Re: [mythtv-users] hdtv from a cable box
Comcast will not authorize receivers they didn't provide you. You have to get it from them. You want the Motorola DCT 6200. The person who takes your order won't know what firewire is, and probably can't guarantee they will deliver a box with it, but whatever they bring you, you can take it back to the office and try to exchange it if it doesn't have FW. You might avoid a tech visit and offer to come pick up the receiver yourself. That way you could make sure you get a 6200 on the spot. You won't know if the firewire is enabled until you test it yourself though. As far as whether all the channels are output on firewire, I think this depends on the area you are in. In Seattle, I don't know of any channels that aren't output on firewire -- even the analog 2 - 99 are encoded to mpeg2. ___ 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 Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:34:46AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: 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: Another possibility is to run VNC on the backend machine. That keeps all of the X11 protocol within the box and just exports a virtual framebuffer to the client. There are clients for most operating systems as well as for use inside of JVMs. I particularly like the fact that I can close my VNC client and the X11 apps are unaffected, so I can reconnect later (possibly on a different machine) and everything is just the way I left it. You can't really watch video over VNC, but you can start the MythTV frontend on the VNC desktop and get about 0.5 to 1 FPS over a 100MBit connection, which is enough to tell you that the tuner is working and the nuv files are readable. ___ 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'll try it. Quoting Garry Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Crashes when stopping recordings
Brian Wallen wrote: 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? http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-21.html#ss21.2 -- bjm ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase shows No Data for some channels
Cameron Dale wrote: 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. It always fills tomorrow so the info is always refreshed before the day for recording arrives. What can I do to tell mythfilldatabase to retrieve data for the days that are missing? With current svn, mythfilldatabase --max-days 11 would prevent grabbing the last days where some channels may be missing data in the evening. -- bjm ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Cutpoints delayed bad commercial flagging
Can anyone confirm that cutpoints should occur at the correct time (eg no delay) and that this is in fact a bug/bad setting somewhere for just a few of us? Thanks, Matthew. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Carle Sent: Monday, 4 July 2005 9:17 PM To: 'Discussion about mythtv' Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Cutpoints delayed bad commercial flagging -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Phillips Sent: Sunday, 3 July 2005 9:08 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Cutpoints delayed bad commercial flagging On 03/07/2005, at 12:21 PM, Matthew Carle wrote: I usually put cutpoints into a movie before I watch it so I can just let it run (I don't transcode). The problem is that it always plays about 10 seconds after the delete after this point cutpoints. The delete before this point cutpoints don't appear to have the problem (certainly not to the same degree - I havn't noticed it). I have also tried a transcode which also results in the delay. Is this a software limitation or is something not working right? I also have another issue which may be related. Commercial flagging nearly always detects commercials as starting and ending too early (averaging 20-30 seconds). I don't think I've ever seen a commercial break flagged correctly. Is this normal? I am using the all method of flagging. I have similar problems with 0.17 (I'm in Adelaide using DVB-T). End cutpoints end late and commercial flagging is quite spotty (using the all method of detection). The late end cut-points aren't a bug problem and, since commercial breaks tend to be 3 mins, I've just got into the habit of turning flagging off and hitting 3 forward to skip 3 mins when the commercials start. I assume that commercial flagging is optimized for US TV and something in the commercial layouts on Australian free to air channels throws it. It seems to be especially easily fooled by the station's own commercials for upcoming shows that come at the end of ad breaks. I realise commercial flagging is a bit of a black art, so I'm not too surprised it doesn't work in places it probably isn't tuned for. I'm just happy that it works so well otherwise ;) Matt. I can understand how the commercial flagging might not work too well, however the main issue I was wondering about is the cut-point problem. Do people outside of Australia have this problem? I can't really see how it would be related to the video stream (but I'm sure that's possible). I mainly mentioned the commercial flagging in case it is related. Any ideas anyone? Thanks, Matthew. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Cutpoints delayed bad commercial flagging
Around about 07/07/05 11:53, Matthew Carle typed ... Can anyone confirm that cutpoints should occur at the correct time (eg no delay) and that this is in fact a bug/bad setting somewhere for just a few of us? Works OK for me, 0.18, FC3, PVR-350 (with auto=insterted ad-breaks, and manual cut points). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rm -f .signature [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l .signature ls: .signature: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# exit ___ 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?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another possibility is to run VNC on the backend machine. ... You can't really watch video over VNC, Which is actually kind of ironic--as the VNC framebuffer is transmitted across the network as a video stream. :) Mike ___ 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
Chad wrote: To capture a truly High Def image, you would need a capture card that captures Component/DVI/HDMI input. The hard part is getting enough disks to store the 150 to 625 GiB/hr so that your processor can go back and encode it to MPEG at (far) less than real time. See: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/138595?#138595 Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] NForce2 Mono sound only
Trevor Hill wrote: 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. left slider up = q right slider up = e left/right slider up = w left slider down = z right slider down = c left/right slider down = x See if you have one channel muted... Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] no listings
Milos Prudek wrote: I live in a country where no listings are available. No EPG, none planned. Czech republic. How should I set up mythtv-setup for such country? In mythtv-setup / Video Source Setup, XMLTV listings grabber, I must choose something. There is no option no grabbing. What should I select? Should I select for instance Germany, and then in console window do not import any channels, and then run mythfilldatabase -manual? Are you sure about that? http://www.webstep.net/tv_grab_cz/ Is Myth able to search for channels automagically (auto-tuning), or do I need to enter channels manually? Yes and no. Do you use DVB? Cheers, Allan. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] theme question - spacing between menu items
On 7/5/05, Craig Tinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do I go about changing the spacing between menu items? I have them placed where I want them to match my background.. I've tried various combos but nothing yet.. The background section of the theme.xml can use several tag to control the layout of your buttons. buttonarea - Controls the physical area for the buttons. (Required) buttonspread - Controls whether myth spreads out the buttons to use all of the available space. (Optional, defaults to yes) buttoncenter - Controls whether or not buttons are centered. (Optional, defaults to yes) columns - Controls the maximum number of columns. (Optional) image - The background image to use (overrides the one in the qtlook file) visiblerowlimit - Controls the number of rows that can be on screen at once. So... In order to position a series of buttons over a background image so that they appear to be part of it you would need something like: background style=normal imagebutton_background.jpg/image buttonspreadno/buttonspread buttoncenterno/buttoncenter buttonarea27,117,1200,600/buttonarea visiblerowlimit6/visiblerowlimit columns1/columns /background ___ 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, Stutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BBC1 is the highest quality channel on Freeview I think, I haven't tried changing the recording profile from the default (as installed) settings. The recording profile has no effect for DVB, you're just saving the stream as is. James. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Anyone imon.pad Lircrc (Ahanix/Silverstone)
Hy there I've got a Silverstone L11M case, and my lirc seems to work. Lirc comes with a configurationfile (lircrc) for the imon.pad remote. Does anyone of you have a ~/mythtv/.lircrc file for this remote? I don't mind making one myself, but if some of you had one i didn't have to do this. so does anyone have this file for the imon.pad? thanks ___ 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 07/07/05, James Stembridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/6/05, Stutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BBC1 is the highest quality channel on Freeview I think, I haven't tried changing the recording profile from the default (as installed) settings. The recording profile has no effect for DVB, you're just saving the stream as is. For what it's worth, recording BBC1 will generate the highest load as it's one of the highest MPEG2 bitrate channels, so there's more bus traffic and load on the system to stream it to the hard drive. Probably not that significant though :-) -- Neil Milne ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] theme question - spacing between menu items
Donavan Stanley wrote: On 7/5/05, Craig Tinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do I go about changing the spacing between menu items? I have them placed where I want them to match my background.. I've tried various combos but nothing yet.. The background section of the theme.xml can use several tag to control the layout of your buttons. buttonarea - Controls the physical area for the buttons. (Required) buttonspread - Controls whether myth spreads out the buttons to use all of the available space. (Optional, defaults to yes) buttoncenter - Controls whether or not buttons are centered. (Optional, defaults to yes) columns - Controls the maximum number of columns. (Optional) image - The background image to use (overrides the one in the qtlook file) visiblerowlimit - Controls the number of rows that can be on screen at once. So... In order to position a series of buttons over a background image so that they appear to be part of it you would need something like: background style=normal imagebutton_background.jpg/image buttonspreadno/buttonspread buttoncenterno/buttoncenter buttonarea27,117,1200,600/buttonarea visiblerowlimit6/visiblerowlimit columns1/columns /background Thanks for the answer :) Unfortunately it still doesn't explain the spacing.. For example I have at the minute: background style=normal imagebackground.jpg/image buttonspreadno/buttonspread buttoncenterno/buttoncenter balancerowsno/balancerows buttonarea30,250,800,550/buttonarea visiblerowlimit6/visiblerowlimit columns1/columns /background so it's displaying 6 menu items down the left of the screen starting at about a 1/3 the way down.. but the 6 items are nearly falling off the bottom of the screen. I can't move them up because it won't look right with the background.. so I was wondering how I can change the spacing *between* the menu items - make it smaller so the menu items are closer together.. changing the font size makes no difference.. if I do that then the *perceived* space between the menu items are larger - although it's technically the same. am currently looking at: genericbutton ... text area60,8,3,0/area am thinking that might have something to do with it but it doesn't seem to work as expected any ideas? Thanks Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] theme question - spacing between menu items
On 7/7/05, Craig Tinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Donavan Stanley wrote: Thanks for the answer :) Unfortunately it still doesn't explain the spacing.. For example I have at the minute: background style=normal imagebackground.jpg/image buttonspreadno/buttonspread buttoncenterno/buttoncenter balancerowsno/balancerows buttonarea30,250,800,550/buttonarea visiblerowlimit6/visiblerowlimit columns1/columns /background so it's displaying 6 menu items down the left of the screen starting at about a 1/3 the way down.. but the 6 items are nearly falling off the bottom of the screen. The images you're using for your button on/off are too tall aparently. genericbutton ... text area60,8,3,0/area am thinking that might have something to do with it but it doesn't seem to work as expected Well, that depends on what you expect it to do... That section determines where the text appears in releation to the upper left corner of the button image. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Deleting an Imported CD
How do you delete an imported CD? I was just playing to see how it worked. I thought it might grab the track titles from the Web and it didn't. I didn't provide any information about the CD. I am reading MythMusic installation instructions and reading the forum. Is there anywhere else I could look for some conciseinformation? Steve__Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] UK Freeview compatible tuner
Thanks everyone. I see 100% CPU idle, but load at 0.27 when mythfrontend and backend is idle. Which does not make sense. This is on FC3 with 2 Twinahain cards. Greg On 07/07/05, Neil Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/07/05, James Stembridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/6/05, Stutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BBC1 is the highest quality channel on Freeview I think, I haven't tried changing the recording profile from the default (as installed) settings. The recording profile has no effect for DVB, you're just saving the stream as is. For what it's worth, recording BBC1 will generate the highest load as it's one of the highest MPEG2 bitrate channels, so there's more bus traffic and load on the system to stream it to the hard drive. Probably not that significant though :-) -- Neil Milne ___ 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] [OT] NForce2 Mono sound only
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 23:05, Trevor Hill wrote: 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! Heh. I've got the same board (running FC1) and I can't even get my mixer to work at all -- it looks like it's working, but there's never any change in the actual volume levels. Good luck. -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?
