Re: [mythtv-users] WHISH-LIST: what I always wanted.
Actually, this would be a nice feature, but I'm not willing to code it, so I can live without. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: There are some people (myself included) who happen to use the LiveTV feature. Or, alternatively, I'll start recording a show, but them in skipping commercials, I catch up with the live feed. Can't skip commercials to get to content that hasn't aired yet. -- Joe --- Scott Alfter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 06:02:37PM -0700, Karsten Jeppesen wrote: There is a very very important thing missing in MythTV. At least I have been missing this feature on every single TV I have had: A volumen-preset-while-the-bloody-commercials-are-running button. Ever noticed that the sound is turned up 15% while the commercials are on? Commercials? What are those? :-) Whether using a VCR, TiVo, or MythTV, I haven't wasted time on commercials in over 12 years. Instead of watching them, why aren't you skipping them? _/_ / v \ Scott Alfter (remove the obvious to send mail) (IIGS( http://alfter.us/Top-posting! \_^_/ rm -rf /bin/ladenWhat's the most annoying thing on Usenet? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users __ Discover Yahoo! Stay in touch with email, IM, photo sharing and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/stayintouch.html ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] WHISH-LIST: what I always wanted.
Karsten Jeppesen wrote: There is a very very important thing missing in MythTV. At least I have been missing this feature on every single TV I have had: A volumen-preset-while-the-bloody-commercials-are-running button. Ever noticed that the sound is turned up 15% while the commercials are on? I would like a switch button that is programmable so I can press it and temporarily lower the volumen to X% of what it was before. When the button is pressed again we resume at the previously used volume. Karsten One of my tv's has an stable volume thing that brings their levels down. I am sort of wierd about this issue. I have kind of made a pact with myself that I will never buy any product where the record levels are maxed out or people scream. I also make it a point not to listen to their advertisements when I hear the volumn increase like that. I don't know how successful I've been in real life, but I bet its hurt a sale from me more than once. -Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] WHISH-LIST: what I always wanted.
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:10:46PM -0700, Joe Votour wrote: Actually, this would be a nice feature, but I'm not willing to code it, so I can live without. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: There are some people (myself included) who happen to use the LiveTV feature. Or, alternatively, I'll start recording a show, but them in skipping commercials, I catch up with the live feed. Can't skip commercials to get to content that hasn't aired yet. Well, sure you can. However, in MythTV at least for now, unlike the Tivo, you just can't do it in the livetv mode. You must always select to record the show, then watch the recording. This leaves you free to watch any of the other large number of shows you have on your machine at any given time. Watch such a show (documentaries and other non-suspense shows work best) for however long it will take to match the number of commercials you have to skip, and then watch the live show. If you understimate, just pause and watch some other programming for a while. It's like you used to do, changing channels in the commercial break, except with no discontinuity. Generally I never recommend use of Myth's live tv mode, even if you want to watch live tv, but I know there are plans to improve it. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-150 status?
I installed a new, external 300GB 1394 hard drive to act as video storage. It seemed to be working fine as of this mornig when I left. I'm sure I'll hear from my 75+ year old Linux using parents if it fails! What about live and recorded video? Is the video choppy? Are the scaling issues resolved by set all of the Recording Profiles in TV Setup to 720x480. as Tony wrote to this mailing list on 3/23/2005? Any issues with sound? Jason Werpy mentioned this on 05/13/2005. Any other features that are supported for PVR-250 has and not supported for PVR-150? -- Milos Prudek http://www.spoxdesign.com - your web usability testing ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Another Bug in mythtv-suite?
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 10:19:10PM -0400, Michael Starks wrote: Axel Thimm wrote: Yes, it is. Please send in more details (perhaps better on bugzilla.atrpms.net and a link to the bug here). Thanks. As requested: http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=528 Thanks, that's indeed a different issue, it just hadn't been scheduled to be built. It will appear in a couple of hours. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net pgptqeriXTufl.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Stability of ATrpms (was: mythRecipe)
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 05:58:05PM -0700, Karsten Jeppesen wrote: Regarding your question about Axel (atrpms): In my opinion atrpms should be handled with care. If used incorrectly - it may blow up your system. Not if you use at-stable which is the default setting. Some of the stuff that is there is much more complete than it is from the base/update repositories, and a lot more bleeding edge. Not unstable - just newer. Not if you use at-stable which is the default setting. ;) So it is possible to paint yourself into a corner revision wise. My philosophy is: never use yum update while atrpms is active. Only download what you need. Then you are left with broken dependencies. An example is the Alsa system. If you use yum update the Alsa system will be useless afterwards. Simply because the FC3 rpms for Alsa are brainless. So you end up with atrpms Alsa system except for the alsalib which will remain the old one. DUH - they are not compatible. If you download selectively you are left with broken dependencies. That kind of caution is just doing the damage you are trying to avoid. Also using yum is known to munge your system. The recommended depsolver is apt (and smart for x86_64/i386 multilib systems) So you can get all the neat stuff from atrpms. But do not disconnect your brain. It does require supervision. That is why I maintain internal caches of outside repositories. It makes it faster to wipe the system and get it back up again. ATrpms' at-stable section has been just that, stable. Even if mythtv-suite sometimes has bad dependencies ... If you use the bleeding section, then all you get is what you asked fro ;) -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net pgpLvpJLl0STe.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 20:12, Derek Scollon wrote: I like being able to use DVD menus and skip from chapter to chapter, so I've just switched to xine and it's working great for DVDs. My next question is whether MythTV can rip DVDs preserving DVD menus and chapters. I've done this in Windows using a little program which makes perfect or compressed rips, then Cyberlink PowerDVD can play these directly from hard disk. I've been looking around but don't see how this is done in MythTV. try dvdbackup http://dvd-create.sourceforge.net/ -- Simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] question about slave backends (drive storage)
On 5/23/05, Peter Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/23/05, John Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can a master and slave backend store recordings in 2 seperate places?.. ie both on their own hard drives or do they both have to store the files in the same place? Yes, that's how I have my master/slave system set up. Peter ___ Woohoo! I should have asked instead of assuming. I thought I had to NFS mount my recording directory, I'm excited to play with my setup tomorrow and change my settings around.. :) Cool ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] WHISH-LIST: what I always wanted.
If I'm watching something live then i'll run it at around 85% slower speed (not slow enough to really notice any difference) then when the commercials come on your normally around 4mins behind realtime and can skip through most of them :) Ash. On 5/26/05, Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:10:46PM -0700, Joe Votour wrote: Actually, this would be a nice feature, but I'm not willing to code it, so I can live without. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: There are some people (myself included) who happen to use the LiveTV feature. Or, alternatively, I'll start recording a show, but them in skipping commercials, I catch up with the live feed. Can't skip commercials to get to content that hasn't aired yet. Well, sure you can. However, in MythTV at least for now, unlike the Tivo, you just can't do it in the livetv mode. You must always select to record the show, then watch the recording. This leaves you free to watch any of the other large number of shows you have on your machine at any given time. Watch such a show (documentaries and other non-suspense shows work best) for however long it will take to match the number of commercials you have to skip, and then watch the live show. If you understimate, just pause and watch some other programming for a while. It's like you used to do, changing channels in the commercial break, except with no discontinuity. Generally I never recommend use of Myth's live tv mode, even if you want to watch live tv, but I know there are plans to improve it. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] PVR-150MCE in Australia?
I've got a PVR-150MCE (mostly) going in New Zealand: Relevant module config options (note it is my second card - change the -81-1 to -81-0 if the 150 is your first/only card): alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-1 ivtv options cx25840 i2c_enable=1 audiofmt=1 no_black_magic=1 #options saa7127 i2c_enable=-1 options msp3400 once=1 simple=1 options wm8775 mixer=2 options tda9887 pal=B options ivtv ivtv_std=2 tda9887=1 tuner=58 ivtv_debug=0 In a startup script I am also running ivtvctl -d /dev/video1 -u 1 -f width=720,height=576 -p 2 Input 2 (-p 2) is Composite in on the PVR-150MCE I have. Hopefully it's the same for you. Ivtvctl will be able to tell you, though. I haven't had any luck with the tuner, though. I can see static, hear static (the audio was no mean feat), but never a signal, regardless of what frequency (including those tested working on a bttv card using xawtv in the same machine. Let me know if you have more luck with the tuner than I did. (Change the above script to -p 6 for the tuner input). Regards, Duncan -Original Message- From: Bret Wortman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 26 May 2005 12:24 a.m. To: Mythtv-users Subject: [mythtv-users] PVR-150MCE in Australia? Anyone had any success setting up a PVR-150MCE with Myth in Australia? I'm having trouble getting my modprobe.conf set up properly for capturing. I'm getting static with color bars on the lower third of the screen, but no signal from my Telstra direct decoder box. Thanks! Bret Wortman ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-150 status?
On Wed, 25 May 2005 18:56:01 -0500 SB Childe Roland [EMAIL PROTECTED] hit the keyboard and punched: Have you had any framerate issues? Yes, with older ivtv (something like 0.3.3...) I had low fps and slow motion like picture. Don't know what I did to resolve it but I think the problems disappeared with later ivtv drivers. -- Rickard .--..--. .. | || | .-. | Rickard Borgmäster | | || |/ / | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | .-^ | .--. | | http://doktorn.sub.nu/ | ( o | ( () ) | |\ \ `' `-' `--' `--' `--' ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Stability of ATrpms (was: mythRecipe)
Axel, Is it possible to make package for these plugins in the bleeding section. On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 05:58:05PM -0700, Karsten Jeppesen wrote: Regarding your question about Axel (atrpms): In my opinion atrpms should be handled with care. If used incorrectly - it may blow up your system. Not if you use at-stable which is the default setting. Some of the stuff that is there is much more complete than it is from the base/update repositories, and a lot more bleeding edge. Not unstable - just newer. Not if you use at-stable which is the default setting. ;) So it is possible to paint yourself into a corner revision wise. My philosophy is: never use yum update while atrpms is active. Only download what you need. Then you are left with broken dependencies. An example is the Alsa system. If you use yum update the Alsa system will be useless afterwards. Simply because the FC3 rpms for Alsa are brainless. So you end up with atrpms Alsa system except for the alsalib which will remain the old one. DUH - they are not compatible. If you download selectively you are left with broken dependencies. That kind of caution is just doing the damage you are trying to avoid. Also using yum is known to munge your system. The recommended depsolver is apt (and smart for x86_64/i386 multilib systems) So you can get all the neat stuff from atrpms. But do not disconnect your brain. It does require supervision. That is why I maintain internal caches of outside repositories. It makes it faster to wipe the system and get it back up again. ATrpms' at-stable section has been just that, stable. Even if mythtv-suite sometimes has bad dependencies ... If you use the bleeding section, then all you get is what you asked fro ;) -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- gr. patrick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New Nokia web device -- ultimate Myth controller?
