Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

[Max Waterman]

Jason Werpy wrote:
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 11:07:17 -0500, Mark L. Cukier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

Currently I would NEVER consider getting a "black box"-- I'm not going
to steal cable. But, once the "black boxes" output a signal with the
flag filtered out... well, I'll still pay for my cable but I'll
definitely have a black box!
:-D
   

This reminds me of an add they run on my cable where a guy is
interviewing for a job.  Then the interviewer notes that he has a
criminal record.  The inverviewee says "Oh that, I just had one of
those cable descramblers, its was no big deal".  The interviewer looks
at him and says well this interview is over, or something like that. 
Then cue the ominous "Cable Theft, its a Crime," voice over.  Every
time and I mean EVERY time I see this add I can just hear them
 


replacing the line about stealing cable with "I just recorded a show
to watch later with my PVR", and replacing the cable theft line with
"Recoding HD TV, its a Crime."
 

Maybe the EFF/whoever should run an ad campain with something like this. 
It might wake people up to what is happeningor it might not...

Max.
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Re: [mythtv-users] View console on TV while MythTV running

[Robert Denier]

For those of us spoiled by kde or gnome, it is trivial to change font
defaults in konsole or the gnome terminal.  For that matter you can use
those in other window managers afaik.  This will likely take no longer
than doing a control-alt-f1 switch.

On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 07:12 +, John Mangan wrote:
> I hope this hasn't been answered a hundred times before but I searched the
> archive without success.
> 
> I am using Knoppmyth to run a test system with MythTv. I am using an nVidia
> 5200 card with TVOut. It works fine but since I am still testing it would be
> nice to be able to Ctrl-Alt-F1 to a console (XTerm is too small/fuzzy to be
> really workable). However when I change to the console screen I just get
> scrambled lines as though the horizontal hold has gone.

The tv out works fine in console mode on my card.  It looks like an old
geforce 2 mx.  I'm not sure I've ever tried to go temporarily to the
console like your doing though.  I usually just stay in X or leave it.
> 
> I am not familiar enough with the XF86Config-4 file to know what needs to be
> changed (and I'm not sure that's where the problem lies since X displays
> perfectly well). Also the text output during bootup displays perfectly well.

It sounds like that during the switch back whatever needs to be reset on
the graphics card isn't getting done.  That of course doesn't help, but
if you had any other suitable drivers for that card you might want to
give them a try.


> Any help gratefully received.
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Issues with MythTV on an SS40G

[Jamin W . Collins]

On Mar 6, 2005, at 4:21 PM, Jamin W.Collins wrote:
I've been using MythTV for a while now.  Until recently, the 
installation has been in a custom built mid tower case using a 
GeForce2 GTS for output to my TV.  This worked wonderfully, and I 
suspect it still would.

However, I recently freed an SS40G case from other duties and would 
like to use it for my MythTV installation.  I've moved the 
installation over to the new case and have found a few problems along 
the way.  Is anyone else here successfully using an SS40G in this 
scenario?

The issues I'm seeing so far are:
- B&W playback of videos and DVDs (when using xine)
- inability to watch Live or Recorded TV (unless running MythTV inside 
gdb)
I think I might have been able to gather some useful logs by running 
mythfrontend with "--verbose all" and capturing both a segfault and 
lockup while trying to watch a small TV recording.  I've attached them 
incase someone is able to deduce something useful from them.  I've 
trimmed the lockup file as the last lines just kept repeating in it and 
it became rather large quickly.

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Re: [mythtv-users] : DVB channels keep re-appearing

[Rickard Olsson]

Tom Hughes wrote:
Are you saying that you have channels declared with audio and
video PIDs which don't actually exist? That sounds a bit odd...
I have not checked the declared PIDs. Come to think of it, the text 
channels haven't been added again for weeks, it's possible
that XMLTV added those before (I've assumed that XMLTV was responsible 
for all my channel-adds before I read your text today). The SVT Extra 
does still get re-added now and then, but it is possible that channel is 
declared as a real channel but not used for anything, yet.

This also touches on another DVB problem; tuning to a channel that's 
currently not transmitting kills off Live TV as per my explanation until 
I either re-start the backend or the channel starts transmitting again. 
It would be nice if the backend, if it can't get a lock for 15 seconds, 
reverts to the previous channel by itself.

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Re: [mythtv-users] View console on TV while MythTV running

[Mathew Mrosko]

On Tuesday 15 March 2005 11:12 pm, John Mangan wrote:

Is it possible to ssh in from another machine?  I would think that would be 
much easier, because you're not leaving X on the TV

-Mat

> I hope this hasn't been answered a hundred times before but I searched the
> archive without success.
>
> I am using Knoppmyth to run a test system with MythTv. I am using an nVidia
> 5200 card with TVOut. It works fine but since I am still testing it would
> be nice to be able to Ctrl-Alt-F1 to a console (XTerm is too small/fuzzy to
> be really workable). However when I change to the console screen I just get
> scrambled lines as though the horizontal hold has gone.
>
> I am not familiar enough with the XF86Config-4 file to know what needs to
> be changed (and I'm not sure that's where the problem lies since X displays
> perfectly well). Also the text output during bootup displays perfectly
> well.
>
> Any help gratefully received.

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Re: [mythtv-users] how does mythtv connect to mysql?

[Rickard Olsson]

Michael Wester wrote:
Unknown MySQL Server Host ' mediabox' (1)
I don't remember if that space before the hostname was a red herring or 
not, but check it out. You can also try 'localhost' since it appears 
you're on the same one box.

There is a settings file (at work right now, so can't remember the exact 
filename, but it's .mythtv.sql or something similar) that contains the 
database hostname, id and password in cleartext. There's one in your 
/root/.mythtv directory (I'm assuming that since it works when you're 
root) and if you, like me, uses Gentoo and have run the CVS and with two 
different users, you will have five copies of this file scattered around 
your filesystem. I found one in /.mythtv, one in /etc/mythtv, one in 
/var/somewhere/weird, one in /root/.mythtv and one in 
/home/mythth/.mythtv. I had the damndest problems getting my Gentoo 
startup script logging in to the db properly and it turns out it was 
using the one in /var. Naturally, this was the the last one I found.

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[mythtv-users] View console on TV while MythTV running

[John Mangan]

I hope this hasn't been answered a hundred times before but I searched the
archive without success.
I am using Knoppmyth to run a test system with MythTv. I am using an nVidia
5200 card with TVOut. It works fine but since I am still testing it would be
nice to be able to Ctrl-Alt-F1 to a console (XTerm is too small/fuzzy to be
really workable). However when I change to the console screen I just get
scrambled lines as though the horizontal hold has gone.
I am not familiar enough with the XF86Config-4 file to know what needs to be
changed (and I'm not sure that's where the problem lies since X displays
perfectly well). Also the text output during bootup displays perfectly well.
Any help gratefully received.

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Re: [mythtv-users] : DVB channels keep re-appearing

[Tom Hughes]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  Rickard Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Tom Hughes wrote:
> 
> > Because 0.17 now has automatic channel detection - that includes both
> > the scanner in the setup program and automatic detection of new channels
> > as they appear. If you delete a channel then the next time you tune to
> > another channel on that multiplex Myth will detect the missing channel
> > and add it.
> 
> Ah, that would explain my problems with that, then. This isn't really a
> very good feature. You see, there are channels in the free-to-air
> multiplexes in Sweden that aren't actually available - there's SVT Extra
> (XMLTV ID extra.svt.se) and a few text channels. These get added in
> MythTV, but when I channel-surf to them (not knowing when they get
> added, I assume that going UP from my last channel would take me back to
> my first 'real' channel), the back-end can't find them and so the
> frontend locks up for 15 seconds. This happens even if I set them as not
> visible - they disappear from the TV Guide, but they are still surfable.

Only available channels should get added automatically - radio
channels, text channels and encrypted channels are all ignored.

Are you saying that you have channels declared with audio and
video PIDs which don't actually exist? That sounds a bit odd...

Anyhow, the real fix here is to fix the bug with tuning to channels
that are not available. I believe there are plans to do that in the
future.

Tom

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Re: [mythtv-users] : DVB channels keep re-appearing

[Rickard Olsson]

Tom Hughes wrote:
Because 0.17 now has automatic channel detection - that includes both
the scanner in the setup program and automatic detection of new channels
as they appear. If you delete a channel then the next time you tune to
another channel on that multiplex Myth will detect the missing channel
and add it.
Ah, that would explain my problems with that, then. This isn't really a 
very good feature. You see, there are channels in the free-to-air 
multiplexes in Sweden that aren't actually available - there's SVT Extra 
(XMLTV ID extra.svt.se) and a few text channels. These get added in 
MythTV, but when I channel-surf to them (not knowing when they get 
added, I assume that going UP from my last channel would take me back to 
my first 'real' channel), the back-end can't find them and so the 
frontend locks up for 15 seconds. This happens even if I set them as not 
visible - they disappear from the TV Guide, but they are still surfable.

Furthermore, I can't easily get the backend out of it since it does not 
revert back to a functioning channel by itself and if I try to start the 
frontend in View TV mode, it just locks for 15 seconds and exits to the 
main menu again. Restarting the backend works sometimes, but a few 
times, something has changed the Start Channel value to the most recent 
bad channel, so I'll have to run mythsetup.

How about a blacklist for deleted channels? This could probably be 
implemented by letting the Visible flag be more pervasive in the system, 
and not just in the Guide.

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Re: [mythtv-users] MySQL Error in Jarod's Guide?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tuesday 15 March 2005 14:26, Rei Toi wrote:
> First, I'm newbie.  You have been warned. :)
>
> Second, thanks again for your guide, Jarod.  It was a tremendous help to
> me.
>
> I *think* that I may have found an error in section 12 for MySQL.  I'm
> hoping that those with more experience can check this before I open a
> ticket for it on Jarod's site.  So, please, correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> I believe there is an error in the optimizations for MySQL v3.x.
> Specifically, this line should be excluded from the guide:
>
> set-variable = query_cache_size = 16M
>
> This apparently is not a valid setting for versions of MySQL prior to
> 4.0.1.  From the  MySQL Reference Manual :: 5.11 The MySQL Query Cache:
>
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/query-cache.html
>
> "From version 4.0.1 on, MySQL Server features a query cache. When in
> use, the query cache stores the text of a SELECT query together with the
> corresponding result that was sent to the client. If the identical query
> is received later, the server retrieves the results from the query cache
> rather than parsing and executing the query again."
>
> I followed the guide to do an install of FC3, which installed MySQL ver
> 3.23.58.  After adding the above mentioned entry into /etc/my.cnf,
> mysqld failed to start with the following error in /var/log/mysqld.log:
>
> 050314 20:59:48  mysqld started
> No variable match for: -O 'query_cache_size=16M'
> /usr/libexec/mysqld  Ver 3.23.58 for redhat-linux-gnu on i386
> Use '--help' or '--no-defaults --help' for a list of available options
> 050314 20:59:49  mysqld ended
>
> mysqld --help for this version shows no option for query_cache_size.
>
> Should I open a ticket for this, or am I wrong?

Hm, you're probably correct. Someone sent me the MySQL 3.x info, which I'd 
assumed to be accurate. I'm running 4.x on all my own systems now, so I 
hadn't actually tried those settings myself. No need to open a ticket, I'll 
just fix it now.

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Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport using FMP4

[Chris Petersen]

nuvexport seems to be outputting DivX using the fourCC FMP4, which
doesn't work in any of the players ive got.  According to one of the
ffmpeg mailing lists, you can override the tag using the -vtag option.
Can anyone tell me where to modify nuvexport so that it calls ffmpeg
likw this??  Failing that does anyone know any other ways round it.
I'm happy to add this in, but could you tell me which tag it's supposed 
to be?  Only example I could find was for ASF type files.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Installation issue - Couldn't find package Synaptic

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tuesday 15 March 2005 16:23, Brent McGuire wrote:
> Clear your cache then try it again.  I had the same problem  to do so do
> this
>
> apt-cache clean
> apt-get update
> apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> The clean command will reclean out what you had in cache.
>
> Let me know if this doesn't fix it.
>
> Brent
>
> I noticed the same thing. It seemed like the
> atrpms-kickstart-25-1.rhfc3.at.i386.rpm part did not work properly and
>
> was conflicting with another package. It had an error with
>
> atrpms-package-config-91-1.rhfc3.at.i386.rpm
>
> I tried a re-install but no luck. Strange because in the last 2 weeks
> I have installed according to Jarrod wilsons instructions 3 or 4 times
> without this happening, then it happens 2 times in a row.

The ATrpms' package repositories are an ever-evolving beast. I believe 
synaptic is currently in at-testing, so an at-stable-only install won't find 
it at the moment. You can simply download the package and install it though.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Where is Jarod's guide to automatic shutdown and restart?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Monday 14 March 2005 04:21, Phill Edwards wrote:
> I went looking for this as nvram-wakeup's not working for me any more
> for some reason, and I remembered that Jarod uses wake-on-lan from
> another machine.

I think you may have me confused with someone else, I've never used WOL. All 
my boxes are just on 24x7.

> I thought this was in his tips 'n' tricks bit but 
> can't find it in any of his docco now. Can anyone please point me to
> where it is these days?

Never was in my doc, to the best of my knowledge... :-)

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Re: [mythtv-users] Anybody having X lockup problems with MX440 on 7167 nvidia drivers?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tuesday 15 March 2005 17:25, Doug Larrick wrote:
> John Freer wrote:
> > Hey All:
> >
> > Just curious if anybody is having weird lockup problems with MX440
> > hardware with the 7167 driver.
> >
> > The 6629 driver never worked with my MX440 (nforce2 MB), and now the
> > 7167 "kind of" works.
>
> Yup, hangs solid for me as well :-(

Me three, on two different machines and three different cards. 7167 seems 
stillborn... :-(

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Re: [mythtv-users] how does mythtv connect to mysql?

[Mathew Mrosko]

On Tuesday 15 March 2005 05:31 pm, Michael Wester wrote:


http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-6.html#modify_perm_mysql
??

-Mat


> Hi-
>
> I've had my Mythtv box working fine for months.  Yesterday I started
> installation of new hardware (pvr-500) and now for some reason my
> database is acting up.  I'm having a tough time understanding this
> one.  Maybe if I knew a little better how the program accesses the db,
> I could figure it out.  I'm not finding any solutions in the archive.
> If you know of one, please kindly point me,
>
> 1) When I log in to my x session-kde as root (I know a no no...), I
> can start mythbackend and mythfrontend, no problems.
> -
> 2)  When I log in to my x session- kde as user mythtv, I get errors that :
>
> 2005-03-15 17:22:34.161 Unable to connect to database!
> 2005-03-15 17:22:34.162 Driver error was [1/2005]:
> QMYSQL3: Unable to connect
> Database error was:
> Unknown MySQL Server Host ' mediabox' (1)
> couldn't open db
>
> When I go through the setup, I set ip address, indicate user is
> mythtv, and set password to mythtv.  Still cannot connect to db.
> ---
> 3) from command line:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> mysql -u mythtv -p mythconverg
> I enter password=mythtv and I'm in.
> ---
>
> I have a feeling that I'm missing a setting somewhere in mythtv?  but
> where?  Thanks for any insight.
>
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Re: [mythtv-users] Live TV viewing blocked by non-existent recordings

[John Andersen]

On Tuesday 15 March 2005 17:59, Justin Gombos wrote:
> MythTV is already using all available inputs for recording. ÂIf you
> Â want to watch an in-progress recording, select one from the playback
> Â menu. ÂIf you want to watch live TV, cancel one of the in-progress
> Â recordings from the delete menu.

Wrong inputs selected in the tv setup?

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Re: [mythtv-users] pcHDTV 3000 and PVR250 Help

[Adam Gianola]

for the record, i'm trying to get the hd3000 card to tune digital
cable (comcast).  if i unload the cx88-dvb i have no problems after
restarting mythbackend (just as before installing hd3000, can change
chans etc on pvr250).  when i modprobe cx88-dvb and restart
mythbackend:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mythbackend &
[1] 6467
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# Starting up as the master server.
2005-03-15 22:42:34.404 DVB#0 DVB SI Table Parser Started
2005-03-15 22:42:34.405 DVB#0 Using DVB card 0, with frontend pcHDTV
HD3000 HDTV.
2005-03-15 22:42:34.406 DVB#0 ERROR - Unable to find channel in database.
2005-03-15 22:42:34.406 DVB#0 ERROR - Failed to get channel options
for channel 3.
...

when i try to watch tv i see:
2005-03-15 22:42:50.936 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-03-15 22:42:50.946 DVB#0 Recorder: Card opened successfully
(using PS mode).
2005-03-15 22:42:50.948 DVB#0 ERROR - No PIDS set, please correct your
channel setup.
2005-03-15 22:42:51.948 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
2005-03-15 22:42:52.949 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
2005-03-15 22:42:53.950 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
...
...
2005-03-15 22:43:05.960 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
2005-03-15 22:43:05.975 Couldn't read data from the capture card in 15
seconds. Stopping.
2005-03-15 22:43:06.004 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
2005-03-15 22:43:06.961 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
2005-03-15 22:43:06.961 Closing DVB recorder
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Re: [mythtv-users] HDD Disk Activity when idle

[Christian Fredriksson]

I've also had the flashing hdd-light and after running some debugging 
with the command "strace -p fronendpid/backendpid" I found out that it 
was the media insertion that made the hdd-light flash. I disabled it and 
the flashing was gone. I was running KnoppMyth R4V4.1 , mythtv 0.15.1 
when this happend.

