Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV refuses to run SUID
Try a different tack... kernel 2.6.12 and higher have the ability to allow a user process to set realtime priority; no need for SUID root. This works with MythTV's code w/o any changes. See here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/131634 Interesting. I'll look into this one a little more. I noticed on Gentoo that all the stuff necessary seems to be there already to pull this one off, except in /etc/security/limits.conf the commented template does not show a rt_priority option, although it does show just priority so I don't know if they're different or if I just don't have that rt functionality in my current version of PAM. Thanks for the tip though, this seems pretty cool. ~Lou pgpPNHhLLTl45.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au v1.31
On 8/8/05, Jon Whitear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On another note (and borrowing from another thread) I would find it useful to be able to populate two channel's data from one source e.g. ABC TV and ABC HDTV, both from ABC TV. Possibly I am misunderstanding, but you should be able to do this with the new duplicates feature. Or possibly even by just using the same xmltvid. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Storage of currently tuned channel
Hi All, Can anyone tell me where the current tuned channel is stored in mythtv. Is it stored in the database anywhere? There seems to be a bug in mythtv 18.0 that allows you to change to non visible channels (probably fixed in cvs). I have managed to change to a HD channel and ViaXVMC can't handle it and crashes the frontend. Unfortunately I am now stuck on this channel and can't find a way to change to a valid channel before starting mythbackend. I can use tzap piped to mplayer to watch other channels so its not the card that is stuck. Mythbacked is changing to this channel on startup. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Brett ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] tv_grab_au update v1.34
Hi all, Jon Whitear sent me some more debugging info and I tracked down the problem to some incompatible perl libraries. Updated script: http://www.immir.com/tv_grab_au Enjoy. Cheers, Michael. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Upcoming release?
Is there a changelog for the new version so we can get an idea of what to expect? The dev list takes a long time to look through. Matthew. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] suqare boxes for all the characters for mythfrontend
Thanks for all the responses. As Paul mentioned it was the problem with the LANG setting. After exporting the LANG setting and recreating the database, the charecters were displayed properly. Thanks, Shiju On 8/6/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 05:48:09PM +1000, Paul Andreassen wrote: X-windows should find a suitable font for you even if the requested one isn't installed. If the chosen font isn't scalable and the requested size is smaller than the smallest available rendering then you will get square boxes as a form of greeking. Install scalable fonts or change the configuration to use a larger font sizes and the boxes should go away. -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Regards, Shiju ___ 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 elsehadproblems today?
Michael == Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael When I tried d1, it didnt give episode information for Michael example, so if you record a tv servies then myth doesnt Michael know enough about the episode to tell if it has recorded Michael that particular episode before. For some shows d1 does have episodes. When I stopped using it though, mythtv was treating every new episode of a show as a completely different TV show. I suspect it was appending the episode to the title. This meant every recording for the shows effected had to be manually configured. Also around this time, all Dr Who episodes had the same title, despite the fact the indicated episode ended the week before. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Upcoming release?
Is there a changelog for the new version so we can get an idea of what to expect? The dev list takes a long time to look through. Not sure if this is what you mean by the dev list, but I find it quite easy to look through - http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/milestone/0.19 You can click on these to see what's happening in each of them: mythgallery mythmusic mythtv mythvideo mythweb Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Upcoming release?
I wasn't aware of that. Thanks, Matthew. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phill Edwards Not sure if this is what you mean by the dev list, but I find it quite easy to look through - http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/milestone/0.19 You can click on these to see what's happening in each of them: mythgallery mythmusic mythtv mythvideo mythweb Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: add skybox to my MythTV system
Thanks for your help, I will try it at home tonight. How do you change your channels on the sky box from MythTV. Are you using the RedEye, RF or something different? Regards, Oliver Around about 04/08/05 14:33, Oliver Martini typed ... I then tried to add a channel to the channel-editor with choosing sat_uk as the video source but I was not able to tune to this channel. (Of course the SkyBox was running, since I got the picture and sound when I ran mplayer and added the /dev/video0 as source.) I think there's stuff in Jarod's guide about this; I've set Sky up and I, like most people, got most of my info. from that. The trick is that you need to set the frequency no. (IIRC) for each Sky channel to the actual [Sky] channel number, then set that source/tuner up to run an external command upon channel change. This command (usually a script you write) get the 'frequency' (channel no.) as its first arg. and does what needs to be done to change the Sky channel. First up, given that you can see the Sky outside of Myth, I'd get so's you can watch live Sky TV through Myth. Not sure if that's made more difficult by having another already-working tuner. You may need to configure your script up and just have a do-nothing one for now to make Myth think it worked. Then you need to set up (test the script outside Myth) whatever mechanism you plan to use the change the Sky channel (IR of RF). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rm -f .signature [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l .signature ls: .signature: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# exit ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Storage of currently tuned channel
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett May Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 4:10 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: [mythtv-users] Storage of currently tuned channel Hi All, Can anyone tell me where the current tuned channel is stored in mythtv. Is it stored in the database anywhere? There seems to be a bug in mythtv 18.0 that allows you to change to non visible channels (probably fixed in cvs). I have managed to change to a HD channel and ViaXVMC can't handle it and crashes the frontend. Unfortunately I am now stuck on this channel and can't find a way to change to a valid channel before starting mythbackend. I can use tzap piped to mplayer to watch other channels so its not the card that is stuck. Mythbacked is changing to this channel on startup. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Brett Simplest way to do this I think is this. First stop the backend. Not sure if editing the database while it is running will work right. Login to mysql mysql -umythtv -p mythconverg If you left it default the password is mythtv too. Otherwise use your own user/pass. select cardinputid, inputname, startchan from cardinput; This will tell you which card is your HD card and the current channel. UPDATE cardinput SET startchan='13' WHERE cardinputid='1'; This will change the channel in the database. Replace 1 with the cardinput from next to your hd tuner and replace the 13 with any valid hd channel. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: add skybox to my MythTV system
Around about 08/08/05 12:07, Oliver Martini typed ... Thanks for your help, I will try it at home tonight. How do you change your channels on the sky box from MythTV. Are you using the RedEye, RF or something different? I use the RedEye. If you go that route, I'll send you my slightly customised redeye.c (serial controller command line app. supplied by redeye) and my wrapper 'skychannel' script which has proven quite resilient. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rm -f .signature [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l .signature ls: .signature: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# exit ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Question about mythstream parsers
I'm trying to write a parser for mythstream to get the new videos headlines and associated video URLs for Australian ABC News etc. I'm not a programmer, but I have managed to write a perl script which connects to the right URL, downloads some pages and extracts headline and video URL info and outputs stuff like this: snip [item] ABC News At least 13 dead after plane crashes off Sicily http://www.abc.net.au//broadbandnews/20050807_1935/hq6.asx [emptystring] [emptystring] [item] ABC News Kylie's cancer scare prompts screening surge http://www.abc.net.au//broadbandnews/20050807_1935/hq7.asx [emptystring] [emptystring] /snip I thought if I put my harvester file (abcnews,pl) as the harvester in streams.res then this information would be what mythstream needs to display the headlines and select one to play the video. I have this in my streams.res file: [item] Video Streams Phills Test http://www.abc.net.au//broadband/player/test.htm Phill's Test Harvester abcnews But when I pick this in Mythstream it just says no url's found. I'm obviously misunderstanding something here about how Mythstream works, and as I'm not a perl programmer I find it really hard to understand what the example.pl etc harvesters are doing. Could anyone please enlighten me as to what I need to do to get this working? Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] BUG? guide jumppoint from livetv doesn't use OSD
Hello, Last night I got my jumppoints set up by modifying the MySQL 'jumppoint' table. I mapped the Guide button on my Hauppauge remote to the Program Guide jumppoint. However, I notice that when I press the Guide button from inside LiveTV, it kicks me back to the main guide instead of the [expected] translucent guide. Seems like a bug to me. Should I submit it to Bugzilla? -- Jesse Guardiani Programmer/Sys Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Problems with Tuning my DVB card for MythTV
Hi, Im trying to get my new TwinHan MiniTer PCI DVB card to work with Myth but Im having no luck at all. At the moment I can use the dvbstream command with its output piped to xine to watch a channel at the moment but I cant get MythTV to see the channels. Any ideas? Im in Australia using a TwinHan Miniter PCI DVB card under KnopMyth. Thanks, Peter Young. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with Tuning my DVB card for MythTV
I'm trying to get my new TwinHan MiniTer PCI DVB card to work with Myth but I'm having no luck at all. At the moment I can use the dvbstream command with it's output piped to xine to watch a channel at the moment but I can't get MythTV to see the channels. Have a look at the thread called Tuning in a DVB-T card from only 4 days ago. Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 01:05, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: Also, what about commercial detection? Is that supposed to work with PVR-x50's, or not? If it is, then I'd love to figure out what I need to change to make it work on my system. Commercial detection works just fine with my box which has a PVR-350 and a PVR-250 in it. Commercial detection AFAIK only works on recorded shows. A commercial flagging process is run after a show completes recording. Once the process is done you can watch the show and set it to auto skip. This works fairly well in my setup. If you are trying to skip commercials in live tv as far as I know that is not currently part of mythtv. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection
At 08:57 AM 8/8/2005, you wrote: On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 01:05, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: Also, what about commercial detection? Is that supposed to work with PVR-x50's, or not? If it is, then I'd love to figure out what I need to change to make it work on my system. Commercial detection works just fine with my box which has a PVR-350 and a PVR-250 in it. Commercial detection AFAIK only works on recorded shows. A commercial flagging process is run after a show completes recording. Once the process is done you can watch the show and set it to auto skip. This works fairly well in my setup. If you are trying to skip commercials in live tv as far as I know that is not currently part of mythtv. but you can use the skip button to jump ahead 30 seconds at a time which works quite nicely as long as you're not watching it live (start it and pause) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] databse issues
Could be your user permissions to the database... you may not have enough permissions to perform the upgrade. Try running the upgrade script as root. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Reza Naima Sent: Mon 8/8/2005 1:37 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Cc: Subject:[mythtv-users] databse issues ok, this auto-db-update thing is driving me nuts. every time i quit and restart mythtv, it wants to upgade the db. i have to go in manually, and update the database to reflect the version change, then mythbackend starts. but when mythbackend quites, and i try to restart it, it thinks it's the old version again. anyone know why? thnx 2005-08-07 23:33:31.567 Upgrading to schema version 1077 2005-08-07 23:33:31.595 New DB connection, total: 3 2005-08-07 23:33:31.623 Upgrading to schema version 1078 2005-08-07 23:33:31.637 Upgrading to schema version 1079 2005-08-07 23:33:31.650 DB Error (Performing database upgrade): Query was: ALTER TABLE capturecard ADD COLUMN dvb_hw_decoder INT DEFAULT '0'; Error was: Driver error was [2/1060]: QMYSQL3: Unable to execute query Database error was: Duplicate column name 'dvb_hw_decoder' new version: 1079 2005-08-07 23:33:31.651 Database Schema upgrade FAILED, unlocking. 2005-08-07 23:33:31.651 Couldn't upgrade database to new schema winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 09:09, Jim Reith wrote: At 08:57 AM 8/8/2005, you wrote: If you are trying to skip commercials in live tv as far as I know that is not currently part of mythtv. but you can use the skip button to jump ahead 30 seconds at a time which works quite nicely as long as you're not watching it live (start it and pause) You are correct, and that does work just fine on my PVR-350 system. I actually rarely watch live tv anymore. I watch recorded shows almost 100% of the time on the myth box, primarily to take advantage of the commercial flagging process. This does mean watching stuff time shifted by about an hour and 12 minutes or so if I want to watch them the same night they are broadcast. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection
At 09:19 AM 8/8/2005, you wrote: On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 09:09, Jim Reith wrote: At 08:57 AM 8/8/2005, you wrote: If you are trying to skip commercials in live tv as far as I know that is not currently part of mythtv. but you can use the skip button to jump ahead 30 seconds at a time which works quite nicely as long as you're not watching it live (start it and pause) You are correct, and that does work just fine on my PVR-350 system. I actually rarely watch live tv anymore. I watch recorded shows almost 100% of the time on the myth box, primarily to take advantage of the commercial flagging process. This does mean watching stuff time shifted by about an hour and 12 minutes or so if I want to watch them the same night they are broadcast. yeah, we've done that as well. The biggest issue we now have is that with multiple tuners, we no longer have to choose which show to watch so we're getting even further behind and if you consider the star treks and 7 days shown during the day we always missed and things like MI-5 shown at 4am... well, the disk is full and I'm unable to write things out to DVD ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] How to make a screenshot of Live TV?
