RE: [mythtv-users] New Australian XMLTV grabber

[Daniel Sheppard]

Has anybody thought of doing a grabber for http://www.ourguide.com.au

They put the entire data for a day on a single page complete with
descriptions.

For some reason their default page doesn't include the period from
12am-6am, but if you go through the "Display Particulars" link you can
get the entire day.

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> 
> 
> > 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?
> 
> 
> Its only DOSing at 3am every morning when 100 people run 
> filldatabase, a time when no one really cares if it takes 36 
> mins. Not only is it rude, but things like this is what makes 
> yahoo/ninemsn change there guide so we cant get information 
> from it any more.
> 
> Some thing good I notices today is a xml feed from abc of the 
> guide today.
> http://www.abc.net.au/syndication/tv_epg.xml
> 
> We should be using this instead of nine for abc at least.
> 
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[mythtv-users] mythphone questions

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I found an old webcam (D-Link DSB-C100 CPiA chipset), but I this message 
when I fire-up mythphone

Webcam does not support YUV420P, YUV422P, or RGB24 modes; these are the 
ony ones currently supported. Closing webcam.

The camera works in xawtv. Anyway to work around this? I am using 
mythphone from atrpms stable.

Also, I don't think this is mythphone related, but I can't get my mic 
working. On my main soundcard (SB Audigy) I can hear the mic through the 
speakers, but in the setup it says I can't use the same sound device for 
the mic. I plugged it into my onboard mic port, but I don't get any 
sound. Both /dev/dsp0 & 1 are chmoded 666. Anybody have any ideas?

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[mythtv-users] FC3 + Mythtv + PVR350 for the 8th time

[Aaron Paluzzi]

I've followed the instructions a number of times and
have finally 
whittled my problems down to the following. 

-I can't get X to display on the PVR350's tv-out.  I'm
trying to use 
S-video if it makes a difference.
-I still can't get Lirc to recognise ir commands from
the grey remote 
via the hauppage ir receiver.

I know that the PVR's output is not accelerated and
not optimal to use 
for games or divx.  Unfortunately my main display card
is a Radeon AIW 
(origional, AKA the 7200) and unless someone here
knows how, I have a 
snowballs chance to get this card working.

Any assistance would be appreciated.



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[mythtv-users] Accumulation of knowledge for others with the PVR350 and FC3

[Aaron Paluzzi]

I've gone through the FC3 install of mythtv 8 times
now and am closer 
than ever.  I've delt with and solved many of the
problems that seem 
unsolved by accident and just brute determination.

1) MySQL install

As many of you have noticed, the default MySQL
install usually 
faults right after you install with a 'dead but...
yadda yadda yadda'.  
I've yet to get the default install to work.  My
solution was to install 
FC3 without Mysql, then modify my yum.conf file to add
the stable, 
testing, and bleeding sources to atrpms.net, and
rpm.livina.org.  When 
you 'yum install mysql' you'll be offered MySQL 4.  Go
ahead and install 
this.

Intermediate step I've yet to try, remove the bleeding
sources after 
this.  My yum broke in later steps because of these.

2) IVTV
Like many of you I just bought all of my equipment
with the intention of 
making my mythtv box a family x-mas gift.  As such I
have the new pvr350 
with the new tuner.  To get this working I needed to
install 
ivtv-0.3.0.  Otherwise when I tried  'modprobe ivtv'
I'd get the 
infamous 'Cannot allocate memory' error.

These were the two main problems I had.  Took me 5
installs, then a 
quick move to Mandrake and dealing with that install
process (easier my 
foot!) to find my problem. 

FYI, I'm still not working.  I'm most of the way
there.  I can get both 
the backend and frontend up and running and the tuner
seems to work.  I 
still cannot get the TV out via the PVR350 to work, or
can I get the IR 
receiver or lird to work.  Also durring this process
as I said before, I 
broke yum.  Apt-get chokes most of the time because of
some messed up 
installation of db4.

All in all I recomend using a more proved release to
get this done.  
Either FC1 or 2, forget 3 for now if you're a newbie
like me and want 
instant gratification.  It's nothing to do with
mythtv, some reason yum 
and apt both break easily in fc3 making installing
software that more 
difficult.



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Re: [mythtv-users] No mysql.txt

[Kevin Kuphal]

Asher Schaffer wrote:
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:03:46 -0500, Isaac Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 08:49 pm, Asher Schaffer wrote:
   

Very strange, just made a new system with the latest CVS as of Dec 29.
I have no mysql.txt file anywhere to be found.  There weren't any
errors durring the make or make install.  There is just no mysql.txt
anywhere on my system.  Anyone have an ideas, I'm just scratching my
head right now.
 

It's been removed, as it's no longer necessary to distribute a copy.  Read the
docs that came with your checkout for more information.
Isaac
   

I assumed I'm really missing something here, when I run ./setup it
fails cause it can't find mysql.txt I looked around through the docs
and didn't see anything about not needing it.  I manually created it
and now everything works fine.  Where does it talk about not needing
it?
 

The updated setup doesn't get copied to your local directories during an 
install.  Make sure you are executing the CVS version of the setup 
program from your source directories...

Kevin
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[mythtv-users] Create DVD script

[Craig H Fry]

I've tried a few scripts I've found.  One looked promising that even 
integrated into MythWeb.  Problem is it was written for a distro other 
then FC3.  After some editing I was able to get it running about 80% but 
it gets some weird errors on the creation process (like file not found 
but the file is there).

Anyway the question is does anyone have a working script that will let 
me select the programs I want to archive and create a DVD iso with menus 
that I can then burn?

My Good Eats collection is out of control!
Thanks.
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythtvsetup: command not found error

[George Lopez]

OK, so I am an idiot.  That was definitely an "Aha!!"
kind of tab.  So now that I have done an apt-get for
mythtvsetup, I have a new problem.  I cannot access
mysql.  I tried first as mythtv user, then as root. 
No success either way.  I wish I knew where I went
woefully wrong.  Would this whole process be easier if
I downloaded and did an install based on FC2 vs FC1 or
FC3? 
See below for my mythtvsetup issue.  

Thanks in advance,
George

[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]$ mythtvsetup
Unable to connect to database!
Driver error was [1/-1]:
QMYSQL3: Unable to connect
Database error was:
Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using
password: YES)
 
Unable to open database:
Driver error was:
QMYSQL3: Unable to connect
Database error was:
Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using
password: YES)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]$ su root
Password:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# mythtvsetup
Session management error: Authentication Rejected,
reason : None of the authentication protocols
specified are supported and host-based authentication
failed
Unable to connect to database!
Driver error was [1/-1]:
QMYSQL3: Unable to connect
Database error was:
Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using
password: YES)
 
Unable to open database:
Driver error was:
QMYSQL3: Unable to connect
Database error was:
Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using
password: YES)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]#



--- Chuck Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> 
> I ran into the same problem, thought I am using FC3.
> Executing
> 
> apt-get install mythtvsetup
> 
> Fixed it. -Chuck-
> 




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Re: [mythtv-users] watching TV on wireless frontend flickers badly

[Sasha Z]

A p166 isn't powerful enough to decode most of the modern codecs.
mpeg4 and mpeg2 are well beyond its scope.
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Re: [mythtv-users] New Australian XMLTV grabber

[Fred Donelly]

> I have a site with plenty of bandwidth, I'd be happy to do this. At the moment
> though, I only grab sydney fta data - if someone tells me the best way to
> grab australia-wide data (I guess run multiple grabbers for each
> area/source?), I'll host the xml.
> 
> Philip


I'm pretty sure they'd be more upset about us 'stealing' their data
and republishing it than they ever will be with the grabber hammering
their site once a day.  I think if you went down this path you'd be
asking for a lawyer to come round, visit and take the furniture home
with him to furnish the NineMSN offices.

-Fred
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Re: [mythtv-users] No mysql.txt

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:43 pm, Asher Schaffer wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:03:46 -0500, Isaac Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 29 December 2004 08:49 pm, Asher Schaffer wrote:
> > > Very strange, just made a new system with the latest CVS as of Dec 29.
> > >  I have no mysql.txt file anywhere to be found.  There weren't any
> > > errors durring the make or make install.  There is just no mysql.txt
> > > anywhere on my system.  Anyone have an ideas, I'm just scratching my
> > > head right now.
> >
> > It's been removed, as it's no longer necessary to distribute a copy. 
> > Read the docs that came with your checkout for more information.
> >
> > Isaac
>
> I assumed I'm really missing something here, when I run ./setup it
> fails cause it can't find mysql.txt I looked around through the docs
> and didn't see anything about not needing it.  I manually created it
> and now everything works fine.  Where does it talk about not needing
> it?

The mysql.txt file is created automatically when setup is run.  If it's not, 
you're not running current CVS.  It's all through the docs, though not all 
copies have been updated yet.

Isaac
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[mythtv-users] TV picture displays static through mythtv

[Daniel Agar]

I'm using the latest mythtv on FC3 and an ATI TV wonder. When using tvtime
every channel works perfectly, yet when I watch through mythtv there is
heavy static for every channel and the image is offset and in black and
white. This is mostly a default install, what could be wrong?


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Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: PVR-350 performance question

[Drew Bernat]

I haven't enabled the hardware output, for two reasons. First, I have a 
stack of mpeg4 files left from when I used software encoding. Second, 
it freezes if I do so :) (well, black screen... don't know if the 
machine freezes).

Theoretically, you can use the frame buffer just for the TV output 
conversion... that's what I'd like to do.

Drew
On Dec 29, 2004, at 7:54 PM, Rudy Zijlstra wrote:
Drew Bernat wrote:
I just switched from a GF2MX to a PVR-350 for TV out. The quality is 
much higher, but I'm having trouble with choppiness in the playback. 
It's pretty good, but has a noticeable chop.

I'm running a 1600MHz Athlon, 256MB of memory, playing MPEG4 files. 
IVTV 0.3.2a, X with framebuffer module. Top shows ~40% CPU usage 
playing the files, and ~46% idle. Is there any way to speed up the 
use of the frame buffer?

Drew
Have you enabled PVR-350 output in setup?
Rudy
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Re: [mythtv-users] No mysql.txt

[Asher Schaffer]

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:03:46 -0500, Isaac Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 December 2004 08:49 pm, Asher Schaffer wrote:
> > Very strange, just made a new system with the latest CVS as of Dec 29.
> >  I have no mysql.txt file anywhere to be found.  There weren't any
> > errors durring the make or make install.  There is just no mysql.txt
> > anywhere on my system.  Anyone have an ideas, I'm just scratching my
> > head right now.
> 
> It's been removed, as it's no longer necessary to distribute a copy.  Read the
> docs that came with your checkout for more information.
> 
> Isaac

I assumed I'm really missing something here, when I run ./setup it
fails cause it can't find mysql.txt I looked around through the docs
and didn't see anything about not needing it.  I manually created it
and now everything works fine.  Where does it talk about not needing
it?

Asher
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Re: [mythtv-users] IrDa

[Kevin Kuphal]

Tim Krueger wrote:
Is there a way to use USB IrDa with MythTV?
 

Certainly.  If it is supported by LIRC then it will work just fine.  I 
happen to use a Streamzap USB IR device with my box and I use my 
one-for-all universal remote to control it.  There is a patch on 
sourceforge against LIRC for the streamzap that allows it to work.

Kevin
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Re: [mythtv-users] Jarod's HOWTO for FC3/PVR-350/X - Please Take Offline

[Mike Matsuzaki]

On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 07:26, Matt D. Robinson wrote:
> As I said before, I'm trying to help figure out what's broken.
> If it can be fixed, then I'm all for it (and I'm doing rebuilds
> now to try and see what happened).
> 
> I don't believe in "put up or shut up" -- if it's broken, someone
> should say something, and people (including me) should try and help
> fix it.  If open source and/or open project work revolved around
> "put up or shut up" perspectives, much less would get done and
> people would be afraid to give any feedback whatsoever.
> 
> Thanks for your enthusiastic response, however.  
> 
> --Matt
> 
> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Mike Matsuzaki wrote:
> |>Hey, I got an idea.
> |>
> |>Make your own Howto guide!
> |>
> |>Jarod's guide has been a life-saving resource for many of us.  If you
> |>have any better ideas where to start.  Put up or shut up.
> |>
> |>Mike

To put this to rest, I did not mean that constructive criticism or
advice is not welcomed.  All I'm saying is instead of complaining of
things that don't work, you should do some research first.  As you know,
tracking down and fixing problems require time.  I am not a developer
here, but I know all of the heroes here have real jobs that pay real
bills.  Updating HOWTO guides for every scenerio is probably low on
their priority list.

