: original global alpha = 208 ivtv-osd: current OSD state = 39 ivtv-osd: new global alpha = 208 (1 255 0) ivtv-osd: Good video_base is inside valid allocated space. ivtv-osd: framebuffer at 0xd951, mapped to 0x18c0, size 1350k ivtv-osd: mode is 720x480x32, linelength=2880 ivtv-osd: fb0: iTVC15 TV out frame buffer device Per Wilsonet.com I should see v4l2 registered. Obviously this isn't in there. And now, when I do this, I get multiple fb0s: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sbickfor]# cat /var/log/messages |grep iTVC15 TV out Dec 13 19:40:32 amd800 kernel: ivtv-osd: fb0: iTVC15 TV out frame buffer device Dec 13 20:11:32 amd800 kernel: ivtv-osd: fb0: iTVC15 TV out frame buffer device Dec 14 18:39:27 amd800 kernel: ivtv-osd: fb0: iTVC15 TV out frame buffer device Then trying to do a: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sbickfor]# /usr/bin/ivtvctl -u 0x3000 Failed to open /dev/video0: Cannot allocate memory then when I do ivtvctl: page allocation failure. order:5, mode:0xd0 simplified [16a99e14] ivtv_init_buffer+0x45/0xa0 [ivtv] [16a99e86] ivtv_init_queue_nolock+0x17/0x63 [ivtv] [16a99ef4] ivtv_init_queues_nolock+0x22/0x3b [ivtv] [16a9e090] ivtv_stream_alloc+0x74/0xaa [ivtv] [16a9d810] ivtv_v4l2_open+0x2e7/0x3d8 [ivtv] ivtv: No memory on buffer alloc! ivtv: Buffer alloc failed! Using FC2 and wilsonet.com guide. Any ideas? ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] hauppauge 350 tvout no go!
John Harvey wrote: These config log files now have nothing about loading ivtv drivers in them. There was a post a little while ago about getting X to work on the 350. It might be worth looking over that and seeing if there is something that you have missed or follow that guide and see where you get to. If it really says that it cant open /dev/fb0 then it sounds like you don't have ivtv-fb module loaded. You can check this with lsmod. Also try running ivtvfbctl /dev/fb0 -prepframe and see if you get a constantly changing pattern on the tv out. At least this will prove the driver etc. are loaded and working. John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Ashmore Sent: 14 December 2004 22:15 To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] hauppauge 350 tvout no go! David Erickson wrote: Dave, I had some significant problems getting it to work myself but i am still using Redhat 9. I can tell you that I know several people on here have gotten it to work on FC3. Unfortunately the X windows version that Red Hat 9 and FC3 uses are different so I can't help other than to suggest you follow Jarod's website's instruction very clearly as I have never had a problem when I followed that. I'll be updating to FC3 after the holiday's but hopefully you'll get around this stump before then. Dave Sorry for the following frustration but I have mythtv working in FC3 and all is well recording. Ok here goes my rant. http://www.hauppauge.com/html/wintvpvr350_datasheet.htm I would suggest users just buy the 250 as the X tvout does not seem to work for me. If I go to myth setup/utilitiesplayback use pvr-350 out. I can in fact use the watch tv or playback a video and it does work with poor color but I cannot ween myself from using a monitor. I want/need pvr-350 tvout to display the X desktop. If I did not in fact have the monitor plugged in I would not be able to use the mythfrontend menu. lspci reports: 01:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Enc oder (rev 01) cat /var/log/messages |grep iTVC15 TV out Reports: Dec 13 20:38:34 mythbox kernel: ivtv-osd: fb0: iTVC15 TV out frame buffer device SO the way I see it I can't get this to work. SO here is what I'm thinking. One of the following: Buy another graphics card and torture myself to possibly getting it to work to display X desktop with tvout. Getting an xbox and try to use it as a frontend. Continue to try to get X desktop to display on the pvr-350 tvout. Or could I possibly get a product like this display from vga to component video and leave well enough alone? Specifications for HD15 (VGA) Male to RCA x 3 Male, D / Shield, (VGA to Component Video), 6 ft Part Number 10H1-50106 http://www.national-tech.com/specs/10h2-50106.htm (I'm thinking this looks like the easiest way to go if it would in fact work) Does anyone have the pvr-350 displaying X desktop? If so how? Please advise. Regards Dave Ashmore ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Ok here is my files but I edited them back to the original state. I know when it locks up the cpu there is something on the screen that says /dev/fb0 no such device. I would assume its in the log file but this stuff is way over my head the troubleshooting aspect. My files are posted here: http://djash.com/pvr350 If there is anything else we need to troubleshoot please let me know. -- Regards Dave Ashmore MDK 10.1 Official Mozilla 1.7.3 ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Based on the output from lspci -a what should the bus id be for my xorg.conf file be? /sbin/lspci -v 01:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR-350 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 Memory at e800 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 /bin/dmesg |grep Initialized ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 350, card #0 [drm] Initialized i915 1.1.0 20040405 on minor 0: cat /var/log/messages |grep iTVC15 TV out Dec 13 20:38:34 mythbox kernel: ivtv-osd: fb0: iTVC15 TV out frame buffer device Dec 14 18:28:11 mythbox kernel: ivtv-osd: fb0: iTVC15 TV out frame buffer device BusID 0:1x9:0? -- Regards Dave Ashmore MDK 10.1 Official Mozilla 1.7.3 ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Audio sync problems with exported Myth recordings - not with manual recordings
Lane Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone with a PVR-250 have exporting to DVD working successfully using MPEG2-MPEG2 cutting? Yes. I have that working fine here. Mind you, I wrote the mpeg2cut script, so it shouldn't be a surprise that it works for me. It sounds like maybe you should take a good look at the version of avidemux you are using. It's likely the issue here. Anyways, I got TV to watch. Ciao Gavin ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Very slight jitter on high power machine
--- Henk Poley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is probably some driver problem. Running as root MythTV request a couple of extra things (like vsync updates). What card do you use, and what version is the driver? I'm using an nVidia 5200Fx card and the 6111 driver. Pretty boring, eh? I've done this on one Athlon and one P4 system so far, both on KnoppMyth R4V5 and both have the instant hang feature with SUID root. Maybe I'll try Doug's suggestion and actually contribute some information instead of wailing like a baby __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Very slight jitter on high power machine
--- Doug Larrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might also check that your video refresh rate is very close to 59.94 (60 * 1000/1001) Hz (for US). If it's not, Myth will have to periodically extend or skip a frame to keep in sync. I'm using some of Brandon Beattie's modelines, which work perfectly on my system. I have a CRT based RPTV with VGA input locked to 1080i. I can feed it either 59.94 or 60 Hz. http://www.linuxis.us/linux/media/howto/linux-htpc/video_card_configuration.html If you're not running AC3 passthrough, you can instead try turning on use video as timebase, which will warp the audio instead of the video. No can do. I'm a dedicated AC3 passthrough kinda guy. One other thing to check... are some shows 29.97 / 59.94 Hz and some shows 30/60 Hz? I have not seen that. All are 59.94 that I've noticed. Wish it were easier to get debug information from mythfrontend. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Network Connection and Other Issues
Hello, Last night I encountered two problems. Mythtv wants me to believe that they were a coincidence, but I want a second opinion if they are coincidence or not. Issue 1. My network card on my mythtv backend server is dodgy, because the network cable doesn't lock into place. This is annoying because (obviously) the network goes down. It also means that the network adaptor looses its DHCP assigned IP address, which means the front end running on the same box no longer can talk to the backend. I considered trying to fix this so the frontend uses localhost 127.0.0.1 (and only on the backend computer) and will work even if the network goes down, but this seems to provide a convenient way of realizing that a problem exists... This is under the assumption that the backend will continue recording OK (note: mysql database is set up using localhost). Issue 2. Last night at 2330, my network went down due to the plug coming out a fraction. After that, mythtv was no longer able record a TV show at (they ended up being empty files). The log files reported errors on my DVB card. Is this a coincidence? Or was it perhaps due to the fact the antenna connection fell out of the DVB card, and somehow ended up being plugged into the video connection of my other TV card... Oh well, forget my ramblings, I think I just worked out this problem too ;-). Now to find the culprit who plugged the plug in the wrong spot... Anyway, just some issues to think about (especially point #1) when setting up a mythtv system that may not be immediately obvious. Point #1 may be important for some, if for example the network goes down for any reason or the DHCP server goes down while watching TV... I don't consider these issues to be mythtv's fault (although it would be nice if it could detect no DVB signal as an error and display some sort of notification to the user instead of continuously trying to record the show...). Also, just letting you all know how much I like wires and plugs ;-). -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Extending the change channel callout program?
