date:20050621


Hi folks,

MythTV is completely new to me.  Just came across this
site;
http://www.mythtv.org/

On reading the document;
1.1 What is MythTV
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.1

if I understand it correctly, it seems to me that
MythTV can navigate the backend of a TV server.  To my
curiosity how can it go through the firewall?  If it
does then disturbence can be done by some bad guys.
If I'm wrong please correct me.

TIA


it is a client/server application and YOU run both pieces, either on
the same machine or on separate machines. You're accessing one of
your own machines, not somewhere else through someone else's firewall


B.R.
Stephen Liu
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RE: [mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase auto run - again sorry

2005-06-21 Thread Matthew Carle



> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ant Daniel
> Sent: Tuesday, 21 June 2005 5:24 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase auto run - again sorry
> 
> On 6/21/05, Matthew Carle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm starting mythtv using:
> >
> > service mythbackend start
> >
> > in /etc/rc.local
> >
> > Would that be why the environment variables aren't set? I didn't have it
> > running automatically on startup because I had to load a driver but I
> have
> > since found out how to modify the startup script for mythbacked to make
> it
> > work - just havn't bothered to change it...
> >
> > Matthew.
> >
> 
> I'd say give it a go at changing from /etc/rc.local to run
> automatically. But from my issue (HOME not being set) when I'm running
> is automatically, I don't think it's likely to solve the problem.
> 
> Unfortunatly my solution won't help you, it would deal with the HOME
> issue, but not the TZ.
> Log in as root and run 'date' just to check which timezone your system
> thinks it's in, also do an 'echo $TZ'.
> 
> What distro are you running?
> 
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# date
Tue Jun 21 19:14:54 EST 2005
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# echo $TZ

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#

It would seem that TZ is not set. I've determined that this should come from
the configuration file (which it seems isn't loading). At the moment the
config file is in "/home/mythtv/.xmltv/tv_grab_au.conf". I don't know how it
finds it when running as root. I'll try copying the file to "/root/.xmltv/".
Is there a way to specify a parameter when mythbackend runs the tv_grab_au
script? I am running Fedora Core 3.

Matthew.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase auto run - again sorry

2005-06-21 Thread Ant Daniel

On 6/21/05, Matthew Carle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ant Daniel
> > Sent: Tuesday, 21 June 2005 5:24 PM
> > To: Discussion about mythtv
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase auto run - again sorry
> >
> > On 6/21/05, Matthew Carle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I'm starting mythtv using:
> > >
> > > service mythbackend start
> > >
> > > in /etc/rc.local
> > >
> > > Would that be why the environment variables aren't set? I didn't have it
> > > running automatically on startup because I had to load a driver but I
> > have
> > > since found out how to modify the startup script for mythbacked to make
> > it
> > > work - just havn't bothered to change it...
> > >
> > > Matthew.
> > >
> >
> > I'd say give it a go at changing from /etc/rc.local to run
> > automatically. But from my issue (HOME not being set) when I'm running
> > is automatically, I don't think it's likely to solve the problem.
> >
> > Unfortunatly my solution won't help you, it would deal with the HOME
> > issue, but not the TZ.
> > Log in as root and run 'date' just to check which timezone your system
> > thinks it's in, also do an 'echo $TZ'.
> >
> > What distro are you running?
> >
> > Ant.
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> 
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# date
> Tue Jun 21 19:14:54 EST 2005
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# echo $TZ
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#
> 
> It would seem that TZ is not set. I've determined that this should come from
> the configuration file (which it seems isn't loading). At the moment the
> config file is in "/home/mythtv/.xmltv/tv_grab_au.conf". I don't know how it
> finds it when running as root. I'll try copying the file to "/root/.xmltv/".
> Is there a way to specify a parameter when mythbackend runs the tv_grab_au
> script? I am running Fedora Core 3.
> 
> Matthew.
> 

Yes you can try the same solution as I did. (Assuming that it's
working still waiting to see for sure. It did seem to add an extra
day, but my status says it's 'still running' although it's not)

On the setup screen for mythfilldatabase there is a box for 'arguments'

enter
--graboption "--config-file /home/mythtv/.xmltv/tv_grab_au.conf"

I'm not sure if the quotes are actually needed, but as far as I can
tell so far, are not doing anything bad.

Hope this helps.
Ant.
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[mythtv-users] MythPhone and DTMF

2005-06-21 Thread Christophe Guerin

Hi,
I'm testing MythPhone and an Asterisk server. Until now, all work well.
The problem is when I'm calling, I can't send DTMF signal. I mean I
heard the sound in MythPhone, but the Asterisk console show that the
server didn't receive the DTMF signal. I tried to change the DTMF mode
in the Asterisk configuration (inband, rfc2833, info) but nothing
change. I tried to change the audio compression as well in ulaw for
instance, but nothing.
Without sending DTMF signals I can't retrieve the voicemail.

Does somebody already encounter this problem and fix it ?

Many thanks,
Christophe

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Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Broadcast flag back-door legislation

2005-06-21 Thread Darren Black

*Crosspost to ivtv-devel list*

On 6/21/05, Bruce J Keeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For those who thought the broadcast flag was dead, I figured I would
> forward this alert which I just received from the EFF.  Apologies to
> those who may have already seen this.
> 
> Bruce
>  Forwarded Message 
> From: EFFector Special Alert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: EFFector Special Alert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: EFFector Special Alert: Forty-Eight Hours to Stop the Broadcast
> Flag
> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 18:58:36 -0500
> 
> EFFector Special Action Alert, June 20, 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>  MPAA ATTEMPTS TO BYPASS CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE
>   BROADCAST FLAG MAY BE SNEAKED IN THIS WEEK
> 
> Rumor has it that this Tuesday, June 21st, in a
> sub-committee on Commerce, Science, and Justice, a single
> senator will propose an amendment, hidden among many
> others, to re-animate the MPAA's broadcast flag and burn
> it into law.
> 
> On Thursday, the full Senate Appropriations Committee
> will vote on that amendment. If they nod it through, the
> Broadcast Flag will be law.
> 
> It's the lobbyist's oldest, and most desperate, trick. If
> you can't win in the market, snag a regulator. If you
> can't snag a regulator, get a law passed. And if you
> can't get a law, sneak an amendment into one of
> Congress's giant Appropriations Bills.
> 
> If you've received this mail from us, your senator is one
> of the few with the power to put a stop to the flag.
> 
> ACT NOW TO STOP THE FLAG
> 
> Your senator is on the relevant sub-committee or the full
> Senate committee. You have less than 24 hours to warn him
> or her of Tuesday's manoeuvre. You have only 48 hours to
> warn the full committee.
> 
> Letters are too slow. The press will be too slow. Only
> you, as a constituent of a senator on the committee, can
> reach them in time, by personal phone call or by fax.
> 
> IF YOU HAVE THIRTY SECONDS
> 
> Click here to use our action center: read, add your own
> comments, and then send a message directly to your
> senator via fax and email.
> 
> http://action.eff.org/site/Advocacy?id=145>
> 
> IF YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES AND A PHONE
> 
> Here are the list of senator contact details. Pick the
> one that matches your state, and leave a personal message
> warning of what's planned in the Appropriations committee.
> 
> Please be cool, collected and polite. There's a sample
> script after the phone list.
> 
> SUB-COMMITTEE AND FULL COMMITTEE MEMBERS
> 
> ALABAMA Senator Richard Shelby (202) 224-5744
> ALASKA Senator Ted Stevens (202) 224-3004
> HAWAII Senator Daniel Inouye (202) 224-3934
> IOWA Senator Tom Harkin (202) 224-3254
> KANSAS Senator Sam Brownback (202) 224-6521
> KENTUCKY Senator Mitch McConnell (202) 224-2541
> MARYLAND Senator Barbara Mikulski (202) 224-4654
> MISSOURI Senator Christopher Bond (202) 224-5721
> NEW HAMPSHIRE Senator Judd Gregg (202) 224-3324
> NEW MEXICO Senator Pete Domenici (202) 224-6621
> NORTH DAKOTA Senator Byron Dorgan (202) 224-2551
> TEXAS Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (202) 224-5922
> VERMONT Senator Patrick Leahy (202) 224-4242
> WASHINGTON Senator Patty Murray (202) 224-2621
> WISCONSIN Senator Herb Kohl (202) 224-5653
> 
> FULL COMMITTEE MEMBERS
> 
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> PENNSYLVANIA Arlen Specter (202) 224-4254
> MONTANA Conrad Burns (202) 224-2644
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> ILLINOIS Richard J. Durbin (202) 224-2152
> SOUTH DAKOTA Tim Johnson (202) 224-5842
> LOUISIANA Mary L. Landrieu (202) 224-5824
> 
> A TYPICAL CALL
> 
> "Hello, Senator _'s office"
> 
> "Hi, I'm a constituent. I'm registering my opposition to
> the broadcast flag amendment being introduced in the
> Senate Commerce Justice and Science Appropriations
> subcommittee mark-up on Tuesday, and in full committee on
> Thursday."
> 
> (*** You can give your own reasons for opposing the flag
> here. Here's a sample: ***)
> 
> "The Broadcast Flag cripples any device capable of
> receiving over-the-air digital broadcasts. It give
> Hollywood movie studios a permanent veto over how members
> of the American public use our televisions. It forces
> American innovators to beg the FCC for permission before
> adding new features to TV.  "
> 
> "This is an important issue which will affect all
> Americans, and should not be inserted at the last moment,
> with almost no debate."
> 
> "Please oppose the broadcast flag amendment. My name and
> address are ___."
> 
> "Thank you for your time."
> 
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> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Myxer Update - This time its a BIG one! (and probably the last one for a while....)

> I think what people are looking for eventually is some kind of php
> thingy that would have like one area about 480 pixels at the bottom of
> the screen that shows a little preview of mythfrontend's main menu,
> and by selecting buttons or icons or whatever from little drop-down
> lists, they could change the preview at the bottom of the screen.
> That'd be pretty wicked for sure!

Something like this:
http://www.docum.org/staf/mythtv/myxer.php
(I know the page is ugly to watch, but it's more the test the idea too see if 
it's possible to implement this)

For now, it's only working for background + watermarks.
I have no idea if it's possible to implement the text of the menu.  I don't 
think you can be 100% sure the text will be the same in php as in mytthv.


Stef
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[mythtv-users] Re: OT: Broadcast flag back-door legislation

2005-06-21 Thread Oskar Lissheim-Boethius

All Hail the EFF!Seriously, there are some pretty worried folks with me here in Europe who really counts on you guys to win this war, and this really seems to be the final frontier. We have fought our own battles in the EU regarding IP/Patent-laws, broadcast flags (where we are currently much more restricted than the US) and copyright laws but we don't have much jurisdiction over your country. Please make this a win for the people, not for a single industry against all others (Hollywood vs. The World).Good Luck!   Yours sincerely,  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  O S K A R   L I S S H E I M  -  B O E T H I U S >    Composer & Designer >    Avocade Creations, www.avocade.com   ___
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Re: [mythtv-users] Reboot misplaces video0

2005-06-21 Thread ujfhgyicgeb . 10810889

Here is a link that might help.  
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/114197?search_string=udev%20video0;#114197


I had a similiar situation.  My video0 would get loaded with the mythbackend,
but the permissions were wrong.  I found that I needed to create the /dev/video0
file manually, and then set the permissions.  Once I did that, all was good.



--- Discussion about mythtv 
 
> >Originally capture video worked fine on my setup.  
> >After
a reboot It comes up with:
> >
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# cat /dev/video0
> test.mpg
> >cat: /dev/video0: No such file or directory
> >  
> >
>
Sounds like a udev problem.  Try searching the list ( 
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/
).
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Myxer Update - This time its a BIG one! (and probably the last one for a while....)

2005-06-21 Thread David Whyte

Hmm...I don't think that is quite what Dave is after.  At least, its
not quite what I was hoping for, which would be a way to construct a
mini-example of how the theme would look by choosing your options and
an image beng rendered almost as if it was a screenshot of the actual
theme you would create with those options.

Does that make any sense???

