[mythtv-users] X through PVR-350 HOWTO
Hi, Is there a howto on getting X piped through a PVR-350? Thanks, Søren PS: IMHO The perfect solution would be to completely remove the graphics adapter from the pc but I fear that the motherboard will not boot without a graphics card?___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] A/V diverged by -3 frames
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 08:40:10AM +1000, Christian Hack wrote: Same deal although 50Hz + realtime has made my tickers and panning etc go much smoother. Don't know why I didn't try that before. Thanks for the suggestion. It's just the one channel, and it appears that once transcoded to MPEG4 they play fine. So it's something to do with the MPEG2 from the DVB card. I can host a stream of it if someone wants to look. It's obviously very big though and I only have 128kb/s upstream. I've used SBS with Myth occasionally (though not in the last two weeks) and haven't had any issues like this. 2004-12-28 08:39:43.531 Video timing method: RTC 2004-12-28 08:39:43.532 Refresh rate: 1, frame interval: 4 This might still be a problem occasionally. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Hard Drives that Actually Work?
I'd say yes, as in most datacentres I've seen more disks die at spinup/start up than during normal 247 use. On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:43:33 +1100, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does a disk which is spinning 24x7 but is mostly idle (eg my Myth installation) fail more quickly than a disk which is powered off for those other hours? Hamish -- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: [ICH/i8x0 | Problems getting SPDIF Out Working - Help!]
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 12:55:35PM +1030, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote: I am running Fedora Core 2 with kernel 2.6.9-1.6_FC2, along with mythtv and its associated bits installed from rpm from atrpms.net. With or without the alsa 1.0.7 kernel module rpms (and userland alsa 1.0.7 rpms)? My system is an Open XCube, which has an intel ICH (i8x0) sound card with optical digital out. If I use the asound.conf found here http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo , subsituting hw:0,2 for hw:0,4 becuase my digital out appears to be on device 4 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH5] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH5 - IEC958] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# Now this is where it gets a little wierd : If I attempt to play anything back through plug:digital, I get nothing out the optical out at all. I created a stereo 48000hz file and tried using aplay to play directly to hw:0,4 : #aplay -D hw:0,4 /video/music/test.wav I get nothing. Just for the heck of it, I tried #aplay -D hw:0,0 /video/music/test.wav and SOUND STARTED PLAYING THROUGH MY DIGITAL OUT??? Interestingly : #aplay -D analog /video/music/test.wav Works fine through my digital output also ??? But it wont play anything except 48000hz stereo files so I'm assuming something is broken or not working with dmix here. Does anyone know if there is there some default Fedora Core 2 stuff that I should be aware of in regards to all of this? I basically want to use my digital out for playing music through Mythmusic so I need to get the dmix plugin working so it will upsample from 44100hz mp3s. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net pgpC9SwBVbefS.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: error in line 59, integer expected (was: clear a Transaction Check Error?)
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 01:05:15PM -0800, Chuck Rice wrote: Progress! I tried a apt-get -f install which in the past would try to delete everything to fix the problem, leading to an unbootable system. This time it just deleted yum. now I have a new problem. What does: warning: /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xmlcatalog saved as /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xmlcatalog.rpmsave Failed to remove entry from /etc/sgml/catalog Failed to remove entry from /etc/sgml/catalog Failed to remove entry from /etc/sgml/catalog Failed to remove entry from /etc/sgml/catalog Failed to remove entry from /etc/sgml/catalog Failed to remove entry from /etc/sgml/catalog Failed to remove entry from /etc/sgml/catalog Failed to remove entry from /etc/sgml/catalog Failed to remove entry from /etc/sgml/catalog /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.1694: line 59: [: : integer expression expected mean? Google did not turn up anything that looked relevant. -Chuck- Ignore it, it's a bug in a Red Hat's %postun script that makes wrong assumptions on the state of /etc/sgml/catlogue. Unfortunately due to rpm's nature you cannot block a buggy %postun script. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net pgpKpwp4TqTic.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Soft- or Hardware issue ?
Hi all, I've been struggling/reading a while with prebuffering issues. I do have 2 kinds of ASUS Pundits, the one with the SiS chipset with snd-intel8x0 and the Pundit-R with the ATI chipset with snd-atiixp driver. The SiS intel8x0 combo works flawlessly. Whem I move the disk to the other, change intel8x0 to atiixp and the buffering issues are there. Disabling the onboard sound and adding a SB-Live card with snd-emu10k1 and everything is OK. So my question is, is it a hardware problem or a driver problem ? Henk Schoneveld The Netherlands PS. I think we should look to which things are the same in the affected systems. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Autoreply: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 23, Issue 118
I am out of the office until Jan 6th 2005. Emails are being forwarded to my office and will be monitored. I will respond to all emails upon my return. Happy New Year David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Problems building my box - PVR 350.
I have built a computer and installed Mandrake on it. Problem is, I can't start X - which I think is because the graphics card is about ten years old. I have a PVR 350, though, and will be using the TV output from that. So if I'm not mistaken, I only need the extra graphics card to set up the box for the first time - am I right? So, should I spend time trying to get X started on this card? Should I get hold of another graphics card to do the setup, which runs X? Or can I set everything up from the command line, and then get Myth working on the PVR without ever having run X on the normal graphics card? This is what I think is possible, but I'm somewhat of a Linux newbie so I'm after confirmation :) Amorya ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MythWeb: Streaming a NUV file to a windows machine
Guys, Using MythWeb, when I click on recorded show, is it supposed to play the file immediately? I am finding that the whole file has to be downloaded before it will be played. It would be cool if I could start watching the file after downloading the first few MB's and then download the rest in the background. Cheers, Whytey -- GMAIL is 'da bomb babyYEAH ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Hard Drives that Actually Work?
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 10:00:39AM +, Greg Cope wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:43:33 +1100, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does a disk which is spinning 24x7 but is mostly idle (eg my Myth installation) fail more quickly than a disk which is powered off for those other hours? I'd say yes, as in most datacentres I've seen more disks die at spinup/start up than during normal 247 use. Err, did you mean no? I'm confused. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] A/V diverged by -3 frames
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hamish Moffatt On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 08:40:10AM +1000, Christian Hack wrote: Same deal although 50Hz + realtime has made my tickers and panning etc go much smoother. Don't know why I didn't try that before. Thanks for the suggestion. It's just the one channel, and it appears that once transcoded to MPEG4 they play fine. So it's something to do with the MPEG2 from the DVB card. I can host a stream of it if someone wants to look. It's obviously very big though and I only have 128kb/s upstream. I've used SBS with Myth occasionally (though not in the last two weeks) and haven't had any issues like this. 2004-12-28 08:39:43.531 Video timing method: RTC 2004-12-28 08:39:43.532 Refresh rate: 1, frame interval: 4 This might still be a problem occasionally. Yep I realise that - I think there might be some rounding errors there. Definitely not the problem though this time I believe If that's what's really the frame rate the error is 0.005% or about 1 frame in 2 (every 400 seconds). This is much more severe than that. If you are running latest CVS, can you try and run mythfrontend with -v libav,playback options watching SBS? This is new since I upgraded to CVS. SBS previously worked fine. Also old DVB recordings which previously worked fine are now showing the bad playback. I'm currently trying to work out when it went bad but it takes so long to compile it's taking me a while to track down. CH ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] X through PVR-350 HOWTO
I have one, there are others I've seen. There is another link in the Wiki. http://www.schaefer.dhcp.biz/pvr350tvout.htm Hi, Is there a howto on getting X piped through a PVR-350? Thanks, Søren PS: IMHO The perfect solution would be to completely remove the graphics adapter from the pc but I fear that the motherboard will not boot without a graphics card?___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: 1080i question
An nvidia card can display any of those resolutions. Here is a guide to setting up custom resolutions using a Windows utility called Powerstrip. Once you get the image tweaked you can export a Linux modeline directly from Powerstrip. You can try other peoples modelines but my experience has been you need to generate the modeline yourself using your TV in order to get optimum picture quality. http://www.keohi.com/keohihdtv/experttips/markrejhon/htpc_superguide.html On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 06:58:22 -0600, Michael J. Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone can shed light on this it would be appreciated. As I understand it, resolution for 16:9 with a 1080i monitor is 1920x1080 where 1920 can be calculated by: 1920 = (1080 / 9) * 16 Does this hold true for 4:3 also. E.G. Is horizontal resolution for 4:3 aspect ratio with 1080 lines of vertical resolution 1440? 1440 = (1080 / 3) * 4 If both of these are true, is it possible, and is there a video card that will produce 1920x1080i and/or 1440x1080i? If so, does anyone have modelines for each these? Are the h and v sync timing, pulse widths, porches, etc the same for both or are they different? I have a 16:9 aspect HD monitor and when I watch a 4:3 aspect program on a digital channel, I get vertical black bars to the right and left of the active video. E.G. The picture is centered in the screen. Does anyone know if this is done by adjustment of the porch widths or is it done by filling the extra 480 pixels with whatever (black seems to be the choice)? -- Michael J. Lynch What if the hokey pokey IS what it's all about -- author unknown ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Problems building my box - PVR 350.
On 28 Dec 2004, at 12:56 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: What is the graphics card? It must be very old indeed if it will not run X. Have you tried logging in at the text console and running XFdrake to set up the graphics card again.? If the driver is not autoselected try selecting vesa or vga. Select a very conservative resolution. What version of Mandrake is this? Did you look at the log to see why X will not start. In Mdk 10.1 the log is /var/log/Xorg.0.log You will find it easier to read log files if you install Midnight Commander with 'urpmi mc' and then run 'mc' to get a text based file manager. The card is some Cyrrus model I think - but unsure. It can definitely display some form of graphic - I get a nice graphical Press F1 for options when I run the Mandrake installer, but then after that the installer switches over to text mode and I don't see any more graphics. I tried XFdrake but it says command not found. Where is XFdrake found? I also tried xf86config, but to no avail. The version of Mandrake is 10.1 official. I'll check the logs. Do I need a network connection to install Midnight Commander? I think I have a driver for my ethernet port installed, but I haven't tried it yet. Will have a go later. Is this worth persevering with? Or should I get X up on the PVR 350 and just not bother with the VGA card at all? Thanks for your help! Amorya ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Recommendations
I first tried setting it up with Mandrake 10, but ran into some problems. I can't remember what exactly the problems were, but I wasn't sure at the time if it had to do with my hardware or with the configuration. I put on Knoppmyth to for testing, and when it was so easy to get the whole system working, I just kept it. Since the box is only running Myth, there's no need for any of the extras that come with Mandrake or FC, or other distros. Everything you need is included, and the whole thing can be set up with only minor tweaking. If you do end up with an nvidia card, you'll probably need to get an updated driver. I know when I installed Knoppmyth R4V4, there were issues with the included nv driver. Still it was easy to find and install. This may have been addressed in the latest release, but I don't know. I haven't upgraded to R4V5 yet. The other thing you'll need with an nvidia card is xvatttr to get rid of a blue border at the top and left of the picture. You can find it at sourceforge or by googling. Good luck. On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 20:38:41 -0500, Dennis B. Hopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm actually doing some rearranging of machines (basically moving my mail/web/developing server to a laptop that the LCD doesn't work any more..well the LCD works, but the hinges are broke so it doesn't make for a good laptop, but that's another story) and in the process will free up a Athlon XP 2000+, 768MB RAM so the machine is there now, but thanks for the feed back...I may end up using the slower machine for a mythfrontend somewhere in my house. I picked up a PVR-250 (could have gotten it for less but I like newegg and I had to order some other parts for my in-laws machine) and a Chaintech FX-5200 card (seemed to be the card of choice for people on this list). Haven't picked up a hard drive yet, but I will use a 40GB to test with and if all goes well will definetly pick up a bigger drive (I didn't realize how cheap they have gotten!, best buy had a deal on Seagate 200GB for $99.99 with a $50 rebate over the weekend, not sure if it's still going). Just have to wait for the parts to get here so I can start tinkering :) What distribution are you using? I'm thinking either Fedora Core or Mandrake (I love gentoo, but I think it may be too much for this)... --Dennis -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dewey Smolka Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 7:50 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Recommendations I built mine for about $500. I tried it first with an old K6-2 450 (512 RAM) and found it way to slow. I ended up getting a used P3 700, for $150 and that works fine. You could probably get it running on a slower machine, but it might not be worth the effort. Hardware encoding will definitely be necessary with a pokey machine, and the PVR-250 is well worth the price. I got mine for around $120, but I've seen them for less. They include a remote control and IR dongle, and are completely painless to set up for Myth. For TV-out, you really don't need the latest and greatest card. You can save a lot of money here, as I suspect with this kind of processor you're not looking for gameplay. I use an Nvidia Geforce 2 with S-Video out. I had this card lying around but you can pick one up for a song, I'm sure. I run an S-Video to RCA cinch adatper and use the RCA to connect to the TV's aux in port. It's not HD by any means, but neither is the TV. If you don't have an RCA-in on your TV, you can easily run this through a VCR, which will definitely have the port. The video quality is much better than VHS, but not quite DVD. Still, good enough for me. The on-board audio is also good enough for me, though I run the audio out through a stereo system. Again, not 5.1 Dolby, but I don't have a sound system that supports 5.1 anyway, and the sound really is good enough. Keep you eye out for hard drive deals. I got a 200 GB Maxtor at Office Depot back in September for around $120, no mail-in rebate crap. I think I saw Staples selling a 160 GB drive for around $100, plus a $40 rebate. You may think 60 GB is a lot now, but just wait till it starts filling up. Get a big drive from the beginning. On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 09:50:56 -0500, Dennis B. Hopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm toying with the idea of building a mythtv box. Budget is not as big as I would like, but what can ya do... Anyway, I was thinking of getting the PVR-250 (the PVR-350 seems to have too many problems with the TV-OUT to justify the extra $40-50). What card do you guys recommend for doing TV-OUT? Also do you think a K6-2 500 Mhz proc is enough (will have 384MB of RAM, maybe 512, not sure what I have laying around)? The only thing this box will do is act as a media center (with it's primary objective to be a TV-Recorder, and live tv). It will connect to a DirecTV receiver (which has a low speed data
Re: [mythtv-users] [ICH/i8x0 | Problems getting SPDIF Out Working -Help!]
