date:20050504

Hi,

I have a P4 3.0E GHz CPU in the Pundit-R.  It's running the latest
2.6.11 smp kernel from FC3.  When I try to play HDTV, the CPU usage
for mythfrontend is >97%.  However the total CPU usage is only around
75%.  The playback quanlity is really bad, even worse than my other
computer, a P4 2.4 GHz running 2.6.10 non-smp FC3 kernel.

Now my question is whether it's a good idea to use smp kernel.  I
don't know much about this HyperThreading business and how well the
linux smp kernel supports it.  But isn't it the case that mythfrontend
can only use "half" of the CPU power?  Or is there a special
mythtv-suite from ATrpm that is specifically for smp kernels?  I
installed my mythtv by apt-get mythtv-suite.

Thanks,

Xiaotian
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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 records only one channel

2005-05-04 Thread Leo Przybylski

All,
I figured out why it would only play for a few seconds. I needed to 
enable libmpeg2 decoding.

Still having the other problem though. I can only watch channel 4.. Even 
with LiveTV (now that I have it working.)

Leo Przybylski
Leo Przybylski wrote:
Hello,
I believe I saw a thread on this earlier, but I can't seem to find it. 
If anyone has a link to the thread from the archives, that would be 
helpful.

My problem is that when I watch LiveTV with MythTv 0.18 using my 
PVR-250, it only plays for about 2 seconds and then hangs and kicks 
out. I see the following in my mythbackend output:
2005-05-04 21:48:01.391 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-05-04 21:48:10.967 joined null string in WriteStringList
2005-05-04 21:48:31.243 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None

I am able to schedule a recording; however, no matter what station I 
choose using the EPG, it only records channel 4. Very unusual to me.

Does anyone have any ideas? BTW, yes. I got tired of my bt878 card and 
am now on pvr-250. I'm happy that sound finally works. If only I could 
watch the channel I want for longer than 2 seconds.

Leo Przybylski

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[mythtv-users] PVR-250 records only one channel

2005-05-04 Thread Leo Przybylski

Hello,
I believe I saw a thread on this earlier, but I can't seem to find it. 
If anyone has a link to the thread from the archives, that would be 
helpful.

My problem is that when I watch LiveTV with MythTv 0.18 using my 
PVR-250, it only plays for about 2 seconds and then hangs and kicks out. 
I see the following in my mythbackend output:
2005-05-04 21:48:01.391 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-05-04 21:48:10.967 joined null string in WriteStringList
2005-05-04 21:48:31.243 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None

I am able to schedule a recording; however, no matter what station I 
choose using the EPG, it only records channel 4. Very unusual to me.

Does anyone have any ideas? BTW, yes. I got tired of my bt878 card and 
am now on pvr-250. I'm happy that sound finally works. If only I could 
watch the channel I want for longer than 2 seconds.

Leo Przybylski

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[mythtv-users] No sound from ripped dvd

2005-05-04 Thread Jamie Swindall









I am having trouble ripping dvd’s and getting sound. 
I get sound on some dvd’s but not others.  I’m sure it has
something to do with DTS.  Even if I don’t choose DTS when I rip the dvd, 
If I get out of Mythtv and run mplayer from a terminal I see a message about
not being able to play DTS.  Any ideas?  

 

Jamie  






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Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

2005-05-04 Thread Drew Tomlinson

On 5/4/2005 6:38 PM David Brieck Jr. wrote:
On 5/4/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

Thanks for the tip!  Your the second that has recommended Gentoo.  I may
go that route as it sounds more like the FreeBSD that I am used to.  I
just tried Fedora because it's very similar to RedHat and RedHat is the
only "allowed" distro (because of support contracts) at my place of
employment.  Thus I'd be "killing two birds with one stone", so to speak.
   


Well, then let me be the 3rd to recomend gentoo. The servers I admin
at work are RedHat so I get plenty of RPM hell there. It's nice to
come home and sit in front of my Myth setup and just relax. Another
nice thing for me is that I can upgrade just myth and it's
dependancies and not worry about upgrading to the last FC version or
whatnot. My Myth box is still running a 2.4 kernel and old stuff all
over the place but I don't have any problems upgrading myth whenever
there is a new version. Some would say Gentoo is not a stable platform
but I say it's as stable as you want it to be.
 

Well as they say, "the third time is the charm!".  I went to the 
gentoo.org web site and like what I see.  I have been completely 
frustrated with Fedora and the packages "getting in my way".  I've 
missed the simple 'portinstall ' and have the system build from 
source, optimized for my processor and environment.  Gentoo seems to 
have this with 'emerge' and may provide a "best of both worlds" 
solutions for me.  I'll learn how Linux works and be able to find my way 
around a RedHat system without too much trouble.  I'll learn to deal 
with rpm issues at work but my home system will be mine to do with as I 
wish.

I'm downloading the universal install CD now.  It will take too long for 
me to try it tonight but hopefully I'll get a chance tomorrow.

Thanks for your suggestions!
Drew
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Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor PX-TV402U not recognized by KnoppMythTv

2005-05-04 Thread Nathan Lutchansky

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 08:15:09PM +0100, Peter Pauwels wrote:
> Again I tried the gorecord application by executing
> "gorecord -duration 60 test.avi". It returned the
> following output:
> 
> /dev/video0 is a GO7007 device at USB address 3-1:1.0
> Attempting to determine audio device...using audio
> device /dev/dsp1
> Using input port Composite
> Capturing video at 640x480
> VIDIOC_STREAMON: Input/output error

The most likely cause for this is that the driver was unable to read the 
firmware file.  Try running `dmesg` to get the full kernel output.  There 
is probably some message in there about missing files or something that 
should help.  -Nathan


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Re: [mythtv-users] Recordings to DVD

2005-05-04 Thread Dave Caplinger

On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 13:27 -0400, Andrew Hogue wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just wanted to hear from people who have been able to transfer their
> recordings to DVD successfully with Menus.
..
> Basically, the process I use is:
> 
> - record shows using mythtv 0.17 + pvr250 at 720x480 2200 bitrate
> - find commercial breaks and flag them
> - use latest nuvexport to export MPEG2->MPEG2(cutlist only)  I have also
> tried the MPEG->DVD option resulting in the same problem.
> - create menu menu.xml file using qdvdauthor
> - run dvdauthor -x "menu.xml"

After lots of help from this list, I do the following:

- Record shows using mythtv 0.16 + pvr250 @ 720x480
- Export shows w/ nuvexport (to .nuv & .sql)
- Open .nuv file in gopdit, edit commercials
   (I find this a lot faster than trying to do it in MythTV)
- Use qdvdauthor to make menus, add background images

As for gopdit - make sure that in 'Preferences -> Postprocessing' you're
calling replex.  My postprocessing filter command is:

  replex -k -i PS -t DVD -o "%s" &> /dev/null

which as far as I remember is the default anyway.  I also have the
'Adjust GOP timing' feature on.  I get tons of warnings spewed about A/V
sync issues, but it works anyway.  Also, keep in mind that in gopdit you
select which portions you want to keep, not which portions you want to
cut out.

My qdvdauthor config is a bit more complicated:

I usually change the jpeg2yuv call from
   jpeg2yuv -n 50 ...
to:
   jpeg2yuv -n 450 ...

in the "create DVD" dialog in order to increase the time that the menu
plays before starting over.  I also usually have qdvdauthor write it's
output commands to a script file and then run it myself rather than
doing it from the interface since I'm typically doing it remotely over
X11, and running the script like:

   nohup ./build.sh &

sends the script output to nohup.out where I can 'tail -f' it to keep
track of what it's doing, and this output is a lot faster than trying to
keep the X gui updated.

Speaking of doing this remotely via X11, I do the gopdit edit sessons
remotely as well; it's still faster than trying to edit commercials with
an IR remote directly in MythTV (for me at least).

For background images, I use avidemux2 to find a nice frame and export
it as a .jpg, but that's all I'm using avidemux2 for.

Finally - qdvdauthor and gopdit are both kind of particular; gopdit has
a habit of not keeping it's clipping list display in the window updated,
even though it really is keeping correct track of what you are clipping.
Qdvdauthor is similarly finicky; you really need to build the DVD in a
very specific order:

1) Start qdvdauthor
2) Immediately go to Tools -> Setup and define the DVD name, working
directory, etc.
3) Import a background image (lo and behold, your frame size will now
change)
4) Add your movie sources
5) Drag your movie sources to make buttons (get used to keeping track of
what X and Y positions you're using so you can manually line things up)
6) Change your button label text font, color, etc. (keeping track of X,Y
coords for alignment)
7) DVD Author -> Create DVD
8) Make the "-n 50" to "-n 450" change at the beginning of the jpeg2nuv
commandline
9) Start the build (or export the commands and run the script yourself)

One bad thing that I've seen w/ qdvdauthor is that it won't let you
select which frame of your movie you want to use for the button - it
uses the first frame.  So if that frame is black, you're going to have
very boring buttons.  Maybe this has been addressed in a newer version;
you can see that I'm not on current code for any of this. (It hasn't
been broken enough to warrant "fixing" yet...)

I hope this helps you...

-- 
Dave Caplinger

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Re: [mythtv-users] SPDIF, Stutter and Query for where to look for more help

2005-05-04 Thread Jeff Wormsley

Howard Cokl wrote:
Didn't work for me either, I think it is something
about SELinux.
 

When installing, I told it not to use SELinux, but that doesn't mean it 
respected that (or that a dist-upgrade didn't put it back).  Not sure 
how to check, and disable it if it is enabled.  Hopefully Google will 
turn up something.

I think I had a problem with glx in the beginning and
fixed it.  My problem was that in
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions there was the
libglx.a (part of xorg) and X was finding that instead
of the nvidia/libglx.so so I:
#cd /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/
#mv libglx.a xlibglx.a
#ln -s nvidia-graphics-1.0-7174/libglx.so.1.0.7174
libglx.so
#telinit 3; telinit 5
#grep -i glx /var/log/Xorg.o.log
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) Loading extension NV-GLX
(II) Initializing extension GLX
I just installed 6629 via apt-get and now I have my
1080i modeline working, thanks.  I changed my ln -s
line above to:
ln -s nvidia/libglx.so libglx.so 
that way it will still work if I ever change nvidia
drivers again.
 

So, instead of:
#ln -s nvidia-graphics-1.0-7174/libglx.so.1.0.7174 libglx.so
Use:
# ln -s nvidia/libglx.so libglx.so 

Right?
I will be giving this a try shortly.
Thanks!
 Jeff.
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Re: [mythtv-users] IR Adapter: Recommendations?

2005-05-04 Thread Preet Khalsa


> atilibusb <-- Is this the Driver you're referring to??

Yes that is the one.

> Is there any other type of Infra_Red which adapter which will work under
> LIRC? I bought a Serial_IrDa adapter and it doesn't work.

Don't know.  I searched for one and settled on the ATI RF one.


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Re: [mythtv-users] SPDIF, Stutter and Query for where to look for more help

2005-05-04 Thread Jeff Wormsley

Michael T. Dean wrote:
Are you still using ALSA:spdif?  That will not work.  spdif is an 
alias that sends the stream directly to the digital output (on your 
card, hw:0,4)--which is expecting 48000Hz PCM (for PCM, that is--AC3 
would also work, but you won't get that from NTSC broadcasts).  You'll 
need to change it to ALSA:mixed-digital or ALSA:digital or uncomment 
the appropriate lines of the .asoundrc to set your default output and 
use ALSA:default.  Note that if using OSS emulation, you'll need to 
set the default output appropriately (meaning you might as well set it).

No, I also did this:
pcm.!default {
 type plug
 slave.pcm "dmix-digital"
}
... and set ALSA:default.

GF2 would probably have the same problems.  It's probably because of 
using the wrong GL libraries (i.e. the ones in X instead of nVidia's), 
but that's a whole different thread...  :)

I see that in the post from Howard Cokl.  I will give that a try.
I wouldn't necessarily say that's true.  Audio processing tends to 
require little effort from modern CPU's.  Once you configure yours 
correctly, it should work fine.
I'll try to get this one working, but if not, I can borrow a SB card, I 
think, to try out.

Don't know about the Hercules.  The only hardware ones I have are SB 
cards with the Emu10K1, but I haven't bought a discrete sound card in 
6 years, so...
I haven't either, since my Turtle Beach Montego II (and it was 
surplus).  Onboard has worked well for everything I have tried until now.

