Re: [mythtv-users] Trouble Playing Ripped DVDs
When you say movie setup page, are you referring to the Default Player field arrived at by traversing through Videos Settings-Player Settings? I can change this to ogle (or xine), but the result is still the same for me. I'm going thru the following menu sequence to try and play the movie: Media Library-Watch Videos Now I see my movies (I have it in list view). I was expecting I could highlight my movie and then hit enter to fire up the player (be it ogle, xine, mplayer, etc), but nothing happens. I have to then traverse the VIDEO_TS dir and can only get the player to start if I select a specific VOB. This doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Is there another myth module I should be using for this? Thanks, Michael --- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VIDEO_TS is not a file it is a directory. in the movie stup page put in your own customised player command, you can use ogle or any damn thing you want. I believe that mplayer (the default movie player) does not have menu support for dvd's yet (or if it does I haven't found it to be intuitive to find/use) Personally I find xine to be good for whole dvd's, including the menu experience :) On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 22:01:58 -0700 (PDT) Michael Privett wrote: I'm new to mythtv, and I seem to be missing a step when it comes to playing ripped DVDs. I have ripped several DVDS to my HDD (each with its corresponding VIDEO_TS dir and files, ifo, vob, etc). Under Media Settings-Video Settings-General Settings, I've pointed myth to my DVDs. When I go to watch videos, I'm only able to select single VOB files, when I'd like to do the equivalent of ogle -u cli /public/DVDs/TopGun/VIDEO_TS. How can I setup myth so I can simply select the VIDEO_TS file to start the DVD? Is there another method that people use to play their ripped DVDs? On another note, is there a way I can jump to the program guide with a single keypress? Sorry for posting such a basic questions, but I haven't been able to locate the info I've been looking for. Thanks, Michael __ 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 -- Nick Rout Barrister Solicitor Christchurch Contact details at http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Trouble Playing Ripped DVDs
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 23:10 -0700, Michael Privett wrote: When you say movie setup page, are you referring to the Default Player field arrived at by traversing through Videos Settings-Player Settings? I can change this to ogle (or xine), but the result is still the same for me. I'm going thru the following menu sequence to try and play the movie: Media Library-Watch Videos Now I see my movies (I have it in list view). I was expecting I could highlight my movie and then hit enter to fire up the player (be it ogle, xine, mplayer, etc), but nothing happens. I have to then traverse the VIDEO_TS dir and can only get the player to start if I select a specific VOB. This doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Is there another myth module I should be using for this? OK yes of course I see what you mean. A DVD consists of a number of directories and files. If you rip it intact (as the directories and files) you get a tree structure same as on the original DVD. The problem here is that mythvideo flattens all the directories inside its base directory, so it looks like you have a whole swag of VOB and BUF etc files. It is a bit annoying. However a recent thread alerted me to the fact that you can make an iso of the DVD and then use xine to play the iso. This would mean you are dealing with one file only. Thats what i recommend doing. Thanks, Michael --- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VIDEO_TS is not a file it is a directory. in the movie stup page put in your own customised player command, you can use ogle or any damn thing you want. I believe that mplayer (the default movie player) does not have menu support for dvd's yet (or if it does I haven't found it to be intuitive to find/use) Personally I find xine to be good for whole dvd's, including the menu experience :) On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 22:01:58 -0700 (PDT) Michael Privett wrote: I'm new to mythtv, and I seem to be missing a step when it comes to playing ripped DVDs. I have ripped several DVDS to my HDD (each with its corresponding VIDEO_TS dir and files, ifo, vob, etc). Under Media Settings-Video Settings-General Settings, I've pointed myth to my DVDs. When I go to watch videos, I'm only able to select single VOB files, when I'd like to do the equivalent of ogle -u cli /public/DVDs/TopGun/VIDEO_TS. How can I setup myth so I can simply select the VIDEO_TS file to start the DVD? Is there another method that people use to play their ripped DVDs? On another note, is there a way I can jump to the program guide with a single keypress? Sorry for posting such a basic questions, but I haven't been able to locate the info I've been looking for. Thanks, Michael __ 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 -- Nick Rout Barrister Solicitor Christchurch Contact details at http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au script from this list. Anyone else hadproblems today?
Brad wrote: Is the ninmsn grabber better than the d1.com.au ? If so do you know where I could download it from. Also a clue on how to install if time permits. Thanks Brad I'd be interested to know this as well. It would be good to know of alternatives, just in case one supply dries up. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au script from this list. Anyone else hadproblems today?
On 7/26/05, ffrr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brad wrote: Is the ninmsn grabber better than the d1.com.au ? If so do you know where I could download it from. Also a clue on how to install if time permits. I'd be interested to know this as well. It would be good to know of alternatives, just in case one supply dries up. I've been using the following one (Melbourne) for about 6 months now and have never had a single problem with it. I'm only use it for over the air DVB channels. Caveat emptor. http://users.on.net/~manser/dvb/tv_grab_au ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Can't connect to database
I have got stuck with the database connection. When I run 'mythtvsetup' it can't connect. I think that I have corrupted something while following the setup instructions. I have spent hours going off at a tangent into the Mysql manual to try and check if the password is OK. I am slightly wiser now than several days ago but still not smart enough to get this problem resolved. If this was 'w*s'I would remove and then reinstall the Mysql application to start over. I have not found out how to do this with Fedora. Can anyone suggest what would be the easiest way to solve this problem? -- ___ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au script from this list. Anyone else hadproblems today?
Is the ninmsn grabber better than the d1.com.au ? If so do you know where I could download it from. Also a clue on how to install if time permits. Yes, it is better because the information is (or was at one time anyway) more comprehensive on the NineMSN one. It also had some more friendly config options in the perl script itself. Best place to download it from is the gossamer archives. If you can't get one let me know and I'll send you mine. Another alternative is to access the data from OzTiVo. I think I have a perl script at home which I downloaded and configured from their web site which extracts the data from their program database. The plus sides of this are that this is sanctioned and the data is not copyrighted as it's re-entered from the public domain (as I understand it). The downside is that the data's not quite as good as NineMSN, but a lot of work seems to be being done to improve it; also, when I tried using it, I found I wasn't able to get 7 full days in advance which is the main reason I went back to NineMSN, but I keep the script in case I need it as a backup solution. Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to set ALSA parameters
In MythTV, I have the following settings configured in Utilities/ Setup - Setup - General: Audio output device: ALSA:default Mixer Device: /dev/mixer Mixer Controls: Master I think your mixer Device should be set to: default ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DVB-T not working on FC4, x86_64
On 25/07/05, ffrr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Watkins wrote: I solved the problem. For some reason, mythtvsetup wasn't storing the starting channel into the database. I filled it in manually and was able to watch TV! :) good to see you solved the problem. I also had the problem that mythtvsetup wasn't storing the starting channel. When I looked at the database (using phpmyadmin) I saw there were two fields, I forget the names exactly but I think one was 'channel start', and one was called 'tuner start' ( or something like that). I had to set the 'tuner start' field, to get it to work. ___ Yes, good to see it solved. Just wondering what version of Myth. Mine was happy with the start channel I put in using mythtv-setup. - version 0.18.1 here. I'm running 0.18.1 too. Initially, start channel was 3, which was fine until I renumbered all the channels (to get rid of some I didn't want to see and re-order the rest) starting from 1000. mythtvsetup wouldn't let me change the start channel from 3. Well I could enter the change but it wouldn't stick. Looking in the database, there are two fields in the cardinput table: tunechan and startchan. Manually changing startchan to 1000 also wouldn't stick, but setting tunechan to 1000 did the trick (actually I set them both). I must admit I don't really understand what I was doing, but I was happy to get it working and maybe this would help someone else. Regards, D ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
AW: [mythtv-users] Can't connect to database
Are you sure, your mysql service is running ? Can you connect to the databsae on the command prompt ? Open a shell and type in mysql -u root mythconverg. After that type in show tables; If you see the list of tables, the database seems to be present. If you want to reinstall the database do the following steps : Open a shell and type in mysql -u root. Then enter drop database mythconverg; (This will delete your current mythtv-database). After that exit mysql. Now type in mysql -u root /path_to_the_file/mc.sql (will create a new empty database) if you need more help, give me more details. Regards Fritz -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von Kris Clark Gesendet: Dienstag, 26. Juli 2005 09:23 An: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Betreff: [mythtv-users] Can't connect to database I have got stuck with the database connection. When I run 'mythtvsetup' it can't connect. I think that I have corrupted something while following the setup instructions. I have spent hours going off at a tangent into the Mysql manual to try and check if the password is OK. I am slightly wiser now than several days ago but still not smart enough to get this problem resolved. If this was 'w*s'I would remove and then reinstall the Mysql application to start over. I have not found out how to do this with Fedora. Can anyone suggest what would be the easiest way to solve this problem? -- ___ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Nuv file screen size
On 7/26/05, Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I view a recorded show I have to change view to zoom 16:9. This way it fills the whole TV screen without stretching or distortion. When I transfer this .nuv file onto my windows box and burn to DVD the picture has a black border around it , making the movie/show too small to see properly. It is being recorded with a visionplus DVB-T card (PAL standard-Australia). The resoloution of the file seems to be 720xsomething. Should I be changing something so that it is recorded in an easier to view format for PAL. Maybe this cannot be changed ? I first problem (display not defaulting to the correct aspect ratio) is probably because you need to add some DisplaySize settings to your Xorg / Xfree86 config file to let Myth know that your display is 16:9 / 4:3. Search the archives for more details, it's been covered many times. Sorry but I can't help with the second problem, i've never tried writing DVB-T recordings to a DVD (yet). It's probably worth noting that the DVB-T transmission has a resolution that's perfectly suited for display on a PAL TV (at least it is here in the UK, I can't believe it would be different in Aus or set-top-boxes would have to scale the image before displaying it), so that's unlikely to be the source of the problem. Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: apt-get on FC3 still broken?
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 05:50:20PM -0400, Evil Barney wrote: I tried this with a fresh load of FC3. First thing I did was install apt-get (rpm -Uvh http://atrpms.net/dist/fc3/atrpms-kickstart/atrpms-kickstart-27-1.rhfc3.at.i386.rpm) then, I did apt-get update then I did: apt-get install rpm librpm4.4 apt atrpms-package-config fedora-release beecrypt At that point I get this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# apt-get install rpm librpm4.4 apt atrpms-package-config fedora-release beecrypt Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: rpm: Depends: libselinux (= 1.23.2) but 1.19.1-8 is to be installed E: Broken packages I stop here and don't attempt the distro upgrade. any thoughts? Add libselinux to the above command line. Wow, apt seems to be quite confused by the depth of package dependencies. I still wonder why apt-get dist-upgrade does not work. Time to find a smart or yum solution. Perhaps adding [atrpms] name=Fedora Core 3 - i386 - ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc3-i386/atrpms/stable to /etc/yum.conf and having a yum install apt is faster ... -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net pgpTh7lsfeKEa.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mplayer still not in focus
I certainly would have thought that most WM's are lighter than two X sessions, but I may be wrong on that. Of course you are absolutely correct. Now I will have to figure out how to completely disable all aspects of a completely new window manager :) Just for the record, I wanted to do the same thing... no WM at all. I still use my script which fires up a bare X (no xmd/gdm/kdm), and runs just what I want. I have chosen 'ratpoison' as my WM of choice. Perfect for a PVR... no decorations/titlebars, etc. Everything is full-screen, and you can pull up a terminal with a keystroke that mimics the 'screen' terminal program. -Cory -- * * Cory Papenfuss* * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * * ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: apt-get on FC3 still broken?
