date:20051005

ld: cannot find -lXxf86vm

can't figure out what package I'm missing?

thanks!

Steve


On Wednesday 05 October 2005 15:50, Adam Egger wrote:
> On 10/5/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Well, I'm gunna give it a shot in Debian and see what happens. I just
> > priced a P4 system minus the extra parts i already have with an nice
> > Ahanix case, so at worst I might just put a dedicated MythTV system
> > together.
>
> I'm running myth builds from SVN for ages on my Kanotix64. There were
> problems with mmx on 0.18.1 so you can switch to SVN (I would ;)) or
> just disable mmx with ./configure.
>
> Adam
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Re: [mythtv-users] xbox linux distros

2005-10-05 Thread Frank Lynch

On 10/5/05, Robert Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 10/4/05, Phill Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Does anyone have advice on a good Xbox Linux distro for a Myth frontend
> > > system?
> >
> > http://bit.blkbk.com/
> >
> > Also heaps in the archives on this, some from just the last few days.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Phill
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> I'm using xebian with great success. I have installed it within the xbox
> filesystem, so I can launch it from my dashboard and still have the ability
> to play games and do all the other stuff on the xbox. I have also been able
> to copy the whole E:/xebian directory from one box to another and have it
> all work. I think making a distribution of this directory would be helpfull
> for others, since it is a complete bootable distro with MythTV already
> configured. There are only a few things that one would need to change... IP
> address and hosts file (right now my hosts file has an entry for 'mythtv'
> which point to my backend). If anyone thinks this sounds like a good idea,
> please let me know. I could start by making a torrent and perhaps ask xbins
> if they will host the torrent file.
>
> --
> Rob Anderson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Hi Rob,
I think that this is a fantastic idea!
All we'd really need (at least, to begin with) is a torrent containing
a tarball of your E:\xebian directory and a very short readme file.
The readme could simply contain a list of files that need
modification.
I'm hoping to build my first xbox frontend soon (I'm just waiting on a
usb adapter cable to arrive). I would be happy to help you flesh out
the readme, or even better still I could make a start on some scripts
to automate the process.
cheers!
--Frank
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[mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

2005-10-05 Thread Reza Naima

Anyone know of a good, inexpensive fanless frontend barebones system I
get get for mythtv?  Something with a bit of extra power would be good
for the HD viewing.  And most importantly, something with some decently
supported hardware - I'm tired of digging through source to get various
drivers to work better with mythtv.

Thanks!
Reza


p.s. If I can this to boot of PXE (?) so it doesn't need an HD, then
that would be even better!
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Re: [mythtv-users] advice on which hardware revision of xbox as a frontend

2005-10-05 Thread Phill Edwards

> For linux and Myth, I use xebian installed within the xbox filesystem, no
> linux partitions. This is convenient because the whole distro can be copied
> from one xbox to another. Perhaps this could be distributed? Only things to
> edit are IP Address and host file, and you would have a working xebian
> distro with Myth configured. Sound interesting? Let me know. I could zip it
> all up and make a torrent.

Sounds good - I'd be keen to try that.
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[mythtv-users] Re: Trouble getting component outputs to work with nVidia 6200

2005-10-05 Thread Alan Anderson

I am far from an expert but I have been twiddling with this myself.  The first 
paramater 26.625 on your mode line needs to be in the HorizSync range  it is 
not.


>Section "Monitor"
>       Identifier "Monitor0"
>      VendorName "Some Vendor"
>       ModelName "HDTV"
>      HorizSync 31.5 - 37.9
>      VertRefresh 59.9 - 60.1
>       ModeLine "720x480" 26.625 720 752 824 896 480 481 484 497 -hsync 
>-vsync
>Now, at first, this failed completely, and X wouldn't even start. After 
>checking out my Xorg.0.log file, I saw that it didn't like the hsync 
>range of my 720x480 Mode. However, it did like the default 800x600 
>mode.! So, just for fun, I changed

Change the first paramatere to  be in the HorzSync range (or adjust the 
HotrzSync range) and restart X and then look at the Xorg.0.log to see if the 
720x480 is acceptable.  Then if its acceptable try to use it.


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Re: [mythtv-users] amixer settings changing suddenly

2005-10-05 Thread Michael T. Dean


Ricardo Kleemann wrote:


Hi,

I'm having a problem where mythtv is "mysteriously" changing my amixer 
settings, somehow... I'm not sure why and how it's happening, but I 
have to constantly be running amixer commands in order to get the 
volume set right.


So I'll set amixer the way I want it, but as soon as I pause liveTV 
and come out of pause, the amixer settings get reset once again. It 
seems also that unless I run amixer AFTER mythfrontend is started, 
I'll lose my initial settings.


Does myth run commands internally that cause resetting of the values?

How can I ensure that my settings "stick" throughout usage of mythtv?


Uncheck the option:

Use internal volume controls
MythTV can control the PCM and master mixer volume.  If you prefer to 
use an external mixer "program, then disable this option.


Although that means that you always have to use an external program to 
change volume.


Probably what you want to do, instead, is quit messing with amixer and 
do what you've told Myth you plan to do--use internal volume 
controls...  Use F11/F10 to raise/lower volume.  After configuring Myth 
to use either the PCM or Master control, change the other control with 
amixer to 90% or so and adjust the Myth-controlled control using volume 
up/down (F11/F10).


Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, record from VCR

2005-10-05 Thread Jesse Guardiani

On Friday 19 August 2005 11:17 pm, Nick wrote:
> On 8/19/05, Jesse Guardiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Nick wrote:
> > 
> > >On 8/19/05, Jesse Guardiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>Hello,
> > >>
> > >>I have a PVR 350. Normally it's primary input is SVideo from my Dish
> > >>reciever. However, I'd like to record some of my old VHS tapes to
> > >>disk via the tuner input so I can throw away the old tapes and preserve
> > >>their quality over time.
> > >>
> > >>I know I can switch inputs on the 350 via 'C', but what is the best way
> > >>to go about recording a 2 hr VHS tape? Is this even possible from the
> > >>LiveTV interface?
> > >>
> > >>Ultimately, I'd like these recorded tapes to show up under the video
> > >>section, but my CPU is way underpowered right now and I can't
> > >>decode mpeg in real time using software mplayer, so it would be better
> > >>for them to show up in the TV section for now (this way Myth will
> > >>make use of the 350's hardware decoder). But I'll need to label them
> > >>somehow and preferably put them all under a specific category/show.
> > >>
> > >>Any ideas?
> > >>
> 
> Jesse,
> 
> >From Erik's reply to another thread, this might be exactly what you're after:
> 
> http://registration.hauppauge.com/webstore/hardware1.asp#av_cable
> 
> It would allow both devices to be hardwired separately to SVideo
> inputs and the changing of the input can be controlled via software.
> 
> *Thanks Erik*

I bought one of those and shelved it for a while. I finally got around
to testing it out a few days ago, and the video input works GREAT, but
the audio inputs don't show up in `ivtvctl -A`:

# ivtvctl -A
ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMAUDIO
Input   : 0
Name: Tuner Audio In

Input   : 1
Name: Audio Line In

I'm running ivtv 0.3.8. Seeing as how someone here suggested that I
buy one of these addon av_cables, I thought it would surely work!

Does anyone have one of these working properly for audio input using
ivtv? What version of ivtv are you running? And what card type do you
have (i.e. 150/250/350/etc)?

Thanks!

-- 
Jesse Guardiani
Programmer/Sys Admin
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Re: [mythtv-users] Large-scale myth farm

2005-10-05 Thread Daniel Kristjansson

On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 11:15 +0100, Illtud Daniel wrote:
> Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> 
> > A note on the DVB subtitles, these are almost always images not
> > text.
> 
> Damn. Anybody know if that's the case in the UK, specifically?
I've read this is the case in "most" of the UK.
I can't check that myself...

> Isn't that a real step backwards in terms of accessibility?
Yes and no. The fonts on all DTV implementations I know of are
not so good, and are fixed to the device. If you render them
at the broadcaster you can buy/license/create better fonts,
add new character sets, etc. The downside is that it lowers
the potential for innovation on the decoder side. You can't
buy a TV with new fonts, or a full-res text zoom feature, etc.

Ideally you would transmit both, letting the user chose which
one to use. When your TV is new and renders better text you
use that, when new symbols (Euro anyone?) appear you can 
decide to switch to the broadcaster captions. This would
also allow text scanning code, allow you to continue to use
your TV when you move to another country with a different
character set, etc, etc.

I believe that DVB allows transmitting both.

-- Daniel

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Re: [mythtv-users] How to issue command when starting a new recording?

On 10/5/05, Kevin Kuphal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It sounds like your are using ALSA then or at least the ALSA/OSSemulation.  If you have the alsamixer running when a recording starts,do you see the CAPTURE input device on your recording card go mute?
My alsamixer only shows the soundcard (not the TV Tuner card).  

When sound is not working, on the the line-in/capture volume is never muted, and muting and unmuting has no effect.

If I run "v4lctl volume mute off", and thus I can hear sound from my TV
card, then muting and unmuting the line-in on the soundcard has an
effect.

To me, this seems to rule out the soundcard as the source of this problem.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Sharing VIDEO with remote FE - Help Please.

2005-10-05 Thread Victor

AFAIK mythvideo shares one table across all its clients. So your FE has
videos at /myth/share-videos and your BE/FE has them in /myth/video. 
Put the NFS mount in the same place  and it should work.  As far as
syncing... that sounds like another issue.

