Re: [mythtv-users] Modeline for DVI Output
Check out this website. It may be useful for finding modelines... http://www.entechtaiwan.net/forums/ -Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What NOT to do to your Myth box...
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 07:14:09PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How would this work in my case... > I used to watch a show that aired between 1991-1993 called "Sweating Bullets" > (aka "Tropical Heat", in Canada), and I were find and ask someone in an area > where it is still being broadcast to record it using their Hauppauge PVR 250 > or 350... I were to download it and watch, since it's not aired in my area. > > As I'm understanding you are saying it is a violation, but that it probably > won't get much attention cause it's still publicly available (sort of). Am I > understanding that correctly? > Pretty much, though it gets more complex internationally. Canadian fair dealing rights are not as strong as U.S. fair use rights, too. However, in Canada there is also a special cable law that has allowed people to distribute programs over the internet to other Canadians by calling themselves a cable company. Caused a bit of controversy. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Is pchdtv3000 worth it?
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:30:19PM +, Frank smith wrote: > About 2 hours I reckon > Taking your time of course! > :-) > bob > > > On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 12:05 -0800, Michael Miyabara-McCaskey wrote: > > > hehe... > > > > Are you also making the assumption that AFTER June... no hacker in > > the world will create something to defeat the broadcast flag? Quite possibly, but the law will still interfere just as much. Nobody would be able to include the hack in their distro or official software package (probably -- this is untested). So people would need to "hand-assemble", downloading hacks from elsewhere, installing them. Doesn't stop the determined linux jockey, stops ordinary folks though. And stops anybody from selling bundled hardware and software based on an open source PVR, if it leaves the High-def video files just sitting on the disk, in the clear. So it's not so amusing. They are quite happy to relegate open PVRs to the open source hacking crowd, it seems, but it puts a ceiling on where they can go. It worked on deCSS, though we spent a million dollars trying to stop it. MythTV is used mainly for SDTV today, but how many years before SDTV is as passe as VHS tape? Not long, and few will be interested in a PVR system that only does SDTV then. If mythtv and freevo and all the other open source pvrs are to be broader projects that get used outside of the hacking community, these regulations must be stopped. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Confused Newbie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just found out about MythTV about a week ago and I have a couple of questions. First I would just like to say that the MythTV (and other Myth plug-ins), is a brilliant idea and from what I have seen, can be very usefull. My first question is about compiling. Is it necessary to be able to write and compile these codes and scripts in order to use MythTV? If so, where would I learn to do this? Is there a site (other then this list) that explains in large but simple detail, how to set up a MythTV system? I know all of you have probably been asked this a lot, but I'm looking for an up-to-date answer. What is the best Hardware setup I need to use, that will allow me to record 2 programs at once and still watch TV. I was also wondering about using my digital box for this system. Is there a way as of yet, to record ture digital and HDTV? Sorry for the many questions but you all know how it is being new. :) Thanks http://mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythInstall http://mythtv.info/ http://mysettopbox.tv/ http://www.wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/tiki-view_articles.php http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/ Google is your friend. Regards, Cecil ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Confused Newbie
I just found out about MythTV about a week ago and I have a couple of questions. First I would just like to say that the MythTV (and other Myth plug-ins), is a brilliant idea and from what I have seen, can be very usefull. My first question is about compiling. Is it necessary to be able to write and compile these codes and scripts in order to use MythTV? If so, where would I learn to do this? Is there a site (other then this list) that explains in large but simple detail, how to set up a MythTV system? I know all of you have probably been asked this a lot, but I'm looking for an up-to-date answer. What is the best Hardware setup I need to use, that will allow me to record 2 programs at once and still watch TV. I was also wondering about using my digital box for this system. Is there a way as of yet, to record ture digital and HDTV? Sorry for the many questions but you all know how it is being new. :) Thanks --- Email sent using AnyEmail (http://netbula.com/anyemail/) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Scheduling
I was wondering if it was possible to schedule a show by name and the air date. The reason I ask is that a show I like to watch is Stargate SG-1, but I would like to record only the first run. Is this possible? -- Jim Gifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] playbacks are skipping, PVR-350
For the past couple weeks my playbacks (Hauppauge PVR-350) have been skipping. This started to occur soon after I upgraded from ivtv-0.1.9 to ivtv-0.2.0-rc3a However, even when I revert back to the ivtv-0.1.9 the condition still exists, even for recordings made with the ivtv-0.1.9 I'm using MythTV-0.16 I don't have the time to be pulling the card out and sticking back in windows to see if the problem persists, but is this a possible hardware failure? Another thought I had was, that my hard drive ( a Wester Digital 160 GB IDE ) is typically 80% full, could I need to defrag the drive? I've made sure that DMA is enabled in Linux for the partition. I should mention that skipping occurs at regular intervals ~30 seconds, and skips roughly 1-2 seconds of video each time. Correct me if I'm wrong, if the system were having trouble writing the recording stream fast enough to the hard drive, would MythTV intentionally skip frames to accomodate the slow system response? I guess thinking about it, the system would simply sample the next frame to be compressed when the system returns... no the card has a hardware encoder so the system would have to accept the full data stream? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Fresh install, mythfilldatabase problem
Hi I had a perfectly working myth-box. I decided to upgrade the hardware and to do a fresh install (gentoo, as before). Everything goes well until I wanted to run mythfilldatabase --manual. I get an error and nothing goes into the database. I presume something is wrong with the channel-id 's or something, but I don 't know if it is an XMLTV problem or a MySQL problem. When I installed before (months ago), I didn 't have this problem. Anyone knows? Thanks, Peter Error: -- End of XMLTV output -- ### ### New channel found ### ### name = Nederland 1 ### callsign = ### channum = ### finetune = ### tvformat = ### icon = ### Choose a channel ID (positive integer) [0] 3 Choose a channel name (any string, long version) [Nederland 1] Choose a channel callsign (any string, short version) Ned1 Choose a channel number (just like xawtv) E6 Choose a channel fine tune offset (just like xawtv) 28 Choose a TV format (PAL/SECAM/NTSC/ATSC/Default) Choose a channel icon image (any path name) Query was: SELECT chanid,name,callsign,channum,finetune,icon,freqid,tvformat FROM channel WHERE xmltvid = "1.tvgids.nl" AND sourceid = 1; No error type from QSqlError? Strange... ### ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Nova-T and a PVR-250?
Hi, I have a PVR350 + Nova T in the UK, with the 350 plugged into sky. IIt is a little tricky, but essentially you duplicate the channels that you have two sources for, in my case the PVR350 was installed first so it has a source id of one. My DVB card has source id of two. So for example I have BBC1 with source ID1 and BBC1 with ID2. You have to pull the channel info down from your transmitter to get the PIDs for the video and audio, and link the DVB channels info with the actual channels. There is a perl script to do it. channels.conf-import.pl I think, although you have to hack it a little with paths, source etc. Also you have to import the listings data twice, once for each source id. I have two configs, one for the sky channels and one for the dvb. (I could be doing this wrong, but works for me) Run through cron, eg tv_grab_uk_rt --config-file Sky.xmltv --output skylistings.xml tv_grab_uk_rt --config-file DVB.xmltv --output dvblistings.xml mythfilldatabase --file 1 -1 skylistings.xml mythfilldatabase --file 2 -1 dvblistings.xml Finally getting Myth to use the tuner you want is a bit quirky. Traditionally it seems to prefer using the first installed tuner for live TV. There is a new switch in 0.16, something like "Use the Best Tuner"?! but it never seemed to work that well for me. I guess this switch chooses the tuner with the most channels (which it the same as the first one for me) . anyone know for sure? For me the only problem is if you are watching live TV on the PVR on say BBC1, and Myth wants to record Sky1 it will turf you out (with the usual requestor) You will just have to wait for the recording to start, back out and go back into live tv .. it will now use source2. Other than that it works fine. It can record two channels at once and I can even watch a third previously recorded item at the same time HTH's Steve Garry Gibson wrote: I'm in the UK and have a perfectly working MythTV setup, using a PVR-250, a Sky digibox with a redeye IR transmitter controlling it. Obviously, as everything is working fine, now is the time to mess with things! I'm thinking of adding a DVB-T card in there as well, so we can record one thing whilse watching another, or record two programs at once. I know Myth can cope with multiple cards, but how will it manage with the fact that some channels will be on the PVR-250 (Sky movies etc) and will need the redeye IR doofer to turn over, and that some channels will be on both? Can anyone offer any pearls of wisdom, even if it's "don't do that mate!" ? Regards, Garry. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Every was fine, now no sound
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:31:10 -0500, John Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are any of your partitions full? > > df -h > > Regards, >JJ > > On 13-Jan-2005, at 19:19, Ryan Steffes wrote: > > > All of the sudden yesterday my myth machine locked tight and had to > > be rebooted. When it rebooted, X wouldn't start, complaining of > > failing to load the nvidia module and no screens. I had no idea what > > caused it, so as a first step I installed the latest NVIDIA drivers. > > That seemed to work. However, since them, my sound won't record > > either, with no apparent error messages. > > > > Doing an aplay /dev/dsp gives: > > > > Playing raw data '/dev/sound/dsp' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono > > underrun!!! (at least 10.234 ms long) > > underrun!!! (at least 11.397 ms long) > > underrun!!! (at least 11.496 ms long) > > underrun!!! (at least 11.311 ms long) > > underrun!!! (at least 11.503 ms long) > > underrun!!! (at least 11.500 ms long) > > underrun!!! (at least 11.497 ms long) > > underrun!!! (at least 11.500 ms long) > > underrun!!! (at least 11.478 ms long) > > > > with a little popping noise to the speakers. > > > > Nothing's changed, at least not intentionally! Anyone have a clue > > what the problem could be? > > ___ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > No partitions are full, and I've tested the card on my windows machine and the sound works fine there. Can anyone suggest a way to test the line in on the motherboard? The card is a hauppauge WinTV-FM with the old chipset plugged into the line in on my mobo. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What NOT to do to your Myth box...
How would this work in my case... I used to watch a show that aired between 1991-1993 called "Sweating Bullets" (aka "Tropical Heat", in Canada), and I were find and ask someone in an area where it is still being broadcast to record it using their Hauppauge PVR 250 or 350... I were to download it and watch, since it's not aired in my area. As I'm understanding you are saying it is a violation, but that it probably won't get much attention cause it's still publicly available (sort of). Am I understanding that correctly? - Original Message - From: Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, January 14, 2005 5:02 pm Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] What NOT to do to your Myth box... > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 03:19:04PM -0600, Andrew Close wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:02:49 -0800, Brad Templeton > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:34:22AM -0500, Paul Kidwell wrote: > > > > > > > > > And of course, most of those shows can be found via > bittorrent, not > > > that I would advise you to violate any copyrights. Not at the > same> > size you recorded them, though. > > > > o! i had to reply to this. or ask this question. :) > > is it really violating copyright by downloading bittorrented tv > shows> that you could record using your VCR/PRV/DVR? (assuming > you're paying > > for your cable or whatever service you're using...) > > if i'm already paying for the content and happen to mis-program my > > 'VCR' and don't get the show, then why can't i grab it via > bittorrent?> i'm not saying it's right or wrong, or that the MPAA > won't knock on > > your door. just asking if that would be a valid arguement. > > > Since lawsuits over this sort of thing are rare, it's hard to give > an exact answer. Technically, it is a copyright violation, but > fair use rules are fluid. > > Not every copy is a violation. Recording a show to watch it later > is not a violation. Recording a show and transcoding it to a > different format to play on a different device is not. Making a > backup copy of something you legitimately own is not a violation. > > Distributing copies to or from strangers is more likely to be > a violation. It gets worse if the commercials are stripped, too. > > However, when it's a program anybody can get off the air, the history > is people don't care as much about it, so you don't see a lot of > lawsuits. But torrent sites are being shut down now, some for doing > TV, though more for movies. > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] question on controlling a digital cable box
a serial to usb cable is not going to work. Easist thing to do if you want to use a serial port is just use a serial port ir blaster. See pages like: http://losdos.dyndns.org:8080/public/mythtv-info/MythTV_DISH_IR_LED_TX_via_Modified_LIRC.html for instructions or http://www.irblaster.info for cheap $12 serial port IR Blasters. Brian Chesebro wrote: You should google and see if this port actually does anything. What happens when you plug in a USB keyboard and start hitting keys? When I plug a USB keyboard into my SA Explorer 3100, it will change the channels by pressing the up and down arrows or by inputting a number. Has anyone tried using a serial to USB cable on one of these? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Is pchdtv3000 worth it? How avout Air2PC card?
