Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV .18 impending release? If so, what's in it?

[Maverick]

> Cobblers. There's no restriction  on -dev users as you'll notice by the
> amount of complete crap that gets posted there.

Yup, I requested and got the confirmation email this time. It musta
gotten lost before...

> > I understand the not wanting to play 20 questions, but it would be
> > nice to see a list of "what is planned" for myth, after all, there
> > might be someone able to help code a particularly new feature, or
> > already working on it as a hack of their own, as to yet be shared. I
> > see new addons and stuff for myth just appear on this list with no
> > warning, sometimes, I go, 'gee, I'm glad I wasn't working on that!'
> >
> Nothing just appears by magic. Everything that gets included gets discussed on
> the dev and/or users lists.

I'm talking about 3'rd party apps. I've seen several things posted on
-users that people are like announcing, but there doesn't seem to be
any history of them having been working on it.

One such example I ran into is: http://mythextra.napsi.net/

...a mythMail (email reader) module. Something I've not only
suggested, but offered to help work on. I'd be so excited to have a
mail reader, that I'd actually connect a keyboard to my mythbox to
dev/test with!

In any case, all the projects on that page (mythmail available under
download) are not linked from any of the mythtv.org pages. I realize
it's not "usable" in the sense of being in CVS, but it would be really
cool if there where a section on mythtv.org, like here:

http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=Downloads

It could have links to different modules "in development" or
"unfinished", so we could at least find them without having to troll
-dev -users, google, etc. The only reason I found out about mythMail
is because I typed 'mythmail' in google... My lucky day! :)

Even better, a page where the dev's making those addon's can submit
their link to be added to this dev links section.

There's also a lacking in a collection of theme links available on
mythtv.org. Just one example is MythCenter, which I think is a very
nice theme, and although it emulates an m$ design, it's still
something people may want to know about...

Who knows, maybe if people knew about some of the addon's, they'd be
more willing to help develop them.

-Kenneth
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Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

[Ajay Sharma]

>>>I'm wondering how well everyone else's commercial detection is working?  

I was using the "ALL" method because everyone was talking about how
great it is.  I'm not that impressed with it but it might be because I'm
watching those shows that still have issues with it:

Lost:  Very dark at times, scene changes in the middle of the episode
get caught

Survivor:  Good most of the time, but the it jumps around at the end
during the tribal counsel part.

Daily Show:  Sometimes when they jump to a news clip they flash the
screen white for a second that that is picked up as a start of a commercial.

Earlier today I switched the commercial detection to "Scene Change +
Black Screen" or something like that.  I also took off the "Auto Skip".
 Most of the time it's great, but leave Auto Skip turned off.

--Ajay
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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV .18 impending release? If so, what's in it?

[Ian Forde]

On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 00:25 -0500, Maverick wrote:
> Yeah, I'm somewhat new to mythtv (3 months), and I tried to join the
> dev list to submit a bug fix patch and never got a confirmation email.
> I guess they have all the developers they want, and don't want any
> "newbs" submitting bug fixes. Oh well. Maybe I'll try again...

Not so much.  Anyone can submit patches.  They either get accepted,
rejected, or missed.  Let's walk that path:

1. Accepted.  Gravy.
2. Rejected because...
a) it's a badly structured fix (meaning that it doesn't take the right
approach)
b) doesn't fit coding conventions (meaning that it'll have to be
reworked)
c) it's a bad idea given what Myth is trying to do (meaning, don't
bother with this patch - nice try, but no cigar)
3. Missed.  Ask questions and (politely) champion your patch in case
everyone missed it.  Don't be impatient - this is a volunteer project,
remember?  And don't expect confirmation emails.  Check mythtv-commits
periodically to see if it got in...

In all cases, it's nothing personal - keep plugging away.  I'm not a
developer, but I've submitted 3 patches in total.  Two hit category 1.
One hit category 2a.  We're all doing our bit...

-I

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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV .18 impending release? If so, what's in it?

[Ivor Hewitt]

On Monday 28 Mar 2005 06:25, Maverick wrote:

> Yeah, I'm somewhat new to mythtv (3 months), and I tried to join the
> dev list to submit a bug fix patch and never got a confirmation email.
> I guess they have all the developers they want, and don't want any
> "newbs" submitting bug fixes. Oh well. Maybe I'll try again...
>
Cobblers. There's no restriction  on -dev users as you'll notice by the 
amount of complete crap that gets posted there.

> I understand the not wanting to play 20 questions, but it would be
> nice to see a list of "what is planned" for myth, after all, there
> might be someone able to help code a particularly new feature, or
> already working on it as a hack of their own, as to yet be shared. I
> see new addons and stuff for myth just appear on this list with no
> warning, sometimes, I go, 'gee, I'm glad I wasn't working on that!'
>
Nothing just appears by magic. Everything that gets included gets discussed on 
the dev and/or users lists.


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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 26, Issue 184

[Jomama]

try this:

apt-setup 
Choose HTTP, then
Choose the mirror closest to you

Next run apt-get update

Did you use the apt-get install programName ?




On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 10:29:33 -0800, Gregg F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have  two qeuestsions.  First I tried the apt-get and it did not
> work.  Is there a problem with my sources list?  in the meantime I
> downloaded the rpms manually.  Second question.  How Do I use the
> drivers?  modprobe?  If so can someone give me the syntax?  i tried
> modprobe cx88-dvb, but get an error "FATAL: Error inserting cx88_dvb
> (/lib/modules/2.6.10-1.770_14.rhfc3.at/v4l2/cx88-dvb.ko): Unknown
> symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> FATAL: Error running install command for cx88_dvb"
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Gregg
> 
> > Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:22:51 -0800
> > From: Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] HD-3000 / Jarod's guide / atrpms
> > To: Discussion about mythtv 
> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> >
> > On Saturday 26 March 2005 17:17, Mr. Myth wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > in Jarods guide he mentions there might be a future update where we
> > > could use rpms from atrpms with a hd-3000 card without having to compile
> > > anything.
> > >
> > > I would be very happy with that prospect because it would mean my mythtv
> > > box would be very simple to maintain.
> > >
> > > If we can do this now, does anyone have a pointer on how to get it going?
> >
> > # apt-get install linuxtv-dvb-kmdl-`uname -r`
> > # apt-get install linuxtv-dvb
> >
> > That'll get you DVB drivers that include support for the HD-3000. ATrpms
> > doesn't have the v4l variant of the HD-3000 driver at this time, so either
> > use the DVB driver, or grab the pcHDTV-2.0 tarball from the pcHDTV web site.
> >
> > --
> > Jarod Wilson
> > [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/
> > -- next part --
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Re: [mythtv-users] Subject: Re: Jerky Live HD3000

[Jarod Wilson]

On Sunday 27 March 2005 21:48, Kelly wrote:
> > On Saturday 26 March 2005 22:36, Kelly wrote:
> > > I followed  Jarod C. Wilson's guide (outstanding by the way) but had
> > > to start deviating to try and get the dvb drivers to load up. For some
> > > reason, after every reboot, I have to chmod -R mythtv:root /dev/dvb
> > > and /dev/dvb0 or the mythbackend will fail to start the DVB#0.
>
> > Shouldn't be using /dev/dvb and /dev/dvb0, that's the old DVB interface.
> > Check out this page, the device setup for the Air2PC is identical:
> >
> > http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/personal/angel/mythtv/air2pc-howto.html
> >
> > You should be using the device nodes in /dev/dvb/adapter0/.
>
> Thanks for the link. I'm not a kernel warrior so I'm now researching
> how to reload the nvidia module after I make a new kernel. Seems when
> I rename the kernel 2.6.10-DVB and reboot, my xserver crashes because
> it can't find the nvidia module for the new kernel. Everything I've
> tried has loaded old and new nvidia kernel mod into old kernels not
> the new one I've created. I would like to have the latest nvidia
> drivers and not the default "nv". Sorry to post this in the mythtv but
> I'm at a stand still. If i'm going to be making custom kernels, I need
> to know how to reload the nvidia kernels to keep my xserver.
>
> Also do I load select the "B2C2/Technisat Air/Sk/CableStar 2 PCI". The
> correct frontend, nxt2002, is automatically selected" in his setup for
> the HD3000?
>
> Do I load the pcHDTV 2.0 after this?

Sorry, I wasn't clear... I was simply pointing to that page to show the right 
device setup to use. You can still use the stock FC3 kernel and all the 
ATrpms kernel modules. I had only intended for you to take note of the part 
on setting up device nodes in /dev/dvb/adapter0/.

-- 
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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/


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[mythtv-users] Subject: Re: Jerky Live HD3000

[Kelly]

Subject: Re: Jerky Live HD3000
Posted on: Sat Mar 26 22:40:19 2005
URL: http://gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/Users/121059

On Saturday 26 March 2005 22:36, Kelly wrote:
> I followed  Jarod C. Wilson's guide (outstanding by the way) but had
> to start deviating to try and get the dvb drivers to load up. For some
> reason, after every reboot, I have to chmod -R mythtv:root /dev/dvb
> and /dev/dvb0 or the mythbackend will fail to start the DVB#0.

Shouldn't be using /dev/dvb and /dev/dvb0, that's the old DVB interface. Check
out this page, the device setup for the Air2PC is identical:

http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/personal/angel/mythtv/air2pc-howto.html

You should be using the device nodes in /dev/dvb/adapter0/.

Can't help ya on the other stuff right now. :-)

--
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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/


Thanks for the link. I'm not a kernel warrior so I'm now researching
how to reload the nvidia module after I make a new kernel. Seems when
I rename the kernel 2.6.10-DVB and reboot, my xserver crashes because
it can't find the nvidia module for the new kernel. Everything I've
tried has loaded old and new nvidia kernel mod into old kernels not
the new one I've created. I would like to have the latest nvidia
drivers and not the default "nv". Sorry to post this in the mythtv but
I'm at a stand still. If i'm going to be making custom kernels, I need
to know how to reload the nvidia kernels to keep my xserver.

Also do I load select the "B2C2/Technisat Air/Sk/CableStar 2 PCI". The
correct frontend, nxt2002, is automatically selected" in his setup for
the HD3000?

Do I load the pcHDTV 2.0 after this?
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Re: [mythtv-users] DVD Authoring and MythTV Archive howto (writing one...)

[Jeff Simpson]

While the outline looks good, I don't think the organization of the
writeup was ever the brick wall preventing anything. The real lack is
in decent software applications to do the job.(ie, I think we should
be looking for people who can fix the missing parts rather than
re-write up the workarounds)

but while we're at it, add these utilities to the toolbox, these are
all I use to make dvds out of PVR-350 NUVs:

nuvexport (using avidemux2, MPEG2->MPEG2 cut option)
dvdstyler (for making dvd iso)
k3b (for burning dvd)

 - Jeff

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 23:52:02 -0500, Tony Paterra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey all...  I've been very happy with my experiences with MythTV (the
> program and the community) so far and was trying to figure out a way
> to contribute...  Well I believe I may have found it when it comes to
> DVD authoring and archiving the PVR recordings to different types of
> DVDs.  I've seen a few of the pieces on this topic out there but they
> feel somewhat implementation specific and skip over a lot of
> good/necessary information (no criticism towards the authors who have
> put out docs, overall I've found them to be very helpful, just hit a
> pothole when I went to try and archive to DVD).  From what I've seen
> as kind of the "holy grail" feature that is missing is that one-touch
> burn-to-dvd, but until the developers can undertake that task I figure
> good docs and a command line will do...
> 
> What I'm asking for is to take a look at the outline I posted (link
> below) on my webserver (not used too much outside of a my web photo
> gallery so pardon the blandness) and give me your feedback...  Do you
> think this would be useful?  Is it missing something?  And even if you
> can volunteer some time to write I'd be grateful.  In any case just
> trying to help.
> 
> http://www.paterra.org/dvd_authoring_outline.html
> 
> Thanks,
> --
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Re: [mythtv-users] installing ivtv

[Ross]

It looks like you're not getting the firmware extracted from the
windows driver correctly, so I wouldn't even try to load the modules
yet.

Have a look at the documentation on the ivtv wiki at
http://ivtv.writeme.ch/ on the firmware, and ask the ivtv list (see
links from the wiki) if you still have problems..

Oh, and FWIW, don't just grep for ivtv, not all of the ivtv related
line have ivtv in it. Use the following instead:

tac /var/log/messages |
sed -n '/=\ \ END INIT IVTV\ \ =/,/= START INIT IVTV =/p;
/= START INIT IVTV =/q' |
tac 

Ross


On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 09:27:19 -0800, dlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> my sys is 1.7ghz, 512m ram
> 120g hda, 160g hdb
> cd/dvd-rw hdc, cd-rw hdd
> Hauppauge 350
> MDK 10.1 KDE 3.2
> 
> Trying to install ivtv-0.2.0-rc3i
> 
> dmesg | grep ivtv
> (snip)
> ivtv: Autodetecting cardtype for card #8
> ivtv: SGarray_size = 420, DSGarray_size = 16
> ivtv: Found an iTVC15 based chip
> Firmware image too large '/lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin'
> ivtv: failed loading encoder firmware
> ivtv: Error loading firmware!
> ivtv: Error initializing.
> ivtv: Error -12 on init
> ivtv: iTVC15/16 mpg2 encoder card: probe of :01:07.0 failed with
> error -12
> ivtv: loaded
> 
> I looked in mythtv lists archive and google only to get frustrated.
> How can I solve the above regarding 'firmware too large'.
> 
> Also, I get this error:
> ivtvfwextract.pl: Can't open /root/tmp/ivtvex.7522/hcwpvrp2.sys: No such
> file or directory.
> 
> dlw
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV .18 impending release? If so, what's in it?

[Maverick]

> Yes it is. Well its a binary that gives you a couple of examples of new
> capabilities, i.e. fades, movement and animations. (There could be other
> stuff, but not in the demo.) If you don't have OpenGL acceleration, don't
> even bother as the demo will be slww ;-) It'll be possible to
> turn this off in the proper implementation for slower systems.
> 
> Apparently a lot of the initial discussion goes on between the devs off-list.
> Sensible bearing in mind that a) they know the current architecture, b)
> they'll be the ones doing all (?) the work, and c) it'll save them wasting
> breath explaining for the twentieth time why feature X is not going to be
> implemented ;-)
> 
> I'm a newb around here, I just got lucky talking to one of the devs on another
> site talking about themes. He told me to hold off substantial work, as the
> whole "kit and kaboodle" was going to be changing for 0.19.

Yeah, I'm somewhat new to mythtv (3 months), and I tried to join the
dev list to submit a bug fix patch and never got a confirmation email.
I guess they have all the developers they want, and don't want any
"newbs" submitting bug fixes. Oh well. Maybe I'll try again...

I understand the not wanting to play 20 questions, but it would be
nice to see a list of "what is planned" for myth, after all, there
might be someone able to help code a particularly new feature, or
already working on it as a hack of their own, as to yet be shared. I
see new addons and stuff for myth just appear on this list with no
warning, sometimes, I go, 'gee, I'm glad I wasn't working on that!'

-Kenneth
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb WML problem... broken "program details"?

[Chris Petersen]

I'm having some mysterious problem with the WML theme in mythweb from 
0.17.  I get get to the program listings just fine, but I can't load 
program details for anything.
Please check the mailing list before posting redundant questions.  The 
WML them author didn't get changes to me in time for the .17 release. 
It should be safe to grab the WML theme from CVS (don't grab everything 
else, it's not compatible with .17).