Thanks again for the pointers.
Jeff.
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Re: [mythtv-users] strange scheduling decisions

2005-05-04 Thread Bruce Markey

Peter Lee wrote:
But...I'm very confused.  I do indeed have two different sources. 
Card 1 is on digital cable and card 2 is on analog cable.  (I.e., I
have only one digital cable box.)  So, card 1 is on the digital cable
source and card 2 is on the analog cable source.  The channels are as
they were provided by zap2it (and they appear to be correct because I
do in fact get correct recordings on both sources).
Then you have it set up correctly. I was mistaken. I thought
I saw channels over 100 on card 2 but that was incorrect.
Anyway, unless I really do not understand how this works (which is
definitely possible), I think each card should have a different
source, right?
Right.
When I run:

$ mysql -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg
mysql> select count(*) from program where starttime > '20050504'
and starttime < '20050506' and chanid < 2000;

I get:
+--+
| count(*) |
+--+
| 3815 |
+--+
1 row in set (7.82 sec)
That's surprising. There may have been some other error in the
data that cause the system to believe that it could not use the
data for source 1 for that day.
Wow, thanks for the help.  I still don't know what happened, but it is
fixed now.  Is it possible that mythtv's status message could report
that the mythfilldatabase succeeded when it actually did not?
Well, it did get 3487 entries for that day but apparently the
data was incorrect in some way so that it could not be used.
Never heard of a problem like this before. I'd chalk it up as
an anomaly unless it happens again.
--  bjm
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Re: [mythtv-users] Burning NUV files to DVD

2005-05-04 Thread Tim Tait

Terry Griffin wrote:
The problem with searching the archives on popular questions
is that you have to wade through all the posts saying "search
the archives" before you find the posts that have useful
information. That was the problem I experienced when trying to
resolve the 0.17 daylight savings time issue. I found lots of
posts telling me to search the archives when that's what I was
already doing. It was very frustrating. It's like having
an FAQ where the answer to every question is "Look in the FAQ
you dolt."
Stuff like this needs to get migrated in to some sort of real
FAQ, even if the FAQ contains nothing but links to the *useful*
postings in the archive. Then people can be told to look in the
FAQ instead of the archives, and they'll get better results
when they look there.
Terry
I agree!
Tim
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Re: [mythtv-users] Someone PLEASE help. No OpenGL Transistions inMythgallery

2005-05-04 Thread Matt Redmon

Howard Cokl wrote:
I think I had a problem with glx in the beginning and
fixed it.  My problem was that in
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions there was the
libglx.a (part of xorg) and X was finding that instead
of the nvidia/libglx.so so I:
#cd /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/
#mv libglx.a xlibglx.a
#ln -s nvidia-graphics-1.0-7174/libglx.so.1.0.7174
libglx.so
#telinit 3; telinit 5
#grep -i glx /var/log/Xorg.o.log
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) Loading extension NV-GLX
(II) Initializing extension GLX
Oh, good, you beat me to it.  I was going to mention the same thing (but 
I'm at work and didn't have access to the exact filenames to mention). 
This was with the ATrpms for nVidia.  My symptom was that it caused by 
machine to bail out of X whenever any application used GLX calls 
(glxgears, bzflag, etc.).  I'm sure that installing libglx.so.xxx into a 
subdirectory of /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions was deliberate on Axel's 
part, but its apparently not normal for X to check subdirectories of that 
directory for additional extensions on startup, and I couldn't figure out 
which config file to tweak to make it look there.
Thank you both for mentioning this.  I had that exact problem but since I 
didn't want to re-compile with opengl-sync enabled, I had ignored the 
problem.  Moving and linking the files got me working opengl and 60 fps in 
glxgears.  Disabling vsync in nvidia-settings bumped me up to 1460 on my 
7NIF2's integrated MX400.

Thanks!
Matt 

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Re: [mythtv-users] Setup locking up when I go into capture cards

2005-05-04 Thread Bill Chmura


Well, I went back and reinstalled all the ivtv stuff and now something
different happens.  When I select Capture cards from the mythtv-setup
and then new card I get a seg fault.  This happens on 0.18 and on CVS
from about 2 weeks ago.

Any ideas would be great!

As far as I can tell ivtv is still loaded and active.

This from dmesg...

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
0037 printing eip:
e087916b
*pde = 
Oops:  [#1]
PREEMPT SMP 
Modules linked in: ivtv_fb msp3400 saa7127 saa7115 tuner tveeprom ivtv
i2c_algo_   bit i2c_core videodev CPU:0
EIP:0060:[]Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010206   (2.6.11-gentoo-r5) 
EIP is at video_open+0x4b/0x120 [videodev]
eax: 0003   ebx:    ecx:    edx: dabcc100
esi: dabcc100   edi:    ebp: df2d88a0   esp: db930edc
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process mythtv-setup (pid: 6392, threadinfo=db93 task=dfca1040)
Stack: db93 c0167960 00ff dfcc7380 e0879120  df2d88a0
c0167806 df2d88a0 dabcc100 db930f0c 0001  dabcc100 
df2d88a0 c1510ec0 c015cf6a df2d88a0 dabcc100 0001  8002
000c Call Trace:
 [] exact_match+0x0/0x10
 [] video_open+0x0/0x120 [videodev]
 [] chrdev_open+0xf6/0x1c0
 [] dentry_open+0x16a/0x270
 [] filp_open+0x68/0x70
 [] _spin_unlock+0xd/0x30
 [] get_unused_fd+0xa2/0xd0
 [] sys_open+0x45/0xe0
 [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Code: 24 0c 8b 5d 38 81 e3 ff ff 0f 00 81 fb ff 00 00 00 77 48 f0 ff 0d
c4 a5 87e0 0f 88 53 05 00 00 8b 04 9d 40 a7
87 e0 85 c0 74 6f <8b> 40 34 8b 5e 10 85 c0
74 0b 8b 10 85 d2 74 07 83 3a 02 75 02 


This is from before in the dmesg when the ivtv stuff loads...

Linux video capture interface: v1.00
ivtv:  START INIT IVTV 
ivtv: version 0.2.0 (rc3j) loading
ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 SMP preempt PENTIUMIII 4KSTACKS
gcc-3.3 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info
ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when
ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist.
ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 350 card
ivtv: Found an iTVC15 based chip
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 12
PCI: setting IRQ 12 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI interrupt :02:0e.0[A] -> GSI 12 (level, low) -> IRQ 12
ivtv: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x1130 vendor: 0x8086
tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 48132, rev = K168, serial# = 2947544
tveeprom: tuner = LG TAPE H001F MK3 (idx = 68, type = 47)
tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x1000)
tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3440 (type = 11)
ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[0],ok]
ivtv: Tuner Type 47, Tuner formats 0x1000, Radio: yes, Model
0x00ad1598, Rev   ision 0x0001 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]
saa7115: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005)
saa7115: detecting saa7115 client on address 0x42
saa7115: writing init values
ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7115[0],ok]
saa7115: status: (1E) 0x48, (1F) 0xc0
saa7127: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones
saa7127: video encoder driver version V 0.3 loaded
saa7127: detecting saa7127 client on address 0x88
saa7127: Selecting NTSC video Standard
saa7127: Selecting S-Video+Composite
saa7127: Turn WSS off
saa7127: Widescreen Mode 4:3 Full Format
saa7127: Selecting Normal Encoder Input
saa7127: Enable Video Output
ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7127[0],ok]
msp34xx: ivtv version
msp34xx: init: chip=MSP3448W-A2, has NICAM support, simple (D) mode,
simpler (G)no-thread mode msp34xx: $Id$
compiled on: May  4 2005 21:41:18 ivtv: i2c attach [client=MSP3448W-
A2,ok] ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040024
ivtv: Encoder Firmware may be buggy, use version 0x02040011
ivtv: Decoder revision: 0x02020023
ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 350 card with 9 streams
ivtv: Create DMA stream 0 using 256 16384 byte buffers  4194304 kbytes
total ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 0 minor 1
ivtv: Create DMA stream 1 
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 1 minor 32
ivtv: Create stream 2 using 40 52224 byte buffers  2097152 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 2 minor 224
ivtv: Create DMA stream 3 using 455 4608 byte buffers  2097152 kbytes
total ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 3 minor 24
ivtv: Create stream 4 
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 4 minor 67
ivtv: Create DMA stream 5 using 16 65536 byte buffers  1048576 kbytes
total ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 5 minor 16
ivtv: Create stream 6 using 1024 2048 byte buffers  262144 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 6 minor 228
ivtv: Create stream 7 
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 7 minor 232
ivtv: Create DMA stre

Re: [mythtv-users] strange scheduling decisions

2005-05-04 Thread Peter Lee

On 5/4/05, Bruce Markey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Peter Lee wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, I wonder if maybe there was a 24-hour long program scheduled for
> > Wednesday, but this doesn't seem to be the case.  Anyway, here is the
> > output from "mythbackend --printsched".
> 
> Okay, you do have two sourceids. Card 1 input 1 is associated with
> source 1 and card 2 input 2 is associated with source 2. Is this
> intentional? Are they really receiving different sets of channels
> like one is a digital cable box and the other is analog? Or, did
> you not know that you could/should use the same source if the
> station are from the same provider? It looks like you have channels
> over 100 on both and the same stations are on the same channels.
> If so, run mythtv-setup again and change the source for the
> second card's input to be the same as the first. As it is, you
> are probably pulling the same data twice each night. and it
> failed to fill the data for one of them.
> 
> $ mysql -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg
> 
> mysql> select count(*) from program where starttime > '20050504'
> and starttime < '20050506' and chanid < 2000;
> 
> mysql> select count(*) from program where starttime > '20050504'
> and starttime < '20050506' and chanid > 2000;
> 
> I suspect the first one will return pretty much zero and the
> second thousands.
> 
> Manually run "mythfilldatabase --refresh-today". The sooner the
> better =).
> 
> --  bjm

Thanks for the info.

But...I'm very confused.  I do indeed have two different sources. 
Card 1 is on digital cable and card 2 is on analog cable.  (I.e., I
have only one digital cable box.)  So, card 1 is on the digital cable
source and card 2 is on the analog cable source.  The channels are as
they were provided by zap2it (and they appear to be correct because I
do in fact get correct recordings on both sources).

Anyway, unless I really do not understand how this works (which is
definitely possible), I think each card should have a different
source, right?

When I run:

> $ mysql -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg
> 
> mysql> select count(*) from program where starttime > '20050504'
> and starttime < '20050506' and chanid < 2000;

I get:

+--+
| count(*) |
+--+
| 3815 |
+--+
1 row in set (7.82 sec)

And for:

> mysql> select count(*) from program where starttime > '20050504'
> and starttime < '20050506' and chanid > 2000;

I get:

+--+
| count(*) |
+--+
| 3487 |
+--+
1 row in set (2.57 sec)

The status message says that last night's mythfilldatabase succeeded. 
(This was the first thing I checked when I noticed the scheduling
anomaly.)  But anyway, following your advice, I just ran
"mythfilldatabase --refresh-today", and that seems to have cleared up
the problem.  So indeed it appears that source 1's data for Thursday
was not present.

Wow, thanks for the help.  I still don't know what happened, but it is
fixed now.  Is it possible that mythtv's status message could report
that the mythfilldatabase succeeded when it actually did not?

Peter
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Re: [mythtv-users] strange scheduling decisions

2005-05-04 Thread Bruce Markey

Peter Lee wrote:
Yeah, I wonder if maybe there was a 24-hour long program scheduled for
Wednesday, but this doesn't seem to be the case.  Anyway, here is the
output from "mythbackend --printsched".
Okay, you do have two sourceids. Card 1 input 1 is associated with
source 1 and card 2 input 2 is associated with source 2. Is this
intentional? Are they really receiving different sets of channels
like one is a digital cable box and the other is analog? Or, did
you not know that you could/should use the same source if the
station are from the same provider? It looks like you have channels
over 100 on both and the same stations are on the same channels.
If so, run mythtv-setup again and change the source for the
second card's input to be the same as the first. As it is, you
are probably pulling the same data twice each night. and it
failed to fill the data for one of them.
$ mysql -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg
mysql> select count(*) from program where starttime > '20050504'
and starttime < '20050506' and chanid < 2000;
mysql> select count(*) from program where starttime > '20050504'
and starttime < '20050506' and chanid > 2000;
I suspect the first one will return pretty much zero and the
second thousands.
Manually run "mythfilldatabase --refresh-today". The sooner the
better =).
--  bjm
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Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox Versions

2005-05-04 Thread David Levine

On 5/4/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a v1.6 XBox which has been soft-modded (no mod chip).  I'm
> > running Xebian 1.0.3 and Myth 0.16.  Runs just fine.  Only issue is
> > that there's no overscan support for the new video chips, so you have
> > to use the MythTV setup to reduce the size of your GUI and adjust its
> > placement.
> >
> 
> Hi,
>1.6 or 1.6b? I haven't determined how to tell which I have.
> 
>What soft mod did you do? Is your XBox still capable of running
> games or is it Linux only?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark

Sorry, don't know which 1.6 I have, since I haven't taken my box
apart.  My instinct is that I have v1.6, not v1.6b.  But that's just a
guess.

If I recall correctly, I did the UDE2 mod.  I can still play games.

--David
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Re: [mythtv-users] IR Adapter: Recommendations?

2005-05-04 Thread Ow Mun Heng

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 18:48 -0400, Preet Khalsa wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-29-04 at 16:10 -0400, Paul Check wrote:
> > Hi: I have a MythTV backend/frontend on one machine using the PVR-350, 
> > and have just configured a MythTV frontend on another system. My final 
> > piece on the frontend only system is to get an IR adapter. I have no 
> > clue what to buy (started with a USB adapter, but I believe it is very 
> > short range). Ideally, I'd like an adapter that would work with the 
> > original PVR-350 remote since I probably wouldn't use both systems at 
> > the same time.
> > 
> > Any recommendations?
> 
> I like my ATI remote wonder.  It will work from the next room.  It isn't
> IR however.  It is RF and so you will have two remotes.  The 0.7.1
> version for LIRC has drivers for this remote in userspace.  No Kernel
> Modules!

atilibusb <-- Is this the Driver you're referring to??