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. Actually, this sounds like what I AM looking for! I want a Myth file with MPEG2 MP3 - I just want it to use up less space than the default recording size that I get off DVB-T capture. FYI, after issuing the mysql update I set up a MPEG2 -- MPEG2 transcode rule but they are all failing with an error according to the job status screen. I will need to take a look at the log files to see what the problem is. Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Playback has blueish colors...
gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) wrote: Teruel de Campo MD wrote: 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, i had this same problem (tho' i didn't know about the g option) ... it was solved by turning off XV color control in the settings ... I have xv controls unchecked (I am referring to the xv control in the mythfronend setup correct?) and still the problem persist. I know I have xv off because now the F key does not do anything, is this correct? The G key still works and still does the trick I describe above. Should the G key worked when xv controls are unchecked in the setup? So most likely the problem is related to xv but I am running out of things to do to change the behaviour :-( Thanks for your help. -=terry=- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] UK Freeview compatible tuner
At 10:25 AM 7/7/2005, you wrote: Thanks everyone. I see 100% CPU idle, but load at 0.27 when mythfrontend and backend is idle. Which does not make sense. This is on FC3 with 2 Twinahain cards. load is over (recent) time so you should notice it drop off if it remains idle Greg On 07/07/05, Neil Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/07/05, James Stembridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/6/05, Stutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BBC1 is the highest quality channel on Freeview I think, I haven't tried changing the recording profile from the default (as installed) settings. The recording profile has no effect for DVB, you're just saving the stream as is. For what it's worth, recording BBC1 will generate the highest load as it's one of the highest MPEG2 bitrate channels, so there's more bus traffic and load on the system to stream it to the hard drive. Probably not that significant though :-) -- Neil Milne ___ 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] mtd broken in mythdvd-0.18.1-111.rhfc3.at
On 6/16/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16/06/05, Graeme Wilford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Axel, It looks like mtd is broken in the latest mythdvd RPM (for FC3 at least): [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qf /usr/bin/mtd mythdvd-0.18.1-111.rhfc3.at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l !$ ls -l /usr/bin/mtd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22384 Jun 8 10:23 /usr/bin/mtd [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# !$ /usr/bin/mtd main.o: mtd was built without transcode support. It won't do anything. whereas it worked in 0.18.1-110: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qf /usr/bin/mtd mythdvd-0.18.1-110.rhfc3.at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l !$ ls -l /usr/bin/mtd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 154456 May 31 17:14 /usr/bin/mtd [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# !$ /usr/bin/mtd 2005-06-16 09:26:03.732 New DB connection, total: 1 mtd started at Thu Jun 16 09:26:03 2005 mtd is running on a host called mythtv1 09:26:03: Waiting for connections/jobs 09:26:03: mtd is listening on port 2442 Cheers, Wilf. -- I think this is relevant http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/134879?search_string=transcode;#134879 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Does anyone still happen to have mythdvd-0.18.1-110.rhfc2.at.rpm handy? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] NForce2 Mono sound only
I got it working right out of the box under FC1 and didn't really have much of a problem (well, once I dumped both KDE and gnome and went back to ratpoison). That'll teach me to dork with something that's already working well. On 7/7/05, Joseph A. Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 06 July 2005 23:05, Trevor Hill wrote: 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! Heh. I've got the same board (running FC1) and I can't even get my mixer to work at all -- it looks like it's working, but there's never any change in the actual volume levels. Good luck. -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Memory requirements
On 7/6/05, Edward Rosinzonsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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? Either way will work out fine. I'm running 512MB on a combo front/backend and that is enough memory there with only 175MB used and the rest used for filesystem buffers/cache. -Dave ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] UK Freeview compatible tuner
Sorry forgot to cc list. But basically it is 0.27 for months, even when the host has been idle for days. I am beginging to suspect the DVB cards or drivers. Greg On 07 Jul 2005 07:31:11 -0700, Jim Reith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:25 AM 7/7/2005, you wrote: Thanks everyone. I see 100% CPU idle, but load at 0.27 when mythfrontend and backend is idle. Which does not make sense. This is on FC3 with 2 Twinahain cards. load is over (recent) time so you should notice it drop off if it remains idle Greg On 07/07/05, Neil Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/07/05, James Stembridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/6/05, Stutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BBC1 is the highest quality channel on Freeview I think, I haven't tried changing the recording profile from the default (as installed) settings. The recording profile has no effect for DVB, you're just saving the stream as is. For what it's worth, recording BBC1 will generate the highest load as it's one of the highest MPEG2 bitrate channels, so there's more bus traffic and load on the system to stream it to the hard drive. Probably not that significant though :-) -- Neil Milne ___ 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
I occasionally see load averages of 4.00 4.00 4.00 on my backend even tho CPU is 0% idle, but I see it's all the drivers. Load averages just measures the number of jobs waiting to be processed, so in my case it's 4 job processes (1 the DVB drivers, 1 the PVR350 drivers, and 2 others) being queued. *Shrugs*. Cheers - Piers Greg Cope wrote: Sorry forgot to cc list. But basically it is 0.27 for months, even when the host has been idle for days. I am beginging to suspect the DVB cards or drivers. Greg On 07 Jul 2005 07:31:11 -0700, Jim Reith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:25 AM 7/7/2005, you wrote: Thanks everyone. I see 100% CPU idle, but load at 0.27 when mythfrontend and backend is idle. Which does not make sense. This is on FC3 with 2 Twinahain cards. load is over (recent) time so you should notice it drop off if it remains idle Greg On 07/07/05, Neil Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/07/05, James Stembridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/6/05, Stutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BBC1 is the highest quality channel on Freeview I think, I haven't tried changing the recording profile from the default (as installed) settings. The recording profile has no effect for DVB, you're just saving the stream as is. For what it's worth, recording BBC1 will generate the highest load as it's one of the highest MPEG2 bitrate channels, so there's more bus traffic and load on the system to stream it to the hard drive. Probably not that significant though :-) -- Neil Milne ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] theme question - spacing between menu items
Donavan Stanley wrote: On 7/5/05, Craig Tinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do I go about changing the spacing between menu items? I have them placed where I want them to match my background.. I've tried various combos but nothing yet.. The background section of the theme.xml can use several tag to control the layout of your buttons. buttonarea - Controls the physical area for the buttons. (Required) buttonspread - Controls whether myth spreads out the buttons to use all of the available space. (Optional, defaults to yes) buttoncenter - Controls whether or not buttons are centered. (Optional, defaults to yes) columns - Controls the maximum number of columns. (Optional) image - The background image to use (overrides the one in the qtlook file) visiblerowlimit - Controls the number of rows that can be on screen at once. So... In order to position a series of buttons over a background image so that they appear to be part of it you would need something like: background style=normal imagebutton_background.jpg/image buttonspreadno/buttonspread buttoncenterno/buttoncenter buttonarea27,117,1200,600/buttonarea visiblerowlimit6/visiblerowlimit columns1/columns /background ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ok.. fixed! thanks for the suggestion that the buttons being used were too large :) Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] NForce2 Mono sound only
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/7/2005 10:25 AM
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 23:05, Trevor Hill wrote:
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 don't have that motherboard, but I have an Abit N7F which is based on nForce2.
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...
This is from my gentoo system, but you might get some mileage out of it on FC
if you can figure out where to put these items...
*-
ALSA module load options:
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
options snd cards_limit=1
*-
.asoundrc file for my mythtv user:
pcm.nforce-hw {
type hw
card 0
}
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm nforce
}
pcm.nforce {
type dmix
ipc_key 1234
slave {
pcm hw:0,0
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 4096
rate 44100
}
}
ctl.nforce-hw {
type hw
card 0
}
*
Good luck.
Chris Wieringa
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[mythtv-users] mythdvd rpm w/o broken mtd
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[mythtv-users] Using mencoder by converting cutlist to mencoder's EDL file : Please see
Hi,
I am currently using mythtranscode + mencoder to encode my mpeg2
recordings from PVR350. I have found that using mythtranscode slows
down the encoding quite a bit. If I encode the same file using
mencoder directly it adds up 10-20(sometimes up to 30) frames per
second to the encoding speed. So I thought why not use mencoder's EDL
feature to get the effect of removing commercials (the cutlist). So I
developed following script.
Could somebody else comment on this script, whether I am doing it
right or wrong. I used it on one program and it worked fine.
If it works fine, I will be glad that I shared some knowledge with mythtv users.
Currently it is very crude (it just displays the edl entries on the
screen, but I will polish it later)
Regards from
VJ
#!/bin/bash
HOWCALLED=`basename $0`
MYSQL=mysql -u mythtv -h 10.1.0.1 mythconverg -s
MYSQL=mysql -u root mythconverg -s
function usage() {
echo usage: $HOWCALLED [Myth NUV files];
}
function frame2time() {
ms=`echo $1 \* 1000 / 25.0 | bc`
s=`echo $ms / $sdiv | bc`
ms=`echo $ms % $sdiv | bc`
echo $s.$ms
}
echo -e Processing...
for arg in $*
do
arg=`basename $arg`
cutlist=`echo use mythconverg; select
replace(replace(coalesce(cutlist, ''),' ', ''), '\n', ' ') from
recorded where concat(chanid, '_',
DATE_FORMAT(starttime,'%Y%m%d%H%i%s'), '_',
DATE_FORMAT(endtime,'%Y%m%d%H%i%s'), '.nuv') = '$arg' | $MYSQL`
if [ $cutlist == ]
then
s1=${s1}$title \n
continue
fi
cutlist=`echo $cutlist`
for clip in $cutlist
do
f1=`echo $clip | cut -d - -f1`
if test $f1 -gt 40
then
f1=`echo $f1 - 1 | bc`
else
f1=0
fi
f2=`echo $clip | cut -d - -f2`
f2=`echo $f2 + 1 | bc`
t1=`frame2time $f1`
t2=`frame2time $f2`
echo $t1 $t2 0
done
done
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[mythtv-users] Clearing previously/currently recorded programs from db
I would like to clear the following from the db: o Previously recorded programs o All scheduled recordings o All currently scheduled recordings However, I don't want to touch any of the configuration information, settings, channel info, and programming guides. Basically, after QAing the box, I need to clear all the recordings and info I used to burn in the box and leave only the configuration information. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation at the GTALUG Metting on July 12th, 2005
Hi, I'm doing a presentation on MythTV at the GTALUG ( Greater Toronto Area ) on July 12th, 2005. More details are available here: http://www.gtalug.org/index.php/Meetings:2005-07 Thanks, Colin Smillie http://colin.smillie.ca ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Clearing previously/currently recorded programs from db
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:16:22AM -0700, Monkey Pet wrote: I would like to clear the following from the db: o Previously recorded programs o All scheduled recordings o All currently scheduled recordings However, I don't want to touch any of the configuration information, settings, channel info, and programming guides. Basically, after QAing the box, I need to clear all the recordings and info I used to burn in the box and leave only the configuration information. How about: - Configure box. - mysqldump (back up database). - QA the box. - Delete filesystem stuff (e.g., .nuv files) - Restore database from backup. --Rob signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Sound issue with PVR 250 (ivtv driver)
Hello, I have a problem with the sound on mythtv using a WinTV PVR 250. It vanishes randomly specially when recording one particular channel. I have to say that the card PVR250 works well with mplayer or other. I have made a test playing /dev/video0 with mplayer just after closing mythtv. There was no sound. I tuned with 'ptune.pl' the same channel and then the sound came back. It sounds (not a joke) like mythtv missconfig the ivtv driver. I didn't notice such a problem on my old config (PIII 733 MHz; mandrake 10.1; mythtv 17) apart from the jerky pictures. Can someone help? My config: mob ASUS p4p800-e delux; P4 3.0E GHz; PVR 250; mandriva 2005; mythtv 18.1; SECAM France. The change for mythtv 18.1 points out that the bug about MPEG stream was corrected. It seems not. Yves ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Playing image(.iso) file in Mythvideo
Hi Daniel, I'll try your xine settings tonight. Last night, I tried to change mplayer settings in mythtv settings table. I created a matrix.iso file of Matrix Revolution. I placed the matrix.iso in /video/dvd. I went to mythvideo and saw a matrix yellow folder. :) However, when I clicked it, I saw a small rectangle with droplets on the left and some info on the right. IIRC, runtime was 0, year was a question mark, and so on. I clicked it again and saw the text Loading ... but it went away so quickly. It never got played. Any ideas what I am missing? Thanks, Neil Daniel Segel writes: My messages to the list keep getting bounced, so I'm sending this to you directly. This is what I use: db: mythconverg table: settings UPDATE `settings` SET `data` = '/usr/bin/xine -pfhq -V xshm --no-splash dvd:/%s' WHERE `value` = 'VideoDefaultPlayer' AND `hostname` = 'mythtv' LIMIT 1 ; My mythtv box hostname is 'mythtv' in this case. Daniel Neil wrote: 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
