Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast flag thrown out
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 01:49:32PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 11:17:37AM -0600, Brandon Beattie wrote: On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 01:14:17PM -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: As far as I understand it, correct. Asset owners could put any number of whatever flags they want on their content. Asset playback devices just don't have to honour it any way. b. Correct, the pcHDTV just throws the bit away when it gets it. Actually the software (MythTV etc) will be ignoring it; it'll be in the stream sent by the pcHDTV to the CPU though. True but misleading. The duty to obey the flag was (before the law was struck down) on the tuner. So whether it passed it through or not, what would have mattered after July 1 was that the tuner card did not obey the flag rules and dared to send clear content to any PC app (including of course Myth.) If somebody were to build a tuner-card/MythTV combo that were bound together and claim it BF compliant, then the duty to obey would have fallen on both. A robustness requirement in the struck down law would have required that the card in the combo not talk to software that had not pledged alleigence to the flag, and the software would have to be secure from tampering, store video encrypted etc. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Recordings spontaneously slow down
Craig Read wrote: Philip Nelson wrote: I've been having a problem for a while (but only since switching to .17), where occasionally, partway through recording something, it will suddenly slow down -- the video slows to about 70% normal speed, and the audio drops in pitch accordingly. It doesn't happen all the time, and I cannot reproduce it, nor do I have any idea as to what causes it. I know that the problem is during recording, because if I export the .nuv to another format, the problem remains. Has anybody else had this problem? I am having either the same problem as you or something similar (also happened since 0.17) - part way through a recording, quite randomly, sound drops out totally and video slows right down. Eventually (perhaps 5-10 minutes) it speeds up again, but audio doesn't come back - it's very frustrating. That's exactly the same problem I'm having Philip. I'm in Australia and it's only occurring on 3 channels (9, 7 and 10), but doesn't happen on 2 or SBS. Are you using dvb? For me, when this happens, the mpeg stream goes bad for a second or two (as if I've got a low signal, but I don't think I do), audio then cuts out and video goes slow. It seems to happen quite randomly, and has happened when I've been watching live tv - I changed channels, changed back and it was fine again. I am using dvb (two Twinhan DST cards), and it does seem to happen when I get poor signal for a second or two (either due to signal problems or the back-end not keeping up with error correction). I haven't noticed it while watching live tv, but I don't use the box to watch live tv. I have done some testing today and have noticed this occurring on Live TV as well. When I view the mythfrontend output, I always get prebuffering pause or decoding error in the log just when it happens. It seems to happen less when I turn extra sound buffering OFF. Craig... -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.6 - Release Date: 6/05/2005 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythvideo no controls while playing
Scott Arthur wrote: I've just installed 0.17 and when I play a video in Mythvideo, mplayer doesn't respond to any keys. If I run mplayer directly through .xinitrc it works fine with normal mplayer keys, but when it's called through mythvideo, there's no response from any keys?? Any ideas? Sounds like a focus problem with your window manager. mplayer is starting, but the focus is staying with mythtv. What window manager are you using? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to pull up MythWeb
I've got MythWeb running but am unable to get to the administration page or scehduler. Is there some security setting that I need to change in SQL or Apache order to make this work? Error logs? -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Using MythTV for viewing both TV recordings and video's in seperate directories?
On 5/8/05, Chad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did that, but in order to view the videos by clicking the file links was to create the video_dir symlink in the /mythweb directory. This symlink must point to the directory containing the video files in order for it to work properly. The same is so for the recordings directory. The recordings will not play if the video_dir symlink is not pointing to the directory holding the recordings. It seems to work one way or the other, I am hoping for a way to have it do both simultaneously. I recall going through this myself a while back. I just checked my mythweb directory and I have a symlink named video_dir that points to myth's recordings directory and a different symlink named video_url that points to the mythvideo directory. Then again, I'm running cvs from a few weeks ago, not the release version of 0.18. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Palm video from mythtv nuv - TCPMP
Dear All, Has anyone a suggestion for converting a .nuv file to use with the Core Pocket Media Player on a Palm? Have you tried nuvexport? The first thing I'd try would be nuvxeport to divx. Thanks for that tip, but it seems *awfully* slow... (esp. to get started). I started it nearly 10 mins ago and I still see: ... Encode started: Mon May 9 03:45:05 2005 Waiting for mythtranscode to set up the fifos. Waiting for mythtranscode to set up the fifos. Waiting for mythtranscode to set up the fifos. Waiting for mythtranscode to set up the fifos. Waiting for mythtranscode to set up the fifos. Waiting for mythtranscode to set up the fifos. Starting transcode. processed: 0 of 0 frames (0.00%), 0 fps transcode finished. processed: 0 of 271710 frames (0.00%), 0 fps and mythtranscode is soaking up 85+% of my CPU time... man transcode ? ;) I tried transcode before posting. I get nuv import module errors. If you have a suggestion for command line flags that would help directly, I'll gladly try it again. I did RTM and attempted flags that seemed sensible, but no combination of -y and -x worked properly. I rebuilt this from source, so I can do it again if need be if there's something amiss perhaps in the build config. I'm assuming you're using a PVR-x50. If so, see: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/128948#128948 , specifically Nick's suggestion (ProjectX). No, sorry, I'm using a standard Hauppage card. I'm talking rather about an apparently constant 2sec (or thereabouts) lead time on the audio. I tried messing with this with mplex after I'd separated streams with avidemux2 but to no avail. (I could separate them further, but -ve numbers didn't seem to work to close the gap.) Basically, use ProjectX to demux the stream into MPEG-2 Video and an MPEG-2 Layer 2 Audio stream, then recombine them with mplex. You can use Project X to cut commercials when demuxing or you can demux, then remux, then use avidemux to cut/process the video. ICK it's written in Java it says... Isn't that slow(er) again? Any other suggestions? Anything welcome. Above thoughts appreciated. Kind regards Derek Jones. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Front End - Back End? Diffrence?
Forgive me for being naive, but what does the front end and back end do in relation to each other? is it possible to have one main myth installation, and then have other 'front ends' running in other rooms? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up a DVB Card
On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 19:54 +1000, Phill Edwards wrote: So I'm assuming that from a o/s perspective the card is working, but for some reason myththv cant find it. The permissions on the device files are as follows: [~/.mythtv]$ ls -l /dev/dvb/adapter0/ crw-rw-rw- 1 root mythtv 212, 4 May 7 16:57 demux0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root mythtv 212, 5 May 7 16:57 dvr0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root mythtv 212, 3 May 7 16:57 frontend0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root mythtv 212, 7 May 7 16:57 net0 I'm wondering whether there are supposed to be more devices in that directory such as audio0, ca0, osd0, video0 (as per http://www.ethics-gradient.net/myth/mythdvb.html). I only have the 4 device nodes you list on my box. Check if mythbackend is running. If it is, stop it - it seems to grab devices and prevent mythtvsetup running correctly. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Front End - Back End? Diffrence?
Mr AG!! wrote: Forgive me for being naive, but what does the front end and back end do in relation to each other? is it possible to have one main myth installation, and then have other 'front ends' running in other rooms? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users The backend is the part that does the actual recording/storage. The frontend is the pretty gui process that allows you to watch the stuff you recorded. In my case I have an HTPC in my living room that runs the backend and a frontend, I'm currently watching TV on a remote frontend in my bedroom. The beauty of this is that as long as you can retrieve data from the hard drive of the backend you can stream it to a frontend. This is truely a distributed system especially when you start getting into having slave backends but that's a story for another day. --Bryan -- Bryan Halter [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP 0x55AB8EA4 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Current state of a HushPC frontend?
On 5/7/05, Paul Fielding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found some stuff talking about issues using a HushPC as a frontend. The problems that seemed to be present (at least for the Mini ITX variety) are: - quality of the built in S-Video out I'm incredibly pleased with the s-video quality I'm getting from an M10k. I'm using XvMC VLD decoding, bob deinterlacing and Terry Barnaby's 720x576Noscale mode: http://www.kingcot.eclipse.co.uk/unichrome/unichromeTvOut.html - driver issues with the Mini-ITX motherboard. No issues here. James. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Making best use of spare PCs
Why are you transcoding these files when they're MPEG2 to start with? Here's a quick test - transfer one of your DVB recordings to a Windows machine, rename it to .mpg, and try to play it. If you've got MPEG2 codecs installed, you should see crystal clear video. Yes, I'd thought that, but a straight drag'n'drop to an XP box, rename and play, and WMP doesn't recognise it. Most likely my recording profile is to blame - are there any settings specific to making a DVD-compatible file that I maybe am misunderstanding, do you think? If you are recording from either a DVB or a hardware MPEG2 card, the nuv file *is* an MPEG2 file. From another thread a few days ago regarding mastering DVDs from video, I use a combination of ProjectX to demux and correct any errors in the streams from the recorded file, and then Cuttermaran and/or DVD Hive to create MPEG2 and ISO files I can burn to DVD. Yeah, I had planned to just remove the adverts and trim the start/ends before burning - and much as I appreciate Myth has the cutlist to do this, I find the editing is done so much easier in a GUI package - like yourself I imagine. I'll fiddle with nuvexport anyway - I'm sure it's maybe doing more transcoding than it needs to - ie. just demuxing. Failing that, it must be the recording profile settings. The cards are, as you say, DVB-T cards so output a raw MPEG2 stream anyway. Cheers, Dan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up a DVB Card
So I'm assuming that from a o/s perspective the card is working, but for some reason myththv cant find it. The permissions on the device files are as follows: [~/.mythtv]$ ls -l /dev/dvb/adapter0/ crw-rw-rw- 1 root mythtv 212, 4 May 7 16:57 demux0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root mythtv 212, 5 May 7 16:57 dvr0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root mythtv 212, 3 May 7 16:57 frontend0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root mythtv 212, 7 May 7 16:57 net0 I'm wondering whether there are supposed to be more devices in that directory such as audio0, ca0, osd0, video0 (as per http://www.ethics-gradient.net/myth/mythdvb.html). I only have the 4 device nodes you list on my box. Check if mythbackend is running. If it is, stop it - it seems to grab devices and prevent mythtvsetup running correctly. Yes - that seemed to be it. Thanks a lot. Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to pull up MythWeb
Chris, point me in the direction for the logs and I'll post them. Thanks, From: Chris Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to pull up MythWeb Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 23:37:29 -0700 I've got MythWeb running but am unable to get to the administration page or scehduler. Is there some security setting that I need to change in SQL or Apache order to make this work? Error logs? -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users _ 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] Current state of a HushPC frontend?