Vic

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I am trying to setup a front-end (FE) to use the stored VIDEO in the
> /myth/video directory on the BackEnd (BE) that also has a FE. All are
> Knoppmyth. I had to change the player's options to use X11, but now
> the BE with an integrated FE can see and play the VIDEO fine. The
> remote FE can not.
>
> 1) the 'data base' that holds the VIDEO information seems to be not
> shared. I have to go in and recognize the video on the BE for it to
> play them, then the FE states, that the video is moved, and needs to
> re-recognize them (setup/video), then the BE/FE will not see them, and
> around and around I go.
>
> 2) the FE has a BAD lip-Sync Issue that is not there on recordings
> from TV or live-tv. Note that one of the VIDEO is a TV recording moved
> to the VIDEO directory.
>
> What I did: 
>
> Quick explanation:
> -
>
> BE/FE - Created a NFS mount of the /myth direcotory
> FE - mounted the NFS mount
> FE - changed the VIDEO Playback SETUP to point to the new mount for
> video (and posters)
>
> More Detailed explanation:
> -
> following directions at 
>
> http://knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=NFSHowTo
>  
>
> but I had no /etc/export
>
> SO I created one with a single line
>
> /myth/video 192.168.11.0/24(ro) #Export my videos
>
> then did the;
>
> /etc/init.d/nfs-common start
> /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server start
>
> then updated the kernal
>
> update-rc.d nfs-common defaults
> update-rc.d nfs-kernel-server defaults
>
> then I went to the frontend 
>
> mkdir /mnt/share-videos
> mount 192.168.11.105:/myth/video /mnt/share-videos
>
> Then updated fstab with
>
> #mount for video sharing
>
> 192.168.11.105:/myth/video /mnt/share-videos nfs defaults,auto,noatime 0 0
>
> and changed the MYTH application's setup to look for videos in the 
>
> /mnt/share-videos
>
> directory
>
> PROBLEMS:
>
> It did not work!
>
> I can see the files, but Myth on the FE states that they are 'not
> there', I went to video setup, re-recognized the videos, and then they
> played. They played poorly. Lip Sync was out my 30 seconds
>
> I went back to the BE/FE and tried to play the videos. The BE/FE
> needed to re-recognize the files, then the played with no lip-sync issue.
>
> changed the mount to be the whole /myth directory and nothing.
>
>
>
> From:
> Kevin Cossaboon
> Home MAC Mini Computer
> http://www.cossaboon.net
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>
>
>
>
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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out with Xv support

2005-10-05 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:34:21 -0400, Jeff Simpson wrote:

You might check out: http://groundstate.ca/c3mythtv

Down a ways there is a discussion about compiling the Xv, and XVmc drivers
for a VIA motherboard... But the process will be exactly the same for you
to do in gentoo, subject only to a choice of the difference video driver
you are applying it to.

There is another gotcha if you are doing this from source and that is that
if you are using an oddly named kernel, the modules will get built under
/lib/modules in a folder called something like  2.6.12-12custom... You
have to move the drivers to the correct place which is something like 
/lib/modules/2.6.12-12mdk-i686-4GB-up/kernel/drivers  etc etc etc...

The compiling itself is nothing... But note, you may have to re-compile X
from scratch in order to make this work... Not difficult but
time-consuming.. Takes about 1 and three quarter hours on my Via SP13000
box...Definitely a start and go to lunch project.

Geoffrey


PS... I noticed that you inadvertantly spelt your first name wrong!

PPS... Unless you live in the Toronto or Ottawa area (in which case you
might be one of the ones I already know) you are the 4th distinct Jeff
Simpson I have run across... it's almost as bad as being a Colin Campbell!
G.

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Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 

Mississauga,Ontario, Canada  Facsimile:   905-271-1638

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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV muting volume, but TVTime fixes it.

2005-10-05 Thread David Watkins

On 04/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a Celeron D 2.93 master backend with a ATI TV Wonder PCI (attached to
> the onboard motherboard soundcard) and Hauppauge WinTV GO-Plus (attached to
> a SoundBlaster Live Value).  Both are bt8x8 cards.  I was previously running
> Fedora Core 3 and MythTV 0.18.1 without any audio problems, but I needed to
> reinstall the OS so I upgraded to Fedora Core 4.
>
>  I have no volume when I watch LiveTV or recordings from the ATI card.  The
> WinTV card works fine.  I have a patch cable from the ATI's line-out to the
> soundcard's line-in and headphones attached to the speaker-out of the
> soundcard.  I hear nothing.
>
>  The strange thing is that if I run TVTime, audio works fine.  Then, if I
> shut-down TVTime and immediately go into MythTV LiveTV (on a remote
> frontend), I can hear the channel and switch channels no problem.  But
> inevitably, after exiting to the menu and going back into LiveTV, the volume
> mysteriously gets muted.  At that point, I plug my headphones directly into
> the ATI's line-out and also now hear nothing.  Start up TVTime again, and I
> can hear audio.
>
>  The whole time, anything recorded/Live TV from the WinTV works fine with
> audio, so I know I don't have a problem on the frontend side of things.
>
>  Is possible that something to do with the msp3400 driver in FC4 is screwing
> things up?
>
>  Thanks!
>

I just noticed that in mythtvsetup 'Capture Card' screen, there's a
tick box titled:

Do not adjust volume

that has the help comment "Check this option for budget BT878 cards ..
that require the audio volume left alone"

It doesn't seem to be checked by default, so maybe you could check if
setting it stops mythtv messing with your volume..

Just a thought.

D
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[mythtv-users] cable box woes

2005-10-05 Thread Steve

I have a Scientific Atlanta Cable box that outputs cable via S-Video into myPVR-500. I'm not sure exactly where I plug it into my PVR-500 and I'm alsonot sure what settings need to be modified in mythtv-setup. (video0/s-video1
or 2, video1/s-video1 or2). I've tried both S-Video slots on my PVR-500 withvarious settings in mythtv-setup to no avail. They way it's supposed to work(AFAIK) is that lirc sends a change channel command to my cable box, the
cable box switches to the specified channel, outputs via the s-video cableinto my PVR-500 and myth records via the S-Video port on the 500. 
Thank you and any help is appreciated. 
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Re: [mythtv-users] xbox linux distros

2005-10-05 Thread Victor

I'm using gentoo (not gentoox) and netbooting... I made my F parition
into swap which causes some games to not play nice, but I'm trying to
use the extra 2 gigs in my 10gig for the swap so that the games wont be
affected.  It runs rather nice and I've used a few things from gentoox
ie temp, fanctl, led, eject.  It runs nice for a $100 x86 machines.

Vic

Joe Harvell wrote:

> Does anyone have advice on a good Xbox Linux distro for a Myth
> frontend system?
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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV - PVR500 - Auto Reboots

2005-10-05 Thread Paul K

  I had this problem with my PVR350/500 setup with a VIA KT333
chipset. Per someone's suggestion, I flashed the motherboard's BIOS
with the latest firmware. Took care of it for me! YMMV

Paul

On 10/5/05, Erik Pettersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well my new problem is when it starts to record a scheduled program it> automagically reboots after 30 secs.>>I've seen this popup periodically on the list... can you give someappropriate system specs?  As there are a few cantankerous chipsets
that will cause this behavior.If you use the  "PVR-500 reboot"  search query herehttp://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/
you'll find a few examples of previous threads.possible relevant thread:http://forum.byopvr.com/dvr/index.php/topic,3212.0.html
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Re: [mythtv-users] advice on which hardware revision of xbox as a frontend

On 10/5/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

For linux and Myth, I use xebian installed within the xbox filesystem, no linux partitions. This is convenient because the whole distro can be copied from one xbox to another. Perhaps this could be distributed? Only things to edit are IP Address and host file, and you would have a working xebian distro with Myth configured. Sound interesting? Let me know. I could zip it all up and make a torrent.

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Re: [mythtv-users] xbox linux distros


On 10/4/05, Phill Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone have advice on a good Xbox Linux distro for a Myth frontend> system?
http://bit.blkbk.com/Also heaps in the archives on this, some from just the last few days.Regards,Phill___mythtv-users mailing list
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Re: [mythtv-users] New MythMusic Theme - 4 bins

2005-10-05 Thread Ross Campbell

On 10/2/05, Nick Parkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have designed a new layout for MythMusic which uses4 bins on the screen.

The current myth UI is more focused around having playlists created and manuevering between and inside of playlists.

I like your design for impromptu music selection with a remote

I don't think I'd miss the mini-visualization, either.

-Ross


and anyone interested can download it here...
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=121754

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[mythtv-users] Re: New MythMusic Theme - 4 bins

2005-10-05 Thread Brad


Nick,

I'm SOOOo happy to see the work you are doing with the MythMusic  
theme. I find the old theme completely unusable -- at least in my  
case. It may have been good for navigating or creating playlists for  
a couple hundred songs, but my music library is over 2300 songs --  
most of those are 2 hr long sets -- and navigating the current theme  
is a nightmare.


At first glance, I like your theme much better. Unfortunately I can't  
try it until I update (I'm running .16.1) but I have a few comments  
to pass along, that hopefully you or someone else will find useful...


- I've always admired Apple's UI in iTunes' browse mode and thought  
that a derivative of that would work well in MythMusic -- simplified  
for remote control access, of course. In some ways, your theme seems  
to already provide some of those benefits. See an iTunes screen here:  
http://homepage.mac.com/bdolman/iTunes_Screen.png . In particular,  
the Playlists (which includes an all-music "Library" listing), Genre,  
Artist, and Album can easily be selected to narrow the list of Songs  
in the lower panel. This works incredibly well. You can narrow the  
listing by changing any of the panes from its default "All" setting  
and the other panes update to reflect the changed selection. For  
example, changing setting the artist to "Felix da Housecat" shows all  
songs by that artist and updates the Albums list to only the albums  
by that artist -- the song listing can be further narrowed by  
selecting one of the albums, which then only shows the songs from  
that artist on that album. See a screenshot here: http:// 
homepage.mac.com/bdolman/iTunes_Screen2.png


- For really long listings, I thought it would be beneficial if  
MythMusic let you use the remote as a keyboard to jump down the  
list... 2 = abc, 3 = def, 4 = ghi, etc. So highlighting one of the  
lists, such as artists, and pressing 8 twice would jump down to the  
beginning of artists that start with "U" ("Underworld"). Navigating  
the listing for a large number of songs is my number one complaint  
with the current theme (you try scrolling through several hundred  
songs from a remote!)


- I know I'm totally dreaming, but if MythMusic could read the  
playlist files generated by iTunes, particularly "smart" playlists,  
I'd be in heaven. I just store my entire iTunes library on my Myth  
box and connect to it over the network from my computer (works great  
and frees up lots of space on my computer). I manage all my playlists  
through iTunes anyway, so if MythMusic could just read those files it  
would take a lot of the burden off creating the perfect remote  
accessible interface. Smart playlists are amazing -- you can set a  
playlist that, for example, lists all songs by a particular artist  
which is updated automatically if you ever add more songs by that  
artist (basically these are playlists defined by rules instead of a  
fixed list).


Ok, I've written enough. Sorry for the long post... I just got  
excited... I love the changes you've made so far. I can't wait to  
check it out!


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Re: [mythtv-users] Audio channels (+/-) on XBOX frontend?


