Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au, Canberra and associated oddities.
Daniel Hall wrote: Hi Stephen, In Australia there is also a commercial EPG service available that has support for MythTV (with full HowTo documents as well) and Canberra is also available. I actually use this system with my MythTV setup at home. :) Full details can be found at http://www.icetv.com.au/ Regards, Daniel IceTV Support Team Yeah, *COUGH* $12 per month Is that correct! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Black screen when using pvr-350decoder/tv-outoption
Check the kernel messages file /var/log/messages for errors. It comes from the write call returning EINVAL. I'm assuming you checked the setup settings as well? John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Oscar Curero Sent: 06 July 2005 00:25 To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Black screen when using pvr-350decoder/tv- outoption El Martes, 5 de Julio de 2005 21:05, John Harvey escribió: Yes 2005-07-05 20:45:48.125 Realtime priority would require SUID as root. Writing to videodev: Invalid argument --- - PROBLEM Is your problem. This means it can't write to the decoder device you have specified in the 350 configuration. This is done in the setup section where you ticked the box to enable 350 output. Make sure that it says use /dev/video16 And that /dev/video16 exists and is a device not a file and is writeable by the user running mythfrontend. /dev/video16 perm: crwxrwxrwx 1 mythtv video 81, 16 Jul 1 22:23 /dev/video16 If I could know what's the invalid argument then I would fix it... John -- Oscar Curero - Linux user: 306877 --GPG keyID: 0xE0EA0B24-- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Cannot change channels with M179
Hello everyone. This must just be some silly operator error, because I see that people are happily using the m179. For some reason, when I use mplayer to watch video via the m179, I have a lot of static, but I can see that channel 60 (at least it's the comedy channel) is selected. Changing channels via ptune gives me success messages, but I see no changes in mplayer. I'm using gentoo and have emerged the latest ivtv driver. When that didn't work, I compiled version 0.3.6s from source. Both exhibit the same behaviour. I'm running an AMD64 system. Has anyone had this issue? I cannot find anything like this in the archives. My dmesg output for loading ivtv is shown below. Because of the warning about a possible corrupt EEPROM, I tried the recommended firmware version. This also had no affect. I'd greatly appreciate any help. ivtv: START INIT IVTV ivtv: version 0.3.6 (s) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.11-gentoo-r7 SMP gcc-3.4 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist. ivtv: Autodetected AVerMedia M179 card ivtv: Found an iTVC15 based chip ACPI: PCI interrupt :02:09.0[A] - GSI 19 (level, low) - IRQ 217 ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x00e1 vendor: 0x10de tveeprom: Encountered bad packet header [04]. Corrupt or not a Hauppauge eeprom. ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[50],ok] saa7115: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005) saa7115: detecting saa7115 client on address 0x42 saa7115: writing init values ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7115[50],ok] saa7115: status: (1E) 0x00, (1F) 0xa5 ivtv: Could not detect tuner standard, defaulting to NTSC. ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040024 ivtv: Encoder Firmware may be buggy, use version 0x02040011 ivtv: Decoder revision: 0x02020023 ivtv: Configuring AVerMedia M179 card with 4 streams ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder MPEG minor 0 ivtv: Create DMA encoder MPEG stream: 0 x 32768 buffers (0KB total) ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder YUV minor 32 ivtv: Create DMA encoder YUV stream: 0 x 10800 buffers (0KB total) ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder VBI minor 224 ivtv: Create DMA encoder VBI stream: 0 x 8736 buffers (0KB total) ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder PCM audio minor 24 ivtv: Create DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 0 x 4608 buffers (0KB total) saa7115: decoder set norm NTSC saa7115: set audio: 0x01 ivtv: i2c client id: 0x02 not found! saa7115: decoder set input (4) saa7115: now setting Composite input ivtv: Switching standard to NTSC. ivtv: i2c client id: 0x02 not found! saa7115: decoder set norm NTSC saa7115: set audio: 0x01 ivtv: Initialized AVerMedia M179, card #0 ivtv: END INIT IVTV ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] UK Freeview compatible tuner
Paul, What load do you get with myth idle with your card? Greg On 05/07/05, Stutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using a Visionplus DVB-T (Basically a Twinhan Mini-Ter), seems to work okay with the latest Gentoo Kernel (2.6.11-r11) Mandrake (Mandriva) kernel (2.6.11-6mdk). Got mine here: http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=103057 (I don't use the remote though, so can't vouch for that). Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Slow program change...
Is it possible to speed up changing between the programs I use mythtv with dvb-s and it takes up to 5-7 seconds to change the channel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Black screen when using pvr-350 decoder/tv-outoption
Hi Oscar, i am having the same problem, have u got any solutions ? can u watch livetv ? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slow program change...
Hi, Jochen Khner wrote: Is it possible to speed up changing between the programs I use mythtv with dvb-s and it takes up to 5-7 seconds to change the channel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Sure, you can speed it up (the following assumes you are using ivtv). My box now takes on average 2 -3 secs, apart from when I press "1" where myth waits to see if there is another keypressess before it makes the switch (i.e. channels 10 - 19): 1. RAM. Get as much as you can carry, it's cheap 2. Latest version of the IVTV driver 3. Startup of ivtv: with "/sbin/modprobe ivtv mpg_buffers=8" All in all this has done wonders for mwe. Hope this helps. Cheers, -Morten -- --- WEB-fx Morten Lerskau Rnseth http://www.webfx.no Odinsvei 15c mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1413 TrnsenTlf.: (47) 6680 9191 Norway Mob : (47) 9343 4357 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: AW: AW: [mythtv-users] Problems with EPG
Nick Rout ha scritto: Have you run mythfilldatabase? Have I to run mythfilldatabase for EPG Program Guide too? Goodbye, Mattia. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
AW: [mythtv-users] Slow program change...
I dont use a card with hardware mpeg decoder/encoder. I use a skystar2 Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Morten Rønseth Gesendet: Mittwoch, 6. Juli 2005 09:33 An: Discussion about mythtv Betreff: Re: [mythtv-users] Slow program change... Hi, Jochen Kühner wrote: Is it possible to speed up changing between the programs I use mythtv with dvb-s and it takes up to 5-7 seconds to change the channel ___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Sure, you can speed it up (the following assumes you are using ivtv). My box now takes on average 2 -3 secs, apart from when I press 1 where myth waits to see if there is another keypressess before it makes the switch (i.e. channels 10 - 19): 1. RAM. Get as much as you can carry, it's cheap 2. Latest version of the IVTV driver 3. Startup of ivtv: with /sbin/modprobe ivtv mpg_buffers=8 All in all this has done wonders for mwe. Hope this helps. Cheers, -Morten -- ---WEB-fxMorten Lerskau Rønseth http://www.webfx.noOdinsvei 15c mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]1413 Tårnåsen Tlf.: (47) 6680 9191Norway Mob : (47) 9343 4357 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: AW: AW: [mythtv-users] Problems with EPG
On 06/07/05, Mattia Martinello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Rout ha scritto: Have you run mythfilldatabase? Have I to run mythfilldatabase for EPG Program Guide too? no -- John ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Black screen when using pvr-350 decoder/tv-outoption
Exactly the same? Do you get the same error? If so look at my last email and answer my questions there. John --- Dhiraj Kamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Oscar, i am having the same problem, have u got any solutions ? can u watch livetv ? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Verdict on EPIA M 10000
I have an M9000 which I am in the process of perfecting. Comments interspersed below. On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 14:41 +1000, Peter Schachte wrote: Hi, I've seen much discussion of getting MythTV running on an Epia M 1 machine, so I know lots of myth users have one. What I haven't seen is how they feel about it. I'm choosing a hardware setup to run myth right now, and would appreciate comments on the Epia M. In particular: The machine, as I conceive it now, would be an Epia M 1 with 2 PCI DVI-T cards on an active PCI riser, You'll need to pick your case to fit two cards in. I have a sereniti 2000 which has a one pci riser (which houses a hauppauge pvr-150) 250 GB Seagate HDD, DVD burner, 512 MB RAM. I'll use the on-board S-video and S/P DIF outputs. Not sure about the case yet; I like the Silverstone LC-11M, with 2 line display and IR remote, but I'm not sure it'll fit. 1.How is the S-video out quality? I plan to plug into a decent standard def wide-screen TV (Loewe Xelos); how much quality will I lose relative to using the TV's component input? I use the s-xideo out, but convert it to composite (no s-video inputs on my crap tv's, can't use the composite out as it is set to spdif ). The tv output is ok at best, but I don't think I have everything set right yet. 2.How good is the S/P DIF sound when run into a reasonably good stereo system (Yamaha reciever, Klipsch speakers)? no problem at all, dvd's etc with ac3 sound sound excellent. I have THX certified Logitech 5500 speakers. 3. I understand the Epia is underpowered for transcoding and commercial flagging. I'd like to do both of these. How many minutes of TV could I transcode and commercial flag per hour? I don't mind letting the machine do this overnight, if I can handle 3 or 4 hours of recording per day. I recorded Live 8 and it was commercial flagged by default (since switched off). It finished 4 hours recording at 6.00 am and finished commercial tagging sometime between 10.00 and 11.30 am. I haven't transcoded it. Hope that helps. Is there any other reasonably low cost, low noise option that people would recommend in lieu of the Epia? I think from what i am reading something with a gruntier CPU and an nvidia card with hardware mpeg decoding. Thanks for any advice you can give. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] tv_grab_dvb script...
Has anyone a script that uses tv_grab_dvb to get epg data??? I ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: DVB-S: Hauppauge nexus-s versus Twinhan/Skystar cards
I can not recommend the skystar 2 (revision 2.6d). The first card I received was broken after 2 weeks usage. The second card then worked in my old Siemens-PC (togehter with a technotrend budget), then I moved to new HW (IBM x200), and the card works 3 or 4 days only, then the whole machine needs to reboot. Driver unload and load is impossible, because the card locks the driver (says, it is in use). I did this for a few weeks now - and I removed it from the machine now. The new (second) technotrend is ordered already. So, go for a Technotrend Budget DVB-S, it's about 60.- EUR. And it does the job perfectly. hth, Uwe -- 5 GB Mailbox, 50 FreeSMS http://www.gmx.net/de/go/promail +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
AW: [mythtv-users] Myth Music so slow...