James wrote I'm incredibly pleased with the s-video quality I'm getting from an M10k. I'm using XvMC VLD decoding, bob deinterlacing and Terry Barnaby's 720x576Noscale mode: http://www.kingcot.eclipse.co.uk/unichrome/unichromeTvOut.html Are you using rpm versions of the drivers, or CVS? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Making best use of spare PCs
On 5/9/05, Daniel Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why are you transcoding these files when they're MPEG2 to start with? Here's a quick test - transfer one of your DVB recordings to a Windows machine, rename it to .mpg, and try to play it. If you've got MPEG2 codecs installed, you should see crystal clear video. Yes, I'd thought that, but a straight drag'n'drop to an XP box, rename and play, and WMP doesn't recognise it. Most likely my recording profile is to blame - are there any settings specific to making a DVD-compatible file that I maybe am misunderstanding, do you think? Where did you get the MPEG2 codec? IIRC, I was only able to watch my shows after installing WinDVD (which has the MPEG2 codec) on y laptop. They do not come by default with Windows, and the fact that WMP doesn't recognize it hints at not having the proper codec installed. If you have a Hauppage PVR-x50, you may be able to use the CD to install the codec. I'm not an expert, but this was my experience. -Jonathan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] DVB problems
I've got a Kworld VStream Xpert PCI card installed and have done channel scans. Now I've got a whole load of new channels listed but I can't watch any of them. When I try to watch LiveTV I get a blank screen with this is mythbackend.log: 2005-05-09 20:57:29.248 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2005-05-09 20:57:29.281 DVB#0 Recorder: Card opened successfully (using PS mode). 2005-05-09 20:57:29.283 DVB#0 ERROR - No PIDS set, please correct your channel setup. 2005-05-09 20:57:30.299 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-05-09 20:57:31.302 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-05-09 20:57:32.304 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-05-09 20:57:33.306 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-05-09 20:57:34.307 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-05-09 20:57:35.310 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-05-09 20:57:36.312 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-05-09 20:57:37.314 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-05-09 20:57:38.316 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-05-09 20:57:39.318 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-05-09 20:57:40.320 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-05-09 20:57:41.321 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-05-09 20:57:42.323 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-05-09 20:57:43.325 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-05-09 20:57:44.314 Couldn't read data from the capture card in 15 seconds. Stopping. 2005-05-09 20:57:44.327 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-05-09 20:57:44.344 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None 2005-05-09 20:57:45.329 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second. 2005-05-09 20:57:45.331 Closing DVB recorder Note near the top of the log it says No PIDS set, please correct your channel setup. I guess that's the problem, but what does it mean? What PIDS? Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Current state of a HushPC frontend?
On 5/9/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you using rpm versions of the drivers, or CVS? Neither, deb packages of cvs from http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~mfgalizi/epia/ . ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Bus Error? Hard drive failing?
I had a strange thing happen on my mythbackend. It's running FC3 (kernel 2.6.10-1.737_FC3) with 2 Maxtor 160gig drives in a logical volume. Sometime early Saturday morning, between 3 and 4 AM, the machine seemed to die. I already had a terminal session open on my laptop and if I tried to do anything I kept getting errors, like bus error. Nothing more specific than that. I was stuck so I powered off and back on and all I got was GRUB in the top left corner and it would go no farther. So I started playing a little. I booted from linux rescue CD and ran run_qtparted. It could see both hard drives, but it said /dev/hda was empty. It could see ext2 on /dev/hdb. Then I booted from FC3 disc one because I wanted to see if the install would see the Linux installation. All it seemed to see was /dev/hdb. Next I booted from Maxtor's drive utility floppy to check out the drives. I ran the quick test and long test on both drives and they both passed all the tests. Then I rebooted the machine again, and now FC3 boots up! I had to go through fsck a couple times, but now it's working. It's made three recordings since then. The only problem I've had is when I tried watching a recording from a remote frontend I got this error on the backend a few minutes into it: WriteBlock(): Aborting WriteBlock, write to socket failed! This machine has been very stable for a pretty long time. I did just add a Via VT6122 gigabit NIC last week. Up to this point it caused no issues in the machine, but the same NIC did seem to cause some instability in another FC3 machine I have. I don't know if it has anything to do with it or not. Could this be the hard drive failing even though drive diagnostics says it's fine? Anything else possibly happening? I googled for bus error but it seems to be a non-specific error, or at least I got results for all kinds of things causing bus error. Any wisdom is appreciate! Thanks, James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?
If you feel like debugging, it looks like you don't have all the modules compiled and/or installed; cx88-dvb depends on some other module that provides tveeprom_xxx, etc. More simply, the pchdtv.com website says the drivers are already included with 2.6.12 I'm using ubuntu 2.6.12-rc4 with HD-3000 DVB with no problem. The READMEs for the pcHDTV-2.0 drivers (included with 2.6.12-rc4) say what modules you will need. On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 11:45:16PM -0400, Michael Haan wrote: On 5/8/05, Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2.6.9-r14 on Gentoo. I've installed the card built the drivers and installed using: make make install However, modprobe cx88-dvb I get: WARNING: Error inserting or51132 (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/or51132.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting cx88xx (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx88xx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting cx8802 (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx8802.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting cx88xx (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx88xx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) FATAL: Error inserting cx8800 (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx8800.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting or51132 (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/or51132.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting cx88xx (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx88xx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting cx8802 (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx8802.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) FATAL: Error inserting cx88_dvb (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx88-dvb.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) FATAL: Error running install command for cx88_dvb And some of what dmesg reports is: or51132: Unknown symbol release_firmware or51132: Unknown symbol request_firmware cx88xx: Unknown symbol tveeprom_read cx88xx: Unknown symbol tveeprom_hauppauge_analog cx8802: Unknown symbol cx88_reset cx8802: Unknown symbol cx88_wakeup Can anyone help? Someone has to have done this. Bueller? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users --Rob 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] MythTV and EM8300
firmware uploads and I get a blank screen on the S-Video connection to my TV. Any ideas? I seem to get output on the VGA connection, but despite telling MythTV to use Hardware Accelerate out, it seems to ignore it completely and does plain old software out. There seems to be nothing being fired out from mythfrontend either (I log all the output just in case) Myth doesn't support the use of the Em8300 based cards, so no matter what you enable it would not be used. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Current state of a HushPC frontend?
On 09/05/05, James Stembridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/9/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you using rpm versions of the drivers, or CVS? Neither, deb packages of cvs from http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~mfgalizi/epia/ . ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Thanks James. I hadn't seen that link before, and all information is usefull. I'm looking to take the PVR-350 out of my EPIA M1 combined front/backend, leaving the EPIA as a front end only, and put the 350 into a new dedicated backend along with a NOVA-T DVB card. I'm hoping that the Unichrome drivers will be at least as good as the PVR350 output for mythTV, and a bit better than the 350 for mythVideo (because more applications support XvMC output than support the 350's hardware decoder). Anyone able to comment on PVR-350 vs Unichrome, for playback quality? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DVB problems
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 21:52 +1000, Phill Edwards wrote: I've got a Kworld VStream Xpert PCI card installed and have done channel scans. Now I've got a whole load of new channels listed but I can't watch any of them. I had something like this when I started my system. It appears that if you let the xmltv schedule capture stuff kick in too early it can give you some problems. After asking on the list, I ended up scrubbing the myth database (ie using the initial mythtvsetup options), and then doing the following:- * set up a capture card * set up a video source, but do the absolute minimum here - ie do not configure any channels and definitely do not run mythfilldatabase * link the capture card and the video source * channel editor - go in and then scan for channels - this will leave you with a bunch of configured channels. After this you should find you have a set of working channels. If you do want to use an xmltv method to get schedule data (rather than the default of pulling schedule data from the DVB off-air signals), then you will have to go through each channel in the channel editor turning off the off-air schedule data and assigning an xmltv identifier. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] ATI remote (keys instead of the mouse)
Hello all, I've attached a little hack I made to the ATI remote driver. It can generate key events instead of mouse events for the dpad (and the l/r mouse buttons). I don't know if anyone else will find this useful, but for me its more useful with myth. Details are in the README. Enjoy! -- Micah F. Galizia [EMAIL PROTECTED] The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. --W. Stekel atiremote.tar.gz Description: application/compressed-tar signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] DVB problems
Hi, I'm using the Debian Mythtv v0.17 packages on Debian Sarge with a couple of Nova-T DVB cards (one each of Conexant and Philips chipsets), and I'm having an annoying issue when channel hopping with my Nova-T DVB cards in LiveTV. The problem is that if I accidentally switch onto a channel for which there is currently no program (such as a time-sliced channel outside of its broadcasting hours), MythTv freezes up. The backend reports 'DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.' warnings and eventually gives up with 'Couldn't read data from the capture card in 15 seconds. Stopping.'. Fair enough, but during this time the keys no longer work so I am unable to switch to another channel, and the frontend either locks up completely or takes me back out to the menu. Furthermore, if I try to go back into LiveTv it immediately takes me back to the same channel and freezes for 15 seconds before kicking me out again, even if I restart the frontend. The only way to use LiveTV again is to restart the backend. Has anybody else had this problem? Is this something that has already been fixed in more recent versions? Cheers, Ben. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Australian TV grabber (tv_grab_au)
*sigh*
As usual I missed, the release version is at:
http://immir.com/tv_grab_au
Only really foxtel channel list has been extended, so no need to
download it if you don't use foxtel.
Michael.
Michael - this is really excellent. Thanks very much for doing this
for us Aussies. I was wondering whether it's possible to enter
defaults into the config file for things like number of days data to
grab and default output file. If so, what would the syntax be? My
current file looks like this:
$conf = {
'TZ' = '+1000',
'services' = [
{
'name' = 'free',
'region' = 'Sydney',
'regionid' = '73'
}
],
'slow' = 1
};
$channels = {
'ABC NSW' = 'nsw.abc.gov.au',
'ABC2' = 'abc2.abc.gov.au',
'CHANNEL NINE SYDNEY' = 'sydney.nine.com.au',
'CHANNEL SEVEN SYDNEY' = 'sydney.seven.com.au',
'NETWORK TEN SYDNEY' = 'sydney.ten.com.au',
'SBS NEWS' = 'news.sbs.com.au',
'SBS SYDNEY' = 'sydney.sbs.com.au'
};
Regards,
Phill
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?
