Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot change channels with M179
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 07:01 am, Ben Holt wrote: I'm using ivtv-0.2.0-rc3i with firmware pvr_1.18.21.22168_inf.zip (MD5SUM d85cb08382395390dc95ac6ebc2205f9). Yes, that's a newer version of the firmware than what is recommended, but it seems to work well. I'll have to get this version and try it out. My modules configuration is as follows: options ivtv ivtv_debug=1 tuner=50,2,2 options msp3400 once=0 simpler=1 simple=0 add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 tuner saa7127 Maybe this is a gentoo thing, but I don't have a modules.conf file that specifies these options. In gentoo, I just added ivtv in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, and some other modules. I made sure to load tveeprom first, and everything else seems to have been loaded nicely. But maybe I'm missing something. But the PVR-250 works fine. (The PVR250 uses tuner 50 whereas the two M170s use tuner 2) If you are getting snow I would expect it to be a tuner or input setting issue. Can you post the output from your IVTV initialisation. Sure. Thanks. Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver ivtv: START INIT IVTV Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver ivtv: version 0.3.3 (k) loading Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.11-gentoo-r7 SMP gcc-3.4 Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist. Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 250 card Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver ivtv: Found an iTVC16 based chip Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] enabled at IRQ 18 Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver ACPI: PCI interrupt :02:08.0[A] - GSI 18 (level, low) - IRQ 217 Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver ivtv: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32) Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x00e1 vendor: 0x10de Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 32031, rev = B110, serial# = 6148370 Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver tveeprom: tuner = Philips FI1236 MK2 (idx = 10, type = 2) Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x1000) Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3435 (type = 10) Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[50],ok] Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver msp34xx: ivtv version Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver msp34xx: init: chip=MSP3435G-B6, has NICAM support, simple (D) mode, simpler (G) no-thread mode Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver msp34xx: $Id$ compiled on: Jul 13 2005 11:10:41 Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2 Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver hub 1-1:1.0: 3 ports detected Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver ivtv: i2c attach [client=MSP3435G-B6,ok] Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver ivtv: Tuner Type 2, Tuner formats 0x1000, Radio: yes, Model 0x00891450, Revision 0x Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver ivtv: NTSC tuner detected Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver ivtv: Radio detected Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver tuner: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0 Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok] Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver saa7115: starting probe for adapter SMBus nForce2 adapter at 4c00 (0x0) Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver saa7115: starting probe for adapter SMBus nForce2 adapter at 4c40 (0x0) Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver saa7115: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005) Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver saa7115: detecting saa7115 client on address 0x42 Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver saa7115: writing init values Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7115[50],ok] Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver saa7115: status: (1E) 0x00, (1F) 0xc0 Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3 Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver hub 1-2:1.0: USB hub found Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver hub 1-2:1.0: 4 ports detected Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver usb 1-1.2: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4 Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)] on usb-:00:02.0-1.2 Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040024 Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver ivtv: Encoder Firmware may be buggy, use version 0x02040011 Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 250 card with 5 streams Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 0 minor 0 Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver ivtv: Create DMA stream 0 using 1024 16384 byte buffers 0 kbytes total Jul 15 12:25:35 mythtvserver ivtv: Allocate DMA stream 0 using 1024 16384 byte buffers 16777216 kbytes total Jul 15
AW: [mythtv-users] No sound in some recordings
I also have this problem somtimes with my skystar2 I have this problem in live-tv,too. Sometimes when I switch the channel, the audio got away. Then I had to leave live-tv and go back, and the audio is back. At my system, the tv get's disturbed when my phone rings (a channel and the phone are on a simmiarl frequency) and when that happens the audio also goes away sometimes. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Juergen Sachs Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. Juli 2005 23:19 An: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Betreff: Re: [mythtv-users] No sound in some recordings Am Sonntag, 10. Juli 2005 14:43 schrieb Nezar Nielsen: I am wondering why this happen... I am not shure if this is a ivtv problem, or if it is a mythtv problem. I will update ivtv as next step Juergen Hey there, As far as I've been able to pinpoint this, it is in fact some kind of problem with the sound not getting properly initialized when first tuning to a channel - I can also experience this problem in live tv sometimes(when I first start it up), and all I have to do is change the channel away and then back, and then the sound is fine. On 7/10/05, Juergen Sachs wrote: Hello, Larry K., did you find a reason for this ? I tried to play the recordings on a different frontend to see if it is a problem with my settings. But I did not have a second frontend yet, and I failed setup my second PC quickly (failed dependency). I programmed a recording on a different channel before main recording starts, to see if it works in general. Since I did this, all recordings are fine. Could it be that a part in the initialisation failes on some channels, and if there is a recording on other channels first it work ? What happen if the card failes to tune to a channel in the time given in the setup (5 seconds I think). Does the recording starts anyway, but because of the misstuned channel the sound is missing ? Hope someone could help us. Juergen I too have the occasional recording with no sound. I'm on FC3 abd Myth 0.17. On 7/6/05, Juergen Sachs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo, I have some problems with my recordings using a pvr350 on suse9.3. Watching LiveTV is fine and also the sound. But sometimes the recordings did not have sound. Since LiveTV is fine, I think the basic setup is ok. I tried to watch the channel which does not have audio while recording and it is fine in LiveTV. But the recordings did not have audio. At least I did not hear any sound. Does anyone has an idear where to look first to find the problem ? My setup: Suse9.3 IVTV 0.3.2c-5 MythTV from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun Hauppauge PVR350 Thanks Juergen ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ 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] HDTV sound okay, but no video
Athlon XP 2500+, ATI Radeon 9550, Twinhan Visionplus DVB-T Linux 2.6.12.2 XFree86 4.3 ATI fglrx-4-3-0_8.14.13-2_i386 driver with fglrx kernel module compiled and installed Mythtv 18.1 compiled for athlon-xp SD channels work fine, with around 18%cpu for mythfrontend and 2.5%cpu for XFree86 HD channels have perfect audio, but NO VIDEO!! 48%cpu for mythfrontend and 0.5%cpu for XFree86. If I change from a SD channel to a HD channel, the last frame of the SD channel remains on the screen. When I change back to a SD channel from a HD channel, the SD channel is fine again. Tried turning off de-interlacing, and tried using libmpeg2 for decoding, but same problem. Any ideas appreciated. Thanks ... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Getting a Plasma, Scared of Burn-In
This may be a very stupid question, but: What about LCD's? They're far less sensitive to burn-in, have HDTV definition, and are getting much better with regard to colour definition, response time and viewing angle. Here in Norway I can get a 37 Viewpia (8ms, 1200:1 contrast,1366x768)for about the same price as an equivalent plasma. The very largest LCD's are still not good enough so if you need 42+ then I understand. Cheers Marius -- Original Message -- Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:25:46 -0600 From: Matt Grommes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Getting a Plasma, Scared of Burn-In Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org I was listening to a podcast interview with the head of Panasonic's flatscreen TV division and he dismissed both the concerns about burnin and lifetime for plasmas. I'll have to dig up the other review I was reading where they talked about burn-i as well. http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail562.html is the link to the interview. The guy sounded pretty knowledgeable. David wrote: I'd be interested in where you heard that, because from everything I see burn-in with plasma is still a very real concern, and plasma sets are much more sensitive than CRT's. With modern CRT's burn-in is almost a thing of the past (not entirely, but practically). What *has* improved with recent plasma TV's is half-life. For th se who don't know, the plasma gas used in plasma TV's has a finite life, measured in hours (or thousands of hours). At their half-life they are half as bright as when new. Brightness steadily declines over time to the point that the TV becomes unwatchable and must be trashed. While, say, a DLP bulb has limited life measured in several hundreds of hours, picture quality is generally constant until the bulb burns out, then after spending $200-$300 for a new bulb the pic ure is as good as new again. You have no such recourse with a plasma -- when it's dead, it's dead, you can't pump more plasma gas into it. You're left with a very expensive wall ornament. In the early days of plasma, when the small st ones cost $10K-$15K, half-life was somewhere around 2-5 years depending on the frequency of use. Recent models have improved to a half-life of reportedly near 80,000 hours as I recall, which would be a half-life span of over 9 years if the TV was left running 24/7. Of course none of these newer models have actually been around long enough to test that claim. :) But while half-life seems to be a non-issue these days, burn-in is still a major factor according to wha I'm still seeing. David Matt Grommes wrote: From what I understand, burn-in really isn't an issue with new-ish plasma displays. Any more than with a CRT anyway. That was more of an issue with the first few generations o products. Peter Santerre wrote: I'm getting a good deal on a last-years-model Plasma TV (NEC 50 MX3) and will be hooking it up to my Myth box. I'm very nervous about burn in, as this would be considered a very large purchase on my current salary :) What do other users of Myth do to prevent this issue, while still keeping the WAF rating high?I guess I imagine while watching DVD, TV, etc the screen would not blank, but if it was idl on a menu for 30s or so it would black it out. Sort of like MythMusic does I guess. After 30s of no activity it goes full screen with my choice of music display. I know that plasma TV's are getting better and better about not getting burned, and maybe I'm being over paranoid, but like I said, this is a big purchase, and ruining it would be a very sad day :) _ _ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Registered Linux user ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Re: Wide theme? was: Xorg Transparency + mythtv = crash X11
Looking for wide theme to run on hdtv (1366x768). Set-up not built yet as RAM I ordered has not come into stock at the webshop, so all very theoretical for the moment. Cheers Marius -- Original Message -- From: Chris Germano [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:17:48 -0700 Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: Wide theme? was: Xorg Transparency + mythtv = crash X11 Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org I have xinerama on display 1, and that is where I have mythfrontend setup to run on. Are you looking for a wide theme or are you suggesting it could cause it? This setup worked flawlessly until I enabled transparency..:-/ I've tried to get some log errors but it's not an easy thing todo since X crashes. When I do run mythfrontend I get a lot of X window opcode errors with mismatch.. It looks like if I run mythfrontend from a terminal like F2 and redirect the display to :0, go back to kde F7 it will run fine..and I have no idea why that could be. If I start it from within kde through a prompt or run, it will kill X when the video starts or a split second later. Logs: 2005-07-14 20:11:34.757 New DB connection, total: 1 Total desktop width=1824, height=768, numscreens=2 2005-07-14 20:11:34.761 Using screen 1, 800x600 at 1024,0 2005-07-14 20:11:34.765 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-07-14 20:11:34.765 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2005-07-14 20:11:35.071 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T.) 2005-07-14 20:11:35.647 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin. 2005-07-14 20:11:40.146 All Programs 2005-07-14 20:11:40.355 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.28:6543 (try of 5) 2005-07-14 20:11:40.363 Using protocol version 15 2005-07-14 20:11:40.933 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-07-14 20:11:41.076 Disable DPMS 2005-07-14 20:11:41.339 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-07-14 20:11:41.339 Opening OSS audio de ice '/dev/dsp'. 2005-07-14 20:11:41.359 Using XV port 143 2005-07-14 20:11:41.363 Couldn't get the color key color, and we need it. You likely won't get any video. 2005-07-14 20:11:41.567 New DB connection, total: 3 2005-07-14 20:11:41.567 Changin from None to WatchingPreRecorded 2005-07-14 20:11:41.640 Realtime priority would require SUID as root. 2005-07-14 20:11:41.925 Video timing method: SGI OpenGL 2005-07-14 20:11:46.463 Couldn't get the color key color, and we need it. You likely won t get any video. 2005-07-14 20:11:46.805 Changing from WatchingPreRecorded to None 2005-07-14 20:11:46.812 Changing from None to None 2005-07-14 20:11:47.005 Enable DPMS 2005-07-14 20:11:49.025 Disable DPMS 2005-07-14 20:11:49.280 Opening audio de ice '/dev/dsp'. 2005-07-14 20:11:49.280 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-07-14 20:11:49.296 Using XV port 143 2005-07-14 20:11:49.301 Couldn't get the color key color, and we need it. You likely won't get any video. 2005-07-14 20:11:49.49 Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded 2005-07-14 20:11:49.498 Realtime priority would require SUID as root. 2005-07-14 20:11:49.773 Video timing method: SGI OpenGL 2005-07-14 20:11:50.922 Couldn't get the color key color, and we need it. You l kely won't get any video. 2005-07-14 20:11:51.273 Changing from WatchingPreRecorded to None 2005-07-14 20:11:51.279 Changing from None to None 2005-07-14 20:11:51.511 Enable DPMS 2005-07-14 20:11:53.007 All Programs 2005-07-14 20:11:53.785 Disable DPMS 2005-07-14 20:11:54.037 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-07-14 20:11:54.037 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-07-14 20:11:54.055 Using XV port 143 2005-07-14 20:11:54.058 Couldn't get the color key color, and we need it. You like y won't get any video. 2005-07-14 20:11:54.250 Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded 2005-07-14 20:11:54.264 Realtime priority would require SUID as root. 2005-07-14 20:11:54.502 Video timing method: SGI OpenGL 2005-07-14 20:11:55.181 Couldn't et the color key color, and we need it. You likely won't get any video. 2005-07-14 20:11:55.522 Changing from WatchingPreRecorded to None 2005-07-14 20:11:55.543 Changing from None to None 2005-07-14 20:11:55.766 Enable DPMS Hi Chris,from our link it looked like your custom theme is wide.Do you have a fully functional wide mythTV theme? Cheers Marius -- Original Message -- From: Chris Germano [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 22:02:10 -0700 Subject: [mythtv-users] Xorg Transparency + mythtv = crash X11 Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org I just got transparency working with xorg-x11 6.8.. in KDE now. btw if you like eye candy and use de..you definitly need this enabled :-P it's fricking awesome (Desktop - Window behavior - Translucency under CC). See it in action: http://www. etslayer.net/custom-theme-2.png I had to go back to nvidia media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.6629-r6 be ause 7000 series doesn't work with transparency yet (crashes x11). It works great until I start mythfrontend and
[mythtv-users] MythTV vs. Doze solutions
I know this is like pissing in church, and I try to avoid Microsoft as much as possible, but: Has anyone run MCE, and can they give a breif comparison as to what it and MythTV will do? Also, how is live TV quality in MythTV compared to, say TVtime, which seems to have far better picture quality than, say XawTV. How flexible is MythTV about using alternative backend programs?? Cheers Marius Registered Linux user ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Myth Game Emulation - Setup
I've started to create a Documentation of the new Mythgame, how to setup the Different Emulators. This also Includes a List wich Emulator for each System I recommend. If anyone would add something to, this is a open wiki Page! http://jtigundelsheim.jt.funpic.de/cwiki.php?page=mythgame ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: please help... still getting bw with PVR-150
On 15/07/05, Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: woah woah woah you can't use the pvr 250-350 firmware with the 150... http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php?page=Drivers+and+Firmware that will tell you about the firmware and the stuff you need for the 150. The black and white issue i have seen with the 3x series ivtv driver. I suggest you downgrade to http://www.ivtv.tv/releases/ivtv-0.2/ Thanks... So I downgraded to 0.2 and I still get bw ! :-( You may well have a problem with your driver / card combination. However it's worth checking that somewhere down the line you haven't got an S-Video / Composite Video mismatch, which would produce a perfectly good, but black-and-white, picture. For example, if you'r actually feeding a composite video signal into the S-Video input then you'd get black white. I don't know whether the input on the 150 is selectable between composite and S-Video, but if it is, make sure you've got it set right. D ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Myth won't scheduling multi-part episodes
I am trying to get it to always record Doctor Who. Each showing is a 30
minute part of an episode, that normally spans 4 of these 30 minute
showings. Each 30 minute part shows up in the guide with the same name
e.g.
