date:20050124

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 11:38:53PM -0500, MacNean C. Tyrrell wrote:
> Little update.  I've tried the previous 3 older drivers and always the 
> same thing.  I see some green dots on the tv screen and then it goes 
> black.  I know it doesn't lock up because i can do cntrl alt f1.  Which 
> than goes from black to a bunch of green dots.  I can trype root enter, 
> my password, enter and type reboot and it reboots.  So its not locking 
> up the computer.  I don't know whats going on.  I know this card works 
> perfectly in windows, i can just output to tv or clone or just crt.  I'm 
> very frustrated with it.  I would like to use this card instead of my 
> sis 315 due to the XVMC thinng.

Debugging video driver problems is hard, but if you are going to do so:

a) Set your system to not go directly into X.   This varies by system but
in many you edit /etc/inittab and change initdefault.   Booting into
X is for weenies.  :-)   Or rather, it's for people who are not trying
to debug problems in their X servers or video cards.

b) Log in normally so you own the console.

c) Go to another computer, a laptop etc.  Log in from that to the same
userid.

d) Do your playing around, changing your xorg.conf/xfree86.conf etc.
Loading/unloading drivers yada yada.

e) Test them by typing "X -verbose 5" on the OTHER computer.  Then you
can see what's happening.   Or consider "X -verbose 5 | tee /tmp/res 2>&1"
so you have a log of it (there is also one in /var/log/xorg.0.log)

You won't start your whole desktop environment, you will just see the
cursor, but that's enough for most tests.  If you need more, fire an
xterm or whatever at the display.

f) Quit the test with ^C.

g) Once it works, do "startx" to test your full environment.

Debugging from the same system you are mucking with the display of is
a pain.
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[mythtv-users] Help : Live TV stopped working after installing GeForce FX5200

2005-01-24 Thread Michael S. Ritterbusch

Title: Help : Live TV stopped working after installing GeForce FX5200






Need help with Live TV under Myth since installing GeForce FX 5200

I had everything working great (with on-board Intel video) until I needed to put in a video card with TV Out (being a GeForce FX-5200.  After doing the original install based upon Jarod’s HowTo, went back through and made the modifications regarding the nvidia specific items..

Here is what I know so far:


TV via “mplayer /dev/video” works fine, etc.

When trying to play Live TV, get audio fine and can change channels

When trying to escape out of blank screen with audio, audio stops but no return to anything. X starts to run at ~99% in top. (have to kill X to return to anything)

Playback of video files appear to work fine

No unusual messages in /var/log/messages


Config:

Intel 865 mb, Celeron 2.4

GeForce FX 5200 AGP

PVR-250 

Fedora (2.6.10-1.741_FC3)


Also, as a second item (but 2nd priority at this point) is that the SVideo port works during boot up, but the video is off freq/config when it switches to graphics mode.  Any input on this appreciated as well.

Best regards & TIA,

Michael


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Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Recording Profiles

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 03:08:21PM +1000, David Whyte wrote:
> LOL...Doh!
> 
> For a man of so few words, Isaac can be quite funny.
> 
> Anyone care to help me out here???
> 
> Dave
> 

HDTV comes as pre-compresed MP2.  To turn it into something else like
mp4 requires a highly CPU-intensive transcoding, something consumer
hardware could not do in real time, and even if it could, Mythtv doesn't
do that.

You can record your mp2s from your dvb.

I just wrote up an article to talk a bit about HDTV transmission and
the common misperception that we often hear, with people expecting it to
act like analog TV.

www.templetons.com/brad/myth/hdtv.html

It's not quite finished yet, but what it says about atsc relates to dvb
too.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Recording Profiles

2005-01-24 Thread David Whyte

LOL...Doh!

For a man of so few words, Isaac can be quite funny.

Anyone care to help me out here???

Dave


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 23:48:58 -0500, Isaac Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 24 January 2005 10:59 pm, David Whyte wrote:
> > Aaaahh!  ~sound of brain clunking~
> >
> > I think it is starting to make sense.  So, if I setup my recording
> > profile to encode in DivX, then recorded a program using that profile,
> > will the output be a nice small DivX file even though I have a DVB-T
> > card that puts put MPEG2?
> 
> No.
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] I can't beleive it's this.... complex

2005-01-24 Thread Jeff Thompson

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 23:42:55 -0500, Michael Haan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, granted, I'm pushing it a little bit by going with AMD64.  But this Myth
> project seems more and more unlikely the further I get in.  Does someone
> have a straight forward install guide for the following specs:
> 
> AMD64 3800+
> SuSE 9.2
> 1 PVR-350
> 
> The OS is running, I've got MySQL installed, and I'm looking for a
> straight-forward guide to getting this up and running.  Anyone?
> 

The most frequently referenced documentation if Jarod's HOWTO, located
at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php. I used his HOWTO for my
initial mythtv setup and while I fought with ivtv for a day or so, it
basically had everything I needed to install mythtv.

I've since reinstalled, using gentoo, and it was a breeze after having
gone through Jarod's HOWTO, even though his doc is geared towards
Fedora (core 2 when I did it) core 3.

You didn't mention your Linux background/experience, so I'm guessing,
but if you're not very familiar with Linux, I'd recommend that you
install Fedora, since that what most people appear to be using and can
probably provide more assistance.

BTW, what type of problems are you having?

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[mythtv-users] Enough speed.

2005-01-24 Thread MacNean C. Tyrrell

OK first off i had a celeron 2.4 ghz then an althlon 850 mhz, but when i 
ran top watching live tv with the celeron i had say 12% free, but with 
the 850 i had between 40 to 60%, thats kinda crazy isn't it?

Also is the 850 fast enough to run 2 pvr 250's?  or will i have to 
upgrade my mobo combo?
I'm firguring that it should be fine to record 2 without problem and 
watch 1 record 1.  But what about watch 1 record 2?  and what about 
PIP?  I'm fircuring the watch 1 record 2 should be fine because top said 
40% free and the pvr is all hardware, maybe takes 10% recording?  But 
the PIP is more taxing than just watching one program?  Is there any 
verification of this? 

And seriosly, can the 850 be that much faster?
OT, i just bought another pvr 250 off ebay for $99.  With remote cable 
and remote. Remote cable is big deal to me, because my old one isn't 
working the best, unless you pull it to the side hard.  And hopefully 
the one i sent back to hauppauge comes back soon.  They better send a 
new one back to me.  hehe. 
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[mythtv-users] LED recording indicator

2005-01-24 Thread M. Barnabas Luntzel

something I liked about my (now unplugged) tivo, was that I could tell 
it was recording by the red light on the front panel.

so I was thinking, how difficult would it be to make my own? Couldn't 
be much more difficult than making your own IR blaster. pport to LED, 
USB to LED. maybe even one of those USB lamps for sale could be 
purposed for this.

anybody else thought about / done something like this?
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Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Recording Profiles

2005-01-24 Thread Isaac Richards

On Monday 24 January 2005 10:59 pm, David Whyte wrote:
> Aaaahh!  ~sound of brain clunking~
>
> I think it is starting to make sense.  So, if I setup my recording
> profile to encode in DivX, then recorded a program using that profile,
> will the output be a nice small DivX file even though I have a DVB-T
> card that puts put MPEG2?

No.

Isaac
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[mythtv-users] I can't beleive it's this.... complex

2005-01-24 Thread Michael Haan

Ok, granted, I'm pushing it a little bit by going with AMD64.  But this Myth 
project seems more and more unlikely the further I get in.  Does someone 
have a straight forward install guide for the following specs:

AMD64 3800+
SuSE 9.2
1 PVR-350
The OS is running, I've got MySQL installed, and I'm looking for a 
straight-forward guide to getting this up and running.  Anyone?


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Re: [mythtv-users] nvidia geforce MX 4000 and blank/black screen

2005-01-24 Thread MacNean C. Tyrrell

Little update.  I've tried the previous 3 older drivers and always the 
same thing.  I see some green dots on the tv screen and then it goes 
black.  I know it doesn't lock up because i can do cntrl alt f1.  Which 
than goes from black to a bunch of green dots.  I can trype root enter, 
my password, enter and type reboot and it reboots.  So its not locking 
up the computer.  I don't know whats going on.  I know this card works 
perfectly in windows, i can just output to tv or clone or just crt.  I'm 
very frustrated with it.  I would like to use this card instead of my 
sis 315 due to the XVMC thinng.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving TV shows to DVD

2005-01-24 Thread Mike Schommer

How do you mark your commercials in myth?
Jeff Simpson wrote:
Yup. Drag and drop everything. You drag in the mpegs you want, the
jpegs you want as the backgrounds for menus. Drag over a button from
the tool pane and tell it which title/menu to go to when clicked.
Surprisingly easy for a linux program, I was impressed.
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:19:31 -0600, M S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

Does DVDStyler (or the other product) make menus and everything?
   

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:42:16 -0700, Blammo [doh] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

How about if you want to cut at your cut points BEFORE you burn to DVD?
Source : PVR-x50 files
Destination: DVD
can someone give a step-by for Linux to cut at cutpoints, then prep to DVD?
   

1. Mark your commercials in Myth
2. Use the MPEG2->MPEG2 option of nuvexport. For me, this step usually takes
about 5-10 mins on my computer for a 30 minute show.
3. Prepare a video DVD iso using the mpg2 file exported from step 2. I
use DVDStyler. Another app is Q DVD Author.
4. Burn the iso to dvd. I use k3b for this.
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Re: [mythtv-users] DVB Channel data in Sydney

2005-01-24 Thread David Whyte

You enter this data into mythtvsetup under channels (i think, its been
a while).  Once you go to the DVB specific settings, it should be
quite straight forward.  The large number is the frequency and the
other ones will be obvious from the field prompts.  I can't go into
more detail as I am not near my myth box, I am at work :P

Also, if you select  DVB from the input options, myth should tell you
if it has pcked up the card OK.

How did you get the remote working?  By plugging it into the jack on
the back, or did you have to go a long way around?

Dave


On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 01:51:47 +1100, Ed Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I (think) I am most of the way through a myth setup.
> I have the avermedia DVB-TV card running successfully in mplayer. The
> remote also works well.
> I am stuck at putting the channel data correctly into the mythconverg
> database. I have got tv_grab_au (version 0.6) and after altering the
> code askQuestion calls to ask_choice it seems to l. It will not run from
> myth-setup so I am using mythfilldatabase. This results in some sql
> errors. So I then ran mythfilldatabase --manual it then runs
> successfully except it asks me for some information about the channel.
> 
> I have information like this from the scan generated channels.conf
> 
> ABC TV
> Sydney:22650:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE:512:650:545
> 
> Could somebody explain how I can translate this into something that I
> can enter into the mythfilldatabase
> ie. How can I convert this into:
> 
> freq id
> channel name
> 
> also does the channel id have to reference anything else?
> 
> Am I going about this the right way?
> 
> Is this all the info I need?
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> 
> Ed Murray
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving TV shows to DVD

2005-01-24 Thread M S

I do like what nuvexport can do with cutlists.  I would like to use
it... but please tell me why I have no sound when I then burn it to
DVD and watch it on Windows or when I play it in my set-top box UNLESS
I set it manually to PCM sound (not bitstream) on my DVD player?  It's
extremely annoying, and this point... the only hold back.


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:25:04 -0700, Blammo [doh] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All of the solutions I've seen thus far require you start actually
> watching the program, hit Edit, load cutpoints, then exit.
> 
> While this is not time consuming, it's not automated. I'm looking for
> something automated.. IE grab these 3 files, burn em to DVD.
> 
> What I want may not exist. However, I will say the new version of
> NuvExport actually works. For the first time in 9 months I
> successfully mpeg2cut a file today.
> 
> As an aside, anyone have guidelines for making Xvfb work under FC1?
> I'd like to be able to run nuvexport from an SSH at work, that way
> when I get home, it's all ready to burn.
> 
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:19:44 -0500 (EST), Cory Papenfuss
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Jeff Simpson wrote:
> >
> > > Yup. Drag and drop everything. You drag in the mpegs you want, the
> > > jpegs you want as the backgrounds for menus. Drag over a button from
> > > the tool pane and tell it which title/menu to go to when clicked.
> > > Surprisingly easy for a linux program, I was impressed.
> > >
> > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:19:31 -0600, M S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> Does DVDStyler (or the other product) make menus and everything?
> > >>
> > My experience has been better with qdvdauthor...  YMMV
> >
> > -Cory
> >
> > *
> > * Cory Papenfuss*
> > * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student   *
> > * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   *
> > *
> >
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Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Recording Profiles

2005-01-24 Thread David Whyte

Aaaahh!  ~sound of brain clunking~

I think it is starting to make sense.  So, if I setup my recording
profile to encode in DivX, then recorded a program using that profile,
will the output be a nice small DivX file even though I have a DVB-T
card that puts put MPEG2?

Cheers,
Whytey - Forever on the curve :|

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:26:38 -0700, Blammo [doh] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not an expert on these by any means, but I can answer a couple:
> 
> Profiles are applied at the time of recording.
> Transcoding profiles are applied POST record, and only if you check
> the right box.
> 
> The learning curve is still steep.
> 
> -blam
> 
> 
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:07:47 +0800, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Please forgive such a basic question, but I can't find appropriate 
> > documentation
> > anywhere.
> >
> > I have recently completed building my Myth server using CVS (from three days
> > ago) and applied the DVB patch 3.5 and appropriate AC3 patches.  The server 
> > is
> > surprisingly stable.
> >
> > My question is around recording profiles, their function and settings.  One 
> > the
> > the main reasons I have gone for Myth is to allow me to use and store High
> > Definition (primarily 1080i here in Sydney, Australia) without compromising 
> > its
> > quality.  I don't really want to compress the stream from the transmission 
> > and I
> > would prefer to keep them in native format - and yes, I have allocated 
> > storage
> > space accordingly.
> >
> > Are Recording profiles and their settings only applicable for transcoding, 
> > or
> > are they applied real-time during the recording process?  If they are always
> > applied, do I need to create separate profiles for the different 
> > transmission
> > specifications (SD, ED, HD)?  Has anyone else managed to create a
> > partner-friendly setup to reduce the learning curve for recording quality 
> > setup?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Matt.
> >
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Re: [mythtv-users] DVB Channel data in Sydney

2005-01-24 Thread Steve Cliffe

Ed,
The tv_grab_au script should have produced a file called "guide.xml".
Mine has something like this in at the beginning:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

ABC NSW

Channel Nine Sydney

When you go into the channel editor in mythsetup make sure you put in
the XMLTV ID for each channel. For example, "freesd.Sydney.2.d1.com.au"
for ABC etc.

Steve.
Ed Murray wrote:
Hi all,
I (think) I am most of the way through a myth setup.
I have the avermedia DVB-TV card running successfully in mplayer. The
remote also works well.
I am stuck at putting the channel data correctly into the mythconverg
database. I have got tv_grab_au (version 0.6) and after altering the
code askQuestion calls to ask_choice it seems to l. It will not run from
myth-setup so I am using mythfilldatabase. This results in some sql
errors. So I then ran mythfilldatabase --manual it then runs
successfully except it asks me for some information about the channel.

