[mythtv-users] FC3 to FC4 upgrade broke bttv?

[Grant Swenson]

Hey all,
I would like some advice on how to fix the mess I got into...I figured
I'd wait on upgrading my FC3 to FC4 (setup according to Jarod's guide
and using ATRPMS) until all the bugs got worked out. Well...I guess I
should have waited longer.
I dropped in the FC4 CDs and updated my system, then I used "yum
update" to get all the right packages from ATRPMS I needed. Everything
works except my video capture card. However, it looks like the only
thing broken is the tuner. I saved my messages file, and compared it
to my FC3 version. The ONLY differences are of this type
FC4
Oct 21 22:51:17 fc3 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 5
Oct 21 22:51:17 fc3 kernel: PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
Oct 21 22:51:17 fc3 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:0a.0[A] ->
Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
Oct 21 22:51:17 fc3 kernel: bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at :00:0a.0,
irq: 5, latency: 32, mmio: 0xee004000
(yes, the hostname of my machine is fc3...)
Since I know I'm using the exact same version of bttv (Oct 21 22:51:17
fc3 kernel: bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded), I think I've got it
narrowed down to the IRQ issue.
SO, I tried adding this to my grub.conf:  pci=routeirq, but that didn't help.
I'm testing this by running tvtime, but I consistently get a blue
screen there. I've confirmed I'm using EACTLY the same modules.conf
and modprobe.conf...by copying my FC3 ones and updating them with the
correct nvidia driver number.
Any ideas on where to go from here? I've rebooted into windows to
verify the card still works, I'm almost ready to just try all the
tuner= optins to see if that helps. (FWIW, I've got a Pinnacle PCTV
Pro card.)
Also strangly, if I pass tuner=4 (no tuner), I get
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
 : chip found @ 0xc0 (bt878 #0 [sw])
 : TEA5767 detected.
tuner 1-0060: TEA5767 detected.
tuner 1-0060: type set to 62 (Philips TEA5767HN FM Radio)
And at that point, I can see some rough signal in tvtime. However,
changing the channels doesn't work! (I see sketcky channel 2 all the
time.) Am I really close? Do I need to "tweak" another parameter, and
then it will work?
Any tips would be appreciated, thanks!
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[mythtv-users] R5A16 R5A22 (knoppmyth) color map and protocol version

[Alberto Alonso]

OK, maybe I should split this up into several posts, but here it
goes.

Upon a heck of a lot of reboots and different settings I got the
following issues:

With R5A16

* Sound + Video smooth, but colormap on TV showing only green hue
  (I only got this to work once, not sure what happened)
* Sound + Video play and pause about once a second, nothing seems
  to help
* mythvideo works, but same issue with color, just greenish on TV
  end, but full color on VGA monitor. (this is almost every time)

With R5A22

* Protocol version wrong for live TV and recordings don't show.
* mythvideo works without any issues.

On the back end I run 

$ /usr/bin/mythbackend --version
0.18.1.20050510-1

When connecting with R5A22 I get the following message:

MainServer::HandleVersion - Client speaks protocol version 18 but we
speak 15!

which is rather weird.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Alberto


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Re: [mythtv-users] recordings will not play as not root user

[ffrr]

Brandon Gracyalny wrote:

I have a mythtv user setup.  My recordings and live tv partition is 
/video.  I can watch live tv as the mythtv user.  When I try to play a 
recording using this user the frontend just goes back to the recording 
list and will not play.  If I load the frontend as the root user the 
recording plays fine.


I have also tried to do this through the xbmcscript on my xbox with 
the same results.  The file shows up and the preview shows up but it 
will not play.


The owner of the /video file is root.  All other users have read and 
write permission on this directory.  I have tried chowning the video 
directory as my mythtv user but as soon as a recording happens it goes 
back to being owned as root.




Sounds like permissions on the playing software or system, rather than 
the video file then. Does the log have anything useful to say when you 
try (or even, run mythfrontend from a consol prompt and see if any 
errors show up there)?




I have fedora core 4 and used the instructions on Jarod's site to 
install mythtv.




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Re: [mythtv-users] Debian plugins

[jondz]

I had the same problem but recompiled the source and turn them
into my own deb---dependencies solved. 
something like 

apt-get build-dep mythtv
apt-get source mythtv
cd whatever
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b

if successful the deb files on *your* system will load.

jondz

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 12:16 -0400, James Grant wrote:
> Hey does anyone use the debian packages from:
>   http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/dists/unstable/mythtv   ?
> 
> The 'core' components installed fine, but it looks like all the 'plugins' are 
> out of date (mythvideo, mythmusic, etc).. all the dependencies are broken for 
> them :(
> 
> eg) its looking for  libqt3c102-mt  instead of libqt3-mt
> mythmusic has other dependency issues as well, like, its looking for libflac6 
> when it should be looking for libflac7 
> 
> anyone know anything about this? 
> 
> Cheers,
>  James
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Re: [mythtv-users] lirc output reliability

[jgmtfia Mr]

Take a look at the script that they provide.  It should be asy to modify it to control 2 dishes with 1 blaster.On 10/21/05, Robert Denier <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 22:40 -0600, jgmtfia Mr wrote:
> http://www.mytvstore.com/product_id_004.html>> They have USB as serial versions.(I found out the name yesterday, but thanks.)I'm not too sure about using the usb versions..  I found some more info
here just now.http://www.mythtvtalk.com/forum/archive/o_t/t_103/start_30/index.htmlIt looks like it might solve the stability issue.  From what I've seen
online results are somewhat mixed...The key results seem to be that you can most likely control two dishreceivers with two serial versions of theses things.  At around $45 apiece, that is a little expensive though.  It also seems like people are
having some success controlling a couple receivers with one, but Ihaven't studied the details yet..>> On 10/20/05, Robert Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I thought I saw a device that connected via a serial port that> would> send remote codes awhile back, but I can't remember its> name.  Basically> you would send a "2" or whatever via serial, and not the
> complex> modulation pattern.  The devices hardware would handle the> rest.>> Now, I've no idea if such a thing would work with multiple> dish 301
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Re: [mythtv-users] lirc output reliability

[Robert Denier]

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 22:40 -0600, jgmtfia Mr wrote:
> http://www.mytvstore.com/product_id_004.html
> 
> They have USB as serial versions.

(I found out the name yesterday, but thanks.)
I'm not too sure about using the usb versions..  I found some more info
here just now. 

http://www.mythtvtalk.com/forum/archive/o_t/t_103/start_30/index.html

It looks like it might solve the stability issue.  From what I've seen
online results are somewhat mixed...

The key results seem to be that you can most likely control two dish
receivers with two serial versions of theses things.  At around $45 a
piece, that is a little expensive though.  It also seems like people are
having some success controlling a couple receivers with one, but I
haven't studied the details yet..



> 
> On 10/20/05, Robert Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I thought I saw a device that connected via a serial port that
> would
> send remote codes awhile back, but I can't remember its
> name.  Basically
> you would send a "2" or whatever via serial, and not the
> complex 
> modulation pattern.  The devices hardware would handle the
> rest.
> 
> Now, I've no idea if such a thing would work with multiple
> dish 301
> receivers or not, but perhaps someone can at least think of
> the name of
> it.
> 
> -Robert
> 

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Re: [mythtv-users] watch tv fill cache and stop

[Matthias Meyer]

Am Sonntag 16 Oktober 2005 23:35 schrieb Kevin Kuphal:
> Matthias Meyer wrote:
> >Hello group,
> >
> >If I watch TV with my mythtv it will work until my tv-cache is full.
> >
> >Dateisystem  Größe Benut  Verf Ben% Eingehängt auf
> >/dev/hda4 5,2G  -64Z   16T 101% /cache
> >
> >Then the tv will frooze. Nothing works furthermore.
> >
> >Is anybody there which can help me?
>
> Is your maximum ringbuffer size in setup larger than your partition?
> Try setting it to something smaller than the partition size/free space.
>
> Kevin
Thank you. That works.

best regards
Matthias
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Re: [mythtv-users] Aligning The Channel Name Captions in EPG - v 0.19

[jgmtfia Mr]

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> wrote:Hi,On the EPG browser all of the channel names arealigned to the right of the caption boxes and slightly
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Re: [mythtv-users] lirc output reliability

[jgmtfia Mr]

http://www.mytvstore.com/product_id_004.html

They have USB as serial versions.On 10/20/05, Robert Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I thought I saw a device that connected via a serial port that wouldsend remote codes awhile back, but I can't remember its name.  Basicallyyou would send a "2" or whatever via serial, and not the complex
modulation pattern.  The devices hardware would handle the rest.Now, I've no idea if such a thing would work with multiple dish 301receivers or not, but perhaps someone can at least think of the name of
it.-RobertOn Thu, 2005-10-20 at 11:33 -0400, Dan Wilga wrote:> At 10:08 AM -0500 10/19/05, Robert Denier wrote:> >For some reason my lirc output has been very unreliable lately.  I keep
> >getting wrong channels, particularly sense I went to dish 301 receivers> >from the newer model version.>> I have the same problem. I believe it has to do with the fact that> lirc relies on the RTC timer. If something happens to interrupt it
> while it's pausing, the frequency of the output will be off and the> receiver will balk. I think what makes the 301 more sensitive to this> than other IR devices is the fact that it operates at a higher
> frequency (56000 Hz) than most.>> I'm using an opto-coupler to interface my serial port to the Dish 301> receivers, so I know it's not an LED-related problem. I have tried> niceing the lirc process so it won't be as likely to get interrupted,
> but that doesn't seem to help.>> My next step is to build a device that will send the IR pulses> independently of the PC, but I don't know how long that will take.> For now I just put up with the occasional missed program.
>> By the way, I analyzed the signal received by the Dish receiver with> an oscilloscope and compared it to what was being generated by my> device. After tweaking, I came to this lirc config, modified from the
> stock "3100" remote:>> begin remote>>name 3100>bits   16>flags SPACE_ENC>eps30>aeps  100>header550  5830
>one   550  1550>zero  550  2570>ptrail550>gap  5530>min_repeat  8>toggle_bit  0>frequency56000>
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Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth and cle266

[Alberto Alonso]

I do have the Samuel 2 (is a C3).

The ldd libs do show:

libXv
libXvMCW
libXvMC


So I guess this is the right binary. Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Alberto


On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 20:42 +0100, Kim Wall wrote:
> John P. Mitchell wrote:
> 
> >If this is a VIA C3 processor attached to a CLE266 chipset, then I
> > believe that i586 binaries are the correct version to use. I understand
> > that certain features present in an i686 class processor are not
> > present in the C3 and i686 binaries may not run correctly on a C3.
> 
> Right.  I don't know anything about the C3, but thought it was worth 
> mentioning, as I'd spent a long time banging my head against the 
> performance problems on perfectly capable hardware with Knoppmyth.
> 
> 
> Kim.
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RE: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works

[Peter Darley]

Lonnie,
You are a genius and a saint. :)  I wasn't sure that I was ever going to
get this working.

Anyway, for the record, what I did exactly was:

cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/media/video/
mv tuner.ko tuner.ko.bak
mv tveeprom.ko tveeprom.ko.bak
mv msp3400.ko msp3400.ko.bak
mv tda9887.ko tda9887.ko.bak

cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates/drivers/media/video
cp tuner-ivtv.ko tuner.ko
cp tveeprom-ivtv.ko tveeprom.ko

modprobe -r ivtv
depmod -a
modprobe ivtv

After this, everything was working.  This was on Fedora Core 3, tho I
suspect it would work the same, or at least similarly on FC4, and maybe on
other distros?

Thanks again to everyone who helped me!

Thanks,
Peter Darley

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Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 4:13 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works

The /lib/modules/ is where kernel modules live.  .ko files
and .ko.gz files are loadable kernel modules.  In the dir with the ivtv
files, take note of the file names.  search under that
entire /lib/modules/ directory for files with the same name
(like tveeprom).  Those are the ones to rename to prevent a clash.  Once
done, run "depmod -a" (without quotes) to update the module dependency
list.  Then when it tries to load the tuner and such, it will get the
one from the ivtv build.

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Re: [mythtv-users] (WAS) Kaffeine (NOW) is KnoppMyth

[Michael T. Dean]

Alex Cruz wrote:


On Friday 21 October 2005 09:53 pm, Andrew Close wrote:
 


On 10/21/05, Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



Plus, it becomes a hobby.  You can buy a piece here and there and put
the system together.  You don't have to always have it running to "do
business".
 


a hobby?  more like an obsession! :)  unfortunetely i don't have the
money to fund my obsession at the moment.  or maybe fortunetely...
   

I second the obsession part. I am currently saving up $$ to buy a smaller, 
nicer case and yes...a much, MUCH quieter Zantec CPU cooler. After that, 
it'll be a HD upgrade to something in the 200 GB range cause there's no such 
thing as too much HD space  ;-)
 

Definitely an obsession.  I'm doing a high-definition upgrade and just 
spent way too much money on it (both the TV and the computer 
system).


But, I was happy to find out that the TV I bought on Monday is now 
selling--from the same store I bought it--for more than $1200 more than 
I paid for mine.  :D  Talk about lucky timing.


Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] Transcoding, mpeg-2, mpeg-4 ASP vs. AVC

[Phill Edwards]

> I'm getting a little bit confused as to what MythTV is doing on the
> transcoding front.
>
> I'm recording UK SD DVB-T mpeg2 streams. I'm struggling to keep up with the
> stuff I'm recording, so I'd like to transcode where possible.
>
> I've got the system transcoding files, I know it is using the "From MPEG2"
> profile. (When I change the bitrate the transcoded filesize changes.)
>
> I understood mpeg-4 ASP to require approx. half the bitrate / filesize that
> mpeg-2 does for an equivalent quality file. Then mpeg-4 AVC is even better,
> requiring perhaps a third what mpeg-2 does.
>
> I tried adjusting the settings, but I'm seeing a significant drop in the
> quality, even with a modest reduction in bitrate.

I'm recording with DVB-T cards (therefore MPEG2) and transcode to
MPEG4 with great results.

My transcode settings are:
Video - Bitrate:2500, Max Quality:2, Min Quality:15, Max Quality diff
bt frames:3, none of the other checkboxes ticked.
Sound - MP3, Samplg Rate:32000, MP3 Quality:5.

I think this is reducing the files to about 60% of the MPEG2 size.

Regards,
Phill
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Re: [mythtv-users] IR blaster fails sometimes?

[Robert Denier]

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 22:00 -0300, Mark J. Small wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi everybody , sorry if this is a double post...
> 
> I've got a recurring issue that is starting to really annoy me.  On many
> weeknights I record two consecutive programs on the same channel.  The first
> recording stops at at 00:35, and the second record starts at the same time.
> 
> Quite often, the second recording gets tuned to the wrong channel.  Last
> night, I got half an hour of Leno instead of Ghost in the Shell.  My ir
> blaster tuned my DCT2000 to channel 6 instead of channel 26.  The 2 got lost
> somewhere along the way.
> 
> When I look in my syslog, I can see the lirc events for each digit.
> 
> The 2 gets sent at 00:35:05
> The 6 gets sent at 00:35:08
> The OK gets sent at 00:35:09 (tell dct2000 to really change the channel --
> auto tune is off)
> The EXIT gets sent at 00:35:10 (kill dct2000 osd)
> 
> I think that the 3 second lag between the 2 and the 6 is causing my problem.
> By the time the 6 comes along, the 2 has been ignored.
> 
> On successful channel changes, the digits get sent every second.  (I pause
>  0.7 seconds between sends.)
> 
> I'm guessing that at the time of the failed channel change, the machine is
> heavily loaded.  But why would it happen for at 00:35 every night, thus
> killing the channel change for some of my favourite shows?
> 
> I checked, and there are no cron jobs running at 00:35 to slow things down.
> My cron.hourly is at 17 minutes past, my cron.daily is at 12:25 (noonish),
> and my cron.weekly and cron.monthly are between 4:00 and 6:00.
> 
> I looked through lots of logs, and I noticed that at 00:35:03, in
> mythtvbackend.log, there is a "reschedule requested for id 0"  This finishes
> at 00:35:08.  Is this what is slowing my machine down so much?
> 
> What can I do about it?
> 
> Faster CPU? More RAM? nice the channel change script?
> 
> My backend is a Duron 800 with 256MB RAM and 3 PVR 250s.
Try something like
nice -n -20 /usr/local/lirc-ledxmit/sbin/ledxmit-ledxmitd
in your init script for it.  If it works you may not want to leave it at
-20.  I'm not sure if that will cause problems.

