Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV - few tweaks needed

[Risto Treksler]

> 1) When MythTV is recording and I select "Watch TV" I'd like it to
> show live TV, the channel is's on now. Instead it tells me that it has
> no more tuners and directs me to another menu where I can manage and
> watch recordings. Rather long process for a very straightforward
> operation. Any way I can change this?

you can't do it without changing the code

perhaps 
- when there are no tuners available:
- the "Watch TV" menu item should:
  start showing the most recent recording at the top of "all recordings"

and only when the user tries to change the channel or to do picture in picture
or something it could complain that there are no more tuners

hmm,
i wonder if "picture in picture" while watching a recording would be useful
i.e. put LiveTV or a recording into PIP while watching a recording

> 2) Some of the operations on my recordings are done from one menu
> (Watch Recordings), other operations from a totally different place
> (Utilities/Setup). In particular, I can't find a way to delete a
> recording from the same place I can watch it from.

you can delete while you watch by hitting D
OR
you can set mythtv to "prompt at end of watching a recording"
and/or to prompt "when exiting a recording"
OR
you can hit "right arrow" followed by "up arrow" and the "left arrow"
while a recording is selected in the "watch recordings" screen

> 3) Any way to get MythTV to keep running the live TV buffer while I'm
> crawling around menus? Say, I want to go play with settings and
> whatnot, and in the meantime I want it to keep buffering TV so I can
> watch it later. Kind of like TiVo does, it always records something.

that might be nice, ie keep the livetv buffer full of the last channel watched
also with 2 tuners, the last 2 channels watched could be buffered
ie when you go channel up, it would actually go to the next channel on the 
next tuner, then you could go back to the last channel and rewind!

would be pretty cool, but alas pretty useles for most ppl, 
as most ppl don't watch livetv with mythtv

> 4) If I watch TV and send "record" command, it records from the
> current time, losing the live buffer. Can I change this? (again, Tivo
> does it: if I'm 10 minutes into the show and select to record, I get
> the first 10 minutes into my recording).

i hate that too
there is a setting for "livetv buffer change warnings"
to workaround some related issues.

> Thanks in advance,
> Fedor



-- 
Risto Treksler
Elkhorn Lodge
Banff, Alberta, Canada
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Re: [mythtv-users] Feature request: backwards compatability

[BP]

Bryan Halter wrote:
>>
>> I am not sure that I understand. Why not wait to do the 'make install'
>> on all the machines until the compiling is complete on all the machines?
>>

> because Gentoo does both at the same time...we don't do ./configure &&
> make && make install we do emerge -u mythtv :)
> 


Have you tried "emerge --help"...  Look at the options for --buildpkg,
--buildpkgonly and --usepkg


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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV - few tweaks needed

[Bryan Halter]

Fedor Pikus wrote:
I've assembled a home media PC running FC3 and MythTV (0.18, the
latest from ATRPMs, following Jarod's guide for the most part).
I'm mostly happy with the setup, but there are few problems I can't
quite figure out how to fix:
1) When MythTV is recording and I select "Watch TV" I'd like it to
show live TV, the channel is's on now. Instead it tells me that it has
no more tuners and directs me to another menu where I can manage and
watch recordings. Rather long process for a very straightforward
operation. Any way I can change this?
 

No, I suspect it was done this way to accomodate multiple tuners and 
multiple frontends

2) Some of the operations on my recordings are done from one menu
(Watch Recordings), other operations from a totally different place
(Utilities/Setup). In particular, I can't find a way to delete a
recording from the same place I can watch it from.
 

When in the watch recordings screen push the 'm' button or the right 
arrow button this will bring up a menu where you can delete a recording 
among other tasks

3) Any way to get MythTV to keep running the live TV buffer while I'm
crawling around menus? Say, I want to go play with settings and
whatnot, and in the meantime I want it to keep buffering TV so I can
watch it later. Kind of like TiVo does, it always records something.
 

Not that I know of, though I *think* if you press 'r' this will start 
recording what watch tv is currently on and you can then come back to it 
in the recordings menu

4) If I watch TV and send "record" command, it records from the
current time, losing the live buffer. Can I change this? (again, Tivo
does it: if I'm 10 minutes into the show and select to record, I get
the first 10 minutes into my recording).
 

Not a bad feature request, but I don't believe so
Thanks in advance,
Fedor
 

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[mythtv-users] MythTV - few tweaks needed

[Fedor Pikus]

I've assembled a home media PC running FC3 and MythTV (0.18, the
latest from ATRPMs, following Jarod's guide for the most part).

I'm mostly happy with the setup, but there are few problems I can't
quite figure out how to fix:

1) When MythTV is recording and I select "Watch TV" I'd like it to
show live TV, the channel is's on now. Instead it tells me that it has
no more tuners and directs me to another menu where I can manage and
watch recordings. Rather long process for a very straightforward
operation. Any way I can change this?

2) Some of the operations on my recordings are done from one menu
(Watch Recordings), other operations from a totally different place
(Utilities/Setup). In particular, I can't find a way to delete a
recording from the same place I can watch it from.

3) Any way to get MythTV to keep running the live TV buffer while I'm
crawling around menus? Say, I want to go play with settings and
whatnot, and in the meantime I want it to keep buffering TV so I can
watch it later. Kind of like TiVo does, it always records something.

4) If I watch TV and send "record" command, it records from the
current time, losing the live buffer. Can I change this? (again, Tivo
does it: if I'm 10 minutes into the show and select to record, I get
the first 10 minutes into my recording).

Thanks in advance,
Fedor
-- 
Fedor G Pikus ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
http://www.pikus.net
http://wild-light.com
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[mythtv-users] mysterious disappearing recording

[Philip Nelson]

Last night myth (0.18) was supposed to record a program - and from the backend 
it looks like it started - but it doesn't show up the recorded programs list, 
and the corresponding .nuv file doesn't exist either. From the backend:

2005-05-17 20:58:02.570 Started recording "All Saints" on channel: 1011 on 
cardid: 1, sourceid 1
2005-05-17 20:58:02.577 scheduler: Last message repeated 1 times
2005-05-17 20:58:02.581 scheduler: Schedule Change

There is no corresponding "Finished recording" message in the log (also notice 
in that log the "scheduler: Last message repeated 1 times" - that sounds a 
bit odd, doesn't happen for any of my other recordings)

So I don't know what happened here, weird.
Any ideas?

Philip
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Re: [mythtv-users] Palm video from mythtv nuv -> TCPMP

[Michael T. Dean]

Tom Lichti wrote:
Michael T. Dean wrote:
scunacc wrote:
Has anyone a suggestion for converting a .nuv file to use with the Core
Pocket Media Player on a Palm?
I've played with various conversion programs but can't get the audio
sync'ed back up with the video if I extract with avidemux2 for example
and recombine with mplex.
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).

Command line programs would be fine (preferred).
Unfortunately no one has been able to find a "traditional" 
command-line *nix application that will fix the sync to account for 
changing A/V sync within the IvyTV recordings (or, at least, if they 
have found one, they haven't told anyone on the IvyTV list :). 
Yes they have...

So now onto how to do this in command line: It turns
out ProjectX has a CLI (command line interface).  It's
a little tricky to figure out, but this now works
great for me:
java -jar  -c
 -n  -o
 
By "traditional" command-line *nix application, I meant an application 
that's easily called from a script and allows the use of pipelining (see 
http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch01s06.html#id2877684 in ESR's The Art of 
Unix Programming--full book at http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ ).  Given 
that definition, ProjectX does not fit the bill.  However, it works--and 
seems to be the only program known to work--which is why I recommended 
it and recommended reading the thread from which you pulled the above 
quote.  I was hoping that the OP would find enough info there to make 
his/her own decisions.

Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] Funny commercial behavior with 0.18...

[Juan Jesús García de Soria Lucena]

I had to switch from RTJpeg -> MPEG4 transcoding to direct MPEG4
encoding when capturing, due to some recordings being only able to
"jump" (either fast-forward, rewind or commercial skip) to a given
point.

I was being forced to use time-stretch in order to skip, which is far from satisfactory.
May this have something to do with "large files", with which I mean
files larger than 2 GB? It seems to happen on long recordings.


Regards,

   Juan Jesús.
-- How can dreams come true? Is their type boolean?
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[mythtv-users] How do I edit music titles in mythmusic

[Brett May]

Hi All,
Is it possible to edit artist and song titles in mythmusic 0.18?
I am inserting a Various Artists CD and using cddb mythmusic is filling 
the track artist as "Various Artists" and the track as "ACDC - Back In 
Black" when the track artist should be "ACDC" and the track title should 
be "Back In Black".  I somehow managed to edit the first track but then 
could not edit the remaining tracks.

Any ideas?
Thanks
Brett
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Re: [mythtv-users] installing plugins

[Brett May]

I had exactly the same problem.
Mythbackend needs to be restarted as it is the backend that registers 
the plugins.

Eugene wrote:
I'm trying to install mythtv plugins (mythvideo, mythdvd, mythusic, 
etc.) They compile and install fine, but they don't show up in the 
menu when I restart mythfrontend. wtf? First time I see this. help!

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RE: [mythtv-users] Error with atrpms and 18.1?

[johnny]

Actually didn't have a problem with mythfrontend/libmyth/backend but the
plugins I am having problems with. When I check the [EMAIL PROTECTED] there
doesn't seem to be the same version of mythplugins or the individual
components like mythgallery. I an currently running mythtv-*-0.18.1-110.
Thank you for any help you can give.


 


Johnny Lee

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 12:06 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Error with atrpms and 18.1?

On 5/17/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> I have the same problem using FC1. I checked atrpms.net and I didn't see
the
> proper versions to d/l. Am I out of luck with FC1?

You should be OK - there are 0.18 builds for FC1 on the site. If
mythtv-suite doesn't work, just use apt-get to get each of the key
myth components and it should sort everything else out for you
*fingers crossed*

http://www.atrpms.net/dist/fc1/mythtv/

Nick
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[mythtv-users] hauppauge wintv novca ci-s

[Patrick Steiner]

hello,
i want to by me an hauppauge wintv nova ci-s dvb card (with no mpeg2 
decoder). has anyone this card? how does it work with linux / mythtv?

are there better dvb cards with paytv common interface?
patrick

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Re: [mythtv-users] Time Warner & Firewire

[Brad Templeton]

On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 08:22:16PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>I agree with much of what you say but, agree with it or not, the
> folks that make the movies feel they have a right to protect their
> content. They paid millions of buck to get the movie made and do not
> want indiscriminate numbers of perfect digital copies being made and
> given away. As I'm sure you know the ticket office returns for movies


Actually, the copy prevention systems don't do anything about that.
Since it just takes one copy to get out into the underground nets, and
they can't make an uncrackable system, the only thing these systems do
is make it harder for ordinary users to copy -- but most importantly,
they make it harder for smaller entrants to compete in the media player
markets and impossible for open source developers to compete.


> in the States are on the order of a few billion a year. That's less
> revenue than one moderate semiconductor company like AMD. The returns
> from DVDs is far higher so without the DVD revenue the studios lose
> money go out of business and we don't get movies in any format. As

Actually not true.  They make more money now from cinema release than
they did (in constant dollars) in the old days, and on top of that
make even more from home video and tv rights.  (TV rights of course
don't stop copying, and nor has home video release stopped copying in
any effective way.)

So they have a thriving industry right now without copy prevention but
they are both worried about losing it -- and on keeping a lock on
the tech.

> long as Open Source tools continue to give all users the capability to
> make perfect digital copies of any source material there is going to
> be disagreements and issues like this.

Actually, the tech-savvy folks at the movie studios know perfectly well
their DRM is crackable and won't stop copies from getting into the
underground P2P nets.   I sympathise with their plight actually in
ways even they don't know (every dime that ever fed me has come from
media and copyright businesses) but freedom to innovate in tech is
even more important.
> 
>That said I expect that over time the cable boxes will get much
> better about this. There shouldn't be any reason that I cannot make a
> copy of news shows, high school sports events or other low revenue
> generating shows for time shifting and I expect that cable boxes will
> make this stuff available over time. In the mean time it's not
> surprising to me that they take a somewhat draconian view and say all
> or nothing.

DRM requires a system where the default is no copying and only certain
exceptions are allowed.  That precludes open tools and open source.  It's
hard to imagine any DRM, even the most permissive, not shutting linux
tools out of the media playing space.   I have imagined some methods but
they remain ugly and still shut out the innovation that this space is
about.


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Re: [mythtv-users] IOBOUND: Arrrg, will it ever end?

[Blammo]

On 5/17/05, Donn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Over 2 weeks, I have read countless search hits and attempted several
> fixes to stop these awful IOBOUND message floods.  I'm in need of some
> serious help.  I have implemented many of the suggestions in the
> archives (and some of my own crazy ideas) with no luck.
> 
> Sometimes when recording two shows at once, mythtv gets locked into a
> series of IOBOUND messages:
> 
> 2005-05-16 23:36:43.145 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write()
> 2005-05-16 23:36:47.807 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write()
> 2005-05-16 23:36:52.579 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write()
> 2005-05-16 23:36:57.729 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write()

I would suggest a couple things:

1. Move to a newer kernel. I had some strangeness with 2.6.9 / 2.6.10
along the way with IO (air2pc / pvr-250 / 4-drive raid5) and moving to
2.6.11 cured almost all of them.

2. Check your IRQ's. lspci -v  and check for things sharing the same
IRQ. When you're faciing an IO problem sharing can become a big issue.
This was another key for me  in removing IO problems.

3. What's the RAM clock on your machine? Is it 133 or 200? Should be
133 to make the PC2100 happy.
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Re: [mythtv-users] kworld tv878rf card - can't see chanels and can't get remote working FC3

[Lance Grover]

On 5/13/05, Bill Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Lance Grover wrote:
> 
> >Hello all,
> >I know this is a low end card, but thats what happens when you
> >are living on a budget and just trying out MythTV.  I have a kworld
> >tv878rf card and I can't get any channels to work on it, either for
> >cable or for broadcast and I am wondering if anyone has one or got one
> >working and if they can give me any help.  I also can't seem to get
> >the remote working, I know the remote will work because I set it up in
> >a windblows box and the remote worked.  Any help would be apreciated,
> >and I have done my research, I even found someone who has used one in
> >the past but couldn't remember anything about it.
> >
> >
> >
> I have the same card, the relavent lines from the modprobe.conf that
> works for me (in the US):
> 
> alias char-major-61 lirc_gpio
> alias char-major-81 bttv
> options bttv card=78 tuner=2
> 
> 


I am now having issues with getting the sound to work with my capture
card, (kworld tv878rf).  I have made a .asoundrc file and played with
the different configuration options in mythtv-setup and
mythtvfrontend.  I have also tried to get oss emulation working.  I am
running FC3.  I can get aplay to play files and I can play dvds and
cds but no sound from my card, I can get sound from the card if I use
tvtime program but not mythtv.