I have information like this from the scan generated channels.conf
ABC TV
Sydney:22650:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_1_2:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16:HIERARCHY_NONE:512:650:545
Could somebody explain how I can translate this into something that I
can enter into the mythfilldatabase
ie. How can I convert this into:

freq id
channel name

also does the channel id have to reference anything else?
Am I going about this the right way?
Is this all the info I need?

Any help would be much appreciated.
Ed Murray

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Re: [mythtv-users] Loading IVTV problems with PVR-350

2005-01-24 Thread Andy Long

My guess is you need to upgrade you kernel.  I don't believe the
2.6.9-1.724_FC3 kernel has any modules on atrpms.net now.  Try running

# apt-get install kernel=2.6.10-1.741_FC3

Set that to be your default kernel, and now you should find kernel
modules available.  Of course, any other modules for your old kernel
will also need to be updated.  Just set that KVER=`uname -r` and then
update any kernel modules you've already installed (they'd be the ones
listed with the "$KVER" part in Jarod's guide.

-Andy


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:53:24 -0500, James Olsovsky
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> I'm somewhat new to Linux and am undertaking loading Mythtv.  But I
> seem to be having issues while loading IVTV.  I'm following the step
> by steps from wilson.net and seem to be coming up short.
> 
> I run this series of commands
> 
> Edit /etc/apt/sources.list, changing at-stable to at-testing,
> This works fine.
> #apt-get update
>This works fine.
> 
> #apt-get install ivtv-firmware
>This works fine.
> # apt-get install ivtv-kmdl-$KVER
> This is the error I get at this command.
>Reading Package Lists... Done
>Building Dependency Tree... Done
>Couldn't find package ivtv-kmdl-2.6.9-1.724_FC3
> 
> I've also tried changing my sources.list file to at-stable and
> at-bleeding, but still get the same error.
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Loading IVTV problems with PVR-350

2005-01-24 Thread John Williams

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:53:24 -0500, James Olsovsky
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm somewhat new to Linux and am undertaking loading Mythtv.  But I
> seem to be having issues while loading IVTV.  I'm following the step
> by steps from wilson.net and seem to be coming up short.
> 
> I run this series of commands
> 
> Edit /etc/apt/sources.list, changing at-stable to at-testing,
>This works fine.
> #apt-get update
>   This works fine.
> 
> #apt-get install ivtv-firmware
>   This works fine.
> # apt-get install ivtv-kmdl-$KVER
>This is the error I get at this command.
>   Reading Package Lists... Done
>   Building Dependency Tree... Done
>   Couldn't find package ivtv-kmdl-2.6.9-1.724_FC3

Chances are the kernel module you are trying to load is too old to be
up on the site any more. I'm running 2.6.10-741 (something like that).
It seems to work fine (I've only been installed since yesterday). Up
grade your Kernel and try again. I recomend using synaptic for the
kernel upgrade because the 2.6.10-741 kernel is not on atrpms yet.

try that and see where you get.

I'll save you some trouble and let you know my capture card did
nothing for me until I addded a line in the modprobe.conf adding an
alias to the tveeprom and pointing it to tveeprom-ivtv

it went something like 
alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv

right after the load ivtv alias lines. My symptom was getting only
static on all channels. Hope all this helps.

John Williams
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[mythtv-users] Frontend crash during recording - suggestions on workaround

2005-01-24 Thread Andy Long

My frontend locks up whenever a scheduled recording happens while
watching LiveTV.  I see from the archives that this is a known bug,
and has purportedly been fixed in recent CVS versions of mythtv
(http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/100415?search_string=frontend%20lockup;#100415).
I'm fairly new to linux, and the CVS install still makes me a little
nervous to just jump into.  So...

1)  Does anyone know of any workaround to prevent this from happening
(aside from making sure I'm not watching LiveTV when a recording
starts)?

2)  Does anyone know of a decent guide/tutorial on how to upgrade to
the CVS version.  I'm not a complete newbie, but I still need a little
hand holding.

Thanks.

-Andy
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Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving TV shows to DVD

All of the solutions I've seen thus far require you start actually
watching the program, hit Edit, load cutpoints, then exit.

While this is not time consuming, it's not automated. I'm looking for
something automated.. IE grab these 3 files, burn em to DVD.

What I want may not exist. However, I will say the new version of
NuvExport actually works. For the first time in 9 months I
successfully mpeg2cut a file today.

As an aside, anyone have guidelines for making Xvfb work under FC1?
I'd like to be able to run nuvexport from an SSH at work, that way
when I get home, it's all ready to burn.

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:19:44 -0500 (EST), Cory Papenfuss
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Jeff Simpson wrote:
> 
> > Yup. Drag and drop everything. You drag in the mpegs you want, the
> > jpegs you want as the backgrounds for menus. Drag over a button from
> > the tool pane and tell it which title/menu to go to when clicked.
> > Surprisingly easy for a linux program, I was impressed.
> >
> > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:19:31 -0600, M S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Does DVDStyler (or the other product) make menus and everything?
> >>
> My experience has been better with qdvdauthor...  YMMV
> 
> -Cory
> 
> *
> * Cory Papenfuss*
> * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student   *
> * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   *
> *
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Re: snes9x fullscreen in KnoppMyth w/ PVR-x50, was: [mythtv-users] mythgame snes9x PVR-350 tvout

2005-01-24 Thread Maverick

Yah, snes9x needs DGA to do full screen. Damn. I would definitely like
to test out DGA support if it ever gets implemented. Thanks for the
reply!


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:46:11 + (GMT), John Harvey
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The 350 X driver does not have DGA support. I suspect
> there is a bug in snes9x depending on that code or not
> correctly working round it not being there.
> 
> At some point we could add it but it's not high on my
> list at the moment.
> 
> John
> 
>  --- Maverick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > You can edit the snes9x options by hitting "i"
> > when "snes" is
> > > highlighted on your "play games" screen - on my
> > nvidia tv-out, i just
> > > set it to use fullscreen and interpolation level
> > 1, which works quite
> > > well (dunno about the PVR-350 fb, though).  You
> > may need to suid root
> > > snes9x in order for some options to work, since it
> > needs to play with
> > > /dev/mem.
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone else out there has gotten
> > fullscreen snes9x
> > working on KnoppMyth, with a PVR-x50 would be a
> > plus. When I try
> > loading snes9x manually (as root, otherwise I get
> > the kmem error) with
> > -fs, I get this:
> >
> > X Error of failed request:  XF86DGANoDirectVideoMode
> >   Major opcode of failed request:  137 (XFree86-DGA)
> >   Minor opcode of failed request:  1
> > (XF86DGAGetVideoLL)
> >   Serial number of failed request:  11
> >   Current serial number in output stream:  11
> >
> > The little bit I'm able to find about it has to do
> > with the DGA stuff
> > not being loaded in X. Can anyone confirm this is
> > true with KnoppMuth
> > V4R5? Has anyone successfully used the full screen
> > framebuffer of a
> > PVR-x50 w/ snes9x??
> >
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[mythtv-users] Restore my recording to the recorded programs menu

2005-01-24 Thread John Williams

I have recently upgraded using a fresh install of FC3 from FC2. Not
the nicest thing I've done lately. I have a good many programs still
on the disk I use for my video recording location. I did a full data
dump of the database before I wiped the old install. I'm a little
afraid to restor ehte whole database so I was wondering what tables I
need to restore to get the programs to show up in the menu. The only
data I care about seeing for them is the name, description and date of
broadcast. Obviously I want mythtv to be able to see them, but they
are moujnted in the same location so that shouldn't be a problem.

Thanks in advance.
John
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MPEG2->MPEG2 cut spinning

I just wanted to add my 2cents.

For the first time in 9months, I actually cut commericals from a
PVR-x50 recording, and had a usable file when I was done.

/clap NuvExport



On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:24:01 + (UTC), Gavin Hurlbut
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> cythraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> 
> > I don't use the actual console to get into my box because there's no
> > monitor attached to my backend. I prefer to use ssh from my windows
> > box and take advantage of screen for encoding processes.
> 
> > Is there a way to get around avidemux2's GUI?
> 
> Yeah, use the script as provided.
> 
> > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:35:20 -0500, Jeff Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> avidemux2 is a gui program, I believe. Try running it as a different
> >> user to get the graphics to pop up.
> 
> That's great if you actually want the GUI, but I went to great lengths to
> squash that pesky GUI.
> 
> While running the GUI to see why it's stuck maybe a good idea, it's hardly the
> normal desired running mode.
> 
> The other thing to do would be to run an X server on Windows, and display to
> there while debugging.
> 
> Ciao
> Gavin
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Recording Profiles

I'm not an expert on these by any means, but I can answer a couple:

Profiles are applied at the time of recording.
Transcoding profiles are applied POST record, and only if you check
the right box.

The learning curve is still steep.

-blam



On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:07:47 +0800, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Please forgive such a basic question, but I can't find appropriate 
> documentation
> anywhere.
> 
> I have recently completed building my Myth server using CVS (from three days
> ago) and applied the DVB patch 3.5 and appropriate AC3 patches.  The server is
> surprisingly stable.
> 
> My question is around recording profiles, their function and settings.  One 
> the
> the main reasons I have gone for Myth is to allow me to use and store High
> Definition (primarily 1080i here in Sydney, Australia) without compromising 
> its
> quality.  I don't really want to compress the stream from the transmission 
> and I
> would prefer to keep them in native format - and yes, I have allocated storage
> space accordingly.
> 
> Are Recording profiles and their settings only applicable for transcoding, or
> are they applied real-time during the recording process?  If they are always
> applied, do I need to create separate profiles for the different transmission
> specifications (SD, ED, HD)?  Has anyone else managed to create a
> partner-friendly setup to reduce the learning curve for recording quality 
> setup?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Matt.
> 
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[mythtv-users] Re: PVR250 + Nova-T Nightmare.

2005-01-24 Thread Axel Thimm

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 04:57:47PM +, Christopher McEwan wrote:
> Okay Im trying to get my Nova-T and PVR250 working through mythtv, I
> have hit a hurdle at the very first step.
> 
> In order to get the Nova-T working I need to re-compile the kernel and
> add in support for it (its the new nova-t) but if I do that I have a
> nightmare trying to add in all the stuff for the pvr 250 (ivtv etc)
> 
> If I follow Jarod's guide I can get the PVR 250 working no probs, and
> I can get the Nova-T working on 2.6.9+ kernel no problem. I just cant
> get them both to work on the same kernel. I really want to stick to
> using apt, but when I re-compiled the fedora core 3 kernel using the
> src.rpm (and added in the v4l2 kernel patches for dvb) I couldnt
> apt-get the alsa kernel driver as it wanted to install the 2.6.9-1.724
> kernel (which was the version I was running after re-compiling it).
> 
> Any ideas about how to get them both working would be greatly
> appreciated, I have been working on getting everything back up for 4
> days now !

The new Nova-T is supported in both the v4l and the linux-dvb-cvs
kmdls at ATrpms. No need to recompile anything, you just need to
choose v4l or linux-dvb.
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[mythtv-users] Loading IVTV problems with PVR-350

2005-01-24 Thread James Olsovsky

I'm somewhat new to Linux and am undertaking loading Mythtv.  But I
seem to be having issues while loading IVTV.  I'm following the step
by steps from wilson.net and seem to be coming up short.

I run this series of commands

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list, changing at-stable to at-testing,
This works fine.
#apt-get update
   This works fine.

#apt-get install ivtv-firmware
   This works fine.
# apt-get install ivtv-kmdl-$KVER
This is the error I get at this command. 
   Reading Package Lists... Done
   Building Dependency Tree... Done
   Couldn't find package ivtv-kmdl-2.6.9-1.724_FC3


I've also tried changing my sources.list file to at-stable and
at-bleeding, but still get the same error.

Thanks for the help
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Re: [mythtv-users] Fluorescent stripe at the bottom of the screen when viewing

2005-01-24 Thread jani

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=36871


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:00:28 -0500, Anthony Vito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 23 January 2005 2:14 pm, John Johnson wrote:
> > It's a flashing, pulsating green/blue stripe at the bottom of the
> > screen.
> 
> You are using Bob deinterlacing?? and you are seeing the blue Xv
> background as the picture shifts for each field? maybe... happens to
> me too, only when Bob is on. Overscan should fix it. I however, I
> can't easily ( and don't want to ) overscan my projector on VGA.
> Anyone know how to change the background Xv color to black?
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] URC-6131 & ~mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc not working

2005-01-24 Thread John

Okay I took a look at the lircrc file a bit closer and I modified the
lines in the above suggestion and tried loading it again.  Still no
go.  Same error on same lines.  So then I decided to put a space
between "#begin"  and "#end" for the first "POWER button" setting. 
Now this shouldn't make a difference since there are other lines
further down that are commented out like this but my hope would be
that the error would move to a different line.  Well it worked! 
Lircrc loaded without any errors and now the remote works (even with
the lines as they are below).  Go figure.  Attached is my "working"
lircrc file.  Still need to tweak buttons. :)

John

P.S. When I enter a channel number it doesn't change to that channel
instead it displays info about it at the bottom of the screen.  Is
this a setting somewhere in myth?  Again Thanks for all the help.


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Re: [mythtv-users] Foxtel Digital and IR (IT LIVES!)

2005-01-24 Thread stephen

Daniel Parnell wrote:
G'day All,
after quite a bit of messing about with the IR, I had actually given 
up trying to get my myth box to control the Foxtel digital set top box 
(after upgrading from ye olde foxtel which worked perfectly).
I'd looked around on the net and found a file for some programmable 
remote made by Philips that was supposed to be about to control the 
Foxtel digital box, but of course it was in it's own file format (a CCF 
file).  There are several tools about that will extract the IR codes as 
hex strings, and finally this morning I looked through some code that is 
supposed to send these IR codes via a special interface attached to a 
PocketPC device.  Using this code as a guide I was able to produce a 
simple lircd.conf file that allows me to change the channels on again :)
If anybody is interested I can send them a copy.

Daniel
hi,
i don't have a foxtel digital receiver, but i'd like to know what 
tools/code you used to get the IR codes into a lirc format.  i have a 
sony clie that i can use to "learn" remote codes, but haven't found an 
easy (read: lazy) way to convert those codes into something i can use in 
a lircd.conf file.  anything you could send along to the list would be 
muchly appreciated!

thanks,
stephen

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Re: [mythtv-users] Font size in MythFrontend

2005-01-24 Thread Adam Siegel

I have struggled with this problem too and can't figure it out.  
Sometimes when I run without a window manager, then the fonts obey the 
settings.  But it is not consistent.

