Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

[Reza Naima]

Sorry; please disregard.
-r

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 11:30:21PM -0700, Reza Naima sent me this...
> Does anyone know if the video player will play mpeg4 transcoded video in
> nupple format?
> 
> Thnx,
> Reza
> 
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 07:56:33AM -0400, bill peck sent me this...
> > On 10/11/05, MythTV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Do you need the Photobridge HD (HD1500) or is the HD1000 OK? The main
> > > difference I see is the HD1500 has 128MB RAM and the HD1000 is 64MB, but
> > > not
> > > sure if that is much a limitation.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Todd
> > 
> > 
> > The HD1000 and HD1500 are the same model except the 1500 comes with some art
> > packs. The 128 MB your talking about is only available in the REV B models.
> > I don't think any of the older REV A models are around anymore anyway. So
> > you should be good to go. If you are buying in a store then you can look on
> > the bottom of the box (or unit) where it will say REV B.
> > 
> > And I'm using it as a frontend to Myth. I'm using it to watch HD on my SD
> > Sony Wega Tv. It downscales 1080i to 480i beautifully. Hopefully soon I can
> > get a proper HD set.
> > 
> > -Original Message-
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Gackstatter
> > > Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 2:38 PM
> > > To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
> > > Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless
> > > solution
> > >
> > > I run MythRoku on a Roku Photobridge HD. What is there is easy to install
> > > and works great. MythRoku can use some more work but it is the only HiDef
> > > solution out there. Right now MythRoku only plays recorded shows and you
> > > can pause live TV. You will need a front end on another machine to
> > > schedule
> > > recordings and you can not rewind or FF live TV. This will come with Time
> > > and more people working on the port.
> > >
> > > I will say this I implemented MythTV because of the Roku. I did not want
> > > the noisy box in my media room.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad Fuller
> > > Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:01 AM
> > > To: Discussion about mythtv
> > > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless
> > > solution
> > >
> > > Todd Ignasiak wrote:
> > >
> > > > One frontend I've been looking into is the "Roku Photobridge HD" (
> > > > http://www.rokulabs.com/products/photobridge/index.php ). It's a
> > > > media player for HDTV's. It is Linux based, and has a hardware MPEG2
> > > > decoder onboard. They encourage open source developement on their
> > > > platform, and someone has ported the MythTV frontend.
> > > >
> > > > He has made some big improvements lately, and I'm thinking of picking
> > > > up the Roku box to give it a try. Check out "mythroku" at
> > > > http://mythroku.blogspot.com/
> > >
> > > Do you know what mpeg2 decoder chip they use? I didn't see the info at the
> > > site.
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> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > >
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> > 
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[mythtv-users] RF out from sat box to Nexus-s card in Mythbox

[cardboil]

I have a satellite receiver box through which I get my regular
satellite channels (encrypted) -- but it does not have a PVR built
in.  I also have a Mythbox with a Hauppauge Nexus-s DVB-S card
(no, I don't have a PVR-x50 or similar analog capture cards).  Is
it possible to run a cable from the RF out of the sat receiver to the
input of the Nexus-s DVB card?  Will it work (i.e., tune the RF
out signal coming from the sat receiver)?  Or, is the Nexus-s
incapable of tuning anything but DVB signals? Thx.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

[Reza Naima]

Does anyone know if the video player will play mpeg4 transcoded video in
nupple format?

Thnx,
Reza

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 07:56:33AM -0400, bill peck sent me this...
> On 10/11/05, MythTV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Do you need the Photobridge HD (HD1500) or is the HD1000 OK? The main
> > difference I see is the HD1500 has 128MB RAM and the HD1000 is 64MB, but
> > not
> > sure if that is much a limitation.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Todd
> 
> 
> The HD1000 and HD1500 are the same model except the 1500 comes with some art
> packs. The 128 MB your talking about is only available in the REV B models.
> I don't think any of the older REV A models are around anymore anyway. So
> you should be good to go. If you are buying in a store then you can look on
> the bottom of the box (or unit) where it will say REV B.
> 
> And I'm using it as a frontend to Myth. I'm using it to watch HD on my SD
> Sony Wega Tv. It downscales 1080i to 480i beautifully. Hopefully soon I can
> get a proper HD set.
> 
> -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Gackstatter
> > Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 2:38 PM
> > To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
> > Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless
> > solution
> >
> > I run MythRoku on a Roku Photobridge HD. What is there is easy to install
> > and works great. MythRoku can use some more work but it is the only HiDef
> > solution out there. Right now MythRoku only plays recorded shows and you
> > can pause live TV. You will need a front end on another machine to
> > schedule
> > recordings and you can not rewind or FF live TV. This will come with Time
> > and more people working on the port.
> >
> > I will say this I implemented MythTV because of the Roku. I did not want
> > the noisy box in my media room.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad Fuller
> > Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:01 AM
> > To: Discussion about mythtv
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless
> > solution
> >
> > Todd Ignasiak wrote:
> >
> > > One frontend I've been looking into is the "Roku Photobridge HD" (
> > > http://www.rokulabs.com/products/photobridge/index.php ). It's a
> > > media player for HDTV's. It is Linux based, and has a hardware MPEG2
> > > decoder onboard. They encourage open source developement on their
> > > platform, and someone has ported the MythTV frontend.
> > >
> > > He has made some big improvements lately, and I'm thinking of picking
> > > up the Roku box to give it a try. Check out "mythroku" at
> > > http://mythroku.blogspot.com/
> >
> > Do you know what mpeg2 decoder chip they use? I didn't see the info at the
> > site.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: DMA not enabled