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:43:26AM -0800, nate s top-posted (grr): On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 19:49:05 -0500, Mike Frisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be worthwhile extending the change channel callout program so it can receive channel up and channel down commands? Any other commands that might be useful? My goal would be to improve the interactive response when using MythTV to control my Star Choice DBS receiver. If you have a use in mind you might go for it, otherwise, I don't see any need for it. If you change with up/down, you might be going through channels you don't get, and I don't see any advantage over switching by number anyways. There might be extra keys you can press (or codes for lircd to send) to improve the speed at which your cable box or satellite receiver changes channels. With the Scientific- Atlanta Explorer 2100 I'm using, there are three ways you can go straight to a channel: 1) Enter the digits. This is slowest, as the OSD will pop up, wait a couple or three seconds before it figures you've finished entering digits, change the channel, and keep the OSD up for a couple of seconds after changing the channel. 2) Enter the digits, then press SELECT. This trims off the delay before the channel change takes effect. 3) Enter the digits, then press SELECT, then press C. This is fastest. In addition to getting rid of the delay before the channel change, it gets rid of the OSD after the channel change. There might still be a delay before video from the new channel actually shows up, but there's an even bigger delay before an ivtv tuner actually starts recording. At this point, my MythTV box changes channels on the cable box faster than my TiVo did. TiVo recordings would show a second of the previous channel followed by the channel-change OSD. MythTV recordings don't exhibit this behavior. There might be something similar that you can do with other cable boxes or satellite receivers that will accomplish a similar speedup. _/_ / v \ Scott Alfter (IIGS( http://alfter.us/Top-posting! \_^_/ rm -rf /bin/ladenWhat's the most annoying thing on Usenet? pgpAQerUc8c1h.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Nonlinear MPEG2 editor that doesn't suck?
Has anyone found such a beast? I've got an PVR-250 captured bunch of old 8mm home video footage that I'm trying to put together into a DVD. I'm trying to cut up a couple of 4GB 704x480 streams into a few dozen clips. I'd like to paste them together into a DVD with 1 chapter per clip. Issues include: Pseudo-replying to myself. I'm having some sync issues with some of these tape transfers and I've developed a theory. Perhaps someone who is more familiar with the MPEG2 streaming can help. I've been using avidemux in the past to recrunch pvr-250 recorded streams onto DVD. Not too much difficulty, and it appears that I always get a 66ms difference between audio and video. With this tape transfer, however, it appears that the A/V sync amount changes as the tape recording goes on. Maybe because the pvr-250 had to do weird things because the VCR that was playing the recording did odd things at the cut? Anyway, it appears that a signifcant cleanup can be done with the dvb-mplex and/or replex utility on the raw IVTV stream. It generates a number of PTS-related errors such as: video DTS inconsistent: 0:02:42.144 0:02:42.144 0:02:42.061 0:02:41.728 diff: 0:00:00.082 video PTS inconsistent: 0:02:42.178 0:02:42.178 0:02:42.095 0:02:41.761 diff: 0:00:00.083 video PTS inconsistent: 0:02:42.211 0:02:42.211 0:02:42.128 0:02:41.794 diff: 0:00:00.082 video PTS inconsistent: 0:02:42.345 0:02:42.345 0:02:42.262 0:02:41.928 diff: 0:00:00.082 video DTS inconsistent: 0:02:42.244 0:02:42.244 0:02:42.162 0:02:41.828 diff: 0:00:00.082 So the question is this: Does the ivtv driver output clean MPEG2 that's consistent from end to end, or does it have glitches in it? It would appear to be the latter, and the PTS can change mid-stream and goof up post-processing. Food for thought. -Cory * * Cory Papenfuss* * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * * ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Firewire Drives--or What are these things?
Folks, While dreaming up a htpc box, and looking through my Sweet Water catalog I came across these drives: http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/GT308/ These are said to be quiet firewire drives. I thought firewire was just an interface. Is there any such beast as a firewire drive or are they just scsi drives in a firewire chassis? Also, these things are damn expensive at $440 for 200 gb. What makes these worth it? Bearcat M. Sandor ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] not registered v4l2
I believe there was a symlink /dev/fb - /dev/fb0 and also reinstalled firmware from ivtv wiki. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] NEW - BIG PROBLEM! Watching LiveTV is very slow !!!!!
Ryan A. Carris wrote: On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 10:10:41 -0800, Scott Alfter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why are you still watching live TV? The whole idea behind a PVR (whether it's MythTV, TiVo, or something else) is that you let it record stuff and watch it at your convenience. You don't have to be a slave to the network scheduling goons anymore. I watch sports and news live; I always record sports and news. There are no better examples of the benefits of recording with a DVR where you can watch a recording in progress and simply delete when you are done. everything else is recorded. It just doesn't make sense to record the morning news, when I only watch 10 minutes of it before going to work. It doesn't make sense to be stuck in the ringbuffer and limited by the time you get around to starting the session. If you record a news show that start before you wake up, you can see the top stories and fast forward to the stories that interest you without having to wait for them to be broadcast. This is a much better use of your 10 minutes. And I really hate watching sports delayed. But, being able to pause and rewind is a feature I wouldn't give up, no matter what or when I'm watching. Even if you wanted to watch near real time, whatever that means or if it really mattered, you're still better off watching the recorded file in progress than relying on the ringbuffer. If you exit or change channels or the frontend hangs or you want to look at your schedule or mark a show to record that you saw in a promo or anything, you lose the recorded buffer. Plus you have no option to watch it later or replay highlights the next day. With a recording you can come and go as you please. I despise the idea of being stuck in a ringbuffer for three hours. I deliberately watch sports at least 20 minutes behind so I can skip commercials, timeouts, dead ball, whatever. I don't have to waste as much of my time as they have to waste during the game. I can watch all of Tiger Woods' shots in less than a quarter of the time they take to broadcast a round of golf. Now, can we get off this common reply. This must have been discussed to death in a thread last month. And the month before and last year and so on. Your opinion is not the last word on the subject but a common mis-conception many people have early in the DVR learning curve. You would not want to record daily news and every sports event with a VCR because you would need to load a blank tape and set a timer and wait until the broadcast is over before rewinding the tape and watching from the beginning. None if these are an issue with a DVR. You mark something to record, watch it, or not, at your convenience and delete it. Most people want to hang on to their old habits and believe they are supposed to channel surf and watch things while they are being broadcast and only a hand full of shows 'merit' being recorded. For most people there are a series of revelation along the way before they realize that they can record anything they want to see and always have a good selection of things to watch and have all the benefit of the recorded file. If they do go channel surfing in the disposable buffer and find something worth watching to the end, record that too. News and sports are not examples of things you have to watch in the A/V test mode temporary buffer (live TV) but are more like the best examples of how you can get to most out of your TV time by taking advantage of DVR capabilities. -- bjm ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Building a myth box, wanna look over my components?
