Re: [mythtv-users] Update on using epia m10000 for a frontend
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 21:41 -0700, Adam Felson wrote: On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 02:56 -0500, Eric Webb wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 08:28 pm, Adam Felson wrote: My experience is that xvmc isn't worth the bother. With xv (xvideo, nonaccelerated frame buffer output), I never use more than 60% CPU and never miss a frame. Well, you must have it good then. What about when playing DVDs? Do you get missed frames?? and what about CPu usage?? For mine, it's bad, it drops frames and it uses up to 90% CPU!!! Not nice at all. Just get the xorg cvs, go to xc and do a make World and then a make install. I did that to get the via drm module only. If you run gentoo, you need to avoid gentoo's xorg implementation at all costs. They moved things around and if you install xorg's cvs version on top of it, it won't work. I did a basic gentoo build, build the xorg cvs, and then added a reference to /etc/portage/profile/morepackage.provided. I run Gentoo and I'm using the xorg from boom.kalf.org/epia Can you tell me what's the best method for running/building it under Gentoo? Send me the mail Off-List if wanted. I just want to make it work. It's been too much work and too much heartache/headache and it's pi* me off. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:00:59 up 4:55, 5 users, load average: 0.19, 0.26, 0.31 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New System Hardware Recommendations
A lot of the time, I find on *nix lists/chatrooms, the only way to get a reasonable answer (That is, one that doesn't require 300 hours worth of digging through man pages and searching obscure keywords on old university sites) is to start your question with Linux sucks! In Windows I could insert what you want to do here easier than anything! Why should I bother with this back-bedroom OS anyways?, which will usually get you 30 people giving you a nice, simple walkthrough of what you wanted to do easily. I admit, it's not a nice way to ask, but sometimes it's the only way to work out what the hell's going on. I mean, whoever thought that ESCwq was an intuitive way of saving a file, and a text editor that doesn't edit 'til you put it into edit mode? Give me Nano/Pico anyday. On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 03:51:36 -0500, Maverick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The email from Maverick yesterday detailed what he bought, based on the Jarod's Standard Definition Slave Backend and Playback System says this: Chaintech 7NIF2 Athlon XP 2700+ 2x 256MB DRAM PC3200 Samsung 160GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive, Model SP1614C SilverStone Lascala SST-LC11 HTPC Case PVR-350 I think I'm going to put the pictures of my install together and do a write up about it. Hardware seems to be a common question on this list, but there's not too many detailed lists of exactly what worked for people (well, there's the mythtv hardware database, but I found it less than helpful). I found Jarod's list of his hardware specifics very helpful, in fact, I got the same motherboard because I assumed if he has TVout working on it, then I could get it to work... If I did the above again, being a couple weeks later in the every changing computer hardware world, I'd get the Chaintech 7NIF4 (+SATA!!), and the SATA version of the Samsung 160gb drive. Mainly for the convenience of small cables. I might upgrade my board anyway and just sell the one I have on ebay for $50 or something, it's only 2 weeks old... ;) Another thing, the newer board supports Sempron too, which are ?cheaper? than XP's... What would be kick ass is a version of that board with DVI out! Now I'm dreaming. -Kenneth ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Can't zoom MythWeb
I'm running 1024x786 into my TV, and at that res. most web pages are a tad unreadable; unfortunately, the 'zoom' config. for MythWeb doesn't seem to do anything (0.17, was same under 0.16). Anyone any thoughts? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rm -f .signature [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l .signature ls: .signature: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# exit ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythvideo listing suddenly empty
12 4 * * 0 /usr/bin/mysqldump -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg -c | /bin/gzip /myth/backup/mythtv_backup.sql.sun.gz 12 4 * * 1 /usr/bin/mysqldump -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg -c | /bin/gzip /myth/backup/mythtv_backup.sql.mon.gz 12 4 * * 2 /usr/bin/mysqldump -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg -c | /bin/gzip /myth/backup/mythtv_backup.sql.tue.gz 12 4 * * 3 /usr/bin/mysqldump -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg -c | /bin/gzip /myth/backup/mythtv_backup.sql.wed.gz 12 4 * * 4 /usr/bin/mysqldump -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg -c | /bin/gzip /myth/backup/mythtv_backup.sql.thu.gz 12 4 * * 5 /usr/bin/mysqldump -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg -c | /bin/gzip /myth/backup/mythtv_backup.sql.fri.gz 12 4 * * 6 /usr/bin/mysqldump -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg -c | /bin/gzip /myth/backup/mythtv_backup.sql.sat.gz You should be able to replace these lines with just one, something like: 12 4 * * * /usr/bin/mysqldump -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg -c | /bin/gzip /myth/backup/mythtv_backup.sql.`date +%a`.gz /Janek ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Is Mplayer going away? Anyone seen their WWW site recently?
No offence, but DUH!!! Of course a patent attorney is going to say that this law is all hunky-dory, it's his future bread and butter!!! Well, actually no. Her firm does not take work of this kind and as such is unbiassed in this matter. On the other hand they are fully informed as to what is going on, and why. And yes, I have looked at both sides of the argument, read Groklaw, etc, have you? The ambiguous wording of the CIID opens the back door for pure software patents, and there is a whole saga going on with the European Parliament at loggerheads with the European Commission over amendments and procedure. The CIID may well be ambiguously worded, but that's no different to any other bit of law. The exisitance of a truely unambiguous piece of law is a myth. It's final meaning will only be defined following a set of test cases. The European Patent Office has no intention of changing how software is currently treated, test cases will quickly confirm this position. I suggest you head over to www.groklaw.net for a thorough and informative view of what's going on. It may (debatably) be biased the other way, but at least you'd have both sides of the argument. Really! Would you ask a fox to guard the chicken coop? You're right, Groklaw is biased the other way. Personally I consider a patent attorney with no personnel or financial involvement in this area to be about as unbiassed and well informed as you'll find. Wrong! Tell _no_ material impact to all the small and medium business (the ones that usually drive innovation) that will be driven out of business by this law. Innovation through litigation? Don't believe everything you read at Groklaw. The purpose of this directive is to _stop_ some countries in the EU that have been pushing software patents through the back doors and loop holes that currently exist. Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] EPIA M10K + DVD Play CPU Usage
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 11:11 +, Ivor Hewitt wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: I tried getting XvMC to run using some .mpg file I had laying around, and it took me a while to discover hardware decoding does not work on all video files given to Xine. But it should work on DVD right? I've been pointed out that Divx doesn't work. You need to get some logs to figure out what is/isn't working. Yes it will do DVD just fine... and an M10K has plenty of grunt to do a Divx anyway. Okay.. Here are Xorg's Logs (tar.bz2'ed attached.) Relevent details are pasted here. (II) VIA(0): 3D Engine has been initialized. (II) VIA(0): [drm] DRM interface version 1.2 (II) VIA(0): [drm] drmAgpEnabled succeeded (II) VIA(0): direct rendering enabled (II) VIA(0): [XvMC] Initialized XvMC extension. I've also attached the log files for running xine --verbose=9 -V xxmc. Looking though it, I have no idea if it really is using xxmc/XvMC. xine -help will show you what video out drivers you have available. It looks like your xine isn't compiled with xxmc support. Please try reconfiguring xine and/or paste a copy of your xine config.log. I've also recompiled xine on my laptop and had Xvmc enabled, but I still don't see anything that resembles xvmc being used at all. And does your laptop have xvmc support? Please help me, right now, I can't play DVDs because it keep complaining of Dropped frames. Actually that should be Please help me. Right now, I can't... :-) BTW : This is a Gentoo system with 2.6.9 kernel + xorg-x11-6.8.2 + R30(Unichrome) + 0.13 libxvmc + drm from CVS. BTW : Why are 'Gentoo systems' the ones that have all the problems compiling and using the drivers? ;-) Cheers, -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Stupid ALSA problem
Hi,
I am running MythTV 0.17 on a box with a PVR-350 cart for recording
and TV out. I am trying to use the loopback cable to the onboard ADI
1880 sound chip (which works great with MythVIdeo and MythMusic). When
I try to watch a recording or live TV in the TV module, I get an error
message that says Rate doesn't match (requested 0 Hz, got 8000Hz)
and an option to return to the menu or continue without sound. If I
continue without sound, I get sound with a very low volume (?) which I
guess comes from the SCART connector.
mythtv root # cat ~mythtv/.asoundrc
pcm.via82xx {
type hw
card 0
}
ctl.via82xx {
type hw
card 0
}
I have ALSA:via82xx set in sound device.
Does anyone see the problem. Not many people reporting sound problems
on the list... I am the only one that is a newbe on the inner workings
of ALSA magic?
:-)
/Fredrik
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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 and MythTV recording quality sample
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:42:41AM +1030, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote: But I can tell you, it is the best quality I've seen - and you cant tell the difference between live and recorded stuff. Right. Literally. But I've got some audible noise that I can't get rid of. Is this an hardware issue or related to ivtv or mythtv? Anyone else got this problem? /Kai ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 and MythTV recording quality sample
I play mine back on a projector that blows the image up to about 10' diagonally. It looks fantastic even this big - very close to commercial DVD quality. The sound comes out through a fairly decent hifi from the m/b onboard digital connector. The bass extension and treble clarity are great (yes they've come in to the analogue audio port and been sampled) No audio 'noise' (go and google for 'ground loop' though...) David Kai Fritzowsky wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:42:41AM +1030, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote: But I can tell you, it is the best quality I've seen - and you cant tell the difference between live and recorded stuff. Right. Literally. But I've got some audible noise that I can't get rid of. Is this an hardware issue or related to ivtv or mythtv? Anyone else got this problem? /Kai ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythvideo listing suddenly empty
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 06:57 +, David Morrison wrote: Did you remove the mythtv username/password from the database because this won't work unless you do? Heh - because I'm *really* going to post my password to the net. ;) -I ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Problem getting DVB-T card working - Could not find dvb tuning parameters
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 22:40 +, Nigel Metheringham wrote: I'm working with a new installation of Myth 0.17 on FC3 using the ATRPMs builds and working from Jarod's guides. The capture card is a *K-World http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php?title=K-Worldaction=edit*V-STREAM Xpert DTV, which appears to be working OK in that the drivers are doing the sort of things expected. Like some others have posted, after having gone throught he mythtvsetup I have a whole batch of channels detected (using a set pulled from the UK rt xml, and then a scan of the dvb channels from within mytvsetup). I'd start back at a know state, and work up from there. So : clear out your channels. do the setup scan - This should give you all the channels in the db with the correct logical channel numbers. exit setup and make sure that works. (do not run mythfilldb at this time) Once that's going, go back and fill in the xmltvids for the channels and use mythfilldb. (We don't have a merge feature yet unfortunately) ( Or just use the built in EIT DVB stuff, which does work in the UK, not sure if this option is built into the rpms you're using though) However after having done this, when starting mythbackend I get log messages of the form:- DVB#0 DVB SI Table Parser Started DVB#0 Using DVB card 0, with frontend KWorld/VStream XPert DVB-T. DVB#0 DVB Signal Monitor Starting DVB#0 ERROR - Could not find dvb tuning parameters for transport 0 DVB#0 ERROR - Failed to get channel options for channel 3. Trying to switch to live TV in the front end gives a blank screen for 15 seconds. The backend meanwhile logs DVB#0 ERROR - No PIDS set, please correct your channel setup. DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. The database has tables but no entries for dvb_channels and dvb_uids although the dvb_multiplex table is filled. These are not used in 0.17. It's stuff that we wanted to remove but wasn't. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeather and Today
Am I crazy, or is MythWeather missing what I would consider an important piece, today's forecast? I see the current temperatures/conditions, but nowhere does it show today's High and Low temperatures, if there will be showers later, etc. It has this for Tomorrow, and then the extended forecast for 3 days past tomorrow. Am I just blind? IIRC this is a bug which was fixed in 0.17. Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [Australian Program Guide Listings]
Im all data'd up until 6am on Tuesday next week. Greeeat ;) On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:37:08 +1030, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah - it was fixed this morning. YAY. M. - Original Message - From: Philip Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 1:36 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] [Australian Program Guide Listings] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi tv_grab_au users, Mackay's data is fading fast. I hope NINEMSN gets there act together too. G'day, ninemsn is back up for me (sydney). tv_grab_au just did it's thing and I've got 7 days of data now Philip -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCNlEqxIxNqC2kQ1MRAtadAJ0aJyi4k8cpNIQF1V6oZGkmezvdOwCfcsnk CVhQqG0tzx/nozUavs3gJ3U= =gNF9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- GMAIL is 'da bomb babyYEAH I have GMail invites, if you want one, email me direct. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial flagging - how to?