My subject should be self-explanatory, but what I want to know is how to make a screenshot (of MythTV running) Live TV, especially when the OSD is active. Thanks a lot, -- jeroen ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How to make a screenshot of Live TV?
My subject should be self-explanatory, but what I want to know is how to make a screenshot (of MythTV running) Live TV, especially when the OSD is active. Thanks a lot, Unforuntately you can't take a snapshot of video being sent to the screen via xv, so what you need to do is start mythfrontend and tell it to only use X11 for video output. Very slow but it would allow you to take a screenshot. You can do this by setting the NO_XV environment variable like so NO_XV=1 mythfrontend or export NO_XV=1 mythfrontend ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 09:37, Jim Reith wrote: At 09:19 AM 8/8/2005, you wrote: You are correct, and that does work just fine on my PVR-350 system. I actually rarely watch live tv anymore. I watch recorded shows almost 100% of the time on the myth box, primarily to take advantage of the commercial flagging process. This does mean watching stuff time shifted by about an hour and 12 minutes or so if I want to watch them the same night they are broadcast. yeah, we've done that as well. The biggest issue we now have is that with multiple tuners, we no longer have to choose which show to watch so we're getting even further behind and if you consider the star treks and 7 days shown during the day we always missed and things like MI-5 shown at 4am... well, the disk is full and I'm unable to write things out to DVD :) I have noticed that after about 6 months the rate of shows being recorded has tapered off some since there are many more duplicates now. The database does a good job of just recording things that have not been seen before. Of course I did setup a 1TB /video file system for the recordings which helps buffer things. :) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 Remote TV Button
Thank you ... I'll look into this. It seems to be exactly what I'm looking for :)On 8/8/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Phill Edwards wrote:The remote control that came with my PVR-350 has 4 buttons along the top, one for TV, Videos, Music, and Pictures(http://hauppauge.com/images/pvr-150_w_remote_large.jpg)Is there any way to set it up so that clicking the TV button will launch Live TV, the Pictures Button will launch MythGallery, so on and so forth?Have a search for key bindings. I thikn you set them in MythWeb.More specifically, JumpPoints. Mike___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users-- -RobAs seen on bash.org:The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don'twe just take the safety labels off of everything and letthe problem solve itself? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection
At 10:49 AM 8/8/2005, you wrote: On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 09:37, Jim Reith wrote: At 09:19 AM 8/8/2005, you wrote: You are correct, and that does work just fine on my PVR-350 system. I actually rarely watch live tv anymore. I watch recorded shows almost 100% of the time on the myth box, primarily to take advantage of the commercial flagging process. This does mean watching stuff time shifted by about an hour and 12 minutes or so if I want to watch them the same night they are broadcast. yeah, we've done that as well. The biggest issue we now have is that with multiple tuners, we no longer have to choose which show to watch so we're getting even further behind and if you consider the star treks and 7 days shown during the day we always missed and things like MI-5 shown at 4am... well, the disk is full and I'm unable to write things out to DVD :) I have noticed that after about 6 months the rate of shows being recorded has tapered off some since there are many more duplicates now. The database does a good job of just recording things that have not been seen before. Of course I did setup a 1TB /video file system for the recordings which helps buffer things. :) yeah, I just picked up another 200gb disk to throw in. I do wish I could get some type of DVD write to work (within that box rather than the copy to Mac method. I do figure that at some point we'll get into repeat mode where new recordings aren't as frequent ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection
Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: Hello, It took me literally a week of my off time, but I've finally got most of the components of mythtv running to my satisfaction: Home made IR Blaster, PVR 350, 250G disk array over NFS, updated knoppmyth ivtv drivers to 0.3.7b so I can watch DVDs on the 350's TV out, etc... LiveTV and playback are working great, but commercial detection and closed captioning don't work at all. Anyone encountered this before? Is it an ivtv driver issue, or a mythtv issue? Thanks! CC sort of works with the PVR-350, but you have to use the ivtv driver form of it, not the CC functions within MythTV. This means you control CC using your TV's CC decoder, just like if your were watching a normal broadcast. You can enable it by setting the CC options for the ivtv driver in your modules.conf (or wherever is appropriate for your distro). I do it like this in /etc/modules.d/ivtv on my Gentoo system: post-install ivtv /usr/local/bin/ivtvctl -p 6 -l 2 -x 1 -w wss,cc -b wss,cc I say sort of works because it has a bug that renders it nearly unusable - it only works if you start playback from the very beginning of the recording, and it stops if you skip either direction or FF or REW. Basically any motion in the recording other than simply watching it straight through will turn off the CC decoding. This includes commercial skipping. It's being discussed off and on on the ivtv-dev list, and will hopefully be fixed soon, but then again it may not be. Daniel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection
A commercial flagging process is run after a show completes recording. Commerical flagging now starts shortly after a program starts recording and stays behind real-time. Once the program finishes recording the commerical flagger will go to full speed, so the last 5 minutes don't necessarily take 5 minutes to flag. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] databse issues
I had this happen to me post-upgrade (to 0.18) when my startup scripts were causing mythbackend to restart in quick succession during boot. The first invocation was only partway through the database modifications before the restart occurred, leaving the database schema only partly changed and the version number unchanged. The solution was to restore from the backup of the database and invoke mythbackend without the restart. Once the schema was completely changed the upgrade proceeded normally. If you don't have a pre-update copy of the database, you will have to alter the affected tables yourself to match your current schema version. Cheers, Les Reza Naima wrote: ok, this auto-db-update thing is driving me nuts. every time i quit and restart mythtv, it wants to upgade the db. i have to go in manually, and update the database to reflect the version change, then mythbackend starts. but when mythbackend quites, and i try to restart it, it thinks it's the old version again. anyone know why? thnx 2005-08-07 23:33:31.567 Upgrading to schema version 1077 2005-08-07 23:33:31.595 New DB connection, total: 3 2005-08-07 23:33:31.623 Upgrading to schema version 1078 2005-08-07 23:33:31.637 Upgrading to schema version 1079 2005-08-07 23:33:31.650 DB Error (Performing database upgrade): Query was: ALTER TABLE capturecard ADD COLUMN dvb_hw_decoder INT DEFAULT '0'; Error was: Driver error was [2/1060]: QMYSQL3: Unable to execute query Database error was: Duplicate column name 'dvb_hw_decoder' new version: 1079 2005-08-07 23:33:31.651 Database Schema upgrade FAILED, unlocking. 2005-08-07 23:33:31.651 Couldn't upgrade database to new schema ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Les Gondor, Total Graphics[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't know what you're doing, do it neatly ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection
At 11:16 AM 8/8/2005, you wrote: A commercial flagging process is run after a show completes recording. Commerical flagging now starts shortly after a program starts recording and stays behind real-time. Once the program finishes recording the commerical flagger will go to full speed, so the last 5 minutes don't necessarily take 5 minutes to flag. What release of which piece enables this? That would be great ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection
Daniel Segel wrote: Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: Hello, It took me literally a week of my off time, but I've finally got most of the components of mythtv running to my satisfaction: Home made IR Blaster, PVR 350, 250G disk array over NFS, updated knoppmyth ivtv drivers to 0.3.7b so I can watch DVDs on the 350's TV out, etc... LiveTV and playback are working great, but commercial detection and closed captioning don't work at all. Anyone encountered this before? Is it an ivtv driver issue, or a mythtv issue? Thanks! CC sort of works with the PVR-350, but you have to use the ivtv driver form of it, not the CC functions within MythTV. This means you control CC using your TV's CC decoder, just like if your were watching a normal broadcast. You can enable it by setting the CC options for the ivtv driver in your modules.conf (or wherever is appropriate for your distro). I do it like this in /etc/modules.d/ivtv on my Gentoo system: post-install ivtv /usr/local/bin/ivtvctl -p 6 -l 2 -x 1 -w wss,cc -b wss,cc I say sort of works because it has a bug that renders it nearly unusable - it only works if you start playback from the very beginning of the recording, and it stops if you skip either direction or FF or REW. Basically any motion in the recording other than simply watching it straight through will turn off the CC decoding. This includes commercial skipping. It's being discussed off and on on the ivtv-dev list, and will hopefully be fixed soon, but then again it may not be. Ah. Great answer. Thanks. Does anyone happen to know why can't mythtv tap into the CC stream? What's the difference between this CC stream and some other CC stream from a different tuner card? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani Programmer/Sys Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] /video XFS need new HD
On 8/7/05, Pshem Kowalczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 08/08/05, jacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have come to a point where I am running out of space on my /dev/hda due to the amount of video I have recorded (only 80 gigs). I would like to add a new 160g HD to my system but lack the know how to add a disk to an XFS partition in FC2. I found a good tutorial for FC3 off of Jarod's site. Should this be the same FC2? If so, can someone explain what VolGroup00 is when using vgextend? http://svn.wilsonet.com/projects/mythtvology/ticket/87 The VolGroup00 is the name of the lvm volume group. If you have the xfs partition directly on /dev/hda - you have to first convert that to lvm. I'm not sure what's your current setup is (ie - do you have a single partition for the /, or do you use /dev/hda as a part of the lvm volume). The best way to learn something about lvm is to have a look in the howto: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ If you don't have lvm and want to convert to one the easies way is to add the new drive as first phisical volume of lvm, create a single logical volume on top of that, format it using xfs and then copy files over from the old partition/disk. When everything is on the new drive - add the old drive/partition as next phisical volume and then extend the logical one to span across both drives. another good resource for this is: http://knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=LvmHowTo i don't think this is KnoppMyth specific. there are links to more info in the HowTo. It gives a pretty good step-by-step of adding a new drive and setting up LVM. it even walks you through saving your existing data so you don't loose anything you previously recorded. ;) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Re: add skybox to my MythTV system
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Bird Sent: 08 August 2005 12:39 To: MythTV Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: add skybox to my MythTV system Around about 08/08/05 12:07, Oliver Martini typed ... Thanks for your help, I will try it at home tonight. How do you change your channels on the sky box from MythTV. Are you using the RedEye, RF or something different? I use the RedEye. If you go that route, I'll send you my slightly customised redeye.c (serial controller command line app. supplied by redeye) and my wrapper 'skychannel' script which has proven quite resilient. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rm -f .signature [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l .signature ls: .signature: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# exit Out of interest how fast is RedEye at changing the channel on a Sky digibox? I assume I would need Red-Eye Serial for a Sky box? (the normal one looks like it just works on NTL/Telewest boxes). I would also be interested in getting a copy of your redeye.c and skychannel script if that's not too much trouble :) Thanks, Darren ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection
What release of which piece enables this? That would be great Since it's not touted in the release notes of .18 or .18.1, I'd say svn only at this time. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD
Felix, When using avidemux2 make sure you change the output option to MPEG, it looks like you have it set to AVI. I made the same mistake when I first started using it. PBH On 8/6/05, Felix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Ansell wrote: Hi, My Myth box seems to have achieved a high Child Acceptance Factor (WAF not quite so good!) but unfortunately my disk is now filling up rapidly with cartoon shows which need to be watched repeatedly and never deleted! Is there a straightforward way to transfer shows to DVD in a sensible format for viewing on DVD players, etc.My recordings are from DVB-T in TS format. I have tried transcode, but it fails to run with the out-of-the box Myth settings (Myth 0.18.1 atrpms) Any pointers much appreciated. And by the way I am a complete newbie when it comes to DVD authoring.! cheers, Dave I tried three options and all three failed in one way or another :-( . I'll try to describe them here, and if somebody notices some glarious goofs (or not so glarious) - I would greatly appreciate the feedback. I am fairly new to DVD authoring, and to MythTV, and I *have* to burn the shows on DVD for my reputation to survive... 1. mythburn. I got quite far with this... I downloaded from sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/projects/mythburn/ (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mythburn/), tinkered with install.sh (changed directories and user/group names) and successfully ran it: MythWeb is installed at /var/www/html/mythweb Installing DVD Menu option into MythWeb However, there is no DVD menu option - there are *no* options under MythWeb. I restarted backend, just in case - is there any last steps to configure mythweb to enable this option? 2. nuvexport - I got RPM from here http://forevermore.net/files/nuvexport/ (http://forevermore.net/files/nuvexport/). It requires LVE library which I got from sourceforge. But LVE doesn't compile 3. Instructions from mythtv docs http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.20 (http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.20): Step 2 says Run *avidemux2* and open the .nuv file which corresponds with the program you wish to burn to DVD. when I do that, avidemux2 tells me that This looks like mpeg. Do you want to index it?. Sure... When I click on Scan file for audio stream, it finds Mpeg audio 0: 2 channels, 384 kbps shift 66s. So, indexing goes for couple minutes, and then it tells Beware: No valid audio codec found! Save(A+V) will generate bad AVI. Save audio will work. Not only that, but the picture becomes square (say, 4x4 instead of 4x3) and all objects deformed. Any ideas? Please! Felix ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] databse issues
On 8-Aug-05, at 2:37 AM, Reza Naima wrote: ok, this auto-db-update thing is driving me nuts. every time i quit and restart mythtv, it wants to upgade the db. i have to go in manually, and update the database to reflect the version change, then mythbackend starts. but when mythbackend quites, and i try to restart it, it thinks it's the old version again. anyone know why? By chance did you upgrade the 0.18 OSX frontend binary dated 05/28/05? I installed it recently overtop of the 0.17 build and ran into the same errors you describe in your email. Manually dropping the columns throwing the errors on the backend box seems to have fixed the errors. But if I fire up the frontend on my powerbook it breaks the DB each time. CM ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 08:57:28AM -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote: On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 01:05, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: Also, what about commercial detection? Is that supposed to work with PVR-x50's, or not? If it is, then I'd love to figure out what I need to change to make it work on my system. Commercial detection works just fine with my box which has a PVR-350 and a PVR-250 in it. Commercial detection is not dependent on the type of input device. The success rate varies depending on the station, though, as many are now taking active steps to foil commercial detection. There are (or were, anyway) at least five ways to detect commercials: (1) Networks used to insert a countdown signal in the pre-scan region at the top-right of the screen. It was a little white box that would blink and then go solid just before the commercial. The regional stations would use that as a guide for inserting local-run commercials. I don't think that system is used any more. (2) Some shows used to carry the time signal above frame where CC is now located, so you could watch for a break in the time signal. I don't know if it's still there or not. (3) There is usually a few frames of black and silence between shows and commercials and between commercials. It's easily detected. (4) Many stations use a watermark in the lower right corner of the screen so you'll always know what station you're watching (or where the recording came from). That dissappears during commercials. (5) Commercial sound levels are usually a few dB louder than the show they are breaking. Stations don't care if you fall asleep during the movie as long as the first thing you see when you wake up is a beer commercial. :-) AFAIK, MythTV detects using #3 and #4. Some stations are running the commercials closer together to eliminate the breaks, or at least time the first one to cut into the show. My MythTV usually misses the first commercial because there's no blanking, but catches the second one. MyTH's commercial detection tends to break down during the last break before the end of the show. Many stations will run 3 or 4 minutes of commercials and then come back for the closing statement (or cliffhanger) and then roll credits. Myth can see the breaks but can't tell which are commercials and which are the show because the final show segment is too short. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD
1. mythburn. I got quite far with this... I downloaded from sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/projects/mythburn/ (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mythburn/), tinkered with install.sh (changed directories and user/group names) and successfully ran it: MythWeb is installed at /var/www/html/mythweb Installing DVD Menu option into MythWeb However, there is no DVD menu option - there are *no* options under MythWeb. I restarted backend, just in case - is there any last steps to configure mythweb to enable this option? I managed to get the button to show but when I run it it complains during the framegrabbing that it can't get frame 6. I've seen reference to that but no solutions As far as I can tell, the cause of that error is having commercial cutting enabled. I can't burn DVD's with the cutlist enabled, but DVDs work just fine if I disable the cutlist stuff. It produces really slick looking DVDs too. I just wish I could get the cutlist stuff to work. Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection
At 11:51 AM 8/8/2005, you wrote: What release of which piece enables this? That would be great Since it's not touted in the release notes of .18 or .18.1, I'd say svn only at this time. another .19 feature to look forward to ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:51:06AM -0500, Robert Kulagowski wrote: What release of which piece enables this? That would be great Since it's not touted in the release notes of .18 or .18.1, I'd say svn only at this time. I am running 18.1-3 (Debian) and it has a check-box on the 5th or 6th page of the mythtv-setup General settings dialog that says Start auto commercial flagging jobs when recording starts. My flagging is always done about 5 minutes after the recording has finished. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Max number of recordings - unexpected episode deletions
2) I have seen a few times where I have a series set to maintain 5 episodes and it has all 5. I watch one of them and delete it, then two back to back episodes of the series come on and it records both and then realizes it's over the limit then deletes the oldest of the 6. It was like when it started to record the second one it didn't realize it had already reached the limit, then later realized it was over the limit and deleted the oldest one ala complaint observation #1. Myth can be set to 'rotate content'. It has a setting to delete old and record new when the limit is reached; you may have this set. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD
At 12:05 PM 8/8/2005, you wrote: 1. mythburn. I got quite far with this... I downloaded from sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/projects/mythburn/ (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mythburn/), tinkered with install.sh (changed directories and user/group names) and successfully ran it: MythWeb is installed at /var/www/html/mythweb Installing DVD Menu option into MythWeb However, there is no DVD menu option - there are *no* options under MythWeb. I restarted backend, just in case - is there any last steps to configure mythweb to enable this option? I managed to get the button to show but when I run it it complains during the framegrabbing that it can't get frame 6. I've seen reference to that but no solutions As far as I can tell, the cause of that error is having commercial cutting enabled. I can't burn DVD's with the cutlist enabled, but DVDs work just fine if I disable the cutlist stuff. It produces really slick looking DVDs too. I just wish I could get the cutlist stuff to work. How do I go about disabling that so I can try it? My understanding is that it causes errors in the audio sync as well. I assume it's literally just a list of detected sync points and the original recording is there in total otherwise the DVD writing wouldn't care if they were missing on the file. i can see it set to Yes in MythWeb but There doesn't seem to be any way to unset it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:51:06AM -0500, Robert Kulagowski wrote: What release of which piece enables this? That would be great Since it's not touted in the release notes of .18 or .18.1, I'd say svn only at this time. I am running 18.1-3 (Debian) and it has a check-box on the 5th or 6th page of the mythtv-setup General settings dialog that says Start auto commercial flagging jobs when recording starts. My flagging is always done about 5 minutes after the recording has finished. It's in 0.18.1-r2 on Gentoo as well, and it was in earlier 0.18.1 versions as well. Daniel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Removable storage with MythTV
On 8/6/05, Eileen Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've just started building my Myth system and wanted to run an idea by more experienced users to make sure I'm not crazy. Here's the story: I live out in the middle of nowhere where the only TV that exists is satellite (DirecTV, in our area). I have some family moving nearby who is going to get a system, which by default comes with FOUR set-top boxes! Four is a lot of boxes for only two people, and they have graciously offered us the use of one of the extra boxes. So I got this great idea that I'd set up a Myth system at their house, program it from my house (yeah for web interface!), and record myself some TV. My plan is to have a two or three removable hard drives (actually, just some normal drives that are easy to access) and I would swap them around to record shows. So stuff would get recorded onto driveA, then at some point I'd come by and swap it with driveB. Then recording could continue on driveB and I'd take driveA home with me and watch it there. The computer at home would also have Myth, so the file types and arrangements should still work, and I'll get to play with the game emulator, too! Does this make sense? Does it seem at all feasible? From the outside, it seems pretty simple, but those are famous last words. I would love any thoughts on this plan -- tips from anyone who has done anything similar, horror stories on why I am doomed, whatever. Thanks! Eileen Based purely on what I've seen, there's potential for this to work. MythTV seems to fail fairly gracefully if the file it's looking for isn't found. On the theme I'm using (not sure if this is true for all themes), the show name appears dimmer, but not quite greyed out if the file isn't found. I'd think to make this work somewhat efficiently, all you'd need to do is to make a dump of the recorded table, at their place and restore it when you load the hard drive at your place. Then, optionally, you could tell the backend at their place to delete all the recordings. There may be a reason why this wouldn't work, but I can't think of it off hand. -Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection
Hello Chris Great explanation. About point 4. Does it only look for the watermark in the lower right corner ? Looking at German/Swiss/Austria Television it would only catch one channel (RTL-2). 80% use the upper right corner, the others use the upper left corner. You think mythcommflag has to be changed to do a better job ? Pascal - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 6:06 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 08:57:28AM -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote: On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 01:05, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: Also, what about commercial detection? Is that supposed to work with PVR-x50's, or not? If it is, then I'd love to figure out what I need to change to make it work on my system. Commercial detection works just fine with my box which has a PVR-350 and a PVR-250 in it. Commercial detection is not dependent on the type of input device. The success rate varies depending on the station, though, as many are now taking active steps to foil commercial detection. There are (or were, anyway) at least five ways to detect commercials: (1) Networks used to insert a countdown signal in the pre-scan region at the top-right of the screen. It was a little white box that would blink and then go solid just before the commercial. The regional stations would use that as a guide for inserting local-run commercials. I don't think that system is used any more. (2) Some shows used to carry the time signal above frame where CC is now located, so you could watch for a break in the time signal. I don't know if it's still there or not. (3) There is usually a few frames of black and silence between shows and commercials and between commercials. It's easily detected. (4) Many stations use a watermark in the lower right corner of the screen so you'll always know what station you're watching (or where the recording came from). That dissappears during commercials. (5) Commercial sound levels are usually a few dB louder than the show they are breaking. Stations don't care if you fall asleep during the movie as long as the first thing you see when you wake up is a beer commercial. :-) AFAIK, MythTV detects using #3 and #4. Some stations are running the commercials closer together to eliminate the breaks, or at least time the first one to cut into the show. My MythTV usually misses the first commercial because there's no blanking, but catches the second one. MyTH's commercial detection tends to break down during the last break before the end of the show. Many stations will run 3 or 4 minutes of commercials and then come back for the closing statement (or cliffhanger) and then roll credits. Myth can see the breaks but can't tell which are commercials and which are the show because the final show segment is too short. ___ 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] Trouble with my MythVideo listings
I have 2 machines serving out a total of 3 directories to my FE. Video, VideoC and VideoD. VideoC and VideoD are on the same machine and each is shared out. As you can probably guess one is off the C: drive (Winbloze) and the other is off the D: drive. In the VideoD is a folder for episodes of Red Dwarf that I have recorded. While I was sorting them, I created a directory within Red Dwarf called TEMP. It stored some episodes that weren't the greatest quality. When I was done sorting, I deleted this Temp directory. For some reason, when I go to MythVideo, it has my 3 shares listed (VideoC, VideoD and Video) but it also has that Red Dwarf directory in there. Inside that is the Temp directory with files that no longer exist. Everytime I go to update the Video Database it gives me an error stating that those files no longer exist. I tell it YES TO ALL and they still show up in MythVideo. If I mark NO TO ALL, they still show up in MythVideo. How do I get rid of these? Thanks!! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection
I am running 18.1-3 (Debian) and it has a check-box on the 5th or 6th page of the mythtv-setup General settings dialog that says Start auto commercial flagging jobs when recording starts. My flagging is always done about 5 minutes after the recording has finished. Well, there you go then. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Directv D10-300 channel change with satcontrol ordirectv.pl
Greetings Vincent, I picked up the script from http://www.pdp8.net/directv/directv.pl I believe the D10-300 was made by Samsung, however I don't know for sure. The bottom MFR Code is 300, I checked the fcc website but the 300 did not register anywhere. I believe it's a Dtv MFR code. I have pics of the inside and outside if that would help you. I've tried the directv.pl scritp using the rca/d10-200 and d10-100 settings on both serial ports ttyS0 and ttyS1 and get nothing but timeouts. Also have tired the satcontrol and it fails as well. -Jeff On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 09:46 -0700, Vincent Yau wrote: Hi Jeff: I played around with this for a while. I do not know the same set-top box as you. But i am happy to share with you my experience. I have the more conventional RCA DRG430G model. Can you tell me where you got your perl script? I also looked at dtvcontrol.com but I decided to buy the cable from snapstream since I can return it if it does not work (luckily it did work for me). Can you tell me who manufacture your D10-300 box? thanks --Vincent From: Jeff \Muddy\ Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org To: Mythtv Users mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] Directv D10-300 channel change with satcontrol ordirectv.pl Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 21:29:55 -0400 Hi all, I bought the cable off dtvcontrol.com and hooked it up to my backend. I am having problems however as I don't believe I'm talking from my serial port to the sat box. Any idea how to verify if my serial port is working or not? I do have .. $ ls -lh /dev/ttyS* lr-xr-xr-x1 root root5 Aug 2 16:57 /dev/ttyS0 - tts/0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root5 Aug 2 16:57 /dev/ttyS3 - tts/3 and if I run $ setserial /dev/ttyS3 /dev/ttyS3, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3 $ setserial /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4 they appear to be there. However I get nothing back. $ directv.pl box_type D10-200 port /dev/ttyS0 6 Error excessive retries $ directv.pl box_type D10-100 port /dev/ttyS0 6 Error excessive retries also grabbed satcannel v2 and tried it as well as directv.pl in my mythsetup and it does not work. Anyone have any ideas what steps I need to take to get this working? Thanks, -- Jeff Muddy Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Jeff Muddy Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Trouble with WinTV 401 Hauppage Card and LIRC (should be easy to answer)
Jason Mcmillon writes: j Now my biggest question is what do I put into my /etc/modprobe.conf ? alias char-major-61-* lirc_i2c -- Gregorio Gervasio, Jr. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox DVD remote hack. Possible?
On 7/30/05, Joshua King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following up on this -- I've been trying to do this too. The below LIRC driver requires you to compile a kernel module from the same site, however their module is only written to support kernel series 2.4 at this stage. YMMV but I couldn't quickly hack (ie, rewrite) it together for 2.6 yet. There is a hack for version 2.6 kernels. I believe that you can find it in gentoo directly, or on the xbox-linux web site browse the cvs area and you will find a patch for lirc-0.7 I believe. If you do get that driver to work (even under 2.4) please let me know, might be able to troubleshoot what I did wrong on 2.6. Joshua King ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection
On Sunday 07 August 2005 11:29 pm, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: Hello, It took me literally a week of my off time, but I've finally got most of the components of mythtv running to my satisfaction: Home made IR Blaster, PVR 350, 250G disk array over NFS, updated knoppmyth ivtv drivers to 0.3.7b so I can watch DVDs on the 350's TV out, etc... LiveTV and playback are working great, but commercial detection and closed captioning don't work at all. For some reason, myth doesn't look for mythcommflag in /usr/local/bin. I've created a link /usr/bin/mythcommflag that points to /usr/local/bin/mythcommflag. That fixed commercial flagging for me. Look through your mythbackend logs and search for mythcommflag. That would help us identify the problem. IvanK. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] disable ability to exit mythtv?
Hello, I'm running KnoppMyth R5A16. I don't currently have a keyboard or mouse connected to my MythTV (I use the IR remote that came with my PVR-350), so exiting MythTV would require a reboot to get back into MythTV. Is there any way to disable the ability to exit MythTV? -- Jesse Guardiani Programmer/Sys Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Removable storage with MythTV
On 8/8/05, Ryan Steffes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/6/05, Eileen Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've just started building my Myth system and wanted to run an idea by more experienced users to make sure I'm not crazy. Here's the story: I live out in the middle of nowhere where the only TV that exists is satellite (DirecTV, in our area). I have some family moving nearby who is going to get a system, which by default comes with FOUR set-top boxes! Four is a lot of boxes for only two people, and they have graciously offered us the use of one of the extra boxes. So I got this great idea that I'd set up a Myth system at their house, program it from my house (yeah for web interface!), and record myself some TV. My plan is to have a two or three removable hard drives (actually, just some normal drives that are easy to access) and I would swap them around to record shows. So stuff would get recorded onto driveA, then at some point I'd come by and swap it with driveB. Then recording could continue on driveB and I'd take driveA home with me and watch it there. The computer at home would also have Myth, so the file types and arrangements should still work, and I'll get to play with the game emulator, too! Does this make sense? Does it seem at all feasible? From the outside, it seems pretty simple, but those are famous last words. I would love any thoughts on this plan -- tips from anyone who has done anything similar, horror stories on why I am doomed, whatever. Based purely on what I've seen, there's potential for this to work. MythTV seems to fail fairly gracefully if the file it's looking for isn't found. On the theme I'm using (not sure if this is true for all themes), the show name appears dimmer, but not quite greyed out if the file isn't found. I'd think to make this work somewhat efficiently, all you'd need to do is to make a dump of the recorded table, at their place and restore it when you load the hard drive at your place. Then, optionally, you could tell the backend at their place to delete all the recordings. There may be a reason why this wouldn't work, but I can't think of it off hand. Another option is to set up a mirroring software raid, and pull one disk out of it. Myth will not need to fail at all, gracefully or otherwise. SoftRAID normally does not automatically add new drives after they fail (removal qualifies as failure in this context) but since you expect it to always fail in the same way, wou can set up boot scripts to properly insert the disk into the array. For example, if one computer is always the source and the other is always the destination, you'd set up the source to always add new disk as dirty and treat existing disks as current, and the destination to always treat new disk as current and update its permanent disk. This way, you pull the disk out of source computer, life goes on. You plug it into destination, RAID reconstructs, now you have your destination disk updated. You take the drive out of destination, it stays as the mirror of the source disk until you update it again. -- Fedor G Pikus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.pikus.net http://wild-light.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] mythmusic shuts down mythfrontend
Hey guys, I've been using mythtv for almost 7 months now. It's always been mythmusic that's been buggy in my end. I'm able to play music but there are times that it crashes mythfrontend. It only crashes when I play music. Sometimes works well, but sometimes not. 95%, it's working well. I guess it's time to escalate this issue. Can you guys tell me what to do on what I should capture which I can send to people who knows how to figure out what problem I'm encountering(such as what parameter should be added to mythfrontend, debug level, etc). Thank you very much in advance. Neil ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 11:16, Robert Kulagowski wrote: A commercial flagging process is run after a show completes recording. Commerical flagging now starts shortly after a program starts recording and stays behind real-time. Once the program finishes recording the commerical flagger will go to full speed, so the last 5 minutes don't necessarily take 5 minutes to flag. This is in 18? That is very neat. Does this increase the overall load on the CPU? I know the current process pegs the CPU during the 10 or 12 minutes it takes to flag an hour show on my system. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] disable ability to exit mythtv?