Case: Cooler Master Cavalier 2 Black ATX Desktop Case With Analog Dial 300W Power Supply, $105 Motherboard: ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe nForce2 Ultra 400 (Soundstorm right?) $89 Video: Rosewill nVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Video Card $52.50 Processor: AMD Mobile Athlon XP 2600+ $95 Ram: 1x512 Mushkin basic green 2700 Tuner: PVR250MCE (Where should I buy this from? Newegg and ZZF are out. And isn't there problems with some newer retail versions?). Thinking about a PVR500MCE. How's the support under myth? (I'll probably go look this up myself) Hard Drive - ~200-250 gb (I find one on rebate) Total = ~$600 Not a complete Myth noob. Got an HD3000 box working last month, but the NTSC sucked so bad I ditched that idea until I research what ATSC signals I can get either OTA or unencrypted cable. So anyways... for a remote, I'll use either a Remote Wonder I or II that I have lying around. Anyone have any reccomendations on hardware? A64 processors are almost so cheap right now I might go with one of those, throw a 2800+ in there and it would add on about $30, but I'd lose Soundstorm, but then again... I'd gain 64 support for future use. Any tips would be helpful. Thanks. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire Drives--or What are these things?
At 5:40 PM -0700 12/14/04, Bearcat M. Sandor wrote: Folks, While dreaming up a htpc box, and looking through my Sweet Water catalog I came across these drives: http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/GT308/ These are said to be quiet firewire drives. I thought firewire was just an interface. Is there any such beast as a firewire drive or are they just scsi drives in a firewire chassis? Also, these things are damn expensive at $440 for 200 gb. What makes these worth it? I use something like these, though a bit more expensive. I use the 8 bay version in this picture: http://www.firewiremax.com/fire-wire-1394-ilink/lcdreen.html The advantage is that you can chain a lot of them together. With two of these FireWire cases, I have room for 16 drives, though I have only filled in 10 slots so far. I started using 250 GB drives and have now started to buy 300 to 400 GB drives, so that gives me room for over 4 TB of video, or about 600 DVDs. Each drive has its own temperature controlled fan and the blue LED screen tells you drive temp and fan speed. Besides they look really cool for a Home Theater! :) I back it up with a Quantum SDLT320 tape drive. I like to collect old black and white movies but I hate the hassle of DVDs, so as I buy them, I load them into the MovieDatabase. I am hoping that Myth will give me a better way to catalog them. FireWire is just an interface, but but the case is built with FireWire controllers. You plug IDE drives into the controller. The bays are also swappable, so you can pull a failing drive, replace it, and restore from backup. they are also RAIDible if I can Tivo RAID into a Verb. -Chuck- ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Thoughts on CD ripping
I would really like to see this too... On Tuesday 14 December 2004 9:50 am, Andrew Wilson wrote: Here's what I'm trying to do, has anyone tried this before? When I put a CD into the drive, I want the system to immediately start playing it just as a proper CD player would, while at the same time ripping it to disk so you don't need to put the CD in again. - Can myth do this? Can any other music programs do this? I'm using an EPIA M10k which doesn't have enough oomph to encode to mp3 in a reasonable timeframe, looking at about 30 mins for a CD, which is too long. However, I've got a nice fast CD rom, which in theory should be able to copy a music CD to disk in a couple of minutes or so. So, how about this for an idea: - Read the CD into a (ISO?) file, and start playing the audio immediately from the file rather than off the CD. - Eject the CD as soon as the disk has been read, but continue to play audio out of the ISO image - Rip the ISO to mp3/ogg/whatever in your own time, and delete the ISO once it's completed. Is this feasible? Where would I start? Andrew ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Thoughts on CD ripping
I heard a rumour somewhere that something similar is currently in development. Well, actually, I think what is being done, is the ripping and the encoding are being seperated so you don't have to wait for 30mins to eject the CD. I don't think the automated stuff is being done HTH's Whytey On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:28:49 -0600, Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would really like to see this too... On Tuesday 14 December 2004 9:50 am, Andrew Wilson wrote: Here's what I'm trying to do, has anyone tried this before? When I put a CD into the drive, I want the system to immediately start playing it just as a proper CD player would, while at the same time ripping it to disk so you don't need to put the CD in again. - Can myth do this? Can any other music programs do this? I'm using an EPIA M10k which doesn't have enough oomph to encode to mp3 in a reasonable timeframe, looking at about 30 mins for a CD, which is too long. However, I've got a nice fast CD rom, which in theory should be able to copy a music CD to disk in a couple of minutes or so. So, how about this for an idea: - Read the CD into a (ISO?) file, and start playing the audio immediately from the file rather than off the CD. - Eject the CD as soon as the disk has been read, but continue to play audio out of the ISO image - Rip the ISO to mp3/ogg/whatever in your own time, and delete the ISO once it's completed. Is this feasible? Where would I start? Andrew ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- GMAIL is 'da bomb babyYEAH ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MediaMVP
On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 14:48, David Shay wrote: Check out http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net At this point (and probably not ever...), it cannot run a full mythfrontend. It has its own menu system that from a MythTV perspective can be used to watch recordings, view the upcoming recordings schedule, and delete recordings. At this point it cannot schedule recordings and does not read/honor the commercial skip points. Those features are under development, as I understand it. It also does not do any of the ancillary functions, i.e. mythmusic, mythnews, etc. If all you are looking for is a remote frontend for watching shows, it works remarkably well, particularly given the price point. Great TV-out quality, IMHO. Hard to beat for $79-$89, even with the current functionality as-is. It doesn't compare to a standard setup with a PVR-350 since it cannot record -- there is no disk drive or encoder, only an MPEG decoder. I'm trying to figure out how have more frontends as well. I'm seriously considering MediaMVP since it almost does what I want. Watching recorded shows is primary, but I'd like to also use mythtvideo, or equivalent functionality, for playing mpeg2 files. I've thought about setting up some more linux machines running the frontend, but then you have to deal with TVOut and remote control. If those were a bit easier I'd probably go that route. Right now I'm hoping to get more time soon and maybe contribute to the MediaMVP project, but I fear my programming skills will not be adequate. Guess I'll find out. James ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Remote backend probs..
ok... i've fixed some of the problems by using the local hd to store the data, and reducing the quaility of sound encoding still some problems tough, any preformance tips? On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 03:14:15 +0100, Joakim Kolsjö [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi First i had both backend and frontend on this computer. Now i've put the backend on a P3-600. I use an pvr-250 to get the video input. When i play old recodings (done when both backend and frontend was on this comp) they play just fine streaming over the network but when i watch new recodings they have choppy video and sound and play seem to play slightly faster than normal. Ok... what about the stream then? Well... if i do dd if=/dev/video0 of=somefile.mpg before trying to watch with mythtv i get perfect video and sound, in sync, everything as it should be and after i get good video and sound, but it plays much faster than usual. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PChdtv.com hacked
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:34:44 -0500, Tom E. Craddock, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Went to the main site, all it said was Simiens Crew, some googling shows that they are some hackers who deface sites, anyone know the email addy of the site maintainer, in case they dont know. Tom E. Craddock, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Yeah, I just noticed that too. I sent an email just in case they aren't aware. Dave ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Getting rid of the console framebuffer in FC 3?