If something does not work right, you can browse the forums and mailing
lists, discuss the issues with the developers, heck you can even provide
some suggestions on how to make it work.  But saying to remove something
because it doesn't work for you is a little extreme.

When I said "put up or shut up"  I was referring to what you just
figured out.  HELP solve the problem.  Just complaining and suggesting
to remove an important resource for many does not help solve the
problem.  It would make matters worse.  

If Jarod didn't have thick skin, and a super hero cape, he could've
listened to you and where would we all be? I would be in deep poo-poo.

I am a happy mythtv user for 10 months.  I've been getting an itch to
try FC3.  But with the wife happily watching all the Smallville, CSI-*,
and Law and Order episodes until her heart's content, I DARE NOT try FC3
until later.  This is a perfect example of "If it ain't broken, don't
fix it."

Aloha
Mike Matsuzaki
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[mythtv-users] IrDa

[Tim Krueger]

Is there a way to use USB IrDa with MythTV?
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Re: [mythtv-users] Jarod's HOWTO for FC3

[David Rees]

Jarod Wilson wrote:
>
> I believe you mean /dev/video and /dev/lirc. The OS-provided udev
> rules will take care of creating /dev/videoX when needed, and the
> udev rules listed here...
>
> http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=317
>
> ...will take care of creating lirc devices.
>
>> 4. Finally, the instructions for making everything work
>> following a reboot (auto restart) didn't work for me and I ended up
>> putting everything in rc.local (modprobes, ln for /etc/video,
>> lircd, mtd, and mythbackend).
>
> Yes, that's mentioned at the top of the guide now in the latest news
> part. I'm working on it...

I believe the problem is a bit of a chicken and egg problem.  The
application (mythbackend wants /dev/video[0-9], lircd wants
/dev/lirc[0-9]). Previously when an application would access those
devices, the kernel would see (for example) /dev/lirc0 is mapped to major
61 minor 0, look in /etc/modprobe.conf for char-major-61 and load the
appropriate module.  But with udev the kernel doesn't know that those
applications are probing for those devices as those devices do not exist
until the module is loaded.

If you could get those devices to show up all the time, or manually load
the modules before any applications start, that would solve the clean
reboot problem.

Heh, now that I've thought about it, you can fix this by creating the
appropriate devices in /etc/udev/devices:

# cd /etc/udev.d/devices/
# mknod lirc0 c 61 0
# mknod video0 c 81 0

You may have to create additional devices if you have more than one ivtv
device or a PVR-350 depending on the order mythbackend probes things.

-Dave

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Re: [mythtv-users] No mysql.txt

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 08:49 pm, Asher Schaffer wrote:
> Very strange, just made a new system with the latest CVS as of Dec 29.
>  I have no mysql.txt file anywhere to be found.  There weren't any
> errors durring the make or make install.  There is just no mysql.txt
> anywhere on my system.  Anyone have an ideas, I'm just scratching my
> head right now.

It's been removed, as it's no longer necessary to distribute a copy.  Read the 
docs that came with your checkout for more information.

Isaac
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Re: [mythtv-users] Problems building my box - PVR 350.

[Amorya North]

On 29 Dec 2004, at 8:43 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you don't intend to use an X session on a VGA display for anything, 
I would just go for setting up the myth frontend on the PVR-350's 
television out port.
So it won't cause any problems that the first time I run X it'll be on 
the tvout? I won't need to test X out first?

Amorya
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Re: [mythtv-users] Multiple digest copies

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 04:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Am I the only person on the list hat gets multiple copies of the digest? I
> almost always get between 6 and 15 copies of each issue, then today,
> out of the blue I received Vol 21 issue 65. What's up with that? That
> issue was way back in October!
>
> Inquiring minds want to know...

People that receive multiple copies of list messages tend to have broken mail 
servers.

Isaac
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Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: PVR-350 performance question

[Rudy Zijlstra]

Drew Bernat wrote:
I just switched from a GF2MX to a PVR-350 for TV out. The quality is 
much higher, but I'm having trouble with choppiness in the playback. 
It's pretty good, but has a noticeable chop.

I'm running a 1600MHz Athlon, 256MB of memory, playing MPEG4 files. 
IVTV 0.3.2a, X with framebuffer module. Top shows ~40% CPU usage 
playing the files, and ~46% idle. Is there any way to speed up the use 
of the frame buffer?

Drew
Have you enabled PVR-350 output in setup?
Rudy
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[mythtv-users] No mysql.txt

[Asher Schaffer]

Very strange, just made a new system with the latest CVS as of Dec 29.
 I have no mysql.txt file anywhere to be found.  There weren't any
errors durring the make or make install.  There is just no mysql.txt
anywhere on my system.  Anyone have an ideas, I'm just scratching my
head right now.
Thanks,
Asher
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Re: [mythtv-users] New Australian XMLTV grabber

[Philip Nelson]

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On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:41, Phill Edwards wrote:
> The only way I can see of doing that is to scrape once and
> store it somewhere else for Aussie mythtv users to access. That would
> need someone to volunteer some web space and bandwidth.

I have a site with plenty of bandwidth, I'd be happy to do this. At the moment 
though, I only grab sydney fta data - if someone tells me the best way to 
grab australia-wide data (I guess run multiple grabbers for each 
area/source?), I'll host the xml.

Philip
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Re: [mythtv-users] Erratic seeking

[Rudy Zijlstra]

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 03:53:06PM +, Andy Marriott wrote:
 

I've recently updated my myth install and i've found that all the 
subsequent recordings don't seek properly. It seems seeking either 
forwards or backwards lands me in a seemingly random position. Old 
recordings don't seem to suffer from this so I can only assume something 
has broken in subsequent updates. I've run mythcommflag --rebuild --all 
but that doesn't seem to do anything.
   

You might try whacking the appropriate rows in recordedmarkup, then
rerunning mythcommflag.  This shouldn't work, but it did for me last
night.  I'm not entirely certain what constitute "the approriate rows";
I whacked everything for the program in question.
Cheers,
-- jra
 

And upgrade to latest cvs. This was solved some days ago. Was an error 
present for about 1 day..

Rudy
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[mythtv-users] Fwd: PVR-350 performance question

[Drew Bernat]

I just switched from a GF2MX to a PVR-350 for TV out. The quality is 
much higher, but I'm having trouble with choppiness in the playback. 
It's pretty good, but has a noticeable chop.

I'm running a 1600MHz Athlon, 256MB of memory, playing MPEG4 files. 
IVTV 0.3.2a, X with framebuffer module. Top shows ~40% CPU usage 
playing the files, and ~46% idle. Is there any way to speed up the use 
of the frame buffer?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Pvr-350 - Do the menus work on tvout

[John Van Ostrand]

I'm using the 0.3.2a driver from http://ivtv.no-ip.com.

I had to comment out the lines mentioned in 
http://poptix.net/ivtv/Dec-2004/msg00082.html

I'm using the firmware downloaded from the hauppauge web site (the inf
file for Windows contains this, use ivtv's ivtvfwextract.pl on the
file). A strings shows that the version of ivtv-fw-dec.bin is 2.02.023
and ivtv-fw-enc.bin is 2.05.032.

I also saw a hang when starting X. My system didn't hang but X did and
could not be killed.

The workaround I found is not pretty but I put this in the rc.local file
so it would run at startup:

modprobe ivtv-fb

# Change screen from green
ivtvctl -j reg=0x6c,val=0xfa -d /dev/video16
# Set video to NTSC
/usr/bin/ivtvctl -u 0x3000
# Set input to the tuner
/usr/bin/ivtvctl -p 4
# Set screen resolution
/usr/bin/ivtvctl -f width=720,height=480
sleep 3
/usr/bin/ivtvfbctl /dev/fb1 -alpha -on -globalalpha -nolocalalpha
dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 bs=64k count=100
sleep 3

/usr/bin/ivtvfbctl /dev/fb1 -globalalpha -nolocalalpha
# Reload firmware, this solves the double screen problem
/usr/bin/ivtvctl --reload
sleep 3

On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 19:59 -0500, Don Brett wrote:
> Ok, I tried doing the modprobe after starting X and the menus work.
> When I tried to modprobe ivtv-fb at boot (rc.local), it freezes the
> entire machine when I start X.  How do you load the drivers?  And, by
> the way, which driver and firmware are you using?  Thanks,
> Don
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Lirc not working with PVR-250

[John Johnson]

Thanks, that did the trick!
Regards,
  JJ
On 28-Dec-2004, at 05:20, sigurdne wrote:
= Original Message From d gleba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =
John Johnson wrote:
I'm running KnoppMyth R4V5, and can't get even a twitch from the
remote. I can see it is emitting IR using my camcorder. I can
occasionally get output by using 'hexdump /dev/lirc' and pressing
remote buttons repeatedly. Can't get irw to print anything, just sits
there. Ran lircmd, no response to the remote in X. I have the grey
Hauppauge! remote. The number buttons are at the bottom, as are the
colored buttons.
I didn't have to do anything with my R4V5 and pvr250 remote. It just 
worked.


Try the attachment at this link (worked for me)
http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=348
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[mythtv-users] Re: Pvr-350 - Do the menus work on tvout

[Don Brett]

Ok, I tried doing the modprobe after starting X and the menus work.
When I tried to modprobe ivtv-fb at boot (rc.local), it freezes the
entire machine when I start X.  How do you load the drivers?  And, by
the way, which driver and firmware are you using?  Thanks,
Don


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Re: [mythtv-users] yum Dependancy

[Frostykev]

I'll start over from scratch, again, right now apt-get upgrade doesn't work, so. . . 
 
Let me know if you run into the yum problem tonight, can't say that this problem isn't due to my newness to linux!
 
KevinJarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 16:10, Frostykev wrote:> So, it looks like only yum was uninstalled:>> # apt-get remove yum> Reading Package Lists... Done> Building Dependency Tree... Done> The following packages will be REMOVED:> yum> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 removed and 164 not> upgraded.> Need to get 0B of archives.> After unpacking 654kB disk space will be freed.> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y> Committing changes...> Preparing...> ### [100%]> Done.>> however, during the update:> # apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade> it removes:>> The following packages will be REMOVED:> atrpms-kickstart>> So here is where I am:> Yum uninstalled, sinc!
 e it
 errors out earlier.> apt-get no longer works.>> Should I just use fedora's update tool? Or try to> keep folllowing the guide? Or should I wait a little> while to see if the rpms get updated so they don't> have this dependancy problem?>> Or, did I miss something in the FC3 install?Remove yum, then apt-get update, then apt-get install apt, and I believe all should be well from there out. Not sure why the kickstart is getting removed without replacing it with apt, that's what the normal behavior is... I'm working on a bare-metal box of my own tonight, I'll see what I run into...-- Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE[EMAIL PROTECTED]Got a question? Read this first...http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.htmlMythTV, Fedora Core & ATrpms documentation:http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archivehttp://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/>
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Re: [mythtv-users] New Australian XMLTV grabber

[Phill Edwards]

> > 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?
> 
> 
> Its only DOSing at 3am every morning when 100 people run filldatabase,
> a time when no one really cares if it takes 36 mins. Not only is it
> rude, but things like this is what makes yahoo/ninemsn change there
> guide so we cant get information from it any more.
> 
> Some thing good I notices today is a xml feed from abc of the guide
> today.
> http://www.abc.net.au/syndication/tv_epg.xml
> 
> We should be using this instead of nine for abc at least.

I agree that as a community we should be doing whatever we can to
avoid disrupting Nine/Yahoo/etc's service. Hard to police that,
though. The only way I can see of doing that is to scrape once and
store it somewhere else for Aussie mythtv users to access. That would
need someone to volunteer some web space and bandwidth.

