date:20050501

Hi,

I've been stumped for the last several hours and haven't had luck with Google 
or the archives.

I had my myth working amazingly well for about 30 minutes until I got curious 
and clicked "System Status" in the menus.  This caused myth to crash and ever 
since I've been unable get my myth working again.  :-(

I'm using MythTV 0.18 on Fedora Core 3 from Jarod's guide.  I have a PVR-350 
with TV-out and two PVR-250s for more recording.  Everything is running on 
just one machine.  It has a wireless NIC for accessing channel information 
(which is at wlan0, not eth0).  I previously had BackendServerIP and 
MasterServerIP set to 192.168.2.3, but I've since set them to 127.0.0.1.  
This seems to have made no difference.

Anytime I try to Watch TV now from a fresh boot, it works for about a 30 
seconds to a minute, but won't respond to the remote (which works perfectly 
in the menus).  While the video is quite nice overall, I do see brief burst 
of thin horizontal lines of static, which I did not see before.  After this 
time, it will crash back to the menus (sometimes all the way to the terminal 
with a Segmentation fault.)  If I try to watch LiveTV again, about 90% of the 
screen will be covered by a big black box (but I can see perfect video around 
the edges) for about the same duration of time.  For just a second before it 
crashes I see perfect video, then it usually crashes to the terminal with 
Segmentation fault.

I receive the same results as a normal user and as root.  I receive the same 
results when I tell myth to use my pvr-350 tv-out and also when I tell it not 
to.

Thinking that I (or my System status crashed) may have fouled up some setting, 
I decided to completely wipe out the mythconverg database and rebuild it.  
Sadly, that didn't make any difference.

Also, if I cat /dev/video* >> ~/sometest.mpg that seems to play back just fine 
for each card.

Finally, I do have lirc_lib installed because some parts of myth depend on it, 
but I don't believe I need lirc.  My remote uses a different driver based off 
the old ati_remote driver.  For laughs I have tried installing lirc and 
starting it up before mythfrontend, but I've not noticed that make a 
difference.

Does anyone have any ideas that I can try?  I'm having a real hard time with 
this one!  Thanks!

Following is the output I receive from mythfrontend:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mythfrontend
2005-05-01 21:51:27.972 New DB connection, total: 1
Total desktop width=720, height=480, numscreens=1
2005-05-01 21:51:27.976 Using screen 0, 720x480 at 0,0
2005-05-01 21:51:27.978 mythfrontend version:
0.18.20050409-1 www.mythtv.org
2005-05-01 21:51:27.979 Enabled verbose msgs :
important general
Total desktop width=720, height=480, numscreens=1
2005-05-01 21:51:28.459 Using screen 0, 720x480 at 0,0
2005-05-01 21:51:28.463 Switching to square mode
(sleek)
mythtv: could not connect to socket
mythtv: No such file or directory
lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
2005-05-01 21:51:28.888 Joystick disabled.
2005-05-01 21:51:28.925 Registering Internal as a
media playback plugin.
2005-05-01 21:51:28.938 Registering MythDVD DVD Media
Handler as a media handler
2005-05-01 21:51:28.938 Registering MythDVD VCD Media
Handler as a media handler
2005-05-01 21:51:29.121 Registering MythMusic Media
Handler as a media handler
SIP listening on IP Address 192.168.2.3:5060 NAT
address 192.168.2.3
2005-05-01 21:51:29.285 New DB connection, total: 2
SIP: Cannot register; proxy, username or password not
set
2005-05-01 21:51:31.074 Connecting to backend server:
127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5)
2005-05-01 21:51:31.081 Using protocol version 15
2005-05-01 21:51:31.113 Using protocol version 15
2005-05-01 21:51:32.162 Opening audio device
'/dev/dsp'.
2005-05-01 21:51:32.162 Opening OSS audio device
'/dev/dsp'.
2005-05-01 21:51:32.165 Using resampler. From: 0 to
1000
Using the PVR-350 decoder/TV-out
2005-05-01 21:51:32.646 Realtime priority would
require SUID as root.
2005-05-01 21:51:32.674 Changing from None to
WatchingLiveTV
2005-05-01 21:51:52.680 ReadStringList timeout
(quick).
Remote encoder not responding.
2005-05-01 21:51:52.680 WriteStringList: Bad socket
2005-05-01 21:51:52.680 ReadStringList: Bad socket
Remote encoder not responding.
2005-05-01 21:51:53.042 WriteStringList: Bad socket
2005-05-01 21:51:53.042 ReadStringList: Bad socket
Remote encoder not responding.
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
/usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
/usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
/usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
/usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
/usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
/usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
/usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
/usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
/usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373

[mythtv-users] Is an AMD Athlon 2800+ with MX440 video powerful enough for DVB HDTV?

2005-05-01 Thread Craig Read

I'm hoping somebody can give some advice on how to resolve some problems 
I have.

I've recently had an antenna guy come out with $8k worth of equipment to 
try and resolve signal problems at my house.  He's relocated the 
antenna, checked the signal strength and ber and said that everything is 
now well within the threshhold for any HDTV capable device to correct 
any errors that are there.

The problem is, I still have errors on 1 SD channel and HD channels are 
still unwatchable.  When I showed him the picture on my MythTV box, he 
said the only thing he could think of was that the machine isn't 
powerful enough to handle the error correction on the signal coming in.  
Looking at the HD picture on Channel 7 (I'm in Australia), I'd have to 
agree.  There are very few audio and video artifacts, but the video is 
choppy.  The one SD channel that breaks up (channel 9) does have 
artifacts though.

So I've gone through increasing the priority of mythbackend (modifying 
the 'NICE=' line in the '/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend' script) and doing 
'chmod a+s' on all of the mythtv related programs.

When watching live TV from the remote front end and viewing the output 
from top running on the backend, I'm getting 94.4-95% idle when watching 
live TV on channel 2 (one of my best channels).  I get the same on 
channel 9 (even though there are artifacts) and the same on channel 70 
(channel 7's HD channel) even though the video is a little choppy.

When watching live TV from the backend and viewing the output from top 
running on the backend, I'm getting 73-74% idle when watching live TV 
from the backend on channel 2 (one of my best channels).  I get 70-72% 
idle on channel 9 (even though there are artifacts) and 76-77% idle on 
channel 70 (channel 7's HD channel).

One thing I have noticed is the HD channel is less choppy on the remote 
front end than on the system doing the recording.  The remote front end 
is a Duron 1Ghz with a GeForce FX5200, the back end is an Athlon 2800+ 
with MX440 on-board video.  The back end has two Twinhan VisionPlus 
DVB-T cards.

Another thing I noticed, is when watching TV on the backend, XFree86 CPU 
usage jumps to 3.7% and memory usage jumps to 10% (on 512MB system).  
The mythbackend and mythfrontend rarely registers for any real CPU usage 
(staying around 0.3% at all times).

So, is the solution to purchase a GF FX5200 to go in the back-end?  And 
is it possible to give more priority to the error correction of the DVB 
stream?  I only use the box for MythTV so I'm not fussed if it's sitting 
at 50% CPU when watching and/or recording TV, provided it's watchable.

Craig...
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Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor PX-TV402U not recognized by KnoppMythTv

2005-05-01 Thread Byron Poland

On 5/1/05, Nathan Lutchansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 04:26:24PM +0100, Peter Pauwels wrote:
> > kernel: usb 3-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
> > usb.agent[4333]: wis-ezusb: loaded successfully
> > /etc/hotplug/usb/wis-ezusb: load
> >   /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/ezusb/hpi_PX-TV402U.hex for 93b/a004/1
> >   to /proc/bus/usb/003/005
> > kernel: usb 3-1: USB disconnect, address 5
> > kernel: usb 3-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
> [reformatted for clarity]
> 
> This is how the device gets initialized; when first connected, a new
> firmware is pushed into the USB controller, which then disconnects from
> the bus and reconnects with a new USB ID.  So at least the hotplug scripts
> are installed correctly.
> 
> Following this you should see a message like "go7007: registering new
> Plextor PX-TV402U-NA" or something.  Since you're not, it looks like the
> modules are installed incorrectly.  Try running "modprobe go7007-usb" to
> load the modules manually.  -Nathan
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On my Ubuntu system, the go7007 firmware (the second firmware loaded)
doesn't load before the go7007-usb module, the fix for that was to
modprobe -r go7007-usb after the firmware got loaded, and then
modprobe go7007-usb to load the module again, and everything works.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Recordings spontaneously slow down

2005-05-01 Thread Craig Read

Philip Nelson wrote:
 

I've been having a problem for a while (but only since switching to
.17), where occasionally, partway through recording something, it will
suddenly slow down -- the  video slows to about 70% normal speed, and
the audio drops in pitch accordingly.  It doesn't happen all the time,
and I cannot reproduce it, nor do I have any idea as to what causes it.
I know that the problem is during recording, because if I export the
.nuv to another format, the problem remains.  Has anybody else had this
problem?
   

I am having either the same problem as you or something similar (also
happened since 0.17) - part way through a recording, quite randomly, sound
drops out totally and video slows right down. Eventually (perhaps 5-10
minutes) it speeds up again, but audio doesn't come back - it's very
frustrating.
 

That's exactly the same problem I'm having Philip.  I'm in Australia and 
it's only occurring  on 3 channels (9, 7 and 10), but doesn't happen on 
2 or SBS.

Are you using dvb? For me, when this happens, the mpeg stream goes bad for
a second or two (as if I've got a low signal, but I don't think I do),
audio then cuts out and video goes slow. It seems to happen quite
randomly, and has happened when I've been watching live tv - I changed
channels, changed back and it was fine again.
I am using dvb (two Twinhan DST cards), and it does seem to happen when 
I get poor signal for a second or two (either due to signal problems or 
the back-end not keeping up with error correction).  I haven't noticed 
it while watching live tv, but I don't use the box to watch live tv.

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Re: [mythtv-users] No sound in mythtv, but other applications use sound fine

2005-05-01 Thread Leo Przybylski

Once in awhile, I'll notice my backend output shows:
Can't read vbi data
Would this be harmful to recording?
Leo Przybylski
Kendric Beachey wrote:
I had pretty much the same problem recently.  A good friend gave me this advice:
You need to look into using the "dmix" functionality of ALSA instead
of the deprecated (on 2.6 kernels) OSS sound platform.
Look at http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo to see about
setting up an .asoundrc. Mostly you download the one he provides and
probably change the "device" parts inside it to correspond to your
digital output. Also uncomment the appropriate line to pick what you
want as "default".
Then type this in as the sound device in myth "ALSA:mixed-analog".
To use Myth's volume control with ALSA it's as simple as
putting "mixed-analog" (as opposed to "ALSA:mixed-analog" in the sound
device part) in the mixer device setting.  I left "Master" in the
control part.
In /etc/mplayer.conf, set "ao=alsa:device=mixed-analog"
If you use arts in KDE (which is the default), tell it to use the
mixed-analog too.  Go into sound system settings, force it to use
ALSA, and override the device location and put mixed-analog in there.
Then go ahead and play some Metallica in noatun or Juk while you watch
TV or a recording.  Listen the sounds mix!
Hope this helps.
 


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Re: [mythtv-users] No sound in mythtv, but other applications use sound fine

2005-05-01 Thread Leo Przybylski

Kendric Beachey wrote:
I had pretty much the same problem recently.  A good friend gave me this advice:
You need to look into using the "dmix" functionality of ALSA instead
of the deprecated (on 2.6 kernels) OSS sound platform.
Look at http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo to see about
setting up an .asoundrc. Mostly you download the one he provides and
probably change the "device" parts inside it to correspond to your
digital output. Also uncomment the appropriate line to pick what you
want as "default".
Then type this in as the sound device in myth "ALSA:mixed-analog".
 