[Mark Kundinger]

--- Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wednesday 12 October 2005 07:37, Phil Strong wrote:
> > SATA and DMA not working how can I resolve this guys?
> >
> > On 10/11/05, Phil Strong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I recently replaced my mythbox with a shiny new machine that now
> has SATA
> > > drives. After initial install of OS and Myth ... I play live tv
> and it is
> > > slow and/or skips. I checked the hdparm for /dev/hda5 (/video)
> and find
> > > out that DMA is disabled :).
> > >
> > > How do I go about enabling DMA?
> > >
> > > If the answer is reinstall how do I insure this won't happen
> again?
> 
> if your SATA drive is on /dev/hda then its not a SATA drive or you
> need to 
> move from a 2.4 kernel to a 2.6 kernel and get real SATA support.
> 
> Steve


Dumb question, but can you still run "hdparm -t /dev/whatever" on a
SATA drive?  No matter how it's configured, it would at least give you
a ballpark figure on if the drive is configured right.  My system just
scored 11MB/sec while recording two shows and transcoding, and 40MB/sec
when it was merely transcoding.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Channel TEN (AU) tuned to wrong channel (DVB)

[Philip Shead]

David Whyte wrote:

Hi,



I set a recording for the F1 on Sunday and when I went to check that
it was actually ocurring (I sometimes get zero byte recordings) I was
recording the wrong channel.  I was actually recording the TEN channel
guide, which shows the currently playing program in the corner
including the sound, but lists the upcoming shows and other ads etc.



I seem to recall something about this being mentioned before, but
couldn't find it anywhere so wanted ask whether there is anything I
can do to prevent it from happening in the future.  I imagine this is
just something to do with the way these DVB transport stream thingo's
are organised, but I have no clue :\



FTR, I have 3xAverMedia 771 DVB-T's running on FC2, with the 0.18.1
RPMS from ATrpms.


  Was the used tuner previous tuned to that channel?
It failed to tune the new channel and recorded the
old one? This happened to me one with a
Timeout Getting PMT message in the log file. On
my other card the same thing produced the zero
byte recordings. I think this is fixed or being
fixed in the SVN version.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire and DCT-6200

[Curtis Stanford]

On Oct 12, 2005, at 11:04 PM, Donald Oakes wrote:


Curtis Stanford wrote:




On Oct 12, 2005, at 2:35 PM, Todd Greene wrote:


For what its worth, I use the DCT-6200 and Firewire reliably.
However, I can't give you my system specifics, since my root   
partition of my HD crashed yesterday, and I can't boot the  
system.   However, it took a while to get it to work right, and  
each system  reboot (which thankfully wasn't often) required a  
manual process.   I was using the firewire port built-in to the  
Foxconn motherboard.


(1) Run plugreport: .  Each time I rebooted, the DCT would show  
up  either in node 0 or node 1 (often changing per reboot).  So,  
for  each reboot, I would have to re-run mythtvsetup and change  
the  DCT-6200 node if it had changed.  There seemed to be no  
rhyme or  reason as to why it keeps changing nodes on reboots.


(2) Get test-mpeg2 to work:  On each reboot, I would need to run   
"test-mpeg2 -r [NODE#]"  mutiple times (This step is KEY!!) until  
I  get some output.  You'll know when you get output, its  
basically a  stream of binary junk to stdout.  If you don't see  
output after 1  second, press ctrl-c and try again.  With 10  
tries, you'll get it  to work.


(3) Now start mythbackend, and it should work "reliably" until  
the  next reboot.


Hope this is helpful.  Once I rebuilt my machine with a new HD,   
I'll be happy to answer specific config questions...


-- Todd




Yes, I do all of these things as well. However, it doesn't work   
reliably for me even after these steps. Thanks Todd


Curtis

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I have the same difficulty as you, Curtis.  I've even written a  
program to automatically run test-mpeg2 until success each time the  
channel is changed.  Recording is still about 50% reliable via  
firewire.


- Donald


So what's the difference between us and the people who seem to have  
it working 100% ? I'm still thinking it may be the card or perhaps  
the linux driver. I'm hoping anyone who is having success with this  
mail in with their configurations.