Thte ABC xml looks like it's only 1 day which isn't really enough -
you need to be able to see the schedule more than 1 day in advance.

The best solution in the long term is the OzTivo collaboration which
people are already working on, I believe.
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Re: [mythtv-users] [FC3 / PVR-350 Out Broken?]

[Michael Cheshire \(Mailing Lists\)]

I beleive I did have it working with atrpms kernel version 2.6.8-1.521 -
but you can't get this kernel is no longer on the atrpms site.

The kernel is not supplied from ATrpms. Its from Red >Hat. They've stopped
making old kernels available for download anymore.
I was refering to an atrpms kernel :)
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[mythtv-users] PVR-500 support (was: menu speed)

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 16:12, Paul Miller wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 December 2004 3:38 pm, Michael J. Lynch wrote:
> > Ummm...you know the PVR-500 is not yet supported right?
>
> Yup, yet.

Will be soon. There are a few ivtv developers and at least one lackey (me) 
that have PVR-500 cards now...

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Re: [mythtv-users] Jarod's HOWTO for FC3

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 14:19, Paul Leppert wrote:
> All, I'm new to mythtv (and brand new to this mailing list), but just
> went through an install with FC3 and Jarod's guide. ÂI only ran into a
> handful of problems:
> Â Â 1. My video folders were not set up with correct permissions (root
> versus mythtv)

Which video folders? Only the backend needs read/write for the recordings and 
buffer folders, and the backend runs as root, so no permissions changes are 
needed there.

> Â Â 2. My hauppauge remote needed a different /etc/.lirc file than the
> one that Jarod described (even though I had a new hauppauge pvr-250)

http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=348

> Â Â 3. The instructions seem to be missing a mknod for /etc/video and
> /etc/lirc (but that may have been user error following the
> instructions)

I believe you mean /dev/video and /dev/lirc. The OS-provided udev rules will 
take care of creating /dev/videoX when needed, and the udev rules listed 
here...

http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=317

...will take care of creating lirc devices.

> Â Â 4. Finally, the instructions for making everything work following
> a reboot (auto restart) didn't work for me and I ended up putting
> everything in rc.local (modprobes, ln for /etc/video, lircd, mtd, and
> mythbackend).

Yes, that's mentioned at the top of the guide now in the latest news part. I'm 
working on it...

> I found Jarod's guide to be invaluable in setting everything up
> (especially for a linux / mythtv newbie like me), so I don't
> understand the comments that people are unable to use Jarod's guide.

:-)

> I'd be happy to post the specifics of my changes from Jarod's guide
> (I'm trying to document everything so I can recreate my configuration
> since I'm just test-piloting this now).

Bring 'em on. A good place to put them is http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/.

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Re: [mythtv-users] yum Dependancy

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 16:10, Frostykev wrote:
> So, it looks like only yum was uninstalled:
>
> # apt-get remove yum
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   yum
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 removed and 164 not
> upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives.
> After unpacking 654kB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> Committing changes...
> Preparing...
> ### [100%]
> Done.
>
> however, during the update:
> # apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
> it removes:
>
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   atrpms-kickstart
>
> So here is where I am:
> Yum uninstalled, since it errors out earlier.
> apt-get no longer works.
>
> Should I just use fedora's update tool?  Or try to
> keep folllowing the guide?  Or should I wait a little
> while to see if the rpms get updated so they don't
> have this dependancy problem?
>
> Or, did I miss something in the FC3 install?

Remove yum, then apt-get update, then apt-get install apt, and I believe all 
should be well from there out. Not sure why the kickstart is getting removed 
without replacing it with apt, that's what the normal behavior is... I'm 
working on a bare-metal box of my own tonight, I'll see what I run into...

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Re: [mythtv-users] menu speed

[Paul Miller]

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 3:38 pm, Michael J. Lynch wrote:
> Ummm...you know the PVR-500 is not yet supported right?

Yup, yet.
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Re: [mythtv-users] yum Dependancy

[Frostykev]

So, it looks like only yum was uninstalled:

# apt-get remove yum
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  yum
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 removed and 164 not
upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 654kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Committing changes...
Preparing...   
### [100%]
Done.

however, during the update:
# apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
it removes:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  atrpms-kickstart

So here is where I am:
Yum uninstalled, since it errors out earlier.
apt-get no longer works.

Should I just use fedora's update tool?  Or try to
keep folllowing the guide?  Or should I wait a little
while to see if the rpms get updated so they don't
have this dependancy problem?

Or, did I miss something in the FC3 install?


--- Chris Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > 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?
> 
> Correct.  apt and yum provide the same
> functionality, albeit in slightly 
> different ways.  You only need one or the other.
> 
> > 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:
> 
> Did you happen to read what else got removed when
> you uninstalled yum? 
> Apt and yum share dependencies in atrpms, and maybe
> apt decided that it 
> needed to remove itself, too.
> 
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[mythtv-users] Re: Jarod's HOWTO for FC3/PVR-350/X - Please Take Offline

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 02:30:47PM -0600, Michael J. Lynch wrote:
> I for one am grateful for Jarods guide and think he did an
> outstanding job with it.  The only thing that would make it even
> better would be if there was a link on the site to a kickstart to
> use to install the whole works from the ground up.

> Then about all his instructions would need to say would be:
> 
>Download kickstart.
>Boot linux install aiming at kickstart floppy.
>Come back later when it's done.
> 
> Obviously it wouldn't be that easy, but pretty close.  :-)

This isn't too far fetched. In FC1 times there was an ATrpms enabled
DVD installer, so anaconda respins with MythTV on board wouldn't be
too hard, but a rather time intensive task.
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[mythtv-users] Getting a new motherboard...

[Carlos Fernandez Sanz]

Hi,
After spending a few days trying to make my Asus P4P800S (Intel 848P 
chipset) work with my PVR-350 I give up. The tuner just won't work. I'm 
sure someone more skilled than I would be able to make it happen but ...

Anyway, I installed a XP in that box just to make sure the hardware 
wasn't the problem. I wouldn't work either until I installed the 
motherboard chipset drivers - everything started to work. Since I don't 
know how to do the same thing in Linux, I have decided to replace the 
mobo with one that is more tested.

So the question is simple: If you were to buy a motherboard for mythtv 
(only use) to use with these cards:

PVR-350
DVB-S (Nesus)
I've searched the database but most people is using Shuttle's which are 
no good for me since I need plenty of PCI lots (plus I already have a 
nice HTPC case).

Athlon or P4 is no problem.
I'm sorry my frustration is evident in this email.
Thanks.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Multiple digest copies

[Gabe Rubin]

> out of the blue I received Vol 21 issue 65. What's up with that? That
> issue was way back in October!
> 
I also received this digest today to an email account I used to
subscribe to the digest with.  I thought that was a little bizarre as
this was the first digest I have receieved in months (since I
cancelled the digest subscription to that email addy).
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Re: [mythtv-users] Erratic seeking

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 03:53:06PM +, Andy Marriott wrote:
> I've recently updated my myth install and i've found that all the 
> subsequent recordings don't seek properly. It seems seeking either 
> forwards or backwards lands me in a seemingly random position. Old 
> recordings don't seem to suffer from this so I can only assume something 
> has broken in subsequent updates. I've run mythcommflag --rebuild --all 
> but that doesn't seem to do anything.

You might try whacking the appropriate rows in recordedmarkup, then
rerunning mythcommflag.  This shouldn't work, but it did for me last
night.  I'm not entirely certain what constitute "the approriate rows";
I whacked everything for the program in question.

Cheers,
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[mythtv-users] Running WinFast Leadtek PVR2000

[Tomas Roos]

Hello all. Just wanted to share a success story

I got the WinFast LeadTek PVR2000 to work with the latest CVS release
of MythTV. There is a bug causing mythbackend to crash in 0.16 for the
cx88xx chipsets.

Running Mandrake Official 10.1 Download edition with no special
drivers installed. It recognises the cards I have.

I had to set the HUE to zero or else the colors would be inverted more
or less. Now the picture is very good.

Does anyone know when the cx88xx chipsets and the mpeg2 encoding will
begin to work in MythTV and if the support is planned in any way? I
would be very interested in hardware mpeg2 encoding for this card.
Running MPEG4 right now on an AMD Athlon XP1600+ with 70-80% CPU use.
(Watching live TV on the backend)

My system (I am not using the SBLive):

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. A7V133/A7V133-C Mainboard
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 8
Memory at e400 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133
AGP] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: de00-df5f
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: df70-e3ff
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:04.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super
South] (rev 40)
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. A7V133/A7V133-C Mainboard
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:04.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
(prog-if 8a [M
aster SecP PriP])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
I/O ports at d800 [size=16]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:04.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 16) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
I/O ports at d400 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:04.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 16) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
I/O ports at d000 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:04.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. A7V133/A7V133-C Mainboard
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
Capabilities: [68] Power Management version 2

00:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX
[Cyclone] (rev 64)
Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C905B Fast Etherlink XL 10/100
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
I/O ports at a400 [size=128]
Memory at dd80 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
Expansion ROM at  [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1

00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
Subsystem: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:0b.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7892A U160/m (rev 02)
Subsystem: Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI Controller
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 3
BIST result: 00
I/O ports at 9800 [disabled] [size=256]
Memory at dd00 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Expansion ROM at  [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

00:0c.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Winfast TV2000 XP (rev 05)
Subsystem: LeadTek Research Inc.: Unknown device 663c
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
Memory at dc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2

00:0c.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant: Unknown device 8802 (rev 05)
Subsystem: LeadTek Research Inc.: Unknown device 663c
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
Memory at db00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2

00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
Subsystem: Creative Labs SBLive! Player 5.1
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latenc

[mythtv-users] atiixp alsa problems - playback skipping - spent two weeks on this - NEED YOUR HELP

[dave_mythtv]

Help please - have spent a couple of weeks on this - and the wife wants me to
get sky+ instead!..

I am trying to setup a mythtv installation in the lounge using a Shuttle
ST61G4 machine. (ATI RS300 + IXP150 chipset - Intel P4 3Gz)

Apart from trying and failing to get the fglrx driver working for the
 graphics card and using the vesa for now - it's the sound problem that is
 the show stopper.

mplayer playback skips around - giving xrun errors at the point of the
skipping (see below).  Using oss emulation gives bigger skips but no
messages.

Note also - the startup messages in the syslogs.

I have run out of things to try and would really welcome some guidance - even
if you don't know how to solve - if you have a suggestion of something to try
- please let me know.

I have tried the following:-

1.  Proved hardware is ok - working in Windoze XP
2.  Recompiled kernal and installed alsa 1.0.6/7 and the latest 1.08 - all 
the
same
3.  run mplayer with -nosound - and no skipping
4.  tried other players - like xine - same problems
5.  recompiled kernel for oss - but could not get support for the ixp 
hardware
6.  turned off apm in kernel - same
7.  played arround with many settings in bios for interupts etc - same
8.  tried switching off hyperthreading and apci in bios - same
9.  made deal with wife - if not running by next xmas - we'll get sky+ - !!
10. tried files local and nfs mounted - same
11. installed a different video card and switched off on board - same (but
 got drivers working ok on this card)
12. removed the pvr350 card - same

am considering trying a different package of linux (red hat?) is this worth
it?
am considering ebay-ing the machine and getting an nvidea based one!

am curious that other people are not appearing to have these problems - what
am I doing wrong?