On 01/14/2005 04:54 PM, Alex wrote: I plan to purchase some type of HDTV card in the near future (Spring?). I plan to use it for OTA broadcasts... I am having trouble deciding whether the pcHDCP card or the Air2PC card is for me.. Air2PC -> http://www.cyberestore.com/product_info.php?cPath=28&products_id=103 The Air card is slightly less expensive and has windoze support... It also has Myth support using the DVB infrastructure (http://www.digitalregime.com/mythdvb/) It also appears less mature than the pcHDTV solution... Any thoughts comparing & contrasting the two cards? Anyone have both? I have both, but I haven't been able to free up enough time to actually be able to work on anything. I am still using the pcHDTV HD-2000 in my production system. I have the pcHDTV HD-3000 and the Air2PC ATSC card in my development system, but haven't done anything with them yet. Sorry I couldn't give you any specifics. Hopefully the big DVB patch will make it into Myth soon and more people will be hammering on it. I know someone else that also bought the Air2PC card and is waiting for me to set it up before he attempts it. -- David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Incomplete recordings
For several weeks now I have had problems with recordings aborting several seconds after they start (usually 15-20 seconds). The problem cropped up suddenly, without me having made any changes to my system that I can recall. Some programs record without any issues, but once a recording has aborted the backend doesn't do anything more until I restart it. The log doesn't indicate any errors of any kind. I've tried updating my ivtv drivers with no change. For the last couple of days I've actually sat and watched the logs as recordings start (with "tail -f") to see if I could figure anything out and I've noticed something that may be pertinent: I get: 2005-01-14 11:00:02 Started recording "Blue's Clues" on channel: 1120 on cardid: 1, sourceid 1 2005-01-14 11:00:03 Changing from None to RecordingOnly 2005-01-14 11:00:04 Found changes in the todo list. 120 (the "120" is output from my channel changing perl script) The recording startsm abd a few seconds later I get: 2005-01-14 11:00:28 Scheduled 516 items in 23.0635 seconds. and at that instant the recording stops. Mythweb still reports it as recording, and the backend does report 30 minutes later: 2005-01-14 11:30:00 Finished recording Blue's Clues on channel: 1120 2005-01-14 11:30:00 Changing from RecordingOnly to None 2005-01-14 11:30:00 Found changes in the todo list. 2005-01-14 11:30:22 Scheduled 516 items in 21.8944 seconds. but the file itself is only 15-20 seconds long. So it appears that something is happening when the scheduling routine runs (but only sometimes -- it works 60-70% of the time) that makes the recording stop. Any ideas? -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.11 - Release Date: 1/12/2005 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] question on controlling a digital cable box
You should google and see if this port actually does anything. What happens when you plug in a USB keyboard and start hitting keys? When I plug a USB keyboard into my SA Explorer 3100, it will change the channels by pressing the up and down arrows or by inputting a number. Has anyone tried using a serial to USB cable on one of these? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Is pchdtv3000 worth it?
About 2 hours I reckon Taking your time of course! :-) bob On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 12:05 -0800, Michael Miyabara-McCaskey wrote: hehe... Are you also making the assumption that AFTER June... no hacker in the world will create something to defeat the broadcast flag? :-) -Michael ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project MythStreamTV
Bill- I've only used Mplayer on Mac OSX and it works there. I select open network stream then mms://address:port and it's happy. Actually it looks a lot cleaner than Windows Media Player. Let me know if you figure it out. I'll see what I can do from here. Thanks, -Joshua Ebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Bradley Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 2:29 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project MythStreamTV okworks great in windows, yet mplayer on linux is having troubles.anyone want to share the command they usealso vlc won't work either...which is odd. On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:10:21 -0800, Joshua Ebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I've released a new project on Source Forge called MythStreamTV. > MythStreamTV is currently available in Alpha at > http://mythstreamtv.sourceforge.net/ for download. > > MythStreamTV is a MythTV addon that allows live transcoding of nupplevideo > to Windows Media Player/Mplayer and allows control via MythWeb. > > Current featureset of MythStreamTV includes: > -Codec Selection of DIV3 and WMV2 > -Video Bitrate Selection > -Playlist Creation > -Streaming of LiveTV and Recorded programming > > Future enhancements: > -Remote video control (fast forward, rewind, pause etc) > -Streaming of DVD playback > -More codecs > -Autolanch of MMS client > > Enjoy! > -Joshua Ebel > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Is pchdtv3000 worth it?
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:43:34PM -0800, Julian wrote: > Brandon, > > I have Comcast basic cable, and am building my first > Myth box. My fear is that encryption will void this > card if I get digital cable. The only way this could > change is with some sort of composite card capture > solution that reads from the cable box post-decryption > and an IR blaster, right? Maybe I could hack together > a composite out that goes into the pchdtv3000? > > Thanks again, > Julian Julian, Right. Except I don't see what you could achieve with hacking a composite out, other than capture non-HD video. But no need to hack. All cable boxes have composite or s-video out. Any cheap $20 ntsc tuner card can capture composite and/or s-video. The hd3000 could capture, but that would be an expensive way to do it. I guess the question you need to find out is if comcast sends out encrypted QAM or not. --Brandon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project MythStreamTV
okworks great in windows, yet mplayer on linux is having troubles.anyone want to share the command they usealso vlc won't work either...which is odd. On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:10:21 -0800, Joshua Ebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I've released a new project on Source Forge called MythStreamTV. > MythStreamTV is currently available in Alpha at > http://mythstreamtv.sourceforge.net/ for download. > > MythStreamTV is a MythTV addon that allows live transcoding of nupplevideo > to Windows Media Player/Mplayer and allows control via MythWeb. > > Current featureset of MythStreamTV includes: > -Codec Selection of DIV3 and WMV2 > -Video Bitrate Selection > -Playlist Creation > -Streaming of LiveTV and Recorded programming > > Future enhancements: > -Remote video control (fast forward, rewind, pause etc) > -Streaming of DVD playback > -More codecs > -Autolanch of MMS client > > Enjoy! > -Joshua Ebel > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV out partial succes; no X11 yet.
Hi, I got TVout working for plain video. (dd if/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 does the job to send the TV program to the SCART plug including audio.) Starting ivtv-fb does not work well: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X11]# modprobe ivtv-fb Segmentation fault [EMAIL PROTECTED] X11]# lsmod Module Size Used by ivtv_fb22847 2 bttv 150413 0 The module is loaded but the TV just goes black. And why the segmentation fault occurs is anyone's guess. I loose the ability to shutdown the system alltogether as soon as the ivtv-fb module is loaded. (Ending in fsck's at system boot.) The system is FC3 with most of the latest patches: kernel: 2.6.9-1.724_FC3 ivtv: 0.2.0-58_rc3c.rhfc3.at ivtv-kmdl-2.6.9-1.724_FC3-0.1.10-48.4_pre2_ck100zz.rhfc3.at Card detected: 00:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) xorg.conf file adjusted for PAL: Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Screen0" InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "PAL TV" HorizSync 30-68 VertRefresh 50-120 Mode "720x576" DotClock 42.6 HTimings 720 760 832 944 VTimings 576 577 580 602 Flags"-HSync" "-VSync" EndMode EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Hauppauge PVR 350 iTVC15 Framebuffer" Driver "ivtvdev" #Driver "fbdev" Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb0" BusID "0:11:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Hauppauge PVR 350 iTVC15 Framebuffer" Monitor "PAL TV" DefaultDepth 24 DefaultFbbpp 32 Subsection "Display" Depth 24 FbBpp 32 Modes "720x576" EndSubsection EndSection Any suggestions are much appriciated. Hugo. -- I hate duplicates. Just reply to the relevant mailinglist. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hvdkooij.xs4all.nl/ Don't meddle in the affairs of magicians, for they are subtle and quick to anger. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What NOT to do to your Myth box...
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 03:19:04PM -0600, Andrew Close wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:02:49 -0800, Brad Templeton > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:34:22AM -0500, Paul Kidwell wrote: > > > > > And of course, most of those shows can be found via bittorrent, not > > that I would advise you to violate any copyrights. Not at the same > > size you recorded them, though. > > o! i had to reply to this. or ask this question. :) > is it really violating copyright by downloading bittorrented tv shows > that you could record using your VCR/PRV/DVR? (assuming you're paying > for your cable or whatever service you're using...) > if i'm already paying for the content and happen to mis-program my > 'VCR' and don't get the show, then why can't i grab it via bittorrent? > i'm not saying it's right or wrong, or that the MPAA won't knock on > your door. just asking if that would be a valid arguement. Since lawsuits over this sort of thing are rare, it's hard to give an exact answer. Technically, it is a copyright violation, but fair use rules are fluid. Not every copy is a violation. Recording a show to watch it later is not a violation. Recording a show and transcoding it to a different format to play on a different device is not. Making a backup copy of something you legitimately own is not a violation. Distributing copies to or from strangers is more likely to be a violation. It gets worse if the commercials are stripped, too. However, when it's a program anybody can get off the air, the history is people don't care as much about it, so you don't see a lot of lawsuits. But torrent sites are being shut down now, some for doing TV, though more for movies. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Is pchdtv3000 worth it? How avout Air2PC card?
I plan to purchase some type of HDTV card in the near future (Spring?). I plan to use it for OTA broadcasts... I am having trouble deciding whether the pcHDCP card or the Air2PC card is for me.. Air2PC -> http://www.cyberestore.com/product_info.php?cPath=28&products_id=103 The Air card is slightly less expensive and has windoze support... It also has Myth support using the DVB infrastructure (http://www.digitalregime.com/mythdvb/) It also appears less mature than the pcHDTV solution... Any thoughts comparing & contrasting the two cards? Anyone have both? Alex On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 06:00:17 -0800 (PST), Julian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Could anyone who uses or has analyzed the pchdtv3000 > say whether or not it is worth purchasing it at $189? > Unless I could use it for more than Over the Air High > Definition transmission, it seems overkill. For one > reason or another, I don't feel the potential for more > than OTA is high. > > Thanks, > Julian ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
AW: [mythtv-users] Converting MPEG2 nuv files to something else?
> I've been searching through the archives and there is a lot of stuff > about converting (or failing to!) MPEG2 nuv files to other formats. > I'm interested in either burning shows to DVD, or converting to Xvid. > > Does anyone currently do this successfully, using either linux or > windows tools? I'm using my mythbox to burn DVB-S (mpeg2) recordings to dvd using mythtvburn - a collection of scripts usable either from the commandline or via mythweb - both work just fine; some fiddling was required to get the web interface up on a gentoo system, the scripts are designed for knoppix / knopmyth. See http://mythburn.sourceforge.net/ Bye, Martin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What NOT to do to your Myth box...
> o! i had to reply to this. or ask this question. :) > is it really violating copyright by downloading bittorrented tv shows > that you could record using your VCR/PRV/DVR? (assuming you're paying > for your cable or whatever service you're using...) > if i'm already paying for the content and happen to mis-program my > 'VCR' and don't get the show, then why can't i grab it via bittorrent? > i'm not saying it's right or wrong, or that the MPAA won't knock on > your door. just asking if that would be a valid arguement. > at the very least, in America, it is a violation for those shows to be offered for download and for those seeding it w/o authorization of the copyright holder. You are asking about a grey area, but you could get in trouble for contributing to the infringment. Note, the RIAA, so far, is only suing those making songs available on P2P, not those just dl (i.e. not sharing). Of course, their past actions have no bearing on whether they, or any other copyright holder, may start to sue people just downloading. -- Email me if you want a gmail account, I have invites. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What NOT to do to your Myth box...
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:02:49 -0800, Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:34:22AM -0500, Paul Kidwell wrote: > And of course, most of those shows can be found via bittorrent, not > that I would advise you to violate any copyrights. Not at the same > size you recorded them, though. o! i had to reply to this. or ask this question. :) is it really violating copyright by downloading bittorrented tv shows that you could record using your VCR/PRV/DVR? (assuming you're paying for your cable or whatever service you're using...) if i'm already paying for the content and happen to mis-program my 'VCR' and don't get the show, then why can't i grab it via bittorrent? i'm not saying it's right or wrong, or that the MPAA won't knock on your door. just asking if that would be a valid arguement. andy "the guy that gets most of his tv via bit torrent (until his MythBox is up and running)..." 6 GMail Invites available Email me OFF-list only... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 24, Issue 69
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:00:17AM -0800, Julian wrote: > Could anyone who uses or has analyzed the pchdtv3000 > say whether or not it is worth purchasing it at $189? > Unless I could use it for more than Over the Air High > Definition transmission, it seems overkill. For one I bought the earlier one, the hd2000 and I am happy with it. If you want a mature easy-to-use product, just get a hi def Tivo or something. In my case, I want to be able to save the raw transport streams out of the air, so it is perfect. Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Is pchdtv3000 worth it?
