[mythtv-users] mythbackend dies after specifying recording profiles

[eckzow]

I'm using a Winfast 2000 Expert tv tuner card.  I've used it in my
AMD64 box, versions 0.16 through 0.18, never had a hitch.  Now I've
placed it into a PIII box that I'm going to try to dedicate. 
Unfortunately I've got it all set up, but when I go to watch Live TV,
the backend up and dies.  Here's a log with "-v all" -- this occured
in version 0.18, I blew away my install and put in 0.16 and still have
the problem.  This log is from 0.16 while I recompile 0.18...

---
Starting up as the master server.
2005-05-03 02:54:32 Probed: /dev/v4l/video0 - Television
2005-05-03 02:54:32 Probed: /dev/v4l/video0 - Composite1
2005-05-03 02:54:32 Probed: /dev/v4l/video0 - S-Video
2005-05-03 02:54:32 Probed: /dev/v4l/video0 - Television
2005-05-03 02:54:32 Probed: /dev/v4l/video0 - Composite1
2005-05-03 02:54:32 Probed: /dev/v4l/video0 - S-Video
2005-05-03 02:54:32 TuneTo(4) curList[i].freq(67250)
2005-05-03 02:54:32 TuneToFrequency(1076)
2005-05-03 02:54:32 mythbackend version: 0.16.20040906-1 www.mythtv.org
2005-05-03 02:54:32 Enabled verbose msgs :all
2005-05-03 02:54:34 Found changes in the todo list.
2005-05-03 02:54:34 PruneOldRecords...
2005-05-03 02:54:34 AddNewRecords...
Query 0: /record.search = 0 AND program.title = record.title
2005-05-03 02:54:34  |-- Start DB Query 0...
2005-05-03 02:54:34  |-- Processing 0 results...
2005-05-03 02:54:34  +-- Cleanup...
2005-05-03 02:54:34 Sort by time...
2005-05-03 02:54:34 PruneOverlaps...
2005-05-03 02:54:34 Sort by priority...
2005-05-03 02:54:34 BuildListMaps...
2005-05-03 02:54:34 SchedNewRecords...
2005-05-03 02:54:34 Scheduling:
2005-05-03 02:54:34 ClearListMaps...
2005-05-03 02:54:34 Sort by time...
2005-05-03 02:54:34 PruneRedundants...
--- print list start ---
Title - SubtitleChan ChID Day Start  End   S C I  T N Pri
---  print list end  ---
2005-05-03 02:54:34 Scheduled 0 items in 0.0073 seconds.
2005-05-03 02:54:34 Seem to be woken up by USER
2005-05-03 02:54:59 13  ACCEPT[]:[]13
2005-05-03 02:54:59 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2005-05-03 02:54:59 adding: mythbox as a client (events: 0)
2005-05-03 02:54:59 2   OK
2005-05-03 02:54:59 Getting next free recorder after : -1
2005-05-03 02:54:59 Card 1 is local.
2005-05-03 02:54:59 28  1[]:[]192.168.1.103[]:[]6543
2005-05-03 02:54:59 13  ACCEPT[]:[]13
2005-05-03 02:54:59 13  ACCEPT[]:[]13
2005-05-03 02:54:59 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2005-05-03 02:54:59 adding: mythbox as a client (events: 1)
2005-05-03 02:54:59 2   OK
2005-05-03 02:54:59 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2005-05-03 02:54:59 adding: mythbox as a client (events: 0)
2005-05-03 02:54:59 2   OK
2005-05-03 02:54:59 84  rbuf://192.168.1.103:6543/video/ringbuf1.nuv[]:...
2005-05-03 02:54:59 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2005-05-03 02:54:59 adding: mythbox as a client (events: 0)
2005-05-03 02:54:59 2   OK
2005-05-03 02:54:59 adding: mythbox as a remote ringbuffer
2005-05-03 02:54:59 2   OK
2005-05-03 02:54:59 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-05-03 02:54:59 Using profile 'Live TV' to record
NVR: v4l2: format set, getting yuyv from v4l, converting
2005-05-03 02:55:00 2   ok
2005-05-03 02:55:00 1   1
2005-05-03 02:55:00 5   29.97
Killed
---

Though sometimes (I'd say 1 in 3) I will get a line after the line
ending in 29.97 that states the standard "strange error flushing
buffer ... " and every once in a while (I've seen it happen twice in
all my desperate attempts to figure out what's wrong) I get something
that looks like it might be the name of the show that's playing on the
channel.  On the frontend I simply get a black screen for about 5-10
seconds, followed by the main menu again.  If I try to go back to Live
TV it obviously gives the error "the master backend cannot be found"
or whatever.

Log of the frontend this time seperated into first what always prints
on the terminal (stderr?) and what gets piped to a file using
mythfrontend > file, again using -v all:
---
Errm, event socket just closed.
Remote encoder not responding.
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/qt/3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/qt/3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/qt/3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/qt/3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/qt/3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/qt/3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/qt/3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/qt/3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/qt/3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/qt/3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/qt/3/include/qv

Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up a DVB Card

[Andrew Herron]

> OK, that's encouraging. Do you know any good step-by-step guides on
> how to do this? It's diffierent to getting analogue cards up and
> running and I'm finding it a little difficult.

I'm in Brisbane, Australia and did this a couple of weeks ago.  This
may hurt a little.


Start here:
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php

I also referenced Jani Talikka's guide:
http://www.users.on.net/~jani/dvico-mythtv.html

I used bits and pieces from Jarod's, Jani's and even Martin Smith's
guide (the one you have already found).  Jani compiles a custom kernel
and uses card-specific drivers, which I didn't want to do.  I mostly
stuck to Jarod's guide as it seemed to have the general stuff covered,
but make sure you read all 3 before starting.


The biggest thing in Jarod's guide that was wrong for me was the
kernel choice.  I spent at least a day bashing my head against the
wall to work this stuff out, so here goes:

1) Instead of the _FC3 version listed in that guide, use the
"rhfc3.at" version.  This currently means sticking to 2.6.10 - in step
6 use this command:
apt-get install kernel=2.6.10-1.770_14.rhfc3.at

The reason for this is that _FC3 doesn't include the cx88-dvb module,
apparently the Fedora Core guys don't think it's fully stable yet. 
However, even after installing the correct package you will find that
cx88-blackbird loads instead of cx88-dvb; this is because the
"kmodule" command still returns the wrong thing.

I couldn't find any way to stop it doing that that so I ended up
hacking rc.sysinit (not recommended).

2) In section 10, under "DVB capture cards" follow Jani Talikka's
guide, that has most of it covered.

Section 5.3 of Jani's guide has info about the LinuxTV apps you need
for your original question.  Finding a list of frequencies to give the
"scan" program is a pain, but google should give them to you
eventually.

3) The LinuxTV page for this card has links to kernel patches, but
they are already loaded in the kernel I recommended:
http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Kworld_V-Stream_Xpert_DTV

You will note there is no lirc information for this card's remote yet.
 I couldn't get it working either.

4) run the "scan" program, and keep the channels.conf it produces. 
Take note of each station's unique settings (everything except the
last 3 numbers, there will be a number of lines for each station where
only those numbers differ; one for each channel found).

5) Tuning the channels into MythTV is all kinds of fun.  I ended up
using the mythtvsetup channel editor to enter 5 sets of frequency
information (everything you wrote down in step 4) for each of the 5
stations available to me, each of which located 3-5 channels.  The
scan can take anywhere up to 30 seconds per frequency set.


Step 4&5 probably don't need to be that complicated; you may be able
to get a list of frequencies and let MythTV auto-detect everything
else.  Didn't work for me though.

If you manage to get it working without going insane consider yourself lucky  :)

Andy
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Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up a DVB Card

[Nigel Metheringham]

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 19:18 +1000, Andrew Herron wrote:
> The biggest thing in Jarod's guide that was wrong for me was the
> kernel choice.  I spent at least a day bashing my head against the
> wall to work this stuff out, so here goes:
> 
> 1) Instead of the _FC3 version listed in that guide, use the
> "rhfc3.at" version.  This currently means sticking to 2.6.10 - in step
> 6 use this command:
> apt-get install kernel=2.6.10-1.770_14.rhfc3.at
> 
> The reason for this is that _FC3 doesn't include the cx88-dvb module,
> apparently the Fedora Core guys don't think it's fully stable yet. 
> However, even after installing the correct package you will find that
> cx88-blackbird loads instead of cx88-dvb; this is because the
> "kmodule" command still returns the wrong thing.

Actually what I use is the FC3/update kernel (2.6.11-1.14_FC3) with the
following additional packages:-
  * bttv-kmdl-2.6.11-1.14_FC3
  * video4linux-kmdl-2.6.11-1.14_FC3
  * ivtv-kmdl-2.6.11-1.14_FC3
  * saa7134-kmdl-2.6.11-1.14_FC3
  * cx88-kmdl-2.6.11-1.14_FC3

You may not need the ivtv (I have a Hauppauge PVR-350 in the box as
well), but I think all the others are necessary.

> I couldn't find any way to stop it doing that that so I ended up
> hacking rc.sysinit (not recommended).

I didn't need any loading hacks for this card (I do for the ivtv ones).

[snip]

> 5) Tuning the channels into MythTV is all kinds of fun.  I ended up
> using the mythtvsetup channel editor to enter 5 sets of frequency
> information (everything you wrote down in step 4) for each of the 5
> stations available to me, each of which located 3-5 channels.  The
> scan can take anywhere up to 30 seconds per frequency set.

This basically just worked for me entering only the base frequency of
the DVB mux - which I got from the BBC website or the DVB tools config
files (one per transmitter set).

> If you manage to get it working without going insane consider yourself lucky  
> :)

Can't vouch for the sanity in this case.

I also didn't use the K-World remote and driver - the remote is horrid
anyway so getting it working seems pointless.

Nigel.

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Re: [mythtv-users] [ot] mythphone connect to local asterisk box

[Steven]

Paul Volkaerts wrote:
Forgot to mention these messages in the logs on startup :
Failed to bind for SIP connection 10.0.0.2
SIP listening on IP Address :5060 NAT address
SIP: Cannot transmit SIP message to 10.0.0.2
10.0.0.2 is my mythbox IP adress. I guess this is something in the code
gettings mixed up with nat and local adresses? Or else it's me :-)
   

I guess MythPhone is trying to grab port 5060 and listen for messages, but
you have Asterisk running on the same box and that has already grabbed 5060.
Hence the "Failed to bind..." message.
Within the MythPhone configuration, change the port number from 5060 to
something else like 5070.  Should fix your issues.
 

Yep, that did the trick.
Changed my sip extention to use port 5061 in the asterisk config and 
changed mythphone to use that same port and it works!! I can now call my 
cell phone from my tv, and the other way around. Now how cool is 
that...  8-)

Thanks
Steven
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[mythtv-users] Mythmusic spdif

[Barker Thomas]

I have finally got all my
audio coming out of my spdif port.

 

http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo

 

Using the long .asoundrc
from here for my nforce2 and uncommenting the line about passing everything to digital

 

And passing these options to
alsa

options
snd-pcm-oss adsp_map=2 dsp_map=2

 

I can set mythtv audio to
use ALSA:dmix-digital and mythmusic works also. Brilliant.

 

Thanx people for your help.

 

Tom

 

 

 




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[mythtv-users] Ditched the Epia and bought a Aopen XCu be with Nforce 2 chipset - best move ever!

[Barker Thomas]

I was running a frontend and backend on an EPIA m10k for the
last 8 months or so. It was ok, a little slow and always a pain to compile,
transcode, get the h/w mpeg2 decoder working. I finally gave in the other day
and decided to move for an easier faster life. 

 

I shall be ebaying my old epia very soon I think.

 

For £150 I got a nforce 2 aopen xcube, dvd 16x dual layer
writer and a sempron 2600, I used my old hard drive (120gb) and old mem (512).
200W power supply also so still no worries with leaving it on 24/7.

 

The cube itself has onboard audio and geforce mx 4 etc..
After installing FC3 from scratch and and setting up ATRPMS and getting
mythtv-suite. A few configurations and a mysql source all is back to normal.
And so much faster and smoother than ever before.

 

I did try using XVMC acceleration for displaying live tv,
but disliked the fact things were in B/W and also it seemed very sketching,
kinda streaking with white lines, so I turned that off. CPU usage without XvMc
is laughable anyhow so makes no odds.

 

I must say im impressed with the dvd rip facility, wish you
could specify lower bit rates though.

 

One thing I wish we could sort out, is burning files to dvd.

 

I see mythburn and nuv2burn (or some similar name) made a
good start, but haven't got too far yet. Would be nice to see.

 

Many thanx

Tom

 




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[mythtv-users] apt-get errors //yum is the solution?

[iwan]

?

Hi, 
 
I am expieriencing troubles with atp-get 
and I was reading a few posts here.
1 of the solutions where:
-
You must edit your /etc/apt/sources.list. The entry for 
freshrpms.net is no longer correct. You need to add us5 to the front of 
the address
-
That did not work for 
me.
 
Anyway I used yum to update my system and 
that worked...
is this the correct way to do 
this?
 
In this guide:
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php
They use allot of atp-get commands ...and I am kind of stuck at the 
moment.
Is there a way to replace the "apt-get commands" by "yum 
commands"?
 
Thanks, 
 
 


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[mythtv-users] soundcard test

[iwan]

?

Hi, 
 
I am busy setting up MythTV and using this 
guide:
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php
 
I am at the point of configuring the drivers for the 
soundcard.
 
I have a soundcard and during my instalation of FC3 the 
installation allowed me to test the sound ...and that worked fine.
Does this mean my souncard is ready?
Or do I still need additional drivers?
 
I am also looking for the command that can show me what soundcard I 
have and what the driver is that is used.
Can someone post that?
 


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[mythtv-users] Re: mythbrowser 0.18

[Paul]

>Hi All,
>I've been trying to debug the mythbrowser 0.18 segmentation
>violation. I've been using gdb, here is where the problem
>starts:

>Breakpoint 2, main (argc=2, argv=0xb684) at main.cpp:78
>78 KApplication a(argc,argv);
>(gdb) s

>Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>0x41161569 in KCmdLineArgs::count () from /usr/kde/3.2/lib/libkdecore.so.4

>KApplication is allocating "a" and thus calling it's constructor. The
>constructor seems unhappy.

>To be honest I suspected this was a problem with outdated libraries. I
>have a fairly out of date gentoo system. Here's the output of
>kde-config:

>spug mythbrowser # kde-config --version
>Qt: 3.3.3
>KDE: 3.2.2
>kde-config: 1.0

>Then I decided to compare mythbrowser 0.18 with 0.17 and found that
>the way the command line arguments are being initialised has changed:

>KCmdLineArgs::init(argc, argv, "mythbrowser", usage , version);

>Had become:

>KCmdLineArgs::init(argc, argv, "mythbrowser", "mythbrowser", usage ,
>version);

>In mythbrowser 0.18.

