[mythtv-users] Suggestions about this remote control
The USB remote control that came with my TV card, is a USB type, and linux (mandrive 2005LE) detects it when I insert it, and uses it like a USB keyboard (and mouse?). From /var/log/messages... Jul 11 17:56:10 localhost kernel: ohci_hcd :00:02.1: wakeup Jul 11 17:56:10 localhost kernel: usb 2-3: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5 Jul 11 17:56:10 localhost kernel: input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Twinhan Tech Remote Control] on usb-:00:02.1-3 Jul 11 17:56:10 localhost kernel: input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Twinhan Tech Remote Control] on usb-:00:02.1-3 Jul 11 17:56:10 localhost hal.hotplug[10906]: DEVPATH is not set Jul 11 17:56:11 localhost hal.hotplug[10940]: DEVPATH is not set The keys all seem to have mappings. For example, by watching in a terminal, I see that all the number keys map to the numbers 0 to 9 as expected. Other keys are letters - Rewind is a lowercase 'i' and FF is an 'n' for example, and the play key seems to conveniently be an enter key. Others are more obscure. Seems it should be possible to use it to control any app, but of course, I want to control MythTV. Any clues on how to remap the keys of this 'USB keyboard'? Does linux have a standard mechanism for input devices like this? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] UK Malvern DVB scan problem
I see from the archives that some people have had issues with Malvern in the past but I've no idea if this is related. Basically when doing a full scan it identifies 6 transports ok, but one of them is a duplicate of another (the one with ftn on it) and I don't get any ITV channels at all. The same problem exists when using dvbscan from the dvb tools so unless Myth uses the same scanning code (?) it looks like a problem at the transmitter (NIT tables? My DVB knowledge is basic). If anyone here is using Malvern can you tell me if you see the same problem? If not, can you send me a dump of your DVB-related mysql tables so I can copy them please! Cheers J. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Suggestions about this remote control
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 06:03 pm, ffrr wrote: The USB remote control that came with my TV card, is a USB type, and linux (mandrive 2005LE) detects it when I insert it, and uses it like a USB keyboard (and mouse?). From /var/log/messages... Jul 11 17:56:10 localhost kernel: input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Twinhan Tech Remote Control] on usb-:00:02.1-3 Jul 11 17:56:10 localhost kernel: input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Twinhan Tech Remote Control] on usb-:00:02.1-3 The keys all seem to have mappings. For example, by watching in a terminal, I see that all the number keys map to the numbers 0 to 9 as expected. Other keys are letters - Rewind is a lowercase 'i' and FF is an 'n' for example, and the play key seems to conveniently be an enter key. Others are more obscure. Seems it should be possible to use it to control any app, but of course, I want to control MythTV. Any clues on how to remap the keys of this 'USB keyboard'? Does linux have a standard mechanism for input devices like this? This is exactly my problem with this remote. Previously I used mythweb to remap the myth keys to match the remote but this is annoying way to fix the problem. I have two frontends with different remotes and the one with the Twinhan Tech Remote Control has no web browser on it. Another suggestion was to remap the keys with xmodmap but this would be even more annoying because then a normal keyboard would use the remap keys. I found these links for BSD: http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/usbhidaction.1.html http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/usbhidctl.1.html I've had a quick look at the kernel in the hope of a patch may fix the problem but the usb driver seems complex. linux/drivers/usb/input Please tell me if there is a simple way to get this to work, Paul -- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Network traffic causing pre-buffering pauses...
Mark Woodward wrote: I'm curious if any one has ever seen this too and if so how to fix it. I'm using mythtv 0.18 from CVS but this has been a problem for a while but I never really had a reason to look into it. Kernel is 2.6.8. When ever there is network traffic (i.e. file transfer to/from the mythbox) I get pre-buffering pauses. I'm running the frontend as suid but I don't think it's the frontend. My guess is that it is a kernel config issue. I have dma turned on for the drives so it might be the Ethernet card hogging the CPU (IRQ?). I turned on pre-empting in the kernel but no difference. Any ideas where to look next? You could try limiting the MTU (using ifconfig) to make the network driver process things in smaller chunks. -Doug signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Any Bell/Canada ExpressVU HD users?
I am wondering if anyone in Canada is using the Bell 6100 HD setup with Myth? Failing that, How about Shaw HD? What HD capture cards did you use? Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Going HDTV! Assistance REALLY appreciated please
Rats, I already bought the Bell HD system. Well maybe I can take it back. How about SHAW in Canada? I think SHAW might use firewire. What is a good firewire capture card that is a good price point? Anyone using HD and Myth in Canada? On Jul 10, 2005, at 10:03 PM, Greg Mitchell wrote: HDTV source: Bell expressview in Canada with DVI/component out My questions are these: What HDTV card is best and where to get it? How about the HD card from http://www.pchdtv.com/ ( pcHDTV™ HD-3000 ) will this work OK? Is there an easier choice? I'll save you a lot of trouble - the pcHDTV3000 won't capture component/DVI out. With expressvu you can't use Myth and High def. Your best option is going to be to go with a cable box that has firewire out. I don't have any advice on the rest of your questions though - I haven't got a high def set up just yet myself. Greg ___ 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] Cutpoints delayed bad commercial flagging
On 7/5/05, Paul Andreassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 07:59 pm, David Whyte wrote: how/where do you change to TS again? If I remember correctly, I am on PS. What are the pros and cons of each stream? Run mythsetup, its under the options for your dvb card. In TS mode + - change sound sources as well. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/135242#135242 I made my first TS recording overnight and after manually specifying the cutlist and transcoding to NUV MPEG4 the cuts are just about perfect. There are a couple of frames shown of the end of the commercial, but I can probably prevent that by placing the cutpoint in a couple. I am now trying the commercial flagger on the new series of 24. I don't know how it will turn out but here is hoping...I am running out of disk space quick :| -- -- GMAIL is 'da bomb babyYEAH I have GMail invites, if you want one, email me direct. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] SilverStone LC-02 Motherboard options
I bought a Silverstone LC-02and put in a Foxconn motherboard.I should have researched this bit more because the motherboard does not seem to be the right one for this application. Of course the motherboard fits just fine into the case, but I cannot put in my Hauppauge PVR-350 into it, because the card is too large to fit under the shelf that carries the hard drive. Any suggestions on either buying a riser card so I can put the Hauppauge card in sideways, or buying a motherboard that provides a cleaner solution (i.e. a motherboard with a sideways slot that will accommodate the Hauppauge card sideways? Thanx, Anil Gupte ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] SilverStone LC-02 Motherboard options
On 7/11/05, Anil Gupte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bought a Silverstone LC-02 and put in a Foxconn motherboard. I should have researched this bit more because the motherboard does not seem to be the right one for this application. Of course the motherboard fits just fine into the case, but I cannot put in my Hauppauge PVR-350 into it, because the card is too large to fit under the shelf that carries the hard drive. The LC02 is *designed* for use with riser cards. You should have received either a 1AGP 1PCI riser with it or a 2PCI riser. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] OT: kernel disabling IRQ#7 (Sound Stops working)
Hello, I realize this isn't mythtv specific, however it is happening on my box which is used specifically for mythtv. I have a weird issue where when I don't use the machine for awhile (say the whole weekend because I'm gone to the cottage) when I return, I have a Knotify message up on the screen telling me that the kernel has disabled IRQ #7 (Which I believe is the interrupt for the sound card). Then, when I try to watch any recordings or live tv, I get no sound. A reboot always fixes the problem (until the following weekend when I go away again). Anyone know why this is happening Noel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] SilverStone LC-02 Motherboard options
At 09:13 AM 7/11/2005, you wrote: I bought a Silverstone LC-02 and put in a Foxconn motherboard. I should have researched this bit more because the motherboard does not seem to be the right one for this application. Of course the motherboard fits just fine into the case, but I cannot put in my Hauppauge PVR-350 into it, because the card is too large to fit under the shelf that carries the hard drive. Any suggestions on either buying a riser card so I can put the Hauppauge card in sideways, or buying a motherboard that provides a cleaner solution (i.e. a motherboard with a sideways slot that will accommodate the Hauppauge card sideways? not knowing the case, the third option would be not using that HD location and removing the shelf Thanx, Anil Gupte ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] SilverStone LC-02 Motherboard options
On 11 Jul 2005 06:38:17 -0700, Jim Reith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not knowing the case, the third option would be not using that HD location and removing the shelf The case has horizontal slots so removing the shelf isn't going to help. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Going HDTV! Assistance REALLY appreciated please
Rats, I already bought the Bell HD system. Well maybe I can take it back. How about SHAW in Canada? I think SHAW might use firewire. What is a good firewire capture card that is a good price point? I have heard that Shaw does indeed enable firewire on some of their receivers - I haven't done much research on it yet though. As for a capture card, my understanding is that all you need is a firewire port on your machine - if your motherboard doesn't have one, then firewire PCI cards are cheap. The only thing holding me back is that TSN HD isn't available in my market from shaw (apparently) and CFL football is the only reason I want HD :) Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Going HDTV! Assistance REALLY appreciated please
Sounds promising. How is the best way to control the channels on the box though? Thanks for the help? Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Rats, I already bought the Bell HD system. Well maybe I can take it back. How about SHAW in Canada? I think SHAW might use firewire. What is a good firewire capture card that is a good price point? I have heard that Shaw does indeed enable firewire on some of their receivers - I haven't done much research on it yet though. As for a capture card, my understanding is that all you need is a firewire port on your machine - if your motherboard doesn't have one, then firewire PCI cards are cheap. The only thing holding me back is that TSN HD isn't available in my market from shaw (apparently) and CFL football is the only reason I want HD :) Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users This message was sent using OnNow Hosting Webmail. Hosting and email starting at $4.99/mo http://www.onnow.net ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Going HDTV! Assistance REALLY appreciated please
