[mythtv-users] Re: New guide for controlling external cable/satellite box using an IR Blaster and FC3
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 01:50:51 -0600, Andy Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With the help of Pete Stagman, I have attempted to create a how-to > guide for controlling an external cable/satellite box using an IR > blaster. What makes this guide different from other guides on this > matter is that this guide shows how to achieve cable/sat box control > WITHOUT compiling a second instance of LIRC. Both Pete and I have > been using this method for a while now, and it has been trouble free. > > At the moment, the guide is currently geared around users who are > using FC3 and followed Jarod's guide to do their myth install. > However, I would like for it to be more "distro-neutral," so any > community feedback I could get to achieve this would be greatly > appreciated. Also, info from people using non PVR-x50 cards is needed > as well, especially concerning some of the edits made to the > modprobe.conf file in Step 3 of the guide. > > This guide should be useful to FC3 users since FC3 no longer comes > with Kernel source code. Regardless of that fact, since this process > only involves making changes to a few files (noteably modprobe.conf, > lircd.conf and rc.local), it should be substantially faster than > compiling a second instance of LIRC, and a bit easier for newbies as > well. > > This has been a bit of a learning experiment for me, so any feedback > (positive or otherwise) is welcome. > > http://comp.uark.edu/~aslong/mythtv.html > > Thanks. > > -Andy > I have changed the location of the LIRC/IR Blaster guide Pete and I wrote. The new URL is http://www.lircsetup.com (no clever points for me, but still easy to remember). This should hopefully be a bit more stable than my previous server. For those wondering, the guide is centered around setting up an IR Blaster with MythTV and LIRC, but doing so without having to compile a second instance of LIRC. Very useful for any FC3 users since the kernel source isn't included. As always, feedback/criticism is appreciated. -Andy ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Post recording transcoding and HDTV
> Glad to hear. Because on my own todo list for some time has been looking > into a smarter transcoder, which would have a set of profiles, and some > simple rules for which one to pick. One simple idea is a set of rules > of the form, "Program >= X lines -> Use transcoding profile Y" I agree, this logic or something like it would be nice in the future. > Yup, this is to be expected. Though most people with HD cards will have > HD capable CPUs and it won't be so rough... Do you do 2 pass? I do > that with mencoder, and it's not exactly fast. Myth's builtin transcoder only does single-pass. > Because of that CPU load, my dream transcoder probably runs only at > night or when the system is otherwise idle, and it has a threshold you > can set in the profile that says "Don't transcode until recording is > more than N days old." Well, part of that's coming in the JobQueue. :) Almost at the very top of my TODO list is to add a Job Time Window to allow the user to restrict jobs to starting within a certain window. So people can just let their commflagging or transcoding jobs run overnight or during the day while they are at work, etc.. It will probably be a simple begin and end set of times with the defaults being 00:00 and 23:59 respectively. Scheduling jobs may come in the future but I haven't thought about that much, but it would be fairly easy to implement. A job could have a specified starttime where it wouldn't start before that. When recordings are deleted, all running and pending jobs are deleted so if there was a queued job for 3 days from now, it would be deleted if the show was deleted before that. This would be another way of allowing jobs to be run only at night or while everyone was off at work. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Custom Job Queues from mythfrontend
> > Okay folks, here's a patch to allow users to start User Jobs from the > > Job Options menu just like you can do with transcoding and commercial > > flagging. I'm pretty confident that it works 100%, but please let me > > know if anyone runs into any problems with it. Thanks. Looking at the code, it looks good, I'll try to get this verified and committed to CVS tomorrow sometime. If you feel like messing with it a bit more, you could make a common function called PlaybackBox::doJobQueueJob(int JobType, int JobFlags) method and then just call that from all the other 6 do* functions to minimize the code duplication. I think the only oddball is the transcoder needs the JOB_USE_CUTLIST flag passed in and the commercial flagger unsets the processing flags, but I'm not sure if it should do that. I almost wonder if the JobQueue should send RECORDING_LIST_CHANGE messages when it starts and stops jobs so that frontends can get updated lists reflecting whether a recording is being flagged, etc. but I won't throw that on you. :) If you want to make the common doJobQueueJob (or whatever it's called) method and call that from the other do* wrappers, let me know, otherwise I'll do something like that when I commit your patch. Also, please put "[PATCH]" in the subject line of any patches submitted as it helps developers find patches so they can be included. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] what new card just works?
Timothy Waters wrote: Okay, i'm sick of messing around trying to get this pvr-150 to work. Can somebody please recommend a tv-card that is easy to get working fully in LInux? Of course your having probs...the 150 isnt supported in mythtv now. Doesnt work. Thought that as well known. Get a 250 or 350, they work and are still available. Tom ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] PATCH -- picking wrong AC-3 audio stream to play
This is a patch that seems to work for the problem I described in
a recent message to mythtv-users entitled:
"Picking the wrong audio stream from multi-stream AC3 causing no sound?"
This patch makes the code do what the comments say it does, in that
the comments say it scans through the streams and picks the first adequate
audio stream. The code has a countdown loop which breaks out at the first
match, which thus will be the highest numbered stream.
By changing it to a count-up loop, as shown below, it picks the earliest
AC3 stream. However, I must say since people don't put in countdowns
instead of count-ups by accident, I may not be understanding the goal
here perfectly, and might suggest whoever made this code take another
look.
The patch works, in that it now picks the right stream, and I can hear
audio on the PBS programs which stopped working 10 days ago, either due
to a change at PBS or a change in Myth. For some reason they have 3
streams, the 1st is the real one, the 3rd seems to be silence.
--- libs/libmythtv/avformatdecoder.cpp 15 Feb 2005 04:21:13 - 1.138
+++ libs/libmythtv/avformatdecoder.cpp 17 Feb 2005 07:23:12 -
@@ -1251,7 +1251,8 @@
while ((selectedTrack == -1) && (minChannels >= 0))
{
-for (track = maxTracks; track >= 0; track--)
+for (track = 0; track <= maxTracks; track++)
{
int tempStream = audioStreams[track];
AVCodecContext *e = &ic->streams[tempStream]->codec;
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Re: [mythtv-users] Automatic cutlist generation, ffmpeg with xvid
> OK, I'm beginning to understand what needs to be done to automatically archive > stuff. I have a job that can be queued up for each recording that will > transcode > to divx and put in my videos directory. That will seriously decrease the > amount > of disk space used. The only thing I would love more is the ability to > automatically generate a cutlist based on the commercial flagging, and then > transcode to divx. With the new commercial flagging routines, I believe the > cutlist would be sufficient for automated transcoding. As it is, my job does > not > automatically delete the recordings afterwards anyways. > > Is there a way I can automatically generate a cutlist? > > BTW, I wanted to transcode to xvid, but ffmpeg doesn't recognize -vcodec xvid. > Does anyone know how to get this to work? If you're running current CVS, you can use the new --gencutlist option to mythcommflag which tells mythcommflag to copy the commercial skip list to the cutlist for a recording. When using --gencutlist, flagging is not run, it only copies the list, so you must have already run flagging for the recording you want to cut. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] possible for non-master backend transcode and
> Hello, I have a strange situation i have a very slow desktop i'm using > as a backend but i do have a somewhat powerfull laptop which i'm not > using at all at the moment and wanted to know how possible it would be > to set the laptop up do to the transcoding and commercial detection. > I would make it the master backend aside from free space limitations > and the fact that i can't get my pvr-350 into it. Again just > wondering if there is any way to do this because that backend system > i'm using now is an old pentium 3 running at 433mhz. Works fine > unless i try to use the commercial detection or transcode anything. This was already replied to telling you how to setup commercial flagging. I just committed a patch to CVS which also allows you to do remote transcoding on a system that has write access to the recordings directory. The commercial flagger does not need access to the recordings directory since it can stream the program from the backend to "play" it, but since the transcoder writes out a new file, it must have write access to the recordings directory. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] what new card just works?
Okay, i'm sick of messing around trying to get this pvr-150 to work. Can somebody please recommend a tv-card that is easy to get working fully in LInux? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Post recording transcoding and HDTV
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 01:58:23AM -0500, Chris Pinkham wrote: > Not sure if that's a limit of the Nuppel recorder or not, but unless you're > using current CVS, then you can't resize when you transcode. In 0.17 and > older, the height and width on transcoding profiles were ignored. I just > put a patch in CVS to allow resizing during transcoding for this very reason. > I just picked up an air2pc card yet don't have anything powerful enough to > play it yet so I am transcoding down to a more managable size. :) Glad to hear. Because on my own todo list for some time has been looking into a smarter transcoder, which would have a set of profiles, and some simple rules for which one to pick. One simple idea is a set of rules of the form, "Program >= X lines -> Use transcoding profile Y" If the profiles handled the diff between interlaced and non on their own, you would probably just have one profile at 720 lines and above that xcoded to 1280x720 mp4 (deinterlace and scale down if 1080i) and another one for things from 480 to 719 lines which transcoded to 352x480. Though there is an argument about whether you want to deinterlace 480i if transocding to 480 lines or let the deinterlace take place on playback. With 1080i, deinterlace is a must if you are downsizing to 720 lines. This also answers why my own transcode experiments were going so poorly. I transcoded a 6gb 480i movie a couple of days and it only became 3.9gb which made little sense to me, and the quality also sucked (in spite of turning on most of the HQ options). My manual use of mencoder has been able to transcode to 40% of original mp2 size with almost equivalent quality, and that's my goal. Since my TV, like most these days, is 720 native resolution, xcode to 1280x720 makes the most sense for 1080i. These are just some ideas, but I don't know the transcoder logic at all yet, so it's been way down the list. Doing everything people want is hard, but a system that maps the number of lines seems like a good start, especially if the trancoder is smart enough not to try deinterlace on non-interlaced video. Turns out there is almost no 480p on TV right now, though that might change with time. > > My P3-1Ghz slave backend took about 3 hours to transcode/resize a 1-hour > recording down from 1920x1088 to 352x480 and that wasn't using the high > quality MPEG-4 modes. Yup, this is to be expected. Though most people with HD cards will have HD capable CPUs and it won't be so rough... Do you do 2 pass? I do that with mencoder, and it's not exactly fast. Because of that CPU load, my dream transcoder probably runs only at night or when the system is otherwise idle, and it has a threshold you can set in the profile that says "Don't transcode until recording is more than N days old." Such a setting means that you can arrange so recordings stay around a few days at full-res, but after a while they get smaller. This conserves lots of disk space but gives you a chance to watch at full res. Of course, if you are transoding to play at SDTV, you would set it to 0, as you want it right away. I would probably set it at 0 for 1080i recordings, but at a few days for 720p and even more for 480i. Not like you need more to do, of course, already plenty to do here. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] full mythtv 0.16 backup ?
Tomi Makinen wrote: Hey, I am going to upgrade to 0.17, but Iam not quite sure what do I n need to backup, so I would be able to restore 0.16 if something goes wrong. I have backed up the database every myth* from usr/bn and mtd *myth* from /usr/lib , including mythtv directory /usr/share/doc/myth* /usr/share/mythtv do I need something else backed up ? - McIne - Backing up the db is the most important part... Looks like you're good to go! Good luck, Cecil ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Post recording transcoding and HDTV
> Sadly, the shows I record are coming in at just over 6 gig an hour which is > just too much for my wireless frontend to handle perfectly. I had thought > about transcoding to MPEG4 and changing the resolution from 1920x1088 to > something a tad smaller like 1280x720. However, in the transcoding setup > the max resolution I can seem to do is 720x480. Not sure if that's a limit of the Nuppel recorder or not, but unless you're using current CVS, then you can't resize when you transcode. In 0.17 and older, the height and width on transcoding profiles were ignored. I just put a patch in CVS to allow resizing during transcoding for this very reason. I just picked up an air2pc card yet don't have anything powerful enough to play it yet so I am transcoding down to a more managable size. :) My P3-1Ghz slave backend took about 3 hours to transcode/resize a 1-hour recording down from 1920x1088 to 352x480 and that wasn't using the high quality MPEG-4 modes. > Is there anyway I could setup a custom job or is there some work around for > this so that I could transcode the files down to something more manageable? You could try bumping these values up in the source and seeing if it works if no one replies saying that it's possible to go higher. The limitions are probably there because regular OTA NTSC isn't good above that. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Custom Job Queues from mythfrontend
> While I don't currently have any User Jobs set up, I've been wanting > to dive into the myth code a little bit and this seems like a fairly > trivial task and hence, a good starting place for me. I pulled the > latest cvs last night and I believe I have this working correctly. I > need to do some more testing on it and create a patch, but as soon as > that's done I'll post the patch. If you haven't already, can you make it so that the description of the User Job shows on the popup menu and not just "User Job #1", etc.. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] xbox Mythtv & twinhan or Haupage remote?