Whytey

On 6/21/05, Stef Coene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think what people are looking for eventually is some kind of php
> > thingy that would have like one area about 480 pixels at the bottom of
> > the screen that shows a little preview of mythfrontend's main menu,
> > and by selecting buttons or icons or whatever from little drop-down
> > lists, they could change the preview at the bottom of the screen.
> > That'd be pretty wicked for sure!
> 
> Something like this:
> http://www.docum.org/staf/mythtv/myxer.php
> (I know the page is ugly to watch, but it's more the test the idea too see if
> it's possible to implement this)
> 
> For now, it's only working for background + watermarks.
> I have no idea if it's possible to implement the text of the menu.  I don't
> think you can be 100% sure the text will be the same in php as in mytthv.
> 
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] feature request: plasma burn-in module

2005-06-21 Thread Jason H

Only if the naked pics of his wife and daughter fome
my collection come up, else, after some beers, i think
i'd have myself a party and apromotion! :-)

--- Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> According to Michael Anthon,
> > Jason H wrote:
> > 
> > >so what you're saying I can just write an X
> > >application  and plug that into myth some how?
> > >
> > >How does one set a screensaver app that is
> activated
> > >from an idle myth menu?
> > > 
> > >
> > How about using the gallery slideshow?
> 
> Tie a nice google images search to a randomizing
> script and 
> viola.  (Of course, it could pop up a pron image
> when the boss 
> is over for dinner; that might be bad.)
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Myxer Update - This time its a BIG one! (and probably the last one for a while....)

On Tuesday 21 June 2005 13:09, David Whyte wrote:
> Hmm...I don't think that is quite what Dave is after.  At least, its
> not quite what I was hoping for, which would be a way to construct a
> mini-example of how the theme would look by choosing your options and
> an image beng rendered almost as if it was a screenshot of the actual
> theme you would create with those options.
>
> Does that make any sense???
Yes ;)

The main problem is that's is allmost impossible to do this with php (or any 
other language).  You can put images together (like the background and the 
watermark), but adding text and other stuff so it looks like a "real" mythtv 
menu is not possible.  Or there must be a way to launch mythfrontend and take 
a screenshot from a webpage.

The only solution I see is a menu within mythfrontend where you can do this.  
So the rendering of the preview is done with the same code that generates the 
menu's.

What about copying the mythtv frontend code that generates the menu and add 
some extra keystrokes so you can switch between the options?  So you can 
quickly choose an other background or watermark.

Maybe this is already / will be implemented in the new MythUI code ?

Stef
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[mythtv-users] [OT] xine with multiple sound cards

2005-06-21 Thread Dave Ansell

My frontend has two soundcards,  one onboard for TV-out and a plug-in 
Soundblaster Audigy which connects to my Hi-Fi.


I am trying to use Xine to stream audio to the Hi-Fi via the SB card, but it 
defaultes to the internal sound device instead.


Can anyone tell me how to tell xine to switch output to the SB card?( It 
needs to be switchable because I use the internal card at other times)


thanks,
Dave 


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[mythtv-users] Font problems in all themes (inc. Myxer) except GANT

2005-06-21 Thread Neil Bird



  Running FC3/0.18, with urw-fonts downgraded to FC2 version to fix 
underhang/size issues.



  So I've been running with GANT pretty much since install, but in the 
spirit of variety I thought I'd try a few others.  However, none of the 
themes I've tried seem to honour the font-size settings.


  I've a 32" wide-screen TV, and I like the program guide font to be 
pretty small so's I can get a decent amount of text in each box, but all 
but GANT seem to have he same too-large font.  Fiddling with the 
font-sizes doesn't actually appear to affect /anything/.


  In fact, IIRC, I only got the small text in GANT when I ticked some 
box that said something like 'use small text'.



  Am I missing something, or is my setup borked?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Myxer Update - This time its a BIG one! (and probably the last one for a while....)

2005-06-21 Thread Scott



On Jun 21, 2005, at 7:46 AM, Stef Coene wrote:
The main problem is that's is allmost impossible to do this with  
php (or any
other language).  You can put images together (like the background  
and the
watermark), but adding text and other stuff so it looks like a  
"real" mythtv
menu is not possible.  Or there must be a way to launch  
mythfrontend and take

a screenshot from a webpage.


Rather than trying to build a composite image from a background,  
graphic elements, and text, could CSS2 positioning be used instead?  
For example, you would set the background of a class="background"> element to be the background of the MythTV  
screen. Next you would use a php function to construct a MythTV  
button but putting another graphic into a  with  
text contained in that  and use absolute positioning for the  
whole  element to place it at the appropriate  
location location on the .


Obviously this wouldn't be fully cross browser compatible but it  
would work with Mozilla and maybe even IE6.


You might also need to keep some meta data about the elements you're  
laying out. For example, there maybe a meta data based rule that say  
only 5  from the theme XYZ can fit on a class="background"> because of the button height but from the theme  
ABC you could position up to 6 .


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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Myxer Update - This time its a BIG one! (and probably the last one for a while....)

On Tuesday 21 June 2005 14:19, Scott wrote:
> Rather than trying to build a composite image from a background,
> graphic elements, and text, could CSS2 positioning be used instead?
> For example, you would set the background of a  class="background"> element to be the background of the MythTV
> screen. Next you would use a php function to construct a MythTV
> button but putting another graphic into a  with
> text contained in that  and use absolute positioning for the
> whole  element to place it at the appropriate
> location location on the .
>
> Obviously this wouldn't be fully cross browser compatible but it
> would work with Mozilla and maybe even IE6.
>
> You might also need to keep some meta data about the elements you're
> laying out. For example, there maybe a meta data based rule that say
> only 5  from the theme XYZ can fit on a  class="background"> because of the button height but from the theme
> ABC you could position up to 6 .
The problem is not the image handling with php (my "demo" is working as a 
proof of concept), but to get the preview like the mythfrontend menu will 
look like.  If you want a perfect preview, you have to use the "real" code 
that generates the menu in mythfrontend.

So, displaying the background and the watermarks and maybe the buttons is all 
you can do with php and/or css.


Stef
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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and Harmony remotes

2005-06-21 Thread Nate Thompson

On 6/20/05, Peter Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 6/20/05, Nate Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I was wondering if anyone is using one of the Logitech Harmony remotes
> > with their MythTV box, and if so, what the easiest way to configure it
> > is. I noticed that they have included MythTV as a manufacturer in
> > their online remote database, but I'm assuming that you'd need the
> > comparable LIRC config files as well for it to work. I'm planning on
> > picking up one of the new Harmony 880 remotes soon, but am hoping to
> > find out the best way to get things configured would be.
> >
> > Thanks for any info,
> >
> > Nate
> 
> Hi, Nate.
> 
> Yes, I have one of the Harmony remotes.  I can't quite remember which
> model, but it is one of the lower-priced ones, designed specifically
> for controlling pvr's.
> 
> Anyway, to answer your question, the mythtv configuration that is
> included sets up the IR codes to match those of the remote that comes
> with the Hauppauge pvr-250/350.  So, if you are using those
> capture/encoder cards, then setting up the Harmony is a snap.
> 
> Personally, I'm not really sold on the Harmony.  I find the buttons to
> be a little bit spongy feeling and the writing on them to be too small
> for my old eyes to read.  But my family loves it.  After having gone
> through several programmable remote solutions, the Harmony is the one
> that my wife and son always want to use.  And it was definitely the
> easiest one to set up, which is impressive given its great
> functionality and features.
> 
> Peter
> 
Thanks for the feedback, I saw a post somewhere that the PVR cards
were included in the code database, but unfortunately I'm using a
homebrew serial IR adapter. I'm wondering if I could just tell it I'm
using a Phillips 1st generation Tivo (the remote I am currently using
came from this system), then make manual changes to the buttons/layout
as necessary? I think this would be the easiest way, since I already
have the appropriate config files on my MythTV box, but it would mean
more time using the Harmony software interface to get things right. Or
perhaps use the PVR-remote config files from Jarod's site, but I'm not
sure if the signals are compatible with my IR receiver.

If anyone currently has config files for the harmony and a serial IR
adapter and could send them my way, I'd really apprechiate it.

Nate
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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and ivtv driver errors

2005-06-21 Thread Chera Bekker

Thanks for the reply. I already got rid of the enc irq overflow error by
the following crude hack: replace ivtv-irq.c from release 0.3.3k by
ivtv-irq.c from release 0.3.2z.

I'll try the latest development drivers next.

Chera


Marshall Crocker wrote:

> My suggestion would be to update ivtv. It wasn't until version 0.3.6g
> that I got a useable system with my pvr 150.  You may be able to tweak
> the recording profiles to get your current version working but it
> would be best to try the latest release.  If you're still having
> problems with the latest release, then it would be best to send an
> email to the ivtv-devel list.  It's a very good chance that the latest
> ivtv drivers won't have that problem, especially since a lot of
> changes have been made regarding buffers.
>
> Marshall
>
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Re: [mythtv-users] Uninstall Mythtv

On 6/20/05, ian swanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  
> Is there any way I can uninstall Mythtv? I want to do this because I believe
> that MyMSQL isn't installed properly? Thanks, Ian. 

How did you install it? Also, it's possible to get MySQL reinstalled
without needing to completely remove MythTV.

Nick
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Re: [mythtv-users] A few DVB setup questions

2005-06-21 Thread Michael Anthon

Michael Anthon wrote:

>Michael Anthon wrote:
>
>  
>
>>enabled... a definite killer.  After a (not so) quick recompile to put
>>the IDE driver into the kernel and a reboot I was able to record very
>>nice looking video BUT I have no audio.  The machine has no audio output
>>(and hence no usable /dev/dsp) but I wouldn't have thought that would
>>matter for mpeg2 recording from a DVB card??  Is there something obvious
>>I have missed here?
>> 
>>
>>
OK, answering my own post again, I found the problem.  Was reading
through the forums and saw someone had a similar problem and the
solution was to switch from PS to TS mode for the recording and now I
have sound... YAY !

I also used dvbtune and scan to get all the magic numbers I needed to
build the channels and dvt_multiplex tables for the channels that
refused to auto tune (the tuner just hung at 50% and I had to cancel them).

Now I have a setup with all 7 available FTA DVB channels.

My next question I will leave for another post since it's not really
related to this thread.

Cheers,
Michael
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Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] xine with multiple sound cards

On 6/21/05, Dave Ansell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My frontend has two soundcards,  one onboard for TV-out and a plug-in
> Soundblaster Audigy which connects to my Hi-Fi.
> 
> I am trying to use Xine to stream audio to the Hi-Fi via the SB card, but it
> defaultes to the internal sound device instead.
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to tell xine to switch output to the SB card?( It
> needs to be switchable because I use the internal card at other times)

What audio parameters (if any) are you currently giving xine at startup?

I think you should be able to specify something like '-A ALSA:hw:1,1'
(using the correct card number and device number to get audio from the
particular card/device combo you want) This also requires that your
.asoundrc and modules.conf (or equiv) files are setup correctly. You
can check /proc/asound or 'aplay -l' and 'aplay -L' to get a listing
of all cards and devices currently recognised.

Nick
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Myxer Update - This time its a BIG one! (and probably the last one for a while....)

2005-06-21 Thread Dave Hofstra

> Something like this:
> http://www.docum.org/staf/mythtv/myxer.php
> (I know the page is ugly to watch, but it's more the test the idea too see if
> it's possible to implement this)

Stef,  That's pretty frickin cool!  I wouldnt worry about the text so
much, if users were able to preview the background, button, and icon
together, it'd work just fine.

Great Job!  I would say, just integrate the buttons into your scheme,
and clean up the interface a little, and that'd provide what people
are looking for.  I'm very impressed.  I have been looking over php
for a few days, and I cant even get it to display an image yet.  he he
he

Dave Hofstra
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Myxer Update - This time its a BIG one! (and probably the last one for a while....)

2005-06-21 Thread Fred Squires

On 6/21/05, Stef Coene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 June 2005 14:19, Scott wrote:
> > Rather than trying to build a composite image from a background,
> > graphic elements, and text, could CSS2 positioning be used instead?
> > For example, you would set the background of a  > class="background"> element to be the background of the MythTV
> > screen. Next you would use a php function to construct a MythTV
> > button but putting another graphic into a  with
> > text contained in that  and use absolute positioning for the
> > whole  element to place it at the appropriate
> > location location on the .
> >
> > Obviously this wouldn't be fully cross browser compatible but it
> > would work with Mozilla and maybe even IE6.
> >
> > You might also need to keep some meta data about the elements you're
> > laying out. For example, there maybe a meta data based rule that say
> > only 5  from the theme XYZ can fit on a  > class="background"> because of the button height but from the theme
> > ABC you could position up to 6 .
> The problem is not the image handling with php (my "demo" is working as a
> proof of concept), but to get the preview like the mythfrontend menu will
> look like.  If you want a perfect preview, you have to use the "real" code
> that generates the menu in mythfrontend.
> 
> So, displaying the background and the watermarks and maybe the buttons is all
> you can do with php and/or css.
> 
> 
> Stef

Why not try to make images of each peice, background, buttons, text,
etc...(as transparent png's with transparent backgrounds, except for
the background images of course) positioned where it would be on a
typical mythtv menu screen and with each selection overlay that image
on top of the other selections.  That way you wouldn't have to try to
recreate the whole image.  I really don't know how easy this would be,
it just seems like it would be easier than trying to recreate the
whole image each time.