Curtis

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Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire and DCT-6200

[Donald Oakes]

Curtis Stanford wrote:



On Oct 12, 2005, at 2:35 PM, Todd Greene wrote:

For what its worth, I use the DCT-6200 and Firewire reliably.   
However, I can't give you my system specifics, since my root  
partition of my HD crashed yesterday, and I can't boot the system.   
However, it took a while to get it to work right, and each system  
reboot (which thankfully wasn't often) required a manual process.   I 
was using the firewire port built-in to the Foxconn motherboard.


(1) Run plugreport: .  Each time I rebooted, the DCT would show up  
either in node 0 or node 1 (often changing per reboot).  So, for  
each reboot, I would have to re-run mythtvsetup and change the  
DCT-6200 node if it had changed.  There seemed to be no rhyme or  
reason as to why it keeps changing nodes on reboots.


(2) Get test-mpeg2 to work:  On each reboot, I would need to run  
"test-mpeg2 -r [NODE#]"  mutiple times (This step is KEY!!) until I  
get some output.  You'll know when you get output, its basically a  
stream of binary junk to stdout.  If you don't see output after 1  
second, press ctrl-c and try again.  With 10 tries, you'll get it  to 
work.


(3) Now start mythbackend, and it should work "reliably" until the  
next reboot.


Hope this is helpful.  Once I rebuilt my machine with a new HD,  I'll 
be happy to answer specific config questions...


-- Todd



Yes, I do all of these things as well. However, it doesn't work  
reliably for me even after these steps. Thanks Todd


Curtis



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I have the same difficulty as you, Curtis.  I've even written a program 
to automatically run test-mpeg2 until success each time the channel is 
changed.  Recording is still about 50% reliable via firewire.


- Donald
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Re: [mythtv-users] (SOLVED) Video lasts for only 1 second on live TV

[Alberto Alonso]

I don't know what the default is, however I must say that
I did the original setup back in 2004 (not using knoppmyth)
and it worked with Television as the input. Eventually I
upgraded the mythtv version and things broke. I couldn't
get things to work for a long time and I decided to stop
using live tv and used mythtv only for recordings.

Recently my interest came back and restarted to research
things to try to fix the problem. Thanks to all the input
from the list and the new search results I finally fixed it.

I must say that more clear error reporting would have saved
a lot of hours. A don't know where the code could be clearer.
All I know, is that last time I looked at the code things
were not documented and following the structure was not
easy to say the least. I gave up due to the huge learning 
curve. I work in projects over 100K lines so I can read code,
but I guess my brain tends to refuse to work on/understand
undocumented code :-)

I don't know why recordings always kept working, do they 
use a different setup for tuner?

Thanks,

Alberto


On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 22:40 -0400, Shawn wrote:
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> > On 12/10/05, Alberto Alonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> I hate when this happens.
> >>
> >> After reviewing the error messages that were displayed over and
> >> over again I've been doing google searches on many keywork
> >> combinations. Eventually I stumbled into this solution:
> >>
> >> Change tuner input from Television to Tuner 0
> >
> >
> > Is this a knoppmyth 'feature' or ivtv? Every time I've used ivtv
> > with a tuner it's been 'Tuner 0'
> 
> It really has nothing to do with Knoppmyth, but rather the default
> MythTV settings while using a Hardware MPEG-2 card.  By default
> "Television" is selected, so most people just "Next" right through it.
> 
> >
> > Good to see you're back up and running.
> >
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Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire and DCT-6200

[Curtis Stanford]

On Oct 12, 2005, at 2:35 PM, Todd Greene wrote:

For what its worth, I use the DCT-6200 and Firewire reliably.   
However, I can't give you my system specifics, since my root  
partition of my HD crashed yesterday, and I can't boot the system.   
However, it took a while to get it to work right, and each system  
reboot (which thankfully wasn't often) required a manual process.   
I was using the firewire port built-in to the Foxconn motherboard.


(1) Run plugreport: .  Each time I rebooted, the DCT would show up  
either in node 0 or node 1 (often changing per reboot).  So, for  
each reboot, I would have to re-run mythtvsetup and change the  
DCT-6200 node if it had changed.  There seemed to be no rhyme or  
reason as to why it keeps changing nodes on reboots.


(2) Get test-mpeg2 to work:  On each reboot, I would need to run  
"test-mpeg2 -r [NODE#]"  mutiple times (This step is KEY!!) until I  
get some output.  You'll know when you get output, its basically a  
stream of binary junk to stdout.  If you don't see output after 1  
second, press ctrl-c and try again.  With 10 tries, you'll get it  
to work.


(3) Now start mythbackend, and it should work "reliably" until the  
next reboot.


Hope this is helpful.  Once I rebuilt my machine with a new HD,  
I'll be happy to answer specific config questions...


-- Todd


Yes, I do all of these things as well. However, it doesn't work  
reliably for me even after these steps. Thanks Todd


Curtis

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Re: [mythtv-users] Mac OSX Fronted Crashes?

[Michael Jones]

Ok...

So I removed the folder from my Users folder and relaunched the software
(the one without the plugins) It worked unless I name it the same as I had
before.. Then it does the same thing

Is there some way to remove the name and preferences for that name from the
server?  

I do have phpAdmin running if that will help?