Greg, I'm copying the MythTV users list, just for the benefit of anybody else who might be following this discussion. First of all, I'm not an expert on remote controls or IR, but I have managed to gain a lot of information from studying the list (and a person named Harry O., who provided most of this information). For every type of signal encoding, there is a maximum set of valid combinations that can be done, this will vary from protocol to protocol. Not all receivers have to accept the entire signal set, but many seem to. Unfortunately, I don't have any documentation specific to the XBox, as I'm not using it as a frontend anymore, but for the general idea of how to program the All-In-One URC-6131 remote, look at my website, the page titled, "Using an One For All URC-6131 Remote with a Hauppauge IR Receiver" (URL: http://www.vulturesnest.net/mythtvremote.html). At that page is a set of instructions for mapping extended button codes to the buttons that aren't necessarily mapped by default in RC-5 mode (the protocol that the Hauppauge receiver uses). Using this procedure, I have 48 buttons, all of which are recognizable with lirc (verified using irw) as unique buttons, working with MythTV and Xine, on my XBox. It is a very similar procedure for the XBox. Get a universal remote control that supports the XBox protocol (which is a DVD player of some sort, maybe Panasonic?), that allows for the buttons to be reprogrammed (much like the URC-6131). From there, once you determine the unprogrammed buttons, you can look through the extended codes, find ones that you aren't using on other buttons, and map them to the unmapped buttons. A listing of the extended codes for the XBox remote (DVD player, type 0059) control can be found here: http://www.hifi-remote.com/cgi-bin2/ueic.cgi?DVD_0059 Not all of those buttons are used by the XBox remote, for instance, Antenna and Clear. You can map those codes to buttons on a remote, and the XBox receiver will accept them and pass them on to lirc. Here's an example of the unprogrammed buttons in DVD 0059 mode on my URC-6131 remote control, the extended button codes I assigned to them, and the lirc codes (which may not work for you, I can't say for sure) that detect them: Button lircd code Ext. Code Ext. Button Name VOL+55aaa5 480 3-D VOL-505afa 234 Antenna Mute5e5a1a 485 Channel Cont Prev506af9 258 Clear SLOW53aac5 483 DVD PIP 593a6c 406 Fetch Swap5c6a39 252 Frame Move51aae5 738 Guide CH+ 550aaf 400 Marker CH- 51bae4 474 PIP REPLAY 53bac4 731 Power Off SKIP5c6a39 252 Previous Frame PVRMenu 594a6b 622 Repeat ThUp512aed 418 Reset ThDown 518ae7 466 Setup (In case you're wondering how I came up with the lirc values, I kind of took a scattergun approach - I just created an lircd.conf with every plausible value and noted which one came up when I pressed the buttons while running irw). I apologize that this isn't a complete step-by-step guide, complete with an lircd.conf file, but I don't have those available at the moment. This should be enough information to get you going though. Unfortunately, it takes trial and error, but it's not really difficult. -- Joe --- Greg Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm counting 27 buttons on the original Xbox remote, > all of which are > working well. By your message, you are counting > above that number. Have > you found codes that are in addition to the 27 on > the Xbox remote, and if > so, can you elaborate/post/email those codes? > > Thanks, > > Greg Nicholson > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Joe Votour > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 12:15 PM > To: Discussion about mythtv > Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] xbox Mythtv & twinhan or > Haupage remote? > > "The drawback to using the XBox DVD receiver is that > it only responds to the subset of buttons that are > on > the original remote, so you are stuck (AFAIK) with > only a subset of functionality." > > This does not seem to be true, at least not on the > Microsoft XBox DVD dongle that I have. Using the > extended codes for the type of receiver that the > XBox > uses, I was able to program every button (about 30 > of > them) on a All-In-One URC-6131 remote control to > have > a unique code, and all buttons were recognized by > lirc. (I used the same technique as I have on my > website, www.vulturesnest.net, except that I used > the > Microsoft DVD code, instead of RC-5). > > I expect that the Radio Shack remotes would work the > same way, since they use the same codes.
Re: [mythtv-users] Confused on multi-tuner systems
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 00:21 -0600, Robert Denier wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 22:11 -0800, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: > > If I understand things correctly, myth obtains the sound for a tv > > program it is recorded from the sound card, which gets its signal from > > the "loop" wire (taking the audio out from the tv card and putting it > > into the aux or line in on the sound card). So, if you put two bttv > > based cards in one system, and they are looping through the same sound > > card, > > I think this has been discussed before, but you have to have as many > sound cards as bttv tuners. Whew! Good. At least my brain wasn't failing me. ;-) > > and it was recording two programs at once, wouldn't both > > recordings get the audio from both shows overlapped? How does it > > separate the audio from the different cards? Am I being stupid here and > > missing something simple? > > > > I ask because I currently have a single bttv card in my system, but just > > recently obtained (for free) two others. I'd like to create a > > multi-card backend to allow recording multiple shows at once, but can't > > get my feeble brain around how the audio gets separated if they are > > looped into the same sound card. Am I going to need three sound cards > > also? > > >From what I've gathered the hauppage mpeg2 pvr cards really do a better > job with the video than the bttv. Yes they cost more, but combined with > the negligible cpu loading and their handling the sound onboard so you > don't need separate sound cards, they are the way to go if you can > afford it... I asked newegg to inform me when they had 150's via their > notify option. So far nothing.. > > If you do multiple sound cards you need to look up how to specify the > inputs to be recorded. I think one way would be something like > ALSA:hw:0,2 ALSA:hw:1,2 depending on what the actual card/input is > and channel. The numbers would likely be configuration dependent. Not concerned about the ALSA config, my backend just happens to have two sound cards - so I know how to do that, I just don't have any pci slots left for another tuner. h I do have a spare sound card and another system that I just use to test out stuff on. maybe I can put the extra tuners in there and set it up as a slave back-end. That'll burn all that "spare time" I have. ;-) Thanks for the clarification. Lonnie ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Confused on multi-tuner systems
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 22:11 -0800, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: > If I understand things correctly, myth obtains the sound for a tv > program it is recorded from the sound card, which gets its signal from > the "loop" wire (taking the audio out from the tv card and putting it > into the aux or line in on the sound card). So, if you put two bttv > based cards in one system, and they are looping through the same sound > card, I think this has been discussed before, but you have to have as many sound cards as bttv tuners. > and it was recording two programs at once, wouldn't both > recordings get the audio from both shows overlapped? How does it > separate the audio from the different cards? Am I being stupid here and > missing something simple? > > I ask because I currently have a single bttv card in my system, but just > recently obtained (for free) two others. I'd like to create a > multi-card backend to allow recording multiple shows at once, but can't > get my feeble brain around how the audio gets separated if they are > looped into the same sound card. Am I going to need three sound cards > also? >From what I've gathered the hauppage mpeg2 pvr cards really do a better job with the video than the bttv. Yes they cost more, but combined with the negligible cpu loading and their handling the sound onboard so you don't need separate sound cards, they are the way to go if you can afford it... I asked newegg to inform me when they had 150's via their notify option. So far nothing.. If you do multiple sound cards you need to look up how to specify the inputs to be recorded. I think one way would be something like ALSA:hw:0,2 ALSA:hw:1,2 depending on what the actual card/input is and channel. The numbers would likely be configuration dependent. > Clarify my thinking, please. > > Lonnie Borntreger > > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Confused on multi-tuner systems
If I understand things correctly, myth obtains the sound for a tv program it is recorded from the sound card, which gets its signal from the "loop" wire (taking the audio out from the tv card and putting it into the aux or line in on the sound card). So, if you put two bttv based cards in one system, and they are looping through the same sound card, and it was recording two programs at once, wouldn't both recordings get the audio from both shows overlapped? How does it separate the audio from the different cards? Am I being stupid here and missing something simple? I ask because I currently have a single bttv card in my system, but just recently obtained (for free) two others. I'd like to create a multi-card backend to allow recording multiple shows at once, but can't get my feeble brain around how the audio gets separated if they are looped into the same sound card. Am I going to need three sound cards also? Clarify my thinking, please. Lonnie Borntreger ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] X on PVR 350
Trying to get X to run on my pvr350. I used the sample file from Jarod's guide, but x is not starting. I just get a blank screen. Runnning svideo to 27" tv. the bus id for my card is 02:00.0 I set that did the ctrl-alt-backspace changed the cable and nothing, just a black screen. Can anyone tell me what's wrong. I left the stuff Jarod had in their as far as the NTSC monitor settings. Rick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] full mythtv 0.16 backup ?
Hey, I am going to upgrade to 0.17, but Iam not quite sure what do I n need to backup, so I would be able to restore 0.16 if something goes wrong. I have backed up the database every myth* from usr/bn and mtd *myth* from /usr/lib , including mythtv directory /usr/share/doc/myth* /usr/share/mythtv do I need something else backed up ? - McIne - ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [Improving] The Current State of Myth -> DVD
I just finished making this work in fedora here is what I needed to do edit the install.sh file with the correct paths that you have on your fedora machine. apt-get install transcode mjpegtools dvdauthor ImageMagick to get the proper versions edit the default theme files in mythweb to add the link to take you to the dvd burn web page - it worked ok in .16 but need updating for .17 when I got a successful install - I tried a small show on a dvdrw disc and watched the log file I had to find /dev/scd0 and change it to /dev/cdwriter and I had to change some paths for /usr/local/bin to /usr/bin I think it was for transcode and tcdemux this is from memory since my notes are at work <- slow day today. Dave Caplinger wrote: I was inspired by the recent 'Single most frustrating thing about MythTV...' discussion (plus the fact that this is exactly what I've been spending most of my MythTV hacking time on) to try to direct some of this energy into identifying and improving the most likely candidates. Hopefully in this way those of us that are not C++ hackers can still meaningfully contribute without just whining about features we want. So anyway, here's a summary of what I've found. I'm sure it's not an all-encompasing list, so add yours to this thread if you like: Problem statement: I want to record my PVR-x50 MythTV-recorded stuff on a DVD that a regular DVD player can play. Oh, and of course I want to cut out commercials too. Possible solutions: There isn't anything yet that is reliable and foolproof. However, this one is probably the closest to "fire and forget" so far: mythtvburn http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2132&start=330&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= It's a lot of work to read through 20+ pages of posts in that thread to figure out all of the issues. You'll wind up: o making sure you're recording in the right format and size (e.g. 720x480 MPEG2-PS for NTSC) so you don't have to transcode o getting ths cvs version o getting the options to transcode right to eliminate blue and/or upside-down thumbnails o making modifications to paths to make it work on your distro (I'm using FC2) o installing nuvexport, XVfb, avidemux2, and tons of other prereqs Last time I rebuilt my Myth box (when I moved to FC2 from Debian), I set aside a 20G /scratch partition just so I could mess with all of this stuff without putting my ability to record shows in jeopardy. It takes a lot of space to do this, so consider doing something similar. If I'm remembering all of the steps, here's what's going on behind the scenes once you kick this off: 1) Use your mythfrontend to convert the commercial skip list to a cut list (and edit it to correct for errors) 2) Use MythWeb to select the shows to burn to DVD and start the script 3) avidemux2 will index the .nuv files for those shows 4) avidemux2 will split the MPEG2-PS contents of the .nuv files into component .m2v video and .mp2 audio, using the cutlist to clip out commercials (using Xvfb to hide the gui from you) 5) lvemux will re-combine the video and audio into an (MPEG2) .mpg file 6) (repeat above for other shows going on the same DVD) 7) transcode will extract a bunch of JPEG thumbnails for the DVD menu 8) these wind up being composited together and converted to .png and back (I think) 9) the XML menu structure "script" is created to feed to dvdauthor 10) mplex combines the menu music you picked and the JPEG menu image into a .mpg 11) spumux combines the movie and the XML into the DVD menu 12) dvdauthor puts it all together into the DVD/VIDEO_TS dir structure 13) you can preview now with xine dvd://path/to/["DVD" folder] 14) use growisofs to write the DVD folder direct to your DVD+/-R[W] without building an .iso first. As you can see, there's a lot going on, and things can fail at any of these steps. I don't trust my system to do all of this by itself yet; I'm manually doing the commercial cutting and a/v splitting because avidemux2 keeps failing on me at that point if I have it scripted, but if I do it myself it seems to work. Even so, when I get all done and preview the DVD, it seems like the audio and video get further and further out of sync over time. I wonder if all of those warnings from avidemux2 about the video being 33 ms off from the audio are adding up to create larger and larger a/v sync differences at each cutpoint? Having said all that about mythtvburn, there are other ways too: nuvexport 1) Use nuvexport's mpeg2 -> mpeg2 cut option to export and commercial-cut your shows from Mythtv into standalone .mpg files. (which is using the same avidemux index, split/cut, lvemux re-combine process as above, all with Xvfb to hide the gui) 2) Use dvdstyler or something else to build a DVD menu and burn (via growisofs?) to DVD I did this and still had the "increasingly out of sync over time" problem (which is why I think it's avidemux2/lvemux doing this). In any case, this is a pretty manual command-line-driv