Ok, I admit it. It's not clear to me how I go about flagging and removing commercials from the shows I've recorded. Please feel free to enlighten me. In 0.17 when you set up a recording you will see there are some post recording options which include comm flagging. Just tell it there to do the flagging and will it do it as soon as the recording is complete. When it's complete you'll see a cross-out $ sign when yuo highlight that recording. Read keys.txt to see which keys you press to skip the ads. Or you can set it up in setup somewhere to auto skip ads on playback. Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythvideo listing suddenly empty
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:56:29 +0100, Peter Valdemar Morch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May i suggest a change to MythVideo: Actually the way it works now (in CVS) is you get prompted for each video it wants to remove with no, no to all, yes yes to all being the options. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DVD
Thanks everybody for your responses I just have one more question What is the best encoding to use when i record( for the purpose of burning to DVD ) Is it best to use mpeg-ts, mpeg-ps or the DVD option ? what is the ideal bitrate ? 5 with 6mbit peak ? Thanks Markus On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:19:42 -0500 (EST), Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DVD-R works in about 93% of players tested, according to VideoHelp.com. That is the largest % of all formats tested. I have had DVD-Rs work in about 98% of the players I have used. Be careful of the media itself you purchase (lesser quality doesn't always work in all players, but, then again, neither does expensive). Recently, I've been using Memorex, Sony, and TDK discs, and all seem to work in my DVD players at home (a Sony 5-disc changer, a Go-Video VCR/DVD Recorder, a Go-Video player, and an APEX (cheap!) player) My experience has been that if it doesn't fail outright from being so cheap, the Apex player will play most media. I've really only used DVD- media, but lots of different, good/cheap brands of R and RW. I don't support DVD+ since they aren't part of the official standard. My first burner didn't support it, and they don't provide any benefit substantial enough to justify inventing their own standard. Take a look at: http://www.digitalfaq.com/othervideo/dvdformats.htm In particular: Although fans of the DVD+R format hate to hear this, the DVD+R format is a rogue format, invented by greedy companies that were unwilling to pay royalties to the DVD Forum in order to use and develop the DVD-R format and/or use the DVD logo. The DVD+R format does not carry the DVD logo because it is not an official DVD format. Does this make it a bad format? No. -Cory * * Cory Papenfuss* * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * * ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Myth Backend Crash
Hi, I have just completed my Myth frontend and backend setups and everything seems to be working; live tv and recording all tested OK. System has been stable all through testing. Last night I left it set up to record a full show for the first time and when I went to look the backend has seemingly crashed :-( I can ping it on the network but it is unresponsive to ssh, http etc. I am not that familliar with Myth, or even Linux really. Could anyone suggest where/ how I look to debug this problem? System is: Fedora FC3, Myth 0.17 (MythTVSuite ATRPMs install, running myth backend as service (text mode). Not much else running on the backend except what MythSuite installed plus DRBL (Diskless Remote Boot Linux) which I use to boot the (diskless) frontend. ( it uses DHCP, TFTP, NFS) Any help greatfully received. I really like the system so it would be a shame to have to ditch it through poor reliability!! Thx, Dave ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 and MythTV recording quality sample
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:33:07AM +, David wrote: Right. Literally. But I've got some audible noise that I can't get rid of. Is this an hardware issue or related to ivtv or mythtv? Anyone else got this problem? No audio 'noise' (go and google for 'ground loop' though...) My 'noise' clearly is not a ground loop. I know this 50Hz sound quite well. It's more like the noise you can hear, when the tuner is not tuned. In addition, I can even hear it when viewing recordings on my wireless notebook. My VCR and TV receive perfect sound, so there's nothing wrong with the signal. Clueless, Kai ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Xbox NFS root
Has anyone used the current scripts on bit.blkbk.com to upgrade their Xbox frontend using the NFS root option? The 4.4 script stops with a libc6 error during the install.pl -c phase. I may have seen and gotten around this error before, apparently a human memory issue. Anyone else seen this? The 4.5-beta appears to have issues. It does a wget for a file called initrd.$version(initrd.0.4.5-beta) which doesn't exist. I got around it by hardcoding to the initrd.0.4.4 that does exist, but then it locked up(twice) during the apt-get update. Anyone doing NFS root with the other distros available for the Xbox? At the end of the day, I'm trying to upgrade both my frontends to .17.. Thanks. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New System Hardware Recommendations
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 11:03 -0600, Robert Johnston wrote: A lot of the time, I find on *nix lists/chatrooms, the only way to get a reasonable answer (That is, one that doesn't require 300 hours worth of digging through man pages and searching obscure keywords on old university sites) is to start your question with Linux sucks! In Windows I could insert what you want to do here easier than anything! Why should I bother with this back-bedroom OS anyways?, which will usually get you 30 people giving you a nice, simple walkthrough of what you wanted to do easily. Snicker. True, though. I admit, it's not a nice way to ask, but sometimes it's the only way to work out what the hell's going on. I mean, whoever thought that ESCwq was an intuitive way of saving a file, and a text editor that doesn't edit 'til you put it into edit mode? Give me Nano/Pico anyday. People who used WordStar on CP/M machines. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. Our computers and their computers are the same color. The conversion should be no problem! Unknown signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Noise... was Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 and MythTV recording quality sample
Kai Fritzowsky wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:33:07AM +, David wrote: Right. Literally. But I've got some audible noise that I can't get rid of. Is this an hardware issue or related to ivtv or mythtv? Anyone else got this problem? No audio 'noise' (go and google for 'ground loop' though...) My 'noise' clearly is not a ground loop. I know this 50Hz sound quite well. It's more like the noise you can hear, when the tuner is not tuned. In addition, I can even hear it when viewing recordings on my wireless notebook. My VCR and TV receive perfect sound, so there's nothing wrong with the signal. Clueless, Kai OK, what soundcard? Are you using ALSA? Does alsamixer (or whatever) show anything at full volume (including recording levels) - for now make sure nothing is above 80%. Are the cable connections clean? Plug and unplug them a few times to try and ensure good electrical contact. Does a source recorded elsewhere (a known good mp3) play back cleanly? (in which case it's a recording/sampling issue) or not (in which case it's at least a playback, maybe both issue) David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Where can I buy a xbox to make a frontend?
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 13:04 +, jonny Linux wrote: Hi, I'd really like to build a linux xbox mythtv frontend. Although I've read there are issues with the version 1.6 xbox. I'd really like to use the software method described at www.xbox-linux.org, because it sounds simpler and more reversible if I make a mess of it. Although it sounds like the version 1.6 xbox won't support this. I'd really like to buy an xbox, but I don't think I have any way of knowing what version of xbox I'm buying unless I actually look at the serial number on it and work out the version from there! Ebay? Ask the seller what the serial # is, before you make a bid. I've read several people on here saying they use an xbox frontend. If you use one, which version do you use and where did you get it from? (I'm in the UK) -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every state, county, and parish, and pay them out of the public treasury: they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union: they may seek the provision of the poor ... [all of which] would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited government established by the people of America. James Madison, 1789 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 20:48 -0800, Rich Hall wrote: Hi Nathan, Nathan Ford reportedly babbled: [snip] Sigh... I fell down and I can't get up... Or.. How many times do people need to hear the line: If it really is important.. back it up. You got any good ideas on how to back up, for example, a 2/3 full 250GB HDD? Ultrium gen3 doesn't count. http://www.ultrium.com/newsite/html/format.html -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. There will be a Moscow Exhibition of Arts by 15,000 Soviet Republic painters and sculptors. These were executed over the past two years. Soviet Weekly signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT - Linux utility to merge wmv files ? (SOLVED)
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 02:15 -0500, Jason Donahue wrote: For anyone who is interested, here is how I merged a bunch of wmv files into one movie: First use mencoder to convert files to raw avi: mencoder clip1.wmv -oac pcm -ovc raw -o tmp1.avi mencoder clip2.wmv -oac pcm -ovc raw -o tmp2.avi ... ... ... Then use avimerge to combine all the files: avimerge -o bigfile.avi -i tmp1.avi tmp2.avi ... ... Finally, use mencoder again to shrink the file down (I chose xvid): Wouldn't you lose some quality this way? mencoder bigfile.avi -o final.avi -oac mp3lame -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=16000 Hope this helps some other poor souls... On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 20:14 -0500, Jason Donahue wrote: I have several wmv files in the form of clip1/wmv clip2.wmv, etc. I want to merge them into one big file using linux only (I have no windows box). Can this be done with transcode? If not, what other *nix utility would get the job done ? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Hanlon's Razor Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence Napoleon signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Where can I buy a xbox to make a frontend?
I'd really like to build a linux xbox mythtv frontend. Although I've read there are issues with the version 1.6 xbox. 1.6 boxes can be used. You will need to use the UDE2 exploit but it does work. I have one currently running as a frontend. Chances are good that you will not be able to find any older boxes buying new. Christmas took care of most older stock on shelves. I would suggest you look at ebay as they sell several a day. You might even be able to find one with a mod chip already installed so all you need to do is reflash and go. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)
You got any good ideas on how to back up, for example, a 2/3 full 250GB HDD? Tape drives have gotten quite reasonable these days. A single 300GB tape would hold your drive no problem. If you back up without compression it actually goes quite quickly too. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth
On 3/14/2005 10:03 PM, Jeff Wormsley wrote: Could you post your xorg.conf? Sounds like your Samsung may be very similar to mine, and I still haven't found good modeline (what I have now works, but shimmers - don't know a better way to describe it). Mine's an HCL5515W, and I have a 5200 and 9A60 as well, so maybe your modelines would work for me as well. I hope they work better for you than me. Looks like you have the 55 version of my 47. I could never get the perfect modeline, so I gave up and just decided to live with the slight overscan. It doesn't shimmer or anything so this may help you. Also, I went into the service menu and tweeked a couple of things. Google for Samsung HCL5515W service menu. Make sure you write down all your existing settings before messing with them if you decide to. I don't really recommend it. I didn't get that much of an improvement. Here are the relevant portions of my config: Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 VendorName Samsung ModelNameSamsung HCL4715W HDTV HorizSync10 - 50 VertRefresh 59.9 - 60.1 DisplaySize 320 180 Modeline 540p 39.956 960 1020 1100 1184 540 550 551 563 +hsync +vsync # 39.956 MHz 33.75 kHz 59.94 Hz # Modeline 1080i 83.18 1920 2040 2208 2368 1080 1104 1112 1172 +hsync +vsync interlace EndSection Section Device Identifier Videocard0 Driver nvidia VendorName Videocard vendor BoardName NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic) Option NvAGP 3 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Videocard0 MonitorMonitor0 DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes540p EndSubSection EndSection -- David HDTV capable frontend I am working on (now with a picture) http://mythhd.info ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth
On 3/14/2005 10:09 PM, Jeff Wormsley wrote: With my TV when scenes when somewhat dark, the TV would think that the video signal was gone and display the Component message moving around on the screen (very annoying). Further evidence you may have a very close TV to mine. I found how to stop that, though, although it isn't 100% ideal. Use nvidia-settings to bump the brightness from the card, then use the TV brightness to get blacks back down to black. That keeps the COMPONENT bit from flashing. Thanks for the tip. I'll give that a try. -- David HDTV capable frontend I am working on (now with a picture) http://mythhd.info ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 07:42 -0500, William wrote: You got any good ideas on how to back up, for example, a 2/3 full 250GB HDD? Tape drives have gotten quite reasonable these days. You're kidding, right? High-capacity tape drives cost thousands of dollars. http://www.nextag.com/buyer/outpdir.jsp?nxtg=3b085_223EE3C7D6AFA1B5search=ultrium+tape+drive A single 300GB tape would hold your drive no problem. If you back up without compression Backup up MPEG files with tape-drive compression turned ON would be down-right silly. ;) it actually goes quite quickly too. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. Clueless tech journalists drive geeks crazy signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Live TV - Change channels does not work ... recording it does
I've been seeing the same issue with a pvr-25 and my Directv reciever. I rarely watch Live tv on the mythbox so i haven't tried tracking it down yet. Michael Luich No I don't have a pithy tag line. On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:11:15 +, Steve Christall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having a bit of a strange one here. Two tuners, PVR350 plugged into Sky decoder, with serial transmittor to change channels, DVB card as second tuner Just upgraded from .16 to CVS (.17). I followed Martin Smith's guide http://www.ethics-gradient.net/myth/mythdvb2.html to upgrade my dvb stuff in the database. All looked good, playback, recording etc. If I select a channel to record, both the DVB tuner and the PVR successfully change channel. If I try to watch TV ... no go. DVB doesn't come back, PVR stays on the last recorded from channel Attempt to watch live TV DVB 2005-03-14 21:58:16.250 DVB#0 Recorder: Card opened successfully (using PS mode). 2005-03-14 21:58:16.251 DVB#0 ERROR - No PIDS set, please correct your channel setup. 2005-03-14 21:58:17.253 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. Recording on DVB 2005-03-14 22:00:02.874 Started recording ER on channel: 2004 on cardid: 2, sourceid 2 2005-03-14 22:00:03.786 DVB#0 DVB signal 32 | snr c000 | ber 3fff | unc 100 2005-03-14 22:00:04.836 DVB#0 DVB signal 32 | snr c000 | ber 3fff | unc 100 2005-03-14 22:00:05.677 DVB#0 Signal Locked 2005-03-14 22:00:05.766 DVB#0 DVB signal 32 | snr | ber0 | unc 100 2005-03-14 22:00:05.766 DVB#0 Status: LOCK. 2005-03-14 22:00:05.767 DVB#0 Multiplex Locked 2005-03-14 22:00:07.209 DVB#0 Successfully tuned to channel 104. 2005-03-14 22:00:07.256 Changing from None to RecordingOnly 2005-03-14 22:00:07.310 DVB#0 Recorder: Card opened successfully (using PS mode). 2005-03-14 22:00:07.319 DVB#0 Data read from DMX - This is for debugging with transform.c With the PVR, it just gets stuck on a channel and wont change. If I record on it, it manages to change channel! Help!?! Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Where can I buy a xbox to make a frontend?