What I'm thinking with this is rather than indirectly sending commands to the frontend (or backend) via lirc, you could directly control the unit through ssh (since it is an autonomous unit connected by WiFi). In the case of distributed frontends, you would be able to monitor and control each frontend from a single hand-held unit, and from anywhere within range of your wireless network. The difference is that with lirc, you have a limited set of commands that can be sent, and those can be sent only to the box hosting the lirc device. With something like the Nokia on a network, you can send any linux command to any box on the network. I'm not yet sure how or why this would be useful, but it strikes me as a potentially very powerful tool. I'm also not sure how or if this would be possible, but I'm guessing that since the Nokia machine is built on a standard kernel that you can get to a shell and start constructing nifty little scripts and widgets. I'm also pretty sure that such tinkering would be a great deal harder on a WinCE machine. I don't know enough about palm to comment. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Myth won't connect FC3
On 5/25/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any suggestions folks. Been driving me buggy for weeks now. ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mythtvsetup 2005-05-25 22:30:17.505 New DB connection, total: 1 Total desktop width=1280, height=1024, numscreens=1 2005-05-25 22:30:17.577 Using screen 0, 1280x1024 at 0,0 2005-05-25 22:30:17.722 Switching to square mode (blue) mythtv: could not connect to socket mythtv: Connection refused lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages 2005-05-25 22:30:20.005 Joystick disabled. Couldn't open /dev/video0 to probe its inputs. If this is the master backend server: Now, please run 'mythfilldatabase' to populate the database with channel information. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mythbackend [1] 4935 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ 2005-05-25 22:31:54.560 New DB connection, total: 1 Starting up as the master server. 2005-05-25 22:31:54.697 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-05-25 22:31:54.759 Channel(/dev/video0)::Open(): Can't open video device, error No such file or directory 2005-05-25 22:31:54.765 Channel(/dev/video0)::Open(): Can't open video device, error No such file or directory 2005-05-25 22:31:54.771 ChannelBase: Could not find input: Tuner 0 on card whensetting channel 3 2005-05-25 22:31:54.831 New DB scheduler connection cable is defined, but isn't attached to a cardinput. 2005-05-25 22:31:54.897 mythbackend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-05-25 22:31:54.899 Enabled verbose msgs : important general QServerSocket: failed to bind or listen to the socket Failed to bind port: 6543 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ [1]+ Exit 6 mythbackend - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users have you uhm...setup your database correctly? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: mythRecipe
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 12:08:58PM +0200, Patrick de Brabander [mythtv] wrote: Is it possible to make package for these plugins in the bleeding section. Yes, such packages usually get their debut in bleeding or testing first. But you would need to convince some other packager to work on it, I'm currently out of time :( Jarod, Chris and Mark are good packagers, too, or you can try atrpms-devel. BTW when posting warning/error from compilation, use LC_ALL=C as otherwise only people speaking Dutch would be able to help. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net pgpFXPS0LGGJe.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: RG-6 crimping question
Michael T. Dean wrote: Kyle Rose wrote: LOL. There are actually three (somewhat tongue-in-cheek), and I accidentally combined the second and third in my statement: 1. Cable quality doesn't matter when the data flowing over it is digital. http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/34579/122868.html See the section, The Role of Cable and Connection Quality--it doesn't dispute your claim (especially considering the somewhat tongue-in-cheek nature of the claim), but does help dispel the common misconception that digital = perfect transmission. Rule #1 was intended for digital audio transmission, not digital video, the latter of which I know a lot less about. So perhaps I'll restate in the future. With audio, most receivers do something obvious when error-checked audio data (e.g., AC3 or DTS) is corrupted over S/PDIF: they drop audio for a second. Thus, what you typically get with a digital connection is either perfect audio, or something really, truly unlistenable, and nothing in between. Now, this isn't true for PCM, but you can test the integrity of your link with an AC3 movie to make sure it isn't losing data. But even this isn't the point of the rule. The point of the rule is illustrated by the observation that the RCA cables I construct from RG-6, coax compression connectors, and screw-on RCA plugs for about $4.00 + $0.20/foot is just as good for digital audio as the 6' Monster digital audio cable for $39.95. And, if anything, this is even *more* true for Toslink, because fiber optics either work or they don't due to properties of refraction. Quality doesn't really come into play. Any notion of poor-quality Toslink cables allowing other input to bleed into the connection is complete and utter bullshit that only people who haven't taken an AP- or college-level physics course could fall victim to. The entire purpose of my three rules is to protect people who don't really know any better from self-proclaimed audiophiles, who would fail every single double blind test I would care to subject them to. When you're paying $30/ft for cable, there is some incentive to impress others with how pristeen your setup is, even if the $0.50/ft cable would be indistinguishable in any test you could set up. Cheers, Kyle ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] italian translation and tv_grab_it
My english is not so good but i can help to complete the italian translation. Where i can find a guide line? Another question, I'm working on a new italian grabber, how i can include in mythtv supported grabbers? Andrea Ps Nobody from italy? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nuvola theme release 0.2
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 23:01 -0600, pmb wrote: Back by popular demand, Nuvola Theme 0.2. Not much has changed except for a few icons and the font which look a lot nicer than the old ones. Download it at http://www.umich2.com Good news everyone! Let me know if you have any problems or suggestions. A wide-screen version would be nice. -- Peter ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Mythbackend System lockup; Checking root filesystem
My mythbackend machine locked up around 3AM last night. Actually the hard drive light showed constant activity this morning, but the box was not accessible, either on the console or network. This is not the first time it's happened, but it does not happen often. So I reset the box. It prompted me for a file system check when it came up and i hit Y to do it. Now it's sitting at Checking root filesystem and has been for over an hour. The hard drive lights is again showing constant activity. System is FC3 with a 3-drive LVM, running Myth 0.16. Should I let it keep working? Should I reset and not do the file system check? Anything else I should do? Thanks, James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ivtv compile and build
Thanks all, for your replies. The RPM route is still an option of course. My first MythTV system, now dismantled, was successfully built using Jarod's guide and Axel's RPMs. At the moment, I would like to be able to use CVS, compile-from-source methods, and make this new AMD64 system work. But, I remain open to switching to the pre-built approach, and taking advantage of all the hard work done by Jarod, Axel, et al. -- MM ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-150 status?
On 5/26/05, Milos Prudek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed a new, external 300GB 1394 hard drive to act as video storage. It seemed to be working fine as of this mornig when I left. I'm sure I'll hear from my 75+ year old Linux using parents if it fails! What about live and recorded video? Is the video choppy? Seems fine. We have a PVR-250 here at our house. The 150 I installed at my parents place looks OK to me. Not even XBox performance problems to worry about so far. Please remember it's only been installed and running a couple of days. Are the scaling issues resolved by set all of the Recording Profiles in TV Setup to 720x480. as Tony wrote to this mailing list on 3/23/2005? the screen was overscanning a bit. My parents didn't seem to care so I didn't mess with it. The plan is to replace this XBox very soon with some other unit (Pundit-R probably) so it didn't seem too important to spend much time on that while right now. Any issues with sound? Jason Werpy mentioned this on 05/13/2005. I had the same issue I sometimes have with our 250. I start a show and the first 15-30 seconds don't have sound. If I stop and start again I get sound. Any other features that are supported for PVR-250 has and not supported for PVR-150? Not sure. the most obvious good feature about the 150 is contrary to the Hauppage site which says the '150 is the priced reduced version of the 250' it appears that the 150 with the 0.3.3k driver is actually dual tuner. However I haven't tried recording from the second tuner yet. I want to warn that we are not very concerned about that stuff. My mom was taken ill a few weeks ago and I built this quickly so she could watch some recorded TV while she's recovering. She's not critical about the picture or anything else. She's used to watching from a VCR tape so this is an improvement for her but it might not satisfy someone who wants to be critical about things. All I can say is so far it looks pretty equivalent to what I get from our 250. Cheers, Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Finishing my Myth Configuration
Tim, Out of curiosity on my behalf with item #3 what happens when you run Myth without reloading the tuner? 3. Whenever I reboot, I loose /dev/video0 and am forced to run modprobe ivtv to reload my tuner device. Is this the correct behaviour? Where do I set this to run automatically? AJM, On 5/25/05, Tim Vruwink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings: I've been running MythTV 0.18 for about a week now and am extremely pleased with it. This is my first time using it, and I successfully got everything running on my first try (with a few restarts). I have a few niggling details I want to nail down before I consider this project ready for primetime. My box is running Myth .18 frontend and backend. It's a FC3 box with a single Hauppauge 250 tuner card, an Nvidia 5200 video card (s-video out) and an Asus NF2 motherboard - using the onboard soundcard. I am using a irman with a Radioshack 8 in 1 remote. I used Jarods guide and the mailing list for instructions on how to get everything running. 1. The down and CH- buttons on my remote are not working - all other buttons work great. I set up the remote using irrecord and the lircrc file from Jarods site. Do I need to rerun irrecord again? I played around with IRW and confirmed that those keys are not responding. What steps do I need to take to get those two buttons working? 2. Mythbackend isn't autostarting. I've been simply lauching it from the console with a mythbackend command, but I'd like to get it automated. 3. Whenever I reboot, I loose /dev/video0 and am forced to run modprobe ivtv to reload my tuner device. Is this the correct behaviour? Where do I set this to run automatically? 4. I have my Mythtv box set to autologin. However, under FC3 for some reason the default X session is failsafe. How do I get it to use KDE? Would changing /etc/sysconfig/desktop from desktop=gnome to desktop=kde work? Thanks for any help getting these last remaining issues sorted out. +Tim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HD 3000 DVB has Signal Lock, Myth Can't See It
Michael Haan writes: How do I figure out if I've got a mismatch, and how do I fix it? I just tested and I can *definitely* tune HD using DVB/QAM with this card. I'm so close, I just need to get myth on board. Yeah, that's the *EXACT* same thing that happened to me when I got my air2pc. I was using the RPMS for 0.17, and they were compiled against a kernel w/o the latest linux-dvb code. So when myth tried to issue an ioctl to the dvb adapter, it passed an invalid ioctl to the card, so it could not talk to it. I don't really understand what could be going wrong with your gentoo build, but it sure sounds like its finding the wrong dvb headers. If I were you, I'd download the 0.18.1 source tarball, and build it by hand, making sure to specify the dvb header location correctly as the one matching your kernel. Then, rather than installing it, try running the setup program right from the source directory. If that works, then there's something funky about your gentoo builds and you need a gentoo expert to fix it. I personally just gave up on using the packaged builds and always build by hand from src now. Coming from FreeBSD's ports system (similar to gentoo), this just feels wrong. But it worked ;) Drew ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-150 status?
On 5/26/05, Milos Prudek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed a new, external 300GB 1394 hard drive to act as video storage. It seemed to be working fine as of this mornig when I left. I'm sure I'll hear from my 75+ year old Linux using parents if it fails! What about live and recorded video? Is the video choppy? Are the scaling issues resolved by set all of the Recording Profiles in TV Setup to 720x480. as Tony wrote to this mailing list on 3/23/2005? Any issues with sound? Jason Werpy mentioned this on 05/13/2005. Any other features that are supported for PVR-250 has and not supported for PVR-150? -- Milos Prudek http://www.spoxdesign.com - your web usability testing ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I have occasional issues with real staticy (sp?) sound with the 0.2 dirver, but haven't seen it pop up in a while. And the set all profiles to 720 works fine. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-150 status?
I want to warn that we are not very concerned about that stuff. My mom was taken ill a few weeks ago and I built this quickly so she could OK. I will use X to run Myth and display recorded shows, not TV out. Looks like PVR-150 is good enough for me. It's not available yet in my country, and although I could get it from U.S. I doubt it would work with European PAL TV norm. -- Milos Prudek http://www.spoxdesign.com - your web usability testing ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-500 for $127 shipped on Amazon
The static issues have been fixed as far as I know. I just got this card working about a week ago, after having the static issues for almost a month prior to that. I've also helped at least one other person fix the static issue, which as far as I know was simply caused by the module refusing to accept a key parameter. ivtv v3.5 made it so this parameter (no_black_magic) is defaulted to off. So far I'm extremely happy with it. I've tried the card on two VIA chipset mainboards (KT333 and KT400) and it worked good on both. On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 09:27 -0700, james houston wrote: Check it out here: http://tinyurl.com/92kh8 Looking thru the archives it seems some people have gotten this card to work perfectly and others have only gotten static from it. Anyone care to weigh in... Thanks JH __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Mike Benoit [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] WHISH-LIST: what I always wanted.
