Thanks to every one that offered sugestions.
I tried to do some tests with the frame buffer by itself and it was
unresponsive.
As it turns out I had this in my /etc/modules.d/ivtv to clean the random
junk off the screen.
post-install ivtv-fb /usr/bin/ivtvfbctl /dev/fb0 -alpha 0
And that was
On Sunday 06 March 2005 16:47, Robert Tsai wrote:
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 03:22:05PM -0600, Andy Long wrote:
How about bookmark a search for movie:your-zip-code on google
into your mythweb bookmarks?
I am actually looking at writing a movie listings (as in what time
something plays
Hi,
Ive got the above card running nicely tuned into some digital channels in
Australia. However I would like to configure the analog input on it as well
but I have no idea how to configure this. Do I need to install ivtv to get
the analog input to function or is it just using video for linux.
On Monday 07 March 2005 21:21, Gabe Rubin wrote:
apt-get install phpmyadmin
That didn't work. Which repository is it in ?
Regards,
Marcel
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You can slap as many tuners on it as you want (satellite/dc needs
a
box for every tuner)
I have 3 PVR-250s in my backend all with there own dtv receiver and have
had no problems.
Shaun
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Long time user, about to upgrade to .17 by compiling source (as I always
do). However, I have a problem where my my database is semi corrupt. I
can't explain how, but I have random channels that display twice in my
guide, and recordings I can't remove.
So, is there a way that I can display
I have used this serial interface method as well. You can substitute
your existing PVR-250 IR receiver cable for the IR receiver chip in
this diagram.
http://www.modasylum.com/articles/Marsupial/remote/schematics/LIRC-IS1U621.jpg
I need to check on the pinout of the receiver cable. I think I
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 04:12:24PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Long time user, about to upgrade to .17 by compiling source (as I always
do). However, I have a problem where my my database is semi corrupt. I
can't explain how, but I have random channels that display twice in my
and bitrates/etc? Maybe by dumping certain tables?
Thanks,
Ben
Do something like:
mysqldump -p mythconverg mythconverg.20050307
That will create an text dump of your entire mythconverg database. That
text file contains all the mysql commands necessary to rebuild the database.
You can then go
I originally said:
I still can't get my ATI 9800 to use xvideo at over about 1024 resolutions;
so I can't watch HD shows in myth with xv on. (1920 and 1280 both fail with
the insufficient resources issue)
As Homer would say: Woo Hoo!
In trying to make myth play back X11 better I actually
Did you write up your bench notes from the install?
Do you have a webpage or are you considering putting
one up?
Sadly no, though now I'm thinking I should have. If someone will add
some links to other peoples worklogs, I'll take a peek and try to do a
better job on the next one.
I did work
Okay, I'm wondering if nobody is replying because they are unable to
view my table...sorry about that guys, my schedule is kind of busy so I
didn't realize it wasn't going through with the formatting. Here is the
same information in an outline format:
MythTV
Audio cable is hooked into
* Avermedia DVB-T (has a svideo in as well - not sure what that
can do). Again around 60.
I'm using one of these. As long as your signal isn't too weak you won't have
any problems. We have a couple of freeview boxes which pick up one of the
multiplexes at 25% signal strength (it's
Michael Haan wrote:
I'm mid re-install even as I write this. I was tring to avoid alsa
n/c ultimately I want to use my board's spdif out and, frankly, under
alsa this appeared to complex. I guess we'll see.
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:43:48 -0500, Craig Partin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 07
I have a second TV with a mpeg4-compatible DVD player (Philips dvp642)
and a full drive on my Myth box. My plan is to archive shows to DVD-R
and play them on my standalone (or on the myth box with xine). I'd
also like to be able to play the files on my windows box.
My recordings are all already
Ken Mink wrote:
A slower cooler CPU would have probably been a better choice.
You can still fix that. Just underclock the CPU down to, say, 1600XP,
then turn the voltage down as far as you can without losing stability.
Lowering the clock speed helps quite a bit with temperature, and it
I'm surprised I haven't seen this posted yet - but from google-ing around I
found there is a new encryption method being used on some of the latest movies.
This seems to prevent libdvdcss (1.2.8) from working.
Just thought you might want to know why MythDVD/Rip doesn't work on some of
the
Chris Pinkham wrote:
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On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 17:47, john roberts wrote:
I'm surprised I haven't seen this posted yet - but from google-ing around I
found there is a new encryption method being used on some of the latest
movies. This seems to prevent libdvdcss (1.2.8) from working.
Just thought you might want to
Yeah, sorry, but I couldn't find any good reason NOT to use SuSE. I've
been running MythTV on SuSE with two PVR-250s on an Asus Pundit for just
over a year now...