I'd really like to build a linux xbox mythtv frontend. Although I've read there are issues with the version 1.6 xbox. I'd really like to use the software method described at www.xbox-linux.org, because it sounds simpler and more reversible if I make a mess of it. Although it sounds like the version 1.6 xbox won't support this. I'd really like to buy an xbox, but I don't think I have any way of knowing what version of xbox I'm buying unless I actually look at the serial number on it and work out the version from there! I've read several people on here saying they use an xbox frontend. If you use one, which version do you use and where did you get it from? (I'm in the UK) You can check the serial number simply by looking at the back of the box. There is a hole in the box which shows the serial number of the xbox inside. However, I very much doubt you'll be able to find an xbox earlier than a 1.6 nowadays, as I believe they started producing them mid-2004. Your best bet would be to buy a secondhand one (perhaps from a shop like GameStation - our local one always has secondhand ones available). Make sure all the seals on the bottom are intact though, obviously. Will ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] read error
I am getting a whole bunch of errors from mythbackend when I try to Watch TV on my new FC3 (Jarods guide), 350 system. They read : error reading from: /dev/video16 read: Operation not permitted error reading from: /dev/video16 read: Operation not permitted These errors repeat until I exit back out to the Myth menu. Any ideas? Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] read error
Marty, On Wednesday, 16 March 2005, Marty Ravell wrote: I am getting a whole bunch of errors from mythbackend when I try to Watch TV on my new FC3 (Jarod's guide), 350 system. They read : error reading from: /dev/video16 read: Operation not permitted error reading from: /dev/video16 read: Operation not permitted These errors repeat until I exit back out to the Myth menu. Any ideas? Please check if your mythtv useraccount has sufficient rights on /dev/video16. In my case: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -al /dev/video16 crw-rw 1 root video 81, 16 2005-03-07 12:16 /dev/video16 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep video /etc/group video:x:44:mythtv -- Niels signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: Noise... was Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 and MythTV recording quality sample
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:15:35PM +, David wrote: Kai Fritzowsky wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:33:07AM +, David wrote: Right. Literally. But I've got some audible noise that I can't get rid of. Is this an hardware issue or related to ivtv or mythtv? Anyone else got this problem? No audio 'noise' (go and google for 'ground loop' though...) My 'noise' clearly is not a ground loop. I know this 50Hz sound quite well. It's more like the noise you can hear, when the tuner is not tuned. In addition, I can even hear it when viewing recordings on my wireless notebook. My VCR and TV receive perfect sound, so there's nothing wrong with the signal. OK, what soundcard? Are you using ALSA? Different sound outputs: - FE/BE combo: PVR-350 - FE on notebook: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 02) using ALSA Does alsamixer (or whatever) show anything at full volume (including recording levels) - for now make sure nothing is above 80%. I played with all involved mixer settings which did nothing good or bad apart from adjusting the volume. Are the cable connections clean? Plug and unplug them a few times to try and ensure good electrical contact. Yes, the connections are good. I used the same cabling connected to the VCR to test the setup. Does a source recorded elsewhere (a known good mp3) play back cleanly? Yes, it does. I can't test this with the PVR's tv-out but with the notebook. I tested playing back the PVR recordings with xine which is noisy. I also tested playing back other recordings with xine and it sounds good. (in which case it's a recording/sampling issue) or not (in which case it's at least a playback, maybe both issue) /Kai ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HELP settings table got hosed
On March 14, 2005 11:54 pm, Brad Benson wrote: On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:30:43 -0400, Mark J. Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently had a messy incident on my mythtv backend after my hard disk filled up. Now somehow my settings table has gotten completely hosed. When I look at the database with mysql-query-browser, it can not fetch the columns for the table settings. When I try to run mythfrontend, I get this: 2005-03-14 17:30:00.043 Told to create a NEW database schema, but the database already has 55 tables. If you are sure this is a good mythtv database, verify that the settings table has the DBSchemaVer variable. 2005-03-14 17:30:00.043 Couldn't upgrade database to new schema, exiting. I have a backup from just before I upgraded to 0.17. What can I do? Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users My first suggestion would be to make a back up of your current db then drop the mythconverg database and run mythtvsetup. You'll probably want to tell mythtvsetup to clear all settings for tuners and channels. I believe that running mythtvsetup should setup the mythconverg database for you. If not then it should get setup the first time you start the backend or frontend. Of course, any settings you've changed recently will have to be changed back as all the default settings will be inserted when the db is recreated. As long as you make a backup of your current db before you do this you can always roll it back to your currently hosed version and try some other method if this doesn't work, but I expect this should get you fixed up and ready to run again. Brad Thanks for the reply, I ended up doing things a little more easily. First I backed up the database for safety's sake. Then I ran mysqlcheck and got it to fix the broken tables. Everything looks good now. Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Mythmusic: 24bit audio playback
Last night I attempted to play a 24bit/48KHz flac file. Mythmusic hung on please wait and spit this message out in the logs AudioOutput only supports 8 or 16bit audio. I also tried mplayer, which recognized the 24 bit file but seemed to try to play it as 16bit/44.1KHz. The log was full of flac decoder messages and then it just stopped and exited. Is this a limitation of the player software, or my soundcard? I have an MSI K7N2 Delta2-LSR with onboard Nforce audio. I use the coaxial SPDIF output to a receiver that can accpet 24/96 audio. The sound drivers are the ALSA modules that came with gentoo 2.6.10-r6. Any suggestions? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re:[mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 07:42 -0500, William wrote: You got any good ideas on how to back up, for example, a 2/3 full 250GB HDD? Tape drives have gotten quite reasonable these days. You're kidding, right? High-capacity tape drives cost thousands of dollars. http://www.nextag.com/buyer/outpdir.jsp?nxtg=3b085_223EE3C7D6A FA1B5search=ultrium+tape+drive Yes you are right for high capacity systems designed for commercial applications. However the older tape systems can still be gotten for under $100 and tapes are cheap. Personally I use DVD-R discs that I buy for about $0.35 each. Its not ideal in that they are not reusable and there is no way to automate the backup but they get the job done cheap. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Where can I buy a xbox to make a frontend?
