SV: [mythtv-users] Which ivtv modules to load for pvr-150mce ?
Robin Gilks wrote: I guess the subject says it all really. Many of the howtos revolve about the 250 (old) and 350 (with output). I'm trying to find out which modules should be loaded when I modprobe the ivtv module. The only module you should ever load is ivtv. All other modules will be loaded by ivtv (assuming you load ivtv correctly--using modprobe and /not/ insmod). I've already discovered that msp3400 doesn't get loaded (no dependency in modules.dep to the main ivtv module) so I'm wondering what else I have to load manually. msp3400 is the driver for the sound processor for PVR-250/350. The PVR-150 uses the cx25840. Therefore, if you load msp3400, at best, it wastes memory and at worst, it causes conflicts. I guess that since the header for saa7127.c says its an encoder, I need it but I assume that the decoder saa7115 is pvr-350 specific and so I don't load it! All very confusing!! No idea whether I have to pass any parameters across during loading since many of the howtos are either old or 350 specific :-(( I get video OK but so far audio only sometime on video, nothing from the radio and nothing from the line inputs. I'm running latest SVN (0.3.9+ == trunk) - not sure if there are any gotchas there. Any pointers appreciated. modprobe ivtv and make sure you have the right module options. For 0.3.8+, that should mean that you have no options specified for ivtv modules (it will autodetect. Mike What about checking that you don't have conflicting modules specified in /etc/modules. I had trouble with eeprom getting loaded there and then ivtv ran into problems because it couldn't pull in tveeprom. But dmesg should clue you in on that kind of thing. Marius ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] d1.com.au not updating for me - anyone else?
I have only a few days of guide left, and for the last 2 nights, no new info was available from d1. Is anyone else finding the same? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Trouble doing a Mac frontend build
Ok, switching to GCC 3.3 got me past the earlier error. I'll poke at the new ones and see where they lead. Originally when I went to Snyderpad, I got a dynamic dns hosting error page. Looks like they're back up now. I grabbed the client, but it refuses to run. Here's what I see in the console.log: 2005-09-20 00:11:04.349 New DB connection, total: 1 Total desktop width=1680, height=1050, numscreens=1 2005-09-20 00:11:04.380 Using screen 0, 1680x1050 at 0,0 2005-09-20 00:11:04.388 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-09-20 00:11:04.388 Enabled verbose msgs : important general SelectSetting::setValue(): invalid index 6 SelectSetting::setValue(): invalid index 6 SelectSetting::setValue(): invalid index 6 SelectSetting::setValue(): invalid index 6 Could not find theme: G.A.N.T. Couldn't find theme G.A.N.T. I can run one of the other pre-compiled binaries linked from the Wiki using the GANT theme and they come up fine. I looked inside the Snyderpad binary, and the GANT theme looks like it's there. I tried changing the theme entry in the database, but that didn't help. Running from the terminal just gave the same errors, as did setting the log level to all. Any suggestions? Thanks! -Pete On Sep 19, 2005, at 3:38 AM, Joshua King wrote: Possibly try compiling under GCC 3.3? Run 'sudo gcc_select 3.3' to swap over and try compiling again (I compiled LAME ages ago now using 3.3) Did you try thesniderpad's frontend? It has plugins. There's an 0.18.1 build here: http://www.thesniderpad.com/modules.php? name=Downloadsd_op=viewdownloadcid =1 I'm using his SVN build right now, and it has mythdvd, *mythvideo*, mythgallery, mythcontrols, *mythweather* and mythnews as far as I can tell (these aren't installed on my backend so I don't use them). Joshua King PS. Call me crazy but I've never used the osx-packager, I tend to run Myth from the Terminal. Send instant messages to your online friends http:// au.messenger.yahoo.com ___ 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] Trouble doing a Mac frontend build
I got the same problem with the sniper pad build. If you set the MYTHTVDIR envrionment variable to the root application folder it starts. i.e. MYTHTVDIR=/Applications/MythFrontend.app/Contents/Resources /Applications/MythFrontend.app/Contents/MacOS/mythfrontend It should be possible to whack up a wrapper script to permanently fix the problem. Michael Peter Loron wrote: Ok, switching to GCC 3.3 got me past the earlier error. I'll poke at the new ones and see where they lead. Originally when I went to Snyderpad, I got a dynamic dns hosting error page. Looks like they're back up now. I grabbed the client, but it refuses to run. Here's what I see in the console.log: 2005-09-20 00:11:04.349 New DB connection, total: 1 Total desktop width=1680, height=1050, numscreens=1 2005-09-20 00:11:04.380 Using screen 0, 1680x1050 at 0,0 2005-09-20 00:11:04.388 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-09-20 00:11:04.388 Enabled verbose msgs : important general SelectSetting::setValue(): invalid index 6 SelectSetting::setValue(): invalid index 6 SelectSetting::setValue(): invalid index 6 SelectSetting::setValue(): invalid index 6 Could not find theme: G.A.N.T. Couldn't find theme G.A.N.T. I can run one of the other pre-compiled binaries linked from the Wiki using the GANT theme and they come up fine. I looked inside the Snyderpad binary, and the GANT theme looks like it's there. I tried changing the theme entry in the database, but that didn't help. Running from the terminal just gave the same errors, as did setting the log level to all. Any suggestions? Thanks! -Pete On Sep 19, 2005, at 3:38 AM, Joshua King wrote: Possibly try compiling under GCC 3.3? Run 'sudo gcc_select 3.3' to swap over and try compiling again (I compiled LAME ages ago now using 3.3) Did you try thesniderpad's frontend? It has plugins. There's an 0.18.1 build here: http://www.thesniderpad.com/modules.php? name=Downloadsd_op=viewdownloadcid =1 I'm using his SVN build right now, and it has mythdvd, *mythvideo*, mythgallery, mythcontrols, *mythweather* and mythnews as far as I can tell (these aren't installed on my backend so I don't use them). Joshua King PS. Call me crazy but I've never used the osx-packager, I tend to run Myth from the Terminal. Send instant messages to your online friends http:// au.messenger.yahoo.com ___ 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 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mass channel deletes
Michael T. Dean wrote: Bruce Markey wrote: Dave Sherohman wrote: Would I break my existing recordings or upcoming recording schedule if I just deleted all records from the channel table, then ran mythfilldatabase manually to reconstruct it? That would work but would leave behind program information that might be found in searches so you may want to remove all the program information also. $ mysql -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg mysql truncate table channel; mysql truncate table program; mysql truncate table programrating; mysql truncate table programgenres; mysql truncate table credits; mysql truncate table people; then run mythfilldatabase again. Since TMS currently adds new channels to all lineups (instead of allowing you to choose to lock in a lineup), and since I have DISH network (which is adding all the local stations around the country), I get new channels at least once a week (sometimes several channels per day). On one of their surveys, TMS asked if there should be an option to not automatically add channels. Appearently nothing has come of that. I'm sure in your situation I'd rather go in and check new channels periodically or when I fould out that my provider added a channel I want to receive. To keep the 13 channels to which I've subscribed, I've been deleting the channel and program information after updating my lineup at zap2it. However, I've never deleted any info from programrating, programgenres, credits, or people. It looks like it's been getting deleted after expiring, but I wanted to verify that my (lazy) approach should not cause any problems. Mine was the Adrian Monk approach. Most of these have dates and will expire. people doesn't but it's a finite set and the same names come up again. If the program table is emptied so that you can't match a bogus show then the auxiliary info doesn't matter. AFAIK, this isn't a problem right now, however, there have been times in the past that mfdb may have leaked data by not cleaning up properly and I used to dump out all of these tables every so often just to be sure that I wasn't building up cruft. One thing you could do is select count(*) from tablename; to find what the normal sizes are and if any table is growing over time. -- bjm ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] RE: Mythfrontend on Xbox
Thanks for the link, it hinted at some missing some sources in my apt sources, putting those in made my dependency problems go away, myth seems to be working fine now, but my homebrewed wireless-to-lan gateway laptop now crashes :) Thanks again.#nano /etc/apt/sources.list deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main deb http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian unstable mythtv deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib On 9/19/05, Adam Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have anyone successfully running mythfrontend on xbox??I am currently running a mythfrontend on an xbox running Xebian withmythvideo, mythmusic, mythdvd, mythweather, mythtv all fully functional. I recently installed linux on my xbox. The distribution was xebian. Ofcourse the next thing I want to do is install mythfrontend. Simply doingan apt-get on the mythfrontend packages results in a nighmarish dependency hell issue. Any easy way around this or tips? Thanks.My last install I did using apt was around Aug. 14th and the install wentfine.Check out some words I put together here: http://www.mythtv-xbox.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=36But lately I have been trying to install mythfrontend on an XDSL install onthe xbox and have been coming up with huge dependency problems.Now XDSL is only lightly based off of debian so that could be the problem, but I thinkthe apt problems might have something to do with debian changing from woodyto sarge, or something like that (I could be way off on this).Take a look at the link and see if you can get anywhere.I might try a fresh install ofxebian to see if those steps still apply, and to confirm the problems youare having.Adam___ mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://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] Hollywood Realmagic Plus
I would also be very interested in testing it if you ever got the dxr3 working again. Taan I wonder how hard it would be to integrate? Has anyone ever looked into it? Honestly hacking myth to playback the mpeg2 content through the dxr3/em8300/h+ cards is not very difficult. I use to patch mine to do just that until I got a MediaMVP which replaced that frontend. The real trick is getting X outputted through it. At one point I did hack up an X driver to support that as well but after a harddrive faiulure(bad me with no current backup of the source) and the birth of my daughter I never got around to redoing it. Here is a very old screenshot of the config menu from when I was patching mine to do it. Now that my daughter is getting a little older, and the em8300 driver fellows have had some success with working on an ALSA driver for the em8300 output, I might start working on that again. Not that I really need it, but because it was interesting :) http://www.phaze.org/mythtv_dxr3setup.jpg -- This e-mail message is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. Although this email is believed to be free of viruses, CryoLogic accepts no responsibility for any consequences arising from its receipt or use. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Channels that change inputs?
On 19/09/05, Robin Gilks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings I recall seeing a few weeks ago a method of selecting a channel and automagically selecting the correct input for it - tuner or s-video. I understand that its a new feature, so far only in SVN. Question is, how do I use it without a 'C' key to toggle between inputs? Do I set up two card names pointing at the same card and select tuner on one and s-video on the other and set channels across the two inputs that way? I'm running todays SVN but I can't see any obvious method of making the selection. When setting MythTV up initially, after adding the capture card(s) and creating the video source(s) you use Input Connections to connect a channel lineup (video sources) to one of the inputs (tuner, S-Video) on the capture card. The channel lineups can obviously be different, as the tuner may have less or more channels configured for it than the direct S-Video connection. If you're running the SVN version with the updated channel changing behaviour, you should be able to select any channel in the EPG whilst watching LiveTV and the machine should switch automatically to that channel/input combo, avoiding the need to press 'C'. Nick Got it at last - thanks Nick. I was thinking that in Video Sources I would associate a name with a source but in fact all I do there is give it a name where it gets EPG info from and the source is defined in Input Connections. I hadn't followed it through. Cheers -- Robin Gilks ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ACPI sleep problems
On 19/09/05, Paul V. Gratz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I actually use the suspend to ACPI ram all the time on my laptop (dell inspiron 8500). I did have some pretty heavy problems trying to get it running on my mythfrontend though. There the problem was mainly in getting the motherboard to respect a USB wake-up event (crappy cheap MB). In any event, I'd strongly recommend getting the hibernate script that the ACPI team puts out. This script can be run from the acpid or commandline. It does things like manages modules that are not compatible with ACPI (as best it can) and restarting network interfaces on resume. I suspect that with a reasonable motherboard you should be able to get this working. Paul Any chance of a link to this script please ? -- John ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Which ivtv modules to load for pvr-150mce ?
Robin Gilks wrote: I guess the subject says it all really. Many of the howtos revolve about the 250 (old) and 350 (with output). I'm trying to find out which modules should be loaded when I modprobe the ivtv module. The only module you should ever load is ivtv. All other modules will be loaded by ivtv (assuming you load ivtv correctly--using modprobe and /not/ insmod). I've already discovered that msp3400 doesn't get loaded (no dependency in modules.dep to the main ivtv module) so I'm wondering what else I have to load manually. msp3400 is the driver for the sound processor for PVR-250/350. The PVR-150 uses the cx25840. Therefore, if you load msp3400, at best, it wastes memory and at worst, it causes conflicts. I guess that since the header for saa7127.c says its an encoder, I need it but I assume that the decoder saa7115 is pvr-350 specific and so I don't load it! All very confusing!! No idea whether I have to pass any parameters across during loading since many of the howtos are either old or 350 specific :-(( I get video OK but so far audio only sometime on video, nothing from the radio and nothing from the line inputs. I'm running latest SVN (0.3.9+ == trunk) - not sure if there are any gotchas there. Any pointers appreciated. modprobe ivtv and make sure you have the right module options. For 0.3.8+, that should mean that you have no options specified for ivtv modules (it will autodetect. Thanks Mike Thats exactly the definitive answers I was looking for :-)) All I need to do now is get external sound going (to complement the s-video input) and the radio (which scans OK finds all the stations I'd expect it to) which also has no audio :-(( Cheers -- Robin Gilks ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] 6200ch 1394 Drivers such
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 16:46 -0700, brett olah wrote: Hi Group, I've been running several MythTV boxes off Com[unist]cast cable in South San Jose CA., running as analog (cable directly in to the PC) for a few years and was extatic when I saw the 1394 channel support for DCT6200, no longer limmited to 73 Channels. 6200ch compiled fine no problems, I think I'm not a programer, no error's anyway. I am having an issue getting the channels to change ... You don't need 6200ch anymore. Myth has support for internal firewire channel-changing for the 6200 boxes. I was going to point you to the official docs, but it turns out that the docs haven't been updated. On the other hand, looking at the main page http://www.mythtv.org/ one can find the following as the featureset in 0.18.1: Internal channel-change over firewire support for DCT-6200 series cable boxes - no external program required like before. Sooo... -I ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Which ivtv modules to load for pvr-150mce ?