Doctor Who - State of Decay
No matter what I do with the auto-scheduling, it always schedules the
first one, but not the later ones. If I force it to record a later one
('record anyway') manually, it turns off the earlier one, saying there
is a later showing.
I thought the 'Record anytime on any channel' option should just do it,
but apparently it refuses to record (what it thinks are) repeats. How
do I get around this?
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Re: [mythtv-users] OT: DVB/HDTV/Analog tuner cards
Phill Edwards wrote: Just wanted to comment/clarify something here. DVB cards (in my case DVB-T) do not just do HD TV, They also do standard definition, SD. In fact, in Australia, it's mostly all SD, as HD is just getting going. The 720x576 mpeg that I get from SD is very good IMHO. Just curious - how do you know you're getting 720x576? Do you have to set some configuration somewhere for this or is that just how it comes in the broadcast stream? If you transcode it, should the setting be 720x576 rather than the default of 480x480, or doesn't it matter what you set it to? When I use nuvexport, that's what it tells me the source is. Yes, I believe this is how it comes over the broadcast. I have been advised (here) that the myth setting don't effect DVB card recording. As for closed captioning - if you can explain what it is and how to test it, I could try it out for you I don't think this works for Australia. There was a recent post saying that the CC support patch is for the UK standard. CC is done differently in the Aussie DVB broadcasts. Regards, Phill __ OK ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Myth won't scheduling multi-part episodes
Hi
I have such problems if I say mythtv to start a couple of minutes before
the epg time, and stop a little bit later. So the times overlap and it
can't record the second show. But if this would be your problem, we
should be record at least the first and third episode.
ffrr wrote:
I am trying to get it to always record Doctor Who. Each showing is a
30 minute part of an episode, that normally spans 4 of these 30 minute
showings. Each 30 minute part shows up in the guide with the same name
e.g.
Doctor Who - State of Decay
No matter what I do with the auto-scheduling, it always schedules the
first one, but not the later ones. If I force it to record a later
one ('record anyway') manually, it turns off the earlier one, saying
there is a later showing.
I thought the 'Record anytime on any channel' option should just do
it, but apparently it refuses to record (what it thinks are) repeats.
How do I get around this?
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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV vs. Doze solutions
I know this is like pissing in church, and I try to avoid Microsoft as much as possible, but: Has anyone run MCE, and can they give a breif comparison as to what it and MythTV will do? Also, how is live TV quality in MythTV compared to, say TVtime, which seems to have far better picture quality than, say XawTV. How flexible is MythTV about using alternative backend programs?? Cheers Marius Registered Linux user A friend of mine uses MCE and has tried to get me to switch over. I tried it for a little while but came back to MythTV. Some of the reasons why: MCE has very limited recording schedule options. For instance, there's no Record one showing per week, which I use with MythTV. MCE doesn't support an analogue card alongside a digital card. I use a PVR-250MCE and a DVB-T card with MythTV. The PVR card captures on s-video from a cable box, using a serial IR transmitter for channel changing, and the DVB-T captures over-the-air digital transmissions. MCE cannot do this. I don't like the MCE interface, but thats just my personal taste. And with MythTV I can choose a different theme if I don't like the default one. As far as I know, there's no web interface that comes with MCE. Mythweb is very useful for me. MCE isn't a bad product, but it just doesn't offer me anything over MythTV. Plus, MythTV is free, whereas MCE is not. As for TV quality, I've never used TVTime so I don't know. But the quality is very good, especially with DVB. I had quality issues with the composite input on the PVR250MCE card, but I switched to the S-video input and its all good now. Hope this helps. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Myth won't scheduling multi-part episodes
Leander Hanwald wrote: Hi I have such problems if I say mythtv to start a couple of minutes before the epg time, and stop a little bit later. So the times overlap and it can't record the second show. But if this would be your problem, we should be record at least the first and third episode. No that can't be it, because the shows are on different days. It takes about a week to see each of the parts that make up the 'episode' - then the title changes. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] De-interlacing on a non-interlaced display
I have noticed similar issues on my ATSC / QAM MythTV box. When deinterlacing is on, I get weird effects on the OSD. I also see effects on progressive content (720p stations, like Fox-HD, ABC-HD, and ESPN-HD). I had assumed that the de-interlacing would adapt to the video source, and turn off processing when doing progressive content. Apparently this is not the case, but that would be an excellent feature enhancement. I have actually been contemplating doing this for some time now. I have just been living with it. I used to disable deinterlacing when watching HD content and re-enable it when watching standard recordings, but now I just leave everything deinterlaced and live with it. HD looks best when it is not deinterlaced because I am using a hd interlaced mode on the tv for that content, but standard def shows show slight tearing if deinterlacing is turned off. - James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Digital Capture via Firewire (Not HD)
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 14:15 -0700, Gambit Declined wrote: This is pretty much what I'm experiencing. I can only get the analog HD channels with Comcast. Rats! :-) Tell me about it. AFAIK, there's no obligation placed on the cableco to output anything other than analog and HD through the firewire port (and I'm not even sure about analog). There's been some discussion on this list about what you can expect from firewire, which you should be able to find if you go back through the archives. Anyone know of a pci card that can capture this type of digital stream? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- peter ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] How to set channel PIDs
Hi sorry if this has been asked before but Im at the end of my whits now. Ive been fiddling around for about 3 weeks trying to get myth working. Firstly I got a semi supported card (dvico fusion plus) one week later got that working. sorta. using tzap and xine (No sound) Anyway figured id go on with myth and cover the sound problem later. Ive now spent 2 weeks on trying to configure tv. Got just about everything else working (dvd's ripping weather rss and browsing) still no tv. Ive read about a thousand howto's and they mostly talk about entering the video and audio pids. Unless Im completely stupid (quite likely these days) I just cant find anywhere to add them now getting desperate as the wife wants to know where the money and time as gone. Ive been using this guide to configure as this seems to be a little more accurate for Australia http://www.users.on.net/~jani/dvico-mythtv-11.html thanks In advance Brett Stevens OS: Suse 9.3 kernel: patched 2.6.11.2 sound alsa video: adequate (this will be a master backend) myth version: mythtv-0.18.1-12 via apt-get lsmod ... snd_pcm_oss54176 0 snd_mixer_oss 19584 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_via82xx29888 0 snd_ac97_codec 73720 1 snd_via82xx snd_pcm 106760 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 34564 1 snd_pcm snd_mpu401_uart10368 1 snd_via82xx snd_rawmidi30240 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 9484 1 snd_rawmidi snd60772 9 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_m pu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device usbserial 30568 0 button 6928 0 battery 9732 0 ac 5124 0 floppy 65584 0 nvram 13192 0 md5 4608 1 ipv6 271424 12 joydev 10304 0 st 39580 0 sr_mod 19876 0 sg 39200 0 cx88_dvb6660 0 cx8802 12164 1 cx88_dvb mt352 6404 1 cx88_dvb cx88xx 49044 2 cx88_dvb,cx8802 i2c_algo_bit9352 1 cx88xx snd_page_alloc 10500 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm btcx_risc 5256 2 cx8802,cx88xx gameport5504 1 snd_via82xx videodev 10240 1 cx88xx video_buf_dvb 7300 1 cx88_dvb tg3 100868 0 i2c_viapro 8336 0 soundcore 11232 1 snd ehci_hcd 40328 0 uhci_hcd 34576 0 video_buf 24068 4 cx88_dvb,cx8802,cx88xx,video_buf_dvb video1394 20812 0 parport_pc 29764 1 ohci1394 39300 1 video1394 lp 13064 0 parport42184 2 parport_pc,lp raw139442604 0 ieee1394 315476 3 video1394,ohci1394,raw1394 dm_mod 64148 0 reiserfs 271988 1 aic7xxx 184152 0 sata_promise 10884 0 libata 50052 1 sata_promise sd_mod 19712 0 scsi_mod 144840 7 st,sr_mod,sg,aic7xxx,sata_promise,libata,sd_mod dmesg BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 0009cc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0009cc00 - 000a (reserved) BIOS-e820: 000f - 0010 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0010 - 7fffc000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 7fffc000 - 7000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 7000 - 8000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: fec0 - fec01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: fee0 - fee01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: - 0001 (reserved) 1151MB HIGHMEM available. 896MB LOWMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 524284 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:16 HighMem zone: 294908 pages, LIFO batch:16 DMI 2.3 present. ACPI: RSDP (v000 ASUS ) @ 0x000f6060 ACPI: RSDT (v001 ASUS A7V8X0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x7fffc000 ACPI: FADT (v001 ASUS A7V8X0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x7fffc0b2 ACPI: BOOT (v001 ASUS A7V8X0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x7fffc030 ACPI: MADT (v001 ASUS A7V8X0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x7fffc058 ACPI: DSDT (v001 ASUS A7V8X0x1000 MSFT 0x010b) @ 0x ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0xe408 Allocating PCI resources starting at 8000 (gap: 8000:7ec0) Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x317 selinux=0 splash=silent resume=/dev/hda1 Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes) Detected 2083.203 MHz processor. Using pmtmr for high-res timesource Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Memory:
Re: [mythtv-users] Where can I find technical, devloper documentation for mythtv
On 7/14/05, Bob Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 14 July 2005 03:10 pm, Donavan Stanley wrote: I had high hopes for the wiki when it started. But it pretty much turned into yet another install guide. wiki? Where? I didn't see that on the mythtv website. Maybe mutiple, targeted wikis might work better. You might try to use the tools available to you to try to help yourself before bemoaing the lack of information. (like searching the mailing list archives) Hell a google for MythTV Documentation turns up the unofficial wiki as the second hit. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] ivtv troubles
On 7/15/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 07:31:55AM +0200, Rudy Zijlstra wrote: The 2.6.12 kernel has changes in the i2c interface. ivtv 0.2 has not yet been patched to support this (or the version is not yet easily available). Take one of the latest 0.3 which should support this. Considering its gentto, you should be comfortable with compiling ivtv. The 0.2 line *has* been patched to support 2.6.12 kernels. The problem is that there is a lot of documentation on the web sending people to sourceforge to get ivtv drivers but that location hasn't been updated. You can get ivtv version 0.2.0-rc3k at: http://www.ivtv.tv/releases/ivtv-0.2/ivtv-0.2.0-rc3k.tgz Please post if this works for you. I have a FC4 system with 2.6.12 and an old PVR-250 card which has such a jumpy picture I can watch it. I have been very frustrated trying various version of the IVTV driver without success. Jeff ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] LIRC problem...