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:04:40 +, jonny Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'd really like to build a linux xbox mythtv frontend. Although I've read there are issues with the version 1.6 xbox. I'd really like to use the software method described at www.xbox-linux.org, because it sounds simpler and more reversible if I make a mess of it. Although it sounds like the version 1.6 xbox won't support this. I'd really like to buy an xbox, but I don't think I have any way of knowing what version of xbox I'm buying unless I actually look at the serial number on it and work out the version from there! I've read several people on here saying they use an xbox frontend. If you use one, which version do you use and where did you get it from? (I'm in the UK) Thanks, Jonny I just went to EB and picked up a used one. They let me inspect it before I bought it. I noticed the date of manufacture was in 2003 so I knew it wasn't a 1.6. -- I probably still have a few (well, now a whole bunch) gmail invites. Drop me a line (off list) if you'd like an account. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)
You got any good ideas on how to back up, for example, a 2/3 full 250GB HDD? I ran into the same problem with my MythTV video and mp3 archive. My video and mp3 archives are on a Windows server that MythTV accesses via NFS. A tape drive would be nice, but I still think they're expensive. Besides, I needed to backup close to 400GB of audio and video and my need for capacity is only going to get larger. I decided the cheapest solution was just to buy additional hard drives. I built two identical Windows servers, both with 500GB of hard drive space. I just spanned the hard drives in each machine to create one logical 500GB drive in each. This way I can easily add additional space to both machines without destroying the existing data. The two machines are connected via gigabit cards and a cross-over CAT5E cable for fast backups. The primary machine copies all new or changed files to the backup server every night. Both machines are also on a UPS. It's not bullet-proof, but it's close enough for me and it solves my backup problem and my increasing need for storage. In total I only spent about $600 for the complete setup (gigabit cards, hard drives, big power supplies and everything). Thank goodness for clearance and rebate deals (i.e. slickdeals.net, dealnews.com, fatwallet.com) The following USENET thread discusses the same issue: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.arch.storage/browse_thread/thread/b3787ea10f143ae1/6e1ee18b61fecba3?q=author:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Any suggestions/feedback regarding my setup would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Ultrium gen3 doesn't count. http://www.ultrium.com/newsite/html/format.html -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. There will be a Moscow Exhibition of Arts by 15,000 Soviet Republic painters and sculptors. These were executed over the past two years. Soviet Weekly ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re:[mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 09:15 -0500, William wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 07:42 -0500, William wrote: You got any good ideas on how to back up, for example, a 2/3 full 250GB HDD? Tape drives have gotten quite reasonable these days. You're kidding, right? High-capacity tape drives cost thousands of dollars. http://www.nextag.com/buyer/outpdir.jsp?nxtg=3b085_223EE3C7D6A FA1B5search=ultrium+tape+drive Yes you are right for high capacity systems designed for commercial applications. However the older tape systems can still be gotten for under $100 and tapes are cheap. Tapes are cheap, but even used high-capacity drives are still expensive. Maybe on ebay, though... http://www.islandco.com/tapes.html Personally I use DVD-R discs that I buy for about $0.35 each. Its not ideal in that they are not reusable and there is no way to automate the backup but they get the job done cheap. Yeah, and you'll have 1000 DVDs. An external high-capacity disk drive is the best solution, I think. Slap a 400GB HDD in a firewire enclosure, and cp! -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. If you disregard people's motives, it becomes much harder to foresee their actions. George Orwell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 and MythTV recording quality sample
I'm going to have to chime in here. For me (though in all fairness, I'm not a linux expert and I'm not done tweaking all the options), I find the video from Myth to be... well, tolerable. Straight out of the box, I had a PVR-350 which produced what I considered to be horrible TV out signal (though the capture seemed to be ok, and many people use the PVR350 with no complaints). I then upped to an nVidia with TV-OUT, and now my picture is... better. Much better. But still not anywhere near where I want it to be. I have a TiVo, and currently I'm simply not willing to give it up for myth-- for the sole reason that TiVo's image quality is better. All this deserves two notes: 1) I'm more picky that most people about image quality-- eg, I won't get pay-per-view because I'd rather watch on DVD, etc (and it doesn't stop there) 2) I'm pretty convinced that there must be something I can do to get the image quality better. TiVo doesn't use any special hardware/software that should make its image quality any better... so perhaps I need to learn, tweak, and learn some more. Just my 2c... - Mark John Kondis wrote: I can't post a sample but what I can tell you is the basic encoder/decoder combination is fantastic at the default 4500kb/s, max 6000kb/s (around 2.1G/hr). On mine, though, the TV tuner had noticeable echoes, and the s-video to composite adapter that came with it was a POS. So I replaced it with a $22 Radio Shack adapter for s-video and sent s-video to my TV and now it's very, very good. --- Alex Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can somebody post somewhere (or point me to) an example TV recording using the PVR-350 and MythTV? Before I spend the $$ on one of these, I'd like to see what the combo is truly capable of. Thanks. -alex ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- -- *Mark L. Cukier*, /Design Engineer/ PE Microcomputer Systems 710 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 _ e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] phone : (617) 353-9206 x19 fax : (617) 353-9205 _ visit us on the web at: http: //www.pemicro.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 08:24 -0600, Brian Donaldson wrote: You got any good ideas on how to back up, for example, a 2/3 full 250GB HDD? I ran into the same problem with my MythTV video and mp3 archive. My video and mp3 archives are on a Windows server that MythTV accesses via NFS. A tape drive would be nice, but I still think they're expensive. Besides, I needed to backup close to 400GB of audio and video and my need for capacity is only going to get larger. I decided the cheapest solution was just to buy additional hard drives. I built two identical Windows servers, both with 500GB of hard drive space. I just spanned the hard drives in each machine to create one logical 500GB drive in each. This way I can easily add additional space to both machines without destroying the existing data. The two machines are connected via gigabit cards and a cross-over CAT5E cable for fast backups. The primary machine copies all new or changed files to the backup server every night. Both machines are also on a UPS. It's not bullet-proof, but it's close enough for me and it solves my backup problem and my increasing need for storage. In total I only spent about $600 for the complete setup (gigabit cards, hard drives, big power supplies and everything). Thank goodness for clearance and rebate deals (i.e. slickdeals.net, dealnews.com, fatwallet.com) The following USENET thread discusses the same issue: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.arch.storage/browse_thread/thread/b3787ea10f143ae1/6e1ee18b61fecba3?q=author:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Any suggestions/feedback regarding my setup would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! If you need 2 machines for other reasons, then obviously that's the way to go. If you just need to backup files, big drives and firewire enclosures are the cheap way. Stuff this puppy with 320GB drives, and you'll be set for a (little) while! http://www.cooldrives.com/ulrafi800qub.html -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. I can't make you have an abortion, but you can *make* me pay child support for 18 years? However, if I want the child (and all the expenses that entails) for the *rest*of*my*life*, and you don't want it for 9 months, tough luck??? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT - Linux utility to merge wmv files ? (SOLVED)
Not really, since wmv is a compressed lossy format anyway. Converting to raw avi is just a way to get it to a workable format. This format took a 32M file and turned it into 1.5G - definitely not a usable size. after recompressing to xvid I noticed no difference in quality from the original wmv files. On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 06:37 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 02:15 -0500, Jason Donahue wrote: For anyone who is interested, here is how I merged a bunch of wmv files into one movie: First use mencoder to convert files to raw avi: mencoder clip1.wmv -oac pcm -ovc raw -o tmp1.avi mencoder clip2.wmv -oac pcm -ovc raw -o tmp2.avi ... ... ... Then use avimerge to combine all the files: avimerge -o bigfile.avi -i tmp1.avi tmp2.avi ... ... Finally, use mencoder again to shrink the file down (I chose xvid): Wouldn't you lose some quality this way? mencoder bigfile.avi -o final.avi -oac mp3lame -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=16000 Hope this helps some other poor souls... On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 20:14 -0500, Jason Donahue wrote: I have several wmv files in the form of clip1/wmv clip2.wmv, etc. I want to merge them into one big file using linux only (I have no windows box). Can this be done with transcode? If not, what other *nix utility would get the job done ? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] EXTREMELY choppy video (solved?) +Image quality.... (ARGH)
Well, I had my first experience downloading and compiling Myth... it was pretty painless I must say!!! :-) I was hoping that tweaking some of the settings (most notably XvMC support-- did all this before I got Jarod's e-mail) would solve my issue... but they didn't. What did solve the issue of Choppy Video was turning down the bitrate. Being the video snob that I am, I turned the bitrate WAY up to around 12,000... turning it down to about 8500 (720x480, DVD-Special-1) eliminated my choppiness. Does this seem right to people?? Shouldn't the PVR-350 be able to handle that bitrate?? In addition... I'm still not thrilled with the image quality. The lines just aren't SHARP! I fiddled with the nVidia settings tool, etc... nothing. That being said... I'm not really convinced that this is a problem with the TV-OUT. I'm using cloneview right now, so I can see the image on my monitor as well... and if I look, I can see that it doesn't look great on my monitor either (at fullscreen). HOWEVER, when I'm in guide mode the preview window looks perfect! To me, this says that the capture just isn't good enough. Any thoughts on how to get a better quality capture (PVR-350)??? If TiVo can do it, Myth must be able to as well. I'd be willing to cough up the money for something better if there's somthing better out there - Mark Jarod Wilson wrote: On Monday 14 March 2005 09:11, Mark L. Cukier wrote: Maybe I'll check first to see if Axel has released his RPMs with XvMC support included :-) The latest builds include nVidia XvMC support, but it is turned off in the settings by default. You should be able to simply turn it on and have it work. That's the case on my end. Though nVidia XvMC likes to lock things up for me on a regular basis... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- -- *Mark L. Cukier*, /Design Engineer/ PE Microcomputer Systems 710 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 _ e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] phone : (617) 353-9206 x19 fax : (617) 353-9205 _ visit us on the web at: http: //www.pemicro.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: Noise... was Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 and MythTV recording quality sample
Kai Fritzowsky wrote: Does a source recorded elsewhere (a known good mp3) play back cleanly? Yes, it does. I can't test this with the PVR's tv-out but with the notebook. I tested playing back the PVR recordings with xine which is noisy. I also tested playing back other recordings with xine and it sounds good. (in which case it's a recording/sampling issue) Do you use the tuner in the PVR? Or record through s-video/phono? David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 and MythTV recording quality sample
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 09:36 -0500, Mark L. Cukier wrote: I'm going to have to chime in here. For me (though in all fairness, I'm not a linux expert and I'm not done tweaking all the options), I find the video from Myth to be... well, tolerable. Straight out of the box, I had a PVR-350 which produced what I considered to be horrible TV out signal (though the capture seemed to be ok, and many people use the PVR350 with no complaints). I then upped to an nVidia with TV-OUT, and now my picture is... better. Much better. But still not anywhere near where I want it to be. I have a TiVo, and currently I'm simply not willing to give it up for myth-- for the sole reason that TiVo's image quality is better. All this deserves two notes: 1) I'm more picky that most people about image quality-- eg, I won't get pay-per-view because I'd rather watch on DVD, etc (and it doesn't stop there) 2) I'm pretty convinced that there must be something I can do to get the image quality better. TiVo doesn't use any special hardware/software that should make its image quality any better... so perhaps I need to learn, tweak, and learn some more. Which distro and video driver are you using, and which versions? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. Lead the people with governmental measures and regulate them by law and punishments, and they will avoid wrongdoing, but will have no sense of honor and shame. Lead them by virtue and regulate them by the rules of propriety and they will have a sense of shame and, moreover, set themselves right. Confucius signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 and MythTV recording quality sample
Thanks to everyone for the info. On Tuesday 15 March 2005 08:36 am, Mark L. Cukier wrote: I'm going to have to chime in here. For me (though in all fairness, I'm not a linux expert and I'm not done tweaking all the options), I find the video from Myth to be... well, tolerable. Straight out of the box, I had a PVR-350 which produced what I considered to be horrible TV out signal (though the capture seemed to be ok, and many people use the PVR350 with no complaints). I then upped to an nVidia with TV-OUT, and now my picture is... better. Much better. But still not anywhere near where I want it to be. I have a TiVo, and currently I'm simply not willing to give it up for myth-- for the sole reason that TiVo's image quality is better. All this deserves two notes: 1) I'm more picky that most people about image quality-- eg, I won't get pay-per-view because I'd rather watch on DVD, etc (and it doesn't stop there) 2) I'm pretty convinced that there must be something I can do to get the image quality better. TiVo doesn't use any special hardware/software that should make its image quality any better... so perhaps I need to learn, tweak, and learn some more. Just my 2c... - Mark John Kondis wrote: I can't post a sample but what I can tell you is the basic encoder/decoder combination is fantastic at the default 4500kb/s, max 6000kb/s (around 2.1G/hr). On mine, though, the TV tuner had noticeable echoes, and the s-video to composite adapter that came with it was a POS. So I replaced it with a $22 Radio Shack adapter for s-video and sent s-video to my TV and now it's very, very good. --- Alex Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can somebody post somewhere (or point me to) an example TV recording using the PVR-350 and MythTV? Before I spend the $$ on one of these, I'd like to see what the combo is truly capable of. Thanks. -alex ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Myth News