On 10/3/05, David Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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192.168.1.7 is the IP of my windows box. The mythtv-setup interface will load in a window on your windows box and configure away. It's kinda slow, but it works.
 
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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out with Xv support

2005-10-05 Thread Jesse Guardiani

Jeff Simpson wrote:

Don't Panic! ivtv is really quite easy to build and install. The
xdriver
is more difficult, but still
doable.

> Is there a howto or doc anywhere that describes or guides you
through
> the process of enabling Xv on the 350's TV-Out?
>

Nothing to it really. Build and install the ivtv 0.3.8 and xdriver
0.10.6, and you're done. Just
use XV and enjoy.

Is there a howto on that?

No. I should have had the presence of mind to take notes when I 
originally compiled it, but I didn't.

installing ivtv is fine with gentoo, emerge should be able to do it 
without any problem. compiling the xdriver is so far proving to be a 
pretty hefty challenge. Are there particular versions of X that this 
is known to work with? I am working on writing an ebuild for gentoo 
that puts ivtv into the correct directory among x.org  
5.8.2-r5, but it doesn't want to compile. What directory am I supposed 
to give it when I run xmkmf (it says "X SOURCES" but that is very 
vague...what directory is it looking for?). What should I do when it 
dumps out with this message:

ivtv_xv.c: In function `IVTVStopVideo':
ivtv_xv.c:459: error: storage size of `colorKey' isn't known
ivtv_xv.c:462: error: `IVTVFB_IOCTL_SET_COLORKEY' undeclared (first 
use in this function)

ivtv_xv.c:462: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
ivtv_xv.c:462: error: for each function it appears in.)
ivtv_xv.c: In function `IVTVPutImage':
ivtv_xv.c:716: error: storage size of `colorKey' isn't known
ivtv_xv.c:719: error: `IVTVFB_IOCTL_SET_COLORKEY' undeclared (first 
use in this function)

make: *** [ivtv_xv.o] Error 1

Do you have xorg built with the 'sdk' USE flag? You should...

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Re: [mythtv-users] How to issue command when starting a new recording?

2005-10-05 Thread Bruce Markey


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
However, it's definitely not related to my soundcards, because when I 
plug my headphones directly into the TV tuner card, I hear nothing.  
Then, if I run "v4lctl volume mute off", I hear sound.


In mythtv-setup "Capture cards", try checking the box for "Do not
adjust volume".

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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out with Xv support

2005-10-05 Thread Jeff Simpson

Don't Panic! ivtv is really quite easy to build and install. The xdriveris more difficult, but still
doable.> Is there a howto or doc anywhere that describes or guides you through> the process of enabling Xv on the 350's TV-Out?>Nothing to it really. Build and install the ivtv 0.3.8
 and xdriver0.10.6, and you're done. Justuse XV and enjoy.
Is there a howto on that? installing ivtv is fine with gentoo, emerge
should be able to do it without any problem. compiling the xdriver is
so far proving to be a pretty hefty challenge. Are there particular
versions of X that this is known to work with? I am working on writing
an ebuild for gentoo that puts ivtv into the correct directory among
x.org 5.8.2-r5, but it doesn't want to compile. What directory am I
supposed to give it when I run xmkmf (it says "X SOURCES" but that is
very vague...what directory is it looking for?). What should I do when
it dumps out with this message:

ivtv_xv.c: In function `IVTVStopVideo':
ivtv_xv.c:459: error: storage size of `colorKey' isn't known
ivtv_xv.c:462: error: `IVTVFB_IOCTL_SET_COLORKEY' undeclared (first use in this function)
ivtv_xv.c:462: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
ivtv_xv.c:462: error: for each function it appears in.)
ivtv_xv.c: In function `IVTVPutImage':
ivtv_xv.c:716: error: storage size of `colorKey' isn't known
ivtv_xv.c:719: error: `IVTVFB_IOCTL_SET_COLORKEY' undeclared (first use in this function)
make: *** [ivtv_xv.o] Error 1

Thanks!
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Re: [mythtv-users] How to issue command when starting a new recording?


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On 10/5/05, *Kevin Kuphal* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 
wrote:



I would focus on fixing the problem rather than working around
it.  Are
you using ALSA or OSS for your audio output?


I'm not 100% sure.  Strictly speaking, this is a remote master 
backend, so the machine itself doesn't do any kind of audio output.  
However, it is running Fedora Core 4.  I specify my tuners to use 
/dev/dsp0 and /dev/dsp1 and I control the line-in record volumes 
through alsamixer and alsactl.


However, it's definitely not related to my soundcards, because when I 
plug my headphones directly into the TV tuner card, I hear nothing.  
Then, if I run "v4lctl volume mute off", I hear sound.


It would be nice to fix the problem, but I believe this problem is 
somehow related to MythTV's interaction with the msp3400 driver, and 
not the OSS/ALSA sound system.


It sounds like your are using ALSA then or at least the ALSA/OSS 
emulation.  If you have the alsamixer running when a recording starts, 
do you see the CAPTURE input device on your recording card go mute?


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Re: [mythtv-users] How to issue command when starting a new recording?

On 10/5/05, Kevin Kuphal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would focus on fixing the problem rather than working around it.  Areyou using ALSA or OSS for your audio output?

I'm not 100% sure.  Strictly speaking, this is a remote master
backend, so the machine itself doesn't do any kind of audio
output.  However, it is running Fedora Core 4.  I specify my
tuners to use /dev/dsp0 and /dev/dsp1 and I control the line-in record
volumes through alsamixer and alsactl.

However, it's definitely not related to my soundcards, because when I
plug my headphones directly into the TV tuner card, I hear
nothing.  Then, if I run "v4lctl volume mute off", I hear sound.

It would be nice to fix the problem, but I believe this problem is
somehow related to MythTV's interaction with the msp3400 driver, and
not the OSS/ALSA sound system.

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Re: [mythtv-users] TV - Just live sound : no record, no pause (

2005-10-05 Thread Philippe Crassous

In fact I messed it up because I plugged the audio from the scart into 
my sound card line-in and not into the PVR audio in.


Thank you

Philippe

Michael T. Dean a écrit :


p.crassous wrote:


When viewing TV, and hit P, the image pauses but not the
sound. When recording, sound does not get recorded.

When I quit mythtv, the TV sound continues to play until I
stop the alsa daemon. On the next system start, it starts to
play as soon as the alsa daemon starts !

I read the myth howto chapter on sound and used various alsa
mixers accordingly to set - Line=mute, capture,
- Capture=capture
- Master = nomute
- PCM = nomute
all with 75to100% levels

but there is no sound at all with line=mute
The problem occurs either with  (device=ALSA:default,
mixer=default) or  (device:/dev/dsp, mixer=/dev/mixer) in
mythfrontend
 

You still need to fix your audio settings.  See 
http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-21.html#ss21.5 (specifically the 
section "Troubleshooting audio") and  re-read 
http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-7.html .



I run mythtv 0.18.1 (home compiled) on debian sarge on an
Intel865PERL motherboard. I get the image from an internet TV
box with a SCART out. ...
I noticed that there is no "mixer" device in /dev/snd, is this
a problem ??
 


Nope.

HTH.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Trouble getting component outputs to work with nVidia 6200 ...

2005-10-05 Thread Mark Linford


Thom Sturgill wrote:




On 10/5/05, *Mark Linford* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> wrote:


Well, after following Jarod's Fedora guide (excellent, btw), I've
gotten
a rudimentary MythTV box up and running. However, I'm now at the point
where I want to go from my monitor out to my TV/component outs,
and I'm
having a heck of a time with X trying to make it work. Here's my
setup:

* Fedora Core 4
* Gigabyte 6200-based video card, w/component-out breakout box
* Latest (7676) nVidia drivers
* Dell 2405W monitor (hooked up to its component-inputs) for testing,
though eventually I want to hook it up to my projector in my media
room


I'm running FC3 but have the same card connected by component to an 
RCA HDTV.

Here is the xorg.conf (in part) that I use:

Section "Monitor"
Identifier   "Monitor0"
VendorName   "RCA"
ModelName"HD52W59"
HorizSync30.0 - 34.0
VertRefresh  48.0 - 67.0
ModeLine "1080i-59.94" 74.176 1920 1960 2016 2200 1080 
1082 1088 1125 Interlace

ModeLine "720p-59.94" 26.9 720 760 816 856 480 482 488 525
ModeLine "480p-59.94" 23.9 640 664 736 760 480 482 488 525
Option  "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Option  "NvAGP" "3"
# imput standards allowed by monitor and card
Option  "TVStandard" "HD480p"
#   Option  "TVStandard" "HD720p"  # can't get this one to 
work at all

#   Option  "TVStandard" "HD1080i"
# force card to use svideo dongle
Option  "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
Option  "TVOverScan" "0.0"
# for svideo with dongle
Option  "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
Option  "NoDDC"
Identifier  "Videocard0"
Driver  "nvidia"
VendorName  "Gigabyte"
BoardName   "nVidia GeForce 6200"
BusID   "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor"Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth 24
#   Virtual 1920 1080
Modes"1080i-59.94" "720p-59.94" "480p-59.94"
EndSubSection
EndSection

In 1080i I can't view content, and 720p is way overscanned, but 
usable. 720p is supposed to be supported by my TV, but I get a really 
wierd screen - 800x600 floating in the middle of a 1920x1080 field, 
but three (very narrow) frames side by side. Color is distorted too.


I can record and view, but not watch tv live - but I think that is ivtv.

--
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Thom:

It's definitely a step in the right direction! I copied your device 
settings, and I'm getting a picture through the component outputs! It's 
still quite a bit overscanned (I'd say I lose about 50px or so on the 
top, bottom and sides), but at least I have a picture now. I assume I'll 
have to tweek the modeline settings further to get rid/reduce the overscan?


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[mythtv-users] trying to control one-touch record (feature request)

2005-10-05 Thread Brad

I would also like to see a feature like this. It would also be beneficial when recording from other sources (without the EPG) such as a VCR which, currently, is a big enough PITA to justify avoiding completely.  ;-)I was wondering if there's any way I can control one-touch record, perhaps through some script... I guess this would be a feature request... What I mean by "control" is, I'd like to have the ability to press "R" to start a recording, and then quickly setup the length of the recording, without having to go out of liveTV and into the manual record scheduler. For example, some VCRs have a feature that if you press record multiple times, it will start cycling the record time, say 30 minutes, 1 hour, 1:30, and so on. ___
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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV on Kanotix based Debian for HD-3000

2005-10-05 Thread Adam Egger

On 10/5/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, I'm gunna give it a shot in Debian and see what happens. I just priced a
> P4 system minus the extra parts i already have with an nice Ahanix case, so
> at worst I might just put a dedicated MythTV system together.