-Khanh
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Sent: Sunday, March
Lane Schwartz wrote:
Has anyone been successful in getting fceu-sdl (NES emulator) to
recognize key events sent by irxevent?
Specifically, I'm trying to map the EXIT key on my remote control to
send ESC to fceu-sdl, to exit the game. Right now I have to hit ESC on
the keyboard to exit the
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:20 +0100, Jeroen Brosens wrote:
You probably don't know how bob works too well. Using bobdeint is the
*only* way to achieve the original field rate of the broadcast, as played
on a TV. Just outputting frames that are captured by the MPEG2 encoder
(which are a
Thanks to everybody for the replies. David, thx for the steps. A few
question though. I installed avidemux as you suggested and opned one of
my 30 minute clips. Maybe I missed something or didn't do it right. Here
is what I came across
I also read some docs about cutting. The only way I
I have the 350 and have ot working to my satisfaction using Jarod's
excellent guide. But I don't use the mplayer. I use the TV Out on the
350 and I haven't had any problrems with the pic so far. I like this so
much that, I hardly watch live tv anymore!. I either watch the recorded
shows or
I need XVMC myself on the frontend.. just a lowly celeron 733..
I put OSD fade on 0 (now i don't get ANY osd) and everything works
much better.. but it stinks not having the info appear at all.. will
try tweaking my settings to see if that helps..
-byron
On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 21:57:39 -0500,
After reading a few posts on this topic, I decided to try out nuvexport
and cut the commercials using nuvexport. I generated the cutlist using
the M and Z options while playing the recording. Ran the nuvexport and
the this is what I saw and it did not finish even after 11 hours. Can
anybody
After reading some posts about incorrect cut points, I wanted to make
sure the cutpoint were right. Hit the M and the Z key to generate the
cutlist while palying back the recording. I could see some blocks at
the bottom of the screen representing what I assume is the cutlist. But
how do I
Brian J. Murrell wrote:
Hrm. Optimal meaning as good as it can get with this card but not
quite ultimate?, or do you believe you have a TV-Out signal that
represents how the content was originally broadcast (i.e. perfectly
interlaced fields)?
optimal meaning the best quality out of the nVidia
Praveen Shenoy wrote:
After reading some posts about incorrect cut points, I wanted to make
sure the cutpoint were right. Hit the M and the Z key to generate the
cutlist while palying back the recording. I could see some blocks at
the bottom of the screen representing what I assume is the
As far as the commercial flagging taking 8hours, the machine is a
Celeron 300, which came with the tiny 128k cache. I can only assume
that has something to do with the slow commerical flagging time.
This probably has a HUGE impact. :) If you figure that at 320x240,
you're frame has 76800
What difference does it make what order the frontends connect
to the backend? Multiple tuners is a far easier solution.
What about letting frontends stream from an NFS mount for their
ringbuffer rather than via the Myth protocol, IE like Recorded
Programs can. This would allow all frontends to
The get a wireless bridge or get a wireless gaming
adaptor is probably the easiest thing to do.That
way, you know it will work (assuming your on-board
wired ethernet interface works), and you're not
introducing yet another kernel module dependent on an
out-of-tree project.
That's what I
Hi,
I am about to install MythTV on system to become a HTPC.
Setup is:
P3 Coppermine 800Mhz
Soyo 7VCA Motherboard (Chipset VIA Apollo Pro133A (VT82C694X+VT82C686A))
128Mb PC133 RAM
ATI 3D Rage Pro 2X AGP
Pinnacle/Miro DC30 Plus
Onboard AC97 Sound
What I haven't figured out yet is wether TV-out
Brad Templeton wrote:
I find with sports you can easily watch a game in about 50% of the time,
skipping over the commercials and gaps between plays, or putting some
sections on timestretch.
Dunno about that... Something about watching sports live just seems
better. Sure, the outcome won't
Due to ivtv not working properly and it took me a
couple days to realize I have several database entries
with 0k no not at all files. So the ATRpms version
will not let me delete them.
I thought I read somewhere the cvs version will, but
not running cvs.
Is it safe to manually delete the
--- Nathan Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I have a second TV with a mpeg4-compatible DVD
player (Philips dvp642)
and a full drive on my Myth box. My plan is to
archive shows to DVD-R
and play them on my standalone (or on the myth box
with xine). I'd
also like to be able to play the
Hi Brad,
I did more testing and looks like it's not a mythtv issue. Hmmm. I talked to
the nvidia guys and they told me that I should make sure that Vsync and
vblank are checked in nvidia settings and that I have to restart mythtv. I
even did recompile myth so that it has opengl support. Btw,
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 19:59 -0500, Chris Pinkham wrote:
As far as the commercial flagging taking 8hours, the machine is a
Celeron 300, which came with the tiny 128k cache. I can only assume
that has something to do with the slow commerical flagging time.