>I simply changed this back and all started working again.

>Hope this helps...

>Cheers,

>Doug Scoular

Thanks Doug. I think we are making some progress now :-)
It looks like we're exposing a  bug in the kde3.2.x version of KCmdLineArgs
to me. I use 3.3.0 and 3.3.1 and it works fine.

I changed the call to KCmdLineArgs::init because the old call kept
producing a compiler warning about 'init' is deprecated or something
similar.

Because I can't reproduce the problem here it is not possible for me to
debug it.
If you have the time there is a few things you could try to track the
problem
down.

Its a long shot but I wonder if  the compiler is getting confused about
which
init call to use. Though I can't see how that could be.

Could you try changing it to this and try again.:-
KCmdLineArgs::init(argc, argv, "mythbrowser", "mythbrowser", usage, version,
false);

That should remove any ambiguity about which call to use for the compiler.

Another thing I noticed looking at the code is the order in which the
arguments are
parsed and the creation of the KApplication object looks back to front to
me.
Move 'KApplication a(argc, argv)' to just after
'KCmdLineArgs::addCmdLineOptions(options)'
and before KCmdLineArgs * args = KCmdLineArgs::parsedArgs();
so it looks something like this:-

KCmdLineArgs::init(argc, argv, "mythbrowser", "mythbrowser", usage, version,
false);
KCmdLineArgs::addCmdLineOptions(options);
KApplication a(argc, argv);
KCmdLineArgs *args = KCmdLineArgs::parsedArgs();

That looks more like the example code in the KDE docs. In fact I don't think
we need to pass the arguments to KApplication at all and just replace
KApplication a(argc, argv) with KApplication a;

Thanks for your time.

Paul





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[mythtv-users] videocard issues

[iwan]

?


Hi, 
 
I am busy setting up MythTV and using this 
guide:
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php
 
I am at the point of configuring the drivers for the 
videocard.
I have 2 videocards in my box:
- Diamond Viper 330 (RIVA 128)
- Haupauge PVR-350
 
now I don't see anything about how to configure the Diamond Viper 
330 (RIVA 128).
I still need to configure the PVR-350 according to the guide so 
that is no problem. (I hope)
 
I am also looking for the command that can show me what videocards 
I have and what the drivers are that are used.
Can someone post that?
 
Thanks, 
 
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[mythtv-users] Media MVP in the UK

[dave]

Hi,
I am interested in using a Hauppage Media MVP as a frontend for
viewing streams from DVB-T based myth backend.   A couple of
questions:

   (1)  Can anyone confirm it is possible to view DVB-T streams recorded
as TS?   (I understand they are mpeg2 but have a .nuv extension.)

   (2)   I have seen on this list there are two types of MVP available and
the one "with the yellow dot" is the correct one to get.  However the
UK Hauppage site doesn't show this model, neither do most of the UK
vendors.  Can anyone explain the exact model needed in the UK? 
(Hauppage do seem to have a habit of changing what is inside the box
and calling it the same name, eg Nova-T!)


Thanks,
Dave

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Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Help setting up Sky Navigator remote to replace keyboard/mouse under X

[Phil Thompson]

> On 5/2/05, Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> If any kind users could provide me with some *much needed* info, I'd
>> be most appreciative.
>
> See my configs here:
> http://www.hippoit.co.uk/mythtv/
>
> I use the remote as a mouse and keyboard, as well as for controlling
> mythtv and xine.
>
> I've found that the navigator remote codes differ from model to model
> so you may not be able to use my lircd.conf as-is, but you can get the
> idea from my setup. It's a bit of a work in progress though - I've not
> got the keyboard fully done yet... A lot of keys to set up...

Is this only with X, or will it also work as a console keyboard?

(I've got my Navigator, but haven't had a chance yet to configure it.)

Thanks,
Phil

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[mythtv-users] Illegal Instructions & No Video

[Scott Arthur]

I've just done a fresh install from source (0.18) on a epia m9000
running Mandrake 10.1
Everything has compiled fine, however, MythVideo is empty despite there
being files in it's directory.
Also when I try to access MythMusic I'm getting illegal instruction
errors, as well as when I press the Menu (M) button in MythVideo.
I read in the Docs that illegal instructions are usually from incorrect
CPU specs in the configure but was supposed to be fixed in 0.18.
Anyone had similar problems?
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Re: [mythtv-users] soundcard test

[Tony Rein]

On Tuesday 03 May 2005 06:17 am, iwan wrote:
> ?
> Hi,
>
> I am busy setting up MythTV and using this guide:
> http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php
>
> I am at the point of configuring the drivers for the soundcard.
>
> I have a soundcard and during my instalation of FC3 the installation
> allowed me to test the sound ...and that worked fine. Does this mean my
> souncard is ready?
> Or do I still need additional drivers?
>
> I am also looking for the command that can show me what soundcard I have
> and what the driver is that is used. Can someone post that?
>
> Iwan
Try this:

lspci -v | less

This will list lots of information about all the pci devices in your computer, 
which should include the sound card.  The "| less" part of the command pipes 
the output through "less," which will let you view it one page at a time, 
scroll up and down, etc. Look for anything that says "audio."

Try this also:

lsmod | less

This will list all the loaded modules, which should include your sound driver.

Tony
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RE: [mythtv-users] Re: mythbrowser 0.18

[Khanh Tran]

It doesn't like the new line you suggest.  Compile errors are below.  It
does like Doug Scoular's suggestion to put it back to the way it was in
0.17.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/download/mythtv.18/mythplugins-0.18/mythbrowser> make
cd mythbrowser && make -f Makefile
make[1]: Entering directory
`/home/mythtv/download/mythtv.18/mythplugins-0.18/mythbrowser/mythbrowse
r'
g++ -c -pipe -Wall -W -O3 -march=pentiumpro -fomit-frame-pointer
-D_REENTRANT  -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPREFIX=\"/usr/local\" -DHAVE_MMX
-DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -DQT_SHARED
-I/usr/local/lib/qt3/mkspecs/default -I. -I/usr/local/include
-I/usr/include/kde -I/opt/kde3/include -I/usr/local/lib/qt3/include -o
main.o main.cpp
main.cpp: In function `int main(int, char**)':
main.cpp:65: error: no matching function for call to
`KCmdLineArgs::init(int&, 
   char**&, const char[12], const char[12], char[53], const char*&,
bool)'
/opt/kde3/include/kcmdlineargs.h:213: error: candidates are: static void

   KCmdLineArgs::init(int, char**, const char*, const char*, const
char*, bool)
/opt/kde3/include/kcmdlineargs.h:226: error: static void

   KCmdLineArgs::init(int, char**, const KAboutData*, bool)
/opt/kde3/include/kcmdlineargs.h:238: error: static void

   KCmdLineArgs::init(const KAboutData*)
make[1]: *** [main.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/mythtv/download/mythtv.18/mythplugins-0.18/mythbrowser/mythbrowse
r'
make: *** [sub-mythbrowser] Error 2

 

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 6:21 AM
To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: mythbrowser 0.18

>Hi All,
>I've been trying to debug the mythbrowser 0.18 segmentation violation. 
>I've been using gdb, here is where the problem
>starts:

>Breakpoint 2, main (argc=2, argv=0xb684) at main.cpp:78
>78 KApplication a(argc,argv);
>(gdb) s

>Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>0x41161569 in KCmdLineArgs::count () from 
>/usr/kde/3.2/lib/libkdecore.so.4

>KApplication is allocating "a" and thus calling it's constructor. The 
>constructor seems unhappy.

>To be honest I suspected this was a problem with outdated libraries. I 
>have a fairly out of date gentoo system. Here's the output of
>kde-config:

>spug mythbrowser # kde-config --version
>Qt: 3.3.3
>KDE: 3.2.2
>kde-config: 1.0

>Then I decided to compare mythbrowser 0.18 with 0.17 and found that the

>way the command line arguments are being initialised has changed:

>KCmdLineArgs::init(argc, argv, "mythbrowser", usage , version);

>Had become:

>KCmdLineArgs::init(argc, argv, "mythbrowser", "mythbrowser", usage , 
>version);

>In mythbrowser 0.18.

>I simply changed this back and all started working again.

>Hope this helps...

>Cheers,

>Doug Scoular

Thanks Doug. I think we are making some progress now :-) It looks like
we're exposing a  bug in the kde3.2.x version of KCmdLineArgs to me. I
use 3.3.0 and 3.3.1 and it works fine.

I changed the call to KCmdLineArgs::init because the old call kept
producing a compiler warning about 'init' is deprecated or something
similar.

Because I can't reproduce the problem here it is not possible for me to
debug it.
If you have the time there is a few things you could try to track the
problem down.

Its a long shot but I wonder if  the compiler is getting confused about
which init call to use. Though I can't see how that could be.

Could you try changing it to this and try again.:-
KCmdLineArgs::init(argc, argv, "mythbrowser", "mythbrowser", usage,
version, false);

That should remove any ambiguity about which call to use for the
compiler.

Another thing I noticed looking at the code is the order in which the
arguments are parsed and the creation of the KApplication object looks
back to front to me.
Move 'KApplication a(argc, argv)' to just after
'KCmdLineArgs::addCmdLineOptions(options)'
and before KCmdLineArgs * args = KCmdLineArgs::parsedArgs(); so it looks
something like this:-

KCmdLineArgs::init(argc, argv, "mythbrowser", "mythbrowser", usage,
version, false); KCmdLineArgs::addCmdLineOptions(options);
KApplication a(argc, argv);
KCmdLineArgs *args = KCmdLineArgs::parsedArgs();

That looks more like the example code in the KDE docs. In fact I don't
think we need to pass the arguments to KApplication at all and just
replace KApplication a(argc, argv) with KApplication a;

Thanks for your time.

Paul





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[mythtv-users] strange error when I do "apt-get install mythtv-suite"

[iwan]

?

When I try to install the 
MythTV suite I get this message:
 
#apt-get install 
mythtv-suite
Reading Package Lists... DoneBuilding Dependency 
Tree... DoneSome packages could not be installed. This may mean that you 
haverequested an impossible situation or if you are using the 
unstabledistribution that some required packages have not yet been 
createdor been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is 
extremely likely thatthe package is simply not installable and a bug report 
againstthat package should be filed.The following information may help 
to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet 
dependencies:  mythtv-suite: Depends: mythtv-backend (>= 0.18) but 
it is not going to be 
installed    
Depends: mythtv-frontend (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be 
installed    
Depends: mythtvsetup (>= 
0.18)    
Depends: mythmusic (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be 
installed    
Depends: mythvideo (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be 
installed    
Depends: mythweb (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be 
installed    
Depends: mythweather (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be 
installed    
Depends: mythgallery (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be 
installed    
Depends: mythgame (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be 
installed    
Depends: mythdvd (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be 
installed    
Depends: mythnews (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be 
installed    
Depends: mythbrowser (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be 
installed    
Depends: mythphone (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be 
installed    
Depends: myththemes (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be 
installed    
Depends: mythtv-theme-photo (>= 4) but it is not going to be 
installed    
Depends: mythtv-theme-purplegalaxy (>= 0.20031214) but it is not going to be 
installed    
Depends: mythtv-theme-visor (>= 1:0.13.1) but it is not going to be 
installed    
Depends: mythtv-theme-sleek (>= 0.35) but it is not going to be 
installed    
Depends: mythtv-theme-isthmus (>= 0.20040804) but it is not going to be 
installed    
Depends: mythtv-theme-abstract (>= 0.20040610) but it is not going to be 
installed    
Depends: mythtv-theme-MediaCenter (>= 0.17) but it is not going to be 
installed    
Depends: mythtv-theme-MythCenter (>= 0.17) but it is not going to be 
installedE: Broken packages

 
Am I doing something wrong here?
 
Thanks, 
 


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Re: [mythtv-users] strange error when I do "apt-get install mythtv-suite"

[Peter Judge]

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 14:13 +0200, iwan wrote:
> ?
> When I try to install the MythTV suite I get this message:
>  
> #apt-get install mythtv-suite
> 
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely
> that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   mythtv-suite: Depends: mythtv-backend (>= 0.18) but it is not going
> to be installed
> Depends: mythtv-frontend (>= 0.18) but it is not going
> to be installed
> Depends: mythtvsetup (>= 0.18)
> Depends: mythmusic (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be
> installed
> Depends: mythvideo (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be
> installed
> Depends: mythweb (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be
> installed
> Depends: mythweather (>= 0.18) but it is not going to
> be installed
> Depends: mythgallery (>= 0.18) but it is not going to
> be installed
> Depends: mythgame (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be
> installed
> Depends: mythdvd (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be
> installed
> Depends: mythnews (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be
> installed
> Depends: mythbrowser (>= 0.18) but it is not going to
> be installed
> Depends: mythphone (>= 0.18) but it is not going to be
> installed
> Depends: myththemes (>= 0.18) but it is not going to
> be installed
> Depends: mythtv-theme-photo (>= 4) but it is not going
> to be installed
> Depends: mythtv-theme-purplegalaxy (>= 0.20031214) but
> it is not going to be installed
> Depends: mythtv-theme-visor (>= 1:0.13.1) but it is
> not going to be installed
> Depends: mythtv-theme-sleek (>= 0.35) but it is not
> going to be installed
> Depends: mythtv-theme-isthmus (>= 0.20040804) but it
> is not going to be installed
> Depends: mythtv-theme-abstract (>= 0.20040610) but it
> is not going to be installed
> Depends: mythtv-theme-MediaCenter (>= 0.17) but it is
> not going to be installed
> Depends: mythtv-theme-MythCenter (>= 0.17) but it is
> not going to be installed
> E: Broken packages
> 
>  
> Am I doing something wrong here?

Did you do an

# apt-get update

first?

Regards,
Peter

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[mythtv-users] Mythstream (not mythstreamtv)

[Morrison, Kerry E.]

Hi all,
I decided to install mythstream over the weekend and it didn't work out well. I 
install all the prerequisites, qmake. make, make install. It compiles just 
fine. Oh yeah, I changed the mythtv path. I checked and the plugin is where it 
belongs. I edited the 3 .xml files and triple checked them. I've tried various 
themes. Mythstream just doesn't show up. In my searching around I found a .diff 
from April. Do I need to apply it? Does the plugin just not work with 0.18? The 
post wasn't real specific. Here's what I have. Debian unstable, mythtv-0.18, 
release from source. Plugins are mythdvd, mythmusic, mythvideo, mythweather and 
mythphone. Also mythweb and mythstreamtv. I apologize up front if the answer 
has been posted, I just can't seem to find much info on this plugin.