Thanks so much,


-- 
Thanks,

Lance Grover
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[mythtv-users] Re: Computer Reboots/ PVR 250 Not Recognized

[Reggie Braswell]

Re:
 I tried to run lsmod but I could'nt get the format right
bash: lsmod: command not found

Path issue? Try it with root's path:

Try this:
$ su -

Then run it

To the point of your PVR-250. Yep me too. Why? Who knows. Threw
/sbin/depmod -a and /sbin/modprobe ivtv in /etc/rc.d/rc.local and it
fixed it. Not sure why. (Meaning not sure why it's not loading the
module on boot) Didn't have this problem using ATrpms on previous
release (108). Regg
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Re: [mythtv-users] Feature request: backwards compatability

[Mat Mrosko]

On 5/17/05, Paul Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It sounds like the problem is with Gentoo. ;-)
> 

how brazen looks like Paul wants to get flamed!!!  j/k LoL
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Re: [mythtv-users] Time Warner & Firewire

[Mark Knecht]

On 5/17/05, Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 09:13:26PM -0400, William wrote:
> > > Basically correct (with 'blessed' meaning that the device
> > > does some preliminary transactions to show it's compliant
> > > with the spec) but even once the data is sent from the DVD or
> > > cable box to the TV/monitor it's still encrypted as per the above.
> > >
> >
> > These difficulies are what is leading me to think about getting a hd dvr
> > from one of the providers. The local cable co is giving them away for the
> > same rental as a standard cable box. If its anything like a tivo the content
> > of the box should be available over the network connection for easy copying.
> 
> It is this decision which has this community justifiably up in arms.
> 
> As the systems are being architected, open source tools like MythTV
> can't compete with the box from the cable company, even though the
> software is free as in beer too.   For perfectly rational reasons people
> like you will get the cable/satellite provided PVR or other blessed
> PVR, reducing demand for the open source tools which in turn limits the
> number of people who will develop for them and test them and support
> them.
> 
> Yet here's were a lot of the innovation is coming from.
> 

Brad,
   I agree with much of what you say but, agree with it or not, the
folks that make the movies feel they have a right to protect their
content. They paid millions of buck to get the movie made and do not
want indiscriminate numbers of perfect digital copies being made and
given away. As I'm sure you know the ticket office returns for movies
in the States are on the order of a few billion a year. That's less
revenue than one moderate semiconductor company like AMD. The returns
from DVDs is far higher so without the DVD revenue the studios lose
money go out of business and we don't get movies in any format. As
long as Open Source tools continue to give all users the capability to
make perfect digital copies of any source material there is going to
be disagreements and issues like this.

   That said I expect that over time the cable boxes will get much
better about this. There shouldn't be any reason that I cannot make a
copy of news shows, high school sports events or other low revenue
generating shows for time shifting and I expect that cable boxes will
make this stuff available over time. In the mean time it's not
surprising to me that they take a somewhat draconian view and say all
or nothing.

- Mark
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Re: [mythtv-users] Feature request: backwards compatability

[Paul Bender]

Bryan Halter wrote:
because Gentoo does both at the same time...we don't do ./configure && 
make && make install we do emerge -u mythtv :)
It sounds like the problem is with Gentoo. ;-)
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Re: [mythtv-users] Feature request: backwards compatability

[Bryan Halter]

Paul Bender wrote:
Bryan
Halter wrote:
  
  I have mythtv running on 3 platforms, thus 3
systems to compile.  Compiling it is not the hard part, once I make a
switch to a new server version or switch one of the backends everything
else must be in place.  Example my Xbox is much slower compiling than
my p4 2.0.  If I could build the new server and continue to be able to
use it with the old front end on the xbox it would mean much less
downtime for that frontend.  Currently once I upgrade the server and
the P4 frontend I can't watch TV on the xbox in my room until its
finished compiling.

  
  
I am not sure that I understand. Why not wait to do the 'make install'
on all the machines until the compiling is complete on all the
machines?
  
  

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That is a good suggestion though, like I said in the original post I
don't know how complex this is or isn't.


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Re: [mythtv-users] Writing DVD from web interface?

[Ross Campbell]

> > I grabed the CVS version. But when I look at the README,
> > it points to a link to a dead article. Looking at install.sh,
> > it looks like I cna just run it, and all will be well. But rather
> > than mess up my system, I thought I'd ask if that's correct?

First off, in its current state, getting mythburn running and actually
burning a DVD is *not* going to be as simple as running install.sh .
Read on

Ensure you have all of the prerequesites installed first. - start
here: http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=MythTVBurn_Scripts_HowTo

You want to upgrade to latest CVS *first*, and then carefully review
the install scripts to ensure that paths are correct for your mythtv
install and your location of web content and you may find some
discrepancies between what is in /usr/local/ and what is in /usr. The
defaults are correct for knoppmyth and MythTV 0.17. You'll have to do
some hacking to get the mythweb internationalization correct with
MythWeb in 0.18+

Once you've done that, you'll want to test out the web interface and
try out burning and check out the mythburn logfiles each step of the
way - it's pretty good at telling you *why* it's failing. Start out by
not trying to cut commercials.

If you get NTSC broadcasts, you''ll want to disable replex and enable
mplex, and you'll probably end up with thumbnails of shows with
inverse colors and upside down. You'll need to change two lines on
Itranscode statements and add/remove a "-z" and a "-k"

Most of this is documented here:
http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=MythTVBurn_Scripts_HowTo

You *might* have some luck posting to a new thread like this one -
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3848

But... sadly, it seems that since the phpBBS at mythsettopbox.tv got
hacked, and the previous threads lost, the CVS updates to mythtvburn
have significantly decreased (none in 2 months :( )

If only I could transcode and tcrequant *any* recordings - not just
mpeg2 - and squeeze an arbitrary number/length/size to fit onto a dvd,
I'd be *really* happy.

-Ross
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Re: [mythtv-users] Feature request: backwards compatability

[Bryan Halter]

because Gentoo does both at the same time...we don't do ./configure
&& make && make install we do emerge -u mythtv :)

Paul Bender wrote:
Bryan
Halter wrote:
  
  I have mythtv running on 3 platforms, thus 3
systems to compile.  Compiling it is not the hard part, once I make a
switch to a new server version or switch one of the backends everything
else must be in place.  Example my Xbox is much slower compiling than
my p4 2.0.  If I could build the new server and continue to be able to
use it with the old front end on the xbox it would mean much less
downtime for that frontend.  Currently once I upgrade the server and
the P4 frontend I can't watch TV on the xbox in my room until its
finished compiling.

  
  
I am not sure that I understand. Why not wait to do the 'make install'
on all the machines until the compiling is complete on all the
machines?
  
  

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Re: [mythtv-users] Feature request: backwards compatability

[Paul Bender]

Bryan Halter wrote:
I have mythtv running on 3 platforms, thus 3 systems to compile.  
Compiling it is not the hard part, once I make a switch to a new server 
version or switch one of the backends everything else must be in place.  
Example my Xbox is much slower compiling than my p4 2.0.  If I could 
build the new server and continue to be able to use it with the old 
front end on the xbox it would mean much less downtime for that 
frontend.  Currently once I upgrade the server and the P4 frontend I 
can't watch TV on the xbox in my room until its finished compiling.
I am not sure that I understand. Why not wait to do the 'make install' 
on all the machines until the compiling is complete on all the machines?
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Re: [mythtv-users] Feature request: backwards compatability

[Bryan Halter]

I have mythtv running on 3 platforms, thus 3 systems to compile. 
Compiling it is not the hard part, once I make a switch to a new server
version or switch one of the backends everything else must be in
place.  Example my Xbox is much slower compiling than my p4 2.0.  If I
could build the new server and continue to be able to use it with the
old front end on the xbox it would mean much less downtime for that
frontend.  Currently once I upgrade the server and the P4 frontend I
can't watch TV on the xbox in my room until its finished compiling.

--Bryan

 Childe Roland wrote:

  Can you post your script here so I can have an example to work from??

On 5/17/05, Jake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  
  
On 5/17/05, Bryan Halter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


  protocol on either the backend or frontend.  One of the biggest hurdles
for me as a Gentoo user is that I have to upgrade all my frontends and
backends at the same time and restart.  If the frontend had barkwards
  

why is it hard to upgrade?  i compile from cvs and with one backend
and 3 frontends i just run a script when i have to upgrade.  if all
the frontends are same architecture it could be even easier, just
build on one machine, nfs export and install on all machines i would
think.

i'm using debian and don't know much about gentoo but it seems to me
that it's not much more work to upgrade multiple machines than it is
to upgrade one machine, work smarter not harder :).
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Re: [mythtv-users] Feature request: backwards compatability

[Childe Roland]

Can you post your script here so I can have an example to work from??

On 5/17/05, Jake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/17/05, Bryan Halter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > protocol on either the backend or frontend.  One of the biggest hurdles
> > for me as a Gentoo user is that I have to upgrade all my frontends and
> > backends at the same time and restart.  If the frontend had barkwards
> 
> why is it hard to upgrade?  i compile from cvs and with one backend
> and 3 frontends i just run a script when i have to upgrade.  if all
> the frontends are same architecture it could be even easier, just
> build on one machine, nfs export and install on all machines i would
> think.
> 
> i'm using debian and don't know much about gentoo but it seems to me
> that it's not much more work to upgrade multiple machines than it is
> to upgrade one machine, work smarter not harder :).
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Re: [mythtv-users] Time Warner & Firewire

[Mark Knecht]

On 5/17/05, Tom E. Craddock Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> William wrote:
> >>Basically correct (with 'blessed' meaning that the device
> >>does some preliminary transactions to show it's compliant
> >>with the spec) but even once the data is sent from the DVD or
> >>cable box to the TV/monitor it's still encrypted as per the above.
> >>
> >
> >
> > These difficulies are what is leading me to think about getting a hd dvr
> > from one of the providers. The local cable co is giving them away for the
> > same rental as a standard cable box. If its anything like a tivo the content
> > of the box should be available over the network connection for easy copying.
> >
> 
> No such luck for the TimeWarner/Brighthouse HD DVR box, the SA 8300HD.
> No way to pull any thing off this box.  Doubt that any decent sized
> cable co will make any box avail that has the ability to pull recordings
> off for archival purposes.  They are nice for the novice user, but I
> still use MythTV more than I use the 8300HD boxes.
> 
> Tom

Actually pure archival was contemplated in the 5C spec. If a DVR
records on removable media then the data on the media was to be
encrypted but carries flags that say it can be archived. (I forget the
actual flag names.) That way you could keep a backup copy off
premises. There were copy once flags, copy multiple, copy unlimited,
etc., that defined how copies of copies would be handled. In this
model there was no degradation of the program material and but the
copies were managed as per the desires of the owner of the material.
(The studios - not the hardware people.)

One thing that may not be clear to people is that the final decryption
of the program material was always going to be done as close to the
display as possible thus ensuring that there wasn't as much chance of
people using computers to steal copies of movies as happens today.
Again, you could make a copy of a DVD in your PC if you had the media
to copy, but you weren't going to be able to make multiple copies in
parallel by setting up banks of DVD writers and driving them in
parallel from the same 1394 output. (As pirates are doing today with
non-HD material.)

There was a lot of work done on this stuff. It was a really different
sort of working group consisting of people from the 5C's as well as
all the major Hollywood studios.

- Mark
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Bug in mythtv-suite?

[Geoff Scott]

On 5/17/05, Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Nope. Freshrpms has been having issue after issue with its hosting provider.
> Change all ayo.freshrpms.net occurences in your sources.list to
> ayo.us.freshrpms.net and you should be fine.
> 

Thanks Jarod, that did the trick.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Feature request: backwards compatability

[Jake]

On 5/17/05, Bryan Halter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> protocol on either the backend or frontend.  One of the biggest hurdles
> for me as a Gentoo user is that I have to upgrade all my frontends and
> backends at the same time and restart.  If the frontend had barkwards

why is it hard to upgrade?  i compile from cvs and with one backend
and 3 frontends i just run a script when i have to upgrade.  if all
the frontends are same architecture it could be even easier, just
build on one machine, nfs export and install on all machines i would
think.

i'm using debian and don't know much about gentoo but it seems to me
that it's not much more work to upgrade multiple machines than it is
to upgrade one machine, work smarter not harder :).
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Re: [mythtv-users] 2 subscriptions on 1 card ?

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 11:22:24AM +0200, belcampo wrote:
> Anyone any idea how to let 2 DVB-S cards share 1 CI/CAM combination ?
> I'm using a Myth installation on a Pundit-R and would like to use 2 DVB-S 
> cards, watching/recording, but I need a CI/CAM for the non-FTA channels. I 
> can mount 1 CI/CAM at the bottom of the Pundit. I know there are cards with 
> the CI intrerface on the card but these are too big to fit the Pundit and 
> further it would require buying 2 CAMs en 2 CI interfaces which is rather 
> expensive and unnecessary I hope.

The CAM can typically only handle one stream at once, so it wouldn't
work. This is a question for linux-dvb anyway, rather than mythtv-users.

Hamish
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Re: [mythtv-users] Time Warner & Firewire

[Tom E. Craddock Jr.]

William wrote:
Basically correct (with 'blessed' meaning that the device 
does some preliminary transactions to show it's compliant 
with the spec) but even once the data is sent from the DVD or 
cable box to the TV/monitor it's still encrypted as per the above.


These difficulies are what is leading me to think about getting a hd dvr
from one of the providers. The local cable co is giving them away for the
same rental as a standard cable box. If its anything like a tivo the content
of the box should be available over the network connection for easy copying.

No such luck for the TimeWarner/Brighthouse HD DVR box, the SA 8300HD. 
No way to pull any thing off this box.  Doubt that any decent sized 
cable co will make any box avail that has the ability to pull recordings 
off for archival purposes.  They are nice for the novice user, but I 
still use MythTV more than I use the 8300HD boxes.

Tom
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Re: [mythtv-users] auto transcoding *some* recordings

[Robert Tsai]

On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 09:16:49PM -0400, Jeff Simpson wrote:
> > > Under the recording profile "transcoder", there are more options
> > > for transcoding, it seems. Can somebody point me at the part I'm
> > > missing? I'm sure it's something simple, probably just in how
> > > I'm reading all this
> > 
> > The "automatically transcode" will pick the transcoder based on
> > how your recording was captured. In your case, since everything is
> > getting captured and encoded to MPEG-2, you will be using the
> > "From MPEG-2" transcoder.
> 
> Oh, I see - there's no way to pick what type of transcoding to do?

Well, that is where you configure the transcoder. If you go into the
"From MPEG-2" transcoder, you get some more choices about codec,
bitrate, etc.

> If this is the case, does that mean that I have to assign one of
> (Default, High Quality, Low Quality, Live TV) to be the automatic
> transcode case?

Well, you could assign *two* of them ...

> There's no way to assign that trait to a recording group?

Currently, no.

> Should I not be adding a Profile Group at all, if that is the case?

I don't know what adding "Profile Groups" is for; I've always thought
that you get one group per capture card. But I don't know for sure,
because I only have one kind of capture card (HD-3000).

--Rob


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[mythtv-users] Frontend Hanging

[Daniel Milani]

Hello,
 I am running Myth 0.18 on FC3.  I had myth running fine with version 
0.17.  After I upgraded, the frontend hangs as it initializes.  I tried 
rerunning mythtv-setup.  That progresses through the first two screens: 
Do you want to save you capture card info, and do you want to save your 
channel info?  Then after that it just hangs.  I was running G.A.N.T. 
and have read about the problems some people have had with that, but 
don't think that is the issue.  I am not sure where to start diagnosing 
this problem.   What do people suggest?

Thanks,
Dan
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Bug in mythtv-suite?

[Geoff Scott]

On 5/17/05, James Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Okay. /etc/apt/sources.list has been updated with the two lines added.
> Am I the only one getting the "403 forbidden" with some of the
> packaging during the install step?