Firewire lets you change the channel by itself, no need for an IR blaster. Having both a firewire connection and a pcHDTV over QAM, the firewire is my preferred method. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 7:52 AM To: Discussion about mythtv; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Going HDTV! Assistance REALLY appreciated please Sounds promising. How is the best way to control the channels on the box though? Thanks for the help? Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Rats, I already bought the Bell HD system. Well maybe I can take it back. How about SHAW in Canada? I think SHAW might use firewire. What is a good firewire capture card that is a good price point? I have heard that Shaw does indeed enable firewire on some of their receivers - I haven't done much research on it yet though. As for a capture card, my understanding is that all you need is a firewire port on your machine - if your motherboard doesn't have one, then firewire PCI cards are cheap. The only thing holding me back is that TSN HD isn't available in my market from shaw (apparently) and CFL football is the only reason I want HD :) Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users This message was sent using OnNow Hosting Webmail. Hosting and email starting at $4.99/mo http://www.onnow.net ___ 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] Going HDTV! Assistance REALLY appreciated please
Great! So if firewire is enabled, then I can get audio/video and change channels through it? How hard is that to setup in Myth? Thank you, Mark Quoting Jack R. Hyde [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Firewire lets you change the channel by itself, no need for an IR blaster. Having both a firewire connection and a pcHDTV over QAM, the firewire is my preferred method. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 7:52 AM To: Discussion about mythtv; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Going HDTV! Assistance REALLY appreciated please Sounds promising. How is the best way to control the channels on the box though? Thanks for the help? Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Rats, I already bought the Bell HD system. Well maybe I can take it back. How about SHAW in Canada? I think SHAW might use firewire. What is a good firewire capture card that is a good price point? I have heard that Shaw does indeed enable firewire on some of their receivers - I haven't done much research on it yet though. As for a capture card, my understanding is that all you need is a firewire port on your machine - if your motherboard doesn't have one, then firewire PCI cards are cheap. The only thing holding me back is that TSN HD isn't available in my market from shaw (apparently) and CFL football is the only reason I want HD :) Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users This message was sent using OnNow Hosting Webmail. Hosting and email starting at $4.99/mo http://www.onnow.net ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users This message was sent using OnNow Hosting Webmail. Hosting and email starting at $4.99/mo http://www.onnow.net ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot change channels with M179
Bob, I found the problem with IVTV and the M179s is the included tuner module. If you keep the stock tuner.ko from your kernel, then you can successfuly tune and change channels. This is what worked for me. You also have to manually specify the tuner type in the ivtv kernel module options. w On 7/10/05, Bob Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 10 July 2005 04:49 am, Dennis Hand wrote: I appreciate the help guys. I didn't get any feedback from the ivtv group. I tried several versions of ivtv, including 0.2.0-rc3b. All exhibit the same behaviour: a lot of static and I cannot change channels. I tested the m179 in a windows PC, and it worked fine. I put my PVR-250 card in my AMD64 system, and it works fine. So, it's a problem with ivtv and the m179, at least when coupled with an amd64, it seems. When I run: ivtvctl -I I get Check SAA7115 input signal ioctl: VIDEO_STATUS = Bad That's probably a pretty good indication of the problem, but I don't know what to do about it. Come Monday, I'm going to return the m179 to avermedia and get another PVR-250. They're a little pricey, but at least I can get it to work. Unless, of course, someone can save me the hassle by guiding me in the right direction. Tnx again. Well I unfortunately have a alot of experience with the M179's. I'm using FC3 with one of the later rc3 ivtv versions on a test box and it works fine. Granted I'm not using a amd64 system but that shouldn't have anything to do with it. What does your modprobe.conf look like? I will say the M179 is very very stubborn. You usually have to trick it especially on a reboot as this card doesn't get autorecognized by ivtv. If your getting static then thats a good sign. What I have to do sometimes is change the tuner to something that doesn't work then change it back to the right one. Like so, ivtvctl -p 0 ivtvctl -p 3. If composite(3) is what your using. I've tried your trick Dennis, changing the input with ivtvctl, to 3 and backto 0 (I'm using the coax input), but it still doesn't work. Now, going back to the latest gentoo driver, I don't even get a picture, just static, or blank screens when I have a different input. I've attached my modprobe.conf file. As things look now, though, I'll return the m179 and get a PVR150. I think that should be easy to get working, and there isn't much price difference. Dennis ___ 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: kernel disabling IRQ#7 (Sound Stops working)
Hi, First, let's be sure that the sound card is on IRQ7 cat /proc/interrupts If IRQ7 is the correct interrupt then typical reason that interrupts will get disabled is that the interrupt controller is receiving spurious interrupts on that channel. The interrupt happens, the interrupt service routine goes to read all the chips on that IRQ and finds that no chip says it generated the interrupt. Normally after a few of these the system will shut down the channel and interrupts for all devices on that channel are hosed. There are typically a few normal reasons for this stuff: 1) The system has some design problem. Internal noise messes with IRQ line on the motherboard. 2) A chip is bad or going bad. This could be the chipset of the sound card. Possible solutions: a) If the sound card is sharing and interrupt with other cards or devices then try to isolate the sound card on it's own interrupt. Try placing it in a different PCI slot. b) If this is an onboard sound ship then ensure that no other decide you have control over shares the interrupt. I.e. - if the sound card is sharing an interrupt with a PCI Ethernet adapter then try moving the NIC to another slot. c) If the above ideas don't work and this is a PCI device then try another sound card d) It is possible hat the problem is on the motherboard itself. The solution for that is not pretty. e) All of this can be caused by bad programming of the chipset. Investigate other kernels or distros for this sort of problem potential solutions. Some distros add patches, some don't. Try a kernel.org kernel instead of a prepackaged kernel. Good luck. I've struggled through this a couple of times over the years. There are usually solutions but they are not (in my experience) always easy to find. Cheers, Mark On 7/11/05, Noel Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I realize this isn't mythtv specific, however it is happening on my box which is used specifically for mythtv. I have a weird issue where when I don't use the machine for awhile (say the whole weekend because I'm gone to the cottage) when I return, I have a Knotify message up on the screen telling me that the kernel has disabled IRQ #7 (Which I believe is the interrupt for the sound card). Then, when I try to watch any recordings or live tv, I get no sound. A reboot always fixes the problem (until the following weekend when I go away again). Anyone know why this is happening Noel ___ 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] mythmusic and lcdproc
Hello, I STFW a lot and RTFM but i did not find an answer to my question. I attached an 20x4 LCD-Display to my mythtv-box and installed lcdproc (lcdproc works fine). Then i checked all boxes in the MythTv/Settings/.../Use LCD-Display-Menu and restarted mythfrontend. Now i can see pretty much information on the Display, like the Menu and Chanel-Info etc. but not the most important thing (for me). In mythmusic i can only see the artist and the title of the previous, the current and the next song. And when i try to change the playlist it shows Danger, Will Robinson. I thougt there would be a bar showing how much is left timewise on the song or something similar. When only the Show Title/Artist in the MythTv/Settings/.../Use LCD-Display-Menu is checked my Display shows nothing. Ok, long story short: 1. Is this normal and i should stop searching the net and be happy OR is there a possibility to get this progressbar? 2. Give me a hint how...Please My box is running Suse 9.2 (Kernel 2.6.8-24.16), mythtv 0.18.1( from here: h**p://folk.uio.no/oeysteio/apt/suse/9.2-mythtv/RPMS.MythTV/) and lcdproc 0.4.5. (compiled myself) Thanks Peter P.S. Yeah i learned my english from television... sorry :) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: kernel disabling IRQ#7 (Sound Stops working)
On Jul 11, 2005, at 8:35 AM, Noel Murphy wrote: I have a weird issue where when I don't use the machine for awhile (say the whole weekend because I'm gone to the cottage) when I return, I have a Knotify message up on the screen telling me that the kernel has disabled IRQ #7 (Which I believe is the interrupt for the sound card). Then, when I try to watch any recordings or live tv, I get no sound. A reboot always fixes the problem (until the following weekend when I go away again). Anyone know why this is happening Is it possible your machine is going into a sleep state, and there is a problem with the wake up code? I'd check your bios settings for power save settings, and if they are on, try turning them off for one weekend. -Michael ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] DVI / composite caputure card?
Just wondering if such an item exists, and what a recommended one is if so... I have a Bell Expressvu HD system. The output is DVI/component. Is there a capture card that will caputure either one of these that anyone can vouch for? Mark This message was sent using OnNow Hosting Webmail. Hosting and email starting at $4.99/mo http://www.onnow.net ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] XM Connect-And-Play
Anyone looking at XM Connect-And-Play? http://www.xmradio.com/xmcp/index.jsp The device appears to have a USB-like connection. It would be great to hook one of these into a myth backend and stream/record/etc XM audio. -- Tim www.magicitx.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: kernel disabling IRQ#7 (Sound Stops working)
IRQ7 is usually that of the parallel (a.k.a. printer) port. If the sound card is taking IRQ7, then either there's no printer port on the machine, or something is messed up with IRQ sharing (and I'd bet on the latter). If the sound card can't be moved away from IRQ7, then try disabling the printer port on the motherboard, so that IRQ7 is freed up. I have seen some messages from the kernel about spurious interrupts on IRQ7 before - this is just apparently due to the wiring of the parallel port, and they haven't caused any problems in the past, at least not for me. -- Joe --- Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, First, let's be sure that the sound card is on IRQ7 cat /proc/interrupts If IRQ7 is the correct interrupt then typical reason that interrupts will get disabled is that the interrupt controller is receiving spurious interrupts on that channel. The interrupt happens, the interrupt service routine goes to read all the chips on that IRQ and finds that no chip says it generated the interrupt. Normally after a few of these the system will shut down the channel and interrupts for all devices on that channel are hosed. There are typically a few normal reasons for this stuff: 1) The system has some design problem. Internal noise messes with IRQ line on the motherboard. 2) A chip is bad or going bad. This could be the chipset of the sound card. Possible solutions: a) If the sound card is sharing and interrupt with other cards or devices then try to isolate the sound card on it's own interrupt. Try placing it in a different PCI slot. b) If this is an onboard sound ship then ensure that no other decide you have control over shares the interrupt. I.e. - if the sound card is sharing an interrupt with a PCI Ethernet adapter then try moving the NIC to another slot. c) If the above ideas don't work and this is a PCI device then try another sound card d) It is possible hat the problem is on the motherboard itself. The solution for that is not pretty. e) All of this can be caused by bad programming of the chipset. Investigate other kernels or distros for this sort of problem potential solutions. Some distros add patches, some don't. Try a kernel.org kernel instead of a prepackaged kernel. Good luck. I've struggled through this a couple of times over the years. There are usually solutions but they are not (in my experience) always easy to find. Cheers, Mark On 7/11/05, Noel Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I realize this isn't mythtv specific, however it is happening on my box which is used specifically for mythtv. I have a weird issue where when I don't use the machine for awhile (say the whole weekend because I'm gone to the cottage) when I return, I have a Knotify message up on the screen telling me that the kernel has disabled IRQ #7 (Which I believe is the interrupt for the sound card). Then, when I try to watch any recordings or live tv, I get no sound. A reboot always fixes the problem (until the following weekend when I go away again). Anyone know why this is happening Noel ___ 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 __ 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] OT: kernel disabling IRQ#7 (Sound Stops working)