Great! Thanks for that Paul. That resolved my issue. James On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:53:10 -, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a somewhat wierd problem. I'm trying to make mythnews useful. On my TV naturally the text is much to small to read. I can plug in a mouse and wheel scroll to resize the text or I can right click and select zoom in, but I can't figure out how to do it from a keyboard. The only reason I want to do it from a keyboard is so I can figure out what the key command is so I can program it into my .lircrc for my remote. Does anyone know either, how to capture the syntax for the mousewheel, or how to capture the command that the Zoom In function uses? Thanks, James Hi James When you select an article in MythNews it actually starts up MythBrowser by default to show the web page associated with that article. So the problem is not with MythNews but with MythBrowser if I understand your problem properly Unfortunately MythBrowser is the only Plugin that does not support definable key binding so there is no way to change the zoom other than from the popup menu or by using the mouse. I have in my own source tree a patch that adds definable key bindings for most of the functions available in MythBowser including the ZoomIn and ZoomOut functions, as well as some other features I added. If I ever get round to it I will send a patch to the dev list once I have cleaned the patch up a little. I've been using it on my production set-up for about 5 or 6 week now with no problems. There is something you can do in the mean time that could mean you won't need to change the zoom level that often. On the web settings page change the Zoom [%] value to a larger default value. Try something like 200. Now when MythBrowser starts it will use the new zoom level by default. Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 and MythTV recording quality sample
I'm using FC2, and I've tried the nvidia 6629 and 7167, both with no improvement. I'm using the lastest ivtv drivers from ATRpms not sure of the version off hand, I'm at work currently. I'm SURE I'm missing something silly here I just can't believe that the card can't capture (near) perfect Video! ANY and ALL help is much appreciated.. Thanks in Advance, Mark Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 09:36 -0500, Mark L. Cukier wrote: I'm going to have to chime in here. For me (though in all fairness, I'm not a linux expert and I'm not done tweaking all the options), I find the video from Myth to be... well, tolerable. Straight out of the box, I had a PVR-350 which produced what I considered to be horrible TV out signal (though the capture seemed to be ok, and many people use the PVR350 with no complaints). I then upped to an nVidia with TV-OUT, and now my picture is... better. Much better. But still not anywhere near where I want it to be. I have a TiVo, and currently I'm simply not willing to give it up for myth-- for the sole reason that TiVo's image quality is better. All this deserves two notes: 1) I'm more picky that most people about image quality-- eg, I won't get pay-per-view because I'd rather watch on DVD, etc (and it doesn't stop there) 2) I'm pretty convinced that there must be something I can do to get the image quality better. TiVo doesn't use any special hardware/software that should make its image quality any better... so perhaps I need to learn, tweak, and learn some more. Which distro and video driver are you using, and which versions? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- -- *Mark L. Cukier*, /Design Engineer/ PE Microcomputer Systems 710 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 _ e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] phone : (617) 353-9206 x19 fax : (617) 353-9205 _ visit us on the web at: http: //www.pemicro.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Blue band right side of picture
Hi! I had the same problem, but instead of the right side, I had the blue band on the left side. The following might helped, at least it did for me. Let me know if it works for you... Use your xterm or any terminal you use on your GUI thing. Use the xvidtune command. This will bring up another window. On the horizontal scan, make it wider . I tried going to the max, but my CPU didn't handle it; so my setting are I do the max and then narrow it 2 times. It seems perfect. Try this one. Thanks, --a-- On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:21:37 -0600, Jim Oltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is this blue band? Mine is on the left and top. It almost looks like the actual image is right several pixels and down a few. Is this an accurate assumption? Is there a way to move the image and not just eliminate the blue background? The reason I say this is because the blue band (left side) looks to be just as far away from the edge of my screen as the other side (right side) of the video image. If you look hard there is a black line on the left side between the blue band and the actual video image. This is not the case on the top of the video image. It almost looks like the video image should be moved up and to the left. Am I making any sense? On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:40:04 +1000, David Whyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I too have a blue band but down the left side of the screen. does this command need to be executed once only...ever, or after each reboot of the myth box, or just prior to starting mythfronted? Cheers, Dave On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:05:58 +1100, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Search the list archives for xvattr. This is a command line utility that will change the background from blue to black, eliminating the line. I can't remember the exact command, but it's been in this list a number of times. You may have to download and install the utility if it's not a part of your distro. xvattr -a XV_COLORKEY -v 0 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- GMAIL is 'da bomb babyYEAH I have GMail invites, if you want one, email me direct. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Blue band right side of picture
The following might *help*..sorry a typo! On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:59:40 -0600, Ashu Desai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I had the same problem, but instead of the right side, I had the blue band on the left side. The following might helped, at least it did for me. Let me know if it works for you... Use your xterm or any terminal you use on your GUI thing. Use the xvidtune command. This will bring up another window. On the horizontal scan, make it wider . I tried going to the max, but my CPU didn't handle it; so my setting are I do the max and then narrow it 2 times. It seems perfect. Try this one. Thanks, --a-- On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:21:37 -0600, Jim Oltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is this blue band? Mine is on the left and top. It almost looks like the actual image is right several pixels and down a few. Is this an accurate assumption? Is there a way to move the image and not just eliminate the blue background? The reason I say this is because the blue band (left side) looks to be just as far away from the edge of my screen as the other side (right side) of the video image. If you look hard there is a black line on the left side between the blue band and the actual video image. This is not the case on the top of the video image. It almost looks like the video image should be moved up and to the left. Am I making any sense? On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:40:04 +1000, David Whyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I too have a blue band but down the left side of the screen. does this command need to be executed once only...ever, or after each reboot of the myth box, or just prior to starting mythfronted? Cheers, Dave On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:05:58 +1100, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Search the list archives for xvattr. This is a command line utility that will change the background from blue to black, eliminating the line. I can't remember the exact command, but it's been in this list a number of times. You may have to download and install the utility if it's not a part of your distro. xvattr -a XV_COLORKEY -v 0 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- GMAIL is 'da bomb babyYEAH I have GMail invites, if you want one, email me direct. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 06:32:58 -0600, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 20:48 -0800, Rich Hall wrote: Hi Nathan, Nathan Ford reportedly babbled: [snip] Sigh... I fell down and I can't get up... Or.. How many times do people need to hear the line: If it really is important.. back it up. You got any good ideas on how to back up, for example, a 2/3 full 250GB HDD? Having sufured several hard disk failures in the past few years, my setup is the following: - have a separate hard disk with enough capacity to hold your data - put that disk either in another machine, either in a firewire/USB2 drive enclosure - rsync Right now my desktop and my laptop are synchronized that way. I can even synchronize throught the network with ssh configured correctly. It's simple. It's flexible. And it works. Jerome ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 and MythTV recording quality sample
I don't want to have two threads semi-addressing the same issue, so I thought I should point out that I'm trying to get my Video quality issues addressed in the EXTREMELY choppy video (solved?) + Image quality... (ARGH) thread - Mark Mark L. Cukier wrote: I'm using FC2, and I've tried the nvidia 6629 and 7167, both with no improvement. I'm using the lastest ivtv drivers from ATRpms not sure of the version off hand, I'm at work currently. I'm SURE I'm missing something silly here I just can't believe that the card can't capture (near) perfect Video! ANY and ALL help is much appreciated.. Thanks in Advance, Mark Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 09:36 -0500, Mark L. Cukier wrote: I'm going to have to chime in here. For me (though in all fairness, I'm not a linux expert and I'm not done tweaking all the options), I find the video from Myth to be... well, tolerable. Straight out of the box, I had a PVR-350 which produced what I considered to be horrible TV out signal (though the capture seemed to be ok, and many people use the PVR350 with no complaints). I then upped to an nVidia with TV-OUT, and now my picture is... better. Much better. But still not anywhere near where I want it to be. I have a TiVo, and currently I'm simply not willing to give it up for myth-- for the sole reason that TiVo's image quality is better. All this deserves two notes: 1) I'm more picky that most people about image quality-- eg, I won't get pay-per-view because I'd rather watch on DVD, etc (and it doesn't stop there) 2) I'm pretty convinced that there must be something I can do to get the image quality better. TiVo doesn't use any special hardware/software that should make its image quality any better... so perhaps I need to learn, tweak, and learn some more. Which distro and video driver are you using, and which versions? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- -- *Mark L. Cukier*, /Design Engineer/ PE Microcomputer Systems 710 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 _ e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] phone : (617) 353-9206 x19 fax : (617) 353-9205 _ visit us on the web at: http: //www.pemicro.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] how about autocomplete a TV series? (more than just rec new ep's)
colliepon wrote: [snip]It might be helpful (for instance) to complete whole seasons at a time if you didn't start in the first season, so you can burn off whole seasons at once for instance. Or make a list of which episodes you have, which episodes are missing, or prioritize to complete whole seasons from reruns if space is at a premium, etc. I'm sure other cool things could be done with the data. Would anyone else find this cool? This is your lucky day :) Check out the tvwish script by Brad Templeton (http://www.templetons.com/brad/myth/tvwish.html). It does all that and more... I've been using it for a couple weeks now, and am quite pleased, especially by the movies it picks up. Graham begin:vcard fn:Graham Dunn n:Dunn;Graham org:Inscriber - A Division of Leitch;IT adr:;;26 Peppler St.;Waterloo;Ontario;N2L1B6;Canada email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Manager tel;work:+1-519-570-9111 x 243 tel;fax:+1-519-570-9140 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.inscriber.com version:2.1 end:vcard ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Problems deleting
I am trying to delete a TV episode; but somehow the database doesn't seem to delete it! I can't watch it, since it's not there; but when I go to mythweb or Manage recordings, it's still there. I tried to delete it on my TV, via mythweb and via putty; but it just doesn't go away. I even did a touch filename and delete it then, but nothing happened. It just sits there mocking me!!! Can anyone help??? Thanks, Ash. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] DVB TS Recording Issues
Hi. I'm having issues with DVB (Australian) in mythtv, using TS mode and a FusionHDTV DVB-T Plus card (not the lite with the bt878 decoder). Using PS most streams are fine apart from the HD streams, which are blocky and stuttery. Using TS every channel works ok, apart from 7 HD (Works when it's opened first, but channel surfing into it sometimes mixes up the audio, and the picture stutters). The problem is that when pause is hit, it will allow rewinding but won't fast forward, and it doesn't show how behind you are (0:00 behind, HDD % fills). PS doesn't do this. Also, when transcoding recorded shows, the transcoding file fills larger than the original file! Mythtv Status shows transcoding going over 100% (One example is 1289% done. :O ). Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Nathan Manzi ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: | If you need 2 machines for other reasons, then obviously that's the | way to go. If you just need to backup files, big drives and | firewire enclosures are the cheap way. | | Stuff this puppy with 320GB drives, and you'll be set for a | (little) while! http://www.cooldrives.com/ulrafi800qub.html These is a nice looking solution but it would probably be cheaper to buy a larger case and have everything all in one box. Now, if there were a network version for a similar price that would be a different story because you could put the storage someone else, like the garage or loft. Dave -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCNvqITvi0LnvdKq0RAlrnAKCIRSckRMaqcLq9SLcaVltqlEcCxgCdFMBL G3GxSayx7v+qJUs5dkWnAyQ= =7rJy -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC won't compile on kernel 2.6.10-1.770_FC2
The program will not compile, it just comes up with a lot of syntax and file not found errors. Im not sure if Im missing some configure option to tell lirc where my files are, but I think Ive tried all the options. Anyone had luck with a similar problem? That's a vague error description, and without cutting and pasting the exact error message, how is anyone going to be able to help you? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)
- rsync Right now my desktop and my laptop are synchronized that way. I can even synchronize throught the network with ssh configured correctly. It's simple. It's flexible. And it works. That's pretty much what I do for my important documents. I haven't figured out an elegant way to have passwordless ssh via a cronjob, though. I still use my dsa_key cache'd normal login to do it manually, though. I suppose if I weren't so lazy I could try an ssh-equivalent hosts.allow... but so far the manual approach (along with a weekly complete system tarball) is OK. -Cory * * Cory Papenfuss* * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * * ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:19:39AM -0500, Cory Papenfuss wrote: That's pretty much what I do for my important documents. I haven't figured out an elegant way to have passwordless ssh via a cronjob, though. I still use my dsa_key cache'd normal login to do it manually, though. Use an application called keychain to cache your passphrase. If you are interested in backups solutions using ssh and remote locations I have a blog entry on backups: http://technocrat.watson-wilson.ca/blosxom/computer/backup.html http://technocrat.watson-wilson.ca/blosxom/computer/ssh-howto.html -- Neil Watson | Gentoo Linux Network Administrator | Uptime 61 days http://watson-wilson.ca | 2.6.10 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2000+ x 2 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: Noise... was Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 and MythTV recording quality sample
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:47:39PM +, David wrote: Kai Fritzowsky wrote: Does a source recorded elsewhere (a known good mp3) play back cleanly? Yes, it does. I can't test this with the PVR's tv-out but with the notebook. I tested playing back the PVR recordings with xine which is noisy. I also tested playing back other recordings with xine and it sounds good. (in which case it's a recording/sampling issue) Do you use the tuner in the PVR? Or record through s-video/phono? I use the tuner. /Kai ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)