By external audio do you mean that when you play TV you don't get any sound at all? I had the exact same problem, and it is due to either the order of loading the modules, or which module files exist on your computer in what locations. Let me know, and I can send you my startup script. Luc -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robin Gilks Sent: September 20, 2005 6:16 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Which ivtv modules to load for pvr-150mce ? Robin Gilks wrote: I guess the subject says it all really. Many of the howtos revolve about the 250 (old) and 350 (with output). I'm trying to find out which modules should be loaded when I modprobe the ivtv module. The only module you should ever load is ivtv. All other modules will be loaded by ivtv (assuming you load ivtv correctly--using modprobe and /not/ insmod). I've already discovered that msp3400 doesn't get loaded (no dependency in modules.dep to the main ivtv module) so I'm wondering what else I have to load manually. msp3400 is the driver for the sound processor for PVR-250/350. The PVR-150 uses the cx25840. Therefore, if you load msp3400, at best, it wastes memory and at worst, it causes conflicts. I guess that since the header for saa7127.c says its an encoder, I need it but I assume that the decoder saa7115 is pvr-350 specific and so I don't load it! All very confusing!! No idea whether I have to pass any parameters across during loading since many of the howtos are either old or 350 specific :-(( I get video OK but so far audio only sometime on video, nothing from the radio and nothing from the line inputs. I'm running latest SVN (0.3.9+ == trunk) - not sure if there are any gotchas there. Any pointers appreciated. modprobe ivtv and make sure you have the right module options. For 0.3.8+, that should mean that you have no options specified for ivtv modules (it will autodetect. Thanks Mike Thats exactly the definitive answers I was looking for :-)) All I need to do now is get external sound going (to complement the s-video input) and the radio (which scans OK finds all the stations I'd expect it to) which also has no audio :-(( Cheers -- Robin Gilks ___ 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] ACPI sleep problems
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Greg Woods wrote: Where did you read this? I'd like to know because everything *I* have read says that ACPI suspend-to-RAM doesn't really work on Linux. I have never been able to make it work on my laptop; I can get it to suspend to RAM by doing echo 3 /proc/acpi/sleep, but there appears to be no way http://acpi.sourceforge.net/documentation/sleep.html From what I understand, suspend to RAM should work but suspend to disk needs some extra kernel patches. /proc/acpi/sleep seems to be the old 2.4 kernel interface, whereas /sys/power/state is the 2.6 kernel interface. Whilest suspending using ACPI seems to just power my machine off completely, if I disable ACPI and use APM instead it sends the machine to sleep but won't wake up again. in Linux is not very robust as yet. Whether or not it will work will likely depend on exactly what kernel version you are running and what motherboard and BIOS chip. But it is highly unlikely that it will be as simple as echoing something to a /proc or /sys file. If you do manage to make it work, I'd love to hear about it. I'm running Fedora Core 3 on that box (can't remember the exact kernel version and I don't have access to the machine ATM). I have made machines go to sleep by echoing into the /proc/acpi/sleep file before and the docs say it _should_ work... -- - Steve xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nexusuk.org/ Servatis a periculum, servatis a maleficum - Whisper, Evanescence ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport problem?
Chris - do you know when you will place a RPM of this in the nuvexport archive page at http://forevermore.net/files/nuvexport/? I think the RPM version that's there doesn't have the yuvdenoise fix yet. It's all the same code. I have a script I run that builds the tarball, compiles the rpm and moves them to my webserver. But on the off chance that a pre-existing nuvexport tarball in my rpm build directory was confusing things, I've removed it and recompiled the rpm, just in case. Chris - I downloaded the 20050919 version and tried it. I get this message now after the Enable Myth cutlist? prompt: yuvdenoise version 1.6.3rc1 (and rc2) are broken and cannot be used. Noise reduction has been disabled because of an error. Press enter to continue. Is that expected behaviour? I had thought that the fix was for yuvdenoise to not be broken any more. Or is the fix that it now explains that noise reduction has been disabled? Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Multiple channels at the same time, with one DVB card ?
So do you or anybody else know how long, roughly speaking, it will take before we can get our hands on it ? And as I've understood it, a single multiplex can hold 4-5 channels, is that right ? Also unanswered is the Chad's question below. Thanks.On 9/20/05, Chad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/19/05, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/09/05, turha turha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to capture multiple channels at the same time with using just a single DVB card ? Work on capturing multiple channels from the same multiplex is underway (it isn't possible to capture from non-similar 'plexes because there is only 1 tuner.) Nick ___By same multiplex, does that mean 4.1 4.2 4.3... but not 4.1 5.1 6.1...? Thanks! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Better think twice before choosing an FS especially for LVM
HI! I have 2 drives: 160 GB + 120 GB. LVM with XFS. If one of my drives starts failing (using SMART monitoring), I just add a new drive (probably 250 GB) and let LVM shuffle all blocks from the failing drive to the new drive. If the new drive is bigger than the failing drive, I extend LVM and expand XFS. So, what's the problem? Why do I need shrinking at all? I always can get a new HD with at least the size of the failing one. Thomas ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Better think twice before choosing an FS especially for LVM
Thomas Börkel wrote: HI! I have 2 drives: 160 GB + 120 GB. LVM with XFS. If one of my drives starts failing (using SMART monitoring), I just add a new drive (probably 250 GB) and let LVM shuffle all blocks from the failing drive to the new drive. If the new drive is bigger than the failing drive, I extend LVM and expand XFS. So, what's the problem? Why do I need shrinking at all? I always can get a new HD with at least the size of the failing one. You don't :) XFS will be fine for you (as it is for me and other people who really don't forsee using less space for video in the future). David PS you'll only be fine *if* it starts to fail by nicely sending you a little warning saying: I'm going to be a bit poorly tomorrow - would you mind getting all the data off me. Thanks a lot. Yours sincerely /dev/hdb If on the other hand it says: cough. splat /dev/hdb: No such device. Then you're without a filesystem. SMART may help you but it's not by any means guaranteed. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] OT? : Java projectx mythburn
Sorry to those of you who feel this is OT, but it brings me one srep closer to getting everything in place for my MythTV setup. Im having another go at getting mythburns dependencies in place, and, now that sid is once more on the way to good health, I have a working QT3 environment (I think). Tried (and failed) before with blackdown java, so now Im trying with jdk from Sun, which is installed in /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_05/ ProjectX 0.8.x bailed out with a Bad Intrepreter message, but 0.9 does more as I expect, bailing out when it cant find my java executables. So Im wondering what the correct environment variables are and exactly what should go in /etc/ld.so.conf, and /etc/profile. A little trawling threw up references to recompiling the kernel with java support. Is this also something I need? Cheers Marius ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Charlie Rose via PVR-350
On 9/18/05, Paul Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be interested to know if anyone else has observed the out-of-sync problem while watching Charlie Rose.I record Charlie Rose (via PVR-350 ivtv stable) from WMED (Maine)without issues. And I've recorded it off KQED (SF) in HD (HD-3000) and SD (WinTV), and now WNET (NY) all without issue. I do find that occasionally any of my recordings gets out of sync, but pausing and restarting seems to bring it back together. --WendyPublic television fans unite!-- Wendy Seltzerhttp://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/ http://www.chillingeffects.org/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Multiple channels at the same time, with one DVB card ?
On 9/20/05, Chad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By same multiplex, does that mean 4.1 4.2 4.3... but not 4.1 5.1 6.1...? Thanks! By the same multiplex it effectively means transmitted on the same frequency. I don't believe there's any limitation on whether channel 4.1 or 4.2 (for example) have to be transmitted on the same multiplex or may be transmitted on different multiplexes. I would suspect that the specs were written such that this sort of organisational detail is up to the network that runs the multiplex(es). Whilst it's a stated wish that Myth should be able to handle multiple channels simultaneously from a single multiplex, I don't think anybody is actively working on this feature (they can correct me if i'm wrong!). Likewise, whether or not the current DVB re-write will make this goal easier / harder is a question for the current DVB devs. Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Using the pvr-350 remote with other ir-receivers
El Dimarts, 20 de Setembre de 2005 01:05, Scot L. Harris va escriure: Which OS are you using? Which version of lirc? SuSE 9.3. Now using a CVS snapshot but I used to use lirc 0.7.0. I have one system using 0.7.0 and the new one has 0.7.2. Did you use Jarod's guide for setting up the remote? Does irw work? No, irw does not work. If you have not, read the section in Jarod's guide on setting up lirc and the remote. He makes it very easy. It doesn't work. :( The only strange thing I see is this: DMESG OUTPUT: kobject_register failed for tveeprom (-17) - [c01d0567] kobject_register+0x37/0x40 [c02354ed] bus_add_driver+0x3d/0xa0 [c0235a18] driver_register+0x28/0x30 [dd67647a] i2c_add_driver+0x3a/0xc0 [i2c_core] [c012e9a4] sys_init_module+0x104/0x180 [c0102c49] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x79 load_module: err 0xfffe (dont worry) lirc_i2c: chip found @ 0x18 (Hauppauge IR) ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=Hauppauge IR, addr=18] lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin:sample_rate: 10 As you can see, it's detected but not working. Like I said, read Jarod's guide on this. Should be virtually the same for Suse. Verify that you have the drivers loaded. Does irw give you any errors? No errors at all. Nothing happens when I press the buttons, no errors or warnings... I forgot to add that neither lirc nor the other way (using the remote without lirc and use ir-kbd-i2c to generate keystroke) work. How can I know if lirc_i2c is loaded after the ivtv module? Thanks, -- Oscar Curero - Linux user: 306877 --GPG keyID: 0xE0EA0B24-- pgpiDhZzmzryn.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] frontend crash during UK dvb-t playback - only at adverts
hi all – I now have a stable dvb-t myth setup running on an up-to-date fedora core system, using the hauppage nova-t. only major problem thus far is: watching certain UK channels, the frontend crashes when the commercial break begins – happens both with recordings and livetv. channels identified so far are channel4, e4/e4+1 and abc1. I suspect the reason is that these channels broadcast in a variety of aspect ratios, and switch over at the start of the adverts, causing a break in the signal of some kind – i.e. main broadcast is in 16:9, channel ident may be in low-res 4:3, followed by ad in 16:9. this often causes a broken keyframe (?) which the system struggles to recover from, manifesting itself in a green frame, a period of scrambled or non-existent audio, and quite often, the complete and sudden death of the frontend. rest of the programme and other channels are fine. anyone else seeing this behaviour or anything similar? let me know if there's any debug info that'd help… ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] frontend crash during UK dvb-t playback - only at adverts
On 20/09/05, Alan Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all – I now have a stable dvb-t myth setup running on an up-to-date fedora core system, using the hauppage nova-t. only major problem thus far is: watching certain UK channels, the frontend crashes when the commercial break begins – happens both with recordings and livetv. channels identified so far are channel4, e4/e4+1 and abc1. I suspect the reason is that these channels broadcast in a variety of aspect ratios, and switch over at the start of the adverts, causing a break in the signal of some kind – i.e. main broadcast is in 16:9, channel ident may be in low-res 4:3, followed by ad in 16:9. this often causes a broken keyframe (?) which the system struggles to recover from, manifesting itself in a green frame, a period of scrambled or non-existent audio, and quite often, the complete and sudden death of the frontend. rest of the programme and other channels are fine. anyone else seeing this behaviour or anything similar? let me know if there's any debug info that'd help… I get the green frame and a bit of picture breakup, but no frontend crash. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: DVB-S channel scan problem with 18.1, Astra 19.2, skystar2
Anyway I am glad to hear that the scanning was working with skystar card (btw. do you have skystar2 or skystar1 cards?). I was afraid that it is the driver issue (it looks like everybody in the mailing list is using these PVR-XXX cards...). I will probably try some older versions of mythtv, maybe the 18.1 and the SVN snapshot has really broken DVB-S scan functionality. Thank you. Bob Bob, I used .18 and .18.1 along with DVB-S on ASTRA, both did the job. Technotrend and Skystar cards. But, when I start mythbackend and mythfrontend on the same system, I sometimes get the same logentries, and the backend says something like DVB0 no data from card Do you have the same ? Only a reboot fixed the problem then, restarting myth does not. Switched to .18, seems to be more resistant against this, but perhaps is not. Do not know. Some Entries in the mailing list cover the same problem, but no solution. Not using mythfrontend on the backend machine and no problem anymore. If you need a db-dump, write an email. I will provide you a complete db of my production box. hth, uwe -- GMX DSL = Maximale Leistung zum minimalen Preis! 2000 MB nur 2,99, Flatrate ab 4,99 Euro/Monat: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] frontend crash during UK dvb-t playback - only at adverts
I am also using nova-ts and have no problems on any of those channels for what its worth! Bizarre! On 20/09/05, Alan Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all – I now have a stable dvb-t myth setup running on an up-to-date fedora core system, using the hauppage nova-t. only major problem thus far is: watching certain UK channels, the frontend crashes when the commercial break begins – happens both with recordings and livetv. channels identified so far are channel4, e4/e4+1 and abc1. I suspect the reason is that these channels broadcast in a variety of aspect ratios, and switch over at the start of the adverts, causing a break in the signal of some kind – i.e. main broadcast is in 16:9, channel ident may be in low-res 4:3, followed by ad in 16:9. this often causes a broken keyframe (?) which the system struggles to recover from, manifesting itself in a green frame, a period of scrambled or non-existent audio, and quite often, the complete and sudden death of the frontend. rest of the programme and other channels are fine. anyone else seeing this behaviour or anything similar? let me know if there's any debug info that'd help… ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- - Ciaran (I now have far too many G-Mail invites available, anyone who wants one, gets one) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] frontend crash during UK dvb-t playback - only at adverts
On 9/20/05, Alan Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all – I now have a stable dvb-t myth setup running on an up-to-date fedora core system, using the hauppage nova-t. only major problem thus far is: watching certain UK channels, the frontend crashes when the commercial break begins – happens both with recordings and livetv. channels identified so far are channel4, e4/e4+1 and abc1. I suspect the reason is that these channels broadcast in a variety of aspect ratios, and switch over at the start of the adverts, causing a break in the signal of some kind – i.e. main broadcast is in 16:9, channel ident may be in low-res 4:3, followed by ad in 16:9. this often causes a broken keyframe (?) which the system struggles to recover from, manifesting itself in a green frame, a period of scrambled or non-existent audio, and quite often, the complete and sudden death of the frontend. rest of the programme and other channels are fine. anyone else seeing this behaviour or anything similar? let me know if there's any debug info that'd help… I've been running 0.18 since it was released on DVB-T in the UK with a (version 909) Nova-T. It's quite normal for the adverts and the actual programme to be in different aspect ratios, at most I see the odd green frame / short garbled video but very rarely. You don't say what version of Myth you're running. The current SVN head is undergoing a major DVB re-write so i'd use the 0.18-fixes branch for a production system until that all settles down. Have a look in the logs to see if there's anything useful, otherwise try and get a backtrace (see the user guide for instructions). Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Using the pvr-350 remote with other ir-receivers