I'm coming in late to this thread, but this weekend I installed FC3 (several times in fact) without trouble. I let up2date upgrade the distribtion and just used apt-get to install the mythtv-suite. The backend I left at 2.6.9 since the upgrade to 2.6.12 didn't seem to include the source I needed to compile ivtv. The frontend I let up2date upgrade to 2.6.12 and it's running smoothly. - Todd Quoting Evil Barney [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I tried this with a fresh load of FC3. First thing I did was install apt-get (rpm -Uvh http://atrpms.net/dist/fc3/atrpms-kickstart/atrpms-kickstart-27-1.rhfc3.at.i386.rpm) then, I did apt-get update then I did: apt-get install rpm librpm4.4 apt atrpms-package-config fedora-release beecrypt At that point I get this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# apt-get install rpm librpm4.4 apt atrpms-package-config fedora-release beecrypt Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: rpm: Depends: libselinux (= 1.23.2) but 1.19.1-8 is to be installed E: Broken packages I stop here and don't attempt the distro upgrade. any thoughts? ___ 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] Trouble Playing Ripped DVDs
On Jul 26, 2005, at 1:02 AM, Nick Rout wrote: However a recent thread alerted me to the fact that you can make an iso of the DVD and then use xine to play the iso. This would mean you are dealing with one file only. Thats what i recommend doing. And to make that easier, an ISO Image rip option has recently been added to mythdvd. It was committed to svn last week. So if you don't mind running the latest development you wouldn't even have to go outside Myth to generate the iso. - David Sims ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Pixelated Pixmaps??
Hi Guys, The pixmaps that I see in mythweb and in the frontend (I don't show live previews), are very heavily pixelated, such that they're not really identifiable. Anyone else seeing this? I'm recording using 2 DVB-T cards, I have a pretty much zero b.e.r., but also quite a low signal strength (around 0x40). I'll put examples up somewhere if anyone is interested. thanks Neale. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] dvb cards with dab and analogue for europe (PAL)
Hi, Looking into more aspects of htpc's I'm wondering what sort of dvb/dab hardware would be the best here. As far as I know there is still no DVB available in Norway, but DAB radio is now pretty widespread and there are plans to begin broadcasting DVB-T commercially from next year. I've looked at the pcHDTV website and it looks as if the analoge tuners of their cards are NTSC only. This explains why I haven't seen them for sale here. What are the best supported alternatives so far offering dvb-t and dab support? Cheers Marius Registered Linux user ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mplayer still not in focus
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 05:58 am, Cory Papenfuss spammed: I have chosen 'ratpoison' as my WM of choice. Perfect for a PVR... no decorations/titlebars, etc. Everything is full-screen, and you can pull up a terminal with a keystroke that mimics the 'screen' terminal program. Cory, do you have to tweak any rc files or with ratpoison? I spent a couple of hours last night attempting to tweak .twmrc and .fvwmrc to get twm or fvwm2 working. Both times there was one or two problems that I could not get around. For example, with twm, attempting to schedule a recording by using the program schedule would bring the program schedule up in the background. pgp2b0mA1stGM.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] myth with lirc support
Now I'm looking for the list of key binding so I can fine tune my remote. Not sure if you mean the keys.txt file, but if you do, mine's in /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1 This file tells you which keys are bound to which MythTV commands. Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 no audio on tuner 0
Try setting audio input 0. I seem to remember having that problem with my 500. But that was before I upgraded to 0.3.7a. Now everything works fine without my hack. I think input 0 is the tuner input and 1 is some weird undocumented line input to the encoder. Also, this might sound like a stupid question, but I have to ask - have you tried verifying that your sound card works with some other app like xmms or mplayer? Are you using arts (I think it's only kde)? If so, you might want to disable that for testing. Arts has been responsible for taking over my sound card for (seemingly) no good reason in the past. good luck. -Pete On 7/25/05, Edward Rosinzonsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm starting to tear my hair out. I've tried patching ivtv-fileops.c, i've tried ivtvctl -d /dev/video0 -q 1. The latter resulted in the following error: ioctl VIDIOC_S_AUDIO failed: Invalid argument. I've tried this with ivtv 0.3.6w and 0.3.7a. Still no audio on video0. Any suggestions anyone? ___ 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] dvb cards with dab and analogue for europe (PAL)
Looking into more aspects of htpc's I'm wondering what sort of dvb/dab hardware would be the best here. As far as I know there is still no DVB available in Norway, but DAB radio is now pretty widespread and there are plans to begin broadcasting DVB-T commercially from next year. I've looked at the pcHDTV website and it looks as if the analoge tuners of their cards are NTSC only. This explains why I haven't seen them for sale here. What are the best supported alternatives so far offering dvb-t and dab support? Your question is very confusing. Do you want to know which cards support PAL analogue? Or do you want to know which cards would be good for PAL DVB? If it's analogue I think you'll find most of the analgue cards support NTSC as well as PAL. It's just a matter of configuring them. Have a look at the gossamer-thread archives and you'll find heaps of info on analogue cards. Or http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/tiki-page.php?pageName=pvrhw_tuners Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] USB Soundcard with SPIDF digital pass through?
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 14:43 +0100, Scott White wrote: Does anybody know of a USB soundcard for Linux that will allow one to watch movies with Dolby Digital passed digitally to a surround sound amplifier? (Happy to jump through any hoops). I believe they call this digital pass through I like the Xitel Pro HiFi Link: http://www.xitel.com/product_phfl.htm I had it working with Gentoo and FC3 at one point. Details here: http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=2640 hth, dan signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Force Xv output in mythfrontend?
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 10:38:01PM +0100, Stephen Tait wrote: I've just set up a new combined front/backend (gentoo, x86 on an AMD 3500 with an nVidia graphics card via display on a CRT monitor), but the frontend seems to default to OpenGL output for video, rather than use Xv as I'd prefer (TTBOMK OGL sync is best suited for TV output, which'll be for the next frontend I do). It seems to be causing problems in deinterlacing the DVB streams no matter what deint option I use. Is there any way to force mythfrontend to output in Xv? If I compile Xv and OpenGL aren't alternatives here. OpenGL is providing sync when outputting through Xv. You can turn that off and still use Xv. (There's an option to turn it off in the settings GUI in 0.18.1.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Transcode still broken in FC4?
I saw some time ago that transcode was fixed in the atrpm repository, and I have the latest rpms. I'm trying to make an excellent copy of a DVD, and have lots of free space. The DVD gets ripped, but during the transcoding the files just disappear. No file is written to the mythvideo directory, and the ripped file is deleted as well. I don't see anything in the mythbackend or mtd log. Making a perfect copy works fine. Is this a known problem, or am I special? And, what can I do to diagnose this? Thanks. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to set ALSA parameters
On 26/07/05, Sage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried that as well, and I'm still having the same problem. Any other suggestions? Not really - I had a fair amount of trouble with ALSA, but once I got aplay working then mythtv was a breeze, apart from a bit of unscientific fiddling with the mixer to work out which sliders to enable. If I was in your situation I'd be looking at permissions on the devices (are you runing aplay as the same user as mythfrontend?), but I'd only be guessing. Maybe someone else can help you.. Good Luck On Jul 26, 2005, at 2:43 AM, David Watkins wrote: In MythTV, I have the following settings configured in Utilities/ Setup - Setup - General: Audio output device: ALSA:default Mixer Device: /dev/mixer Mixer Controls: Master I think your mixer Device should be set to: default ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mplayer still not in focus
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Mike Green wrote: On Tuesday 26 July 2005 05:58 am, Cory Papenfuss spammed: I have chosen 'ratpoison' as my WM of choice. Perfect for a PVR... no decorations/titlebars, etc. Everything is full-screen, and you can pull up a terminal with a keystroke that mimics the 'screen' terminal program. Cory, do you have to tweak any rc files or with ratpoison? I spent a couple of hours last night attempting to tweak .twmrc and .fvwmrc to get twm or fvwm2 working. Both times there was one or two problems that I could not get around. For example, with twm, attempting to schedule a recording by using the program schedule would bring the program schedule up in the background. The only ratpoison setting I tried to mess with was to fix the overscan my tvout stuff does. With ratpoison, whatever window is active, it is made fullscreen. I also believe that if a new window is drawn, it becomes active and is thus fullscreen. Toggling from one to the other requires a screen-like keystroke... 'Ctrl-t, 0' for the 0th window, etc. Pulling up an xterm is 'Ctrl-t, n' for a New window. Hope that helps all I can suggest is to give it a try. It's about as lightweight as a window manager can be. -Cory -- * * Cory Papenfuss* * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * * ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] USB Soundcard with SPIDF digital pass through?
