Re: [mythtv-users] MAC -- OSX binaries for 0.18?
I tried to sent an email at whpress.com but no answer... This is what i sent: -- -- Hello, First thanks a lot for your work on osx mythtv binary. Since the new release of mythtv 0.18, i'm trying to build the mythfrontend.app 0.18 with your script osx-packager.pl. I changed some stuff (for ex. a new adress for downloading the mysql package (4.11) etc... I'm also changed gcc 4.x (since osx tiger 10.4)to gcc 3.3 so i can compile qt without any problem. Everything went well, but at the end there is a problem, as you can see: --- ldconfig make[2]: ldconfig: Command not found make[2]: [install_setting] Error 127 (ignored) cp -f info_menu.xml /usr/local/share/mythtv/ cp -f mainmenu.xml /usr/local/share/mythtv/ cp -f media_settings.xml /usr/local/share/mythtv/ cp -f tv_schedule.xml /usr/local/share/mythtv/ cp -f util_menu.xml /usr/local/share/mythtv/ cp -f info_settings.xml /usr/local/share/mythtv/ cp -f main_settings.xml /usr/local/share/mythtv/ cp -f recpriorities_settings.xml /usr/local/share/mythtv/ cp -f tv_search.xml /usr/local/share/mythtv/ cp -f tv_lists.xml /usr/local/share/mythtv/ cp -f library.xml /usr/local/share/mythtv/ cp -f manage_recordings.xml /usr/local/share/mythtv/ cp -f optical_menu.xml /usr/local/share/mythtv/ cp -f tvmenu.xml /usr/local/share/mythtv/ cp -f tv_settings.xml /usr/local/share/mythtv/ ( [ -d mythcommflag ] cd mythcommflag ; /usr/bin/make -f Makefile install; ) || true rm -f -r /usr/local/bin/mythcommflag.app cp -f -r mythcommflag.app /usr/local/bin/mythcommflag.app ( [ -d mythlcd ] cd mythlcd ; /usr/bin/make -f Makefile install; ) || true make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install'. ( [ -d mythtvosd ] cd mythtvosd ; /usr/bin/make -f Makefile install; ) || true rm -f -r /usr/local/bin/mythtvosd.app cp -f -r mythtvosd.app /usr/local/bin/mythtvosd.app ( [ -d mythjobqueue ] cd mythjobqueue ; /usr/bin/make -f Makefile install; ) || true rm -f -r /usr/local/bin/mythjobqueue.app cp -f -r mythjobqueue.app /usr/local/bin/mythjobqueue.app ( [ -d themes ] cd themes ; /usr/bin/make -f Makefile install; ) || true cp -f -r blue /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/ cp -f -r defaultosd /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/ cp -f -r blueosd /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/ cp -f -r oldosd /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/ cp -f -r default /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/ cp -f -r G.A.N.T. /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/ cp -f -r classic /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/ cp -f FreeSans.ttf /usr/local/share/mythtv/ cp -f FreeMono.ttf /usr/local/share/mythtv/ ( [ -d setup ] cd setup ; /usr/bin/make -f Makefile install; ) || true rm -f -r /usr/local/bin/mythtv-setup.app cp -f -r mythtv-setup.app /usr/local/bin/mythtv-setup.app cp -f setup.xml /usr/local/share/mythtv/ ( [ -d i18n ] cd i18n ; /usr/bin/make -f Makefile install; ) || true cp -f mythfrontend_it.qm /usr/local/share/mythtv/i18n/ cp -f mythfrontend_es.qm /usr/local/share/mythtv/i18n/ cp -f mythfrontend_ca.qm /usr/local/share/mythtv/i18n/ cp -f mythfrontend_nl.qm /usr/local/share/mythtv/i18n/ cp -f mythfrontend_fr.qm /usr/local/share/mythtv/i18n/ cp -f mythfrontend_de.qm /usr/local/share/mythtv/i18n/ cp -f mythfrontend_dk.qm /usr/local/share/mythtv/i18n/ cp -f mythfrontend_pt.qm /usr/local/share/mythtv/i18n/ cp -f mythfrontend_sv.qm /usr/local/share/mythtv/i18n/ cp -f mythfrontend_ja.qm /usr/local/share/mythtv/i18n/ cp -f mythfrontend_si.qm /usr/local/share/mythtv/i18n/ cp -f mythfrontend_fi.qm /usr/local/share/mythtv/i18n/ cp -f mythfrontend_zh_tw.qm /usr/local/share/mythtv/i18n/ cp: /Users/aspeed/Desktop/mythapp/.osx-packager/build/bin/mythfrontend.app: No such file or directory [osx-pkg] Failed system call: /bin/cp -R /Users/aspeed/Desktop/mythapp/.osx-packager/build/bin/mythfrontend.app /Users/aspeed/Desktop/mythapp/MythFrontend.app with error code 1 Died at ./osx-packager.pl line 550. --- i know that ldconfig isn't available on mac os x... if you can help me, that would be great, or maybe you've got allready a working 0.18 binary. I also tried your cvs binary how is working wiht my 0.18 backend but she's always write twice a data on my mysql database, something with hw_decoder, etc... Thanks a lot anthony -- -- if somehone can help us for a fresh 0.18 binary Does anyone know if there is a location for download of pre-built 0.18 binaries for myth? I had been using the builds available at: http://whpress.com/mythtv/, but they don't seem to have updated in quite some time. The latest version on there doesn't seem to co-exist well with 0.18 at all, especially for live tv. Thanks, J ___ mythtv-users mailing list
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Avidemux2 2.36
Mario,
I'm attaching a copy of my mpeg2cut. It may be an old version since I
haven't checked for anything new since I got it working. I guess i
should have commented my code a little more. I just took a look and
it's probably impossible to figure out what parameters to pass it :)
Let me know if you need any help getting it working and I can try to
comment it better or something.
--Harvard
On 5/3/05, Mario Limonciello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Harvard Pan wrote:
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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Harvard, I was looking this over, and wondering the easiest way to
actually place this into the mpeg2cut script, and it looks like the
easiest way is to replace all stuff here:
#cat /dev/null ${BASENAME}.cut2
#count=0
#for i in ${CUTLIST}
#do
#START=`echo $i | cut -d '-' -f 1`
#END=`echo $i | cut -d '-' -f 2`
#if [ .${START}. = .. ]
#then
#START=0
#fi
#if [ ${START} -ge ${LASTFRAME} ]
#then
#continue
#fi
#if [ .${END}. = .. ]
#then
#END=${LASTFRAME}
#fi
#LENGTH=$((${END} - ${START} + 1))
#
#cat ${BASENAME}.cut2 EOF
#Start : ${START}
#Size : ${LENGTH}
#Ref : 0
#EOF
#count=$((${count} + 1))
#done
#echo ${count} segments ${BASENAME}.cut
#
#cat ${BASENAME}.cut2 ${BASENAME}.cut
with a launch of your script with some sort of parameters, but that
doesnt seem right. How exactly do you launch it?
mpeg2cut
Description: Binary data
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Re: [mythtv-users] is there a simple recording status light avaliable?
2005/5/4, Ryan Kremser [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Im 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. It's a really small thing but it's just a big point for the MS software here. You can always see a red icon in the traybar if the system is recording. I really miss something like that in Myth. Adam ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] XBMC MythTV Frontend + Backend
Hi Evereybody, Im a very lucky man, because Im subscribe to Imagenio, this is an unencrypted MPEG2-TS over IP Multicast TV service (ADSL), this is a really good service that Telefonica has launch in Spain. Its for that Im very interested in a PVR or VDR for my XBMC platform, In this case its only needed a network recorder, network player and an easy scheduler, I think this is a easy task also for my xbox J. Its possible to do al that task with MythTV running standalone in a xbox platform Best Regards, Zazu. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythbackend won't idle until mythfrontend disconnects
On 5/4/05, Max Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My understanding is that simply prevents mythbackend from going idle BEFORE a frontend has connected... and does nothing once it has. (And, as mentioned, it's already unchecked on my system.) Indeed. As I understand it you have to do a little more work outside of myth to make auto startup/shutdown work. I can post up my scripts if you like but it goes something like this: If you specify a startup script in mythtv-setup then that will receive auto or user on the command line depending on whether the backend is about to start a recording. Note you only get auto if the block shutdown before client connect is enabled. In the startup script I create or delete a file in the mythtv user's home directory. The .xsession script checks for the existence of this file and starts up the frontend if it's a user start. I have the power button on my remote hooked up in lirc to start the frontend if there's none running. That way if the box has booted automatically for a recording (and hence hasn't started mythfrontend) I can still use it. After manually booting the box I can just exit mythfrontend to have it shutdown automatically. James. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythbackend won't idle until mythfrontend disconnects
James Stembridge wrote: If you specify a startup script in mythtv-setup then that will receive auto or user on the command line depending on whether the backend is about to start a recording. Note you only get auto if the block shutdown before client connect is enabled. In the startup script I create or delete a file in the mythtv user's home directory. The .xsession script checks for the existence of this file and starts up the frontend if it's a user start. Aha, this sounds good to me. I'll give it a try. Thanks very much! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] getting strange error when apt-get install mythtv-suite
? Hi, I am having a problem when I try to install the MythTV-suite I get this error message: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] MythTV]# apt-get install mythtv-suiteReading 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: mythweb (= 0.18) but it is not going to be installedE: Broken packages[EMAIL PROTECTED] MythTV]# --- Can sombody please tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks, Iwan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: getting strange error when apt-get install mythtv-suite
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 10:41:39AM +0200, iwan wrote: ? Hi, I am having a problem when I try to install the MythTV-suite I get this error message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MythTV]# 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: mythweb (= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages [EMAIL PROTECTED] MythTV]# Can sombody please tell me what I am doing wrong? Try apt-get install mythweb, and if that gives another package as faulty try the same with that package etc, until you get the true cause. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net pgpdUqicHOmtE.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] XBMC MythTV Frontend + Backend
Hi Evereybody, Im a very lucky man, because Im subscribe to Imagenio, this is an unencrypted MPEG2-TS over IP Multicast TV service (ADSL), this is a really good service that Telefonica has launch in Spain. Its for that Im very interested in a PVR or VDR for my XBMC platform, In this case its only needed a network recorder, network player and an easy scheduler, I think this is a easy task also for my xbox J. Its possible to do al that task with MythTV running standalone in a xbox platform Best Regards, Zazu. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Ok, it is possible to run the xbox as a frontend for mythtv. there is even a python script for xbmc that runs mythtv. go to sourceforge.net and do a search for xbmcmythtv and you'll get the scripts project site, just download the latest cvs and make sure you have the latest cvs build of xbmc and you should be good to go (provided you setup a backend server). cheers, josh ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Re: getting strange error when apt-get installmythtv-suite
? I allready issued this command: yum install mythtv-suite and that worked for me... Thanks, Iwan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Axel Thimm Sent: Wed 5/4/2005 11:26 To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: getting strange error when apt-get installmythtv-suite On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 10:41:39AM +0200, iwan wrote: ? Hi, I am having a problem when I try to install the MythTV-suite I get this error message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MythTV]# 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: mythweb (= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages [EMAIL PROTECTED] MythTV]# Can sombody please tell me what I am doing wrong? Try apt-get install mythweb, and if that gives another package as faulty try the same with that package etc, until you get the true cause. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] strange error when I do apt-get
? Hi, its connected to the internet ... But its working fine now... I just changed my /etc/apt/sources.list into this: # Minimal config file for atrpms-kickstart. # Don't edit this file. If this file exists, then you have forgotten to run # apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade # Please do so now. rpm http://ayo.us5.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 core updates rpm http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/3/en/i386 at-stable and the issued this command: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade And that worked ... Iwan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Kevin Sent: Wed 5/4/2005 1:33 To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] strange error when I do apt-get 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 http://ayo.freshrpms.net/ fedora/linux/3/i386 release [961B] Get:2 http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de/ fedora/3/en/i386 release [1527B] Err ftp://ftp.uninett.no ftp://ftp.uninett.no/ fedora/3/i386 release Server closed the connection Err ftp://ftp.uninett.no 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 http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de/ fedora/3/en/i386/at-stable pkglist Get:1 http://ayo.freshrpms.net http://ayo.freshrpms.net/ fedora/linux/3/i386/core pkglist [1668kB] Get:2 http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de/ fedora/3/en/i386/at-stable release [132B] Err ftp://ftp.uninett.no ftp://ftp.uninett.no/ fedora/3/i386/core pkglist Server closed the connection Err ftp://ftp.uninett.no ftp://ftp.uninett.no/ fedora/3/i386/core release Server closed the connection Err ftp://ftp.uninett.no ftp://ftp.uninett.no/ fedora/3/i386/core-updates pkglist Server closed the connection Err ftp://ftp.uninett.no ftp://ftp.uninett.no/ fedora/3/i386/core-updates release Server closed the connection Err ftp://ftp.uninett.no ftp://ftp.uninett.no/ ayo/fedora/linux/3/i386/freshrpms pkglist Server closed the connection Err ftp://ftp.uninett.no ftp://ftp.uninett.no/ ayo/fedora/linux/3/i386/freshrpms release Server closed the connection Get:3 http://ayo.freshrpms.net http://ayo.freshrpms.net/ fedora/linux/3/i386/core release [151B] Get:4 http://ayo.freshrpms.net http://ayo.freshrpms.net/ fedora/linux/3/i386/updates pkglist [1146kB] Get:5 http://ayo.freshrpms.net 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
RE: [mythtv-users] Burning NUV files to DVD
Tsunami MPEG encoder and Tsunami MPEG DVD Author. http://www.tmpg-inc.com/product -Khanh -Original Message- From: James L. Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 12:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Burning NUV files to DVD Khanh Tran wrote: 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 Please name any DVD authoring applications that will accept PVR-x50 MPEG2 files unmodified. I strongly suspect you haven't been doing this yourself, but in case you really are, I'd love to know what you are using. :) -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 * ** *** -- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up USB MCE remote in LIRC?