Oscar Curero wrote: It doesn't work. :( Do you have stuff like lmsensors installed? I did, for a few hours, until I found out that it was choking the remote. -- Torbjørn Heltne ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
SV: [mythtv-users] OT? : Java projectx mythburn
-Opprinnelig melding- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] På vegne av George Galt Sendt: 20. september 2005 14:50 Til: Discussion about mythtv Emne: Re: [mythtv-users] OT? : Java projectx mythburn Marius: Have you tried calling projectx with an explicit path to the Sun Java executable? I use: /usr/share/jre1.5.0_04/bin/java -jar /path/to/ProjectX/ProjectX.jar George Hi George, and thanks. No, I haven’t got that far. Still trying to build. I fixed the problem with build.sh not finding jar and javac executables by exporting the PATH, JDK_HOME and JAVA_HOME variables, and am now getting a different error with build.sh not finding class definitions (as expected as I have no idea what to set as the CLASSPATH). Should be simple enough for someone who knows what they’re doing ☺ Cheers Marius ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] New AIr2PC (HD5000) card install problems
I am trying to get this new Airstar HD5000 card installed unsuccessfully. Can anyone help me with this? I realize this is a new card, only received it yesterday. What do I need to do ? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Hondo System FC4 2.6.12.1447smp kernel DMESG Output b2c2-flexcop: B2C2 FlexcopII/II(b)/III digital TV receiver chip loaded successfully flexcop-pci: will use the HW PID filter. flexcop-pci: card revision 2 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:07.0[A] - GSI 19 (level, low) - IRQ 177 DVB: registering new adapter (FlexCop Digital TV device). b2c2-flexcop: MAC address = 00:d0:d7:0e:6c:56 b2c2-flexcop: i2c master_xfer failed b2c2-flexcop: i2c master_xfer failed b2c2-flexcop: i2c master_xfer failed mt352_read_register: readreg error (reg=127, ret==-121) b2c2-flexcop: i2c master_xfer failed i2c_readbytes: i2c read error (addr 0a, err == -121) b2c2-flexcop: i2c master_xfer failed stv0297_readreg: readreg error (reg == 0x80, ret == -22) b2c2-flexcop: i2c master_xfer failed mt312_read: ret == -121 b2c2-flexcop: no frontend driver found for this B2C2/FlexCop adapter ACPI: PCI interrupt for device :02:07.0 disabled snd_page_alloc: no version for struct_module found: kernel tainted. ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:1f.5[B] - GSI 17 (level, low) - IRQ 185 PCI: Setting latency timer of device :00:1f.5 to 64 intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49807 usecs intel8x0: clocking to 48000 Linux video capture interface: v1.00 ivtv: START INIT IVTV ivtv: version 0.3.8 (tagged release) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4smp SMP 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.0 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist. ivtv: END INIT IVTV lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61 bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.4 loaded hw_random: RNG not detected shpchp: shpc_init : shpc_cap_offset == 0 shpchp: shpc_init : shpc_cap_offset == 0 shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] remote front end locks up playing live
On 19/09/05, David W Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just finished a fresh fc4 install utilizing Jarod's guide. I have a master backend/frontend that can record, watch live tv and play recordings with no problem. My remote frontend locks up on a black screen when attempting to watch live tv or recordings. If I go to the recordings menu, I can still see the previews playing but as soon as I select one the screen goes black and the machine locks up. Both machines are fairly similar. They have AMD processors, the remote frontend has an XP 2700+ and the backend a sempron 2500+. Both have Nvidia cards, the frontend a Ti4200, the backend an older Nvidia card (TNT2 maybe?). The frontend has an Nforce2 chipset and the backend a Via chipset. Where should I look to find out what is causing this? Any help/suggestions are appreciated. Thanks. Which window manager are you using? I had a problem like this but my solutions may not work for you. when I would startx during testing I found my window manager to be twm by default. The screen would go black as it seemed to have focus problems. xfce4 worked much better for me. first get sshd started and log in from a second machine. Then you will have to chmod and chown the ring buffer directory, the video devices, the infrared devices and the stored video directory so that your normal user can read/write to these devices. You will also need to make sure your .lircrc file is in the users home directory. Make sure you are running the front and backends that normal user not as root. IMHO, if the front and backends are running as a user it is harder to lock up the machine. Now if you try to watch live TV you should be able to see the logs from the ssh terminal on your second box. that may help debug your problem HTH ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Screen Cropping
If you're using S/PDIF for sound MythTV sound controls may well not work. I have to adjust the sound on my receiver - MythTV controls have no effect. I think it may vary from sound card to sound card as I've reaqd posts that some Sound Blaster cards do allow you to control it from MythTV. Volume control within Myth when using digital sound should work with any soundcard as long as Myth is not doing a passthrough. I.e. if the channel does not contain an AC3 stream, volume control should work. Not sure you're correct there - I don't have the tickbox checked for Enable AC3 to SPDIF passthrough (so I assume Myth is not doing a passthrough) and yet I can only control the volume via the receiver. Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: FF and REW lockups with PVR-350
Michael T. Dean wrote: Bennett Leve wrote: Thanks for the reply but I am on: ii mythtv 0.18.1-2_km_i5 A personal video recorder application (clien Note that 0.18.1-2_km_i5 is actually 0.18.1--the rest of the string is just some package management version information. Therefore, you are using 0.18.1 (unless the packagers are lying about the version number). Right. I don't know exactly what's in this particular package (or even what distro this is), but there are post-0.18.1 fixes (on the 0.18.x branch) that affect the PVR-350 lockups. Bolek ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] dumb question on mailer
How do I reply to a topic? just reply all to the email on the mailer? what if I get the daily news digest, with out individual emails, but them as a list, but want to reply to a topic? sorry for the dumb question. Kevin Cossaboon www.cossaboon.net ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythTV settings from the command line?
Specifically, I am trying to figure out how to change settings concerned with commercial detection and deletion, automatic transcoding after recording and perhaps video card settings. (I have a Hauppauge PVR-150 and thought I read somewhere it could record directly to MPEG4 rather than MPEG2.) I'm pretty sure it can't. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Charlie Rose via PVR-350
Also, check the record profile you are using to record charlie, is it the same as the one you use for the other shows ? On 9/20/05, Wendy Seltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/18/05, Paul Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be interested to know if anyone else has observed the out-of-sync problem while watching Charlie Rose.I record Charlie Rose (via PVR-350 ivtv stable) from WMED (Maine)without issues. And I've recorded it off KQED (SF) in HD (HD-3000) and SD (WinTV), and now WNET (NY) all without issue. I do find that occasionally any of my recordings gets out of sync, but pausing and restarting seems to bring it back together. --WendyPublic television fans unite!-- Wendy Seltzer http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/http://www.chillingeffects.org/ ___ mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-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
[mythtv-users] Fw: Mpeg1 and ffmpeg / transcode
Hi, I currently have myth set up and am a happy user!!! I have a question concerning changing formats. I capture using a PVR-150, to mpeg2. What I would like to do is then selectively change some files via ffmpeg or transcode to: 320x240 with a total bitrate of 420kbit/xec for playing on a pocket pc. Does anyone know what that command would look like? FYI - yes I do have mythStream working and can stream content to the pocket PC, but in Canada the mobile providers charge a small fortune for 1X data *** This message, including any attachments, is privileged and may contain confidential information intended only for the person(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient or have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply email and permanently delete the original transmission from the sender, including any attachments, without making a copy. Thank you. Ce message, y compris toutes ses pièces jointes, est confidentiel et peut contenir des renseignements destinés uniquement aux personnes dont le nom est indiqué ci-dessus. Si vous n’êtes pas le destinataire prévu ou si vous avez reçu ce message par erreur, veuillez en aviser l’expéditeur immédiatement, en lui répondant par courriel. Veuillez aussi supprimer définitivement le message original de l’expéditeur, y compris toute pièce jointe, sans faire de copie. Merci.___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] frontend crash during UK dvb-t playback - only at adverts
i'm running 0.18 - most recent one available for fc4. not certain which version of the nova-t i'm running - uses tda1004 firmware, so it's an oldish one i think. oddly, when i run the frontend from the terminal to check what it reports, the frontend seems less inclined to crash, but still has the audio problem - namely, sound drops out after the green frame and there's an occasional crackle until either it recovers itself or i skip forward then back. in the frontend terminal at the point where the problem occurs it reports: GetNextFreeFrame() - served a busy frame. Dropping followed by a few prebuffering pauses. i'll keep trying to kill it in terminal - if it remains more stable i'll just change my startup to run it that way. On 9/20/05, Stephen Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/20/05, Alan Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all – I now have a stable dvb-t myth setup running on an up-to-date fedora core system, using the hauppage nova-t. only major problem thus far is: watching certain UK channels, the frontend crashes when the commercial break begins – happens both with recordings and livetv. channels identified so far are channel4, e4/e4+1 and abc1. I suspect the reason is that these channels broadcast in a variety of aspect ratios, and switch over at the start of the adverts, causing a break in the signal of some kind – i.e. main broadcast is in 16:9, channel ident may be in low-res 4:3, followed by ad in 16:9. this often causes a broken keyframe (?) which the system struggles to recover from, manifesting itself in a green frame, a period of scrambled or non-existent audio, and quite often, the complete and sudden death of the frontend. rest of the programme and other channels are fine. anyone else seeing this behaviour or anything similar? let me know if there's any debug info that'd help… I've been running 0.18 since it was released on DVB-T in the UK with a (version 909) Nova-T. It's quite normal for the adverts and the actual programme to be in different aspect ratios, at most I see the odd green frame / short garbled video but very rarely. You don't say what version of Myth you're running. The current SVN head is undergoing a major DVB re-write so i'd use the 0.18-fixes branch for a production system until that all settles down. Have a look in the logs to see if there's anything useful, otherwise try and get a backtrace (see the user guide for instructions). Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] dumb question on mailer
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 10:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I reply to a topic? just reply all to the email on the mailer? what if I get the daily news digest, with out individual emails, but them as a list, but want to reply to a topic? sorry for the dumb question. If you get individual emails, it could depend on how your mail program is configured, but a simple 'Reply' should work (some programs also have a 'Reply to List'). 'Reply All' is not recommended. If you receive messages in plain-text digest form, there is no way to reply to an individual message. The best you could do would be to compose a new message to the list and copy the subject line -- however the message will start a new thread, instead of being threaded with the original message. I'd stay away from this method if you plan on being active on the list --- use MIME digest instead. In MIME-digest mode, it should be possible to reply to an individual message in the digest (you may need to open the message as an attachment, the specifics will vary with different mail programs). -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Charlie Rose via PVR-350
On 9/19/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could this be a problem with your system (instead of a problem withMyth) that others are seeing where running mythfilldatabase (or wget ofany kind) while recording causes an IOBOUND situation that preventsinformation from being written properly and causes an A/V sync offset? In other words, does Charlie Rose happen to record around the time yourmythfilldatabase runs?http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/150176 Yes Mike ! In the mythbackend.log, there are IOBOUND entries that correspond in time exactly! to the discontinuities in the Charlie Rose show. But here's the thing: I had already suspected mythfilldatabase because it had been running within the Charlie Rose hour. So, I changed the window for mythfilldatabase to run outside of that hour - problem still occurred. So, mythfilldatabase is not the cause, BUT the system is recording Letterman (in HDTV) from an HD3000 card at the same time. I guess that the simultaneous recordings are too much for the I/O system to handle - a bit of a surprise to me. But now, thanks to you pointing me to the logs, I can set up the recording schedules so that only one recording takes place at a time. (Of course, I feel that I should have looked in the logs without having to be told to.) One more observation, about a specific time: Last night's out-of-sync break occurred at 36:19 into the Charlie Rose show. That's within the first two minutes of Letterman. Maybe there is extra overhead at the start of a recording? Anyway, Thanks Mike, for the heads-up to look in the logs. It's quite likely that I can avoid the problem, at least for the near-term. -- MM ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Monster House is recording with garbled audio
James Turner wrote: PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: I record MH on Discovery every Monday night and don't see the problem. I'm recording directly from the analog cable signal with no box to receive it. I'm using a PVR-150 and 018.1 with FC3. Paul Well, it happens like clockwork for me, and everything else works fine. It doesn't have anything to do with commercial flagging, as it happens even when I watch a show as it's recording (before the commflag job starts, and I DON'T have flagging while recording set...) I'm running the latest SVNs of everything, but it also happened when running on the stable snap. dmesg and mythbackend.log below Try SVN, they have done a lot of work with that chipset which is about to be released as 0.3.9. (your talking about what sounds like 3 tracks stuttering at the same time right) If I remember correctly I stopped that from happening by manually defining the audio standard around that version. But you probably want to go with SVN or wait for 0.3.9 to become official with CX25843 from a 150/500. That is pretty much the point of that release. -Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase: can't run it from cron
On 19/09/05, James Pattinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice one, that seems to work so far - but http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/channels.dat is 404'ing for me now! I'm sure it was working a few days ago when I last grabbed. Anyone confirm it's working for them at the moment? Seems it's back up and working now, thank $DEITY. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] frontend crash during UK dvb-t playback - only at adverts