On 5/25/05, Karsten Jeppesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a very very important thing missing in MythTV. At least I have been missing this feature on every single TV I have had: A volumen-preset-while-the-bloody-commercials-are-running button. Ever noticed that the sound is turned up 15% while the commercials are on? I would like a switch button that is programmable so I can press it and temporarily lower the volumen to X% of what it was before. When the button is pressed again we resume at the previously used volume. there was some talk a while back about adding something similar to this. i think ppl were inquiring on other possible commercial detection methods. detect commercials based on the volume increase or sound gain. one of the devs thought it was doable and that it was on his long laundry list of TODO's. :) so using commercial volume to detect and skip commercials would be cool, but it would also be cool to lower the volume by a % if you aren't auto-skipping commercials. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Program Guide
So far everything with MythTV runs cool except the Program Guide. I have to go thru some hinky menu to get to it, and when I select a show to watch, the screen goes dark. If I press the OK button again on the remote I finally get the show. I've tried the MythWeb stuff but without any real improvement. Anyone know of an easy way to go directly to the PG and then press OK once to watch the highlighted show? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Finishing my Myth Configuration
Title: Re: Finishing my Myth Configuration 1. The down and CH- buttons on my remote are not working - all other buttons work great. I set up the remote using irrecord and the lircrc file from Jarods site. Do I need to rerun irrecord again? I played around with IRW and confirmed that those keys are not responding. What steps do I need to take to get those two buttons working? 2. Mythbackend isn't autostarting. I've been simply lauching it from the console with a mythbackend command, but I'd like to get it automated. 3. Whenever I reboot, I loose /dev/video0 and am forced to run modprobe ivtv to reload my tuner device. Is this the correct behaviour? Where do I set this to run automatically? 4. I have my Mythtv box set to autologin. However, under FC3 for some reason the default X session is failsafe. How do I get it to use KDE? Would changing /etc/sysconfig/desktop from desktop=gnome to desktop=kde work? Hi - glad you're enjoying Myth! As for point one, if the remote is a multi device type (ie - you can enter codes to make it behave like diffent manufacturers remotes) the buttons which don't work may not be defined for the type of remote you have it set to. I have an All In One remote and if I set it to some types of DVD player the coloured (RED, GREEN, BLUE, YELLOW) buttons don't send any signal. I had to play around with IRW and different device codes until I found a device for which 99% of the buttons send a signal. I'm pretty sure I've still got one that doesn't do anything. To get the frontend to autorun under KDE just cd to /home/mythtv/.kde/Autostart and create a symlink to mythfrontend. (try ln -s /usr/bin/mythfrontend once youre in the Autostart directory). Obviously you'll need to adjust the path if you have mythfrontend installed elsewhere. Jarrod has some more interesting advice on his site where he uses a small script in the same path to restore volume levels and load nvidia settings so you might want to try that. I've just read the last point BTW and if you've already added entries in .kde/Autostart the reason it's not loading is because it's not starting KDE, you're getting a failsafe session instead. I'm not sure about /dev/video0, but I'll bet it's something to do with udev. My backend runs on a FC2 box so I don't see the same problem (FC2 still uses devfs over udev). I'm sure Jarrod had a patch to add entries to the udev rules for ivtv but I can't see it on his site right now. I'm sure someone else can help with this. Not sure why you're getting a failsafe login. Did you use a failsafe login just before you set autologin? Not sure if gdm remebers the last login type. Try turning off auto login then selecting a normal session and loging in manually. At least that'll tell you if there are any problems with the setup. I hope at least some of that is helpful! Cheers Paul Important. Confidentiality: This communication is intended for the above-named person(s) and may be confidential and/or legally privileged. Any opinions expressed in this communication are not necessarily those of the company. If it has come to you in error you must take no action based on it, nor must you copy or show it to anyone; please delete/destroy and inform the sender immediately. Monitoring/Viruses. Orange may monitor all incoming and outgoing emails in line with current legislation. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. Orange Personal Communications Services Limited is a subsidiary of Orange SA and is registered in England No 2178917, with its address at St James Court, Great Park Road, Almondsbury Park, Bradley Stoke, Bristol BS32 4QJ. Orange Retail Limited is a subsidiary of Orange SA and is registered in England No 2439104, with its address at St James Court, Great Park Road, Almondsbury Park, Bradley Stoke, Bristol BS32 4QJ. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New Nokia web device -- ultimate Myth controller?
I think it's great because you should be able to control your other devices all from the Nokia. Devices like your TV, receiver/amp, DVD player, Lights, motorized screen (for a projector) etc. It would be really cool if someone created some software to link this with Myth and allow you to learn commands for your other devices too, then store those learned commands in a file for backup purposes. Just my 2 cents. On 5/26/05, Dewey Smolka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'm thinking with this is rather than indirectly sending commands to the frontend (or backend) via lirc, you could directly control the unit through ssh (since it is an autonomous unit connected by WiFi). In the case of distributed frontends, you would be able to monitor and control each frontend from a single hand-held unit, and from anywhere within range of your wireless network. The difference is that with lirc, you have a limited set of commands that can be sent, and those can be sent only to the box hosting the lirc device. With something like the Nokia on a network, you can send any linux command to any box on the network. I'm not yet sure how or why this would be useful, but it strikes me as a potentially very powerful tool. I'm also not sure how or if this would be possible, but I'm guessing that since the Nokia machine is built on a standard kernel that you can get to a shell and start constructing nifty little scripts and widgets. I'm also pretty sure that such tinkering would be a great deal harder on a WinCE machine. I don't know enough about palm to comment. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: RG-6 crimping question
Kyle Rose wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: Kyle Rose wrote: LOL. There are actually three (somewhat tongue-in-cheek), and I accidentally combined the second and third in my statement: 1. Cable quality doesn't matter when the data flowing over it is digital. http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/34579/122868.html See the section, The Role of Cable and Connection Quality--it doesn't dispute your claim (especially considering the somewhat tongue-in-cheek nature of the claim), but does help dispel the common misconception that digital = perfect transmission. Rule #1 was intended for digital audio transmission, not digital video, the latter of which I know a lot less about. So perhaps I'll restate in the future. I'm not trying to get you to change your rules. I completely agree with them. The problems the article discussed with digital cables really only occurs on very long runs--for exactly the reasons you've described--the cable either works or it doesn't on normal length runs. And, since long runs are the exception (not the rule), your rules definitely stand up. (Especially since someone doing an extremely long run will likely have problems regardless of which cables they buy. So, your rule will save them a fortune that would have been wasted on a name-brand cable that wouldn't work, either.) But even this isn't the point of the rule. The point of the rule is illustrated by the observation that the RCA cables I construct from RG-6, coax compression connectors, and screw-on RCA plugs for about $4.00 + $0.20/foot is just as good for digital audio as the 6' Monster digital audio cable for $39.95. Agreed. As a matter of fact, as discussed in the article, coax is perfectly suited for transmission of digital signals because of its impedance characteristics. If the impedance is right, the cable works great--regardless of how it's marketed. I've been a believer since I first saw the Max Rochlin Memorial Cable ( http://www.enjoythemusic.com/etmcable.htm ). Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nuvola theme release 0.2
Back by popular demand, Nuvola Theme 0.2. Not much has changed except for a few icons and the font which look a lot nicer than the old ones. Great theme !!! Ciao, Andrea ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] WHISH-LIST: what I always wanted.
On 5/25/05, Karsten Jeppesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a very very important thing missing in MythTV. At least I have been missing this feature on every single TV I have had: A volumen-preset-while-the-bloody-commercials-are-running button. Ever noticed that the sound is turned up 15% while the commercials are on? I would like a switch button that is programmable so I can press it and temporarily lower the volumen to X% of what it was before. When the button is pressed again we resume at the previously used volume. Yeah I've noticed drives me crazy too. It was realy pronounced on my recording of Starwars Episode 2 the other night. My suggestion would be to get a macro capable remote. Make a macro that hits the volume down button about 10 or 20 times. The make another macro the brings it back up the same amount. It may take asome playing with, but it is essentially the same thing you are asking for. I'm assuming you use a remote. I just bought one last week and programmed all my Myth Functions fromteh Lite-On IR keyboard into it. Including a few macros, like a single button delete file. now I'm keyboard free. Make sure it is JP1 compatible. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New Nokia web device -- ultimate Myth controller?
On 5/26/05, James Oltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it's great because you should be able to control your other devices all from the Nokia. Devices like your TV, receiver/amp, DVD player, Lights, motorized screen (for a projector) etc. It would be really cool if someone created some software to link this with Myth and allow you to learn commands for your other devices too, then store those learned commands in a file for backup purposes. Just my 2 cents. Isn't all that pretty much what the pronto remote does? Of course it doesn't use Wi-FI, but then you have to have a piece of software interpreting the command on the server anyway if you use Wi-Fi. -- I have plenty of Gmail invites. Ask me if you'd like one. G Mail rocks for email lists. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Questions about themes
I have a few questions about themes: 1) Do you have to be a programmer to create a new theme? 2) Can we have animations in themes? For example selecting an entry in a menu will trigger some visual effect (like a simple animation), etc. 3) are osd themes more difficult to create than the other other themes. Not sure if osd theme is the right term -- it's the stuff you get when you press info while watching something. Is it possible to have visual effects in these too? IvanK. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New Nokia web device -- ultimate Myth controller?
I guess it is similar, but still an open source version with the ability to double as a Web browser, IM device, and basic PDA functionality is pretty sweet indeed. On 5/26/05, John Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/26/05, James Oltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it's great because you should be able to control your other devices all from the Nokia. Devices like your TV, receiver/amp, DVD player, Lights, motorized screen (for a projector) etc. It would be really cool if someone created some software to link this with Myth and allow you to learn commands for your other devices too, then store those learned commands in a file for backup purposes. Just my 2 cents. Isn't all that pretty much what the pronto remote does? Of course it doesn't use Wi-FI, but then you have to have a piece of software interpreting the command on the server anyway if you use Wi-Fi. -- I have plenty of Gmail invites. Ask me if you'd like one. G Mail rocks for email lists. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-150 status?