I'm running myth builds from SVN for ages on my Kanotix64. There were
problems with mmx on 0.18.1 so you can switch to SVN (I would ;)) or
just disable mmx with ./configure.

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Re: [mythtv-users] How to issue command when starting a new recording?


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I have this problem where (for some unknown reason), MythTV will mute 
my TV card's audio out periodically.  This results in recordings with 
no audio.  It's not a frontend or sound card issue.  I have found it 
can be re-enabled by issuing a command to the v4l driver, namely, 
"v4lctl volume mute off".
 


I would focus on fixing the problem rather than working around it.  Are 
you using ALSA or OSS for your audio output? 


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Re: [mythtv-users] How to issue command when starting a new recording?

On 10/5/05, Ryan Steffes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Could you go the other route and issue it as a user job after each recording?

The problem is that once the show is recorded, if the audio was muted, it's too late for me to recover from it.  

If you meant for it to "unmute the audio before the next recording"...
then the problem is that I don't know when MythTV actually mutes the TV
audio, so I couldn't guarantee when the audio won't be turned off again
sometime before for the next recording.

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[mythtv-users] Issues with non-ASCII characters

2005-10-05 Thread Adam Egger

Hi,

I'm just testing the "new" mythrename script but it seems to fail if
the titles contain non-ASCII characters. The frontend just tells me
"The file for this recording can not be found" when I try to watch it.
It's possible to press U on the recording to see all the information
about the file, so it seems there are only a few parts of myth which
don't understand the wrongly converted characters.

Example:
"SandmÃ¤nnchen" appears without the umlaut in mysql but it looks ok
("Sandmännchen") in the recording list (so the UTF8 characters are
converted by myth).
After using MythRename the files also contain the unconverted
characters and the frontend shows me then:
2005-10-05 21:09:46.176 Error: File '/big/myth/record/Unser
SandmÃ€nnchen - 2005-09-20, 6-48 AM.mpg' missing.
But when use ls or file on the file name which the frontend isn't able
to find everything's fine:

$ file '/big/myth/record/Unser SandmÃ€nnchen - 2005-09-20, 6-48 AM.mpg'
/big/myth/record/Unser SandmÃ€nnchen - 2005-09-20, 6-48 AM.mpg: MPEG
transport stream data

How can I fix it?

Adam

PS: Is there a way to rename recordings within the frontend? I've lost
the db entries for lots of recordings and they're all now called
unknown - unknown
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Re: [mythtv-users] Trouble getting component outputs to work with nVidia 6200 ...

2005-10-05 Thread Thom Sturgill

On 10/5/05, Mark Linford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, after following Jarod's Fedora guide (excellent, btw), I've gottena rudimentary MythTV box up and running. However, I'm now at the pointwhere I want to go from my monitor out to my TV/component outs, and I'm
having a heck of a time with X trying to make it work. Here's my setup:* Fedora Core 4* Gigabyte 6200-based video card, w/component-out breakout box* Latest (7676) nVidia drivers* Dell 2405W monitor (hooked up to its component-inputs) for testing,
though eventually I want to hook it up to my projector in my media room
I'm running FC3 but have the same card connected by component to an RCA HDTV.
Here is the xorg.conf (in part) that I use:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "RCA"
    ModelName    "HD52W59"
    HorizSync    30.0 - 34.0
    VertRefresh  48.0 - 67.0
   
ModeLine "1080i-59.94" 74.176 1920 1960 2016
2200 1080 1082 1088 1125 Interlace
    ModeLine "720p-59.94" 26.9 720 760 816 856 480 482 488 525
    ModeLine "480p-59.94" 23.9 640 664 736 760 480 482 488 525
    Option  "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Option  "NvAGP" "3"
    # imput standards allowed by monitor and card
    Option  "TVStandard" "HD480p"
#  
Option  "TVStandard" "HD720p"  #
can't get this one to work at all
#   Option  "TVStandard" "HD1080i"
    # force card to use svideo dongle
    Option  "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
    Option  "TVOverScan" "0.0"
    # for svideo with dongle
    Option  "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
    Option  "NoDDC"
    Identifier  "Videocard0"
    Driver  "nvidia"
    VendorName  "Gigabyte"
    BoardName   "nVidia GeForce 6200"
    BusID   "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device "Videocard0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24
    SubSection "Display"
    Viewport   0 0
    Depth 24
#   Virtual 1920 1080
   
Modes    "1080i-59.94" "720p-59.94" "480p-59.94"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

In 1080i I can't view content, and 720p is way overscanned, but usable.
720p is supposed to be supported by my TV, but I get a really wierd
screen - 800x600 floating in the middle of a 1920x1080 field, but three
(very narrow) frames side by side. Color is distorted too.

I can record and view, but not watch tv live - but I think that is ivtv.
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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV on Kanotix based Debian for HD-3000

Well, I'm gunna give it a shot in Debian and see what happens. I just priced a 
P4 system minus the extra parts i already have with an nice Ahanix case, so 
at worst I might just put a dedicated MythTV system together.

Steve

On Wednesday 05 October 2005 14:42, Brad Fuller wrote:
> I do, FC2. I had to compile most of it and not all of it worked back in
> the FC2 days. I'm going to upgrade to FC4 soon. I think I'll start over
> from scratch, though.  I'm still want to go the 64bit route. But, if
> 32bit is easier, maybe I'll do that.
>
> Anyone running FC4 with AMD64 successfully? There were a few threads a
> ways back about success and problems. Any updates?
>
> brad
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[mythtv-users] Errors in encoding detected during commercial flagging

2005-10-05 Thread Bob Cottingham

I've been getting the following errors after commerical flagging each
episode since upgrading to svn 7388 on Tuesday:

[mpeg2video @ 0xb7738110]ac-tex damaged at 27 9
[mpeg2video @ 0xb7738110]ac-tex damaged at 0 28
[mpeg2video @ 0xb7738110]Warning MVs not available
free(): invalid pointer 0x80b9f88!
2005-10-05 12:03:21.348 commflag: Commercial Flagging Finished

The recordings seem to play fine, however. I'm recording with a PVR-250
and not transcoding. Using ivtv-0.3.6b.

When I used mythweb to view recorded programs, the mythbackend log showed
quite a few instances of the following:

2005-10-05 11:10:01.023 MainServer::HandleAnnounce FileTransfer
2005-10-05 11:10:01.023 adding: mythbox as a remote file transfer
2005-10-05 11:10:02.116 0 length seek table
2005-10-05 11:10:02.118 NVP: Does not have position map.
Run 'mythcommflag --file 
1027_20050409162900_2005040917.nuv
--rebuild' to fix
2005-10-05 11:10:02.118 Not enough video to make thumbnail

I tried running 'mythcommflag --file 027_20050409162900_2005040917.nuv
--rebuild', however it terminated before completing the rebuild with a
'free(): invalid pointer' error.

I would appreciate any help in resolving these issues.

Thanks,
Bob C




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Re: [mythtv-users] updated parts / software list for HD Myth

2005-10-05 Thread Ryan Steffes

Try:
http://www.mythtv.info/
and
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/archive/MythTV_C2/Users_F11/


And see if you can't find plenty of options already discussed.
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[mythtv-users] Slight OT: Possibly failing disk, bad sector warnings

2005-10-05 Thread Ryan Steffes

I just recently started playing with smartctl and discovered one of my disks seems to be having problems:

Oct  5 10:52:27 mythtv smartd[13917]: Device: /dev/hdb, 4 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Oct  5 10:52:27 mythtv smartd[13917]: Device: /dev/hdb, 4 Offline uncorrectable sectors

I'm trying to figure out exactly what this means.  I think as far
as the report goes, it means four sectors have bad blocks and the disk
wants to relocate them, but hasn't yet. My question is what I need to
do about it.  Is it time to panic and dump the drive?  It's
not a particularly old drive, but I have no idea what the warrenty on
it would be.  I bought it OEM from newegg.  If it's just a
matter of relocating data, what ought I do about it?

badblocks gave a dismaying list, but I don't know exactly what to do
with that data.  The blocks are somewhere in my LVM
partition.   Is this a write off the sectors kind of problem,
or a pray and order a new disc kind of problem?

smartctl reports overall health is still good.


=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: ST3250823A
Serial Number:    5ND064BR
Firmware Version: 3.02
User Capacity:    250,059,350,016 bytes
Device is:    Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   7
ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is:    Wed Oct  5 14:41:36 2005 EDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x82) Offline data collection activity
   
was completed without error.
   
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status:  ( 249) Self-test routine in progress...
   
90% of test remaining.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 430) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:   
(0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
   
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
   
Suspend Offline collection upon new
   
command.
   
Offline surface scan supported.
   
Self-test supported.
   
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
   
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:    (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
   
power-saving mode.
   
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:    (0x01) Error logging supported.
   
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time:    (   1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:    (  84) minutes.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID#
ATTRIBUTE_NAME 
FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH
TYPE  UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f  
057   052   006    Pre-fail 
Always  
-   16566
  3
Spin_Up_Time   
0x0003   099   098  
000    Pre-fail 
Always  
-   0
  4 Start_Stop_Count   
0x0032   100   100  
020    Old_age  
Always  
-   49
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033  
100   100   036    Pre-fail 
Always  
-   0
  7
Seek_Error_Rate
0x000f   039   034  
030    Pre-fail 
Always  
-   44229665938597
  9
Power_On_Hours 
0x0032   099   099  
000    Old_age  
Always  
-   1519
 10 Spin_Retry_Count   
0x0013   100   100  
097    Pre-fail 
Always  
-   0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count  
0x0032   100   100  
020    Old_age  
Always  
-   62
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022  
046   060   000   
Old_age   Always  
-   46 (Lifetime Min/Max
0  /23)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   057  
051   000    Old_age  
Always  
-   16566
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100  
100   000    Old_age  
Always  
-   4
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010  
100   100   000   
Old_age   Offline 
-   4
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e  
200   200   000   
Old_age   Always  
-   0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x  
100   253   000   
Old_age   Offline 
-   0
202 TA_Increase_Count  
0x0032   100   253  
000    Old_age  
Always  
-   0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description   
Status 
Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline   Completed
without error  
00% 
1517 -
# 2  Extended off

Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV on Kanotix based Debian for HD-3000

2005-10-05 Thread Brad Fuller


Steve Adeff wrote:


thanks for the reply Mark!