I just did this work around and also got the 403 errors.  All were on
ayo.freshrpms.net.

gs
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Re: [mythtv-users] Time Warner & Firewire

[Brad Templeton]

On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 09:13:26PM -0400, William wrote:
> > Basically correct (with 'blessed' meaning that the device 
> > does some preliminary transactions to show it's compliant 
> > with the spec) but even once the data is sent from the DVD or 
> > cable box to the TV/monitor it's still encrypted as per the above.
> > 
> 
> These difficulies are what is leading me to think about getting a hd dvr
> from one of the providers. The local cable co is giving them away for the
> same rental as a standard cable box. If its anything like a tivo the content
> of the box should be available over the network connection for easy copying.

It is this decision which has this community justifiably up in arms.

As the systems are being architected, open source tools like MythTV
can't compete with the box from the cable company, even though the
software is free as in beer too.   For perfectly rational reasons people
like you will get the cable/satellite provided PVR or other blessed
PVR, reducing demand for the open source tools which in turn limits the
number of people who will develop for them and test them and support
them.

Yet here's were a lot of the innovation is coming from.
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[mythtv-users] Updated to 0.18.1 - still problems.

[Joel Utting]

I've just updated to the 0.18.1 MythTV release, and
now when I watch TV I get a crash with the error ;

mythfrontend: xvmcvideo.c:202: render_state: Assertion
`render->mv_blocks' failed.

Any help would be appreciated,
Bye - Joel.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Writing DVD from web interface?

[Geoff Scott]

On 5/17/05, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> I grabed the CVS version. But when I look at the README,
> it points to a link to a dead article. Looking at install.sh,
> it looks like I cna just run it, and all will be well. But rather
> than mess up my system, I thought I'd ask if that's correct?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

The dead link goes back to the old forums at the KnoppMyth site
pre-hack (the forums were destroyed by phpBB worm a while back). 
There was a very, very long thread there about MythBurn, and you can
still get some of the pages in Google's cache, at least I could the
last time I tried.

The install.sh is built with KnoppMyth in mind.  If you are running
KnoppMyth, you should be good to go.  If you use another distro,
you'll have to edit some stuff in the install.sh script as well as a
few of the other scripts.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase error -- found

[Mickey Chandler]

At 07:40 PM 5/17/2005, Todd Vazquez wrote:
>What version of MySql are you running?  If I recall
>correctly, temporary tables are not supported in MySql
>3.23, the version that Myth has a dependency with.
I'm using MySQL 5.0.4-beta-standard installed using RPMs from MySQL.
What I ended up doing was using ` around each instance of "repeat" 
(`repeat`) that I found in datadirect.cpp (and it took me a very long time 
to find that this was the file I was looking for).

I'm still getting an error:
QString::arg(): Argument missing: INSERT INTO dd_v_station (stationid, 
callsign, stationname, affiliate, fccchannelnumber, channel, channelMinor) 
SELECT dd_station.stationid, callsign, stationname, affiliate, 
fccchannelnumber, channel, channelMinor FROM dd_station, dd_lineupmap 
WHERE  ( (dd_station.stationid = dd_lineupmap.stationid) );, DITV625:-

but this error isn't causing the database to not fill.
Now I only have to deal with the fact that I have sound but only a blue 
screen for video.


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Re: [mythtv-users] auto transcoding *some* recordings

[Jeff Simpson]

> > Under the recording profile "transcoder", there are more options for
> > transcoding, it seems. Can somebody point me at the part I'm
> > missing? I'm sure it's something simple, probably just in how I'm
> > reading all this
> 
> The "automatically transcode" will pick the transcoder based on how
> your recording was captured. In your case, since everything is getting
> captured and encoded to MPEG-2, you will be using the "From MPEG-2"
> transcoder.
> 
> --Rob


Oh, I see - there's no way to pick what type of transcoding to do?

If this is the case, does that mean that I have to assign one of
(Default, High Quality, Low Quality, Live TV) to be the automatic
transcode case? There's no way to assign that trait to a recording
group?

Should I not be adding a Profile Group at all, if that is the case?
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RE: [mythtv-users] Time Warner & Firewire

[William]

> Basically correct (with 'blessed' meaning that the device 
> does some preliminary transactions to show it's compliant 
> with the spec) but even once the data is sent from the DVD or 
> cable box to the TV/monitor it's still encrypted as per the above.
> 

These difficulies are what is leading me to think about getting a hd dvr
from one of the providers. The local cable co is giving them away for the
same rental as a standard cable box. If its anything like a tivo the content
of the box should be available over the network connection for easy copying.



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Re: [mythtv-users] auto transcoding *some* recordings

[Robert Tsai]

On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 08:52:07PM -0400, Jeff Simpson wrote:
> What is the difference between a Recording Group, Recording Profile,
> and Profile Group?

Recording Group - I believe this is just a way for you to categorize
your recordings to make navigation easier. For example, in MythWeb,
you can sort your recordings by "Recording Group" (e.g., Movies,
Cooking, Crime).

Recording Profile - settings for how your recordings eventually end up
on disk. This is where you set up your quality settings based on your
desired quality/disk-space requirements.

Profile Group - I don't know, since I only have one, but I think you
get one Profile Group per capture card in the system, plus a
"Transcoders" group for transcoding.

--Rob


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Re: [mythtv-users] auto transcoding *some* recordings

[Robert Tsai]

On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 08:44:58PM -0400, Jeff Simpson wrote:
> On 5/17/05, Robert Tsai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 06:24:30PM -0400, Jeff Simpson wrote:
> > > Is it possible to set up some recordings (from a PVR-350) to
> > > automatically re-transcode, but have that setting not affect the
> > > other recordings? Some shows I like to record and transcode so
> > > it's easy to put them on a laptop or download them from myself,
> > > but others I like to keep full quality and save to dvd.
> > >
> > > Any idea how to do this? I'm looking through the setup and
> > > haven't found anything, yet.
> > 
> > Can't you set up your shows on different recording profiles, and
> > set up the recording profiles' "automatically transcode" checkbox?
> 
> is that all that needs to be done? I thought there would be options
> for HOW to transcode it. From what I can tell:
> 
> Recording Profile -> Create New I type in a name, I pick MPEG2 - PVR
> as the card type it then makes me pick one of (Default, Live TV,
> High Quality, Low Quality) - I'm not clear as to what this means, so
> I just pick Default for now

They all start out with the same values when you initially install
MythTV. It is meant for you to tweak the settings later on for making
disk-space/quality trade-offs.

> This section has the option for "Automatically transcode" I can pick
> the new size, but under "codec" it doesn't allow me to change the
> type to anything but MPEG-2 Hardware Encoder Same thing on the next
> page, and then it kicks me back to pick the type of recording
> (Default, Live TV, High Quality, Low Quality)

Depending on your capture card, that is correct. I guess some cards
allow you to encode to a variety of codecs (MPEG-4/RTjpeg, etc.).

> Under the recording profile "transcoder", there are more options for
> transcoding, it seems. Can somebody point me at the part I'm
> missing? I'm sure it's something simple, probably just in how I'm
> reading all this

The "automatically transcode" will pick the transcoder based on how
your recording was captured. In your case, since everything is getting
captured and encoded to MPEG-2, you will be using the "From MPEG-2"
transcoder.

--Rob


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Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport question

[Preston Crow]

On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 23:46, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> 3) My nuvs are automatically transcoded to mpeg4. All I really want to do
> is extract the streams unmolested (as is) into an avi for others to watch
> on windows.

That's exactly what I want to do.  I have a PVR-250, and I transcoded to
MPEG-4 to save space and cut commercials.  Now I have a friend that
wants to see the show, and I'm trying to make a copy for him.

All I've read in the archives suggests that it could be done if someone
wrote some more code to do it, but such code doesn't exist.  The problem
area is in keeping the audio sync.

Personally, I would consider it a huge win if this could be made to
work.

--PC


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Re: [mythtv-users] Teletext subtitles etc

[Christian Schuglitsch]

Joakim Selander schrieb:
Did you try this patch?
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/130138
 

Teletext works great with my twinhan dvb-t card. I've tried to find a 
key in the pdf manual to browse through multiple pages (1/5 to 2/5). 
Maybe a reload key would be nice if a textline is missing.

P.S. My cvs problem was that -D requires the "". -D "argument" ..
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Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport question

[Preston Crow]

On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 23:46, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> 3) My nuvs are automatically transcoded to mpeg4. All I really want to do
> is extract the streams unmolested (as is) into an avi for others to watch
> on windows.

That's exactly what I want to do.  I have a PVR-250, and I transcoded to
MPEG-4 to save space and cut commercials.  Now I have a friend that
wants to see the show, and I'm trying to make a copy for him.

All I've read in the archives suggests that it could be done if someone
wrote some more code to do it, but such code doesn't exist.  The problem
area is in keeping the audio sync.

Personally, I would consider it a huge win if this could be made to
work.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Bug in mythtv-suite?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tuesday 17 May 2005 17:35, James Alexander wrote:
> Okay. /etc/apt/sources.list has been updated with the two lines added.
> Am I the only one getting the "403 forbidden" with some of the
> packaging during the install step?

Nope. Freshrpms has been having issue after issue with its hosting provider. 
Change all ayo.freshrpms.net occurences in your sources.list to 
ayo.us.freshrpms.net and you should be fine.

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Re: [mythtv-users] auto transcoding *some* recordings

[Jeff Simpson]

While I'm asking:

What is the difference between a Recording Group, Recording Profile,
and Profile Group?

Thanks

 - Jeff

On 5/17/05, Jeff Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/17/05, Robert Tsai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 06:24:30PM -0400, Jeff Simpson wrote:
> > > Is it possible to set up some recordings (from a PVR-350) to
> > > automatically re-transcode, but have that setting not affect the
> > > other recordings? Some shows I like to record and transcode so it's
> > > easy to put them on a laptop or download them from myself, but
> > > others I like to keep full quality and save to dvd.
> > >
> > > Any idea how to do this? I'm looking through the setup and haven't
> > > found anything, yet.
> >
> > Can't you set up your shows on different recording profiles, and set
> > up the recording profiles' "automatically transcode" checkbox?
> 
> is that all that needs to be done? I thought there would be options
> for HOW to transcode it. From what I can tell:
> 
> Recording Profile -> Create New
> I type in a name, I pick MPEG2 - PVR as the card type
> it then makes me pick one of (Default, Live TV, High Quality, Low
> Quality) - I'm not clear as to what this means, so I just pick Default
> for now
> This section has the option for "Automatically transcode"
> I can pick the new size, but under "codec" it doesn't allow me to
> change the type to anything but MPEG-2 Hardware Encoder
> Same thing on the next page, and then it kicks me back to pick the
> type of recording (Default, Live TV, High Quality, Low Quality)
> 
> Under the recording profile "transcoder", there are more options for
> transcoding, it seems. Can somebody point me at the part I'm missing?
> I'm sure it's something simple, probably just in how I'm reading all
> this
> 
>  - Jeff
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Re: [mythtv-users] auto transcoding *some* recordings

[Jeff Simpson]

On 5/17/05, Robert Tsai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 06:24:30PM -0400, Jeff Simpson wrote:
> > Is it possible to set up some recordings (from a PVR-350) to
> > automatically re-transcode, but have that setting not affect the
> > other recordings? Some shows I like to record and transcode so it's
> > easy to put them on a laptop or download them from myself, but
> > others I like to keep full quality and save to dvd.
> >
> > Any idea how to do this? I'm looking through the setup and haven't
> > found anything, yet.
> 
> Can't you set up your shows on different recording profiles, and set
> up the recording profiles' "automatically transcode" checkbox?

is that all that needs to be done? I thought there would be options
for HOW to transcode it. From what I can tell:

Recording Profile -> Create New
I type in a name, I pick MPEG2 - PVR as the card type
it then makes me pick one of (Default, Live TV, High Quality, Low
Quality) - I'm not clear as to what this means, so I just pick Default
for now
This section has the option for "Automatically transcode"
I can pick the new size, but under "codec" it doesn't allow me to
change the type to anything but MPEG-2 Hardware Encoder
Same thing on the next page, and then it kicks me back to pick the
type of recording (Default, Live TV, High Quality, Low Quality)

Under the recording profile "transcoder", there are more options for
transcoding, it seems. Can somebody point me at the part I'm missing?
I'm sure it's something simple, probably just in how I'm reading all
this

 - Jeff

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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase error -- found

[Todd Vazquez]

--- Mickey Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> At 02:55 PM 5/17/2005, I wrote:
>  >DB Error (Creating temporary table):
>  >Query was:
>  >CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE IF NOT EXISTS dd_schedule (
> programid char(12),
>  >stationid char(12), scheduletime datetime,
> duration time, repeat bool,
>  >stereo bool, subtitled bool, hdtv bool,
> closecaptioned bool, tvrating
>  >char(5), partnumber int, parttotal int, endtime
> datetime, INDEX progidx
>  >(programid) );
>  >Driver error was [2/1064]:
>  >QMYSQL3: Unable to execute query
>  >Database error was:
>  >You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the
> manual that corresponds to
>  >your MySQL server version for the right syntax to
> use near 'repeat bool,
>  >stereo bool, subtitled bool, hdtv bool,
> closecaptio
> 
> I think I found it.  I started running the statement
> one part at a time, 
> dropping the table, and then adding a new part.
> 
> mysql> CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE IF NOT EXISTS
> dd_schedule ( programid 
> char(12), stationid char(12), scheduletime datetime,
> duration time, repeat 
> bool);
> ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL
> syntax; check the manual 
> that corresponds to your MySQL server version for
> the right syntax to use 
> near 'repeat bool)' at line 1
> mysql> CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE IF NOT EXISTS
> dd_schedule ( programid 
> char(12), stationid char(12), scheduletime datetime,
> duration time, repeata 
> bool);
> Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
> 
> "repeat" appears to be a reserved 
> word. 
>

> 
> So, does anyone have any clues on how I might fix
> this?
> 
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What version of MySql are you running?  If I recall
correctly, temporary tables are not supported in MySql
3.23, the version that Myth has a dependency with.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong here.

Fix?  Blow off the dependencies and upgrade MySql to
4.x (on my list of things to do) or recode/grab an
earlier version of mythfilldatabase.  Are you running
from CVS?  I haven't hit that problem, yet...

HTH,
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Re: [mythtv-users] $80 Air2PC cards (Rev 0.2?)

[David George]

Tom Dombrosky wrote:
If it's the same one as this one:
http://www.cyberestore.com/product_info.php?cPath=34&products_id=103
then I got it working in my Myth setup.  Some people have had problems
with the QAM tuning, but I fortunately haven't.
 

They aren't the same.  This is an older model with an older generation 
tuner that doesn't do as great a job with multipath as the Air2PC you 
have.  Also, whereas your version may support QAM for some people on 
some frequencies, the older version does *not* support QAM at all 
(according to the information posted on it).

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Bug in mythtv-suite?