I did this and used the appropriate tests to make sure I didn't mess 
anything up inadvertantly. I did:
% aplay -D mixed-analog $HOME/english.au

I was able to hear it and assumed it worked, but when I use 
ALSA:mixed-analog with MythTV, I still get no sound when playing back 
recordings or watching live tv.

To use Myth's volume control with ALSA it's as simple as
putting "mixed-analog" (as opposed to "ALSA:mixed-analog" in the sound
device part) in the mixer device setting.  I left "Master" in the
control part.
 

I tried to use external mixer settings and doing this. Neither seemed to 
help my situation.

In /etc/mplayer.conf, set "ao=alsa:device=mixed-analog"
If you use arts in KDE (which is the default), tell it to use the
mixed-analog too.  Go into sound system settings, force it to use
ALSA, and override the device location and put mixed-analog in there.
Then go ahead and play some Metallica in noatun or Juk while you watch
TV or a recording.  Listen the sounds mix!
 

Hope this helps.
 

Thanks much for the input. I believe it set me in the right path. I hope 
I can work this out soon. So frustrating.

If anytone else can help, I'd greatly appreciate it.
Leo Przybylski

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Re: [mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase not working anymore

2005-05-01 Thread Bryan Halter

Just checked it, worked fine for me.   HTTP 500 is usually temporary and 
nothing to worry about, the 401's I usually see too.  Not sure what 
causes the 401's but I always get my data so no whining here :).

Cory Tucker wrote:
Hello,
For some reason my mythfilldatabase stopped working.  The output is 
below.  My subscription with them doesn't expire until July.  As you 
can see, I keep getting these 401 unauthorized messages followed by 
Internal server error messages.  Has anyone seen this before?  Anyone 
have any ideas?

thanks in advance,
Cory
Refreshing Tomorrow's data
--02:52:53--  
http://datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com/tvlistings/xtvdService
 => `-'
Resolving datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com... 206.18.98.160
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80... 
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80... 
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 500 Internal Server Error
02:52:54 ERROR 500: Internal Server Error.

Retrieving datadirect data...
Grabbing data for Sun May 1 2005 offset 1
From : Mon May 2 07:00:00 2005 To : Tue May 3 07:00:00 2005 (UTC)
Grab complete.  Actual data from --02:52:54--  
http://datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com/tvlistings/xtvdService
 => `-'
Resolving datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com... 206.18.98.160
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80... 
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80... 
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 500 Internal Server Error
02:52:55 ERROR 500: Internal Server Error.

--02:52:55--  
http://datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com/tvlistings/xtvdService
 => `-'
Resolving datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com... 206.18.98.160
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80... 
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80... 
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 500 Internal Server Error
02:52:56 ERROR 500: Internal Server Error.
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Re: [mythtv-users] MMX support in Gentoo ebild

2005-05-01 Thread Bryan Halter





Checked in the Gentoo forums and there is a new ebuild in bugzilla at 

http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=57339&action="">

Hope that helps

Anthony Floyd wrote:

  Other than the fact that it seems to ignore the +mmx make.conf option?
 I'm back to having inverse video in my recording previews (I don't
quite get why this is an mmx thing, but in 0.16 when I eventually
turned mmx on, this artefact went away).

A>

On 5/1/05, Bryan Halter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  
  
Any word on MMX support in the Gentoo .18 ebuilds?

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[mythtv-users] KnoppMyth R5A15.1

2005-05-01 Thread Cecil Watson

Hello Everyone,
Minor updates and additional packages.
http://mysettopbox.tv
http://mysettopbox.tv/CHANGELOG.txt
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/index.php
Regards,
Cecil
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RE: [mythtv-users] Confusing 6200 issue...

2005-05-01 Thread Matt Mousseau

Title: Message



Ok, 
scratch that.
Just 
seems like I have to try several times to get it to record, reguardless of what 
kind of recording I just made. Restarting the box was just lucky 
:-/
 
 
Matthew Mousseau
AMSVans, Inc. Webmaster
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

  
  -Original Message-From: 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
  Behalf Of Matt MousseauSent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 11:08 
  PMTo: mythtv-users@mythtv.orgSubject: [mythtv-users] 
  Confusing 6200 issue...
  Ok, First let me 
  give MAD props to everyone involved in getting firewire support working in 
  myth!
   
  Now that I got 
  that out of the way (serious, I was literally jumping up and down when I got 
  it to just capture video), I'll try and describe what is going on right now. I 
  can capture video in either SD, change the channel to another SD channel, and 
  capture again...but if I capture from an HD channel, change the channel, and 
  try another capture, I get 0 length files.
   
  If I power the 
  cable box off & on again, however, I can capture 
again.
   
  Can someone give 
  me some help with where to look to see what is going on?
   
  Matthew Mousseau
  AMSVans, Inc. Webmaster
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[mythtv-users] Confusing 6200 issue...

2005-05-01 Thread Matt Mousseau

Title: Message



Ok, First let me 
give MAD props to everyone involved in getting firewire support working in 
myth!
 
Now that I got that 
out of the way (serious, I was literally jumping up and down when I got it to 
just capture video), I'll try and describe what is going on right now. I can 
capture video in either SD, change the channel to another SD channel, and 
capture again...but if I capture from an HD channel, change the channel, and try 
another capture, I get 0 length files.
 
If I power the cable 
box off & on again, however, I can capture again.
 
Can someone give me 
some help with where to look to see what is going on?
 
Matthew Mousseau
AMSVans, Inc. Webmaster
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
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[mythtv-users] Can't schedule program anymore after deleting channel line up

2005-05-01 Thread Steve Malenfant

I had a problem with the broadcast listing of my zip code.  So I
switched over to a zip code near me.  I got my listing right after
running mythfilldatabase.

The problem is that I can't schedule any programs anymore.  I see them
in "Recording Schedules" in mythweb, but nothing shows up in
"scheduled recordings" in mythweb.

Seems like there is no way to delete the "Recording Schedules" in
mythfrontend when this happens...

I restarted mythbackend, rebooted the machine, just can't figure it
out...  I'm still running 0.17.20050130-1 which has been really stable
for me until today.

Should I zap my database completely now?
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Re: [mythtv-users] MMX support in Gentoo ebild

2005-05-01 Thread Anthony Floyd

Other than the fact that it seems to ignore the +mmx make.conf option?
 I'm back to having inverse video in my recording previews (I don't
quite get why this is an mmx thing, but in 0.16 when I eventually
turned mmx on, this artefact went away).

A>

On 5/1/05, Bryan Halter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any word on MMX support in the Gentoo .18 ebuilds?
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Re: [mythtv-users] Anyone happy with wireless?

2005-05-01 Thread Dan Christensen

Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> So I guess that's the real question. If you make a wireless network
> and let's assume that the only think on that network is MythTV - will
> it be good enough to watch Myth at a location remote from the backend
> machine? If not there's no purpose to spending this money.

I have an 802.11g network, and regularly have 2 SDTV streams playing
simultaneously without any problems.  I'm using D-Link DWL-G650 PCMCIA
cards in the laptops (frontends), and a D-Link router which is
connected to the backend/frontend by 100Mbs ethernet.  Never had a
problem with the network.  I use the madwifi open source driver.

Dan
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Re: [mythtv-users] IR Blaster problems

2005-05-01 Thread Mark Schindel

Rob Miracle wrote:
I'm trying to run MythTV (0.18 updates from apt-get) on FC3.   I have 
just about everything working now except my IR Blaster.   When I set 
it up according to:


I have the same environment although I've not used the above 
instructions I just gave them a quick look and it's similar to the 
solution I've come up with but not identical.

Here's my environment:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# uname -r
2.6.11-1.14_FC3
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qa | grep lirc
lirc-devices-0.7.0-1.rhfc3.at
lirc-lib-0.7.1-46.rhfc3.at
lirc-0.7.1-46.rhfc3.at
lirc-kmdl-2.6.11-1.14_FC3-0.7.1-46.rhfc3.at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#
And some config for the blaster on ttyS0 -- I call the following rc.lirc 
script on boot before I start mythbackend

[EMAIL PROTECTED] rc.d]# cat rc.lirc
#!/bin/bash
export HOME=/root
export USERNAME=root
if [ -r ~/.bash_profile ] ; then
   . .bash_profile
fi
# for power button and other external to myth stuff
nohup /usr/bin/irexec >> /dev/null 2>&1 &
# for IR Blaster on ttyS0
setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none
modprobe lirc_serial
lircd --pidfile=/var/run/lircd1.pid --device=/dev/lirc1 --output=/dev/lircd1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rc.d]#
and use the following channel change script:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rc.d]# cat /usr/local/bin/DTV_send
#!/bin/sh
REMOTE_NAME=DTV
cmd="$1"
case $cmd in
   [0-9]*)
   for digit in $(echo $1 | sed -e 's/./& /g'); do
   irsend --device /dev/lircd1 SEND_ONCE $REMOTE_NAME $digit
   sleep 0.3
   done
   ;;
   *)
   irsend --device /dev/lircd1 SEND_ONCE $REMOTE_NAME $cmd
   ;;
esac
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rc.d]#
When it's all up and running, here's what you should see in /dev
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rc.d]# ls -l /dev/lirc*
crw-rw-rw-  1 root mythtv 61, 0 Apr 24 18:46 /dev/lirc
crw-rw-rw-  1 root mythtv 61, 0 Apr 24 18:46 /dev/lirc0
crw-rw-rw-  1 root mythtv 61, 1 Apr 24 18:47 /dev/lirc1
srw-rw-rw-  1 root root   0 Apr 24 18:47 /dev/lircd
srw-rw-rw-  1 root root   0 Apr 24 18:47 /dev/lircd1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rc.d]#
I hope this info helps. If you can't make sense of this, I can probably 
step you through some diagnostics. We can start with the output of:

# lsmod | grep lirc
and
# ls -l /dev/lirc*
and
# ps -ef | grep lircd
Mark.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Anyone happy with wireless?

2005-05-01 Thread Nathan Ford

My backend is attached to the network via cat5. My only frontend is
hooked to the bridge.

The WET54gS5 is the only device currently active on my wireless
network. I have no problems playing recordings and watching live-tv.
For testing purposes I ran a cable down the stairs to connect it via
cat5, and for the most part they behaved the same. I have stuttering
when i bring up OSD's and stuff, but I think that is the M1 and
not network lag (that and I don't have XvMC working yet, 70-80% CPU
load) FF/RW I think was a touch faster. But nothing to drop wireless
for.

There are other wireless networks in the area, but I don't think i'm
conflicting with any. I also have 128bit WEP enabled. My GF is getting
a laptop soon so i'll see how it performs with the laptop generating
heavy load.

I just tested sending a file again and got 2.0Mb/sec to 2.7Mb/sec. 

--Nate
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Re: [mythtv-users] Anyone happy with wireless?