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:49:34AM -0800, Dan wolf wrote: > You HAVE to get it before June, after that all cards will be > restricted from what you can record. This is the last model to have > the ability to ignore the broadcast flag, so even if you are not going > to use it, get it. You will want it someday and they will be worth > hundreds of dollars in a few years. Its a good investment. Actually, from my understanding this is going to be much more complex than this. It's actually pretty hard for a _card_ to follow the broadcast flag rule. What makes more sense is a _system_ that enforces the broadcast flag rules, of which the card is a part. However, to do that, the card does have to do one thing, namely refuse to work with associated software that hasn't been blessed as following the rules. Or be a very smart card so the whole system is in the card. To do this, the card could, for example, only produce encrypted streams when the BF is set. Your could read from the card but all you would get was encrypted data. Unless your software had the keys, it could not play it. Your software would need to prove it was "well behaved" to to keymaster in order to get a key. That's actually tough, because software on an open PC can be reverse engineered and keys extracted. And open source software is out of the question, unless it had a locked, proprietary module for all playback or output of video. In theory, the card could be blessed and encrypt using the hdcp protocols, and the software might simply stream out this data to your TV, which if it's new, will have the HDCP keys inside. I don't know what actual vendors are planning. Another theoretical possibility would be a card that put out encrypted streams, and you fed the streams back into the card for it to feed out via QAM or ATSC or an encrypted protocol like DTVLink or HDCP to your TV, where it decrypted them. I think that's supposed to be legal but the rules are arcane. However, even if this were made to work and were legal, in these cases you can't do OSD, you can't do commercial elimination, cutlist editing, preview windows and so on. Plus the card now has to be a lot more expensive compared to a raw demodulator/tuner. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What NOT to do to your Myth box...
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:34:22AM -0500, Paul Kidwell wrote: > > > Over half a terrabyte of television GONE!!! > > > > > > The entire season of Rescue Me, GONE! > > > A couple of seasons of The Shield, GONE > > > Every episode of Lost, GONE > > > a couple of seasons of Enterprise, GONE!! > > > You get the picture... Actually, what probably _isn't_ gone is the "oldrecorded" table in your mythconverg database. This has a record of every show you ever recorded, with program id. Depending on your mysql skills, you will want to do a combination of turning some of those into recording requests, and moving away the shows you want to record again. It won't record them if they are in there normally. With most TV, it all comes round again before too long, though you may have to wait for the summer for all the reruns of current shows. And of course, most of those shows can be found via bittorrent, not that I would advise you to violate any copyrights. Not at the same size you recorded them, though. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] commercially-produced mythboxes -- an idea
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:15:41AM -0500, Maverick wrote: > can't assemble the hardware and install the software, they will goto > the local electronics store, spend $200 on a tivo, buy a lifetime > subscription, and leave the other $500 in the bank. To be strict, the $1000 is for an HD-Mythbox, and an HDTivo is also $1000 plus DirectTv subscription (though it has 4 tuners.) > > I just don't see an advantage in marketing pre-assembled or "canned" > hardware to geeks who have the knowledge to make their own exactly the > way they want. Actually, I do see one. As you can tell by reading guides like the Myth-tv-ology guide to Myth on Fedora or similar guides for Debian, there are still quite a number of steps to getting up and running. So I think a lot of people might like a hard disk which has all of that done and ready to go, since you want a new hard disk in a mythbox anyway. This is indeed what I have done for myself, in that if I wish a new mythbox, I don't repeat the procedure, I clone an existing one. That applies even with different hardware, since while the cloned disk has drivers for the pcHDTV, wintv-pvr and nvidia graphics cards on it (which are the most common choices for anybody building a new box), kudzu is quite able to reconfigure to the other hardware that changes on the new box (network etc.) though it likes to erase your xorg.conf. Of course, one could also make a distro on DVD with all this rather than requiring you to get a hard disk. > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Is pchdtv3000 worth it?
Brandon, I have Comcast basic cable, and am building my first Myth box. My fear is that encryption will void this card if I get digital cable. The only way this could change is with some sort of composite card capture solution that reads from the cable box post-decryption and an IR blaster, right? Maybe I could hack together a composite out that goes into the pchdtv3000? Thanks again, Julian --- Brandon Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:00:17AM -0800, Julian > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Could anyone who uses or has analyzed the > pchdtv3000 > > say whether or not it is worth purchasing it at > $189? > > Unless I could use it for more than Over the Air > High > > Definition transmission, it seems overkill. For > one > > reason or another, I don't feel the potential for > more > > than OTA is high. > > > > Thanks, > > Julian > > "Worth Purchasing" is very broad. Apparently many > people think it's > worth it, as the card is selling. I think the > better question you > should ask yourself is what do you expect? If you > expect something as > easy to use as Tivo then no, it's not for you (yet). > There are still > some things that can be improved. But I have 4 > cards, I'm glad I have > every last one. Things do break (software) and > there's system > maintance (More than ntsc Myth users experience) but > it's worth it to > me. Some people have problems getting the right > modelines for their HD > Displays but most eventually get it right, it just > takes time. How easy > it is depends on you and your skills. If you get a > good signal and have > a fedora box that's already connected to a HD > display then you can be > running in 5 minutes. If you're far from a tower, > have to research an > antenna, are using Redhat 7.2, have a HD display > that only takes 1 1080i > component input then it will take you longer. But > as far as "does the > card work" the answer is yes. If OTA and > non-encrypted QAM streams will > not be worth $189 then don't get the card. You > would be better off with > an HD Tivo that has 2 HD Satellite tuners and 2 ATSC > tuners, or wait for > cable companies to sell you their PVR Cable boxes. > > The HD3000 pcHDTV card does do QAM. It has been > tested, there is a > driver that has it working, but that driver is not > released. There is a > bit of other work being done on the driver to try to > get it so that it > will be accepted into kernel source. If there are > any kernel developers > or experienced kernel driver developers that want to > help, if they > contact me they will be able to work on the cvs > code, and get QAM early > -- But I won't be able to let just anyone have > access, sorry... Wait a > few weeks and we'll see then. > > --Brandon > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Is pchdtv3000 worth it?
The flag mandate requires that all ATSC demodulators be "robust" against user modification. It doesn't mean there will be no holes, but it'll be much harder to get equipment that has them. It probably makes PCI cards impossible, unless they have flag recognition and output disabling on the card in hardware or firmware. Yes, I'm also stocking up on HD-3000s. --Wendy At 12:05 PM -0800 1/14/05, Michael Miyabara-McCaskey wrote: hehe... Are you also making the assumption that AFTER June... no hacker in the world will create something to defeat the broadcast flag? :-) -Michael On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Dan wolf wrote: You HAVE to get it before June, after that all cards will be restricted from what you can record. This is the last model to have the ability to ignore the broadcast flag, so even if you are not going to use it, get it. You will want it someday and they will be worth hundreds of dollars in a few years. Its a good investment. On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 06:00:17 -0800 (PST), Julian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Could anyone who uses or has analyzed the pchdtv3000 > say whether or not it is worth purchasing it at $189? > Unless I could use it for more than Over the Air High > Definition transmission, it seems overkill. For one > reason or another, I don't feel the potential for more > than OTA is high. > > Thanks, > Julian > > = > Live simply so others may simply live. > > -Ghandi > > Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate. > "Entities should not be multiplied unneccesarily" > > -William of Occam > > > __ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. > http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 > > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > -- I have one Gmail invite left, email me to grab it! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- -- Wendy Seltzer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Recordings starting early, ending early
Brian Donaldson wrote: It starts recording early and stops early on all channels. I made sure to test that. I recorded the same shows when I was running MythTV .15 and I didn't have this problem. Thanks, Brian On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:07:39 +0100, Maarten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 14 January 2005 17:08, Brian Donaldson wrote: I'm running FC2, MythTV .16 and a PVR250. All TV recordings start a couple minutes early and end a couple minutes early. NTP is successfully updating the clock every time I boot up and the time appears to be correct on the computer. Any other ideas why the recording time would be off by a couple minutes? Ehm... not all stations start at the exact time that they advertize. (And that is an understatement if ever I saw one.) In my neck of the woods, all commercial stations start 3-5 minutes late as a rule (only too bad that rule has some exceptions sometimes) Or didn't you mean that ? Maarten Thanks, Brian Please don't top-post. Have you checked your mythbackend logs to see what time it thinks the shows are recording? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] What NOT to do to your Myth box...
> -Original Message- > From: Michael > > After you have finished the what appears to be a monumental set of tasks > to get the DVDs authored... > > How to you access them? Do you just store them on the shelf? > > I myself was hoping for a solution to use cheap off the shelf Sony DVD > jukebox - 400 DVD (1.56TB capacity - for $300)... that could be fed into > the Myth backend, somehow... but haven't seen any response on a previous > thread. I have a component video system. TV is set to video input (don't use tuner in TV) I have a 5.1 surround system receiver and have my Myth box set as video input 1, my VCR as video input 2, and have a Sony DVD changer (only 200 disk though) plugged into the DVD input. Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Converting MPEG2 nuv files to something else?
Hi I've been searching through the archives and there is a lot of stuff about converting (or failing to!) MPEG2 nuv files to other formats. I'm interested in either burning shows to DVD, or converting to Xvid. Does anyone currently do this successfully, using either linux or windows tools? If so, could you perhaps post a mini-howto? I'm familiar with windows tools such as Virtualdub but I'm not really sure how to go about using the various linux tools - I did try nuvexport but it didn't work and I've read there are issues with nuvexport and MPEG2 files (my sources are all DVB cards). Any hints or pointers would be appreciated :-) Cheers -- Neil Milne ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] remote control for frontend only
Johan Arens wrote: Hi I'm on the point to build my frontends, and I'm looking a low cost solution for the remote control . What do you guys using for your frontends ? I've found the ATI remote wonder, but it's quite expensive or the ones from logitechs. What's yr choice ? Streamzap. http://www.streamzap.com If you have a universal remote like for your TV, you can use that with just the IR receiver and not even use the streamzap remote. This is what I do and I just programed my remote to be a Tivo (which I don't have) and used the Tivo LIRC file to control the frontend. If you talk to Streamzap sales via email they'll give you the part # to just order the IR receiver if that's what you need. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] NL setup: How to use xawtv info?
Hi, Just curious how to use my xawtv list to fill the mythtv database? I noticed the mythfilldatabase has a --xawchannels option but could not find a way insert them. Unfortunatly the mythtvsetup screen is not that intuative to me. (Being more of CLI type of guy.) Any suggestion would be appriciated. Hugo. -- I hate duplicates. Just reply to the relevant mailinglist. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hvdkooij.xs4all.nl/ Don't meddle in the affairs of magicians, for they are subtle and quick to anger. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Is pchdtv3000 worth it?
hehe... Are you also making the assumption that AFTER June... no hacker in the world will create something to defeat the broadcast flag? :-) -Michael On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Dan wolf wrote: > You HAVE to get it before June, after that all cards will be > restricted from what you can record. This is the last model to have > the ability to ignore the broadcast flag, so even if you are not going > to use it, get it. You will want it someday and they will be worth > hundreds of dollars in a few years. Its a good investment. > > > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 06:00:17 -0800 (PST), Julian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Could anyone who uses or has analyzed the pchdtv3000 > > say whether or not it is worth purchasing it at $189? > > Unless I could use it for more than Over the Air High > > Definition transmission, it seems overkill. For one > > reason or another, I don't feel the potential for more > > than OTA is high. > > > > Thanks, > > Julian > > > > = > > Live simply so others may simply live. > > > > -Ghandi > > > > Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate. > > "Entities should not be multiplied unneccesarily" > > > > -William of Occam > > > > > > __ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. > > http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 > > > > > > ___ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > > > > -- > > I have one Gmail invite left, email me to grab it! > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Is pchdtv3000 worth it?
You HAVE to get it before June, after that all cards will be restricted from what you can record. This is the last model to have the ability to ignore the broadcast flag, so even if you are not going to use it, get it. You will want it someday and they will be worth hundreds of dollars in a few years. Its a good investment. On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 06:00:17 -0800 (PST), Julian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Could anyone who uses or has analyzed the pchdtv3000 > say whether or not it is worth purchasing it at $189? > Unless I could use it for more than Over the Air High > Definition transmission, it seems overkill. For one > reason or another, I don't feel the potential for more > than OTA is high. > > Thanks, > Julian > > = > Live simply so others may simply live. > > -Ghandi > > Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate. > "Entities should not be multiplied unneccesarily" > > -William of Occam > > > __ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. > http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 > > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > -- I have one Gmail invite left, email me to grab it! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Erratic seeking
Well, it looks like the problem has resurfaced. Although upon closer inspection it might only be affecting BBC channels. I rebuilt Myth from CVS on Tuesday night and I watched a film I recorded on Wednesday night, this exibited the seeking problem, however a program recorded the same night on ITV performed correctly. I've just checked again with two other programs, one on ITV2 and one on BBC 4 and they both behave in the same way. The ITV show seeks correctly and BBC one doesn't. I know there is some issue with the BBC not closing their GOP sequences correctly resulting in really long GOPs. Is there any extra debugging I can turn on to see wether it's upsetting Myth in any way? If the BBC are actually fault I'd like to know, as I can hassle some people at work to get it fixed if possible. I'm sure if ITV can do it correctly then so can the BBC. :-) Cheers, Andy Marriott 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. Any ideas? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Recordings starting early, ending early
It starts recording early and stops early on all channels. I made sure to test that. I recorded the same shows when I was running MythTV .15 and I didn't have this problem. Thanks, Brian On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:07:39 +0100, Maarten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 14 January 2005 17:08, Brian Donaldson wrote: > > I'm running FC2, MythTV .16 and a PVR250. > > > > All TV recordings start a couple minutes early and end a couple > > minutes early. NTP is successfully updating the clock every time I > > boot up and the time appears to be correct on the computer. Any other > > ideas why the recording time would be off by a couple minutes? > > Ehm... not all stations start at the exact time that they advertize. > (And that is an understatement if ever I saw one.) > In my neck of the woods, all commercial stations start 3-5 minutes late as a > rule (only too bad that rule has some exceptions sometimes) > > Or didn't you mean that ? > > Maarten > > > Thanks, > > > > Brian > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Is pchdtv3000 worth it?
