RE: [mythtv-users] Great quality TV-out on a PVR-350?

[Patrick @ Mythtv]

I'm runniong also on FC2 and this are my setting for playback PVR350 [PAL]
on X

Be aware that these are settings for my card in PAL, but can work for you.


Gr.

Patrick

MODPROBE.CONF (only ivtv section)
# ivtv modules setup
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
#alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
install ivtv /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv; /sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb
alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv
alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv
options ivtv ivtv_std=2 tda9887=0
options msp3400 once=1 debug=1 standard=0x03  
install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install
lirc_i2c 



RC.LOCAL 
/sbin/depmod -a 
ivtvctl -d /dev/video0 -u 0xff 
ivtvctl -d /dev/video0 -p 4 
ivtvctl -d /dev/video0 -f width=720,height=576 
ivtvctl -j reg=0x6c,val=0xfa -d /dev/video16 
ivtvctl -j reg=0x2d,val=0x38 -d /dev/video16 
ivtvctl -j reg=0x6c,val=0xfe -d /dev/video0

### loading Lirc
/sbin/modprobe lirc_i2c
/sbin/service lircd start 


XORG.CONF [PAL-TVOUT]

# XFree86 4 configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen  0  "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"

RgbPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia"
ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions"
ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load  "dbe"
Load  "extmod"
#   Load  "fbdevhw"
Load  "glx"
Load  "record"
Load  "freetype"
Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

 keyboard
Identifier  "Keyboard0"
Driver  "kbd"
Option  "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option  "XkbLayout" "us_intl"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Mouse0"
Driver  "mouse"
Option  "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option  "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option  "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option  "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection


### --

Section "Monitor"
Identifier   "PAL Monitor"
   HorizSync  30-68 
   VertRefresh 50-120 
   Mode "720x576" 
 DotClock 42.6 
 HTimings 720 760 832 944 
 VTimings 576 577 580 602 
 Flags"-HSync" "-VSync" 
Endmode
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Hauppauge PVR350"
Driver  "ivtvdev"
Option   "fbdev" "/dev/fb0"
Option   "ivtv" "/dev/fb0"
BusID"PCI:2:08:0"


EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Hauppauge PVR350"
Monitor"PAL Monitor"
DefaultDepth24
DefaultFbbpp32
SubSection "Display"
Depth   24
FbBpp   32
Modes"720x576"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group0
Mode 0666
EndSection

 

> -Oorspronkelijk bericht-
> Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Hank VanZile
> Verzonden: vrijdag 11 maart 2005 20:08
> Aan: Discussion about mythtv
> Onderwerp: Re: [mythtv-users] Great quality TV-out on a PVR-350?
> 
> Sorry, I probably should have mentioned that in the first 
> place : I am using Fedora Core 2 and it's NTSC.
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> >I've just setup my mythbox to a great quality tv-output.
> >
> >So.. Yes.. it is possible to get a perfect image outof the PVR350.
> >
> >What distro are you using ??
> >
> >If you are using Fedora i can support you with help.
> >
> >
> >gr.
> >
> >Patrick de Brabander
> >  
> >
> >>I'm seeing all of these messages about tweaking the nvidia 
> cards, but 
> >>I'm wondering if anyone knows of some guidelines for improving the 
> >>quality of PVR-350 viewing.
> >>
> >>I don't really use Myth to watch live TV (haven't tackled the whole 
> >>digital cable interaction yet), but my recordings are 
> commonly rather 
> >>dark and red when played back over my tv-out.  It's not the 
> >>recordings, as they look find when I view them on a monitor.
> >>
> >>I assume that I need to put an "ivtvctl" command in 
> somewhere, but I 
> >>don't know where it goes (modules.conf? rc.local?)  I've tried 
> >>searching this list and the IVTV list for some tips, but all the 
> >>responses I've found are pretty cryptic and aren't well explained.  
> >>(As well as a lot of "try searching the list, this has been 
> brought up 
> >>a million times.")
> >>
> >>I apologize if I'm missing something obvious, but could someone 
> >>provide some "just north of newbie" tips on this issue?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Hank
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv and fc3 source code

[Andy Long]

pete and i have some directions for installing this on our site.  It
is a step-by-step guide, and should make it relatively painless.

http://lircsetup.com/lirc/trouble/kernsource.php


On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:46:56 -0800, Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gregg,
> The directions are on the CD itself, in the release notes. Here is a
> link for you
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc3/x86/ about 1/3 of
> the way down, or search for the words kernel-source
> 
> --
> 
> Jim Gifford
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb /var/www/html/mythweb/config/conf.php example file

[Chris Petersen]

can someone show me an example of a completed /var/www/html/mythweb/config/conf.php file so that I can try to figure out what lines I need to modify and where.  the wilsonet.com/mythtv was a little lacking here and I wasn't too sure what variables to change.  Or should I just leave it alone and fire up the httpd server?
The defaults should be fine.  The only problems people seem to have are 
with the cookie domain settings (and you'll have to read up on cookies 
to know how they work -- there should be some info in the list archives)

-Chris
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[mythtv-users] Purchasing a PVR-500

[Matt S.]

Hi!

  I think I'm going to get a PVR-500 and try it out.  I was looking on
froogle and there are tons of PVR-500's sold as white box.  As far as
I know, that's about the same as "OEM" and usually you don't get
things like manuals or nice packaging.  But sometimes the cards are
actually different too (I remember old voodoo 2 video cards that were
whitebox were slightly different.)  Anyone know if these whitebox
PVR-500's are any different than regular retail?

Thanks!
Matt
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Re: [mythtv-users] Cleaning up the channels DB

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

David Whyte wrote:
In my upgrade to 0.17 I really screwed things up!  In the end I delted
the channels and set them up again, but not in the exact same way.
Now, I am trying to add ABC2 (a new aussie channel) but it is picking
up the data for a channel which I cannot tune (SBS) and so generally
hide.
[trimmed]
I have the same problem. Having upgraded 0.16 - 0.17 I ended up with
different 'chanid's. I cleaned everything up but after mythfilldatabase
I get 5 new analog channels added. I have no idea why, I now run the
following script after mythfilldatabase (the 'where' rule suits me,
you will adjust it for what you need):
use mythconverg;
delete from channelwhere chanid > 1004 and chanid < 2000;
delete from conflictresolutionoverride where chanid > 1004 and chanid < 2000;
delete from creditswhere chanid > 1004 and chanid < 2000;
delete from dvb_channelwhere chanid > 1004 and chanid < 2000;
delete from dvb_pids   where chanid > 1004 and chanid < 2000;
delete from favorites  where chanid > 1004 and chanid < 2000;
delete from jobqueue   where chanid > 1004 and chanid < 2000;
delete from oldrecordedwhere chanid > 1004 and chanid < 2000;
delete from programwhere chanid > 1004 and chanid < 2000;
delete from programgenres  where chanid > 1004 and chanid < 2000;
delete from programrating  where chanid > 1004 and chanid < 2000;
delete from record where chanid > 1004 and chanid < 2000;
delete from recorded   where chanid > 1004 and chanid < 2000;
delete from recordedmarkup where chanid > 1004 and chanid < 2000;
delete from recordmatchwhere chanid > 1004 and chanid < 2000;
delete from recordoverride where chanid > 1004 and chanid < 2000;
I need to restart the backend to force it to see the changes.
I have chanid 1000-1004 (analog) and 2000-2014 (digital) as valid ones, and
1005-1009 added uninvited. My theory is that somehow new channels are added
when something fails to match the defined channels. Hope someone will tell
what it is.
Maybe adding the above cleanup script will help you too.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv and fc3 source code

[Jim Gifford]

Gregg,
   The directions are on the CD itself, in the release notes. Here is a 
link for you
   http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc3/x86/ about 1/3 of 
the way down, or search for the words kernel-source

--

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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv -- New Directv Serial Control Program

[Jim Gifford]

I just released a 0.02 version, the only change was an addition of a 
mythtv-howto file. No code changes.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Distro of choice?

[Shawn Willden]

Michael Haan wrote:
I agree.  i don't think it's so much the optimizations as it is the
reduction in software bloat.  Although, it is nice to know I'm running
64 bit sw on my 64 bit CPU and to know that portage supports 64 bit sw
distribution, whereas apt-get does not.
My desktop is a Athlon64 running the AMD64 version Debian unstable.  
There are only about 200 packages of the over 10,000 currently in Debian 
that don't build and run fine as 64 bit software.

You can download a 64-bit net installer CD (either Sarge or Sid) from:
http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/install-images
See the Debian ports page for links to all the details.
The AMD64 port won't be "official" until Etch is released (which 
probably won't be until sometime in 2007, on the normal Debian release 
schedule) but I suspect that the popularity of the AMD64 platform will 
cause it to become officially supported during some Sarge point release.

The only reason official support matters is if you want to run an AMD64 
port of "stable", complete with updates by the security team.  IOW, for 
important production servers.  Most desktops should run testing or 
unstable anyway.

A couple of other downsides, currently, to the Debian AMD64 port are:
1.  I don't know of any repository that provides apt-gettable binaries 
for MythTV.  Apt-get source --build seems to work just fine, though, 
using the same source repository I'm using for 32-bit Myth binaries.

2.  I think the Gentoo support for 32-bit apps on a 64-bit system is 
better, at the moment.  That's being worked on, and the new Debian 
"multiarch" infrastructure will solve this very elegantly when it's done 
(they could use the "biarch" stuff from the Sparc port, but multiarch 
will be so much better that no one is bothering).  The new system will 
allow an installation to define a whole list of architectures that it 
supports, along with interarchitecture dependencies where they matter 
(e.g. gotta use 32-bit Firefox if you want to use Flash, and 32-bit apps 
have to pull in the appropriate 32-bit libs), and architecture 
preferences (e.g. on this machine I think my preferences list would be:  
K8-64-bit, K8-32bit, K7, K6, i586, i386, i486, since i486 binaries are 
generally slower on a modern processor than i386 binaries).  It will be 
a flexible, long-term solution.

   Shawn.
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[mythtv-users] Re: Running two X servers (with PVR350) at the same time?

[Michael Arndt]

John,

I had problems with the 2nd X server chewing up all my CPU...it would always
sit around at 90+%.  So I took another look at running one X server with
multiple screens...I must have screwed something up the 1st time I ran this,
because now it works great!  This is the page with examples that I followed
to run a dual headed X display:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_Monitors

I think that the only reason to use the dualheaded xorg binaries that
disable VT switching is if you need to have two keyboards running at the
same time.  For me, I have a single keyboard and mouse, and everything is
working great now.  Hope that helps, let me know if you want more details!

Mike
  
> Hi Mike,
> 
> Any chance you can run through what you did to make this work?
> 
> I tried it today but it messed up my system. I kept getting errors
> starting X - something about No V_BIOS.
> 
> I had to revert to my old xorg rpm's
> 
> I'm trying to get it working with an M1 using the on board S3 chip
> and a pvr-350.
> 
> Thanks
> John
> 
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Arndt
> > Sent: 10 March 2005 04:15
> > To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
> > Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: Running two X servers (with
> > PVR350) at the sametime?
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the tip John! Hearing that you had this working
> > got me thinking about a web page I found earlier, but never
> > finished reading through...this was the one:
> >
> > http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/
> >
> > The bottom of that page leads to this link for a patched xorg
> > rpm for FC3:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/people/jan_kasprzak/xorg-dualhead/
> >
> > I installed that and followed the examples given in the
> > README and gdm.conf on the above link, and I'm up with mythtv
> > running on one display while I type on my desktop using
> > another X display! Sweet!
> >
> > For some reason, one of the X servers runnig is pegging my
> > CPU at 97% though. Not sure why that is, but I'll live with
> > it for now unless anyone has a solution.
> >
> > Just wanted to get this email out so it was searchable in the
> > archives. Sorry I couldn't respond to the real thread - I
> > subscribed in digest mode without thinking about it :(. Thanks again!
>
> > Mike
> >
> > > I run my second X server which is a patched XFree so
> > > that it doesnt worry about Virtual Terminal switching.
> > > So this one just runs and the other normal desktop one switches off
> > > when you switch terminals away from it.
> > > > I'll try to dig out the patch i used later (or i can
> > > send you a pre-built x server if you like).
> > >
> > > John
> > >
> > > --- Michael Arndt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I'm a long time linux user, but new to mythtv.
> > > > After following Jarod's great
> > > > guide, and using the archives of this list, I have
> > > > mythtv up and running!
> > > >
> > > > I've got a FC3 system with a PVR350 and an old
> > > > voodoo3 card in it. I'd like to
> > > > run two X servers at the same time - one on the
> > > > voodoo3 for my desktop work,
> > > > and obviously mythtv on the PVR350. I've got my
> > > > xorg.conf setup with two
> > > > two ServerLayout sections, and I modified gdm.conf
> > > > to connect to both X
> > > > servers. All of this works fine, *but*, it seems I
> > > > can only use one of the
> > > > X servers at a time. If I Ctrl-Alt-F8 over to my
> > > > desktop X display running
> > > > on my voodoo3, mythtv stops running on my PVR350.
> > > > If I Ctrl-Alt-F7 back, to
> > > > make my PVR350 X display work, mythtv works fine,
> > > > but I obviously then can
> > > > not use my desktop display.
> > > >
> > > > So...any ideas? I'm thinking there must be other
> > > > people out there who use
> > > > the same system for mythtv and desktop work? I read
> > > > one post from the
> > > > archives indicating that only one X server can be
> > > > active at a time, but the
> > > > post was rather old, so I don't know if this is
> > > > still the case or not. Let me
> > > > know if you want to see my xorg.conf or gdm.conf, or
> > anything else!
> > > >
> > > > One other thing - when I log in on the voodoo3
> > > > display, I get a bunch of
> > > > gnome errors about the gnome-settings-daemon quiting
> > unexpectedly.
> > > > Any ideas on that? I am trying to run gnome on my voodoo3
> > > > display, and I have
> > > > Windowmaker running on the PVR350 display.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > Mike 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: X Focus on DVI - Video hanging

[Harry Orenstein]

On Friday 11 March 2005 3:45 pm, Mike Ryan wrote:
> Hi
>
> Just thought I'd post an update in case anyone finds this and wonders how I
> resolved the problem. Basically, it was simply downloading and installing
> the nvidia linux drivers. They can be found here:
> ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-7167/
>
> Now, just got to work out how to get rid of all that damned overscan...
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike

Oh Jarod  Your new driver is ready


Support for GeForce 6200 with TurboCacheâ GPUs
Improved OpenGL workstation performance.
Added support for XRandR rotation; see Appendix W in the text README.
Added ExactModeTimingsDVI X config option to give explicit control over the 
mode timings used on Flat Panels.
Added Xorg dlloader support.
Changed driver behavior such that PAT (Page Attribute Table) is used where 
possible instead of MTRRs.
Added a workaround for an X server bug with PCI-E GeForce 6800 and GeForce 
6600; a fix has been provided to XFree86 and XOrg.
Fixed stability problems on x86_64 PCI-E systems.
Fixed 2D rendering corruption on certain older GPUs.
Improved compatibility with Linux 2.6 kernels.
Fixed compatibility problems with some SWIOTLB em64t systems.
Fixed a bug that triggered error messages of the form: "ioctl32
(doom.x86:6747): Unknown cmd fd(16) cmd(c0384642){00} arg(c75c) 
on /dev/nvidiactl"
Fixed NvAGP incompatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels.
Improved interaction with the udev filesystem.
Improved performance of PCI cards on Linux 2.6 systems.
Updated documentation. Please see the text README file.