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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and Harmony remotes

2005-06-21 Thread Steve Bower

> "Nate" == Nate Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Nate> Thanks for the feedback, I saw a post somewhere that the PVR cards
Nate> were included in the code database, but unfortunately I'm using a
Nate> homebrew serial IR adapter. I'm wondering if I could just tell it
Nate> I'm using a Phillips 1st generation Tivo (the remote I am
Nate> currently using came from this system), then make manual changes
Nate> to the buttons/layout as necessary? I think this would be the
Nate> easiest way, since I already have the appropriate config files on
Nate> my MythTV box, but it would mean more time using the Harmony
Nate> software interface to get things right. Or perhaps use the
Nate> PVR-remote config files from Jarod's site, but I'm not sure if the
Nate> signals are compatible with my IR receiver.

Nate> If anyone currently has config files for the harmony and a serial
Nate> IR adapter and could send them my way, I'd really apprechiate it.

Hi Nate,

I'm doing basically that with my harmony remote (model H688), using the
Tivo codes but with code set 2 (I still have a tivo in the room using
code set 0).  The remotes.tar/tivo file that came from lirc worked
perfectly for me.

I just renamed the buttons in my lircd.conf so I could use UP, DOWN,
etc., instead of 2_UP, 2_DOWN, ...

My lircd.conf is here:

  http://www.employees.org/~sbower/lircd.conf

I made some mappings in the harmony config app and my .lircrc to adjust
which keys I want to do what (like the pg+/- keys transmit thumbs+/-,
which become Z/Q for commercial skip).

Good luck!  :-)

  Steve.
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Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Help choosing an antenna for ATSC

2005-06-21 Thread Michael J. Lynch


Jason Weinstein wrote:

I'm trying to receive the 5 local ATSC stations and not having good
luck with my current antenna. My current antenna is a medium sized
VHF/UHF/FM directional antenna with a mast mounted pre-amp. I cannot
get a decent signal on all the stations without rotating the antenna.
My inital plans were to have MythTV control my rotor whenever it
changed the channel, but it seems that MythTV cannot run channel
change scripts when using a DVB tuner card.

So, if possible, I'd like to replace my antenna with an
omnidirectional UHF-only one. Of the 5 stations I am trying to
receive, 3 have transmitters that are located 1.7 miles from me at 208
degrees, and 2 have transmitters 8 miles from me at 17 degrees. There
are some surrounding tall trees twoards the South of my home.

Anyone have an antenna that they can suggest?



I use an amplified multi-directional from Rectron (sp?) and I can
consistantly pick up stations from ~35 miles away.  Sometimes I
pick up stations ~60 miles away and occasionally I pick up stations
120 miles away.  And, yes, I'm talking about ATSC transmission.

The terrain where I live is flat prairie land with a few trees.
I have a large grain elevtor between 3 transmitting positions and
my antenna and this doesnt' cause any problems.  My antenna is
mounted about 15' above ground and is actually BELOW the peak of
my roof.


--
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Are there any standardized .mythtv/lircrc files for StreamZap PC_Remote?

> I got this at least partially working by building my own. Not sure
> if there's a repository for these things since no one has responded
> yet but it seems like a good idea to me. Why should folks have to
> build these if someone else has already done it? Anyway, if anyone
> needs a copy contact me off list.

There is a repository for these things. See this extract from
http://www.lirc.org/html/help.html#new_remote


As creating new config files is difficult sometimes and irrecord often
cannot detect all features of the remote control please send new
config files to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Other people will appreciate this
very much. Sometimes they cannot create such a config file themselves
because their original remote control is broken or has been lost. Some
devices that are capable of IR come without a remote control. Some
people also only want to build a transmitter and if you make a config
file available for them they won't need to build a receiver, too.
Please add all information you can get concerning the remote control
as a comment to the config file.


So you should email it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for others to use.

Regards,
Phill
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[mythtv-users] Uninstall MySQL

2005-06-21 Thread ian swanson




I wish to Uninstall MySQL from Fedora Core 3. This 
is because I beleive that it isn't installed properly. How do I go about doing 
this? Thanks, Ian.
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Re: [mythtv-users] apt-get upgrade .18 no sound

> I have been battling this thing for about a 3 weeks now.. I cannot for
> the life of me figure out what happened.  Everything was working
> smoothly with .17 with SPDIF playing out through my SiS 735 SI7012
> (intel8x0) on board sound card.  Then after I did an apt-get upgrade I
> get no sound whatsoever.   I can't even do a   /usr/bin/aplay
> /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav as suggested by Jarod's guide.
> 
> aplay -l shows the following:
> card 0: SI7012 [SiS SI7012], device 0: Intel ICH [SiS SI7012]
>  Subdevices: 1/1
>  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> 
> I can't tell you what the alsa-mixer settings were since I have been
> playing with them trying to figure which is correct.  I definately
> have IEC958 slider set to zero.
> 
> My /home/mythtv/.asoundrc looks identical to this one off of Jarod's site.
> http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/asoundrc.txt
> 
> My modprobe.conf for audio looks like the following:
> # sound card setup
> alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
> install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 &&
> /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ;
> }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0

Don't know much about SPDIF, but my guess would be that your sound
card settings have got trashed in the upgrade. You need to use
alsamixer to get the settings right as per Jarod's guide. If you have
a BT8x8 card then you usually have to configure the line-in so that it
records the sound. Or maybe your sound-out/PCM settings are on mute. I
have an intel on-board sound card with  screenshots of the settings
which I'll send you separately. Remember that I don't have SPDIF,
though.

Regards,
Phill
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Myxer Update - This time its a BIG one! (and probably the last one for a while....)

On Tuesday 21 June 2005 15:00, Fred Squires wrote:
> Why not try to make images of each peice, background, buttons, text,
> etc...(as transparent png's with transparent backgrounds, except for
> the background images of course) positioned where it would be on a
> typical mythtv menu screen and with each selection overlay that image
> on top of the other selections.  That way you wouldn't have to try to
> recreate the whole image.  I really don't know how easy this would be,
> it just seems like it would be easier than trying to recreate the
> whole image each time.

Anyone with enough qt / mythtv knowledge to dump the relevant parts as 
transparent png's?

I also don't know where exactly the text and / or watemarks are located in the 
window.  Mhh, maybe time to dive in the mythftontend source and try qt.


Stef
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Re: [mythtv-users] Svideo or RCA

2005-06-21 Thread Joseph A. Caputo

On Tuesday 21 June 2005 2:06, Bruce N wrote:
> Thanks Todd and Jesse
> 
> Svideo it is. The run to the TV will be quite short so I should be OK 
> with the image quality.
> 
> Cheers
> Bruce
> 

Also note that there may be a difference in the quality of the picture 
produced by the TV encoder chips on the 2 cards.  I'd recommend doing a 
comparison; the best S-video cable in the world won't compensate for a 
poor picture.  Garbage in, garbage out!

-JAC
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Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] xine with multiple sound cards

2005-06-21 Thread Dave Ansell

- Original Message - 
From: "Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "Discussion about mythtv" 
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] xine with multiple sound cards

On 6/21/05, Dave Ansell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

My frontend has two soundcards,  one onboard for TV-out and a plug-in
Soundblaster Audigy which connects to my Hi-Fi.

I am trying to use Xine to stream audio to the Hi-Fi via the SB card, but 
it

defaultes to the internal sound device instead.

Can anyone tell me how to tell xine to switch output to the SB card? 
( It

needs to be switchable because I use the internal card at other times)

What audio parameters (if any) are you currently giving xine at startup?

I think you should be able to specify something like '-A ALSA:hw:1,1'
(using the correct card number and device number to get audio from the
particular card/device combo you want) This also requires that your
.asoundrc and modules.conf (or equiv) files are setup correctly. You
can check /proc/asound or 'aplay -l' and 'aplay -L' to get a listing
of all cards and devices currently recognised.

Nick
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Thanks Nick,

 From aplay -l I have
card 0:  I82801BAICH2 [Intel 82801-ICH2], device 0: Intel ICH
and
card 1: Audigy [Sound Blaster Audigy], device 0: emu10k1 [EMU10K1]

  so I have tried
xine -A ALSA:hw:1,0

also for good measure:
xine -A alsa:hw:1,0

Xine seems to just ignore it and continue to output to card 0.

I can't find any detailed instructions on the -A command line options.   Any 
further ideas?

thanks,
Dave

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Myxer Update - This time its a BIG one! (and probably the last one for a while....)

On Tuesday 21 June 2005 14:57, Dave Hofstra wrote:
> Great Job!  I would say, just integrate the buttons into your scheme,
> and clean up the interface a little, and that'd provide what people
> are looking for.  I'm very impressed.  I have been looking over php
> for a few days, and I cant even get it to display an image yet.  he he
> he
I created .txt versions of all php files so you can download them if you want:
http://www.docum.org/staf/mythtv/myxer.php.txt

Stef
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Re: [mythtv-users] Is this a "fatal" error ?

On 6/21/05, todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK, working on my 4th reinstall and I see from prior installs I forgot
> to exec this.
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# /sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb
> FATAL: Error inserting ivtv_fb
> (/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.27_FC3/updates/drivers/media/video/ivtv-fb.ko):
> Operation not permitted
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]#
> 
> I am running this on a haup. pvr-250 card.
> 
> can I ignore this or do we have a problem to research further.
> 
> this in out of the install ivtv config section of " Wilsons how to...

... for configuring output from the PVR-350 card. This only appears if
you consciously open the normally-hidden section dedicated to PVR-350
output.

Please stop bashing Jarod's guide (which you manage to do in nearly
every post). A large number of people (with apparently much less
computing knowledge than you profess to) have successfully built
systems using this guide, myself included. If you try and setup
hardware that you don't even have, you will have problems.

If you spot a problem, notify the author. If you come across a problem
in MythTV, submit a patch if you are able to. Nobody said that MythTV
is production quality (although a lot of us find it stable enough).
That's why the release is at 0.18. Finally, Google, Google Groups and
the mythtv-users archive are invaluable - there's a huge amount of
useful information available there.

Nick

BTW, your website's index page is not index.htm. You may want to fix
the broken links. And freelance is one word ...
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Re: [mythtv-users] Uninstall MySQL

On Tuesday 21 June 2005 15:20, ian swanson wrote:
> I wish to Uninstall MySQL from Fedora Core 3. This is because I beleive
> that it isn't installed properly. How do I go about doing this? Thanks,
> Ian.
I don't use Fedora, but "rpm -qa" gives you all installed packages.  Filter 
for mysql:
rpm -qa | grep mysql
and remove them with "rpm -e ".


Stef
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Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] xine with multiple sound cards

2005-06-21 Thread James Stembridge

On 6/21/05, Dave Ansell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> xine -A ALSA:hw:1,0
> 
> also for good measure:
> xine -A alsa:hw:1,0
> 
> Xine seems to just ignore it and continue to output to card 0.

That's because xine doesn't use them. 

Look at the audio.device.alsa_front_device option in the config file
or under "audio" in the gui config.

James.
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[mythtv-users] Font problems in all themes (inc. Myxer) except GANT

2005-06-21 Thread Neil Bird



  Running FC3/0.18, with urw-fonts downgraded to FC2 version to fix
underhang/size issues.


  So I've been running with GANT pretty much since install, but in the
spirit of variety I thought I'd try a few others.  However, none of the
themes I've tried seem to honour the font-size settings.

  I've a 32" wide-screen TV, and I like the program guide font to be
pretty small so's I can get a decent amount of text in each box, but all
but GANT seem to have he same too-large font.  Fiddling with the
font-sizes doesn't actually appear to affect /anything/.