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:00:17AM -0800, Julian wrote: > Hi, > > Could anyone who uses or has analyzed the pchdtv3000 > say whether or not it is worth purchasing it at $189? > Unless I could use it for more than Over the Air High > Definition transmission, it seems overkill. For one > reason or another, I don't feel the potential for more > than OTA is high. > > Thanks, > Julian "Worth Purchasing" is very broad. Apparently many people think it's worth it, as the card is selling. I think the better question you should ask yourself is what do you expect? If you expect something as easy to use as Tivo then no, it's not for you (yet). There are still some things that can be improved. But I have 4 cards, I'm glad I have every last one. Things do break (software) and there's system maintance (More than ntsc Myth users experience) but it's worth it to me. Some people have problems getting the right modelines for their HD Displays but most eventually get it right, it just takes time. How easy it is depends on you and your skills. If you get a good signal and have a fedora box that's already connected to a HD display then you can be running in 5 minutes. If you're far from a tower, have to research an antenna, are using Redhat 7.2, have a HD display that only takes 1 1080i component input then it will take you longer. But as far as "does the card work" the answer is yes. If OTA and non-encrypted QAM streams will not be worth $189 then don't get the card. You would be better off with an HD Tivo that has 2 HD Satellite tuners and 2 ATSC tuners, or wait for cable companies to sell you their PVR Cable boxes. The HD3000 pcHDTV card does do QAM. It has been tested, there is a driver that has it working, but that driver is not released. There is a bit of other work being done on the driver to try to get it so that it will be accepted into kernel source. If there are any kernel developers or experienced kernel driver developers that want to help, if they contact me they will be able to work on the cvs code, and get QAM early -- But I won't be able to let just anyone have access, sorry... Wait a few weeks and we'll see then. --Brandon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Happy...but picture is grainy
I tried increasing the bitrate last night as high as 9000/10500, and didn't notice any difference. I'll try chanigng the mpeg2 type tonight and see if that helps. On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:28:31 -0500, Craig Partin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I actually have an AverMedia M179, but its essentially a PVR 250 (same > mpeg encoder chip). Short answer is Yes. > > > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:58:57 -0600, Steve Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > You can also try changing the mpeg2 type in recording > > > options. I noticed a big difference when changing from mpeg > > > PS to DVD-special 1 (actual syntax may differ slightly). It > > > did create larger files at the same bitrate but the picture was much > > > clearer IMO. > > > > > > > > > > Was that with a PVR 250/350 ? > > > > > > ___ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > > > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What NOT to do to your Myth box...
After you have finished the what appears to be a monumental set of tasks to get the DVDs authored... How to you access them? Do you just store them on the shelf? I myself was hoping for a solution to use cheap off the shelf Sony DVD jukebox - 400 DVD (1.56TB capacity - for $300)... that could be fed into the Myth backend, somehow... but havent seen any response on a previous thread. Many have also mentioned doing RAID, but this only helps in the case of HDD failures... As noted by this thread, there are plenty of ways to accidently delete or corrupt your data. Thoughts? -Michael On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Scott Alfter wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 04:44:51AM -0600, John Williams wrote: > > >I've gotten fairly good with a handful of Windows > > > programs that make DVDs out of stuff ripped from my TiVo or my MythTV. > > > > What programs are you using for your windows archiving? > > I usually start by splitting the audio out of the MPEG program stream with > DVD2AVI and decode it to WAV with LAME. I then create an Avisynth script > (using one of the MPEG-2 decoder plugins and the Decomb plugin) to mux the > audio and video back together in something that VirtualDub can handle. I > use VirtualDub to find ad breaks and add those to the script, along with > some frame resizing (from 480x480 to 720x480) and inverse telecine (if it's > needed). Edited audio is saved by VirtualDub to another WAV file, which is > resampled to 48 kHz (if it's not there already) and normalized with sox and > encoed to AC3 with BeSweet. The edited video is reencoded (usually at a > lower bitrate) with TMPGEnc. The edited video and audio are then brought > into DVDlab for authoring. The set of VOBs generated by DVDlab is converted > to an image file with DVD Shrink, which is then burned with DVD Decrypter. > > With the exception of TMPGEnc and DVDlab, all of these programs are free > (mostly as in beer, though Avisynth, VirtualDub, LAME, and sox are free as > in speech if it matters). You should be able to track down all of the free > stuff at Doom9 (http://www.doom9.net/). > > You might be able to speed up the progress significantly (and save some > money) by (1) recording the video at 720x480 or 352x480 instead of 480x480, > (2) using nuvexport to chop ads out, and (3) using DVD Shrink to transcode > the video instead of using TMPGEnc to reencode it, but I've not tried this > yet. One significant difference I'd see in quality with this method is that > you couldn't apply inverse 3:2 pulldown to those shows that need it. > > All this works fairly well for SD video grabbed from either TiVo or MythTV. > You end up with standard DVD-Video content that plays in anybody's DVD > player. For HD video, you'd basically need to roll your own format at this > point if you want to keep it HD. If you want to convert HD to SD so you can > burn it to DVD, you'll first need to convert the received transport stream > to a program stream. replex will do that: > > http://freshmeat.net/projects/dvb-replex/ > > Once you have a program stream, you should be able to process it with the > same tools listed above (though you'll need to add the AC3 decoder filter > for Avisynth, since most (all?) HD broadcasts use AC3 audio). > > _/_ > / v \ Scott Alfter (remove the obvious to send mail) > (IIGS( http://alfter.us/Top-posting! > \_^_/ rm -rf /bin/laden>What's the most annoying thing on Usenet? > > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What version of Xbox is best for myth?
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:51:34 -, George Styles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1.6 and up seem to have issues with modding actually the 1.6 isn't so bad. i think someone else mentioned that you can still do one of the soft-mods on the 1.6. and there are now several chips available for the 1.6. a better place to ask XBox specific questions would be http://www.xbox-scene.com/forums 6 GMail Invites available Email me OFF-list only... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Some Xbox questions: install Myth native, partitioning ???
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:01:54 -0700, Marty Mastera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a 1.6 Xbox with Xecuter 3 chip installed with a 300GB HD. I'm > looking for a way to manually partition the drive to my liking. My bios > only gives me a couple of options (give F: the rest of the drive, or F: > up to 137GB and G: the rest). My goal is to use F: for game rips and > leave some free space on the drive to install Myth native. I only need > a small portion of the drive for the Myth frontend (10 GB maybe???) and > I want to give the F: game rip partition the majority of the space. I > need a flexible way to partition the drive to accomplish this. you'd be better off taking this topic to: http://www.xbox-scene.com/forums since asking How-To's for an XBox is a bit off-topic here. :) in attempt to answer your question; partition F: and G:. use F: for your backups and G: for Linux/Myth. i'm not sure how much control you have over sizing those two partitions as i think that's decided by the chip/bios you're using or the dashboard you have installed. 6 GMail Invites available Email me OFF-list only... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: RE: Mac OS X installation guide
Anyone else excited about the possibility of a mini Mac myth frontend? I think the 59 messages in the existing Mac Mini thread indicate that others are excited. ;) I might get one myself. Yeah, I had missed that thread somehow in the online archives. Looks very promising indeed. you should take a look at the Apple Keyspan Express Remote at the Apple store. looks sharp and should will work with any Mac. :) Yes, that looks perfect! Thanks for the suggestion. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Getting VCR Recordings Into MythTV/MythVideo
> Trouble I had with that is I couldn't WatchTV with it. To verify > it was working, I had to make a short ManualRecording and watch it. When > I finally verified all was good, I made a ManualRecording for the > approximate length of what I was dubbing, and let it rip. I was able to view mine with LiveTV. I still don't know enough about manual recording. I'll look into that, as it may be enough for what I need. Jeff. > On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, John Williams wrote: > > >>True. I've managed to do it as a manual recording by binding an > >> aux input to a "bogus" channel. It never quite worked the way I thought > >> it should, however. > > > > Cory, > > How did you set up the bogus channel? Then how did you tue to it? I'm > > willing to work a little at it, but I'm not sure where to start. > > Thanks, > > john > > > Ran 'setup' (a.k.a. 'mythtvsetup')... same place one defines video > devices and channel lineups. Make a bogus lineup and manually add an > unused channel (e.g. 99 for me). Bind it to another input like composite. > > Trouble I had with that is I couldn't WatchTV with it. To verify > it was working, I had to make a short ManualRecording and watch it. When > I finally verified all was good, I made a ManualRecording for the > approximate length of what I was dubbing, and let it rip. > > -Cory > > * > * Cory Papenfuss * > * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * > * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University > * > * > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] remote control for frontend only
On January 14, 2005 02:25 pm, Johan Arens wrote: > Hi > > I'm on the point to build my frontends, and I'm looking a low cost > solution for the remote control . > What do you guys using for your frontends ? > > I've found the ATI remote wonder, but it's quite expensive or the ones > from logitechs. > > What's yr choice ? > > Thanks > > Yhan A homebrew receiver with a Universal remote. You may already have a universal remote. I'm using the one that came with my digital cable box. Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] remote control for frontend only
Hi I'm on the point to build my frontends, and I'm looking a low cost solution for the remote control . What do you guys using for your frontends ? I've found the ATI remote wonder, but it's quite expensive or the ones from logitechs. What's yr choice ? Thanks Yhan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Fedora Core 3 and G. Ethernet (Marvell 88E8050)
Well, it's been an adventure, but so far, no luck. I have a few bookmarks with some good information (sorry, don't have them handy, I'm at work now), as well as more knowledge of Linux than I had bargained for :) What I have discovered is that many people are having the same problem. Some have been able to install the Marvell driver found here: http://www.marvell.com/drivers/driverDisplay.do?dId=107&pId=10 Others have not had as much luck. Right now my system is rather horked up (I now know enough to really mess stuff up), so this weekend I am planning on reinstalling and trying out some of the things I have found in my bookmarks. I will post my notes! I am determined to get the driver installed, and to understand the process well enough to repeat it reliably. Stay tuned, I will post my progress sometime this weekend (or Monday if no sucess). Also, to make getting source rpms and driver packages easier, I dropped in an old 3Com 10/100 card I fished out of the junk bin. FC3 recognized it, and this would probably be good enough, except that (a) I would like to use the PCI slot for something else, and (b) I certainly don't want to admit defeat - "Never give in and never give up". --- "Louis C. Kouvaris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank, > > Did you ever get your Marvel Yukon 88e8050 chip recognized? I am > having the same trouble. Thanks. > > -- > Louis C. Kouvaris > > > __ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What NOT to do to your Myth box...
On Friday 14 January 2005 17:34, Paul Kidwell wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Scott Alfter > > That's why you offload TV shows onto DVD instead of keeping them on the > > HD forever. (Admittedly the stuff that's out there for making DVDs under > > Linux isn't all there yet, but I've gotten fairly good with a handful of > > Windows programs that make DVDs out of stuff ripped from my TiVo or my > > MythTV.) I personally wouldn't want that. Before you know it you have to search through tons and tons of DVDs to find that one special show. I'm glad I got rid of the mess of floppies, and I'm not about to start over with DVDs... In any case, the price comparison between DVD-media and harddrives isn't that negative for harddisks; You pay just twice as much for the comfort of a hdd. To me, that's usually worth it. > Which is what I was planning on doing, but it didn't work out that way. I > installed a pair of 200Gig drives into my win2k box set up as a mirrored > Raid array. (I'd recently had yet another disk crash and I didn't want to > loose *anything* anymore) > > Well... Authoring the DVDs was going slower than the .mpg files were > coming in. I filled up 200Gig rather quickly. and a friend talked me into > converting my array into a "striped" RAID array. So now I had 400Gig. Which > quickly filled up to 350Gig of recorded programming... ...I just know what's coming... > Needless to say, it only took a month for one of the brand new drives to > crap out :( ...bingo. :-( Tell your "friend" to store his _own_ data on stripesets. I use raid-5 only. That's the best you can choose; it is a nice compromise between striping and mirroring. Only thing is, you gotta think / buy in advance, since you can't really easily 'grow' a raid-5 array. What helps too, is not to put stacks of drives into cramped cases that need to be silent as well. Instead tuck them away in the basement with ample cooling. High temperature is a harddisks' enemy no. 1 ! Needless to say I'm no fan of combined backends/frontends. Maarten ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Some Xbox questions: install Myth native, partitioning ???
