[mythtv-users] Upgrade to 0.18 / 7174 Problem
All at once, I decided to upgrade to 0.18 and do a dist-upgrade on my FC3 system. That upgraded many things (over 150 updates), including my nvidia drivers (from 6629 to 7174). Immediately after doing this, I had quite a few problems. Most of the problems were due to the new packaging layout at atrpms. One wasn't. Whenever I tried to go to the previously-recorded programs screen, the frontend would freeze, X would take up 99.7+% CPU time, and all would stay like that until killed. I got errors like: Apr 22 22:14:37 mythbox kernel: NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-7174 Tue Mar 22 06:44:39 PST 2005 Apr 22 22:14:37 mythbox kernel: NVRM: not using NVAGP, an AGPGART backend is loaded! Apr 22 22:14:37 mythbox kernel: NVRM: not using NVAGP, an AGPGART backend is loaded! which suggested an agp driver problem (though I didn't change kernels and wasn't getting these errors with the same xorg.conf) and Apr 23 00:42:22 mythbox kernel: irq 9: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option. Apr 23 00:42:22 mythbox kernel: [] __report_bad_irq+0x2b/0x68 Apr 23 00:42:22 mythbox kernel: [] note_interrupt+0x73/0x96 Apr 23 00:42:22 mythbox kernel: [] __do_IRQ+0x1bd/0x249 Apr 23 00:42:22 mythbox kernel: [] do_IRQ+0x42/0x4f Apr 23 00:42:22 mythbox kernel: [] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 Apr 23 00:42:22 mythbox kernel: [] default_idle+0x23/0x29 Apr 23 00:42:22 mythbox kernel: [] cpu_idle+0x1f/0x34 Apr 23 00:42:22 mythbox kernel: [] start_kernel+0x16b/0x16d Apr 23 00:42:22 mythbox kernel: handlers: Apr 23 00:42:22 mythbox kernel: [] (acpi_irq+0x0/0x14) Apr 23 00:42:22 mythbox kernel: [] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x4b) Apr 23 00:42:22 mythbox kernel: [] (ivtv_irq_handler+0x0/0x5b7 [ivtv]) Apr 23 00:42:22 mythbox kernel: Disabling IRQ #9 which suggested a problem with a device on IRQ 9 (such as my M179 card, which worked fine for cat > test.mpg). Mythfrontend and backend where curiously silent about a problem that only seemed to crop up while accessing the recorded programs screen. Realizing that I could playback things using xine and mplayer, and that I could watch livetv, it seemed like there could be a problem with accessing the database to display information on the saved programs. But dropping the database and starting from scratch didn't help. So, all my google searches were for naught. Nothing helped in the least. Just for kicks, I started re-reading Jarod's guide, to see if there was something that I might have to reset after doing a dist-upgrade. While doing so, I noticed an interesting thing: Not sure exactly what has changed in the nvidia driver, but most folks no longer seem to be able to use the RenderAccel line without having problems. However, I'm not sure what added benefit it provides anymore, since contrary to my earlier belief, it isn't necessary for me to use XvMC... With 6629, I didn't have any problems with it on any of my motherboards with VIA chipset or nVidia's own nForce2 chipset, none of which play nice with RenderAccel enabled anymore, but it doesn't seem to make any difference, I can still play back even HDTV video just fine without it. << And what do you know - commenting out that line in my xorg.conf solved the problem right away. For what ever reason, having RenderAccel on didn't affect my ability to play back video at all, unless I was trying to access that one screen. So, the short version: 7174 and RenderAccel don't seem to play nice on the Chaintech 7NIF2's built-in graphics card. Now that it's working, I'm off to have fun with 0.18! Matt ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythbackend mysteriously dying
On 4/21/05, Xiaotian Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/21/05, Loren H. Burlingame > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am also having this problem (also running Gentoo and MythTV .17). > > > > I think I finally narrowed it down to a specific circumstance, though. > > Whenever both PVR-250s end recording at the exact same time the second > > instance fails to make a database query and the whole thing crashes. I > > have been too busy to try and fix it but it has been happening ever > > since I added the second tuner. > > > > I only have one card, pcHDTV-3000, and mythbackend still dies. It > happened twice yesterday while I was watching TV. Examined the > mythbackend.log, which I have verbose logging enabled, and messages, > nothing strange showed up. > I kind of figured out why my mythbackend dies (I think). It is indeed hard drive related, but not because of disk failure, but because of file size limit. Mythbackend always dies when the recording file reaches 4GB. > > -- > > Loren H. Burlingame <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Xiaotian > Xiaotian ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] 2 EPG entries for channels sharing a frequency
Hi, Many of the channels on my cable subscription are split between two channels - e.g. Nickelodeon and MTV. The ripped program data treats each channel separately even though they by definition never overlap. As a result in the EPG I end up with two rows with one or the other marked as being "unknown". As I browse channels I likewise have to switch past the same program twice as it occupies two channel numbers too. Are there any ways to adjust for this in mythtv, or should I be trying to pre-process the grabbed info? Simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Priorities screen messed up in 0.18
HI! Axel Thimm wrote: I don't think so, the themes ATrpms packages are for 0.18, not 0.16. And as I understand Bruce that would already have bitten 0.17 users, and there weren't any reports on that. I think, this column is new in 0.18, not 0.17. Not only mythtv-theme-Titivillus-0.20040807-4.at (the version already indicates, that it is not fit for 0.18), which I manually installed with apt-get fails on that page, but also some of those that mythtv-suite 0.18 pulls in: mythtv-theme-visor-0.16.2-5.at mythtv-theme-MediaCenter-0.17-4.at mythtv-theme-MythCenter-0.17-1.at Thomas ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Priorities screen messed up in 0.18
HI! Axel Thimm wrote: Just upgraded from 0.16 to 0.18 on FC3 with atrpms packages. The Priorities screen (listing of all recording schedules) is messed up. I see only one character for each schedule and the priority column is also corrupted. I tried with QT 3.3.3 and 3.3.4. Any hints? You are using an outdated theme. A column was added to show the record type sometime after 0.16. If you are using a 0.16 theme it would appear as you describe and other pages that have changed would have more subtle problems or missing info. Thanks for the info. This seems to be an atrpms issue. I have forwarded this to the atrpms list. I don't think so, the themes ATrpms packages are for 0.18, not 0.16. And as I understand Bruce that would already have bitten 0.17 users, and there weren't any reports on that. Then why are GANT and Blue on FC3 OK and Titivillus is OK on Suse? Something must be wrong with the FC3 Titivillus. Also, on Suse, I have a little arrow left of the text in the main menu with Titivillus. I don't have this on FC3. Thomas ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Can't watch LiveTV until program recorded
Okay, do you know if anyone has filed a bugreport? If I have the time I will try to follow the code to see what is going on... // Magnus Signature Magnus Sandin Cache miss - please take better aim next time Tom Hines wrote: I have the same problem. As far as I know there is no fix yet. So I just work around it by recording something first. On 4/23/05, Magnus Sandin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello! I have this problem that LiveTV just won't work. It plays for one second and then after 10-20 seconds the main menu in mythfrontend will appear again. The strange thing is that if I record a program for 1 minute (as an example) and then try LiveTV again, everything just works as expected... I have a PVR-350 and are running Linux kernel 2.6.10 that comes with Ubuntu 5.04. I have tried both ivtv 0.3.2u and 0.3.3f with the same result. I run MythTV 0.18 Output from mythbackend: 2005-04-23 11:57:22.623 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-04-23 11:57:22.626 adding: pvr as a client (events: 0) 2005-04-23 11:57:22.642 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-04-23 11:57:22.644 adding: pvr as a client (events: 0) 2005-04-23 11:57:22.651 adding: pvr as a remote ringbuffer 2005-04-23 11:57:22.661 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2005-04-23 11:57:25.718 joined null string in WriteStringList 2005-04-23 11:57:46.000 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None Output from mythforntend: 2005-04-23 11:57:22.619 Using protocol version 15 2005-04-23 11:57:22.747 Disable DPMS 2005-04-23 11:57:24.833 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-04-23 11:57:24.833 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-04-23 11:57:24.879 Using XV port 67 2005-04-23 11:57:25.693 Video timing method: RTC 2005-04-23 11:57:25.693 Using realtime priority. 2005-04-23 11:57:25.713 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2005-04-23 11:57:26.590 prebuffering pause 2005-04-23 11:57:45.719 ReadStringList timeout (quick). Remote encoder not responding. 2005-04-23 11:57:45.719 WriteStringList: Bad socket 2005-04-23 11:57:45.719 ReadStringList: Bad socket Remote encoder not responding. 2005-04-23 11:57:45.720 WriteStringList: Bad socket 2005-04-23 11:57:45.720 ReadStringList: Bad socket Remote encoder not responding. ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/include/qt3/qvaluelist.h (372) 2005-04-23 11:57:45.722 WriteStringList: Bad socket 2005-04-23 11:57:45.722 ReadStringList: Bad socket Remote encoder not responding. 2005-04-23 11:57:45.933 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None 2005-04-23 11:57:45.945 Changing from None to None 2005-04-23 11:57:45.946 Enable DPMS What does MythTV do different when watching Live TV compared to when recording a program? // Magnus -- *Magnus Sandin *Cache miss - please take better aim next time ___ 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:Upgraded to 18 and now notta
> > Devan, thanks but they are there: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qa | grep mythtv-themes > > mythtv-themes-0.18-107.rhfc3.at > > Have a look at > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/125723?search_string=Feedback%20on%20.18%20rpms%20from%20ATRPMS%20%20%20;#125723 > > It looks like you need to install more than 1 package onw to get all the > themes. > > Regards, > Phill PS - could someone who's on FC (preferably FC2) and ATRPMs please post their /etc/apt/priorities or /etc/apt/rpmpriorities file as mine is apparently stopping me upgrading to 0.18. Thanks, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] re:Upgraded to 18 and now notta
> Devan, thanks but they are there: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qa | grep mythtv-themes > mythtv-themes-0.18-107.rhfc3.at Have a look at http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/125723?search_string=Feedback%20on%20.18%20rpms%20from%20ATRPMS%20%20%20;#125723 It looks like you need to install more than 1 package onw to get all the themes. Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Frontend crash viewing HD-Firewire cap
I recorded a show from the firewire port yesterday. It plays fine in mplayer and in the preview window when viewing recordings, but if I select it to play, it crashes the frontend completely. Here's the output from a -v all run, with some (***) comments interspersed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mythfrontend -v all 2005-04-24 00:34:18.591 New DB connection, total: 1 Total desktop width=1920, height=1080, numscreens=1 2005-04-24 00:34:18.597 Using screen 0, 1920x1080 at 0,0 2005-04-24 00:34:18.600 mythfrontend version: 0.18.20050409-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-04-24 00:34:18.601 Enabled verbose msgs :all 2005-04-24 00:34:18.863 max_width: 1920 max_height: 1080 2005-04-24 00:34:18.946 Switching to wide mode (Minimalist-wide) 2005-04-24 00:34:19.693 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-04-24 00:34:19.695 /home/mythtv/.mythtv/joystickmenurc not found. 2005-04-24 00:34:19.695 Joystick disabled. 2005-04-24 00:34:19.725 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin. 2005-04-24 00:34:19.740 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media handler 2005-04-24 00:34:19.741 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media handler Failed to run 'cdrecord --scanbus' 2005-04-24 00:34:19.888 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media handler SIP listening on IP Address 192.168.254.10:5060 NAT address 192.168.254.10 2005-04-24 00:34:20.464 Starting media monitor. 2005-04-24 00:34:32.210 All Programs 2005-04-24 00:34:32.702 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.254.10:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2005-04-24 00:34:32.702 write->16 21 MYTH_PROTO_VERSION 15: 2005-04-24 00:34:32.707 Using protocol version 15 2005-04-24 00:34:32.708 write->16 42 ANN (*** hidden) 2005-04-24 00:34:32.716 write->16 21 QUERY_RECORDINGS Play: 2005-04-24 00:34:33.393 42 ANN Playback (*** hidden) 1 2005-04-24 00:34:34.520 Output filters for this channel are: '' adding pes stream at pid 0x840 with type 2 adding pes stream at pid 0x841 with type 129 2005-04-24 00:34:34.560 AVFD 2005-04-24 00:34:34.561 AVFD: Opening Stream #0: codec id 2 2005-04-24 00:34:34.562 Using libmpeg2 for video decoding 2005-04-24 00:34:34.562 AVFD: Looking for decoder for 2 2005-04-24 00:34:34.562 AVFD 2005-04-24 00:34:34.563 AVFD: Opening Stream #1: codec id 86020 2005-04-24 00:34:34.563 AVFD: Looking for decoder for 86020 2005-04-24 00:34:34.563 Stream #1 (audio track #0) is an audio stream with 2 channels. 2005-04-24 00:34:34.564 Auto-selecting AC3 audio track (stream #1). (***) I don't currently have SPDIF working on this system. Could this cause a problem? 2005-04-24 00:34:34.564 Initializing audio parms from audio track #0. 2005-04-24 00:34:34.565 Estimated bitrate = 384 2005-04-24 00:34:34.671 Position map filled from DB to: 193394 2005-04-24 00:34:34.673 SyncPositionMap prerecorded, from DB: 6164 entries 2005-04-24 00:34:34.673 SyncPositionMap, new totframes: 193394, new length: 7735, posMap size: 6164 Input #0, mpegts, from '/video/recordings//1207_20050421132500_20050421151500.nuv': Stream #0.0[0x840]: Video: mpeg2video Stream #0.1[0x841]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 384 kb/s 2005-04-24 00:34:34.674 Position map found 2005-04-24 00:34:34.675 Commercial Detection initialized: width = 0, height = 0, fps = 29.97, method = 255 2005-04-24 00:34:34.676 Using Sample Spacing of 4 horizontal & 4 vertical pixels. 2005-04-24 00:34:34.677 CommDetect::ClearAllMaps() 2005-04-24 00:34:34.678 Killing AudioOutputDSP 2005-04-24 00:34:34.679 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-04-24 00:34:34.679 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-04-24 00:34:34.680 Audio fragment size: 4096 2005-04-24 00:34:34.681 Audio Stretch Factor: 1 2005-04-24 00:34:34.681 Ending reconfigure 2005-04-24 00:34:34.684 kickoffOutputAudioLoop: pid = 5735 2005-04-24 00:34:34.684 OutputAudioLoop: Play Event 2005-04-24 00:34:34.684 Broadcasting free space avail 2005-04-24 00:34:34.688 Over/underscan. V: 0, H: 0, XOff: 0, YOff: 0 2005-04-24 00:34:34.694 Using XV port 153 2005-04-24 00:34:34.697 Image size. dispxoff 240, dispyoff: 0, dispwoff: 1440, disphoff: 1080 2005-04-24 00:34:34.698 Image size. imgx 0, imgy: 0, imgw: 0, imgh: 0 2005-04-24 00:34:34.798 Broadcasting free space avail 2005-04-24 00:34:34.802 Broadcasting free space avail 2005-04-24 00:34:34.806 Broadcasting free space avail 2005-04-24 00:34:34.810 Broadcasting free space avail 2005-04-24 00:34:34.814 Broadcasting free space avail 2005-04-24 00:34:34.818 Broadcasting free space avail 2005-04-24 00:34:34.822 Broadcasting free space avail 2005-04-24 00:34:34.826 Broadcasting free space avail 2005-04-24 00:34:34.830 Broadcasting free space avail 2005-04-24 00:34:34.834 Broadcasting free space avail 2005-04-24 00:34:34.838 Broadcasting free space avail 2005-04-24 00:34:34.842 Broadcasting free space avail 2005-04-24 00:34:34.846 Broadcasting free space avail 2005-04-24 00:34:34.850 Broadcasting free space avail 2005-04-24 00:34:34.854 Broadcasting free space avail 2005-04-24 00:34:34.858 Broadcasting free space avail 2005-04-24 00:34
Re: [mythtv-users] What is X-Video?