Hmmm, the thread seems to have drifted onto the 2005 remote, I'm trying to set up the older 2004 style remote... With Davids clues, I've built the lirc 0.7.1 lirc_mceusb module, and copied the lirc.conf to /etc/lirc/ and the .lircrc to the two dirs whose names escape me. When I run irw, it all seems to be working, the red led on the receiver flashes, and all of the buttons are shown on the screen when I press the buttons on the remote... :) I've switched to the i686 version of MythTV, which should have built in native lirc support... However, nothing happens in Myth when I press buttons on the remote... :( Any ideas? Lee Also, I'm running KnoppMyth, how do I get it to autostart LIRC? For the new style remote I had to download a new driver, which is not yet part of the lirc distribution. Written by Martin Blatter the lirc driver for the new style remote can be downloaded at http://blatter.com/mceusb/. There's a tarball of the driver, an example lircrc file for Myth, and some installation instructions. Actually I think he has three different versions of his driver there. I just downloaded the newest one. To use that new driver you'll need to build lirc 0.7.0 from source (0.7.1 didn't work very well for me). Just download the lirc source tarball and extract it (if you haven't already), then extract the tarball from Martin Blatter on top of it. Then configure, build, and install lirc as I described in the previous post. With the combination of kernel 2.6.11.7, lirc 0.7.0, and Martin Blatter's driver, the new style remote seems to work quit reliably. - David On May 1, 2005, at 9:02 AM, Nathan Whittacre wrote: So you got the new style remote working with lirc? Could you share some insight on what you did to get it to work. I am using kernel version 2.6.11.8 and lirc 0.7.0 and can't get it to work. It recognizes the remote, but I can't get any data from it. I've also tried lirc 0.7.1. Thanks, Nathan David Sims wrote: On Apr 29, 2005, at 4:53 PM, Lee wrote: Having just got my new MythTV install running nicely, I'd like to integrate my (old style) Windows MCE remote into the set up. I've googled for ages and there are lot's of people that seem to have got it working (include Jarod), but I can't find any how-to's or crib sheets. Being a total Linux noob, this leave me at a loss, can anyone point me in the right direction? Many thanks, Lee I haven't had any experience with the old style MCE remotes, but I recently worked with setting up one of the new style remotes with pretty good success. I'm not sure how far back you can go with lirc, but I know lirc 0.7.0 and newer has a driver for the old style MCE remote. If you're comfortable building and installing packages from source code, it's really very easy to do with lirc. I haven't had much luck getting the ATrpms.net lirc packages to work in my setup, so I can't really help if you prefer to go that route. I didn't find any detailed how-to's on the MCE remote either, so I'll describe what my brother and I did to get the new style remote working. Hopefully this can get you going as well. I obtained the lirc 0.7.0 source from the lirc web site: http://www.lirc.org - Extract the source tarball and then configure and build from the extracted source directory like this: # ./configure --with-kerneldir=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build --with-driver=mceusb # make # make install The install should copy the correct lircd.conf file to /etc/lircd.conf. - You'll also want to put the following in /etc/modprobe.conf: alias char-major-61 lirc_mceusb - I'm not sure if this is really required, but I saw it in some lirc instructions somewhere. Create the /etc/udev/rules.d/lirc.rules and put this in it: KERNEL=lirc[0-9]*,NAME=lirc%n KERNEL=lirc0, SYMLINK=lirc - Then make sure the usb receiver is plugged in and load the lirc modules: # modprobe lirc_mceusb - Try out lircd and irw to see if it works: # lircd -n # irw You should see a message printed indicating that lircd accepted a new client connection. Then if you press buttons on the remote you should see messages indicating which buttons are being pressed. If that doesn't work, you may need to reboot. If you reboot with the usb receiver plugged in, the lirc modules should automatically load which you can verify with the lsmod command: # lsmod | grep lirc lirc_mceusb10884 1 lirc_dev 13388 1 lirc_mceusb then try the lircd and irw commands again. One last thing to note. I'm not sure if this is due to the driver for the new style MCE remote, lirc, the kernel, or my own incompetence, but we couldn't get lirc working correctly with version 0.7.1 of lirc or the 2.6.10-1.770 kernel from ATrpms. We had to use lirc 0.7.0 and kernel version 2.6.11.7 built from source. Hope that helps, David
Re: [mythtv-users] Someone PLEASE help. No OpenGL Transistions in Mythgallery
--- 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 I think I had a problem with glx in the beginning and fixed it. My problem was that in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions there was the libglx.a (part of xorg) and X was finding that instead of the nvidia/libglx.so so I: #cd /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/ #mv libglx.a xlibglx.a #ln -s nvidia-graphics-1.0-7174/libglx.so.1.0.7174 libglx.so #telinit 3; telinit 5 #grep -i glx /var/log/Xorg.o.log (II) LoadModule: glx (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so (II) Module glx: vendor=NVIDIA Corporation (II) Loading extension GLX (II) Loading extension NV-GLX (II) Initializing extension GLX Howard ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] mythweb: Scheduled Recordings
Hi there, I tried to schedule recordings with mythweb. Searched for what to record and used following settings: - Find and record one showing of this title. - Recording Profile:Default - Recording Group: Default - Check for duplicates in: All Recordings - Duplicate Check method: Subtitle and Description After this in 'Scheduled Recordings' following entries were added: Wed May 4, 2005 L Charmed: Bezaubernde Phoebe 898 - ProSieben Wed May 4, 2005 (08:15 PM) 1 hr 5 mins Thu May 5, 2005 1 Charmed: Bezaubernde Phoebe 898 - ProSieben Thu May 5, 2005 (12:50 AM) 55 mins Sat May 7, 2005 E Charmed: Schwarz wie der Teufel 898 - ProSieben Sat May 7, 2005 (03:15 PM) 1 hr 10 mins As you see the episode on Thu. is recorded. this is correct. Episode on Sat. is not. This one was not recorded earlier. What i am doing wrong? Lukas ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] dont understand a part of the Capture Card Driver instalation
2005/5/4, iwan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.770_14.rhfc3.at ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet What do I need to append then? kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.770_14.rhfc3.at ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet vga=791 Bye SR ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Burning NUV files to DVD
Ummm System requirements: 1)OS: Windows XP or Windows 2000 The writing tool won't work if installed on a different OS 2)File system (hard disk format): NTFS is required. If you are using FAT32, you will only be able to handle files smaller than 4 GB. Not quite as interesting for something on linux-land. I have no doubt that there are dozens of annoyware where every punk who wrote some piece of shit winders software wants you to send him $3.99 to keep his crippleware from emailing death threats to the president (and to unlock his software). Most of the windows stuff has a horribly low signal/noise ratio, often like lots of linux stuff as well. The difference is you generally have to register, worry about spyware and viruses, and pay money to mess with the windows crap. The correct solution is usually to spend many hundreds of dollars on *THE* software (whatever it is for what you're doing). Photoshop for images, TGMPG for video, etc. /rant off OK... to partially answer the OP's question. I'm generally not flippant about read the archives, but I've personally answered this question a number of times. Bottom line is, it depends. If you're recording via an ivtv-based card, the .NUV is *NOT* a nupplevideo file, but an MPEG stream with a .nuv filename extension. Setting the different recording profiles (DVD, PS, TS, DVD-special, etc) tends to have very little effect on the resulting file. The bigger question is that of editing the resulting stream (commercials in particular). Without editing, a PS ivtv capture should be authorable directly with dvdauthor (or any frontend that uses it as a backend like qdvdauthor or dvdstyler). NAV packets may need to be inserted into the stream (replex, dvb-mplex, or demux A/V and mplex 'em back). Cutting out commercials, or basically *any* editing of the stream (including adding the NAV packets) can be subject to sync problems from ivtv captures. If the card glitches on a frame or ten, it fixes the problem by throwing away audio or video frames and adjusting the relative timestamp between the two. Few editing programs (notably avidemux) honor this, and results in sync that changes throughout the stream. It cannot be fixed with a single sync value. If you unmux the audio and video and remux them back, you get the same thing... broke-dick sync. Promising alternatives at this point are gopdit and gopchop. The latter is older than the former and I thought gopchop was dead. Just recently, there's been a flury of activity on the -dev list of gopchop about some new release. Looks better, but I haven't played with it enough to know how well it works. Both of these try to losslessly cut the MPEG stream on GOP boundaries so little processing is required. AFAIK, both still mangle some stuff, though. Like I said... it's complicated. Simple dump-to-dvd isn't hard. Any manipulation requires unbroken tools to make it work all the time. 95% of the time it'll work in a half dozen different ways with the tools available. It's that 5% that's a bitch (speaking from experience here). -Cory On Wed, 4 May 2005, Khanh Tran wrote: Tsunami MPEG encoder and Tsunami MPEG DVD Author. http://www.tmpg-inc.com/product -Khanh -Original Message- From: James L. Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 12:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Burning NUV files to DVD Khanh Tran wrote: 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 Please name any DVD authoring applications that will accept PVR-x50 MPEG2 files unmodified. I strongly suspect you haven't been doing this yourself, but in case you really are, I'd love to know what you are using. :) -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
Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire success stories?
On 5/4/05, Donald Oakes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Haan wrote: On 2/15/05, Brad House [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just worked for me, on Gentoo ... though I'm running ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~amd64 snip I've been playing around with HD over firewire for some time now. You can check whether you're able to receive streaming content via firewire using a couple of utilities I mention in my blog (http://www.oakesville.com/LinuxHtpcBlog). Check out the entries for gscanbus and test-mpeg2. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I've been using firewire on a Epia 10k on Mandrake 10.1 since .17 came out. This is a backend only and has been surprisingly reliable. Playback on an Intel 2.8 gig has been more problematic but the .18 release seems to have solved my Xvmc problems and the high definition stuff pulled from firewire is real eye candy ! Barry ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Media MVP in the UK
On 5/3/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I have two backends, a PVR-250 recording mpeg-ps files and a firewire box recording mpeg-ts. My Hauppage MVP works very well on the mpeg-ps files but will not play mpeg-ts files. I've been playing with, and appear to be successful, using mencoder to create mpeg-ps files from the ts files that will play on the MVP. In fact, I just converted and watched about two hours of Hot Rocks on the science channel, a quite excellent series from your side of the pond. Conversion of the ts files to ps files using the copy codec is quite fastabout 700 fps on a 2.8G intel, but a little more susceptable to noise. Using the mpeg2video codec, conversion is about 70 fps. In either case, the sound must be encoded from it's ac3 format to mpeg 1 layer 2 for the MVP to play. Hope this helps, Barry ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 Decoder Waiting For Pause -- Solved
Hi Andrew, I have not watched any show, but having live tv running for about an hour it made it freeze. This is using 0.3.4a. Also, now I am getting the following error on console: ivtv: ENC Stream 2 OVERFLOW #111031: Stealing a Buffer, 8388770 currently allocated ivtv: ENC Stream 2 OVERFLOW #111032: Stealing a Buffer, 8388770 currently allocated ivtv: ENC Stream 2 OVERFLOW #111033: Stealing a Buffer, 8388770 currently allocated ivtv: ENC Stream 2 OVERFLOW #111034: Stealing a Buffer, 8388770 currently allocated ivtv: ENC Stream 2 OVERFLOW #111035: Stealing a Buffer, 8388770 currently allocated ... Some other problems include: * Switching of channels takes about 10-15 seconds * Picture seems to be worse than before, but that could be flaky cable * Still no mplayer. I wish mythvideo would use the same frontend as mythtv. Andy Andrew Kreps wrote: 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. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RV: [mythtv-users] XBMC MythTV Frontend + Backend
-Mensaje original- De: Raul Lucientes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: miércoles, 04 de mayo de 2005 14:41 Para: 'J' CC: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Asunto: RE: [mythtv-users] XBMC MythTV Frontend + Backend Thanks J for your help, But, Im looking for a whole stand-alone solution (frontend + backend) for the xbox platform. I only need a small backend running in the xbox, list of channels (in text file format, MySQL its no necessary), scheduling and recording capabilities (in the local or remote HDD) and I dont need any dvb card because I have my TV services permanently over my home network (multicast streams). Regards, ZaZu. -Mensaje original- De: J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: miércoles, 04 de mayo de 2005 11:50 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtv Asunto: Re: [mythtv-users] XBMC MythTV Frontend + Backend Hi Evereybody, Im a very lucky man, because Im subscribe to Imagenio, this is an unencrypted MPEG2-TS over IP Multicast TV service (ADSL), this is a really good service that Telefonica has launch in Spain. Its for that Im very interested in a PVR or VDR for my XBMC platform, In this case its only needed a network recorder, network player and an easy scheduler, I think this is a easy task also for my xbox J. Its possible to do al that task with MythTV running standalone in a xbox platform Best Regards, Zazu. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Ok, it is possible to run the xbox as a frontend for mythtv. there is even a python script for xbmc that runs mythtv. go to sourceforge.net and do a search for xbmcmythtv and you'll get the scripts project site, just download the latest cvs and make sure you have the latest cvs build of xbmc and you should be good to go (provided you setup a backend server). cheers, josh ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb: Scheduled Recordings
On 5/4/05, Lukas Kasprowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I tried to schedule recordings with mythweb. Searched for what to record and used following settings: - Find and record one showing of this title. - Recording Profile:Default - Recording Group: Default - Check for duplicates in: All Recordings - Duplicate Check method: Subtitle and Description After this in 'Scheduled Recordings' following entries were added: Wed May 4, 2005 L Charmed: Bezaubernde Phoebe 898 - ProSieben Wed May 4, 2005 (08:15 PM) 1 hr 5 mins Thu May 5, 2005 1 Charmed: Bezaubernde Phoebe 898 - ProSieben Thu May 5, 2005 (12:50 AM) 55 mins Sat May 7, 2005 E Charmed: Schwarz wie der Teufel 898 - ProSieben Sat May 7, 2005 (03:15 PM) 1 hr 10 mins As you see the episode on Thu. is recorded. this is correct. Episode on Sat. is not. This one was not recorded earlier. Lucas, Are you trying to record a single episode of Charmed, or each episode when it is shown? I use mythweb all the time to schedule recordings (single episodes, whole series) - the settings you specified at the top seem to suggest you only want to record Charmed: Bezaubernde Phoebe and it has found 2 recording times for it - is this what you are trying to do? I'm not sure why the Sat. episode is listed if it hasn't been schedules separately, based on the recording options you have given. All of the dates are in the future, so no episodes have yet been recorded. If you want to record all episodes of Charmed, you need to change your recording options, so that you choose Always record this program on this channel 898. Recording episodes based on their subtitles and descriptions can be difficult if the descriptions are not the same for all broadcasts of a particular episode. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 Decoder Waiting For Pause -- Solved
--- Andy Cedilnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andrew, I have not watched any show, but having live tv running for about an hour it made it freeze. This is using 0.3.4a. Also, now I am getting the following error on console: ivtv: ENC Stream 2 OVERFLOW #111031: Stealing a Buffer, 8388770 currently allocated ivtv: ENC Stream 2 OVERFLOW #111032: Stealing a Buffer, 8388770 currently allocated ivtv: ENC Stream 2 OVERFLOW #111033: Stealing a Buffer, 8388770 currently allocated ivtv: ENC Stream 2 OVERFLOW #111034: Stealing a Buffer, 8388770 currently allocated ivtv: ENC Stream 2 OVERFLOW #111035: Stealing a Buffer, 8388770 currently allocated ... Some other problems include: * Switching of channels takes about 10-15 seconds * Picture seems to be worse than before, but that could be flaky cable * Still no mplayer. I wish mythvideo would use the same frontend as mythtv. Andy Andrew Kreps wrote: 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. I think that you can use mythtv as your default video player. I did some testing earlier and had mythtv playing .vob and .avi (xvid and divx). I also noticed that there is a new table in the database - videobookmarks. Haven't really played around a whole lot with bookmarking a video, but I did switch my default player under videos to mythtv. Sorry can't help with the 350 questions since I don't have one. Howard ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb: Scheduled Recordings
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 01:40:34PM +0200, Lukas Kasprowicz wrote: Hi there, I tried to schedule recordings with mythweb. Searched for what to record and used following settings: - Find and record one showing of this title. - Recording Profile: Default - Recording Group:Default - Check for duplicates in:All Recordings - Duplicate Check method: Subtitle and Description After this in 'Scheduled Recordings' following entries were added: Wed May 4, 2005 L Charmed: Bezaubernde Phoebe 898 - ProSieben Wed May 4, 2005 (08:15 PM) 1 hr 5 mins Thu May 5, 2005 1 Charmed: Bezaubernde Phoebe 898 - ProSieben Thu May 5, 2005 (12:50 AM) 55 mins Sat May 7, 2005 E Charmed: Schwarz wie der Teufel 898 - ProSieben Sat May 7, 2005 (03:15 PM) 1 hr 10 mins As you see the episode on Thu. is recorded. this is correct. Episode on Sat. is not. This one was not recorded earlier. What i am doing wrong? Your mythweb setting said Find and record one showing of this title, so that's what it is doing. You need to choose something like Record at any time on any channel. That way you will record everything, but the duplicate-checking will suppress re-recordings of stuff (e.g., it will record exactly one showing of Bezaubernde Phoebe). --Rob ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb: Scheduled Recordings
Are you trying to record a single episode of Charmed, or each episode when it is shown? I use mythweb all the time to schedule recordings (single episodes, whole series) - the settings you specified at the top seem to suggest you only want to record Charmed: Bezaubernde Phoebe and it has found 2 recording times for it - is this what you are trying to do? I'm not sure why the Sat. episode is listed if it hasn't been schedules separately, based on the recording options you have given. Thank you now i know which one to use. It should record every episode. The Sat. episode was not seperately scheduled. All of the dates are in the future, so no episodes have yet been recorded. If you want to record all episodes of Charmed, you need to change your recording options, so that you choose Always record this program on this channel 898. done Lukas ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire success stories?
