Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend laptop linux distro???
Rick van der Mieden wrote: I need some opinions here please. I'd like to install a linux distro on my laptop for daily usage and for a mythfrontend. Question is what is the best suitable distro for my laptop. I tried suse in the past, but I hate all those missing dependencies with installing rpms. Gentoo is great (my backend is running on it), but the emerging of kde errored after compiling of a complete day!!! So not an option for me anymore. Knoppmyth is more for a cd frontend and not appropiate for my dual booted laptop I think. How's fedora nowadays. is it the same story as with the dependencies of suse? Some experiences are welcome Regards Rick consider Ubuntu - great distro with no real dep problems and is good as both a desktop os and for running frontend (I run both backend and frontends on my network here) hth Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Book
Isaac Richards wrote: On Monday 02 January 2006 23:04, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Monday 02 January 2006 19:20, Terry Dawson wrote: Is anyone working on a book for MythTV? Yup. There's also this: http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/4861670179/ I can't read a word of it, but it looks cool sitting on my book shelf. =) I didn't find out about it until a few months ago, myself. Isaac erm. how did you order it?? lol I can't figure out what anything is! Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Twinhan VisionDTV Remote Control and USB dongle.
Terry Dawson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to get lircd configured for use with a Twinhan VisionDTV remote control and it's accompanying USB dongle. I'm having a little bit of difficulty making it all hang together. I was wondering if there is anyone on the list who has already done this who might help me with a shortcut or two? regards Terry -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBQ7ntEdgbpUxTPNV5AQKJmgP/ea8lJ54tkLkNnJDNQnAQ4DzbJO/rO4Pw cxCzdLmPQjzjtCEDf+oOoK1obZVtcsWuUJPCVupxfEyvQUctu/zcawamRGrAPaql 9Xd+7dxBrwLxZJL9HtJ60y7AJwRlCK37F9sR+CLNKu/PJEd8pji3nLl9c8GmW9tK H1TFV4dTkUc= =sWRY -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users if it's the same card I have (I think it is.. ) check this out... http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/151845 and look for the patch it makes the thing a 20 second job. hth Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: yet another mythtv theme RETRO
gerhard aldorf wrote: Love the direction of the OSD. Whats the direction/intent for the theme though? Retro makes me think old style stereo equipment, this just looks like old pictures? My intent was to make a simple and clean theme pluss I do like old rettro equipments from the estetics of it. All watermarks er made in 3D. The OSD is something I did a long time ago and you might have it allready installed on you system. I like the looks of that theme very much. It's simple, but elegant. Is there a particular Qt theme that you recommend using with it? Also, the font, is that a TrueType font from Windows (it looks like Franklin Gothic Medium). -- Joe The screenshots er photoshop mockups with Franklin Gothic. The fonts actually used are the ones that come with mythtv, I will look into that later. Suggestions for fonts are welcome I'm not good with fonts. I do 3D animations and motion graphics, mostly for TV. Gerhard ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Hi Gerhard Love the theme - and the wife thinks it's nice and clean and easy to read.. Noticed a couple of days ago though that there seems to be a screen missing the program details or progdetails - and thought you might like to know if no-one else has mentioned it.. Thanks for the work Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] digital input (spdif)
ok guys - I need some help I've just spent the last 5 or so hours looking over mailing list posts, alsa docs, searching google and various other docs I came across along the way - have even asked in myth irc channel but no one seems to know either today I've split my backend from my frontend and am wanting to use the optical in on the cmedia card thats in there. if I do this: arecord -D hw:0,2 -fdat -d 5 /video/sample.wav on the backend - it records 5 seconds of wonderfully sounding audio from my sat box. but it isn't recording sound through mythbackend! and therefore isn't playing on the frontend (this is tested - that 5 sec clip plays through aplay on the frontend and on my windows box) how do I get hw:0,2 as the default input in mythbackend? I've tried various .asoundrc (including the one from digitalsoundhowto on mythtv.info) files. thanks for your help Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Stupid problems with MythTV and MySQL
Christopher Robbins wrote: StupidMySQL I'm getting some oddball errors with MySQL and MythTV. I've used apt to get everything downloaded, and all seems to work fine but I get errors with the database. 1.) MySQL keeps forgetting that I've used mythconverg as the database. When I check on which database is being used, this is what I get: mysql \s -- mysql Ver 14.7 Distrib 4.1.13, for suse-linux (i686) using readline 5.0 Connection id: 48 Current database: Current user: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SSL:Not in use Current pager: less Using outfile: '' Using delimiter:; Server version: 4.1.13 Protocol version: 10 Connection: Localhost via UNIX socket Server characterset:latin1 Db characterset:latin1 Client characterset:latin1 Conn. characterset:latin1 UNIX socket:/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock Uptime: 24 min 30 sec 2.) I get MySQL driver errors like this when I try to run setup 2005-12-27 18:22:41.133 No error type from QSqlError? Strange... 2005-12-27 18:22:41.133 Database not open while trying to save setting: Language 2005-12-27 18:22:41.133 Unable to connect to database! Ad infiniumI've executed all the right commands to setup the initial database, and the mysql daemon is up and running. (I wrote the guide, you'd think I'd know how to fix this... :) ) Thanks for any help anyone can throw my way -Chris Robbins ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users got qt-mysql installed? Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] red_eye script
Neil Bird wrote: Hmm. Well, I posted a semi-recent one a month or so ago along with the redeye stuff I was using. Since then, I think I added one more failsafe channel change ~10 s. after triggering as I managed to miss one channel change once. I think it was because another IR (TV or amp.) was in use at the time; the one danger of the IR blaster approach. It's not let me down other that that since ~February. My *current* version is no longer 'portable', alas. It has as ivtvctl call in it now to determine whether the box needs turning on (therefore ivtv/Hauppage-PVR specific) at the outset [that is easily editible, though, and may actually have been in my posted version]. Also, I've changed the 'turn off in ~4 hours' thing into a 4-hours-long loop, polling Myth's status every 5 minutes. While this could probably be done without vast difficulty in the script, it might be a bit painful. I've invested in a cheap LCD to monitor whether Myth's recording, a sort of now'n'next display, HD temp. and free-space, show date+time, plus even whether I've emails waiting. I've hand-written a perl script to drive LCDd as the lcdproc stuf in Myth 0.18.1 is broken and I don't want to risk SVN builds. I have a 'collate-status' script running on my main PC (email count) and my PVR (now+next, HD status), putting these in a little table in mySQL on the PVR once a minute. The LCDd script then polls this info. My skychannel script gets this out from the d/b to see if the PVR's active and whether the Sky box can thus be turned off. So skychannel is now dependant upon my PVR 'collate-status' and a command-line i/f to sql 'get-status'. It polls every 5 mins., for 4 hours trynig to turn off the box, then gives up (now doesn't blindly turn it off after 4 hours). If you're interested, the PVR status can be had from telnetting into the nmythbackend on some port I've forgotten (search the list) and doing 'GET /xml', although I had to play silly wotsits to stop this [I use 'socat'] timing out and returning a null string when the PVR's busy. Hi Neil Thanks for the response - sounds like you've been busy! Would still like to see your skychannel script / collate script - it sounds like you have a very similar setup to me - UK+PVR250 etc.. if you wouldn't mind sharing - I'll look through the list for the last month and see if I can find that version too. Out if interest where did you get a cheap LCD in the UK? not been able to find one that I can easily integrate.. not sure if it's something I actually want but would be interested (my silverstone case covers all drives so probably isn't practical) Thanks Craig P.S. and your script is *still* more reliable than anything else I've found - and a couple of days ago I switched to SVN - and to be honest it feels like channel changing is even quicker with SVN/your script. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] red_eye script
If Neil Bird's listening I was wondering if he'd managed to get his channel changing digibox app to compile and work under FC4? We discussed this a few months ago but I didn't have any luck - it just seg faults and if I remember correctly when I debug'd it it was something to do with permissions on the ttyS0.. I never got around this.. I've just updated to SVN and now I have a problem - if the script doesn't exit without an error myth quits recording and that creates a whole load of problems Cheers Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] red_eye script
Craig Tinson wrote: If Neil Bird's listening I was wondering if he'd managed to get his channel changing digibox app to compile and work under FC4? We discussed this a few months ago but I didn't have any luck - it just seg faults and if I remember correctly when I debug'd it it was something to do with permissions on the ttyS0.. I never got around this.. I've just updated to SVN and now I have a problem - if the script doesn't exit without an error myth quits recording and that creates a whole load of problems Cheers Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users okies - figured a way around it - I compiled on an FC3 machine. copied it over and it works fine now also - I noticed a bit ago you mentioned you were re-working the skychannel script .. would be interested to find out how far you got with it? Cheers Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New mythtv theme
Justin Hornsby wrote: Ooops.. I forgot to post a link to some screenshots... http://homepage.ntlworld.com/justin.hornsby2/images/ Have fun ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users oh - I love the screenshots gonna download and give it a try - will let you know how I get on... nice work! Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] .nuv format, mythtv, xine, mplayer, unichrome compatibility....