Both are not used... Any more ideas??? -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Donavan Stanley Gesendet: Dienstag, 5. Juli 2005 21:28 An: Discussion about mythtv Betreff: Re: [mythtv-users] Myth Music so slow... On 7/5/05, Jochen Kühner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use MythMusic to listen to my large MP3 Collection, but it's verry slow. When I start it, it take up to 3 minutes until the music starts! Is there anything wrong??? Or reads mythmusic the whole music collection in until it starts??? Don't use show entire music tree and List as sorted ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Perplexing one - On screens with lots of black playback judder s
On 7/6/05, Barker Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a weird one, I admit it. I have no idea what it could be. Any suggestions much welcomed. Ok, When I am watching TV be it live or recorded and the scene changes to a mostly black scene, the video and audio judder. It is only a blackish scene which does this.. Normally during advert breaks; My system: Latest svn, (used to do it on 0.18 too) Latest nvidia drivers, complete removal and reinstall just to make sure (nforce 2, ie mx4) FC3 Sempron 2600 Nova-T uk dvb Spdif reroute of all sound to an optical decoder AC3 passthrough is not checked nor is sync with audio I'm glad it's not just me, yes I see this too. This is also with UK DVB (TS mode), in fact i've only seen it for one program (Nip Tuck) but it does for every episode at all 'fades to black' for advert breaks plus other dark scenes. One thing I haven't checked that may be of interest is whether mplayer displays this behaviour or not. Thomas, just out of interest, do you have 'use video as timebase' checked or not? This setting could be related and is probably worth testing. I can probably supply a short mpeg file that demonstrates this behaviour if required. Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Perplexing one - On screens with lots of bl ack playback judder s
I did have use video as timebase, and assumed that to be my problem , so I unchecked it. But I still get the problem. As far as I am aware though, I tried playing the same file on a remote frontend connected to the juddery machine (backend) and did not get the same problem.. I will have to verify that though. It really is a strange one.. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Williams Sent: 06 July 2005 10:26 To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Perplexing one - On screens with lots of black playback judder s On 7/6/05, Barker Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a weird one, I admit it. I have no idea what it could be. Any suggestions much welcomed. Ok, When I am watching TV be it live or recorded and the scene changes to a mostly black scene, the video and audio judder. It is only a blackish scene which does this.. Normally during advert breaks; My system: Latest svn, (used to do it on 0.18 too) Latest nvidia drivers, complete removal and reinstall just to make sure (nforce 2, ie mx4) FC3 Sempron 2600 Nova-T uk dvb Spdif reroute of all sound to an optical decoder AC3 passthrough is not checked nor is sync with audio I'm glad it's not just me, yes I see this too. This is also with UK DVB (TS mode), in fact i've only seen it for one program (Nip Tuck) but it does for every episode at all 'fades to black' for advert breaks plus other dark scenes. One thing I haven't checked that may be of interest is whether mplayer displays this behaviour or not. Thomas, just out of interest, do you have 'use video as timebase' checked or not? This setting could be related and is probably worth testing. I can probably supply a short mpeg file that demonstrates this behaviour if required. Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users The Information contained in this E-Mail and any subsequent correspondence is private and is intended solely for the intended recipient(s). For those other than the recipient any disclosure, copying, distribution, or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on such information is prohibited and may be unlawful. Emails and other electronic communication with QinetiQ may be monitored. Calls to QinetiQ may be recorded for quality control, regulatory and monitoring purposes. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Adding an S-video input to my AverTV 771
There is only one input showing up on the inputs list on my card, even though I know it has an S-video in. Would like to use this as a way to transfer old VHS to MPEG-4. I've heard somewhere I have to set up a dummy channel to be able to switch between DTV and S-video inside mythtv, but I've not found any more information on it. Tried adding a second card to the card-list (not a second physical card, that is) as V4L, but then everything hangs when I try to watch TV... Thanks! /Oskar ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Verdict on EPIA M 10000
On 06/07/2005, at 2:11 PM, Peter Schachte wrote: 1.How is the S-video out quality? I plan to plug into a decent standard def wide-screen TV (Loewe Xelos); how much quality will I lose relative to using the TV's component input? The quality is very good, crisp with good colour fidelity. The noscale video patch from Terry Barnaby (http:// www.kingcot.eclipse.co.uk/unichrome/fc3/) is probably a big factor in the crispness of the picture. 2.How good is the S/P DIF sound when run into a reasonably good stereo system (Yamaha reciever, Klipsch speakers)? I'm no audiophile, but both AC3 and DTS (for DVD's) works fine via the coax connection. I listen to a lot of music via the myth box and am very happy with the quality. 3. I understand the Epia is underpowered for transcoding and commercial flagging. I'd like to do both of these. How many minutes of TV could I transcode and commercial flag per hour? I don't mind letting the machine do this overnight, if I can handle 3 or 4 hours of recording per day. It is fairly low powered, but after some experimenting, I have been able to get mplayer to transcode at 5-6fps from DVB TS recordings to mpeg4 with most of the key quality settings turned on. mplayer + ffmpeg's mpeg4 is far faster for this than xvid, which I was unable to get more than 2 fps from. This is fast enough to transcode a couple of shows overnight and works fine for my archiving needs. Four hours of video would take about 20 hours though, which may or may not be adequate (the system works fine while running a transcode in the background at nice 19). Matthew. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Verdict on EPIA M 10000
On 06/07/2005, at 2:11 PM, Peter Schachte wrote: 1.How is the S-video out quality? I plan to plug into a decent standard def wide-screen TV (Loewe Xelos); how much quality will I lose relative to using the TV's component input? The quality is very good, crisp with good colour fidelity. The noscale video patch from Terry Barnaby (http:// www.kingcot.eclipse.co.uk/unichrome/fc3/) is probably a big factor in the crispness of the picture. 2.How good is the S/P DIF sound when run into a reasonably good stereo system (Yamaha reciever, Klipsch speakers)? I'm no audiophile, but both AC3 and DTS (for DVD's) works fine via the coax connection. I listen to a lot of music via the myth box and am very happy with the quality. 3. I understand the Epia is underpowered for transcoding and commercial flagging. I'd like to do both of these. How many minutes of TV could I transcode and commercial flag per hour? I don't mind letting the machine do this overnight, if I can handle 3 or 4 hours of recording per day. It is fairly low powered, but after some experimenting, I have been able to get mplayer to transcode at 5-6fps from DVB TS recordings to mpeg4 with most of the key quality settings turned on. mplayer + ffmpeg's mpeg4 is far faster for this than xvid, which I was unable to get more than 2 fps from. This is fast enough to transcode a couple of shows overnight and works fine for my archiving needs. Four hours of video would take about 20 hours though, which may or may not be adequate (the system works fine while running a transcode in the background at nice 19). Matthew. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Perplexing one - On screens with lots of black playback judder s
Stephen Williams wrote: I'm glad it's not just me, yes I see this too. This is also with UK DVB (TS mode), in fact i've only seen it for one program (Nip Tuck) but it does for every episode at all 'fades to black' for advert breaks plus other dark scenes. Same here but the other day when I had some time I wanted to debug this I couldn't find any footage which had it (a lot of flicking through old recordings). I wanted to see if the CPU is being overworked during the fade to black. Maybe the mpeg stream uses a very computing intensive sequence over and over again. -- Charlie Brej APT Group, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Manchester Web: http://brej.org/ Tel: +44 (0)161 275 6177 Mail: IT303, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot change channels with M179
Bob Weber wrote: Hello everyone. This must just be some silly operator error, because I see that people are happily using the m179. For some reason, when I use mplayer to watch video via the m179, I have a lot of static, but I can see that channel 60 (at least it's the comedy channel) is selected. Changing channels via ptune gives me success messages, but I see no changes in mplayer. ... saa7115: decoder set input (4) saa7115: now setting Composite input If you're using composite input, you've got an external tuner... You'll have to change channel on it. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Perplexing one - On screens with lots of black playback judder s
Barker Thomas wrote: This is a weird one, I admit it. I have no idea what it could be. Any suggestions much welcomed. Ok, When I am watching TV be it live or recorded and the scene changes to a mostly black scene, the video and audio judder. It is only a blackish scene which does this.. Normally during advert breaks; My system: Latest svn, (used to do it on 0.18 too) Latest nvidia drivers, complete removal and reinstall just to make sure (nforce 2, ie mx4) FC3 Sempron 2600 Nova-T uk dvb Spdif reroute of all sound to an optical decoder AC3 passthrough is not checked nor is sync with audio Any suggestions? Have you tried: - Extra audio buffering Enable this setting if MythTV is playing crackly audio and you are using hardware encoding. This setting will have no effect on MPEG-4 or RTJPEG video. MythTV will keep extra audio data in its internal buffers to workaround this bug. - Don't know if it would help with DVB, but that's the exact same symptoms I get with my PVR-x50's and it fixes the problem for me. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot change channels with M179
I have the same problem with my M179's; your question is better suited for the ivtv mailing list. The last known-good version of ivtv (for me) for the M179 is pre-100b, which was a long, long time ago. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] a few fuzzy channels
Better yet, I took my card and plugged it into a known good machine, still fuzzy channels. I also took a known good card and plugged it into my configuration, still fuzzy. So it's definitely the card, which I don't understand because I just got this thing up and running. I'm in the process of contacting Hauppauge now to see about a replacement. Thanks for the info about Comcast. It may come in useful in the future. When I've had a similar problem it was due to a bad coax cable (actually whose shielding - about 2 of it - had been stripped from it by a curious critter outside the house) From what I understand from a friend of mine at a local TV station.. it doesn't take much to corrupt or introduce noise into a signal.. and by chance.. 69-70 seem to be an issue (or at least the most sensitive to noise) according to a tech from Comcast (who found the critter damage). I would start by making a connection directly from your source feed (without any splitters amps (these 2 can be especially nasty), splices.. etc with a KNOWN GOOD cable. And see if the problem changes/goes away. If it does.. you know the solution.. if it doesn't.. well.. Got me.. Get a Comcast Tech out there and see if they can find something before your house. ;) - Michael From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 16:15:17 + To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] a few fuzzy channels Almost there!! I've got a WinTV-PVR350, using kernel 2.6.9 vanilla, Myth 0.18-1, ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j. Everything is up and running on my dual screen setup. Yay! Here's the problem. . . I've got a couple of fuzzy channels (ch 69 and 70). Unfortunately those are channels I like and may want to record stuff on. My cable is split coming into the house, I've got a signal booster, and then another split, out to TV and WinTV card (same type of cable). When I watch those channels on regular TV the picture is clear, but when I watch them through myth, they're fuzzy. I've tried using us-cable and us-cable-hrc(I think that's what it's called), no love. I did a bit of google searching and saw that it may be caused by noise coming from other pci cards (sound) or my video card (NVidia GeForce FX5200 AGP). I've now removed my sound card (don't need it) and placed the WinTV card as far as possible away from my video card. The gods of google also mentioned that it may be a frequency issue within Myth, but I have absolutely no idea how to change those by hand. Has anyone else had this type of problem, or know how to fix it? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] a few fuzzy channels
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better yet, I took my card and plugged it into a known good machine, still fuzzy channels. I also took a known good card and plugged it into my configuration, still fuzzy. So it's definitely the card, which I don't understand because I just got this thing up and running. I'm in the process of contacting Hauppauge now to see about a replacement. A known good card in your configuration having a fuzzy image says it's not the card, it's the configuration... Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] no remote
Claude Gélinas agr. wrote: Le lundi 04 juillet 2005 à 08:12 -0400, Michael T. Dean a écrit : Do you have a proper LIRC config file with configs for prog=mythtv? Do you have a link from the normal LIRC config file (~/.lircrc) to I have them but there were set the opposite way the file was in the .mythtv dir with a link from de home/mythtv I put them back in the wright way. no result. Either way works. For all practical purposes it's the same both ways. I've load a script in the .kde/Autostart to start irexec and mythfrontend. I'added a button so I can power off mythfrontend with the remote and irexec. now mythfrontend start automatically and I can kill it with the remote but I cannot do anything in myth with the remote So, that means one of two things... Either your LIRC config file does not properly specify myth mappings (i.e. button names don't match those in /etc/lircd.conf or something) or your Myth was not compiled with LIRC support. Have you seen messages in your logs when you start mythfrontend saying something to the effect of accepted new client? Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] mysql borked after upgrade to 0.18.1