hw:0,0 and hw:0,4 - both seem to work with the same results. On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 16:22:31 +1030, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What output device did you use?? ALSA:digital? - Original Message - From: Bryan Brannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 1:28 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] [ICH/i8x0 | Problems getting SPDIF Out Working -Help!] I had to turn IEC958 Playback all the way down to zero to get it to play anything Myth related.. using alsamixer. On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:55:35 +1030, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, I am wondering if anybody can point me in the right direction to help me get my digital out working properly. I have trawled websites and mailing lists for info in asound.conf's etc etc and have played with this for a fair while. I am running Fedora Core 2 with kernel 2.6.9-1.6_FC2, along with mythtv and its associated bits installed from rpm from atrpms.net. My system is an Open XCube, which has an intel ICH (i8x0) sound card with optical digital out. If I use the asound.conf found here http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo , subsituting hw:0,2 for hw:0,4 becuase my digital out appears to be on device 4 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH5] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH5 - IEC958] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# Now this is where it gets a little wierd : If I attempt to play anything back through plug:digital, I get nothing out the optical out at all. I created a stereo 48000hz file and tried using aplay to play directly to hw:0,4 : #aplay -D hw:0,4 /video/music/test.wav I get nothing. Just for the heck of it, I tried #aplay -D hw:0,0 /video/music/test.wav and SOUND STARTED PLAYING THROUGH MY DIGITAL OUT??? Interestingly : #aplay -D analog /video/music/test.wav Works fine through my digital output also ??? But it wont play anything except 48000hz stereo files so I'm assuming something is broken or not working with dmix here. Does anyone know if there is there some default Fedora Core 2 stuff that I should be aware of in regards to all of this? I basically want to use my digital out for playing music through Mythmusic so I need to get the dmix plugin working so it will upsample from 44100hz mp3s. Hopefully someone can suggest something to try here? Thanks! Michael. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythGallary Seg Faults
Are you using an VIA EPIA motherboard by chance? john roberts wrote: Anyone else have an issue with MythGallary seg-faulting? Seems to segfault when there are many pictures within a folder. I have my pictures broken out by year/month and some months have 10-30 pic's and MythGallary has no issues with these. It's when it attempts to open a folder (month) with many (50+) pictures in it. Anyone seen this? BTW - this was pulled from CVS 12/22/04 Thanks! -John ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: MythTV setup
I think debian package mythtv-databa 0.16.-1 creates the wrong table in database also. I installed version 0.16-1. There is no outputfilters field in the channel table. Somebody any idea? On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 10:47 -0500, Alex Lozupone wrote: Hi - does anyone have any idea what might be causing this error (debian unstable 2.6.10 kernel) while trying to set up mythtv? the mysql db seems to be up - i've been able to set a root password for it, and verify that it works using mysql but mythtv-database doesn't seem to be able to use it. any ideas? Thanks! Setting up mythtv-database (0.16-1) ... Failed to connect to database: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'borzoi' (111) at -e line 5, line 1. Failed to create database (incorrect admin username/password?) If you supplied incorrect information, try: dpkg-reconfigure --force mythtv-database dpkg: error processing mythtv-database (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mythtv: mythtv depends on mythtv-database (= 0.16-1); however: Package mythtv-database is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing mythtv (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] yum Dependancy
Hello all, I'm starting to build my first MythTV system. Also a newbie to Linux. I have searched the archives with little success for this problem: after apt-get install apt yum I get a dependancy error, specifically: The following packages have unmet dependencies: yum: Depends: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages but it is not installable Depends: Requires: but it is not installable E: Broken packages I tried re-loading Axels' kickstart, but no changes. Any ideas? How do I install python2.4, or did I miss it in the initial fedora core 3 install? Thanks, in advance, Kevin __ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythGallary Seg Faults
Adam Siegel wrote: Are you using an VIA EPIA motherboard by chance? john roberts wrote: Anyone else have an issue with MythGallary seg-faulting? Seems to segfault when there are many pictures within a folder. I have my pictures broken out by year/month and some months have 10-30 pic's and MythGallary has no issues with these. It's when it attempts to open a folder (month) with many (50+) pictures in it. Anyone seen this? BTW - this was pulled from CVS 12/22/04 Thanks! I've seen it happen on a epia frontend. Steven ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Start Mythfrontend if not running?
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 07:38:36 -0600, Bryan Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is what I use. It restarts myth if it crashes, but not if you exit it normally. Modify to fit your environment. #!/bin/sh export DISPLAY=:0.1 xset -display :0.1 -dpms xset -display :0.1 s off until [ $? == 1 ]; do /opt/MythTV/bin/mythfrontend /tmp/mythfrontend.log 21 done When I had problems with the frontend crashing, I just ran it like so: while echo Restarted; do mythfrontend; done This will just run mythfrontend in a loop forever. Problem is that you can't exit it without launching a second terminal and killing the process, but I was running a dedicated box, so I saw no need for closing mythfrontend. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Excellent stuff ! Had to change a couple things to get it to work but work it does.. Thank you ! -- Regards, ~CM ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb: Streaming a NUV file to a windows machine
Using MythWeb, when I click on recorded show, is it supposed to play the file immediately? I am finding that the whole file has to be downloaded before it will be played. It would be cool if I could start watching the file after downloading the first few MB's and then download the rest in the background. That's up to the driver configuration in your browser/player. However, the cvs version of mythweb should auto-detect windows browsers and use myth:// urls (http://dsmyth.sf.net) -- earlier versions of mythweb have this set up in their config files. If I understand its author correctly, it will stream the media directly from the backend. -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] yum Dependancy
At 8:12 AM -0800 12/28/04, Frostykev wrote: Hello all, I'm starting to build my first MythTV system. Also a newbie to Linux. I have searched the archives with little success for this problem: after apt-get install apt yum I get a dependancy error, specifically: The following packages have unmet dependencies: yum: Depends: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages but it is not installable Depends: Requires: but it is not installable E: Broken packages I tried re-loading Axels' kickstart, but no changes. Any ideas? How do I install python2.4, or did I miss it in the initial fedora core 3 install? I was also getting this on an AMD64 system. Thanks to Axels' advice, I had to remove all i386 modules, then remove yum. See my posts from yesterday. I am a linux newbie too and had a lot of trouble. -Chuck- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] no picture in mythtv
I have set up mythtv and I had picture and remote working. Then all of a sudden when I go to watch tv in mythtv, the screen goes blank. Any help as to why this might be would be appreciated. I am running FC2 I used Jarod's guide. I have athlon 850, 256 Ram, and a pvr 250, geforce mx 64 mb. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Autoreply: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 23, Issue 119
I am out of the office until Jan 6th 2005. Emails are being forwarded to my office and will be monitored. I will respond to all emails upon my return. Happy New Year David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Scheduler not working (error querying master in ProgramList::FromScheduler)
When I try to shcedule a recording, I get the following: 2004-12-28 01:50:55 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.5:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2004-12-28 01:51:03 ReadStringList timeout (quick). 2004-12-28 01:51:03 Unexpected response to MYTH_PROTO_VERSION: error querying master in ProgramList::FromScheduler Most everything else seems to work good...I just can't watch live tv and can't schedule anything. Minor right? Any ideas? I am on FC3 64, AMD64 3500, using a PVR-250. tia Matt ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hard lockups when viewing Live TV or recorded TV PVR-250 ATI Radeon 7000.
More info: I loaded mythfrontend on my Mac, and I can view previously recorded and live tv! (That is so cool!) So, looks like I have an X problem. It's running the vesa driver now. Nothing I did can make the ati or radeon drivers work, much less theatre_out. Think I'll go pick up an nVidia card and give it a shot. Thanks for any advice! Regards, JJ On 26-Dec-2004, at 18:13, John Johnson wrote: First I want to say thanks to everyone involved with the MythTV application, ivtv, lirc, etc. This is great work you all have done! Here's a problem I'm having: If I select watch live TV, or view a recorded TV program, the system locks up solid, and I have to power off and on. Sometimes I get a few frames of video before it locks up. I can run an XTerm and view a .nuv file using mplayer with no problem. The system records fine. Since the system dies hard, I haven't been able to do much troubleshooting on the problem. I haven't seen anything in the logs to help with the problem. I have R'ed every FM I can find, to no avail. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated! Thanks, JJ HP Pavilion 6735 (PIII Celeron Coppermine 600MHz), 256MB RAM, 60GB HD KnoppMyth R4V5 Hauppauge PVR-250 VisionTek ATI Radeon 7000 using S-Video out to a TV LinkSys LNE-100TX [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src# lspci -v 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82810 GMCH [Graphics Memory Controller Hub] (rev 03) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82810 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Intel Corp. 82810 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 9 Memory at ec00 (32-bit, prefetchable) [disabled] [size=64M] Memory at e800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=512K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801AA PCI Bridge (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32 I/O behind bridge: 3000-3fff Memory behind bridge: e810-e81f Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f000-fbff 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801AA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801AA IDE (rev 02) (prog-if 80 [Master]) Subsystem: Intel Corp. 82801AA IDE Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 I/O ports at 1800 [size=16] 00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA USB (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Intel Corp. 82801AA USB Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 I/O ports at 1820 [size=32] 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801AA SMBus (rev 02) Subsystem: Intel Corp. 82801AA SMBus Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9 I/O ports at 1810 [size=16] 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA AC'97 Audio (rev 02) Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 5643 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 9 I/O ports at 1200 [size=256] I/O ports at 1300 [size=64] 01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20) Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5 I/O ports at 3000 [size=256] Memory at e811 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Expansion ROM at unassigned [disabled] [size=256K] 01:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: VISIONTEK: Unknown device 0280 Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 9 Memory at f000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] I/O ports at 3400 [size=256] Memory at e810 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Expansion ROM at unassigned [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 01:0e.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc: Unknown device 0016 (rev 01) Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 4009 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9 Memory at f800 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Program guide segfaults [NON-ISSUE]
Disregard this thread - the problem seems to have vanished somehow... Cheers - Piers Piers Kittel wrote: Hello all, Whenever I want to access the Program Guide, the MythTV frontend always segfaults instantly each time I want to access the guide. Here is the output from terminal as soon as I hit enter when selecting Program Guide: = 2004-12-27 23:47:06 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2004-12-27 23:47:06 Using protocol version 13 2004-12-27 23:47:06 Using protocol version 13 Segmentation fault mythtv:~/.mythtv# = Any ideas anyone? Accessing program listings works fine though. Thanks very much for your help in advance Cheers - Piers ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] menu speed
I just started evaluating MythTV on my old P2-450MHz system, which currently has no video hardware. Eventually, I hope to use my P3-800MHz with a PVR-500 card. Anyhow, I noticed right away that the menus are awfully slow. It takes a couple of seconds to move between different menus or even moving through the program guide. Can this be improved? I'm using Debian/sid with the Debian MythTV packages, and testing with the local keyboard. My original TiVo runs on a far less powerful system and has similar, if not better, performance. I would really like to see very snappy and responsive menus. One of my biggest complaints about digital cable/satelite and TiVo is that the moving through the menus is too slow. I hate having to wait for the system to respond after I've pressed a key. -Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: debian package mythtv-database 0.16-1