[mythtv-users] Nvidia MX4000 vs ATI 9200SE
I know a lot of you are going to have difference opinions but which should I buy? I am currently going to purchase a PCI card for a smaller desktop box to transfer my mythtv box into. The 2 cheapest PCI cards with S-Video out I could find are the MX4000 and the 9200SE. From benchmarks I see the 9200SE is faster @ 3D but is it a pain to setup? I am currently running a FX5200 which is great at S-Video out. Overscan is definitely a plus. Opinions? TIA Johnny ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase shows No Data for some channels
On 7/7/05, Bruce Markey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cameron Dale wrote: 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. It always fills tomorrow so the info is always refreshed before theday for recording arrives. Yeah, I know. But this does lead to problems like I experienced recently, when I heard about a show later in the week and wanted to schedule it for recording. A search for the show name surprisingly came up with nothing (as that channel had No Data later in the week) and so I couldn't schedule it to be recorded. Having to wait until the day before a show airs to schedule a recording seems to defeat the purpose of having a scheduler. What can I do to tell mythfilldatabase to retrieve data for the days that are missing? With current svn, mythfilldatabase --max-days 11 would preventgrabbing the last days where some channels may be missing datain the evening. I run 0.18.1, but this seems to suggest that mythfilldatabase would only grab 11 days worth of data instead of 14, right? Not an ideal situation, as I like having the data as far into the future as possible, and also I'm not sure if even 11 would be short enough. I'd rather delete the program listings and re-retrieve everything every day than do this. --bjm___mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users How do other people deal with this? Or is this something specific to my listings area (Vancouver, Canada)? Perhaps the best way for me is just to write a script to clear the credits, people, program, programgenres, and programrating tables, and then run mythfilldatabase to reload them. Thanks for your help! Cam ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] frontend crashes exiting live tv
I have a problem that when I exit live tv mode the frontend crashes to the desktop leaving no output other than indicating there was a segfault. This doesn't happen every time, but maybe once out of 5 or 4 times. After it crashes I am able to simply start it again without any other action required. It seems more likely to happen when watching live tv for a while and the buffer has a lot in it--not 20 or 30 minutes, but maybe an hour or two, but that could just be my imagination, or coincidence. Does anyone know what may be causing this or how to troubleshoot it? I haven't seen any specific discussion of this on the mailing list or any discussion forums. I'm using .18.1 with KnoppMyth R5A16. My myth machine is a combined frontend/backend with chaintech 7NIF2, and Hauppauge PVR 250. Thanks ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] XBox questions
On 6/30/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have picked up a used XBox and will be installing Linux and the XBox MythTV frontend. I have a few questions: ... 3) I am making my own wiring harness to plug a standard USB socket into the XBox controller port (in order to load the hacked game-save image). If I can't use the Microsoft IR receiver, is there a USB receiver that's known to work with MythTV? Are you sure that OS and Dashboard version on your Xbox are old enough to support installation using save-game hacks? New versions of the Xbox software are not as susceptible to these tricks. You might need a modchip, and newer versions of Xbox hardware aren't compatible with the open-source Cromwell BIOS. I tried to use the save-game hacks initially myself, and I ended up buying a modchip. My hardware was old enough to use Cromwell. Then I installed using Xebian and Mythtv-xbox. ___ 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
gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) wrote: 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 The point is to have a seemless environment to download/watch/organize content off the net the same as you have to watch over-the-air/cable/etc. The net is just another distribution channel. There is plenty of stuff out there (systm, From the Shadows, etc.) which is perfectly legal and distributed on the net. With cheap digital video cameras and software like iMovie, there will only be more coming. Look at podcasting if you've heard of that. Thousands of hours of audio programming being created by users and distributed over the net. One of the pvrs _will_ have an integrated way to get net content, you can be sure of that. If Myth doesn't have it, it'll be one more reason for people not to use it. 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 ... This is exactly the kind of chilling of innovation the media companies want. They don't have to make a technology illegal if everybody pees themselves with fear when they come within arm's length of it. There's already enough legal content to make this argument invalid and there's only going to be more in the coming months/years. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] NForce2 Mono sound only
if you compile the latest ALSA from the site (not from the kernel) there has been some work done on this chipset and it will allow you to adjust the volumes I got it working right out of the box under FC1 and didn't really have much of a problem (well, once I dumped both KDE and gnome and went back to ratpoison). That'll teach me to dork with something that's already working well. On 7/7/05, Joseph A. Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 06 July 2005 23:05, Trevor Hill wrote: 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! Heh. I've got the same board (running FC1) and I can't even get my mixer to work at all -- it looks like it's working, but there's never any change in the actual volume levels. Good luck. -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] [OT] NForce2 Mono sound only
On Thursday 07 July 2005 12:32, John Kuhn wrote: On 7/7/05, Joseph A. Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh. I've got the same board (running FC1) and I can't even get my mixer to work at all -- it looks like it's working, but there's never any change in the actual volume levels. Good luck. -JAC if you compile the latest ALSA from the site (not from the kernel) there has been some work done on this chipset and it will allow you to adjust the volumes Thanks, I'll give that a try! -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Sound issue with PVR 250 (ivtv driver)
Hi Yves, You didn't say so what version of ivtv are you using? I'm on NTSC using 0.3.6p and getting pretty good results, other than some red/blue shift that causes a slight look of misconvergence. I've not had any audio problems aat all with the 250. With the 150s I've had some problems keeping them going. Also, on my systems it seems that we always need to do cold boots. Warm boots mess things up. Bryan Mayland is looking into that one for me. I'm hopeful he'll find something but in the meantime I just make sure I cold boot and MythTV/ivtv have worked well for me. Cheers, Mark On 7/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a problem with the sound on mythtv using a WinTV PVR 250. It vanishes randomly specially when recording one particular channel. I have to say that the card PVR250 works well with mplayer or other. I have made a test playing /dev/video0 with mplayer just after closing mythtv. There was no sound. I tuned with 'ptune.pl' the same channel and then the sound came back. It sounds (not a joke) like mythtv missconfig the ivtv driver. I didn't notice such a problem on my old config (PIII 733 MHz; mandrake 10.1; mythtv 17) apart from the jerky pictures. Can someone help? My config: mob ASUS p4p800-e delux; P4 3.0E GHz; PVR 250; mandriva 2005; mythtv 18.1; SECAM France. The change for mythtv 18.1 points out that the bug about MPEG stream was corrected. It seems not. Yves ___ 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] Hardware compatablity / Drivers RedHat / Fedora Core 4 MythTV / Advice welcome
I am look ing to build a new Media Server using Myth. I am not sure which is the perfered hardware. Below is a list of hardware I intend/wish to use. Some of this hardware I just happen to have hanging around and some I intend to purchase pending driver / compatiblity information. I do not have to use any of this hardware and I am willing to purchase new / different hardware. OS: RedHat / Fedora Core 4 à Free Software: MythTV 0.18.1 and LIRC 0.7.1 à Free Case: Cooler Master CAV-To4-UWC w/ 350 watt P/S w/ (2) 60mm (1) 80mm Fans à $109 Motherboard: Asus – P4P800 SE w/ Intel 865PE ICH5R chipsets Dual Channel DDR400 , and SATA 150 RAID 1+0 à In Stock CPU: Pentium 4 Prescott 3.2ghz 800FSB 1MB L2 Cache 478 Pin à $180 Hard Drives: (2) Maxtor 200gb SATA 150 7200 à In Stock Memory: Samsung PC3200 (1 GB kit) (2) 512mb DDR à $106 Capture/TV Tuner: Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250 à $90 AGP Video Card: Gigabit ATI 9600 Pro w/ 128mb (S-Video Out DVI out) à $74 Sound: SoundBlaster Audigy II 24bit 6.1 channels à In Stock WiFi: LinkSys Wireless 802.11g à In Stock Remote: RadioShack 15-2116 universal remote à $49 ** Intentions of future upgrade to include additional HDTV capture / tuner card- Yours in Christ Jesus, - Shane -Truth: Believe that Jesus Christ is God and that he diedfor you and then rose back to life. Ask him into your heart and life and you will know true happiness, true love, will be forgiven for all sins and you will live eternally. Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware compatablity / Drivers RedHat / Fedora Core 4 MythTV / Advice welcome
Case: Cooler Master CAV-To4-UWC w/ 350 watt P/S w/ (2) 60mm (1) 80mm Fans à $109 I recently bought a CAV-T04-UKC from http://www.chiefvalue.com/app/index.asp?store=7 for $99. The fans are noisier than my wife liked in the bedroom so I just went out and bought replacements YMMV Memory: Samsung PC3200 (1 GB kit) (2) 512mb DDR à $106 Check ChiefValue's memory prices also. I picked up two 1gb sticks for $162 total. It's overkill but I wanted to max out the memory. They seemed to have good prices on the stuff I was looking at ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] XBox questions
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 12:25:38PM -0400, David Barr wrote: On 6/30/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have picked up a used XBox and will be installing Linux and the XBox MythTV frontend. I have a few questions: Are you sure that OS and Dashboard version on your Xbox are old enough to support installation using save-game hacks? New versions of the Xbox software are not as susceptible to these tricks. You might need a modchip, and newer versions of Xbox hardware aren't compatible with the open-source Cromwell BIOS. The X-Box I picked up was a v1.0 with a 10Gb drive. It had never been connected to X-Box Live so it had the original dashboard. The hardest part of the whole installation was finding an original Mech Assault as most rental and used-game places only had the patched version. I found one eventually and now I'm running Xebian and MythTV-frontend just fine. I downloaded the EvoX dashboard but so far haven't found a reason to install it as the current setup works well. ___ 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
On 7/7/05, Matt Grommes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the pvrs _will_ have an integrated way to get net content, you can be sure of that. If Myth doesn't have it, it'll be one more reason for people not to use it. Perhaps you're missing a large point here. Most of the developers of Myth don't care if you use it or not. They're working on it because they want to use it or they enjoy working on it. Yes, a larger user base provides better testing and some other benefits, but remember that this is not a commercial venture. This is Isaac's pet project that has taken off into something that many people want to use. He's happy to share that with those of us who want to use it. If you'd rather use something else, knock yourself out. I'm certainly not going to lose any sleep over it and I'm sure Isaac won't either. This is exactly the kind of chilling of innovation the media companies want. They don't have to make a technology illegal if everybody pees themselves with fear when they come within arm's length of it. There's already enough legal content to make this argument invalid and there's only going to be more in the coming months/years. The argument may be invalid, but that still doesn't stop any of those media companies from bringing a lawsuit against the Myth community/developers. They don't have to prove that anything illegal was done, they just have to force the defendant to pay fees (lawyer, etc) that are more than the defendant can afford. Maybe if you provide, up-front, the massive cash reserves that would be needed to defend that court case someone will consider developing this, but I doubt it. Until then, I think it's very clear that the majority of the folks involved with Myth don't wany any parts of any P2P app associated with Myth and Isaac has certainly made his views on that topic very clear on repeated occasions. It's his project. If you want to play with it, you play by his rules. If you don't like those rules, find another project. I know some of that message sounds pretty harsh. I don't intend it to be insulting or anything like that. It's just that this P2P discussion comes up frequently enough that it's getting annoying to me. It has been repeatedly made clear that the people behind Myth don't want this in the current environment so why does this discussion keep happening? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase shows No Data for some channels
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:08:29AM -0700, Cameron Dale wrote: How do other people deal with this? Or is this something specific to my listings area (Vancouver, Canada)? I have noticed that different channels have different amounts of data available all the time. I use the Vancouver non-digital listings (I'm in Burnaby) and have noticed that some channels always go to the end of the 14th day and others always end at 17:00 on the 12th day. Those channels with short listings (AE, DISC) were the ones that broke and showed no data for several days. I used myth-setup to clear the listings and then ran /etc/init.d/mythfilldatabase manually, and haven't had any problems since. Those channels still run a day and a half behind the rest, but they do get fresh data every night. Perhaps the best way for me is just to write a script to clear the credits, people, program, programgenres, and programrating tables, and then run mythfilldatabase to reload them. You could probably just find the location where mythfilldatabase stores its end-of-listings pointer and roll that back a few days every night before the normal run so that it gets 3 or 4 days worth of listings at the far end of the schedule. I would expect it to fill in the holes and discard the duplicates ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MythTV 0.18.1 Backend Crash (not in 0.16)