/Christian
Bryan Halter wrote:
Magnus Ekhall wrote:
 

I have a box running Myth and I have noticed that about once every
second there is a burst of disk activity. And this is when I'm not
using Myth at all...
Is this becaus of Myth or something else? How can I find out?
How does your myth box behave?
Of course I would prefer that there was as little disk activity as
possible unless I am using the Myth box...
/Magnus

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I noticed this on one of my remote frontends and found it wasn't
actually HDD activity it was Myth checking the DVD drive for media
insertion.  I believe my backend has intermittant bursts of activity too
but I've yet to sit down and try to determine the cause.
Bryan
 


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[mythtv-users] Stubborn Live TV

[Marty Ravell]

Hmmm, got a picture but it seems to be
stuck on Channel 9. 

 

Perhaps I am having issues with the
mechanism that defines the frequency for each channel and sends it to the card?

 

Am thinking that perhaps I am missing a
channels.conf? Is this something I need? I see a fair few posts around this
file for digital TV but I am only interested in plain old analog terrestrial
stuff at the moment.

 

 

Regards

Marty

 

 









From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marty Ravell
Sent: Wednesday, 16 March 2005
3:09 PM
To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] Stubborn
Live TV



 

My new FC3 box with a 350 which I have been setting up via
Jarod's guide seems to be really close to working but for some reason I cannot see
live TV. I have the fb stuff in and am successfully showing X on the TV out.
I've fiddled with offsets and all that and the menus look very nice and sharp.

 

I was able to capture video off the tuner by first setting
up the channel with ptune.pl and then using the command in the guide.

 

# cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/test_capture.mpg

 

 

I'm using tv_grab_au and it seems to work OK.
mythfilldatabase appears to load up.

 

Can someone give me an idea of how to track this one down? I
just get a blank screen when I go to ‘Watch TV’. 

 

I've been through all the setup menus (mythsetup as well as
the ones in mythfrontend) I can find fiddling with whatever looks like it may
help but nothing seems to work.

 

 

I don't know if this is of any use but here is the output
from mythfrontend:

 

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mythfrontend

2005-03-16 14:59:24.566 mythfrontend version:
0.17.20050130-1 www.mythtv.org

2005-03-16 14:59:24.566 Enabled verbose msgs : important
general

2005-03-16 14:59:24.830 Switching to square mode
(MythCenter)

2005-03-16 14:59:25.096 Registering Internal as a media
playback plugin.

2005-03-16 14:59:25.106 Registering MythDVD DVD Media
Handler as a media handler

2005-03-16 14:59:25.106 Registering MythDVD VCD Media
Handler as a media handler

2005-03-16 14:59:25.110 Joystick disabled.

2005-03-16 14:59:25.319 Registering MythMusic Media Handler
as a media handler

Failed to bind for SIP connection 192.168.0.5

SIP listening on IP Address :5060 NAT address

SIP: Cannot register; proxy, username or password not set

Destroying SipFsm object

2005-03-16 14:59:46.365 Connecting to backend server:
127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5)

2005-03-16 14:59:46.373 Using protocol version 14

2005-03-16 14:59:46.395 Using protocol version 14

2005-03-16 14:59:47.874 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.

2005-03-16 14:59:47.874 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.

2005-03-16 14:59:47.877 Using resampler. From: 0 to 1000

Using the PVR-350 decoder/TV-out

2005-03-16 14:59:48.341 Realtime priority would require SUID
as root.

Writing to videodev: Operation not permitted

2005-03-16 14:59:48.361 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV

2005-03-16 14:59:53.541 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None

2005-03-16 14:59:53.547 Changing from None to None

 

 

And here is the backend:

 

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mythbackend

Starting up as the master server.

2005-03-16 14:59:06.812 Channel(/dev/video0): CheckChannel
failed. Please verify channel "3" in the "setup" Channel
Editor.

2005-03-16 14:59:06.842 mythbackend version: 0.17.20050130-1
www.mythtv.org

2005-03-16 14:59:06.842 Enabled verbose msgs : important
general

2005-03-16 14:59:08.842 Reschedule requested for id -1.

2005-03-16 14:59:08.875 Scheduled 0 items in 0.0 = 0.03
match + 0.00 place

2005-03-16 14:59:08.877 Seem to be woken up by USER

2005-03-16 14:59:46.378 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback

2005-03-16 14:59:46.378 adding: localhost.localdomain as a
client (events: 0)

2005-03-16 14:59:46.390 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback

2005-03-16 14:59:46.390 adding: localhost.localdomain as a
client (events: 1)

2005-03-16 14:59:46.400 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback

2005-03-16 14:59:46.400 adding: localhost.localdomain as a
client (events: 0)

2005-03-16 14:59:46.440 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback

2005-03-16 14:59:46.440 adding: localhost.localdomain as a
client (events: 0)

2005-03-16 14:59:46.450 adding: localhost.localdomain as a
remote ringbuffer

2005-03-16 14:59:46.462 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV

2005-03-16 14:59:53.405 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None

 

 

 

Any help or hints would be appreciated. Are there any other
logs that I should be looking at?

 

 

 






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Re: [mythtv-users] pcHDTV 3000 and PVR250 Help

[Adam Gianola]

I have the same setup here, pvr250 which works, and trying to get
hd3000 working.  I'm very close, but i'm not sure what to do now. 
Using FC3 with kernel 2.6.10-1.766_FC3 and 2.0 drivers from pchdtv. 
Heres a snip from my modprobe.conf:

...
# ivtv modules setup
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
#alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv
alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv
install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_i2c
...
install cx88-atsc /sbin/modprobe cx8800;/sbin/modprobe
--ignore-install cx88-atsc
install cx88-dvb /sbin/modprobe cx8800;/sbin/modprobe --ignore-install cx88-dvb
install btcx-risc /sbin/modprobe tuner;/sbin/modprobe --ignore-install btcx-risc


Had to comment out the alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv or else I would
get loads of unresolved symbols when modprobe cx88-atsc or cx88-dvb. 
I load the modules in rc.d/rc.local:
...
# unload modules if they are loaded so they can be loaded
# in the proper order for everything to work
/sbin/rmmod lirc_i2c
/sbin/rmmod lirc_dev
/sbin/rmmod ivtv
/sbin/rmmod saa7115
/sbin/rmmod bttv
/sbin/rmmod videodev
/sbin/rmmod msp3400
/sbin/rmmod tuner
/sbin/rmmod i2c_algo_bit
/sbin/rmmod tveeprom
/sbin/rmmod i2c_core

# now reload the modules, note that not all modules are reloaded
# explicitly since they are automagically loaded as necessary
/sbin/modprobe i2c_core
/sbin/modprobe i2c_algo_bit
/sbin/modprobe ivtv
/sbin/modprobe lirc_i2c

# next load the pchd3000 dvb module
/sbin/modprobe cx88-dvb


not sure if the unloading then reloading is necessary for ivtv, but i
had problems with ivtv before installing hd3000.  it worked for
whatever reason. i'm not too sure of why/whats going on here.  when
the modprobe cx88-dvb goes through i see the usual messages in dmesg:
...
cx88[0]/0: found at :02:06.0, rev: 5, irq: 5, latency: 64, mmio: 0xfc00
cx88[0]/0: registered device video1 [v4l2]
cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi1
cx88[0]/0: registered device radio1
cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.4 loaded
cx88[0]/2: found at :02:06.2, rev: 5, irq: 5, latency: 64, mmio: 0xfd00
cx88[0]/2: cx2388x based dvb card
DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0]).
DVB: registering frontend 0 (pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV)...

after placing the udev 10-pchdtv.rules & .permissions in the
/etc/udev/rules.d/ and permissions.d/   I modified the .permissions to
change from root:users to mythtv:users in order that mythvsetup had
permission to use/read/configure the dvb device.

my problem now is that i can no longer change the channel in mythtv on
the pvr250 card.  i still haven't tried anything with the hd3000. 
anyone have advice on this channel changing issue?

-Adam
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[mythtv-users] Re: How to reply to messages in mythtv-users Archives?

[Justin Gombos]

* Mark Crutch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-11 18:24]:
> 
> This seems to keep things threaded within the web archives, so I
> presume it also keeps it together with the rest of the thread for
> those people who are receiving the list as emails.

It doesn't work, because the In-Reply-To header is missing.  This is
the header that standard MUAs use to keep threads together.  It would
be nice if archives would preserve this header so late comers could
respond without tearing up the thread.
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Re: [mythtv-users] pcHDTV 3000 and PVR250 Help

[Gregg]

I tried adding the lines to my modprobe.conf  
alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv
alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv
I have been using  the dvb drivers, but still no luck.  my dmesg log
is a mile long with unknown symbol errors.  I pulled the drivers from
http://pchdtv.freedesktop.org/wiki/.  Is it possible I compiled them
incorrectly?  I just did a make then a make install.  Does anyone have
a working modprobe.conf file I could try?

-Gregg



On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:28:38 -0600, David Shay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You may have better luck, but I needed to switch over to the DVB drivers in
> order to get the pcHDTV 3000 and the PVR 250 to coexist.  You might want to
> go that route now, since the current pcHDTV drivers have a limited lifespan
> to some extent -- future development will likely be directed to the DVB
> drivers.
> - Original Message -
> From: "Gregg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 1:07 PM
> Subject: [mythtv-users] pcHDTV 3000 and PVR250 Help
> 
> > I have a PVR250 installed and working.  I am trying to install a
> > pcHDTV 3000 when I do a modprobe cx8800 I get a list of errors.  I was
> > told it is due to the tveeprom for ivtv.  I have searched the ivtv
> > group and the myth user group, but can not figure out how to fix it.
> > Below is my current video entry in modprobe.conf.  Can someone verify
> > that I have it correct? Is there a certian order to put them in?
> > Thanks
> >
> > # ivtv modules setup
> > alias char-major-81 videodev
> > alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
> > alias char-major-81-1 cx8800
> > install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install
> lirc_i2c
> > -Gregg
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[mythtv-users] Proper video driver loads, but KnoppMyth reports otherwise

[Justin Gombos]

The following error scrolls past on boot:

  KnoppMyth found no multimedia video cards!

That error is displayed on the screen, but is omitted from
/var/log/dmesg for some reason.  However, inspection of kernel ring
buffer (dmesg) reveals the following, suggesting that the driver loads
without problems:
  
  Linux video capture interface: v1.00
  saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.12 loaded
  PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device :00:12.0
  PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with :01:01.0
  saa7130[0]: quirk: PCIPCI_NATOMA
  saa7130[0]: found at :00:12.0, rev: 1, irq: 11, latency: 208, mmio: 
0xf3effc00
  saa7130[0]: subsystem: 1461:10ff, board: AVerMedia DVD EZMaker 
[card=33,autodetected]
  saa7130[0]: board init: gpio is 1
  saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 61 14 ff 10 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
  saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 10: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
  saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 20: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
  saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
  saa7130[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
  saa7130[0]: registered device vbi0
  
This is the correct driver.  I'm running an AVerMedia DVD EZMaker
frame grabber, which has the Philips saa7130 chipset; (also indicated
by the following snip from the lspci command):

  :00:12.0 Multimedia controller: 
Philips Semiconductors SAA7130 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)

It seems KnoppMyth is not equipped with very robust detection of
capture cards.  The driver for the saa7130 chipset has been included
in the kernel since version 2.6.

So the question is, does the KnoppMyth failure to find the card mean
anything to me, considering I'm loading the proper driver?  

The reason I ask is that MythTV is not yet functional for me.  When I
attempt to watch live tv, Myth (falsely) reports that I cannot watch
live tv because a recording is in-progress.
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[mythtv-users] Re: 1000th picture quality question

[Chad Delatte]

hojoloco,
Bah, I just formatted today to see how meedio is
coming. You'll have to give ne a day or 2 for the
output of that file.  Since there is only 3 of us so
far involved, I will try to get the results as soon as
possible.  Wish I had another card to try :( Goodnight



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[mythtv-users] firewire xvmc issue

[Brad Zawacki]

I've got a motorola 6200 cable box that I recently hooked to my mythbox
via firewire.  I initially had problems with the connection, but CVS
fixed that with the addition of broadcast connections.  It mostly works
now, and with xvmc enabled I'm able to watch live HD on my 1.8Ghz p4
machine at about 70% CPU usage.  

The problem is that xvmc causes problems with channel changes on the firewire
connection.  The 6200ch script executes fine, and the backend has no
errors, but the frontend either prebuffer-waits forever or dies.  

Best case with '-v playback' I get this:

2005-03-15 23:26:58.602 waiting for prebuffer...
2005-03-15 23:26:58.602 rate: 29.97 speed: 1 skip: 1 = interval 33366
2005-03-15 23:26:58.603 Set video sync frame interval to 33366
[mpegvideo_xvmc @ 0xb79fd854]Warning MVs not available
2005-03-15 23:26:58.656 No codec for stream index 1
2005-03-15 23:26:58.657 No codec for stream index 1
2005-03-15 23:26:58.658 No codec for stream index 1
2005-03-15 23:26:58.658 No codec for stream index 1
2005-03-15 23:26:58.736 prebuffer wait timed out..
2005-03-15 23:26:58.737 waiting for prebuffer...
...

...and it goes on forever like this, with the screen frozen.
Worst case I get this:

[mpegvideo_xvmc @ 0xb79fd854]ac-tex damaged at 5 0
[mpegvideo_xvmc @ 0xb79fd854]Warning MVs not available
[mpegvideo_xvmc @ 0xb79fd854]ac-tex damaged at 3 1
[mpegvideo_xvmc @ 0xb79fd854]ac-tex damaged at 0 2
2005-03-15 23:31:02.801 prebuffer wait timed out..
2005-03-15 23:31:02.802 waiting for prebuffer...
[mpegvideo_xvmc @ 0xb79fd854]ac-tex damaged at 0 3
[mpegvideo_xvmc @ 0xb79fd854]ac-tex damaged at 0 4
[mpegvideo_xvmc @ 0xb79fd854]ac-tex damaged at 10 5
...
2005-03-15 23:31:06.374 prebuffer wait timed out..
2005-03-15 23:31:06.374 waiting for prebuffer...
*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0a239510 ***
Aborted

...and the front end goes away, sometimes taking the backend with it. I
'think' that the first example happens when changing to a SD channel,
and the second when changing to a HD channel, but I'm not positive that
it's the difference.

Google hasn't helped me much with the glibc thing, but it seems like it
might be a significant library conflict.  I don't know how to fix it.


Any help is appreciated.
-BZ


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Re: [mythtv-users] shuttling woes/crashes

[Tom Barber]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would have to say this is a hardware issue. Cpu/motherboard/video card
causing the problem. IMHO this is usually the case.  



Johnny Lee
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Barber
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 6:54 PM
To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] shuttling woes/crashes
Hi,
i've installed mythtv 0.17 using the well know fedora how to and 
everythings working fine apart from when i try pausing, after a short 
while of unpausing the entire system freezes, i can't even ssh into it?
is there a fix for this or is it something i have to live with for a while.
Tom

Semperon 2.8
512 MB Ram
2 PVR 250's
Soundblaster live
Fedora Core 3
MythTv 0.17
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I'm not running the system, just as a normal user.
Down to hardware,
my graphics card is a nvidia FX or Gx which ever is newest
my cpu is a semperon
and my motherboard is an AsRock
i would think its h/w based but as it only crashes when i try ff, rw or 
pausing does make me wonder.
Ta
Tom
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[mythtv-users] XVideo output size for Pundit-R

[Alex Harford]

I've finally got my MythTV box working 99.9% on my Pundit-R, the only
problem is that when XV is enabled, the output doesn't fill the
screen, there's about an inch on either side (on a 19" TV) that
doesn't get taken up.  It's not an overscan issue AFAIK, because the
GUI takes up the full screen.

Any pointers would be appreciated.  Google hasn't been very helpful. :(

Thanks,
Alex
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: 1000th picture quality question

[Mark L. Cukier]

Anything over 8500 gives me choppy video...
- Mark
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 16:57 -0500, Mark L. Cukier wrote:
[snip]
 

I set my bitrate to the maximum, and all I saw chage was the fact that 
the recording would get INCREDIBLY choppy!!! My PVR-350 seemed incapable 
of recording at 16Mbps...
   

Maybe that's because the -350 is not designed to do that?
http://www.hauppauge.com/Pages/products/data_pvr350.html
   "The WinTV-PVR-350 supports data rates up to 12Mbits/sec"
 

  did you guys observe this as well?
   


 


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[mythtv-users] Stubborn Live TV

[Marty Ravell]

My new FC3 box with a 350 which I have been setting up via
Jarod's guide seems to be really close to working but for some reason I cannot
see live TV. I have the fb stuff in and am successfully showing X on the TV
out. I've fiddled with offsets and all that and the menus look very nice and
sharp.

 

I was able to capture video off the tuner by first setting
up the channel with ptune.pl and then using the command in the guide.

 

# cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/test_capture.mpg

 

 

I'm using tv_grab_au and it seems to work OK.
mythfilldatabase appears to load up.

 

Can someone give me an idea of how to track this one down? I
just get a blank screen when I go to ‘Watch TV’. 

 

I've been through all the setup menus (mythsetup as well as
the ones in mythfrontend) I can find fiddling with whatever looks like it may
help but nothing seems to work.

 

 

I don't know if this is of any use but here is the output
from mythfrontend:

 

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mythfrontend

2005-03-16 14:59:24.566 mythfrontend version:
0.17.20050130-1 www.mythtv.org

2005-03-16 14:59:24.566 Enabled verbose msgs : important
general

2005-03-16 14:59:24.830 Switching to square mode
(MythCenter)

2005-03-16 14:59:25.096 Registering Internal as a media
playback plugin.