  In fact, IIRC, I only got the small text in GANT when I ticked some
box that said something like 'use small text'.


  Am I missing something, or is my setup borked?

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rm -f .signature
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l .signature
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[mythtv-users] Softcame Support...

2005-06-21 Thread Jochen Kühner









Is there a possibility to support Softcams by
mythtv??

I found a softcam plugin for vdr, is it possible to
port it to myth??






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Re: [mythtv-users] Uninstall MySQL

> > I wish to Uninstall MySQL from Fedora Core 3. This is because I beleive
> > that it isn't installed properly. How do I go about doing this? Thanks,
> > Ian.
> I don't use Fedora, but "rpm -qa" gives you all installed packages.  Filter
> for mysql:
> rpm -qa | grep mysql
> and remove them with "rpm -e ".

Or you can do apt-get remove . This will also suggest
other packages to remove which are dependencies so you won't have to
keep trawling through them to find out what needs to be removed to get
rid of mysql.

To simulate it first to see what carnage it may wreak you would do
apt-get -s remove . On my FC3 system this would result
in all these packages being removed:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libmyth mysql mysql-server mythbrowser mythdvd mythgallery mythgame
  mythmkmovie mythmusic mythnews mythphone mythplugins mythstream 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 mythvideo mythweather mythweb
  nuvexport perl-DBD-MySQL php-mysql qt-MySQL

Scary!

Regards,
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Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] xine with multiple sound cards

On 6/21/05, James Stembridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 6/21/05, Dave Ansell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > xine -A ALSA:hw:1,0
> >
> > also for good measure:
> > xine -A alsa:hw:1,0
> >
> > Xine seems to just ignore it and continue to output to card 0.
> 
> That's because xine doesn't use them.
> 
> Look at the audio.device.alsa_front_device option in the config file
> or under "audio" in the gui config.

Sorry - when I read from the ALSA manual:

"You can select the audio driver using the -A option"

I figured you'd be able to use it to override any settings in the
config file on a per-run basis. You can at least use it to change
driver i.e. alsa/oss/arts.

Nick
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Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] xine with multiple sound cards

2005-06-21 Thread Dave Ansell

- Original Message - 
From: "James Stembridge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "Discussion about mythtv" 
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] xine with multiple sound cards

On 6/21/05, Dave Ansell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

xine -A ALSA:hw:1,0

also for good measure:
xine -A alsa:hw:1,0

Xine seems to just ignore it and continue to output to card 0.

That's because xine doesn't use them. 

Look at the audio.device.alsa_front_device option in the config file
or under "audio" in the gui config.

James.
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James,

 Yes, I saw this also.
 Mine says default at the moment.
 Do you know what should I put in there to select card 1?
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythstream Tips Tricks

> >I'll try these things. In the meantime I tried the mplayer command and
> >got an error:
> >
> >$ mplayer http://64.236.34.97:80/stream/1040
> >mplayer: symbol lookup error:
> >/usr/X11R6/lib/nvidia-graphics-1.0-7664/libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1:
> >undefined symbol: _nv0019XvMCdynamic
> >
> >Could this be why I can't get any streams to work? Everything else
> >seems to be working just fine and this is the 1st time I've seen any
> >mplayer errors.
> >
> >
> That would definitely cause problems.  MythStream simply passes the URL
> off to MPlayer and MPlayer does the work.  MythStream is an interface
> for managing stream lists.  So, once you fix MPlayer, it should work.

There were 2 different solutions to this problem which both resulted
in the mplayer error going away:

1) Go back from nvidia driver 7664 to 7174, or
2) Stick with nvidia 7174 and upgrade mplayer to
mplayer-1.0-45_pre7.rhfc3.at (which I did using apt-get upgrade).

I'm getting some of the radio stations working now.

Thanks,
Phill
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mplayer error from command line

On 6/19/05, Phill Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Same thing happened to my mplayer after updated the nvidia driver to
> > 7664 last week, backed it out to 7174 fixed the problem.
> 

Thanks - that worked. For the record, I've also found another fix
which is to upgrade mplayer to mplayer-1.0-45_pre7.rhfc3.at (which I
did using apt-get upgrade). This works with nvidia 7664.

Regards,
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Re: [mythtv-users] Softcame Support...

2005-06-21 Thread Allan Stirling


Jochen Kühner wrote:

Is there a possibility to support Softcams by mythtv??

I found a softcam plugin for vdr, is it possible to port it to myth??



How many times are you going to ask the same question?

No, there is no softcam support in Myth. If you want Myth to support
softcams, feel free to write the code. However, in my humble opinion it
is very unlikely that  patches for this will be accepted into any
releases, since the main use for these emulators is service theft. Get a
physical CI/CAM for the channel you want to watch and it _should_ be
supported.

Cheers,

Allan.
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Re: [mythtv-users] EPIA 10k: Mplayer crash in fullscreen or no picture displayed in a window


Brett May wrote:

I know quite a few people on this list are using EPIA 10k's for their 
MythBox and I am wondering if any have mplayer working to watch videos 
from MythVideo.
I am using Gentoo 2.6.10-r6, Xorg with xvmc, MythTV 0.18, and have 
patched Mplayer using the patch and ebuild on EpiaWiki.  When my 
command line in MythVideo is:


   mplayer -fs -vc xvmc -vo ffmpeg12mc %s

mplayer crashes with BadDrawable (happens in both twm and ratpoison).

When my command line in MythVideo is:

   mplayer -vc xvmc -vo ffmpeg12mc %s

there is no picture displayed, stays displaying the MythVideo screen 
but mplayer is running and outputting debug information to the xterm 
as if it was playing the video.


Sounds like the MPlayer window is behind the MythVideo screen.  If so, 
check the archives for some suggested solutions.  (I had this problem on 
one of my systems, but since I wanted DVD menus and the same player for 
everything, I was switching to xine, anyway, and never fixed it.)


Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] Is this a "fatal" error ?


On 6/21/05, todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 OK, working on my 4th reinstall and I see from prior installs I forgot
 to exec this.

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# /sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb
 FATAL: Error inserting ivtv_fb
 (/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.27_FC3/updates/drivers/media/video/ivtv-fb.ko):
 Operation not permitted
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]#

 I am running this on a haup. pvr-250 card.

 can I ignore this or do we have a problem to research further.

 this in out of the install ivtv config section of " Wilsons how to...


... for configuring output from the PVR-350 card. This only appears if
you consciously open the normally-hidden section dedicated to PVR-350
output.

Please stop bashing Jarod's guide (which you manage to do in nearly
every post). A large number of people (with apparently much less
computing knowledge than you profess to) have successfully built
systems using this guide, myself included. If you try and setup
hardware that you don't even have, you will have problems.

If you spot a problem, notify the author. If you come across a problem
in MythTV, submit a patch if you are able to. Nobody said that MythTV
is production quality (although a lot of us find it stable enough).
That's why the release is at 0.18. Finally, Google, Google Groups and
the mythtv-users archive are invaluable - there's a huge amount of
useful information available there.

Nick

BTW, your website's index page is not index.htm. You may want to fix
the broken links. And freelance is one word ...


Well, as much as I appreciate the effort everyone has put into the
HowTo's There has been a major change in going to R5A15 from the R4
versions. The current HowTo's use the older syntax and the new
software complains about the befores and afters and the
post-installs. I was able to finally piece together my system from
several topics and couldn't get the final piece to get past the
purple and green screen and "no device". I finally found the pvr.pl
script and ran that, which them put the old style format back into
ivtv and left me with an XF86Config-4 with no device and no link for
the Hex from lspci -v (all zeros) and so when I put my old ivtv and
XF86Config-4 from the backups (gdm.conf was the same) and rebooted,
it actually came up and is running. So I was close, but there was no
place along the way that had the complete solution. I will try to
document the various file changes but pvr.pl did something I hadn't
so I'll have to look at it and see what I missed.

As I said, I appreciate the work people have done to get the system
up, but we need to indicate which version things are done with so we
can figure out which set to work from

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Re: [mythtv-users] Is this a "fatal" error ?

2005-06-21 Thread Howard Cokl



--- Jim Reith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> >On 6/21/05, todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>  OK, working on my 4th reinstall and I see from
> prior installs I forgot
> >>  to exec this.
> >>
> >>  [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# /sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb
> >>  FATAL: Error inserting ivtv_fb
> >> 
>
(/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.27_FC3/updates/drivers/media/video/ivtv-fb.ko):
> >>  Operation not permitted
> >>  [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]#
> >>
> >>  I am running this on a haup. pvr-250 card.
> >>
> >>  can I ignore this or do we have a problem to
> research further.
> >>
> >>  this in out of the install ivtv config section
> of " Wilsons how to...
> >
> >... for configuring output from the PVR-350 card.
> This only appears if
> >you consciously open the normally-hidden section
> dedicated to PVR-350
> >output.
> >
> >Please stop bashing Jarod's guide (which you manage
> to do in nearly
> >every post). A large number of people (with
> apparently much less
> >computing knowledge than you profess to) have
> successfully built
> >systems using this guide, myself included. If you
> try and setup
> >hardware that you don't even have, you will have
> problems.
> >
> >If you spot a problem, notify the author. If you
> come across a problem
> >in MythTV, submit a patch if you are able to.
> Nobody said that MythTV
> >is production quality (although a lot of us find it
> stable enough).
> >That's why the release is at 0.18. Finally, Google,
> Google Groups and
> >the mythtv-users archive are invaluable - there's a
> huge amount of
> >useful information available there.
> >
> >Nick
> >
> >BTW, your website's index page is not index.htm.
> You may want to fix
> >the broken links. And freelance is one word ...
> 
> Well, as much as I appreciate the effort everyone
> has put into the
> HowTo's There has been a major change in going to
> R5A15 from the R4
> versions. The current HowTo's use the older syntax
> and the new
> software complains about the befores and afters and
> the
> post-installs. I was able to finally piece together
> my system from
> several topics and couldn't get the final piece to
> get past the
> purple and green screen and "no device". I finally
> found the pvr.pl
> script and ran that, which them put the old style
> format back into
> ivtv and left me with an XF86Config-4 with no device
> and no link for
> the Hex from lspci -v (all zeros) and so when I put
> my old ivtv and
> XF86Config-4 from the backups (gdm.conf was the
> same) and rebooted,
> it actually came up and is running. So I was close,
> but there was no
> place along the way that had the complete solution.
> I will try to
> document the various file changes but pvr.pl did
> something I hadn't
> so I'll have to look at it and see what I missed.
> 
> As I said, I appreciate the work people have done to
> get the system
> up, but we need to indicate which version things are
> done with so we
> can figure out which set to work from
> 

I hate to point this out but the guide this thread is
referring to is titled "Fedora Myth(TV)ology::HOWTO". 
It appears that you are using Knoppmyth.  Now I have
used Jarod's guide several times, most recently with
FedoraCore 3 but I found it useful even when
installing myth on slackware.  Some things didn't
apply to slackware but I didn't feel the need to
criticize Jarod simply because I chose a different
distro than he.


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[mythtv-users] OT: the ihome

2005-06-21 Thread John Kuhn


http://dms.tecknohost.com/macrumors/i/ihome/

not sure what's going on with it or specs.. but it doesnt appear to have 
any video inputs or outputs on it..



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Re: [mythtv-users] OT: the ihome

2005-06-21 Thread John Kuhn


John Kuhn wrote:


http://dms.tecknohost.com/macrumors/i/ihome/

not sure what's going on with it or specs.. but it doesnt appear to 
have any video inputs or outputs on it..


sorry.. i didnt realize this is a very old hoax.. it was just sent to me 
recently..


--John
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Re: [mythtv-users] OT: the ihome

2005-06-21 Thread Andrew Close

On 6/21/05, John Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Kuhn wrote:
> 
> > http://dms.tecknohost.com/macrumors/i/ihome/
> >
> > not sure what's going on with it or specs.. but it doesnt appear to
> > have any video inputs or outputs on it..
> 
> sorry.. i didnt realize this is a very old hoax.. it was just sent to me
> recently..
> 
> --John

this is what actually became the 'mini' :)
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Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] xine with multiple sound cards

Dave Ansell wrote:

Look at the audio.device.alsa_front_device option in the config file
or under "audio" in the gui config.

Yes, I saw this also.
Mine says default at the moment.
Do you know what should I put in there to select card 1?