Is there any other type of Infra_Red which adapter which will work under
LIRC? I bought a Serial_IrDa adapter and it doesn't work.

> Let me know if you want config on this one.
> 
> Preet
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Re: [mythtv-users] SPDIF, Stutter and Query for where to look for more help

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Extra audio buffering:
...
(Has no effect unless you're using a PVR-x50 and similar, and would only
make a difference on dark scenes.)

Ok, I don't think that is a problem. I am capturing mostly via firewire. I also have a PVR-250 for any SD programs that conflict (and HD has priority), but I haven't noticed any crackly audio.

Aggressive Soundcard Buffering:
...
(Is almost defintely not what you--or anyone else--want.)

Ok, so I'll leave both settings off. Easy enough!

Actually, you will want the Extra audio buffering turned on (it should
be on unless it causes problems). And, since you have a PVR-250, you
will see problems during dark scenes without it (but until you cure your
current problems, the problems this fixes are lost in the noise). I was
just trying to point out that these were not the causes of the problems
you're describing.

So, you do need to fix your .asoundrc.

Yes, I had come to the same point, and made those changes (hw:0,4 was the only needed change to point to the digital out on this Intel board). Unfortunately, it didn't help.

Are you still using ALSA:spdif? That will not work. spdif is an alias
that sends the stream directly to the digital output (on your card,
hw:0,4)--which is expecting 48000Hz PCM (for PCM, that is--AC3 would
also work, but you won't get that from NTSC broadcasts). You'll need to
change it to ALSA:mixed-digital or ALSA:digital or uncomment the
appropriate lines of the .asoundrc to set your default output and use
ALSA:default. Note that if using OSS emulation, you'll need to set the
default output appropriately (meaning you might as well set it).

P.S. I suppose there are four other possibilities for stutter. One, I
used Jarod's guide suggestion to make mythfrontend run as root, but
for some reason mythfrontend still says I need to SUID as root for
smoother playback.

as root:
chmod a+s /usr/local/bin/mythfrontend
(In section "Enabling real-time scheduling of the display thread." at
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.4 )

On FC3, the "local" part does not apply, correct? I think what I did didn't have the "a" (only the "+s") so I'll try that when I get home.

If you're using a packaged version of MythTV, it's generally installed
in /usr; whereas a compiled-from-source version is typically installed
in /usr/local. Therefore, for your configuration:

chmod a+s /usr/bin/mythfrontend
Two, my video sync is still USleep, as I can't run 7174 (see previous
post about "split-screen" effect) and can't get OpenGL to run on 6629
(crashes X when I run glxgears).

Shouldn't make that big of a difference (although I recommend fixing
your driver installation, anyway).

I wish I knew how. I've installed 6629, 7167 and 7174 and the first does not allow any OpenGL apps to run, and the latter two both have the split screen problem. I have a GF2 card I can try, but would rather use the FX5200 as I have mostly working modelines that took forever to get right. But, if I must, I must. After building this box over nearly two years, what's a few more weeks to get another video card, right?

GF2 would probably have the same problems. It's probably because of
using the wrong GL libraries (i.e. the ones in X instead of nVidia's),
but that's a whole different thread... :)

Regardless, you'll want to fix your audio, anyway.

Yes. I don't know whether the AD1985 on this Intel board is a hardware or software card.

Software. It uses the same driver as the nVidia nForce.
Considering it mentions AC'97 I would think it may be software based, which
would mean I'd be better off just getting a new card
I wouldn't necessarily say that's true. Audio processing tends to
require little effort from modern CPU's. Once you configure yours
correctly, it should work fine.

(I have open PCI slots, although it would mean having three cards adjacent,
which isn't great for airflow. I don't really want to spend too much on a
card. Is the Hercules Digifire card hardware based? Or should I bite the
bullet and get an Audigy?
Don't know about the Hercules. The only hardware ones I have are SB
cards with the Emu10K1, but I haven't bought a discrete sound card in 6
years, so...

Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up USB MCE remote in LIRC?

2005-05-04 Thread David Sims

Hi Lee,
Sounds like you're making progress.  For MythTV to work with LIRC, 
you'll have to have the appropriate lircrc file in the ~/.mythtv 
directory.  Notice the filename is "lircrc" and not ".lircrc" (no dot 
in front).  That's the lircrc file that maps your remote buttons to 
MythTV commands.  In addition, for lirc to work with the external 
applications launched by mythfrontend like mplayer, you will need the 
lirc configuration for those applications in the correct place.  Which 
I believe is typically ~/.lircrc (notice that one does have the dot in 
front).

A couple things I can think of off hand to check if things still don't 
work:
1. Check the lircd log file as you start mythfrontend to make sure it's 
getting a client connection when mythfrontend starts
2. Verify the button names displayed by irw match exactly the button 
names in ~/.mythtv/lircrc

I've never used KnoppMyth before so I'm not sure how to configure lirc 
to autostart on it.  Using FC3 we've put it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local:

/usr/local/sbin/lircd -L /var/log/lircd
/usr/local/bin/irexec -d
I suspect you could do the same on Knopp.
- David
On May 4, 2005, at 4:43 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hmmm, the thread seems to have drifted onto the 2005 remote, I'm 
trying to
set up the older 2004 style remote...

With Davids clues, I've built the lirc 0.7.1 lirc_mceusb module, and
copied the lirc.conf to /etc/lirc/ and the .lircrc to the two dirs 
whose
names escape me.

When I run irw, it all seems to be working, the red led on the receiver
flashes, and all of the buttons are shown on the screen when I press 
the
buttons on the remote... :)

I've switched to the i686 version of MythTV, which should have built in
native lirc support...
However, nothing happens in Myth when I press buttons on the remote...
:(  Any ideas?
Lee
Also, I'm running KnoppMyth, how do I get it to autostart LIRC?
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Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

2005-05-04 Thread David Brieck Jr.

On 5/4/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the tip!  Your the second that has recommended Gentoo.  I may
> go that route as it sounds more like the FreeBSD that I am used to.  I
> just tried Fedora because it's very similar to RedHat and RedHat is the
> only "allowed" distro (because of support contracts) at my place of
> employment.  Thus I'd be "killing two birds with one stone", so to speak.

Well, then let me be the 3rd to recomend gentoo. The servers I admin
at work are RedHat so I get plenty of RPM hell there. It's nice to
come home and sit in front of my Myth setup and just relax. Another
nice thing for me is that I can upgrade just myth and it's
dependancies and not worry about upgrading to the last FC version or
whatnot. My Myth box is still running a 2.4 kernel and old stuff all
over the place but I don't have any problems upgrading myth whenever
there is a new version. Some would say Gentoo is not a stable platform
but I say it's as stable as you want it to be.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Pundit-r TV-out

On 5/4/05, Marcel Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 05 May 2005 02:34, Xiaotian Sun wrote:
> 
> > > 2) the ATI latest drivers don't compile for me somehow (FC3). Is there
> > > any good documentation to make it work or better to not use them ?
> > > Better : any repository that keeps working RPMS ?
> >
> > If it complains about libstdc++.so.5, then install compat-libstdc++
> > will solve the problem.
> 
> Unfortunately that's not it.
> It doesn't just complain, it spits out dozens of errors when I try to compile
> the kernel module (I run an atrpms kernel, doesn't matter whether I chose a
> 2.6.10 or 2.6.11 kernel). The kernel is defenately not the problem here, it's
> the drivers for sure. I just don't know whether anyone has got working
> drivers for ATI for a 2.6.11 kernel.
> 
> It's the first time I use ATI drivers and as far as I know drivers it even
> complains about calls that are already outdated a long time ago. Are these
> drivers very old or did I miss something very obvious on ATI's site ?

I don't know what causing your problems.  But ATI driver 8.12.10 runs
fine on my Pundit-R with FC3 2.6.11 kernel.

Why don't you post the error messages?

> 
> Regards,
> Marcel

Xiaotian
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: recording HD content

Brad Templeton wrote:
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 11:10:01AM -0400, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
 

Now I'm confused... are you saying that the cable co. is allowed to 
encrypt or downres firewire output even for 'broadcast equivalent' 
channels, and that only the raw QAM signal for such channels must be 
available in the clear?

Dunno about down-res, but they are allowed (and expected to) use the
DTCP (5C) protocol on the 1394 port in the cable box.   This protocol
has the cable box talk to the receiving end and confirm that it also
speaks DTCP, which only happens if it has pledged not to let the
content out.
 

And if the device connected to the 1394 port (or any other digital port) 
is not recognized as DTCP-compliant, any broadcast-flag protected 
content output over the port *must* be down-res'ed to no higher than 480p.

Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox Versions

2005-05-04 Thread Mark Knecht

Calvin,
   As a follow up to this morning's email here's where I am now.
Apparently I was making more progress than I had thought. The Cromwell
BIOs was written correctly (unfortuantely in both halves of my DuoX2
through error of my own after a long day) but the Sorceforge version
of Cromwell doesn't support my version of the XBox. The good news is
that there is a test version for 1.6(b) versions. I have written David
Pye requesting a copy as per this page:

http://www.xbox-linux.org/Version_1.6_Warning

I had read this page but discounted it since I wasn't intending on
doing the MechAssult stuff. In my case it's the stuff at the bottom
that matters but since there's no way to know you have a 1.6(b) box
without taking it apart I didn't know this effected me.

   I am hopeful that this will allow me to move forward and do the
Gentoo-xbox install once Cromwell is up and running. I'll write back
about what happens, hopefully in the next few days.

Cheers,
Mark

On 5/4/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Calvin,
>I'm am currently going through XBox mod hell. I wouldn't recommend
> this to anyone feint of heart.
> 
>There are at least 7 versions of the XBox, starting with 1.0, 1.1,
> 1.2, ..., 1.6. There is also (apparently) a 'sub-version' of 1.6
> called 1.6b. There are also a truly scary number of possibly mod
> chips. Choose one carefully. I'm using the cheapest. It would likely
> had been OK if it came preinstalled with the Cromwell BIOS. Some of
> them do. I suggest looking for that.
> 
>I purchased a new XBox last Friday for a Myth frontend machine. I
> knew it would be difficult. I won't be heartbroken if it doesn't work.
> Here's the status so far.
> 
>I got the XBox modified by a nice guy here in San Jose. He
> installed a DuoX2 chip and put some sort of bootable BIOS on it. I had
> been able to boot GentooX and Gentoo-XBox after that work was done.
> After looking at Xebian, GentooX, Gentoo-xbox I finally decided that
> since I use Gentoo elsewhere I'd go with Gentoo-Xbox. All the
> instructions said I needed the Cromwell BIOS so I tried doing that
> with raincoat. Raincoat loaded the Cromwell BIOS, but then the machine
> wouldn't boot from the DuoX2 anymore. It will still boot with the M$
> BIOS.
> 
>So far I'm out $150 for the machine, $25 for the IR/remote, $50 for
> the mod chip + install and it doesn't work. That's $250. Probably I'll
> get it fixed and running sometime this week but it's certainly not
> painless so far. ;-) (Mostly my own making I'm sure.)
> 
>My one comment about the XBox is that it's not silent. The fan in
> them makes about as much noise as an older VCR when recording. This
> makes me wonder if I'll leave it turned on and ready for use or
> whether I'll end up turning i toff and seldom using it.
> 
>Based on a fairly gloomy Monday morning my thought today, knowing
> what little I know right now, is that I'd double the cost to $500 and
> build something that's both based on a standard PC architecture and
> BIOS as well as fanless and completely silent.
> 
>So far it's an interesting (if depressing) use of time and I'm not
> sure I'm going to enjoy the box when I get it done. Not a great
> report. Go here only if you like this sort of thing.
> 
>We'll see.
> 
> - Mark
> 
> On 5/4/05, Calvin Harrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've been looking for an economical way of setting up a couple
> > frontends.  I currently run a combo be/fe which has served me well for
> > over a year.  I though perhaps getting a couple used XBoxes would be a
> > decent route.  I've been skimming the archives and one thing that keeps
> > popping up is a discussion/mention of versioning on the XBox.  What is
> > the easiest version of the XBox to mod to allow it to run mythtv?  Does
> > it require a hardware modification?  How do the xboxes perform
> > displaying SD TV encoded at 480x480?  Any comments?  Thanks for the feed
> > back.
> >
> > Calvin
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[mythtv-users] Mythgame not working in 18

2005-05-04 Thread Reggie Braswell

Sorry if this is a duplicate. Couldn't find anything googling. Went
through setup. Installed latest catver.ini Put my roms out there.
Clicked on scan for games and got "This version of xmame is not
supported". apt-get update and apt-get install xmame "xmame is already
the newest version". Thanks Regg
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Re: [mythtv-users] How to create MythTV templates

Mattia Martinello wrote:
how I can create a customized MythTV template?
MythTV Theme?
http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MythTvThemes
HTH.
Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: XvMC Bad Alloc:11