Does anyone run an x64 distro or is Myth basically just for ix86 distro's?
 

I do, FC2. I had to compile most of it and not all of it worked back in 
the FC2 days. I'm going to upgrade to FC4 soon. I think I'll start over 
from scratch, though.  I'm still want to go the 64bit route. But, if 
32bit is easier, maybe I'll do that.


Anyone running FC4 with AMD64 successfully? There were a few threads a 
ways back about success and problems. Any updates?


brad


Steve
got my new PCIXpress video card installed and my HD-3000 card installed, time 
to start playing! wish me luck ;-)


On Wednesday 05 October 2005 13:51, Mark Linford wrote:
 


Steve:

I don't know if this will help, but I had similar problems trying to
compile source on Fedora x64, so I got the latest source via svn, which
seemed to fix this compiling issue.

BTW, I had other problems with my x64 install, so eventually I gave up
and went back to the i386 distro :(

Mark


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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV on Kanotix based Debian for HD-3000

thanks for the reply Mark!

Does anyone run an x64 distro or is Myth basically just for ix86 distro's?

Steve
got my new PCIXpress video card installed and my HD-3000 card installed, time 
to start playing! wish me luck ;-)

On Wednesday 05 October 2005 13:51, Mark Linford wrote:
> Steve:
>
> I don't know if this will help, but I had similar problems trying to
> compile source on Fedora x64, so I got the latest source via svn, which
> seemed to fix this compiling issue.
>
> BTW, I had other problems with my x64 install, so eventually I gave up
> and went back to the i386 distro :(
>
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Re: [mythtv-users] Tracking down

2005-10-05 Thread Allan Mcintosh


Apologies for the multi-mail message:

meas

Sep  5 12:15:18 nelson kernel: saa7115: decoder set picture bright=127 
contrast=64 saturation=64 hue=0
Sep  5 12:15:18 nelson kernel: saa7115: decoder set picture bright=127 
contrast=63 saturation=64 hue=0
Sep  5 12:15:18 nelson kernel: saa7115: decoder set picture bright=127 
contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0
Sep  5 12:15:18 nelson kernel: saa7115: decoder set picture bright=127 
contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0

Sep  5 12:15:18 nelson kernel: saa7115: decoder set size
Sep  5 12:15:19 nelson kernel: saa7115: decoder disable output
Sep  5 12:15:19 nelson kernel: saa7115: decoder enable output
Sep  5 12:15:21 nelson kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff 
Hartmann
Sep  5 12:15:21 nelson kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for 
agp memory: 439M

Sep  5 12:16:10 nelson kernel: saa7115: decoder disable output
Sep  5 12:16:10 nelson kernel: saa7115: decoder enable output
Sep  5 12:16:10 nelson kernel: saa7115: decoder set picture bright=127 
contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0

Sep  5 12:16:45 nelson last message repeated 4 times
Sep  5 12:16:45 nelson last message repeated 3 times
Sep  5 12:16:45 nelson kernel: saa7115: decoder set size
Sep  5 12:16:45 nelson kernel: saa7115: decoder disable output
Sep  5 12:16:45 nelson kernel: saa7115: decoder enable output




Allan Mcintosh wrote:




My backend is a VIA KT266A motherboard (Epox 8KHA+, to be exact) and an
AMD Athlon XP 1600+.  I've got a fairly large fan/heatsink combo, as
well as a 120mm exhaust fan right next to the CPU.  I didn't want to go
with the VIA motherboard, since I have had and heard of problems with
VIA and Linux, but it was all I had.  Anyways, it has been fine.

What is your configuration?
CPU:
Motherboard:
Video Card:
Video Capture Card:
Networking:
Linux Distro:

 



Gentoo.
Kernel 2.6.12.2
ivtv: version 0.2.0 (rc3j)
AMD Athlon 1.4G
ASUS A7A (yes VIA chipset)
VIDEO Card  Nvidia GeForce FX5200
Hauppauge pvr250
10/100 wired network

I built myth 0.18.1.20050510-1 by hand from scratch






Also, what are the exact crashing symptoms?  Entire box locks up?
Machine reboots itself?

 



It's always a silent backend crash. The majority of the crashes 
occured right when myth was about to begin recording...


I would see something along the lines of :
2005-10-04 18:59:52.366 Started recording "House" on channel: 1204 on 
cardid: 1, sourceid 1

2005-10-04 18:59:52.382 scheduler: Last message repeated 1 times
2005-10-04 18:59:52.388 scheduler: Schedule Change
2005-10-04 20:27:26.882 New DB connection, total: 1
Starting up as the master server.


Today, however backend crashed while my girlfriend was watching a 
recording and I was scheduling a recording through mythweb. The pvr 
was not running at all...



2005-10-05 12:11:32.799 adding: bart as a client (events: 0)
2005-10-05 12:13:25.169 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2005-10-05 12:13:25.172 adding: bart as a client (events: 0)
2005-10-05 12:13:25.506 Reschedule requested for id 84.
2005-10-05 12:13:26.003 Scheduled 24 items in 0.5 = 0.42 match + 0.08 
place

2005-10-05 12:18:05.240 New DB connection, total: 1
Starting up as the master server.
2005-10-05 12:18:05.566 mythbackend: MythBackend started as master server





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Re: [mythtv-users] Tracking down

2005-10-05 Thread Allan Mcintosh

This could very well be the culprit for mythbackend crashing, today's 
crash occured at 12:18 I found the following in


/var/log/messages

Sep  5 12:16:47 nelson kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for 
agp memory: 439M

Sep  5 12:18:18 nelson kernel: i8253 count too high! resetting..
Sep  5 12:18:23 nelson kernel: ivtv: Removing Card #0.
Sep  5 12:18:24 nelson kernel: ivtv: Removed WinTV PVR 250, card #0
Sep  5 12:22:01 nelson kernel: i8253 count too high! resetting..
Sep  5 12:26:15 nelson kernel: i2c-core.o: i2c core module version 2.6.1 
(20010830)

Sep  5 12:26:15 nelson kernel: i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module
Sep  5 12:26:15 nelson kernel: ivtv:  START INIT 
IVTV 

Sep  5 12:26:15 nelson kernel: ivtv: version 0.2.0 (rc3j) loading
Sep  5 12:26:15 nelson kernel: ivtv: Linux version: 2.4.31
Sep  5 12:26:15 nelson kernel: ivtv: In case of problems please include 
the debug info
Sep  5 12:26:15 nelson kernel: ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END 
INIT IVTV lines when











Allan Mcintosh wrote:




My backend is a VIA KT266A motherboard (Epox 8KHA+, to be exact) and an
AMD Athlon XP 1600+.  I've got a fairly large fan/heatsink combo, as
well as a 120mm exhaust fan right next to the CPU.  I didn't want to go
with the VIA motherboard, since I have had and heard of problems with
VIA and Linux, but it was all I had.  Anyways, it has been fine.

What is your configuration?
CPU:
Motherboard:
Video Card:
Video Capture Card:
Networking:
Linux Distro:

 



Gentoo.
Kernel 2.6.12.2
ivtv: version 0.2.0 (rc3j)
AMD Athlon 1.4G
ASUS A7A (yes VIA chipset)
VIDEO Card  Nvidia GeForce FX5200
Hauppauge pvr250
10/100 wired network

I built myth 0.18.1.20050510-1 by hand from scratch






Also, what are the exact crashing symptoms?  Entire box locks up?
Machine reboots itself?

 



It's always a silent backend crash. The majority of the crashes 
occured right when myth was about to begin recording...


I would see something along the lines of :
2005-10-04 18:59:52.366 Started recording "House" on channel: 1204 on 
cardid: 1, sourceid 1

2005-10-04 18:59:52.382 scheduler: Last message repeated 1 times
2005-10-04 18:59:52.388 scheduler: Schedule Change
2005-10-04 20:27:26.882 New DB connection, total: 1
Starting up as the master server.


Today, however backend crashed while my girlfriend was watching a 
recording and I was scheduling a recording through mythweb. The pvr 
was not running at all...



2005-10-05 12:11:32.799 adding: bart as a client (events: 0)
2005-10-05 12:13:25.169 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2005-10-05 12:13:25.172 adding: bart as a client (events: 0)
2005-10-05 12:13:25.506 Reschedule requested for id 84.
2005-10-05 12:13:26.003 Scheduled 24 items in 0.5 = 0.42 match + 0.08 
place

2005-10-05 12:18:05.240 New DB connection, total: 1
Starting up as the master server.
2005-10-05 12:18:05.566 mythbackend: MythBackend started as master server





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Re: [mythtv-users] Trouble getting component outputs to work with nVidia 6200 ...

2005-10-05 Thread Darren Black

On 10/5/05, Mark Linford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, after following Jarod's Fedora guide (excellent, btw), I've gottena rudimentary MythTV box up and running. However, I'm now at the pointwhere I want to go from my monitor out to my TV/component outs, and I'm
having a heck of a time with X trying to make it work. Here's my setup:* Fedora Core 4* Gigabyte 6200-based video card, w/component-out breakout box* Latest (7676) nVidia drivers* Dell 2405W monitor (hooked up to its component-inputs) for testing,
though eventually I want to hook it up to my projector in my media roomFirst, I thought I'd cheat, see if anybody was already using thisconfiguration, and just copy their xorg.conf. Well, no such luck. So,
per Jarod's advice I tried the PowerStrip route. Booting off of aWindowsXP drive, I used PowerStrip to find settings for 720x480p andtweeked the setttings until it looked decent (I'll worry aboutperfection later). Here's the mode line that PowerStrip gave me:
Linux modeline parameters:"720x480" 26.625 720 752 824 896 480 481 484 497 -hsync -vsyncSo, I edited my xorg.conf file with the followingSection "Monitor"   Identifier "Monitor0"
   VendorName "Some Vendor"   ModelName "HDTV"   HorizSync 31.5 - 37.9   VertRefresh 59.9 - 60.1   ModeLine "720x480" 26.625 720 752 824 896 480 481 484 497 -hsync
-vsyncEndSectionSection "Screen"   Identifier "Screen0"   Device "Videocard0"   Monitor "Monitor0"   DefaultDepth 24   SubSection "Display"
   Depth 24   Modes "720x480"   EndSubSection   Option "TVStandard" "HD480p"   Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"EndSection
Now, at first, this failed completely, and X wouldn't even start. Afterchecking out my Xorg.0.log file, I saw that it didn't like the hsyncrange of my 720x480 Mode. However, it did like the default 800x600
mode.! So, just for fun, I changedModes "720x480"toModes "800x600"Now, I'm getting closer (I think). X will start without errors, but Ionly get a blank screen. I can drop down to a console, and I get text
via the component outputs, but when I switch back to X, just black.Strangely, my monitor thinks it's getting a 480p signal, but I seenothing ...Is it possible this setup just won't work? Googling and searching
various forums about my configuration just brought results stating thatmy configuration (6200, component outputs) was possible, but nothingfrom anyone who actually got it up and running!My X configuration skills are suspect at best, so I'm really not sure
how to even proceed from this point. I really want to get thisconfiguration up and running, though :) Any advice on where to go fromhere would be appreciated.Mark___
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Re: [mythtv-users] How to issue command when starting a new recording?