Assuming you're using the .asoundrc configuration specified at the
alsa-project.org site (
http://alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Creative+Labs&card=Sound+Blaster+Audigy+ES.&chip=emu10k2&module=emu10k1
), use "emu10k1" (no quotes) to get analog output on the Audigy. I've
noticed that--although the GUI shows an asterisk (which says I have to
restart xine to see the changes)--the change happens immediately (i.e.
it doesn't prompt me to restart). Also, if you change it then close
xine without playing a video, it won't save the changes, so change it
then open and play your video.

However, it sounds like you want digital output (i.e. 5.1 output), so
you'll need a real .asoundrc instead (see
.http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo for some info).

You may also want to consider--since there's really no reason to use the
integrated soundcard if you have a "real" soundcard (unless you need it
for capture with a frame grabber)--is to simply ensure you don't load
the drivers for the integrated soundcard. Then, you don't have to worry
about it getting in the way (and you save memory and resources). If
you're having a problem with udev automatically loading the drivers for
you, just disable the on-board sound in the BIOS.

Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] Font problems in all themes (inc. Myxer) except GANT

2005-06-21 Thread Daniel Segel

Check your Xorg.log file to see what DPI your display is running at 
(grep DPI /var/log/Xorg.0.log); the fonts are scaled for an assumed 
100dpi display. You can change this with the DisplaySize parameter in 
the Monitor section of your xorg.conf (or equivalent.)


For a 720x480 display you need 'DisplaySize 182 121' or thereabouts.

Daniel

Neil Bird wrote:



  Running FC3/0.18, with urw-fonts downgraded to FC2 version to fix
underhang/size issues.


  So I've been running with GANT pretty much since install, but in the
spirit of variety I thought I'd try a few others.  However, none of the
themes I've tried seem to honour the font-size settings.

  I've a 32" wide-screen TV, and I like the program guide font to be
pretty small so's I can get a decent amount of text in each box, but all
but GANT seem to have he same too-large font.  Fiddling with the
font-sizes doesn't actually appear to affect /anything/.

  In fact, IIRC, I only got the small text in GANT when I ticked some
box that said something like 'use small text'.


  Am I missing something, or is my setup borked?



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Re: [mythtv-users] Is this a "fatal" error ?


 > Well, as much as I appreciate the effort everyone

 has put into the
 HowTo's There has been a major change in going to
 R5A15 from the R4
 versions. The current HowTo's use the older syntax
 and the new
 software complains about the befores and afters and
 the
 post-installs. I was able to finally piece together
 my system from
 several topics and couldn't get the final piece to
 get past the
 purple and green screen and "no device". I finally
 found the pvr.pl
 script and ran that, which them put the old style
 format back into
 ivtv and left me with an XF86Config-4 with no device
 and no link for
 the Hex from lspci -v (all zeros) and so when I put
 my old ivtv and
 XF86Config-4 from the backups (gdm.conf was the
 same) and rebooted,
 it actually came up and is running. So I was close,
 but there was no
 place along the way that had the complete solution.
 I will try to
 document the various file changes but pvr.pl did
 something I hadn't
 so I'll have to look at it and see what I missed.

 As I said, I appreciate the work people have done to
 get the system
 up, but we need to indicate which version things are
 done with so we
 can figure out which set to work from



I hate to point this out but the guide this thread is
referring to is titled "Fedora Myth(TV)ology::HOWTO".
It appears that you are using Knoppmyth.  Now I have
used Jarod's guide several times, most recently with
FedoraCore 3 but I found it useful even when
installing myth on slackware.  Some things didn't
apply to slackware but I didn't feel the need to
criticize Jarod simply because I chose a different
distro than he.


and keep in mind that I'm not the original poster, just someone else
that's had trouble using all the guides that have been pointed out in
all the various archived threads. This is a volatile section since
PVR-350 video out is really new

Jim (aka !Nick)

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Re: [mythtv-users] Font problems in all themes (inc. Myxer) except GANT

2005-06-21 Thread Jack Perveiler

I also had this problem.  Oddly, I encountered it about the same time as you. 
Small world :).  

As an alternative to Daniel's fix you can pass the option "-dpi 100" to X when
starting the server (where you start X might be different based on distribution
and display manager... on my debian system with gdm it was in
/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf).  Both methods work, but my way you avoid doing the
trivial math you'd need to do to compute the DisplaySize options :)

--Jack

--- Daniel Segel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Check your Xorg.log file to see what DPI your display is running at 
> (grep DPI /var/log/Xorg.0.log); the fonts are scaled for an assumed 
> 100dpi display. You can change this with the DisplaySize parameter in 
> the Monitor section of your xorg.conf (or equivalent.)
> 
> For a 720x480 display you need 'DisplaySize 182 121' or thereabouts.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> Neil Bird wrote:
> 
> >
> >   Running FC3/0.18, with urw-fonts downgraded to FC2 version to fix
> > underhang/size issues.
> >
> >
> >   So I've been running with GANT pretty much since install, but in the
> > spirit of variety I thought I'd try a few others.  However, none of the
> > themes I've tried seem to honour the font-size settings.
> >
> >   I've a 32" wide-screen TV, and I like the program guide font to be
> > pretty small so's I can get a decent amount of text in each box, but all
> > but GANT seem to have he same too-large font.  Fiddling with the
> > font-sizes doesn't actually appear to affect /anything/.
> >
> >   In fact, IIRC, I only got the small text in GANT when I ticked some
> > box that said something like 'use small text'.
> >
> >
> >   Am I missing something, or is my setup borked?
> >
> >
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[mythtv-users] RE: Font problems in all themes (inc. Myxer) except GANT

2005-06-21 Thread Paul

>Running FC3/0.18, with urw-fonts downgraded to FC2 version to fix 
>underhang/size issues. 


>So I've been running with GANT pretty much since install, but in the 
>spirit of variety I thought I'd try a few others. However, none of the 
>themes I've tried seem to honour the font-size settings. 

>I've a 32" wide-screen TV, and I like the program guide font to be 
>pretty small so's I can get a decent amount of text in each box, but all 
>but GANT seem to have he same too-large font. Fiddling with the 
>font-sizes doesn't actually appear to affect /anything/. 

>In fact, IIRC, I only got the small text in GANT when I ticked some 
>box that said something like 'use small text'. 


>Am I missing something, or is my setup borked? 

>-- 
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rm -f .signature 
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l .signature 
>ls: .signature: No such file or directory 
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# exit

Have you tried changing your dpi in X? 

Not sure but I'm guessing you are running X with a dpi that
is not close to 100x100 dpi for your display. All MythTV
screens are designed to look good at 100x100 dpi on a TV 
viewing from a normal viewing distance I forget what exactly. At 
least the 4:3 screens are not sure about the 16:9 ones.

You can find out what your dpi is by running:
> xdpyinfo | grep "dots per inch" 

One way to correct it is to add/edit the "DisplaySize" line in the Monitor
section of the xorg.conf file. Mine looks like this:

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier "TV" 
   DisplaySize 203 152 # mm 
   .
   .
   .
EndSection

I use a resolution of 800x600 and get good sized fonts on a 32" TV
with that DisplaySize.

Paul
 

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Are there any standardized .mythtv/lircrc files for StreamZap PC_Remote?

2005-06-21 Thread Mark Knecht

On 6/21/05, Phill Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I got this at least partially working by building my own. Not sure
> > if there's a repository for these things since no one has responded
> > yet but it seems like a good idea to me. Why should folks have to
> > build these if someone else has already done it? Anyway, if anyone
> > needs a copy contact me off list.
> 
> There is a repository for these things. See this extract from
> http://www.lirc.org/html/help.html#new_remote
> 
> 
> As creating new config files is difficult sometimes and irrecord often
> cannot detect all features of the remote control please send new
> config files to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Other people will appreciate this
> very much. Sometimes they cannot create such a config file themselves
> because their original remote control is broken or has been lost. Some
> devices that are capable of IR come without a remote control. Some
> people also only want to build a transmitter and if you make a config
> file available for them they won't need to build a receiver, too.
> Please add all information you can get concerning the remote control
> as a comment to the config file.
> 
> 
> So you should email it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for others to use.
> 
> Regards,
> Phill
> 
Hi Phill,
   I don't think this is a repository for lircrc files. He seems to be
talking abuot the config file, not the lircrc file which maps remote
control button codes to specific actions within MythTV. Clearly what I
was looking for (and it's handled now since I did one on my own) is
the .mythtv/lircrc file so taht MythTV knows what to do with events
coming in from the remote. That's pretty clearly, in my mind anyway, a
MythTV issue and not an lirc issue.

   Anyway, I see no set of files there for a MythTV user to use.

   I suspect that the outcome of his work is this directory

http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/

which has the config file for the StreamZap

http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/streamzap/PC_Remote

but not the lircrc file which would tell MythTV what to do with each
button push. I was thinking that MythTV should offer these files to
make it easier for people with new remotes to make things work nicely.

Cheers,
Mark
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[mythtv-users] MythTV settings for the .lircrc


I just got my system up with video out to my tv (PVR-350) and I have
the "silver" remote and verified it with irw but using the default
..lircrc file I'm only getting a few buttons working. it looks like
there are some "config = " that aren't being read properly and some
keyboard commands that aren't working also. How do I figure out what
my version of MythTV  (18.1) expects for commands and why the
keyboard versions don't seem to be working either? For example, I can
start watching tv and change channels and escape back to the menu but
I can't move around the main menu to select something besides watch
tv. The arrow keys on the keyboard work fine for this... I didn't see
a HowTo listed that covers this beyond "copy this file from the
source tarball" which I have done. Where should I be looking?

Jim

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Re: [mythtv-users] (ATTN: John Pullan) HD-3000 HD Digital TV over Cable Working - But I had to hack to do it...

2005-06-21 Thread Michael Haan

On 6/20/05, Christiaan Lutzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I just joined the list, so please forgive me if I'm posting this on an
> incorrect list.
> 
> I've been using MythTV for a while now, and have for the last month or
> so been trying to get a new system built using only an HD-3000
> (www.pchdtv.com).  No matter what configuration I tried, the Channel
> Editor's scanning facility simply would fail with tuning errors.  I
> took a step back from MythTV and learned how the DVB drivers work and
> even created a program (based on dtvstream) called dvbrecord that
> tunes to a specified frequency, parses the Multi-Program Transport
> Stream (MPTS), uses a specified program number to filter out a single
> program and stores the resultant Single Program Transport Stream
> (SPTS) to disk.
> 
> Dvbrecord works great.  I added a scanning feature that has it go
> through all of the US Cable frequencies and a reasonable set of
> program numbers, and captures SPTSs to disk for review.  This allowed
> me to start associating frequency/program numbers with Digital TV
> channels.  NOTE: I thought it was very cool that I could capture and
> view both SD and HD streams with dvbrecord/mplayer.
> 
> FYI: I live in Cambridge, MA near MIT, and have Comcast Digital Cable.
>  I have not yet completed my catalogue of Digital TV programs, but
> here is what I've learned so far:
> 
> http://mandalore.dyndns.biz/~clutzer/dtv.txt
> 
> Anyway, onto why this message is appropriate for this email list: I
> had to alter my libmythtv library sources in order to get this to
> work.  The HD-3000 card is recognized as an ATSC card.  For the life
> of me I could not get scanning to work, so I had to figure out
> something else to do.  I noticed that if the card was a QAM (FE_QAM)
> card, that you could supply a "channels.conf" file in lieu of
> scanning.  However, with ATSC, the GUI components are not there to
> allow you to enter a channels.conf file if the card is ATSC.  So, I
> hacked the code to:
> 
> 1.) Allow one to specify a channels.conf file if your card is of type ATSC, 
> and
> 
> (scanwizardhelpers.cpp)
>case CardUtil::ATSC:
>addSelection(tr("Full Scan"),
> QString::number(FullScan_ATSC),true);
> +   addSelection(tr("Import channels.conf"),
> +QString::number(Import));
> 
> 2.) Modified the DVBConfParser to read in the program number from
> channels.conf if the card type is ATSC.
> 
> (dvbconfparser.cpp)
> bool DVBConfParser::parseConfATSC(QStringList& tokens)
> {
>cerr << "DVBConfParser::parseConfATSC(): parsing tokens..." << endl;
> 
>Channel c;
>QStringList::Iterator i = tokens.begin();
>QStringList::Iterator end = tokens.end();
>if (i != end) c.name = *i++; else return false;
>if (i != end) c.frequency = (*i++).toInt(); else return false;
>if (i == end || !c.modulation.parseConf(*i++)) return false;
> +   // We need the program number in the transport stream, otherwise we cannot
> +   // "tune" to the program.
> +   if (i != end) c.serviceid = (*i++).toInt(); else return false;
> 
>channels.append(c);
> 
>return true;
> }
> 
> And, the channels.conf file that I used simply looked like:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat channels.conf
> PBS HDTV:58500:QAM_256:1
> CBS HDTV:60300:QAM_256:2
> ABC HDTV:59700:QAM_256:1
> NBC HDTV:59700:QAM_256:2
> FOX HDTV:60300:QAM_256:1
> TNT HDTV:68100:QAM_256:1
> GBH Kids DTV:59100:QAM_256:2
> 
> Now, to me, if you want to use MythTV to record and view HD and SD
> Digital TV, it would be very difficult programmatically to determine
> what frequency and program number corresponded to what XMLTV ID.  So,
> to me anyway, channels.conf seems like the way to go.
> 
> Does this hack make sense?  Is there a better way to do it?  Am I nuts?
> 
> Side question: You may have noticed that I added a non-HD stream, "GBH
> Kids DTV".  This captures and plays fine using VLC, but locks up
> mythfrontend.  Any idea why HD would work, but SD would lock up the
> frontend?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Christiaan.
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I don't have any answers to your questions, but maybe you could post
your dvbrecord so other folks could use it to scan their cable as
well.
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Re: [mythtv-users] automount dvd drive

2005-06-21 Thread Juan Jesús García de Soria Lucena

Hi...