ok - bit more info. editing some of the setup options changed the behaviour. disabling extra audio buffering in tv playback options means the loss of audio does not occur at the commercial break. great! but the reason it's enabled is because if it's not, playback loses audio, crackles AND video ffwds at some points - seemingly random although changing aspect ratio manually makes it happen. points to an audio/buffer problem? On 9/20/05, Alan Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm running 0.18 - most recent one available for fc4. not certain which version of the nova-t i'm running - uses tda1004 firmware, so it's an oldish one i think. oddly, when i run the frontend from the terminal to check what it reports, the frontend seems less inclined to crash, but still has the audio problem - namely, sound drops out after the green frame and there's an occasional crackle until either it recovers itself or i skip forward then back. in the frontend terminal at the point where the problem occurs it reports: GetNextFreeFrame() - served a busy frame. Dropping followed by a few prebuffering pauses. i'll keep trying to kill it in terminal - if it remains more stable i'll just change my startup to run it that way. On 9/20/05, Stephen Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/20/05, Alan Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all – I now have a stable dvb-t myth setup running on an up-to-date fedora core system, using the hauppage nova-t. only major problem thus far is: watching certain UK channels, the frontend crashes when the commercial break begins – happens both with recordings and livetv. channels identified so far are channel4, e4/e4+1 and abc1. I suspect the reason is that these channels broadcast in a variety of aspect ratios, and switch over at the start of the adverts, causing a break in the signal of some kind – i.e. main broadcast is in 16:9, channel ident may be in low-res 4:3, followed by ad in 16:9. this often causes a broken keyframe (?) which the system struggles to recover from, manifesting itself in a green frame, a period of scrambled or non-existent audio, and quite often, the complete and sudden death of the frontend. rest of the programme and other channels are fine. anyone else seeing this behaviour or anything similar? let me know if there's any debug info that'd help… I've been running 0.18 since it was released on DVB-T in the UK with a (version 909) Nova-T. It's quite normal for the adverts and the actual programme to be in different aspect ratios, at most I see the odd green frame / short garbled video but very rarely. You don't say what version of Myth you're running. The current SVN head is undergoing a major DVB re-write so i'd use the 0.18-fixes branch for a production system until that all settles down. Have a look in the logs to see if there's anything useful, otherwise try and get a backtrace (see the user guide for instructions). Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] 6200ch 1394 Drivers such
- Original Message - From: Ian Forde [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 3:56 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] 6200ch 1394 Drivers such On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 16:46 -0700, brett olah wrote: Hi Group, I've been running several MythTV boxes off Com[unist]cast cable in South San Jose CA., running as analog (cable directly in to the PC) for a few years and was extatic when I saw the 1394 channel support for DCT6200, no longer limmited to 73 Channels. 6200ch compiled fine no problems, I think I'm not a programer, no error's anyway. I am having an issue getting the channels to change ... You don't need 6200ch anymore. Myth has support for internal firewire channel-changing for the 6200 boxes. I was going to point you to the official docs, but it turns out that the docs haven't been updated. On the other hand, looking at the main page http://www.mythtv.org/ one can find the following as the featureset in 0.18.1: Internal channel-change over firewire support for DCT-6200 series cable boxes - no external program required like before. Sooo... -I I saw that but I couldn't find any how to configure section in the docs, nor on the net. digging around I stumbled across the 6200ch with plenty of documentation, figured it was worth a try. I did figure out the file not found issue: I was missing the /dev/raw1394 node It turns out my 6200 is brand new (from comcast, just picked it up last week) and not supported by the 6200ch in contrib after hacking it a bit to add my vendor_id model_id, I think I found:: vendor_id = 0x11d8 model_id = 0x spec_id = 0x005e software version = 0x0001 If the code in 0.18.1 is the same/similar I'd expect a similar problem? Thanks Brett;] ___ 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
[mythtv-users] Re: DVB-S channel scan problem with 18.1, Astra 19.2, skystar2
Hi Jochen,On 9/20/05, Jochen Kühner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope i can help you...The DVB data in your Tables in correct.The dvb_pids table is also no longer used!The pid is in the channel table and it is correct (I have only checked forDas Erste) Well, I can see the service ID there in the channel table - e.g. 28106 for Das Erste. But there should also be video, audio and videotext PIDs somewhere, I think. I wonder where are they, then. Maybe they are negotiated somehow on the fly? Btw. how do you select the desired audio channel on Arte, if it is sending in German and french? My dvb_pids table is empty and therefore I assumed THIS is the reason why I am not able to receive anything. Well, maybe the problem is somewhere else... Also the data in the mplex table is correct for Das ersteI have 3 skystar 2 cards, one in rev 3 and two in rev 6. Have you checkt the dvb functionality in an other program like Kaffeine??? Sure. Not in Kaffeine, but I have mplayer installed which shows all FTA channels without problems, I am using channels.conf file gathered by dvbscan. So all the drivers are up and running properly. What kernel are you using?? I use 2.6.11, the skystar module was rewrittenin 2.6.13 I've heard (don't know exactly, but it has a new name in thatkernel!) I am using 2.6.12 but as I said I think this is not the reason. I think this is not a dvb problem, maybe a rights problem?? Yes, that's the question. I will further investigate it. Start thebackend with a higher verbose level I will. Thanks a lot for hints. Bob ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] PVR-250 recording only channel 4?
I have a mythtv system setup that I recently upgraded to Fedora Core 4 and mythtv 0.18.1 via atrpms (Thanks Axel!!). However, now mythtv will say it records a certain show on channel 11 (or 9, or 3, etc) but it actually records what was on channel 4 at that time! I have no idea what I did wrong. Is there a step I missed somewhere? Anything I can check to figure out why it's doing this? My system: Two PVR-250s Fedora Core 4 Mythtv 0.18.1 via atrpms Thanks! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ACPI sleep problems
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 12:27 +0100, Steve Hill wrote: /proc/acpi/sleep seems to be the old 2.4 kernel interface, whereas /sys/power/state is the 2.6 kernel interface. I tried doing the echo -n mem /sys/power/state on my laptop. It does go to sleep; the blinking lights show it is in a suspend-to-RAM state. But when I try to wake it up, it hangs. This is pretty much the same as echo 3 /proc/acpi/sleep; I have to power it off and reboot to get it back. It looks like maybe this could be made to work; I have FC4 with a 2.6 kernel. Maybe that hibernate script is what I need; I'll try it out. Thanks to everyone for the pointers on this. Lack of suspend has been by far the largest pain in the butt to running Linux on a laptop; it's the one thing that Windows XP does that I wish Linux could do. This is wandering a bit off topic for Myth, getting suspend to work on a laptop, but more to the point is that if I can make it work on my laptop, perhaps I could make it work on my slave backend/frontend which would be directly useful to my Myth setup. Whilest suspending using ACPI seems to just power my machine off completely, if I disable ACPI and use APM instead it sends the machine to sleep but won't wake up again. My machine only supports ACPI. Most new hardware will be ACPI-only. I think the IBM Thinkpads may be one of the few exceptions left on the market. --Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: DVB-S channel scan problem with 18.1, Astra 19.2, skystar2
On 20/09/05, Bob Honzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jochen, On 9/20/05, Jochen Kühner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope i can help you... The DVB data in your Tables in correct. The dvb_pids table is also no longer used! The pid is in the channel table and it is correct (I have only checked for Das Erste) Well, I can see the service ID there in the channel table - e.g. 28106 for Das Erste. But there should also be video, audio and videotext PIDs somewhere, I think. I wonder where are they, then. Maybe they are negotiated somehow on the fly? Btw. how do you select the desired audio channel on Arte, if it is sending in German and french? If you are recording in TS mode then use + and - to change the audio channel. Also there's some database config you can set which will auto select the correct stream. (sorry can't remember the setting) My dvb_pids table is empty and therefore I assumed THIS is the reason why I am not able to receive anything. Well, maybe the problem is somewhere else... Bad assumption, at least if you're running later than 0.16. dvb_pids is no longer used (along with dvb_channel but that's been pointed out before). snip Daft question, but do you have your initial channel to tune to set to something appropriate e.g 28106 for Das Erste ? Regards. -- John ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 recording only channel 4?
Tom Cross wrote: I have a mythtv system setup that I recently upgraded to Fedora Core 4 and mythtv 0.18.1 via atrpms (Thanks Axel!!). However, now mythtv will say it records a certain show on channel 11 (or 9, or 3, etc) but it actually records what was on channel 4 at that time! I have no idea what I did wrong. Is there a step I missed somewhere? Anything I can check to figure out why it's doing this? My system: Two PVR-250s Fedora Core 4 Mythtv 0.18.1 via atrpms Thanks! Sounds like your IVTV drivers aren't changing the channel. Make sure that all works *outside* of MythTV first. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] directv d10-300 ... impossible?
On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 18:58 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: m I would suggest you do as I did, get rid of the D10-300. I ended up going on ebay grabbing a D10-100 for $15 and it's working fantastic now. Regards, Muddy ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] FYI: Linux md / RAID5 resizing via mdadm
For those of us who like RAID5 but wish that you could just add more disks; the disk fairy has finally been spotted! From a recent message from Steinar H. Gunderson to the linux-raid list: Attached is a patch (against 2.6.12) for adding online RAID-5 resize capabilities to Linux' RAID code. mdadm --add /dev/md1 /dev/hd[eg]1 mdadm --grow /dev/md1 -n 4 and Neil Brown's response: Wow! Thanks for this. It's been something that I wanted to be done for some time, but it hasn't got even close to the top of my todo list. So it may be worth setting up some test rigs applying, testing and feeding back. Just so you don't get too excited - it's definitely still rough code according to Steinar's comments. David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] directv d10-300 ... impossible?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get a mythtv box set up for my Mom. She has a DirecTv with a D10-300 receiver. I finally found the low-speed data port in the back of the D10-300, hidden by a black sticker ... but has anyone actually gotten the D10-300 change channels using this port? I've seen mention on some other lists that the DirecTv firmware is purposely broken to prevent this port from being used. Supposedly this is different from the d10-100 or other models that are known to work. Before I buy or solder a serial cable, can anyone confirm that it will work with the D10-300. I already tried a USB-UIRT (before I found the secret port ;) but it seemingly does not pick up the signals from the DirecTV remote. It picks up signals from other remotes just fine, but to learn how to transmit signals for the DirecTV, I obviously have to get it to see the DirecTV remote. If the D10-300 data port cannot be made to work, can anyone suggest an easy-to-set up hardware solution for this (given my embarassing failure with the USB-UIRT) would it be easiest if I buy Mom a new satellite recever, and if so, which one is guaranteed to work? thanks http://www.irblaster.info I assume you're talking about changing channels. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: DVB-S channel scan problem with 18.1, Astra 19.2, skystar2
Hi Uwe, On 9/20/05, Uwe Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used .18 and .18.1 along with DVB-S on ASTRA, both did the job.Technotrend and Skystar cards.But, when I start mythbackend and mythfrontend on the same system, Isometimes get the same logentries, and the backend says something like DVB0 no data from card Do you have the same ? Only a reboot fixed theproblem then, restarting myth does not. On my system there is a message like 2005-09-19 23:51:28.962 taking too long to be allowed to read.. 2005-09-19 23:51:28.962 Took more than 10 seconds to be allowed to read, aborting. Couldn't read file: rbuf://127.0.0.1:6543/tmp//ringbuf1.nuv2005-09-19 23:51:28.997 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2005-09-19 23:51:28.998 Decoder not alive, and trying to play.. 2005-09-19 23:51:29.973 RemoteFile::Read() failed in RingBuffer::safe_read(). but this could probably be a problem with some rights, as Jochen pointed out. I will try to increase the backend verbosity level. In your case I would also try to unload the DVB related modules and load them again with rmmod and modprobe (if they are not compiled in the kernel), before the reboot. I will see how it will work for me... If you need a db-dump, write an email. I will provide you a complete db ofmy production box. Could you please send me your complete mythconverg db dump on my email? I just want to be sure that my problems are not caused by wrong database data. Btw., is your dvb_pids table empty as well? The channel table contains only service IDs. Don't you know where are the video, audio and videotext PIDs saved? But I will see it from your db dump... Thank you! Bob ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up slave backend system
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 20:02 -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote: I expected to see the SBE capture cards defined in the MBE system in the status page or in the setup on the MBE. You don't see them in mythtv-setup, as that only defines locally-connected capture cards. You SHOULD see them in MythWeb. I found MythWeb very easy to set up, and it shows you things (like this) that are difficult or impossible to find any other way. It's worth having. MythWeb also increases the WAF since she can now schedule recordings from her Mac. This means you have to run mythtv-setup on the machine that has the card to set up capture cards. I found this very confusing too but I finally figured this out. My slave backend now works fine. mythtv-setup on the SBE only shows the one card that is on that machine, yet I can use all three cards including the two in the MBE just fine. Going into MythWeb will show all three cards, and properly indicate when the SBE is down (not currently connected). The reason this is confusing, I think, is that clearly mythtv-setup is manipulating some information that is stored only on the local host, and some that is stored in the database, and nowhere is it documented when this line is crossed, I just had to figure it out by trial and error. Video sources are defined in the database, do not try to set those up separately on the SBE. But capture cards are defined locally, you must set those up with mythtv-setup on each machine that has one or more cards. If you have a machine that is ONLY a frontend (no capture cards), then all you really need is the mysql.txt file so that it can find the MBE, and you may never need to run mythtv-setup at all (correct or not?). --Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Tutorial on Encoding (mostly re: file sizes)
i'm buying some of the parts I will need for the MythTV box in the next few days. Our rig will use a primary hard disk for actually running the OS on and a secondary hard disk that will be exclusively for storing data on. Since the main purpose of our machine is for recording / encoding video for playback *only* on our TV, what are some good encoding settings? I am pretty sure that I will encode at 640x480 but don't know about any other settings or how they will affect file size. For a normal 1-hour show (most of our favorites are this long), what kind of file sizes am I looking at? This will affect the size of the hard disk I buy for the storage. I'm not expecting folks to just hand out information here, but a good site for tutorials on this topic where I can research it myself would be greatly appreciated since I know little about how MythTV encodes and the official How-To was a bit slim on this topic. thanks! .tony ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythburn - wow - this takes a LOOOONG time...