If you just want to hunt for things going on around then and don't wanat
to stay up, you could put something like this in a script...

#!/bin/bash
LF=/tmp/logfile
while [[ 1 == 1 ]]
do
   date >> $LF
   top -b -n 1 >> $LF
   sleep 10
done

That file might grow really large so I wouldn't let it run forever...
This is a bit simplistic, but perhaps it will be helpful.

I have some issues with my IR blaster not being reliable as well
controlling a dish network 301 receiver.  I'm tempted to buy a my
blaster just to avoid having to debug the problem.  One person said the
gap setting in the  configuration file can matter a great deal, but I
have not found a reliable setting yet.  I also have not spent a great
deal of time on it yet.

Oh look I told it to record 300 and it switched to 30 and I missed the
first part of a show.  I'm not sure a MyBlaster is a perfect solution,
unless perhaps the extra receivers can be programmed in.  I suppose I
could use two of them...

Good luck with this..
-Robert






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Re: [mythtv-users] (WAS) Kaffeine (NOW) is KnoppMyth

[Alex Cruz]

On Friday 21 October 2005 09:53 pm, Andrew Close wrote:
> On 10/21/05, Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>
> > Plus, it becomes a hobby.  You can buy a piece here and there and put
> > the system together.  You don't have to always have it running to "do
> > business".
>
> a hobby?  more like an obsession! :)  unfortunetely i don't have the
> money to fund my obsession at the moment.  or maybe fortunetely...

 I second the obsession part. I am currently saving up $$ to buy a smaller, 
nicer case and yes...a much, MUCH quieter Zantec CPU cooler. After that, 
it'll be a HD upgrade to something in the 200 GB range cause there's no such 
thing as too much HD space  ;-)

-alex
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Re: [mythtv-users] (WAS) Kaffeine (NOW) is KnoppMyth

[Andrew Close]

On 10/21/05, Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Plus, it becomes a hobby.  You can buy a piece here and there and put
> the system together.  You don't have to always have it running to "do
> business".

a hobby?  more like an obsession! :)  unfortunetely i don't have the
money to fund my obsession at the moment.  or maybe fortunetely...
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Re: [mythtv-users] (WAS) Kaffeine (NOW) is KnoppMyth

[Chad]

On 10/20/05, Alex Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  Great news on the DVB!! Now it's looking like you're where I was about 3
> months ago which was "Do I continue using my workstation to mess with MythTV
> or do I build a dedicated unit?" I decided to build the standalong and I'm
> glad I did. Now, I'm not screwing up my workstation when I want to tweak Myth
> or test something. And now that it's no longer a hardware issue, you might
> want to just taking the plunge. My next step is to find a nicer looking case
> and to get a quieter fan for the CPU. It's amazing how noisey those damn
> little fans are :-)
>
> -alex
>
> On Thursday 20 October 2005 05:53 am, ffrr wrote:
> > I got to thinking, maybe I could try knoppmyth fairly painlessly.  I
> > found an old 15GB IDE drive from an old computer and plugged it into my
> > main machine.  I downloaded the very latest knoppmyth (just announced
> > here in a message today), and quickly installed it.  I didn't get all
> > the myth stuff going - like the tv guide etc, just enough to watch live TV.
> >
> > BTW: it allowed me to import my channels.conf, a feature which people
> > here have said is not in the released mythtv version !!!
> >
> > Anyway, the big discovery is...  rock solid pictures.  Not one single
> > damn glitch in sight, nor in the audio either :-)
> >
> >
> > Conclusions,
> > - it can't be signal strength related, so no point in buying a new card
> > - can't be interrupt related - not directly anyway as nothing has
> > changed in my hardware setup or BIOS
> > - kernel is 2.6.13.2, so maybe a newer kernel than the 2.6.11 I have now
> > might fix it (roll on Mandriva 2006 - or else I look at upgrading the
> > kernel - about which I know nothing--- yet)
> ___

Just got done reading the book that this (was) and now (is) and am
amazed at the amount of responses...

Anyway...

I completely agree with the dedicated system.  Once you take your
desktop out of the equation, you start looking at a whole different
world of hardware.  Plus, you benefit from placement problems.  You
can grab the noisiest fan on earth, as long as it cools well, you are
good to go for a desktop.  The same applies to a myth server, assuming
you can place it in the attic or somewhere far distant.  But, assuming
you are a set top box type, the noise factor plays into a lot of the
hardware you look at.

Plus, it becomes a hobby.  You can buy a piece here and there and put
the system together.  You don't have to always have it running to "do
business".

Cool
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[mythtv-users] IR blaster fails sometimes?

[Mark J. Small]

Hi everybody , sorry if this is a double post...

I've got a recurring issue that is starting to really annoy me.  On many
weeknights I record two consecutive programs on the same channel.  The first
recording stops at at 00:35, and the second record starts at the same time.

Quite often, the second recording gets tuned to the wrong channel.  Last
night, I got half an hour of Leno instead of Ghost in the Shell.  My ir
blaster tuned my DCT2000 to channel 6 instead of channel 26.  The 2 got lost
somewhere along the way.

When I look in my syslog, I can see the lirc events for each digit.

The 2 gets sent at 00:35:05
The 6 gets sent at 00:35:08
The OK gets sent at 00:35:09 (tell dct2000 to really change the channel --
auto tune is off)
The EXIT gets sent at 00:35:10 (kill dct2000 osd)

I think that the 3 second lag between the 2 and the 6 is causing my problem.
By the time the 6 comes along, the 2 has been ignored.

On successful channel changes, the digits get sent every second.  (I pause
 0.7 seconds between sends.)

I'm guessing that at the time of the failed channel change, the machine is
heavily loaded.  But why would it happen for at 00:35 every night, thus
killing the channel change for some of my favourite shows?

I checked, and there are no cron jobs running at 00:35 to slow things down.
My cron.hourly is at 17 minutes past, my cron.daily is at 12:25 (noonish),
and my cron.weekly and cron.monthly are between 4:00 and 6:00.

I looked through lots of logs, and I noticed that at 00:35:03, in
mythtvbackend.log, there is a "reschedule requested for id 0"  This finishes
at 00:35:08.  Is this what is slowing my machine down so much?

What can I do about it?

Faster CPU? More RAM? nice the channel change script?

My backend is a Duron 800 with 256MB RAM and 3 PVR 250s.

Mark
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[mythtv-users] Transcoding, mpeg-2, mpeg-4 ASP vs. AVC

[Stephen Boddy]

I'm getting a little bit confused as to what MythTV is doing on the 
transcoding front.

I'm recording UK SD DVB-T mpeg2 streams. I'm struggling to keep up with the 
stuff I'm recording, so I'd like to transcode where possible.

I've got the system transcoding files, I know it is using the "From MPEG2" 
profile. (When I change the bitrate the transcoded filesize changes.)

I understood mpeg-4 ASP to require approx. half the bitrate / filesize that 
mpeg-2 does for an equivalent quality file. Then mpeg-4 AVC is even better, 
requiring perhaps a third what mpeg-2 does.

I tried adjusting the settings, but I'm seeing a significant drop in the 
quality, even with a modest reduction in bitrate.

From this I have a few questions for anyone willing to give it a shot.

1. Should I be seeing a drop in quality when I lower the bitrate? To 
illustrate: A 1.5 GB mpeg-2 recording, transcoded to mpeg-4 with a 2200 
kilobits/sec has roughly the same filesize and quality as the original 
mpeg-2. Lowering that to 1600 kbps with high quality and 4mv enc. reduces the 
file size (prob. to about 70%) but the quality suffers quite badly. 
Background areas (like trees) that are fairly clear in the original become 
smeared blurry blobs that pan in jerky little steps. Movements of foreground 
objects (i.e. a shoulder and head shot) result in a blocky pixelating effect 
as the face moves quickly, but then settles down once the movement stops.

2. So why am I not able to get better compression for the same quality when I 
transcode to mpeg-4?

3. Does the transcode process actually use the better AVC codec? I took a look 
at the details on the ffmpeg site (home of libavcodec) and according to: 
http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC19 they don't appear to 
support H.264 which is essentially what AVC is.

4. If not, what is the high-quality encoding for? Is it a two-pass vs. 
one-pass?

Thanks in advance for any explanations.
-- 
Steve Boddy
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[mythtv-users] recordings will not play as not root user

[Brandon Gracyalny]

I have a mythtv user setup.  My recordings and live tv partition
is /video.  I can watch live tv as the mythtv user.  When I
try to play a recording using this user the frontend just goes back to
the recording list and will not play.  If I load the frontend as
the root user the recording plays fine.



I have also tried to do this through the xbmcscript on my xbox with the
same results.  The file shows up and the preview shows up but it
will not play.



The owner of the /video file is root.  All other users have read
and write permission on this directory.  I have tried chowning the
video directory as my mythtv user but as soon as a recording happens it
goes back to being owned as root.



I have fedora core 4 and used the instructions on Jarod's site to install mythtv.
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RE: [mythtv-users] (WAS) KnoppMyth (NOW) Sata problems

[Simpson, Richard]

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ffrr
> 
> Trouble is, a new mobo is about the same price as a big IDE 
> drive, and 
> much harder to fit.  Plus, unless I want to buy a new CPU (I 
> have an 2.2
> AMD Sempron, most MBs for it will be older design, and may 
> have the same 
> SATA problems.

Yeah, but the problem with IDE is you're limited to two drives if you want good 
throughput. SATAs are approaching the performance of SCSIs at lower cost and 
will probably be the storage-of-choice for the next few years.

Richard.
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[mythtv-users] Re: Transcode to DVD-compatible MPEG-2 without quality loss?

[Mike Frisch]

On 21-Oct-05, at 4:56 PM, Ramon Redondo wrote:

I am using nuvexport (using ffmpeg) but the picture quality is  
taking a

huge hit.

My half hour TV show is a 1.??GB .nuv file but transcoded to  
MPEG-2 DVD is

around 400MB and it shows it.

What's the trick?

Much appreciated.



It would help if you mentioned what you use for capture... is it a
hardware MPEG encoder (i.e. PVR-150) or is it just a frame grabber?


PVR-250


I believe that there is a losslesss was to convert the output of the
hardware encoders to DVD, assuming you started with the correct
resolution etc.



That'd be what I want if it's possible.


If you are using a frame grabber, I could pass on the 'formula' I use
with NUVEXPORT which does a decent job at maintaining quality.


Why wouldn't the same settings apply for a hardware encoder?

Thanks for the reply,

Mike.

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Re: [mythtv-users] if (x!=rerun) {record}

[Michael T. Dean]

Dave Sherohman wrote:


On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 11:05:31AM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
 


Dave Sherohman wrote:
   


What I would *really* like to see is something comparable to Tivo's
"suggestions" feature (it autorecords shows similar to things you've
said you like when there's extra space available and those recordings
are the first to go when more space is needed), but I would expect
that to be a fairly major addition, while multiple schedules per show
or more autoexpire options would be much simpler to add.


TVWish and other plugins give you this.


Really?  Thanks!  I've been told by two other mythtv users that
nothing like that existed, so I didn't bother checking for myself.
Guess that gets put on my list for after I finish getting MythWeb/
Video/Gallery/Weather up and running...


http://mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MythTvModules

See TVWish, MythSuggest, and MythRecommend.  I can't recommend any of 
them because I don't use them (I have more than I can watch just 
recording the things I know I want to record).  However, I know some are 
being used as I just saw someone (Wendy?) mention using TVWish.


Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] which dial-up modem?

[Michael T. Dean]

Steve Adeff wrote:

I have a USRobotics Courier 56K external modem that I believe is in my parents 
garage. It's prbly the best analog phone line modem ever made. I used to 
routinely transfer at rates far above 56K even when people were saying it was 
impossible to even connect at 56K (as did a few of my friends who also had 
this modem), and this is using the correct bit/byte/Kb math conversions.
 

And compression.  Note that--at least in the US and Canada--it is 
impossible to connect at > 53k, even when using a 56k modem.  The 
problem is not the modem but the fact that transmitting at speeds 
greater the 53k requires more power than the FCC (and whomever makes 
these rules for Canada) allows on phone lines.


Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works

[Lonnie Borntreger]

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 12:18 -0700, Peter Darley wrote:
> Lonnie,
> 
>  Again, please pardon my ignorance. :)
> 
>  I thought that the kernel was monolithic and the modules were  
> all compiled into one kernel binary?  If so, what should I be renaming?

Most of the drivers and interfaces are built as loadable kernel modules.
Which is what the ivtv "driver" is.

[snip]

>  I get /lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1378_FC3/updates/drivers/media/ 
> video/ with ivtv.ko and other ivtv related .ko files.  Would these be  
> the kernel modules that I would rename?  I don't seem to have any  
> other ivtv.ko files anywhere else on the system.

The /lib/modules/ is where kernel modules live.  .ko files
and .ko.gz files are loadable kernel modules.  In the dir with the ivtv
files, take note of the file names.  search under that
entire /lib/modules/ directory for files with the same name
(like tveeprom).  Those are the ones to rename to prevent a clash.  Once
done, run "depmod -a" (without quotes) to update the module dependency
list.  Then when it tries to load the tuner and such, it will get the
one from the ivtv build.

> Thanks for your patience,

No big.

Lonnie Borntreger


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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: mythtv supoprt for lcdproc/other lcds

[Darius Hardy]

Dan Wilga wrote:

At 10:31 AM +0100 10/21/05, Shaun Lowry wrote:


 > Maybe I will hijack this thread, can we make lcdproc


 or Myth use the 2 line display as 1 big line?



That would be perfect!  Anyone know what would be involved in doing this?



I don't think there's any way to do this from the LCDproc side without 
code modifications. You might have better luck suggesting it to the Myth 
devs, since LCD output is being worked on very actively right now. The 
new Myth LCD daemon (in SVN) is very slick!




It'd have to be done via an LCDproc driver. Most of the displays are 
character-based and can only handle a few custom characters, the most 
popular ones using the HD44780 chip which doesn't have a very good 
larger font (it uses the second line to show the descenders of g,q & p 
properly). If you've got a display that can handle double-size 
characters then you just need the LCDproc driver to set it that way. 
There's no native way for an LCDproc server to that (from what I remember.)


--
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She who travels light, forgot something.
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Re: [mythtv-users] (NOW) Sata problems

[ffrr]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On 21 Oct 2005 at 14:03, Blastzone wrote:
 

About 300GB recorded so far... when do you guys find time to watch all the stuff you 
record?


Marvin

 

I don't.  I adopt the philosophy that I need a disk full of stuff that 
interests me.  When I have the leisure time to watch some TV, I am 
assured then, of having a nice selection to chose from. 

Most of it, I am happy to let expire if I don't watch it, and a very 
select few programs, I will mark to not expire.

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Re: [mythtv-users] (WAS) KnoppMyth (NOW) Sata problems

[ffrr]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


.
   



Or maybe upgrade the bios. I was just looking at the ASUS site. 
Several of the bios updates for the board I'm using relate to the SATA 
chip. I'll bet the picture is similar at Abit
 

Did that just recently to fix the problem of disk corruption.  So I'm 
running the latest BIOS.  Actually, I'll bet the timing parameter that 
they extended to fix the corruption, is what has caused my DVB 
problems.  I am fairly sure the glitches weren't there when I first put 
the system together (or if they were, they were mowhere near as bad)





BTW, I don't have any trouble running a terrabyte of SATA drives...