Looking forward to anyones suggestions
Thanks
D

--- syslog

Dec 28 20:21:33 larry kernel:
ALSA
 /export/tmp/Downloads/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.7/kbuild/../pci/../alsa-kernel/pc
i/atiixp.c:458: atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 0)
Dec 28 20:21:33 larry kernel:
ALSA
 /export/tmp/Downloads/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.7/kbuild/../pci/../alsa-kernel/pc
i/atiixp.c:458: atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 1c)
Dec 28 20:21:33 larry kernel:
ALSA
 /export/tmp/Downloads/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.7/kbuild/../pci/../alsa-kernel/pc
i/atiixp.c:458: atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 0)
Dec 28 20:21:33 larry kernel:
ALSA
 /export/tmp/Downloads/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.7/kbuild/../pci/../alsa-kernel/pc
i/atiixp.c:458: atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 1c)

-snip (repeats)

Dec 28 20:21:34 larry kernel:
ALSA
 /export/tmp/Downloads/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.7/kbuild/../pci/../alsa-kernel/pc
i/atiixp.c:458: atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 3c)
Dec 28 20:21:34 larry kernel:
ALSA
 /export/tmp/Downloads/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.7/kbuild/../pci/../alsa-kernel/pc
i/atiixp.c:458: atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 1c)
Dec 28 20:21:34 larry kernel:
ALSA
 /export/tmp/Downloads/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.7/kbuild/../pci/ac97/../../alsa-k
ernel/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:1964: AC'97 1 does not respond - RESET
Dec 28 20:21:34 larry kernel:
ALSA
 /export/tmp/Downloads/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.7/kbuild/../pci/ac97/../../alsa-k
ernel/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:1972: AC'97 1 access is not valid [0x],
 removing mixer.
Dec 28 20:21:34 larry kernel:
ALSA
 /export/tmp/Downloads/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.7/kbuild/../pci/../alsa-kernel/pc
i/atiixp.c:458: atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 0)
Dec 28 20:21:34 larry kernel:
ALSA
 /export/tmp/Downloads/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.7/kbuild/../pci/../alsa-kernel/pc
i/atiixp.c:458: atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 1c)
Dec 28 20:21:34 larry kernel:
ALSA
 /export/tmp/Downloads/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.7/kbuild/../pci/../alsa-kernel/pc
i/atiixp.c:458: atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 0)


-snip (repeats)

Dec 28 20:21:35 larry kernel:
ALSA
 /export/tmp/Downloads/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.7/kbuild/../pci/../alsa-kernel/pc
i/atiixp.c:458: atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 1c)
Dec 28 20:21:35 larry kernel:
ALSA
 /export/tmp/Downloads/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.7/kbuild/../pci/ac97/../../alsa-k
ernel/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:1964: AC'97 2 does not respond - RESET
Dec 28 20:21:35 larry kernel:
ALSA
 /export/tmp/Downloads/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.7/kbuild/../pci/ac97/../../alsa-k
ernel/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:1972: AC'97 2 access is not valid [0x],
 removing mixer.
Dec 28 20:21:35 larry alsa:  succeeded


--- lscp -v

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5833 (rev 02)
Subsystem: Holco Enterprise Co, Ltd/Shuttle Computer: Unknown device 
f361
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64
Memory at e800 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
Memory at ee003000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 3.0

00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5838 (prog-if 00
[Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64
 

[mythtv-users] watching TV on wireless frontend flickers badly

[wizzleteet]

Hi all,
OK, I know it is a strech, but bandwith-wise this ought to work:
An old old toshiba satellite 300CDT (P166 MMX) laptop
kernel 2.6
debian unstable
54mBs WiFi
mythfrontend
watching Tv or watching recorded programs gives me lots of green
flickers inbetween frames.
It looks like the bandwith needed is too much for this old beast, but
this machine is able to play movies of certain dimensions from a NFS
mount of the same server. I tweaked the live TV dimensions to be ca
240x240, but this seems to make no distinguishable difference, which
leads me to believe I need to look elsewhere.
Anywho, any pointers on how I might be able to improve my myth
experience on this old beast ?
kind regards,
wzzl
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Re: [mythtv-users] Multiple digest copies

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Am I the only person on the list hat gets multiple copies of the digest? I
> almost always get between 6 and 15 copies of each issue, then today,
> out of the blue I received Vol 21 issue 65. What's up with that? That
> issue was way back in October!

Check the exact headers. Perhaps there is a multiplier SMTP server among
the persons subscribed to the mailinglist. (Seen something like that
before on other lists.)

Hugo.

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Re: [mythtv-users] OT: out of disk space, but not really....

[Yan-Fa Li]

Even simpler.  Create a known file on the ntfs side and check for it. 
An unmounted file system should be an empty directory.  If the file is
there you much have successfully mounted the fs.

if [ -f /mnt/ntfs/ntfs.mounted ] ; then
do you stuff here
else
echo "Error: NTFS File System not mounted.  Aborting." >2
fi
Not sure about the above script as I did it from memory.
Yan
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Re: [mythtv-users] Jarod's HOWTO for FC3

[Paul Leppert]

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:37:14 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (snipped):
> Someone, I don't know if it was you, Matt, stated that the guide should be 
> taken offline. I
> don't believe that the author of that remark intended it to be taken the way 
> it was by the
> "communuity:" It ruffled a lot of feathers for no good reason. I'm sure that 
> it was made in
> the frustration of the moment, but suggesting that the guide should be taken 
> offline is
> WAY over the top. (on the part of whoever said it) In fact the "put up or 
> shut up" remark
> was a knee-jerk as well. I'm sure the author of that remark didn't intend it 
> the way it
> sounded either.
> 
> I wish Jarod and Axel could devote a day or two to focus all of their 
> attention on the
> guide and the RPM's. For that matter I'd bet that Isaac would welcome a WHOLE 
> DAY,
> but that ain't going to happen unless someone were to send them each a couple 
> of
> hundred bucks, along with all the goofy hardware that we try to make it run 
> on, so that
> they can take a day off of work to play with MythTV.
> 
> Meanwhile, we have one heck of a good starting point in the form of Jarod's 
> guide,
> which is now in it's 3rd generation and almost works.
> 

All, I'm new to mythtv (and brand new to this mailing list), but just
went through an install with FC3 and Jarod's guide.  I only ran into a
handful of problems:
1. My video folders were not set up with correct permissions (root
versus mythtv)
2. My hauppauge remote needed a different /etc/.lirc file than the
one that Jarod described (even though I had a new hauppauge pvr-250)
3. The instructions seem to be missing a mknod for /etc/video and
/etc/lirc (but that may have been user error following the
instructions)
4. Finally, the instructions for making everything work following
a reboot (auto restart) didn't work for me and I ended up putting
everything in rc.local (modprobes, ln for /etc/video, lircd, mtd, and
mythbackend).

I found Jarod's guide to be invaluable in setting everything up
(especially for a linux / mythtv newbie like me), so I don't
understand the comments that people are unable to use Jarod's guide.

I'd be happy to post the specifics of my changes from Jarod's guide
(I'm trying to document everything so I can recreate my configuration
since I'm just test-piloting this now).

phlepper
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RE: [mythtv-users] Re: Pvr-350 - Do the menus work on tvout

[John Harvey]

I don't have anything in modules.conf.

When playing tv back myth writes to the ivtv frame buffer directly to draw
the menus and OSD (except for the programme guide which is drawn by X).
You should be able to manually load the frame buffer support with

modprobe ivtv-fb

Then you should be able to get the menus and OSD to work. If however the
rest of the OSD is displayed (pause/play position stuff and channel change
information) then the problem is likely to be something different.

John

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don Brett
> Sent: 29 December 2004 21:20
> To: MythTv
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: Pvr-350 - Do the menus work on tvout
> 
> Thanks for the replies.
> 
> John at Netdirect -  I was talking about the "Use PVR250/350 output" in
> Mythfrontend's setup, so I'll look at you instructions a bit later.  I
> was following that thread earlier until I realized it was FC related.
> It seems that every time I attempt to apply FC instructions to
> Slackware, I get lost (but maybe the X parts still apply).
> 
> John.P.Harvey at BtInternet - Which driver and firmware are you using?
> Also, could you post the ivtv and lircd portions of your modules.conf?
> 
> Thanks,
> Don
> 
> distro - Slackware 9.1
> Kernel - 2.4.27
> driver - ivtv-0.2.0-rc3a
> firmware - pvr_1.18.21.22168_inf.zip
> 
> modules.conf:
> alias char-major-81 videodev
> alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
> 
> 


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Re: [mythtv-users] New Australian XMLTV grabber

[Ben de Luca]

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?

Its only DOSing at 3am every morning when 100 people run filldatabase, 
a time when no one really cares if it takes 36 mins. Not only is it 
rude, but things like this is what makes yahoo/ninemsn change there 
guide so we cant get information from it any more.

Some thing good I notices today is a xml feed from abc of the guide 
today.
http://www.abc.net.au/syndication/tv_epg.xml

We should be using this instead of nine for abc at least.



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Re: [mythtv-users] Jarod's HOWTO for FC3

[Matt D. Robinson]

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|>Someone, I don't know if it was you, Matt, stated that the guide should be 
taken offline.

It was me.  My E-mail _should_ have instead asked that there be a
disclaimer, warning, something in the HOWTO instead of being taken
off-line.  When I upgraded from a working FC2 configuration to FC3 and
everything broke, I was very, very surprised.  At the time, being taken
off-line was my first thought and I ran with it.  ** My apologies to
who were offended at the off-line suggestion. **

Jarod has updated his HOWTO to indicate there is a problem.  That's really
the best thing until someone (myself or others) figures out what's up.

I've E-mailed Axel and Jarod privately to discuss some of these issues,
what I'm testing, and I'll post as soon as I know more.

Thanks,

|>Marvin

--Matt
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Re: [mythtv-users] menu speed

[Kevin Kuphal]

Paul Miller wrote:
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 2:43 pm, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
 

The graphics card is very important. You haven't mentioned what
kind of hardware you're using other than the relatively slow
P2-450.  Please post your specs, driver versions, etc. related to
your video hardware.
   

I don't see how the graphics adaptor makes a significant difference 
when I'm only navigating the menus -- not watching tv or a dvd.

The computer I'm testing mythtv on is a p2-450 (386 MB) with a nVidia 
RIVA TNT2 (32 MB) graphics adaptor.  I'm running XFree86 4.3.0 from 
Debian's current sid distribution with the nv driver.  This box acts 
as a small server and I never intended on using it with mythtv.  I'm 
just using it to test mythtv while I'm home for the holidays.

In a week or so, I'm switching to another computer.  It's a p3-800 
(512 MB) with an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro AIW (128 MB) and I'll probably 
use ATI's binary driver with the same version of XFree86.  I have a 
PVR-500 on order and I'm hoping to use a DVI->HDMI cable to connect 
to my HDTV.
 

That does seem like "lightweight" hardware for running this kind of 
system, but that being said I have a P3-450 + GeForce 4 MX440 that I use 
as a frontend that has none of the performance problems you're seeing so 
I'm suspecting that you are running fairly unoptimtized.  The graphics 
card certainly matters even for the menus.

If you start mythfrontend from a console window with --verbose all 
enabled, what kind of messages do you see?  Have you done xvinfo?  What 
output does that show?

Kevin
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Re: [mythtv-users] Jarod's HOWTO for FC3/PVR-350/X - Please Take Offline

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Michael J. Lynch wrote:
Here's my two cents worth.  As far as I'm concerned, Jarods guide is 
the bible
when it comes to installing and getting myth up and running.  I 
researched linux
PVR stuff for about a week before I found myth and Jarods guide.  I 
read the
guide over a couple of times and took the plunge.

I'm not a linux newbie but I'm not an expert either.  Using Jarod's 
guide, I was
able to install FC1 (it was a while back) and myth, configure 
everything and
have it all working in a period of maybe 6 hours.  I've used his guide 
for FC2
installs and have done it enough times now that I can install FC, myth,
configure and have a running system in about 3 hours.