Thus spake Barry Jett: I've been using firewire on a Epia 10k on Mandrake 10.1 since .17 came out. This is a backend only and has been surprisingly reliable. Playback on an Intel 2.8 gig has been more problematic but the .18 release seems to have solved my Xvmc problems and the high definition stuff pulled from firewire is real eye candy ! On a side note, my cable provider appears to have recently (with a new firmware push to the STB, I think) blocked the HD channels from the firewire output. When I attempt to record I end up with a few hundred kb worth of data instead of a few gigs. Running dvbsnoop on captured output from an attempt at HD and an SD recording (which still works fine) seems to indicate that the HD output is scrambled - at least, the transport_scrambling_control field is set to non-zero values on a lot of the packets. If anyone is interested in helping me determine exactly what they did, I can provide the output of dvbsnoop and/or the short .ts clips :) -- Nathan Poznick [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's nothing wrong with me. Maybe there's something wrong with the universe. signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] How to create MythTV templates
Hi, how I can create a customized MythTV template? Thank you very much! Bye Mattia ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [ot] mythphone connect to local asterisk box
Dean Collins wrote: 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 That is how I set it up. But the problem was that asterisk allready uses the default sip port (5060) so the mythphone sip extention had to use another port to be able to connect to the asterisk server. This is only a problem when asterisk and mythphone are running on the same machine. Steven ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] wow....18 is so stable
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:39:15AM -0400, David Brieck Jr. wrote: On 5/4/05, Gabe Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a big thanks to all who made .18 possible. The upgrade, with a combination of ivtv update to latest stable atrpms package has not had a crash yet. I hope I am not jinxing myself, but I have had an uptime of over 7 days, and that has been unheard on this machine. I was psyched to get my bootsplash image up and running, but have not had to watch it in over a week! I have been using myth for over a year, and it gets better on each release. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Same thing here. I usually had the backend die at least once per week and exactly during my favorite shows. I skipped 0.17 because I thought it was a little too buggy but 0.18 has me jumping for joy. I've never had the machine completely lockup up though, the machines uptime is 67 days. Usually all i need to do is zap the backend so I can restart it. FWIW, we stopped doing thr CVS mambo right after .17 came out, and haven't had much trouble with it at all. I've got a skipping playback problem, but I'm pretty sure that's due to Xorg issues with SuSE 9.2, rather than other things. But maybe I'm wrong, and this week's .18 install will fix that too. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth AssociatesThe Things I Think'87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] wow....18 is so stable
David Brieck Jr. wrote: I've never had the machine completely lockup up though, the machines uptime is 67 days. Usually all i need to do is zap the backend so I can restart it. Same here. The only time either of my two machines has had any problem at all has been due to power loss. Outstanding project. Kudo's to the devs -- Michael J. Lynch What if the hokey pokey IS what it's all about -- author unknown ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Partial black screen viewing recordings
Hi, I'm having a problem that causes most of my screen (but not all) to be black when playing recordings. When I cat /dev/video? sometest.mpg, each of my tuners seem to record and play back correctly. When a scheduled recording is being played back on Myth, I can hear the sound just fine, and the video at about an inch from the top and bottom of the screen is just fine. The rest is covered by a black bar. What's curious is that up until yesterday I was having this same problem while watching live tv (coupled with a segfault). Wandering around manually through the mythconverg database (I had actually completely rebuilt this database, but my problem persisted), I found that in the capturecard table, my vbidevice was set to null for each of the cards. I don't know much about tuner cards (I'm new to all this), but I made some logical guesses, and assigned vbi0 to video0, vbi1 to video1, and vbi2 to video2. This seems to have fixed (though it's still a bit early to know for sure) my live TV problem. It's curious, though, that the recordings are having this problems (oh, and these recordings were recorded AFTER my vbi fix). Does anyone have any ideas of what settings I might check to get the recordings to play correctly? Or if you have ideas of why my vbi setting changes might have affected my live tv watching, that might yield clues regarding the recording playback. Thanks for your help! I'm using MythTV 0.18 with ivtv 2.0. I'm using the TV-out on my Hauppage PVR-350 (I've told Myth to use it for playback), and I also have two Hauppage PVR-250's. I'm running Fedora Core 3, and used Jarod's guide to set it up. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Media MVP in the UK
On 5/4/05, Barry Jett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/3/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-usersI have two backends, a PVR-250 recording mpeg-ps files and a firewire boxrecording mpeg-ts. My Hauppage MVP works very well on the mpeg-ps files but will not play mpeg-ts files.I've been playing with, and appear to be successful, using mencoder to creatempeg-ps files from the ts files that will play on the MVP. In fact, Ijust convertedand watched about two hours of Hot Rocks on the science channel, a quite excellent series from your side of the pond.Conversion of the ts files to ps files using the copy codec is quitefastabout700 fps on a 2.8G intel, but a little more susceptable to noise. Using the mpeg2video codec, conversion is about 70 fps.In either case, the sound must beencoded from it's ac3 format to mpeg 1 layer 2 for the MVP to play.Hope this helps,Barry Barry Can you post your mencoder/mplayer commands that you use ? Thanks Jonathan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: RV: [mythtv-users] XBMC MythTV Frontend + Backend
On 5/4/05, Raul Lucientes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks J for your help, But, Im looking for a whole stand-alone solution (frontend + backend) for the xbox platform. I only need a small backend running in the xbox, list of channels (in text file format, MySQL its no necessary), scheduling and recording capabilities (in the local or remote HDD) and I don't need any dvb card because I have my TV services permanently over my home network (multicast streams). Hi Raul, the XBox isn't capable of being a frontend/backend in it's current state since you cannot add capture cards to it. for this reason you'll need to at least build a backend server. Myth backend does require MySQL as that's how all the program information is stored. you may want to spend a little time reading through the archives (google gossomer-threads mythtv) or the KnoppMyth forums (http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/). you can get a lot of good information from both of these places. rereading your post you mention that you already have digital media being streamed over your home network. if that's the case you may be able to use the xbox and xbmc to store and replay it. but you will probably find better information at one of the xbox specific sites. check out: http://xbox-scene.com and more recently someone on the list here opened an xbox mythtv forum. i don't have a link offhand though. good luck! andy ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] yet another apt-get problem. (yes i did an update first)
Folks. I decided last night to take the plunge and upgrade my backend to .18 but I got the following. [EMAIL PROTECTED] movies]# 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: mythdvd (= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages Any ideas?? Brian Boyle Technical Director Toronto 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] image001.jpg___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Someone PLEASE help. No OpenGL Transistions in Mythgallery
Howard Cokl wrote: I think I had a problem with glx in the beginning and fixed it. My problem was that in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions there was the libglx.a (part of xorg) and X was finding that instead of the nvidia/libglx.so so I: #cd /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/ #mv libglx.a xlibglx.a #ln -s nvidia-graphics-1.0-7174/libglx.so.1.0.7174 libglx.so #telinit 3; telinit 5 #grep -i glx /var/log/Xorg.o.log (II) LoadModule: glx (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so (II) Module glx: vendor=NVIDIA Corporation (II) Loading extension GLX (II) Loading extension NV-GLX (II) Initializing extension GLX Oh, good, you beat me to it. I was going to mention the same thing (but I'm at work and didn't have access to the exact filenames to mention). This was with the ATrpms for nVidia. My symptom was that it caused by machine to bail out of X whenever any application used GLX calls (glxgears, bzflag, etc.). I'm sure that installing libglx.so.xxx into a subdirectory of /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions was deliberate on Axel's part, but its apparently not normal for X to check subdirectories of that directory for additional extensions on startup, and I couldn't figure out which config file to tweak to make it look there. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Trouble with Sound Blaster Live 24 bit.
Has anyone managed to get the Sound Blaster Live 24 bit (ca-0106) card working? I'm trying to set it up on a fresh FC3 install with atrpms after screwing up alsa on a previous install trying to get the damn thing up. I've followed Jarod's directions and the steps at alsa.opensrc.org and everything appears to be in place. I'm running alsa 1.08 and the right driver for the card, ca0106, is loaded. I've adjusted the modprobe.conf and .asoundrc files according to the directions from the alsa site. The system is a P3 733, 512 RAM, PVR-250, nvidia g2. The sound previoulsly ran through the on-board VIA 82xx, which worked but with low levels. I've set levels in alsamixer and Kmix, which both show the CA0106 card having all allowable levels set at around 70. I've disabled arts. System Settings - Soundcard Detection finds Creative Labs SB Audigy LS and the snd-ca0106 module and has it set as primary device, but no test sound plays. Everything I see indicates the card is working, but I can't get any sound out to a pair of standard PC speakers. I know that they work, and I know the card works properly in XP Home. Some relevant output: ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# /bin/rpm -qa | grep alsa | sort alsa-driver-1.0.8-36.rhfc3.at alsa-kmdl-2.6.11-1.14_FC3-1.0.8-36.rhfc3.at alsa-lib-1.0.8-18.rhfc3.at alsa-lib-devel-1.0.8-18.rhfc3.at alsa-utils-1.0.8-12.rhfc3.at [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# /sbin/lsmod | grep snd snd_via82xx_modem 14500 0 snd_via82xx26304 1 gameport5057 1 snd_via82xx snd_mpu401_uart 9088 1 snd_via82xx snd_rawmidi26656 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 8204 1 snd_rawmidi snd_ca0106 28324 2 snd_ac97_codec 70008 3 snd_via82xx_modem,snd_via82xx,snd_ca0106 snd_pcm_oss49952 0 snd_mixer_oss 17408 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm97416 6 snd_via82xx_modem,snd_via82xx,snd_ca0106,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 30724 1 snd_pcm snd53860 16 snd_via82xx_modem,snd_via82xx,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ca0106,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 10785 1 snd snd_page_alloc 7940 4 snd_via82xx_modem,snd_via82xx,snd_ca0106,[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# cat /proc/asound/version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.8. Compiled on Apr 11 2005 for kernel 2.6.11-1.14_FC3. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# cat /proc/asound/devices 19: [0- 3]: digital audio playback 27: [0- 3]: digital audio capture 18: [0- 2]: digital audio playback 26: [0- 2]: digital audio capture 17: [0- 1]: digital audio playback 25: [0- 1]: digital audio capture 16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback 24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture 0: [0- 0]: ctl 33: : timer 48: [1- 0]: digital audio playback 56: [1- 0]: digital audio capture 32: [1- 0]: ctl [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# cat modules cat: modules: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# cat /proc/asound/modules 0 snd_ca0106 1 snd_via82xx [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [CA0106 ]: CA0106 - CA0106 Live! 7.1 24bit [SB0410] at 0xdc00 irq 9 1 [rev21 ]: VIA686A - VIA 82C686A/B rev21 VIA 82C686A/B rev21 with AD1881 at 0xcc00, irq 9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# exit exit [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 0: ca0106 [CA0106] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 1: ca0106 [CA0106] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 2: ca0106 [CA0106] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: CA0106 [CA0106], device 3: ca0106 [CA0106] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: rev21 [VIA 82C686A/B rev21], device 0: VIA 82C686A/B rev21 [VIA 82C686A/B rev21] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 ___ Here is the output of system-config-soundcard: [EMAIL PROTECTED] asound]$ system-config-soundcard /usr/share/system-config-soundcard/soundcard.py:151: DeprecationWarning: use gtk.ComboBox self.primaryDeviceOptionMenu = gtk.OptionMenu() amixer: Unable to find simple control 'Master',0 amixer: Unable to find simple control 'PCM',0 Playing WAVE '/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/sound-sample.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo Warning: rate is not accurate (requested = 44100Hz, got = 48000Hz) please, try the plug plugin (-Dplug:hw:0,0) [EMAIL PROTECTED] asound]$ _ I know that this card has been a problem and I probably wouldn't be spending time on it, but it worked when I first installed it. I was also putting in an ATA controller at the same time, and pretty much skipped over configuring the soundcard when it worked right away. I don't think I changed
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 Decoder Waiting For Pause -- Solved
Make sure any vbi/CC stuff is turned off in myth. Chris believes that being enabled is the cause of the buffere problem. John --- Andy Cedilnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andrew, I have not watched any show, but having live tv running for about an hour it made it freeze. This is using 0.3.4a. Also, now I am getting the following error on console: ivtv: ENC Stream 2 OVERFLOW #111031: Stealing a Buffer, 8388770 currently allocated ivtv: ENC Stream 2 OVERFLOW #111032: Stealing a Buffer, 8388770 currently allocated ivtv: ENC Stream 2 OVERFLOW #111033: Stealing a Buffer, 8388770 currently allocated ivtv: ENC Stream 2 OVERFLOW #111034: Stealing a Buffer, 8388770 currently allocated ivtv: ENC Stream 2 OVERFLOW #111035: Stealing a Buffer, 8388770 currently allocated ... Some other problems include: * Switching of channels takes about 10-15 seconds * Picture seems to be worse than before, but that could be flaky cable * Still no mplayer. I wish mythvideo would use the same frontend as mythtv. Andy Andrew Kreps wrote: 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. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] SPDIF, Stutter and Query for where to look for more help
Jeff Wormsley wrote: I found out why my SPDIF wasn't working on my D865GBF (duh, bad cable), but now am running into other problems. :) We've all been there... No matter what buffering I use (I've tried all four combinations of the two different audio buffering settings - why there are two and what the difference is I don't know, but one is in General and the other in Playback) I am getting audio buffering issues, which is causing the video output to stutter. Extra audio buffering: Enable this setting if MythTV is playing crackly audio and you are using hardware encoding. This setting will have no effect on MPEG-4 or RTJPEG video. MythTV will keep extra audio data in its internal buffers to workaround this bug. (Has no effect unless you're using a PVR-x50 and similar, and would only make a difference on dark scenes.) Aggressive Soundcard Buffering: If enabled, MythTV will pretend to have a smaller soundcard buffer than is really present. This may speed up seeking, but can also cause playback problems. (Is almost defintely not what you--or anyone else--want.) Therefore, these are unlikely to be the problem. At least I am fairly certain that is the problem, as xine does the same thing, and with --verbose=99 on the command line, it has a very similar extending video to stay in sync with audio (paraphrase) that myth puts out when using -v playback. I am thinking that the root problem may be in the sample rate. When I got the SPDIF working and send sound to it, my Sony receiver always says it is in PCM 48K mode. ... I think the solution is somewhere in the .asoundrc as I have found examples of bitrate conversion, but I can't find any examples of one for my Intel board (all the ones I have seen have had specific tweaks for boards with nforce or SiS chipsets, which makes me think they would not be appropriate for my Intel board). So, here are my questions: 1. Does the above make any sense, or am I completely off base? You seem to be exactly right. 2. If this could explain my stutters, and the .asoundrc file is the place to fix it, where should I turn for help? The .asoundrc in general has very little specific to your sound card. For the most part, it describes how the ALSA drivers help process the audio stream *before* passing it off to your sound card. The most basic .asoundrc simply passes the stream to your sound card. This works well for those using smart sound cards (i.e. SoundBlaster Live! and Audigy cards and others that do not need to use the CPU for any audio process), but those using software sound cards--whose Windows drivers pre-process the stream using the CPU before handing it off to the card--generally end up with the exact problems you describe (audio/video playback speed is incorrect). And, even high-end sound solutions like the nVidia SoundStorm APU are now software-based. True hardware-based sound cards are becoming as rare as hardware-based modems... So, you do need to fix your .asoundrc. I recommend starting with: http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo#head-b318f22131b4a59eef5f28edfac9160204e13719 . Read the entire post and you should find the information you need to modify it. You'll need to verify/change the device for your digital output, and you might as well change the nForce in the comments--but I highly recommend you read the entire post to help you understand *why* you're making these changes. The only reason the info given is specific to the nForce is because the thread in which I posted the information was centered around getting digital audio to work with the nForce2. 3. (Mostly OT, but I'm sure others uses xine in mythvideo) In xine, I had to go to Expert mode and change the the mono and stereo audio settings from default to spdif to get playback when called from mythvideo, but there were several other settings for various multichannel modes. Where does one find info on that? Are they alsa things, or xine things? I tried to use xine's help, but apparently that isn't installed by the RPM, as it told me it couldn't find the help files (installed from Axel's RPMs stable branch). I ask, because I plan to rip my DVD's, and would like to keep the multichannel audio. The multichannel audio settings are only used by xine if you have your sound card outputting the sound directly to the speakers. If you're using digital output, all the channels are output using the digital sound format in the source (i.e. AC3, AAC, etc.). If you're using digital output, you're never pulling apart the channels, so xine doesn't even know that the sound is multi-channel. P.S. I suppose there are four other possibilities for stutter. One, I used Jarod's guide suggestion to make mythfrontend run as root, but for some reason mythfrontend still says I need to SUID as root for smoother playback. as root: chmod a+s /usr/local/bin/mythfrontend (In section Enabling real-time scheduling of the display thread. at