Hello All, I'm following Jarod's guide (much appreciation Jarod). I'm stuck trying to get ivtv-fb to load properly. Can't load ivtv-fb from the console. Receive a Kernel Oops if I do. This has been reported by others in Mythtv and Ivtv archives. Loads fine from within X but the PC hangs if I try to switch back to the console with it loaded. Someone in the Ivtv-devel list reported success compiling the kernel without console framebuffer support. I'd like to be able to recompile the stock 2.6.9-681_FC3 kernel and still be able use the packaged kernel modules. Is this possible and/or wise? or would I be better off trying FC 2? Definitely, appreciate any thoughts. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [ivtv-devel] Re: [mythtv-users] Nonlinear MPEG2 editor that doesn't suck?
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 07:50:27PM -0500, Cory Papenfuss wrote: I've been using avidemux in the past to recrunch pvr-250 recorded streams onto DVD. Not too much difficulty, and it appears that I always get a 66ms difference between audio and video. With this tape transfer, however, it appears that the A/V sync amount changes as the tape recording goes on. Maybe because the pvr-250 had to do weird things because the VCR that was playing the recording did odd things at the cut? Anyway, it appears that a signifcant cleanup can be done with the dvb-mplex and/or replex utility on the raw IVTV stream. It generates a number of PTS-related errors such as: I have this too! I noticed that playing the stream with mplayer had no problems. Doing something like: mencoder nuv -oac copy -ovc copy -o nuv.out rebuild the B-frames in avidemux now and all is fine I think that mencoder complains about duplicate frames or soemthing like that (I don't have a log at the moment). Leo. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] My last few steps to FC3 success :)
First off, thanks to everyone who has given great information to get me going on this. My first box was a KnoppMyth box that worked well, but alas, suffered a sad HD crash and I decided to rebuild using FC3 and Jarod's guide (which is great, many thanks). But I've run into a few problems and have a few questions surrounding them: - In Jarod's guide, it's mentioned that to reactivate nvidia-settings, you should add... nvidia-settings --load-config-only . /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ...to your ~/.xinitrc file. I've got that in there for the mythtv user, but my overscan settings are not being reapplied when I reboot the box. Any ideas what I may be missing? Is it possible I'm setting conflicting settings elsewhere? - If a restart the box and go to Live TV, I cannot change channels. The OSD shows up totally blank and it pauses for a moment and then stays on the same channel. Now, if I close out of live TV, then bring up a terminal and do a /sbin/service mythbackend restart as root, all is well. My channels then show in the OSD and I can change channels without issue. This seems like I may have some sort of timing issue problem as to when the backend is starting up since it does work if I restart the backend? - This last one is more of a guess, but it would appear that my box hard crashes if I'm watching live tv and a show to record comes on. Sometimes my wife will leave MythTV on watching live TV and turn off the TV and I'll come back to find it locked up and it's always after a show to record has come on. It seems to time to when a show is getting queued up to record. As a side note, I've turned off commercial detection. It is an awesome piece of software and I'm hoping I can get these last nagging kinks out! Any help would be greatly appreciated :) Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Very slight jitter on high power machine
Joe Barnhart wrote: --- Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By jitter I refer to what appear to be dropped frames, slight skips in smooth motion during periods of high motion. Not the Sound is freaking out constant jitter or actual slow playback. I've noticed this too, and I describe it almost as cogging because the hiccup is very regular. For example when a camera pans across a scene I see smooth panning interrupted by regular jerks. You might also check that your video refresh rate is very close to 59.94 (60 * 1000/1001) Hz (for US). If it's not, Myth will have to periodically extend or skip a frame to keep in sync. If you're not running AC3 passthrough, you can instead try turning on use video as timebase, which will warp the audio instead of the video. I am not sure if this was changed to use the new libmythsoundtouch stuff, or if it still audibly speeds up/slows down the audio. One other thing to check... are some shows 29.97 / 59.94 Hz and some shows 30/60 Hz? I've read that networks plan to transition to 30/60 Hz once the analog NTSC stations are off the air; maybe some shows are being produced that way now? If so, Myth needs a way to select a video mode with the proper refresh rate added to its capability to pick one with the proper resolution. -Doug signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Remote Control Key Press Repeats
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 13:35, Ryan A. Carris wrote: I upgraded several things at once, Myth, Distro, KDE, ect. I know that this is probably a very rare setup, but I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction to look. thanks, Just a thought popped into my head, I think KDE has a setting for sticky keys, although I never use it. You might want to investigate that. Kayne ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drives that Actually Work?
I am a Maxtor fan- but that experience is limited to my 3 computers at home. On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:09:34 -0400, Mark J. Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On December 14, 2004 09:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just had my second Western Digital Special Edition 200 GB drive die on me. Since I'm using an ASUS Pundit, I figured heat was the culprit, so the second drive had a dual-fan cooler on it. No such luck. After about three months of use, performance suddenly degrades, and the journals begin to corrupt. A few days later, I/O errors crop up, and the drive is pretty much useless. Are these drives just not up to the stress of a PVR? I'm interested in hearing what kind of drives people have had good luck with, as I've about had it with these. I'll get my third on warranty, but It won't be going back into a myth box. Thanks, Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users As a VERY small dealer, I haven't been very happy with the quality of WD drives in the last few years. I've seen too many come back dead, and many more come back very noisy. These are mostly 20 and 40 GB BB or EB drives. I've switched to using Samsung as much as possible. I haven't hit a bad one yet. Of course, its only been a year since I started using them, and the next two years may teach me otherwise. Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Jesse Perkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jperkins.homeip.net ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Strange X behavior with nvidia drivers
Paul Hamm wrote: I am currently going through an OS upgrade cycle to FC3. One of my machines has a Chaintech 7nif2 igp system board 512mb XP 3200+. This machine has been my test box for mythtv. I was planning to switch it over to my primary work station and change my work station over to a mythtv server. After installing FC3 (everything) and running apt-get dist-upgrade, install KDE 3.3, latest FC3 kernel, and nvidia drivers. I noticed something odd. I usually run my workstation at 1280x1024. The machine with the 7nif2 has always been run at 1024x768. Now I want it to run at 1280x1024, it does so using the nv driver. The problem is that if I use the nvidia driver 6629 I only get 1024x768 on the display with a virtual 1280x1024. Is this a known issue or am I missing something blindingly obvious? IIRC 6629 fixes some bugs in the code that reads resolution information from the monitor. Try adding Option IgnoreEDID in the appropriate location (sorry, not in front of me). You're lucky, though... 6629 is completely hosed for people with cards earlier than about an FX5200. -Doug signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] pvr-350 tv-out hanging in live tv
Oh yeah, little detail I forgot. I am currently using ivtv-0.2.0_rc3 I have tried with at least 5 different versions of ivtv-0.2.0rc2 and two different versions of ivtv-0.2.0rc3 Juan John Harvey wrote: Which version of ivtv are you using? John --- Juan C. Gallardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I just manage to get the pvr-350 work over X. It looks great! and I will like to keep using it, but I am having two problems. The first as says on the title. When I try to watch live tv it hangs, after a minute or something like that. I have selected to use the pvr-350 in the tv setup. My videos plays perfect with mplayer, from inside and outside of mythfrontend. The second problem is that if I try to watch a DVD is vry slow. I am using xine to play DVDs. I am guessing that it has to be something about playing MPG movies over X with the ivtv driver. So is tehre a way to use xine to play dvd over X using the pvr-350 tv output? I think I have read something about a special version of xine to use with the pvr-350. Is that what I should use? if so, where can I found it? Of course, the first problem is the most important. I really want to use the pvr output, it looks s much better than my nvidia output, the colors are perfect. Any idea, anyone? Thanks in advance Juan ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Thoughts on CD ripping
Here's what I'm trying to do, has anyone tried this before? When I put a CD into the drive, I want the system to immediately start playing it just as a proper CD player would, while at the same time ripping it to disk so you don't need to put the CD in again. - Can myth do this? Can any other music programs do this? I'm using an EPIA M10k which doesn't have enough oomph to encode to mp3 in a reasonable timeframe, looking at about 30 mins for a CD, which is too long. However, I've got a nice fast CD rom, which in theory should be able to copy a music CD to disk in a couple of minutes or so. So, how about this for an idea: - Read the CD into a (ISO?) file, and start playing the audio immediately from the file rather than off the CD. - Eject the CD as soon as the disk has been read, but continue to play audio out of the ISO image - Rip the ISO to mp3/ogg/whatever in your own time, and delete the ISO once it's completed. Is this feasible? Where would I start? Andrew ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Hard Drives that Actually Work?