Not sure. the most obvious good feature about the 150 is contrary to the Hauppage site which says the '150 is the priced reduced version of the 250' it appears that the 150 with the 0.3.3k driver is actually dual tuner. However I haven't tried recording from the second tuner yet. And you won't be able to record anything from the second tuner, because the 150 is _not_ a dual-tuner device, unlike the PVR-500, which is. Any Tuner 1 you find on a PVR device isn't really there, in the same way that my PVR-250's don't have 4 S-Video inputs. As stated in the HOWTO, only the lowest numbered device in each class is actually there. So on a PVR-500, you get /dev/video0 and /dev/video1 and you'd use the Tuner 0 on each one. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythbackend System lockup; Checking root filesystem
Is the console still responsive? (does capslock still toggle the LED?) What filesystem(s) do you have? Are you running Raid? What motherboard/IDE controller? Tim James Pifer wrote: My mythbackend machine locked up around 3AM last night. Actually the hard drive light showed constant activity this morning, but the box was not accessible, either on the console or network. This is not the first time it's happened, but it does not happen often. So I reset the box. It prompted me for a file system check when it came up and i hit Y to do it. Now it's sitting at Checking root filesystem and has been for over an hour. The hard drive lights is again showing constant activity. System is FC3 with a 3-drive LVM, running Myth 0.16. Should I let it keep working? Should I reset and not do the file system check? Anything else I should do? Thanks, James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythbackend System lockup; Checking root filesystem
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 12:21, Tim Tait wrote: Is the console still responsive? (does capslock still toggle the LED?) What filesystem(s) do you have? Are you running Raid? What motherboard/IDE controller? Tim I think it has something to do with one of the hard drives. I have three drives, two of which are Maxtor 160 gig. I rebooted the machine and ran the quick tests of the drives using the Maxtor utility. Then I was able to reboot the machine and get into FC3. Weird thing is that both drives pass all tests, including the long tests. The drives are just a LVM, no redundancy. Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 313022168 204470268 92651228 69% / /dev/hda1 101086 12077 83790 13% /boot When this was happening the console was not responsive and the machine was not accessible over the network. Not sure about capslock. Not sure what my plan is at this point. Thanks, James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] /dev/video0 missing and cannot bind to socket
So here is the what I get when I start Mythbackend. Any thoughts. FC3 2.6.11.1.27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mythbackend [1] 4804 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ 2005-05-26 09:47:53.975 New DB connection, total: 1 Starting up as the master server. 2005-05-26 09:47:54.035 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-05-26 09:47:54.059 Channel(/dev/video0)::Open(): Can't open video device, errorNo such file or directory 2005-05-26 09:47:54.066 Channel(/dev/video0)::Open(): Can't open video device, errorNo such file or directory 2005-05-26 09:47:54.071 ChannelBase: Could not find input: Tuner 0 on card when setting channel 27 2005-05-26 09:47:54.127 New DB scheduler connection 2005-05-26 09:47:54.192 mythbackend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-05-26 09:47:54.194 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2005-05-26 09:47:54.198 New DB connection, total: 3 QServerSocket: failed to bind or listen to the socket Failed to bind port: 6543 [1]+ Exit 6 mythbackend Cheers, Ed ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-150 status?
On 5/26/05, Robert Kulagowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure. the most obvious good feature about the 150 is contrary to the Hauppage site which says the '150 is the priced reduced version of the 250' it appears that the 150 with the 0.3.3k driver is actually dual tuner. However I haven't tried recording from the second tuner yet. And you won't be able to record anything from the second tuner, because the 150 is _not_ a dual-tuner device, unlike the PVR-500, which is. Any Tuner 1 you find on a PVR device isn't really there, in the same way that my PVR-250's don't have 4 S-Video inputs. As stated in the HOWTO, only the lowest numbered device in each class is actually there. So on a PVR-500, you get /dev/video0 and /dev/video1 and you'd use the Tuner 0 on each one. Robert, I tended to agree with you but there is a bit more to the 150 than that. I found that using the C key I could switch between tuners. On screen I see: 1: Tuner 0 1: Tuner 1 Each tuner can tune to a different channel, and each tuner remembers what channel it was on, so when I hit C I go between channel 2 and channel 28. That said it could all be smoke and mirrors. Maybe there is only a single tuner and maybe software is remembering which channel to show me. I don't know. The important issue would be setting it up to use both and then seeing if the MPEG encoder will encode both at the same time. Even with two tuners if the hardware encoder only works with one then it's not of as much value. I only brought this up since the Hauppage page says the 150 replaces to 250 but my 250 doesn't have this Tuner 0/1 feature. (Caveat - 250 running with ivtv 0.2, 150 running with 0.3.3k.) - Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] 2 busted issues Myth .18
So I feel i'm getting closer. At least I know that the hardware works. What I don't understand is why modprobe.conf fails to load the ivtv and liric drivers. Does it do anything at all. Or How do I force modprobe.conf to load. It looks as though my next challenge is getting this socket to bind and I truly am clueless on that one. As far as I can tell, all the security is off and the ip is set correctly. Any thoughts. Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mythbackend 2005-05-26 10:08:17.328 New DB connection, total: 1 Starting up as the master server. 2005-05-26 10:08:17.461 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-05-26 10:08:17.560 New DB scheduler connection 2005-05-26 10:08:17.623 mythbackend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-05-26 10:08:17.625 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2005-05-26 10:08:17.634 New DB connection, total: 3 QServerSocket: failed to bind or listen to the socket Failed to bind port: 6543 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythstream Tips Tricks
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 01:48:52PM -0700, Justin Mason wrote: Well, is a live stream more similar to a TV transmission (with timeshifting recording, etc.), or a music track? that's arguable; and MythStream deals with both. Does MythStream play ogg streams? If so, I'd like someone to contact me off-list, as I have something I want you try try with mythstream. Tim -- Tim SailerCoastal Internet, Inc. Network and Systems OperationsPO Box 726 http://www.buoy.com Moriches, NY 11955 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (631) 399-2910 (888) 924-3728 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] 2 busted issues Myth .18
On 5/26/05, Ed Hills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I feel i'm getting closer. At least I know that the hardware works. What I don't understand is why modprobe.conf fails to load the ivtv and liric drivers. Does it do anything at all. Or How do I force modprobe.conf to load. Look carefully at the IVTV messages in dmesg. I expect it's trying to load, failing, and telling you why there. My problems have all be solved by starting there. (PVR-250 PVR-150) It looks as though my next challenge is getting this socket to bind and I truly am clueless on that one. As far as I can tell, all the security is off and the ip is set correctly. If the driver's not loaded or mysql is not loaded or mysql is not accepting connections then possibly this sort of thing could happen. The solution to this sort of thing is probably distro dependent. Good luck, Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] PHP Errors on Myth-Web
hallo, i am getting the following errors after upgrading to version 0.18: *Warning* at /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/includes/init.php, line 50: session_start(): open(php_sessions/sess_ee27764eb298379f3fe82d8b7d61276a, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) any ideas? christian ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] 2 busted issues Myth .18
Ed Hills wrote: It looks as though my next challenge is getting this socket to bind and I truly am clueless on that one. As far as I can tell, all the security is off and the ip is set correctly. A bind failure results from the port already being in use. Do a netstat -a -n --tcp | grep 6543 and see if you get a hit that shows LISTEN. If so, you've got something running that is already listening on the port. There is a command that you can use to find out what program is using it but I don't recall off hand what it is. -- Michael J. Lynch What if the hokey pokey IS what it's all about -- author unknown ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] digital cable multiple channels
This is probably a stupid question, but is there any way to watch and record two different channels with a single DCT2XXX receiver? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-150 status?
That said it could all be smoke and mirrors. Maybe there is only a single tuner and maybe software is remembering which channel to show me. I don't know. The important issue would be setting it up to use both and then seeing if the MPEG encoder will encode both at the same time. Even with two tuners if the hardware encoder only works with one then it's not of as much value. I'll bet that you're just seeing an artifact from the ivtv driver. There really is only one tuner, and you'll only be able to record one program. Setup a recording, then while it's running go into Live TV mode and see what happens. Unless something has radically changed that PVR-150 will only be able to use one input at a time, either composite, svideo or tuner. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] 2 busted issues Myth .18
Michael J. Lynch wrote: Ed Hills wrote: It looks as though my next challenge is getting this socket to bind and I truly am clueless on that one. As far as I can tell, all the security is off and the ip is set correctly. A bind failure results from the port already being in use. Do a netstat -a -n --tcp | grep 6543 and see if you get a hit that shows LISTEN. If so, you've got something running that is already listening on the port. There is a command that you can use to find out what program is using it but I don't recall off hand what it is. lsof: lsof | grep 6543 mythbacke 2943 mythtv 10u IPv4 5882 TCP *:6543 (LISTEN) Tom ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: ivtv compile and build
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 07:51:52AM -0500, Mercury Morris wrote: Thanks all, for your replies. The RPM route is still an option of course. My first MythTV system, now dismantled, was successfully built using Jarod's guide and Axel's RPMs. At the moment, I would like to be able to use CVS, compile-from-source methods, and make this new AMD64 system work. But, I remain open to switching to the pre-built approach, and taking advantage of all the hard work done by Jarod, Axel, et al. You can also mix, start off an rpm based setup (BTW x86_64 is supported at ATrpms), and rebuild from source anything you believe needs improvement. And you can resubmit any fixes/improvements you have done to be included in the packages and earn some open source karma ;) -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net pgpe0zalhDwCt.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] digital cable multiple channels
On May 26, 2005 02:57 pm, Egeekial wrote: This is probably a stupid question, but is there any way to watch and record two different channels with a single DCT2XXX receiver? The short answer is no. The long answer is that on many cable systems, most of the channels that people actually want to watch are on analog anyway. So what you can do is split the cable, send one straight to a tv tuner card for analog channels and the other to your set top box for analog + digital. My current backend uses three PVR250 cards. Two of them are fed by DCT-2000 STB's and the third uses straight analog cable. Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PHP Errors on Myth-Web
On 5/26/05, Christian Borchmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hallo,i am getting the following errors after upgrading to version 0.18:*Warning* at /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/includes/init.php, line 50:session_start():open(php_sessions/sess_ee27764eb298379f3fe82d8b7d61276a, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2)any ideas?christian Seems like a misconfiguration in your php.ini file. Check it and make sure the session path is valid and rw by the apache user. Should be something like: session.save_path = /tmp ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Widescreen and SVideo settings
Bumping to the top...Does anyone have any guidelines or is anyone using a primary widescreen output while also outputting svideo?I want to be able to watch the primary widescreen display most of the time, but still be able to watch the svideo output on the bedroom TV.I don't need to do both simultaneously so I'm not really considering a second mythtv FE.Problems I have:1. Using nvidia twinview, I can get both displays working, but I have to use clone mode and this puts the svideo window in the center of the widescreen view like so (hope this turns out):---864 x 480--- ==|| ==|---640x480--| = =|| ==2. I can't get twinview to shift the center window (640x480) to the left, so on the TV display, the right half is cut off. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!On 5/16/05, Paul Leppert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/15/05, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Does the NVidia driver tools support overscan adjustment? - this is likely to help get the picture more centred on the display. Nick Is it possible to adjust the overscan for the svideo only?Do the nvidia driver tools end up showing me two monitors (TV versus my VGA)?I'll have to try that when I get home.I have previously adjusted the overscan on the monitor with xvidtune, but that gives me a modeline.I didn't enter a modeline for the svideo, I'm just using the standard 640x480. Also, has anyone had any luck using offsets with twinview?From the nvidia readme: Optionally, mode names can be followed by offset information to control the positioning of the display devices within the virtual screen space; e.g.: 1600x1200 +0+0, 1024x768 +1600+0; ... Offset descriptions follow the conventions used in the X -geometry command line option; i.e. both positive and negative offsets are valid, though negative offsets are only allowed when a virtual screen size is explicitly given in the X config file. So, can I use a mode value that would look something like: 864x480, 600x480 -132+0 Which should move the second display (the smaller svideo screen) to the left half of the difference of the 864 (assuming the driver puts the smaller screen in the center of the bigger one in clone mode). I think I'm pretty close, just some more tweaking... Thanks, phlepper -- I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.--Confucius -- I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.--Confucius ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Questions about themes
On 5/26/05, IvanK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a few questions about themes: 1) Do you have to be a programmer to create a new theme? Nope, though you will need to edit XML. A paint program and a text editor are the basic tools. 2) Can we have animations in themes? For example selecting an entry in a menu will trigger some visual effect (like a simple animation), etc. No. (not yet anyway) 3) are osd themes more difficult to create than the other other themes. Not sure if osd theme is the right term -- it's the stuff you get when you press info while watching something. Is it possible to have visual effects in these too? OSD theme is the correct term, and they're far and away easier to create than a normal myth theme. You could do a perfect OSD theme in an afternoon, a good full myth them takes days/weeks to create. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Key modifiers in lircrc
Sorry if this is answered somewhere, searching in gossamer for using the control key as a modifier for lircrc returns almost every message regarding remotes, due to remote control being in most of them. I have used mythweb to add a jump point to mythweather of Ctrl+W. Hitting Ctrl-W on the keyboard works, so I am that far. However, I am unable to get it to work from the remote. lirc documentation says to send a control key with a backslash and capital letter, which doesn't work. I have tried all of the following in my lircrc: \W Ctrl W Control W Ctrl-W Control-W Ctrl+W Control+W Some of these caused a message similar to: LircClient warning: attempt to convert '' to a key sequence failed. Fix your key mappings. to be printed, with the lirc config value in the quotes. Some of the keys silently failed. I eventually gave up and used F2, which works. For future reference, anyone know how to make this work? Thanks -Michael ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-150 status?