Re: [mythtv-users] XBOX - remotes
On 5/3/05, a M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip / p.s. patslist at gmail, you don't happen to have any invites do you for g-mail??? Invite sent -- Robert Anaerin Johnston ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: recording HD content
On Friday 22 April 2005 20:35, Brad Templeton wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 03:18:57PM -0400, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: Indeed, you're both right that the broadcast flag is not directly germane as it applies to broadcast digital TV and this is a regulation on cable providers, but I believe you are missing the fact that this is part of an equivalent set of regulations that mirror the effect of the broadcast flag in the cable world. You will find the regulation you cite above loaded with copy protection rules. As I read it, the rules are not out to give plain old computers like MythTV access to in the clear HD streams over 1394. Incorrect. The FCC regs explicitly state that any device advertised as digital cable ready or digital cable compatible must have an enabled 1394 port (unless grandfathered), and must output the unmodified digital stream for any broadcast-equivalent signal over said port. That means if you can get NBC-HD OTA, then if your digital cable provider carries the same NBC-HD station, they must output the unencrypted HD stream for that station over firewire. They may not down-resolution the content for OTA equivalent stations, either. Following up on this old thread, I checked with our lawyers, and they confirm that the Cable companies are able to make the 1394 port only output with DTCP (also known as 5C Entity copy protection). This means that the port will refuse to send the high-def video to any device that isn't blessed as compliant with DTCP, ie. not a computer running Myth. Right now most appear not to be doing this, perhaps caught by surprise by the regs that force them to provide a 1394 output on demand. It is expected, based on past trends, that they will eventually adapt their 1394 ports this way, and you will only be able to plug them into DTCP compliant devices, such as TV Sets and presumably the Tivo and other partner PVRs. But sadly, not myth. Of course we can enjoy it while it lasts, for all I know it may last a while. The Plug and Play regs continue to require them to provide the over the air stations in high-def unencrytped QAM without down-res. Now I'm confused... are you saying that the cable co. is allowed to encrypt or downres firewire output even for 'broadcast equivalent' channels, and that only the raw QAM signal for such channels must be available in the clear? -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Xbox - upgrade
Has anyone upgraded an Xbox to the new Myth version 1.8? Any issues I should be aware of before proceeding? Also, I'm looking for a working LIRC for an Xbox runing Xebian. I'm assuming I need to modify the stock one? Thanks, _ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox - upgrade
The package maintainer is at a conference and has not been able to update the Xbox Xebian packages for Myth 0.18 yet. I believe that he said 10 days or so, and that was earlier this week. We should give him the time he needs to get around to it. As far as LIRC goes, unless you're using some custom rig over USB or something, LIRC works out of the (x)box if you're using the xbox mythtv scripts from http://bit.blkbk.com. Use the 4.5 beta one; it works very well. I've loaded it onto a 1.0, 1.1 and 1.5 model xbox so far without any issues. I've used Ed's Xebian loader 1.1.2. -Brian On 5/4/05, a M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone upgraded an Xbox to the new Myth version 1.8? Any issues I should be aware of before proceeding? Also, I'm looking for a working LIRC for an Xbox runing Xebian. I'm assuming I need to modify the stock one? Thanks, _ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] yet another apt-get problem. (yes i did an updatefirst)
? hi, maybe you can make your etc/apt/sources.list look like this: -- # Minimal config file for atrpms-kickstart. # Don't edit this file. If this file exists, then you have forgotten to run # apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade # Please do so now. rpm http://ayo.us5.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 core updates rpm http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/3/en/i386 at-stable -- Then run this command apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade after that you can try to do a YUM instead of the apt-get yum install mythtv-suite that worked for me Iwan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Brian Boyle Sent: Wed 5/4/2005 17:06 To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] yet another apt-get problem. (yes i did an updatefirst) Folks. I decided last night to take the plunge and upgrade my backend to .18 but I got the following. [EMAIL PROTECTED] movies]# 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: mythdvd (= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages Any ideas?? Brian Boyle Technical Director Toronto 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://home.i-lusion.nl/exchange/webmaster/Concepten/RE:%20%5Bmythtv-users%5D%20yet%20another%20apt-get%20problem.%20(yes%20i%20did%20an%20updatefirst).EML/1_multipart/image001.jpg winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox - upgrade
Awesome! Thanks for the information. AJM, From: Brian Meehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Brian Meehan [EMAIL PROTECTED],Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox - upgrade Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 11:26:35 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from www.mythtv.org ([70.84.9.187]) by mc10-f27.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Wed, 4 May 2005 08:27:17 -0700 Received: from www.mythtv.org (localhost [127.0.0.1])by www.mythtv.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23235171470;Wed, 4 May 2005 15:26:39 + (UTC) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.200])by www.mythtv.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E8E7170846for mythtv-users@mythtv.org; Wed, 4 May 2005 15:26:36 + (UTC) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 37so216099wrafor mythtv-users@mythtv.org; Wed, 04 May 2005 08:26:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.154.14 with SMTP id b14mr313430wre;Wed, 04 May 2005 08:26:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.56.78 with HTTP; Wed, 4 May 2005 08:26:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Message-Info: StaYHEBmGBrgjtigfEC5QATa7U9TUsTuxZTn01OemAE= X-Original-To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Delivered-To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com;h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references;b=QrBigd4+t44dl047aJt0QcnMo5pIziHX2vlFan1e2wMSMg0Ofz7N6IjR5xc7Ww0Xz0KVHLywheZ5RPpbCppNJkjS6+NPUy1qSSRbIrU3ra8bYChcv1EsWHJXZB/WfhupeiSK8Oj7uqFDoXSAbCpwkKVjmC+sCV8UdduMWDt8p6o= References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-BeenThere: mythtv-users@mythtv.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users.mythtv.org List-Unsubscribe: http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Archive: http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users List-Post: mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 May 2005 15:27:17.0598 (UTC) FILETIME=[C18977E0:01C550BD] The package maintainer is at a conference and has not been able to update the Xbox Xebian packages for Myth 0.18 yet. I believe that he said 10 days or so, and that was earlier this week. We should give him the time he needs to get around to it. As far as LIRC goes, unless you're using some custom rig over USB or something, LIRC works out of the (x)box if you're using the xbox mythtv scripts from http://bit.blkbk.com. Use the 4.5 beta one; it works very well. I've loaded it onto a 1.0, 1.1 and 1.5 model xbox so far without any issues. I've used Ed's Xebian loader 1.1.2. -Brian On 5/4/05, a M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone upgraded an Xbox to the new Myth version 1.8? Any issues I should be aware of before proceeding? Also, I'm looking for a working LIRC for an Xbox runing Xebian. I'm assuming I need to modify the stock one? Thanks, _ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Xbox Versions
I've been looking for an economical way of setting up a couple frontends. I currently run a combo be/fe which has served me well for over a year. I though perhaps getting a couple used XBoxes would be a decent route. I've been skimming the archives and one thing that keeps popping up is a discussion/mention of versioning on the XBox. What is the easiest version of the XBox to mod to allow it to run mythtv? Does it require a hardware modification? How do the xboxes perform displaying SD TV encoded at 480x480? Any comments? Thanks for the feed back. Calvin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Avidemux2 2.36
Harvard Pan wrote: Mario, I'm attaching a copy of my mpeg2cut. It may be an old version since I haven't checked for anything new since I got it working. I guess i should have commented my code a little more. I just took a look and it's probably impossible to figure out what parameters to pass it :) Let me know if you need any help getting it working and I can try to comment it better or something. --Harvard Okay, the first run didn't produce results, but i wasnt convinced that it didnt work again, and found that i still had some temp files left over from previous runs. Running again with those files gone produced a good editted MPEG. Now I just have to go the extra step and get the mythweb burning setup and I'm gonna be archiving DVDs soon. Have you tried to push this fix upstream into CVS, or at least inquired about doing so? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox Versions
Calvin, Please visit http://www.xbox-linux.org/ There is FAQ which discusses about various xbox version numbers. I think anything older box (pre 2003) is required. And version 1.6 is a no-no. It also tells how to do a software mod and a hardware mod. I am thinking to get xbox as frontend. I also found that the haupagge (sp?) media MVP also has good potential for a front end. Though its limited by its memory (16mb). It has h/w mpeg decoder and a nice remote. Visit http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/idx.php?pg=main for more information. I just bought it, but still struggling to get my backend running (HDTV card was little flaky, getting a replacement soon). Thanks Mudit On 5/4/05, Calvin Harrigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been looking for an economical way of setting up a couple frontends. I currently run a combo be/fe which has served me well for over a year. I though perhaps getting a couple used XBoxes would be a decent route. I've been skimming the archives and one thing that keeps popping up is a discussion/mention of versioning on the XBox. What is the easiest version of the XBox to mod to allow it to run mythtv? Does it require a hardware modification? How do the xboxes perform displaying SD TV encoded at 480x480? Any comments? Thanks for the feed back. Calvin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox Versions
Calvin, I'm am currently going through XBox mod hell. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone feint of heart. There are at least 7 versions of the XBox, starting with 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, ..., 1.6. There is also (apparently) a 'sub-version' of 1.6 called 1.6b. There are also a truly scary number of possibly mod chips. Choose one carefully. I'm using the cheapest. It would likely had been OK if it came preinstalled with the Cromwell BIOS. Some of them do. I suggest looking for that. I purchased a new XBox last Friday for a Myth frontend machine. I knew it would be difficult. I won't be heartbroken if it doesn't work. Here's the status so far. I got the XBox modified by a nice guy here in San Jose. He installed a DuoX2 chip and put some sort of bootable BIOS on it. I had been able to boot GentooX and Gentoo-XBox after that work was done. After looking at Xebian, GentooX, Gentoo-xbox I finally decided that since I use Gentoo elsewhere I'd go with Gentoo-Xbox. All the instructions said I needed the Cromwell BIOS so I tried doing that with raincoat. Raincoat loaded the Cromwell BIOS, but then the machine wouldn't boot from the DuoX2 anymore. It will still boot with the M$ BIOS. So far I'm out $150 for the machine, $25 for the IR/remote, $50 for the mod chip + install and it doesn't work. That's $250. Probably I'll get it fixed and running sometime this week but it's certainly not painless so far. ;-) (Mostly my own making I'm sure.) My one comment about the XBox is that it's not silent. The fan in them makes about as much noise as an older VCR when recording. This makes me wonder if I'll leave it turned on and ready for use or whether I'll end up turning i toff and seldom using it. Based on a fairly gloomy Monday morning my thought today, knowing what little I know right now, is that I'd double the cost to $500 and build something that's both based on a standard PC architecture and BIOS as well as fanless and completely silent. So far it's an interesting (if depressing) use of time and I'm not sure I'm going to enjoy the box when I get it done. Not a great report. Go here only if you like this sort of thing. We'll see. - Mark On 5/4/05, Calvin Harrigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been looking for an economical way of setting up a couple frontends. I currently run a combo be/fe which has served me well for over a year. I though perhaps getting a couple used XBoxes would be a decent route. I've been skimming the archives and one thing that keeps popping up is a discussion/mention of versioning on the XBox. What is the easiest version of the XBox to mod to allow it to run mythtv? Does it require a hardware modification? How do the xboxes perform displaying SD TV encoded at 480x480? Any comments? Thanks for the feed back. Calvin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Media MVP in the UK
On 5/4/05, Jonathan Watmough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/4/05, Barry Jett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/3/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I have two backends, a PVR-250 recording mpeg-ps files and a firewire box recording mpeg-ts. My Hauppage MVP works very well on the mpeg-ps files but will not play mpeg-ts files. I've been playing with, and appear to be successful, using mencoder to create mpeg-ps files from the ts files that will play on the MVP. In fact, I just converted and watched about two hours of Hot Rocks on the science channel, a quite excellent series from your side of the pond. Conversion of the ts files to ps files using the copy codec is quite fastabout 700 fps on a 2.8G intel, but a little more susceptable to noise. Using the mpeg2video codec, conversion is about 70 fps. In either case, the sound must be encoded from it's ac3 format to mpeg 1 layer 2 for the MVP to play. Hope this helps, Barry Barry Can you post your mencoder/mplayer commands that you use ? Thanks Jonathan Sure... In this script, I just copy the video and downgrade the sound to mp2. TARGET=input.ts OUTPUT=output.mpg mencoder $TARGET -of mpeg \ -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp2:abitrate=384 \ -ovc copy \ -o $OUTPUT For what seems a more error tolerant file on the MVP, I use OPTIONS=vbitrate=2500:keyint=25:aspect=4/3:mbd=2:vrc_buf_size=917:vrc_maxrate=2600 mencoder $TARGET -of mpeg \ -oac lavc \ -ovc lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp2:abitrate=384:vcodec=mpeg2video:$OPTIONS \ -ofps 3/1001 -o $OUTPUT I copied a script from my other machine that does mpeg-ps to mpeg4 files, so the options here may or may not be needed...this was just a quick and dirty test, but it seems to work just fine on the MVP. Mencoder coplained about mpeg2 not doing 29.97 as a frame rate, but the -ofps 3/1001 made that error go away. Hope this helps. Barry ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Avidemux2 2.36
Never considered pushing it upstream, simply because it's mostly a hack to work around an existing bug in avidemux2. I assume that after the bugs get worked out, this will no longer be necessary. If the author of mpeg2cut would like to incorporate this, I would not mind at all. Glad it all worked out for you :) --Harvard On 5/4/05, Mario Limonciello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Harvard Pan wrote: Mario, I'm attaching a copy of my mpeg2cut. It may be an old version since I haven't checked for anything new since I got it working. I guess i should have commented my code a little more. I just took a look and it's probably impossible to figure out what parameters to pass it :) Let me know if you need any help getting it working and I can try to comment it better or something. --Harvard Okay, the first run didn't produce results, but i wasnt convinced that it didnt work again, and found that i still had some temp files left over from previous runs. Running again with those files gone produced a good editted MPEG. Now I just have to go the extra step and get the mythweb burning setup and I'm gonna be archiving DVDs soon. Have you tried to push this fix upstream into CVS, or at least inquired about doing so? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] SPDIF, Stutter and Query for where to look for more help