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RE: [mythtv-users] strange error when I do "apt-get installmythtv-suite"

[iwan]

?
Hi, 
 
When I do an apt-get update I get another error:
 
---
[EMAIL PROTECTED] apt]# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 release [961B]
Get:2 http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de fedora/3/en/i386 release [1527B]
Err ftp://ftp.uninett.no fedora/3/i386 release  
  Server closed the connection
Err ftp://ftp.uninett.no ayo/fedora/linux/3/i386 release
  Server closed the connection
Fetched 2488B in 0s (2645B/s)
Hit http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de fedora/3/en/i386/at-stable pkglist
Get:1 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/core pkglist [1668kB]
  
Get:2 http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de fedora/3/en/i386/at-stable release [132B]  
  
Err ftp://ftp.uninett.no fedora/3/i386/core pkglist 
  Server closed the connection
Err ftp://ftp.uninett.no fedora/3/i386/core release
  Server closed the connection
Err ftp://ftp.uninett.no fedora/3/i386/core-updates pkglist
  Server closed the connection
Err ftp://ftp.uninett.no fedora/3/i386/core-updates release
  Server closed the connection
Err ftp://ftp.uninett.no ayo/fedora/linux/3/i386/freshrpms pkglist
  Server closed the connection
Err ftp://ftp.uninett.no ayo/fedora/linux/3/i386/freshrpms release
  Server closed the connection
Get:3 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/core release [151B]  
   
Get:4 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/updates pkglist [1146kB] 
   
Get:5 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/updates release [157B]   
   
Fetched 2815kB in 1m44s (26.9kB/s)  
   
Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/apt/fedora/3/i386/base/release  
Server closed the connection
Failed to fetch 
ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/Freshrpms/ayo/fedora/linux/3/i386/base/release  
Server closed the connection
Failed to fetch 
ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/apt/fedora/3/i386/base/pkglist.core  Server 
closed the connection
Failed to fetch 
ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/apt/fedora/3/i386/base/release.core  Server 
closed the connection
Failed to fetch 
ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/apt/fedora/3/i386/base/pkglist.core-updates  
Server closed the connection
Failed to fetch 
ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/apt/fedora/3/i386/base/release.core-updates  
Server closed the connection
Failed to fetch 
ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/Freshrpms/ayo/fedora/linux/3/i386/base/pkglist.freshrpms
  Server closed the connection
Failed to fetch 
ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/Freshrpms/ayo/fedora/linux/3/i386/base/release.freshrpms
  Server closed the connection
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
W: Release files for some repositories could not be retrieved or authenticated. 
Such repositories are being ignored.
W: Release file did not contain checksum information for 
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/3/i386/base/pkglist.core
W: Release file did not contain checksum information for 
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/3/i386/base/release.core
W: Release file did not contain checksum information for 
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/3/i386/base/pkglist.updates
W: Release file did not contain checksum information for 
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/3/i386/base/release.updates
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones 
used instead.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] apt]# 
---
 
 
 
Iwan Hoogendoorn
CCIE # 13084
E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
FAX# 084 736 0329



From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Peter Judge
Sent: Tue 5/3/2005 14:19
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] strange error when I do "apt-get 
installmythtv-suite"



On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 14:13 +0200, iwan wrote:
> ?
> When I try to install the MythTV suite I get this message:
> 
> #apt-get install mythtv-suite
> 
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely
> that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following info

[mythtv-users] Re: Ditched the Epia and bought a Aopen XCu be with Nforce 2 chipset - best move ever!

[Micah.Wedemeyer]

Before everyone else jumps in saying "You shouldn't have given up..."
let me just say, I did the same thing and got the same results.

I went from an Epia MII-10k to a mATX nForce-3 board w/ a Sempron 2600,
and I am much happier as well.  Like you said, all the extra horsepower
means that XvMC is easy to ignore.  I still use my PVR-250 to record
into MPEG-2, but I then transcode down to MPEG-4.  I set the original
recording bitrate super-high to get the maximum quality on original
recording, then transcode down to much lower settings.  I end up with a
slightly better picture than just watching the cable directly through
the TV, and a _MUCH_ better picture than I ever saw on the Epia, with or
without XvMC.  I still get the odd prebuffering pause, but not nearly as
bad as before.  Plus, if I ever decide to take the HDTV dive, there's a
possibility, assuming I can get Nvidia's XvMC working.

Too bad that right after I made the switch, my HDD died on me.  I'm
eagerly awaiting the replacement so I can get back to exploring all the
neat stuff that a stable, high-horsepower platform can offer!

Micah

P.S. Even though I failed with my Epia, I still would like to thank all
the people at the Unichrome project for all their help and hard work.
Without their support, I probably would have smashed my Epia to pieces,
instead of giving up peacefully and selling it off.
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RE: [mythtv-users] [ot] mythphone connect to local asterisk box

[Dean Collins]

I'm a bit confused, if you have asterisk already-why would you bother.

Wouldn't it make more sense for MythTv to act as an extension of your
existing Asterisk PBX?

Cheers,
Dean


> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven
> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 5:39 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] [ot] mythphone connect to local asterisk
box
> 
> Paul Volkaerts wrote:
> 
> >>Forgot to mention these messages in the logs on startup :
> >>Failed to bind for SIP connection 10.0.0.2
> >>SIP listening on IP Address :5060 NAT address
> >>SIP: Cannot transmit SIP message to 10.0.0.2
> >>
> >>
> >>10.0.0.2 is my mythbox IP adress. I guess this is something in the
code
> >>gettings mixed up with nat and local adresses? Or else it's me :-)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I guess MythPhone is trying to grab port 5060 and listen for
messages,
> but
> >you have Asterisk running on the same box and that has already
grabbed
> 5060.
> >Hence the "Failed to bind..." message.
> >
> >Within the MythPhone configuration, change the port number from 5060
to
> >something else like 5070.  Should fix your issues.
> >
> >
> >
> Yep, that did the trick.
> Changed my sip extention to use port 5061 in the asterisk config and
> changed mythphone to use that same port and it works!! I can now call
my
> cell phone from my tv, and the other way around. Now how cool is
> that...  8-)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Steven
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Re: [mythtv-users] UK Problem recording Fifth Gear

[Neale Swinnerton]

Ciaran wrote:

> 
> Some signal booster's dont [allegedly] work well with the digital
> signals, perhaps you have one of these?

I bought a new signal booster, that claims to be 'Digital Ready'. I'm
getting a marginally better signal level (0x3a3a), and Fifth Gear did
record OK this week, hopefully that was what the problem was, thanks for
the pointer.

Neale.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Someone PLEASE help. No OpenGL Transistions in Mythgallery

[Alan Hagge]

Chad Delatte wrote:
Alright, I'm at my wits end trying to solve this one. 
I cannot get transitions with Mythgallery using opengl
and in mythmusic I cannot make the gears work!!!

Are you using the rpms from ATrpms?  As far as I can tell, they're not 
compiled with OpenGL support.  If you want it, you'll need to recompile 
from the srpms and pass in additional options with the --with flag (I 
haven't done this myself with the rpms, so I'm not sure what the options 
are).  You may need to "rpm -ivh" the ...src.rpm file and check the spec 
file in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS to figure out the options & syntax.  I 
don't think Axel documented the options in the package info (yet.  
Hopefully soon...).

Hope this helps...
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[mythtv-users] KnoppMyth R5A18 - XBox?

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   I wionder if this release is supposed to support XBox also? It
would be very cool to jsut boot a LiveCD in the mod'ed XBox and get
Myth working.

Thanks,
Mark
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Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth R5A18 - XBox?

[Andrew Close]

On 5/3/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>I wionder if this release is supposed to support XBox also? It
> would be very cool to jsut boot a LiveCD in the mod'ed XBox and get
> Myth working.

R5A18 hasn't been released yet. :)  the current KnoppMyth version is
R5A15.1.  i don't know if there are any plans for KnoppMyth to support
the XBox, but that's always a possibility.  since R5A18 is at least
three releases away you never know... ;)
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Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth R5A18 - XBox?

[Mark Knecht]

HummI just copied the release number from another thread here. 

thanks,
Mark

On 5/3/05, Andrew Close <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/3/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >I wionder if this release is supposed to support XBox also? It
> > would be very cool to jsut boot a LiveCD in the mod'ed XBox and get
> > Myth working.
> 
> R5A18 hasn't been released yet. :)  the current KnoppMyth version is
> R5A15.1.  i don't know if there are any plans for KnoppMyth to support
> the XBox, but that's always a possibility.  since R5A18 is at least
> three releases away you never know... ;)
>
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Re: [mythtv-users] UK Problem recording Fifth Gear

[Ciaran]

> I bought a new signal booster, that claims to be 'Digital Ready'. I'm
> getting a marginally better signal level (0x3a3a), and Fifth Gear did
> record OK this week, hopefully that was what the problem was, thanks for
> the pointer.
No probs :)

-- 
- Ciaran
(I now have far too many G-Mail invites available, anyone who wants
one, gets one)
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Re: [mythtv-users] component video capture cards

[match]

On 2 May 2005 at 23:14, Reza Naima wrote:

> Is this still true?  There are _no_ video capture devices for the above
> formats?  

As far as I'm aware, this is still true. You can get them in the $2500 range, 
but no 
"consumer" cards.

I have 3 students working on one as a senior project. I dunno if they'll be 
successful. They'll research it all summer then begin the design & build it in 
the fall. 
It's not trivial. If anyone has any suggestions for the design, pass them along.

Marvin Match
U of U
Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.
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Re: [mythtv-users] No sound in mythtv, but other applications use sound fine

[Chris Rouch]

On 5/1/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm using WinTV Go card bt878 and via ac '97 codec. These are my modules
> loaded below:
[snip]
> 
> When I use tvtime, xawtv or mplayer, I get sound just fine. It is only
> when I use mythtv that I don't have sound. I don't believe that it has to
> do with sound output though. I believe my problem is rather to do with
> sound capture.
> 
> My sound card is using /dev/dsp. It probably shouldn't, but it is. I think
> this is the reason for my problem. When I run mythtv-setup, my capture is
> configured to use /dev/dsp which is incorrect since I'm using Television
> input.
> 
> Does anyone know what to do about this? I want to use ALSA exclusively for
> sound, but I wonder if that is possible if my tuner card requires OSS for
> capture support.

Did you already try the sound troubleshooting page of the mythtv
documentation? Specifically, run xawtv with the sound muted and aplay
/dev/dsp. You should hear the sound with a slight delay. If you do,
then I'm afraid your problem is beyond my limited knowledge. If not,
then make sure you have line out from your tv card connected to line
in on your sound card. Then use the mixer to mute line in and set it
as the recording source.

When I had a similar problem and had tried all of the above, someone
suggested to me to run alsaconf to reset modprobe.conf. This worked
for me.

Regards,

Chris
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Re: [mythtv-users] frontend resolution

[Ian Armstrong]

On Tuesday 03 May 2005 05:33, Aaron Hall wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've upgraded via apt-get from .16 to .17 without any issues, so I did
> .17 to .18 without hesitation yesterday.
> All of the 'under the hood' functionality seems fine, but the frontend
> is consistantly getting the wrong screen resolution.
> The Geforce4 tv-out resolution is 800x600 (I verified via xorg.log,
> unless there is another way), however, the (fedora core2)
> /home/mythtv/.mythtv/themecache is always XXX.1280.960
> I have changed themes several times with no luck, and deleted the
> themecache dir with no luck.
> I've re-run mythtvsetup as well.
> I went looking for a screen resolution size in mysql, but didn't see
> anything obivous.
>
> I'm sure there is an easy fix, and I'm too dense to see it.
> Any other things to look for or try to get my theme back to 800.600?

Do you have more than one display attached ?

If so, then this is what caught me. The frontend would run at the resolution 
of my primary display, and not the display it was actually running on. 
Somewhere there's a setting for selecting which xinerama screen to use, 
change this to 0 for the primary, 1 for the secondary, etc.

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Re: [mythtv-users] component video capture cards

[Cory Papenfuss]

On Tue, 3 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2 May 2005 at 23:14, Reza Naima wrote:
Is this still true?  There are _no_ video capture devices for the above
formats?
As far as I'm aware, this is still true. You can get them in the $2500 
range, but no
"consumer" cards.
I have 3 students working on one as a senior project. I dunno if they'll be
successful. They'll research it all summer then begin the design & build it in 
the fall.
It's not trivial. If anyone has any suggestions for the design, pass them along.
Marvin Match
U of U
Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.
	Aside from the bandwidth implications, it shouldn't be that 
difficult, I wouldn't think.  The fastest bandwidth of standard HDTV is 
1080i, which is 1920x1080x30 = 62.2Mpixels/s.  At 8bits/Y, 4bits/Pb, 
4bits/Pr, that's 2 bytes/pixel, or 124MBps... roughly 1 gigabit/s for the 
RAW video.  Pretty ugly to deal with that way.

	Are they planning to do some rudimentary (or non-rudimentary like 
MPEG[24]) compression on it in an FPGA or something?  I would think that 
NUV or RTJPEG could cut it down by 10:1 pretty easily if it could be coded 
up tight enough to deal with.

	Other issues that will be a problem are jitter on the sync 
signals.  You'll probably need to get ahold of the standards for the 
signal... I believe EIA 770.2 for SDTV and EDTV, and EIA 770.3 for 
tri-level sync of HDTV.

-Cory
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Re: [mythtv-users] component video capture cards

[Jeff Simpson]

> There are no known consumer-level capture devices which will allow you
> to capture the HDTV output (either DVI or HDMI) from a set-top box
> commonly found with digital cable systems or satellite systems.
> 
> There are no known consumer-level capture devices which will allow you
> to capture component output from a set-top box.

Has anybody looked into this card? It's a little more expensive
(~$300) but it looks like it's still meant to be consumer grade:

http://www.pluggedin.tv/item--SweetSpot-Video-Processor--PITVSS001
http://www.pluggedin.tv/sweetspot

 - Jeff
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Re: [mythtv-users] component video capture cards

[David George]

On 5/3/2005 12:06 PM, Jeff Simpson wrote:
   There are no known consumer-level capture devices which will allow you
   to capture the HDTV output (either DVI or HDMI) from a set-top box
   commonly found with digital cable systems or satellite systems.
   There are no known consumer-level capture devices which will allow you
   to capture component output from a set-top box.
   