2005-05-04 Thread Jonathan Watmough

>From the NVidia readme:

libXvMCNVIDIA observes the XVMC_DEBUG environment variable and willprovide some debug output to stderr when set to an appropriate integervalue.  '0' disables debug output.  '1' enables debug output for failure
conditions.  '2' or higher enables output of warning messages.Option "NoFlip" "boolean"Disable OpenGL flipping; please see Appendix M fora description.  Default: OpenGL will swap by flipping
when possible.I think this may use less memory - I had to do something similar on my cirrus laptop display to get the xcompmgr stuff working.Also, you may want to try a 16 color mode, rather than 24 or 32
Hope this migt help a littleJonathan
On 5/4/05, Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/4/05, Tom Dombrosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> I get this error all the time. I think it has to do with the nvidia> drivers.  I haven't figured out a solution yet.  It happens to me with
> both xv and xvmc.  It only happens to me in xvmc when the source is> interlaced.>> Tom>So, if this happens, the only fix is to go and turn XvMC off?  Isthere a way to auto-detect this condition and auto-disable XvMC?
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Re: [mythtv-users] strange scheduling decisions

2005-05-04 Thread Peter Lee

On 5/4/05, Bruce Markey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Peter Lee wrote:
> > Hi.  I run a very stable mythtv system consisting of a combo master
> > backend + frontend, plus a slave backend.  Each backend system has a
> > pvr250, and each has its own disk for storing the TV shows.  The
> > pvr250 in the master backend is the preferred one (since it is
> > connected to digital cable).  So, normally, the master is chosen the
> > record shows unless there is a conflict, in which case the slave
> > usually ends up recording the lower-priority program.
> >
> > I run cvs and normally update pretty regularly (about once per week),
> > though right now I am running a system that hasn't been updated since
> > just after 0.18 was announced.
> >
> > Well, today I was looking at the scheduled recordings.  I noticed that
> > today (Wednesday) there are about half a dozen shows scheduled to
> > record, all on the master except for one, which due to a time conflict
> > is scheduled for the slave.
> >
> > But tomorrow, Thursday, *all* the scheduled recordings (about 10 of
> > them) are set up for the *slave*, leaving the master completely idle.
> > Not only that, but one program will not be recorded because of a time
> > conflict, even though the master backend will be idle.  Note that the
> > disks are less than half full on both systems, and in particular the
> > master backend currently has over 160GB of space left in the video
> > partition.
> >
> > Starting on Friday and extending as far as the schedule allows, the
> > scheduled recordings are shown to be reverting back to the master, as
> > usual.
> >
> > So, my question: What is going on with Thursday's schedule?  Why are
> > they all set up for the slave backend?  And why won't the system
> > schedule anything for the master on Thursday, but is happy to do so
> > today, Friday, Saturday, ...?
> 
> As a guess at one possibility, check the last item scheduled for
> Wednesday to see if the enddate is wrong and it is, say, a 25 hour
> recording rather than 1 one hour timeslot. If so, there may have
> been a mistake made by the grabber or something. Or as Shaun Bryant
> suggested, if they are two different video sources the Thursday
> data may be missing for the master's source.
> 
> In any case, run "mythbackend --printsched" from another shell
> and attach the output.
> 
> --  bjm

Yeah, I wonder if maybe there was a 24-hour long program scheduled for
Wednesday, but this doesn't seem to be the case.  Anyway, here is the
output from "mythbackend --printsched".

Peter


$ mythbackend --printsched
2005-05-04 21:03:02.454 New DB connection, total: 1
2005-05-04 21:03:02.494 New DB scheduler connection
2005-05-04 21:03:02.500 Connecting to backend server:
192.168.1.20:6543 (try 1 of 5)
2005-05-04 21:03:02.506 Using protocol version 15
Retrieving Schedule from Master backend.
--- print list start ---
Title - SubtitleChan ChID Day Start  End   S C I  T N Pri
Citizen Kane  53 1053  04 20:00-22:15  1 1 1  F 1  -1
World Poker Tour - "Jack Binion Wor   58 2058  04 21:00-23:00  2 2 2  A 2  -5
FoodNation With Bobby Flay - "Jerse   49 1049  04 21:30-22:00  1 0 0  C L -10
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart - "   54 1054  04 23:00-23:33  1 1 1  T 1   2
Iron Chef America - "Morimoto vs. F   49 1049  04 23:00-00:00  1 0 0  C P  -2
The Benny Hill Show  114 1114  04 23:00-00:00  1 0 0  C P -22
MythBusters - "Exploding Jawbreaker   61 2017  05 00:00-01:00  2 0 0  A P -10
World Poker Tour - "Jack Binion Wor   58 2058  05 00:00-02:00  2 0 0  A E  -5
FoodNation With Bobby Flay - "Jerse   49 2049  05 01:30-02:00  2 2 2  C 2 -10
Touch of Evil 53 2053  05 01:30-03:30  2 0 0  O X  -1
Iron Chef America - "Morimoto vs. F   49 2049  05 03:00-04:00  2 0 0  C P  -2
The Fairly OddParents 26 2026  05 07:30-08:10  2 0 0  C C -25
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Bo   26 2026  05 08:00-08:30  2 2 2  C 2  -5
SpongeBob SquarePants - "No Free Ri   26 2026  05 08:30-09:00  2 0 0  C P  -5
The Fairly OddParents - "Nega-Timmy   26 2026  05 16:00-16:40  2 0 0  C P -25
Malcolm in the Middle - "Monkey"  15 2015  05 16:30-17:00  2 2 2  A 2   0
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Bo   26 2026  05 16:30-17:00  2 0 0  C P  -5
SpongeBob SquarePants - "Sleepy Tim   26 2026  05 17:00-17:30  2 0 0  C P  -5
Malcolm in the Middle - "Shame"   15 2015  05 18:30-19:00  2 2 2  A 2   0
The Fairly OddParents - "Most Wante   26 2026  05 19:00-19:40  2 0 0  C P -25
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Bo   26 2026  05 19:30-20:00  2 0 0  C P  -5
SpongeBob SquarePants - "The Algae'   26 2026  05 20:00-20:30  2 0 0  C P  -5
The Apprentice - "The Games People12 2012  05 21:00-21:59  2 2 2  C 2  20
ER - "You Are Here"   12 2012  05 21:59-23:00  2 2 2  C 2   5
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart - "   54 2054  05 23:00-23:33  2 2 2  T 2   2
Girls Behaving Badly  59 1059  06 02:00-02:30  1 0 0  A P -10
Girls Behav

Re: [mythtv-users] Pundit-r TV-out

2005-05-04 Thread Marcel Janssen

On Thursday 05 May 2005 02:34, Xiaotian Sun wrote:

> > 2) the ATI latest drivers don't compile for me somehow (FC3). Is there
> > any good documentation to make it work or better to not use them ?
> > Better : any repository that keeps working RPMS ?
>
> If it complains about libstdc++.so.5, then install compat-libstdc++
> will solve the problem.

Unfortunately that's not it.
It doesn't just complain, it spits out dozens of errors when I try to compile
the kernel module (I run an atrpms kernel, doesn't matter whether I chose a
2.6.10 or 2.6.11 kernel). The kernel is defenately not the problem here, it's
the drivers for sure. I just don't know whether anyone has got working
drivers for ATI for a 2.6.11 kernel.

It's the first time I use ATI drivers and as far as I know drivers it even
complains about calls that are already outdated a long time ago. Are these
drivers very old or did I miss something very obvious on ATI's site ?

Regards,
Marcel
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Re: [mythtv-users] Can't get video on both projector and TV at the same time.

2005-05-04 Thread Devan Lippman

Could be possible that you're using hardware accelerstion to decode
your video in which case a lot of video cards (like my radeon 9600)
don't support the output to both even though they will display your
normal video on both.

-- 
Thanks,
Devan Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


On 5/4/05, Mattias Gustafsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  
> Hi, 
>   
> I've been struggling with getting mythtv to work with both a Projector and a
> TV. 
>   
> The problem i have is while i'm looking at live tv or at a recorded show.
> The problem is that I either get the video on the TV set or on the
> projector. I've never been able to output the video to both the projector
> and the TV at the same time. The MythTV GUI is though present on both
> screens (as well as normal KDE operations). 
> The reason for why i need this to be solved is that i sometimes use the TV
> to look at programs and sometimes i use the projector and it's not an option
> to reconfigure X between these times. 
>   
> I'm using an ATI Radeon 9600 and the TV is connected using S-Video. 
>   
> If i use  
>   Option "OverlayOnCRTC2" "on" 
> then the video is on the TV 
> If i remove this line, the video is on the projector. 
>   
> Below is my XF86Config-4 file and i'm running Debian Sarge, Myth 017,
> Xfree86 v4.3 
>   
> Is there any way to get the ATI card to put the video on both my TV and
> projector? 
> If not, would i solve my problem in ´buying an Nvidia FX5200 card instead? 
> Or is the only solution to use an external vga-tv adapter instead? 
>   
> Thanks in advance 
> Mattias Gustasfsson
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RE: [mythtv-users] network drive for music

Thanks for that, this is the page I found, looks plausible with a
cursory look - will reply to the list later if I get it to work (/ or
need more help).

http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Filesystems/Mounting_smbfs_Shares_Permanent
ly.html


Cheers,
Dean


> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Wilson
> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 8:16 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] network drive for music
> 
> Hi Dean - You could try mounting the network share using samba. It
> will appear as a directory in your filesystem which you can tell myth
> about
> 
> Check out www.samba.org or google for 'samba mount' for some examples
> 
> Hope this helps
> Andrew
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[mythtv-users] Ownership of devices

2005-05-04 Thread Kevin Ruland


Hi all.

My myth box is finally running!  But I have some questions about startup
of mythbackend and the ownership of the video devices.  My system is
Gentoo 2005.0 running mythtv-0.18 ebuild.

If I have init start mythbackend (and run as root), it complains
slightly about root not being in the video group (big deal), but the
weird thing is once it's started and continues to run as root, all the
video devices are changed to mythtv:sys ownership.

If I set MYTH_USER env var to mythtv (the user), and start mythbackend
with init, mythbackend complains about not being able to open the video
devices because they are root:root 600.

So, how should I get mythbackend to start from init, yet not run as root?

Thanks much.

Kevin

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Re: [mythtv-users] Pundit-r TV-out

On 5/4/05, Marcel Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a hard time getting the TV-out to work on a Pundit-R and wonder if
> someone has got it working.
> 
> I tried the following :
> 
> 2) the ATI latest drivers don't compile for me somehow (FC3). Is there any
> good documentation to make it work or better to not use them ?
> Better : any repository that keeps working RPMS ?
> 

If it complains about libstdc++.so.5, then install compat-libstdc++
will solve the problem.

> Regards,
> Marcel
> 

Xiaotian
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythstream (not mythstreamtv)

Morrison, Kerry E. wrote:
I decided to install mythstream over the weekend and it didn't work out well. I install all the prerequisites, qmake. make, make install. It compiles just fine. Oh yeah, I changed the mythtv path. I checked and the plugin is where it belongs. I edited the 3 .xml files and triple checked them. I've tried various themes. Mythstream just doesn't show up. In my searching around I found a .diff from April. Do I need to apply it? Does the plugin just not work with 0.18? The post wasn't real specific. Here's what I have. Debian unstable, mythtv-0.18, release from source. Plugins are mythdvd, mythmusic, mythvideo, mythweather and mythphone. Also mythweb and mythstreamtv. I apologize up front if the answer has been posted, I just can't seem to find much info on this plugin.
 

I'm using MythStream 0.16_3 ( 
http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~moongies/streamtuned.html ) without any 
problems (and without the diff you mentioned).  Make sure you're editing 
the correct XML files (i.e. are you sure you don't have an old 
installation of Myth in /usr/local or /usr (whichever one you're 
editing) but running a new installation in the opposite location?

Mike
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[mythtv-users] Pundit-r TV-out

2005-05-04 Thread Marcel Janssen

Hi,

I have a hard time getting the TV-out to work on a Pundit-R and wonder if 
someone has got it working.

I tried the following :

1) through BIOS select TV-out :
this seems to work but as soon X starts it gets distorted, which seems to   
 
indicate a wrong modeline : Anyone figured out a working one for PAL or
NTSC ?

2) the ATI latest drivers don't compile for me somehow (FC3). Is there any 
good documentation to make it work or better to not use them ?
Better : any repository that keeps working RPMS ?

3) any recommendation for a cheap PCI card with TV-out that does work ?

Thanks for any help.

Regards,
Marcel
 
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Re: [mythtv-users] network drive for music

2005-05-04 Thread Andrew Wilson

Hi Dean - You could try mounting the network share using samba. It
will appear as a directory in your filesystem which you can tell myth
about

Check out www.samba.org or google for 'samba mount' for some examples

Hope this helps
Andrew
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[mythtv-users] pchdtv-3000 driver module not loaded at boot time

Hi,

I've put my pcHDTV-3000 in my newly built Pundit-R running Fedora Core
3.  I compiled and installed the 2.0 driver from pchdtv.com.  modprobe
loaded the driver fine.  The only problem is that these modules are
not automatically loaded at boot time.  I don't know what I did wrong.

I actually had installed the same card and same driver on another
computer running FC3.  Everything worked fine on that computer.

Thanks.

Xiaotian
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RE: [mythtv-users] network drive for music









Yes it’s a window share (sbs2003) –
is there anything I can do to make this happen?