-Chris
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythvideo - tvtomb

[Chris Hoff]

This looks great!  Can you give me a hint on how to us it?
Chris
On Mar 23, 2005, at 9:15 AM, Ryszard wrote:
I've written an dpolished a version of the TVTome module.  it could
use a little more refactoring and some more error checking, but it
basically works, and i've used it
to fill my database with data from pre-recorded shows.
it has a dependency on Cache::FileCache so as to not hit tvtome.com as 
often for
multiple eps in the one series.

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 10:08:36 -0500, Preston Crow
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What I would like to see with an episode guides from tvtome.com or a
similar site would be to cross-reference it with the database of
previously-recorded shows to let you browse the list of episodes that
you haven't seen.  If there's then a reliable way of adding selected
episodes to the previously-recorded list, that would be excellent.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Transcoding SDTV/HDTV with Ac3 Passthrough

[Chris Pinkham]

> Hey. The other day I just got a DNTV Live! DVB-T card, which I
> promptly put in the waiting PC to put MythTV on. :)
> 
> Most things seem fine (apart from not seeming to have enough grunt to
> watch hdtv broadcasts), except that if I have AC3 passthrough on
> (global setting) and try and get MythTV to transcode a recording that
> has a AC3 audio stream, it sounds like the transcoder is attempting to
> encode the AC3 stream itself, rather than transcode it (I get
> discordant white noise). Anyone know why this would be happening? Or
> if there are any workarounds apart from disabling pass through?

For automatic transcoding within Myth, this should be fixed in CVS now.
For transcodes done manually using the "-i" command line option to
mythtranscode, this is probably still broken.

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[mythtv-users] DVD Authoring and MythTV Archive howto (writing one...)

[Tony Paterra]

Hey all...  I've been very happy with my experiences with MythTV (the
program and the community) so far and was trying to figure out a way
to contribute...  Well I believe I may have found it when it comes to
DVD authoring and archiving the PVR recordings to different types of
DVDs.  I've seen a few of the pieces on this topic out there but they
feel somewhat implementation specific and skip over a lot of
good/necessary information (no criticism towards the authors who have
put out docs, overall I've found them to be very helpful, just hit a
pothole when I went to try and archive to DVD).  From what I've seen
as kind of the "holy grail" feature that is missing is that one-touch
burn-to-dvd, but until the developers can undertake that task I figure
good docs and a command line will do...

What I'm asking for is to take a look at the outline I posted (link
below) on my webserver (not used too much outside of a my web photo
gallery so pardon the blandness) and give me your feedback...  Do you
think this would be useful?  Is it missing something?  And even if you
can volunteer some time to write I'd be grateful.  In any case just
trying to help.

http://www.paterra.org/dvd_authoring_outline.html

Thanks,
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[mythtv-users] Mythweb WML problem... broken "program details"?

[Jon Eklund]

I'm having some mysterious problem with the WML theme in mythweb from 
0.17.  I get get to the program listings just fine, but I can't load 
program details for anything.

The error dialog I get from IE just says:
"This page contains errors and cannot be displayed"
there's nothing in error_log.  I'm using the pocket-IE in Windows 
Mobile 2003 Second Edition.

Here's the session according to access_log:
208.54.96.237 - eklundj [27/Mar/2005:22:20:23 -0600] "GET /mythweb 
HTTP/1.1" 301 334 "-" "MOT-MPx/2.0416.0409 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; 
MSIE 4.01; Windows CE; PPC; 240x320)"
208.54.96.237 - eklundj [27/Mar/2005:22:20:26 -0600] "GET /mythweb/ 
HTTP/1.1" 304 - "-" "MOT-MPx/2.0416.0409 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 
4.01; Windows CE; PPC; 240x320)"
208.54.96.237 - eklundj [27/Mar/2005:22:20:34 -0600] "GET 
/mythweb/program_listing.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2185 "-" 
"MOT-MPx/2.0416.0409 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows CE; 
PPC; 240x320)"
208.54.96.237 - eklundj [27/Mar/2005:22:20:38 -0600] "GET 
/mythweb/themes/wml/img/myth.wbmp HTTP/1.1" 304 - "-" 
"MOT-MPx/2.0416.0409 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows CE; 
PPC; 240x320)"
208.54.96.237 - eklundj [27/Mar/2005:22:21:11 -0600] "GET 
/mythweb/themes/wml/img/myth.wbmp HTTP/1.1" 304 - "-" 
"MOT-MPx/2.0416.0409 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows CE; 
PPC; 240x320)"
208.54.96.237 - eklundj [27/Mar/2005:22:21:55 -0600] "GET 
/mythweb/themes/wml/img/myth.wbmp HTTP/1.1" 304 - "-" 
"MOT-MPx/2.0416.0409 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows CE; 
PPC; 240x320)"
208.54.96.237 - eklundj [27/Mar/2005:22:22:05 -0600] "GET 
/mythweb/program_listing.php?listbytime=y HTTP/1.1" 200 3822 "-" 
"MOT-MPx/2.0416.0409 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows CE; 
PPC; 240x320)"
208.54.96.237 - eklundj [27/Mar/2005:22:22:43 -0600] "GET 
/mythweb/themes/wml/img/myth.wbmp HTTP/1.1" 304 - "-" 
"MOT-MPx/2.0416.0409 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows CE; 
PPC; 240x320)"
208.54.96.237 - eklundj [27/Mar/2005:22:23:06 -0600] "GET 
/mythweb/program_detail.php?chanid=1011&starttime=984200 HTTP/1.1" 
200 3031 "-" "MOT-MPx/2.0416.0409 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; 
Windows CE; PPC; 240x320)"

--- that's about as far as I can get.  That last GET is the one that 
dies.

Is my useragent falling out of the WML theme between the listings 
screen and the program_detail screen?  Is there a patch floating around 
that I didn't find?  There doesn't seem to be much traffic about WML on 
the list.

Jon
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Re: [mythtv-users] Import archives into Gmail

[Jim Karcz]

I have had some luck with thunderbird.  You can set gmail to allow pop
access. You can download the entire archive and copy the mail file
into a pre-existing thunderbird mail dir.  It does kind of get
unwieldy though, but doable.

Jim


On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:56:48 -0500, Larry K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone tried to import the archives into Gmail?  So far I've had
> no success with Mark Lyon's GML utility.  I'm looking for a way to
> enable search on the archives that are not already in my mailfile.
> 
> Any ideas appreciated,
> 
> Thanks.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Is HDTV on a Pundit possible, or is it time for me to give up?

[Donavan Stanley]

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:10:15 -0800, Jason Weinstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After many trials, different kernels, different drivers, different
> settings, and upgrading my CPU from a 2.4 to the 3.06 w/HT, ATSC is
> still not "watchable". I'm not even running any deinterlacing filters,
> which make the interlaced programes even more "un-watchable". My best
> guess now is that the SIS driver is having to scale everything to NTSC
> resolution and that scaling is what's got X's cpu usage so high.

The scaling should be getting done in hardware, if it's not then
that's what's killing you.

 
> So, would I be better off using a nVidia video card/driver in my
> situation?

Yes you would.  My celeron 2.5 can handle HD playback with only 80% or
so of the CPU being used playing 1080i on a 720p display.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Changing who mythtv is run as...

[Donavan Stanley]

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 17:08:28 -0500, Tony Paterra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was curious if fellow myth users could shed some light on
> any gotchas that I might hit (e.g. any directories that need to be
> moved outside of $HOME/.mythtv).  Anything I need to re-configure as
> myth?

Just copy the .mythtv directory and ensure that everything in it is
readable by the new user.


 
> Also as a separate note what is the relationship between the DB and
> the stored files?  I am going to be putting in a separate hard disk
> shortly to expand my ability to download shows and I'd liike to keep
> the 10 or so shows I currently have.  Does anyone have a recommended
> way to move my current directory of shows to a new directory and not
> confuse myth?  (assuming the drive is added properly and has been
> mounted).

First, you should really look into LVM as it'll make any future
upgrades a lot easier.  Second, after you move the files simply tell
myth the new directory name for storing recordings and it'll pick them
up and use them.  Note: You can't have some recordings in one dir and
others in another.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Autopackage

[Donavan Stanley]

Since Myth is written in C++ it's a lot more compilcated since the ABI
isn't consistent across compiler versions.


On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 21:05:02 -0500, Jeff Wormsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Saw an article on Slashdot about Autopackage.  It supposedly is a binary
> packaging system that can handle multiple distros with the same
> package.  Considering how many people use different distros, I'm
> wondering if this ought to be looked into, or if it is so much more work
> it isn't useful.  Might be nice though, to have one "official" binary
> package for most users (I'm sure Gentoo users would rather retain
> Portage, but who knows?).  Just a thought, as I know zero about building
> packages of any type.
> 
> Jeff.
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[mythtv-users] MythTV build problem on Suse 9.2

[Earl Gooch]

Having no luck at all here with Suse 9.2. I built and ran MythTV with no
problems on Suse 9.1, but on 9.2 (on same hardware) am getting errors when
just attempting to run "configure". I have tried both CVS and tarball, and
as far as I can tell all prereq software is installed per the Myth docs.

First of all, here's my system info:
uname -a
Linux lotr 2.6.8-24.11-default #1 Fri Jan 14 13:01:26 UTC 2005 i686 i686
i386 GNU/Linux

Here is the error:
*
 ./configure
/tmp/ffmpeg-conf-12071-17019-27473.c:1:21: altivec.h: No such file or
directory
/tmp/ffmpeg-conf-12071-17019-27473.c: In function `foo':
/tmp/ffmpeg-conf-12071-17019-27473.c:1: error: duplicate case value
/tmp/ffmpeg-conf-12071-17019-27473.c:1: error: previously used here
/tmp/ffmpeg-conf-12071-17019-27473.c: In function `foo':
/tmp/ffmpeg-conf-12071-17019-27473.c:1: error: duplicate case value
/tmp/ffmpeg-conf-12071-17019-27473.c:1: error: previously used here
/tmp/ffmpeg-conf-12071-17019-27473.c: In function `foo':
/tmp/ffmpeg-conf-12071-17019-27473.c:1: error: duplicate case value
/tmp/ffmpeg-conf-12071-17019-27473.c:1: error: previously used here
/tmp/ffmpeg-conf-12071-17019-27473.c: In function `foo':
/tmp/ffmpeg-conf-12071-17019-27473.c:1: error: duplicate case value
/tmp/ffmpeg-conf-12071-17019-27473.c:1: error: previously used here
/tmp/ffmpeg-conf-12071-17019-27473.c:1: error: parse error before "p"
In file included from /tmp/ffmpeg-conf-12071-17019-27473.c:1:
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.4/include/xmmintrin.h:34:3: #error
"SSE instruction set not enabled"
Please note that these settings only deal with libavcodec, not MythTV.
CPU  x86
Big Endian   no
MMX enabled  yes
Vector Builtins  no
Creating config.mak and config.h
config.h is unchanged
**

Does this "SSE instruction set not enabled" indicate a config file
somewhere is not propely set to reflect my i686 processor? Or is gcc (ver.
3.3.4) or some other build tool not configured properly? I did try
changing "-march" in settings.pro, but with no luck.

Any thoughts would be appreciated, as I've tried everything I can think of
to solve this.

-Earl

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Re: [mythtv-users] Import archives into Gmail

[Phill Wiggin]

Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
Phill Wiggin wrote:
The problem w/ gossamer is that you can't reply directly to the posts
you're reading.  I use gmail for archiving and it's fantastic! If I want
to ask a question or offer advice about something I've read, I don't
have to start a new thread using gmail.  Using gossamer, I have to
copy-paste the text of the old message and fragment the thread. (Also,
Gmail's threading is a bit easier to navigate in my opinion.)
 

Using Gmail is great, but why not just subscribe your Gmail account to 
the list?  You'll have your own archive built up in no time.  I 
wouldn't worry about importing the archives; if you really feel the 
need to reply to a very old thread, you're probably better off 
starting a new thread anyway.

Just my $.02.
-JAC
I do have my gmail account subscribed, but I have this address 
subscribed too.  I read the interesting tidbits as they come through on 
this account, then delete them to unclutter my mailbox.  I signed up 
with my gmail address quite a while ago as well.  At present, my 
personal MythTV archive is approximately 245Meg! 

For my personal case, I have an archive in Gmail because I delete all 
the posts that don't apply to my setup (out of this subscription 
address), but I may run into something later and need to 
search/reply/beg for help.  Using Gmail is great for that, so I don't 
have to break the thread; that way people who search later will have an 
easier time of it.

I hear what you're saying and you're right to an extent.  Setting up a 
gmail account to archive is a good idea, but if you're just starting 
your personal archive, it'd be nice to have an option to import a 
(recent?) backlog of archives rather than starting from scratch.

--PhillW
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv playback problem with NVIDIA videoacceleration - HELP!

[Stephen Boddy]

On Monday 28 March 2005 00:28, John Sturgeon wrote:
> Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote:
> > Is your 6600GT the PCI-E version? - does linux work correctly with
> > PCI-E yet?
> >
> > I have a 6600GT in my desktop box - nice card :)
> >
> > But that other box is just my tv recording box.
> >
> > M.
>
> Nope, it's AGP.  I've only got one PCI slot (shuttle SN95G5) and it's
> got an HD-3000 in it.
>
> 578 fps seems awfully slow though.

Well I've got an _original_ GeForce DDR (as in first gen.) with latest nvidia 
drivers in my workstation, which does ~2000 fps in glxgears, so I'd say it's 
pretty certain that 3D acceleration is not working properly on your system!
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Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Streaming over Wireless + Caching

[Chris Pinkham]

> its not quite enough.  My hope has been that some of the transcode stuff
> will eventually get changed (or explained well enough to me that I can
> change it myself) so that I can transcode down from the huge resolutions I
> am forced to capture in to 720p resolutions since I can't do more than 720p
> on my TV anyway.  That will at least get the amount of data down a bit.

Current CVS supports changing resolution during transcoding.  I added this
ability and a few other tweaks to allow me to transcode recordings from my
air2pc card down to a lower resolution/bitrate to both save space as well
as make them playable on slower frontends.

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Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

[Scot L. Harris]

On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 20:25, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> > I have it set to use all detection modes.  I can not say it is 100% but
> > it is very very close.  With only a few exceptions about the only
> > commercials it seems to miss consistently are those sponsor bits usually
> > at the end of a show that appear to be part of the actual show just
> > before it rolls into the real commercials.  
> 
> Are you using current CVS or a release version?  I made a change related
> to this a while back and am curious if it is still happening for some people.

I am using ATRPMS 0.17 version.


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[mythtv-users] Re: Modules not being automatically loaded

[Hans Wasmeier]

Pick up Jarod's /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit patch at
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php. Look under the
title "Not Quite Latest News (2005-02-21)". 

This did the trick for me.

C. Peppa
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Re: [mythtv-users] Up/Down keys

[Dan Christensen]

aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Is there a way to stop the Up/Down keys from jumping back and forward
> while watching a recording? This "feature" has been bugging me ever
> since the code was checked in way back when. Particularly since it's
> unintuitive; Up should jump forward rather than backward. 

I was just investigating this yesterday, since I wanted to swap the
behaviour of Up and Down when jumping (but retain the way they change
channels).  It seems like this isn't possible (at least with 0.17).
ChannelUp and ChannelDown are hardcoded to do jumps if you aren't
watching live TV.

I wonder if there should be finer control of the context that is
used to set keys, maybe with inheritance.  So there could be a
LiveTV subcontext as well as a RecordedTV subcontext, and one
could separately choose when Up and Down are mapped to...

Dan
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Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

[Chris Pinkham]

> Within the first week that you introduced the ALL method, detection was 
> simply amazing.  I have never seen it work so well.
> 
> Then I saw a message from you saying that you had to loosen up the 
> concept of "black".  After that, detection really took a hit.  Ever 
> since then it is not that much better than it was before you add the ALL 
> method.