Jesse Guardiani wrote: On Sunday 18 September 2005 4:32 pm, Paul wrote: [...] Not sure what they are but I don't see any of these 'found startcode' or 'missing startcode' messages in my log. Do you get the same message with other files too? Are the DVD's created playable? Hmmm... that's it! I tried another show recorded more recently and it works fine. Either that one show, or shows before a certain date are just bad. The show plays on my 350 just fine, but I've changed ivtv versions quite a bit since I started running mythtv, so it's possible a bunch of them are bad. It only takes about 30 minutes to fully process a 30 minute show now. Very cool! Thanks! Definitive update on this: Yes, it's an ivtv problem. It seems to be fixed in 0.3.8, but previous versions, probably just in the 0.3.7x line would generate bad mpeg files. The PVR 350's hardware decoder didn't care, so I never noticed, but projectx cares, and slows to a crawl when it encounters such a bad mpeg file. Hui Zhou, from the ivtv-devel list, was kind enough to write a C program named packfix.c that will take a bad mpeg file and generate a fixed mpeg file from it. I won't post the code here, as it's Copyright: Hui Zhou and I haven't asked permission, but anyone interested can pick it up from the mailing list archive here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/24204 packfix is a life saver! It took somewhere around 10-15 minutes to fix a 4gb movie file. After that, mythburn didn't have any problem at all processing the fixed file. I plan to write a simple shell script tonight to process an entire directory. I'll post it here in case anyone else runs into this problem. Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani Programmer/Sys Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up slave backend system
Greg Woods wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 20:02 -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote: I expected to see the SBE capture cards defined in the MBE system in the status page or in the setup on the MBE. This means you have to run mythtv-setup on the machine that has the card to set up capture cards. I found this very confusing too but I finally figured this out. My slave backend now works fine. mythtv-setup on the SBE only shows the one card that is on that machine, yet I can use all three cards including the two in the MBE just fine. Going into MythWeb will show all three cards, and properly indicate when the SBE is down (not currently connected). The reason this is confusing, I think, is that clearly mythtv-setup is manipulating some information that is stored only on the local host, and some that is stored in the database, and nowhere is it documented when this line is crossed, I just had to figure it out by trial and error. Video sources are defined in the database, do not try to set those up separately on the SBE. But capture cards are defined locally, you must set those up with mythtv-setup on each machine that has one or more cards. Why is this confusing? You have to define the cards on the machine that can actually query for the video devices. It spells it out in the docs: The configuration of a non-master backed is the same as the master except you skip over the Video sources section. I'm not sure why the Video sources section has to be skipped because the video sources table in the DB has no host specific options in it so they should be universal to whatever backend is doing it, but it maybe simply related to a desire to keep listing related functions relegated to the master backend only because it runs mythfilldatabse. Perhaps it should be considered to grey out or disable Video sources on non-master backend systems to prevent confusion. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] No PVR-350 TV Out connector
Hello: I bought my PVR-350 on eBay and did not realize it was used. Anyway, I was not too concerned until I found that it is missing the TV Out connector - does anyone know where I can buy it? Anyone on this list have I spare I will buy it. I checked Radio Shack and it does not carry it. Thanx, Anil Gupte ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Knoppix Install fails
Thanx. I RTFMed and realized that the SATA will make the auto install fail as KnoppMyth only works with hda not sda or anything else. Anyway, after struggling with it for 3 days, I finally substituted an IDE drive and I am off and running! Thanx, Anil Gupte - Original Message - From: Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 11:25 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Knoppix Install fails I just started to install MythTV using the Knoppix distro. It fails with the error message No such device or address when trying to determine file system size. I know knoppix will fail if the hard drive is not /dev/hda and methinks that is the problem. My CD-Rom is connected as IDE1 (the only choice) and my hard drive as SATA1. How can I make my hard drive recognizable? I don't think you can. Knoppix is not a 'real' distribution. It's a cut down version of Debian I believe, and it makes it very easy to try it out, and get a quick install up and running for most people. The problem of expecting /dev/hda is due to one of the shortcuts/assumptions it makes. Someone may know of a workaround, but if they don't, I'd suggest getting a recent copy of a full distribution, like Debian itself, or, what I am using, Mandriva 2005LE. Mandriva has no problems whatsoever using /dev/sda (the SCSI/SATA device name) for installation. I think there are a couple of issues here... 1) I think you mean KnoppMyth not Knoppix. Knoppix is a live Linux CD. I.e. it allows you to run a full version of Linux on any PC booting straight from a CD, no install on the harddisk is needed. This is useful to try out Linux without wreaking your Windows install and also useful for rescuing PC's that have been damaged by viruses, user error, harddisk failure etc. Knoppix is indeed based on Debian Linux, but is far from cut down, it has better hardware detection/drivers and has over 2GB of software compressed onto the CD. KnoppMyth is version of Knoppix which has had MythTV (and a whole bunch of other stuff) added to it. You boot with the CD and it will wipes the harddrive on the PC, installs a Debian Linux operating system and then installs all of MythTV. In many cases it will leave a 100% working MythTV box when it's finished. In others it will need a small amount of tweaking, but nothing like the work that has to be done with the likes of FedoraCore using Jarod Wilsons excellent guide. 2) The current version of KnoppMyth R5A16, assumes that you have large harddisk as your IDE Primary Master device and a CD/DVD/DVDR as your IDE Secondary Master. The partitioning and setup is specifically geared to this. As you have a SATA drive, the automatic install cannot work. End of story. There is a expert mode available in the menu, and there are people who have managed to use this, check the forums at http://mysettopbox.tv ___ 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
[mythtv-users] Bug in nuvexport
When using channel and start time (used by nuv2disc) nuvexport fails with
a bunch of perl error messages. This is because it doesn't load the
finfo data.
Command line used which failed
nuvexport --mode=dvd -v_bitrate 2358 -a_bitrate 384 --quantisation 5
--starttime=20050129003000 --chanid=1058 --path=/tmp
Patch against nuvexport-0.2-0.20050919.svn.noarch.rpm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# diff -c /tmp/ui.pm /usr/share/nuvexport/nuv_export/ui.pm
*** /tmp/ui.pm 2005-09-19 11:40:31.0 -0400
--- /usr/share/nuvexport/nuv_export/ui.pm 2005-09-20 07:45:18.0
-0400
***
*** 74,79
--- 74,81
foreach my $show (sort keys %Shows) {
foreach my $episode (@{$Shows{$show}}) {
next unless ($chanid == $episode-{'channel'}
$starttime == $episode-{'start_time'});
+ # Make sure we have finfo
+ load_finfo($episode);
push @matches, $episode;
last;
}
I tried to contact the author directly but the web form
http://forevermore.net/feedback.php seems to not work
correctly (at least with firefox). After hitting send I got a message box
saying:
The subject you submitted contains unsupported characters.
Message sent. Thank you for you comments.
Mesage not sent.
Thanks,
David Gesswein
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Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up slave backend system
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 11:04 -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Greg Woods wrote: I expected to see the SBE capture cards defined in the MBE system in the status page or in the setup on the MBE. This means you have to run mythtv-setup on the machine that has the card to set up capture cards. Why is this confusing? I too expected to see all the available capture cards in mythtv-setup no matter which host I ran it on. Now that I understand more about how it works (that is, some things are stored in the central database and some are stored locally), it's not so confusing any more. But when I was first trying to set up an SBE that had previously been a tuner-less front-end-only system, it was confusing. --Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up slave backend system
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 12:22 pm, Greg Woods wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 11:04 -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Greg Woods wrote: I expected to see the SBE capture cards defined in the MBE system in the status page or in the setup on the MBE. This means you have to run mythtv-setup on the machine that has the card to set up capture cards. Why is this confusing? I too expected to see all the available capture cards in mythtv-setup no matter which host I ran it on. Now that I understand more about how it works (that is, some things are stored in the central database and some are stored locally), it's not so confusing any more. But when I was first trying to set up an SBE that had previously been a tuner-less front-end-only system, it was confusing. Everything's stored in the same central database. Cards don't show up on the master because it requires local access to the card to probe the various available settings inputs. Isaac ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up slave backend system
Greg Woods wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 11:04 -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Greg Woods wrote: I expected to see the SBE capture cards defined in the MBE system in the status page or in the setup on the MBE. This means you have to run mythtv-setup on the machine that has the card to set up capture cards. Why is this confusing? I too expected to see all the available capture cards in mythtv-setup no matter which host I ran it on. Now that I understand more about how it works (that is, some things are stored in the central database and some are stored locally), it's not so confusing any more. But when I was first trying to set up an SBE that had previously been a tuner-less front-end-only system, it was confusing. Nothing is stored locally about the cards. The program is showing you only cards that are physically present in the machine that you are configuring. The information about the cards is written to the shared database. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Charlie Rose via PVR-350
On 9/20/05, Mercury Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/19/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could this be a problem with your system (instead of a problem with Myth) that others are seeing where running mythfilldatabase (or wget of any kind) while recording causes an IOBOUND situation that prevents information from being written properly and causes an A/V sync offset? In other words, does Charlie Rose happen to record around the time your mythfilldatabase runs? http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/150176 Yes Mike ! In the mythbackend.log, there are IOBOUND entries that correspond in time exactly! to the discontinuities in the Charlie Rose show. But here's the thing: I had already suspected mythfilldatabase because it had been running within the Charlie Rose hour. So, I changed the window for mythfilldatabase to run outside of that hour - problem still occurred. Did you completely restart the backend mysql processes after doing this? Maybe even reboot to be sure? So, mythfilldatabase is not the cause, BUT the system is recording Letterman (in HDTV) from an HD3000 card at the same time. I guess that the simultaneous recordings are too much for the I/O system to handle - a bit of a surprise to me. Not likely unless you have no DMA on your hard drives or the data is traversing the network. My backend storage is not on my backend server. I never see problems like this but I don't record HD either. None the less that should be less than 5MB/S which even a non-DMA hard drive might keep up with... But now, thanks to you pointing me to the logs, I can set up the recording schedules so that only one recording takes place at a time. (Of course, I feel that I should have looked in the logs without having to be told to.) One more observation, about a specific time: Last night's out-of-sync break occurred at 36:19 into the Charlie Rose show. That's within the first two minutes of Letterman. Maybe there is extra overhead at the start of a recording? Possibly. Cheers, Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Consistently able to crash mythfrontend
Hi, Sent this two days ago. I sure would appreciate someone running Gnome giving this a quick try. If more info is nnecessary please let me know. Thanks, Mark On 9/18/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I found that on my new AMD64 machine I am able to consistently crash mythfrontend. 1) Run Gnome 2) Start mythfrontend full screen and watch a recorded program 3) Switch to another desktop mythfrontend consistenly crashes after 30 seconds to 1 minute of being on the other desktop. It never crashes while on the desktop it's running on. Can anyone else duplicate this problem? I would like to do this so that on talk show type programs I can listen to the audio and switch back when needed. Thanks, Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] FYI: Linux md / RAID5 resizing via mdadm
Is there an archive of this list anywhere to read the whole thread?I can't find anything in the google group.On 9/20/05, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:For those of us who like RAID5 but wish that you could just add more disks; the disk fairy has finally been spotted! From a recent message from Steinar H. Gunderson to the linux-raid list:Attached is a patch (against 2.6.12) for adding online RAID-5 resize capabilities to Linux' RAID code.mdadm --add /dev/md1 /dev/hd[eg]1 mdadm --grow /dev/md1 -n 4and Neil Brown's response:Wow!Thanks for this.It's been something that I wanted to be donefor some time, but it hasn't got even close to the top of my todolist. So it may be worth setting up some test rigs applying, testing and feeding back.Just so you don't get too excited - it's definitely still rough code according to Steinar's comments.David ___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://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] ACPI sleep problems