You don't mention the distribution you're using, but I've experienced this before on an FCx system. As I recall I installed using Jarod's fabulous guide, but forgot to install the kmdl for ALSA. Sound would work, for a time, but sometime between 12 and 36 hours, I'd get the message you describe. On 7/11/05, Noel Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I realize this isn't mythtv specific, however it is happening on my box which is used specifically for mythtv. I have a weird issue where when I don't use the machine for awhile (say the whole weekend because I'm gone to the cottage) when I return, I have a Knotify message up on the screen telling me that the kernel has disabled IRQ #7 (Which I believe is the interrupt for the sound card). Then, when I try to watch any recordings or live tv, I get no sound. A reboot always fixes the problem (until the following weekend when I go away again). Anyone know why this is happening Noel ___ 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] Tour de France
Brian Meehan wrote: A fellow Tour fan! My wife and I spend the month of June catching up with hour 1hr dramas from the normal season viewing to have maximum disk space for the tour stages. Some of those mountain stages take 6-9Gb per showing. Thanks for the idea with the custom record option. Space can be an issue. I mentioned recording profiles without elaborating. Broadcast television has limited quality and recording at high res won't make the picture better it will just waste bit for the same image. For my OLN reception, 400x480 or even 352x480 looks about the same as higher res. At the same time, there is a lot of motion all the time and so compression may be lossy making the image worse. Therefore, I use a high bit rate to avoid compression artifacts. I have one of my profiles set up for low-res high bitrate that I use for sports which gives me a pretty good image without taking up too much space. For me, the Tour coverage has always looked a bit grainy with slightly drab colors. However, when they put up the promo graphics in the lower left, they are perfectly sharp and fully saturated. This leads me to believe the problem is in the equipment they use to get the signal from Europe. Yesterday, CBS did their weekly one hour review. They used OLNs intro (with different music), maps and I recognized all the footage except the video quality was spectacular. I had set it up to record all, no repeats and it getting the 1st (live) showing and then the evening re-broadcast. Off-line, David Engel (the scheduler guy) pointed out some inconsistencies in the listings. We often pick apart odd listings problems to see what myth can or should do. In this case, they were inconsistent about which replays were and weren't given the replay programids. There are really three different versions; live, compressed daytime version, and primetime expanded coverage. These are not clearly distinguished in the listings. Sadly, I'm rebuilding my system now, and I've had to watch the prime-time Al Trouthead 8pm showing until we're back up (thanks Axel for posting the kickstart tonight! We're loading as I type!). If you Hopefully you can finish on this rest day. read along with Velonews or Daily Peloton (.com) while you're at work, the 5pm showing is pretty good for catching the most exciting bits, and you still have Paul Phil doing the commentary, not Bob and Al Troutwig. I'm enjoying the commentator's points competition especially with Phil getting off to a fast start and Paul overtaking. It really shows that Paul Phil know what they are talking about. As a long time professional sports anchor, Al pays attention enough to make solid, safe choices to pick up a lot of second place finishes. The current standings may be an indication of the quality of 'expert' analysis =). -- bjm ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] ivtv problems with latest upgrade
Hi, I recently upgrade my FC3 Kernel to the lastest version. Being new to mythtv and linux, I didn't realize that I would need to reload my ivtv kernel module. I removed the old version of IVTV using apt-get remove (firmware, ivtv kmdl). Reloaded the IVTV drivers/module from ATRPMS. Did a depmod -a and then a modprobe ivtv only to get the following error message: FATAL: Error inserting ivtv (/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.35_FC3/updates/drivers/media/video/ivtv.ko): Invalid module format ok, so I check dmesg | grep ivtv: ivtv: no version for struct_module found: kernel tainted. ivtv: version magic '2.6.11-1.35_FC3 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4' should be '2.6.11-1.35_FC3 586 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4' ivtv: version magic '2.6.11-1.35_FC3 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4' should be '2.6.11-1.35_FC3 586 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4' So it appears that I have the wrong module installed. Doing a uname -a reveals: Linux id 2.6.11-1.35_FC3 #1 Mon Jun 13 00:52:18 EDT 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux So I should actually have i686 version. What is 4Kstacks however? Why am I downloading the incorrect ivtv drivers from atrpms? Should I just edit grub.conf and comment out the latest kernel (.35) and go back to (.27)? This is a plain FC3 Hauppauge pvr-250 box. Used the Wilson guide to get it up and running and absolutely love it. It's been running great for 5 months until this latest problem. I would like to avoid rebuilding the box if possible. Thanks. Tim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Issues getting MythTV to work
Daft question, but have you got the audio cable running from your capture card to your sound cards line-in? Stu -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jamie Dobbs Posted At: 10 July 2005 20:08 Posted To: MythTV Users Conversation: [mythtv-users] Issues getting MythTV to work Subject: [mythtv-users] Issues getting MythTV to work Hi I'm in New Zealand and am trying to set up MythTV with a Pinnacle PVTV Stereo and VIA onboard sound. The main issues I have are that even though I can get channels tuned in applications like xawtv or kdetv there is no sound, and I cannot even get MythTV to show a picture. I am using Fedora Core 4 at the moment but would be willing to try another distro if necessary. I guess I am missing out some fundamental step here but I just can't see how I can 'tune' MythTV to the channels I can get here, the option to autotune does not show as an option in mythtvsetup :-( Obviously there is something pretty basic here that I am doing wrong and I'd appreciate any help that people on the list could offer, especially any NZ'ers who have managed to get this kind of setup working who could point me in the right direction. Any and all help appreciated. Cheers Jamie ___ 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] zero length recordings w/ pcHDTV
I'm running pretty recent code and I still get issues with zero length recordings with my pcHDTV 3000 cards. I'm running the pcHDTV 1.6 drivers on kernel 2.6.5. I'm on SuSE 9.1 and I get no error messages that I can see. MythTV doesn't tell me anything until it refuses to play a show. Then I go look in the delete recordings menu or on mythweb and it shows me a size of 0. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what this could be? Tom ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] zero length recordings w/ pcHDTV
Tom McKearney wrote: I'm running pretty recent code and I still get issues with zero length recordings with my pcHDTV 3000 cards. I'm running the pcHDTV 1.6 drivers on kernel 2.6.5. I'm on SuSE 9.1 and I get no error messages that I can see. MythTV doesn't tell me anything until it refuses to play a show. Then I go look in the delete recordings menu or on mythweb and it shows me a size of 0. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what this could be? Most likely, signal quality issues. But it could be your station broadcasting MPEG that we don't like, such as not broadcasting proper PSIP data. Try running your backend with '-verbose record' for a while and see if anything interesting turns up in the logs. You might also try making the big switchover to DVB, since the old hdtvrecorder stuff will be deprecated by Myth at some point. -Doug signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Issues getting MythTV to work
Carrison, Stuart wrote: Daft question, but have you got the audio cable running from your capture card to your sound cards line-in? Stu I certainly have - the card works fine in Windows, but not in Linux -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jamie Dobbs Posted At: 10 July 2005 20:08 Posted To: MythTV Users Conversation: [mythtv-users] Issues getting MythTV to work Subject: [mythtv-users] Issues getting MythTV to work Hi I'm in New Zealand and am trying to set up MythTV with a Pinnacle PVTV Stereo and VIA onboard sound. The main issues I have are that even though I can get channels tuned in applications like xawtv or kdetv there is no sound, and I cannot even get MythTV to show a picture. I am using Fedora Core 4 at the moment but would be willing to try another distro if necessary. I guess I am missing out some fundamental step here but I just can't see how I can 'tune' MythTV to the channels I can get here, the option to autotune does not show as an option in mythtvsetup :-( Obviously there is something pretty basic here that I am doing wrong and I'd appreciate any help that people on the list could offer, especially any NZ'ers who have managed to get this kind of setup working who could point me in the right direction. Any and all help appreciated. Cheers Jamie ___ 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] OT: kernel disabling IRQ#7 (Sound Stops working)
I've been getting the same error, but instead of sound, I lose the 2nd tuner on my PVR-500 card. It takes about 6-8 hours for it to disable the IRQ. I've tried moving the cards around to no avail. I've decided to reload the box and leave the 500 out until it's more stable, since my 2x250 cards were working splendidly. I'll keep watching this for other ideas. On 7/11/05, Jonathan Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't mention the distribution you're using, but I've experienced this before on an FCx system. As I recall I installed using Jarod's fabulous guide, but forgot to install the kmdl for ALSA. Sound would work, for a time, but sometime between 12 and 36 hours, I'd get the message you describe. On 7/11/05, Noel Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I realize this isn't mythtv specific, however it is happening on my box which is used specifically for mythtv. I have a weird issue where when I don't use the machine for awhile (say the whole weekend because I'm gone to the cottage) when I return, I have a Knotify message up on the screen telling me that the kernel has disabled IRQ #7 (Which I believe is the interrupt for the sound card). Then, when I try to watch any recordings or live tv, I get no sound. A reboot always fixes the problem (until the following weekend when I go away again). Anyone know why this is happening Noel ___ 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] I'm newbe - help please !