What if you have two pvr-150's? will the second video be real then? or will there be /dev/video0-3? On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 11:12 -0500, Robert Kulagowski wrote: Not sure. the most obvious good feature about the 150 is contrary to the Hauppage site which says the '150 is the priced reduced version of the 250' it appears that the 150 with the 0.3.3k driver is actually dual tuner. However I haven't tried recording from the second tuner yet. And you won't be able to record anything from the second tuner, because the 150 is _not_ a dual-tuner device, unlike the PVR-500, which is. Any Tuner 1 you find on a PVR device isn't really there, in the same way that my PVR-250's don't have 4 S-Video inputs. As stated in the HOWTO, only the lowest numbered device in each class is actually there. So on a PVR-500, you get /dev/video0 and /dev/video1 and you'd use the Tuner 0 on each one. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Program Guide
Joe Henley wrote: So far everything with MythTV runs cool except the Program Guide. I have to go thru some hinky menu to get to it, and when I select a show to watch, the screen goes dark. If I press the OK button again on the remote I finally get the show. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/95064#95064 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/117393#117393 Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] /dev/video0 missing and cannot bind to socket
On 5/26/05, Ed Hills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So here is the what I get when I start Mythbackend. Any thoughts. FC3 2.6.11.1.27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mythbackend [1] 4804 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ 2005-05-26 09:47:53.975 New DB connection, total: 1 Starting up as the master server. 2005-05-26 09:47:54.035 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-05-26 09:47:54.059 Channel(/dev/video0)::Open(): Can't open video device, errorNo such file or directory 2005-05-26 09:47:54.066 Channel(/dev/video0)::Open(): Can't open video device, errorNo such file or directory 2005-05-26 09:47:54.071 ChannelBase: Could not find input: Tuner 0 on card when setting channel 27 2005-05-26 09:47:54.127 New DB scheduler connection 2005-05-26 09:47:54.192 mythbackend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-05-26 09:47:54.194 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2005-05-26 09:47:54.198 New DB connection, total: 3 QServerSocket: failed to bind or listen to the socket Failed to bind port: 6543 [1]+ Exit 6 mythbackend Cheers, Ed ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I see this when I have a mythbackend process all ready running. Do a ps as your mythtv user and see if you have a mythbackend precess running. If so, kill it and start again. kel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Questions about themes
On Thu, 26 May 2005, Donavan Stanley wrote: On 5/26/05, IvanK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a few questions about themes: 1) Do you have to be a programmer to create a new theme? Nope, though you will need to edit XML. A paint program and a text editor are the basic tools. 2) Can we have animations in themes? For example selecting an entry in a menu will trigger some visual effect (like a simple animation), etc. No. (not yet anyway) 3) are osd themes more difficult to create than the other other themes. Not sure if osd theme is the right term -- it's the stuff you get when you press info while watching something. Is it possible to have visual effects in these too? OSD theme is the correct term, and they're far and away easier to create than a normal myth theme. You could do a perfect OSD theme in an afternoon, a good full myth them takes days/weeks to create. Donavan, I started looking over minimalist-wide, and I can appreciate how much effort goes into getting a theme just right. Are you planning on finishing that theme, or is it going to get transitioned to LxM? If Titivillus-osd were setup on a 1280x720 foundation, would it fix the line-spacing of the show description? Thanks, John ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Program Guide
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael T. Dean Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 12:32 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Program Guide Joe Henley wrote: So far everything with MythTV runs cool except the Program Guide. I have to go thru some hinky menu to get to it, and when I select a show to watch, the screen goes dark. If I press the OK button again on the remote I finally get the show. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/95064#95064 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/117393#117393 Mike To add to this, I just updated apt on the bleeding side and it is fixed there. WAF will be high! mythbackend --version 0.18.1.20050523-1 Scott ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: DVB board advice
Yup me. Works fine. I've got both a Nova-T and an Avermedia. Can't say there's any noticeable difference between the two. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PHP Errors on Myth-Web
On Thursday 26 May 2005 19:51, Christian Borchmann wrote: hallo, i am getting the following errors after upgrading to version 0.18: *Warning* at /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/includes/init.php, line 50: session_start(): open(php_sessions/sess_ee27764eb298379f3fe82d8b7d61276a, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) any ideas? Yep, you have to create a php_sessions directory. I don't know where it is needd in your case, but you can look in the error log of your webserver. You will find an entry for this with the exact path. You also have to give the web server write access to this directory. To do this, you have to change the owner of this directory to the owner that runs your web server. Stef ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nuvola theme release 0.2
Peter Judge wrote: A wide-screen version would be nice. -- Peter Paypal me some dough for a wide-screen and I would be glad to. ;) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Key modifiers in lircrc
Michael Carland wrote: Sorry if this is answered somewhere, searching in gossamer for using the control key as a modifier for lircrc returns almost every message regarding remotes, due to remote control being in most of them. Can't help you on your problem, but with gossamer, if your search string is +control -remote, then you would get the result you were expecting, though it still doesn't get an answer. '+ctrl' is better, but still no answer. Maybe you can't do what you want with lirc. Tom ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] WHISH-LIST: what I always wanted.
John Williams wrote: On 5/25/05, Karsten Jeppesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a very very important thing missing in MythTV. At least I have been missing this feature on every single TV I have had: A volumen-preset-while-the-bloody-commercials-are-running button. Ever noticed that the sound is turned up 15% while the commercials are on? I would like a switch button that is programmable so I can press it and temporarily lower the volumen to X% of what it was before. When the button is pressed again we resume at the previously used volume. Yeah I've noticed drives me crazy too. It was realy pronounced on my recording of Starwars Episode 2 the other night. My suggestion would be to get a macro capable remote. Make a macro that hits the volume down button about 10 or 20 times. The make another macro the brings it back up the same amount. It may take asome playing with, but it is essentially the same thing you are asking for. I'm assuming you use a remote. I just bought one last week and programmed all my Myth Functions fromteh Lite-On IR keyboard into it. Including a few macros, like a single button delete file. now I'm keyboard free. Make sure it is JP1 compatible. Well, you could use a thick-client remote, but why not just use LIRC like this with a thin-client remote? begin prog = irexec button = mute # First button press mutes audio config = amixer set PCM mute # Second press unmutes audio in soft-speak mode config = amixer set PCM 30%- unmute # Third press restores normal volume config = amixer set PCM 30%+ unmute repeat = 0 end Basically, this sets up a tri-state for the mute button on your remote. The first time you press it, it mutes sound. The second time you press it, it unmutes sound but decreases volume by 30%. The third time, it increases volume by 30%. Only problem is remembering not to turn up the volume when your mute is in soft-speak mode or the next time you hit mute, it will add 30% to the comfortable volume. (Since we're not telling Myth what we're doing to the volume, hitting vol-up while in soft-speak will increase the volume from Myth's normal volume--not from soft-speak volume--then hitting mute adds 30%, but hitting vol-up or down again would change it to +/- 1 step from normal. Hmm. Maybe I should make a patch so Myth senses volume changes like xine/MPlayer/xmms instead of blindly expecting other apps to leave the volume alone...) Oh, and it isn't automatic, but that means that it will never automatically do the wrong thing. ;) To use it for commercials, you would hit mute when the commercial begins. Then, if you want to continue hearing commercials, hit mute again to restore audio to soft-speak mode. Once the program resumes, hit mute a third time to restore normal volume. If you prefer to forego the ability to truly mute the broadcast (or you're willing to use a dedicated button for mute and another for soft-speak), get rid of the first config line. Feel free to add lines, too (i.e. if you want multiple steps or want to go from normal to soft-speak to mute to soft-speak to normal). Note, you can also use Master instead of PCM (should use whichever one you've chosen to use for your Myth mixer so it works with your volume control). Play around with the values as desired (30% works well for me, but I usually play back at about 60%, so you might want more). The percentages are absolute percentages relative to the current level (i.e if you're at 60% and decrease by 30%, it will be at 30%). To make it work, you *must* start irexec (i.e. add a line, irexec -d (no quotes) to your .xinitrc). Since you probably already have your mute button mapped to send F9 to mythtv, you'll need to restart mythfrontend. Note, also, that you *must* change the prog = line to use irexec instead of mythtv. For more info: man amixer Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] WHISH-LIST: what I always wanted.
How did you get the remote to properly learn the IR commands of the keyboard? When I do that with my giant Sony Rm-2100 remote, it works. When I go to use the remote, it gives me 2 keypresses instead of one for EVERY command I learned. Did you do something special? On 5/26/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Williams wrote: On 5/25/05, Karsten Jeppesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a very very important thing missing in MythTV. At least I have been missing this feature on every single TV I have had: A volumen-preset-while-the-bloody-commercials-are-running button. Ever noticed that the sound is turned up 15% while the commercials are on? I would like a switch button that is programmable so I can press it and temporarily lower the volumen to X% of what it was before. When the button is pressed again we resume at the previously used volume. Yeah I've noticed drives me crazy too. It was realy pronounced on my recording of Starwars Episode 2 the other night. My suggestion would be to get a macro capable remote. Make a macro that hits the volume down button about 10 or 20 times. The make another macro the brings it back up the same amount. It may take asome playing with, but it is essentially the same thing you are asking for. I'm assuming you use a remote. I just bought one last week and programmed all my Myth Functions fromteh Lite-On IR keyboard into it. Including a few macros, like a single button delete file. now I'm keyboard free. Make sure it is JP1 compatible. Well, you could use a thick-client remote, but why not just use LIRC like this with a thin-client remote? begin prog = irexec button = mute # First button press mutes audio config = amixer set PCM mute # Second press unmutes audio in soft-speak mode config = amixer set PCM 30%- unmute # Third press restores normal volume config = amixer set PCM 30%+ unmute repeat = 0 end Basically, this sets up a tri-state for the mute button on your remote. The first time you press it, it mutes sound. The second time you press it, it unmutes sound but decreases volume by 30%. The third time, it increases volume by 30%. Only problem is remembering not to turn up the volume when your mute is in soft-speak mode or the next time you hit mute, it will add 30% to the comfortable volume. (Since we're not telling Myth what we're doing to the volume, hitting vol-up while in soft-speak will increase the volume from Myth's normal volume--not from soft-speak volume--then hitting mute adds 30%, but hitting vol-up or down again would change it to +/- 1 step from normal. Hmm. Maybe I should make a patch so Myth senses volume changes like xine/MPlayer/xmms instead of blindly expecting other apps to leave the volume alone...) Oh, and it isn't automatic, but that means that it will never automatically do the wrong thing. ;) To use it for commercials, you would hit mute when the commercial begins. Then, if you want to continue hearing commercials, hit mute again to restore audio to soft-speak mode. Once the program resumes, hit mute a third time to restore normal volume. If you prefer to forego the ability to truly mute the broadcast (or you're willing to use a dedicated button for mute and another for soft-speak), get rid of the first config line. Feel free to add lines, too (i.e. if you want multiple steps or want to go from normal to soft-speak to mute to soft-speak to normal). Note, you can also use Master instead of PCM (should use whichever one you've chosen to use for your Myth mixer so it works with your volume control). Play around with the values as desired (30% works well for me, but I usually play back at about 60%, so you might want more). The percentages are absolute percentages relative to the current level (i.e if you're at 60% and decrease by 30%, it will be at 30%). To make it work, you *must* start irexec (i.e. add a line, irexec -d (no quotes) to your .xinitrc). Since you probably already have your mute button mapped to send F9 to mythtv, you'll need to restart mythfrontend. Note, also, that you *must* change the prog = line to use irexec instead of mythtv. For more info: man amixer Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-150 status?