Hello. I just tried to upgrade my mythv from 0.17 to 0.18.1 with apt-get install mythtv-suite, but the mysql schema upgrade failed and now mysql is borked and mythbackend won't run. From mythbackend.log: -- 2005-07-06 08:54:49.366 New DB connection, total: 1 2005-07-06 08:54:49.641 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If you see a l ong pause here it means the Schema is already locked and is being upgraded by an other Myth process. 2005-07-06 08:54:49.709 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-07-06 08:54:49.714 Upgrading to schema version 1072 2005-07-06 08:54:49.797 DB Error (Performing database upgrade): Query was: ALTER TABLE program ADD COLUMN manualid INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT 0; Error was: Driver error was [2/1016]: QMYSQL3: Unable to execute query Database error was: Can't open file: 'program.MYD'. (errno: 145) new version: 1072 2005-07-06 08:54:49.815 Database Schema upgrade FAILED, unlocking. 2005-07-06 08:54:49.827 Couldn't upgrade database to new schema -- I have these installed: mysql-server-3.23.58-16.FC3.1 mysql-3.23.58-16.FC3.1 php-mysql-4.3.11-2.6 libdbi-dbd-mysql-0.6.5-9 mysql-devel-3.23.58-16.FC3.1 uname -a Linux tomvo.tomhines.net 2.6.11-1.27_FC3 #1 Tue May 17 20:27:37 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Running FC3 on a VIA M 10K Anyone know what went wrong? Or how I can fix it other than rebuilding the database? Thanks, Tom ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Getting a Hauppauge PVR-500 PAL to work
Hello I've already seen in the mailing-lists some mails about this card, but I still can't get it working. Is there anybody from the Europe who got this card working? I get some really Strange Errors. First i got an dmesg-output like this: Linux video capture interface: v1.00 ivtv: START INIT IVTV ivtv: version 0.3.6 (o) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 SMP preempt PENTIUM4 4KSTACKS gcc-3.3 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist. ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card ivtv: Found an iTVC16 based chip ACPI: PCI interrupt :04:08.0[A] - GSI 22 (level, low) - IRQ 22 ivtv: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32) ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x2570 vendor: 0x8086 tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 23559, rev = D591, serial# = 8202051 tveeprom: tuner = Philips FQ1216AME MK4 (idx = 91, type = 56) tveeprom: tuner fmt = PAL(B/G) PAL(I) SECAM(L/L) PAL(D/K) (eeprom = 0x74, v4l2 = 0x00400e17) tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3410D (type = 5) ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[50],ok] ivtv: Tuner Type 56, Tuner formats 0x00400e17, Radio: yes, Model 0x00915651, Rev ision 0x ivtv: PAL tuner detected ivtv: Radio detected tuner: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0 ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok] cx25840: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005) cx25840: detecting cx25840 client on address 0x88 cx25840: cx25843-23 found. Initializing... cx25840: requesting /lib/modules/HcwMakoA.ROM cx25840: firmware loaded ivtv: i2c attach [client=cx25840[50],ok] ivtv: i2c attach [client=wm8775[50],ok] ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040011 ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 150 card with 5 streams ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 0 minor 0 ivtv: Create DMA stream 0 using 128 32768 byte buffers 0 kbytes total ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 1 minor 32 ivtv: Create DMA stream 1 using 161 12960 byte buffers 0 kbytes total ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 2 minor 224 ivtv: Create DMA stream 2 using 165 12635 byte buffers 0 kbytes total ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 3 minor 24 ivtv: Create DMA stream 3 using 455 4608 byte buffers 0 kbytes total ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 4 minor 64 ivtv: Create stream 4 ivtv: Setting Tuner 56 tuner: type set to 56 (Philips PAL/SECAM multi (FQ1216AME MK4)) by ivtv i2c driv er #0 cx25840: decoder set norm PAL ivtv: ivtv_enc_vbi_thread: pid = 4137, itv = 0xf9404820 ivtv: ivtv_enc_thread: pid = 4136, itv = 0xf9404820 cx25840: decoder set input (6) cx25840: now setting Tuner input cx25840: set audio input (0) ivtv: Switching standard to PAL. cx25840: decoder set norm PAL ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 150, card #0 ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card ivtv: Found an iTVC16 based chip PCI: Enabling device :04:09.0 ( - 0002) ACPI: PCI interrupt :04:09.0[A] - GSI 21 (level, low) - IRQ 21 ivtv: Bus Mastering is not enabled ivtv: Error -6 on initialization ivtv-iTVC15_16_mpg2_encoder_card: probe of :04:09.0 failed with error -6 ivtv: END INIT IVTV So this told me, bus mastering was not enabled. I looked in my Bios and saw, that its enabled. I found a solution to enable it by hand, so i did: setpci -s 04:08 4.w=116 setpci -s 04:09 4.w=116 The message about Bus Mastering is gone, but i still get errors, or strange messages, I played around with some settings and my dmesg output after loading the ivtv module looks now like this: ivtv: START INIT IVTV ivtv: version 0.3.6 (o) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 SMP preempt PENTIUM4 4KSTACKS gcc-3.3 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist. ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card ivtv: Found an iTVC16 based chip ACPI: PCI interrupt :04:08.0[A] - GSI 21 (level, low) - IRQ 21 ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x2570 vendor: 0x8086 tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 23559, rev = D591, serial# = 8202051 tveeprom: tuner = Philips FQ1216AME MK4 (idx = 91, type = 56) tveeprom: tuner fmt = PAL(B/G) PAL(I) SECAM(L/L) PAL(D/K) (eeprom = 0x74, v4l2 = 0x00400e17) tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3410D (type = 5) ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[50],ok] ivtv: Tuner Type 56, Tuner formats 0x00400e17, Radio: yes, Model 0x00915651, Revision 0x ivtv: Radio detected tuner: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0 ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok] cx25840: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005) cx25840: detecting cx25840 client on address 0x88 cx25840: cx25843-23 found. Initializing... cx25840: requesting /lib/modules/HcwMakoA.ROM cx25840:
Re: [mythtv-users] Verdict on EPIA M 10000
On 7/6/05, Peter Schachte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. How good is the S/P DIF sound when run into a reasonably good stereo system (Yamaha reciever, Klipsch speakers)? It's a digital interface. Since the sound doesn't go through DAC it's going to be perfect, just like all the other SPDIF interfaces. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] a few fuzzy channels
Yeah, I just re-read my email. D'OH! The known good card in my system had a clear pic. Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better yet, I took my card and plugged it into a known good machine, still fuzzy channels. I also took a known good card and plugged it into my configuration, still fuzzy. So it's definitely the card, which I don't understand because I just got this thing up and running. I'm in the process of contacting Hauppauge now to see about a replacement. A known good card in your configuration having a fuzzy image says it's not the card, it's the configuration... Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Getting a Hauppauge PVR-500 PAL to work
On 7/6/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I've already seen in the mailing-lists some mails about this card, but I still can't get it working. Is there anybody from the Europe who got this card working? Yes. [snip] i put the following in the /etc/modprobe.conf alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 ivtv alias char-major-81-1 ivtv options ivtv ivtv_debug=1 ivtv_std=2 tuner=56,56 i'm not shure about the tuner, but i don't get any errors. but i still don't get a picture, all I see is a black sometimes red picture in mythtv. is there anybody with more luck with this tv-card? I have the same card (model = 23559, rev = D591), but I'm using Fedora (FC3) and ivtv 0.3.5l. The ivtv driver for these cards is still in heavy development, and what works in one release sometimes doesn't in a more recent one, so it may be worth trying this version. If you have a look on the ivtv-devel list you should be able to find a more recent version which people are getting good results with. My modprobe.conf is also different to yours: alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-1 ivtv alias char-major-81-2 ivtv alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv options ivtv ivtv_std=2 tda9887=0 options cx25840 no_black_magic=1 alias tuner tuner-ivtv Regards, Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Recording: how to adjust color?
I posted a couple of message and I got not answers :-( . I just compiled from source everything except mysql (only I dropped mythconverg)and the problem persist. I am using ivtv-0.3.6.w. I get no error during compilation and except for this problem the rest is ok. The recording is very dark as well as .nuv during live tv. If I press G during live TV suddenly the picture is ok. Recording picture is always dark. Where can I change the recording color? Why whenever I start mythtv the color is reset to dark? Here is the weird behavior: If I look at liveTV the is very dark: (1) If I press G (the window comes preset to 50% for example)suddenly without any adjustments the color is perfect. For some reason mythtv can not read the preset 50% until G is press?. If I exit mythtv and then I use the mplayer the picture is perfect. (2) If I donot press G the picture is dark. If I exit and then use the mplayer the picture is dark In summary the ivtv module seems to work as it should. Mythtv can not read the color setup until the G is press. Why? Could it be problems with permission in mysql? I have spend time looking at the users lists, reinstalling and learning mysql but I can not figure out where the problem is. I would appreciate any direction any of you can point me where to look at it. Thxs much! terry ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: MythTV and DVD ISO files?
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 11:29:41AM -0400, Dg B wrote: I am new to this group. I am looking into the possibility of setting up a MythTV box. but have a question for you all. I have a large collection of DVD ISO images on my computer, which I would like to take advantage of through MythTV. Can MythTV handle DVD ISO images as-is? That is, can I have MythTV simply load the DVD images up and run them? If you configure your MythVideo external video player to be mplayer, then yes (mplayer knows how to crack open ISO files and deal with the contained DVD/VCD image). I use MythVideo in this way. Can you please tell me what table/field/parameter I should be modifying in sql in order for me to play .iso file via mplayer or xine? The reason I'm modifying it in the database is because, I don't have a keyboard in my mythbox. Also, can you guys please paste what parameters xine or mplayer should have in order to play .iso files? Thanks in advance! Neil ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Black screen when using pvr-350decoder/tv-outoption
El Miércoles, 6 de Julio de 2005 08:43, John Harvey escribió: Check the kernel messages file /var/log/messages for errors. There's nothing. Is my ivtv version (0.3.2c) very old? It comes from the write call returning EINVAL. Without th ivtv-fb module loaded I get this very similar error: IVTV_IOC_GET_FB: Invalid argument I'm assuming you checked the setup settings as well? My settings: Use the PVR-350's TV out / MPEG decoder: YES Video Device for the PVR-350 MPEG decoder: /dev/video16 Program Guide alpha: 164 TV audio through PVR-350 only: NO Use hardware XvMC MPEG Decoding: YES Use HW XVMC VLD Decoding (via only): YES -- Oscar Curero - Linux user: 306877 --GPG keyID: 0xE0EA0B24-- pgpIlLBCr9euA.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Getting a Hauppauge PVR-500 PAL to work
Hy Tanks for the tip, i'm using the 0.3.6o drivers, i will try your version. do you now, how i can remove the old driver in a relatively clean way? thanks for the tip Quoting Chris Rouch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 7/6/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I've already seen in the mailing-lists some mails about this card, but I still can't get it working. Is there anybody from the Europe who got this card working? Yes. [snip] i put the following in the /etc/modprobe.conf alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 ivtv alias char-major-81-1 ivtv options ivtv ivtv_debug=1 ivtv_std=2 tuner=56,56 i'm not shure about the tuner, but i don't get any errors. but i still don't get a picture, all I see is a black sometimes red picture in mythtv. is there anybody with more luck with this tv-card? I have the same card (model = 23559, rev = D591), but I'm using Fedora (FC3) and ivtv 0.3.5l. The ivtv driver for these cards is still in heavy development, and what works in one release sometimes doesn't in a more recent one, so it may be worth trying this version. If you have a look on the ivtv-devel list you should be able to find a more recent version which people are getting good results with. My modprobe.conf is also different to yours: alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-1 ivtv alias char-major-81-2 ivtv alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv options ivtv ivtv_std=2 tda9887=0 options cx25840 no_black_magic=1 alias tuner tuner-ivtv Regards, Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] RE: Forward fails in recorded shows
On Monday 04 July 2005 16:48, John Stubbs wrote: Latest myth of corse, running FC3, ABIT NF7-S I have noticed that in a large number of recordings MythTv fails to forward correctly. What happens is that you: 1) press forward and find yourself somewhere far forward (5 min) and backwards will not pass this position now 2) you press forward. Picture freezes for a while and then the show is aborted. You can 3X your way across, but not forward. Anybody else noticed that? Karsten Yes, I have this same exact problem, on the same setup (FC3, myth-0.18-108 at), though it's not consistent- doesn't always happen to every show. Also, I get similar behavior for some shows when the length of the show in the OSD is obviously incorrect (e.g. 5 minutes for a 1 hour show). Unfortunately, I haven't found any causes or fixes- my database check came back not corrupted and I haven't investigated further... though I understand from reading a bit on this list that the 'recordedmarkup table' might have something to do with it (maybe!). Same problem here; there are several threads both here and on the -dev list that are dancing around the issue, but no one seems to have nailed it down quite yet. I try to track CVS/SVN, and I first noticed this problem when I upgraded to then-current CVS in early June, I think. Before that I was running a build from the end of May. Anyway, I haven't had time to look into it in detail, but it's really annoying, I agree. Also I had to turn off libmpeg2 decoding as it's causing my MPEG2 - MPEG4 auto-transcodes to come out all stuttery. I've been rather suspect of an ffmpeg resync that was done in early June... another was done just the other day, so if I get a chance I'll upgrade this week and see if things are better. I'm currently running SVN from 6/23. -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Anyone tried MPEG2 to MPEG2 transcoding?