I too have had at least 3 WD IDE drives fail on me. They all started with a ca-chunking type noise. I can't wait to have all my working ones replaced with something else ... only then will I breathe a little easier! Good luck! Chris -Original Message- From: cythraul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 10:17 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drives that Actually Work? Hi Paul, My Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 (120 GB) has been running efficiently for more then a year now. Tho, it's now as quiet as my two 40 GB Seagate Barracuda IV that used to be in my backend -- now being used almost as badly on my desktop. My last experience with WD is with a 3 GB model that WD replaced 3 times during the warranty period. (the retailer bankrupted -- too much WD returns? :) It cost me a bundle of shipping and customs.. The last time it died (not long after the warranty expired,) I swore never to buy from them again and encourage people to do the same. Obviously they are still having problems but are still in business. Mind boggling. Good day, cythraul On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 07:53:36 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just had my second Western Digital Special Edition 200 GB drive die on me. Since I'm using an ASUS Pundit, I figured heat was the culprit, so the second drive had a dual-fan cooler on it. No such luck. After about three months of use, performance suddenly degrades, and the journals begin to corrupt. A few days later, I/O errors crop up, and the drive is pretty much useless. Are these drives just not up to the stress of a PVR? I'm interested in hearing what kind of drives people have had good luck with, as I've about had it with these. I'll get my third on warranty, but It won't be going back into a myth box. Thanks, Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drives that Actually Work?
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 07:53:36 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are these drives just not up to the stress of a PVR? I'm interested in hearing what kind of drives people have had good luck with, as I've about had it with these. I'll get my third on warranty, but It won't be going back into a myth box. Heat- looks like you are eliminating this one. Physical shocks- since this PC sounds like it is in an entertainment center: does it receive any physcial shocks such as moving it while it is running, bumps, in a high-traffic area, stiff tv cabinet door catches, etc? If none of these are too extreme- you could just be experiencing a bad batch. Better luck next time! --Josiah ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] X over PVR-350
lets see the contents of your xorg.conf - Original Message - From: Dan Wilga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, December 13, 2004 3:24 pm Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] X over PVR-350 I found that the latest version of ivtvdev_drv.o would cause X to hog 99% of the CPU and not output anything. I ended up reverting to a version from October 16, which is 17902 bytes. At 1:16 AM -0500 12/12/04, Josh Sharpe wrote: I posted something about this a week ago but didn't get much help and am still stuck. I'm following Jarod Wilson's FC2 HOW-TO w/ PVR-350 TV-out. I'm at the point where I'm attempting to reload X over the 350's TV- out. I've edited xorg.conf to my specific settings and when I hit crtl-alt- backspaceit kills off KDE and a blank screen comes up. I have changed the PCI slot the 350 is in since my last post so that the address of the card is 0:09.0 instead of 0:0b.0 which I thought might be causing trouble, but it's still not working. In the xorg.conf I have 0:0x09:0 and /dev/fb0 (which is the buffer my card is on) Thanx -- Dan Wilga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Technology Specialist http://www.mtholyoke.edu Mount Holyoke CollegeTel: 413-538-3027 South Hadley, MA 01075Who left the cake out in the rain? ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drives that Actually Work?
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 10:17:19AM -0500, cythraul wrote: My Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 (120 GB) has been running efficiently for more then a year now. Tho, it's now as quiet as my two 40 GB Seagate Barracuda IV that used to be in my backend -- now being used almost as badly on my desktop. We have 3 of the 200GB models, 4 months, 24x7. So far, so good. But do remember that IDE drives aren't really built for 24x7 100% duty cycle applications, as SCSI drives are; that's why they're so cheap, by comparison. It's not *just* manufacturing quantity. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth AssociatesThe Things I Think'87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system adminstrator. Or two. --me ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] I Can't get CVS build to work w/ my PVR350 setup anymore
Hello All, For the past year or so, I have been able to keep up with CVS builds no problem. Thankfully, each time I perform an upgrade (every month or so), I make backups of everything! My last successful upgrade was Oct. 1st. I realize that a lot of activity has been going on since then. Has something fundamentally changed in the code that deals with the PVR350? I am using ivtv version 0.1.9a and it (like everything else) has worked fine for over a year now. With the latest CVS build, mythbackend seems to work just fine. It can record shows and livetv perfectly (the .nuv files are correct). However mythfrontend seems to hang when I try to view a recording or livetv. There are no error messages or anything. The TV screen initially shows me which input I'm using (Composite 0) and then turns black. Any ideas? Would it help if I compiled the code with debug information? Like I said, myth isn't crashing or anything; mythfrontend simply doesn't play anything. Thanks! --Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drives that Actually Work?
Quoting Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 10:17:19AM -0500, cythraul wrote: My Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 (120 GB) has been running efficiently for more then a year now. Tho, it's now as quiet as my two 40 GB Seagate Barracuda IV that used to be in my backend -- now being used almost as badly on my desktop. We have 3 of the 200GB models, 4 months, 24x7. So far, so good. But do remember that IDE drives aren't really built for 24x7 100% duty cycle applications, as SCSI drives are; that's why they're so cheap, by comparison. It's not *just* manufacturing quantity. The IDE drives in my Tivo's don't seem to have that problem. This may simply be a case of consumer product deterioration. The drive makers have been reducing their warranties lately. They clearly aren't interested in standing behind their products for any reasonable amount of time any more (regardless of how the drives are used). Seagate specifically markets models with the older/longer warranties. I thought that WD was also supposed to have such a line but I have not seen it in retail outlets. This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: TiVo cracks down on grammar
Heh...maybe I should stop using Google as a verb as well ;-) On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Kevin Kuphal wrote: I thought this was funny: http://news.com.com/Noun+Verb+TiVo+says+its+neither/2100-1041_3-5488370.html TiVo is cracking down on news organizations that use TiVo as a verb. Granted they are protecting their trademark but it strikes me as funny. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] OT: TiVo cracks down on grammar
I thought this was funny: http://news.com.com/Noun+Verb+TiVo+says+its+neither/2100-1041_3-5488370.html TiVo is cracking down on news organizations that use TiVo as a verb. Granted they are protecting their trademark but it strikes me as funny. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: TiVo cracks down on grammar
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:15:01AM -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote: I thought this was funny: http://news.com.com/Noun+Verb+TiVo+says+its+neither/2100-1041_3-5488370.html TiVo is cracking down on news organizations that use TiVo as a verb. Granted they are protecting their trademark but it strikes me as funny. They're correct; it's neither. Like all trademarked brand names, it's an *adjective*: A TiVo personal video recorder. A Band-aid brand adhesive bandage. A Whopper sandwich. Get the impression I've spent too much time doing this? ;-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth AssociatesThe Things I Think'87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system adminstrator. Or two. --me ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drives that Actually Work?