Hi there, Almost MythTV related :-) I am currently running Debian testing, with MythTV 0.18. Everything works except for lirc. I have a PVR250 with remote .. I followed the instructions for building lirc, and it builds and installs fine. However, when running I get several errors: Upon booting (I have lircd set to auto-start), the following is entered into messages: lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61 lirc_i2c: no version for lirc_unregister_plugin found: kernel tainted. I don't believe this is an error as such, but may be useful info...or not, I dunno... lircd is running as a process...but when attempting to run irrecord I get the following: pvr-1:/home/pclarke# irrecord /tmp/1.conf irrecord - application for recording IR-codes for usage with lirc Copyright (C) 1998,1999 Christoph Bartelmus([EMAIL PROTECTED]) irrecord: could not open /dev/lirc irrecord: default_init(): No such device irrecord: could not init hardware (lircd running ? -- close it, check permissions) The devices look like: pvr-1:/home/pclarke# ll /dev/lirc* crw-r--r-- 1 root root 61, 0 2005-07-15 13:28 /dev/lirc srw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2005-07-15 13:51 /dev/lircd prw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2005-07-15 13:28 /dev/lircm Chaning the permissions to 666 doesn't appear to help any idea what the problem is?? Cheers, Pete. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] osd-theming questions
A few questions about osd theming. 1. Is it possible to vertically centre text within a container? 2. Reading the release notes for Myth 0.16 is says that OSD text can be in colour. However I can only get shades of gray. 3. There is a noticable difference in colour between an image rendered on the osd and the same image viewed outside of myth. I'm thinking that this is becase the osd is drawn using a lower colour depth. Am I right, and if so is there a way of syncing the palette used to draw the osd with the palette I use in my graphics program to create the images? Thanks. Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Myth Game Emulation - Setup
Jochen, I read your thread on the MythTV Mailing list about adding different emulators to the MythGame interface. I am very interested in adding to this, especially Sega MegaDrive/Genesis support via GENS, but I am unclear about adding a game starter to mythtv. Maybe you could elaborate on this a little bit, specifically what files to edit. I should then be able to experiment with Genesis support. Please let me know. Thank you very much! -James -- James D. Fryman A+, Security+, MCSA, MCSE E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG: 0x4222017D Jochen Kühner wrote: I've started to create a Documentation of the new Mythgame, how to setup the Different Emulators. This also Includes a List wich Emulator for each System I recommend. If anyone would add something to, this is a open wiki Page! http://jtigundelsheim.jt.funpic.de/cwiki.php?page=mythgame ___ 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] nuvexport errors doing DVD export
So, using '--transcode' the thing transcode was going to take 3 lifetimes to complete, so I took the fact that the power cut halfway through as a sign that I should do this using the apparently much faster ffmpeg. So I got the latest source from ffmpeg cvs, and compiled and installed OK. Now running nuvexport in --ffmpeg mode, I can select XviD (w00t) and all the options seem to be OK, accepting the defaults. It says its waiting for mythtranscode and then starting ffmpeg, and after a wee while it crashes with the nasty pipe error. So I debugged and modified the ffmpeg forked line to remove the yuvdenoise filter and it went through, taking about an hour to transcode the 40 minutes DVB-T video down to 320x240 XviD which I was happy with performance wise. The problem is, the video is not playable though the sound is OK both WindowsMedia and MediaPlayerClassic both complain. I put this down to the fact that I possibly mistimed the starting of ffmpeg given I was doing this from --debug mode. I have since started the transcode using nuvexport, deselecting denoise and deinterlace as I selected the options and now, the transcode is going to take about 3 hours, even though it is running at 20 fps (isn't Mpeg2 only 25fps?). So, to my question. How can I get reasonable good and fast transcoding? Is ffmpeg faster? Given I am planning on watching these on the PocketPC only I may aswell turn of deinterlacing and noise reduction right? Should I leave the recording at the native resolution and let the PDA struggle or is it right to downsize? Any help is *greatly* apreciated. Whytey On 7/14/05, David Whyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/14/05, David Whyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the transcode option and how does it differ from normal nuvexport? Why can I transcode to Xvid but not nuvexport. I am going to be able to play these in BetaPlayer on the PocketPC aren't I? I think the nuvexport man page just helped me out. So, you can either specify to use ffmpeg or the transcode suite. Seems transcode is setup on my box where as ffmpeg is not. The transcode seems to have worked fine, with a fairly decent output, though it took 70 minutes to transcode a 22minute show from nuv divx to xvid. I am happy all the same. Now I can start to catch up with my viewing :P -- -- GMAIL is 'da bomb babyYEAH I have GMail invites, if you want one, email me direct. -- -- 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] Video gets choppy when changing channels/opening prog. guide
Hi All I am a new mythtv user, having used Jarod's how-to to build my myth box. I have two issues with my myth box (front and bqackend are on same machine) 1. Whenever I change the channel, there is about a 3-4 second pause while the channel changes. Is it possible to eliminate this delay? 2. Sometimes, after a channel change or when bringing up the program guide, the video becomes *very* choppy and there is no sound. I can leave it for 5-10 minutes and it corrects, or I can back out of watching TV and re-enter and it's fine. What can I do to fix this? Details of my box: ASUS Pundit-R PVR-250 512MB PC2700 RAM Celeron D 2.4 GHz Using onboard ATI TV-out FC3, myth 0.18 Would changing the resolution affect this (using /usr/bin/ivtvctl -f width=720,height=480 currently) Also, would upping the RAM or upgrading the processor to a full P4 help either of these? Thanks Jeff ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What's a good mini front-end-only box?
On 7/14/05, Adam Bodnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm actually going to use a Mac Mini for my frontend. I really like the size of it and how it looks compared to pretty much all the other Mini-ITX systems out there and it's very quiet. I haven't set it up yet with Myth, but should be pretty easy to do. The only reason I haven't done it yet is I'm still trying to decide on a good remote to use. The only ones I've found that at least at an initial glance could work are these: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B513KE/103-3434214-2767064?v=glance - This just doesn't have enough buttons. http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/productlistharmony/US/EN,CRID=2080 - I really like the 880, but not sure it could control the Mac Mini. http://www.ati.com/products/remotewonder/index.html - This would work, but is RF only and thus can't control the tv or any other device. http://www.irtrans.de/english/produkte.htm - This is just a IR transmitter/receiver, but not sure how it would totally work yet. I'd really like something like the Harmony 880 or a Pronto. If you get the keyspan (the one on amazon) you can set it to use other remotes with more buttons. You might want to check their forums to make sure you're remote will work first though. -- I probably still have a few (well, now a whole bunch) gmail invites. Drop me a line (off list) if you'd like an account. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How to set channel PIDs
On 15/07/05, Brett Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi sorry if this has been asked before but Im at the end of my whits now. Ive been fiddling around for about 3 weeks trying to get myth working. Firstly I got a semi supported card (dvico fusion plus) one week later got that working. sorta. using tzap and xine (No sound) Anyway figured id go on with myth and cover the sound problem later. Ive now spent 2 weeks on trying to configure tv. Got just about everything else working (dvd's ripping weather rss and browsing) still no tv. Ive read about a thousand howto's and they mostly talk about entering the video and audio pids. Unless Im completely stupid (quite likely these days) I just cant find anywhere to add them now getting desperate as the wife wants to know where the money and time as gone. Ive been using this guide to configure as this seems to be a little more accurate for Australia http://www.users.on.net/~jani/dvico-mythtv-11.html snip Things change, post 0.16, we stopped doing that, now you scan for the channels. options : 0.18.1 Add five/six transports and do a scan of transports. svn: either do a full scan or import a channels.conf file generated via dvbscan -- John ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] De-interlacing on a non-interlaced display
On 7/15/05, jason bright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Certain times there will be very bad/obvious interlacing issues. Usually with rolling credits, crawling news tickers, or for some reason The Simpsons really shows it.. In those cases I've tried the bob de-interlacing and it improves the image quality, but at the same time the on screen guide now becomes a flickery jittery mess. There are other deinterlacers besides bob... That being said, bob *used* to act like that on my machiens as well. It's not done that in a while, but it might be a post .18.1 thing. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Feature request...
Hi * I found, MythTV isn't ready for spaces in programme channel string in XMLTV file. If I have in XMLTV file tag programme channel=TVP 1 and in channel editor defined XMLTV ID as TVP 1. Running mythfilldatabase is reporting: TVP - unknown channel. Is here possibility to modify MythTV for accepting spaces in tag programme channel ? Thx -- 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
Re: [mythtv-users] Myth won't scheduling multi-part episodes
Out of curiosity, on what channel are you finding Dr Who? (is this the old Dr Who or the new series?) On 7/15/05, ffrr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leander Hanwald wrote: Hi I have such problems if I say mythtv to start a couple of minutes before the epg time, and stop a little bit later. So the times overlap and it can't record the second show. But if this would be your problem, we should be record at least the first and third episode. No that can't be it, because the shows are on different days. It takes about a week to see each of the parts that make up the 'episode' - then the title changes. ___ 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] Video gets choppy when changing channels/opening prog. guide
On 7/15/05, JEFFERY PLEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I am a new mythtv user, having used Jarod's how-to to build my myth box. I have two issues with my myth box (front and bqackend are on same machine) 1. Whenever I change the channel, there is about a 3-4 second pause while the channel changes. Is it possible to eliminate this delay? We haven't heard this one before. Please check the searchable archive (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/) for many many responses to this question. Here's a very old one: http://tinyurl.com/achd8 2. Sometimes, after a channel change or when bringing up the program guide, the video becomes *very* choppy and there is no sound. I can leave it for 5-10 minutes and it corrects, or I can back out of watching TV and re-enter and it's fine. What can I do to fix this? It sounds to me that you're getting prebuffering pauses. That box should be able to handle a normal stream without stuttering. Do you have DMA enabled on your hard drive? Details of my box: ASUS Pundit-R PVR-250 512MB PC2700 RAM Celeron D 2.4 GHz Using onboard ATI TV-out FC3, myth 0.18 Would changing the resolution affect this (using /usr/bin/ivtvctl -f width=720,height=480 currently) Also, would upping the RAM or upgrading the processor to a full P4 help either of these? Thanks Jeff See answers inline ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Myth Game Emulation - Setup
this, especially Sega MegaDrive/Genesis support via GENS, but I am unclear about adding a game starter to mythtv. Maybe you could elaborate Note this requires the latest SVN version of mythgame but the following are the basic steps. I've also got a couple screenshots up at http://www.phaze.org/mythtv/mythgame/ . I just added mythgame7,jpg and mythgame8.jpg which should show you what I describe below. Go into Settings - Game Settings - Game Players Click New Game Player Fill in the following: Player Name : Any thing you like. This is how it will be labeled in the GameTree and in the Player List. Type: Set it to Genesis/Megadrive. (You can use other if you are adding a emulator that doesn't have a type listed) CommandLine: Fill in the path/command for this emulator and any options. %s can be used in place of the romname or if left off will automatically be added to the end of the command. For Example my znes Commandline is this: /usr/local/bin/zsnes -m -j -cs %s RomPath: Path to where the roms for this emulator. This will be recursively searched so they don't all have to be in the single directory. SceenShots: Path to where screenshots are located(not required) Working Directory: If you need the current directory changed before running A game or emulator you can place the path you want to change to here . (not required) File Extensions: Fill in what extensions should be considered to be roms for this emulator. If left blank then any file regardless of name found will be considered a rom for this emulator. My list for zsnes is zip,smc,sfc,fig,swc. I will make this field auto fill in for the defined gametypes and you will still be able to add more if you wish, I just haven't gotten around to that yet. After you have added your emulator(s) then just run Scan for Games and you should be good to go. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How to set channel PIDs
Brett Stevens wrote: Hi sorry if this has been asked before but Im at the end of my whits now. Ive been fiddling around for about 3 weeks trying to get myth working. Firstly I got a semi supported card (dvico fusion plus) one week later got that working. sorta. using tzap and xine (No sound) Anyway figured id go on with myth and cover the sound problem later. Ive now spent 2 weeks on trying to configure tv. Got just about everything else working (dvd's ripping weather rss and browsing) still no tv. Ive read about a thousand howto's and they mostly talk about entering the video and audio pids. Unless Im completely stupid (quite likely these days) I just cant find anywhere to add them now getting desperate as the wife wants to know where the money and time as gone. Ive been using this guide to configure as this seems to be a little more accurate for Australia http://www.users.on.net/~jani/dvico-mythtv-11.html thanks In advance Brett Stevens http://www.users.on.net/~jani/dvico-mythtv-11.html is a good resource, and it got me working. I just got a Twinhan DVB-T card working (in Australia). What I did first was get it working outside of myth. If you have had success with tzap, now use scan to generate a channels.conf file, example... ./scan dvb-t/canberra-au | tee mychannels.conf Scan is one of the standard DVB utilities (see http://www.linuxtv.org/ - maybe download the linuxtv-dvb-apps just to get the readme on scan) The canberra-au example frequency list should be close (for me - just the SBS freq was wrong, but once I corrected that, all went well) The channels.conf file goes in various directories, depending on what app you are using, for example, put a copy in ~/.mplayer and also one in ~/.xine. Another good test for the basic DVB functionality is to fire up kaffeine. If DVB is awake and available, there will be a DVB tab in kaffeine, and it can scan for, and play TV for you (as well as record and timeshift). If it is all working, then when you run mythtv-setup, you can import the channels.conf into the channel setup section. This is where http://www.users.on.net/~jani/dvico-mythtv-11.html#ss11.5 didn't work for me. In the channel setup section where he manually configures the channels, I imported the channels.conf (I think the option to do that was under an advanced button) Must be a feature in later versions of myth - mine is .18.1 The only left to do then is get the tv grabber working. When you have it working and retrieving XML, go into mythtv-setup, set it up as a source, then go back to channel setup, and enter the XML ID for the channels with guide data. I grab data from d1.com.au, and I get program info for all the basic channels. That's a brief rundown, and even recalling that tested my memory. I am gald though, because will need to be able to do it again for myself. If you need further explanation, ask away, I'll try to help. The frustration from my experience, is still fresh in my mind, and I would have been glad of any help myself :-) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How to set channel PIDs