Hi All, I'm fighting with config of MythTV last few days... without success :-( I'm living in Poland. We haven't here servers with XMLTV, so all channel sources, freq., etc. I have to provide manually. Can somebody describe me in exact steeps (or point me to right place) - how can I configure plain vanilla KnoppMyth install to be simple TV box ? Hw is M1000 with PVR250, so hardware is pretty standard. Thx in advace ! -- cYa, 3.14iotr/2 Nie ma złych systemów operacyjnych. Może tylko brakować alkoholu !!! W takiej sytuacji dobry programista wiesza się wraz z programem ;-P Hiroshima'45; Czernobyl'86; Windows'95 Zwrotne bajty daj na [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] problems installing mythtv
hi, i'm trying to do my first install of mythtv, and i have some weird problems. what i eventually want to do is using mythtv to record tv using a hauppauge pvr350, and possibly a second double tuner, convert the recordings to mpeg1/mpeg2, and watch tv using a hauppauge mediamvp. if all goes well, i want to add this to a server running debian etch. after reading this list and asking around i try to follow the wilson guide. so on a new system i installed fc3, ran up2date. tried to install the atrpms-kickstart 26 and got rpm 4.4 errors. then after reading the message from axel about a new version 27 i tried that and it installed fine. than i did the apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade, fine too. but when i tried to apt-get install atrpms-synaptic, apt-get was gone. it is somehow deleted from my system. Q1: what is happening here? Q2: is it possible to install mythtv directly on debian, following the wilson guide, or are more appropriate guides available? thanks, paul. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] VLC x264 codec
I was curious if Videolan's implementation of the h.264 codec could have any possibilities for MythTV? It's released under the GPL, more info here: http://developers.videolan.org/x264.html Is the current MPEG4 encoding mechanisms in MythTV GPL'ed? w ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Will this solution work? PVR-250 w/ svideo? Before I spend the $$$
Just wanted to check to see if this will work before spending the 300 on a sat receiver... PVR-250 ( works great now with analog cable ) using the SVideo input ( no longer a tuner ) from a satelite receiver. IRBlaster controling the external ( Bell expressvu HD Canada ) Questions: 1) Can the PVR-250 ( model 980 ) just act as an svideo in without the tuner? 2) Where does the RCA-out sound from the reciever go? Sound card input on Mythtv or is there a sound input on the 250 cap card? 3) Will an IR blaster work OK with any SAT receiver? So, this will be an HD signal over svideo into the PVR250. I now have analog cable running into it working well, but I think the HDTV digital sata receiver will still be a bit better? Thoughts on that? Thanks for the feedback Mark This message was sent using OnNow Hosting Webmail. Hosting and email starting at $4.99/mo http://www.onnow.net ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: problems installing mythtv
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:54:00PM +0200, Paul de Vries wrote: than i did the apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade, fine too. but when i tried to apt-get install atrpms-synaptic, apt-get was gone. it is somehow deleted from my system. Q1: what is happening here? Could you post the output of the command above? Was it really atrpms-synaptic you tried to install? In general apt warns you with bug red letters, if you are about to remove packages from the list in /etc/apt/rpmpriorities, which includes apt. Did you enter any Yes, do as I say confirmations? Q2: is it possible to install mythtv directly on debian, following the wilson guide, or are more appropriate guides available? MythTV works on Debian just as well, but you would not follow Jarod's guide. Check the mythtv documenation for further steps/guides required on Debian. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net pgpSLDXqRg3ya.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] zero length recordings w/ pcHDTV
On 7/11/05, Tom McKearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running pretty recent code and I still get issues with zero length recordings with my pcHDTV 3000 cards. I'm running the pcHDTV 1.6 drivers on kernel 2.6.5. I'm on SuSE 9.1 and I get no error messages that I can see. Strong, very strong second here to abandon the old 1.6 stuff. Having built two MythTV systems, both using kernel 2.6.12 with DVB support built in, I can emphatically recommend moving to the lastest kernel. This could mean that you might have compile mythtv yourself to get the DVB support turned on within myth, but again - it is really worth it. All the old battles go away, and you are left with a solid, reliable, working HDTV video recorder. -- MM ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ivtv problems with latest upgrade
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 12:44:03PM -0500, Tim Vruwink wrote: Reloaded the IVTV drivers/module from ATRPMS. Did a depmod -a and then a modprobe ivtv only to get the following error message: FATAL: Error inserting ivtv (/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.35_FC3/updates/drivers/ media/video/ivtv.ko): Invalid module format That's not the only ivtv problem. I was just about to post a warning under a separate Subject: saying that ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j won't compile under the 2.6.12 kernel because the i2c module has changed and the references to client-id in ivtv's saa7115 module are no longer valid. We're stuck at 2.6.11 until that gets fixed. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] problems installing mythtv
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:54:00PM +0200, Paul de Vries wrote: Q2: is it possible to install mythtv directly on debian, following the wilson guide, or are more appropriate guides available? Installing MythTV on Debian is quick and painless. A message at http://www.luci.org/luci-discuss/200409/msg6.html explains how to install MythTV. Getting the driver for your WinTV-PVR?50 card to work will be a bit more complicated, at least partly because the ivtv does not come with the required firmware image (due to copyright) and Hippauge changed the location of the Microsoft Windows DLL on the CD-Rom. I ended up having to hack the perl scripts to manually unpack the firmware images. I am running Debian with a mix of stable and unstable packages, a custom 2.6.11.12 kernel and ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j drivers for my PVR250. Notes on ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j: (1) the 'make clean' target does not remove all of the intermediate files (2) the saa7115 module accesses the i2c client struct directly instead of using the new access methods, and this breaks saa7115 on the 2.6.12 kernels. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: ivtv problems with latest upgrade
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 12:44:03PM -0500, Tim Vruwink wrote: I recently upgrade my FC3 Kernel to the lastest version. Being new to mythtv and linux, I didn't realize that I would need to reload my ivtv kernel module. I removed the old version of IVTV using apt-get remove (firmware, ivtv kmdl). Reloaded the IVTV drivers/module from ATRPMS. Did a depmod -a and then a modprobe ivtv only to get the following error message: FATAL: Error inserting ivtv (/lib/modules/2.6.11- 1.35_FC3/updates/drivers/media/video/ivtv.ko): Invalid module format ok, so I check dmesg | grep ivtv: ivtv: no version for struct_module found: kernel tainted. ivtv: version magic '2.6.11-1.35_FC3 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4' should be '2.6.11-1.35_FC3 586 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4' ivtv: version magic '2.6.11-1.35_FC3 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4' should be '2.6.11-1.35_FC3 586 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4' So it appears that I have the wrong module installed. Doing a uname -a reveals: Linux id 2.6.11-1.35_FC3 #1 Mon Jun 13 00:52:18 EDT 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux So I should actually have i686 version. What is 4Kstacks however? Why am I downloading the incorrect ivtv drivers from atrpms? Should I just edit grub.conf and comment out the latest kernel (.35) and go back to (.27)? How did you download the i586 version, manually or with apt? apt is usually clever enough to get the proper arch for you. Remove this package and reinstall the i686 one. This is a plain FC3 Hauppauge pvr-250 box. Used the Wilson guide to get it up and running and absolutely love it. It's been running great for 5 months until this latest problem. I would like to avoid rebuilding the box if possible. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net pgpn2QAqYueAx.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: problems installing mythtv
Axel Thimm wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:54:00PM +0200, Paul de Vries wrote: than i did the apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade, fine too. but when i tried to apt-get install atrpms-synaptic, apt-get was gone. it is somehow deleted from my system. Q1: what is happening here? Could you post the output of the command above? Was it really "atrpms-synaptic" you tried to install? output is not saved: it was: apt-get: command not found, so the problem should be before, in executing the 2 above apt-gets. the statement was: apt-get install http://dl.atrpms.net/all/synaptic-0.57-22.rhfc3.at.i386.rpm In general apt warns you with bug red letters, if you are about to remove packages from the list in /etc/apt/rpmpriorities, which includes apt. Did you enter any "Yes, do as I say" confirmations? i only said Yes to the extra packages to be installed Q2: is it possible to install mythtv directly on debian, following the wilson guide, or are more appropriate guides available? MythTV works on Debian just as well, but you would not follow Jarod's guide. Check the mythtv documenation for further steps/guides required on Debian. thanks, paul. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Summary of my HD experiences with MythTV 0.18.1
Over the last few weeks, I've been trying to put together a mythtv box with an HD card (PCHDTV 3000), a Firewire connection to my Comcast Motorola 6200, and a PVR-250 for regular TV. I had an earlier version of Myth running great for about 1 year (non-HD), so I thought I'd give the HD a try. The project isn't finished (in fact, isn't working yet), but I thought I'd share my experiences up to this point for those following in the same path. Basically, all of the HD options I've tried so far haven't been stable enough for using on a regular basis, though I'd appreciate feedback from those having better luck with similar setups. HARDWARE SETUP -- Graphics Card: As far as I can tell, only the NVidia cards do a good job playing back HD without dropping frames. I purchased a fanless GeForce 5200 card from NewEgg as recommended on Wendy's website: http://wendy.seltzer.org/mythtv/ -- Case: I got a Silverstone SST-LC11S, which I thought looked pretty cool. I uses a riser board for mounting the AGP and 2 PCI cards horizontally. The PVR-250 fits, but only barely after some wiggling due to a strange screw near the end of the PVR-250. -- Motherboard/Processor: I started with an AMD 3700+ and Foxconn 760GXK8MB-ERS (SIS chipset) motherboard. It was the only microATX motherboard I could find with included firewire. WARNING: DON'T GET THIS MOTHERBOARD!!! For some reason, (using Fedora Core 3 or Core 4), the NVidia drivers hang the system immediately. Using the 64-bit version of FC3 was a little better...it didn't hang the system, but I couldn't get AGP enabled, so the frame rate wouldn't support HD. So, I ended up buying another CPU/motherboard. this time a P4/3.0Ghz and a Foxconn 865G 865G7MC-ES (once again, the only mobo I could find that had built-in firewire and was a microATX, this one has an Intel chipset, not SIS). This seems to work ok so far with the NVidia chip. OS AND SOFTWARE -- OS: I've stuck with FC3 so far (kernel 2.6.11.27), following Jarod's great site at: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ However, I've been thinking of trying KnoppMyth as well. . -- Myth version 0.18.1 from atprms.net (thanks, Axel!) HD CAPTURE -- Firewire As far as I can tell, the Firewire connection to the DCT6200 is not ready for prime time. This may be due to the firewire implementation within the DCT6200, but either way, it works only intermittently. Here are a few tricks to get it to work a little better: Run plugreport to see which port and node the DCT6200 is connected to. Then, repeatedly run test-mpeg2 -r [node #] and press ctrl-c until you get an mpeg stream. You may need to repeat this step many times, but at some point, you kick the DCT6200 into action, and the connection then seems to work in Myth. Also, I'd avoid watching live TV with the firewire connection, because changing channels frequently causes a hang. Other times, the new channel is either missing audio, or comes in at 3-4 frames per second. If I quit the live tv function and re-enter, the audio re-appears and the frame rate goes back to normal. HD CAPTURE --- PCHDTV HD-3000 I've tried the DVB drivers trying to capture QAM (QAM is the HDTV signal sent over cable, vs. the broadcast HDTV, which is a different format). This works, but just barely. The scan for channels feature picks up most (but not all) of the HD channels coming over the cable. When watching the channels, many of them have slower frame rates, the image breaks up every few seconds, and changing channels when watching live TV frequently causes a hang of the mythfrontend. Once again, not really ready for prime time. I'm going to try the HD-3000 with terrestrial signals next, and I'm hoping it will be more stable (though I don't get as many channels over the air). NTSC CAPTURE -- PVR-250 I thought this would be the easy one, since I had it working with a previous myth box. However, either the card has gone bad, or the Silverstone case has a lot of RF interference, because every channel flickers uncontrollably (like someone is wiggling an antenna). It crashes myth playback within 10 seconds. I've replaced the card with an older K-World BTT878 that I got off eBay for $20 (which works), but I would prefer the built-in MPEG2 compression of the PVR-250. I don't get the static with the K-World card, so the PVR-250 card is looking more suspect. Hopefully this posting will help folks trying to build an HD setup -- Todd ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: ivtv problems with latest upgrade