-- Harry O.
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[mythtv-users] mythweb /var/www/html/mythweb/config/conf.php example file

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can someone show me an example of a completed 
/var/www/html/mythweb/config/conf.php file so that I can try to figure out what 
lines I need to modify and where.  the wilsonet.com/mythtv was a little lacking 
here and I wasn't too sure what variables to change.  Or should I just leave it 
alone and fire up the httpd server?

thanks

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[mythtv-users] xfx geforce5200fx to hdtv over s-video issue

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mythtv box with s-video cable from s-video out to a toshiba theatreview HD 
the s-video output works until right after the drives are mounted, the screen 
flickers and then i get random patterns of light.  I tried all resolutions for 
the video card 640, 800, tried different colour depth and still cannot get play 
back over the s-video card.  If I disconnect the s-video card and then choose 
the vga output instead, the computer monitor appears normal, X starts, and I 
can login to the gui. 

I have never used s-video before so not sure what settings I might have to hack 
to get the s-video to display properly on the HD tv.

thanks

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[mythtv-users] hauppauge will not change channels but ptune works

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nooby here setting up my first mythtv box
i have followed the wilsonet.com/mythtv concerning the pvr-250
and downloaded the wget http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/lircrc-haupgrey.txt
i tested /usr/bin/irw and i can see the feedback for the change channels
up and change channel down... but once i start watching a tv show, i can
no longer change the channels nor does the guide button work.  it seems
like no matter what button i press, i only get to pause, review or forward
any ideas?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Playback on xbox

[Stephen Atkins]

- Original Message -
From: "Stephen Atkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 6:47 PM
Subject: [mythtv-users] Playback on xbox


> Hello all.  I've got a AMD 2500+ with a 120 gig HD and a pvr-250 backend
and
> myth .17.  Everything works great on the backend and was in use as my
> primary frontend for over 6 months.  I recently got an xbox for use as a
> frontend.  I installed GentooX MCE 1.2 (using evox/mce.xbe) and upgraded
the
> myth from .16 to .17 with no install problems.  Live tv works great at
> 720x480 at 5600kbs video and 384 mp3 audio.  I can use a nfs share to
watch
> ripped dvds with no skipping using xine or mplayer (I prefer xine).  The
> only problem I am having is with recorded tv shows.  No matter what bit
rate
> I use (transcoded to mpg4 or not) it pauses for two seconds plays for two
> then pauses again repeat until stopped.  There really isn't much
difference
> between live tv and playing a recorded show so I'm not sure whats going
on.
> Any one have any idea?
>
> Stephen

Okay what did you guys do?  It seems to be working now.  The only thing I
changed was to add deinterlacing (kerneld).  I did notice in the logs that I
forgot to set suid but I haven't reloaded mythfrontend to use it yet.

I'll still take any suggestions to make playback even better.

Thanks

Stephen

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Re: [mythtv-users] new nvidia driver 1.0-7167

[Aran Cox]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 10:13:26AM -0600, Aran Cox wrote:
> New nvidia drivers were released today.  Unfortunately they don't
> mention fixing any bugs related to 1080i output over DVI, which is
> what I wanted them to fix.  Still, the changes list is so small that
> surely they've fixed more than what they list in the many months since
> the last release.
> 
> I won't be able to check anything out until I get home but here's
> hoping this release fixes some of the issues with the nvidia driver...
> 
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=47401
> 

Well so far it doesn't seem to have changed anything for me.  I get
results similar to 6629 when trying to display a 1080i mode via DVI.  
Oh well... I guess I should be happy my TV does 720p and that I have a
mode that works well for that.
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[mythtv-users] xbox picture quality

[Greg Miller]

Is it just me or 
has anyone else noticed that the XBMC displays a clearer picture that Mythtv? Is 
there any way to tone down the color? It seem a little too bright and bleeds a 
little.
 
Greg


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[mythtv-users] Re: Cleaning up the channels DB

[David Whyte]

So, I have deleted from the program table as follows...

delete from program where chanid not in (1001,1008,1021,1020);

...and when I ran mythfilldatabase I end up with the following (note
the errors about the channel id towards the bottom)...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] djwhyte]# mythfilldatabase
Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of
the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based
authentication failed
2005-03-12 13:58:41.813 mythfilldatabase: Listings Download Started
- Start of XMLTV output -
grabing 7 days into /tmp/mythXzKE0r
starting 5 threads
loading queue
12032005 unchanged
13032005 unchanged
14032005 unchanged
15032005 unchanged
16032005 unchanged
17032005 unchanged
18032005 downloading
Use of uninitialized value in string at /usr/local/bin/tv_grab_au line 693.
queue is complete
all threads done
building xml structure
no pids in /var/local/tv_grab_au/18032005/guide.prn
writing file
done
-- End of XMLTV output --
Updating icons for sourceid: 1
Unknown xmltv channel identifier: ABC2
Skipping channel.
Unknown xmltv channel identifier: ACC
Skipping channel.
Unknown xmltv channel identifier: SBS
Skipping channel.
removing conflicting program: free.Brisbane.2.d1.com.au Rage
20050313235000 +1000-20050314063000 +1000
conflicted with : free.Brisbane.2.d1.com.au Order in the
House 20050313235000 +1000-20050314005000 +1000
 
Updated programs: 174  Unchanged programs: 738
Adjusting program database end times...
0 replacements made.
2005-03-12 14:00:48.752 mythfilldatabase: Listings Download Finished
Marking repeats...found 0
Unmarking repeats from grabber that fall within our new episode
window...found 02005-03-12 14:00:48.838 Connecting to backend server:
192.168.0.100:6543 (try 1 of 5)
2005-03-12 14:00:48.845 Using protocol version 14
[EMAIL PROTECTED] djwhyte]#

...Any have any ideas what I am doing wrong?  I have included the
tv_grab_au script I modified incase I have done it wrong.

Cheers,
Dave




On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 20:46:03 +1000, David Whyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In my upgrade to 0.17 I really screwed things up!  In the end I delted
> the channels and set them up again, but not in the exact same way.
> 
> Now, I am trying to add ABC2 (a new aussie channel) but it is picking
> up the data for a channel which I cannot tune (SBS) and so generally
> hide.
> 
> The following are the relevant excerpts from the program and channel tables...
> 
> mysql> select distinct chanid from program;
> ++
> | chanid |
> ++
> |   1000 |
> |   1001 |
> |   1002 |
> |   1008 |
> |   1020 |
> |   1021 |
> |   1024 |
> |   1025 |
> |   1026 |
> |   1027 |
> |   1028 |
> ++
> 11 rows in set (0.02 sec)
> 
> mysql> select distinct chanid, channum, callsign from channel;
> ++-+-+
> | chanid | channum | callsign|
> ++-+-+
> |   1001 | 2   | ABC TV Brisbane |
> |   1008 | 10  | TEN Digital |
> |   1021 | 7   | 7 Digital   |
> |   1000 | | 1000|
> |   1020 | 9   | Nine Digital|
> |   1028 | 21  | ABC2|
> ++-+-+
> 6 rows in set (0.00 sec)
> 
> mysql>
> 
> Can I simply remove from the program table the data for the chanids
> that don't exist in the channel table?  My goal is to clear up the
> ABC2/SBS mixup!
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave
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Re: [mythtv-users] TVWish Updates

[Scott Minneman]

Brad:
This all looks wonderful, but I'm having a problem getting it to run.  
All of the test runs work fine, but when I sh personal/runwish, it 
doesn't set anything to run, and gives me the following error for every 
movie:

DBD::mysql::st execute failed: You have an error in your SQL syntax.  
Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the 
right syntax to use near ' , , ,   )' at line 8 at tvwish line 785.
DBD::mysql::st fetchrow_hashref failed: You have an error in your SQL 
syntax.  Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version 
for the right syntax to use near ' , , ,   )' at line 8 at tvwish line 579.

In case it helps, running  mysql --version reports:
mysql  Ver 12.22 Distrib 4.0.22, for pc-linux-gnu (i686)
Any ideas?
-Scott
Brad Templeton wrote:
As per request, tvwish has been updated to allow you to set the recording
profile (ie. "Low Quality" and "High Quality" from the Default)
   Set: profile="Low Quality"
While doing that, I added variables for transcode and for the 4 user
jobs, so you can set that all your wishlist recordings get auto transcode
or any number of other things.  This works in version 0.17 only.
Here is the full list of changes
   Add support for Profile, transcode and userjobs variables, changed
   how commflag is imported
   Fixed typo in simpsons file
   Add contributed files for disney movies, Cannes winners, Oscar nominees
   Put in line-folding code to print descriptions better
   Sanity checks on variable values
   Use proxy environment variables for web connect
   Created variable for regional value of movie category_type
   Added Malcolm in the Middle file
   Easy install with just "make install"
As always, documentation with link to the tarball is at:
   http://www.templetons.com/brad/myth/tvwish.html
 


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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: mythtv backend on a headless fileserver

[Billy Macdonald]

Russ Dill wrote:

Why do people keep mentioning VNC? Why not just use ssh? If you want a
login, just use XDMCP
The problem I get into with XDMCP which I often use from cygwin is that 
my wireless connection goes out for a few seconds for some reason and 
all my processes get killed.

Then I tell myself I should have been using VNC so I could reattach. 
Then I proceed to launch xwin again and not learn from my mistakes.

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Re: [mythtv-users] new nvidia driver 1.0-7167

[Byron Miller]

I'm hoping it fixes XvMC playback as well :) not expecting a miracle
though since i'm sure the focus is on the higher end cards..


On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:44:55 -0800, Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:27:23 -0500, Louis Adamich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >  Do they work with the older cards.  I am forced to run 6111 right now.
> 
> On Friday 11 March 2005 17:33, Byron Miller wrote:
> > How Old?
> 
> I believe most TNT2 cards (and a few other random cards) were impossible to
> use with 6629 (system hangs at the nVidia splash screen). Rumor had it that
> this release might include some fixes to get them working again... I've got a
> TNT2 or two laying about, I might give it a shot.
> 
> Me, I'm more hoping it improves things with newer cards. HDTV playback is
> really crappy with my 6200 (far worse than one of my GF4MX cards and even
> worse than my 5200). Hoping it also corrects my Xv -> black screen -> cpu
> pegged problem with component output...
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Lockup with PVR-350

[Darren Hart]

Darren Hart wrote:

we are many having problems with the tuner. We are not yet sure where
the problem comes from. Check the mythtv user, ivtv-user and
ivtv-devel lists archives in the past days. They are already threads
on that matter.
There are currently 2 main ideas: DMA problems and power supply.
I currently disabled DMA on my hard disk, and I have 5 hours uptime,
which is one of the best I had in the past week. But I can't see Live
TV correctly because of that... :(
Just to add to the mix, I run the frontend and backend on the same 
system with a pvr-250 and a pvr-350, using ivtv-fb for X.  All my 
drives, including root, recordings, and live-tv cache, are all nfs 
mounted.  With Myth 0.16 and ivtv-0.1.9a I had very few lockups, with 
Myth 0.17 and ivtv-0.2.0-rc3g I get a lockup at least once a show.  I 
can ssh in and kill the frontend and restart it.  The UI is responsive 
but all the text and the selection area are filled with a portion of the 
last frame played before the crash.  If I try and play a recording, the 
machine locks hard.

Checking lspci show that the pvr-250 and the nvidia card (used only for 
viewing boot messages and the tty) share IRQ 11, and the pvr-350 is on 
IRQ 9.

Since I am not sharing IRQ's with the 350 and I don't have any local 
disks spun up, I thought this might be an interesting data point.  The 
box is a PII 400 with 320 MB of RAM.

thoughts? comments?
Just did some testing, when playback locks up, the following starts 
repeating in syslog:

Mar 11 19:06:53 leeloo kernel: ivtv: 1000 ms time out waiting for firmware
Mar 11 19:06:53 leeloo kernel: ivtv: Failed api call 0x0015 with 
result 0xfff0
Mar 11 19:06:53 leeloo kernel: ivtv: DEC: couldnt read clock


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[mythtv-users] TVWish Updates

[Brad Templeton]

As per request, tvwish has been updated to allow you to set the recording
profile (ie. "Low Quality" and "High Quality" from the Default)

Set: profile="Low Quality"

While doing that, I added variables for transcode and for the 4 user
jobs, so you can set that all your wishlist recordings get auto transcode
or any number of other things.  This works in version 0.17 only.