Thanks, this is helpful, thanks.

With the new ALL method, the "Strict Commercial Detection" setting wasn't
being used, so I just committed a change to CVS to use it in the blank-frame
detection code to allow reverting to the stricter black-frame detection that was
put into CVS when I first added the ALL method.  If you are using "ALL" and you
don't have "Strict Commercial Detection" turned ON, can you try turning that ON
and seeing if it helps detection for you?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Blue band right side of picture

[Jim Oltman]

Does anyone have any more comments on this?


On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:59:49 -0600, Jim Oltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I also am having this problem.  After looking closely at my screen, I
> have noticed some things:
> 
> The blue "bands" are actually the background of X I guess, or Myth I
> don't know.  The picture seems to be too far to the right.  The whole
> thing looks like it could go left and up several pixels.  On the far
> right of the picture, it looks as if it is off the screen.  Here is
> what I am trying to explain.  There is a blue background, X.  It is
> the size of the screen indicated in the xorg.conf.  The output from
> the nvidia card is not evenly placed on the screen.  The output is
> slightly to far to the left on the horizontal axis but not on the
> vertical.  There is more of a space on the top of the screen than the
> bottom.  When I run the overscan from nvidia-settings, the screen
> reaches the bottom and the left first.  There is a picture that is
> layed over the top of the background.  We will call this the "image".
> In my case the image is not covering the screen completely.  It is
> right several pixels and down several pixels which means I can see the
> blue background on the top and left of the screen.  I tried the
> xvidtune and it did absolutely nothing.  I told it to test the
> settings and nothing happened.  The screen didn't look like it moved
> at all.  I applied the moving left settings and tried to play a
> recording and still had the same blue bars.
> 
> Will xvattr allow me to move the screen over?  It obviously controls
> the color settings.  What else can it do (man xvattr doesn't reveal
> much).
> 
> 
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:10:05 -0500, Mark L. Cukier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > xvattr changes the background from blue to black, which would in fact
> > eliminate the blue bar. However, my real problem is the black space to
> > the right of the blue bar. my picture is shifted to the left about
> > 3-2"!!! This is the problem I'd really like addressed
> >
> > - Mark
> >
> > Phill Edwards wrote:
> >
> > >>I just switched from my nVidia TV-out back to my PVR350. The TV Quality
> > >>is much better... however, now I seem to be having this same problem!!!
> > >>I have a thin blue line down the rightside of my screen, with a thicker
> > >>black (dead) area to the right of that. overscan doesn't seem to fix
> > >>anything... this seems to be the area where the right side of the PVR350
> > >>ENDS!
> > >>
> > >>Has anyone experienced this? Any fixes? I tried running xvidtune, but
> > >>PVR350 doesn't seem to like any of the modlines involving making the
> > >>picture wider!
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >Errmmm - what's wrong with the solution posted in this thread re xvattr?
> > >
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Re: [mythtv-users] Live TV stops after a few hours.

[Ken Mink]

Welcome to the group. This is a known, yet not wide spread, problem
where the backend crashes when the live buffer gets full. A bug was
filed in bugzilla on it and it has been posted to the dev list a
number of times. Currently the only work around that I've seen is to
set your live buffer to be very large and remember to change channels
every once in a while. My problem is that I forget to pop out to the
menu before going to bed or leaving for the day.

http://www.mythtv.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=228

Good luck,
Ken

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 18:19:02 -0800 (PST), Michael Carland
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm running 0.17, and after a few hours, live tv just stops.
> 
> I get prebuffering pauses sprinkled here and their when it is working, and
> then the backend logs:
> 2005-03-27 17:45:35.038 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> ERROR: file I/O problem in 'safe_read()': Invalid argument
> ERROR: file I/O problem in 'safe_read()': Invalid argument
> ERROR: file I/O problem in 'safe_read()': Invalid argument
> 
> while the frontend logs:
> 
> 2005-03-27 19:05:00.495 prebuffering pause
> Errm, event socket just closed.
> 2005-03-27 20:03:18.933 prebuffering pause
> 2005-03-27 20:03:20.755 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available,
> waiting again...
> 2005-03-27 20:03:22.756 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available,
> waiting again...
> 2005-03-27 20:03:24.758 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available,
> waiting again...
> 2005-03-27 20:03:26.760 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available,
> waiting again...
> 2005-03-27 20:03:28.761 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available,
> waiting again...
> 2005-03-27 20:03:30.763 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available,
> waiting again...
> 2005-03-27 20:03:32.765 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available,
> waiting again...
> 2005-03-27 20:03:34.766 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available,
> waiting again...
> 2005-03-27 20:03:34.767 Waited 14 seconds for data to become available,
> aborting
> Freed 5898240 (pool 2)
> Freed 6428192 (pool 2)
> Freed 6958144 (pool 2)
> Freed 7488096 (pool 2)
> Freed 8018048 (pool 2)
> Freed 8548000 (pool 2)
> Freed 9077952 (pool 2)
> Freed 9607904 (pool 2)
> Freed 10137856 (pool 2)
> 2005-03-27 20:03:38.921 ReadStringList timeout (quick).
> 2005-03-27 20:03:38.921 RemoteFile::Read(): No response from control
> socket.
> 2005-03-27 20:03:38.921 RemoteFile::Read() failed in
> RingBuffer::safe_read().
> 2005-03-27 20:03:38.922 RemoteFile::Read() failed in
> RingBuffer::safe_read().
> 2005-03-27 20:03:38.922 RemoteFile::Read() failed in
> RingBuffer::safe_read().
> 2005-03-27 20:03:38.922 RemoteFile::Read() failed in
> RingBuffer::safe_read().
> 2005-03-27 20:03:38.922 RemoteFile::Read() failed in
> RingBuffer::safe_read().
> 2005-03-27 20:03:38.923 RemoteFile::Read() failed in
> RingBuffer::safe_read().
> 
> backend then dies with a segfault.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Michael
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Tips for fixing prebuffering pause and WriteAudio: buffer underrun

[Matthew Phillips]

On 28/03/2005, at 9:15 AM, Michael Carland wrote:
I seem to have all of my install mistakes corrected, except for one.
When I play recorded content all is well. But when I play live TV, I 
get
many  "prebuffering pause" messages, and an occasional "WriteAudio: 
buffer
underrun". The video stutters during the prebuffering messages.

I done some googling, and tried a few things, but have not been able to
get around this. I am looking for tips on how to find the source of the
problem.
I have tried vmstat on both the frontend and the backend, and don't see
anything that stands out. No swapping, plenty of memory, at least 20% 
idle
cpu on both ends.

I have the "Extra audio buffering" checked. I tried the "Aggresive
Soundcard Buffering", but it didn't help, so I turned it back off.
I am using ALSA on the frontend, and other than the stutters, it sounds
fine.
Hi Michael,
I had a very similar problem which cropped up after switching to ALSA 
output. After a long saga of list-trawling, it turned out to be an 
error with an uninitialised variable in Myth's ALSA audio module (I so 
wish C++ would regard this sort of thing as an error). After grabbing a 
patch from CVS and rebuilding, all is fixed.

The patch against 0.17 is attached. Since we have the same frontend hw, 
I could look into making the (RPM) binaries available if there's 
somewhere to drop them.

Matthew.


mythtv-0.17-mppalsa.patch
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[mythtv-users] Live TV stops after a few hours.

[Michael Carland]

Hi!

I'm running 0.17, and after a few hours, live tv just stops.

I get prebuffering pauses sprinkled here and their when it is working, and
then the backend logs:
2005-03-27 17:45:35.038 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
ERROR: file I/O problem in 'safe_read()': Invalid argument
ERROR: file I/O problem in 'safe_read()': Invalid argument
ERROR: file I/O problem in 'safe_read()': Invalid argument


while the frontend logs:

2005-03-27 19:05:00.495 prebuffering pause
Errm, event socket just closed.
2005-03-27 20:03:18.933 prebuffering pause
2005-03-27 20:03:20.755 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available,
waiting again...
2005-03-27 20:03:22.756 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available,
waiting again...
2005-03-27 20:03:24.758 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available,
waiting again...
2005-03-27 20:03:26.760 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available,
waiting again...
2005-03-27 20:03:28.761 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available,
waiting again...
2005-03-27 20:03:30.763 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available,
waiting again...
2005-03-27 20:03:32.765 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available,
waiting again...
2005-03-27 20:03:34.766 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available,
waiting again...
2005-03-27 20:03:34.767 Waited 14 seconds for data to become available,
aborting
Freed 5898240 (pool 2)
Freed 6428192 (pool 2)
Freed 6958144 (pool 2)
Freed 7488096 (pool 2)
Freed 8018048 (pool 2)
Freed 8548000 (pool 2)
Freed 9077952 (pool 2)
Freed 9607904 (pool 2)
Freed 10137856 (pool 2)
2005-03-27 20:03:38.921 ReadStringList timeout (quick).
2005-03-27 20:03:38.921 RemoteFile::Read(): No response from control
socket.
2005-03-27 20:03:38.921 RemoteFile::Read() failed in
RingBuffer::safe_read().
2005-03-27 20:03:38.922 RemoteFile::Read() failed in
RingBuffer::safe_read().
2005-03-27 20:03:38.922 RemoteFile::Read() failed in
RingBuffer::safe_read().
2005-03-27 20:03:38.922 RemoteFile::Read() failed in
RingBuffer::safe_read().
2005-03-27 20:03:38.922 RemoteFile::Read() failed in
RingBuffer::safe_read().
2005-03-27 20:03:38.923 RemoteFile::Read() failed in
RingBuffer::safe_read().

backend then dies with a segfault.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

-Michael




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[mythtv-users] Re: Need advice with xorg.conf setup

[Larry K]

Sorry for the duplicate posts.  My network connection was going flaky
and gmail was timing out.


On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 20:40:41 -0500, Larry K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All,
> 
> I have mythtv working, for the most part, but only when my computer
> when it's hooked up to the 17" flat panel display that I used for the
> initial install.  I'm trying to switch over to using a TV by
> connecting to the S-video-out jack on my geforce card.
> 
> Is there a preferred process for building/installing/troubleshooting
> an xorg.conf file?
> 
> It seems that when I install and test an xorg file that proves to be
> invalid, it hangs my system and I have to do a cold reboot. If I try
> to switch back to a previous copy of xorg.conf that was known to work
> (i.e., with the flat panel monitor hooked up instead of the TV, using
> that copy of the xorg.conf file), the sound and/or video drivers
> appear to be messed up and I have to go through loads of
> retesting/reinstalling drivers to figure out what was broken...
> 
> Is it normal to see this level of frustration with xorg.conf
> diagnostics?  Am I doing something wrong?  Is there some magic command
> and/or procedure that I am not aware of?
>
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[mythtv-users] Autopackage

[Jeff Wormsley]

Saw an article on Slashdot about Autopackage.  It supposedly is a binary 
packaging system that can handle multiple distros with the same 
package.  Considering how many people use different distros, I'm 
wondering if this ought to be looked into, or if it is so much more work 
it isn't useful.  Might be nice though, to have one "official" binary 
package for most users (I'm sure Gentoo users would rather retain 
Portage, but who knows?).  Just a thought, as I know zero about building 
packages of any type.

Jeff.
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[mythtv-users] Need help getting Lirc to work with pvr-150

[Andy Alsup]

Hi,

I used Jarod's doc to set up:

- Myth 0.17 from rpm
- lirc from rpm with New Hauppauge grey/black lircd.conf from Jarod's howto
- FC3 upgraded kernel to 2.6.10-1.770_FC3 with apt
- pvr-150 using ivtv  0.3.2m compiled from source

using this setup, I load the lirc_i2c module, start lircd, start irw
and don't see any output from button pushes.

I do see that irw opens and closes the conection to lircd.  and if I
load myth, I see that a connection was opened as well.

So, it would seem that the lirc part is at least connecting.  I'm not
sure lircd is seeing the hardware though.  The device in /dev is a
socket.  Shouldn't it be a char 61 device?

srw-rw-rw-  1 root root 0 Mar 24 14:57 /dev/lircd

One more thing, when I load the lirc_i2c module, I get:

lirc_dev: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61

Does "kernel tainted" mean anything?

Here's the relevant logs:

Linux video capture interface: v1.00
ivtv:  START INIT IVTV 
ivtv: version 0.3.2 (m) loading
ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.10-1.770_FC3 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4
ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info
ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when
ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist.
ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card
ivtv: Found an iTVC16 based chip
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI interrupt :00:09.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ivtv: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
ivtv: VIA PCI device: 0x0305 vendor: 0x1106
tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 26052, rev = C185, serial# = 7579491
tveeprom: tuner = TCL 2002N 6A (idx = 85, type = 50)
tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x1000)
tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3410D (type = 5)
ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[0],ok]
ivtv: Tuner Type 50, Tuner formats 0x1000, Radio: yes, Model
0x008d1615, Revision 0x
ivtv: NTSC tuner detected
ivtv: Radio detected
tuner: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones
tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0
ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok]
cx25840: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones
cx25840: FW image '/lib/modules/HcwMakoA.ROM' of size 13883 loaded.
cx25840: FW image md5 digest: a6f6a90a3be338cdb89d59e835798408
cx25840: FW image sha1 digest: ad2872fb98ad43b6c4afa45d239a57010edebe84
ivtv: i2c attach [client=cx25840[0],ok]
ivtv: i2c attach [client=wm8775[0],ok]
ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040024
ivtv: Encoder Firmware may be buggy, use version 0x02040011
ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 150 card with 5 streams
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 0 minor 0
ivtv: Create DMA stream 0 using 1024 16384 byte buffers  0 kbytes total
ivtv: Allocate DMA stream 0 using 1024 16384 byte buffers  16777216 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 1 minor 32
ivtv: Create DMA stream 1
ivtv: Allocate DMA stream 1
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 2 minor 224
ivtv: Create stream 2 using 40 52224 byte buffers  0 kbytes total
ivtv: Allocate stream 2 using 40 52224 byte buffers  2097152 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 3 minor 24
ivtv: Create DMA stream 3 using 455 4608 byte buffers  0 kbytes total
ivtv: Allocate DMA stream 3 using 455 4608 byte buffers  2097152 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 4 minor 64
ivtv: Create stream 4
ivtv: Allocate stream 4
ivtv: Setting Tuner 50
tuner: type set to 50 (TCL 2002N) by ivtv i2c driver #0
ivtv: Switching standard to NTSC.
ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 150, card #0
ivtv:   END INIT IVTV  
ivtv: ivtv_enc_thread: pid = 4437, itv = 0xf0cf2920
lirc_dev: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture

Any advice?

Thanks!
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[mythtv-users] SVid Out Problems(PowerStrip & xvidtune)

[Jim Oltman]

I have tried xvidtune, telling it to widen the screen and move it up. 
The numbers change, but the screen does nothing.  I have also tried
loading windows on a seperate hard drive and running powerstrip with
no joy.  I can change the numbers so far then boom, screen goes ape. 
But up to that point, the screen doesn't move.  Does xvidtune and
PowerStrip only work ong VGA/DVI out?  How can I move the screen
around with out using OVERSCAN in Xorg and not using the
nvidia-settings tool?  Thanks!
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[mythtv-users] Need advice with xorg.conf setup

[Larry K]

All,

I have mythtv working, for the most part, but only when my computer
when it's hooked up to the 17" flat panel display that I used for the
initial install.  I'm trying to switch over to using a TV by
connecting to the S-video-out jack on my geforce card.

Is there a preferred process for building/installing/troubleshooting
an xorg.conf file?