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 8:31, Phill Edwards wrote: Looking through the archives I've found that it's possible top set up MPEG2 to MPEG2 automatic transcoding by issuing the following update command in mysql: update recordingprofiles set videocodec = MPEG-2 where name = MPEG2; I want to give this a go because I want to keep my recordings in MPEG2 format but want to reduce the size of the recordings. I can't adjust the original recording profile because I'm using DVB-T capture cards which don't encode, they just dump the broadcast MPEG2 stream straight to disk. So I figure I can reduce the size of them by transcoding to a lower bit rate MPEG2 file. I need them in MPEG2 format to work on my xbmcmythtv python scripts frontend. The question is - has anyone tried this, and what were your results? I read a post that said the reason you have to enable it via a mysql command is because it can be a bit dodgy which is why it's not turned on by default. Should I expect that it's going to play up quite badly and defrost my freezer overnight, or will it be OK? Hmmm, unless there's special code to handle MPEG2-MPEG2 transcoding, I'd guess that you'd end up with a Myth NuppelVideo container format file, with MPEG2 video and either raw or MP3 audio. Probably *not* what you're looking for. -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot change channels with M179
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 8:53, Michael T. Dean wrote: Bob Weber wrote: Hello everyone. This must just be some silly operator error, because I see that people are happily using the m179. For some reason, when I use mplayer to watch video via the m179, I have a lot of static, but I can see that channel 60 (at least it's the comedy channel) is selected. Changing channels via ptune gives me success messages, but I see no changes in mplayer. ... saa7115: decoder set input (4) saa7115: now setting Composite input If you're using composite input, you've got an external tuner... You'll have to change channel on it. ...or you'll have to tell your card to switch to the Tuner0 input to use the tuner. -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot change channels with M179
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 8:36, Robert Kulagowski wrote: I have the same problem with my M179's; your question is better suited for the ivtv mailing list. The last known-good version of ivtv (for me) for the M179 is pre-100b, which was a long, long time ago. FWIW, I'm running 0.2.0-rc3b with 2 M-179's with good results. -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] UK Freeview compatible tuner
Do you mean mythfrontend viewing live tv or mythfrontend viewing a recording? My myth box has twin hauppauge dvb-t cards, is currently viewing a recorded freeview show and has this load: top - 17:23:31 up 51 days, 18:39, 4 users, load average: 0.59, 0.72, 0.64 It's using about 20% cpu on the frontend processes. The backend is completely idle as it's not currently recording... On 05/07/05, Greg Cope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Out of interest what load are you guys seeing with 2 DVB cards with myth frontend running, but everything idle? -- Neil Milne ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] lirc for PVR-150 could not connect to socket
I'm trying to setup lirc for myth. My lirc configuration seems fine. When I run irw, it works perfectly. For instance for Volume down on my remote it displays: 1791 01 Volume-DOWN grayHauppauge But mythtv does not respond to the remote control. mythfrontend says: 2005-07-06 20:04:47.187 New DB connection, total: 1 Total desktop width=1024, height=768, numscreens=1 2005-07-06 20:04:47.197 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0 2005-07-06 20:04:47.203 mythfrontend version: 0.18.20050523-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-07-06 20:04:47.203 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2005-07-06 20:04:47.508 Switching to square mode (blue) mythtv: could not connect to socket mythtv: No such file or directory lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages Why is there a permission problem? - lircd runs. - /dev/lirc, /dev/lirc0, dev/lircd, /dev/lircm have full permissions -- Milos Prudek http://www.spoxdesign.com - your web usability testing ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Jumpy video with a PVR250
Hello Everybody, I posted this on the IVTV mailing and haven't gotten any replys yet. I thought I would post it here to see if anyone has had a similiar problem. I have been having a problem with jumpy video and audio ever since I wiped my box a while back. I am using a PVR-250 I have had for a couple years now. I had FC3 running fine with Mythtv and had to wipe the box for other reasons. After the wipe, the video was jumpy. It didn't matter if I tried the stable 0.2 or unstable 0.3. I recently wiped the box again when FC4 came out to see if I could get a clean slate on it. The problem is still there. I am using the recommended firmware (pvr48wdm_1.8.22037.exe) and the latest driver (ivtv-0.3.6w). Any help/thoughts? Anyone know how to capture a single frame so I could post an example? Below is some spew from my log. Thanks, Jeff Jul 1 21:02:00 24-177-165-133 kernel: Linux video capture interface: v1.00 Jul 1 21:02:00 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: START INIT IVTV Jul 1 21:02:00 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: version 0.3.6 (w) loading Jul 1 21:02:00 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.0 Jul 1 21:02:00 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info Jul 1 21:02:00 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when Jul 1 21:02:00 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist.Jul 1 21:02:00 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 250 card Jul 1 21:02:00 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: Found an iTVC16 based chip Jul 1 21:02:00 24-177-165-133 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 6 Jul 1 21:02:00 24-177-165-133 kernel: PCI: setting IRQ 6 as level-triggered Jul 1 21:02:00 24-177-165-133 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:08.0[A] - Link [LNKC] - GSI 6 (level, low) - IRQ 6 Jul 1 21:02:00 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x01a4 vendor: 0x10de Jul 1 21:02:00 24-177-165-133 kernel: tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 32031, rev = B110, serial# = 6151179 Jul 1 21:02:00 24-177-165-133 kernel: tveeprom: tuner = Philips FI1236 MK2 (idx = 10, type = 2) Jul 1 21:02:00 24-177-165-133 kernel: tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x1000) Jul 1 21:02:00 24-177-165-133 kernel: tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3435 (type = 10) Jul 1 21:02:00 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[50],ok]Jul 1 21:02:00 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: Tuner Type 2, Tuner formats 0x1000, Radio: yes, Model 0x00891450, Revision 0x Jul 1 21:02:00 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: NTSC tuner detected Jul 1 21:02:00 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: Radio detected Jul 1 21:02:00 24-177-165-133 kernel: tuner: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones Jul 1 21:02:00 24-177-165-133 kernel: tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0 Jul 1 21:02:00 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok] Jul 1 21:02:01 24-177-165-133 kernel: saa7115: starting probe for adapter SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at 5500 (0x0) Jul 1 21:02:01 24-177-165-133 kernel: saa7115: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005) Jul 1 21:02:01 24-177-165-133 kernel: saa7115: detecting saa7115 client on address 0x42 Jul 1 21:02:01 24-177-165-133 kernel: saa7115: writing init values Jul 1 21:02:01 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7115[50],ok] Jul 1 21:02:01 24-177-165-133 kernel: saa7115: status: (1E) 0x48, (1F) 0xc0 Jul 1 21:02:01 24-177-165-133 kernel: msp34xx: ivtv version Jul 1 21:02:01 24-177-165-133 kernel: msp34xx: init: chip=MSP3435G-B6, has NICAM support, simple (D) mode, simpler (G) no-thread mode Jul 1 21:02:01 24-177-165-133 kernel: msp34xx: $Id$ compiled on: Jul 1 2005 20:18:53 Jul 1 21:02:01 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: i2c attach [client=MSP3435G-B6,ok] Jul 1 21:02:02 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040011 Jul 1 21:02:02 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 250 card with 5 streams Jul 1 21:02:02 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder MPEG minor 0 Jul 1 21:02:02 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: Create DMA encoder MPEG stream: 0 x 32768 buffers (0KB total) Jul 1 21:02:02 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder YUV minor 32 Jul 1 21:02:02 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: Create DMA encoder YUV stream: 0 x 10800 buffers (0KB total) Jul 1 21:02:02 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder VBI minor 224 Jul 1 21:02:02 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: Create DMA encoder VBI stream: 0 x 8736 buffers (0KB total) Jul 1 21:02:02 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder PCM audio minor 24 Jul 1 21:02:02 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: Create DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 0 x 4608 buffers (0KB total) Jul 1 21:02:02 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder radio minor 64 Jul 1 21:02:02 24-177-165-133 kernel: ivtv: Create encoder
[mythtv-users] ffmpeg or nuvexport as a user job
My ultimate goal is to record a show, then export that show to a secondary player friendly format automatically. My current approach is to have a User Job process the recording (just to keep it all in mythtv). Using nuvexport I can successfully export to my formats of choice (psp and xvid) but am trying to introduce more automation. ATTEMPT #1: nuvexport cli only How would I go about building a command for nuvexport? I'm thinking it would look something like this: nuvexport --infile=%FILE% --confirm --cutlist --path=/myth/nuvexport/nuv2psp --nice=19 --mode=psp --deinterlace --noise_reduction +--crop Also, how can I keep the gui from blowing up /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log? ATTEMPT #2: ffmpeg How would I go about building the command for ffmpeg? I think maybe: ffmpeg -y -i INFILE -bitexact -f psp -s 320x240 -r 29.97 -b 768 -acodec aac -ac 2 -ar 24000 -ab 32 M4V10005.MP4 I haven't tried the ffmpeg approach yet as I'm not sure how to pass variables to the commmand line. These specifically: INFILE Show title Episode title This way my file could be named Show title - Episode title.MP4 instead of PSP's special format. (I can name it M4V10005 later on, just need to be able to tell what's what with many in a folder). Thanks to Byron Poland for getting me started with the ffmpeg command line on his blog: http://tube013.org/?p=317 -- Lawrence Campbell ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ffmpeg or nuvexport as a user job
nuvexport --infile=%FILE% --confirm --cutlist --path=/myth/nuvexport/nuv2psp --nice=19 --mode=psp --deinterlace --noise_reduction +--crop Also, how can I keep the gui from blowing up /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log? um, turn off --confirm, for one.. and could always add a 12 2/dev/null to the end of it -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HD capture via Component/RGB/DVI incoming at 720i
On 7/4/05, Todd Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A while ago I stumbled across the site that spoke of hacking various sat receivers and adding firewire, but back them I wasn't interested. Now that my interest has piqued I can't find the site. How typical eh? If you happen to come across the link (s) would you mind posting them again? I think you're looking for 169time.com. Tom ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Anyone tried MPEG2 to MPEG2 transcoding?
resending message .. as got relay error from the mailing list. sorry if it shows up as double message. I used vlc to transcode MPEG2-TS (HD stream, 1920x1080, 5.1 DD AC3) to MPEG2 (720x480, 2.0 stereo) when I was using media mvp. thanks mudit On 7/6/05, Mudit Wahal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used vlc to transcode MPEG2-TS (HD stream, 1920x1080, 5.1 DD AC3) to MPEG2 (720x480, 2.0 stereo) when I was using media mvp. On 7/6/05, Joseph A. Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 July 2005 8:31, Phill Edwards wrote: Looking through the archives I've found that it's possible top set up MPEG2 to MPEG2 automatic transcoding by issuing the following update command in mysql: update recordingprofiles set videocodec = MPEG-2 where name = MPEG2; I want to give this a go because I want to keep my recordings in MPEG2 format but want to reduce the size of the recordings. I can't adjust the original recording profile because I'm using DVB-T capture cards which don't encode, they just dump the broadcast MPEG2 stream straight to disk. So I figure I can reduce the size of them by transcoding to a lower bit rate MPEG2 file. I need them in MPEG2 format to work on my xbmcmythtv python scripts frontend. The question is - has anyone tried this, and what were your results? I read a post that said the reason you have to enable it via a mysql command is because it can be a bit dodgy which is why it's not turned on by default. Should I expect that it's going to play up quite badly and defrost my freezer overnight, or will it be OK? Hmmm, unless there's special code to handle MPEG2-MPEG2 transcoding, I'd guess that you'd end up with a Myth NuppelVideo container format file, with MPEG2 video and either raw or MP3 audio. Probably *not* what you're looking for. -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] RE: 0.18.1 DVB-S Stuttering
Hi Matt, The problem doesn't seem to be IVTV or the LinuxTV DVB drivers - I went to MythTV 0.18.1 from 0.17 and the stuttering appeared and then I quickly went back to 0.17 (under lots of family pressure to get the cartoons soaps recording again). But... You have to laugh... The reason I went to 0.18.1 was to get rid of the fairly frequent frontend hanging problem (I used to ssh in and reboot to fix it). But it seems that the hanging was an IVTV problem because, before going back to 0.17, I had upgraded IVTV (to 0.2.0-rc3k) and the Kernel (in case it was a LinuxTV problem) and now no hanging ever - yippie!. Only thing is someone on the list did mention that the CVS version of MythTV now automatically swaps tuners when watching TV (I have a PVR350 and a Nexus-S) - I think I'm going to have to try the CVS version - and I'm guessing the stuttering problem will be in the pre-0.19 MythTV version too. ? - but I'll post when I try it. Derek -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Robinson Sent: 27 June 2005 11:42 To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] RE: 0.18.1 DVB-S Stuttering Derek Conniffe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I downgraded back to 0.17 and the problem has gone away. So it looks like the problem is in MythTV 0.18.1 and not IVTV or LinuxTV. I'll stay with MythTV 0.17 for the moment as it seems to be working fine. snip If anyone else has had this problem I'd be interested to hear from you I've been getting stuttering too, now you mention it! I'm running DVB-T using Nebula DigiTV PCI cards. This was only noticed on the weekend while trying to watch Wimbledon - very obvious and nasty stuttering while watching tennis balls in motion. The stuttering seems to vary depending on what is being watched, some channels/programmes seemed fine. I'm running a 2.8GHz P4, 512MB, Nebula, etc. With Gentoo and MythTV 0.18.1-r2. I've not used my Myth box that much recently due to other problems with the DVB EPG dieing on me (someone please answer my other posts to this list! ;) ). But I watched a fair bit on 0.18 when I first installed that and I don't recall any problems at all. I'm not sure of what changed between 0.18 and 0.18.1(-r2), but I'll have a look when I get time. FYI, I've been running the same kernel version, with the same DVB driver throughout my experience, so I'm sure they're OK. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.9/42 - Release Date: 06/07/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.9/42 - Release Date: 06/07/2005 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] UK Freeview compatible tuner
Hi Greg, FYI my box has a 2ghz celeron with 768mb ram and 2 nova-t cards in it. Running Gentoo, Kernel 2.6.11 With the backend running and 1 front end connected, but doing nothing... load average: 0.00, 0.05, 0.28 mythbackend = 0.3% CPU mythfrontend = 0% CPU Same thing but watching a recording I get... load average: 0.32, 0.79, 0.99 -- but I've seen this shoot up to over 3 (no spike in CPU usage for the mythfrontend process tho and no adverse effects to playback) mythfrontend = 15-20% CPU mythbackend = 0.3% CPU Recording 1 show while doing nothing else (1 frontend connected just stilling at the main menu): load average: 0.07, 0.29, 0.80 mythfrontend = 0% CPU mythbackend = 1-2% CPU Recording 2 shows while doing nothing else (1 frontend connected just stilling at the main menu): load average: 0.12, 0.19, 0.53 mythfrontend = 0% CPU mythbackend = 2-3% CPU There is an initial load jump to around 0.5 when first scheduleing the recording, guessing this is down to doing some db calls, creating the file, starting the recorder then after a min or so it settles down to the low numbers above. Recording 2 shows with 1 frontend connected watching a recording: load average: 0.53, 1.18, 0.99 -- seen this go higher as mentioned above mythfrontend = 15-20% CPU mythbackend = 2-3% CPU So I'd say the kernel drivers for the on board sis video chip is the only thing that bumps up my load average during play back. Running up a second frontend while recording 2 shows and therefore watching 2 recordings doesn't seem to have much effect as all its doing is streaming from the disk over the network. I'm sure the values would be a lot higher if I had any commercial flagging going on as well, but during these tests I didn't. No idea if any of that is helpful to you. Ash. On 7/6/05, Greg Cope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul, What load do you get with myth idle with your card? Greg On 05/07/05, Stutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using a Visionplus DVB-T (Basically a Twinhan Mini-Ter), seems to work okay with the latest Gentoo Kernel (2.6.11-r11) Mandrake (Mandriva) kernel (2.6.11-6mdk). Got mine here: http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=103057 (I don't use the remote though, so can't vouch for that). Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] UK Freeview compatible tuner
On 7/6/05, Greg Cope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul, What load do you get with myth idle with your card? Greg Not sure I understand your question :), but for info, 'top' reports the following % idle on my EPIA MII 12k: 98%..Completely Idle 93%..Recording BBC1 = 15Mb 25fps Video / 256k 48Hz audio / 16:9 720x576 .Using default rec. profile (420x420 ?) 85%..Recording Viewing recording /live TV BBC1 is the highest quality channel on Freeview I think, I haven't tried changing the recording profile from the default (as installed) settings. For info this channel does not play properly with xvmc_vld enabled, not tracked down why yet... Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Recording: how to adjust color?