Hello, I have a 1.6 Xbox with Xecuter 3 chip installed with a 300GB HD. I'm looking for a way to manually partition the drive to my liking. My bios only gives me a couple of options (give F: the rest of the drive, or F: up to 137GB and G: the rest). My goal is to use F: for game rips and leave some free space on the drive to install Myth native. I only need a small portion of the drive for the Myth frontend (10 GB maybe???) and I want to give the F: game rip partition the majority of the space. I need a flexible way to partition the drive to accomplish this. My modchip has multiple BIOS banks...I have a xbox bios with dashboard loaded into one slot, and Cromwell 2.40 loaded into another. I can successfully boot into whichever I want using the dip switches. My plan is to normally boot using Cromwell and into Myth, and occasionally switch to the other BIOS and play games, using the F: drive to store game rips that I play. Any advice? Thanks, marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Re: Re: New Mac Mini
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:00:34 -0500, Michael J. Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just some more notes about the mini Mac as a frontend: > > 1) I compiled MythTV CVS on my iMac G4 last night; worked perfectly. > Check the archives for a link to a writeup on how to do it. My iMac > is a 1.25 GHz G4, the same exact chip in the mini Mac, and I was > watching full-screen TV with no problems at all. > > 2) Still need to figure out a good remote control solution. There is > no serial port, so some sort of USB IR-input dongle is needed. Apple Keyspan Express Remote - check it out @ http://store.apple.com > > 4) Don't forget that you also get OS X and iLife and all that > wonderful software. It's what a computer is supposed to be. I've > been using Linux since 1993 and I just got my iMac last March - I fell > in love with it. OS X is quite incredible. I highly recommend this > machine, not only for a sweet Myth frontend, but just as a new > computer to try out a great system. here, here. i became a switcher when i first saw OS X as well. :) great OS. 6 GMail Invites available Email me OFF-list only... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] FF/RR and jump ahead/back gone all wonky
Michael Carter wrote: A week ago or so FF/RR and jump ahead/back on my FC2 MythTV 0.16 w/ PRV-350 went to hell. For example if I push the >> (jump ahead) button on my remote, the video freezes for about 15 seconds, the elapsed time readout changes a bit, the recording duration readout goes backwards a few seconds (?!?). After the 'freeze', the jump ahead completes. The mythfrontend log says: 2005-01-13 22:45:47 DoFastForward: Not enough info in positionMap, we need frame 9333 but highest we have is 450 2005-01-13 22:45:47 SyncPositionMap prerecorded, from DB: 30 entries 2005-01-13 22:45:47 DoFastForward: Still Not enough info in positionMap, we need frame 9333 but highest we have is 450. Will seek frame-by-frame /var/log/messages says: Jan 13 22:49:52 goldings kernel: ivtv-osd: OSD: (0) DMA Error 0x0007 Jan 13 22:49:52 goldings kernel: ivtv-osd: OSD: (1) DMA Error 0x0007 Jan 13 22:49:52 goldings kernel: ivtv-osd: OSD: (0) DMA Error 0x0007 Jan 13 22:50:16 goldings kernel: ivtv: DEC: (0) DMA Error 0x0007 Jan 13 22:50:53 goldings last message repeated 3 times Jan 13 22:52:01 goldings last message repeated 4 times Jan 13 22:52:43 goldings last message repeated 4 times Jan 13 22:52:43 goldings kernel: ivtv: DEC: (1) DMA Error 0x0007 Jan 13 22:52:58 goldings kernel: ivtv: DEC: (0) DMA Error 0x0007 Jan 13 22:53:44 goldings kernel: ivtv: DEC: (0) DMA Error 0x0007 Jan 13 22:55:09 goldings last message repeated 2 times Jan 13 22:55:14 goldings kernel: ivtv: DEC: (0) DMA Error 0x0007 Jan 13 22:55:14 goldings kernel: ivtv: DEC: (1) DMA Error 0x0007 Jan 13 22:55:53 goldings kernel: ivtv: DEC: (0) DMA Error 0x0007 Jan 13 22:56:28 goldings last message repeated 6 times Jan 13 22:56:28 goldings kernel: ivtv: DEC: (1) DMA Error 0x0007 If too much FF/RR'ing or jumping is attempted, the whole box will lock up. WAF is negative right now... any advice? Well, the first part about the position map probably indicates bad data in your recordedmarkup table. You can use mythcommflag with the --rebuild option to rebuild the data for particular files. As for the last, DMA errors sound like hardware issues but I'm not an ivtv user so I can't say what is really happening there. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] RE: Mac OS X installation guide
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:50:28 -0500, Michael J. Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone else excited about the possibility of a mini Mac myth frontend? >A little 6.5" x 6.5" x 2" box hooked right up to the TV. The last > hurdle to overcome now is the remote control input. Perhaps a > USB-based IR dongle Anyone have ideas on that? Mike, you should take a look at the Apple Keyspan Express Remote at the Apple store. looks sharp and should will work with any Mac. :) 6 GMail Invites available Email me OFF-list only... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV on XBox
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 10:52 +0100, Wouter Lagerweij wrote: > (For some reason posting this went wrong, yesterday. > Sorry if there are any double messages!) > > On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 16:28 -0800, Joe Votour wrote: > > > Hmmm... I'm interested... My crystal x-box is too > > > noisy. I'm planning on > > > slowing down the fan a bit, but if anyone knows a > > > better way. > > > > > If you flash a modified BIOS, you can change the fan > > speed of the rear fan (although I've read that the > > regular XBox BIOS already sets it to 20% of normal > > speed). However, I found that the GPU fan in the 1.0 > > XBox (which I have) is the noisy one by far, I just > > Thanks, this is useful information! I have never run my xbox using > the regular MS bios, so it may be that I only have to change > a setting for my modchip bios to get it to quiet down! > Since the Crystal xbox is a 1.6 model, it doesn't have a fan > on the GPU, so I won't have to try that hardware hack. > (Thank god! :-) > > > > I've used xbmc for a while, and it works very well. > > > There's even work going on in the xbmx forums for a > > > python script that > > > can be used as a (limited) MythTV front-end. > > > It allows one to schedule recordings, browse > > > existing recordings, and > > > even view them, as long as their in myth's mpeg2 > > > format. (no mplayer > > > support for the mpeg1 and mpeg4 myth formats, > > > unfortunately.) > > > And lately, people have even been working on getting > > > live tv working! > > > (with the same mpeg2 caveat, so I haven't seen > > > this...) > > > > > This would be absolutely awesome. Perhaps a stripped > > down MythTV GUI that offers options that only really > > apply to the XBox, such as watching TV/recordings, > > DVD/VCD playback (if VCDs even work in your XBox, > > CD-Rs won't in mine, for instance). I use dual > > PVR-250's, so I don't have a problem with the MPEG-2 > > restriction (although not everybody is equally > > blessed). > > The XBMC python script is now hosted on sourceforge ( > http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmcmythtv ) so if you > want to give it a shot, that the place to go. > It's not very useful for me, yet, because of the mpeg2 > restriction, but I just saw that there now is a mythstreamtv > project, that might help out in that respect. That looks very promising! I will give it a try. Thanks! > Playing DVDs, CDs, or video files and such is not implemented in the > myth script, since XBMC does those jobs very well on its own. > > > One of these days I plan on making a stripped down > > theme that still looks good, but helps out with memory > > usage on the XBox for MythTV... Well, I keep telling > > myself that, maybe I'll get to it one of these days. > > ;) In the case of the XBox, MythTV without Linux > > would really be good, if nothing else, but to save > > some RAM and maybe eliminate the hard drive swapping > > activity. But, unfortunately, a huge task. > > That might be nice. If I'm ever going to really use myth on linux on the xbox, > I'm going to at least flash a bios so it boots linux directly. At the > moment the boot time is my main reason for preferring a xbmc solution. > > Wouter > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] RE: Mac OS X installation guide
On Jan 14, 2005, at 9:50 AM, Michael J. Sherman wrote: Anyone else excited about the possibility of a mini Mac myth frontend? A little 6.5" x 6.5" x 2" box hooked right up to the TV. The last hurdle to overcome now is the remote control input. Perhaps a USB-based IR dongle Anyone have ideas on that? Heh :) A couple. 1) You can do IR through the sound input if there is one. I've heard there isn't, but haven't checked. 2) Apple sells a remote control that would work with the mini. 3) Plug the remote interface into a different machine and send commands across the network. There's PHP->Applescript interfaces floating around that can turn wget commands into Applescript commands. Drew -- Drew Bernat Paradyn Project __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What NOT to do to your Myth box...
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 04:44:51AM -0600, John Williams wrote: > >I've gotten fairly good with a handful of Windows > > programs that make DVDs out of stuff ripped from my TiVo or my MythTV. > > What programs are you using for your windows archiving? I usually start by splitting the audio out of the MPEG program stream with DVD2AVI and decode it to WAV with LAME. I then create an Avisynth script (using one of the MPEG-2 decoder plugins and the Decomb plugin) to mux the audio and video back together in something that VirtualDub can handle. I use VirtualDub to find ad breaks and add those to the script, along with some frame resizing (from 480x480 to 720x480) and inverse telecine (if it's needed). Edited audio is saved by VirtualDub to another WAV file, which is resampled to 48 kHz (if it's not there already) and normalized with sox and encoed to AC3 with BeSweet. The edited video is reencoded (usually at a lower bitrate) with TMPGEnc. The edited video and audio are then brought into DVDlab for authoring. The set of VOBs generated by DVDlab is converted to an image file with DVD Shrink, which is then burned with DVD Decrypter. With the exception of TMPGEnc and DVDlab, all of these programs are free (mostly as in beer, though Avisynth, VirtualDub, LAME, and sox are free as in speech if it matters). You should be able to track down all of the free stuff at Doom9 (http://www.doom9.net/). You might be able to speed up the progress significantly (and save some money) by (1) recording the video at 720x480 or 352x480 instead of 480x480, (2) using nuvexport to chop ads out, and (3) using DVD Shrink to transcode the video instead of using TMPGEnc to reencode it, but I've not tried this yet. One significant difference I'd see in quality with this method is that you couldn't apply inverse 3:2 pulldown to those shows that need it. All this works fairly well for SD video grabbed from either TiVo or MythTV. You end up with standard DVD-Video content that plays in anybody's DVD player. For HD video, you'd basically need to roll your own format at this point if you want to keep it HD. If you want to convert HD to SD so you can burn it to DVD, you'll first need to convert the received transport stream to a program stream. replex will do that: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dvb-replex/ Once you have a program stream, you should be able to process it with the same tools listed above (though you'll need to add the AC3 decoder filter for Avisynth, since most (all?) HD broadcasts use AC3 audio). _/_ / v \ Scott Alfter (remove the obvious to send mail) (IIGS( http://alfter.us/Top-posting! \_^_/ rm -rf /bin/laden>What's the most annoying thing on Usenet? pgpHTkMxIHZEn.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Recordings starting early, ending early
On Friday 14 January 2005 17:08, Brian Donaldson wrote: > I'm running FC2, MythTV .16 and a PVR250. > > All TV recordings start a couple minutes early and end a couple > minutes early. NTP is successfully updating the clock every time I > boot up and the time appears to be correct on the computer. Any other > ideas why the recording time would be off by a couple minutes? Ehm... not all stations start at the exact time that they advertize. (And that is an understatement if ever I saw one.) In my neck of the woods, all commercial stations start 3-5 minutes late as a rule (only too bad that rule has some exceptions sometimes) Or didn't you mean that ? Maarten > Thanks, > > Brian ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What version of Xbox is best for myth?
I would go for a 1.5 . Mine is a (TSOP flashed) 1.0 which is VERY noisy (2 fans, one for case/cpu and one for gpu) My sisters is a more recent one (not sure, 1.1-1.5?) and is MUCH quieter 1.6 and up seem to have issues with modding g - Original Message - From: "Jurgen Kramer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion about mythtv" Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 4:19 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] What version of Xbox is best for myth? On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 15:07 +0100, anders smith wrote: I have what I think is a 1.6 model (PAL Crystal edition) and it was soft modded just fine. The one problem was that I couldn't use the old kit and had to get the latest version from ldots. You can find it in the usual places /anders On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:54:24 -0500, John Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > since the forums here http://bit.blkbk.com/phpBB2/index.php have been > exploited.. I'm asking here :-) > > I'm going to get a xbox for myth uses only and wondering what version > of > xbox should i try and get. all the local stores around here carry what > i assume to be 1.6 or 1.6b xboxs, any way to tell by looking at the > box? reading online i see that 1.6 and 1.6b xboxs are not ideal > because > you can not software mod them. The 1.6b have overscan issues as well. > So that leaves me with the question of, if I can get an older xbox what > version would i want? to obtain the best picture quality and reduced > noise levels. > > thanks for any foresight I have a hw modded 1.6 PAL box myself. I have a problem where I only get Linux to give a green screen when I use the SCART connector. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] What NOT to do to your Myth box...