2005-05-01 Thread Jason Mollman

On Saturday 30 April 2005 08:42 pm, Micah Wedemeyer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I thought I had a good setup this time, but I just hosed everything.  I
> think I'll probably have to reinstall (again...)
>
> Anyways, I think a lot of my problems are due to my wireless card.  I'm
> using the infamous Netgear WG311v2 with the acx100 chipset.  I tried a
> D-Link card, but it wouldn't work at all, so I was stuck with swapping
> out the WG311v2 from my Windows machine.
>
> Is anyone out there using a PCI 802.11g card that they're happy with?  I
> want something that is well supported under Linux.  I am not using it to
> stream video, only to reduce cable clutter (for higher WAF).
>
> So, if you've got a PCI 802.11g card that you love, please tell me about
> it.  I need make/model/chipset/you-name-it.  If you could give me the
> output of lspci that would be even better.
>
> Thanks,
> Micah

I have a Dlink DWL-520+ that is working quite well under Fedora Core 3. I'm 
using the acx100 drivers from http://acx100.sourceforge.net, which have to be 
compiled, but its nothing too tricky. Once installed, I startup the 
connection to my Linksys WRT-54GS running HyperWRT with the following in 
rc.local.

/usr/share/acx/acx100/scripts/start_net
iwconfig wlan0 essid xxx rate 11Mb/s encr 

lspci shows:
02:0e.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 100 22Mbps Wireless 
Interface

My system is a combined front/backend so I only need enough speed to reach the 
net for updates/weather/news/etc. Its been very stable from 3 rooms away from 
the router inside an entertainment center.

Happy to help if you need it.

- JM
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Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up USB MCE remote in LIRC?

2005-05-01 Thread Chad Sims

Nathan Whittacre wrote:
So you got the new style remote working with lirc?  Could you share 
some insight on what you did to get it to work.  I am using kernel 
version 2.6.11.8 and lirc 0.7.0 and can't get it to work.  It 
recognizes the remote, but I can't get any data from it.  I've also 
tried lirc 0.7.1.

Thanks,
Nathan
David Sims wrote:
On Apr 29, 2005, at 4:53 PM, Lee wrote:
Having just got my new MythTV install running nicely, I'd like to 
integrate my (old style) Windows MCE remote into the set up. I've 
googled for ages and there are lot's of people that seem to have got 
it working (include Jarod), but I can't find any how-to's or crib 
sheets. Being a total Linux noob, this leave  me at a loss, can 
anyone point me in the right direction?

Many thanks,
Lee

I haven't had any experience with the old style MCE remotes, but I 
recently worked with setting up one of the new style remotes with 
pretty good success.  I'm not sure how far back you can go with lirc, 
but I know lirc 0.7.0 and newer has a driver for the old style MCE 
remote.  If you're comfortable building and installing packages from 
source code, it's really very easy to do with lirc.  I haven't had 
much luck getting the ATrpms.net lirc packages to work in my setup, 
so I can't really help if you prefer to go that route.

I didn't find any detailed how-to's on the MCE remote either, so I'll 
describe what my brother and I did to get the new style remote 
working.  Hopefully this can get you going as well.

I obtained the lirc 0.7.0 source from the lirc web site: 
http://www.lirc.org

- Extract the source tarball and then configure and build from the 
extracted source directory like this:

# ./configure --with-kerneldir=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build 
--with-driver=mceusb
# make
# make install

The install should copy the correct lircd.conf file to 
/etc/lircd.conf.

- You'll also want to put the following in /etc/modprobe.conf:
alias char-major-61 lirc_mceusb
- I'm not sure if this is really required, but I saw it in some lirc 
instructions somewhere.  Create the /etc/udev/rules.d/lirc.rules and 
put this in it:

KERNEL="lirc[0-9]*",NAME="lirc%n"
KERNEL="lirc0", SYMLINK="lirc"
- Then make sure the usb receiver is plugged in and load the lirc 
modules:

# modprobe lirc_mceusb
- Try out lircd and irw to see if it works:
# lircd -n &
# irw
You should see a message printed indicating that lircd accepted a 
new client connection.  Then if you press buttons on the remote you 
should see messages indicating which buttons are being pressed.  If 
that doesn't work, you may need to reboot.  If you reboot with the 
usb receiver plugged in, the lirc modules should automatically load 
which you can verify with the lsmod command:

# lsmod | grep lirc
lirc_mceusb10884  1
lirc_dev   13388  1 lirc_mceusb
then try the lircd and irw commands again.
One last thing to note.  I'm not sure if this is due to the driver 
for the new style MCE remote, lirc, the kernel, or my own 
incompetence, but we couldn't get lirc working correctly with version 
0.7.1 of lirc or the 2.6.10-1.770 kernel from ATrpms.  We had to use 
lirc 0.7.0 and kernel version 2.6.11.7 built from source.

Hope that helps,
David

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Use Martin Blatter's driver.  
http://www.blatter.com/mceusb/mceusb.0.21-20050401.tar.bz2  Recompile 
lirc0.7.0 after replacing the mceusb driver with this one. We have it 
running on 2.6.11.7, Myth0.18, lirc0.7.0.


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[mythtv-users] mythbrowser 0.18

2005-05-01 Thread Khanh Tran

I successfully compiled mythbrowser 0.18 on SuSE 9.0, but it just
segfaults when I run it on the command line.  In mythfrontend, it does
nothing when you select a link.  Anyone have any ideas or able to get
this to work?  Also, even though the mythtv.org site mentions
--enable-mythbrowser from the plugins configure script, it's not
actually there when you run ./configure --help.  I had to go into the
subdirectory and build it manually.

Thanks for any insight

-Khanh


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Re: [mythtv-users] Jumping to end of show

2005-05-01 Thread Michael S. Keller

If someone knows what's happening, please help :)
Is your recordedmarkup table healthy?
-M
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[mythtv-users] Suttery video on Mac Mini?

2005-05-01 Thread Piers Kittel

Hello all,
Got a Mac Mini, outputting video via S-Video using the adaptor, though 
all kinds of video output (DVD, MythTV) is very slightly suttery - not 
very noticeable, but gets annoying over time, and it's more noticeable 
when the camera moves quickly.  I'm a bit surprised a 1.2GHz G4 can't 
make DVD playback completely smooth - even my 750MHz x86 laptop with 8MB 
video memory and no DVD acceleration can make DVD playback perfectly 
smooth.  As the juttery issue is the same on both MythTV and DVD, I 
think it's an issue of the computer itself rather than the individual 
software packages - or am I doing something wrong?  I tried my Mini on 
my mate's LCD TV which has DVI input, but the video is exactly the same 
so it can't be the S-Video adaptor.

I might be trying out OSX Tiger to see if there's any improvements, but 
am not expecting owt.

Also, do anyone have a colour profile perfectly suited for TV viewing - 
as I can't seem to get a good balance on the colour on my TV?  When 
watching snooker (not by choice), all balls looked nearly the same 
colour - the green on the table was overpowering the colours in the 
snooker balls...

Thanks very much for your help in advance
Cheers - Piers
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Re: [mythtv-users] Non-visible channels still visible in browse mode

2005-05-01 Thread Chris Pinkham

> On 5/1/05, Stuart Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This is one of the most annoying issues for me currently - of the 30 odd =
> UK
> > DVB channels 50% are junk (shopping channels, childrens channels etc) so =
> I've
> > flagged them as not visible.=20
> 
> Yep, same problem here, and it's annoying enough to fix :)=20
> 
> Patch is attached, seems to work fine in the 10 or so minutes testing
> I've done so far.
> 
> James.

Thanks.  I didn't see this patch, until after I had gone ahead and
committed an almost identical one.  This is the original method I
proposed here:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/108859?search_string=channel.visible;#108859

-- 
Chris

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Re: [mythtv-users] Anyone happy with wireless?

2005-05-01 Thread Chris Pinkham

> > stock firmware.  The frontend in my living room uses a Belkin PCI 54G card
> > using ndiswrapper.  I'm able to transfer about 3Mbytes/sec over the
> > network from one of my wired servers.  Seems to be working pretty well.

> So 3MB/S == 27Mb/S or about half the advertized speed. I suspect that
> this is pretty good with network overhead.

Yeah, and since my recordings are way less than 1Mbyte/sec, this is more
than enough for my normal viewing.

-- 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Questions and feature requests

2005-05-01 Thread Tom E. Craddock Jr.

Howard Cokl wrote:
--- "Tom E. Craddock Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I think another reason for this is that, this is a
D/PVR and most people 
 use it that way, ie record your shows, flagg
comms, and then watch a 
commercial free show.  Once you relearn how to watch
TV (on your 
schedule, not the networks) then you wont have the
issue you describing. 
 When you want to watch a HD show, just go to your
Recorded Shows and 
queue it up.  Its not wanted/needed that bad, as
most people dont watch 
Live TV anymore.

Tom

Ahh, but see there's the rub.  Re-learning how to do
something that I've been doing for 40 some years is
difficult and sometimes I just like the mindnumbing
act of watching TV, flipping around, changing channels
at will. 


Understandable.  Still, no one has coded up anything to achieve what you 
want, so as of right now, its not possible to do what you want.  If 
people want this bad enough, then someone will code it up.  Till then, 
just watch the commits list.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Questions and feature requests

--- "Tom E. Craddock Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I think another reason for this is that, this is a
> D/PVR and most people 
>   use it that way, ie record your shows, flagg
> comms, and then watch a 
> commercial free show.  Once you relearn how to watch
> TV (on your 
> schedule, not the networks) then you wont have the
> issue you describing. 
>   When you want to watch a HD show, just go to your
> Recorded Shows and 
> queue it up.  Its not wanted/needed that bad, as
> most people dont watch 
> Live TV anymore.
> 
> Tom

Ahh, but see there's the rub.  Re-learning how to do
something that I've been doing for 40 some years is
difficult and sometimes I just like the mindnumbing
act of watching TV, flipping around, changing channels
at will. 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Non-visible channels still visible in browse mode

2005-05-01 Thread Chris Pinkham

> On Sunday 01 May 2005 16:59, James Stembridge wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > According to the 0.18 changelog non-visible channels shouldn't be
> > visible in browse mode anymore, however for me they still are. Anyone
> > else seeing this?
> 
> Yes I'm still seeing it. A while back someone said that they had changed it 
> in 
> CVS but I never saw a corresponding cvs commit message.

There was a commit, but it didn't fix the issue.  The correct fix should now
be in current CVS.  If you run CVS, can you please verify this gives the
intended effect for you?

-- 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Questions and feature requests

2005-05-01 Thread Tom E. Craddock Jr.

Howard Cokl wrote:
--- "Tom E. Craddock Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
3.  Why can't I change inputs from inside the EPG?
The backend knows how to 

do this.  If I turn on my TV it defaults to
DirecTV, which is what I want, 

but if I browse the EPG looking for something to
watch or am just flipping 

around, it would be really nice if I could select
an HDTV channel.
HDTV channels are on a different card (pchdtv3k as
opposed to the svideo 
in on the freestyle).   There is no mechanism in
place to have the EPG 
know that it needs to, in effect, press the C button
to change cards, or 
to know that it needs to, in effect, press Y to
change inputs.  If youd 
like to code it up, a patch is always welcome.
Plenty of people have 
asked for this, but apparently its not wanted/needed
that bad as its not 
been worked on.  I just bound a key on my remote to
the C and Y keys and 
use it, not that much harder, one extra keystroke.

Tom

I poked around a bit before sending that email, please
correct me if I have things wrong, but I don't think
the epg does anything for changing channels other than
passing a channelid to mythfrontend which makes a
request to the backend to change the channel.  So
AFAIK the feature I requested would be for the backend
to honor a chanid of xXXX wher x is the input and XXX
is the channel and know what to do if x is not the
current cardinput.  Having said all of that, which is
quite probably completely wrong, there is no way that
I could write a patch to make that happen.  So if
someone brighter than I can't/won't do it then I'll
live with it.  
Yes dear I'll be right down to switch the TV for you
to American Idol during this commercial break, luckily
I was on the way to the fridge to grab another beer anyway.