That is tremendous news, after trying this without any luck for more than 6 months I'm delighted to here it can be done. I am just re-staging the frontend with Fedora to see if I can achieve the same results. Could you tell me what sort of source material you are playing through MythVideo. Is it a rip'd DVD or DIVX or something? I had been concentrating on trying to get results with something like Xine or Mplayer from a DVD, but I'm more than happy to go via MythVideo. Will let you know how it goes Scott On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 22:50 +0100, Martin Ebourne wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:43:05 +0100, Scott White wrote: Does anybody know of a USB soundcard for Linux that will allow one to watch movies with Dolby Digital passed digitally to a surround sound amplifier? (Happy to jump through any hoops). I believe they call this digital pass through I have one of these: Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit External Sound Card This is the exact one, here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009AHV8U/ref=pd_sr_ec_ir_ce/202-9112771-6976659 It's a USB sound card with a free remote control (quite nice and very small, shirt pocket sized - I use it with a serial receiver). I have it plugged into a Cyrus AV8 via the optical out. It works perfectly, out of the box with no effort as well. I get stereo and Dolby Digital through it from MythTV and stereo from mpd. I've even modified MythTV to pass DTS through it, a patch I'll tidy up and submit next month. My system is FC3, myth 18.1, and I set the audio output device to 'ALSA:hw:1'. Also tick the box for AC3 output. No .asoundrc file (or whatever it's called) needed. I use the 'Internal' player for mythvideo. Cheers, Martin. ___ 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: can't change channels on PVR-350
here is the output: #ivtvctl -a -d /dev/video1 ioctl: IVTV_IOC_G_CODEC Codec parameters aspect : 2 audio : 0x00e9 bframes : 3 bitrate_mode: 0 bitrate : 800 bitrate_peak: 960 dnr_mode: 0 dnr_spatial : 0 dnr_temporal: 0 dnr_type: 0 framerate : 0 framespergop: 15 gop_closure : 1 pulldown: 0 stream_type : 0 ioctl: VIDIOC_G_FMT Type : Video Capture Width : 720 Height : 480 ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYCAP Driver name : ivtv Card type : Vanilla iTVC15 card Bus info : 0 Driver version: 512 Capabilities : 0x01070033 ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMINPUT Input : 0 Name: Composite 0 Type: 0x0002 Audioset: 0x0003 Tuner : 0x Standard: 0x007F3FFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM ) Status : 0 Input : 1 Name: Composite 1 Type: 0x0002 Audioset: 0x0003 Tuner : 0x Standard: 0x007F3FFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM ) Status : 0 Input : 2 Name: Composite 2 Type: 0x0002 Audioset: 0x0003 Tuner : 0x Standard: 0x007F3FFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM ) Status : 0 Input : 3 Name: Composite 3 Type: 0x0002 Audioset: 0x0003 Tuner : 0x Standard: 0x007F3FFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM ) Status : 0 Input : 4 Name: Tuner 0 Type: 0x0001 Audioset: 0x0003 Tuner : 0x Standard: 0x3000 ( NTSC ) Status : 0 Input : 5 Name: Composite 4 Type: 0x0002 Audioset: 0x0003 Tuner : 0x Standard: 0x007F3FFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM ) Status : 0 Input : 6 Name: S-Video 0 Type: 0x0002 Audioset: 0x0003 Tuner : 0x Standard: 0x007F3FFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM ) Status : 0 Input : 7 Name: S-Video 1 Type: 0x0002 Audioset: 0x0003 Tuner : 0x Standard: 0x007F3FFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM ) Status : 0 Input : 8 Name: S-Video 2 Type: 0x0002 Audioset: 0x0003 Tuner : 0x Standard: 0x007F3FFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM ) Status : 0 Input : 9 Name: S-Video 3 Type: 0x0002 Audioset: 0x0003 Tuner : 0x Standard: 0x007F3FFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM ) Status : 0 ioctl: VIDIOC_G_INPUT Input = 4 ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMOUTPUT Output : 0 Name: S-Video + Composite Type: 0x0002 Audioset: 0x0001 Standard: 0x007F3FFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM ) Output : 1 Name: Composite Type: 0x0002 Audioset: 0x0001 Standard: 0x007F3FFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM ) Output : 2 Name: S-Video Type: 0x0002 Audioset: 0x0001 Standard: 0x007F3FFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM ) Output : 3 Name: RGB Type: 0x0002 Audioset: 0x0001 Standard: 0x007F3FFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM ) Output : 4 Name: YUV C Type: 0x0002 Audioset: 0x0001 Standard: 0x007F3FFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM ) Output : 5 Name: YUV V Type: 0x0002 Audioset: 0x0001 Standard: 0x007F3FFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM ) ioctl: VIDIOC_G_OUTPUT Output = 0 ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMAUDIO Input : 0 Name: Tuner Audio In Input : 1 Name: Audio Line In ioctl: VIDIOC_G_AUDIO Input = 0: Tuner Audio In ioctl: VIDIOC_G_FREQUENCY Frequency = 0 ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMSTD index : 0 ID : 0x3000 Name: NTSC Frame period: 1001/3 Frame lines : 525 index : 1 ID : 0x00FF Name: PAL Frame period: 1/25 Frame lines : 625 index : 2 ID : 0x007F Name: SECAM Frame period: 1/25 Frame lines : 625 ioctl: VIDIOC_G_STD Standard = 0x3000 ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL Brightness = 128 Contrast = 64 Saturation = 64 Hue = 0 Volume = 58880 Mute = 0 all the video outputs look fine. i tried switching the input to tuner: #ivtvctl -d /dev/video1 -p=4 ioctl: VIDIOC_S_INPUT Input set to 0 which looks to me like it's leaving the input at Composite 0 a modification, now that i look at it. when i first load the ivtv module, ivtvctl -P -d /dev/video1 says that the tuner input (4) is
[mythtv-users] [OT] directory structure for myth backend / storage server
Hi, I'm putting together a storage server for my house. I'd like to integrate it with the mythbackend, since that seems logical. I would like some advice on how to logically set up the directory structures. I'm not too familiar with the Linux standard directories (like /usr and /etc) and so am a little confused where to put things. My main idea is to use most of the disk space as an XFS LVM and mount that somewhere. This partition would hold myth recordings, mp3s, digital photos, and any other type of storage I can think of. Would it be logical to place this under the /usr/share directory, like /usr/share/media or something? Thanks, Micah ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] directory structure for myth backend / storage server
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm putting together a storage server for my house. I'd like to integrate it with the mythbackend, since that seems logical. I would like some advice on how to logically set up the directory structures. I'm not too familiar with the Linux standard directories (like /usr and /etc) and so am a little confused where to put things. My main idea is to use most of the disk space as an XFS LVM and mount that somewhere. This partition would hold myth recordings, mp3s, digital photos, and any other type of storage I can think of. Would it be logical to place this under the /usr/share directory, like /usr/share/media or something? I have a separate disk for content. I called it... uh content (original, huh?) It's accessible from /. I placed mythtv recordings at: /content/video/mythtv I placed transcoded files at: /content/video/transcode Audio at: /content/audio ... I'm sure you get the picture. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] directory structure for myth backend / storage server
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm putting together a storage server for my house. I'd like to integrate it with the mythbackend, since that seems logical. I would like some advice on how to logically set up the directory structures. I'm not too familiar with the Linux standard directories (like /usr and /etc) and so am a little confused where to put things. My main idea is to use most of the disk space as an XFS LVM and mount that somewhere. This partition would hold myth recordings, mp3s, digital photos, and any other type of storage I can think of. Would it be logical to place this under the /usr/share directory, like /usr/share/media or something? Thanks, Micah You can name the mount point anything you want. I use /store and then have directories under that called /store/record , /store/music , /store/video , etc. Basically just [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# mkdir /store [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# mount /dev/mapper/vg-myth /store then make all your directories, this assumes you named your logical volume vg-myth Howard ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] BUG ? - displaying Polish national characters
Hi * I have strange problem with national characters in MythTV. Distro is KnoppMyth 5A16. When I fill database from XML file, some of Polish national characters are displayed not correctly. But what interesting - not everywhere ! For example: Going to media library-watch recordings: -I have properly displayed characters in list of recordings area (upper area of screen) -wrongly displayed on recording description (lower are of screen) Encoding is UTF-8, and I check XML file under mozilla - all national characters are OK in Mozilla. Where is problem ? -- 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] [OT] directory structure for myth backend / storage server
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm putting together a storage server for my house. I'd like to integrate it with the mythbackend, since that seems logical. I actually have my storage server separate so that I can use a mirrored RAID array for my storage server and not have to deal with the decreased write performance that it would bring to my mythbackend server. I would like some advice on how to logically set up the directory structures. I'm not too familiar with the Linux standard directories (like /usr and /etc) and so am a little confused where to put things. As others have mentioned, you can name this whatever you want. I think Myth defaults to /video. I have /mythtv for my myth tv files, and then I NFS mount my storage server onto /media for all of my other read-only files, (images, ogg, Xvid, etc.) Now I just need to get the stinkin mpeg2 - Xvid process working cleanly ... but that's another email chain. - -Bryan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFC5nzp5Cd6yomp7qYRAgLrAJ9A7ZOn8Xh32L/fGENGLbgtkMZ3jwCg6Sqm jDOFQmy9VoeQPk9MksQJ9Og= =Rejp -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] User Jobs setup
All I'm trying to setup some user jobs within Myth to automatically post-process a recording for playback on a PSP. However, I've had a look at the documentation and through the recent release notes and around the mythtv.info wiki without any luck. Does anyone know where I can find some information on this? Thanks in advance Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] EPIA M10k: TV picture adjustments - how ?
Hi * I have almost fully functional MythTV system (based on M10k PVR250) :-). MythTV is really incredible piece of software. BIG Thx for authors this beautiful piece of code :-o Now, I want to move system to living room for enjoying it with family. But I have small problem: when I connect system to my TV (via S-video) - I see correct picture on TV, but size brightness/contrast/saturation definitely needs some adjustments. For example: height/width of the picture does not take up the whole height/width of the TV - so on my 29' TV picture has size approx. 27' :-( Is there some way for adjusting this (like nvtv in nVidia world) ? Thx in advance ! -- cYa, 3.14iotr/2 Nie ma złych systemów operacyjnych. Może tylko brakować alkoholu !!! W takiej sytuacji dobry programista wiesza się wraz z programem ;-P Hiroshima'45; Czernobyl'86; Windows'95 Zwrotne bajty daj na [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] DViCO FusionHDTV DVB (ATSC/QAM) and MythTV
Some people were having trouble getting the FusionHDTV3 QAM cards working with MythTV. So, here is a short summary of how I got MythTV working with my FusionHDTV3 card. This process should be similar for other DVB cards. I am able to receive both Over-The-Air broadcasts (ATSC broadcasts using 8VSB) and clear channels on my Comcast cable system using QAM256. - Linux OS Install. I used Gentoo AMD64. (Basic OS install setup.. load standard packages + requirements for MythTV) - Xorg, KDE, MySQL, etc. - Update kernel to 2.6.13rc3-mm1, which includes FusionHDTV and general DVB updates. - Make sure to include modules for Video4Linux, DVB, Conexant 2388x (plus DVB), and lgdt3302 frontend - Rebuild NVidia drivers for new kernel - In Gentoo's /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, I load: cx88-blackbird dvb-core lgdt3302 cx88_dvb - use dvb-apps to confirm that card is recognized and functional. Check the docs in the dvb-apps package for details and channel config files. I am using the QAM/Cable channel frequency configs here. - azap -r C79 -c QAM_Channels.conf - this should output lines showing FE_HAS_LOCK, like the following: status 1f | signal ffa2 | snr | ber | unc | FE_HAS_LOCK - Leave azap running, and in another terminal run dvbtraffic, it should show information about the PIDs seen in the transport stream on that channel. --- Once you've confirmed that the card is functioning correctly, go on to the MythTV setup. - Install MySQL, set to run on system startup, set root password - Follow mysql setup: http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv- HOWTO-6.html ( Install MySQL, start server, set admin account and define password, input the MythTV schema with mc.sql, set basic access privilegs so MythTV can talk to database) - Setting root password is not covered in the MythTV document, MySQl docs cover this: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/default- privileges.html - Install MythTV. Most Linux distro's will have a recent version available via their package manager. Depending on the build options used to create the available package, it may or may not have all the necessary options (DVB support is needed, XvMC support is useful, etc.). - I used subversion (svn) to grab the latest development snapshot ( see http://cvs.mythtv.org/ ), or grab a tar file of the source for the current stable version from mythtv.org - Use 'configure' to set up mythtv with needed options ( --enable- dvb --enable-xvmc --enable-lirc --enable-proc-opt --enable-opengl- vsync ) - make - make install Run mythtv-setup Basic Setup: - entered mysql user/passwd defined above - Backend setup, ATSC TV Format us-cable frequencies Capture Card Setup: Type: DVB (Should show card 0 as DViCO FusionHDTV 3 Gold-Q -- or similar) Video Sources: Name video source and input zap2it account information. Retrieve Lineups Input Connections: Select Video source defined above. Set Starting Channel to a known valid channel you receive. If MythTV starts up and cannot tune a channel, it doesn't react well. Scan for Channels. First, select an ATSC scan, to scan for OTA/8VSB channels (even if you're using QAM / Cable --- (Is this still necessary?)) Then, do a QAM scan, which should result in more channels found. If your cable company is broadcasting the PSIP channel data, the channels should be automatically detected. For channels without PSIP data, you will need to manually edit the channel data (in the mysql database) to enable those channels. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mplayer still not in focus
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 06:58:44AM -0400, Cory Papenfuss wrote: Of course you are absolutely correct. Now I will have to figure out how to completely disable all aspects of a completely new window manager :) The problem with MythTV and mplayer is probably with window managers that use the click to focus model by default. With MythTV and mplayer you definitely want to automatically focus on the top window. I have chosen 'ratpoison' as my WM of choice. Perfect for a PVR... no decorations/titlebars, etc. Everything is full-screen, and you can pull up a terminal with a keystroke that mimics the 'screen' terminal program. Ditto. I wouldn't use ratpoison on a desktop machine, but it's great for the XBOX. On my desktop I use KDE and run MythTV in a window. That way I can watch it PIP-style while doing other things. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] USB Soundcard with SPIDF digital pass through?