2005-10-05 Thread Ryan Steffes

Could you go the other route and issue it as a user job after each recording?On 10/5/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On 10/5/05, 
Phill Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

What sort of car? If it's a DVB card have you tried recording in TSinstead of PS?

The card is a ATI TV Wonder PCI, which is a bt8x8 based card.



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[mythtv-users] Tracking down

2005-10-05 Thread Allan Mcintosh




My backend is a VIA KT266A motherboard (Epox 8KHA+, to be exact) and an
AMD Athlon XP 1600+.  I've got a fairly large fan/heatsink combo, as
well as a 120mm exhaust fan right next to the CPU.  I didn't want to go
with the VIA motherboard, since I have had and heard of problems with
VIA and Linux, but it was all I had.  Anyways, it has been fine.

What is your configuration?
CPU:
Motherboard:
Video Card:
Video Capture Card:
Networking:
Linux Distro:

 



Gentoo.
Kernel 2.6.12.2
ivtv: version 0.2.0 (rc3j)
AMD Athlon 1.4G
ASUS A7A (yes VIA chipset)
VIDEO Card  Nvidia GeForce FX5200
Hauppauge pvr250
10/100 wired network

I built myth 0.18.1.20050510-1 by hand from scratch






Also, what are the exact crashing symptoms?  Entire box locks up?
Machine reboots itself?

 



It's always a silent backend crash. The majority of the crashes occured 
right when myth was about to begin recording...


I would see something along the lines of :
2005-10-04 18:59:52.366 Started recording "House" on channel: 1204 on 
cardid: 1, sourceid 1

2005-10-04 18:59:52.382 scheduler: Last message repeated 1 times
2005-10-04 18:59:52.388 scheduler: Schedule Change
2005-10-04 20:27:26.882 New DB connection, total: 1
Starting up as the master server.


Today, however backend crashed while my girlfriend was watching a 
recording and I was scheduling a recording through mythweb. The pvr was 
not running at all...



2005-10-05 12:11:32.799 adding: bart as a client (events: 0)
2005-10-05 12:13:25.169 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2005-10-05 12:13:25.172 adding: bart as a client (events: 0)
2005-10-05 12:13:25.506 Reschedule requested for id 84.
2005-10-05 12:13:26.003 Scheduled 24 items in 0.5 = 0.42 match + 0.08 place
2005-10-05 12:18:05.240 New DB connection, total: 1
Starting up as the master server.
2005-10-05 12:18:05.566 mythbackend: MythBackend started as master server





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[mythtv-users] Trouble getting component outputs to work with nVidia 6200 ...

2005-10-05 Thread Mark Linford

Well, after following Jarod's Fedora guide (excellent, btw), I've gotten 
a rudimentary MythTV box up and running. However, I'm now at the point 
where I want to go from my monitor out to my TV/component outs, and I'm 
having a heck of a time with X trying to make it work. Here's my setup:


* Fedora Core 4
* Gigabyte 6200-based video card, w/component-out breakout box
* Latest (7676) nVidia drivers
* Dell 2405W monitor (hooked up to its component-inputs) for testing, 
though eventually I want to hook it up to my projector in my media room


First, I thought I'd cheat, see if anybody was already using this 
configuration, and just copy their xorg.conf. Well, no such luck. So, 
per Jarod's advice I tried the PowerStrip route. Booting off of a 
WindowsXP drive, I used PowerStrip to find settings for 720x480p and 
tweeked the setttings until it looked decent (I'll worry about 
perfection later). Here's the mode line that PowerStrip gave me:


Linux modeline parameters:
"720x480" 26.625 720 752 824 896 480 481 484 497 -hsync -vsync

So, I edited my xorg.conf file with the following

Section "Monitor"
  Identifier "Monitor0"
  VendorName "Some Vendor"
  ModelName "HDTV"
  HorizSync 31.5 - 37.9
  VertRefresh 59.9 - 60.1
  ModeLine "720x480" 26.625 720 752 824 896 480 481 484 497 -hsync 
-vsync

EndSection

Section "Screen"
  Identifier "Screen0"
  Device "Videocard0"
  Monitor "Monitor0"
  DefaultDepth 24
  SubSection "Display"
  Depth 24
  Modes "720x480"
  EndSubSection
  Option "TVStandard" "HD480p"
  Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
EndSection

Now, at first, this failed completely, and X wouldn't even start. After 
checking out my Xorg.0.log file, I saw that it didn't like the hsync 
range of my 720x480 Mode. However, it did like the default 800x600 
mode.! So, just for fun, I changed


Modes "720x480"

to

Modes "800x600"

Now, I'm getting closer (I think). X will start without errors, but I 
only get a blank screen. I can drop down to a console, and I get text 
via the component outputs, but when I switch back to X, just black. 
Strangely, my monitor thinks it's getting a 480p signal, but I see 
nothing ...



Is it possible this setup just won't work? Googling and searching 
various forums about my configuration just brought results stating that 
my configuration (6200, component outputs) was possible, but nothing 
from anyone who actually got it up and running!


My X configuration skills are suspect at best, so I'm really not sure 
how to even proceed from this point. I really want to get this 
configuration up and running, though :) Any advice on where to go from 
here would be appreciated.


Mark

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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV on Kanotix based Debian for HD-3000

2005-10-05 Thread Mark Linford


Steve Adeff wrote:

Howdy all, entering the realm of MythTV. I've got a HD-3000 card and once I 
get my new video card am hoping to get up and running. I have an AMD64 
processor and have been running Kanotix64 and with Stable/Testing sources. 
I'm attempting to compile MythTV(since theres no debs for Debian64) and am 
getting the following error and am hoping for some help to figure out whats 
wrong:


make[2]: Entering directory 
`/DataDrive/Files/Tarballs/mythtv-0.18.1/libs/libavcodec'
gcc -c -pipe -march=k8 -w -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch -fomit-frame-pointer 
-D_REENTRANT -DPIC -fPIC -DMMX -DUSING_IVTV -DUSING_DVB -DUSING_XRANDR 
-D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DPREFIX=\"/usr/local\" 
-DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT 
-I/usr/share/qt3/mkspecs/default -I. -I.. -I../.. -I/usr/share/qt3/include -o 
utils.o utils.c

In file included from avcodec.h:14,
from utils.c:27:
common.h:61: error: array type has incomplete element type
common.h:65: error: array type has incomplete element type
make[2]: *** [utils.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/DataDrive/Files/Tarballs/mythtv-0.18.1/libs/libavcodec'

make[1]: *** [sub-libavcodec] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/DataDrive/Files/Tarballs/mythtv-0.18.1/libs'
make: *** [sub-libs] Error 2


Thanks!
Steve
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Steve:

I don't know if this will help, but I had similar problems trying to 
compile source on Fedora x64, so I got the latest source via svn, which 
seemed to fix this compiling issue.


BTW, I had other problems with my x64 install, so eventually I gave up 
and went back to the i386 distro :(


Mark
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Re: [mythtv-users] Thanks to developers, plus a few tips from someone who finally got it working

2005-10-05 Thread Scot L. Harris

On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 12:51, Charles H. Chapman wrote:

> The router at home is a Linksys WRT54G and I'm using a Media MVP for my

Note that last month there were five exploits reported for the WRT54G by
iDEFENSE (09.13.05) and AusCERT (ESB-2005.0724).  Updated firmware to
fix this is apparently available.



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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: mythtv-suite-0.18.1-55.at on x86_64 - mythfrontend SEGV

2005-10-05 Thread Alan Hagge


Alan Hagge wrote:

FYI, I'm having almost the same problem (using FC4 rpms on x86_64 
architecture).  Mine works if mythphone is installed (though I don't 
use it), but mythgallery & mythmusic cause mythfrontend to die with 
either a segfault or Bus error.


Is there a straightforward way to rebuild myth from the source RPM in 
order to send a backtrace?  Right now I'm also having problems 
building from CVS due to library location issues (Myth CVS is looking 
in /usr/lib/... while on FC4 x86_64 the libs are in /usr/lib64/...).  
If there's an easy fix for that, I can try building the CVS version to 
see if anything's changed...


As a followup to my own posting (sorry), last night I managed to build 
myth SVN version 7389 after using the perl lines in Axel's RPM specfile 
to change /usr/lib to /usr/lib64 everywhere (thanks Axel!), and that 
version is working OK with mythmusic & mythgallery (including OpenGL 
transitions).


I _tried_ to rebuild the mythtv-0.18.1-114.rhfc4.at.src.rpm file, with 
"--with debug", but the compilation died during the rebuild (sorry, I'm 
at work now and don't have the exact error messages).


Axel, could you possibly set up a debug build for x86_64?  I'd be glad 
to run it and send you the backtrace if you could make it available...


Alan
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Large-scale myth farm

2005-10-05 Thread Robert Tsai

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 07:24:29PM +0100, Stephen Boddy wrote:
> Just a quick note that, depending on your system and set-up, the
> transcoding may take longer than you expect. I have an Athlon 64,
> and the cool-n-quiet means that when idle it roughly halves the
> processor speed. Niced processes (i.e. the transcoding) do not cause
> the processor to ramp up to full speed. I found this out when I
> niced the MythTV compile and wondered why it was taking so long.