Jules Gosnell wrote: to follow up on my own posting... for it to be a format issue is a bit wierd - because I thought that mythbackend would just be taking the data, already encoded, straight from my Nova-T and filing it, without doing any form of transcoding ? But my Nova-T has not changed and my version of Myth and possibly kernel, has. I guess this is where my lack of knowledge of exactly what is going on under the covers stops me from doing any more digging. Can anyone lend a hand ? Maybe I am seeing the interaction of several related issues ? Jules Jules Gosnell wrote: I don't know much about video file formats so bear with me. I am looking into why some of my recordings do not play well (with mythtv-0.18.1) on my frontend box (Epia Via Ezra 1gz with Unichrome enabled) but play fine on another machine (Opteron 64-bit 2gz) - pretty obvious you might think :-) The recordings are made from a Hauppauge DVB Nova-T on the backend (mythtv 0.18.1) - and not transcoded, because the Nova-T kicks out MPEG2, which is what the Epia's h/w can assist with. Recordings that I made some time ago, all seem to play fine with mythtv, xine and mplayer. Some more recent recordings (perhaps since I upgraded to 18.1?) are a little odd - they exhibit sound 'stickiness' using MythTV on the Epia, but play fine on the Opteron. Initially I put this down to issues with the Unichrome driver, or the speed of the Epia, but have discounted both (xine produces a lot of video and audio artefacts when playing these recordings with AND without -Vxxmc - and, when with -V xxmc, cpu usage is usually below 10%). Since it is possible to play the recordings without issue on the opteron, I know that the artefacts are not part of the original signal. So, I began thinking in terms of data format. I played various recordings using mythtv, xine and mplayer on both boxes. Recordings that do not exhibit the sound issue running on mythtv/Epia seem to play fine in xine and mplayer no matter which box they are on. Recordings that have the sound issue, do not. Using mythtv they play fine on the Opteron, but the sounds sticks on the Epia. Using xine, they exhibit artefacts and sound stickiness on both boxes. MPlayer sometimes picked the wrong audio channel (1 instead of 0) and also sometimes suffered from lipsyncing issues... So, it looks like something has changed in my setup which is causing me to occasionally generate less portable recordings than I used to, and that these are causing problems on my Epia (probably because the unichrome h/w (which I cannot seem to prevent mythtv using) is tripping up on the format). If xine (v0.99.4.), mplayer (1.0pre7try2-3.2.3) and, possibly, unichrome are having problems with mythtv-generated MPEG2 files that mythtv can play without issue, is this a bug in mythtv, the other three, or a grey area in the MPEG2 spec - or have I misread the symptoms ? Any help with this wouldbe much appreciated. I can probably find somewhere to put files that exhibit the problem up for ftp. Thanks for mythtv, Jules this is just another stab in the dark that came to mind - do you have any differences in the general playback section of setup between the two machines? deinterlacing playback settings for example? like I said just a stab in the dark - first thing that came to mind Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] why do i have a 2 gig limit on avi files
jondz wrote: Hi I'm new(re-subscribed) to the list. Has anybody encountered this before: I seem to have a 2 gigabyte limit on avi files (transcoded movies). When either the Internal player or the mythcommflag reaches that they just hang. I know the files are fine because gnome totem plays them movies fine to the end. quick facts about my box: 1. it used to be debian STABLE (kernel 2.4). 2. I turned it into UNSTABLE, and upgraded to 2.6. 3. I use XVID for transcoding. 4. I have compiled my own mythtv packages using the debian mythtv versions. Whereas I am perfectly happy right now sticking with 2 hour movies I will be grateful for somebody who points me in the right direction, thanks. thanks for a great software! jondz and.. the file-system isn't remote is it? like over a samba share? I fell into that one and it's a pain Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Australian Digital TV Cards
Philip Shead wrote: The bright side of the VP card I got was it has a usb remote which can be moved independently of the card. The downside of the Kworld is that as said above the remote is a bit flimsy (not sure how many more keys people want? 32 the same as the VP) and what annoys me most is the remote doesn't repeat, so you can't ramp up/down volume easily (and my cheap learning remote can't seem to learn the keys). slightly OT here... but I was wondering if you had any info available (links etc) and getting this remote to work under linux in a way that is compatible with myth? I know it's a HID device and it does send keys fine - so I guess I just need to either remap the keys it sends or configure myth differently? Thanks for any info Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Australian Digital TV Cards
Paul Andreassen wrote: On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 08:47 pm, Craig Tinson wrote: Philip Shead wrote: The bright side of the VP card I got was it has a usb remote which can be moved independently of the card. The downside of the Kworld is that as said above the remote is a bit flimsy (not sure how many more keys people want? 32 the same as the VP) and what annoys me most is the remote doesn't repeat, so you can't ramp up/down volume easily (and my cheap learning remote can't seem to learn the keys). slightly OT here... but I was wondering if you had any info available (links etc) and getting this remote to work under linux in a way that is compatible with myth? I know it's a HID device and it does send keys fine - so I guess I just need to either remap the keys it sends or configure myth differently? I've written a binary patch which changes the keymaping for usb keyboards so the TwinHan VisionPlus DVB-T card remote better matches MythTV. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/engine?do=post_attachment;postatt_id=7787;list=mythtv Paul *excellent* nice work Paul.. worked first time.. ! thanks Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] libdvdread can't find my DVD
Claude Gélinas agr. wrote: When I try to listen a dvd via mythfrontend I get the following error message on the console: Voici xine (X11 gui) - un lecteur vidéo libre v0.99.3. (c) 2000-2004 L'Equipe de xine. libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access libdvdread: Attempting to use device /dev/hda2 mounted on / for CSS authentication libdvdread: Could not open /dev/hda2 with libdvdcss. libdvdread: Can't open /dev/hda2 for reading libdvdread: Device /dev/hda2 inaccessible, CSS authentication not available. libdvdnav:DVDOpenFilePath:findDVDFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed libdvdnav:DVDOpenFilePath:findDVDFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO. /dev/hda2 is my / partition, not my dvd which is /dev/hdc using directly xine without myth work fine. Where is the setup to tell myth or xine to not try hda2 ??? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Utilities/Setup - Setup - Media Settings - DVD Settings - General Settings hth Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Picture quality question
Dag Nygren wrote: Hi there list! Finally got a working setup of my MythTV and have some questions to you experts: The setup is a Twinhan DVB-T board, Prosavage display controller and a Viewsonic 16:9 LCD TV using the VGA input. The picture is otherwise fine, but in darker areas with shades it seems like the colors available aren't enough but there are distinct island s of colors. Looking at the same picture through the analog built in receiver doesn't show these artefacts. My questions are: 1. Which part is causing this problem: broadcast, DVB-board, Mythtv, X-window system or LCD screen? 2. What can I do to get rid of it Best from Finland Dag ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I don't use DVB.. but I presume it works like all other capture cards The signal is being captures, compressed, saved and then displayed.. and the result of the compression is what you are seeing. Try increasing the quality in the recording profiles part of setup and see how that works for you -easier to test your settings under the live tv profile - then when you are happy copy the settings to the other profile you use for recording hth Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythDVD offline Archive or Catalog?
Michael T. Dean wrote:
Michael T. Dean wrote:
Roman Romaniuk wrote:
I have a fairly large DVD collection, but nowhere near sufficient
disk space to be able to host all of it on my backend server. Is
there any way to maintain the DVD listing within mythdvd, but have a
note pop up requesting that the user insert the appropriate DVD (and
possibly noting the DVD's location) into the drive when it is
selected for play?