Ger Apeldoorn wrote:
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In the "settings" menu of mythfrontend, I can change the fontsize of
the "large" "medium" and "small" fonts. This has no effect on the
frontend fontsize.
When I started the frontend on the computer where normally only the
backend runs, I do get a large fontsize. The normal frontend uses the
mysql database of the backend server. Perhaps that this has anything
to do with it??
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Ger.
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[mythtv-users] Re: 3 methods to attempt a kernel upgrade have all failed

2005-01-24 Thread Axel Thimm

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 01:16:03PM +1100, Phill Edwards wrote:
> I have been trying to upgrade my kernel as I couldn't find a source
> code package for the version I have on ATRPMs (2.6.8-1.521) and I want
> to recompile the kernel. Unfortunately they have all failed.
> 
> Method 1)
> As per Jarod's guide I tried this:
> # apt-get install kernel#2.6.10-1.9_FC2
> # apt-get install {lirc,nvidia-graphics6111}-kmdl-2.6.10-1.9_FC2
> 
> But this gives me the following error:
> file /dev/lirc from install of lirc-devices-0.7.0-1.rhfc2.at conflicts
> with file from package
> kernel-module-lirc-2.6.8-1.521-0.7.0-42.rhfc2.at
> E: Error while running transaction

add kernel-module-lirc-2.6.8-1.521- as the first argument to the
install command above.

> Method 2)
> So then I tried something which Axel advised in an email:
> # apt-get install nvidia-graphics6111-kmdl-`uname -r` nvidia-graphics6111

uname -r takes the current running kernel, not the kernel you wnat to
upgrade to.

> # nvidia-graphics-switch 6111
> 
> But this gives me errors after running nvidia-graphics-switch 6111:
>nvidia: Unknown symbol __VMALLOC_RESERVE
>nvidia: Unknown symbol pci_find_class
> 
> Also, on reboot X won't start up and I get this error in X.org.log:
>(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!
> 
> And I get this error on startup also:
>FATAL: Module lirc_serial not found
> 
> 
> Method 3)
> # apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> This ran through but didn't seem to download any upgraded kernel
> packages. I had assumed that it would.

kernels are not upgraded by apt *upgrade, only by installs

> Has anyone completed the task of carrying out what should be a simple
> kernel upgrade and if so, could they please exlain how they did it?

apt-get install kernel

You get a list of candidates. Pick the one you want and install it
with

apt-get install kernel#

Boot into the kernel (nvidia will not work). If you are happy with it
get the kernel modules you require with

apt-get install {foo,bar,baz}-kmdl-`uname -r`

The conflict with older lirc drivers is unfortunate, but cannot be
deal with otherwise, since kernel modules for different kernels cannot
(or better should not) obsolete each other.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Avermedia DVB-T remote

2005-01-24 Thread Simon Glynn

check out this post
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3010&highlight=

I'm using KnoppMyth, but most of it should still follow. In addition to
what I wrote in that post, I subsequently did end up modifying the
ir_kbd_io.c file to map the keypresses to keys in the 0-255 range, which
seemed to be the only ones that worked for xmodmap. Then used xmodmap to
remap them to what I wanted to use them for. Most all of my remote keys
now do something useful. I'm actually getting v-good reception in a bad
blackspot from my DVB-T. I understand the older model wasn't so good. I'm
in Aus. YMMV

Regards
Simon Glynn




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[mythtv-users] 3 methods to attempt a kernel upgrade have all failed

2005-01-24 Thread Phill Edwards

I have been trying to upgrade my kernel as I couldn't find a source
code package for the version I have on ATRPMs (2.6.8-1.521) and I want
to recompile the kernel. Unfortunately they have all failed.

Method 1)
As per Jarod's guide I tried this:
# apt-get install kernel#2.6.10-1.9_FC2
# apt-get install {lirc,nvidia-graphics6111}-kmdl-2.6.10-1.9_FC2

But this gives me the following error:
file /dev/lirc from install of lirc-devices-0.7.0-1.rhfc2.at conflicts
with file from package
kernel-module-lirc-2.6.8-1.521-0.7.0-42.rhfc2.at
E: Error while running transaction


Method 2)
So then I tried something which Axel advised in an email:
# apt-get install nvidia-graphics6111-kmdl-`uname -r` nvidia-graphics6111
# nvidia-graphics-switch 6111

But this gives me errors after running nvidia-graphics-switch 6111:
   nvidia: Unknown symbol __VMALLOC_RESERVE
   nvidia: Unknown symbol pci_find_class

Also, on reboot X won't start up and I get this error in X.org.log:
   (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!

And I get this error on startup also:
   FATAL: Module lirc_serial not found


Method 3)
# apt-get dist-upgrade

This ran through but didn't seem to download any upgraded kernel
packages. I had assumed that it would.

Has anyone completed the task of carrying out what should be a simple
kernel upgrade and if so, could they please exlain how they did it?

Thanks in advance,
Phill
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Re: [mythtv-users] Marking episodes as already-viewed

2005-01-24 Thread Kevin Kuphal

Andrew Dodd wrote:
Is there any easy way to mark a particular episode of a series as already
viewed?  (Especially from the EPG or Mythweb).
There have been quite a few reruns of one of my favorite shows that happen to
conflict with normal showings of other series I watch that I usually have set
at a lower priority.  I've been manually resolving these conflicts, but it
would be nice to permanently mark an episode as recorded/seen without actually
recording it.
I could probably do this manually by fiddling with mythconverg, but I'd prefer
to avoid doing manual DB editing if possible.
 

In the Upcoming Recordings screen you can edit the options for any 
individual episode prior to recording to "Don't record" which tells the 
scheduler to skip that particular showing but record it some other time 
if you can and "Never record" which does what you are looking for and 
essentially marks it as "viewed".

Kevin
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[mythtv-users] Fwd: Recording Profiles

2005-01-24 Thread Matt

Hi all,

Please forgive such a basic question, but I can't find appropriate 
documentation 
anywhere.  

I have recently completed building my Myth server using CVS (from three days 
ago) and applied the DVB patch 3.5 and appropriate AC3 patches.  The server is 
surprisingly stable.

My question is around recording profiles, their function and settings.  One the 
the main reasons I have gone for Myth is to allow me to use and store High 
Definition (primarily 1080i here in Sydney, Australia) without compromising its 
quality.  I don't really want to compress the stream from the transmission and 
I 
would prefer to keep them in native format - and yes, I have allocated storage 
space accordingly.

Are Recording profiles and their settings only applicable for transcoding, or 
are they applied real-time during the recording process?  If they are always 
applied, do I need to create separate profiles for the different transmission 
specifications (SD, ED, HD)?  Has anyone else managed to create a 
partner-friendly setup to reduce the learning curve for recording quality setup?

TIA,

Matt.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Marking episodes as already-viewed

2005-01-24 Thread Brian J. Murrell

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 20:50 -0500, Andrew Dodd wrote:
> Is there any easy way to mark a particular episode of a series as already
> viewed?  (Especially from the EPG or Mythweb).

Not sure about the EPG, but in the Scheduled Recordings page of mythweb
there is a "Never Record" option to the right most of some items.
Clicking that will enter it into the already viewed database.

b.

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[mythtv-users] Marking episodes as already-viewed

2005-01-24 Thread Andrew Dodd

Is there any easy way to mark a particular episode of a series as already
viewed?  (Especially from the EPG or Mythweb).

There have been quite a few reruns of one of my favorite shows that happen to
conflict with normal showings of other series I watch that I usually have set
at a lower priority.  I've been manually resolving these conflicts, but it
would be nice to permanently mark an episode as recorded/seen without actually
recording it.

I could probably do this manually by fiddling with mythconverg, but I'd prefer
to avoid doing manual DB editing if possible.


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[mythtv-users] Mythtv and DVB

2005-01-24 Thread Mattia Martinello

Hi,
I'm trying to install Mythtv with an Hauppauge WinTV Nova CI DVB card.
The DVB card correctly works and tune on kaxtv, but I don't really 
managed in get it working in Mythtv...
I configured che DVB card, the video source and the input connection, 
but now I am not be able to scan the channels.
I compiled Mythtv with DVB support from the CVS on a linux box running 
Fedora FC3.

Somebody could you help me, please?
Thank you very much!
Bye
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[mythtv-users] Re: New Mac Mini - one unrelated informal benchmark...

2005-01-24 Thread Brad

Really don't want to get wrapped up in a circa 1990 mac vs PC flame 
war. But, I'll tread carefully...  ;-)

I just want to say that, using both platforms extensively, I find 
that using a completely outdated Mac from around 2000 (a G3 iMac), I 
can typically get more of my day-to-day work done faster and easier 
with that than a state-or-the art PC box. And, as a bonus, no worries 
of pop-ups, trojan horses, virus', or spyware. Really, it just works.

Of course a G3 iMac is no powerhouse, so for some specific 
(particularly modern) tasks its seriously unable to compete. My only 
point is that the whole PC/Mac flame war always fails to take into 
account the only important factor - Which machine makes you more 
productive?. For me, the Mac platform has always been the hands-down 
winner in this category.

Nobody really cares which platform some propeller-headed geeks think 
are better anymore. Macs talk seamlessly to PCs, PCs talk seemlessly 
to Macs, and the Internet lets everyone talk to each other without 
barriers. Get whatever computer you think will serve your purposes 
best. Personally, I think 80% of the public would be better served 
using a Mac - they should at least consider it.
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Re: [mythtv-users] New remote

2005-01-24 Thread Paul Miller

Hi,

I maintain the lirc_atiusb driver for lirc.  You should not have to do 
anything "special" to get it to work with lirc 0.7 or later.  Just 
compile it for your kernel.

As far as the kernel ati_remote driver, you can not use both!  
Whatever driver loads first will claim the usb device.  The 
lirc_atiusb is designed only for use with lirc, and the kernel driver 
is designed more for X, but can be used with lirc.  There is also a 
userspace lirc driver for ATI's remote wonder I.  I haven't tried it.

-Paul

On Monday 24 January 2005 12:22 pm, Alex wrote:
> Did you have to do anything special to get lirc_atiusb to work with
> lirc-0.7.0? Which distribution are you using?
> Did you have any issues with the kernal ATIremote functionality
> conflicting with lirc?
>
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:53:25 +0100, Dirk Aust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I have good news for all guys looking for a nice remote for
> > Mythtv, the geman electronics retailler Pollin (www.pollin.de)
> > has a Medion RF remote with a lot of buttons on it, I managed to
> > get it running using the lirc_atiusb driver coming with
> > lirc-0.7.0. The lircd.conf file for it is attached to this mail.
> >
> > The range is good, my flat isn't large enough to exceed the range
> > of the remote.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Dirk
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Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving TV shows to DVD

2005-01-24 Thread Cory Papenfuss

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Jeff Simpson wrote:
Yup. Drag and drop everything. You drag in the mpegs you want, the
jpegs you want as the backgrounds for menus. Drag over a button from
the tool pane and tell it which title/menu to go to when clicked.
Surprisingly easy for a linux program, I was impressed.
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:19:31 -0600, M S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Does DVDStyler (or the other product) make menus and everything?
My experience has been better with qdvdauthor...  YMMV
-Cory
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Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving TV shows to DVD

Yup. Drag and drop everything. You drag in the mpegs you want, the
jpegs you want as the backgrounds for menus. Drag over a button from
the tool pane and tell it which title/menu to go to when clicked.
Surprisingly easy for a linux program, I was impressed.

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:19:31 -0600, M S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does DVDStyler (or the other product) make menus and everything?
> 
> 
> > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:42:16 -0700, Blammo [doh] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > How about if you want to cut at your cut points BEFORE you burn to DVD?
> > >
> > > Source : PVR-x50 files
> > > Destination: DVD
> > >
> > > can someone give a step-by for Linux to cut at cutpoints, then prep to 
> > > DVD?
> >
> >
> > 1. Mark your commercials in Myth
> >
> > 2. Use the MPEG2->MPEG2 option of nuvexport. For me, this step usually takes
> > about 5-10 mins on my computer for a 30 minute show.
> >
> > 3. Prepare a video DVD iso using the mpg2 file exported from step 2. I
> > use DVDStyler. Another app is Q DVD Author.
> >
> > 4. Burn the iso to dvd. I use k3b for this.
> >
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Re: [mythtv-users] Fluorescent stripe at the bottom of the screen when viewing

2005-01-24 Thread Anthony Vito

On Sunday 23 January 2005 2:14 pm, John Johnson wrote:
> It's a flashing, pulsating green/blue stripe at the bottom of the
> screen.

You are using Bob deinterlacing?? and you are seeing the blue Xv
background as the picture shifts for each field? maybe... happens to
me too, only when Bob is on. Overscan should fix it. I however, I
can't easily ( and don't want to ) overscan my projector on VGA.
Anyone know how to change the background Xv color to black?

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[mythtv-users] Re: New Mac Mini - one unrelated informal benchmark...

2005-01-24 Thread Mike Frisch

Ian Bishop wrote:
So if the iPod Shuffle was produced by anyone other than Apple, do you
think it would get the press/accolades/sales that it is?  It's called
marketing...
 

How is this related to using the Mini Mac as a frontend for MythTV?

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[mythtv-users] Jittery playback on recordings

2005-01-24 Thread Mike Garrison

My mythtv box is stuttering on some scene changes of my recordings. It 
seems to be a playback issue with mythtv, because when I play from my 
windows box the problem does not happen. The same is true if i play it 
via mplayer on the mythtv box.

I'm not doing any deinterlacing or filters or anything. Live TV also 
plays back fine. I'm using the svideo out on the gf4.

During playback, mythfrontend is only using at most 25% of the CPU. The 
box is a AMD Athlon 1.1 with 512MB memory.
Video card is a GF4 TI 4200, tuner card is a pvr350.  Mythtv is 0.16

I'm pretty stumped, so any suggestions or ideas would be great.
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[mythtv-users] Foxtel Digital and IR (IT LIVES!)

2005-01-24 Thread Daniel Parnell

G'day All,
	after quite a bit of messing about with the IR, I had actually given 
up trying to get my myth box to control the Foxtel digital set top box 
(after upgrading from ye olde foxtel which worked perfectly).
I'd looked around on the net and found a file for some programmable 
remote made by Philips that was supposed to be about to control the 
Foxtel digital box, but of course it was in it's own file format (a CCF 
file).  There are several tools about that will extract the IR codes as 
hex strings, and finally this morning I looked through some code that 
is supposed to send these IR codes via a special interface attached to 
a PocketPC device.  Using this code as a guide I was able to produce a 
simple lircd.conf file that allows me to change the channels on again 
:)
If anybody is interested I can send them a copy.

Daniel
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RE: [mythtv-users] New Mac Mini - one unrelated informal benchmark...

2005-01-24 Thread Ian Bishop

Have *you* used Cleaner 5 for windows?  XL is at least reasonable.  But
5 is terrible.

So if the iPod Shuffle was produced by anyone other than Apple, do you
think it would get the press/accolades/sales that it is?  It's called
marketing...

BTW: I do care about my home-built HTPC.  Do you think someone would
subscribe to a 200msg/day list if they didn't?

Ian 

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Johnson
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 3:36 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] New Mac Mini - one unrelated informal
benchmark...