On 4/23/05, Cecil Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > >Hi, > > Newbie question #2. What is X-Video? How do I get it turned on? > > > > > > > Google is your friend. In short, your video adapter (chipset), must > support Xv (hint, hint. What video card do you have?). > > Regards, > > Cecil > Hi Cecil, Thanks for answering. I have been Googling but I'm not a developer or software guy so much of the fine stuff gets by me. 1) On the mythtvbackend machine we have an Intel device: :00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82865G Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) 2) On my laptop I have an ATI: :01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M9+ 5C61 [Radeon Mobility 9200 (AGP)] (rev 01) The Intel is very new but so far I canot get Myth to display anything there. I would have thought it would support everything since it's Intel. I'm just now building mythfrontend on my laptop to see if I can view it on the Radeon. Actually the laptop has an svideo plug on it so I might even hope to eventually drive a TV from it if things work out right. Is that enough to get an yes/no on each platform? Thanks, Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv-setup doesn't "go"....
Mark Oliver wrote: Bret Wortman wrote: I just installed Axel's mythtv-suite-018 and while the installation went just fine, I get the following when I try to run mythtv-setup. I've loaded the database but haven't gotten my ati_remote to work just yet. mythtv-setup gives me two screens asking about deleting my cards and channels, then exits. Could not find theme: blue 2005-04-24 09:54:41.339 Switching to square mode (blue) mythtv: could not connect to socket 2005-04-24 09:54:41.572 Joystick disabled. mythtv: No such file or directory lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages Could not find theme: blue Couldn't find theme blue I had a similar problem with Iulius. Axel posted something about a week ago regarding the missing themes. You will want to get the MythTv Themes tarball, unpack it, and copy the Blue folder to your themes folder: cp -a Blue /usr/share/mythtv/themes/ That should take care of your problem of not finding blue. I am not sure if that is all that you need to get up and going, but it worked for me, so thanks Axel. Actually, I just symlinked the default theme to blue (cd /usr/share/mythtv/themes && ln -s default blue), and I brought up lircd, so now I don't get any obvious errors, but mythtvsetup isn't giving me more than those two screens. And my keyboard doesn't work to operate the butons -- I can move between, but space/enter doesn't activate the buttons mark ___ 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 is X-Video?
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Newbie question #2. What is X-Video? How do I get it turned on? Google is your friend. In short, your video adapter (chipset), must support Xv (hint, hint. What video card do you have?). Regards, Cecil ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] re:Upgraded to 18 and now notta
Devan, thanks but they are there: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qa | grep mythtv-themes mythtv-themes-0.18-107.rhfc3.at ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] What is X-Video?
Hi, Newbie question #2. What is X-Video? How do I get it turned on? I've gotten MythTV set up. It seems to record. However when I try to watch recorded videos I just get a black screen and in the terminal I see messages like this: *** * Couldn't find Xv support, falling back to non-Xv mode. * MythTV performance will be much slower since color * conversion and scaling will be done in software. * Consider upgrading your video card or X server if * you would like better performance. *** * Your system is not capable of displaying the * full framerate at 1280x1024 resolution. Frames * will be skipped in order to keep the audio and * video in sync. You likely won't get any video. Indeed I do not get video and I don't get sound. I've set up MythTV to use /dev/vl4/video0 on a Gentoo machine. Is this correct or probably wrong? I can record from that device at the command line and I get mpeg video that mplayer can play. I also tried: dragonfly ~ # xvinfo X-Video Extension version 2.2 screen #0 no adaptors present dragonfly ~ # Does this mean my graphics adapter cannot do X-Video at all? Is X-Video totally required for Myth even when mplayer can play the files just fine? I'm confused! thanks in advance, Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Upgraded to 18 and now notta
you need to install the themes as they're now a separate package. On 4/23/05, Reggie Braswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Took the plunge. FC3 using ATrpms. apt-get update , apt-get install > mythtv-suite. All appeared to go just fine. mythfrontend just dies. > Ran mythtvsetup and get this: > > 005-04-23 19:54:08.550 New DB connection, total: 1 > Total desktop width=800, height=600, numscreens=1 > 2005-04-23 19:54:08.554 Using screen 0, 800x600 at 0,0 > Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0". > DisplaResX: Unable to XRRgetScreenInfo > Could not find theme: Titivillus > 2005-04-23 19:54:08.568 Switching to square mode (Titivillus) > 2005-04-23 19:54:08.789 Joystick disabled. > 2005-04-23 19:54:08.789 New DB connection, total: 2 > Could not find theme: Titivillus > Couldn't find theme Titivillus > > Thanks > Regg > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > -- Thanks, Devan Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Upgraded to 18 and now notta
Took the plunge. FC3 using ATrpms. apt-get update , apt-get install mythtv-suite. All appeared to go just fine. mythfrontend just dies. Ran mythtvsetup and get this: 005-04-23 19:54:08.550 New DB connection, total: 1 Total desktop width=800, height=600, numscreens=1 2005-04-23 19:54:08.554 Using screen 0, 800x600 at 0,0 Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0". DisplaResX: Unable to XRRgetScreenInfo Could not find theme: Titivillus 2005-04-23 19:54:08.568 Switching to square mode (Titivillus) 2005-04-23 19:54:08.789 Joystick disabled. 2005-04-23 19:54:08.789 New DB connection, total: 2 Could not find theme: Titivillus Couldn't find theme Titivillus Thanks Regg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Upgrading to mythtv-suite 0.18 fails
> Is this a deja vu, or did I already ask you to test with > > apt-cache policy mythtv > > If 0.18 doesn't show up then apt-get update is failing. If it does, > then your /etc/apt/priorities is messed up. > Errrm - must be deja-vu. This is the 1st time I've tried to update to 0.18. I ran apt-cache and this is what it said: [elm|~]# apt-cache policy mythtv mythtv: Installed: 0.17-95.rhfc2.at Candidate: 0.18-107.rhfc2.at Version Table: 0.18-107.rhfc2.at 0 996 http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/2/en/i386/at-stable pkglist 0.17-97.2.rhfc2.at 0 996 http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/2/en/i386/at-stable pkglist 0.17-97.1.rhfc2.at 0 996 http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/2/en/i386/at-stable pkglist *** 0.17-95.rhfc2.at 0 100 RPM Database 0.18's in there so my priorities must be screwed (you did tell me about this once ages ago). I don't actually have a priorities file. I've got a rpmpriorities - is that the same thing? What should my priorities file look like if I create it? Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DB schema upgrade failing for .18
Henrik Bentel wrote: Error was: Driver error was [2/1060]: QMYSQL3: Unable to execute query Database error was: Duplicate column name 'manualid' mysql -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg mysql> ALTER TABLE program DROP COLUMN manualid; -- bjm ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: DB schema upgrade failing for .18
Tried running mythtv-setup first, no change. The setup prints the same error message to stdout(see below). starting mythbackend afterwards still gives same error message. help! -Henrik [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# mythtv-setup 2005-04-23 20:49:15.571 New DB connection, total: 1 Total desktop width=1024, height=768, numscreens=1 2005-04-23 20:49:15.576 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0 2005-04-23 20:49:15.579 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If you see a long pause here it means t he Schema is already locked and is being upgraded by another Myth process. 2005-04-23 20:49:15.580 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-04-23 20:49:15.581 Upgrading to schema version 1072 2005-04-23 20:49:15.582 DB Error (Performing database upgrade): Query was: ALTER TABLE program ADD COLUMN manualid INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT 0; Error was: Driver error was [2/1060]: QMYSQL3: Unable to execute query Database error was: Duplicate column name 'manualid' new version: 1072 2005-04-23 20:49:15.582 Database Schema upgrade FAILED, unlocking. 2005-04-23 20:49:15.621 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T.) mythtv: could not open config file /root/.mythtv/lircrc mythtv: No such file or directory Failed to read lirc config /root/.mythtv/lircrc for mythtv 2005-04-23 20:49:16.078 Joystick disabled. On 4/23/05, Henrik Bentel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I'm having trouble upgrading to .18. Rather I upgrade (from .17 to .18 > , using atrpms ) and mythtvbackend process keeps dying. > It attempts to upgrade the DB schema but this fails and the > process dies. Log below. > > Hope someone can help > > -Henrik > > 2005-04-23 15:05:21.396 New DB connection, total: 1 > 2005-04-23 15:05:21.437 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If > you see a long pause here it means the Schema is already locked and is > being up > graded by another Myth process. > 2005-04-23 15:05:21.439 New DB connection, total: 2 > 2005-04-23 15:05:21.441 Upgrading to schema version 1072 > 2005-04-23 15:05:21.443 DB Error (Performing database upgrade): > Query was: ALTER TABLE program ADD COLUMN manualid INT UNSIGNED NOT > NULL DEFAULT 0; > Error was: Driver error was [2/1060]: > QMYSQL3: Unable to execute query > Database error was: > Duplicate column name 'manualid' > > new version: 1072 > 2005-04-23 15:05:21.445 Database Schema upgrade FAILED, unlocking. > 2005-04-23 15:05:21.446 Couldn't upgrade database to new schema > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Suggestion: Splicing channels.
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 10:51:49AM -0700, Joe Votour wrote: > Part of it is who would care, but also, from a > technical standpoint, it's very difficult to do. On top of all that, this is a "live-only" feature. Since if you just wanted to watch both at different times you would just record both, then watch them serially or interspersed, probably watching one of them at 2x fast forward, for example. However, it's actually not that difficult to do -- in fact you can do it yourself, without changes to myth, though you will have some intersting focus problems. Step 1: Record both programs, and start watching in near-live the one that you want to fill most of the screen. Yes, you need two tuners of course to record 2 shows at once. Step 2: Find the file of the other program in live recording. This is not to hard with ls -l, but mythlink.pl in the contrib directory can let you find it easily. Invoke "mplayer -vf crop= -vo x11 file.nuv" Run this mplayer window on top of your mythtv playing window. Move it into position. Want to get fancy? Tell myth to run the video in an X window you can resize. There's a checkbox in setup for that. Then you can shrink the main window so you can see all of it, and then move in your cropped window with the crawl. Be sure to use the -vo x11. This takes much more CPU than normal xv, but you can only have one xv at a time, and you want that for your main window. You may want to add a scale= filter as well to size your crawl window the way you like it. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Decent, Inexpensive Video Card? (Yes, I did search)
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 10:56:14PM -0700, Andy Alsup wrote: > I have a Kaser 5200FX and using DVI 1920x1080. Works fine as far as I can > tell. Is that with those new nvidia drivers? Nobody reported this to work with older drivers. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: recording HD content
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 07:45:55AM -0400, William wrote: > > Tivo and other partner PVRs. But sadly, not myth. Of course we > > can enjoy it while it lasts, for all I know it may last a while. > > > > The Plug and Play regs continue to require them to provide > > the over the air stations in high-def unencrytped QAM without > > down-res. > > > > Of course there is the strong possibility that shortly after the devices > start expecting a qualified handshake some smart person will write code to > emulate a qualified device and we will be able to receive all channels > again. Something similar to the decss code for DVD decoding. Illegal in some > places but still generally available. You can't really "emulate" the handshake per se, it's based on cryptographic keys and certified digital signatures I believe, with a fancy key revocation system. You might be able to get into the chips in compliant TVs and PVRs and extract the keys. It's a lot less likely (though not impossible) that the cryptotsystem itself might be cracked, as was the case for CSS in DVDs. But CSS was a pretty weak cryptosystem. In the words of the CSS folks when it was cracked, "We were surprised it took this long." If you extract the keys and you put that in a published module, they will revoke the keys, they say. If you crack the system then they can't stop you so easily. There may be other flaws in their system, of course, we'll only see once it gets subject to lots of attack. As you suggest, use of either a hole in the system or a cracked key would probably violate the law in the USA. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Decent, Inexpensive Video Card? (Yes, I did search)
> > > > > > > > If one were to get the 5200FX or other Nvidia card, and > couple it with > > a PVR-350, could you use the PVR for the signal decoding and then > > output via the 5200FX? I'm assuming if this is possible > then a lot of > > us could solve our DVD problems by setting output for DVD > to the 5200. > > > There is no easy way of getting a decoded stream out of the > 350 but I am getting really close with YUV support for the > 350 which means I can add Xv support to the 350's x driver. > Since there are multiple YUV buffers we should be able to get > smooth playback of dvd's fairly easily at that point and I > suspect the audio sync problems should be easy to solve or > vanish as well. > All I need is some time now to get something that should work. > > John > > > Your ideas intrigue me, and I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter. Seriously, would love to see this working. Chris Kennedy just posted today that he has this working as well: "This allows YUV decoding to work, you can now do things like cat /dev/video32 > /dev/video48 on your pvr350." ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv-setup doesn't "go"....