> From: Todd Houle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv 
> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:03:39 -0400
> To: Discussion about mythtv 
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mac OSX Fronted Crashes?
> 
> There's a folder in the root of your home called .mythtv  which you
> may want to delete and let it recreate.  Perhaps the version formats
> are different?  I found when I changed the IP of my backend, I had to
> delete that directory.
> Todd
> 
> 
> On Oct 10, 2005, at 11:46 AM, Michael Jones wrote:
> 
>> I have been running the mythfrontend from Matthew Mead's page
>> (http://www.goof.com/~mmead/) with great results for some time.
>> It's worked
>> great.   It can only stream live TV and watch recorded TV.. But so
>> far so
>> good..
>> 
>> Continuing on with my inability to leave well enough alone I
>> downloaded the
>> latest build from the http://willamette.edu/~gkruse/myth site and
>> everything
>> blew up.
>> 
>> When I load the new mythfrontend it seems to start.. It sees the
>> backend (or
>> at least seems to) but it cannot do anything.. Live TV, Play recorded
>> programs, Schedules etc..
>> 
>> Now when I try using the old version (the one from Matthew Mead's
>> page) it
>> doesn't even open.  It flashes a couple times in the dock and then
>> stops.
>> 
>> I am using the same frontend name for both versions.. Maybe that's
>> an issue?
>> 
>> Any ideas?  Am I just doing something wrong here?
>> 
>> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Who wants to help me develop a new theme? It's time.

[Andrew Hogue]

Hi,I would totally be willing to help out, I have lots of experience with openGL which I would think would be great to use since I'm sure that most people have some form of openGL (I'm not talking about rendering hundreds of thousands of polygons but rather a few textures on simple quads)The reflections in frontrow are simple and easy to do and yes a little celeron could probably do that in software at full speed.Anyways, let me know where I should begin :) I think however that it goes a bit beyond just a simple theme, it might require a bit of an overhaul on the interface in order to piece everything together not sure about that though either way... adding animation to the theme would be very simple if we used openGL.-- AndrewOn 12-Oct-05, at 11:52 PM, Brad wrote:The gods of User Experience have spoken ( http://www.apple.com/imac/frontrow.html ) let's offer them the highest form of flattery. Lets see if we can get a hold of some full res screenshots, and put together a team to turn this out quickly. Please reply to this email with a list of your skills. My very first thought when I saw that was "Wow, that looks nice... I wonder if I could make a MythTV theme like that...".  That said, I don't think I can. :-) But I'd be willing to try. I've already done one MythTV theme - which I use everyday -- and love. Its a far cry from the silky goodness that Apple is serving up though.There's a Front Row walk-through here: http://www.apple.com/imac/tour/ . I'm not so sure about some of the sound effects, but certainly its the simplest and cleanest UI I've seen for this type of application. I love how your desktop transitions to Front Row... that's cool (although not necessary for MythTV). I really like how it is very iPod-like to step through various screens. I don't think we could get some of the eye-candy on my poor little Celeron -- I guess they are using Quartz Extreme for some of the reflections/transitions/etc.Brad___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users  --  Andrew ___
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[Fwd: [mythtv-users] Guides For MythVideo and MythMusic?]

[Drew Tomlinson]

I posted the following message a few days ago but received no 
responses.  Trying one more time.  I'll take anything that might help.  :)


Thanks,

Drew

 Original Message 
Subject:[mythtv-users] Guides For MythVideo and MythMusic?
Date:   Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:57:49 -0700
From:   Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To:   Discussion about mythtv 
To: MythTV Users 



I've added MythVideo and MythMusic to my box.  But now I'm looking for 
user guides for both plug-ins.  Specifically in MythVideo, how to 
eliminate and customize the videos listed and in MythMusic, how to work 
with playlists.  I can't seem to enter the right query in Google.  Links 
appreciated.


Thanks,

Drew

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[mythtv-users] Re: Who wants to help me develop a new theme? It's time.

[Brad]

The gods of User Experience have spoken ( http://www.apple.com/imac/frontrow.html ) let's offer them the highest form of flattery. Lets see if we can get a hold of some full res screenshots, and put together a team to turn this out quickly. Please reply to this email with a list of your skills. My very first thought when I saw that was "Wow, that looks nice... I wonder if I could make a MythTV theme like that...".  That said, I don't think I can. :-) But I'd be willing to try. I've already done one MythTV theme - which I use everyday -- and love. Its a far cry from the silky goodness that Apple is serving up though.There's a Front Row walk-through here: http://www.apple.com/imac/tour/ . I'm not so sure about some of the sound effects, but certainly its the simplest and cleanest UI I've seen for this type of application. I love how your desktop transitions to Front Row... that's cool (although not necessary for MythTV). I really like how it is very iPod-like to step through various screens. I don't think we could get some of the eye-candy on my poor little Celeron -- I guess they are using Quartz Extreme for some of the reflections/transitions/etc.Brad___
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: DMA not enabled

[Steve Adeff]

On Wednesday 12 October 2005 07:37, Phil Strong wrote:
> SATA and DMA not working how can I resolve this guys?
>
> On 10/11/05, Phil Strong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I recently replaced my mythbox with a shiny new machine that now has SATA
> > drives. After initial install of OS and Myth ... I play live tv and it is
> > slow and/or skips. I checked the hdparm for /dev/hda5 (/video) and find
> > out that DMA is disabled :).
> >
> > How do I go about enabling DMA?
> >
> > If the answer is reinstall how do I insure this won't happen again?

if your SATA drive is on /dev/hda then its not a SATA drive or you need to 
move from a 2.4 kernel to a 2.6 kernel and get real SATA support.