Here is the full list of changes

Add support for Profile, transcode and userjobs variables, changed
how commflag is imported
Fixed typo in simpsons file
Add contributed files for disney movies, Cannes winners, Oscar nominees
Put in line-folding code to print descriptions better
Sanity checks on variable values
Use proxy environment variables for web connect
Created variable for regional value of movie category_type
Added Malcolm in the Middle file
Easy install with just "make install"


As always, documentation with link to the tarball is at:

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Re: [mythtv-users] possible new HD front end in small package?

[David George]

On 03/11/2005 04:59 PM, Andrew Close wrote:
any idea if this new via DP-310 could handle HDTV as a front end?
 

A lot of work is currently going on at the unichrome project to support 
the CN400.  Ivor sent a message earlier on the unichrome list that he 
had 1920x1080 working on the CN400 (at 95% CPU though).  This was with a 
C3 1GHz (I think).

http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS7109201579.html
 

Actual Via link: 
http://www.viaembedded.com/product/epia_dp_spec.jsp?motherboardId=321

dual 1GHz Eden-N processors on board as well as an integrated
UniChrome Pro graphics processor with 2D/3D graphics engine, hardware
digital video acceleration, and Chromotion CE video display engine,
including hardware MPEG-2/-4 acceleration and advanced video rendering
and display technology
has one PCI slot and DVI and VGA out
 

Actually the production board doesn't have DVI.  The web site doesn't 
mention any TV out like on the SP.  Let's hope if there is TV out that 
it will use the VT1625 HDTV encoder and not the VT1623 TV encoder (like 
on the SP).

looks pretty sweet
 

The other notable thing is this is a dual processor *Eden* CPU, this 
means no fans on the CPUs (7watts at 1GHz)!  And the Eden-N is based on 
the C3 Nehemiah core.

I'm still going with the Commell LV-667T though, need component output 
(even though it is single CPU).  
http://www.bwi.com/scripts/site/site_product.php3/id/12805/
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HDTV capable frontend I am working on (now with a picture)
 http://mythhd.info
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythcommflag running even after deleting recording.

[David Whyte]

Checking the recordings folder, it does appear to clean the output
files up.  Interesting!  I would have thought myth would have
terminated mythcommflag as soon as the file was deleted for
efficiency.

Cheers though,
Dave


On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:31:16 +, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Whyte wrote:
> 
> >I just noticed that 2 mythcommflag processes are running and sucking
> >up 33% of my CPU each even though the recordings I did tonight have
> >been deleted (I only delayed watching them by a few minutes).  I
> >checked mythweb and there are no jobs running, and no recordings are
> >marked as being editted.
> >
> >This leaves me with a couple of questions:
> >1) Will the process end eventually?
> >2) If so, when?  If I have deleted the file, what is it scanning?
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Dave
> >
> >
> An interesting design feature of (most?) unixy filesystems is that when
> you delete a file it is removed from the directory listing but the
> actual filespace isn't reclaimed until all the programs using it close
> their filehandles.
> 
> Try running a wc on a huge file.
> then do it again, in the background, but this time delete the file as
> soon as wc starts.
> Then check the disk free space with df
> Then when the wc finishes, check the count is the same and that df shows
> the space is now free.
> 
> So in your case the transcode is still running on the original file but
> you won't get the space back until it exits.
> Where it's writing I don't know (I don't transcode) and whether the
> output will be cleaned up I don't know either.
> 
> David
> 
> 


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Re: [mythtv-users] new nvidia driver 1.0-7167

[Jarod Wilson]

> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:27:23 -0500, Louis Adamich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >  Do they work with the older cards.  I am forced to run 6111 right now.

On Friday 11 March 2005 17:33, Byron Miller wrote:
> How Old?

I believe most TNT2 cards (and a few other random cards) were impossible to 
use with 6629 (system hangs at the nVidia splash screen). Rumor had it that 
this release might include some fixes to get them working again... I've got a 
TNT2 or two laying about, I might give it a shot.

Me, I'm more hoping it improves things with newer cards. HDTV playback is 
really crappy with my 6200 (far worse than one of my GF4MX cards and even 
worse than my 5200). Hoping it also corrects my Xv -> black screen -> cpu 
pegged problem with component output...

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[mythtv-users] Playback on xbox

[Stephen Atkins]

Hello all.  I've got a AMD 2500+ with a 120 gig HD and a pvr-250 backend and
myth .17.  Everything works great on the backend and was in use as my
primary frontend for over 6 months.  I recently got an xbox for use as a
frontend.  I installed GentooX MCE 1.2 (using evox/mce.xbe) and upgraded the
myth from .16 to .17 with no install problems.  Live tv works great at
720x480 at 5600kbs video and 384 mp3 audio.  I can use a nfs share to watch
ripped dvds with no skipping using xine or mplayer (I prefer xine).  The
only problem I am having is with recorded tv shows.  No matter what bit rate
I use (transcoded to mpg4 or not) it pauses for two seconds plays for two
then pauses again repeat until stopped.  There really isn't much difference
between live tv and playing a recorded show so I'm not sure whats going on.
Any one have any idea?

Stephen

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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv and fc3 source code

[Jarod Wilson]

On Friday 11 March 2005 16:36, Gregg wrote:
> I have installed mythttv using Jarods guide, and I just purchased a
> PCHDTV 3000, but I can not locate the source files for my disto in the
> apt repositories, in fact I can not find any.  Am I missing something?

Do you have rpm-src lines set up in /etc/apt/sources.list? A line of:

rpm-src http://ayo.freshrpms.net/ fedora/linux/3/i386 core updates

Should be the ticket.

>  I am a bit of a newbie so forgive me if it is a dumb question.  The
> distro I am using is  2.6.10-1.737_FC3 .  I downloaded
> linux-2.6.10.tar.bz2, but it does not have a /configure path.

What are you downloading that for? You don't need to recompile a kernel just 
for HD-3000 support. If you want to use the dvb driver, you can just install 
the linuxtv-dvb-kmdl-`uname -r` packages out of the ATrpms testing tree 
(though you'll need to upgrade your kernel to 2.6.10-1.770_FC3). If you want 
to flip between dvb and the cx88-atsc driver from pcHDTV, just download their 
pcHDTV-2.0 driver tarball. Everything in it compiles against the latest stock 
FC3 kernels just fine (I'm testing it w/my HD-2000).

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Re: [mythtv-users] new nvidia driver 1.0-7167

[Byron Miller]

How Old?


On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:27:23 -0500, Louis Adamich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  Do they work with the older cards.  I am forced to run 6111 right now.
>  
>  Louis
> 
>  
>  Doug Larrick wrote: 
>  -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aran Cox said: 
>  New nvidia drivers were released today. Unfortunately they don't mention
> fixing any bugs related to 1080i output over DVI, which is what I wanted
> them to fix. Still, the changes list is so small that surely they've fixed
> more than what they list in the many months since the last release. ...
> though they *do* mention the ability to affect the detailed DVI timings, so
> there's some hope. - -Doug -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG
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Re: [mythtv-users] Lockup with PVR-350

[Darren Hart]

we are many having problems with the tuner. We are not yet sure where
the problem comes from. Check the mythtv user, ivtv-user and
ivtv-devel lists archives in the past days. They are already threads
on that matter.
There are currently 2 main ideas: DMA problems and power supply.
I currently disabled DMA on my hard disk, and I have 5 hours uptime,
which is one of the best I had in the past week. But I can't see Live
TV correctly because of that... :(
Just to add to the mix, I run the frontend and backend on the same 
system with a pvr-250 and a pvr-350, using ivtv-fb for X.  All my 
drives, including root, recordings, and live-tv cache, are all nfs 
mounted.  With Myth 0.16 and ivtv-0.1.9a I had very few lockups, with 
Myth 0.17 and ivtv-0.2.0-rc3g I get a lockup at least once a show.  I 
can ssh in and kill the frontend and restart it.  The UI is responsive 
but all the text and the selection area are filled with a portion of the 
last frame played before the crash.  If I try and play a recording, the 
machine locks hard.

Checking lspci show that the pvr-250 and the nvidia card (used only for 
viewing boot messages and the tty) share IRQ 11, and the pvr-350 is on 
IRQ 9.

Since I am not sharing IRQ's with the 350 and I don't have any local 
disks spun up, I thought this might be an interesting data point.  The 
box is a PII 400 with 320 MB of RAM.

thoughts? comments?
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Re: [mythtv-users] How I got great quality TV-out on my nVidia MX4000

[Will Dormann]

Jeroen Brosens wrote:
I received my GF MX4000 today and managed to get it working... except for
vsync :) Can anybody tell me the one thing I probably forgot to do here,
as you can see in this log (mythfrontend -v playback) the nVidia vsync
method is not used (nVidiaVideoSync: VBlank ioctl did not work,
unimplemented in this driver? - Oh I am using the 6629 version btw):

Did you compile MythTV with OpenGL support?   You need to manually 
enable this, at least in the tarball version.

nVidiaVideoSync is for the old nvidia drivers...   (4363)
I'm not sure about the DRM method, if there's any way to get that 
working with an nvidia card.

But nowhere in the log is an attempt to use GL Vsync.  Make sure that's 
enabled for your mythtv build.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Sound cards playing musical chairs

[Kevin Kuphal]

Phill Edwards wrote:
Thanks, I will give this a go. I'm not actually running the alsasound
service at the moment so I will set this up.
When you say "modprobed in the proper order you specify" can you
please describe just what you mean by that? Does that refer to the
snd-card-0/1 in "alias snd-card-1 snd-intel8x0" and "alias snd-card-0
snd-cmipci" or is it just the order they appear in modprobe.conf?
Perhaps you could send through your modprobe.conf so I can see what
you mean?
 

If you look at the alsasound script you will see that it greps the 
snd-card lines from the modprobe.conf file and executes the drivers 
(snd-cmipci, snd-intel8x0) in the proper order (snd-card-0, 
snd-card-1).  You can order the modules.conf file any way you want as 
far as I can tell.

Kevin
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Re: [mythtv-users] How I got great quality TV-out on my nVidia MX4000

[Jeroen Brosens]

I received my GF MX4000 today and managed to get it working... except for
vsync :) Can anybody tell me the one thing I probably forgot to do here,
as you can see in this log (mythfrontend -v playback) the nVidia vsync
method is not used (nVidiaVideoSync: VBlank ioctl did not work,
unimplemented in this driver? - Oh I am using the 6629 version btw):



2005-03-12 01:30:42.858 Over/underscan. V: 0, H: 0, XOff: 0, YOff: 0
2005-03-12 01:30:42.864 Using XV port 105
2005-03-12 01:30:42.870 Snapping height to avoid scaling: disphoff 576,
dispyoff: 12
2005-03-12 01:30:42.870 Image size. dispxoff 0, dispyoff: 12, dispwoff:
800, disphoff: 576
2005-03-12 01:30:42.870 Image size. imgx 0, imgy: 0, imgw: 720, imgh: 576
2005-03-12 01:30:43.738 Using deinterlace method bobdeint
2005-03-12 01:30:43.740 Using realtime priority.
2005-03-12 01:30:43.757 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-03-12 01:30:43.839 nVidiaVideoSync: VBlank ioctl did not work,
unimplemented in this driver?
2005-03-12 01:30:43.840 DRMVideoSync: Could not open device
/dev/dri/card0, No such file or directory
2005-03-12 01:30:43.840 Set video sync frame interval to 4
2005-03-12 01:30:43.840 Using audio as timebase
2005-03-12 01:30:43.841 Video timing method: RTC



Thanks,
-- Jeroen
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[mythtv-users] Mythtv and fc3 source code

[Gregg]

I have installed mythttv using Jarods guide, and I just purchased a
PCHDTV 3000, but I can not locate the source files for my disto in the
apt repositories, in fact I can not find any.  Am I missing something?
 I am a bit of a newbie so forgive me if it is a dumb question.  The
distro I am using is  2.6.10-1.737_FC3 .  I downloaded
linux-2.6.10.tar.bz2, but it does not have a /configure path.

thanks.

-Gregg
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[mythtv-users] hardlock when trying to watch any recording or live tv

[Brandon Stratton]

Thank you all in advance, 
I'm rather new to linux and this is has been great list to pick things up ...

I'm hitting a hardlock when trying to watch live tv or any recording
through the frontend
I get fraction of a second of sound and possibly a frame of video  and
then the lock,
... keyboard lock, monitor black, requires reboot

this is a new build following Jarrod's guide, I can watch dvd's,
capture test video with both 250's and watch in Mplayer or Xine..
(outside of the frontend)

this is what the frontend gives me before the lock  

disable DPMS
connecting to the backend server 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5)
using protocol version 14
error loading image file /usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/.nuv.png
using protocol version 14
opening audio device '/dev/dsp'
opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'
using xv port 61
using realtime priority
changing from NONE to WatchingRecording
[]

kernel 2.6.10-1.670FC3smp
mythtv 17
KDE 3.3.1-2.6FC3
nvidia 6629


in building my new box I canobalized my working myth 16, for the video
card and the 2nd pvr250, I have to get this up soon for the wife  ;)

brandon
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Re: [mythtv-users] Distro of choice?

[Ryan A. Carris]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:33:42 -0800, Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To get this slightly back on-topic, there's a reason I'll be running RHEL4 and
> not something else on my new Athlon 64 hardware...
> 
> Let it be known that ATrpms will soon be supporting RHEL4 and, by extension,
> the rebuilds like CentOS 4, with all the same pre-compiled goodness that's
> available for Fedora Core 3 right now. :-)
> 

Very much looking forward to it.  Thanks Axel.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Custom keystroke/remote options?