[James Alexander]

Okay. /etc/apt/sources.list has been updated with the two lines added.
Am I the only one getting the "403 forbidden" with some of the
packaging during the install step?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# apt-get update
Get:1 http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/3/en/i386 release [1527B]
Get:2 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 release [2135B]
Get:3 http://axentra.net files/mezzanine/mythtv release [359B]
Fetched 4021B in 5s (716B/s)
Hit http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/3/en/i386/at-stable pkglist
Get:1 http://axentra.net files/mezzanine/mythtv/stable pkglist [838B]
Get:2 http://axentra.net files/mezzanine/mythtv/stable release [141B]
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/core pkglist
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/core release
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/updates pkglist
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/updates release
Hit http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/3/en/i386/at-stable release
Hit http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/3/en/i386/at-stable srclist
Fetched 979B in 1s (690B/s)
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]#

[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# apt-get install mythtv-suite=0.18
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Selected version 0.18-53.at.1 for mythtv-suite
The following extra packages will be installed:
  fribidi kakasi kakasi-dict libmyth libpostproc mplayer mysql-server
mythmkmovie myththemes mythtv-backend mythtv-frontend
  mythtv-setup mythtv-suite mythtv-theme-MediaCenter
mythtv-theme-MythCenter mythtv-theme-abstract mythtv-theme-isthmus
  mythtv-theme-photo mythtv-theme-purplegalaxy mythtv-theme-sleek
mythtv-theme-visor mythweb perl-Term-ProgressBar
  perl-TermReadKey perl-Text-Kakasi perl-XMLTV php-mysql qt-MySQL
xmltv xmltv-grabbers xmltv-gui
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  fribidi kakasi kakasi-dict libmyth libpostproc mplayer mysql-server
mythmkmovie myththemes mythtv-backend mythtv-frontend
  mythtv-setup mythtv-suite mythtv-theme-MediaCenter
mythtv-theme-MythCenter mythtv-theme-abstract mythtv-theme-isthmus
  mythtv-theme-photo mythtv-theme-purplegalaxy mythtv-theme-sleek
mythtv-theme-visor mythweb perl-Term-ProgressBar
  perl-TermReadKey perl-Text-Kakasi perl-XMLTV php-mysql qt-MySQL
xmltv xmltv-grabbers xmltv-gui
0 upgraded, 31 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2531kB/36.8MB of archives.
After unpacking 69.6MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/core fribidi 0.10.4-6
  403 Forbidden
Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/core kakasi 2.3.4-17
  403 Forbidden
Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/updates qt-MySQL
1:3.3.4-0.fc3.0
  403 Forbidden
Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/updates mysql-server
3.23.58-16.FC3.1
  403 Forbidden
Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/core kakasi-dict 2.3.4-17
  403 Forbidden
Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/updates php-mysql 4.3.11-2.5
  403 Forbidden
Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386/core perl-TermReadKey 2.20-17
  403 Forbidden
Failed to fetch
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/3/i386/RPMS.core/fribidi-0.10.4-6.i386.rpm
 403 Forbidden
Failed to fetch
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/3/i386/RPMS.core/kakasi-2.3.4-17.i386.rpm
 403 Forbidden
Failed to fetch
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/3/i386/RPMS.updates/qt-MySQL-3.3.4-0.fc3.0.i386.rpm
 403 Forbidden
Failed to fetch
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/3/i386/RPMS.updates/mysql-server-3.23.58-16.FC3.1.i386.rpm
 403 Forbidden
Failed to fetch
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/3/i386/RPMS.core/kakasi-dict-2.3.4-17.i386.rpm
 403 Forbidden
Failed to fetch
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/3/i386/RPMS.updates/php-mysql-4.3.11-2.5.i386.rpm
 403 Forbidden
Failed to fetch
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/3/i386/RPMS.core/perl-TermReadKey-2.20-17.i386.rpm
 403 Forbidden
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with
--fix-missing?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]#


On 5/17/05, Mike Geisterfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 2005/05/17 - 07:24 PM, you wrote:
> >Graeme Wilford's fix works but do it like this
> >
> >Edit this file:  /etc/apt/sources.list
> >
> >and add the next 2 lines
> >
> ># temporary mythtv-suite fix
> >rpm http://axentra.net files/mezzanine/mythtv stable
> >
> >Then run these 2 commands
> >
> >apt-get update
> >apt-get install mythtv-suite=0.18
> >
> >There is no need to download the rpm.  Worked fine for me.
> >
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 18:01 -0500, James Alexander wrote:
> > > Okay, am I the only one getting a little frustrated by this process? I
> > > have no idea what "build a local apt repo" means, so I may have
> > > approached this completely incorrectly.
> > >
> > > here's my command process, what did I do wrong this time?
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# rpm -Uhv
> > >
> > http://axentra.net/files/mezzanine/m

Re: [mythtv-users] $80 Air2PC cards (Rev 0.2?)

[David George]

Blammo wrote:
Anyone seen (and bought) one of these?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3761&item=5195966400&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
I'm curious if anyone has one working in a myth box? I'm a little wary
given the verbage about "updated tuners"...
I need another tuner with all the finale's coming, and $80 is cheaper
than a single PVR-250 or PVR-500.
Thoughts?
 

Yes, I saw them a couple of weeks ago.  Looks they they haven't been a 
hot seller.

These use an older tuner.  I don't have one so can't tell you if it is 
supported or not.  Whether the older tuner is a big deal for you depends 
on whether multi-path is an issue in your area and if you want to mess 
with making sure the Linux drivers support it.

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Re: [mythtv-users] South African MythTv Users

[Peter Judge]

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 08:22 +0200, Greg Wildman wrote:
> > 
> > > If you are looking for a TV listings source you can get
> > > DSTV's one at ZAXMLTV - XMLTV for South Africa
> > > 

Thanks for the feedback all. 

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Re: [mythtv-users] Backend Dies

[Thomas Koschate]

Ed Hills wrote:

> My latest challenge is that the backend starts, then after I start the
> frontend, it fails to connect and kills the backend.
>  
> Mythtv 0.18
>  
> Any thoughts

I'm seeing a similar behavior after every day after the listings have
been updated.  If I start the front-end from a command line, I see error
messages because the front-end is trying to update the database schema
by adding columns that already exist.  If I manually delete the columns,
the front-end starts up, and is fine until the next listings update.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Writing DVD from web interface?

[stan]

On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 08:24:48AM -0700, Geoff Scott wrote:
> On 5/17/05, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm rebuilding my myth box after a bit of a disaster.
> > 
> > I had found an add in that allowed me to burn dvd's
> > from the web interface, and used it a lot. I'm having
> > trouble finding this add in again.
> > 
> > Anyone know where I can downlaod it?
> > 
> 
> You're looking for Mythburn
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=119692
> 
> You'll want to grab the CVS version.

I grabed the CVS version. But when I look at the README,
it points to a link to a dead article. Looking at install.sh,
it looks like I cna just run it, and all will be well. But rather
than mess up my system, I thought I'd ask if that's correct?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Bug in mythtv-suite?

[Mike Geisterfer]

At 2005/05/17 - 07:24 PM, you wrote:
Graeme Wilford's fix works but do it like this
Edit this file:  /etc/apt/sources.list
and add the next 2 lines
# temporary mythtv-suite fix
rpm http://axentra.net files/mezzanine/mythtv stable
Then run these 2 commands
apt-get update
apt-get install mythtv-suite=0.18
There is no need to download the rpm.  Worked fine for me.

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 18:01 -0500, James Alexander wrote:
> Okay, am I the only one getting a little frustrated by this process? I
> have no idea what "build a local apt repo" means, so I may have
> approached this completely incorrectly.
>
> here's my command process, what did I do wrong this time?
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# rpm -Uhv
> 
http://axentra.net/files/mezzanine/mythtv/RPMS.stable/mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386.rpm
> Retrieving 
http://axentra.net/files/mezzanine/mythtv/RPMS.stable/mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
> mythtv >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythtv-backend >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythtv-frontend >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythtv-setup >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythplugins >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythweb >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> myththemes >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythtv-theme-photo >= 4 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythtv-theme-purplegalaxy >= 0.20031214 is needed by
> mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythtv-theme-visor >= 1:0.13.1 is needed by
> mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythtv-theme-sleek >= 0.35 is needed by 
mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythtv-theme-isthmus >= 0.20040804 is needed by
> mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythtv-theme-abstract >= 0.20040610 is needed by
> mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythtv-theme-MediaCenter >= 0.17 is needed by
> mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythtv-theme-MythCenter >= 0.17 is needed by
> mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythmkmovie >= 1.0.1 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mysql-server is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> xmltv is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]#
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> # You can use the file:/ entries for creating your local repository 
mirrors.
>
> #
> # base
> # Fedora Core 3 - i386 - Base
> #
> rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 core
> #rpm-src http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 core
>
> #
> # updates-released
> # Fedora Core 3 - i386 - Released Updates
> #
> rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 updates
> #rpm-src http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 updates
>
> #
> # updates-testing
> # Fedora Core 3 - i386 - Unreleased Updates
> #
> # rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 tupdates
> # rpm-src http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 tupdates
>
> #
> # fedoralegacyupdates
> # Fedora Core 3 - i386 - Released Updates by FedoraLegacy
> #
> # rpm http://download.fedoralegacy.org/apt fedora/3/i386 updates
> # rpm-src http://download.fedoralegacy.org/apt fedora/3/i386 updates
>
> #
> # atrpms
> # Fedora Core 3 - i386 - ATrpms
> # alternatives to stable: testing and bleeding
> #
> rpm http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/3/en/i386 at-stable
> #rpm-src http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/3/en/i386 at-stable
>
> # temporary mythtv-suite fix
> rpm http://axentra.net files/mezzanine/mythtv stable
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]#
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# apt-get install mythtv-suite=0.18
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Selected version 0.18-53.at for mythtv-suite
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
>
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   mythtv-suite: Depends: mythplugin (>= 0.18) but it is not installable
> E: Broken packages
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Worked for me as Paul H. mentioned... Don't forget to apt-get update && 
apt-get dist-upgrade

When I did that after the apt-get install mythtv-suite it recorded removing 
some older rpms.

Mike 

[mythtv-users] Re: HD3000: Could not find dvb tuning parameters for transport 0

[Mudit Wahal]

The channels for which I'm not able to watch/record, the mplexid,
serviceid, atscrcid are all NULL.

---

| chanid | channum | freqid | sourceid | callsign | name |
icon | finetune | videofilters | xmltvid | recpriority | contrast |
brightness | colour | hue   | tvformat | commfree | visible |
outputfilters | useonairguide | mplexid | serviceid | atscsrcid |
++-++--+--+--+--+--+--+-+-+--+++---+--+--+-+---+---+-+---+---+
|   1034 | 7_1 | 24-1   |1 | KGODT| KGODT (KGO-DT)   |
none | NULL |  | 19574   |   0 |32768 |   
  32768 |  32768 | 32768 | Default  |0 |   1 |
  | 0 |NULL |  NULL |  NULL |
|   1036 | 36_1| 52-1   |1 | KICUDT   | KICUDT (KICU-DT) |
none | NULL |  | 21650   |   0 |32768 |   
  32768 |  32768 | 32768 | Default  |0 |   1 |
  | 0 |NULL |  NULL |  NULL |
|   1041 | 7_2 | 24-2   |1 | KGODT2   | KGODT2 (KGO-DT2) |
none | NULL |  | 30833   |   0 |32768 |   
  32768 |  32768 | 32768 | Default  |0 |   1 |
  | 0 |NULL |  NULL |  NULL |
|   1065 | 65_1| 41-1   |1 | KKPXDT   | KKPXDT (KKPX-DT) |
none | NULL |  | 35375   |   0 |32768 |   
  32768 |  32768 | 32768 | Default  |0 |   1 |
  | 0 |NULL |  NULL |  NULL |
++-++--+--+--+--+--+--+-+-+--+++---+--+--+-+---+---+-+---+---+


On 5/17/05, Mudit Wahal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm in San Jose, using HD 3000 for over the air channels. Installed
> Knoppix Myth R5A15.1. I can't watch live TV using the DVB. I dont know
> if others have same issue or not.
> 
> cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.4 loaded
> cx88[0]: subsystem: 7063:3000, board: pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV 
> [card=22,autodetected]
> cx88[0]/2: found at :00:09.2, rev: 5, irq: 17, latency: 32, mmio: 
> 0xe300
> cx88[0]/2: cx2388x based dvb card
> DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0]).
> DVB: registering frontend 0 (pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV)...
> eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7869 advertising 05e1 Link 45e1.
> cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.4 loaded
> cx88[0]/0: found at :00:09.0, rev: 5, irq: 17, latency: 32, mmio: 
> 0xe200
> tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx88[0])
> tuner 0-0061: type set to 52 (Thomson DDT 7610 (ATSC/NTSC))
> cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]
> cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0
> cx88[0]/0: registered device radio0
> pcHDTV HD3000 driver version 2.0.0 loaded
> cx2388x blackbird driver version 0.0.4 loaded
> or51132: Waiting for firmware upload(dvb-fe-or51132-vsb.fw)...
> or51132: Version: 10001134-1943 (113-4-194-3)
> or51132: Firmware upload complete.
> 
> I can record the programs and then watch them. But I'm having trouble
> watching Channel 7 (ABC). Whenever I tune to record something off 7_1,
> I get the following error messages.
> 
> 2005-05-17 09:15:45.801 Started recording "Live With Regis and Kelly"
> on channel: 1034 on cardid: 1, sourceid 1
> 2005-05-17 09:15:45.841 DVB#0 ERROR - Could not find dvb tuning
> parameters for transport 0
> 2005-05-17 09:15:45.845 DVB#0 ERROR - Failed to get channel options
> for channel 7_1.
> 2005-05-17 09:15:46.032 Changing from None to RecordingOnly
> 2005-05-17 09:15:46.182 DVB#0 Recorder: Card opened successfully
> (using TS mode).
> 2005-05-17 09:15:46.207 DVB#0 ERROR - No PIDS set, please correct your
> channel setup.
> 2005-05-17 09:15:47.287 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
> 2005-05-17 09:15:48.299 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
> 2005-05-17 09:15:49.334 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
> 
> I created channels.conf using azap. I see the following lines
> 
> KGO:53300:8VSB:0:0
> 
> I ran azap -r KGO and got the following
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tftpboot# azap -r KGO
> using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
> tuning to 53300 Hz
> video pid 0x, audio pid 0x
> status 00 | signal 3999 | snr e287 | ber  | unc  |
> status 1f | signal da5d | snr fa35 | ber  | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal dcab | snr fa29 | ber  | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal dcab | snr fa07 | ber  | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal da5d | snr fa01 | ber  | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
> status 1f | signal da5d | snr f9ff | ber  | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK

[mythtv-users] Problems with HW Mpeg decoding on Epia board - MythTV 0.18

[Joel Utting]

Hi, I'm working at getting myth going on the Epia
M1 for a possible commercial project, I've worked
through many HOWTO's and info, but I'm having trouble
diagnosing a problem with HW Mpeg. In summary ;

MythTV 0.18 works with I don't compile in XvMC VLD
support - Xv works to watch DVB signal TV but it is
slow and choppy and cuts out regularly (reports
pre-buffering error).

When I compile in XvMC VLD I just get a black screen
when watching TV - this is the terminal window output
;

2005-05-18 09:50:07.970 AvFormatDecoder: Could not
find decoder for codec (4), ignoring.
2005-05-18 09:50:08.153 Opening audio device
'/dev/dsp'.
2005-05-18 09:50:08.154 Opening OSS audio device
'/dev/dsp'.
2005-05-18 09:50:08.203 Using XV port 64
2005-05-18 09:50:10.624 Using realtime priority.
2005-05-18 09:50:10.643 Video timing method: DRM
2005-05-18 09:50:10.645 Changing from None to
WatchingLiveTV
2005-05-18 09:50:25.212 Changing from WatchingLiveTV
to None
2005-05-18 09:50:25.215 Changing from None to None

Mythtv can still escape to the menu and exit - but
ends with a segfault.