Hello, Two days ago, I upgraded from 0.16 to 0.18.01. Now my backend process likes to die. I have seen it die after watching a program and choosing to delete it while another program was being recorded. (This happened twice in the past hour while watching South Park while recording ST:TNG. Maybe that's a sign. ;-) It just happened again right now as I attempted to delete the South Park episode while still recording ST:TNG. So it seems I can reproduce this issue at will. What can I enable, or how can I run the backend/frontend, to help debug this issue? --davesp ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] changechannel support for DirecTV tuner
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/135492?search_string=d10;#135492 Felix wrote: Hi, I am trying to conrol DirecTV tuner from MythTV (DirecTV Receiver D10). I read: If you have an external tuner, such as a DirecTV or digital cable set top box, you should add |/usr/local/bin/changechannel| to your Input Connections in the mythbackend configuration GUI. The *changechannel* program is not supplied with MythTV, so this is going to be dependent on what sort of external tuner you have. Is there a changechannel for DirecTV tuner anywhere? Thanks Felix ___ 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] Feature Idea - P2P Bad Idea
I know some of that message sounds pretty harsh. I don't intend it to be insulting or anything like that. It's just that this P2P discussion comes up frequently enough that it's getting annoying to me. It has been repeatedly made clear that the people behind Myth don't want this in the current environment so why does this discussion keep happening? because the list is found by a steady stream of new people and just like anything, people feel they are the first to make a connection between two memes. Truth be told, someone WAS the first, but there have been many others in the same footsteps. Maybe posting to the list should require a mandatory search of the archives before a submit is allowed? 8^) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Sync/stutter when both tuners record? WAF crashing and burning
Hello all, Nothing like the season finale of a reality TV show or a full-season-in-one-day Battlestar Galactica marathon to prove how dependent we are on the Myth system - unfortunately, both scenarios resulted in unwatchable recordings yesterday! The symptom - almost immediately (within a few seconds of starting to watch the recording), the audio and video both briefly appear to 'skip forward' on their own, and from that point on they get more and more out of sync with each other. I am trying to transcode one of the bad recordings now to see if that helps (grasping at straws). Most of the other recordings on the system play back fine. The only common thread I've noticed is that these munged recordings were recorded when both of my tuners were active (PVR-250 and PVR-350). Is there a way to check which tuner recorded what program? Could my problem be memory-related? I have 512MB in the machine, and it seems to run fairly 'full' - I've seen it at 1% or 2% free when a lot was going on. Is there something else I should look at for clues? I'm a wee bit new... Many thanks, Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] XBox questions
You can use '007' as well for the game hack. AJM, On 7/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 12:25:38PM -0400, David Barr wrote: On 6/30/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have picked up a used XBox and will be installing Linux and the XBox MythTV frontend. I have a few questions: Are you sure that OS and Dashboard version on your Xbox are old enough to support installation using save-game hacks? New versions of the Xbox software are not as susceptible to these tricks. You might need a modchip, and newer versions of Xbox hardware aren't compatible with the open-source Cromwell BIOS. The X-Box I picked up was a v1.0 with a 10Gb drive. It had never been connected to X-Box Live so it had the original dashboard. The hardest part of the whole installation was finding an original Mech Assault as most rental and used-game places only had the patched version. I found one eventually and now I'm running Xebian and MythTV-frontend just fine. I downloaded the EvoX dashboard but so far haven't found a reason to install it as the current setup works well. ___ 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] Playing image(.iso) file in Mythvideo
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 11:04 -0500, Neil wrote: Hi Daniel, I'll try your xine settings tonight. Last night, I tried to change mplayer settings in mythtv settings table. I created a matrix.iso file of Matrix Revolution. I placed the matrix.iso in /video/dvd. I went to mythvideo and saw a matrix yellow folder. :) However, when I clicked it, I saw a small rectangle with droplets on the left and some info on the right. IIRC, runtime was 0, year was a question mark, and so on. I clicked it again and saw the text Loading ... but it went away so quickly. It never got played. try running the command from the command line. this time you will want to ssh in but have the X showing on the mythbox, not the machine you are logging in from: ssh mythbox (password stuff) export DISPLAY=:0 xine (etc, the rest as per command line given by Daniel) observe what happens and either fix the error or post back :-) Any ideas what I am missing? Thanks, Neil Daniel Segel writes: My messages to the list keep getting bounced, so I'm sending this to you directly. This is what I use: db: mythconverg table: settings UPDATE `settings` SET `data` = '/usr/bin/xine -pfhq -V xshm --no-splash dvd:/%s' WHERE `value` = 'VideoDefaultPlayer' AND `hostname` = 'mythtv' LIMIT 1 ; My mythtv box hostname is 'mythtv' in this case. Daniel Neil wrote: 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 -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] [OT] Diskless front end (using PXE) - Fedora Core?
Hi, I'm getting ready to split my current Myth box (a combined frontend/backend) into two separate machines. As part of the split, I'm planning to move to a diskless front-end configuration where it boots over the network from the server. I've checked in the BIOS and my soon-to-be frontend does indeed have PXE, and LAN is an option for boot device. So, on that front, I think I'm in pretty good shape. However, I'm not much of a Linux expert, and the distro I'm most comfortable with is Fedora Core. I used Jarod's guide to get my current setup running, and I would probably follow it (or use FC4) when I split to the client/server model. My question is: Does anyone know how to setup a network boot using Fedora Core? From the client's perspective, I'd like to have it start up and fetch grub or something to allow further booting. From what I understand, I can specify a NFS location in grub for the kernel and such. What I'm not clear on is how to install all the Fedora Core stuff in such a way as to support 2 machines (the client and server) from a single HDD. Ideally, I'd like a way to share certain things (window manager, applications like mysql, etc) between the different machines. However, there will also be things that could be distinct (kernel, modules, X-windows settings, /proc filesystem, and such) since the 2 machines will not be the same hardware. A second and less ideal approach is to have nothing shared. In this case, both installations reside on the same partition but are completely distinct. The easiest, but least ideal, approach (that I know of) is to have separate partitions for each machine. In this setup, I could take the HDD and partition it with multiple separate partitions representing each machine. Then I could physically connect the HDD to the client and install FC on one partition. I could transfer the HDD to the server and install FC again on the other partition. At that point I've got 2 fully functional FC installations and I could use grub to choose which to go to. Am I making this too hard? Is there an easier way that I'm just not seeing? Thanks, Micah ___ 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 7/7/05, James Stembridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/6/05, Stutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BBC1 is the highest quality channel on Freeview I think, I haven't tried changing the recording profile from the default (as installed) settings. The recording profile has no effect for DVB, you're just saving the stream as is. James. Ta, I didn't know that - only just set up the card, what are all the profiles for then? [For info channel 'five' is also the same video and audio bit rate, and this has no issues with playback, so that's not the cause of my particular BBC1 problem] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Diskless front end (using PXE) - Fedora Core?
Fedora Core 3 includes a GUI utility called system-config-netboot that simplifies creating diskless clients. The basic procedure is: 1) Install Fedora on a temporary hard disk on your (soon to be) diskless client. 2) Copy the installation into an NFS mountable directory on your server. 3) Fire up system-config-netboot on your server, fill in some basic information about the diskless install directory. system-config-netboot creates a kernel and initrd image that you then boot using PXE boot. 4) Setup dhcpd/tftp boot for netbooting and point your diskless client at the created kernel/initrd. On first boot of each diskless client Fedora creates a directory structure that contains the client specific files and the rest of the files are shared. I was able to get this working, for one diskless client, and it works very well. The only thing that I'm not sure about is what happens if one wants to upgrade any packages on the diskless clients. Brian On 7/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm getting ready to split my current Myth box (a combined frontend/backend) into two separate machines. As part of the split, I'm planning to move to a diskless front-end configuration where it boots over the network from the server. I've checked in the BIOS and my soon-to-be frontend does indeed have PXE, and LAN is an option for boot device. So, on that front, I think I'm in pretty good shape. However, I'm not much of a Linux expert, and the distro I'm most comfortable with is Fedora Core. I used Jarod's guide to get my current setup running, and I would probably follow it (or use FC4) when I split to the client/server model. My question is: Does anyone know how to setup a network boot using Fedora Core? From the client's perspective, I'd like to have it start up and fetch grub or something to allow further booting. From what I understand, I can specify a NFS location in grub for the kernel and such. What I'm not clear on is how to install all the Fedora Core stuff in such a way as to support 2 machines (the client and server) from a single HDD. Ideally, I'd like a way to share certain things (window manager, applications like mysql, etc) between the different machines. However, there will also be things that could be distinct (kernel, modules, X-windows settings, /proc filesystem, and such) since the 2 machines will not be the same hardware. A second and less ideal approach is to have nothing shared. In this case, both installations reside on the same partition but are completely distinct. The easiest, but least ideal, approach (that I know of) is to have separate partitions for each machine. In this setup, I could take the HDD and partition it with multiple separate partitions representing each machine. Then I could physically connect the HDD to the client and install FC on one partition. I could transfer the HDD to the server and install FC again on the other partition. At that point I've got 2 fully functional FC installations and I could use grub to choose which to go to. Am I making this too hard? Is there an easier way that I'm just not seeing? Thanks, Micah ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Brian Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Diskless front end (using PXE) - Fedora Core?
This is for Gentoo, but might help get you started... http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Mythtv_With_Diskless_Workstations_in_an_OpenMosix_Cluster Dave On 7/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm getting ready to split my current Myth box (a combined frontend/backend) into two separate machines. As part of the split, I'm planning to move to a diskless front-end configuration where it boots over the network from the server. I've checked in the BIOS and my soon-to-be frontend does indeed have PXE, and LAN is an option for boot device. So, on that front, I think I'm in pretty good shape. However, I'm not much of a Linux expert, and the distro I'm most comfortable with is Fedora Core. I used Jarod's guide to get my current setup running, and I would probably follow it (or use FC4) when I split to the client/server model. My question is: Does anyone know how to setup a network boot using Fedora Core? From the client's perspective, I'd like to have it start up and fetch grub or something to allow further booting. From what I understand, I can specify a NFS location in grub for the kernel and such. What I'm not clear on is how to install all the Fedora Core stuff in such a way as to support 2 machines (the client and server) from a single HDD. Ideally, I'd like a way to share certain things (window manager, applications like mysql, etc) between the different machines. However, there will also be things that could be distinct (kernel, modules, X-windows settings, /proc filesystem, and such) since the 2 machines will not be the same hardware. A second and less ideal approach is to have nothing shared. In this case, both installations reside on the same partition but are completely distinct. The easiest, but least ideal, approach (that I know of) is to have separate partitions for each machine. In this setup, I could take the HDD and partition it with multiple separate partitions representing each machine. Then I could physically connect the HDD to the client and install FC on one partition. I could transfer the HDD to the server and install FC again on the other partition. At that point I've got 2 fully functional FC installations and I could use grub to choose which to go to. Am I making this too hard? Is there an easier way that I'm just not seeing? Thanks, Micah ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- -- My MythTV Box: http://www.dynamicis.com/~superdave/mythtv/ -- Are Your Friends Lemmings? -- http://www.lemmingshirts.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythMusic does not tag MP3's?