[cythraul]

I'm sorry but I can't help you with that since I don't use jumpoints myself.

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:28:20 -0600, Dean Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> However, I still don't see a jump point to the main "Home" menu.  How
> are "Jump Points" created?  (Is it possible to create a jump directly
> "Home"?)
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Re: [mythtv-users] 0.17 Recordings Keep Switching to Tuner 0

[John Kondis]

In case it helps anyone, after trying several things,
what finally worked was clearing all the card settings
when starting mythtv/setup, setting up the PVR 350
card data again, and resetting the input connection
for my Cable TV source.  Myth now records properly
using the S-Video input and doesn't change the setting
back to the tuner.

It does seem strange, though, that you have to reset
the card settings to change the input source on the
PVR 350.

--- John Kondis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Oops my bad.  My myth machine is combined
> frontend/backend, using a Hauppauge PVR 350 for both
> TV in (encoder) and TV out (decoder).  SuSE Linux
> 9.2
> on a Celeron 566.  Using ivtv 0.1.9 rc3.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --- John Kondis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > MythTV keeps changing the input source to the
> tuner
> > (Tuner 0) every time a scheduled recording starts.
> 
> > The backend is set up to take input from the
> S-Video
> > input.  I've triple-checked that mythtv/setup has
> > the
> > card set to S-video, but the problem persists.
> > 
> > When I reboot and go to live TV everything is
> fine;
> > it
> > shows the video from the S-Video input.  Whenever
> a
> > scheduled recording starts, it switches to tuner 0
> > and
> > I get nothing but snow for my recordings.  Now,
> when
> > I
> > go back to live TV (say, after killing the
> recording
> > or letting it finish), it remains on Tuner 0
> (snow)
> > until I reboot again.
> > 
> > How do I fix this?  This is very annoying as now
> > I've
> > been missing all my scheduled recordings and have
> to
> > reboot frequently.  Any help is appreciated,
> though
> > no
> > one ever seems to have an answer to my questions
> on
> > this mailing list.
> > 
> > Note that I recently changed from using the tuner
> > input to using S-video because the quality is
> better
> > if I avoid the mod/demod to channel 3.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV ringbuffer possibly causes missed 13 minutes of West Wing?

[Brad Templeton]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 10:34:39AM -0500, Morgan Rinehart wrote:
> Seems this could have been a Nationwide problem all over the net there 
> are complaints from sound issues to what someone called double letterbox 
> in the last 10min.  Thanks everyone for you help.

"Double letterbox" (actually letterbox inside pillarbox) appears to be caused
by the station setting the program to be SDTV.   Most stations appear to
always run at their official resolution (1080i in this case) and when they
show an SDTV program, they upsample it to 1080i and pillarbox it. 

Widescreen programs put into SDTV are letterboxed.  So they are taking the
HD signal, downconverting it to SDTV letterbox to air on the SDTV channel, and
then upconverting to 1080i and pillarboxing.   Silly.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV ringbuffer possibly causes missed 13 minutes of West Wing?

[Brad Templeton]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 09:22:57AM -0500, Morgan Rinehart wrote:
> I am recording from WTHR-HD in Indianapolis.  It is fine for most of the 
> broadcast but when it reaches 44min it is like there is not a sync 
> signal.  All of the colors are still there and there are no blocks in 
> the picture.  The picture is still in HD with the exception of the 
> kaleidescope effect which make watching the show impossible.  Next week 
> I will watch the logs while recording and watch the broadcast live in HD 
> on a separate TV so I can see if it is effected also. Is it possible 
> that it could have been a problem with the NBC national feeds to the 
> local stations?
> 

Does your backend not record logs to disk?  Most people set it up to put
the logs in a file like /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log or similar.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Sound cards playing musical chairs

[Phill Edwards]

> >I have 2 sound cards - 1 is on-board using module snd_intel8x0 on
> >/dev/dsp1 and the other is a PCI card using module snd_cmipci on
> >/dev/dsp0.
> >
> >Most of the time this works fine. But then, usually when it's time to
> >record my favourite program, they remap themselves so that I get the
> >sound from the a different program on other tuner as the sound on my
> >recording. It seems that the allocation of module to /dev/dsp device
> >is random because one days it works, the next it doesn't.
> >
> >I've asked this before here but not had much luck, so I'm hoping
> >someone can help me this time. There simply _must_ be a way of
> >stopping the sound cards swapping around like this.
> >
> >I've noticed that this rarely, if ever, happens on 2.6.10-1.9_FC2
> >kernel, but happens a lot on 2.6.10-1.14_FC2.
> >
> >Modprobe.conf sound section looks like this:
> >alias snd-card-1 snd-intel8x0
> >alias snd-card-0 snd-cmipci
> >install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 &&
> >/usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> >remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ;
> >}; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
> >install snd-cmipci /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-cmipci &&
> >/usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> >remove snd-cmipci { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; };
> >/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-cmipci
> >
> >In the MythTV Setup screens I associate tuner card 0 with /dev/dsp1
> >and /dev/mixer1, and tuner card 1 with /dev/dsp0 and /dev/mixer1. My
> >sound out is set to /dev/dsp1.
> >
> >Can anyone please help me solve this as it's a RRPITA (right royal pain...)
> >
> >
> I had a similar problem on my system recently and I solved it by making
> sure the alsasound service (chkconfig alsasound on) was started on
> boot.  That script ensures that the sounds drivers are modprobed in the
> proper order you specify.


Thanks, I will give this a go. I'm not actually running the alsasound
service at the moment so I will set this up.

When you say "modprobed in the proper order you specify" can you
please describe just what you mean by that? Does that refer to the
snd-card-0/1 in "alias snd-card-1 snd-intel8x0" and "alias snd-card-0
snd-cmipci" or is it just the order they appear in modprobe.conf?
Perhaps you could send through your modprobe.conf so I can see what
you mean?

Thanks,
Phill
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[mythtv-users] OT: sound on Xbox running gentoo-2.6.10-r1

[Joe Rizzo]

Hi,
This is off topic, but I know this community runs Linux on Xboxes.  I
have the mythfrontend working, but no sound.

I installed Gentoo on my Xbox following the instructions in Wiki
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Gentoo_for_Xbox .  I used
the kernel config provided with the 2.6.10 sources.

When I load the module:
modprobe  snd-intel8x0 xbox=1

I get theses errors:
Mar 11 14:52:42 xbox PCI: Setting latency timer of device :00:06.0
to 64
Mar 11 14:52:42 xbox Intel ICH: probe of :00:06.0 failed with error
-13

I also see this from time to time:
AC'97 0 does not respond - RESET

xbox root # aplay ~mythtv/testing.wav
aplay: main:508: audio open error: No such device
xbox root # cat /dev/snd/controlC0
cat: /dev/snd/controlC0: No such device

Can someone point me in the right direction to getting sound working?

Thanks,
Joe
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[mythtv-users] mythbackend init script

[Matt Smith]

mythbackend init script supplied my gentoo emerge does not work.
As root, everytime I execute "/etc/init.d/mythbackend start" it say
"can not open
database" in the logs. However (still as root), if I start
"mythbackend" at the command
prompt - it works fine? Any ideas?
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[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend - Unable to initialize video

[Michael Haan]

cat /dev/video0 | xine stdin://mpeg2 works, but when I try to watch
live tv in myth, the frontend says "Unable to initialize video", and
/var/log/messages gives me:

Mar 11 17:35:28 tibeaux kernel: saa7115: decoder set picture
bright=127 contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0
Mar 11 17:35:28 tibeaux last message repeated 3 times
Mar 11 17:35:28 tibeaux kernel: saa7115: decoder set size
Mar 11 17:35:29 tibeaux kernel: saa7115: decoder disable output
Mar 11 17:35:29 tibeaux kernel: saa7115: decoder enable output
Mar 11 17:35:29 tibeaux kernel: saa7115: status: 0xb1

Any ideas?
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[mythtv-users] Firewire with Shaw Cable in Canada?

[Greg Miller]

Has anyone tried the firewire support in Mythtv with Shaw cable in Canada.
Shaw says that the fireware ports are active, but I keep reading all this
stuff about 5c encryption.
 

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Re: [mythtv-users] possible new HD front end in small package?

[Bryan Halter]

I'd even be suggest using that as a backend with a bunch of 1394 boxes 
or a PVR-500

Andrew Close wrote:
any idea if this new via DP-310 could handle HDTV as a front end?
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS7109201579.html
dual 1GHz Eden-N processors on board as well as an integrated
UniChrome Pro graphics processor with 2D/3D graphics engine, hardware
digital video acceleration, and Chromotion CE video display engine,
including hardware MPEG-2/-4 acceleration and advanced video rendering
and display technology
has one PCI slot and DVI and VGA out.
looks pretty sweet
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Re: [mythtv-users] Distro of choice?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Friday 11 March 2005 14:01, Dan Littlejohn wrote:
> for a really fast Gentoo Machine? lol...

*chuckle*

Nope, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Advanced Server, x86_64 edition, actually.

> I know, I know, this belongs at the http//:www.gentooforums.com ...
> could not resist.

Yeah, we're kinda way out there, but hey, its Friday!

To get this slightly back on-topic, there's a reason I'll be running RHEL4 and 
not something else on my new Athlon 64 hardware...

Let it be known that ATrpms will soon be supporting RHEL4 and, by extension, 
the rebuilds like CentOS 4, with all the same pre-compiled goodness that's 
available for Fedora Core 3 right now. :-)


> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:55:49 -0800, Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [ ... gentoo, blah, blah, blah ... ]
> >
> > > 2% faster is still faster :)
> >
> > In the time I just saved not compiling everything from source, I did some
> > consulting work on the side and used the proceeds to purchase a 25%
> > faster processor. :-)

-- 
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Got a question? Read this first...
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 http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mystery Science Theater 3K Plug-in?

[Lane Schwartz]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:03:59 -0800 (PST), james houston
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Imagine if you wanted to watch your favorite baseball
> team on TV, but the game was being broadcast by a
> national network so your local sportscasters were not
> calling the game. So you change the audio channel on
> your MythTV box and select one of several audio
> streams that people have set up. You choose the audio
> stream of a local fan, who knows more about the
> players, is witty and irreverent and isn't afraid to
> bad mouth the players for poor plays (no FCC after
> all).
> 
> Anyone else think this would be cool?

This would be cool. I know that my father-in-law sometimes watches
college basketball games on TV, but has the TV muted and has the radio
on. Same idea here, I would think.

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[mythtv-users] Update to DVB Docs For 0.17

[Martin Smith]

Hi,

I've finally posted an update to my DVB doc pages to take account of the new 
features in 0.17. It includes how to go from a 0.16 to 0.17 database while
keeping the existing channel data, in case people want to do that.

As ever the doc is at:

http://www.ethics-gradient.net/myth/mythdvb.html

My upgrade to current CVS from a version a couple of months ago was pretty
smooth. Well done all the people who've been contributing to DVB improvements.

Martin
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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 (hard) lockups, Fixed!

[Maverick]

> Thanks for this post I have been having the same problems with my
> PVR250.  I have been considering buying a new mobo/cpu to try and
> solve the problem.  Could you send me links to the hardware you
> bought, mobo and ram in particular?  Also, did you use the retail fan
> on the processor and if so how loud is it?  I have that HDD by the way
> and I agree it is awesome

The stock (yes, retail AMD) cpu fan is the only audiable noise from
the case, and is louder than anything else in the case. It doesn't
whine, so it isn't bothering me too much, but I intend on doing
something different. Since the LC11 has a side mount vent/fan RIGHT
NEXT to the CPU, I was thinking about getting a cpu cooler like a
Zalman and not use it's fan, just let the case mounted fan right there
do the cooling.

Newegg Order, prices are a couple weeks ago...

MB NFORCE2 7NIF2-SUMMIT CHTECH RTL - $70.00
Newegg Item #: N82E16813152020
I assume allready replaced by the 7NIF4, looks like it adds support
for AMD Sempron and SATA:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-152-051&depa=1

CPU AMD|2700 /333 ATHLON XP RTL - $107.00
Newegg Item #: N82E16819103342
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=19-103-342&depa=0

DRAM 256MB|PC3200 WTEC 35135588-P - 2 for $54.42
Item #: N82E16820161614
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=20-161-614&depa=0

HD (I got originally for my old box before buying more hardware):
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-152-014&depa=1

If I redid it, I'd go SATA, cable routing is tight in the LC11:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-152-015&depa=1

Case (I went for the Black/Wood):
http://www.pcalchemy.com/product_info.php/cPath/23/products_id/153

Silver verison:
http://www.pcalchemy.com/product_info.php/cPath/23/products_id/154

PVR-350:
http://www.pcalchemy.com/product_info.php/manufacturers_id/10/products_id/50

Now that driver support the the PVR-500 is improving, I may add it as
a secondary tuner and have 3 tuners, but I'm not sure if that's
necessary. I doubt I'll ever need to record three things at once... I
might upgrade my board to that SATA version, and find a nice SATA
dvd... Right now, the system just has an old junk cdrom I used to
install...

-Kenneth
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Re: [mythtv-users] Play Music and ALSA

[thor]

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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Play Music and ALSA
Date: Friday 11 March 2005 05:06 pm
From: jgmtfia Mr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: thor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

I am a twit.  I used alsa:default not ALSA:default.  This gets rid of
the error message but I still have no sound when using mythmusic.