Bret Wortman wrote: I just installed Axel's mythtv-suite-018 and while the installation went just fine, I get the following when I try to run mythtv-setup. I've loaded the database but haven't gotten my ati_remote to work just yet. mythtv-setup gives me two screens asking about deleting my cards and channels, then exits. Could not find theme: blue 2005-04-24 09:54:41.339 Switching to square mode (blue) mythtv: could not connect to socket 2005-04-24 09:54:41.572 Joystick disabled. mythtv: No such file or directory lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages Could not find theme: blue Couldn't find theme blue I had a similar problem with Iulius. Axel posted something about a week ago regarding the missing themes. You will want to get the MythTv Themes tarball, unpack it, and copy the Blue folder to your themes folder: cp -a Blue /usr/share/mythtv/themes/ That should take care of your problem of not finding blue. I am not sure if that is all that you need to get up and going, but it worked for me, so thanks Axel. mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Upgrading to mythtv-suite 0.18 fails
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:24:35AM +1000, Phill Edwards wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade to 0.18 from ATRPMs. I've run apt-get update > AFTER Axel announced that the dependency issues were fixed and > uploaded so it's not that problem. I have also run apt-get upgrade > just before doing this (and run apt-get update after that). > > Here is what I get: > > [elm|~]# apt-get install mythtv-suite > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created > or been moved out of Incoming. > > Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that > the package is simply not installable and a bug report against > that package should be filed. > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > mythtv-suite: Depends: mythtv (>= 0.18) but 0.17-95.rhfc2.at is to > be installed Is this a deja vu, or did I already ask you to test with apt-cache policy mythtv If 0.18 doesn't show up then apt-get update is failing. If it does, then your /etc/apt/priorities is messed up. > Depends: mythtv-backend (>= 0.18) but it is not going > to be installed > Depends: mythtv-frontend (>= 0.18) but > 0.17-95.rhfc2.at is to be installed > Depends: mythtvsetup (>= 0.18) > Depends: mythmusic (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be > installed > Depends: mythvideo (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be > installed > Depends: mythweb (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed > Depends: mythweather (>= 0.18) but it is not going to > be installed > Depends: mythgallery (>= 0.18) but it is not going to > be installed > Depends: mythgame (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be > installed > Depends: mythdvd (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed > Depends: mythnews (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be > installed > Depends: mythbrowser (>= 0.18) but it is not going to > be installed > Depends: mythphone (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be > installed > E: Broken packages > > I'm using at-stable in my sources.list.(0.18 is in at-stable now, isn't it?) > > I guess I'm trying to upgrade in the wrong way. Can anyone please > point me in the right direction? -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net pgpayOfO9g5W4.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Upgrading to mythtv-suite 0.18 fails
I'm trying to upgrade to 0.18 from ATRPMs. I've run apt-get update AFTER Axel announced that the dependency issues were fixed and uploaded so it's not that problem. I have also run apt-get upgrade just before doing this (and run apt-get update after that). Here is what I get: [elm|~]# apt-get install mythtv-suite Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: mythtv-suite: Depends: mythtv (>= 0.18) but 0.17-95.rhfc2.at is to be installed Depends: mythtv-backend (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed Depends: mythtv-frontend (>= 0.18) but 0.17-95.rhfc2.at is to be installed Depends: mythtvsetup (>= 0.18) Depends: mythmusic (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed Depends: mythvideo (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed Depends: mythweb (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed Depends: mythweather (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed Depends: mythgallery (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed Depends: mythgame (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed Depends: mythdvd (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed Depends: mythnews (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed Depends: mythbrowser (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed Depends: mythphone (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages I'm using at-stable in my sources.list.(0.18 is in at-stable now, isn't it?) I guess I'm trying to upgrade in the wrong way. Can anyone please point me in the right direction? Thanks, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What version of xmame is supported in 0.18?
Just out of curiousity, are you able to get xmame running full-screen on your PVR-350? What sort of speeds do you get? I was never able to get full screen, and it just ran too slow to be usable (mind you, I play more intensive games, like Mortal Kombat II). -- Joe --- Jesse Adelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, all. What version of xmame is supported by > MythGame in 0.18? I've > got 0.95 working great, even on my ivtv-supported > PVR-350, with a > cordless Logitech WingMan joystick. Thanks! > > -- Jesse > > -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > Jesse Adelman > http://www.boldandbusted.com/ > -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] What version of xmame is supported in 0.18?
Hi, all. What version of xmame is supported by MythGame in 0.18? I've got 0.95 working great, even on my ivtv-supported PVR-350, with a cordless Logitech WingMan joystick. Thanks! -- Jesse -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Jesse Adelman http://www.boldandbusted.com/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Recovering from "drop oldrecorded" ?
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kyle Rose > Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 7:11 PM > To: Discussion about mythtv > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Recovering from "drop oldrecorded" ? > Patrick Kirchner wrote: > > Hello, > > I was trying to restore my oldrecorded programs backup file into a > > fresh mythconverg database. Things went horribly wrong, so > > I'd start over on the oldrecorded tables and just dropped > it using mysql. > Yeah, so, in general "delete from " is a little nicer > than "drop table ". :) > Try this: > CREATE TABLE `oldrecorded` ( > `chanid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0', > `starttime` datetime NOT NULL default '-00-00 00:00:00', > ) TYPE=MyISAM; > For future reference, I got this by running mysqldump. > Cheers, > Kyle Thanks Kyle, That worked great. Now I also see that the command was in my dump file. I just had to add a "use mythconverg;" line to the top of the dump file before I was able to restore it using "mysql -u root -p < mydump.file". Thanks again, Patrick. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Can't watch LiveTV until program recorded
I have the same problem. As far as I know there is no fix yet. So I just work around it by recording something first. On 4/23/05, Magnus Sandin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > I have this problem that LiveTV just won't work. It plays for one second > and then after 10-20 seconds the main menu in mythfrontend will appear > again. > > The strange thing is that if I record a program for 1 minute (as an > example) and then try LiveTV again, everything just works as expected... > > I have a PVR-350 and are running Linux kernel 2.6.10 that comes with > Ubuntu 5.04. > I have tried both ivtv 0.3.2u and 0.3.3f with the same result. > > I run MythTV 0.18 > > Output from mythbackend: > 2005-04-23 11:57:22.623 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback > 2005-04-23 11:57:22.626 adding: pvr as a client (events: 0) > 2005-04-23 11:57:22.642 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback > 2005-04-23 11:57:22.644 adding: pvr as a client (events: 0) > 2005-04-23 11:57:22.651 adding: pvr as a remote ringbuffer > 2005-04-23 11:57:22.661 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV > 2005-04-23 11:57:25.718 joined null string in WriteStringList > 2005-04-23 11:57:46.000 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None > > Output from mythforntend: > 2005-04-23 11:57:22.619 Using protocol version 15 > 2005-04-23 11:57:22.747 Disable DPMS > 2005-04-23 11:57:24.833 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'. > 2005-04-23 11:57:24.833 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'. > 2005-04-23 11:57:24.879 Using XV port 67 > 2005-04-23 11:57:25.693 Video timing method: RTC > 2005-04-23 11:57:25.693 Using realtime priority. > 2005-04-23 11:57:25.713 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV > 2005-04-23 11:57:26.590 prebuffering pause > 2005-04-23 11:57:45.719 ReadStringList timeout (quick). > Remote encoder not responding. > 2005-04-23 11:57:45.719 WriteStringList: Bad socket > 2005-04-23 11:57:45.719 ReadStringList: Bad socket > Remote encoder not responding. > 2005-04-23 11:57:45.720 WriteStringList: Bad socket > 2005-04-23 11:57:45.720 ReadStringList: Bad socket > Remote encoder not responding. > ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/include/qt3/qvaluelist.h (372) > 2005-04-23 11:57:45.722 WriteStringList: Bad socket > 2005-04-23 11:57:45.722 ReadStringList: Bad socket > Remote encoder not responding. > 2005-04-23 11:57:45.933 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None > 2005-04-23 11:57:45.945 Changing from None to None > 2005-04-23 11:57:45.946 Enable DPMS > > What does MythTV do different when watching Live TV compared to when > recording a program? > > // Magnus > > -- > *Magnus Sandin > *Cache miss - please take better aim next time > ___ > 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] HELP: audio has gone
Not sure this will help, but just thought I would post something I ran
into recently. I have a creative soundblaster live 5.1 card and always
allowed FC3 to make my default modifications in /etc/modprobe.conf
which was this:
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
options snd-card-0 index=0
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 &&
/usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-emu10k1 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; };
/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1
Although I always had sound and was able to raw out via spdif to my
receiver and got full surround I always had an issue where some MP3's
would play with a 'muddy' sound. I ignored it for a while (didn't
really bother me that much). Wanting to do a little bragging to my
co-workers that live in Windows SageTV land I wanted to get some nice
printscreens of Myth. I ran a VNC session to my laptop (forgetting
that Myth was set to autolaunch on any KDE session ) POOF audio went
bye-bye. It took me forever to get it back dinking with alsamixer
etc... (I to this day don't know what I did to get it back). Well
being the type of person to not leave well enough alone I did the VNC
session again - bad decision at first, but paid off in the long run.
Luckily I never could get sound back which lead me in this direction.
I remarked out those modprobe.conf settings above and let alsaconf
make the modifications. I then referenced
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=emu10k1 and made some mods they
suggested. I am S-O-O-O-O-O glad I did. Not only did sound come back
it is a hell of a lot better sounding now and the MP3 muddy sound has
vanished from those suspect MP3s. This is my new modprobe.conf
settings for the soundblaster live:
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
options snd-card-0 index=0 extin="0x3fc3" extout="0x1fff"
Regg
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] mythtv-setup doesn't "go"....
I just installed Axel's mythtv-suite-018 and while the installation went just fine, I get the following when I try to run mythtv-setup. I've loaded the database but haven't gotten my ati_remote to work just yet. mythtv-setup gives me two screens asking about deleting my cards and channels, then exits. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mythtv-setup 2005-04-24 09:54:41.316 New DB connection, total: 1 Total desktop width=1280, height=1024, numscreens=1 2005-04-24 09:54:41.321 Using screen 0, 1280x1024 at 0,0 Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display "pvr:1.0". DisplaResX: Unable to XRRgetScreenInfo Could not find theme: blue 2005-04-24 09:54:41.339 Switching to square mode (blue) mythtv: could not connect to socket 2005-04-24 09:54:41.572 Joystick disabled. mythtv: No such file or directory lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages Could not find theme: blue Couldn't find theme blue If this is the master backend server: Now, please run 'mythfilldatabase' to populate the database with channel information [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ Any ideas? I've run 0.16 without a remote, just using the keyboard. This isn't an upgrade, it's a brand new, Pundit-based system (p4 3.0GHz, 512MB, 160GB HDD, PVR-350). Thanks! Bret Wortman ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] choppy audio/video in dark scenes
Howard, As soon as I got your reply, I tried what you suggested, and it worked! Hopefully I can ratchet the resolution back down with no ill effects. Now I can take that extra 512mb that I had put in and put it towards something else Thanks On 4/23/05, Howard Cokl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In mythfrontend setup - tv settings - playback, first > screen make sure there is a check in extra audio > buffering. That's what fixed it for me. > > Howard > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Recovering from "drop oldrecorded" ?
Patrick Kirchner wrote: > Hello, > > I was trying to restore my oldrecorded programs backup file into a fresh > mythconverg database. Things went horribly wrong, so I thought I'd > start over on the oldrecorded tables and just dropped it using mysql. Yeah, so, in general "delete from " is a little nicer than "drop table ". :) Try this: CREATE TABLE `oldrecorded` ( `chanid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0', `starttime` datetime NOT NULL default '-00-00 00:00:00', `endtime` datetime NOT NULL default '-00-00 00:00:00', `title` varchar(128) NOT NULL default '', `subtitle` varchar(128) NOT NULL default '', `description` text NOT NULL, `category` varchar(64) NOT NULL default '', `seriesid` varchar(12) NOT NULL default '', `programid` varchar(20) NOT NULL default '', `findid` int(11) NOT NULL default '0', `recordid` int(11) NOT NULL default '0', PRIMARY KEY (`chanid`,`starttime`), KEY `endtime` (`endtime`), KEY `title` (`title`), KEY `seriesid` (`seriesid`), KEY `programid` (`programid`), KEY `recordid` (`recordid`), KEY `recordid_2` (`recordid`), KEY `recordid_3` (`recordid`) ) TYPE=MyISAM; For future reference, I got this by running mysqldump. Cheers, Kyle ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Recovering from "drop oldrecorded" ?