As of now, there's nothing within Myth to handle it. However, it's
not too difficult to fake it...
Forgot--some people use spaces in their filenames. Updated
prompt_for_media properly parses DVD name even when it includes
spaces. I guess that just means you shouldn't write code--even what
seems like simple code--at 3:00 in the morning...
Mike
#!/bin/bash
MEDIA_TYPE=$1
FILE_NAME=$2
# Find the name of the disc
case ${MEDIA_TYPE} in
DVD)
DISC_NAME=`basename $FILE_NAME .dvd`
;;
CD)
DISC_NAME=`basename $FILE_NAME .cd`
;;
VCD)
DISC_NAME=`basename $FILE_NAME .vcd`
;;
esac
# Prompt the user to insert the disc
xterm -bg NavyBlue -fg White +sb -fs 18 -geometry 40x6 \
-e prompt Please insert ${MEDIA_TYPE}: ${DISC_NAME}
# Play the disc
case ${MEDIA_TYPE} in
DVD)
xine --no-splash --auto-play=fhq --auto-scan dvd
;;
CD)
xine --no-splash --auto-play=fhq /mnt/cd
;;
VCD)
xine --no-splash --auto-play=fhq --auto-scan vcd
;;
esac
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When I first started playing with MythTV (about 2 years ago! wow -
doesn't seem that long!) this kind of facility was my very first
feature request to the mailing list - a couple of people liked the
idea but I don't have the skills to program this into MythTV.
Well, this is the first mention of it I've noticed since then so thought
I'd give it a go.
*damn* it works well! and the wife thinks it's amazing. I've modified
the script a little to allow me to index all the stuff I have. I have
DVD's where I've put 5-6 .avi's,mpg's,mov's etc on one disk - it's not
elegant by any means but it works.
It took *ages* to add them all and get all the related imdb stuff but
it's *well* worth it.
The wife can now look through every film we have on vcd,dvd and
compilation disks and select which one she feels like watching.
Am even going to modify the script further to allow me to add all the
svhs tapes we have.
Currently have over 600 films in there and not a single mb of spaced
used - *nice*
When I have the vhs in there too that'll take it to over 2000 which will
be damn impressive.
I've organised all the films into Genres so it's easy to find what you want.
So - my advice is this - if you want to improve the WAF *significantly*
then give this a try.
Next thing is to get it to a point where can do the press any key to
continue to be do-able by remote.
And last but not least - thanks *huge* Monsieur Michael Dean for coming
up with this idea.
Cheers
Craig
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Re: [mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?
Brian J. Murrell wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 11:21 +0100, David Watkins wrote: AFAIK there's no reason why killing the frontend should prevent it making a graceful exit. Indeed. But IMHO, if you are going to catch SIGTERM, it would be nice to pop up that are you sure you want to quit dialog. That way accidental presses of the power button can be aborted. I thought that was what kill -9 was for. That one's not course, it's ruthless. :-) b. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users hey am not an expert on this.. but couldn't you just use irexec to send half-a-dozen ESC keys? no matter where you are in myth that should take you to the close screen? not exactly pretty but should do what your asking.. and you can still press the OK to confirm just a thought Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Can MythTV Play MPEG4 (DivX/XviD) Disks?
Kevin Kuphal wrote: Mat Kyne wrote: I like to transcode my HDTV recordings down to a more reasonable size and then burn them to DVD+R for storage. I find that I can fit the entire season of shows on 1-2 disks. Is there a way in MythTV to just pop them into the drive and watch them from there? I can do this with my Xbox with XBMC. - Now I know I can do this in FC4 with Xine, but what can I say, If it aint easy, my wife won't like it. And I need the WAF to be through the roof :) -Mat The MythVideo plugin plays content such as this. It simply spawns an external player (like xine) to do it. There is some support for media detection (which I've never used) so that should work as well. That being said, MythVideo is more geared towards watching content stored on the hard disk already so you may have to search the archives a bit for suggestions from people to get that to work with content on DVD+R which i believe has been posted before. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users have a look at this: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/142951?search_string=catalog;#142951 hth Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PS2 connected to a PVR 350
Franco wrote: Hi, last evening my friends came to my place and we connected their PlayStation to my MythBox via the SCART connector of the PVR 350. Unfortunately, it was impossible to play the games as there was a noticeable delay between actions on the PS2 and actual images on the screen. We also tried under windows but it was the same, so, is this a hardware problem of the PVR 350? Isn't it possible to see real-time what is being acquired from the PVR 350? Thank you, Franco P.S. For those who forgot my setup and wonder why I want to connect the PS2 to the mythbox, my mythbox has a DLP projector connected via a 10 meters special cable to the VGA output, and we wanted to play the games on the mega-screen :-) The projector is located on the roof on the opposite side of the room, so it is not possible to connect the PS2 directly to it... it has to be done via the mythbox ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users don't think so in myth.. but could use mplayer mplayer -fs /dev/video0 or similar - might need a -vo in there that'll just display whats coming in through the 350 I would imagine hth Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Jarod's 27 TV and xorg.conf question
okies.. quick question on Jarod's site he mentions he has a standard 27 analog TV plugged into his mx440 nv card First of all he doesn't specify if it's a widescreen - which mine is If his is.. and remembering he's in the US and i'm in UK.. in theory I should be able to just copy his xorg.conf from: http://www.wilsonet.com/mythtv/xorg.conf-SVid.txt and change it to PAL-I.. I tried this and it *hard* locked my machine - had to reboot into rescue mode from dvd and cp the orignal xorg.conf back over.. Anyone ideas why this might be the case? Also - does anyone have the same setup? in the UK.. that they could post the xorg.conf I'm trying to actually get my TV to display in widescreen and I can't for the life of me figure out all these modelines etc etc or even if I need them (jarod's xorg.conf doesn't specify a modeline) Can anyone help? Thanks Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?
Dave Sherohman wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 03:15:25PM +0100, Craig Tinson wrote: am not an expert on this.. but couldn't you just use irexec to send half-a-dozen ESC keys? no matter where you are in myth that should take you to the close screen? not exactly pretty but should do what your asking.. and you can still press the OK to confirm Try pressing ESC half a dozen times... Once you get to the shutdown confirmation, ESC cancels the shutdown. So this would have a 50/50 chance of working, depending on how deep you are in the Myth menus. (Although you could set it to send an odd number of ESCs, so that if it left you at the main menu the first time, you can hit it a second time and it will...) ahh.. well spotted.. I should have checked this idea before posting it.. lol Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?
Brian J. Murrell wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 20:02 +0100, Craig Tinson wrote: Dave Sherohman wrote: Try pressing ESC half a dozen times... Once you get to the shutdown confirmation, ESC cancels the shutdown. So this would have a 50/50 chance of working, depending on how deep you are in the Myth menus. (Although you could set it to send an odd number of ESCs, so that if it left you at the main menu the first time, you can hit it a second time and it will...) ahh.. well spotted.. I should have checked this idea before posting it.. lol Ahhh. But this solution, prefixed by going to a jump-point -- where the number of ESC's needed to exit are known could work. excellent idea Would look ugly though, all the screen flipping just before exiting. agreed An exit jump point is really what is needed I think. I think so too.. shouldn't be too difficult for a programmer I would imagine b. c. :) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport problem?
Chris Petersen wrote: fyi, this problem is now fixed.. Update nuvexport. -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users excellent - just re-downloaded.. installed.. and it's working great thanks for the help guys :) Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] nuvexport problem?
Hey guys *finally* have my myth box up and running reliably again after a few hiccups over the last few months with my new pvr250 and a new remote. WAF is currently *very* high so am happy :) One problem I am having however is exporting my recordings - I've used nuxexport in the past successfully but not it refuses to work All the problems seem to relate to division by zero errors.. as an example this is a divx export attempt: - * Separate multiple episodes with spaces c. Continue n. Choose another show q. Quit Choose a function, or episode(s) to remove: c Where would you like to export the files to? [.] Enable Myth cutlist? [Yes] yuvdenoise version 1.6.3rc1 is broken and cannot be used. Press enter to continue. Enable deinterlacing? [Yes] Crop broadcast overscan (2% border)? [Yes] Audio bitrate? [128] Variable bitrate video? [No] Video bitrate? [960] Use of uninitialized value in print at /usr/local/share/nuvexport/export/generic.pm line 163, STDIN line 12. Default resolution based on aspect ratio. Width? [624] Use of uninitialized value in division (/) at /usr/local/share/nuvexport/export/generic.pm line 183, STDIN line 13. Illegal division by zero at /usr/local/share/nuvexport/export/generic.pm line 183, STDIN line 13. [EMAIL PROTECTED] nuvexport]# - Am running on FC4 with myth installed from atrpms Thanks for any ideas Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport problem?