Are you using Xv? Do you have that selected in setup? You could try setting the brightness usign xvattr. w On 7/6/05, Teruel de Campo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted a couple of message and I got not answers :-( . I just compiled from source everything except mysql (only I dropped mythconverg)and the problem persist. I am using ivtv-0.3.6.w. I get no error during compilation and except for this problem the rest is ok. The recording is very dark as well as .nuv during live tv. If I press G during live TV suddenly the picture is ok. Recording picture is always dark. Where can I change the recording color? Why whenever I start mythtv the color is reset to dark? Here is the weird behavior: If I look at liveTV the is very dark: (1) If I press G (the window comes preset to 50% for example)suddenly without any adjustments the color is perfect. For some reason mythtv can not read the preset 50% until G is press?. If I exit mythtv and then I use the mplayer the picture is perfect. (2) If I donot press G the picture is dark. If I exit and then use the mplayer the picture is dark In summary the ivtv module seems to work as it should. Mythtv can not read the color setup until the G is press. Why? Could it be problems with permission in mysql? I have spend time looking at the users lists, reinstalling and learning mysql but I can not figure out where the problem is. I would appreciate any direction any of you can point me where to look at it. Thxs much! terry ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot change channels with M179
FWIW, I'm running 0.2.0-rc3b with 2 M-179's with good results. I'll have to give that a try. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] lirc for PVR-150 could not connect to socket
Milos Prudek wrote: I'm trying to setup lirc for myth. But mythtv does not respond to the remote control. Please ignore. User error. Simple FAQ on lirc webpage about a Mandrake peculiarity solved the issue. -- Milos Prudek http://www.spoxdesign.com - your web usability testing ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Getting a Hauppauge PVR-500 PAL to work
now getting this: ivtv: START INIT IVTV ivtv: version 0.3.5 (l) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 SMP preempt PENTIUM4 4KSTACKS gcc-3.3 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist. ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card ivtv: Found an iTVC16 based chip ACPI: PCI interrupt :04:08.0[A] - GSI 21 (level, low) - IRQ 21 ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x2570 vendor: 0x8086 ivtv: Failed to load module tveeprom ivtv: i2c client addr: 0x50 not found for command 0! ivtv: Error -19 reading Hauppauge eeprom. ivtv: Possible causes: the tveeprom module was not loaded, or ivtv: the eeprom kernel module was loaded before the tveeprom module. ivtv: Failed to load module tuner cx25840: Unknown symbol crypto_alloc_tfm cx25840: Unknown symbol crypto_free_tfm ivtv: Failed to load module cx25840 ivtv: i2c attach [client=wm8775[50],ok] tda9885/6/7: chip found @ 0x86 ivtv: i2c attach [client=tda9887,ok] ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 ivtv: Encoder Firmware may be buggy, use version 0x02040011 ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 150 card with 4 streams ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 0 minor 0 ivtv: Create DMA stream 0 using 128 16384 byte buffers 0 kbytes total ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 1 minor 32 ivtv: Create DMA stream 1 using 80 25920 byte buffers 0 kbytes total ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 2 minor 224 ivtv: Create DMA stream 2 using 41 50540 byte buffers 0 kbytes total ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 3 minor 24 ivtv: Create DMA stream 3 using 455 4608 byte buffers 0 kbytes total ivtv: i2c client addr: 0x44 not found for command 1074029571! ivtv: i2c client addr: 0x44 not found for command 1074029572! ivtv: i2c client addr: 0x44 not found for command 1074029678! ivtv: Switching standard to PAL. ivtv: i2c client id: 0x02 not found! ivtv: ivtv_enc_thread: pid = 17174, itv = 0xf945fea0 ivtv: ivtv_enc_vbi_thread: pid = 17176, itv = 0xf945fea0 ivtv: i2c client addr: 0x44 not found for command 1074029571! ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 150, card #0 ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card ivtv: Found an iTVC16 based chip ACPI: PCI interrupt :04:09.0[A] - GSI 22 (level, low) - IRQ 22 ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x2570 vendor: 0x8086 ivtv: i2c attach [client=wm8775[50],ok] tda9885/6/7: chip found @ 0x86 ivtv: i2c attach [client=tda9887,ok] ivtv: Failed to load module tveeprom ivtv: i2c client addr: 0x50 not found for command 0! ivtv: Error -19 reading Hauppauge eeprom. ivtv: Possible causes: the tveeprom module was not loaded, or ivtv: the eeprom kernel module was loaded before the tveeprom module. ivtv: Failed to load module tuner cx25840: Unknown symbol crypto_alloc_tfm cx25840: Unknown symbol crypto_free_tfm ivtv: Failed to load module cx25840 ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 ivtv: Encoder Firmware may be buggy, use version 0x02040011 ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 150 card with 4 streams ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 0 minor 1 ivtv: Create DMA stream 0 using 128 16384 byte buffers 0 kbytes total ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 1 minor 33 ivtv: Create DMA stream 1 using 80 25920 byte buffers 0 kbytes total ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 2 minor 225 ivtv: Create DMA stream 2 using 41 50540 byte buffers 0 kbytes total ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 3 minor 25 ivtv: Create DMA stream 3 using 455 4608 byte buffers 0 kbytes total ivtv: i2c client addr: 0x44 not found for command 1074029571! ivtv: i2c client addr: 0x44 not found for command 1074029572! ivtv: i2c client addr: 0x44 not found for command 1074029678! ivtv: Switching standard to PAL. ivtv: i2c client id: 0x02 not found! ivtv: i2c client addr: 0x44 not found for command 1074029571! ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 150, card #1 ivtv: END INIT IVTV ivtv: ivtv_enc_thread: pid = 17211, itv = 0xf94831f0 ivtv: ivtv_enc_vbi_thread: pid = 17213, itv = 0xf94831f0 there are a lot of more problems with this driver i used the same version as chris, and with the same modprobe.conf it behaves in playback like the driver i used before: when I play mplayer /dev/video0 i get a screen like it had no signal (like on the TV if you have no cable plugged) and on /dev/video1 i get a red screen. perhaps the problem is somewhere else, and i have to change something else??? are there any other settings, that should be made to get this card working? perhaps i should give fedora a try, but i would like to get this working with gentoo. [snip] is there anybody with more luck with this tv-card? I have the same card (model = 23559, rev = D591), but I'm using Fedora (FC3) and ivtv 0.3.5l. The ivtv driver for these cards is still in heavy development, and what works in one release sometimes doesn't in a more recent one, so it may be worth trying this version. If you have a look on the ivtv-devel list you
Re: [mythtv-users] Feature Idea - P2P Bad Idea
The only thing I want to add to this is that although actively promoting stealing of copyrighted material is a terrible terrible idea for MythTV to become a part of we have to keep our minds open to the legal use. For example http://www.systm.org is an online TV show that is distributed over bittorrent. So long as any p2p software is geared towards allowing people to get that kind of content is fine. On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 13:54 -0400, dean collins wrote: Feature Idea - NEW __ I'm sitting here downloading a few torrents when an idea for a mytTV feature popped into my head (it's prolly because of the heat). The idea of combining a media sharing applet into mythTV based on the torrent model. In other words, as you're watching a particular TV channel, you become a seed where others can watch the same channel you're watching. As others connect to your server to watch the stream, they themselves become servers which others can connect to, and the video stream would remain intact so long as the original seed continued to watch a particular station. I don't know if I'm explaining this well, or if I am, if what I'm thinking is possible, but if it were, the idea of being able to increase the number of channels you have available to could be quite exciting. Just a thought -joe ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I agree with what everyone else posted about this in that it is a really bad idea to open Myth tv to P2P ?Cease and desist? orders. Having said that ? this feature is really similar to the Cybersky.tv software from germany, they have won quite a few cases in the EU courts recently because they don?t actually cache the content only pass it on. Like I said bad idea, we don?t have the funding to fight these court cases. Cheers, Dean ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Evan Alter [EMAIL PROTECTED] SKYLIST Email Marketing Solutions that Deliver Service You Can Trust You are receiving this email message from a representative of SKYLIST, Inc. 13171 Pond Springs Road, Austin, TX 78729 Toll Free: 877.250.2922 To cease all communication with SKYLIST, visit http://www.skylist.net/unsubscribe or send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Getting Widescreen enabled with PVR-350
Hi, I've been trying to setup my PVR-350 to do widescreen. Using the command: ivtvctl -w wss -b wss -x 1 Appears to set the required values [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ivtvctl -w wss -b wss -x 1 ioctl IVTV_IOC_S_VBI_PASSTHROUGH ok VBI passthrough mode set to 0008 ioctl IVTV_IOC_S_VBI_MODE ok vbi service_set set to 0008 ioctl IVTV_IOC_S_VBI_EMBED ok vbi embedded in MPEG stream set to 1 However when then selecting Watch TV is resets the VBI Mode [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ivtvctl -W -B -X ioctl IVTV_IOC_G_VBI_PASSTHROUGH ok VBI passthrough mode is 0008 ioctl IVTV_IOC_G_VBI_MODE ok vbi service_set = 0008 ioctl IVTV_IOC_G_VBI_EMBED ok vbi embedded in MPEG stream: on I have the recording profile set to 16:9, but can't find anyother settings that would allow me to override the reseting of VBI Mode. If I use dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 bs=64k the settings are not changed. How can I make Myth keep these settings? Ant. Kernel: 2.6.11-1.27_FC3 Myth: 0.18.1 Ivtv: 0.3.6v ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot change channels with M179
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 16:18, Robert Kulagowski wrote: FWIW, I'm running 0.2.0-rc3b with 2 M-179's with good results. I'll have to give that a try. Just FYI, I'm on FC1 using ATrpms kernel ivtv packages. -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] No sound in some recordings
Hallo, I have some problems with my recordings using a pvr350 on suse9.3. Watching LiveTV is fine and also the sound. But sometimes the recordings did not have sound. Since LiveTV is fine, I think the basic setup is ok. I tried to watch the channel which does not have audio while recording and it is fine in LiveTV. But the recordings did not have audio. At least I did not hear any sound. Does anyone has an idear where to look first to find the problem ? My setup: Suse9.3 IVTV 0.3.2c-5 MythTV from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun Hauppauge PVR350 Thanks Juergen ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MythTV and DVD ISO files?