 

No, it's apparently the early SI SATA chips.  I'm hearing bad reports 
about them from everywhere now :-(

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Re: [mythtv-users] Debian plugins

[Nate Carlson]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, James Grant wrote:
The 'core' components installed fine, but it looks like all the 
'plugins' are out of date (mythvideo, mythmusic, etc).. all the 
dependencies are broken for them :(


eg) its looking for libqt3c102-mt instead of libqt3-mt mythmusic has 
other dependency issues as well, like, its looking for libflac6 when it 
should be looking for libflac7


anyone know anything about this?


Yeah; looks like the plugins haven't been updated for current unstable.. I 
just grabbed the source and rebuild; worked great.



| nate carlson | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.natecarlson.com |
|   depriving some poor village of its idiot since 1981|

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Re: [mythtv-users] (WAS) KnoppMyth (NOW) Sata problems

[ffrr]

Simpson, Richard wrote:


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ffrr
   



 

Probably not a good idea.  Maybe I should just sell the SATA 
drives on 
eBay and get SOME of my money back.  I feel a bit ripped off by this 
whole SATA deal right now :-( 
   



My brother has been using SATAs successfully with myth for about a year now. It 
might be worthwhile to try a new mobo first.

Richard.




Trouble is, a new mobo is about the same price as a big IDE drive, and 
much harder to fit.  Plus, unless I want to buy a new CPU (I have an 2.2 
AMD Sempron, most MBs for it will be older design, and may have the same 
SATA problems.


An IDE drive is likely to be an easier and cheaper solution.
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Re: [mythtv-users] how do I assign XMLTVIDs (was mythfilldatabase problem)

[Neale Swinnerton]

Ben Edwards wrote:



Is this a DVB scan?  Also don't I have to enter the first channel manualy?



yes, I'd assumed you were using a DVB-T card, but I see you never said 
that. :-) If you are using some other type of card you'll have to create 
 the channels yourself.


You don't have to enter the first channel manually for a DVB-T scan (I 
certainly don't), why do you think that?


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Re: [mythtv-users] which dial-up modem?

[Steve Adeff]

On Friday 21 October 2005 17:27, Scott Alfter wrote:
> Asher Schaffer wrote:
> > On 10/20/05, Chris Trown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>  There used to be a time(LONG time ago when I was taking care of
> >>dialup modem banks) that I pushed modems with Lucent chipsets.  These
> >>days, however, it just does'nt matter.  So long as it's not a winmodem
> >
> > Only internal PCI modems can be winmodems, as long as it is external
> > you are fine.
>
> There were ISA winmodems back in the day.  There are external modems that
> plug into a USB port (instead of RS-232) that are winmodems.  There are PC
> Card/CardBus winmodems.  Conversely, there are controller-based PCI modems
> that'll work just fine with Linux.
>
> Your generalization falls a bit short.
>
>   _/_
>  / v \ Scott Alfter
> (IIGS( http://alfter.us/Top-posting!
>  \_^_/ rm -rf /bin/laden>What's the most annoying thing on
> Usenet?
>


I have a USRobotics Courier 56K external modem that I believe is in my parents 
garage. It's prbly the best analog phone line modem ever made. I used to 
routinely transfer at rates far above 56K even when people were saying it was 
impossible to even connect at 56K (as did a few of my friends who also had 
this modem), and this is using the correct bit/byte/Kb math conversions.

anyway, email me off-list if you want it.

Steve
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Re: [mythtv-users] transcoded recordings gets "zoomed" when played back

[Bjarne Wichmann Petersen]

On Friday 21 October 2005 22:03, Sasha Z wrote:
> Have you tried changing the aspect ratio via the playback OSD?

By OSD you mean the menu I get when I press "O"? Yes, I've tried changing the 
aspect-ratio. The only thing that changes are the size/placement of the menu. 
The picture is unchanged.

Bjarne
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Re: [mythtv-users] which dial-up modem?

[Scott Alfter]

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Asher Schaffer wrote:
> On 10/20/05, Chris Trown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>  There used to be a time(LONG time ago when I was taking care of
>>dialup modem banks) that I pushed modems with Lucent chipsets.  These
>>days, however, it just does'nt matter.  So long as it's not a winmodem
> 
> Only internal PCI modems can be winmodems, as long as it is external
> you are fine.

There were ISA winmodems back in the day.  There are external modems that plug
into a USB port (instead of RS-232) that are winmodems.  There are PC
Card/CardBus winmodems.  Conversely, there are controller-based PCI modems
that'll work just fine with Linux.

Your generalization falls a bit short.

  _/_
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Re: [mythtv-users] which dial-up modem?

[Scott Alfter]

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Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:17:34PM -0400, Aaron Aguilar wrote:
>>   Anyone  have a suggestion on a dial up modem for me to buy?  I think I
>>   am  gonna  go  external  and  it  looks like the cheapest I can get is
>>   around $30.
> 
> *Are* there any external modems around anymore besides the USRs?  :-)

A couple of years ago, I bought a "LAN modem" (dialup router, really) for my
parents.  It's an external box with a handful of idiot lights, a phone
jack...and a couple of network jacks to connect to your computers (or a LAN).
Given how much of a pain in the *ss getting dial-up connections to work on
Linux can be (especially compared to setting up a LAN connection), this could
be the way to go.

(What I bought was the Actiontec Dual PC Modem:

http://www.actiontec.com/products/broadband/dual_pcmodem/index.php

I paid $70 for it at Fry's.  Froogle lists prices down to about $55 for it.)

  _/_
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Re: [mythtv-users] Choosing a Suitable DVB-T PCI Card

[Lee]

I'll second that, I have a pair of Avermedia 771's as well, they worked 
(after activating DVB) without any hassle using KnoppMyth R5A15...


I don't remember seeing any firmware mentioned anywhere...

Lee

Maybe I'm wrong but I think that I've read that the Avermedia card 
needs a firmware-file to be uploaded by hotplug.  I wanted to have a 
card that worx with OSS software only.


Regards

Schugy

Am 21.10.2005 17:53 schrieb Paul Wheeler:

I have a couple of avermedia dvb 771's that work out of the box in 
2.6.13 (with the right dvb options turned on in the kernel ;-)). I 
found them fairly cheap and work well.


I had a pinnacle card that had problems with it and the mt352 driver 
so i would stay away from them.


Paul

On 10/21/05, *Ben Edwards* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> wrote:


On 10/21/05, *Phill Edwards* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:


 I am a beginner in DVB-T, and I would like to buy a DVB-T


PCI Card to set up a MythTV in my Linux PC.


I have tried to search the archive and google for a week, but


I still cannot come to a final decision about it.


 I would like to ask what kind of DVB-T PCI Card is suitable


for the Linux kernel 2.6.13, as I found some of the articles
about DVB-T Card mentioned that "Not every card that's
supported under Windows works under Linux". Is the list
mentioned in linuxtv.org 
"http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/PCI_devices_DVB-T";
 be
suitable for linux use? And be able to be well supported by
DVBAPI?


 On the other hand, I would like to ask what aspect should I


put my focus on in choosing those card? I do not want to buy a
wrong card as they are not cheap :P


Nova-T seems as well suported as any and is fairly cheap.

Ben

I have 2 V-Stream Xtreme DTcards that work a treat.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Transcode to DVD-compatible MPEG-2 without quality loss?

[Ramon Redondo]

> I am using nuvexport (using ffmpeg) but the picture quality is taking a
> huge hit.
>
> My half hour TV show is a 1.??GB .nuv file but transcoded to MPEG-2 DVD is
> around 400MB and it shows it.
>
> What's the trick?
>
> Much appreciated.

It would help if you mentioned what you use for capture... is it a
hardware MPEG encoder (i.e. PVR-150) or is it just a frame grabber?

I believe that there is a losslesss was to convert the output of the
hardware encoders to DVD, assuming you started with the correct
resolution etc.

If you are using a frame grabber, I could pass on the 'formula' I use
with NUVEXPORT which does a decent job at maintaining quality.
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[mythtv-users] Transcode to DVD-compatible MPEG-2 without quality loss?

[Mike Frisch]

I am using nuvexport (using ffmpeg) but the picture quality is taking a
huge hit.

My half hour TV show is a 1.??GB .nuv file but transcoded to MPEG-2 DVD is
around 400MB and it shows it.

What's the trick?

Much appreciated.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Can anyone recomend a firewire card?

[Jon Kunze]

I bought a Western Digital Firewire card on Ebay for $0.99 plus
shipping, and it works fine. Last I saw (a few months ago) there were
plenty of them for sale.On 10/21/05, David Peeters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just received a DCT 6200 box from my cable
company and I would like to use a firewire connection to change the
channel (not record from). I've been looking around and the
only information I've managed to find on what brand of fire wire card
to use was in Jarod's guide. He said both his Western Digital and Sound blaster Audigy firewire cards worked well. Problem
being that I can't find Western Digital's firewire card anywhere, and I
don't want to buy an audigy just for the firewire support. Can anyone give me a specific brand name of a PCI-firewire
card that worked for them without much trouble?  (I'm running
KnoppMyth if that is any help)
 
Thanks

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Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot scan with PVR500 in setup and ::data:: Column 3 out of range: error

[Michael T. Dean]

R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote:


On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:16:41 -0600, Robert Johnston wrote:


On 20/10/05, Simpson, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
   


The PVR-500 *is* a v4l capture card. For card type, IIRC you select PVR-250/350.
 



   


This still leaves unanswered what you are supposed to use for a
PVR150/500...
 


You sure about that?  ;)

Mike
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[mythtv-users] Re: apt-get upgrade = borked mythtv

[Tom Hines]

On 10/15/05, Tom Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello.  I did an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade today and now my
> system is borked.  I can't play any video files -- no recordings or

Well, I thought I had it figured out.  I see that the new xorg-x11
that got installed has new support for ivtv and xvmc.  I read
somewhere that it requires the latest kernel, which also has new
support for ivtv, but which I hadn't updated.  So I was hoping that a
new kernel would do the trick, but all I succeeded in doing was
breaking my remote control, even with a new matching lirc-kmdl
(kmdl=kernel module).

What I don't understand is whether I still need the ivtv-kmdl now that
the new kernel has this built in.  I'm thinking no, but then why would
it exist?  Anybody?

Thanks,
Tom
kernel-2.6.12-1.1378
mythtv-0.18.1-114.rhfc3.at
Via Epia M10K
Haupauge PVR-250
Fedora Core 3
ATRPMs
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Re: [mythtv-users] Serial control of DirecTV of H10 (Solved)

[Steve Adeff]

On Thursday 20 October 2005 22:46, Dave wrote:
> Well, after some fiddling with the satcontrol code (svn trunk), I've
> gotten channel change working on the DirecTV H10 HD sat receiver.
>  I'm going to clean up my changes and post some diffs.
>
> Dave

are you able to then record the HD feeds with Myth?

Steve
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Re: [mythtv-users] transcoded recordings gets "zoomed" when played back

[Sasha Z]

Have you tried changing the aspect ratio via the playback OSD?

On 10/21/05, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> When I play back a transcoded recording (mpeg4), it sort of gets "zoomed".
> 10-20% of the picture is outside the viewable screen. Untranscoded recordings
> plays just fine, and if I play the transcoded recording directly from mplayer
> there are no issues either.
>
> I'm using the TV-Out on my pvr 350 with ivtv 0.4.0-driver.
>
> Bjarne
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RE: [mythtv-users] Cannot scan with PVR500 in setup and :: data:: Column 3 out of range: error

[Simpson, Richard]

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of R. 
> Geoffrey Newbury
> 
> This still leaves unanswered what you are supposed to use for a
> PVR150/500...
> 
> None of the choices are particularly clear. I am presently 
> trying using
> 'Mpeg capture card (Matrox G200..' etc. And that does not 
> seem to work.

Should be the one with "(PVR-250/350)" in the description

> 
> I now have the pcHDTV card installed and I have copied the 
> kernel tveeprom
> module into the 'updates' stream, replacing tveeprom-ivtv.
> 
> Dmesg seems to happy, except for the fact that the default 
> frequency for
> one of the radio tuners is set to 0.00...
> ivtv-detect against the i2c bus seems ok...although it 
> reports the PVR 500
> units as MPEG against /dev/video0 and /dev/video1 and YUV against
> /dev/video32 and /dev/video33, BUT it reports the pcHDTV as 
> YUV against
> /dev/video2...

If you are using a 2.6.12 or later kernel, you should use the dvb drivers for 
the pcHDTV card. This will create a device node at /dev/dvb/adapter0. Where is 
/dev/video2 linked to?

A good howto for setting up the HD3000 with dvb drivers is here:
http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DigitalTelevisionDVB

In the MythTV capture card setup, the HD2000/3000 is identified as an ATSC card.

> 
> Mythtv-setup seems to be happy with all of this, EXCEPT I still cannot
> scan even if I use the Broadcast listing. Broadcast is coupled to the
> pcHDTV card against /dev/video32 in prior pages of setup.

If it doesn't recognize the pcHDTV as a DVB device, then the scan won't work.

> 
> AND, if I so much as move the cursor selection into the Channel page
> (without changing anything), the mythtv-setup starts throwing the
> continuing error: 
> "QMYSQLReport::data: column 3 is out of range"

This should not be happening. If you cannot manually troubleshoot the database 
via mysql, it may be simpler to delete the database (or empty the tables) and 
populate it again through mythtv-setup.

> 
> Up to that point, mythbackend seems quite happy, and if I exit
> mythtv-setup are setting the input connections, I can run 
> mythfilldatabase
> without problem... but merely touching the Channel screen 
> causes an error.
> 
> I still cannot scan in the Channel screen even when I have 
> selected the
> pcHDTV
> 
> Using mythfrontend to watch live TV times out trying to get 
> signalVery
> discouraged at this state of affairs, as I know that the hardware does
> work.
> 
> Next step will have to be a compile and install of 
> mythtv...this setup was
> a 'yum' job and I now doubt that the configure is quite right.
> 

I also had to setup two capture cards, and found it's easier to concentrate on 
getting one working at a time. Delete the other one completely from myth and 
remove it's kernel drivers. Best way to troubleshoot is to change one thing at 
a time. :)

Richard.
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Re: [mythtv-users] if (x!=rerun) {record}

[Dave Sherohman]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 12:30:13PM -0700, Bruce Markey wrote:
> Derek Battams wrote:
> >Quoting Bruce Markey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >>Note: the rule for new episodes has to take precedence. The more
> >>specific type wins (Single beats Channel beats All) but in this
> >>case they are both All. Therefore the rule for new episodes needs
> >>to be created first to win the tie breaker for older rule. See:
> >>http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-11.html#ss11.7 the last
> >>item under "Scheduling decisions".
> >
> >More for my own knowledge and understanding, but doesn't the assigned 
> >priority (-1 for syndication and +2 for new episodes) ensure that these 
> >rules will never tie?  Therefore, it doesn't really matter which order 
> >you add them, even though doing it this way certainly won't hurt.
> 
> There are two different issues. There is the normal question of
> which of two different titles has higher priority and thus which
> title gets recorded. However, in this case we have two rules that
> match the same showing of the same title. Here the question is
> which rule controls that showing.
> 
> For instance, say you have an All rule for a favorite show with +6.
> Due to circumstance you want it to record on card 2 tonight and can
> do so by lowering the priority to -2 so you add an override. If
> the controlling rule was chosen by priority, the override would lose.
> An override applies to a single showing of a program that is also
> controlled by a recurring rule. The override must always win precedence
> in order to work. The same would be true if you set a kWeekslotRecord
> rule for one showing where you knew the time was always off by a few
> minutes and a kChannelRecord for all other showings. The weekslot
> rule needs to control that specific day and time over the more general
> rule regardless of any of the recording parameters.
> 
> In the code, this decision is made by RecTypePriority().