On 5/9/05, Robert Tsai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you feel like debugging, it looks like you don't have all the modules compiled and/or installed; cx88-dvb depends on some other module that provides tveeprom_xxx, etc. More simply, the pchdtv.com website says the drivers are already included with 2.6.12 I'm using ubuntu 2.6.12-rc4 with HD-3000 DVB with no problem. The READMEs for the pcHDTV-2.0 drivers (included with 2.6.12-rc4) say what modules you will need. On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 11:45:16PM -0400, Michael Haan wrote: On 5/8/05, Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2.6.9-r14 on Gentoo. I've installed the card built the drivers and installed using: make make install However, modprobe cx88-dvb I get: WARNING: Error inserting or51132 (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/or51132.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting cx88xx (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx88xx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting cx8802 (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx8802.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting cx88xx (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx88xx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) FATAL: Error inserting cx8800 (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx8800.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting or51132 (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/or51132.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting cx88xx (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx88xx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting cx8802 (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx8802.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) FATAL: Error inserting cx88_dvb (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx88-dvb.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) FATAL: Error running install command for cx88_dvb And some of what dmesg reports is: or51132: Unknown symbol release_firmware or51132: Unknown symbol request_firmware cx88xx: Unknown symbol tveeprom_read cx88xx: Unknown symbol tveeprom_hauppauge_analog cx8802: Unknown symbol cx88_reset cx8802: Unknown symbol cx88_wakeup Can anyone help? Someone has to have done this. Bueller? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users --Rob I've tried on a few occasions to upgrade my kernel beyond 2.6.9. Unfortunately, doing so seems to break support for my onboard SATA controllers. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Kernel problem when accessing Watch Recordings page in MythTV
I've just installed a DVB card in my MythTV box. To ensure support for the DVB drivers I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.11-1.14_FC3. Most things are working now except for when I go into the Watch Recordings page. When I do this I get this (just one line, nothing else) in /var/log/messages: May 9 23:52:34 elm kernel: NVRM: Xid: 13, 02005600 1796 0c28 001100e3 0080 Everything then freezes up - keyboard, remote etc and I have to press reset - unless I have an ssh session open from another PC in which case that still works, so it doesn't seem to be a total o/s freeze, but MythTV is certainly frozen. I've seen some stuff suggesting this may be an nVidia bug. I have the following nVidia pms installed: nvidia-graphics-devices-1.0-4.rhfc3.at nvidia-graphics7174-kmdl-2.6.11-1.14_FC3-1.0_7174-68.rhfc3.at nvidia-graphics-1.0.7174-6.at nvidia-graphics6629-kmdl-2.6.10-1.770_14.rhfc3.at-1.0_6629-65.1.rhfc3.at nvidia-graphics7174-1.0_7174-68.rhfc3.at nvidia-graphics-helpers-0.0.10-10.at nvidia-graphics7174-libs-1.0_7174-68.rhfc3.at nvidia-graphics6629-libs-1.0_6629-65.1.rhfc3.at nvidia-graphics6629-1.0_6629-65.1.rhfc3.at Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this as I can't use MythTV while this problem persists? Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Weird seeking problems
Hi Everybody, Something weird just starting happening to me on the weekend. On Saturday I noticed that my backend had rebooted itself while recording South Park at 1:00 in the morning. Ever since then, I haven't been able to seek properly while watching recorded programs. Sometimes, when I try to skip thirty seconds, it will immediately jump about 1 second. At other time it will pause for about 5-10 seconds and then complete the 30 second skip. When it is trying to skip, the OSD in the top right corner will do an interesting thing. The total recording length will slowly change. Perhaps having an innaccurate total recording length messes with the skipping and jumping. Also, it takes several minutes to resume watching a program from a bookmark. All I get is a black screen for a long time, and suddenly the program resumes from the bookmark. I'm running mythtv 0.17 on Debian Sarge, linux 2.4.something on the backend. Any ideas? Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Weird seeking problems
On May 9, 2005 11:03 am, Mark J. Small wrote: Hi Everybody, Something weird just starting happening to me on the weekend. On Saturday I noticed that my backend had rebooted itself while recording South Park at 1:00 in the morning. Ever since then, I haven't been able to seek properly while watching recorded programs. Sometimes, when I try to skip thirty seconds, it will immediately jump about 1 second. At other time it will pause for about 5-10 seconds and then complete the 30 second skip. When it is trying to skip, the OSD in the top right corner will do an interesting thing. The total recording length will slowly change. Perhaps having an innaccurate total recording length messes with the skipping and jumping. Also, it takes several minutes to resume watching a program from a bookmark. All I get is a black screen for a long time, and suddenly the program resumes from the bookmark. I'm running mythtv 0.17 on Debian Sarge, linux 2.4.something on the backend. Any ideas? Mark It's me again. Also, I am finding that the recording will randomly jump ahead a few seconds sometimes while I am watching. It makes for a rather confusing experience. Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Weird seeking problems
It sounds like your recordedmarkup table in your database is messed up. You might want to run a check on your database tables (check the MySQL website for info). Also, try running mythcommflag from the commandline (it'll need to reflag all of your recordings.. check 'mythcommflag --help' for specifics). I've had that problem before, and those are the steps I used. Good luck! --Phill Mark J. Small wrote: Hi Everybody, Something weird just starting happening to me on the weekend. On Saturday I noticed that my backend had rebooted itself while recording South Park at 1:00 in the morning. Ever since then, I haven't been able to seek properly while watching recorded programs. Sometimes, when I try to skip thirty seconds, it will immediately jump about 1 second. At other time it will pause for about 5-10 seconds and then complete the 30 second skip. When it is trying to skip, the OSD in the top right corner will do an interesting thing. The total recording length will slowly change. Perhaps having an innaccurate total recording length messes with the skipping and jumping. Also, it takes several minutes to resume watching a program from a bookmark. All I get is a black screen for a long time, and suddenly the program resumes from the bookmark. I'm running mythtv 0.17 on Debian Sarge, linux 2.4.something on the backend. Any ideas? Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Best O/S
Hi: I am a newbie at MythTV. I want to create a stable MythTV system that I can actually use and forget like an appliance. What is the best Linux version I should use? By that I mean the most stable, and having the most drivers. I have used Debian and Slackware in the past, although I am far from an expert. Any suggestions? Thax, Anil Gupte ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Best O/S
You mean Distribution? The easiest to setup is likely knoppmyth (http://www.mysettopbox.tv). I really don't get into which is best. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anil Gupte Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 7:18 AM To: mythtv Subject: [mythtv-users] Best O/S Hi: I am a newbie at MythTV. I want to create a stable MythTV system that I can actually use and forget like an appliance. What is the best Linux version I should use? By that I mean the most stable, and having the most drivers. I have used Debian and Slackware in the past, although I am far from an expert. Any suggestions? Thax, Anil Gupte ___ 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] Weird seeking problems
Mark J. Small wrote: Hi Everybody, Something weird just starting happening to me on the weekend. On Saturday I noticed that my backend had rebooted itself while recording South Park at 1:00 in the morning. Ever since then, I haven't been able to seek properly while watching recorded programs. Sometimes, when I try to skip thirty seconds, it will immediately jump about 1 second. At other time it will pause for about 5-10 seconds and then complete the 30 second skip. When it is trying to skip, the OSD in the top right corner will do an interesting thing. The total recording length will slowly change. Perhaps having an innaccurate total recording length messes with the skipping and jumping. Also, it takes several minutes to resume watching a program from a bookmark. All I get is a black screen for a long time, and suddenly the program resumes from the bookmark. I'm running mythtv 0.17 on Debian Sarge, linux 2.4.something on the backend. Any ideas? Had the same problem. The recorded markup table got corrupted. Run mysqlcheck mythconverg and fix the errors. You should be back in action quick. Preet ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Best O/S
On 5/9/05, Scott Farrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You mean Distribution? The easiest to setup is likely knoppmyth (http://www.mysettopbox.tv). I really don't get into which is best. Also look in the archives...the distribution wars have been argued time and time again. Each have their pluses and minuses. The main thing is to go with what you know best. Other than that Knoppmyth and Fedora are the two easiest/most documented. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast flag (tell me why myth users should care technically?)
Wendy Seltzer wrote: The BF requires compliant devices not to transmit unencrypted high-def streams over any user-accessible bus. Instead, they must implement the flag in a manner robust against user modification -- so if they'd seen the flag, they could only allow down-rez'd signals over the PCI bus for capture or playback. That's why it would be impossible to build a MythTV system around a BF-compliant card. Anytime the flag were applied, you wouldn't be able to get the stream at all. Thank you Wendy. I know understand the BF path after you filled me in on the missing blanks. This is not good. # Endaf Wendy Seltzer wrote: At 3:02 PM -0600 5/8/05, Endaf Jones wrote: Thank you Joe for your comments. Very simply: If the Broadcast flag becomes law, all ATSC recording devices with Linux drivers will no longer be sold. Your hardware selection will GO AWAY. That's why it is important, even to Canadians. However (and I'm not trying to be argumentative, but rather stir the pot in order to make the readers think about what is truly happening), The point I'm trying to say here is that, irregardless if our ATSC/DVB PCI card vendors honor the BF (Broadcast Flag) or not, does it really matter? What would be the tangible difference it bit streams coming out of the cards? Are they not simply passing the stream down to the OS and isn't it the OS (or perhaps the player) that needs to honor/control the BF legislation requirements instead? The BF requires compliant devices not to transmit unencrypted high-def streams over any user-accessible bus. Instead, they must implement the flag in a manner robust against user modification -- so if they'd seen the flag, they could only allow down-rez'd signals over the PCI bus for capture or playback. That's why it would be impossible to build a MythTV system around a BF-compliant card. Anytime the flag were applied, you wouldn't be able to get the stream at all. --Wendy Is there a whole other aspect of the BF concept that isn't being talked about? Is the problem really going to be the application (storage and playback as in MythTV) that needs to be BF compliant and not the hardware? # Endaf Joe Barnhart wrote: --- Endaf Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why does the flag matter to us myth users ? (in terms of hardware selection) Yes, technically, some savvy Canadian company could start creating and shipping Linux ATSC cards, but they could not be sold in the U.S. Without a major market, it would be prohibitive to develop the ICs and card (remember, the current IC makers are U.S. based and would have to honor the ruling.) Of course, any ATSC recording hardware acquired NOW will never be limited by the Broadcast flag -- they are grandfathered under the Broadcast flag ruling. Which is why there's been such a run on cards in the U.S. The Broadcast flag provision that was just struck down was a ruling by our FCC, which is just an executive department and lacked the authority to create new law. The issue will now be brought to Congress where the MPAA will have to spread large amounts of money to buy enough access (i.e. votes) to pass their law. (I admit to being just a tiny bit cynical when it comes to copyright issues and our legislative bodies.) __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users 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] Best O/S
On 5/9/05, Anil Gupte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I am a newbie at MythTV. I want to create a stable MythTV system that I can actually use and forget like an appliance. What is the best Linux version I should use? By that I mean the most stable, and having the most drivers. I have used Debian and Slackware in the past, although I am far from an expert. I think Fedora is probably one of the easist to get going. The disadvantage is that is sort like being on a threadmill because its continuing being updated and obsoleted. Jarod has a great guide on Fedora setup here: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php And its well supported by Axel's ATRPMs.net Colin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DVB problems
On 09/05/05, Ben McKeegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody else had this problem? Is this something that has already Yes (it's in bugzilla) http://www.mythtv.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=261 http://www.mythtv.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=271 been fixed in more recent versions? No (ir's on the TODO list) -- John ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DVB problems
Quick thought, have you got your initial channel set to something sensible ? -- John ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Weird seeking problems
On May 9, 2005 11:32 am, Preet Khalsa wrote: Mark J. Small wrote: Hi Everybody, Something weird just starting happening to me on the weekend. On Saturday I noticed that my backend had rebooted itself while recording South Park at 1:00 in the morning. Ever since then, I haven't been able to seek properly while watching recorded programs. Sometimes, when I try to skip thirty seconds, it will immediately jump about 1 second. At other time it will pause for about 5-10 seconds and then complete the 30 second skip. When it is trying to skip, the OSD in the top right corner will do an interesting thing. The total recording length will slowly change. Perhaps having an innaccurate total recording length messes with the skipping and jumping. Also, it takes several minutes to resume watching a program from a bookmark. All I get is a black screen for a long time, and suddenly the program resumes from the bookmark. I'm running mythtv 0.17 on Debian Sarge, linux 2.4.something on the backend. Any ideas? Had the same problem. The recorded markup table got corrupted. Run mysqlcheck mythconverg and fix the errors. You should be back in action quick. Preet ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Thanks, I fixed the errors in the recorded markup table using mysqlcheck, and I also ran mythcommflag --rebuild. But I still can't seek properly. The recorded length is correct or at least consant now, but skipping only moves a couple of seconds. Anything else I can try? Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Weird seeking problems
On 5/9/05, Mark J. Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 9, 2005 11:32 am, Preet Khalsa wrote: Mark J. Small wrote: Hi Everybody, Something weird just starting happening to me on the weekend. On Saturday I noticed that my backend had rebooted itself while recording South Park at 1:00 in the morning. Ever since then, I haven't been able to seek properly while watching recorded programs. Sometimes, when I try to skip thirty seconds, it will immediately jump about 1 second. At other time it will pause for about 5-10 seconds and then complete the 30 second skip. When it is trying to skip, the OSD in the top right corner will do an interesting thing. The total recording length will slowly change. Perhaps having an innaccurate total recording length messes with the skipping and jumping. Also, it takes several minutes to resume watching a program from a bookmark. All I get is a black screen for a long time, and suddenly the program resumes from the bookmark. I'm running mythtv 0.17 on Debian Sarge, linux 2.4.something on the backend. Any ideas? Had the same problem. The recorded markup table got corrupted. Run mysqlcheck mythconverg and fix the errors. You should be back in action quick. Preet ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Thanks, I fixed the errors in the recorded markup table using mysqlcheck, and I also ran mythcommflag --rebuild. But I still can't seek properly. The recorded length is correct or at least consant now, but skipping only moves a couple of seconds. Anything else I can try? Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Do you have libmpeg2 decoding enabled? I had problems with seeking working properly with this enabled. Nate ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?