Has anybody looked into this card? It's a little more expensive
(~$300) but it looks like it's still meant to be consumer grade:
http://www.pluggedin.tv/item--SweetSpot-Video-Processor--PITVSS001
http://www.pluggedin.tv/sweetspot
 

It doesn't do HDTV, only 480i and 576i
--
David
HDTV frontend I'm working on (pictures, mythmon source)
 http://mythhd.info
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[mythtv-users] Someone PLEASE help. No OpenGL Transistions in Mythgallery

[Chad Delatte]

No, I have actaully compiled and installed Myth and
it's dependencies from the source with the opengl
included.  However the Nvidia driver and other
software came from apt-get.  I have also research this
problem thru this mailing list and haven't made any progress

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[mythtv-users] PVR-350 Decoder Waiting For Pause -- Solved

[Andrew Kreps]

I just wanted to send out an update on the PVR-350 Decoder Waited too
long for pause error I was getting when jumping around in a stream
quickly (i.e. commercial skipping or replay).  I updated to ivtv
3.3.3z last night which advertised a fix for that particular error.  I
turned the auto commercial skipping back on, and used it with no
lockups for a couple of hours.  It's the first time I've used MythTV
the way it was intended, and I no longer have to use edit mode to skip
the commercials!  I just wanted to share, because I know a few people
out there have had this problem.

FYI, as of the time of this writing, ivtv 3.3.4 has been released that
contains a fix for the decoder fix that fixed me.  So, while I haven't
tried it, I'd recommend the latest version.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Someone PLEASE help. No OpenGL Transistions in Mythgallery

[Jonathan Watmough]

On 5/3/05, Alan Hagge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Chad Delatte wrote:>Alright, I'm at my wits end trying to solve this one.>I cannot get transitions with Mythgallery using opengl>and in mythmusic I cannot make the gears work!!!>Are you using the rpms from ATrpms?  As far as I can tell, they're not
compiled with OpenGL support.  If you want it, you'll need to recompilefrom the srpms and pass in additional options with the --with flag (Ihaven't done this myself with the rpms, so I'm not sure what the options
are).  You may need to "rpm -ivh" the ...src.rpm file and check the specfile in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS to figure out the options & syntax.  Idon't think Axel documented the options in the package info (yet.
Hopefully soon...).
Have you tried installing the NVidia drivers directly from the NVidia
package. I generally have pretty good luck with these. Not sure if it's
Gentoo specific but 'opengl-update nvidia' sets up everything for the
glxXxxx programs.

Forget MythTV for a second, and google for getting OpenGL working. The
Nvidia readme file contains a *lot* of good information on how to get
this going.

I think my 5200 manages about 1200 fps in GlxGears so that's about what you are looking for I would think.

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[mythtv-users] OT: Avidemux2 2.36

[Mario Limonciello]

When searching through the archives this afternoon, I saw a mention in a
post that Avidemux2 2.38 shouldn't be used when snipping commercials,
and instead to use 2.36.  Can anyone back this with a reason or verify
this is true?  I couldn't find it listed anywhere as to why.  Also is it
possible that this problem that existed in 2.38 has been fixed now as of
the latest 2.38 release (.38_rc3 for gentoo).
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Re: [mythtv-users] soundcard test

[Nick]

On 5/3/05, iwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ? 
>  
> Hi, 
>   
> I am busy setting up MythTV and using this guide: 
> http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php 
>   
> I am at the point of configuring the drivers for the soundcard. 
>   
> I have a soundcard and during my instalation of FC3 the installation allowed
> me to test the sound ...and that worked fine. 
> Does this mean my souncard is ready? 
> Or do I still need additional drivers? 
>   
> I am also looking for the command that can show me what soundcard I have and
> what the driver is that is used. 
> Can someone post that? 

Iwan,

If you have ALSA installed and you can hear sound, you can use the
following commands to get more detailed info on your sound setup:

To see which rpms you have installed for ALSA:

/bin/rpm -qa |grep alsa |sort

To see which drivers/modules are currently in use:

/sbin/lsmod |grep snd

To see which version of ALSA is installed:

cat /proc/asound/version

The /proc/asound tree has much useful info about your sound devices.

To see which hardware ALSA devices are configured:

aplay -l

To see which devices and aliases you can use for sound:

aplay -L


You may need to configure ALSA OSS emulation if you are using a
capture device which needs it, otherwise, ensure your mixer settings
are suitable (can use alsamixer from the console) and give it a whirl.

HTH,
Nick
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[mythtv-users] Weird frontend window shifting problem after upgrading to .18

[Matt Mencel]

This started happening right after I upgraded to .18 this weekend.  I did an
'apt-get update' so it updated a lot more than just MythTV...but it's very
strange...

I'm running X across my PVR-350 to the TV screen.  When first bootup the
MythTV frontend menu window is centered and normal on the TV.  Go to watch
TV or one of the recorded shows, then exit back to the menu.  The frontend
menu has shifted down and to the right slightly.  Do this 4 or 5 times and
the frontend window is nearly half off the screen so we have to grab the
window with the mouse and drag it back to the upper left corner of the
screen.

Rinse and repeat...

Has anyone else run into this problem?  Any ideas what might be causing it
or how to stop this from occurring?

Thanks,
Matt


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[mythtv-users] Burning NUV files to DVD

[astroguy67]

Hi,

I have just installed MythTV 0.18 on a FC3 box with a Hauppauge PVR350 card.  I 
have been capturing video using the default encoding of MPEG2-PS.  There are a 
couple of DVD encoding options.  My question is this, does switching to one of 
the DVD codecs allow me to copy files to DVD that are directly playable?  If 
instad of a direct copy, I want to author a DVD with captured video, what 
format should it be captured with before I try to convert it using one of the 
NUV utilities?

Thanks,

-jim mckay
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Re: [mythtv-users] Weird frontend window shifting problem after upgrading to .18

[SDK]

On 5/3/05, Matt Mencel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This started happening right after I upgraded to .18 this weekend.  I did an
> 'apt-get update' so it updated a lot more than just MythTV...but it's very
> strange...
> 
> I'm running X across my PVR-350 to the TV screen.  When first bootup the
> MythTV frontend menu window is centered and normal on the TV.  Go to watch
> TV or one of the recorded shows, then exit back to the menu.  The frontend
> menu has shifted down and to the right slightly.  Do this 4 or 5 times and
> the frontend window is nearly half off the screen so we have to grab the
> window with the mouse and drag it back to the upper left corner of the
> screen.
> 
> Rinse and repeat...
> 
> Has anyone else run into this problem?  Any ideas what might be causing it
> or how to stop this from occurring?
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
> 
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Matt,

I'm having the exact same problem with the frontend. I was going to
post today, but came across yours first.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Burning NUV files to DVD

[Harvard Pan]

Jim,

Someone else can correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that you
will always need to use the NUV utilities to get the videos into a
format that is playable in a dvd player. I don't believe that the PVR
350 itself correctly insert VOBU's where it should, and the utilities
take care of that. The combination of nuvexport and mpeg2cut (and its
associated utilities) work quite well. The whole process of converting
a one-hour video from Myth to burning a DVD takes about 5 minutes for
me. I believe that I use MPEG2-PS as the default encoding as well.

Hope that helps!
Harvard




On 5/3/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have just installed MythTV 0.18 on a FC3 box with a Hauppauge PVR350 card.  
> I have been capturing video using the default encoding of MPEG2-PS.  There 
> are a couple of DVD encoding options.  My question is this, does switching to 
> one of the DVD codecs allow me to copy files to DVD that are directly 
> playable?  If instad of a direct copy, I want to author a DVD with captured 
> video, what format should it be captured with before I try to convert it 
> using one of the NUV utilities?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -jim mckay
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Avidemux2 2.36

[Harvard Pan]

I found some problems with snipping commercials using avidemux2's
automated functions when used in conjunction with mpeg2cut. The script
that is being used for some reason just doesn't work. I did find a
workaround in terms of script commands that would work instead.

I wrote a little perl script to generate the new avidemux2 cut script
and use it in mpeg2cut. Using this, I can cut commercials from
recordings just fine. I've attached the script. If the latest version
of avidemux hasn't fixed it yet, hope this helps save you some time!

--Harvard

On 5/3/05, Mario Limonciello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When searching through the archives this afternoon, I saw a mention in a
> post that Avidemux2 2.38 shouldn't be used when snipping commercials,
> and instead to use 2.36.  Can anyone back this with a reason or verify
> this is true?  I couldn't find it listed anywhere as to why.  Also is it
> possible that this problem that existed in 2.38 has been fixed now as of
> the latest 2.38 release (.38_rc3 for gentoo).
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[mythtv-users] Just getting started

[Pane, Chris]

I am in the process of putting together a mythTV box. 

 

I want to use a PVR350 for MPEG Decode when I playback
Movies (MPEG 3). I also want to preserver the AC3 encoded soundtrack (DTS/Dolby
Digital), and pass it through to my Receiver (For Decode). 

 

From what I have figured out so far, I need to split the
MPEG 2 Stream first, before it gets to the MPEG Decode on the PVR 350, then
route that stream to the onboard digital audio out on my motherboard. 

 

My question is, does myth support this? If so, any tips as
to where to start to get this to work. I am not interested in the audio out on
the PVR 350 (Since it is only 2 channels). 

 

 

So in the end, I want to be able to do Movie Playback, with
AC3 Soundtrack via Myth. 

 

 

 

Thanks

 

-Chris






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Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Help setting up Sky Navigator remote to replace keyboard/mouse under X

[Neil Milne]

On 5/3/05, Phil Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is this only with X, or will it also work as a console keyboard?
> 

Just X. You use the lirc daemon to send events directly to X via irxevent.
I don't think there is a generic input layer version of irxevent.
Would be nice though :-)

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Re: [mythtv-users] Just getting started

[Nick]

On 5/3/05, Pane, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  
>  
> 
> I am in the process of putting together a mythTV box. 
> 
>   
> 
> I want to use a PVR350 for MPEG Decode when I playback Movies (MPEG 3). I
> also want to preserver the AC3 encoded soundtrack (DTS/Dolby Digital), and
> pass it through to my Receiver (For Decode). 
> 
>   
> 
> From what I have figured out so far, I need to split the MPEG 2 Stream
> first, before it gets to the MPEG Decode on the PVR 350, then route that
> stream to the onboard digital audio out on my motherboard. 
> 
>   
> 
> My question is, does myth support this? If so, any tips as to where to start
> to get this to work. I am not interested in the audio out on the PVR 350
> (Since it is only 2 channels). 

Chris,

I think the only way to have this work (not sure though completely,
kind of a hunch) would be to use mplayer configured with ivtv output
support. This way maybe you can decode the video through the 350, and
still be able to send the audio to the SPDIF for AC3 decoding
externally.

As far as I can tell, mythtv itself, or the ivtv driver, cannot split
the streams and have one go to the 350 and the other to the soundcard.
Enabling 350 output in mythtv itself is purely for livetv and playback
of material and not for the other components like mythvideo. I think
the initial Hauppauge raison d'etre of the 350 is to decode the mpeg2
video/2-ch audio it encodes with its on-board encoder (but it also
works well with UK DVB-T which does not have 2ch audio). Having it
work in these other ways is not something supported as yet AFAIK.

Nick
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Re: [mythtv-users] component video capture cards

[Bill Smith]

David George wrote:
On 5/3/2005 12:06 PM, Jeff Simpson wrote:
   There are no known consumer-level capture devices which will 
allow you
   to capture the HDTV output (either DVI or HDMI) from a 
set-top box
   commonly found with digital cable systems or satellite systems.

   There are no known consumer-level capture devices which will 
allow you
   to capture component output from a set-top box.
  

Has anybody looked into this card? It's a little more expensive
(~$300) but it looks like it's still meant to be consumer grade:
http://www.pluggedin.tv/item--SweetSpot-Video-Processor--PITVSS001
http://www.pluggedin.tv/sweetspot
 

It doesn't do HDTV, only 480i and 576i
Yeah, and it's using the bt878 chipset! Damn, my $15 card has that :-)...
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[mythtv-users] Feature - backend available through xml http://:6554/xml?

[Larry W]

Hi,

does anyone know what is feature is? It's listed under
"New Features and Fixes for 0.18". Is it a web api to
control the backend (that would be cool, adding
recordings when on the road)? What is needed to get it
to run?
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[mythtv-users] Re: .18 CPU optimizations

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 11:07:29PM -0700, myth joe wrote:
> > Publish your benchmarks in numbers. I don't think you will see much
> > more optimization than the default one used in the packages.
> 
> I've seen references that the VIA processor benefit from compiling
> with the "small cache" optimization set.

Objection! Hearsay!

> Nonetheless, the point stands that benchmarks are needed.

Yes, please, let's not be hunted by ghosts.
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[mythtv-users] Re: Someone PLEASE help. No OpenGL Transistions in Mythgallery

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 07:07:02AM -0700, Alan Hagge wrote:
> Chad Delatte wrote:
> 
> >Alright, I'm at my wits end trying to solve this one. 
> >I cannot get transitions with Mythgallery using opengl
> >and in mythmusic I cannot make the gears work!!!
> >
> Are you using the rpms from ATrpms?  As far as I can tell, they're not 
> compiled with OpenGL support.

Why do you say that? Here is the output for FC3:

+ ./configure --enable-all --disable-festival

Configuration settings: 
 
MythBrowser   plugin will be built
MythDVD   plugin will be built
MythGallery   plugin will be built
MythGame  plugin will be built
MythMusic plugin will be built
MythNews  plugin will be built
MythPhone plugin will be built
MythVideo plugin will be built
MythWeather   plugin will be built
VCD   support will be included in MythDVD
Transcode support will be included in MythDVD
OpenGLsupport will be included in MythGallery
EXIF  support will be included in MythGallery
OpenGLsupport will be included in MythMusic
FFTW  support will be included in MythMusic
SDL   support will be included in MythMusic
AAC   support will be included in MythMusic
FESTIVAL  support will not be included in MythPhone

> If you want it, you'll need to recompile from the srpms and pass in
> additional options with the --with flag (I haven't done this myself
> with the rpms, so I'm not sure what the options are).  You may need
> to "rpm -ivh" the ...src.rpm file and check the spec file in
> /usr/src/redhat/SPECS to figure out the options & syntax.  I don't
> think Axel documented the options in the package info (yet.
> Hopefully soon...).

What is there to document? The plugins have no build options and
mythtv's build options are quite self-explaining (or do
--without-alsa, --with-directfb etc. need more expanations???)
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Re: [mythtv-users] Burning NUV files to DVD

[Cory Papenfuss]

	Here we go again A quick search of the archives will reveal 
dozens of posts and limitations on the subject.

On Tue, 3 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I have just installed MythTV 0.18 on a FC3 box with a Hauppauge PVR350 
card.  I have been capturing video using the default encoding of 
MPEG2-PS.  There are a couple of DVD encoding options.  My question is 
this, does switching to one of the DVD codecs allow me to copy files to 
DVD that are directly playable?  If instad of a direct copy, I want to 
author a DVD with captured video, what format should it be captured with 
before I try to convert it using one of the NUV utilities?