 

Cheers,

Dean

 

 

 

 











From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Brad Fuller
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 8:04
PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users]
network drive for music



 



Dean Collins wrote: 

Is there a way to access my mp3 files from my MythTV
backend off a separate network server?

 

Eg, I want to store and access my mp3 files from a
network drive  \\cogsvr1\m$  on a separate server but cant get
it to recognize the location.

Well.. since you used backslashes, I guess it's a
windows share. Are you saying that you can't get MythTV to recognize a Samba
share?








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Re: [mythtv-users] network drive for music

2005-05-04 Thread Brad Fuller







Dean Collins wrote:

  
  
  
  
  Is there a way to access
my mp3 files from my MythTV backend
off a separate network server?
   
  Eg, I want to store and
access my mp3 files from a network
drive  \\cogsvr1\m$
 on a separate
server but cant get it to recognize the location.
  

Well.. since you used backslashes, I guess it's a windows share. Are
you saying that you can't get MythTV to recognize a Samba share?


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[mythtv-users] HomeMedia Networks









Not entirely MythTV related but of interest anyway.

 

 

SkyNetGlobal
acquires UK’s
Home Media Networks

SkyNetGlobal
Limited has agreed to acquire Edinburgh-based Home Media Networks Ltd, a
digital home entertainment software

company for
a consideration of £500,000. SkyNetGlobal will fund the acquisition by issuing
859,107 shares valued at 58.2 pence

(A$1.43) per
share which is equivalent to the average closing price on AIM for the five
trading days prior to executive. A further 67,469

SKG shares
are being issued in settlement in the UK and is in line with its European
growth Strategy. Home Media Network’s flagship

product,
ShowShifter, is an alternative to Microsoft’s Windows Media
 Center. 

http://www.homemedianetworks.com/products.htm

http://www.showshifter.com/index.htm


 

 

 

Cheers,

Dean

 






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[mythtv-users] network drive for music









Is there a way to access my mp3 files from my MythTV backend
off a separate network server?

 

Eg, I want to store and access my mp3 files from a network
drive  \\cogsvr1\m$  on a separate
server but cant get it to recognize the location.

 

 

Any thoughts?

 

Cheers,

Dean

 






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Re: [mythtv-users] No signal on TV with Audio Authority

2005-05-04 Thread Evil Nathan

  I have the same AA box you have, running from an ATI Radeon 9000 to a 
Toshiba 62HM84.

  I don't know if it's different on the nvidia cards, but I've had the box 
run on a few different motherboards, and at the least, the POST screen from 
the PC always showed up.  (and all other text-based screens)  If this isn't 
even showing up, perhaps there's a problem with the AA?

   For interests sake, here are the modelines I use in my xorg.conf. 
Different video card, and a different TV (though I believe we use the same 
engine), so I doubt they'll work...but why not.  For the record, 1200x666 is 
as near as perfect as I've ever used.  (666...heh)  1280x720, and 640x480 
have a lot of overscan, but are usable.  960x540, and 720x480 are also very 
decent.

   Modeline "720x480" 31.590 720 796 836 936 480 509 510 563
   Modeline "640x480" 23.916 640 664 736 760 480 486 492 525
   Modeline "1200x666" 74.456 1200 1322 1448 1664 666 695 697 746 -hsync 
+vsync
   ModeLine "960x540" 37.293 960 976 1008 1104 540 542 548 563 +hsync 
+vsync
   Modeline "1280x720" 74.160 1280 1352 1392 1648 720 728 730 750 +hsync 
+vsync
   Modeline "800x600" 54.720 800 928 976 1216 600 700 701 750 +hsync +vsync

- Original Message - 
However, I am not having any success with it. 
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[mythtv-users] xbox - component video out to HDTV problems

2005-05-04 Thread Reza Naima

I configured the xbox using xdebian 1.0.3 and the 4.4 scripts.  I got it
working perfectly over composite video out, then plugged it to my TV
with a 3rd party component video connector (got off ebay; works w/ xbox
games).  Just after booting linux (loopback fs installation), it freaks
out and powers down the box - before I can even see any messages being
scrolled on the display.

I reverted to the component video cable, and it worked just fine.  I
tried swapping cables after it was booted into mythtv and it worked, but
the display was in black/white.

What gives?  Do I need to reinstall with xdebian 1.1 and 4.5-beta
scripts?  And are will these instructions

http://www.xbox-linux.org/Xbox_HDTV_HOWTO

work with mythtv?  Is the xbox going to be able to handle video playback
at that resolution?

thanks,
reza
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Re: [mythtv-users] Minimum hardware requirements for music-only frontend?

2005-05-04 Thread tknews2

Christopher-
Take a look at Jinzora. I've been looking into an audio-only jukebox to 
serve up flac files to a locally
connected sound system and Jinzora does a real clean job of it. You'll 
love the install too.

www.jinzora.com
Christopher David Petersen wrote:
On 5/4/05, Gabe Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
 

I don't think mythmusic is the tool you would want. You can use a
variety of different music apps that will stream from your network.
   

Good point. I was suggesting a Myth frontend just to create a consistent UI 
across the all the machines in my home.
Rather than asking question here, can anyone suggest a list that discusses 
streaming music clients on Linux?
--
Christopher David Petersen

 


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Re: [mythtv-users] Coventive Uranus

2005-05-04 Thread David George

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This looks like a really neat mobo for a myth system.  If anyone want 
to develop drivers for it, then please do.  Don't let the 16k 
licensing fee scare you off.

http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS2122942691.html
Yes, I saw this a couple of months ago.  Tell you what, you buy it for 
me and I will work on it.  Otherwise the $16,000 license fee does scare 
me off :-)  Did you notice this link also: 
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS7757625666.html .  A relative bargain at 
$10,000 for the developers license (no tuner on it though).  I was 
really interested in the Vweb VW2010 MPEG-1/2/4 audio/video codec chip.

P.S.  Just kidding.  Unfortunately, I don't really have time to take on 
any new projects (or finish the ones I am working on now :-) ).  Also, 
we are probably a lot closer to getting the Commell LV-667 working with 
HDTV than the amount of work it would take to get this one going.

--
David
HDTV frontend I'm working on (pictures, mythmon source)
 http://mythhd.info
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Re: [mythtv-users] wow....18 is so stable

2005-05-04 Thread Donavan Stanley

On 5/4/05, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 06:28:48PM -0400, Donavan Stanley wrote:
> > On 5/4/05, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I've got a skipping playback problem, but I'm pretty sure that's due to
> > > Xorg issues with SuSE 9.2, rather than other things.  But maybe I'm
> > > wrong, and this week's .18 install will fix that too.  :-)
> >
> > My BE, FE and dev boxes are all suse 9.2 boxes and have no issues.
> 
> Xorg?  ATI?

Xorg yes, ATI no.

Have you turned off "extra audio buffering" by chance?  Course it
could just be due to not having a reliable sync method for the video.
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Re: [mythtv-users] XBMC MythTV Frontend + Backend

2005-05-04 Thread J

> Thanks J for your help,
> 
> But, Im looking for a whole stand-alone solution (frontend + backend) for
> the xbox platform.
> 
> I only need a small backend running in the xbox, list of channels (in text
> file format, MySQL its no necessary), scheduling and recording capabilities
> (in the local or remote HDD) and I don't need any dvb card because I have my
> TV services permanently over my home network (multicast streams).
> 
> Regards,
> ZaZu.
> 
> -Mensaje original-
> De: J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Enviado el: miércoles, 04 de mayo de 2005 11:50
> Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtv
> Asunto: Re: [mythtv-users] XBMC MythTV Frontend + Backend

As of this point, its not possible to run the xbox as a backend. They
do have USB 1.1 external capture cards, but nobody has messed with
them. The xbox can be modded to have 2 usb ports (or 4 if it suits
your fancy, I have 2) but those ports have only been used for
keyboards, mice, and usb hdds. if you wanted to one port for a capture
card (like Hauppage's first wintv usb edition) you'd be on your own
for figuring out the proper commands for getting the card to talk to
the xbox/mythtv. Also check out www.mythtv-xbox.org for more info on
mythtv on an xbox.

Cheers,

J
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Re: [mythtv-users] wow....18 is so stable

2005-05-04 Thread Jay R. Ashworth

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 06:28:48PM -0400, Donavan Stanley wrote:
> On 5/4/05, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've got a skipping playback problem, but I'm pretty sure that's due to
> > Xorg issues with SuSE 9.2, rather than other things.  But maybe I'm
> > wrong, and this week's .18 install will fix that too.  :-)
> 
> My BE, FE and dev boxes are all suse 9.2 boxes and have no issues.

Xorg?  ATI?

Cheers,
-- jra
-- 
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Re: [mythtv-users] wow....18 is so stable

2005-05-04 Thread Donavan Stanley

On 5/4/05, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've got a skipping playback problem, but I'm pretty sure that's due to
> Xorg issues with SuSE 9.2, rather than other things.  But maybe I'm
> wrong, and this week's .18 install will fix that too.  :-)

My BE, FE and dev boxes are all suse 9.2 boxes and have no issues.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Setup locking up when I go into capture cards

2005-05-04 Thread Bill Chmura


Well, that would be cool...

But I did let it sit... I walked away and came back later kinda sit.  

Thanks anyway...





On Wed, 4 May 2005 16:01:43 -0600
Garry Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 5/4/05, Bill Chmura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am helping a friend get his mythbox working... We've got a PVR-350
> > (He mentioned it was the second revision) and Mythtv from 0.18 and also
> > from CVS.  In both cases, when we go into setup everything is okay
> > until we go to the capture cards screen.  Then the whole setup just
> > freezes.  Nothing, nada.
> > 
> > I have not found any errors anywhere.
> > 
> > has anyone experienced this?
> > 
> > (Gentoo, 2.6 kernel, ivtv 2.0 drivers)
> > 
> > Bill
> > 
> 
> IIRC, Jarod mentions something about this in his setup guide... Yeah,
> here it is:
> 
> "
> It is highly recommended that you go through the setup steps in order.
> Follow the on-screen instruction, with aid from the MythTV website's
> documentation on this page:
> 
> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-9.html 
> NOTE: your system may appear to hang at step 3; give it time, it isn't
> locked up, that part just takes a while!
> "
> 
> I never experienced a hang, but this may be what you are running into.
> 
> -g
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RE: [mythtv-users] Burning NUV files to DVD

2005-05-04 Thread Greg

 
> Khanh Tran wrote:
> > Don't even bother doing anything.  You're making it way too 
> complicated.
> > The NUV files produced by the PVR-250, 350 and probably the 150 and 
> > 500 (I just don't have one) ARE MPEG-2 formatted files.  Just make 
> > sure you don't have a transcoder scheduled to convert it to 
> something 
> > else.  I usually copy it over to a Windows box to cut out 
> commercials, 
> > but either way, it's already ready to go to DVD authoring apps.
> > 
> > -Khanh
> 
> Please name any DVD authoring applications that will accept PVR-x50
> MPEG2 files unmodified. I strongly suspect you haven't been 
> doing this yourself, but in case you really are, I'd love to 
> know what you are using. :)
> 

In the past I have renamed to .mpg and used dvdstyler to make the dvd image.

Greg

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[mythtv-users] RE: Mythtools

2005-05-04 Thread Nadav Cohen

Hi all,first of all - great idea!a few issues i've stumbled upon:

  4 letter extensions: sync.pl does not detect video files with the
extension ".mpeg" (well, and removes existing ones from the DB). I know
nothing of perl, but when I had a look at the code, it does seem to
assume all files have a 3-letter extension. I just renamed all my .mpeg
files to .mpg. it doesn't really matter...
  
Can't locate Cache/FileCache.pm
when running vidupdate.pl
just for any other newbies out there... I solved this by installing
libcache-cache-perl (in debian, run "apt-get install
libcache-cache-perl")

  
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at Mythtv/TVTome.pm line 217,  line 18.

Really dunno what this one wants. just popped up between 'searching for "stargate sg-1"' and the episode list

Thats all for now...
Nadav :)
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Re: [mythtv-users] Refurbing a de100c for mythtv

2005-05-04 Thread Jeff Monks

On 4/27/05, Devan Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Threw KnoppMyth on a de100c that was lying around and tried to watch
> some recorded TV on it.  This all went much better than I expected but
> I'm getting a "prebuffering pause" whenever I view recordings.

I've got three de200c's in various uses as Myth boxes, and they work 
pretty well, once you tweak things just right.  For what it's worth, mine 
are all running a fairly stock Mandrake 9.2, and it's been working 
so well, I haven't bothered to upgrade to the latest Mandrake release.

What resolution/bitrate are your recordings?  Are you using the ethernet 
connection or the HPNA?  What's your CPU utilization during playback?  

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[mythtv-users] Recording overlap on same channel

2005-05-04 Thread Ralph Little

Title: Recording overlap on same channel






Hi,
This is either a request for help or a feature request. :D

I record Star Trek Enterprise on Sundays in the UK.
2 episodes are broadcast one after the other on Channel 4.

However, because of clock skew etc, it is impossible to get each recording in completeness because a bit of one might be tagged onto the end of the other, and because I have only 1 encoder, can't schedule them to overlap, one ending a little later, the other a little earlier to cope with clock differences, or the broadcasts being late/early.