Steve
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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 Was Working, Now Isn't

[Kirk Bocek]

Nick wrote:

It's therefore less likely to be MythTV (make sure you have checked
Use PVR-350 output in frontend setup) and could be ivtv setup related.
Were you using the ivtv xv driver to run your X session, or just using
the PVR output for live TV and recordings?


That's funny, I posted the same question to ivtv-users and they said it 
was not likely to be an ivtv problem and I should ask mythtv-users! :)


In any case, you're both right. The error was between keyboard and 
chair. I was using VNC to access the mythtv box while I'm setting it up. 
If I select the option "Use PVR-350 Hardware MPEG Decoder" (however that 
option is phrased), then VNC displays a black screen. However, the 
S-Video output from the 350 shows the correct image.


Obviously, (in retrospect) VNC knows nothing about the 350 MPEG decoder 
and cannot display the image created. Mea Culpa.


Thanks for the reply, Nick.

Kirk

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[mythtv-users] re: backend freezing/failing

[Andrew S]

sorry, apparently it was waiting for a frontend-- -Andrew Shttp://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=user/register&r=116629
"Hanging is too good for punners. They should be drawn and quoted."
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[mythtv-users] Re: MythTV and the new video iPod -- how long do we have to wait? :)

[Brad]

> So, in light of this new announcement, I'm throwing the gauntlet down. ...> makes it possible to export mythtv recordings to the new video ipod in > 3 months time. (Let's say 1/31/2006). No doubt, I mean, seriously -- how long must we be forced to wait!  ;-)  Kidding aside, I would love to see this too - although I can't see myself getting a video iPod for sometime (I "just" got my photo - which I'm still thrilled about - and probably getting a nano for my gf first).Surely this is just another nuvexport profile??? So what your asking for is integration of nuvexport into myth, which is User Jobs??? Well, perhaps. I'm *very* happy to have nuvexport (*very*), but to be honest I not-so-secretly yearn for the day when we can *easily* transcode programs with nothing more than a remote control (*sigh*).If I were to have a video iPod, I would want to be able to mark specific recordings (such as "The Daily Show") to be transcoded with the appropriate settings and automatically sync'd to my iPod the next time it is connected. It would probably be fine if the actual syncing occurred through iTunes, as that is already used for syncing my music, podcasts, contacts, notes (my "read later" web pages), calendar, and photos. Hmmm... come to think of it, that would probably bump my priority on the purchase of a video iPod up a few notches. ;-)I think I'll download iTunes 6 now and see if I can figure out how it handles video syncing.-Brad___
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Re: [mythtv-users] Channel Deletion and Wildcard Channel Rules - 2 annoying problems!

[Bruce Markey]

David Bennett wrote:

Hello,

  A small annoying problem I have been having, but since I am NOT
using ZapIt (in Japan, so xhtml), I can't seem to figure it out.

1) Deleting Channels -> I have deleted these unneeded channels a
billion times from MythWEB. But every time I run mythfilldatabase they
are back (both on the front end and in mythweb) they are back.


That's because your grabber is regrabbing them. You need to comment
them out in your whatever.xmltv file

channel: 66 TRAV
not channel: 67 CSPAN2


2) Channel Rules -> I asked a while back how to search for a program
and then record it. I was told to setup a Wildcard Search from the
front end since it is not possible on MythWEB. After I set it up, I
cannot find it on any menus but it just works. Now that I want to make


Careful, you're describing your ability to find. Schedule Recordings->
Search Words. Each of these pages start with a popup that has a button
labled "Record" where you create search rules.


some changes, I don't know how to alter/delete these search and
records. Again, is there some menu somewhere that has them, or do I
have to manually do it through the database (if so, how).


Regardless of how a rule is created, search, manual, or regular rule,
the Set Priorities lists all of your rules. Select the one you want to
delete and change the record type to "Do not record this program".

--  bjm
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Re: [mythtv-users] seperate frontend settings for different machines?

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 12 October 2005 09:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:48:03PM -0400, Steve Adeff wrote:
> > I just got myth compiled on my laptop to use as a frontend and I'm
> > noticing that its using the same settings as the frontend on my backend.
> > is this supposed to happen?
>
> It's optional.
>
> Go to "Utilities/Setup", "Setup", "General", and on page 2 check the
> option to "Use custom identifier for frontend preferences" and specify a
> unique name for the machine.