Great examples for why a more specific rule should always win over a
less specific rule, but, when both are equally-specific, it would
seem reasonable to go to priority as the next determinant rather than
when the rule was created, if for no other reason than because, if
you want to be sure which one takes precedence, priority is visible
in the interface and 'date rule created' is not.  (Not to mention
that, if the wrong one has precedence, it's easier to change its
priority than it is to delete and recreate rules so that they're in
the right order.  And it would be more consistent to boot. (Priority
controls precedence of rules between different shows but not the same
show?  Huh?)  Priority is better from a standpoint of clarity as
well, since anyone can see that higher-priority beats lower-priority,
but if you just say it's decided on date, then it's unclear whether
newer or older should win - and some of us would expect newer to win,
for much the same reason as we would expect overrides to win over the
general rule.)

*phew*  OK, I think I'm out of reasons why I think it should go to
priority after specificity instead of to rule age.  So why was it set
up to go by age instead?

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[mythtv-users] Scientific Atlanta channel change over firewire ?

[Chad Delatte]

Hey guys,
It looks like the guys at the green button figured out
how to do channel change over firewire for SCientific
Atlanta.  Here is the link:
http://www.thegreenbutton.com/community/download.aspx?id=1295&MessageID=104152
Hope this helps some Myth users
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Re: [mythtv-users] Choosing a Suitable DVB-T PCI Card

[Christian Schuglitsch]

Maybe I'm wrong but I think that I've read that the Avermedia card needs 
a firmware-file to be uploaded by hotplug.  I wanted to have a card that 
worx with OSS software only.


Regards

Schugy

Am 21.10.2005 17:53 schrieb Paul Wheeler:

I have a couple of avermedia dvb 771's that work out of the box in 
2.6.13 (with the right dvb options turned on in the kernel ;-)). I 
found them fairly cheap and work well.


I had a pinnacle card that had problems with it and the mt352 driver 
so i would stay away from them.


Paul

On 10/21/05, *Ben Edwards* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> wrote:


On 10/21/05, *Phill Edwards* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:


 I am a beginner in DVB-T, and I would like to buy a DVB-T

PCI Card to set up a MythTV in my Linux PC.

I have tried to search the archive and google for a week, but

I still cannot come to a final decision about it.

 I would like to ask what kind of DVB-T PCI Card is suitable

for the Linux kernel 2.6.13, as I found some of the articles
about DVB-T Card mentioned that "Not every card that's
supported under Windows works under Linux". Is the list
mentioned in linuxtv.org 
"http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/PCI_devices_DVB-T";
 be
suitable for linux use? And be able to be well supported by
DVBAPI?

 On the other hand, I would like to ask what aspect should I

put my focus on in choosing those card? I do not want to buy a
wrong card as they are not cheap :P


Nova-T seems as well suported as any and is fairly cheap.

Ben

I have 2 V-Stream Xtreme DTcards that work a treat.
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Re: [mythtv-users] (NOW) Sata problems

[match]

On 21 Oct 2005 at 14:03, Blastzone wrote:

> 
> For what it's worth, I had a hell of a time with SATA & PATA drives in my 
> ASUS Pundit-R. 
> (250GB Maxtor midline SATA & NEC DVD-RW or ASUS DVD-RW drives)
> 
> DMA acceleration would not work on either PATA DVD drive, some FC3 kernels 
> would segfault 
> on startup, Knoppix or Gentoo LiveCDs would not boot, and other problems.
> 
> I dropped to a 160GB Seagate PATA drive, and aside from it filling up rather 
> quickly, all the 
> problems went away. That won't solve your problems, but 2 trips to ASUS RMA 
> and 4 months 
> didn't fix mine either...

Isn't it interesting that we see similar hardware that works for one guy, but 
not the next...

The only dificulty I saw was during the Fedora install. It wouldn't let me 
assign a /music 
partition. I circumvented the problem by creating an LVM volume... go figure...

Just to clarify, I have:

ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard (SIL SATA chip, dunno the version)
Athlon 3200+
512M RAM
PATA DVD drive (dunno the brand or model, but it wasn't particularly expenive)
200GB PATA Seagate (I think... could be a Maxtor, I don't remember)
2-400 GB SATA Seagates
HD-3000
PVR-250
PVR-250 MCE
nVidia FX 5200

Running FC4 via Jarod's guide. The system is on the PATA drive, as is a 90GB 
/music 
partition. The last third of the PATA and both SATA's make an LVM volume of 
about 
865GB for a /video partition formatted XFS.

No problems so far... runs great. Been online for about a month continuously as 
a 
combined FE/BE... I don't use the HD-3000 right now.

About 300GB recorded so far... when do you guys find time to watch all the 
stuff you 
record?

Marvin

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Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth and cle266

[Kim Wall]

John P. Mitchell wrote:


   If this is a VIA C3 processor attached to a CLE266 chipset, then I
believe that i586 binaries are the correct version to use. I understand
that certain features present in an i686 class processor are not
present in the C3 and i686 binaries may not run correctly on a C3.


Right.  I don't know anything about the C3, but thought it was worth 
mentioning, as I'd spent a long time banging my head against the 
performance problems on perfectly capable hardware with Knoppmyth.



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Re: [mythtv-users] if (x!=rerun) {record}

[Bruce Markey]

Derek Battams wrote:

Quoting Bruce Markey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


Note: the rule for new episodes has to take precedence. The more
specific type wins (Single beats Channel beats All) but in this
case they are both All. Therefore the rule for new episodes needs
to be created first to win the tie breaker for older rule. See:
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-11.html#ss11.7 the last
item under "Scheduling decisions".


More for my own knowledge and understanding, but doesn't the assigned 
priority (-1 for syndication and +2 for new episodes) ensure that these 
rules will never tie?  Therefore, it doesn't really matter which order 
you add them, even though doing it this way certainly won't hurt.


There are two different issues. There is the normal question of
which of two different titles has higher priority and thus which
title gets recorded. However, in this case we have two rules that
match the same showing of the same title. Here the question is
which rule controls that showing.

For instance, say you have an All rule for a favorite show with +6.
Due to circumstance you want it to record on card 2 tonight and can
do so by lowering the priority to -2 so you add an override. If
the controlling rule was chosen by priority, the override would lose.
An override applies to a single showing of a program that is also
controlled by a recurring rule. The override must always win precedence
in order to work. The same would be true if you set a kWeekslotRecord
rule for one showing where you knew the time was always off by a few
minutes and a kChannelRecord for all other showings. The weekslot
rule needs to control that specific day and time over the more general
rule regardless of any of the recording parameters.

In the code, this decision is made by RecTypePriority().

--  bjm

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[mythtv-users] Can anyone recomend a firewire card?

[David Peeters]

I just received a DCT 6200 box from my cable company and I would like to use a firewire connection to change the channel (not record from). I've been looking around and the only information I've managed to find on what brand of fire wire card to use was in Jarod's guide. 
He said both his Western Digital and Sound blaster Audigy firewire cards worked well. Problem being that I can't find Western Digital's firewire card anywhere, and I don't want to buy an audigy just for the firewire support. 
Can anyone give me a specific brand name of a PCI-firewire card that worked for them without much trouble?  (I'm running KnoppMyth if that is any help)
 
Thanks
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Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot scan with PVR500 in setup and ::data:: Column 3 out of range: error

[R. Geoffrey Newbury]

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:16:41 -0600, Robert Johnston wrote:

>On 20/10/05, Simpson, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The PVR-500 *is* a v4l capture card. For card type, IIRC you select 
>> PVR-250/350. AFAIK, the myth scanning feature only works for DVB cards. When 
>> you download your zap2it channel lineup in the Capture Card section of 
>> mythtv-setup, it should populate the channel table (I don't recall offhand 
>> what column 3 should be). You can get into the mysql database with "mysql -u 
>> mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg." Hope that helps.
>
>No, the PVR-500 *IS NOT* a V4L card, it is an IVTV card.
>
>However, you are correct that "Channel Scanning" is for DVB/ATSC only,
>and not for "Analogue" tuning methods (Which should be getting their
>frequency data from Zap2It/XMLTV)

This still leaves unanswered what you are supposed to use for a
PVR150/500...

None of the choices are particularly clear. I am presently trying using
'Mpeg capture card (Matrox G200..' etc. And that does not seem to work.

I now have the pcHDTV card installed and I have copied the kernel tveeprom
module into the 'updates' stream, replacing tveeprom-ivtv.

Dmesg seems to happy, except for the fact that the default frequency for
one of the radio tuners is set to 0.00...
ivtv-detect against the i2c bus seems ok...although it reports the PVR 500
units as MPEG against /dev/video0 and /dev/video1 and YUV against
/dev/video32 and /dev/video33, BUT it reports the pcHDTV as YUV against
/dev/video2...

Mythtv-setup seems to be happy with all of this, EXCEPT I still cannot
scan even if I use the Broadcast listing. Broadcast is coupled to the
pcHDTV card against /dev/video32 in prior pages of setup.

AND, if I so much as move the cursor selection into the Channel page
(without changing anything), the mythtv-setup starts throwing the
continuing error: 
"QMYSQLReport::data: column 3 is out of range"

Up to that point, mythbackend seems quite happy, and if I exit
mythtv-setup are setting the input connections, I can run mythfilldatabase
without problem... but merely touching the Channel screen causes an error.

I still cannot scan in the Channel screen even when I have selected the
pcHDTV

Using mythfrontend to watch live TV times out trying to get signalVery
discouraged at this state of affairs, as I know that the hardware does
work.

Next step will have to be a compile and install of mythtv...this setup was
a 'yum' job and I now doubt that the configure is quite right.

Geoff



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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works

[Peter Darley]

Lonnie,

Again, please pardon my ignorance. :)

I thought that the kernel was monolithic and the modules were  
all compiled into one kernel binary?  If so, what should I be renaming?


When I do a locate ivtv, I get several sets of things that don't  
look like source or docs, any of which I could potentially rename:


I get /sys/module/ivtv/ with a bunch of files and directories  
under it.


I get /usr/lib/ivtv/ivtvfwextract.pl which is certainly not a  
driver.


I get /lib/modules/ which has ivtv-fw-enc.bin and some  
other .bin files in it.


I get /lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1378_FC3/updates/drivers/media/ 
video/ with ivtv.ko and other ivtv related .ko files.  Would these be  
the kernel modules that I would rename?  I don't seem to have any  
other ivtv.ko files anywhere else on the system.


Thanks for your patience,
Peter Darley


On Oct 21, 2005, at 11:44 AM, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:


On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 11:35 -0700, Peter Darley wrote:


 So, my current question is: is there any way to override the
kernel module with an external one, so the kerenel module doesn't
load, or am I to the point where my only hope is to re-compile the
kernel with the new module, or without any ivtv module and then load
the package one?



I renamed the conflicting kernel modules, ran depmod -a, and then it
only sees the ivtv ones.

Lonnie Borntreger



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Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth and cle266

[John P. Mitchell]

List,

> Alberto Alonso wrote:
>> I seem to be using it wrong then (R5A16). When I boot from the
>> cd and select watch TV the video plays and pauses continually.

   You might be able to check which libraries the mythfrontend binary is
linked against with 'ldd `which mythfrontend`'. If the binary is linked
to viaXvMC or libddmpeg it would appear to support the CLE266.

>
> I believe Knoppmyth uses i586 mythtv binaries by default, and presumably
> when run from CD.  I've noticed this makes all the difference in
> sub-1GHz Duron and Celeron systems.

   If this is a VIA C3 processor attached to a CLE266 chipset, then I
believe that i586 binaries are the correct version to use. I understand
that certain features present in an i686 class processor are not
present in the C3 and i686 binaries may not run correctly on a C3.

> Not sure how you could persuade it to switch to i686 when running a live
> CD frontend, but "dpkg -i filename" on the files in
> /usr/src/mythtv/i686/ works on an installed system.
>
>
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Re: [mythtv-users] Frontend freeze when deleting recording

[Mercury Morris]

On 10/21/05, Steve Pugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello all,I am running my Myth system with a PVR-250 forcapture, and a PVR-350 for capture and playbackthrough the 350's framebuffer.Things are gorgeous, and I am thrilled to report thatsince upgrading ivtv to 
0.4.0 I have yet to see a hardfreeze during playback (previously, I would have tohard reset once per "viewing evening" because theframebuffer froze up solid, even though the OSDdisplay showed life).
However, I am still experiencing a solid framebufferfreezeup when, after watching a show, I choose eitherof the two delete options available to me.  Themachine itself is still running, and mythbackend
continues to record, but the frontend locks up.A search of the archives turned up some old (2003)posts which leaned toward ivtv as the issue - however,I've not had any reply from that list so I am begging
your indulgence.If any kind souls can offer guidance or suggestions, Iwould be most appreciative.  The output is beautiful,so the sooner I can rock-solidify it, the quicker Ican bask in the exceptionally high WAF that the system
deserves ;-)Thoughts?  Recommendations?  Good curry recipes?Deleting
a recording while recording is underway, or while some other I/O is
active, MAY result in the system hanging.  The system may recover
in a few seconds, or it may seem to be permanently hung.  You can
search the archives for the terms "IOBOUND" and/or "discontinuity" and
read about more difficulties when a recording is deleted.

Some may claim that using a particular filesystem can avoid the IOBOUND
condition, but the filesystem might have some other risks associated
with it.
I use ext3 filesystem because it is reliable and stable, but if I
forget to manually delete old Letterman, Leno, etc., shows, then I get
corrupted recordings.  The backendlog shows IOBOUND messages that
correspond exactly with the times of the corruption.

I would like to (someday) ask for MythTV to provide support for
scheduling  "UN-recording" of programs.  Instead of
AutoExpire happening immediately within two minutes of the start of
recording a program, the delete would be deferred until the time when
the backend determines that it is idle.  At that time, the backend
has nothing to do, and usually shuts down the system just after
scheduling the system to power-on in time for the next recording.

Besides scheduling the next power-on, the backend could check if there
had been any "UN-recordings" requested, delete those recordings, and
then shut down.

You might want to check the backendlog on your system for any IOBOUND
messages that correspond to the times when your system hung.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Backend loses the database

[Nick Rosier]

On 10/21/05, Mickey Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've had a peculiar problem pop up lately.  About once a day, my
> recorded programs listing goes away and starts reading "No recorded
> programs available."  Restarting the back end gets the listing back.
>
> The only error I'm seeing in the log is this:
>
> 2005-10-21 11:00:00.082 DB Error (KickDatabase):
> Query was:
> SELECT NULL;
> Driver error was [2/2006]:
> QMYSQL3: Unable to execute query
> Database error was:
> MySQL server has gone away
>
> Of course, the MySQL server hasn't gone away since restarting the
> backend (not the MySQL server) re-establishes that connection.
>
> Any ideas?

Strangely enough I had the same problem about 2h ago. Coincidence?

N.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Backend loses the database

[Steve Pugh]

--- Mickey Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I've had a peculiar problem pop up lately.  About
> once a day, my 
> recorded programs listing goes away and starts
> reading "No recorded 
> programs available."  Restarting the back end gets
> the listing back.
> 
> The only error I'm seeing in the log is this:
> 
> 2005-10-21 11:00:00.082 DB Error (KickDatabase):
> Query was:
> SELECT NULL;
> Driver error was [2/2006]:
> QMYSQL3: Unable to execute query
> Database error was:
> MySQL server has gone away
> 
> Of course, the MySQL server hasn't gone away since
> restarting the 
> backend (not the MySQL server) re-establishes that
> connection.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
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Hi Mickey,

I've had the same thing happen (I'd say twice in the
last couple of weeks) but *ONLY* in Mythweb.  My Myth
interface hasn't exhibited this yet - that'd be a
pretty unnerving thing to experience.

I didn't notice any errors in the backend log, but
there's every possibility that I just missed it in a
fit of newbieism.

Best,
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Re: [mythtv-users] if (x!=rerun) {record}

[Derek Battams]

Quoting Bruce Markey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


Note: the rule for new episodes has to take precedence. The more
specific type wins (Single beats Channel beats All) but in this
case they are both All. Therefore the rule for new episodes needs
to be created first to win the tie breaker for older rule. See:
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-11.html#ss11.7 the last
item under "Scheduling decisions".