I for one am grateful for Jarods guide and think he did an outstanding 
job with
it.  The only thing that would make it even better would be if there 
was a link
on the site to a kickstart to use to install the whole works from the 
ground up.
Then about all his instructions would need to say would be:

   Download kickstart.
   Boot linux install aiming at kickstart floppy.
   Come back later when it's done.
Obviously it wouldn't be that easy, but pretty close.  :-)
Jack Trout wrote:
Well helping to fix the problem is great, but shutting it down doesnt
help, Maybe Jarod hasnt had time to update it I mean he only has a
life away from mythtv, including a job, and a holiday season, but I am
sure any positive input to how to fix it might be useful, but if he
takes it down he might not get the info needed to finish the support.
We are all very lucky that jarod was nice enough to even write
anything down for people less linux or even technically inclined have
something to guide them. How many people are good at writing step by
step documentation especially in the higher ups in unix/linux. Someone
with decent technical documentation skills is hard to come by and
seeing he is giving up his time and effort for free (although he does
accept donations). I consider myself on the lower middle of linux tech
skill and google searching, but I was able to build my first myth box
barely functional after about 4-5 days of solid work and even then It
wasnt 100% functional. and with jarods guide and about 4 hours my
first time I had a fully functioning and recording box.
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 09:26:38 -0800 (PST), Matt D. Robinson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

As I said before, I'm trying to help figure out what's broken.
If it can be fixed, then I'm all for it (and I'm doing rebuilds
now to try and see what happened).
I don't believe in "put up or shut up" -- if it's broken, someone
should say something, and people (including me) should try and help
fix it.  If open source and/or open project work revolved around
"put up or shut up" perspectives, much less would get done and
people would be afraid to give any feedback whatsoever.
Thanks for your enthusiastic response, however.
--Matt
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Mike Matsuzaki wrote:
|>Hey, I got an idea.
|>
|>Make your own Howto guide!
|>
|>Jarod's guide has been a life-saving resource for many of us.  If you
|>have any better ideas where to start.  Put up or shut up.
|>
|>Mike
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I haven't tried it yet, but this is supposed to come close to what you 
are looking for...
http://g-ding.tv/?q=node/6

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[mythtv-users] Multiple digest copies

[match]

Hey, 

Am I the only person on the list hat gets multiple copies of the digest? I 
almost always get between 6 and 15 copies of each issue, then today, 
out of the blue I received Vol 21 issue 65. What's up with that? That 
issue was way back in October!

Inquiring minds want to know...

Marvin
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Re: [mythtv-users] menu speed

[Michael J. Lynch]

Ummm...you know the PVR-500 is not yet supported right?
Paul Miller wrote:
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 2:43 pm, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
 

The graphics card is very important. You haven't mentioned what
kind of hardware you're using other than the relatively slow
P2-450.  Please post your specs, driver versions, etc. related to
your video hardware.
   

I don't see how the graphics adaptor makes a significant difference 
when I'm only navigating the menus -- not watching tv or a dvd.

The computer I'm testing mythtv on is a p2-450 (386 MB) with a nVidia 
RIVA TNT2 (32 MB) graphics adaptor.  I'm running XFree86 4.3.0 from 
Debian's current sid distribution with the nv driver.  This box acts 
as a small server and I never intended on using it with mythtv.  I'm 
just using it to test mythtv while I'm home for the holidays.

In a week or so, I'm switching to another computer.  It's a p3-800 
(512 MB) with an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro AIW (128 MB) and I'll probably 
use ATI's binary driver with the same version of XFree86.  I have a 
PVR-500 on order and I'm hoping to use a DVI->HDMI cable to connect 
to my HDTV.

-Paul
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Re: [mythtv-users] Jarod's HOWTO for FC3

[match]

On 29 Dec 2004 at 9:26, Matt D. Robinson wrote:

> As I said before, I'm trying to help figure out what's broken.

Good, Jarod and Axel welcome feedback. They'll converse with you directly if 
you want, 
just realize that they have a life outside of MythTV, so they might not answer 
immediately. Allow them a day or two to respond.

> If it can be fixed, then I'm all for it (and I'm doing rebuilds
> now to try and see what happened).

Also good. We are a community. I'm anxious to see what you learn. I wish that I 
were 
able to devote more time to getting MythTV to run on FC3.
 
> I don't believe in "put up or shut up" -- if it's broken, someone
> should say something, and people (including me) should try and help
> fix it.  

Yes, clearly the writeup in Jarod's guide worked for him, and just as clearly 
some of us 
are running into snags. It's broken for me, but not for Jarod. That's OK, 
report your 
findings here and we'll all take a stab at it. Even KnoppMyth won't work for 
me... such is 
life... and this is the exact same hardware that ran MythTV on FC1 for months 
with nary 
a whimper, so go figure. Hmmm... Come to think of it even getting it to run on 
FC1 
using Jarod's guide was not a slam-dunk the first time around. 

but...

Someone, I don't know if it was you, Matt, stated that the guide should be 
taken offline. I 
don't believe that the author of that remark intended it to be taken the way it 
was by the 
"communuity:" It ruffled a lot of feathers for no good reason. I'm sure that it 
was made in 
the frustration of the moment, but suggesting that the guide should be taken 
offline is 
WAY over the top. (on the part of whoever said it) In fact the "put up or shut 
up" remark 
was a knee-jerk as well. I'm sure the author of that remark didn't intend it 
the way it 
sounded either.

I wish Jarod and Axel could devote a day or two to focus all of their attention 
on the 
guide and the RPM's. For that matter I'd bet that Isaac would welcome a WHOLE 
DAY, 
but that ain't going to happen unless someone were to send them each a couple 
of 
hundred bucks, along with all the goofy hardware that we try to make it run on, 
so that 
they can take a day off of work to play with MythTV.

Meanwhile, we have one heck of a good starting point in the form of Jarod's 
guide, 
which is now in it's 3rd generation and almost works.

Marvin


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[mythtv-users] Will Hauppauge Support Me

[Dan Robinson]

I think one of my Nova-T PCI cards just bit the dust.  I have two of
these cards and one has stopped loading the firmware on start-up. 
Does anyone know if Hauppauge will accept the card if I tell them it
isn't working on Linux, or do they generally need Windows error proof?
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Re: [mythtv-users] menu speed

[Paul Miller]

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 2:43 pm, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> The graphics card is very important. You haven't mentioned what
> kind of hardware you're using other than the relatively slow
> P2-450.  Please post your specs, driver versions, etc. related to
> your video hardware.

I don't see how the graphics adaptor makes a significant difference 
when I'm only navigating the menus -- not watching tv or a dvd.

The computer I'm testing mythtv on is a p2-450 (386 MB) with a nVidia 
RIVA TNT2 (32 MB) graphics adaptor.  I'm running XFree86 4.3.0 from 
Debian's current sid distribution with the nv driver.  This box acts 
as a small server and I never intended on using it with mythtv.  I'm 
just using it to test mythtv while I'm home for the holidays.

In a week or so, I'm switching to another computer.  It's a p3-800 
(512 MB) with an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro AIW (128 MB) and I'll probably 
use ATI's binary driver with the same version of XFree86.  I have a 
PVR-500 on order and I'm hoping to use a DVI->HDMI cable to connect 
to my HDTV.

-Paul
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[mythtv-users] Re: Pvr-350 - Do the menus work on tvout

[Don Brett]

Thanks for the replies.

John at Netdirect -  I was talking about the "Use PVR250/350 output" in
Mythfrontend's setup, so I'll look at you instructions a bit later.  I
was following that thread earlier until I realized it was FC related.
It seems that every time I attempt to apply FC instructions to
Slackware, I get lost (but maybe the X parts still apply).

John.P.Harvey at BtInternet - Which driver and firmware are you using?
Also, could you post the ivtv and lircd portions of your modules.conf?

Thanks,
Don

distro - Slackware 9.1
Kernel - 2.4.27
driver - ivtv-0.2.0-rc3a
firmware - pvr_1.18.21.22168_inf.zip

modules.conf:
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv



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Re: [mythtv-users] menu speed

[Paul Miller]

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 12:26 pm, James Armstrong wrote:
> Do you know if you have any channel icons assigned in the database?
> I had this problem and it was because the icon files were missing
> and it took 4 attempts and a few seconds for myth to give up when
> trying to load the images.

I just created a new database and there are no channel icons.  I 
checked the channel database using mysqlcc.  All 222 channels have 
the icon set to None.

-Paul
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[mythtv-users] Newbie: FC3 - MythFrontEnd error message - backend server not started ????

[Clive at Rational]

Questions, questions.

Setup: FC3, kernel 2.6.9 Myth 0.16 installed using the
"automatic apt-get method". Frontned backend and
database all installed on single machine.

Maybe the following is relevant to all the problems I
see trying to configure and run Myth Tv - maybe not.

When I run Mythfrontend then select "Watch TV" I see
the message

2004-12-29 20:35:21 Connecting to backend server:
127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5)
Connection timed out.

I haven't changed any of the network port parameters
and should expect this loop-back port to be available
if myth backend has attempted to open it. Copy of
netstat command is at end of myth messages.

Now in the myth setup instructions I didn't see
anything that tells me how to start the backend
server. Greatest apologies if it is there - can you
point me to it?

The full messages from running mythfrontend are below
*
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mythfrontend
2004-12-29 20:35:00 mythfrontend version:
0.16.20040906-1 www.mythtv.org
2004-12-29 20:35:00 Enabled verbose msgs : important
general
DisplaRes::switch_res: desired resolution not
available
2004-12-29 20:35:00 switchToGUI: xrandr failed for 0 x
0
2004-12-29 20:35:00 Registering Internal as a media
playback plugin.
2004-12-29 20:35:00 Registering MythDVD DVD Media
Handler as a media handler
2004-12-29 20:35:00 Registering MythDVD VCD Media
Handler as a media handler
mythtv: could not connect to socket
mythtv: No such file or directory
lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
2004-12-29 20:35:00 Registering MythMusic Media
Handler as a media handler
SIP listening on IP Address 192.168.0.9:5060 NAT
address 192.168.0.9
SIP: Cannot register; proxy, username or password not
set
2004-12-29 20:35:21 Connecting to backend server:
127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5)
Connection timed out.
You probably should modify the Master Server settings
in the setup program and set the proper IP address.
2004-12-29 20:35:21 Changing from None to None
2004-12-29 20:35:40 Connecting to backend server:
127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5)
Connection timed out.
You probably should modify the Master Server settings
in the setup program and set the proper IP address.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#

*
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# netstat -a
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address  
Foreign Address State
tcp0  0 *:32769 *:*   
 LISTEN
tcp0  0 *:mysql *:*   
 LISTEN
tcp0  0 *:sunrpc*:*   
 LISTEN
tcp0  0 localhost.localdomain:ipp   *:*   
 LISTEN
tcp0  0 localhost.localdomain:5335  *:*   
 LISTEN
tcp0  0 localhost.localdomain:smtp  *:*   
 LISTEN
tcp0  0 192.168.0.9:32850  
66.102.11.99:http   ESTABLISHED
tcp0  0 192.168.0.9:32847  
66.102.11.99:http   ESTABLISHED
tcp0  0 192.168.0.9:32842  
66.102.11.99:http   ESTABLISHED
tcp0  0 *:ssh   *:*   
 LISTEN
udp0  0 *:32768 *:*
udp0  0 *:782   *:*
udp0  0 *:bootpc*:*
udp0  0 *:bootpc*:*
udp0  0 *:5353  *:*
udp0  0 *:5353  *:*
udp0  0 *:sunrpc*:*
udp0  0 *:ipp   *:*
udp0  0 192.168.0.5:ntp *:*
udp0  0 192.168.0.9:ntp *:*
udp0  0 localhost.localdoma:ntp *:*
udp0  0 *:ntp   *:*
udp0  0 *:ntp   *:*

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[mythtv-users] Newbie: FC3 - mythfilldatabase is looping

[Clive at Rational]

Oops!

Don't know how I got here - trying to run
mythfilldatabase.

The following output repeats until I kill it with
Control-C

It's all a mess at the moment.

Tech details:

FC3 kernel 2.6.9.x
Card:Conexant TV2000 Win somethin (hardware detects as
cx8800)

Looping messages appear below

Any ideas why this happening?