Extra audio buffering: Enable this setting if MythTV is playing crackly audio and you are using hardware encoding. This setting will have no effect on MPEG-4 or RTJPEG video. MythTV will keep extra audio data in its internal buffers to workaround this bug. (Has no effect unless you're using a PVR-x50 and similar, and would only make a difference on dark scenes.) Ok, I don't think that is a problem. I am capturing mostly via firewire. I also have a PVR-250 for any SD programs that conflict (and HD has priority), but I haven't noticed any crackly audio. Aggressive Soundcard Buffering: If enabled, MythTV will pretend to have a smaller soundcard buffer than is really present. This may speed up seeking, but can also cause playback problems. (Is almost defintely not what you--or anyone else--want.) Ok, so I'll leave both settings off. Easy enough! So, you do need to fix your .asoundrc. I recommend starting with: http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo#head-b318f22131b4a59eef5f28edf ac9160204e13719 . Read the entire post and you should find the information you need to modify it. You'll need to verify/change the device for your digital output, and you might as well change the nForce in the comments--but I highly recommend you read the entire post to help you understand *why* you're making these changes. Yes, I had come to the same point, and made those changes (hw:0,4 was the only needed change to point to the digital out on this Intel board). Unfortunately, it didn't help. P.S. I suppose there are four other possibilities for stutter. One, I used Jarod's guide suggestion to make mythfrontend run as root, but for some reason mythfrontend still says I need to SUID as root for smoother playback. as root: chmod a+s /usr/local/bin/mythfrontend (In section Enabling real-time scheduling of the display thread. at http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.4 ) On FC3, the local part does not apply, correct? I think what I did didn't have the a (only the +s) so I'll try that when I get home. Two, my video sync is still USleep, as I can't run 7174 (see previous post about split-screen effect) and can't get OpenGL to run on 6629 (crashes X when I run glxgears). Shouldn't make that big of a difference (although I recommend fixing your driver installation, anyway). I wish I knew how. I've installed 6629, 7167 and 7174 and the first does not allow any OpenGL apps to run, and the latter two both have the split screen problem. I have a GF2 card I can try, but would rather use the FX5200 as I have mostly working modelines that took forever to get right. But, if I must, I must. After building this box over nearly two years, what's a few more weeks to get another video card, right? echo 1024 /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq ... immediately after boot. If you get 1024, you're done. If not, put the echo line into your startup scripts (if you're using udev or devfs, make sure it executes after the device has been created). I'll look into that. I think I know where it should go, but if I'm not correct I can search the archives. Regardless, you'll want to fix your audio, anyway. Yes. I don't know whether the AD1985 on this Intel board is a hardware or software card. Considering it mentions AC'97 I would think it may be software based, which would mean I'd be better off just getting a new card (I have open PCI slots, although it would mean having three cards adjacent, which isn't great for airflow. I don't really want to spend too much on a card. Is the Hercules Digifire card hardware based? Or should I bite the bullet and get an Audigy? Thanks for the feedback. It has been most helpful! Jeff. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Playing prerecorded video fails on frontend
I have a xbox frontend that worked reliably for a couple weeks. For the last few days, however, it's failing to play recorded video. After anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes, playback stops and I'm returned to the media library. When I look at the log, I see this: RemoteFile::Read() failed in RingBuffer::safe_read(). I'm running a 100mb wired lan with a 3com switch (not a hub) so I think the network is fast enough. I see there has been some discussion of this error in the archives, but no clear conclusion. Does anyone have any suggestions for fixing this? Thanks, Cliff Avey ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Xbox Versions
Mark, Why did you do a hardware hack for you where just going to run it as a front-end? I have 5 Xboxes running now all with Xebian, each runs very well with SD video (forget HD). My suggestion would be to pick one up used, this is how I bought mine and thus did not have to stress as much about the version. Shaun From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mark Knecht Sent: Wed 5/4/2005 10:34 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox Versions Calvin, I'm am currently going through XBox mod hell. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone feint of heart. There are at least 7 versions of the XBox, starting with 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, ..., 1.6. There is also (apparently) a 'sub-version' of 1.6 called 1.6b. There are also a truly scary number of possibly mod chips. Choose one carefully. I'm using the cheapest. It would likely had been OK if it came preinstalled with the Cromwell BIOS. Some of them do. I suggest looking for that. I purchased a new XBox last Friday for a Myth frontend machine. I knew it would be difficult. I won't be heartbroken if it doesn't work. Here's the status so far. I got the XBox modified by a nice guy here in San Jose. He installed a DuoX2 chip and put some sort of bootable BIOS on it. I had been able to boot GentooX and Gentoo-XBox after that work was done. After looking at Xebian, GentooX, Gentoo-xbox I finally decided that since I use Gentoo elsewhere I'd go with Gentoo-Xbox. All the instructions said I needed the Cromwell BIOS so I tried doing that with raincoat. Raincoat loaded the Cromwell BIOS, but then the machine wouldn't boot from the DuoX2 anymore. It will still boot with the M$ BIOS. So far I'm out $150 for the machine, $25 for the IR/remote, $50 for the mod chip + install and it doesn't work. That's $250. Probably I'll get it fixed and running sometime this week but it's certainly not painless so far. ;-) (Mostly my own making I'm sure.) My one comment about the XBox is that it's not silent. The fan in them makes about as much noise as an older VCR when recording. This makes me wonder if I'll leave it turned on and ready for use or whether I'll end up turning i toff and seldom using it. Based on a fairly gloomy Monday morning my thought today, knowing what little I know right now, is that I'd double the cost to $500 and build something that's both based on a standard PC architecture and BIOS as well as fanless and completely silent. So far it's an interesting (if depressing) use of time and I'm not sure I'm going to enjoy the box when I get it done. Not a great report. Go here only if you like this sort of thing. We'll see. - Mark On 5/4/05, Calvin Harrigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been looking for an economical way of setting up a couple frontends. I currently run a combo be/fe which has served me well for over a year. I though perhaps getting a couple used XBoxes would be a decent route. I've been skimming the archives and one thing that keeps popping up is a discussion/mention of versioning on the XBox. What is the easiest version of the XBox to mod to allow it to run mythtv? Does it require a hardware modification? How do the xboxes perform displaying SD TV encoded at 480x480? Any comments? Thanks for the feed back. Calvin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Recordings to DVD
Hi all, I just wanted to hear from people who have been able to transfer their recordings to DVD successfully with Menus. I've looked through the archives and mailing lists and have seen random thoughts from people, some who say they have it working, but not giving many details on which software they used etc. I've been trying to use DVDStyler and QDVDAuthor as the gui, which works fine. The issue is that after I get the menus created properly and then author the dvd,... I can't play it properly with xine or ogle. Playing from the directory structure for other backed-up dvds work perfectly. Also the menus show up and are navigable through xine. Once I attempt to play the actual video (through menu traversal) the video starts to play and then pauses for a few seconds, then starts and plays for about 1 second and pauses again... etc... The actual .vob files work fine when playing them directly with xine and mplayer. Basically, the process I use is: - record shows using mythtv 0.17 + pvr250 at 720x480 2200 bitrate - find commercial breaks and flag them - use latest nuvexport to export MPEG2-MPEG2(cutlist only) I have also tried the MPEG-DVD option resulting in the same problem. - create menu menu.xml file using qdvdauthor - run dvdauthor -x menu.xml The output is a directory with VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS and a bunch of .vob files in the appropriate places. I would really like to hear from anyone who has done something like this successfully. Thanks, -- Andrew ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] strange scheduling decisions
Hi. I run a very stable mythtv system consisting of a combo master backend + frontend, plus a slave backend. Each backend system has a pvr250, and each has its own disk for storing the TV shows. The pvr250 in the master backend is the preferred one (since it is connected to digital cable). So, normally, the master is chosen the record shows unless there is a conflict, in which case the slave usually ends up recording the lower-priority program. I run cvs and normally update pretty regularly (about once per week), though right now I am running a system that hasn't been updated since just after 0.18 was announced. Well, today I was looking at the scheduled recordings. I noticed that today (Wednesday) there are about half a dozen shows scheduled to record, all on the master except for one, which due to a time conflict is scheduled for the slave. But tomorrow, Thursday, *all* the scheduled recordings (about 10 of them) are set up for the *slave*, leaving the master completely idle. Not only that, but one program will not be recorded because of a time conflict, even though the master backend will be idle. Note that the disks are less than half full on both systems, and in particular the master backend currently has over 160GB of space left in the video partition. Starting on Friday and extending as far as the schedule allows, the scheduled recordings are shown to be reverting back to the master, as usual. So, my question: What is going on with Thursday's schedule? Why are they all set up for the slave backend? And why won't the system schedule anything for the master on Thursday, but is happy to do so today, Friday, Saturday, ...? Peter ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Xbox Versions
I'll second that Shaun. I'm running a ver 1.4 with a software hack, Xebian and myth 1.7. The hardest part was getting the software hack on the xbox for me, I ended up buying a memory card as opposed to making one. The second hardest was digesting the how to Doc on the xbox distro, I'm not a Linux user... Shaun, what's SD? AJM, From: Shaun Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Xbox Versions Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 11:18:51 -0600 Mark, Why did you do a hardware hack for you where just going to run it as a front-end? I have 5 Xboxes running now all with Xebian, each runs very well with SD video (forget HD). My suggestion would be to pick one up used, this is how I bought mine and thus did not have to stress as much about the version. Shaun From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mark Knecht Sent: Wed 5/4/2005 10:34 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox Versions Calvin, I'm am currently going through XBox mod hell. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone feint of heart. There are at least 7 versions of the XBox, starting with 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, ..., 1.6. There is also (apparently) a 'sub-version' of 1.6 called 1.6b. There are also a truly scary number of possibly mod chips. Choose one carefully. I'm using the cheapest. It would likely had been OK if it came preinstalled with the Cromwell BIOS. Some of them do. I suggest looking for that. I purchased a new XBox last Friday for a Myth frontend machine. I knew it would be difficult. I won't be heartbroken if it doesn't work. Here's the status so far. I got the XBox modified by a nice guy here in San Jose. He installed a DuoX2 chip and put some sort of bootable BIOS on it. I had been able to boot GentooX and Gentoo-XBox after that work was done. After looking at Xebian, GentooX, Gentoo-xbox I finally decided that since I use Gentoo elsewhere I'd go with Gentoo-Xbox. All the instructions said I needed the Cromwell BIOS so I tried doing that with raincoat. Raincoat loaded the Cromwell BIOS, but then the machine wouldn't boot from the DuoX2 anymore. It will still boot with the M$ BIOS. So far I'm out $150 for the machine, $25 for the IR/remote, $50 for the mod chip + install and it doesn't work. That's $250. Probably I'll get it fixed and running sometime this week but it's certainly not painless so far. ;-) (Mostly my own making I'm sure.) My one comment about the XBox is that it's not silent. The fan in them makes about as much noise as an older VCR when recording. This makes me wonder if I'll leave it turned on and ready for use or whether I'll end up turning i toff and seldom using it. Based on a fairly gloomy Monday morning my thought today, knowing what little I know right now, is that I'd double the cost to $500 and build something that's both based on a standard PC architecture and BIOS as well as fanless and completely silent. So far it's an interesting (if depressing) use of time and I'm not sure I'm going to enjoy the box when I get it done. Not a great report. Go here only if you like this sort of thing. We'll see. - Mark On 5/4/05, Calvin Harrigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been looking for an economical way of setting up a couple frontends. I currently run a combo be/fe which has served me well for over a year. I though perhaps getting a couple used XBoxes would be a decent route. I've been skimming the archives and one thing that keeps popping up is a discussion/mention of versioning on the XBox. What is the easiest version of the XBox to mod to allow it to run mythtv? Does it require a hardware modification? How do the xboxes perform displaying SD TV encoded at 480x480? Any comments? Thanks for the feed back. Calvin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users winmail.dat ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users _ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox Versions
On 5/4/05, a M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll second that Shaun. I'm running a ver 1.4 with a software hack, Xebian and myth 1.7. The hardest part was getting the software hack on the xbox for me, I ended up buying a memory card as opposed to making one. The second hardest was digesting the how to Doc on the xbox distro, I'm not a Linux user... Shaun, what's SD? Standard Definition TV as opposed to High Definition TV ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Backend not calling halt command
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:21:41 -0700 Mitko Haralanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I managed to get my machine back to the way it used to be without any problem but I can't seem to get the backend to autoshutdown. From the log, I can see that it does become idle (I get the I'm idle... log entry) but it never calls the ServerHaltCommand. Anyone that might have an idea of how I can chase this down? -- Mitko Haralanov voidtrance at comcast dot net http://voidtrance.home.comcast.net == ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Burning NUV files to DVD
Khanh Tran wrote: Tsunami MPEG encoder and Tsunami MPEG DVD Author. http://www.tmpg-inc.com/product I believe that makes my point. You are using the Tsunami MPEG encoder to reprocess the files precisely _because_ they are not already ready to go to DVD authoring apps. There's a lot more to DVD stream-compliance than MPEG2. -Khanh -Original Message- From: James L. Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 12:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Burning NUV files to DVD Khanh Tran wrote: 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 Please name any DVD authoring applications that will accept PVR-x50 MPEG2 files unmodified. I strongly suspect you haven't been doing this yourself, but in case you really are, I'd love to know what you are using. :) -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 * ** *** -- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox Versions
On 5/4/05, Mudit Wahal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calvin, Please visit http://www.xbox-linux.org/ There is FAQ which discusses about various xbox version numbers. I think anything older box (pre 2003) is required. And version 1.6 is a no-no. It also tells how to do a software mod and a hardware mod. I am thinking to get xbox as frontend. I also found that the haupagge (sp?) media MVP also has good potential for a front end. Though its limited by its memory (16mb). It has h/w mpeg decoder and a nice remote. Visit http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/idx.php?pg=main for more information. I just bought it, but still struggling to get my backend running (HDTV card was little flaky, getting a replacement soon). Thanks Mudit On 5/4/05, Calvin Harrigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been looking for an economical way of setting up a couple frontends. I currently run a combo be/fe which has served me well for over a year. I though perhaps getting a couple used XBoxes would be a decent route. I've been skimming the archives and one thing that keeps popping up is a discussion/mention of versioning on the XBox. What is the easiest version of the XBox to mod to allow it to run mythtv? Does it require a hardware modification? How do the xboxes perform displaying SD TV encoded at 480x480? Any comments? Thanks for the feed back. Calvin I have a v1.6 XBox which has been soft-modded (no mod chip). I'm running Xebian 1.0.3 and Myth 0.16. Runs just fine. Only issue is that there's no overscan support for the new video chips, so you have to use the MythTV setup to reduce the size of your GUI and adjust its placement. That being said, I later bought an older PC for another front-end, and it was: cheaper than the XBox, faster than the XBox, and easier to setup. While a new XBox is around $149 (will probably come down what with the new XBox coming), I got my PC front end at $90 on eBay. It's an HP eVectra, P3-933 MHz. The only real issue is that there's no TV-out, so you either need to be watching on a computer monitor, or you need an external VGA-to-TV converter. If I get yet another front-end, I'd definitely go for another PC like this instead of another XBox. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] is there a simple recording status light avaliable?