Cory Papenfuss wrote: I suppose if I weren't so lazy I could try an ssh-equivalent hosts.allow... but so far the manual approach (along with a weekly complete system tarball) is OK. -Cory It's pretty simple, ssh-keygen on both sides, then cat the resulting text files into the others 'authorized_keys' file. More detail here: http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Passwordless_ssh_logins.html It should only take about 5 minutes to setup :) Tom ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)
My experiance with HD backup is not so good. Usually you have only one drive that holds one backup (maybe two). But what can happen is that a disk goes down slowly and has failures that you copy to your backup before you notice that. The HD backup is not helping then, because you only have the broken copy there. I prefer tapes (actually a DLT tape library from ebay) and keep several instances. Even so that means that I have many tapes laying around... On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:19:39 -0500 (EST), Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - rsync Right now my desktop and my laptop are synchronized that way. I can even synchronize throught the network with ssh configured correctly. It's simple. It's flexible. And it works. That's pretty much what I do for my important documents. I haven't figured out an elegant way to have passwordless ssh via a cronjob, though. I still use my dsa_key cache'd normal login to do it manually, though. I suppose if I weren't so lazy I could try an ssh-equivalent hosts.allow... but so far the manual approach (along with a weekly complete system tarball) is OK. -Cory * * Cory Papenfuss* * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * * ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Playing music while browsing photos
MythTV Users, One of the features that (for me) would be neat in MythTV is the support of playing music while browsing photos or walking through the menus. Currently leaving mythmusic also means that the music stops playing. I have looked at mfd, but I'm not sure I understand what it does. It looks like a daemon that can be used by plugins (/clients) to play music. The mfd software is maintained in CVS, but I'm not sure if it can be used already with eg mythmusic. Does anyone know if this feature is somewhere on the radar or if it is already supported in some way? -- Niels signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)
It's pretty simple, ssh-keygen on both sides, then cat the resulting text files into the others 'authorized_keys' file. More detail here: http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Passwordless_ssh_logins.html It should only take about 5 minutes to setup :) Yes, I'm already doing this, but I like to have a passphrase on my dsa_key... For my normal login, I run the ssh-agent and supply the passphrase at every login (only once a week or so). That key.pub is distributed to all the machines I log into, but is only stored unencrypted in memory after I supply the passphrase. I would like an automated backup to connect to that agent and use the key that's passphrase-protected. Hope that makes sense. It's quite possible that what I'm trying to do is stupid and I'd realize it if I thought all the way through it. All I know is if I type 'backup_script logged in normally, I've got my passphrase-protected key exchange that doesn't require a password. If I put it in a script, notsomuch. -Cory * * Cory Papenfuss* * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * * ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Lower power usage ideas? (for backend)
I am pretty sure I have seen instructions for how to interface Myth with software suspend, and a (primitive sounding) BIOS utility that allows it to set the wake timer automatically. Then it can sleep when idling and wake up to record shows. Sorry, couldn't find the URL just now. I have been meaning to experiment with this, but haven't gotten around to it yet. In the meantime, I found out a rather stunning revelation about Athlon systems. There appears to be a latent power save mode built into all of them (not just the mobile models) that works perfectly and without any performance hit that I can detect. Something to do with sending a special instruction during the idle cycle. It is disabled by default. I have no idea why. You can enable it with a utility like FVCool. Using sensors, I watched the CPU temp drop 14C when idling... it's really something. Maybe it will work for you too. On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, colliepon wrote: Just curious both what other people are doing, and feature discussion (not b*tching :) on other methods of reducing the power use of a myth box since it can build up over awhile. (and my next move may very well be off grid - satellite TV, running off solar or wind, so power use is critical but i'd prefer an alternative to the VCR) A few examples i'm thinking of: Could you schedule an expected time-on and time off to work with a normal block of programming? By shut down time I mean to properly suspend all tasks like commercial flagging without screwing up data or not doing them during the week at all. This would let you use a standard analog or digital wall timer to turn on the computer and satellite receiver for a given block of time (for instance 6:30pm to 10pm if you mostly like the evening block, or 11pm to about 3am if you like Adult Swim) since I don't know any other way to tell a computer to turn on at a given time. :) (though if someone knows of a computer-programmable wakeup solution please tell me!) Or perhaps having a C3 machine with a PVR500 for 24hr recording which can wake up a P4 with another card for overflow during peak hours, and also to do things like commercial flagging or recompression. (which also might need to schedule file moves, for instance a 120gig drive on the C3 and 500gig on the P4 as primary storage) Or maybe speed throttling certain cpu's might work - some of the new Centrino motherboards for desktop use http://www17.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20041224/index.html, laptops with a USB grabber, or even the underclocked Athlon XP http://www17.tomshardware.com/cpu/20041001/index.html - does anyone use anything like this? (or have any experience/insights worth sharing?) I've no clue how/if throttling is supported in linux, or mythTV or anything else, but it would be nice to let the cpu idle during daily recording and to speed up for flagging and transcoding. Is anyone else using a lower power design or strategy with Myth? Colliepon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: Noise... was Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 and MythTV recording quality sample
Kai Fritzowsky wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:47:39PM +, David wrote: Kai Fritzowsky wrote: Does a source recorded elsewhere (a known good mp3) play back cleanly? Yes, it does. I can't test this with the PVR's tv-out but with the notebook. I tested playing back the PVR recordings with xine which is noisy. I also tested playing back other recordings with xine and it sounds good. (in which case it's a recording/sampling issue) Do you use the tuner in the PVR? Or record through s-video/phono? I use the tuner. ah, I use s-video so I can't really comment. Hmm - maybe you have a bad tuner - or it's not quite tuned right? Are you using a splitter in the arial? David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 10:32 -0500, Cory Papenfuss wrote: I would like an automated backup to connect to that agent and use the key that's passphrase-protected. There are (arguably) better ways to do this and security issues with what you propose. Hope that makes sense. It's quite possible that what I'm trying to do is stupid and I'd realize it if I thought all the way through it. All I know is if I type 'backup_script logged in normally, I've got my passphrase-protected key exchange that doesn't require a password. Right, because all processes that descend from your ssh-agent command inherit the environment variable (SSH_AUTH_SOCK) that describes the socket to access your ssh-agent if they need to. Realize that anything on the system that is running the agent (or any system you allow agent forwarding to) can access your keys if they know this socket and have permission to access it (i.e. root). Because when you run the backup command in your ssh-agent parented shell, it has access to the agent socket it works. Run it from somewhere that is not a descendant of your agent it does not have access to the agent it does not work. If I put it in a script, notsomuch. Right. As per the above. IMHO, the right way to do this is to use the forced command option in the authorized_keys file. See the manpage for sshd under the AUTHORIZED_KEYS FILE FORMAT section and create a key on the backup server that is forced to run only one command and then use the private portion of that key without a passphrase on your client. b. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 10:32 -0500, Cory Papenfuss wrote: Yes, I'm already doing this, but I like to have a passphrase on my dsa_key... Personally I generate a completely separate key, with no password. This ssh's into a specific backup account on the target, and the .ssh/authorized_keys setup restricts the login to only be from a specific machine and only allows one specific command. I can then use cron to ssh -i mybackupkey ... I prefer that to having more important (general purpose) keys left in memory when I'm not around. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:43:47AM -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote: IMHO, the right way to do this is to use the forced command option in the authorized_keys file. See the manpage for sshd under the AUTHORIZED_KEYS FILE FORMAT section and create a key on the backup server that is forced to run only one command and then use the private portion of that key without a passphrase on your client. That is very interesting. Does that mean I could have a key pair without a passphrase? The account on the public server could have no shell access? A connection would automatically execute a command without a shell? Do you have an example of how a remote rsync or other type of backup would use this feature? -- Neil Watson | Gentoo Linux Network Administrator | Uptime 61 days http://watson-wilson.ca | 2.6.10 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2000+ x 2 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: Noise... was Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 and MythTV recording quality sample
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 03:42:03PM +, David wrote: Kai Fritzowsky wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:47:39PM +, David wrote: Kai Fritzowsky wrote: Does a source recorded elsewhere (a known good mp3) play back cleanly? Yes, it does. I can't test this with the PVR's tv-out but with the notebook. I tested playing back the PVR recordings with xine which is noisy. I also tested playing back other recordings with xine and it sounds good. (in which case it's a recording/sampling issue) Do you use the tuner in the PVR? Or record through s-video/phono? I use the tuner. ah, I use s-video so I can't really comment. Hmm - maybe you have a bad tuner - Maybe. :-/ or it's not quite tuned right? In this case the picture quality would become bad before the sound does, right? My picture quality is really good. Are you using a splitter in the arial? No, I don't. Thanks for your input. Maybe I should try to get another PVR350 for testing purposes. /Kai ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Lower power usage ideas? (for backend)
On 3/14/2005 11:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When the cpu is idle it's not eatting up power anyways. Maybe some CPUs with power saving mode (or using cpuspeed). But the above is dangerous as a general statement. Just as an example: ok, your CPU is idling and not eating power. Is it safe to remove the CPU fan and heatsink from it? After all not eatting [sic] power should mean that it isn't generating heat. :-) So if that's the case then there's no problem with the way it is? It isn't the case. While CPUs may not draw as much power when idling the higher-end desktop processors from AMD and Intel definitely draw a lot of power and make a lot of heat. -- David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] FC3, atrpms, jarod's guide = capset failed
On Monday 14 March 2005 13:13, Listman wrote: I'm running FC3 and using atrpms and Jarod's guide to try to get mythtv running again. - worked fine for me on FC2 I have a PVR 250 and tried walking through Jarods guide to install the ivtv module but once I get the packages and boot with the supplied kernel I cant start named (bind) I get the following message - am I the only one? **Unmatched Entries** succeeded: 3 Time(s) named startup failed: 1 Time(s) named: capset failed: Operation not permitted: please ensure that the capset kernel module is loaded. see insmod(8): 1 Time(s) That's a new one to me... Er, wait a sec, I vaguely recall mention of that on one of the fedora lists. Try looking it up in Red Hat's bugzilla. -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got a question? Read this first... http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html MythTV, Fedora Core ATrpms documentation: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archive http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/ Looks like bind need to be built with the --disable-linux-caps flag, I'll try to look into this more and send a request to atrpms and see if they would be so kind to include that. I'll give it a shot myself before I make any request to make sure it actually fixes the problem. selinux may also be causing part of this problem (from what I've read) but I installed with selinux disabled and I'm not really sure how all that fits in. Thanks Jarod. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [Australian Program Guide Listings]
There any grabbers that get WA - Perth Digital listings? - iosa Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote: Yeah - it was fixed this morning. YAY. M. - Original Message - From: Philip Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 1:36 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] [Australian Program Guide Listings] Hi tv_grab_au users, Mackay's data is fading fast. I hope NINEMSN gets there act together too. G'day, ninemsn is back up for me (sydney). tv_grab_au just did it's thing and I've got 7 days of data now Philip ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] possible mythweb cutlist editor
I have a hackjob (don't know much about php) attempt at the beginnings of a cutlist editor. It is far off right now. If a show on the Recorded_Programs page has been commercial flagged it will have a link to a commercial cutlist editor. It shows a bargraph showing where the commercials are marked. If you click on the bar it will show 5 frames at 30 seconds apart to the left and right of where you click and one frame where you click. This will allow you to narrow in and check if the commercial is correct. I plan on having it zoom in more by 1 second intervals if you click on any of the displayed thumbnails. Plans are to have ways to remove and add cutlist points via the web. This is far off right now. I had to modify the backend slightly to allow for thumbnail generation based on # of seconds in (old way) and by frame #. They command is backwards compatible. I modified QUERY_RECORDINGS to allow the passing of CHANID and STARTTIME to return just one record instead of all records. This is also backwards compatible. If they are left off it will return all records. I don't know when / if this will get done. I Work on it when I am bored. Here is a link showing a screen shot of me clicking on a show then clicking on a commercial boundary. It shows thumbnails on the top row that verify that the area to the left of the click is from the show and the thumbnails on the bottom verify that the commercials are to the right of the click. Happy drooling... http://www.thearmstrongs.org/mythtv/cutlist001.jpg - James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 10:59 -0500, Neil Watson wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:43:47AM -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote: IMHO, the right way to do this is to use the forced command option in the authorized_keys file. See the manpage for sshd under the AUTHORIZED_KEYS FILE FORMAT section and create a key on the backup server that is forced to run only one command and then use the private portion of that key without a passphrase on your client. That is very interesting. Does that mean I could have a key pair without a passphrase? Sure. The account on the public server could have no shell access? I believe so. A connection would automatically execute a command without a shell? Hrm. I don't recall if the command in the authorized_keys file is executed directly (as in execve()) or through a shell (as in system()). Do you have an example of how a remote rsync or other type of backup would use this feature? I'm afraid I don't. If this is what you want to do, look at Bill Stearns' rsync-backup-server/rsync-backup-client tool(s). b. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)
I haven't followed this thread, but thought I would post my backup
script in case it is useful to someone.