***

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mythtvsetup
DisplaRes::switch_res: desired resolution not
available
2004-12-29 20:18:55 switchToGUI: xrandr failed for 0 x
0
Would you like to clear all capture card
settings before starting configuration? [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
If this is the master backend server:
Now, please run 'mythfilldatabase' to populate the
database
with channel information.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mythfilldatabase
2004-12-29 20:26:20 mythfilldatabase: Listings
Download Started
Refreshing Tomorrow's data
- Start of XMLTV output
-
All data is the copyright of the Radio Times website
 and the use of this data
is restricted to
personal use only.

finding channels:   0% [  
]RT id 1872 (Challenge +1) not
known in channel ids file
RT id 1873 (Living TV 2) not known in channel ids file
finding channels: 100%
[===]channel
plus.granadatv.co.uk (177) not seen on site at
/usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line 196.
channel ftv.com (583) not seen on site at
/usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line 196.
channel n2.rte.ie (46) not seen on site at
/usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line 196.
channel auction-world.tv (1762) not seen on site at
/usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line 196.
grabbing:   0% [  
   
]http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/92.dat: Malformed
UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x87,
with no preceding start byte) in transliteration
(tr///) at /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line 377.
http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/92.dat: Malformed
UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte
0x73, immediately after start byte 0xc6) in
transliteration (tr///) at /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line
377.
http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/92.dat: Malformed
UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte
0x73, immediately after start byte 0xc6) in
transliteration (tr///) at /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line
377.
http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/92.dat: Malformed
UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte
0x73, immediately after start byte 0xc6) in
transliteration (tr///) at /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line
377.
desc element: Wide character in print at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/IO/Handle.pm
line 399.
desc element: Wide character in print at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/IO/Handle.pm
line 399.
desc element: Wide character in print at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/IO/Handle.pm
line 399.
desc element: Wide character in print at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/IO/Handle.pm
line 399.
http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/92.dat: Malformed
UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte
0x73, immediately after start byte 0xc6) in
substitution (s///) at /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line
385.
http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/92.dat: Malformed
UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x87,
with no preceding start byte) in transliteration
(tr///) at /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line 410.
http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/92.dat: Malformed
UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte
0x73, immediately after start byte 0xc6) in
transliteration (tr///) at /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line
410.
credits element: Wide character in print at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/IO/Handle.pm
line 399.
desc element: Wide character in print at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/IO/Handle.pm
line 399.
desc element: Wide character in print at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/IO/Handle.pm
line 399.
http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/92.dat: Malformed
UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte
0x73, immediately after start byte 0xc6) in
transliteration (tr///) at /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line
410.
http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/92.dat: Malformed
UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte
0x73, immediately after start byte 0xc6) in
transliteration (tr///) at /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line
410.
grabbing: 100%
[===]--
End of XMLTV output --
Query was:
SELECT channum FROM channel WHERE chanid = 1001;
No error type from QSqlError?  Strange...
Updating icons for sourceid: 1
Unknown xmltv channel identifier:
south-east.bbc1.bbc.co.uk
Skipping channel.
Fetching data for Wed Dec 29 2004
- Start of XMLTV output
-
All data is the copyrig

Re: [mythtv-users] X through PVR350 probs

[sschaefer1]

I will need to sit down and walk through those steps, and update the document 
since this/that part is the only thing I haven't completed. I'm pretty busy 
right now so I don't know when I will get to it. I'll post the results when I 
get the chance to work on it.

If you figure it out in the meantime, do the same, and post the details. 
Revisiting it isn't going to be easy for me. Because of my setup, I simply made 
sure I could do it, then went back to using the frontend on the VGA display and 
watching the playbacks on the TV... since I haven't got my infrared 
distribution setup yet, I can't control the frontend from where the televisions 
are at (the computer is in a back room).

John mentioned a possible patch that would set the X server from locking up a 
virtual console. That'd be great to work with if he is able to find it.

- Original Message -
From: Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 4:59 pm
Subject: 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).
> 

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Re: [mythtv-users] Problems building my box - PVR 350.

[sschaefer1]

If you don't intend to use an X session on a VGA display for anything, I would 
just go for setting up the myth frontend on the PVR-350's television out port.

- Original Message -
From: Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 7:56 am
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Problems building my box - PVR 350.

> On Tuesday 28 December 2004 12:19, Amorya North wrote:
> > 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
> 
> 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.
> 
> HTH
> derek
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Re: [mythtv-users] menu speed

[Kevin Kuphal]

Paul Miller wrote:
I just tried mythtv with no window manager and I did notice a slight 
improvement, but it is still quite a bit slower than I'd like...

Going through the program guide is very slow.
Launching the weather plugin takes about 20 seconds and another 10 
seconds for retrieving the weather data.

How much does the graphics card effect performance for menu-only 
functions (no tv, dvd, etc.)?   The menus display quickly, but take 
awhile to switch to another menu.

 

The graphics card is very important. You haven't mentioned what kind of 
hardware you're using other than the relatively slow P2-450.  Please 
post your specs, driver versions, etc. related to your video hardware.

Kevin
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Re: [mythtv-users] Jarod's HOWTO for FC3/PVR-350/X - Please Take Offline

[Michael J. Lynch]

Here's my two cents worth.  As far as I'm concerned, Jarods guide is the 
bible
when it comes to installing and getting myth up and running.  I 
researched linux
PVR stuff for about a week before I found myth and Jarods guide.  I read the
guide over a couple of times and took the plunge.

I'm not a linux newbie but I'm not an expert either.  Using Jarod's 
guide, I was
able to install FC1 (it was a while back) and myth, configure everything and
have it all working in a period of maybe 6 hours.  I've used his guide 
for FC2
installs and have done it enough times now that I can install FC, myth,
configure and have a running system in about 3 hours.

I for one am grateful for Jarods guide and think he did an outstanding 
job with
it.  The only thing that would make it even better would be if there was 
a link
on the site to a kickstart to use to install the whole works from the 
ground up.
Then about all his instructions would need to say would be:

   Download kickstart.
   Boot linux install aiming at kickstart floppy.
   Come back later when it's done.
Obviously it wouldn't be that easy, but pretty close.  :-)
Jack Trout wrote:
Well helping to fix the problem is great, but shutting it down doesnt
help, Maybe Jarod hasnt had time to update it I mean he only has a
life away from mythtv, including a job, and a holiday season, but I am
sure any positive input to how to fix it might be useful, but if he
takes it down he might not get the info needed to finish the support.
We are all very lucky that jarod was nice enough to even write
anything down for people less linux or even technically inclined have
something to guide them. How many people are good at writing step by
step documentation especially in the higher ups in unix/linux. Someone
with decent technical documentation skills is hard to come by and
seeing he is giving up his time and effort for free (although he does
accept donations). I consider myself on the lower middle of linux tech
skill and google searching, but I was able to build my first myth box
barely functional after about 4-5 days of solid work and even then It
wasnt 100% functional. and with jarods guide and about 4 hours my
first time I had a fully functioning and recording box.
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 09:26:38 -0800 (PST), Matt D. Robinson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

As I said before, I'm trying to help figure out what's broken.
If it can be fixed, then I'm all for it (and I'm doing rebuilds
now to try and see what happened).
I don't believe in "put up or shut up" -- if it's broken, someone
should say something, and people (including me) should try and help
fix it.  If open source and/or open project work revolved around
"put up or shut up" perspectives, much less would get done and
people would be afraid to give any feedback whatsoever.
Thanks for your enthusiastic response, however.
--Matt
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Mike Matsuzaki wrote:
|>Hey, I got an idea.
|>
|>Make your own Howto guide!
|>
|>Jarod's guide has been a life-saving resource for many of us.  If you
|>have any better ideas where to start.  Put up or shut up.
|>
|>Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] menu speed

[Paul Miller]

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 8:32 am, Bruce Smith wrote:
> Also, if you're running an nvidia card with twinview, the secondary
> video output is unaccellerated.  I got rid of twinview and my menus
> speeded up a LOT.  FWIW...

Even switching between menus?  Mine draw quickly, but are slow to 
respond when I switch to another menu by pressing enter on the icon.

-Paul
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Re: [mythtv-users] menu speed

[Paul Miller]

I just tried mythtv with no window manager and I did notice a slight 
improvement, but it is still quite a bit slower than I'd like...

Going through the program guide is very slow.

Launching the weather plugin takes about 20 seconds and another 10 
seconds for retrieving the weather data.

How much does the graphics card effect performance for menu-only 
functions (no tv, dvd, etc.)?   The menus display quickly, but take 
awhile to switch to another menu.

-Paul

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:05 am, Tom Dombrosky wrote:
> You might want to try a lighter window manager.  I use fluxbox on
> my Myth frontend and it works great.  It doesn't have a lot of the
> bloat that kde has.  It might help you if kde is using up all your
> memory.
>
> Tom
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Re: [mythtv-users] Hard lockups when viewing Live TV or recorded TV PVR-250 ATI Radeon 7000.

[John Johnson]

After trying an ATI Radeon 9250, gatos drivers, ATI's own drivers, etc. 
I finally solved the problem: I returned both cards and bought an 
nVidia based card.  This one: 
http://evga.com/products/moreinfo.asp?Part_Number=064-A8-NV93-LX
It was also cheaper and had rebates.

Unfortunately all the time I wasted on the ATI cards is gone.
Regards,
  JJ
On 28-Dec-2004, at 11:57, John Johnson wrote:
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  [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  [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

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[mythtv-users] Re: Newbie: FC3 - MythTVsetup GUI issue.

[Clive at Rational]

> On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 14:37, Clive at Rational
> wrote:
> >  --- Mike Choy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> > > Clive 
> > > you can change the size of the Gui in the setup
> > > menu.
> > > 
> > > Mike Choy
> > > 
> > 
> > Mike 
> > 
> >Can you be a bit more explicit? Which option?
> > 
> >I have just run through the mythtvsetup panels
> and
> > can't find an option you refer to.
> > 
> > Clive
> > ___

> I believe the setting are in the
> settings/setup/appearance menu option
> with in mythfrontend.
> 
> Bryan
> 
Thanks Bryan
 
Aha Mythfrontend - of course a different set of setup
menus :)

I tried various settings of gui and screen,
particularly 640x 480 which managed to change the
display resolution - so I was changing something
relevant, however, whatever values I put in, the
buttons are either fully visible, 30% visible, 0%
visible (although "there and "selectable") across
various screens. So the problem remains.



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Re: [mythtv-users] Crash on network transfer?

[Julian Edwards]

Chris Lynch wrote:
Thank you very much for the info - I'm going to try this out today when I
get back from my morning hike.
The keyboard lights don't flash when this happens.  When I was fussing
around putting in the new card yesterday, this is what I noticed in the logs
(attached).  I'll report back what I find later today.
 

Another thing that you can check is the interrupts.  I've got a buggy 
KT600 chipset and the on-board LAN controller will lock up the m/b under 
load if it's sharing interrupts with something else.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Jarod's HOWTO for FC3/PVR-350/X - Please Take Offline

[Jack Trout]

Well helping to fix the problem is great, but shutting it down doesnt
help, Maybe Jarod hasnt had time to update it I mean he only has a
life away from mythtv, including a job, and a holiday season, but I am
sure any positive input to how to fix it might be useful, but if he
takes it down he might not get the info needed to finish the support.
We are all very lucky that jarod was nice enough to even write
anything down for people less linux or even technically inclined have
something to guide them. How many people are good at writing step by
step documentation especially in the higher ups in unix/linux. Someone
with decent technical documentation skills is hard to come by and
seeing he is giving up his time and effort for free (although he does
accept donations). I consider myself on the lower middle of linux tech
skill and google searching, but I was able to build my first myth box
barely functional after about 4-5 days of solid work and even then It
wasnt 100% functional. and with jarods guide and about 4 hours my
first time I had a fully functioning and recording box.