I think another reason for this is that, this is a D/PVR and most people 
 use it that way, ie record your shows, flagg comms, and then watch a 
commercial free show.  Once you relearn how to watch TV (on your 
schedule, not the networks) then you wont have the issue you describing. 
 When you want to watch a HD show, just go to your Recorded Shows and 
queue it up.  Its not wanted/needed that bad, as most people dont watch 
Live TV anymore.

Tom
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RE: [mythtv-users] MythWeb shows NO DATA

2005-05-01 Thread Moasat


> What do the (apache error) logs say?



>From ssl_access_log

192.168.0.200 - - [01/May/2005:18:49:19 -0500] "POST /mythweb/search.php
HTTP/1.1" 200 2164


>From ssl_error_log

[Sun May 01 18:22:54 2005] [error] [client 192.168.0.200] File does not
exist: /var/www/localhost/htdocs/favicon.ico, referer:
https://192.168.0.22/mythweb/status.php

Other than the favicon.ico, I don't see any errors.  The page doesn't show
any sort of PHP error or anything, it just shows:

Search for: american dad

No matches found



The mysql log doesn't show much of anything at all either.



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Re: [mythtv-users] Questions and feature requests

--- "Tom E. Craddock Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 3.  Why can't I change inputs from inside the EPG?
>  The backend knows how to 
> > do this.  If I turn on my TV it defaults to
> DirecTV, which is what I want, 
> > but if I browse the EPG looking for something to
> watch or am just flipping 
> > around, it would be really nice if I could select
> an HDTV channel.
> 
> HDTV channels are on a different card (pchdtv3k as
> opposed to the svideo 
> in on the freestyle).   There is no mechanism in
> place to have the EPG 
> know that it needs to, in effect, press the C button
> to change cards, or 
> to know that it needs to, in effect, press Y to
> change inputs.  If youd 
> like to code it up, a patch is always welcome.
> Plenty of people have 
> asked for this, but apparently its not wanted/needed
> that bad as its not 
> been worked on.  I just bound a key on my remote to
> the C and Y keys and 
> use it, not that much harder, one extra keystroke.
> 
> 
> Tom

I poked around a bit before sending that email, please
correct me if I have things wrong, but I don't think
the epg does anything for changing channels other than
passing a channelid to mythfrontend which makes a
request to the backend to change the channel.  So
AFAIK the feature I requested would be for the backend
to honor a chanid of xXXX wher x is the input and XXX
is the channel and know what to do if x is not the
current cardinput.  Having said all of that, which is
quite probably completely wrong, there is no way that
I could write a patch to make that happen.  So if
someone brighter than I can't/won't do it then I'll
live with it.  
Yes dear I'll be right down to switch the TV for you
to American Idol during this commercial break, luckily
I was on the way to the fridge to grab another beer anyway.
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[mythtv-users] configure did not detect my cpu

2005-05-01 Thread Mike Green

 *** WARNING ***
 Your CPU was not detected properly:
   uname -m: i686
   uname -p: Pentium II (Deschutes)
 model name: Pentium II (Deschutes)
  flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov 
pat pse36 mmx fxsr


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[mythtv-users] Plextor ConvertX Capture Card Setup

2005-05-01 Thread Gambit Declined

Hi all,

I've managed to install the drivers for the Plextor Convertx, but I
don't know what to put in the "Video device:" field in the Capture
Card Setup area. How can I find out what the syntax needs to be for
this line?

Thanks,

Gambit_Declined
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Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb shows NO DATA

2005-05-01 Thread Chris Petersen

Anyone have any suggestions?
What do the (apache error) logs say?
-Chris
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[mythtv-users] MythWeb shows NO DATA

2005-05-01 Thread Moasat

I've been having this problem for about a week now.  In April, when I
searched for a program using Mythweb, it would only shows programs in April.
April 30 seemed to be some magical day that mythweb would look beyond.
There was guide data for May, I could see it in the DB and the Frontend
guide could see it.  I could select shows to record from the front end but
Mythweb refused to see them.  I thought I'd wait until May 1 to see how the
system would react.  Now, when I just show the listings, it will show
programs for maybe the first 30 minutes, then it shows NO DATA for
everything beyond that for all channels.

I've always used CVS and have been staying pretty up-to-date with it.  I
think I'm current up until a few days ago.  Nothing has had any effect
though.

When I search the archives, I saw one instance where someone seemed to have
the same problem but their only solution was to reboot a few times and the
problem went away.  That's not helping on my end.

Up until the last week of April, everything was going along just fine.  I've
got the permissions set correctly.  I can see all of my recorded shows and
the thumbnails.  Lately, I've even been able to find a few shows.  For
example, I want to find American Dad.  I can search for America and it turns
up a few hits.  I can search for American and it turns up a few different
hits.  But when I search for American Dad, I get nothing.  Pretty weird.
Anyone have any suggestions?


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Re: [mythtv-users] Questions and feature requests

2005-05-01 Thread Tom E. Craddock Jr.

Howard Cokl wrote:
First I would like to thank all of the developers and every one else that 
makes mythtv the tivo killer it is.  I love it and pretty much have my wife 
hooked on it too.  I do have some questions as I debate expanding my single 
backend/frontend combo.  First off I have an athlon 2700+, 512M, Hauppauge 
freestyle, pcHDTV 3K, FC3 set up via Jarod's guide, capturing DirceTV via 
s-video and OTA for the pcHDTV3K.  On to the questions:

3.  Why can't I change inputs from inside the EPG?  The backend knows how to 
do this.  If I turn on my TV it defaults to DirecTV, which is what I want, 
but if I browse the EPG looking for something to watch or am just flipping 
around, it would be really nice if I could select an HDTV channel.
HDTV channels are on a different card (pchdtv3k as opposed to the svideo 
in on the freestyle).   There is no mechanism in place to have the EPG 
know that it needs to, in effect, press the C button to change cards, or 
to know that it needs to, in effect, press Y to change inputs.  If youd 
like to code it up, a patch is always welcome. Plenty of people have 
asked for this, but apparently its not wanted/needed that bad as its not 
been worked on.  I just bound a key on my remote to the C and Y keys and 
use it, not that much harder, one extra keystroke.

Tom

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[mythtv-users] Questions and feature requests

First I would like to thank all of the developers and every one else that 
makes mythtv the tivo killer it is.  I love it and pretty much have my wife 
hooked on it too.  I do have some questions as I debate expanding my single 
backend/frontend combo.  First off I have an athlon 2700+, 512M, Hauppauge 
freestyle, pcHDTV 3K, FC3 set up via Jarod's guide, capturing DirceTV via 
s-video and OTA for the pcHDTV3K.  On to the questions:
1.  Is there any way for a remote frontend to use the backend's dvd, I guess 
similar to using a remote tape device for backup?  It would be really nice to 
be able to start watching a dvd in the family room and then bookmark the spot 
- esc, move to the bedroom, select play dvd and pick up where I left off ( I 
know not with mplayer or xine, see question 2).
2.  Why isn't mythtv the default player for VCD and DVD, it seems to play my 
small collection of videos just fine, which include .vob, and various .avi 
(xvid, divx5)?  If I use mythtv as the default player for dvd/video does 
bookmarking work?  
3.  Why can't I change inputs from inside the EPG?  The backend knows how to 
do this.  If I turn on my TV it defaults to DirecTV, which is what I want, 
but if I browse the EPG looking for something to watch or am just flipping 
around, it would be really nice if I could select an HDTV channel.  Just 
basic channel surfing, I'm thinking of consolidating all 3 of my DirecTV 
receivers in a closet with a master backend/family room frontned.
4.  In mythfrontend setup - appearance - screen size, is there any way I can 
type in numbers as oppsed to the left/right arrow increasing/decreasing the 
size?  I also use my PC as a remote frontend and some things I would like to 
watch in a window, some things I would like to watch full screen.  Is this 
something that I missed?

Thanks for any help or pointers you can give on these, and thanks again for 
mythtv and all the help from the forums.

-- 
Howard Cokl
"in a world without walls and fences, 
who needs windows and gates?"

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[mythtv-users] Re: Anyone happy with wireless?

2005-05-01 Thread Micah Wedemeyer

Well, it seems that all respondents are pretty unhappy with wireless
support.  As for me, my wife and I will be moving in a month or two, so
I'll try to limp along until then.  At that point, I'll see if I can
position my TV near the wireless router, so I can run CAT5 from the
router to the Myth box.  My Windows box and her Mac are doing wireless
just fine. 

If _ANYONE_ has had a good experience with Linux wireless, please post
it along with your specific setup.  It could go a long way to helping
noobs like me pick out components.

Some keywords to get this thread flagged by searches:
wireless
802.11
802.11g
802.11b
router
wi-fi
ndiswrapper
driverloader

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Transcoding and other questions

2005-05-01 Thread emory

That's actually a good question.  For me, for a given program, whether
myth skips commercials during playback is kind of random. Sometimes it
will skip all the commercials, sometimes it doesn't.  This is with the
"Automatically skip all commercials" option checked. The commercials
are being flagged correctly because when I type "E" during playback to
bring up the edit controls and "Z" to mark the commercials as
cutpoints, the commercials appear correctly.  If I type "E" again to
resume playback, then the commercials are skipped properly.  So in the
end, it's not a big deal (E-Z-E) to get commercial skipping working if
they werne't before, but it is weird that I sometimes have to do this.

this is for Myth 0.17 on FC2, by the way.

- e

On 5/1/05, Joe Henley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pete,
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> Does the playback automatically skip over them.  ... or do I have to key
> something on the remote each time to get it to skip over the commercial
> and continue with the program?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Joe
> 
> Pete Cable wrote:
> > On 4/30/05, Joe Henley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>So I just turn on commercial flagging and it will do it automatically
> >>without also transcoding?  Cool.  I thought it had to mark the
> >>commercials and then transcoding dropped out when it ran.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Commercial flagging doesn't remove anything from the recorded show,
> > whether you transcode or not. It just marks the points where the
> > commercials begin/end in the database to enable you to skip the
> > commercials during playback.
> >
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up USB MCE remote in LIRC?

2005-05-01 Thread David Sims

For the new style remote I had to download a new driver, which is not  
yet part of the lirc distribution.  Written by Martin Blatter the lirc  
driver for the new style remote can be downloaded at  
http://blatter.com/mceusb/.  There's a tarball of the driver, an  
example lircrc file for Myth, and some installation instructions.   
Actually I think he has three different versions of his driver there.   
I just downloaded the newest one.

To use that new driver you'll need to build lirc 0.7.0 from source  
(0.7.1 didn't work very well for me).  Just download the lirc source  
tarball and extract it (if you haven't already), then extract the  
tarball from Martin Blatter on top of it.  Then configure, build, and  
install lirc as I described in the previous post.

With the combination of kernel 2.6.11.7, lirc 0.7.0, and Martin  
Blatter's driver, the new style remote seems to work quit reliably.

- David
On May 1, 2005, at 9:02 AM, Nathan Whittacre wrote:
So you got the new style remote working with lirc?  Could you share  
some insight on what you did to get it to work.  I am using kernel  
version 2.6.11.8 and lirc 0.7.0 and can't get it to work.  It  
recognizes the remote, but I can't get any data from it.  I've also  
tried lirc 0.7.1.

Thanks,
Nathan
David Sims wrote:
On Apr 29, 2005, at 4:53 PM, Lee wrote:
Having just got my new MythTV install running nicely, I'd like to  
integrate my (old style) Windows MCE remote into the set up. I've  
googled for ages and there are lot's of people that seem to have got  
it working (include Jarod), but I can't find any how-to's or crib  
sheets. Being a total Linux noob, this leave  me at a loss, can  
anyone point me in the right direction?