On 7/7/05, Matt Hannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just noticed that all of the mp3's that I am creating via MythMusic do not have ID3 tags on them. They are probably there, just not in a version your tools/software can read - try installing id3lib It has a convert utility. From mythmusic/README __NB__: The libid3tag library writes ID3v2.4 format tags, which seem to be less supported than the v2.3 version. Any MP3 file created or editited in MythMusic will use ID3v2.4 tags. amarok and Juk both support this format of tags as does the libmad output plugin for xmms. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Sound issue with PVR 250 (ivtv driver)
Hi Mark I have used either the version shiped with mandrake 2005(i don't know which one) or 0.2.0-rc3h. About cold or warm boots (if I have well understood what it means) that does the same result. I am still looking for a solution. Yves Mark Knecht a écrit : Hi Yves, You didn't say so what version of ivtv are you using? I'm on NTSC using 0.3.6p and getting pretty good results, other than some red/blue shift that causes a slight look of misconvergence. I've not had any audio problems aat all with the 250. With the 150s I've had some problems keeping them going. Also, on my systems it seems that we always need to do cold boots. Warm boots mess things up. Bryan Mayland is looking into that one for me. I'm hopeful he'll find something but in the meantime I just make sure I cold boot and MythTV/ivtv have worked well for me. Cheers, Mark On 7/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a problem with the sound on mythtv using a WinTV PVR 250. It vanishes randomly specially when recording one particular channel. I have to say that the card PVR250 works well with mplayer or other. I have made a test playing /dev/video0 with mplayer just after closing mythtv. There was no sound. I tuned with 'ptune.pl' the same channel and then the sound came back. It sounds (not a joke) like mythtv missconfig the ivtv driver. I didn't notice such a problem on my old config (PIII 733 MHz; mandrake 10.1; mythtv 17) apart from the jerky pictures. Can someone help? My config: mob ASUS p4p800-e delux; P4 3.0E GHz; PVR 250; mandriva 2005; mythtv 18.1; SECAM France. The change for mythtv 18.1 points out that the bug about MPEG stream was corrected. It seems not. Yves ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MythVideo, mythcommflag, and seeking HDTV transport files
I have a HDTV setup with both firewire and a pcHDTV3k card providing transport streams. I frequently move recorded programs to my fileserver by just moving and renaming them to program_name.ts . These files played fine in mythtv under Watch Recordings but as soon as I try and play them back with mythvideos internal player I cant seek/ffw/rw. No matter what I hit it just restarts from the beginning of the file, though it displays the correct total time of the program. Did some research and found out about mythcommflag rebuild video /full/path/to/program_name.ts (tried with and without rebuild, I think its redundant though) After running mythcommflag the program is listed as being 6-7 minutes long and some shows will let me skip forward a reported minute at a time, but which corresponds to roughly 1/6th of the program or around 20 minutes of real time. Some only go about 1/3rd of the way through then refuse to skip forward, only backwards. What can I do make these files have correct seektables in mythtv? It works after being recorded initially, but every time I try and recreate it with mythcommflag it never works properly. Tried use video as a timebase option, not sure if its relevant, but I would guess not since it had zero apparent effect. I was using xine, mplayer, and vlc but then I found out about the internal player. With all of the massive improvements done over time mythtv is now my preferred transport stream player. I never go above 50% usage on an amd64 3400+ with bob deinterlace, where as all the other players struggle with any deinterlacer. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] [OT] Diskless front end (using PXE) - Fedora Core?
Great! This is pretty much what I was looking for. I agree that it might be difficult to upgrade stuff on the diskless client, but it will still probably be easier than the solutions I proposed. Does anyone know if it's possible to set up a hardware router (Linksys BEFSR41) to interact correctly with PXE and direct the diskless client in the right direction for downloading the boot files? I know I can do it using dhcpd, but I'd prefer to keep using my Linksys router instead of using routing software on the computer. This is mainly due to the fact that I'm pretty clueless with networking and don't feel like learning. Micah -Original Message- From: Brian Webb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 4:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Diskless front end (using PXE) - Fedora Core? Fedora Core 3 includes a GUI utility called system-config-netboot that simplifies creating diskless clients. The basic procedure is: 1) Install Fedora on a temporary hard disk on your (soon to be) diskless client. 2) Copy the installation into an NFS mountable directory on your server. 3) Fire up system-config-netboot on your server, fill in some basic information about the diskless install directory. system-config-netboot creates a kernel and initrd image that you then boot using PXE boot. 4) Setup dhcpd/tftp boot for netbooting and point your diskless client at the created kernel/initrd. On first boot of each diskless client Fedora creates a directory structure that contains the client specific files and the rest of the files are shared. I was able to get this working, for one diskless client, and it works very well. The only thing that I'm not sure about is what happens if one wants to upgrade any packages on the diskless clients. Brian On 7/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm getting ready to split my current Myth box (a combined frontend/backend) into two separate machines. As part of the split, I'm planning to move to a diskless front-end configuration where it boots over the network from the server. I've checked in the BIOS and my soon-to-be frontend does indeed have PXE, and LAN is an option for boot device. So, on that front, I think I'm in pretty good shape. However, I'm not much of a Linux expert, and the distro I'm most comfortable with is Fedora Core. I used Jarod's guide to get my current setup running, and I would probably follow it (or use FC4) when I split to the client/server model. My question is: Does anyone know how to setup a network boot using Fedora Core? From the client's perspective, I'd like to have it start up and fetch grub or something to allow further booting. From what I understand, I can specify a NFS location in grub for the kernel and such. What I'm not clear on is how to install all the Fedora Core stuff in such a way as to support 2 machines (the client and server) from a single HDD. Ideally, I'd like a way to share certain things (window manager, applications like mysql, etc) between the different machines. However, there will also be things that could be distinct (kernel, modules, X-windows settings, /proc filesystem, and such) since the 2 machines will not be the same hardware. A second and less ideal approach is to have nothing shared. In this case, both installations reside on the same partition but are completely distinct. The easiest, but least ideal, approach (that I know of) is to have separate partitions for each machine. In this setup, I could take the HDD and partition it with multiple separate partitions representing each machine. Then I could physically connect the HDD to the client and install FC on one partition. I could transfer the HDD to the server and install FC again on the other partition. At that point I've got 2 fully functional FC installations and I could use grub to choose which to go to. Am I making this too hard? Is there an easier way that I'm just not seeing? Thanks, Micah ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Brian Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Diskless front end (using PXE) - Fedora Core?
No need to ditch your router. You just have to turn off dhcp on the
router and run dhcpd on your server. I think system-config-netboot
sets everything up except for the dhcpd.conf entry, which should look
something like:
host media {
hardware ethernet aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff;
next-server 192.168.0.10;
fixed-address 192.168.0.5;
filename linux-install/pxelinux.0;
}
This tells the client to use IP address 192.168.0.5 and to pull the
file linux-install/pxelinux.0 from the tftp directory on 192.168.0.10.
Does anyone know if it's possible to set up a hardware router (Linksys
BEFSR41) to interact correctly with PXE and direct the diskless client
in the right direction for downloading the boot files? I know I can do
it using dhcpd, but I'd prefer to keep using my Linksys router instead
of using routing software on the computer. This is mainly due to the
fact that I'm pretty clueless with networking and don't feel like
learning.
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[mythtv-users] Another portable frontend?
Just saw this on engadget: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000810049665/ Make a decent f/e, ya think? -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Sync/stutter when both tuners record? WAF crashing and burning
way to check which tuner recorded what program? Could my problem be memory-related? I have 512MB in the machine, and it seems to run fairly 'full' - I've seen it at 1% or 2% free when a lot was going on. Hi Steve, Sorry to hear about your problems. 512MB should be plenty. I'm running a similar setup (Athlon XP 2500+, 512 MB, 1x350, 1x250, NForce2, etc) and when both tuners are running, I have no problems at all. When you say 1% or 2% free, how are you checking this? If you run free -m at the command line, it'll give you a breakdown of your memory usage. The first line might make things look pretty occupied, but you'll probably notice that a good deal of your space is occupied by the disk cache. The second line is the interesting one, showing the used and free memory when the disk cache is removed from the numbers. When my machine (frontend + backend combined) is recording on both tuners, (and watching a recording, and serving an mp3 to me here at work, transcoding through lame...) I'm only seeing ~16% CPU usage, and the memory used is 271 MB (231 MB free). Could the problem be your hard drives? DMA is enabled? Cheers, Anthony. ___ 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
On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:29:59 -0600 Matt Grommes wrote: gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) wrote: 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 The point is to have a seemless environment to download/watch/organize content off the net the same as you have to watch over-the-air/cable/etc. The net is just another distribution channel. There is plenty of stuff out there (systm, From the Shadows, etc.) which is perfectly legal and distributed on the net. With cheap digital video cameras and software like iMovie, there will only be more coming. Look at podcasting if you've heard of that. Thousands of hours of audio programming being created by users and distributed over the net. One of the pvrs _will_ have an integrated way to get net content, you can be sure of that. If Myth doesn't have it, it'll be one more reason for people not to use it. the conversation was not about getting content from elsewhere, it was about seeding copyrighted programs once you have recorded them. -- Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Diskless front end (using PXE) - Fedora Core?
Interestingly, when I was trying to run myth frontend on haupagge MVP,
I didn't disable DHCP on the router. So, I had DHCP enabled in my
server and in the router (dlink 614+).
For whatever reason, the myth backend server was always responding to
the MVP's dhcp request !
On 7/7/05, Brian Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No need to ditch your router. You just have to turn off dhcp on the
router and run dhcpd on your server. I think system-config-netboot
sets everything up except for the dhcpd.conf entry, which should look
something like:
host media {
hardware ethernet aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff;
next-server 192.168.0.10;
fixed-address 192.168.0.5;
filename linux-install/pxelinux.0;
}
This tells the client to use IP address 192.168.0.5 and to pull the
file linux-install/pxelinux.0 from the tftp directory on 192.168.0.10.
Does anyone know if it's possible to set up a hardware router (Linksys
BEFSR41) to interact correctly with PXE and direct the diskless client
in the right direction for downloading the boot files? I know I can do
it using dhcpd, but I'd prefer to keep using my Linksys router instead
of using routing software on the computer. This is mainly due to the
fact that I'm pretty clueless with networking and don't feel like
learning.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Sync/stutter when both tuners record? WAF crashing and burning
On 7-Jul-05, at 3:33 PM, Steve Pugh wrote: Is there a way to check which tuner recorded what program? mysql -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg select chanid, title from recorded; quit The first digit of the chanid is the device that did the recording. Or, you could do this: select * from channel where chanid = 1234; once you know what chanid your show was on and you can match the sourceid with what's in the cardid table. describe tablename is good for finding out what info is available. It should be easy enough to test the two-recodings-simultaneously theory by creating two telnet/ssh sessions and having one cat the 350's output directly to its playback device (cat /dev/video1 /dev/video16) and then doing a cat on the 250's device to a file or /dev/null. Actually /dev/null would test if you're able to do file i/o on both devices simultaneously, if the 350 output is in sync with the 250 going to /dev/null and not with it going to a file then i/o performance is a likely culprit. I guess there are lots of possibilities but that's where I'd start, at the raw device level. - George ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Sound issue with PVR 250 (ivtv driver)
If you're still using 0.2.0 then please consider trying out the development version which is now at rev. 0.3.6x. There have been many improvements and it's far more stable for me under Gentoo than the 0.2.0 revisions were. With best regards, Mark On 7/7/05, y_b [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mark I have used either the version shiped with mandrake 2005(i don't know which one) or 0.2.0-rc3h. About cold or warm boots (if I have well understood what it means) that does the same result. I am still looking for a solution. Yves Mark Knecht a écrit : Hi Yves, You didn't say so what version of ivtv are you using? I'm on NTSC using 0.3.6p and getting pretty good results, other than some red/blue shift that causes a slight look of misconvergence. I've not had any audio problems aat all with the 250. With the 150s I've had some problems keeping them going. Also, on my systems it seems that we always need to do cold boots. Warm boots mess things up. Bryan Mayland is looking into that one for me. I'm hopeful he'll find something but in the meantime I just make sure I cold boot and MythTV/ivtv have worked well for me. Cheers, Mark On 7/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a problem with the sound on mythtv using a WinTV PVR 250. It vanishes randomly specially when recording one particular channel. I have to say that the card PVR250 works well with mplayer or other. I have made a test playing /dev/video0 with mplayer just after closing mythtv. There was no sound. I tuned with 'ptune.pl' the same channel and then the sound came back. It sounds (not a joke) like mythtv missconfig the ivtv driver. I didn't notice such a problem on my old config (PIII 733 MHz; mandrake 10.1; mythtv 17) apart from the jerky pictures. Can someone help? My config: mob ASUS p4p800-e delux; P4 3.0E GHz; PVR 250; mandriva 2005; mythtv 18.1; SECAM France. The change for mythtv 18.1 points out that the bug about MPEG stream was corrected. It seems not. Yves ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Feature request
I searched the archives for pre-roll and early/late bute didn't see this exact request. I know we can stop late and start early, but how about a stop early and start late? With the darn networks doing everything they can to stop us DVR'ers i don't mind if i lose the first 1-2 min of a show, but i can't schedule two shows that overlap by a min or two. If i could get the later show to wait 1-2 min before starting, that would be better. -- I know.. I caved. I'm trying this Free IPod thing. If you want to try it go to the link below to get me my referral. http://www.freeiPods.com/?r=13353711 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Mounting a DVD iso image - There must be an easier way?