Or, you could just give your machines unique hostnames.

Isaac
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Re: [mythtv-users] (SOLVED) Video lasts for only 1 second on live TV

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 12 October 2005 10:40 pm, Shawn wrote:
> Nick wrote:
> > On 12/10/05, Alberto Alonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I hate when this happens.
> >>
> >> After reviewing the error messages that were displayed over and
> >> over again I've been doing google searches on many keywork
> >> combinations. Eventually I stumbled into this solution:
> >>
> >> Change tuner input from Television to Tuner 0
> >
> > Is this a knoppmyth 'feature' or ivtv? Every time I've used ivtv
> > with a tuner it's been 'Tuner 0'
>
> It really has nothing to do with Knoppmyth, but rather the default
> MythTV settings while using a Hardware MPEG-2 card.  By default
> "Television" is selected, so most people just "Next" right through it.

For PVR cards, the default is 'S-Video 0', or whatever is the first probed 
input on the card.  It is not 'Television'.

Isaac
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[mythtv-users] Record _seems_ to work but playback and watch tv definitely do not

[frank berisford]

Following the guide by Mr. Wilson at http://www.wilsonet.com/mythtv I
was able to get mythtv installed on my Fedora Core 4 box.  1200MHz AMD
Athlon, nForce2 motherboard, 768MB system memory, GeForce 3 with
S-Video out, Hauppauge PVR-150, 2x40GB Seagates, and Turtle Beach
Santa Cruz sound card.

Testing to see if everything works I followed some of the testing
methods in Wilson's guide.  The one that got me most excited was:

# cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/test_capture.mpgwhich I let run for a bit
to make sure it had captured something.

then a playback using mplayer
# mplayer -vo xv /tmp/test_capture.mpg

Great!  Video and sound everything seems to be working well.  I go to
fire up my frontend after going through mythtv-setup.  I go
immediately to Watch TV.  The screen goes black for a couple of
seconds and then out comes "Unable to Initialize Video" in the
frontend.  Frontend log is as follows

2005-10-12 21:05:39.288 Broadcasting free space avail
2005-10-12 21:05:39.290 Read(): reqd=128000, rcvd=128000, rept=128000, error=0
2005-10-12 21:05:39.291 write->18 53  QUERY_RECORDER
1[]:[]REQUEST_BLOCK_RI...
2005-10-12 21:05:39.294 Broadcasting free space avail
2005-10-12 21:05:39.297 Broadcasting free space avail
2005-10-12 21:05:39.301 Broadcasting free space avail
2005-10-12 21:05:39.304 Killing AudioOutputDSP
2005-10-12 21:05:39.305 OutputAudioLoop: Stop Event
2005-10-12 21:05:39.306 kickoffOutputAudioLoop exiting
2005-10-12 21:05:39.306 write->17 33  QUERY_RECORDER 1[]:[]IS_RECORDING:
2005-10-12 21:05:39.313 write->17 33  QUERY_RECORDER 1[]:[]IS_RECORDING:
2005-10-12 21:05:39.320 write->17 34  QUERY_RECORDER 1[]:[]GET_FRAMERATE:
2005-10-12 21:05:39.327 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-10-12 21:05:39.328 Decoder not alive, and trying to play..
2005-10-12 21:05:39.328 write->17 32  QUERY_RECORDER 1[]:[]STOP_LIVETV:
2005-10-12 21:05:39.372 Changing from None to None
2005-10-12 21:05:39.491 Read(): reqd=128000, rcvd=0, rept=0, error=0
2005-10-12 21:05:39.494 write->18 33  QUERY_RECORDER 1[]:[]DONE_RINGBUF:
2005-10-12 21:05:40.275 write->12 38 
QUERY_IS_ACTIVE_BACKEND[]:[]MYTH-FR4NK:

I fired back up the frontend without any logging enabled and scheduled
a show to record just to play with the interface a bit.  It looks to
have recorded that show just fine but trying to play it back gives me
the same error as above.  I have a hunch it has something to do with
my GeForce TV-Out but I'm a bit too green to know exactly what.

This mailing list has been quite helpful in getting me this far, even
though this is my first submission.  Thanks, Frank
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Re: [mythtv-users] Channel Deletion and Wildcard Channel Rules - 2 annoying problems!

[Michael T. Dean]

David Bennett wrote:


 A small annoying problem I have been having, but since I am NOT
using ZapIt (in Japan, so xhtml), I can't seem to figure it out.

1) Deleting Channels -> I have deleted these unneeded channels a
billion times from MythWEB. But every time I run mythfilldatabase they
are back (both on the front end and in mythweb) they are back.

Am I missing something? Is there somewhere else I should be deleting
channels? Should I be doing it directly from the database (if so,
how?)
 

http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.9  (I know.  You're not 
a DataDirect user.  Keep reading, anyway.  It's in there.)