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 17:29, Greg Woods wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 12:27 +0100, Steve Hill wrote: /proc/acpi/sleep seems to be the old 2.4 kernel interface, whereas /sys/power/state is the 2.6 kernel interface. I tried doing the echo -n mem /sys/power/state on my laptop. It does go to sleep; the blinking lights show it is in a suspend-to-RAM state. But when I try to wake it up, it hangs. This is pretty much the same as echo 3 /proc/acpi/sleep; I have to power it off and reboot to get it back. It looks like maybe this could be made to work; I have FC4 with a 2.6 kernel. Maybe that hibernate script is what I need; I'll try it out. Thanks to everyone for the pointers on this. Lack of suspend has been by far the largest pain in the butt to running Linux on a laptop; it's the one thing that Windows XP does that I wish Linux could do. This is wandering a bit off topic for Myth, getting suspend to work on a laptop, but more to the point is that if I can make it work on my laptop, perhaps I could make it work on my slave backend/frontend which would be directly useful to my Myth setup. Totally of topic, but there seems to some interest in suspending. This is my suspend script (works fine on thinkpad G40): #!/bin/sh #set -x # Initial settings umask 0077 PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin # Suspend #echo Going to sleep at `date` echo * chvt 1 /usr/bin/chvt 1 /etc/init.d/mysql stop #echo * save vbestate #/usr/sbin/vbetool vbestate save /etc/acpi/vbestate echo * writing to /sys echo -n mem /sys/power/state echo # Resume echo Back from sleep at `date` echo * restore vbestate /usr/sbin/vbetool post #/usr/sbin/vbetool vbestate restore /etc/acpi/vbestate #/bin/cat /etc/acpi/vbestate | /usr/sbin/vbetool vbestate restore echo * restore clock /sbin/hwclock --hctosys echo * chvt 7 /usr/bin/chvt 7 echo * done echo /etc/init.d/mysql start echo *Reconfiguring network whereami Stef ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Charlie Rose via PVR-350
On 9/20/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/20/05, Mercury Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/19/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could this be a problem with your system (instead of a problem with Myth) that others are seeing where running mythfilldatabase (or wget of any kind) while recording causes an IOBOUND situation that prevents information from being written properly and causes an A/V sync offset? In other words, does Charlie Rose happen to record around the time your mythfilldatabase runs? http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/150176Yes Mike !In the mythbackend.log, there are IOBOUND entries that correspond in time exactly! to the discontinuities in the Charlie Rose show.But here's the thing:I had already suspected mythfilldatabase becauseit had been running within the Charlie Rose hour. So, I changed the window for mythfilldatabase to run outside of that hour - problem stilloccurred.Did you completely restart the backend mysql processes after doingthis? Maybe even reboot to be sure? Yes. After changing the mythfilldatabase window, I waited until two days had passed. During those two days, the system did its normal shutdown-and-wakeup thing. That is, it shutdown the computer and re-booted at the times when programs were scheduled to be recorded. So, mythfilldatabase is not the cause, BUT the system is recordingLetterman (in HDTV) from an HD3000 card at the same time. I guess that the simultaneous recordings are too much for the I/Osystem to handle - a bit of a surprise to me.Not likely unless you have no DMA on your hard drives or the data istraversing the network. My backend storage is not on my backend server. I never see problems like this but I don't record HD either.None the less that should be less than 5MB/S which even a non-DMA harddrive might keep up with... Yeah, that's what I thought ! How could the I/O system of newly-built computer be unable to keep up with only two write-to-disk tasks. I've watched the disk-activity light (not a good measure of load, I know), and it blinks slowly. It's nothing like when the system is running updatedb or makewhatis. But now, thanks to you pointing me to the logs, I can set up the recording schedules so that only one recording takes place at a time.(Of course, I feel that I should have looked in the logs without havingto be told to.)One more observation, about a specific time:Last night's out-of-sync break occurred at 36:19 into the Charlie Rose show.That's within thefirst two minutes of Letterman.Maybe there is extra overhead at the startof a recording?Possibly. If there is a problem with starting a second recording when a first recording is underway, then it should be repeatable. I may set up some tests that run during Daytime TV, to see if I can get the out-of-sync problem to repeat, reliably. -- MM ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ACPI sleep problems
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 14:52 -0500, Paul V. Gratz wrote: In any event, I'd strongly recommend getting the hibernate script that the ACPI team puts out. Tried it, it still doesn't work on my laptop. Exact same symptoms as before: it suspends fine, but on awakening, I see a garbled X display and the keyboard and mouse are unresponsive. Sounds like this will be like getting MythTV to work: I will have to learn a whole lot about how this actually works under the surface in order to make it work on my system. On the other hand, others have reported that ACPI suspend works fine for them, so I stand by my original statement: it may or may not work depending on what hardware and kernel version you have. --Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] FYI: Linux md / RAID5 resizing via mdadm
mrmagoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/20/05 12:37 PM Is there an archive of this list anywhere to read the whole thread? I can't find anything in the google group. Here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/ Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ACPI sleep problems
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Greg Woods wrote: Tried it, it still doesn't work on my laptop. Exact same symptoms as before: it suspends fine, but on awakening, I see a garbled X display and the keyboard and mouse are unresponsive. Something I read suggested putting acpi_sleep=s3_bios on the kernel commandline (i.e. in grub or lilo) to fix graphics problems on resume (it aparantly makes the BIOS re-POST the video card on resume). On the other hand, others have reported that ACPI suspend works fine for them, so I stand by my original statement: it may or may not work depending on what hardware and kernel version you have. Well I know that there are a lot of broken ACPI implementations out there but I thought more recent stuff was ok (my motherboard is only about 2 years old). -- - Steve xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nexusuk.org/ Servatis a periculum, servatis a maleficum - Whisper, Evanescence ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Mythtv vers 0.18.1.20050523-1 Mythfrontend gives Unexpected response to MYTH_PROTO_VERSION
I just upgraded to Fedora Core 4 and installed myth-suite. The frontend and backend are the same version but the frontend gives a Unexpected response to MYTH_PROTO_VERSION error. The master backend and frontend are running on the same machine. The mysql database is running on a separate machine and the database contains data from my prior installation of mythtv (I didn't rebuild the db). The previous version was 0.18 as well so there shouldn't be a conflict with the db. Can anyone help? Here are the verbose logfiles from the front and backends Mythbackend [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat mythbackend.log 2005-09-20 11:30:53.653 New DB connection, total: 1 Running as a slave backend. 2005-09-20 11:30:53.809 mythbackend: MythBackend started as a slave backend 2005-09-20 11:30:54.026 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-09-20 11:30:54.111 New DB connection, total: 3 2005-09-20 11:30:55.005 mythbackend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-09-20 11:30:55.049 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2005-09-20 11:30:56.137 Connecting to master server: 192.168.2.3:6543 2005-09-20 11:30:56.221 Connected successfully 2005-09-20 11:31:05.005 mythbackend: Running housekeeping thread Mythfrontend (The function I tried was to list video files) 2005-09-20 11:38:41.664 New DB connection, total: 1 Total desktop width=1280, height=1000, numscreens=1 2005-09-20 11:38:41.683 Running in a window 2005-09-20 11:38:41.684 Using screen 0, 1280x1000 at 0,0 2005-09-20 11:38:41.690 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-09-20 11:38:41.691 Enabled verbose msgs :all Xlib: extension RANDR missing on display localhost:12.0. DisplaResX: Unable to XRRgetScreenInfo 2005-09-20 11:38:42.204 max_width: 0 max_height: 0 Xlib: extension RANDR missing on display localhost:12.0. DisplaResX: Unable to XRRgetScreenInfo Xlib: extension RANDR missing on display localhost:12.0. DisplaResX: Unable to XRRgetScreenInfo 2005-09-20 11:38:42.305 max_width: 0 max_height: 0 Xlib: extension RANDR missing on display localhost:12.0. DisplaResX: Unable to XRRgetScreenInfo 2005-09-20 11:38:42.310 Trying 2880x1200 0 Hz DisplaResX: Desired Resolution and FrameRate not found. 2005-09-20 11:38:42.311 SwitchToGUI: xrandr failed for 2880 x 1200 Total desktop width=1280, height=1000, numscreens=1 2005-09-20 11:38:42.313 Running in a window 2005-09-20 11:38:42.313 Using screen 0, 1280x1000 at 0,0 2005-09-20 11:38:42.315 Switching to square mode (MythCenter) mythtv: could not connect to socket mythtv: No such file or directory lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages 2005-09-20 11:38:43.206 /home/wroberts/.mythtv/joystickmenurc not found. 2005-09-20 11:38:43.206 Joystick disabled. 2005-09-20 11:38:43.322 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin. 2005-09-20 11:38:43.343 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media handler 2005-09-20 11:38:43.344 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media handler 2005-09-20 11:38:43.617 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media handler 2005-09-20 11:38:43.734 New DB connection, total: 2 SIP listening on IP Address 192.168.2.3:5060 NAT address 192.168.2.3 SIP: Cannot register; proxy, username or password not set XMLParse::LoadTheme(): Can't open: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/MythCenter/video-ui.xml XMLParse::LoadTheme(): Using default theme file 2005-09-20 11:39:15.014 New DB connection, total: 3 2005-09-20 11:39:28.844 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.2.3:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2005-09-20 11:39:28.844 write-12 21 MYTH_PROTO_VERSION 15: 2005-09-20 11:39:48.849 ReadStringList timeout (quick). 2005-09-20 11:39:48.849 Unexpected response to MYTH_PROTO_VERSION: ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv vers 0.18.1.20050523-1 Mythfrontend gives Unexpected response to MYTH_PROTO_VERSION
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 19:50, Warren Roberts wrote: I just upgraded to Fedora Core 4 and installed myth-suite. The frontend and backend are the same version but the frontend gives a Unexpected response to MYTH_PROTO_VERSION error. Do you perhaps have some older things on your system from before the upgrade ? Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] FYI: Linux md / RAID5 resizing via mdadm
PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: mrmagoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/20/05 12:37 PM Is there an archive of this list anywhere to read the whole thread? I can't find anything in the google group. Here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/ Paul I think he wanted: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-raidm=112722697027615w=2 David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] FYI: Linux md / RAID5 resizing via mdadm
On 9/20/05, PAUL WILLIAMSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mrmagoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/20/05 12:37 PM Is there an archive of this list anywhere to read the whole thread? I can't find anything in the google group. Here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/ Paul I believe he wanted the linux-raid list archive. Here's the message: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-raidm=112722697027615w=2 Josh ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ACPI sleep problems
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 18:43 +0100, Steve Hill wrote: nsive. Something I read suggested putting acpi_sleep=s3_bios on the kernel commandline (i.e. in grub or lilo) to fix graphics problems on resume (it aparantly makes the BIOS re-POST the video card on resume). Fascinating. I tried this, and it makes things even worse. Now the laptop wakes up and hangs instantly; even the power button doesn't do a controlled shutdown as it did without this option, and not even the partial X screen is redrawn. I guess this tells me the problem is associated with my graphics card. Maybe that will be of some help when I learn more about how this works. --Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] RE: MySQL start up problem
Ok, So I looked at those files. Here is the log file, I took out what I think the options are. Should be everything else. The only thing I notice is the 'unrec option'. See below. [quote] 050920 20:18:56 mysqld started /usr/libexec/mysqld: unrecognized option `--key_buffer=16M' /usr/libexec/mysqld Ver 3.23.58 for redhat-linux-gnu on i386 Copyright (C) 2000 MySQL AB, by Monty and others This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license Starts the MySQL server Usage: /usr/libexec/mysqld [OPTIONS] *REMOVED OPTIONS* Default options are read from the following files in the given order: /etc/my.cnf /var/lib/mysql/my.cnf ~/.my.cnf The following groups are read: mysqld server The following options may be given as the first argument: --print-defaultsPrint the program argument list and exit --no-defaults Don't read default options from any options file --defaults-file=# Only read default options from the given file # --defaults-extra-file=# Read this file after the global files are read To see what values a running MySQL server is using, type 'mysqladmin variables' instead of 'mysqld --help'. The default values (after parsing the command line arguments) are: basedir: /usr/ datadir: /var/lib/mysql/ tmpdir: /tmp/ language:/usr/share/mysql/english/ pid file:/var/lib/mysql/mythtv.pid TCP port:3306 Unix socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock system locking is not in use Possible variables for option --set-variable (-O) are: back_log current value: 50 bdb_cache_sizecurrent value: 8388600 bdb_log_buffer_size current value: 0 bdb_max_lock current value: 1 bdb_lock_max current value: 1 binlog_cache_size current value: 32768 connect_timeout current value: 5 delayed_insert_timeout current value: 300 delayed_insert_limit current value: 100 delayed_queue_sizecurrent value: 1000 flush_timecurrent value: 0 innodb_mirrored_log_groups current value: 1 innodb_log_files_in_group current value: 2 innodb_log_file_size current value: 5242880 innodb_log_buffer_size current value: 1048576 innodb_buffer_pool_size current value: 8388608 innodb_additional_mem_pool_size current value: 1048576 innodb_file_io_threads current value: 4 innodb_lock_wait_timeout current value: 50 innodb_thread_concurrency current value: 8 innodb_force_recovery current value: 0 interactive_timeout current value: 28800 join_buffer_size current value: 131072 key_buffer_size current value: 8388600 long_query_time current value: 10 lower_case_table_names current value: 0 max_allowed_packetcurrent value: 1048576 max_binlog_cache_size current value: 4294967295 max_binlog_size current value: 1073741824 max_connections current value: 100 max_connect_errorscurrent value: 10 max_delayed_threads current value: 20 max_heap_table_size current value: 16777216 max_join_size current value: 4294967295 max_sort_length current value: 1024 max_tmp_tablescurrent value: 32 max_user_connections current value: 0 max_write_lock_count current value: 4294967295 myisam_max_extra_sort_file_size current value: 256 myisam_max_sort_file_size current value: 2047 myisam_sort_buffer_size current value: 8388608 net_buffer_length current value: 16384 net_retry_count current value: 10 net_read_timeout current value: 30 net_write_timeout current value: 60 open_files_limit current value: 0 query_buffer_size current value: 0 record_buffer current value: 131072 record_rnd_buffer current value: 0 slave_net_timeout current value: 3600 slow_launch_time current value: 2 sort_buffer current value: 2097144 table_cache current value: 64 thread_concurrencycurrent value: 10 thread_cache_size current value: 0 tmp_table_sizecurrent value: 33554432 thread_stack current value: 65536 wait_timeout current value: 28800 050920 20:18:56 mysqld ended [/quote] Also the ps turned up nothing. Checked for the file in /var/lock/subsys and got ride of it. What is the subsys stuff? Thanks! JT ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] xorg conf file for the pundit-r?