It uses rsync to rotate the backup, and it keeps the disk space down
because files that remain the same though the rotations are hard links
to the same physical space on the disk. This allows you to have a 7 day
rotation, while the disk space used is kept to the sum of the data and
the change over the last 7 days.
schu
#!/bin/bash
#
# Schu's backup rotation script modified from
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
#
# Dirs in the includes file are appended to the backupsource and backed up. So
if /etc/rotateBackup.includes
# contains 'var' on a line and the backup source is '/' then /var will be
backed up.
#
# user changable stuff
BACKUPSOURCE=/
BACKUPDEST=/backup
EXCLUDES=/etc/rotateBackup.excludes
INCLUDES=/etc/rotateBackup.includes
# make sure we're running as root
if (( `id -u` != 0 )); then { echo Sorry, must be root. Exiting...; exit; }
fi
# if the excludes file does exist then touch it
if [ ! -f $EXCLUDES ]; then
touch $EXCLUDES
fi
# if the includes file does exist then touch it
if [ ! -f $INCLUDES ]; then
touch $INCLUDES
fi
# now rotate snapshots
# step 1: delete the oldest snapshot, if it exists:
if [ -d $BACKUPDEST/backup.6 ]; then
rm -rf $BACKUPDEST/backup.6
fi
# step 2: shift the middle snapshots(s) back by one, if they exist
if [ -d $BACKUPDEST/backup.5 ]; then
mv $BACKUPDEST/backup.5 $BACKUPDEST/backup.6
fi;
if [ -d $BACKUPDEST/backup.4 ]; then
mv $BACKUPDEST/backup.4 $BACKUPDEST/backup.5
fi;
if [ -d $BACKUPDEST/backup.3 ]; then
mv $BACKUPDEST/backup.3 $BACKUPDEST/backup.4
fi;
if [ -d $BACKUPDEST/backup.2 ]; then
mv $BACKUPDEST/backup.2 $BACKUPDEST/backup.3
fi;
if [ -d $BACKUPDEST/backup.1 ]; then
mv $BACKUPDEST/backup.1 $BACKUPDEST/backup.2
fi
# step 3: make a hard-link-only (except for dirs) copy of the latest snapshot,
# if that exists
if [ -d $BACKUPDEST/backup.0 ]; then
cp -al $BACKUPDEST/backup.0 $BACKUPDEST/backup.1
fi;
# step 4: rsync from the system into the latest snapshot (notice that
# rsync behaves like cp --remove-destination by default, so the destination
# is unlinked first. If it were not so, this would copy over the other
# snapshot(s) too!
rsync -va -r --delete --delete-excluded --files-from=$INCLUDES
--exclude-from=$EXCLUDES $BACKUPSOURCE/ $BACKUPDEST/backup.0
# step 5: update the mtime of hourly.0 to reflect the snapshot time
touch $BACKUPDEST/backup.0
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Re: Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)
Matthew Schumacher wrote:
I haven't followed this thread, but thought I would post my backup
script in case it is useful to someone.
It uses rsync to rotate the backup, and it keeps the disk space down
because files that remain the same though the rotations are hard links
to the same physical space on the disk. This allows you to have a 7 day
rotation, while the disk space used is kept to the sum of the data and
the change over the last 7 days.
schu
The list stripped my code, how annoying...
WATCH FOR LINE WRAP!!!
#!/bin/bash
#
# Schu's backup rotation script modified from
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
#
# Dirs in the includes file are appended to the backupsource and backed
up. So if /etc/rotateBackup.includes
# contains 'var' on a line and the backup source is '/' then /var will
be backed up.
#
# user changable stuff
BACKUPSOURCE=/
BACKUPDEST=/backup
EXCLUDES=/etc/rotateBackup.excludes
INCLUDES=/etc/rotateBackup.includes
# make sure we're running as root
if (( `id -u` != 0 )); then { echo Sorry, must be root. Exiting...;
exit; } fi
# if the excludes file does exist then touch it
if [ ! -f $EXCLUDES ]; then
touch $EXCLUDES
fi
# if the includes file does exist then touch it
if [ ! -f $INCLUDES ]; then
touch $INCLUDES
fi
# now rotate snapshots
# step 1: delete the oldest snapshot, if it exists:
if [ -d $BACKUPDEST/backup.6 ]; then
rm -rf $BACKUPDEST/backup.6
fi
# step 2: shift the middle snapshots(s) back by one, if they exist
if [ -d $BACKUPDEST/backup.5 ]; then
mv $BACKUPDEST/backup.5 $BACKUPDEST/backup.6
fi;
if [ -d $BACKUPDEST/backup.4 ]; then
mv $BACKUPDEST/backup.4 $BACKUPDEST/backup.5
fi;
if [ -d $BACKUPDEST/backup.3 ]; then
mv $BACKUPDEST/backup.3 $BACKUPDEST/backup.4
fi;
if [ -d $BACKUPDEST/backup.2 ]; then
mv $BACKUPDEST/backup.2 $BACKUPDEST/backup.3
fi;
if [ -d $BACKUPDEST/backup.1 ]; then
mv $BACKUPDEST/backup.1 $BACKUPDEST/backup.2
fi
# step 3: make a hard-link-only (except for dirs) copy of the latest
snapshot,
# if that exists
if [ -d $BACKUPDEST/backup.0 ]; then
cp -al $BACKUPDEST/backup.0 $BACKUPDEST/backup.1
fi;
# step 4: rsync from the system into the latest snapshot (notice that
# rsync behaves like cp --remove-destination by default, so the destination
# is unlinked first. If it were not so, this would copy over the other
# snapshot(s) too!
rsync -va -r --delete --delete-excluded --files-from=$INCLUDES
--exclude-from=$EXCLUDES $BACKUPSOURCE/ $BACKUPDEST/backup.0
# step 5: update the mtime of hourly.0 to reflect the snapshot time
touch $BACKUPDEST/backup.0
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[mythtv-users] Mythtv laundry list
First of all, my respect goes out to all of those working on this project. I have evaluated most of the available htpc front-ends in windows and found that each one was missing something crucial and was not useable in the immediate time-frame. I have currently convinced my wife that the great beige box in the livingroom is a good thing. This has been mainly due to the success I have had with Myth. All that said, I have a continually develping laundry list of improvements I need to add to my myth setup. But first, my current setup: PIII 833 512 MB RAM Hauppauge 250 (bought in 05 with the new tuner chip which caused a major headache) 60 GB HDD Sound Blaster Live Value nVidia 5200 FX graphics card FC3 with Myth .17 (Jarod's guide has been awesome) 1) New 5.1+ Sound Card with TOSLink out. I want to avoid the $100+ Sound Blaster's if I can. Someone mentioned the AOpen Cobra AW850D. However the ALSA web page does not list it as supported, and I have not found sub-$100 card that suits my needs. This must also support AC3 for DVD playback. 2) Video playback Tearing - Some of my video seems to have a slight tearing artifact. However there seem to be no accompanying audio artifacts. I am not quite sure where the OpenGL switches or nVidia switches exist to enable de-interlacing. Your help is greatly appreciated, Bill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Lower power usage ideas? (for backend)
In addition the power supply takes a lot power even if the CPU does not need it. Those PSUs are so cheap made that they don't care about reducing power if in idle. Also the losses of the PSUs are quite high (30-40% of max power) On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:02:54 -0500, David George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/14/2005 11:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When the cpu is idle it's not eatting up power anyways. Maybe some CPUs with power saving mode (or using cpuspeed). But the above is dangerous as a general statement. Just as an example: ok, your CPU is idling and not eating power. Is it safe to remove the CPU fan and heatsink from it? After all not eatting [sic] power should mean that it isn't generating heat. :-) So if that's the case then there's no problem with the way it is? It isn't the case. While CPUs may not draw as much power when idling the higher-end desktop processors from AMD and Intel definitely draw a lot of power and make a lot of heat. -- David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Silverstone LC03V VFD
Hi all, still haven't managed to get my stock VFD to work as yet. In fact I unplugged it, got distracted for a week and have only just come to plug it back in. One question! Can someone tell me the orientation of the plug on the back of the VFD unit, should it have power sockets at the top or bottom?? The red and black power wires go to the bottom pins 1 and 2. http://www.ocmodshop.com/silverstonelc03v/DSCF0070.JPG Has anyone had any success with this unit yet? I have it working with LCDproc. It does have its problems though. When I first got the Silversone box the VFD was very temperamental. Some times it would start up OK others it refused to work. One day I was changing around the routing of the wiring in the case and had to disconnect the plug on the back of the VFD. When I restarted the machine the VFD refused to work no matter what I did. In the end I decided to take it out of the case to get a better look at it. When I did I noticed that the connector pins had been very badly soldered to the PCB with some pins not even soldered at all. Others had clear dry joints. I carefully resoldered the pins and it has worked OK ever since. It will work with the stock LCDproc source/packages but I know the version I was using at the time had to be patched at get the character mapping sorted out among other things. I forget exactly what! I still have issues with it though. It often seems to randomly display garbage characters. It's possible the latest LCDproc fixes the problems I have been having. Not had a look lately to see. Cheers Rich Good luck. Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Anybody having X lockup problems with MX440 on 7167 nvidia drivers?
Hey All: Just curious if anybody is having weird lockup problems with MX440 hardware with the 7167 driver. The 6629 driver never worked with my MX440 (nforce2 MB), and now the 7167 kind of works. KDE hangs on load up. It hangs hard where it says starting interprocess communication. If I then remote login through ssh, you can see that X is pegged at 99% processor usage. GNOME boots up fine and seems OK, and mythtvsetup runs OK, but when mythfrontend starts, X pegs at 99% processor usage and myth is locked up. I'm at the point where I just ordered an FX5200 from Newegg. Hopefully that'll solve the problem. Wondering if anyone else had similar problems. Thanks, John. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth
What brands/technologies seem to work the best and look good as well. I'm thinking of getting a DLP based TV unless someone has had a super bad experience. I have to second (third? fourth?) the Samsung suggestion. I have the third-generation 61 DLP RPTV, and it rocks. I can not say enough good things about the picture: it simply has the most natural color saturation of any TV I've ever witnessed when viewing DVD's or HDTV. SDTV, on the other hand, suffers with any HDTV, and this one is no exception. If you intend to watch lots of SDTV even after getting the new monitor, I'd strongly recommend watching it on a smaller physical display: either keep a crappy 27 electron gun around, or (like I do) watch SDTV on a computer with a Myth remote frontend. Much more pleasant than viewing washed-out color and low resolution on a very large display. Cheers, Kyle ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 16:28 +0100, Johannes Becker wrote: My experiance with HD backup is not so good. Usually you have only one drive that holds one backup (maybe two). But what can happen is that a disk goes down slowly and has failures that you copy to your backup before you notice that. The HD backup is not helping then, because you only have the broken copy there. I prefer tapes (actually a DLT tape library from ebay) and keep several instances. Even so that means that I have many tapes laying around... How much did you pay for it? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. 'Reckless discharge of a gun', that's what the officers are claimin'. Bubba hollered, 'Reckless, hell!!! I hit just where I was aimin'! Mark Chesnutt, Bubba Shot The Jukebox signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:15:45 -0500, Brian J. Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 10:59 -0500, Neil Watson wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:43:47AM -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote: IMHO, the right way to do this is to use the forced command option in the authorized_keys file. See the manpage for sshd under the AUTHORIZED_KEYS FILE FORMAT section and create a key on the backup server that is forced to run only one command and then use the private portion of that key without a passphrase on your client. That is very interesting. Does that mean I could have a key pair without a passphrase? Sure. [...] Do you have an example of how a remote rsync or other type of backup would use this feature? I'm afraid I don't. If this is what you want to do, look at Bill Stearns' rsync-backup-server/rsync-backup-client tool(s). I am using this setup. See http://coffeebreaks.dyndns.org/~jerome/wordpress/?p=204 and http://www.jdmz.net/ssh/ for the original link. J ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] possible mythweb cutlist editor
I think this is great! It's funny because just the other day I was thinking I wish I could edit cutlists via the web interface... what timing! I'm not saying this should be a replacement, as it'll always be easier to do this at the machine, but for quick jobs where you want to double check commercial marks, this could be nice in certain situations. On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:14:57 -0500, James Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a hackjob (don't know much about php) attempt at the beginnings of a cutlist editor. It is far off right now. If a show on the Recorded_Programs page has been commercial flagged it will have a link to a commercial cutlist editor. It shows a bargraph showing where the commercials are marked. If you click on the bar it will show 5 frames at 30 seconds apart to the left and right of where you click and one frame where you click. This will allow you to narrow in and check if the commercial is correct. I plan on having it zoom in more by 1 second intervals if you click on any of the displayed thumbnails. Plans are to have ways to remove and add cutlist points via the web. This is far off right now. I had to modify the backend slightly to allow for thumbnail generation based on # of seconds in (old way) and by frame #. They command is backwards compatible. I modified QUERY_RECORDINGS to allow the passing of CHANID and STARTTIME to return just one record instead of all records. This is also backwards compatible. If they are left off it will return all records. I don't know when / if this will get done. I Work on it when I am bored. Here is a link showing a screen shot of me clicking on a show then clicking on a commercial boundary. It shows thumbnails on the top row that verify that the area to the left of the click is from the show and the thumbnails on the bottom verify that the commercials are to the right of the click. Happy drooling... http://www.thearmstrongs.org/mythtv/cutlist001.jpg - James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Playing music while browsing photos
I know this has been brought up on several occasions and if I recall correctly several developers, including Isaac, agree with you that it should eventually have this type of interaction between modules. On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:31:37 +0100, Niels den Otter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MythTV Users, One of the features that (for me) would be neat in MythTV is the support of playing music while browsing photos or walking through the menus. Currently leaving mythmusic also means that the music stops playing. I have looked at mfd, but I'm not sure I understand what it does. It looks like a daemon that can be used by plugins (/clients) to play music. The mfd software is maintained in CVS, but I'm not sure if it can be used already with eg mythmusic. Does anyone know if this feature is somewhere on the radar or if it is already supported in some way? -- Niels ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Where can I buy a xbox to make a frontend?