I've tried on a few occasions to upgrade my kernel beyond 2.6.9. Unfortunately, doing so seems to break support for my onboard SATA controllers. Which driver are you using? SCSI (libata) or the IDE driver? Kyle ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Weird seeking problems
Thanks, I fixed the errors in the recorded markup table using mysqlcheck, and I also ran mythcommflag --rebuild. But I still can't seek properly. The recorded length is correct or at least consant now, but skipping only moves a couple of seconds. Anything else I can try? I found that the recording made while the table was corrupt were that way and stayed that way. Recordings before and after were fine. Unless someone else has an idea there is nothing you can do for past history. Preet ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?
On 5/9/05, Kyle Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried on a few occasions to upgrade my kernel beyond 2.6.9. Unfortunately, doing so seems to break support for my onboard SATA controllers. Which driver are you using? SCSI (libata) or the IDE driver? Kyle I don't recall the name, but whichever is the more current. I tried it with the older one, and got a whole bunch of unexpectedness, so switched back. It's odd, but with 2.6.9 it all just works, but anything above that and the machine seems to freeze (though it's not really frozen) at the point where its bringing the drives online. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?
I don't recall the name, but whichever is the more current. I tried it with the older one, and got a whole bunch of unexpectedness, so switched back. It's odd, but with 2.6.9 it all just works, but anything above that and the machine seems to freeze (though it's not really frozen) at the point where its bringing the drives online. Okay, you really need to get a better idea of what you're using before making this determination. Can you post your kernel .config so we can see what you're actually using? It would also be helpful to know what motherboard you're using. Kyle ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re:Myth Game issue????
Try it with the full path. i.e. xmame /home/mythtv/games/xmame/roms/pacman I had a similar issue and my roms would work with the full path expression. Don't quite know why. Didn't dig that far as after dinking with this some mysql all of a sudden took a nose dive for some reason and I lost the machine. Haven't gotten it reloaded yet. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Weird seeking problems
On May 9, 2005 12:05 pm, Nate Thompson wrote: On 5/9/05, Mark J. Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 9, 2005 11:32 am, Preet Khalsa wrote: Mark J. Small wrote: Hi Everybody, Something weird just starting happening to me on the weekend. On Saturday I noticed that my backend had rebooted itself while recording South Park at 1:00 in the morning. Ever since then, I haven't been able to seek properly while watching recorded programs. Sometimes, when I try to skip thirty seconds, it will immediately jump about 1 second. At other time it will pause for about 5-10 seconds and then complete the 30 second skip. When it is trying to skip, the OSD in the top right corner will do an interesting thing. The total recording length will slowly change. Perhaps having an innaccurate total recording length messes with the skipping and jumping. Also, it takes several minutes to resume watching a program from a bookmark. All I get is a black screen for a long time, and suddenly the program resumes from the bookmark. I'm running mythtv 0.17 on Debian Sarge, linux 2.4.something on the backend. Any ideas? Had the same problem. The recorded markup table got corrupted. Run mysqlcheck mythconverg and fix the errors. You should be back in action quick. Preet ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Thanks, I fixed the errors in the recorded markup table using mysqlcheck, and I also ran mythcommflag --rebuild. But I still can't seek properly. The recorded length is correct or at least consant now, but skipping only moves a couple of seconds. Anything else I can try? Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Do you have libmpeg2 decoding enabled? I had problems with seeking working properly with this enabled. Nate ___ No, I don't. Oh well, I have a new recording starting in half an hour. Hopefully that one will be okay now that my database has been fixed Thanks all, Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to pull up MythWeb
Chris, point me in the direction for the logs and I'll post them. well, they're usually stored somewhere like /var/log/httpd/error_log -- but that depends on your apache setup. -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Weird seeking problems
I found that the recording made while the table was corrupt were that way and stayed that way. Recordings before and after were fine. Unless someone else has an idea there is nothing you can do for past history. Preet I don't have access to my mythbox right now.. but in my particular situation, I had to either delete the data from the recordedmarkup table (mysql command: 'delete * from recordedmarkup') then run mythcommflag, or I had to manually force mythcommflag to replace all the data (I don't recall if --rebuild is the appropriate option, though it sounds right). I'll look at my mythbox after work and see if I can shed more light on what I did to fix the problem. Good Luck --Phill W. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?
On 5/9/05, Kyle Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't recall the name, but whichever is the more current. I tried it with the older one, and got a whole bunch of unexpectedness, so switched back. It's odd, but with 2.6.9 it all just works, but anything above that and the machine seems to freeze (though it's not really frozen) at the point where its bringing the drives online. Okay, you really need to get a better idea of what you're using before making this determination. Can you post your kernel .config so we can see what you're actually using? It would also be helpful to know what motherboard you're using. Kyle I would have been able to tell you had I been at home. Sorry. My motherboard is the EpOX EP-9NDA3+ (http://www.epox.com/USA/product.asp?id=EP-9NDA3plus). ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] myth .18 external channel problem
ok for a very long time i have been using a program a friend wrote for me. very basic accpets 3 numbers and then sends them to a custom channel changer i built on the paralle port. now with this new myth, it seems to have a fit and continue to change channels just randomly sending numbers. dose any one have any idea what was changed in mythtv's external chaning software i don't want to have to back date. if need be i can send the program and its code. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Same channel in different sources, always record from lowest numbered channel?
I have ESPN on channel 33 (Cable) and channel 140 (Dish Network). If I set a recording from channel 140 It always activates another tuner card on channel 33 instead, even if I am watching channel 140 in live tv and hit record. Any way to force Mythtv to record from channel 140 without removing channel 33 from the lineup? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?
I would have been able to tell you had I been at home. Sorry. My motherboard is the EpOX EP-9NDA3+ (http://www.epox.com/USA/product.asp?id=EP-9NDA3plus). Well, from looking at the specs, I can suggest the following: Two S-ATA ports from nForce3 Ultra with up to 150MBps bandwidth Two S-ATA ports from Marvell 88SR3020 SATA PHY I recommend using the nForce3 SATA heads. You're not using RAID, right? Make sure it's set up as non-RAID in the BIOS, and then try these instructions that I found with Google: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/5/2005/03/4/304143 OK. I did a bit of searching and found these: about half way down. Use find to search the page for nforce3: [url]http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html[/url] Also about half way down, look at post by Augustus, he has a list in there: [url]http://www.linuxhardware.org/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi?;act=ST;f=19;t=32;st=20[/url] Look under nForce3 Ultra Linux Support which is a bit under the first two pics. It tells where the drivers are in the config: [url]http://www.linuxhardware.org/features/04/10/19/1654258.shtml[/url] That is a bit to read and may require a bit of stiching together but it did help me to find this in the 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 kernel config screen: [CODE] [*] Serial ATA (SATA) support AHCI SATA support (NEW) ServerWorks Frodo / Apple K2 SATA support * Intel PIIX/ICH SATA support NVIDIA SATA support (NEW) Promise PATA 2027x support (NEW) Promise PATA 2027x support (NEW) Promise SATA TX2/TX4 support Pacific Digital SATA QStor support (NEW) Promise SATA SX4 support Silicon Image SATA support SiS 964/180 SATA support ULi Electronics SATA support (NEW) VIA SATA support VITESSE VSC-7174 SATA support [/CODE] It looks like it should work if whatever you install detects it properly. If you need to use this, this is the path to the drivers: Device Drivers SCSI device support SCSI low-level drivers, just in case you need to know that. Also make sure you have your BIOS set up properly before you start the install. From what I have read, that is critical. Now go install something and let us know how well, ;) , it goes. Hope all that helps. I'm on a slow dial-up and it takes a while to get all that. :( :( Cheers, Kyle ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Deleting old recordings when storage fills up
Hi, I imagine that there is a setting for this somewhere. My wife wanted a movie recorded that didn't make it due to the allocated disk space being used up. I thought that Myth was just going to delete older recordings by default to make room but it didn't. Where would I configure this sort of operation? I looked in mythtv-setup but I didn't see it. Is it there or elsewhere? Thanks, Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?