More for my own knowledge and understanding, but doesn't the assigned 
priority (-1 for syndication and +2 for new episodes) ensure that these 
rules will never tie?  Therefore, it doesn't really matter which order 
you add them, even though doing it this way certainly won't hurt.


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Re: [mythtv-users] Frontend freeze when deleting recording

[Steve Pugh]

--- Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 11:16:03AM -0700, Steve Pugh
> wrote:
> > However, I am still experiencing a solid
> framebuffer
> > freezeup when, after watching a show, I choose
> either
> > of the two delete options available to me.  The
> > machine itself is still running, and mythbackend
> > continues to record, but the frontend locks up.
> 
> Are you sure it's framebuffer that's freezing?  I
> have experienced an
> occasional issue where deleting programs will cause
> mythfrontend to
> become nonresponsive

Hi Dave, I am absolutely not certain that it's the
framebuffer; I may well have (wrongly) assumed that it
was due to the similarity to my other freeze.  I've
also not let it sit that long to see if it times out,
mostly because the steam coming out of my ears would
build up too quickly  ;-)

Hopefully I can let it sit and do some more testing
this weekend.  Thank you for your input, it is
appreciated!





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[mythtv-users] Backend loses the database

[Mickey Chandler]

I've had a peculiar problem pop up lately.  About once a day, my 
recorded programs listing goes away and starts reading "No recorded 
programs available."  Restarting the back end gets the listing back.


The only error I'm seeing in the log is this:

2005-10-21 11:00:00.082 DB Error (KickDatabase):
Query was:
SELECT NULL;
Driver error was [2/2006]:
QMYSQL3: Unable to execute query
Database error was:
MySQL server has gone away

Of course, the MySQL server hasn't gone away since restarting the 
backend (not the MySQL server) re-establishes that connection.


Any ideas?

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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works

[Lonnie Borntreger]

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 11:35 -0700, Peter Darley wrote:
>  So, my current question is: is there any way to override the  
> kernel module with an external one, so the kerenel module doesn't  
> load, or am I to the point where my only hope is to re-compile the  
> kernel with the new module, or without any ivtv module and then load  
> the package one?

I renamed the conflicting kernel modules, ran depmod -a, and then it
only sees the ivtv ones.

Lonnie Borntreger


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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works

[Peter Darley]

Folks,
First, sorry for spamming the list with all this stuff.  I feel  
like I'm getting a handle on things, but it's slow and plodding.


When I go to get the source for 0.3.9 from svn as per the  
thread, I get a message saying it's not available:
"[EMAIL PROTECTED] ivtv]# svn co http://ivtvdriver.org/svn/ivtv/ 
tags/0.3.9 ivtv

svn: URL 'http://ivtvdriver.org/svn/ivtv/tags/0.3.9' doesn't exist"

I did get the source for 0.4.0, and it looks like the patch is  
already in there.  I also have itvt v0.4.0 from yum on the system,  
and I'm still getting the same problems.  When I do "dmesg | grep  
tuner" I get:

"ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=60]
tuner 1-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
tveeprom: tuner = Philips FQ1236A MK4 (idx = 92, type = 57)
tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x1000)
tuner 1-0060: type set to 57 (Philips FQ1236A MK4)
ivtv1: i2c attach to card #1 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61]
tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
tveeprom: tuner = Philips FQ1236A MK4 (idx = 92, type = 57)
tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x1000)
tuner 2-0061: type set to 57 (Philips FQ1236A MK4)"

The first tuner is getting ivtv i2c driver #0 at addr=60, and  
the second is gettin ivtv i2c driver #1 at addr=61, which seems to  
match the problem as layed out in the thread on ivtv-devel.


So, my current question is: is there any way to override the  
kernel module with an external one, so the kerenel module doesn't  
load, or am I to the point where my only hope is to re-compile the  
kernel with the new module, or without any ivtv module and then load  
the package one?


Thanks,
Peter Darley



On Oct 21, 2005, at 9:31 AM, Danesh wrote:


Hey,

I had the same problem and fixing it took
- downloading the patch from the following thread,
- applying it to ivtv source, and
- recompiling ivtv and then rebooting.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/24322? 
search_string=second%20pvr-500;#24322


Ofcourse, remember to do the above everytime you recompile your  
kernel.


Regards,
`Danesh

On 10/21/05, Peter Darley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Folks,

 I guess I'll reply to my own message...

 On the ivtv-devel list I find:


With Hans Verkuil's help, which was VERY much appreciated, my
problem turned
out to be that I was using the tuner that came with the linux
kernel itself
rather than the one that came with ivtv-0.3.9.  Looks likely I was
doing the
same with tveeprom as well.  Once I switched, I was able to get
both tuners
working correctly and successfully captured mpeg using the cat /dev/
video?
trick.



 Which seems like it could easily be my problem as well.  So, I'm
wondering if anyone out there can give me a pointer on how to prevent
the card from being controlled by the kernal modules, and get the
correct modules from ivtv to load instead.  Will I have to re-compile
the kernel to do this?

 My kernel version is the latest FC3 kernel: "Linux version
2.6.12-1.1378_FC3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2)) #1 Wed Sep 14 04:24:31 EDT 2005"

Thanks for any pointers!
Peter Darley

On Oct 20, 2005, at 9:59 PM, Peter Darley wrote:



Larry,
Well, I've put my card into a windows machine and it doesn't
appear to be broken.  BeyondTV can use both tuners.
I'll check out the ivtv list.  If you make any progress, can
you let this list know?
Thanks,
Peter
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Larry K
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 4:38 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works

I have the same problem, and a lengthy thread over in the ivtv-
devel archive.  No solution yet.  I've  tried just about everything.

On 10/20/05, Peter Darley <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:  
Folks,


I've just installed a PVR-500, and I'm having a problem.  I
can use video1,
but I get only static on video0.  It seems like the problem is that
it's not
actually able to change channel; I think it's tuning channel 1
which I don't
get, since the static looks just like a tv that doesn't have an
antenna or
cable hooked up.  It's possible that the problem is not that it's  
not

changing channel, so I don't want to rule anything out.

When I try to use ivtv-tune, I get:
# ivtv-tune -d/dev/video0 -c60
/dev/video0: 439.250 MHz

# ivtv-tune -d/dev/video1 -c60
/dev/video1: 439.250 MHz  (Signal Detected)

Which seems to be saying that the channel change on video0
didn't succeed,
while the change on video1 did.

I'm hoping that there's someone else out there who has had
similar problems
and can give me a pointer.  I'm also not rulling out that it's just
broken.

Thanks,
Peter Darley

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Re: [mythtv-users] Frontend freeze when deleting recording

[Dave Sherohman]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 11:16:03AM -0700, Steve Pugh wrote:
> However, I am still experiencing a solid framebuffer
> freezeup when, after watching a show, I choose either
> of the two delete options available to me.  The
> machine itself is still running, and mythbackend
> continues to record, but the frontend locks up.

Are you sure it's framebuffer that's freezing?  I have experienced an
occasional issue where deleting programs will cause mythfrontend to
become nonresponsive; I have a full keyboard hooked up to my myth box
and was able to alt-tab back to the shell I started mythfrontend from
and kill it with ctrl-c.  Alternately, waiting a couple minutes would
cause it to time out and resume functioning, although without
deleting the recording.  When this has happened, mythfrontend has
appeared to continue to function normally afterwards with the
exception that deleting programs would continue to hang in the same
fashion until I restarted mythbackend, leading me to suspect some
sort of connection issue somewhere.

I never figured out an exact cause, so I can't say how to fix it
(although I haven't seen this happen for a while now), but I figured
I'd throw my experiences out there to see whether my problem and
yours were the same one.

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Re: [mythtv-users] if (x!=rerun) {record}

[Bruce Markey]

Michael T. Dean wrote:

Fred Squires wrote:

On 10/20/05, *Todd Houle* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> wrote:


I need a little help running a reruns rule.  I'd like the following
rule for recording, but I can't seem to find where/how to enter it.

I'd like to record a show and keep at most 4 episodes of it.  If
there's anymore, don't record them until I watch the old (this part
I'm doing).  However, if it's not a rerun, then record it anyway -
either delete and old one, or just record it in addition.

Right now there's no way to do that, other than manually doing it.
It would be great if you could give new episodes a higher priority


In SVN, you could create a custom record rule for new episodes only and 
assign a priority for that.  Then, create a rule for old episodes.  Or, 
assuming you do this after creating the custom record rule for new 
episodes, just create a rule for record all.  If you use the same rule 
type (i.e. this channel or all channels) for both, the all episodes rule 
must be created after the new episodes rule so it can match first.  If 
you make a more specific rule for the new episodes (i.e. use this 
channel for new episodes and any channel for all episodes), it doesn't 
matter what order they're created in.


Outstanding. Your ability to absorb information then present in an
easy to digest manner is always impressive. I really hope you spend
some time at some point going over the HOWTO to clarify things you
commonly respond to so that you can reply with links to the docs.
But that's another matter.


Then, assign priorities to the rules as desired.

I hope I got this all right, but I'm sure Bruce Markey will chime in 
with corrections to any misinformation here...  He's the man with the 
answers for recording rules--especially custom recording.  ;)


You rang? I started a reply to this last night but got mired in the
details of making sure the power search for new rules had precedence
and the issue of total episodes for two rules.

Todd, What Mike said. Here are the gory details.

I'll guess we're talking about "The Simpsons". If not, it's a typical
example for the situation described. There are new episodes Sunday
evening on FOX and years of reruns on the same or different channels
throughout the week. You want a limited number of reruns but still
record new episodes. You may even want a different priority or profile
for the new ones.

This can be done with two different rule. One that applies to new
episodes only and one that will match any other showing. As Mike
mentioned, the rule for new episodes has to match only the new
episodes and take precedence over the other rule. I'll use the
output of "mythbackend  -v schedule" to illustrate. Because of
the World Series, there isn't a new Simpsons this week so I faked
one in my test DB program table.

First, if I set a simple "All" rule. It matches three episodes:

--- print list start ---
Title - SubtitleChan ChID Day Start  End   S C I  T N Pri
The Simpsons - "Diatribe of a Mad H   14 1014  21 18:30-19:00  1 1 1  A 1   0
The Simpsons - "Margical History To   14 1014  21 19:30-20:00  1 1 1  A 1   0
The Simpsons - "Brand New Bart"5 1005  23 20:00-20:30  1 1 1  A 1   0

The "T"ype is "A" and they are all scheduled to record on card 1.
If I set "Record new episodes only", it will mark the reruns as
"r"epeat.

The Simpsons - "Diatribe of a Mad H   14 1014  21 18:30-19:00  1 0 0  A r   0
The Simpsons - "Margical History To   14 1014  21 19:30-20:00  1 0 0  A r   0
The Simpsons - "Brand New Bart"5 1005  23 20:00-20:30  1 1 1  A 1   0

This rule still controls all three episodes but we want a different
rule for the reruns so we need a rule that will only match the new
episodes. To do this, I remove this rule, go to Custom Record and
create this rule:

program.title = 'The Simpsons'
AND program.previouslyshown = 0

from "Match an exact title" and "New episodes only". See:
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-11.html#ss11.8 . I click
"Record" to set a new rule with no episode limit but I bump up the
priority a bit to make sure I get these new episodes.

The Simpsons - "Brand New Bart"5 1005  23 20:00-20:30  1 1 1  A 1   2

This rule only matched the new episode and set the priority to 2.
Next I find one of the old episodes. There is no existing rule
so I can create a new one. I choose All but this time I lower the
priority by 1, set "Keep at most 4 episodes" and "Don't record if
this would exceed the max episodes" then Save.

The Simpsons - "Diatribe of a Mad H   14 1014  21 18:30-19:00  1 1 1  A 1  -1
The Simpsons - "Margical History To   14 1014  21 19:30-20:00  1 1 1  A 1  -1
The Simpsons - "Brand New Bart"5 1005  23 20:00-20:30  1 1 1  A 1   2

The reruns have -1 priority and only a max of 4 recorded by this
rule will be kept. New episodes will get +2 and an unlimited number
recordings. You could have 4 reruns and 2 new for a total of 6 but
pr

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works

[Danesh]

Peter,

Yes.. The problem is with the kernel tveeprom being used instead of
ivtv's version. So quite simply...

- If you recompile your kernel, the tveeprom (ivtv version) will be
overwritten with the kernel version and hence you will need to
recompile ivtv AFTER recompiling your kernel.
- If you dont recompile your kernel and simply install ivtv. You
shouldn't have a problem.

Things should work, but just incase they don't patch the source and
try again. The patch fixes radio on the PVR500
(http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/engine?do=post_attachment;postatt_id=1203;list=ivtv).

Regards,
~Danesh


On 10/21/05, Peter Darley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Danesh,
>
>  Thanks for responding to this!
>
>  Forgive my ignorance, but it looks like you're saying that if I
> recomplie ivtv, I won't need to recompile the kernel?  Or is this a
> way to get ivtv compiled into the kernel correctly?  I've never
> compiled a kernel, so I'm hoping that I won't have to... :)
>
> Thanks again,
> Peter Darley
> On Oct 21, 2005, at 9:31 AM, Danesh wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > I had the same problem and fixing it took
> > - downloading the patch from the following thread,
> > - applying it to ivtv source, and
> > - recompiling ivtv and then rebooting.
> >
> > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/24322?
> > search_string=second%20pvr-500;#24322
> >
> > Ofcourse, remember to do the above everytime you recompile your
> > kernel.
> >
> > Regards,
> > `Danesh
> >
> > On 10/21/05, Peter Darley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> Folks,
> >>
> >>  I guess I'll reply to my own message...
> >>
> >>  On the ivtv-devel list I find:
> >>
> >>> With Hans Verkuil's help, which was VERY much appreciated, my
> >>> problem turned
> >>> out to be that I was using the tuner that came with the linux
> >>> kernel itself
> >>> rather than the one that came with ivtv-0.3.9.  Looks likely I was
> >>> doing the
> >>> same with tveeprom as well.  Once I switched, I was able to get
> >>> both tuners
> >>> working correctly and successfully captured mpeg using the cat /dev/
> >>> video?
> >>> trick.
> >>>
> >>
> >>  Which seems like it could easily be my problem as well.  So, I'm
> >> wondering if anyone out there can give me a pointer on how to prevent
> >> the card from being controlled by the kernal modules, and get the
> >> correct modules from ivtv to load instead.  Will I have to re-compile
> >> the kernel to do this?
> >>
> >>  My kernel version is the latest FC3 kernel: "Linux version
> >> 2.6.12-1.1378_FC3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
> >> 3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2)) #1 Wed Sep 14 04:24:31 EDT 2005"
> >>
> >> Thanks for any pointers!
> >> Peter Darley
> >>
> >> On Oct 20, 2005, at 9:59 PM, Peter Darley wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Larry,
> >>> Well, I've put my card into a windows machine and it doesn't
> >>> appear to be broken.  BeyondTV can use both tuners.
> >>> I'll check out the ivtv list.  If you make any progress, can
> >>> you let this list know?
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Peter
> >>> -Original Message-
> >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users-
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Larry K
> >>> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 4:38 PM
> >>> To: Discussion about mythtv
> >>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works
> >>>
> >>> I have the same problem, and a lengthy thread over in the ivtv-
> >>> devel archive.  No solution yet.  I've  tried just about everything.
> >>>
> >>> On 10/20/05, Peter Darley <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> >>> Folks,
> >>>
> >>> I've just installed a PVR-500, and I'm having a problem.  I
> >>> can use video1,
> >>> but I get only static on video0.  It seems like the problem is that
> >>> it's not
> >>> actually able to change channel; I think it's tuning channel 1
> >>> which I don't
> >>> get, since the static looks just like a tv that doesn't have an
> >>> antenna or
> >>> cable hooked up.  It's possible that the problem is not that it's
> >>> not
> >>> changing channel, so I don't want to rule anything out.
> >>>
> >>> When I try to use ivtv-tune, I get:
> >>> # ivtv-tune -d/dev/video0 -c60
> >>> /dev/video0: 439.250 MHz
> >>>
> >>> # ivtv-tune -d/dev/video1 -c60
> >>> /dev/video1: 439.250 MHz  (Signal Detected)
> >>>
> >>> Which seems to be saying that the channel change on video0
> >>> didn't succeed,
> >>> while the change on video1 did.
> >>>
> >>> I'm hoping that there's someone else out there who has had
> >>> similar problems
> >>> and can give me a pointer.  I'm also not rulling out that it's just
> >>> broken.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Peter Darley
> >>>
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Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth and cle266

[Kim Wall]

Alberto Alonso wrote:

I seem to be using it wrong then (R5A16). When I boot from the
cd and select watch TV the video plays and pauses continually.