On 8/8/05, Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm running KnoppMyth R5A16. I don't currently have a keyboard or mouse connected to my MythTV (I use the IR remote that came with my PVR-350), so exiting MythTV would require a reboot to get back into MythTV. Is there any way to disable the ability to exit MythTV? If all you care is being able to restart myth with a remote, you can do it by launching irexec (from the same startup script you use to lunch mythfrontend) and adding a line for it in .lircrc. Even if you disable exit, there is still a chance that frontend will crash. Another option is to run mythfrontend from a script which does while [1] loop and keep starting it up every time it exits or crashes. Of course, then you won't be able to exit it, but you were ready to live with that. -- Fedor G Pikus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.pikus.net http://wild-light.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD
As far as I can tell, the cause of that error is having commercial cutting enabled. I can't burn DVD's with the cutlist enabled, but DVDs work just fine if I disable the cutlist stuff. It produces really slick looking DVDs too. I just wish I could get the cutlist stuff to work. How do I go about disabling that so I can try it? My understanding is that it causes errors in the audio sync as well. I assume it's literally just a list of detected sync points and the original recording is there in total otherwise the DVD writing wouldn't care if they were missing on the file. i can see it set to Yes in MythWeb but There doesn't seem to be any way to unset it When you go to burn the DVD, there's a checkbox to select the show, and if you've built a cutlist, there's a checkbox for Use Cutlist which is checked by default. Uncheck it, and you should be sailing. Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:51:06AM -0500, Robert Kulagowski wrote: What release of which piece enables this? That would be great Since it's not touted in the release notes of .18 or .18.1, I'd say svn only at this time. I am running 18.1-3 (Debian) and it has a check-box on the 5th or 6th page of the mythtv-setup General settings dialog that says Start auto commercial flagging jobs when recording starts. My flagging is always done about 5 minutes after the recording has finished. To clarify: Do I need to wait until the flagging job is complete to take advantage of it? Or can I start watching the show and take advantage of a partially complete commercial flagging operation as I go? -- Jesse Guardiani Programmer/Sys Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythmusic shuts down mythfrontend
the 18.0 version crashed within a few minutes. The 18.1 didn't crash since 2 weeks. Which version are you using ? Pascal. - Original Message - From: Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MythTV Users mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 7:41 PM Subject: [mythtv-users] mythmusic shuts down mythfrontend Hey guys, I've been using mythtv for almost 7 months now. It's always been mythmusic that's been buggy in my end. I'm able to play music but there are times that it crashes mythfrontend. It only crashes when I play music. Sometimes works well, but sometimes not. 95%, it's working well. I guess it's time to escalate this issue. Can you guys tell me what to do on what I should capture which I can send to people who knows how to figure out what problem I'm encountering(such as what parameter should be added to mythfrontend, debug level, etc). Thank you very much in advance. Neil ___ 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] Max number of recordings - unexpected episode deletions
On 8/7/05, Timothy G. Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anybody else seeing this? Did I miss one of the many settings? Should it work like that? To me it seems like unless I'm running out of hard drive space or I explicitly tell it When episode limit is full, delete old, record new MythTV should *never* auto delete an episode, even if it is over the episode limit. This is exactly what it seems like the episode limit does, and probably should do. This way if you get low on space you can resolve it by setting episode limits and having mythtv automatically take care of which episodes to delete for you. I'm not able to check my setup at the moment, but I would hope there's some way to lock specific episodes to prevent automatic deletion. If not, that's the feature it sounds like we need in this case. Exactly, that's the behavior I expect. When I change the episode limit, Myth should apply that to ALL the recordings. If you want more, than make it unlimited, and let Myth manage it by free disk space instead of number of recordings. Though, there should be an option to say don't delete this. Tivo has similar functionality and I've used it on several occasions. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD
At 01:56 PM 8/8/2005, you wrote: As far as I can tell, the cause of that error is having commercial cutting enabled. I can't burn DVD's with the cutlist enabled, but DVDs work just fine if I disable the cutlist stuff. It produces really slick looking DVDs too. I just wish I could get the cutlist stuff to work. How do I go about disabling that so I can try it? My understanding is that it causes errors in the audio sync as well. I assume it's literally just a list of detected sync points and the original recording is there in total otherwise the DVD writing wouldn't care if they were missing on the file. i can see it set to Yes in MythWeb but There doesn't seem to be any way to unset it When you go to burn the DVD, there's a checkbox to select the show, yes, before you go to the bottom and click the button to select and continue and if you've built a cutlist, there's a checkbox for Use Cutlist which is checked by default. Uncheck it, and you should be sailing. What i remember from the UI I saw was a Yes in the column and no checkbox. And I even think I tried to click the yes and it wasn't a link. I'm doing this from a remote machine. I have considered cutting and pasting the command line and changing the Yes to No. I wonder why the checkboxes are missing on the version I chose. I just loaded it from the recent pointer in the how to... Have to check again tonight or tomorrow morning when I'm home. I'll live with the commercials if I can get the programs burnt Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Mythmusic - no goom...
Since upgrading to 18.1 I don't have goom in mythmusic. Any suggestions I'm using the standard debian packages. David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] disable ability to exit mythtv?
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 13:44:30 -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote: I'm running KnoppMyth R5A16. I don't currently have a keyboard or mouse connected to my MythTV (I use the IR remote that came with my PVR-350), so exiting MythTV would require a reboot to get back into MythTV. Is there any way to disable the ability to exit MythTV? In the settings you can change the exit key to ctrl-escape. If you've only got a remote that'll do the same thing as you want. Cheers, Martin. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried?
Hello, I have a normal NTSC TV. Medium quality and nothing fancy. Should I be worried about burn-in? Particularly, mythmusic scares me, as only the small visualization window is actively updated, and I don't want to run the vis. full screen as it burns too much CPU. Pausing LiveTV concerns me too, and any of the MythTV menus scare me, as they're completely static. :) I started reading a MythTV screensaver thread that I found via google, but I got frustrated after about 10 iterations of people arguing for or against a screensaver without any clear resolution. So I guess the second part of this question is: Was there a resolution? Is a screensaver widely accepted as a good thing, or not? Is there any work being done to that end? But ultimately, should I be careful (and tell my wife to be careful) to avoid burn-in on this TV? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani Programmer/Sys Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Scientific Atlanta 3250 HD STB
A TW rep came over to my house to investigate my 3250's inability to record anything but a few HD channels. The reps on the phone were pretty clueless, and previous techs were also unhelpful. Since I was home sick and didn't have anything better to do, I told them to go ahead and send another person. I've been paying for HBO and can't record it at all. The tech that came over had only 2 other firewire installs under his belt, and both of them were directly to TVs, and he'd also worked once with a customer who had a digital cable card. He seemed genuinely interested in the MythTV setup, so I explained it to him and ran the test capture scripts. After a while, he understood that I was having a problem. He patiently waited for me to test the channels, reboot the box (3250), etc. Then he got on the phone with his supervisor and was told to log into the TW training website to read their information on the firewire regulations and FCC compliance. He let me read it too (since he used my laptop to check it). I of course made a copy of the text. Here it is, pasted below. Pay special attention to section e. My follow up with them is to make a list of every TW Rochester I can successfully capture and then swap the box out and compare. This is what I can record now (test captures 10 sec) 0009WGRC RNews 0110RNews Weather Now 1010NBC HD 1011WXXI HD 1013WHAM (Ch 13) Rochester ABC 1014iNHD1 1015iNHD2 1016WB16HD 1030Discovery HD Theater 1033TNT HD HD CONVERTER WITH A 1394 PORT Due to a FCC requirement, cable companies are now required to provide to customers, upon request only, a HD converter with a 1394 port that allows the customer to connect to either a display device (TV) or record high-def programming into another recording device (VCR, DVD, etc.) for the purpose of archiving programming. Please carefully review the information on the following pages, as all CCP�s must be prepared to answer customer inquiries. The following are key points. More detailed information follows. �As stated previously, this converter allows recording of high-def programs into a VCR or DVD with the playback also in high-def resolution. �Customers must specifically ask for it, we are not required to tell customers that this option is available. �We do not anticipate a high volume of requests. �There are several technical limitations with customers using the 1394 interface: a. Customers will not be able to access the Interactive Program Guide (IPG), any On Demand channel (Free, POD, MOD, AOD, etc.) or PPV services. b. The 1394 interface is strictly a digital link, thus customers will not have access to any channels on the analog tier, Basic Standard. If a customer�s HDTV has an analog/digital switch, they can view the analog channels. This requires component or composite analog connects. c. HDTV sets will not display SA formatted Emergency Alert (EAS) messages over the 1394 interface. In addition, there are a number of HDTV television sets that do not support the capability of switching automatically to analog inputs to display the EAS message. Such sets are not compliant and will not receive content over the 1394 interface. This is a requirement so the customer will not receive the converter. d. DVR service is also not available with the 1394. Those customers that are currently part of the HD-DVR trial would lose the DVR service. e. The 1394 will be set to the following copy control (recording) settings: �On Demand (Free, POD, MOD, AOD, etc.) � Copy Never. �PPV � Copy never. �Broadcast cable channels (Premiums, Basic Standard) � Copy once. �Over-the-air, unencrypted content (locals) � Copy freely. �Only certain HD sets are compatible with the 1394. While some information is available via the Internet, CCP�s should not attempt to verify compatibility. A technician will confirm this during the field visit. �Customers must provide their own Fire Wire cable. �A truck roll (field visit) must be scheduled for all orders. Customers do not have the option to pick up the equipment at a cable store location. We also will not mail the equipment to a customer. �For upgrades: Use OT (points) category 817 equipment category 795. Please make sure to comment the work order that the customer has requested the HD 1394. For all other orders (installs), key regular OT (points) category equipment category 795. Again, please comment the work order. �Technicians will leave a flyer with the customer. The flyer reminds customers not to change any of the box-to-device connections once they are in place as well as a statement explaining non-capable HDTV televisions. See attached flyer. �On the equipment (EQ) screen, the 1394 will be identified by the item number
Re: [mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried?