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:01:27 +0100, Scott White wrote: That is tremendous news, after trying this without any luck for more than 6 months I'm delighted to here it can be done. I am just re-staging the frontend with Fedora to see if I can achieve the same results. Could you tell me what sort of source material you are playing through MythVideo. Is it a rip'd DVD or DIVX or something? I had been concentrating on trying to get results with something like Xine or Mplayer from a DVD, but I'm more than happy to go via MythVideo. I use mythvideo primarily for two things - shows recorded by myth from a dvb card and moved out of watch recordings and perfect rips from my dvds. Both are mpeg2. I've also watched mpeg1 stuff through it ok. I've not tried anything more fancy since I haven't had cause. Cheers, Martin. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Possible to manually add QAM channel information?
I would like to get QAM working with MythTV. I am able to watch QAM HDTV from my cable provider using a combination of dvb-apps, dvbtraffic and mplayer but scanning for the channels using the latest MythTV cvs doesn't seem to work, i.e. it doesn't detect the channels on the first pass and gets stuck on subsequent scanning of existing transports. My understanding from the few scant threads I've been able to find on the subject seem to indicate that my cable provider is not transmitting certain information that Myth requires. I have tried calling them and speaking to the engineers but have not been able to make much headway through the red tape, though my limited knowledge on what exactly is missing probably doesn't help either. However, I was wondering, if I have collected all the relevant info from dvb-app such as Video PID, Audio PID, etc, would it be fairly straight forward to manually add that information directly into MySQL? I am certainly no expert with MySQL but I think I could figure out the relevant commands if someone could point me in the direction of the relevant table(s) that I would need to modify. But of course if someone knows the actual command that would be very much appreciated as well. Or is there perhaps an even easier way than modifying MySQL directly? Or should I not waste my time trying, i.e. a fix is imminent? Thank you for any help. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: [linux-dvb] DViCO FusionHDTV DVB (ATSC/QAM) and MythTV
On 7/26/05, Michael Krufky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to test out the new version of the driver without waiting for the new kernel, follow instructions for using the merge scripts located at: http://linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/How_to_build_from_CVS Thanks for the pointer. I will try this out after I attempt the next challenge -- getting my pchdtv.com HD3000 card working in the same system. Then, do a QAM scan, which should result in more channels found. If your cable company is broadcasting the PSIP channel data, the channels should be automatically detected. For channels without PSIP data, you will need to manually edit the channel data (in the mysql database) to enable those channels. How can we tell mythtv whether to scan using VSB or QAM ??? Is this one of the newer features found in the new subversion release of mythtv? I cannot find a method for this in my gentoo version of mythtv. It is one of the options on the Channel Scan page.I don't have access to that system right now, but I believe there is a pull-down menu for selecting ATSC or QAM256 scan types in the channel scan page. This was in all the versions I have tried. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Possible to manually add QAM channel information?
bmerrill Merrill wrote: I would like to get QAM working with MythTV. I am able to watch QAM HDTV from my cable provider using a combination of dvb-apps, dvbtraffic and mplayer but scanning for the channels using the latest MythTV cvs doesn't seem to work, i.e. it doesn't detect the channels on the first pass and gets stuck on subsequent scanning of existing transports. My understanding from the few scant threads I've been able to find on the subject seem to indicate that my cable provider is not transmitting certain information that Myth requires. I have tried calling them and speaking to the engineers but have not been able to make much headway through the red tape, though my limited knowledge on what exactly is missing probably doesn't help either. However, I was wondering, if I have collected all the relevant info from dvb-app such as Video PID, Audio PID, etc, would it be fairly straight forward to manually add that information directly into MySQL? I am certainly no expert with MySQL but I think I could figure out the relevant commands if someone could point me in the direction of the relevant table(s) that I would need to modify. But of course if someone knows the actual command that would be very much appreciated as well. Or is there perhaps an even easier way than modifying MySQL directly? Or should I not waste my time trying, i.e. a fix is imminent? You can do this by modifying one of the tables in mysql. Take a look at http://www.pchdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=882 for an idea of what you'll need to do. You will need to know a bit about mysql commands. Here's a rundown of what you'll need to do: $ mysql -u mythtv -p mythtv (login to mysql) mysql use mythconverg; (all myth data is in the mythconverg database - do this before any of the following commands) mysql describe channel; (displays the structure of the channel table - this is the one you need to modify) mysql describe dtv_multiplex; (you'll need some data from this table as well) mysql select mplexid,frequency from dtv_multiplex; (you might just want to cut paste this into a file and/or print it out so you can refer back to it) mysql select chanid,channum,freqid,mplexid,serviceid from channel; (shows all the necessary fields you'll care about in the channel table) The above commands, along with what's posted at that pchdtv.com url, should be enough for you to manually configure your QAM channels. The only really tricky part is figuring out what you should use for the serviceid since that requires a bit of trial error with the dvb-apps. It's based on the audio/video PID's but it's just a sequence #, not the actual PID's... -Bruce ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Possible to manually add QAM channel information?
I posted a bit of information on this in the pchdtv.com forum: http://www.pchdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=882 Basically, there are two tables you need to be concerned with, channel and dtv_multiplex. Channel has the basic channel mapping info, with xmltvid, and refers to an entry in dtv_multiplex. The dtv_multiplex entry has the actual channel frequency. I modified the channel configuration in mythweb to allow editing of the relevant channel fields. I will try to create a patch for that tonight, so you can use that if you want.That would still not address the entry in the dtv_multiplex table, which is normally created when doing the channel scan. On 7/26/05, bmerrill Merrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to get QAM working with MythTV. I am able to watch QAM HDTV from my cable provider using a combination of dvb-apps, dvbtraffic and mplayer but scanning for the channels using the latest MythTV cvs doesn't seem to work, i.e. it doesn't detect the channels on the first pass and gets stuck on subsequent scanning of existing transports. My understanding from the few scant threads I've been able to find on the subject seem to indicate that my cable provider is not transmitting certain information that Myth requires. I have tried calling them and speaking to the engineers but have not been able to make much headway through the red tape, though my limited knowledge on what exactly is missing probably doesn't help either. However, I was wondering, if I have collected all the relevant info from dvb-app such as Video PID, Audio PID, etc, would it be fairly straight forward to manually add that information directly into MySQL? I am certainly no expert with MySQL but I think I could figure out the relevant commands if someone could point me in the direction of the relevant table(s) that I would need to modify. But of course if someone knows the actual command that would be very much appreciated as well. Or is there perhaps an even easier way than modifying MySQL directly? Or should I not waste my time trying, i.e. a fix is imminent? Thank you for any help. ___ 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] directory structure for myth backend / storage server
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 01:38:49PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm putting together a storage server for my house. I'd like to
integrate it with the mythbackend, since that seems logical. I would
like some advice on how to logically set up the directory structures.
I'm not too familiar with the Linux standard directories (like /usr and
/etc) and so am a little confused where to put things.
It's mostly a matter of personal preference unless you are trying to
integrate more than one access method. My current arrangement is:
Two Maxtor drives (hda, hdc) and a WD drive (hde) partitioned as:
/dev/hda1 24Mb FAT16 (DOS rescue)
/dev/hda2 24Mb ext2 (/boot)
/dev/hda3 149Gb raid autodetect
/dev/hda5 512Mb swap
/dev/hdc1 149Gb raid autodetect
/dev/hdc5 512Mb swap
/dev/hde1 149Gb raid autodetect
/dev/md0 raid5 {hda3 hdc1 hde1} xfs (/)
Yes, you CAN put your root directory on RAID-5. You just have to build
a kernel with static RAID-5 support instead of using modules. You also
need to put the kernel somewhere that lilo or grub can find it, which
is why I have an ext2 boot partition. Since I still have lots of space
left on hda and hdc (the Maxtor 160's are about 4Gb larger than the WD
160) I may create a RAID-1 array for /boot as lilo and grub both know
how to boot from RAID-1.
The directory structure on the back-end looks a bit like:
/var/cache/mythtv = spool for live TV (installation default)
/var/lib/mythtv = storage for .nuv files (installation default)
/home/samba/multimedia/dvd = ripped DVDs
/home/samba/multimedia/music = mp3s
/home/samba/multimedia/thumbs = bitmaps used by mythvideo listing
/home/samba/multimedia/video = mpegs from internet or nuvexport
/nfs/music - /home/samba/multimedia/music
/nfs/thumbs - /home/samba/multimedia/thumbs
/nfs/video - /home/samba/multimedia/video
I run nfs because I use two front-end machines and one stand-alone
back-end machine with no video-out capability. All three of them look
for content in /nfs (for the sake of consistency), with the only
difference being that the two front-end machines mount the directories
using nfs whereas the back-end machine just follows the symbolic links
to the storage area.
Running Samba allows me to view non-Myth content (including files that
have been run through the nuvexport process) using Windows Media Player
on one of the desktops when the XBOX and big-screen TV are otherwise
engaged and I don't want to start a fight or reboot my desktop into
Linux.