Ok, I don't knoww wich package, but, I installed everything via debian packages version 0.16-1 and the database table is wrong!! What can be the problem? SELECT program.chanid, program.starttime, program.endtime, program.title, program.subtitle, program.description, program.category, channel.channum, channel.callsign,channel.name, program.previouslyshown, channel.commfree, channel.outputfilters, program.seriesid, program.programid, program.stars, program.originalairdate FROM program LEFT JOIN channel ON program.chanid = channel.chanid WHERE program.chanid = 1000 AND program.endtime = 20041227213000 AND program.starttime = 20041227233000 GROUP BY program.starttime, channel.channum, channel.callsign ORDER BY program.starttime, channum + 0 LIMIT 1000 Driver error was [2/1054]: QMYSQL3: Unable to execute query Database error was: Unknown column 'channel.outputfilters' in 'field list' On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 09:40 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: The package does not create database tables anymore; this is all handled within mythtv. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] X through PVR350 probs
I run MythTV without a window manager by calling a seperate script for starting X on the PVR-350's tv out port (since I run a regular X session on my VGA card). Notice that I exec mythfrontend rather than a window manager like Gnome or KDE [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat startX #!/bin/sh xinit /root/startXrc -- /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg :1 vt12 -layout Hauppauge Layout [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat startXrc #!/bin/sh mythbackend --daemon --logfile /home/www/data/PVR/backend.log exec mythfrontend - Original Message - From: Piers Kittel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, December 27, 2004 5:47 pm Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] X through PVR350 probs OK, how do I run it without using a windowmanager? It does sound like a better idea anyway. Any ideas about the blue tint? Thanks again Cheers - Piers John Harvey wrote: Not sure about the black bars. Moving the mouse shouldn't show anything while watching tv since the mouse should be hidden while running myth. I would try running without a window manager since it sounds like something is making x draw to the screen for some reason. John ___ 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] yum Dependancy
Maybe I'm reading to much into your posts, but wasn't your problem due to the dual files because of the packages for AMD64? I installed Fedora Core from the i386 iso's Min also seems to be one dependancy, python2.4. Is Python2.4 usually installed from the iso's or from one of the updates? Maybe I forgot to check a box during the installation?Chuck Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 8:12 AM -0800 12/28/04, Frostykev wrote:Hello all, I'm starting to build my first MythTVsystem. Also a newbie to Linux. I have searched thearchives with little success for this problem:after apt-get install apt yumI get a dependancy error, specifically:The following packages have unmet dependencies: yum: Depends: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages butit is not installable Depends: Requires: but it is not installableE: Broken packagesI tried re-loading Axels' kickstart, but no changes. Any ideas? How do I install python2.4, or did I missit in the initial fedora core 3 install?I was also getting this on an AMD64 system. Thanks to Axels' advice, I had to remove all i386 modules, then remove yum. See my posts from yesterd! ay. I am a linux newbie too and had a lot of trouble. -Chuck-__Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] yum Dependancy
Title: Re: [mythtv-users] yum Dependancy Yes and no. Originally it was, but after clearing that, I still had the yum problem which I cleared with the apt-get -f install. -Chuck- At 10:20 AM -0800 12/28/04, Frostykev wrote: Maybe I'm reading to much into your posts, but wasn't your problem due to the dual files because of the packages for AMD64? I installed Fedora Core from the i386 iso's Min also seems to be one dependancy, python2.4. Is Python2.4 usually installed from the iso's or from one of the updates? Maybe I forgot to check a box during the installation? Chuck Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 8:12 AM -0800 12/28/04, Frostykev wrote: Hello all, I'm starting to build my first MythTV system. Also a newbie to Linux. I have searched the archives with little success for this problem: after apt-get install apt yum I get a dependancy error, specifically: The following packages have unmet dependencies: yum: Depends: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages but it is not installable Depends: Requires: but it is not installable E: Broken packages I tried re-loading Axels' kickstart, but no changes. Any ideas? How do I install python2.4, or did I miss it in the initial fedora core 3 install? I was also getting this on an AMD64 system. Thanks to Axels' advice, I had to remove all i386 modules, then remove yum. See my posts from yesterda y. I am a linux newbie too and had a lot of trouble. -Chuck- __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythmusic not finding track length for .flac files
At 02:49 PM 12/28/2004 +, Martin Ebourne wrote: On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 14:57 -0800, Wendy Seltzer wrote: Mythmusic isn't picking up the track length of flac tracks, whether ripped through mythmusic or using flac independently. As a result, it's showing xx:xx / 00:00 in the playback display, and not allowing me to seek forward in the track because it hasn't calculated the endpoint. It does see track lengths if I rip the same CD to ogg. All of my music is flac, and all of it was ripped by Sound Juicer (the gnome CD ripper). Sometimes mythmusic gets the track length as 00:00, sometimes it gets the correct length. Seems to depend on the track, but no idea why. I haven't had chance to look into it yet. Doing a bit more investigation, flac track length appears to have broken in the big Nov. 26 mythmusic patch. A rollback to CVS from Nov. 25 reads track lengths again (and once they're in the db, they stay there). It looks as though some of the code didn't make it from flacdecoder.cpp into metaioflacvorbiscomment.cpp So if you upgraded your system, it probably depends when you first imported the track. Are developers reading here, or should I cc mythtv-dev? Thanks. --Wendy From messages in the archives, it appears this feature has worked for others. I'm using current CVS. Any ideas? I'm using Axel's CVS RPMs, which are from 20/12, on FC3/AMD64. Cheers, Martin. -- Wendy Seltzer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet Society at Harvard Law School http://wendy.seltzer.org/mythtv/ Chilling Effects: http://www.chillingeffects.org/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] yum Dependancy
Yes and no. Originally it was, but after clearing that, I still had the yum problem which I cleared with the apt-get -f install. -Chuck- I believe that the current yum issue is unrelated, and is actually related to a broken (blank) dependency in the atrpms yum package. If you remove yum, it will NOT reinstall because it can't find package (blank string). I've posted about this on the atrpms list (which is where this discussion should probably move), and hopefully Axel will do something about it soon. -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: nvidia fx5200 help please badly needed
Kevin Kuphal writes: Short answer, no. The long answer is that you can compile MythTV with support for XvMC which does MPEG-2 acceleration with the FX5200. It has it's share of issues working with MythTV and I would consider it experimental but it promises to do the same thing that the PVR-350 is doing for you in accelerating the output. Thanks Kevin. Ok, so for now, I should not worry about. Then, what I really need to do is go for the PVR-250 + Nvidia FX5200 card. Are the issues very annoying? Thanks. Neil ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythmusic not finding track length for .flac files
On Dec 28, 2004, at 12:01 PM, Wendy Seltzer wrote: At 02:49 PM 12/28/2004 +, Martin Ebourne wrote: On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 14:57 -0800, Wendy Seltzer wrote: Mythmusic isn't picking up the track length of flac tracks, whether ripped through mythmusic or using flac independently. As a result, it's showing xx:xx / 00:00 in the playback display, and not allowing me to seek forward in the track because it hasn't calculated the endpoint. It does see track lengths if I rip the same CD to ogg. All of my music is flac, and all of it was ripped by Sound Juicer (the gnome CD ripper). Sometimes mythmusic gets the track length as 00:00, sometimes it gets the correct length. Seems to depend on the track, but no idea why. I haven't had chance to look into it yet. Doing a bit more investigation, flac track length appears to have broken in the big Nov. 26 mythmusic patch. A rollback to CVS from Nov. 25 reads track lengths again (and once they're in the db, they stay there). It looks as though some of the code didn't make it from flacdecoder.cpp into metaioflacvorbiscomment.cpp So if you upgraded your system, it probably depends when you first imported the track. Are developers reading here, or should I cc mythtv-dev? Thanks. --Wendy From messages in the archives, it appears this feature has worked for others. I'm using current CVS. Any ideas? I'm using Axel's CVS RPMs, which are from 20/12, on FC3/AMD64. Cheers, Martin. I can confirm it is a problem for me too, only lately. Curtis ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] NVidia ti4600
I'm curious if anyone has used this card at all, currently my hardware is: AMD Duron 850 512 Megs of Ram PVR250 SoundBlaster Live 24bit Generic NIC Nvidia TI4600 (untried yet, just got it today at work :-() Has anyone used that video card with xv TV Out successfully? Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Recommendations
By too much I meant the install process. Don't know if I feel like spending 24-48 hours compiling everything when I can get most everything running in about 20 minutes with a different distribution. I haven't used gentoo for a desktop type project in a while. Mostly web/mail servers at work that don't need a GUI of any sort so I don't have to compile X (yes I know you can get precompiled packages, but then what's the point of using gentoo?). --Dennis -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nate s Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 2:23 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Recommendations What distribution are you using? I'm thinking either Fedora Core or Mandrake (I love gentoo, but I think it may be too much for this)... --Dennis Gentoo too much? How so? I've got it running fine on gentoo. I hear FC is one of the easiest to set up due to Jarod's guide, and I've also heard good things about KnoppMyth, esp. for a first time setup. However, if you're already a gentoo user, I'd highly recommned that, as in my slightly biased opinion, the setup on gentoo is even easier (gentoo setup in general is hard, but if you're familar with that, the mythtv setup part is pretty painless.) -Nate ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Recommendations
nate s wrote: What distribution are you using? I'm thinking either Fedora Core or Mandrake (I love gentoo, but I think it may be too much for this)... --Dennis Gentoo too much? How so? I've got it running fine on gentoo. I hear FC is one of the easiest to set up due to Jarod's guide, and I've also heard good things about KnoppMyth, esp. for a first time setup. However, if you're already a gentoo user, I'd highly recommned that, as in my slightly biased opinion, the setup on gentoo is even easier (gentoo setup in general is hard, but if you're familar with that, the mythtv setup part is pretty painless.) -Nate I agree, I did Knoppmyth first, but when I tried to upgrade to Myth version 0.16 I had a hard time finding Debian packages. The box was having other problems too, so I scrapped it tried Gentoo and I loved it. Yes the installation was a lot more involved, but I learned a hell of a lot more about Myth and about Linux in general from going through it. Now that I know the box inside and out, I'm much better at troubleshooting when things go wrong. Also I imagine my next upgrade will be easier since Gentoo will probably be the first distro with Myth packages, and if they don't, it should still be one of the easiest to install from the source tarballs. A friend of mine who runs Knoppmyth said he hit a lot of problems trying to do a manual compile upgrade because Knoppmyth moves a lot of things like libraries to non-default locations and he had to move them back. So if you feel like taking the time and learning a lot, I would recommend Gentoo. There are also some excellent Gentoo-specific guides out there too, check out: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV http://home.comcast.net/~alf_park/mythtv.html Good Luck, Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: nvidia fx5200 help please badly needed
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/28/2004 2:09:06 PM Thanks Kevin. Ok, so for now, I should not worry about. Then, what I really need to do is go for the PVR-250 + Nvidia FX5200 card. Are the issues very annoying? Thanks. Neil Neil, IMHO, it's a winning combo. Don't forget the 250 does incoming video+sound. The 5200 only does outgoing video. You'll need to come up with something to do outbound sound. Pick a distibution...then you can move on. Gentoo? Information is out there... Knoppix? Yep, out there too Fedora? Yep, same deal Suse? Dunno, but I'm sure it's not too different from Fedora Debian? Getting Fuzzier... Centrix? No idea QNX? Probably not, but it would be cool to see Odd are there will be no significant (if any at all problems). IvyTV will address the PVR-250 drivers, and nVidia will address the FX 5200 drivers. Both are fairly standard, and there is no overlap in features/functionality between the two. Other than the 250 will encode the incoming signal in a format that the 5200 can conveniently decode. Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] mysql setup help
Any help would be great for help setting up mysql
thanks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tgkspike]$ # /sbin/chkconfig mysql on
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tgkspike]$ # /etc/init.d/mysql start
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tgkspike]$ # mysql -u root mysql
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tgkspike]$ mysql
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 13 to server version: 4.0.20'-Max'
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.
mysql UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('r862536r') WHERE user='root';
ERROR 1046: No Database Selected
mysql FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
ERROR 1227: Access denied. You need the RELOAD privilege for this operation
mysql quit
Bye
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] tgkspike]$ su
Password:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tgkspike]# # /sbin/chkconfig mysql on
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tgkspike]# # /etc/init.d/mysql start
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tgkspike]# # mysql -u root mysql
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tgkspike]# mysql
ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: NO)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tgkspike]#
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Re: [mythtv-users] mysql setup help
Are you typing the # signs? If so, don't. The pound signs are the
prompt when you are logged in as root user. Do your AS ROOT
stuff but don't type the # signs.