On 5/9/05, Kyle Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would have been able to tell you had I been at home. Sorry. My motherboard is the EpOX EP-9NDA3+ (http://www.epox.com/USA/product.asp?id=EP-9NDA3plus). Well, from looking at the specs, I can suggest the following: Two S-ATA ports from nForce3 Ultra with up to 150MBps bandwidth Two S-ATA ports from Marvell 88SR3020 SATA PHY I recommend using the nForce3 SATA heads. You're not using RAID, right? Make sure it's set up as non-RAID in the BIOS, and then try these instructions that I found with Google: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/5/2005/03/4/304143 OK. I did a bit of searching and found these: about half way down. Use find to search the page for nforce3: [url]http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html[/url] Also about half way down, look at post by Augustus, he has a list in there: [url]http://www.linuxhardware.org/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi?;act=ST;f=19;t=32;st=20[/url] Look under nForce3 Ultra Linux Support which is a bit under the first two pics. It tells where the drivers are in the config: [url]http://www.linuxhardware.org/features/04/10/19/1654258.shtml[/url] That is a bit to read and may require a bit of stiching together but it did help me to find this in the 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 kernel config screen: [CODE] [*] Serial ATA (SATA) support AHCI SATA support (NEW) ServerWorks Frodo / Apple K2 SATA support * Intel PIIX/ICH SATA support NVIDIA SATA support (NEW) Promise PATA 2027x support (NEW) Promise PATA 2027x support (NEW) Promise SATA TX2/TX4 support Pacific Digital SATA QStor support (NEW) Promise SATA SX4 support Silicon Image SATA support SiS 964/180 SATA support ULi Electronics SATA support (NEW) VIA SATA support VITESSE VSC-7174 SATA support [/CODE] It looks like it should work if whatever you install detects it properly. If you need to use this, this is the path to the drivers: Device Drivers SCSI device support SCSI low-level drivers, just in case you need to know that. Also make sure you have your BIOS set up properly before you start the install. From what I have read, that is critical. Now go install something and let us know how well, ;) , it goes. Hope all that helps. I'm on a slow dial-up and it takes a while to get all that. :( :( Cheers, Kyle I'm not using RAID. I do have 3 250GB SATA drives in there, so I can't just use the nVidia ports. Come to think of it, it does seem to freeze (again, only with 2.6.10 and above) when it's loading the third drive, so maybe it'd make sense that those drivers are the issue. So, in your post I see that Intel PIIX/ICH SATA support was selected - is that what you think will provide support for those other two drive ports? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Bus Error? Hard drive failing?
On 5/9/05, James Pifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a strange thing happen on my mythbackend. It's running FC3 (kernel 2.6.10-1.737_FC3) with 2 Maxtor 160gig drives in a logical volume. Sometime early Saturday morning, between 3 and 4 AM, the machine seemed to die. I already had a terminal session open on my laptop and if I tried to do anything I kept getting errors, like bus error. Nothing more specific than that. I was stuck so I powered off and back on and all I got was GRUB in the top left corner and it would go no farther. So I started playing a little. I booted from linux rescue CD and ran run_qtparted. It could see both hard drives, but it said /dev/hda was empty. It could see ext2 on /dev/hdb. Then I booted from FC3 disc one because I wanted to see if the install would see the Linux installation. All it seemed to see was /dev/hdb. Next I booted from Maxtor's drive utility floppy to check out the drives. I ran the quick test and long test on both drives and they both passed all the tests. Then I rebooted the machine again, and now FC3 boots up! I had to go through fsck a couple times, but now it's working. It's made three recordings since then. The only problem I've had is when I tried watching a recording from a remote frontend I got this error on the backend a few minutes into it: WriteBlock(): Aborting WriteBlock, write to socket failed! This machine has been very stable for a pretty long time. I did just add a Via VT6122 gigabit NIC last week. Up to this point it caused no issues in the machine, but the same NIC did seem to cause some instability in another FC3 machine I have. I don't know if it has anything to do with it or not. Could this be the hard drive failing even though drive diagnostics says it's fine? Anything else possibly happening? I googled for bus error but it seems to be a non-specific error, or at least I got results for all kinds of things causing bus error. Any wisdom is appreciate! No wisdom but a couple of suggestions: i) have you got smartd running? If so, take a look at the SMART status of the 2 drives and see if any errors have been recorded, ii) check to see if the NIC is sharing IRQs with the drive controller etc. Maybe change slot to try and get the NIC its own IRQ if it's currently sharing, and iii) remove/swap out the GBit NIC and see if the system's stability returns. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] myth .18 external channel problem
Are you using the external channel change script variable, set up from the backend? Most people use change-channel-lirc.sh from contrib. MythTV sends that script the digits, which in turn makes the external channel change. In the case of that script, it's a lirc command. -Khanh -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of travis eddy Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 11:47 AM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] myth .18 external channel problem ok for a very long time i have been using a program a friend wrote for me. very basic accpets 3 numbers and then sends them to a custom channel changer i built on the paralle port. now with this new myth, it seems to have a fit and continue to change channels just randomly sending numbers. dose any one have any idea what was changed in mythtv's external chaning software i don't want to have to back date. if need be i can send the program and its code. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Same channel in different sources, always record from lowest numbered channel?
On 5/9/05, Victor Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have ESPN on channel 33 (Cable) and channel 140 (Dish Network). If I set a recording from channel 140 It always activates another tuner card on channel 33 instead, even if I am watching channel 140 in live tv and hit record. Any way to force Mythtv to record from channel 140 without removing channel 33 from the lineup? You can set priority for your capture cards and channels, which should help here. Also (at least in 0.16) there is an option to reduce conflicts between recordings and live tv which could be throwing up the problems you are having, especially if you are watching on the channel/tuner you are wanting to record from. It is likely to try and record the channel on another capture card if you ware watching on a particular tuner and have this option enabled. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Deleting old recordings when storage fills up
On 5/9/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I imagine that there is a setting for this somewhere. My wife wanted a movie recorded that didn't make it due to the allocated disk space being used up. I thought that Myth was just going to delete older recordings by default to make room but it didn't. Where would I configure this sort of operation? I looked in mythtv-setup but I didn't see it. Is it there or elsewhere? When you setup recordings, you can specify whether they can be 'for the chop' in the future if disk space is running out, usually the earliest recording is deleted first. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?
So, in your post I see that Intel PIIX/ICH SATA support was selected - is that what you think will provide support for those other two drive ports? I'm sorry; I should have proofread before cut-and-paste. No, you want NVIDIA support for the first chip. For the Marvell chip, things appear to be more complex, and more experimental. This page has some information about how to install the Marvell SATA driver: http://www.keffective.com/mvsata/ It's possible you were using a version of 2.6.9 that had mvsata support included, but when you upgraded to 2.6.1x, that support wasn't there because you were now using a vanilla kernel. Cheers, Kyle ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Making best use of spare PCs
On 5/9/05, Jonathan Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/9/05, Daniel Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why are you transcoding these files when they're MPEG2 to start with? Here's a quick test - transfer one of your DVB recordings to a Windows machine, rename it to .mpg, and try to play it. If you've got MPEG2 codecs installed, you should see crystal clear video. Yes, I'd thought that, but a straight drag'n'drop to an XP box, rename and play, and WMP doesn't recognise it. Most likely my recording profile is to blame - are there any settings specific to making a DVD-compatible file that I maybe am misunderstanding, do you think? Could be if the TS is being recorded instead of the PS? I just tried to play American Grafiti recorded the other day, which played fine (DVB recorded from ITV1, UK) This is using myth 0.16, standard DVB card options. Where did you get the MPEG2 codec? IIRC, I was only able to watch my shows after installing WinDVD (which has the MPEG2 codec) on y laptop. They do not come by default with Windows, and the fact that WMP doesn't recognize it hints at not having the proper codec installed. If you have a Hauppage PVR-x50, you may be able to use the CD to install the codec. The decoder would have come from DVD software (Cyberlink PowerDVD) which was installed when I built the machine (sorry for not making that more obvious). I also get erratic behaviour from WMP playing mpeg2 files/streams. Since I stopped using WMP 6 I've used Media Player Classic (on sourceforge I think) to play all my media files (except where WMP is required). It seems to have far fewer problems playing files, has more configuration options (such as aspect, stretching) and a far less cluttered interface than WMP now, and starts up instantly. May also be worth looking into BS Player and/or Zoom Player. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: [ATrpms-users] Kernel problem when accessing Watch Recordings page in MythTV
On Monday 09 May 2005 16:02, Phill Edwards wrote: Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this as I can't use MythTV while this problem persists? Have you tried switching off XV controls ? What happens if you play in a window instead of full screen (perhaps mythtv is using XVidModeExtension when going full screen) ? Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Best O/S
On 5/9/05, Colin Smillie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/9/05, Anil Gupte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I am a newbie at MythTV. I want to create a stable MythTV system that I can actually use and forget like an appliance. What is the best Linux version I should use? By that I mean the most stable, and having the most drivers. I have used Debian and Slackware in the past, although I am far from an expert. I think Fedora is probably one of the easist to get going. The disadvantage is that is sort like being on a threadmill because its continuing being updated and obsoleted. Jarod has a great guide on Fedora setup here: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php And its well supported by Axel's ATRPMs.net I'd second that the combination of Jarod's Fedora guides and using apt-get with atrpms.net means you can get a Fedora-based Myth system up and running quickly. If Fedora bring out a new kernel release, it is usually only a few days until Axel at atrpms.net has got suitable driver packages released, which makes upgrading fairly painless. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and EM8300
On 5/9/05, Greg Estabrooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: firmware uploads and I get a blank screen on the S-Video connection to my TV. Any ideas? I seem to get output on the VGA connection, but despite telling MythTV to use Hardware Accelerate out, it seems to ignore it completely and does plain old software out. There seems to be nothing being fired out from mythfrontend either (I log all the output just in case) Myth doesn't support the use of the Em8300 based cards, so no matter what you enable it would not be used. It may be possible to use the Hollywood+ card as a regular X display (without acceleration) for a myth system (as is currently the case with the PVR350). It is highly likely though you may get accelerated mpeg2 playback in xine (one of the output options). I have one of these lying around so may have a go and see where I get to. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythvideo no controls while playing
On 5/7/05, Scott Arthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed 0.17 and when I play a video in Mythvideo, mplayer doesn't respond to any keys. If I run mplayer directly through .xinitrc it works fine with normal mplayer keys, but when it's called through mythvideo, there's no response from any keys?? If you're using KDE as your desktop environment, you may want to check your window focus behvaiour. Jarod's tips'n'tricks page here - http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/tips.php - may help you out. Scroll down to 'MythVideo focus issue' If you can Alt-TAB between running windows whilst mplayer is running, place focus on the mplayer window - if you can get normal keypress responses, it's definitely a focus issue. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and EM8300
On Monday 09 May 2005 19:31, Nick wrote: It may be possible to use the Hollywood+ card as a regular X display (without acceleration) for a myth system (as is currently the case with the PVR350). I don't think that is supported on the dxr3/H+ card. Framebuffer was never implemented for this card as far as I know. It's just an mpeg decoder card. It is highly likely though you may get accelerated mpeg2 playback in xine (one of the output options). I have one of these lying around so may have a go and see where I get to. It is even possible to play other vidoe formats through the card using xine (mplayer also). These video's will be reencoded on the fly to mpeg1 and than send to the mpeg decoder on the card. It is possible to get a menu kind of system also on this card using mms http://mms.sunsite.dk/ regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Have PVR350 Output working - final few questions...