Yes, I could have used smbmount and just skipped nfs entirely, but
where's the geek-factor in *that*? :-P To be honest, I'd be
interested in hearing back from people about the relative safety of the
two mounting methods when a network failure occurs. Which filesystem
blocks versus failing, and does either impact the kernel? Older
versions of nfs used to panic the kernel
Before I switched to RAID I used to mount the second or third hard
drives using an abbreviated device name in the root directory and then
sym-link whatever content they were supposed to hold. For example, I
would mount /dev/hdc1 as /hdc1 and then make sym-links from /home to
/hdc1/home, /var to /hdc1/var, etc. The reason I used this method was
so that all of the redirected directories would share the pool of free
space and I wouldn't have to think about wasted drive space when /home
was full and /var was still half empty I got all the benefits of a
single partition with the benefits of splitting some directories onto
other drives. Think of it as a poor man's LVM. :-)
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Re: [mythtv-users] DViCO FusionHDTV DVB (ATSC/QAM) and MythTV
On Jul 26, 2005, at 2:43 PM, Todd Ignasiak wrote: Some people were having trouble getting the FusionHDTV3 QAM cards working with MythTV. So, here is a short summary of how I got MythTV working with my FusionHDTV3 card. This process should be similar for other DVB cards. I am able to receive both Over- The-Air broadcasts (ATSC broadcasts using 8VSB) and clear channels on my Comcast cable system using QAM256. Todd - Thanks for the write up. I understand you have the Fusion HDTV3 from your post. I'm wondering if anyone has experince with the Fusion HDTV5 ATSC. The first question is of course, how well supported is it under Linux? Patching the kernel doesn't bother me, I'm asking about driver stability and image quality. I realize the PCHD3000 is the safe bet as it is well supported under Linux and appears to have an active development community behind it. I don't hear as much about the Fusion HDTV5 ATSC under Linux but I'm attracted to the updated hardware on the Fusion HDTV5 ATSC board. Thoughts? -- Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: BlueCame1 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DViCO FusionHDTV DVB (ATSC/QAM) and MythTV
On 7/26/05, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 26, 2005, at 2:43 PM, Todd Ignasiak wrote: Some people were having trouble getting the FusionHDTV3 QAM cards working with MythTV. So, here is a short summary of how I got MythTV working with my FusionHDTV3 card. This process should be similar for other DVB cards. I am able to receive both Over- The-Air broadcasts (ATSC broadcasts using 8VSB) and clear channels on my Comcast cable system using QAM256. Todd - Thanks for the write up. I understand you have the Fusion HDTV3 from your post. I'm wondering if anyone has experince with the Fusion HDTV5 ATSC. The first question is of course, how well supported is it under Linux? Patching the kernel doesn't bother me, I'm asking about driver stability and image quality. I realize the PCHD3000 is the safe bet as it is well supported under Linux and appears to have an active development community behind it. I don't hear as much about the Fusion HDTV5 ATSC under Linux but I'm attracted to the updated hardware on the Fusion HDTV5 ATSC board. Thoughts? -- Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: BlueCame1 The PCHD3000 is the safe bet for QAM? I thought that the Air2PC did QAM and the PCHD3000 only did OTA. Can someone confirm which card I'll want to buy if I want my HDTV via QAM over cable? Thanks. --Garry ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DViCO FusionHDTV DVB (ATSC/QAM) and MythTV
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 14:38 -0600, Garry Cook wrote: The PCHD3000 is the safe bet for QAM? I thought that the Air2PC did QAM and the PCHD3000 only did OTA. Can someone confirm which card I'll want to buy if I want my HDTV via QAM over cable? The HD-2000 was OTA-only. The HD-3000 also does QAM as well as ATSC. (The HD-2000 is no longer being sold.) The Air2PC can send only the requested program stream instead of the full transport stream, reducing the data sent over the PCI bus and somewhat reducing the CPU overhead. They do both ATSC and QAM. I don't know anything about the Fusion HDTV cards, but apparently they also do both ATSC and QAM. So all three cards should work with the right drivers for either ATSC or QAM. I don't know which one works best, which is an important question if you're pulling in an imperfect OTA signal. --PC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DViCO FusionHDTV DVB (ATSC/QAM) and MythTV
On Jul 26, 2005, at 4:38 PM, Garry Cook wrote: The PCHD3000 is the safe bet for QAM? I thought that the Air2PC did QAM and the PCHD3000 only did OTA. Can someone confirm which card I'll want to buy if I want my HDTV via QAM over cable? I was referring to Linux support in general, not specifically stating the PCHD300 is a safe bet for QAM. I have no idea if it does or does not support QAM as I'm only interested in OTA. Following up on my own question, if I had bothered to look at the dvb- linux list for 10min I would have seen that the FusionHDTV5 is not yet supported in Linux. -- Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: BlueCame1 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Transcode returns errors
I updated ffmpeg and nuvexport and this broke yuvdenoise as well as needing a new switch in ffmpeg call: -pix_fmt yuv420p. Now when I tell mythtv to transcode a show, it ends in a error that shows up in the job queue. The error logged is missing video codec. I think all i have to do to fix it is add the extra switch to the transcode call that mythtv makes, but I don't know where to find the script. Does anyone know where to find and put the switch? Thanks Martin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] User Jobs setup
All I found a load of stuff relating to this in the Under Development section of the Wiki: http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/UnderDevelopment In case anyone is looking for this, the available options are: %FILE% - filename of recording %DIR% - Myth Recording directory where file is located %HOSTNAME% - hostname of backed where recording was made %TITLE% %SUBTITLE% %DESCRIPTION% %CATEGORY% %RECGROUP% %CHANID% %STARTTIME% %ENDTIME% Cheers Mike Quoting Mike Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: All I'm trying to setup some user jobs within Myth to automatically post-process a recording for playback on a PSP. However, I've had a look at the documentation and through the recent release notes and around the mythtv.info wiki without any luck. Does anyone know where I can find some information on this? Thanks in advance 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] EPIA M10k: TV picture adjustments - how ?
On 26/07/05, James Stembridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/26/05, Warpme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example: height/width of the picture does not take up the whole height/width of the TV - so on my 29' TV picture has size approx. 27' :-( Is there some way for adjusting this (like nvtv in nVidia world) ? Use an appropriate video mode. For PAL land that would be 720x576Noscale, or for NTSC 720x480Noscale. This modes have a reasonable amount of overscan and have the added benefit of better image quality. For more information see: http://www.kingcot.eclipse.co.uk/unichrome/unichromeTvOut.html I tried following this, but I still end up with a black border around the picture. -- John ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] XMLTV in Israel
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: SVideo0 as default input on Hauppauge PVR250.
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:17:37 -0400 Mike Frisch wrote: Marco wrote: Should the Default Input on the card definition not handle this Or am I mis-interpreting the Default Input meaning?? Did you restart the backend? (I think it's necessary) On my setup, I use the composite input on my PVR-250 as the default so I know this feature works in 0.18.1. So do I with a PVR-150. . Mike. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to set ALSA parameters
Here's an interesting anomaly I've discovered. I have an 8 kHz sound
file. If I play it using aplay:
aplay -D default soundfile
...then it plays fine. However, if I use the name of the device in my
.asoundrc file:
aplay -D via82xx soundfile
...then I get the following output:
aplay: set_params:857: Sample format non available
This looks like it could be connected to the issue with mythtv. Does
anyone know how to circumvent this problem?
Sage wrote:
I am having trouble getting MythTV to work with ALSA. Here is my
current setup:
Hardware: PVR-350 for video, and the motherboard has Via VT1612A
onboard sound. The PVR-350's audio-out goes directly into the Line- In
on the sound card. I am using the PVR-350's tv-out as my main display.
Software: I am running Debian 3.1 (Sarge) with the alsa packages
installed. I have MythTV compiled with both OSS and ALSA support.
My .asoundrc is as follows:
-
pcm.via82xx {
type hw
card 0
}
ctl.via82xx {
type hw
card 0
}
-
In MythTV, I have the following settings configured in Utilities/ Setup
- Setup - General:
Audio output device: ALSA:default
Mixer Device: /dev/mixer
Mixer Controls: Master
If I try to watch tv or any of my recordings, I receive a warning that
says Unable to set ALSA parameters, and I am given the option to
continue without audio or return to menu.
I have tested my ALSA setup by running aplay -D default soundfile
from the command line, and the test was successful. lsmod shows the
correct driver for my sound card loaded. ALSA appears to be set up
correctly. I am almost certain that I'm missing some crucial setting
in MythTV, but I don't know what or where. Can anyone help me?
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Re: [mythtv-users] EPIA M10k: TV picture adjustments - how ?
On Jul 26, 2005, at 4:28 PM, John Pullan wrote: On 26/07/05, James Stembridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/26/05, Warpme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example: height/width of the picture does not take up the whole height/width of the TV - so on my 29' TV picture has size approx. 27' :-( Is there some way for adjusting this (like nvtv in nVidia world) ? Use an appropriate video mode. For PAL land that would be 720x576Noscale, or for NTSC 720x480Noscale. This modes have a reasonable amount of overscan and have the added benefit of better image quality. For more information see: http://www.kingcot.eclipse.co.uk/unichrome/unichromeTvOut.html I tried following this, but I still end up with a black border around the picture. Check your X log file, and make certain the noscale mode is being used. You may have a mistake in your conf file, or the version of your driver may not have that mode. The log file should give a clue. -Michael ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] EPIA M10k: TV picture adjustments - how ?