2) Channel Rules -> I asked a while back how to search for a program
and then record it. I was told to setup a Wildcard Search from the
front end since it is not possible on MythWEB. After I set it up, I
cannot find it on any menus but it just works. Now that I want to make
some changes, I don't know how to alter/delete these search and
records. Again, is there some menu somewhere that has them, or do I
have to manually do it through the database (if so, how).
 

Go to the same place you went to create the rule and use the right/left 
arrow keys to select the appropriate rule name and then edit...


Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] (SOLVED) Video lasts for only 1 second on live TV

[Nick]

On 13/10/05, Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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>
> Nick wrote:
>
> > On 12/10/05, Alberto Alonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> I hate when this happens.
> >>
> >> After reviewing the error messages that were displayed over and
> >> over again I've been doing google searches on many keywork
> >> combinations. Eventually I stumbled into this solution:
> >>
> >> Change tuner input from Television to Tuner 0
> >
> >
> > Is this a knoppmyth 'feature' or ivtv? Every time I've used ivtv
> > with a tuner it's been 'Tuner 0'
>
> It really has nothing to do with Knoppmyth, but rather the default
> MythTV settings while using a Hardware MPEG-2 card.  By default
> "Television" is selected, so most people just "Next" right through it.

Is there a list of which cards use 'Television' as the tuner input ID?
Should Tuner 0 be the default?

Nick
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Re: [mythtv-users] Channel Deletion and Wildcard Channel Rules - 2 annoying problems!

[Nick]

On 13/10/05, David Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>   A small annoying problem I have been having, but since I am NOT
> using ZapIt (in Japan, so xhtml), I can't seem to figure it out.
>
> 1) Deleting Channels -> I have deleted these unneeded channels a
> billion times from MythWEB. But every time I run mythfilldatabase they
> are back (both on the front end and in mythweb) they are back.
>
>  Am I missing something? Is there somewhere else I should be deleting
> channels? Should I be doing it directly from the database (if so,
> how?)

For editing the database, I suggest using something like phpMyAdmin
(there are other programs available like the MySQL control centre).

The CHANNELS table contains all the defined channels you have. You can
select those you no longer want and delete them.

If you have xmltv files in your mythtv directory these may have xmltv
ID of the channels you want listings for. I suppose these file don't
want channels in them you don't want.

> 2) Channel Rules -> I asked a while back how to search for a program
> and then record it. I was told to setup a Wildcard Search from the
> front end since it is not possible on MythWEB. After I set it up, I
> cannot find it on any menus but it just works. Now that I want to make
> some changes, I don't know how to alter/delete these search and
> records. Again, is there some menu somewhere that has them, or do I
> have to manually do it through the database (if so, how).

If using the database to edit the channels, you can use it to remove
these. The custom record rules are stored in the RECORD table, with
the name of the rule in the TITLE field, and the actual rule in the
DESCRIPTION field. If you delete or edit this entry, your schedules
should update accordingly.

Nick
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Re: [mythtv-users] (SOLVED) Video lasts for only 1 second on live TV

[Shawn]

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Nick wrote:

> On 12/10/05, Alberto Alonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I hate when this happens.
>>
>> After reviewing the error messages that were displayed over and
>> over again I've been doing google searches on many keywork
>> combinations. Eventually I stumbled into this solution:
>>
>> Change tuner input from Television to Tuner 0
>
>
> Is this a knoppmyth 'feature' or ivtv? Every time I've used ivtv
> with a tuner it's been 'Tuner 0'

It really has nothing to do with Knoppmyth, but rather the default
MythTV settings while using a Hardware MPEG-2 card.  By default
"Television" is selected, so most people just "Next" right through it.

>
> Good to see you're back up and running.
>
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb on PDA says "Empty beers" ?

[Paul Andreassen]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:26 am, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Paul Andreassen wrote:
> >On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:28 am, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> >>Did you read the thread to which Phill linked or did you get bored
> >>reading the second or third post and decide that the fourth wasn't worth
> >>reading?
> >>
> >>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/130712?nohighlight=1#1
> >>30 712
> >>
> >>Says that it's been fixed in SVN and that Chris (xris) committed the fix
> >>on May 15, 2005.  That means you can go to the MythWeb revision log at
> >>
> >>http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/log/trunk/mythplugins/mythweb
> >
> >I know about and can go to http://svn.mythtv.org/ but from there how do
> > you get to the log lists?  Is it under Browse Source?
>
> Well, we know it's MythWeb and we want changes specific to that, so
> click on "Browse Source" ( http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/browser ), then on
> "trunk", "mythplugins", and "mythweb", then--since we don't know for
> sure which file, we'll check all revisions to MythWeb--"Revision Log"
> (underneath "Search" on the nav bar).  From there, I simply used the
> browser's Find In Page to find "Australian"  (in FF, I used "/aus").

Thanks, I got as far as source browsing mythweb.

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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and the new video iPod -- how long do we have to wait? :)

[Nick]

On 13/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just announced today (Wed 10/12/2005), the video iPod:
> http://www.apple.com/ipod/ipod.html
>
> 150 hours of video (Video capacity is based on 4 minutes per H.264
> 750-Kbps video combined with 128-Kbps audio.) on a 2.5" screen.