The driver via_v4l doesn't seem to be installed or
available on my system - is it still required with
kernel 2.6.10 ? (Some HOWTOs seem to be out of date,
and Xine reports that it is using HW decoding)

Thanks for any help,
Bye - Joel.

 
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RE: [mythtv-users] Dying Backend

[Gavin Haslett]

Nothin' there I'm afraid. This is all I got from the backend;

2005-05-17 18:41:36.022 ClearListMaps...
2005-05-17 18:41:36.078 Sort by time...
2005-05-17 18:41:36.134 PruneRedundants...
--- print list start ---
Title - SubtitleChan ChID Day Start  End   S C I  T
N Pri
2005-05-17 18:41:36.190 Host mythtv.alopex.nodecaf.net updating endtime
to 20050517184100
The Simpsons  30 1030  17 18:37-19:00  1 1 1  S
S   0
2005-05-17 18:41:36.305 Host mythtv.alopex.nodecaf.net renaming
/video/recordings/1030_20050517183700_2005051719.nuv to
/video/recordings/1030_20050517183700_20050517184100.nuv
Futurama - "Love's Labour Lost in S  296 1296  18 01:00-01:30  1 1 1  T
1   0
2005-05-17 18:41:36.448 1   1
MythBusters - "Breaking Glass"   278 1278  18 23:00-00:00  1 1 1  W
1   0
Futurama - "Fear of a Bot Planet"296 1296  19 01:00-01:30  1 1 1  T
1   0
McLeod's Daughters - "The Bridle Wa  260 1260  20 14:00-15:00  1 0 0  F
R   0
Keeping Up Appearances - "How to Go  264 1264  20 14:20-15:00  1 1 1  W
1   0
McLeod's Daughters - "To Have and t  260 1260  21 21:00-22:00  1 1 1  F
1   0
McLeod's Daughters - "To Have and t  260 1260  22 00:30-01:30  1 1 1  O
1   0
2005-05-17 18:41:37.014 50  BACKEND_MESSAGE[]:[]DONE_RECORDING 1
248[]...
Futurama - "My Three Suns"   296 1296  22 01:00-01:30  1 0 0  O
X   0
2005-05-17 18:42:01.665 New DB connection, total: 1
Starting up as the master server.
 
Note that I was deliberately recording a show (The Simpsons), stopped
the recording and was using Mythweb. Nothing odd in the logs, no
errors... Just this. Note that it got as far as "Done recording" then
died almost immediately. The restart was forced by my job that runs
every minute.

Not sure about the binary packages... It did the same thing (though
slightly more frequently) with 0.17 as well.

Thoughts anyone? It still looks like a database problem to me, the
failing seems to happen when the database is being utilized a lot (and
watching "top" I saw usage of memory of the mysqld process spike a
little higher than usual right before the crash). Could this be a mysql
bug we're fighting? Version perhaps?

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Risto Treksler
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 3:04 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Dying Backend

> since I use binary packages is there a way I can up the verbosity of 
> these logs to see if anything weird is going on?

you can edit /etc/init.d/mythbackend
go to the "start)" section
find the line that calls mythbackend
add " -v all "

or just run mythbackend manually in a shell

log in remotely or switch to a virtual terminal locally with
 (you can go back with  usually)

comment out the cron job for now
this way, if the backend dies, you can switch to that vt to see tha last
log messages printed

just type
"mythbackend -v all"

or loop it with
"while : ; do mythbackend -v all ; sleep 5 ; done"

> Another time the backend dies is if I've been using Mythweb, that 
> seems to cause more crashes than it's sometimes worth (though I do 
> prefer using Mythweb to locate shows that I want to record).

does mythweb make the backend die for you only on the recorded_programs
screen or on other screens as well?

> Currently I'd say I lose backend about twice per day on average at the

> moment. Version 0.18.0 (not had time to do 0.18.1, but doesn't seem 
> like it fixes any backend or commflag bugs).

try current cvs with debugging turned on and send a backtrace to the
mythtv-dev list

every now and then this seems to be happen to someone, but since none of
the devs can seem to reproduce it, it's hard to fix.

best to follow these instructions
http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-21.html#ss21.2

who knows, the crashes could be caused by your binary packages
themselves so, does it still happen with CVS with debugging turned on?

also,
look up the "ulimit" command
you can set it so that core files are written to disk when a program
crashes "ulimit -c unlimited"

that way you can run "mythbackend -v all" and do a "gdb mythbackend
core"
or similar when it dies to make a backtrace even though you weren't
using gdb to run mythbackend


--
Risto Treksler
Elkhorn Lodge
Banff, Alberta, Canada
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Re: [mythtv-users] Select6 PID with DVB

[Dean Wilson]

I'm also having the same trouble with one of my channels.  I record in
"TS" format, and have to change the audio track every time I change to
that particular channel.  (All other channels work fine)



On 5/14/05, Drew Whittle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know if it is possible to select a particular Audio PID when
> using DVB? (I'm not getting the right audio track on one of my stations,
> it is getting the alternate track which is on a higher PID)
> 
> Thx,
> 
> :D
> 
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[mythtv-users] Re: Mythfrontend dies looking for fd0 with mediamonitor??

[mudbiker]

Well, I got it to work, albeit with a 5 pound sledge.  I discovered by
deleting /dev/fd0 mythfrontend would go ahead and start.  However, on
reboot, /dev/fd0 reappears.  So, I added "rm /dev/fd0" to my startup
script.  It's not pretty, but its working.  I am very surprised nobody
else seems to have run into this!

Justin

On 5/16/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Right after it resizes the fonts, right before it would show the icons
> for watch tv, recordings, etc, I am getting a segfault.  I am running
> .18 on debian on the xbox.  Have reinstalled twice and get to this
> same error both times.
> 
> I get this in the xterm:
> 
> Mediamonitor:  Adding /dev/fd0
> Segmentation fault
> 
> /var/log/messages shows:
> 
> May 16 20:48:00 xbox kernel: inserting floppy driver for 2.4.27
> May 16 20:48:00 xbox kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M AMI BIOS, fd1 is 
> 2.88
> M AMI BIOS
> May 16 20:48:00 xbox kernel: floppy0: Unable to grab IRQ6 for the floppy 
> driver
> May 16 20:48:00 xbox kernel:  printing eip:
> May 16 20:48:00 xbox kernel: c018877e
> May 16 20:48:00 xbox kernel: Oops: 
> May 16 20:48:00 xbox kernel: CPU:0
> May 16 20:48:00 xbox kernel: EIP:0010:[devfs_get_ops+94/144]Not 
> tainted
> May 16 20:48:00 xbox kernel: EFLAGS: 00010287
> May 16 20:48:00 xbox kernel: eax: 6000   ebx: c3742460   ecx: c37425e0   
> edx
> : c5fd4f04
> May 16 20:48:00 xbox kernel: esi: 61b0   edi: c0961280   ebp: c0f52960   
> esp
> : c24bff10
> May 16 20:48:00 xbox kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
> May 16 20:48:00 xbox kernel: Process mythfrontend (pid: 2094, 
> stackpage=c24bf000
> )
> May 16 20:48:00 xbox kernel: Stack: c3025005 c3742460 c0961280 c0189340 
> c3742460
>  c01241e3 0019 c0142b4a
> May 16 20:48:00 xbox kernel:0019 ffeb 8801 c034ce60 
> c3742468
>  c0f52960 c0961280 ffe9
> May 16 20:48:00 xbox kernel:c10ac4a0 c01383cd c0961280 c0f52960 
> 8800
>  c3025000 418b5d00 b508
> May 16 20:48:00 xbox kernel: Call Trace:[devfs_open+96/432] 
> [in_group_p+35/4
> 8] [vfs_permission+138/304] [dentry_open+205/464] [filp_open+104/112]
> May 16 20:48:00 xbox kernel:   [sys_open+83/160] [system_call+51/56]
> May 16 20:48:00 xbox kernel:
> May 16 20:48:00 xbox kernel: Code: 8b 42 14 39 d9 74 0c 89 04 24 e8 33 11 f9 
> ff
> 85 c0 75 0f 31
> 
> Help!
>
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Re: [mythtv-users] multiple audio tracks on digital TV

[Dean Wilson]

Has anyone else had this problem?  I ask because I have a similar issue --

I just upgraded to 18.1 (from 17) and noticed that when I enabled TS
recording, mythtv found multiple audio channels -- but picks the
higher one,  (2 -- which is apparently silent) instead of channel 1,
which works.

Has anyone found a fix?

On 4/21/05, Jonathan Watmough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 4/21/05, David Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I can report the same problem in my locale. Getting spanish all of a
> > sudden...
> >
> > On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Robert Tsai wrote:
> >
> > > In the Boston area, I receive two audio tracks on WGBXDT (PBS,
> > > "43-1"). The problem is that the "default" audio track is the wrong
> > > one. I think it belongs to a different 43-x subchannel or something. I
> > > have to manually hit "+" to get to the right audio track.
> > >
> > > The problem is that when I record something on that channel, I also
> > > record the wrong audio track.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to set this up so that I get the correct audio track
> > > when I tune to this channel?
> > >
> > > I've fixed up my zap2it subscription to also download 44-2,44-3,44-4
> > > but that hasn't fixed anything (but now I can see where the audio
> > > track is supposed to be).
> > >
> > > --Rob
> 
> The myth tv code when it switches channels seems to works downwards
> rather than upwards to find an audio channel. Not exactly sure why
> this is, but it's why I usually get the SAP audio track when switching
> to Fox news on my HD setup.
> 
> Cheers
> Jonathan
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Bug in mythtv-suite?

[Paul Hamm]

Graeme Wilford's fix works but do it like this

Edit this file:  /etc/apt/sources.list  

and add the next 2 lines

# temporary mythtv-suite fix
rpm http://axentra.net files/mezzanine/mythtv stable

Then run these 2 commands

apt-get update 
apt-get install mythtv-suite=0.18

There is no need to download the rpm.  Worked fine for me.



On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 18:01 -0500, James Alexander wrote:
> Okay, am I the only one getting a little frustrated by this process? I
> have no idea what "build a local apt repo" means, so I may have
> approached this completely incorrectly.
> 
> here's my command process, what did I do wrong this time?
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# rpm -Uhv
> http://axentra.net/files/mezzanine/mythtv/RPMS.stable/mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386.rpm
> Retrieving 
> http://axentra.net/files/mezzanine/mythtv/RPMS.stable/mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
> mythtv >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythtv-backend >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythtv-frontend >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythtv-setup >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythplugins >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythweb >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> myththemes >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythtv-theme-photo >= 4 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythtv-theme-purplegalaxy >= 0.20031214 is needed by
> mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythtv-theme-visor >= 1:0.13.1 is needed by
> mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythtv-theme-sleek >= 0.35 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythtv-theme-isthmus >= 0.20040804 is needed by
> mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythtv-theme-abstract >= 0.20040610 is needed by
> mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythtv-theme-MediaCenter >= 0.17 is needed by
> mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythtv-theme-MythCenter >= 0.17 is needed by
> mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mythmkmovie >= 1.0.1 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> mysql-server is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> xmltv is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]#
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> # You can use the file:/ entries for creating your local repository mirrors.
> 
> #
> # base
> # Fedora Core 3 - i386 - Base
> #
> rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 core
> #rpm-src http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 core
> 
> #
> # updates-released
> # Fedora Core 3 - i386 - Released Updates
> #
> rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 updates
> #rpm-src http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 updates
> 
> #
> # updates-testing
> # Fedora Core 3 - i386 - Unreleased Updates
> #
> # rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 tupdates
> # rpm-src http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 tupdates
> 
> #
> # fedoralegacyupdates
> # Fedora Core 3 - i386 - Released Updates by FedoraLegacy
> #
> # rpm http://download.fedoralegacy.org/apt fedora/3/i386 updates
> # rpm-src http://download.fedoralegacy.org/apt fedora/3/i386 updates
> 
> #
> # atrpms
> # Fedora Core 3 - i386 - ATrpms
> # alternatives to stable: testing and bleeding
> #
> rpm http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/3/en/i386 at-stable
> #rpm-src http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/3/en/i386 at-stable
> 
> # temporary mythtv-suite fix
> rpm http://axentra.net files/mezzanine/mythtv stable
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]#
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# apt-get install mythtv-suite=0.18
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Selected version 0.18-53.at for mythtv-suite
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> 
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   mythtv-suite: Depends: mythplugin (>= 0.18) but it is not installable
> E: Broken packages
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]#
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Re: [mythtv-users] $80 Air2PC cards (Rev 0.2?)

[Tom Dombrosky]

On 5/17/05, Blammo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone seen (and bought) one of these?
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3761&item=5195966400&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
> 
> I'm curious if anyone has one working in a myth box? I'm a little wary
> given the verbage about "updated tuners"...
> 
> I need another tuner with all the finale's coming, and $80 is cheaper
> than a single PVR-250 or PVR-500.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> QUOTE:
> This Air2PC-ATSC-PCI card, one the first ever created for PC-based
> reception of off-air ATSC signals, was designed by B2C2, and was
> manufactured in 2001. While this card was subsequently replaced by
> newer versions with updated tuners the basic functionality has never
> changed. Recently, we obtained a limited quantity of these receivers
> that were never used and are still in there original shipping boxes.
> As such we are selling these receiver cards at a deeply discounted
> price. The list price of the newer version of the card is $169.95. The
> primary difference between this card and the newer version is related
> to tuner sensitivity and multipath handling however it is our
> experience in the vast majority of locations this has proven not to be
> a significant issue. A directional UHF Antenna (not included) is
> required to receive the signal.
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If it's the same one as this one:

http://www.cyberestore.com/product_info.php?cPath=34&products_id=103

then I got it working in my Myth setup.  Some people have had problems
with the QAM tuning, but I fortunately haven't.

Tom
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Re: [mythtv-users] mtd & DVD Error, reporting as requested.

[Blair Preston]

I agree, very strange. Might be an anamoly, but, ???

thor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 17 May 2005 03:52 pm, Blair Preston wrote:
> > Yes, and oddly enough, I was also able to watch it with an older version of
> > Kaffiene (.5-rc2) on my old IBM 600x laptopwith older xine libraries. The
> > new xine stuff can't even begine to read the disk.  MPlayer opens it and
> > reads through chapter 19 and also reports an apparent framerate change and
> > NTSC format detected at the time it fails.
> >
>
>  Strange.
>
>  Remains to be seen if you just have a slightly off kilter disc, or if there's
> something more fundamental going on.
>
>  Anyone else own a copy of this DVD? If no one pipes up in a day or two, I'll
> go buy one and figure out if I can reproduce the problem.
>
> - thor
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Bug in mythtv-suite?