Can this MoBo do composite out? DVI out? I'm looking for the perfect MythTV front end. And it seems like VIA is the way to go. Got a link to share? John Pullan wrote: On 26/07/05, James Stembridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/26/05, Warpme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example: height/width of the picture does not take up the whole height/width of the TV - so on my 29' TV picture has size approx. 27' :-( Is there some way for adjusting this (like nvtv in nVidia world) ? Use an appropriate video mode. For PAL land that would be 720x576Noscale, or for NTSC 720x480Noscale. This modes have a reasonable amount of overscan and have the added benefit of better image quality. For more information see: http://www.kingcot.eclipse.co.uk/unichrome/unichromeTvOut.html I tried following this, but I still end up with a black border around the picture. -- Thank you for your time, --== R i c h a r d B r o n o s k y ==-- Nearly all viruses and spyware are designed to use Microsoft internet products. Protect yourself by avoiding Internet Explorer Outlook/Outlook Express. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to set ALSA parameters
Sage wrote: Here's an interesting anomaly I've discovered. I have an 8 kHz sound file. If I play it using aplay: aplay -D default soundfile ...then it plays fine. However, if I use the name of the device in my .asoundrc file: aplay -D via82xx soundfile ...then I get the following output: aplay: set_params:857: Sample format non available This looks like it could be connected to the issue with mythtv. Does anyone know how to circumvent this problem? You know that .asoundrc file that many people tell others to just delete? Well, it actually does stuff (like format and sample rate conversion for software sound cards). Have a look at http://mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo -- even if you're not doing digital sound... Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DViCO FusionHDTV DVB (ATSC/QAM) and MythTV
Check the Linux-DVB mailing list, there are some recent posts by Mac Michaels and Michael Krufky regarding Fusion5 support.I think that the driver for the Fusion5 is in progress now. I think the HD3000 will support QAM. It appears that people have had difficulty making it work, but I haven't tried yet. I'll post a message with my results after I give that a try. On 7/26/05, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 26, 2005, at 2:43 PM, Todd Ignasiak wrote: Some people were having trouble getting the FusionHDTV3 QAM cards working with MythTV. So, here is a short summary of how I got MythTV working with my FusionHDTV3 card. This process should be similar for other DVB cards. I am able to receive both Over- The-Air broadcasts (ATSC broadcasts using 8VSB) and clear channels on my Comcast cable system using QAM256. Todd - Thanks for the write up. I understand you have the Fusion HDTV3 from your post. I'm wondering if anyone has experince with the Fusion HDTV5 ATSC. The first question is of course, how well supported is it under Linux? Patching the kernel doesn't bother me, I'm asking about driver stability and image quality. I realize the PCHD3000 is the safe bet as it is well supported under Linux and appears to have an active development community behind it. I don't hear as much about the Fusion HDTV5 ATSC under Linux but I'm attracted to the updated hardware on the Fusion HDTV5 ATSC board. Thoughts? -- 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
[mythtv-users] A/V Sync Lost after Transcoding
I'm using the PVR 350's encoder to record programs in Myth. I'm also transcoding recordings in the background to mpeg4. (The new xv/yuv support in ivtv is amazing.) A problem I'm having is that many shows have an audio delay (audio is delayed w.r.t. video) when they've been transcoded, but not before being transcoded. Why is that and what can be done about it? I understand there are problems with the hardware encoder in that it can generate screwy timestamps, but seriously, if it can be played without sync problems, why can't it be transcoded without sync problems? I'm using Myth 0.18.1 and ivtv 0.3.7a. I'm *not* using the 350's mpeg2 decoder to watch video. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mplayer still not in focus
Ratpoison SET ME FREE :) For those who really don't see the need to run a window manager, but have the mplayer focus issue, give ratpoison a try. I tried almost every window manager and could not get any of them tweaked just right. After installing ratpoison I just added /usr/bin/ratpoison to my .xinitrc and now it all works flawlessly :) No config files, no tweaking, it menubars, titles, or borders. Best of all, using mplayer to watch external videos works without much hassle. Thanks guys, I appreciate the pointer. Signed, One happy camper mythtv owner. pgp5Ng6YwzcwJ.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] OS X, MythTV 0.18.1, watch LiveTV crash
hi folks, my KnoppMyth backend runs beautifully, although I see stealing a buffer errors about once every 10 days or so. Haven't pinned-down the prob yet. having said that, my two frontends are: -KnoppMyth Dell Latitude laptop -Mac G4 TiBook The Dell almost never needs any attention. It just works. The Mac...well, sometimes it will let me watch TV, sometimes it won't. When it works, it works great. Watching Live TV is really not my intended use of MythTV, because I mostly watch videos and listen to music (heck, I don't even record any TV shows). However, there are times when I have guests who will want to watch Live TV...and yes, that does suck. I HATE Live TV. Did I mention that it sucks? The Mac version of Myth that I use is 0.18.1. I thought I had figured out why it would crash when attempting to start watching Live TV (trashing the theme cache folder in ~./mythtv...but apparently that's not the cure). Is anybody working on MythonMacOSX? I've not seen any posts on it lately...that would be a bummer. -Bob K. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mplayer still not in focus
And if that doesn't work for you, try consuming Ratpoison and just get it over with. Mike Green wrote: Ratpoison SET ME FREE :) For those who really don't see the need to run a window manager, but have the mplayer focus issue, give ratpoison a try. I tried almost every window manager and could not get any of them tweaked just right. After installing ratpoison I just added /usr/bin/ratpoison to my .xinitrc and now it all works flawlessly :) No config files, no tweaking, it menubars, titles, or borders. Best of all, using mplayer to watch external videos works without much hassle. Thanks guys, I appreciate the pointer. Signed, One happy camper mythtv owner. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Thank you for your time, --== R i c h a r d B r o n o s k y ==-- Nearly all viruses and spyware are designed to use Microsoft internet products. Protect yourself by avoiding Internet Explorer Outlook/Outlook Express. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] A/V Sync Lost after Transcoding
Have you tried playing the recorded file (the non-transcoded one) in something other than MythTV (i.e. mplayer or xine)? I've noticed that the recordings I get off of my PVR-500 and PVR-250 are sometimes out of sync. MythTV can compensate for this, depending on the options you have selected (I know that there is an option for syncing, I believe video to audio, which will drop some frames). Of note is that you're not using the PVR-350 TV-Out (as I don't, I use a GeForce 5200FX), I suspect if you ran the data through the PVR-350 TV-Out, it would play back perfectly. I've experienced this first hand (just last week, in fact). At least one previous message on this mailing list, and the ivtv mailing list suspects it to be a Hauppauge firmware issue. -- Joe --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using the PVR 350's encoder to record programs in Myth. I'm also transcoding recordings in the background to mpeg4. (The new xv/yuv support in ivtv is amazing.) A problem I'm having is that many shows have an audio delay (audio is delayed w.r.t. video) when they've been transcoded, but not before being transcoded. Why is that and what can be done about it? I understand there are problems with the hardware encoder in that it can generate screwy timestamps, but seriously, if it can be played without sync problems, why can't it be transcoded without sync problems? I'm using Myth 0.18.1 and ivtv 0.3.7a. I'm *not* using the 350's mpeg2 decoder to watch video. ___ 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
Re: [mythtv-users] Kudos and need help installing second tuner
On 7/25/05, Jason Mcmillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/25/05, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/25/05, Jason Mcmillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kudos to the MythTV developers. Excellent work on a great piece of
software.
Now on to my problem. I have successfully installed a PVR 250 using
Jarod's guide on an Asus P4P800-E motherboard with a NVidia FX 5500
video card.
I am trying to add an additional software based Hauppauge WinTV card
with no luck.
/sbin/lspci -v shows:
...
02:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16
(CX23416)
MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR 250
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 201
Memory at f000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
02:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video
Capture (
rev 11)
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV Series
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at f7efe000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
02:0b.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture
(rev 11
)
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV Series
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at f7eff000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
ll /dev/video? shows:
crw--- 1 mythtv root 81, 0 Jul 24 09:55 /dev/video0
The WinTV card was autoinstalled under Fedora and my
/etc/modprobe.conf now looks like:
...
# nvidia kernel module
alias char-major-195 nvidia-1_0-7667
alias nvidia nvidia-1_0-7667
# ivtv modules setup
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv
alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv
install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install
lirc_i2c
alias char-major-81 bttv
I have tried both alias char-major-81 bttv and alias
char-major-81-1 bttv with no luck.
BTW, running /sbin/depmod -a followed by /sbin/modprobe bttv
yields the following error:
FATAL: Error inserting bttv
(/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.35_FC3smp/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.ko):
Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
I am pretty new to linux, and was hoping someone could point me in the
right direction on how to get my two cards to play well together.
You should be able to get them both working. I had 2 bttv cards inmy
system until I swapped them for DVB-T cards which is why it's
commeneted out in my modprobe.conf below. I think you may need to add
an option line to tell it which card ID it is and the tuner number to
use - do a search to find those numbers for this card. Hope it
helps...
### Packard Bell serial port ir remote
alias char-major-61 lirc_serial
#options lirc_serial irq=4 io=0x3f8
#install lirc_serial /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none ; #
/sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_serial
### PixelView ir remote
#alias char-major-61 lirc_gpio
###pre-install lirc_gpio modprobe -k lirc_dev
#Network card#
alias eth0 e100
#Sound#
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1
# On-board intel sound card
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0
options snd-intel8x0 index=0
install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0
/usr/sbin/alsactl restore /dev/null 21 || :
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store /dev/null 21 || : ;
}; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
###install snd-cmipci /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-cmipci
/usr/sbin/alsactl restore /dev/null 21 || :
###remove snd-cmipci { /usr/sbin/alsactl store /dev/null 21 || : ;
}; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-cmipci
#USB#
#alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
#alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd
# i2c
#alias char-major-88 i2c-dev
alias char-major-89 i2c-dev
options i2c-core
options i2c algo bit bit_test=1
#bttv#
###alias char-major-81 videodev
###alias char-major-81-0 bttv
###alias char-major-81-1 bttv
#options bttv card=37 radio=0 tuner=28 chroma_agc=1 combfilter=2
###options bttv card=55,37 radio=0 tuner=0,28 chroma_agc=1 combfilter=2
# nvidia kernel module
alias char-major-195 nvidia-1_0-7664
alias nvidia nvidia-1_0-7664
Hmm... I don't think that is what the problem is because dmesg shows:
bttv: disagrees about version of symbol tveeprom_read
bttv: Unknown symbol tveeprom_read
I have also e-mailed the ivtv list because I think it may be a
conflict with the IVTV drivers.
Re: [mythtv-users] mplayer still not in focus
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:10:27 -0500 Mike Green wrote: Ratpoison SET ME FREE :) For those who really don't see the need to run a window manager, but have the mplayer focus issue, give ratpoison a try. I tried almost every window manager and could not get any of them tweaked just right. After installing ratpoison I just added /usr/bin/ratpoison to my .xinitrc and now it all works flawlessly :) No config files, no tweaking, it menubars, titles, or borders. Best of all, using mplayer to watch external videos works without much hassle. actually I must admit that sometimes fluxbox gives me a stray titlebar when mplayer runs an external video. If I am annoyed enough by it I hit the F button twice to turn fullscreen off then on again. I will therefore try ratpoison and see what happens :) cheers, Nick Thanks guys, I appreciate the pointer. Signed, One happy camper mythtv owner. Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] EPIA M10k: TV picture adjustments - how ?
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:02:26 -0400 Richard Bronosky wrote: Can this MoBo do composite out? DVI out? I'm looking for the perfect MythTV front end. And it seems like VIA is the way to go. Got a link to share? It will do s-video out or composite video out. However if you want spdif digital audio out you cannot also have composite out, as the only composite socket switches between tv-out and spdif. You can still use s-video out though, and a convertor. Most electronics shops will stock them. http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_m_spec.jsp?motherboardId=81 for details of the m series motherboards, although the MII or the SP are probably the way to go now. Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Backend hang after ivtv error
For users devs: I'm using two cards in my system: A hauppauge PVR-500 and a hauppauge bt878-based card. Has anyone had any problems with: 1) ivtv giving a DMA error in the log, and then 2) mythbackend fails to record using that tuner until restarted, and 3) frontends/web stop responding and repeatedly logs waiting for thread forever. Everything works 90% of the time. This error just comes up occasionally - more often when I'm recording 2-3 shows at once. Anyone have any suggestions to improve stability? What encoder firmware are people having luck with out there? I'm using 0x02040011 and ivtv-0.3.7a. For the devs: I've tracked it down to a pthread_join() statement in tv_rec.cpp. It appears that when the scheduler things the recording has finished, the backend gets stuck waiting forever for the encoder thread to complete, which is started with pthread_create() in the SpawnEncoder function (or something like thatnear the top of the same file). So I know it's an ivtv error and trust me, I'm working on trying to fix that as fast as I can. But for now, would it be possible for mythbackend to recover from it? Perhaps replace the pthread_join() with a non-blocking call and timeout after waiting a few seconds? Or perhaps the encoder thread can exit prematurely if it doesn't get a buffer from the ivtv module for awhile? Also, I just checked out the source from the subversion fixes branch last night and installed it today. Should I expect any better behavior from that? Or should I just roll with the 0.18.1 release? I'm not using DVB.just a PVR-500 and bt878 card. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Mythtv-Music and playlists...