John Pullan wrote: snip Things change, post 0.16, we stopped doing that, now you scan for the channels. options : 0.18.1 Add five/six transports and do a scan of transports. svn: either do a full scan or import a channels.conf file generated via dvbscan I just finished a reply myself describing how I did it - and I imported the channels.conf. But yes, I tried the scan, and that worked too. As I already had done the scan using the scan dvb app, it was just easier to import that, as I knew it was working. The transports required are in the example files that come with scan (like the canberra-au in my example) basically # Australia / Canberra / Woden # T freq bw fec_hi fec_lo mod transmission-mode guard-interval hierarchy # ABC T 205625000 7MHz 3/4 3/4 QAM64 8k 1/16 NONE # Seven T 17750 7MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/8 NONE # Nine T 191625000 7MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/16 NONE # Ten T 21950 7MHz 3/4 1/2 QAM64 8k 1/16 NONE # SBS T 54350 7MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/8 NONE As I said, for me, SBS was a different frequency. I guess it varies around Australia. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Myth won't scheduling multi-part episodes
Alex Brekken wrote: Out of curiosity, on what channel are you finding Dr Who? (is this the old Dr Who or the new series?) In Australia, ABC are showing the old Doctor Who at 6pm Monday to Friday, and the new series, at 7:30 pm on Saturday (and I'm loving it :-)) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Myth won't scheduling multi-part episodes
If you're in MythWeb and pull up the scheduled recording for Dr. Who, you can change the duplicate check method from Subtitle and Description to None, which should then record all of the episodes even though they have the same name. I'm sure the frontend has something similar, but I can't check it right now. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Myth won't scheduling multi-part episodes
ffrr wrote: Alex Brekken wrote: Out of curiosity, on what channel are you finding Dr Who? (is this the old Dr Who or the new series?) In Australia, ABC are showing the old Doctor Who at 6pm Monday to Friday, and the new series, at 7:30 pm on Saturday (and I'm loving it :-)) __ Sorry, make that Monday to Thursday for the old Dr. Who series ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Myth won't scheduling multi-part episodes
Robert Kulagowski wrote: If you're in MythWeb and pull up the scheduled recording for Dr. Who, you can change the duplicate check method from Subtitle and Description to None, which should then record all of the episodes even though they have the same name. I'm sure the frontend has something similar, but I can't check it right now. ___ Ah yes, found it. Yes, the front end can set this as well. Thanks ! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Audio stutters in HDTV only
More detail!! What hardware are you using? Software versions? Drivers? etcetcetc On 7/10/05, ffrr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using a DVB-T card, and viewing live standard definition TV works great. Tuning into HDTV channels gives a superb picture, but the audio stutters. I get so lost in the myriad settings that myth has, so could someone suggest where I should look to tweak this? ___ 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] shutdown and client connections
Hi, I'm configuring auto-shutdown on my combined frontend/backend. The backend won't shutdown if any clients are connected, which is good. The frontend first connects when you to the video recordings page. However, it doesn't seem to disconnect until you exit the frontend entirely. For shutdown purposes I would like to have the frontend disconnect when you leave the recordings menu. Is there a setting I've missed? Then you wouldn't need to worry about leaving the frontend running inadvertently. thanks Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Video gets choppy when changing channels/opening prog. guide
1. Whenever I change the channel, there is about a 3-4 second pause while the channel changes. Is it possible to eliminate this delay? That would be the buffer. When you change channels it buffers it for a couple of seconds. I think the delay should only be 2 seconds, but I could be wrong. Also, are you using an external cable box? If so, there could be additional delay being caused by changing the channel on the box, first. 2. Sometimes, after a channel change or when bringing up the program guide, the video becomes *very* choppy and there is no sound. I can leave it for 5-10 minutes and it corrects, or I can back out of watching TV and re-enter and it's fine. What can I do to fix this? I think you should open an SSH window on another machine and watch top when you changing channels or bring up the program guide. That will tell you very quickly if it is spiking your processor at those times. I wouldn't think that it would the problem though. Maybe there is a video driver issue? As for RAM, 512 should be more then enough if you are just running myth on the box. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Myth Game Emulation - Setup
Like i've seen on your screenshots, you have added some other emulators. if could describe wich emulator to use for what system and how to configure, you could add it on my info page http://jtigundelsheim.jt.funpic.de/cwiki.php?page=mythgame Greg Estabrooks schrieb: this, especially Sega MegaDrive/Genesis support via GENS, but I am unclear about adding a game starter to mythtv. Maybe you could elaborate Note this requires the latest SVN version of mythgame but the following are the basic steps. I've also got a couple screenshots up at http://www.phaze.org/mythtv/mythgame/ . I just added mythgame7,jpg and mythgame8.jpg which should show you what I describe below. Go into Settings - Game Settings - Game Players Click New Game Player Fill in the following: Player Name : Any thing you like. This is how it will be labeled in the GameTree and in the Player List. Type: Set it to Genesis/Megadrive. (You can use other if you are adding a emulator that doesn't have a type listed) CommandLine: Fill in the path/command for this emulator and any options. %s can be used in place of the romname or if left off will automatically be added to the end of the command. For Example my znes Commandline is this: /usr/local/bin/zsnes -m -j -cs %s RomPath: Path to where the roms for this emulator. This will be recursively searched so they don't all have to be in the single directory. SceenShots: Path to where screenshots are located(not required) Working Directory: If you need the current directory changed before running A game or emulator you can place the path you want to change to here . (not required) File Extensions: Fill in what extensions should be considered to be roms for this emulator. If left blank then any file regardless of name found will be considered a rom for this emulator. My list for zsnes is zip,smc,sfc,fig,swc. I will make this field auto fill in for the defined gametypes and you will still be able to add more if you wish, I just haven't gotten around to that yet. After you have added your emulator(s) then just run Scan for Games and you should be good to go. ___ 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] Re: Combination RF/IR remote?
I found the lirc_atiusb driver and it worked with niveus out of the box. So there's currently two drivers for the remote, the lirc_atiusb and the kernel ati_remote driver. Of course the lirc driver works through lirc. The kernel driver allows for the mouse to work and the other buttons act as if they were just keyboard buttons. I found this thread about using the ATI RF remote control: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/archive/index.php/t-453429.html Howto: http://www.fedoranews.org/contributors/youssef_makki/remotewonder/ Looks like there might be some weird kernel hacking involved, although, if it's lirc compatable, myth should have no problem using it. If you get it to work, let me know, I might want to go that route! :) -Kenneth On 7/14/05, Tim Hamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can get a much better remote if you use a regular rf/ir universal home theater remote and regular ir on the mythbox. i get 100' range from my urc-200 and rf basestation (expensive but cool). the one for all 9910 does a pretty decent job too, about 50' range and comes with the rf basestation for only $50 at fry's. Ross wrote: I've been looking around for a nice remote for my myth front end, but I can't find one that I really like. I would like a RF remote (see though walls, etc) that can do IR as well, so I can control everything else in the AV cabinet with the one device. Niveus have a remote that seems perfect: http://www.fstop-blues.com/2005/05/windows-media-center-tip-use-rf-remote.html but I'm not sure about linux support, or if it's available any more. Any thought/suggestions? Ross ___ 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] shutdown and client connections
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 12:24:29AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I'm configuring auto-shutdown on my combined frontend/backend. The backend won't shutdown if any clients are connected, which is good. The frontend first connects when you to the video recordings page. That's wrong. Please ignore me. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: DVB/HDTV/Analog tuner cards
CC is teletext for hearing impaired. Not that I'm hearing impaired, it's just my preference. Even when watching DVDs, I like to have the subtitles on. In myth, the command to turn on CC is 'c' appropriately enough. Leo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, are the pcHDTV or DVB cards only for HD/Digital television or could I use it on my analog cable tv signal as well? I plan to go to HDTV pretty soon and maybe even upgrade to digital cable for the HD cable stations. I just don?t plan to do it right now. I?m just interested in the best quality picture I can get with mpeg2 encoding and closed captioning from my analog cable signal. Is it possible to do that with DVB or pcHDTV cards? Just wanted to comment/clarify something here. DVB cards (in my case DVB-T) do not just do HD TV, They also do standard definition, SD. In fact, in Australia, it's mostly all SD, as HD is just getting going. The 720x576 mpeg that I get from SD is very good IMHO. You mention using DVB for your analog cable signal, but DVB is for Digital Video. My DVB card will not receive analog signals. As for closed captioning - if you can explain what it is and how to test it, I could try it out for you ___ 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: DVB/HDTV/Analog tuner cards
On Jul 15, 2005, at 11:09 AM, Leo Przybylski wrote: CC is teletext for hearing impaired. Not that I'm hearing impaired, it's just my preference. Even when watching DVDs, I like to have the subtitles on. In myth, the command to turn on CC is 'c' appropriately enough. As for closed captioning - if you can explain what it is and how to test it, I could try it out for you I would be interested to know if CC were available for mpeg2 streams recorded with the HD3000 card as well I do know that when watching shows via my Samsung HDTV tuner from OTA sources I can see CC text when it is available. In other words, I know for sure that CC text is transmitted in the HDTV OTA signal. Not all programs are closed captioned. The best bet are main stream shows like Late Night or popular dramas (ER, Lost, House, etc) Xine, mplayer, and the internal MythTV video player all decode CC data. As Leo said, for the internal MythTV player the option is 'c' to enable or disable it. For mplayer the option is -subcc and for xine there config file option is subtitles.closedcaption.enabled. I am hearing impaired and addicted to movies :) For me MythTV is one component in the home theater I set up last year and I plan to add the ability to record HDTV shows via a HD3000 adapter soon. For now, MythTV mainly serves as a front end for DVD playback where I let xine handled the CC decoding. The main reasons for using a HTPC to handle DVD playback are to improve picture quality (very noticeable improvement) and handle CC decoding since projectors do not decode CC data. For the curious, photos of my small HT are at http://donpoo.net/ gallery/ht -- Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: BlueCame1 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Fedora New Install Woes
Title: Re: Fedora New Install Woes I tried your suggestions and I still have the same error. Apt gets removed or broken using the up2date suggestion and using the FC4 kickstart I get unmet dependencies. Any ideas how to get this fixed, I believe this is also being looked at in the ATRPMS mailing list. Just wondering if anyone else is having these issues and any other solutions. My system is FC3 just starting from the 4 disk CD set. Would it be easier to start an FC4 system? Thanks, Eric __ This e-mail may be privileged and/or confidential, and the sender does not waive any related rights and obligations. Any distribution, use or copying of this e-mail or the information it contains by other than an intended recipient is unauthorized. If you received this e-mail in error, please advise me (by return e-mail or otherwise) immediately. Ce courrier électronique est confidentiel et protégé. L'expéditeur ne renonce pas aux droits et obligations qui s'y rapportent. Toute diffusion, utilisation ou copie de ce message ou des renseignements qu'il contient par une personne autre que le (les) destinataire(s) désigné(s) est interdite. Si vous recevez ce courrier électronique par erreur, veuillez m'en aviser immédiatement, par retour de courrier électronique ou par un autre moyen.___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] problems with bt878 capture mode
hi all, Ive been playing with mythtv and it all looks very spanky! Still ironing out a few probs as Im trying to get 'watch tv' working. The tuner card works with tvtime and with auwtv in 'grab' mode. I was wondering, under mythtv, how do you change from overlay mode (that doesnt work) to other modes such as 'grab'?? The other question Ive got, and this is a bit of a newbie question is: why doesnt the 'optical disk' menu have a "watch avi" option? I mean, how do you watch avi's that are burnt to disc? thanks for the help. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] problems with bt878 capture mode
antec wrote: The other question Ive got, and this is a bit of a newbie question is: why doesnt the 'optical disk' menu have a watch avi option? I mean, how do you watch avi's that are burnt to disc? You want the MythVideo plugin which allows you to play transcoded video using xine or mplayer. Best regards, Leo Przybylski ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Fedora New Install Woes
On 7/15/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried your suggestions and I still have the same error. Apt gets removed or broken using the up2date suggestion and using the FC4 kickstart I get unmet dependencies. Any ideas how to get this fixed, I believe this is also being looked at in the ATRPMS mailing list. Just wondering if anyone else is having these issues and any other solutions. My system is FC3 just starting from the 4 disk CD set. Would it be easier to start an FC4 system? I had the same problem and resolved it in the following manner: Install FC3 x86 Do not install apt-get (at least until they figure out what the problems is) Do not change any of the repositories and just yum update After the update is complete, manually add the atrmps repository to your yum.conf. Follow the instructions at: http://atrpms.net/install.html After you add the atrpms repository do *not* yum update or you will start getting the same trouble. And start with the instructions at: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php#kernel I've been fooling around with this since last Sat. and managed to get a working install this morning. Hope this helps. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Fedora New Install Woes
I just did a FC4 install. That's what I meant when I said I usd the FC4 kickstart, sorry for not being clear. apt-get is still around after dist-upgrade, but I had some problems using it -- i think something was messed up with sources.list. yum, however, worked pretty well. David. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Re: Fedora New Install Woes I tried your suggestions and I still have the same error. Apt gets removed or broken using the up2date suggestion and using the FC4 kickstart I get unmet dependencies. Any ideas how to get this fixed, I believe this is also being looked at in the ATRPMS mailing list. Just wondering if anyone else is having these issues and any other solutions. My system is FC3 just starting from the 4 disk CD set. Would it be easier to start an FC4 system? Thanks, Eric __ This e-mail may be privileged and/or confidential, and the sender does not waive any related rights and obligations. Any distribution, use or copying of this e-mail or the information it contains by other than an intended recipient is unauthorized. If you received this e-mail in error, please advise me (by return e-mail or otherwise) immediately. Ce courrier lectronique est confidentiel et protg. L'expditeur ne renonce pas aux droits et obligations qui s'y rapportent. Toute diffusion, utilisation ou copie de ce message ou des renseignements qu'il contient par une personne autre que le (les) destinataire(s) dsign(s) est interdite. Si vous recevez ce courrier lectronique par erreur, veuillez m'en aviser immdiatement, par retour de courrier lectronique ou par un autre moyen. ___ 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] REQUEST: No Out-Of-Office replies for people on mailing lists.