Does anyone care about home built HTPCs anymore ?  The only thing
MythTV does well is marketing !

bleh - what a troll

"Very slow piece of junk"  hahaha - the droll troll

-=dave

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:55:47 -0800, Ian Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've used cleaner 5 for Windows and it is a very slow piece of junk.
It
> does however work well in an automated video production environment.
> 
> Does anyone even care about the Mac/PC comparison anymore?  The only
> thing Apple does right these days is marketing.
> 
> Ian
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Johnson
> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 10:40 AM
> To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] New Mac Mini - one unrelated informal
> benchmark...
> 
> speaking of unrelated benchmarks...
> 
> I while ago I was processing analog VHS corporate media -> MJPEG full
> NTSC
> captures -> MPEG2 DVD-spec'd streams with Discreet's Cleaner 5. My G3
> tower
> was talking an excruciating 12hrs to process each 1/2-hr clip.  I
> decided
> I'd setup my 1.1GHz PC to do the same so I could process multiple
files
> simultaneously in order to make a deadline.
> 
> Here are the specs:
> 
> PC:
> 1GHz PIII (256kB L2, 153MHz FSB, 1150MHz CPU Speed/1150MHz L2 Cache
> Speed)
> CUSL-2 Mobo
> Windows 2000 Professional (forget SP number)
> 
> Mac:
> G3 Tower 266MHz (512kB L2, 84MHz FSB, 292MHz CPU/194MHz L2)
> Original Rev. A "Beige" codname "Gossomer" Mobo
> Mac OS 10.1.6
> 
> Subsystems that were identical on each machine (exactly identical, as
> they
> each used the same exact hardware):
> 512MB ECC SDRAM "Crucial" (the Mac didn't utilize the ECC function but
> the
> CUSL-2 did)
> Adaptec 29160 U3 SCSI Controller (160MB/s)
> 3x 36GB Atlas III 10k M160 SCSI Drive (1 boot/temp, 1 source, 1
> destination)
> Cleaner 5.0.0 (Mac/PC)
> 
> MJPEG source file was cropped, color-spaced correction, and heavily
> processed with highest quality settings for a 5-7Mbps MPEG2 DVD-Spec
> stream.
> The repeatable results show approximate times:
> 
> PC: 18Hrs
> Mac: 12Hrs
> 
> Make of this what you will, but it is CERTAINLY not straight MHz, or
> even
> bus speeds.
> 
> Anyone can argue any section of this totally informal test as invalid.
> The
> easiest is to claim that Discreet may not have optimzied the code for
> the PC
> version of the software but I just can't imagine that would be the
case.
> If
> we assume that Discreet abides by the rules of capitolizm, then we
have
> to
> assume that they put as much effort as attempting to build a quality
> product
> on each platform.  If this is even remotely true, then the results
> certainly
> support the idea that the PPC processing platform can really munge
> data...
> and FAST.
> 
> okay, you platform biggots can flame amongst yourselves ;)
> 
> -=dave
> 
> 
> "THIS TRANSMISSION IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE ADDRESSEE. IT MAY CONTAIN
PRIVILEGED OR CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. ANY UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE IS
STRICTLY PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS TRANSMISSION IN ERROR,
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[mythtv-users] Re: MPEG2->MPEG2 cut spinning

2005-01-24 Thread Gavin Hurlbut

cythraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,

> I don't use the actual console to get into my box because there's no
> monitor attached to my backend. I prefer to use ssh from my windows
> box and take advantage of screen for encoding processes.

> Is there a way to get around avidemux2's GUI?

Yeah, use the script as provided.

> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:35:20 -0500, Jeff Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> avidemux2 is a gui program, I believe. Try running it as a different
>> user to get the graphics to pop up.

That's great if you actually want the GUI, but I went to great lengths to
squash that pesky GUI.

While running the GUI to see why it's stuck maybe a good idea, it's hardly the
normal desired running mode.

The other thing to do would be to run an X server on Windows, and display to
there while debugging.

Ciao
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[mythtv-users] Re: MPEG2->MPEG2 cut spinning

2005-01-24 Thread Gavin Hurlbut

Brad Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OutFile "/usr/extra/dvd/simpsons/The Simpsons - Bart Star.mpg"
> Last GOP index 3836
> Cutlist "3770-19255 23168-32152 37579-49248 57541-"
> Finding the AV Offset to use with lvemux: -33
> Finding framerate: 29.970
> Last Frame 57540
> Indexing the file with avidemux2
> Cutting out commercials with avidemux2

After the last frame number is calculated, the cutlist that is fed to avidemux
is adjusted so that it never goes past that frame number.  This would be a
red herring.  You could check the .cut file it generates to make sure.

Ciao
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[mythtv-users] Re: MPEG2->MPEG2 cut spinning

2005-01-24 Thread Gavin Hurlbut

Steven Christall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As far as I can tell the Xvfb allows you to run a virtual frame buffer
> so that you can run the program without an xwindows session.

Correct.  And without polluting your X session if you have one.

> I was planning on having a go with avidemux in xwindows later tonight by
> itself.  Is it your guess this is the part that is broken?

That would be my guess.

Ciao
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Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving TV shows to DVD

2005-01-24 Thread M S

I tried teh MPEG2 -> MPEG2, but the resulting movies are really kind
of grainy and the color is off and there apears to be almost what I
can describe as a faint picture and picture of th exact same show in
the upper left hand corner.  Anyone know how to solve this?


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:42:04 -0500, William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > My problem is even easier...I dont want to cut
> > commercials...just burn straight to dvd from the .nuv files.
> > I have a pvr-250.
> 
> Here is the script I use to burn a single recorded show (movie) to dvd. I
> also use a pvr-250 for capture. Because I display on a HDTV monitor I run
> quite high bitrates (5500/1 peak) and many movies get too big for a disk
> without shrinking so I built an automatic shrink into the script. Here is
> the process.
> 
> I run the mythlink.sh script to create a directory of nicely named links to
> the .nuv files. Then I use avidemux2 to open the file and to split the audio
> and video into two files named aud and vid. I also use avidemux2 to trim off
> the junk at the start and end of the show. Once the files are created you
> are done with avidemux2. Next I run this fully automated script to create
> the dvd structure and burn it to disk.
> 
> -snip--
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> echo Remove any old files laying around
> rm -drf mydvd
> rm -f mydvd.tmp
> echo Checking video size...
> # Calculate the requantization factor
> vsize=`ls -l ./vid | awk '{print $5}'`
> vsize=`echo $vsize / 1048576 | bc`
> echo "vsize = $vsize"
> asize=`ls -l ./aud | awk '{print $5}'`
> asize=`echo $asize / 1048576 | bc`
> echo "asize = $asize"
> req=`echo "($vsize + $asize) / 4550" | bc -ql`
> echo "requant factor = $req"
> # test to see if the first char is a period. If it is, no shrinking needed.
> if [ ${req:0:1} = "." ];
> then
>   echo Shrinking not required!!
> else
>   echo Shrinking the video to fit the disk
>   req=`echo "$req + 0.1" | bc -ql`
>   echo Reduction Factor: $req
>   echo Note: vid has been saved as vid-full
>   mv -f vid vid-full
>   tcrequant -i vid-full -o vid -f $req
> fi
> 
> # Note: the "-O 5995mpt" in mplex creates the proper audio sync for stuff
> recorded
> # with a pvr-250. Without it the sound track is about 1/2 second behind the
> video.
> mplex -f 8 -O 5995mpt -V -o mydvd.tmp aud vid
> 
> echo "creating dvd file system"
> dvdauthor -o mydvd -f mydvd.tmp
> dvdauthor -o mydvd -T
> rm -f mydvd.tmp
> 
> echo Burning DVD
> /usr/local/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/scd0 -dvd-video mydvd
> 
> --snip---
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] New Mac Mini - one unrelated informal benchmark...

2005-01-24 Thread Dave Johnson

Does anyone care about home built HTPCs anymore ?  The only thing
MythTV does well is marketing !

bleh - what a troll

"Very slow piece of junk"  hahaha - the droll troll

-=dave

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:55:47 -0800, Ian Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've used cleaner 5 for Windows and it is a very slow piece of junk.  It
> does however work well in an automated video production environment.
> 
> Does anyone even care about the Mac/PC comparison anymore?  The only
> thing Apple does right these days is marketing.
> 
> Ian
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Johnson
> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 10:40 AM
> To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] New Mac Mini - one unrelated informal
> benchmark...
> 
> speaking of unrelated benchmarks...
> 
> I while ago I was processing analog VHS corporate media -> MJPEG full
> NTSC
> captures -> MPEG2 DVD-spec'd streams with Discreet's Cleaner 5. My G3
> tower
> was talking an excruciating 12hrs to process each 1/2-hr clip.  I
> decided
> I'd setup my 1.1GHz PC to do the same so I could process multiple files
> simultaneously in order to make a deadline.
> 
> Here are the specs:
> 
> PC:
> 1GHz PIII (256kB L2, 153MHz FSB, 1150MHz CPU Speed/1150MHz L2 Cache
> Speed)
> CUSL-2 Mobo
> Windows 2000 Professional (forget SP number)
> 
> Mac:
> G3 Tower 266MHz (512kB L2, 84MHz FSB, 292MHz CPU/194MHz L2)
> Original Rev. A "Beige" codname "Gossomer" Mobo
> Mac OS 10.1.6
> 
> Subsystems that were identical on each machine (exactly identical, as
> they
> each used the same exact hardware):
> 512MB ECC SDRAM "Crucial" (the Mac didn't utilize the ECC function but
> the
> CUSL-2 did)
> Adaptec 29160 U3 SCSI Controller (160MB/s)
> 3x 36GB Atlas III 10k M160 SCSI Drive (1 boot/temp, 1 source, 1
> destination)
> Cleaner 5.0.0 (Mac/PC)
> 
> MJPEG source file was cropped, color-spaced correction, and heavily
> processed with highest quality settings for a 5-7Mbps MPEG2 DVD-Spec
> stream.
> The repeatable results show approximate times:
> 
> PC: 18Hrs
> Mac: 12Hrs
> 
> Make of this what you will, but it is CERTAINLY not straight MHz, or
> even
> bus speeds.
> 
> Anyone can argue any section of this totally informal test as invalid.
> The
> easiest is to claim that Discreet may not have optimzied the code for
> the PC
> version of the software but I just can't imagine that would be the case.
> If
> we assume that Discreet abides by the rules of capitolizm, then we have
> to
> assume that they put as much effort as attempting to build a quality
> product
> on each platform.  If this is even remotely true, then the results
> certainly
> support the idea that the PPC processing platform can really munge
> data...
> and FAST.
> 
> okay, you platform biggots can flame amongst yourselves ;)
> 
> -=dave
> 
> 
> "THIS TRANSMISSION IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE ADDRESSEE. IT MAY CONTAIN 
> PRIVILEGED OR CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. ANY UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE IS 
> STRICTLY PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS TRANSMISSION IN ERROR, PLEASE 
> NOTIFY US IMMEDIATELY SO THAT WE MAY CORRECT OUR TRANSMISSION. PLEASE DESTROY 
> THE ORIGINAL. THANK YOU."
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] read audio: File descriptor in bad state / Audio buffer overflow / Prebuffering pause

2005-01-24 Thread Joe Hansche

Any suggestions?

On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 22:30 -0700, Joe Hansche wrote:
> My mythtv setup has been working fairly well in the past.  0.15 was
> working very well for me at the time I had it, but a sound problem
> forced me to upgrade to 0.16, and other intermittent issues have been
> popping up since.  Those problems still exist in my current version,
> which is the CVS version 0.16.20041224-1, compiled from a fresh CVS
> download on Jan 19, 05.
> 
> This is what happens...  mythbackend will start recording a program, and
> it's doing fine.  Watching the recording, the video and audio are both
> good.  But something (I don't know what, but I'm hoping someone can help
> me pinpoint it) triggers a problem, and the backend is no longer able to
> read audio from the stream.  I get the messages:
> 
> 2005-01-20 20:13:28.411 NVR: Only read 1024 bytes of 4096 bytes from
> '/dev/dsp
> read audio: Success
> 2005-01-20 20:13:28.415 NVR: Only read -1 bytes of 4096 bytes from
> '/dev/dsp
> read audio: File descriptor in bad state
> 2005-01-20 20:13:28.416 NVR: Only read -1 bytes of 4096 bytes from
> '/dev/dsp
> read audio: File descriptor in bad state
> 
> repeated about 300 times per second (the average timestamp delta in the
> log is anywhere from 0.000 to 0.010 seconds).  The first message appears
> to be the final bit of data it receives from the audio buffer, and after
> that, it always returns "-1".  At that point, the backend begins using
> 100% CPU, and will continue doing so until the backend is restarted, or
> recording stops.  In the recording, audio becomes "stuck" so to speak,
> as if it's continuously repeating the last 300-500ms that it was able to
> read, and the video slows down to about 1/2 to 3/4 the original speed it
> should be.
> 
> I even tried exiting X, and letting it sit at a console terminal while
> recording, but it still happens, which leads me to believe it's not a
> load issue (ie: it isn't a problem with the backend being choked of
> resources due to something else hogging CPU or memory).
> 
> It doesn't seem to be dependent upon the channel, it happens equally as
> often on any channel that it's recording, and also happens while
> watching LiveTV sometimes.  That said, it is also not always
> reproducible.  In fact, after making a few changes (disabled XvMC,
> disabled opengl, switched from ALSA to OSS, and set both the backend and
> frontend to SUID root) it actually got a lot better, and several
> programs have been able to record without encountering this problem at
> all, but it does still exist.  One program recorded this evening at 5pm,
> and had no problems, but another program recorded at 7pm and I had to
> restart the backend about 5 times in 30 minutes before I decided to
> cancel the recording.
> 
> When watching a recording that has been affected by this in the
> frontend, when it hits the point that the problem begins, it starts
> spitting these messages to the console:
> 
> 2005-01-20 22:02:57.981 prebuffering pause
> 2005-01-20 22:05:17.092 Audio buffer overflow, audio data lost!
> 2005-01-20 22:05:17.283 Audio buffer overflow, audio data lost!
> 2005-01-20 22:05:17.881 Audio buffer overflow, audio data lost!
> 2005-01-20 22:05:18.551 Audio buffer overflow, audio data lost!
> 
> The prebuffering pause message came about 2 minutes sooner, but the
> playback was still okay after that, until the buffer overflow messages
> begin.
> 
> What can I do to help pinpoint whats causing this, and fix whatever it
> is?  Hardware and version information is:
> 
> CPU: 2.53GHz P4
> Mem: 512MB
> Kernel: 2.6.9-gentoo-r6 (gentoo development sources)
> ALSA: 1.0.6 (I know 1.0.8 is released, but I don't know how to patch the
> kernel to use the latest version ... does anyone else?)
> MythTV: 0.16 (cvs 20041224-1)
> Tuner: Hauppauge WinCast/TV (old, using bt848 chip, bttv module)
> Video Card: nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4400 (nvidia binary driver 1.0.6629)
> X: X.org 6.8.0-r4, configured with Xinerama for TV out
> Sound Card: Turtle Beach Santa Cruz (Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24, ALSA
> driver = cs46xx)
> 
> Not sure what else is needed, but I'll provide any details you think may
> be necessary .. just let me know and I'll get it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Joe
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV, Myth, HD-2000, HD-3000, questions galore (and hopefully answers from the smart people... )

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 03:04:24PM -0600, Paul Leppert wrote:
> Blammo,
> - How are HDTV channels set up? Using zap2it and an HDTV lineup
> resulted in a mix of NTSC and ATSC channels with incorrect freqid for
> the digital channels (e.g., in Chicago, Channel 7 (ABC) is actually
> broadcasting on 52).  How is this set up via mythtv?