What if you have two pvr-150's? will the second video be real then? or will there be /dev/video0-3? You'll have /dev/video0 with Tuner 0 and 1, /dev/video1 with Tuner 0 and 1, etc. Ask over on the ivtv list why there are multiple tuner, composite and s-video devices created for each device. You should really only use the lowest numbered one in each category though, especially with the Tuner inputs. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nuvola theme release 0.2
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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-150 status?
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 03:36:55PM -0500, Robert Kulagowski wrote: What if you have two pvr-150's? will the second video be real then? or will there be /dev/video0-3? You'll have /dev/video0 with Tuner 0 and 1, /dev/video1 with Tuner 0 and 1, etc. Ask over on the ivtv list why there are multiple tuner, composite and s-video devices created for each device. You should really only use the lowest numbered one in each category though, especially with the Tuner inputs. This was actually recently brought up on ivtv-devel: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/20225 The short of it is (as far as I understand it), the ivtv driver exports all the capabilities of the chipset, even though most cards don't require/use the other inputs. HTH, Tim -- Morals? I eat communism and $h!t America, brother. --Seanbaby ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Getting Myth to see 2 inputs as one. Kinda.
Hi, I've recently changed cable providers, to Comcast from RCN. With RCN, I had my STB connected to my Myth box via firewire, and I was able to get all my subscribed channels via this connection, both SD and HD. I also have a PVR-250. Unfortunately, Comcast has a different philosophy on what they provide via firewire. I can get the analog channels ( 80) and the HD channels (800 - 900ish) via firewire, but the rest of the digital channels (mainly the 200s) don't play nicely. Connecting via the PVR gets me all channels, but in SD (and with letterboxing and/or pillars) for the HD channels. I'd like to (a) be able to record off all the available channels, and (b) record in HD whenever possible. Is there any way to get Myth to NOT schedule recordings on both inputs simultaneously? I thought of creating 2 lineups, with the firewire having a higher priority, but then discarded that idea because Myth will (surely?) attempt to record on both inputs at the same time if scheduled that way. random thoughts I guess if I could get both inputs to record the same channel simultaneously, I could delete the recording that I don't want (ie the PVR when it's HD, the firewire when it's garbage); I'd probably use a custom job for that. I'd also need some way for ensuring that both inputs recorded the same channel. And loads more disk. /rt I don't have space in the box for another capture card (it's a Shuttle case), so OTA HD is not realistic right now. I'd also not be able to record HBO, ESPN and INHD in HD (since I believe those are subscriber only). Any thoughts welcome and appreciated. -- Peter ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Key modifiers in lircrc
Michael Carland wrote: Sorry if this is answered somewhere, searching in gossamer for using the control key as a modifier for lircrc returns almost every message regarding remotes, due to remote control being in most of them. I have used mythweb to add a jump point to mythweather of Ctrl+W. Hitting Ctrl-W on the keyboard works, so I am that far. Does hitting W (without Ctrl) do the same? However, I am unable to get it to work from the remote. lirc documentation says to send a control key with a backslash and capital letter, which doesn't work. I have tried all of the following in my lircrc: \W Ctrl W Control W Ctrl-W Control-W Ctrl+W Control+W Some of these caused a message similar to: LircClient warning: attempt to convert '' to a key sequence failed. Fix your key mappings. to be printed, with the lirc config value in the quotes. Some of the keys silently failed. I eventually gave up and used F2, which works. For future reference, anyone know how to make this work? LIRC seems to interpret the \W and send ASCII character 23, ETB (End of Transmission Block). If you specify Ctrl+W, LIRC sends the whole string (6 characters). Myth seems to be (haven't looked at the code, so this is a guess) watching for a W while the Ctrl key is pressed--which can't happen through LIRC. Therefore, using F(whatever) is probably your best bet (that's what I used). Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Getting Myth to see 2 inputs as one. Kinda.
--- Peter Judge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've recently changed cable providers, to Comcast from RCN. With RCN, I had my STB connected to my Myth box via firewire, and I was able to get all my subscribed channels via this connection, both SD and HD. I also have a PVR-250. Unfortunately, Comcast has a different philosophy on what they provide via firewire. I can get the analog channels ( 80) and the HD channels (800 - 900ish) via firewire, but the rest of the digital channels (mainly the 200s) don't play nicely. Connecting via the PVR gets me all channels, but in SD (and with letterboxing and/or pillars) for the HD channels. I'd like to (a) be able to record off all the available channels, and (b) record in HD whenever possible. Is there any way to get Myth to NOT schedule recordings on both inputs simultaneously? I thought of creating 2 lineups, with the firewire having a higher priority, but then discarded that idea because Myth will (surely?) attempt to record on both inputs at the same time if scheduled that way. This is what you need to do. Create the second lineup and then while on zap2it modify the lineup so it only gets the channels you want in HD. Then edit your first lineup and remove all of the channels you are getting in HD. Myth will then just see the channel lineup for HD and the channel lineup for SD and you won't get duplicates because myth is smart enough to handle that. random thoughts I guess if I could get both inputs to record the same channel simultaneously, I could delete the recording that I don't want (ie the PVR when it's HD, the firewire when it's garbage); I'd probably use a custom job for that. I'd also need some way for ensuring that both inputs recorded the same channel. And loads more disk. /rt I don't have space in the box for another capture card (it's a Shuttle case), so OTA HD is not realistic right now. I'd also not be able to record HBO, ESPN and INHD in HD (since I believe those are subscriber only). Any thoughts welcome and appreciated. -- Peter ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Stability of ATrpms
Axel Thimm wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 05:58:05PM -0700, Karsten Jeppesen wrote: Regarding your question about Axel (atrpms): In my opinion atrpms should be handled with care. If used incorrectly - it may blow up your system. Not if you use at-stable which is the default setting. Yes you do. Next time I go through a scratch setup and hit the problem I will send you the procedure. Of course it is time dependent so what doesn't work now may work the next day and then the next day not again. That is the game of a live system. Some of the stuff that is there is much more complete than it is from the base/update repositories, and a lot more bleeding edge. Not unstable - just newer. Not if you use at-stable which is the default setting. ;) I only use that. What I ment was that the FC base/update repositories at times are way behind. So it is possible to paint yourself into a corner revision wise. My philosophy is: never use yum update while atrpms is active. Only download what you need. Then you are left with broken dependencies. Not necesarrily. You may just not have a working system. As I described with the Alsa system. Axel it is not your fault. In fact it has nothing to to with you at all. It is inherent in the rpm structure. An example is the Alsa system. If you use yum update the Alsa system will be useless afterwards. Simply because the FC3 rpms for Alsa are brainless. So you end up with atrpms Alsa system except for the alsalib which will remain the old one. DUH - they are not compatible. If you download selectively you are left with broken dependencies. That kind of caution is just doing the damage you are trying to avoid. Also using yum is known to munge your system. The recommended depsolver is apt (and smart for x86_64/i386 multilib systems) My experience says otherwise. Of course I only have a few thousand machines in 2 architectures: PPC and x86. So you can get all the neat stuff from atrpms. But do not disconnect your brain. It does require supervision. That is why I maintain internal caches of outside repositories. It makes it faster to wipe the system and get it back up again. ATrpms' at-stable section has been just that, stable. Even if mythtv-suite sometimes has bad dependencies ... If you use the "bleeding" section, then all you get is what you asked fro ; That is why I don't use the bleeding section. Axel, don't think I am chewing your butt. I am not. I use atrpms for a lot of things. probably 15% of my current setups are from atrpms. And that says a lot. Karsten ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Frontend crashes when exiting Watch-TV and Watch Recording
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Re: [mythtv-users] Key modifiers in lircrc
On Thu, 26 May 2005, Michael T. Dean wrote: Michael Carland wrote: [...] to be printed, with the lirc config value in the quotes. Some of the keys silently failed. I eventually gave up and used F2, which works. For future reference, anyone know how to make this work? LIRC seems to interpret the \W and send ASCII character 23, ETB (End of Transmission Block). If you specify Ctrl+W, LIRC sends the whole string (6 characters). Myth seems to be (haven't looked at the code, so this is a guess) watching for a W while the Ctrl key is pressed--which can't happen through LIRC. Therefore, using F(whatever) is probably your best bet (that's what I used). I can add a datapoint to this. I tried something similar just a few days ago (using 0.18.1 from .deb's). I had used MythWeb to program Control-T as a jump point to enter Live TV mode. It worked perfectly from the keyboard, but didn't do anything from the remote. I also thought I had been mis-spelling the keyname in lircrc and tried various combinations. The lirc code complains if you don't spell out a control sequence correctly so I'm pretty sure I got it right (and later confirmed it by checking the lirc html documentation on the file format). What I ultimately discovered was not that Control-T was silently failing, but rather that MythTV was interpretting Control-T as just plain old T. I hit upon this because during my futzing at one point I was on a page where T was active as a keypress and sure enough MythTV reacted as if I had hit T when I was trying to send Control-T. I worked around the problem by abandoning all use of control keys from lirc. Unfortunately that left precious few available keystrokes but I managed to find enough to completely define the remote. -Mike -- | Mike Isely | PGP fingerprint Spammers Die!! | | 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 | isely @ pobox (dot) com | 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 | | ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Volume difference between sources: is there a way to fix it?
I don't know if this should be part of a wish list but here it is. I have the following problem (not really a problem but an annoyance). I have a dual-card MythTV box with the following inputs: 1 PVR150 MCE receives analog cable signals 1 PVR250 retail receives digital cable through S-Video and RCA to 3.5mm jack I use mythTV 0.18.1 and ivtv 0.34w (FC3, from ATrpms) The signal from analog cable is at least 10% louder than the signal from the cable STB (although the volume from the STB is set to the maximum value). This is not a Myth problem per se, because the analog audio coming from the cable company is louder than the digital signal, even if I bypass Myth completely. Is there a way to fine tune the volume for each capture card so I could lower the volume from my analog cable input? I know I could use recording profiles to set the volume, but this applies to individual shows; some of which are recorded on either capture card, as determined by myth. A volume slider for each source in the mythtv-setup interface would be great, but it does not work this way. Thank you for your suggestions. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Volume difference between sources: is there a way to fix it?
Claude Boucher wrote: I have the following problem (not really a problem but an annoyance). I have a dual-card MythTV box with the following inputs: 1 PVR150 MCE receives analog cable signals 1 PVR250 retail receives digital cable through S-Video and RCA to 3.5mm jack The signal from analog cable is at least 10% louder than the signal from the cable STB... Is there a way to fine tune the volume for each capture card so I could lower the volume from my analog cable input? You can edit your recording profiles through the frontend. Volume is among the audio settings available for each profile; set the quietest source to maximum and experiment with lower levels on other sources until they all sound about the same. _/_ / v \ Scott Alfter (remove the obvious to send mail) (IIGS( http://alfter.us/Top-posting! \_^_/ rm -rf /bin/ladenWhat's the most annoying thing on Usenet? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Volume difference between sources: is there a way to fix it?