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[mythtv-users] No TV listings on frontend

[Dan Jasek]

I just finished getting an XBox set up as a frontend and I ran into an
odd problem.
I have no TV listings on the XBox.  I get listings through MythWeb and
on other frontends.  And the XBox connects to the database and works
perfectly otherwise.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks,
-Dan
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[mythtv-users] Re: MythMusic LAME encoding

[Dan Jasek]

I finally got around to finding the answer to this myself:
Low - 128 always CBR
Med - 192 or alt-preset standard if VBR is set
High - 256 or alt-preset extreme if VBR is set

-Dan

-
After a long journey I have a fully functioning Myth box, and man is
it sweet. Thanks to Jarod for putting together a very useful and
up-to-date walkthrough.
I have one question I'm hoping someone here can answer:

The setup for mp3 encoding through lame in MythMusic only offer vague
quality levels. Does anyone know the actual encoding directives sent
to lame for the various quality levels?

Ideally I want to encode with alt-preset standard. I did a search and
there was a thread about this a while ago, but the solution was to
modify the code and compile. I hope that is no longer necessary.
(BTW- I'm running .17 on FC3)

Thanks,
-Dan
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[mythtv-users] Mystery Science Theater 3K Plug-in?

[james houston]

Imagine if you wanted to watch your favorite baseball
team on TV, but the game was being broadcast by a
national network so your local sportscasters were not
calling the game. So you change the audio channel on
your MythTV box and select one of several audio
streams that people have set up. You choose the audio
stream of a local fan, who knows more about the
players, is witty and irreverent and isn't afraid to
bad mouth the players for poor plays (no FCC after
all).

Anyone else think this would be cool?



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Re: [mythtv-users] Distro of choice?

[Dan Littlejohn]

for a really fast Gentoo Machine? lol...

I know, I know, this belongs at the http//:www.gentooforums.com ...
could not resist.

Dan


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> [ ... gentoo, blah, blah, blah ... ]
> 
> > 2% faster is still faster :)
> 
> In the time I just saved not compiling everything from source, I did some
> consulting work on the side and used the proceeds to purchase a 25% faster
> processor. :-)
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Play Music and ALSA

[thor]

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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Play Music and ALSA
Date: Friday 11 March 2005 04:50 pm
From: jgmtfia Mr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: thor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> > Is there any timeline for this to be applied to the cvs tree?
>
>  This has been in CVS since late January.

Using the current CVS I get on the console:

Error opening audio device (alsa:default), the error was: No such file
or directory
alsa:default: No such file or directory

I use alsa for everything else.

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[mythtv-users] possible new HD front end in small package?

[Andrew Close]

any idea if this new via DP-310 could handle HDTV as a front end?

http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS7109201579.html

dual 1GHz Eden-N processors on board as well as an integrated
UniChrome Pro graphics processor with 2D/3D graphics engine, hardware
digital video acceleration, and Chromotion CE video display engine,
including hardware MPEG-2/-4 acceleration and advanced video rendering
and display technology

has one PCI slot and DVI and VGA out.
looks pretty sweet

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Re: [mythtv-users] Distro of choice?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Friday 11 March 2005 08:05, Michael Haan wrote:
> I agree.  i don't think it's so much the optimizations as it is the
> reduction in software bloat.

My thoughts exactly.

> Although, it is nice to know I'm running 
> 64 bit sw on my 64 bit CPU and to know that portage supports 64 bit sw
> distribution, whereas apt-get does not.

That's not quite accurate. apt supports a straight 64-bit system, it just 
doesn't support biarch (mixed 64- and 32-bit) systems. Note that yum and 
smart both support biarch without a problem though. Of course, yum is 
RPM-only (I believe), but smart has support for debs as well.

[...]
> > I think that the biggest reason Gentoo boxes seem faster has little to
> > do with such optimizations and everything to do with the fact that
> > Gentoo users tend to install less software.  Having to wait for
> > everything to build enforces a little discipline :-)

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Re: [mythtv-users] Distro of choice?

[Jarod Wilson]

[ ... gentoo, blah, blah, blah ... ]

> 2% faster is still faster :)

In the time I just saved not compiling everything from source, I did some 
consulting work on the side and used the proceeds to purchase a 25% faster 
processor. :-)

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Re: [mythtv-users] Question about Video's loading time.

[Ian Forde]

On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 20:50 +, Stephen Boddy wrote:
> On Friday 11 March 2005 17:58, Jay wrote:
> > of just under 15000 videos. From the time I click Videos, to the time it
> 
> Tell me that's a typo... 15000!!! If that was 700 MB / video you'd need 10 
> Terabytes!!! Or are they all real small clips?
> 
> I can't answer you question directly, but at the risk of teaching the 
> proverbial grandma to suck eggs, a couple of things to try. Use:
> vmstat 1 1
> while you open the video part. Is the cpu high for system, user, or waiting? 
> Are lots of processes waiting to run or blocked? Is it swapping like crazy, 
> or is the disk IO through the roof?
> 
> Also try something like iptraf. Is the network maxing out? This should give 
> you some indication as to where the problem lies.

Some other things to try:
1. top
2. Run mythfrontend from a terminal and send its output to a text file.
Do a 'tail -f' on that logfile and see if it's spewing errors
3. Do a tcpdump from the frontend and see at what point the NFS traffic
starts.  The goal is to see if NFS load is killing you or something
before the reading of the video.  If, after 12 or so minutes (as stated)
the video plays fine, I'm assuming that the network itself is fine.
4. use 'strace -p' on the frontend process to see if it's getting stuck
anywhere familiar..

-I

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Re: [mythtv-users] Can a master backend have no inputs?

[Stephen Boddy]

On Friday 11 March 2005 21:18, cythraul wrote:
> Since this setup in kind of non-standard giving the fact that people
> usually use a Myth box to capture TV, no authoritative answer will
> probably be provided.
>
> Since the backend will probably complain about no card or lineup
> defined, I suggest you define a dummy capture card and see if the
> backend will start anyway even tho it will certainly complain that it
> could not initialize it.

The backend does start without a capture card. My laptop is running 0.17 right 
now. Things are a bit rough as I haven't spent the time to get everything 
working properly, but it does start and you can use the frontend to browse 
manually added channels in the EPG. If you try to view live TV, it just tells 
you that all cards are in use.

My query was more to do with adding the slave backends to the master. i.e. 
would the lack of a card on initial setup of the master cause problems with 
getting the ones in the slave working. Possibly something unique may be done 
on adding the initial cards in the master as opposed to adding slave cards.

> Tinkering with it will help you define a way to accomplish your goal.
> I, for one, will be happy to hear from your experience.

Infinite flexibility tends to give rise to infinite uncertainty ;-) I guess 
I'm just going to have to go ahead and do it. I've been putting this off for 
far too long.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: mythtv backend on a headless fileserver

[Jarod Wilson]

On Friday 11 March 2005 07:54, Shawn Willden wrote:
> Steve Dibb wrote:
> > I have no sympathy for people who run RPM-based systems and then whine
> > about dependencies. ;)
>
> I have no sympathy for people who run Debian systems and then whine
> about...  damn.  What is there to whine about again?  I know there must
> be something...

How 'bout the installer? ;-)

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[mythtv-users] Correcting/Adjusting Overscan In X.org/MythTV

[Aran Cox]

Correcting/Adjusting Overscan In X.org/MythTV

NOTE: I am not a video expert.  I believe what follows is useful for
someone trying to correct overscan in the context of running MythTV on
a CRT.  I don't own an LCD display, DFP, or projector.  This info may
or may not be useful to those trying to run MythTV on something other
than a CRT.  I'd welcome corrections to any of the info that follows.

What is Overscan and why is it a problem?
Overscan is the solution to the problem of completely filling the
screen edge to edge and avoiding distortions that appear in the video
image at the edge of the screen.  Essentially when you are watching TV
there is some portion of the image that is not viewable by you, it's
off the screen.  When watching TV you probably don't notice this and
in most cases it doesn't matter.  TV show producers, movie-makers,
set-top box designers, and even console video game makers are well
aware that they cannot expect to use the edges of the display and
expect viewers at home to be able to see it.  So, they confine
themselves to a rectangle in the middle of the screen.

This is a problem when using software designed for display on a
computer monitor.  The application designer often makes the (perfectly
reasonable) assumption that you can see every pixel.  So, when
traditional desktop applications collide with display on a TV, some
required portion of the image gets cut off, often a menu bar, panel or
set of icons.  It can also be a problem when interfacing a video card
to a TV.  Sometimes the overscan is so unreasonable that even when
playing video too much of the image is off the edge of the screen.

So, how do you fix this overscan issue?  Before we get to that I'll
talk briefly about three elements that you will see on your TV while
running MythTV and what if any amount of overscan might be
appropriate.

1. Application UI
This includes the general UI of MythTV but might also include
interfaces for applications launched from within MythTV like xine or
various game emulators, or possibly any other Linux application.  For
MythTV you can have some considerable overscan present and the MythTV
UI is still quite usable.  The exceptions are IMHO the Setup screens
and the Guide.  The setup menus are particularly hard to use with any
overscan because you often can't tell if a particular checkbox is
checked, or read the descriptions of various options, or see the
Cancel, Back, Next/Finish buttons at the bottom of the screen.  Now,
MythTV has some easily used options to put the UI within the viewable
area of the screen.  They're great but there are some downsides to
using them which we'll talk about later when we get to them.  Other
programs may or may not be adjustable in the same way.  Normal
desktop-type windowed applications can be resized to use only the
viewable portion of your screen, if you can get a hold of the edge in
the first place.  Most applications that can be used in fullscreen
mode (like the video game emulators) use the whole screen and that's
it therefore you're stuck.

For general application use you really don't want any overscan at all.
Ideally the viewable portion of the display would fill your TV edge to
edge with no overscan and no underscan.  Some slight underscan (where
there are black borders around the edge of the screen) would actually
be preferable to any overscan for normal application use.

2. Video
When watching video you could argue that having no over or underscan
would be ideal.  For various reasons, some slight overscan is probably
preferable and inevitable.  The reason that some overscan might be
preferable is that you may find black borders around the edge of the
screen to be distracting. Of course if you have no under and no over
scan, there shouldn't be black borders but usually that's nor
perfectly possible anyway.  Also, some programming (TV shows, movies,
etc.) don't use the whole display area.  They include black bars as a
portion of the video you are trying to play back.  If your TV has no
overscan at all noticeable black bands will appear when you play back
video like this.  You may or may not find this distracting.  If your
display is underscanned (like the default configuration of xbox xebian
is on my TV) then playing back video which already contains some black
bars can appear downright absurd.

In addition most TVs exhibit some distortion at the edges which make
the image appear bent or bowed at the edges, particularly in the
corners.  Sometimes you can correct this, depending on the TV.  In
other cases the only practical way to hide these is to push them off
the edge of the viewable screen.

For the reasons above I would prefer some slight amount of overscan
when watching video, others may disagree.

3. OSD/Video Overlay
When playing back video (whether via xine or MythTV or whatever) you
can usually bring up some kind of On Screen Display or overlay
(so-called because it's overlayed on top of the video you are
watching.)  In general you really w

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 (hard) lockups, Fixed!

[Maverick]

Yeah, we did not have the lockups while using a monitor, and
everything seemed to center around the use of the ivtv frame buffer
and X. Your situation may be different since your using normal monitor
out, but hard to say. For us, it only took a couple pings to bring the
box back to enough life to exit tv, or whatever.

> What chipset was handling the DMA in these boards?

...think the Compaq board is an Irongate chipset... AMD 750/751?

> I am testing this right now. About 10 hours of uptime (among which 5h
> of Live TV) without lock. That's way over the best I could do before.
> 
> It's not a proof but it tends to go in the direction of those saying
> that DMA is broken...

I agree, DMA/IRQ something is broken, but the trend seems to point to
hardware and not software. The PVR-350 proably uses alot of bus
traffic, so faulty hardware may not show up running normal stuff.
Maybe there's a software workaround, not sure. Disabling other DMA
devices sure tends to help, if it doesn't slow you box to a crawl when
commercial flagging, etc.

-Kenneth


On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:15:05 +0100, jerome lacoste
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:50:02 -0500, Maverick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > OK, since there seems to be a ton of people on the list lately
> > complaining about the lockup issues with PVR-350's, using TVout, I
> 
> the thing is that the lock ups happen even if we don't use TV Out.
> 
> I don't I am on a monitor.
> 
> > the system would just freeze. Having to reboot w/ the reset switch. If
> > we did it quick enough, we can bring the machines back to life by
> > causing the NIC (or maybe other PCI device?) to interrupt. So ping
> > flooding the NIC, or hitting enter at the SSH prompt on the box worked
> > magic.
> 
> That's interesting. I could set up a monitor from another machine to
> try to flood the machine when ping fails
> 
> Adding that to my TODO list. If someone writes one, let me know.
> > who knows. What I do know is, it works fine on "different" hardware,
> > yes, that was our fix!
> 
> ... I can't do that...
> 
> > My friend upgraded from the 533/VIA board to Compaq ATX board I had
> > laying around, it is a Athlon 600. He has since had no problems.
> 
> What chipset was handling the DMA in these boards?
> 
> > * Disable DMA on the HD I/O. It has the effect of slowing the box to a
> > crawl, beyond that, didn't "fix" the problem, because the box itself
> > was too slow...
> 
> I am testing this right now. About 10 hours of uptime (among which 5h
> of Live TV) without lock. That's way over the best I could do before.
> 
> It's not a proof but it tends to go in the direction of those saying
> that DMA is broken...
> 
> Thanks for you list.
> 
> Jerome
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Re: [mythtv-users] Fanless graphics card suggestions?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Friday 11 March 2005 01:57, Jay wrote:
> Another good way to find one, is to go to Newegg.com and just look at
> pictures of video cards. I've gotten 2 or 3 fanless cards this way. They
> have a picture for every item, and its an actual picture of the items.

Nb: that's not entirely so. I ordered low-profile Chaintech GeForce FX 5200 
from newegg.com a while back. The picture showed a fan, but it was dirt-cheap 
and I'm not really that picky about noise with how my theater room is set up, 
so I bought it anyway. The card that showed up is fanless though.