It seems that when I install and test an xorg file that proves to be
invalid, it hangs my system and I have to do a cold reboot. If I try
to switch back to a previous copy of xorg.conf that was known to work
(i.e., with the flat panel monitor hooked up instead of the TV, using
that copy of the xorg.conf file), the sound and/or video drivers
appear to be messed up and I have to go through loads of
retesting/reinstalling drivers to figure out what was broken...

Is it normal to see this level of frustration with xorg.conf
diagnostics?  Am I doing something wrong?  Is there some magic command
and/or procedure that I am not aware of?
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Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

[John Patrick Poet]

Chris Pinkham wrote:
I've been using the All option since it was introduced and, I have to 
agree that it was MUCH better then than it is now. Must be sensitive to 
the type of signal or something.
   

When is "then"?
 

I am not sure who you are quoting in this message, but I will chime in.
Within the first week that you introduced the ALL method, detection was 
simply amazing.  I have never seen it work so well.

Then I saw a message from you saying that you had to loosen up the 
concept of "black".  After that, detection really took a hit.  Ever 
since then it is not that much better than it was before you add the ALL 
method.

I almost exclusively record HD material on my HD-3000 cards.  I watch 
*very* few non-HD shows.

John
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Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

[Chris Pinkham]

> I've been using the All option since it was introduced and, I have to 
> agree that it was MUCH better then than it is now. Must be sensitive to 
> the type of signal or something.

When is "then"?

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Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

[Chris Pinkham]

> I have it set to use all detection modes.  I can not say it is 100% but
> it is very very close.  With only a few exceptions about the only
> commercials it seems to miss consistently are those sponsor bits usually
> at the end of a show that appear to be part of the actual show just
> before it rolls into the real commercials.  

Are you using current CVS or a release version?  I made a change related
to this a while back and am curious if it is still happening for some people.

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Re: [mythtv-users] MythVideo Issues w/ ATI TV-Out

[Simon Hookway]

Hey Dave,

Did you fix this problem? 

I had this issue and found something that worked for me. Anyway, i'll
post my solution so hopefully someone else will find it in the archives
should they need it in the future.

Basically, you can tell fglrx that the tv-out is the primary all you
like but it seems to ignore it (check out the X-Server log file).
Anyway, the bit I added was getting Overlay onto the TV as it can only
be on one output device and is by default on the primary. 

I have the following in XF86Config-4:

Option "DesktopSetup"  "0x0100"
Option "MonitorLayout" "AUTO, STV"
Option "OverlayOnCRT2"

The last one is the important one i think.

I'll note that i don't actually have a CRT connected.

Hope that helps. If you found a different solution i would be interested
in knowing what it was.

Cheers,

Simon

On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 19:38 -0800, Big Wave Dave wrote:
> All,
> 
> I am currently running MythTV 0.17 on Fedora Core 3 using Jarod's guide.  
> I am using an Asus/ATI 9200SE with S-Video TV-Out with the latest ATI
> drivers.  I am able to use the TV-Out fine EXCEPT when trying to play
> a video with mplayer or xine.  When I try to play a video, I get a
> black screen.  Strangely enough I did get a "green" screen when
> running root.  Audio works fine.
> 
> I have the card setup in "Clone" mode... with STV as default/primary
> and then AUTO for other connections. "xorg.conf" was built/configured
> using the fglrxconfig app/script.
> 
> Any tips/tricks to resolve this last issue?
> Thanks,
> Dave
> 
> Specifics:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ fglrxinfo
> display: :0.0  screen: 0
> OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
> OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9200SE DDR Generic
> OpenGL version string: 1.3.4893 (X4.3.0-8.10.19)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -a
> Linux dolph 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 #1 Thu Jan 13 16:38:22 EST 2005 i686 i686
> i386 GNU/Linux
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> # File: xorg.conf
> # File generated by fglrxconfig (C) ATI Research, a substitute for xf86config.
> 
> # Note by ATI: the below copyright notice is there for servicing possibly
> # pending third party rights on the file format and the instance of this file.
> #
> # Copyright (c) 1999 by The XFree86 Project, Inc.
> #
> # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
> # copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
> # to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
> # the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
> # and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
> # Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
> #
> # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
> # all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
> #
> # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
> # IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
> # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL
> # THE XFREE86 PROJECT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
> # WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF
> # OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
> # SOFTWARE.
> #
> # Except as contained in this notice, the name of the XFree86 Project shall
> # not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other
> # dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from the
> # XFree86 Project.
> #
> 
> # **
> # Refer to the XF86Config(4/5) man page for details about the format of
> # this file.
> # **
> 
> # **
> # DRI Section
> # **
> Section "dri"
> # Access to OpenGL ICD is allowed for all users:
> Mode 0666
> # Access to OpenGL ICD is restricted to a specific user group:
> #Group 100# users
> #Mode 0660
> EndSection
> 
> # **
> # Module section -- this  section  is used to specify
> # which dynamically loadable modules to load.
> # **
> #
> Section "Module"
> 
> # This loads the DBE extension module.
> 
> Load"dbe"   # Double buffer extension
> 
> # This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
> # initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
> SubSection  "extmod"
>   Option"omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA extension
> EndSubSection
> 
> # This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules
> Load"type1"
> Load"freetype"
> 
> # Thi

Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

[Chris Pinkham]

> Well, this is still pre 1.0 software.  I dont think flawless is going to 
> happen any time soon.  Pretty damn well? Yup, Ive got that.  Only a 
> couple HD shows get screwy, Alias and Lost off the top of my head.  SD 

Well, I record Lost regularly and just started recording Alias a week or two
ago in order to test with that also, so hopefully I'll be able to figure out
what's going on with these.  Don't expect anything before 0.18 though,
because I don't want to make any detection changes that could make detection
worse for other cases.

> shows are spot on except for maybe a sec or two.  I have to say tho, 
> about 90-95% of the time, commflagg works fine for me using the Blank 
> Frame Detection.

For a lot of shows, blank frame works great, probably even 100% for some
shows.  It has been shown to have a hard time with dark shows including
the Law & Order type series.  I personally use the All method and have
AutoSkip Off.

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Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

[Chris Pinkham]

> Using default, blank frame detection.

You're probably better off using the new "All" method.

> 1st commercial break
>  Enter off by 25.13 seconds
>  Exit off by 19.17 seconds
> 2nd commercial break
>  Enter off by 28.62 seconds
>  Exit off by 34.68 seconds
> 3rd commercial break
>  Enter off by 49.70 seconds
>  Exit off by 49.28 seconds

What kind of TV cards are you using?  It sounds like this
could be related to the fact that some recordings have show
that is recorded at one FPS while the commercials are at another
FPS.  This would account for the commercial markers being off
more and more as you get further into the recording.

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RE: [mythtv-users] Setup troubles - Please Help

[David Sonenberg]

I guess I'll just keep giving more debugging till I figure it out, or some one 
can help me.  Here's the output from dmesg and ivtvctl.

Mar 27 17:49:22 spider Linux video capture interface: v1.00
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider ivtv: Unknown parameter `mpg_buffers'
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider ivtv: version 0.2.0 (rc3g) loading
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 350 card
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider ivtv: Found an iTVC15 based chip
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider ivtv: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 
32)
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider ivtv: VIA PCI device: 0x0282 vendor: 0x1106
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider msp34xx: ivtv version
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider msp34xx: init: chip=MSP3448W-A2, has NICAM support, 
simple (D) mode, simpler (G) no-thread mode
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider msp34xx: $Id$ compiled on: Mar 27 2005 00:21:38
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider saa7115: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 
(0x10005)
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider saa7115: detecting saa7115 client on address 0x42
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider saa7115: writing init values
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider saa7115: status: (1E) 0x48, (1F) 0xc0
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 48132, rev = J323, serial# 
= 7012168
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider tveeprom: tuner = Philips FM1236 (idx = 23, type = 2)
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 
0x1000)
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3440 (type = 11)
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider ivtv: Failed to load module tuner
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider saa7127: video encoder driver version V 0.3 loaded
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider saa7127: Selecting NTSC video Standard
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider saa7127: Selecting S-Video+Composite
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider saa7127: Turn WSS off
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider saa7127: Widescreen Mode 4:3 Full Format
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider saa7127: Selecting Normal Encoder Input
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider saa7127: Enable Video Output
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider 2ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 350 card with 9 streams
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider ivtv: Create DMA stream 0 using 256 16384 byte buffers  
4194304 kbytes total
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 0 minor 0
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider ivtv: Create DMA stream 1
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 1 minor 32
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider ivtv: Create stream 2 using 40 52224 byte buffers  
2097152 kbytes total
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 2 minor 224
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider ivtv: Create DMA stream 3 using 455 4608 byte buffers  
2097152 kbytes total
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 3 minor 24
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider ivtv: Create stream 4
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 4 minor 64
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider ivtv: Create DMA stream 5 using 16 65536 byte buffers  
1048576 kbytes total
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 5 minor 16
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider ivtv: Create stream 6 using 1024 2048 byte buffers  
262144 kbytes total
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 6 minor 228
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider ivtv: Create stream 7
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 7 minor 232
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider ivtv: Create DMA stream 8
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 8 minor 48
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider ivtv: Setting Tuner 2
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider saa7115: decoder set norm NTSC
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider saa7115: set audio: 0x01
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider saa7127: Setting Encoder Video Standard
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider saa7127: Set NTSC Video Mode
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider saa7127: Selecting NTSC video Standard
Mar 27 17:49:22 spider ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 350, card #0 

myth linux # ivtvctl -a
ioctl: IVTV_IOC_G_CODEC
Codec parameters
aspect  : 2
audio   : 0x00e9
bframes : 3
bitrate_mode: 0
bitrate : 450
bitrate_peak: 600
dnr_mode: 0
dnr_spatial : 0
dnr_temporal: 0
dnr_type: 0
framerate   : 0
framespergop: 15
gop_closure : 1
pulldown: 0
stream_type : 0
ioctl: VIDIOC_G_FMT
Type   : Video Capture
Width  : 480
Height : 480
ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYCAP
Driver name   : ivtv
Card type : Vanilla iTVC15 card
Bus info  : 0
Driver version: 512
Capabilities  : 0x01070033
ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMINPUT
Input   : 0
Name: Composite 0
Type: 0x0002
Audioset: 0x0003
Tuner   : 0x
Standard: 0x007F3FFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM )
Status  : 0

Input   : 1
Name: Composite 1
Type: 0x0002
Audioset: 0x0003
Tuner   : 0x
Standard: 0x007F3FFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM )
Status  : 0

Input   : 2
Name: Composite 2
Type: 0x0002
Audioset: 0x0003
Tuner   : 0x
Standard: 0x007F3FFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM )
Status  : 0

Re: [mythtv-users] "Record this show on this day every week"

[Bruce Markey]

Bruce Markey wrote:
With 0.17:
These examples screwed up the wrapping. Let me try that again:
With 0.17:
AND program.title LIKE "The Simpsons"
AND DAYNAME(program.starttime) = "Sunday"
With current CVS:
program.title = "The Simpsons"
AND DAYNAME(program.starttime) = "Sunday"
--  bjm
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv playback problem withNVIDIA videoacceleration - HELP!

[Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)]

- Original Message - 
From: "John Sturgeon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" 
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv playback problem withNVIDIA 
videoacceleration - HELP!



Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote:
- Original Message - From: "John Sturgeon" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" 
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 12:50 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Re:Mythtv 
playbackproblemwithNVIDIAvideoacceleration - HELP!


Hmmm...
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 6600/AGP/SSE2/3DNOW!
OpenGL version string: 1.5.3 NVIDIA 71.67
OpenGL extensions:
I've got a GeForce 6600GT, AMD 64 3200+ and I'm getting a measly 578.4 
fps What gives?

--
John Sturgeon <><
Is your 6600GT the PCI-E version? - does linux work correctly with PCI-E 
yet?

I have a 6600GT in my desktop box - nice card :)
But that other box is just my tv recording box.
M.
Nope, it's AGP.  I've only got one PCI slot (shuttle SN95G5) and it's got 
an HD-3000 in it.

578 fps seems awfully slow though.
--
John Sturgeon <><
You're right, it does seem awfully slow.  I'd run up glxgears on my desktop 
box but I dont have linux on it :(

M. 

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Re: [mythtv-users] "Record this show on this day every week"

[Bruce Markey]

Niklas Brunlid wrote:
Is it possible to tell MythTV to record a show on a specific day every  
week, when that show sometimes moves? The "record in this timeslot 
every  week" option sometimes isn't enough. :)
Yes.
Just asking because on some shows I now have 5 or 6 schedules for the 
same  day since the channel likes to move things around, sometimes as 
little as  5 minutes.
Go to "Custom Record", preferably with current CVS. Enter a rule name
like "Simpsons" or whatever. Choose "Match an exact title" (with 0.17
choose "Match words in the title"). Click "Add...". Choose "Anytime
on a specific day of the week" and click "Add...". Now edit the box
to change the title to "The Simpsons" and the day to "Sunday". You
should now have something like this:
With 0.17:
AND program.title LIKE "The Simpsons" 
AND DAYNAME(program.starttime) = "Sunday" 

With current CVS:
program.title = "The Simpsons" 
AND DAYNAME(program.starttime) = "Sunday" 

[0.17 requires the first leading "AND ", CVS does not.] Click "Test".
You should see a list of Simpsons for only this Sunday and possibly
next Sunday if you have listings that far ahead. If there are other
repeats earlier on Sunday, you could also add "Only in primetime"
too. Once "Test" shows you just the episodes you want, click "Record",
choose to record at any time and set the options just as you would
for any other record rules then choose "Save".
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Re: [mythtv-users] Getting mythtranscode to work with MP3 audio

[Chris Pinkham]

> I get following for this file:
> 
> 
> mythtranscode -i 1021_20050320090700_20050320090700.nuv

The problem appears to be in the mpeg2trans portion of the transcoder,
but I haven't had time enough to track it down yet.  I did notice
that if I use the -c and -s options to specify chanid and starttime
instead of using -i to just give a filename, that the transcoder
will use the other decoding code which can handle the audio in
the sample files I've looked at.

Can you try transcoding the same file supplying the chanid and
starttime instead of using -i with the filename?

-- 

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[mythtv-users] Tips for fixing prebuffering pause and WriteAudio: buffer underrun

[Michael Carland]

I seem to have all of my install mistakes corrected, except for one.

When I play recorded content all is well. But when I play live TV, I get
many  "prebuffering pause" messages, and an occasional "WriteAudio: buffer
underrun". The video stutters during the prebuffering messages.

I done some googling, and tried a few things, but have not been able to
get around this. I am looking for tips on how to find the source of the
problem.

I have tried vmstat on both the frontend and the backend, and don't see
anything that stands out. No swapping, plenty of memory, at least 20% idle
cpu on both ends.

I have the "Extra audio buffering" checked. I tried the "Aggresive
Soundcard Buffering", but it didn't help, so I turned it back off.

I am using ALSA on the frontend, and other than the stutters, it sounds
fine.

Myth 0.17
The backend is a 400MHz K6-3, 2.6.10 kernel, PVR-500MCE, ivtv 0.3.2p.
The frontend is an Epia M10K, 2.6.10 kernel, X.org 6.8.2 with XvMC enabled
(and appears to be working from the logs).