Claude Boucher wrote: I don't know if this should be part of a wish list but here it is. I have the following problem (not really a problem but an annoyance). I have a dual-card MythTV box with the following inputs: 1 PVR150 MCE receives analog cable signals 1 PVR250 retail receives digital cable through S-Video and RCA to 3.5mm jack I use mythTV 0.18.1 and ivtv 0.34w (FC3, from ATrpms) The signal from analog cable is at least 10% louder than the signal from the cable STB (although the volume from the STB is set to the maximum value). This is not a Myth problem per se, because the analog audio coming from the cable company is louder than the digital signal, even if I bypass Myth completely. Is there a way to fine tune the volume for each capture card so I could lower the volume from my analog cable input? I know I could use recording profiles to set the volume, but this applies to individual shows; some of which are recorded on either capture card, as determined by myth. A volume slider for each source in the mythtv-setup interface would be great, but it does not work this way. Thank you for your suggestions. Adjust the mixer settings for each card using alsamixer so that one is higher/lower than the other until they are balanced. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Volume difference between sources: is there a way to fix it?
On 5/26/05, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adjust the mixer settings for each card using alsamixer so that one is higher/lower than the other until they are balanced. Unfortunately, the PVR-x50 audio controls are not exposed through ALSA since the card deals with the video/audio internally and spits out MPEG program streams. I do not believe it is possible to adjust the volume the card records at for each individual input, but a hack that may work is to set (or add to) a channel change script for both analog and digital cable indivdually that invokes ivtvctl to adjust the volume to the appropriate level. MythTV will run this script every time it tunes to a channel on the respective input, so this should ensure that the audio is at the right level. I don't know how Myth deals with channel-change scripts on tuner inputs; you may need to have a line in the script that tunes the tuner to the right channel (in the case of analog cable; that is if Myth stops attempting to do it itself when a script is set.) using ptune.pl. -- Ian Trider [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] /dev/video0 missing and cannot bind to socket
Ed Hills wrote: So here is the what I get when I start Mythbackend. Any thoughts. FC3 2.6.11.1.27 2005-05-26 09:47:54.059 Channel(/dev/video0)::Open(): Can't open video device, errorNo such file or directory Well - it is kind of obvious - isn't it. So maybe I am getting this wrong. When a device driver is loaded, then it usually creates a device binding. Sometimes it even creates the device file. But not always. Some people thinks that device files must be found in /dev but that is not so. They can be anywhere. It is just very convenient not to spread them all over the place. In your case you will see that there is no video0 in /dev. And that is what Myth is croaking about. Without the file it has no clue about the device binding. So what to do? Well first have a look in /dev Is there any video* files there? If not then your video card probably wasn't recognized. Let us see the boot log ( do a dmesg). if you have a /dev/video file then enter that instead of /dev/video0 The name is not important per se. You can go to the /dev and make a link from /dev/video to /dev/naked_women. Then you can specify naked_women as your capture source. Again: if you have a /dev/video and it in fact is the capture device, then you can do two things: 1) change /dev/video0 to /dev/video in the MythTv setup 2) cd /dev; ln -s video video0 Karsten ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] mythmusic: cpio: chown failed - Operation not permitted
I was happily running Myth 0.17 and decided, hey, let's do something tonight and upgrade. I received these errors after I did a kernel upgrade then a MythTV-suite upgrade: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /var/lib/mythmusic: cpio: chown failed - Operation not permitted Then I upgraded my kernel from 2.6.10-1.770 to 2.6.11-1.27_FC3 and upgraded the appropriate kernel modules and when I went to reboot I received an NVidia error stating that the X Server was using nvidia-kernel module 6629 (?) and not 7174 like it was expecting. I couldn't get X to start. I SSH'd into my FE and tried this and got these results: [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# apt-get install nvidia-graphics7174-kmdl-2.6.11-1.27_FC3 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done nvidia-graphics7174-kmdl-2.6.11-1.27_FC3 is already the newest version. You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: mythmusic: Depends: mythtv-frontend-api (= 0.17) mythplugins: Depends: mythmusic (= 0.18.1-109.rhfc3.at) but 0.17-68.rhfc3.at is to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). I assume these are all related? Any more help would be appreciated. If I have left out any relevant info, please let me know Jim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] (Resend) PVR-350 Out - FC3 In Not working
(Sorry I'm resending. I didn't see this go through.
Thanks for any help you can give.)
--
I have a PVPVR50 that's working well with TV-Out. The
sound is just fine.
The sound on the motherboard is just fine too. I'm
running KDKDEn Fedora Core 3. I can play
DVDs,CDs,etc. and the sound is okay.
However, I'm trying to pipe the PVPVR50's sound out
into the motherboard's Line In, then out to my
receiver, and not having any luck.
I'm think it's my sound mixer settings. When go to
the Red Hat - Sound Video - Adjust Volume (or
something similar, I'm at work right now), I get a
window with about 15 sliding bars with cryptic
headings. I can guess at what some of them mean, but
even after reading the Help file, I don't know what
the rest do.
Would someone please publish what their settings are
if you have a similar setup? I'm looking for
something like: PCPCMMute Off) Volume all the way up;
LFLFEMute On) Volume off; etc.
Or, if you have any other insight, I'd appreciate it.
I don't think it's a driver issue, but I could be
wrong. Here's my /etc/momodprobeoconf'sound portion,
just in case:
alias snsndard-0 snsndia82xx
options snsndard-0 index=0
install snsndia82xx /sbsbinomodprobe-ignore-install
snsndia82xx /ususrbsbinlalsacactlestore /dedevull
21 || :
remove snsndia82xx { /ususrbsbinlalsactltore
/dedevull 21 || : ; }; /sbsbinod probe -r
--ignore-remove snsndia82xx
Thanks in advance for any help you can give,
Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] Key modifiers in lircrc
On Thursday 26 May 2005 17:16, Mike Isely wrote: What I ultimately discovered was not that Control-T was silently failing, but rather that MythTV was interpretting Control-T as just plain old T. I hit upon this because during my futzing at one point I was on a page where T was active as a keypress and sure enough MythTV reacted as if I had hit T when I was trying to send Control-T. I worked around the problem by abandoning all use of control keys from lirc. Unfortunately that left precious few available keystrokes but I managed to find enough to completely define the remote. Yeah, I think the correct way of doing lirc stuff is that you put the *commands* in the lircrc file, not the keys. That's how mplayer and xine seem to work. For example, mplayer's fast forward command is: begin prog = mplayer button = Forward config = seek +10 end In other words, activate the 'seek' command with a '+10' parameter (go forward 10 seconds). In MythTV it's: begin prog = mythtv button = Forward config = end Where you have to then define '' somewhere else. I don't know why it was done the way it was in MythTV, maybe it's the easy way, but I'd love it if someone would change the MythTV lirc stuff to be more like mplayer, etc. Ben ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] (Resend) PVR-350 Out - FC3 In Not working
I got the same problem with the external sound blaster live 24!
(usb-audio.o) . I only got two mixer controls for it PCM and Capture. None
for line in etc.
Cenk
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Sent: 26 May 2005 23:41
To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] (Resend) PVR-350 Out - FC3 In Not working
(Sorry I'm resending. I didn't see this go through.
Thanks for any help you can give.)
--
I have a PVPVR50 that's working well with TV-Out. The sound is just fine.
The sound on the motherboard is just fine too. I'm running KDKDEn Fedora
Core 3. I can play DVDs,CDs,etc. and the sound is okay.
However, I'm trying to pipe the PVPVR50's sound out into the motherboard's
Line In, then out to my receiver, and not having any luck.
I'm think it's my sound mixer settings. When go to the Red Hat - Sound
Video - Adjust Volume (or something similar, I'm at work right now), I get
a window with about 15 sliding bars with cryptic headings. I can guess at
what some of them mean, but even after reading the Help file, I don't know
what the rest do.
Would someone please publish what their settings are if you have a similar
setup? I'm looking for something like: PCPCMMute Off) Volume all the way up;
LFLFEMute On) Volume off; etc.
Or, if you have any other insight, I'd appreciate it.
I don't think it's a driver issue, but I could be wrong. Here's my
/etc/momodprobeoconf'sound portion, just in case:
alias snsndard-0 snsndia82xx
options snsndard-0 index=0
install snsndia82xx /sbsbinomodprobe-ignore-install snsndia82xx
/ususrbsbinlalsacactlestore /dedevull
21 || :
remove snsndia82xx { /ususrbsbinlalsactltore
/dedevull 21 || : ; }; /sbsbinod probe -r
--ignore-remove snsndia82xx
Thanks in advance for any help you can give, Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] Volume difference between sources: is there a way to fix it?
Related to this, there's the difference between volume for recorded content and MythVideo files. If I set the playback volume for recorded content to 90% (so I have room to both raise and lower it). When I start a video, it seems to start with the same sound level, but mplayer is started with its volume at 100%, so I can only lower it from there. I think what's happening is that the volume I set in TV playback in Myth is setting some mixer level, and that mixer level is preserved when I start mplayer, but mplayer's internal volume control doesn't use the same mixer. It would be great if there were an easy way to have them both share a mixer, or if that isn't possible, to get the same result another way (i.e. start mplayer at 90% volume, but restore the mixer that Myth recordings playback affects to 100% before starting). Any ideas? Ben ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] IceTV has just announced support for aussie mythtv
Phill Edwards wrote: Has anyone subscribed to this and have any info on whether/how it's better than what we can currently get? I subscribed to the 7 day trial, and it works well, for me at least. I think I will be using it. cheers markus ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: KnoppMyth R5A18
Hi all, How come R5A18 was announced 1 month ago, but the mysettopbox.tv website still refers to R5A15 ? Thanks Ricardo - Original Message - From: Cecil Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 10:21 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Re: KnoppMyth R5A18 Jonathan Markevich wrote: Very exciting! Can this be dist-upgraded to, or is it another reinstall calling? (I notice the changelog says apt-get dist-upgrade) but there's no details. It means I got the latest Debian unstable packages... Thanks for your hard work. Hello Everyone, KnoppMyth R5A18 is now available for download! http://mysettopbox.tv Regards, Cecil ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Getting Myth to see 2 inputs as one. Kinda.
On 5/26/05, Peter Judge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately, Comcast has a different philosophy on what they provide via
firewire. I can get the analog channels ( 80) and the HD channels (800 -
900ish) via firewire, but the rest of the digital channels (mainly the 200s)
don't play nicely. Connecting via the PVR gets me all channels, but in SD
(and with letterboxing and/or pillars) for the HD channels.
I've had Comcast service here for several years and I've never been
able to get my PVR-350 to receive any of the non-analog channels
(80). I'm subscribed to digital cable and have an STB connected to
the tv ('cause the GF hasn't fully succumbed to the power of myth
yet). Of course, the STB gets all available channels. However, I
also have the cable split and two connections going into a PVR-350 and
one input of a PVR-500. Neither the -350 nor the -500 are able to see
any channels above 80. All I get on those is static and loud noise.
Did you have to do anything special to allow your PVR card to tune the
channels above 80? I'm hoping that I'm missing something easy here
because I'd love to be able to record some of those higher channels,
but not enough to hook up an IR blaster.
Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Brad Benson
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Re: [mythtv-users] Getting Myth to see 2 inputs as one. Kinda.