Axel, I installed the ivtv drivers via apt from the your website (atprms). I too thought that apt would grab the right version (i686 in my case). I'll look into manually downloading the rpms and try from there. +TimOn 7/11/05, Axel Thimm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 12:44:03PM -0500, Tim Vruwink wrote: I recently upgrade my FC3 Kernel to the lastest version. Being new to mythtv and linux, I didn't realize that I would need to reload my ivtv kernel module. I removed the old version of IVTV using apt-get remove (firmware, ivtv kmdl). Reloaded the IVTV drivers/module from ATRPMS. Did a depmod -a and then a modprobe ivtv only to get the following error message: FATAL: Error inserting ivtv (/lib/modules/2.6.11- 1.35_FC3/updates/drivers/media/video/ivtv.ko): Invalid module format ok, so I check dmesg | grep ivtv: ivtv: no version for struct_module found: kernel tainted. ivtv: version magic '2.6.11-1.35_FC3 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4' should be '2.6.11-1.35_FC3 586 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4' ivtv: version magic '2.6.11-1.35_FC3 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4' should be '2.6.11-1.35_FC3 586 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4' So it appears that I have the wrong module installed. Doing a uname -a reveals: Linux id 2.6.11-1.35_FC3 #1 Mon Jun 13 00:52:18 EDT 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux So I should actually have i686 version. What is 4Kstacks however? Why am I downloading the incorrect ivtv drivers from atrpms? Should I just edit grub.conf and comment out the latest kernel (.35) and go back to (.27)? How did you download the i586 version, manually or with apt? apt isusually clever enough to get the proper arch for you.Remove this package and reinstall the i686 one. This is a plain FC3 Hauppauge pvr-250 box. Used the Wilson guide to get it up and running and absolutely love it. It's been running great for 5 months until this latest problem. I would like to avoid rebuilding the box if possible.--Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MythTV Screen grab
All I'm running MythTV with the NVidia 7167 drivers installed. Can anyone suggest how I could do a screen grab? If I use the standard screen capture tools while MythTV is playing a recording, I just get a blue screen dump Thanks in advance Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] ivtv problems with latest upgrade
No, look in your grub directory and change grub.conf to give you the option to load your old kernel if that kernel is still in the /boot directory. Let ye without segmentation fault cast the first int! Korey Fort From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Vruwink Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 2:53 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] ivtv problems with latest upgrade Chris, So I need to run an older kernel in order to keep ivtv working? Offhand, do you know whether FC3's kernel labelling methods correlate to the actual kernel versions (I hope I am asking this correctly). For exampe, I just recently upgraded to: 2.6.11-1.35_FC3 from 2.6.11-1.27_FC3 is that the same as going from 2.6.11 to 2.6.12? Thanks. Tim On 7/11/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 12:44:03PM -0500, Tim Vruwink wrote: Reloaded the IVTV drivers/module from ATRPMS. Did a depmod -a and then a modprobe ivtv only to get the following error message: FATAL: Error inserting ivtv (/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.35_FC3/updates/drivers/ media/video/ivtv.ko): Invalid module format That's not the only ivtv problem.I was just about to post a warning under a separate Subject: saying that ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j won't compile under the 2.6.12 kernel because the i2c module has changed and the references to client-id in ivtv's saa7115 module are no longer valid. We're stuck at 2.6.11 until that gets fixed. ___ 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] Summary of my HD experiences with MythTV 0.18.1
Thanks for the review, that's very helpful. I'm not quite ready to try HD yet, but it's definitely on the radar. Are the firewire inconsistencies you found with the 6200 only on the HD channels, or just in general? (I'm assuming it's the latter) I actually hope the firewire problems are on the Myth side so we might have some hope of it improving in the future. In theory, being able to get MPEG2 analog, digital, and HD - as well as channel changing - all through the same pipe seems like the holy grail for Myth users. On 7/11/05, Todd Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Over the last few weeks, I've been trying to put together a mythtv box with an HD card (PCHDTV 3000), a Firewire connection to my Comcast Motorola 6200, and a PVR-250 for regular TV. I had an earlier version of Myth running great for about 1 year (non-HD), so I thought I'd give the HD a try. The project isn't finished (in fact, isn't working yet), but I thought I'd share my experiences up to this point for those following in the same path. Basically, all of the HD options I've tried so far haven't been stable enough for using on a regular basis, though I'd appreciate feedback from those having better luck with similar setups. HARDWARE SETUP -- Graphics Card: As far as I can tell, only the NVidia cards do a good job playing back HD without dropping frames. I purchased a fanless GeForce 5200 card from NewEgg as recommended on Wendy's website: http://wendy.seltzer.org/mythtv/ -- Case: I got a Silverstone SST-LC11S, which I thought looked pretty cool. I uses a riser board for mounting the AGP and 2 PCI cards horizontally. The PVR-250 fits, but only barely after some wiggling due to a strange screw near the end of the PVR-250. -- Motherboard/Processor: I started with an AMD 3700+ and Foxconn 760GXK8MB-ERS (SIS chipset) motherboard. It was the only microATX motherboard I could find with included firewire. WARNING: DON'T GET THIS MOTHERBOARD!!! For some reason, (using Fedora Core 3 or Core 4), the NVidia drivers hang the system immediately. Using the 64-bit version of FC3 was a little better...it didn't hang the system, but I couldn't get AGP enabled, so the frame rate wouldn't support HD. So, I ended up buying another CPU/motherboard. this time a P4/3.0Ghz and a Foxconn 865G 865G7MC-ES (once again, the only mobo I could find that had built-in firewire and was a microATX, this one has an Intel chipset, not SIS). This seems to work ok so far with the NVidia chip. OS AND SOFTWARE -- OS: I've stuck with FC3 so far (kernel 2.6.11.27), following Jarod's great site at: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ However, I've been thinking of trying KnoppMyth as well. . -- Myth version 0.18.1 from atprms.net (thanks, Axel!) HD CAPTURE -- Firewire As far as I can tell, the Firewire connection to the DCT6200 is not ready for prime time. This may be due to the firewire implementation within the DCT6200, but either way, it works only intermittently. Here are a few tricks to get it to work a little better: Run plugreport to see which port and node the DCT6200 is connected to. Then, repeatedly run test-mpeg2 -r [node #] and press ctrl-c until you get an mpeg stream. You may need to repeat this step many times, but at some point, you kick the DCT6200 into action, and the connection then seems to work in Myth. Also, I'd avoid watching live TV with the firewire connection, because changing channels frequently causes a hang. Other times, the new channel is either missing audio, or comes in at 3-4 frames per second. If I quit the live tv function and re-enter, the audio re-appears and the frame rate goes back to normal. HD CAPTURE --- PCHDTV HD-3000 I've tried the DVB drivers trying to capture QAM (QAM is the HDTV signal sent over cable, vs. the broadcast HDTV, which is a different format). This works, but just barely. The scan for channels feature picks up most (but not all) of the HD channels coming over the cable. When watching the channels, many of them have slower frame rates, the image breaks up every few seconds, and changing channels when watching live TV frequently causes a hang of the mythfrontend. Once again, not really ready for prime time. I'm going to try the HD-3000 with terrestrial signals next, and I'm hoping it will be more stable (though I don't get as many channels over the air). NTSC CAPTURE -- PVR-250 I thought this would be the easy one, since I had it working with a previous myth box. However, either the card has gone bad, or the Silverstone case has a lot of RF interference, because every channel flickers uncontrollably (like someone is wiggling an antenna). It crashes myth playback within 10 seconds. I've replaced the card with an older K-World BTT878 that I got off eBay for $20 (which works), but I would prefer the built-in MPEG2 compression of the PVR-250. I don't get the static with the K-World card, so the PVR-250
Re: [mythtv-users] Summary of my HD experiences with MythTV 0.18.1
-- Motherboard/Processor: I started with an AMD 3700+ and Foxconn 760GXK8MB-ERS (SIS chipset) motherboard. It was the only microATX motherboard I could find with included firewire. WARNING: DON'T GET THIS MOTHERBOARD!!! For some reason, (using Fedora Core 3 or Core 4), the NVidia drivers hang the system immediately. Using the 64-bit version of FC3 was a little better...it didn't hang the system, but I couldn't get AGP enabled, so the frame rate wouldn't support HD. I'm curious, because I ran into this... Did you correct the Udev issues after installing Nvidia's drivers? ie add entries to /etc/udev or do a cp -a /dev/nvidia* /etc/udev/devices/ after booting into non-graphical mode after driver installation? -- Anthony Vito [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] blue line
When I am in the aspect ratio of 16:9, I have a blue line on the top black border. In 4:3 ratio I don't see any line. I tried xattr -a XV_COLORKEY -v 0 but that didn't work. Can anyone else give me any other ideas as to how to remove this blue line? It looks very annoying! Thanks in advance. Ash. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] ivtv problems with latest upgrade
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 3:07 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] ivtv problems with latest upgrade On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 12:44:03PM -0500, Tim Vruwink wrote: Reloaded the IVTV drivers/module from ATRPMS. Did a depmod -a and then a modprobe ivtv only to get the following error message: FATAL: Error inserting ivtv (/lib/modules/2.6.11- 1.35_FC3/updates/drivers/ media/video/ivtv.ko): Invalid module format That's not the only ivtv problem. I was just about to post a warning under a separate Subject: saying that ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j won't compile under the 2.6.12 kernel because the i2c module has changed and the references to client-id in ivtv's saa7115 module are no longer valid. We're stuck at 2.6.11 until that gets fixed. ivtv-0.2.0-rc3k source was released June 21st to fix that. You just need someone to make a package. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Will this solution work? PVR-250 w/ svideo? Before I spend the $$$
On 7/11/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wanted to check to see if this will work before spending the 300 on a sat receiver... No it will not. Your first three questions are all fine an 1) Can the PVR-250 ( model 980 ) just act as an svideo in without the tuner? Yes 2) Where does the RCA-out sound from the reciever go? Sound card input on Mythtv or is there a sound input on the 250 cap card? There's an input on the card for audio. 3) Will an IR blaster work OK with any SAT receiver? Shouldn't be a problem. So, this will be an HD signal over svideo into the PVR250. And here's where you break down. First HD can't be sent over svideo. Second, the PVRx50 cards are standard def only. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: kernel disabling IRQ#7 (Sound Stops working)