I have an archive of ISO files sitting on a server mounted NFS to my MythTV backend. Each ISO file is in its own directory. MythTV sees the iso files within their folder but when I attempt to mount/watch the DVD xine flashes a dialog: - xine engine error There is no demuxer plugin available to handle video/DVD/101DalmationsISO/101Dalmations.iso Usually this means that the file format was not recognized - .. the same one as when you try to open the file directly in xine through it's menus This message only appears for a couple seconds and then goes back to the description of the video. What I've tried so far: added the .iso and .ISO extensions to the file types set the player settings Default player to: 'xine -pfhq --no-splash dvd: %s' or 'xine -pfhq --no-splash %s' or 'xine -pfhq --nosplash %s/' none of these options has worked. The only thing that has worked is mounting the ISO manually: mount -o loop -t udf path/imagename.iso /mnt/dvd_image then playing with the 'Play Dvd' command: xine -pfhq --no/splash /mnt/dvd_image It seems like the normal methods don't try to mount the image automatically. Could there be some command or setting missing? I'm using FC3 if that makes a difference. - Michael ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Mounting a DVD iso image - There must be an easierway?
Try: xine -pfhq --no-splash dvd://%s/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Jones Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 2:39 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] Mounting a DVD iso image - There must be an easierway? I have an archive of ISO files sitting on a server mounted NFS to my MythTV backend. Each ISO file is in its own directory. MythTV sees the iso files within their folder but when I attempt to mount/watch the DVD xine flashes a dialog: - xine engine error There is no demuxer plugin available to handle video/DVD/101DalmationsISO/101Dalmations.iso Usually this means that the file format was not recognized - .. the same one as when you try to open the file directly in xine through it's menus This message only appears for a couple seconds and then goes back to the description of the video. What I've tried so far: added the .iso and .ISO extensions to the file types set the player settings Default player to: 'xine -pfhq --no-splash dvd: %s' or 'xine -pfhq --no-splash %s' or 'xine -pfhq --nosplash %s/' none of these options has worked. The only thing that has worked is mounting the ISO manually: mount -o loop -t udf path/imagename.iso /mnt/dvd_image then playing with the 'Play Dvd' command: xine -pfhq --no/splash /mnt/dvd_image It seems like the normal methods don't try to mount the image automatically. Could there be some command or setting missing? I'm using FC3 if that makes a difference. - Michael ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Feature request
On 7/7/05, Robert Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I searched the archives for pre-roll and early/late bute didn't see this exact request. I know we can stop late and start early, but how about a stop early and start late? With the darn networks doing everything they can to stop us DVR'ers i don't mind if i lose the first 1-2 min of a show, but i can't schedule two shows that overlap by a min or two. If i could get the later show to wait 1-2 min before starting, that would be better. You can enter negative values into the start/stop early fields. (or start/stop late, I can't remember exactly how they're labeled). Start early by -2 minutes effectively means start late by 2 minutes. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Loading ISO images of DVD's
Thanks Daniel Segel Placing this entry into the Video Default player worked perfectly for my install. /usr/bin/xine -pfhq -V xshm --no-splash dvd:/%s - Michael ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Diskless front end (using PXE) - Fedora Core?
Hi, I used the instructions here for diskless boot FC3: http://warmcat.com/silentcat/ It is written for EPIA but it is quite easy to adapt for other hardware. No problems upgrading, you can run apt, yum, etc after initial install. Also no need to install a hard disk first. cheers, Dave - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 10:05 PM Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] [OT] Diskless front end (using PXE) - Fedora Core? Great! This is pretty much what I was looking for. I agree that it might be difficult to upgrade stuff on the diskless client, but it will still probably be easier than the solutions I proposed. Does anyone know if it's possible to set up a hardware router (Linksys BEFSR41) to interact correctly with PXE and direct the diskless client in the right direction for downloading the boot files? I know I can do it using dhcpd, but I'd prefer to keep using my Linksys router instead of using routing software on the computer. This is mainly due to the fact that I'm pretty clueless with networking and don't feel like learning. Micah -Original Message- From: Brian Webb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 4:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Diskless front end (using PXE) - Fedora Core? Fedora Core 3 includes a GUI utility called system-config-netboot that simplifies creating diskless clients. The basic procedure is: 1) Install Fedora on a temporary hard disk on your (soon to be) diskless client. 2) Copy the installation into an NFS mountable directory on your server. 3) Fire up system-config-netboot on your server, fill in some basic information about the diskless install directory. system-config-netboot creates a kernel and initrd image that you then boot using PXE boot. 4) Setup dhcpd/tftp boot for netbooting and point your diskless client at the created kernel/initrd. On first boot of each diskless client Fedora creates a directory structure that contains the client specific files and the rest of the files are shared. I was able to get this working, for one diskless client, and it works very well. The only thing that I'm not sure about is what happens if one wants to upgrade any packages on the diskless clients. Brian On 7/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm getting ready to split my current Myth box (a combined frontend/backend) into two separate machines. As part of the split, I'm planning to move to a diskless front-end configuration where it boots over the network from the server. I've checked in the BIOS and my soon-to-be frontend does indeed have PXE, and LAN is an option for boot device. So, on that front, I think I'm in pretty good shape. However, I'm not much of a Linux expert, and the distro I'm most comfortable with is Fedora Core. I used Jarod's guide to get my current setup running, and I would probably follow it (or use FC4) when I split to the client/server model. My question is: Does anyone know how to setup a network boot using Fedora Core? From the client's perspective, I'd like to have it start up and fetch grub or something to allow further booting. From what I understand, I can specify a NFS location in grub for the kernel and such. What I'm not clear on is how to install all the Fedora Core stuff in such a way as to support 2 machines (the client and server) from a single HDD. Ideally, I'd like a way to share certain things (window manager, applications like mysql, etc) between the different machines. However, there will also be things that could be distinct (kernel, modules, X-windows settings, /proc filesystem, and such) since the 2 machines will not be the same hardware. A second and less ideal approach is to have nothing shared. In this case, both installations reside on the same partition but are completely distinct. The easiest, but least ideal, approach (that I know of) is to have separate partitions for each machine. In this setup, I could take the HDD and partition it with multiple separate partitions representing each machine. Then I could physically connect the HDD to the client and install FC on one partition. I could transfer the HDD to the server and install FC again on the other partition. At that point I've got 2 fully functional FC installations and I could use grub to choose which to go to. Am I making this too hard? Is there an easier way that I'm just not seeing? Thanks, Micah ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Brian Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Re: [mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase shows No Data for some channels
On 7/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:08:29AM -0700, Cameron Dale wrote: How do other people deal with this? Or is this something specific to my listings area (Vancouver, Canada)?I have noticed that different channels have different amounts of dataavailable all the time.I use the Vancouver non-digital listings (I'min Burnaby) and have noticed that some channels always go to the end of the 14th day and others always end at 17:00 on the 12th day.Thosechannels with short listings (AE, DISC) were the ones that broke andshowed no data for several days.I used myth-setup to clear the listings and then ran /etc/init.d/mythfilldatabase manually, andhaven't had any problems since.Those channels still run a day and ahalf behind the rest, but they do get fresh data every night. Hey, a local! I too am in Burnaby. We should have a local MUG meetup. :) In fact, I too use an Xbox as a frontend (which I see from another thread that you do as well) so I guess that would make it an XMUG. ;) I am using the same listings as you, except only basic cable (29). I find that the stations 17,18,19,22,25,26 all stop at 17:00 on the 12th day, as you mentioned, whereas all other stations have a full 14 days.I have run myth-setup a couple of times to clear the listings and then run mythfilldatabase manually, and it still happens to me. I don't get fresh data every night. I'm using 0.18.1, what version are you running? Perhaps the best way for me is just to write a script to clear the credits, people, program, programgenres, and programrating tables, and then run mythfilldatabase to reload them.You could probably just find the location where mythfilldatabase storesits end-of-listings pointer and roll that back a few days every night before the normal run so that it gets 3 or 4 days worth of listings atthe far end of the schedule.I would expect it to fill in the holes anddiscard the duplicates Unfortunately it looks like there is no pointer, but mythfilldatabase just looks at the existing program data to determine what days it needs to download data for. For me, the missing data doesn't cause my total data for the day to drop below the threshold that mythfilldatabase uses to determine which days to download. Perhaps your's does? In case someone else has the same problem, here's how I get around it. I added this to my mythfilldatabasecron script before it runs mythfilldatabase: echo DELETE FROM program WHERE starttime = DATE_ADD(CURRENT_DATE(), INTERVAL 11 DAY); | mysql mythconvergecho DELETE FROM programrating WHERE starttime = DATE_ADD(CURRENT_DATE(), INTERVAL 11 DAY); | mysql mythconverg echo DELETE FROM programgenres WHERE starttime = DATE_ADD(CURRENT_DATE(), INTERVAL 11 DAY); | mysql mythconvergecho DELETE FROM credits WHERE starttime = DATE_ADD(CURRENT_DATE(), INTERVAL 11 DAY); | mysql mythconverg This removes my program data for anything older than 11 days and then when mythfilldatabase runs, it re-gets that data. Thanks again! Cam ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] channel-changing with PVR-500 - loosing sound
so, i finally got my tv-card working. I get video signal on both tuners, and can change the channels. everything seems to be fine, but: i can't change the channel without loosing sound, this means. the first time i fire up mplayer to watch /dev/video0 or video1 i have sound (same in mythtv) but as soon i want to change a channel (with ptune.pl or in mythtv) the sound is gone. and it doesnt come back until i remove the modules and modprobe them again. i've made a /etc/modules.d/ivtv and it looks like this: alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 ivtv alias char-major-81-1 ivtv options ivtv tda9887=0,0 ivtv_std=2,2 the dmesg output after loading the ivtv modules: Linux video capture interface: v1.00 ivtv: 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, 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: 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: 0x02050032 ivtv: Encoder Firmware may be buggy, use version 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 driver #0 cx25840: decoder set norm PAL cx25840: decoder set input (6) cx25840: now setting Tuner input ivtv: ivtv_enc_vbi_thread: pid = 25873, itv = 0xf94695a0 ivtv: ivtv_enc_thread: pid = 25872, itv = 0xf94695a0 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, Revision 0x ivtv: Radio detected ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 ivtv: Encoder Firmware may be buggy, use version 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)
Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] NForce2 Mono sound only
On 7/7/05, John Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you compile the latest ALSA from the site (not from the kernel) there has been some work done on this chipset and it will allow you to adjust the volumes I got it working right out of the box under FC1 and didn't really have much of a problem (well, once I dumped both KDE and gnome and went back to ratpoison). That'll teach me to dork with something that's already working well. On 7/7/05, Joseph A. Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 06 July 2005 23:05, Trevor Hill wrote: 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! Heh. I've got the same board (running FC1) and I can't even get my mixer to work at all -- it looks like it's working, but there's never any change in the actual volume levels. Good luck. -JAC I tried both Chris and Mike's suggestions...no dice. :( Incidentally, my ALSA modules were configured identically to Chris and my .asoundrc was extremely close, as well. The weird thing is this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Side_Right.wav Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Side_Right.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono The Mono on the end there never changes, even if the file is definitely stereo. For more spamminess, some amixer output: Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] Simple mixer control 'Master Mono',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Playback 28 [90%] [on] Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 255 Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [on] Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [on] Simple mixer control 'Surround',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Front Left: Playback 26 [84%] [on] Front Right: Playback 26 [84%] [on] ... That third line (Playback channels: Mono) is what troubles me. It seems to imply that no matter what other surround or stereo jazz goes on inside the card, it is set up to pipe everything through a mono-out. And that's where I can't figure out how to change things. I might try using CVS alsa drivers, but I'm always loathe to play with stuff like that if I'm just missing something obvious here. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions so far, though. --Trevor ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythMusic does not tag MP3's?