Output of frontend during live tv:
2005-03-27 17:17:34.691 Using protocol version 14
2005-03-27 17:17:37.867 Opening audio device 'default'.
Using XvMC version: 1.0
XvMC found and using VLD surface
2005-03-27 17:17:37.958 Using XV port 64
Fulfilled via DRI at 5898240
Fulfilled via DRI at 6428192
Fulfilled via DRI at 6958144
Fulfilled via DRI at 7488096
Fulfilled via DRI at 8018048
Fulfilled via DRI at 8548000
Fulfilled via DRI at 9077952
Fulfilled via DRI at 9607904
Fulfilled via DRI at 10137856
2005-03-27 17:17:38.629 Using realtime priority.
2005-03-27 17:17:38.647 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-03-27 17:17:38.657 Video timing method: DRM
Freed 0 (pool 0)
Freed 10491168 (pool 2)
Fulfilled via DRI at 10491168
2005-03-27 17:17:47.315 prebuffering pause
2005-03-27 17:17:57.877 prebuffering pause
2005-03-27 17:17:58.256 prebuffering pause
2005-03-27 17:17:58.573 prebuffering pause
2005-03-27 17:17:58.889 prebuffering pause
2005-03-27 17:17:59.305 prebuffering pause
2005-03-27 17:17:59.622 prebuffering pause
2005-03-27 17:17:59.938 prebuffering pause
2005-03-27 17:18:00.255 prebuffering pause
2005-03-27 17:18:00.571 prebuffering pause
2005-03-27 17:18:00.887 prebuffering pause
2005-03-27 17:18:00.888 WriteAudio: buffer underrun

Nothing special in the backend log:

2005-03-27 17:17:33.213 adding: myth as a client (events: 0)
2005-03-27 17:17:33.221 adding: myth as a remote ringbuffer
2005-03-27 17:17:33.236 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-03-27 17:21:48.355 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None

vmstat on backend during live tv (ok, bo 0 may be odd, but I didn't see
that before):
procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io --system--
cpu
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   sobibo   incs us sy
id wa
 1  0  0 556680  15192 12833600 0   604 4490  4210  4 38
58  0
 0  0  0 556104  15192 12886000 0   544 4443  4541  5 33
62  0
 0  0  0 28  15192 12948000 0   640 4113  4917  3 28
69  0
 0  0  0 554952  15192 13005200 0   620 4106  4838  3 28
69  0
 0  0  0 554312  15192 13070000 0 0 4002  5313  2 26
72  0
 0  0  0 553608  15192 13146000 0   668 3937  5112  2 26
72  0
 0  0  0 552840  15192 13218800 0   828 4068  4532  4 34
62  0

And vmstat on frontend:
procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io --system--
cpu
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   sobibo   incs us sy
id wa
 1  0  0 164028  0 16814400 0 0 1754  2035 23 21
56  0
 2  0  0 164028  0 16814400 0 0 2406  2590 24 23
54  0
 0  0  0 163900  0 16814400 0 0 2553  1628 40 49
11  0
 0  0  0 163900  0 16814400 0 0 2342  1973 33 45
22  0
 1  0  0 163900  0 16814400 0 0 3748  2761 39 46
14  0
 0  0  0 163900  0 16814400 0 0 4291  3595 32 42
26  0

Any tips for further figuring this out? One thing I read was to turn off
XvMC, but will that work on an cle266 without the deinterlacing (Bob)?

Thanks,

-Michael


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[mythtv-users] "Sinus top" lines moving slowly from bottom to top of TV?

[Niklas Brunlid]

Since I changed to an FC3 installation (installed a big HD at the same  
time, had been running netboot) I've had these big "sinus top" lines  
moving very slowly from the bottom of my TV screen to the top. There are  
one or two on screen at the same time, and I'd guess they take 30-60  
seconds (not at my myth box right now) to move across.

It looks like a simple analog disturbance in the picture, but I don't get  
it when I watch TV directly on the same cable, so I'm guessing there is  
some interference created by something in my Pundit box. Can the harddrive  
cause something like this? Or is it a sign that my (rather hot-running)  
250/350 combo is not feeling well? :)

/ Niklas
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv playback problem with NVIDIA videoacceleration - HELP!

[John Sturgeon]

Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote:
- Original Message - From: "John Sturgeon" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" 
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 12:50 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Re:Mythtv 
playbackproblemwithNVIDIAvideoacceleration - HELP!


Hmmm...
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 6600/AGP/SSE2/3DNOW!
OpenGL version string: 1.5.3 NVIDIA 71.67
OpenGL extensions:
I've got a GeForce 6600GT, AMD 64 3200+ and I'm getting a measly 
578.4 fps What gives?

--
John Sturgeon <><
Is your 6600GT the PCI-E version? - does linux work correctly with 
PCI-E yet?

I have a 6600GT in my desktop box - nice card :)
But that other box is just my tv recording box.
M.
Nope, it's AGP.  I've only got one PCI slot (shuttle SN95G5) and it's 
got an HD-3000 in it.

578 fps seems awfully slow though.
--
John Sturgeon <><
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[mythtv-users] DVB summer time

[Jit V]

Today I switched my Gentoo box from using a localtime of GMT to London - 
which now correctly gives the localtime as BST. The time is also correctly 
displayed in mythtv, but all of the on-air dvb guide data is off by 1 hour. 
Any ideas on how to fix this?

I've already tried to remove all program data, but the newly inserted data 
is still off by one hour.

Thanks

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Re: [mythtv-users] DVB Cards

[Jeff Wormsley]

Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote:
What gives? Is there a button to CHANGE CARD/SOURCE?

I think it is Y.
Jeff.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Rerecording a deleted program

[Bruce Markey]

Stuart Hodges wrote:
Is there a way to allow myth to re-record an episode thats previously been 
recorded and deleted (without selecting the allow re-recording option).
Look it up on the "Previously Recorded" page, press Enter and
click "Remove this episode from the list".
--  bjm
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[mythtv-users] audio pitch to weirdness on channel change

[Felix Huttmann]

hi
I have yet another problem. sometimes, when I change the channel in
livetv, audio becomes very high pitch (minnie mouse voices) or very low
pitch (monster-like) or sometimes stays / becomes normal again. I have
not yet noticed this in recordings. I then have to exit live tv and
enter again and everything is normal again.

when I adjust playback speed with 'a' the audio still sounds the same.
A/V stay in sync all the time.

my setup:
- fedora core 3 with atrpms's mythtv-suite but I have noticed this with
debian/packages, too, both on the same system
- my soundcard is snd-cmipci (cmi83??) but it's the same with snd-es1938
(ess solo-1)
- k7 1700+ , 768 mb ram, nforce2 ( but the onboard sound is disabled )
- DVB with skystar2 2.6c
- the problem occurs on all channels.

I hope I could descibe the problem properly. thanks for answers.

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[mythtv-users] DVB Cards

[Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)]

Guys,
 
I've just installed my first DVB-T card in my myth 
box (it already has a PVR-350 in it).
 
The channels set up OK, I can record of the digital 
source, however when I go into watch tv, it only brings up my PVR-350 input's 
channels, not the digital card ones.
 
I've noticed however IF I'm recording something on 
the PVR-350, THEN I can browse the digital channels.
What gives? Is there a button to CHANGE CARD/SOURCE?
 
M.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv playback problem with NVIDIA videoacceleration - HELP!

[Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)]

- Original Message - 
From: "John Sturgeon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" 
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 12:50 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Re:Mythtv 
playbackproblemwithNVIDIAvideoacceleration - HELP!



Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote:
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce FX 5200/AGP/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.5.3 NVIDIA 71.67
OpenGL extensions:
(full output attached)
Looks OK to me  - glxgears rocks along - much better than the older 
drivers :

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ glxgears
6733 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1346.600 FPS
7064 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1412.800 FPS
7053 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1410.600 FPS
7081 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1416.200 FPS
Hmmm...
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 6600/AGP/SSE2/3DNOW!
OpenGL version string: 1.5.3 NVIDIA 71.67
OpenGL extensions:
I've got a GeForce 6600GT, AMD 64 3200+ and I'm getting a measly 578.4 fps 
What gives?

--
John Sturgeon <><
Is your 6600GT the PCI-E version? - does linux work correctly with PCI-E 
yet?

I have a 6600GT in my desktop box - nice card :)
But that other box is just my tv recording box.
M. 

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MythtvplaybackproblemwithNVIDIAvideoacceleration - HELP!

[Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)]

- Original Message - 
From: "Axel Thimm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" 
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 8:24 PM
Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: 
MythtvplaybackproblemwithNVIDIAvideoacceleration - HELP!

On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 08:44:22AM +0930, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) 
wrote:
From: "Axel Thimm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" 
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 4:35 AM
Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: Mythtv
playbackproblemwithNVIDIAvideoacceleration - HELP!
>On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 12:58:01AM +1030, Michael Cheshire (Mailing 
>Lists)
>wrote:
>>OK. So i did an
>>
>>apt-get install nvidia-graphics7167
>>
>>nvidia-graphics-switch 7167
>>
>>try to playback using hardware acceleration.
>>
>>Mar 27 00:56:27 mythtv kernel: NVRM: client does not support 
>>versioning!!
>>Mar 27 00:56:27 mythtv kernel: NVRM:aborting to avoid catastrophe!
>>
>>same problem
>>
>>What am I missing?

>did you modify your xorg.conf to adjust for the nvidia driver? The
>driver does create a sample xorg.conf.nvidia files for you.
>Use glxinfo and make sure you get OpenGL version string: 1.5.3 NVIDIA
>71.67.
>Also make sure glxgears works (with appropriate results). Then try
>myth again.
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce FX 5200/AGP/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.5.3 NVIDIA 71.67
OpenGL extensions:
(full output attached)
Looks OK to me  - glxgears rocks along - much better than the older 
drivers
:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ glxgears
6733 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1346.600 FPS
7064 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1412.800 FPS
7053 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1410.600 FPS
7081 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1416.200 FPS
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$
(thanks for your help btw :)

So does it work in mythtv now, or not?
NO it doesnt! :) Same problem.
All the rendering stuff was working all along its the first thing I checked 
when Mythtv didnt work!

M. 

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Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Detection

[Mario L]

Whoops sorry!  I didn't even think before posting a spoiler.  I'll
watch myself in the future


On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 12:03:00 -0800, Ian Forde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 13:17 -0500, Mario L wrote:
> > I was having similar problems with my new addiction Nip/Tuck.  I have
> > decided to just go on what commercial detection has been finding &
> > just creating a cut list before I watch the show.  Hell, it takes 5-10
> > minutes to put together a cutlst & the show doesnt break when suddenly
> > a commercial is detected 5 seconds long when Christian and Julia start
> > to make out (Megan O'hare episode), or a 3 second commercial break
> > while Juila walks in on Matt's 3 some.  Its probably better this way,
> > it forces me to perfect all the commercial breaks before I get ready
> > to burn to DVD, intead of just go on the breaks that are still a
> > little bit off.
> 
> And I'm just in the middle of watching the Megan O'Hara episode!  Thanks
> for the spoiler! ;)
> 
> -I
> 
>
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[mythtv-users] Need advice re: xorg.config setup

[Larry K]

All,

I have mythtv working, for the most part, but only when my computer
when it's hooked up to the 17" flat panel display that I used for the
initial install.  I'm trying to switch over to using a TV by
connecting to the S-video-out jack on my geforce card.

Is there a preferred process for building/installing/troubleshooting
an xorg.conf file?

It seems that when I install and test an xorg file that proves to be
invalid, it hangs my system and I have to do a cold reboot. If I try
to switch back to a previous copy of xorg.conf that was known to work
(i.e., with the flat panel monitor hooked up instead of the TV, using
that copy of the xorg.conf file), the sound and/or video drivers
appear to be messed up and I have to go through loads of
retesting/reinstalling drivers to figure out what was broken...

Is it normal to see this level of frustration with xorg.conf
diagnostics?  Am I doing something wrong?  Is there some magic command
and/or procedure that I am not aware of?
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[mythtv-users] Need advice re: xorg.config setup

[Larry K]

All,

I have mythtv working, for the most part, but only when my computer
when it's hooked up to the 17" flat panel display that I used for the
initial install.  I'm trying to switch over to using a TV by
connecting to the S-video-out jack on my geforce card.

Is there a preferred process for building/installing/troubleshooting
an xorg.conf file?

It seems that when I install and test an xorg file that proves to be
invalid, it hangs my system and I have to do a cold reboot. If I try
to switch back to a previous copy of xorg.conf that was known to work
(i.e., with the flat panel monitor hooked up instead of the TV, using
that copy of the xorg.conf file), the sound and/or video drivers
appear to be messed up and I have to go through loads of
retesting/reinstalling drivers to figure out what was broken...

Is it normal to see this level of frustration with xorg.conf
diagnostics?  Am I doing something wrong?  Is there some magic command
and/or procedure that I am not aware of?
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Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

[Curtis Stanford]

On Mar 27, 2005, at 3:04 PM, Alex Cruz wrote:
On Sunday 27 March 2005 12:46 pm, SpikeyGG wrote:
Does anyone have the commercial detection working flawlessly (or is 
that
not possible)?

Thanks,
-Greg

 I'm using all modes of detction and I can say that it's pretty darn 
close to
perfect especially when using the auto skip commercial option. Like 
someone
else mentioned, those commercials that are inserted into the closing 
credits
(usually for the station like what Sci-Fi does) aren't detected. But 
by that
point, I'm already exiting from viewing the recording. As the saying 
goes,
"Your mileage may vary" but, it sure beats the hell out of a VCR  :-)


I've been using the All option since it was introduced and, I have to 
agree that it was MUCH better then than it is now. Must be sensitive to 
the type of signal or something.

Curtis
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[mythtv-users] Changing who mythtv is run as...

[Tony Paterra]

I originally installed myth as root to try it out...  Now I want to
migrate it to either my personal user or a new "myth" user for safety
reasons.  I was curious if fellow myth users could shed some light on
any gotchas that I might hit (e.g. any directories that need to be
moved outside of $HOME/.mythtv).  Anything I need to re-configure as
myth?

Also as a separate note what is the relationship between the DB and
the stored files?  I am going to be putting in a separate hard disk
shortly to expand my ability to download shows and I'd liike to keep
the 10 or so shows I currently have.  Does anyone have a recommended
way to move my current directory of shows to a new directory and not
confuse myth?  (assuming the drive is added properly and has been
mounted).

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

[Alex Cruz]

On Sunday 27 March 2005 12:46 pm, SpikeyGG wrote:
> Does anyone have the commercial detection working flawlessly (or is that
> not possible)?
>
> Thanks,
> -Greg


 I'm using all modes of detction and I can say that it's pretty darn close to 
perfect especially when using the auto skip commercial option. Like someone 
else mentioned, those commercials that are inserted into the closing credits 
(usually for the station like what Sci-Fi does) aren't detected. But by that 
point, I'm already exiting from viewing the recording. As the saying goes, 
"Your mileage may vary" but, it sure beats the hell out of a VCR  :-)

-alex
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[mythtv-users] configure did not detect my cpu

[Stefan Frank]

 *** WARNING *** 
 Your CPU was not detected properly:
   uname -m: i686
   uname -p: 
 model name: AMD Duron(tm) Processor
  flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse pni syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow

/proc/cpuinfo:

processor   : 0
vendor_id   : AuthenticAMD
cpu family  : 6
model   : 8
model name  : AMD Duron(tm) Processor
stepping: 1
cpu MHz : 1818.420
cache size  : 256 KB
fdiv_bug: no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug: no
coma_bug: no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp  : yes
flags   : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse pni syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips: 3579.90

But actually it's a Athlon XP Thoroughbred 2200+ in an old Asus A7V board. ;)

Bye, Stefan

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[mythtv-users] installing ivtv

[dlw]

my sys is 1.7ghz, 512m ram
120g hda, 160g hdb
cd/dvd-rw hdc, cd-rw hdd
Hauppauge 350
MDK 10.1 KDE 3.2
Trying to install ivtv-0.2.0-rc3i
dmesg | grep ivtv
(snip)
ivtv: Autodetecting cardtype for card #8
ivtv: SGarray_size = 420, DSGarray_size = 16
ivtv: Found an iTVC15 based chip
Firmware image too large '/lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin'
ivtv: failed loading encoder firmware
ivtv: Error loading firmware!
ivtv: Error initializing.
ivtv: Error -12 on init
ivtv: iTVC15/16 mpg2 encoder card: probe of :01:07.0 failed with 
error -12
ivtv: loaded

I looked in mythtv lists archive and google only to get frustrated.
How can I solve the above regarding 'firmware too large'.
Also, I get this error:
ivtvfwextract.pl: Can't open /root/tmp/ivtvex.7522/hcwpvrp2.sys: No such 
file or directory.

dlw

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RE: [mythtv-users] Setup troubles - Please Help

[David Sonenberg]

Ok I got a little further, but still need some help.  I'm running everything as 
root which seems to fixed the problem of setting the video source.  But when I 
try to watch live tv I get an the message, "Unable to   initialize video"  and 
the console says, "IVTV_IOC_GET_FB: Invalid argument"  Now if I try a 'cat 
/dev/v4l/video0 > my.mpg' I get can view it, but there is a lot of static.  
Details about my system are listed below, let me know if you need any other 
info.  Any help would be appreciated.