Many thanks,
Lee

I haven't had any experience with the old style MCE remotes, but I  
recently worked with setting up one of the new style remotes with  
pretty good success.  I'm not sure how far back you can go with lirc,  
but I know lirc 0.7.0 and newer has a driver for the old style MCE  
remote.  If you're comfortable building and installing packages from  
source code, it's really very easy to do with lirc.  I haven't had  
much luck getting the ATrpms.net lirc packages to work in my setup,  
so I can't really help if you prefer to go that route.

I didn't find any detailed how-to's on the MCE remote either, so I'll  
describe what my brother and I did to get the new style remote  
working.  Hopefully this can get you going as well.

I obtained the lirc 0.7.0 source from the lirc web site:  
http://www.lirc.org

- Extract the source tarball and then configure and build from the  
extracted source directory like this:

# ./configure --with-kerneldir=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build  
--with-driver=mceusb
# make
# make install

The install should copy the correct lircd.conf file to  
/etc/lircd.conf.

- You'll also want to put the following in /etc/modprobe.conf:
alias char-major-61 lirc_mceusb
- I'm not sure if this is really required, but I saw it in some lirc  
instructions somewhere.  Create the /etc/udev/rules.d/lirc.rules and  
put this in it:

KERNEL="lirc[0-9]*",NAME="lirc%n"
KERNEL="lirc0", SYMLINK="lirc"
- Then make sure the usb receiver is plugged in and load the lirc  
modules:

# modprobe lirc_mceusb
- Try out lircd and irw to see if it works:
# lircd -n &
# irw
You should see a message printed indicating that lircd accepted a  
new client connection.  Then if you press buttons on the remote you  
should see messages indicating which buttons are being pressed.  If  
that doesn't work, you may need to reboot.  If you reboot with the  
usb receiver plugged in, the lirc modules should automatically load  
which you can verify with the lsmod command:

# lsmod | grep lirc
lirc_mceusb10884  1
lirc_dev   13388  1 lirc_mceusb
then try the lircd and irw commands again.
One last thing to note.  I'm not sure if this is due to the driver  
for the new style MCE remote, lirc, the kernel, or my own  
incompetence, but we couldn't get lirc working correctly with version  
0.7.1 of lirc or the 2.6.10-1.770 kernel from ATrpms.  We had to use  
lirc 0.7.0 and kernel version 2.6.11.7 built from source.

Hope that helps,
David
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RE: [mythtv-users] Full system/CPU upgrade and still no DVD


> 
> Hmm... you should probably do the following:
> 
> hdparm -c3 -u1 /dev/hdc
> 
> That'll set unmaskirq to on and set IO_support to 32-bit.  
> That'll help.

I added this to my rc.local so it will set it each time, thanks.

> Also, hook up a monitor and see if mplayer still complains.  
> That'll narrow down the problem to whether it's the 350, 
> mplayer, or the drive.
> 

Via a monitor mplayer, xine and ogle all look great.  Sound
doesn't get out of sync with mplayer.  I've used the following
commands to test both from the 350 and from the monitor:

ogle -u cli /dev/dvd
mplayer dvd:// -fs -zoom -vo x11 
xine -f -I -V xshm --audio-driver alsa --no-logo --no-splash dvd:// 

I've tried various settings on mplayer and xine (still messing with
Xine a bit as I've not used it as much).  With mplayer I've tried
-ao oss etc, -ni, and of course framedrop, which helps but then you 
get dropped frames.

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[mythtv-users] Announce: Gentoo live CVS ebuild updated

2005-05-01 Thread Preston Crow

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66337

I've updated my live CVS ebuilds for Gentoo.  They only check out one
copy of the plugins repository, and all the modules share that copy.

There's a nuvexport-svn ebuild, too which builds from the Subversion
repository.

The only change from the Gentoo ebuilds besides using the live source
repositories is to allow mmx for mythtv-cvs and mythfrontend-cvs.

I'll try to update them as needed when the ebuild break with new
development--I'm sorry it took me so long this time.  There's no
particular reason to update them simply because of a release, and
releases are essentially meaningless when running from CVS.

--PC

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RE: [mythtv-users] mythtvsetup exits after leave/delete channel screen

2005-05-01 Thread mythtv-users

Todd wrote:
> 
> I do have myththemes-0.18-103.at installed, along with 
> several mythtv-theme*, 
> but none that match blue.  I'm not seeing a blue rpm on the 
> atrpm mirrors 
> either.  Bummer.
> 
> Looking around at my database, I haven't yet found any 
> references to themes.  
> You don't happen to know the table it would be in, do you?

Settings, here's what I have.

mysql> select * from settings where value = 'Theme' or value = 'OSDTheme' ;
+--+--+--+
| value| data | hostname |
+--+--+--+
| OSDTheme | blueosd  | linux|
| OSDTheme | blueosd  | pvr  |
| OSDTheme | blueosd  | xbox |
| Theme| G.A.N.T. | linux|
| Theme| G.A.N.T. | pvr  |
| Theme| G.A.N.T. | xbox |
+--+--+--+
6 rows in set (0.00 sec)

> Note that I haven't yet run mythfilldatabase because I 
> haven't been successful 
> with the mythtvsetup.

No point anyway you haven't set anything up! 

Druid

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Re: [mythtv-users] mythtvsetup exits after leave/delete channel screen

Okay, I created a symlink like so:

ln -s sleek blue

And that seemed to have done the trick.  That being said, is there any way to 
install blue proper?  Preferrably from the atrpms?

Thanks.

On Sunday 01 May 2005 02:37 pm, Todd Flinders wrote:
> Hmm.. thanks for the reply.
>
> I do have myththemes-0.18-103.at installed, along with several
> mythtv-theme*, but none that match blue.  I'm not seeing a blue rpm on the
> atrpm mirrors either.  Bummer.
>
> Looking around at my database, I haven't yet found any references to
> themes. You don't happen to know the table it would be in, do you?
>
> Note that I haven't yet run mythfilldatabase because I haven't been
> successful with the mythtvsetup.
>
> On Sunday 01 May 2005 02:24 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Todd wrote:
> > > However, my mythtvsetup exits after the screen "Would you
> > > like to clear all
> > > program data and channel settings before starting
> > > configuration?..."  Either
> > > answer yields the same results.  I've been searching the
> > > archives, but with
> > > no luck.
> > >
> > >Does anyone know if there's a way to get get past this second screen?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > >for any help.
> >
> > Yes, install the themes package or remove/change all references to it in
> > the
> >
> > database.
> >
> > 
> >
> > >Could not find theme: blue
> > >2005-05-01 14:06:00.287 Switching to square mode (blue)
> > >Could not find theme: blue
> > >Couldn't find theme blue
> >
> > As you can see from your log it couldn't find the 'blue' so quit.
> >
> > Possibly it would be better if either the setup screen wasn't themed or
> > there was an extra option added to mythtv-setup to change the theme.
> >
> > Druid
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RE: [mythtv-users] Full system/CPU upgrade and still no DVD


> 
> If you think Fry's is dangerous I would recommend you avoid 
> any Apple Store OS release party. Having just walked away 
> with a new G5, a new 12" PowerBook, and fresh copies of Tiger 
> I'm wondering where I left my sanity last Friday. On the 
> other hand, it's been a hell of a fun geek-out-weekend.

To try and fix this whole mess of not having xvideo support for 
the pvr-350, I was willing to go to Costo and get the $1000 LCD 
Tv that one of the other members recommended ;)  We all know
who put a stop to that.

> 
> Regarding your play back issue, most likely I would have to 
> say it's a DMA problem. You've got plenty of CPU to do what 
> you want to and in fact I use both xine and mplayer with a 
> 16x DVD drive to get flawless playback.

My DVD drive is considerably older, maybe only 4-6X.  I wonder
if that would hurt?

> 
> Another suggestion once you're 100% sure DMA isn't the issue. 
> You might try also to play a DVD w/o any audio just to see 
> what happens.  
> Maybe the problem is more an issue with the way you're 
> decoding the sound which is causing mplayer to drop frames to 
> keep the video and audio in sync.

Playing without audio (-nosound) produced a similar picture to
all the other players, but the audio doesn't go out of sync now ;)
And there also isn't a single error, so you might be on to something
with the audio killing it.

> 
> Lastly, try using mplayer and playing a DVD from a terminal 
> outside of MythTV. The nice verbose output of mplayer is 
> great for understanding the problem. I'm sure no one would 
> mind you pasting that to the list.
> 

Always use this trick when debugging, it extremely useful.  
Below is my log file from my last mplayer attempt.  The 
audio goes out of sync after about 5 minutes and I get this error
Ogle and xine do better (especially ogle) but there is still some
frame dropping.



mplayer dvd:// -fs -zoom -vo x11
MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.4.3 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Northwood (Family: 8, Stepping: 3)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1


Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system 
startupscripts.
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not open config files /home/sharris/.lircrc and /etc/lircrc
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to read LIRC config file ~/.lircrc.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing dvd://.
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access
Reading disc structure, please wait...
There are 17 titles on this DVD.
There are 21 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.

libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys
libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient

libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x012f
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x04ba
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x052a
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB at 0x053f
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB at 0x14ec
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_0.VOB at 0x2245
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_1.VOB at 0x00011a67
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_1.VOB at 0x001d4e2a
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_1.VOB at 0x001fddc1
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Found 6 VTS's
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
DVD successfully opened.
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x480  (aspect 2)  29.970 fps  9800.0 kbps (1225.0 kbyte/s)
==
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
AC3: 5.1 (3f+2r+lfe)  48000 Hz  448.0 kbit/s
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 448.0 kbit/29.17% (ratio: 56000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm:liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==
vo: X11 running at 720x480 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
==
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)

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: undefined reference to `ScreenSaverX11::ScreenSaverX11[in-charge]()' during build of mythtv-0.18

2005-05-01 Thread Poul Petersen

> >I've been working with mythtv now for awhile. Never had any real problems.
> >Now I'm trying to install 0.18 onto a new system. I am running into
> >linking errors below. Does anyone know much about this? I can't find
> >anything anywhere on this.

I ran into this same problem with my FC3 box. I have two of them and 
they
are pretty much identical, so it was confusing. However, one of them was a 
clean 
FC3 install and the other, the one with the problem, was an FC1->FC3 upgrade 
box.
It was late at night, but I seem to recall that the problem I was having was
that /usr/lib/qt-3.1 was still in my /etc/ld.so.conf. I removed that and then
everything built fine. Maybe not the problem you are seeing, but I figured
it was worth mentioning...

-poul
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythtvsetup exits after leave/delete channel screen

Hmm.. thanks for the reply.

I do have myththemes-0.18-103.at installed, along with several mythtv-theme*, 
but none that match blue.  I'm not seeing a blue rpm on the atrpm mirrors 
either.  Bummer.

Looking around at my database, I haven't yet found any references to themes.  
You don't happen to know the table it would be in, do you?

Note that I haven't yet run mythfilldatabase because I haven't been successful 
with the mythtvsetup.