Tim Krueger wrote:
Any help would be great for help setting up mysql
thanks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tgkspike]$ # /sbin/chkconfig mysql on
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tgkspike]$ # /etc/init.d/mysql start
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tgkspike]$ # mysql -u root mysql
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tgkspike]$ mysql
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 13 to server version: 4.0.20'-Max'
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.
mysql UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('r862536r') WHERE user='root';
ERROR 1046: No Database Selected
mysql FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
ERROR 1227: Access denied. You need the RELOAD privilege for this operation
mysql quit
Bye
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] tgkspike]$ su
Password:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tgkspike]# # /sbin/chkconfig mysql on
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tgkspike]# # /etc/init.d/mysql start
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tgkspike]# # mysql -u root mysql
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tgkspike]# mysql
ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: NO)
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RE: [mythtv-users] PVR350 TV OUT stability - scrap PVR playback?
As I just mentioned to another person (MaLaM) I've been using my PVR350 with Mythvideo with no problems (I set the playback problem to mythtv rather than mplayer) - I've been using it with MPEG1 files (and they work!) but I'm sure a ripped DVD to MPEG2 should work file (better with the higher resolution) - but dont take my word for that as I haven't tried MPEG2 files yet. Derek -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Boger Sent: 28 December 2004 13:18 To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR350 TV OUT stability - scrap PVR playback? On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 12:39:17AM -, Derek Conniffe wrote: What do other people out there do and has anyone else had problems like me? I've been using the 350's TV out for about a year now (maybe a bit longer?), and am currently using Myth 0.16 on FC3. It's been pretty stable, with no playback hangs in a long time (at least 6 months). Only problem that I just started seeing recently is that my backend crashes when I try to view the scheduled recordings, but that has nothing to do with the 350 - it happens via mythweb, or when I run a frontend on my linux desktop as well. So as far as the 350 TV out goes, I'm very happy. I do not use it for MythVideo at all (since the machine is a 450 and doesn't have the CPU for it) - I only use it for recorded TV (who watches live TV anymore anyway?!?) HTH! Dan -- --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.809 / Virus Database: 551 - Release Date: 09/12/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.809 / Virus Database: 551 - Release Date: 09/12/2004 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: nvidia fx5200 help please badly needed
Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/28/2004 3:33:58 PM Great to hear that! So what about that grey scale in OSD when using xmvc, will that get fixed too? Thanks. Neil I have no idea what XvMC does, but I'm pretty sure I'm not using it. I have my machine set up using Jarod's guide, and I think it's disaled by default in ATrpms. Same deal for grey scale OSD. I'm not sure what all the isues are with it. My On screen display is just fine. I haven't fiddled with anything that would make the OSD more or less transparent, so I'm not sure if it's broken or if that's even what all the OSD hub-bub is about... Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] any video cards with component out?
I've got an hd3000 which I want to use to drive a 47 panasonic rptv. The rptv can do 1080i, but only has component input. I'm getting an athlon-xp 3000, 512mb, and an FX5200 ( which I gather is the card of choice around here, right?). I'll need a vga - component converter. Looking at Audio Authority and Key Digital ( any recommendations.) But before I did that I wanted to find out if any video cards that work with myth and xine-hd have component video out. sean ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: nvidia fx5200 help please badly needed
PAUL WILLIAMSON writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/28/2004 2:09:06 PM Thanks Kevin. Ok, so for now, I should not worry about. Then, what I really need to do is go for the PVR-250 + Nvidia FX5200 card. Are the issues very annoying? Thanks. Neil Neil, IMHO, it's a winning combo. Don't forget the 250 does incoming video+sound. The 5200 only does outgoing video. You'll need to come up with something to do outbound sound. Pick a distibution...then you can move on. Gentoo? Information is out there... Knoppix? Yep, out there too Fedora? Yep, same deal Suse? Dunno, but I'm sure it's not too different from Fedora Debian? Getting Fuzzier... Centrix? No idea QNX? Probably not, but it would be cool to see Odd are there will be no significant (if any at all problems). IvyTV will address the PVR-250 drivers, and nVidia will address the FX 5200 drivers. Both are fairly standard, and there is no overlap in features/functionality between the two. Other than the 250 will encode the incoming signal in a format that the 5200 can conveniently decode. Paul Great to hear that! So what about that grey scale in OSD when using xmvc, will that get fixed too? Thanks. Neil ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] menu speed
I turned off the transparencies and changed the draw method from Fill to None, and did not notice any difference in response time. I'm running MythTV on top of KDE while I test it (still in full screen mode). Would this make a difference? KDE works very well on this p2-450. Nothing in particular is running in the background. What speed computer are you running MythTV on? -Paul On Tuesday 28 December 2004 2:34 pm, nate s wrote: Look in the frontend configuration. Somewhere in there there is a setting for menu drawing method. Change it to one of the lower cpu useage ones. Trying to do something like transparencies on a slow system with no video hardware is not an easy thing. It's not a general myth problem, my menus are quite responsive. -Nate On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:29:36 -0500, Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just started evaluating MythTV on my old P2-450MHz system, which currently has no video hardware. Eventually, I hope to use my P3-800MHz with a PVR-500 card. Anyhow, I noticed right away that the menus are awfully slow. It takes a couple of seconds to move between different menus or even moving through the program guide. Can this be improved? I'm using Debian/sid with the Debian MythTV packages, and testing with the local keyboard. My original TiVo runs on a far less powerful system and has similar, if not better, performance. I would really like to see very snappy and responsive menus. One of my biggest complaints about digital cable/satelite and TiVo is that the moving through the menus is too slow. I hate having to wait for the system to respond after I've pressed a key. -Paul ___ 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] Re: nvidia fx5200 help please badly needed
PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/28/2004 3:33:58 PM Great to hear that! So what about that grey scale in OSD when using xmvc, will that get fixed too? Thanks. Neil I have no idea what XvMC does, but I'm pretty sure I'm not using it. I have my machine set up using Jarod's guide, and I think it's disaled by default in ATrpms. Same deal for grey scale OSD. I'm not sure what all the isues are with it. My On screen display is just fine. I haven't fiddled with anything that would make the OSD more or less transparent, so I'm not sure if it's broken or if that's even what all the OSD hub-bub is about... XvMC in a nutshell is MPEG-2 playback acceleration using the video card to do things in hardware normally done in software. If you have a capable processor, XvMC is unnecessary, but if you are using a low-end machine as a frontend, it could matter. I personally don't use it but that's what it is for. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Re: nvidia fx5200 help please badly needed
Just to say ditto - Using XvMC with the 5200 you get grayscale - w/o it everything works perfectly - smooth and non-pixelated. I thought XvMC was more for VIA anyway...Whatever the case, it is not needed with the 5200/PVR250 combo... -Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of PAUL WILLIAMSON Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 3:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: nvidia fx5200 help please badly needed Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/28/2004 3:33:58 PM Great to hear that! So what about that grey scale in OSD when using xmvc, will that get fixed too? Thanks. Neil I have no idea what XvMC does, but I'm pretty sure I'm not using it. I have my machine set up using Jarod's guide, and I think it's disaled by default in ATrpms. Same deal for grey scale OSD. I'm not sure what all the isues are with it. My On screen display is just fine. I haven't fiddled with anything that would make the OSD more or less transparent, so I'm not sure if it's broken or if that's even what all the OSD hub-bub is about... Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: nvidia fx5200 help please badly needed
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 01:09:06PM -0600, Neil wrote: Kevin Kuphal writes: Short answer, no. The long answer is that you can compile MythTV with support for XvMC which does MPEG-2 acceleration with the FX5200. It has it's share of issues working with MythTV and I would consider it experimental but it promises to do the same thing that the PVR-350 is doing for you in accelerating the output. Thanks Kevin. Ok, so for now, I should not worry about. Then, what I really need to do is go for the PVR-250 + Nvidia FX5200 card. Are the issues very annoying? Thanks. Neil For non-HD, there really aren't any issues. Some seeking in HD material is causing problems, but that's all that I have seen lately. --Brandon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] any video cards with component out?
This may not be what you are looking for but if you buy an xbox and its component adaptor you will get a hdtv frontend for about $200-$250 depending on modchip. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sean darcy Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 3:47 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] any video cards with component out? I've got an hd3000 which I want to use to drive a 47 panasonic rptv. The rptv can do 1080i, but only has component input. I'm getting an athlon-xp 3000, 512mb, and an FX5200 ( which I gather is the card of choice around here, right?). I'll need a vga - component converter. Looking at Audio Authority and Key Digital ( any recommendations.) But before I did that I wanted to find out if any video cards that work with myth and xine-hd have component video out. sean ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Consecutive programs, dual tuners
Thanks to all who have spoken up about this behaviour. If I can summarise: With dual tuners and global pre/post program time buffers, MythTV will discard the global buffering for consecutive programs and record them both from the one card. For program specific pre/post buffering, however, this will be honoured and consecutive programs taken from different cards. This seems very counter-intuitive to my thinking and I definitely want to try and fix it. A few ways I can think of: 1. When a card starts recording, switch the default card to the other one so that when the next recording starts (anytime), it uses the other card. 2. In the code, where the decision is made as to whether there is a program specific start/end buffer, also take into account the global start/end buffer. 3. Run some SQL occasionally to take the global buffers and apply them to all scheduled recordings as program specific buffers. 4. Manually, whenever you see two consecutive programs in your schedule, manually add a program specific pre/post buffer if you don't want program overlapping. 1 and 2 involve code changes and I'll see if I can work out what to change for that. 3 Is probably not too hard and doesn't involve a code change but a bit of a kludge. 4 is a pain in the neck. Martin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] X through PVR350 probs
I don't think I explained it well enough.. but keep in mind that when you start an X session that will lock up a virtual console, so before you can start a second X session you will need to switch to a different virtual console. Also, a X server will register itself as a particular :X display... so you will need to specify (probably with the PVR 350's session to use maybe :1) the display. I haven't had time to finish that page of mine, which the stuff I mention here is what is missing. I've thought to check out the VNC server / Xvnc to see how it works, it doesn't lock up a virtual terminal, but it does behave as a display device (even thought it is a virtual display). - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 3:35 pm Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] X through PVR350 probs Maybe I'm mistaken but your solution here only covers not having a keyboard/mouse correct? The question as I understood it from Piers is how to have the frontend on the PVR-350 tv out and have a normal X session running. I wrote it all down in a webpage, http://www.schaefer.dhcp.biz/pvr350tvout.htm don't remember the specifics at the moment, basically you use the dummy drivers for the PVR350 session, so you have a keyboard/mouse left over for the normal X session, which you have to switch virtual consoles before you start the normal session. - Original Message - From: Gabe Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 3:12 pm Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] X through PVR350 probs 2) How do you get the PVR to run without keyboard/mouse as when I ran X for the PVR, it wouldn't start without the keyboard and mouse? I hadf problems with not plugging a mouse in till I changed my mouse section to this in my XF86.config file: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device /dev/null Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 Option Emulate3Buttons no EndSection I don't think I did anything special to my keyboard portion (I have none plugged in), it looks like this: Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver keyboard Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout us EndSection ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re[2]: [mythtv-users] nuv2disc and nuvexport 0.2
Monday, December 27, 2004, 6:22:10 PM, Chris Petersen wrote: Does anyone have nuv2disc running with nuvexport 0.2 (the current version)? I have a FC1 box (Jarod's guide) with MythTV 0.16 and I find that nuv2disc is calling nuvexport with --outfiles but nuvexport doesn't like the outfiles parameter. Until last night (and stable this afternoon, for other reasons), nuvexport 0.2 didn't fully support commandline-only interaction, so I doubt that nuv2disk was updated to work with it. However, nuvexport should now be fully cli (meaning no attempt at human interaction), so nuv2disk could theoretically be updated to use it. If you need it now, just grab an old version from the nuvexport archive directory on my site. -Chris I can wait until you update the generally available release (at least I think I can). Thanks :-) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] LCD display or CRT TV or projector
Hi All, I am struggling to understand the differences between all of these. My TV (21) does not accept S-Video In, so I need a different solution. Presently HD is not due in the UK until 2006 at least. What are the choices for a good PVR display What is the best quality/best VFM display. Do I: - Get an 19 LCD montior - cheap, but what is the quality like (interlaced vs non-interlaced) - Get a different TV - Wide Screen 28/32 - expensive, and most accept SVideo which seems a bit of a comprimise. - Get a Projector and use DVI - expensive. Basically what is the best way to get a good picture akin to a Component in TV + Component out DVD player, which at the mo seems the best way to get a good AV picture. Hope the above makes sense. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] recording blank