The easiest way is mythweb.  Select your digital TV lineup as a subset
of the broadcast lineup on zap2it.  Mythsetup allows slower setup of
the frequencies.

If you want to get fancy, write a script that takes the output of dtvscan
(which came with your pchdtv) and builds the database.   Subchannels are
entered with a dash into myth though many sources write them with a dot.
> 
> - How are HDTV subchannels set up?  Again, based on above, ABC is
> multicasting on 52.  In mythtv, are the channels specified as freqid
> 52-1, 52-2?  or some other format?  How should these multi-channels be
> set up for names (mythtv channel input won't allow '.' (7.1, 7.2,
> etc.) or '-' (7-1, 7-2).  Do these channels need to be renumbered
> (e.g., 900, 901)?  For me, I cannot seem to get any other subchannel
> other than the first regardless of what I put in the freqid field in

Myth 0.17 will offer the ability to specify subchannels.  Today, you must
allocate everything to an integer channel.   Thus I just use spare
iteger channels

In mythweb/settings_channels.php, I have, for example, Channel 4-2
(which broadcasts as 57-2), show up as  "4"  (channum in mythweb.)
This is the "real" channel 4, that you get if you tune them analog.

I have channel 4-1, which broadcasts on 57-1 appear on 6, which is
a spare channel in the area.

> - Based on http://thegeorges.us/mythtv instructions, the mythconverg
> database needs to be tweaked to set channel format to ATSC (assuming a
> default of NTSC).  Is this necessary?  What are the correct commands
> for setting this up?
Don't recall having to do anything but set atsc in mythtvsetup.

> - If your mythtv setup receives OTA NTSC and ATSC, is there any reason
> to keep the NTSC channels within mythtv?  If so, how should these be
> set up (similar issues as above since you now have two (or more)
> channel 7's)?  Is there a priority scheme within mythtv to make sure
> it records a show off the ATSC stream before choosing the same show on
> the NTSC stream?

You can put priorities on channels but generally since all analog
channels are now broadcsting in digital -- or is that not true where
you live? -- why would you want to tune the analog.  Anyway, I think
that myth only recently got patches to support the analog tuning on
the pchdtv anyway.  I don't use it though.

> - Does transcoding need to be set up in mythtv for HD channels (my
> understanding of the HD stream is that it contains all subchannels. 
> Does mythtv filter out the "extra" subchannels or do you need to use
> the transcoding mechanism to reduce the file sizes?)  I have no idea
> how any of this works in mythtv.

Yes, myth extracts just the subchannel when you record.  Transcoding
could be used to make it smaller.  Mythtv 0.16 does not handle
anything but one mp2->mp4 transcode profile, so it is not really able
to deal with the fact that some shows are 1080 lines, some 720, some
480, it would transcode them all to the same size.

Manual transcode with mencoder is your best bet.

> 
> And questions for performance:
> 
> - What components of the mythtv / computer setup impact performance of
> HDTV (e.g., at a given hardware level, what is the CPU usage for
> recording?  what is it for playback, what is it for both)?

No cpu usage for recording that you would notice.

TONS and TONS of cpu usage for playback, you want a 3ghz processor or
even better.

Also lots for transcode, commercial eliminate etc.

Playback with xvmc takes less CPU but mythtv has issues with seeking
in such recordings.  You can playback in mplayer with xvmc, but
you would go out of myth to do that.

It's not out of the question to build an HDTV mythbox, for example,
using a lower powered machine with an xvmc video card (nvidia for now)
and be unable to play your videos in myth, but instead go to the shell
and use the mythname.pl program to give the files nice names, and play
them in mplayer.

> - Related to above, what is the impact of multiple HDTV captures
> (e.g., two HD-3000 cards) on the processing requirements of the PC? 
> Anybody here yet?  Anybody have an idea of what it takes
> processing-wise for HDTV PIP with two cards?

No impact for recording.   Why would you want PIP on a PVR, I have
always wondered?  It makes no sense to me.  PIP is for live programming,
to watch two things at once at least one of them live.  You don't watch
live on a PVR after using it for a while.

I have not tried it but I would imagine dual-HDTV playback would take
a lot of CPU.

> - What can be done to improve performance (how is resolution reduced? 
> Is there any impact (or even capability) of recording at lower
> resolution than 720p or

Re: [mythtv-users] Avermedia DVB-T remote

2005-01-24 Thread Andy Shaw

Andy Whitworth wrote:
You could run lircd in "event" mode :-
lircd --driver=dev/input --device=/dev/input/event3 -p 660 /etc/lircd.conf
Then compile in native lirc support into Myth, setup a ~/.mythtv/lircd 
mapping file and off you go

Thanks, I'll give this a try tomorrow. A little unsure of how to set up 
the lircd mapping file but I'll do some googling and see what I can see.

On the DVB card, the Hauppauge Nova-T PCI card is pretty good, I got
one from PC World currently on sale at £50.
I'd like to get this card but I have a small form PC and it's too large. My 
only other option seems to be the Hauppauge external USB card although it does 
kind of defeat the purpose of building a mini-itx box.
Thanks again
Andy
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Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport

2005-01-24 Thread Chris Petersen

How soon do you think you'll release nuvexport with ffmpeg instead of transcode?
Depends on how long it takes me to get mythweb up to speed with the 
latest recording types.

-Chris
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RE: [mythtv-users] Archiving TV shows to DVD

2005-01-24 Thread William

> My problem is even easier...I dont want to cut 
> commercials...just burn straight to dvd from the .nuv files.  
> I have a pvr-250.

Here is the script I use to burn a single recorded show (movie) to dvd. I
also use a pvr-250 for capture. Because I display on a HDTV monitor I run
quite high bitrates (5500/1 peak) and many movies get too big for a disk
without shrinking so I built an automatic shrink into the script. Here is
the process.

I run the mythlink.sh script to create a directory of nicely named links to
the .nuv files. Then I use avidemux2 to open the file and to split the audio
and video into two files named aud and vid. I also use avidemux2 to trim off
the junk at the start and end of the show. Once the files are created you
are done with avidemux2. Next I run this fully automated script to create
the dvd structure and burn it to disk.

-snip--

#!/bin/bash

echo Remove any old files laying around
rm -drf mydvd
rm -f mydvd.tmp
echo Checking video size...
# Calculate the requantization factor 
vsize=`ls -l ./vid | awk '{print $5}'` 
vsize=`echo $vsize / 1048576 | bc`
echo "vsize = $vsize"
asize=`ls -l ./aud | awk '{print $5}'`
asize=`echo $asize / 1048576 | bc`
echo "asize = $asize"
req=`echo "($vsize + $asize) / 4550" | bc -ql`
echo "requant factor = $req"
# test to see if the first char is a period. If it is, no shrinking needed.
if [ ${req:0:1} = "." ];   
then
   echo Shrinking not required!!
else  
   echo Shrinking the video to fit the disk
   req=`echo "$req + 0.1" | bc -ql` 
   echo Reduction Factor: $req 
   echo Note: vid has been saved as vid-full
   mv -f vid vid-full 
   tcrequant -i vid-full -o vid -f $req  
fi

# Note: the "-O 5995mpt" in mplex creates the proper audio sync for stuff
recorded 
# with a pvr-250. Without it the sound track is about 1/2 second behind the
video.
mplex -f 8 -O 5995mpt -V -o mydvd.tmp aud vid

echo "creating dvd file system"
dvdauthor -o mydvd -f mydvd.tmp
dvdauthor -o mydvd -T
rm -f mydvd.tmp

echo Burning DVD
/usr/local/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/scd0 -dvd-video mydvd

--snip---


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Re: [mythtv-users] Custom channel surfing

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 02:49:30PM -0500, Jeff Simpson wrote:
> I like the idea - I already went through and physically removed all
> the channels I didn't watch (QVC, HSN, GOLF, all the religious
> networks, CMT, etc). I still have to wade through the less popular
> ones that I don't want to delete because they might have a movie on
> that I'd want to watch or something.
> 
> My cable box has a "favorite" button, works like the channel up
> button, but only goes to the next "favorite" channel. Unfortunately,
> it didn't have a channel-down equivalent.

Beyond that, a new need is emerging when you have multiple tuners
that get different versions of the same channel, not just for favourites
in surfing (which you should not do on a pvr anyway :-) but in browing
the guide and listings.

For example, with an HDTV card, and cable, you can get 3 different
instances of the same channel.One will be the one on cable.  Next
will be the HD version of the channel, even when the program is SD.
(Right now they upconvert the SD programs to HD rather than change
the resolution of the channel, which is stupid for those of us 
doing recording.)   Then in some cases there is a digital SD version
of the same channel on a subchannel of the main one.

(To get picky, the HD card can also tune analog OTA stations but now
that everybody is digital you would not want to do that.  Connected
to cable once QAM becomes available that will change.)

You generally don't want to surf all 3 though they do have some
differences.  If you record the upconverted HD channel version of an
SD program you will get a top quality recording -- which is giant in
size.   When the program is SD you would probably prefer to record
the SD-subchannel if it exists, just to save disk space and CPU to
decode.   On the other hand if the program is HD you want the HD
recording in most cases.

On the third hand, you also would rather get a program in SD than miss
it entirely, so if there are more HD shows on than you have HD tuners
you would want it to fall back to an SD recording, even off the cable.

There, does that make it messy enough?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Dual satellite's, lnb's and dual cam setup in Mythtvsetup?

2005-01-24 Thread Jesper Sörensen

Christian Bemervik skrev:
Hi 
I'm about to configure mythtvsetup on my fedora 1 for dvb-s but I have some issues how to setup my both lnb's for the satellites Thor and Sirius and then use some channels from the Sirius sat with my cam nr1 and some channels from the sat Thor with my cam nr.2 both using crypted channels?

I've got one of my cams to work but not both of them.
 

You have a CAM that is supposed to work with Viasat? All I know is that 
some months ago Viasat changed CA systems from Viaccess to NDS 
Videoguard (I think) and they refuse to sell CAMs for it (they want you 
to use *their* hardware and not Myth), so unless you somehow have gotten 
a NDS CAM I think you are out of luck. Cancel your Viasat subscription 
and use Canal Digital instead (and let Viasat know about it). If they 
lose enough customers maybe they will rethink their position...

If I misunderstood your question you need to be a bit more specific 
about your setup and what the problem is (and some logs would help).

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Re: [mythtv-users] Internal video player - "fast forward" & video length

2005-01-24 Thread Roald

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:10:31 +0100, Harald Deischinger 
> 1. the length of the video is not determined correctly, it even jitters
> while the movie is playing.
> 2. "fast forward" is extremely slow when playing the video from a slow
> media (WLAN) - it seems that the player first thas to read the whole
> file before it can skip properly.

I had this, and very high cpu usage. Something had happened to my
mysql-database, so mythbackend were trying to write to the database
all the time, and used up all resources on that. After fixing the
database everything was ok again. Check your mythbackend-log if
anything is reported there..

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RE: [mythtv-users] picure quality PVR350/FC1

2005-01-24 Thread Hugo van der Kooij

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, MadPatrick wrote:

> ivtvctl -j reg=0x6c,val=0xfe -d /dev/video0
> This one i already have, which i needed to remove the green-screen
> But i found also this:
> ivtvctl -j reg=0x6c,val=0xda -d /dev/video16
>
> Don't know the difference between video0 and video16, but in mythtv setup i
> saw also video16.
>
> ivtvctl -j reg=0x61,val=0xb1 -d /dev/video0
> When i use this setting the screen is scrambled.
>
> I've a PVR-350 Model 993 tune=38. maybe this i different with yours

For PAL tuners this might help you out:

/usr/bin/ivtvctl -d /dev/video0 -u 0xff
/usr/bin/ivtvctl -d /dev/video0 -p 4
/usr/bin/ivtvctl -d /dev/video0 -f width=720,height=576
/usr/bin/ivtvctl -d /dev/video0 -c dnr_mode=0
/usr/bin/ivtvctl -d /dev/video0 -c dnr_temporal=0
/usr/bin/ivtvctl -d /dev/video0 -c dnr_spatial=0
/usr/bin/ivtvctl -j reg=0x6c,val=0xfa -d /dev/video16
/usr/bin/ivtvctl -j reg=0x2d,val=0x38 -d /dev/video16

It gives me a rather good image.

Mind you video16 is the OUTPUT device and video0 the INPUT device.
(hence to watch TV you may use: dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 bs=64k &)

Hugo.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Avermedia DVB-T remote

2005-01-24 Thread Andy Whitworth

You could run lircd in "event" mode :-

lircd --driver=dev/input --device=/dev/input/event3 -p 660 /etc/lircd.conf

Then compile in native lirc support into Myth, setup a ~/.mythtv/lircd 
mapping file and off you go

On the DVB card, the Hauppauge Nova-T PCI card is pretty good, I got
one from PC World currently on sale at £50.

Andy.

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:56:14 +, Andy Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've recently setup mythtv, a lengthy process (certainly on an epia-m)
> but at last it's all coming together. I have one last wish and that's to
> get my remote control working with Myth. It's the controller that comes
> with the Avermedia DVB-T TV card and I've had some minor success
> already. By loading the ir_kbd_gpio I've found that the controller sends
> events to /dev/input/event3. My question is how should I go about
> mapping these events to mythtv?
> 
> Currently the controller does have some effect over myth (up is down,
> down is up, etc) but little else.
> 
> If anyone could offer any advice it'd be much appreciated.
> 
> Kind regards
> Andy
> 
> BTW, if anyone's thinking of going for an Avermedia DVB-T (low profile)
> card in the UK I'd recommend against it. While my standalone Freeview
> box picks up everything the Aver barely picks up a thing - and that's
> with the latest firmware too.
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Re: [mythtv-users] What goes in modules.conf?

2005-01-24 Thread Harry Orenstein

On Sunday 23 January 2005 10:30 pm, Frutillar wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am using ivtv 0.3.2a along with lirc 0.7.0 and I am not sure if my
> modules.conf file is complete.
>
> 
> $ cat /etc/modules.conf
> alias char-major-81   videodev
> alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
> alias char-major-61   lirc_i2c
> add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_i2c
> 
>
> I am using this with
> PVR-350
> Mandrake 10.1 (2.6.8.1-12mdk)
> MythTV 0.16
>
> Thanks!