This probably has a HUGE impact.
I have 2 PVR-250 in my main backend which runs all
day. I also have a pvr-250 in a remote frontend.
How can I utilize the frontend capture card.
The Frontend already connects and works great off the
back end, do I simply need to mount the /recording
directory on the front end and start
Hi all,
I have searched the channels in Canberra for some reason I can only
find 2 channels 7 and win when searching SBS and updating the database
I get no lock and the searching for channels hangs. When I select
watch TV I get the following message.
Mythtv is already using avaliable inputs for
The reason this is happening is most likely the same reason it happened to me.
Make sure your using MPEG2 of course, as RTjpeg is wrong, but the other part of
your issue is most likely this:
Mythbackend is starting before modprobe ivtv finishes.
Reboot your backend. Once its completely done
Anyone tried mythFM-0.15.1 with mythtv 0.17?
I tried building the last/latest mythFM and mythRecipe and neither one
of them would compile cleanly against 0.17 - I didn't spend too much
time investigating mythFM though since MythStream is able to tune in
about 75% of the radio stations I care
On Monday 07 March 2005 17:59, Jay wrote:
The reason this is happening is most likely the same reason it happened to
me. Make sure your using MPEG2 of course, as RTjpeg is wrong, but the other
part of your issue is most likely this:
Mythbackend is starting before modprobe ivtv finishes.
Kevin Saenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/07/05 9:06 PM
Hi all,
snip
watch TV I get the following message.
Mythtv is already using avaliable inputs for recording if you
want to watch live tv cancel one of the in progress recordings
from the delete menu. If you want to watch an in progress
recording
Thanks - the program seems to do exactly what I want. I can't get it
to compile, though. There's no documentation at all. I tried doing
make, then make install, and it didn't seem to work. Lots of errors
and I can't run the software (it never got installed, apparently).
Some other post here
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Thanks - the program seems to do exactly what I
want. I can't get it
to compile, though. There's no documentation at all.
I tried doing
make, then make install, and it didn't seem to work.
Lots of errors
and I can't run the software (it never
I have a problem with playing back some captures made via firewire. It
doesn't seem to matter if they are SDTV or HDTV sources, as I have had
some of each. There are two symptoms, one bad, one worse.
Bad: Video doesn't play, after about 5 seconds, control returns to MythTV.
Worse: Crash.
In
According to my notes, the tip of the IR receiver cable plug should be
connected in place of IC1 pin3. The base of the plug should connect
in place of IC1 pin 2, and the ring of the plug should connect in
place of IC1 pin 1. In other words,
Tip = +5V
Base = GND (DCD)
Ring = Data
I put the
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 09:31:41PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote:
OK, I have this device loaded and capturing video with the sample
app. Now the question(s) I have are specific to this device. Do I
find another place to ask them, since they are not mythtv specific,
or is there enough interest here
Steve,
Did you ever determine why this is happening? I am
see in the same issue in 0.17.
From: steve.frank at bevcore
Hi gang, I've been messing around with using Xine for
DVD playback from
within and outside of Myth, and I've noticed something
odd on my
production box. I'm using FC1, ivtv
Is this one of those tasks that can be added to the JobQueue? I would
like to have an DivX version of every recording I make so I can watch
it on my PDA on the train. I don't want to blow away the original
recording incase I choose to watch it at home instead. It must also
be proper DivX/XviD
Could you tell me how this is done? How to control the backend with the
dtv reciever connected to it from the front end? What
programs/scripts/hardware do I need?
Donavan Stanley wrote:
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 03:18:56 -0600, hondaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just a follow up. I plugged in
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 10:17:05PM -0500, Nathan Lutchansky wrote:
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 09:31:41PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote:
OK, I have this device loaded and capturing video with the sample
app. Now the question(s) I have are specific to this device. Do I
find another place to ask them,
You have two options for that frontend capture card.
You could run a second backend on that frontend to utilize that card,
or run something like tvtime on that frontend just to watch live tv.
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 17:52:54 -0800 (PST), Jordack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have 2 PVR-250 in my main
I hope that this is not a double post, as I tried sending this before I
registered, so sorry to all if it is, but I am interested in the
answers. Thank you.
---
I am considering buying either a Hauppauge PVR 250 or 350, but I am a
little confused regarding the differences.
Am I correct:
Both
--- Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 09:00:14PM -0800, Andrew
Lynch wrote:
I think it would be great if old PCs could be
converted into PVRs rather than tossing them in
landfills or third world toxic waste dumps. That
is
such a waste. I regularly
Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've got some video captured from videotape using my PVR-350.