On 5/9/05, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Live TV quality is incredible, but there are a few things to tweak. The 350 LiveTV quality is indistinguishable from my input source! The picture looks like it is a bit too large for the screen (overscanned) to the point where I cannot see the checkboxes on the setup screens. Do I try to underscan it the same way as with NVidia drivers, or how do I do this? You cannot alter the overscan of the actual video output ( - yet, this may change in newer driver releases). However you can alter the positioning (X,Y, scaling) of the on-screen display to make that fit in the viewable portion of the screen. I've read that to get the live TV audio to work the same as other parts of Myth (Myth Video and Recorded shows), you should loop the PVR350 audio output into the Line in on the sound card. Where do you get the 350's audio out? I see an audio input on the 350. Or do you take the stereo connectors and combine into a mini-stereo plug? The 350 card comes with the output splitter cable, giving 2 female phono audio outs, 1 s-video and 1 composite video out. You can use a Y-cable (2xmale phono to 1xmale 3.5mm audio plug) to route the audio back into your line-in on your soundcard. The Line-in on the actual backplace of the card is for *capturing* the audio in the first place when using the s-video/composite input. This setup works for all apps using the 350's output - live and recorded TV, and xine playback if using the 350 as an output. Just ensure you are using the correct mixer settings to allow the live tv buffer audio to be heard, and not the 'live' input audio as it comes into the 350's encoder. And I just noticed the quality of recorded shows isn't very good. Looks splotchy and overcompressed. It did not look that way when I was using the Monitor output. Is there something left to tweak with the frame buffer? I guess with the live TV looking so good, the recorded programs are a bit of a letdown. Maybe your recording profile is using too low a bitrate for recording on the 350 (a setting of 6000/8000 will give great results using DVD-Special-2 profile). Also ensure that you are using the 350 output (in frontend setup) and not using software decoding. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and EM8300
you enable it would not be used. It may be possible to use the Hollywood+ card as a regular X display As far as I know there are no X drivers for displaying X on the TV out of this card (VGA pass through is not the same as outputting to the TV) except for some experimental stuff I wrote a while back which never got finished. (without acceleration) for a myth system (as is currently the case with the PVR350). It is highly likely though you may get accelerated You could certainly get Xine or Mplayer to use the EM8300 based cards for display. At one point I had a modified myth running that would use the em8300 for playback only (not menus or X) on an old p166 I was using as a diskless frontend. I started working on displaying X on it when I got an MediaMVP which I now use to replace that frontend. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and EM8300
I don't think that is supported on the dxr3/H+ card. Framebuffer was never implemented for this card as far as I know. It's just an mpeg decoder card. Unfortunately there is no easy way to do this in an efficient manner that anyone has found so far. And Sigma Designs is not very open to giving out information on the card. I keep meaning to take a stab at finishing what I was working on but time is not something I have in great abundance for projects like this. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Working: FC3, Hauppauge WinTV 401, ALSA
I finally am looking at a working setup. My hardware setup is nothing special and it is insufficient for my intended use, but it is sufficient to prove that this works. I have a 1.1GHz AMD Athlon on a mobo with VIA sound (Fry's USD69 - he he). Hauppauge WinTV 401 (includes sound digitizer). My goal was to install MythTV using ALSA (because OSS is phasing out - depreciated) and using the bt sound module. Not the btaudio - that belongs to the depreciated OSS, but the snd_bt87x module of ALSA. It was also a partial goal not to install any desktop if possible. I succeded in all goals, but the sound is still not acceptable. This is caused either by MythTVs inability to handle ALSA or my inability to tweek ALSA to fit MythTV. Given that the OSS is depreciated - the first cause is the primary. So I am waiting for MythTV to correctly support ALSA. The screen geometry is also not acceptable yet. I need to figure out how to correctly configure Xorg. But otherwise I am running. If you want to see the details, then I have set a webpage with accurate descriptions of how to set up MythTV using this combination of hardware in about an hour. Karsten ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Best O/S
Go with knoppmyth. There is nothing to compile/recompile. You just put a CD into the computer you want to install it on and let it do the rest. It will not install anything that myth doesn't need, thus saving alot of space and memory. www.mysettopbox.tv --- Anil Gupte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I am a newbie at MythTV. I want to create a stable MythTV system that I can actually use and forget like an appliance. What is the best Linux version I should use? By that I mean the most stable, and having the most drivers. I have used Debian and Slackware in the past, although I am far from an expert. Any suggestions? Thax, Anil Gupte ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Current state of a HushPC frontend?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Watkins writes: Thanks James. I hadn't seen that link before, and all information is usefull. I'm looking to take the PVR-350 out of my EPIA M1 combined front/backend, leaving the EPIA as a front end only, and put the 350 into a new dedicated backend along with a NOVA-T DVB card. I'm hoping that the Unichrome drivers will be at least as good as the PVR350 output for mythTV, and a bit better than the 350 for mythVideo (because more applications support XvMC output than support the 350's hardware decoder). Anyone able to comment on PVR-350 vs Unichrome, for playback quality? Hmm -- I tried switching to Unichrome XvMC output instead of the PVR-350 tv-out, and quality was noticeably worse, so I switched back. This was on an ME6000, however, not M10k. I used the KnoppMyth R5A12 precompiled binaries. Specifically: - - enabling overscan resulted in several vertical blank lines on the NTSC tv out, as described here [1] (looks like it's now fixed in CVS) - - also noticeably less sharp output, with overscan on or off - - higher CPU usage, so hotter CPU. I'm trading off CPU load for fan speed, so this was also a negative for me. [1]: http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.aspx?catid=28threadid=65651enterthread=y - --j. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFCf6d9MJF5cimLx9ARAmYQAKCX/u+g+oumrafLuhskZvSHwNhlwQCeMi1a 1lh2ewkFXf0coRHXt+PJLtc= =lQ6l -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?
Google for 'gentoo linux-headers' or similar. I think you still may have the 2.4 kernel headers installed rather than the 2.6 headers. In this case, the drivers will build, and then fail when they see a different kernel, with different symbols etc. I had something similar on my machine. Jonathan On 5/8/05, Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2.6.9-r14 on Gentoo.I've installed the card built the drivers and installed using:make make installHowever, modprobe cx88-dvb I get:WARNING: Error inserting or51132(/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/or51132.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)WARNING: Error inserting cx88xx(/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx88xx.ko): Unknown symbol inmodule, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)WARNING: Error inserting cx8802 (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx8802.ko): Unknown symbol inmodule, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)WARNING: Error inserting cx88xx(/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx88xx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)FATAL: Error inserting cx8800(/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx8800.ko): Unknown symbol inmodule, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)WARNING: Error inserting or51132 (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/or51132.ko): Unknown symbol inmodule, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)WARNING: Error inserting cx88xx(/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx88xx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)WARNING: Error inserting cx8802(/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx8802.ko): Unknown symbol inmodule, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)FATAL: Error inserting cx88_dvb (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx88-dvb.ko): Unknown symbol inmodule, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)FATAL: Error running install command for cx88_dvbAnd some of what dmesg reports is:or51132: Unknown symbol release_firmware or51132: Unknown symbol request_firmwarecx88xx: Unknown symbol tveeprom_readcx88xx: Unknown symbol tveeprom_hauppauge_analogcx8802: Unknown symbol cx88_resetcx8802: Unknown symbol cx88_wakeupCan anyone help? ___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-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] Current state of a HushPC frontend?
I'm currently using a Hush PC (the smaller one - not extended) with EPIA MII 12K, and a PVR 350, and have no issues with overheating. I'm using the EPIA's TV-Out, which have to say is not a clear as that of the PVR350, but then I'm not using the NoScale patches as I'm only using the released Unichrome drivers, not from CVS. If I was going to start again, I'd have front-end only in the Hush PC, and a dedicated backend elsewhere, one tuner card and one HDD seems really limiting now! Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?
On 5/9/05, Jonathan Watmough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Google for 'gentoo linux-headers' or similar. I think you still may have the 2.4 kernel headers installed rather than the 2.6 headers. In this case, the drivers will build, and then fail when they see a different kernel, with different symbols etc. I had something similar on my machine. Jonathan On 5/8/05, Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2.6.9-r14 on Gentoo. I've installed the card built the drivers and installed using: make make install However, modprobe cx88-dvb I get: WARNING: Error inserting or51132 (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/or51132.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting cx88xx (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx88xx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting cx8802 (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx8802.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting cx88xx (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx88xx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) FATAL: Error inserting cx8800 (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx8800.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting or51132 (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/or51132.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting cx88xx (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx88xx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting cx8802 (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx8802.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) FATAL: Error inserting cx88_dvb (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r14/v4l2/cx88-dvb.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) FATAL: Error running install command for cx88_dvb And some of what dmesg reports is: or51132: Unknown symbol release_firmware or51132: Unknown symbol request_firmware cx88xx: Unknown symbol tveeprom_read cx88xx: Unknown symbol tveeprom_hauppauge_analog cx8802: Unknown symbol cx88_reset cx8802: Unknown symbol cx88_wakeup Can anyone help? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Is there an easy way to tell which headers I've got? I'd be surprised if I had 2.4 as this box has never been a 2.4 box (just built it in January). ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Deleting old recordings when storage fills up
Nick, Thanks. So I need to do this for every recording? The default is to always save unless I specifically set it up to allow deletion? No problem. Most of the stuff we do is weekly and it's not too hard to set that up. Cheers, Mark On 5/9/05, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/9/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I imagine that there is a setting for this somewhere. My wife wanted a movie recorded that didn't make it due to the allocated disk space being used up. I thought that Myth was just going to delete older recordings by default to make room but it didn't. Where would I configure this sort of operation? I looked in mythtv-setup but I didn't see it. Is it there or elsewhere? When you setup recordings, you can specify whether they can be 'for the chop' in the future if disk space is running out, usually the earliest recording is deleted first. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Deleting old recordings when storage fills up
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 11:52:50AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks. So I need to do this for every recording? The default is to always save unless I specifically set it up to allow deletion? You *may* do this on a per-recording-schedule basis. However, there is an option to set the default auto-expire value to be on or off. IIRC, it is somewhere in mythtv-setup; otherwise it is somewhere in the frontend setup screens. --Rob 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] record in HD, but watch in analog ?