[James Alexander]

Okay, am I the only one getting a little frustrated by this process? I
have no idea what "build a local apt repo" means, so I may have
approached this completely incorrectly.

here's my command process, what did I do wrong this time?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# rpm -Uhv
http://axentra.net/files/mezzanine/mythtv/RPMS.stable/mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386.rpm
Retrieving 
http://axentra.net/files/mezzanine/mythtv/RPMS.stable/mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
   mythtv >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
   mythtv-backend >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
   mythtv-frontend >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
   mythtv-setup >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
   mythplugins >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
   mythweb >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
   myththemes >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
   mythtv-theme-photo >= 4 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
   mythtv-theme-purplegalaxy >= 0.20031214 is needed by
mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
   mythtv-theme-visor >= 1:0.13.1 is needed by
mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
   mythtv-theme-sleek >= 0.35 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
   mythtv-theme-isthmus >= 0.20040804 is needed by
mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
   mythtv-theme-abstract >= 0.20040610 is needed by
mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
   mythtv-theme-MediaCenter >= 0.17 is needed by
mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
   mythtv-theme-MythCenter >= 0.17 is needed by
mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
   mythmkmovie >= 1.0.1 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
   mysql-server is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
   xmltv is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]#

[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# You can use the file:/ entries for creating your local repository mirrors.

#
# base
# Fedora Core 3 - i386 - Base
#
rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 core
#rpm-src http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 core

#
# updates-released
# Fedora Core 3 - i386 - Released Updates
#
rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 updates
#rpm-src http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 updates

#
# updates-testing
# Fedora Core 3 - i386 - Unreleased Updates
#
# rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 tupdates
# rpm-src http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 tupdates

#
# fedoralegacyupdates
# Fedora Core 3 - i386 - Released Updates by FedoraLegacy
#
# rpm http://download.fedoralegacy.org/apt fedora/3/i386 updates
# rpm-src http://download.fedoralegacy.org/apt fedora/3/i386 updates

#
# atrpms
# Fedora Core 3 - i386 - ATrpms
# alternatives to stable: testing and bleeding
#
rpm http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/3/en/i386 at-stable
#rpm-src http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/3/en/i386 at-stable

# temporary mythtv-suite fix
rpm http://axentra.net files/mezzanine/mythtv stable
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]#

[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# apt-get install mythtv-suite=0.18
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Selected version 0.18-53.at for mythtv-suite
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 mythtv-suite: Depends: mythplugin (>= 0.18) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]#

On 5/17/05, Axel Thimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 02:51:41PM +0100, Graeme Wilford wrote:
> > For FC3 users having dependency trouble with mythtv-suite. I've taken
> > the spec file as suggested by Axel and built a fixed RPM.
> 
> Thanks, Wilf! :)
> 
> > The RPM is available here:
> > http://axentra.net/files/mezzanine/mythtv/RPMS.stable/mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386.rpm
> >
> > This needs to be installed by apt-get for the dependency resolution to
> > work. You can either download the RPM, build a local apt repo using
> > genbasedir and configure apt appropriately or else use the temporary
> > apt repo I've built for it. To do the later, simply add this to your
> > /etc/apt/sources.list file:
> >
> > # temporary mythtv-suite fix
> > rpm http://axentra.net files/mezzanine/mythtv stable
> >
> > and then run the following as root:
> >
> > apt-get install mythtv-suite=0.18
> >
> > (don't know why you need the =0..18 but without it, apt always picks
> > the original broken RPM)
> >
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Bug in mythtv-suite?

[James Alexander]

Okay, am I the only one getting a little frustrated by this process? I
have no idea what "build a local apt repo" means, so I may have
approached this completely incorrectly.

here's my command process, what did I do wrong this time?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# rpm -Uhv
http://axentra.net/files/mezzanine/mythtv/RPMS.stable/mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386.rpm
Retrieving 
http://axentra.net/files/mezzanine/mythtv/RPMS.stable/mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
mythtv >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
mythtv-backend >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
mythtv-frontend >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
mythtv-setup >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
mythplugins >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
mythweb >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
myththemes >= 0.18 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
mythtv-theme-photo >= 4 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
mythtv-theme-purplegalaxy >= 0.20031214 is needed by
mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
mythtv-theme-visor >= 1:0.13.1 is needed by
mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
mythtv-theme-sleek >= 0.35 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
mythtv-theme-isthmus >= 0.20040804 is needed by
mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
mythtv-theme-abstract >= 0.20040610 is needed by
mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
mythtv-theme-MediaCenter >= 0.17 is needed by
mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
mythtv-theme-MythCenter >= 0.17 is needed by
mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
mythmkmovie >= 1.0.1 is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
mysql-server is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
xmltv is needed by mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]#

[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# You can use the file:/ entries for creating your local repository mirrors.

#
# base
# Fedora Core 3 - i386 - Base
#
rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 core
#rpm-src http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 core

#
# updates-released
# Fedora Core 3 - i386 - Released Updates
#
rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 updates
#rpm-src http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 updates

#
# updates-testing
# Fedora Core 3 - i386 - Unreleased Updates
#
# rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 tupdates
# rpm-src http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/3/i386 tupdates

#
# fedoralegacyupdates
# Fedora Core 3 - i386 - Released Updates by FedoraLegacy
#
# rpm http://download.fedoralegacy.org/apt fedora/3/i386 updates
# rpm-src http://download.fedoralegacy.org/apt fedora/3/i386 updates

#
# atrpms
# Fedora Core 3 - i386 - ATrpms
# alternatives to stable: testing and bleeding
#
rpm http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/3/en/i386 at-stable
#rpm-src http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/3/en/i386 at-stable

# temporary mythtv-suite fix
rpm http://axentra.net files/mezzanine/mythtv stable
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]#

[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# apt-get install mythtv-suite=0.18
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Selected version 0.18-53.at for mythtv-suite
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  mythtv-suite: Depends: mythplugin (>= 0.18) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]#
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Re: [mythtv-users] Keybindings

[Griffon --]

I fixed this by setting a unique identifyer in the mysql.txt file in
the /home/mythtv/
More info here http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4281&highlight=

On 5/17/05, Joe Henley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running MythTV version 18 from atrms.net.  It's version 109 for
> Fedora Core 3.
> 
> I cannot find a way to get changes to the keybindings to "stick."  I'm
> trying to adjust several of them, plus a couple of "jump points" using
> MythWeb.  But no luck.
> 
> I've tried to open up the MySQL security to "%"@"%", adjusted every
> permission I can find, etc. but nothing seems to work.
> 
> Anyone got any good ideas/suggestions?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Joe Henley
> 
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[mythtv-users] Keybindings

[Joe Henley]

Hi,
I'm running MythTV version 18 from atrms.net.  It's version 109 for 
Fedora Core 3.

I cannot find a way to get changes to the keybindings to "stick."  I'm 
trying to adjust several of them, plus a couple of "jump points" using 
MythWeb.  But no luck.

I've tried to open up the MySQL security to "%"@"%", adjusted every 
permission I can find, etc. but nothing seems to work.

Anyone got any good ideas/suggestions?
TIA
Joe Henley
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[mythtv-users] $80 Air2PC cards (Rev 0.2?)

[Blammo]

Anyone seen (and bought) one of these?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3761&item=5195966400&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

I'm curious if anyone has one working in a myth box? I'm a little wary
given the verbage about "updated tuners"...

I need another tuner with all the finale's coming, and $80 is cheaper
than a single PVR-250 or PVR-500.

Thoughts?


QUOTE:
This Air2PC-ATSC-PCI card, one the first ever created for PC-based
reception of off-air ATSC signals, was designed by B2C2, and was
manufactured in 2001. While this card was subsequently replaced by
newer versions with updated tuners the basic functionality has never
changed. Recently, we obtained a limited quantity of these receivers
that were never used and are still in there original shipping boxes.
As such we are selling these receiver cards at a deeply discounted
price. The list price of the newer version of the card is $169.95. The
primary difference between this card and the newer version is related
to tuner sensitivity and multipath handling however it is our
experience in the vast majority of locations this has proven not to be
a significant issue. A directional UHF Antenna (not included) is
required to receive the signal.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Time Warner & Firewire

[Mark Knecht]

On 5/17/05, Lane Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Not that I would do this, nor recommend that others try :)
> 
> But how severe are the technical (not the legal) barriers to putting a
> bus sniffer between the cable box and a blessed device, and observing
> how the blessed device replies to the cable box's initial inquiries?

Getting the data isn't the hard part. It's available on the 1394
cable. What's hard is getting the info out of the data.

5C is basically a public/private key exchange every 30 seconds with a
proprietary encryption algorithm that (at the time) you had to sign an
NDA to get ahold of.  We did not sign it as we didn't need to go that
far for the work we were doing. Most folks were going to buy chips
from one of the five C's so they didn't actually need to know how it
was being encoded. Data is encrypted based on the most recently
exchanged key.

While breaking the encryption algorithm is not unheard of, I think
that breaking the current public/private key in under 30 seconds and
getting the data in real time sounded pretty much impossible to me at
the time. It would be more likely that you might find some piece of
equipment that you could modify and dig the data out of but the 5 C's
and Hollywood were being very careful about where the data could be in
a digital format and in an unencrypted state.

> 
> It's possible that the behavior of the cable box goes as follows:
> notice that a device has been attached, make an initial query to see
> if the attached device is blessed, if attached device is not blessed
> then terminate connection, else if attached device is convinces the
> cable box that it's blessed then send data to it.

Basically correct (with 'blessed' meaning that the device does some
preliminary transactions to show it's compliant with the spec) but
even once the data is sent from the DVD or cable box to the TV/monitor
it's still encrypted as per the above.

> 
> Of course it's also possible that the cable box periodically queries
> the attached device &/or actually encrypts the data.
> 
> Just some thoughts...
> 
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[mythtv-users] Feature request: backwards compatability

[Bryan Halter]

A nice feature to have would be backwards compatability for the Mythtv 
protocol on either the backend or frontend.  One of the biggest hurdles 
for me as a Gentoo user is that I have to upgrade all my frontends and 
backends at the same time and restart.  If the frontend had barkwards 
compatability by 1 version a user could upgrade the frontends one by one 
as time permits and at the end upgrade the backend, likewise if the 
backend could support clients one revision back that could be upgraded 
without needing to upgrade all the frontends.

I don't know how much effort is involved in this or if it has been 
discussed previously, just an observation.

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Re: [mythtv-users] auto transcoding *some* recordings

[Robert Tsai]

On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 06:24:30PM -0400, Jeff Simpson wrote:
> Is it possible to set up some recordings (from a PVR-350) to
> automatically re-transcode, but have that setting not affect the
> other recordings? Some shows I like to record and transcode so it's
> easy to put them on a laptop or download them from myself, but
> others I like to keep full quality and save to dvd.
> 
> Any idea how to do this? I'm looking through the setup and haven't
> found anything, yet.

Can't you set up your shows on different recording profiles, and set
up the recording profiles' "automatically transcode" checkbox?

--Rob


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Re: [mythtv-users] auto transcoding *some* recordings

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tuesday 17 May 2005 15:24, Jeff Simpson wrote:
> Is it possible to set up some recordings (from a PVR-350) to
> automatically re-transcode, but have that setting not affect the other
> recordings? Some shows I like to record and transcode so it's easy to
> put them on a laptop or download them from myself, but others I like
> to keep full quality and save to dvd.
>
> Any idea how to do this? I'm looking through the setup and haven't
> found anything, yet.

Look harder. :-)

The short version is: for the stuff you want to transcode, set up a recording 
profile that is set to auto-transcode, then set up that recording to use the 
profile you just set up.

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[mythtv-users] auto transcoding *some* recordings

[Jeff Simpson]

Is it possible to set up some recordings (from a PVR-350) to
automatically re-transcode, but have that setting not affect the other
recordings? Some shows I like to record and transcode so it's easy to
put them on a laptop or download them from myself, but others I like
to keep full quality and save to dvd.

Any idea how to do this? I'm looking through the setup and haven't
found anything, yet.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Time Warner & Firewire

[Lane Schwartz]

On 5/17/05, Lane Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Not that I would do this, nor recommend that others try :)
> 
> But how severe are the technical (not the legal) barriers to putting a
> bus sniffer between the cable box and a blessed device, and observing
> how the blessed device replies to the cable box's initial inquiries?
> 
> It's possible that the behavior of the cable box goes as follows:
> notice that a device has been attached, make an initial query to see
> if the attached device is blessed, if attached device is not blessed
> then terminate connection, else if attached device is convinces the
> cable box that it's blessed then send data to it.
> 
> Of course it's also possible that the cable box periodically queries
> the attached device &/or actually encrypts the data.
> 
> Just some thoughts...

This is interesting...

http://www.renohdtv.com/charter.php

The author seems to think that if you have cable TV service, the cable
company must provide you with any local HDTV stations without charge
over QAM. Can anyone back this up?

Lane

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Re: [mythtv-users] Computer Reboots/ PVR 250 Not Recognized

[Howard Cokl]

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I tried to run lsmod but I could'nt get the format
> right 
> bash: lsmod: command not found

try /sbin/lsmod


> 


> Thanks guys,
> 

I had to make a startup script that runs before
mythbackend so that my tuners would be loaded before
mythbackend.  Pretty simple, create a file called
/etc/rc3.d/S85tuners, parte these lines into the file

#!/bin/bash
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions


start() {
/sbin/modprobe cx88-dvb
/sbin/modprobe ivtv
/usr/bin/ivtvctl -d /dev/video1 -p 6
}
stop() {
/sbin/modprobe -r cx88-dvb
/sbin/modprobe -r ivtv
}

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
  start)
start
;;
  stop)
stop
;;
  *)
echo $"Usage: $prog {start|stop}"
exit 1
esac

exit $RETVAL

Make sure you comment out the dvb lines if you don't
have a dvb card.  Also make sure you chmod 755
/etc/rc3.d/S85tuners

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Re: [mythtv-users] Time Warner & Firewire

[Lane Schwartz]

On 5/17/05, Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 11:21:30AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > I happened to be at Comcast this morning getting a replacement remote
> > for my non-HD box. I managed to run into a fairly knowledgable tech
> > person while I was there. She said Comcast here in the Bay Area does
> > not enable 1394 by default on any box going to the field. If a
> > customer calls and asks for it to be turned on they ask what equipment
> > it's going to be attached to. Unless the answer is on a list of things
> > they support it won't be turned on. After that she says that even
> 
> Well, I think they are violating the FCC regs by saying this.  However,
> seems that you should be able to just tell them you have one of the
> TVs with a DTVLink (new name for 1394 in TVs) port.  My Mitsubishi
> 52725 has such ports, I know that Toshiba and some RCA TVs have them.
> Or perhaps one of the digital VCRs that have the ports.   I don't see
> a moral issue in lying to them if they are going to break the regs.
> 
> However, at least for now the hard truth is that the ability to get
> your HD -- or even your non-OTA SD -- over 1394 is likely to be a
> temporary situation, something flying under the radar until they notice
> it.   I can understand why they are leaving the 5C off at first.
> DRM systems can cause a great deal of user trouble and incompatibility
> even for people who have the blessed equipment.
> 
> But once a lot of people start using this, particularly if they find
> a lot of torrents sourced from people who got 1394 output of programs,
> then weenies at the studios will start calling the cable companies and
> forcing them to turn on the copy prevention and 5C stuff.
> 
> However, it's certainly great to have until that happens.  For now,
> tuner cards are legal again, but there's no clear path to the abliity
> of a Mythbox to record non-OTA HD shows in a way that will remain
> stable.  We're not too far away from people making cheap 720p capture
> equipment, in fact I think it could be done if people saw the market
> for it (which they will as consumers start demanding 720p camcorders,
> which won't need the A2D but will need the compressing chips).
> 
> Unfortunately, it will always be a kludge to convert digital to
> analog and then re-capture and re-compress/transcode it.  You will
> spend a lot to get (probably) larger recordings that are not as good.
> 
> Digital capture (DVI) would technically make it possible, if you compressed
> with exactly the same algorithms and parameters as the original source,
> to get approximately the same file out as came in, just with a lot of
> work.