2005-03-16 14:59:25.106 Registering MythDVD DVD Media
Handler as a media handler

2005-03-16 14:59:25.106 Registering MythDVD VCD Media
Handler as a media handler

2005-03-16 14:59:25.110 Joystick disabled.

2005-03-16 14:59:25.319 Registering MythMusic Media Handler
as a media handler

Failed to bind for SIP connection 192.168.0.5

SIP listening on IP Address :5060 NAT address

SIP: Cannot register; proxy, username or password not set

Destroying SipFsm object

2005-03-16 14:59:46.365 Connecting to backend server:
127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5)

2005-03-16 14:59:46.373 Using protocol version 14

2005-03-16 14:59:46.395 Using protocol version 14

2005-03-16 14:59:47.874 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.

2005-03-16 14:59:47.874 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.

2005-03-16 14:59:47.877 Using resampler. From: 0 to 1000

Using the PVR-350 decoder/TV-out

2005-03-16 14:59:48.341 Realtime priority would require SUID
as root.

Writing to videodev: Operation not permitted

2005-03-16 14:59:48.361 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV

2005-03-16 14:59:53.541 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None

2005-03-16 14:59:53.547 Changing from None to None

 

 

And here is the backend:

 

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mythbackend

Starting up as the master server.

2005-03-16 14:59:06.812 Channel(/dev/video0): CheckChannel
failed. Please verify channel "3" in the "setup" Channel
Editor.

2005-03-16 14:59:06.842 mythbackend version: 0.17.20050130-1
www.mythtv.org

2005-03-16 14:59:06.842 Enabled verbose msgs : important
general

2005-03-16 14:59:08.842 Reschedule requested for id -1.

2005-03-16 14:59:08.875 Scheduled 0 items in 0.0 = 0.03
match + 0.00 place

2005-03-16 14:59:08.877 Seem to be woken up by USER

2005-03-16 14:59:46.378 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback

2005-03-16 14:59:46.378 adding: localhost.localdomain as a
client (events: 0)

2005-03-16 14:59:46.390 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback

2005-03-16 14:59:46.390 adding: localhost.localdomain as a
client (events: 1)

2005-03-16 14:59:46.400 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback

2005-03-16 14:59:46.400 adding: localhost.localdomain as a
client (events: 0)

2005-03-16 14:59:46.440 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback

2005-03-16 14:59:46.440 adding: localhost.localdomain as a
client (events: 0)

2005-03-16 14:59:46.450 adding: localhost.localdomain as a
remote ringbuffer

2005-03-16 14:59:46.462 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV

2005-03-16 14:59:53.405 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None

 

 

 

Any help or hints would be appreciated. Are there any other
logs that I should be looking at?

 

 

 






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Re: [mythtv-users] What's easier to convert/decode? 720p or 1080i?

[Art Morales]

That would be a great feature.  I agree that the TV will probably be
more efficient at the conversion and/or the quality culd be better.  I
have no idea if Myth can do the switching...  But I would assume it
should not be that dificult to implement...  (maybe a pain to
configure for each individual users' TV since the modelines are tricky
enough... (Though you could have entries in the settings for each
modeline and be able to switch the functionality on through an option.

Art


On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:22:45 -0500, Andrew Gallatin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joe Barnhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >  I know that 720p content looks pretty marginal at
> > times on my set, and I think it is because the nvidia
> > video card (and its driver) does the scaling and does
> > a poor job of it.
> 
> Is myth currently able to automatically switch the video mode via xrandr?
> Eg, if it sees 1080i content, it switches to 1080i, and if it sees
> 720p content, it switches to 720p?
> 
> Assuming you have a TV which can handle both modes, and assuming that
> the TV does a better job of deinterlacing 1080i -> 720p than your
> computer, wouldn't it make sense to send the material to the TV in the
> content's native format if possible?
> 
> Drew
> 
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[mythtv-users] Re: Trouble watching live tv.

[Justin Gombos]

* hondaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-04 14:14]:
>
> Ok, I went into "Manage Recordings" which is under "Watch TV" and I
> cant find, anywhere, something that is recorded, or is being
> recorded.

I have almost the same issue hondaman.. with the exception that Live
TV gives me the same error everytime - even immediately after
booting.  I found a menu labelled "delete" but it was an already empty
list; as it should be because I did not schedule anything.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Is xfs flaky or is it my drive. Fedora Core 2, XFS, Myth .16 and .17

[Alexander Varakin]

I also had similar issues with XFS on all my 3 boxes running Debian unstable. 
I started using ReiserFS recently, so far no issues.

On Sunday 13 March 2005 20:57, Will Dormann wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > - Are people using XFS and finding it generally stable or flaky like I
> > find it?
>
> I've been using XFS on my main storage for over 7 months now.   Not a
> single problem with it.Running Gentoo.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Lower power usage ideas? (for backend)

[Alexander Varakin]

It is a good  idea  to use older hardware, e.g.   P3 667 or Celeron 533 are 
very good. They were designed before gigahertz wars and they 
consume very little power, about 15W. Just add PVR250 and you will get a very 
nice backend which consumes about 30W in total. Also get a cheap 300W PS and 
replace fan by low speed fan (or maybe without fan at all) and you will get 
almost silent server which can 
run 24x7.   CPU plus mobo can be found for around $40 on ebay or for free  
in friend's basement. 
Be very careful with CPU selection though: P3 slot type  CPUs are very bad, 
you 
need socket 370 type CPUs with Coppermine core if I remember correctly. 
P3 667 has enough power for playback so it can be used for low noise  backend 
and frontend. 
I think this setup will also work as HDTV backend.

You can see CPU power consumption here:
http://users.erols.com/chare/elec.htm


On Monday 14 March 2005 23:33, Justin Hunt wrote:
>
> Your idea of using a pentium M is a good idea, my laptop draws about
> 25 watts max with a lcd screen (1.4ghz) and if you clock it down it
> drops to about 15ish, although the a/c adaptor draws quite a big load
> to charge at about 40watts (says 1.5 amps at 120v) but if u used a
> laptop based on p-M you wouldnt need to have continuous power to run
> it, and if u get a system with decent sized battery can run for 10
> hours on a charge the ibm t40 (i think) does this nicely, i wouldnt
> recommend the dell inspiron 600m for battery life i have 3 batteries
> (1 main and 2 cdrom) and i can get about 5 hours out of it on a good
> day.
>
> Hopefully that helps a bit?
> Justin
>
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:19:07, colliepon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Just curious both what other people are doing, and feature discussion
> > (not b*tching :) on other methods of reducing the power use of a myth box
> > since it can build up over awhile. (and my next move may very well be off
> > grid - satellite TV, running off solar or wind, so power use is critical
> > but i'd prefer an alternative to the VCR) A few examples i'm thinking of:
> >
> > Could you schedule an expected time-on and time off to work with a normal
> > block of programming?  By shut down time I mean to properly suspend all
> > tasks like commercial flagging without screwing up data or not doing them
> > during the week at all.  This would let you use a standard analog or
> > digital wall timer to turn on the computer and satellite receiver for a
> > given block of time (for instance 6:30pm to 10pm if you mostly like the
> > evening block, or 11pm to about 3am if you like Adult Swim) since I don't
> > know any other way to tell a computer to turn on at a given time.  :)
> > (though if someone knows of a computer-programmable wakeup solution
> > please tell me!)
> >
> > Or perhaps having a C3 machine with a PVR500 for 24hr recording which can
> > wake up a P4 with another card for overflow during peak hours, and also
> > to do things like commercial flagging or recompression. (which also might
> > need to schedule file moves, for instance a 120gig drive on the C3 and
> > 500gig on the P4 as primary storage)
> >
> > Or maybe speed throttling certain cpu's might work - some of the new
> > Centrino motherboards for desktop use
> > http://www17.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20041224/index.html, laptops
> > with a USB grabber, or even the underclocked Athlon XP
> > http://www17.tomshardware.com/cpu/20041001/index.html - does anyone use
> > anything like this? (or have any experience/insights worth sharing?) 
> > I've no clue how/if throttling is supported in linux, or mythTV or
> > anything else, but it would be nice to let the cpu idle during daily
> > recording and to speed up for flagging and transcoding.
> >
> > Is anyone else using a lower power design or strategy with Myth?
> >
> >
> > Colliepon
> >
> >
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RE: [mythtv-users] shuttling woes/crashes

[johnny]

I would have to say this is a hardware issue. Cpu/motherboard/video card
causing the problem. IMHO this is usually the case.  


 


Johnny Lee

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Barber
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 6:54 PM
To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] shuttling woes/crashes

Hi,
i've installed mythtv 0.17 using the well know fedora how to and 
everythings working fine apart from when i try pausing, after a short 
while of unpausing the entire system freezes, i can't even ssh into it?
is there a fix for this or is it something i have to live with for a while.
Tom

Semperon 2.8
512 MB Ram
2 PVR 250's
Soundblaster live
Fedora Core 3
MythTv 0.17
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[mythtv-users] nuvexport using FMP4

[Tom Peck]

Hi all,
nuvexport seems to be outputting DivX using the fourCC FMP4, which
doesn't work in any of the players ive got.  According to one of the
ffmpeg mailing lists, you can override the tag using the -vtag option.

Can anyone tell me where to modify nuvexport so that it calls ffmpeg
likw this??  Failing that does anyone know any other ways round it.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: USB MCE IR Receiver

[Jim Oltman]

I really hate to keep bugging people, but I am receiving an error in
my /var/log/messages after I got the new lirc_dev and lirc_mceusb
drivers put in the /lib/modules/2.6.10-1.770/updates/drivers/lirc
(location of my other lirc drivers).  Here is the error:

lirc_dev: version magic '2.6.10-prep 686 REGPARM gcc-3.4' should be
'2.6.10-1.770_FC3 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4'

The version of the kernel I got for compiling came from ATRPMs:

http://www.atrpms.net/dist/fc3/kernel/kernel-2.6.10-1.770_14.rhfc3.at.src.rpm.html

This is obviously not the right file.  Should I be grabbing the spec
file instead of the RPM file?  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks!


On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:12:27 -0600, Jim Oltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I re-ran this and instead of changing the MAX IRCTL devices, I left
> them as is.  This then ran fine.  I am about to try these modules to
> see if they work!
> 
> 
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:18:48 -0600, Jim Oltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > BTW, I meant the compile that I did following the instructions located here:
> >
> >
> > http://lircsetup.com/lirc/trouble/kernsource.php
> >
> > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:13:29 -0600, Jim Oltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Where does this deposit the new lirc_mceusb and lirc_dev modules?  I
> > > have only found the old versions, I think.  They say they were last
> > > modified on March 5th.  Obviously, today is the 15th.
> > >
> > >   From Joe Huffner
> > >
> > > The easiest way would be
> > > to download version 0.7.0 of lirc from www.lirc.org,
> > > overwrite the lirc_mceusb.c file with the newer one,
> > > compile the new version, copy the new lirc_dev.ko and
> > > lirc_mceusb.ko over the existing lirc modules (Make
> > > sure to make a backup copy of the original module
> > > files). They should be located in /lib/modules/*your
> > > kernel version*/misc/
> > > 
> > >
> > > This is not in my FC3 load.  Can anyone tell me where these drivers
> > > ended up?  Thanks!
> > >
> > > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:20:20 -0800 (PST), Joe Huffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > > wrote:
> > > > Just an FYI for those of us who bought one of the
> > > > updated MCE remotes and receivers. I was checking out
> > > > the lirc mailing list and someone has update the
> > > > driver to include support. From what I can tell the
> > > > update has not been updated in CVS.
> > > >
> > > > I found the info at:
> > > > http://search.gmane.org/?query=mce&group=gmane.comp.hardware.lirc
> > > >
> > > > Basically what I did was overwrite the lirc_mceusb.c
> > > > in the drivers/lirc_mceusb directory with the source
> > > > found in the mailing liste. (I have attached the new
> > > > source file.) Then went through the install process
> > > > documented. I used version .7.0 of lirc.
> > > >
> > > > Please note, from what I have read and experienced,
> > > > there are some initialization problems. What seemed to
> > > > "fix it" was unplugging the receiver and plugging it
> > > > back in, until I no longer got an error message
> > > > stating the device did not initialize. You can check
> > > > this by running "tail -f /var/log/messages". Also, I
> > > > read that running kernel 2.6.11 seemed to fix the
> > > > initialization problem. However I cannot confirm this
> > > > as I am running Gentoo Dev Kernel 2.6.9-r9. Another
> > > > problem I am having is that I am getting non-stop
> > > > error messages stating:
> > > >
> > > > "usb 2-2: bulk timeout on ep1in"
> > > >
> > > > In fact, I was getting about 4 of those messages per
> > > > second. If/when I get time I am planning to upgrade to
> > > > 2.6.11 to see if this fixes the issue.
> > > >
> > > > -joe
> > > >
> > > > --- Jim Oltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > After deleting the section in my rc.local about the
> > > > > mknod /dev/lirc0 c
> > > > > 61 0 and replacing it with:
> > > > >
> > > > > ln -s /dev/lircd /dev/lirc0
> > > > >
> > > > > I am no longer getting errors from lircd in the
> > > > > /var/log/messages.
> > > > > IRW runs but I am not seeing anything when I press
> > > > > buttons on my
> > > > > Hauppauge remote (it has also been setup in the
> > > > > correct lircrc files).
> > > > >  When I run irrecord I am getting errors about lircd
> > > > > not being
> > > > > started.  I am going to try commenting out the other
> > > > > section in
> > > > > rc.local pertaining to MCEUSB and see what happens.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 18:57:27 -0600, Jim Oltman
> > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > > Here is where I am at so far.  In my
> > > > > /etc/rc.d/rc.local I made these changes...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > #!/bin/sh
> > > > > > #
> > > > > > # This script will be executed *after* all the
> > > > > other init scripts.
> > > > > > # You can put your own initialization stuff in
> > > > > here if you don't
> > > > > > # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > touch /var/lock/subsys/local
> > > > > > mknod /dev/lirc0 c 61 0 -I add

Re: [mythtv-users] Lower power usage ideas? (for backend)

[Ron Johnson]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 16:27 -0800, Jeffrey Kember wrote:
> Consider a mini-itx based system for your backend. A fraction of the
> power of a multi-GHz machine, on board firewire, support for up to two
> pci cards, fanless processor option and can be used with a fanless
> external power brick. You can go with laptop (2.5 in hard drives and
> slim optical) for a compact build or with standard size components for
> economy.
> 
> Inexpensive, quiet and power friendly...

Quiet, power friendly, but not inexpensive.  Besides, they seem
to have issues with PVR-350s.

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Re: [mythtv-users] pchdtv3000 compile help

[Mike Isely]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Jarod Wilson wrote:

> On Sunday 13 March 2005 19:46, Mike Isely wrote:
> > The release 1.6 pchdtv drivers are known not to compile properly against
> > the 2.6.10 kernel release.  There were internal changes in video4linux
> > there that break the driver.
> >
> > Check out this thread for a version of the 1.6 driver release that has
> > been ported forward to work in the 2.6.10 kernel:
> >
> >   http://www.pchdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=415
> >
> > I haven't tried yet to carry the port forward to 2.6.11.  In addition, the
> > pchdtv folks now are supporting a DVB based driver going forward from this
> > point, so you may want to consider it instead.
>
> And note that the bttv v4l driver built from the pcHDTV 2.0 tarball never
> registers the digital side of the card for me, which I suppose may be because
> I'm not running a 2.6.11 kernel (which the wiki says is needed), but the docs
> say everything should work with the latest FC3 kernels... Now, the dvb driver
> does work with my HD-2000, but I decided to go back to the v4l driver for
> now.
>
> Anyhow, since I like pain and suffering, I took the latest FC3 kernel as a
> base, added the latest 2.6.10 kraxel patch, some of my own patches and that
> 1.6-based patch of yours found at the link above, mushed it all together,
> fixed a few rejects, and built a kernel rpm out of it all. The resulting
> kernel's bttv driver works beautifully with my HD-2000.

Cool.  I don't have an HD-2000 so I wasn't able to test that case.

  -Mike


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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: USB MCE IR Receiver

[Jim Oltman]

I re-ran this and instead of changing the MAX IRCTL devices, I left
them as is.  This then ran fine.  I am about to try these modules to
see if they work!