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of David Sonenberg
Sent: Sat 3/26/2005 11:30 AM
To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] Setup troubles
 
I'm running Gentoo with the 2.6.10-gentoo kernel, ivtv-0.2.0_rc3-r3, 
lirc-0.2.0_rc3-r3 and mythtv-0.17.  The problem I'm having is in the setup for 
Capture card.  I select PVR-250/350, and type in /dev/v4l/video0, but it 
doesn't give me any options for default input.  And if I go back and review the 
settings it switches it back to /dev/video.  On the console I get:
2005-03-26 14:14:23.688 Could not stat file: /dev/v4l/video
2005-03-26 14:14:23.688 Could not stat file: /dev/v4l/video0
2005-03-26 14:14:23.689 Could not stat file: /dev/v4l/video16
2005-03-26 14:14:23.689 Could not stat file: /dev/v4l/video24
2005-03-26 14:14:23.689 Could not stat file: /dev/v4l/video32
2005-03-26 14:14:23.689 Could not stat file: /dev/v4l/video48
2005-03-26 14:14:23.708 
Couldn't open /dev/video1 to probe its inputs.
Couldn't open /dev/video1 to probe its inputs.
Couldn't open /dev/video1 to probe its inputs.
Couldn't open /dev/video1 to probe its inputs.
Couldn't open /dev/video1 to probe its inputs.
Couldn't open /dev/video1 to probe its inputs.
Couldn't open /dev/video1 to probe its inputs.
Couldn't open /dev/video10 to probe its inputs.
Couldn't open /dev/video11 to probe its inputs.
Couldn't open /dev/video12 to probe its inputs.
Couldn't open /dev/video13 to probe its inputs.
Couldn't open /dev/video14 to probe its inputs.

Here's an ls of /dev/v4l/*
myth v4l # ls -la /dev/v4l/*
crw-rw  1 root video 81,  64 Mar 22 15:08 /dev/v4l/radio0
crw-rw  1 root video 81, 224 Mar 22 15:08 /dev/v4l/vbi0
crw-rw  1 root video 81, 228 Mar 22 15:08 /dev/v4l/vbi4
crw-rw  1 root video 81, 232 Mar 22 15:08 /dev/v4l/vbi8
crw-rw  1 root video 81,  32 Mar 26 14:05 /dev/v4l/video
crw-rw  1 root video 81,   0 Mar 22 15:08 /dev/v4l/video0
crw-rw  1 root video 81,  16 Mar 22 15:08 /dev/v4l/video16
crw-rw  1 root video 81,  24 Mar 22 15:08 /dev/v4l/video24
crw-rw  1 root video 81,  32 Mar 22 15:08 /dev/v4l/video32
crw-rw  1 root video 81,  48 Mar 22 15:08 /dev/v4l/video48


When I do a lspci -v I get
:02:02.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 
MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR-350
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at e800 (32-bit, prefetchable)
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

Finally here's an lsmod
Module  Size  Used by
snd_seq51216  0 
snd_pcm_oss49444  0 
snd_mixer_oss  18048  1 snd_pcm_oss
eth139418696  0 
snd_opl3_lib9472  0 
snd_hwdep   7556  1 snd_opl3_lib
snd_cs4231_lib 22656  0 
snd_mpu401_uart 6656  0 
snd_rawmidi20384  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device  7180  3 snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
ohci1394   31876  0 
ieee1394  305464  2 eth1394,ohci1394
nvidia   3915740  12 
snd_intel8x0   28192  0 
snd_ac97_codec 72672  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm83844  4 
snd_pcm_oss,snd_cs4231_lib,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer  21636  4 snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_cs4231_lib,snd_pcm
snd45412  13 
snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_cs4231_lib,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc  7940  3 snd_cs4231_lib,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
i2c_i8017820  0 
ata_piix7428  0 
libata 40580  1 ata_piix
hw_random   4884  0 
bttv  147280  0 
video_buf  17796  1 bttv
v4l2_common 4992  1 bttv
btcx_risc   4232  1 bttv
lirc_i2c7044  1 
lirc_dev   11916  1 lirc_i2c
saa712712316  0 
tveeprom   11316  0 
ivtv  812772  2 
tuner  21156  0 
saa711512312  0 
msp340027448  0 
i2c_algo_bit9352  2 bttv,ivtv
i2c_core   18432  9 
i2c_i801,bttv,lirc_i2c,saa7127,tveeprom,tuner,saa7115,msp3400,i2c_algo_bit
videodev7552  2 bttv,ivtv
dm_mod 54784  2 
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[mythtv-users] errors compiling NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp

[toad six]

Hello all,

I'm trying to upgrade to .17, and I'm getting compile errors in
NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:

NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp: In member function `void
NuppelVideoPlayer::StartPlaying()':
NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:1868: error: `mutex' undeclared (first use this function)

I also get a ton of errors saying that db, lock, and unlock are
undeclared as well.  What am I missing?

Thanks in advance...
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Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

[Scot L. Harris]

On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 14:04, Tom E. Craddock Jr. wrote:
> SpikeyGG wrote:
> > All,
> >  
> > I'm wondering how well everyone else's commercial detection is working?  
> > From what I've seen it seems like it gives me the basic jist of where a 
> > commercial IS and I go in and set the breakpoints to where the 
> > commercial really starts and stops.  However, I noticed from a recent 
> > recording of American Idol the breaks get further and further apart as 
> > the program continues.  Here's what I've found:
> > Using default, blank frame detection.
> > Does anyone have the commercial detection working flawlessly (or is that 
> > not possible)?
> >  
> > Thanks,
> > -Greg
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> Well, this is still pre 1.0 software.  I dont think flawless is going to 
> happen any time soon.  Pretty damn well? Yup, Ive got that.  Only a 
> couple HD shows get screwy, Alias and Lost off the top of my head.  SD 
> shows are spot on except for maybe a sec or two.  I have to say tho, 
> about 90-95% of the time, commflagg works fine for me using the Blank 
> Frame Detection.

I have it set to use all detection modes.  I can not say it is 100% but
it is very very close.  With only a few exceptions about the only
commercials it seems to miss consistently are those sponsor bits usually
at the end of a show that appear to be part of the actual show just
before it rolls into the real commercials.  

All in all I have been very pleased with the picture quality and
especially the commercial skipping feature.  

 
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Re: [mythtv-users] "Record this show on this day every week"

[Risto Treksler]

Are you just trying to record all new episodes once a week?

Set to "record any time on any channel"
and set "record new episodes only" for duplicate policy.


what i kind of want is an option kind of like
"find one episode and record"
but
"find and record one episode every day"

this would be good for "the daily show"
where the same episode is shown up to four times per day
but the time slots vary and often there is no subtitle to use 
for dupe detection.

currently i just picked one timeslot and I hope for no conflicts
since that's better than recording it four times per day

come to think of it
a "max episodes per day" setting wouldn't be bad either

if i set "that seventies show" to record at any time
i get 7 unique episodes per day!

setting a max of 2 per day would be nice i think
i know i could set it to just not record new ones when max episodes is reached
but it wouldn't really work

say i watched "the daily show" and deleted it
it now shouldn't record again until tomorrow

say, i let it record up to two episodes of that seventies show
come tomorrow, unless i don't delete them, i don't get new ones.


Sorry for the long brainstorm
rt

Robert Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> Why not use the "Record at any time on any channel." or "Record at any
> time on channel x.", as MythTV's repeat detection is pretty damned
> good, IMHO...
> 
> 
> On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 20:57:37 +0200, Niklas Brunlid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Is it possible to tell MythTV to record a show on a specific day every
> > week, when that show sometimes moves? The "record in this timeslot every
> > week" option sometimes isn't enough. :)
> > 
> > Just asking because on some shows I now have 5 or 6 schedules for the same
> > day since the channel likes to move things around, sometimes as little as
> > 5 minutes.
> > 
> > / Niklas
> > 
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[mythtv-users] No audio on HD LiveTV until exit and enter LiveTV again

[john roberts]

Anyone seen it where you change a channel while under LiveTV and there is no 
audio?  And then if you exit LiveTV (esc) and enter LiveTV again the audio now 
works?

Anyone seen this?

Another odd thing - if I change channels the playback is broken up and jerky.  
If I exit and enter LiveTV it's smooth again.

I swear LiveTV HD (ATSC) playback was better about 6 months ago :(  Not 
complaining - just commenting. :)  I appreciate all the hard work by everyone.

-John
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[mythtv-users] Need advice re: xorg.conf setup

[Larry K]

OK, 

I have mythtv working, for the most part, but only when my computer
when it's hooked up to the 17" flat panel display that I used for the
initial install.  I'm trying to switch over to using a TV by
connecting to the S-video-out jack on my geforce card.

Is there a preferred process for building/installing/troubleshooting
an xorg.conf file?  It seems that when I install an xorg file that is
incorrect, it either hangs my system and I have to do a cold reboot,
or if I try to switch back the the 17" flat panel xorg file, the sound
and/or video drivers are messed up and I have to go through loads of
retesting to figure out what was broken
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[mythtv-users] Need Advice re: xorg.conf setup

[Larry K]

OK,

I have mythtv working, for the most part, but only when my computer
when it's hooked up to the 17" flat panel display that I used for the
initial install.  I'm trying to switch over to using a TV by
connecting to the S-video-out jack on my geforce card.

Is there a preferred process for building/installing/troubleshooting
an xorg.conf file?  It seems that when I install an xorg file that is
incorrect, it either hangs my system and I have to do a cold reboot,
or if I try to switch back the the 17" flat panel xorg file, the sound
and/or video drivers are messed up and I have to go through loads of
retesting to figure out what was broken
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Re: [mythtv-users] "Record this show on this day every week"

[Niklas Brunlid]

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:08:33 +0200, Niklas Brunlid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 13:27:47 -0600, Robert Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 20:57:37 +0200, Niklas Brunlid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Is it possible to tell MythTV to record a show on a specific day every
week, when that show sometimes moves? The "record in this timeslot  
every
week" option sometimes isn't enough. :)

Just asking because on some shows I now have 5 or 6 schedules for the
same
day since the channel likes to move things around, sometimes as little
as
5 minutes.
Why not use the "Record at any time on any channel." or "Record at any
time on channel x.", as MythTV's repeat detection is pretty damned
good, IMHO...
Because the same show runs as repeats of an earlier season on weekdays.
The new episodes are only on sundays.
/ Niklas
And to pre-empt the obvious response here I should say that up until a few  
weeks ago my listings grabber didn't get any episode information, so my  
backend doesn't know that they are repeats... :]

/ Niklas
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Re: [mythtv-users] "Record this show on this day every week"

[Niklas Brunlid]

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 13:27:47 -0600, Robert Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
wrote:

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 20:57:37 +0200, Niklas Brunlid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
wrote:
Is it possible to tell MythTV to record a show on a specific day every
week, when that show sometimes moves? The "record in this timeslot every
week" option sometimes isn't enough. :)
Just asking because on some shows I now have 5 or 6 schedules for the  
same
day since the channel likes to move things around, sometimes as little  
as
5 minutes.
Why not use the "Record at any time on any channel." or "Record at any
time on channel x.", as MythTV's repeat detection is pretty damned
good, IMHO...
Because the same show runs as repeats of an earlier season on weekdays.  
The new episodes are only on sundays.

/ Niklas
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SV: [mythtv-users] Blurry pictures after ivtv upgrade

[Mogens Lunde]

>I ran an apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade this morning (included an
>upgrade of ivtv). After this all channels are extremely blurry with frames
>slowly rolling from right to left. I can see that the channels displayed
>are
>the correct ones, but the picture is very distorted.
>
>I have not yet been able to succeed using my PVR-350's output in
>Mythfrontend, so I have not flagged this option. But yesterday pictures and
>sound was just fine.
>
>This are the current installed versions from /var/log/rpmpkgs:
>ivtv-0.2.0-65_rc3g.rhfc3.at.i386.rpm
>ivtvdev-0.8-1.rhfc3.at.i386.rpm
>ivtv-firmware-1.8a-4.at.i386.rpm
>ivtv-firmware-dec-2.02.023-4.at.i386.rpm
>ivtv-firmware-enc-2.04.024-4.at.i386.rpm
>ivtv-kmdl-2.6.10-1.770_14.rhfc3.at-0.2.0-65_rc3g.rhfc3.at.i686.rpm
>
>What can I do to go back? Will I need to downgrade, and how should I do
>this.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Mogens

Can I anywhere see which upgrades were actually performed this morning
(logfile or something)? I have searched for this but still I can only find a
file with actual packages installed - not changes to packages.

If yes, will it be safe to downgrade to the earlier package?

Mogens


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Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Detection

[Ian Forde]

On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 13:17 -0500, Mario L wrote:
> I was having similar problems with my new addiction Nip/Tuck.  I have
> decided to just go on what commercial detection has been finding &
> just creating a cut list before I watch the show.  Hell, it takes 5-10
> minutes to put together a cutlst & the show doesnt break when suddenly
> a commercial is detected 5 seconds long when Christian and Julia start
> to make out (Megan O'hare episode), or a 3 second commercial break
> while Juila walks in on Matt's 3 some.  Its probably better this way,
> it forces me to perfect all the commercial breaks before I get ready
> to burn to DVD, intead of just go on the breaks that are still a
> little bit off.

And I'm just in the middle of watching the Megan O'Hara episode!  Thanks
for the spoiler! ;)

-I

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[mythtv-users] Auto(?) scanning of QAM channels

[Mark Frey]

Well I have just finished rebuilding my Myth machine with a PVR-150MCE
and a pcHDTV 3000. It's finally all working but I have one remaining
problem. I'm using the pcHDTV to tune QAM channels over my Comcast
cable. One of the channels is the Kids channel which only seems to
broadcast a couple of hours a day, and if I tune that channel any other
time Myth freezes with messages from the backend saying waited to long
to read data from the card (I assume the dvb driver is crashing). I
don't care about this channel anyway, so I just use myth-setup to remove
it from the channel list. The problem is, Myth seems to periodically
re-add this channel. Does anyone know how I can delete this channel
permanently?

-Mark
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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV w/Digital Cox Service ?

[Richard Sears]

Hi Brad,

Actually the Dual MP system I had laying around doing nothing, so I am
building it to be a dedicated backend system. I have 4 300GB Raptor
drives on an LSI SATA RAID controller on the system, and the plan is
to have two or three front end systems all talking to the backend
system. So the Dual system will be up in my office, so noise is not a
factor.