If you are using cpufreq:

http://lwn.net/Articles/106900/?format=printable

The default value is "0". To change it:

# echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand/ignore_nice

This means that the CPU will run at full throttle even for "nice"d
processes.

--Rob


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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV - PVR500 - Auto Reboots

2005-10-05 Thread Erik Pettersen

> Well my new problem is when it starts to record a scheduled program it
> automagically reboots after 30 secs.
>
>

I've seen this popup periodically on the list... can you give some
appropriate system specs?  As there are a few cantankerous chipsets
that will cause this behavior.

If you use the  "PVR-500 reboot"  search query here
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/
you'll find a few examples of previous threads.

possible relevant thread:
http://forum.byopvr.com/dvr/index.php/topic,3212.0.html

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Re: [mythtv-users] Thanks to developers, plus a few tips from someone who finally got it working

2005-10-05 Thread Charles H. Chapman


> IMHO even 802.11g is not really good and consistent enough for mythtv.
> Ultimately you want your TV to work like an appliance, ie it should always

> work and not need constant tinkering.  I've fought with using wireless for
my
> mythtv setup as well but I could not get a 100% consistent signal that had

> enough BW to not have hickups in the playback. I live in a moderately high

> density area where several neighbors in my building also have wireless,
> perhaps it would be different in the 'burbs but thats my experience.
> Paul

The router at home is a Linksys WRT54G and I'm using a Media MVP for my
front end, coupled with a Linksys Wireless Game adapter.  The wireless link
-was- somewhat flaky at first (often crashing the ethernet driver in the MVP
with overruns and remote PHY faults).  But using ethereal I noticed that the
maximum bit rate I needed for watching live TV or recorded programs was
about 10-11 Mb/s.  I found that limiting the wireless speed to something
less than the absolute maximum 54 MB/s for 802.11g (like 36 or 48 MB/s)
improved the reliability 100% -- I haven't had one single packet overrun or
remote PHY fault in the MVP since making that change and the picture is rock
solid.

Chuck



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Re: [mythtv-users] advice on which hardware revision of xbox as a frontend

On 10/5/05, David Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Robert might have meant UXE.  In any case if you add -spam to yourGoogle search, that should remove most of the links to the"Unsolicited Commercial Email" stuff.Actually,
I think the latest softmod exploit is the ndure installer, which is
nice because it allows you to dual boot the XBox and still play on XBox
Live, if you're into that sort of thing.  I've got mine set up so
that you press the "Eject" button to go to MythTV/Xebian and the Power
button for normal XBox games.

Check out the forums on http://xbox-scene.com

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Re: [mythtv-users] advice on which hardware revision of xbox as a frontend

2005-10-05 Thread Robert Johnston

On 05/10/05, David Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 05/10/05, Joe Harvell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Robert:
> >
> > Do you have a link describing this mod?  A google search on UCE is
> > useless since it is commonly used to mean "Unsolicited Commercial
> > Email."  Also, what is IIRC?  I guess it's one of those things like IMHO
> > (In my humble opinion) or YMMV (Your mileage may vary).  But I can't
> > seem to make the connection.
>
>
> Robert might have meant UXE.  In any case if you add -spam to your
> Google search, that should remove most of the links to the
> "Unsolicited Commercial Email" stuff.

Thanks. It was UXE I meant. And FYI I used the HDD-Swap method to install it.

> IIRC = If I recall correctly (IIRC)

Absolutely correct.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Thanks to developers, plus a few tips from someone who finally got it working

2005-10-05 Thread Ciaran

Um, blood sweat and tears really got me there, I recall finding some
document on ubuntu forums helped (I'm afraid I don't recall the
specifics :( ).  I've not got the box installed right now, but there
was another package I had to install to do encryption (wlan something
I think! [ but I can't access that machine right now to check :( ] )
Sorry!
- Ciaran

On 05/10/05, thomas scott urban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 15:59 +0100, Ciaran wrote:
> > Just to balance things, I have 802.11g working flawlessly with my Myth
> > Setup.  Admittedly its a wired connection from the back-end to the
> > wireless router, but its wireless from there to my remote frontends.
> > Works a treat :) [Did take an age to setup initially, especially with
> > encryption!]
> > Cheers
> > - Ciaran
>
> Off-topic, but do you have any pointers or resources for getting
> encryption working?  I've read the usual faqs, but I can only get my
> wireless set up to work in unencrypted mode.
>
> TIA
> Scott
>
>


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Re: [mythtv-users] How to issue command when starting a new recording?

On 10/5/05, Phill Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What sort of car? If it's a DVB card have you tried recording in TSinstead of PS?

The card is a ATI TV Wonder PCI, which is a bt8x8 based card.


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Re: [mythtv-users] Channel Hopping

2005-10-05 Thread Dave Sherohman

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:52:27AM -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> The only time we watch live TV is when we tune to Nickelodeon for our son.
> (Too many shows & episodes on that channel. Not enough disk space.)

Have you considered scheduling all the various shows, but setting
them to only keep, say, 2 episodes each?  That would get them out of
live tv (yay for commercial skip!) without letting them take over the
entire hard drive.

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White Hats over the past several millennia, and it is vitally important that
we don't give them up now, only because we are frightened.
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Re: [mythtv-users] livetv buffer in backend?

2005-10-05 Thread Dave Sherohman

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 07:28:48AM -0700, Asher Schaffer wrote:
> I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong, but AFAIK the buffer
> will only be created when you have liveTV actively running on a
> frontend, it you close liveTV the buffer will be gone.

That is correct.  The buffer is only created when live tv is being
displayed and it is deleted immediately if you exit to the menus.

-- 
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we don't give them up now, only because we are frightened.
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[mythtv-users] updated parts / software list for HD Myth

2005-10-05 Thread Brad Cerenzia

Hi,

I just joined this group and I apologize early if this gets asked by
everyone who's new or if it's forbidden (please be kind, oh wise ones!), but
I'm looking for a complete set of hardware / software components that are
required and suggested for building out an HD MythTV box (if I can record
one channel and watch a different channel at the same time, that's a plus).


After spending 2 weeks reading and analyzing hardware/software suggestions,
I'm at the point where I need final expert opinions.  I have seen some
outdated lists, a lot that isn't related to HD requirements, and a lot of
back-and-forth bickering about 'that drive is crap' or 'that video card
sucks', so I'm turning to the experts to settle the score.

For your consideration, I have a Comcast HD digital cable box, DVID and
optical out and an HDTV w/ DVID in.  It would be helpful to get a list of
hardware components required, and a list of the other hardware / software
components you've found helpful and would suggest.  If you point me to a
current list for HDTV/MythTv, that would be great, otherwise just respond
and I'll compile the list and post it.  (And yeah, I know that I could cull
the hardware list from the 200k postings on 100 different boards, but you
all are the pros and I wanted to cut through the bickering and get
building!).

Thanks in advance!
Brad

PS - I've hacked my series1 TiVo to pieces and modded my xbox, so I'm pretty
familiar with hardware/software/linux, but please feel free to treat me like
a dummy and make any suggestions you have. :-)


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[mythtv-users] Auto Expire not finding files with latest svn

2005-10-05 Thread Bob Cottingham

Auto Expire was working well with 0.18.1, then I upgraded to svn 7280 and
it stopped working, saying it coulding find the file. I upgraded again
yesterday and it is still giving the error. Here is what is in the
mythbackend log:

2005-10-05 09:42:45.868 AutoExpiring: Family Plots Thu Sep 22 07:00:00
2005 955 MBytes
Cannot find program info for 'AUTO_EXPIRE 1033 2005-09-22T07:00:00', while
attempting to Auto-Expire.

The program is in the recorded database and has the filename of
1033_20050922065900.mpg (I have it set to start recording one minute
before show time).  With another file that was showing up in the error
previously, I deleted the file hoping it was an issue with that show,
however it simply had the problem with the next one.

Any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Bob





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[mythtv-users] MythTV on Kanotix based Debian for HD-3000

Howdy all, entering the realm of MythTV. I've got a HD-3000 card and once I 
get my new video card am hoping to get up and running. I have an AMD64 
processor and have been running Kanotix64 and with Stable/Testing sources. 
I'm attempting to compile MythTV(since theres no debs for Debian64) and am 
getting the following error and am hoping for some help to figure out whats 
wrong:

make[2]: Entering directory 
`/DataDrive/Files/Tarballs/mythtv-0.18.1/libs/libavcodec'
gcc -c -pipe -march=k8 -w -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch -fomit-frame-pointer 
-D_REENTRANT -DPIC -fPIC -DMMX -DUSING_IVTV -DUSING_DVB -DUSING_XRANDR 
-D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DPREFIX=\"/usr/local\" 
-DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT 
-I/usr/share/qt3/mkspecs/default -I. -I.. -I../.. -I/usr/share/qt3/include -o 
utils.o utils.c
In file included from avcodec.h:14,
from utils.c:27:
common.h:61: error: array type has incomplete element type
common.h:65: error: array type has incomplete element type
make[2]: *** [utils.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/DataDrive/Files/Tarballs/mythtv-0.18.1/libs/libavcodec'
make[1]: *** [sub-libavcodec] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/DataDrive/Files/Tarballs/mythtv-0.18.1/libs'
make: *** [sub-libs] Error 2


Thanks!
Steve
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[mythtv-users] Transcoding Error - IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write()

I am seeing the following transcoding error both in the mythbackend.logs and on the command line if I try to run the transcode manually.
 
2005-10-04 00:03:35.072 New DB connection, total: 2
2005-10-04 00:03:35.085 Transcoding from /mythtv/store//1010_2005093009_2005093010.nuv to /mythtv/store//1010_2005093009_2005093010.nuv.tmp
0 length seek table
2005-10-04 00:03:35.224 Reencoding video in 'raw' mode
2005-10-04 00:03:59.397 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write()
2005-10-04 00:04:00.675 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write()
2005-10-04 00:04:02.000 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write()
2005-10-04 00:04:03.238 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write()
2005-10-04 00:04:04.520 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write()
2005-10-04 00:04:05.854 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write()
2005-10-04 00:04:35.132 Deleting /mythtv/store//1010_2005093009_2005093010.nuv.tmp
2005-10-04 02:16:32.702 mythbackend: Last message repeated 35 times
I am using 0.18.1-114 on Ferdora Core 3 with kernel version 2.6.11-1.14_FC3. My /mythtv mount is xfs. Any help is appreciated.
 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Thanks to developers, plus a few tips from someone who finally got it working

2005-10-05 Thread James Hansen


Lee Koloszyc wrote:


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



2) Don't mess with wireless! 