I believe Knoppmyth uses i586 mythtv binaries by default, and presumably 
when run from CD.  I've noticed this makes all the difference in 
sub-1GHz Duron and Celeron systems.


Not sure how you could persuade it to switch to i686 when running a live 
CD frontend, but "dpkg -i filename" on the files in 
/usr/src/mythtv/i686/ works on an installed system.



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[mythtv-users] Frontend freeze when deleting recording

[Steve Pugh]

Hello all,

I am running my Myth system with a PVR-250 for
capture, and a PVR-350 for capture and playback
through the 350's framebuffer.

Things are gorgeous, and I am thrilled to report that
since upgrading ivtv to 0.4.0 I have yet to see a hard
freeze during playback (previously, I would have to
hard reset once per "viewing evening" because the
framebuffer froze up solid, even though the OSD
display showed life).

However, I am still experiencing a solid framebuffer
freezeup when, after watching a show, I choose either
of the two delete options available to me.  The
machine itself is still running, and mythbackend
continues to record, but the frontend locks up.

A search of the archives turned up some old (2003)
posts which leaned toward ivtv as the issue - however,
I've not had any reply from that list so I am begging
your indulgence.

If any kind souls can offer guidance or suggestions, I
would be most appreciative.  The output is beautiful,
so the sooner I can rock-solidify it, the quicker I
can bask in the exceptionally high WAF that the system
deserves ;-)

Thoughts?  Recommendations?  Good curry recipes?

Best,
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Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth and cle266

[Alberto Alonso]

I seem to be using it wrong then (R5A16). When I boot from the
cd and select watch TV the video plays and pauses continually.
I thought that it didn't have hardware acceleration. I
assume that the cle266 detection is automatic and I don't
have to use a particular switch, right?

I was trying to get the ssh going so that I could troubleshoot
from a different box. The ssh host keys don't get created
automatically, should I just go ahead and create the host keys
manually?. This brings me to the question, which parts of the
file system will be writable?

Thanks,

Alberto


On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 23:08 -0700, Cecil Watson wrote:
> Alberto Alonso wrote:
> > Does KnoppMyth support hardware acceleration for cle266?
> > 
> > I seem to remember a reference to this when I was booting
> > once, but can't seem to find the right references now.
> > 
> > I have an M6000 and it just doesn't have enough juice
> > to be a front end without it.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Alberto
> Yes, since R5A12.
> 
> Regards,
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] (WAS) KnoppMyth (NOW) Sata problems

[Blastzone]

For what it's worth, I had a hell of a time with SATA & PATA drives
in my ASUS Pundit-R.  (250GB Maxtor midline SATA & NEC DVD-RW
or ASUS DVD-RW drives)

DMA acceleration would not work on either PATA DVD drive, some FC3
kernels would segfault on startup, Knoppix or Gentoo LiveCDs would not
boot, and other problems.

I dropped to a 160GB Seagate PATA drive, and aside from it filling up
rather quickly, all the problems went away.  That won't solve your
problems, but 2 trips to ASUS RMA and 4 months didn't fix mine either...


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RE: [mythtv-users] (WAS) KnoppMyth (NOW) Sata problems

[match]

On 21 Oct 2005 at 8:29, Simpson, Richard wrote:

> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ffrr
> 
> > Probably not a good idea.  Maybe I should just sell the SATA 
> > drives on 
> > eBay and get SOME of my money back.  I feel a bit ripped off by this 
> > whole SATA deal right now :-( 
> 
> My brother has been using SATAs successfully with myth for about a year now. 
> It might be worthwhile to try a new mobo first.
> 
> Richard.

Or maybe upgrade the bios. I was just looking at the ASUS site. 
Several of the bios updates for the board I'm using relate to the SATA 
chip. I'll bet the picture is similar at Abit

BTW, I don't have any trouble running a terrabyte of SATA drives...


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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: mythmusic plays one song then stops

[Dirk Beer]

On 10/20/05, Sammo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, the fact that the problem happens with xmms as well probably
> means it's not a mythmusic problem. Maybe make your m3u playlist
> again?
That's a good idea, thanks. Now it seems like it happens with locally
stored music as well, so maybe there is something wrong with my
music/playlist files.

>
> I may be completely off, but I had a problem with mythmusic crashing
> before. It was actually caused by one of the vizualizations. Try
> turning off all visualizations and trying again.
tried that with no luck.

Thanks Sammo. I didn't figure out that xmms had the same problem until
yesterday, and the mythtv-users list seemed like the most likely place
to get help in any case, since I have no idea where else to ask.

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Re: [mythtv-users] OpenGL ATI Radeon MythMusic MythGallery Problem

[Lee Koloszyc]

IIRC, the ATI fglrx drivers don't let you use XV and OpenGL overlays
during the same X session.  So it will depend on the

   Option "VideoOverlay"   "on"
   Option "OpenGLOverlay"  "off"

options in your xorg.conf file, which are mutually exclusive.  So you
can have 2D acceleration or 3D acceleration, but not both.  See:

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Fglrx

I'm not so sure on any of this now, primarily because ATI provided
rotten support (both in terms of the drivers and when I'd try to
contact them directly), so I don't use the ATI card in my linux box
any longer.

HTH,
Tim

 

I think this is incorrect though I am not sure.  The OpenGL Overlay  is 
not 3d acceleration, but the ability to accelerate 2d video by placing 
it as an openGL texture.  I have both OpenGL and XV working on my 
machine and get nearly 3000 frames in GLXGears with my Radeon 9200.  It 
does play all the visuilizations without any problems on my machine. If 
he could post his Xorg.0.log and Xorg.conf it may be eaiser to determine 
the problem.  I wonder if he has opengl set to ATI?  In gentoo you can 
run opengl-update ati or eselect opengl set ati, not sure about other 
distros.



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[mythtv-users] full scan does not ask me for a starting transport (dvb-t)

[Ben Edwards]

Full scan does not seem to do anything. The progress bar goes from
0-100% over about a minute but no channels seem to be found/added. It
did not ask fr a starting transport/frequency.  I am using a
nova-t card and kaffeine works find.

Any ideas?
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Re: [mythtv-users] Debian plugins

[James Grant]

Hehe yes - I did that check on my laptop, which is running testing, not the 
mythtv box which is on unstable ... aparently there's only stable and 
unstable versions of checkinstall, and not testing :) hehe

Thanks ill give it a try later on.

 James

On Friday 21 October 2005 1:29 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 10/21/05, James Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Friday 21 October 2005 12:55 pm, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> > > If you are running debian, or any distro, look at a program called
> > > checkinstall. It wan take a tar ball, and create deb's for your system.
> > > The you can easily remove them later.
> >
> > lappy:/home/james# apt-cache search checkinstall
> > lappy:/home/james#
>
> Are you running debian?
>
> http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&versio
>n=all&exact=1&keywords=checkinstall

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Re: [mythtv-users] Debian plugins

[shadestalker]

On 10/21/05, James Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Friday 21 October 2005 12:55 pm, Rodney D. Myers wrote:>> If you are running debian, or any distro, look at a program called> checkinstall. It wan take a tar ball, and create deb's for your system.
> The you can easily remove them later.lappy:/home/james# apt-cache search checkinstalllappy:/home/james#

Are you running debian?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Xbox as FE

[Robert Anderson]

On 10/21/05, Vladan Bato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Quoting myself:> However I think that it's a problem with the particular remote (or better,> the remote dongle) that I have.
>> By poking in the /proc/usb/devices, I discovered that the remote is> actually seen as a gamepad and handled by the xpad driver. This also means> that lirc never sees it.>> I guess I'll have to spend the €30 for a genuine Microsoft DVD kit.
>Well, I spared the €30 as I managed to make it work!So, for the record (if anybody happens to have the same problem), here'swhat I found out and what I did:The first question was: why was the remote receiver handled by the xpad
driver. I looked at /proc/bus/usb/devices and noticed that this devicehad a strange ID. Both Vendor and ProdID where !I then looked at the xpad driver sources to see what it says about thisdevice. And here's what I found in drivers/usb/xpad-
core.c:  { 0x, 0x, 0, "Chinese-made Xbox Controller" }, /* WTF aredevice IDs for? */It appears that there are many xbox game controllers (and apparently DVDdongles) that have bogus IDs. The xpad driver handles them all and
assumes they are game controllers.The question was: If I made the xir driver (the one handling the xboxremote) recognize this device, would it work? Well, it did.Before I explain what I did, let's write something for google to index
in case someone does a search for this:How to make cheap chinese aftermarket DVD remotes for Xbox work withLIRC in xebian 1.1.4:Note: I'm writing this from memory, so it probably contains errors.
* Get the kernel sources (use apt)* configure the sources using the config file in /boot:  * # cd /usr/src/kernel-2.4.31-xbox  * # cp /boot/config-2.4.31-xbox .config  * # make oldconfig  * # make dep
* Go to the drivers/usb directory and modify the xpad-core.c and xir.cfiles:  * # cd drivers/usb  * # vi xpad-core.c  * Comment the line mentioned above (line 95) and save the file  * # vi xir.c
  * Add the following line after line 83 (in the xir_device array):{ 0x, 0x, "Chinese-made Xbox Controller" },   (Notice that it's not the same as above, there is one less elementin the struct).
  * Compile the modules (I didn't know how to compile modules in asingle directory, so I compiled them all):  * # cd /usr/src/kernel-2.4.31-xbox  * # make modules  * Copy the two modules (xpad.o and xir.o
) to the/lib/modules/2.4.31-xbox/kernel/drivers/usb/ directory, overwriting theold ones (make a backup first).  * Reboot the xbox. The xir driver should now handle the remote, andlirc should work correctly (test it with irw).
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xir.o and xpad.o files and I will include them in the dist. Even if they don't work with the MS remote, I could include them in the dist so that users who need them could easily install them and use an aftermarket remote.
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Re: [mythtv-users] OpenGL ATI Radeon MythMusic MythGallery Problem

[Tim Fenn]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 11:36:36AM +1000, Sammo wrote:
> Has anybody managed to get (1) MythMusic gears visualization; (2)
> MythGallery opengl transitions; and (3) MythTV opengl vsync working
> with an ATI Radeon video card?
> 
> I have an ATI Radeon 9550 using the latest ATI Proprietary Driver
> 8.18.6 for XFree86 4.3. I have the fglrx kernel module compiled and
> loaded successfully. Watching TV looks great (albeit without opengl
> vsync), even 1080i HDTV from DVB-T source. Tested fgl_glxgears,
> glslideshow (xscreensaver) and tuxracer, which all work nice and
> smooth, which should mean opengl is set up properly on my system.
> 

IIRC, the ATI fglrx drivers don't let you use XV and OpenGL overlays
during the same X session.  So it will depend on the

Option "VideoOverlay"   "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay"  "off"

options in your xorg.conf file, which are mutually exclusive.  So you
can have 2D acceleration or 3D acceleration, but not both.  See:

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Fglrx

I'm not so sure on any of this now, primarily because ATI provided
rotten support (both in terms of the drivers and when I'd try to
contact them directly), so I don't use the ATI card in my linux box
any longer.

HTH,
Tim

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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works

[Peter Darley]

Danesh,

Thanks for responding to this!

Forgive my ignorance, but it looks like you're saying that if I  
recomplie ivtv, I won't need to recompile the kernel?  Or is this a  
way to get ivtv compiled into the kernel correctly?  I've never  
compiled a kernel, so I'm hoping that I won't have to... :)


Thanks again,
Peter Darley
On Oct 21, 2005, at 9:31 AM, Danesh wrote:


Hey,

I had the same problem and fixing it took
- downloading the patch from the following thread,
- applying it to ivtv source, and
- recompiling ivtv and then rebooting.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/24322? 
search_string=second%20pvr-500;#24322


Ofcourse, remember to do the above everytime you recompile your  
kernel.


Regards,
`Danesh

On 10/21/05, Peter Darley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Folks,

 I guess I'll reply to my own message...

 On the ivtv-devel list I find:


With Hans Verkuil's help, which was VERY much appreciated, my
problem turned
out to be that I was using the tuner that came with the linux
kernel itself
rather than the one that came with ivtv-0.3.9.  Looks likely I was
doing the
same with tveeprom as well.  Once I switched, I was able to get
both tuners
working correctly and successfully captured mpeg using the cat /dev/
video?
trick.



 Which seems like it could easily be my problem as well.  So, I'm
wondering if anyone out there can give me a pointer on how to prevent
the card from being controlled by the kernal modules, and get the
correct modules from ivtv to load instead.  Will I have to re-compile
the kernel to do this?

 My kernel version is the latest FC3 kernel: "Linux version
2.6.12-1.1378_FC3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2)) #1 Wed Sep 14 04:24:31 EDT 2005"

Thanks for any pointers!
Peter Darley

On Oct 20, 2005, at 9:59 PM, Peter Darley wrote:



Larry,
Well, I've put my card into a windows machine and it doesn't
appear to be broken.  BeyondTV can use both tuners.
I'll check out the ivtv list.  If you make any progress, can
you let this list know?
Thanks,
Peter
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Larry K
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 4:38 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works

I have the same problem, and a lengthy thread over in the ivtv-
devel archive.  No solution yet.  I've  tried just about everything.

On 10/20/05, Peter Darley <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:  
Folks,


I've just installed a PVR-500, and I'm having a problem.  I
can use video1,
but I get only static on video0.  It seems like the problem is that
it's not
actually able to change channel; I think it's tuning channel 1
which I don't
get, since the static looks just like a tv that doesn't have an
antenna or
cable hooked up.  It's possible that the problem is not that it's  
not

changing channel, so I don't want to rule anything out.

When I try to use ivtv-tune, I get:
# ivtv-tune -d/dev/video0 -c60
/dev/video0: 439.250 MHz

# ivtv-tune -d/dev/video1 -c60
/dev/video1: 439.250 MHz  (Signal Detected)

Which seems to be saying that the channel change on video0
didn't succeed,
while the change on video1 did.

I'm hoping that there's someone else out there who has had
similar problems
and can give me a pointer.  I'm also not rulling out that it's just
broken.

Thanks,
Peter Darley

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Re: [mythtv-users] Debian plugins

[James Grant]

On Friday 21 October 2005 12:55 pm, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
>
> If you are running debian, or any distro, look at a program called
> checkinstall. It wan take a tar ball, and create deb's for your system.
> The you can easily remove them later.

lappy:/home/james# apt-cache search checkinstall
lappy:/home/james#

:(

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Re: [mythtv-users] Debian plugins

[Rodney D. Myers]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:41:38 -0400
James Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Cool I guess I'll give the tarball a try later i hate mixing debs
> and tarballs on the same system. maybe ill try to build new debs
> from the tarballs :)
> 
> I'm still waiting for my PVR-350 to be delivered (damn canada post
> taking their time), so I've got lots of time to 'play' before i can
> actually start watching / recording anything.
> 
> If anyone (in canada) is interested, www.koonline.ca has the 350 on
> sale for $189.99CAD
> 
> James
> 
> On Friday 21 October 2005 12:27 pm, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 12:16:18PM -0400, James Grant wrote:
> > > Hey does anyone use the debian packages from:
> > >   http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/dists/unstable/mythtv   ?
> > >
> > > The 'core' components installed fine, but it looks like all the
> > > 'plugins' are out of date (mythvideo, mythmusic, etc).. all the
> > > dependencies are broken for them :(
> > >
> > > eg) its looking for  libqt3c102-mt  instead of libqt3-mt
> > > mythmusic has other dependency issues as well, like, its looking
> > > for libflac6 when it should be looking for libflac7
> > >
> > > anyone know anything about this?
> >
> > That's odd...  I got my mythtv debs from dijkstra, but apt-cache
> > said there weren't any plugins available, so I just downloaded the
> > tarball from mythtv.org and that worked fine[1] for me, although I
> > did have to manually apt-get install apache, PHP, etc., of course.
> >
> >
> > [1]  Well, mostly fine...  See my next post for info about the big
> > problem I hit, but it doesn't look to be anything related to Debian
> > or dependencies.