Greg Estabrooks wrote: One problem I am having however is exporting my recordings - I've used nuxexport in the past successfully but not it refuses to work It's a known bug and is being looked into. Only occurs if you have i a single recording of a particular title. If you have multiple it doesn't happen. ok.. thanks I tried the instructions at: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/144543?search_string=%20could%20not%20find%20codec%20parameters;#144543 but that didn't have any effect - and I know Chris Peterson will say turn off nuvdenoise (which I presume those instructions do) but if I'm wrong I don't know where to turn if off Thanks Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport problem?
Chris Petersen wrote: but that didn't have any effect - and I know Chris Peterson will say turn off nuvdenoise (which I presume those instructions do) but if I'm wrong I don't know where to turn if off You're wrong there. (and it's Petersen, btw)... The division by zero error is completely unrealted to the broken pipe error (besides, your original post clearly indicated that nuvexport was disabling yuvdenoise FOR you). I don't know how to fix this particular problem. I can't reproduce it on any of my systems, so I'm stuck waiting for someone to send me a patch. -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ah.. okies... sorry about the mis-spelling.. was writing that from memory :) thanks for the reply - will see if Greg comes up with anything.. sorry I can't be off any assistance apart from trying suggestions but I know absolutely nothing about perl (which is presume this is related to) or the progs that are being used hopefully this will be useful for others with the same problem Thanks again Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: add skybox to my MythTV system
Neil Bird wrote: Around about 06/09/05 17:52, Craig Tinson typed ... Hope you can help - the program you attached doesn't compile under FC4.. with the following: digibox.c:46: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function âexitâ For a start, they're just warnings, so it should have actually given you an exe. at the and. Put the exit() calls back, and try replacing the first (don't nkow how I ended up with 2) 'unistd.h' #include with 'stdlib.h'. Failing that, do 'man 2 exit' and see what it says you need to include for exit(). hey - thanks for that.. replacing the includes fixed the errors and it all compiles fine *but* it segfaults when you try to run in.. am presuming this problem has something to do with this being FC4 instead of FC3 but I'm not a c++ programmer so wouldn't know.. any ideas on how I can debug this problem? thanks for your help Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: add skybox to my MythTV system
Neil Bird wrote: Around about 06/09/05 17:52, Craig Tinson typed ... Hope you can help - the program you attached doesn't compile under FC4.. with the following: digibox.c:46: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function âexitâ For a start, they're just warnings, so it should have actually given you an exe. at the and. Put the exit() calls back, and try replacing the first (don't nkow how I ended up with 2) 'unistd.h' #include with 'stdlib.h'. Failing that, do 'man 2 exit' and see what it says you need to include for exit(). P.S. this is the part where it segfaults (first time I've ever done a gdb!) --- (gdb) step 67options.c_cflag = ~CRTSCTS; (gdb) step 68options.c_iflag = ~(IXON | IXOFF | IXANY); (gdb) step 71tcsetattr (fd, TCSANOW, options); (gdb) step 73 } (gdb) step Cannot access memory at address 0x0 (gdb) step Cannot access memory at address 0x0 (gdb) step Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. set_rts (fd=0) at digibox.c:82 82 if (status bitset) --- hope that can help Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: add skybox to my MythTV system
Neil Bird wrote:
Around about 09/08/05 02:29, Craig Tinson typed ...
I use redeye serial too.. but with a *very* simple one line bash
script.. would be interested in what you've done with redeye.c and
the script too..
Okey-doke. I make no pretention that I'm the original
author/modifier! The 'digibox.c' [née red_eye.c] and its Makefile I
purloined from somewhere and then fine-tuned to speed it up
(near-instant channel changes now).
The skychannel bash script (which does the deed from Myth uses
digibox) is pretty much my own, but with some file-locking thrown in.
I did purloin the file locking originally, but I think I completely
re-wrote the mechanism after a while.
usage: skychannel channum[100 = channum = 999]
Copes with turning on the digibox if its off, and also (as it's once
happened to me while I was hammering another remote at the exact same
time the script ran) tries turning it on a second time in case the
first power-on got missed.
Also blats the zap-banner upon channel change (as Myth provides one).
[don't forget Sky now has a setup option to timeout the little red
dot interactive logo things]
Also hangs about for a little over 4 hours and turns the box off
(unless called again in the meantime) to 'reduce' power and ensure the
box gets resets to cope with S/W updates, etc. It's a timeout as I
couldn't easily tell when progs. finished and deserved a power-off. 4
hours seemed enough (if you think you'll record individual progs.
longer that that, change the timeout).
#include unistd.h
#include stdio.h/* Standard input/output definitions */
#include string.h /* String function definitions */
#include unistd.h /* UNIX standard function definitions */
#include fcntl.h/* File control definitions */
#include errno.h/* Error number definitions */
#include asm/ioctls.h
#include asm/termios.h /* POSIX terminal control definitions */
#include time.h
#ifndef COM_PORT
# define COM_PORT /dev/ttyS0
#endif
#ifndef WAIT_TIME
# define WAIT_TIME 2
#endif
#ifndef DEBUG
# define DEBUG 0
#endif
static int debug = DEBUG;
/* the RTS line is actually the DTR line in linux */
#ifdef linux
# define BIT_TO_TWIDDLE TIOCM_DTR
#else
# define BIT_TO_TWIDDLE TIOCM_RTS
#endif
/*
* open_port() - Open serial port
* returns the file descriptor on success or -1 on error
*/
int open_port(char *com_port)
{
int fd;/* file descriptor for the port */
struct termios options;
fd = open (com_port, O_WRONLY | O_NOCTTY | O_NDELAY);
if (fd == -1)
{
/* Could not open the port. */
perror (open_port(): unable to open com port);
exit (-1);
}
else
{
fcntl (fd, F_SETFL, 0);
}
/* get the current options for the port */
tcgetattr (fd, options);
/* Set the baud rates to 9600 */
cfsetispeed (options, B9600);
cfsetospeed (options, B9600);
/* enable the receiver and set local mode */
options.c_cflag |= (CLOCAL);
options.c_cflag = ~PARENB;
options.c_cflag = ~CSTOPB;
options.c_cflag = ~CSIZE;
options.c_cflag |= CS8;
options.c_cflag = ~CREAD;
options.c_cflag = ~CRTSCTS;
options.c_iflag = ~(IXON | IXOFF | IXANY);
/* set the new options for the port */
tcsetattr (fd, TCSANOW, options);
return (fd);
}
void set_rts(int fd)
{
int status;
int bitset = BIT_TO_TWIDDLE;
ioctl (fd, TIOCMGET, status);
if (debug)
{
if (status bitset)
{
printf(RTS bit is set\n);
}
else
{
printf(RTS bit is unset\n);
}
}
status |= bitset;
ioctl (fd, TIOCMSET, status);
ioctl (fd, TIOCMGET, status);
if (status bitset)
{
if (debug) printf(RTS bit set ok\n);
}
else
{
perror(set_rts(): failed to set RTS bit);
exit(-1);
}
}
int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
int fd;
char *com_port = COM_PORT;
int n;
char *data;
int wait_time = WAIT_TIME;
if (argc == 1 || argc 4)
{
printf(usage: digibox codestring [waittime [device]]\n);
return -1;
}
data = argv[1];
if (argc 2)
wait_time = atoi(argv[2]);
if (argc 3)
com_port = argv[3];
if (debug) printf(opening port for %s and setting RTS\n, com_port);
fd = open_port(com_port);
set_rts (fd);
/* needed to power up the IR system */
{
int done = 0;
struct timespec poweruptime;
poweruptime.tv_sec = 0;
poweruptime.tv_nsec = 2000;
while (!done)
{
int status = nanosleep(poweruptime,poweruptime);
if (status == 0)
{
done = 1;
}
else if (status == -1)
{
if (errno != EINTR)
{
sleep(1);
done = 1;
}
}
}
}
if (debug) printf(writing data (\%s\) now\n,data);
n = write (fd, data, strlen (data));
if (n 0)
{
perror(main(): write failed);
exit(-1);
}
if (debug) printf(data written\n);
tcdrain (fd);
if (wait_time 0
Re: [mythtv-users] programming universal remote (OFA Kameleon)?