My x11 performance on the pundit-r isn't very good - does someone have a good working xorg.conf file? I'm using the fglrx driver but it doesn't seem to help. Can someone email me their xorg.conf file or give me some details on I'm doing wrong? Thanks, Reza I'm running FC4. $ rpm -q -a | grep fglrx ati-fglrx-8.16.20.1-0.lvn.1.4 # XFree86 4 configuration created by pyxf86config Section ServerLayout Identifier Default Layout Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files # RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like .txt or .db). There is normally # no need to change the default. # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb FontPath unix/:7100 EndSection Section Module Load dbe Load extmod Load fbdevhw Load glx Load record Load freetype Load type1 Load dri EndSection Section InputDevice # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)) # Option Xleds 1 2 3 # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable. # Option XkbDisable # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the # lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S. # keyboard, you will probably want to use: # Option XkbModel pc102 # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use: # Option XkbModel microsoft # # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting. # For example, a german layout can be obtained with: # Option XkbLayout de # or: # Option XkbLayout de # Option XkbVariantnodeadkeys # # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and # control keys, use: # Option XkbOptionsctrl:swapcaps # Or if you just want both to be control, use: # Option XkbOptionsctrl:nocaps # Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout us EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device /dev/input/mice Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 Option Emulate3Buttons yes EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 VendorName Monitor Vendor ModelNameDell 2001FP (Digital) DisplaySize 410310 HorizSync31.0 - 80.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0 Option dpms EndSection Section Device Identifier Videocard0 #Driver radeon Driver fglrx VendorName Videocard vendor BoardName ATI Radeon 9100 IGP EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Videocard0 MonitorMonitor0 DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 Modes800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes1600x1200 1400x1050 1280x960 1280x800 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection EndSection Section DRI Group0 Mode 0666 EndSection ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up slave backend system
Isaac Richards wrote: ... Everything's stored in the same central database. Cards don't show up on the master because it requires local access to the card to probe the various available settings inputs. This is the correct information for this part of the thread but ironically, Scot's problem is that everything was not stored in the same central database. I did a test this morning that may shed some light on why Scot and many before him have gotten into a confusing state. Say there is a host alpha (192.168.0.1) running mysqld and MBE and the user starts to set up a slave on bravo (192.168.0.2). Either there was a mysqld installed on bravo in his distribution or he thought he was supposed to run a mysqld on the slave. Next he runs mythtv-setup that unwittingly connects to the local host or thought he was supposed to connect to the mysqld on the local machine. Either way, he fills in the IP address for bravo as 192.168.0.2 and sets Master Server IP address: 192.168.0.1(!). Now when he start mythbackend, it will make a connections to a mythbackend master server on it's port on alpha and report: Running as a slave backend. ... 2005-09-20 11:10:05.795 Connecting to master server: 192.168.0.1:6543 However the mysqld on alpha will know nothing of this slave or any of the configuration that was written to the mysqld on bravo. This also suggests that if a frontend was run on bravo it may be able to find the master and run live TV but the EPG is empty because the program data is in alpha's DB and the frontend is connecting to bravo's DB where the program table is empty. -- bjm ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Unsupported LG tuner?
Good day all - New to the list, etc, etc. I am attempting to get my Hauppauge TV (model 44801, see dmesg info) card up and running with mythtv, but have had little to no success. I cannot seem to find a tuner in CARDLIST.tuner that fits the LG TPI8NSR11F tuner chip on my card. I have googled the tuner and have found that it is indeed listed in the tveeprom module sourcecode, but I am not quite sure how to activate it. I have tried tuners (from CARDLIST.tuner) 2, 27, 37, and 39 with little to no success. At best, I can only lock onto one channel (which is half scrambled anyway). Below is the information from dmesg when I run modprobe bttv card=10. My kernel is 2.6.12-gentoo-r9. TIA for the help. bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:07.0[A] - Link [LNK4] - GSI 5 (level, low) - IRQ 5 bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at :01:07.0, irq: 5, latency: 32, mmio: 0xdc00 bttv0: detected: Hauppauge WinTV [card=10], PCI subsystem ID is 0070:13eb bttv0: using: Hauppauge (bt878) [card=10,insmod option] bttv0: gpio: en=, out= in=00db [init] bttv0: Hauppauge/Voodoo msp34xx: reset line init [5] tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (bt878 #0 [sw]) tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 44801, rev = D153, serial# = 6779291 tveeprom: tuner = LG TPI8NSR11F (idx = 53, type = 4) tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x1000) tveeprom: audio_processor = None (type = 0) bttv0: using tuner=4 bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not found bttv0: registered device video0 bttv0: registered device vbi0 bttv0: PLL: 28636363 = 35468950 .. ok Cheers, //John ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up slave backend system
First I would like to thank everyone that contributed help on this problem. I believe I have success in getting the SBE setup and working. :) At least the tests so far are good. I have found a few things that I need to understand better but I now understand it enough that I believe I can consistently set up a SBE and a MBE. Used FC3 on the MBE and FC4 on the SBE with 0.18.1 mythtv from ATRPMS. 1. a single mysql instance is needed on the MBE, no where else. 2. I found three copies of mysql.txt on both the MBE and the SBE. The DBHostName needs to be set to the IP or name (assuming you have /etc/hosts or DNS setup) pointing to the system that has the mysql database, in my case that was the MBE. This I believe was the major problem in getting the SBE setup. I am not clear on why there are three copies of this file scattered on the sytem, I assume it is the result of the guide I used and the ATRPMS packages. Not sure which actually controls this or if all three are needed. I just made sure they were consistent. 3. When setting up the MBE make sure the name or actual IP address is specified for the MBE, do not leave that as 127.0.0.1. I think this was the last part I needed to find to get this all working. It maybe that using ATRPMS and mythtv-suite to install the packages may not be the best way to setup an SBE. Obviously this will install many packages that are not needed on an SBE. At the time this seemed to be the way to do this. One thing I noticed was that when running mythtv-setup there does not appear to be a way to delete/remove individual capture cards. There is an option at startup to clear the capture cards. If the option to clear capture cards is selected when running mythtv-setup on the SBE please note that you need to run mythtv-setup again on the MBE (should actually run this first before running it again on the SBE) since this apparently clears ALL capture cards. This part confused me at first but once I realized what was going on it was easy to resolve. (this did cost me some recordings from last night but they will be on again sometime) I also noticed that via mythweb on the status page that it does list all of the capture cards but does not list the show the card on the SBE is recording like it does for those cards on the MBE. And to wrap this up, I am sorry if my confusion caused problems here on the list. I was just trying to get a better understanding of how mythtv works and is configured, and in the process get an SBE setup. This is one of the more useful applications out there and it works extremely well. Kudos to all the developers and people that answer questions here on the list. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] xorg conf file for the pundit-r?
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 11:38 -0700, Reza Naima wrote: My x11 performance on the pundit-r isn't very good Have you run the fglrxconfig script? (I may have to check on the exact name of this). This creates an xorg.conf file that works well for me. --Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Using the pvr-350 remote with other ir-receivers
El Dimarts, 20 de Setembre de 2005 15:01, Torbjørn Heltne va escriure: Oscar Curero wrote: It doesn't work. :( Do you have stuff like lmsensors installed? I did, for a few hours, until I found out that it was choking the remote. I have the lm_sensors package installed but I don't have any configuration done. Thanks, -- Oscar Curero - Linux user: 306877 --GPG keyID: 0xE0EA0B24-- pgp6dqAzsozDa.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] xorg conf file for the pundit-r?
On 20/09/05, Reza Naima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My x11 performance on the pundit-r isn't very good - does someone have a good working xorg.conf file? I'm using the fglrx driver but it doesn't seem to help. Can someone email me their xorg.conf file or give me some details on I'm doing wrong? Hi, Please explain what you mean by the poor performance you're seeing? I'm using the Pundit-R (although in the UK) with no real problems to report. I would also ensure you generate an xorg.conf file using the setup tool that came with the driver to ensure all necessary options are included in the file. Cheers, Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] No PVR-350 TV Out connector
On 20/09/05, Anil Gupte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I bought my PVR-350 on eBay and did not realize it was used. Anyway, I was not too concerned until I found that it is missing the TV Out connector - does anyone know where I can buy it? Anyone on this list have I spare I will buy it. I checked Radio Shack and it does not carry it. You could contact Hauppauge directly and see if they can sort you out. The lead reminds me of the older ATI breakout leads ( 8 or so pins carrying audio, S-Video/composite video) so one of these *may* work too, but obviously standard disclaimers apply and this would be a last resort. Good luck on the quest, Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Tutorial on Encoding (mostly re: file sizes)
I am pretty sure that I will encode at 640x480 but don't know about anyother settings or how they will affect file size.For a normal 1-hour show (most of our favorites are this long), what kind of file sizes am I lookingat?This will affect the size of the hard disk I buy for the storage. I doubt that you can see the difference between a 720x480 pixel and a 480x480 pixel recording, so I would recommed go down to 480x480 pixels. That saves 25% of the data. If you want to export to DVD you might however consider 720x480 pixels and keep the recordings in MPEG2. Also if you want to use the output of a PVR-350 you should keep the recordings in MPEG2. In all other cases you can let MythTV transcode to MPEG4. The encoding rate is very much up your personal taste. If your signal is bad you need a higher data rate. I usually record 480x576 pixels (PAL) at 4.5 Mbits/s in MPEG2 and transcode it to 1.4 Mbits/s in MPEG4. On some channels I can see the artifacts, on others I can't (except in special situations like fast scrolling text). Shows that I want on DVD are recorded at 720x576 pixels at 4.5 Mbits/s in MPEG2. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ACPI sleep problems
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 04:56 am, John Pullan wrote: On 19/09/05, Paul V. Gratz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I actually use the suspend to ACPI ram all the time on my laptop (dell inspiron 8500). I did have some pretty heavy problems trying to get it running on my mythfrontend though. There the problem was mainly in getting the motherboard to respect a USB wake-up event (crappy cheap MB). In any event, I'd strongly recommend getting the hibernate script that the ACPI team puts out. This script can be run from the acpid or commandline. It does things like manages modules that are not compatible with ACPI (as best it can) and restarting network interfaces on resume. I suspect that with a reasonable motherboard you should be able to get this working. Paul Any chance of a link to this script please ? Sure all this stuff comes from the acpi4linux project: http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ (I just installed it via gentoo's ebuild). From what I've read and etc it sounds like it's very dependent on the motherboard's bios implementation of ACPI whether or not it will work for you. Some are written in a very clean, standards upholding way, others are really poor, not following the ACPI standard so they only work well with on OS (hint, not Linux). Paul pgpqW8nfYFCHb.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 recording only channel 4?