On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 10:40:29 -0500 Neil wrote: On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 11:29:41AM -0400, Dg B wrote: I am new to this group. I am looking into the possibility of setting up a MythTV box. but have a question for you all. I have a large collection of DVD ISO images on my computer, which I would like to take advantage of through MythTV. Can MythTV handle DVD ISO images as-is? That is, can I have MythTV simply load the DVD images up and run them? If you configure your MythVideo external video player to be mplayer, then yes (mplayer knows how to crack open ISO files and deal with the contained DVD/VCD image). I use MythVideo in this way. Can you please tell me what table/field/parameter I should be modifying in sql in order for me to play .iso file via mplayer or xine? The reason I'm modifying it in the database is because, I don't have a keyboard in my mythbox. Also, can you guys please paste what parameters xine or mplayer should have in order to play .iso files? Thanks in advance! It looks like videotypes mysql describe videotypes; +-+--+--+-+-++ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +-+--+--+-+-++ | intid | int(10) unsigned | | PRI | NULL| auto_increment | | extension | varchar(128) | | | || | playcommand | varchar(255) | | | || | f_ignore| tinyint(1) | YES | | NULL|| | use_default | tinyint(1) | YES | | NULL|| +-+--+--+-+-++ 5 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql select * from videotypes; +---+---+-+--+-+ | intid | extension | playcommand | f_ignore | use_default | +---+---+-+--+-+ | 1 | txt | |1 | 0 | | 2 | log | |1 | 0 | | 3 | mpg | |0 | 1 | | 4 | avi | |0 | 1 | | 5 | vob | |0 | 1 | | 6 | mpeg | |0 | 1 | +---+---+-+--+-+ 6 rows in set (0.00 sec) Neil ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Newbie questions
I'm not really that familiar with CentOS, but it's Linux. You can still pretty much follow Jared's guide and obviously adapt where necessary. Should not be a problem so long as you have a reasonable working knowledge of Linux (sounds like you do). If CentOS is RPM or APT based, you should be good to go. 1) There IS a mythfrontend for Windows, but trust me it's more trouble than it's worth... at least in the incarnation that I played with. I put it on my dual PIII-933 and as well as being a bear to set up in the first place, it became very unreliable and didn't really play back recordings very well (or reliably). I gave up and installed Fedora on said machine and ran a real myth front end on it when I want it. Haven't looked back (but XP is still on the box if I feel the need to play a game) 2) No. Only backends need cards... frontends use the cards in the backends. 3) Although the bandwidth of 802.11g is sufficient for SDTV (don't try HDTV... it won't be pretty), the problem with all wireless is reliability, interference, recovery and above all latency. Latency is naturally higher on wireless LANs than on wired. Video is quite sensitive to lags and quirks in the signal. Interference can make this worse, and recovery time when interfered with can make the difference between it working and not. Depending on environmental factors, your mileage may vary. In my experience, having a 2.4Ghz cordless phone can cause all kinds of fun in the house with 802.11... Having said that about wireless, give it a shot. I've run my setup off a 10Mbit/s Ethernet switch when my main switch fried (since replaced) and it worked admirably for feeding data across the wire at a relatively low speed. However, latency was excellent and I didn't have any problems with environmental interference. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Benjamin J. Weiss Sent: Wed 7/6/2005 4:06 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Cc: Subject:[mythtv-users] Newbie questions All, I've been trying to read everything, but I'm trying to get this set up before I leave for a couple of weeks of military duty and I'm running out of time. Please be patient with these questions if I haven't found the answers where I should have. Background: I've got an AMD Athlon 2100+ XP box, and I've put in an Hauppauge PVR-350. I don't have it configured yet, as I'm planning on upgrading the OS from CentOS-3 to CentOS-4 (I'm working on that part now). I want this box to be in our family room, to act as our DVD player / music center / PVR, basically as a back-end and front-end. I also have a P4 3.0GHz machine running Windows 2000 (yeah, I know, but it's easier to run games that way than to run an emulator) and it has an MSI NX6600GT video card. I'd like this box to be a front-end. Due to physical constraints, this box will have to be connected to the home network via wireless. 1) Is there a windows front-end for myth-tv? 2) Would it benefit me to put another Hauppauge card in the Windows front-end? If so, which one? 3) What kind of bandwidth should I expect to need if I want to play a recorded show on the windows front-end? Will an 802.11g 54Meg connection handle the load easily, or should I look at a more expensive Pre-N router / card combo? My plan is to (hopefully) have the box converted to CentOS-4 sometime in the next week, then (again, hopefully) install mythtv using a repo (atrpms?), and get it working in the next three weeks before I leave. Thanks, Ben ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV on XDSL on XBox
Sounds awesome - can't wait. Cheers :-) Just out of interest, how long does myth take on xdsl to boot to a useable state? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jamison Ables Sent: Wednesday, 6 July 2005 1:35 p.m. To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV on XDSL on XBox Ok I'm putting together a howto. It will be ready in a day or 2. I highly recommend using dpkg (apt) to set it up. I have a start on the howto but its missing some key info so its not worth publishing. I will start back on this project again tomorrow night if i get a chance. Jamison Derek Watson wrote: Hey Jamison Care to put together a quick howto? :-) At least a description of your general approach (eg. rpms vs apt vs source) and any gotchas would be really useful for us not-in-the-know's. Cheers Derek. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jamison Ables Sent: Tuesday, 5 July 2005 11:11 p.m. To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV on XDSL on XBox I have mythtv installed on XDSL. It was really quite easy and then I had a few problems with XDSL so I am going to reinstall it tonight. Jamison ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Getting a Hauppauge PVR-500 PAL to work
Ok, i have my /dev/video0 working. but the /dev/video1 still only gets RED static. I use now the 0.3.6x and thats the output I get: vtv: START INIT IVTV ivtv: version 0.3.6 (x) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 SMP preempt PENTIUM4 4KSTACKS gcc-3.3 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist. ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card ivtv: Found an iTVC16 based chip ACPI: PCI interrupt :04:08.0[A] - GSI 21 (level, low) - IRQ 21 ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x2570 vendor: 0x8086 tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 23559, rev = D591, serial# = 8202051 tveeprom: tuner = Philips FQ1216AME MK4 (idx = 91, type = 56) tveeprom: tuner fmt = PAL(B/G) PAL(I) SECAM(L/L) PAL(D/K) (eeprom = 0x74, v4l2 = 0x00400e17) tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3410D (type = 5) ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[50],ok] ivtv: Tuner Type 56, Tuner formats 0x00400e17, Radio: yes, Model 0x00915651, Rev ision 0x ivtv: PAL tuner detected ivtv: Radio detected tuner: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0 ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok] cx25840: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005) cx25840: detecting cx25840 client on address 0x88 cx25840: cx25843-23 found. Initializing... cx25840: requesting /lib/modules/HcwMakoA.ROM cx25840: firmware loaded ivtv: i2c attach [client=cx25840[50],ok] ivtv: i2c attach [client=wm8775[50],ok] tda9885/6/7: chip found @ 0x86 ivtv: i2c attach [client=tda9887,ok] ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040011 ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 150 card with 5 streams ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder MPEG minor 0 ivtv: Create DMA encoder MPEG stream: 0 x 32768 buffers (0KB total) ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder YUV minor 32 ivtv: Create DMA encoder YUV stream: 0 x 12960 buffers (0KB total) ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder VBI minor 224 ivtv: Create DMA encoder VBI stream: 0 x 12740 buffers (0KB total) ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder PCM audio minor 24 ivtv: Create DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 0 x 4608 buffers (0KB total) ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder radio minor 64 ivtv: Create encoder radio stream ivtv: Setting Tuner 56 tuner: type set to 56 (Philips PAL/SECAM multi (FQ1216AME MK4)) by ivtv i2c driv er #0 cx25840: decoder set norm PAL cx25840: decoder set input (6) cx25840: now setting Tuner input ivtv: ivtv_enc_vbi_thread: pid = 940, itv = 0xf94635a0 ivtv: ivtv_enc_thread: pid = 939, itv = 0xf94635a0 cx25840: set audio input (0) ivtv: Switching standard to PAL. cx25840: decoder set norm PAL ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 150, card #0 ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card ivtv: Found an iTVC16 based chip ACPI: PCI interrupt :04:09.0[A] - GSI 22 (level, low) - IRQ 22 ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x2570 vendor: 0x8086 tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 23559, rev = D591, serial# = 8202051 tveeprom: tuner = Philips FQ1216AME MK4 (idx = 91, type = 56) tveeprom: tuner fmt = PAL(B/G) PAL(I) SECAM(L/L) PAL(D/K) (eeprom = 0x74, v4l2 = 0x00400e17) tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3410D (type = 5) ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[50],ok] tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #1 ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok] cx25840: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #1 (0x10005) cx25840: detecting cx25840 client on address 0x88 cx25840: cx25843-23 found. Initializing... cx25840: requesting /lib/modules/HcwMakoA.ROM cx25840: firmware loaded ivtv: i2c attach [client=cx25840[50],ok] ivtv: i2c attach [client=wm8775[50],ok] tda9885/6/7: chip found @ 0x86 ivtv: i2c attach [client=tda9887,ok] ivtv: Tuner Type 56, Tuner formats 0x00400e17, Radio: yes, Model 0x00915651, Rev ision 0x ivtv: Radio detected ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040011 ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 150 card with 5 streams ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder MPEG minor 1 ivtv: Create DMA encoder MPEG stream: 0 x 32768 buffers (0KB total) ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder YUV minor 33 ivtv: Create DMA encoder YUV stream: 0 x 12960 buffers (0KB total) ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder VBI minor 225 ivtv: Create DMA encoder VBI stream: 0 x 12740 buffers (0KB total) ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder PCM audio minor 25 ivtv: Create DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 0 x 4608 buffers (0KB total) ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder radio minor 65 ivtv: Create encoder radio stream ivtv: Setting Tuner 56 tuner: type set to 56 (Philips PAL/SECAM multi (FQ1216AME MK4)) by ivtv i2c driv er #1 cx25840: decoder set norm PAL ivtv: ivtv_enc_vbi_thread: pid = 991, itv = 0xf9486994 ivtv: ivtv_enc_thread: pid = 990, itv = 0xf9486994 cx25840: decoder set input (6) cx25840: now setting Tuner input cx25840: set audio input (0) ivtv: Switching standard to PAL. cx25840: decoder set norm PAL ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 150, card #1 ivtv:
Re: [mythtv-users] Feature Idea - P2P Bad Idea
Man... have to tread lightly here... I sure don't want MythTV in any crosshairs. -+- I Like My MythTV -+- (ooppss.. hope I don't get sued for that...) Evan Alter wrote: The only thing I want to add to this is that although actively promoting stealing of copyrighted material is a terrible terrible idea for MythTV to become a part of we have to keep our minds open to the legal use. For example http://www.systm.org is an online TV show that is distributed over bittorrent. So long as any p2p software is geared towards allowing people to get that kind of content is fine. On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 13:54 -0400, dean collins wrote: Feature Idea - NEW I'm sitting here downloading a few torrents when an idea for a mytTV feature popped into my head (it's prolly because of the heat). The idea of combining a media sharing applet into mythTV based on the torrent model. In other words, as you're watching a particular TV channel, you become a seed where others can watch the same channel you're watching. As others connect to your server to watch the stream, they themselves become servers which others can connect to, and the video stream would remain intact so long as the original seed continued to watch a particular station. I don't know if I'm explaining this well, or if I am, if what I'm thinking is possible, but if it were, the idea of being able to increase the number of channels you have available to could be quite exciting. Just a thought -joe ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I agree with what everyone else posted about this in that it is a really bad idea to open Myth tv to P2P ?Cease and desist? orders. Having said that ? this feature is really similar to the Cybersky.tv software from germany, they have won quite a few cases in the EU courts recently because they don?t actually cache the content only pass it on. Like I said bad idea, we don?t have the funding to fight these court cases. Cheers, Dean ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MythTV and DVD ISO files?
Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 10:40:29 -0500 Neil wrote: I don't have a keyboard in my mythbox. heres a tip. If you have another linux machine you can run mythfrontend over the network. I assume you have ssh set up on your mythbox. On your desktop box do: ssh -X mythbox (give your password) mythfrontend mythfrontend should appear on your desktop. Watching TV will probably not work over the network, but doing setup etc should work. If running on a relatively recent version of OpenSSH (and you should /never/ run on an old version), I recommend: ssh -Y mythbox The -X, by default, results in untrusted X11 forwarding, so you'll typically get some problems with nearly all X apps (including MythTV) such as Bad atom this and X Error that because they need trusted access to display resources. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfrontend and frontend only
You cannot have a complete setup without the backend component (which requires mysql)somewhere on the network, or even in the same box. The first thing the frontend does when it starts up is to log in to the backend. Then when you want to watch TV it asks the backend for the ringbuffer if I'm not mistaken. Its raelly not that much extra work to setup mysql and the backend. Devan On 7/4/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 03:10:40PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: I use Gentoo and I compiled mythtv-0.18 with the frontendonly flag and when it's done, each time I try to execute mythtv-setup or mythfrontend, I get thrown into a setup screen to put my mysql db particulars. It's a front-end, I don't want to have mysql if it's not needed. Possible? (Or does myth use mysql to store all the shows and what not?)The mythbackend uses mysql-server to store practically everything butthe captured video feed.A frontend-only machine will need to have mysql-client installed so that it can interact with the remotemysql-server.There are at least three places on the backend machine where you willhave to make manual changes to enable the remote mythfrontend to work: 1) Port permissions: open holes in the firewall and edit/etc/hosts.allow, etc. so that the frontend machine can connect tomysql-server on the back end.2) Mysql permissions: use the mysql client on the server box to connect to the mythconverg database and grant permissions to the mythfrontendhost.3) Myth configuration: use a FQDN or IP address instead of the defaultlocalhost.Although the frontend will have its own mysql connection information to reach the server, it then substitutes whateverconfiguration it downloads from the server, which means that if themythbackend is using localhost then the frontend will connect to the server and then die because it tries to make subsequent connections toits own localhost.On a frontend-only machine you don't need to run mythtv-setup as that'sused for configuring the capture card, etc. on the backend.Just start mythfrontend and if it doesn't find ~/.mythtv/mysql.txt it will ask youfor the location of the backend mysql server and create the mysql.txtfile for you.It will then go through the frontend configuration pages and save that data on the backend mysql server in the settings table.DO NOT enable check-boxes for mythfilldatabase, etc. on the frontendmachine if the backend machine is already setup to do that.After that you're ready to watch TV!___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users-- Thanks,Devan Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] VCD Playback
On 7/3/05, Marc Tousignant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like you forgot to compile VCD support into mythdvd. Optical Disks menu should contain Play DVD, Play VCD. Mine also contains Import DVD and Import CD From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Devan LippmanSent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 1:04 AMTo: Discussion about mythtv Subject: [mythtv-users] VCD Playback Trying to figure out where the VCD settings are...Currently I have mythdvd using mplayer and this works for DVDs but when I try a VCD it doesn't work (nothing happens). I know that the VCD will work in mplayer outside of Myth. Mine also has these menu items. But Utilites/Setup Setup Media Settings DVD Settings Play Settings appears to only have settings for DVDs -- Thanks,Devan Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Feature Idea - P2P Bad Idea
There is a huge difference between recording a show for your personal enjoyment or archiving, which is not really different to a vcr, and on the other hand rebroadcasting it via bittorrent. myth is primarily geared to organising the recording and viewing of live tv. That is only legal to the extent that it is fair use. Myth should not risk the wrath of the tv companies by becoming a vehicle for illegal torrenting. If you want to share programs you have recorded with myth, do so outside the immediate myth environment. If you introduced a facility within myth to automatically announce/seed a torrent the only conclusion that could be drawn is that you were going to use for an illegal purpose. I know that bittorrent has many legal uses. IMHO adding it in to mythtv would only serve bt's detractors. On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 15:31:13 -0500 Evan Alter wrote: The only thing I want to add to this is that although actively promoting stealing of copyrighted material is a terrible terrible idea for MythTV to become a part of we have to keep our minds open to the legal use. For example http://www.systm.org is an online TV show that is distributed over bittorrent. So long as any p2p software is geared towards allowing people to get that kind of content is fine. On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 13:54 -0400, dean collins wrote: Feature Idea - NEW __ I'm sitting here downloading a few torrents when an idea for a mytTV feature popped into my head (it's prolly because of the heat). The idea of combining a media sharing applet into mythTV based on the torrent model. In other words, as you're watching a particular TV channel, you become a seed where others can watch the same channel you're watching. As others connect to your server to watch the stream, they themselves become servers which others can connect to, and the video stream would remain intact so long as the original seed continued to watch a particular station. I don't know if I'm explaining this well, or if I am, if what I'm thinking is possible, but if it were, the idea of being able to increase the number of channels you have available to could be quite exciting. Just a thought -joe ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I agree with what everyone else posted about this in that it is a really bad idea to open Myth tv to P2P ?Cease and desist? orders. Having said that ? this feature is really similar to the Cybersky.tv software from germany, they have won quite a few cases in the EU courts recently because they don?t actually cache the content only pass it on. Like I said bad idea, we don?t have the funding to fight these court cases. Cheers, Dean ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Evan Alter [EMAIL PROTECTED] SKYLIST Email Marketing Solutions that Deliver Service You Can Trust You are receiving this email message from a representative of SKYLIST, Inc. 13171 Pond Springs Road, Austin, TX 78729 Toll Free: 877.250.2922 To cease all communication with SKYLIST, visit http://www.skylist.net/unsubscribe or send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] mythweb error in program_listing.php
All, after I used mythweb to delete a channel, I now get the following error when starting to browse at /mythweb/ : Fatal Error at /var/www/html/mythweb/includes/programs.php, line 107: load_all_program_data() attempted with an empty $Channels array I've gotten as far as figuring out that this is related to loading the channel list in load_all_channels() in line 42 of program_listings.php. This function is defined in channels.php, and is returning an empty set. What I don't understand is why this is happening. This function does one of two things, either it loads the I have list of favorite channels, or all channels from the database. As I have never set favorites, this is empty, but the second case should return a set. When I hit other pages directly (by typing the url in, eg /mythweb/recording_schedules.php), this still works fine. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks, Johan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_uk_rt - only 1 week of data?