I got the pvr-350 and the PCHDTC thinking that I needed them, but it
sounds like I can use the firewire for everything that I need.

When using the firewire, I am assuming that I would need a separate
'digital' box and separate firewire input for each system that wanted
to watch 'live' tv. Is that correct..?

On Friday I get the cable system installed. I already questioned them
about the digital box, and they would not give me much information on
it, who made it or anything. Do you think I should call and make sure
they are brining the right unit out..?

When using firewire, does audio come over it as well or do I need a
separate card for audio.

I have an Audigy 2 sound card in my system now and my Gentoo install
sees the card and the firewire port no problem, so I am very excited
to give this a try.

I have everything emerged, now I have to work on getting it (mysql,
etc) all set up and running!!





On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:23 -0800, Brad Templeton
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 05:44:59AM -0500, Tom E. Craddock Jr. wrote:
> > >So here I am in the middle of my 1.2TB,  Dual Athlon MythTV monster
> > >server build thinking its going to be a bummer to have to get just
> > >regular cable and nothing else on my mythtv system.
> 
> Dual Athlon?  That seems like a whole lot of overkill (and a lot of
> heat and fan noise.)  You might want to scale it back.
> 
> > >
> > >I can add an off-the-air HDTV antenna as I have ordered the PCHDTV
> > >card and a PVR-350 (all of the 250's were out of  stock) but I would
> > >reall like everything.
> 
> You couldn't find a 150 or 250 anywhere, not even ebay?  Since you plan
> HD, you won't be using the 350's TV out in all probability, so it's
> just wasted.  If there were a way to tell myth, use the 350 for analog
> recordings and the video card for digital, you could switch inputs on
> your TV but you would have to code that.
> > >
> > >I figured if anyone had figured this out, someone here has done it.
> > >
> > >So, my question - Is there some way to hook up the Cox digital box to
> > >the MythTV backend so that I can use the Myth system to control the
> > >digital box and output it to Myth so it can be recorded, played,
> > >etc..? Or am I stuck with simple analog cable with my myth system..?
> > >Is there a 'digital cable' tuner card made by anyone, or is it
> > >specific to each cable company..? I know my TV has an input for
> > >digital cable rf, but not sure who it works with (if anyone). It also
> > >has an input for an HDTV card from the cable company.
> 
> Your pc-HDTV-3000 can tune digital cable when it's unencrypted.  Not
> HBO, but many of your local HD channels will be tunable that way, as
> well as sometimes some others.  That's the law.
> 
> The law also lets you demand a digital cable box with ieee1394 jacks
> on it (known as firewire or dtvlink).   Be sure to insist on that.  Then
> you can get digital out of that box.
> 
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[mythtv-users] Archos AV400 Portable

[Mike Ryan]

Hi
Has anyone got exporting files for viewing on a Portable device working? I've
got an Archos AV400 and currently transfer the nuv files over to 
Windows before
converting them. Obviously, this is a bit of a faff and I'm sure there must be
some way to do it in Linux

Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Kind Regards
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Re: [mythtv-users] View all upcoming movies without duplicates?

[Brad Templeton]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 07:16:25AM -0800, Bruce Markey wrote:
> time sorted list. If you are looking ahead to a certain time frame
> to see what you might watch then, there would be valid choices missing.

I guess I sort of feel the phrase "looking ahead to a certain time frame
to see what you might watch then" strikes me as the very opposite of
the PVR vision.   I see that vision as saying you care what's available
to watch (sometime) not when it's on.   When only matters (ideally minimally)
to avoid conflicts.   (Which is why I think resched higher priority to
avoid conflicts should be the default too.)

I was under the impression my patch that does this was committed, perhaps
only part of it was committed?
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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV w/Digital Cox Service ?

[Brad Templeton]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 05:44:59AM -0500, Tom E. Craddock Jr. wrote:
> >So here I am in the middle of my 1.2TB,  Dual Athlon MythTV monster
> >server build thinking its going to be a bummer to have to get just
> >regular cable and nothing else on my mythtv system.

Dual Athlon?  That seems like a whole lot of overkill (and a lot of
heat and fan noise.)  You might want to scale it back.

> >
> >I can add an off-the-air HDTV antenna as I have ordered the PCHDTV
> >card and a PVR-350 (all of the 250's were out of  stock) but I would
> >reall like everything.

You couldn't find a 150 or 250 anywhere, not even ebay?  Since you plan
HD, you won't be using the 350's TV out in all probability, so it's
just wasted.  If there were a way to tell myth, use the 350 for analog
recordings and the video card for digital, you could switch inputs on
your TV but you would have to code that.
> >
> >I figured if anyone had figured this out, someone here has done it.
> >
> >So, my question - Is there some way to hook up the Cox digital box to
> >the MythTV backend so that I can use the Myth system to control the
> >digital box and output it to Myth so it can be recorded, played,
> >etc..? Or am I stuck with simple analog cable with my myth system..?
> >Is there a 'digital cable' tuner card made by anyone, or is it
> >specific to each cable company..? I know my TV has an input for
> >digital cable rf, but not sure who it works with (if anyone). It also
> >has an input for an HDTV card from the cable company.

Your pc-HDTV-3000 can tune digital cable when it's unencrypted.  Not
HBO, but many of your local HD channels will be tunable that way, as
well as sometimes some others.  That's the law.

The law also lets you demand a digital cable box with ieee1394 jacks
on it (known as firewire or dtvlink).   Be sure to insist on that.  Then
you can get digital out of that box.
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Re: [mythtv-users] "Record this show on this day every week"

[Robert Johnston]

Why not use the "Record at any time on any channel." or "Record at any
time on channel x.", as MythTV's repeat detection is pretty damned
good, IMHO...


On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 20:57:37 +0200, Niklas Brunlid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it possible to tell MythTV to record a show on a specific day every
> week, when that show sometimes moves? The "record in this timeslot every
> week" option sometimes isn't enough. :)
> 
> Just asking because on some shows I now have 5 or 6 schedules for the same
> day since the channel likes to move things around, sometimes as little as
> 5 minutes.
> 
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[mythtv-users] Is HDTV on a Pundit possible, or is it time for me to give up?

[Jason Weinstein]

I've got a Pundit (not Pundit-R) with a P4 3.06 with HyperThreading
and 512MB of RAM. I'm trying to use the built-in SIS video to connect
to my analog tv via S-Video. Buying a new TV is financially out of the
question for now. I've got a PVR-350 and a pcHDTV HD-3000 in the two
PCI slots.

The PVR-350 works great, but I'm using it as a 250 because I am not
using its video-out. I'v got the HDTV working via the DVB drivers, but
veiwing any channel uses 100% of the processor (at least 45% is being
used by X) so I'm getting dropped frames.

After many trials, different kernels, different drivers, different
settings, and upgrading my CPU from a 2.4 to the 3.06 w/HT, ATSC is
still not "watchable". I'm not even running any deinterlacing filters,
which make the interlaced programes even more "un-watchable". My best
guess now is that the SIS driver is having to scale everything to NTSC
resolution and that scaling is what's got X's cpu usage so high.

So, would I be better off using a nVidia video card/driver in my
situation? If so, I'd have to pull the PVR-350 (and I was looking
forward to having 2 tuners). If not, I guess I'll just leave the
pcHDTV idle until I can buy a digital TV (at least a year off).  Or
does anyone else have any ideas?

Thanks,
Jason
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Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

[Tom E. Craddock Jr.]

SpikeyGG wrote:
All,
 
I'm wondering how well everyone else's commercial detection is working?  
From what I've seen it seems like it gives me the basic jist of where a 
commercial IS and I go in and set the breakpoints to where the 
commercial really starts and stops.  However, I noticed from a recent 
recording of American Idol the breaks get further and further apart as 
the program continues.  Here's what I've found:
Using default, blank frame detection.
Does anyone have the commercial detection working flawlessly (or is that 
not possible)?
 
Thanks,
-Greg



Well, this is still pre 1.0 software.  I dont think flawless is going to 
happen any time soon.  Pretty damn well? Yup, Ive got that.  Only a 
couple HD shows get screwy, Alias and Lost off the top of my head.  SD 
shows are spot on except for maybe a sec or two.  I have to say tho, 
about 90-95% of the time, commflagg works fine for me using the Blank 
Frame Detection.

Tom
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Re: [mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Sunday 27 March 2005 10:46, SpikeyGG wrote:
> Does anyone have the commercial detection working flawlessly (or is that
> not possible)?

Since the 0.17 release, commercial detection has been damned near flawless for 
me. I'm using more than just the default though. Can't remember the exact 
setting, but basically just turned on everything.

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Re: [mythtv-users] DCT-6200 w/ FireWire -- Looking for Input..

[Jarod Wilson]

On Sunday 27 March 2005 00:14, Big Wave Dave wrote:
> <--snip-->
>
> > > -I have seen that 2Ghz is recommended for an HD setup.  Is this enough
> > > for a frontend/backend combo... when capturing via firewire?
> >
> > Actually, 3GHz is recommended for an HD setup. You can get away with less
> > on a frontend-only system, but an all-in-one box needs to do more than
> > just playback, so you'd be pushing it.
>
> I don't really NEED full HD quality.  I will only be using SVIDEO
> output through an NVIDIA MX4000.
> I am just hoping to avoid the digital-->analog-->digital conversions
> by just using the firewire.
>
> Is it possible to record with firewire... but perhaps not capture at
> full HD quality?

No. Recording HD is a matter of dumping the encoded-by-the-head-end mpeg2 
stream to a file on disk. Can't resize it at recording time. You can 
transcode it to something smaller, but that's a rather time-consuming task, 
and won't do you any good for live TV.

> If so, maybe I can get away with less than 3Ghz?  It 
> seems like the price breaks are currently just bellow that.

With recent optimizations, while 3GHz is still recommended in your situation 
(combined backend/frontend) for optimal performance, its certainly possible 
you could get away with a bit less. I have a viewing-only system that is a 
mere 1.53GHz (Athlon XP 1800) and it handles 720p programming fine (though 
the cpu is pretty much pegged) and can *almost* keep up w/1080i and a deint 
filter (frequent stutter, but almost watchable). I've done quite a bit of 
work to tweak this machine to be able to get there though, its not something 
I'd recommend to anybody. Its more just a challenge for me -- I have a very 
under-utilized 2600 proc I could put in its place, but where's the fun in 
that? :-)

The odd thing with HD playback is that some folks with machines that should be 
more than powerful enough encounter playback problems (stutter, pegged cpu), 
while others (like myself) manage to get significantly slower systems 
working, so there's more to it than just raw CPU power. Choice of motherboard 
may have an impact, but I couldn't say definitively. Dunno about choice of 
kernel, I haven't had a problem with either stock FC3 kernels or 
hand-compiled ones.

A 2.8GHz P4 is probably fairly safe, and you could even have success with 2.4, 
but like I said, ymmv... Hyper-Threading seems to be a big win, you 
definitely want a P4 w/HT.

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[mythtv-users] "Record this show on this day every week"

[Niklas Brunlid]

Is it possible to tell MythTV to record a show on a specific day every  
week, when that show sometimes moves? The "record in this timeslot every  
week" option sometimes isn't enough. :)

Just asking because on some shows I now have 5 or 6 schedules for the same  
day since the channel likes to move things around, sometimes as little as  
5 minutes.

/ Niklas
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[mythtv-users] How well does commercial detection work?

[SpikeyGG]

All,
 
I'm wondering how well everyone else's commercial 
detection is working?  From what I've seen it seems like it gives me the 
basic jist of where a commercial IS and I go in and set the breakpoints to 
where the commercial really starts and stops.  However, I noticed 
from a recent recording of American Idol the breaks get further and further 
apart as the program continues.  Here's what I've found:
 
Using default, blank frame detection.
 
1st commercial break
 Enter off by 25.13 seconds
 Exit off by 19.17 seconds
2nd commercial break
 Enter off by 28.62 seconds
 Exit off by 34.68 seconds
3rd commercial break
 Enter off by 49.70 seconds
 Exit off by 49.28 seconds
4th commercial break
 Enter off by 58.18 seconds
 Exit off by 91.65 seconds
5th commercial break
 Enter off by 81.06 seconds
 Exit off by 78.30 seconds
 
Does anyone have the commercial detection working 
flawlessly (or is that not possible)?
 
Thanks,
-Greg
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RE: [mythtv-users] Commercial Detection

[William]

I find that it detects actual commercials quite well but sometimes does a
false commercial break. For that reason I turn off automatic skip and have a
button programmed on the remote to skip forward and another to skip back
that way if it screws up and marks the last 10 minutes of the show I can
jump back and then use the FF and RWD buttons to jump thru the bad
detection. Works quite well and wife acceptance factor is 100% now that she
is properly trained :) She sees the start of a commerical and loves the fact
she can hit one button and skip them all.

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aaron
> Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 12:54 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Commercial Detection
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I don't mean this to be a complaint, but rather more of a 
> data point...
> 
> On Jan 17, there was a fairly major revamping of the way 
> commerical detection works. I found that with this new code, 
> detection was working better than I ever imagined was possible.
> 
> Then, on Jan 23, there was a modification to the "brightness 
> thresholds". With this change, the commercial detection was 
> still VERY good, but not as good as the Jan 17 version.
> 
> Since then, other changes were made, including some sort of 
> aspect-ratio detection, I think. I've found that with the 
> current version, detection isn't as good as it was even prior 
> to Jan 17.
> 
> It works really well on some shows, especially ones that are 
> letterboxed, but on others it looks almost random sometimes. 
> A couple of shows that used to detect really well no longer 
> detect well. For example, Jeopardy (you can stop laughing now 
> :) . The first couple of breaks detect fine, but the Final 
> Jeopardy round is detected as a commercial now so that, 
> essentially, the show ends after Double Jeopardy. It does 
> this consistently now, night after night. With the "old" 
> version of the commercial detection, all the commercials were 
> detected correctly.
> 
> I don't know what to suggest for how to improve it. I'm sure 
> the current version is working great for some people. But for 
> me, it's not as good as it used to be. And it's not as good 
> as I know it can be.
> 
> -- 
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[mythtv-users] Re: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 26, Issue 184

[Gregg F]

I have  two qeuestsions.  First I tried the apt-get and it did not
work.  Is there a problem with my sources list?  in the meantime I
downloaded the rpms manually.  Second question.  How Do I use the
drivers?  modprobe?  If so can someone give me the syntax?  i tried
modprobe cx88-dvb, but get an error "FATAL: Error inserting cx88_dvb
(/lib/modules/2.6.10-1.770_14.rhfc3.at/v4l2/cx88-dvb.ko): Unknown
symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
FATAL: Error running install command for cx88_dvb"

Thanks.

-Gregg

> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:22:51 -0800
> From: Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] HD-3000 / Jarod's guide / atrpms
> To: Discussion about mythtv 
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> On Saturday 26 March 2005 17:17, Mr. Myth wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > in Jarods guide he mentions there might be a future update where we
> > could use rpms from atrpms with a hd-3000 card without having to compile
> > anything.
> >
> > I would be very happy with that prospect because it would mean my mythtv
> > box would be very simple to maintain.
> >
> > If we can do this now, does anyone have a pointer on how to get it going?
> 
> # apt-get install linuxtv-dvb-kmdl-`uname -r`
> # apt-get install linuxtv-dvb
> 
> That'll get you DVB drivers that include support for the HD-3000. ATrpms
> doesn't have the v4l variant of the HD-3000 driver at this time, so either
> use the DVB driver, or grab the pcHDTV-2.0 tarball from the pcHDTV web site.
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Frontend slave mode - duplicating a "master" frontend

[Mario L]

Well you can always hit spacebar before living the room in the case of
recordings.  It'll save yourself a bookmark to continue off of.  I
don't watch any live tv, and dont have any advice for it, however.