On 5/3/05, Ryan Kremser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im looking for a simple recording status light.I know a lot of workhas 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 softwareever written to toggle an external light? I'm thinking scroll lock orsomething but i'm not sure.Any suggestions or if someone couldpoint me in the right direction it would be appreciated. -Ryan___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users The recently formed PoORMUG (Portland, OR MythTV Users Group) just had a project to show the status of multiple backend on up to 8 LEDs on multiple front-ends. It's called MythLEDd and I'm the primary developer. Basically, the software runs as root on all your backends. It can monitor free disk space, EPG data remaining, tuner status (in-use or free), and job status (mythtranscode, mythcommflag, etc). The program gets its settings from4 new tables (which will soon be controlled via MythWeb), and stores the results of it's analysis inanother new table (the led_status table). The program can also be run on a front-end, where it reads the status information from the status table and controls the 8 LEDs connected to the parallel port. The hardware costs about $10 at RadioShack, and the software is free. I currently have MythLEDd running on my combined backend/frontend controlling 3 LEDs. Red means tuner one is recording, green means the machine is either transcoding or commercial flagging, blinking yellow means low disk space, and solid yellow means low EPG data. My wife loves it! She doesn't like the idea of auto-expiration, but doesn't ever want to miss a recording due to low disk space. So whenever the yellow blinks, she manually deletes some shows. I like knowing that I shouldn't shutdown the machine during a recording. Actually, I've made a shutdown ACPI script that prevents me from shutting down during a recording, but having a light is still cool :) Here's the link: http://poormug.bitbucket.com/ -- Christopher David Petersen___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox Versions
On 5/4/05, Shaun Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark, Why did you do a hardware hack for you where just going to run it as a front-end? Because all the HOWTO's I read said you couldn't do a software hack on a 1.6b box which is what I got at Best Buy. I have 5 Xboxes running now all with Xebian, each runs very well with SD video (forget HD). My suggestion would be to pick one up used, this is how I bought mine and thus did not have to stress as much about the version. Hi Shaun, I don't understand why buying used would eliminate the need to replace the BIOS? I'm getting the message both here and privately that I must use the Cromwell BIOS if I want a Linux only box. I think I'm probably far too confused and far too frustrated at this point to understand all the info I'm getting. I probably am getting it all wrong. Mainly I just want to thrown the thing away this morning and go sleep it off somewhere but my mod chip guy said he'd try to get the DuoX2 working again so I cannot turn down such a nice offer. I hope we can get Cromwell on there. That would be nice. None the less, with $250 into the project at this point I'd like to get what I already own working. I cannot afford to go in a new direction. Money's gone. Either it works or it dies. (Or I do!) ;-) Thanks, Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] strange scheduling decisions
It most be a Thursday myth could never get the hang of Thursdays. No really do you have a different listing source for each of the backends? If so try rerunning mythfilldatabase and see if it clears it up. Shaun From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Peter Lee Sent: Wed 5/4/2005 11:30 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: [mythtv-users] strange scheduling decisions Hi. I run a very stable mythtv system consisting of a combo master backend + frontend, plus a slave backend. Each backend system has a pvr250, and each has its own disk for storing the TV shows. The pvr250 in the master backend is the preferred one (since it is connected to digital cable). So, normally, the master is chosen the record shows unless there is a conflict, in which case the slave usually ends up recording the lower-priority program. I run cvs and normally update pretty regularly (about once per week), though right now I am running a system that hasn't been updated since just after 0.18 was announced. Well, today I was looking at the scheduled recordings. I noticed that today (Wednesday) there are about half a dozen shows scheduled to record, all on the master except for one, which due to a time conflict is scheduled for the slave. But tomorrow, Thursday, *all* the scheduled recordings (about 10 of them) are set up for the *slave*, leaving the master completely idle. Not only that, but one program will not be recorded because of a time conflict, even though the master backend will be idle. Note that the disks are less than half full on both systems, and in particular the master backend currently has over 160GB of space left in the video partition. Starting on Friday and extending as far as the schedule allows, the scheduled recordings are shown to be reverting back to the master, as usual. So, my question: What is going on with Thursday's schedule? Why are they all set up for the slave backend? And why won't the system schedule anything for the master on Thursday, but is happy to do so today, Friday, Saturday, ...? Peter ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV
On 5/3/2005 11:13 PM Joe Barnhart wrote: --- Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ..snip.. At some point, you just have to ask yourself, why is everything so hard for me, but easier for everyone else? I see lots of people who have success with KnoppMyth (myself included) and lots who are successful with Jarod's guide. Why fight with half-baked, incompatible hardware? Hardware is so darned cheap these days, just get something that WORKS and use either path. Don't make everything so difficult by using hardware that isn't supported. Get something that works and move on with life. I fight with my half-baked incompatible hardware for the same reason that I continue to drink and smoke. Because no one likes a quitter! :) But seriously, I understand your point. If my ONLY goal is to get a working Myth box as fast as possible, then just go with what's easiest. But I have an additional goal -- To learn HOW stuff works. I want to learn HOW because (a) it will increase my skill set and make me a more desirable employee, and (b) in the spirit of open source software, I'd like to be able to give back to the community that has given to me. I don't want to be a taker only. Cheers, Drew Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Auto delete old video
I need you help. I am running MythTv. It store video files in /video partition. Now it is 100. I like to know if there is any way we can make/video partition threshold 90%. Thank Bishesh ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox Versions
SD = Standard Definition/Analog. HD = High Definition But SD can also be considered as Standard Digital which is quite notches above Standard Definition, and a few notches below HD. AJM, did you a separate remote for the xbox ? I'm in same boat, I've one HDTV and 2 analogs. For HDTV frontend, I need a beast box (p4 3ghz+). But for analog, I'd like to get a cheaper/quiter front end. I just bought the media mvp after reading some comments about it on this mailing list. Haven't plugged it in yet. Still struggling with the backend. Media MVP doesn't run a full fledge mythtv frontend, but if all you want is watch tv/recording/music (and dont care about other stuff), then the basic mvp should be fine. For under $100 bucks, it comes with a functional remote, 10/100 ethernet port, svideo output, h/w decoder, plays mpeg2 (for mythtv only) and divx (if you run their backend on windows). But someday, someone will write a on-the-fly transcoder from mpeg2 to mpeg4 running on linux. Not advocating mvp/hijacking this thread, just there are some other options if the requirements are limited. Thanks Mudit On 5/4/05, a M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll second that Shaun. I'm running a ver 1.4 with a software hack, Xebian and myth 1.7. The hardest part was getting the software hack on the xbox for me, I ended up buying a memory card as opposed to making one. The second hardest was digesting the how to Doc on the xbox distro, I'm not a Linux user... Shaun, what's SD? AJM, From: Shaun Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Xbox Versions Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 11:18:51 -0600 Mark, Why did you do a hardware hack for you where just going to run it as a front-end? I have 5 Xboxes running now all with Xebian, each runs very well with SD video (forget HD). My suggestion would be to pick one up used, this is how I bought mine and thus did not have to stress as much about the version. Shaun From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mark Knecht Sent: Wed 5/4/2005 10:34 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox Versions Calvin, I'm am currently going through XBox mod hell. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone feint of heart. There are at least 7 versions of the XBox, starting with 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, ..., 1.6. There is also (apparently) a 'sub-version' of 1.6 called 1.6b. There are also a truly scary number of possibly mod chips. Choose one carefully. I'm using the cheapest. It would likely had been OK if it came preinstalled with the Cromwell BIOS. Some of them do. I suggest looking for that. I purchased a new XBox last Friday for a Myth frontend machine. I knew it would be difficult. I won't be heartbroken if it doesn't work. Here's the status so far. I got the XBox modified by a nice guy here in San Jose. He installed a DuoX2 chip and put some sort of bootable BIOS on it. I had been able to boot GentooX and Gentoo-XBox after that work was done. After looking at Xebian, GentooX, Gentoo-xbox I finally decided that since I use Gentoo elsewhere I'd go with Gentoo-Xbox. All the instructions said I needed the Cromwell BIOS so I tried doing that with raincoat. Raincoat loaded the Cromwell BIOS, but then the machine wouldn't boot from the DuoX2 anymore. It will still boot with the M$ BIOS. So far I'm out $150 for the machine, $25 for the IR/remote, $50 for the mod chip + install and it doesn't work. That's $250. Probably I'll get it fixed and running sometime this week but it's certainly not painless so far. ;-) (Mostly my own making I'm sure.) My one comment about the XBox is that it's not silent. The fan in them makes about as much noise as an older VCR when recording. This makes me wonder if I'll leave it turned on and ready for use or whether I'll end up turning i toff and seldom using it. Based on a fairly gloomy Monday morning my thought today, knowing what little I know right now, is that I'd double the cost to $500 and build something that's both based on a standard PC architecture and BIOS as well as fanless and completely silent. So far it's an interesting (if depressing) use of time and I'm not sure I'm going to enjoy the box when I get it done. Not a great report. Go here only if you like this sort of thing. We'll see. - Mark On 5/4/05, Calvin Harrigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been looking for an economical way of setting up a couple frontends. I currently run a combo be/fe which has served me well for over a year. I though perhaps getting a couple used XBoxes would be a decent route. I've been skimming the archives and one thing that keeps popping up is a discussion/mention of versioning on the XBox. What is the easiest version of the XBox to mod to allow it to run mythtv? Does it
Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV
On 5/3/2005 5:15 PM Howard Cokl wrote: --- 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 -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users 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 Thanks Howard! I've been able to compile these parts and get them running. However I still don't understand if I'm going to be able to use rpms that are generally available or if I will need to compile code for everything I want to run. Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] No signal on TV with Audio Authority
Recently, I purchased a Toshiba 46H84 HDTV (which, according to the manual, supports 480i, 480p, 720p, and 1080i). Now, naturally, I want to get MythTV to work through my VGA port using a Audio Authority 9A60 box. However, I am not having any success with it. Here are some more details: I am have the Chaintech 7NIf2 motherboard, which has a nVidia GeForce4 MX440 onboard. The MB has a VGA and a SVIDEO output on the back. Up to now, I have been using the SVIDEO output but now both are connected - the VGA because I am working on it, and the SVIDEO because the VGA currently does not work. The VGA port is connected to the Audio Authority box and the box is connected to the component input of the TV. As a start, I tried using xorg.conf-HD.txt from Jarod's guide but that did not work, so I started searching the archives and the web for clues and help. I found numerous modelines that seemed to be right or that worked for people with similar TVs but none of the work for me. The result is that the TV shows nothing but a black screen. There isn't anything displayed even during the BIOS. I tied some of the modelines on a PC monitor and they worked fine from what I can tell but I am aware that PC monitor are much more forgiving. Now, I bought the Audio Authority box on eBay and I am not entirely sure that it actually work. Is there any way that I make sure that the box is sending any signal to the TV? I would appreciate any help that you guys might be able to offer!! I have a pcHDTV3000 on the way and I would really like to be able to make use of it!!! Thanx in advance. -- Mitko Haralanov voidtrance at comcast dot net http://voidtrance.home.comcast.net == ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Burning NUV files to DVD
I'm not though, I only use it on occasion to cut commercials. I don't do any encoding. When I want a quick DVD or don't have commercials, I just add it to the DVD Author project. -Khanh -Original Message- From: James L. Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 1:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Burning NUV files to DVD Khanh Tran wrote: Tsunami MPEG encoder and Tsunami MPEG DVD Author. http://www.tmpg-inc.com/product I believe that makes my point. You are using the Tsunami MPEG encoder to reprocess the files precisely _because_ they are not already ready to go to DVD authoring apps. There's a lot more to DVD stream-compliance than MPEG2. -Khanh -Original Message- From: James L. Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 12:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Burning NUV files to DVD Khanh Tran wrote: 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 Please name any DVD authoring applications that will accept PVR-x50 MPEG2 files unmodified. I strongly suspect you haven't been doing this yourself, but in case you really are, I'd love to know what you are using. :) -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 * * * *** -- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- -- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- -- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Still no sound with LiveTv or Recording
I just can't seem to get sound to work with LiveTv or Recordings. I'm not totally sure it's playback or not. I looked at http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo and http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php I verified my sound is working with aplay -D mixed-analog $HOME/english.au I was able to hear sound. I also get sound with mplayer, tvtime, and xawtv. Looks like sound output is working. I also just yesterday installed the media plugin for MythTv and I was able to play using that even if all it really does is use mplayer. Is there a way to test capture via /dev/dsp? Perhaps that would help me to troubleshoot whether it is capture or playback that is causing my problems. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks much, Leo Przybylski ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV
On 5/3/05, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to build a MythTV box. [ snip ] 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. You're in a tough position. Being new to linux, you'd like to have a system that is very easy to use, but seeing that you have strange and partially unsupported hardware, it makes it tough. Not to be a gung-ho gentoo user, but using a linux distro that is source-based may be a good idea for you. That way you won't ever run into problems where a package is compiled for a certain kernel / os / etc. Once I had gentoo up and running, myth is almost as simple as emerge mythtv ivtv. I'm sure it's almost as easy for those using apt-get or possibly yum, but I believe those are still using pre-compiled binary packages. Gentoo is tough to start out with, but the install guide is very full featured and explains every step of the way, and the forums are great for getting answers to difficult problems. - Jeff ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Auto delete old video
BIMAL ADHIKARI wrote: I need you help. I am running MythTv. It store video files in /video partition. Now it is 100. I like to know if there is any way we can make /video partition threshold 90%. Thank Bishesh ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users On a frontend go into the Setup Page. Choose TV Settings. Choose General. There is a page within here entitled Global Auto Expire Settings. All settings for auto expire are contained here and self explanatory. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] No signal on TV with Audio Authority
I have seen some transcoder boxes that are picky on the polarity of the sync signal they are sent. Try adding/changing -vsync -hsync +vsync +hsync at the end of the modeline. You should also make sure that the modeline is producing correct frequency output. If it were me looking to see if it worked, I would put the output (Y in particular) on an oscilloscope and see if it's got signal and sync. -Cory On Wed, 4 May 2005, Mitko Haralanov wrote: Recently, I purchased a Toshiba 46H84 HDTV (which, according to the manual, supports 480i, 480p, 720p, and 1080i). Now, naturally, I want to get MythTV to work through my VGA port using a Audio Authority 9A60 box. However, I am not having any success with it. Here are some more details: I am have the Chaintech 7NIf2 motherboard, which has a nVidia GeForce4 MX440 onboard. The MB has a VGA and a SVIDEO output on the back. Up to now, I have been using the SVIDEO output but now both are connected - the VGA because I am working on it, and the SVIDEO because the VGA currently does not work. The VGA port is connected to the Audio Authority box and the box is connected to the component input of the TV. As a start, I tried using xorg.conf-HD.txt from Jarod's guide but that did not work, so I started searching the archives and the web for clues and help. I found numerous modelines that seemed to be right or that worked for people with similar TVs but none of the work for me. The result is that the TV shows nothing but a black screen. There isn't anything displayed even during the BIOS. I tied some of the modelines on a PC monitor and they worked fine from what I can tell but I am aware that PC monitor are much more forgiving. Now, I bought the Audio Authority box on eBay and I am not entirely sure that it actually work. Is there any way that I make sure that the box is sending any signal to the TV? I would appreciate any help that you guys might be able to offer!! I have a pcHDTV3000 on the way and I would really like to be able to make use of it!!! Thanx in advance. -- Mitko Haralanov voidtrance at comcast dot net http://voidtrance.home.comcast.net == * * Cory Papenfuss* * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * * ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox Versions
Just to clear up a few misconceptions for those about to dip thier toes in the xbox pool Use a software hack/mod if all you want to do is run linux/mythtv. It's pretty easy to do and works across the versions. All of the xbox frontends that I've put together for myself and friends have been older ones. We shop eBay for dirty disc or disc read errors broken systems. They usually run for $40 - $75. Take it home and clean it out well. Often that will fix the DVD drive, since many users take poor care of thier systems and dirt/dust/grime builds up inside. Follow the directions at www.llamma.com on cleaning the DVD lens. Buy a decent mod chip. the X3 is very nice since you can start it up and flash it with the lastest bios without a DVD (instead it goes over http). Burn Ed's xebian 1.1.x to a CD-RW (that's important! If it's a dirty disc machine, it might not read a DVD, but it may still read a CD-RW. If not, you can use a working drive from a firends xbox. I've also heard that you can use a PC DVD-ROM drive to load Xebian, but I've never tried it. Get the MythTV installer script from the xbox mythtv page. Google it, first link. The beta 4.5 has worked well for me on v1.0, 1.1 and 1.5 systems. Currently, I'm enjoying a high WAF (wife acceptance factor) because we now have a TV in the bedroom capable of watching shows from the Myth backend, and she can still play Xbox games from the upgraded HDD I put in it, as well as all the emulators loaded on it. Xbox Linux is installed to the Game save partition (e:\apps\debian\default.xbe). Xbox: $65 (inc. shipping, eBay) Mod Chip $40 (bought from a firend who accidentally bought 2) Remote IR: $10.79 (inc. shipping, eBay) Future purchase... wireless controller and a better remote. Probably another Radio Shack 2115. Cheers! -Brian On 5/4/05, Mudit Wahal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SD = Standard Definition/Analog. HD = High Definition But SD can also be considered as Standard Digital which is quite notches above Standard Definition, and a few notches below HD. AJM, did you a separate remote for the xbox ? I'm in same boat, I've one HDTV and 2 analogs. For HDTV frontend, I need a beast box (p4 3ghz+). But for analog, I'd like to get a cheaper/quiter front end. I just bought the media mvp after reading some comments about it on this mailing list. Haven't plugged it in yet. Still struggling with the backend. Media MVP doesn't run a full fledge mythtv frontend, but if all you want is watch tv/recording/music (and dont care about other stuff), then the basic mvp should be fine. For under $100 bucks, it comes with a functional remote, 10/100 ethernet port, svideo output, h/w decoder, plays mpeg2 (for mythtv only) and divx (if you run their backend on windows). But someday, someone will write a on-the-fly transcoder from mpeg2 to mpeg4 running on linux. Not advocating mvp/hijacking this thread, just there are some other options if the requirements are limited. Thanks Mudit On 5/4/05, a M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll second that Shaun. I'm running a ver 1.4 with a software hack, Xebian and myth 1.7. The hardest part was getting the software hack on the xbox for me, I ended up buying a memory card as opposed to making one. The second hardest was digesting the how to Doc on the xbox distro, I'm not a Linux user... Shaun, what's SD? AJM, From: Shaun Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Xbox Versions Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 11:18:51 -0600 Mark, Why did you do a hardware hack for you where just going to run it as a front-end? I have 5 Xboxes running now all with Xebian, each runs very well with SD video (forget HD). My suggestion would be to pick one up used, this is how I bought mine and thus did not have to stress as much about the version. Shaun From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mark Knecht Sent: Wed 5/4/2005 10:34 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox Versions Calvin, I'm am currently going through XBox mod hell. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone feint of heart. There are at least 7 versions of the XBox, starting with 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, ..., 1.6. There is also (apparently) a 'sub-version' of 1.6 called 1.6b. There are also a truly scary number of possibly mod chips. Choose one carefully. I'm using the cheapest. It would likely had been OK if it came preinstalled with the Cromwell BIOS. Some of them do. I suggest looking for that. I purchased a new XBox last Friday for a Myth frontend machine. I knew it would be difficult. I won't be heartbroken if it doesn't work. Here's the status so far. I got the XBox modified by a nice guy here in San Jose. He installed a DuoX2 chip and put some sort of bootable BIOS on it. I had