Hello, I was trying to restore my oldrecorded programs backup file into a fresh mythconverg database. Things went horribly wrong, so I thought I'd start over on the oldrecorded tables and just dropped it using mysql. I'm stuck now without the "oldrecorded" table and I'm still unable to either create the table or restore the data to it with my backup. I have a good backup of the oldrecorded table but can't figure out how to either restore or recreate it with the backup file. If someone could offer me some assistance I would greatly appreciate it. Many thanks, Patrick. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Priorities screen messed up in 0.18
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 12:02:47AM +0200, Thomas Börkel wrote: > Bruce Markey wrote: > > >>Just upgraded from 0.16 to 0.18 on FC3 with atrpms packages. > >> > >>The Priorities screen (listing of all recording schedules) is messed > >>up. I see only one character for each schedule and the priority column > >>is also corrupted. > >> > >>I tried with QT 3.3.3 and 3.3.4. > >> > >>Any hints? > > > >You are using an outdated theme. A column was added to show the > >record type sometime after 0.16. If you are using a 0.16 theme > >it would appear as you describe and other pages that have changed > >would have more subtle problems or missing info. > > Thanks for the info. This seems to be an atrpms issue. I have forwarded > this to the atrpms list. I don't think so, the themes ATrpms packages are for 0.18, not 0.16. And as I understand Bruce that would already have bitten 0.17 users, and there weren't any reports on that. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net pgpP7mMPOVbbL.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] OT: avidemux2 question
> Back before I got sp-diff audio working I was using the line out of the > sound card and going into the line in of the external amplifier. I also > found that the levels to be quite a bit lower than my other inputs. This > leads me to think that there is a different standard between the two > appliences. Or perhaps an impedance issue. My work-around was to turn up the > mixers to about 90% on the myth box. This was less than perfect as you could > hear some distortion on loud passages which I assume was the line-out amp > hitting the rail. Not sure if your myth box has sp-diff or coax audio out > but if it does, I would recommend that option. Otherwise you might end up > building a little op-amp circuit to boost the signal level. > > Well, I found a workaround. I don't know if others have had this problem, but here's what I did. I had an old Fisher Equalizer. I stuck that in between the MVP1000 and my Receiver. I then jacked all the bars to the top. I think it raised it about 12db and now it's an acceptable level. Thanks, James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: OT: RHEL4/CentOS atrpms setup
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 03:49:55PM -0600, pmb wrote: > I would like to setup myth on a CentOS 4 box, but I can't get apt to > install. Since there wasn't a kickstart package, I installed apt from > the Dag repository, then added atrpms's to /etc/apt/sources.list. After > an apt-get update, trying to apt-get install apt results in: > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > apt: Depends: /etc/apt/apt.conf > Depends: /etc/apt/sources.list > E: Broken packages > > I must be doing something wrong. How do I get atrpms apt repository > working on CentOS 4? RHEL4/RHEL3 support at ATrpms is still in beta phase, that's why the packages have funny disttags like 3.999 instead of 4 (to ensure upgradablility to the proper versions). As a workaround, don't try to upgrade apt, but simply install mythtv-suite. Any failures/missing bits etc are best reported to atrpms-users or bugzilla.atrpms.net, thanks! -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net pgpQbrrQlKNuU.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Playback of Transcoded (MPEG4) file on Epia ME6000
On 4/23/05, Ivor Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The gcc compiler hasn't got any scheduling logic for the c3 since via > hasn't released that information or contributed to the gcc > development. and since the c3 design is based off the old cyrix > dies I suspect that the 586 optimisations might be a reasonable match. > > -Os is all very well but that just tries to pack everything into the > smallest space and so disables all word alignment and doesn't try to > optimise the code for speed. -O2 seems like a reasonable compromise > for the c3. It doesn't unroll loops but does do some optimisations. > > Personally I always found "586 and -O2" gave decent performance... > with the added benefit I can use the same binaries on P3, C3 and C3-2 > which helps testing and debugging (for me). > > If I have time I might run some benchmarks with different options. > > > On 4/22/05, Devan Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd have to agree with Ivor's flag settings, I've found on my TC that > > i586 works better than C3 > > > > On 4/22/05, Ivor Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 4/22/05, Neale Swinnerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I've got a Epia ME6000 working well as a Myth frontend. I've got the > > > > XvMC playback so that watching Live TV or recordings is great (I've got > > > > a backend with 2 x Hauppauge DVB-T cards). > > > > > > > 1. I'd have thought an m6000 would struggle. Out of interest what cpu > > > load are you seeing in mplayer? > > > 2. Why are you transcoding dvb-t recordings anyway? do you really need > > > to save disk space that badly. Wouldn't you rather watch the original > > > quality? > > > > > > > -march=c3 -Os -fomit-frame-pointer > > > > > > > What about just -march=i586 -O2 > > > ___ > > > mythtv-users mailing list > > > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > > > > -- > > Thanks, > > Devan Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > I did a comparison of compiler optimization settings for the ME6000 and M1. The results are mixed. You can find the articles on www.magicitx.com under the VIA Epia menu -> Optimization if you're interested. -- Tim www.magicitx.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: RHEL4/CentOS atrpms setup
you could always build it from source... -- Thanks, Devan Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 4/23/05, pmb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to setup myth on a CentOS 4 box, but I can't get apt to > install. Since there wasn't a kickstart package, I installed apt from > the Dag repository, then added atrpms's to /etc/apt/sources.list. After > an apt-get update, trying to apt-get install apt results in: > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > apt: Depends: /etc/apt/apt.conf >Depends: /etc/apt/sources.list > E: Broken packages > > I must be doing something wrong. How do I get atrpms apt repository > working on CentOS 4? > > -- > http://www.umich2.com > ___ > 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] mythfm
Trying to compile the latest mythfm from http://mythextra.napsi.net/download.html against the latest cvs 0.18 - I get this error: stationeditor.cpp: In constructor `StationEditor::StationEditor()': stationeditor.cpp:119: error: cannot allocate an object of type `StationListSetting' stationeditor.cpp:119: error: because the following virtual functions are abstract: /usr/include/mythtv/settings.h:31: error: virtual void Configurable::load() /usr/include/mythtv/settings.h:32: error: virtual void Configurable::save() make[1]: *** [stationeditor.o] Error 1 Any advice ? Sigurd ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Time stretch bug in 0.18
HI! When I set time stretch to 1.1, then the checkmark in the OSD menu is on 1.2. If I set it to 1.2, then the checkmark is on 1.3. For the other settings, it's ok. Thomas ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Priorities screen messed up in 0.18
HI! Bruce Markey wrote: Just upgraded from 0.16 to 0.18 on FC3 with atrpms packages. The Priorities screen (listing of all recording schedules) is messed up. I see only one character for each schedule and the priority column is also corrupted. I tried with QT 3.3.3 and 3.3.4. Any hints? You are using an outdated theme. A column was added to show the record type sometime after 0.16. If you are using a 0.16 theme it would appear as you describe and other pages that have changed would have more subtle problems or missing info. Thanks for the info. This seems to be an atrpms issue. I have forwarded this to the atrpms list. Thomas ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] OT: RHEL4/CentOS atrpms setup
I would like to setup myth on a CentOS 4 box, but I can't get apt to install. Since there wasn't a kickstart package, I installed apt from the Dag repository, then added atrpms's to /etc/apt/sources.list. After an apt-get update, trying to apt-get install apt results in: The following packages have unmet dependencies: apt: Depends: /etc/apt/apt.conf Depends: /etc/apt/sources.list E: Broken packages I must be doing something wrong. How do I get atrpms apt repository working on CentOS 4? -- http://www.umich2.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Problems with 0.18 FC rpms
>> Check the announcement of the rpms. It's fixed now, so please retry. Thanks Axel! Worked like a charm. I appreciate all you hard work. David __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Priorities screen messed up in 0.18
Thomas Börkel wrote: HI! Just upgraded from 0.16 to 0.18 on FC3 with atrpms packages. The Priorities screen (listing of all recording schedules) is messed up. I see only one character for each schedule and the priority column is also corrupted. I tried with QT 3.3.3 and 3.3.4. Any hints? You are using an outdated theme. A column was added to show the record type sometime after 0.16. If you are using a 0.16 theme it would appear as you describe and other pages that have changed would have more subtle problems or missing info. -- bjm ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DB schema upgrade failing for .18
On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 15:23 -0500, Henrik Bentel wrote: > Hi > > I'm having trouble upgrading to .18. Rather I upgrade (from .17 to .18 > , using atrpms ) and mythtvbackend process keeps dying. > It attempts to upgrade the DB schema but this fails and the > process dies. Log below. > > Hope someone can help > > -Henrik I think you're supposed to run "mythtvsetup" after upgrading (althoug I haven't upgrade, myself). HTH, Peter ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] choppy audio/video in dark scenes
--- Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem where the audio (and video?) get's > real > choppy/stuttery. This consistently happens when > the scene is > particularly dark such as a black screen with light > text. It happens > in live TV as well as recorder shows. An example of > this are the > promos the Cartoon Network runs just before > returning from commercial > break during The Family Guy. Some commercials also > have dark screens > with white or light text. Some shows which are very > dark, such as > X-Files do it to a lesser degree. This mostly dark > screen consistenly > causes the playback to become very choppy. The > audio is the most > noticeable, but it could be the video, too. It's > hard to tell since > it's usually during a still scene. Does anyone know > what may be > causing this and if there is a fix? This is a really > strange anomaly; > intuitively it seems that a simple dark background > with text would be > less intensive than fast moving video. > > My system originally had 512mb ram, and I added > 512mb more to see if > that would help. I also read something about > setting the recording > profiles to 720*480, so I did that (they were > 480*480 by default) and > that helped some but not completely. Plus 720*480 > takes up a lot of > disk space, so I'd like to change that back if > possible. > > The cpu usage is consistenly low (<10%?). > > Any help is appreciated. Will post logs or configs > if necessary. > > My system is based on KnoppMyth R5A12 (Myth 0.17) > Combined FE/BE > It is a chaintech 7NIF2, Athlon XP 2600+ > 1GB Ram > Onboard geforce video w/tvout > PVR 250 (debug=1 for ivtv) > Maxtor DiamondMax 10+ (dma enabled) > > Thanks > Zach In mythfrontend setup - tv settings - playback, first screen make sure there is a check in extra audio buffering. That's what fixed it for me. Howard ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mac OS X CVS Snapshot
On 4/22/05, Byron Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/22/05, Ashley Bostock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Was wondering the same myself, I downloaded that the other day but > > missed seeing the date on it, ran it to connect to my 0.18 backend and > > it downgraded the database schema number thus causing all my 0.18 > > frontends to fail when connecting as they were tring to upgrade the > > database and failed on an insert due to several duplicate column > > names. > > > > Didn't think a pre 0.18 frontend would a) be allowed to connect due to > > different version number and b) be allowed to downgrade the database. > > > > Ash. > > I gave that a shot last night as well, and was wondering what borked > my db. I ended up just rebuilding it, since it was a fresh myth > install. Guess I need to tell my dad not to connect I saw the same, but all I did was change the number of the database schema version in the db to 1082 iirc... worked fine afterwards.. (Took a while to figure out what was breaking the rest of myth :) The biggest issue I have now is that when my minimac comes back from sleep, the network doesn't fully come back and I get lots of dropouts until I reboot It is very cool to have the minimac be a frontend though :) Art ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Priorities screen messed up in 0.18
HI! Just upgraded from 0.16 to 0.18 on FC3 with atrpms packages. The Priorities screen (listing of all recording schedules) is messed up. I see only one character for each schedule and the priority column is also corrupted. I tried with QT 3.3.3 and 3.3.4. Any hints? Thanks! Thomas ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV - PVR-250 - some newbie questions
On 4/23/05, emory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Though you aren't using Fedora, check out http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ > for a lot of handy debugging tips (i.e. why you aren't getting any > video, how to change the channel without mythtv, etc). Thanks. I'll check it out. > > Your .NUV files from a PVR-250 should be around 2 GB an hour. The raw > video files you are recording via command line look too small to be > real video files, and the files you are recording with myth are too > big to be MPEG2 encoded. Have you tried running "mythtvsetup" to set > up your PVR-250 as an input? Yes - it's all setup using mythtv-setup. The specific MythTV version and flags are here: dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv mythtv These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] media-tv/mythtv-0.18 +X +alsa (-altivec) -arts -cle266 -debug -directfb -dvb -ieee1394 +jack -joystick -lcd +lirc +nls -nvidia +oggvorbis +opengl +oss +xv 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB dragonfly ~ # I actually don't think the files recorded at the command line using /dev/video0 are raw. I think they are mpeg and while I do get some message that say mplayer isn't perfectly happy with them they do play correctly and look OK, other than some interlacing/decoding stuff I see. If I play one using mplayer in part I'm seeing this: == Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES) Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. VDecoder init failed :( Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2)) == Checking audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/16bit... AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 48000 hz, little endian signed int AF_pre: 48000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps) Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/16bit... Starting playback... VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO: [x11] 720x480 => 720x540 Planar YV12 SwScaler: using unscaled Planar YV12 -> BGR 16-bit special converter A: 3.7 V: 3.7 A-V: 0.006 ct: 0.066 104/104 8% 5% 0.7% 0 0 70% MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: sleep_timer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ However they do play and I seem to get about 40MB/minute so that would be on the order ot 2GB/hour matching you number. The nuv files I'm getting from MythTV right now are more on the order of 800MB-1GB/minute. To me that seem more like raw video but I could certainly be wrong. My next experiment is to plow away the current setups for the PVR-250 and redo them. The current setup uses /dev/v4l/video0. I want to try it with /dev/video0 which is what works from the command lne but I'm not sure how to have all this in MythTV and make sure it's really doing what I want it to do. Thanks for the info! I don't need to record SNL tonight. I would like to. That's my goal, but it's not worth installing Windows here. Thanks, Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV - PVR-250 - some newbie questions