On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 14:30:24 +0100, Mark Hindess
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'd quite like to be able to set up a mythtv frontend in my kitchen.
> Most of the time, I'd like it to be as independent as my other
> frontends.  But I'd also like to be able to operate it in a "slave"
> mode, where it can show whatever is "showing" on my "master" living
> room frontend.  I'm mostly thinking about watching live tv and watching
> recordings - rather than mythvideo.  So that you could walk between the
> two rooms and carry on watching the same show.
> 
> Is this ever likely to be possible with mythtv?  (Obviously there will
> be synchronisation issues, but I think I can live with a certain amount
> of that.)
> 
> Regards,
>  Mark.
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Detection

[Mario L]

I was having similar problems with my new addiction Nip/Tuck.  I have
decided to just go on what commercial detection has been finding &
just creating a cut list before I watch the show.  Hell, it takes 5-10
minutes to put together a cutlst & the show doesnt break when suddenly
a commercial is detected 5 seconds long when Christian and Julia start
to make out (Megan O'hare episode), or a 3 second commercial break
while Juila walks in on Matt's 3 some.  Its probably better this way,
it forces me to perfect all the commercial breaks before I get ready
to burn to DVD, intead of just go on the breaks that are still a
little bit off.

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 12:54:07 -0500, aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I don't mean this to be a complaint, but rather more of a data point...
> 
> On Jan 17, there was a fairly major revamping of the way commerical
> detection works. I found that with this new code, detection was
> working better than I ever imagined was possible.
> 
> Then, on Jan 23, there was a modification to the "brightness
> thresholds". With this change, the commercial detection was still VERY
> good, but not as good as the Jan 17 version.
> 
> Since then, other changes were made, including some sort of
> aspect-ratio detection, I think. I've found that with the current
> version, detection isn't as good as it was even prior to Jan 17.
> 
> It works really well on some shows, especially ones that are
> letterboxed, but on others it looks almost random sometimes. A couple
> of shows that used to detect really well no longer detect well. For
> example, Jeopardy (you can stop laughing now :) . The first couple of
> breaks detect fine, but the Final Jeopardy round is detected as a
> commercial now so that, essentially, the show ends after Double
> Jeopardy. It does this consistently now, night after night. With the
> "old" version of the commercial detection, all the commercials were
> detected correctly.
> 
> I don't know what to suggest for how to improve it. I'm sure the
> current version is working great for some people. But for me, it's not
> as good as it used to be. And it's not as good as I know it can be.
> 
> --
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Re: [mythtv-users] Small Disto for FrontEnd

[Mario L]

Okay then, in the case of NFS then, it would be to my advantage to do
the gigabit networking that I was thinking was pointless for a mythtv
network then, since everything is initially ran from network, from
what I understand?


On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 09:02:44 -0700, Adam Felson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 00:52 -0500, Mario L wrote:
> > So then does the PXE boot run all the files off nfs, or does it cache
> > them locally in memory?
> All PXE boot does it bring the kernel in.  Once the actually kernel that
> is going to be used is loaded, the PXE bootloader is gone.
> 
> I'm not sure how NFS handles caching.  Programs that are running have
> their active parts sitting in memory.  A peek at 'vmstat' on my running
> epia mythfrontend shows:
> procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io --system--
> cpu
> r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   sobibo   incs us sy
> id wa
> 0  0  0 185596  0  234600098 0  151   138  7  0
> 92  0
> 
> So, there's some caching going on.
> 
> It's a good idea to use a ramdisk for /tmp.
> I have in /etc/fstab:
> tmpfs   /tmp   tmpfs   defaults,nosuid,size=4M,mode=777   0 0
> 
> On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 00:52 -0500, Mario L wrote:
> > So then does the PXE boot run all the files off nfs, or does it cache
> > them locally in memory?
> >
> > On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:13:36 -0700, Adam Felson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 15:40 -0500, Mario L wrote:
> > > > Where have you been looking about PXE booting?  I am considering
> > > > setting up PXEboot for my next upcoming frontend, and I was going to
> > > > go the gentoo route with it:
> > > >
> > > PXE booting was a snap for me using gentoo.
> > > Steps:
> > >   set up dhcp server and have frontend boot pxelinux
> > >   compile a kernel that does uses nfs root partition
> > >   copy gentoo stage 2 to directory where root is mounted
> > >   on big desktop, chroot to that directory follow the gentoo howto for
> > > building the system ('emerge system' etc.)
> > >
> > >
> >
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[mythtv-users] Up/Down keys

[aaron]

Hi,

Is there a way to stop the Up/Down keys from jumping back and forward
while watching a recording? This "feature" has been bugging me ever
since the code was checked in way back when. Particularly since it's
unintuitive; Up should jump forward rather than backward. But, I
checked in MythWeb's key bindings and the only keys I have mapped to
jumping forward and backward are PgUp and PgDn, so it seems like
Up/Down are still hardcoded.

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[mythtv-users] Commercial Detection

[aaron]

Hi,
I don't mean this to be a complaint, but rather more of a data point...

On Jan 17, there was a fairly major revamping of the way commerical
detection works. I found that with this new code, detection was
working better than I ever imagined was possible.

Then, on Jan 23, there was a modification to the "brightness
thresholds". With this change, the commercial detection was still VERY
good, but not as good as the Jan 17 version.

Since then, other changes were made, including some sort of
aspect-ratio detection, I think. I've found that with the current
version, detection isn't as good as it was even prior to Jan 17.

It works really well on some shows, especially ones that are
letterboxed, but on others it looks almost random sometimes. A couple
of shows that used to detect really well no longer detect well. For
example, Jeopardy (you can stop laughing now :) . The first couple of
breaks detect fine, but the Final Jeopardy round is detected as a
commercial now so that, essentially, the show ends after Double
Jeopardy. It does this consistently now, night after night. With the
"old" version of the commercial detection, all the commercials were
detected correctly.

I don't know what to suggest for how to improve it. I'm sure the
current version is working great for some people. But for me, it's not
as good as it used to be. And it's not as good as I know it can be.

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[mythtv-users] mythweb keybindings mouse control

[Brian LeFevre]

I have a wireless multi-button mouse that I would like to substitute for 
a remote control(without losing any mouse functions).  I have played 
around with the mythweb keybinding page trying to add button 4 button 5 
(mouse wheel)... as keys.  I then went and found the correct xkeycode 
from  and tried to use them.  However after restarting 
the frontend those keys still do nothing.

Is there a way to do this?  Does myth keys accept keycodes?  I figure if 
it did that would mean I could map my buttons.

Thanks,
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[mythtv-users] Re: [mythtv] Freezes on 64bit when starting recordings or LiveTV

[Jonas Meurer]

On 27/03/2005 Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Sunday 27 March 2005 05:59 am, Adam Egger wrote:
> > Ok, I've found an old patch from Kyle Rose to replace all
> > pthread_rwlock_* calls with a mix of pthread_mutex_* and
> > pthread_cond_*:
> > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/107232?search_string=pth
> >read_rwlock;#107232
> >
> > Isaac, is it a bad solution to replace them permanently in RingBuffer.cpp?
> 
> Yes.  That patch isn't correct, and I'm not going to stop using standard 
> functionality just because it's broken on one little-used platform.  I'm 
> fairly sure people are using native 64-bit stuff elsewhere, so it's just 
> seems like Debian's behind as usual.

i upgraded the patch for mythtv 0.17 anyway, as i don't want to wait for
debian/pure64 to fix the glibc.

here it is, for all the people that like to run mythtv 0.17 on
debian/unstable pure64.

bye
 jonas
diff -ru mythtv-0.17.orig/libs/libmythtv/RingBuffer.cpp 
mythtv-0.17/libs/libmythtv/RingBuffer.cpp
--- mythtv-0.17.orig/libs/libmythtv/RingBuffer.cpp  2005-03-27 
14:59:20.0 +0200
+++ mythtv-0.17/libs/libmythtv/RingBuffer.cpp   2005-03-27 15:00:11.396760584 
+0200
@@ -490,14 +490,17 @@
 numfailures = 0;
 commserror = false;
 
-pthread_rwlock_init(&rwlock, NULL);
+pthread_mutex_init(&hammerlock, NULL);
+pthread_cond_init(&hammercond, NULL);
+readers = 0;
+writers = 0;
 }
 
 RingBuffer::~RingBuffer(void)
 {
 KillReadAheadThread();
 
-pthread_rwlock_wrlock(&rwlock);
+unlock();
 if (remotefile)
 {
 delete remotefile;
@@ -525,7 +528,7 @@
 void RingBuffer::Reset(void)
 {
 wantseek = true;
-pthread_rwlock_wrlock(&rwlock);
+write_lock_wait();
 wantseek = false;
 
 if (!normalfile)
@@ -552,7 +555,7 @@
 numfailures = 0;
 commserror = false;
 
-pthread_rwlock_unlock(&rwlock);
+unlock();
 }
 
 int RingBuffer::safe_read(int fd, void *data, unsigned sz)
@@ -616,12 +619,43 @@
 return ret;
 }
 
+void RingBuffer::read_lock_wait()
+{
+pthread_mutex_lock(&hammerlock);
+while (writers > 0)
+{
+pthread_cond_wait(&hammercond, &hammerlock);
+}
+readers++;
+pthread_mutex_unlock(&hammerlock);
+}
+
+void RingBuffer::write_lock_wait()
+{
+pthread_mutex_lock(&hammerlock);
+while (readers > 0 || writers > 0)
+{
+pthread_cond_wait(&hammercond, &hammerlock);
+}
+writers = 1;
+pthread_mutex_unlock(&hammerlock);
+}
+
+void RingBuffer::unlock()
+{
+pthread_mutex_lock(&hammerlock);
+if (readers > 0) readers--;
+else writers = 0;
+pthread_cond_signal(&hammercond);
+pthread_mutex_unlock(&hammerlock);
+}
+
 #define READ_AHEAD_SIZE (10 * 256000)
 
 void RingBuffer::CalcReadAheadThresh(int estbitrate)
 {
 wantseek = true;
-pthread_rwlock_wrlock(&rwlock);
+write_lock_wait();
 wantseek = false;
 
 fill_threshold = 0;
@@ -653,7 +687,7 @@
 if (fill_min == 0)
 fill_min = -1;
 
-pthread_rwlock_unlock(&rwlock);
+unlock();
 }
 
 int RingBuffer::ReadBufFree(void)
@@ -793,7 +827,7 @@
 
 readaheadpaused = false;
 
-pthread_rwlock_rdlock(&rwlock);
+   read_lock_wait();
 if (totfree > readblocksize && !commserror)
 {
 // limit the read size
@@ -901,7 +935,7 @@
 }
 availWaitMutex.unlock();
 
-pthread_rwlock_unlock(&rwlock);
+   unlock();
 
 if ((used >= fill_threshold || wantseek) && !pausereadthread)
 usleep(500);
@@ -1012,7 +1046,7 @@
 
 int RingBuffer::Read(void *buf, int count)
 {
-pthread_rwlock_rdlock(&rwlock);
+read_lock_wait();
 
 int ret = -1;
 if (normalfile)
@@ -1068,7 +1102,7 @@
 {
 if (stopreads)
 {
-pthread_rwlock_unlock(&rwlock);
+   unlock();
 return 0;
 }
 
@@ -1087,7 +1121,7 @@
 if (stopreads)
 {
 availWaitMutex.unlock();
-pthread_rwlock_unlock(&rwlock);
+   unlock();
 return 0;
 }
 }
@@ -1118,7 +1152,7 @@
 }
 }
 
-pthread_rwlock_unlock(&rwlock);
+unlock();
 return ret;
 }
 
@@ -1126,11 +1160,11 @@
 {
 bool ret = false;
 int used, free;
-pthread_rwlock_rdlock(&rwlock);
+unlock();
 
 if (!tfw)
 {
-pthread_rwlock_unlock(&rwlock);
+unlock();
 return ret;
 }
 
@@ -1139,7 +1173,7 @@
 
 ret = (used * 5 > free);
 
-pthread_rwlock_unlock(&rwlock);
+unlock();
 return ret;
 }
 
@@ -1147,11 +1181,11 @@
 {
 int ret = -1;
 
-pthread_rwlock_rdlock(&rwlock);
+unlock();
 
 if (!tfw)
 {
-pthread_rwlock_unlock(&rwlock);
+unlock();
 return ret;
 }
 
@@ -1200,7 +1234,7 @@
 availWaitMutex.unlock();
 }
 
-pthread_rwlock_unlock(&rwlock);
+unlock();
 return ret;
 }
 
@@

Re: [mythtv-users] Transcode makes files bigger

[Chris Pinkham]

> If I correctly understand the current state of this problem,
> mythtranscode, as late as 0.17, but fixed somewhere in CVS (maybe) has
> a problem where it switches to outputting RAW mode frames, due to
> system load during the transcode.  Captain Murdoch (from IRC) was
> chasing this around, and I believe he said he found it, though I don't
> know whether the patch was committed yet or not.

I committed a patch to CVS that I hoped would fix this issue.  I set a flag
to prevent going to RAW mode when transcoding.  I've never seen the
problem myself and thought this only occurred when going to RTJPEG.

If anyone is seeing this problem running current CVS, please let me know
and I'll take another look.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Small Disto for FrontEnd

[Adam Felson]

On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 00:52 -0500, Mario L wrote: 
> So then does the PXE boot run all the files off nfs, or does it cache
> them locally in memory?
All PXE boot does it bring the kernel in.  Once the actually kernel that
is going to be used is loaded, the PXE bootloader is gone.

I'm not sure how NFS handles caching.  Programs that are running have
their active parts sitting in memory.  A peek at 'vmstat' on my running
epia mythfrontend shows:
procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io --system--
cpu
r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   sobibo   incs us sy
id wa
0  0  0 185596  0  234600098 0  151   138  7  0
92  0

So, there's some caching going on.

It's a good idea to use a ramdisk for /tmp.
I have in /etc/fstab:
tmpfs   /tmp   tmpfs   defaults,nosuid,size=4M,mode=777   0 0

On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 00:52 -0500, Mario L wrote:
> So then does the PXE boot run all the files off nfs, or does it cache
> them locally in memory?
> 
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:13:36 -0700, Adam Felson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 15:40 -0500, Mario L wrote:
> > > Where have you been looking about PXE booting?  I am considering
> > > setting up PXEboot for my next upcoming frontend, and I was going to
> > > go the gentoo route with it:
> > >
> > PXE booting was a snap for me using gentoo.
> > Steps:
> >   set up dhcp server and have frontend boot pxelinux
> >   compile a kernel that does uses nfs root partition
> >   copy gentoo stage 2 to directory where root is mounted
> >   on big desktop, chroot to that directory follow the gentoo howto for
> > building the system ('emerge system' etc.)
> > 
> >
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Mythtv playbackproblemwithNVIDIAvideoacceleration - HELP!

[John Sturgeon]

Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote:
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce FX 5200/AGP/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.5.3 NVIDIA 71.67
OpenGL extensions:
(full output attached)
Looks OK to me  - glxgears rocks along - much better than the older 
drivers :

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ glxgears
6733 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1346.600 FPS
7064 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1412.800 FPS
7053 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1410.600 FPS
7081 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1416.200 FPS
Hmmm...
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 6600/AGP/SSE2/3DNOW!
OpenGL version string: 1.5.3 NVIDIA 71.67
OpenGL extensions:
I've got a GeForce 6600GT, AMD 64 3200+ and I'm getting a measly 578.4 
fps  What gives?

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