Most of the time, the Out of Office Assistant isn't the culprit. It is a setting on the Exchange server to let the OOO reply be sent to external lists. On 7/14/05, Robert Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not that big a bugbear, but it is a matter of (n)ettiquette that when subscribed to a mailing list, if you *need* to set up an out-of-office mailer, do it so that it doesn't reply to list mail. It is easy enough to set up in Outlook (Which is by far and away the worst offender). Mind you, most companies in their AUP state that company systems should not be used for personal mail and/or personal projects, and it's usually a sacking offence. Just a heads up, if any of you have a BOfH in your network admin room. -- Robert Anaerin Johnston ___ 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] Overlay issues in file playback
I am seeing a problem when playing recorded files, where if I Alt-Tab to another window like xterm, the box where the xterm window was is now a black box in the video after switching back.So, if any other window is shown on top of the video, I can't see the video in that area any more. Strangely, I don't see this effect at all when viewing live video. I can switch back and forth between windows without any problem. Is anyone else seeing this? My system info: MythTV Version: latest svn snapshot from last night. I also saw this using 0.18.1 Linux/Kernel: Ubuntu linux, x86-64, kernel 2.6.13-rc2-mm1 (using this version for a needed DVB driver) Video: NVidia FX5200, with Nvidia 1.0-7667 drivers. I see this effect both with XvMC on and off. Card: FusionHDTV3 QAM, using DVB driver ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Wide theme? was: Xorg Transparency + mythtv = crash X11
On 7/15/05, Marius Schrecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking for wide theme to run on hdtv (1366x768). Set-up not built yet as RAM I ordered has not come into stock at the webshop, so all very theoretical for the moment. Cheers Marius -- Original Message -- From: Chris Germano [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:17:48 -0700 Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: Wide theme? was: Xorg Transparency + mythtv = crash X11 Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org I have xinerama on display 1, and that is where I have mythfrontend setup to run on. Are you looking for a wide theme or are you suggesting it could cause it? This setup worked flawlessly until I enabled transparency..:-/ I've tried to get some log errors but it's not an easy thing todo since X crashes. When I do run mythfrontend I get a lot of X window opcode errors with mismatch.. It looks like if I run mythfrontend from a terminal like F2 and redirect the display to :0, go back to kde F7 it will run fine..and I have no idea why that could be. If I start it from within kde through a prompt or run, it will kill X when the video starts or a split second later. Logs: 2005-07-14 20:11:34.757 New DB connection, total: 1 Total desktop width=1824, height=768, numscreens=2 2005-07-14 20:11:34.761 Using screen 1, 800x600 at 1024,0 2005-07-14 20:11:34.765 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-07-14 20:11:34.765 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2005-07-14 20:11:35.071 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T.) 2005-07-14 20:11:35.647 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin. 2005-07-14 20:11:40.146 All Programs 2005-07-14 20:11:40.355 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.28:6543 (try of 5) 2005-07-14 20:11:40.363 Using protocol version 15 2005-07-14 20:11:40.933 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-07-14 20:11:41.076 Disable DPMS 2005-07-14 20:11:41.339 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-07-14 20:11:41.339 Opening OSS audio de ice '/dev/dsp'. 2005-07-14 20:11:41.359 Using XV port 143 2005-07-14 20:11:41.363 Couldn't get the color key color, and we need it. You likely won't get any video. 2005-07-14 20:11:41.567 New DB connection, total: 3 2005-07-14 20:11:41.567 Changin from None to WatchingPreRecorded 2005-07-14 20:11:41.640 Realtime priority would require SUID as root. 2005-07-14 20:11:41.925 Video timing method: SGI OpenGL 2005-07-14 20:11:46.463 Couldn't get the color key color, and we need it. You likely won t get any video. 2005-07-14 20:11:46.805 Changing from WatchingPreRecorded to None 2005-07-14 20:11:46.812 Changing from None to None 2005-07-14 20:11:47.005 Enable DPMS 2005-07-14 20:11:49.025 Disable DPMS 2005-07-14 20:11:49.280 Opening audio de ice '/dev/dsp'. 2005-07-14 20:11:49.280 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-07-14 20:11:49.296 Using XV port 143 2005-07-14 20:11:49.301 Couldn't get the color key color, and we need it. You likely won't get any video. 2005-07-14 20:11:49.49 Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded 2005-07-14 20:11:49.498 Realtime priority would require SUID as root. 2005-07-14 20:11:49.773 Video timing method: SGI OpenGL 2005-07-14 20:11:50.922 Couldn't get the color key color, and we need it. You l kely won't get any video. 2005-07-14 20:11:51.273 Changing from WatchingPreRecorded to None 2005-07-14 20:11:51.279 Changing from None to None 2005-07-14 20:11:51.511 Enable DPMS 2005-07-14 20:11:53.007 All Programs 2005-07-14 20:11:53.785 Disable DPMS 2005-07-14 20:11:54.037 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-07-14 20:11:54.037 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-07-14 20:11:54.055 Using XV port 143 2005-07-14 20:11:54.058 Couldn't get the color key color, and we need it. You like y won't get any video. 2005-07-14 20:11:54.250 Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded 2005-07-14 20:11:54.264 Realtime priority would require SUID as root. 2005-07-14 20:11:54.502 Video timing method: SGI OpenGL 2005-07-14 20:11:55.181 Couldn't et the color key color, and we need it. You likely won't get any video. 2005-07-14 20:11:55.522 Changing from WatchingPreRecorded to None 2005-07-14 20:11:55.543 Changing from None to None 2005-07-14 20:11:55.766 Enable DPMS Hi Chris,from our link it looked like your custom theme is wide.Do you have a fully functional wide mythTV theme? Cheers Marius -- Original Message -- From: Chris Germano [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 22:02:10 -0700 Subject: [mythtv-users] Xorg Transparency + mythtv = crash X11 Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org I just got transparency working with xorg-x11 6.8.. in KDE now. btw if you like eye candy and use de..you definitly need this enabled :-P it's fricking awesome (Desktop - Window behavior - Translucency under CC). See it in action: http://www.
Re: [mythtv-users] Multi backend TV card preference?
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 08:07 pm, Gregorio Gervasio, Jr. wrote: Michael T Dean writes: m Paul V. Gratz wrote: 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. m Sounds like someone selected, Avoid conflicts between live TV and m scheduled shows. m If enabled, live TV will choose a tuner card that is less likely to have m scheduled recordings rather than the best card available. m (basically, it chooses the lowest-priority available card for LiveTV). I don't think this will help him. I think what he's seeing *is* the default behavior -- LiveTV has a preference for local cards and his frontend and slave backend are on the same host. However, recordings should still use the master backend's card first (assuming it's the lower-numbered card and no changes to card priorities). OK this does not seem to do what I want in that it does not force the live TV to be done on the master TV card instead of the TV card in the slave. It actually kind of the opposite actually in that it will be more likely to choose the slave one which has the lower priority card. Since it's only an issue with LiveTV and there are only two tuners, it's easy enough to just hit 'Y' to change cards. Hmmm while this does work, its not too high on the W.A.F. (in this case its my girlfriend so G.A.F I suppose). It is a bit of a pain in the butt to do this every time I'm browsing TV. Is there any way to force the preference a different way? Thanks for all replies! Pauyl pgpkUFF3BtdLd.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: DVB/HDTV/Analog tuner cards
That HT is pretty nice. Congratulations on your hard work. Best regards, Leo Przybylski Scott wrote: On Jul 15, 2005, at 11:09 AM, Leo Przybylski wrote: CC is teletext for hearing impaired. Not that I'm hearing impaired, it's just my preference. Even when watching DVDs, I like to have the subtitles on. In myth, the command to turn on CC is 'c' appropriately enough. As for closed captioning - if you can explain what it is and how to test it, I could try it out for you I would be interested to know if CC were available for mpeg2 streams recorded with the HD3000 card as well I do know that when watching shows via my Samsung HDTV tuner from OTA sources I can see CC text when it is available. In other words, I know for sure that CC text is transmitted in the HDTV OTA signal. Not all programs are closed captioned. The best bet are main stream shows like Late Night or popular dramas (ER, Lost, House, etc) Xine, mplayer, and the internal MythTV video player all decode CC data. As Leo said, for the internal MythTV player the option is 'c' to enable or disable it. For mplayer the option is -subcc and for xine there config file option is subtitles.closedcaption.enabled. I am hearing impaired and addicted to movies :) For me MythTV is one component in the home theater I set up last year and I plan to add the ability to record HDTV shows via a HD3000 adapter soon. For now, MythTV mainly serves as a front end for DVD playback where I let xine handled the CC decoding. The main reasons for using a HTPC to handle DVD playback are to improve picture quality (very noticeable improvement) and handle CC decoding since projectors do not decode CC data. For the curious, photos of my small HT are at http://donpoo.net/ gallery/ht -- Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: BlueCame1 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Fedora New Install Woes
All: I've had unmet dependencies (xmltv and packages related to it) with FC4 on two systems after using atrpms kickstart. However, installing the medley-package-config file using rpm cleared them up. George On 7/15/05, David Asher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just did a FC4 install. That's what I meant when I said I usd the FC4 kickstart, sorry for not being clear. apt-get is still around after dist-upgrade, but I had some problems using it -- i think something was messed up with sources.list. yum, however, worked pretty well. David. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried your suggestions and I still have the same error. Apt gets removed or broken using the up2date suggestion and using the FC4 kickstart I get unmet dependencies. Any ideas how to get this fixed, I believe this is also being looked at in the ATRPMS mailing list. Just wondering if anyone else is having these issues and any other solutions. My system is FC3 just starting from the 4 disk CD set. Would it be easier to start an FC4 system? Thanks, Eric __ This e-mail may be privileged and/or confidential, and the sender does not waive any related rights and obligations. Any distribution, use or copying of this e-mail or the information it contains by other than an intended recipient is unauthorized. If you received this e-mail in error, please advise me (by return e-mail or otherwise) immediately. Ce courrier électronique est confidentiel et protégé. L'expéditeur ne renonce pas aux droits et obligations qui s'y rapportent. Toute diffusion, utilisation ou copie de ce message ou des renseignements qu'il contient par une personne autre que le (les) destinataire(s) désigné(s) est interdite. Si vous recevez ce courrier électronique par erreur, veuillez m'en aviser immédiatement, par retour de courrier électronique ou par un autre moyen. ___ 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] Re: IVTV, FC4 PVR-250 broken?
On 7/14/05, Jeff volckaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nobody is using a PVR-250 with FC4? Is it just that not alot of people have moved to FC4? I have the same setup and couldn't get ivtv to modprobe. I was following the instructions at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php .I would suspect a kernel issue, but I didn't have time to troubleshoot it and went back to FC3 -- which is working fine. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: IVTV, FC4 PVR-250 broken?
On 7/15/05, Gambit Declined [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/14/05, Jeff volckaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nobody is using a PVR-250 with FC4? Is it just that not alot of people have moved to FC4? I have the same setup and couldn't get ivtv to modprobe. I was following the instructions at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php .I would suspect a kernel issue, but I didn't have time to troubleshoot it and went back to FC3 -- which is working fine. I'm glad too see I'm not the only one. I was beginning to suspect my hardware had gone bad. Do you have an early revision PVR250? I wonder if it's just an issue with the early models or if it's the 250s in general. Jeff ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Combination RF/IR remote?