On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 09:26:38 -0800 (PST), Matt D. Robinson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As I said before, I'm trying to help figure out what's broken.
> If it can be fixed, then I'm all for it (and I'm doing rebuilds
> now to try and see what happened).
> 
> I don't believe in "put up or shut up" -- if it's broken, someone
> should say something, and people (including me) should try and help
> fix it.  If open source and/or open project work revolved around
> "put up or shut up" perspectives, much less would get done and
> people would be afraid to give any feedback whatsoever.
> 
> Thanks for your enthusiastic response, however.
> 
> --Matt
> 
> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Mike Matsuzaki wrote:
> |>Hey, I got an idea.
> |>
> |>Make your own Howto guide!
> |>
> |>Jarod's guide has been a life-saving resource for many of us.  If you
> |>have any better ideas where to start.  Put up or shut up.
> |>
> |>Mike
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Frontends all around the house

[cythraul]

That settles it. Thanks for the info! :)

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:32:42 -, Will <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> cythraul wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> The Epia-N hasn't been released yet afaik, hence no price info. This
> interview is the closest I've seen to a guide:
> http://www.epiacenter.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=53
> 
> "This depends to a very large degree on the country in which you buy the
> mainboards. In Europe, the price would be in the region of 290 euro
> including VAT for the EPIA SP, but might differ slightly from country to
> country. Due to the high level of integration of the VIA EPIA N Nano-ITX,
> these boards will most likely be more expensive than Mini-ITX mainboards
> currently in the market."
> 
> > 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. :)
> 
> The Epia-SP above (290 Euros) is the only announced CN400 mini itx board I
> believe. IMHO it would be a waste to get as soon as it's launched as the
> Mpeg4 decoder will likely not be supported for some time under linux, and
> when it is, they will be cheaper to buy.
> 
> Will
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Newbie: FC3 - MythTVsetup GUI issue.

[Bryan Ware]

I believe the setting are in the settings/setup/appearance menu option
with in mythfrontend.

Bryan

On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 14:37, Clive at Rational wrote:
>  --- Mike Choy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> > Clive 
> > you can change the size of the Gui in the setup
> > menu.
> > 
> > Mike Choy
> > 
> 
> Mike 
> 
>Can you be a bit more explicit? Which option?
> 
>I have just run through the mythtvsetup panels and
> can't find an option you refer to.
> 
> Clive
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[mythtv-users] Re: Newbie: FC3 - MythTVsetup GUI issue.

[Clive at Rational]

 --- Mike Choy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> Clive 
> you can change the size of the Gui in the setup
> menu.
> 
> Mike Choy
> 

Mike 

   Can you be a bit more explicit? Which option?

   I have just run through the mythtvsetup panels and
can't find an option you refer to.

Clive
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Re: [mythtv-users] Frontends all around the house

[Will]

cythraul wrote:
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?
The Epia-N hasn't been released yet afaik, hence no price info. This 
interview is the closest I've seen to a guide:
http://www.epiacenter.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=53

"This depends to a very large degree on the country in which you buy the 
mainboards. In Europe, the price would be in the region of 290 euro 
including VAT for the EPIA SP, but might differ slightly from country to 
country. Due to the high level of integration of the VIA EPIA N Nano-ITX, 
these boards will most likely be more expensive than Mini-ITX mainboards 
currently in the market."

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. :)
The Epia-SP above (290 Euros) is the only announced CN400 mini itx board I 
believe. IMHO it would be a waste to get as soon as it's launched as the 
Mpeg4 decoder will likely not be supported for some time under linux, and 
when it is, they will be cheaper to buy.

Will 

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Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie: FC3 - MythTVsetup GUI issue.

[Mike Choy]

Clive 
you can change the size of the Gui in the setup menu.

Mike Choy



- Original Message - 
From: "Clive at Rational" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 4:07 PM
Subject: [mythtv-users] Newbie: FC3 - MythTVsetup GUI issue.


> Hello,
>  
>  I posted this question before but it has got
> "lost" in the discussion and progress about
> mythtvsetup so I'm creating a separate thread.
>  
>   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 (UK).
>  
>  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.
>  
> Problem
> ***
> 
>  The mythtvsetup 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?
>  
>  
>  
>  Thanks for any help or pointers
>  
>  Clive
>  
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Jarod's HOWTO for FC3/PVR-350/X - Please Keep Online

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 08:50, Matt D. Robinson wrote:
> But showing people how to build a
> system for PVR-350 configurations (using TV-Out, and X) that's broken and
> doesn't work just creates more work for everyone (unintentionally, of
> course).

One more thing on this subject... Did you ever look at bugzilla.atrpms.net, 
like it suggests at the very top of the document? There are entries there 
relating to 350 output, including one that indicates the ck100zz code won't 
work, which has been there since December 1st and another entry from December 
20th from someone who says they got their 350's output working, along with 
how they did it.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Jarod's HOWTO for FC3/PVR-350/X - Please Keep Online

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 08:50, Matt D. Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Axel Thimm wrote:
> |>On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 05:06:17PM -0800, Matt D. Robinson wrote:
> |>> 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

Uh, no.

> |>If the HOWTO were offline, how would you have reviewed it?
>
> Move it or preface it with something that says either this HOWTO is not
> working yet.  Off-line is another option, certainly more draconian, but
> at least then the impression isn't given that it works.

Take another look at that page. I already added something at the top yesterday 
afternoon that says "350 output may be tanked under FC3". That said, my FC3 
Myth box works just fine, I just haven't had time to try 350 output lately.

> |>> - The new 2.6.9 kernels are breaking in conjunction with ivtv, and
> |>>   the ck100zz drivers aren't useful anymore.

Horsefeathers. I'm using the ck100zz drivers on my FC3 Myth box without a 
problem. They seem pretty useful to me.

> The point here is that the HOWTO isn't working, not the RPMs.

Only a very small portion isn't working.

> And again 
> (third time now), all of your and Jarod's work is very much appreciated.
> I'm just hoping that the problems can be fixed, that's all, and I'm
> willing to help debug where possible.

Then please try using the very latest 0.2.0-rc build and 0.7 ivtv driver. 
Rumor has it this fixed some bug that was causing major problems on FC3.

> But showing people how to build a 
> system for PVR-350 configurations (using TV-Out, and X) that's broken and
> doesn't work just creates more work for everyone (unintentionally, of
> course).

Hopefully someone figures out how to fix it and sends me updated instructions 
so everyone else can be saved the work. Or I'll do it myself when I have the 
time. I just don't have the time right now, my personal life is a bit on the 
busy side. Sorry. I hope to have a chance over the upcoming weekend to tinker 
with my 350's output.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Update notes for Jarod's guide 2

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 06:04, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> Some updated notes on why /etc/rc.local is NOT the proper file!
>
> The file /etc/rc.local is used for SYSTEM startup. If one needs a new
> variable for all users one should use a file like /etc/profile and add:
>
> MYKERNEL=`uname -r`
> export MYKERNEL
>
> Hugo.
>
> PS: I suppose other solutions may be more upgrade resilient.

Yeah, this has been discussed a bit in the past, the recommendation is to 
create a file kver.sh in /etc/profile.d that includes nothing but the line:

export MYKERNEL=`uname -r`

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Re: [mythtv-users] Update notes for Jarod's guide 1

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 05:21, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some updated notes. The first subject: yum & apt
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] sysconfig]# apt-get install apt yum
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> 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
>
> So I edited /etc/yum.conf and added ATrpms:
>
> [at-stable]
> name=ATrpms for Fedora Core $releasever stable
> baseurl=http://apt.atrpms.net/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/at-stable
>
> Then tried to an yum update but it also resulted in some failures.
>
> I am under the impression that at least 1 package in ATrpms is damaged. It
> starts reloading dependencies at:
>
> --> Processing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages for package:
> yum Importing Additional filelist information for depresolution
> at-stable : ## 603/603
> base  : ## 2622/2622
> updates-re: ## 408/408
> --> Processing Dependency: libxml2.so.2 for package: gnome-spell
>
> Somehow the yum and apt packages have gotten into a deadlock.
>
> As of yet I have nog figured out a way to resolve the issue.

Known problem, just haven't had time for an update. You ought to be able to 
get around things by simply removing yum (rpm -e yum). It really isn't a 
required package, since it does the same thing as apt, more or less. The 
other fix is to enable at-testing and install python 2.4 along with the 
updated yum.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Pvr-350 - Do the menus work on tvout

[John Van Ostrand]

There is a difference between TV out which is selected by choosing the
"Use PVR250/350 output" in Mythfrontend's setup verses having X run on
the PVR350 frame buffer device.

I just posted today the method of setup. Check in the archives.

On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 12:53 -0500, Don Brett wrote:
> I have not been able to get the on-screen menus to appear on the tv-out
> (press m for menu).  They work fine if I disable tvout and use the
> computer monitor.  Does this work for anyone else?  If so, what ivtv
> driver and firmware are you using?  Thanks,
> Don
> 
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: nvidia fx5200 help please badly needed

[Ivor Hewitt]

On Wednesday 29 Dec 2004 16:15, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:40 am, Brandon Beattie wrote:
> >
> > For the past, oh 4 months.  Maybe it's just the blue theme, and yes I'm
> > 100% sure I'm using XvMC.  If I remember right, the limitation was two
> > colors.  My OSD is either white and blue or yellow and blue, but I'll
> > have to check.  I've disabled it for the last month to stop the frontend
> > crashing when I seek in HD streams.  (The other option was to hit esc
> > before the OSD tried to fade out, as that appears to be what causes the
> > video buffers in the nvidia cards to get filled and not release for more
> > frames to be drawn.
>
> If you have a color osd, you are _NOT_ using XvMC, unless you've applied
> Ivor Hewitt's work in progress patch.
>
Indeed, it will give you colour osd on NVidia XvMC but its very much "work in 
progress" and only tested on epia xvmc and probably only used by me at the 
moment. :-)


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Re: [mythtv-users] slow satelite guide, no irblaster yet

[nate s]

You might check if your STB has a serial port (that may look like a
small phone jack,) as if so it is much easier than using an IR blaster
(AFAIK, most directv recievers have them.)

-Nate


On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:33:20 -0800, Asher Schaffer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 17:35:12 -0500, Paul Barrette
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > currently, I dont have an irblaster, I'm using the guide from my
> > satelite STB through mythtv to change channels, but it is very slow,
> > 3-5 seconds for every arrow up!  Is there a way to speed this up?
> > Maybe I am missing a setting somewhere...
> >
> > thanks,
> > Pb
> > mythtv cvs, amd64, pvr250, nvidia tv-out
> 
> There is always a buffer when watching TV, so that is why you see the
> delay.  AFAIK there is no way to disable the buffer, although this has
> been brought up by a couple of people recently.
> 
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RE: [mythtv-users] Pvr-350 - Do the menus work on tvout

[John Harvey]

They should work but you will need ivtv-fb module loaded not just ivtv.

John

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don Brett
> Sent: 29 December 2004 17:53
> To: MythTv
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Pvr-350 - Do the menus work on tvout
> 
> I have not been able to get the on-screen menus to appear on the tv-out
> (press m for menu).  They work fine if I disable tvout and use the
> computer monitor.  Does this work for anyone else?  If so, what ivtv
> driver and firmware are you using?  Thanks,
> Don
> 


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[mythtv-users] saa7127 does not switch to PAL

[Hugo van der Kooij]

Hi,

I try to test the PVR-350 with 'modprobe saa7127 test_image=1' but I get
the output as NTSC according to my syslog:

Dec 29 18:52:37 saruman kernel: saa7127: video encoder driver unloaded
Dec 29 18:52:43 saruman kernel: saa7127: Ignoring new-style parameters in
presence of obsolete ones
Dec 29 18:52:43 saruman kernel: saa7127: video encoder driver version V
0.3 loaded
Dec 29 18:52:44 saruman kernel: saa7127: Selecting NTSC video Standard
Dec 29 18:52:44 saruman kernel: saa7127: Selecting S-Video+Composite
Dec 29 18:52:44 saruman kernel: saa7127: Turn WSS off
Dec 29 18:52:44 saruman kernel: saa7127: Widescreen Mode 4:3 Full Format
Dec 29 18:52:44 saruman kernel: saa7127: Selecting Colour Bar generator
Dec 29 18:52:44 saruman kernel: saa7127: Enable Video Output
Dec 29 18:52:44 saruman kernel: ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7127[0],ok]

(The image is B&W so I guess it may be right.)

The use of ivtvctl does not help despite the indication I am using the
proper hex code:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] database]# ivtvctl -s
ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMSTD
index   : 0
ID  : 0x3000
Name: NTSC
Frame period: 1001/3
Frame lines : 525

index   : 1
ID  : 0x00FF
Name: PAL
Frame period: 1/25
Frame lines : 625

index   : 2
ID  : 0x007F
Name: SECAM
Frame period: 1/25
Frame lines : 625

Version details:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] database]# rpm -qa|grep ivtv
perl-Video-ivtv-0.13-6.rhfc3.at
kernel-module-ivtv-2.6.9-1.681_FC3-0.1.10-48.4_pre2_ck100zz.rhfc3.at
ivtv-firmware-enc-2.04.024-4.at
ivtv-firmware-1.8a-4.at
ivtv-firmware-dec-2.02.023-4.at
ivtv-0.1.10-48.4_pre2_ck100zz.rhfc3.at

Hugo.