I'm currently using gnome-volume-manager in my .xsession in order to
automount the discs I may insert into the optical drive. I use it too
for the 6-in-1 card reader so that the memory cards for mythgallery
get automatically mounted.

In order to eject the CD/DVD, I mapped a remote key through metacity
that invokes eject (that's because the remote I'm using behaves like
an USB keyboard; the configuration for lirc will be different).

Under gnome-volume-manager, the memory cards get unmounted simply by
removing them from the reader (after a reasonable setting time for
filesystems to flush).


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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on xbox

2005-06-21 Thread greg

> Ok this is sounding good. So that sounds like that you don't need to
> use a new BIOS. and the wife can use it simply. Cool.

The one caveat is that the bios that I have on my modchip is quasi-legal
(ie, it's a hacked bios) and when you buy a modchip it will likely come
with cromwell installed by default.  I don't know any of the details on
flashing the bios etc, because I just paid a guy to install the chip, and
he did all that stuff for me (which is apparently legally dubious.)  The
Evox dashboard needed to be installed as well, but I didn't do it.

> How did you get it to boot to Xebian. did you have to configure the
> chip to boot to the right files? Did the install of Xebian do this for
> you or did you have to edit the mod chip to allow the booting of linux
> for this menu.

Once I had a modded xbox, I just popped in the disc and powered up (with
the modchip enabled) and followed the install directions from the readme
in http://bit.blkbk.com/mythtv-xbox.0.4.5-beta.tar.gz

> Really i don't know of the use for the xecuter3 then. it sounds as if
> you can boot linux/mythtv from the dashboard of evox. If that is the
> case and it can be done by a simpleton like me, i am going out to by
> one.

If you buy a chip, you'll likely have to install a hacked bios and the
evox dashboard yourself, so it's not quite as simple as it sounds.

> well i was wondering that, if they use a worm to do the checking, then
> i would be a simple task to just look for an f: drive. if there is one
> it has a mod. -banned-

or even "is there anything on the C: drive that doesn't belong?" since
that's where the alternate dashboards live.

> I suppose that you could all ways use XBCONNECT.com which is free
> (ATM)  and they don't care if it has been modded or not.

There's XBox Kai as well apparently.

> Now that is cruel. very cruel. you are a better man than i 
> Not starting to collect guns and plans for buildings are you??
> haha - just kidding - i couldn't put up with that. (can you tell i
> have no kids?)

The amazing thing about it is that you begin to recognize the signs of
"good" kids shows vs. "bad" kids shows.  You'd never get me to record
"Barney" on the Myth box, but Blue's Clues is actually pretty tolerable as
background noise when the two year old needs calming (it has a narcotic
effect on him :)

> Greg would you mind if i emailed you off list for some more details?

No problem.

> PS thanks for the info re the software mod. - i will have look at that too

Someone else must have given you those details - my software mod attempt
was a legendary failure. :)

Greg
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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV settings for the .lircrc

2005-06-21 Thread Howard Cokl



--- Jim Reith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I just got my system up with video out to my tv
> (PVR-350) and I have
> the "silver" remote and verified it with irw but
> using the default
> ..lircrc file I'm only getting a few buttons
> working. it looks like
> there are some "config = " that aren't being read
> properly and some
> keyboard commands that aren't working also. How do I
> figure out what
> my version of MythTV  (18.1) expects for commands
> and why the
> keyboard versions don't seem to be working either?
> For example, I can
> start watching tv and change channels and escape
> back to the menu but
> I can't move around the main menu to select
> something besides watch
> tv. The arrow keys on the keyboard work fine for
> this... I didn't see
> a HowTo listed that covers this beyond "copy this
> file from the
> source tarball" which I have done. Where should I be
> looking?
> 
> Jim
> 



Dunno but this might be useful.  I don't have an
Hauppauge remote.

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4609&start=0&;

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[mythtv-users] CVS build Tuesday - no mythtv-setup

A CVS build on Tuesday morning (21June) results in no mythtv-setup
being built or installed.  This link may be of interest:

  http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2005-June/037420.html

So, the system I'm currently updating to use the DVB drivers
for the HD-3000 card is just on-hold, until a CVS fix is applied.

Or, maybe there is a way to build and install just the single module,
mythtv-setup, but I have no clue how to do that.  There is probably
no other alternative to waiting for a CVS fix, but if you can think of
another way, I'd be interested.

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Re: [mythtv-users] CVS build Tuesday - no mythtv-setup


Mercury Morris wrote:


A CVS build on Tuesday morning (21June) results in no mythtv-setup
being built or installed.  This link may be of interest:

 http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2005-June/037420.html
 


As might this one:
http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-commits/2005-June/006260.html

Which shows the fix was committed 22 minutes after the message you 
referenced and an hour and 25 minutes before your message.  ;)


Guess you just happened to pick an unfortunate time to update your CVS.  
At least your update to pcHDTV 3000 need not wait any longer.


Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] automount dvd drive

2005-06-21 Thread Devan Lippman

On 6/21/05, Ciaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 21/06/05, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> >
> > I don't understand.. Is this supposed to work?> >> > -Mike>> nevermind... I get it now>> -MikeKind of related to this, I use automount on my debian box and run
DVD's through XINE but after playing them the eject button on thedrive no longer functions, I have to manually go to shell and performan 'eject' to get the disc out.  Is there a setting somewhere to stopdisabling the eject-button when mounted, or do I have to write a
script to run xine, then eject ?Thanks,--- CiaranI thought MythDVD took care of all this for you?-- Thanks,Devan Lippman <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
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[mythtv-users] DVB-T output on a PVR350 with 5.1 sound

2005-06-21 Thread Etienne SANDRE

The DVB-T provides high quality digital sound, and some programs are 
encoded in Dolby Digital 5.1 (AC3)

Does the PVR350 decode DD5.1 muxed in a mpeg stream? (I doubt)
Is there any mean of outputting audio from a sound card while outputting 
video via the pvr350, with no a/v sync issues? (This would be the best 
solution)


Etienne
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Re: [mythtv-users] CVS build Tuesday - no mythtv-setup

On 6/21/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mercury Morris wrote:
> 
> >A CVS build on Tuesday morning (21June) results in no mythtv-setup
> >being built or installed.  This link may be of interest:
> >
> >  http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2005-June/037420.html
> >
> >
> As might this one:
> http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-commits/2005-June/006260.html
> 
> Which shows the fix was committed 22 minutes after the message you
> referenced and an hour and 25 minutes before your message.  ;)
> 
> Guess you just happened to pick an unfortunate time to update your CVS.
> At least your update to pcHDTV 3000 need not wait any longer.

Hey Mike!  Thanks a bunch, I'll go back to "square-one" and checkout
the CVS version fresh - give it another try.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on xbox

2005-06-21 Thread Mark Knecht

On 6/20/05, Chris Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There are a couple of install options - one of which is to create the root
> > filesystem as a loopback file on the xbox filesystem - no need to run
> > fdisk.  The entire system is contained in a half dozen files on the E:
> > drive.
> 
> That sound interesting.
> 
> > When I boot with the modchip, the evox dashboard comes up, and I added the
> > option to "boot Xebian" to a menu.  When I choose that option, Xebian
> > starts up (most of the time - it's probably closer to 3:1 now)  Supposedly
> > this is an issue with Xebian 1.12 on v1.6 xboxes.  I haven't tried 1.13
> > yet to see if it fixes the problem.
> >
> 
> Ok this is sounding good. So that sounds like that you don't need to
> use a new BIOS. and the wife can use it simply. Cool.

No, actually you do need a new BIOS to run anything other than XBox.
The way the modchip in my XBox works is like Greg said earlier:

1) Power up using the top button and the machine boots with the M$
BIOS. It plays XBox in that mode. The M$ BIOS is still in the machine
and the modchip is not being used.

2) Power up using the bottom button and the machine boots with the
modchip BIOS. (In my case EvoX but there are others. More in a
second...) In this mode the M$ BIOS is not being used and you cannot
play XBox. The machine boots to some 'environment' - in my case
SlaYer'S. From there I use the file manager tools to get Xebian going
and MythTV running.

This all works fine. It takes some training to teach non-computer
folks to be able to boot this mess by themselves but eventually things
get worked out and it does work.

> How did you get it to boot to Xebian. did you have to configure the
> chip to boot to the right files? 

I boot to SlaYer'S, then Avalaunch, and use the file manager to select
the default.xbe file in the Debian directory. After that it looks like
a normal Linux boot.

> Did the install of Xebian do this for
> you or did you have to edit the mod chip to allow the booting of linux
> for this menu.

Neither. Xebian cannot work until the modchip is in, so you need to go
get that done first. After the modchip is in you'll then need to set
up your hard drive in the box to allow you to put Xebian on it. This
is what SlaYer'S is most useful for. It can restore all the XBox
stuff, other than your XBox Live codes I think, if you make a mistake.
(And I made enough mistakes to write a book about when I did this 6
weeks ago!) You may want to consider asking you modchip installer to
put a larger hard drive in for you if you intend to both watch MythTV
and play XBox. With a larger drive you can store copies of your game
CDs and not need the actual CD to play. (Or so I've been told...) ;-)

> 
> Really i don't know of the use for the xecuter3 then. it sounds as if
> you can boot linux/mythtv from the dashboard of evox. If that is the
> case and it can be done by a simpleton like me, i am going out to by
> one.

Not sure about this. I've not used it. the cheapest BIOS (EvoX) seems
ot be good enough that my 76 year old father can get it to boot when
he needs to. (I gave the XBox to him since I didn't want to run a
hacked BIOS.
> 
> I have only had the briefest look at the xbox. but the start up time
> on the thing is really quick. too quick for a computer. I don't know
> how it works. might be worth  reading up on that.

No, it is a computer and it is booting, but they aren't checking
hardware like a PC does so it goes fast.

Now, about BIOS's. There are really 3 BIOS classes for you to know about:

M$ BIOS - it comes in the machine and it only runs XBox.

Cromwell BIOS - completely open source but will NOT work with the
newer XBoxs that are available in the retail chain. I went to Best
Buy, bought an XBox, and promptly found out that Cromwell does not
work and probably never will work with the newer XBoxs. If you want
Cromwell make sure you get a Rev. 1.4 or earlier. (And possibly 1.5
migh work too. I've forgottend.)

Hacked BIOS's - These BIOS's are ALL derivitives of M$'s BIOS and have
been hacked up by developer types to allow them to use their XBoxs as
they wish. It is my understanding that it is legal for them to do this
for personal use by *may* be illegal for them to distribute it to you
and I. I don't know for sure so I decided I didn't want to mess with
it and gave up on doing any more XBox MythTV setups unless I run into
some clean, oder XBoxs somewhere.

You MUST use either Cromwell (open source) or Hack (reverse engineered
and modified) to make any form of MythTV run on an XBox today.