Thanks,
-jim mckay

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* Cory Papenfuss*
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[mythtv-users] HDTV cards...looking to the future

[joe . white]

In about a year high def TV will bubble
up to the top of my priority queue.  After another year of studying
the technology and figuring out the best buy for the money I will buy one.
  Considering that there are only about 55 shopping days till Broadcast
Flag Day, would it be beneficial for me to purchase a pcHDTV or an Air2PC
now?  Or will the technology in those cards be pointless by then?
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Re: [mythtv-users] WAS: Help running FX5200 + DVI to 1280x720 projector NOW: 380XGL +DVI to 1280x768

[mrwester]

I'm going to hijack this thread, it seems to have died

> Scott Alfter  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to Discussion:
> It is; you just need to use one of the modeline calculators that are 
> available.
>   I use an FX5200 to drive an LCD at 1280x768.  I had another LCD before that
> for a few days that allegedly was 1280x720, but I took it back because there
> was no  apparent way to coax it into actually running at its native 
> resolution.
>   I still have the modeline for it; you might try it as a starting point:


I'm wondering if your LCD is a Syntax Olevia?  I've got one that is
1280x768, but the manual doesn't give any hints to what would be
appropriate modeline.  I've not found one elsewhere.  Can you share
with me your xorg.conf?  or just the modeline?  I've got a XP1700+
machine, pvr-500 with nvidia quadro 380xgl.  Running myth 0.18 to lcd
via DVI at 800x600 or 1024x768, the playback isn't quite what my
pvr-350 can do.  CNN ticker movement isn't smooth and a text a little
jagged...

or maybe I need a newer card that can help with mpeg2 decoding?  not
100% sure if the quadro 380xgl does that, I used to use it for quad
buffered stereo with shutter glasses...  Seems that it should be more
than enough to play the 720x480 from my pvr-xxx's...  Other places to
look to optimize mythtv setup with nvidia card for SDTV?  I googled
all morning, found a few threads, one 70 posts long that got
sidetracked early and not much really definitive, so I'm open to
pointers to a guide.

Would like to try to get DVI to work as should be superior to
pvr-350... and doesn't give me overscan loss of edge of desktop when
not viewing mythtv.  is the consensus that the 380xgl should work, or
should I just try a FX5200, which seems overkill for SDTV?  Thanks,

Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] Burning NUV files to DVD

[maestro]

Am Dienstag, den 03.05.2005, 11:15 -0700 schrieb Harvard Pan:
> Jim,
> 
> Someone else can correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that you
> will always need to use the NUV utilities to get the videos into a
> format that is playable in a dvd player. I don't believe that the PVR
> 350 itself correctly insert VOBU's where it should, and the utilities
> take care of that. The combination of nuvexport and mpeg2cut (and its
> associated utilities) work quite well. The whole process of converting
> a one-hour video from Myth to burning a DVD takes about 5 minutes for
> me. I believe that I use MPEG2-PS as the default encoding as well.
> 
> Hope that helps!
> Harvard

i dont want to highjack this thread but it seems to me as if this
question is somehow related.

have a pvr250 and record pal with the dvd-special2 format with bitrates
of 4000-5000. when i watch the recordings i do insinctively mark the
pieces i don't want.
after that i run nuvexport with mpeg->mpeg (cut only) function and here
is my question:
for some recorings this works flawless (from which i can create dvd's
quite easy with dvdauthor) and for others i get

ERROR: opening A/V streams (1/0)

this error. no mpg file is written at all (complete output of nuvexport
follows at the end)
can anybody tell me what that could be?

so long
maestro

=== nuvexport output ===
Choose a function, or episode(s) to remove:  c
Where would you like to export the files to? [.]

Now encoding:  MA 2412 - Die Staatsdiener:  Untitled
Encode started:  Tue May  3 20:43:43 2005
Using mode Xvfb
Filename "/var/lib/mythtv/1_20050424201500_20050424220500.nuv"
OutFile "./MA 2412 -Die Staatsdiener.mpg"
Last GOP index 13740
Cutlist "-0 782-143730 164881-"
Finding the AV Offset to use with lvemux:0
Finding framerate:25.000
Last Frame 164880
Indexing the file with avidemux2
Cutting out commercials with avidemux2
Remultiplexing video
GOP timestamps will be rebuild
ERROR: opening A/V streams (1/0)
Cleaning up

Encode finished:  Tue May  3 21:00:40 2005
Encode lasted: 16m 57s



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Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV cards...looking to the future

[Robert Johnston]

On 5/3/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  
> In about a year high def TV will bubble up to the top of my priority queue. 
> After another year of studying the technology and figuring out the best buy
> for the money I will buy one.   Considering that there are only about 55
> shopping days till Broadcast Flag Day, would it be beneficial for me to
> purchase a pcHDTV or an Air2PC now?  Or will the technology in those cards
> be pointless by then?   

And, out of interests, how will this "Broadcast flag" affect us
Canadians (For whom the flag is not an issue). Should I still be
stockpiling HDTV cards now?
-- 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Feature - backend available through xml http://:6554/xml?

[Brian Meehan]

Larry,

The easiest way to add or check up on recordings while your on the
road is with Chris Petersen's MythWeb. It talks to the backend for
you.

On 5/3/05, Larry W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> does anyone know what is feature is? It's listed under
> "New Features and Fixes for 0.18". Is it a web api to
> control the backend (that would be cool, adding
> recordings when on the road)? What is needed to get it
> to run?
> Thanks.
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Feature - backend available through xml http://:6554/xml?

[Howard Cokl]

--- Larry W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> does anyone know what is feature is? It's listed
> under
> "New Features and Fixes for 0.18". Is it a web api
> to
> control the backend (that would be cool, adding
> recordings when on the road)? What is needed to get
> it
> to run?
> Thanks.

>From the Commits list:
Patch to make the backend status available in xml
through http://:6544/xml 
It's really easy to look up this type of question in
the archives.
If you want to add recordings while on the road maybe
you should check out running mythweb + ssl.

Howard
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Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV cards...looking to the future

[Wendy Seltzer]

At 2:06 PM -0600 5/3/05, Robert Johnston wrote:
On 5/3/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 In about a year high def TV will bubble up to the top of my priority queue.
 After another year of studying the technology and figuring out the best buy
 for the money I will buy one.   Considering that there are only about 55
 shopping days till Broadcast Flag Day, would it be beneficial for me to
 purchase a pcHDTV or an Air2PC now?  Or will the technology in those cards
 be pointless by then?
My recommendation is to buy at least one card now.  The ATSC spec is 
fixed, and if the flag rule sticks, the current cards will be the 
only ones you can get (in the U.S.) that can give you the high-def 
digital signal for all channels.  If there are any PCI cards at all 
post-flag, they'll have to be "compliant" and "robust against user 
modification" -- which means not giving your general-purpose PC (a 
non-compliant device) the full digital signal for flagged broadcasts.

The current cards ignore the flag and will continue to do so.
And, out of interests, how will this "Broadcast flag" affect us
Canadians (For whom the flag is not an issue). Should I still be
stockpiling HDTV cards now?
I'm not sure whether anyone will be making cards for the Canada 
market.  There's also a push from the U.S. to give you folks a 
broadcast flag too.

--Wendy
--
--
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
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Re: [mythtv-users] Feature - backend available through xml http://:6554/xml?

[Jeff Simpson]

> > Hi,
> >
> > does anyone know what is feature is? It's listed
> > under
> > "New Features and Fixes for 0.18". Is it a web api
> > to
> > control the backend (that would be cool, adding
> > recordings when on the road)? What is needed to get
> > it
> > to run?
> > Thanks.
> 
> >From the Commits list:
> Patch to make the backend status available in xml
> through http://:6544/xml
> It's really easy to look up this type of question in
> the archives.
> If you want to add recordings while on the road maybe
> you should check out running mythweb + ssl.
> 

Before we play attack the newbie for not searching, you might notice
that searching for "backend status xml" doesn't give ANY useful
information, apart from this thread.

But yeah, indirectly, the question was answered - mythweb is exactly
what you're really looking for for a webapp.

 - Jeff
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Re: [mythtv-users] component video capture cards

[match]

On 3 May 2005 at 11:49, Cory Papenfuss wrote:

-much snippage-
> 
>   Are they planning to do some rudimentary (or non-rudimentary like 
> MPEG[24]) compression on it in an FPGA or something?  I would think that 
> NUV or RTJPEG could cut it down by 10:1 pretty easily if it could be coded 
> up tight enough to deal with.

It's unclear at this point how much they will do. I'm trying to caution them 
not to get in 
over their heads, after all, they're just college students (altho' clever 
ones). So, I would 
guess that the plan will be to just get to the point where they can capture raw 
data, then 
if time permits, add some hardware compresion.
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Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV cards...looking to the future

[Matt Grommes]

So it's going to be 2 years before you buy an HDTV? If you're a 
pessimist, buy a card now and put it on a shelf. The pcHDTV card is 
$170. For me, that's too much to spend on something that's just going to 
be gathering dust for 2 years. If you're an optimist, figure that people 
won't let something as odious as the BFlag stand for 2 years and wait 
until it's struck down and better technology comes along. You never 
know, the PVR software in 2 years could run best on computers without 
(or with a limited number of) circa-2005 PCI slots.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In about a year high def TV will bubble up to the top of my priority 
queue.  After another year of studying the technology and figuring out 
the best buy for the money I will buy one.   Considering that there are 
only about 55 shopping days till Broadcast Flag Day, would it be 
beneficial for me to purchase a pcHDTV or an Air2PC now?  Or will the 
technology in those cards be pointless by then?  


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[mythtv-users] Re: I think my database is hosed

[Devan Lippman]

Fixed this with "REPAIR TABLE " on most of my tables. 
Looks like when the disk filled the tables wer closed improperly. 
Apears to be running smooth again.
-- 
Thanks,
Devan Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



On 5/2/05, Devan Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was out of town for the weekend and when I came back the mysql
> database had filled my hd with bin logs effectively bringing the whole
> system to a stop.  After cleaning up the bin logs I'm getting really
> slow mysql access on the frontend and even errors like the one below
> when I try to save an edit point to the db.
> I'm thinking of seieng if I can clear all this by rebuilding the
> database from scratch... is there an easy way to do this with all of
> my program recordings?
> 
> here's the error from the frontend:
> DB Error (Edit status update):
> Query was:
> UPDATE recorded SET editing = 1 WHERE chanid = '1026' AND starttime =
> '2005043000' ;
> Driver error was [2/1030]:
> QMYSQL3: Unable to execute query
> Database error was:
> Got error 127 from storage engine
> 
> DB Error (cutlist update):
> Query was:
> UPDATE recorded SET cutlist = '0 - 655
> ' WHERE chanid = '1026' AND starttime = '2005043000' ;
> Driver error was [2/1030]:
> QMYSQL3: Unable to execute query
> Database error was:
> Got error 124 from storage engine
> 
> 
> meanwhile the backend has thousands of lines like this:
> 2005-05-02 20:18:11.159 5   32768
> 
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> Thanks,
> Devan Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
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Re: [mythtv-users] Feature - backend available through xml http://:6554/xml?

[Howard Cokl]

--- Jeff Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > does anyone know what is feature is? It's listed
> > > under
> > > "New Features and Fixes for 0.18". Is it a web
> api
> > > to
> > > control the backend (that would be cool, adding
> > > recordings when on the road)? What is needed to
> get
> > > it
> > > to run?
> > > Thanks.
> > 
> > >From the Commits list:
> > Patch to make the backend status available in xml
> > through http://:6544/xml
> > It's really easy to look up this type of question
> in
> > the archives.
> > If you want to add recordings while on the road
> maybe
> > you should check out running mythweb + ssl.
> > 
> 
> Before we play attack the newbie for not searching,
> you might notice
> that searching for "backend status xml" doesn't give
> ANY useful
> information, apart from this thread.
> 
> But yeah, indirectly, the question was answered -
> mythweb is exactly
> what you're really looking for for a webapp.
> 
>  - Jeff
I apologize if my early reply sounded "attacking",
wasn't my intent, just wanted to answer the question
and point out that a quick search of the archives
gives the answer.  I have asked questions to the list
that I should have researched better before asking
(like using mythtv for videos and being able to
bookmark videos.)

Howard
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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 - Approximately 2GB/Hr.?

[Ben Giddings]

On Wednesday 27 April 2005 17:00, Robert Tsai wrote:
> That is correct; all recording profiles will default to the same
> values of 2200kbps, etc. MythTV does not come with any sort of
> "canned" defaults for high/medium/low-quality recording profiles.

So what are legal values for those settings.  I tried to tweak them at one 
point and none of the values I ended up with seemed to work.  What are the 
legal resolutions and rates for the PVR-250 cards?

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

[Ben Giddings]

On Sunday 01 May 2005 13:02, Greg Grotsky wrote:
> 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.

I agree, that's what I would have expected out of native lirc support.

As far as I know, that's one of two major limitations in the MythTV lirc 
support, the other one being that ctrl-key (and alt-key, etc) combinations 
don't seem to work.

I wonder why they chose not to do things this way?

Ben
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[mythtv-users] setting password for settings*.php only

[Kees van]

Hi,

I like to add some access control to the settings section of MythWeb.
I figured out how to set Apache to require a password on a specific
directory, however, the settings*.php files are located in the mythweb
root.

Is it possible to configure .htacces file-specific?

Thanks,
Martijn
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[mythtv-users] Follow on programs

[Ben Hardill]

Hi,

I'm having a problem where when i have 2 shows on the same channel
where one imediatly follows the other.  The second show is not
recorded because the backend says that the card is already in use. The
timestamp on the log entry is few seconds before the show is ment to
start.

So with the background set i have a few questions:

1. Is this working as designed?
2. Since these shows are on channels with comercials is there a way to
have a recording finnish early ( can i set a negative number in the
finnish late box)?
3. Any other ideas to fix this?