Re: [mythtv-users] Debian Packages for mythtv .18
Anyone heard anything? Are people just giving up and going Xfedora? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox Versions
I have a v1.6 XBox which has been soft-modded (no mod chip). I'm running Xebian 1.0.3 and Myth 0.16. Runs just fine. Only issue is that there's no overscan support for the new video chips, so you have to use the MythTV setup to reduce the size of your GUI and adjust its placement. Hi, 1.6 or 1.6b? I haven't determined how to tell which I have. What soft mod did you do? Is your XBox still capable of running games or is it Linux only? Thanks, Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] yet another apt-get problem. (yes i did an updatefirst)
? I changed my sources.list file to match yours and that seems to have fixed it. Thanks!!! B. -Original Message- From: iwan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of iwan Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 10:25 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] yet another apt-get problem. (yes i did an updatefirst) hi, maybe you can make your etc/apt/sources.list look like this: -- # Minimal config file for atrpms-kickstart. # Don't edit this file. If this file exists, then you have forgotten to run # apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade # Please do so now. rpm http://ayo.us5.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 core updates rpm http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/3/en/i386 at-stable -- Then run this command apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade after that you can try to do a YUM instead of the apt-get yum install mythtv-suite that worked for me Iwan _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Brian Boyle Sent: Wed 5/4/2005 17:06 To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] yet another apt-get problem. (yes i did an updatefirst) Folks. I decided last night to take the plunge and upgrade my backend to .18 but I got the following. [EMAIL PROTECTED] movies]# 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: mythdvd (= 0.18) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages Any ideas?? Brian Boyle Technical Director Toronto 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://home.i-lusion.nl/exchange/webmaster/Concepten/RE:%20%5Bmythtv-users %5D%20yet%20another%20apt-get%20problem.%20(yes%20i%20did%20an%20updatefirst ).EML/1_multipart/image001.jpg attachment: winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] SPDIF, Stutter and Query for where to look for more help
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip mythfrontend run as root, but for some reason mythfrontend still says I need to SUID as root for smoother playback. as root: chmod a+s /usr/local/bin/mythfrontend (In section Enabling real-time scheduling of the display thread. at http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.4 ) On FC3, the local part does not apply, correct? I think what I did didn't have the a (only the +s) so I'll try that when I get home. Didn't work for me either, I think it is something about SELinux. Two, my video sync is still USleep, as I can't run 7174 (see previous post about split-screen effect) and can't get OpenGL to run on 6629 (crashes X when I run glxgears). Shouldn't make that big of a difference (although I recommend fixing your driver installation, anyway). I think I had a problem with glx in the beginning and fixed it. My problem was that in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions there was the libglx.a (part of xorg) and X was finding that instead of the nvidia/libglx.so so I: #cd /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/ #mv libglx.a xlibglx.a #ln -s nvidia-graphics-1.0-7174/libglx.so.1.0.7174 libglx.so #telinit 3; telinit 5 #grep -i glx /var/log/Xorg.o.log (II) LoadModule: glx (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so (II) Module glx: vendor=NVIDIA Corporation (II) Loading extension GLX (II) Loading extension NV-GLX (II) Initializing extension GLX I just installed 6629 via apt-get and now I have my 1080i modeline working, thanks. I changed my ln -s line above to: ln -s nvidia/libglx.so libglx.so that way it will still work if I ever change nvidia drivers again. I wish I knew how. I've installed 6629, 7167 and 7174 and the first does not allow any OpenGL apps to run, and the latter two both have the split screen problem. I have a GF2 card I can try, but would rather use the FX5200 as I have mostly working modelines that took forever to get right. But, if I must, I must. After building this box over nearly two years, what's a few more weeks to get another video card, right? echo 1024 /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq ... immediately after boot. If you get 1024, you're done. If not, put the echo line into your startup scripts (if you're using udev or devfs, make sure it executes after the device has been created). I'll look into that. I think I know where it should go, but if I'm not correct I can search the archives. Regardless, you'll want to fix your audio, anyway. Yes. I don't know whether the AD1985 on this Intel board is a hardware or software card. Considering it mentions AC'97 I would think it may be software based, which would mean I'd be better off just getting a new card (I have open PCI slots, although it would mean having three cards adjacent, which isn't great for airflow. I don't really want to spend too much on a card. Is the Hercules Digifire card hardware based? Or should I bite the bullet and get an Audigy? Thanks for the feedback. It has been most helpful! Jeff. Howard ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] No signal on TV with Audio Authority
--- Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seen some transcoder boxes that are picky on the polarity of the sync signal they are sent. Try adding/changing -vsync -hsync +vsync +hsync at the end of the modeline. You should also make sure that the modeline is producing correct frequency output. If it were me looking to see if it worked, I would put the output (Y in particular) on an oscilloscope and see if it's got signal and sync. -Cory On Wed, 4 May 2005, Mitko Haralanov wrote: Recently, I purchased a Toshiba 46H84 HDTV (which, according to the manual, supports 480i, 480p, 720p, and 1080i). Now, naturally, I want to get MythTV to work through my VGA port using a Audio Authority 9A60 box. However, I am not having any success with it. Here are some more details: I am have the Chaintech 7NIf2 motherboard, which has a nVidia GeForce4 MX440 onboard. The MB has a VGA and a SVIDEO output on the back. Up to now, I have been using the SVIDEO output but now both are connected - the VGA because I am working on it, and the SVIDEO because the VGA currently does not work. The VGA port is connected to the Audio Authority box and the box is connected to the component input of the TV. As a start, I tried using xorg.conf-HD.txt from Jarod's guide but that did not work, so I started searching the archives and the web for clues and help. I found numerous modelines that seemed to be right or that worked for people with similar TVs but none of the work for me. The result is that the TV shows nothing but a black screen. There isn't anything displayed even during the BIOS. I tied some of the modelines on a PC monitor and they worked fine from what I can tell but I am aware that PC monitor are much more forgiving. Now, I bought the Audio Authority box on eBay and I am not entirely sure that it actually work. Is there any way that I make sure that the box is sending any signal to the TV? I would appreciate any help that you guys might be able to offer!! I have a pcHDTV3000 on the way and I would really like to be able to make use of it!!! Thanx in advance. -- Mitko Haralanov voidtrance at comcast dot net http://voidtrance.home.comcast.net == * * Cory Papenfuss * * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * * Do you have twinview enabled? Or are you trying to troubleshoot the VGA not working with the S-video disconnected. I may be wrong but I think any TV can handle a 640x480 modeline so I would try one of those and disconnect the s-video, check xorg.conf and make sure that Option TVOutFormat SVIDEO is either commentd out or removed. Howard ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Minimum hardware requirements for music-only frontend?
I'm thinking about using an old laptop for a music-only frontend and I have a few questions: 1) Is a PII 366 and 128 MB really enough to run Linux and a MythTV frontend? How about a Pentium 200 MMX with 96MB? 2) What's an easy to install distro that has a small enough memory footprint for 128 MB? For 96MB? 3) Can 802.11b handle streaming FLAC audio files via SMB from the backend? Having read the documentation and searched the list, I feel this machine could do it, but before purchasing it, I'd like to get some empirical data. Thanks, -- Christopher David Petersen___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Someone PLEASE help. No OpenGL Transistions in Mythgallery
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 07:07:03AM -0700, Alan Hagge wrote: Howard Cokl wrote: I think I had a problem with glx in the beginning and fixed it. My problem was that in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions there was the libglx.a (part of xorg) and X was finding that instead of the nvidia/libglx.so so I: #cd /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/ #mv libglx.a xlibglx.a #ln -s nvidia-graphics-1.0-7174/libglx.so.1.0.7174 libglx.so #telinit 3; telinit 5 #grep -i glx /var/log/Xorg.o.log (II) LoadModule: glx (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so (II) Module glx: vendor=NVIDIA Corporation (II) Loading extension GLX (II) Loading extension NV-GLX (II) Initializing extension GLX Oh, good, you beat me to it. I was going to mention the same thing (but I'm at work and didn't have access to the exact filenames to mention). This was with the ATrpms for nVidia. My symptom was that it caused by machine to bail out of X whenever any application used GLX calls (glxgears, bzflag, etc.). I'm sure that installing libglx.so.xxx into a subdirectory of /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions was deliberate on Axel's part, but its apparently not normal for X to check subdirectories of that directory for additional extensions on startup, and I couldn't figure out which config file to tweak to make it look there. Make sure you have nvidia-graphicsdriver installed and use nvidia-graphics-switch. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net pgpndqvxDoNj8.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Debian Packages for mythtv .18
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyone heard anything? Are people just giving up and going Xfedora? People are being patient and waiting with the knowledge that Matt hasn't failed us so far and he will update the packages as soon as he's not traveling. -- Nathan Poznick [EMAIL PROTECTED] He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. - Elbert Hubbard signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV
snip 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 Thanks Howard! I've been able to compile these parts and get them running. However I still don't understand if I'm going to be able to use rpms that are generally available or if I will need to compile code for everything I want to run. Thanks, Drew Drew, I'm no expert on FC3 (myth is my only FC box, otherwise slackware) but I think you should be able to apt-get all of the myth stuff from atrpms. They should run on your custom kernel just fine I would think. Howard ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] is there a simple recording status light avaliable?
Basically, the software runs as root on all your backends. It can monitor free disk space, EPG data remaining, tuner status (in-use or free), and job status (mythtranscode, mythcommflag, etc). The program gets its settings from 4 new tables (which will soon be controlled via MythWeb), and stores the results of it's analysis in another new table (the led_status table). The program can also be run on a front-end, where it reads the status information from the status table and controls the 8 LEDs connected to the parallel port. The hardware costs about $10 at RadioShack, and the software is free. I currently have MythLEDd running on my combined backend/frontend controlling 3 LEDs. Red means tuner one is recording, green means the machine is either transcoding or commercial flagging, blinking yellow means low disk space, and solid yellow means low EPG data. My wife loves it! She doesn't like the idea of auto-expiration, but doesn't ever want to miss a recording due to low disk space. So whenever the yellow blinks, she manually deletes some shows. I like knowing that I shouldn't shutdown the machine during a recording. Actually, I've made a shutdown ACPI script that prevents me from shutting down during a recording, but having a light is still cool :) Here's the link: http://poormug.bitbucket.com/ You can probably make it simpler by just querying the master backend for the status. It will do tuner status, disk space free, and we recently added a patch that will provide the epg guide data status for the Mythled project we did. That way you won't need new tables (except if you really want to do your stats) and talk to one location. - James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox Versions
On 5/4/05, Calvin Harrigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been looking for an economical way of setting up a couple frontends. I currently run a combo be/fe which has served me well for over a year. I though perhaps getting a couple used XBoxes would be a decent route. I've been skimming the archives and one thing that keeps popping up is a discussion/mention of versioning on the XBox. What is the easiest version of the XBox to mod to allow it to run mythtv? Does it require a hardware modification? How do the xboxes perform displaying SD TV encoded at 480x480? Any comments? Thanks for the feed back. Right now i have a 1.4 XBox modded with an X-Ecuter 2.6 mod chip. From what I understand you can soft mod any of the XBoxes but the 1.0-1.5 are the easiest, so you might want to pick up a used one. Anything from before 2004 should get you a pre 1.6 XBox, and the manufacture date is on the bottom of the xbox. -- I probably still have a few (well, now a whole bunch) gmail invites. Drop me a line (off list) if you'd like an account. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Streaming to Windows Machine
Hi, OK, wash my mouth out for mentioning the 'W' word, but I want to play recordings on windows preferably via the MythWeb interface. I have tried and failed so far with: (1) DSMyth Filters - Just can't get it to work! (2) VLC client on windows machine accessing SAMBA share on backend - Works but gets flaky for larger files, suspect something lacking with large file support (3) MythStreamTV - FFMpeg and VLC failed to compile as per instructions in the INSTALL file. Has anyone got a fairly straightforward way to achieve this reliably?? thanks, Dave PS.. Backend = Fedora FC3 / Myth 0.18 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] No signal on TV with Audio Authority
On Wed, 4 May 2005 11:32:19 -0700 (PDT) Howard Cokl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have twinview enabled? Or are you trying to troubleshoot the VGA not working with the S-video disconnected. I may be wrong but I think any TV can handle a 640x480 modeline so I would try one of those and disconnect the s-video, check xorg.conf and make sure that Option TVOutFormat SVIDEO is either commentd out or removed. I don't have twinview and while trying to get the VGA to work I don't have the SVIDEO enabled. I am actually using two different xorg.conf files for the VGA and SVIDEO. Here are the relevant sections out the VGA xorg.conf file: Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 VendorName Toshiba ModelName46in HDTV via AA 9A60 HorizSync15-46 VertRefresh 59-60 Option dpms # 480i = 720x480i # 480p = 640x480p # 720p = 1280x720p # 1080i = 1920x1080i Modeline 1080i 80.00 1920 1976 2016 2400 1080 1082 1085 1137 interlace #80MHz,33.3kHz,29.3 Hz Modeline 480p 27.15 720 736 776 896 480 482 483 505 # 27MHz,30.3kHz,60.0Hz # The modelines below are from XFree86 Modeline Generator # http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl Modeline [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12.60 720 752 792 824 480 491 494 505 interlace Modeline [EMAIL PROTECTED] 24.11 640 672 760 792 480 490 495 505 Modeline [EMAIL PROTECTED] 73.78 1280 1312 1592 1624 720 735 742 757 Modeline [EMAIL PROTECTED] 77.60 1920 1952 2240 2272 1080 1104 1110 1135 interlace # The modelines below are from a posting on MythTV Users mailing # list for a Toshiba 57H83 Modeline 1200x675 75.960 1200 1420 1484 1688 675 695 708 750 +hsync +vsync Modeline 1776x999 74.500 1776 1942 1990 2200 999 1033 1045 1126 interlace +hsync +vsync Modeline 540p 39.956 960 1020 1100 1184 540 550 551 563 +hsync +vsync # 39.956 MHz 33.75 kHz 59.94 Hz EndSection Section Device Identifier Videocard0 Driver nvidia VendorName Chaintech BoardName NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX (generic) EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Videocard0 MonitorMonitor0 DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes 720x480 EndSubSection EndSection -- Mitko Haralanov voidtrance at comcast dot net http://voidtrance.home.comcast.net == ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Auto delete old video
Thanks for your info, Does it create configure file or update in database. Thanks Bishesh - Original Message - From: Mario Limonciello [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 1:10 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Auto delete old video BIMAL ADHIKARI wrote: I need you help. I am running MythTv. It store video files in /video partition. Now it is 100. I like to know if there is any way we can make /video partition threshold 90%. Thank Bishesh ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users On a frontend go into the Setup Page. Choose TV Settings. Choose General. There is a page within here entitled Global Auto Expire Settings. All settings for auto expire are contained here and self explanatory. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] No signal on TV with Audio Authority
This is my experience with Toshiba 42H83 and AA 9A60 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/126022?#126022 On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 10:58:39AM -0700, Mitko Haralanov wrote: Recently, I purchased a Toshiba 46H84 HDTV (which, according to the manual, supports 480i, 480p, 720p, and 1080i). Now, naturally, I want to get MythTV to work through my VGA port using a Audio Authority 9A60 box. However, I am not having any success with it. Here are some more details: I am have the Chaintech 7NIf2 motherboard, which has a nVidia GeForce4 MX440 onboard. The MB has a VGA and a SVIDEO output on the back. Up to now, I have been using the SVIDEO output but now both are connected - the VGA because I am working on it, and the SVIDEO because the VGA currently does not work. The VGA port is connected to the Audio Authority box and the box is connected to the component input of the TV. As a start, I tried using xorg.conf-HD.txt from Jarod's guide but that did not work, so I started searching the archives and the web for clues and help. I found numerous modelines that seemed to be right or that worked for people with similar TVs but none of the work for me. The result is that the TV shows nothing but a black screen. There isn't anything displayed even during the BIOS. I tied some of the modelines on a PC monitor and they worked fine from what I can tell but I am aware that PC monitor are much more forgiving. Now, I bought the Audio Authority box on eBay and I am not entirely sure that it actually work. Is there any way that I make sure that the box is sending any signal to the TV? I would appreciate any help that you guys might be able to offer!! I have a pcHDTV3000 on the way and I would really like to be able to make use of it!!! Thanx in advance. -- Mitko Haralanov voidtrance at comcast dot net http://voidtrance.home.comcast.net == ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users --Rob ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] is there a simple recording status light avaliable?