Not that I would do this, nor recommend that others try :)

But how severe are the technical (not the legal) barriers to putting a
bus sniffer between the cable box and a blessed device, and observing
how the blessed device replies to the cable box's initial inquiries?

It's possible that the behavior of the cable box goes as follows:
notice that a device has been attached, make an initial query to see
if the attached device is blessed, if attached device is not blessed
then terminate connection, else if attached device is convinces the
cable box that it's blessed then send data to it.

Of course it's also possible that the cable box periodically queries
the attached device &/or actually encrypts the data.

Just some thoughts...

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Re: [mythtv-users] adding feeds to MythNews

[Maverick]

Replace your ampersands with & in the environmentalhealthnews.org
url like this:

http://wwwc.environmentalhealthnews.org/archives_rss.jsp?sm=&tn=1subject%2Ctext%2Cpublishername&tv=autism&ss=1

That should fix your parsing problem. For more info on proper XML
formatting, see:

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/01/31/qanda.html

Hope that helps,

-Kenneth

On 5/17/05, myth joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do I add news feeds?  Searching the list I see that I should edit
> /usr/share/mythtv/mythnews/news-sites.xml.  I've done that.  Please
> see attached.  I added a bunch of feeds at the top of the file.
> 
> I see also that there was a problem w/ Knoppmyth.  However, I'm
> running 0.18 installed from ATrpms.
> 
> Is there a simple bug in my news-sites.xml file or have I done (failed
> to do) something else?
> 
> In any case, you may want to look at my file to see if any of my feeds
> interest you.
> 
> JB
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase error -- found

[Mickey Chandler]

At 02:55 PM 5/17/2005, I wrote:
>DB Error (Creating temporary table):
>Query was:
>CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE IF NOT EXISTS dd_schedule ( programid char(12),
>stationid char(12), scheduletime datetime, duration time, repeat bool,
>stereo bool, subtitled bool, hdtv bool, closecaptioned bool, tvrating
>char(5), partnumber int, parttotal int, endtime datetime, INDEX progidx
>(programid) );
>Driver error was [2/1064]:
>QMYSQL3: Unable to execute query
>Database error was:
>You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to
>your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'repeat bool,
>stereo bool, subtitled bool, hdtv bool, closecaptio
I think I found it.  I started running the statement one part at a time, 
dropping the table, and then adding a new part.

mysql> CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE IF NOT EXISTS dd_schedule ( programid 
char(12), stationid char(12), scheduletime datetime, duration time, repeat 
bool);
ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual 
that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use 
near 'repeat bool)' at line 1
mysql> CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE IF NOT EXISTS dd_schedule ( programid 
char(12), stationid char(12), scheduletime datetime, duration time, repeata 
bool);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

"repeat" appears to be a reserved 
word.  

So, does anyone have any clues on how I might fix this?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Funny commercial behavior with 0.18...

[Sasha Z]

I have the same problem, it makes it ridiculously difficult to fast
forwards through recordings.
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Re: [mythtv-users] CVS: How to downgrade to a special date?

[Donavan Stanley]

On 5/17/05, Christian Schuglitsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The cvs checkout had some changed files since 11-May-2005. I don't know
> how to use the date option correctly and google may be a search engine
> but not a find engine :-/
> Thanks for help.


http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html
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Re: [mythtv-users] Debian install: MySQL problem

[Tim Sailer]

On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 10:18:43PM +0200, Tim wrote:
> > Did you reload the privs after you added the new user? Try restarting MySQL
> 
> I'm *really* ashamed now. I did forget to reload the privileges *blush*
> 
> So, probably the script needs a password for root, but I'm not even
> sure anymore...
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot for the help everyone,

Don't worry about it. I've been using MySQL from the time it went OS,
(in fact, I was the first mirror they had), and I still sometimes
get in a rush and forget to do that. Now, whenever something doesn't
work right, the first thing I do is flush everything. :)

Tim

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Re: [mythtv-users] Time Warner & Firewire

[Brad Templeton]

On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 11:21:30AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I happened to be at Comcast this morning getting a replacement remote
> for my non-HD box. I managed to run into a fairly knowledgable tech
> person while I was there. She said Comcast here in the Bay Area does
> not enable 1394 by default on any box going to the field. If a
> customer calls and asks for it to be turned on they ask what equipment
> it's going to be attached to. Unless the answer is on a list of things
> they support it won't be turned on. After that she says that even

Well, I think they are violating the FCC regs by saying this.  However,
seems that you should be able to just tell them you have one of the
TVs with a DTVLink (new name for 1394 in TVs) port.  My Mitsubishi
52725 has such ports, I know that Toshiba and some RCA TVs have them.
Or perhaps one of the digital VCRs that have the ports.   I don't see
a moral issue in lying to them if they are going to break the regs.

However, at least for now the hard truth is that the ability to get
your HD -- or even your non-OTA SD -- over 1394 is likely to be a
temporary situation, something flying under the radar until they notice
it.   I can understand why they are leaving the 5C off at first.
DRM systems can cause a great deal of user trouble and incompatibility
even for people who have the blessed equipment.

But once a lot of people start using this, particularly if they find
a lot of torrents sourced from people who got 1394 output of programs,
then weenies at the studios will start calling the cable companies and
forcing them to turn on the copy prevention and 5C stuff.

However, it's certainly great to have until that happens.  For now,
tuner cards are legal again, but there's no clear path to the abliity 
of a Mythbox to record non-OTA HD shows in a way that will remain
stable.  We're not too far away from people making cheap 720p capture
equipment, in fact I think it could be done if people saw the market
for it (which they will as consumers start demanding 720p camcorders,
which won't need the A2D but will need the compressing chips).

Unfortunately, it will always be a kludge to convert digital to
analog and then re-capture and re-compress/transcode it.  You will
spend a lot to get (probably) larger recordings that are not as good.

Digital capture (DVI) would technically make it possible, if you compressed
with exactly the same algorithms and parameters as the original source,
to get approximately the same file out as came in, just with a lot of
work.
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[mythtv-users] Computer Reboots/ PVR 250 Not Recognized

[ed]

I tried to run lsmod but I could'nt get the format right 
bash: lsmod: command not found

Here is the dmesg output.  See any problems?

ivtv:  START INIT IVTV 
ivtv: version 0.2.0 (rc3j) loading
ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.11-1.14_FC3 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4
ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info
ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when
ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist.
ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 250 card
ivtv: Found an iTVC16 based chip
PCI: Found IRQ 7 for device :00:0f.0
ivtv: VIA PCI device: 0x0691 vendor: 0x1106
tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 32032, rev = B326, serial# = 7193826
tveeprom: tuner = Temic 4036FY5 (idx = 26, type = 8)
tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x1000)
tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3440 (type = 11)
ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[0],ok]
ivtv: Tuner Type 8, Tuner formats 0x1000, Radio: yes, Model 0x00893496,
Revision 0x
ivtv: NTSC tuner detected
ivtv: Radio detected
tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0
ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok]
saa7115: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005)
saa7115: detecting saa7115 client on address 0x42
saa7115: writing init values
ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7115[0],ok]
saa7115: status: (1E) 0x48, (1F) 0xc0
msp34xx: ivtv version
msp34xx: init: chip=MSP3448W-A2, has NICAM support, simple (D) mode, simpler (G)
no-thread mode
msp34xx: $Id$ compiled on: May 12 2005 13:01:27
ivtv: i2c attach [client=MSP3448W-A2,ok]
ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040024
ivtv: Encoder Firmware may be buggy, use version 0x02040011
ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 250 card with 5 streams
ivtv: Create DMA stream 0 using 256 16384 byte buffers  4194304 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 0 minor 0
ivtv: Create DMA stream 1
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 1 minor 32
ivtv: Create stream 2 using 40 52224 byte buffers  2097152 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 2 minor 224
ivtv: Create DMA stream 3 using 455 4608 byte buffers  2097152 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 3 minor 24
ivtv: Create stream 4
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 4 minor 64
ivtv: Setting Tuner 8
tuner: type set to 8 (Temic NTSC (4036 FY5)) by ivtv i2c driver #0
saa7115: decoder set input (4)
saa7115: now setting Composite input
ivtv: Setting audio matrix to input 3, output 1
ivtv: Switching standard to NTSC.
ivtv: ivtv_enc_thread: pid = 4886, itv = 0xf8fa70a0
saa7115: decoder set norm NTSC
saa7115: set audio: 0x01
ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 250, card #0
ivtv:   END INIT IVTV  

Is mythbackend running?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# ps aux | grep myth
mythtv4421  0.0  0.0  4240 1024 ?Ss   10:31   0:00 /bin/sh
/usr/bin/startkde
mythtv4449  0.0  0.0  3904  860 ?Ss   10:31   0:00 
/usr/bin/ssh-agent -s
mythtv4482  0.0  0.0  2552  648 ?S10:31   0:00
/usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /home/mythtv/.Xclients
mythtv4483  0.0  0.1  2336 1152 ?Ss   10:31   0:00 dbus-daemon-1
--fork --print-pid 8 --print-address 6 --session
mythtv4524  0.0  0.9 25420 10032 ?   Ss   10:31   0:00 kdeinit: 
Running...
mythtv4527  0.0  0.8 24064 8436 ?S10:31   0:00 kdeinit:
dcopserver --nosid
mythtv4529  0.0  0.9 26264 9908 ?S10:31   0:00 kdeinit: 
klauncher
mythtv4532  0.0  1.2 28564 13448 ?   S10:31   0:03 kdeinit: kded
mythtv4534  0.0  0.1  2916 1704 ?S10:31   0:01
/usr/libexec/gam_server
mythtv4543  0.0  0.7 32032 7444 ?S10:31   0:03 /usr/bin/artsd -F
10 -S 4096 -s 60 -m artsmessage -c drkonqi -l 3 -f
mythtv4545  0.0  1.4 34368 15492 ?   S10:31   0:01 kdeinit: knotify
mythtv4546  0.0  0.0  1516  288 ?S10:31   0:00 kwrapper 
ksmserver
mythtv4548  0.0  1.1 26016 11672 ?   S10:31   0:00 kdeinit: 
ksmserver
mythtv4549  0.0  1.3 27348 14168 ?   S10:31   0:03 kdeinit: kwin
-session 10736d621114371367004396_1116349077_582763
mythtv4551  0.0  1.5 29772 16092 ?   S10:31   0:06 kdeinit: kdesktop
mythtv4553  0.3  1.8 32408 19112 ?   S10:32   0:42 kdeinit: kicker
mythtv4558  0.0  1.0 27040 10596 ?   S10:32   0:00 kdeinit: kio_file
file /tmp/ksocket-mythtv/klauncherRN2cRa.slave-socket
/tmp/ksocket-mythtv/kdesktopT2rmoc.slave-socket
mythtv4559  0.0  1.1 26320 12012 ?   S10:32   0:00 kdeinit: khotkeys
mythtv4560  0.0  0.4 12428 4392 ?S10:32   0:00
/usr/bin/pam-panel-icon --sm-client-id 10736d6211143713770043960006
mythtv4567  0.0  1.4 28900 15192 ?   S10:32   0:02 kdeinit: kmix
-session 10736d6211143716450043960011_1116349069_486115
mythtv4568  0.0  0.7 30016 7512 ?S10:32   0:00 eggcups
--sm-config-prefix /eggcups-RZU0lg/ --sm-client-id
10736d6211143713780043960008

[mythtv-users] adding feeds to MythNews

[myth joe]

How do I add news feeds?  Searching the list I see that I should edit
/usr/share/mythtv/mythnews/news-sites.xml.  I've done that.  Please
see attached.  I added a bunch of feeds at the top of the file.

I see also that there was a problem w/ Knoppmyth.  However, I'm
running 0.18 installed from ATrpms.

Is there a simple bug in my news-sites.xml file or have I done (failed
to do) something else?

In any case, you may want to look at my file to see if any of my feeds
interest you.

JB


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Re: [mythtv-users] CVS: How to downgrade to a special date?

[David George]

Christian Schuglitsch wrote:
The cvs checkout had some changed files since 11-May-2005. I don't 
know how to use the date option correctly and google may be a search 
engine but not a find engine :-/
Thanks for help.

 

man cvs
look at the -D option.  There are examples in the man page.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase error

[Mickey Chandler]

At 03:44 PM 5/17/2005, Karsten Jeppesen wrote:
>Did you remember to initialize the database?
Yes.  I've even destroyed the database and restarted three different times.
This is causing it's own problems since either Myth or Qt-MySQL is using 
the old mysql password scheme and this necessitates going in manually and 
resetting the password using the old_password function (something I forgot 
to do the first time through).


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[mythtv-users] CVS: How to downgrade to a special date?

[Christian Schuglitsch]

The cvs checkout had some changed files since 11-May-2005. I don't know 
how to use the date option correctly and google may be a search engine 
but not a find engine :-/
Thanks for help.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast flag thrown out

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tuesday 17 May 2005 11:58, Robert Johnston wrote:
> On 5/17/05, PAUL WILLIAMSON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >>> "Robert Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/16/05 9:34 PM >>>
> > >
> > > Indeed. That's why I started the second post with "Hi me"
> >
> > LOL - I didn't even catch that.  It's been a long few nights
> > fighting with cfengine at work...
>
> Cold Fusion? My sympathies

My apologies if you're making a funny, but even if you are, for those that 
don't know, cfengine has nothing to do with Cold Fusion.

http://www.cfengine.org/

Its very cool.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase error

[Karsten Jeppesen]

Did you remember to initialize the database?
mysql < /usr/share/doc/mythtv*/database/mc.sql
Karsten

Mickey Chandler wrote:
I'm trying to build a .18.1 box from sources and have gotten 
everything in place, I think.

Unfortunately for me, mythfilldatabase is giving an error and 5 hours 
of scouring the web hasn't turned up any answers for me regarding this:

DB Error (Creating temporary table):
Query was:
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE IF NOT EXISTS dd_schedule ( programid char(12), 
stationid char(12), scheduletime datetime, duration time, repeat bool, 
stereo bool, subtitled bool, hdtv bool, closecaptioned bool, tvrating 
char(5), partnumber int, parttotal int, endtime datetime, INDEX 
progidx (programid) );
Driver error was [2/1064]:
QMYSQL3: Unable to execute query
Database error was:
You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that 
corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use 
near 'repeat bool, stereo bool, subtitled bool, hdtv bool, closecaptio

Since mythtv-setup worked perfectly for me I don't think it's that I'm 
using MySQL 5.0.4-beta-standard for the database.  So, that leaves 
syntax, but this looks right to me.

Does anyone have any clues here?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Pundit-R build problems.

[Tim]

> I've been reading this list for a about a weeks and ordered the bits to
> put together a mythtv box (Pundit-R/Celeron/WinTv). I'm having a few
> problems. The most basic isn't really really germain to the whole PVR
> discussion -- newegg describes it as supporting P4s and Celerons. I
> ordered a Celeron D, which is either DOA or not supported (ASUS's web
> site only mentions P4's). Anyone know definitively if the Pundit-R does
> support this chip?
> 
> The real problem is the WinTV PVR 150. It doesn't fit. I did a few
> google searches and realized people have been using the Pundit-R for
> frontends rather than backends. I've got the box, what I need to know is
> is there a tuner card that will fit?
> 
> Does anyone have some answers?
>  
>  You didn't say which model of CPU you have but the CPU support pages
> for ASUS are here
> http://www.asus.com/support/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx
>  
>  I found those. I also spent some time on the phone with ASUS tech support.
> They agree the machine is dead and I'm RMAing it. 