Having just manually run mythfilldatabase again to investigate a listings discrepancy[1], I notice that I now have 14 days of guide data again. Hopefully that means it was a temporary problem with the Radio Times site. kim. [1] I noticed the myth backend shutting down when it was supposed to be recording today's Live 8 concert. It appeared that the planned coverage had been extended[2] at some point in the last couple of days, and that Digiguide (which I happened to have running on my desktop) was quicker to update their listings than the Radio Times, which was still showing a 1.5 hour show at 1:20 this morning when mythfilldatabase last ran. Grr, but unavoidable. [2] I did the sensible thing and immediately told myth to record the film that it thought was on instead. However, I notice that having run mythfilldatabase, it still thinks it's recording a non-existent film - I assume because it only queries the database at the start of a recording. This raises the question of whether this behaviour is desirable, in the unlikely (but certainly with DVB EPG (or teletext?) sourced data possible) event that the listings change while a programme is being recorded. It seems that changing the end time (or aborting an unwanted recording) on the fly would be quite handy, especially with special events like Live 8 or sports finals which are liable to cause the schedule to change at short notice. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb error in program_listing.php
Well, do I feel pretty stupid. Turn out in /mythweb/settings_mythweb.php, there is a checkbox for 'only display favorites'. Unchecking this fixed the issue. However, this should probably be fixed in the code... Johan - Original Message - From: Johan Reinalda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 4:06 PM Subject: [mythtv-users] mythweb error in program_listing.php All, after I used mythweb to delete a channel, I now get the following error when starting to browse at /mythweb/ : Fatal Error at /var/www/html/mythweb/includes/programs.php, line 107: load_all_program_data() attempted with an empty $Channels array I've gotten as far as figuring out that this is related to loading the channel list in load_all_channels() in line 42 of program_listings.php. This function is defined in channels.php, and is returning an empty set. What I don't understand is why this is happening. This function does one of two things, either it loads the I have list of favorite channels, or all channels from the database. As I have never set favorites, this is empty, but the second case should return a set. When I hit other pages directly (by typing the url in, eg /mythweb/recording_schedules.php), this still works fine. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks, Johan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MythTV and DVD ISO files?
On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:39:07 -0400 Michael T. Dean wrote: ssh -X mythbox (give your password) mythfrontend mythfrontend should appear on your desktop. Watching TV will probably not work over the network, but doing setup etc should work. If running on a relatively recent version of OpenSSH (and you should /never/ run on an old version), I recommend: ssh -Y mythbox The -X, by default, results in untrusted X11 forwarding, so you'll typically get some problems with nearly all X apps (including MythTV) such as Bad atom this and X Error that because they need trusted access to display resources. Mike Ah the light goes on, yes I have been having those errors for a while now. -Y it is then! Thanks. -- Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Anyone tried MPEG2 to MPEG2 transcoding?
Is it possible to do this as a user job ? you can use your own command line and set whatever options you want. On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 22:31:56 +1000 Phill Edwards wrote: Looking through the archives I've found that it's possible top set up MPEG2 to MPEG2 automatic transcoding by issuing the following update command in mysql: update recordingprofiles set videocodec = MPEG-2 where name = MPEG2; I want to give this a go because I want to keep my recordings in MPEG2 format but want to reduce the size of the recordings. I can't adjust the original recording profile because I'm using DVB-T capture cards which don't encode, they just dump the broadcast MPEG2 stream straight to disk. So I figure I can reduce the size of them by transcoding to a lower bit rate MPEG2 file. I need them in MPEG2 format to work on my xbmcmythtv python scripts frontend. The question is - has anyone tried this, and what were your results? I read a post that said the reason you have to enable it via a mysql command is because it can be a bit dodgy which is why it's not turned on by default. Should I expect that it's going to play up quite badly and defrost my freezer overnight, or will it be OK? Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: ffmpeg or nuvexport as a user job
um, turn off --confirm, for one.. and could always add a 12 2/dev/null to the end of it That did the trick Chris, thanks. I misread your man page: for --confirm I thought it was used to keep dialog from needing confirmation. Here's my complete line and it works fine: nuvexport --infile=%FILE% --cutlist --path=/myth/nuvexport/nuv2psp/ --nice=19 --mode=psp --deinterlace --noise_reduction --crop /dev/null Thanks for the hard work on nuvexport, it's knocked several items off my wishlist at once :) -- Lawrence Campbell ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Getting a Hauppauge PVR-500 PAL to work
On 7/6/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, i have my /dev/video0 working. but the /dev/video1 still only gets RED static. I use now the 0.3.6x and thats the output I get: vtv: START INIT IVTV ivtv: version 0.3.6 (x) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 SMP preempt PENTIUM4 4KSTACKS gcc-3.3 [snip] does anyone know how to fix, this RED-static thing? Now that you have a new problem, it might be time to search the archives again. I remember when I was having tuner issues a few months ago, searching the archives I found a bunch of posts about red static. They did not help me, as red static was not my problem. --Garry ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Black screen when usingpvr-350decoder/tv-outoption
El Miércoles, 6 de Julio de 2005 19:06, escribió:
For some reason this bounced sending it to myth mailing list so I'm sending
it direct.
John
Ok I'm confused. IVTV doesn't appear to return EINVAL from that write call.
Anyway 0.3.2c is fairly old I would suggest that we start by upgrading to
the latest version. Then lets try to get things working slowly.
Ahh.. ¿EINVAL? Let me start from the begining:
The ivtv drivers have a kernel module called saa7127. This module has
parameters, like test_image, output_enable, output_select... I was
following TVout howto. But I couldn't get any parameter to work. I always had
the same error:
saa7127: unsupported module, tainting kernel.
saa7127: Unknown parameter `test-image'
saa7127: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones
load_module: err 0xfffe (dont worry)
So, I edited the source code of the saa7127.c and did the modfications by
hand. For example:
static int debug = 1;
static int test_image =0;
A changed to:
static int debug = 1;
static int test_image = 1;
I did the same for the standar type (ntsc or pal):
static int saa7127_set_norm(struct i2c_client *client)
{
struct saa7127 *encoder = (struct saa7127
*)i2c_get_clientdata(client);
const struct i2c_reg_value *inittab;
switch (encoder-norm) {
case SAA7127_VIDEO_NORM_NTSC:
dprintk(1, Selecting NTSC video Standard\n);
inittab = saa7127_init_config_ntsc;
encoder-reg_61 = SAA7127_NTSC_DAC_CONTROL;
break;
case SAA7127_VIDEO_NORM_PAL:
dprintk(1, Selecting PAL video Standard\n);
inittab = saa7127_init_config_pal;
encoder-reg_61 = SAA7127_PAL_DAC_CONTROL;
break;
default:
return -EINVAL;
}
/* Write Table */
saa7127_write_inittab(client, inittab);
return 0;
}
A changed to:
static int saa7127_set_norm(struct i2c_client *client)
{
struct saa7127 *encoder = (struct saa7127
*)i2c_get_clientdata(client);
const struct i2c_reg_value *inittab;
switch (encoder-norm) {
case SAA7127_VIDEO_NORM_NTSC:
dprintk(1, Selecting PAL video Standard\n);
inittab = saa7127_init_config_pal;
encoder-reg_61 = SAA7127_PAL_DAC_CONTROL;
break;
case SAA7127_VIDEO_NORM_PAL:
dprintk(1, Selecting PAL video Standard\n);
inittab = saa7127_init_config_pal;
encoder-reg_61 = SAA7127_PAL_DAC_CONTROL;
break;
default:
return -EINVAL; OOPS
}
/* Write Table */
saa7127_write_inittab(client, inittab);
return 0;
}
So it always use PAL (whatever the standard is). Mythtv does something that
return EINVAL when calling this function.
I will email the ivtv list to see if they can fix the parmeters on the saa7127
module.
Thanks,
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Re: [mythtv-users] Duplicate channels for HDTV alongside analog cable...