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 19:34 -0400, Brad Benson wrote:
On 5/26/05, Peter Judge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately, Comcast has a different philosophy on what they provide via
firewire. I can get the analog channels ( 80) and the HD channels (800 -
900ish) via firewire, but the rest of the digital channels (mainly the
200s) don't play nicely. Connecting via the PVR gets me all channels, but
in SD (and with letterboxing and/or pillars) for the HD channels.
I've had Comcast service here for several years and I've never been
able to get my PVR-350 to receive any of the non-analog channels
(80). I'm subscribed to digital cable and have an STB connected to
the tv ('cause the GF hasn't fully succumbed to the power of myth
yet). Of course, the STB gets all available channels. However, I
also have the cable split and two connections going into a PVR-350 and
one input of a PVR-500. Neither the -350 nor the -500 are able to see
any channels above 80. All I get on those is static and loud noise.
Did you have to do anything special to allow your PVR card to tune the
channels above 80? I'm hoping that I'm missing something easy here
because I'd love to be able to record some of those higher channels,
but not enough to hook up an IR blaster.
Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
I get the exact same situation as you. If I plug the co-ax from the wall
into the PVR250, I can see the analog channels ( 80). To see the
digital channels I run co-ax from the STB to the PVR250, and use the
firewire to change channels. The STB outputs to the TV via component
only.
I should have been a little clearer earlier; sorry I couldn't be of more
help. Fortunately the GF loves Myth, to the point that she complains
when I want to upgrade ( it works like it is, doesn't it honey :) )
-- Peter
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Re: [mythtv-users] WHISH-LIST: what I always wanted.
On Thursday 26 May 2005 01:33 pm, James Oltman wrote: When I go to use the remote, it gives me 2 keypresses instead of one for EVERY command I learned. Did you do something special? begin prog = mythtv button = menu config = m delay = 2 end Put that delay in all of your lircrc button sections, and lirc will basically treat 2 keypresses as 1, this avoids those double keypresses. -Mat -- mythtv [at] matmrosko [dot] com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Key modifiers in lircrc
On May 26, 2005, at 5:52 PM, Ben Giddings wrote: Yeah, I think the correct way of doing lirc stuff is that you put the *commands* in the lircrc file, not the keys. That's how mplayer and xine seem to work. For example, mplayer's fast forward command is: begin prog = mplayer button = Forward config = seek +10 end In other words, activate the 'seek' command with a '+10' parameter (go forward 10 seconds). In MythTV it's: begin prog = mythtv button = Forward config = end Where you have to then define '' somewhere else. I don't know why it was done the way it was in MythTV, maybe it's the easy way, but I'd love it if someone would change the MythTV lirc stuff to be more like mplayer, etc. Ben The problem I see with this in Myth is that there are many modes in Myth, where you may want the same remote key to perform a different function in different modes. This would be problematic if the function name was in the config line. Not that I have a better solution. What I would like is more fine grained keys. I have my remotes play key mapped to space, and I like that in menus it will select the menu item, but when video is paused, I would like it to unpause, and when video is playing, I would like it to display info like the I key does now. If the play button was mapped to a function name this wouldn't work. As it is now, I would just have to add more fine grained key mappings. This thought just came to me. Maybe there could be separate mappings to myth functions for keyboards and remotes. You could still map keys like now, but you could have lirc pass in the name of the buttons, and in Myth you could map full button names to functions. Dunno. Just rambling. What got me started on the Ctrl key thing in the first place was the note in the keybindings page of mythweb that explicitly suggests to use modifiers for jump points, to avoid overriding regular functions. Maybe I'll see if I can fix the Myth lirc code to handle Ctrl keys. Eventually I'll find something to fix that's at my skill level, this may be it! -Michael ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Volume difference between sources: is there a way to fix it?
Ben Giddings wrote: Related to this, there's the difference between volume for recorded content and MythVideo files. If I set the playback volume for recorded content to 90% (so I have room to both raise and lower it). When I start a video, it seems to start with the same sound level, but mplayer is started with its volume at 100%, so I can only lower it from there. I think what's happening is that the volume I set in TV playback in Myth is setting some mixer level, and that mixer level is preserved when I start mplayer, but mplayer's internal volume control doesn't use the same mixer. It would be great if there were an easy way to have them both share a mixer, or if that isn't possible, to get the same result another way (i.e. start mplayer at 90% volume, but restore the mixer that Myth recordings playback affects to 100% before starting). Any ideas? I set my Master to 90%, use /dev/mixer with mixer controls PCM, so when I use the volume button, I change the PCM volume. I chose this approach because xine and MPlayer both default to using mixer controls PCM (so I'm changing the same volume regardless of application). By default, xine and MPlayer both pick up the volume at which the mixer was left by the previously-used program (and will actually notice if another program changes the mixer while MPlayer or xine is running; Myth, on the other hand, does not notice changes). It's possible to set xine and MPlayer to remember a volume and always start with that volume. Check the prefs for MPlayer to see if you have it set to always start at 100% and make sure that you're using the same mixer in Myth and MPlayer. If you want MPlayer to start at a lower volume than Myth, just tell it what volume to use. Sounds like you have Myth set to use Master and MPlayer is using PCM, so volume confusion ensues... Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Another Bug in mythtv-suite?
Axel Thimm wrote: Thanks, that's indeed a different issue, it just hadn't been scheduled to be built. It will appear in a couple of hours. Thank you, everything works now. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Mythstream Tips Tricks
Does MythStream play ogg streams? MythStream uses mplayer to play streaming content, so if mplayer supports ogg streams (which it appears it does...), then so does mythstream. Another nice tip/trick for mythstream is to manage the database of stream stations with phpMyAdmin and update the streams table entries directly from there. Sometimes finding the actual stream URL is a bit challenging -- I.E. buried or hidden in clickwraps, redirect, java, or javascript. If you can use wget to grab a .ram or .asx or whatever file, you can usually find right URLs inside of there. If that doesn't work, I've had luck using ethereal running on the machine that is streaming audio/video to find the proper URL for the stream -Ross ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase halts ; unconfigured http cache??
On Thu, 26 May 2005 01:26:52 +0200 Rickard Borgmäster [EMAIL PROTECTED] hit the keyboard and punched: Yes. The system is more or less isolated so I haven't bothered setting up a mythtvuser but run the system as root. Might change it later on but anyways, since it's all root the .xmltv dir isn't the problem. Replying to my own post as I have more information to give, maybe this is a bug? Doing a ps -ef to find out whatever command was issued to get the channel data I found this: /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/tv_grab_se_swedb --days 1 --offset 1 --config-file /var/run/mythtv/.mythtv/Analogue TV.xmltv --output /tmp/mythWnESon What's up with /var/run/mythtv/.mythtv/? I have no xmltv config files there, should I? As stated before, a plain mythfilldatabase from command line is successful. /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log reads: # cat mythbackend.log Starting up as the master server. vbi: Invalid argument [mpeg2video @ 0xb78a6830]Warning MVs not available vbi: Invalid argument [mpeg2video @ 0xb78a6830]ac-tex damaged at 21 24 [mpeg2video @ 0xb78a6830]Warning MVs not available vbi: Invalid argument [mpeg2video @ 0xb78a6830]ac-tex damaged at 22 19 [mpeg2video @ 0xb78a6830]Warning MVs not available 2005-05-26 20:41:57.557 New DB connection, total: 1 2005-05-26 20:41:57.769 New DB connection, total: 2 Refreshing Tomorrow's data - Start of XMLTV output - 2005-05-26 20:41:57.922 New DB connection, total: 3 You need to configure the http cache. Do you want to do it now? [yes,no (default=yes)] vbi: Invalid argument -- Rickard .--..--. .. | || | .-. | Rickard Borgmäster | | || |/ / | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | .-^ | .--. | | http://doktorn.sub.nu/ | ( o | ( () ) | |\ \ `' `-' `--' `--' `--' ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] myth database access
I was trying to make a backup of the database via mysqldump -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg -c mythtv_backup.sql as shown in http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.5 However I got an error mysqldump: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: YES) when trying to connect And then folowed the link at the above URL to http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-6.html#modify_perm_mysql and ran one of the mysql commands at the end. Now I can do the backup command, but mythtv can no longer access the database. Any hints on how to recover from the hole I dug? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MythWifi Remote Control plugin
Hi, I have made a Remote Control plugin. It is still in an early stage, but neverethless usable yet. It is intended for a PDA to be used as remote control using the wireless network interface. It consists of a plugin and a webinterface. The plugin uses bidrectional socket communication. So a Java client can be possible too. For now I have used a webinterface as most PDA's have a browser. The webinterface is highly customizable as the layout is stored in the database. You can find all information and source code on my site: http://studwww.ugent.be/~aveys/mythwifi/ I hope it can be of use to anyone. Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Regards, Arnaud Femi Veys ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Undefined reference to `mpeg_xvmc_vld_decoder'
Hi, I got the following error building Matt Zimmerman's (dijkstra.csh.rit.edu) latest (0.18.1) debian mythtv packages: undefined reference to `mpeg_xvmc_vld_decoder' I added --enable-xvmc and --enable-xvmc-vld to the debian/rules file. I'm running debian xfree86-4.3.0.dfsg.1-12, with the following unichrome packages from www.physik.fu-berlin.de: libxvmc1 libxvmc-dev libxvmcw1 libxvmcw1-dev xlibs-static-dev xserver-xfree86 Is it a problem that these packages were for dfsg.1-10, when my base installation is up to 1-12? I'm sure I've just missed something simple, but can't see where it is. Any one have any ideas? Thanks, _ Get everything OC for your mobile http://fun.mobiledownloads.com.au/191191/index.wl?promotionName=oc ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: inittab autologin trick (for frontends)
On 5/26/05, Dan Littlejohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Found this and thought I would pass it along. I have a diskless frontend and had a hard time with xdm autologging and also wanted to have a lightweight session so I have been looking off and on for a different autologin method. Just finished using the tip in the link for inittab and it works great. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-241621.html Dan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Part 6 of my MythTV installation tutorial discusses this as well. http://www.magicitx.com/modules.php?name=Contentpa=showpagepid=12page=1 -- Tim www.magicitx.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DVB channel confusion
On 5/25/05, Andrew Gallatin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At least for US users, channel numbering for DVB boards is pretty confusing. I was hoping for some info on what the current best practice is for setting up DVB channels. When you do a channel scan, mythtv picks up a channel number from the DVB broadcast. For example, in my area, fox HDTV is 501. However, the datadirect number for fox is 50_1. What I did when I set my box up 3 months ago was to first do a channel scan, and then run mythfilldatabse. This resulted in duplicate entries for every channel. One with data-direct, and one with DVB numbering. I then went into mysql and manually copied the xmltvid from the datadirect channel to the dvb channel, and deleted the datadirect channels.I also deleted channels picked up in the scan with marginal reception, since tuning to a marginal DVD channel is a landmine. This setup seemed to work well for quite a while, and I was very happy. But, after a while, my channel information started to get corrupt. I'd see channels with garbage names in the program guide. Finally, my recordings were done on the wrong channel. I'd setup a recording on channel X, and then it would actually record channel y So, I just wiped my channel/tuner information and re-scanned and re-filled the database last weekend. Now my recordings seem to be working again. However, is there anything I should do differently to keep the creeping-crud from coming back into my database? I assume these bogus channels were somehow confusing myth, and bumping its own channel numbers around (meaning the channel numbers that appear in the .nuv filenames). Thanks, Drew ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Hmmm, interesting problem. I setup myth with dvb channels a few weeks ago using the exact method you described. Haven't seen any corruption yet, but it hasn't been very long Dave ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