Over the last two years I bought 5 hard disks as upgrades for the Myth boxes I've made; 2 Maxtor, 3 WD. Once a WD was DOP (Dead on Purchase) and got it replaced. I also got a lot of old (20 GB) drives and my experience is that most drives (regardless of the brand) die after a year or 5 to 10. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just had my second Western Digital Special Edition 200 GB drive die on me. Since I'm using an ASUS Pundit, I figured heat was the culprit, so the second drive had a dual-fan cooler on it. No such luck. After about three months of use, performance suddenly degrades, and the journals begin to corrupt. A few days later, I/O errors crop up, and the drive is pretty much useless. Are these drives just not up to the stress of a PVR? I'm interested in hearing what kind of drives people have had good luck with, as I've about had it with these. I'll get my third on warranty, but It won't be going back into a myth box. Thanks, Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] OT: TiVo cracks down on grammar
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:15:01AM -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote: I thought this was funny: http://news.com.com/Noun+Verb+TiVo+says+its+neither/2100-1041_3-5488370.html TiVo is cracking down on news organizations that use TiVo as a verb. Granted they are protecting their trademark but it strikes me as funny. I think we should jump in here. My wife uses Myth as a verb all the time... Oh shoot! I forgot to watch Nip/Tuck last night. Did you Myth it? or There's a show on tonight that I want you to Myth (almost sounds like she's talking with a lisp :) Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drives that Actually Work?
This may simply be a case of consumer product deterioration. The drive makers have been reducing their warranties lately. They clearly aren't interested in standing behind their products for any reasonable amount of time any more (regardless of how the drives are used). Really? Seagate recently bumped their warranty from 3 to 5 years on ALL drives. WD did the same (but only for OEM's -- the retail drives did drop from 3 to 1 year) -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: TiVo cracks down on grammar
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:55:17PM -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: Trademarks are a funny thing. They *have* to take affirmative action to protect them, or they slip, into the public domain. Like Aspirin. I thought aspirin fell into the public domain because the Germans lost WWI. A search turned up this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirin The name aspirin is composed of a- (for the acetyl group) -spir- (for the spiraea flower) and -in (a common ending for drugs at the time). Bayer registered it as a trademark on March 6, 1899. However, the German company lost the right to use the trademark in many countries as the Allies seized and resold its foreign assets after World War I. The right to use Aspirin in the United States (along with all other Bayer trademarks) was purchased from the U.S. government by Sterling Drug, Inc in 1918. Even before the patent for the drug expired in 1917, Bayer had been unable to stop competitors from copying the formula and using the name elsewhere, and so with a flooded market, the public was unable to recognize Aspirin as coming from only one manufacturer. Sterling was subsequently unable to prevent Aspirin from being ruled a generic mark (and therefore unprotected) in a U.S. federal court in 1921. Other countries (such as Canada) still consider Aspirin a protected trademark. _/_ / v \ Scott Alfter (IIGS( http://alfter.us/Top-posting! \_^_/ rm -rf /bin/ladenWhat's the most annoying thing on Usenet? ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] OT: TiVo cracks down on grammar
And I thought the days of conquering armies pillaging and looting were over! On Tuesday 14 December 2004 02:05 pm, Scott Alfter wrote: However, the German company lost the right to use the trademark in many countries as the Allies seized and resold its foreign assets after World War I. The right to use Aspirin in the United States (along with all other Bayer trademarks) was purchased from the U.S. government by Sterling Drug, Inc in 1918. -- Bill Chmura Director of Internet Technology Explosivo ITG Wolcott, CT p: 888.560.YWEB (9932) e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w. http://www.explosivo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] changing channels on Directv D10 receiver
If people are interested, I could host it somewhere (so that one does not have to search through the archive to find it.) Also, I found the origional post I got it from. Credit for it goes to Bob Stafford. see here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/50587 -Nate On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 18:38, Kayne wrote: On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 14:56, nate s wrote: Or, if you search the archive, I recently posted a C program that I've had better luck with than the RCA.pl script. You might give that a try. never mind, found it. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/95415?search_string=nate.strickland%20at%20gmail;#95415 Kayne For those wondering, it was a *much* faster solution for changing channels. The RCA.pl script was very slow on this machine and I'd suggest it to others on this receiver. Kayne ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] RE: DVB in the UK (EPG)
On Tuesday 14 Dec 2004 12:26, Andrew Wilson wrote: On Sunday 12 Dec 2004 20:09, Stephen Tait wrote: Edit: I've found a site selling what purports to be one http://www.thedigiboxshop.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=18, but I can't see a keyboard anywhere... You can buy them anywhere... dixons, currys etc. They flip open and there's a qwerty keyboard inside. Forgive my ignorance: Can you use this thing as a regular keyboard in X using lirc? That would just be dandy! Oh indeedey, very handy. -- Ivor Hewitt. http://www.ivor.it - tech | http://www.ivor.org - hedge ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MediaMVP
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:43:57 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip / Commercial skip is the biggest feature I miss. Video quality is exactly the same as my frontend used to be. i thought commercial skip was performed on the backend after the program was recorded??? and then just the recorded feature was sent to the front end. am i missing something here? thanks ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drives that Actually Work?