Hello Jesse Press 5 (or 6) in mythmusic will black the screen. Pascal. - Original Message - From: Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 8:27 PM Subject: [mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried? Hello, I have a normal NTSC TV. Medium quality and nothing fancy. Should I be worried about burn-in? Particularly, mythmusic scares me, as only the small visualization window is actively updated, and I don't want to run the vis. full screen as it burns too much CPU. Pausing LiveTV concerns me too, and any of the MythTV menus scare me, as they're completely static. :) I started reading a MythTV screensaver thread that I found via google, but I got frustrated after about 10 iterations of people arguing for or against a screensaver without any clear resolution. So I guess the second part of this question is: Was there a resolution? Is a screensaver widely accepted as a good thing, or not? Is there any work being done to that end? But ultimately, should I be careful (and tell my wife to be careful) to avoid burn-in on this TV? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani Programmer/Sys Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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: mythmusic shuts down mythfrontend
All the versions I have tried, it did the same. Currently, I'm using SVN trunk of last month. Thanks! mail2 writes: the 18.0 version crashed within a few minutes. The 18.1 didn't crash since 2 weeks. Which version are you using ? Pascal. - Original Message - From: Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MythTV Users mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 7:41 PM Subject: [mythtv-users] mythmusic shuts down mythfrontend Hey guys, I've been using mythtv for almost 7 months now. It's always been mythmusic that's been buggy in my end. I'm able to play music but there are times that it crashes mythfrontend. It only crashes when I play music. Sometimes works well, but sometimes not. 95%, it's working well. I guess it's time to escalate this issue. Can you guys tell me what to do on what I should capture which I can send to people who knows how to figure out what problem I'm encountering(such as what parameter should be added to mythfrontend, debug level, etc). Thank you very much in advance. Neil ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried?
Jesse Guardiani wrote: Hello, I have a normal NTSC TV. Medium quality and nothing fancy. Should I be worried about burn-in? Maybe you should turn off your TV when you're not using it. :) Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried?
Kevin Kuphal wrote: Jesse Guardiani wrote: Hello, I have a normal NTSC TV. Medium quality and nothing fancy. Should I be worried about burn-in? Maybe you should turn off your TV when you're not using it. :) Yeah, I saw a lot of that in the thread, and I do, usually. But sometimes I forget. And sometimes I pause LiveTV, walk away, and forget I paused it. I just don't want to forget and come back to a burned TV, you know? -- Jesse Guardiani Programmer/Sys Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried?
On 8/8/05, Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Kuphal wrote: Jesse Guardiani wrote: Hello, I have a normal NTSC TV. Medium quality and nothing fancy. Should I be worried about burn-in? Maybe you should turn off your TV when you're not using it. :) Yeah, I saw a lot of that in the thread, and I do, usually. But sometimes I forget. And sometimes I pause LiveTV, walk away, and forget I paused it. I just don't want to forget and come back to a burned TV, you know? Why not just leave DPMS on, and set a button on your remote as a jumppoint to Live TV? Works for me. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried?
On 8/8/05, Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I saw a lot of that in the thread, and I do, usually. But sometimes I forget. And sometimes I pause LiveTV, walk away, and forget I paused it. I just don't want to forget and come back to a burned TV, you know? Well you'd have to leave it up for a LONG time before you'd burn it in. However, just enable DPMS and the screen will be blanked after periods of inactivity. When watching myth will disable blanking. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried?
Donavan Stanley wrote: On 8/8/05, Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I saw a lot of that in the thread, and I do, usually. But sometimes I forget. And sometimes I pause LiveTV, walk away, and forget I paused it. I just don't want to forget and come back to a burned TV, you know? Well you'd have to leave it up for a LONG time before you'd burn it in. However, just enable DPMS and the screen will be blanked after periods of inactivity. When watching myth will disable blanking. OK. I'll give this a try on my PVR 350 tonight. Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani Programmer/Sys Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Live TV EPG and Multiple Tuners with Multiple Video Sources
Hi, Been playing with Myth a lot recently and have come across something that's bugging me. After spending a while for looking for a solution (other than writing a patch) I thought I'd ask here. My setup has 2 tuners in it. One of the tuners is digital the other the analogue, as such I can receive different channels on each tuner. All of the channels show up in the EPG with XMLTV data, etc.. My problem is that If I select a channel then it doesn't change tuner for me. I have to manually select the tuner first. For example; I can be watching Analogue ITV1 and want to switch to Digital Sky News. Rather than just going to the EPG and selecting Sky News, I first have to press Y, then go to the EPG and select Sky News. Anyone know of a hidden option or something I've not found yet? If not, Can I least find out if I'm the only person annoyed by this? -- Astrolox http://www.astrolox.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Scientific Atlanta 3250 HD STB
Brian Meehan wrote: [...] Due to a FCC requirement, cable companies are now required to provide to customers, upon request only, a HD converter with a 1394 port that allows the customer to connect to either a display device (TV) or record high-def programming into another recording device (VCR, DVD, etc.) for the purpose of archiving programming[...] Are Satellite companies bound to the same regulation? If so, I think I'll be asking Dish Network for one of these. Thanks for the info :) James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Volume Drop When Changing Channels
Micheal T. Dean wrote: Birch, Robert - BMHO wrote: I am running MythTV 0.17. I did my install using Jarod's guide on FC3. Everything works fabulous, but I am finding that when I change channels, my volume drops real low. If I do a alsactl restore, my volume comes back to where it should be. If I change the channel again, the volume drops again. I set up a cron job to do the alsactl restore every minute, but that really doesn't work great. Any ideas? Myth remembers the last volume you used /within Myth/. Therefore, when you circumvent Myth in changing the volume (i.e. alsactl restore or amixer or alsamixer), the next time Myth sets the volume, it goes to the one it remembers. So, either commit to never using Myth to change volume (disable Use internal volume controls in setup), or use Myth to change volume (F10/F11). My recommendation, disable the alsactrl cron job and start up Myth LiveTV or a recording playback and press F11 until you get the volume you want. Change channels or exit and start a new recording and enjoy. Mike I didn't know there was built-in volume controls. Oops!!! That works much better. Thanks Mike for the quick answer. Robert Birch ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Live TV EPG and Multiple Tuners with Multiple Video Sources
On 8/8/05, Astrolox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a hidden option or something I've not found yet? If not, Can I least find out if I'm the only person annoyed by this? You need to either be using svn or wait till the next release. Changing channels across cards was implemented post .18.1 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried?
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 14:27, Jesse Guardiani wrote: Hello, I have a normal NTSC TV. Medium quality and nothing fancy. Should I be worried about burn-in? With newer TVs is burn in an issue? I know some of the plasma TVs can have burn in issues (CNN station did this to a big plasma display a few years ago, unchanging banner across the bottom). But I thought newer standard TVs had eliminated the old burn in problem of much older TV sets. Is this correct? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Media Center extender?
Hey y'all.. Just a quick question about portability.. Anybody played with the Linksys Media Center Extender? It's a wi-fi box, sporting digital and analog audio, component/svideo/composite outputs, and would probably make a good frontend for the $300 they're asking, but my question is whether or not anyone has any experience with the device, or if anyone's found a way to port mythfrontend to this thing ala the Hauppauge MediaMVP (which sucks). So my specific question: Is it locked in to one specific app? Or does it boot via tftp similar to the MVP? -=A ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] RE: Re: add skybox to my MythTV system
I just added a dummy skychannel.sh script to /usr/loca/bin. when I restart the backend it writes a dummy output to a file, but when I try to change to a channel with this video source it does not call my skychannel.sh script, it also does not change to the video source (PVR-150) from the actual cable source (PVR-350). When I watch PiP I get the input from the skybox to see in the small window, but I'm not able to switch window. thanks for your help, Oliver RE: Re: add skybox to my MythTV system [In reply to] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Bird Sent: 08 August 2005 12:39 To: MythTV Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: add skybox to my MythTV system Around about 08/08/05 12:07, Oliver Martini typed ... Thanks for your help, I will try it at home tonight. How do you change your channels on the sky box from MythTV. Are you using the RedEye, RF or something different? I use the RedEye. If you go that route, I'll send you my slightly customised redeye.c (serial controller command line app. supplied by redeye) and my wrapper 'skychannel' script which has proven quite resilient. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rm -f .signature [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l .signature ls: .signature: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# exit Out of interest how fast is RedEye at changing the channel on a Sky digibox? I assume I would need Red-Eye Serial for a Sky box? (the normal one looks like it just works on NTL/Telewest boxes). I would also be interested in getting a copy of your redeye.c and skychannel script if that's not too much trouble :) Thanks, Darren ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Max number of recordings - unexpected episode deletions
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 02:01:34PM -0400, Pat Vaughan wrote: When I change the episode limit, Myth should apply that to ALL the recordings. If you want more, than make it unlimited, and let Myth manage it by free disk space instead of number of recordings. Though, there should be an option to say don't delete this. Tivo has similar functionality and I've used it on several occasions. There *is* such an option. Go to the watch recordings menu and navigate to the episode you want to keep. Activate the pop-up menu and select don't auto expire. That flag applies only the the selected episode without changing your preference for the recording rule so later episodes will be expired normally. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 01:46:20PM -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote: This is in 18? That is very neat. Does this increase the overall load on the CPU? I know the current process pegs the CPU during the 10 or 12 minutes it takes to flag an hour show on my system. During the recording phase the detection process is limited by the capture stream. If your box is able to detect commercials in faster-than-real-time then CPU load will not be a problem while the recording is in progress (assuming you are using a hardware encoder). Once the recording finishes the CPU load jumps significantly for the last few minutes. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried?