On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:18:48 -0600, Jim Oltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> BTW, I meant the compile that I did following the instructions located here:
> 
> 
> http://lircsetup.com/lirc/trouble/kernsource.php
> 
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:13:29 -0600, Jim Oltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Where does this deposit the new lirc_mceusb and lirc_dev modules?  I
> > have only found the old versions, I think.  They say they were last
> > modified on March 5th.  Obviously, today is the 15th.
> >
> >   From Joe Huffner
> >
> > The easiest way would be
> > to download version 0.7.0 of lirc from www.lirc.org,
> > overwrite the lirc_mceusb.c file with the newer one,
> > compile the new version, copy the new lirc_dev.ko and
> > lirc_mceusb.ko over the existing lirc modules (Make
> > sure to make a backup copy of the original module
> > files). They should be located in /lib/modules/*your
> > kernel version*/misc/
> > 
> >
> > This is not in my FC3 load.  Can anyone tell me where these drivers
> > ended up?  Thanks!
> >
> > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:20:20 -0800 (PST), Joe Huffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > wrote:
> > > Just an FYI for those of us who bought one of the
> > > updated MCE remotes and receivers. I was checking out
> > > the lirc mailing list and someone has update the
> > > driver to include support. From what I can tell the
> > > update has not been updated in CVS.
> > >
> > > I found the info at:
> > > http://search.gmane.org/?query=mce&group=gmane.comp.hardware.lirc
> > >
> > > Basically what I did was overwrite the lirc_mceusb.c
> > > in the drivers/lirc_mceusb directory with the source
> > > found in the mailing liste. (I have attached the new
> > > source file.) Then went through the install process
> > > documented. I used version .7.0 of lirc.
> > >
> > > Please note, from what I have read and experienced,
> > > there are some initialization problems. What seemed to
> > > "fix it" was unplugging the receiver and plugging it
> > > back in, until I no longer got an error message
> > > stating the device did not initialize. You can check
> > > this by running "tail -f /var/log/messages". Also, I
> > > read that running kernel 2.6.11 seemed to fix the
> > > initialization problem. However I cannot confirm this
> > > as I am running Gentoo Dev Kernel 2.6.9-r9. Another
> > > problem I am having is that I am getting non-stop
> > > error messages stating:
> > >
> > > "usb 2-2: bulk timeout on ep1in"
> > >
> > > In fact, I was getting about 4 of those messages per
> > > second. If/when I get time I am planning to upgrade to
> > > 2.6.11 to see if this fixes the issue.
> > >
> > > -joe
> > >
> > > --- Jim Oltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > After deleting the section in my rc.local about the
> > > > mknod /dev/lirc0 c
> > > > 61 0 and replacing it with:
> > > >
> > > > ln -s /dev/lircd /dev/lirc0
> > > >
> > > > I am no longer getting errors from lircd in the
> > > > /var/log/messages.
> > > > IRW runs but I am not seeing anything when I press
> > > > buttons on my
> > > > Hauppauge remote (it has also been setup in the
> > > > correct lircrc files).
> > > >  When I run irrecord I am getting errors about lircd
> > > > not being
> > > > started.  I am going to try commenting out the other
> > > > section in
> > > > rc.local pertaining to MCEUSB and see what happens.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 18:57:27 -0600, Jim Oltman
> > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > Here is where I am at so far.  In my
> > > > /etc/rc.d/rc.local I made these changes...
> > > > >
> > > > > #!/bin/sh
> > > > > #
> > > > > # This script will be executed *after* all the
> > > > other init scripts.
> > > > > # You can put your own initialization stuff in
> > > > here if you don't
> > > > > # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.
> > > > >
> > > > > touch /var/lock/subsys/local
> > > > > mknod /dev/lirc0 c 61 0 -I added this
> > > > line in hopes it
> > > > > would attach to a line in my modprobe
> > > > >
> > > > > /usr/X11R6/bin/xset -dpms
> > > > > /usr/X11R6/bin/xset s off
> > > > > /usr/bin/mtd --daemon
> > > > >
> > > > > # I added these next two lines
> > > > >
> > > > > /sbin/modprobe lirc_mceusb
> > > > > /usr/sbin/lircd --device=/dev/lirc0
> > > > --output=/dev/lircd
> > > > >
> > > > > In my /etc/modprobe.conf I have added this line:
> > > > >
> > > > > alias char-major-61 lirc_mceusb
> > > > >
> > > > > After implementing these changes, I can do a cat
> > > > /var/log/messages and
> > > > > see what I showed you before about the driver
> > > > being loaded for the USB
> > > > > Microsoft IR Transceiver.  But I also get this
> > > > listed:
> > > > >
> > > > > Mar 13 18:54:11 mythfrontend lircd 0.7.0[4134]:
> > > > accepted new client on
> > > > > /dev/lircd
> > > > > Mar 13 18:54:11 mythfrontend lircd 0.7.0[4134]:
> > > > could not

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB card for Australia (melbourne)

[David Whyte]

I use 2 Avermedia 771's in my box with no problems.  I can't tune SBS,
but I don't get SBS anywhere in the house even on conventional TV's.

I found it difficult to set them up with a stock FC2 install (using
Jarods guide) but the main problem was my lack of linux knowlegde.  A
linux savvy mate helped me and it is working fine now.

I don't like the idea of HD yet.  I don't have the horsepower, or the
storage capacity for it at the moment.  SD Digital looks great so I am
happy.

I am thinking of getting a third avermedia in the near future.

HTH's
Dave


On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:30:53 +1100, Rob Hillis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Brad wrote:
> 
> >Any recommendations for a DVB card that works well for Melbourne AND
> >mythtv (knoppmyth).
> >
> >
> I'm not sure whether KnoppMyth supports DVB cards yet without
> significant work.  Granted, it's been some time since I looked at
> KnoppMyth, so the functionality may well have been added.  I ended up
> moving to Gentoo for DVB and haven't really ever regretted it.
> 
> >I am currently looking at
> >Avermedia DVB-T 771 for AUS $145
> >VisionPlus HDTV Digital TV Tuner card with remote control  AUS $125
> >Open to any suggestions. Any feedback welcome.
> >
> >
> I've had endless problems with my Avermedia DVB-T - so many that I
> ditched it in favor of a Haupage Nova-T.  Yes, the Nova-T is more
> expensive, but it's been worth it from my perspective.  I did have this
> card working fine on the Mt Dandnenong transmitters before I moved to
> Selby and started taking advantage of the local transmitter... :)
> 
> I have heard others make positive mention of the VisionPlus card, but
> can't speak from experience on that one.
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Re: [mythtv-users] shuttling woes/crashes

[Robert Denier]

I don't know your back/frontend setup, but if your running the frontend
as root, then run it as an ordinary user.  Ordinary users shouldn't be
able to crash the system...  If they frontend thread hangs on the system
you should then be able to either alt-f2 and type 
'killall mythfrontend' or ssh in and kill it that way.. etc

For that matter trying to run the frontend on another pc may help
isolate the problem..


On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 02:54 +, Tom Barber wrote:
> Hi,
> i've installed mythtv 0.17 using the well know fedora how to and 
> everythings working fine apart from when i try pausing, after a short 
> while of unpausing the entire system freezes, i can't even ssh into it?
> is there a fix for this or is it something i have to live with for a while.
> Tom
> 
> Semperon 2.8
> 512 MB Ram
> 2 PVR 250's
> Soundblaster live
> Fedora Core 3
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[mythtv-users] Live TV viewing blocked by non-existent recordings

[Justin Gombos]

I simply want to watch live TV to verify that the frame grabber works
(Now that I've worked past the database and video issues), and I just
want to see that the hardware and driver and software are making the
hand-off okay.

When I select "Watch TV", I get:

  MythTV is already using all available inputs for recording.  If you
  want to watch an in-progress recording, select one from the playback
  menu.  If you want to watch live TV, cancel one of the in-progress
  recordings from the delete menu.

I have nothing scheduled or in-progress, because this is a fresh
setup.  The delete menu shows nothing to delete.  Any ideas?
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[mythtv-users] shuttling woes/crashes

[Tom Barber]

Hi,
i've installed mythtv 0.17 using the well know fedora how to and 
everythings working fine apart from when i try pausing, after a short 
while of unpausing the entire system freezes, i can't even ssh into it?
is there a fix for this or is it something i have to live with for a while.
Tom

Semperon 2.8
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2 PVR 250's
Soundblaster live
Fedora Core 3
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Re: [mythtv-users] DVB card for Australia (melbourne)

[Rob Hillis]

Brad wrote:
Any recommendations for a DVB card that works well for Melbourne AND
mythtv (knoppmyth).
 

I'm not sure whether KnoppMyth supports DVB cards yet without 
significant work.  Granted, it's been some time since I looked at 
KnoppMyth, so the functionality may well have been added.  I ended up 
moving to Gentoo for DVB and haven't really ever regretted it.

I am currently looking at 
Avermedia DVB-T 771 for AUS $145
VisionPlus HDTV Digital TV Tuner card with remote control  AUS $125
Open to any suggestions. Any feedback welcome.
 

I've had endless problems with my Avermedia DVB-T - so many that I 
ditched it in favor of a Haupage Nova-T.  Yes, the Nova-T is more 
expensive, but it's been worth it from my perspective.  I did have this 
card working fine on the Mt Dandnenong transmitters before I moved to 
Selby and started taking advantage of the local transmitter... :)

I have heard others make positive mention of the VisionPlus card, but 
can't speak from experience on that one.

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Re: [mythtv-users] NVidia, Hardware, Japan, Linux ... HELP!!! I'm going crazy!!!

[Robert Denier]

On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 10:43 +0900, David Bennett wrote:
> I think I am going crazy! There are a million things to take into
> consideration while trying to setup my MythTV system. I probably
> should say that I am a newcomer to Linux (ie. I don't actually run it
> yet.)
> 
> I am in the process of buying a system to run Linux, MythTV (and maybe
> mess around with Asterix). See my comment at the end if your first
> instinct is to refer me to the archives.
> 
> These may sound (and probably are) really simple questions, so if you
> could humour me I would be greatful. (apologies in advance)
> 
> (1) For Video OUT capable cards people seem to be leaning towards the
> Nvidia cards. Problem is, there are a hundred of them. GeForce4,
> MX440, 5200 etc. Am I safe with any Nvidia card or are there ones that
> do not work yet with Linux? (Better yet a list of NVidia cards/models
> that are safe would be better!) Are brand new models not stable yet
> (driver wise) and which are the brand new mdels?
> 
I haven't kept track, but I would avoid anything released in the last 6
months, unless you have a specific reason to need it.  Driver
development is usually a little behind for Linux, although drivers that
work with other nvidia cards may very well work fine.  I'd also look
through and see what people are using in this list.  I thought there
was a way to search it somewhere.

Searching for nvidia 5200 in past list messages yields about 4 pages of
message titles at 1600x1200 in evolution for whatever that info is
worth.

> (2) Motherboard. I have never used Linux before and there seems to be
> disagreements with what kind of chipsets to use. For example, people
> say that VIA support is not that great right now. I am on the Fence
> between an AMD64 or Intel box. Is AMD64 safe? Which chipset should I
> use? Better yet, are there any chipsets that I should not use? All
> this and I want to keep the box small and cheap. This is the tought
> part.

The consensus seems to be that Intel is the way to go for very fast
video processing.  I don't see any need for a 64 bit chip for myth.
Perhaps someone knows if there is any meaningful code optimizations
possible at with 64 bits with myth?  Of course if you use a hardware
mpeg2 board, the speed doesn't matter as much.

> (3) Tuner/decoder. I would like the Haupage but am in Japan. I have
> been told that the Kurotoshiko card is a clone. Its model number is
> CX23416GYC-STVLP/R. Is this an actual Haupage card or just using the
> same chips? Will it work the same as a "real" Haupage card? If I can
> find another Tuner that uses this chip is it safe to go with it?
> (basically a list of mpeg2 decoders that will work with Myth and can
> be bought in Japan would be great.)

I have no clue here.

> 
> (4) Remote. Again, in Japan so I am not clear. Can pretty much any
> remote work? I see ELSA's all over the place but no ATI remote. Am I
> better off investing in a Universal Remote? Any ideas.

The generic ATI remote I have has a usb driver for the 2.6 kernel series
as well as a patch for the older ones.  It is an RF remote.  It acts
like a keyboard when in use, with odd key assignments.  

Of course there are lots of other methods used for remotes.  My favorite
was using a keyboard from newegg.com that transmitted an infrared
signal.  It plugged into the ps2 keyboard and mouse ports on a pc.
Then, whoever came up with the idea, just programmed a learning IR
remote to repeat the IR patterns the keyboard created.  

> 
> I think that's it for now. If anyone has any advice that would be
> great. I just want to get the hardware portion over with so I can
> start on the installation! I have stressed myself out enough as it is.
> ;)
> 
> As for the debate that occasionaly surfaces as to why people are
> constantly coming on the list asking about hardware when it is covered
> in the archives, I would like to comment on that seeing as in I am in
> that very position.
> 
> There are many guides for particular systems, but it is exceedingly
> difficult to find a definitive guide as to what hardware can work and
> what doesn't without look everything up individually. I am confident
> that once I have the hardware I will be able to do some research to
> solve problems, but what would be ideal is a hardware database (more
> in depth than the pvr database) that lists all hardware on the basis
> of whether it works/driver release etc.
> 
> Just my 2 cents.
> 
> Thanks,
> David
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: USB MCE IR Receiver

[Jim Oltman]

BTW, I meant the compile that I did following the instructions located here:


http://lircsetup.com/lirc/trouble/kernsource.php



On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:13:29 -0600, Jim Oltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Where does this deposit the new lirc_mceusb and lirc_dev modules?  I
> have only found the old versions, I think.  They say they were last
> modified on March 5th.  Obviously, today is the 15th.
> 
>   From Joe Huffner
> 
> The easiest way would be
> to download version 0.7.0 of lirc from www.lirc.org,
> overwrite the lirc_mceusb.c file with the newer one,
> compile the new version, copy the new lirc_dev.ko and
> lirc_mceusb.ko over the existing lirc modules (Make
> sure to make a backup copy of the original module
> files). They should be located in /lib/modules/*your
> kernel version*/misc/
> 
> 
> This is not in my FC3 load.  Can anyone tell me where these drivers
> ended up?  Thanks!
> 
> On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:20:20 -0800 (PST), Joe Huffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> > Just an FYI for those of us who bought one of the
> > updated MCE remotes and receivers. I was checking out
> > the lirc mailing list and someone has update the
> > driver to include support. From what I can tell the
> > update has not been updated in CVS.
> >
> > I found the info at:
> > http://search.gmane.org/?query=mce&group=gmane.comp.hardware.lirc
> >
> > Basically what I did was overwrite the lirc_mceusb.c
> > in the drivers/lirc_mceusb directory with the source
> > found in the mailing liste. (I have attached the new
> > source file.) Then went through the install process
> > documented. I used version .7.0 of lirc.
> >
> > Please note, from what I have read and experienced,
> > there are some initialization problems. What seemed to
> > "fix it" was unplugging the receiver and plugging it
> > back in, until I no longer got an error message
> > stating the device did not initialize. You can check
> > this by running "tail -f /var/log/messages". Also, I
> > read that running kernel 2.6.11 seemed to fix the
> > initialization problem. However I cannot confirm this
> > as I am running Gentoo Dev Kernel 2.6.9-r9. Another
> > problem I am having is that I am getting non-stop
> > error messages stating:
> >
> > "usb 2-2: bulk timeout on ep1in"
> >
> > In fact, I was getting about 4 of those messages per
> > second. If/when I get time I am planning to upgrade to
> > 2.6.11 to see if this fixes the issue.
> >
> > -joe
> >
> > --- Jim Oltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > After deleting the section in my rc.local about the
> > > mknod /dev/lirc0 c
> > > 61 0 and replacing it with:
> > >
> > > ln -s /dev/lircd /dev/lirc0
> > >
> > > I am no longer getting errors from lircd in the
> > > /var/log/messages.
> > > IRW runs but I am not seeing anything when I press
> > > buttons on my
> > > Hauppauge remote (it has also been setup in the
> > > correct lircrc files).
> > >  When I run irrecord I am getting errors about lircd
> > > not being
> > > started.  I am going to try commenting out the other
> > > section in
> > > rc.local pertaining to MCEUSB and see what happens.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 18:57:27 -0600, Jim Oltman
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Here is where I am at so far.  In my
> > > /etc/rc.d/rc.local I made these changes...
> > > >
> > > > #!/bin/sh
> > > > #
> > > > # This script will be executed *after* all the
> > > other init scripts.
> > > > # You can put your own initialization stuff in
> > > here if you don't
> > > > # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.
> > > >
> > > > touch /var/lock/subsys/local
> > > > mknod /dev/lirc0 c 61 0 -I added this
> > > line in hopes it
> > > > would attach to a line in my modprobe
> > > >
> > > > /usr/X11R6/bin/xset -dpms
> > > > /usr/X11R6/bin/xset s off
> > > > /usr/bin/mtd --daemon
> > > >
> > > > # I added these next two lines
> > > >
> > > > /sbin/modprobe lirc_mceusb
> > > > /usr/sbin/lircd --device=/dev/lirc0
> > > --output=/dev/lircd
> > > >
> > > > In my /etc/modprobe.conf I have added this line:
> > > >
> > > > alias char-major-61 lirc_mceusb
> > > >
> > > > After implementing these changes, I can do a cat
> > > /var/log/messages and
> > > > see what I showed you before about the driver
> > > being loaded for the USB
> > > > Microsoft IR Transceiver.  But I also get this
> > > listed:
> > > >
> > > > Mar 13 18:54:11 mythfrontend lircd 0.7.0[4134]:
> > > accepted new client on
> > > > /dev/lircd
> > > > Mar 13 18:54:11 mythfrontend lircd 0.7.0[4134]:
> > > could not open /dev/lirc0
> > > > Mar 13 18:54:11 mythfrontend lircd 0.7.0[4134]:
> > > default_init(): No such device
> > > > Mar 13 18:54:11 mythfrontend lircd 0.7.0[4134]:
> > > caught signal
> > > >
> > > > I am however getting errors on boot in the
> > > Show/Hide Details window.
> > > > Where can I view the errors that it is showing me?
> > >  They disappear to
> > > > quickly to read.  I am pretty sure the info I want
> > > to see (about the
> > > > errors on boot in Show/Hi

Re: [mythtv-users] NVidia, Hardware, Japan, Linux ... HELP!!! I'm going crazy!!!

[Howard Cokl]

I can answer some of this but it's only my opinion:
for most of the hardware questions go to
pvrhw.goldfish.org and look at the top gfx cards in
use, then check out some of those systems and see the
rating that the owner gave.
As far as remote goes, I'm sold on my chicony wireless
keyboard and a learning remote, now my wife has issues
with it but that is mostly because I haven't
programmed the remote to do all of the stuff that I
use the keyboard for.  I think the keyboard was $40
USD and the remote was $10 USD but to me having both
is great.