If you're still wondering if a Pundit-R will take a Celeron-D: mine's
running on a Celeron D 330.

I don't know about the WinTV PVR 150, but I've got a WinTV PVR 350 and
a WinTV Go in the Pundit-R. It will take you some time, lots of
perseverance and it will bring loads of frustration, but it fits :-)


Cheers,
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Re: [mythtv-users] mtd & DVD Error, reporting as requested.

[thor]

On Tuesday 17 May 2005 03:52 pm, Blair Preston wrote:
> Yes, and oddly enough, I was also able to watch it with an older version of
> Kaffiene (.5-rc2) on my old IBM 600x laptopwith older xine libraries. The
> new xine stuff can't even begine to read the disk.  MPlayer opens it and
> reads through chapter 19 and also reports an apparent framerate change and
> NTSC format detected at the time it fails.
>

 Strange.

 Remains to be seen if you just have a slightly off kilter disc, or if there's 
something more fundamental going on.

 Anyone else own a copy of this DVD? If no one pipes up in a day or two, I'll 
go buy one and figure out if I can reproduce the problem.

- thor
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Re: [mythtv-users] Debian install: MySQL problem

[Tim]

> > > > > How about /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt?
> > > >
> > > > In /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt:
> > > > same login and password as in row 6 (mythtv user in MySQL)
> > > Can you login with mysql from the command line with the username and
> > > password ?
> >
> > Yes, I can with the root account, but I can't with the mythtv account.
> >
> > I tried resetting the password in two ways:
> > SET PASSWORD FOR 'mythtv'@'%' = PASSWORD('mythical');
> > ERROR 1133: Can't find any matching row in the user table (documented bug)
> >
> > update mysql.user set password=password('mythical') where user='mythtv';
> >
> > but still I can't login with that account.
> >
> > This makes me think there's something wrong with my query or MySQL,
> > but I don't know which... Any ideas?
> 
> Did you reload the privs after you added the new user? Try restarting MySQL

I'm *really* ashamed now. I did forget to reload the privileges *blush*

So, probably the script needs a password for root, but I'm not even
sure anymore...


Thanks a lot for the help everyone,
Tim
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Re: [mythtv-users] Dying Backend

[James Armstrong]

Another time the backend dies is if I've been using Mythweb, that seems to
cause more crashes than it's sometimes worth (though I do prefer using
Mythweb to locate shows that I want to record).

does mythweb make the backend die for you
only on the recorded_programs screen or on other screens as well?

Currently I'd say I lose backend about twice per day on average at the
moment. Version 0.18.0 (not had time to do 0.18.1, but doesn't seem like it
fixes any backend or commflag bugs).

try current cvs with debugging turned on
and send a backtrace to the mythtv-dev list
I have been having this problem for some time now. I usually am about a 
week behind the cvs and still happens. I don't really have a problem 
with my frontend, just mythweb. It happens randomly when I delete a 
recording and also when I reschedule one. The last line in my log is 
always a Reschedule: -1 like it returned an error. I did a backtrace on 
the dev list. I don't know how to read them well, but it looks like it 
is a qt_lock function that is segfaulting.

- James
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Dying Backend

[Lucas Meijer]

Larry Taub wrote:
I am right there with you Gavin. 
FWIW, I'm having problems that sound exactly the same. I have no clue 
what's the problem. Maybe related, maybe not, but every recording of CSI 
that I make ends 5 minutes before the end. all other recordings are 
fine, if the mythbackend makes it that far, which isn't the case a lot 
of the time.

Bye, Lucas
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Re: [mythtv-users] Dying Backend

[Risto Treksler]

> since I use binary packages is there a way I can
> up the verbosity of these logs to see if anything weird is going on?

you can edit /etc/init.d/mythbackend
go to the "start)" section
find the line that calls mythbackend
add " -v all "

or just run mythbackend manually in a shell

log in remotely or switch to a virtual terminal locally with 
(you can go back with  usually)

comment out the cron job for now
this way, if the backend dies, you can switch to that vt to see tha last log 
messages printed

just type
"mythbackend -v all"

or loop it with
"while : ; do mythbackend -v all ; sleep 5 ; done"

> Another time the backend dies is if I've been using Mythweb, that seems to
> cause more crashes than it's sometimes worth (though I do prefer using
> Mythweb to locate shows that I want to record).

does mythweb make the backend die for you
only on the recorded_programs screen or on other screens as well?

> Currently I'd say I lose backend about twice per day on average at the
> moment. Version 0.18.0 (not had time to do 0.18.1, but doesn't seem like it
> fixes any backend or commflag bugs).

try current cvs with debugging turned on
and send a backtrace to the mythtv-dev list

every now and then this seems to be happen to someone,
but since none of the devs can seem to reproduce it,
it's hard to fix.

best to follow these instructions
http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-21.html#ss21.2

who knows, the crashes could be caused by your binary packages themselves
so, does it still happen with CVS with debugging turned on?

also,
look up the "ulimit" command
you can set it so that core files are written to disk when a program crashes
"ulimit -c unlimited"

that way you can run "mythbackend -v all" and do a 
"gdb mythbackend core"
or similar when it dies to make a backtrace even though you weren't using gdb 
to run mythbackend


-- 
Risto Treksler
Elkhorn Lodge
Banff, Alberta, Canada
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[mythtv-users] Re: Bug in mythtv-suite?

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 02:51:41PM +0100, Graeme Wilford wrote:
> For FC3 users having dependency trouble with mythtv-suite. I've taken
> the spec file as suggested by Axel and built a fixed RPM.

Thanks, Wilf! :)

> The RPM is available here:
> http://axentra.net/files/mezzanine/mythtv/RPMS.stable/mythtv-suite-0.18-53.at.1.i386.rpm
> 
> This needs to be installed by apt-get for the dependency resolution to
> work. You can either download the RPM, build a local apt repo using
> genbasedir and configure apt appropriately or else use the temporary
> apt repo I've built for it. To do the later, simply add this to your
> /etc/apt/sources.list file:
> 
> # temporary mythtv-suite fix
> rpm http://axentra.net files/mezzanine/mythtv stable
> 
> and then run the following as root:
> 
> apt-get install mythtv-suite=0.18
> 
> (don't know why you need the =0..18 but without it, apt always picks
> the original broken RPM)
> 

-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net


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[mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase error

[Mickey Chandler]

I'm trying to build a .18.1 box from sources and have gotten everything in 
place, I think.

Unfortunately for me, mythfilldatabase is giving an error and 5 hours of 
scouring the web hasn't turned up any answers for me regarding this:

DB Error (Creating temporary table):
Query was:
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE IF NOT EXISTS dd_schedule ( programid char(12), 
stationid char(12), scheduletime datetime, duration time, repeat bool, 
stereo bool, subtitled bool, hdtv bool, closecaptioned bool, tvrating 
char(5), partnumber int, parttotal int, endtime datetime, INDEX progidx 
(programid) );
Driver error was [2/1064]:
QMYSQL3: Unable to execute query
Database error was:
You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to 
your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'repeat bool, 
stereo bool, subtitled bool, hdtv bool, closecaptio

Since mythtv-setup worked perfectly for me I don't think it's that I'm 
using MySQL 5.0.4-beta-standard for the database.  So, that leaves syntax, 
but this looks right to me.

Does anyone have any clues here?

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Re: [mythtv-users] mtd & DVD Error, reporting as requested.

[Blair Preston]

Yes, and oddly enough, I was also able to watch it with an older version of
Kaffiene (.5-rc2) on my old IBM 600x laptopwith older xine libraries. The new
xine stuff can't even begine to read the disk.  MPlayer opens it and reads
through chapter 19 and also reports an apparent framerate change and NTSC
format detected at the time it fails.

thor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> On Monday 16 May 2005 11:05 pm, Blair Preston wrote:
> > Error scrap attached as the rather pleasent message requested. First time
> > in 9 months I've had to pull the old school DVD player out of moth balls to
> > watch the rest of this movie, or to transcode it. :(
>
>  Hmmm. Might be a bad pressing. Were you able to watch the disc on a
> standalone player?
>
>  Might also be this:
>
>   http://www.betanews.com/article/DVD_Copy_Protection_Strengthened/1108490647
>
>  What region is the disc?
>
> - thor
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Dying Backend

[Larry Taub]

I could buy that the db writes are the problem. Since my first email, I have had two more crashes in the backend. 
 
The first occurred right when it was scheduled to record a show a few hours ago. I was watching another already recorded, flagged, and transcoded show at the time so I assume the playback had no interaction with the db after it began. Then, the frontend informed me there was no connection to the backend when the playback finished. I reviewed the logs and again there was no further info. It appeared to start recording the show then the log ceases, leading me to believe it died immediately at that point. 

 
The second occurred shortly after. I restarted the backend after reviewing the logs and later went into mythweb. I viewed the machine status and saw that it had picked up in the middle of a recording and thus had an incomplete show. I went to recorded programs and selected to delete the file. It deleted the file supposedly but crashed the backend. Luckily, this was repeatable. I did this again right now to test it and received the unable to connect to backend error messages from mythweb.

 
Larry
On 5/17/05, Gavin Haslett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I say that it's during database writing because if I'm just READING the database it almost never seems to die. Basically I see it when scheduling recordings (mythweb most common, but on occasion through Mythfrontend), deleting recordings (removed record from the database, again most often in Mythweb but still happens in MFD), after running mythfilldatabase (often dies a minute or so after MFD runs), and when recording finishes and commflag is about to start. I should clarify that last one; I run that AFTER recording, not during recording as I'm unsure how happy my AMD 800 would be with that.
I have noticed that if I just WATCH recordings (a task that doesn't write to the database at all) then it doesn't crash... but what would be the point of that?I think part of the backend problems might be database-related. I've had occasional problems with MySQL with my own developed applications where it doesn't seem to commit the writes back to the database files correctly, or takes a lot longer than I expect for it to write. It doesn't seem consistent... I just trap for the error and verify writes now. Sure it slows my code, but it prevents my code from segfaulting after a failed write.
-Original Message-From:   [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Larry TaubSent:   Tue 5/17/2005 11:24 AMTo: 
mythtv-users@mythtv.orgCc:Subject:[mythtv-users] Re: Dying BackendI am right there with you Gavin. I have been experiencing the same problemsas you report. I had not noticed the correlation with the database writing
but I hadn't looked for it either. I have noticed many crashes directlyrelating to scheduling recordings in Mythweb. Also, I recorded about 10hours worth of tv yesterday and it worked fine then all of a sudden, it
crashed on an evening recording. When I woke up this morning, I saw that itrecorded two late night shows fine and was still running but then it crashedon a morning show today. I took the opportunity to upgrade to .18.1 and have
restarted it. When looking at the logs, nothing seems amiss even when Iturned up the logging verbosity to all. It just shows that recording isstarting and then the log ends. I tried turning off the commercial flagging
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[mythtv-users] HD3000: Could not find dvb tuning parameters for transport 0

[Mudit Wahal]

Hi,

I'm in San Jose, using HD 3000 for over the air channels. Installed
Knoppix Myth R5A15.1. I can't watch live TV using the DVB. I dont know
if others have same issue or not.


cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.4 loaded
cx88[0]: subsystem: 7063:3000, board: pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV [card=22,autodetected]
cx88[0]/2: found at :00:09.2, rev: 5, irq: 17, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe300
cx88[0]/2: cx2388x based dvb card
DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0]).
DVB: registering frontend 0 (pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV)...
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7869 advertising 05e1 Link 45e1.
cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.4 loaded
cx88[0]/0: found at :00:09.0, rev: 5, irq: 17, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe200
tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx88[0])
tuner 0-0061: type set to 52 (Thomson DDT 7610 (ATSC/NTSC))
cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]
cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0
cx88[0]/0: registered device radio0
pcHDTV HD3000 driver version 2.0.0 loaded
cx2388x blackbird driver version 0.0.4 loaded
or51132: Waiting for firmware upload(dvb-fe-or51132-vsb.fw)...
or51132: Version: 10001134-1943 (113-4-194-3)
or51132: Firmware upload complete.



I can record the programs and then watch them. But I'm having trouble
watching Channel 7 (ABC). Whenever I tune to record something off 7_1,
I get the following error messages.



2005-05-17 09:15:45.801 Started recording "Live With Regis and Kelly"
on channel: 1034 on cardid: 1, sourceid 1
2005-05-17 09:15:45.841 DVB#0 ERROR - Could not find dvb tuning
parameters for transport 0
2005-05-17 09:15:45.845 DVB#0 ERROR - Failed to get channel options
for channel 7_1.
2005-05-17 09:15:46.032 Changing from None to RecordingOnly
2005-05-17 09:15:46.182 DVB#0 Recorder: Card opened successfully
(using TS mode).
2005-05-17 09:15:46.207 DVB#0 ERROR - No PIDS set, please correct your
channel setup.
2005-05-17 09:15:47.287 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
2005-05-17 09:15:48.299 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
2005-05-17 09:15:49.334 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.


I created channels.conf using azap. I see the following lines

KGO:53300:8VSB:0:0


I ran azap -r KGO and got the following

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tftpboot# azap -r KGO
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
tuning to 53300 Hz
video pid 0x, audio pid 0x
status 00 | signal 3999 | snr e287 | ber  | unc  |
status 1f | signal da5d | snr fa35 | ber  | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal dcab | snr fa29 | ber  | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal dcab | snr fa07 | ber  | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal da5d | snr fa01 | ber  | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal da5d | snr f9ff | ber  | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal d80f | snr fa07 | ber  | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal dcab | snr fa01 | ber  | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK


Then I ran dvbtraffic and got the following


-PID--FREQ-BANDWIDTH-BANDWIDTH-
 9 p/s 1 kb/s14 kbit
0030 9 p/s 1 kb/s14 kbit
0031  8294 p/s  1522 kb/s 12474 kbit
0034   280 p/s51 kb/s   422 kbit
004010 p/s 1 kb/s16 kbit
0041  3160 p/s   580 kb/s  4752 kbit
0044   156 p/s28 kb/s   234 kbit
1ffb39 p/s 7 kb/s59 kbit
1fff   939 p/s   172 kb/s  1413 kbit
2000 12901 p/s  2368 kb/s 19403 kbit


So I know that KGO is coming fine in pid pairs of 31,34 and 41,44.
Then I added the following two lines in channels.conf file

TEST:53300:8VSB:49:52
T2:53300:8VSB:65:68


And ran the following commands


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tftpboot# azap -r TEST
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
tuning to 53300 Hz
video pid 0x0031, audio pid 0x0034
status 1f | signal da5d | snr f9ef | ber  | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal dcab | snr fa43 | ber  | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal dcab | snr fa31 | ber  | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal da5d | snr fa1d | ber  | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal d80f | snr f9e7 | ber  | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal da5d | snr f9e5 | ber  | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal da5d | snr f9d9 | ber  | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal d80f | snr fa15 | ber  | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tftpboot# azap -r T2 
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
tuning to 53300 Hz
video pid 0x0041, audio pid 0x0044
status 1f | signal da5d | snr fa1f | ber  | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal d80f | snr f9df | ber  | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal da5d | snr fa13 | ber  | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal da5d | snr fa07 | ber  | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
status 1f | signal d80f | snr f9e3 | ber  | unc 000