On 8/8/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Message: 25 Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 13:52:12 -0500 From: Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried? To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Jesse Guardiani wrote: Hello, I have a normal NTSC TV. Medium quality and nothing fancy. Should I be worried about burn-in? Maybe you should turn off your TV when you're not using it. :) Kevin If they are talking about having a lower-quality TV, chances are they may not have a receiver/speakers/etc. and turning off the TV will turn off the music as well. -- Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. H. G. Wells, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914) English author, historian, utopian (1866 - 1946) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried?
I heard that modern monitors avoided burn in, but I now started working for a school district that seems to have a habit of leaving thier machines on, and also having the same detailed background for all the machines, I have worked on about 1300 machines for them so far, and I would say about 50% of them are about 5 years old dell machines with the 17 dell monitor with the old desktop imaged burned in, places. maybe they have made advances since these monitors were made (jan 1999 by the sticker), but its a valid concern for me on anything phosphur screens, On the Other Han, I have monitors of the same age that have regular use, and even have had a mythbox that I leave on the menu for days on the time before I remember turn off, that has been running for about 18 months without any signs of burn. I would say burn probably doesnt happen in the space of a few days, but more in the years. so change your myth theme occasionally and use it on different screens, and turn it off when its not in use for long periods and it might just help, unless your FE is supremely under powered you might even think about changing desktop resolution, and even the verticle and horizontal position if you can to have the image placed on different parts of the tube Just a few thoughts On 8/8/05, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: travis wrote: On 8/8/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Message: 25 Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 13:52:12 -0500 From: Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried? To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Jesse Guardiani wrote: Hello, I have a normal NTSC TV. Medium quality and nothing fancy. Should I be worried about burn-in? Maybe you should turn off your TV when you're not using it. :) Kevin If they are talking about having a lower-quality TV, chances are they may not have a receiver/speakers/etc. and turning off the TV will turn off the music as well. Yes, but MythMusic has full screen visualizations and can blank the screen (IIRC) so there isn't much needed there to avoid burn-in if it is indeed a concern. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- - I have GMAIL Invites Mail me directly for one ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Xbox Frontend/Xebian 1.1/Alsa
I found it a lot easier to burn a CD-RW that makes the xbox boot straight into Xebian (you can get it from the xebian distro). If I want to play games, I just take the CD out and it boots to my dashboard. On 8/7/05, CTD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phill Edwards wrote: Yes you do have to select linux (or what ever you want to call it) from the new dashboad. I modified my evolution ini file so that after boot I just need to hit the select button once and my linux boots and starts mythtv. You can follow this guide (http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/evox-ini.php). Oh - I had assumed that if you put the default.xbe for booting xebian in the right place that the Xbox would boot xebian automatically. If not - why not? Isn't that the purpose of default.xbe? Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users That sounds correct. I wanted the ability to play xbox games in the future, so that meant I needed the system to boot into the evolution dashboard as the default. ___ 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] Removable storage with MythTV
On 8/8/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:45:55AM -0700, Fedor Pikus wrote: This way, you pull the disk out of source computer, life goes on. You plug it into destination, RAID reconstructs, now you have your destination disk updated. You take the drive out of destination, it stays as the mirror of the source disk until you update it again. Are you using software RAID? Are you on a budget? If so then you can use just two drives total (one per machine), assuming you're willing to leave the playback machine shut down when you go to fetch new shows. That's the minimal option, yes. With one more drive, you can have playback machine operational all the time. If the moving drive is hot-pluggable, you don't even need to shut down machines. -- Fedor G Pikus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.pikus.net http://wild-light.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Removable storage with MythTV
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:45:55AM -0700, Fedor Pikus wrote: This way, you pull the disk out of source computer, life goes on. You plug it into destination, RAID reconstructs, now you have your destination disk updated. You take the drive out of destination, it stays as the mirror of the source disk until you update it again. Are you using software RAID? Are you on a budget? If so then you can use just two drives total (one per machine), assuming you're willing to leave the playback machine shut down when you go to fetch new shows. Configure both drives with normal Linux and swap partitions and install your favorite distro on each. Then put both drives in one machine and build a mirror array using a large partition from each drive (so they'll have the same serial number). Then split the drives and run both machines in degraded mode. You can do anything you want on the playback machine while the recording machine fills up the RAID partition. When it's time to copy the data, tell the RAID on the playback machine that the partition is dirty and then shut down and pull the drive. Put the drive into the recording machine and tell it to hot add the dirty partition. It will mirror the recording partition onto the playback partition. Now shut down, pull the drive and return home. Your machine should mount the refreshed drive as the recording machine marked it clean again. Rinse and repeat. Since your MySQL database is also on the mirror, your MythTV menu should have all the correct show information. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Sound problems w/ mythtv 0.18.1
Hello I tried the same a couple of weeks ago (18.0) and tried it out today (18.1). I experience the same problems. I have a Intel 82801DB-ICH4. I used the HOW-TO 7.2 Setting the mixer from the command line. Is it normal that the television still produces sound although the option TV-Audio through PVR-350 only is unset ? Sound is coming through Line-in. But no sound is routed to the speakers. Any further ideas ? Pascal - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 12:29 AM Subject: [mythtv-users] Sound problems w/ mythtv 0.18.1 Howdy all, I'm having some frustrating problems getting sound to work under MythTV. I've spent much of the afternoon chasing links from Google without much luck. I have a PVR-350 looped into a sound card (Intel ICH5 onboard 82801EB). Playing audio from the command line works like a charm, but mythtv doesn't produce any sound either when watching live TV or when watching videos using the Internal plugin. In order to save everyone some time: - This is not a permissions problem. The 'mythtv' user is able to play sound from the command line using either 'aplay' or 'play' (the latter of which uses OSS, just like mythtv's default behavior). The mythtv user is also able to record sound. - Neither arts nor Esound nor any other sound daemons are running. - The 350 is definately producing sound. For example, while watching live TV, if I wire the 350 outputs directly to the stereo instead of the line in on the sound card, I have no problems. - The sound card is definately receiving sound via the line in jack. While watching live TV, I can use arecord to record the sound, and later on use aplay to play it back. No problem! - I have tried the default OSS output configuration (/dev/dsp and /dev/mixer) as well as ALSA:default and default. The ALSA configuration generates the warning unable to set ALSA parameters. - aplay -D default mumble.wav works just fine. I'm at my wit's end right now -- the above indicates to me that everything ought to be working, but MythTV is mute. Thanks for your help! -- Lars ___ 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] Live TV EPG and Multiple Tuners with Multiple Video Sources
Yay, thats another item off my wishlist. I'll go play with svn now. Thanks! :) On 08/08/05, Donavan Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/8/05, Astrolox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a hidden option or something I've not found yet? If not, Can I least find out if I'm the only person annoyed by this? You need to either be using svn or wait till the next release. Changing channels across cards was implemented post .18.1 -- Astrolox http://www.astrolox.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox install via http://bit.blkbk.com scripts, does it show progress?
I just used the 0.4.5-beta script to configure myth on Saturday and it worked fine for me. I did not bootstrap since I've had xebian installed for awhile. I learned the hard way yesterday that it's always better to use apt-get uninstall BEFORE you mess with your own compiled myth distribution. I had updated my backend server with the latest code from SVN only to find out that the protocol version was bumped and the released xbox frontend couldn't talk protocol 18! So I tried compiling sources for a new xbox frontend but that didn't work out so well :(. I gave up after a few hours and just ditched the SVN-way. I can wait for a new release. On 8/7/05, David Whyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phill, When you use this script, let me know how it works for you. I had a fair number of times where it stopped doing stuff until I hit the return key a few times. Looking at the source, I wonder if it was supposed to be prompting me for something :| Now, when I run the test version, I don't seem to get a proper mysql connection and stuff. Working on it now... Whytey -- -- GMAIL is 'da bomb babyYEAH I have GMail invites, if you want one, email me direct. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried? - Dev Idea?
On 8/8/05, Andrew Palm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Screen burning is a issue on all types of monitors, regardless of age. The use DPMS or a screensaver. Both of wcich Myth knows how to enable and disable and be done with it. Just like was suggested in the other thread on this topic today. The last thing I want is every frontend in my house trying to launch live TV to act as a screen saver. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried? - Dev Idea?
Hi Guys, Maybe the dev people can steal an idea from TiVo land... which are 1. If the tivo is paused for x amount of time it blanks the screen. 2. If left in a menu for x amount of time it returns to livetv. 3. for MythMusic and other static stuff, maybe have it so either the visualization goes full screen after x amount of time or the screen blanks after x amount of time. Screen burning is a issue on all types of monitors, regardless of age. Yes that includes LCD, plasma and the good old CRT. I have LCD's at work on KVM's that have been left on 'nt4' login screen, which is burnt in. I have read the LCD will loose its burn in, but to do this is need equal time off for time on! (and turning it off for 12 months anit a option) Andrew mail2 wrote: Hello Jesse Press 5 (or 6) in mythmusic will black the screen. Pascal. - Original Message - From: Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 8:27 PM Subject: [mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried? Hello, I have a normal NTSC TV. Medium quality and nothing fancy. Should I be worried about burn-in? Particularly, mythmusic scares me, as only the small visualization window is actively updated, and I don't want to run the vis. full screen as it burns too much CPU. Pausing LiveTV concerns me too, and any of the MythTV menus scare me, as they're completely static. :) I started reading a MythTV screensaver thread that I found via google, but I got frustrated after about 10 iterations of people arguing for or against a screensaver without any clear resolution. So I guess the second part of this question is: Was there a resolution? Is a screensaver widely accepted as a good thing, or not? Is there any work being done to that end? But ultimately, should I be careful (and tell my wife to be careful) to avoid burn-in on this TV? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani Programmer/Sys Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried? - Dev Idea?
Andrew Palm wrote: 1. If the tivo is paused for x amount of time it blanks the screen. 2. If left in a menu for x amount of time it returns to livetv. 3. for MythMusic and other static stuff, maybe have it so either the visualization goes full screen after x amount of time or the screen blanks after x amount of time. i like how a lot of set-top box DVD players have the logo of the manufacturor bounce around the screen for the screensaver... could very easily do something like this with the MythTV logo (or a logo set from the theme itself would prob be best) ... i haven't done much with this, as my FE is setup to blank the screen after X amount of time (whatever the defaults are for X.org in gentoo) and i'm pretty religious about turning off my 27 CRT (i could care less about the stupid TV, it sucks, but i DO care about my electric bill!!) ... obviously, the above could easily be done with an actual X screensaver, but i have seen tons of posts with people having problems with remote button presses != keyboard activity, so it may be better to do something really simple within myth ... -g- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried? - Dev Idea?