I've put the MPEG-2 file in my mythvideo directory and have run
mythcommflag --video test.mpg on it. I verified that the
filemarkup table has
--- David Whyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is this one of those tasks that can be added to the
JobQueue? I would
like to have an DivX version of every recording I
make so I can watch
it on my PDA on the train. I don't want to blow
away the original
recording incase I choose to watch it at
I am using avidemux2 with nuvexport. I am using it under X, but is is
fully automatic.
1. In myth load up your cutlist.
2. then launch nuvexport.
3. choose mpeg2-mpeg2 (cutlist or commercial).
4. Watch it.. it should run then launch avidemux2.
On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 16:05:27 -0800, Praveen
I like apt-get because it quick and easy. But there
seems like after a MythTV release there are patches to
fix issues. So I am thinking about pulling from CVS
and compiling Mythtv.
The problem and the question that I have is how do you
know/get the patches for the latest release?
For
I just checked the forums at KnoppMyth and can't
believe it. Apparently someone broke in and did
something really bad over there. Anyone got the story
on what is going on?
It doesn't sound like its coming back either! This is
a disaster! IMO the knoppmyth forums are the best
MythTV
For the past couple of days I have been seeing this error
Last mythfilldatabase run started on 2005-03-07 21:05 and ended on
2005-03-07 21:05. mythfilldatabase ran, but did not insert any new
data into the Guide. This can indicate a potential grabber failure.
There's guide data until
On 03/07/2005 10:51 PM, hondaman wrote:
Could you tell me how this is done? How to control the backend with
the dtv reciever connected to it from the front end? What
programs/scripts/hardware do I need?
Your video capture card is in the backend. The audio/video from the
Directv receiver
If the blue line is just when watching recorded programs/live TV, you
may find the best adjustment is the MythTV overscan (Setup TV
Settings Playback). I have mine
overscanning by 2 in both directions and offset by -1 in both directions.
I also tweaked my MythTV GUI with a custom GUI
On Mar 7, 2005, at 8:29 PM, Scot L. Harris wrote:
Still sorting out minor issues with a new mythtv system.
Running 0.17 from ATRPMS on FC3 system.
I noted in some past messages on the list that the mythweather feature
should have animated radar maps.
For Orlando, FL I verified that weather.com
Okay, here's the latest.
I am running myth tv via a DirecTV setup. The coax goes to my DTV
receiver, then I have S-video out to the myth tv box. The input in
question is S-Video 0; with this input established, I am able to watch
Live TV from frontend.
The problem is coming in when I am
I'm running mythweb on a remote machine (not the masted backend), when I
delete a program through mythweb it crashes the master backend. Any
suggestions?
Bryan
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No TV out on the PVR-250 - it's TV in. Only the
PVR-350 has TV-out (as far as I know, the PVR-150 and
the PVR-500 also do not have TV-out, but I have not
used either of them, so I can't be 100% certain).
The PVR-350 cannot connect to a VGA monitor (if that
is what you are referring to), it can
On Monday 07 March 2005 11:42 pm, Brian Foddy wrote:
Over the weekend I started playing with a slave backend. The
slave backend holds air2pc HD cards, and serves the system with the
global NFS file system. The master and main frontend mounts the
NFS filesystem and holds 3 pvr-250s and
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 08:44:34PM -0500, Jeff Wormsley wrote:
Brad Templeton wrote:
I find with sports you can easily watch a game in about 50% of the time,
skipping over the commercials and gaps between plays, or putting some
sections on timestretch.
Dunno about that... Something
I've recently upgraded my myth boxes to CVS from March 5 from Feb. 27.
Since then, HDTV decoding on FC3-x86_64 has generated lots of
prebuffering pauses when using libmpeg2. Turning that setting off
allows normal CPU usage and playback.
So yes - I can watch 24 in HD tonight. ;)
So this is just
You're not the only one. If you look back 1 or 2 weeks you'll notice that
another gentleman and I posted with the same problem. I still haven't
solved it and I've been just exporting the shows to myth video in the
short-term just so I can watch them.
It would be nice it we could find a
I am running X on a PVR350, with the GUI set to run in a window which
I have sized and centered correctly. However, when running the GUI in
anything less than fullscreen mode, when I change to watching live tv,
the box where the GUI was in the center of the screen stays black
and the frame around
Sometimes when I'm playing back, mythtv would freeze
when FF or REW (30 second skip not 10 min). The
screen picture would lock up. Killing the frontend
and restarting it does not help the problem as part of
the picture remains on the screen. I usually have to
reboot.
Here's what I could get
5) In the MythFrontend Setup screen for TV Playback, enable:
- Deinterlace
- Mode: Bob (2x)
Why de-interlace?
Why not send the interlaced recorded signal you recorded back to the TV
in the format that it expects to be played in, interlaced, with each
field being shown for 1/59.94th of a
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