Hope this helps,
Mark
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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV settings for the .lircrc

2005-06-21 Thread Duncan Brown


Jim Reith wrote:


I just got my system up with video out to my tv (PVR-350) and I have
the "silver" remote and verified it with irw but using the default
...lircrc file I'm only getting a few buttons working. it looks like
there are some "config = " that aren't being read properly and some
keyboard commands that aren't working also. How do I figure out what
my version of MythTV  (18.1) expects for commands and why the
keyboard versions don't seem to be working either? For example, I can
start watching tv and change channels and escape back to the menu but
I can't move around the main menu to select something besides watch
tv. The arrow keys on the keyboard work fine for this... I didn't see
a HowTo listed that covers this beyond "copy this file from the
source tarball" which I have done. Where should I be looking?

Jim


Hey

This is the same remote I am using, and I got the info from jarod's 
howto. It links to a ready made lircrc


http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php?SID&expandables=closed&ivtv=open&pvr350out=open#lirc

Its not perfect, but it will get you started

Dunc
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Re: [mythtv-users] Slight OT: CNET Acquires TVTome

2005-06-21 Thread Jeff Simpson

On 5/6/05, Phil K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Man...I use it and seems to be working.  Guess it will die soon.  But great
> job...if you have something working I would love to see it.  I have the
> mythtools however don't have that nextairdate script.
> 
> Thnx,
> 
> -Pk
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryszard
> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 9:36 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Slight OT: CNET Acquires TVTome
> 
> well that sucks, right after i finished my parser.. :-)
> 

Looks like TVTome is gone, now - tvtome.com resolves to tv.com. Seems
to be the same content, though.

 - Jeff
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Re: [mythtv-users] automount dvd drive

2005-06-21 Thread Calvin Harrigan


Juan Jesús García de Soria Lucena wrote:


Hi...

I'm currently using gnome-volume-manager in my .xsession in order to
automount the discs I may insert into the optical drive. I use it too
for the 6-in-1 card reader so that the memory cards for mythgallery
get automatically mounted.

In order to eject the CD/DVD, I mapped a remote key through metacity
that invokes eject (that's because the remote I'm using behaves like
an USB keyboard; the configuration for lirc will be different).

Under gnome-volume-manager, the memory cards get unmounted simply by
removing them from the reader (after a reasonable setting time for
filesystems to flush).


 


What kind of remote is it?  The Keyboard emulation sounds like a good idea.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Uninstall MySQL

2005-06-21 Thread Paul Barker


Phill Edwards wrote:


I wish to Uninstall MySQL from Fedora Core 3. This is because I beleive
that it isn't installed properly. How do I go about doing this? Thanks,
Ian.
 


I don't use Fedora, but "rpm -qa" gives you all installed packages.  Filter
for mysql:
rpm -qa | grep mysql
and remove them with "rpm -e ".
   



Or you can do apt-get remove . This will also suggest
other packages to remove which are dependencies so you won't have to
keep trawling through them to find out what needs to be removed to get
rid of mysql.

To simulate it first to see what carnage it may wreak you would do
apt-get -s remove . On my FC3 system this would result
in all these packages being removed:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
 libmyth mysql mysql-server mythbrowser mythdvd mythgallery mythgame
 mythmkmovie mythmusic mythnews mythphone mythplugins mythstream 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 mythvideo mythweather mythweb
 nuvexport perl-DBD-MySQL php-mysql qt-MySQL

Scary!

Regards,
Phill
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You could also try

  apt-get --reinstall install mysql

If you're using apt of course.

Cheers
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RE: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on xbox

2005-06-21 Thread Shaun Bryant

This seems to keep coming up, you do not need a mod chip to load Linux and then 
myth on a Xbox. All now 4 of them I have running as frontends are all soft 
hacked. They all still can play Xbox games as long as Xbox live is not needed. 

See below. 

http://www.xbox-linux.org/

Shaun

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mark Knecht
Sent: Tue 6/21/2005 11:14 AM
To: Chris Henderson; Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on xbox

On 6/20/05, Chris Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There are a couple of install options - one of which is to create the root
> > filesystem as a loopback file on the xbox filesystem - no need to run
> > fdisk.  The entire system is contained in a half dozen files on the E:
> > drive.
>
> That sound interesting.
>
> > When I boot with the modchip, the evox dashboard comes up, and I added the
> > option to "boot Xebian" to a menu.  When I choose that option, Xebian
> > starts up (most of the time - it's probably closer to 3:1 now)  Supposedly
> > this is an issue with Xebian 1.12 on v1.6 xboxes.  I haven't tried 1.13
> > yet to see if it fixes the problem.
> >
>
> Ok this is sounding good. So that sounds like that you don't need to
> use a new BIOS. and the wife can use it simply. Cool.

No, actually you do need a new BIOS to run anything other than XBox.
The way the modchip in my XBox works is like Greg said earlier:

1) Power up using the top button and the machine boots with the M$
BIOS. It plays XBox in that mode. The M$ BIOS is still in the machine
and the modchip is not being used.

2) Power up using the bottom button and the machine boots with the
modchip BIOS. (In my case EvoX but there are others. More in a
second...) In this mode the M$ BIOS is not being used and you cannot
play XBox. The machine boots to some 'environment' - in my case
SlaYer'S. From there I use the file manager tools to get Xebian going
and MythTV running.

This all works fine. It takes some training to teach non-computer
folks to be able to boot this mess by themselves but eventually things
get worked out and it does work.

> How did you get it to boot to Xebian. did you have to configure the
> chip to boot to the right files?

I boot to SlaYer'S, then Avalaunch, and use the file manager to select
the default.xbe file in the Debian directory. After that it looks like
a normal Linux boot.

> Did the install of Xebian do this for
> you or did you have to edit the mod chip to allow the booting of linux
> for this menu.

Neither. Xebian cannot work until the modchip is in, so you need to go
get that done first. After the modchip is in you'll then need to set
up your hard drive in the box to allow you to put Xebian on it. This
is what SlaYer'S is most useful for. It can restore all the XBox
stuff, other than your XBox Live codes I think, if you make a mistake.
(And I made enough mistakes to write a book about when I did this 6
weeks ago!) You may want to consider asking you modchip installer to
put a larger hard drive in for you if you intend to both watch MythTV
and play XBox. With a larger drive you can store copies of your game
CDs and not need the actual CD to play. (Or so I've been told...) ;-)

>
> Really i don't know of the use for the xecuter3 then. it sounds as if
> you can boot linux/mythtv from the dashboard of evox. If that is the
> case and it can be done by a simpleton like me, i am going out to by
> one.

Not sure about this. I've not used it. the cheapest BIOS (EvoX) seems
ot be good enough that my 76 year old father can get it to boot when
he needs to. (I gave the XBox to him since I didn't want to run a
hacked BIOS.
>
> I have only had the briefest look at the xbox. but the start up time
> on the thing is really quick. too quick for a computer. I don't know
> how it works. might be worth  reading up on that.

No, it is a computer and it is booting, but they aren't checking
hardware like a PC does so it goes fast.

Now, about BIOS's. There are really 3 BIOS classes for you to know about:

M$ BIOS - it comes in the machine and it only runs XBox.

Cromwell BIOS - completely open source but will NOT work with the
newer XBoxs that are available in the retail chain. I went to Best
Buy, bought an XBox, and promptly found out that Cromwell does not
work and probably never will work with the newer XBoxs. If you want
Cromwell make sure you get a Rev. 1.4 or earlier. (And possibly 1.5
migh work too. I've forgottend.)

Hacked BIOS's - These BIOS's are ALL derivitives of M$'s BIOS and have
been hacked up by developer types to allow them to use their XBoxs as
they wish. It is my understanding that it is legal for them to do this
for personal use by *may* be illegal for them to distribute it to you
and I. I don't know for sure so I decided I didn't want to mess with
it and gave up on doing any more XBox MythTV setups unless I run into
some clean, oder XBoxs somewhere.

You MUST use either Cromwell (open source) or Hack (reverse engin

Re: [mythtv-users] Perplexed on plextors (ConvertX)

2005-06-21 Thread EC

Just a quick followup:

   I never could get a set of kernel options under which the cold-plug
scripts would detect a "cold" plextor (either coldplug only detects an
already initalized plextor, or I still have configuration issues).  If
the firmware has been loaded to it, then coldplug detects the unit on
subsequent computer reboots.  Assuming that the plextor is detected,
MythTV functions with it, but it is much touchier about the device than
the plextor test app, gorecord.  There seem to be many "almost right"
kernel configurations under which gorecord works fine, but MythTV does
not.
   The option set that seems to mostly work for me (still have the
"completely cold" cold plug problem) is:

CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_KMOD=y
CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y
CONFIG_I2C=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV=m
CONFIG_SOUND=y
CONFIG_SND=y
CONFIG_USB=m
CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=m
CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=y

   Anyway, I'm up and mostly happy again.  Oh, the kernel version I'm
using is 2.6.11 (gentoo-r11).
   Now, I guess I just have to figure out the manual firmware loading
for when I cycle the power on the plextor (or figure out why coldplug
cannot detect the uninitialized device.  (hotplug can)...
--
   EC

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 10:28 -0700, EC wrote:
> Hmmm,
>I had been using my PX-TV402U for about 3 weeks with no problems, and
> then started having very similar problems after a recent reboot.  I
> don't know what I changed.  (I have currently reverted to a PVR250,
> which works fine - though it's MPEG2).
> 
>The gentoo-wiki (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_go7007) for the
> plextor units contains some helpful information, for non-gentoo systems
> too, I suspect.
> 
>I really have no insight here, though, if we are having the same
> problem, some additional details.  My symptoms are:
> gorecord runs fine.  hotplug works (and initializes the device),
> coldplug does NOT work (though it used to.  I can configure the unit
> (mythtv-setup/mythfrontend rcording profiles) with no problem.  When I
> try using it, though, Live TV runs for a few seconds and dies
> (sometimes/often, the picture is black and white).  I'll put the message
> below.  MythTV stops responding to ALL input (keyboard, remote) while in
> Live TV mode.  The channel changer script (I use an external tuner)
> never gets called (I have it log channel changes) - I believe that is
> why you get the wrong channel.  Scheduled recording DO work (in color,
> even) - though with the above mentioned problem that the channel changer
> never gets called.
> 
>I got sick of playing with it over the weekend, and threw a loaner
> PVR250 into the box, and set it up.  It came up absolutely no problem
> (start to finish in about 10 minutes), and none of the afore mentioned
> problems exhibit.  I connect the plextor again, and they are all back -
> though only if I configure the plextor for use.  Having it present, with
> drivers installed is not problem, as long as MythTV isn't trying to use
> it.  Dmesg/kernel logs look OK to me.  I suspect something with the
> way/order that the plextor gets initialized, but haven't been able to
> track it down yet.  It used to work.  I did follow the advice on the
> go7007 gentoo-wiki.  It worked for me originally (I did amend it).
> 
>I suspect the timeout/running for only a few seconds is a result of
> MythTV not responding to anything while in Live TV.
> 
>I'll be looking at it some more this evening.  Any insight would be
> appreciated, and I'll post any results I get.  I am running
> Gentoo/kernel 2.6.11-r8.  I tried 2.6.11-r11, but it didn't help.
> 
> My applicable kernel configuration entries (according to the plextor
> driver documentation) are:
> CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y
> CONFIG_MODULES=y
> CONFIG_KMOD=y
> CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y
> CONFIG_I2C=m
> CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV=y
> CONFIG_SOUND=y
> CONFIG_SND=y
> CONFIG_USB=m
> CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y
> CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=m
> CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=y
> CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=y
> 
>I read those from /proc/config.gz for the running kernel.
> 
>The MythTV error message I get is:
> 
> 2005-06-19 22:05:26.209 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.0.15:6543
> (try 1 o
> f 5)
> 2005-06-19 22:05:26.216 Using protocol version 15
> 2005-06-19 22:05:26.258 Using protocol version 15
> 2005-06-19 22:05:27.341 Opening audio device '/dev/sound/dsp'.
> 2005-06-19 22:05:27.341 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/sound/dsp'.
> 2005-06-19 22:05:27.352 Using XV port 145
> 2005-06-19 22:05:27.549 Realtime priority would require SUID as root.
> 2005-06-19 22:05:27.577 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> 2005-06-19 22:05:27.743 Video timing method: SGI OpenGL
> 2005-06-19 22:05:47.580 ReadStringList timeout (quick).
> Remote encoder not responding.
> 2005-06-19 22:05:47.581 WriteStringList: Bad socket
> 2005-06-19 22:05:47.581 ReadStringList: Bad socket
> Remote encoder not responding.
> 2005-06-19 22:05:47.708 WriteStringList: Bad socket
> 2005-06-19 22:05:47.708 ReadString