I'm sure someone has tried to do this. I've searched for the answer, but I can't find it *doh*. How would one go about inserting a playlist ( generated by WinAmp perhaps ) into the Mythtv-Music database? I found a perl script ( m3u2myth.pl ) that didn't seem to work. Anyone have any suggestions? -Tim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Kudos and need help installing second tuner
Jason Mcmillon wrote: Success!! What I ended up doing is removing the IVTV drivers (via apt-get remove) and commenting the ivtv stuff out of my modprobe.conf, then testing it. My bttv card worked. I then re-installed the IVTV drivers and it worked again. Then I added everything back to my modprobe.conf except I commented out alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv and everything worked!! I probably could have just started out with commenting out the line, but who knows. Will commenting out alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv hurt me down the road? No. The tveeprom module is only used to autodetect the card's hardware, so if autodetection works right, you're good to go. The IvyTV version of tveeprom was created specifically to deal with all the new hardware changes--especially those brought about by the introduction of the PVR-150 and PVR-500 cards. The tveeprom in recent versions of the Linux kernel has very good support for PVR-250/350's. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Backend hang after ivtv error
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 08:44:10PM -0400, Petersen Curt wrote: Has anyone had any problems with: 1) ivtv giving a DMA error in the log, and then 2) mythbackend fails to record using that tuner until restarted, and 3) frontends/web stop responding and repeatedly logs waiting for thread forever. I had something very similar to that happen. In my case, the ide interface to /dev/hde would also fail and my raid would fall back into degraded mode. It turned out that my motherboard uses the same PCI interrupt for two of the slots. Moving the cards around solved the problem. The other thing that sometimes happened (but hasn't recently, and may be related) is that when I selected the menu entry for live TV Myth would tell me the tuner was busy recording, but the status page said it was idle and the recording page showed no recording in progress. I'm guessing this was because ivtv was failing but Myth didn't know why. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to set ALSA parameters
I do have a basic .asoundrc file set up. The contents were in my previous message. It's worked for others so I don't know why it wouldn't work for me... I'm not trying to do any sort of digital output or AC-3 passthrough or anything, just straight up analog out. Nonetheless, I tried the solutions put forth in that DigitalSoundHowTo with no luck. However, after some fiddling I have noticed that this error does not occur if I don't try to play back through the PVR-350. As soon as I start playing through the decoder, ALSA complains. Also, if use the PVR-350 audio output only, then I get no sound, despite looping the audio directly into the sound card. On Jul 26, 2005, at 6:07 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote: Sage wrote: Here's an interesting anomaly I've discovered. I have an 8 kHz sound file. If I play it using aplay: aplay -D default soundfile ...then it plays fine. However, if I use the name of the device in my .asoundrc file: aplay -D via82xx soundfile ...then I get the following output: aplay: set_params:857: Sample format non available This looks like it could be connected to the issue with mythtv. Does anyone know how to circumvent this problem? You know that .asoundrc file that many people tell others to just delete? Well, it actually does stuff (like format and sample rate conversion for software sound cards). Have a look at http:// mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo -- even if you're not doing digital sound... 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] Backend hang after ivtv error
Thanks Chris! I'll give that a shotjust have to try and figure out which slot to try first. I wish motherboards would come with IRQ labels, or it would be in the manual, or maybe just come with schematics :) (who needs intellectual property anyway) -Pete On 7/26/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 08:44:10PM -0400, Petersen Curt wrote: Has anyone had any problems with: 1) ivtv giving a DMA error in the log, and then 2) mythbackend fails to record using that tuner until restarted, and 3) frontends/web stop responding and repeatedly logs waiting for thread forever. I had something very similar to that happen. In my case, the ide interface to /dev/hde would also fail and my raid would fall back into degraded mode. It turned out that my motherboard uses the same PCI interrupt for two of the slots. Moving the cards around solved the problem. The other thing that sometimes happened (but hasn't recently, and may be related) is that when I selected the menu entry for live TV Myth would tell me the tuner was busy recording, but the status page said it was idle and the recording page showed no recording in progress. I'm guessing this was because ivtv was failing but Myth didn't know why. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Dual PVR 250s inexplicably stopped working
Cross-posted from ivtv-devel list: Hello, I have a FC3 based system with dual PVR-250s, and everything was working just fine for several months. Then something happened. I'm not sure what. The PVRs just stopped working correctly I fiddled around, switching the PVRs around into different PCI slots. I was never able to determine that either card had gone bad using this musical chairs scenario. That is, there was no rhyme or reason to what card would work in what slot, so I thought maybe the MoBo went bad. I replaced the MoBo with a new copy. That didn't seem to help. I swapped out the power supply, too, just in case. That didn't help. So, where it stands now is... if only one PVR is installed in the system, it just does not work. Neither card. However, If I install both PVRs, one of them works and the other doesn't. By work, I mean mean the test video capture via cat /dev/videoX test.mpg, then playback via mplayer, as described in Jarod's guide: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php FYI, I was able to run these same tests with success 2 months ago, so I'm pretty sure I am doing it right. When both cards are installed, only one works and the other produces static. If only one card is installed, and it doesnt seem to matter which card or which PCI slot, I get static. Where can I find documentation describing the possible ivtv driver settings that go into modprobe.conf? What ivtv diagnostics tools are available to help me isolate the cause of this problem? Any ideas appreciated, Larry Below is reference information regarding my setup. Here is the relevant portion of my lspci output: 01:07.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR 250 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 Memory at d800 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 01:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR 250 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 3 Memory at dc00 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 Here is the relevant portion of the /var/log/messages file: Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: ivtv: START INIT IVTV Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: ivtv: version 0.2.0 (rc3j) loading Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.10-1.770_FC3 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4 Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist. Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: ivtv: User specified WinTV PVR 250 card Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Found an iTVC16 based chip Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK2] enabled at IRQ 11 Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt :01:07.0[A] - GSI 11 (level, low) - IRQ 11 Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32) Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x01e0 vendor: 0x10de Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 32032, rev = B185, serial# = 2836567 Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: tveeprom: tuner = TCL 2002N 6A (idx = 85, type = 50) Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x1000) Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3440 (type = 11) Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[0],ok] Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Tuner Type 50, Tuner formats 0x1000, Radio: yes, Model 0x00891615, Revision 0x Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: ivtv: NTSC tuner detected Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Radio detected Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0 Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok] Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: saa7115: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005) Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: saa7115: detecting saa7115 client on address 0x42 Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: saa7115: writing init values Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7115[0],ok] Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: saa7115: status: (1E) 0x48, (1F) 0xc0 Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: msp34xx: ivtv version Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: msp34xx: init: chip=MSP3448W-A2, has NICAM support, simple (D) mode, simpler (G) no-thread mode Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: msp34xx: $Id$ compiled on: Apr 21 2005 07:41:36 Jul 24 20:44:06 mythtv kernel: ivtv: i2c attach
Re: [mythtv-users] Backend hang after ivtv error
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:40:17PM -0400, Petersen Curt wrote: Thanks Chris! I'll give that a shotjust have to try and figure out which slot to try first. I wish motherboards would come with IRQ labels, or it would be in the manual, or maybe just come with schematics :) Actually, the information was in the BIOS setup screen. There is usually a page where you can manually force a PCI slot to a particular IRQ, and on mine they were labelled PCI 1/5, PCI 2/6, PCI 3 and PCI 4, so I shuffled things around until I was only using 1, 3, 4 and 6. Many motherboards also link the IRQ for the last PCI slot to the AGP slot (some mobo booklets suggest leaving the last PCI slot empty if you install an AGP card), and the on-board USB and LAN hardware also sometimes piggyback on the PCI/AGP IRQs. You'd think they would just run a few more wires ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] PVR500MCE tuner #1, ivtv: i2c client addr:0x44 not found for command
FYI. Using the later 3.6 releases and 3.7a I've found that I don't need any
modprobe.conf settings to support the 150s or 500s.
Just:
modprobe tveeprom
modprobe ivtv {I may still have the debug and tuner parms set, can't
remember)
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Reith
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 4:32 PM
To: of my own; Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR500MCE tuner #1, ivtv: i2c client addr:0x44
not found for command
downloaded the correct firmware and fixed the module options, still the
same problem.. anymore idea? Thanks again.
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
options cx25480 i2c_enable=1,1
options saa7127 i2c_enable=-1,-1
HA! I see it... You have a typo in your options (if the above is
correct) cx25480 != cx25840
subtle...
ivtv: START INIT IVTV
ivtv: version 0.3.7 (a) loading
ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.11-1.35_FC3 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4
ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info
ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when
ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist.
ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card
ivtv: Found an iTVC16 based chip
ACPI: PCI interrupt :03:08.0[A] - GSI 11 (level, low) - IRQ 11
ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x1a30 vendor: 0x8086
tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 23552, rev = D492, serial# = 8005926
tveeprom: tuner = Philips FQ1236A MK4 (idx = 92, type = 57)
tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x1000)
tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3410D (type = 5)
ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[50],ok]
tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0
ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok]
cx25840: starting probe on adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005)
cx25840: detecting cx25840 client on address 0x88
cx25840: cx25843-23 found. Initializing...
cx25840: requesting /lib/modules/HcwMakoA.ROM
cx25840: firmware loaded
ivtv: i2c attach [client=cx25840[50],ok]
ivtv: i2c attach [client=wm8775[50],ok]
ivtv: Tuner Type 57, Tuner formats 0x1000, Radio: yes, Model
0x00914652, Revision 0x0001
ivtv: NTSC tuner detected
ivtv: Radio detected
ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040011
ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 150 card with 5 streams
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder MPEG minor 0
ivtv: Create DMA encoder MPEG stream: 0 x 32768 buffers (0KB total)
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder YUV minor 32
ivtv: Create DMA encoder YUV stream: 0 x 10800 buffers (0KB total)
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder VBI minor 224
ivtv: Create DMA encoder VBI stream: 0 x 8736 buffers (0KB total)
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder PCM audio minor 24
ivtv: Create DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 0 x 4608 buffers (0KB total)
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder radio minor 64
ivtv: Create encoder radio stream
ivtv: Setting Tuner 57
tuner: type set to 57 (Philips FQ1236A MK4) by ivtv i2c driver #0
cx25840: decoder set norm NTSC
cx25840: decoder set input (6)
cx25840: now setting Tuner input
cx25840: set audio input (0)
ivtv: Switching standard to NTSC.