I don't believe there is an "add above" option any longer in 2.6 kernels (such 
as MDK10.1).  Check out Jarod's site for configuring FC3.  The section on 
setting up your modprobe.conf file (MDK may still use modules.conf in 10.1) 
should use the same syntax.  Make sure you look at the IVTV setup section of 
The Guide as well as the LIRC setup section.  That should answer all of your 
questions on syntax.

Personally, I use a slightly different setup that has a 
modified /etc/rc.d/init.d/lircd file that loads the LIRC modules on its own 
so that I can avoid tricks in the modprobe.conf to get them to load.  I can 
send you my daemon files if you want to try it that way.  HTH!

-- Harry O.
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Re: [mythtv-users] MPEG2->MPEG2 cut spinning

2005-01-24 Thread Brad Benson

Well, I'm not sure exactly what fixed it, but it seems to be working
now.  I'm currently using avidemux 2.0.28-4 and transcode 0.6.12-3.1. 
I just successfully cut an episode of the simpsons in about 5 minutes.

Brad Benson


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:12:28 -0500, William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Versions I have:
> >
> > Avidemux 2, v  2.0.34
> > transcode v0.6.14
> > lvemux-040322
> > xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.7.0-11
> >
> > Help me please . I want to start archiving to DVD!
> >
> > Cheers
> > Steve
> 
> I had to revert back to my old version of avidemux2 because the recent ones
> seem to be broken for our purposes. There has been a bit of discussion in
> the lists about this issue. I am currently running 2.0.28 with good results.
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Fluorescent stripe at the bottom of the screen when viewing

2005-01-24 Thread Harry Orenstein

On Sunday 23 January 2005 2:14 pm, John Johnson wrote:
> It's a flashing, pulsating green/blue stripe at the bottom of the
> screen.
> Probably two scanlines tall.
>
> PVR-250, e-GeForce 4000 (nVidia), KnoppMyth.
> This seems to have happened when MythMusic and MythGallery broke.
>
> (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
>  compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.4363
>  Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
>
> Any help greatly appreciated!
>
> Regards,
>JJ

I get a similar effect at the top of my picture.  I assume this is when 
watching Live TV (or a recording)?  I believe you are seeing the VBI data.  
Did you recently change the versions of the IVTV driver?  I didn't see this 
from version 0.1.9 but when I went to 0.2.0 it appears to be in every 
subsequent version.  You could try to get rid of it using the OverScan 
setting of the nVidia driver.  HTH!

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Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving TV shows to DVD

2005-01-24 Thread M S

Does DVDStyler (or the other product) make menus and everything?  


> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:42:16 -0700, Blammo [doh] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How about if you want to cut at your cut points BEFORE you burn to DVD?
> >
> > Source : PVR-x50 files
> > Destination: DVD
> >
> > can someone give a step-by for Linux to cut at cutpoints, then prep to DVD?
> 
> 
> 1. Mark your commercials in Myth
> 
> 2. Use the MPEG2->MPEG2 option of nuvexport. For me, this step usually takes
> about 5-10 mins on my computer for a 30 minute show.
> 
> 3. Prepare a video DVD iso using the mpg2 file exported from step 2. I
> use DVDStyler. Another app is Q DVD Author.
> 
> 4. Burn the iso to dvd. I use k3b for this.
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Re: [mythtv-users] MPEG2->MPEG2 cut spinning

2005-01-24 Thread Brad Benson

Well, I'm not 100% sure that avidemux is what's broken, but that is
the part where it always dies.  I'll have to try it again later
tonight, but as I recall I'm able to manually edit programs using
avidemux and everything works.  It's just when I run mpeg2_cut that it
fails.  One thing I've noticed is that the final entry in the Cutlist
that mpeg2_cut displays always starts 1 frame beyond what mpeg2_cut
displays as the last frame.  Here's a sample output from nuvexport
using mpeg2_cut:


Now encoding:  The Simpsons:  Bart Star
Encode started:  Mon Jan 24 17:14:11 2005
which: no Xvfb in
(/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/mythtv/bin)
mpeg2cut v1.6
Using mode X
Filename "/home/mythtv/video/recordings/1014_20050121175800_20050121183000.nuv"
OutFile "/usr/extra/dvd/simpsons/The Simpsons - Bart Star.mpg"
Last GOP index 3836
Cutlist "3770-19255 23168-32152 37579-49248 57541-"
Finding the AV Offset to use with lvemux: -33
Finding framerate: 29.970
Last Frame 57540
Indexing the file with avidemux2
Cutting out commercials with avidemux2

You'll notice that it reports the last frame as being 57540, but the
final entry in the cutlist is 57541-.  I'm wondering if that's part of
the problem.  However, it always creates a .cut and a .cut2 file.  I'm
guessing that there should also be a .cut3 and .cut4 for the other two
items in the cutlist.  If that's the case then it's probably not even
getting to the point where the 57541- would be a problem.

Brad Benson

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:27:01 +, Steven Christall
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> In my case I haven't tried to use the MPEG2->MPEG2 cut before.
> 
> As far as I can tell the Xvfb allows you to run a virtual frame buffer
> so that you can run the program without an xwindows session.
> 
> I was planning on having a go with avidemux in xwindows later tonight by
> itself.  Is it your guess this is the part that is broken?
> 
> Steve
> 
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:25:58 -0500, "Brad Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> > I've been having the exact same problem that you're reporting.  It's
> > not a gui problem since I actually see the avidemux gui open.  After
> > that though, it just sits there forever.  Interestingly, this just
> > started happening a few weeks ago.  I was able to successfully export
> > two different shows using mpeg2->mpeg2 cutting.  After that I can only
> > presume that I updated something to a new version and that's what
> > broke it.  Problem is, I can't figure out what that upgrade could have
> > been.  I'm running:
> >
> > avidemux 2.0.34-5_test2
> > lve-0.040322-1.1
> > transcode-0.6.14-15
> >
> > I don't have Xvfb installed at all, but that wasn't installed when it
> > was working before either.  I've also tried downgrading avidemux to
> > 2.0.28, but with no success.
> >
> > Brad Benson
> > 
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Re: [mythtv-users] URC-6131 & ~mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc not working

2005-01-24 Thread Harry Orenstein

On Sunday 23 January 2005 2:39 pm, John wrote:
> I have an One For ALL remote model URC-6131 and I'm trying to get it
> working using myth.  I've recently installed Myth via Jarods guide.
> One of the last issues is I'm still working on getting my remote to
> work in Myth.  Currently I'm using a lircd.conf and lircrc file that I
> found on vulturesnest.net.  Attached you'll find both files.  When
> using the irw program I can see my key presses just fine.  When
> starting mythfrontend in verbose mode this is what I see in the
> background:
>
> " in /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc:8 ignored
> " in /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc:10 ignored
> mythtv: bad file format, /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc:11
> Failed to read lirc config /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc for mythtv
>
>
> Am I doing something wrong.  The Hauppauge worked fine a few days ago
> when I last tested it (I have a PVR-350).  When comparing to other
> lircrc files its looks perfectly normal other than the indentation.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> John


I would think that LIRC would not like the SubpictureMenu definition that 
leaves the remote and button values set to 'xx'.  Probably dumps out 
trying to parse that.  You could also check for bad characters elsewhere, 
though the other button definitions look OK to me.  HTH!


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Re: [mythtv-users] What goes in modules.conf?

2005-01-24 Thread Hugo van der Kooij

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Frutillar wrote:

> On Sunday 23 January 2005 10:44 pm, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Frutillar wrote:
> > > I am using ivtv 0.3.2a along with lirc 0.7.0 and I am not sure if my
> > > modules.conf file is complete.
> >
> > NOTHING goes into modules.conf if you use a 2.6 kernel. You must use
> > modprobe.conf and make sure you adjust the syntax.
> >
> > I suggest you peek into Jarod's guide which has most of the required lines
> > in there.
> >
> > And I have my own version online on:
> > http://hvdkooij.xs4all.nl/MythTV/modprobe.conf
> >
> > Hugo.
>
> Ok.  This is the first time I hear this.  Thanks!  I looked at your
> modprobe.conf and you call a script called
>
> /root/bin/pvr_setup.sh

Dunno ;-) try http://hvdkooij.xs4all.nl/MythTV/pvr_setup.txt

I am scribling down my notes on paper and transfer some of them to
http://hvdkooij.xs4all.nl/linux-pvr.en.cms if I do not forget about them.

Hugo.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Jerky motion on wireless frontend

2005-01-24 Thread Robert Denier

I don't know what form of wifi your using, but 802.11b really
doesn't have the bandwidth to do myth smoothly.  You may be able
to compensate by reducing the capture resolution and/or bitrate.  Using
mpeg4 instead of rtjpeg should help as well.  Also check your cpu 
utilization
during usage.  If your averaging more than say 50%  I suspect you'll 
have issues
at times for certain complex scenes..

Other than that I suppose you could try 802.11g??.   I'd find out what works
before going there though, asuming you don't already have it of course.
One thing I don't quite get is you say you play remotely mounted dvd'ss
no problem.  That bandwidth should be as high or higher than myth is doing..
Assuming some caching is going on locally you could play about 10 
seconds and
then hit the back around and see how it goes then  I'm not sure if 
that will
help or not..  Still the only obvious solution is to back off on the 
compression settings
and/or resolution.  Sooner or later you should find a point the system 
can handle
without jerky motion unless something else is going on.


Alex Polite wrote:
I'm experimenting with running mythfrontend  on my wifi connected
laptop.
Neither the wlan nor the cpu are saturated, far from it. But the
playback of recorded television as well, as live television, is still a
bit jerky.
This is on laptop where I can normally play all sorts of formats in
mplayer and xine quite smoothly. I can play remotely mounted DVDs with
no problems.
What can I do to improve mythfrontend playback?
alex.
 


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Re: [mythtv-users] Xine - IVTV on PVR350 output

2005-01-24 Thread stephen

MadPatrick wrote:
When watching DVD with Xine on the output of my PVR350 on a FC1 system is
very slow.
 
I've read that this is because Xine and IVTV are not yet made for each
other.
 
Does anybody has an solution to watch DVD's on the tv-out or an solution to
work with Xine.

Thanks
Patrick
I use xine to play DVDs over my PVR350's tv-out using this command:
xine -f -I -V xshm --audio-driver alsa --no-logo --no-splash dvd://
my frontend is a pIII 733 with 384MB, and i'm running gentoo (with 
evilwm for a window manager).

i've noticed that it will play widescreen content just great, but 
something in fullscreen (i.e. a tv series) is kind of choppy.

stephen
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RE: [mythtv-users] MPEG2->MPEG2 cut spinning

2005-01-24 Thread William

> 
> Versions I have:
> 
> Avidemux 2, v  2.0.34
> transcode v0.6.14
> lvemux-040322
> xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.7.0-11
> 
> Help me please . I want to start archiving to DVD!
> 
> Cheers
> Steve

I had to revert back to my old version of avidemux2 because the recent ones
seem to be broken for our purposes. There has been a bit of discussion in
the lists about this issue. I am currently running 2.0.28 with good results.


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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV, Myth, HD-2000, HD-3000, questions galore (and hopefully answers from the smart people... )

Great list of questions. Hopefully we can get some answers to these,
and I"ll happily collate them into the master.

-blam



On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:04:24 -0600, Paul Leppert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Blammo,
> 
> How about questions related to HDTV setup in mythtv?
> 
> - How are HDTV channels set up? Using zap2it and an HDTV lineup
> resulted in a mix of NTSC and ATSC channels with incorrect freqid for
> the digital channels (e.g., in Chicago, Channel 7 (ABC) is actually
> broadcasting on 52).  How is this set up via mythtv?
> 
> - How are HDTV subchannels set up?  Again, based on above, ABC is
> multicasting on 52.  In mythtv, are the channels specified as freqid
> 52-1, 52-2?  or some other format?  How should these multi-channels be
> set up for names (mythtv channel input won't allow '.' (7.1, 7.2,
> etc.) or '-' (7-1, 7-2).  Do these channels need to be renumbered
> (e.g., 900, 901)?  For me, I cannot seem to get any other subchannel
> other than the first regardless of what I put in the freqid field in
> mythweb (using an HD-3000).
> - Based on http://thegeorges.us/mythtv instructions, the mythconverg
> database needs to be tweaked to set channel format to ATSC (assuming a
> default of NTSC).  Is this necessary?  What are the correct commands
> for setting this up?
> - If your mythtv setup receives OTA NTSC and ATSC, is there any reason
> to keep the NTSC channels within mythtv?  If so, how should these be
> set up (similar issues as above since you now have two (or more)
> channel 7's)?  Is there a priority scheme within mythtv to make sure
> it records a show off the ATSC stream before choosing the same show on
> the NTSC stream?
> - Does transcoding need to be set up in mythtv for HD channels (my
> understanding of the HD stream is that it contains all subchannels.
> Does mythtv filter out the "extra" subchannels or do you need to use
> the transcoding mechanism to reduce the file sizes?)  I have no idea
> how any of this works in mythtv.
> 
> And questions for performance:
> 
> - What components of the mythtv / computer setup impact performance of
> HDTV (e.g., at a given hardware level, what is the CPU usage for
> recording?  what is it for playback, what is it for both)?
> - Related to above, what is the impact of multiple HDTV captures
> (e.g., two HD-3000 cards) on the processing requirements of the PC?
> Anybody here yet?  Anybody have an idea of what it takes
> processing-wise for HDTV PIP with two cards?
> - What can be done to improve performance (how is resolution reduced?
> Is there any impact (or even capability) of recording at lower
> resolution than 720p or 1080i/p? Is there an easy way to playback at
> different resolutions (via mythtv rather than different modelines).
> - If a modeline is set up for a particular monitor at a particular
> resolution, does that automatically reduce the processing of an HDTV
> stream (in other words, if I'm playing a 720p ATSC stream (1280x720)
> back on a monitor at 480p (704x480), have I somehow reduced the
> processing impact, or is the mythtv box still handling the full
> processing impact and all that is happening is a reduction in quality
> on the output)?
> - For playback, what is the processing impact for different
> resolutions (playing back a 720p stream at 1280 x 720, 1024 x 576, 800
> x 450)?
> - For those trying to get the best performance (at the tradeoff of
> quality), what is the best way to play back HDTV?  Reducing playback
> resolution?  Transcoding to reduced resolution? etc. etc.
> - What about audio?  Are there general rules about digital audio and
> performance or is this generally "not an issue" based on using a 5.1
> sound card (e.g., SB Audigy)?
> - What is XvMC and how does / will that help with the processing
> requirements of HDTV playback?  Are there particular video cards this
> will / will not work with?  Anyone have real world examples of
> processing improvements (e.g., CPU usage) with XvMC and without?
> 
> And a general question:
> 
> - Is there a way to tell within mythtv what format the ATSC is being
> broadcast (720p, 1081i, etc.)?
> 
> Wish I had more answers than questions, but as I get up the learning
> curve (and I receive my new, faster CPU), I should be able to
> contribute some real-world experience with my HD-3000 (and PVR-250 if
> I can ever get them working together).
> 
> Thanks,
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Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving TV shows to DVD

2005-01-24 Thread Matt Lane

My problem is even easier...I dont want to cut commercials...just burn
straight to dvd from the .nuv files.  I have a pvr-250.