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Re: [mythtv-users] menu speed

[James Armstrong]

Do you know if you have any channel icons assigned in the database? I 
had this problem and it was because the icon files were missing and it 
took 4 attempts and a few seconds for myth to give up when trying to 
load the images.

- James
Paul Miller wrote:
Plastik at 1024x768...  everything is local.  I would like to be able 
to hold the arrow down/right button and rapidly scroll through the tv 
listings.  Right now, it takes about 0.5-1.5 seconds to move the 
selection box, 1-3 seconds to move down past the end of a page, and 
2-7 seconds to move right past the end of the page.  I think it's 
much slower than TiVo on my p2-450MHz...

-Paul
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 3:19 am, Herman Kuiper wrote:
 

I turned off the transparencies and changed the draw method from
Fill to None, and did not notice any difference in response time.
 

What resolution are you running on, and with what theme? There was
a thread recently that some themes have rather huge memory
requirements when not running in the default resolution.
Also, I'm running over NFS, and found that the number of stat calls
for theme files was slowing down the menus quite a bit...
Herman
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Re: [mythtv-users] video scheduling for local/public access cable channel

[Ian Connor]

> There is an executable called "mythtv" that takes a filename as an
> argument and simply plays the file. You could potentially write
> scripts that run the specific files at a prescribed time.

That could be the ticket. I might give that a go. 

I knew there would be a bit of "build your own" stuff going on and
didn't expect a perfect fit. However, we have had some quotes of over
$50k to get something to do this and we just don't have that in the
budget.

thanks heaps
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Re: [mythtv-users] video scheduling for local/public access cable channel

[Bruce Markey]

Ian Connor wrote:
I work with a nonprofit public access TV station and we are looking
for video scheduling system to broadcast our local channel.
MythTV schedules recordings. It does not schedule playback.
We will be producing a content ourselves (probably via a macintosh as
well as from video tape through traditional video editing means). We
will also be pulling information that is free to rebroadcast from
sattelite feeds (there is a lot of content that you can rebroadcast
through cable TV as a non-profit).
MythTV could be useful here for scheduling the digital recording
of sattelite feeds if you have listing for these feeds from
DataDirect or even XMLTV. Myth would be able to control multilpe
tuners on one or many machines, prioritize conflicts, avoid duplicates,
etc. You would then need something else to schedule playback of
the recordings.
So, I would imagine that we would rip the video all to hard disk,
download the video files produced on the macintosh and then schedule
it to be played back. We only have one channel to fill so the system
does not need to be too fancy. I noticed that MythTV can control a
number of TVs - so could we have the cable channel set up as one of
these?
Again, record and playback are vague here. Myth "can control a number
of TV" tuner cards for recording. A number of users each at a computer
(hooked up to TV or monitor) running mythfronted can control mythtv.
The frontend is for user interaction and is not designed for automated
broadcast playback.
When we are not playing content, we have a public services board that
displays a little slide show of what is going on in the town. I can
see MythTV allows you to show photo slides through your TV - this idea
would work well if we could automate when the slide would show and
when and what videos would show.
The system now is not software based at all. We have a controlling box
that does nothing more than turn on video tapes and switch to show
that tape. We program the video switching device when to rewind, when
to play and when to stop - so to my mind doing this all on a computer
should not be that much different and I hope it would not cost too
much while giving us more flexibility. I hope that we would be able to
control it and automate it from there.
However, the question is where to start and if MythTV can do some of
the job with little or no coding changes.
There is an executable called "mythtv" that takes a filename as an
argument and simply plays the file. You could potentially write
scripts that run the specific files at a prescribed time.
--  bjm
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[mythtv-users] Pvr-350 - Do the menus work on tvout

[Don Brett]

I have not been able to get the on-screen menus to appear on the tv-out
(press m for menu).  They work fine if I disable tvout and use the
computer monitor.  Does this work for anyone else?  If so, what ivtv
driver and firmware are you using?  Thanks,
Don


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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythmusic not finding track length for .flac files

[Wendy Seltzer]

At 12:16 AM 12/29/2004 +, Martin Ebourne wrote:
> Are developers reading here, or should I cc mythtv-dev?
Some do some don't. Suggest you drop a mail onto mythtv-dev.
Thanks.  Did that and got a nearly-instant patch from Colin Guthrie that 
fixes the problem:


Likely it'll be in CVS soon.
--Wendy
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Re: [mythtv-users] menu speed

[Paul Miller]

Plastik at 1024x768...  everything is local.  I would like to be able 
to hold the arrow down/right button and rapidly scroll through the tv 
listings.  Right now, it takes about 0.5-1.5 seconds to move the 
selection box, 1-3 seconds to move down past the end of a page, and 
2-7 seconds to move right past the end of the page.  I think it's 
much slower than TiVo on my p2-450MHz...

-Paul

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 3:19 am, Herman Kuiper wrote:
> > I turned off the transparencies and changed the draw method from
> > Fill to None, and did not notice any difference in response time.
>
> What resolution are you running on, and with what theme? There was
> a thread recently that some themes have rather huge memory
> requirements when not running in the default resolution.
>
> Also, I'm running over NFS, and found that the number of stat calls
> for theme files was slowing down the menus quite a bit...
>
>  Herman
>
> -
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> Beech Ave 162 - 1119 PS  Schiphol-Rijk - t/f: 020-6589034/6142816
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Repeat problems with ati_remote in 2.6 kernel

[Chris Vargas]

Except that the reason I got the ATI remote was to
avoid LIRC and its associated headaches...

--- Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Try using lirc's atiusb driver...
> 
> -Paul

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Repeat problems with ati_remote in 2.6 kernel

[Paul Miller]

Try using lirc's atiusb driver...

-Paul

On Tuesday 28 December 2004 8:58 pm, Chris Vargas wrote:
> --- 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.
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[mythtv-users] Re: Prob setting up PVR350 card using ivtv

[Don Brett]

Uuuhh, this may be way off target, but you may want to consider this:

>Installed the ivtv 0.3 driver and it seems to be much better 
- ivtv 0.3 is generally considered bleeding edge, you may want to
consider 0.2x
http://205.209.168.201/~ckennedy/ivtv/
- If you're using the 0.2x or 0.3x driver the tuner type is
automatically detected.  There's no need to force it.
- If you're using the 0.3 driver, I believe the modules.conf setup
should look more like:


# use this setup for the ckennedy drivers (0.2x and 0.3x)
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv

### setup with original driver - stock 0.1.9 version - NTSC#
#alias char-major-81 videodev
#alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
#alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
#options tuner type=47
#options saa7127 enable_output=1 output_select=0
#options msp3400 once=1 simple=1
#add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 saa7127 tuner
#add above ivtv ivtv-fb
#add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_i2c


Good luck,
Don



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[mythtv-users] video scheduling for local/public access cable channel

[Ian Connor]

I work with a nonprofit public access TV station and we are looking
for video scheduling system to broadcast our local channel.

We have a very limited budget and if MythTV might work out for us (our
town is very small and so is the budget that comes with that).

We will be producing a content ourselves (probably via a macintosh as
well as from video tape through traditional video editing means). We
will also be pulling information that is free to rebroadcast from
sattelite feeds (there is a lot of content that you can rebroadcast
through cable TV as a non-profit).

So, I would imagine that we would rip the video all to hard disk,
download the video files produced on the macintosh and then schedule
it to be played back. We only have one channel to fill so the system
does not need to be too fancy. I noticed that MythTV can control a
number of TVs - so could we have the cable channel set up as one of
these?

When we are not playing content, we have a public services board that
displays a little slide show of what is going on in the town. I can
see MythTV allows you to show photo slides through your TV - this idea
would work well if we could automate when the slide would show and
when and what videos would show.

The system now is not software based at all. We have a controlling box
that does nothing more than turn on video tapes and switch to show
that tape. We program the video switching device when to rewind, when
to play and when to stop - so to my mind doing this all on a computer
should not be that much different and I hope it would not cost too
much while giving us more flexibility. I hope that we would be able to
control it and automate it from there.

However, the question is where to start and if MythTV can do some of
the job with little or no coding changes.

Thanks for any advice you might have,

Ian Connor
http://www.concordtv.org/
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[mythtv-users] no database connection

[Rainer Hamann]

I have installed MythTV on Xandros 3.0 (Debian testing) and created the 
database mythconverg from mc.sql.

When I start mythtv inside a terminal, I get the following error messages :
QSqlDatabase: QMYSQL3 driver not loaded
QSqlDatabase: available drivers: QPSQL7
QSqlDatabase: QMYSQL3 driver not loaded
QSqlDatabase: available drivers: QPSQL7
Unable to connect to database!
No error type from QSqlError?  Strange...
couldn't open db
MySQL 4.0.21 is running and the connection to another database runs fine.
Rainer Hamann
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Re: [mythtv-users] Jarod's HOWTO for FC3/PVR-350/X - Please Take Offline

[Matt D. Robinson]

As I said before, I'm trying to help figure out what's broken.
If it can be fixed, then I'm all for it (and I'm doing rebuilds
now to try and see what happened).

I don't believe in "put up or shut up" -- if it's broken, someone
should say something, and people (including me) should try and help
fix it.  If open source and/or open project work revolved around
"put up or shut up" perspectives, much less would get done and
people would be afraid to give any feedback whatsoever.

Thanks for your enthusiastic response, however.  

--Matt

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Mike Matsuzaki wrote:
|>Hey, I got an idea.
|>
|>Make your own Howto guide!
|>
|>Jarod's guide has been a life-saving resource for many of us.  If you
|>have any better ideas where to start.  Put up or shut up.
|>
|>Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythtvsetup: command not found error

[Chuck Rice]

At 2:36 PM -0800 12/28/04, George Lopez wrote:
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 ran into the same problem, thought I am using FC3. Executing
   apt-get install mythtvsetup
Fixed it. -Chuck-
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[mythtv-users] Re: PVR350 shows black bar near top of screen

[Mighty Zorloc]

I seem to have solved this issue by running mythfrontend without a
windowmanager.

jbw


On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:38:22 -0800, Mighty Zorloc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm using the tvout of a newer PVR350 on what I hope to be my frontend
> box.  Everything seems to work just fine and is stable, with one small
> exception.  When watching (live or recorded) tv, after a minute or so
> of watching a black bar appears near the top of the screen.  There is
> a tiny portion of the TV image above the bar and a pixel or two on the
> right.  If I engage some mythtv functionality (pause, FF, Rewind,
> change channel, etc) the bar temporarily disappears.
> 
> I'm using
> 
> Mythtv 0.16
> Xfree 4.3
> ivtvdev_drv 0.7
> ivtv 0.3.2a
> 
> I'm using ivtv-0.3.2a because in 0.2x the saa71xx driver would not
> detect and display the image properly.  I had also tried the 0.4 and
> 0.6 version of the ivtvdev_drv.  And Xfree 4.4 -- but compiled with
> Unichrome.  I've also tried Mythtv 0.16 with and without the patch
> included with ivtv-0.3.2a.
> 
> Any advise on what to check?
>
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[mythtv-users] Re:Newbie: FC3 - MythTVsetup segmentation fault

[Clive at Rational]

>When I select option "4 Input connections" there
> are no options to select - not even "Add new
> connection"
> Followed by segmentation Fault

Cut rest 

I should have added:

Running mythTV on Fedora Core 3 (FC3) with 2.6.9.
kernel

Clive
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Re: [mythtv-users] Jarod's HOWTO for FC3/PVR-350/X - Please Take Offline

[Mike Matsuzaki]

On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 15:31, 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" 
> 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
> >


Hey, I got an idea.

Make your own Howto guide!

Jarod's guide has been a life-saving resource for many of us.  If you
have any better ideas where to start.  Put up or shut up.

Mike

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