Re: [mythtv-users] pundit-r temperatures
Ryan said: > > Im running the 3.12 fglrx driver/kernel mod with XV working at 640x480 > resolution. Watching tv/recordings puts me at about 15-20% utilization. > I used the arch=pentium4 compile flag as well. > a couple of questions: - how did you get XV working? I am using fglrx 3.12, but I had been told that there was no XV support. Also, when I turn on the dri option in xorg.conf to "no_dri" "no", all I get is a black screen for Live TV in myth. When I say "no_dri" "yes" (turn dri off, recommended by many because dri causes instability), MythTV works fine, but fglrx says that I am using Mesa. I suspect that the graphics card is not helping to process the TV graphics, which is why my CPU us at 40% rather than 20%. - I assume arch=pentium4 is a flag for the kernel compile? or is it an option for Myth? I'm using FC2 with the ATRPM rpms. I know that compiling myth won't bring down the CPU by that much. it's odd that I'm twice as much CPU but my temperatures are lower. Over time, the arctic silver is suposed to improve, but i haven't seen anything too drastic. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Need Unichrome & X background for M10K
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 02:38 am, Ivor Hewitt wrote: > > > > I don't think you should be using viafb, if not mistaken that's for > > FrameBuffer as in usage for console. > > Unichrome is not viafb. Right... I've learned a little more about EPIA development since I saw the viafb and realize it's not relevant now. I'm on Slack 10.0, so I had Xorg 6.7. Per suggestions here, I grabbed Xorg 6.8.2, compiled, installed KDE comes up fine, mythfrontend comes up fine (and I even get video preview on the recorded programs screen), but whenever I try to watch something full-screen (or even running the frontend in a window), I get a black screen (or black video window) and the console locks up hard. If I compiled myth (0.17) with only xv support, that's using the driver that comes with xorg 6.8.2, right? How can I blame the "via" driver in Xorg when KDE works just fine? Is myth doing anything more than writing to an X screen? Is there another package/library that I'm overlooking in this equation? I've captured detailed frontend logs (with -v all enabled) and I still see the following messages continuing to infinity: 2005-02-14 20:25:44.013 Timed out waiting for free video buffers. 2005-02-14 20:25:44.013 Broadcasting free space avail And what are these trying to tell me? nVidiaVideoSync: Could not open device /dev/nvidia0, No such device DRMVideoSync: Could not open device /dev/dri/card0, No such file or directory -E. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] [Improving] The Current State of Myth -> DVD
I was inspired by the recent 'Single most frustrating thing about MythTV...' discussion (plus the fact that this is exactly what I've been spending most of my MythTV hacking time on) to try to direct some of this energy into identifying and improving the most likely candidates. Hopefully in this way those of us that are not C++ hackers can still meaningfully contribute without just whining about features we want. So anyway, here's a summary of what I've found. I'm sure it's not an all-encompasing list, so add yours to this thread if you like: Problem statement: I want to record my PVR-x50 MythTV-recorded stuff on a DVD that a regular DVD player can play. Oh, and of course I want to cut out commercials too. Possible solutions: There isn't anything yet that is reliable and foolproof. However, this one is probably the closest to "fire and forget" so far: mythtvburn http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2132&start=330&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= It's a lot of work to read through 20+ pages of posts in that thread to figure out all of the issues. You'll wind up: o making sure you're recording in the right format and size (e.g. 720x480 MPEG2-PS for NTSC) so you don't have to transcode o getting ths cvs version o getting the options to transcode right to eliminate blue and/or upside-down thumbnails o making modifications to paths to make it work on your distro (I'm using FC2) o installing nuvexport, XVfb, avidemux2, and tons of other prereqs Last time I rebuilt my Myth box (when I moved to FC2 from Debian), I set aside a 20G /scratch partition just so I could mess with all of this stuff without putting my ability to record shows in jeopardy. It takes a lot of space to do this, so consider doing something similar. If I'm remembering all of the steps, here's what's going on behind the scenes once you kick this off: 1) Use your mythfrontend to convert the commercial skip list to a cut list (and edit it to correct for errors) 2) Use MythWeb to select the shows to burn to DVD and start the script 3) avidemux2 will index the .nuv files for those shows 4) avidemux2 will split the MPEG2-PS contents of the .nuv files into component .m2v video and .mp2 audio, using the cutlist to clip out commercials (using Xvfb to hide the gui from you) 5) lvemux will re-combine the video and audio into an (MPEG2) .mpg file 6) (repeat above for other shows going on the same DVD) 7) transcode will extract a bunch of JPEG thumbnails for the DVD menu 8) these wind up being composited together and converted to .png and back (I think) 9) the XML menu structure "script" is created to feed to dvdauthor 10) mplex combines the menu music you picked and the JPEG menu image into a .mpg 11) spumux combines the movie and the XML into the DVD menu 12) dvdauthor puts it all together into the DVD/VIDEO_TS dir structure 13) you can preview now with xine dvd://path/to/["DVD" folder] 14) use growisofs to write the DVD folder direct to your DVD+/-R[W] without building an .iso first. As you can see, there's a lot going on, and things can fail at any of these steps. I don't trust my system to do all of this by itself yet; I'm manually doing the commercial cutting and a/v splitting because avidemux2 keeps failing on me at that point if I have it scripted, but if I do it myself it seems to work. Even so, when I get all done and preview the DVD, it seems like the audio and video get further and further out of sync over time. I wonder if all of those warnings from avidemux2 about the video being 33 ms off from the audio are adding up to create larger and larger a/v sync differences at each cutpoint? Having said all that about mythtvburn, there are other ways too: nuvexport 1) Use nuvexport's mpeg2 -> mpeg2 cut option to export and commercial-cut your shows from Mythtv into standalone .mpg files. (which is using the same avidemux index, split/cut, lvemux re-combine process as above, all with Xvfb to hide the gui) 2) Use dvdstyler or something else to build a DVD menu and burn (via growisofs?) to DVD I did this and still had the "increasingly out of sync over time" problem (which is why I think it's avidemux2/lvemux doing this). In any case, this is a pretty manual command-line-driven process, so it may not appeal to you as much. windows/macintosh I'm sure there's some process by which you could copy the .nuv files to a windows box (peraps via samba on your mythtv backend), and use an entirely external-to-myth process to edit, create a menu, and burn. I have no idea what it is. Maybe someone will offer up their step-by-step windows-based solution. As for the macintosh option, I've fought with this and as far as I can tell it's not possible to do without buying Apple's MPEG2 import component for $30, and possibly also QuickTime Pro for another $30, then using some utility like MPEG Streamclip to convert to DV format (remembering to split into lots of chunks since iMovie
[mythtv-users] Picking the wrong audio stream from multi-stream AC3 causing no sound?
I've been plugging on a problem I have has since CVS of about Feb 7,
just before 0.17. Recordings from PBS Digital don't play back with
sound. The sound is in the file, in that if you use mplayer on the
recorded files, you hear the soundtrack, it's only in myth you get
trouble.
So I played one of these files with more debug on and get the following
from stderr... (Not sure why just this is on stderr)
Input #0, mpegts, from
'myth://192.168.123.10:6543/2010_2005021611_2005021612.nuv':
Stream #0.0[0x41]: Video: mpeg2video, 704x480, 29.97 fps, 3975 kb/s
Stream #0.1[0x44]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 384 kb/s
Stream #0.2[0x45]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 192 kb/s
Stream #0.3[0x46]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 192 kb/s
And then from stdout see below. Notice it sees 3 audio streams, and
it picks the third one which is, as far as I can tell, silent. The
bitrates above indicate that stream 0 is the one with the audio.
I've not seen anything in myth to let the user pick which audio stream
of an AC3 multistream to listen to (I guess I knew from DVDs that you can
have multiple audio streams in AC3 but hadn't thought about it for TV.)
Looking at the code, I see the comments saying it picks the "first"
AC3 stream, but the code is a countdown loop, that will match on the
last stream rather than the first.
I have done a loop reverse but can't install because I am recording
right now, so I thought I would ask if anybody knows why the code
is a countdown loop:
-
--- avformatdecoder.cpp 10 Feb 2005 07:33:01 - 1.136
+++ avformatdecoder.cpp 17 Feb 2005 05:21:10 -
@@ -1229,7 +1229,8 @@
while ((selectedTrack == -1) && (minChannels >= 0))
{
-for (track = maxTracks; track >= 0; track--)
+for (track = 0; track <= maxTracks; track++)
{
int tempStream = audioStreams[track];
AVCodecContext *e = &ic->streams[tempStream]->codec;
-
2005-02-16 20:48:20.522 mythfrontend version: 0.17.20050130-1 www.mythtv.org
adding pes stream at pid 0x46 with type 129
2005-02-16 20:49:01.119 AVFD
2005-02-16 20:49:01.119 AVFD: Opening Stream #0: codec id 2
2005-02-16 20:49:01.120 detectInterlace(Detect Scan, Detect Scan, 29.97,
480) ->Interlaced Scan
2005-02-16 20:49:01.121 Interlaced: Interlaced Scan video_height: 480
fps: 29.97
2005-02-16 20:49:01.121 AVFD: Looking for decoder for 2
2005-02-16 20:49:01.121 AVFD
2005-02-16 20:49:01.121 AVFD: Opening Stream #1: codec id 86020
2005-02-16 20:49:01.121 AVFD: Looking for decoder for 86020
2005-02-16 20:49:01.122 Stream #1 (audio track #1) is an audio stream with
2 channels.
2005-02-16 20:49:01.122 AVFD
2005-02-16 20:49:01.122 AVFD: Opening Stream #2: codec id 86020
2005-02-16 20:49:01.122 AVFD: Looking for decoder for 86020
2005-02-16 20:49:01.123 Stream #2 (audio track #2) is an audio stream with
2 channels.
2005-02-16 20:49:01.123 AVFD
2005-02-16 20:49:01.123 AVFD: Opening Stream #3: codec id 86020
2005-02-16 20:49:01.123 AVFD: Looking for decoder for 86020
2005-02-16 20:49:01.123 Stream #3 (audio track #3) is an audio stream with
2 channels.
2005-02-16 20:49:01.123 Auto-selecting AC3 audio track (stream #3).
2005-02-16 20:49:01.124 Initializing audio parms from stream #2.
2005-02-16 20:49:01.136 Estimated bitrate = 4743
2005-02-16 20:49:01.476 Position map filled from DB to: 109588
2005-02-16 20:49:01.478 SyncPositionMap prerecorded, from DB: 7307 entries
2005-02-16 20:49:01.478 Position map found
2005-02-16 20:49:01.484 Killing AudioOutputDSP
2005-02-16 20:49:01.485 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2005-02-16 20:49:01.485 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2005-02-16 20:49:01.489 Audio fragment size: 4096
2005-02-16 20:49:01.490 Audio Stretch Factor: 1
2005-02-16 20:49:01.490 Ending reconfigure
2005-02-16 20:49:01.490 kickoffOutputAudioLoop: pid = 27656
2005-02-16 20:49:01.490 OutputAudioLoop: Play Event
2005-02-16 20:49:01.491 Broadcasting free space avail
2005-02-16 20:49:01.495 Broadcasting free space avail
On other digital recordings, such as this 1080i recording, we have just
one stream so we pick it and hear it correctly.