Ben.
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Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV cards...looking to the future

[Alan Hagge]

Offtopic, but hopefully relevant enough to not be flamed...
Wendy Seltzer wrote:
My recommendation is to buy at least one card now.  The ATSC spec is 
fixed, and if the flag rule sticks, the current cards will be the only 
ones you can get (in the U.S.) that can give you the high-def digital 
signal for all channels.  If there are any PCI cards at all post-flag, 
they'll have to be "compliant" and "robust against user modification" 
-- which means not giving your general-purpose PC (a non-compliant 
device) the full digital signal for flagged broadcasts.
Do we have any idea of the implication of the broadcast flag for the US 
"public TV" (PBS) channels?  I mean, they're not "commercial" in the 
same sense that ABC, NBC, CBS, etc. are, and I as a US citizen and 
taxpayer am funding (both indirectly, through taxes, and directly, 
through contributions) these channels for the express purpose of their 
delivering content to me that I can use according to existing US "fair 
use" laws.  Will the broadcast flag force law them to turn it on, or is 
it up to the individual channels and programs (and their sponsors) to 
decide what programming has the BF turned on?  Of course, the thought of 
only having informercials broadcast without the BF flag turned on makes 
me shudder...
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Re: [mythtv-users] setting password for settings*.php only

[Andy Cedilnik]

Hi Martijn,
Of course. Do something like:

Options -Indexes ExecCGI
Deny from all
AuthName "Restricted"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /path/to/users/file
require user username

 Allow from all

Satisfy any

this way all files require password except somefile.php. You can figure 
out from here on.

  Andy
Kees van wrote:
Hi,
I like to add some access control to the settings section of MythWeb.
I figured out how to set Apache to require a password on a specific
directory, however, the settings*.php files are located in the mythweb
root.
Is it possible to configure .htacces file-specific?
Thanks,
Martijn
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Re: [mythtv-users] setting password for settings*.php only

[MagicITX]

On 5/3/05, Kees van <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I like to add some access control to the settings section of MythWeb.
> I figured out how to set Apache to require a password on a specific
> directory, however, the settings*.php files are located in the mythweb
> root.
> 
> Is it possible to configure .htacces file-specific?
> 
> Thanks,
> Martijn
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The preferred method is to put access control in the main
configuration files instead of htaccess.  You would only use htaccess
if you don't have access to the main files.

To do what you want, check out the Files directive.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#files

-- 
Tim
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Re: [mythtv-users] Follow on programs

[Robert Tsai]

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 10:51:37PM +0100, Ben Hardill wrote:
> I'm having a problem where when i have 2 shows on the same channel
> where one imediatly follows the other.  The second show is not
> recorded because the backend says that the card is already in use.
> The timestamp on the log entry is few seconds before the show is
> ment to start.

I have plenty of schedules where one show records immediately after
the other and I get them both with no problems (both on the same
channel as well as on different channels). Are you sure that the first
show ends at 10:00pm (say) and the second begins at 10:00pm? For
example, ABC "Alias" actually starts one minute late and ends two
minutes "late", presumably to intentionally cause conflicts with shows
on other network channels ...

Having said that:

> So with the background set i have a few questions:
> 
> 1. Is this working as designed?

Yes.

> 2. Since these shows are on channels with comercials is there a way
> to have a recording finnish early ( can i set a negative number in
> the finnish late box)?

Yes, you can enter both positive and negative numbers in the "start
early" and "end late" boxes.

> 3. Any other ideas to fix this?

I don't have any other ideas.

--Rob
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Re: [mythtv-users] Burning NUV files to DVD

[Terry Griffin]

The problem with searching the archives on popular questions
is that you have to wade through all the posts saying "search
the archives" before you find the posts that have useful
information. That was the problem I experienced when trying to
resolve the 0.17 daylight savings time issue. I found lots of
posts telling me to search the archives when that's what I was
already doing. It was very frustrating. It's like having
an FAQ where the answer to every question is "Look in the FAQ
you dolt."

Stuff like this needs to get migrated in to some sort of real
FAQ, even if the FAQ contains nothing but links to the *useful*
postings in the archive. Then people can be told to look in the
FAQ instead of the archives, and they'll get better results
when they look there.

Terry

On Tuesday 03 May 2005 12:25 pm, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
>   Here we go again A quick search of the archives will reveal
> dozens of posts and limitations on the subject.
>
> On Tue, 3 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just installed MythTV 0.18 on a FC3 box with a Hauppauge PVR350
> > card.  I have been capturing video using the default encoding of
> > MPEG2-PS.  There are a couple of DVD encoding options.  My question is
> > this, does switching to one of the DVD codecs allow me to copy files to
> > DVD that are directly playable?  If instad of a direct copy, I want to
> > author a DVD with captured video, what format should it be captured with
> > before I try to convert it using one of the NUV utilities?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -jim mckay
>
> *
> * Cory Papenfuss*
> * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student   *
> * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   *
> *
>
>
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Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV cards...looking to the future

[Brad Fuller]

Alan Hagge wrote:
Offtopic, but hopefully relevant enough to not be flamed...
Wendy Seltzer wrote:
My recommendation is to buy at least one card now.  The ATSC spec is 
fixed, and if the flag rule sticks, the current cards will be the 
only ones you can get (in the U.S.) that can give you the high-def 
digital signal for all channels.  If there are any PCI cards at all 
post-flag, they'll have to be "compliant" and "robust against user 
modification" -- which means not giving your general-purpose PC (a 
non-compliant device) the full digital signal for flagged broadcasts.

Do we have any idea of the implication of the broadcast flag for the 
US "public TV" (PBS) channels?  I mean, they're not "commercial" in 
the same sense that ABC, NBC, CBS, etc. are, and I as a US citizen and 
taxpayer am funding (both indirectly, through taxes, and directly, 
through contributions) these channels for the express purpose of their 
delivering content to me that I can use according to existing US "fair 
use" laws.  Will the broadcast flag force law them to turn it on, or 
is it up to the individual channels and programs (and their sponsors) 
to decide what programming has the BF turned on?  Of course, the 
thought of only having informercials broadcast without the BF flag 
turned on makes me shudder...
Interesting question. It was my understanding that the copyright owner, 
not the broadcast network themselves (unless they own the particular 
program) are the ones that had the legal right to set the BF.
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[mythtv-users] Re: Feature - backend available through xml http://:6554/xml?

[Larry W]

ok, ok I admit that was a stupid question and indeed
now that I know the right keywords I find what I was
looking for. Anyway, thanks a lot for all the quick
answers - I apologize.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Follow on programs

[Ben Hardill]

On 5/3/05, Robert Tsai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 10:51:37PM +0100, Ben Hardill wrote:
> > I'm having a problem where when i have 2 shows on the same channel
> > where one imediatly follows the other.  The second show is not
> > recorded because the backend says that the card is already in use.
> > The timestamp on the log entry is few seconds before the show is
> > ment to start.
> 
> I have plenty of schedules where one show records immediately after
> the other and I get them both with no problems (both on the same
> channel as well as on different channels). Are you sure that the first
> show ends at 10:00pm (say) and the second begins at 10:00pm? For
> example, ABC "Alias" actually starts one minute late and ends two
> minutes "late", presumably to intentionally cause conflicts with shows
> on other network channels ...

Nah, the networks here are not playing those silly games (yet) the
scheds data is good.

> 
> Having said that:
> 
> > So with the background set i have a few questions:
> >
> > 1. Is this working as designed?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > 2. Since these shows are on channels with comercials is there a way
> > to have a recording finnish early ( can i set a negative number in
> > the finnish late box)?
> 
> Yes, you can enter both positive and negative numbers in the "start
> early" and "end late" boxes.
> 
> > 3. Any other ideas to fix this?
> 
> I don't have any other ideas.
> 
> --Rob
> 
The only other idea i've just had is clock drift between the
masterback end and the slave that actually has this capture card in.
Since they both sync to different sources (one is a timeserver out on
the net and the other is the DVB time signal). It may be time to dig
out the time server howto.

Thanks for the ok on the negtive finnish late times.

Ben
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[mythtv-users] Re: Someone PLEASE help. No OpenGL Transistions inMythgallery

[Alan Hagge]

Axel Thimm wrote:
/ If you want it, you'll need to recompile from the srpms and pass in
/>>/ additional options with the --with flag (I haven't done this myself
/>>/ with the rpms, so I'm not sure what the options are).  You may need
/>>/ to "rpm -ivh" the ...src.rpm file and check the spec file in
/>>/ /usr/src/redhat/SPECS to figure out the options & syntax.  I don't
/>>/ think Axel documented the options in the package info (yet.
/>>/ Hopefully soon...).
/
What is there to document? The plugins have no build options and
mythtv's build options are quite self-explaining (or do
--without-alsa, --with-directfb etc. need more expanations???)

This is fine for you and me, who know how to extract and look at the 
spec file, but for a newbie who just wants to recompile with specific 
options, I think it would be nicer for them if they could just "rpm -qpi 
.src.rpm" and have the description field print out the 
available --with and --without options along with a brief description of 
their function.  Then the user could recompile with "rpmbuild --rebuild 
<--with-or-without-options> .src.rpm".  That way (s)he never 
has to install the rpm, nor know where the spec file resides & how to 
look at it.  I use it 'cause I can never remember if the packager put 
the package together using "--with-alsa" or "--without-alsa", etc.  And 
you may set your defaults one way and another packager may set them 
differently.

Matthias Saou over at FreshRPMS does this with most of his source RPMS 
and I find it very useful.  But its only a suggestion from a user to 
take or leave as you see fit.

BTW, _shouldn't_ the plugins have build options (since the plugins 
themselves do, such as OpenGL, festival, etc.)?
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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 - Approximately 2GB/Hr.?

[Joe Votour]

Actually, MythTV does have "canned" settings for the
recording profiles for MPEG-2.  I believe that they
are 4.5Mbps minimum, 6Mbps maximum, with a 480x480
capture resolution.

The minimum and maximum values are what the sliders
(for bitrate) and the boxes (for the resolution) will
allow.  On the capture resolution, it is up to 720x480
(or 576 for PAL), for the bitrate, I'm not sure, but I
think that the PVR-250 will support up to 15Mbps (I
have successfully captured this high outside of
MythTV), just using "cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg".

Are you sure that you were setting the correct
profiles?  By default, the "Default" profile is used
for nearly everything, and you must set the MPEG-2
recording profiles, not the RTJPEG ones.

I have a PVR-500 (and a PVR-250), so I set my profiles
(all of them) to 720x480, but I don't recall the
bitrate.  I can't remember if I'm using the default,
or if I increased the bitrate.  But I definitely
changed the capture resolution.

-- Joe


--- Ben Giddings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 April 2005 17:00, Robert Tsai wrote:
> > That is correct; all recording profiles will
> default to the same
> > values of 2200kbps, etc. MythTV does not come with
> any sort of
> > "canned" defaults for high/medium/low-quality
> recording profiles.
> 
> So what are legal values for those settings.  I
> tried to tweak them at one 
> point and none of the values I ended up with seemed
> to work.  What are the 
> legal resolutions and rates for the PVR-250 cards?
> 
> Ben
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Re: [mythtv-users] frontend resolution

[Harry Orenstein]

On Tuesday 03 May 2005 12:33 am, Aaron Hall wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've upgraded via apt-get from .16 to .17 without any issues, so I did
> .17 to .18 without hesitation yesterday.
> All of the 'under the hood' functionality seems fine, but the frontend
> is consistantly getting the wrong screen resolution.
> The Geforce4 tv-out resolution is 800x600 (I verified via xorg.log,
> unless there is another way), however, the (fedora core2)
> /home/mythtv/.mythtv/themecache is always XXX.1280.960
> I have changed themes several times with no luck, and deleted the
> themecache dir with no luck.
> I've re-run mythtvsetup as well.
> I went looking for a screen resolution size in mysql, but didn't see
> anything obivous.
>
> I'm sure there is an easy fix, and I'm too dense to see it.
> Any other things to look for or try to get my theme back to 800.600?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron
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I had this problem too.  Try looking at my prior post:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/125662?search_string=slight%200.18%20compile%20problems;#125662


HTH!!


-- Harry O.
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Re: [mythtv-users] component video capture cards

[match]

On 3 May 2005 at 14:35, Bill Smith wrote:

snippity-snip
> 
> >> Has anybody looked into this card? It's a little more expensive
> >> (~$300) but it looks like it's still meant to be consumer grade:
> >>
> >> http://www.pluggedin.tv/item--SweetSpot-Video-Processor--PITVSS001
> >> http://www.pluggedin.tv/sweetspot
> >>
> >>  
> > It doesn't do HDTV, only 480i and 576i
> >
> Yeah, and it's using the bt878 chipset! Damn, my $15 card has that :-)...

This card looks to me to be a generic bt878 card with an FPGA in place of the 
tuner to 
affect the component interface. I thought about doing this.

True, the bt878 won't do HD, but the CX23883 does.

The advantage to doing this would be the ability to use existing drivers. 
MythTV would 
recognize it as an HD3000 that can't change channels...

Anyone want to butcher his HD3000?

This is getting way off topic. I should probably take it to the AVSForum...

Marvin
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[mythtv-users] Re: Someone PLEASE help. No OpenGL Transistions inMythgallery

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:48:42PM -0700, Alan Hagge wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
> >>/ If you want it, you'll need to recompile from the srpms and pass in
> />>/ additional options with the --with flag (I haven't done this myself
> />>/ with the rpms, so I'm not sure what the options are).  You may need
> />>/ to "rpm -ivh" the ...src.rpm file and check the spec file in
> />>/ /usr/src/redhat/SPECS to figure out the options & syntax.  I don't
> />>/ think Axel documented the options in the package info (yet.
> />>/ Hopefully soon...).
> /
> >What is there to document? The plugins have no build options and
> >mythtv's build options are quite self-explaining (or do
> 
> 
> This is fine for you and me, who know how to extract and look at the 
> spec file, but for a newbie who just wants to recompile with specific 
> options, I think it would be nicer for them if they could just "rpm -qpi 
> .src.rpm" and have the description field print out the 
> available --with and --without options along with a brief description of 
> their function.  Then the user could recompile with "rpmbuild --rebuild 
> <--with-or-without-options> .src.rpm".  That way (s)he never 
> has to install the rpm, nor know where the spec file resides & how to 
> look at it.

Hm, I tend to think that someone who wants to rebuild from source
(what rebuilding a src.rpm is) should be able to find the specfile and
look into it. As trivial as rebuilding can be, if you start to do so,
it means you have a good reason, and that you need to check why the
standard build isn't adequate.

> I use it 'cause I can never remember if the packager put the package
> together using "--with-alsa" or "--without-alsa", etc.  And you may
> set your defaults one way and another packager may set them
> differently.
> 
> Matthias Saou over at FreshRPMS does this with most of his source RPMS 
> and I find it very useful.  But its only a suggestion from a user to 
> take or leave as you see fit.

I don't disagree, suggestions are better backed up with patches, though ;)

> BTW, _shouldn't_ the plugins have build options (since the plugins 
> themselves do, such as OpenGL, festival, etc.)?

Perhaps, if the aim is to still support old distros, but I don't know
whether that is wanted under mythtv. I'm more for removing
unnesseccary options, e.g. options that no user will ever sanely have
to change. At the very end this seems to be used by less than 1% of
mythtv users.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net


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Re: [mythtv-users] component video capture cards

[Brad Templeton]

There are a number of tricks to make it possible.   For example, doing
720p at 30fps or 24fps is much more manageable, and is actually perfect
for certain shot on film shows and movies.