If you are running debian, or any distro, look at a program called
checkinstall. It wan take a tar ball, and create deb's for your system.
The you can easily remove them later.

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Re: [mythtv-users] how do I assign XMLTVIDs (was mythfilldatabase problem)

[Ben Edwards]

On 10/21/05, Neale Swinnerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Do you have XMLTVIDs associated with all the channels you want>> listings for, and do you have appropriate *.xmltv files for your video>> sources in your ~/.mythtv/ directory?>>
> I've got the .xmltv file but dont know anything about assigning XMLTVIDs.> Did not c anything in the manual. Could someone plaease point me to> instuctions on how to do this.>1. Delete all your channels
2. run a full scan, [ this will re-create the channels ]
Is this a DVB scan?  Also don't I have to enter the first channel manualy?

Regards,
Ben
then log on to the database and execute the SQL below (adjust the bbc anditv ids if you're not in London)
that'll get you most of the way (you'll have to create the logos ofcourse. You can download the animated gifs from the frontpage ofwww.freeview.org and split them up using the GIMP.
Your goal is that this:select count(*) from channel where xmltvid is null or xmltvid = ''returns 0If you have an id in your .xmltv file that's not in the DByou'll get a new channel created when you run mythfilldatabase, so make
sure that the .xmltv file and the database are 'in sync'update channel set visible=0;update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_itv1.gif',xmltvid='
central.carlton.com' , visible=1 where  callsign='ITV1';update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_itv3.gif',xmltvid='itv3.itv.co.uk' , visible=1 where  callsign='ITV3';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_itv2.gif',xmltvid='itv2.itv.co.uk' , visible=1 where  callsign='ITV2';update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_channelfour.gif',
xmltvid='channel4.com' , visible=1 where  callsign='Channel 4';update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_e4.gif',xmltvid='e4.channel4.com
' , visible=1 where  callsign='E4';update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_.gif', xmltvid='' ,visible=1 where  callsign='705';update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_itvnews.gif',
xmltvid='itn.co.uk' , visible=1 where  callsign='ITV News';update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_bbc1.gif',xmltvid='london.bbc1.bbc.co.uk
' , visible=1 where  callsign='BBC ONE';update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_bbc2.gif',xmltvid='london.bbc2.bbc.co.uk' , visible=1 where  callsign='BBC TWO';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_bbc3.gif',xmltvid='choice.bbc.co.uk' , visible=1 where  callsign='BBC THREE';update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_bbcnew24.gif',
xmltvid='news-24.bbc.co.uk' , visible=1 where  callsign='BBC NEWS 24';update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_bbci.gif',xmltvid='' , visible=1 where  callsign='BBCi';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_cbbc.gif',xmltvid='cbbc.bbc.co.uk' , visible=1 where  callsign='CBBC Channel';update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_parliament.gif',
xmltvid='parliament.bbc.co.uk' , visible=1 where  callsign='BBC PARLMNT';update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_bbc4.gif',xmltvid='
knowledge.bbc.co.uk' , visible=1 where  callsign='BBC FOUR';update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_cbeebies.gif',xmltvid='cbeebies.bbc.co.uk' , visible=1 where  callsign='CBeebies';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_community.gif',xmltvid='communitychannel.org' , visible=1 where  callsign='Community';update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_thehits.gif',
xmltvid='the-hits.emap.com' , visible=1 where  callsign='The HITS';update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_tmf.gif',xmltvid='tmf.nl
' , visible=1 where  callsign='TMF';update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_ukbrightideas.gif',xmltvid='ukbrightideas.tv' , visible=1 where  callsign='UKTV Br''tIdeas';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_ftn.gif',xmltvid='ftn.tv' , visible=1 where  callsign='f tn';update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_idealworld.gif',
xmltvid='idealworld.tv' , visible=1 where  callsign='Ideal World';update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_.gif',xmltvid='men.granadatv.co.uk
' , visible=1 where  callsign='Men & Motors';update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_five.gif',xmltvid='channel5.co.uk' , visible=1 where  callsign='five';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_qvc.gif',xmltvid='qvcuk.com' , visible=1 where  callsign='QVC';update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_abc1.gif',
xmltvid='abc1.disney.com' , visible=1 where  callsign='abc1';update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_bidtv.gif',xmltvid='bid-up.tv
' , visible=1 where  callsign='bid tv';update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_pricedroptv.gif',xmltvid='price-drop.tv' , visible=1 where  callsign='price-drop tv';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_skynews.gif',xmltvid='sky-news.sky.com' , visible=1 where  callsign='Sky News';update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_sk

[mythtv-users] Plugin conflict? (segfault)

[Dave Sherohman]

OK, so now that I've got mythweb vs. mythbrowser straightened out and
have mythweb up and running, I've gone on to setting up myth(gallery|
video|weather).  I initially had some problems with stuff not being found
which turned out to be because I mixed the mythtv debs (which installed
under /usr/lib) with the plugin tarball from mythtv.org (which installs
under /usr/local/lib)...  Copied the themes and plugins directories over
to /usr/local and it all came up fine... at first.

I decided to configure mythweather first, since that looked to be
the simplest and would let me verify that things were indeed working.
But when I got to setting my location, I saw that list of letters and
immediately pressed "M" to jump to "M" in the list, forgetting that
mythtv tends to not like you using any keys that aren't on a typical
remote control...  It immediately segfaulted and died.

On attempting to restart mythfrontend, the background flashed up on the
screen momentarily before it segfaulted and died again.

With a bit of experimentation, I determined that I could get mythfrontend
to start up by removing mythvideo and mythgallery from the plugins
directory, leaving only mythweather there.  This allowed me to go back
into the mythweather setup and set my location properly (albeit only
after much up-and-down-arrowing through insanely long lists of cities).
The issue created by my errant "M" persists, however, and attempting to
load mythvideo or mythgallery still gives me an immediate segfault when
I try to start mythfrontend.

The immediate question, then, is what's going on here?  Where do I need
to go and what do I need to reset to clear out whatever that "M" did so
that I can load the other plugins without crashing?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Debian plugins

[James Grant]

Cool I guess I'll give the tarball a try later i hate mixing debs and 
tarballs on the same system. maybe ill try to build new debs from the 
tarballs :)

I'm still waiting for my PVR-350 to be delivered (damn canada post taking 
their time), so I've got lots of time to 'play' before i can actually start 
watching / recording anything.

If anyone (in canada) is interested, www.koonline.ca has the 350 on sale for 
$189.99CAD

James

On Friday 21 October 2005 12:27 pm, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 12:16:18PM -0400, James Grant wrote:
> > Hey does anyone use the debian packages from:
> > http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/dists/unstable/mythtv   ?
> >
> > The 'core' components installed fine, but it looks like all the 'plugins'
> > are out of date (mythvideo, mythmusic, etc).. all the dependencies are
> > broken for them :(
> >
> > eg) its looking for  libqt3c102-mt  instead of libqt3-mt
> > mythmusic has other dependency issues as well, like, its looking for
> > libflac6 when it should be looking for libflac7
> >
> > anyone know anything about this?
>
> That's odd...  I got my mythtv debs from dijkstra, but apt-cache said
> there weren't any plugins available, so I just downloaded the tarball
> from mythtv.org and that worked fine[1] for me, although I did have to
> manually apt-get install apache, PHP, etc., of course.
>
>
> [1]  Well, mostly fine...  See my next post for info about the big
> problem I hit, but it doesn't look to be anything related to Debian
> or dependencies.

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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works

[Danesh]

Hey,

I had the same problem and fixing it took
- downloading the patch from the following thread,
- applying it to ivtv source, and
- recompiling ivtv and then rebooting.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/24322?search_string=second%20pvr-500;#24322

Ofcourse, remember to do the above everytime you recompile your kernel.

Regards,
`Danesh

On 10/21/05, Peter Darley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Folks,
>
>  I guess I'll reply to my own message...
>
>  On the ivtv-devel list I find:
> > With Hans Verkuil's help, which was VERY much appreciated, my
> > problem turned
> > out to be that I was using the tuner that came with the linux
> > kernel itself
> > rather than the one that came with ivtv-0.3.9.  Looks likely I was
> > doing the
> > same with tveeprom as well.  Once I switched, I was able to get
> > both tuners
> > working correctly and successfully captured mpeg using the cat /dev/
> > video?
> > trick.
>
>  Which seems like it could easily be my problem as well.  So, I'm
> wondering if anyone out there can give me a pointer on how to prevent
> the card from being controlled by the kernal modules, and get the
> correct modules from ivtv to load instead.  Will I have to re-compile
> the kernel to do this?
>
>  My kernel version is the latest FC3 kernel: "Linux version
> 2.6.12-1.1378_FC3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
> 3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2)) #1 Wed Sep 14 04:24:31 EDT 2005"
>
> Thanks for any pointers!
> Peter Darley
>
> On Oct 20, 2005, at 9:59 PM, Peter Darley wrote:
>
> > Larry,
> > Well, I've put my card into a windows machine and it doesn't
> > appear to be broken.  BeyondTV can use both tuners.
> > I'll check out the ivtv list.  If you make any progress, can
> > you let this list know?
> > Thanks,
> > Peter
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Larry K
> > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 4:38 PM
> > To: Discussion about mythtv
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works
> >
> > I have the same problem, and a lengthy thread over in the ivtv-
> > devel archive.  No solution yet.  I've  tried just about everything.
> >
> > On 10/20/05, Peter Darley <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Folks,
> >
> > I've just installed a PVR-500, and I'm having a problem.  I
> > can use video1,
> > but I get only static on video0.  It seems like the problem is that
> > it's not
> > actually able to change channel; I think it's tuning channel 1
> > which I don't
> > get, since the static looks just like a tv that doesn't have an
> > antenna or
> > cable hooked up.  It's possible that the problem is not that it's not
> > changing channel, so I don't want to rule anything out.
> >
> > When I try to use ivtv-tune, I get:
> > # ivtv-tune -d/dev/video0 -c60
> > /dev/video0: 439.250 MHz
> >
> > # ivtv-tune -d/dev/video1 -c60
> > /dev/video1: 439.250 MHz  (Signal Detected)
> >
> > Which seems to be saying that the channel change on video0
> > didn't succeed,
> > while the change on video1 did.
> >
> > I'm hoping that there's someone else out there who has had
> > similar problems
> > and can give me a pointer.  I'm also not rulling out that it's just
> > broken.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Peter Darley
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Re: [mythtv-users] Debian plugins

[Dave Sherohman]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 12:16:18PM -0400, James Grant wrote:
> Hey does anyone use the debian packages from:
>   http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/dists/unstable/mythtv   ?
> 
> The 'core' components installed fine, but it looks like all the 'plugins' are 
> out of date (mythvideo, mythmusic, etc).. all the dependencies are broken for 
> them :(
> 
> eg) its looking for  libqt3c102-mt  instead of libqt3-mt
> mythmusic has other dependency issues as well, like, its looking for libflac6 
> when it should be looking for libflac7 
> 
> anyone know anything about this? 

That's odd...  I got my mythtv debs from dijkstra, but apt-cache said
there weren't any plugins available, so I just downloaded the tarball
from mythtv.org and that worked fine[1] for me, although I did have to
manually apt-get install apache, PHP, etc., of course.


[1]  Well, mostly fine...  See my next post for info about the big
problem I hit, but it doesn't look to be anything related to Debian
or dependencies.

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Re: [mythtv-users] how do I assign XMLTVIDs (was mythfilldatabase problem)

[Neale Swinnerton]

>> Do you have XMLTVIDs associated with all the channels you want
>> listings for, and do you have appropriate *.xmltv files for your video
>> sources in your ~/.mythtv/ directory?
>
>
> I've got the .xmltv file but dont know anything about assigning XMLTVIDs.
> Did not c anything in the manual. Could someone plaease point me to
> instuctions on how to do this.
>

1. Delete all your channels
2. run a full scan, [ this will re-create the channels ]

then log on to the database and execute the SQL below (adjust the bbc and
itv ids if you're not in London)

that'll get you most of the way (you'll have to create the logos of
course. You can download the animated gifs from the frontpage of
www.freeview.org and split them up using the GIMP.

Your goal is that this:

select count(*) from channel where xmltvid is null or xmltvid = ''

returns 0

If you have an id in your .xmltv file that's not in the DB
you'll get a new channel created when you run mythfilldatabase, so make
sure that the .xmltv file and the database are 'in sync'




update channel set visible=0;

update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_itv1.gif',
xmltvid='central.carlton.com' , visible=1 where  callsign='ITV1';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_itv3.gif',
xmltvid='itv3.itv.co.uk' , visible=1 where  callsign='ITV3';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_itv2.gif',
xmltvid='itv2.itv.co.uk' , visible=1 where  callsign='ITV2';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_channelfour.gif',
xmltvid='channel4.com' , visible=1 where  callsign='Channel 4';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_e4.gif',
xmltvid='e4.channel4.com' , visible=1 where  callsign='E4';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_.gif', xmltvid='' ,
visible=1 where  callsign='705';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_itvnews.gif',
xmltvid='itn.co.uk' , visible=1 where  callsign='ITV News';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_bbc1.gif',
xmltvid='london.bbc1.bbc.co.uk' , visible=1 where  callsign='BBC ONE';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_bbc2.gif',
xmltvid='london.bbc2.bbc.co.uk' , visible=1 where  callsign='BBC TWO';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_bbc3.gif',
xmltvid='choice.bbc.co.uk' , visible=1 where  callsign='BBC THREE';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_bbcnew24.gif',
xmltvid='news-24.bbc.co.uk' , visible=1 where  callsign='BBC NEWS 24';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_bbci.gif',
xmltvid='' , visible=1 where  callsign='BBCi';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_cbbc.gif',
xmltvid='cbbc.bbc.co.uk' , visible=1 where  callsign='CBBC Channel';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_parliament.gif',
xmltvid='parliament.bbc.co.uk' , visible=1 where  callsign='BBC PARLMNT';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_bbc4.gif',
xmltvid='knowledge.bbc.co.uk' , visible=1 where  callsign='BBC FOUR';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_cbeebies.gif',
xmltvid='cbeebies.bbc.co.uk' , visible=1 where  callsign='CBeebies';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_community.gif',
xmltvid='communitychannel.org' , visible=1 where  callsign='Community';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_thehits.gif',
xmltvid='the-hits.emap.com' , visible=1 where  callsign='The HITS';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_tmf.gif',
xmltvid='tmf.nl' , visible=1 where  callsign='TMF';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_ukbrightideas.gif',
xmltvid='ukbrightideas.tv' , visible=1 where  callsign='UKTV Br''tIdeas';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_ftn.gif',
xmltvid='ftn.tv' , visible=1 where  callsign='f tn';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_idealworld.gif',
xmltvid='idealworld.tv' , visible=1 where  callsign='Ideal World';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_.gif',
xmltvid='men.granadatv.co.uk' , visible=1 where  callsign='Men & Motors';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_five.gif',
xmltvid='channel5.co.uk' , visible=1 where  callsign='five';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_qvc.gif',
xmltvid='qvcuk.com' , visible=1 where  callsign='QVC';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_abc1.gif',
xmltvid='abc1.disney.com' , visible=1 where  callsign='abc1';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_bidtv.gif',
xmltvid='bid-up.tv' , visible=1 where  callsign='bid tv';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_pricedroptv.gif',
xmltvid='price-drop.tv' , visible=1 where  callsign='price-drop tv';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_skynews.gif',
xmltvid='sky-news.sky.com' , visible=1 where  callsign='Sky News';
update channel set icon='/usr/share/mythtv/logos/logo_skysportsnews.gif',
xmltvid='news.sports.sky.com' , visible=1 where  callsign='Sky

[mythtv-users] Debian plugins

[James Grant]

Hey does anyone use the debian packages from:
http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/dists/unstable/mythtv   ?