On stderr
Input #0, mpegts, from
'myth://192.168.123.10:6543/2014_2005020921_2005020922.nuv':
Stream #0.0[0x41]: Video: mpeg2video, 1920x1080, 29.97 fps, 15000 kb/s
Stream #0.1[0x44]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 384 kb/s
And on stdout: (some lines removed)
2005-02-16 20:51:38.406 mythfrontend version: 0.17.20050130-1 www.mythtv.org
2005-02-16 20:51:38.407 Enabled verbose msgs : important general audio
playback libav
2005-02-16 20:51:38.665 switchToGUI: Switched to 1280 x 720
2005-02-16 20:51:47.766 Using protocol version 14
adding pes stream at pid 0x41 with type 2
adding pes stream at pid
[mythtv-users] Myth + Xine + Unichrome = Broken Myth Setup Screens
I am running Myth-0.17 and Xine-0.99.3 + Xine-lib-1.0 on a Via EPIA ME6000 with the Unichrome-r30 drivers. Initially, everything is fine. However, after Xine is launched by MythDVD, I can no longer navigate the Myth setup screens. The buttons are no longer highlighted. In addition, when I hit enter, nothing happens so I do not think any of the buttons are active. I can recover by entering and exiting the "Appearance" setup screen. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can begin to track this down? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Only _some_ recordings have no sound since 0.17 upgrade
Phill, Sorry you're having audio troubles too. Seems that is not an uncommon problem amongst people on the list. Certainly mixer settings and msp3400 modules are the most common culprits when sound does not work across the board. Im my case, however, sound does work just fine 90%+ of the time. It's just the occasional single recording that gets hosed with no sound. I can jump back and forth between playing a good recording with sound and a bad one without sound. Playing the .nuv files with Myth or mplayer or whatever else makes no difference. The sound is definitely mute within the recording itself. The problem is definitely at record-time, not playback-time. Regards, Ian Morgan -- --- Ian E. Morgan Vice President & C.O.O. Webcon, Inc. imorgan at webcon dot caPGP: #2DA40D07 www.webcon.ca * Customized Linux network solutions for your business * --- On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Phill Edwards wrote: I upgraded to 0.17 two nights ago and everything worked fine even after a reboot. Then yesterday after other reboots all sound output seems to have gone - no sound in recordings or live tv. I am using two cards with bt8x8 drivers so your's may not be a ivtv issue. I have not had a chance to look into this properly yet - it's possible the mixer settings have gone whacko and just need to be reset - but it's a coincidence that I had no sound problems before the upgrade, and then the day after I upgrade there's no sound at all. I'm keeping an open mind until I check into it more tonight. I'm hoping that I don't have to go back to 0.16 via a backup I took before the upgrade because everything else about 0.17 looks great so far. Anyone else had this problem? Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Slow skip-forward and skip-back with 0.17 (PVR-350)
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 04:45:05PM -0500, Chris wrote:
> Ouch, after upgrading to 0.17 it seems that skipping forward and back
> with the stream is now very slow. These are mpeg2 streams recorded with
> a PVR-350 and playing back on the 350 as well.
Here's a small patch that might help. It's not in the official code
because it can cause other problems, mainly sluggishness in other
areas, if your system isn't fast enough.
I have some other ideas to try to improve skips and speed changes, but
don't know when I will get to them. My plate of things to do seems to
always be full.
David
--
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Index: libs/libmythtv/ivtvdecoder.cpp
===
RCS file: /var/lib/mythcvs/mythtv/libs/libmythtv/ivtvdecoder.cpp,v
retrieving revision 1.38
diff -u -r1.38 ivtvdecoder.cpp
--- libs/libmythtv/ivtvdecoder.cpp 14 Feb 2005 20:05:30 - 1.38
+++ libs/libmythtv/ivtvdecoder.cpp 17 Feb 2005 04:26:47 -
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@
if (vidanyframes)
{
framesRead++;
-return false;
+//return false;
}
vidanyframes = 1;
}
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Re: [mythtv-users] DVB-T - Avermedia / Pinnacle MediaCenter 300i Cards
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:11:38AM +, Mark Smith wrote: > I'm looking to build a twin tuner DVB-T box. I had planned to purchase a > couple of the Twinhan Vision+ cards as I've seen these working, but it might > be useful in future to have an option to copy analogue video onto DVD. > > Hence I'm looking at possibly purchasing one Avermedia or Pinnacle > MediaCentre 300i card as currently sold in the UK by Scan Computers. Does > anyone have any first-hand experience of having these work or not work as DVB > cards with Myth? How about for digitising analogue content (not necessarily > using Myth, but under Linux)? I wouldn't touch any DVB card based on the BT878 with a 40 foot barge pole. See the linux-dvb archives for my reasons why. Both of these cards use that chip; in general, the cheaper cards use it. I'd be particularly concerned about using two of them in the same system. The problem is that they don't have enough on-board buffer space to cope with any other traffic on the PCI bus. For me, the Avermedia card plus the SATA controller on the same PCI bus was too much. Two of these cards may be too much for your system, especially if you have any other stuff on the bus. Any card with the newer cx2388x chipset is fine. For example the KWorld Xstream PCI card, FusionHDTV (except the Lite), latest Nova-T etc. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] FC2 upgrade to 0.17
apt-get worked ok, although now I have choppy playback from recordings and live tv. I'm using a Hauppauge 350. I think the problem is hardware related, but not sure. One other person has reported this on the list. He resolved this issue doing an apt-get dist-upgrade. That didn't work for me. Maybe you'll give it a go, have my problem and find the solution :) Tried different myth settings, kernels, ivtv versions, etc, nothing helps. So my plan is to install FC3 this weekend, unless someone solves this problem before then. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sdk Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 5:01 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] FC2 upgrade to 0.17 1) Are there any gotcha's on upgrading to 0.17 from 0.16 on Fedora Core 2? 2) To upgrade do I just do an apt-get upgrade mythtv-suite? Thanks, Steve Kovacs -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.8 - Release Date: 2/14/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.8 - Release Date: 2/14/2005 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Sound Problems with Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Yan, The instructions I have for Alsamixer are as follows: âYou may also use the alsamixer program to set the volume. First, start alsamixer from the command line. You should start out on the "Master" volume control slider. Use the up and down cursor to set the master volume to around 75%. Next, use the left and right cursor keys to move around on the screen until you find the "Line" slider. Press SPACE to set it as the capture source, set the level to around 50-75% and press "M" to mute it. You can now press ESC to exit out of the alsamixer program. You can also have MythTV manage all volume and mute settings, but this will only affect the "Master" or PCM volume, not the capture volume. See the mythfrontend setup page for options.â On my system, I can mute the Line control, but pressing space to set it as the capture source does nothing. Ralph On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 18:23 -0800, Yan-Fa Li wrote: > Ralph Kitts wrote: > > I am posting this message again because nobody responded the first time. > > It is difficult to believe that no one out there is using a Sound > > Blaster Audigy sound card. > > > > It sounds like you have the Line-In for playback enabled. Mute it. > Leave the Line-In for recording unmuted. I can't verify those settings > because I'm at work right now. Alsa mixer has some F keys you can push > so you can experiment with various settings till you achieve the affect. > > Yan > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 video quality question
One thing you can tweak the recording profile "Live TV" You can set it at 720 x 480. Hopefully that will help. --- Carl Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After a bit of tweaking, I have my Myth box > basically working right now. > The software seems pretty good. Video quality is > excellent for X apps > and when playing DVDs. > > But, I honestly have to say that I am quite > disappointed in the video > quality of the recordings and live TV that is coming > in off the PVR-350. > It looks like VHS. The mpg stream off of > /dev/video0 seems to be > 720x480, but it looks real fuzzy and somewhat washed > out. This is really > noticeable when you look at things like news crawls > and stock tickers. > The video quality is notably lower when compared to > watching my cable > feed directly through the tuner in my TV. > > Am I missing some tweakables? Or is this just what > people accept? > > Digging through the PVR 350 specs I noted that it > lists its recording > specs as "NTSC format* at 29.97fps: Full D1: > 720x480, MPEG1: 352x240" > (see > http://www.hauppauge.com/html/wintvpvr350_datasheet.htm) > > Ah-Ha. it does seem to capture the MPG stream at VHS > level resolutions, > regardless of what it's finally rendered to. Are > there better cards out > there? Are people really settling for VHS grade > recording from $1k > custom PCs? > > Setup details: > PVR 350 capture/tuner card (cable input) > nVidia 5700LE display card (s-video out) > PC HDTV-3000 (currently not configured) > Basic sony 32" TV (s-video input) > AMD 64 3500 > > > Opinions? Help? > > --- Carl > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for a cheap PCMCIA card
Jorge Guzmán wrote: Ok, I have just found this new connection on the laptop that looks like a PS/2 connection with more pins, it has a TV with an arrow going outside from it on one on one side. Do I have something helpful here? Sorry for the dumb questions, but I cannot find any other place to put it. Jorge ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users It's svideo. :-) Cool if it's supported. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Re: Re: OSX Frontend- Fullscreen on Second Monitor?
Not the best solution as I run the frontend on my Powerbook, but it is certainly sufficient. Thanks! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] xawtv and mythtv settings
HI Guys, So Close, I am using a script I got from here http://www.mind.lu/~yg/ftvco/ to try each setting for card (Leadtek winfast 2000 xp). It worked once on tuner 11 and 12 , with a better picture on 12. Then when I re-ran the script I get the picture with ghosting on the EXACT same settings where before it was perfect. I have tried a few different settings like pll=0 pll=1 but no luck. You can see a picture but it is broken up into 4 ghosts. Could this be a NTSC PAL thing (I am in australia where it is PAL) and why would it work fine then stop ? Thanks in advance Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for a cheap PCMCIA card
Ok, I have just found this new connection on the laptop that looks like a PS/2 connection with more pins, it has a TV with an arrow going outside from it on one on one side. Do I have something helpful here? Sorry for the dumb questions, but I cannot find any other place to put it. Jorge ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] possible for non-master backend transcode andcommercial detect?
I found another problem in my rc.local I had /usr/bin/ivtvfbctl /dev/fb1 -alpha -on -globalalpha -nolocalalpha (20 ~ 30 gray / whitish lines on the video test) commenting this out got the output going. Thanks everyone for your help, Scott -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.8 - Release Date: 2/14/2005 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Gentoo AMD64 2.6.10 and ivtv
1) If you gentoo on x86_64, how did you get ivtv running? I compiled 0.3 from source, so didn't use the ebuild. I'm sure that at some point that will come back to bite me in the ass, but I'll deal with it then :) 2) Is anyone familiar with this error and/or the fix? This is a fairly simple one I think - you have to enable the appropriate I2C support in your kernel config: Device Drivers --> I2C support --> I2C support I2C Device Support (Dunno if you need this, but I have it) I2C Algorithms --> I2C bit-banging interfaces Should do the trick. Let me know if you have troubles with it. Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Video stutters (every sec or so) on 2.6 kernel
I'm not sure if this is a 0.17 mythtv problem as I generally keep up with the CVS. However, today I upgraded my Debian kernel to 2.6.10 (from 2.4.25). Everything works except I get a small stutter in the video every second or so (audio is ok) *only* when I am watching and recording at the same time. I can be watching an old recording while recording something else and it stutters, or watching live TV stutters. However, if Myth isn't recording, I can play back recorded files just fine. Hoping I just missed something when upgrading kernels and someone here knows the solution. :) Here's some info: Athlon 2000 w/512 MB NVidia GeForce FX 5500 (128 MB) Two PVR-250's Debian Unstable 2.6.10 kernel (sources from Debian apt-get) Latest CVS MythTV NVidia driver version 6629 (sources from Debian apt-get) ivtv 0.2.0-rc3d (from ckennedy) Thanks! Rick. -- Rick St.Pierre RSP Acoustics [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Sound Problems with Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Ralph Kitts wrote: I am posting this message again because nobody responded the first time. It is difficult to believe that no one out there is using a Sound Blaster Audigy sound card. It sounds like you have the Line-In for playback enabled. Mute it. Leave the Line-In for recording unmuted. I can't verify those settings because I'm at work right now. Alsa mixer has some F keys you can push so you can experiment with various settings till you achieve the affect. Yan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Single most frustrating thing aboutMythTV...
> Yes, this can be done. Sort of. I figured out a hack to do this, but > it assumes you don't use Mythvideo for anything else. > > Set your Mythvideo directory to /mnt/dvd (or whatever you use). Then, > when you put a DVD in the drive, refresh the Mythvideo list, and then > you can play the files from the DVD through Mythvideo. > > You can also edit the xml file that defines the ui for the Optical > Discs section to put shortcuts there. If you like I can post the > specifics when I get home. > > I think it makes a lot of sense to have this functionality built in. > It would be pretty simple to do, and it makes watching archived data > DVDs much more viable. > Well what about putting a symlink to /mnt/dvd in your mythvideo directory? I won't get to try my box until the weekend, but I wonder if that would work. -=/>Thom ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Single most frustrating thing about MythTV...