However, in theory this should be possible as long as the 2 recordings are on the same channel. It's just that the same piece of video would end up in 2 records with some jiggery-pokery to make it happen.

Therefore, is it possible to arrange for consecutive recordings on the same channel to overlap and to not cause a conflict?

Cheers,
Ralph







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Re: [mythtv-users] Setup locking up when I go into capture cards

2005-05-04 Thread Garry Cook

On 5/4/05, Bill Chmura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am helping a friend get his mythbox working... We've got a PVR-350
> (He mentioned it was the second revision) and Mythtv from 0.18 and also
> from CVS.  In both cases, when we go into setup everything is okay
> until we go to the capture cards screen.  Then the whole setup just
> freezes.  Nothing, nada.
> 
> I have not found any errors anywhere.
> 
> has anyone experienced this?
> 
> (Gentoo, 2.6 kernel, ivtv 2.0 drivers)
> 
> Bill
> 

IIRC, Jarod mentions something about this in his setup guide... Yeah,
here it is:

"
It is highly recommended that you go through the setup steps in order.
Follow the on-screen instruction, with aid from the MythTV website's
documentation on this page:

http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-9.html 
NOTE: your system may appear to hang at step 3; give it time, it isn't
locked up, that part just takes a while!
"

I never experienced a hang, but this may be what you are running into.

-g
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[mythtv-users] Video out to Samsung TX-P3071WH (tube hdtv)

2005-05-04 Thread Byron Poland

Hi,

I'm going to be picking up a Samsung TX-P3071WH
(http://product.samsung.com/cgi-bin/nabc/product/b2c_product_detail.jsp?eUser=&prod_id=TXP3071WHX%2fXAA&selTab=Specifications)

this evening and was wondering if anyone had any experience with
getting X working on such a set.  I'm new to the HDTV market, though
have had the pci cards for a while.  And am courious as to how I might
attempt to get this to work.  The unit has a DVI input, should I even
attempt to try that?  or will I have better luck with a converter?
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Re: [mythtv-users] strange scheduling decisions

2005-05-04 Thread Bruce Markey

Peter Lee wrote:
Hi.  I run a very stable mythtv system consisting of a combo master
backend + frontend, plus a slave backend.  Each backend system has a
pvr250, and each has its own disk for storing the TV shows.  The
pvr250 in the master backend is the preferred one (since it is
connected to digital cable).  So, normally, the master is chosen the
record shows unless there is a conflict, in which case the slave
usually ends up recording the lower-priority program.
I run cvs and normally update pretty regularly (about once per week),
though right now I am running a system that hasn't been updated since
just after 0.18 was announced.
 
Well, today I was looking at the scheduled recordings.  I noticed that
today (Wednesday) there are about half a dozen shows scheduled to
record, all on the master except for one, which due to a time conflict
is scheduled for the slave.

But tomorrow, Thursday, *all* the scheduled recordings (about 10 of
them) are set up for the *slave*, leaving the master completely idle. 
Not only that, but one program will not be recorded because of a time
conflict, even though the master backend will be idle.  Note that the
disks are less than half full on both systems, and in particular the
master backend currently has over 160GB of space left in the video
partition.

Starting on Friday and extending as far as the schedule allows, the
scheduled recordings are shown to be reverting back to the master, as
usual.
So, my question: What is going on with Thursday's schedule?  Why are
they all set up for the slave backend?  And why won't the system
schedule anything for the master on Thursday, but is happy to do so
today, Friday, Saturday, ...?
As a guess at one possibility, check the last item scheduled for
Wednesday to see if the enddate is wrong and it is, say, a 25 hour
recording rather than 1 one hour timeslot. If so, there may have
been a mistake made by the grabber or something. Or as Shaun Bryant
suggested, if they are two different video sources the Thursday
data may be missing for the master's source.
In any case, run "mythbackend --printsched" from another shell
and attach the output.
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[mythtv-users] Re: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 28, Issue 21

On 5/4/05, Dennis Lou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The project I'd really like to produce is a>solder-free parallel port LED>kit. I can almost do it with an old DB25 serial
>port header (from old>386/486 computers) and LEDs with integrated>resistors. But finding suitable>LEDs with integrated resistors is>difficult (ie. not as easy as a walk to>the local RadioShack).
> Any suggestions?Weren't the control lines on the original PC/XTparallel ports open collector?  I don't knowif modern parallel ports are different, but ifit's the same situation you couldjust jam a standard resistor in there (brightness
will be limited by the pullup resistor, though).-Dennis

Yes. I just wanted a solution where a person could jam a LED (with integrated resistor) into pins 2 (data bit 1) and 18 (ground) of a female ribbon cable connected to the parallel port. With a separate resistor and LED, some permanant connection (soldering, although twist and tape might work) is required. An integrated resistor LED solves this problem. Jam 8 of these LEDs into pin 2-9 connected to pins 18-25 and you've got a solder-free LED solution. Apply a little epoxy to prevent shifting (and shorting) and you're all set.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up a DVB Card

2005-05-04 Thread Mark Smith

> I wouldn't waste too much time on these unless you discover you
> actually need them. I got myth0.18 up and running on DVB fine (my
> first myth install) without them.

Actually one thing from that archive that might be useful to some is the
dvbdate command, if you want to do time synchronisation without an internet
connection from the box.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Burning NUV files to DVD

2005-05-04 Thread Rick

James L. Paul wrote:
Khanh Tran wrote:
Tsunami MPEG encoder and Tsunami MPEG DVD Author.
http://www.tmpg-inc.com/product

I believe that makes my point. You are using the Tsunami MPEG encoder to 
reprocess the files precisely _because_ they are not "already ready to 
go to DVD authoring apps."

There's a lot more to DVD stream-compliance than MPEG2.
-Khanh
If you don't mind windows then yes you can.  I just tried it and it was 
no problem, renamed the nuv to mpg and NeroVision Express liked it just 
fine.

Rick
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[mythtv-users] Re: DVD recording sync issues with PVR 350

2005-05-04 Thread Boleslaw Ciesielski

John Kondis wrote:
To burn to DVD, I have a script crafted after the
mythtv docs ala the blurb at the end of
http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html.  This
involves splitting the audio and video streams with
mpeg2desc, remultiplexing them with mplex, creating a
dvd file structure with dvdauthor, and writing an iso
file system directly to DVD with growisofs.
I don't know if this will fix your problem, but with the current 
mencoder you can do the DVD NAV insertion in one step (and skip 
mpeg2desc and mplex altogether):

mencoder -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -ovc copy -oac copy -o foo.mpg 
foo.nuv

The resulting foo.mpg can be then fed directly to dvdauthor.
Bolek
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Re: [mythtv-users] Streaming to Windows Machine

2005-05-04 Thread Dave Ansell

Yes, I tried that too a while back with 0.17 and it crashed.
Might try again I guess.  It was certainly easy enough to install.

- Original Message - 
From: "Mudit Wahal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" 
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Streaming to Windows Machine

try this ..
http://sourceforge.net/projects/winmyth
On 5/4/05, Dave Ansell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi,
   OK, wash my mouth out for mentioning the 'W' word, but I want to play
recordings on windows preferably via the MythWeb interface.
I have tried and failed so far with:
(1)  DSMyth Filters -  Just can't get it to work!
(2)  VLC client on windows machine accessing SAMBA share on backend - 
Works
but gets flaky for larger files, suspect something lacking with large file
support

(3)  MythStreamTV -FFMpeg and VLC failed to compile as per 
instructions
in the INSTALL file.

  Has anyone got a fairly straightforward way to achieve this 
reliably??

thanks,
Dave

PS..  Backend =   Fedora FC3 / Myth 0.18
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Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia picture size (SVIDEO)

2005-05-04 Thread Mark Smith

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  "Joseph A. Caputo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> IIRC, S-Video is only capable of outputting a 4:3 picture.

I'm not sure whether it's capable of signalling a 16:9 picture. There
certainly appears be no obvious way of doing that under software control.

However it most certainly is capable of outputting a 16:9 picture (or any
other aspect ratio you like) - you just have to set your TV manually to
display it as such.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia picture size (SVIDEO)

2005-05-04 Thread Mark Smith

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  Mark Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm starting to make progress now with my mythtv box :)  So much so
> that I've been using it on my TV - even watched a movie last night. 
> Anyhow,  the TV image is small and whatever I do to try and change it
> appears to have no effect.  The basic X screen appears as 4:3 (or so
> it seems) and seems to fill the screen vertically.  It's a widescreen
> TV so I expect black borders down the side.  However, when I switch to
> watch TV (or a recording playback) I get a widescreen image
> letterboxed into the 4:3.  None of the settings I have tried appear to
> make any difference.  I seem to be so near yet so far.

One way to achieve the desired effect is to entire a line into your xorg.conf
something like:

DisplaySize 400 225

This tells X that you have a 16:9 display, which both Myth and Xine will use
as an indication that 16:9 programmes should fill the screen and 4:3
programmes should have vertical black bars either side.

If have a Monitor section which defines the setup for my PAL TV, primarily
for UK DVB-T which tends to use 720 x 576 and 704 x 576 video resolutions:

Section "Monitor"
Identifier   "TV0"
VendorName   "Toshiba"
ModelName"28 inch widescreen"
HorizSync15.625
VertRefresh  50
ModeLine "704x576" 13.625 704 728 792 872 576 581 586 625 -hsync 
-vsync interlace
ModeLine "720x576" 13.875 720 744 808 888 576 581 586 625 -hsync 
-vsync interlace
DisplaySize  400 225
EndSection   

I then have a screen defined which uses this monitor definition. Note that my
system is currently complaining about the 704x576 mode - not sure if that's
because it is incompatable with the SVideo out in some way.

This definiton additionally sets up the VGA output such that you can feed an
RGB signal into a SCART connector if you build a simple sync convertor
circuit - something I have yet to do, but should give much better results.

I am getting reasonable results with my GeForce 5200 (NV34) card, though
movement of scrolling text in particular is not 100% smooth. The RGB out
should fix that problem (as the output is then field for field is it was
intended to be viewed). I believe some people are getting good SVideo results
with a combination of Bob deinterlacing and the OpenGL vsync support - I
believe the latter has to be specifically compiled into Myth, though.

> I'm using a Geforce MX4000 and driving the TV via SVIDEO.  The picture
> quality seems OK for LiveTV but really grainy and flimmery
> (interlaced?) for text and the X windows herringbone background.

A lot of people have reported poor SVideo output on NV18 nVidia cards. If you
check your Xorg.0.log file what does it say you have?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Auto delete old video

2005-05-04 Thread Mario Limonciello

It is updated in the database.

On 5/4/05, ACIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for your info, Does it create configure file or update in database.
> 
> Thanks
> Bishesh
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: "Mario Limonciello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 1:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Auto delete old video
> 
> > BIMAL ADHIKARI wrote:
> >
> >> I need you help. I am running MythTv. It store video files in /video
> >> partition. Now it is 100. I like to know if there is any way we can
> >> make /video partition threshold 90%.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Thank
> >>
> >> Bishesh
> >>
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> > On a frontend go into the Setup Page.  Choose TV Settings.  Choose
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> > Settings".
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[mythtv-users] DVD recording sync issues with PVR 350

2005-05-04 Thread John Kondis

I've spent a *lot* of time on this problem and can't
seem to find a solution.  I really hope someone can
help me with this.

I am writing some of my MythTV recordings to DVD and I
get a-v sync drifts during the DVD recording, up to a
second or two near the end of a two-hour recording
(playing within myth is fine, though).  I've noticed
that many people have this problem, but all the
solutions I've tried that people suggested haven't
worked for me.  For reference, I'm using a PVR-350,
Myth 0.18, ivtv-0.2.0-rc3e, on a headless system
running on a Celeron 566 with SuSE Linux 9.2.

To burn to DVD, I have a script crafted after the
mythtv docs ala the blurb at the end of
http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html.  This
involves splitting the audio and video streams with
mpeg2desc, remultiplexing them with mplex, creating a
dvd file structure with dvdauthor, and writing an iso
file system directly to DVD with growisofs.

Basically, I've tried:

1) Changing the encoded stream type to "DVD Special 2"
in Myth.  Still have the sync issue.
2) Trying to re-encode using mencoder like the
following: 

> mencoder  -of mpeg -oac copy -ovc copy -o


mencoder seems to do just fine, but when I do this,
mpeg2desc or mplex complain that they don't understand
the file format.
3) Trying to re-encode using ffmpeg, setting the
output format to mpeg2video, making sure that audio
bitrate is the same (384kpbs), and preserving the
stream mappings.  The command looks something like

> ffmpeg -i  -f mpegts -vcodec mpegvideo -ab
384 -b 4500 -maxrate 6000 -bufsize 200 

Again, does just fine, but mpeg2desc or mplex complain
that they don't like the resulting file format.

...and a few other things, including using mpgtx to
cut the file into segments or nuvexport (I get myriad
complaints about formats or obscure errors). 
Regarding the file format complaints, I've looked for
settings to try that won't make mplex or mpeg2desc
barf, but I can't find any.  The errors look like
this:

   INFO: [mplex] mplex version 1.6.2 (2.2.3 $Date:
2004/01/13 20:45:26 $)
**ERROR: [mplex] File  unrecogniseable!
**ERROR: [mplex] File  unrecogniseable!
**ERROR: [mplex] Unrecogniseable file(s)... exiting.