Stutty wrote: On 7/7/05, Matt Hannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just noticed that all of the mp3's that I am creating via MythMusic do not have ID3 tags on them. They are probably there, just not in a version your tools/software can read - try installing id3lib It has a convert utility. From mythmusic/README __NB__: The libid3tag library writes ID3v2.4 format tags, which seem to be less supported than the v2.3 version. Any MP3 file created or editited in MythMusic will use ID3v2.4 tags. amarok and Juk both support this format of tags as does the libmad output plugin for xmms. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users A! Thanks for that. I guess that that makes sense. I do not see the ID3 info in the Audio Tag Tool or xmms (without the plugin). ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au, Canberra and associated oddities.
Well, I have mythtv basically working, but scanning for the ABC and SBS channels does not work. All the commercial channels are there (WIN, SC10, Prime). I'm suspecting that it's because of the DiG and SBS DVB radio stations freaking out the scanning code (I compiled the 0.18.1 source tarballs) . Has anyone entered these in by hand and can send me a DB dump? Stephen PS - It's interesting to see that it uses less CPU when displayhing than Xine. The high-def channels seem to use about 40% (with XvMC on an Nvidia 5200 with an Athlon XP 2600+) where Xine would use about 60% and stutter. On 7/6/05, Christopher Yeoh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2005/7/6 14:06+1000 Stephen Hocking writes: I have a mythtv setup in Canberra using a DVB card. The channels listed by the card using tzap friends have little in common with the stuff retrieved via d1.com.au. Channels titles are different, channels exist in one but not the other, etc. Has anyone got a better source of channel info? I can hand edit the channel info in the DB, so that the program updates go in the right place, but compared to the setup I had working over in the US, it is a little frustrating. I just did the same sort of setup on the weekend. The document here: http://www.gavinj.net/geek/mythtv_setup.txt is pretty good for Canberra. For guide data I'd recommend http://www.tv.guide.org.au and there is a tv_grab_au_tuhs script which you can use. Chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MySQL errors, mysqld.sock
Long time reader, first time poster. Problem: MySQL no longer connects to the mysqld server. History: I setup a Knoppmyth frontend/backend system (see specs in sig, rather vanilla setup) about a year ago. Recently I started over from scratch on Gentoo to learn more about the system. After installing everything, I had a working MythTV frontend/backend system. However, it took me a few weeks to get the IR blaster working. The first time I tried MythTV after fixing the IR blaster, mythbackend failed. I traced the problem back to MySQL. I could no longer connect to the mysqld server or databases. I've read up on MySQL troubleshooting but have not found success with the common suggestions. I have verified all permissions on the applicable directories (/var/lib/mysql, /var/run/mysqld, etc). I have a mysql user and mysql group. I do not have a mysqld.sock, which I understand is created upon running the server. I can't create it. I have verified that the mysqld.sock is not in /tmp. I've tried unmerging/ re-emerging MySQL several times, even upgrading to MySQL 4.1.12. here is some applicable info about my problem: # mysqladmin -u root password new-password mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)' Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' exists! # ps aux | grep mysqld root 28316 0.0 0.1 1484 436 pts/0R+ 19:03 0:00 grep mysqld # mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql STOPPING server from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid 050707 18:57:12 mysqld ended Can anyone help me? Since this is a new installation, I have no database to save. I can destroy/create new databases as needed. TIA, -Al ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia MX4000 vs ATI 9200SE
Hello, Johnny Lee wrote: I know a lot of you are going to have difference opinions but which should I buy? I am currently going to purchase a PCI card for a smaller desktop box to transfer my mythtv box into. The 2 cheapest PCI cards with S-Video out I could find are the MX4000 and the 9200SE. From benchmarks I see the 9200SE is faster @ 3D but is it a pain to setup? I am currently running a FX5200 which is great at S-Video out. Overscan is definitely a plus. Opinions? TIA Johnny Avoid ATi. The nvidia is easier to configure and supports overscan. Just my 2 cents Regards, Cecil ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MySQL errors, mysqld.sock
Look in /var/log/mysql/* and see if that points to problems. I've had a similar issue, but it was one of those things I just blew through without thinking about what it was, so I'm crossing my fingers that it's something simple. -=Aaron al wrote: Long time reader, first time poster. Problem: MySQL no longer connects to the mysqld server. History: I setup a Knoppmyth frontend/backend system (see specs in sig, rather vanilla setup) about a year ago. Recently I started over from scratch on Gentoo to learn more about the system. After installing everything, I had a working MythTV frontend/backend system. However, it took me a few weeks to get the IR blaster working. The first time I tried MythTV after fixing the IR blaster, mythbackend failed. I traced the problem back to MySQL. I could no longer connect to the mysqld server or databases. I've read up on MySQL troubleshooting but have not found success with the common suggestions. I have verified all permissions on the applicable directories (/var/lib/mysql, /var/run/mysqld, etc). I have a mysql user and mysql group. I do not have a mysqld.sock, which I understand is created upon running the server. I can't create it. I have verified that the mysqld.sock is not in /tmp. I've tried unmerging/ re-emerging MySQL several times, even upgrading to MySQL 4.1.12. here is some applicable info about my problem: # mysqladmin -u root password new-password mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)' Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' exists! # ps aux | grep mysqld root 28316 0.0 0.1 1484 436 pts/0R+ 19:03 0:00 grep mysqld # mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql STOPPING server from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid 050707 18:57:12 mysqld ended Can anyone help me? Since this is a new installation, I have no database to save. I can destroy/create new databases as needed. TIA, -Al ___ 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] MySQL errors, mysqld.sock
I've tried the logs too. Applicable info: [mysql.err] 050706 07:03:48 mysqld started 050706 7:03:48 Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: No such file or directory 050706 7:03:48 Do you already have another mysqld server running on socket: /var/lib/mysqld/m$ 050706 7:03:48 Aborting 050706 7:03:48 /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown Complete 050706 07:03:48 mysqld ended 050707 18:57:11 mysqld started 050707 18:57:12 mysqld ended [mysql.log] - nothing [mysqld.err] 050706 6:57:05 /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown Complete InnoDB: The first specified data file ./ibdata1 did not exist: InnoDB: a new database to be created! 050707 18:57:11 InnoDB: Setting file ./ibdata1 size to 10 MB InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait... 050707 18:57:11 InnoDB: Log file ./ib_logfile0 did not exist: new to be created InnoDB: Setting log file ./ib_logfile0 size to 5 MB InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait... 050707 18:57:11 InnoDB: Log file ./ib_logfile1 did not exist: new to be created InnoDB: Setting log file ./ib_logfile1 size to 5 MB InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait... InnoDB: Doublewrite buffer not found: creating new InnoDB: Doublewrite buffer created InnoDB: Creating foreign key constraint system tables InnoDB: Foreign key constraint system tables created 050707 18:57:12 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 0 050707 18:57:12 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist On 7/7/05, Aaron Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look in /var/log/mysql/* and see if that points to problems. I've had a similar issue, but it was one of those things I just blew through without thinking about what it was, so I'm crossing my fingers that it's something simple. -=Aaron al wrote: Long time reader, first time poster. Problem: MySQL no longer connects to the mysqld server. History: I setup a Knoppmyth frontend/backend system (see specs in sig, rather vanilla setup) about a year ago. Recently I started over from scratch on Gentoo to learn more about the system. After installing everything, I had a working MythTV frontend/backend system. However, it took me a few weeks to get the IR blaster working. The first time I tried MythTV after fixing the IR blaster, mythbackend failed. I traced the problem back to MySQL. I could no longer connect to the mysqld server or databases. I've read up on MySQL troubleshooting but have not found success with the common suggestions. I have verified all permissions on the applicable directories (/var/lib/mysql, /var/run/mysqld, etc). I have a mysql user and mysql group. I do not have a mysqld.sock, which I understand is created upon running the server. I can't create it. I have verified that the mysqld.sock is not in /tmp. I've tried unmerging/ re-emerging MySQL several times, even upgrading to MySQL 4.1.12. here is some applicable info about my problem: # mysqladmin -u root password new-password mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)' Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' exists! # ps aux | grep mysqld root 28316 0.0 0.1 1484 436 pts/0R+ 19:03 0:00 grep mysqld # mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql STOPPING server from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid 050707 18:57:12 mysqld ended Can anyone help me? Since this is a new installation, I have no database to save. I can destroy/create new databases as needed. TIA, -Al ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Biostar M7NCG 400 AMD Athlon XP 2000 PVR 350 nVidia GeForce4 MX 440 S-vid out to SD TV ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Feature request
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 06:12:54PM -0400, Brad Benson wrote: On 7/7/05, Robert Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I searched the archives for pre-roll and early/late bute didn't see this exact request. I know we can stop late and start early, but how about a stop early and start late? With the darn networks doing everything they can to stop us DVR'ers i don't mind if i lose the first 1-2 min of a show, but i can't schedule two shows that overlap by a min or two. If i could get the later show to wait 1-2 min before starting, that would be better. You can enter negative values into the start/stop early fields. (or start/stop late, I can't remember exactly how they're labeled). Start early by -2 minutes effectively means start late by 2 minutes. Yes, for mythweb you can enter negative values. In the MythTV GUI, you can hit left/right when setting up a schedule, and you should see the early and late text choices. --Rob signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV on XDSL on XBox
Ok I just thought that I would post back and say that it has been slow going. XDSL takes alot more modification than I orginally anticapated. Its to the point were it doesnt look much like xdsl but more like debian. The boot times still aren't bad but its still would take more work and right now I can't see it being worth it with a proven solution like mythtv-xbox. Sorry to get everyones hopes up and I will keep tinkering but dont expect anything. If you want to play with it, be my guest but I feel that you will soon find some of the problems I ran into. Jamison Ables ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Minor nuvexport bug
I ran nuvexport to move several shows to another location, so I chose nuv and sql mode and Yes to create directory. I had several episodes of Twilight Zone selected. The result was not qutie what I expected: it created one directory per episode, but NESTED them, i.e. I had /tmp/episode1, /tmp/episode1/episode2, etc. Nothing I can't fix with a find command, of course, but still a bug. -- Fedor G Pikus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.pikus.net http://wild-light.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Playing image(.iso) file in Mythvideo
try running the command from the command line. this time you will want to ssh in but have the X showing on the mythbox, not the machine you are logging in from: ssh mythbox (password stuff) export DISPLAY=:0 xine (etc, the rest as per command line given by Daniel) observe what happens and either fix the error or post back :-) BAM! BAM! BAM! :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] dvd]# DISPLAY=:0 /usr/bin/xine -pfhq -V xv --no-splash dvd:/video/dvd/matrix.iso This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.3. (c) 2000-2004 The xine Team. libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x7f80 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x8925 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x00025b69 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB at 0x00136bc8 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB at 0x0013d2f8 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB at 0x0014e4a6 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_0.VOB at 0x00157a86 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_1.VOB at 0x00178762 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_0.VOB at 0x0017b212 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_1.VOB at 0x0017b282 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_0.VOB at 0x001fe496 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_1.VOB at 0x00204bda libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_1.VOB at 0x00215d88 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Found 7 VTS's libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 However, I'm not getting any sound at all. How do I tell xine to use ALSA:digital? Also, my lirc keys for up/down, and enter doesn't work in xine. It works perfectly in mythtv. How do I fix it? Thanks!!! Neil ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] (OT) TV-Out on a GF4