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Noel Murphy wrote: Hello, I realize this isn't mythtv specific, however it is happening on my box which is used specifically for mythtv. I have a weird issue where when I don't use the machine for awhile (say the whole weekend because I'm gone to the cottage) when I return, I have a Knotify message up on the screen telling me that the kernel has disabled IRQ #7 (Which I believe is the interrupt for the sound card). Then, when I try to watch any recordings or live tv, I get no sound. A reboot always fixes the problem (until the following weekend when I go away again). Anyone know why this is happening I remember doing battle with this issue when I switched my frontend to FC3 from gentoo. Now I have put everything into the master backend (PVR350, PVR500MCE) and it has appeared again, and obviously rebooting every time it happens is not an option for a general server/master backend. The frontend was an Asus Pundit (SiS chipset) and the server is some generic Intel mainboard with a P4, so this may not work there, but I think I solved it last time by 1) Disabling the printer port in BIOS, and 2) Adding parport=0 noapic nolapic acpi=off to the kernel line in grub.conf. Can't remember if that was what actually did the trick, will check when I get home tomorrow... =) / Niklas ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] problems installing mythtv
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 3:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] problems installing mythtv On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:54:00PM +0200, Paul de Vries wrote: Q2: is it possible to install mythtv directly on debian, following the wilson guide, or are more appropriate guides available? Installing MythTV on Debian is quick and painless. A message at http://www.luci.org/luci-discuss/200409/msg6.html explains how to install MythTV. Getting the driver for your WinTV-PVR?50 card to work will be a bit more complicated, at least partly because the ivtv does not come with the required firmware image (due to copyright) and Hippauge changed the location of the Microsoft Windows DLL on the CD-Rom. I ended up having to hack the perl scripts to manually unpack the firmware images. I am running Debian with a mix of stable and unstable packages, a custom 2.6.11.12 kernel and ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j drivers for my PVR250. Notes on ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j: (1) the 'make clean' target does not remove all of the intermediate files (2) the saa7115 module accesses the i2c client struct directly instead of using the new access methods, and this breaks saa7115 on the 2.6.12 kernels. You do know that the firmware is in all the Haupauge driver files. You can find them all here http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php?page=FirmwareVersions Also the ivtv drivers recommend a specific firmware version as that's what they were designed to use. More information can be found at the link. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] xorg.conf for 1280x720 HDTV
Been doing lots of reading / research but not finding what I need yet. Yes archives too Nvidia DVI - HDMI Toshiba 52HM84 HDTV that should do 1280x720. I read that this command gtf 1280 720 60 gives me a Modeline. I have that output below: # 1280x720 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 44.76 kHz; pclk: 74.48 MHz Modeline 1280x720_60.00 74.48 1280 1336 1472 1664 720 721 724 746 -HSync +Vsync Now, I get a bit lost. How do I create the xorg.conf based on this? Any similar or sample xorg.conf ( FC3 ) out there? This message was sent using OnNow Hosting Webmail. Hosting and email starting at $4.99/mo http://www.onnow.net ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Summary of my HD experiences with MythTV 0.18.1
Actually I find firewire to be amazingly stable. I can't change channels while watching live TV reliably, but I never do that anyways. Mythtv is a PVR, you shouldn't be watching live TV, and assuming for some reason you are (sports, etc) then why change channels? Ok that sounds rather asinine, but really, the broken HDTV channel changing (it happens under QAM or firewire) doesn't much affect me. Once the cable company fixed the spontaneous rebooting and turning off of my 6214 motorola box it's been smooth sailing. It hasn't screwed up a recording in months, and QAM is doing pretty good too now. Running an amd64 3400+ gentoo system with a MSI NEO FISR2 motherboard and an Nvidia 5200 el cheapo agp card and a 2.6.12 kernel with dvb drivers for the pcHDTV3k card. I couldn't play back HDTV with out noticeable jutter with bob deinterlace until I compiled for 64bit, that plus all the mythtv improvements has finally gotten me a pretty nice HDTV system. It doesn't crash anymore while playing something back, no matter how much I fast forward or rewind. Exiting the stream randomly crashes it, but that's not HDTV related, it happens with normal def too. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd Greene Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 12:42 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] Summary of my HD experiences with MythTV 0.18.1 Over the last few weeks, I've been trying to put together a mythtv box with an HD card (PCHDTV 3000), a Firewire connection to my Comcast Motorola 6200, and a PVR-250 for regular TV. I had an earlier version of Myth running great for about 1 year (non-HD), so I thought I'd give the HD a try. The project isn't finished (in fact, isn't working yet), but I thought I'd share my experiences up to this point for those following in the same path. Basically, all of the HD options I've tried so far haven't been stable enough for using on a regular basis, though I'd appreciate feedback from those having better luck with similar setups. HARDWARE SETUP -- Graphics Card: As far as I can tell, only the NVidia cards do a good job playing back HD without dropping frames. I purchased a fanless GeForce 5200 card from NewEgg as recommended on Wendy's website: http://wendy.seltzer.org/mythtv/ -- Case: I got a Silverstone SST-LC11S, which I thought looked pretty cool. I uses a riser board for mounting the AGP and 2 PCI cards horizontally. The PVR-250 fits, but only barely after some wiggling due to a strange screw near the end of the PVR-250. -- Motherboard/Processor: I started with an AMD 3700+ and Foxconn 760GXK8MB-ERS (SIS chipset) motherboard. It was the only microATX motherboard I could find with included firewire. WARNING: DON'T GET THIS MOTHERBOARD!!! For some reason, (using Fedora Core 3 or Core 4), the NVidia drivers hang the system immediately. Using the 64-bit version of FC3 was a little better...it didn't hang the system, but I couldn't get AGP enabled, so the frame rate wouldn't support HD. So, I ended up buying another CPU/motherboard. this time a P4/3.0Ghz and a Foxconn 865G 865G7MC-ES (once again, the only mobo I could find that had built-in firewire and was a microATX, this one has an Intel chipset, not SIS). This seems to work ok so far with the NVidia chip. OS AND SOFTWARE -- OS: I've stuck with FC3 so far (kernel 2.6.11.27), following Jarod's great site at: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ However, I've been thinking of trying KnoppMyth as well. . -- Myth version 0.18.1 from atprms.net (thanks, Axel!) HD CAPTURE -- Firewire As far as I can tell, the Firewire connection to the DCT6200 is not ready for prime time. This may be due to the firewire implementation within the DCT6200, but either way, it works only intermittently. Here are a few tricks to get it to work a little better: Run plugreport to see which port and node the DCT6200 is connected to. Then, repeatedly run test-mpeg2 -r [node #] and press ctrl-c until you get an mpeg stream. You may need to repeat this step many times, but at some point, you kick the DCT6200 into action, and the connection then seems to work in Myth. Also, I'd avoid watching live TV with the firewire connection, because changing channels frequently causes a hang. Other times, the new channel is either missing audio, or comes in at 3-4 frames per second. If I quit the live tv function and re-enter, the audio re-appears and the frame rate goes back to normal. HD CAPTURE --- PCHDTV HD-3000 I've tried the DVB drivers trying to capture QAM (QAM is the HDTV signal sent over cable, vs. the broadcast HDTV, which is a different format). This works, but just barely. The scan for channels feature picks up most (but not all) of the HD channels coming over the cable. When watching the channels, many of them have slower frame rates, the image breaks up every few seconds, and changing channels when watching live TV frequently causes a
[mythtv-users] A7N8X-VM Issue
Hi! I just got my A7N8X-VM board installed (gentoo) and have some issues... Everything work fine except when I launch mythsetup and everything freezes. Same thing with mythtv. I suspect some problems with xorg.conf and it would be relly nice if someone could provide me with a (known) working copy of the config file. Almost everything (kernel, gentoo, ivtv) works, but the xorg is giving me he**... please, if you have some guidelines I would be more than grateful... ps. I'm using the onboard GF4 MX card. ds. /Eric ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] zero length recordings w/ pcHDTV
I'm running SuSE 9.1 and I've been told tha tgoing to 2.6.12 could be ugly (the guys on the #suse IRC channel seem to thing it's an issue). So, I ask... is the back-ported DVB stuff for the pcHDTV 3000 cards stable? T On 7/11/05, Mercury Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/11/05, Tom McKearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running pretty recent code and I still get issues with zero length recordings with my pcHDTV 3000 cards. I'm running the pcHDTV 1.6 drivers on kernel 2.6.5. I'm on SuSE 9.1 and I get no error messages that I can see. Strong, very strong second here to abandon the old 1.6 stuff. Having built two MythTV systems, both using kernel 2.6.12 with DVB support built in, I can emphatically recommend moving to the lastest kernel. This could mean that you might have compile mythtv yourself to get the DVB support turned on within myth, but again - it is really worth it. All the old battles go away, and you are left with a solid, reliable, working HDTV video recorder. -- MM ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: zero length record
When I get signal quality issues, it's usually during bad weather and manifests itself as partial recordings, not zero length. I have gotten zero length on, for instance, 3 or 4 consecutive days' worth of Simpsons recordings (all HD OTA on the same channel) and then a problem recording Family Guy (same channel). It just doesn't feel like signal strength to me. T -- Message: 28 Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:08:39 -0400 From: Doug Larrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] zero length recordings w/ pcHDTV To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Tom McKearney wrote: I'm running pretty recent code and I still get issues with zero length recordings with my pcHDTV 3000 cards. I'm running the pcHDTV 1.6 drivers on kernel 2.6.5. I'm on SuSE 9.1 and I get no error messages that I can see. MythTV doesn't tell me anything until it refuses to play a show. Then I go look in the delete recordings menu or on mythweb and it shows me a size of 0. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what this could be? Most likely, signal quality issues. But it could be your station broadcasting MPEG that we don't like, such as not broadcasting proper PSIP data. Try running your backend with '-verbose record' for a while and see if anything interesting turns up in the logs. You might also try making the big switchover to DVB, since the old hdtvrecorder stuff will be deprecated by Myth at some point. -Doug ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] New Myth/ivtv error
Hi Marc et. al., Thank you very much for your reply - in the end, I did roll back to 0.2 and so far, things are happier and healthier. I still get unsolicited pauses when watching recordings (skipping back fixes that, but it's still annoying), but so far the disk-filling error and my other, newer nightmare (all of my recordings since last Wednesday were out of sync!) have been resolved by rolling back. The wisdom of avoiding the bleeding edge has proven wise indeed. Best, Steve (P.S. - Sorry if this message is way late, but I moved house this past week and so am playing a furious game of catch-up with my email...) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] please help with PVR-150MCE...
send the ivtv output from dmesg. Ricardo Kleemann wrote: Hi, I'm still having troubles getting the PVR-150 to work. I tried updating the firmware. I did it by downloading the latest driver from the hauppauge site and running the ivtvfwextract.pl script. I was going to try and do the same using the CD that came with the card, except that the script didn't seem to find the correct file on the CD and I couldn't find any similar pvr*.exe file in there, so I decided to use the one from the hauppauge site. I didn't get any errors, and the proper files were written to /lib/modules. I loaded the drivers via modprobe ivtv. However I see nothing happening on /dev/video0. Neither with mplayer, nor doing a cat /dev/video0 somefile What am I missing? :-( Do I need to configure something with ivtvctl ? Thanks for any help Ricardo ___ 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] please help with PVR-150MCE...