I'm only recording blank The nuv-files produced during recording is blank (1,3 gig of blank...) The nuv-files produced during pausing is ok. Is there some magic I need to do somewhere? Sigurd ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Cable Video on Demand and MythTV
Bruce Markey wrote: Rob Rosenfeld wrote: ... the features it offers is Video on Demand. I tune to one channel and ... 1) Is there a passthrough mode where I can watch live cable input without the buffering? Run another output from the cable box directly to another input on the TV. For instance, I run s-video from STB to MythTV then coax from STB to cable on my TV. I use this mostly for comparing picture quality and characteristics but you may find this useful for interacting with the box. Well I could do this, but I was hoping for a solution that let me continue to use the higher quality s-video outputs for both purposes. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] mythtv menu translations
First of all Merry xmas to everyone. I know this is a not very important topic, but in order to improve to the best mythtv we might think about an answer together. Showing how the program work to my dad, who doesn't speak at all english, I saw that some menues are not totally translated. For example, the menu of advanced recording, the one that shows up when you are selecting a recording from the search list, shows some text in the translated language, and some in english. To me this is not anoying, since I like it better in english, but to my dad who wants everything in Spanish is bothering. I tried to look inside of almost every .xml file and didn't find where to change this. To be a little more specific, the not translated parts are those introduced by the new menu schema in mythtv 0.16. So, If there is someone who knows where to change this can you let me know. I am most than willing to provide a patch (if someone tells me how to do it), and I can translate the text to a couple of languages (swedish, japanese, spanish, italian ...) I hope someone knows something. Thanks in advance Juan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nuv2disc and nuvexport 0.2
I can wait until you update the generally available release (at least I think I can). huh? I don't really have nuvexport releases. I only added version numbers to keep rpm happy. what's on forevermore.net is going to be the latest release and will be stable about 99% of the time (and if not, bug me about it so I can fix it). I doubt I'll hit 0.3 for months. -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] X through PVR350 probs
Hello again, Very good guide, but my prob is that when I start up with no window manager at all, I then do an startX (following your guide) and then switch to a different virtual console (both times via SSH tho) and do an startx - the original display vanishes and the other display loads up the desktop. When I exit the windowmanager on the monitor, the original windowmanager (i.e. MythTV) pops back up. Trying to do it the other way round has the same result but vice versa. Cheers - Piers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think I explained it well enough.. but keep in mind that when you start an X session that will lock up a virtual console, so before you can start a second X session you will need to switch to a different virtual console. Also, a X server will register itself as a particular :X display... so you will need to specify (probably with the PVR 350's session to use maybe :1) the display. I haven't had time to finish that page of mine, which the stuff I mention here is what is missing. I've thought to check out the VNC server / Xvnc to see how it works, it doesn't lock up a virtual terminal, but it does behave as a display device (even thought it is a virtual display). ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Frontends all around the house
Hi, This is a neat suggestion, unfortunately, by looking at mediamvp' screenshot, it does not seems a good WAF solution as the UI is quite different from mythtv. The alternative, the X-Box, is also tempting but requires a bit more hacking then I prefer for the moment. I think I've settled for a mini-itx solution. While more expensive, it offers less tinkering then what I've seen. What I'd really like is Via's EPIA N nano-itx board in a Silverstone' SST-LC07 case. It's got the CN400 chipset for MPEG2 hardware decoding and MPEG4 acceleration. Sound and S-Video output is onboard. Though, with this solution, I would not be able to reuse much stuff. Beside, the case is so damn expensive and I can't locate the board on any retailer site to get an idea on price... Also, it's not clear to me if anything but the board will fit in that case. Laptop HD, CF, Cardbus? What I'm currently going for is a M(II?)1x000 board. Probably the M1 since it's cheap (~150$) and I can't find any advantages, for Myth, to get either the MII1 (+20 to 40$) or the MII12000 (~210$.) The ideal case seems to be Casetronic' C137. Bulkier compared to the LC07 but it allows for one PCI slots, with a standard HD or two PCI slots with a laptop HD. I have an extra 256MB DDR and, while not necessary, a slim cdrom laying around as well as a (totally silent) 40GB Seagate IV. It pains me to put that much storage space for that box but I don't want to invest more the cost of this drive for a laptop HD. The PCI slot will probably be used for a PCI Wi-Fi adapter unless I get the MII12000 with its CardBus slot. In that case, I'd get a PCMCIA Wi-Fi adapter. While I like the CN400 chipset, it's currently offered only on EPIA N boards. But, the CLE266 chipset has been around for some time and people seems to be happy with it. The Unichrome drivers seem to have matured enough for this project. Beside, if there were a mini-itx board with a CN400 chipset, it would be as expensive as the EPIA N. :) I still can't understand why mini-itx (or nano) cases are so damned expensive. Are we paying for limited offering and/or RD? I pretty much dropped the idea of a CF or network boot as I can't locate any useful information on the net. If someone has useful information on network boot, please post. :) Thanks! cythraul On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:46:09 -0500, Adam Siegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use the hauppauge mediamvp. Check out the mvpmc.sourceforge.net project. It works great and the box is only $80. If you want to go wireless you will probably need an ethernet to wireless bridge, say the linksys *WET54G, which can be had for around $110. So for less than $200 you have a great solution. * cythraul wrote: Hi, For sometime now, I've been running MythTV in the living room and the experience has been great. Now, I'd like to add more frontends in the house but I'm stuck with hardware decisions. Currently, my backend is also my main file server running on a used PowerEdge 1400 server with p3/800 cpu witch is enough for my DVB card. The (current) frontend is a clone p3/866 with an Nvidia MX440 and a 9gig HD. The only problem with this setup is the lack of remote control. I have to use my wireless keyboard. While I never lost it like a regular remote control, it's cumbersome. :) The backends holds my archived mp3, dvd and recordings as well as my dvd writer when the HD capacity reaches a critical point. :) After much googling(tm), I found myself with more questions then answers so I thought I'd ask this mailing list. I'm looking for something cheap with a as-small-as-possible footprint (for example an openbrick or one of mini-itx.com's projects) while getting enough CPU for mpeg4 processing. Living in an apartment, I'd rather not add more cabling to the place so a Wi-Fi setup would be ideal _and_ portable. My Wi-Fi router is a 802.11g, I believe it's enough bandwidth even for LiveTV but I rarely use this feature; I record everything and watch what I want when it's TV time. Else, MythVideo is my friend. Just the thought of only plugging power and A/V cables is soothing. :) Eliminating the need for a hard drive would also be great. Booting from LAN or from a CF (tho, expensive solution) would be great. Optionally, for a frontend, KnoppMyth could boot on CD but cdroms can be noisy. Speaking of KnoppMyth, I realise that this frontend box would also need to be widely supported by the community, I've read that Epia 6000 boxes suffer a Unichrome driver issue (I have read as much as I'd like on this issue.) So, in short, does a small, cheap, wi-fi (fanless?) box with enough cpu exist? Optionally, a pre-assembled box would be great. I've been building PCs for years now and frankly, I'm tired of it. But if price is an issue, I'm prepared for it. :) Thanks! cythraul
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: nvidia fx5200 help please badly needed
Not really sure, from reading the list the obvious ones are a BW on screen display and other OSD related issues. The OSD is not BW any longer for XvMC on NVidia cards. OSD can cause the display to lock when seeking but I've only ever had this happen on HD files, never SD that a pvr-x50 would encode. --Brandon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] PVR-350 Recording Profiles
I finally have a PVR-350 in my MythTV working with TV out, and am very pleased with the quality of the recordings. They take over 2GB of disk space per hour, however, so I would like to investigate lower quality/ lower file size parameters. All of the recording profiles provided look the same to me, so I don't know where to start. What should I change to get the DVD Extra Long Play discussed in PVR-350 advertisements, for example? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Consecutive programs, dual tuners
Martin Brown wrote: Thanks to all who have spoken up about this behaviour. If I can summarise: With dual tuners and global pre/post program time buffers, MythTV will discard the global buffering for consecutive programs and record them both from the one card. For program specific pre/post buffering, however, this will be honoured and consecutive programs taken from different cards. This seems very counter-intuitive to my thinking and I definitely want to try and fix it. A few ways I can think of: 1. When a card starts recording, switch the default card to the other one so that when the next recording starts (anytime), it uses the other card. 2. In the code, where the decision is made as to whether there is a program specific start/end buffer, also take into account the global start/end buffer. 3. Run some SQL occasionally to take the global buffers and apply them to all scheduled recordings as program specific buffers. 4. Manually, whenever you see two consecutive programs in your schedule, manually add a program specific pre/post buffer if you don't want program overlapping. 1 and 2 involve code changes and I'll see if I can work out what to change for that. 3 Is probably not too hard and doesn't involve a code change but a bit of a kludge. 4 is a pain in the neck. The correct method as I can see it is to change the scheduler behavior so that it more aggressively attempts to capture global buffers when two cards are available, but not to the point where it would interfere with a normally scheduled program. Chagning it to respect the global/start end buffers as you mention in #2 isn't enough as you don't want to global buffers to prevent something that normally would be recorded from being recorded just because the buffers are there. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: Re[2]: [mythtv-users] nuv2disc and nuvexport 0.2
- Original Message - From: Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: Re[2]: [mythtv-users] nuv2disc and nuvexport 0.2 Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 16:41:09 -0500 Monday, December 27, 2004, 6:22:10 PM, Chris Petersen wrote: Does anyone have nuv2disc running with nuvexport 0.2 (the current version)? I have a FC1 box (Jarod's guide) with MythTV 0.16 and I find that nuv2disc is calling nuvexport with --outfiles but nuvexport doesn't like the outfiles parameter. Until last night (and stable this afternoon, for other reasons), nuvexport 0.2 didn't fully support commandline-only interaction, so I doubt that nuv2disk was updated to work with it. However, nuvexport should now be fully cli (meaning no attempt at human interaction), so nuv2disk could theoretically be updated to use it. If you need it now, just grab an old version from the nuvexport archive directory on my site. -Chris I can wait until you update the generally available release (at least I think I can). Thanks :-) I'm guessing you didn't see my reply email. nuv2disc was updated to work with nuvexport 0.2, it should also work with versions later then .2 that understand the --confirm option. -jm ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] mythtvsetup: command not found error
hoping to get some response since my Mythbox is currently sitting idle. I am not sure where I went wrong, my video capture works perfectly (with Audio and Video) but I cannot get mythtvsetup to work. I get an error saying command not found I have done an apt-get update (results below) and was not successful. I searched the mail-list and saw one posting regarding updating the db and this is what I got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# updatedb [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# locate mythtvsetup [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# mythtvsetup bash: mythtvsetup: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# I am running FC1, on a P4, 2.4GHz, NVidia card in USA (I will eventually have the box controlling my DirecTV receiver). I tried to install mythtv-suite and got dependency issues with mythdvd, so I installed module by module. Maybe I did something wrong there. Is there something I should change in my sources.list file? I am so, so close to having my wife happy. Please help. Thanks, George [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# apt-get update Get:1 http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/1/i386 release [1813B] Ign http://rpms.subpop.net fedora/linux/1/i386 release Ign http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org fedora/1/i386 release Get:2 http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/1/en/i386 release [1523B] SNIP Get:13 http://apt.sw.be dries/fedora/fc1/i386 release [483B] Fetched 16.3kB in 7s (2093B/s) Hit http://freshrpms.atrpms.net fedora/linux/1/i386/freshrpms pkglist ==SNIP== Hit http://newrpms.atrpms.net redhat/en/i386/fc1/newrpms release Err http://download.fedoralegacy.org fedora/1/i386/updates pkglist Could not resolve 'download.fedoralegacy.org' Err http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/1/en/i386/at-stable pkglist Could not resolve 'apt.atrpms.net' Hit http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/1/i386/planetcore pkglist Hit http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org fedora/1/i386/gst pkglist Ign http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org fedora/1/i386/gst release Err http://rpms.subpop.net fedora/linux/1/i386/production pkglist 404 Not Found Ign http://rpms.subpop.net fedora/linux/1/i386/production release Hit http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/1/i386/planetcore release ===SNIP= Hit http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/1/en/i386/at-stable release Failed to fetch http://download.fedoralegacy.org/apt/fedora/1/i386/base/pkglist.updates Could not resolve 'downloa d.fedoralegacy.org' Failed to fetch http://apt.atrpms.net/fedora/1/en/i386/base/pkglist.at-stable Could not resolve 'apt.atrpms.net' Failed to fetch http://rpms.subpop.net/fedora/linux/1/i386/base/pkglist.production 404 Not Found Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# apt-get install mythtv Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done mythtv is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 43 not upgraded. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# mythtvsetup bash: mythtvsetup: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] any video cards with component out?