On 8/8/05, Donavan Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/8/05, Andrew Palm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Screen burning is a issue on all types of monitors, regardless of age. The use DPMS or a screensaver. Both of wcich Myth knows how to enable and disable and be done with it. Just like was suggested in the other thread on this topic today. I was starting to think my response hadn't made the list ;) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried?
travis wrote: On 8/8/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Message: 25 Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 13:52:12 -0500 From: Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] burn-in. Should I be worried? To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Jesse Guardiani wrote: Hello, I have a normal NTSC TV. Medium quality and nothing fancy. Should I be worried about burn-in? Maybe you should turn off your TV when you're not using it. :) Kevin If they are talking about having a lower-quality TV, chances are they may not have a receiver/speakers/etc. and turning off the TV will turn off the music as well. Yes, but MythMusic has full screen visualizations and can blank the screen (IIRC) so there isn't much needed there to avoid burn-in if it is indeed a concern. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Removable storage with MythTV
Eileen Webb wrote: Hi all, I've just started building my Myth system and wanted to run an idea by more experienced users to make sure I'm not crazy. Here's the story: I live out in the middle of nowhere where the only TV that exists is satellite (DirecTV, in our area). I have some family moving nearby who is going to get a system, which by default comes with FOUR set-top boxes! Four is a lot of boxes for only two people, and they have graciously offered us the use of one of the extra boxes. So I got this great idea that I'd set up a Myth system at their house, program it from my house (yeah for web interface!), and record myself some TV. My plan is to have a two or three removable hard drives (actually, just some normal drives that are easy to access) and I would swap them around to record shows. So stuff would get recorded onto driveA, then at some point I'd come by and swap it with driveB. Then recording could continue on driveB and I'd take driveA home with me and watch it there. The computer at home would also have Myth, so the file types and arrangements should still work, and I'll get to play with the game emulator, too! Does this make sense? Does it seem at all feasible? From the outside, it seems pretty simple, but those are famous last words. I would love any thoughts on this plan -- tips from anyone who has done anything similar, horror stories on why I am doomed, whatever. I'm considering the same thing with my father who gets DirectTV. My thought was to use an external hard disk , not as the primary recording device, but as a storage location. I am planning to use the post-recording user job functions to copy the recording to the removable disk, and export the SQL needed to reimport the recording to my computer (including seektables, etc). This way, I don't have to worry about what happens when things get full as I can let MythTV handle that with auto-expire + re-record and I can remove the disk at any time (the copy/export will simply fail in that case) for transport. To handle the case of what happens when I remove the disk and miss a copy/export operation, I had thought of writing a simple script that I can cron that will check the job queue results, look for failed jobs of this type, and re-run them on a scheduled basis so that they would be picked up again when the disk was reinserted. Or else I would just buy 2 disks and swap them in and out to avoid the problem altogether. My other thought was to make the remote system a slave backed using an SSH VPN type connection and just move the files to my computer post-recording and change the hostname in the DB but I'm still not convinced that is the best way to go vs. removable storage. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au / Foxtel
I had dreadful dramas trying to capture IR data from foxtel remote...the remote sends out multiple commands to work with different set-top boxes and it was too much for my cumbersome lirc skills. luckily someone posted the pace Satellite STB lirc.conf file and i was able to use that...got no idea where i got it from but if that's the STB you've got, i'll send it through. Marty Ravell wrote: I've tried hooking an antenna into the Aerial in of the Foxtel box and entered the frequencies from the previously mentioned link into mythtvsetup. This should give me the FTA channels at their usual positions. No change unfortunately. All I see is static. Hmmm. Might try plugging the composite out from the STB into the 350 to see if I get a picture through Myth. My big problem with this is that I haven't yet gotten LIRC to be able to detect the remote's signal. Not a viable setup for general use just yet (I currently have the STB going straight to the TV via the composite out so we can watch the box without Myth being part of it for the moment). I took a look at /var/local/tv_grab_au/guide.xml which I think is what tv_grab_au produces. Nowhere in it did I see any mention of frequency for the channels. Perhaps I need to play with other versions? Regards Marty -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philip Shead Sent: Saturday, 6 August 2005 4:57 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au / Foxtel Marty Ravell wrote: I'm looking at the second page of 'Channel' setup in mythtvsetup and I note that the 'Frequency ID' column is empty. How does this normally get filled? I believe tv_grab_au scripts are supposed to be able to do this now? When I try to use the 'Watch TV' function in Myth I get a screen full of snow I am thinking that perhaps I need this Frequency ID information. Yes My rig is connected to a Foxtel STB here in Sydney Australia. I'm using the RF connection and I understand it that Foxtel sends the free-to-air signals down this as well as the actual cable channels (Although the cable channels appear on just one channel and are switched when you choose them on the remote) I assume this hasn't changed but the foxtel box merely sends out the fta channels over the same rf channel as if they were a pay channel ie only if you have it selected on the box, so you are stuck with antenna reception for these. If anyone has this setup properly would you mind listing the frequencies of the FTA channels? (2, 7, 9, 10, SBS) http://accesscomms.com.au/AUSTV.htm ___ 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] Latest SVN pegs my CPU for 720p and 1080i
Well, I upgraded my svn 6836 revision to svn HEAD (7004 as of this afternoon), and lo-and-behold! The CPU is actually LESS for 720p (45-50% vs ~65%) and 1080i (75% vs 85%) than I was getting with 0.18.1! Yay! So, I think the problem was one of two things: 1) the database upgrade done from 0.18.1 to 6995 left some cruft around, or 2) when I built 6995, I told it to optimize for my CPU, perhaps that caused a performance degradation. I'll probably rebuild optimized for i686 again and see if it slows down. David. David Asher wrote: I ended up backing up to 6836 to try the Cuy patches for ATSC scanning. To be safe I started with a new mysql database. I'm now getting the CPU load I expect. I'll move forward to the latest again soon to see if it was the database causing my performance problems. I haven't seen the recording problems you mentioned, but I've only got 1 pcHDTV HD-3000. David. Blair Preston wrote: I just get a little audio stuttering on my 3.2 prescott, but skipping forward and back seems to fix it. Latest alsa-1.0.9b stuff. Seems like some kinda buffer issue but I haven't found a way to fix it yet. The only other wierdness I see is when both pcHDTV HD-3000's are recording at the same time and I'm watching something, after about 20 minutes of recording, my CPU pegs at 80% or so, even when I shutdown viewing, it won't clear. Th cx88atsc driver reports a buffer overflow at the same time the CPU pegging starts. This doesn't happen if I'm watching through a remote frontend, only if I'm watching on the master doing the recording. Donavan Stanley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 8/7/05, David Asher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just switched over from 0.18.1 atrpms mythtv to building from the latest svn (changeset 6995, I was hoping to play with the new internal dvd player). Mythfrontend now pegs my CPU when playing 720p recordings and I get frame drops on 1080i recordings. I've got a 3Ghz Prescott, and under 0.18.1 720p was ~65% CPU, 1080i ~90% CPU -- no frame drops. Is anyone else seeing this? I haven't changed anything else X configuration-wise. I'm using latest SVN with a 2.5ghz Celeron outputing to a 720p display and have no issues with HD content playback. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Trouble with WinTV 401 Hauppage Card and LIRC (should be easy to answer)
Still no luck. alias char-major-61-* lirc_i2c did not work. BTW, dmesg shows: ... lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61 cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.4 loaded lirc_i2c: chip found @ 0x18 (Hauppauge IR) lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 10 So I don't know what is wrong. I am about to give up and build myself a serial receiver... On 8/8/05, Gregorio Gervasio, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Mcmillon writes: j Now my biggest question is what do I put into my /etc/modprobe.conf ? alias char-major-61-* lirc_i2c -- Gregorio Gervasio, Jr. ___ 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] Lirc and sound not working after upgrade
On 8/7/05, mogens lunde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Approximately every week I do an apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. After the last of these mythtv could no longer access the backend server. I found out that the upgrade had changed my directories from /var/lib/mythtv to /mnt/store, and that I had to alter permissions in /var/lib/mythtv. After changing back I could restart mythbackend, and access my stored recordings. But no sound, and remote not working either :-( In the mythfrontend log I have these errors: mythtv: could not connect to socket mythtv: Connection refused lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages. So I guess that this might be caused by the ugrade having changed some other permissions, but I simply do not know where to look and what for. Basically I do not understand for what reasons an upgrade can alter permissions on already existing files and folders. But I guess there is some kind of good explanation. Thanks for any help. I'd check to make sure that you have new kernel modules for LIRC and ALSA if you're kernel has been upgraded using apt-get dist-upgrade. The other possibility you mention is permissions - I'd 777 the files and nodes giving you problems whilst you try to work out what is causing the problems. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MythTV and SBLive (Echo Problems)
Hello, I am new to the list Hoping to find the solution to my problem here. I just installed MythTV on a Mandrake 10.2 Limited Edition install. I am running 1GB of RAM, a Pentium 4 2.0Ghz CPU and a Avermedia TV Tuner card (bt878) with a external loop cable into my Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Value card. Configuration is using SAMBA to send the storage files to my file server. Buffering is stored on the local drive on its own partition. The problem I am having is with the audio. On the initial install MythTV was working fine but I had a weird echo issue. The audio was in sync but there was a faint echo a second or two behind it. While watching TV, I rewound the feed and played back a few minuets and the echo was still there, so the audio along with the echo seems to be captured in the buffer. I started scouring the web and I found a post to another list that indicated turning down the AC97 option solved this persons problem. It got rid of the echo but I ended up with out of sync audio. More into my investigation I am finding out that in order to get any audio, the following devices must be turned up: PCM, WAVE, AC97 Capture, and EMU10K1 PCM Send. If any of these get turned down, I lose all audio. My line in is of course set for CAPTUR and is muted. I know that the SBLive card uses two chips (both AC97 and EMU10K1) and Im sure the issue is somehow related to this. I saw http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2002-December/003308.html which offers a possible solution but I was never able to find if this person ever posted his asound.state file but I wasnt able to find it. My ultimate goal is to use the SPDIF output to send it to my Dolby Digital receiver but right now I would be happy to just get audio working J Thanks in advance for any help anyone has. -- Bob K Mertz ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