Though you aren't using Fedora, check out http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ for a lot of handy debugging tips (i.e. why you aren't getting any video, how to change the channel without mythtv, etc). Your .NUV files from a PVR-250 should be around 2 GB an hour. The raw video files you are recording via command line look too small to be real video files, and the files you are recording with myth are too big to be MPEG2 encoded. Have you tried running "mythtvsetup" to set up your PVR-250 as an input? Finally, don't try to stress yourself by saying stuff like, "I have to get this working by XXX so I can record it." MythTV takes time, a lot of time when you first start out. It took me three months to get all the kinks out. Most of us do it for fun in our spare time, but if it's stressing you out, then what's the point? One useful thing that takes the pressure off is to have a dual-boot configuration with a small windows partition. It's not too hard to set up (install windows first, then linux). That way, if there's something you really want to record when MythTV is not functional yet, and you've already thrown away your VCR, you can always use the lame WinTV PC software. And, as hard as this is for me to say as a diehard Mac and Linux user, having a PC partition is occassionally pretty useful. Final word of unrelated advice: for your partitions, partimage+knoppix is your friend. Especially if you're using Gentoo and you have to compile everything everytime you start from scratch. e On 4/23/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >I'm in the process of setting up a PVR-250 to use MythTV. I've not > used the application before today but I must say I'm very impressed so > far. For the most part the info on the web to get things set up is > pretty good. I've made it a long ways with a bit of help from > Gentoo-Users. I have managed to record some video although so far I > cannot view any of it. (Big problem, 'eh?) ;-) Anyway, this is my > first post here and hopefully it will help me make some forward > progress. Thanks in advance. > >The PVR is installed and I am able to record video from the command > line using the following set of commands: > > ivtvctl -u 0x3000 > ivtvctl -p 4 > ivtvctl -f width=720,height=480 > ivtvctl -v input=3,output=1 > cat /dev/video0 >test.mpg > mplayer test.mpg > > The video and audio quality looks good when I do that. I haven't > figured out channel tuning though. File size is small and the output > does appear to be mpeg. mplayer is happy with the data. > >I have attempted to read through the guide here: (very good BTW) > > http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO.html#toc11 > > as well as use the Gentoo docs here: > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV > > but didn't find answers to the questions that follow: > > TODAY's GOAL: Record Saturday Night Live tonight. (About 10 hours from now.) > ;-) > > 1) The system is using the PVR-250. I've set up a ZapIt account and I > seem to be getting good cable guide info. Right programs, right > channels, etc. > > 2) I've managed to record some video. It's currently going into a > private partition called /TVstorage. However when I try to watch this > recorded program MythTV first goes to a black screen and then pretty > immediately comes back to the main screen. I see no video. > > 3) If I record for 10 minutes I see this in /TVstorage: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /TVstorage $ ls -aCs > total 7435740 > 4 . 7435728 1009_20050423124000_20050423125000.nuv0 > nfslockfile.lock > 4 ..4 log > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /TVstorage $ > > So 10 minutes of recording took up about 7.6GB. This seems to me that > I'm getting raw video data and not the output of the PVR-250's mpeg > encoder? Is this true? > > 4) If I am getting raw data how do I get the output of the encoder > instead? This amount of disk space will kill me and if it was an mpeg > file I could try watching it with other apps also. > > 5) Can this *.nuv file be converted to mpeg so that I can see if > there's real video/audio there? > > 6) I'm seeing some messages I don't like in the log file: > > 2005-04-23 12:49:55.299 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() > 2005-04-23 12:49:56.801 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() > 2005-04-23 12:49:57.168 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() > 2005-04-23 12:49:58.303 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() > 2005-04-23 12:49:59.738 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() > 2005-04-23 12:50:00.126 Finished recording first test (Manual Record) > on channel: 1009 > 2005-04-23 12:50:00.280 Changing from RecordingOnly to None > > Two things concern me: > > 1) IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() - What's this > message about. This is the only app I've seen do this so far. The > machine is a fairly new 3GHz Intel ox, but CPU usage was low at 10% > when recording. DMA on the hard drive is enabled and throughput is > prett
[mythtv-users] MythTV - PVR-250 - some newbie questions
Hi, I'm in the process of setting up a PVR-250 to use MythTV. I've not used the application before today but I must say I'm very impressed so far. For the most part the info on the web to get things set up is pretty good. I've made it a long ways with a bit of help from Gentoo-Users. I have managed to record some video although so far I cannot view any of it. (Big problem, 'eh?) ;-) Anyway, this is my first post here and hopefully it will help me make some forward progress. Thanks in advance. The PVR is installed and I am able to record video from the command line using the following set of commands: ivtvctl -u 0x3000 ivtvctl -p 4 ivtvctl -f width=720,height=480 ivtvctl -v input=3,output=1 cat /dev/video0 >test.mpg mplayer test.mpg The video and audio quality looks good when I do that. I haven't figured out channel tuning though. File size is small and the output does appear to be mpeg. mplayer is happy with the data. I have attempted to read through the guide here: (very good BTW) http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO.html#toc11 as well as use the Gentoo docs here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV but didn't find answers to the questions that follow: TODAY's GOAL: Record Saturday Night Live tonight. (About 10 hours from now.) ;-) 1) The system is using the PVR-250. I've set up a ZapIt account and I seem to be getting good cable guide info. Right programs, right channels, etc. 2) I've managed to record some video. It's currently going into a private partition called /TVstorage. However when I try to watch this recorded program MythTV first goes to a black screen and then pretty immediately comes back to the main screen. I see no video. 3) If I record for 10 minutes I see this in /TVstorage: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /TVstorage $ ls -aCs total 7435740 4 . 7435728 1009_20050423124000_20050423125000.nuv0 nfslockfile.lock 4 ..4 log [EMAIL PROTECTED] /TVstorage $ So 10 minutes of recording took up about 7.6GB. This seems to me that I'm getting raw video data and not the output of the PVR-250's mpeg encoder? Is this true? 4) If I am getting raw data how do I get the output of the encoder instead? This amount of disk space will kill me and if it was an mpeg file I could try watching it with other apps also. 5) Can this *.nuv file be converted to mpeg so that I can see if there's real video/audio there? 6) I'm seeing some messages I don't like in the log file: 2005-04-23 12:49:55.299 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() 2005-04-23 12:49:56.801 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() 2005-04-23 12:49:57.168 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() 2005-04-23 12:49:58.303 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() 2005-04-23 12:49:59.738 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() 2005-04-23 12:50:00.126 Finished recording first test (Manual Record) on channel: 1009 2005-04-23 12:50:00.280 Changing from RecordingOnly to None Two things concern me: 1) IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() - What's this message about. This is the only app I've seen do this so far. The machine is a fairly new 3GHz Intel ox, but CPU usage was low at 10% when recording. DMA on the hard drive is enabled and throughput is pretty fast according to hdparm: dragonfly ~ # hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 2620 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1310.20 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 142 MB in 3.04 seconds = 46.75 MB/sec dragonfly ~ # 2) Did MythTV actually record in the correct channel? I was trying to record channel 9 (KQED tv) in the Bay Area from Comcast Cable. Does this message look correct? 2005-04-23 12:50:00.126 Finished recording first test (Manual Record) on channel: 1009 I'll stop there for now. Thanks in advance for any pointers you can give a new guy. Cheers, Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Hard lock-up has toasted DB's recorded table
> Is it worth trying to recover this, or would it be simpler to > drop the whole DB and start over. Dropping mythconverg and reloading is probably your best bet. Doing a backup might also be a good use of your time. Personally I install webmin on all my machines, makes it much easier to admin and backup. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] lay down pundit-r?
keep in mind that if you need to use any of the inputs in the front (SPDIF, PCMCIA, etc), the front door is difficult if not impossible to open when the pundit is lying flat on a surface. You might want to hang it over a ledge if you need to open the door. The other consideration, if you are using a hot processor, is that the ventilation may not be as good (not that the ventilation is all that good to begin with). There are holes on the "bottom" of the pundit (when standing upright) that are meant to draw cold air from outside, which then gets sucked upwards through the case by the CPU and PSU fans. If you are using a 7200 RPM hard drive, this could also get really hot (it's fairly warm when the pundit-r is upright), as it sits flush against what would be the bottom of the case if you laid it flat. - emory On 4/23/05, Xiaotian Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/23/05, Niels den Otter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Xiaotian, > > > > On Friday, 22 April 2005, Xiaotian Sun wrote: > > > This question may sound stupid. But I just want to make sure that I can > > > lay down Pundit-R. From the picture and the specs, it is supposed to be > > > stand up. Will there be any bad consequences if I lay it down flat? Are > > > you Pundit owners doing this? > > > > I also use my Pundit-R in horizontal position. No problems here. > > Thanks for letting me know, Niels. Now I can go ahead ordering a Pundit-R. > > > > > > > -- Niels > > > > Xiaotian > ___ > 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] DB schema upgrade failing for .18
Hi I'm having trouble upgrading to .18. Rather I upgrade (from .17 to .18 , using atrpms ) and mythtvbackend process keeps dying. It attempts to upgrade the DB schema but this fails and the process dies. Log below. Hope someone can help -Henrik 2005-04-23 15:05:21.396 New DB connection, total: 1 2005-04-23 15:05:21.437 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If you see a long pause here it means the Schema is already locked and is being up graded by another Myth process. 2005-04-23 15:05:21.439 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-04-23 15:05:21.441 Upgrading to schema version 1072 2005-04-23 15:05:21.443 DB Error (Performing database upgrade): Query was: ALTER TABLE program ADD COLUMN manualid INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT 0; Error was: Driver error was [2/1060]: QMYSQL3: Unable to execute query Database error was: Duplicate column name 'manualid' new version: 1072 2005-04-23 15:05:21.445 Database Schema upgrade FAILED, unlocking. 2005-04-23 15:05:21.446 Couldn't upgrade database to new schema ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] choppy audio/video in dark scenes
Hi, I have a problem where the audio (and video?) get's real choppy/stuttery. This consistently happens when the scene is particularly dark such as a black screen with light text. It happens in live TV as well as recorder shows. An example of this are the promos the Cartoon Network runs just before returning from commercial break during The Family Guy. Some commercials also have dark screens with white or light text. Some shows which are very dark, such as X-Files do it to a lesser degree. This mostly dark screen consistenly causes the playback to become very choppy. The audio is the most noticeable, but it could be the video, too. It's hard to tell since it's usually during a still scene. Does anyone know what may be causing this and if there is a fix? This is a really strange anomaly; intuitively it seems that a simple dark background with text would be less intensive than fast moving video. My system originally had 512mb ram, and I added 512mb more to see if that would help. I also read something about setting the recording profiles to 720*480, so I did that (they were 480*480 by default) and that helped some but not completely. Plus 720*480 takes up a lot of disk space, so I'd like to change that back if possible. The cpu usage is consistenly low (<10%?). Any help is appreciated. Will post logs or configs if necessary. My system is based on KnoppMyth R5A12 (Myth 0.17) Combined FE/BE It is a chaintech 7NIF2, Athlon XP 2600+ 1GB Ram Onboard geforce video w/tvout PVR 250 (debug=1 for ivtv) Maxtor DiamondMax 10+ (dma enabled) Thanks Zach ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Location of Mac binaries for 18?
Can anyone point me to the location of the 18 package for Mac OSX? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] lay down pundit-r?
On 4/23/05, Niels den Otter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Xiaotian, > > On Friday, 22 April 2005, Xiaotian Sun wrote: > > This question may sound stupid. But I just want to make sure that I can > > lay down Pundit-R. From the picture and the specs, it is supposed to be > > stand up. Will there be any bad consequences if I lay it down flat? Are > > you Pundit owners doing this? > > I also use my Pundit-R in horizontal position. No problems here. Thanks for letting me know, Niels. Now I can go ahead ordering a Pundit-R. > > > -- Niels > Xiaotian ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DiGiMatrix and MythTV
On 4/22/05, Craig Partin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's a nice looking box, but I can't understand why Asus insists on > putting the S/PDIF output on the front of all their machines. Who > wants a cable permanently coming out of the front of their media PC? > Is there anything you would plug into besides a receiver? USB and > the like I understand, as there are all sorts of little devices you > could conceivably want to plug in on a temporary basis, but the > digital audio is beyond me. > Agreed, quite dumb to put it there. In searching around, I did find this... http://asusfan.linux-site.net/ There is hope yet for this box. Now to convince the budget committee. gs -- Portland, Oregon MythTV Users Group The PoOr MUG http://poormug.bitbucket.com/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Request: Do you have recordings that don't commflag well?
Battlestar Galactica, on the scifi channel, which is available in the US (and probably much of the world via satellite) As for a fat pipe, I don't have one, but I can take my recordings to a place that does. :) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HELP: audio has gone
Chris Rouch wrote: I'm having problems with mythtv sound on a Terratec Cinergy card. The audio out from the card is connected to the line in on my sblive. I've looked at the troubleshooting guide. xawtv is fine, so I know the sblive card is working. If I mute the line input and set it to capture and run aplay /dev/dsp then I get delayed sound, as expected. What is really strange is that if I run xawtv with line in muted, and also run mythfrontend in live tv mode, after a short delay I get sound again. And I can pause live tv and when I unpause it the sound picks up where it should. so myth is getting the audio as it should. The only thing I can see in the backend logfile that might be relevant is NVR: Error, unknown audio codec Normally, this message only shows up when the recording profile settings are not correct. First make sure your database doesn't have errors "mysqlcheck -r -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg" then go to TV Settings->Recording Profiles and check the audio settings for each of the profiles. -- bjm ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Suggestion: Splicing channels.