Another vote for seagate. I have a 200G 7200.7 (PATA version) that's been running great for a while now. It is almost silent, very fast compared to the 60G maxtor that I had before it, and barely even gets warm to the touch. On a side note, I've been looking into getting another of the exact same, to perhaps set up a raid array, and I've notived the price on them has gone up since I first bought it. I guess they've been popular. -Nate On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:18:14 -0800, Chris Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris, I'm assuming that you are not taking any extra measures for cooling this drive in your pundit? I did some sheet metal modifications to my Pundit drive bay so that I could add cooling. Hopefully with this new drive I can remove the cooler, as it is the noisiest item in the case by far. Nope, nothing special. I've even lately taken to keeping my pundit in a cabinet (granted, big hole cut out of the back of it). I do have an optical drive in there, but it's unplugged, so it won't generate any heat like it might if it was plugged in. -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New Custom Record
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:23:32PM -0800, nate s wrote: That sounds to me like a great idea. I've been wanting the exact same thing myself, and have been considering how to impliment it (not being a dev) I was thinking about writhing a script to mess with the database to show that specific episodes are the same, or something. If there were native support for something like this, that'd be great. That's barely even a script, and I must admit while kludgey it's a good idea. For example, if they all aired on the same day (not true for daily show) then something like this would be in order. UPDATE 'program' SET subtitle = Concat(Program for , date(starttime)) where 'title' = The Daily Show AND subtitle = A humourous slant on top news stories; To firm this up, you would have it do two updates. One would take episodes where HOUR(TIME(starttime) = 18, and the other where they are less than 18, and the one for less than 18 would modify the subtitle to include the prior day (dateadd should work). I'm not an SQL wizard, so this is just a quick guess, but it would look something like this. If you ran this after a database fill you would not get repeats. I will let an SQL wizard refine the statement if they like. You could just feed this to the mysql program -- no coding (outside of SQL) required. However, this is a very specific solution, you need a line like this for every code, though it would not be hard to generalize it with fancier SQL to detect shows that are on multiple times a day with the same description, and stuff the date into the description as shown above. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV, Myth, and Cable television -- basic questions
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:51:42 -0500, Micah Wedemeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. HDTV and Cable television ... ...in the future, I expect that eventually I will want HDTV. But, I will still want to watch mostly cable channels. So, finally, a question: What is necessary to watch HDTV for cable television? Do you think Myth will be able to do this, or will the channels be encrypted in such a way to make this impossible? It is not possible now, and likely will not be possible to watch HDTV on cable TV channels using Myth. 2. pcHDTV and Broadcast flag - (Non-USA users: ignore this) ... The main question is: Will the pcHDTV 3000 allow for HDTV over cable? Note: I'm not asking for a guarantee here, just a It's in the works... Mainly, I don't want to buy a card that is only for OTA HDTV and has no plans for cable. There is talk that pcHDTV is working on QAM-capable firmware for the pcHDTV 3000. If the pcHDTV people provide QAM-capable firmware, then it should be possible to use the pcHDTV 3000 to watch HDTV on cable TV - but *only* if the particular channel is not encrypted. Most cable providers encrypt some channels; many cable providers encrypt all channels. 3. MythTV and broadcast flag - (Non-USA users: ignore this) Assuming I miss the June date and buy a HDTV tuner card after that, what of the broadcast flag? Anyone have any ideas how this might interact with MythTV? I understand that it is a hardware issue, but perhaps it can be disabled by hacked drivers? More basically, what is the point of it? Can content providers send out a signal and force all copies of tv-show X to delete themselves? The way I understand it, hardware manufactured after the cut-off date will be required to honor the broadcast flag. No one knows for sure what this will mean. Many people (me included) read the statute to mean that if a show has the broadcast flag enabled, the tuner hardware must prevent the show from being recorded. If this reading is correct then a PVR (or HD-capable digital VCR) set to record program X would not record program X if the content provider enables the broadcast flag for program X. Hope that helps, Lane -- Meetup with other Myth users! http://mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MUG ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] hauppauge 350 tvout no go!
David Erickson wrote: Dave, I had some significant problems getting it to work myself but i am still using Redhat 9. I can tell you that I know several people on here have gotten it to work on FC3. Unfortunately the X windows version that Red Hat 9 and FC3 uses are different so I can't help other than to suggest you follow Jarod's website's instruction very clearly as I have never had a problem when I followed that. I'll be updating to FC3 after the holiday's but hopefully you'll get around this stump before then. Dave Sorry for the following frustration but I have mythtv working in FC3 and all is well recording. Ok here goes my rant. http://www.hauppauge.com/html/wintvpvr350_datasheet.htm I would suggest users just buy the 250 as the X tvout does not seem to work for me. If I go to myth setup/utilitiesplayback use pvr-350 out. I can in fact use the watch tv or playback a video and it does work with poor color but I cannot ween myself from using a monitor. I want/need pvr-350 tvout to display the X desktop. If I did not in fact have the monitor plugged in I would not be able to use the mythfrontend menu. lspci reports: 01:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Enc oder (rev 01) cat /var/log/messages |grep iTVC15 TV out Reports: Dec 13 20:38:34 mythbox kernel: ivtv-osd: fb0: iTVC15 TV out frame buffer device SO the way I see it I can't get this to work. SO here is what I'm thinking. One of the following: Buy another graphics card and torture myself to possibly getting it to work to display X desktop with tvout. Getting an xbox and try to use it as a frontend. Continue to try to get X desktop to display on the pvr-350 tvout. Or could I possibly get a product like this display from vga to component video and leave well enough alone? Specifications for HD15 (VGA) Male to RCA x 3 Male, D / Shield, (VGA to Component Video), 6 ft Part Number 10H1-50106 http://www.national-tech.com/specs/10h2-50106.htm (I'm thinking this looks like the easiest way to go if it would in fact work) Does anyone have the pvr-350 displaying X desktop? If so how? Please advise. Regards Dave Ashmore ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Ok here is my files but I edited them back to the original state. I know when it locks up the cpu there is something on the screen that says /dev/fb0 no such device. I would assume its in the log file but this stuff is way over my head the troubleshooting aspect. My files are posted here: http://djash.com/pvr350 If there is anything else we need to troubleshoot please let me know. -- Regards Dave Ashmore MDK 10.1 Official Mozilla 1.7.3 ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MediaMVP
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:43:57 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip / Commercial skip is the biggest feature I miss. Video quality is exactly the same as my frontend used to be. i thought commercial skip was performed on the backend after the program was recorded??? and then just the recorded feature was sent to the front end. am i missing something here? Commercial Detection is performed by the backend. Commercial Skip is performed by the frontend using the information detected by the commercial detection that the backend ran. So, in the MediaMVP's case, the frontend (aka MediaMVP) doesn't have the necessary feature to use the information detected by the backend. The shows are still flagged (in the recordedmarkup table in the database), the MediaMVP just doesn't ?can't? take advantage of the flagging info in order to skip commercials. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] DVB-T out-of-the-box
(Think I sent a completely blank email to the list a minute ago, my apologies if it gets through) Is there a distribution and DVB-T card combination out there that will work with a fresh install without any hassles? I have read so much stuff and tried so many things with FC2 and FC3 with my Nebula DigiTV and nothing has worked. Installing Windows right now on the box so I can record the John Peel tributes on Thursday night but after that I'll be starting over again. So if anyone has any step by steps they can give me then it is greatly appreciated :) ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MediaMVP
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:26:52 -0500 (EST), Chris Pinkham snip / Commercial Detection is performed by the backend. Commercial Skip is performed by the frontend using the information detected by the commercial detection that the backend ran. huh, bummer. i thought the files actually had the commercials stripped out of them on the backend. i was hoping i wouldn't have to do that manually for shows in which i want to save the whole series. does anyone have a script or something that they've set up to do this? andy ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DVB in the UK (EPG)
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Martin Ebourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think the visionplus one comes with a remote control. The remote with the nova-t is pretty good and works well with MythTV. It'd be worth the extra for that. I have other plans for a remote. Aside from anything else I want to mount the receiver internally if I can. It turns out that the Visionplus card does come with a remote. Don't know if lirc can drive it yet mind. I ordered two VisionPlus cards on Friday anyway, so we'll see what they're like when they turn up on Tuesday... I've got seven days to send them back if I don't like them. Well they came this morning and they seem to be working OK so far. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drives that Actually Work?