cx25840: decoder set norm NTSC
ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 150, card #0
ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card
ivtv: Found an iTVC16 based chip
ACPI: PCI interrupt :03:09.0[A] - GSI 10 (level, low) - IRQ 10
ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x1a30 vendor: 0x8086
tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 23552, rev = D492, serial# = 8005926
tveeprom: tuner = Philips FQ1236A MK4 (idx = 92, type = 57)
tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x1000)
tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3410D (type = 5)
ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[50],ok]
tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #1
ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok]
cx25840: starting probe on adapter ivtv i2c driver #1 (0x10005)
ivtv: i2c attach [client=wm8775[50],ok]
ivtv: Tuner Type 57, Tuner formats 0x1000, Radio: yes, Model
0x00914652, Revision 0x0001
ivtv: Radio detected
ivtv: ivtv_enc_thread: pid = 11202, itv = 0xe2230d20
ivtv: ivtv_enc_vbi_thread: pid = 11203, itv = 0xe2230d20
ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040011
ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 150 card with 5 streams
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder MPEG minor 1
ivtv: Create DMA encoder MPEG stream: 0 x 32768 buffers (0KB total)
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder YUV minor 33
ivtv: Create DMA encoder YUV stream: 0 x 10800 buffers (0KB total)
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder VBI minor 225
ivtv: Create DMA encoder VBI stream: 0 x 8736 buffers (0KB total)
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder PCM audio minor 25
ivtv: Create DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 0 x 4608 buffers (0KB total)
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device for encoder radio minor 65
ivtv: Create encoder radio stream
ivtv: Setting Tuner 57
tuner: type set to 57 (Philips FQ1236A MK4) by ivtv i2c driver #1
ivtv: i2c client addr: 0x44 not found for command 0x40046403!
ivtv: i2c client addr: 0x44 not found for command 0x40046404!
[mythtv-users] dumb move -- lost mysql db -- restore tv files to db?
Hi guys I recently decided I liked mythtv enough to buy real hardware for it, so I did just that. Parts arrived, I got it put together, stage 1 gentoo, the works. I backed up all the storage directories for my test mythtv system, which included a LOT of television recordings. I moved this backup to the new mythtv system. All the music files and video files were scanned in with success (ie: ID3 tags from the MP3s), but when I went to look at tv recordings, nothing was there. Then it hit me -- I didn't back up the DB...DOH!(And of course, the test sytem had already been wiped clean.) So.. the question is: Is there a way to restore to the db the listing of the nv tv recordings and png images? Do these nv files store the tv equivalent of ID3 tags so I don't simply get a raw listing of filenames? I realize I could just move these files to the media/video area, but for various reasons, I'd prefer them to be in tv recordings. Thanks for the help. Cheers, Josh ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to set ALSA parameters
Gavin Haslett wrote: Don't know if this helps, but ALSA seems to have some difficulty with certain hardware versions. I don't know the pattern. I would second this. Try using different ALSA versions. Move back a version or up one if you are not at the latest already and see if that makes a difference. I've also had different experiences using RPM vs. source compiles with source being more stable for me for whatever reason. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] pundit-r running celeron-d with high fan speed?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Reza Naima Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 8:11 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: [mythtv-users] pundit-r running celeron-d with high fan speed? I was wondering if anyone had a pundit-r running with a celeron-d? I read somplace that it will up the fan speed by 900rpm by just having the celeron rather than the pentium in there. Anyone experience this? thnx, Reza I have 4 Pundit-R's with Celeron-Ds. The fan is reasonably quiet, but not silent. Close to my Compaq laptop. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Possible to manually add QAM channel information?
Bruce Pennypacker wrote: bmerrill Merrill wrote: I would like to get QAM working with MythTV. I am able to watch QAM HDTV from my cable provider using a combination of dvb-apps, dvbtraffic and mplayer but scanning for the channels using the latest MythTV cvs doesn't seem to work, i.e. it doesn't detect the channels on the first pass and gets stuck on subsequent scanning of existing transports. My understanding from the few scant threads I've been able to find on the subject seem to indicate that my cable provider is not transmitting certain information that Myth requires. I have tried calling them and speaking to the engineers but have not been able to make much headway through the red tape, though my limited knowledge on what exactly is missing probably doesn't help either. However, I was wondering, if I have collected all the relevant info from dvb-app such as Video PID, Audio PID, etc, would it be fairly straight forward to manually add that information directly into MySQL? I am certainly no expert with MySQL but I think I could figure out the relevant commands if someone could point me in the direction of the relevant table(s) that I would need to modify. But of course if someone knows the actual command that would be very much appreciated as well. Or is there perhaps an even easier way than modifying MySQL directly? Or should I not waste my time trying, i.e. a fix is imminent? You can do this by modifying one of the tables in mysql. Take a look at http://www.pchdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=882 for an idea of what you'll need to do. You will need to know a bit about mysql commands. Here's a rundown of what you'll need to do: $ mysql -u mythtv -p mythtv (login to mysql) mysql use mythconverg; (all myth data is in the mythconverg database - do this before any of the following commands) mysql describe channel; (displays the structure of the channel table - this is the one you need to modify) mysql describe dtv_multiplex; (you'll need some data from this table as well) mysql select mplexid,frequency from dtv_multiplex; (you might just want to cut paste this into a file and/or print it out so you can refer back to it) mysql select chanid,channum,freqid,mplexid,serviceid from channel; (shows all the necessary fields you'll care about in the channel table) The above commands, along with what's posted at that pchdtv.com url, should be enough for you to manually configure your QAM channels. The only really tricky part is figuring out what you should use for the serviceid since that requires a bit of trial error with the dvb-apps. It's based on the audio/video PID's but it's just a sequence #, not the actual PID's... -Bruce ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Thanks for the information and the link. I haven't quite got it working yet, but I think I'm close. I am guessing as you hypothesized that the serviceid might be the wild card that isn't properly set and preventing me from tuning the channel. As I have it configured now, when I start up mythbackend I get the following output: Starting up as the master server. 2005-07-26 22:58:29.947 mythbackend: MythBackend started as master server 2005-07-26 22:58:29.951 DVB#0 DVB SI Table Parser Started 2005-07-26 22:58:29.951 DVB#0 Using DVB card 0, with frontend pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV. 2005-07-26 22:58:29.953 New DB connection, total: 3 2005-07-26 22:58:30.217 DVB#0 DVB signal f998 | snr fc21 | ber0 | unc0 2005-07-26 22:58:30.217 DVB#0 Status: LOCK. 2005-07-26 22:58:30.217 DVB#0 Multiplex Locked 2005-07-26 22:58:36.221 DVB#0 Timeout Getting PMT 2005-07-26 22:58:36.221 DVB#0 ERROR - Tuning for channel #2_1 failed. 2005-07-26 22:58:36.221 Closing DVB channel So I'm guessing that the Timeout Getting PMT error has to do with the serviceid and myth not being able to find the video and audio PIDs, but perhaps I'm wrong in that assumption and perhaps I have something misconfigured elsewhere? If I run azap -r c110 for example and then run dvbtraffic in another window, the video and audio pids appear to be in the second grouping which according to the pchdtv thread above would correspond to a serviceid value of 2, but I have tried setting the serviceid with a value from 0 all the way up to 10 with no luck. A general rundow of what I have done so far: 1. Added a video source corresponding to HDTV over the air stations since these should be equivalent to HDTV cable without adding all of the analog cable channels that would just get in the way. 2. Tried running Scan for channels first with terrestrial then again with cable but it failed to add any channels, although it did add the frequencies. 3. Ran mythfilldatabase to at least initialize the channel table 4. In MySql, set the freqid obtained
RE: [mythtv-users] Mythtv-Music and playlists...
Ah, I figured out what was wrong when I was trying to run m3u2myth.pl ( the link has been posted before: http://www.foofus.net/jmk/mythtv/m3u2myth.pl ). The format of the M3U file from WinAmp was different. I re-formatted one of my playlists and it works great. Thanks Joseph! -Tim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy McFadden Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 6:53 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] Mythtv-Music and playlists... I'm sure someone has tried to do this. I've searched for the answer, but I can't find it *doh*. How would one go about inserting a playlist ( generated by WinAmp perhaps ) into the Mythtv-Music database? I found a perl script ( m3u2myth.pl ) that didn't seem to work. Anyone have any suggestions? -Tim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Possible to manually add QAM channel information?
Todd Ignasiak wrote: I posted a bit of information on this in the pchdtv.com forum: http://www.pchdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=882 Basically, there are two tables you need to be concerned with, channel and dtv_multiplex. Channel has the basic channel mapping info, with xmltvid, and refers to an entry in dtv_multiplex. The dtv_multiplex entry has the actual channel frequency. I modified the channel configuration in mythweb to allow editing of the relevant channel fields. I will try to create a patch for that tonight, so you can use that if you want.That would still not address the entry in the dtv_multiplex table, which is normally created when doing the channel scan. On 7/26/05, bmerrill Merrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to get QAM working with MythTV. I am able to watch QAM HDTV from my cable provider using a combination of dvb-apps, dvbtraffic and mplayer but scanning for the channels using the latest MythTV cvs doesn't seem to work, i.e. it doesn't detect the channels on the first pass and gets stuck on subsequent scanning of existing transports. My understanding from the few scant threads I've been able to find on the subject seem to indicate that my cable provider is not transmitting certain information that Myth requires. I have tried calling them and speaking to the engineers but have not been able to make much headway through the red tape, though my limited knowledge on what exactly is missing probably doesn't help either. However, I was wondering, if I have collected all the relevant info from dvb-app such as Video PID, Audio PID, etc, would it be fairly straight forward to manually add that information directly into MySQL? I am certainly no expert with MySQL but I think I could figure out the relevant commands if someone could point me in the direction of the relevant table(s) that I would need to modify. But of course if someone knows the actual command that would be very much appreciated as well. Or is there perhaps an even easier way than modifying MySQL directly? Or should I not waste my time trying, i.e. a fix is imminent? Thank you for any help. ___ 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 Hey Todd, Thanks for the information and your help. It's been very useful so far in helping me to understand what's going on. If you do get a chance to generate a patch for being able to modify that information from mythweb that would help me tremendously to not have to constantly dive into mysql to fiddle with settings especially since I would have no idea what to modify in mythweb or php to achieve the same result. Thanks again, Brian ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Possible to keep multiple languages when transcoding?
I'm capturing video using DVB-S cards; the recordings on several channels have multiple languages (german + original english for example). If I transcode these (to mpeg4 for example), only the first language is present in the new file - is there any way to keep both audio streams? Thanks, Martin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Time/Date on Home Screen
I searched but (surprisingly) I couldn't find anything about this one. Is there a reason that MythTV doesn't show the time/date on the home screen? It seems only natural that somewhere it would appear, but I haven't seen it, and I've checked different themes. Is this in fact a theme-dependent issue, or just a MythTV issue? Thanks, Stefan Wrobel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