This may not be what you are looking for but if you buy an xbox and its component adaptor you will get a hdtv frontend for about $200-$250 depending on modchip. I see that xbox has a component adapter. But how does the rest of this work? I have another machine that has the hd3000, and then what...? How do I connect to the xbox? I assume this is the modchip. What's that? Where do I get it? sean ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Frontends all around the house
I will make you a good deal on the following if you are interested. Via Epia ME6000 Mini-ITX Mainboard Crucial 256 MB DDR PC2100 IBM NetVista Flex-ATX case, includes a 90 Watt power supply Lite-On 16 DVD-ROM, Includes PowerDVD XP 4.0 Maxtor 20GB 5400 RPM Hard Drive Acer Airkey WIL-172U IR Wireless Keyboard I bought these components to set up a PVR running Gentoo Linux and MythTV. My linux skills were not up to the challenge, so I bought a Media mvp. Anyway, all components are less than one year old (hard drive is about three years old) and guaranteed working. The system was hardly used. It will be shipped with a freshly formatted hard drive and Knoppix boot cd in the DVD drive. Simply power on the system to test. I'm including the mainboard box with the user's manual, driver disk, I/O shield, and the Firewire/USB connector. The I/O shield does not fit the case and the case is low profile, so the Firewire/USB connector has to hang out the rear or be modified to fit. Either way, the case looks pretty good from the front and blend in well with other A/V components. I pasted a link to a picture below. The ugly blue door covering the dvd drive can be remove making the unit all black/dark grey. http://images.bargainland.net/a01/094.jpg email if interested. On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 17:17:17 -0500, cythraul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This is a neat suggestion, unfortunately, by looking at mediamvp' screenshot, it does not seems a good WAF solution as the UI is quite different from mythtv. The alternative, the X-Box, is also tempting but requires a bit more hacking then I prefer for the moment. I think I've settled for a mini-itx solution. While more expensive, it offers less tinkering then what I've seen. What I'd really like is Via's EPIA N nano-itx board in a Silverstone' SST-LC07 case. It's got the CN400 chipset for MPEG2 hardware decoding and MPEG4 acceleration. Sound and S-Video output is onboard. Though, with this solution, I would not be able to reuse much stuff. Beside, the case is so damn expensive and I can't locate the board on any retailer site to get an idea on price... Also, it's not clear to me if anything but the board will fit in that case. Laptop HD, CF, Cardbus? What I'm currently going for is a M(II?)1x000 board. Probably the M1 since it's cheap (~150$) and I can't find any advantages, for Myth, to get either the MII1 (+20 to 40$) or the MII12000 (~210$.) The ideal case seems to be Casetronic' C137. Bulkier compared to the LC07 but it allows for one PCI slots, with a standard HD or two PCI slots with a laptop HD. I have an extra 256MB DDR and, while not necessary, a slim cdrom laying around as well as a (totally silent) 40GB Seagate IV. It pains me to put that much storage space for that box but I don't want to invest more the cost of this drive for a laptop HD. The PCI slot will probably be used for a PCI Wi-Fi adapter unless I get the MII12000 with its CardBus slot. In that case, I'd get a PCMCIA Wi-Fi adapter. While I like the CN400 chipset, it's currently offered only on EPIA N boards. But, the CLE266 chipset has been around for some time and people seems to be happy with it. The Unichrome drivers seem to have matured enough for this project. Beside, if there were a mini-itx board with a CN400 chipset, it would be as expensive as the EPIA N. :) I still can't understand why mini-itx (or nano) cases are so damned expensive. Are we paying for limited offering and/or RD? I pretty much dropped the idea of a CF or network boot as I can't locate any useful information on the net. If someone has useful information on network boot, please post. :) Thanks! cythraul On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:46:09 -0500, Adam Siegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use the hauppauge mediamvp. Check out the mvpmc.sourceforge.net project. It works great and the box is only $80. If you want to go wireless you will probably need an ethernet to wireless bridge, say the linksys *WET54G, which can be had for around $110. So for less than $200 you have a great solution. * cythraul wrote: Hi, For sometime now, I've been running MythTV in the living room and the experience has been great. Now, I'd like to add more frontends in the house but I'm stuck with hardware decisions. Currently, my backend is also my main file server running on a used PowerEdge 1400 server with p3/800 cpu witch is enough for my DVB card. The (current) frontend is a clone p3/866 with an Nvidia MX440 and a 9gig HD. The only problem with this setup is the lack of remote control. I have to use my wireless keyboard. While I never lost it like a regular remote control, it's cumbersome. :) The backends holds my archived mp3, dvd and recordings as well as my dvd writer when the HD capacity reaches a critical point. :) After much googling(tm), I found myself with more questions then answers so I thought I'd ask this mailing
[mythtv-users] Remote control probs
Hello all, Am having nasty probs with remote controls and MythTV: Currently I'm using the IR sensor with the PVR350 card, I've patched, compiled and installed lirc as per instructions found here: http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.1 1) Running irw and using my Hauppauge remote, works fine. But when I try to use irrecord with my other remotes, it doesn't detect nearly all of them (tried a total 9), only works with 1, and even then irrecord didn't deal with it properly (pressed and held the button, typed in 1 and pressed the 1 button but it seemed to ignore it, typed in 2 and didn't press any other button and it asked me for the next button, then when finishing, it asks me to tap the button fast but it does nothing even tho I tapped the button for a long time?) 2) Anyway, ignoring that, I can't quite get the remote to work with myth TV - the HOWTO (http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-8.html#ss8.6) mentions an lircrc file, but I can't find an example (lircrc.examples) Can I have an example? 3) When running irxevent, I find I have to run that and mythfrontend within the same terminal window - I can't just log in remotely, type in irxevent and start mythfrontend via X? Is it suggested that I recompile MythTV to incorporate native lirc support? Thanks very much for your help in advance Cheers - Piers ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Repeat problems with ati_remote in 2.6 kernel
Yesterday, I upgraded my myth box to a 2.6.10 kernel, from 2.4.26. Almost eeverything has gone very smoothly, with just one outstanding problem. I had been happily using the 2.1.1 ati_remote driver from the GATOS project, without lirc. I'm now using the follow-on that's included in the 2.6 kernel. I noticed that many of the keycodes have changed, but that was no problem: I just used xev to get them all, and updated my .xmodmaprc. One odd thing is that I'm no longer getting a keypress from the channel + and - buttons. The real problem, though, is the repeat behaviour. I'm finding that it's very easy to accidentally get a double keypress. If I press 2 or 3 times in a row, I'll get 6 or 8 presses. It makes things pretty hard to control. I'd guess that the repeat functionality that's shown up since the old driver is supposed to allow me to hold down a button and get rapid repeats, but if I do that, it keeps going well after I stop pressing it. Here's what's logged when I load the module: Dec 28 13:25:51 myth kernel: ati_remote 2-2:1.0: Input registered: X10 Wireless Technology Inc USB Receiver on usb-:00:02.0-2 Dec 28 13:25:51 myth kernel: usbcore: registered new driver ati_remote Dec 28 13:25:51 myth kernel: drivers/usb/input/ati_remote.c: Registered USB driver ATI/X10 RF USB Remote Control v. 2.2.1 Dec 28 13:25:51 myth kernel: drivers/usb/input/ati_remote.c: Weird data, len=1 ff 00 00 00 00 00 ... Has anyone had any luck using the ati_remote driver in 2.6? Anyone seen these kinds of problems, or better yet, solved them? Have you tried using repeat=0 in the .lircrc? Eg: begin prog = irexec button = SRS repeat = 0 config = /usr/local/bin/mythrestart.sh end ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [ICH/i8x0 | Problems getting SPDIF Out Working- Help!]
I've sorted out playback to /dev/adsp0 however, it appears to only output correctly to my tuner/amp when the file that is played is 48khz. I read that the alsa oss plugin should convert the sample rate, but it is not :( M. - Original Message - From: James Purl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Cc: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 6:46 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [ICH/i8x0 | Problems getting SPDIF Out Working- Help!] Try to setup an option so that your adsp device gets setup correctly. In the appropriate file (modules.conf or modprobe.conf) use options snd-pcm-oss adsp_map=4 with the 4 being the device of the digital output. You might need to do modules-update and reboot to make this take effect Next, tell MythMusic to play through /dev/adsp. Worked for me but as usual with these things, YMMV. On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:28:24 +1030, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With or without the alsa 1.0.7 kernel module rpms (and userland alsa 1.0.7 rpms)? Tried it with and without. I have fiddled some more and can now playback via aplay/mplayer to alsa driver analog. How do I get mythmusic to use this device now? M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] in]# rpm -qa | grep alsa alsa-lib-1.0.3a-2 alsa-driver-1.0.7-34.rhfc2.at alsa-utils-1.0.7-11.rhfc2.at kernel-module-alsa-2.6.9-1.6_FC2-1.0.7-34.rhfc2.at - Original Message - From: Axel Thimm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net; Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 9:03 PM Subject: Re: [ICH/i8x0 | Problems getting SPDIF Out Working - Help!] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [ICH/i8x0 | Problems getting SPDIF Out Working -Help!]
So you put hw:0,0 in the device field in mythmusic? - Original Message - From: Bryan Brannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 1:29 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] [ICH/i8x0 | Problems getting SPDIF Out Working -Help!] hw:0,0 and hw:0,4 - both seem to work with the same results. On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 16:22:31 +1030, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What output device did you use?? ALSA:digital? - Original Message - From: Bryan Brannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 1:28 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] [ICH/i8x0 | Problems getting SPDIF Out Working -Help!] I had to turn IEC958 Playback all the way down to zero to get it to play anything Myth related.. using alsamixer. On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:55:35 +1030, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, I am wondering if anybody can point me in the right direction to help me get my digital out working properly. I have trawled websites and mailing lists for info in asound.conf's etc etc and have played with this for a fair while. I am running Fedora Core 2 with kernel 2.6.9-1.6_FC2, along with mythtv and its associated bits installed from rpm from atrpms.net. My system is an Open XCube, which has an intel ICH (i8x0) sound card with optical digital out. If I use the asound.conf found here http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo , subsituting hw:0,2 for hw:0,4 becuase my digital out appears to be on device 4 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH5] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH5 - IEC958] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# Now this is where it gets a little wierd : If I attempt to play anything back through plug:digital, I get nothing out the optical out at all. I created a stereo 48000hz file and tried using aplay to play directly to hw:0,4 : #aplay -D hw:0,4 /video/music/test.wav I get nothing. Just for the heck of it, I tried #aplay -D hw:0,0 /video/music/test.wav and SOUND STARTED PLAYING THROUGH MY DIGITAL OUT??? Interestingly : #aplay -D analog /video/music/test.wav Works fine through my digital output also ??? But it wont play anything except 48000hz stereo files so I'm assuming something is broken or not working with dmix here. Does anyone know if there is there some default Fedora Core 2 stuff that I should be aware of in regards to all of this? I basically want to use my digital out for playing music through Mythmusic so I need to get the dmix plugin working so it will upsample from 44100hz mp3s. Hopefully someone can suggest something to try here? Thanks! Michael. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] PVR-350 Recording Profiles - What bitrate settings do you use?
Joe, Just drop the bitrate in your recording profile(s). Utilities/Setup - Setup - TV Settings - Recording Profiles. I use a bitrate of 4000 which I find gives me good quality. Of course, using a PVR-350, my resolution is fixed (PAL) 720x576. You can drop it to 2200 which is approx 1gb/hr. I'd be interested in hearing what other people use also? M. - Original Message - From: Joe Willis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 8:56 AM Subject: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 Recording Profiles I finally have a PVR-350 in my MythTV working with TV out, and am very pleased with the quality of the recordings. They take over 2GB of disk space per hour, however, so I would like to investigate lower quality/ lower file size parameters. All of the recording profiles provided look the same to me, so I don't know where to start. What should I change to get the DVD Extra Long Play discussed in PVR-350 advertisements, for example? ___ 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] Newbie: FC3 - MythTV backend setup - stuck. 2. Alsosetup GUI issue. 3. Also UK settings?