Maverick wrote: On 7/14/05, Tim Hamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ross wrote: I've been looking around for a nice remote for my myth front end, but I can't find one that I really like. I would like a RF remote (see though walls, etc) that can do IR as well, so I can control everything else in the AV cabinet with the one device. Niveus have a remote that seems perfect: http://www.fstop-blues.com/2005/05/windows-media-center-tip-use-rf-remote.html but I'm not sure about linux support, or if it's available any more. Any thought/suggestions? you can get a much better remote if you use a regular rf/ir universal home theater remote and regular ir on the mythbox. i get 100' range from my urc-200 and rf basestation (expensive but cool). the one for all 9910 does a pretty decent job too, about 50' range and comes with the rf basestation for only $50 at fry's. I found this thread about using the ATI RF remote control: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/archive/index.php/t-453429.html Howto: http://www.fedoranews.org/contributors/youssef_makki/remotewonder/ Looks like there might be some weird kernel hacking involved, Only if you do it the hard (and less useful) way: using the kernel's built-in keyboard driver (which, interestingly, is often considered the easy way :). although, if it's lirc compatable, It is. myth should have no problem using it. No problem, indeed. If you get it to work, let me know, I might want to go that route! :) I'm using the ATI Remote Wonder. I like it because it provides a bunch of buttons and is LIRC-compatible. Many people using the RW are using the kernel's built-in keyboard driver for it. The main problem with that is that each button sends a keycode, so you have to map your key combinations for each application with which you want to use the remote (which means you start memorizing your non-default settings for use with a real keyboard and--depending on how you set things up--you may lose functionality or break applications with bad key configs--i.e. as new commands are added to new versions, they may conflict with your remapped key configs). Also, LIRC provides a means of doing virtually anything (from sending a message to an app to sending keystrokes to running scripts/applications to ...) whereas keyboards provide only a means of sending keystrokes... So, I highly recommend use LIRC. That being said, I also recommend not getting a combination RF/IR remote (i.e. like the X10 Lola--which is basically the ATI RW with IR modes). With that, you would have to have modes (i.e. TV, VCR, Myth, DVD, etc.) so the (stupid) remote knows what to send and how to send it and a (smart) person who knows which buttons to push in which order. Instead, you can use one remote (RF or IR) and an IR blaster. Then, you program the (smart) computer to do what it should when a key is pressed. For example, you press the TV button on your remote, and your computer sends a discrete power on command to the TV and the Audio/Video receiver using the IR blaster, and sends the appropriate message for the LiveTV jump point to Myth using LIRC (zero to LiveTV in 0.25 seconds). You press the volume down button, and your computer uses the IR blaster to send a volume down to your A/V receiver (instead of trying to control the volume in software--which is especially wrong with digital sound). You press the Music button on your remote, and your computer sends a discrete power on command to the A/V receiver and a discrete power off command to the TV (assuming you don't want your TV on during music playback) using the IR blaster and sends the appropriate message for the MythMusic jump point to Myth using LIRC. With this approach, you're only limited by your imagination (and, to some extend--barring additional software--the number of buttons on your remote). HTH. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Issue running make on xmame for Mythgame
I'm getting an error when trying to compile xmame on my Xbox front end running xebian. expat.h: No such file or directory Can anyone help me with this? thanks, ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] De-interlacing on a non-interlaced display
On 7/15/05, Donavan Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/15/05, jason bright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Certain times there will be very bad/obvious interlacing issues. Usually with rolling credits, crawling news tickers, or for some reason The Simpsons really shows it.. In those cases I've tried the bob de-interlacing and it improves the image quality, but at the same time the on screen guide now becomes a flickery jittery mess. There are other deinterlacers besides bob... That being said, bob *used* to act like that on my machiens as well. It's not done that in a while, but it might be a post .18.1 thing. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Bob still does it to me. I've been told that turning on opengl-vsync will fix it, but I still get it. It makes the OSD jittery, like it's bouncing up and down 1 pixel incredibly fast. I think (I don't remember because it never worked so I don't use it) that it did it to the broadcast as well, ALTHOUGH it did really smooth the broadcast itself out... especially the examples of the scrolling news ticker and the simpsons (and other animated shows). ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Combination RF/IR remote?
I use the Niveus PC Remote Control... It's an X10 remote almost identical to the ATI version but with RF and IR. The PC is controlled via a USB connector and RF (and only the PC), everything else is IR. You just enter the codes for whatever device it is you are trying to use.. OR you use the learning function to create a custom setup. It works very well with MythTV. I've got enough buttons to do just about any MythTV/Mplayer/Xine function without using a keyboard. (except typing of course) It was easy to setup (the mouse portion was a little tricky, but otherwise ok) Everything was done through lirc and lirc_atiusb module.. no compiling anything. Anyone interested in my lircd.conf and lircrc let me know. Maverick wrote: On 7/14/05, Tim Hamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ross wrote: I've been looking around for a nice remote for my myth front end, but I can't find one that I really like. I would like a RF remote (see though walls, etc) that can do IR as well, so I can control everything else in the AV cabinet with the one device. Niveus have a remote that seems perfect: http://www.fstop-blues.com/2005/05/windows-media-center-tip-use-rf-remote.html but I'm not sure about linux support, or if it's available any more. Any thought/suggestions? you can get a much better remote if you use a regular rf/ir universal home theater remote and regular ir on the mythbox. i get 100' range from my urc-200 and rf basestation (expensive but cool). the one for all 9910 does a pretty decent job too, about 50' range and comes with the rf basestation for only $50 at fry's. I found this thread about using the ATI RF remote control: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/archive/index.php/t-453429.html Howto: http://www.fedoranews.org/contributors/youssef_makki/remotewonder/ Looks like there might be some weird kernel hacking involved, Only if you do it the hard (and less useful) way: using the kernel's built-in keyboard driver (which, interestingly, is often considered the easy way :). although, if it's lirc compatable, It is. myth should have no problem using it. No problem, indeed. If you get it to work, let me know, I might want to go that route! :) I'm using the ATI Remote Wonder. I like it because it provides a bunch of buttons and is LIRC-compatible. Many people using the RW are using the kernel's built-in keyboard driver for it. The main problem with that is that each button sends a keycode, so you have to map your key combinations for each application with which you want to use the remote (which means you start memorizing your non-default settings for use with a real keyboard and--depending on how you set things up--you may lose functionality or break applications with bad key configs--i.e. as new commands are added to new versions, they may conflict with your remapped key configs). Also, LIRC provides a means of doing virtually anything (from sending a message to an app to sending keystrokes to running scripts/applications to ...) whereas keyboards provide only a means of sending keystrokes... So, I highly recommend use LIRC. That being said, I also recommend not getting a combination RF/IR remote (i.e. like the X10 Lola--which is basically the ATI RW with IR modes). With that, you would have to have modes (i.e. TV, VCR, Myth, DVD, etc.) so the (stupid) remote knows what to send and how to send it and a (smart) person who knows which buttons to push in which order. Instead, you can use one remote (RF or IR) and an IR blaster. Then, you program the (smart) computer to do what it should when a key is pressed. For example, you press the TV button on your remote, and your computer sends a discrete power on command to the TV and the Audio/Video receiver using the IR blaster, and sends the appropriate message for the LiveTV jump point to Myth using LIRC (zero to LiveTV in 0.25 seconds). You press the volume down button, and your computer uses the IR blaster to send a volume down to your A/V receiver (instead of trying to control the volume in software--which is especially wrong with digital sound). You press the Music button on your remote, and your computer sends a discrete power on command to the A/V receiver and a discrete power off command to the TV (assuming you don't want your TV on during music playback) using the IR blaster and sends the appropriate message for the MythMusic jump point to Myth using LIRC. With this approach, you're only limited by your imagination (and, to some extend--barring additional software--the number of buttons on your remote). HTH. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Video gets choppy when changing channels/opening prog. guide
On 7/15/05, JEFFERY PLEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would changing the resolution affect this (using /usr/bin/ivtvctl -f width=720,height=480 currently) It bears noting that the above command will have NO effect on Myth. The scripts that come with ivtv are for testing only, they're not used but Myth in any way and anything you set there will be overridden by Myth. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] DVB issue: unable to tune to off air channels, can't skip to next channel
Hi, I've HD3000 PCI hdtv tuner card using the DVB drivers (stock 2.6.12.1 kernel) and stock myth v0.18 (with 16mb ringbuffer size instead of standard 2mb). I'm recording OTA (over the air) channels. In my area, PBS is broadcasting 9_1 to 9_5. But in the evening (after 8pm ?), they turn off 9_3 to 9_5 channels. Only 9_1 and 9_2 are being broadcasted. The channel database has information for 9_3 to 9_5 though. When I start watching channel 9_2 and then try to goto next channel via UP arrow key, the DVB fails and wont let me goto 9_3. This is fine as 9_3 is not being broadcasted. But I think after couple of failed attempts, it should goto the next channel 9_4 and then goto 9_5, eventually going to a channel which is actually broadcasting. The only way to get out of this is by entering a channel number from the keyboard. Has anyone found any alternative way to overcome this issue ? Here are my logs from the logfile: 2005-07-14 22:00:35.926 DVB#0 Successfully tuned to channel 65_1. 2005-07-14 22:00:58.660 DVB#0 Successfully tuned to channel 7_1. 2005-07-14 22:01:28.459 DVB#0 Successfully tuned to channel 7_2. 2005-07-14 22:01:47.946 DVB#0 Successfully tuned to channel 9_1. 2005-07-14 22:02:02.112 DVB#0 Successfully tuned to channel 9_2. 2005-07-14 22:02:26.099 DVB#0 ERROR - Tuning for channel #9_3 failed. 2005-07-14 22:02:45.640 DVB#0 ERROR - Tuning for channel #9_3 failed. 2005-07-14 22:03:05.465 DVB#0 ERROR - Tuning for channel #9_3 failed. 2005-07-14 22:03:25.937 DVB#0 ERROR - Tuning for channel #9_3 failed. 2005-07-14 22:04:03.082 DVB#0 ERROR - Tuning for channel #9_3 failed. = here are restarted myth again with startchan hack set to 7_1 = 2005-07-14 22:07:48.769 DVB#0 Successfully tuned to channel 7_1. 2005-07-14 22:08:21.855 DVB#0 Successfully tuned to channel 7_2. 2005-07-14 22:08:37.661 DVB#0 Successfully tuned to channel 9_1. 2005-07-14 22:08:56.502 DVB#0 Successfully tuned to channel 9_2. 2005-07-14 22:09:21.350 DVB#0 ERROR - Tuning for channel #9_3 failed. === Thanks Mudit ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Video gets choppy when changing channels/opening prog. guide
That's interesting. I have had problems with my second tuner's (PVR-250) audio. I thought that changing these settings would stick with the card. I guess I should start another thread instead of hijacking this one. On 7/15/05, Donavan Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/15/05, JEFFERY PLEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would changing the resolution affect this (using /usr/bin/ivtvctl -f width=720,height=480 currently) It bears noting that the above command will have NO effect on Myth. The scripts that come with ivtv are for testing only, they're not used but Myth in any way and anything you set there will be overridden by Myth. ___ 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] Q: Using MythTV as a router
Hi, I would like to use MythTV in the following way: - run MythTV on a PC without a monitor - capture the video signal and stream it into the Internet. - use another machine as a client to watch the stream. - possibly change channels remotely. Can this be done with MythTV? Thx, Arno Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Deinterlace?
On Thursday 14 July 2005 04:46 pm, Jim Reith wrote: I have a PVR-350 and I'm using tv-out with it. I noticed today that I have the deinterlace box checked. Do I want that to be the case when using the 350? Jim I don't think the deinterlacer is used if you're using the 350 decoder. The video gets fed straight to the decoder, so it never gets any preprocessing done. So I'm pretty sure that regardless of your deinterlacing settings, the picture quality will be the same. ~Lou pgpr0PvRDuWvd.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Deinterlace?
At 04:07 PM 7/15/2005, you wrote: On Thursday 14 July 2005 04:46 pm, Jim Reith wrote: I have a PVR-350 and I'm using tv-out with it. I noticed today that I have the deinterlace box checked. Do I want that to be the case when using the 350? Jim I don't think the deinterlacer is used if you're using the 350 decoder. The video gets fed straight to the decoder, so it never gets any preprocessing done. So I'm pretty sure that regardless of your deinterlacing settings, the picture quality will be the same. ~Lou That would probably explain why it didn't seem to make much difference in either case but since it WAS checked, i unchecked it Jim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] TV recording with jumps in video, live TV is ok?