On Sunday 01 May 2005 02:24 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Todd wrote:
> > However, my mythtvsetup exits after the screen "Would you
> > like to clear all
> > program data and channel settings before starting
> > configuration?..."  Either
> > answer yields the same results.  I've been searching the
> > archives, but with
> > no luck.
> >
> >Does anyone know if there's a way to get get past this second screen?
>
> Thanks
>
> >for any help.
>
> Yes, install the themes package or remove/change all references to it in
> the
>
> database.
>
> 
>
> >Could not find theme: blue
> >2005-05-01 14:06:00.287 Switching to square mode (blue)
> >Could not find theme: blue
> >Couldn't find theme blue
>
> As you can see from your log it couldn't find the 'blue' so quit.
>
> Possibly it would be better if either the setup screen wasn't themed or
> there was an extra option added to mythtv-setup to change the theme.
>
> Druid
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RE: [mythtv-users] mythtvsetup exits after leave/delete channel screen

2005-05-01 Thread mythtv-users

Todd wrote:
  
> However, my mythtvsetup exits after the screen "Would you 
> like to clear all 
> program data and channel settings before starting 
> configuration?..."  Either 
> answer yields the same results.  I've been searching the 
> archives, but with 
> no luck.

>Does anyone know if there's a way to get get past this second screen?
Thanks 
>for any help.

Yes, install the themes package or remove/change all references to it in the

database.


>Could not find theme: blue
>2005-05-01 14:06:00.287 Switching to square mode (blue)
>Could not find theme: blue
>Couldn't find theme blue

As you can see from your log it couldn't find the 'blue' so quit.

Possibly it would be better if either the setup screen wasn't themed or
there was an extra option added to mythtv-setup to change the theme.

Druid

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[mythtv-users] mythtvsetup exits after leave/delete channel screen

First let me apologize, because I know the qt problem has been discussed quite
a bit on the list. Because of that I'm using Ctrl-Enter to make selections,
and that's successful.

However, my mythtvsetup exits after the screen "Would you like to clear all
program data and channel settings before starting configuration?..." Either
answer yields the same results. I've been searching the archives, but with
no luck.

I see someone else had a similar problem:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/126862?search_string=Couldn%27t%20find%20theme%20blue;#126862
(see the comment at the very bottom)

Does anyone know if there's a way to get get past this second screen? Thanks
for any help.

I'm using MythTV 0.18 and Fedora Core 3. I set up via Jarod's guide. I'm
using two PVR-250's and one PVR-350. I'm using the tv-out on the PVR-350.

Following is my output:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] default]$ mythtvsetup
2005-05-01 14:06:00.106 New DB connection, total: 1
Total desktop width=1600, height=1200, numscreens=1
2005-05-01 14:06:00.110 Using screen 0, 1600x1200 at
0,0
Could not find theme: blue
2005-05-01 14:06:00.287 Switching to square mode
(blue)
mythtv: could not connect to socket
mythtv: No such file or directory
lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
2005-05-01 14:06:00.808 Joystick disabled.
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] default]$

(The 1600x1200 resolution is only because I'm ssh'ing in from my laptop.)
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Re: [mythtv-users] how to downgrade via apt?

2005-05-01 Thread Reza Naima

I found the relevant RPMS in /var/cache/apt/archives.  I did a 

rm *myth*18*
rm *myth*97.r*
rpm -i *myth* 

and it seems to have worked.  Though I'm wondering how the DB will
handle the switch.

Reza

On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 07:40:02AM -0400, William sent me this...
>  
> > Is there a simple way to revert to 0.17 w/ apt on fc3?  I 
> > want to use my xbox frontend, but the .18 debian packages 
> > aren't out yet.
> > 
> 
> What I did was to install synaptic which I used to remove the new .18's.
> Then I selected each item I wanted to reinstall and once selected I did a
> "force version" on that rpm and installed the .17 version. Dont install
> mythtv-suite.
> 
> Of course this assumes that the .17 rpms are still avaiable from apt. You
> may have to build from source now.
> 
> Bill
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend hangs sometimes

2005-05-01 Thread Lukas Kasprowicz

Hi,

Now it hangs while trying to edit Settings for TV Playback with following in 
the logfile

2005-05-01 22:43:25.818 New DB connection, total: 1
Total desktop width=800, height=600, numscreens=1
2005-05-01 22:43:25.825 Running in a window
2005-05-01 22:43:25.825 Using screen 0, 800x600 at 0,0
2005-05-01 22:43:25.830 mythfrontend version: 0.18.20050409-1 www.mythtv.org
2005-05-01 22:43:25.831 Enabled verbose msgs :all
2005-05-01 22:43:26.110 max_width: 800 max_height: 600
2005-05-01 22:43:26.184 Switching to square mode (blue)
2005-05-01 22:43:26.416 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2005-05-01 22:43:26.436 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media 
handler
2005-05-01 22:43:26.437 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media 
handler
2005-05-01 22:43:28.278 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media handler
2005-05-01 22:43:28.326 Mediamonitor: Adding /dev/cdroms/cdrom0
2005-05-01 22:43:28.339 Starting media monitor.
2005-05-01 22:43:28.775 Media status changed...  New status is: MEDIASTAT_OPEN 
o
ld status was MEDIASTAT_NOTMOUNTED
2005-05-01 22:51:17.008 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.178.253:6543 
(try
1 of 5)
2005-05-01 22:51:17.008 write->11 21  MYTH_PROTO_VERSION 15:
2005-05-01 22:51:17.016 Using protocol version 15
2005-05-01 22:51:17.016 write->11 21  ANN Playback marina 0:
2005-05-01 22:51:17.033 write->11 15  REFRESH_BACKEND:
2005-05-01 22:51:17.075 21  ANN Playback marina 1
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[mythtv-users] Hardware suggestions for a dedicated frontend

2005-05-01 Thread Dean Wilson

Several months ago, I successfully installed a mythTV frontend/backend
with both HD and SD capture cards -- now I'm working on a dedicated
frontend for another room.

I thought that I could use an old Athlon 1800 that I had lying around
- which works well for SD, but not for HD.  (Unfortunately, while the
TV in the other room isn't HD, I would still like to be able to watch
the shows I've recorded in HD, so I still have to be able to decode
the HD stream.)  I have an Nvidia 5200FX,  and I tried enabling XvMC -
but for some reason, playback only works for up to a minute or so
before the entire system freezes, and has to be rebooted.  I've tried
quite a few solutions -- newer/older Nvidia drivers, tweaking NFS,
rpm/source alsa drivers, all without success.  Finally I'm considering
upgrading the hardware so that I can decode the stream without XvMC.

So (unless someone has a suggestion to fix my current problem) my
question is this: given my current system, would it be better for me
to get a cheap motherboard with a celeron processor (Intel supposedly
decodes video better than AMD), or just to upgrade my Athlon?  (And if
I upgrade the Athlon, how high should I go for decoding a single HD
stream?)

Thanks for your help,
~Dean
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Re: [mythtv-users] Non-visible channels still visible in browse mode

2005-05-01 Thread Stuart Morgan

On Sunday 01 May 2005 20:41, James Stembridge wrote:
> On 5/1/05, Stuart Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This is one of the most annoying issues for me currently - of the 30 odd
> > UK DVB channels 50% are junk (shopping channels, childrens channels etc)
> > so I've flagged them as not visible.
>
> Yep, same problem here, and it's annoying enough to fix :)
>
> Patch is attached, seems to work fine in the 10 or so minutes testing
> I've done so far.

Hurray! I was planning on fixing it myself when I found the time _AND_ when I 
had learnt my way around the myth code. (Couldn't find the right section when 
I last looked)

I'll test the patch - you might want to post it to the dev list too?
-- 
Stuart Morgan
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Re: [mythtv-users] Bob + OpenGL sync: Still some ghosting for small fast moving objects

2005-05-01 Thread Thomas Börkel

HI!
Sasha Z wrote:
You may be seeing the ghosting due to the long P discharge time of the
CRT itself. Television phosphors take longer to bleed down than
computer monitors do. How does it look when you watch it live without
mythtv at all?
I did not notice this effect on normal TV looking yet. But I will try 
and burn some recordings to DVD and compare it on the DVD player.

On a side note, how'd you get bob deint and opengl vsync to work? Mine
seems to jitter up and down one px, as if the fields are out of order
or the alignment on the xv polygon isn't correct.
I don't know. 0.18 is the first version I tried and it works OK.
Thomas
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Re: [mythtv-users] Non-visible channels still visible in browse mode

2005-05-01 Thread James Stembridge

On 5/1/05, Stuart Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is one of the most annoying issues for me currently - of the 30 odd UK
> DVB channels 50% are junk (shopping channels, childrens channels etc) so I've
> flagged them as not visible. 

Yep, same problem here, and it's annoying enough to fix :) 

Patch is attached, seems to work fine in the 10 or so minutes testing
I've done so far.

James.
--- mythtv-0.18.orig/libs/libmythtv/tv_rec.cpp	2005-04-03 17:42:10.0 +0100
+++ mythtv-0.18/libs/libmythtv/tv_rec.cpp	2005-05-01 20:09:32.0 +0100
@@ -1034,7 +1034,6 @@
   "channel.outputfilters, previouslyshown, originalairdate, stars "
   "FROM program,channel,capturecard,cardinput "
   "WHERE channel.channum = :CHANNAME "
-  "AND channel.visible = 1 "
   "AND starttime < :CURTIME AND endtime > :CURTIME AND "
   "program.chanid = channel.chanid AND "
   "channel.sourceid = cardinput.sourceid AND "
@@ -1627,7 +1626,8 @@
 QString wherepart = QString("cardinput.cardid = capturecard.cardid AND "
 "capturecard.cardid = \"%1\" AND "
 "capturecard.hostname = \"%2\" AND "
-"cardinput.sourceid = channel.sourceid ")
+"cardinput.sourceid = channel.sourceid AND "
+"channel.visible = 1 ")
 .arg(cardid)
 .arg(gContext->GetHostName());
 
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythgallery and subdirectories

2005-05-01 Thread Herman Kuiper

I modified the code last week to be able to handle recursive random slide
shows through subdirectories.  As soon as I clean up the code I will post
the patch.
I was going to reply the same, but maybe I'll let you have the honor :-) 
I've got some mythmusic patches waiting to get in, so I put this one on 
hold. My patch includes a GUI setting to enable it, and also has caption 
support (using an external command to fetch a caption, and overlaying it 
onto the slideshow)

Herman
-
Herman Kuiper - m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - w: http://www.frontier.nl
Beech Ave 162 - 1119 PS  Schiphol-Rijk - t/f: 020-6589034/6142816
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Transcoding and other questions

2005-05-01 Thread Joe Henley

Pete,
Thanks for the reply.
Does the playback automatically skip over them.  ... or do I have to key 
something on the remote each time to get it to skip over the commercial 
and continue with the program?

TIA
Joe
Pete Cable wrote:
On 4/30/05, Joe Henley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

So I just turn on commercial flagging and it will do it automatically 
without also transcoding?  Cool.  I thought it had to mark the 
commercials and then transcoding dropped out when it ran.


Commercial flagging doesn't remove anything from the recorded show,
whether you transcode or not. It just marks the points where the
commercials begin/end in the database to enable you to skip the
commercials during playback.
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[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase not working anymore

2005-05-01 Thread Cory Tucker

Hello,
For some reason my mythfilldatabase stopped working.  The output is 
below.  My subscription with them doesn't expire until July.  As you can 
see, I keep getting these 401 unauthorized messages followed by Internal 
server error messages.  Has anyone seen this before?  Anyone have any 
ideas?

thanks in advance,
Cory
Refreshing Tomorrow's data
--02:52:53--  
http://datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com/tvlistings/xtvdService
 => `-'
Resolving datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com... 206.18.98.160
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80... 
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80... 
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 500 Internal Server Error
02:52:54 ERROR 500: Internal Server Error.