I don't know what format captures from the software cards come in, but I'm assuming it's mostly a raw frame format (i.e. something like ARGB, where there's full information). This information is later compressed by MythTV into something that doesn't take as much space on the hard drive. You might be able to take advantage of this and strip away what you don't need. MPEG-2 is a different story though. If you can tell the capture card to capture only a certain screen region (as opposed to a screen size), then you might be okay. If you can't specify the screen region to capture, then you must parse every MPEG-2 packet, since any of them could contain a change to anywhere on the screen (unless the capture card is using I-frame striping, which somewhat alleviates this issue, as you'd be guaranteed that the changes are isolated to a strip of the screen, not the entire screen). I'm still learning about this stuff myself (it's my job), but I have the advantage of having hardware MPEG-2 encoding and decoding, with no processing needed. :) -- Joe --- Nicholas McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Once you define the block you need, there really > shouldn't be any need > to decode any more of the video. I'm not sure how > much this could > save, but it seems a waste to have the computer to > struggle when I > only want 10% of the video. In fact, for software > encoders it > shouldn't be encoded at all since there is little > use for a non-live > (or close to live) crawl. I've thought about this a > bit, because I > rely on a PVR 350 for my output. Perhaps it would > be possible to play > the crawl as an overlay like the on screen display. > This would of > course all have to be done in software. > > On 4/23/05, Joe Votour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Part of it is who would care, but also, from a > > technical standpoint, it's very difficult to do. > > > > First of all, you need multiple inputs. So, you'd > > need two capture devices (one per channel). If > you're > > using software capture, that requires a lot of CPU > > (about 1GHz per tuner, according to the official > > MythTV documentation). If you're using hardware > > MPEG-2 capture, that helps on the capture, but you > > still get screwed over on the playback. > > > > In order to playback that data though, you have to > > make a composite screen of the two sources, and > that's > > where it gets tricky. I don't know the internal > > workings of the MythTV MPEG-2 playback engine, but > I > > can say that it will require a fair amount of CPU > to > > combine the streams (because processing has to be > done > > on each stream to determine what parts to cut out > and > > leave in). (Even if you have a PVR-350 for > output, > > this part is required, because you have to feed a > > contiguous signal to the decoder, which means > > pre-processing in software). > > > > So, to do this, I'd say that you're looking at a > > minimum of a 2GHz machine (for all hardware > encoding), > > and you'd be unable to use two tuners for anything > > else. Probably not worth it for the average > person > > (heck, I'm a baseball junkie, and I get enough of > it > > by just watching a game, and monitoring the ticker > on > > the screen - I have yet to use PiP for that > purpose). > > > > -- Joe > > > > --- Kyle Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Nicholas McCoy wrote: > > > > Well, the NFL draft is today and the folks on > ESPN > > > are yakking on. > > > > Now, the most important information on that > > > channel is the bottom > > > > couple inches. I'd like to watch something > else > > > on most of the TV. > > > > It would be nice if I could take the bottom > couple > > > inches off one > > > > channel and watch on another. Of course, this > > > feature would work for > > > > sports, stocks and news as well. Does anyone > else > > > think this feature > > > > would be worth implementing. Also any ideas > of > > > how to implement it. > > > > > > Not to muddy the discussion, but what the > hell... > > > > > > In general, it'd be great to be able to combine > or > > > select from among > > > multiple inputs in some way more interesting > than > > > picture-in-picture. > > > For example, the way I watch baseball is > generally > > > to turn on the TV, > > > mute it, and then put on the radio broadcast, > since > > > the radio announcers > > > are typically much better than the TV > announcers. > > > > > > Unfortunately, this doesn't work out so well > when > > > one wants to > > > synchronize the sources, as the TV will always > be > > > 3-4 seconds behind the > > > radio broadcast. > > > > > > I can do something like this if I use MLB's > Gameday > > > Audio to listen, > > > because I can insert almost any delay I want > into > > > that; but it's kinda > > > ugly to have to do this when I could accomplish > much > > > the same thing with > > > input selection and a radio tuner module. > > > > > > Anyway, I digress. Being able to grab the crawl >
Re: [mythtv-users] Installed .18 today now I have massive CPU load from myth
Bryan Halter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone else seen this, I have an Athlon XP 2500+ with 512MB of RAM > and an ATI TV wonder tuner. After installing mythtv 0.18 today I'm > getting 100% CPU load all the time, recording or not where previously > I had gotten ~ 60% while recording. The log doesn't show anything > insightful. I'm also using Gentoo 2005.0 in case that is of use. In my case it was commercial flagging that was running in the background. Try to check with e.g. top, what process is running the most. I killed of the mythcommflag processes and disabled the feature in myth. Now it seems ok... -- /Ola Nilsson ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Problems with 0.18 FC rpms
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 09:51:54AM -0700, David Vasquez wrote: > I tried to upgrade to 0.18 today and got the > following. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Check the announcement of the rpms. It's fixed now, so please retry. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# apt-get update > Get:1 http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/3/en/i386 release > [1527B] > Get:2 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 > release [2137B] > Fetched 3664B in 4s (752B/s) > Hit http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/3/en/i386/at-stable > pkglist > Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/core > pkglist > Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/core > release > Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/core > srclist > Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net > fedora/linux/3/i386/updates pkglist > Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net > fedora/linux/3/i386/updates release > Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net > fedora/linux/3/i386/updates srclist > Hit http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/3/en/i386/at-stable > release > Hit http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/3/en/i386/at-stable > srclist > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# apt-get install mythtv-suite > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean > that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using > the unstable > distribution that some required packages have not yet > been created > or been moved out of Incoming. > > Since you only requested a single operation it is > extremely likely that > the package is simply not installable and a bug report > against > that package should be filed. > The following information may help to resolve the > situation: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > mythtv-suite: Depends: mythtv (>= 0.18) but > 0.17-95.rhfc3.at is to be installed > Depends: mythtv-backend (>= 0.18) but > it is not going to be installed > Depends: mythtv-frontend (>= 0.18) but > 0.17-95.rhfc3.at is to be installed > Depends: mythtvsetup (>= 0.18) > Depends: mythmusic (>= 0.18) but it is > not going to be installed > Depends: mythvideo (>= 0.18) but it is > not going to be installed > Depends: mythweb (>= 0.18) but it is > not going to be installed > Depends: mythweather (>= 0.18) but it > is not going to be installed > Depends: mythgallery (>= 0.18) but it > is not going to be installed > Depends: mythgame (>= 0.18) but it is > not going to be installed > Depends: mythdvd (>= 0.18) but it is > not going to be installed > Depends: mythnews (>= 0.18) but it is > not going to be installed > Depends: mythbrowser (>= 0.18) but it > is not going to be installed > Depends: mythphone (>= 0.18) but it is > not going to be installed > Depends: mythtv-theme-MythCenter (>= > 0.17) but it is not going to be installed > E: Broken packages > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# > > > > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net pgpMoQkOK5Tq5.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: xine installation package broken
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 09:09:57AM -0700, jacko wrote: > Axel should I be sending this to you directly or is it something on my end? xine is not part of ATrpms, so I cannot really help. Try to find out which xine that is (apt-cache policy xine) and file a bug against that repo at bugzilla.atrpms.net. > On 4/17/05, jacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # apt-get install xine > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable > > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created > > or been moved out of Incoming. > > > > Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that > > the package is simply not installable and a bug report against > > that package should be filed. > > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > xine: Depends: libcurl.so.3 but it is not installable > > Depends: libidn.so.11 but it is not installable > > E: Broken packages -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net pgphiwMqG98Si.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Terratec Cinergy 1200 DVB-C and mythtv
Hi, I'm trying to get Terratec Cinergy 1200 DVB-C card to work with Mythtv 0.18. Mythtv setup is able to find my card but when I'm trying to scan channels the scanning process stops after the first signal lock has been found. Is there any way to proceed the scaning? Every time I find the first channel I have to press cancel to close the scanning window so I can't store any channel info. I have tried dvb-utils and I was able to generate channels.conf file using the scan util. So I think my card should work. Is it possible to use this channels.conf to insert channel data to the database? regards, JP _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: rpms for mythtv 0.18
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 02:07:13AM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > Hi, > > the Red Hat and Fedora Core rpms for mythtv, all add-ons, themes > etc. have been uploaded to the usual places. > > http://ATrpms.net/name/ > > Notes: > o The mythtv package (which contains only documentation) has picked up > some bogus perl dependencies for part under /usr/share/doc. This > requires a rebuild :( > You can --nodeps the package, but that breaks your apt. I'll > follow-up this posting, when this has been fixed and uploaded. Fixed and uploaded. :) > o mythphone built w/o festival, due to some bugs. This allows for > x86_64 builds, too. > o older distributions may need to update qt from the bleeding section > o No mythbrowser for FC1 and RH9, thus no mythplugins, too. > o No mythmusic for <= RH9, thus no mythplugins, too. > o There are mythtv-themes (core themes) and myththemes (extra themes > from the distribution) packages due to historical reasons. > > You are generally advised to avoid EOLes releases, e.g. prefer FC3 or > RHEL. > > Enjoy! -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net pgpEvzwyIgG8P.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Suggestion: Splicing channels.
Once you define the block you need, there really shouldn't be any need to decode any more of the video. I'm not sure how much this could save, but it seems a waste to have the computer to struggle when I only want 10% of the video. In fact, for software encoders it shouldn't be encoded at all since there is little use for a non-live (or close to live) crawl. I've thought about this a bit, because I rely on a PVR 350 for my output. Perhaps it would be possible to play the crawl as an overlay like the on screen display. This would of course all have to be done in software. On 4/23/05, Joe Votour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Part of it is who would care, but also, from a > technical standpoint, it's very difficult to do. > > First of all, you need multiple inputs. So, you'd > need two capture devices (one per channel). If you're > using software capture, that requires a lot of CPU > (about 1GHz per tuner, according to the official > MythTV documentation). If you're using hardware > MPEG-2 capture, that helps on the capture, but you > still get screwed over on the playback. > > In order to playback that data though, you have to > make a composite screen of the two sources, and that's > where it gets tricky. I don't know the internal > workings of the MythTV MPEG-2 playback engine, but I > can say that it will require a fair amount of CPU to > combine the streams (because processing has to be done > on each stream to determine what parts to cut out and > leave in). (Even if you have a PVR-350 for output, > this part is required, because you have to feed a > contiguous signal to the decoder, which means > pre-processing in software). > > So, to do this, I'd say that you're looking at a > minimum of a 2GHz machine (for all hardware encoding), > and you'd be unable to use two tuners for anything > else. Probably not worth it for the average person > (heck, I'm a baseball junkie, and I get enough of it > by just watching a game, and monitoring the ticker on > the screen - I have yet to use PiP for that purpose). > > -- Joe > > --- Kyle Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nicholas McCoy wrote: > > > Well, the NFL draft is today and the folks on ESPN > > are yakking on. > > > Now, the most important information on that > > channel is the bottom > > > couple inches. I'd like to watch something else > > on most of the TV. > > > It would be nice if I could take the bottom couple > > inches off one > > > channel and watch on another. Of course, this > > feature would work for > > > sports, stocks and news as well. Does anyone else > > think this feature > > > would be worth implementing. Also any ideas of > > how to implement it. > > > > Not to muddy the discussion, but what the hell... > > > > In general, it'd be great to be able to combine or > > select from among > > multiple inputs in some way more interesting than > > picture-in-picture. > > For example, the way I watch baseball is generally > > to turn on the TV, > > mute it, and then put on the radio broadcast, since > > the radio announcers > > are typically much better than the TV announcers. > > > > Unfortunately, this doesn't work out so well when > > one wants to > > synchronize the sources, as the TV will always be > > 3-4 seconds behind the > > radio broadcast. > > > > I can do something like this if I use MLB's Gameday > > Audio to listen, > > because I can insert almost any delay I want into > > that; but it's kinda > > ugly to have to do this when I could accomplish much > > the same thing with > > input selection and a radio tuner module. > > > > Anyway, I digress. Being able to grab the crawl > > (or, really, any fixed > > block) out of one recording and superimpose it over > > another recording > > would be neat, but I don't know how many people > > would care. > > > > Cheers, > > Kyle > > ___ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Tv out on Pvr350 used to work, but I broke it?
This is a long story, so I'll try to keep short. I had separate X servers running on my pc monitor and the Pvr350's tvout port (to connected tv). The GUI image was too large for the TV, so I tried to correct it. Most attempts didn't work, but they didn't hurt anything. After trying this suggestion: . Edit /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf and in the [server-Standard] section, change: command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -audit 0 to command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 100 -audit 0 .. From: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/109220?search_string=gdm.conf;#109220 , the pc locked up and had to be hard reset. After rebooting, xorg.conf and gdm.conf were both trashed (garbage throughout). I got xorg.conf restored from a backup, and got a clean (??) copy of gdm.conf from another pc. Now, I can run either server, but not both at the same time. Here are some symptoms: - Run X on pc monitor only, works and mythtv plays on pvr350 tvout port - Run X on pvr350 tvout, works and mythtv plays on tvout port - Run both from a clean boot, computer freezes (needs hard reset) But, if I do this, both work once. - Run X on pc monitor only - Play live tv on mythtv on on pvr350 tvout - Logout of X, turn both servers back on, startx again - X runs on both, but: - at startup the tv speaker buzzes - Tv shows the X session for a couple of seconds, goes blank - Move mouse over to Tv display, and X session is repainted wherever the mouse is moved. - Play live tv on pvr350 tvout, it works - Logout of X - Run X again, computer freezes Any suggestions on what to try? Thanks, Don PS - Here's part of the xorg.conf file. I turn the monitor and pvr350 on / off by commenting out the appropriate line(s) in the server layout section. Section "Monitor" Identifier "My Monitor" HorizSync 31.5 - 50.0 VertRefresh 40-90 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "VESA Framebuffer" # Driver "vesa" # Original # Added 04-09-2005 - dlb - per nvidia instructions Driver "nvidia" #VideoRam 4096 # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen 1" Device "VESA Framebuffer" Monitor "My Monitor" # DefaultDepth 8 # DefaultDepth 16 DefaultDepth 24 # DefaultDepth 32 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 32 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubsection EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "NTSC Television on Hauppauge card" # D: 34.563 MHz, H: 37.244 kHz, V: 73.897 Hz HorizSync 30-68 VertRefresh 50-120 Mode "720x480" DotClock 34.564 HTimings 720 752 840 928 VTimings 480 484 488 504 Flags "-HSync" "-VSync" EndMode EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Hauppauge Device" Driver "ivtvdev" Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb1" BusID "1:8:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Hauppauge Screen" Device "Hauppauge Device" Monitor "NTSC Television on Hauppauge card" DefaultDepth 24 DefaultFbbpp 32 Subsection "Display" Depth 24 FbBpp 32 Modes "720x480" EndSubsection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Dual Display" Screen "Screen 1" Screen "Hauppauge Screen" RightOf "Screen 1" # Screen "Hauppauge Screen" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Suggestion: Splicing channels.