--- David Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think I am going crazy! There are a million things
> to take into
> consideration while trying to setup my MythTV
> system. I probably
> should say that I am a newcomer to Linux (ie. I
> don't actually run it
> yet.)
> 
> I am in the process of buying a system to run Linux,
> MythTV (and maybe
> mess around with Asterix). See my comment at the end
> if your first
> instinct is to refer me to the archives.
> 
> These may sound (and probably are) really simple
> questions, so if you
> could humour me I would be greatful. (apologies in
> advance)
> 
> (1) For Video OUT capable cards people seem to be
> leaning towards the
> Nvidia cards. Problem is, there are a hundred of
> them. GeForce4,
> MX440, 5200 etc. Am I safe with any Nvidia card or
> are there ones that
> do not work yet with Linux? (Better yet a list of
> NVidia cards/models
> that are safe would be better!) Are brand new models
> not stable yet
> (driver wise) and which are the brand new mdels?
> 
> (2) Motherboard. I have never used Linux before and
> there seems to be
> disagreements with what kind of chipsets to use. For
> example, people
> say that VIA support is not that great right now. I
> am on the Fence
> between an AMD64 or Intel box. Is AMD64 safe? Which
> chipset should I
> use? Better yet, are there any chipsets that I
> should not use? All
> this and I want to keep the box small and cheap.
> This is the tought
> part.
> 
> (3) Tuner/decoder. I would like the Haupage but am
> in Japan. I have
> been told that the Kurotoshiko card is a clone. Its
> model number is
> CX23416GYC-STVLP/R. Is this an actual Haupage card
> or just using the
> same chips? Will it work the same as a "real"
> Haupage card? If I can
> find another Tuner that uses this chip is it safe to
> go with it?
> (basically a list of mpeg2 decoders that will work
> with Myth and can
> be bought in Japan would be great.)
> 
> (4) Remote. Again, in Japan so I am not clear. Can
> pretty much any
> remote work? I see ELSA's all over the place but no
> ATI remote. Am I
> better off investing in a Universal Remote? Any
> ideas.
> 
> I think that's it for now. If anyone has any advice
> that would be
> great. I just want to get the hardware portion over
> with so I can
> start on the installation! I have stressed myself
> out enough as it is.
> ;)
> 
> As for the debate that occasionaly surfaces as to
> why people are
> constantly coming on the list asking about hardware
> when it is covered
> in the archives, I would like to comment on that
> seeing as in I am in
> that very position.
> 
> There are many guides for particular systems, but it
> is exceedingly
> difficult to find a definitive guide as to what
> hardware can work and
> what doesn't without look everything up
> individually. I am confident
> that once I have the hardware I will be able to do
> some research to
> solve problems, but what would be ideal is a
> hardware database (more
> in depth than the pvr database) that lists all
> hardware on the basis
> of whether it works/driver release etc.
> 
> Just my 2 cents.
> 
> Thanks,
> David
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: USB MCE IR Receiver

[Jim Oltman]

Where does this deposit the new lirc_mceusb and lirc_dev modules?  I
have only found the old versions, I think.  They say they were last
modified on March 5th.  Obviously, today is the 15th.

  From Joe Huffner

The easiest way would be
to download version 0.7.0 of lirc from www.lirc.org,
overwrite the lirc_mceusb.c file with the newer one,
compile the new version, copy the new lirc_dev.ko and
lirc_mceusb.ko over the existing lirc modules (Make
sure to make a backup copy of the original module
files). They should be located in /lib/modules/*your
kernel version*/misc/


This is not in my FC3 load.  Can anyone tell me where these drivers
ended up?  Thanks!

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:20:20 -0800 (PST), Joe Huffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just an FYI for those of us who bought one of the
> updated MCE remotes and receivers. I was checking out
> the lirc mailing list and someone has update the
> driver to include support. From what I can tell the
> update has not been updated in CVS.
> 
> I found the info at:
> http://search.gmane.org/?query=mce&group=gmane.comp.hardware.lirc
> 
> Basically what I did was overwrite the lirc_mceusb.c
> in the drivers/lirc_mceusb directory with the source
> found in the mailing liste. (I have attached the new
> source file.) Then went through the install process
> documented. I used version .7.0 of lirc.
> 
> Please note, from what I have read and experienced,
> there are some initialization problems. What seemed to
> "fix it" was unplugging the receiver and plugging it
> back in, until I no longer got an error message
> stating the device did not initialize. You can check
> this by running "tail -f /var/log/messages". Also, I
> read that running kernel 2.6.11 seemed to fix the
> initialization problem. However I cannot confirm this
> as I am running Gentoo Dev Kernel 2.6.9-r9. Another
> problem I am having is that I am getting non-stop
> error messages stating:
> 
> "usb 2-2: bulk timeout on ep1in"
> 
> In fact, I was getting about 4 of those messages per
> second. If/when I get time I am planning to upgrade to
> 2.6.11 to see if this fixes the issue.
> 
> -joe
> 
> --- Jim Oltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > After deleting the section in my rc.local about the
> > mknod /dev/lirc0 c
> > 61 0 and replacing it with:
> >
> > ln -s /dev/lircd /dev/lirc0
> >
> > I am no longer getting errors from lircd in the
> > /var/log/messages.
> > IRW runs but I am not seeing anything when I press
> > buttons on my
> > Hauppauge remote (it has also been setup in the
> > correct lircrc files).
> >  When I run irrecord I am getting errors about lircd
> > not being
> > started.  I am going to try commenting out the other
> > section in
> > rc.local pertaining to MCEUSB and see what happens.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 18:57:27 -0600, Jim Oltman
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Here is where I am at so far.  In my
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.local I made these changes...
> > >
> > > #!/bin/sh
> > > #
> > > # This script will be executed *after* all the
> > other init scripts.
> > > # You can put your own initialization stuff in
> > here if you don't
> > > # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.
> > >
> > > touch /var/lock/subsys/local
> > > mknod /dev/lirc0 c 61 0 -I added this
> > line in hopes it
> > > would attach to a line in my modprobe
> > >
> > > /usr/X11R6/bin/xset -dpms
> > > /usr/X11R6/bin/xset s off
> > > /usr/bin/mtd --daemon
> > >
> > > # I added these next two lines
> > >
> > > /sbin/modprobe lirc_mceusb
> > > /usr/sbin/lircd --device=/dev/lirc0
> > --output=/dev/lircd
> > >
> > > In my /etc/modprobe.conf I have added this line:
> > >
> > > alias char-major-61 lirc_mceusb
> > >
> > > After implementing these changes, I can do a cat
> > /var/log/messages and
> > > see what I showed you before about the driver
> > being loaded for the USB
> > > Microsoft IR Transceiver.  But I also get this
> > listed:
> > >
> > > Mar 13 18:54:11 mythfrontend lircd 0.7.0[4134]:
> > accepted new client on
> > > /dev/lircd
> > > Mar 13 18:54:11 mythfrontend lircd 0.7.0[4134]:
> > could not open /dev/lirc0
> > > Mar 13 18:54:11 mythfrontend lircd 0.7.0[4134]:
> > default_init(): No such device
> > > Mar 13 18:54:11 mythfrontend lircd 0.7.0[4134]:
> > caught signal
> > >
> > > I am however getting errors on boot in the
> > Show/Hide Details window.
> > > Where can I view the errors that it is showing me?
> >  They disappear to
> > > quickly to read.  I am pretty sure the info I want
> > to see (about the
> > > errors on boot in Show/Hide window) is not listed
> > in
> > > /var/log/messages.
> > >
> > > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 18:38:09 -0600, Ron Johnson
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 17:58 -0600, Jim Oltman
> > wrote:
> > > > > What I meant in that statement is that I got
> > it to recognize the
> > > > > receiver in the /var/log/messages but it is
> > still not working.
> > > >
> > > > Yes, but *how* did you get "it" to recognize the
> > receiver?
> > > >
> > > >

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: 1000th picture quality question

[Howard Cokl]

Trying to debug this problem that I recently noticed,
I don't think this is a myth issue.  I don't even know
that it's an ivtv issue right now.  What I did is cat
/dev/video0 > test.mpg and then ftp'd that file to my
desktop and viewed it using mplayer, it looked near
perfect except for interlacing.  Could the other
people having this problem try a similar experiment
and see if we can narrow this down.  For the record
I'm using an nvidia 5200 vga output to an old rca
vdc300 transcoder to component in on my hdtv, and yes
hdtv via the pchdtv 3000 looks awesome, haven't tried
dvd since I moved to cvs.

--- Chad Delatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alright, excuse me for my newbness here, but yes I
> meant to say the itvc16 chipset.  
> 
> I'm trying to establish that the problem we are
> having
> is with the newer revision of the pvr 250.
> 
> So far we have the following list of people with the
> new cards and have the same issue with sharpness.
> 
> hojoloco,
> You also have a newer design card and maybe the
> cause
> of the problems.
> 
> 1. MeITVC-16
> 2. hojoloco  ITVC-15 (but it's a frestyle)
> 3. dan   ITVC-16
> 
> ross.campbell , I did everything in your list except
> for
> 1. try a different decoder card (my M-179 had poor
> quality compared to my pvr-250) Have one on
> ordser, but think I got ripped off on ebay
> 2. upgrade/downgrade your video driver and hack on
> the
> config files to optimize for the best resolution and
> refresh rate for outputting recorded TV - Not
> sure
> how to do this.
> 
> mark,
> I noticed when I went to lower settings i had your
> problem.  May want to start a thread about that one.
> 
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[mythtv-users] Re: DVB card for Australia (melbourne)

[Brad]

sounds like there is a problem with Channel 9 and this card. Anyone
using it and not having problems with channel 9 digital ?

If the card doesn't pick up digital 9 does it default back to analog  ??
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[mythtv-users] NVidia, Hardware, Japan, Linux ... HELP!!! I'm going crazy!!!

[David Bennett]

I think I am going crazy! There are a million things to take into
consideration while trying to setup my MythTV system. I probably
should say that I am a newcomer to Linux (ie. I don't actually run it
yet.)

I am in the process of buying a system to run Linux, MythTV (and maybe
mess around with Asterix). See my comment at the end if your first
instinct is to refer me to the archives.

These may sound (and probably are) really simple questions, so if you
could humour me I would be greatful. (apologies in advance)

(1) For Video OUT capable cards people seem to be leaning towards the
Nvidia cards. Problem is, there are a hundred of them. GeForce4,
MX440, 5200 etc. Am I safe with any Nvidia card or are there ones that
do not work yet with Linux? (Better yet a list of NVidia cards/models
that are safe would be better!) Are brand new models not stable yet
(driver wise) and which are the brand new mdels?

(2) Motherboard. I have never used Linux before and there seems to be
disagreements with what kind of chipsets to use. For example, people
say that VIA support is not that great right now. I am on the Fence
between an AMD64 or Intel box. Is AMD64 safe? Which chipset should I
use? Better yet, are there any chipsets that I should not use? All
this and I want to keep the box small and cheap. This is the tought
part.

(3) Tuner/decoder. I would like the Haupage but am in Japan. I have
been told that the Kurotoshiko card is a clone. Its model number is
CX23416GYC-STVLP/R. Is this an actual Haupage card or just using the
same chips? Will it work the same as a "real" Haupage card? If I can
find another Tuner that uses this chip is it safe to go with it?
(basically a list of mpeg2 decoders that will work with Myth and can
be bought in Japan would be great.)

(4) Remote. Again, in Japan so I am not clear. Can pretty much any
remote work? I see ELSA's all over the place but no ATI remote. Am I
better off investing in a Universal Remote? Any ideas.

I think that's it for now. If anyone has any advice that would be
great. I just want to get the hardware portion over with so I can
start on the installation! I have stressed myself out enough as it is.
;)

As for the debate that occasionaly surfaces as to why people are
constantly coming on the list asking about hardware when it is covered
in the archives, I would like to comment on that seeing as in I am in
that very position.

There are many guides for particular systems, but it is exceedingly
difficult to find a definitive guide as to what hardware can work and
what doesn't without look everything up individually. I am confident
that once I have the hardware I will be able to do some research to
solve problems, but what would be ideal is a hardware database (more
in depth than the pvr database) that lists all hardware on the basis
of whether it works/driver release etc.

Just my 2 cents.

Thanks,
David
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[mythtv-users] how does mythtv connect to mysql?

[Michael Wester]

Hi-

I've had my Mythtv box working fine for months.  Yesterday I started
installation of new hardware (pvr-500) and now for some reason my
database is acting up.  I'm having a tough time understanding this
one.  Maybe if I knew a little better how the program accesses the db,
I could figure it out.  I'm not finding any solutions in the archive. 
If you know of one, please kindly point me,

1) When I log in to my x session-kde as root (I know a no no...), I
can start mythbackend and mythfrontend, no problems.
-
2)  When I log in to my x session- kde as user mythtv, I get errors that :

2005-03-15 17:22:34.161 Unable to connect to database!
2005-03-15 17:22:34.162 Driver error was [1/2005]:
QMYSQL3: Unable to connect
Database error was:
Unknown MySQL Server Host ' mediabox' (1)
couldn't open db

When I go through the setup, I set ip address, indicate user is
mythtv, and set password to mythtv.  Still cannot connect to db.
---
3) from command line:  
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> mysql -u mythtv -p mythconverg
I enter password=mythtv and I'm in.
---

I have a feeling that I'm missing a setting somewhere in mythtv?  but
where?  Thanks for any insight.

Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] DVB card for Australia (melbourne)

[Rod]

Hi Brad..
I have a VP card in my system and have no problems, I have better 
reception on Myth than I do when i'm running the Windows software that 
came with the card.

I'm in the outer East of Melb and just running a pair of "Rabbit Ears" 
but I am thinking of a Mr Antenna aerial at some stage ($200) to get a 
better pickup on some channels, apart from this, Channel 2, 7 are fine, 
10 a bit scratchy, and I haven't found 9 yet, but the autoscan in 0.17 
finds it...

I just have to work out how to reprogram the channels so when its 
recording Channel 7 I don't get that "travel destinations" thing that I 
have so many copies of, and the EPG for Channel TEN ;o(

Brad wrote:
HI Guys,
Any recommendations for a DVB card that works well for Melbourne AND
mythtv (knoppmyth).
I am currently looking at 

Avermedia DVB-T 771 for AUS $145
VisionPlus HDTV Digital TV Tuner card with remote control  AUS $125
Open to any suggestions. Any feedback welcome.
I dont really care about HD at the moment.
Cheers
Brad
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Re: [mythtv-users] Anybody having X lockup problems with MX440 on 7167 nvidia drivers?

[Doug Larrick]

John Freer wrote:
Hey All:
Just curious if anybody is having weird lockup problems with MX440
hardware with the 7167 driver.
The 6629 driver never worked with my MX440 (nforce2 MB), and now the
7167 "kind of" works.
Yup, hangs solid for me as well :-(
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Re: [mythtv-users] DVB card for Australia (melbourne)

[jason bright]

I just set one up with fusionHDTV DVB-T Lite + Remote. I think I paid $170.

Can't tell you if you'll get any DVB stuff working with knoppmyth. I
tried one of their alphas a month ago and I would only install with
kernel2.4 which is useless with DVB.  It was supposed to work with 2.6
but that refused to install for me. But i gave up pretty quickly.

So even if that works, check the current kernel version their putting
out and what your card needs.. from 2.6.9->2.6.11 there have been
tons of DVB fixes going in.

I tried knoppmyth for a second, got nowhere, and ended up buildling
the machine by hand using Jarods guide.  Plenty of pain, but a good
learning experience. It's all working for me now except Channel 9 -
something is wonky with it's signal and the auto channel detection
which i haven't figured out yet

Good luck!

j



On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:03:48 +1100, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> HI Guys,
> 
> Any recommendations for a DVB card that works well for Melbourne AND
> mythtv (knoppmyth).
> 
> I am currently looking at
> 
> Avermedia DVB-T 771 for AUS $145
> VisionPlus HDTV Digital TV Tuner card with remote control  AUS $125
> 
> Open to any suggestions. Any feedback welcome.
> 
> I dont really care about HD at the moment.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Brad
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RE: [mythtv-users] DVB card for Australia (melbourne)

[Berry, David]

I have two of the VisionPlus card - they work fine in Canberra - don't
know how they would go in Melbourne, you have that strange weather down
there :)

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Subject: [mythtv-users] DVB card for Australia (melbourne)

HI Guys,

Any recommendations for a DVB card that works well for Melbourne AND
mythtv (knoppmyth).

I am currently looking at 

Avermedia DVB-T 771 for AUS $145
VisionPlus HDTV Digital TV Tuner card with remote control  AUS $125

Open to any suggestions. Any feedback welcome.


I dont really care about HD at the moment.

Cheers

Brad
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[mythtv-users] DVB card for Australia (melbourne)

[Brad]

HI Guys,

Any recommendations for a DVB card that works well for Melbourne AND
mythtv (knoppmyth).

I am currently looking at 

Avermedia DVB-T 771 for AUS $145
VisionPlus HDTV Digital TV Tuner card with remote control  AUS $125

Open to any suggestions. Any feedback welcome.


I dont really care about HD at the moment.