On 5/9/2005 3:19 PM, Mudit Wahal wrote: I'm building a backend where I'm going to put one HD3000 card. My frontend is still up in the air (several variables). In the meantime, I still want to connect a basic frontend with tv-out (svideo) to analog TV. Will I be able to play the programs recorded in HD in the backend on an analog TV (connected via a frontend-svideo) ? Yes, no problem. One of my frontends has an MX-4000 card using S-Video out. You won't get HD res, but you can display HD programs on an analog TV. Any gotachs/magic incantations/etc I need to do at the backend so the transition from the HD recorded(or live) plays fine on analong frontend ? Nope, as long as your S-Video output is configured to display SD it should scale the HD to whatever your output supports. Thanks in Advance! Your welcome. -- David HDTV frontend I'm working on (pictures, mythmon source) http://mythhd.info ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Best O/S
On 5/9/05, Mark H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go with knoppmyth. There is nothing to compile/recompile. You just put a CD into the computer you want to install it on and let it do the rest. It will not install anything that myth doesn't need, thus saving alot of space and memory. www.mysettopbox.tv i'll second this. KnoppMyth is an excellent distro for someone starting out with Myth. you should feel fairly at home with this distro since you've used Debian; KnoppMyth is based on Knoppix, which is based on Debian. easy install, great support and resources (mysettopbox.com). if you're using fairly standard hardware it's a no muss, no fuss solution. ;) --- Anil Gupte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I am a newbie at MythTV. I want to create a stable MythTV system that I can actually use and forget like an appliance. What is the best Linux version I should use? By that I mean the most stable, and having the most drivers. I have used Debian and Slackware in the past, although I am far from an expert. Any suggestions? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] record in HD, but watch in analog ?
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 03:24:38PM -0400, David George wrote: On 5/9/2005 3:19 PM, Mudit Wahal wrote: I'm building a backend where I'm going to put one HD3000 card. My frontend is still up in the air (several variables). In the meantime, I still want to connect a basic frontend with tv-out (svideo) to analog TV. Will I be able to play the programs recorded in HD in the backend on an analog TV (connected via a frontend-svideo) ? Yes, no problem. One of my frontends has an MX-4000 card using S-Video out. You won't get HD res, but you can display HD programs on an analog TV. Out of curiosity, do you have performance issues down-scaling 1080i or 720p content? -- Trey ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] pcHDTV3000 - Anyone installed and use this?
Is there an easy way to tell which headers I've got? I'd be surprised if I had 2.4 as this box has never been a 2.4 box (just built it in January). ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users emerge linux-headers -p ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] record in HD, but watch in analog ?
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 12:19 -0700, Mudit Wahal wrote: I'm building a backend where I'm going to put one HD3000 card. My frontend is still up in the air (several variables). In the meantime, I still want to connect a basic frontend with tv-out (svideo) to analog TV. Will I be able to play the programs recorded in HD in the backend on an analog TV (connected via a frontend-svideo) ? Any gotachs/magic incantations/etc I need to do at the backend so the transition from the HD recorded(or live) plays fine on analong frontend ? I have that exact setup at my house. My main frontend downstairs is a P4 3.06 that is also the master backend, and has a ivtv card connected to my Dish receiver for watching satellite channels. It is connected with svideo+spdif to my AV receiver and TV. Upstairs I have another front/backend combo with the pcHDTV in it that records OTA HDTV using my attic antenna (though sadly it's not fast enough to watch HD). Even on my 10 year old trinitron TV the HDTV recordings are still very noticeably better than anything I ever got even directly off my sat receiver, let alone through the capture card. I often sit in my home office and watch the HDTV recordings on my Linux workstation, because once you've watched real HD it's hard to go back. Hell even Family Guy looks better in HD! :) The only annoyance I've found so far is that some stations like to transmit 4:3 programs in a 16:9 signal with black bars and I'll have to manually adjust the aspect ratio on those to make it fill the screen. On the bright side, my local Fox station does this sometimes but keeps the Fox network logo off in the right hand side bar, so it doesn't obscure the video at all. :) -- Joshua M. Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Dual-CPU/Core MythTV
Sounds like a neat setup... anybody else have thoughts/experiences? -Galen On May 7, 2005, at 6:19 PM, Devan Lippman wrote: I run dual CPUs on my backend and I think if you've got the cash its an awesome way to do things. I have two P3 Tualatin 1.3GHz CPUs and capture HDTV off my STB using firewire with no problem while running transcoding and commercial flagging and streaming to the frontend. I like how it makes it so a really busy thread can get its own CPU and the other threads are happy running on the other CPU. Devan On 5/7/05, Galen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Been checking on the hardware... please correct me if I'm wrong here! The potentially cost-viable CPU options with a few sample prices attached: 1) AMD Athlon MP (2800 2.13 GHz = USD ~197, can't find anything faster) 2) AMD Opteron (242 1.6 GHz = USD ~158, 244 1.8 GHz = USD ~203) 3) Intel Xenon (2.8 GHz = USD ~220, 2.66 GHz = USD ~199) (did I miss any cost-viable options?) For each of these CPUs, what would the comfortable minimum be for HDTV playback only? (I will have an GeForce card, but I believe that I will lose XvMC acceleration if I want to do any fancy deinerlacing tricks. Is this correct?) I am trying to assess the price difference and practicality of a dual-CPU setup. Also, what anybody know sort of heat production are we talking about per-CPU here? Does MythTV compile properly for 64-bit and actually offer any practical performance gains? (Or am I going to completely regret that I even *thought* of trying 64-bit code... I am thinking that may be a yes for the time being...) -Galen On May 7, 2005, at 3:03 PM, Galen wrote: I'm one of those lurkers... I'm not yet in possession of my own MythTV box, but I'm rather familiar with *nix and am working on plans (and finances) for an awesome HDTV MythTV box. When I get it done, it will be killer. (I am, however, somewhat of a newbie when it comes to x86 hardware. I've lived in RISC land too long...) I've been looking into the specifications for a MythTV system, and it occurred to me, it seems like an awesome application for a dual- CPU/core setup. HDTV decoding is pretty high-end in terms of system demands, so purchasing much more CPU than required for decent HDTV playback (~A64 3200, P4 3 GHz) gets really expensive, really fast, and it's simply impossible to purchase twice the CPU required for HDTV playback w/decent de-interlacing and various other functions. More CPU means you can do more post-processing, commercial flagging, maybe even background transcoding (with the proper nice values, of course). It seems like a dual-CPU system would be an excellent solution to this problem. Size the CPUs such that one CPU is able to comfortably handle the single largest realtime function (HDTV decoding), and then the other CPU is free so you can do some *awesome* de-interlacing, commercial flagging, etc without ever impacting the HDTV playback. The same effect would happen with dual core CPUs, but they are only getting started. Dual CPUs are here, today. I've done enough work with dual-CPU systems to realize that while they don't offer double the performance for traditional mono-threaded applications, for some multi-threaded applications that rely on realtime response (i.e. video playback), they're better than a CPU that's twice as fast. Does this make sense? I'm curious if anybody has tried this, and with what CPU/motherboard? Any thoughts as to some optimal hardware configurations (CPU speed/type/mobo)? What would my practical options for de-interlacing be with a setup like this? -Galen ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Problems with upgrading FC1 -- FC3, need help manually restoring Myth to a different version (.16 -- .18)
I am having many issues upgrading from FC1 to FC3 and thought it might be best to just do a fresh install. I am currently (use to be) running MythTv .16 on FC1 and have a backup of the database, configuration, and video files. Current State of Machine: I have gotten the system upgraded to FC3 using the discs and finally got X to display. Now there are many dependency problems in loading kickstart. My next thought was to just get Myth upgraded so the database would be .18 compliant and then do a fresh install of FC3. I just don't have enough linux experience to work through the dependency issues with either of these approaches. If I do a fresh install of FC3 and Myth (.18), is there a way to restore my .16 database? Or do you have a better suggestion on how to get me to FC3/.18? Thank you for your help in advance. -Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] record in HD, but watch in analog ?
On 5/9/2005 3:40 PM, Trey Boudreau wrote: On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 03:24:38PM -0400, David George wrote: On 5/9/2005 3:19 PM, Mudit Wahal wrote: Will I be able to play the programs recorded in HD in the backend on an analog TV (connected via a frontend-svideo) ? Yes, no problem. One of my frontends has an MX-4000 card using S-Video out. You won't get HD res, but you can display HD programs on an analog TV. Out of curiosity, do you have performance issues down-scaling 1080i or 720p content? Nope, no performance issues. Of course this particular frontend is a P4 2.8 w/1Meg cache so I probably wouldn't notice performance problems anyway. It isn't hyperthreaded, but I had no problems displaying 1080i or 720p (actually scaling 720p to 540p as my TV doesn't support 720p) back when I was using it with a 9A60 to convert VGA to component video. -- David HDTV frontend I'm working on (pictures, mythmon source) http://mythhd.info ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] record in HD, but watch in analog ?
My wonder is this downscaling of the HD, can a lower power machine play these HD recordings after the downscaling? So i guess the better question is - which takes more power Downscaling to 800x600 or 1024x768 or Outputing at 720p or 1080i On 5/9/05, Joshua M. Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 12:19 -0700, Mudit Wahal wrote: I'm building a backend where I'm going to put one HD3000 card. My frontend is still up in the air (several variables). In the meantime, I still want to connect a basic frontend with tv-out (svideo) to analog TV. Will I be able to play the programs recorded in HD in the backend on an analog TV (connected via a frontend-svideo) ? Any gotachs/magic incantations/etc I need to do at the backend so the transition from the HD recorded(or live) plays fine on analong frontend ? I have that exact setup at my house. My main frontend downstairs is a P4 3.06 that is also the master backend, and has a ivtv card connected to my Dish receiver for watching satellite channels. It is connected with svideo+spdif to my AV receiver and TV. Upstairs I have another front/backend combo with the pcHDTV in it that records OTA HDTV using my attic antenna (though sadly it's not fast enough to watch HD). Even on my 10 year old trinitron TV the HDTV recordings are still very noticeably better than anything I ever got even directly off my sat receiver, let alone through the capture card. I often sit in my home office and watch the HDTV recordings on my Linux workstation, because once you've watched real HD it's hard to go back. Hell even Family Guy looks better in HD! :) The only annoyance I've found so far is that some stations like to transmit 4:3 programs in a 16:9 signal with black bars and I'll have to manually adjust the aspect ratio on those to make it fill the screen. On the bright side, my local Fox station does this sometimes but keeps the Fox network logo off in the right hand side bar, so it doesn't obscure the video at all. :) -- Joshua M. Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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] Extract audio as Wav=
If I want to extract the audio from a recorded show to a wav (to be chopped up and then mp3'd). WHats the best way to do so? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Working. FC3 Hauppauge WinTV 401 and ALSA
Something went wrong when I sent this one so I am trying again. I finally am looking at a working setup. My hardware setup is nothing special and it is insufficient for my intended use, but it is sufficient to prove that this works. I have a 1.1GHz AMD Athlon on a mobo with VIA sound (Fry's USD69 - he he). Hauppauge WinTV 401 (includes sound digitizer). My goal was to install MythTV using ALSA (because OSS is phasing out - depreciated) and using the bt sound module. Not the btaudio - that belongs to the depreciated OSS, but the snd_bt87x module of ALSA. It was also a partial goal not to install any desktop if possible. I succeded in all goals, but the sound is still not acceptable. This is caused either by MythTVs inability to handle ALSA or my inability to tweek ALSA to fit MythTV. Given that the OSS is depreciated - the first cause is the primary. So I am waiting for MythTV to correctly support ALSA. The screen geometry is also not acceptable yet. I need to figure out how to correctly configure Xorg. But otherwise I am running. If you want to see the details, then I have set a webpage with accurate descriptions of how to set up MythTV using this combination of hardware in about an hour. http://jeppesens.com/mythtv.html Karsten ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] record in HD, but watch in analog ?