On 20/09/05, Tom Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a mythtv system setup that I recently upgraded to Fedora Core 4 and mythtv 0.18.1 via atrpms (Thanks Axel!!). However, now mythtv will say it records a certain show on channel 11 (or 9, or 3, etc) but it actually records what was on channel 4 at that time! I have no idea what I did wrong. Is there a step I missed somewhere? Anything I can check to figure out why it's doing this? My system: Two PVR-250s Fedora Core 4 Mythtv 0.18.1 via atrpms I'd make sure (you already probably have) that the tuners are being detected and setup correctly when the ivtv drivers are loaded. Check the /var/log/messages file for the most recent ivtv output and also check your /etc/modprobe.conf file to see whether you are hardcoding tuner parameters (most cards now are autodetected successfully). Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] frontend crash during UK dvb-t playback - only at adverts
On 20/09/05, Alan Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok - bit more info. editing some of the setup options changed the behaviour. disabling extra audio buffering in tv playback options means the loss of audio does not occur at the commercial break. great! but the reason it's enabled is because if it's not, playback loses audio, crackles AND video ffwds at some points - seemingly random although changing aspect ratio manually makes it happen. points to an audio/buffer problem? I would check to make sure you are using a newish (=1.0.8, likely if using atrpms) version of ALSA and see if this helps at all. Disable arts too as this can cause problems. I don't have any of these issues using the new Nova-T (909 or 90002 model). Does this behaviour still occur if you manually override the AR changing in frontend setup? Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Tutorial on Encoding (mostly re: file sizes)
I doubt that you can see the difference between a 720x480 pixel and a 480x480 pixel recording, so I would recommed go down to 480x480 pixels. That saves 25% of the data. If you want to export to DVD you might however consider 720x480 pixels and keep the recordings in MPEG2. Also if you want to use the output of a PVR-350 you should keep the recordings in MPEG2. In all other cases you can let MythTV transcode to MPEG4. The encoding rate is very much up your personal taste. If your signal is bad you need a higher data rate. I usually record 480x576 pixels (PAL) at 4.5 Mbits/s in MPEG2 and transcode it to 1.4 Mbits/s in MPEG4. On some channels I can see the artifacts, on others I can't (except in special situations like fast scrolling text). Shows that I want on DVD are recorded at 720x576 pixels at 4.5 Mbits/s in MPEG2. Thanks for the insight. If I just keep it as MPEG2, what kind of file size should I expect? I'm imagining about a gigabyte per hour. Is that high, low, other? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Tutorial on Encoding (mostly re: file sizes)
On 9/20/05, Tony McDowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Thanks for the insight. If I just keep it as MPEG2, what kind of file size should I expect? I'm imagining about a gigabyte per hour. Is that high, low, other? I'm not sure of my settings, but with a PVR-250 (mpeg2) I'm recording at 2.5 gigabytes/hour. I believe the average is ~2 to 2.2 GB/hr. Josh ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Tutorial on Encoding (mostly re: file sizes)
Thanks for the insight. If I just keep it as MPEG2, what kind of file size should I expect? I'm imagining about a gigabyte per hour. Is that high, low, other? That really depends on your bitrate and how clean your signal is. I get about 2.3 to 2.6 Gig an hour. If I lower it to only get around a gig it looks horrible. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] frontend crash during UK dvb-t playback - only at adverts
stephen - switching to ts mode has improved things somewhat. still needs extra buffering to avoid the random glitches but ratio changes in stream are coped with now (so far :) ) nick - i'm running on OSS - alsa wasn't happening for me when i set this box up (pundit-r). maybe i need to retry. arts is disabled afaik. here's what showed up when it crashed in ps mode for what it's worth : *** glibc detected *** mythfrontend: free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x0a4aa410 *** === Backtrace: = /lib/libc.so.6[0x9e4424] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_free+0x77)[0x9e495f] /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6(_ZdlPv+0x21)[0xcad669] /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6(_ZdaPv+0x1d)[0xcad6b5] /usr/lib/libmythtv-0.18.1.so.0(_ZN10OSDSurfaceD1Ev+0x22)[0x67539d4] === Memory map: 00101000-0014b000 r-xp 16:03 2528602 /usr/lib/libmythavformat-0.18.1.so.0.18.1 0014b000-0014e000 rwxp 0004a000 16:03 2528602 /usr/lib/libmythavformat-0.18.1.so.0.18.1 0014e000-00376000 r-xp 16:03 2527177 /usr/lib/libmythavcodec-0.18.1.so.0.18.1 00376000-00384000 rwxp 00228000 16:03 2527177 /usr/lib/libmythavcodec-0.18.1.so.0.18.1 00384000-003dd000 rwxp 00384000 00:00 0 003dd000-00436000 r-xp 16:03 2522489/usr/lib/libmng.so.1.0.0 00436000-00439000 rwxp 00058000 16:03 2522489/usr/lib/libmng.so.1.0.0 00439000-0043b000 r-xp 16:03 2686305 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/xlcDef.so.2 0043b000-0043c000 rwxp 1000 16:03 2686305 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/xlcDef.so.2 0043d000-00441000 r-xp 16:03 2526136/usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.so.1.0 00441000-00442000 rwxp 3000 16:03 2526136/usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.so.1.0 00442000-00443000 r-xp 16:03 2686306 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/xlcUTF8Load.so.2 00443000-00444000 rwxp 16:03 2686306 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/xlcUTF8Load.so.2 00444000-00448000 r-xp 16:03 2528605 /usr/lib/liblirc_client.so.0.0.0 00448000-00449000 rwxp 3000 16:03 2528605 /usr/lib/liblirc_client.so.0.0.0 00449000-0049b000 r-xp 16:03 2522816/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0 0049b000-0049f000 rwxp 00052000 16:03 2522816/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0 0049f000-004aa000 r-xp 16:03 2913377 /usr/lib/qt-3.3/plugins/sqldrivers/libqsqlmysql.so 004aa000-004ab000 rwxp b000 16:03 2913377 /usr/lib/qt-3.3/plugins/sqldrivers/libqsqlmysql.so 004ab000-004b r-xp 16:03 2486670/lib/libcrypt-2.3.5.so 004b-004b1000 r-xp 4000 16:03 2486670/lib/libcrypt-2.3.5.so 004b1000-004b2000 rwxp 5000 16:03 2486670/lib/libcrypt-2.3.5.so 004b2000-004d9000 rwxp 004b2000 00:00 0 004d9000-004f r-xp 16:03 2528737/usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2.2 004f-004f1000 rwxp 00017000 16:03 2528737/usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2.2 004f1000-004f3000 r-xp 16:03 2486661/lib/libcom_err.so.2.1 004f3000-004f4000 rwxp 1000 16:03 2486661/lib/libcom_err.so.2.1 004f4000-004f6000 r-xp 16:03 2528127/usr/lib/libkrb5support.so.0.0 004f6000-004f7000 rwxp 1000 16:03 2528127/usr/lib/libkrb5support.so.0.0 004f7000-004f9000 r-xp 16:03 2486658/lib/libutil-2.3.5.so 004f9000-004fa000 r-xp 1000 16:03 2486658/lib/libutil-2.3.5.so 004fa000-004fb000 rwxp 2000 16:03 2486658/lib/libutil-2.3.5.so 004fb000-004ff000 r-xp 16:03 2526276/usr/lib/libogg.so.0.5.2 004ff000-0050 rwxp 3000 16:03 2526276/usr/lib/libogg.so.0.5.2 0050-00501000 r-xp 0050 00:00 0 00501000-005d1000 r-xp 16:03 2528742/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.2 005d1000-005d5000 rwxp 000cf000 16:03 2528742/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.2 005d5000-0061a000 r-xp 16:03 2879584 /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.14.0.0 0061a000-006f4000 rwxp 00045000 16:03 2879584 /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.14.0.0 006f4000-006f6000 rwxp 006f4000 00:00 0 006f6000-00719000 r-xp 16:03 2528735/usr/lib/libk5crypto.so.3.0 00719000-0071a000 rwxp 00023000 16:03 2528735/usr/lib/libk5crypto.so.3.0 0071a000-00723000 r-xp 16:03 2485557/lib/libnss_files-2.3.5.so 00723000-00724000 r-xp 8000 16:03 2485557/lib/libnss_files-2.3.5.so 00724000-00725000 rwxp 9000 16:03 2485557/lib/libnss_files-2.3.5.so 00725000-00727000 r-xp 16:03 2913421 /usr/lib/mythtv/filters/libadjust.so 00727000-00728000 rwxp 1000 16:03 2913421 /usr/lib/mythtv/filters/libadjust.so 00728000-00729000 r-xp 16:03 2913681 /usr/lib/mythtv/filters/libbobdeint.so 00729000-0072a000 rwxp 16:03 2913681 /usr/lib/mythtv/filters/libbobdeint.so 0072b000-007aa000 r-xp 16:03 2526918 Aborted On 9/20/05, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20/09/05, Alan Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok - bit more info. editing some of the setup options changed the behaviour. disabling extra audio buffering in tv playback options means the loss of audio does not occur at the commercial break. great! but the reason it's
Re: [mythtv-users] Tutorial on Encoding (mostly re: file sizes)
On 9/20/05, Tony McDowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the main purpose of our machine is for recording / encoding video for playback *only* on our TV, what are some good encoding settings? I am pretty sure that I will encode at 640x480 but don't know about any other settings or how they will affect file size. For a normal 1-hour show (most of our favorites are this long), what kind of file sizes am I looking at? This will affect the size of the hard disk I buy for the storage. First off, you can never have enough hard disk space, and sooner or later a hard drive is going to fail and you're going to wish that you had RAID. Okay, so... If you stick with 720x480 and the stock settings in mythtv and a PVR-X50 card, you're probably going to burn about 2.1GB PER HOUR for recordings. I tuned the recording settings down so that my shows take just under 1gb per 30 minute show. This makes it easy to fit more content onto DVDs for me. I set my settings for mythtranscode to be somewhat aggressive, I bump resolution down, I bump audio rate down, and have decreased the min/max bitrate settings. This lets me transcode shows I don't want to burn to DVD, or want to watch later and store them while only taking about 900MB PER HOUR. Most of the time, I can't tell any difference. I'm away from my system, so I can't give any more specific info, but that should help you get started with planning. You should start with default values and adjust them *SLIGHTLY* (probably down), test and repeat until you find the best settings for you. I would plan on buying a 400gb drive if you're going to store all of your recordings on that drive. -Ross ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Tutorial on Encoding (mostly re: file sizes)
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 02:31:36PM -0500, Tony McDowell wrote: I doubt that you can see the difference between a 720x480 pixel and a 480x480 pixel recording, so I would recommed go down to 480x480 pixels. That saves 25% of the data. If you want to export to DVD you might however consider 720x480 pixels and keep the recordings in MPEG2. Also if you want to use the output of a PVR-350 you should keep the recordings in MPEG2. In all other cases you can let MythTV transcode to MPEG4. The encoding rate is very much up your personal taste. If your signal is bad you need a higher data rate. I usually record 480x576 pixels (PAL) at 4.5 Mbits/s in MPEG2 and transcode it to 1.4 Mbits/s in MPEG4. On some channels I can see the artifacts, on others I can't (except in special situations like fast scrolling text). Shows that I want on DVD are recorded at 720x576 pixels at 4.5 Mbits/s in MPEG2. Thanks for the insight. If I just keep it as MPEG2, what kind of file size should I expect? I'm imagining about a gigabyte per hour. Is that high, low, other? FWIW, 1GB/hr is Tivo's Basic Quality setting. Their Best Quality setting is about 3GB/hr. --Rob signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Tutorial on Encoding (mostly re: file sizes)
When resizing, is it possible to accidentally stretch the image? I saw someone say 480x480 wouldn't be a noticeable difference from 720x480... is the because of the way a TV uses scan lines? On a monitor it seems like it would be very different. I'm curious because I want to transcode HDTV (1920x1080, 1280x720, and 850x480) down to 850x480. For HDTV pulled off of QAM/Cable, I'm seeing MPEG2 file sizes of about 6.2 GB/hr. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 recording only channel 4?
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 20:20 +0100, Nick wrote: On 20/09/05, Tom Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a mythtv system setup that I recently upgraded to Fedora Core 4 and mythtv 0.18.1 via atrpms (Thanks Axel!!). However, now mythtv will say it records a certain show on channel 11 (or 9, or 3, etc) but it actually records what was on channel 4 at that time! I have no idea what I did wrong. Is there a step I missed somewhere? Anything I can check to figure out why it's doing this? My system: Two PVR-250s Fedora Core 4 Mythtv 0.18.1 via atrpms I'd make sure (you already probably have) that the tuners are being detected and setup correctly when the ivtv drivers are loaded. Check the /var/log/messages file for the most recent ivtv output and also check your /etc/modprobe.conf file to see whether you are hardcoding tuner parameters (most cards now are autodetected successfully). Yes, both of them are being detected correctly. Mythtv has no trouble at all recording from them...just changing the channel... Thanks for the reply! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 recording only channel 4?
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 10:33 -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Tom Cross wrote: I have a mythtv system setup that I recently upgraded to Fedora Core 4 and mythtv 0.18.1 via atrpms (Thanks Axel!!). However, now mythtv will say it records a certain show on channel 11 (or 9, or 3, etc) but it actually records what was on channel 4 at that time! I have no idea what I did wrong. Is there a step I missed somewhere? Anything I can check to figure out why it's doing this? My system: Two PVR-250s Fedora Core 4 Mythtv 0.18.1 via atrpms Thanks! Sounds like your IVTV drivers aren't changing the channel. Make sure that all works *outside* of MythTV first. Good idea, something I haven't tried yet is to see if something other than mythtv can use these cards... Thanks!! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up slave backend system
Scot L. Harris wrote: First I would like to thank everyone that contributed help on this problem. I believe I have success in getting the SBE setup and working. :) At least the tests so far are good. I have found a few things that I need to understand better but I now understand it enough that I believe I can consistently set up a SBE and a MBE. Used FC3 on the MBE and FC4 on the SBE with 0.18.1 mythtv from ATRPMS. 1. a single mysql instance is needed on the MBE, no where else. Correct. I do have multiple databases and each is a different test environments. I can connect frontends and backends to an environment by controlling which mysql.txt file is used. Technically, the mysqld doesn't have to be running on the same host as the master but that is the obvious choice for performance reasons. Wherever the DB is, each process that connects to the same database is part of the same environment. 2. I found three copies of mysql.txt on both the MBE and the SBE. ... I am not clear on why there are three copies of this file scattered on Don't know why there are three on your system but in general, there is one in myth's installed share directory but this will be overwritten with each upgrade. Therefore, it looks to see if there is a file for $HOME/.mythtv/mysql.txt of the userid that is running the program. One thing I noticed was that when running mythtv-setup there does not appear to be a way to delete/remove individual capture cards. There is Press D for the delete popup. -- bjm ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] No program guide but OSD fine?!?!
Hi All, Did an svn update (svn ver 7277) and neither mythweb nor the mythfrontend program guide have any data, yet I cannot seem to find any relevant error messages. The OSD seems to be right however, and mythfilldatabase seems ok too. Any ideas? Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Tutorial on Encoding (mostly re: file sizes)
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 12:44:03PM -0700, Ross Campbell wrote: I set my settings for mythtranscode to be somewhat aggressive, I bump resolution down, I bump audio rate down, and have decreased the min/max bitrate settings. This lets me transcode shows I don't want to burn to DVD, or want to watch later and store them while only taking about 900MB PER HOUR. Most of the time, I can't tell any difference. I'm away from my system, so I can't give any more specific info, but that should help you get started with planning. You should start with default values and adjust them *SLIGHTLY* (probably down), test and repeat until you find the best settings for you. Any chance you might post your settings when you get closer to your system? 1G/hour is about where I'd like to end up and having an example of settings that produce results in that range would be useful. -- The freedoms that we enjoy presently are the most important victories of the White Hats over the past several millennia, and it is vitally important that we don't give them up now, only because we are frightened. - Eolake Stobblehouse (http://stobblehouse.com/text/battle.html) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