As an aside, the card I got also produces the best HDTV playback out of the 
three I've had in this system to date (GF4MX and a GF 6200 are the other 
two). However, I'm looking forward to trying the new nVidia drivers with my 
6200 to see if they've fixed any of the problems I had with it...

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[mythtv-users] HELP! Can't Seek (FF/REW)

[Matt Johnson]

I’m having trouble seeking when watching any HD
content.  I can fast forward at 3x just fine, but as soon as I go to 5x or
faster, everything slows down to a crawl – as if I’m doing slow
motion instead of fast forward.  It is also very pixilated and jumpy when
it does this, and if I let it go too long it crashes mythfrontend.  I also
notice that if I just let it play and try to save a bookmark somewhere, it
always starts back at the beginning instead of the bookmark position.

 

I’m running the latest cvs build on a 2.6.11.1 kernel.
 My two tuners are an HD-3000 w/DVB drivers, and the firewire input from
my SA3250HD.   I’m using the latest nvidia drivers with the
patches from the nvidia linux forum to get it working on 2.6.11.

 

I’m not sure when this behavior started, but it
normally only happens on HD recordings.  I sometimes see it on standard
recordings as well.   It doesn’t seem to make a difference if I
change any of the Fast Forward settings, or if I run with xvmc or not, or if I do
software deinterlacing or not.

 

It also does not seem to log anything to the verbose output
for mythfrontend.  Is there somewhere else I could look to see what’s
going on?

 

Has anyone else experienced problems fast forwarding?

 

Thanks,

Matt Johnson

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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 (hard) lockups, Fixed!

[Calvin Harrigan]

jerome lacoste wrote:
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:50:02 -0500, Maverick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

OK, since there seems to be a ton of people on the list lately
complaining about the lockup issues with PVR-350's, using TVout, I
   

the thing is that the lock ups happen even if we don't use TV Out.
I don't I am on a monitor.
 

the system would just freeze. Having to reboot w/ the reset switch. If
we did it quick enough, we can bring the machines back to life by
causing the NIC (or maybe other PCI device?) to interrupt. So ping
flooding the NIC, or hitting enter at the SSH prompt on the box worked
magic.
   

That's interesting. I could set up a monitor from another machine to
try to flood the machine when ping fails
Adding that to my TODO list. If someone writes one, let me know.
 

who knows. What I do know is, it works fine on "different" hardware,
yes, that was our fix!
   

... I can't do that...
 

My friend upgraded from the 533/VIA board to Compaq ATX board I had
laying around, it is a Athlon 600. He has since had no problems.
   

What chipset was handling the DMA in these boards?
 

* Disable DMA on the HD I/O. It has the effect of slowing the box to a
crawl, beyond that, didn't "fix" the problem, because the box itself
was too slow...
   

I am testing this right now. About 10 hours of uptime (among which 5h
of Live TV) without lock. That's way over the best I could do before.
It's not a proof but it tends to go in the direction of those saying
that DMA is broken...
Thanks for you list.
Jerome
 


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Try getting a separate hard drive controller.  Those that came with the 
maxtor drives a while back can be had for a few bucks on ebay.
Something like:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=39967&item=5173703127&rd=1
http://search.ebay.com/Promise-ULTRA100-TX2_W0QQsojsZ1QQfromZR40
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Re: [mythtv-users] Custom keystroke/remote options?

[Dean Wilson]

Thanks for the point in the right direction!  I had seen the "Key
Bindings" in MythWeb some time ago, but had forgotten it was there!

However, I still don't see a jump point to the main "Home" menu.  How
are "Jump Points" created?  (Is it possible to create a jump directly
"Home"?)

Thanks!


On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:34:05 -0500, cythraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> JumpPoints and Keybindings.
> 
> If you have installed MythWeb, you can go under Settings then Key Bindings.
> 
> The JumpPoints and Keybindings Editors will permit you to bind keys
> for your needs.
> 
> I'm not certain but these can probably be set directly from the frontend.
> 
> Also, check out keys.txt content.
> 
> cyth
> 
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:23:33 -0600, Dean Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Is it possible to jump to particular menus?  For example, if I'm
> > navigating through the menus from Home->MediaLibrary->WatchRecordings,
> > is there a way to configure a keystroke (and thus a remote control) to
> > jump directly back to "Home?"
> >
> > Also, whether this feature is available or not, is it possible to
> > customize the key mappings?
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 (hard) lockups, Fixed!

[Aaron Aguilar]

Hey Kenneth,

Thanks for this post I have been having the same problems with my
PVR250.  I have been considering buying a new mobo/cpu to try and
solve the problem.  Could you send me links to the hardware you
bought, mobo and ram in particular?  Also, did you use the retail fan
on the processor and if so how loud is it?  I have that HDD by the way
and I agree it is awesome.

Thanks a bunch,
Aaron



On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:50:02 -0500, Maverick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK, since there seems to be a ton of people on the list lately
> complaining about the lockup issues with PVR-350's, using TVout, I
> figured I'd do a little writeup on how we fixed it, and the things we
> tried before "fixing" it.
> 
> About a month ago, a friend of mine and I both bought PVR-350's, and
> put them in "junk" computers I had lying around. One computer was a
> Dell GX110 (P3-667, 256MB, Intel Chipset), the other being a generic
> Celeron 533, 256MB, VIA Chipset (not sure which model/version chipset,
> probably KT133).
> 
> Now, by hard lockup, this is what happened for us, FF or REW a bunch,
> Watch TV for awhile, or view the Recorded shows with the mini preview,
> the system would just freeze. Having to reboot w/ the reset switch. If
> we did it quick enough, we can bring the machines back to life by
> causing the NIC (or maybe other PCI device?) to interrupt. So ping
> flooding the NIC, or hitting enter at the SSH prompt on the box worked
> magic.
> 
> As far as I'm concerned, ivtv-fb, the IVTV Frame Buffer (aka ivtv-osd
> in dmesg) has a dma/irq problem on older or faulty hardware. I'm not
> sure if it gets suck in a loop, or some sort of event wait condition,
> who knows. What I do know is, it works fine on "different" hardware,
> yes, that was our fix!
> 
> My friend upgraded from the 533/VIA board to Compaq ATX board I had
> laying around, it is a Athlon 600. He has since had no problems.
> 
> I decided to buy a new board, because my Dell P3 system worked without
> lockups long enough to impress me on how great MythTV is. I bought a
> Silverstone LC11, Chaintech Summit 7NIF2, Athlon XP 2700, 512MB DDR
> 400?, SAMSUNG SP1614N 8MB 160GB HD (SUPER QUIET!!), and absolutely
> love it! It works fine, no PVR-350 lockups. I'm still using the
> PVR-350's TVout, but I bought the board based on Jarod's use of it in
> his "Standard Definition Slave Backend and Playback System", and I
> intend on using the onboard nVidia TVout at some point. (BTW, thanks
> for the recommendation Jarod!)
> 
> We also installed KnoppMyth R5A12 on both.
> 
> So, two fixed boxes, both got different hardware, but one was still an
> old POS. I'm guessing that Compaq board just doesn't have the problems
> the other two boards we where using did.
> 
> Now, the list of stuff we tried that didn't work:
> 
> * Upgrade R4V5 to Kernel 2.6.10 from debs (lot of work, no effect,
> other than Tuner type 47 was now recognized properly)
> 
> * Disable APCI (noapci in boot loader), no effect.
> 
> * Disable Power Management in BIOS, no effect.
> 
> * Try almost every ivtv version at the time, 0.2.x and 0.3.x, no effect.
> 
> * Use another IDE controller instead of the onboard one. This fixed
> the lockup problem on my Dell P3, but the controller sharing the PCI
> bus with the PVR-350 made the system unwatchable (frame rate wise)
> 
> * Disable DMA on the HD I/O. It has the effect of slowing the box to a
> crawl, beyond that, didn't "fix" the problem, because the box itself
> was too slow...
> 
> * Force different tuner types in ivtv, no effect except lack of signal, etc.
> 
> * Remove non-essential PCI devices, disable anything that could
> interrupt on the bus. Un fortunately, didn't really have much effect.
> 
> * Rearrange IRQ's in the BIOS, this might be the one hope some systems
> have. It seems some of these older systems won't hard lock if the
> PVR-350 is NOT sharing an IRQ with another system device. My Dell P3
> insisted on forcing the onboard video and the PVR-350 to share an IRQ,
> if you changed one, it changed the other. Interestingly enough, it
> worked fine prior to a BIOS upgrade, so maybe the BIOS upgrade was
> what forced them to share... If your can put your PVR-350 on it's own
> IRQ, it may help. lspci -v will show you what devices are on what
> IRQ's.
> 
> * Run X Windows on a monitor, and use Myth's PVR-350 TVout checkbox,
> so just TV is on the TV. This fixes the problem, probably because
> ivtv-fb is no longer used for X, but it's annoying to have a little
> monitor next to your 65" TV... :)
> 
> I spent about $650 for my hardware (newegg.com + pcalchemy.com), and
> my friend used stuff I had laying around, just bought the 350.
> 
> I took a bunch of pictures of the Silverstone LC11 install, if anyone
> is interested, let me know. I might put up a page with install
> notes... It's a wonderful case, and I'd recommend to anyone wanting a
> quiet, modern, non-computer looking device in their home theater.
> 
> Hope this helps someone,
> -Kennet

Re: [mythtv-users] Can a master backend have no inputs?

[cythraul]

Since this setup in kind of non-standard giving the fact that people
usually use a Myth box to capture TV, no authoritative answer will
probably be provided.

Since the backend will probably complain about no card or lineup
defined, I suggest you define a dummy capture card and see if the
backend will start anyway even tho it will certainly complain that it
could not initialize it.

Tinkering with it will help you define a way to accomplish your goal.
I, for one, will be happy to hear from your experience.

good day,
cyth

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:54:17 +, Stephen Boddy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No body got an answer to this then? :-(
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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 (hard) lockups, Fixed!

[jerome lacoste]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:50:02 -0500, Maverick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK, since there seems to be a ton of people on the list lately
> complaining about the lockup issues with PVR-350's, using TVout, I

the thing is that the lock ups happen even if we don't use TV Out.

I don't I am on a monitor.

> the system would just freeze. Having to reboot w/ the reset switch. If
> we did it quick enough, we can bring the machines back to life by
> causing the NIC (or maybe other PCI device?) to interrupt. So ping
> flooding the NIC, or hitting enter at the SSH prompt on the box worked
> magic.

That's interesting. I could set up a monitor from another machine to
try to flood the machine when ping fails

Adding that to my TODO list. If someone writes one, let me know.
> who knows. What I do know is, it works fine on "different" hardware,
> yes, that was our fix!

... I can't do that...

> My friend upgraded from the 533/VIA board to Compaq ATX board I had
> laying around, it is a Athlon 600. He has since had no problems.

What chipset was handling the DMA in these boards?

> * Disable DMA on the HD I/O. It has the effect of slowing the box to a
> crawl, beyond that, didn't "fix" the problem, because the box itself
> was too slow...

I am testing this right now. About 10 hours of uptime (among which 5h
of Live TV) without lock. That's way over the best I could do before.

It's not a proof but it tends to go in the direction of those saying
that DMA is broken...

Thanks for you list.

Jerome
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Re: [mythtv-users] Can a master backend have no inputs?

[Stephen Boddy]

No body got an answer to this then? :-(
-- 
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[mythtv-users] PVR-350 (hard) lockups, Fixed!

[Maverick]

OK, since there seems to be a ton of people on the list lately
complaining about the lockup issues with PVR-350's, using TVout, I
figured I'd do a little writeup on how we fixed it, and the things we
tried before "fixing" it.

About a month ago, a friend of mine and I both bought PVR-350's, and
put them in "junk" computers I had lying around. One computer was a
Dell GX110 (P3-667, 256MB, Intel Chipset), the other being a generic
Celeron 533, 256MB, VIA Chipset (not sure which model/version chipset,
probably KT133).

Now, by hard lockup, this is what happened for us, FF or REW a bunch,
Watch TV for awhile, or view the Recorded shows with the mini preview,
the system would just freeze. Having to reboot w/ the reset switch. If
we did it quick enough, we can bring the machines back to life by
causing the NIC (or maybe other PCI device?) to interrupt. So ping
flooding the NIC, or hitting enter at the SSH prompt on the box worked
magic.

As far as I'm concerned, ivtv-fb, the IVTV Frame Buffer (aka ivtv-osd
in dmesg) has a dma/irq problem on older or faulty hardware. I'm not
sure if it gets suck in a loop, or some sort of event wait condition,
who knows. What I do know is, it works fine on "different" hardware,
yes, that was our fix!

My friend upgraded from the 533/VIA board to Compaq ATX board I had
laying around, it is a Athlon 600. He has since had no problems.

I decided to buy a new board, because my Dell P3 system worked without
lockups long enough to impress me on how great MythTV is. I bought a
Silverstone LC11, Chaintech Summit 7NIF2, Athlon XP 2700, 512MB DDR
400?, SAMSUNG SP1614N 8MB 160GB HD (SUPER QUIET!!), and absolutely
love it! It works fine, no PVR-350 lockups. I'm still using the
PVR-350's TVout, but I bought the board based on Jarod's use of it in
his "Standard Definition Slave Backend and Playback System", and I
intend on using the onboard nVidia TVout at some point. (BTW, thanks
for the recommendation Jarod!)

We also installed KnoppMyth R5A12 on both.

So, two fixed boxes, both got different hardware, but one was still an
old POS. I'm guessing that Compaq board just doesn't have the problems
the other two boards we where using did.