Retrieving datadirect data...
Grabbing data for Sun May 1 2005 offset 1
From : Mon May 2 07:00:00 2005 To : Tue May 3 07:00:00 2005 (UTC)
Grab complete.  Actual data from --02:52:54--  
http://datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com/tvlistings/xtvdService
 => `-'
Resolving datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com... 206.18.98.160
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80... 
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80... 
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 500 Internal Server Error
02:52:55 ERROR 500: Internal Server Error.

--02:52:55--  
http://datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com/tvlistings/xtvdService
 => `-'
Resolving datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com... 206.18.98.160
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80... 
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80... 
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 500 Internal Server Error
02:52:56 ERROR 500: Internal Server Error.
.

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[mythtv-users] MMX support in Gentoo ebild

2005-05-01 Thread Bryan Halter

Any word on MMX support in the Gentoo .18 ebuilds?
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RE: [mythtv-users] Full system/CPU upgrade and still no DVD

2005-05-01 Thread Ian Forde

On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 11:26 -0700, Scott Harris wrote:
> Definitely have DMA on, on dvd and all HDDs.
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] sharris]# /sbin/hdparm /dev/hdc
> 
> /dev/hdc:
>  HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument
>  IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
>  unmaskirq=  0 (off)
>  using_dma=  1 (on)
>  keepsettings =  0 (off)
>  readonly =  0 (off)
>  readahead= 256 (on)
>  HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument

Hmm... you should probably do the following:

hdparm -c3 -u1 /dev/hdc

That'll set unmaskirq to on and set IO_support to 32-bit.  That'll help.
Also, hook up a monitor and see if mplayer still complains.  That'll
narrow down the problem to whether it's the 350, mplayer, or the drive.

-I

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Re: [mythtv-users] Full system/CPU upgrade and still no DVD

2005-05-01 Thread Scott

On 5/1/05, Scott Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I purchased a new motherboard/cpu combo upgrading the AMD Athlon  
1800+ to an Intel P4 2.4GHz.  Spent about 4 hours getting it all
working again, verifying that I had basic MythTV system working  
before even trying the DVD.  This morning I tried the DVD and still
the same error with mplayer  "YOUR SYSTEM IS TOO SLOW TO PLAY  
THIS". Er.  I'm using a PVR-350 and of course don't have xvideo
available, so I've got to use -vo x11 on my mplayer.  I'm trying  
ogle now, and while it hasn't completely died like mplayer there
are obvious frame drops.  CPU load is fairly low, .5-.66, I would  
have expected it to be a lot more considering the cpu is having to
do all the decoding.
If you think Fry's is dangerous I would recommend you avoid any Apple  
Store OS release party. Having just walked away with a new G5, a new  
12" PowerBook, and fresh copies of Tiger I'm wondering where I left  
my sanity last Friday. On the other hand, it's been a hell of a fun  
geek-out-weekend.

Regarding your play back issue, most likely I would have to say it's  
a DMA problem. You've got plenty of CPU to do what you want to and in  
fact I use both xine and mplayer with a 16x DVD drive to get flawless  
playback.

Another suggestion once you're 100% sure DMA isn't the issue. You  
might try also to play a DVD w/o any audio just to see what happens.  
Maybe the problem is more an issue with the way you're decoding the  
sound which is causing mplayer to drop frames to keep the video and  
audio in sync.

Lastly, try using mplayer and playing a DVD from a terminal outside  
of MythTV. The nice verbose output of mplayer is great for  
understanding the problem. I'm sure no one would mind you pasting  
that to the list.

--
Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AIM: BlueCame1
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Re: [mythtv-users] Bob + OpenGL sync: Still some ghosting for small fast moving objects

2005-05-01 Thread Sasha Z

You may be seeing the ghosting due to the long P discharge time of the
CRT itself. Television phosphors take longer to bleed down than
computer monitors do. How does it look when you watch it live without
mythtv at all?

On a side note, how'd you get bob deint and opengl vsync to work? Mine
seems to jitter up and down one px, as if the fields are out of order
or the alignment on the xv polygon isn't correct.
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Re: [mythtv-users] What is "native LIRC"?

2005-05-01 Thread Sim

On Sunday 01 May 2005 18:41, Donavan Stanley wrote:
> > The main advantages would be:
> > 1. Not relying on an external program (irxevent).
> > 2. When using irxevent, I think that only one program,
> > the one with focus can receive the keyboard commands.
> > When using native lirc mode, the keyboard command is
> > directed to the correct application.
>
> Except that neither is really a downside since you already have
> irxevent if you have lirc. Andhow often do you want a keypress to go
> to something other than the main window?
>
> The advantages of NOT using native lirc are:
> 1. You can use any app that accepts keyboard input without having to
> worry about it supporting lirc.
> 2. You can tie scripts to remote keys.

I already know that I need to be able to control xine as well as mythtv with 
the remote if it is to be useful.  I gather from Donavan's comments that I 
can't have normal lirc running to control xine at the same time as mythtv 
native lirc to control mythtv?

To control two apps you either need to hope/ensure that xine and mythtv use 
the same keys for the same type of activity (which they don't by default)?

In addition, I need to find a trick so that my left and right button do "left" 
and "right" in the EPG but increase and decrease volume when watching TV (at 
least as long as I can find a way to make [ & ] have an impact on the volume 
(capture) whcih they don't at present).

Well, i suppose you could call it a challenge!

Simon
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Re: [mythtv-users] Anyone happy with wireless?

2005-05-01 Thread Mark Knecht

So I guess that's the real question. If you make a wireless network
and let's assume that the only think on that network is MythTV - will
it be good enough to watch Myth at a location remote from the backend
machine? If not there's no purpose to spending this money.

It seems to me that the 2MB/S or 3MB/S should be enough. Is that much
agreed to or are there other problems?

For us wireless has been a big disappointment even for browsing the
web. Watching MythTV is way beyond what we've accomplished with
ndiswrapper solutions. I'd love to try one of these LinkSys Bridges,
but only if it really works for Myth.

Thanks,
Mark

On 5/1/05, Griffon -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I started out by building a mesh G network using linksys 54g's. This
> was good for the basics but when it came to streaming the vob's it
> often break down even, also interference was causing speed drop outs
> so it would renegotiate at 12 or so for a wile, this would make
> streams unusable even if a I set s huge cache on mp layer. So I sucked
> it up and spent a weekend and about a hundred bucks wiring the whole
> house with cat. It was a total pain in the ass but the end result has
> been very worth it. WAF has gone way up since I finished that.
> 
> -Griffon
> 
> On 5/1/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 4/30/05, Chris Pinkham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > That's what I ended up doing as well.  I recommend the Linksys WRT54G 
> > > > router
> > > > which you can then turn into a wireless bridge through modified 
> > > > firmware,
> > > > the best of which, IMO, is available at http://www.sveasoft.com .  These
> > > > things can frequently be had for around $50 after rebate, which there is
> > > > usually one somewhere.
> > >
> > > I'm using my WRT54G as a bridge between my wired and wireless networks 
> > > using
> > > stock firmware.  The frontend in my living room uses a Belkin PCI 54G card
> > > using ndiswrapper.  I'm able to transfer about 3Mbytes/sec over the
> > > network from one of my wired servers.  Seems to be working pretty well.
> > > My wifes computer (which is used a lot more heavily than the Myth frontend
> > > usually) is also connected at 54Mb/s via another Belkin PCI card using
> > > ndiswrapper.  I don't use the Linksys as my router to the internet, it
> > > is only used a a wireless bridge between my internal networks.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Chris
> >
> > So 3MB/S == 27Mb/S or about half the advertized speed. I suspect that
> > this is pretty good with network overhead.
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> >
> 
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[mythtv-users] Re: Transcoding and other questions

2005-05-01 Thread Pete Cable

On 4/30/05, Joe Henley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> So I just turn on commercial flagging and it will do it automatically 
> without also transcoding?  Cool.  I thought it had to mark the 
> commercials and then transcoding dropped out when it ran.
> 

Commercial flagging doesn't remove anything from the recorded show,
whether you transcode or not. It just marks the points where the
commercials begin/end in the database to enable you to skip the
commercials during playback.

-- 
Pete
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RE: [mythtv-users] (no subject)

 

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Danzinger
> Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 9:21 AM
> To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
> Subject: [mythtv-users] (no subject)
> 
> I am looking to set my computer up with mythtv so I can watch/record 
> shows on my computer.  The problem is I am using Direct Tv's satellite 
> service and i have found no information on what tuner card to use, and 
> how to set it up.  I was wondering if anyone else sucessfully did 
> this, and if they could help me out with the hardware as well as 
> setting it up
> after getting the card.   -zonen- 
> 

I've got this working.  The initial learning/setup was a PITA. 
And one of my biggest problems is that I've got an older satellite
box that doesn't have a direct serial or other type connection so
I've had to use the two lirc instance setup, one to receive for the
PVR-350 and one to send back out to the satellite.

It is working quite well, only major complaint is the speed in which
channels are changed, it has to jump through a lot of hoops to do it



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Re: [mythtv-users] Anyone happy with wireless?

2005-05-01 Thread Griffon --

I started out by building a mesh G network using linksys 54g's. This
was good for the basics but when it came to streaming the vob's it
often break down even, also interference was causing speed drop outs
so it would renegotiate at 12 or so for a wile, this would make
streams unusable even if a I set s huge cache on mp layer. So I sucked
it up and spent a weekend and about a hundred bucks wiring the whole
house with cat. It was a total pain in the ass but the end result has
been very worth it. WAF has gone way up since I finished that.

-Griffon

On 5/1/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 4/30/05, Chris Pinkham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > That's what I ended up doing as well.  I recommend the Linksys WRT54G 
> > > router
> > > which you can then turn into a wireless bridge through modified firmware,
> > > the best of which, IMO, is available at http://www.sveasoft.com .  These
> > > things can frequently be had for around $50 after rebate, which there is
> > > usually one somewhere.
> >
> > I'm using my WRT54G as a bridge between my wired and wireless networks using
> > stock firmware.  The frontend in my living room uses a Belkin PCI 54G card
> > using ndiswrapper.  I'm able to transfer about 3Mbytes/sec over the
> > network from one of my wired servers.  Seems to be working pretty well.
> > My wifes computer (which is used a lot more heavily than the Myth frontend
> > usually) is also connected at 54Mb/s via another Belkin PCI card using
> > ndiswrapper.  I don't use the Linksys as my router to the internet, it
> > is only used a a wireless bridge between my internal networks.
> >
> > --
> > Chris
> 
> So 3MB/S == 27Mb/S or about half the advertized speed. I suspect that
> this is pretty good with network overhead.
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RE: [mythtv-users] Full system/CPU upgrade and still no DVD

 

> is having to do all the decoding.
> > 
> > Can anyone offer any recommendations?  I'm so close to having an 
> > awesome mythtv system, one that even the wife approves of, 
> the only thing lacking is DVD playback.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Scott
> 
> Have you tried using Xine?  Also, is DMA active on your DVD-ROM?
> 
> 

Working on installing xine now, but the last time I tried with the older
CPU it was just as unreliable as mplayer.