> Those are all options that are worthwhile. I'm a dev so I have that > ability, but some are not and certainly do help contribute to MythTv in > other ways. I echo these sentiments. I am not a coder, but I would certainly like to think that most OSS projects are not soley based on developers. I'll be the first to say that without them, the software, bug fixes, etc...wouldn't exist, and they are certainly the heart and core of the project. But what about those doing testing on different features? Or working to track down the source/cause of bugs? Or writing documentation for compoenents or usage of the software? Or even answering other users' questions on the mailing list. I would certainly like to think that all of these people are "giving something back" to the software, even if they aren't coding it. I know devs are busy, doing the coding in their spare time for no reward other than usable software and the gratitude of others.And it must be frustrating to hear people essentially say, "ya this is nice, but it needs this too." I don't think this is at all bashing the software itself (which nearly everyone on this list seems to love), but is basically just asking those who do have the savvy/know-how to write code to consider something that would make the software even better. While the original poster have worded his request better, I would hate for this entire project to gain a "code it yourself or go home" mentality. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Sound Problems with Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
See answers below. On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 12:54 -0800, Ross Campbell wrote: > > I am posting this message again because nobody responded the first time. > > Patience is a virtue. Give people a few days and don't post in HTML > > > It is difficult to believe that no one out there is using a Sound Blaster > > Audigy sound card. > > Certainly people are... but we've all long ago worked our way thought > getting our own sound working ;) I can' t help you directly, but I can > ask some questions that may help you solve your problem. > > First off, has sound in mythtv *ever* worked properly on this system > or is it a new install? This is a new install. Sound has never worked properly. > > > - Sound continues to play when I exit mythtv. > > what sound? Live TV? How long? > The sound that I get is from Live TV. It continues to play when I exit mythtv. > > - I do not get any sound on my recorded shows. > > What happens if you play a recorded .nuv file with mplayer from the > comandline? Do you get sound? I do not know what a .nuv file is. mp3 files play fine with mplayer. > Does mythmusic sound work? Mythmusic sound works fine. > > System details: > > - Red Hat Fedora Core 3 > > - Mythtv 0.17 > > - Hauppauge WinTV Go card > > - Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS card > > ... atrpms or source? based on Jarod's install guide or ? I installed mythsuite from atrpms using apt-get. I installed using the instructions on wilsonet.com. > ... you wouldn't happen to be running KDE with artsd enabled would > you? Don't know about in .17 but in previous versions, artsd caused > problems. Try disabling it if it's running. artsd is disabled. > What settings are in your setup screens for sound and mixer? oss? alsa? What settings are you asking about? alsamixer? mythfrontend? > What have you tried already? What did you search for? Have you > searched the mailing list archives? Have you tried asking for help on > the #mythtv-users IRC channel? I have searched the February thread of the mailing list archives. I have not found an easy way to search the entire archives. I have never used IRC. > -Ross > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Database backup
Hi, I just thought I'd pass the knowledge... While my cron has been running the following for quite some time: mysqldump -u root -pPASSWORD mythconverg -c | gzip -c > /myth/mythtv_backup..sql.gz I almost lost my DB yesterday when the volume (root in my case) filled itself. I noticed the problem after the above command ran, thus overwriting my DB backup. (doh!) Fortunately, I rsync my /myth volume weekly (which caused the problem in the first place since /mnt was not mounted... anyway. :) and a valid backup was still on the synced volume. Btw, here's the command I use to rsync: /usr/bin/rsync --progress -ru --delete /myth /mnt In order to avoid future problems, I changed the cron job for the DB backup to: mysqldump -u root -pPASSWORD mythconverg -c | gzip -c > /myth/mythtv_backup.`date '+%w'`.sql.gz â which will create a seven day fallback just in case. (Check out the man page of date for more option like %w -- %w = weekday where 0=sunday.) In the hopes that some potentially poor soul will implement something similar on their system. :) And, that make me think, would it not be a good idea to have something directly in Myth to deal with DB backups or should it be handled purely outside like my cron job...? Hasta, cyth ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] possible for non-master backend transcode and commercial detect?
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 16:28, Ryan Kremser wrote: > Hello, I have a strange situation i have a very slow desktop i'm using > as a backend but i do have a somewhat powerfull laptop which i'm not > using at all at the moment and wanted to know how possible it would be > to set the laptop up do to the transcoding and commercial detection. > I would make it the master backend aside from free space limitations > and the fact that i can't get my pvr-350 into it. Again just > wondering if there is any way to do this because that backend system > i'm using now is an old pentium 3 running at 433mhz. Works fine > unless i try to use the commercial detection or transcode anything. Yes, you can do that. Run the setup utility on the master backend and uncheck "Allow Commercial Detection jobs" in the General section (6th page). Get the laptop tied to the mbe, run the setup utility on it, and make sure its got that box checked (might also want to ramp up the number of simultaneous jobs permitted). -- Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got a question? Read this first... http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html MythTV, Fedora Core & ATrpms documentation: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archive http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/ pgp6G20AxfDFR.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Update on using epia m10000 for a frontend
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 07:42 +, Ivor Hewitt wrote: > On Wednesday 16 Feb 2005 01:20, Adam Felson wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 05:39 +, Ivor Hewitt wrote: > ..snump.. > > > Well your experience is just your experience isn't it? > > > With 5MBs DVB-T my M9000 struggles without XvMC with a high bitrate DVD > > > it stutters. > > > > OK. I'm not doing hdtv and my data streams barely do 1.5mbps. > > > aha. > > > I tries xine with -V xxmc and it works fine. Tried to compile mythtv > > with xvmc and the link balks that it can't find the XvMC library. > > Checked /usr/X11R6/lib and it's there: > > # ls /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMC* > > /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMC.so@/usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMC.so.1.0* > > /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCW.so.1@ /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMC.so.1@ > > /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCW.so@ /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCW.so.1.0* > > > Well post yer failing linkage. > > > /usr/X11R6/lib is in the ld.so.conf file so I don't know what the deal > > is. Turns out I had to edit the settings.pro to put in a few libraries that mythtv now uses. > > > > Back to xv only for now. > > > Sure if it works for you why not stick with it. I'm settings up my first remote box and it doesn't run smoothly for the first few seconds. It'll play 3 seconds then hiccup, play another 3 seconds and a hiccup then play fine. I'm curious if xvmc might help. > -- Adam Felson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MythTV 0.17 and Time Stretching
After upgrading to 0.17 all of my previously recorded programming, live tv, and new recodings are distorted by the stretching/compression feature even though i don't explicitly enable it. I am using Thac's RPMS for MDK 10.1. Is anyone else having this problem? -- Kyle Yencer e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.yencer.net ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 XORG.CONF thoroughly confused
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 17:30, Scott Bickford wrote: > ok I will try that BusID and I also found what appears to be a wrong > symlink: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Feb 14 20:12 video0 -> video0 > > > Does this need fixing? If so I can just rm then recreate it with ln -s > /dev/video0 /dev/video > > Thanks That does need fixing, though I don't think it should be impacting the output side of things at all. -- Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got a question? Read this first... http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html MythTV, Fedora Core & ATrpms documentation: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archive http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/ pgp7Qndbxbz7W.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 XORG.CONF thoroughly confused
ok I will try that BusID and I also found what appears to be a wrong symlink: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Feb 14 20:12 video0 -> video0 Does this need fixing? If so I can just rm then recreate it with ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video Thanks -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.8 - Release Date: 2/14/2005 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] PVR 350 video quality question
After a bit of tweaking, I have my Myth box basically working right now. The software seems pretty good. Video quality is excellent for X apps and when playing DVDs. But, I honestly have to say that I am quite disappointed in the video quality of the recordings and live TV that is coming in off the PVR-350. It looks like VHS. The mpg stream off of /dev/video0 seems to be 720x480, but it looks real fuzzy and somewhat washed out. This is really noticeable when you look at things like news crawls and stock tickers. The video quality is notably lower when compared to watching my cable feed directly through the tuner in my TV. Am I missing some tweakables? Or is this just what people accept? Digging through the PVR 350 specs I noted that it lists its recording specs as "NTSC format* at 29.97fps: Full D1: 720x480, MPEG1: 352x240" (see http://www.hauppauge.com/html/wintvpvr350_datasheet.htm) Ah-Ha. it does seem to capture the MPG stream at VHS level resolutions, regardless of what it's finally rendered to. Are there better cards out there? Are people really settling for VHS grade recording from $1k custom PCs? Setup details: PVR 350 capture/tuner card (cable input) nVidia 5700LE display card (s-video out) PC HDTV-3000 (currently not configured) Basic sony 32" TV (s-video input) AMD 64 3500 Opinions? Help? --- Carl ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Gentoo AMD64 2.6.10 and ivtv
Ok, I'm new to Gentoo, but I had ivtv working on SuSE 9.2. I'm trying to figure out how to get 0.2.0 rc3 running on Gentoo 2.6.10 with an AMD64. The problem is that Gentoo currently only provides this package for x86. So I tried ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge ivtv but when I try to modprobe ivtv, I get something in dmesg about "ivtv: Unkown symbol i2c_bit_add_bus" and i have no clue how to fix it. Two questions: 1) If you gentoo on x86_64, how did you get ivtv running? 2) Is anyone familiar with this error and/or the fix? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Post recording transcoding and HDTV
Oh! Excellent. I'll do that. Thanks a ton. -Todd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Donavan Stanley Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 2:52 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Post recording transcoding and HDTV On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:12:32 -0800, Todd Tidwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there anyway I could setup a custom job or is there some work around for > this so that I could transcode the files down to something more manageable? Try current CVS (or wait till .18), this was just implemented within the past day or so. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] FC2 upgrade to 0.17
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 16:01, sdk wrote: > 1) Are there any gotcha's on upgrading to 0.17 from 0.16 on Fedora Core 2? Nope. > 2) To upgrade do I just do an apt-get upgrade mythtv-suite? # apt-get update # apt-get install mythtv-suite -- Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got a question? Read this first... http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html MythTV, Fedora Core & ATrpms documentation: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archive http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/ pgp3hvmqIvv9G.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 XORG.CONF thoroughly confused
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 16:47, Scott Bickford wrote: > now I get this: (II) IVTVDEV: driver for framebuffer: PVR-350 > (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0 > (--) Chipset PVR-350 found > (EE) ivtvHWProvbe failed to do IVTVFB_IOCTL_GET_STATE > for device (null) > (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config > section. > (II) UnloadModule: "ivtvdev" > (EE) Device(s) detected, but none match those in the > config file. > > Fatal server error: > no screens found > > > lspci -v > > 00:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext > Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) > Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV > PVR-350 > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, > IRQ 7 > Memory at d800 (32-bit, prefetchable) > Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 > > > Also tried: > BusID "PCI:00:09:0" > BusID "0:09:0" Try: BusID "PCI:0:9:0" -- Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got a question? Read this first... http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html MythTV, Fedora Core & ATrpms documentation: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archive http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/ pgpPjyPV4m9mU.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: OSX Frontend- Fullscreen on Second Monitor?
Hi TJ, I'm not sure if this is the correct way of doing things, but instead of playing with the Xinerama settings, I played with the GUI offset instead. Say your first screen is 1280x854 and second screen is 1280x960, just like mine =). In Settings->Appearence I just set the X GUI width to 1280, GUI height to 960 and the GUI offset to 1280. That makes all of myth run on my second monitor. Now, if you don't have the second monitor plugged in, you wont see a thing other than having the menubar and dock disappear, but I always watch on the big external monitor anyways. I hope this helps. Ken. On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:19:29 -0500, TJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone at least know one way or another? If it is a definitive no I'd > really like to know as not to waste more time trying. Thanks. > > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] The death of MythDVD? [RipGuard]
I wonder how long it will be before consumers will be fed up with the domination of their rights. Between excessive taxation, nonexistant constitutional rights, and dwindling representation of individual ideals... America just isn't what it used to be. HDTV will have copy protect bits. DVD's will have macrovision. CD's will have a sharpie-proof copy protect scheme (say... being so physically feeble that they detonate when spun past 2x, dunno why the pressing companies haven't come up with that yet) Also, with media companies trying hard to plug the "analog hole", you've gotta wonder where fair use went. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythbackend and master server ip
Try running mythbackend first. Then opening another shell and running mythfilldatabase. Oh and 127.0.0.1 is the one you want. Aaron On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:22:02 -0600, Timothy Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is the error I get when trying to run mythfilldatabase: > > Grabbing data for Wed Feb 16 2005 offset 13 > >From : Tue Mar 1 06:00:00 2005 To : Wed Mar 2 06:00:00 2005 (UTC) > --17:14:55-- http://datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com/tvlistings/xtvdService >=> `-' > Resolving datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com... 206.18.98.160 > Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80... > connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized > Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80... > connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > Length: unspecified [text/xml] > > [ <=> > > ] 146,766 73.62K/s > > 17:14:58 (73.45 KB/s) - `-' saved [146766] > > Your subscription expires on 05/16/05 05:44:16 > Grab complete. Actual data from Tue Mar 1 06:00:00 2005 to Tue Mar 1 > 23:59:59 2005 (UTC) > Clearing data for source... > Clearing from Tue Mar 1 00:00:00 2005 to Tue Mar 1 17:59:59 2005 (localtime) > Data for source cleared... > Main temp tables populated. Updating myth channels... > Updating icons for sourceid: 1 > Channels updated.. Updating programs... > Adjusting program database end times... > 0 replacements made. > Marking repeats...found 2428 > Unmarking repeats from grabber that fall within our new episode > window...found 28 > 2005-02-16 17:15:09.999 Connecting to backend server: > 192.168.1.101:6543 (try 1 of 5) > Connection timed out. > You probably should modify the Master Server settings > in the setup program and set the proper IP address. > error resceduling id -1 in ScheduledRecording::signalChange > > Can somebody help me fix this? I've tried 127.0.0.1 for both, just the > Master, just the first one, 192.168.1.101 for both, first and Master > and nothing works correctly. What am I missing? > > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re-initialize sound at channel change/start record?