Now, the list of stuff we tried that didn't work:

* Upgrade R4V5 to Kernel 2.6.10 from debs (lot of work, no effect,
other than Tuner type 47 was now recognized properly)

* Disable APCI (noapci in boot loader), no effect.

* Disable Power Management in BIOS, no effect.

* Try almost every ivtv version at the time, 0.2.x and 0.3.x, no effect.

* Use another IDE controller instead of the onboard one. This fixed
the lockup problem on my Dell P3, but the controller sharing the PCI
bus with the PVR-350 made the system unwatchable (frame rate wise)

* Disable DMA on the HD I/O. It has the effect of slowing the box to a
crawl, beyond that, didn't "fix" the problem, because the box itself
was too slow...

* Force different tuner types in ivtv, no effect except lack of signal, etc.

* Remove non-essential PCI devices, disable anything that could
interrupt on the bus. Un fortunately, didn't really have much effect.

* Rearrange IRQ's in the BIOS, this might be the one hope some systems
have. It seems some of these older systems won't hard lock if the
PVR-350 is NOT sharing an IRQ with another system device. My Dell P3
insisted on forcing the onboard video and the PVR-350 to share an IRQ,
if you changed one, it changed the other. Interestingly enough, it
worked fine prior to a BIOS upgrade, so maybe the BIOS upgrade was
what forced them to share... If your can put your PVR-350 on it's own
IRQ, it may help. lspci -v will show you what devices are on what
IRQ's.

* Run X Windows on a monitor, and use Myth's PVR-350 TVout checkbox,
so just TV is on the TV. This fixes the problem, probably because
ivtv-fb is no longer used for X, but it's annoying to have a little
monitor next to your 65" TV... :)

I spent about $650 for my hardware (newegg.com + pcalchemy.com), and
my friend used stuff I had laying around, just bought the 350.

I took a bunch of pictures of the Silverstone LC11 install, if anyone
is interested, let me know. I might put up a page with install
notes... It's a wonderful case, and I'd recommend to anyone wanting a
quiet, modern, non-computer looking device in their home theater.

Hope this helps someone,
-Kenneth
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Re: [mythtv-users] Question about Video's loading time.

[Stephen Boddy]

On Friday 11 March 2005 17:58, Jay wrote:
> of just under 15000 videos. From the time I click Videos, to the time it

Tell me that's a typo... 15000!!! If that was 700 MB / video you'd need 10 
Terabytes!!! Or are they all real small clips?

I can't answer you question directly, but at the risk of teaching the 
proverbial grandma to suck eggs, a couple of things to try. Use:
vmstat 1 1
while you open the video part. Is the cpu high for system, user, or waiting? 
Are lots of processes waiting to run or blocked? Is it swapping like crazy, 
or is the disk IO through the roof?

Also try something like iptraf. Is the network maxing out? This should give 
you some indication as to where the problem lies.
-- 
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[mythtv-users] Re: X Focus on DVI - Video hanging

[Mike Ryan]

Hi
Just thought I'd post an update in case anyone finds this and wonders how I
resolved the problem. Basically, it was simply downloading and installing the
nvidia linux drivers. They can be found here:
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-7167/
Now, just got to work out how to get rid of all that damned overscan...
Cheers
Mike
Quoting Mike Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Quoting Mike Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi
Strange one this. I have a system with a GeForce 4200 Ti card. I'm using the
DVI-out to a Sagem 45" High-Def DLP screen. That all works fine 
until I try to
watch anything like Live TV or any of the recordings. I see the first frame,
and it hangs. But, what's really odd, is that if I Alt-Tab to 
another window,
the video then carries on as normal.

Any suggestions?
Using mplayer from the command line works as expected, as I don't 
see any error
messages from the command line or in the mythbackend logfile

Cheers
Mike
I should've said, when I hook the system up using the standard VGA out, this
problem doesn't occur.
If anyone has a GeForce 4200 working at 720p, could they post their xorg.conf
file?
Cheers


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Re: [mythtv-users] Great quality TV-out on a PVR-350?

[Brian May]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've just setup my mythbox to a great quality tv-output.
>
> So.. Yes.. it is possible to get a perfect image outof the PVR350.
>
> What distro are you using ??
>
> If you are using Fedora i can support you with help.

I agree.. my PVR350 output to tv is super clean with the svideo output.

>>I don't really use Myth to watch live TV (haven't tackled the whole
>>digital cable interaction yet), but my recordings are commonly rather
>>dark and red when played back over my tv-out.  It's not the recordings,
>>as they look find when I view them on a monitor.

I think this issue is related to the cables to the TV..  I had the same
thing happening from a portable DVD player to the TV..  the cable to the
TV was loose and made the TV dark and a blood red tinge to it..
securing the cable made it work perfectly.  Same symptoms.. hopefully
the same answer?



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Re: [mythtv-users] dvd playback on pvr 350

[Jim Oltman]

Does XINE use a zoom command?


On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:14:14 -0500, John Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rick Ingersoll wrote:
> 
> > I just got my box working using the pvr-350 for x and using the
> > decoder for tv playback.  I used jarod's guide for setting it up.
> > What parameters do I need to make the xine or mplayer to use the pvr
> > 350.  I know I can set x11, but last time I did that, it did not fill
> > the whole screen and it tried to playback the directors audio track.
> > What should I be using and what are the command line parameters
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Rick
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> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] dvd playback on pvr 350

[John Kuhn]

Rick Ingersoll wrote:
I just got my box working using the pvr-350 for x and using the 
decoder for tv playback.  I used jarod's guide for setting it up.  
What parameters do I need to make the xine or mplayer to use the pvr 
350.  I know I can set x11, but last time I did that, it did not fill 
the whole screen and it tried to playback the directors audio track.  
What should I be using and what are the command line parameters

Thanks,
Rick
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[mythtv-users] dvd playback on pvr 350

[Rick Ingersoll]

I just got my box working using the pvr-350 for x and using the decoder 
for tv playback.  I used jarod's guide for setting it up.  What 
parameters do I need to make the xine or mplayer to use the pvr 350.  I 
know I can set x11, but last time I did that, it did not fill the whole 
screen and it tried to playback the directors audio track.  What should 
I be using and what are the command line parameters

Thanks,
Rick
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Re: [mythtv-users] How to reply to messages in mythtv-users Archives?

[Chris Petersen]

I have the similar problems. The traffic in this list is very high. Is 
there any newsserver gateway to this list, so I can use news protocol to 
access only the posts I am interested in?
Please, search the archoves for topics like "forum" and such.  (you'll 
find the answer you're looking for, along with helpful suggestions like 
"run a threaded email client")

I beg of you all, please do not start this thread again (and let it die 
with this message), as it's redundant and will not change the current 
state of things.

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RE: [mythtv-users] Great quality TV-out on a PVR-350?

[Greg Miller]

I am running Gentoo and just added:

post-install ivtv /usr/bin/ivtvctl -j reg=0x6c,val=0xfa -d
/dev/video16&&/usr/bin/ivtvctl -j reg=0x2d,val=0x38 -d /dev/video16

To my /etc/modules.d/ivtv file.

Works great now...

Greg 

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Kim
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 12:26 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Great quality TV-out on a PVR-350?

I'm interested in this as well.  I had a similar experience as the
original poster, only my video was dark and green instead of dark and red.

Justin
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:08:10 -0500, Hank VanZile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Sorry, I probably should have mentioned that in the first place : I am 
> using Fedora Core 2 and it's NTSC.
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> >I've just setup my mythbox to a great quality tv-output.
> >
> >So.. Yes.. it is possible to get a perfect image outof the PVR350.
> >
> >What distro are you using ??
> >
> >If you are using Fedora i can support you with help.
> >
> >
> >gr.
> >
> >Patrick de Brabander
> >
> >
> >>I'm seeing all of these messages about tweaking the nvidia cards, 
> >>but I'm wondering if anyone knows of some guidelines for improving 
> >>the quality of PVR-350 viewing.
> >>
> >>I don't really use Myth to watch live TV (haven't tackled the whole 
> >>digital cable interaction yet), but my recordings are commonly 
> >>rather dark and red when played back over my tv-out.  It's not the 
> >>recordings, as they look find when I view them on a monitor.
> >>
> >>I assume that I need to put an "ivtvctl" command in somewhere, but I 
> >>don't know where it goes (modules.conf? rc.local?)  I've tried 
> >>searching this list and the IVTV list for some tips, but all the 
> >>responses I've found are pretty cryptic and aren't well explained.  
> >>(As well as a lot of "try searching the list, this has been brought 
> >>up a million times.")
> >>
> >>I apologize if I'm missing something obvious, but could someone 
> >>provide some "just north of newbie" tips on this issue?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Hank
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Re: [mythtv-users] How to reply to messages in mythtv-users Archives?

[Radek Svoboda]

Still, I find it hard to keep up with the mailing list using my mail 
client. What do you use to manage your mailing lists?

I have the similar problems. The traffic in this list is very high. Is 
there any newsserver gateway to this list, so I can use news protocol to 
access only the posts I am interested in?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Great quality TV-out on a PVR-350?

[Justin Kim]

I'm interested in this as well.  I had a similar experience as the
original poster, only my video was dark and green instead of dark and
red.

Justin
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:08:10 -0500, Hank VanZile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry, I probably should have mentioned that in the first place : I am
> using Fedora Core 2 and it's NTSC.
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> >I've just setup my mythbox to a great quality tv-output.
> >
> >So.. Yes.. it is possible to get a perfect image outof the PVR350.
> >
> >What distro are you using ??
> >
> >If you are using Fedora i can support you with help.
> >
> >
> >gr.
> >
> >Patrick de Brabander
> >
> >
> >>I'm seeing all of these messages about tweaking the nvidia cards, but
> >>I'm wondering if anyone knows of some guidelines for improving the
> >>quality of PVR-350 viewing.
> >>
> >>I don't really use Myth to watch live TV (haven't tackled the whole
> >>digital cable interaction yet), but my recordings are commonly rather
> >>dark and red when played back over my tv-out.  It's not the recordings,
> >>as they look find when I view them on a monitor.
> >>
> >>I assume that I need to put an "ivtvctl" command in somewhere, but I
> >>don't know where it goes (modules.conf? rc.local?)  I've tried searching
> >>this list and the IVTV list for some tips, but all the responses I've
> >>found are pretty cryptic and aren't well explained.  (As well as a lot
> >>of "try searching the list, this has been brought up a million times.")
> >>
> >>I apologize if I'm missing something obvious, but could someone provide
> >>some "just north of newbie" tips on this issue?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Hank
> >>___
> >>
> >>
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RE: [mythtv-users] Wierd problems with 0.17

[William]

> Last night I upgraded to 0.17. Its really really nice so far 
> but the upgrade manage to completely bork all of my input 
> settings. (This is a Fedora thing, not a mythtv thing) 
> anyways, when I got it all fixed and working this morning I 
> noticed that there where two shows listed that I can not 
> delete now. They both have all the info and such but no file 
> attached to them.. I can not delete them through the menu in 
> mythtv, I can not delete them through mythweb, and I couldn't 
> rebuild the database to remove them. Any thoughts?
> 

Just touch the file and you will be able to delete it.


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Re: [mythtv-users] Great quality TV-out on a PVR-350?

[Hank VanZile]

Sorry, I probably should have mentioned that in the first place : I am 
using Fedora Core 2 and it's NTSC.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've just setup my mythbox to a great quality tv-output.
So.. Yes.. it is possible to get a perfect image outof the PVR350.
What distro are you using ??
If you are using Fedora i can support you with help.
gr.
Patrick de Brabander
 

I'm seeing all of these messages about tweaking the nvidia cards, but
I'm wondering if anyone knows of some guidelines for improving the
quality of PVR-350 viewing.
I don't really use Myth to watch live TV (haven't tackled the whole
digital cable interaction yet), but my recordings are commonly rather
dark and red when played back over my tv-out.  It's not the recordings,
as they look find when I view them on a monitor.
I assume that I need to put an "ivtvctl" command in somewhere, but I
don't know where it goes (modules.conf? rc.local?)  I've tried searching
this list and the IVTV list for some tips, but all the responses I've
found are pretty cryptic and aren't well explained.  (As well as a lot
of "try searching the list, this has been brought up a million times.")
I apologize if I'm missing something obvious, but could someone provide
some "just north of newbie" tips on this issue?
Thanks,
Hank
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Re: [mythtv-users] Wierd problems with 0.17

[John Williams]

My first thought would be to create a file manually wihtthat name and
see if that aleviates the problem.


On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:09:13 -0700, Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Last night I upgraded to 0.17. Its really really nice so far but the
> upgrade manage to completely bork all of my input settings. (This is a
> Fedora thing, not a mythtv thing) anyways, when I got it all fixed and
> working this morning I noticed that there where two shows listed that
> I can not delete now. They both have all the info and such but no file
> attached to them.. I can not delete them through the menu in mythtv, I
> can not delete them through mythweb, and I couldn't rebuild the
> database to remove them. Any thoughts?
> 
> Oh yea, delete still works on newer recordings that actually have a file.
> 
> Anyways: 0.17 so far has been really nice. MythWeb looks downright
> slick now. All in all this upgrade was a really nice change =)
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Great quality TV-out on a PVR-350?

[mythtv]

I've just setup my mythbox to a great quality tv-output.

So.. Yes.. it is possible to get a perfect image outof the PVR350.

What distro are you using ??

If you are using Fedora i can support you with help.


gr.

Patrick de Brabander
> I'm seeing all of these messages about tweaking the nvidia cards, but
> I'm wondering if anyone knows of some guidelines for improving the
> quality of PVR-350 viewing.
>
> I don't really use Myth to watch live TV (haven't tackled the whole
> digital cable interaction yet), but my recordings are commonly rather
> dark and red when played back over my tv-out.  It's not the recordings,
> as they look find when I view them on a monitor.
>
> I assume that I need to put an "ivtvctl" command in somewhere, but I
> don't know where it goes (modules.conf? rc.local?)  I've tried searching
> this list and the IVTV list for some tips, but all the responses I've
> found are pretty cryptic and aren't well explained.  (As well as a lot
> of "try searching the list, this has been brought up a million times.")
>
> I apologize if I'm missing something obvious, but could someone provide
> some "just north of newbie" tips on this issue?
>
> Thanks,
> Hank
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[mythtv-users] Great quality TV-out on a PVR-350?