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ricardo Kleemann Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 7:45 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: [mythtv-users] please help with PVR-150MCE... I was going to try and do the same using the CD that came with the card, except that the script didn't seem to find the correct file on the CD and I couldn't find any similar pvr*.exe file in there, so I decided to use the one from the hauppauge site. Search for HcwMakoA.ROM and ivtv-fw-enc.bin on the CD. That's what made it work for me. Make sure you grab it from the PVR-150 directory on the CD, not another card. -Khanh ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: zero length record
Please don't CC me when you send to the list. Tom McKearney wrote: When I get signal quality issues, it's usually during bad weather and manifests itself as partial recordings, not zero length. I have gotten zero length on, for instance, 3 or 4 consecutive days' worth of Simpsons recordings (all HD OTA on the same channel) and then a problem recording Family Guy (same channel). It just doesn't feel like signal strength to me. In that case, try my suggestion to run backend with '-verbose record' for a couple days and see what you see. -Doug signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ivtv problems with latest upgrade
That's not the only ivtv problem. I was just about to post a warning under a separate Subject: saying that ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j won't compile under the 2.6.12 kernel because the i2c module has changed and the references to client-id in ivtv's saa7115 module are no longer valid. We're stuck at 2.6.11 until that gets fixed. ivtv-0.2.0-rc3k source was released June 21st to fix that. You just need someone to make a package. Where was it released? I got my driver directly from sourceforge and they still show rc3j as the last stable release. All of the current work seems to be on 0.3.x (Dev). ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ivtv problems with latest upgrade
That's not the only ivtv problem. I was just about to post a warning under a separate Subject: saying that ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j won't compile under the 2.6.12 kernel because the i2c module has changed and the references to client-id in ivtv's saa7115 module are no longer valid. We're stuck at 2.6.11 until that gets fixed. ivtv-0.2.0-rc3k source was released June 21st to fix that. You just need someone to make a package. Where was it released? I got my driver directly from sourceforge and they still show rc3j as the last stable release. All of the current work seems to be on 0.3.x (Dev). I've been seeing messages going around that seem to indicate kernel requirements for running unstable ivtv? I built ivtv 3.6y over the weekend and am having configuration troubles and wonder if I have all the necessary dependencies. It built clean... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] ivtv problems with latest upgrade
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 8:14 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] ivtv problems with latest upgrade That's not the only ivtv problem. I was just about to post a warning under a separate Subject: saying that ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j won't compile under the 2.6.12 kernel because the i2c module has changed and the references to client-id in ivtv's saa7115 module are no longer valid. We're stuck at 2.6.11 until that gets fixed. ivtv-0.2.0-rc3k source was released June 21st to fix that. You just need someone to make a package. Where was it released? I got my driver directly from sourceforge and they still show rc3j as the last stable release. All of the current work seems to be on 0.3.x (Dev). I goto the Chris' site. Not Sourceforge. http://www.ivtv.tv/releases/ivtv-0.2/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: kernel disabling IRQ#7 (Sound Stops working)
I also had a similar problem, however my pvr250 was the one taking up irq7, so when it got switched off I lost my tv capture :( i'm not exactly sure how i fixed the problem, but I do see 'pci=useirqmask' and 'acpi=off' in my grub.conf. I think dmesg told me to do the pci=useirqmask thing because the irq7 was screaming all the time for no reason... at least i think thats why i put it there. whatever i did, i still see ivtv on irq7 and haven't had a problem for ages. -AG On 7/11/05, Niklas Brunlid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Noel Murphy wrote: Hello, I realize this isn't mythtv specific, however it is happening on my box which is used specifically for mythtv. I have a weird issue where when I don't use the machine for awhile (say the whole weekend because I'm gone to the cottage) when I return, I have a Knotify message up on the screen telling me that the kernel has disabled IRQ #7 (Which I believe is the interrupt for the sound card). Then, when I try to watch any recordings or live tv, I get no sound. A reboot always fixes the problem (until the following weekend when I go away again). Anyone know why this is happening I remember doing battle with this issue when I switched my frontend to FC3 from gentoo. Now I have put everything into the master backend (PVR350, PVR500MCE) and it has appeared again, and obviously rebooting every time it happens is not an option for a general server/master backend. The frontend was an Asus Pundit (SiS chipset) and the server is some generic Intel mainboard with a P4, so this may not work there, but I think I solved it last time by 1) Disabling the printer port in BIOS, and 2) Adding parport=0 noapic nolapic acpi=off to the kernel line in grub.conf. Can't remember if that was what actually did the trick, will check when I get home tomorrow... =) / Niklas ___ 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] Slight OT: NASA TV streams in Linux
Is there a way to play either the RealPlayer or Windows Media streams from Nasa TV (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html?skipIntro=1) in Linux. I'm looking perhaps to add a link in my Myth system or configure it through MythVideo somehow so that I can have it there for my kids when the shuttle launches later this week. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Wintv-dbc 401
Hi All - ok I have given up after getting so close. I am at the early stages of installing mythtv. I have a wintv-dbx model 401 card. From what I know this is supported by v4l via cx8800 module. It loads on boot up - even seems to have the correct tuner: cx88[0]: subsystem: 0070:3401, board: Hauppauge WinTV 34xxx models [card=1,autodetected] tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 34132, rev = J158, serial# = 2927402 tveeprom: tuner = Philips FM1236 MK3 (idx = 58, type = 4) tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x1000) tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3416 (type = 14) great - should be working?? Well, I try xawtv and get fuzzy screen (NTSC, usbcast). scantv finds no channels and tvtime gives this interesting message: tuner refuses to tell us the current frequency. This must be related. don't think I can continue installing mythtv unless I get this working... I would be most grateful if someone could help. Running debian unstable, v4l cx88 0.0.4, linux 2.6.12.2 thanks - Rob ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slight OT: NASA TV streams in Linux
Kevin Kuphal wrote: Is there a way to play either the RealPlayer or Windows Media streams from Nasa TV (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html?skipIntro=1) in Linux. I'm looking perhaps to add a link in my Myth system or configure it through MythVideo somehow so that I can have it there for my kids when the shuttle launches later this week. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users MythBrowser, maybe? mplayer SHOULD play the Windows Media, but only if it is pre-saved. I would look at MythBrowser. It might be your only hope. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slight OT: NASA TV streams in Linux
I will concentrate on the realplayer stream, but the technique would be the same for the windows media stream 1. the link for the live realplayer stream is http://www.nasa.gov/ram/35037main_portal.ram wget that file and when you look inside you will see this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat 35037main_portal.ram rtsp://rmbcast.nasa-us2e.speedera.net/alias_ashburn1_btn_2/broadcast/rmbcast.nasa-us2e/rmbcast_nasa-us2e_dec312003_0922_52880.rm rtsp://rmbcast.nasa-us1e.speedera.net/alias_ashburn1_btn/encoder/rmbcast.nasa-us1e/rmbcast_nasa-us1e_jan022004_1034_93365.rm rtsp://rmbcast.nasa-us2e.speedera.net/alias_ashburn1_btn_2/broadcast/rmbcast.nasa-us2e/rmbcast_nasa-us2e_dec312003_0922_52880.rm rtsp://rmbcast.nasa-us1e.speedera.net/alias_ashburn1_btn/encoder/rmbcast.nasa-us1e/rmbcast_nasa-us1e_jan022004_1034_93365.rm 2. mplayer shoulds play any of those streams, ie: mplayer \ rtsp://rmbcast.nasa-us1e.speedera.net/alias_ashburn1_btn/encoder/rmbcast.nasa-us1e/rmbcast_nasa-us1e_jan022004_1034_93365.rm should work, if you have mplayer properly compiled and configured. Test it! 4. put a zero length file (call it, say, nasa.avi) in the directory where you normally put your mythvideo files. 5. goto the mythvideo setup screen and set a custom play line for nasa.avi like: mplayer (other mplayer options you use) rtsp://rmbcast.nasa-us1e.speedera.net/alias_ashburn1_btn/encoder/rmbcast.nasa-us1e/rmbcast_nasa-us1e_jan022004_1034_93365.rm (thats all one line) On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 21:11:27 -0500 Kevin Kuphal wrote: Is there a way to play either the RealPlayer or Windows Media streams from Nasa TV (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html?skipIntro=1) in Linux. I'm looking perhaps to add a link in my Myth system or configure it through MythVideo somehow so that I can have it there for my kids when the shuttle launches later this week. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Screen grab
I may be wrong in this, but I don't think that you can. (Well, you could always try a digital camera, but that's probably not be what you're looking for.) XVideo uses a common technique called overlay, which means that the video is drawn on top of areas of the screen of a certain color (in this case, the blue area that you got in your screen capture). The video doesn't actually go into the screen buffer that the screen capture can use, the video card skips that step and draws it straight to the screen. -- Joe --- Mike Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All I'm running MythTV with the NVidia 7167 drivers installed. Can anyone suggest how I could do a screen grab? If I use the standard screen capture tools while MythTV is playing a recording, I just get a blue screen dump Thanks in advance Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Controlling Myth via scripts
Sirs: I have a setup that needs to record a show each night then play it back the next day (all day) in a loop. I've set the box up for now just using the ivtv (pvr-350) drivers and some bash shell scripts. But I know that they will start asking for more options then shell scripts easily allow. So, is there a way to talk to Myth from the command line? That way I could use the MythWeb, commercial flagging, pause, skip and a remote. Yet still have the box loop play the program out during the day. Thanks for any pointers or help. Douglas ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MythVideo - adjusting audio levels on existing files
Greetings My small collection of video files seem to have vastly different audio levels and I'd like to customise them as when I set mplayer the volume up for the quiet ones (ie. -af volume=15), the loud ones distort :-(( I have in mind a script that splits the file using something like ffmpeg, changes the audio level and then re-assembles the files using avimux or whatever. I don't want to touch the video frames so I'd expect to be able to process my collection in an evening! Apart from 3 weeks of trial and error and the man pages, could someone please suggest a command line (or lines) that would do this? Cheers -- Robin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] atrpms mtd solutions?