Cheers

Brad
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Re: [mythtv-users] HDD Disk Activity when idle

[Tony Godshall]

According to Josiah Royse,
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:57:20 +0100, Magnus Ekhall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a box running Myth and I have noticed that about once every
> > second there is a burst of disk activity. And this is when I'm not using
> > Myth at all...
> > 
> > Is this becaus of Myth or something else? How can I find out?
> 
> You may also check your log files: "tail -f /var/log/messages"
> 
> you may notice your system is writing notices/errors to the log, then
> the disk is syncing them to the filesystem.
> 
> Programs that automount media that was mentioned previously is also
> can cause this.

It should also be noted that any read activity (e.g. stat file for 
changes or whatever) also requires write to the directory structions 
unless the partions are mounted with option 'noatime'.


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Re: [mythtv-users] : DVB channels keep re-appearing

[Howard Cokl]

I think you can go into the channel editor in setup
and mark the channels invisible, that is what I did
for duplicate channels that was being picked up by
data direct and the dvb scan.


--- Justin Hornsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Tom Hughes wrote:
> 
> >Because 0.17 now has automatic channel detection -
> that includes both
> >the scanner in the setup program and automatic
> detection of new channels
> >as they appear. If you delete a channel then the
> next time you tune to
> >another channel on that multiplex Myth will detect
> the missing channel
> >and add it.
> >
> >Tom
> >
> >  
> >
>
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> Ah right, I'll just leave it then - but I guess if I
> now set the 
> resurrected channels to invisible they won't show up
> where they're not 
> wanted... I detest the shopping channels ;-)
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Re: [mythtv-users] Lower power usage ideas? (for backend)

[Nicholas McCoy]

You might want to check out this link:
http://knoppmythwiki.homelinux.org/index.php?page=WakeupToRecord

I havn't tried it myself, but it sounds like just what you are looking for.


On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:19:07, colliepon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just curious both what other people are doing, and feature discussion (not 
> b*tching :) on other methods of reducing the power use of a myth box since it 
> can build up over awhile. (and my next move may very well be off grid - 
> satellite TV, running off solar or wind, so power use is critical but i'd 
> prefer an alternative to the VCR) A few examples i'm thinking of:
> 
> Could you schedule an expected time-on and time off to work with a normal 
> block of programming?  By shut down time I mean to properly suspend all tasks 
> like commercial flagging without screwing up data or not doing them during 
> the week at all.  This would let you use a standard analog or digital wall 
> timer to turn on the computer and satellite receiver for a given block of 
> time (for instance 6:30pm to 10pm if you mostly like the evening block, or 
> 11pm to about 3am if you like Adult Swim) since I don't know any other way to 
> tell a computer to turn on at a given time.  :) (though if someone knows of a 
> computer-programmable wakeup solution please tell me!)
> 
> Or perhaps having a C3 machine with a PVR500 for 24hr recording which can 
> wake up a P4 with another card for overflow during peak hours, and also to do 
> things like commercial flagging or recompression. (which also might need to 
> schedule file moves, for instance a 120gig drive on the C3 and 500gig on the 
> P4 as primary storage)
> 
> Or maybe speed throttling certain cpu's might work - some of the new Centrino 
> motherboards for desktop use 
> http://www17.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20041224/index.html, laptops with a 
> USB grabber, or even the underclocked Athlon XP 
> http://www17.tomshardware.com/cpu/20041001/index.html - does anyone use 
> anything like this? (or have any experience/insights worth sharing?)  I've no 
> clue how/if throttling is supported in linux, or mythTV or anything else, but 
> it would be nice to let the cpu idle during daily recording and to speed up 
> for flagging and transcoding.
> 
> Is anyone else using a lower power design or strategy with Myth?
> 
> 
> Colliepon
> 
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[mythtv-users] Re: 1000th picture quality question

[Chad Delatte]

One more thing.  My card works excellent in Windows XP !!!



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[mythtv-users] Re: 1000th picture quality question

[Chad Delatte]

Alright, excuse me for my newbness here, but yes I
meant to say the itvc16 chipset.  

I'm trying to establish that the problem we are having
is with the newer revision of the pvr 250.

So far we have the following list of people with the
new cards and have the same issue with sharpness.

hojoloco,
You also have a newer design card and maybe the cause
of the problems.

1. MeITVC-16
2. hojoloco  ITVC-15 (but it's a frestyle)
3. dan   ITVC-16

ross.campbell , I did everything in your list except
for
1. try a different decoder card (my M-179 had poor
quality compared to my pvr-250) Have one on
ordser, but think I got ripped off on ebay
2. upgrade/downgrade your video driver and hack on the
config files to optimize for the best resolution and
refresh rate for outputting recorded TV - Not sure
how to do this.

mark,
I noticed when I went to lower settings i had your
problem.  May want to start a thread about that one. 

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[mythtv-users] Installation issue - Couldn't find package Synaptic

[Brent McGuire]

Clear your cache then try it again.  I had the same problem  to do so do this

apt-cache clean
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

The clean command will reclean out what you had in cache.

Let me know if this doesn't fix it.

Brent

I noticed the same thing. It seemed like the
atrpms-kickstart-25-1.rhfc3.at.i386.rpm part did not work properly and

was conflicting with another package. It had an error with

atrpms-package-config-91-1.rhfc3.at.i386.rpm

I tried a re-install but no luck. Strange because in the last 2 weeks
I have installed according to Jarrod wilsons instructions 3 or 4 times
without this happening, then it happens 2 times in a row.

Cheers

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Re: [mythtv-users] Lower power usage ideas? (for backend)

[Jeffrey Kember]

Consider a mini-itx based system for your backend. A fraction of the
power of a multi-GHz machine, on board firewire, support for up to two
pci cards, fanless processor option and can be used with a fanless
external power brick. You can go with laptop (2.5 in hard drives and
slim optical) for a compact build or with standard size components for
economy.

Inexpensive, quiet and power friendly...



On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:04:18 -0600, Robert Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 18:19 +, colliepon wrote:
> > Just curious both what other people are doing, and feature discussion (not 
> > b*tching :) on other methods of reducing the power use of a myth box since 
> > it can build up over awhile. (and my next move may very well be off grid - 
> > satellite TV, running off solar or wind, so power use is critical but i'd 
> > prefer an alternative to the VCR) A few examples i'm thinking of:
> >
> > Could you schedule an expected time-on and time off to work with a normal 
> > block of programming?  By shut down time I mean to properly suspend all 
> > tasks like commercial flagging without screwing up data or not doing them 
> > during the week at all.  This would let you use a standard analog or 
> > digital wall timer to turn on the computer and satellite receiver for a 
> > given block of time (for instance 6:30pm to 10pm if you mostly like the 
> > evening block, or 11pm to about 3am if you like Adult Swim) since I don't 
> > know any other way to tell a computer to turn on at a given time.  :) 
> > (though if someone knows of a computer-programmable wakeup solution please 
> > tell me!)
> >
> > Or perhaps having a C3 machine with a PVR500 for 24hr recording which can 
> > wake up a P4 with another card for overflow during peak hours, and also to 
> > do things like commercial flagging or recompression. (which also might need 
> > to schedule file moves, for instance a 120gig drive on the C3 and 500gig on 
> > the P4 as primary storage)
> >
> > Or maybe speed throttling certain cpu's might work - some of the new 
> > Centrino motherboards for desktop use 
> > http://www17.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20041224/index.html, laptops with 
> > a USB grabber, or even the underclocked Athlon XP 
> > http://www17.tomshardware.com/cpu/20041001/index.html - does anyone use 
> > anything like this? (or have any experience/insights worth sharing?)  I've 
> > no clue how/if throttling is supported in linux, or mythTV or anything 
> > else, but it would be nice to let the cpu idle during daily recording and 
> > to speed up for flagging and transcoding.
> >
> > Is anyone else using a lower power design or strategy with Myth?
> >
> >
> > Colliepon
> >
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> I rather doubt that anything you can build yourself will every be 100%
> designed to be efficient on power.  That being said I'd seriously look
> at laptops.  If there is some way to get myth working with a power
> efficient laptop, perhaps with some kind of Video to Firewire bridge
> then your power issues are solved.
> 
> Of course that might not be possible, and I don't know of any laptops
> that support pci cards, although some might have a docking bay.  They
> are about the only entire systems I can think of that Must be designed
> to be low power, that is assuming they are any good.
> 
> Of course you can design a PC from the ground up to save power, but it
> will still likely be considerably higher than a laptop probably..
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] : DVB channels keep re-appearing

[Justin Hornsby]

Tom Hughes wrote:
Because 0.17 now has automatic channel detection - that includes both
the scanner in the setup program and automatic detection of new channels
as they appear. If you delete a channel then the next time you tune to
another channel on that multiplex Myth will detect the missing channel
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Ah right, I'll just leave it then - but I guess if I now set the 
resurrected channels to invisible they won't show up where they're not 
wanted... I detest the shopping channels ;-)

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Re: [mythtv-users] Lower power usage ideas? (for backend)

[Robert Denier]

On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 18:19 +, colliepon wrote:
> Just curious both what other people are doing, and feature discussion (not 
> b*tching :) on other methods of reducing the power use of a myth box since it 
> can build up over awhile. (and my next move may very well be off grid - 
> satellite TV, running off solar or wind, so power use is critical but i'd 
> prefer an alternative to the VCR) A few examples i'm thinking of:
> 
> Could you schedule an expected time-on and time off to work with a normal 
> block of programming?  By shut down time I mean to properly suspend all tasks 
> like commercial flagging without screwing up data or not doing them during 
> the week at all.  This would let you use a standard analog or digital wall 
> timer to turn on the computer and satellite receiver for a given block of 
> time (for instance 6:30pm to 10pm if you mostly like the evening block, or 
> 11pm to about 3am if you like Adult Swim) since I don't know any other way to 
> tell a computer to turn on at a given time.  :) (though if someone knows of a 
> computer-programmable wakeup solution please tell me!)
> 
> Or perhaps having a C3 machine with a PVR500 for 24hr recording which can 
> wake up a P4 with another card for overflow during peak hours, and also to do 
> things like commercial flagging or recompression. (which also might need to 
> schedule file moves, for instance a 120gig drive on the C3 and 500gig on the 
> P4 as primary storage)
> 
> Or maybe speed throttling certain cpu's might work - some of the new Centrino 
> motherboards for desktop use 
> http://www17.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20041224/index.html, laptops with a 
> USB grabber, or even the underclocked Athlon XP 
> http://www17.tomshardware.com/cpu/20041001/index.html - does anyone use 
> anything like this? (or have any experience/insights worth sharing?)  I've no 
> clue how/if throttling is supported in linux, or mythTV or anything else, but 
> it would be nice to let the cpu idle during daily recording and to speed up 
> for flagging and transcoding.
> 
> Is anyone else using a lower power design or strategy with Myth?
> 
> 
> Colliepon
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I rather doubt that anything you can build yourself will every be 100%
designed to be efficient on power.  That being said I'd seriously look
at laptops.  If there is some way to get myth working with a power
efficient laptop, perhaps with some kind of Video to Firewire bridge
then your power issues are solved.

Of course that might not be possible, and I don't know of any laptops
that support pci cards, although some might have a docking bay.  They
are about the only entire systems I can think of that Must be designed
to be low power, that is assuming they are any good.

Of course you can design a PC from the ground up to save power, but it
will still likely be considerably higher than a laptop probably..



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Re: [mythtv-users] : DVB channels keep re-appearing

[Tom Hughes]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  Justin Hornsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm running MythTV0.17 with two DVB-T cards and I'm generally very happy
> with it.  However, I've noticed recently that some channels I don't want
> keep re-appearing in my lineup.
> 
> I use tv_grab_uk_rt for most of the channels but I've allowed one or two
> to use the off-air EPG grabber built into MythTV.
> 
> Why do the channels I've previously deleted (CBBC, Cbeebies, topuptv
> sampler etc) keep coming back?

Because 0.17 now has automatic channel detection - that includes both
the scanner in the setup program and automatic detection of new channels
as they appear. If you delete a channel then the next time you tune to
another channel on that multiplex Myth will detect the missing channel
and add it.

Tom

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: 1000th picture quality question

[Ron Johnson]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 16:57 -0500, Mark L. Cukier wrote:
[snip]
> 
> I set my bitrate to the maximum, and all I saw chage was the fact that 
> the recording would get INCREDIBLY choppy!!! My PVR-350 seemed incapable 
> of recording at 16Mbps...

Maybe that's because the -350 is not designed to do that?

http://www.hauppauge.com/Pages/products/data_pvr350.html
"The WinTV-PVR-350 supports data rates up to 12Mbits/sec"

>did you guys observe this as well?



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Re: Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)

[Ron Johnson]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 18:56 +0100, Johannes Becker wrote:
> I bougth the ADIC DLT library for 150 Euros, but this one is
> refurbished/tested. You may get them even cheaper.

Whoa, sweet deal.  How many slots?  And what's the uncompressed
capacity?

(DLT drives have been around for 12+ years, with the oldest ones 
that I know of using DLT-III tapes, and being 10/20GB capacity.)

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Re: [mythtv-users] FC3, atrpms, jarod's guide = capset failed

[Listman]

>> On Monday 14 March 2005 13:13, Listman wrote:
>>> I'm running FC3 and using atrpms and Jarod's guide to try to get mythtv
>>> running again. - worked fine for me on FC2
>>> I have a PVR 250 and tried walking through Jarods guide to install the
>>> ivtv module but once I get the packages and boot with the supplied
>>> kernel
>>> I cant start named (bind)
>>> I get the following message - am I the only one?
>>> **Unmatched Entries**
>>> succeeded: 3 Time(s)
>>>named startup failed: 1 Time(s)
>>>named: capset failed: Operation not permitted: please ensure that
>>> the
>>> capset kernel
>>> module is loaded.  see insmod(8): 1 Time(s)
>>
>> That's a new one to me... Er, wait a sec, I vaguely recall mention of
>> that
>> on
>> one of the fedora lists. Try looking it up in Red Hat's bugzilla.
>>
>> --
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>> [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/
> Looks like bind need to be built with the --disable-linux-caps flag, I'll
> try to look into this more and send a request to atrpms and see if they
> would be so kind to include that. I'll give it a shot myself before I make
> any request to make sure it actually fixes the problem.
> selinux may also be causing part of this problem (from what I've read) but
> I installed with selinux disabled and I'm not really sure how all that
> fits in.
> Thanks Jarod.

For those interested here is a link to the atrpms bug file.
kernel-2.6.10-1.770_14.rhfc3.at breaks named
http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=474
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[mythtv-users] : DVB channels keep re-appearing

[Justin Hornsby]

I'm running MythTV0.17 with two DVB-T cards and I'm generally very happy 
with it.  However, I've noticed recently that some channels I don't want 
keep re-appearing in my lineup.

I use tv_grab_uk_rt for most of the channels but I've allowed one or two 
to use the off-air EPG grabber built into MythTV.

Why do the channels I've previously deleted (CBBC, Cbeebies, topuptv 
sampler etc) keep coming back?

Many thanks,
Justin.
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Re: [mythtv-users] HDD Disk Activity when idle

[Josiah Royse]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:57:20 +0100, Magnus Ekhall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a box running Myth and I have noticed that about once every
> second there is a burst of disk activity. And this is when I'm not using
> Myth at all...
> 
> Is this becaus of Myth or something else? How can I find out?

You may also check your log files: "tail -f /var/log/messages"

you may notice your system is writing notices/errors to the log, then
the disk is syncing them to the filesystem.

Programs that automount media that was mentioned previously is also
can cause this.
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Re: [mythtv-users] ontop or equivalent?

[Shaun Jackman]

I'm having this exact same problem on KDE. The menu bar and panel are
obscuring MythTV. With KDE 3.2.2 and MythTV 0.16, 'kstart --window
mythfrontend --ontop mythfrontend' would place MythTV on top of the
menu and panel, but with KDE 3.3.2 and MythTV 0.17 that trick has
stopped working. Does anyone have a solution to this problem?

Thanks,
Shaun

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 19:30:12 -0500, Chris Clarke
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've got a dual-head video setup with myth on a TV and a normal
> gnome desktop on a monitor, the only problem is whenever I do
> something on the desktop, gnome panel bars pop up ontop of the myth
> display.  When I'm running mplayer I can use the option "-ontop" and
> this stops the bars from appearing, is there an equivalent option or
> command I can use to get the same behaviour out of myth?
> 
> TIA,
> Chris
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Re: [mythtv-users] HDD Disk Activity when idle

[Michael Haan]

I used to get this because I hadn't set ivtv-debug=0, so I was getting
a-lot of extra (useless) debug information in the log.  And, since it
was constatly writing, the disk was constantly active.  Setting that
to zero fixed the issue and now my HDD light is an accurate indication
that myth is recording something (if I'm not watching a recording).