(I always forget to hit reply all, or fix the To: to make sure it goes to the list and the not the previous reply..) I've gotten much further, but am still baffled on what the above script did/does. Without using the above script I can create a zap2it listing of the broadcast channels, limit them to just digital channels, and set that up as a video source no problem. I then download the program info with mythfilldatabase, and all is well. I don't see what a 'full scan of existing transports' even does as far as something useful, how it's useful, and most importantly, what that script does other than just combine the 2 sources... What I can do currently: Surf the channels (which doesn't work as I thought it would) via Live-TV. I have to switch tuners manually to tune either HD channels or analog cable channels, otherwise it just tunes the channels that the current tuner is capable of tuning. I can record things listed in the program guide, and it works just fine. The channels that I do get info for (from zap2it) are the (for example) 4_1 channels (which tune fine), where 41 will tune just fine, there is no program info for it (and the channels are the same channel, one (4_1) was obtained from zap2it, where 41 was obtained from a full scan of existing transports). Any clearing of my confusion is very welcome! Thanks! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] hdtv from a cable box
I can't seem to find a clear answer on this, so I'll just ask. Currently, I have a cable box that I control with an IRBlaster so that mythtv can change the channels and all that. Works great. Now that I have a new HDTV big screen, I would like to order the HDTV channels from Comcast. This would mean a new cable box. Is it possible to control an HD cable box with an irblaster and capture the HDTV output using a card like the pcHDTV HD-3000 just like I am currently doing with my PVR-250 and the old cable box. Or is the only HD content I will ever be able to capture going to be the OTA signals I get from the antena? It just seems like it would work the same since the HDTV signal coming out of the cable box to the tv could just be captured by the myth box in the exact same way the old pvr250 did, right? I'm not trying to capture the output with a firewire cable or anything fancy like that. Thanks to everyone for all the great help I have received from these forums! Adam ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Configuring X with my GF4 for TV Out
I am currently having issues getting the resolution right in my TV-Out setup. I had no luck using Jarod's guide with my GF4MX440, so I kind of scrounged things together from multiple sources. Right now the resolution for the TV is getting set to the same as the monitor on the system. The way I am thinking, it seems to me that the way I have set it up(no experience with configuring X) the TV just clones the monitor. I guess I am kind of lost on how to set this whole thing up. Does anyone have a working config using nvidia for ONLY tv out? Thanks # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display Section ServerLayout Identifier single head configuration Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files # RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like .txt or .db). There is normally # no need to change the default. # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules FontPath unix/:7100 EndSection Section Module Load v4l Load dbe Load extmod Load fbdevhw Load glx Load record Load freetype Load type1 Load dri EndSection Section InputDevice # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)) # Option Xleds 1 2 3 # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable. # Option XkbDisable # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the # lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S. # keyboard, you will probably want to use: # Option XkbModel pc102 # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use: # Option XkbModel microsoft # # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting. # For example, a german layout can be obtained with: # Option XkbLayout de # or: # Option XkbLayout de # Option XkbVariantnodeadkeys # # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and # control keys, use: # Option XkbOptionsctrl:swapcaps # Or if you just want both to be control, use: # Option XkbOptionsctrl:nocaps # Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout us EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device /dev/input/mice Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 Option Emulate3Buttons yes EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 VendorName Monitor Vendor ModelNameSDM-S73 DisplaySize 340270 HorizSync28.0 - 65.0 VertRefresh 57.0 - 75.0 Option dpms EndSection Section Device #Option NvAGP 1 Identifier Videocard0 Driver nvidia VendorName Videocard vendor BoardName NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic) Option TwinView true Option SecondMonitorHorizSync 30-50 Option SecondMonitorVertRefresh 60 Option TVStandard NTSC-M Option TVOutFormat SVIDEO Option TwinViewOrientation Clone Option ConnectedMonitor CRT, TV Option MetaModes 1280x1024,1024x768; 1024x768,1024x768; 800x600,800x600; 640x480 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Videocard0 MonitorMonitor0 DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 Modes800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes640x480 EndSubSection EndSection ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] hdtv from a cable box
On 7/6/05, SamS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't seem to find a clear answer on this, so I'll just ask. Currently, I have a cable box that I control with an IRBlaster so that mythtv can change the channels and all that. Works great. Now that I have a new HDTV big screen, I would like to order the HDTV channels from Comcast. This would mean a new cable box. Is it possible to control an HD cable box with an irblaster and capture the HDTV output using a card like the pcHDTV HD-3000 just like I am currently doing with my PVR-250 and the old cable box. Or is the only HD content I will ever be able to capture going to be the OTA signals I get from the antena? It just seems like it would work the same since the HDTV signal coming out of the cable box to the tv could just be captured by the myth box in the exact same way the old pvr250 did, right? I'm not trying to capture the output with a firewire cable or anything fancy like that. Thanks to everyone for all the great help I have received from these forums! Adam ___ I have thought about this, and seen some replies that would confirm what I think. If you have your HDTV cable box decoding the signal, you don't need an pcHDTV3000 to capture it. Any capture card would do, your existing PVR-250 for example. However.. To capture a truly High Def image, you would need a capture card that captures Component/DVI/HDMI input. That's a CAPTURE card that CAPTURES those formats, not an Nvidia with DVI Out, this is just for output. So I would think, in theory anyway, that you could indeed capture it. You'd send the signal via whatever transport you have on your cable box (maybe an Svid-out) to your PVR, and then out to your TV via whatever you currently use. This would mean degredation, but it would probably still look a WHOLE LOT better than standard on a High Def TV. Just a thought. The other side of the answer that I've seen on the list is basically: If it's encrypted, nope. If it's not, using QAM through HDTV capture card might work. My understanding of this route is that you bypass the cable box, plug the cable directly into the HDTV tuner card, and go from there. Cool ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] hdtv from a cable box
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 21:09 -0400, SamS wrote: I can't seem to find a clear answer on this, so I'll just ask. Currently, I have a cable box that I control with an IRBlaster so that mythtv can change the channels and all that. Works great. Now that I have a new HDTV big screen, I would like to order the HDTV channels from Comcast. This would mean a new cable box. Is it possible to control an HD cable box with an irblaster and capture the HDTV output using a card like the pcHDTV HD-3000 just like I am currently doing with my PVR-250 and the old cable box. Or is the only HD content I will ever be able to capture going to be the OTA signals I get from the antena? It just seems like it would work the same since the HDTV signal coming out of the cable box to the tv could just be captured by the myth box in the exact same way the old pvr250 did, right? I'm not trying to capture the output with a firewire cable or anything fancy like that. Uhhh... why not do firewire? Just ask them for a cable box with firewire, connect to your backend, and you can both capture AND change channels over firewire. It's been fine for me for about 4 months... I've just started doing DVB with my HD-3000 card and I'm getting mixed results so far. I predict lots more tweaking of channel settings for me this weekend... -I ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Memory requirements
Hi, I'm currently configuring my myth setup. I have a master backend running on an AMD Sempron 1Ghz, and a front end on a Pentium-M 2Ghz. I have 1.5Gb RAM to distribute among the two. I can put 1Gb in the frontend and 512Mb in the backend, or vice versa. Which do you guys think is best? Thanks. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] hdtv from a cable box
SamS wrote: I can't seem to find a clear answer on this, so I'll just ask. Currently, I have a cable box that I control with an IRBlaster so that mythtv can change the channels and all that. Works great. Now that I have a new HDTV big screen, I would like to order the HDTV channels from Comcast. This would mean a new cable box. Is it possible to control an HD cable box with an irblaster and capture the HDTV output using a card like the pcHDTV HD-3000 just like I am currently doing with my PVR-250 and the old cable box. Or is the only HD content I will ever be able to capture going to be the OTA signals I get from the antena? The pcHDTV cards can capture OTA signals and, by some accounts, unencrypted QAM cable content. Whether your provider delivers the HDTV content to you via unencrypted QAM is questionable. That being said, probably the best way to get HDTV into your Myth box from a cable provider is firewire. Get a new cable box with firewire outputs, make sure the cable provider outputs the HDTV content unencrypted via the firewire port, and you should be good to go. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Playback has blueish colors...
Robin Edgar Hansen wrote: Hello list-members, Does anyone have a clue as to why the playback/liveTV on mythfrontend has wrong colors? I see nothing suspicious in the log output from The recorded material is OK and playback with mplayer works fine *before* mythfrontend has run. Afterwards mplayer shows the same blueish colors, but only when using XV for output (whereas -vo X11 remains OK). Restarting the X-server makes mplayer -vo xv work again. So, has the X server (or the XV part) been put in a bad state? Robin, Finally I have found someone with the same problem I have! Have you tried to press the G key while in liveTV? In my case I can get the picture ok but it does not stick. If I close mythtv after pressing G and getting the picture ok then mplayer works ok. So somehow the adjustment is transfer to the ivtv module, however if you change channels after pressing the G key and having the picture ok, when you go to the new selected channel the color is wrong again. Seems that the changes are not change in the tables and whenever mythtv reads it get the same old values.? I wonder if there is a problem with permissions. Let's keep in touch and see if you can solve the proble, Regards, -=terry(Denver)=- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Configuring X with my GF4 for TV Out
On Jul 6, 2005, at 7:13 PM, Justin Popa wrote: I am currently having issues getting the resolution right in my TV-Out setup. I had no luck using Jarod's guide with my GF4MX440, so I kind of scrounged things together from multiple sources. Right now the resolution for the TV is getting set to the same as the monitor on the system. The way I am thinking, it seems to me that the way I have set it up(no experience with configuring X) the TV just clones the monitor. I guess I am kind of lost on how to set this whole thing up. Does anyone have a working config using nvidia for ONLY tv out? Thanks Here are the Device and Screen sections I have. I'm not currently using svideo on my GF4 card, but this is the config that worked quite well when I was. This configuration was for svideo out ONLY. I did not have a monitor connected. Section Device Identifier Videocard0 Driver nvidia VendorName Videocard vendor BoardName NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX (generic) Option TVStandard NTSC-M Option TVOutFormat SVIDEO Option ConnectedMonitor TV Option TVOverScan 0.7 Option NoLogo TRUE Option HWCursor TRUE Option RederAccel FALSE EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Videocard0 MonitorMonitor1 DefaultDepth24 SubSection Display Virtual 800 600 Depth24 Modes 800x600 EndSubSection EndSection ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ffmpeg or nuvexport as a user job
On 6-Jul-05, at 2:56 PM, Chris Petersen wrote: um, turn off --confirm, for one.. and could always add a 12 2/dev/null to the end of it Small correction, the dev null part has to come first, 1/dev/null 21, otherwise stdout will go to wherever stderr was going before the null redirection. - George ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Recording: how to adjust color?
Walt Howd wrote: Are you using Xv? Do you have that selected in setup? You could try setting the brightness usign xvattr. Walt, Yes I have selected xv. I have not tried to change the setup with xvattr, I will try it as soon as I get home. Thxs, -=terry=- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Crashes when stopping recordings
I have a via epia 1 system with a pvr-350. It works fine for the most part, but mythfrontend crashes sometimes when I press the delete or back buttons on my remote while watching recordings. As far as I can tell, this is a random occurence (spelling?). I have my X session set up so it restarts when mythfrontend crashes. But that only brings up KDM, and I have to hook a mouse up to my box and click the login button. So I guess the question comes down to, is there a way I can prevent mythfrontend from crashing, or is there a way I can make mythfrontend come back up after it crashes? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] [OT] NForce2 Mono sound only
This is somewhat off-topic, but it's preventing me from moving forward with my Myth re-install and the 7NIF2 is such a popular motherboard for Myth users that I figured I would ask here. I always have the worst luck with sound in Linux. Every distro, every sound card, always a problem. Except the first time I installed myth (about two years ago), when things magically went flawlessly. Not this time. After much humming and hawing and starting over again, I finally got my 7NIF2 (intel8x0, nForce 2) on-board sound card to play sound under all users in all circumstances. Problem is, it's always in mono. I know the card can do stereo, but no matter what I do, it always plays in mono. I don't even have a left and right slider in alsamixer, just Master Mono and Master. I think my biggest problem is that I'm not even sure where I need to play with things to enable this (or set it as the default) -- .asoundrc, modprobe.conf, somewhere else... My previously working system was FC1, and the current one is FC3. I'm sure someone around here has come across this in the past, thanks! --Trevor ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase shows No Data for some channels
Hello, I'm having some trouble with the proper way to run mythfilldatabase (with DataDirect) to update my listings. Right now it runs every day from cron and it gets listings 14 days into the future. However, some of the channels come back as No Data at around 12-14 days (I guess the listings for those channels aren't known that far into the future). As the days pass, this data propagates closer and closer to the present, even though mythfilldatabase runs every night. It doesn't re-retrieve the data for the days that are missing though, saying for example: Data is already present for Fri Jul 15 2005, skipping. What can I do to tell mythfilldatabase to retrieve data for the days that are missing? Right now I have to run mythtv-setup and clear all my program information (or manually delete it from MySQL), and then run mythfilldatabase so that it re-retrieves everything. Is there some way to automate this? Thanks! Cam ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MythMusic does not tag MP3's?
I just noticed that all of the mp3's that I am creating via MythMusic do not have ID3 tags on them. MythMusic is naming them the way I specified in setup, but the files are not getting tagged. Am I missing something? Thanks,. Matt ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Feature Idea - P2P Bad Idea
Nick Rout wrote: If you want to share programs you have recorded with myth, do so outside the immediate myth environment. exactly ... does it really need to be integrated? up until now it really hasn't, and it works just fine with movies/shows downloaded via bittorrent (not that i'd know, of course ;) ...) if people really want to do that, they can fire up azureus, bitcomet, bit tornado, or any of the other many, many, many bittorrent clients and still use myth to view/organize them I know that bittorrent has many legal uses. IMHO adding it in to mythtv would only serve bt's detractors. exactly, it's playing with fire ... sure, nothing may ever come of it, but i'm sure any developer wouldn't want to fork out the cash for a lawyer when it wasn't their idea in the first place ... -g- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] drive layout (partitions and filsystem types)
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 06:17:03PM -0400, Dewey Smolka wrote: Sounds to me like you need a new email client, Nick. Shows up as a new thread here. Because your client is too braindead to do proper threading. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] How to choose tuner for recording?
I have two backends each with 250 gig of free space. THe first backend has tuner 1 and 2. The second backend has tuner 4. (I lost tuner 3). I notice that when I schedule recordings, the tuner that is almost always selected is tuner 1. This is probably going to fillup my first backend. Is there a way to choose a tuner to use ( and hence a backend) on a per recording basis? Thanks ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] LCDproc buttons
Greetings I'm in the process of fitting a 2 line LCD display and I'd like to make use of the 6 keys detailed in lcddevice.cpp to allow operation without having to find the IR remote!! Does anyone know where the documentation for matching the LCDd.conf input section and the magic required by mythtv is? From reading the lcdproc info, it looks like a lot of the keys are hardcoded into a menu provided by LCDd which is not very helpful! Do I have to use the free*key contructs? If so, which keys does Myth actually look for? Cheers -- Robin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] hdtv from a cable box
Kevin Kuphal wrote: The pcHDTV cards can capture OTA signals and, by some accounts, unencrypted QAM cable content. Whether your provider delivers the HDTV content to you via unencrypted QAM is questionable. That being said, probably the best way to get HDTV into your Myth box from a cable provider is firewire. Get a new cable box with firewire outputs, make sure the cable provider outputs the HDTV content unencrypted via the firewire port, and you should be good to go. Kevin So you're saying that I could possibly just bypass the capture card completely and actually use the cable box as the hdtv capture device if I get one that supports firewire? If this is the case, then does anyone have any recommendations on what brand/type of hdtv cable box I should request from Comcast? Or maybe could I buy my own and just make sure I get one that does not encrypt the firewire output? Thanks for the help! Adam ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