Had a thread before about this, but I have hit a new problem now. I use FC3, with a GF4MX440. If I use the default config(xorg.conf.orig) that FC sets up for me(with driver nv changed to nvidia) X loads fine. If I then load my modified conf file over it(xorg.conf.new) and do an init 3/init 5.. everything works perfectly. Then, the next time I boot(using the new conf), I get zero on any display. I've attached the confs, and the X log. Thanks! xorg.conf.new Description: Binary data xorg.conf.orig Description: Binary data X Window System Version 6.8.2 Release Date: 9 February 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.10-1.766_FC3smp i686 [ELF] Current Operating System: Linux basementmyth.stinkygoober.com 2.6.11-1.27_FC3 #1 Tue May 17 20:27:37 EDT 2005 i686 Build Date: 30 March 2005 Build Host: Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present OS Kernel: Linux version 2.6.11-1.27_FC3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.4.3 20050227 (Red Hat 3.4.3-22)) #1 Tue May 17 20:27:37 EDT 2005 PF Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Thu Jul 7 20:32:57 2005 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf (==) ServerLayout Default Layout (**) |--Screen Screen0 (0) (**) | |--Monitor Monitor0 (**) | |--Device Videocard0 (**) |--Input Device Mouse0 (**) |--Input Device Keyboard0 (**) FontPath set to unix/:7100 (**) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb (==) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory) (II) Module ABI versions: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.2 X.Org Video Driver: 0.7 X.Org XInput driver : 0.4 X.Org Server Extension : 0.2 X.Org Font Renderer : 0.4 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: bitmap (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Font Renderer ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.4 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: pcidata (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7 (++) using VT number 7 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Sync/stutter when both tuners record? WAF crashing and burning
On July 7, 2005 06:21 pm, Anthony Floyd wrote: way to check which tuner recorded what program? Could my problem be memory-related? I have 512MB in the machine, and it seems to run fairly 'full' - I've seen it at 1% or 2% free when a lot was going on. Hi Steve, Sorry to hear about your problems. 512MB should be plenty. I'm running a similar setup (Athlon XP 2500+, 512 MB, 1x350, 1x250, NForce2, etc) and when both tuners are running, I have no problems at all. When you say 1% or 2% free, how are you checking this? If you run free -m at the command line, it'll give you a breakdown of your memory usage. The first line might make things look pretty occupied, but you'll probably notice that a good deal of your space is occupied by the disk cache. The second line is the interesting one, showing the used and free memory when the disk cache is removed from the numbers. When my machine (frontend + backend combined) is recording on both tuners, (and watching a recording, and serving an mp3 to me here at work, transcoding through lame...) I'm only seeing ~16% CPU usage, and the memory used is 271 MB (231 MB free). Could the problem be your hard drives? DMA is enabled? Cheers, Anthony. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Are you running on an older VIA chipset? I had stuttering with multiple tuners until I swapped to a new motherboard. Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] (OT) TV-Out on a GF4
On 7/7/05, Justin Popa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Had a thread before about this, but I have hit a new problem now. I use FC3, with a GF4MX440. If I use the default config(xorg.conf.orig) that FC sets up for me(with driver nv changed to nvidia) X loads fine. If I then load my modified conf file over it(xorg.conf.new) and do an init 3/init 5.. everything works perfectly. Then, the next time I boot(using the new conf), I get zero on any display. I've attached the confs, and the X log. Thanks! Log is not complete, so it's hard to see what went wrong. After your last line (++) using VT number 7 normally you should see PCI scan lines. If you really don't have them, then the driver is hung pretty badly. If it works with your original config (with nvidia driver), try to isolate the problem: first, remove all twinview options. If it works, try only these: Option TwinView Option SecondMonitorHorizSync 30-50 Option SecondMonitorVertRefresh 60 Option MetaModes 800x600, 800x600; 640x480, 640x480 Option TwinViewOrientation Clone (Note that your MetaModes line does not match your Modes line later in the file, it does not list all modes, I don't know if it matters). -- Fedor G Pikus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.pikus.net http://wild-light.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Sync/stutter when both tuners record? WAF crashing and burning
George Nassas wrote: On 7-Jul-05, at 3:33 PM, Steve Pugh wrote: Is there a way to check which tuner recorded what program? mysql -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg select chanid, title from recorded; quit The first digit of the chanid is the device that did the recording. Or, you could do this: select * from channel where chanid = 1234; once you know what chanid your show was on and you can match the sourceid with what's in the cardid table. This only works if you have a different source for each encoder. I have two PVR-x50's both recording from two DISH receivers, so I only have one source (DISH channel data provided by datadirect). Therefore, all my recordings--regardless of which encoder recorded them--have chanid's in the 1000-1300 range... describe tablename is good for finding out what info is available. But, unfortunately, it doesn't tell you if your interpretation of the available info is correct. ;) TTBOMK, there's no way to find out which encoder was used to record your recordings (other than in special circumstances, as above). Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Playing image(.iso) file in Mythvideo
On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 19:29:36 -0500 Neil wrote: try running the command from the command line. this time you will want to ssh in but have the X showing on the mythbox, not the machine you are logging in from: ssh mythbox (password stuff) export DISPLAY=:0 xine (etc, the rest as per command line given by Daniel) observe what happens and either fix the error or post back :-) BAM! BAM! BAM! :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] dvd]# DISPLAY=:0 /usr/bin/xine -pfhq -V xv --no-splash dvd:/video/dvd/matrix.iso This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.3. (c) 2000-2004 The xine Team. libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x7f80 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x8925 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x00025b69 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB at 0x00136bc8 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB at 0x0013d2f8 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB at 0x0014e4a6 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_0.VOB at 0x00157a86 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_1.VOB at 0x00178762 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_0.VOB at 0x0017b212 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_1.VOB at 0x0017b282 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_0.VOB at 0x001fe496 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_1.VOB at 0x00204bda libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_1.VOB at 0x00215d88 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Found 7 VTS's libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 However, I'm not getting any sound at all. How do I tell xine to use ALSA:digital? xine --help Also, my lirc keys for up/down, and enter doesn't work in xine. It works perfectly in mythtv. How do I fix it? looks like you might have to get to grips with the lirc documentation. Thanks!!! 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
[mythtv-users] Re: Playing image(.iso) file in Mythvideo
I've been using VLC in lieu of Xine for video playback. The command in MythVideo is: vlc %s vlc:quit This plays all video formats I've thrown at it: .avi, .mpg, .iso, .vob. VLC is highly configurable, and in my opinion is a better playback app than anything else I've seen (I've tried xine, mplayer and the Myth internal player...none come close). I've included my vlcrc file for posterity (or free beer, whichever comes first). -Bob K. vlcrc Description: Binary data ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Sync/stutter when both tuners record? WAF crashing and burning
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:11:46PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote: TTBOMK, there's no way to find out which encoder was used to record your recordings (other than in special circumstances, as above). TTBOMK? Anyway, the backend logs (shown in mythweb, also somewhere in the database) -do- record the encoder used to record a given recording. For example: Started recording Reign of Fire on channel: 1051 on cardid: 2, sourceid 1 This is encoder #2 (cardid). The sourceid is usually 1, presumably unless you have a card with multiple inputs. --Rob signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Myxer Update - added Nuvola style and Myxer Web Configurator PHP files
I have updated the Myxer theme again, this time adding graphics from the Nuvola theme. (With permission from Nuvola's author). The actual Nuvola theme can be found here: http://www.umich2.com/files/2005/05/updated_nuvola.html if you want the whole theme instead of Myxer's skinning of it. I have also added Stef Coene's awesom PHP web Configurator for Myxer. ( http://www.docum.org/staf/mythtv ) It allows you to preview your changes right in your PHP enabled webserver. Very Cool! Please try this thing out on your local webserver so we dont hammer poor Stef's bandwidth on his server. I also did some minor (unnoticeable) enhancements to the watermark naming in the theme.xml files. I still want to add more iconsets, but I really wont have much time for about another month. I also want to incorporate Stef's PHP output as an option in myxerCustomizer for easier application of what you do inside his scripts. Shouldn't be very hard at all. http://lisadaveh.home.comcast.net/myxer/ Believe it or not, alot of work went into this release, and not much testing, so if you find something that doesn't work, please let me know right away. Have Fun! Dave Hofstra Lengthy revision text below - 07/07/05 Added Nuvola items (Watermarks, Background, and Buttons). Much thanks goes out to Nuvola's creator for letting me use these fantastic graphics. There are many other things I could add from the Nuvola themeset (like theme.xml, arrows, and some of the UI stuff) but for now, I think the additions are fine. The homepage for the actual Nuvola theme is http://www.umich2.com/files/2005/05/updated_nuvola.html . Check it out if you like it, as the actual Nuvola theme has quite a bit more differences than the current Myxer can make available. You can select the pre-made Nuvola Myxer style by using option #7 Apply_Pre-Built_Skin_Sets area of the main menu. Of course, all the graphics are individually selectable also. I have also included the excellent Myxer Configurator PHP files that were created by Stef Coene. These files, when dropped into a PHP enabled webserver, will allow you to 'play around' with all the aspects of Myxer using a web interface. (Imagine seeing thumbnail previews of all the available graphics in Myxer and making a preview of your final items.) I will have to work on integrating this somehow into myxer, where once you pick the files in the PHP pages, you could paste the output into MyxerCustomizer. This should be really easy, but I haven't had alot of time lately. If you need installation instructions, check out http://www.docum.org/staf/blog/index.php?catid=2blogid=1 and he also has an online version of the PHP files here http://www.docum.org/staf/mythtv/ (but I assume it'd be nicer and faster on your own server as well as not hammering his server.) Just extract the myxer_web_configurator.tar file found in the MyxerCustomizer directory and put the folder in your php enabled webserver. This thing is VERY cool, much thanks goes out to Stef for a job well done! I also have updated the theme.xml files to allow more variety in available watermarks within Myth (although only nuvola watermarks are currently using the newly available ones). Let me know if I screwed anything up. While I was in there, I added a watermark for Video Gallery which was somehow missing. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] kickstart-26 and FC3
I've been just trying to reinstall following Jarod's guide and I'm getting dependency errors with the kickstart-26 file. Anyone else tried a new install in the last day or so? Thanks. -- -=/Thom ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Sync/stutter when both tuners record? WAF crashing and burning
Robert Tsai wrote: On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:11:46PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote: TTBOMK, there's no way to find out which encoder was used to record your recordings (other than in special circumstances, as above). TTBOMK? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ttbomk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_slang Anyway, the backend logs (shown in mythweb, also somewhere in the database) -do- record the encoder used to record a given recording. For example: Started recording Reign of Fire on channel: 1051 on cardid: 2, sourceid 1 This is encoder #2 (cardid). The sourceid is usually 1, presumably unless you have a card with multiple inputs. Good idea. I was only thinking of the persistent storage. That's even available in the mythlog table of the database until it's removed as an old entry or something. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