The 'core' components installed fine, but it looks like all the 'plugins' are 
out of date (mythvideo, mythmusic, etc).. all the dependencies are broken for 
them :(

eg) its looking for  libqt3c102-mt  instead of libqt3-mt
mythmusic has other dependency issues as well, like, its looking for libflac6 
when it should be looking for libflac7 

anyone know anything about this? 

Cheers,
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Re: [mythtv-users] problem nuvexport ffmpeg xvid

[Cecil Watson]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi,

I would like to transcode my .nuv files with XviD codec. But when I run
nuvexport, XviD is disabled. The program tells me my ffmpeg doesn't support
encoding to XviD and I have to compile it with the --enable-xvid option. But
this option seems to be inexistant. I tried different nuvexport and ffmpeg
version with the same result.

Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

Have you tried nuvexport --transcode?


thanks

Vince

Regards,

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Re: [mythtv-users] Choosing a Suitable DVB-T PCI Card

[Justin Hornsby]

Well, I've got three Leadtek LR6650 DVB-T tuner cards I picked up on Ebay for 
silly money.  All of them work superbly, and I can even loop one aerial 
connection between them (they have loop-through aerial connections).  The first 
cost me £30, the second cost me £25..  the last one was bought for the princely 
sum of £16 delivered!

They're definitely worth tracking down IMHO.  Okay so they don't have analogue 
video inputs or remote controls, but I don't need them.

Just my 2p woth ;-)

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Re: [mythtv-users] Choosing a Suitable DVB-T PCI Card

[Paul Wheeler]

I have a couple of avermedia dvb 771's that work out of the box in
2.6.13 (with the right dvb options turned on in the kernel ;-)). I
found them fairly cheap and work well.

I had a pinnacle card that had problems with it and the mt352 driver so i would stay away from them.

PaulOn 10/21/05, Ben Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 10/21/05, Phill Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  I am a beginner in DVB-T, and I would like to buy a DVB-T PCI Card to set up a MythTV in my Linux PC.> I have tried to search the archive and google for a week, but I still cannot come to a final decision about it.
>  I
would like to ask what kind of DVB-T PCI Card is suitable for the Linux
kernel 2.6.13, as I found some of the articles about DVB-T Card
mentioned that "Not every card that's supported under Windows works
under Linux". Is the list mentioned in linuxtv.org
"http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/PCI_devices_DVB-T" be suitable for linux use? And be able to be well supported by DVBAPI?
>  On
the other hand, I would like to ask what aspect should I put my focus
on in choosing those card? I do not want to buy a wrong card as they
are not cheap :P
Nova-T seems as well suported as any and is fairly cheap.

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Re: [mythtv-users] how do I assign XMLTVIDs (was mythfilldatabase problem)

[Ben Edwards]

On 10/20/05, Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 20/10/05, Ben Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Ime using the uk_rt grabber.  I have got the channels listed in mythtv-setup> but they are all listed twice.  There is hovever no listing data.  Below is
> what I get when I run mythfilldatabase followed by a section oof the> mythbackend output that seems relevent (run with -varbose all).>>  Any ideas?Do you have XMLTVIDs associated with all the channels you want
listings for, and do you have appropriate *.xmltv files for your videosources in your ~/.mythtv/ directory?
I've got the .xmltv file but dont know anything about assigning
XMLTVIDs.  Did not c anything in the manual.  Could someone
plaease point me to instuctions on how to do this.

Regards,
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Re: [mythtv-users] Choosing a Suitable DVB-T PCI Card

[Ben Edwards]

On 10/21/05, Phill Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  I am a beginner in DVB-T, and I would like to buy a DVB-T PCI Card to set up a MythTV in my Linux PC.> I have tried to search the archive and google for a week, but I still cannot come to a final decision about it.
>  I
would like to ask what kind of DVB-T PCI Card is suitable for the Linux
kernel 2.6.13, as I found some of the articles about DVB-T Card
mentioned that "Not every card that's supported under Windows works
under Linux". Is the list mentioned in linuxtv.org
"http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/PCI_devices_DVB-T" be suitable for linux use? And be able to be well supported by DVBAPI?>  On
the other hand, I would like to ask what aspect should I put my focus
on in choosing those card? I do not want to buy a wrong card as they
are not cheap :P
Nova-T seems as well suported as any and is fairly cheap.

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Re: [mythtv-users] OpenGL ATI Radeon MythMusic MythGallery Problem

[Michael T. Dean]

Sammo wrote:


Has anybody managed to get (1) MythMusic gears visualization; (2)
MythGallery opengl transitions; and (3) MythTV opengl vsync working
with an ATI Radeon video card?

I have an ATI Radeon 9550 using the latest ATI Proprietary Driver
8.18.6 for XFree86 4.3. I have the fglrx kernel module compiled and
loaded successfully. Watching TV looks great (albeit without opengl
vsync), even 1080i HDTV from DVB-T source. Tested fgl_glxgears,
glslideshow (xscreensaver) and tuxracer, which all work nice and
smooth, which should mean opengl is set up properly on my system.

I have compiled mythtv and mythplugins from svn with opengl support.

(1) MythMusic crashes whenever it tries to use gears visualization.

(2) MythGallery says "Sorry: OpenGL support not available" when it
tries to use a gl transition.

(3) MythTV opengl vsync doesn't seem to be working. mythfrontend -v
playback -l log.txt produces the following:

2005-10-21 11:33:49.447 DRMVideoSync: VBlank ioctl did not work,
unimplemented in this driver?
2005-10-21 11:33:49.989 OpenGLVideoSync: GLX extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info GLX_EXT_visual_rating GLX_EXT_import_context
2005-10-21 11:33:49.989 OpenGLVideoSync: GLX Video Sync extension not present.
2005-10-21 11:33:50.012 Using audio as timebase
2005-10-21 11:33:50.012 Video timing method: RTC
2

Anybody care to comment?

Does glxgears run for you?  What's the reported fps (in both the default 
window size and full screen)?  And, what's your screen resolution?


I've only used NVIDIA cards, but figuring out whether OpenGL works on 
your system is definitely the first step before figuring out why Myth 
won't use it.


Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] if (x!=rerun) {record}

[Dave Sherohman]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 11:05:31AM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Dave Sherohman wrote:
> >What I would *really* like to see is something comparable to Tivo's
> >"suggestions" feature (it autorecords shows similar to things you've
> >said you like when there's extra space available and those recordings
> >are the first to go when more space is needed), but I would expect
> >that to be a fairly major addition, while multiple schedules per show
> >or more autoexpire options would be much simpler to add.
> > 
> >
> TVWish and other plugins give you this.

Really?  Thanks!  I've been told by two other mythtv users that
nothing like that existed, so I didn't bother checking for myself.
Guess that gets put on my list for after I finish getting MythWeb/
Video/Gallery/Weather up and running...

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Re: [mythtv-users] if (x!=rerun) {record}

[Michael T. Dean]

Michael T. Dean wrote:


Fred Squires wrote:

On 10/20/05, *Todd Houle* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> wrote:


I need a little help running a reruns rule.  I'd like the following
rule for recording, but I can't seem to find where/how to enter it.

I'd like to record a show and keep at most 4 episodes of it.  If
there's anymore, don't record them until I watch the old (this part
I'm doing).  However, if it's not a rerun, then record it anyway -
either delete and old one, or just record it in addition.

Right now there's no way to do that, other than manually doing it.
It would be great if you could give new episodes a higher priority


In SVN, you could create a custom record rule for new episodes only 
and assign a priority for that.


OK.  Now I'm thinking that it will work in 0.18, too.  The docs describe 
custom record rules, so it seems to be in the main version:  
http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-11.html#ss11.8


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Re: [mythtv-users] if (x!=rerun) {record}

[Michael T. Dean]

Dave Sherohman wrote:


On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:30:33AM -0400, Fred Squires wrote:
 


It would be great if you could give new episodes a higher priority and then
tell the scheduler to keep at most maybe 5 episodes and record new and
expire old if the new episodes priority is greater than or equal to the
older episode's. Lower priority should always be deleted before higher in
this case, so that way a non-rerun will be recorded over a rerun instead of
an older non-rerun.
It would work well for the shows like the simpsons, that way you could
always have different repeats to watch but they would never delete the new
episodes when you don't get to them for a while.
   


Agreed.  Or maybe the simplest way to handle this would be to add
support for having two separate recording schedules for the same
show (one with high priority and no autoexpire for new episodes and
another with lower priority and autoexpire for reruns)?  That would
count the number of episodes separately for new and rerun, but I
personally don't see that as an issue.
 

Pretty sure that has always been possible.  See my other post in this 
thread.



Something else that could help here would be additional autoexpire
methods.  AFAICT, "oldest first" is the only option present (in
0.18.1).  Adding "lowest priority first" and "reruns first" (ideally
with "by date"/"by priority" suboptions under the rerun setting)
would definitely make it more flexible for handling Simpsons, etc.
 

I think SVN has lowest priority first.  The reruns first--actually 
keying off original airdate--would be a nice addition.



What I would *really* like to see is something comparable to Tivo's
"suggestions" feature (it autorecords shows similar to things you've
said you like when there's extra space available and those recordings
are the first to go when more space is needed), but I would expect
that to be a fairly major addition, while multiple schedules per show
or more autoexpire options would be much simpler to add.
 


TVWish and other plugins give you this.

Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] if (x!=rerun) {record}

[Michael T. Dean]

Fred Squires wrote:

On 10/20/05, *Todd Houle* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> wrote:


I need a little help running a reruns rule.  I'd like the following
rule for recording, but I can't seem to find where/how to enter it.

I'd like to record a show and keep at most 4 episodes of it.  If
there's anymore, don't record them until I watch the old (this part
I'm doing).  However, if it's not a rerun, then record it anyway -
either delete and old one, or just record it in addition.

Right now there's no way to do that, other than manually doing it.
It would be great if you could give new episodes a higher priority


In SVN, you could create a custom record rule for new episodes only and 
assign a priority for that.  Then, create a rule for old episodes.  Or, 
assuming you do this after creating the custom record rule for new 
episodes, just create a rule for record all.  If you use the same rule 
type (i.e. this channel or all channels) for both, the all episodes rule 
must be created after the new episodes rule so it can match first.  If 
you make a more specific rule for the new episodes (i.e. use this 
channel for new episodes and any channel for all episodes), it doesn't 
matter what order they're created in.


Then, assign priorities to the rules as desired.

I hope I got this all right, but I'm sure Bruce Markey will chime in 
with corrections to any misinformation here...  He's the man with the 
answers for recording rules--especially custom recording.  ;)


and then tell the scheduler to keep at most maybe 5 episodes and 
record new and expire old if the new episodes priority is greater than 
or equal to the older episode's.  Lower priority should always be 
deleted before higher in this case, so that way a non-rerun will be 
recorded over a rerun instead of an older non-rerun.


OK.  I don't know much about how auto-expire works, but I think you can 
specify an auto-expire priority (or, perhaps it uses recording rule 
priority to determine auto-expire priority, or maybe both approaches are 
options...).


However, I know if you have two rules--a new episodes rule and an 
"anything else" rule--you can specify that new episodes should not be 
auto-expired and reruns can be.  You can also specify a max episodes for 
the all episodes rule.


It would work well for the shows like the simpsons, that way you could 
always have different repeats to watch but they would never delete the 
new episodes when you don't get to them for a while.


Feel free to report back your experiences.  ;)

Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works

[Peter Darley]

Folks,

I guess I'll reply to my own message...

On the ivtv-devel list I find:
With Hans Verkuil's help, which was VERY much appreciated, my  
problem turned
out to be that I was using the tuner that came with the linux  
kernel itself
rather than the one that came with ivtv-0.3.9.  Looks likely I was  
doing the
same with tveeprom as well.  Once I switched, I was able to get  
both tuners
working correctly and successfully captured mpeg using the cat /dev/ 
video?

trick.


Which seems like it could easily be my problem as well.  So, I'm  
wondering if anyone out there can give me a pointer on how to prevent  
the card from being controlled by the kernal modules, and get the  
correct modules from ivtv to load instead.  Will I have to re-compile  
the kernel to do this?


My kernel version is the latest FC3 kernel: "Linux version  
2.6.12-1.1378_FC3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version  
3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2)) #1 Wed Sep 14 04:24:31 EDT 2005"


Thanks for any pointers!
Peter Darley

On Oct 20, 2005, at 9:59 PM, Peter Darley wrote:


Larry,
Well, I've put my card into a windows machine and it doesn't  
appear to be broken.  BeyondTV can use both tuners.
I'll check out the ivtv list.  If you make any progress, can  
you let this list know?

Thanks,
Peter
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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works

I have the same problem, and a lengthy thread over in the ivtv- 
devel archive.  No solution yet.  I've  tried just about everything.


On 10/20/05, Peter Darley <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Folks,

I've just installed a PVR-500, and I'm having a problem.  I  
can use video1,
but I get only static on video0.  It seems like the problem is that  
it's not
actually able to change channel; I think it's tuning channel 1  
which I don't
get, since the static looks just like a tv that doesn't have an  
antenna or

cable hooked up.  It's possible that the problem is not that it's not
changing channel, so I don't want to rule anything out.

When I try to use ivtv-tune, I get:
# ivtv-tune -d/dev/video0 -c60
/dev/video0: 439.250 MHz

# ivtv-tune -d/dev/video1 -c60
/dev/video1: 439.250 MHz  (Signal Detected)

Which seems to be saying that the channel change on video0  
didn't succeed,

while the change on video1 did.

I'm hoping that there's someone else out there who has had  
similar problems
and can give me a pointer.  I'm also not rulling out that it's just  
broken.


Thanks,
Peter Darley

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Re: [mythtv-users] (no subject)

[David Peeters]

 
If noise is the problem, go to www.silentpcreview.com they have lots of information on quieting a loud case. 
On 10/21/05, Mercury Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On 10/21/05, michel moalem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote: 

hi there alli'm a complete linux newbie and have tried the knopmyth cd yesterday for the first time. I like what it offers but had some problems allready. However before i will start takling the problems i encountered running some of the options i would like to know if there is a way if running the mythtv box (either under this distro or another) so that it boots much quicker. I have tried GeeXBox as well and while it is short on many features compare to mythtv it is booting extremly quickly once installed on the HD (well quick enogh for my wife not to nag me about getting a dvd player instead...)
so please any advice?cheersmichel Others have suggested that you leave your system on all the time, and that's what I did as soon as I got the system up and running in daily recording.
But it didn't take long to find that the noise of the computer bothered me when I read the paper, listened to the radio, and stuff like that.  So, I installed nvram-wakeup.  Once you have your MythTV system running more or less like the VCRs do (come on when it's time to record, record, then shut off), it's quite easy to specify how long in advance you want the machine to power on.
I have mine set to three (3) minutes, but it could be set to anything (I think).So, if you know that you want to use your MythTV system around say, 5pm,you could set the various parameters and have the system power/boot up well in advance.  When you sat down at 5pm, the machine would be up and running, waiting for whatever pleasure you have in mind.
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[mythtv-users] transcoded recordings gets "zoomed" when played back

[Bjarne Wichmann Petersen]

Hi

When I play back a transcoded recording (mpeg4), it sort of gets "zoomed". 
10-20% of the picture is outside the viewable screen. Untranscoded recordings 
plays just fine, and if I play the transcoded recording directly from mplayer 
there are no issues either.

I'm using the TV-Out on my pvr 350 with ivtv 0.4.0-driver.

Bjarne
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