Part of it is who would care, but also, from a technical standpoint, it's very difficult to do. First of all, you need multiple inputs. So, you'd need two capture devices (one per channel). If you're using software capture, that requires a lot of CPU (about 1GHz per tuner, according to the official MythTV documentation). If you're using hardware MPEG-2 capture, that helps on the capture, but you still get screwed over on the playback. In order to playback that data though, you have to make a composite screen of the two sources, and that's where it gets tricky. I don't know the internal workings of the MythTV MPEG-2 playback engine, but I can say that it will require a fair amount of CPU to combine the streams (because processing has to be done on each stream to determine what parts to cut out and leave in). (Even if you have a PVR-350 for output, this part is required, because you have to feed a contiguous signal to the decoder, which means pre-processing in software). So, to do this, I'd say that you're looking at a minimum of a 2GHz machine (for all hardware encoding), and you'd be unable to use two tuners for anything else. Probably not worth it for the average person (heck, I'm a baseball junkie, and I get enough of it by just watching a game, and monitoring the ticker on the screen - I have yet to use PiP for that purpose). -- Joe --- Kyle Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nicholas McCoy wrote: > > Well, the NFL draft is today and the folks on ESPN > are yakking on. > > Now, the most important information on that > channel is the bottom > > couple inches. I'd like to watch something else > on most of the TV. > > It would be nice if I could take the bottom couple > inches off one > > channel and watch on another. Of course, this > feature would work for > > sports, stocks and news as well. Does anyone else > think this feature > > would be worth implementing. Also any ideas of > how to implement it. > > Not to muddy the discussion, but what the hell... > > In general, it'd be great to be able to combine or > select from among > multiple inputs in some way more interesting than > picture-in-picture. > For example, the way I watch baseball is generally > to turn on the TV, > mute it, and then put on the radio broadcast, since > the radio announcers > are typically much better than the TV announcers. > > Unfortunately, this doesn't work out so well when > one wants to > synchronize the sources, as the TV will always be > 3-4 seconds behind the > radio broadcast. > > I can do something like this if I use MLB's Gameday > Audio to listen, > because I can insert almost any delay I want into > that; but it's kinda > ugly to have to do this when I could accomplish much > the same thing with > input selection and a radio tuner module. > > Anyway, I digress. Being able to grab the crawl > (or, really, any fixed > block) out of one recording and superimpose it over > another recording > would be neat, but I don't know how many people > would care. > > Cheers, > Kyle > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Suggestion: Splicing channels.
Nicholas McCoy wrote: > Well, the NFL draft is today and the folks on ESPN are yakking on. > Now, the most important information on that channel is the bottom > couple inches. I'd like to watch something else on most of the TV. > It would be nice if I could take the bottom couple inches off one > channel and watch on another. Of course, this feature would work for > sports, stocks and news as well. Does anyone else think this feature > would be worth implementing. Also any ideas of how to implement it. Not to muddy the discussion, but what the hell... In general, it'd be great to be able to combine or select from among multiple inputs in some way more interesting than picture-in-picture. For example, the way I watch baseball is generally to turn on the TV, mute it, and then put on the radio broadcast, since the radio announcers are typically much better than the TV announcers. Unfortunately, this doesn't work out so well when one wants to synchronize the sources, as the TV will always be 3-4 seconds behind the radio broadcast. I can do something like this if I use MLB's Gameday Audio to listen, because I can insert almost any delay I want into that; but it's kinda ugly to have to do this when I could accomplish much the same thing with input selection and a radio tuner module. Anyway, I digress. Being able to grab the crawl (or, really, any fixed block) out of one recording and superimpose it over another recording would be neat, but I don't know how many people would care. Cheers, Kyle ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Decent, Inexpensive Video Card? (Yes, I did search)
> > > > If one were to get the 5200FX or other Nvidia card, and couple > it with a PVR-350, could you use the PVR for the signal decoding > and then output via the 5200FX? I'm assuming if this is possible > then a lot of us could solve our DVD problems by setting output > for DVD to the 5200. > There is no easy way of getting a decoded stream out of the 350 but I am getting really close with YUV support for the 350 which means I can add Xv support to the 350's x driver. Since there are multiple YUV buffers we should be able to get smooth playback of dvd's fairly easily at that point and I suspect the audio sync problems should be easy to solve or vanish as well. All I need is some time now to get something that should work. John ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Problems with 0.18 FC rpms
I tried to upgrade to 0.18 today and got the following. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! David [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# apt-get update Get:1 http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/3/en/i386 release [1527B] Get:2 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 release [2137B] Fetched 3664B in 4s (752B/s) Hit http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/3/en/i386/at-stable pkglist Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/core pkglist Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/core release Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/core srclist Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/updates pkglist Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/updates release Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/updates srclist Hit http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/3/en/i386/at-stable release Hit http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/3/en/i386/at-stable srclist Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# apt-get install mythtv-suite Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: mythtv-suite: Depends: mythtv (>= 0.18) but 0.17-95.rhfc3.at is to be installed Depends: mythtv-backend (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed Depends: mythtv-frontend (>= 0.18) but 0.17-95.rhfc3.at is to be installed Depends: mythtvsetup (>= 0.18) Depends: mythmusic (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed Depends: mythvideo (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed Depends: mythweb (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed Depends: mythweather (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed Depends: mythgallery (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed Depends: mythgame (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed Depends: mythdvd (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed Depends: mythnews (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed Depends: mythbrowser (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed Depends: mythphone (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed Depends: mythtv-theme-MythCenter (>= 0.17) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Decent, Inexpensive Video Card? (Yes, I did search)
> If one were to get the 5200FX or other Nvidia card, and couple > it with a PVR-350, could you use the PVR for the signal decoding > and then output via the 5200FX? I'm assuming if this is possible > then a lot of us could solve our DVD problems by setting output > for DVD to the 5200. No. Basically you're asking the computer to ship an MPEG2 stream over the PCI bus to the PVR-350, have the 350 decode it, have 350 ship the decoded video over to the video card***, and have the vid card display it. ***There's essentially no path from the 350 to vid card. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Decent, Inexpensive Video Card? (Yes, I did search)
no On 4/22/05, Scott Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Galen > > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 9:13 PM > > To: Discussion about mythtv > > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Decent, Inexpensive Video Card? > > (Yes, I did search) > > > > I have been eyeing the 5200FX as an inexpensive option > > actually. Does the s-video output vary from brand to brand? I > > really like the idea of having the video output to s-video if > > there's no other display. Does the fan vary in > > volume/presence from brand to brand? I would imagine that at > > least the fan varies from brand to brand, if not the s-video > > and possibly other attributes - can anybody specify brands if > > relevant? > > > > Has anybody tested the 1920 x 1080 DVI out? I thought I heard > > there were issues with this. I'm basically looking to output > > full-resolution HDTV to a device like a LCD monitor. Am I > > completely off-base, or have their been issues with this? > > > > Out of curiosity, does the VRAM have any impact on > > performance, particularly with XvMC? Is XvMC a universal > > thing, or are higher-end cards required to handle XvMC and > > 1080i? I'm not exactly in the mood to decrypt white papers > > regarding XvMC or dig through source code and try to > > understand how precisely it works and how that would apply to > > answer this practical question... if there's a nice bit of > > practical documentation on XvMC somewhere on the net that I'm > > not finding with Google, I'd love it if someone would point > > me in that direction. > > > > Thanks! > > > > If one were to get the 5200FX or other Nvidia card, and couple > it with a PVR-350, could you use the PVR for the signal decoding > and then output via the 5200FX? I'm assuming if this is possible > then a lot of us could solve our DVD problems by setting output > for DVD to the 5200. > > > ___ > 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] Suggestion: Splicing channels.
Well, the NFL draft is today and the folks on ESPN are yakking on. Now, the most important information on that channel is the bottom couple inches. I'd like to watch something else on most of the TV. It would be nice if I could take the bottom couple inches off one channel and watch on another. Of course, this feature would work for sports, stocks and news as well. Does anyone else think this feature would be worth implementing. Also any ideas of how to implement it. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Switch from NVIDIA via apt to NVIDIA .run installer
--- Robin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to fix my problems and as part of my > troubleshooting and > switching to installing the nvidia drivers from > their source as > opposed to using the apt packages. > > Should I need anything other than the NVIDIA run > file? (libs, etc). X > is still not loading - now I get FATAL: Module > nvidia_1_0_7174 not > found, even though the nvidia installer reports a > successful install. > > Robin I think the module name is wrong in your xorg.conf file . So just vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change nvidia_1_0_7174 to nvidia. Howard ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Switch from NVIDIA via apt to NVIDIA .run installer
Hi, I am trying to fix my problems and as part of my troubleshooting and switching to installing the nvidia drivers from their source as opposed to using the apt packages. Should I need anything other than the NVIDIA run file? (libs, etc). X is still not loading - now I get FATAL: Module nvidia_1_0_7174 not found, even though the nvidia installer reports a successful install. Robin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: xine installation package broken
Axel should I be sending this to you directly or is it something on my end? On 4/17/05, jacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # apt-get install xine > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created > or been moved out of Incoming. > > Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that > the package is simply not installable and a bug report against > that package should be filed. > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > xine: Depends: libcurl.so.3 but it is not installable > Depends: libidn.so.11 but it is not installable > E: Broken packages > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] HELP: audio has gone
I'm having problems with mythtv sound on a Terratec Cinergy card. The audio out from the card is connected to the line in on my sblive. I've looked at the troubleshooting guide. xawtv is fine, so I know the sblive card is working. If I mute the line input and set it to capture and run aplay /dev/dsp then I get delayed sound, as expected. What is really strange is that if I run xawtv with line in muted, and also run mythfrontend in live tv mode, after a short delay I get sound again. And I can pause live tv and when I unpause it the sound picks up where it should. so myth is getting the audio as it should. The only thing I can see in the backend logfile that might be relevant is NVR: Error, unknown audio codec This was all working a couple of days ago - In the meantime tv_grab_nl has stopped working and I've been trying to get an alternative to work, so things have been changed, though nothing obviously relevant. Can anyone give me pointers where to look. This is with myth 0.17. Thanks, Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Hard lock-up has toasted DB's recorded table
Hi all, I'm messing about with a "getting to know you" install. I had a hard lock-up when viewing LiveTV. I starting getting errors about not being able to access some of the tables, so I ran myisamchk to recover things, but then my recorded table was knackered. It basically had no columns, so I dropped it. Is it worth trying to recover this, or would it be simpler to drop the whole DB and start over. Bear in mind this is a mess-about install. And, before anyone asks, no I don't have a backup. I tried looking for a single command that would recreate the table, but the source looks to build the tables piecemeal (Yuk!) a column at a time. Cheers -- Steve Boddy ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Playback of Transcoded (MPEG4) file on Epia ME6000
The gcc compiler hasn't got any scheduling logic for the c3 since via hasn't released that information or contributed to the gcc development. and since the c3 design is based off the old cyrix dies I suspect that the 586 optimisations might be a reasonable match. -Os is all very well but that just tries to pack everything into the smallest space and so disables all word alignment and doesn't try to optimise the code for speed. -O2 seems like a reasonable compromise for the c3. It doesn't unroll loops but does do some optimisations. Personally I always found "586 and -O2" gave decent performance... with the added benefit I can use the same binaries on P3, C3 and C3-2 which helps testing and debugging (for me). If I have time I might run some benchmarks with different options. On 4/22/05, Devan Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd have to agree with Ivor's flag settings, I've found on my TC that > i586 works better than C3 > > On 4/22/05, Ivor Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/22/05, Neale Swinnerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've got a Epia ME6000 working well as a Myth frontend. I've got the > > > XvMC playback so that watching Live TV or recordings is great (I've got > > > a backend with 2 x Hauppauge DVB-T cards). > > > > > 1. I'd have thought an m6000 would struggle. Out of interest what cpu > > load are you seeing in mplayer? > > 2. Why are you transcoding dvb-t recordings anyway? do you really need > > to save disk space that badly. Wouldn't you rather watch the original > > quality? > > > > > -march=c3 -Os -fomit-frame-pointer > > > > > What about just -march=i586 -O2 > > ___ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > -- > Thanks, > Devan Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Installed .18 today now I have massive CPU load from myth
Ah this could be it, thanks Neale Swinnerton wrote: You know that from 0.18 the configure script only does processor optimisation with --enable-proc-opt, right? also the ebuild in portage disables mmx, which isn't good. This is probably because the author of the ebuild was having problems building with aggressive CFLAGS. Try editing the ebuild to re-enable mmx and use --enable-proc-opt, N Bryan Halter wrote: Has anyone else seen this, I have an Athlon XP 2500+ with 512MB of RAM and an ATI TV wonder tuner. After installing mythtv 0.18 today I'm getting 100% CPU load all the time, recording or not where previously I had gotten ~ 60% while recording. The log doesn't show anything insightful. I'm also using Gentoo 2005.0 in case that is of use. --Bryan ___ 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
[mythtv-users] Mythmusic sorting.