Hi, I have a minor problem with sound falling out and becoming white noise in mythtv every now and then. I currently solve this problem by running this command: v4lctl -v 1 -c /dev/video0 setnorm PAL-BG This command currently runs on a crontab every hour on the hour on my backend system. This solves the problem for me, but needless to say it's not exactly an elegant solution. The problem is caused by saa7134 not being able to "guess" what audio-carrier setting to use, and thus reverting to the (I think) default, which is 6.000 Mhz. For me to have sound, I need to have it at 5.550Mhz. dmesg: saa7134[0]/audio: audio carrier scan failed, using 5.500 MHz [last detected] saa7134[0]/audio: audio carrier scan failed, using 5.500 MHz [last detected] saa7134[0]/audio: audio carrier scan failed, using 6.000 MHz [last detected] <- this is when sound falls out Previously, one could set this as a module option (modprobe saa7134 audio_carrier=5500), but this was removed about a year ago by the video4linux2 maintainers in favour of a more flexible solution - namely enabling this to be set in user-space instead. This enables a user to, for example - tune several different channels with a different audio-carrier for each channel. However (afaik) mythtv uses the old behaviour, and does not set audio-carrier on channel change - which leads me to my question: Does any of you guys know of a way to tell mythtv to execute a command (v4lctl bla bla..) on channel change, or on startrecord? /Steffen -- non-recovering mythtv-addict. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Ringbuffer operational question
It appears to be, that the ringbuffer for "livetv" is local to the backend process with the capture card, and that whether or not the frontend has access to the mounted ringbuffer, IE: backend1: 192.168.10.10 ringbuffer === /livetv frontend1: 192.168.10.11 ringbuffer == 192.168.2.10:/livetv it always streams it via rbuf:// URI and never checks for the local existance of it, in spite of what the mythtvsetup value is for the local machine. Is this correct? Is this more efficent than reading off a local ringbuffer anyway? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 XORG.CONF thoroughly confused
now I get this: (II) IVTVDEV: driver for framebuffer: PVR-350 (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0 (--) Chipset PVR-350 found (EE) ivtvHWProvbe failed to do IVTVFB_IOCTL_GET_STATE for device (null) (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section. (II) UnloadModule: "ivtvdev" (EE) Device(s) detected, but none match those in the config file. Fatal server error: no screens found lspci -v 00:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR-350 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 7 Memory at d800 (32-bit, prefetchable) Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 Also tried: BusID "PCI:00:09:0" BusID "0:09:0" Section "Monitor" Identifier "NTSC Monitor" HorizSync 30-68 VertRefresh 50-120 Mode "720x480" # D: 34.563 MHz, H: 37.244 kHz, V: 73.897 Hz DotClock 34.564 HTimings 720 752 840 928 VTimings 480 484 488 504 Flags"-HSync" "-VSync" EndMode EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Hauppauge PVR 350 iTVC15 Framebuffer" Driver "ivtvdev" #Driver "fbdev" ### change fb0 to whatever your card grabbed #Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb1" Option "ivtv" "/dev/fb1" ### change the BusID to whatever is reported by lspci, specify it as hex. BusID "PCI:00:09:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Hauppauge PVR 350 iTVC15 Framebuffer" Monitor "NTSC Monitor" DefaultDepth 24 DefaultFbbpp 32 Subsection "Display" Depth 24 FbBpp 32 Modes "720x480" EndSubsection EndSection Section "DRI" Group0 Mode 0666 EndSection I even tried going to Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb1" and I get this in the xorg log (EE) IVTVDEV(0): FBIOBLANK: Invalid argument (EE) IVTVDEV(0): FBIOPAN_DISPLAY: Invalid argument (EE) IVTVDEV(0): FBIOBLANK: Invalid argument AUDIT: Wed Feb 16 19:21:56 2005: 5810 X: client 6 rejected from local host -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.8 - Release Date: 2/14/2005 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for a cheap PCMCIA card
well, anything that works, I don't really know. My laptop has a Firewire card alreay, my cable does not have a firewire output, I want a TV capture card and I believe the way to go is with firewire or pcmcia. Does anybody know about a cheap card? Or any card, that'll work. Jorge On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:17:57 -0800, Ian Forde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 16:37 -0600, Jorge Guzmán wrote: > > I want it as a TV capture card. > > Then you want a firewire card (assuming that you have a Cable box with > firewire output). Now that I think about it... due to Firewire capture, > it's possible to have a laptop backend! > > -I > > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: email list vs forum
Let's create a separate forum and email list to discuss the email vs forum topic. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] possible for non-master backend transcode and commercial detect?
Hello, I have a strange situation i have a very slow desktop i'm using as a backend but i do have a somewhat powerfull laptop which i'm not using at all at the moment and wanted to know how possible it would be to set the laptop up do to the transcoding and commercial detection. I would make it the master backend aside from free space limitations and the fact that i can't get my pvr-350 into it. Again just wondering if there is any way to do this because that backend system i'm using now is an old pentium 3 running at 433mhz. Works fine unless i try to use the commercial detection or transcode anything. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Single most frustrating thing aboutMythTV...
> Thats a good idea. Is there a way to play a DVD right from the drive on > the backend and view it on the front end then? Or does it need to be > ripped first? > Yes, there is a way to do this with MythDVD. Search the archives for a post titled "DVD Playback across the wire". It requires xine on the frontend where you want to view the DVD's and a custom compiled from source xine with the inclusion of cdda_server on the backend that has the DVD drive. I've set this up on my system and tested it minimally and it seems to work although I haven't yet actually watched a full DVD on the remote frontend. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Step By Step Upgrade Guide for Debian to 2.6.10 from 2.4.26 [WAS]Smack me if I'm crazy ...
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:00:16 +0100, Jesper Sörensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Gilbert wrote: > > >One minor question since it will save me a few hours otherwise .. I > >have gotten conflicting information about using make oldconfig from a > >2.4 to a 2.6 kernel. Has anyone that has switched recently used make > >oldconfig? > > > > > > Sounds like a bad idea. I'd recommend using the config from one of > Debian's pre-built kernel images as a base and take it from there. It's > also a good idea to use Debian's kernel-source package instead of the > sources from kernel.org since Debian's version includes some good to > have patches. Ok, that's what I suspected, but I couldn't find explicit reasons why. I'll use Debian's package for kernel-source-2.6.10 and get a config file from one of the packages for kernel-image-2.6.10 to use as a starting point. Thanks, Eric ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Q: How to get consistent volume in multi-tuner setup
Am in the process of setting up a multi-tuner MythTV box here, and have a question about getting a consistent volume on recordings... I've got two PVR-250 boards in the machine, along with a single BTTV based board. Although the volume on the PVR-250s is the same, I'm having difficulty in getting the volume for the BTTV board adjusted so that its at approx. the same level. I've got the audio from the BTTV board connected to the "video-in" on my motherboard and sound works, but the volume is -drastically- different than that on the PVR boards. Wanted to find out from other people with multi-tuner setups what they'd done to try to deal with this (other than just fiddling with volume sliders again and again and again). -- Graham TerMarsch ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Q: Anyone got a comparison of recording profiles
I'm sure I've seen a page somewhere that had a comparison of recording profiles for MythTV and user comments on what they were running hardware-wise. Can't for the life of me find that page again, though Anyone else know the page I'm thinking of? -- Graham TerMarsch ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Did anyone succeed upgrading Debian .16 -> .17?
> (I've not used it too much since I upgraded though, take it with a grain > of salt.) OK, I'm seeing front-end crashes at the end of playback sometimes. Also, the original MythWeb packages were missing the javascript subdir so popups did not work; now that's been fixed. If I see other issues I'll report. Dale -- Dale E. Martin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://the-martins.org/~dmartin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] FC2 upgrade to 0.17
1) Are there any gotcha's on upgrading to 0.17 from 0.16 on Fedora Core 2? 2) To upgrade do I just do an apt-get upgrade mythtv-suite? Thanks, Steve Kovacs ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Frontend crash while editing cut list on a current recording
Hi all, I have apparently found an issue with current CVS. I reproduced this by: 1. Start a scheduled recording and wait maybe 15 minutes. 2. Start watching the in-progress recording. 3. Use 'e' in the normal way to start marking adverts as the programme progresses. This appears to show odd behaviour with the 'edit-bar' current position and currently-cutout markers getting out of scale with each other.[*] 4. Once the current position marker reaches the right end of the 'edit bar' - which it appears to do once I have watched past the point the recording was at when I started watching - inserting a cut point crashes the frontend. The backend recording continues unaffected, and when restarting the frontend and resuming watching, the prior edits are retained. I haven't recompiled with debugging to track this further yet. Fedora Core 3 mysql 3.23.58-14 qt 3.3.3-8 Anyone else seeing this ? Mark [*] Basically the red cut sections and the |-> <-| black/white indicators are not aligned with each other. -- Mark Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Single most frustrating thing about MythTV...
Agreed Brad, some of those live tv features you mentioned would be spectacular. Constant recording is definately a great idea and making live TV just the same basic principle as recording would be much more stable too (IMO). I can't help with the coding, but I don't mind beta-testing =D Dave On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:27:22 -0800, Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 01:21:33PM -0600, Jason Werpy wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:03:54 -0800, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I absolutely agree with Matt that this is a feature desperately > > > lacking in MythTV. I know its been brought up many times here, so > > > obviously others thinks so too. I think the main reason that it > > "Desperately lacking?" Well, it certainly would be handy, and is > moderately high on the list, but I can think of many other features > that are more interesting, and that indeed are higher on people's > priority lists. > > These include improved HD support and multi-resolution transcoding, > Prioritized expire, changing live TV mode to be just a special case > of recording, UI unification for guide mode / live tv / video play/ tv play, > constant recording of live tv, xvmc solidity, mythmusic improvements, > moving config into mythweb -- these and many more I would see ahead of > DVD burn. > > Especially since you can already do it, this is just a question of better UI > for > it. Not that better UI doesn't make a big difference. > > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > -- GMAIL is 'da bomb babyYEAH I have GMail invites, if you want one, email me direct. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Scheduler not exiting ? (current cvs)
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 12:00 +1100, Chris Edwards wrote: > Mark Cooke wrote (both nested quotes): > > > >>The scheduled recording time for the programme that appears to have > >>screwed things up ended at 10pm, but having restarted both backends. > >>there is no change to the behaviour. > > > > That said, I restarted again a few minutes ago, and things appear to be > > working again. > > I think I'm having the same problem. For some reason, it will sometimes > just not start recording a program. The only fix is to restart it, and > then it will work fine until it eventually does the same thing again. I > haven't gotten around to turning debugging on yet, but I'll hopefully > give that a go in the next few days and try to trace the problem. > > Have you only had the problem once? The problem seems to have gotten > better for me - I don't think it's happened in the last few days. But it > was pretty bad last week. Yes, just the one time. I did have a single short recording the day before this strange behaviour. In my usage since, the software's been behaving well - as it does most of the time. Mark -- Mark Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Single most frustrating thing aboutMythTV...