Hello, I'm running MythTV 0.18 on an AMD Athlox XP 2000+ Debian Linux machine (frontend and backend) and with a cheap analogue v4l compatible receiver (bttv driver, some old Hauppauge WinTV). Since a few weeks I'm seeing the following effects when recording: From time to time (more than once a minute) video seems to jump, then is playing slowly (maybe in order to re-synchronize with the sound, again), then is playing nicely again. This does not happen if I'm watching live TV and recording worked ok a while ago - no, sorry, I am not aware of having changed the configuration. I assume this cannot be a performance problem since it does not happen when watching life TV. Have you got any hint for me? I'm pretty clueless after having gone through the configuration again and again. Best regards, Tom ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Mythtv Logitech Harmony 880 Remote
Does anyone know if the Harmony 880 remote that Logitech is offering works with linux? I checked lirc.org and there isn't a config for it, but given its steep price I cannot afford to purchase it to test unless I am certain it works and could be a valuable addition to my mythtv setup. Thanks, Cody ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Q: Using MythTV as a router
Arno Puder wrote: Hi, I would like to use MythTV in the following way: - run MythTV on a PC without a monitor - capture the video signal and stream it into the Internet. - use another machine as a client to watch the stream. - possibly change channels remotely. Can this be done with MythTV? Do you want something more than a backend and a separate frontend? That's what your requirements sounds like. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv Logitech Harmony 880 Remote
Cody Austin wrote: Does anyone know if the Harmony 880 remote that Logitech is offering works with linux? I checked lirc.org and there isn't a config for it, but given its steep price I cannot afford to purchase it to test unless I am certain it works and could be a valuable addition to my mythtv setup. Thanks, Cody The Harmony is highly configurable and works with a wide range of hardare. Virtually every mainstream tv, cd, dvd, stereo, cable box, etc. can be controlled by it. I've been using one to control my entire home theater system for about a year now. As far as having it work with mythtv goes, it depends entirely on what sort of IR receiver you're going to be using. I have a Hauppague WinTV PVR-250 which comes with an ir receiver remote control. The Harmony offers full support for this card, so it works great for me. -Bruce ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Q: Using MythTV as a router
--- Brad Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arno Puder wrote: Hi, I would like to use MythTV in the following way: - run MythTV on a PC without a monitor - capture the video signal and stream it into the Internet. - use another machine as a client to watch the stream. - possibly change channels remotely. Can this be done with MythTV? Do you want something more than a backend and a separate frontend? That's what your requirements sounds like. I guess a MythTV backend can run on a monitor-less PC while the content is streamed to the frontend. Is that correct? Can I reduce the resolution before streaming since I want to stream over the Internet? While we are at it: what happens if there is a firewall between backend and frontend? TIA, Arno __ 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] Q: Using MythTV as a router
it seems to me that you just have to allow the port that it uses (65xx something lke that) through the firewall and direct it to the correct IP of the frontend. On 7/15/05, Arno Puder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Brad Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arno Puder wrote: Hi, I would like to use MythTV in the following way: - run MythTV on a PC without a monitor - capture the video signal and stream it into the Internet. - use another machine as a client to watch the stream. - possibly change channels remotely. Can this be done with MythTV? Do you want something more than a backend and a separate frontend? That's what your requirements sounds like. I guess a MythTV backend can run on a monitor-less PC while the content is streamed to the frontend. Is that correct? Can I reduce the resolution before streaming since I want to stream over the Internet? While we are at it: what happens if there is a firewall between backend and frontend? TIA, Arno __ 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 mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Q: Using MythTV as a router
When you say streaming to *internet*, does it mean that you want to stream it outside your house ? You can run frontend remotely *outside* your home network. But you need to open the ports on your home network router and redirect traffic coming on these ports to your mythbox. I think myth uses port 6543 on the backend. But mind you that depending upon your upload speed, live TV will probably be impossible to watch. You can use mythstreamtv to transcode your recordings down to a lower bitrate and stream on the fly. Take a look at http://mythstreamtv.sourceforge.net/ . Thats how I watch my shows sometimes when I'm outside my home and still want to catch up with some shows. Thanks Mudit On 7/15/05, Brad Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arno Puder wrote: Hi, I would like to use MythTV in the following way: - run MythTV on a PC without a monitor - capture the video signal and stream it into the Internet. - use another machine as a client to watch the stream. - possibly change channels remotely. Can this be done with MythTV? Do you want something more than a backend and a separate frontend? That's what your requirements sounds like. ___ 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] Q: Using MythTV as a router
- run MythTV on a PC without a monitor - capture the video signal and stream it into the Internet. You can do that, but MythTV has no security. Anyone will be able to login (because there is no login) and watch and delete music and launch DoS. You could augment Myth security through firewall that would limit access to a certain IP. - use another machine as a client to watch the stream. The stream is pretty data intensive. 10 MBit is a must. -- Milos Prudek http://www.spoxdesign.com - your web usability testing ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Q: Using MythTV as a router
Interesting feature. I heard that SBC were going to offer something similar from their IPTV set tops. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mudit Wahal Sent: Friday, 15 July 2005 4:37 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Q: Using MythTV as a router When you say streaming to *internet*, does it mean that you want to stream it outside your house ? You can run frontend remotely *outside* your home network. But you need to open the ports on your home network router and redirect traffic coming on these ports to your mythbox. I think myth uses port 6543 on the backend. But mind you that depending upon your upload speed, live TV will probably be impossible to watch. You can use mythstreamtv to transcode your recordings down to a lower bitrate and stream on the fly. Take a look at http://mythstreamtv.sourceforge.net/ . Thats how I watch my shows sometimes when I'm outside my home and still want to catch up with some shows. Thanks Mudit On 7/15/05, Brad Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arno Puder wrote: Hi, I would like to use MythTV in the following way: - run MythTV on a PC without a monitor - capture the video signal and stream it into the Internet. - use another machine as a client to watch the stream. - possibly change channels remotely. Can this be done with MythTV? Do you want something more than a backend and a separate frontend? That's what your requirements sounds like. ___ 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] Channel Frequency Table Time-Warner NEO
Hii everyone, Does anyone out there know what Channel Frequency Table Time-Warner Northeast Ohio uses? I tried calling them to find out and they literally put me on hold and then hung up on me...twice. Thanks, Lee ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] EPIA S-video TV screen size/brightness - how ?
Hi * Just quick question: How can I change TV screen size, brightness contrast on EPIA S-Video ? Also is there possibility to change quality (bitrate) of liveTV screen on MythTV PVR250 ? (I see quite huge difference between liveTV screen quality between MythTV OS/2 EmperoarTV. On OS/2 is almost DVD quality, but on MythTV it is more like VHS) -- 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
RE: [mythtv-users] Getting a Plasma, Scared of Burn-In
Interesting point, and since I'm always in the mood to buy a new TV, this is something to reconsider. Anyway, what I do now is treat it like a TV. I don't leave it on all the time. Granted, this is a bit of an ale statement, but the reality is that my TV is kinda an electricity hog, so I turn it off when I'm not using it. Also, if you always leave it in TV playback mode, even if you leave it on for hours, you don't run all that great a risk for burn in. The big scare is if you switch to the menu and fall asleep. Anyway, based on previous issues with TV burn in (I have an RP, and had a past RP burn nice yellow bars on the side cause my roomate would fall asleep watching TV in normal 4:3 mode), it's just a matter of being judicious with the time you use it. Smart outweighs any program options. That said, what's the expected time for burn in to occur? Are we talking minutes, hours, days, weeks? My RP started showing the yellow lines about 500 hours into using it (or roughly a year), but will this happen much faster with the plasma? I don't think this is an ale statement at all, if your not using it, turn it off. Simple, no burnin, greener and cut down on your lecy bill as well :) Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Myth won't scheduling multi-part episodes
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:12:08AM -0500, Robert Kulagowski wrote: If you're in MythWeb and pull up the scheduled recording for Dr. Who, you can change the duplicate check method from Subtitle and Description to None, which should then record all of the episodes even though they have the same name. It would be nice if MythTV would consider the original air date when checking for dupes. It already gets and uses that data to flag repeats in the listings. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Q: Using MythTV as a router
--- Arno Puder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to use MythTV in the following way: - run MythTV on a PC without a monitor - capture the video signal and stream it into the Internet. - use another machine as a client to watch the stream. - possibly change channels remotely. Can this be done with MythTV? Thx, Arno I am guessing on my answer but what might be possible is to have your Mythbackend / firewall configured such that it allows ssh connections. Once a ssh connection is made the sshd daemon running on your Mythbackend / firewall can be told to route the traffic to the Mythbackend port. So, your client would have to initiate a ssh connection to your backend so that Myth can communicate over ssh. Not sure if this is necessary but at least the only protocol you have to have open would be ssh. This type of configuration can be done with VNC when communicating over an insecure network. Steve __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] De-interlacing on a non-interlaced display
Bob still does it to me. I've been told that turning on opengl-vsync will fix it, but I still get it. It makes the OSD jittery, like it's bouncing up and down 1 pixel incredibly fast. I think (I don't remember because it never worked so I don't use it) that it did it to the broadcast as well, ALTHOUGH it did really smooth the broadcast itself out... especially the examples of the scrolling news ticker and the simpsons (and other animated shows). Hence why is is called a bob deinterlace. :P Try kerneldeint -- much more processor intensive but it'll look great. -- Ian Trider [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Getting a Plasma, Scared of Burn-In
On 7/15/05, Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting point, and since I'm always in the mood to buy a new TV, this is something to reconsider. Anyway, what I do now is treat it like a TV. I don't leave it on all the time. Granted, this is a bit of an ale statement, but the reality is that my TV is kinda an electricity hog, so I turn it off when I'm not using it. Also, if you always leave it in TV playback mode, even if you leave it on for hours, you don't run all that great a risk for burn in. The big scare is if you switch to the menu and fall asleep. Anyway, based on previous issues with TV burn in (I have an RP, and had a past RP burn nice yellow bars on the side cause my roomate would fall asleep watching TV in normal 4:3 mode), it's just a matter of being judicious with the time you use it. Smart outweighs any program options. That said, what's the expected time for burn in to occur? Are we talking minutes, hours, days, weeks? My RP started showing the yellow lines about 500 hours into using it (or roughly a year), but will this happen much faster with the plasma? I don't think this is an ale statement at all, if your not using it, turn it off. Simple, no burnin, greener and cut down on your lecy bill as well :) Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I normally have my monitor set with DPMS to kick in after 1 minute, after 5 seconds without a pc input the plasma powers off. However a few days ago to my horror I woke up in the morning to discover the menu still on the screen, and the plasma still turned on. Needless to say I was checking the screen for burn-in, the menu would have been static on screen for at least 10 hours, but there was no burn-in at all. My recommendation is to still be aware, and use DPMS where possible. When you are watching something myth disables DPMS anyway, so it only kicks in when you arent doing anything. Hope that helps. -- Regards, ~CM ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Q: Using MythTV as a router
As someone mentions later, it'd be best to pipe the stream through ssh compressed. And as Milos says, I think *streaming* over a dsl line would be pointless. Especially considering most US dsl customers have ADSL with much lower upstream bandwidth. It might be best to just setup a transcoding system so recorded shows automatically get transcoded to a smaller xvid/divx file that you grab over scp/rsync. I actually did this for daily show for nights that I couldn't watch it. It'd reencode at lower resolution and upload to my other machine, constantly keeping the last 5 days worth. ___ John Prefer not to receive HTML mail? Click here. On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Milos Prudek wrote: - run MythTV on a PC without a monitor - capture the video signal and stream it into the Internet. You can do that, but MythTV has no security. Anyone will be able to login (because there is no login) and watch and delete music and launch DoS. You could augment Myth security through firewall that would limit access to a certain IP. - use another machine as a client to watch the stream. The stream is pretty data intensive. 10 MBit is a must. -- Milos Prudek http://www.spoxdesign.com - your web usability testing ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: DVB/HDTV/Analog tuner cards
Scott wrote: On Jul 15, 2005, at 11:09 AM, Leo Przybylski wrote: CC is teletext for hearing impaired. Not that I'm hearing impaired, it's just my preference. Even when watching DVDs, I like to have the subtitles on. In myth, the command to turn on CC is 'c' appropriately enough. As for closed captioning - if you can explain what it is and how to test it, I could try it out for you I would be interested to know if CC were available for mpeg2 streams recorded with the HD3000 card as well I do know that when watching shows via my Samsung HDTV tuner from OTA sources I can see CC text when it is available. In other words, I know for sure that CC text is transmitted in the HDTV OTA signal. Not all programs are closed captioned. The best bet are main stream shows like Late Night or popular dramas (ER, Lost, House, etc) Xine, mplayer, and the internal MythTV video player all decode CC data. As Leo said, for the internal MythTV player the option is 'c' to enable or disable it. For mplayer the option is -subcc and for xine there config file option is subtitles.closedcaption.enabled. I am hearing impaired and addicted to movies :) For me MythTV is one component in the home theater I set up last year and I plan to add the ability to record HDTV shows via a HD3000 adapter soon. For now, MythTV mainly serves as a front end for DVD playback where I let xine handled the CC decoding. The main reasons for using a HTPC to handle DVD playback are to improve picture quality (very noticeable improvement) and handle CC decoding since projectors do not decode CC data. For the curious, photos of my small HT are at http://donpoo.net/ gallery/ht -- Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: BlueCame1 Well the 'c' key seems to have no effect on any channels showing this early morning, but it's mostly kids shows and foreign language stuff. I will try again tonight during the normal programming. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: HDTV sound okay, but no video