Definitely have DMA on, on dvd and all HDDs.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] sharris]# /sbin/hdparm /dev/hdc

/dev/hdc:
 HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument
 IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
 unmaskirq=  0 (off)
 using_dma=  1 (on)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 readonly =  0 (off)
 readahead= 256 (on)
 HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument


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Re: [mythtv-users] Full system/CPU upgrade and still no DVD

2005-05-01 Thread Phil Bridges

On 5/1/05, Scott Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm just livid.  The wife is away and inspired by everyone else's WAF 
> comments and the fact that Chris Kennedy has done an awesome
> job lately of getting all the bugs worked out of the ivtv driver so there are 
> no more freezes.Fry's is 3 miles from my house, a
> dangerous combo.
> 
> I purchased a new motherboard/cpu combo upgrading the AMD Athlon 1800+ to an 
> Intel P4 2.4GHz.  Spent about 4 hours getting it all
> working again, verifying that I had basic MythTV system working before even 
> trying the DVD.  This morning I tried the DVD and still
> the same error with mplayer  "YOUR SYSTEM IS TOO SLOW TO PLAY THIS". Er.  
> I'm using a PVR-350 and of course don't have xvideo
> available, so I've got to use -vo x11 on my mplayer.  I'm trying ogle now, 
> and while it hasn't completely died like mplayer there
> are obvious frame drops.  CPU load is fairly low, .5-.66, I would have 
> expected it to be a lot more considering the cpu is having to
> do all the decoding.
> 
> Can anyone offer any recommendations?  I'm so close to having an awesome 
> mythtv system, one that even the wife approves of, the only
> thing lacking is DVD playback.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Scott

Have you tried using Xine?  Also, is DMA active on your DVD-ROM?
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Re: [mythtv-users] Displaying log entries

2005-05-01 Thread Rick

Skank Wrangler wrote:
Other than the menu-to-menu steps
 Information Center -> System Status -> Log Entries
is there another way to display all of the text
of the log entries that are stored in the mysql
database?
Mythweb, if you are using 0.18
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Re: [mythtv-users] Jumping to end of show

2005-05-01 Thread Juan Jesús García de Soria Lucena

Hi.2005/5/1, Ryan Steffes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I've had a problem where occasionally my front end crashes and afterthat the show I was watching will cause the show to play normally whenI'm just watching it, but trying to jump forward will cause the showto jump almost to the end and refuse to rewind passed that point.

My  usual use of MythTV is to record shows, and then comm-flag & transcode them to MPEG-4.

I'm seeing that an important number of my recordings have "this"
problem: instead of allowing true fast-forward / rewind, they somehow
seem to "stick" to a little number of possible positions in the stream,
so that any skipping (ffwd, rew, comm-skip, etc) ends up moving the
playing position to one of these points.

That's very annoying, since this totally defeats the skipping functionality (I'm forced to use time-stretch in order to skip).

Somehow, too, for some recordings, even while skipping works, any skip
seems to stream a brutal quantity of data through the
hard-disk/network... Is it possible that I'm having some problems with
frame-indexing in the video file or something?


If someone knows what's happening, please help :)


Regards,

   Juan Jesús.-- How can dreams come true? Is their type boolean?
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Re: [mythtv-users] Assorted stuff

2005-05-01 Thread Gayle

On Sunday 01 May 2005 17:00, James Stembridge wrote:
> On 5/1/05, Gayle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm on dialup and hate on demand dialling (I don't care if something
> > wants to update itself at 3am, I do NOT want my modem dialling while I
> > try to sleep!)
>
> You could always make the dialup process silent, easy to do with the
> right AT command.

ATM0, if I remember my Hayes command set correctly.  I like having the speaker 
though, makes it easier to both troubleshoot connection problems and identify 
the connection speed.
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[mythtv-users] Full system/CPU upgrade and still no DVD

I'm just livid.  The wife is away and inspired by everyone else's WAF comments 
and the fact that Chris Kennedy has done an awesome
job lately of getting all the bugs worked out of the ivtv driver so there are 
no more freezes.Fry's is 3 miles from my house, a
dangerous combo.

I purchased a new motherboard/cpu combo upgrading the AMD Athlon 1800+ to an 
Intel P4 2.4GHz.  Spent about 4 hours getting it all
working again, verifying that I had basic MythTV system working before even 
trying the DVD.  This morning I tried the DVD and still
the same error with mplayer  "YOUR SYSTEM IS TOO SLOW TO PLAY THIS". Er.  
I'm using a PVR-350 and of course don't have xvideo
available, so I've got to use -vo x11 on my mplayer.  I'm trying ogle now, and 
while it hasn't completely died like mplayer there
are obvious frame drops.  CPU load is fairly low, .5-.66, I would have expected 
it to be a lot more considering the cpu is having to
do all the decoding.

Can anyone offer any recommendations?  I'm so close to having an awesome mythtv 
system, one that even the wife approves of, the only
thing lacking is DVD playback.

Thanks,

Scott

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SOLVED: Re: [mythtv-users] Unichrome DRM Compile Problem

2005-05-01 Thread Torsten Schenkel

Am Samstag, den 30.04.2005, 14:43 -0400 schrieb Tony Rein:
> On Saturday 30 April 2005 01:23 pm, Neale Swinnerton wrote:
> > I've had this maybe last year or the year before, nothing to do with
> > mythtv then. Check that you've got you processor type set properly in
> > your kernel config. you can download a suitable .config from
> > http://www.epiawiki.org/

This was the relevant hint. Thanks, I usually use 386 kernels on the
epia, but using Cyrix/C3 as processor type activated the
CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG
in the .config.

> > Also, I've read somewhere that CVS DRM doesn't support 2.6.11, and I get
> > missing symbol errors when I modprobe via built against 2.6.11. I'm
> > using 2.6.8.1 with good success, so I didn't investigate further.

2.6.11 works fine. A change in processor type and a make-kpkg was all
that was needed. via-drm compiles fine afterwards.

Unfortunately I didn't get away without recompiling. Luckily I don't
have to compile on the epia. BTW, make -j on a mosix cluster is not
race-safe! ;-)

Thanks to all,

Torsten

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Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire success - SA 3250

2005-05-01 Thread Michael Haan

On 5/1/05, Andy Alsup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 4/30/05, Andy Alsup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Compile instructions from 6200ch-README:
> >
> >   # cc -o 6200ch 6200ch.c -lrom1394 -lavc1394 -lraw1394
> >   # cp 6200ch /usr/local/bin
> >
> > If you don't have that file, get the mythtv-0.18 tarball.  its in the
> > contrib directory
> >
> 
> Although, I don't know if 6200ch works with the SA 3250...
> 

I was wondering the same thing.  I was even beginning to wonder if the
SA3250 supports changing channels via FW at all.  Anyone know if it
does?  Anyway, I modified the source to add my SA's vendor/model and
got the following:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] contrib # /usr/local/bin/6200ch -v 005
node 1: vendor_id = 0x0461 model_id = 0x
Warning: Unit Spec ID different.
Warning: Unit Software Version different.
AV/C Command: 005 = Op1=0x00487C20 Op2=0x00487C20 Op3=0x00487C25

Needless to say, it didn't work.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Debian Packages for mythtv .18

2005-05-01 Thread Matt

> It is Matt Zimmerman who maintains the packages.  I believe he has
> been away at the Ubuntu DownUnder Conference.
> 
> Myth .18 installed fine from source on Ubuntu for me.  I just put it
> in /usr/local, and the make uninstall will work on it as well once
> debs come out and I want to switch.
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I tried installing the source on the xbox, but it would never compile.

Matt
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[mythtv-users] Displaying log entries

2005-05-01 Thread Skank Wrangler

Other than the menu-to-menu steps

 Information Center -> System Status -> Log Entries

is there another way to display all of the text
of the log entries that are stored in the mysql
database?
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[mythtv-users] Re: undefined reference to `ScreenSaverX11::ScreenSaverX11[in-charge]()' during build of mythtv-0.18

2005-05-01 Thread Leo Przybylski

No, sorry. I'm still trying.
Leo Przybylski
Richard Holgate wrote:
Hi,
Just wondering if you got anywhere with this error. I've hit the same
problem today, can't seem to figure it out. FYI I'm using gentoo
linux, trying to compile mythtv 0.18 for use with directfb. I have
previously been able to compile 0.18 for use with X11, without getting
this error, but now am stuck.
Richard
-
Hello all,
I've been working with mythtv now for awhile. Never had any real problems.
Now I'm trying to install 0.18 onto a new system. I am running into
linking errors below. Does anyone know much about this? I can't find
anything anywhere on this.
-
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `first'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/BUILD/mythtv-0.18/filters/onefield'
cd bobdeint && make -f Makefile
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/BUILD/mythtv-0.18/filters/bobdeint'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `first'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/BUILD/mythtv-0.18/filters/bobdeint'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/BUILD/mythtv-0.18/filters'
cd programs && make -f Makefile
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/BUILD/mythtv-0.18/programs'
cd mythepg && make -f Makefile
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/BUILD/mythtv-0.18/programs/mythepg'
g++ -o mythepg main.o -L/usr/share/qt3/lib -L../../libs/libmyth
-L../../libs/libmythtv -L../../libs/libavcodec -L../../libs/libavformat
-lmythtv-0.18 -lmythavformat-0.18 -lmythavcodec-0.18 -lmyth-0.18
-lfreetype -lmp3lame -lasound -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lqt-mt -lXext -lX11 -lm
-lpthread
../../libs/libmyth/libmyth-0.18.so: undefined reference to
`ScreenSaverX11::ScreenSaverX11[in-charge]()'
---
Here's some other information:
hezekiah:/usr/src/BUILD/mythtv-0.18# g++ -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.5/specs
Configured with: ../src/configure -v
--enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.3 --enable-shared
--with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext
--enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-debug
--enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=xlib --enable-objc-gc i486-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-5)
hezekiah:/usr/src/BUILD/mythtv-0.18# uname -a
Linux hezekiah 2.6.8 #6 Wed Mar 16 13:47:44 MST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
Thanks much if anyone can help,
Leo Przybylski
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[mythtv-users] Bob + OpenGL sync: Still some ghosting for small fast moving objects

2005-05-01 Thread Thomas Börkel

HI!
I am using Myth 0.18, Bob Deint., OpenGL Sync, Video as Timebase, NVidia 
6629, but I still have some ghosting effects when small objects are 
moving fast.

For example in car racing, but not in all cases, seems to be dependant 
on the moving direction. Scrolling text is OK though.

Anyone has a solution to this? Is this a bug in Myth or is it just not 
possible to get it better?

Thanks!
Thomas
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Re: [mythtv-users] What is "native LIRC"?

2005-05-01 Thread Greg Grotsky

  Kind of off topic but I think there would be a huge advantage for
using Myth's native LIRC support if there was an a way to assign
remote button presses with specific Myth functions.

  Like xine for example, instead of programming a button press for a
specific key on the keyboard; you would program a xine function with a
button press.  Here's a snippit from my .lircrc as an example:

begin
  prog = mythtv
  button = Aspect
  config = W
   repeat = 0
end

begin
 prog   = xine
 button = Aspect
 config = ToggleAspectRatio
  repeat = 3
end

You can see that I'm programming the same button but for xine it's
assigned to "ToggleAspectRatio" instead of the W key.  With the
function-based LIRC config, you could assign stuff like "config =
MythMusic.NextSong" or "config = MythTV.EPG", etc.

-Greg
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Re: [mythtv-users] What is "native LIRC"?

2005-05-01 Thread Donavan Stanley

On 5/1/05, Joe Votour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Native lirc is when MythTV uses lirc API calls instead
> of relying on the external irxevent program.
> 
> The main advantages would be:
> 1. Not relying on an external program (irxevent).
> 2. When using irxevent, I think that only one program,
> the one with focus can receive the keyboard commands.
> When using native lirc mode, the keyboard command is
> directed to the correct application.

Except that neither is really a downside since you already have
irxevent if you have lirc. Andhow often do you want a keypress to go
to something other than the main window?

The advantages of NOT using native lirc are:
1. You can use any app that accepts keyboard input without having to
worry about it supporting lirc.
2. You can tie scripts to remote keys.
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