Suprisingly enough I just bought a random Dlink 802.11G Wireless USB 
device at Compusa and it has worked flawlessly.  Though for some 
reason using Samba to copy all my MP3's from my Windows machine took 
forever and a day, yet when downloading from the internet it flys. 
Guess I am lucky.


I agree with the remote backend, I am only using my old P3 machine and 
it is very very loud and it isnt easy to find a quiet replacement CPU 
Cooler for it anymore.


Lee


You think that's bad, my first 3DFX card (Cheap brand of Riteous 3D 
card) would overheat after about 30 seconds of gameplay (the original 
quake).


Couldn't actually get a heatsink on the GPU, so I had to put the whole 
PC outside on the window ledge :)


James
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Re: [mythtv-users] Thanks to developers, plus a few tips from someone who finally got it working

2005-10-05 Thread thomas scott urban

On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 15:59 +0100, Ciaran wrote:
> Just to balance things, I have 802.11g working flawlessly with my Myth
> Setup.  Admittedly its a wired connection from the back-end to the
> wireless router, but its wireless from there to my remote frontends. 
> Works a treat :) [Did take an age to setup initially, especially with
> encryption!]
> Cheers
> - Ciaran

Off-topic, but do you have any pointers or resources for getting
encryption working?  I've read the usual faqs, but I can only get my
wireless set up to work in unencrypted mode.

TIA
Scott

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Re: [mythtv-users] Thanks to developers, plus a few tips from someone who finally got it working

2005-10-05 Thread Ciaran

Just to balance things, I have 802.11g working flawlessly with my Myth
Setup.  Admittedly its a wired connection from the back-end to the
wireless router, but its wireless from there to my remote frontends. 
Works a treat :) [Did take an age to setup initially, especially with
encryption!]
Cheers
- Ciaran


On 05/10/05, Paul V. Gratz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 October 2005 09:42 am, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >2) Don't mess with wireless!  I know this will probably start some
> > >flames, but to be honest, I never had much luck with 802.11g under
> > >Linux.  I got it to work sometimes, but it was always flakey and would
> > >stop working randomly.  Save yourself a headache and go with
> > >tried-and-true 10/100.  Believe me, it's much easier than reading serial
> > >numbers off of boxes at Best Buy trying to find the one magic revision
> > >of some wireless card that is rumored to work 85% of the time.
> >
> > FYI.  Using a wireless bridge to a PCs built in 10/100 port is a very
> > workable solution for Wireless in Linux as it takes Linux out of the
> > equation.
>
> IMHO even 802.11g is not really good and consistent enough for mythtv.
> Ultimately you want your TV to work like an appliance, ie it should always
> work and not need constant tinkering.  I've fought with using wireless for my
> mythtv setup as well but I could not get a 100% consistent signal that had
> enough BW to not have hickups in the playback. I live in a moderately high
> density area where several neighbors in my building also have wireless,
> perhaps it would be different in the 'burbs but thats my experience.
> Paul
>
>
>
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Re: [mythtv-users] Thanks to developers, plus a few tips from someone who finally got it working

2005-10-05 Thread Paul V. Gratz

On Wednesday 05 October 2005 09:42 am, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >2) Don't mess with wireless!  I know this will probably start some
> >flames, but to be honest, I never had much luck with 802.11g under
> >Linux.  I got it to work sometimes, but it was always flakey and would
> >stop working randomly.  Save yourself a headache and go with
> >tried-and-true 10/100.  Believe me, it's much easier than reading serial
> >numbers off of boxes at Best Buy trying to find the one magic revision
> >of some wireless card that is rumored to work 85% of the time.
>
> FYI.  Using a wireless bridge to a PCs built in 10/100 port is a very
> workable solution for Wireless in Linux as it takes Linux out of the
> equation.

IMHO even 802.11g is not really good and consistent enough for mythtv.  
Ultimately you want your TV to work like an appliance, ie it should always 
work and not need constant tinkering.  I've fought with using wireless for my 
mythtv setup as well but I could not get a 100% consistent signal that had 
enough BW to not have hickups in the playback. I live in a moderately high 
density area where several neighbors in my building also have wireless, 
perhaps it would be different in the 'burbs but thats my experience.
Paul

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Re: [mythtv-users] Thanks to developers, plus a few tips from someone who finally got it working

2005-10-05 Thread Lee Koloszyc


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



2) Don't mess with wireless!  

Suprisingly enough I just bought a random Dlink 802.11G Wireless USB 
device at Compusa and it has worked flawlessly.  Though for some reason 
using Samba to copy all my MP3's from my Windows machine took forever 
and a day, yet when downloading from the internet it flys. Guess I am lucky.


I agree with the remote backend, I am only using my old P3 machine and 
it is very very loud and it isnt easy to find a quiet replacement CPU 
Cooler for it anymore.


Lee
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[mythtv-users] [Semi-OT] Dependency problems w/atrpms, extras, freshrpms

2005-10-05 Thread Darren Black

I realize this is pretty much the wrong place to be posting this, but I given the popularity of Jarod's guide I expect there are a number of people here who have run into this situation...I just rebuilt my mythbox from scratch using Jarod's guide and FC4. It was alot less painful this time than my first attempt :-) However, now when I attempt to run a yum update, the update cannot complete due to 2 dependency problems:
Error: Missing Dependency: libmjpegutils-1.6.so.0 is needed by package transcodeError: Missing Dependency: libdirectfb-0.9.so.20 is needed by package mplayerSome snooping around indicates that the first dependency problem is apparent in the atrpms repo, since the new version of mjegtools is there while the newest version of transcode depends on the previous version of the mjpegtools package. The second error appears to be due to a new directfb release in fedora's extras repo, while the build of mplayer in atrpms depends on the older version.
Am I the only person to have run into this? If not, what have you guys done to get around it?Cheers,/drdaz
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hi,

2) Don't mess with wireless!  I know this will probably start some
flames, but to be honest, I never had much luck with 802.11g under
Linux.  I got it to work sometimes, but it was always flakey and would
stop working randomly.  Save yourself a headache and go with
tried-and-true 10/100.  Believe me, it's much easier than reading serial
numbers off of boxes at Best Buy trying to find the one magic revision
of some wireless card that is rumored to work 85% of the time.
 

FYI.  Using a wireless bridge to a PCs built in 10/100 port is a very 
workable solution for Wireless in Linux as it takes Linux out of the 
equation.


Kevin
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[mythtv-users] Thanks to developers, plus a few tips from someone who finally got it working

2005-10-05 Thread Micah.Wedemeyer

Hi,

I've been a regular here for a while now, and I just wanted to thank the
developers and contributers (especially Jarod) who have helped me get my
Myth system up and running.

It's been a difficult road, but I think I've finally got it stable.

To anyone out there looking for some quick and dirty advice, here's what
I've found:

1) Heat is your enemy!  PVR-250 cards get pretty hot and heat up the
rest of the system.  Solution: good cooling (can be noisy) or a
well-cooled remote backend (preferrably in a place where noise is not an
issue).  I think heat was my number 1 problem, causing all sorts of
other issues.

2) Don't mess with wireless!  I know this will probably start some
flames, but to be honest, I never had much luck with 802.11g under
Linux.  I got it to work sometimes, but it was always flakey and would
stop working randomly.  Save yourself a headache and go with
tried-and-true 10/100.  Believe me, it's much easier than reading serial
numbers off of boxes at Best Buy trying to find the one magic revision
of some wireless card that is rumored to work 85% of the time.

3) Unless you love troubleshooting, shamelessly copy someone else's
working configuration.  For me, I (eventually) tried to stick as close
as possible to Jarod's hardware when building my frontend.  nForce
motherboard, GeForce FX 5200, PVR-250, etc.  Striking off the beaten
path might be fun for some, but it's hard for me to explain to my wife
that we can't watch TV because I decided to cut a few corners or go with
some exotic setup (*ahem* EPIA *ahem*)

Anyways, this is mainly a thank-you to all who have helped me so far.
I'll probably be back with more problems immediately after I send this
and declare victory.

Until then,
Micah
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Re: [mythtv-users] VLC and MythTV and RTSP streams (VoD)

2005-10-05 Thread Steven Willis

On 9/19/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am wondering if anyone here did anything with regards to using VLC to
> stream/playback VoD streams. (using VLC's RTSP streaming)

I just started looking into this myself. The vlc documentation doesn't
seem that good in regards to rtsp. This is the method I've got going
so far:

1. Start the server:
> vlc -- --ttl 5  -vvv --color -I telnet --telnet-password
videolan --rtsp-host 192.168.2.254:5554

2. Connect via telnet to 4212 and issue the following commands for
each of my captured shows:

new 1025_2005092620_20050926203000.nuv vod enabled
setup 1025_2005092620_20050926203000.nuv input
/mythfiles/recordings/1025_2005092620_20050926203000.nuv

3. Edit MythWeb's conf.php file to have the following line:

define('video_url', 'rtsp://192.168.2.254:5554');

Now when I browse my recorded shows in mythweb I can click on any of
them and get a stream. I also wrote a script which runs every day that
telnets into 4212 deletes all the current streams and then adds a new
one for every file in my /mythfiles/recordings/ directory. I would
love it if this could be a little more automatic as each show is
recorded but I haven't sat down and actually done this. What would be
great is if VLC could be told to stream every file in a directory on
demand.

Also the stream isn't compatible with realplayer or quicktime. I
haven't figured out how to get rtsp streams to automatically open with
the vlc player on a mac, so for now I just have to copy the url and
paste it in the player. But more importantly I would like it to be
compatible with as many other clients as possible. I have a feeling
the incompatibilities are due to the nuv format that the files are
saved in (quicktime could play the audio, but not video, realplayer
did nothing).

I read a bit about using vlc to do transcoding on the server side, but
I haven't figured it out yet. I would love to have the video
transcoded to some very compatible format and deinterlaced. Has anyone
done anything like this with video captured from a PVR350 in the nuv
format?

> Mplayer seems to jerk after the initial buffering when I play back RTSP
> streams.

VLC plays the streams very smoothly.

-Steven Willis
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