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 16:03 -0400, Mario Limonciello wrote: My wonder is this downscaling of the HD, can a lower power machine play these HD recordings after the downscaling? So i guess the better question is - which takes more power Downscaling to 800x600 or 1024x768 or Outputing at 720p or 1080i The MPEG2 decoding is what eats up most of the CPU, and you still have to decode it in order to rescale it, so you'd actually use more CPU power watching it rescaled than watching it as its native resolution. -- Joshua M. Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Extract audio as Wav=
I believe NUVExport has an option for exporting to MP3...you could convert back to wav, split it up, and re-encode to mp3 - Jeff On 5/9/05, j2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I want to extract the audio from a recorded show to a wav (to be chopped up and then mp3'd). WHats the best way to do so? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- email me if you want a gmail invite, I have some invites ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Using MythTV for viewing both TV recordings and video's in seperate directories?
I recall going through this myself a while back. I just checked my mythweb directory and I have a symlink named video_dir that points to myth's recordings directory and a different symlink named video_url that points to the mythvideo directory. Then again, I'm running cvs from a few weeks ago, not the release version of 0.18. Brad ___ Hmmm, definitely sounds like something I could have overlooked. Thanks! I will give that a try. Cool ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] record in HD, but watch in analog ?
So which machine is downscaling ? frontend or backend ? My backend is going to be a sempron 3000+. Since I dont need much horsepower in the backend, I guess a sempron 3000+ should be ok (as per tomshardware.com mega cpu list, the sempron 3000+ is about 5-10% slower than athlon xp 3000+ for audio/video encoding purposes). My present frontend is going to be a sempron 2600+ box, with geforce mx440 with svideo out. This is a temp solution. My permanent frontend for the analog TV will be the media mvp (if I can get it to work). The media mvp has builtin mpeg decoder with svideo out. My main issue is if I watch HD recorded/live on analog TV, how much horsepower do I need to downres (and where ? front or back ?) Thanks Mudit On 5/9/05, Mario Limonciello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My wonder is this downscaling of the HD, can a lower power machine play these HD recordings after the downscaling? So i guess the better question is - which takes more power Downscaling to 800x600 or 1024x768 or Outputing at 720p or 1080i On 5/9/05, Joshua M. Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 12:19 -0700, Mudit Wahal wrote: I'm building a backend where I'm going to put one HD3000 card. My frontend is still up in the air (several variables). In the meantime, I still want to connect a basic frontend with tv-out (svideo) to analog TV. Will I be able to play the programs recorded in HD in the backend on an analog TV (connected via a frontend-svideo) ? Any gotachs/magic incantations/etc I need to do at the backend so the transition from the HD recorded(or live) plays fine on analong frontend ? I have that exact setup at my house. My main frontend downstairs is a P4 3.06 that is also the master backend, and has a ivtv card connected to my Dish receiver for watching satellite channels. It is connected with svideo+spdif to my AV receiver and TV. Upstairs I have another front/backend combo with the pcHDTV in it that records OTA HDTV using my attic antenna (though sadly it's not fast enough to watch HD). Even on my 10 year old trinitron TV the HDTV recordings are still very noticeably better than anything I ever got even directly off my sat receiver, let alone through the capture card. I often sit in my home office and watch the HDTV recordings on my Linux workstation, because once you've watched real HD it's hard to go back. Hell even Family Guy looks better in HD! :) The only annoyance I've found so far is that some stations like to transmit 4:3 programs in a 16:9 signal with black bars and I'll have to manually adjust the aspect ratio on those to make it fill the screen. On the bright side, my local Fox station does this sometimes but keeps the Fox network logo off in the right hand side bar, so it doesn't obscure the video at all. :) -- Joshua M. Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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] record in HD, but watch in analog ?
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 03:56:07PM -0400, Joshua M. Thompson wrote: The only annoyance I've found so far is that some stations like to transmit 4:3 programs in a 16:9 signal with black bars and I'll have to manually adjust the aspect ratio on those to make it fill the screen. On the bright side, my local Fox station does this sometimes but keeps the Fox network logo off in the right hand side bar, so it doesn't obscure the video at all. :) Aren't the Zoom 4:3 and Zoom 16:9 options meant to address this, so that you don't have to twiddle with the manual adjust? --Rob 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] Extract audio as Wav=
I believe NUVExport has an option for exporting to MP3...you could convert back to wav, split it up, and re-encode to mp3 There's software out there that will let you cut the MP3's without a decode/re-encode step. http://home.hccnet.nl/p.luijer/ - I think that's the one I've used in the past (it's been a long time, but I think that's it.) I don't know if something similar exists for linux or not though. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Front End - Back End? Diffrence?
Mr AG!! wrote: Forgive me for being naive, but what does the front end and back end do in relation to each other? is it possible to have one main myth installation, and then have other 'front ends' running in other rooms? Mythfrontend and mythbackend are processes that run on machines and not the machines themselves. However, people may refer to a machine where they run mythfrontend as a frontend. --8--- The backend controls tuner cards and is used for recording. It has no GUI and is needed on each machine that has one or more TV cards but is not needed on any machine that does not have a tuner. There is exactly one master backend that runs the scheduler and assigns recording tasks to other backends (if any) which are called slave backends. Backend are normally running all the time so they are ready to record and available to serve any files they have recorded. The frontend is the GUI that users use for playback. It can run on a computer monitor or on a TV if the computer has a graphics card that supports TV-out. A mythbackend may or may not also run on the same machine depending on if the system has a TV card. Any frontend can be stopped or started at any time with no impact on the recording schedule. There is no master or slave frontend but frontends are often referred to as local or remote indicating whether or not they are on the same machine that holds recorded files. Any frontend can play files recorded by any of the backends. --8--- -- bjm ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] record in HD, but watch in analog ?
Joshua, The 16:9 programs recorded in HD, how do you play them on analog TV (4:3) ? Do they play with black bars on top and bottom (just like watching DVDs on a 4:3 TV) ? Also, if I connect frontend to an HDTV (which has 16:9 aspect ratio .. Panny DLP) using svideo, will I see the HD program in 16:9 (if its recorded in native 16:9, say CSI, etc). Ofcourse, the quality will be downres'd to svideo, but is the 16:9 aspect ratio still preserved ? My main goal is to watch the HD programs in their native mode but sacrifice the HD quality right now. Once I've figured out what I need in the HD-frontend, I'll switch to HD output. But I still want to jump on the HD bandwagon. (It'll be better than watching taped shows on a vcr getting signals from a rooftop analog antenna ! the vcr is connected to a panny DLP tv .. talk about waste of resources ) Thanks Mudit On 5/9/05, Robert Tsai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 03:56:07PM -0400, Joshua M. Thompson wrote: The only annoyance I've found so far is that some stations like to transmit 4:3 programs in a 16:9 signal with black bars and I'll have to manually adjust the aspect ratio on those to make it fill the screen. On the bright side, my local Fox station does this sometimes but keeps the Fox network logo off in the right hand side bar, so it doesn't obscure the video at all. :) Aren't the Zoom 4:3 and Zoom 16:9 options meant to address this, so that you don't have to twiddle with the manual adjust? --Rob ___ 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] how much space does an HD recording take?
I'm trying to get a good idea of how much disk space I need. I want around 100 hrs. I tried to search but didn't come up with much exact figures. Something in the range of 6-10GB/hr? is this right? Thanks ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Extract audio as Wav=
There's software out there that will let you cut the MP3's without a decode/re-encode step. http://home.hccnet.nl/p.luijer/ - I think that's the one I've used in the past (it's been a long time, but I think that's it.) I don't know if something similar exists for linux or not though. I was actually looking for a program to do this the other day - I ended up using xmms with the disk-writer plugin to make the wav file, using wavsplit to do the cutting (wavsplit is a very nice simple program - you just tell it what the cutpoints or piece-sizes are in frames / seconds / w/e), then lame in a bash loop to re-encode the pieces back to mp3. -- email me if you want a gmail invite, I have some invites ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] how much space does an HD recording take?
That depends what format you're recording in, of course. Using a PVR 250/350 with default standard-definition settings, you'll probably get about 2.3 GB/hr as MPEG-2 video. You can transcode this to MPEG-4 to about 1 GB/hr without too much artefact generation. However, if you want to record HDTV, then be prepared for much larger sizes. If you're not using a 250/350 then we'll need more details to give you an estimate... Anthony. On 5/9/05, JY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get a good idea of how much disk space I need. I want around 100 hrs. I tried to search but didn't come up with much exact figures. Something in the range of 6-10GB/hr? is this right? Thanks ___ 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] how much space does an HD recording take?
I'm trying to get a good idea of how much disk space I need. I want around 100 hrs. I tried to search but didn't come up with much exact figures. Something in the range of 6-10GB/hr? is this right? You're not asking the right question, but I'll answer it anyways. 2GB/hr with a hardware MPEG-2 card with reasonable defaults. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] how much space does an HD recording take?
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 01:35:28PM -0700, JY wrote: I'm trying to get a good idea of how much disk space I need. I want around 100 hrs. I tried to search but didn't come up with much exact figures. Something in the range of 6-10GB/hr? is this right? I've been seeing about 7-8GB/hr. But you can transcode it down to whatever quality level you like. I transcode/downres most stuff down to about 1-2GB/hr for acceptable non-archival non-videophile watching on a 42 TV. --Rob signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