> -Original Message- > From: Scott Alfter > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:11:37AM -0500, tommy wrote: > > Well my friends, I'll tell you WTF! remember yesterday when I ran the > > recorded programs version of the cgi script? well it seems wget spidered > > the links on recorded_programs.php, sounds innocent enough until you > > realise that the last link on every line is DELETE!!! Yes my friends, the > > script went through and deleted my ENTIRE BOX!!! > > > > Over half a terrabyte of television GONE!!! > > > > The entire season of Rescue Me, GONE! > > A couple of seasons of The Shield, GONE > > Every episode of Lost, GONE > > a couple of seasons of Enterprise, GONE!! > > You get the picture... > > That's why you offload TV shows onto DVD instead of keeping them on the HD > forever. (Admittedly the stuff that's out there for making DVDs under Linux > isn't all there yet, but I've gotten fairly good with a handful of Windows > programs that make DVDs out of stuff ripped from my TiVo or my MythTV.) Which is what I was planning on doing, but it didn't work out that way. I installed a pair of 200Gig drives into my win2k box set up as a mirrored Raid array. (I'd recently had yet another disk crash and I didn't want to loose *anything* anymore) Well... Authoring the DVDs was going slower than the .mpg files were coming in. I filled up 200Gig rather quickly. and a friend talked me into converting my array into a "striped" RAID array. So now I had 400Gig. Which quickly filled up to 350Gig of recorded programming... Needless to say, it only took a month for one of the brand new drives to crap out :( Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Happy...but picture is grainy
I actually have an AverMedia M179, but its essentially a PVR 250 (same mpeg encoder chip). Short answer is Yes. On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:58:57 -0600, Steve Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You can also try changing the mpeg2 type in recording > > options. I noticed a big difference when changing from mpeg > > PS to DVD-special 1 (actual syntax may differ slightly). It > > did create larger files at the same bitrate but the picture was much > > clearer IMO. > > > > > > Was that with a PVR 250/350 ? > > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Nova-T and a PVR-250?
I'm in the UK and have a perfectly working MythTV setup, using a PVR-250, a Sky digibox with a redeye IR transmitter controlling it. Obviously, as everything is working fine, now is the time to mess with things! I'm thinking of adding a DVB-T card in there as well, so we can record one thing whilse watching another, or record two programs at once. I know Myth can cope with multiple cards, but how will it manage with the fact that some channels will be on the PVR-250 (Sky movies etc) and will need the redeye IR doofer to turn over, and that some channels will be on both? Can anyone offer any pearls of wisdom, even if it's "don't do that mate!" ? Regards, Garry. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Delete music from select music screen
Pedro Sigwald wrote: Is there a way to delete music from select music screen? Thanks, Pablo. __ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! ¡Abrí tu cuenta ya! - http://correo.yahoo.com.ar ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Delete, or remove it from your playlist? Just select a song again to remove it from your playlist. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What version of Xbox is best for myth?
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 15:07 +0100, anders smith wrote: > I have what I think is a 1.6 model (PAL Crystal edition) and it was > soft modded just fine. The one problem was that I couldn't use the old > kit and had to get the latest version from ldots. > You can find it in the usual places > /anders > > > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:54:24 -0500, John Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > since the forums here http://bit.blkbk.com/phpBB2/index.php have been > > exploited.. I'm asking here :-) > > > > I'm going to get a xbox for myth uses only and wondering what version of > > xbox should i try and get. all the local stores around here carry what > > i assume to be 1.6 or 1.6b xboxs, any way to tell by looking at the > > box? reading online i see that 1.6 and 1.6b xboxs are not ideal because > > you can not software mod them. The 1.6b have overscan issues as well. > > So that leaves me with the question of, if I can get an older xbox what > > version would i want? to obtain the best picture quality and reduced > > noise levels. > > > > thanks for any foresight I have a hw modded 1.6 PAL box myself. I have a problem where I only get Linux to give a green screen when I use the SCART connector. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] RE: Mac OS X installation guide
Michael J. Sherman wrote: I've written a guide for compiling and installing MythTV from CVS on Mac OS X: http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MythOnMacOsx Anyone else excited about the possibility of a mini Mac myth frontend? A little 6.5" x 6.5" x 2" box hooked right up to the TV. The last hurdle to overcome now is the remote control input. Perhaps a USB-based IR dongle Anyone have ideas on that? Sailing Clicker or Romeo ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] RE: Mac OS X installation guide
On 14 Jan 2005, at 10:50 AM, Michael J. Sherman wrote: http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MythOnMacOsx One note; the mysql package is now 4.1.9, and the 4.1.7 release you reference in the doc is no longer available at that URL. 4.1.8 has a bug in its configure.in, so just use the 4.1.9. Well, that's why the guide is on the Wiki, so anyone can update the doc when it goes out of date. If you find something like that in the future, please go ahead and edit the page. Anyone else excited about the possibility of a mini Mac myth frontend? I think the 59 messages in the existing Mac Mini thread indicate that others are excited. ;) I might get one myself. Perhaps a USB-based IR dongle Anyone have ideas on that? The Mini thread mentioned the Keyspan Express remote, which looked too minimal for me. I have mixed feelings about the ATI Remote Wonder II, which is what I purchased. I couldn't find an inexpensive generic IR receiver for the Mac; if you find one, let us know. - Jeremiah ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Recordings starting early, ending early
I'm running FC2, MythTV .16 and a PVR250. All TV recordings start a couple minutes early and end a couple minutes early. NTP is successfully updating the clock every time I boot up and the time appears to be correct on the computer. Any other ideas why the recording time would be off by a couple minutes? Thanks, Brian ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Dayton Ohio MythTV User Group
For those MythTV users living in or near Dayton Ohio and interested in starting a local MUG please see the following: http://mythtv.info/moin.cgi/Dayton_2c_20OH_20MUG_20_28Greater_20Dayton_20Are a_29 or sign up for the DAY-MUG Yahoo! Group. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DAY-MUG I am just starting this so there is little or no activity yet. Please feel free to speak up. Thank you. Andrew Lynch ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Delete music from select music screen
Is there a way to delete music from select music screen? Thanks, Pablo. __ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! ¡Abrí tu cuenta ya! - http://correo.yahoo.com.ar ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] RE: Mac OS X installation guide
Wireless IR keyboard and a IR learning remote would probably do the trick. Josh On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:50:28 -0500, Michael J. Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've written a guide for compiling and installing MythTV from CVS on > > Mac OS X: > > > > http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MythOnMacOsx > > Thanks a lot for this write-up. It was easy to follow and it resulted > in a working myth frontend running on my iMac. I had a previous build > running on my mac, but it was a 0.16 release, and my backend server is > running CVS. This write-up allows me to keep them both in sync since > I can use CVS code on my mac install now. > > One note; the mysql package is now 4.1.9, and the 4.1.7 release you > reference in the doc is no longer available at that URL. 4.1.8 has a > bug in its configure.in, so just use the 4.1.9. > > Anyone else excited about the possibility of a mini Mac myth frontend? >A little 6.5" x 6.5" x 2" box hooked right up to the TV. The last > hurdle to overcome now is the remote control input. Perhaps a > USB-based IR dongle Anyone have ideas on that? > > -Mike > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Happy...but picture is grainy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You can also try changing the mpeg2 type in recording > options. I noticed a big difference when changing from mpeg > PS to DVD-special 1 (actual syntax may differ slightly). It > did create larger files at the same bitrate but the picture was much > clearer IMO. > > Was that with a PVR 250/350 ? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Re: Re: New Mac Mini
Just some more notes about the mini Mac as a frontend: 1) I compiled MythTV CVS on my iMac G4 last night; worked perfectly. Check the archives for a link to a writeup on how to do it. My iMac is a 1.25 GHz G4, the same exact chip in the mini Mac, and I was watching full-screen TV with no problems at all. 2) Still need to figure out a good remote control solution. There is no serial port, so some sort of USB IR-input dongle is needed. 3) It comes standard with DVI-out (and a VGA adapter), and you can buy the $19 adapter to get Composite RCA and S-video out. I'll be using a VGA->RGB converter so I can hook it up to my HDTV. I use an Audio Authority converter now and it works very well. 4) Don't forget that you also get OS X and iLife and all that wonderful software. It's what a computer is supposed to be. I've been using Linux since 1993 and I just got my iMac last March - I fell in love with it. OS X is quite incredible. I highly recommend this machine, not only for a sweet Myth frontend, but just as a new computer to try out a great system. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] RE: Mac OS X installation guide
I've written a guide for compiling and installing MythTV from CVS on Mac OS X: http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MythOnMacOsx Thanks a lot for this write-up. It was easy to follow and it resulted in a working myth frontend running on my iMac. I had a previous build running on my mac, but it was a 0.16 release, and my backend server is running CVS. This write-up allows me to keep them both in sync since I can use CVS code on my mac install now. One note; the mysql package is now 4.1.9, and the 4.1.7 release you reference in the doc is no longer available at that URL. 4.1.8 has a bug in its configure.in, so just use the 4.1.9. Anyone else excited about the possibility of a mini Mac myth frontend? A little 6.5" x 6.5" x 2" box hooked right up to the TV. The last hurdle to overcome now is the remote control input. Perhaps a USB-based IR dongle Anyone have ideas on that? -Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Lossless MPEG2 cutting, revisited
I, too, have been thinking about this lately. I looked at the GOPchop code, trying to find out how to just cut specified frames out of a recording. I believe GOPchop uses libmpeg2, so I looked into that, just to find that libmpeg2 has no documentation. I've got my Recording-To-Dvd process down to 2 steps now, thanks to nuvexport and the mpeg2cut script, but I don't like how avidemux2 is a GUI and requires X. Basically, what I want is a program that works just like the mpeg2cut script (e.g. mpeg2cut infile outfile range_of_frames_to_keep) that is command line only. Heck, if we could get that working, a "MythArchive" module would be very feasible (to me anyways.) Just my .02 cents Josh On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 08:54:34 -0500 (EST), Cory Papenfuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's been awhile since this has been discussed, but I'm wondering > if there's any status on this front. I just happened to look and see if > GOPchop had been updated since last time I used it, but it appears to have > died on the vine. It seems to have some issues, but it does have a nice > .cpp skeleton for parsing and clipping MPEG2 files at GOP boundaries. > I-frame clips would probably be adequate, but since they are still lossy > with missing P-frames, perhaps a transcode of a few frames around > cutpoints would suffice? > > I'm just offering food for thought for those more in the code. > Just for the record, however, the ivtv driver appears to always output the > same GOP length/format (15 frames/GOP IIRC). With a 2-pass reencode to > mpeg2 (e.g. with avidemux), I get varying-length GOPs. It's got potential > for better quality/bitrate than archiving to DVD right off the ivtv > card... might be a worthwhile option for any sort of "MythArchive" module > or something. > > -Cory > > > * > * Cory Papenfuss* > * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * > * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * > * > > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Not using both tuners to full effect?