Be careful... I bought an xbox at EB and there was a new serial number stick over the old one. Turns out it was a 1.0 xbox, but the sticker said it was made in 2003... Then I saw that there was a sticker under that one. I guess I don't care, per say, but it does suck a lot that they did that. Not sure if this happens there often or not, but it happened to me. On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:15:55 -0500, Fred Squires [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:04:40 +, jonny Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'd really like to build a linux xbox mythtv frontend. Although I've read there are issues with the version 1.6 xbox. I'd really like to use the software method described at www.xbox-linux.org, because it sounds simpler and more reversible if I make a mess of it. Although it sounds like the version 1.6 xbox won't support this. I'd really like to buy an xbox, but I don't think I have any way of knowing what version of xbox I'm buying unless I actually look at the serial number on it and work out the version from there! I've read several people on here saying they use an xbox frontend. If you use one, which version do you use and where did you get it from? (I'm in the UK) Thanks, Jonny I just went to EB and picked up a used one. They let me inspect it before I bought it. I noticed the date of manufacture was in 2003 so I knew it wasn't a 1.6. -- I probably still have a few (well, now a whole bunch) gmail invites. Drop me a line (off list) if you'd like an account. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] (no subject)
xebian using software from http://bit.blkbk.com/ I had to use mythtv-xbox.0.4.5-beta.tar.gz since the perl script in the latest (stable?) just hangs and dies on me. got a strange issue with mplayer and lirc. this actually happens in mythfrontend or outside of it, so its not myth specific. with lirc=yes in ~live/,mplayer/config, mplayer says cant find config on init and segfaults. if I comment that out or set it to no, mplayer works fine except I have no control over it (not exactly ideal). note that this is with playing divx files over nfs or locally, and using the xbox IR remote dvd thingy. I cant seem to figure this out. where is mplayer looking for lirc configuration that it cant find? everything works fine until I try to play mpeg or divx. thanks for your help. kinda stumped. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] xbox, xebian, mplayer, lirc
(sorry for the resend, subject got munged) xebian using software from http://bit.blkbk.com/ I had to use mythtv-xbox.0.4.5-beta.tar.gz since the perl script in the latest (stable?) just hangs and dies on me. got a strange issue with mplayer and lirc. this actually happens in mythfrontend or outside of it, so its not myth specific. with lirc=yes in ~live/,mplayer/config, mplayer says cant find config on init and segfaults. if I comment that out or set it to no, mplayer works fine except I have no control over it (not exactly ideal). note that this is with playing divx files over nfs or locally, and using the xbox IR remote dvd thingy. I cant seem to figure this out. where is mplayer looking for lirc configuration that it cant find? everything works fine until I try to play mpeg or divx. thanks for your help. kinda stumped. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Possible root cause for frontend/backend crashes
Hello, I'm new to this list, so I appologize in advance if this information is old news. I have found that the main cause of MythTV crashing on my system (both the frontend and the backend) is a seg fault in the MySQL library function my_strcasecmp_8bit(). After recompiling MythTV with various option combinations and having no luck, I tried a Google search and found a link to this official MySQL bug report http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=7344. It appears this is a known problem in MySQL and is triggered by the specific usage patterns of the QT library. The problem still exists in version 4.1.10a of MySQL, but will be fixed in 4.1.11. I hope this information relieves someone else of the many hours of frustration that I had while trying to get MythTV up and running for the first time. -don- Arch Linux 0.7; MythTV 0.17; MySQL 4.1.10a; QT 3.3.4; nVidia FX5200 (S-Video out); Hauppauge PVR-350 -- pgp1VhexVRFsc.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)
I bougth the ADIC DLT library for 150 Euros, but this one is refurbished/tested. You may get them even cheaper. On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:27:59 +0100, jerome lacoste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:15:45 -0500, Brian J. Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 10:59 -0500, Neil Watson wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:43:47AM -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote: IMHO, the right way to do this is to use the forced command option in the authorized_keys file. See the manpage for sshd under the AUTHORIZED_KEYS FILE FORMAT section and create a key on the backup server that is forced to run only one command and then use the private portion of that key without a passphrase on your client. That is very interesting. Does that mean I could have a key pair without a passphrase? Sure. [...] Do you have an example of how a remote rsync or other type of backup would use this feature? I'm afraid I don't. If this is what you want to do, look at Bill Stearns' rsync-backup-server/rsync-backup-client tool(s). I am using this setup. See http://coffeebreaks.dyndns.org/~jerome/wordpress/?p=204 and http://www.jdmz.net/ssh/ for the original link. J ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] What to do on XBox when the backend crashes
Hey all, I'm got my MythTV 0.16 running on a headless remote backend. One of the frontend machines in my setup is an XBox (v1.4) running Xebian 1.0.3. The problem I have is when the backend crashes or goes away. Eventually, I get the dreaded pop-up window (on the XBox) that the Connection to the backend server has been lost... is the backend running... or something to that effect. At this point the only option displayed on screen is to press OK. On a normal computer, you can usually hit the ENTER or SPACE key to get rid of that box. However, on my XBox I can't click on it. I hit every button on my XBox DVD Remote but I can't dismiss that box. And since I don't have a keyboard hooked up, the only thing I can do is to hard power-off my XBox (or SSH into the XBox and issue a shutdown -r now). What do other users do? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive
Thx for the replies. I'll give that dd_rescue a try and see what I end up with. --Nate On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:54:07 -0800, Ian Forde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 21:24 -0800, Yan-Fa Li wrote: Nathan, This tool costs money ($89), it's DOS based, but friends of mine have recovered data from extremely screwed up drives: http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm It's still cheaper than a data recovery service. You'll have to judge for yourself how important your data is. Being that back in the 80's I was a DOS and Windows guy, I can tell you that I used to *SWEAR* by Spinrite. It is no joke, and ABSOLUTELY worth it. I wish I'd known they were still around. I could have saved myself an absolutely awful Tivo recovery a couple of years back. ;) -I ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What to do on XBox when the backend crashes
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:06:44 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I'm got my MythTV 0.16 running on a headless remote backend. One of the frontend machines in my setup is an XBox (v1.4) running Xebian 1.0.3. The problem I have is when the backend crashes or goes away. Eventually, I get the dreaded pop-up window (on the XBox) that the Connection to the backend server has been lost... is the backend running... or something to that effect. At this point the only option displayed on screen is to press OK. On a normal computer, you can usually hit the ENTER or SPACE key to get rid of that box. However, on my XBox I can't click on it. I hit every button on my XBox DVD Remote but I can't dismiss that box. And since I don't have a keyboard hooked up, the only thing I can do is to hard power-off my XBox (or SSH into the XBox and issue a shutdown -r now). What do other users do? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Issue a kill -9 against the pid for the following process : /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp As long as it's been set up to respawn, it will restart X and the frontend. I'd love a better solution, but this works. Greg. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] possible mythweb cutlist editor
Matt S. wrote: I think this is great! It's funny because just the other day I was thinking I wish I could edit cutlists via the web interface... what timing! I'm not saying this should be a replacement, as it'll always be easier to do this at the machine, but for quick jobs where you want to double check commercial marks, this could be nice in certain situations. Yeah, not a replacement by any means. Takes more time, but when at work we have all the time we need right? Get home and the shows are already to watch, commercial free ;) - James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What to do on XBox when the backend crashes
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:06:44AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I'm got my MythTV 0.16 running on a headless remote backend. One of the frontend machines in my setup is an XBox (v1.4) running Xebian 1.0.3. The problem I have is when the backend crashes or goes away. Eventually, I get the dreaded pop-up window (on the XBox) that the Connection to the backend server has been lost... is the backend running... or something to that effect. At this point the only option displayed on screen is to press OK. On a normal computer, you can usually hit the ENTER or SPACE key to get rid of that box. However, on my XBox I can't click on it. I hit every button on my XBox DVD Remote but I can't dismiss that box. And since I don't have a keyboard hooked up, the only thing I can do is to hard power-off my XBox (or SSH into the XBox and issue a shutdown -r now). What do other users do? ssh in and killall XFree86 -- Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org 13:23:16 up 1 day, 18:26, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.07 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Lower power usage ideas? (for backend)
HI, The solution I use (which BTW is the one that is suggested in the MythTV manual) is the nvram-wakeup utility. (http://sf.net/projects/nvram-wakeup/) I had an unsupported MB, but was able to get a working setup with the included guess-helper program. You can configure MythTV to use this program at shutown in mythsetup. The job handling of 0.17 is handled gracefully AFAIK using this option. /Fredrik ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Playing music while browsing photos
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 10:31, Niels den Otter wrote: MythTV Users, One of the features that (for me) would be neat in MythTV is the support of playing music while browsing photos or walking through the menus. Currently leaving mythmusic also means that the music stops playing. I have looked at mfd, but I'm not sure I understand what it does. It looks like a daemon that can be used by plugins (/clients) to play music. The mfd software is maintained in CVS, but I'm not sure if it can be used already with eg mythmusic. Does anyone know if this feature is somewhere on the radar or if it is already supported in some way? I *think* you could do this now. Use the mfe plugin to start playback of a playlist. This actually tells mfd to start the playback (obviously mfd must be running on the frontend). Now you should be able to go into mythgallery and start a slide show while mfd continues to play music. Note that you probably won't be able to watch any videos or use mythmusic until you stop the mfd playback. -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Re: 1000th picture quality question
Quick question, Does playing dvd's look good? My dvd playback was super, but my tv playback was horrible. Waiting on an older pvr 250 in hopes that it has something to do with the newer tuner type :/ Yeah, the DVD playback looks perfect. I tried connecting an S-video cable from my DirecTV receiver into my PVR 250 and I think the quality is a little better than splitting the coax out of the DirecTV receiver. But, it's still not as crisp and clear as watching tv straight from the receiver. I'm probably just going to give up. The quality is pretty good and if I weren't comparing with the feed straight out of the receiver I'd probably say it was really good. It just always nags at me that it's possible for the picture to be crisper. Anyway, thanks for everyone's help. I'm guessing it must have something to do with my physical setup (cords, connections, hardware). As I said in a previous post, everything I've tried software-wise doesn't seem to affect the crispness that much. Dan. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