Is there any way to get mythmusic to sort by album name, rather than by artist name, when setting up a playlist? The reason I ask is that a large share of my CD collection that I've ripped to mp3 is compilation albums, and I'd rather be able to select them in one go than have to hunt down each artist that appears on the album in the artist selector. And if this isn't possible, is there anywhere to submit feature requests for this module? --Matt ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythgames not showing Mame-Games
For what it's worth - I have a few friends who also moved to 0.18 recently. They are all experiencing the same problem. Seems MythGames is hosed. -John - Original Message - From: "David Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion about mythtv" Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mythgames not showing Mame-Games Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:24:39 -0400 (EDT) > > Same here... > > On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, john roberts wrote: > > > > > Did anyone figure this one out? > > > > I'm having the same issue. > > > > -John > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Discussion about mythtv" > > Subject: [mythtv-users] Mythgames not showing Mame-Games > > Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:24:02 +0200 > > > >> > >> Hello everybody! > >> > >> > >> I'm having a problem with the current version of mythgame (0.18): > >> > >> When I choose Mame I can select the year and the genre but not any game > >> (except for genre 'unknown'). There's not even an arrow to the games in a > >> genre. > >> > >> This only happens in Mame-Games not in SNES or PC-Games. There I am able to > >> select and play a game. > >> > >> I have also tried to detect the games again but that didn't change > >> anything. > >> > >> Maybe someone can give me a hint. > > > >> > >> > >> ___ > >> mythtv-users mailing list > >> mythtv-users@mythtv.org > >> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > -- ___ > > NEW! Lycos Dating Search. The only place to search multiple dating sites at > > once. > > http://datingsearch.lycos.com > > > > > > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- ___ NEW! Lycos Dating Search. The only place to search multiple dating sites at once. http://datingsearch.lycos.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Compiling DVB-T EPG in 0.18 (Solved)
OK - Using alt-Enter to get over the QT problem, I now have the "Use On-air guide" checkbox. Thanks for helping! Jonny ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Compiling DVB-T EPG in 0.18
> The one other thing I'm not sure about is, last week I compiled > without EIT, so do I need to uninstall to recompile or should it just > overwrite the last compilation? I think I might have solved this now. Before I asked the question, I just tried to configure, qmake, make, and make install. When I did the make, some objects recompiled but most of them didn't. I've now done a make clean, and it's now rebuilding all of them. The problem is, I can't test it now, because I tried to update the kernel, and while I was at it I did a yum update. I've now got the qt bug, so I'll have to find out how to downgrade! Thanks, Jonny ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Compiling DVB-T EPG in 0.18
> If you're not getting the check box I think there's something wrong > with your build. > In config.mak you should have USING_DVB_EIT set in CONFIG_DEFINES > > TBH that dvb path looks wrong to me :) can you cut and paste the > output from configure perhaps ? The DVB path is what I've been using to compile 0.16 and 0.17 - it's been working fine like that since the New Year. I do have USING_DVB_EIT in CONFIG_DEFINES. When I do # ./configure --dvb-path=/usr/include --enable-dvb --enable-dvb-eit I get: # Basic Settings Compile type release Compiler cache no DistCC no Install prefix /usr/local CPU x86 (model name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz) Big Endian no MMX enabled yes Vector Builtins no # Input Support Joystick menuyes lirc support yes ivtv support yes FireWire support no DVB support yes [/usr/include] # Sound Output Support OSS support yes ALSA support yes aRts support no JACK support no # Video Output Support x11 support yes xrandr support yes xv support yes XvMC support no XvMC VLD support no OpenGL vsync no Creating config.mak and config.h config.h is unchanged The one other thing I'm not sure about is, last week I compiled without EIT, so do I need to uninstall to recompile or should it just overwrite the last compilation? Thanks, Jonny ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Recomendations for Mpeg2 transcode settings?
Hello List, I would like to transcode down some mpeg2 (pvr-250) recordings into (mpeg4, avi, divx, whatever...) to keep as videos for when people come over. This is primarily for kids stuff but I would like to keep some adult titles too. Here is my question. What is the best format and settings to give a good reduction in file size without noticably reducing the quality of the picture? Please note that I am viewing on a hi-def widescreen monitor so good picture quality is vital. The format does not need to be directly supported by transcode but it needs to be playable with mplayer or xine. Avidemux2 comes to mind as an alternative for doing the conversions. I tried transcoding using the default mpeg4 settings in myth but the results were very poor. Very blocky and lots of artifacts. Maybe acceptable for kids but not personnaly. Any thoughts? Bill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Compiling DVB-T EPG in 0.18
On 23/04/05, Jon Stockill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jonny Linux wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm using DVB-T in the UK. I want to use the Over the Air EPG. I > > updated last Saturday to 0.18, and since then I've not been getting > > the EPG (I didn't notice at first, it wasn't till all my schedules > > went blank!). > > > > Since then I've tried recompiling, but it never seems to work. I've been > > using > > ./configure --dvb-path=/usr/include --enable-dvb --enable-dvb-eit > > qmake mythtv.pro > > make > > make install > > > > Then when I go to the setup screen, there's no "Use OTA EPG" option on > > the channel screen. > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > I noticed that too, and ended up downgrading to 0.17. > > In my case it *may* be that it now seems to require a 2.6.11 kernel, > rather than the patched 2.6.10 I'm currently running. A build of 2.6.11 > resulted in a bunch of other problems (one of which being the nvidia > driver refusing to build), so it was a quick reboot to 2.6.10 and > reinstall of 0.17 and restore of the database. If anyone can shed some > light on this then I'd really like to upgrade. > If you're not getting the check box I think there's something wrong with your build. In config.mak you should have USING_DVB_EIT set in CONFIG_DEFINES TBH that dvb path looks wrong to me :) can you cut and paste the output from configure perhaps ? -- John ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Re: recording HD content
> Tivo and other partner PVRs. But sadly, not myth. Of course we > can enjoy it while it lasts, for all I know it may last a while. > > The Plug and Play regs continue to require them to provide > the over the air stations in high-def unencrytped QAM without > down-res. > Of course there is the strong possibility that shortly after the devices start expecting a qualified handshake some smart person will write code to emulate a qualified device and we will be able to receive all channels again. Something similar to the decss code for DVD decoding. Illegal in some places but still generally available. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] lay down pundit-r?
Xiaotian, On Friday, 22 April 2005, Xiaotian Sun wrote: > This question may sound stupid. But I just want to make sure that I can > lay down Pundit-R. From the picture and the specs, it is supposed to be > stand up. Will there be any bad consequences if I lay it down flat? Are > you Pundit owners doing this? I also use my Pundit-R in horizontal position. No problems here. -- Niels signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Request: Do you have recordings that don't commflag well?
Hey, I'm doing some work on the commflagging in myth, and would like to test my changes on non-dutch shows. I'm looking for recordings that do not flag well with the current commflagging code, wether that is due to the logo not being found or something else. If you can help me out in setting up a 'benchmarking' suite for commflagging expiriments, please drop me an email. As you know these files get pretty big, so having a fat connection defenitely helps :) If you could let me know what recording you have that doesn't work well, which channel it comes from in which country, that would help enormously. Thanks, Lucas ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] only very small video at the upper line of monitor
Hello, I use ivtv 0.1.9.2 and Mythtv 0.17.3. I can record from tv and watch this records with xine very well. But if I try to watch the records out of Mythtv I see only a very small video at the upper line of my monitor. Is it a problem in Mythtv or in ivtv? Anybody can help me? Thanks in advance -- Don't Panic ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Can't watch LiveTV until program recorded
Hello! I have this problem that LiveTV just won't work. It plays for one second and then after 10-20 seconds the main menu in mythfrontend will appear again. The strange thing is that if I record a program for 1 minute (as an example) and then try LiveTV again, everything just works as expected... I have a PVR-350 and are running Linux kernel 2.6.10 that comes with Ubuntu 5.04. I have tried both ivtv 0.3.2u and 0.3.3f with the same result. I run MythTV 0.18 Output from mythbackend: 2005-04-23 11:57:22.623 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-04-23 11:57:22.626 adding: pvr as a client (events: 0) 2005-04-23 11:57:22.642 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-04-23 11:57:22.644 adding: pvr as a client (events: 0) 2005-04-23 11:57:22.651 adding: pvr as a remote ringbuffer 2005-04-23 11:57:22.661 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2005-04-23 11:57:25.718 joined null string in WriteStringList 2005-04-23 11:57:46.000 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None Output from mythforntend: 2005-04-23 11:57:22.619 Using protocol version 15 2005-04-23 11:57:22.747 Disable DPMS 2005-04-23 11:57:24.833 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-04-23 11:57:24.833 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-04-23 11:57:24.879 Using XV port 67 2005-04-23 11:57:25.693 Video timing method: RTC 2005-04-23 11:57:25.693 Using realtime priority. 2005-04-23 11:57:25.713 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2005-04-23 11:57:26.590 prebuffering pause 2005-04-23 11:57:45.719 ReadStringList timeout (quick). Remote encoder not responding. 2005-04-23 11:57:45.719 WriteStringList: Bad socket 2005-04-23 11:57:45.719 ReadStringList: Bad socket Remote encoder not responding. 2005-04-23 11:57:45.720 WriteStringList: Bad socket 2005-04-23 11:57:45.720 ReadStringList: Bad socket Remote encoder not responding. ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/include/qt3/qvaluelist.h (372) 2005-04-23 11:57:45.722 WriteStringList: Bad socket 2005-04-23 11:57:45.722 ReadStringList: Bad socket Remote encoder not responding. 2005-04-23 11:57:45.933 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None 2005-04-23 11:57:45.945 Changing from None to None 2005-04-23 11:57:45.946 Enable DPMS What does MythTV do different when watching Live TV compared to when recording a program? // Magnus -- *Magnus Sandin *Cache miss - please take better aim next time ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] PVR-350 - TV-Out and normal Screen on the same time?
Hallo, my TV is right 3 meters behind me. Is there a way to use TV-Out and normal MythTV on my Desktop at the same time? -- Christian "SPITFIRE" Borchmann http://www.borchi.de ICQ #30405670 MSM [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM wwspitfire PGP-Key-ID: 0x1475C0980E0B5B40 PGP-Key-File: http://www.borchi.de/pgp/christian_borchmann.asc PGP-Fingerprint: 8740 DD6E 4E7B 91D1 EA73 A0C6 1475 C098 0E0B 5B40 Linux-User #374732 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ Trinken für den Frieden - Schmiedet Schwerter zu Zapfhähnen !!! pgp8ECzwgGPi4.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Installed .18 today now I have massive CPU load from myth
You know that from 0.18 the configure script only does processor optimisation with --enable-proc-opt, right? also the ebuild in portage disables mmx, which isn't good. This is probably because the author of the ebuild was having problems building with aggressive CFLAGS. Try editing the ebuild to re-enable mmx and use --enable-proc-opt, N Bryan Halter wrote: > Has anyone else seen this, I have an Athlon XP 2500+ with 512MB of RAM > and an ATI TV wonder tuner. After installing mythtv 0.18 today I'm > getting 100% CPU load all the time, recording or not where previously I > had gotten ~ 60% while recording. The log doesn't show anything > insightful. I'm also using Gentoo 2005.0 in case that is of use. > > --Bryan > ___ > 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] Gentoo and CVS
On Friday 22 April 2005 13:23, Carl Fongheiser wrote: > The hard-masked ebuilds for 0.18 currently in portage work fine, > except for the mythfrontend one. The mythfrontend ebuild just needs a > one-line change to work. I also had to build mythmusic without AAC > support, but that's the only funny stuff I ran into. i realise i'm a bit behind current CVS, but i included this patch in my own CVS ebuilds to get mythmusic to compile with aac the problem is that the gentoo version of faad2 has "hacked" the API to support x86_64 in an incompatible way. they ebuild authors suggest that we "fix the code that calls it". not very helpful, but there you go -- simon diff -uprN mythmusic.orig/aacdecoder.h mythmusic/aacdecoder.h --- mythmusic.orig/aacdecoder.h 2005-04-05 17:28:24.0 +0100 +++ mythmusic/aacdecoder.h 2005-04-06 19:56:26.0 +0100 @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ class aacDecoder : public Decoder bool done, finish; long len, bitrate; uchar channels; -unsigned long sample_rate; +unsigned int sample_rate; unsigned long output_size; double totalTime, seekTime; ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Channels not changing for recordings
På Saturday 23 April 2005 05:07, skrev Paul Leppert: > What I don't get is why it is executed when I'm using live tv, but > doesn't when it tries to record. I'm having the exact same issue myself. I finally got my ir-blaster working. It worked very well when changing channels during live tv, and also during scheduled recordings. Hooray! But; then I needed to re-boot my mythbox. I can still change channels during live tv, but not when scheduling recordings. I believe this is caused by the backend starting before all the components of my ir-blaster is completely loaded (modules, devices, ledxmitd). The backend is seemingly not aware of the mechanism being present at all... The frontend is loaded as the very last step of the boot/login process. I am running Slackware 10.0 with kernel 2.6.9, and it is my /etc/rc.d/rc.local script loading the lirc-related components. I've posted it below: START script #!/bin/sh # # /etc/rc.d/rc.local: Local system initialization script. # # Put any local setup commands in here: echo "*** START rc.local *** # This is for my Hauppage (PVR-350) remote /usr/local/sbin/lircd --device=/dev/lirc0 # This is for my home-made IR-blaster /sbin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none /sbin/modprobe ledxmit_serial sleep 3 /usr/local/lirc-ledxmit/sbin/ledxmit-ledxmitd --device=/dev/ledxmit0 sleep 3 # Transcode daemon /usr/local/bin/mtd -d # MythTV Backend /usr/local/bin/mythbackend > /home/tv/mythbackend.log 2>&1 & END script As you can see I'm trying to put in some 'sleep' commands to give time for some components to load before firing up the next ones. I just don't know exactly where to put it yet, Testing takes time, because my wife likes to watch TV (Alright, alright! So do I. ) I guess the best thing would be to delay mythbackend a bit. Going to try this tonight. ...Anyone? -- Roy Paulsen Linux user #296854 (http://counter.li.org) roypaul at online dot no ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