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 02:55:00PM -0500, Gabe Rubin wrote: > > Sounds great, but probably not legal. MythTV aside (it could > > just as well be a VHS tape), I believe that recording TV programming and > > replaying it for an "audience" is a no-no. > > > Wouldn't this mean that anyone who had a superbowl party at their > place, with over a certain amount of people, violated the law if they > watched it with their mythtv or tivo? You are displaying a recorded > program even if it is almost live. > > There are two major rights. One is the right to make copies of videos. Another is the right to do public performance of them. If you play a video for your family, or guests at your private party, or in your minivan, you can argue it's not a public performance though as the size of the crowd grows it gets more interesting. Certainly, however, when they play DVDs on the airplane it's a public performance and they pay the studio for that. You are allowed to record shows in order to watch them later, which is copying, not performance, and the supreme court has said that's cool. However, there is constant arguing from both sides about just what that means, and how broad or narrow it is supposed to be. People ask if the surpreme court was saying you can build a library of recordings, for example, or whether you can skip commercials (they begged off that question in the original decision because it didn't happen much in 1978) We've been in lawsuits about these questions, and we're in a big one before the supremes this spring over just what the betamax case means. As far as we believe your MythTV is fully legal, though if you start making DVDs for others or doing public performances of them, it starts to get on unknown ground. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Default recording profiles figures?
To save on space, you could lower the video and audio bitrates. 2200 for video and 192 for audio. I can barely tell the difference when watching especially if I don't plan to keep the episode. --- Martin Ebourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:33:20 +, Piers Kittel > wrote: > Am in a PAL country using digital TV (but recording > via analogue) what > > would be the best numbers to use (resolution etc) > for each recording > > profiles (default, high, med and low)? > > In the UK the dvb broadcasts are usually at 720x576 > resolution (some > channels 704x576). Guess you could try that. > > Cheers, > > Martin. > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Single most frustrating thing about MythTV...
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 01:21:33PM -0600, Jason Werpy wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:03:54 -0800, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I absolutely agree with Matt that this is a feature desperately > > lacking in MythTV. I know its been brought up many times here, so > > obviously others thinks so too. I think the main reason that it "Desperately lacking?" Well, it certainly would be handy, and is moderately high on the list, but I can think of many other features that are more interesting, and that indeed are higher on people's priority lists. These include improved HD support and multi-resolution transcoding, Prioritized expire, changing live TV mode to be just a special case of recording, UI unification for guide mode / live tv / video play/ tv play, constant recording of live tv, xvmc solidity, mythmusic improvements, moving config into mythweb -- these and many more I would see ahead of DVD burn. Especially since you can already do it, this is just a question of better UI for it. Not that better UI doesn't make a big difference. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] mythbackend and master server ip
This is the error I get when trying to run mythfilldatabase: Grabbing data for Wed Feb 16 2005 offset 13 >From : Tue Mar 1 06:00:00 2005 To : Wed Mar 2 06:00:00 2005 (UTC) --17:14:55-- http://datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com/tvlistings/xtvdService => `-' Resolving datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com... 206.18.98.160 Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/xml] [ <=> ] 146,766 73.62K/s 17:14:58 (73.45 KB/s) - `-' saved [146766] Your subscription expires on 05/16/05 05:44:16 Grab complete. Actual data from Tue Mar 1 06:00:00 2005 to Tue Mar 1 23:59:59 2005 (UTC) Clearing data for source... Clearing from Tue Mar 1 00:00:00 2005 to Tue Mar 1 17:59:59 2005 (localtime) Data for source cleared... Main temp tables populated. Updating myth channels... Updating icons for sourceid: 1 Channels updated.. Updating programs... Adjusting program database end times... 0 replacements made. Marking repeats...found 2428 Unmarking repeats from grabber that fall within our new episode window...found 28 2005-02-16 17:15:09.999 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.101:6543 (try 1 of 5) Connection timed out. You probably should modify the Master Server settings in the setup program and set the proper IP address. error resceduling id -1 in ScheduledRecording::signalChange Can somebody help me fix this? I've tried 127.0.0.1 for both, just the Master, just the first one, 192.168.1.101 for both, first and Master and nothing works correctly. What am I missing? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge 250/350 Output
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 02:01:23PM -0500, Kyle Rose wrote: > > One major exception is if you don't have an AGP slot in your older computer, > > then the pvr-350 seems a wiser choice. > > Except that you can also find PCI FX5200's. I know: I have two. > > Still, IMO the NTSC output of the 350 is superior even to the best > modelines I've seen on the S-Video outputs of the Nvidia cards; but, > if you ever plan to go the HDTV route*, a combined DVI/S-Video Nvidia > card is the more thrifty choice. I'll admit to not having had a 350 to compare, but I found the svideo output of my 5200 to be quite good. It was actually extremely good when using a 720p source -- there is some merit in having an HD card even with a regular TV though you pay a lot in disk space and system requirements -- which led me to believe that any thoughts on the quality of the svideo out of the fx5200 may not have been the output but: a) The quality of the encodings, or b) The issues of going from interlace recording to slightly different resolutions so the interlace frames are off. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Faint horizontal lines - PVR350
>From Jarod's guide: "PVR-350 TV-Out users: if you got video, but there were like 20 to 50 evenly spaced horizontal lines overlaying it, try tweaking the ivtv-fb driver with this command: /usr/bin/ivtvfbctl /dev/fb1 -alpha -on -globalalpha -nolocalalpha Then run the dd test again, and with luck, the picture will look like it should. If not, rinse and repeat from the beginning..." --- Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > When playing back recordings, I see very faint > horizontal lines on the > screen - only visible if I have dark colours on the > screen, but when it > is bright, I can't see anything - am using an PVR350 > with mythtv v0.16 > on Debian unstable. Any ideas anyone? > > Thanks very much for your help in advance > > Cheers - Piers > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > __ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for a cheap PCMCIA card
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 16:37 -0600, Jorge GuzmÃn wrote: > I want it as a TV capture card. Then you want a firewire card (assuming that you have a Cable box with firewire output). Now that I think about it... due to Firewire capture, it's possible to have a laptop backend! -I ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire success stories?
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 01:12:17PM -0500, Tom Dombrosky wrote: > That ebuild worked great for me. You should try to submit it for > inclusion in portage. It depends on source obtained from a source-control system (even though I'm hosting a static copy in a tarball), so they probably wouldn't accept it for inclusion. (The MythTV CVS ebuilds have a note on Bugzilla attached to them that CVS ebuilds aren't included in Portage.) It's good to know that it's working for somebody. Here in Las Vegas, Cox hasn't enabled FireWire output yet. :-( When the box is plugged in, dmesg reports problems reading information from the box. Looks like all I can do is watch live TV or record from the S-video output (which is of course SD, not HD). _/_ / v \ Scott Alfter (remove the obvious to send mail) (IIGS( http://alfter.us/Top-posting! \_^_/ rm -rf /bin/laden>What's the most annoying thing on Usenet? pgpWmISlD4SEg.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slow skip-forward and skip-back with 0.17 (PVR-350)
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 17:19 -0500, Gabe Rubin wrote: > I am running a 2.4 family kernel on fc1. I upgraded to .17 and as I > have posted to the list, i too am getting this issue since upgrading. > Not critical, but annoying. > > Using pvr-350 to decode and encode. OK, thanks. So maybe it's not something I upgraded (other than MythTV itself). Strange. -- // Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Default recording profiles figures?
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:33:20 +, Piers Kittel wrote: Am in a PAL country using digital TV (but recording via analogue) what > would be the best numbers to use (resolution etc) for each recording > profiles (default, high, med and low)? In the UK the dvb broadcasts are usually at 720x576 resolution (some channels 704x576). Guess you could try that. Cheers, Martin. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Only _some_ recordings have no sound since 0.17 upgrade
> In a nutshell: Some, but not all, of my recordings (about 1 in 10 or so) > wind up with no sound. > > My box has dual tuners (an older PVR350, and a new PVR250). > > Original config: > PVR350 > MythTV 0.16 > ivtv various, but stable with 0.2.0-rc2t for at least a month > > With the original config, no problems at all. > > Added a PVR250: > > About 2 weeks ago, I got the PVR250 card. Adding the simple tuners patch got > the kernel to recognise the new type 50 tuner. I took this time to also > upgrade the ivtv driver to the latest rc3f, and everything worked great > with dual tuners for a week. > > Upgraded to 0.17: > > After a week of dual-tuner use, MythTV was upgraded to 0.17. No problem at > first. Both tuners worked, making good streams with audio & video for both > recordings and live TV. > > The next morning, I found a recording that had no sound. I don't know which > tuner it was recorded with (how do I find out?). > > The day after that, I found another _active_ recording that had no sound. > Since this program was still recording, I could verify the tuner (it was the > 250), and also verify that 'aplay -f dat /dev/video25' produced no sound, > while the same thing with /dev/video24 did produce sound for the other > active recoding that was happening at the same time. > > There had been many instances of two programs recording simultaneously that > have worked just fine, so it's not a consistent problem. > > When the above recording on the 250 was producing no audio, I stopped the > recording then began Live TV and tuned to the same channel and got sound! I > terminated Live TV, restarted the recording, then began playing back that > recording and got sound! > > I have since then found two or three more instances of programs that > recorded with no audio. I believe it has happened on both the PVR250 & > PVR350 card, but I can't be 100% sure about that. > > To rule out the ivtv driver upgrade as the culprit, I reverted back to rc2t > which I had no problem with for a long time. Two days later, I came upon > another broken no-audio recording, so I rule out the ivtv driver. > > Any time that I have been lucky(?) enough to come accorss a no-audio > recording in progress, I have found that stopping the recording and > restarting it restores proper audio recording. This leads me to believe that > there is some ineraction between the new MythTV 0.17 and the ivtv driver > (various version) that cause an incomplete/failed initialization/channel > change. > > So, to make a long story short, I can find no clues as to why this is > happening. The backend logs show nothing of relevance (no abnormal warning > or errors) at the start of a problem recording. > > Is anybody else seeing this problem? Anybody have a clue how to begin > debugging it? I might even try to revert back to Myth 0.16 (ow, painful) > just to rule in/out 0.17 as a suspect. I upgraded to 0.17 two nights ago and everything worked fine even after a reboot. Then yesterday after other reboots all sound output seems to have gone - no sound in recordings or live tv. I am using two cards with bt8x8 drivers so your's may not be a ivtv issue. I have not had a chance to look into this properly yet - it's possible the mixer settings have gone whacko and just need to be reset - but it's a coincidence that I had no sound problems before the upgrade, and then the day after I upgrade there's no sound at all. I'm keeping an open mind until I check into it more tonight. I'm hoping that I don't have to go back to 0.16 via a backup I took before the upgrade because everything else about 0.17 looks great so far. Anyone else had this problem? Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] pundit-r temperatures
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 01:15:45PM -0800, emory exclaimed: >I have the same setup (Celeron D 2.6 GHz, pundit R, 7200 RPM HD, >SBLive) and I get a about 49 C at maximum CPU, and the fan speed goes >up to 2800 RPM or so. I tried to put arctic silver on, but it didn't >really seem to help much. > >One thing that I found helps is to make sure the IDE cable from the HD >and CDROM drive is tucked away underneath the hard drive and not >obstructing the PSU fan. This probably increases the HD temperature, >but it allows the air flow to be better. > >In general, I agree with the responses to this post: the celeron D >just generates way too much heat to be run quietly in the Pundit-R. > >thanks for posting this, though. I was wondering about other people's >temperatures as well. > >while we're comparing numbers, what kind of cpu usage do you get when >watching TV on myth? I get around 35% when using the TV out, which >seems a little high for what other people have mentioned. Im running the 3.12 fglrx driver/kernel mod with XV working at 640x480 resolution. Watching tv/recordings puts me at about 15-20% utilization. I used the arch=pentium4 compile flag as well. When I put the arctic silver on I noticed the IDE cables so I have moved those away from the PSU. Tonight Im going to try running it in a more open area (its in a semi-confined space right now), I didn't move it when I added the arctic silver so I could see how much the thermal grease actually helped. 49C at full load is pretty good, maybe lapping my heatsink will shave another 2-3 degrees off. -Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for a cheap PCMCIA card
I want it as a TV capture card. Jorge On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:47:50 -0500, PAUL WILLIAMSON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> "Jorge Guzmán" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2/16/2005 3:40:01 PM >>> > >I want to buy a cheap PCMCIA card that would work well with MythTV. > >Any recommendations? > > > >I have USB 1.1, so I think a USB card will not be fast enough, > >therefore, I haven't looked for any. If I'm mistaken, please let me > >know. > > > >Thanks for any help. > > > >Jorge Guzman > > What do you want the pcmcia card for? To function as a hard drive? > For a tv capture card? For usb interface for a camera? > > Do tell... > > Paul > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Faint horizontal lines - PVR350
Hello all, When playing back recordings, I see very faint horizontal lines on the screen - only visible if I have dark colours on the screen, but when it is bright, I can't see anything - am using an PVR350 with mythtv v0.16 on Debian unstable. Any ideas anyone? Thanks very much for your help in advance Cheers - Piers ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Default recording profiles figures?