The Kameleon can either act as a learning remote (you press a button on an IR device, and assign that signal to a Kameleon button), or as an emulated remote, where it pretends to be another manufacturer's remote. The latter is achieved by holding the MAGIC button for a few seconds when in a given mode (e.g. TV mode, DVD mode), then pressing a code. In my case, SAT mode - MAGIC 1300 gave a fairly featured remote control for some random set-top box. Some types of remote are easier to generate LIRC configs for than others, some are nigh on impossible. The @sat remote appears to map most (but not all) of the buttons on the Kameleon - the xmode2 application reads from the LIRC device and shows the raw data received, so you can quickly see whether a button press is actually transmitting anything. You can then use either the irrecord app to generate a remote-specific lircd.conf config file, or use a pre-made config (there are many on the lirc webpage). As for getting LIRC itself up and running, that's very distribution-specific and accident-prone, so I can't recommend on that front ok - am getting there (phew this is taking forever!) now I have the remote talking to the 250's reciever. could you post a copy of your lircd.conf file? it might make the rest of this a little easier Thanks Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Methods for perfecting NVidia TV Output (was 350 Tv Out vs. Nvidia 5200)
Stephen Williams wrote: On 8/26/05, Craig Tinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there I'm in the UK too - with a sony skybox and a mx440 going to an *old* Sanyo widescreen CRT TV (which I *wish* I could figure out how to get a proper modeline to work with that TV!) Can you buy convertors like you describe? or do you *have* to solder them together? I'm not much use with a soldering iron so would prefer to buy one if possible If I *have* to solder one - is there anywhere I can look for *easy* instructions on what will be needed? Thanks Craig I'm afraid you have to solder it, nobody sells them because there's a theoretical possibility they can damage your TV, although i've never heard of that actually happening and it's been working fine for me for over a year. I managed to put one together or around £10 of parts. It's easiest if you can salvage a VGA cable from an old / dead monitor and half a scart cable. I've never soldered anything before in my life but didn't have a problem, so it can't be that hard. I pretty much followed this guide http://www.sput.nl/hardware/tv-x.html although I had to put power on a few other pins so the TV recognised that a signal was present and was widescreen (google for a scart pin-out and you find this information). If you're anywhere near the Bath area i'd be happy to demonstrate the results. Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Thanks for the info! am off to look at that link and maybe will give it a go this weekend :) Am in Leeds, but if I'm ever near Bath I might give you a shout.. Thanks Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Methods for perfecting NVidia TV Output (was 350 Tv Out vs. Nvidia 5200)
Stephen Williams wrote: If your TV has a SCART socket then i'd highly recommend soldering up your own VGA to SCART convertor. Then you can use an interlaced modeline to output a legal PAL/NTSC signal from vid card (i'm using an Nvidia MX440). Hi there I'm in the UK too - with a sony skybox and a mx440 going to an *old* Sanyo widescreen CRT TV (which I *wish* I could figure out how to get a proper modeline to work with that TV!) Can you buy convertors like you describe? or do you *have* to solder them together? I'm not much use with a soldering iron so would prefer to buy one if possible If I *have* to solder one - is there anywhere I can look for *easy* instructions on what will be needed? Thanks Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Mirroring a sql database
Nathan Hesson wrote: This is sort of off topic but I like to watch shows that I have recorded on my windoze laptop, I tried booting a frontend off of knoppmyth but i get no audio. anyway i use the dsmyth filters and it is able to grab the appropriate program info from the db and display it inside my smb mount. My question is, does anyone know if it is possible to mirror a copy of a database without having to export and reimport everything. I have mysql running on my laptop and it would be cool to be able to copy files (travelling) and just point the database elsewhere to get the program info. TIA Mysql is just set of files ( /var/lib/mysql/mythconverg/* ) In *theory* and I've never tried this - you could use a rsync for windows (http://optics.ph.unimelb.edu.au/help/rsync/) to sync between your myth box and your windows laptop. I'm talking off-the-top of my head here and I might have the wrong end of the stick in terms of what you are after hth Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] programming universal remote (OFA Kameleon)?
David Watkins wrote: On 21/08/05, Craig Tinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dylan Keon wrote: On 07/24/2005 07:41 PM Boleslaw Ciesielski wrote the following: Dylan Keon wrote: I have a One For All Kameleon URC 9960. The innards should be similar to the Radio Shack 15-2116 described on Jarod's Universal Remote page (http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/remotes.php). I am trying to use Jarod's guide to get the remote working with my system, but I am stuck at the step of entering the EFC codes. Is there a trick I can use to enter the EFC codes directly on this remote? Or will I need to get a cable and go the JP1 route? I realize I can use the remote without doing the EFC stuff, but it would be nice to enable the PIP buttons, etc. Hey all I've been trying to get this remote to work for over a week now - and I stumbled across this thread yesterday. I've tried following it but I just can't get my head around all the steps. Can someone post a step-by-step from the very beginning to the end and what I can do to get this remote to work? What type of infrared receiver are you using? ___ the one that comes with my pvr-250. I've got the IR-Learn to use a couple of the keys from the pvr-250 remote (tiny little black one with about 15 keys) and it talks to the reciever but this is the wrong approach as you can't then use all the other keys on the kameleon thanks for any help Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] programming universal remote (OFA Kameleon)?
Jo Shields wrote: I have _most_ of the kameleon's buttons working, emulating an @sat box (OFA SAT code 1300). This code happens to work very well with irecord, or there's a config I made sent to LIRC upstream. --Jo Shields Hi Jo thats the problem I've having - I can't get my head around all these codes and emulation. could you provide a step-by-step from the beginning on how you achieved this? thanks Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] programming universal remote (OFA Kameleon)?
Jo Shields wrote: Craig Tinson wrote: Jo Shields wrote: I have _most_ of the kameleon's buttons working, emulating an @sat box (OFA SAT code 1300). This code happens to work very well with irecord, or there's a config I made sent to LIRC upstream. --Jo Shields Hi Jo thats the problem I've having - I can't get my head around all these codes and emulation. could you provide a step-by-step from the beginning on how you achieved this? thanks Craig The Kameleon can either act as a learning remote (you press a button on an IR device, and assign that signal to a Kameleon button), or as an emulated remote, where it pretends to be another manufacturer's remote. The latter is achieved by holding the MAGIC button for a few seconds when in a given mode (e.g. TV mode, DVD mode), then pressing a code. In my case, SAT mode - MAGIC 1300 gave a fairly featured remote control for some random set-top box. Some types of remote are easier to generate LIRC configs for than others, some are nigh on impossible. The @sat remote appears to map most (but not all) of the buttons on the Kameleon - the xmode2 application reads from the LIRC device and shows the raw data received, so you can quickly see whether a button press is actually transmitting anything. You can then use either the irrecord app to generate a remote-specific lircd.conf config file, or use a pre-made config (there are many on the lirc webpage). As for getting LIRC itself up and running, that's very distribution-specific and accident-prone, so I can't recommend on that front --Jo Shields ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Hi Jo Thanks for the reply - I've got lirc itself setup with the lircd.conf for the tiny remote that comes with the 250. Are you sure your using the Kameleon URC-9960? I don't have a magic button but I do have a setup button which I can then enter codes. so am presuming thats the way. Could you post your lircd.conf? I'm familiar with setting these up but having a ready made one might be a good launching point. Thanks Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] programming universal remote (OFA Kameleon)?