On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:29:26 +0100, Magnus Ekhall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bryan Halter wrote:
> 
> > Magnus Ekhall wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I have a box running Myth and I have noticed that about once every
> >>second there is a burst of disk activity. And this is when I'm not
> >>using Myth at all...
> >>
> >>Is this becaus of Myth or something else? How can I find out?
> >>
> >>How does your myth box behave?
> >>
> >>Of course I would prefer that there was as little disk activity as
> >>possible unless I am using the Myth box...
> >>
> >>/Magnus
> >>
> >>
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> > I noticed this on one of my remote frontends and found it wasn't
> > actually HDD activity it was Myth checking the DVD drive for media
> > insertion.  I believe my backend has intermittant bursts of activity too
> > but I've yet to sit down and try to determine the cause.
> >
> > Bryan
> >
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> > 
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> I may experience the same thing you are then...
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[mythtv-users] Live TV = blank screen

[Mike Hoare]

 Hi all,

I have been setting up Mythtv 0.17 on Fedora Core 3 following the
guides at 

http://www.users.on.net/~jani/dvico-mythtv-3.html
and
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/

I get a blank screen when I try to watch live tv

This is the output on the terminal


2005-03-15 22:24:54.130 mythfrontend version: 0.17.20050130-1 www.mythtv.org
2005-03-15 22:24:54.130 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2005-03-15 22:24:54.759 Switching to square mode (blue)
2005-03-15 22:24:55.049 Joystick disabled.
2005-03-15 22:24:55.076 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2005-03-15 22:24:55.097 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media handler
2005-03-15 22:24:55.097 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media handler
2005-03-15 22:24:55.608 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media handler
SIP listening on IP Address 192.168.0.143:5060 NAT address 192.168.0.143
SIP: Cannot register; proxy, username or password not set
2005-03-15 22:24:57.836 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5)
2005-03-15 22:24:57.842 Using protocol version 14
2005-03-15 22:24:57.875 Using protocol version 14
2005-03-15 22:25:03.009 taking too long to be allowed to read..
2005-03-15 22:25:08.020 taking too long to be allowed to read..
2005-03-15 22:25:15.016 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
2005-03-15 22:25:17.018 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
2005-03-15 22:25:19.020 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
2005-03-15 22:25:21.021 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
2005-03-15 22:25:23.023 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
2005-03-15 22:25:25.026 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
2005-03-15 22:25:27.028 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
2005-03-15 22:25:29.029 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
2005-03-15 22:25:29.029 Waited 14 seconds for data to become available, aborting
Couldn't read file: rbuf://127.0.0.1:6543/video/buffer/ringbuf1.nuv
2005-03-15 22:25:29.070 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-03-15 22:25:29.070 Decoder not alive, and trying to play..
2005-03-15 22:25:29.136 Changing from None to None




So far I have used the autotune and successfully 
a) scanned in the transports using the full scan option and then 
b) scanned the channels using the existing transport option
c) ran mythfilldatabase

I can
a) see channel info and guide via mythweb and
b) see guide data in mythfrontend
both of which suggest that the database connection is all OK

All channels were detected during the scans.  I have set the default
start channel to an existing channel, though this does not seem to
'stick' i.e. each time I have a look in the setup that field is
blank... despite selecting not to clear the card/channels

I can use mplayer and kaffeine without any problems, which suggest the
driver is OK

Any advice would be greatly apreciated, 

I understand that some of the errors may be due to mythphone but when I
attempt to uninstall it it wants to uninstall the whole suite...

Thanks

Mike

some specs:

Mythfrontend and backend are on same host
Athlon XP 3200
1G Ram
Dvico DVB-T HDTV (pci)
I am in Brisbane (Australia)



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Re: [mythtv-users] What to do on XBox when the backend crashes

[Adam Gianola]

Perhaps you could borrow from Jarod's Fedora Mythtvology for how to
make the power button do something useful.  I implemented this on my
back/frontend and it works great to kill the front end (push power
button one time), and then restart it (push power button a second
time).  I have an xbox frontend setup, but no dvd remote so i can't
try it on that.

http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/tips.php
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[mythtv-users] Thank you!

[Peter Loron]

I'm not done fiddling with it (see recent post about mounting MythVideo 
volume from a shut-down backend), and I still need to tackle getting my 
Xbox frontend setup, but my 0.17 system is basically working.

Just want to say a huge thank you to all the Myth developers and to 
Jarod for your kickass guide and Axel for your RPMs!

If the Seattle MythUG ever meets, I'm buying your beer, Jarod.  :-)
-Pete
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RE: [mythtv-users] What to do on XBox when the backend crashes

[Berry, David]

>The thing is that if you are watching a recording on the XBox, and the
>backend dies, under your scheme, it would seem that the XBox would
>mysteriously reboot itself.  Put if you play the .nuv video files
>through an NFS mount, I think the frontend can continue to play the
>file without an active backend.  So it would unnecessarily cause the
>XBox to reboot.

True - but I don't NFS mount the .nuv files, and the xBox doesn't
mysteriously reboot itself anyway - if it did, then I would know that
the backend has stopped - which is probably more important than watching
a recording.

> However, I'd be interesting to take a peek at the XBox script.

#!/bin/bash
BACKEND_FLAG="/mnt/myth/backend.flag"

# See if the backend flag exists
if [ -e $BACKEND_FLAG ]
then
   exit
fi

# Flag file could not be found
logger ERROR: Lost connection with mythbackend flag. Rebooting...

# shutdown -r now

#TODO: Put in some sort of count to make sure we don't end up in endless
reboot cycle.



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Re: [mythtv-users] What to do on XBox when the backend crashes

[Garry Cook]

[snip]
> It's interesting to see that the simple answer I was hoping for was
> that someone had a way to click that stupid "OK" button, when the XBox
> frontend reports that the connection to the master backend has been
> lost.  But maybe there is no way?  Shouldn't hitting ENTER on the
> keyboard do the trick?  And isn't the SELECT button on the XBox DVD
> remote assigned to ENTER?  Why doesn't that work?

Don't have an xbox, so I'm just taking a shot in the dark here...
Perhaps the focus is not on that window?

Garry
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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250, sound problems, wrong directories

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On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:32:28 -0600, Scott Francis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 15:30 -0700, Ryan M wrote:
> > I've seen the archives on this but so far haven't had any luck.
> > I've followed the Jarod's guide but I can't get sound to work for my
> > PVR-250, sound does work on the rest of the system.  There is a lot of
> > talk about a msp3400.ko file not being the right version.  On my
> > machine the msp3400-ivtv.ko file is in a different directory.  The
> > regular files are at
> > /lib/modules/2.6.10-1.770_FC3/kernel/drivers/media/video the
> > msp3400-ivtv.ko along with some other files are located at
> > /lib/modules/2.6.10-1.770_FC3/updates/drivers/media/video.  I've tried
> > copying them all over to my kernel directory and renaming
> > msp3400-ivtv.ko to msp3400.ko and running
> > # /sbin/rmmod ivtv
> > # /sbin/depmod -a
> > # /sbin/modprobe ivtv
> > # cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/test_capture.mpg
> > # mplayer /tmp/test_capture.mpg
> > but it still doesn't work.  If there is something obvious here that a
> > linux noob wouldn't see please tell me.  If there are any tests I can
> > run or config files that would help, I can post those.
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> You have double checked that your alsa master line/line in/etc aren't
> muted haven't you?  To me this is always the issue when I don't have
> volume.
> 
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Another thing along those lines to try is to move the .mpg file to
another machine where you know sounds works (like a Windows machine)
and see if you can play it with sound or not.

Also, have you rebooted your machine since renaming the msp3400 kernel
modules?  I find that sometimes the non-ivtv module gets loaded even
though I've rmmod'ed it and deleted the non-ivtv msp3400 file.  Or it
might even be as simple as rmmod'ing the msp3400 (you didn't specify
if you did that or not).

Just some ideas for you to try out.
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RE: [mythtv-users] Re: 1000th picture quality question

[Dan Goldberg]

> The fact that DVD looks perfect SHOULD tell us that it's a problem with
> our capture or decoding, rather than with our Video Driver, right? (I
> haven't compiled MythDVD yet, but I'm going to do so tonight and let you
> know...)

That's what I would think. Since the DVD playback is perfect I figure my
video card, nvidia settings, and s-video cable to the tv are ok.

I know interlacing is something often discussed here, which I don't know
much about at all. But, I believe that DVDs could look better because they
aren't coming from a source that is interlacing frames.

So, I would guess that is has something to do with capture or decode. Or,
perhaps the video card has issues when video comes from an interlaced
source.

Anyway, I'll probably try out a few ideas people had such as moving the
capture card to another slot in the computer. Other than that, I suppose I
could replace pieces of hardware until I see some variation in quality.

> 
> I set my bitrate to the maximum, and all I saw chage was the fact that
> the recording would get INCREDIBLY choppy!!! My PVR-350 seemed incapable
> of recording at 16Mbps... did you guys observe this as well?
> 

I don't think I've ever tried setting the bitrate to the maximum, but I'll
try it tonight.

Dan.

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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250, sound problems, wrong directories

[Scott Francis]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 15:30 -0700, Ryan M wrote:
> I've seen the archives on this but so far haven't had any luck.
> I've followed the Jarod's guide but I can't get sound to work for my
> PVR-250, sound does work on the rest of the system.  There is a lot of
> talk about a msp3400.ko file not being the right version.  On my
> machine the msp3400-ivtv.ko file is in a different directory.  The
> regular files are at
> /lib/modules/2.6.10-1.770_FC3/kernel/drivers/media/video the
> msp3400-ivtv.ko along with some other files are located at
> /lib/modules/2.6.10-1.770_FC3/updates/drivers/media/video.  I've tried
> copying them all over to my kernel directory and renaming
> msp3400-ivtv.ko to msp3400.ko and running
> # /sbin/rmmod ivtv
> # /sbin/depmod -a
> # /sbin/modprobe ivtv
> # cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/test_capture.mpg
> # mplayer /tmp/test_capture.mpg
> but it still doesn't work.  If there is something obvious here that a
> linux noob wouldn't see please tell me.  If there are any tests I can
> run or config files that would help, I can post those.
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You have double checked that your alsa master line/line in/etc aren't
muted haven't you?  To me this is always the issue when I don't have
volume.

Scott




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[mythtv-users] PVR-250, sound problems, wrong directories

[Ryan M]

I've seen the archives on this but so far haven't had any luck.
I've followed the Jarod's guide but I can't get sound to work for my
PVR-250, sound does work on the rest of the system.  There is a lot of
talk about a msp3400.ko file not being the right version.  On my
machine the msp3400-ivtv.ko file is in a different directory.  The
regular files are at
/lib/modules/2.6.10-1.770_FC3/kernel/drivers/media/video the
msp3400-ivtv.ko along with some other files are located at
/lib/modules/2.6.10-1.770_FC3/updates/drivers/media/video.  I've tried
copying them all over to my kernel directory and renaming
msp3400-ivtv.ko to msp3400.ko and running
# /sbin/rmmod ivtv
# /sbin/depmod -a
# /sbin/modprobe ivtv
# cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/test_capture.mpg
# mplayer /tmp/test_capture.mpg
but it still doesn't work.  If there is something obvious here that a
linux noob wouldn't see please tell me.  If there are any tests I can
run or config files that would help, I can post those.
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Re: [mythtv-users] HDD Disk Activity when idle

[Magnus Ekhall]

Bryan Halter wrote:
Magnus Ekhall wrote:

I have a box running Myth and I have noticed that about once every
second there is a burst of disk activity. And this is when I'm not
using Myth at all...
Is this becaus of Myth or something else? How can I find out?
How does your myth box behave?
Of course I would prefer that there was as little disk activity as
possible unless I am using the Myth box...
/Magnus

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I noticed this on one of my remote frontends and found it wasn't
actually HDD activity it was Myth checking the DVD drive for media
insertion.  I believe my backend has intermittant bursts of activity too
but I've yet to sit down and try to determine the cause.
Bryan


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I forgot to mention: My backend and frontend is on the same machine. So 
I may experience the same thing you are then...

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[mythtv-users] MySQL Error in Jarod's Guide?

[Rei Toi]

First, I'm newbie.  You have been warned. :)
Second, thanks again for your guide, Jarod.  It was a tremendous help to me.
I *think* that I may have found an error in section 12 for MySQL.  I'm 
hoping that those with more experience can check this before I open a 
ticket for it on Jarod's site.  So, please, correct me if I'm wrong.

I believe there is an error in the optimizations for MySQL v3.x. 
Specifically, this line should be excluded from the guide:

set-variable = query_cache_size = 16M
This apparently is not a valid setting for versions of MySQL prior to 
4.0.1.  From the  MySQL Reference Manual :: 5.11 The MySQL Query Cache:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/query-cache.html
"From version 4.0.1 on, MySQL Server features a query cache. When in 
use, the query cache stores the text of a SELECT query together with the 
corresponding result that was sent to the client. If the identical query 
is received later, the server retrieves the results from the query cache 
rather than parsing and executing the query again."

I followed the guide to do an install of FC3, which installed MySQL ver 
3.23.58.  After adding the above mentioned entry into /etc/my.cnf, 
mysqld failed to start with the following error in /var/log/mysqld.log:

050314 20:59:48  mysqld started
No variable match for: -O 'query_cache_size=16M'
/usr/libexec/mysqld  Ver 3.23.58 for redhat-linux-gnu on i386
Use '--help' or '--no-defaults --help' for a list of available options
050314 20:59:49  mysqld ended
mysqld --help for this version shows no option for query_cache_size.
Should I open a ticket for this, or am I wrong?
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[mythtv-users] Re: Lower power usage ideas? (for backend)

[Robson Braga Araujo]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:35:37AM -0500, David Wood wrote:
> In the meantime, I found out a rather stunning revelation about Athlon 
> systems. There appears to be a latent "power save" mode built into all of 
> them (not just the mobile models) that works perfectly and without any 
> performance hit that I can detect. Something to do with sending a special 
> instruction during the idle cycle. It is disabled by default. I have no 
> idea why. You can enable it with a utility like FVCool. Using sensors, I 
> watched the CPU temp drop 14C when idling... it's really something. Maybe 
> it will work for you too.

It may be something with my motherboard, but I enabled this yesterday
morning only to come home and find out that all my filesystems were
corrupted. I'm still picking up the pieces.

Just wanted to share so that you know the risks you are running. It is
mentioned on the Athlon Power Saving Howto.

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Re: [mythtv-users] HDD Disk Activity when idle

[Bryan Halter]

Magnus Ekhall wrote:

> I have a box running Myth and I have noticed that about once every
> second there is a burst of disk activity. And this is when I'm not
> using Myth at all...
>
> Is this becaus of Myth or something else? How can I find out?
>
> How does your myth box behave?
>
> Of course I would prefer that there was as little disk activity as
> possible unless I am using the Myth box...
>
> /Magnus
>
>
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I noticed this on one of my remote frontends and found it wasn't
actually HDD activity it was Myth checking the DVD drive for media
insertion.  I believe my backend has intermittant bursts of activity too
but I've yet to sit down and try to determine the cause.

Bryan

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Re: [mythtv-users] What to do on XBox when the backend crashes

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:55:15 +1100, Berry, David
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > However, on my XBox I can't click on it.  I hit every button on my
> > XBox DVD Remote but I can't dismiss that box.  And since I don't have
> > a keyboard hooked up, the only thing I can do is to hard power-off my
> > XBox (or SSH into the XBox and issue a shutdown -r now).
> >
> > What do other users do?
> 
> I have a process that watches the backend via this script
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> logger Starting mythbackend as daemon process...
> echo "Backend is running" > /myth/backend.flag
> mythbackend --logfile /var/log/mythbackend.log
> logger "Mythbackend process has died - removing flag and sleep before
> restart."
> rm -f /myth/backend.flag
> sleep 1m
> 
> When starting up, it creates the file backend.flag, if it crashes, it
> removes that flag.
> 
> On the xBox, I have a cron job that checks for the existence of that
> flag (via a NFS share), if it's not there, it assumes the backend has
> crashed, and reboots itself.
> 
> HTH.
> 
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I have a cron job on my backend that does something similar (i.e.
monitors backend to see if it is running or not).  However, I'd be
interesting to take a peek at the XBox script.

The thing is that if you are watching a recording on the XBox, and the
backend dies, under your scheme, it would seem that the XBox would
mysteriously reboot itself.  Put if you play the .nuv video files
through an NFS mount, I think the frontend can continue to play the
file without an active backend.  So it would unnecessarily cause the
XBox to reboot.



It's interesting to see that the simple answer I was hoping for was
that someone had a way to click that stupid "OK" button, when the XBox
frontend reports that the connection to the master backend has been
lost.  But maybe there is no way?  Shouldn't hitting ENTER on the
keyboard do the trick?  And isn't the SELECT button on the XBox DVD
remote assigned to ENTER?  Why doesn't that work?
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RE: [mythtv-users] Re: 1000th picture quality question

[Howard Cokl]

I have the same problem.  Currently have a freestyle
card, which is itvc15.  I just ran a test and it
appears that if I cat /dev/video0 >
/store/video/test.mpg and let that run for a while and
then watch it using the Mythvideo it is closer to what
I get when I watch TV connected directly to my DirecTV
box, but it's still not as crisp.  I am trying to
compare the PBS logo since that is unchanging and
gives me a point of reference between switching to all
the different views.  Basically, in DirecTV to my TV
the logo is smooth, no jagged edges at all, and with
Myth all of the edges look jagged.

--- Dan Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Alright, First question.  What version pvr 250 do
> you
> > have?  I know mine is the new version, I believe
> it's
> > an ivt-16?  All I know is that it ends with 16 and
> not
> > 15 like the older cards do.
> > 
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean exactly, but using lspci
> -v I have an Internext
> Compression Inc iTVC16.
> 
> > Second question, when you play with the live tv
> > settings such as bitrate and recording type, do
> you
> > notice any real difference.  I don't feel I notice
> any
> > difference.  I know it's actually changing the
> > settings though, because when I query the ivtv
> driver
> > it matches the setting in myth.  Also changing the
> > screen size does things.
> 
> For me, I notice basically no difference in picture
> quality when I change
> the bitrate and recording type. 
> 
> > 
> > Final question.  Does everyone agree that dvd
> playback
> > looks great?
> 
> My dvd playback looks perfect.
> 
> > 
> > First comment. I have tried many different driver
> > versions and firmwares.  They all have the same
> issue.
> 
> I had hoped that upgrading to Fedora Core 3 from
> Fedora Core 1 and getting
> newer ivtv drivers would do something but it's
> basically the exact same
> picture quality as before.
> 
> > 
> > Second comment.  I tried outputing thru mplayer
> and
> > quality is just as bad.
> 
> I'd say the mplayer output is comparable to the
> mythtv output of recordings.
> I wouldn't say it's bad, though, just not as crisp
> as regular tv.
> 
> Dan.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: 1000th picture quality question

[Mark L. Cukier]

The fact that DVD looks perfect SHOULD tell us that it's a problem with 
our capture or decoding, rather than with our Video Driver, right? (I 
haven't compiled MythDVD yet, but I'm going to do so tonight and let you 
know...)