Taking 1080i and reducing it to 1280 x 540 at 30fps is also a good first
step.   The 1280 because that's the native res of many tvs today, the 540
for trivial deinterlace and cutting the load down.

Then you can try to do some rtjpeg or mjpeg to get it down small enough
to write to hard disk reliably.   You would probably want to get
below 20 megabytes/second (160mbits) which seems doable with those
compressions done with some existing chips and perhaps an fpga.

Then you would expect a second pass by the computer to convert to mp4.
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Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Help setting up Sky Navigator remote to replace keyboard/mouse under X

[Allan Stirling]

Neil Milne wrote:
On 5/2/05, Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

If any kind users could provide me with some *much needed* info, I'd
be most appreciative.

See my configs here:
http://www.hippoit.co.uk/mythtv/
I use the remote as a mouse and keyboard, as well as for controlling
mythtv and xine.
I've found that the navigator remote codes differ from model to model
Possibly not.
http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=70097
Press and hold SELECT+YELLOW (2 flashes) then:
0 SELECT (2 flashes) - Sets the remote to a standard Sky RMC?
1 SELECT (2 flashes) - Sets the remote back to Sky+?

so you may not be able to use my lircd.conf as-is, but you can get the
idea from my setup. It's a bit of a work in progress though - I've not
got the keyboard fully done yet... A lot of keys to set up...

Cheers,
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Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV cards...looking to the future

[Brad Templeton]

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 02:06:51PM -0600, Robert Johnston wrote:
> And, out of interests, how will this "Broadcast flag" affect us
> Canadians (For whom the flag is not an issue). Should I still be
> stockpiling HDTV cards now?


One Canadian company, ATI, makes an HD tuner card, but last I checked
they did not have linux drivers nor, oddly, plans to sell it in Canada.

HD broadcast adoption in Canada has been slower due to the lack of the
forced mandate the FCC put through.   A year ago the only HD station
in Canada was City-HD, everything else was coming from the USA.


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RE: [mythtv-users] Burning NUV files to DVD

[Khanh Tran]

Don't even bother doing anything.  You're making it way too complicated.
The NUV files produced by the PVR-250, 350 and probably the 150 and 500
(I just don't have one) ARE MPEG-2 formatted files.  Just make sure you
don't have a transcoder scheduled to convert it to something else.  I
usually copy it over to a Windows box to cut out commercials, but either
way, it's already ready to go to DVD authoring apps.

-Khanh


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Terry Griffin
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 6:20 PM
To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Burning NUV files to DVD

The problem with searching the archives on popular questions is that you
have to wade through all the posts saying "search the archives" before
you find the posts that have useful information. That was the problem I
experienced when trying to resolve the 0.17 daylight savings time issue.
I found lots of posts telling me to search the archives when that's what
I was already doing. It was very frustrating. It's like having an FAQ
where the answer to every question is "Look in the FAQ you dolt."

Stuff like this needs to get migrated in to some sort of real FAQ, even
if the FAQ contains nothing but links to the *useful* postings in the
archive. Then people can be told to look in the FAQ instead of the
archives, and they'll get better results when they look there.

Terry

On Tuesday 03 May 2005 12:25 pm, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
>   Here we go again A quick search of the archives will reveal 
> dozens of posts and limitations on the subject.
>
> On Tue, 3 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just installed MythTV 0.18 on a FC3 box with a Hauppauge 
> > PVR350 card.  I have been capturing video using the default encoding

> > of MPEG2-PS.  There are a couple of DVD encoding options.  My 
> > question is this, does switching to one of the DVD codecs allow me 
> > to copy files to DVD that are directly playable?  If instad of a 
> > direct copy, I want to author a DVD with captured video, what format

> > should it be captured with before I try to convert it using one of
the NUV utilities?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -jim mckay
>
>

*
> * Cory Papenfuss
*
> * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student
*
> * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
*
> **
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RE: [mythtv-users] strange error when I do "apt-get"

[Kevin]

 It looks like you are lacking an internet connection. Are you sure that you
can reach the internet? It may sound stupid but try pinging google.com just
to be sure.

-Kevin-

QUOTE...






Hi, 
 
When I do an apt-get update I get another error:
 

---
[EMAIL PROTECTED] apt]# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 release [961B]
Get:2 http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de fedora/3/en/i386 release [1527B]
Err ftp://ftp.uninett.no fedora/3/i386 release  
  Server closed the connection
Err ftp://ftp.uninett.no ayo/fedora/linux/3/i386 release
  Server closed the connection
Fetched 2488B in 0s (2645B/s)
Hit http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de fedora/3/en/i386/at-stable pkglist
Get:1 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/core pkglist [1668kB]

Get:2 http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de fedora/3/en/i386/at-stable release
[132B]
Err ftp://ftp.uninett.no fedora/3/i386/core pkglist 
  Server closed the connection
Err ftp://ftp.uninett.no fedora/3/i386/core release
  Server closed the connection
Err ftp://ftp.uninett.no fedora/3/i386/core-updates pkglist
  Server closed the connection
Err ftp://ftp.uninett.no fedora/3/i386/core-updates release
  Server closed the connection
Err ftp://ftp.uninett.no ayo/fedora/linux/3/i386/freshrpms pkglist
  Server closed the connection
Err ftp://ftp.uninett.no ayo/fedora/linux/3/i386/freshrpms release
  Server closed the connection
Get:3 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/core release [151B]

Get:4 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/updates pkglist [1146kB]

Get:5 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/updates release [157B]

Fetched 2815kB in 1m44s (26.9kB/s)

Failed to fetch
ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/apt/fedora/3/i386/base/release  Server closed
the connection Failed to fetch
ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/Freshrpms/ayo/fedora/linux/3/i386/base/releas
e  Server closed the connection Failed to fetch
ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/apt/fedora/3/i386/base/pkglist.core  Server
closed the connection Failed to fetch
ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/apt/fedora/3/i386/base/release.core  Server
closed the connection Failed to fetch
ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/apt/fedora/3/i386/base/pkglist.core-updates
Server closed the connection Failed to fetch
ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/apt/fedora/3/i386/base/release.core-updates
Server closed the connection Failed to fetch
ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/Freshrpms/ayo/fedora/linux/3/i386/base/pkglis
t.freshrpms  Server closed the connection Failed to fetch
ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/Freshrpms/ayo/fedora/linux/3/i386/base/releas
e.freshrpms  Server closed the connection Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
W: Release files for some repositories could not be retrieved or
authenticated. Such repositories are being ignored.
W: Release file did not contain checksum information for
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/3/i386/base/pkglist.core
W: Release file did not contain checksum information for
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/3/i386/base/release.core
W: Release file did not contain checksum information for
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/3/i386/base/pkglist.updates
W: Release file did not contain checksum information for
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/3/i386/base/release.updates
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones
used instead.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] apt]#

---
 
 
 
Iwan Hoogendoorn
CCIE # 13084
E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]  FAX# 084 736 0329



From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Peter Judge
Sent: Tue 5/3/2005 14:19
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] strange error when I do "apt-get
installmythtv-suite"



On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 14:13 +0200, iwan wrote:
> ?
> When I try to install the MythTV suite I get this message:
> 
> #apt-get install mythtv-suite
> --
> --
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have 
> reques

RE: [mythtv-users] XBOX - remotes

[a M]

Just so that I'm on the bandwagon with everyone. Buy an Xbox remote only for 
the dongle and IR receiver, use the Xbox remote if you want or use another 
generic remote with a "Power" and "Volume" controls compatible with RCA 
universal codes.

The last question is will LIRC recognize this automatically or does it need 
to be modified?

patslists at gmail could you elaborate a little on this:
"I have added additional codes beyond the xbox built-ins using LIRC and a 
JP1
remote control (RadioShack 2116 from memory)."

Thanks for the input.
p.s. patslist at gmail, you don't happen to have any invites do you for 
g-mail???

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[mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

[Drew Tomlinson]

I'm trying to build a MythTV box.  I've been using FreeBSD for around 4 
years but  I have no experience with Linux.  So my first attempt was to 
build Myth on FreeBSD but there were lots of problems and eventually I 
gave up.   Since MythTV was written for Linux I thought I might have an 
easier time just using Linux.

I started with Knoppmyth but couldn't get the CD to boot on my system.  
Lurking here and seeing the success others were having with Fedora and 
Jarod Wilson's guide prompted me to give that a try.  But unfortunately, 
I have a Promise 150 SATA controller in my system.  Attached to this 
card is a PATA (regular IDE) drive.  However the sata_promise driver 
doesn't support the PATA interface on this card.  Only the SATA 
interfaces. 

Googling suggested that to get this support, I needed to patch the 
sources with libata-devel and rebuild my own kernel.  Lot's of googling 
later and I've built and installed a custom kernel.  Seems to boot fine 
and the PATA drive is now recognized!  :)   But now, other packaged 
modules such as the nvidia and ivtv drivers in Jarod Wilson's guide 
don't work.   :(   I suspect this is because they were packaged for the 
default kernel and not the custom one I built?

It appears I need to learn a whole lot more about Linux and how to build 
what I need from source.  Am I on the right track?  Can anyone suggest 
some good newbie guides to this stuff?  I find snippets googling but 
have been unable to turn up any complete guides.

Thanks,
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Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV

[Howard Cokl]

--- Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to build a MythTV box.  I've been using
> FreeBSD for around 4 
> years but  I have no experience with Linux.  So my
> first attempt was to 
> build Myth on FreeBSD but there were lots of
> problems and eventually I 
> gave up.   Since MythTV was written for Linux I
> thought I might have an 
> easier time just using Linux.
> 
> I started with Knoppmyth but couldn't get the CD to
> boot on my system.  
> Lurking here and seeing the success others were
> having with Fedora and 
> Jarod Wilson's guide prompted me to give that a try.
>  But unfortunately, 
> I have a Promise 150 SATA controller in my system. 
> Attached to this 
> card is a PATA (regular IDE) drive.  However the
> sata_promise driver 
> doesn't support the PATA interface on this card. 
> Only the SATA 
> interfaces. 
> 
> Googling suggested that to get this support, I
> needed to patch the 
> sources with libata-devel and rebuild my own kernel.
>  Lot's of googling 
> later and I've built and installed a custom kernel. 
> Seems to boot fine 
> and the PATA drive is now recognized!  :)   But now,
> other packaged 
> modules such as the nvidia and ivtv drivers in Jarod
> Wilson's guide 
> don't work.   :(   I suspect this is because they
> were packaged for the 
> default kernel and not the custom one I built?
> 
> It appears I need to learn a whole lot more about
> Linux and how to build 
> what I need from source.  Am I on the right track? 
> Can anyone suggest 
> some good newbie guides to this stuff?  I find
> snippets googling but 
> have been unable to turn up any complete guides.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Drew
> 
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nvidia and ivtv are very easy, nvidia just download
the version you want (probably 7174) so wget
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-7174/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run
and then as root sh
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run
It'll do everything for you, build and install the
kernel module and the xorg driver/libs.
For ivtv just download what you need, I have a old
freestyle so I would use wget
http://www.ivtv.tv/releases/ivtv-0.2/ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j.tgz
tar xzf ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j.tgz; cd
ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j/driver; make; make install; cd
../utils; make make install
Hope this make sense, trying to get the kids ready for
bed.  
I had to create some devices in /etc/udev/devices for
the nvidia stuff and had to set up an file to load
modules before mythbackend starts, basically modprobe
ivtv 

Howard
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[mythtv-users] is there a simple recording status light avaliable?

[Ryan Kremser]

I"m looking for a simple recording status light.  I know a lot of work
has gone into this before but if i remember correctly it ended up as a
led display with a bunch of features.  Was a simple bit of software
ever written to toggle an external light? I'm thinking scroll lock or
something but i'm not sure.Any suggestions or if someone could
point me in the right direction it would be appreciated.
  -Ryan
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[mythtv-users] Xorg over Hauppauge PVR-350 tv-out woes

[Jason Scott Musits]

Well I have ben working on getting Xorg's output through my Hauppauge
PVR-350's tv-out for quite a while now and I am VERY stuck.  So I
thought I would consult the experts.  The problem I am having is Xorg's
output is split into four quadrants.  The upper left and right quadrants
are Xorg's output but the color is all messed up (the hue and saturation
are screwy, color is purple and green).  The bottom left and right
quadrants are just blank.

First off, I will outline what I have working properly and some system
specs.

1) The PVR-350 encodes video fine.
2) MythTV works flawlessly via normal Xorg output to my monitor.
3) MythTV outputs video via the PVR-350's tv-out to a TV flawlessly.

I am running Gentoo Liux with kernel 2.6.11.

# uname -a
Linux reba 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 #1 Mon May 2 21:16:02 AST 2005 i686 Pentium
III (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

# lspci
:01:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc
iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)

The PVR-350's tv-out is identified as /dev/fb0.

I am using the ivtv-0.2.0_rc3-4 ebuild (ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j) and the
mythtv-0.16 ebuild (mythtv-0.16).

Here are the relevant lines from my xorg.conf

Section "Module"
Load"dbe"
Load"v4l"
SubSection  "extmod"
Option"omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection
Load"type1"
Load"freetype"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier  "Television"
HorizSync   30-68
VertRefresh 50-120
Mode"720x480"
DotClock34.564
HTimings 720 752 840 928
VTimings 480 484 488 504
Flags "-HSync" "-VSync"
EndMode
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Haupauge PVR-350"
Driver  "ivtvdev"
Option  "ivtv" "/dev/fb0"
BusID   "PCI:01:09:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier  "Haupauge Screen"
Device  "Haupauge PVR-350" 
Monitor "Television"
DefaultDepth16
Subsection "Display"
Depth   16
FbBpp   32
Modes   "720x480"
ViewPort0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection

The following register switches were recommended in another post but
they did not fix anything for me.

ivtvctl -j reg=0x6c,val=0xfa -d /dev/video16
ivtvctl -j reg=0x2d,val=0x38 -d /dev/video16

Well I think that's all I have.  If anyone needs more info about
something please let me know, I'll gladly post it.  Thanks in advance
for your help and I'm sorry about making such a long post.

Peace

Jason

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Re: [mythtv-users] is there a simple recording status light avaliable?

[Colin Smillie]

On 5/3/05, Ryan Kremser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I"m looking for a simple recording status light.  I know a lot of work
> has gone into this before but if i remember correctly it ended up as a
> led display with a bunch of features.  Was a simple bit of software
> ever written to toggle an external light? I'm thinking scroll lock or
> something but i'm not sure.Any suggestions or if someone could
> point me in the right direction it would be appreciated.