On 5/4/05, James Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically, the software runs as root on all your backends. It can monitor free disk space, EPG data remaining, tuner status (in-use or free), and job status (mythtranscode, mythcommflag, etc). The program gets its settings from 4 new tables (which will soon be controlled via MythWeb), and stores the results of it's analysis in another new table (the led_status table). The program can also be run on a front-end, where it reads the status information from the status table and controls the 8 LEDs connected to the parallel port. The hardware costs about $10 at RadioShack, and the software is free. I currently have MythLEDd running on my combined backend/frontend controlling 3 LEDs. Red means tuner one is recording, green means the machine is either transcoding or commercial flagging, blinking yellow means low disk space, and solid yellow means low EPG data. My wife loves it! She doesn't like the idea of auto-expiration, but doesn't ever want to miss a recording due to low disk space. So whenever the yellow blinks, she manually deletes some shows. I like knowing that I shouldn't shutdown the machine during a recording. Actually, I've made a shutdown ACPI script that prevents me from shutting down during a recording, but having a light is still cool :) Here's the link: http://poormug.bitbucket.com/You can probably make it simpler by just querying the master backend for the status. It will do tuner status, disk space free, and we recentlyadded a patch that will provide the epg guide data status for theMythled project we did. That way you won't need new tables (except ifyou really want to do your stats) and talk to one location. - James Do tell more! I don't want to duplicate a previous (and probably better) solution. Regardingquerying the master backend: I considered this,but opted for a solution that was less tightly coupled toany particularversion of MythTV. In our implementation, only EPG status directly uses the mythconverg database (and even this query is configurable). The tuner status is determined from the in-use file handles for mythbackend in the /proc virtual file system as is the job status. Disk space is determined viasome flavor of the stat system call. In future releases I hope to add things CPU load, memory usage, network traffic, virtual memory paging, etc. But again, if you've already produced a solution, please spread it throughout the MythTV community. I really don't want to produce a duplicate solution. The project I'd really like to produce is a solder-free parallel port LED kit. I can almost do it with an old DB25 serial port header (from old 386/486 computers) and LEDs with integrated resistors. But finding suitable LEDs with integrated resistors is difficult (ie. not as easy as a walk to the local RadioShack). Any suggestions? -- Christopher David Petersen ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Can't get video on both projector and TV at the same time.
Hi, I've been struggling with getting mythtv to work with both a Projector and a TV. The problem i have is while i'm looking at live tv or at a recorded show. The problem is thatI either get the video on the TV set or on the projector. I've never been able to output the video to both the projector and the TV at the same time. The MythTV GUI is though present on both screens (as well as normal KDE operations). The reason for why i need this to be solved is that i sometimes use the TV to look at programs and sometimes i use the projector and it's not an option to reconfigure X between these times. I'm using an ATI Radeon 9600and the TV is connected using S-Video. If i use Option "OverlayOnCRTC2" "on" then the video is on the TV If i remove this line, the video is on the projector. Below is my XF86Config-4 file and i'm running Debian Sarge,Myth 017, Xfree86 v4.3 Is there any way to get the ATI card to put the video on both my TV and projector? If not, would i solve my problem in ´buying an Nvidia FX5200 card instead? Or is the only solution to use an external vga-tv adapter instead? Thanks in advance Mattias Gustasfsson # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 X Window System server configuration file)## This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using# values from the debconf database.## Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page.# (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.)## This file is automatically updated on xserver-xfree86 package upgrades *only*# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xfree86# package.## If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated# again, run the following commands as root:## cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom# md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Section "Files" FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"EndSection Section "Module" Load "GLcore" Load "bitmap" Load "dbe" Load "ddc" Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "freetype" Load "glx" Load "int10" Load "record" Load "speedo" Load "type1" Load "vbe" # Load "extmod" but omit DGA extension # (the DGA extension is broken in the fglrx driver) SubSection "extmod" Option "omit xfree86-dga" EndSubSectionEndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "se"EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "ATI" Driver "fglrx" # this is the important bit # If X refuses to use the screen resolution you asked for, # uncomment this; see "Bugs and Workarounds" for details. #Option "NoDDC" # === Video Overlay for the Xv extension === Option "VideoOverlay" "on" Option "OverlayOnCRTC2" "on" # === OpenGL Overlay === # Note: When OpenGL Overlay is enabled, Video Overlay # will be disabled automatically Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off" # === Use internal AGP GART support? === # If OpenGL acceleration doesn't work, try using "yes" here # and disable the kernel agpgart driver. Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no" Option "NoTV" "no" Option "MonitorLayout" "CRT,STV" Option "TVStandard" "PAL-B" Option "Clonemode" "0x0100"EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "PHL:490c" HorizSync 28-49 VertRefresh 60-75 Option "DPMS"EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "ATI" Monitor "PHL:490c" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" Viewport 0 0 EndSubSectionEndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" InputDevice "Generic Mouse"EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666EndSection ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Streaming to Windows Machine
try this .. http://sourceforge.net/projects/winmyth On 5/4/05, Dave Ansell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, OK, wash my mouth out for mentioning the 'W' word, but I want to play recordings on windows preferably via the MythWeb interface. I have tried and failed so far with: (1) DSMyth Filters - Just can't get it to work! (2) VLC client on windows machine accessing SAMBA share on backend - Works but gets flaky for larger files, suspect something lacking with large file support (3) MythStreamTV -FFMpeg and VLC failed to compile as per instructions in the INSTALL file. Has anyone got a fairly straightforward way to achieve this reliably?? thanks, Dave PS.. Backend = Fedora FC3 / Myth 0.18 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Debian Packages for mythtv .18
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 20:36, Nathan Poznick wrote: Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyone heard anything? Are people just giving up and going Xfedora? People are being patient and waiting with the knowledge that Matt hasn't failed us so far and he will update the packages as soon as he's not traveling. I tried to buld my own .18 debs, and it worked. If you really, really want them, I can put them online. But there is still .17 in the name ;), I don't know how to change this. Stef ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] LiveTv freezes and static in audio with pvr150
I am building my first mythtv box and I am having touble getting the audio to work. I have a pcr150 hooked up to a directv receiver using svideo and audio cables. I am getting a good picture on svideo0 but the audio is all static. I have testing this using: $ivtvctl -p0 $ivtvctl -q1 $mplayer /dev/video0 I even tried ptune-ui.pl with the same results. Mythfrontend gives the same thing on livetv but it hangs after 1-2 sec. and goes back to the menu. I have the lattest ivtv driver (3.3p) too. After looking at the log files, i ran across this entry. Any ideas? Im stuck! 2005-05-04 08:09:41.530 New DB connection, total: 1 Starting up as the master server. 2005-05-04 08:09:41.768 mythbackend: MythBackend started as master server 2005-05-04 08:09:41.837 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-05-04 08:09:41.869 Channel(/dev/video0)::Open(): Can't open video device, error No such file or directory 2005-05-04 08:09:41.871 Channel(/dev/video0)::Open(): Can't open video device, error No such file or directory 2005-05-04 08:09:41.875 ChannelBase: Could not find input: S-Video 0 on card when setting channel 3 All this science, I don't undestand. Its just my job 5 days a week -- Elton John Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV
On 5/4/2005 11:08 AM Jeff Simpson wrote: On 5/3/05, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to build a MythTV box. [ snip ] 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. You're in a tough position. Being new to linux, you'd like to have a system that is very easy to use, but seeing that you have strange and partially unsupported hardware, it makes it tough. Not to be a gung-ho gentoo user, but using a linux distro that is source-based may be a good idea for you. That way you won't ever run into problems where a package is compiled for a certain kernel / os / etc. Once I had gentoo up and running, myth is almost as simple as emerge mythtv ivtv. I'm sure it's almost as easy for those using apt-get or possibly yum, but I believe those are still using pre-compiled binary packages. Gentoo is tough to start out with, but the install guide is very full featured and explains every step of the way, and the forums are great for getting answers to difficult problems. Thanks for the tip! Your the second that has recommended Gentoo. I may go that route as it sounds more like the FreeBSD that I am used to. I just tried Fedora because it's very similar to RedHat and RedHat is the only allowed distro (because of support contracts) at my place of employment. Thus I'd be killing two birds with one stone, so to speak. Cheers, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] is my PVR-350 propperly configured?
? Hi, when I issue this command : # /sbin/lspci -v I get this output for the PVR-350: 00:10.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR-350 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10 Memory at d800 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 But when I look in this guide: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/printer-friendly.php?SIDexpandables=closedivtv=closedpvr350out=closed I see that I need to het this output: 00:07.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 4000Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10Memory at e000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 What did I do wrong? Iwan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] No signal on TV with Audio Authority
--- Mitko Haralanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 4 May 2005 11:32:19 -0700 (PDT) Howard Cokl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have twinview enabled? Or are you trying to troubleshoot the VGA not working with the S-video disconnected. I may be wrong but I think any TV can handle a 640x480 modeline so I would try one of those and disconnect the s-video, check xorg.conf and make sure that Option TVOutFormat SVIDEO is either commentd out or removed. I don't have twinview and while trying to get the VGA to work I don't have the SVIDEO enabled. I am actually using two different xorg.conf files for the VGA and SVIDEO. Here are the relevant sections out the VGA xorg.conf file: Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 VendorName Toshiba ModelName46in HDTV via AA 9A60 HorizSync15-46 VertRefresh 59-60 Option dpms # 480i = 720x480i # 480p = 640x480p # 720p = 1280x720p # 1080i = 1920x1080i Modeline 1080i 80.00 1920 1976 2016 2400 1080 1082 1085 1137 interlace #80MHz,33.3kHz,29.3 Hz Modeline 480p 27.15 720 736 776 896 480 482 483 505 # 27MHz,30.3kHz,60.0Hz # The modelines below are from XFree86 Modeline Generator # http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl Modeline [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12.60 720 752 792 824 480 491 494 505 interlace Modeline [EMAIL PROTECTED] 24.11 640 672 760 792 480 490 495 505 Modeline [EMAIL PROTECTED] 73.78 1280 1312 1592 1624 720 735 742 757 Modeline [EMAIL PROTECTED] 77.60 1920 1952 2240 2272 1080 1104 1110 1135 interlace # The modelines below are from a posting on MythTV Users mailing # list for a Toshiba 57H83 Modeline 1200x675 75.960 1200 1420 1484 1688 675 695 708 750 +hsync +vsync Modeline 1776x999 74.500 1776 1942 1990 2200 999 1033 1045 1126 interlace +hsync +vsync Modeline 540p 39.956 960 1020 1100 1184 540 550 551 563 +hsync +vsync # 39.956 MHz 33.75 kHz 59.94 Hz EndSection Section Device Identifier Videocard0 Driver nvidia VendorName Chaintech BoardName NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX (generic) EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Videocard0 MonitorMonitor0 DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes 720x480 EndSubSection EndSection -- Mitko Haralanov I think if it works with a monitor attached but doesn't show anything when booting, your problem may be with the AA. Unfortunately the Audio Authority doesn't have a power light like the RCA transcoder. Did you buy it new? Can you verify that the A/C adapter is working? Howard ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: XvMC Bad Alloc:11
On 4/29/05, Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, with .18 and an nVidia 6600GT running 7174 i had XvMC running just fine. Then one day the GF tried to watch something and I got an XvMC error. Something about Bad Alloc: 11. I fired-up a movie, shut it down, and tried again and it was fine. Then a day or so later the same thing happened and now nothing will play with XvMC enabled (it does with libmpeg, though). Is this an XvMC bug, or myth? Is there anything I can do to fix it and use XvMC? Anyone? Any ideas? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor PX-TV402U not recognized by KnoppMythTv
... Following this you should see a message like go7007: registering new Plextor PX-TV402U-NA or something. Since you're not, it looks like the modules are installed incorrectly. Try running modprobe go7007-usb to load the modules manually. -Nathan I made a lot of progress again ;-) The modprobe go7007-usb did not work, the modules were not there. I downloaded the official drivers from Plextor and tried to compile them. At first there was an error when executing the make command but it was easy to fix by bz2unzipping the kernel source. The drivers compiled well with make install. The /var/log/messages after a disconnect and reconnect looked promising: kernel: usb 3-1: USB disconnect, address 6 kernel: usb 3-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7 usb.agent[4971]: wis-ezusb: loaded successfully /etc/hotplug/usb/wis-ezusb: load /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/ezusb/hpi_PX-TV402U.hex for 93b/a004/1 to /proc/bus/usb/003/007 kernel: usb 3-1: USB disconnect, address 7 kernel: usb 3-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8 kernel: go7007: registering new Plextor PX-TV402U-EU kernel: wis-sony-tuner: type set to 200 (Sony PAL+SECAM (BTF-PG472Z)) usb.agent[5037]: go7007-usb: loaded successfully kernel: usbcore: registered new driver go7007 I tried the gorecord app, but it complained it could not find an OSS audio device. A quick search on the internet learned me that I had to execute modprobe snd_pcm_oss. It loaded ! Again I tried the gorecord application by executing gorecord -duration 60 test.avi. It returned the following output: /dev/video0 is a GO7007 device at USB address 3-1:1.0 Attempting to determine audio device...using audio device /dev/dsp1 Using input port Composite Capturing video at 640x480 VIDIOC_STREAMON: Input/output error I did a quick google search on the error but the returned articles such as http://www.thedirks.org/v4l2/v4l2dsi.htm; make me feel dizzy :-o I did not have a video source available at this time, but that should still produce a black video and no sound avi file. The readme file of the Plextor Linux driver package points out: the error messages produced by gorecord and recorded in the system log (usually in /var/log/messages) should provide information to help resolve the problem but there are no errors reported in the messages file. Any hints ? Peter ___ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Debian Packages for mythtv .18
Thus spake Stef Coene: I tried to buld my own .18 debs, and it worked. If you really, really want them, I can put them online. But there is still .17 in the name ;), I don't know how to change this. For your own usage, edit the debian/changelog file and add a new entry with a new version, and rebuild. -- Nathan Poznick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. - Felix Frankfurter signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