I set my bitrate to the maximum, and all I saw chage was the fact that 
the recording would get INCREDIBLY choppy!!! My PVR-350 seemed incapable 
of recording at 16Mbps... did you guys observe this as well?

- Mark
Dan Goldberg wrote:
Alright, First question.  What version pvr 250 do you
have?  I know mine is the new version, I believe it's
an ivt-16?  All I know is that it ends with 16 and not
15 like the older cards do.
   

I'm not sure what you mean exactly, but using lspci -v I have an Internext
Compression Inc iTVC16.
 

Second question, when you play with the live tv
settings such as bitrate and recording type, do you
notice any real difference.  I don't feel I notice any
difference.  I know it's actually changing the
settings though, because when I query the ivtv driver
it matches the setting in myth.  Also changing the
screen size does things.
   

For me, I notice basically no difference in picture quality when I change
the bitrate and recording type. 

 

Final question.  Does everyone agree that dvd playback
looks great?
   

My dvd playback looks perfect.
 

First comment. I have tried many different driver
versions and firmwares.  They all have the same issue.
   

I had hoped that upgrading to Fedora Core 3 from Fedora Core 1 and getting
newer ivtv drivers would do something but it's basically the exact same
picture quality as before.
 

Second comment.  I tried outputing thru mplayer and
quality is just as bad.
   

I'd say the mplayer output is comparable to the mythtv output of recordings.
I wouldn't say it's bad, though, just not as crisp as regular tv.
Dan.
 


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[mythtv-users] HDD Disk Activity when idle

[Magnus Ekhall]

I have a box running Myth and I have noticed that about once every 
second there is a burst of disk activity. And this is when I'm not using 
Myth at all...

Is this becaus of Myth or something else? How can I find out?
How does your myth box behave?
Of course I would prefer that there was as little disk activity as 
possible unless I am using the Myth box...

/Magnus
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RE: [mythtv-users] What to do on XBox when the backend crashes

[Berry, David]

> 
> However, on my XBox I can't click on it.  I hit every button on my
> XBox DVD Remote but I can't dismiss that box.  And since I don't have
> a keyboard hooked up, the only thing I can do is to hard power-off my
> XBox (or SSH into the XBox and issue a shutdown -r now).
> 
> What do other users do?

I have a process that watches the backend via this script

#!/bin/sh
logger Starting mythbackend as daemon process...
echo "Backend is running" > /myth/backend.flag
mythbackend --logfile /var/log/mythbackend.log
logger "Mythbackend process has died - removing flag and sleep before
restart."
rm -f /myth/backend.flag
sleep 1m

When starting up, it creates the file backend.flag, if it crashes, it
removes that flag.

On the xBox, I have a cron job that checks for the existence of that
flag (via a NFS share), if it's not there, it assumes the backend has
crashed, and reboots itself.

HTH.



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Re: [mythtv-users] pcHDTV 3000 and PVR250 Help

[David Shay]

You may have better luck, but I needed to switch over to the DVB drivers in
order to get the pcHDTV 3000 and the PVR 250 to coexist.  You might want to
go that route now, since the current pcHDTV drivers have a limited lifespan
to some extent -- future development will likely be directed to the DVB
drivers.
- Original Message - 
From: "Gregg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 1:07 PM
Subject: [mythtv-users] pcHDTV 3000 and PVR250 Help


> I have a PVR250 installed and working.  I am trying to install a
> pcHDTV 3000 when I do a modprobe cx8800 I get a list of errors.  I was
> told it is due to the tveeprom for ivtv.  I have searched the ivtv
> group and the myth user group, but can not figure out how to fix it.
> Below is my current video entry in modprobe.conf.  Can someone verify
> that I have it correct? Is there a certian order to put them in?
> Thanks
>
> # ivtv modules setup
> alias char-major-81 videodev
> alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
> alias char-major-81-1 cx8800
> install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install
lirc_i2c
> -Gregg
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Re: [mythtv-users] pchdtv3000 compile help

[John Patrick Poet]

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Brandon Beattie wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 09:46:29PM -0600, Mike Isely wrote:
> >
> > The release 1.6 pchdtv drivers are known not to compile properly against
> > the 2.6.10 kernel release.  There were internal changes in video4linux
> > there that break the driver.
> >
> > Check out this thread for a version of the 1.6 driver release that has
> > been ported forward to work in the 2.6.10 kernel:
> >
> >   http://www.pchdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=415
> >
> > I haven't tried yet to carry the port forward to 2.6.11.  In addition, the
> > pchdtv folks now are supporting a DVB based driver going forward from this
> > point, so you may want to consider it instead.
> >
> >   -Mike
>
> Both versions (DVB and kernel [bttv/cx88xx] can be obtained from the new
> pcHDTV driver page at pchdtv.freedesktop.org.  The cvs checkout of the
> pchdtv-drivers tree has both in them, and should compile without having
> to get the cvs versions of video4linux and the dvb source (The checkout
> has a working version of these in it).
>
> Although DVB support is there, I still recommend using the kernel drive
> until the rest of the HDTV code for myth is moved into the DVB recorder.
> My guess is about 2 months for this to be complete and stable.
>
> Functionally, the drivers on the site for DVB and kernel are identical.
> Both have QAM support.  Stick with kernel for a bit longer and you will
> be better off.
>
> --Brandon
>

I initially tried the V4L2 driver, but could not find any documentation for
how to use it with QAM.

I then tried the DVB driver, and I think it is working.  Taylor's azap
program reports a signal lock, but I am unable to capture any video even
using azap's "-r" option.

It is possible that all my Albuquerque Comcast digital channels are
encrypted.

Is there any documentation anywhere on using the HD-3000 with the V4L2
drivers for QAM?

Thanks,

John
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Re: [mythtv-users] Is Mplayer going away? Anyone seen their WWW site recently?

[Stephen Boddy]

Apologies if some think this is OT, but I need an outlet ;-)

On Tuesday 15 March 2005 09:42, Stephen Williams wrote:
> > No offence, but DUH!!! Of course a patent attorney is going to say that
> > this law is all hunky-dory, it's his future bread and butter!!!
>
> Well, actually no. Her firm does not take work of this kind and as
> such is unbiassed in this matter. On the other hand they are fully
> informed as to what is going on, and why. And yes, I have looked at
> both sides of the argument, read Groklaw, etc, have you?

Sorry, but as a patent attorney I assume she gets a salary? Makes a profit for 
the company she works for? She therefore has a vested interest, and that 
would make her biased, as her livelyhood depends on the need for patent 
attorneys. And yes, I've listened to the other side, but it has totally 
failed to convince me that a) they (software patents) are necessary, or b) 
that the CIID prohibits them. Fancy a challenge?

> > The ambiguous wording of the CIID opens the back door for pure
> > software patents, and there is a whole saga going on with the European
> > Parliament at loggerheads with the European Commission over amendments
> > and procedure.
>
> The CIID may well be ambiguously worded, but that's no different to
> any other bit of law. The exisitance of a truely unambiguous piece of
> law is a myth. It's final meaning will only be defined following a set
> of test cases. The European Patent Office has no intention of changing
> how software is currently treated, test cases will quickly confirm
> this position.

Great, so we define the specificity of a law after it is created in the all 
out land grab that ensues. And of course naturally those with the deepest 
pockets, and the most effective lawyers, will mould the law to their 
interests.

Your last sentence is nonsensical. One of the EPO's public statements is that 
this is intended to harmonise European patent law. So there are obviously 
differences, which logically must require changes. The question is where that 
new 'line' gets drawn. The CIID is too open to interpretation, which is 
exactly why people are concerned with the current draft, and the politicking 
that is going on. They tried to pass the CIID two or three time as an A item 
(no discussion, it just gets rubber stamped) in the Fisheries Commission!!!

> > I suggest you head over to www.groklaw.net for a thorough and
> > informative view of what's going on. It may (debatably) be biased the
> > other way, but at least you'd have both sides of the argument. Really!
> > Would you ask a fox to guard the chicken coop?
>
> You're right, Groklaw is biased the other way. Personally I consider a
> patent attorney with no personnel or financial involvement in this
> area to be about as unbiassed and well informed as you'll find.

See above as to why I believe it is impossible for a patent attorney to be 
unbiased. Well informed, perhaps, but not unbiased.

> > Wrong! Tell "_no_ material impact" to all the small and medium business
> > (the ones that usually drive innovation) that will be driven out of
> > business by this law.
> >
> > Innovation through litigation?
>
> Don't believe everything you read at Groklaw.

And what, I should believe the politicians instead, who try to weasel things 
through by trying to pass them under totally unrelated committees without 
discussion?

> The purpose of this
> directive is to _stop_ some countries in the EU that have been pushing
> software patents through the back doors and loop holes that currently
> exist.

Then why won't they explicitly exclude pure software patents in unequivocal 
terms? The language is convoluted, but the upshot is that as long as software 
has a "technical effect" it can be patented. Like to explain "technical 
effect" for me. People are still trying to get clarification on this.

Bearing in mind that we are on the MythTV list, I'm pretty certain that no 
component of MythTV would be exempt from patents, and would very likely be 
technically illegal to distribute under the CIID. Now a few examples. I will 
state up front that these cover USPO and EPO patents, but then they haven't 
stated that a company can't retroactively take out patents in the CIID.

MythWeb and MythBrowser: BT have a USP on the hyperlink.
MythMusic & MythStream: Franhoefer et al have patents on MP3 encoding 
decoding.
MythPhone: Voice compression codecs.
MythTV: The ability to pause and buffer TV, then catch up.
MythNews: I think RSS is based on RDF which is covered by an EP.
Samba file shares: Good ol' MS have patents on CIFS.
WishTV: Might be covered if the automated suggestions from other viewers gets 
developed.

And that was someone who is not a patent attorney, with just a short time of 
looking for examples.

Isaac Newton said, "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders 
of giants." If we poked his eyes out and used a big Gladiators style pudgel 
(sp?) to knock him off the shoulders of the likes of Galileo, 

Re: [mythtv-users] MythVideo database resetting itself after adding second frontend

[Peter Loron]

Calvin Harrigan wrote:
I've been wrestling a similar problem with a new frontend as well.  
Everything works fine after I mounted the backends media directory into 
the same place on the frontend as it is on the backend.  Here's the 
issue, the backend is usually off, it uses nvram to wake-up record then 
goes back off.  If I turn on the frontend it uses wake-on lan to wake 
the backend, that works 80% of the time.  Problems is that the  
directory that's mapped that contains all the media (videos, music, 
games, etc) doesn't get mapped during the frontend bootup, because the 
backend has not completely started yet.  So I'll either have to ssh in 
and mount it manually, or restart the frontend.  Any suggestions on how 
to have the mount command executed after the backend is known to be 
fully operational (frontend connected to backend), or try to mount in 
some interval until it does get mounted?  The backend only takes about 
30 seconds to get up.  I was planning to write a script of some sort, 
just hadn't gotten around to it yet.  Hopefully someone has had a 
similar issue and has found a solution.

Thanks.
Calvin
I've been wanting to have my backend shutdown when not 
recording/transcoding, but have been trying to figure out a resolution 
to exactly that problem. I was hoping there's some kind of "mount 
volume" command or even a "run arbitrary script" option, but haven't 
found one.

About the only idea I've come up with is to write a script that starts 
up the backend, mounts the library, then starts the frontend. Haven't 
tried writing it yet. Alternatively, I could move the library to a 3rd 
box that is always running and just leave the mount up, but I don't have 
the spare hardware, and I'd rather not waste the juice.

Anybody else got a silver bullet for this one?
-Pete
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RE: [mythtv-users] Re: 1000th picture quality question

[Dan Goldberg]

> Alright, First question.  What version pvr 250 do you
> have?  I know mine is the new version, I believe it's
> an ivt-16?  All I know is that it ends with 16 and not
> 15 like the older cards do.
> 

I'm not sure what you mean exactly, but using lspci -v I have an Internext
Compression Inc iTVC16.

> Second question, when you play with the live tv
> settings such as bitrate and recording type, do you
> notice any real difference.  I don't feel I notice any
> difference.  I know it's actually changing the
> settings though, because when I query the ivtv driver
> it matches the setting in myth.  Also changing the
> screen size does things.

For me, I notice basically no difference in picture quality when I change
the bitrate and recording type. 

> 
> Final question.  Does everyone agree that dvd playback
> looks great?

My dvd playback looks perfect.

> 
> First comment. I have tried many different driver
> versions and firmwares.  They all have the same issue.

I had hoped that upgrading to Fedora Core 3 from Fedora Core 1 and getting
newer ivtv drivers would do something but it's basically the exact same
picture quality as before.

> 
> Second comment.  I tried outputing thru mplayer and
> quality is just as bad.

I'd say the mplayer output is comparable to the mythtv output of recordings.
I wouldn't say it's bad, though, just not as crisp as regular tv.

Dan.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: 1000th picture quality question

[Andrew Close]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:23:17 -0800, Ross Campbell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Here's a list of many of the things I've experimented with:
> 
> - output to monitor using VGA to compare absolute color and image
> sharpness, if much better with this, try different
> methods/converters/cables for TVout --> TV
> - direct cable/signal connection with no splits and short high quality
> cables to tv card input
> - upgrade/downgrade your video driver and hack on the config files to
> optimize for the best resolution and refresh rate for outputting
> recorded TV
> - experiment with mythtv deinterlace options as well as recording
> quality and resolution
> - disable any automatic power management in Linux kernel or bios that
> revs fan up and down to see if that reduces RF interference
> - upgrade to latest ivtv version to see if that address any issues
> - try different versions of firmware for your decoder card
> - try a different decoder card (my M-179 had poor quality compared to
> my pvr-250)
> - power conditioning for your mythtv box (couldn't hurt...)
> - try a different graphics card
> - try a signal filter or booster for your cable in
> - try moving your tv card to another slot in your motherboard to
> decrease RF interference inside your case
> 
> I don't know if additional shielding or shielding the whole TV card
> inside of a mythtv box would make any difference, but I would be very
> interested if anyone had tried it and got a cleaner signal.

and don't forget to wear your tinfoil hat while doing each of these steps. ;)

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[mythtv-users] Re: 1000th picture quality question

[Chad Delatte]

Yay, I finally have a following.  I was just fixing to
put my system up on Ebay b/c I was getting aggrevated
with it and was beginning to feel like it wasn't worth
time.

Alright, First question.  What version pvr 250 do you
have?  I know mine is the new version, I believe it's
an ivt-16?  All I know is that it ends with 16 and not
15 like the older cards do.

Second question, when you play with the live tv
settings such as bitrate and recording type, do you
notice any real difference.  I don't feel I notice any
difference.  I know it's actually changing the
settings though, because when I query the ivtv driver
it matches the setting in myth.  Also changing the
screen size does things.

Final question.  Does everyone agree that dvd playback
looks great?

First comment. I have tried many different driver
versions and firmwares.  They all have the same issue.

Second comment.  I tried outputing thru mplayer and
quality is just as bad. 

Final comment.  I have inputed thru s-video a color
bar picture.  The picture was very blocky and was a
still picture (no movement).  I connected my ps2 and
used Devil May Cry game for my color bars.



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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: 1000th picture quality question

[Ross Campbell]

> > I'm having the same problem, and I can't leave it alone. As I've said, I
> > have a TiVo and the picture is MUCH better on the TiVo than on the
> > Myth... and I REFUSE to believe that Myth is not capable of equalling
> > TiVo's quality!!! There must be something we're missing
> >
> > People with excellent quality... any hints? Suggestions?? Tell us about
> > your setup!!! Don't leave us with non-crispy images!! :-D

Different decoder chips in different boards with different drivers and
firmware will perform differently!

There may not be any one simple formula to answer your quality
question, but you can have many days worth of fun by changing one of
the below listed variables at a time and taking good notes. (In fact,
you'll have so much fun that eventually you'll decide that you *CAN*
leave things alone ;)

Here's a list of many of the things I've experimented with:

- output to monitor using VGA to compare absolute color and image
sharpness, if much better with this, try different
methods/converters/cables for TVout --> TV
- direct cable/signal connection with no splits and short high quality
cables to tv card input
- upgrade/downgrade your video driver and hack on the config files to
optimize for the best resolution and refresh rate for outputting
recorded TV
- experiment with mythtv deinterlace options as well as recording
quality and resolution
- disable any automatic power management in Linux kernel or bios that
revs fan up and down to see if that reduces RF interference
- upgrade to latest ivtv version to see if that address any issues
- try different versions of firmware for your decoder card
- try a different decoder card (my M-179 had poor quality compared to
my pvr-250)
- power conditioning for your mythtv box (couldn't hurt...)
- try a different graphics card
- try a signal filter or booster for your cable in
- try moving your tv card to another slot in your motherboard to
decrease RF interference inside your case


I don't know if additional shielding or shielding the whole TV card
inside of a mythtv box would make any difference, but I would be very
interested if anyone had tried it and got a cleaner signal.


-Ross
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