In any case, it seems the initial problem comes from
errors that are generated by the PVR350's encoder. 
So, it seems the right approach would be some tool
that can re-encode the streams while preserving the
stream format (and the sync!) and cleaning up the
stream errors generated by the PVR.  Keeping it
playable on the PVR-350's output would be ideal, then
I can try some user job in myth to do this to all the
recordings automatically.  (In fact, maybe take a
couple Mbps out of the file in the process.)

Is there a simple, idiot-proof way to do this?  Since
I'm running my myth system headless, something easily
scriptable, and non-GUI is what I'm after.  I really
hope somebody who has solved this problem can show me
the way.

Thanks!
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[mythtv-users] Setup locking up when I go into capture cards

2005-05-04 Thread Bill Chmura


Hello,

I am helping a friend get his mythbox working... We've got a PVR-350
(He mentioned it was the second revision) and Mythtv from 0.18 and also
from CVS.  In both cases, when we go into setup everything is okay
until we go to the capture cards screen.  Then the whole setup just
freezes.  Nothing, nada.

I have not found any errors anywhere.

has anyone experienced this?

(Gentoo, 2.6 kernel, ivtv 2.0 drivers)

Bill

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Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox Versions

2005-05-04 Thread a M

I think I'm going down the Xbox remote. It's relatively inexpensive, comes 
with an IR adaptor and works right away not much need for changing LIRC if 
my understanding is correct. I'm fairly green to Linux so the fewer changes 
the better off I'll be.

The downside to the Xbox remote is no Power button or Volume buttons so I 
guess I'll need a second remote or need to break down and buy the universal 
remote everyone is talking about from RatShack.

I'm unfamiliar with Media MVP do you have a link that I could read up on?
In general I'm impressed by how relatively easy it was to sync my Xbox and 
my backend on Myth. I still have an Xbox that is a bit to large screenwise 
for the TV which is adjustable in Myth (anyone have some directions) but all 
in all it's compact and fairly stable.

I say relatively easy because of my lack of Linux experience and knowledge. 
My Xbox wouldn't boot from a CD unless cromwell was running so that gave me 
some problems but once I got past that hump it went relatively smoothly.

If there were a couple of detailed installs from some of the guru's that 
would definitely help some beginners. Jarrod's guide was invaluable, someone 
needs to do one for the Xbox.

AJM,

From: Mudit Wahal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Mudit Wahal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Discussion about mythtv 

To: Discussion about mythtv 
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox Versions
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 10:57:03 -0700

SD = Standard Definition/Analog.
HD = High Definition
But SD can also be considered as Standard Digital which is quite
notches above Standard Definition, and a few notches below HD.
AJM, did you a separate remote for the xbox ?
I'm in same boat, I've one HDTV and 2 analogs. For HDTV frontend, I
need a beast box (p4 3ghz+). But for analog, I'd like to get a
cheaper/quiter front end. I just bought the media mvp after reading
some comments about it on this mailing list. Haven't plugged it in
yet. Still struggling with the backend.
Media MVP doesn't run a full fledge mythtv frontend, but if all you
want is watch tv/recording/music (and dont care about other stuff),
then the basic mvp should be fine. For under $100 bucks, it comes with
a functional remote, 10/100 ethernet port, svideo output, h/w decoder,
plays mpeg2 (for mythtv only) and divx (if you run their backend on
windows). But someday, someone will write a on-the-fly transcoder from
mpeg2 to mpeg4 running on linux.
Not advocating mvp/hijacking this thread, just there are some other
options if the requirements are limited.
Thanks
Mudit
On 5/4/05, a M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'll second that Shaun.
>
> I'm running a ver 1.4 with a software hack, Xebian and myth 1.7. The 
hardest
> part was getting the software hack on the xbox for me, I ended up buying 
a
> memory card as opposed to making one.
>
> The second hardest was digesting the how to Doc on the xbox distro, I'm 
not
> a Linux user...
>
> Shaun, what's SD?
>
> AJM,
>
> >From: "Shaun Bryant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv 
> >To: "Discussion about mythtv" 
> >Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Xbox Versions
> >Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 11:18:51 -0600
> >
> >Mark,
> >
> >Why did you do a hardware hack for you where just going to run it as a
> >front-end?
> >
> >I have 5 Xboxes running now all with Xebian, each runs very well with 
SD
> >video (forget HD). My suggestion would be to pick one up used, this is 
how
> >I bought mine and thus did not have to stress as much about the 
version.
> >
> >Shaun
> >
> >
> >
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mark Knecht
> >Sent: Wed 5/4/2005 10:34 AM
> >To: Discussion about mythtv
> >Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox Versions
> >
> >
> >
> >Calvin,
> >I'm am currently going through XBox mod hell. I wouldn't recommend
> >this to anyone feint of heart.
> >
> >There are at least 7 versions of the XBox, starting with 1.0, 1.1,
> >1.2, ..., 1.6. There is also (apparently) a 'sub-version' of 1.6
> >called 1.6b. There are also a truly scary number of possibly mod
> >chips. Choose one carefully. I'm using the cheapest. It would likely
> >had been OK if it came preinstalled with the Cromwell BIOS. Some of
> >them do. I suggest looking for that.
> >
> >I purchased a new XBox last Friday for a Myth frontend machine. I
> >knew it would be difficult. I won't be heartbroken if it doesn't work.
> >Here's the status so far.
> >
> >I got the XBox modified by a nice guy here in San Jose. He
> >installed a DuoX2 chip and put some sort of bootable BIOS on it. I had
> >been able to boot GentooX and Gentoo-XBox after that work was done.
> >After looking at Xebian, GentooX, Gentoo-xbox I finally decided that
> >since I use Gentoo elsewhere I'd go with Gentoo-Xbox. All the
> >instructions said I needed the Cromwell BIOS so I tried doing that
> >with raincoat. Raincoat loaded the Cromwell BIOS, but then the machine
> >wouldn't boot from the DuoX2 anymore. It will still boot with the M$
> >BIOS.
> >
> >So far

Re: [mythtv-users] Still no sound with LiveTv or Recording

2005-05-04 Thread Aaron Aguilar

Make sure you know which device your sound card is being labeled as. 
To test this just locate a   .au file that is already on your machine.
 Then do a  $cat filename.au > /dev/dsp

If that doesn't work try it again with /dev/dsp1 or /dev/audio, etc. 
Then of course you have to change your settings in mythfrontend to the
corresponding audio device.

Good luck,
Aaron

On 5/4/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just can't seem to get sound to work with LiveTv or Recordings. I'm not
> totally sure it's playback or not. I looked at
> http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo and
> http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php
> 
> I verified my sound is working with aplay -D mixed-analog $HOME/english.au
> 
> I was able to hear sound. I also get sound with mplayer, tvtime, and
> xawtv. Looks like sound output is working. I also just yesterday installed
> the media plugin for MythTv and I was able to play using that even if all
> it really does is use mplayer.
> 
> Is there a way to test capture via /dev/dsp? Perhaps that would help me to
> troubleshoot whether it is capture or playback that is causing my
> problems. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks much,
> 
> Leo Przybylski
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Re: [mythtv-users] is there a simple recording status light avaliable?

2005-05-04 Thread David George

On 5/4/2005 2:55 PM, Christopher David Petersen wrote:
On 5/4/05, *James Armstrong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> wrote:

You can probably make it simpler by just querying the master
backend for
the status. It will do tuner status, disk space free, and we recently
added a patch that will provide the epg guide data status for the
Mythled project we did. That way you won't need new tables (except if
you really want to do your stats) and talk to one location.
Do tell more! I don't want to duplicate a previous (and probably 
better) solution.
Oops, guess I should have read this message before I clicked send.  My 
other email will answer a lot of the questions you asked below.


The project I'd really like to produce is a solder-free parallel port 
LED kit. I can almost do it with an old DB25 serial port header (from 
old 386/486 computers) and LEDs with integrated resistors. But finding 
suitable LEDs with integrated resistors is difficult (ie. not as easy 
as a walk to the local RadioShack).
Mail order may be the best option for LEDs with integrated resistors ( 
http://digikey.com maybe).

 
Any suggestions?
Worthy goal.  The parallel port will limit you to 8 bits.  If you want 
to use the bi-color LEDs that will limit you to 3 tuners and 2 status 
LEDs (or 4 tuner and no status). 

What we did was take an Allegro Micro driver chip and send serial data 
to it to set the status of the individual LEDs.  See the mythmon README 
for more information.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Still no sound with LiveTv or Recording

2005-05-04 Thread przybyls

> I had the same problem too. (Using PVR250) In my case
> I had to make add /dev/dsp to the
> capturecard.audiodevice field.   You can do a raw
> capture by doing cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg  Then
> Control-C to stop it after  awhile.
>
Do you mean I have to add /dev/dsp to the capturecard.audiodevice field
and the raw capture? Or is it either/or?

Also, by capturecard.audiodevice, do you mean the mythtv field? My mythtv
field is already /dev/dsp. I've also tried /dev/dsp0 it doesn't like the
symlink. I wonder if maybe my sampling rate might be wrong or maybe I
shouldn't use the volume override.

Thanks much,

Leo Przybylski

> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I just can't seem to get sound to work with LiveTv
>> or Recordings. I'm not
>> totally sure it's playback or not. I looked at
>> http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo
>> and
>> http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php
>>
>> I verified my sound is working with aplay -D
>> mixed-analog $HOME/english.au
>>
>> I was able to hear sound. I also get sound with
>> mplayer, tvtime, and
>> xawtv. Looks like sound output is working. I also
>> just yesterday installed
>> the media plugin for MythTv and I was able to play
>> using that even if all
>> it really does is use mplayer.
>>
>> Is there a way to test capture via /dev/dsp? Perhaps
>> that would help me to
>> troubleshoot whether it is capture or playback that
>> is causing my
>> problems. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks much,
>>
>> Leo Przybylski
>>
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RE: [mythtv-users] (no subject)

2005-05-04 Thread Jerry Danzinger


Ya I have an svideo port on my rca reciever, and It works via windows.  The 
only problem is I dont have the software that works for satellite in 
windows.  The software I have from ati is basically for recording with a 
cable connection.  That is why I wanna set up myth tv.  But now I am 
struggling to install myth tv.  It's been a pain figuring it out, I messed 
everything up first time around and had to restore lol.

>From: "Scott Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],Discussion about mythtv 

>To: "'Discussion about mythtv'" 

>Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] (no subject)
>Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 11:27:00 -0700
>
>
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry 
Danzinger
> > Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 9:21 AM
> > To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
> > Subject: [mythtv-users] (no subject)
> >
> > I am looking to set my computer up with mythtv so I can 
watch/record
> > shows on my computer.  The problem is I am using Direct Tv's 
satellite
> > service and i have found no information on what tuner card to use, 
and
> > how to set it up.  I was wondering if anyone else sucessfully did
> > this, and if they could help me out with the hardware as well as
> > setting it up
> > after getting the card.   -zonen-
> >
>
>I've got this working.  The initial learning/setup was a PITA.
>And one of my biggest problems is that I've got an older satellite
>box that doesn't have a direct serial or other type connection so
>I've had to use the two lirc instance setup, one to receive for the
>PVR-350 and one to send back out to the satellite.
>
>It is working quite well, only major complaint is the speed in which
>channels are changed, it has to jump through a lot of hoops to do it
>
>
>
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Re: [mythtv-users] Still no sound with LiveTv or Recording

2005-05-04 Thread Mark H

I had the same problem too. (Using PVR250) In my case
I had to make add /dev/dsp to the
capturecard.audiodevice field.   You can do a raw
capture by doing cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg  Then
Control-C to stop it after  awhile.  

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I just can't seem to get sound to work with LiveTv
> or Recordings. I'm not
> totally sure it's playback or not. I looked at
> http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo
> and
> http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php
> 
> I verified my sound is working with aplay -D
> mixed-analog $HOME/english.au
> 
> I was able to hear sound. I also get sound with
> mplayer, tvtime, and
> xawtv. Looks like sound output is working. I also
> just yesterday installed
> the media plugin for MythTv and I was able to play
> using that even if all
> it really does is use mplayer.
> 
> Is there a way to test capture via /dev/dsp? Perhaps
> that would help me to
> troubleshoot whether it is capture or playback that
> is causing my
> problems. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks much,
> 
> Leo Przybylski
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: XvMC Bad Alloc:11

2005-05-04 Thread Michael Haan

On 5/4/05, Tom Dombrosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I get this error all the time. I think it has to do with the nvidia
> drivers.  I haven't figured out a solution yet.  It happens to me with
> both xv and xvmc.  It only happens to me in xvmc when the source is
> interlaced.
> 
> Tom
> 

So, if this happens, the only fix is to go and turn XvMC off?  Is
there a way to auto-detect this condition and auto-disable XvMC?
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Re: [mythtv-users] is there a simple recording status light avaliable?

On 5/4/05, David George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/4/2005 1:47 PM, Christopher David Petersen wrote:[snip]
> developer. Basically, the software runs as root on all your backends.Sounds nice, but why does it need to run on each backend?

Actually, it doesn't. Just on systems where you want to monitor something. It's a more generic solution that can be used for more than just MythTV. The code will eventually allow people to write simple plug-ins to monitor whatever their hearts desire.