How about renaming tv_grab_uk_rt tv_grab_uk ? cd /usr/bin mv tv_grab_uk_rt tv_grab_uk M. - Original Message - From: Clive at Rational [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 9:01 AM Subject: [mythtv-users] Newbie: FC3 - MythTV backend setup - stuck. 2. Alsosetup GUI issue. 3. Also UK settings? Hello, I have searched through the MythTV mailing list and not found answer to this - sorry if it HAS already been answered. Setup: Conexant WinFast TV2000 XP input card (a.k.a GDI Black Gold) - works fine under WinXPPro SP2 Trying to run card under MythTV on a Fedora Core 3 (FC3) kernel 2.6.9.something. The TV signal is being provided from a terrestrial aerial / antenna. MythTv software install was performed according to the excellent instructions in Installing and using MythTV by Robert Kulagowski I used the apt-get method to install all required MythTV (0.16) other packages as the manual process seemed fantastically tedious. As far as I can tell the software is installed OK. I can start the backend and front end GUIS and they display fine. 1. I am at section 9 of the install instructions - Configure back-end. I have tried various options and none seem to work. I guessed certain settings for the GUI and the termianl displayed the following results from a typical run of mythsetup [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# ./mythtvsetup DisplaRes::switch_res: desired resolution not available 2004-12-28 21:57:47 switchToGUI: xrandr failed for 0 x 0 Somehow, your screen size settings are bad. GuiHeight: 0 GuiWidth: 0 m_height: 0 m_width: 0 Falling back to 640x480 Would you like to clear all capture card settings before starting configuration? [no] no Would you like to clear all program/channel settings before starting configuration? [no] mythtv: could not connect to socket mythtv: No such file or directory lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages 2004-12-28 21:58:30 Please wait while MythTV retrieves the list of available channels sh: tv_grab_uk: command not found 2004-12-28 21:58:30 tv_grab_uk --config-file '/root/.mythtv/CRL DVB card.xmltv' --configure 2004-12-28 21:58:30 exited with status 32512 2004-12-28 21:58:45 Please wait while MythTV retrieves the list of available channels sh: tv_grab_uk: command not found 2004-12-28 21:58:45 tv_grab_uk --config-file '/root/.mythtv/CRL DVB card.xmltv' --configure 2004-12-28 21:58:45 exited with status 32512 Couldn't open 0 to probe its inputs. If this is the master backend server: Now, please run 'mythfilldatabase' to populate the database with channel information. It seems (obviously) that tv_grab_uk is not found However, in /usr/bin the following DOES exist [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# ls | grep tv_grab_uk tv_grab_uk_rt So what do I do to achieve the back-end config? For completeness I include the result of running mythfilldatabase but I think the errors occuring are as a result of the tv_grab_uk failure [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# mythfilldatabase 2004-12-28 22:28:18 mythfilldatabase: Listings Download Started - Start of XMLTV output - nice: tv_grab_uk: No such file or directory -- End of XMLTV output -- Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file Updating icons for sourceid: 1 - Start of XMLTV output - nice: tv_grab_uk: No such file or directory -- End of XMLTV output -- Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file Updating icons for sourceid: 2 Failed to fetch some program info 2004-12-28 22:28:18 mythfilldatabase: Failed to fetch some program info 2. Also,the back-end setup GUI screens seem to be larger than the window opened and the window is not scrollable hence it is not always possible to see the Cancel Back and next buttons on a screen. Is there a fix for this? 3. Any recommendations or documentation on setting up the software for UK Freeview supplied through standard aerial / antenna. Thanks for any help or pointers Clive ___ 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] [ICH/i8x0 | Problems getting SPDIF Out Working -Help!]
ALSA:hw:0,4
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:07:46 +1030, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So you put hw:0,0 in the device field in mythmusic?
- Original Message -
From: Bryan Brannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 1:29 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] [ICH/i8x0 | Problems getting SPDIF Out
Working -Help!]
hw:0,0 and hw:0,4 - both seem to work with the same results.
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 16:22:31 +1030, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What output device did you use?? ALSA:digital?
- Original Message -
From: Bryan Brannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] [ICH/i8x0 | Problems getting SPDIF Out
Working -Help!]
I had to turn IEC958 Playback all the way down to zero to get it to
play anything Myth related.. using alsamixer.
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:55:35 +1030, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Howdy,
I am wondering if anybody can point me in the right direction to help
me
get
my digital out working properly.
I have trawled websites and mailing lists for info in asound.conf's
etc
etc
and have played with this for a fair while.
I am running Fedora Core 2 with kernel 2.6.9-1.6_FC2, along with
mythtv
and
its associated bits installed from rpm from atrpms.net.
My system is an Open XCube, which has an intel ICH (i8x0) sound card
with
optical digital out.
If I use the asound.conf found here
http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo , subsituting hw:0,2
for
hw:0,4 becuase my digital out appears to be on device 4 :
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# aplay -l
List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices
card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH5]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH5 -
IEC958]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#
Now this is where it gets a little wierd : If I attempt to play
anything
back through plug:digital, I get nothing out the optical out at all.
I created a stereo 48000hz file and tried using aplay to play directly
to
hw:0,4 :
#aplay -D hw:0,4 /video/music/test.wav
I get nothing.
Just for the heck of it, I tried
#aplay -D hw:0,0 /video/music/test.wav
and SOUND STARTED PLAYING THROUGH MY DIGITAL OUT???
Interestingly :
#aplay -D analog /video/music/test.wav
Works fine through my digital output also ???
But it wont play anything except 48000hz stereo files so I'm assuming
something is broken or not working with dmix here.
Does anyone know if there is there some default Fedora Core 2 stuff
that
I
should be aware of in regards to all of this?
I basically want to use my digital out for playing music through
Mythmusic
so I need to get the dmix plugin working so it will upsample from
44100hz
mp3s.
Hopefully someone can suggest something to try here?
Thanks!
Michael.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythmusic not finding track length for .flac files
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 11:01 -0800, Wendy Seltzer wrote: Doing a bit more investigation, flac track length appears to have broken in the big Nov. 26 mythmusic patch. A rollback to CVS from Nov. 25 reads track lengths again (and once they're in the db, they stay there). It looks as though some of the code didn't make it from flacdecoder.cpp into metaioflacvorbiscomment.cpp So if you upgraded your system, it probably depends when you first imported the track. Ah, that could well be it. Had a feeling it was the 'newer' cds which had this problem. Are developers reading here, or should I cc mythtv-dev? Some do some don't. Suggest you drop a mail onto mythtv-dev. Cheers, Martin. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] LCD display or CRT TV or projector
Your cheapest solution is to get an S-Video to RCA cinch converter, which will let you run a standard RCA cable into your TV. If your TV doesn't have RCA-in then your VCR does. I got mine included with a video card a bought for a different system, but you should be able to pick one up for a few bucks (or quid). On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:51:50 +, Greg Cope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am struggling to understand the differences between all of these. My TV (21) does not accept S-Video In, so I need a different solution. Presently HD is not due in the UK until 2006 at least. What are the choices for a good PVR display What is the best quality/best VFM display. Do I: - Get an 19 LCD montior - cheap, but what is the quality like (interlaced vs non-interlaced) - Get a different TV - Wide Screen 28/32 - expensive, and most accept SVideo which seems a bit of a comprimise. - Get a Projector and use DVI - expensive. Basically what is the best way to get a good picture akin to a Component in TV + Component out DVD player, which at the mo seems the best way to get a good AV picture. Hope the above makes sense. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Jarod's HOWTO for FC3/PVR-350/X - Please Take Offline
I've reviewed Jarod's MythTV FC3 HOWTO, using a single PVR-350 in my TV box (and I had a working base FC2 configuration), and I'm at a point now where I believe I can say that it just doesn't work yet. Jarod should take his HOWTO off-line until he's had a chance to fully walk through it with a PVR-350 so that those of us out there who are following it don't end up upgrading into a broken configuration (which we're all doing now). There are three main problems: - The ivtv-fb driver isn't up to rc3b yet to fix the problems with the module crashes (and even then doesn't work fully); - X with TV Out is definitely broken; I've tried both the xorg.conf pointed at from his site, as well as tuning. Modifying the ivtvdev_drv.o doesn't fix it; changing the firmware doesn't work; Using either ivtvdev, fbdev, or any other combination is broken. Changing vga= and video= options doesn't help. - The new 2.6.9 kernels are breaking in conjunction with ivtv, and the ck100zz drivers aren't useful anymore. Until these major problems are fixed, people should be pointed to the base FC2 instructions (without downloading the FC2 updates, since you can break your configuration with newer FC2 kernels as well) until these problems are fixed. All the previous work is really appreciated from both Jarod, Axel, John, and everyone else, but this is clearly a time drain so long as the base FC3/guide configuration doesn't work. This is just my $0.02 from doing this over the past three days and not making much forward progress (and seeing a few mythtv mailing list E-mails from people following Jarod's HOWTO and not seeing answers to their questions). When there's something really working enough to beta test and/or use, then I'm totally ready to help out. :) Thanks, --Matt ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 Recording Profiles
I finally have a PVR-350 in my MythTV working with TV out, and am very pleased with the quality of the recordings. They take over 2GB of disk space per hour, however, so I would like to investigate lower quality/ lower file size parameters. All of the recording profiles provided look the same to me, so I don't know where to start. What should I change to get the DVD Extra Long Play discussed in PVR-350 advertisements, for example? Not sure if it's the same for PVRs but for bt878 chips it's in Utilities/Setup -- Setup -- TV Settings -- Recording Profiles. In there you can adjust video and audio quality settings. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Jarod's HOWTO for FC3/PVR-350/X - Please Take Offline
Matt, I was having exactly the problems you were, until I put vga=792 in the kernel boot line. Something about the new kernels using the first framebuffer device without actually capturing /dev/fb0, and therefore ivtv_fb crashes quite badly when it tries to grab it also. Try that. - Original Message - From: Matt D. Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 11:36 AM Subject: [mythtv-users] Jarod's HOWTO for FC3/PVR-350/X - Please Take Offline I've reviewed Jarod's MythTV FC3 HOWTO, using a single PVR-350 in my TV box (and I had a working base FC2 configuration), and I'm at a point now where I believe I can say that it just doesn't work yet. Jarod should take his HOWTO off-line until he's had a chance to fully walk through it with a PVR-350 so that those of us out there who are following it don't end up upgrading into a broken configuration (which we're all doing now). There are three main problems: - The ivtv-fb driver isn't up to rc3b yet to fix the problems with the module crashes (and even then doesn't work fully); - X with TV Out is definitely broken; I've tried both the xorg.conf pointed at from his site, as well as tuning. Modifying the ivtvdev_drv.o doesn't fix it; changing the firmware doesn't work; Using either ivtvdev, fbdev, or any other combination is broken. Changing vga= and video= options doesn't help. - The new 2.6.9 kernels are breaking in conjunction with ivtv, and the ck100zz drivers aren't useful anymore. Until these major problems are fixed, people should be pointed to the base FC2 instructions (without downloading the FC2 updates, since you can break your configuration with newer FC2 kernels as well) until these problems are fixed. All the previous work is really appreciated from both Jarod, Axel, John, and everyone else, but this is clearly a time drain so long as the base FC3/guide configuration doesn't work. This is just my $0.02 from doing this over the past three days and not making much forward progress (and seeing a few mythtv mailing list E-mails from people following Jarod's HOWTO and not seeing answers to their questions). When there's something really working enough to beta test and/or use, then I'm totally ready to help out. :) Thanks, --Matt ___ 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] mythtvsetup: command not found error
So here is my newb-type question: How do I ensure I have mythtv installed? I did an apt-get install mythtv (see bottom of my original posting) so I would have thought my system would have mythtv installed (I had to install piece by piece due to mythdvd dependency problems when I attempted an install of mythtv-suite, note an earlier posting of mine). I am really eager to get this thing up and running. Thanks to all, George --- PAUL WILLIAMSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, um if you run locate mythtvsetup and get no response back, it's not on the system. For example, try running locate ping and you'll see the difference. For some reason, you don't have mythtvsetup on the box... Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/28/2004 5:36:25 PM hoping to get some response since my Mythbox is currently sitting idle. I am not sure where I went wrong, my video capture works perfectly (with Audio and Video) but I cannot get mythtvsetup to work. I get an error saying command not found I have done an apt-get update (results below) and was not successful. I searched the mail-list and saw one posting regarding updating the db and this is what I got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# updatedb [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# locate mythtvsetup [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# mythtvsetup bash: mythtvsetup: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# I am running FC1, on a P4, 2.4GHz, NVidia card in USA (I will eventually have the box controlling my DirecTV receiver). I tried to install mythtv-suite and got dependency issues with mythdvd, so I installed module by module. Maybe I did something wrong there. Is there something I should change in my sources.list file? I am so, so close to having my wife happy. Please help. Thanks, George [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# apt-get update Get:1 http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/1/i386 release [1813B] Ign http://rpms.subpop.net fedora/linux/1/i386 release Ign http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org fedora/1/i386 release Get:2 http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/1/en/i386 release [1523B] SNIP Get:13 http://apt.sw.be dries/fedora/fc1/i386 release [483B] Fetched 16.3kB in 7s (2093B/s) Hit http://freshrpms.atrpms.net fedora/linux/1/i386/freshrpms pkglist ==SNIP== Hit http://newrpms.atrpms.net redhat/en/i386/fc1/newrpms release Err http://download.fedoralegacy.org fedora/1/i386/updates pkglist Could not resolve 'download.fedoralegacy.org' Err http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/1/en/i386/at-stable pkglist Could not resolve 'apt.atrpms.net' Hit http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/1/i386/planetcore pkglist Hit http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org fedora/1/i386/gst pkglist Ign http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org fedora/1/i386/gst release Err http://rpms.subpop.net fedora/linux/1/i386/production pkglist 404 Not Found Ign http://rpms.subpop.net fedora/linux/1/i386/production release Hit http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/1/i386/planetcore release ===SNIP= Hit http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/1/en/i386/at-stable release Failed to fetch http://download.fedoralegacy.org/apt/fedora/1/i386/base/pkglist.updates Could not resolve 'downloa d.fedoralegacy.org' Failed to fetch http://apt.atrpms.net/fedora/1/en/i386/base/pkglist.at-stable Could not resolve 'apt.atrpms.net' Failed to fetch http://rpms.subpop.net/fedora/linux/1/i386/base/pkglist.production 404 Not Found Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# apt-get install mythtv Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done mythtv is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 43 not upgraded. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# mythtvsetup bash: mythtvsetup: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Repeat problems with ati_remote in 2.6 kernel
--- Dave Steinberg wrote: The real problem, though, is the repeat behaviour. I'm finding that it's very easy to accidentally get a double keypress. I can confirm seeing that behavior with the built-in ATI remote support in the 2.6 kernel. Quite annoying. I too would like to see a fix. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Repeat problems with ati_remote in 2.6 kernel
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Dave Steinberg wrote: Hi all, Yesterday, I upgraded my myth box to a 2.6.10 kernel, from 2.4.26. Almost eeverything has gone very smoothly, with just one outstanding problem. I had been happily using the 2.1.1 ati_remote driver from the GATOS project, without lirc. I'm now using the follow-on that's included in the 2.6 kernel. I noticed that many of the keycodes have changed, but that was no problem: I just used xev to get them all, and updated my .xmodmaprc. One odd thing is that I'm no longer getting a keypress from the channel + and - buttons. [...] Has anyone had any luck using the ati_remote driver in 2.6? Anyone seen these kinds of problems, or better yet, solved them? At least for the chan+/- problem I've also noticed it in 2.6.9. The ati_remote driver that is part of that kernel source is in fact generating /dev/input events for everything but they aren't all getting translated into X events. You can prove this by running evtest against /dev/input/eventX (X=device allocated for your ATI remote) and hitting some buttons. (In Debian, evtest is packaged with dvb-utils.) You'll see every button generates events. But then try xev and chan+ and chan- won't trigger anything there. That's as far as I've gotten. Unfortunately I can suggest nothing yet as a solution. I've been too distracted by other issues to continue pursuing this one. -Mike -- | Mike Isely | PGP fingerprint Spammers Die!! | | 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 | isely @ pobox (dot) com | 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 | | ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Unable to change channel
I have Myth working for me except that every time I reboot I have to run mythfilldatabase and restart mythbackend or I can't change channels within Myth. This seems to happen each time I reboot, even if the last reboot was the same day. Restarting Mythbackend doesn't reproduce this. Anyone know why this might be happening? How can I go about debugging this? My Myth Box: Intel 2.8Ghz processor/512MB/Intel D845 mobo Hauppauge PVR 350 (brand new) Fedora Core 3 X on PVR350 TV-out mythtv 0.16 (atrpms install from wilsonet docs) ivtv driver 0.3.2a (from source) latest hauppauge firmware ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Repeat problems with ati_remote in 2.6 kernel
The driver changed sometime after 2.6.7, and yes it is annoying. Fast-Forward does work much better now but it needs to have some kind of throttling (like holding it down gives you one keystroke every .25 seconds). Whoever suggested altering .lircrc: the ati_remote driver is a kernel driver, lirc is not required for use. I am pretty sure most people are now using that driver because it's easier to setup than installing lirc. Maybe this discussion needs to take place on a kernel mailing list? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] OT: out of disk space, but not really....