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 09:14, David Whyte wrote: > okies, I have done it :D It required a change to the > program_detail.php page of the default theme, which is found under > mythweb/themes/Default/program_detail.php > > what was... > > > > ...became... > > > > ...for the start offset value. Identical for the endoffset value. > > I guess for this to work in all themes, this logic should be lifted up > into the object model, but I don't know much about that and I a happy > with this fix for now so it will do. > > Attached is the new file for those that might care. > > Dave - doing his first bit of Open Source coding :D > Excellent job on your first Open Source coding. Takes care of it for me! Thanks, James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: Re : [mythtv-users] Tran-splode?
manu wrote: Le 13.01.2005 09:08:14, John Johnson a écrit : After recording some shows (PVR-250), I thought I'd try transcoding them, since that saves space. At least that was my impression. After transcoding, Alias went from about 3.5GB to 20+GB, the same for a few other recordings. Now I would like very much to "undo" this (using nuvexport?), but more importantly, where did I go wrong? Thanks in advance! Regards, JJ ps. Sorry for this barrage of questions. Just some things that have been on my mind for a while. Well I don't know for MPEG2->MPEG4 but for RTJPEG->MPEG4 I got the same things (well with even bigger files so that it filled my HD!), and I figured out that by transcoding directly WITHOUT cutlist worked correctly (much smaller files after transcoding). It seems that when there is a cutlist things are going wild. I'll try to see if I can bring this to the dev. Bye Manu ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I do Mpeg4 - Mpeg4 and it works well. I have the conversion settings the same as the capture settings and removing commercials frees up about 100MB on a 500MB file. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Happy...but picture is grainy
You can also try changing the mpeg2 type in recording options. I noticed a big difference when changing from mpeg PS to DVD-special 1 (actual syntax may differ slightly). It did create larger files at the same bitrate but the picture was much clearer IMO. On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 07:06:44 -0500 (EST), Cory Papenfuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now that my wife and I are getting used to it, thought, we've noticed > > that the picture quality isn't *quite* the same as live tv. I've > > tried increasing the resolutions in setup, but it doesn't seem to > > change the slightly grainy appearance of the tv. Any thoughts? My > > system specs are: > > > As others have mentioned, "graininess" may be coming from low > signal level or not enough bitrate on the encoding. I have long had > issues with the "softness" of my PVR-250 as compared to the tv's tuner. > After a rather involved investigation, I concluded that it appears to be > a limitation of the tuner card and/or driver. Anything over about 480x480 > results in no measurable improvement in resolution. > > -Cory > > * > * Cory Papenfuss* > * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * > * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * > * > > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Not using both tuners to full effect?
okies, I have done it :D It required a change to the program_detail.php page of the default theme, which is found under mythweb/themes/Default/program_detail.php what was... ...became... ...for the start offset value. Identical for the endoffset value. I guess for this to work in all themes, this logic should be lifted up into the object model, but I don't know much about that and I a happy with this fix for now so it will do. Attached is the new file for those that might care. Dave - doing his first bit of Open Source coding :D On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 23:58:39 +1000, David Whyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > once you find the php script that causes the recording details to be > shown, its just an attribute of the input field. Its been a while > since I touched PHP, but I will take a look now. I think this is a > great idea :D > > > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 07:38:51 -0500, James Pifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks for pointing out that thread. I'd started to read it but it > > > wasn't really relevant at the start so I didn't get all the way to the > > > end. > > > > > > Seems crazy that I have a second tuner sitting completely unused while > > > the box chops off the end of a program so it can use only one tuner. > > > Also seems crazy that I have a global setting (most convenient - means > > > I don't have to faff around with early/late settings for each > > > recording) and then that option is chucked away when it needn't be. > > > > > > Sigh. > > > > > > So, my options are: > > > 1) Set overrun-underrun settings for *each* recording manually and > > > forget all about the global ones. > > > 2) Wait for a patch - unlikely to get into CVS I would guess. > > > 3) Learn C++ and write my own patch. > > > > > > Oh well. > > > > I've wondered about the exact same issue. Just seems to make sense that > > it would use the other tuner since it's sitting idle. Anyway, I've gone > > through my recordings and manually set the start early/end late fields. > > I do all my scheduling from the web interface. > > > > A possible workaround that would work for me would be to simply have > > mythweb automatically default those two fields to specific values. > > > > For example: > > Start Early (minutes): 2 > > End Late (minutes): 1 > > > > I looked at program_detail.php but it wasn't obvious on how this could > > be done. Anyone know off the top of their head a simple way to do this? > > > > Thanks, > > James > > > > > > ___ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > > > > -- > GMAIL is 'da bomb babyYEAH > -- GMAIL is 'da bomb babyYEAH program_detail.php Description: Binary data ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Playing the nuv-files on another player.
If you're just looking to play the .nuv files, VLC (http://www.videolan.org will play them over NFS. MythStreamTV puts a front end on VLC in MythWeb then configures VLC to transcode and stream the files to Windows Media Player or Mplayer. It just depends on what you're looking for. I use MythStreamTV to stream the recorded MythTV programming to my office over my ADSL at home. -Joshua Ebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythstreamtv.sourceforge.net/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robin Smith Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 5:28 AM To: Alex Polite; Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Playing the nuv-files on another player. Look for posts about MythStream, its a new Myth module some has created, I think it will do what you want. Robin On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:35:48 +0100, Alex Polite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I moving from Freevo to MythTV. I've sucesessfully recorded and > watched shows on the box. Now I want to watch those redcordings over > NFS. My videoplayer of choice is mplayer. > > The untranscoded files gives me this output in mplayer: > > The transcoded files gives this output in mplayer: > > MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound. > MPEG: FATAL: EOF while searching for sequence header. > Video: Cannot read properties. > No stream found. > > "Encrypted VOB file! Read DOCS/HTML/en/dvd.html". > > xine on the other hand complains about missing demuxers. > > nuv2avi won't compile > > What else should I try. > > alex > > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Not using both tuners to full effect?
Shouldnt Myth just alternate tuners when recording (if they have the same priority)? that way, without any serious changes to the scheduling it would pick up the extra 10 mins or whatever at the end. g - Original Message - From: "James Pifer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion about mythtv" Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 12:38 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Not using both tuners to full effect? Thanks for pointing out that thread. I'd started to read it but it wasn't really relevant at the start so I didn't get all the way to the end. Seems crazy that I have a second tuner sitting completely unused while the box chops off the end of a program so it can use only one tuner. Also seems crazy that I have a global setting (most convenient - means I don't have to faff around with early/late settings for each recording) and then that option is chucked away when it needn't be. Sigh. So, my options are: 1) Set overrun-underrun settings for *each* recording manually and forget all about the global ones. 2) Wait for a patch - unlikely to get into CVS I would guess. 3) Learn C++ and write my own patch. Oh well. I've wondered about the exact same issue. Just seems to make sense that it would use the other tuner since it's sitting idle. Anyway, I've gone through my recordings and manually set the start early/end late fields. I do all my scheduling from the web interface. A possible workaround that would work for me would be to simply have mythweb automatically default those two fields to specific values. For example: Start Early (minutes): 2 End Late (minutes): 1 I looked at program_detail.php but it wasn't obvious on how this could be done. Anyone know off the top of their head a simple way to do this? Thanks, James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Not using both tuners to full effect?
once you find the php script that causes the recording details to be shown, its just an attribute of the input field. Its been a while since I touched PHP, but I will take a look now. I think this is a great idea :D On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 07:38:51 -0500, James Pifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for pointing out that thread. I'd started to read it but it > > wasn't really relevant at the start so I didn't get all the way to the > > end. > > > > Seems crazy that I have a second tuner sitting completely unused while > > the box chops off the end of a program so it can use only one tuner. > > Also seems crazy that I have a global setting (most convenient - means > > I don't have to faff around with early/late settings for each > > recording) and then that option is chucked away when it needn't be. > > > > Sigh. > > > > So, my options are: > > 1) Set overrun-underrun settings for *each* recording manually and > > forget all about the global ones. > > 2) Wait for a patch - unlikely to get into CVS I would guess. > > 3) Learn C++ and write my own patch. > > > > Oh well. > > I've wondered about the exact same issue. Just seems to make sense that > it would use the other tuner since it's sitting idle. Anyway, I've gone > through my recordings and manually set the start early/end late fields. > I do all my scheduling from the web interface. > > A possible workaround that would work for me would be to simply have > mythweb automatically default those two fields to specific values. > > For example: > Start Early (minutes): 2 > End Late (minutes): 1 > > I looked at program_detail.php but it wasn't obvious on how this could > be done. Anyone know off the top of their head a simple way to do this? > > Thanks, > James > > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > -- GMAIL is 'da bomb babyYEAH ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Is pchdtv3000 worth it?
Hi, Could anyone who uses or has analyzed the pchdtv3000 say whether or not it is worth purchasing it at $189? Unless I could use it for more than Over the Air High Definition transmission, it seems overkill. For one reason or another, I don't feel the potential for more than OTA is high. Thanks, Julian = Live simply so others may simply live. -Ghandi Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate. "Entities should not be multiplied unneccesarily" -William of Occam __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and TIVO integration
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:46:30 -0800, Fa Yoeu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here is the stuff that would be neat, wondering if it is possible or not: o Stream Tivo recorded programs to myth. o Stream Myth recorded programs to tivo. o Use tivo as a slave for myth so you can distribute the recording. You mean something like MythTivo? http://tivo-mplayer.sourceforge.net/mythtivo.html I have a Series 1 Standalone TiVo and I've just purchased a TurboNet card to network it. I just setup MythTivo at home yesterday on my series 1 Tivo. It works great, love it. - James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Anyone with a Mitsubishi 65613??? Modeline issues
Hey everyone, I'm setting up a MythTV for a friend of mine who has a Mitsubishi 65613 and for the life of me we can't get a modeline which works. We have used powerstrip to stabilize the picture (seems very picky about its vertical sync) and took the Modeline it generated and no luck - still massive flickering (vertical sync not right). The interesting thing was powerstrip had finnaly gotten the screen to stabilize only by making the vertical sync rate just under 30khz - but when X started it reported it was using a Vertical sync rate of 33khz (so - I'm not surprised it's flickering). The final modeline we came up with was: "1920x1080" 74.250 1920 2008 2052 2200 1080 1084 1089 1125 interlace +hsync +vsync Mitsubishi is just no help at all - and I haven't found anything useful in the avforum's. Hoping there is someone out there who has solved this!!! Thanks, -John -- ___ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Lossless MPEG2 cutting, revisited
It's been awhile since this has been discussed, but I'm wondering if there's any status on this front. I just happened to look and see if GOPchop had been updated since last time I used it, but it appears to have died on the vine. It seems to have some issues, but it does have a nice .cpp skeleton for parsing and clipping MPEG2 files at GOP boundaries. I-frame clips would probably be adequate, but since they are still lossy with missing P-frames, perhaps a transcode of a few frames around cutpoints would suffice? I'm just offering food for thought for those more in the code. Just for the record, however, the ivtv driver appears to always output the same GOP length/format (15 frames/GOP IIRC). With a 2-pass reencode to mpeg2 (e.g. with avidemux), I get varying-length GOPs. It's got potential for better quality/bitrate than archiving to DVD right off the ivtv card... might be a worthwhile option for any sort of "MythArchive" module or something. -Cory * * Cory Papenfuss* * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * * ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] UK Listings
Its fine on my box aswell. Best way to fix it would either be to delete the records that shouldnt be there individualy from the database, or empty the database and do a full filldatabase again. Thanks also for reminding me to record snake hunter.. enjoyed the last 2 shows of it so far ! On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:27:08 +, Stutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does this show up on the web interface? > > Seems fine on mine, tv_grab_uk_rt grabbed from CVS around about Oct > 2004, Myth TV CVS around the same time. > > Anyway, thanks for making me check, spotted "Near Dark" was on Sunday > 23rd - been trying to catch that for a while now! > > Paul > > > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:01:38 +, James Poyser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've just noticed something strange with my listings (i'm using the uk > > radio times xmltv feed). Some program times seems to have been > > re-scheduled by the tv companies but the changes are causing problems > > / duplicates in myth. For example: > > > > Diagnosis of Murder (1991) - (ok ok, it's an example, I didn't say i > > was going to watch it ;-) > > It's in my mythtv listings twice - Jan 23, 2005, 03:35 PM and Jan 23, > > 2005, 03:40 PM > > > > Desperate Housewives: Pretty Little Picture (still no got around to > > watching this - is it worth the space?) > > Jan 23, 2005 (12:05 AM) and Jan 23, 2005 (12:10 AM) > > > > What's the best way to fix this? What about purging the entire > > listings database and refilling it? Will this affect my recording > > schedules or previously recorded programs? > > > > Thanks - James > > > > > > ___ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > > > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > -- Regards, ~CM ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Playing the nuv-files on another player.
Look for posts about MythStream, its a new Myth module some has created, I think it will do what you want. Robin On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:35:48 +0100, Alex Polite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I moving from Freevo to MythTV. I've sucesessfully recorded and > watched shows on the box. Now I want to watch those redcordings over > NFS. My videoplayer of choice is mplayer. > > The untranscoded files gives me this output in mplayer: > > The transcoded files gives this output in mplayer: > > MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound. > MPEG: FATAL: EOF while searching for sequence header. > Video: Cannot read properties. > No stream found. > > "Encrypted VOB file! Read DOCS/HTML/en/dvd.html". > > xine on the other hand complains about missing demuxers. > > nuv2avi won't compile > > What else should I try. > > alex > > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Not using both tuners to full effect?
> Thanks for pointing out that thread. I'd started to read it but it > wasn't really relevant at the start so I didn't get all the way to the > end. > > Seems crazy that I have a second tuner sitting completely unused while > the box chops off the end of a program so it can use only one tuner. > Also seems crazy that I have a global setting (most convenient - means > I don't have to faff around with early/late settings for each > recording) and then that option is chucked away when it needn't be. > > Sigh. > > So, my options are: > 1) Set overrun-underrun settings for *each* recording manually and > forget all about the global ones. > 2) Wait for a patch - unlikely to get into CVS I would guess. > 3) Learn C++ and write my own patch. > > Oh well. I've wondered about the exact same issue. Just seems to make sense that it would use the other tuner since it's sitting idle. Anyway, I've gone through my recordings and manually set the start early/end late fields. I do all my scheduling from the web interface. A possible workaround that would work for me would be to simply have mythweb automatically default those two fields to specific values. For example: Start Early (minutes): 2 End Late (minutes): 1 I looked at program_detail.php but it wasn't obvious on how this could be done. Anyone know off the top of their head a simple way to do this? Thanks, James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Happy...but picture is grainy
Now that my wife and I are getting used to it, thought, we've noticed that the picture quality isn't *quite* the same as live tv. I've tried increasing the resolutions in setup, but it doesn't seem to change the slightly grainy appearance of the tv. Any thoughts? My system specs are: As others have mentioned, "graininess" may be coming from low signal level or not enough bitrate on the encoding. I have long had issues with the "softness" of my PVR-250 as compared to the tv's tuner. After a rather involved investigation, I concluded that it appears to be a limitation of the tuner card and/or driver. Anything over about 480x480 results in no measurable improvement in resolution. -Cory * * Cory Papenfuss* * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * * ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Picture in picture not working....?