[Hank VanZile]

I'm seeing all of these messages about tweaking the nvidia cards, but 
I'm wondering if anyone knows of some guidelines for improving the 
quality of PVR-350 viewing.

I don't really use Myth to watch live TV (haven't tackled the whole 
digital cable interaction yet), but my recordings are commonly rather 
dark and red when played back over my tv-out.  It's not the recordings, 
as they look find when I view them on a monitor.

I assume that I need to put an "ivtvctl" command in somewhere, but I 
don't know where it goes (modules.conf? rc.local?)  I've tried searching 
this list and the IVTV list for some tips, but all the responses I've 
found are pretty cryptic and aren't well explained.  (As well as a lot 
of "try searching the list, this has been brought up a million times.")

I apologize if I'm missing something obvious, but could someone provide 
some "just north of newbie" tips on this issue?

Thanks,
Hank
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Re: [mythtv-users] Progress bar on import images

[Les Gondor]

Kevin,
It doesn't use the mythtv theme, but here is a quick and dirty script 
that uses gphoto2 to import images from a USB-attached camera (A Canon 
Powershot A30 in my case). Just add it to the import path in the 
mythgallery settings page.

Cheers,
Les Gondor
Kevin Barsby wrote:
Unless someone else put it in sometime after I coded
it, no.  (I haven't looked at the code in a while)

Ok, how easy would it be to add something like this in? I've been
thinking about cutting my teeth on a small piece of myth coding for a
while, and this would seem to be an oppotunity.

How do you intend to send a message from your script
to MythGallery?  As I recall, scripts just run
from a system() call.

That was the plan, given I'm scripting in perl it should be possible to
send messages back using some form of IPC.
Any thoughts / suggestions would be welcome.
Cheers
Kev

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#!/bin/bash

if [ ! -d "$1" ]
then
echo "Usage: $0 dest-dir"
exit 1
fi

cd "$1"

NUMP=`gphoto2 -L 2>/dev/null |grep -c image`
if test "$NUMP" -eq 0
then
exit 1
fi

gphoto2 --get-all-files --quiet 2>&1 >/dev/null |perl -n -e "\$|=1;chomp;printf 
\"%d\\n\", 100*(\$.-1)/$NUMP;"|zenity --progress --auto-close --text 
"Downloading images"

exit 0
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Re: [mythtv-users] new nvidia driver 1.0-7167

[Louis Adamich]

Do they work with the older cards.  I am forced to run 6111 right now.

Louis

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New nvidia drivers were released today.  Unfortunately they don't
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surely they've fixed more than what they list in the many months since
the last release.

  
  
... though they *do* mention the ability to affect the detailed DVI
timings, so there's some hope.

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[mythtv-users] Wierd problems with 0.17

[Brady]

Last night I upgraded to 0.17. Its really really nice so far but the
upgrade manage to completely bork all of my input settings. (This is a
Fedora thing, not a mythtv thing) anyways, when I got it all fixed and
working this morning I noticed that there where two shows listed that
I can not delete now. They both have all the info and such but no file
attached to them.. I can not delete them through the menu in mythtv, I
can not delete them through mythweb, and I couldn't rebuild the
database to remove them. Any thoughts?

Oh yea, delete still works on newer recordings that actually have a file.

Anyways: 0.17 so far has been really nice. MythWeb looks downright
slick now. All in all this upgrade was a really nice change =)
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[mythtv-users] Question about Video's loading time.

[Jay]

I'm having a small issue with the frontend loading the video library. 
We have a rather large video collection at my place. 2 File servers. On my 
frontend I have 4 directories mounted via NFS and 1 mounted via Samba. From the 
samba mount I symbolically link a few directories to the video root for Myth. 
So essentially Myth loads 8 networked directories containing a total of just 
under 15000 videos. From the time I click Videos, to the time it actually loads 
the videos, it takes about 12 minutes. The network is not slow, 100MB switched. 
Does Myth re-read every video every time you try to load your library? Or does 
it create some cache file somewhere that my frontend is not reading/creating 
for some reason?

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Re: [mythtv-users] How I got great quality TV-out on my nVidia MX4000

[trev]

Hi
I sort of solved my problem of getting rid of the KDE panel on the TV and 
switching keyboard focus on non-xinerama dual head screens although its a bit 
naff:
If before I start mythfrontend I use a fantastic program from the website:
http://wiki.gentoo-italia.net/index.php/Dual_Monitors
to switch the mouse over, I can minimize the panel at the bottom of the 
screen.
Then after starting mythfrontend, if I want to set the keyboard focus to the 
TV, I run:
xterm -display localhost:0.1
exit out of the xterm, then I have keyboard focus on the TV.
The website mentioned above did say the mouse focus program would also work to 
change the keyboard focus, but I found that the it didn't appear to on my 
setup.
I hope this helps anyone else running non-xinerama dual head screens.

Best Regards

Trev

On Friday 11 Mar 2005 15:03, you wrote:
> Hi
>
> There is nothing to stop me fromtrying S-Video except I would need to spend
> some money buying an S-Video to S-Video cable (which I might try at some
> point anyway).
> At the moment I am more worried about the XWindows Panel appearing at the
> bottom of the TV screen when I start using the the computer monitor.
> My IR Remote control also does not have a huge number of buttons (Came with
> my Adaptec VIDEOh! DVD Media Center) and so I would also like to use the
> keyboard to driving Mythtv on the second Screen.
> I am new to Mythtv and only recently got my Remote working and have not
> completely figured out how to drive it properly.
> If I cannot get the keyboard / panel on TV problem sorted I may abandon
> using Mythtv to watch live TV (originally I got the card to just copy home
> videos onto DVDs).
> I am currently running KDE 3.2.3 on Mandrake 10.1 Official and from reading
> lots of different posts / faqs on the subject of multiple screens  and
> moving the mouse between screens I might try some different window managers
> to see if that helps.  Does anyone have a similar system working with a
> monitor and TV with different screens using KDE.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Trev
>
> On Friday 11 Mar 2005 14:26, Will Dormann wrote:
> > trev wrote:
> > > The manual I have does specify "If the correct connector cable is
> > > connected, S-Video out will generally provide a higher quality output
> > > than Composite video out."
> > > I can't test this at the moment because although I have an S-Video
> > > connector at both ends I don't have an S-Video cable and am actually
> > > unsure if the picture could look any better anyway.
> >
> > So what's keeping you from trying it?   S-Video reproduces the picture
> > more accurately than composite.  It shouldn't have artifacts like dot
> > crawl, which composite will likely have.
> >
> > Check this page for more info:
> > http://nfg.2y.net/games/ntsc/
> >
> >
> >
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Re: [mythtv-users] Play Music and ALSA

[thor]

On Friday 11 March 2005 11:51 am, jgmtfia Mr wrote:

>
> Is there any timeline for this to be applied to the cvs tree?

 This has been in CVS since late January.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: How I solved my PVR-350 hard lockup problem

[jerome lacoste]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:31:41 -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 09:43 -0500, Dan Wilga wrote:
> > Just to add to the mix: I have the same occasional lockups with the
> > 350, only I use an ATI-based motherboard, not a VIA.
> 
> ATI-based motherboard?
> 
> > If I set my system to play live TV and then go away for several
> > hours, there's a good chance that it will be locked up by the time I
> > get back. I've had it go for about 8 hours without crashing, but not
> > much longer.
> 
> Could heat build-up be the problem?

I've monitored heat, and it crashed with low heat
proc = 55 and tuner = 25-30 (Celcius). 

Trivial scripts for monitoring here for those who want them:

http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.aspx?catid=28&threadid=60131&STARTPAGE=1#391672

J

uptime: 6h46 and running  :)
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Re: [mythtv-users] problems on playback due to no ACPI and IRQ sharing?

[Adam Gianola]

I also had a similar problem, which it seems has been cured.  I'm not
sure of the cause or solution, but I'll describe what I observed and
what changed as maybe it might help you.

Currently my mythtv setup is on a FC3 box following Jarod's excellent
howto.  The machine has a Soyo SY-P4RC350 mainboard with a P4 2.4GHz
with 512MB PC2700.  I've disabled the onboard ATI video, and am using
an agp nvidia 5200 video card instead.  The display is on the vga
output of this card, and I'm using the onboard sound.  I am using a
PVR-250 for video capture, and have a pchdtv hd3000 card installed
which is not in use currently, since I can't figure out how to make it
and the 250 play nicely (OTA HD reception is poor in my area to boot).
 I also have a 1394a card which I intend on using with the new
functionality of myth 0.17 when I upgrade to digital cable.

When playing back divx or xvid avi's (with mplayer from within myth)
across the network from a windows smb share I observed something
similar to what you described, the video skipping a few second every
couple of minutes.  I never tried playing avi's from the myth box
itself, however.  I could rewind and the video would play fine where
it skipped before, but again every few minutes it would skip a second
or two.  I turned up the mplayer cache to 5000 kB (-cache 5000
option), which maybe helped some network streaming issues, I don't
think it solved the skipping problem.  Certainly I observed some irq
problems as occassionally I would see a nice little popup which says
"Disabling IRQ 15" (or some such number, which corresponds to the
PVR-250).  After this video capture doesn't work, naturally, until
rebooted.  I added the option "acpi=off" to my grub.conf at some
point.  I don't think that fixed either of the problems.  Some time
later I upgraded from the 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 kernel to 2.6.10-1.766_FC3,
after which I had sound card issues (volume muted or some such
nonsense).  Reviewing the dmesg carefully upon boot after this kernel
upgrade, I discovered some trouble about irq sharing (sharing disabled
I believe) which the dmesg suggested the option "pci=usepirqmask".  I
tried it and never looked back.  I don't think i have seen the
'disabling irq 15' or video skipping problem since, but maybe i'm
wrong.  I never bothered to look at the cpu usage, since it should
have plenty of power to play back whatever i was throwing at it. 
hell, i have an xbox frontend in the bedroom that works flawlessly for
the same playback across the network.  I also had some troubles with
the playback of videos recorded from the pvr-250 which i finally
solved by looking carefully at jarods guide and adding "alias msp3400
msp3400-ivtv" to the modprobe.conf.  At some point I also added the
"-ao alsa"  to the video playback command for mplayer to make sure it
was using alsa like it should be.

I don't know which of these solved the issues (or if it is even
solved), but I don't recall seeing this stupid skipping problem for a
few weeks now.  It certainly is irritating, i know.  I'm hoping it is
solved permanently.  it couldn't hurt to try the kernel options i
mentioned above.  maybe it will fix your problems.

Good luck,
Adam
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Re: [mythtv-users] Distro of choice?

[Scott Alfter]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 07:29:17PM -0800, Mathew Mrosko wrote:
> I run gentoo on my desktop and laptop, but for some reason I thought I'd try 
> knoppmyth for my first experiment... that was a mistake... I can't get 
> anything to work... will be gentoo VERY soon!  (The only thing is that 
> compiling on a 500 MHz machine takes a while!)

distcc is your friend.  A 233-MHz Pentium-MMX on which I built Gentoo from
stage 1 (to be a router, not a MythTV box) would probably still be compiling
if I hadn't been able to spread the work out across a bunch of much faster
machines.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv -- New Directv Serial Control Program

[David George]

On 3/10/2005 8:43 PM, Jim Gifford wrote:
  Based on the c program in the forums I have created a new program 
which has a little more functionaility.
  I added the ability to turn on and off the receiver. Enter in the 
locks and limits code. Get the time/date,
  current channel #, and satellite strength.
Sounds nice.  I'll have to give it a try.  I have had no troubles at all 
with the perl script I am using, but I always like to try new things.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: How I solved my PVR-350 hard lockup problem

[jerome lacoste]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:02:43 -0700, Greg Miller
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having a similar problem. I believe it is related to the ivtv fb driver.
> My system will run for days without the frontend running.

Have you tried to let your front end run but to swicth your box on console?
When I do so, my box is much more stable, but it sometimes locks up anyway.

J

6h uptime so far...
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RE: [mythtv-users] Re: How I solved my PVR-350 hard lockup problem

[Greg Miller]

I'm having a similar problem. I believe it is related to the ivtv fb driver.
My system will run for days without the frontend running. 

Greg 

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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Re: How I solved my PVR-350 hard lockup problem

On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 09:43 -0500, Dan Wilga wrote:
> Just to add to the mix: I have the same occasional lockups with the 
> 350, only I use an ATI-based motherboard, not a VIA.

ATI-based motherboard?

> If I set my system to play live TV and then go away for several hours, 
> there's a good chance that it will be locked up by the time I get 
> back. I've had it go for about 8 hours without crashing, but not much 
> longer.

Could heat build-up be the problem?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: mythtv backend on a headless fileserver

[Ron Johnson]

On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 16:40 +, David wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> >On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 08:54 -0700, Shawn Willden wrote:
> >
> >>Steve Dibb wrote:
> >>
> >>>I have no sympathy for people who run RPM-based systems and then whine 
> >>>about dependencies. ;)
> >>>
> >>I have no sympathy for people who run Debian systems and then whine 
> >>about...  damn.  What is there to whine about again?  I know there must 
> >>be something...
> >
> >8 year delays between stable releases?
[snip] 
> But isn't that also the expected uptime for a system _running_ the 
> stable release?

Can you imagine a machine with an 8 year uptime?  I've heard of
VAXes that have been up that long, but not an Intel system.

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