I've read the previous posts, and I can see that this was an anticipated problem. However, has anyone figured out a work-around? Is there a simple way to solve this and still use atrpms? Does anyone still have a copy of mythdvd-0.18.1-110.rhfc3.at? Thanks, Matt references: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/136026?search_string=mtd;#136026 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/137808?search_string=mtd;#137808 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Myxer Update - added Nuvola style and, Myxer Web Configurator PHP files
I just wanted to pass along a quick thanks - In about an hour I was able to 'cheer up' my PVR with the following concoction... http://img326.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mythtvcheeredup8cu.jpg ...Using GANT icons, GANT titles, White-White No Shadow Text, Blue shadow active buttons and a wallpaper from DeviantArt (darkened/contrasted a bit). Certainly a little more cheery than your every day ole' GANT theme... -Matt ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] OT: kernel disabling IRQ#7 (Sound Stops working)
http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-view_faq.php?faqId=1#q38 According to this the solution is to install a Parallel port driver in your kernel or Disable the parallel port in your bios. Let ye without segmentation fault cast the first int! Korey Fort -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Gianola Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 8:29 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] OT: kernel disabling IRQ#7 (Sound Stops working) I also had a similar problem, however my pvr250 was the one taking up irq7, so when it got switched off I lost my tv capture :( i'm not exactly sure how i fixed the problem, but I do see 'pci=useirqmask' and 'acpi=off' in my grub.conf. I think dmesg told me to do the pci=useirqmask thing because the irq7 was screaming all the time for no reason... at least i think thats why i put it there. whatever i did, i still see ivtv on irq7 and haven't had a problem for ages. -AG On 7/11/05, Niklas Brunlid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Noel Murphy wrote: Hello, I realize this isn't mythtv specific, however it is happening on my box which is used specifically for mythtv. I have a weird issue where when I don't use the machine for awhile (say the whole weekend because I'm gone to the cottage) when I return, I have a Knotify message up on the screen telling me that the kernel has disabled IRQ #7 (Which I believe is the interrupt for the sound card). Then, when I try to watch any recordings or live tv, I get no sound. A reboot always fixes the problem (until the following weekend when I go away again). Anyone know why this is happening I remember doing battle with this issue when I switched my frontend to FC3 from gentoo. Now I have put everything into the master backend (PVR350, PVR500MCE) and it has appeared again, and obviously rebooting every time it happens is not an option for a general server/master backend. The frontend was an Asus Pundit (SiS chipset) and the server is some generic Intel mainboard with a P4, so this may not work there, but I think I solved it last time by 1) Disabling the printer port in BIOS, and 2) Adding parport=0 noapic nolapic acpi=off to the kernel line in grub.conf. Can't remember if that was what actually did the trick, will check when I get home tomorrow... =) / Niklas ___ 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] blue line
I think I had this, so I fixed it by altering the overscan(???) a pixel larger all round. That worked for me. It was an option in the mythfrontend setup, which allowed you to set the picture location and size. Whytey On 7/12/05, Ashu Desai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I am in the aspect ratio of 16:9, I have a blue line on the top black border. In 4:3 ratio I don't see any line. I tried xattr -a XV_COLORKEY -v 0 but that didn't work. Can anyone else give me any other ideas as to how to remove this blue line? It looks very annoying! Thanks in advance. Ash. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- -- GMAIL is 'da bomb babyYEAH I have GMail invites, if you want one, email me direct. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Multi backend TV card preference?
Hey all, I just wanted to ask a quick question about setting up a slave backend. I have successfully setup a master server with one winTV Go capture card in it. I have a front end machine that also has a TV card in it however the processor in it is an old 1.6GHz P4 and the TV card is also a WinTV Go. I've tried to set it up so that it this machine has a slave backend with a low priority on the TV card however for some reason the master always wants to have the slave TV card running when I'm watching Live TV on that machine no matter how low I set the priority on it (or how high I set the priority on the master backend). The problem is that when I view TV on the slave machine using the slave TV card I've found that it can be slightly choppy vs. when I'm watching TV from the master's TV card everything is perfectly smooth (fast ethernet and the master is a much faster machine). Is there any way that I can set it up so that the master backend always records or is used for Live TV unless it is already being used for a recording? I'd like it if the only time I'm using the Slave's TV card is if the Master has already started recording something. I've done a bunch of searching but I've had no luck finding a solution for exactly my problem. I'm currently using MythTV .18-1 on gentoo. Thanks for any help! Paul pgpXMuRGGWMbc.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] PVR-150 partial success! but still need help.
Hi, I finally got my PVR-150MCE to capture video... :-) I'm using the S-Video input. But the problem is that I only get black white output... and the video that shows is cutoff on all sides. I'm running my desktop at 800x600, and I have the recording profiles set to capture 480x480. Why can't I see the full dimensions of the video? ivtvctl -F shows 480x480 Also the output is not very sharp. Is it something I have to tweak relative to the video card? I have a GeForce MX 400. Can someone point me to directions on how to tweak settings? What do I need to configure differently for the black and white? Thanks for all your help Ricardo ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] ivtv headaches
I'm having an incredibly difficult and frustrating time figuring out how to solve a problem I'm having with my pvr-150 capture card. For some reason, my ivtv driver does not seem to work most of the time and I am usually met with the I/O error when I try to run the 'cat /dev/video0 /video/buffer/test.mpg' command. As per the ivtv faq, I'm assuming it might be an error that is correctable by unloading/reloading the module. However, whenever I try to 'rmmod ivtv', I am told 'ERROR: Module ivtv is in use'. I have made sure that mythbackend is not running, just in case that was screwing things up. upon examining the output from lsmod, I can see that the info for ivtv is: ivtv 1331396 1 from what I can gather, the use count is still at 1, but I have no idea what is using it, so I can't find a way to reload the module. Any idea how I can unload the module so I can reload it? btw - I have tried rmmod with the -f and -w flags to no avail. cheers, Neil ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Post your PVR350 working config files
Would you mind posting a working copy of your XF86Config-4 ? Perhaps your IVTV module too? Thanks ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slight OT: NASA TV streams in Linux
Nick Rout wrote:
I will concentrate on the realplayer stream, but the technique would be
the same for the windows media stream
1. the link for the live realplayer stream is
http://www.nasa.gov/ram/35037main_portal.ram
wget that file and when you look inside you will see this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat 35037main_portal.ram
rtsp://rmbcast.nasa-us2e.speedera.net/alias_ashburn1_btn_2/broadcast/rmbcast.nasa-us2e/rmbcast_nasa-us2e_dec312003_0922_52880.rm
rtsp://rmbcast.nasa-us1e.speedera.net/alias_ashburn1_btn/encoder/rmbcast.nasa-us1e/rmbcast_nasa-us1e_jan022004_1034_93365.rm
rtsp://rmbcast.nasa-us2e.speedera.net/alias_ashburn1_btn_2/broadcast/rmbcast.nasa-us2e/rmbcast_nasa-us2e_dec312003_0922_52880.rm
rtsp://rmbcast.nasa-us1e.speedera.net/alias_ashburn1_btn/encoder/rmbcast.nasa-us1e/rmbcast_nasa-us1e_jan022004_1034_93365.rm
2. mplayer shoulds play any of those streams, ie:
mplayer \
rtsp://rmbcast.nasa-us1e.speedera.net/alias_ashburn1_btn/encoder/rmbcast.nasa-us1e/rmbcast_nasa-us1e_jan022004_1034_93365.rm
should work, if you have mplayer properly compiled and configured. Test
it!
4. put a zero length file (call it, say, nasa.avi) in the directory
where you normally put your mythvideo files.
5. goto the mythvideo setup screen and set a custom play line for nasa.avi like:
mplayer (other mplayer options you use) rtsp://rmbcast.nasa-us1e.speedera.net/alias_ashburn1_btn/encoder/rmbcast.nasa-us1e/rmbcast_nasa-us1e_jan022004_1034_93365.rm
You could do it a bit more generally...make a shell script called
playram.sh:
snip
#!/bin/bash
fn=$@
url=`/bin/cat $fn`
mplayer {whatever mplayer args} -playlist $i
snip
Next, go to mythvideo setup and set the play line for .ram files to
playram.sh.
Now, for each realaudio stream you want to use, create a file containing
the .ram URLfor instance, for NASA:
File NASA.ram:
snip
http://www.nasa.gov/ram/35037main_portal.ram
snip
Note that your mplayer must be compiled with Live and network support
for this to work...
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Re: [mythtv-users] Slight OT: NASA TV streams in Linux
On Jul 11, 2005, at 11:41 PM, Matt White wrote:
You could do it a bit more generally...make a shell script called
playram.sh:
snip
#!/bin/bash
fn=$@
url=`/bin/cat $fn`
mplayer {whatever mplayer args} -playlist $i
snip
Next, go to mythvideo setup and set the play line for .ram files to
playram.sh.
Now, for each realaudio stream you want to use, create a file
containing
the .ram URLfor instance, for NASA:
File NASA.ram:
snip
http://www.nasa.gov/ram/35037main_portal.ram
snip
Note that your mplayer must be compiled with Live and network support
for this to work...
I didn't even do the shell script. I saved the .ram to the video
directory, and added a command for .ram with 'mplayer . -playlist
%s'
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Re: [mythtv-users] Slight OT: NASA TV streams in Linux
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 23:59 -0500, Michael Carland wrote:
On Jul 11, 2005, at 11:41 PM, Matt White wrote:
You could do it a bit more generally...make a shell script called
playram.sh:
snip
#!/bin/bash
fn=$@
url=`/bin/cat $fn`
mplayer {whatever mplayer args} -playlist $i
snip
Next, go to mythvideo setup and set the play line for .ram files to
playram.sh.
Now, for each realaudio stream you want to use, create a file
containing
the .ram URLfor instance, for NASA:
File NASA.ram:
snip
http://www.nasa.gov/ram/35037main_portal.ram
snip
Note that your mplayer must be compiled with Live and network support
for this to work...
I didn't even do the shell script. I saved the .ram to the video
directory, and added a command for .ram with 'mplayer . -playlist
%s'
I didn't know about the playlist option - thanks!
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Re: [mythtv-users] Slight OT: NASA TV streams in Linux
On 7/11/05, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to play either the RealPlayer or Windows Media streams from Nasa TV (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html?skipIntro=1) in Linux. I'm looking perhaps to add a link in my Myth system or configure it through MythVideo somehow so that I can have it there for my kids when the shuttle launches later this week. Mythstream can play streaming audio or streaming video (using mplayer) -- you just need to compile and install it, add it to your mythtv menus, and then add the streaming URLs to your database. http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~moongies/streamtuned.html -Ross ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