Dylan Keon wrote: On 07/24/2005 07:41 PM Boleslaw Ciesielski wrote the following: Dylan Keon wrote: I have a One For All Kameleon URC 9960. The innards should be similar to the Radio Shack 15-2116 described on Jarod's Universal Remote page (http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/remotes.php). I am trying to use Jarod's guide to get the remote working with my system, but I am stuck at the step of entering the EFC codes. Is there a trick I can use to enter the EFC codes directly on this remote? Or will I need to get a cable and go the JP1 route? I realize I can use the remote without doing the EFC stuff, but it would be nice to enable the PIP buttons, etc. Hey all I've been trying to get this remote to work for over a week now - and I stumbled across this thread yesterday. I've tried following it but I just can't get my head around all the steps. Can someone post a step-by-step from the very beginning to the end and what I can do to get this remote to work? Thanks Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: add skybox to my MythTV system
Oliver Martini wrote: Thanks for your help guys, I had to find out about the Y key to switch the input source but now it's working. I still have two questions: - Is there a possibility that it will change the input source when I choose a channel within the EPG or when I'm browsing the menu, automatically? Or do I always have to press the Y button? - Where do I get the redeye for changing the channels? The store I found on the redeye page has a redeye receiver but with a strange connector not the 9pin. ___ http://www.redremote.co.uk/serial/ thats the one I'm using :) Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: add skybox to my MythTV system
Neil Bird wrote: Around about 09/08/05 02:29, Craig Tinson typed ... I use redeye serial too.. but with a *very* simple one line bash script.. would be interested in what you've done with redeye.c and the script too.. Okey-doke. I make no pretention that I'm the original author/modifier! The 'digibox.c' [née red_eye.c] and its Makefile I purloined from somewhere and then fine-tuned to speed it up (near-instant channel changes now). The skychannel bash script (which does the deed from Myth uses digibox) is pretty much my own, but with some file-locking thrown in. I did purloin the file locking originally, but I think I completely re-wrote the mechanism after a while. usage: skychannel channum[100 = channum = 999] Copes with turning on the digibox if its off, and also (as it's once happened to me while I was hammering another remote at the exact same time the script ran) tries turning it on a second time in case the first power-on got missed. Also blats the zap-banner upon channel change (as Myth provides one). [don't forget Sky now has a setup option to timeout the little red dot interactive logo things] Also hangs about for a little over 4 hours and turns the box off (unless called again in the meantime) to 'reduce' power and ensure the box gets resets to cope with S/W updates, etc. It's a timeout as I couldn't easily tell when progs. finished and deserved a power-off. 4 hours seemed enough (if you think you'll record individual progs. longer that that, change the timeout). thanks Neil it's a hell of a lot faster than what I've been using so far - and with it doing things a couple of times it looks like it will be a lot more reliable too :) thanks for this.. will try it out for a couple of days and report nice work :) Cheers Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: add skybox to my MythTV system
Neil Bird wrote: Around about 08/08/05 12:07, Oliver Martini typed ... Thanks for your help, I will try it at home tonight. How do you change your channels on the sky box from MythTV. Are you using the RedEye, RF or something different? I use the RedEye. If you go that route, I'll send you my slightly customised redeye.c (serial controller command line app. supplied by redeye) and my wrapper 'skychannel' script which has proven quite resilient. Hey there I use redeye serial too.. but with a *very* simple one line bash script.. would be interested in what you've done with redeye.c and the script too.. Cheers Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] new stuff to understand
Hey All ok.. so I've been running a myth box for a couple of years now I think - and over this time I've learnt quite a bit about how myth works and learnt even more about linux! over this time I've got through various pieces of kit for upgrades - new mb, more memory, more hd etc etc.. now I've made a *big* difference - I've switched from a 878 based card to a new PVR-250. it's taken a week or so for me to get this thing running and I've continued to learn a few things about how these cards work but it's been *really* worth it - I thought I had the 878 card working near original source quality but hell, this is now damn perfect and the quality is amazing. i'm still having a few problems in terms of stability of the machine/myth but I need to look into things further to provide more info. so - to the purpose of this email. I never got my head around transcoding as I figured I never needed to with the old card. now I'm recording with the 250 I figured I'd better know more about this transcoding thing. what is it? why does it matter? how will it affect how I use my mythbox? is there settings I need to know about? am I right in thinking it's more of an issue now I'm on a 250? I have mtd running as a daemon on startup but I don't know what it's there for! lol can someone shed light? thanks Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] theme question - spacing between menu items
Donavan Stanley wrote: On 7/5/05, Craig Tinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do I go about changing the spacing between menu items? I have them placed where I want them to match my background.. I've tried various combos but nothing yet.. The background section of the theme.xml can use several tag to control the layout of your buttons. buttonarea - Controls the physical area for the buttons. (Required) buttonspread - Controls whether myth spreads out the buttons to use all of the available space. (Optional, defaults to yes) buttoncenter - Controls whether or not buttons are centered. (Optional, defaults to yes) columns - Controls the maximum number of columns. (Optional) image - The background image to use (overrides the one in the qtlook file) visiblerowlimit - Controls the number of rows that can be on screen at once. So... In order to position a series of buttons over a background image so that they appear to be part of it you would need something like: background style=normal imagebutton_background.jpg/image buttonspreadno/buttonspread buttoncenterno/buttoncenter buttonarea27,117,1200,600/buttonarea visiblerowlimit6/visiblerowlimit columns1/columns /background Thanks for the answer :) Unfortunately it still doesn't explain the spacing.. For example I have at the minute: background style=normal imagebackground.jpg/image buttonspreadno/buttonspread buttoncenterno/buttoncenter balancerowsno/balancerows buttonarea30,250,800,550/buttonarea visiblerowlimit6/visiblerowlimit columns1/columns /background so it's displaying 6 menu items down the left of the screen starting at about a 1/3 the way down.. but the 6 items are nearly falling off the bottom of the screen. I can't move them up because it won't look right with the background.. so I was wondering how I can change the spacing *between* the menu items - make it smaller so the menu items are closer together.. changing the font size makes no difference.. if I do that then the *perceived* space between the menu items are larger - although it's technically the same. am currently looking at: genericbutton ... text area60,8,3,0/area am thinking that might have something to do with it but it doesn't seem to work as expected any ideas? Thanks Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] theme question - spacing between menu items
Donavan Stanley wrote: On 7/5/05, Craig Tinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do I go about changing the spacing between menu items? I have them placed where I want them to match my background.. I've tried various combos but nothing yet.. The background section of the theme.xml can use several tag to control the layout of your buttons. buttonarea - Controls the physical area for the buttons. (Required) buttonspread - Controls whether myth spreads out the buttons to use all of the available space. (Optional, defaults to yes) buttoncenter - Controls whether or not buttons are centered. (Optional, defaults to yes) columns - Controls the maximum number of columns. (Optional) image - The background image to use (overrides the one in the qtlook file) visiblerowlimit - Controls the number of rows that can be on screen at once. So... In order to position a series of buttons over a background image so that they appear to be part of it you would need something like: background style=normal imagebutton_background.jpg/image buttonspreadno/buttonspread buttoncenterno/buttoncenter buttonarea27,117,1200,600/buttonarea visiblerowlimit6/visiblerowlimit columns1/columns /background ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ok.. fixed! thanks for the suggestion that the buttons being used were too large :) Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] theme question - spacing between menu items
hey all general question about themes in my quest for the perfect theme (for me at least!) how do I go about changing the spacing between menu items? I have them placed where I want them to match my background.. I've tried various combos but nothing yet.. I would have thought it would be under: genericbutton ... area40,8,3,0/area /genericbutton but I've tried that and nuffin Thanks for any suggestions.. Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] new font in themes?
Hey guys Just switched to the *excellent* Myxer theme (with a little customisation) And I got to wondering.. how can the font be changed? I've looked in the xml files and they all seem to use Trebuchet (even though I can't even find that font on my system) If I have, say, a windows TTF font or even another linux font.. can I just change the font name in the xml files? I seem to recall giving this a try before and it not working All the themes I've seen seem to always use the same font.. is this because it just isn't changeable? Thanks for any ideas Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] new font in themes?