I have more experience with disks as a result of the 300 or so I have in my clusters, rather than MythTV. I have seen many disks fail, but things seem to be improving. Most disks I find, if they are going to fail, fail in their first year. So multi year warranty is a must. Any manufacturer can be bad, but disk from 2002 to early 2004 were probably the worst from many mfg. This is the period when the disk mfg reduced warranties for retail drives to 1 year. Things seem to have improved. Seagate recently increased their warranty to up to 5 years on SATA drives. Some of the other mfg have followed suit. My experience is that I have moved away from Maxtor and WD to seagate. Overall I am so far finding Seagate disks to be more reliable. I based this on experience, and the fact that seagate provides some of the best warranties out there. Warranties are a gamble on the par tof the mfg so they seem to be confident in their products. I also only use SATA which I have also found to be of superior reliabilty, although I have only deployed a dozen or so SATA disk. My comment is you never know. Disks fail for a variety of reasons, and it is best to assume you will have a failure at some point. To mitigate the risk I recommend either RAID1 or RAID5 software mirroring if you actually care about your data otherwise go with the disks with the best warranties. They may not last longer, but at least you can get them replaced. Also go with SATA if you can. SATA has some nice features that (if you have the right controller) can reduce some of the load situations that increase the wear and tear on your disk. Terrence Brian May wrote: Paul == [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul I just had my second Western Digital Special Edition 200 GB Paul drive die on me. Since I'm using an ASUS Pundit, I figured Paul heat was the culprit, so the second drive had a dual-fan Paul cooler on it. No such luck. After about three months of Paul use, performance suddenly degrades, and the journals begin Paul to corrupt. A few days later, I/O errors crop up, and the Paul drive is pretty much useless. Are these drives just not up Paul to the stress of a PVR? I'm interested in hearing what kind Paul of drives people have had good luck with, as I've about had Paul it with these. I'll get my third on warranty, but It won't Paul be going back into a myth box. In the past I have had lots of problems with hard disks on my 24x7 Linux server. Hard disks (from all major brands) were dieing between 3 months and 13 months (one month after warranty). I ended up paying more for 4 hard disks (WD) with 3 year warranty. The hard disks in my Linux server are still working perfectly - I am a bit suspicious of the hard disks in my mythtv system (once I tried to boot up and one hard disk didn't come online - I took the computer apart, pulled the IDE connector out, and put everything back together and it suddenly started working again... However, I sometimes get bad looking hard disk error messages on boot up when I look...) ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Strange X behavior with nvidia drivers
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:41:29PM -0500, Paul Hamm wrote: No joy, I seem to have the same issue with 6111. BTW I had to download and install the nvidia drivers manually as 6111 and 6106 both give this error if you use atrpms. nvidia: Unknown symbol __VMALLOC_RESERVE the fix is to unpack the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run and edit nv.c by adding the following line below the Global state comment. unsigned int __VMALLOC_RESERVE; But that's the wrong fix, as it introduces a different __VMALLOC_RESERVE symbol than the one that is not anymore exported (but still used). So while there are no errors at module load time, any access to __VMALLOC_RESERVE will be to the above symbol and not the kernel's. The fix is either in nvidia's sources (e.g. 6629) or in rexprting the symbol in the kernel (requires patching the kernel). I also tried Jarods tip of adding, which did nothing. Option ConnectedMonitor crt I will drop the FC2 hard drive back in an see if I get the same behavior. On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 09:31, Doug Larrick wrote: Paul Hamm wrote: I am currently going through an OS upgrade cycle to FC3. One of my machines has a Chaintech 7nif2 igp system board 512mb XP 3200+. This machine has been my test box for mythtv. I was planning to switch it over to my primary work station and change my work station over to a mythtv server. After installing FC3 (everything) and running apt-get dist-upgrade, install KDE 3.3, latest FC3 kernel, and nvidia drivers. I noticed something odd. I usually run my workstation at 1280x1024. The machine with the 7nif2 has always been run at 1024x768. Now I want it to run at 1280x1024, it does so using the nv driver. The problem is that if I use the nvidia driver 6629 I only get 1024x768 on the display with a virtual 1280x1024. Is this a known issue or am I missing something blindingly obvious? IIRC 6629 fixes some bugs in the code that reads resolution information from the monitor. Try adding Option IgnoreEDID in the appropriate location (sorry, not in front of me). You're lucky, though... 6629 is completely hosed for people with cards earlier than about an FX5200. -Doug __ ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net pgpBrS8tbwxIT.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] PChdtv.com hacked
Hey Went to the main site, all it said was Simiens Crew, some googling shows that they are some hackers who deface sites, anyone know the email addy of the site maintainer, in case they dont know. Tom E. Craddock, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drives that Actually Work?
Terrence == Terrence Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Terrence To mitigate the risk I recommend either RAID1 Unfortunately, RAID1 will not help in the case the hard disk returns random data but fails to report an error. There is no way of knowing which disk is good and which disk is bad. The result is that the bad data may be written to the good disk resulting in two bad disks. Having said that I used RAID1 for my important data (and keep backups). -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Getting rid of the console framebuffer in FC 3?
On Tuesday 14 December 2004 22:21, David Smith wrote: Hello All, I'm following Jarod's guide (much appreciation Jarod). I'm stuck trying to get ivtv-fb to load properly. Can't load ivtv-fb from the console. Receive a Kernel Oops if I do. This has been reported by others in Mythtv and Ivtv archives. Loads fine from within X but the PC hangs if I try to switch back to the console with it loaded. Someone in the Ivtv-devel list reported success compiling the kernel without console framebuffer support. I'd like to be able to recompile the stock 2.6.9-681_FC3 kernel and still be able use the packaged kernel modules. Is this possible and/or wise? or would I be better off trying FC 2? It seems FC2 is still a bit more stable platform for systems using the 350's output. I haven't actually tried my 350 output under FC3 yet, just haven't had the time. -- Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got a question? Read this first... http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html MythTV, Fedora Core ATrpms documentation: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archive http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/ pgpwqj1chFISf.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] NEW - BIG PROBLEM! Watching LiveTV is very slow !!!!!
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 05:04:15PM -0800, Bruce Markey wrote: Even if you wanted to watch near real time, whatever that means or if it really mattered, you're still better off watching the recorded file in progress than relying on the ringbuffer. If Indeed, but this is just advice because the ringbuffer needs some design work. It should be damn near impossible to lose the ringbuffer. Even if you change channels, even if you kill the front end. You should be able to rewind back through channel changes (possibly with a pause and warning as you go through them). The Tivo also fails this test, and you can lose the ringbuffer by accident by hitting a number button or channel change button. The only way to lose the ringbuffer should be if space is needed to record a program you have requested and can't be freed another way. Material more than 30 minutes prior to your watch point can generally be considered ripe for release. Of course, you can attain this by asking for a recording rather than ring buffer. However, a 4 hour sporting event in HD is going to be almost 30 gigabytes, and you might not have the space to keep it when all you want to do is watch 20 minutes behind. A common trick for sports and other live items on Tivo is as follows: a) When the show begins, pause the viewing and watch a recording in your library for some buffer period, like 20 minutes. b) Switch to the live event. Skip over commercials, pitching changes other boring stuff. c) When you get to live, pause again and watcy a show in your library for another 20 minutes. This, I don't think, you can do easily with MythTV. You must request to record the show, which as noted may take 30gb of space for a big sporting event or the Academy Awards or whatever in HD. Yes, 30GB is cheap but most people fill up their disks, so every attempt to record 30GB punts something else. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Building a myth box, wanna look over my components?
Cecil, Derek Gathright wrote: NForce2 is bad? Wow, really? That what I've had others suggest to me. Anyone else wanna chime in? I run my MBE w/ a nforce 2 based board. It has been rock solid. http://mysettopbox.tv/linhes.html Cecil ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