Thanks. I forgot to look in the archive. I've applied it and it's compiling now. I'll try it out when I get home. cheers Andrew ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] UK Listings
Does this show up on the web interface? Seems fine on mine, tv_grab_uk_rt grabbed from CVS around about Oct 2004, Myth TV CVS around the same time. Anyway, thanks for making me check, spotted "Near Dark" was on Sunday 23rd - been trying to catch that for a while now! Paul On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:01:38 +, James Poyser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just noticed something strange with my listings (i'm using the uk > radio times xmltv feed). Some program times seems to have been > re-scheduled by the tv companies but the changes are causing problems > / duplicates in myth. For example: > > Diagnosis of Murder (1991) - (ok ok, it's an example, I didn't say i > was going to watch it ;-) > It's in my mythtv listings twice - Jan 23, 2005, 03:35 PM and Jan 23, > 2005, 03:40 PM > > Desperate Housewives: Pretty Little Picture (still no got around to > watching this - is it worth the space?) > Jan 23, 2005 (12:05 AM) and Jan 23, 2005 (12:10 AM) > > What's the best way to fix this? What about purging the entire > listings database and refilling it? Will this affect my recording > schedules or previously recorded programs? > > Thanks - James > > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Not using both tuners to full effect?
> So, my options are: > 1) Set overrun-underrun settings for *each* recording manually and > forget all about the global ones. > 2) Wait for a patch - unlikely to get into CVS I would guess. > 3) Learn C++ and write my own patch. It's not considered a bug - it's deliberate. However, if you do write a "patch" I think there'd be quite a few folks who'd like to get their hands on it too! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] UK Listings
Hi all, I've just noticed something strange with my listings (i'm using the uk radio times xmltv feed). Some program times seems to have been re-scheduled by the tv companies but the changes are causing problems / duplicates in myth. For example: Diagnosis of Murder (1991) - (ok ok, it's an example, I didn't say i was going to watch it ;-) It's in my mythtv listings twice - Jan 23, 2005, 03:35 PM and Jan 23, 2005, 03:40 PM Desperate Housewives: Pretty Little Picture (still no got around to watching this - is it worth the space?) Jan 23, 2005 (12:05 AM) and Jan 23, 2005 (12:10 AM) What's the best way to fix this? What about purging the entire listings database and refilling it? Will this affect my recording schedules or previously recorded programs? Thanks - James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Newbie Question(s)
Title: RE: [mythtv-users] Newbie Question(s) Hi >Hmmm... However, the RT site provides the data (as far as I can see) as >14 day "chunks" for each channel. There's no easy way to grab single >days from the data which they are (very graciously) providing. Yep that's right. Instead of asking mythfilldatabase to grab the info from RT I use tv_grab_uk_rt directly like this: tv_grab_uk_rt --configfile channels.xmltv --output data.xml --days 1 This results is 14 days of data, but it means that it's only downloaded once. If you don't specify the --days 1 flag then you end up with the default of 14 days which means that you download 14 days of data 14 times. It's pretty easy to get it into Myth : mythfilldatabase --file 1 0 data.xml The xmltv config file is just a list of channels, I think Myth auto generates one in ~mythtv/.mythtv and names is sourceid.xml. Forgive me if I have that slightly wrong since I'm at work away from my servers. You could also use bleb (tv_grab_uk_bleb). I use a mixture of the 2 (bleb does some channels RT does not - BBC3 BBC4 and Radio) and hand built xmltv config files for each. I jut have a script that wraps it all together and run it from cron on the B/E. Initially I was a bit upset with RT for pushing 14 days of data in a 1 day file but then as you point out, they're doing this for free so I think I can live with it. HTH Paul Important. Confidentiality: This communication is intended for the above-named person and may be confidential and/or legally privileged. Any opinions expressed in this communication are not necessarily those of the company. If it has come to you in error you must take no action based on it, nor must you copy or show it to anyone; please delete/destroy and inform the sender immediately. Monitoring/Viruses. Orange may monitor all incoming and outgoing emails in line with current legislation. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. Orange PCS Limited is a subsidiary of Orange SA and is registered in England No 2178917, with its address at St James Court, Great Park Road, Almondsbury Park, Bradley Stoke, Bristol BS32 4QJ. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What NOT to do to your Myth box...
>I've gotten fairly good with a handful of Windows > programs that make DVDs out of stuff ripped from my TiVo or my MythTV. Scott, What programs are you using for your windows archiving? I'm almost at Maximum Capacity and am gogin to have to do something quick. My Myth box is slow so trascoding or nuvexport on myth is out of the question. My other PC is a windows machine, so I'm going to have to move the nuv file created by myth (I'm using a PVR250 so it should be in mpeg2 format. then somehow make it viewable on my DVD player. Any suggestions? I know I could burn it raw a mount the DVD if need be later, but I'd like to make them a DVD collection. Thanks, John ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Sound Levels of MythTV Recordings Very Low
Title: Re: Sound Levels of MythTV Recordings Very Low Hi >Is there any where else I can play with the sound levels? I >saw somewhere in the MythTV configs a setting for recording volume but >I believe it was already at 90% by default. Load up alsamixer and and look for channels called VIA DXS. If you push the volume up on those (you may need only the first one) that should help. If you want to store the settings I do this: /usr/sbin/alsactl -f ~mythtv/mixer.cnf store I then have a script like #!/bin/bash /usr/sbin/alsactl -f ~mythtv/mixer.cnf restore Which I drop in ~mythtv/.kde/Autostart/ which means it gets called when the mythtv user logs in. You could just call it from /etc/rc.local I guess. HTH Paul Important. Confidentiality: This communication is intended for the above-named person and may be confidential and/or legally privileged. Any opinions expressed in this communication are not necessarily those of the company. If it has come to you in error you must take no action based on it, nor must you copy or show it to anyone; please delete/destroy and inform the sender immediately. Monitoring/Viruses. Orange may monitor all incoming and outgoing emails in line with current legislation. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. Orange PCS Limited is a subsidiary of Orange SA and is registered in England No 2178917, with its address at St James Court, Great Park Road, Almondsbury Park, Bradley Stoke, Bristol BS32 4QJ. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV on XBox
(For some reason posting this went wrong, yesterday. Sorry if there are any double messages!) On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 16:28 -0800, Joe Votour wrote: > > Hmmm... I'm interested... My crystal x-box is too > > noisy. I'm planning on > > slowing down the fan a bit, but if anyone knows a > > better way. > > > If you flash a modified BIOS, you can change the fan > speed of the rear fan (although I've read that the > regular XBox BIOS already sets it to 20% of normal > speed). However, I found that the GPU fan in the 1.0 > XBox (which I have) is the noisy one by far, I just Thanks, this is useful information! I have never run my xbox using the regular MS bios, so it may be that I only have to change a setting for my modchip bios to get it to quiet down! Since the Crystal xbox is a 1.6 model, it doesn't have a fan on the GPU, so I won't have to try that hardware hack. (Thank god! :-) > > I've used xbmc for a while, and it works very well. > > There's even work going on in the xbmx forums for a > > python script that > > can be used as a (limited) MythTV front-end. > > It allows one to schedule recordings, browse > > existing recordings, and > > even view them, as long as their in myth's mpeg2 > > format. (no mplayer > > support for the mpeg1 and mpeg4 myth formats, > > unfortunately.) > > And lately, people have even been working on getting > > live tv working! > > (with the same mpeg2 caveat, so I haven't seen > > this...) > > > This would be absolutely awesome. Perhaps a stripped > down MythTV GUI that offers options that only really > apply to the XBox, such as watching TV/recordings, > DVD/VCD playback (if VCDs even work in your XBox, > CD-Rs won't in mine, for instance). I use dual > PVR-250's, so I don't have a problem with the MPEG-2 > restriction (although not everybody is equally > blessed). The XBMC python script is now hosted on sourceforge ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmcmythtv ) so if you want to give it a shot, that the place to go. It's not very useful for me, yet, because of the mpeg2 restriction, but I just saw that there now is a mythstreamtv project, that might help out in that respect. Playing DVDs, CDs, or video files and such is not implemented in the myth script, since XBMC does those jobs very well on its own. > One of these days I plan on making a stripped down > theme that still looks good, but helps out with memory > usage on the XBox for MythTV... Well, I keep telling > myself that, maybe I'll get to it one of these days. > ;) In the case of the XBox, MythTV without Linux > would really be good, if nothing else, but to save > some RAM and maybe eliminate the hard drive swapping > activity. But, unfortunately, a huge task. That might be nice. If I'm ever going to really use myth on linux on the xbox, I'm going to at least flash a bios so it boots linux directly. At the moment the boot time is my main reason for preferring a xbmc solution. Wouter ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV on XBox
(For some reason, posting this went wrong yesterday. Sorry if there are any double messages!) On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 11:16 -0600, Andrew Close wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 23:22:20 -0700, nowhere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This does sound interesting. How much should I expect to fork out? Seems > > like about $100 for an Xbox + $50 for a mod chip, then some solder time > > or about $250 for a modded system and whatever I want to pay for a > > bigger hard drive yah? > > i got my XBox for Christmas, so $0 there. ;) but i haven't seen any > 'new' systems for < $150. but you may be able to get a used system > off eBay cheaper (which may be better if you decide to upgrade the > memory). > mod chips range in price, the one i purchased was ~$60 and came with a > Linux distribution for the XBox. www.smartxx.com - smartxx v2 LE > i installed a 300GB Seagate in my XBox, roughly $190. > solder time took me a couple hours, but if you have experience and > have done a lot of reading in the various XBox mod forums, i've heard > that i can take less than 30 mins... ymmv. :) having done it once i > could probably do it in under an hour now since i know what i'm > looking for. you can buy pre-modded systems on eBay and off of some > of the XBox mod sites. i didn't look at prices since i wanted to do > it myself. It's also possible to 'softmod' an xbox, using bugs in games and the dashboard to install unsigned software. I've recently tried this method to install xbmc on someone's xbox, and it's a lot easier than the whole modchip-soldering thing... (and cheaper:-) Check http://www.xbox-linux.org/ for more info. Or mail me, I should have some links somewhere in my bookmarks at home... > > How does the xbmc handle power down? Just punch the power button? > > yep > > > Does it support a remote? Couldn't really tell from the xbmc site (although > > I > > haven't spent a ton of time reading it yet :P) Do I need to buy some > > kind of DVD kit for the xbox? I do remember seeing a bunch of JP1 talk > > there. Something else I would have to learn... > > there is a DVD kit for the XBox that includes a remote and an IR > sensor. i believe it works with XBMC but i don't have the DVD kit so > i haven't tried it. XBMC is fully 'drivable' by remote. <...> > > And again, I want this to store a pile of Divx encode DVD movies and > > play them. If the Xbox still functions as an Xbox then BONUS! That would be no problem, as long as you place a large enough hard-disk in the xbox:-) Wouter ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] NFS Mounted Partitions and AutoExpire
Hi: I'm running into an interesting issue with AutoExpire that's causing me to lose many more shows than I would have expected, including some very recent shows. I have two backends, with the master backend having Tuner 1 and a second backend with Tuner 2. The second backend NFS mounts /myth from the master backend, resulting in both machines using the same directory to store data. The AutoExpire is set to 10 GB. It appears that what is happening is that AutoExpire is running on both backends, but only deleting old things from that particular backend. Since 99% of the recordings are made by Tuner 1, this means that things recorded by Tuner 2 are being dropped very quickly (before I have a chance to watch them). Some logs from Tuner 1: 2005-01-13 17:30:53 Running AutoExpire: Want 10 Gigs free but only have 9. 2005-01-13 17:30:53 AutoExpiring: The Simpsons Wed Dec 15 18:00:00 2004 1110 MBytes Meanwhile, on Tuner 2: 2005-01-12 22:26:26 Running AutoExpire: Want 10 Gigs free but only have 9. 2005-01-12 22:26:26 AutoExpiring: 24 Mon Jan 10 20:00:00 2005 MBytes Note that Tuner 1 is removing things that are almost a month ago, but Tuner 2 is removing items that are less than two days old. Tragically, this caused me to lose three of the first four hours of 24. Is there something I can change in the configuration to cause Myth to realize these two machines are working on a common drive, and that thus the AutoExpire process should work across them? Thanks. Doug ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