Michael T. Dean wrote: Craig Tinson wrote: Just switched to the *excellent* Myxer theme (with a little customisation) And I got to wondering.. how can the font be changed? I've looked in the xml files and they all seem to use Trebuchet (even though I can't even find that font on my system) If I have, say, a windows TTF font or even another linux font.. can I just change the font name in the xml files? I seem to recall giving this a try before and it not working Did you use a font name that's available in the output of fc-list? Mike makes sense.. no I didn't.. so just added it and it's appearing there now (in fc-list) and I can use it in X apps (gedit etc etc) I've changed *all* instancies of Trebuchet Ms in ui.xml and restarted..switched themes to get rid of the themecache (if thats important) and it's still got it's default font.. am sure I'm just missing something simple.. but not sure what thanks for any help Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] new font in themes?
Michael T. Dean wrote: Craig Tinson wrote: Just switched to the *excellent* Myxer theme (with a little customisation) And I got to wondering.. how can the font be changed? I've looked in the xml files and they all seem to use Trebuchet (even though I can't even find that font on my system) If I have, say, a windows TTF font or even another linux font.. can I just change the font name in the xml files? I seem to recall giving this a try before and it not working Did you use a font name that's available in the output of fc-list? ahhh... just noticed that the font is working in the program guide! woohoo! must be close this implies i've just changed the wrong file.. i did a search/replace in ui.xml and I can't see any it's missed (it made 16 replacements) Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] new font in themes?
Michael T. Dean wrote: Craig Tinson wrote: Just switched to the *excellent* Myxer theme (with a little customisation) And I got to wondering.. how can the font be changed? I've looked in the xml files and they all seem to use Trebuchet (even though I can't even find that font on my system) If I have, say, a windows TTF font or even another linux font.. can I just change the font name in the xml files? I seem to recall giving this a try before and it not working Did you use a font name that's available in the output of fc-list? Mike got it! thanks :) needed to change theme.xml too (doh!) ahhh.. now it's looking almost perfect! :) Cheers Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] new font in themes?
Michael T. Dean wrote: Craig Tinson wrote: Just switched to the *excellent* Myxer theme (with a little customisation) And I got to wondering.. how can the font be changed? I've looked in the xml files and they all seem to use Trebuchet (even though I can't even find that font on my system) If I have, say, a windows TTF font or even another linux font.. can I just change the font name in the xml files? I seem to recall giving this a try before and it not working Did you use a font name that's available in the output of fc-list? Mike makes sense.. no I didn't.. so just added it and it's appearing there now (in fc-list) and I can use it in X apps (gedit etc etc) I've changed *all* instancies of Trebuchet Ms in ui.xml and restarted..switched themes to get rid of the themecache (if thats important) and it's still got it's default font.. am sure I'm just missing something simple.. but not sure what thanks for any help Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] new font in themes?
David Whyte wrote: ahhh.. now it's looking almost perfect! :) You can't talk about themese that look *perfect* and not provide a screen shot, especially when you talk of trumping the Myzer theme. Give us a look. ;) will do! .. erm.. tomorrow! when I have it polished! :) Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New to list
Nick Rout wrote: Hi I just wanted to introduce myself as I have just joined. I am a myth user from New Zealand. I just upgraded to 0.18. It is running on an epia M9000 with gentoo. Hi Nick I have just been using myth to watch pre-recorded shows and dvd's so far, but I just invested in a Hauppauge PVR-150MCE so hopefully by the end of the weekend I will be watching and recording live TV through it too. As all my TV comes through an external SkyTV satellite decoder I will be using composite in, has anyone got any tips on changing channels on a SkyTV box programmatically - I am thinking I will have to make a IR transmitter and use it to emulate the decoder's remote control? Same as the previous poster I am in the UK but I use Sky. I have the redremote serial (link already posted) and it was a doddle to setup.. although I did have to configure it on a windows box first (no big deal - and only took 30 seconds with the supplied windows application) little bit of sticky-tape to attach to the IR on the front of the Sky box and I was away.. very reliable too As already mentioned it takes a couple of seconds to switch channels but as you will soon realise this isn't a problem as with Myth you'll spend all your time watching stuff already recorded earlier. Have fun! Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythmusic Visualisations
Duncan Brown wrote: Hey all Few quick questions about mythmusic visualisations that i've failed to find anything about by searching.. 1) Is there anywhere I can download any more? 2) Is there any way of having the track name appear whenever a new one starts? 3) Anyone got any plans or heard anyone mention porting the excellent (and now open) milkdrop to myth? regarding Q3.. I think projectM would be better to implement: http://xmms-projectm.sourceforge.net/ milkdrop is win32 only as it uses directx.. but projectM is opengl based and it's only requirement is a stable sdl library. might be worth looking into further as it's all been moved to a library now so should be relatively easy (for a programmer) to implement. Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythmusic Visualisations
Duncan Brown wrote: Hey all Few quick questions about mythmusic visualisations that i've failed to find anything about by searching.. 1) Is there anywhere I can download any more? 2) Is there any way of having the track name appear whenever a new one starts? 3) Anyone got any plans or heard anyone mention porting the excellent (and now open) milkdrop to myth? regarding Q3.. I think projectM would be better to implement: http://xmms-projectm.sourceforge.net/ milkdrop is win32 only as it uses directx.. but projectM is opengl based and it's only requirement is a stable sdl library. might be worth looking into further as it's all been moved to a library now so should be relatively easy (for a programmer) to implement. Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] upgrading to cvs and changing sound input
hey guys have just bought a replacement Sky box (second-hand Sony which has an optical out) to replace the panasonic Sky installed. My soundcard (a cheap CM8738 based card with optical in *and* out) has up till now been using the optical out to my reciever and regular jack inputs. I've just got the Sky box all setup and am now downloading and compiling current CVS. I just wanted to know what I will need to do different this time to make Myth take it's audio input from the spdif in instead of the jacks. It's been a while since I compiled (a couple of days after .17 was released) so I'm hoping current CVS is stable. Thanks Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How to eject DVD ?
Dave Ansell wrote: Hi, My myth frontend is built in a settop box PC and there is no physical access to the DVD eject button (it is stuck behind the front panel). The box does have an eject button which emulates the keypress ctrl-e. Can anyone suggest a way (via Myth or otherwise) of detecting this keypress and causing an eject command to run?( Pitty there isnt an eject button on the myth menu.) I am using Xine for DVD playback. It is OK if there is a DVD in the drive to start with as I can map the eject keypress in Xine, but unfortunately if the DVD starts empty then Xine just exits back to Myth. Any ideas? thx, Dave ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users not an export on this.. but couldn't you just run irexec in the background and map a key to it from the remote? this is similar to the Wife Friendly feature which restarts the box. hth Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] changing sound input..
okies.. after re-installing and trying this out for over an hour.. I think I should restate my previous question.. up till now i've been getting sound from my Sky box.. this is fed straight into the linein on the bt848 card and then looped out to the soundcard.. all standard stuff.. this is then fed out to the amp with an spdif output... (*tons* of questions on spdif *output* on this list.. not many about input!).. and I've had this running perfectly well for ages now.. with no problems.. but now i need to change it so that the sound input goes directly to the sound card via it's spdif *input*.. then myth can merge this with the video and it can all go out as it's already doing.. so the question.. how/where do I tell myth to get it's sound input directly from the sound cards spdif input.. and not the line-in.. where it's currently getting it from.. hope this all makes sense.. Cheers Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] when using all inputs?