Re: [mythtv-users] automount dvd drive

2005-06-21 Thread Ciaran

On 21/06/05, Devan Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 6/21/05, Ciaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> > On 21/06/05, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I don't understand.. Is this supposed to work?
> > > >
> > > > -Mike
> > >
> > > nevermind... I get it now
> > >
> > > -Mike
> > 
> > Kind of related to this, I use automount on my debian box and run 
> > DVD's through XINE but after playing them the eject button on the
> > drive no longer functions, I have to manually go to shell and perform
> > an 'eject' to get the disc out.  Is there a setting somewhere to stop
> > disabling the eject-button when mounted, or do I have to write a 
> > script to run xine, then eject ?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > --
> > - Ciaran
> > 
> > 
> 
> I thought MythDVD took care of all this for you?
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Devan Lippman < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
Perhaps it does, and I've just configured it wrong/badly.  But I can't
seem to see where I would configure it to do that... but then again
I've not checked for ages :) [This has been bugging me for a long
time, I've just not properly looked into solving it! ]

-- 
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(I now have far too many G-Mail invites available, anyone who wants
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[mythtv-users] [OT] Tuning channels with PVR-350

2005-06-21 Thread Oscar Curero

[ Sorry for the almost OT ]

I'm using SuSE9.3 with the pvr-350. I installed the drivers once I got the
original firmware from the windows-cd, everything went smooth. Now, all I can
see is noise and "snow", I can't tune correctly any channel. I though that
mythtv could help my with a special-and-magic feature to auto tune the
channels, but no luck. I tried the howto's posted before but none of them says
nothing about this step (or I didn't see it ;) ).

How do you know what frequency had each channel?
Hint! ivtv -I output:
check SAA7115 input signal
ioctl: VIDEO_STATUS = Bad < UH? --<

SAA7115 reg[STATUS#1 - 0x1E] = a4
 Color Standard (D0-D1): BW/No color
 White peak loop (D2): Activated
 Gain value for act.lum. (min) (D3): Not limited
 Gain value for act.lum. (max) (D4): Not limited
 WIPA-mode slow-time constant (D5): Activated
 Horizontal frequency (D6): Locked
 Field length (D7): Standard

SAA7115 reg[STATUS#2 - 0x1F] = 00
 Ready for capture (D0): No
 Macrovision 7.01 (D1): No
 MV Colorstripe burst (D2): No
 MV Colorstripe burst type 3 (D3): No
 Input signal timebase (D4): Non-stable (VCR)
 Field frequency (D5): 50Hz
 H & V loops (D6): Locked
 Interlace (D7): Not detected


(ps, I use pal-europe-west)


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Re: [mythtv-users] CVS build Tuesday - no mythtv-setup

On 6/21/05, Mercury Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 6/21/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Mercury Morris wrote:
> >
> > >A CVS build on Tuesday morning (21June) results in no mythtv-setup
> > >being built or installed.  This link may be of interest:
> > >
> > >  http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2005-June/037420.html
> > >
> > >
> > As might this one:
> > http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-commits/2005-June/006260.html
> >
> > Which shows the fix was committed 22 minutes after the message you
> > referenced and an hour and 25 minutes before your message.  ;)
> >
> > Guess you just happened to pick an unfortunate time to update your CVS.
> > At least your update to pcHDTV 3000 need not wait any longer.
> 
> Hey Mike!  Thanks a bunch, I'll go back to "square-one" and checkout
> the CVS version fresh - give it another try.

Well, different error this time.  After a fresh checkout of mythtv from CVS,
the make and make install steps completed without error.  mythtv-setup
was built and installed.

When I tried to use mythtv-setup, it failed to start with the following error:

mythtv-setup: error while loading shared libraries:
libmythtv-0.18.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory

But there is such a file, located in the directory: /usr/local/lib, so
this is quite
a mystery to me.

I guess that the combination of Tuesday + CVS + ??? is not a winner.
Lots of other stuff to install: ivtv, mythweb, phpMyAdmin, and so on.

Maybe Wednesday is the lucky day for MythTV CVS builds, we'll see tomorrow.

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Re: [mythtv-users] CVS build Tuesday - no mythtv-setup

2005-06-21 Thread Paul Barker


Mercury Morris wrote:



When I tried to use mythtv-setup, it failed to start with the following error:

mythtv-setup: error while loading shared libraries:
libmythtv-0.18.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory

But there is such a file, located in the directory: /usr/local/lib, so
this is quite
a mystery to me.

I guess that the combination of Tuesday + CVS + ??? is not a winner.
Lots of other stuff to install: ivtv, mythweb, phpMyAdmin, and so on.

Maybe Wednesday is the lucky day for MythTV CVS builds, we'll see tomorrow.

 

Try running ldconfig as root and then try mythtv-setup again. If it 
still doesn't work and you get the same error make sure /usr/local/lib 
is listed in /etc/ld.so.conf. If not add it and re-run ldconfig.


Did you change your install path from /usr to /usr/local (or perhaps  
you forgot to change it this time since /usr/local is the default I think) ?


Hope this helps

Cheers
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Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Tuning channels with PVR-350

2005-06-21 Thread zoiks2004-ivtv

Just a WAG: make sure you are using the correct tuner
type.  Try a tuner modprobe command like "modprobe
tuner type=xx" and try different values (or change it
in the modules config files).  I think 39 and 47 are
common.  (Uh, also make sure your antenna is plugged
in to the correct input. ;)  There's more info about
this around, I'm sure there's stuff about this here:
http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php

--- Oscar Curero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> [ Sorry for the almost OT ]
> 
> I'm using SuSE9.3 with the pvr-350. I installed the
> drivers once I got the
> original firmware from the windows-cd, everything
> went smooth. Now, all I can
> see is noise and "snow", I can't tune correctly any
> channel. I though that
> mythtv could help my with a special-and-magic
> feature to auto tune the
> channels, but no luck. I tried the howto's posted
> before but none of them says
> nothing about this step (or I didn't see it ;) ).
> 
> How do you know what frequency had each channel?
> Hint! ivtv -I output:
> check SAA7115 input signal
> ioctl: VIDEO_STATUS = Bad < UH? --<
> 
> SAA7115 reg[STATUS#1 - 0x1E] = a4
>  Color Standard (D0-D1): BW/No color
>  White peak loop (D2): Activated
>  Gain value for act.lum. (min) (D3): Not limited
>  Gain value for act.lum. (max) (D4): Not limited
>  WIPA-mode slow-time constant (D5): Activated
>  Horizontal frequency (D6): Locked
>  Field length (D7): Standard
> 
> SAA7115 reg[STATUS#2 - 0x1F] = 00
>  Ready for capture (D0): No
>  Macrovision 7.01 (D1): No
>  MV Colorstripe burst (D2): No
>  MV Colorstripe burst type 3 (D3): No
>  Input signal timebase (D4): Non-stable (VCR)
>  Field frequency (D5): 50Hz
>  H & V loops (D6): Locked
>  Interlace (D7): Not detected
> 
> 
> (ps, I use pal-europe-west)
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] CVS build Tuesday - no mythtv-setup

On 6/21/05, Paul Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mercury Morris wrote:
> 
> >
> >When I tried to use mythtv-setup, it failed to start with the following 
> >error:
> >
> >mythtv-setup: error while loading shared libraries:
> >libmythtv-0.18.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> >directory
> >
> >But there is such a file, located in the directory: /usr/local/lib, so
> >this is quite
> >a mystery to me.
> >
> >I guess that the combination of Tuesday + CVS + ??? is not a winner.
> >Lots of other stuff to install: ivtv, mythweb, phpMyAdmin, and so on.
> >
> >Maybe Wednesday is the lucky day for MythTV CVS builds, we'll see tomorrow.
> >
> >
> >
> Try running ldconfig as root and then try mythtv-setup again. If it
> still doesn't work and you get the same error make sure /usr/local/lib
> is listed in /etc/ld.so.conf. If not add it and re-run ldconfig.
> 
> Did you change your install path from /usr to /usr/local (or perhaps
> you forgot to change it this time since /usr/local is the default I think) ?

Oh Yeah!  That made it all work - Thanks Paul.

I knew enough to run depmod after building kernel modules,
but not enough to build MytvTV from CVS.  But, now I do.

Thank you very much for your help.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on xbox

2005-06-21 Thread Mark Knecht

On 6/21/05, Shaun Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This seems to keep coming up, you do not need a mod chip to load Linux and 
> then myth on a Xbox. All now 4 of them I have running as frontends are all 
> soft hacked. They all still can play Xbox games as long as Xbox live is not 
> needed.
> 
> See below.
> 
> http://www.xbox-linux.org/
> 
> Shaun
> 

Yes, I suppose that's true although I've heard that even the soft
hacks won't work on all newer XBoxs such as the 1.6b. I do not know
that for a fact though.

Thanks for bringing that up as I completely overlooked it.

Cheers,
Mark
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: OT: Broadcast flag back-door legislation

2005-06-21 Thread Dewey Smolka

Hey everybody,

I fired off a fax and called Sen Byrd's (D-WV) office this morning. 

Does anyone know if the broadcast flag provision was actually introduced today?

>From what Sen Byrd's office told me, and what I've been hearing from
other places, there's been quite a response by people in opposition to
this.

Can anybody post an update?

PS Mad props to Wendy and everyone else at EFF. Thank you very much
for all your hard work.
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[mythtv-users] mythtv compatable keymaps for xine?

2005-06-21 Thread jason bright

Does anybody have a good xine keymaps file that is set up to use the
same navigation keys as myth? I've spent a few hours on this already
and i'm moving in the right direction, but something ready made would
be awesome. I'm sure many have already taken this path.

(Doing a google search on this and you find a bunch of comments from
people telling how much a pain it was, but never posting the
results.)

thx!  j
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Re: [mythtv-users] Reboot misplaces video0

2005-06-21 Thread Frostykev

Thanks to all.
 
I didn't know what "udev" was so I was searching for dev/video0 and reboot, with little success, hence the post.  
 
When I looked for udev and reboot I found a great write-up:

http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2004-December/066857.html
 
This fixed my problem, only change I made was:
# cd /etc/udev.d/devices/   - to this # cd /etc/udev/devices/
The link is quoted below in case that link doesn't work. . . 
Quoted here:
I believe the problem is a bit of a chicken and egg problem. The application (mythbackend wants /dev/video[0-9], lircd wants /dev/lirc[0-9]). Previously when an application would access those devices, the kernel would see (for example) /dev/lirc0 is mapped to major
61 minor 0, look in /etc/modprobe.conf for char-major-61 and load the appropriate module. But with udev the kernel doesn't know that those applications are probing for those devices as those devices do not exist until the module is loaded.
If you could get those devices to show up all the time, or manually load the modules before any applications start, that would solve the clean reboot problem.
Heh, now that I've thought about it, you can fix this by creating the appropriate devices in /etc/udev/devices:
# cd /etc/udev.d/devices/
# mknod lirc0 c 61 0
# mknod video0 c 81 0
You may have to create additional devices if you have more than one ivtv device or a PVR-350 depending on the order mythbackend probes things.
-Dave
 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here is a link that might help. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/114197?search_string=udev%20video0;#114197I had a similiar situation. My video0 would get loaded with the mythbackend,but the permissions were wrong. I found that I needed to create the /dev/video0file manually, and then set the permissions. Once I did that, all was good.--- Discussion about mythtv Frostykevwrote:> > >Originally capture video worked fine on my setup. > >Aftera reboot It comes up with:> >> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# cat /dev/video0> test.mpg> >cat: /dev/video0: No such file or directory> > > >>Sounds like a udev problem. Try searching the list ( > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/).>
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Re: [mythtv-users] Slight OT: CNET Acquires TVTome


Jeff Simpson wrote:


Looks like TVTome is gone, now - tvtome.com resolves to tv.com. Seems
to be the same content, though.
 


At least they've got an updated FF search plugin:

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=tv.com&submitform=Find+search+plugins

Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Tuning channels with PVR-350