> The program gets its settings from 4 new tables (which will soon be> controlled via MythWeb), and stores the results of it's analysis
> in another new table (the led_status table).Why would you need new database tables.  I haven't looked into the jobstatus, but all the other things are easily retrieved through thebackend protocol.  The guide data status has been in there since Isaac
accepted my patch adding it to the backend server.

All the new tables except one, hold configuration data for the various things you want to monitor. The other table holds the results of all the analysis.
> The program can also be run on a front-end, where it reads the status> information from the status table and controls the 8 LEDs connected to
> the parallel port. The hardware costs about $10 at RadioShack, and the> software is free.>> I currently have MythLEDd running on my combined backend/frontend> controlling 3 LEDs. Red means tuner one is recording, green means the
> machine is either transcoding or commercial flagging, blinking yellow> means low disk space, and solid yellow means low EPG data.Hmm, same here.  Actually I use bicolor LEDs for each of the 8 tuners
(green=tuner available but not recording, red=tuner recording, off=notuner or tuner error), and have a system status light that comes on ifguide data < 7 days or will flash on low disk space or guide data < 3
days.  I almost forgot, there is also a buzzer inside that will startbeeping if communications with the backend are lost.  The tuner LEDs dosupport tuners on slave backends.

Your solution looks beautiful. But seems beyond my target budget (<$10) and diffently beyond my soldering skills. The parallel port, resistor, LED solution is supper easy and cheap.
Check out the link in my sig for pictures of the LEDs and the sourcecode for the monitor program which runs on the frontend (and doesn't
require any database or backend changes).

This is a really nice looking box! I wish I weren't cheap :)
Of course, the OP was asking for something simple... oops :-)--DavidHDTV frontend I'm working on (pictures, mythmon source)
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: recording HD content

2005-05-04 Thread Nathan Poznick

Thus spake Brad Templeton:
> Right now the cable boxes aren't doing this, so enjoy it while we can!
> But the law, as we understand it, doesn't forbid them from doing it.

Sigh.  I think my cable company just started doing this recently - I
can no longer dump awe-inspiring HD streams from my 6200 (I get a few
hundred kb of data).

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: XvMC Bad Alloc:11

2005-05-04 Thread Tom Dombrosky

I get this error all the time. I think it has to do with the nvidia
drivers.  I haven't figured out a solution yet.  It happens to me with
both xv and xvmc.  It only happens to me in xvmc when the source is
interlaced.

Tom
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Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia picture size (SVIDEO)

2005-05-04 Thread Joseph A. Caputo

On Wednesday 04 May 2005 15:18, Mark Howells wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm starting to make progress now with my mythtv box :)  So much so
> that I've been using it on my TV - even watched a movie last night. 
> Anyhow,  the TV image is small and whatever I do to try and change it
> appears to have no effect.  The basic X screen appears as 4:3 (or so
> it seems) and seems to fill the screen vertically.  It's a widescreen
> TV so I expect black borders down the side.  However, when I switch to
> watch TV (or a recording playback) I get a widescreen image
> letterboxed into the 4:3.  None of the settings I have tried appear to
> make any difference.  I seem to be so near yet so far.
> 
> I have tried using the overscan facility within Mythtv (0.18) but
> settings higher that 20 cause picture corruption and still don't
> change the size of the image.
> 
> I'm using a Geforce MX4000 and driving the TV via SVIDEO.  The picture
> quality seems OK for LiveTV but really grainy and flimmery
> (interlaced?) for text and the X windows herringbone background.
> 
> I've been googling like donkey on drugs but haven't found anything
> that makes _any_ difference to what I see on the screen.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.  I've enclosed relevant sections of my 
xorg.conf

IIRC, S-Video is only capable of outputting a 4:3 picture.  You could 
try playing around with the aspect ratio menu ('M' while watching a 
recording or livetv), but I don't think it will help much.  You might 
want to check to see if your TV has a 'stretch' mode that forces it to 
assume the incoming 4:3 signal is really a letterboxed 16:9 picture and 
scale it appropriately.  Some widescreen TVs have such a mode; some 
even try to autodetect.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Minimum hardware requirements for music-only frontend?


On 5/4/05, Gabe Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't think mythmusic is the tool you would want.  You can use avariety of different music apps that will stream from your network.

Good point. I was suggesting a Myth frontend just to create a consistent UI across the all the machines in my home.
 
Rather than asking question here, can anyone suggest a list that discusses streaming music clients on Linux?
 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Streaming to Windows Machine

2005-05-04 Thread Mudit Wahal

i think winmyth developer has announced 0.18.1 release.
also seems like the default config file may be messed up. i was just
reading posts on the project website.

most of the crashes were related to the config file being missing/bad.

On 5/4/05, Endaf Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You know, I've tried winmyth on two different machines, and both crash
> with an application error right from the start.  I've installed the .NET
> stuff. as well.
> 
> I need to poke around some more
> 
> # Endaf
> 
> Mudit Wahal wrote:
> 
> >try this ..
> >http://sourceforge.net/projects/winmyth
> >
> >
> >On 5/4/05, Dave Ansell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>   OK, wash my mouth out for mentioning the 'W' word, but I want to play
> >>recordings on windows preferably via the MythWeb interface.
> >>
> >>I have tried and failed so far with:
> >>
> >>(1)  DSMyth Filters -  Just can't get it to work!
> >>
> >>(2)  VLC client on windows machine accessing SAMBA share on backend -  Works
> >>but gets flaky for larger files, suspect something lacking with large file
> >>support
> >>
> >>(3)  MythStreamTV -FFMpeg and VLC failed to compile as per instructions
> >>in the INSTALL file.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  Has anyone got a fairly straightforward way to achieve this reliably??
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>thanks,
> >>
> >>Dave
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>PS..  Backend =   Fedora FC3 / Myth 0.18
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[mythtv-users] Coventive Uranus

2005-05-04 Thread joe . white


This looks like a really neat mobo for
a myth system.  If anyone want to develop drivers for it, then please
do.  Don't let the 16k licensing fee scare you off.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Minimum hardware requirements for music-only frontend?

2005-05-04 Thread Craig Partin

On 5/4/05, Christopher David Petersen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No flames. 
>   
> The referenced web page (which I've read carefully several times) is talking
> about system requirements for video. I'm interested in the minimum
> requirements for a music only frontend. Basically, I'd only run mythmusic
> with no visualizations. 
>   
> Slightly different. And, hopefully, different enough to prevent RTFM flames.
>   
> If this question still seems too flame-able, then let's all agree that the
> next and last post to this thread will be mine: reporting on the results of
> the experiment with the aforementioned hardware. 
>   
> Agreed? 
>   
> -- 
> Christopher David Petersen
> 
>  
>  
> On 5/4/05, Andrew Close <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> > On 5/4/05, Christopher David Petersen
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> > > I'm thinking about using an old laptop for a music-only frontend and I
> have
> > > a few questions:
> > >
> > > 1) Is a PII 366 and 128 MB really enough to run Linux and a MythTV
> frontend?
> > > How about a Pentium 200 MMX with 96MB?
> > > 2) What's an easy to install distro that has a small enough memory
> footprint
> > > for 128 MB? For 96MB?
> > > 3) Can 802.11b handle streaming FLAC audio files via SMB from the
> backend? 
> > >
> > >
> > > Having read the documentation and searched the list, I feel this machine
> > > could do it, but before purchasing it, I'd like to get some empirical
> data.
> > 
> > Hi Christopher,
> > 
> > no offense, but be prepared to be flamed. :) 
> > http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1
> > there is a rough list of minimum requirements about a 1/8 way down  the
> page.
> > 
> > your PII 366 may be able to handle recording and playback 
> > simultaneously if you are using one of the pvr cards.  you could
> > probably use this machine as a backend if all your cards were
> > prv-X50's.  i'd guess you'd need to bump up the RAM though.
> > you 'may' be able to use the P200MMX for a backend as well since the 
> > pvr cards do all the encoding/decoding (?) for you.  but i doubt it
> > would work as a front end.
> > 
> > PIII with 256MB RAM is the 'recommended' minimum.  YMMV.
> > good luck :)
> > 
> 
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Personally I think the last guy deserves flaming for not reading your
post thoroughly before responding.  :)

It takes almost no CPU to play music, even FLAC decoding can be done
on more modest processors than your old Pentium.  Linux will run on
anything, I think even KB of memory.  The only problems I see would be
the slowness of menus in loading a large music library.  I'm certain
your machine would make a fine music only frontend.  I ran a video
FE/BE on a 500MHz Celeron for a few months.
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Re: [mythtv-users] is there a simple recording status light avaliable?

2005-05-04 Thread David George

On 5/4/2005 1:47 PM, Christopher David Petersen wrote:
The recently formed PoORMUG (Portland, OR MythTV Users Group) just had 
a project to show the status of multiple backend on up to 8 LEDs on 
multiple front-ends. It's called MythLEDd and I'm the primary 
developer. Basically, the software runs as root on all your backends.
Sounds nice, but why does it need to run on each backend?
It can monitor free disk space, EPG data remaining, tuner status 
(in-use or free), and job status (mythtranscode, mythcommflag, etc).
Sounds a lot like the LED box that James and I developed (except for the 
job status).

The program gets its settings from 4 new tables (which will soon be 
controlled via MythWeb), and stores the results of it's analysis 
in another new table (the led_status table).
Why would you need new database tables.  I haven't looked into the job 
status, but all the other things are easily retrieved through the 
backend protocol.  The guide data status has been in there since Isaac 
accepted my patch adding it to the backend server.

The program can also be run on a front-end, where it reads the status 
information from the status table and controls the 8 LEDs connected to 
the parallel port. The hardware costs about $10 at RadioShack, and the 
software is free.
 
I currently have MythLEDd running on my combined backend/frontend 
controlling 3 LEDs. Red means tuner one is recording, green means the 
machine is either transcoding or commercial flagging, blinking yellow 
means low disk space, and solid yellow means low EPG data.
Hmm, same here.  Actually I use bicolor LEDs for each of the 8 tuners 
(green=tuner available but not recording, red=tuner recording, off=no 
tuner or tuner error), and have a system status light that comes on if 
guide data < 7 days or will flash on low disk space or guide data < 3 
days.  I almost forgot, there is also a buzzer inside that will start 
beeping if communications with the backend are lost.  The tuner LEDs do 
support tuners on slave backends.

Check out the link in my sig for pictures of the LEDs and the source 
code for the monitor program which runs on the frontend (and doesn't 
require any database or backend changes).

Of course, the OP was asking for something simple... oops :-)
--
David
HDTV frontend I'm working on (pictures, mythmon source)
 http://mythhd.info
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: recording HD content

2005-05-04 Thread Brad Templeton

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 11:10:01AM -0400, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> Now I'm confused... are you saying that the cable co. is allowed to 
> encrypt or downres firewire output even for 'broadcast equivalent' 
> channels, and that only the raw QAM signal for such channels must be 
> available in the clear?
> 

Dunno about down-res, but they are allowed (and expected to) use the
DTCP (5C) protocol on the 1394 port in the cable box.   This protocol
has the cable box talk to the receiving end and confirm that it also
speaks DTCP, which only happens if it has pledged not to let the
content out.

So Tivo could get a DTCP licence, for example, so that the set top box
will send the data out over 1394 for the Tivo.  That's because Tivo will
have promised not to let the user get at the data -- to store it on disk
encrypted, to not send it out except via analog ports or to other DTCP
devices (including 1394/DTVLink equipped TVs.)

Problem is Myth can't get a DTCP licence.  So it won't be able to
convince the cable box to trust it and send the data.

Right now the cable boxes aren't doing this, so enjoy it while we can!
But the law, as we understand it, doesn't forbid them from doing it.

Not that the cable companies themselves are all that keen to do it.  It's
the studios that insist they will not let the cable companies have their
movies if they don't do it, though they are probably not telling the
truth when they insist this.

Since the Djinni is out of the bag already with thousands of pre-BF
ATSC cards, it's possible they might not care so much on the broadcast
channels.   However, it is probably false to hope that your cable box
will continue to spit out HBO-HD to any device, in the clear.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Minimum hardware requirements for music-only frontend?

2005-05-04 Thread Gabe Rubin

I don't think mythmusic is the tool you would want.  You can use a
variety of different music apps that will stream from your network.
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Re: [mythtv-users] is my PVR-350 propperly configured?

2005-05-04 Thread Scott Francis

On 5/4/05, iwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ? 
>  
> Hi, 
>   
> when I issue this command : 
> # /sbin/lspci -v 
>   
> I get this output for the PVR-350: 
> 00:10.0 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 10
> Memory at d800 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
> Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 
>   
> But when I look in this guide: 
> http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/printer-friendly.php?SID&expandables=closed&ivtv=closed&pvr350out=closed
>   
> I see that I need to het this output: 
>   
> 00:07.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2
> Encoder (rev 01)
> Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 4000
> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
> Memory at e000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
> Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 
>   
> What did I do wrong? 
>   
>   
>  
>  
> Iwan 
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You didn't do anything wrong you just probably have a newer card.  The
important thing is lscpi returned something meaning Linux recognized
your card
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Re: [mythtv-users] Minimum hardware requirements for music-only frontend?