Just a quick question My combined BE/FE has one input.. a standard bt878 card.. and all is working wonderfully.. I seem to remember that it *used* to say something to the effect of Myth is using all available inputs when it was recording something and suggested I watch a recording instead. When did that stop happening? now I just get a blank screen and I either have to press stop or just wait and it eventually goes back to the menu.. It's not a problem I was just curious. Also.. on a remote frontend if I try to watch live TV while it's recording.. myth just bombs out.. it *only* does it when I try to watch live while it's recording.. everything else works perfectly.. Anyways.. no big problems.. everything else is just perfect... *especially* since I got myth changing channels on the external Sky tuner (UK).. amazing how much more power the scheduler has when it can change it's own channels.. Cheers Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT - Wireless auto startup - What am I missing
John Williams wrote: Sorry for hte OT post, ut I've exhausted myself with everything I can find with Google and din't get much help from the other mailing list. I've got a myth BE/FE machine that I want to move to the living room and make part of the entertainment center. The more I thought about it wireless made a lot of sense because I'd just be using it to retrieve the weatherdata, and the listing info, neither of which should be bandwidth intensive. That said I can't move it until I get a working wireless connection. I'm running FC3 and kernel 2.6.10-1.741. I've got a D-Link DWL-G510 trying to connect to a D-Link DI-524. I'm having to use NDISWRAPPER because D-Link doesn't supply a Linux driver. Here is the problem. I can't for the life of me figure out how to get this thing working at startup. I can get it to work. I can ping the router after running a few short commands. I have tried several startup scripts, but they are goig th have to be run as root when my mythtv user is automatically logged in. Any pointers? I know FC3 has some problems with stuff at startup as indicated by Jarod's startup workarounds. Where do I start? Thanks , John Williams this is the card I use: http://www.dlink.com/products/?model=DWL-520 I use the acx drivers: http://acx100.sourceforge.net/ the drivers come with a startup_net script.. I just put this at the beginning of rc.local and all works well.. and don't forget the firmware binaries the compatibility matrix: http://acx100.sourceforge.net/matrix.html doesn't specifically mention my card.. but I found various references to it from a google search so tried it.. works perfectly might want to give that a shot.. hth Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] display question
Cory Papenfuss wrote: My video card is an ATI 9200SE.. (crap I know.. will upgrade later but it works for now) If you're using the TVOUT (NTSC or PAL) of the card, the modeline you generate will only be loosely related the picture you get out. TVout chips resample normal resolutions (e.g. 800x600). Need to know more to even give advice... NTSC? PAL? TVout? S-vid? SCART? ATI driver? -Cory erm.. forgot I'd even posted this! sorry the reply took so long.. I must have sent it late at night. lol PAL (UK) Combined FE/BE - Gets input from Sky via S-Video Sends output from FE/BE via S-vid to TV via a Scart Converter ATI Driver: fglrx_6_8_0-8.8.25-1 (rpm from website) Currently running at 800x600 Thanks again for any ideas.. will keep an eye on the responses this time! Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up a video jukebox
Shawn Willden wrote: So, I'm looking for a good solution to easily ripping and transcoding movies, then putting them in a nice, browseable repository so the kids can easily pull up what they want to watch without having to touch the disks. Can I use MythTV for that? I like the fact that it also has the other modules (web, weather, VOIP (gotta try that one -- I use Vonage), and others), and the simple UI will allow me to use the TV as the display, rather than having to hook up some other monitor. yup.. can do that easily.. remember yer gonna need a *huge* amount of disk space for that kinda sized library Also, by way of a test, I ripped and transcoded one movie using MythTV (went very smoothly) but I can't figure out how to *watch* it through tht MythTV front end. It looks like it should show up in the media library under videos, but doesn't. The AVI file is in /var/lib/mythvideo, and I can play it from there with xine or whatever. Do I need to do something to get the ripped videos to show up? after you've ripped a film - in mythfrontend - go into Setup / Video Manager .. this will scan the directory for any new films and allow you to do certain things - like imdb lookups etc. it then adds them into the database and will appear in your Watch Videos Finally, I see that MythTV can be configured on multiple boxes somehow. Am I right in thinking that I can have one machine set up to run the TV display and another set up as the ripper/transcoder? dvdrip makes it pretty easy to distribute transcoding effort, as well. Has anyone done this with MythTV? yup.. if all the machines are running nfs/smb etc.. you can have your central file server share its video directory.. then mount them on the frontends and save the dvdrip's over the network (then see previous note) hth Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] UK - Controlling Sky boxes
Hey Guys Have been looking at this: http://www.cornelius.demon.co.uk/lirc-sky-rflink-howto.html Which effectively shows how to control a Sky (or Sky+) Digibox from the serial port.. I've looked at the link for the RFLink thats mentioned and given them a call to ask if they can provide one that already has a serial port on the end (the one they make is for Tivo's) but they don't. I know I could modify one myself but I don't really have the time or patience to be cutting things up and soldering them back together - so I was wondering if anyone knows of a UK supplier that makes this type of item ready-made.. I'd prefer to use this method rather than a IR approach as this seems a bit tidier and means I don't have to go taping bits to the IR reciever on the front of the Sky box.. Up till this point (have been running a Myth box for over a year now) I've been setting schedules up in myth and then setting the Sky box to autoview/series link .. but this isn't perfect.. and effectively makes MythWeb pointless.. am wanting to be able to set recordings remotely... and unless the Sky box happens to already be on the channel I want to record on.. I can't do this.. Any ideas/links would be appreciated Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] [OT] one of these days... *grumble*
Have just finished installing yam so I can have a local repo for all my local RH9,FC2 and FC3 machines.. it's finally finished downloading the 14Gb for all the stuff.. (taken 3 days! stopping an restarting it) but... guess who forgot to change the $ARCH variable in the yam.conf so now I have 14Gb of OS's for the *wrong* architecture.. *grrr* *one* of these days I'll remember to read docs thoroughly!!! Well.. better start it all going again! Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Jarod? yam quickie
Craig Tinson wrote: Have just finished installing yam so I can have a local repo for all my local RH9,FC2 and FC3 machines.. it's finally finished downloading the 14Gb for all the stuff.. (taken 3 days! stopping an restarting it) Jarod You said you used yam.. could you possibly post a copy of your yam.conf so I can double check it against mine before i set it all off again? TIA Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Jarod? yam quickie
Craig Tinson wrote: Craig Tinson wrote: Have just finished installing yam so I can have a local repo for all my local RH9,FC2 and FC3 machines.. it's finally finished downloading the 14Gb for all the stuff.. (taken 3 days! stopping an restarting it) Jarod You said you used yam.. could you possibly post a copy of your yam.conf so I can double check it against mine before i set it all off again? duh! forget that.. found it on your site.. lol.. it's late! Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] cheap dell machine
thought this might be of interest to someone suspect its a pricing typo http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/servers_Q4_W5_pedge_1600sc_pe1218?c=ukcs=ukbsdt1l=ens=bsd Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] UK MythTV Users (was: MythTV: Isaac Tivo: 100 tech guys)
While all these people are talking about MUG's and get-togethers and piss-ups.. Sounds like a perfect time to maybe do something similar in the UK! Depending on the interest and people's localities.. sounds like a great idea to me.. So where are the UK users? where are the UK *are* they? and whose interested in a piss-up/myth discussion group etc etc Hands up everyone! Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] *completely* OT : general database app for linux?
Cook, Garry wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have just installed linux for a friend so he can have a play with it (FC3) .. the first thing he asked about was if there was a decent database app for it.. I explained all about mysql/postgresql.. but he is interested in something like an Access type application.. with a nice graphical frontend.. Anyone seen anything like this? have had a look through freshmeat but can't find anything relevant.. Cheers Craig You might have a look at phpMyAdmin. It's written for MySQL, not PostgreSQL. You can administer your databases via a browser. http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ thanks for the response.. sorry I should have been more specific.. I use phpMyadmin all the time.. but its not what hes looking for.. more like access.. with forms/reports etc.. I came across an app call Rekall.. which is pretty close.. but doesn't seem to compile under FC3 (there are reports of it working under FC2 though) .. so something like that.. Thanks again Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythVideo v0.16 doesn't compile
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am using the 0.16 release. I also new to MythTv so this is my first post! I downloaded and tried to compile the latest source tar of MythVideo and found that it doesn't compile. I also tried to compile from the CVS source and I also found that didn't compile either. Does anyone know if this is a general problem? If not then I will have to post the relevant output later tonight. All I can remember at the moment was that it was the VideoGallery.cpp file that didn't compile. Has anyone had a similar problem? Thanks, Ian ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users compiled for me a couple of days ago.. post the output you got.. Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] thanks Jarod.. wife is happy! :)
Jarod Just noticed the bit in your howto on the Power button :) :) :) I've got the same problem (wife calling me at work when things go wrong) so I put your idea to work Shes now happy.. and I am happy with not getting calls saying but I can't press CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE.. you took out the keyboard! We need more lil tips like that for making the wife happy.. lol Cheers Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb error
Chris Petersen wrote: Just checked into this further.. the sql is wrong.. 'record' is not in the from part of the sql clause.. I have a patch to fix this. Looks like whoever sent the recording group patch put his mods into the wrong part of teh query. Will try to apply it tonight after finishing up with some translation-related stuff. ok.. thanks :) Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