Does df say full? Johnny Lee -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Pifer Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 8:29 PM To: MythTV Subject: [mythtv-users] OT: out of disk space, but not really I'm having a problem on my mythbackend box that I'm hoping someone can help me with. If I do a df the system is reporting that / is full. It's 160 gig drive and a du shows me this: # du -h --max-depth=1 16K ./lost+found 5.6M./boot 420K./dev du: `./proc/3699/fd/4': No such file or directory 5.0K./proc 797M./var 156K./tmp 17M ./etc 832K./root 2.6G./usr 12M ./sbin 4.7M./bin 536K./home 4.0K./initrd 55M ./lib 4.0K./opt 4.0K./misc 55M ./install 4.0K./net 4.0K./.qt 54G ./mythvideos This adds up to less than 60 gig. Any suggestions on troubleshooting this? I'm on Redhat 9. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] yum Dependancy
Alright, A smart person once said, when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. . . After futher researchi tried: apt-get remove yum I did this because I read that mythtv doesn't need yum to operate, am I correct or not on that assumption? I then proceed to: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade This works with no errors, that I saw. When I get to apt-get install kernal#2.6.9-1.681_FC3 I'm in trouble, says no such directory or filename. To be exact: bash: /usr/bin/apt-get: No such file or directory So I exit and re-login as root, now: bash: apt-get: command not found so, I've stopped digging, any help?__Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv CVS possibly borked on amd64
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 19:04 -0800, Chris Germano wrote: I'm trying to compile Mythtv CVS on an amd64 and it's failing. It compiled fine a few weeks ago so I don't know what's up. I tried the -fPIC thing in my cflags but it still did this, and i did make clean, etc. I'm running Gentoo 64 on a amd 64 3200. /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: postprocess.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC postprocess.o: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [libmythavcodec-0.16.so.0.16.0] Error 1 Yep - ran into that one while trying to get a backtrace. Comment out CONFIG +=debug and uncomment CONFIG += release in mythtv/settings.pro and it should build... -I ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Jarod's HOWTO for FC3/PVR-350/X - Please Take Offline
I definitely tried that (just tried it again with the base as well as 0.2.0-rc3b) and it doesn't work. Again, I think this is a fundamental problem right now that needs to be tested and fixed. I'm willing to test and try things out, build drivers, kernels, etc., but I've had a few private E-mails that reinforce the comments I've made here saying that yes, there is a problem and it needs to be corrected. I'm willing to help out, try stuff, tweak code, etc. Thanks, --Matt On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote: |Matt, | |I was having exactly the problems you were, until I put vga=792 in the kernel |boot line. | |Something about the new kernels using the first framebuffer device without |actually capturing /dev/fb0, and therefore ivtv_fb crashes quite badly when it |tries to grab it also. | |Try that. | |- Original Message - From: Matt D. Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] |To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org |Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 11:36 AM |Subject: [mythtv-users] Jarod's HOWTO for FC3/PVR-350/X - Please Take Offline | | | | I've reviewed Jarod's MythTV FC3 HOWTO, using a single PVR-350 in | my TV box (and I had a working base FC2 configuration), and I'm at | a point now where I believe I can say that it just doesn't work yet. | Jarod should take his HOWTO off-line until he's had a chance to fully | walk through it with a PVR-350 so that those of us out there who | are following it don't end up upgrading into a broken configuration | (which we're all doing now). | | There are three main problems: | | - The ivtv-fb driver isn't up to rc3b yet to fix the problems with | the module crashes (and even then doesn't work fully); | | - X with TV Out is definitely broken; I've tried both the xorg.conf | pointed at from his site, as well as tuning. Modifying the | ivtvdev_drv.o doesn't fix it; changing the firmware doesn't | work; Using either ivtvdev, fbdev, or any other combination is | broken. Changing vga= and video= options doesn't help. | | - The new 2.6.9 kernels are breaking in conjunction with ivtv, and | the ck100zz drivers aren't useful anymore. | | Until these major problems are fixed, people should be pointed to the | base FC2 instructions (without downloading the FC2 updates, since | you can break your configuration with newer FC2 kernels as well) | until these problems are fixed. | | All the previous work is really appreciated from both Jarod, Axel, | John, and everyone else, but this is clearly a time drain so long as | the base FC3/guide configuration doesn't work. This is just my $0.02 | from doing this over the past three days and not making much forward | progress (and seeing a few mythtv mailing list E-mails from people | following Jarod's HOWTO and not seeing answers to their questions). | | When there's something really working enough to beta test and/or use, | then I'm totally ready to help out. :) Thanks, | | --Matt | | | | | | |___ |mythtv-users mailing list |mythtv-users@mythtv.org |http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users | |___ |mythtv-users mailing list |mythtv-users@mythtv.org |http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users | ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New Australian XMLTV grabber
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 05:02:07PM +1000, Paul Andreassen wrote: This version is FIVE TIMES FASTER. I was having trouble with my router overflowing its NAT because the old version was leaving the ip connections open. Its was probably also doing a DOS on the web site, although only in a small way. It now takes 7:46 minutes instead of 36:33 minutes. With 5 threads, isn't it DOSing their web site every time? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to change channel
John Van Ostrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have Myth working for me except that every time I reboot I have to run mythfilldatabase and restart mythbackend or I can't change channels within Myth. This seems to happen each time I reboot, even if the last reboot was the same day. Restarting Mythbackend doesn't reproduce this. I have had a problem in the very recent past (last week or two) in which my freqid column in the channel table for the local DirecTV channels (yeah, weird) has been getting set to NULL, so my channel changing script has no argument passed to it. I'm not sure what's doing it: it could be mythfilldatabase, but I'm not so sure, as channel changing was working at 10 and 11 am, but stopped working sometime this evening, and mythfilldatabase runs sometime around 6 am. Try mythbackend --verbose channel and see what is getting passed to your external tuner script (or potentially what is being tuned internally, if you use internal tuning; I suspect similar information is available). FWIW, this is also associated with my satellite receiver randomly changing channels every so often. I don't think the receiver is doing it on its own, but I'll have to instrument the channel changing script to really know. Cheers, Kyle ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Geforce cards giving me grief
Here's the deal with two of my geforce cards: 1. P4 1.8ghz box with love sources 2.6.7 on it running gentoo. I have Xorg 6.7... installed. -With my PCI geforce card and hacked 4363 2.6 drivers (official nvidia's hacked to work in 2.6) X will start but whenever I watch a recording I get mythfrontend 15% X: 20% cpu usage on playback. There is absolutely no reasoning for X using that much cpu and it's causing live tv to stutter because it doesn't have enough CPU power to record and playback. -When I placed my AGP card in here X calmed back down to 2-3% or whatever and everything was perfect. -I upgraded to the official 6111 nvidia driver through the ebuilds (glx and kernel) and X won't start when the PCI card is in there! Here is my Xorg output: http://paste.getlinuxhelp.org/376 2. AMD Athlon 2400XP+ with a mini shuttle box running gentoo and xorg 6.8 -Bought a new Geforce 4 4000 card AGP, stuck it in and when it's booting all ic through the tv out is black and white text. The screen can't even hold the picture signal lock. When the nvidia driver (official one through the ebuilds, prob 6111) the picture comes back and is perfect. I'm running through the Svideo out and i tried it through composite. This problem is only on boot - X or whenever I switch to a terminal ie ctrl alt F2.. so whenever I leave X it screws up!! Ideas? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] finetunning X on g450 TV
Hi, i managed to get the tv out running on my matrox g450. The main problem now is that the picture is black and white and unstable. Are there any things i can do to fine tune the output? Also the configuration of X was a bit incomplete, he mist to write the config for the first monitor. http://www.bglug.ca/matrox_tvout/g450_tvout_howto.html I use a debian/sid, nova-t(90002) and a PAL TV. here is my xf86config. --- Section Files FontPathunix/:7100# local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi EndSection Section Module LoadGLcore Loadbitmap Loaddbe Loadddc # Loaddri Loadextmod Loadfreetype Loadglx Loadint10 Loadrecord Loadspeedo Loadtype1 Loadvbe EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver keyboard Option CoreKeyboard Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout de Option XkbOptionsnodeadkeys EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device/dev/psaux Option Protocol PS/2 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Mouse Driver mouse Option SendCoreEventstrue Option Device/dev/input/mice Option Protocol ImPS/2 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Device Identifier MATROX CARD 1 Driver fbdev VendorName Matrox BoardName G450 Driver fbdev BusID PCI:1:0:0 Option UseFBDev Option HWcursor no Option fbdev /dev/fb0 EndSection Section Device Identifier MATROX CARD 2 Driver fbdev VendorName Matrox BoardName G450 Option fbdev /dev/fb1 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier console VendorName Unknown ModelNameUnknown HorizSync30 - 50 #VertRefresh 50 - 75 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Display 1 Device MATROX CARD 2 Monitorconsole DefaultDepth 16 SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes768x576 EndSubSection EndSection Section Screen Identifier Display 2 Device MATROX CARD 2 Monitorconsole DefaultDepth 16 SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes768x576 EndSubSection EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier tvout Screen Display 1 0 0 Screen Display 2 RightOF Display 1 InputDevice Generic Keyboard InputDevice Configured Mouse InputDevice Generic Mouse EndSection Section DRI Mode0666 EndSection thx for your help ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