On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:38:35 -0600, David Blevins
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 11:42:16AM -0700, Blammo [doh] wrote:
> > How about if you want to cut at your cut points BEFORE you burn to DVD?
> >
> > Source : PVR-x50 files
> > Destination: DVD
> >
> > can someone give a step-by for Linux to cut at cutpoints, then prep to DVD?
> 
> Yea, that would be fantastic.
> 
> -David
> 
> >
> > On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 05:50:18 -0600, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 09:16:26PM -0600, M S wrote:
> > > > Hi,  I know this is has been asked before, but I can't seem to find
> > > > the right answer.  I want an _easy_ solution to backup shows to DVDs,
> > >
> > > Here's my solution.  Works only with MPEG2 data from a PVR-x50 card,
> > > but does not require re-encoding.
> > >
> > > For each file:
> > >
> > >  mkfifo dvdmpegn
> > >  replex -i PS -v 0xe0 -a 0xc0 -k -t DVD -o dvdmpegn n.nuv &
> > >
> > > Then:
> > >
> > >  mkdir DVD
> > >  dvdauthor -o DVD dvdmpeg1 [.. dvdmpegn]
> > >  dvdauthor -T -o DVD
> > >
> > >  test DVD with ogle
> > >
> > >  (audio warnings are harmless)
> > >
> > >  Burn with:
> > >
> > >  nice -n -20 growisofs -Z /dev/hdc -dvd-compat -dvd-video -udf DVD
> > > 
> > > For MPEG-2, with requant (to reduce size):
> > >
> > >  mkfifo vid
> > >  mkfifo aud
> > >  mkfifo demux.mv2
> > >  mkfifo demux0.mp2
> > >  replex --demux -i PS -v 0xe0 -a 0xc0 -k -o demux brokaw.nuv &
> > >  cat demux.mv2 | buffer -s 50k -m30m | tcrequant -f 1.33 | buffer -m10m 
> > > >vid &
> > >  cat demux0.mp2 | buffer -s 50k -m30m | cat | buffer -m10m >aud &
> > >  mplex -f 8 -V -o dvdmpeg aud vid &
> > >  dvdauthor -o DVD dvdmpeg
> > >
> > >  burn as above
> > >
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Re: [mythtv-users] program recording scheduling bug(?)

2005-01-24 Thread Bruce Markey

Brian J. Murrell wrote:
...
The scheduler however was showing the first showing of program-B and
program-A in conflict with Program-B winning the conflict and the second
showing of program-B as being recorded earlier.  So to graphicalize:
TV Settings->Recording Priorities->General and check Reschedule
Higher Prioritues. The default is to prefer the higest priority
but this allows execptions for situations like this.
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Re: [mythtv-users] MPEG2->MPEG2 cut spinning

2005-01-24 Thread Steven Christall

Hi.

In my case I haven't tried to use the MPEG2->MPEG2 cut before.  

As far as I can tell the Xvfb allows you to run a virtual frame buffer
so that you can run the program without an xwindows session.

I was planning on having a go with avidemux in xwindows later tonight by
itself.  Is it your guess this is the part that is broken?

Steve


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:25:58 -0500, "Brad Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> I've been having the exact same problem that you're reporting.  It's
> not a gui problem since I actually see the avidemux gui open.  After
> that though, it just sits there forever.  Interestingly, this just
> started happening a few weeks ago.  I was able to successfully export
> two different shows using mpeg2->mpeg2 cutting.  After that I can only
> presume that I updated something to a new version and that's what
> broke it.  Problem is, I can't figure out what that upgrade could have
> been.  I'm running:
> 
> avidemux 2.0.34-5_test2
> lve-0.040322-1.1
> transcode-0.6.14-15
> 
> I don't have Xvfb installed at all, but that wasn't installed when it
> was working before either.  I've also tried downgrading avidemux to
> 2.0.28, but with no success.
> 
> Brad Benson
> 
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[mythtv-users] Re: Jerky motion on wireless frontend

2005-01-24 Thread Alex Polite

Watching some transcoded recordings I realise the jerkiness might
already be in the recording. Is that a common problem with Myth?

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RE: [mythtv-users] picure quality PVR350/FC1

2005-01-24 Thread MadPatrick

ivtvctl -j reg=0x6c,val=0xfe -d /dev/video0
This one i already have, which i needed to remove the green-screen
But i found also this:
ivtvctl -j reg=0x6c,val=0xda -d /dev/video16 

Don't know the difference between video0 and video16, but in mythtv setup i
saw also video16.

ivtvctl -j reg=0x61,val=0xb1 -d /dev/video0
When i use this setting the screen is scrambled.

I've a PVR-350 Model 993 tune=38. maybe this i different with yours


I think it has to do something with the register settings

-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Jeff Simpson
Verzonden: maandag 24 januari 2005 21:00
Aan: Discussion about mythtv
Onderwerp: Re: [mythtv-users] picure quality PVR350/FC1

If the colors are ugly, try the magic fix:

# fix color & location
ivtvctl -j reg=0x6c,val=0xfe -d /dev/video0 ivtvctl -j reg=0x61,val=0xb1 -d
/dev/video0

makes the colors much better on my PVR-350 (rev990) One of them makes it
not-green, the other brightens up the colors.

(or something similar, tweak the values to your liking)

I really wish we could get somebody at Hauppauge to tell us what those
registers are. We know they work, but it'd be nice to have an idea of what
we're doing to them.

 - Jeff

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:28:50 +0100, MadPatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I'm using the scart-cable with the standard cable from hauppauge. 
> Don't that will be the problem.
> 
> -Oorspronkelijk bericht-
> Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Verzonden: maandag 24 januari 2005 19:44
> Aan: Discussion about mythtv
> Onderwerp: Re: [mythtv-users] picure quality PVR350/FC1
> 
> At 2:13 PM +0100 1/24/05, MadPatrick wrote:
> >I've setup mythtv 0.16 (rpm-version) on FC1 and this is running fine now.
> >The picture quality on my tv-set is a little bit onsharp and i think 
> >the colors can be better.
> 
> Lack of sharpness is more likely due to signal loss, IMHO. If you can, 
> try S-Video; it's MUCH better than composite. Failing that, try a 
> better video cable.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV, Myth, HD-2000, HD-3000, questions galore (and hopefully answers from the smart people... )

2005-01-24 Thread Paul Leppert

Blammo,

How about questions related to HDTV setup in mythtv?

- How are HDTV channels set up? Using zap2it and an HDTV lineup
resulted in a mix of NTSC and ATSC channels with incorrect freqid for
the digital channels (e.g., in Chicago, Channel 7 (ABC) is actually
broadcasting on 52).  How is this set up via mythtv?

- How are HDTV subchannels set up?  Again, based on above, ABC is
multicasting on 52.  In mythtv, are the channels specified as freqid
52-1, 52-2?  or some other format?  How should these multi-channels be
set up for names (mythtv channel input won't allow '.' (7.1, 7.2,
etc.) or '-' (7-1, 7-2).  Do these channels need to be renumbered
(e.g., 900, 901)?  For me, I cannot seem to get any other subchannel
other than the first regardless of what I put in the freqid field in
mythweb (using an HD-3000).
- Based on http://thegeorges.us/mythtv instructions, the mythconverg
database needs to be tweaked to set channel format to ATSC (assuming a
default of NTSC).  Is this necessary?  What are the correct commands
for setting this up?
- If your mythtv setup receives OTA NTSC and ATSC, is there any reason
to keep the NTSC channels within mythtv?  If so, how should these be
set up (similar issues as above since you now have two (or more)
channel 7's)?  Is there a priority scheme within mythtv to make sure
it records a show off the ATSC stream before choosing the same show on
the NTSC stream?
- Does transcoding need to be set up in mythtv for HD channels (my
understanding of the HD stream is that it contains all subchannels. 
Does mythtv filter out the "extra" subchannels or do you need to use
the transcoding mechanism to reduce the file sizes?)  I have no idea
how any of this works in mythtv.

And questions for performance:

- What components of the mythtv / computer setup impact performance of
HDTV (e.g., at a given hardware level, what is the CPU usage for
recording?  what is it for playback, what is it for both)?
- Related to above, what is the impact of multiple HDTV captures
(e.g., two HD-3000 cards) on the processing requirements of the PC? 
Anybody here yet?  Anybody have an idea of what it takes
processing-wise for HDTV PIP with two cards?
- What can be done to improve performance (how is resolution reduced? 
Is there any impact (or even capability) of recording at lower
resolution than 720p or 1080i/p? Is there an easy way to playback at
different resolutions (via mythtv rather than different modelines).
- If a modeline is set up for a particular monitor at a particular
resolution, does that automatically reduce the processing of an HDTV
stream (in other words, if I'm playing a 720p ATSC stream (1280x720)
back on a monitor at 480p (704x480), have I somehow reduced the
processing impact, or is the mythtv box still handling the full
processing impact and all that is happening is a reduction in quality
on the output)?
- For playback, what is the processing impact for different
resolutions (playing back a 720p stream at 1280 x 720, 1024 x 576, 800
x 450)?
- For those trying to get the best performance (at the tradeoff of
quality), what is the best way to play back HDTV?  Reducing playback
resolution?  Transcoding to reduced resolution? etc. etc.
- What about audio?  Are there general rules about digital audio and
performance or is this generally "not an issue" based on using a 5.1
sound card (e.g., SB Audigy)?
- What is XvMC and how does / will that help with the processing
requirements of HDTV playback?  Are there particular video cards this
will / will not work with?  Anyone have real world examples of
processing improvements (e.g., CPU usage) with XvMC and without?

And a general question:

- Is there a way to tell within mythtv what format the ATSC is being
broadcast (720p, 1081i, etc.)?


Wish I had more answers than questions, but as I get up the learning
curve (and I receive my new, faster CPU), I should be able to
contribute some real-world experience with my HD-3000 (and PVR-250 if
I can ever get them working together).

Thanks,
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Re: [mythtv-users] Custom channel surfing

2005-01-24 Thread Phil Bridges

Andrew Close wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:49:30 -0500, Jeff Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

I like the idea - I already went through and physically removed all
the channels I didn't watch (QVC, HSN, GOLF, all the religious
networks, CMT, etc). 
   

do these channels that you manually deleted come back when
mythfilldatabase is run?  i started to remove channels that i know i
won't or can't watch just to cut down on scrolling.  but then i
thought that the next time mythfilldatabase runs it would recollect
them...
 

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[mythtv-users] Avermedia DVB-T remote

2005-01-24 Thread Andy Shaw

Hi,
I've recently setup mythtv, a lengthy process (certainly on an epia-m) 
but at last it's all coming together. I have one last wish and that's to 
get my remote control working with Myth. It's the controller that comes 
with the Avermedia DVB-T TV card and I've had some minor success 
already. By loading the ir_kbd_gpio I've found that the controller sends 
events to /dev/input/event3. My question is how should I go about 
mapping these events to mythtv?

Currently the controller does have some effect over myth (up is down, 
down is up, etc) but little else.

If anyone could offer any advice it'd be much appreciated.
Kind regards
Andy
BTW, if anyone's thinking of going for an Avermedia DVB-T (low profile) 
card in the UK I'd recommend against it. While my standalone Freeview 
box picks up everything the Aver barely picks up a thing - and that's 
with the latest firmware too.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving TV shows to DVD

2005-01-24 Thread David Blevins

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 11:42:16AM -0700, Blammo [doh] wrote:
> How about if you want to cut at your cut points BEFORE you burn to DVD? 
> 
> Source : PVR-x50 files
> Destination: DVD
> 
> can someone give a step-by for Linux to cut at cutpoints, then prep to DVD? 

Yea, that would be fantastic.

-David

> 
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 05:50:18 -0600, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 09:16:26PM -0600, M S wrote:
> > > Hi,  I know this is has been asked before, but I can't seem to find
> > > the right answer.  I want an _easy_ solution to backup shows to DVDs,
> > 
> > Here's my solution.  Works only with MPEG2 data from a PVR-x50 card,
> > but does not require re-encoding.
> > 
> > For each file:
> > 
> >  mkfifo dvdmpegn
> >  replex -i PS -v 0xe0 -a 0xc0 -k -t DVD -o dvdmpegn n.nuv &
> > 
> > Then:
> > 
> >  mkdir DVD
> >  dvdauthor -o DVD dvdmpeg1 [.. dvdmpegn]
> >  dvdauthor -T -o DVD
> > 
> >  test DVD with ogle
> > 
> >  (audio warnings are harmless)
> > 
> >  Burn with:
> > 
> >  nice -n -20 growisofs -Z /dev/hdc -dvd-compat -dvd-video -udf DVD
> > 
> > For MPEG-2, with requant (to reduce size):
> > 
> >  mkfifo vid
> >  mkfifo aud
> >  mkfifo demux.mv2
> >  mkfifo demux0.mp2
> >  replex --demux -i PS -v 0xe0 -a 0xc0 -k -o demux brokaw.nuv &
> >  cat demux.mv2 | buffer -s 50k -m30m | tcrequant -f 1.33 | buffer -m10m 
> > >vid &
> >  cat demux0.mp2 | buffer -s 50k -m30m | cat | buffer -m10m >aud &
> >  mplex -f 8 -V -o dvdmpeg aud vid &
> >  dvdauthor -o DVD dvdmpeg
> > 
> >  burn as above
> > 
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Re: [mythtv-users] MPEG2->MPEG2 cut spinning

2005-01-24 Thread Brad Benson

I've been having the exact same problem that you're reporting.  It's
not a gui problem since I actually see the avidemux gui open.  After
that though, it just sits there forever.  Interestingly, this just
started happening a few weeks ago.  I was able to successfully export
two different shows using mpeg2->mpeg2 cutting.  After that I can only
presume that I updated something to a new version and that's what
broke it.  Problem is, I can't figure out what that upgrade could have
been.  I'm running:

avidemux 2.0.34-5_test2
lve-0.040322-1.1
transcode-0.6.14-15

I don't have Xvfb installed at all, but that wasn't installed when it
was working before either.  I've also tried downgrading avidemux to
2.0.28, but with no success.