Try this one,

http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/SystemLedsRecordingStatusHowTo

I haven't implemented it but looks pretty simple.

Colin
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Re: [mythtv-users] NFS Mounted Partitions and AutoExpire

[Craig Read]

Doug Heimburger wrote:
Hi:
I'm running into an interesting issue with AutoExpire that's causing
me to lose many more shows than I would have expected, including some
very recent shows.
I have two backends, with the master backend having Tuner 1 and a
second backend with Tuner 2. The second backend NFS mounts /myth from
the master backend, resulting in both machines using the same
directory to store data.
The AutoExpire is set to 10 GB. It appears that what is happening is
that AutoExpire is running on both backends, but only deleting old
things from that particular backend. Since 99% of the recordings are
made by Tuner 1, this means that things recorded by Tuner 2 are being
dropped very quickly (before I have a chance to watch them).
Some logs from Tuner 1:
2005-01-13 17:30:53 Running AutoExpire: Want 10 Gigs free but only have 9.
2005-01-13 17:30:53 AutoExpiring: The Simpsons Wed Dec 15 18:00:00
2004 1110 MBytes
Meanwhile, on Tuner 2:
2005-01-12 22:26:26 Running AutoExpire: Want 10 Gigs free but only have 9.
2005-01-12 22:26:26 AutoExpiring: 24 Mon Jan 10 20:00:00 2005  MBytes
Note that Tuner 1 is removing things that are almost a month ago, but
Tuner 2 is removing items that are less than two days old. Tragically,
this caused me to lose three of the first four hours of 24.
Is there something I can change in the configuration to cause Myth to
realize these two machines are working on a common drive, and that
thus the AutoExpire process should work across them?
Thanks.
Doug
I don't think there is a way to make Myth realize that both machines are 
using a common drive.  I've in fact had shows deleted when the log files 
were filled up with error information.  The drive ran out of space, so 
Myth went deleting files on the myth partition (a totally separate 
partition).

If one tuner is used more than the other (most likely tuner 1), I would 
configure auto-expire on that, and not on tuner 2.  Unless both tuners 
are recording all the time (which your scenario indicates that's not the 
case), then tuner 1 will have a much greater chance of removing the 
oldest show (as it's recording more often).

Another option could be to set each one's auto-expire period 
differently.  ie. Tuner 1 may check at a more frequent interval than 
Tuner 2 (probably in line with the proportion of how many shows they 
record each).  That way, you will auto-expire shows on Tuner 2 when auto 
expiring on Tuner 1 doesn't free up the required space (which could 
happen over time if Tuner 1 is always doing the expiring).

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[mythtv-users] Teletext subtitles etc

[Peter Andersson]

Since i live in sweden closed captioned subs doesn't work here. But i have
read on a couple of forums about the ability to display teletext (both dvb
and analog) subs with mythtv. I have found a couple of patches, but those
are unfortunatly outdated and doesn't work with the .18 version. Has
anyone got any "new" patches that works with the latest 0.18 version? If
so please share them with me.

Thanks

Peter

The system specs:

Os: Fedora core 3
Capture cards: Hauppauge Nexus-CA (dvb), Hauppauge Pvr-250 (analog)
Mythtv version: 0.18
Mythplugins version: 0.18
Kernel: 2.6.11.7 with two weeks old ivtv and linux tv modules
Graphics: Nvidia 6600GT with latest nvidia drivers
Cpu: 3.2 ghz pentium 4

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Re: [mythtv-users] updated nsmn tv_grab_au

[Michael Smith]

G'day Aussies,
Well, I've finally got my mythbox up and running and found all sorts of
issues with the NMSN tv_grab_au script I posted last month. Attached is
a comprehensive update, which can also be downloaded here:
   
In brief, features/changes include:
(*) multiple service options; e.g. download a list of chosen channels
from both free-to-air for your region and foxtel/optus listings.
(*) Configuration files for limiting details pages to just a set of
particular channels/titles (specified by a list of strings/regexps like
"Doctor Who", "Simpsons", "S.*T.*N.*G") or everything except for some
list of channels/titles (e.g., "News", "Danoz", "Shopping",
"news.sbs.com.au"). See comments at top of script.
(*) Improved start/stop time processing - I get no errors/conflicts due
to programs crossing midnight anymore (there were serious problems here,
hopefully now fully resolved).
(*) Retries for page requests added again and better error handling in
case of failures (continue to grab data rather than just die).
This one is working flawlessly (AFAIK) in my mythbox (I only download 7
guide pages and 14 details pages per clean run which takes about 1
minute). I'll start thinking about caching fixed details for generic
programs (news, etc).
Cheers,
Michael.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

eval 'exec /usr/bin/perl -w -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
if 0; # not running under some shell

# --- new NMSN Australian TV grabber by Michael 'Immir' Smith...
# --- $Id: tv_grab_au,v 1.25 2005/05/04 02:12:52 michael Exp $
#
# A current version of this script should usually be available here:
#
#   
#
# pod documentation coming later...
#
# in brief:   --configure   configure the grabber
# --config-file   use specified config file
# --list-channels   show subscribed channels and xmltvids
# --slowdownload a details page for every show
# --fastopposite of --slow (to override config)
# --days days to grab
# --outputxml output file
# --ignore-cacheignore cached information
#
# When run with mythfilldatabase, the config file may end up as
# ~/.mythtv/tv_grab_au.xmltv and this is where xmltvids for channels can
# be modified.
#
# Downloading of details pages can be controlled by the --slow option
# (possibly set by default during configuration) and regular expressions
# contained in the following two files (one regexp per line):
#
# ~/.tv_grab_au-detailedcontains a list of regular expressions matching
#   "chanid:titles" of shows for which we want details
#   e.g.:   Doctor Who
#   Simpsons
#   abc.gov.au:.*Chef
#
# ~/.tv_grab_au-undetailed  regular expressions matching "chanid:titles" to 
#   skip details downloads
#   e.g.:   News
#   news.sbs.com.au
#
# NB: a match against the detailed list overrides any undetailed matches.
# When changing these files, use the --ignore-cache option to ensure
# all new details are downloaded.
#
# TZ change added as suggested by Greg Boundy.


use strict;
use Getopt::Long;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use Date::Manip;
use File::Path;
use File::Basename;
use Data::Dumper;
use HTML::TreeBuilder;

use XMLTV;
use XMLTV::Ask;
use XMLTV::ProgressBar;
use XMLTV::Config_file;

# --- global parameters/constants

my $conf;   # hashref for configuration parameters
my $channels;   # ref to hash of subscribed channel names to xmltvids
my %chanid; # mapping from lowercase channel name to xmltv channel id

my $lang = "en";
my $spoofMSID = 1;  # spoof random MSIDs to avoid redirects?
my $output_dir = "/var/local/tv_grab_au";
my $cache_file = "$output_dir/cached.pl";

my $want_details_file = "$ENV{HOME}/.tv_grab_au-detailed";
my $skip_details_file = "$ENV{HOME}/.tv_grab_au-undetailed";
my (@want_details, @skip_details);

my $count_guide  = 0; # global counter for reporting
my $count_detail = 0; # global counter for reporting

# --- various NMSN site URLs
my $NMSN   = "http://tvguide.ninemsn.com.au";;
my $GUIDE  = "http://tvguide.ninemsn.com.au/guide";;
my $DETAILS= "http://tvguide.ninemsn.com.au/closeup/default.asp";;
my $TVTODAY= "http://tvguide.ninemsn.com.au/todaytv/default.asp";;

my ($Revision)   = '$Revision: 1.25 $' =~ /Revision:\s*(\S+)/;
my $debug = 0;
$Data::Dumper::Sortkeys = 1;
$Data::Dumper::Indent   = 1;

# --- Command-line options
my ($opt_configfile, $opt_configure, $opt_list_channels);
my $opt_output = "$output_dir/guide.xml";
my $opt_gui = 1;
my $opt_slow = 0;
my $opt_fast = 0;
my $opt_days = 5;
my $opt_skipcache = 0;

GetOptions( 'days=i'  => \$opt_days,
'list-channels'   => \$opt_list_channels,
'output=s'=> \$opt_output,
'config-file=s'

Re: [mythtv-users] Xorg over Hauppauge PVR-350 tv-out woes

[Nick]

On 5/4/05, Jason Scott Musits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well I have ben working on getting Xorg's output through my Hauppauge
> PVR-350's tv-out for quite a while now and I am VERY stuck.  So I
> thought I would consult the experts.  The problem I am having is Xorg's
> output is split into four quadrants.  The upper left and right quadrants
> are Xorg's output but the color is all messed up (the hue and saturation
> are screwy, color is purple and green).  The bottom left and right
> quadrants are just blank.
> 
> First off, I will outline what I have working properly and some system
> specs.
> 
> 1) The PVR-350 encodes video fine.
> 2) MythTV works flawlessly via normal Xorg output to my monitor.
> 3) MythTV outputs video via the PVR-350's tv-out to a TV flawlessly.
> 
> I am running Gentoo Liux with kernel 2.6.11.
> 
> # uname -a
> Linux reba 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 #1 Mon May 2 21:16:02 AST 2005 i686 Pentium
> III (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
> 
> # lspci
> :01:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc
> iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
> 
> The PVR-350's tv-out is identified as /dev/fb0.
> 
> I am using the ivtv-0.2.0_rc3-4 ebuild (ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j) and the
> mythtv-0.16 ebuild (mythtv-0.16).
> 
> Here are the relevant lines from my xorg.conf
> 
> Section "Module"
> Load"dbe"
> Load"v4l"
> SubSection  "extmod"
> Option"omit xfree86-dga"
> EndSubSection
> Load"type1"
> Load"freetype"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier  "Television"
> HorizSync   30-68
> VertRefresh 50-120
> Mode"720x480"
> DotClock34.564
> HTimings 720 752 840 928
> VTimings 480 484 488 504
> Flags "-HSync" "-VSync"
> EndMode
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
> Identifier  "Haupauge PVR-350"
> Driver  "ivtvdev"
> Option  "ivtv" "/dev/fb0"
> BusID   "PCI:01:09:0"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier  "Haupauge Screen"
> Device  "Haupauge PVR-350"
> Monitor "Television"
> DefaultDepth16
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth   16
> FbBpp   32
> Modes   "720x480"
> ViewPort0 0
> EndSubsection
> EndSection
> 
> The following register switches were recommended in another post but
> they did not fix anything for me.
> 
> ivtvctl -j reg=0x6c,val=0xfa -d /dev/video16
> ivtvctl -j reg=0x2d,val=0x38 -d /dev/video16
> 
> Well I think that's all I have.  If anyone needs more info about
> something please let me know, I'll gladly post it.  Thanks in advance
> for your help and I'm sorry about making such a long post.
> 
> Peace
> 
> Jason

Jason,

Assuming the ivtv and ivtv-fb modules are loading properly, try the
following (from my known working xorg.conf for ivtv 0.2.0-rc3f) and
see if anything improves:

Amend the Device section in xorg.conf to the following:

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Haupauge PVR-350"
   Driver  "ivtvdev"
   Option  "fbdev" "/dev/fb0"
   BusID   "1:9:0"
EndSection

and your Screen section to the following:

Section "Screen"
   Identifier  "Haupauge Screen"
   Device  "Haupauge PVR-350"
   Monitor "Television"
   DefaultDepth24
   Subsection "Display"
   Depth   24
   FbBpp   32
   Modes   "720x480"
   EndSubsection
EndSection


I'm sure the ivtvdev driver need to be setup for 24bit colour, and
that the options of the ivtv driver are fbdev, and not ivtvdev in this
version.

Please also post the relevant /var/log/Xorg.0.log and
/var/log/messages sections to see where the card is failing to
initialise properly. (in message, there is an obvious ivtv
initialisation log)

Nick
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[mythtv-users] Someone PLEASE help. No OpenGL Transistions in Mythgallery

[Chad Delatte]

Alright,  I still have nothing. reinstalled
mythplugins, verified all nvidia files and nvidia
related opengl libraries where there and the proper
version.  Is this another one of those things that is
just suppose to work?  I think i have a wrong file
version somewhere. Also, now after running ldconfig
Gears doesn't even make it to a black screen. It's
kinda sorta half of my left over myth screen and half
of the gears blank screen.  I also changed color depth
so that may be causing it.  I'm running at 800x600. 
WHat does this depend on me having to make this work? 
I also verified that glx was loading and my agp driver
is working.
Chad

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[mythtv-users] skip commercial in Au /ACT

[Kevin Saenz]

Has anyone in ACT been able to skip commercials when recording shows?
I have the skip commercials switch turned on, but all my recordings include
commercials.

Thanks

Kevin
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[mythtv-users] editing recorded shows

[Kevin Saenz]

I have used the edit feature to remove commercials from a recording
when I select transcoding my system doesn't want to save the recording
without commercials. how save the show after the edit is complete?

Thanks

Kevin
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[mythtv-users] weird skipping and pixelation on xbox

[Stephen Atkins]

Hello all.  I upgraded my xbox and my AMD2500+ (512 megs, 120 gig HD, 100mb 
network, tcpid nfs, kernel 2.4.25 for sata support and a PVR-250 and 150mce) to 
version .17 a couple of weeks ago.  What happens is when I'm playing back an 
hour or longer show on the xbox at around the 45 to 50 min mark if I use the 
jump forward or back it seems to get confused as to where it is in the stream.  
If I leave it along it works fine.  It doesn't happen on 30 min show.  I'm just 
wondering if anyone else has had this problem and would an upgrade to .18 solve 
it?  I will probably upgrade this weekend anyway but I just want to know if 
this is a known problem.

Stephen

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Re: [mythtv-users] Someone PLEASE help. No OpenGL Transistions in Mythgallery

[Nick]

On 5/4/05, Chad Delatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alright,  I still have nothing. reinstalled
> mythplugins, verified all nvidia files and nvidia
> related opengl libraries where there and the proper
> version.  Is this another one of those things that is
> just suppose to work?  I think i have a wrong file
> version somewhere. Also, now after running ldconfig
> Gears doesn't even make it to a black screen. It's
> kinda sorta half of my left over myth screen and half
> of the gears blank screen.  I also changed color depth
> so that may be causing it.  I'm running at 800x600.
> WHat does this depend on me having to make this work?
> I also verified that glx was loading and my agp driver
> is working.

Chad,

Does the output of glxinfo or your X.org.log mention any OpenGL
related problems? I'd suggest trying to keep all variables constant
and changing only one at at time to see its effect on the system.
Running [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be OK. I suppose their could be a problem
with your OpenGL libraries if ldconfig stopped things from working.

Also, you could post your xorg.conf in case fellow NV users spot
something amiss in it.

Can't offer much else, but recognise the pain.

Nick
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