Okay, I just realised it may have something to do with DRI or Direct Rendering. The description of the problem in my previous email happens when DRI is enabled, Option no_dri no. When DRI is disabled, no_dri yes, SD channels are also fine, except XFree86 uses around 15%cpu (compared to 2.5%cpu with DRI). For HD channels, the video can be seen, although it's very jumpy, probably because XFree86 also takes up a lot of %cpu (close to 99%). Audio is jumpy as well. Seems that disabling DRI gives images on the screen, but makes the computer too slow to decode all the frames and audio. So, it appears that it may have something to do with DRI, and at this point I don't know enough about how mythtv works to do any more troubleshooting. Please, if anyone has any suggestions on what I could look for, I would be very happy! On 7/15/05, Sammo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Athlon XP 2500+, ATI Radeon 9550, Twinhan Visionplus DVB-T Linux 2.6.12.2 XFree86 4.3 ATI fglrx-4-3-0_8.14.13-2_i386 driver with fglrx kernel module compiled and installed Mythtv 18.1 compiled for athlon-xp SD channels work fine, with around 18%cpu for mythfrontend and 2.5%cpu for XFree86 HD channels have perfect audio, but NO VIDEO!! 48%cpu for mythfrontend and 0.5%cpu for XFree86. If I change from a SD channel to a HD channel, the last frame of the SD channel remains on the screen. When I change back to a SD channel from a HD channel, the SD channel is fine again. Tried turning off de-interlacing, and tried using libmpeg2 for decoding, but same problem. Any ideas appreciated. Thanks ... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Connecting to DirecTV Reciever
I ordered DirectTV because I heard you could connect to it via serial to change channels instead of using an IR blaster. When I got my reciever though it has a odd looking phone jack that says Low speed data. It looks taller then the standard phone jack, so I'm assuming that it is for a COM type interface. Any ideas how I connect my MythTV box to this? I haven't found a guide that talks about this part of the setup, soon as MythTV is up and running the guides end. Eric ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Q: Using MythTV as a router
thanks for all your responses. The reason I am interested in realtime streaming is because I want to see live sport events that don't broadcast in my area (Americans don't care much for soccer; sigh). I'm willing to compromise on the quality if I get the feed in realtime. The frontend/backend thing sounds like a proper client/server architecture that does exactly what I'm looking for. What I'm not sure about is (1) firewall issues (2) remote control (3) reduce the resolution of the feed before streaming. Arno --- cfactor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As someone mentions later, it'd be best to pipe the stream through ssh compressed. And as Milos says, I think *streaming* over a dsl line would be pointless. Especially considering most US dsl customers have ADSL with much lower upstream bandwidth. It might be best to just setup a transcoding system so recorded shows automatically get transcoded to a smaller xvid/divx file that you grab over scp/rsync. I actually did this for daily show for nights that I couldn't watch it. It'd reencode at lower resolution and upload to my other machine, constantly keeping the last 5 days worth. ___ John Prefer not to receive HTML mail? Click here. On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Milos Prudek wrote: - run MythTV on a PC without a monitor - capture the video signal and stream it into the Internet. You can do that, but MythTV has no security. Anyone will be able to login (because there is no login) and watch and delete music and launch DoS. You could augment Myth security through firewall that would limit access to a certain IP. - use another machine as a client to watch the stream. The stream is pretty data intensive. 10 MBit is a must. -- Milos Prudek http://www.spoxdesign.com - your web usability testing ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] TV won't sync in Mythtv menus
Greetings An odd one here on an Epia SP13000 m/b. Watching TV, playing back a recording, watching video (mplayer) or DVD (Xine) are all fine when I use the Unichrome driver in 720x576NoScale mode but the Mythtv menus are screwed up - interlace problem I think. Is there a way in Mythtv of setting the interlace mode in anything other than the player so that the menus come out right? (the same applies to MythMusic etc as I assume this is not using the Epia accelerated graphics engine) Cheers -- Robin Gilks zl3rob/g8ecj Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.gilks.org ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Q: Using MythTV as a router
I'll try to answer those: 1) firewall issue. Probably the best bet is to setup an ssh tunnel and pipe the mythtv port through it. You can setup the tunnel with compression which may or may not help with the streaming. 2) remote control. You install the frontend on your laptop or whatever you're watching it on. The frontend will take care of all the interface you need. If you're referring to IrDA remote and such things, you install it in addition to the frontend on your laptop. 3) resolution. You can configure those games to be recorded in low resolution in the first place if you don't plan on watching it again when you get back. You can also transcode to lower resolution, I believe, but I have no experience in that aspect. If I were in your situation, I'd just set it to record at lower bitrate in the first place. Also, since network bandwidth will be an issue, I'd be sure to encode it in MPEG4 rather than MPEG2. ___ John Prefer not to receive HTML mail? Click here. On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Arno Puder wrote: thanks for all your responses. The reason I am interested in realtime streaming is because I want to see live sport events that don't broadcast in my area (Americans don't care much for soccer; sigh). I'm willing to compromise on the quality if I get the feed in realtime. The frontend/backend thing sounds like a proper client/server architecture that does exactly what I'm looking for. What I'm not sure about is (1) firewall issues (2) remote control (3) reduce the resolution of the feed before streaming. Arno --- cfactor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As someone mentions later, it'd be best to pipe the stream through ssh compressed. And as Milos says, I think *streaming* over a dsl line would be pointless. Especially considering most US dsl customers have ADSL with much lower upstream bandwidth. It might be best to just setup a transcoding system so recorded shows automatically get transcoded to a smaller xvid/divx file that you grab over scp/rsync. I actually did this for daily show for nights that I couldn't watch it. It'd reencode at lower resolution and upload to my other machine, constantly keeping the last 5 days worth. ___ John Prefer not to receive HTML mail? Click here. On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Milos Prudek wrote: - run MythTV on a PC without a monitor - capture the video signal and stream it into the Internet. You can do that, but MythTV has no security. Anyone will be able to login (because there is no login) and watch and delete music and launch DoS. You could augment Myth security through firewall that would limit access to a certain IP. - use another machine as a client to watch the stream. The stream is pretty data intensive. 10 MBit is a must. -- Milos Prudek http://www.spoxdesign.com - your web usability testing ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ 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] Connecting to DirecTV Reciever
On 7/15/05, Eric Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ordered DirectTV because I heard you could connect to it via serial to change channels instead of using an IR blaster. When I got my reciever though it has a odd looking phone jack that says Low speed data. It looks taller then the standard phone jack, so I'm assuming that it is for a COM type interface. Any ideas how I connect my MythTV box to this? I haven't found a guide that talks about this part of the setup, soon as MythTV is up and running the guides end. Google is your friend: http://www.dtvcontrol.com/index.aspx?content=cable ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Reliability problems when switching to view live tv
I recently set up my first MythTV system (Linux-2.6.13-rc3, x86-64, FusionHDTV card, Linux DVB interface, NVidia FX5200). When it works, it works great.. very impressive feature set. But, I have probably a 20% success rate in actually viewing live TV. Most of the time, I only get a blank screen and have to kill mythfrontend to get out of it. I restart the frontend and backend processes, and try it a few more times, eventually I will get lucky and I will get the live TV stream. When that happens, it usually works fine from then on, until I exit live viewing and try to go back again.. I think the card is providing data, as the ringbuffer file is growing, and I can even view the video in it with vlc or mplayer. Is this typical of other HDTV implementations?From what I hear, the DVB drivers for ATSC/QAM are relatively new, could it be related to the driver status (although, if that were the case, why would the backend still be getting data)? Any pointers are greatly appreciated. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] How do I tune in channels
I have managed to get sound in xawtv, but not yet in MythTV (but I'm working on this). The main issue that I have now is that I only have one channel available in MythTV - how on earth to I set up the other channels? Do I need to know frequencies and manually enter them somewhere? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] De-interlacing on a non-interlaced display
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 18:07 -0400, Ian Trider wrote: Bob still does it to me. I've been told that turning on opengl-vsync will fix it, but I still get it. It makes the OSD jittery, like it's bouncing up and down 1 pixel incredibly fast. I think (I don't remember because it never worked so I don't use it) that it did it to the broadcast as well, ALTHOUGH it did really smooth the broadcast itself out... especially the examples of the scrolling news ticker and the simpsons (and other animated shows). Hence why is is called a bob deinterlace. :P Try kerneldeint -- much more processor intensive but it'll look great. Or try bob, but with a slight speed adjustment (M key then left/right arrows during playback). I see the bouncing at standard speed playback, but at x1.05 or x0.95, the bouncing is gone. This is with myth from a few weeks back, on an NVidia GeForce2 MX, using the binary NVidia driver 1.0.7667. I haven't made time to look for the cause, as I can watch playback at x1.1 or x1.2 for most programmes fairly easily. Mark -- Mark Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Connecting to DirecTV Reciever
Let me just add that this works GREAT. It's precisely how I've got my box hooked up and it works like a champ. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Phil Bridges Sent: Fri 7/15/2005 5:55 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Cc: Subject:Re: [mythtv-users] Connecting to DirecTV Reciever On 7/15/05, Eric Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ordered DirectTV because I heard you could connect to it via serial to change channels instead of using an IR blaster. When I got my reciever though it has a odd looking phone jack that says Low speed data. It looks taller then the standard phone jack, so I'm assuming that it is for a COM type interface. Any ideas how I connect my MythTV box to this? I haven't found a guide that talks about this part of the setup, soon as MythTV is up and running the guides end. Google is your friend: http://www.dtvcontrol.com/index.aspx?content=cable ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Linux Compatable USB dongles
Hey folks, I'm looking to buy a little USB irda. I had one at one point, but it was not operable with linux (i think it was a cisco chipset). Does anyone know of some irds usb dongles that work well. Even if i only know what chipsets work, i should have plenty of choices. Thanks all. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] No output from IRW
I have a Universal Remote Control MX-500 and am trying to get it to work with an Irman. I hooked it up to a Windows box and get output just fine, so the irman does support the signal from my remote. When I run lircd and then irw or irrecord I don't get any output though. No errors, but also no output. I only have one serial device and I made sure lircd was using the right one. I tried loading lircd with parameters --driver=irman --device=/dev/ttyS0, but then as soon as I run irw it closes and lircd is no longer running. I am pretty clueless when it comes to this stuff, does anybody have any ideas? Eric ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: HDTV sound okay, but no video
Further to my previous emails, mythfrontend -v playback log.txt shows a whole bunch of these lines: X Error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) 11 On 7/16/05, Sammo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I just realised it may have something to do with DRI or Direct Rendering. The description of the problem in my previous email happens when DRI is enabled, Option no_dri no. When DRI is disabled, no_dri yes, SD channels are also fine, except XFree86 uses around 15%cpu (compared to 2.5%cpu with DRI). For HD channels, the video can be seen, although it's very jumpy, probably because XFree86 also takes up a lot of %cpu (close to 99%). Audio is jumpy as well. Seems that disabling DRI gives images on the screen, but makes the computer too slow to decode all the frames and audio. So, it appears that it may have something to do with DRI, and at this point I don't know enough about how mythtv works to do any more troubleshooting. Please, if anyone has any suggestions on what I could look for, I would be very happy! On 7/15/05, Sammo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Athlon XP 2500+, ATI Radeon 9550, Twinhan Visionplus DVB-T Linux 2.6.12.2 XFree86 4.3 ATI fglrx-4-3-0_8.14.13-2_i386 driver with fglrx kernel module compiled and installed Mythtv 18.1 compiled for athlon-xp SD channels work fine, with around 18%cpu for mythfrontend and 2.5%cpu for XFree86 HD channels have perfect audio, but NO VIDEO!! 48%cpu for mythfrontend and 0.5%cpu for XFree86. If I change from a SD channel to a HD channel, the last frame of the SD channel remains on the screen. When I change back to a SD channel from a HD channel, the SD channel is fine again. Tried turning off de-interlacing, and tried using libmpeg2 for decoding, but same problem. Any ideas appreciated. Thanks ... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Reliability problems when switching to view live tv
Todd Ignasiak wrote: I recently set up my first MythTV system (Linux-2.6.13-rc3, x86-64, FusionHDTV card, Linux DVB interface, NVidia FX5200). When it works, it works great.. very impressive feature set. But, I have probably a 20% success rate in actually viewing live TV. Most of the time, I only get a blank screen and have to kill mythfrontend to get out of it. I restart the frontend and backend processes, and try it a few more times, eventually I will get lucky and I will get the live TV stream. When that happens, it usually works fine from then on, until I exit live viewing and try to go back again.. I think the card is providing data, as the ringbuffer file is growing, and I can even view the video in it with vlc or mplayer. Is this typical of other HDTV implementations?From what I hear, the DVB drivers for ATSC/QAM are relatively new, could it be related to the driver status (although, if that were the case, why would the backend still be getting data)? Any pointers are greatly appreciated. My limited experience is that the picture comes up every time, but, there is a delay while it locks in to the station. The only real problem I have is that sometimes there is no sound until I switch tracks (numpad +/-). A few other people in Australia have mentioned similar issues, and I think it's to do with the AC-3 sound. I haven't tried the very latest drivers from linuxtv.org. I tend to wait until they come out in an rpm. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How do I tune in channels
Jamie Dobbs wrote: I have managed to get sound in xawtv, but not yet in MythTV (but I'm working on this). The main issue that I have now is that I only have one channel available in MythTV - how on earth to I set up the other channels? Do I need to know frequencies and manually enter them somewhere? Channel setup is done by running mythtv-setup. It's the last config item in there. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