Hello all, Am in a PAL country using digital TV (but recording via analogue) what would be the best numbers to use (resolution etc) for each recording profiles (default, high, med and low)? Thanks very much for your help in advance Cheers - Piers ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Remote control don't work in one section
Hello all, Am using mythtv version 0.16, and I find when I go to "Watch recordings" screen, my remote control doesn't work at all, and it seems that the button presses I do are "cached" - i.e. when I press buttons on my remote in that screen, nothing happens, until I select a recording using my keyboard, then the button presses that didn't happen in the "watch recordings" screen all start working while watching recordings? Any one know how to fix this problem? Thanks very much for your help in advance Cheers - Piers ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire success stories?
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:19:21 -0500, William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My problem is that I can't seem to get my cable > > company (Time Warner Columbus, OH) to provide me a > > cable box with firewire outputs. They use the SA > > 3250s, which those are listed as an option. I have > > gone to the FCC's website and printed out the > > appropriate documentation stating that if I request a > > box with firewire, then they must provide one. I will > > be heading to their local office with the appropriate > > sections in hand. Has anyone else ran into this > > problem? > > > > Can you provide a link to that fcc documentation? Off list is fine if you > want. > > I am about to order a box from Time Warner up here in NY and want to make > sure I have my ducks in a row before I do. The person I talked to in their > tech support section did not even know what firewire was much less if their > box had it. Yikes!! If you could post the links to those regs to the list, that would be great. I'm about to build my brother a Myth box, and he's thinking of switching to digital cable. Thanks, Lane -- Meetup with other Myth users! http://mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MUG ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Single most frustrating thing about MythTV...
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:28:16 -0800, Chris Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Isaac and crew ask nothing from you, so stop asking them for something." > > What an interesting standpoint that is... The way I see it, the second you > release something openly to the outside world you are, effectively, opening > yourself up for praise and criticism. You can't have it both ways. If > you're going to keep something for yourself and not share, then you bypass > this, but if you allow others to be a part of something, you must accept > some level of interaction with others. And the very nature of software is > to progress and version, so it's not rude to ask and talk to others about (snip) This is a stupid discussion. This post wasn't criticism, it was a demand that someone write an easy to use, GUI based DVD burn program. My opinion, Isaac has given me something for free. Hell, I've sent him email on two seperate occasions in the past offering $50 as a Thank-you w/ no strings attached, and never heard back from him. He wants nothing from me and is getting nothing from me. If he isn't getting anything from me, I have absolutely no right to demand that a feature be added. It is rude to ask that someone sacrifice thier time and effort if you aren't willing to do sacrifice the same. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: OSX Frontend- Fullscreen on Second Monitor?
Anyone at least know one way or another? If it is a definitive no I'd really like to know as not to waste more time trying. Thanks. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slow skip-forward and skip-back with 0.17 (PVR-350)
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:55:04 -0500, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 16:50 -0500, Jeff Simpson wrote: > > wait, it's not always like that? > > > > hmm, maybe I should go back to 2.4. I've always had that irritating > > "takes way too long to skip" problem. I'm on a 1.4ghz machine with a > > PVR-350, you'd think the CPU would be pretty free to do whatever it > > needs. I have kernel v2.6.9, ivtv 2.0something > > > > - jeff > > Hmmm, well that makes me think something I upgraded caused this. Now at I am running a 2.4 family kernel on fc1. I upgraded to .17 and as I have posted to the list, i too am getting this issue since upgrading. Not critical, but annoying. Using pvr-350 to decode and encode. > least we can try to figure out what it is. > > I also switched to using the pre-compiled Debian packages instead of > compiling it myself. Are you using those packages? > > -- > // Chris > > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > -- Email me if you want a gmail account, I have invites. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 vs FX-5200 TVOut
It plugs into the 2nd head 15pin standard vga connector on the card and has svideo and composite on the other end. That is for a G400 standard (in the bedroom computer) and the other option is for the G400 with the MJPEG junk in it and that is a whole break-out box with composite, s-video and audio connectors on it. So, it's a TVOUT, but it has one major difference... it's a second head that has its own refresh and modeline setup. I wasn't aware that this was what was going on. With that setup, if there's no scaling going on in the tvout part of the chip, it's possible generate a (relatively) exact modeline that's NTSC-correct. It sounds like through the DirectFB framework that's possible, from what you say. All the rants before were assuming a "normal" tvout setup. A VGA monitor plugged in, and a tvout chip (or part of the GPU) redoing the scaling. In both cases, I stand by the decoding genlock thing... where the decoding of video fields needs to by synchronised to the hardware refresh. If you melt your stuff, you've been warned! :-) Didn't work unfortunately. I got an error in the console log from the matroxfb driver that it could not set 720 so used 736 instead. The NVidia driver sometimes puts constraints on the modeline numbers to do hardware issues that made someone's silicon math easier. "Not a multiple of 8" and things like that. That might be the sort of thing you're running into there. -Cory * * Cory Papenfuss* * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * * ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] The death of MythDVD? [RipGuard]
On Wednesday 16 Feb 2005 06:54, Blammo wrote: > http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-dvd15feb15,0,823039.story?coll=la-hom >e-business > > Quote: > Macrovision plans to unveil technology to block 97% of software used > to duplicate discs. > > The RipGuard technology would defeat the most popular of the ripping > programs, Macrovision's Gervin said, by tinkering with the format of > DVDs to make it impossible to extract data quickly from the discs. The > technique confounds ripping programs without damaging computers, > preventing the discs from playing or reducing picture quality, he > said. > And will they be allowed to display the oh so precious and restricted DVD-Video logo on these new bastardised discs? These sort of measures are so annoying and frustrating from a technical point of view. All of the DVD error correction and checksumming was put there for a reason now Macrovision decides it would be smart to cover a disc with artificial errors. Brilliant. So what's the lifespan of these new discs going to be? I can imagine the pitch to the movie execs now: Mac: So you see what we do is cover the disc with errors. Exec: But won't that reduce the life of the disc. Mac: Indeed, and then they'll have to buy a new one. Exec: Ah. Genuis. We'll take it. Cheers, -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it/goog - MSN Search unbiased? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Update on using epia m10000 for a frontend
On Wednesday 16 Feb 2005 01:20, Adam Felson wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 05:39 +, Ivor Hewitt wrote: ..snump.. > > Well your experience is just your experience isn't it? > > With 5MBs DVB-T my M9000 struggles without XvMC with a high bitrate DVD > > it stutters. > > OK. I'm not doing hdtv and my data streams barely do 1.5mbps. > aha. > I tries xine with -V xxmc and it works fine. Tried to compile mythtv > with xvmc and the link balks that it can't find the XvMC library. > Checked /usr/X11R6/lib and it's there: > # ls /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMC* > /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMC.so@/usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMC.so.1.0* > /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCW.so.1@ /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMC.so.1@ > /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCW.so@ /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCW.so.1.0* > Well post yer failing linkage. > /usr/X11R6/lib is in the ld.so.conf file so I don't know what the deal > is. > > Back to xv only for now. > Sure if it works for you why not stick with it. -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it/goog - MSN Search unbiased? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Need Unichrome & X background for M10K
On Wednesday 16 Feb 2005 06:05, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 16:26, Ivor Hewitt wrote: > > On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 17:47, Eric Webb wrote: > > > > > After googling a lot, I'm confused by all of the different EPIA > > > development. I guess Via is doing some and others are doing their own > > > stuff. > > > > Yup pretty much. Although going onto the unichome mailing list is > > probably a good step for information about graphics support. > > I don't think you should be using viafb, if not mistaken that's for > FrameBuffer as in usage for console. > Unichrome is not viafb. -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it/goog - MSN Search unbiased? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slow skip-forward and skip-back with 0.17 (PVR-350)
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 16:50 -0500, Jeff Simpson wrote: > wait, it's not always like that? > > hmm, maybe I should go back to 2.4. I've always had that irritating > "takes way too long to skip" problem. I'm on a 1.4ghz machine with a > PVR-350, you'd think the CPU would be pretty free to do whatever it > needs. I have kernel v2.6.9, ivtv 2.0something > > - jeff Hmmm, well that makes me think something I upgraded caused this. Now at least we can try to figure out what it is. I also switched to using the pre-compiled Debian packages instead of compiling it myself. Are you using those packages? -- // Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and the MVPMC project
>>> "Kevin Wentland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2/16/2005 4:38:26 PM >>> >I finally ironed out my FC1->FC3 + .16 to .17 upgrade. >What a headache. > >Am I the only one that spends hours and hours banging my head against >a wall only to find that the fix was something simple? We all do. Only the brave admit it. ;-) >Anyway... I was wondering how many of you are using the >Hauppauge MVP running MVPMC as a frontend to your MythTV. I do. Well, my kids do. >I personally am and honestly I don't use it nearly as much >as the Wife The other day she was telling me how to use it!!! Replace wife with 9 year old. I didn't realize you could press the number buttons to skip around in a video!!! >MVPMC was recently updated and for me to install and configure >the upgrade took a total of 1 minute and I was taking my time. Yep, Jon has done wonderful things making the bin file available so no cross-compiling is necessary. I'd buy one of these things for a Isaac if he'd think about how to make it more useful with MythTV. The biggest feature of this little gem I miss compared to a regular frontend is commercial skip. If there were some way to have the mvp read the skip list (I think it's technically called the 'cutlist'?), that would be huge. The mvp guys can't come up with a good solution that pleases all pvr projects, so a metagateway of some sort may be the way to go. Tell the gatewa to read from myth, then push it over to the mediamvp. Or replay, or tivo, or freevo. My only concern is myth. Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] db error help
Gregg wrote: I upgraded to .17 and get this error. I had a power failure yesterday. Is it possible to fix without deleting the database. I have no viable backup. If not how do I delete the database? Thanks. 2005-02-16 10:01:21.447 Upgrading to schema version 1069 2005-02-16 10:01:21.448 DB Error (Performing database upgrade): Query was: ALTER TABLE recorded ADD COLUMN deletepending TINYINT(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT 0; Error was: Driver error was [2/1060]: QMYSQL3: Unable to execute query Database error was: Duplicate column name 'deletepending' new version: 1069 2005-02-16 10:01:21.449 Couldn't upgrade database to new schema [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ 1) mysql -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg 2) ALTER TABLE recorded DROP COLUMN deletepending; quit 3) mythbackend -- bjm ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slow skip-forward and skip-back with 0.17 (PVR-350)
wait, it's not always like that? hmm, maybe I should go back to 2.4. I've always had that irritating "takes way too long to skip" problem. I'm on a 1.4ghz machine with a PVR-350, you'd think the CPU would be pretty free to do whatever it needs. I have kernel v2.6.9, ivtv 2.0something - jeff On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:45:05 -0500, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ouch, after upgrading to 0.17 it seems that skipping forward and back > with the stream is now very slow. These are mpeg2 streams recorded with > a PVR-350 and playing back on the 350 as well. > > I upgraded a ton of stuff with this release so I'm not sure if it's > something specific to 0.17 or possibly something else. I upgraded my > kernel from 2.4.26 to 2.6.10 and my ivtv from 0.1.9 (I think) to > 0.2.0-rc3f. > > What happened? I used to be able to skip-skip-skip almost as fast as I > could press the button. Now there is a very annoying several second > delay between each time I skip. It doesn't seem to matter how far I > skip, the delay is the same (eg. skipping 30 seconds or 5 minutes has > the same delay). > > I thought that maybe the indexing had changed, but after recording > something using 0.17 it is still slow. > > Any ideas? > > -- > // Chris > > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > -- email me if you want a gmail invite, I have some invites ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] error compiling 0.17 - FC3
Keith Olsen wrote: When compiling mythtv, I am getting the follwoing error: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqt-mt ... what am I missing? qt-mt -- bjm ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Slow skip-forward and skip-back with 0.17 (PVR-350)
Ouch, after upgrading to 0.17 it seems that skipping forward and back with the stream is now very slow. These are mpeg2 streams recorded with a PVR-350 and playing back on the 350 as well. I upgraded a ton of stuff with this release so I'm not sure if it's something specific to 0.17 or possibly something else. I upgraded my kernel from 2.4.26 to 2.6.10 and my ivtv from 0.1.9 (I think) to 0.2.0-rc3f. What happened? I used to be able to skip-skip-skip almost as fast as I could press the button. Now there is a very annoying several second delay between each time I skip. It doesn't seem to matter how far I skip, the delay is the same (eg. skipping 30 seconds or 5 minutes has the same delay). I thought that maybe the indexing had changed, but after recording something using 0.17 it is still slow. Any ideas? -- // Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