Brad Benson



On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:06:48 +, Steve Christall
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to get a mpeg2 file (generated by PVR350 or Nova-T DVB)
> without ads!  I have set my cut points and run nuvexport  I select
> MPEG2->MPEG2 cut only and the episode  it seems to start running ok
> and I get this output
> 
> Now encoding:  Krakatoa:  Untitled
> Encode started:  Mon Jan 24 17:57:14 2005
> mpeg2cut v1.6
> Using mode Xvfb
> Filename "/myth/tv/2004_2005012219_2005012221.nuv"
> OutFile "/myth/Krakatoa - Untitled.mpg"
> Last GOP index 808-26693
> Cutlist "30370-53718 57420-86918 90645-114468 118920-147843
> 152320-175933 187767-"
> Finding the AV Offset to use with lvemux: -21
> Finding framerate: 25.000
> Last Frame -319508
> Indexing the file with avidemux2
> Cutting out commercials with avidemux2
> 
> It just sits here spinning .. I have left it for 12 hours ...
>  3334 mythtv39  19 39920  10m  18m R 99.2  1.0   1156:35 avidemux2
> 
> I get these two files in the dir I run nuvexport from
> 
> -bash-2.05b$ cat 1018_2005011820_20050118203000.cut
> ADMW0002
> 01 videos
> Name : /myth/tv/1018_2005011820_20050118203000.nuv.idx
> 2 segments
> Start : 360
> Size : 19142
> Ref :   0
> Start : 26657
> Size : 14361
> Ref :   0
> Audio codec : none
> Audio filter : audioNormalizeMode=0 audioResampleMode=0 audioDRC=0
> audioShift=0
> audioDelay=0 audioFreq=48000
> Audio conf : audioProcessMode=0 audioMP3mode=0 audioMP3bitrate=128
> 
> -bash-2.05b$ cat 1018_2005011820_20050118203000.cut2
> Start : 360
> Size : 19142
> Ref :   0
> Start : 26657
> Size : 14361
> Ref :   0
> 
> What am I doing wrong?  I have installed all of the dependancies.  If I
> run nuvesxport --debug I can see what it runs
> mpeg2cut /myth/tv/2004_2005012219_2005012221.nuv
> /myth/Krakatoa.mpg 808-26693 30370-53718 57420-86918 90645-114468
> 118920-147843 152320-175933 187767-
> 
>  From mpeg2cut 
> 
> # Prerequisites:
> #avidemux2   - http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
> #transcode   - http://zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~transcode/
> #lvemux  - http://lvempeg.sourceforge.net/
> #Xvfb- http://www.xfree86.org/
> 
> Versions I have:
> 
> Avidemux 2, v  2.0.34
> transcode v0.6.14
> lvemux-040322
> xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.7.0-11
> 
> Help me please . I want to start archiving to DVD!
> 
> Cheers
> Steve
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Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving TV shows to DVD

2005-01-24 Thread Lane Schwartz

> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 05:50:18 -0600, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 09:16:26PM -0600, M S wrote:
> > > Hi,  I know this is has been asked before, but I can't seem to find
> > > the right answer.  I want an _easy_ solution to backup shows to DVDs,
> >
> > Here's my solution.  Works only with MPEG2 data from a PVR-x50 card,
> > but does not require re-encoding.
> >
> > For each file:
> >
> >  mkfifo dvdmpegn
> >  replex -i PS -v 0xe0 -a 0xc0 -k -t DVD -o dvdmpegn n.nuv &
> >
> > Then:
> >
> >  mkdir DVD
> >  dvdauthor -o DVD dvdmpeg1 [.. dvdmpegn]
> >  dvdauthor -T -o DVD
> >
> >  test DVD with ogle
> >
> >  (audio warnings are harmless)
> >
> >  Burn with:
> >
> >  nice -n -20 growisofs -Z /dev/hdc -dvd-compat -dvd-video -udf DVD
> > 
> > For MPEG-2, with requant (to reduce size):
> >
> >  mkfifo vid
> >  mkfifo aud
> >  mkfifo demux.mv2
> >  mkfifo demux0.mp2
> >  replex --demux -i PS -v 0xe0 -a 0xc0 -k -o demux brokaw.nuv &
> >  cat demux.mv2 | buffer -s 50k -m30m | tcrequant -f 1.33 | buffer -m10m 
> > >vid &
> >  cat demux0.mp2 | buffer -s 50k -m30m | cat | buffer -m10m >aud &
> >  mplex -f 8 -V -o dvdmpeg aud vid &
> >  dvdauthor -o DVD dvdmpeg
> >
> >  burn as above

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:42:16 -0700, Blammo [doh] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How about if you want to cut at your cut points BEFORE you burn to DVD?
> 
> Source : PVR-x50 files
> Destination: DVD
> 
> can someone give a step-by for Linux to cut at cutpoints, then prep to DVD?


1. Mark your commercials in Myth

2. Use the MPEG2->MPEG2 option of nuvexport. For me, this step usually takes
about 5-10 mins on my computer for a 30 minute show. 

3. Prepare a video DVD iso using the mpg2 file exported from step 2. I
use DVDStyler. Another app is Q DVD Author.

4. Burn the iso to dvd. I use k3b for this.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Custom channel surfing

2005-01-24 Thread Andrew Close

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:49:30 -0500, Jeff Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I like the idea - I already went through and physically removed all
> the channels I didn't watch (QVC, HSN, GOLF, all the religious
> networks, CMT, etc). 

do these channels that you manually deleted come back when
mythfilldatabase is run?  i started to remove channels that i know i
won't or can't watch just to cut down on scrolling.  but then i
thought that the next time mythfilldatabase runs it would recollect
them...

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RE: [mythtv-users] New Mac Mini - one unrelated informal benchmark...

2005-01-24 Thread Ian Bishop

I've used cleaner 5 for Windows and it is a very slow piece of junk.  It
does however work well in an automated video production environment.

Does anyone even care about the Mac/PC comparison anymore?  The only
thing Apple does right these days is marketing.

Ian 

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Johnson
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 10:40 AM
To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] New Mac Mini - one unrelated informal
benchmark...

speaking of unrelated benchmarks...

I while ago I was processing analog VHS corporate media -> MJPEG full
NTSC
captures -> MPEG2 DVD-spec'd streams with Discreet's Cleaner 5. My G3
tower
was talking an excruciating 12hrs to process each 1/2-hr clip.  I
decided
I'd setup my 1.1GHz PC to do the same so I could process multiple files
simultaneously in order to make a deadline.

Here are the specs:

PC:
1GHz PIII (256kB L2, 153MHz FSB, 1150MHz CPU Speed/1150MHz L2 Cache
Speed)
CUSL-2 Mobo
Windows 2000 Professional (forget SP number)

Mac:
G3 Tower 266MHz (512kB L2, 84MHz FSB, 292MHz CPU/194MHz L2)
Original Rev. A "Beige" codname "Gossomer" Mobo
Mac OS 10.1.6

Subsystems that were identical on each machine (exactly identical, as
they
each used the same exact hardware):
512MB ECC SDRAM "Crucial" (the Mac didn't utilize the ECC function but
the
CUSL-2 did)
Adaptec 29160 U3 SCSI Controller (160MB/s)
3x 36GB Atlas III 10k M160 SCSI Drive (1 boot/temp, 1 source, 1
destination)
Cleaner 5.0.0 (Mac/PC)

MJPEG source file was cropped, color-spaced correction, and heavily
processed with highest quality settings for a 5-7Mbps MPEG2 DVD-Spec
stream.
The repeatable results show approximate times:

PC: 18Hrs
Mac: 12Hrs

Make of this what you will, but it is CERTAINLY not straight MHz, or
even
bus speeds.

Anyone can argue any section of this totally informal test as invalid.
The
easiest is to claim that Discreet may not have optimzied the code for
the PC
version of the software but I just can't imagine that would be the case.
If
we assume that Discreet abides by the rules of capitolizm, then we have
to
assume that they put as much effort as attempting to build a quality
product
on each platform.  If this is even remotely true, then the results
certainly
support the idea that the PPC processing platform can really munge
data...
and FAST.

okay, you platform biggots can flame amongst yourselves ;)

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Re: [mythtv-users] picure quality PVR350/FC1

If the colors are ugly, try the magic fix:

# fix color & location
ivtvctl -j reg=0x6c,val=0xfe -d /dev/video0
ivtvctl -j reg=0x61,val=0xb1 -d /dev/video0

makes the colors much better on my PVR-350 (rev990) One of them makes
it not-green, the other brightens up the colors.

(or something similar, tweak the values to your liking)

I really wish we could get somebody at Hauppauge to tell us what those
registers are. We know they work, but it'd be nice to have an idea of
what we're doing to them.

 - Jeff

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:28:50 +0100, MadPatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm using the scart-cable with the standard cable from hauppauge. Don't that
> will be the problem.
> 
> -Oorspronkelijk bericht-
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> Verzonden: maandag 24 januari 2005 19:44
> Aan: Discussion about mythtv
> Onderwerp: Re: [mythtv-users] picure quality PVR350/FC1
> 
> At 2:13 PM +0100 1/24/05, MadPatrick wrote:
> >I've setup mythtv 0.16 (rpm-version) on FC1 and this is running fine now.
> >The picture quality on my tv-set is a little bit onsharp and i think
> >the colors can be better.
> 
> Lack of sharpness is more likely due to signal loss, IMHO. If you can, try
> S-Video; it's MUCH better than composite. Failing that, try a better video
> cable.
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[mythtv-users] program recording scheduling bug(?)

2005-01-24 Thread Brian J. Murrell

I have my program recording schedule set up in manner that ended up
producing a conflict which I don't think was resolved optimally
automatically.

The situation was that there were two programs I wanted to record.
Let's call them program-A and program-B.  Program-A was on two channels
at the same time but the same episode, not uncommon.  Program-B, same
episode (with complete name, title and description) was on the same
channel at two different times, however the first time was conflicting
with Program-A.

The scheduler however was showing the first showing of program-B and
program-A in conflict with Program-B winning the conflict and the second
showing of program-B as being recorded earlier.  So to graphicalize:

Scheduled Recordings:Time Conflict
+-+
| 1/30 10:00 PM 6  ABCD  Program-A - Title-1   C  |
| 1/30 10:00 PM 9  DEFG  Program-A - Title-1   C  |
| 1/30 10:00 PM 42 HIJK  Program-B - Title-2   1  |
| 1/30 11:15 PM 42 HIJK  Program-B - Title-2   E  |
+-+

IMHO, the second showing of Program-B should be scheduled to record as
well as the only showing of Program-A.  I can effect this to happen by
reducing the priority of Program-B, but that is not really what I want
because if the second showing of Program-B were not happening, I would
want to record it and not record Program-A, so it's priority should not
really be lower than Program-A.

Thots?

b.



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[mythtv-users] Jerky motion on wireless frontend

2005-01-24 Thread Alex Polite

I'm experimenting with running mythfrontend  on my wifi connected
laptop.

Neither the wlan nor the cpu are saturated, far from it. But the
playback of recorded television as well, as live television, is still a
bit jerky.

This is on laptop where I can normally play all sorts of formats in
mplayer and xine quite smoothly. I can play remotely mounted DVDs with
no problems.

What can I do to improve mythfrontend playback?

alex.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Swedish frequencies / channels

2005-01-24 Thread Didde Brockman

OMG! This is beautiful! Makes me wonder why ComHem didn't mention this URL / service to me while I actually was asking them about their frequencies. I love it

Would you mind posting your frequency mappings for Stockholm? It'd save the rest of us some work, and since I am lazy by nature that's something I sure would appreciate  ;)  Also, it might be good for future readers to come to have the channels documented on this list.

Thank you so much!


Kindly,
Didde

On 24 jan 2005, at 16.49, Janek Hellqvist wrote:

Didde Brockman wrote:

This is just a long shot, but here goes nothing... Does anyone have the frequencies / channels for Sweden – specifically ComHem's
analogue broadcasts? It has been asked many times on this list but
nobody has posted a final solution. Are we stuck with "ptune.pl"?

How about Comhem themselves?



If you're located in the Stockholm area, I could email you my frequency
settings... If you're not, you'll have to convert the channel numbers on
the page above to frequencies with help from the frequency table in one
of the files in the source distribution. It might have been
frequencies.c or something like that.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Custom channel surfing

I like the idea - I already went through and physically removed all
the channels I didn't watch (QVC, HSN, GOLF, all the religious
networks, CMT, etc). I still have to wade through the less popular
ones that I don't want to delete because they might have a movie on
that I'd want to watch or something.

My cable box has a "favorite" button, works like the channel up
button, but only goes to the next "favorite" channel. Unfortunately,
it didn't have a channel-down equivalent.

If comcast/motorola makes it in a consumer product, it must be a good idea!

Only problem is, now we need an interface to select which channels are
the favorites, and a more complicated one if we're going to have
multiple sets of favorites.

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:22:29 -0700, Russ Dill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think it would be very useful, if while channel surfing, you could
> selectively block out certain types of programming. This might already
> be in peoples mind as far as content control, but it would be also
> useful for normal usage. Ie, surfing past all paid programming late at
> night, or all sporting events, or if there are various shows you know
> you'd rather not watch, ie, oprah. The opposite could be a favorite
> channel browse, that would only browse through sporting events, or
> only browse through a select set of shows.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] lirc and fc3 newbie help

2005-01-24 Thread Per Weisteen

Gregg wrote:
Oakay I set up mythtv  using Jarods guide for  fc3 everything but lirc
works.  It shows the card connected,  but when I try to test it using
/usr/bin/irw I don ot see any input received. this is the second
system I have set up the other ran on fc2, so I know the card works.  
I installed the lircd file. Am I missing something.

Thanks in advance

I had the same problem. irw just died on me. Had to change 
/etc/udev/rules.d/lirc.rules from
KERNEL="lirc[0-9]*",NAME="lirc/%n"
KERNEL="lirc0", SYMLINK="lirc"

to
KERNEL="lirc0", NAME="lirc"
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Re: [mythtv-users] Swedish frequencies / channels

2005-01-24 Thread Henk Poley

Op maandag 24 januari 2005 17:29, schreef Fluff:
> > If you're located in the Stockholm area, I could email you my frequency
> > settings... If you're not, you'll have to convert the channel numbers on
> > the page above to frequencies with help from the frequency table in one
> > of the files in the source distribution. It might have been
> > frequencies.c or something like that.
>
> What I've been looking for these frequencies. Thanks a lot for that
> link. Don't know why I haven't found that link on their homepage
> before... Now I'll just have to find out the finetune stuff. :)

Wasn't this patched a long time ago already? Try entering the frequencies in 
MHz. If that doesn't work, divide by ten (and scrap the remainder).

Please tell if it works.

 Henk Poley <><
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Re: [mythtv-users] lirc and fc3 newbie help

2005-01-24 Thread Dan Berger

Did you set up a sumlink to point /dev/lirc0 to /dev/lirc ?

> -Original Message-
> From: Gregg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 07:18 PM
> To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
> Subject: [mythtv-users] lirc and fc3 newbie help
> 
> Oakay I set up mythtv  using Jarods guide for  fc3 everything but lirc
> works.  It shows the card connected,  but when I try to test it using
> /usr/bin/irw I don ot see any input received. this is the second
> system I have set up the other ran on fc2, so I know the card works.  
> I installed the lircd file. Am I missing something.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 


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Re: [mythtv-users] MPEG2->MPEG2 cut spinning