Some useful info from the Apple site:
(http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/creatingvideo.html):

* By following the steps in this tutorial, QuickTime 7 Pro will
automatically create an .m4v file containing H.264 video and AAC audio
that is optimized for iPod. iPod can play the following video formats:

* H.264 video
  File formats: .m4v, .mp4 and .mov
  Video: Up to 768 Kbps, 320 x 240 pixels, 30 frames per second,
Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3
  Audio: AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 KHz, stereo audio

* MPEG-4 video
  File formats: .m4v, .mp4 and .mov
  Video: Up to 2.5 Mbps, 480 x 480 pixels, 30 frames per second,
Simple Profile
  Audio: AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 KHz, stereo audio


Sounds pretty interesting.

Nick
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Re: [mythtv-users] MythMusic volume

[Nick]

On 13/10/05, Sage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I'm playing songs via MythMusic, my volume control does not work.
>  If I hit the up/down volume keys on the remote, there is a volume bar
> that moves up and down, but the actual sound does not increase or
> decrease.
>
> Volume controls work fine for watching recordings or live tv.  In the
> "General" settings, I have the volume controls configured to
> manipulate the Master volume.  I'm using ALSA sound drivers.
>
> Is this normal behavior for MythMusic?  What can I do to get volume
> control working?

MythTV is likely using the ALSA mixer (set as 'default' ) to control
your audio. MythMusic uses OSS and so could be using a different
control that the ALSA mixer does not control (if using ALSA with
OSS-emulation. I use SPDIF-out so don't have this problem, but seem to
recall a similar post a few weeks back.

Nick
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[mythtv-users] FYI - Winbook 32 inch lcd - 1366x768 1:1, dvi

[Robert Denier]

I got my 32 inch lcd to replace the vizio.  I think part of the reason
my vizio wasn't working on digital was I was using the 8.4.13-r2 of the
ati binary drivers for this radeon 9000.  I moved to 8.16.20-r1 ebuild
and it works.  

I'm getting the full 1366x768 resolution of the display in a 1:1 mapping
using the provided dvi cable.  The contrast ratio isn't quite as good as
the Vizio, but everything else looks good.  Actually, straight on the
contrast may be better, but at a sharp angle I think the Vizio was a
little better.  Of course the vizio couldn't do the 1:1 mapping I
wanted, which is why it was returned.  It also couldn't sync via the
digital connection when the computer rebooted.  The winbook does fine.
The winbook is also heavier, but I think when I remove the base to wall
mount it, some of that will go away.

If anyone wants one of these take a look at pricewatch since you can get
it for $999 and $100 shipping instead of around $1099 + $135 shipping.
This is definetly a clear improvement over the Vizio for only about $30
more than what I paid at Sams Club.

If anyone needs my xorg settings or something let me know.  One final
note is that I did have some strange remote problems for about 15
minutes but it seems fine now.  Now, if only the speakers were
detachable.  Oh well.



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Re: [mythtv-users] seperate frontend settings for different machines?

[Nick]

On 13/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:48:03PM -0400, Steve Adeff wrote:
> > I just got myth compiled on my laptop to use as a frontend and I'm noticing
> > that its using the same settings as the frontend on my backend. is this
> > supposed to happen?
>
> It's optional.
>
> Go to "Utilities/Setup", "Setup", "General", and on page 2 check the
> option to "Use custom identifier for frontend preferences" and specify a
> unique name for the machine.

You can also specify a fixed identifier for machines in case your
hostname is changed on a regular basis (e.g. DHCP) to ensure you don't
lose your settings if your hostname suddenly changes.

Nick
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Re: [mythtv-users] myth music is so slow

[Nick]

On 12/10/05, Justin Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
>  I finnaly decided to setup myth music and imported about 200 songs (i have
> 6500 copying to the server, but wanted to have some output...).  I then
> proceded to the select music screen and tried to find bare naked ladies, 10
> minutes later im still waiting for the songs to show up.

How is the music organised directory-wise? Were you copying the files
at the same time as the waiting occured?

Nick
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Re: [mythtv-users] (SOLVED) Video lasts for only 1 second on live TV

[Nick]

On 12/10/05, Alberto Alonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I hate when this happens.
>
> After reviewing the error messages that were displayed
> over and over again I've been doing google searches on
> many keywork combinations. Eventually I stumbled into
> this solution:
>
> Change tuner input from Television to Tuner 0

Is this a knoppmyth 'feature' or ivtv? Every time I've used ivtv with
a tuner it's been 'Tuner 0'

Good to see you're back up and running.

NIck
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Re: [mythtv-users] UK Freeview - More4

[Nick]

On 12/10/05, Kim Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Justin Hornsby wrote:
>
>  > However with More4, I can just make out a blue
> > line down the left hand side of the screen
>
> I've noticed this also, at least on the opening news broadcast, which is
> the only thing I've watched so far.

No obvious issues with the More4 that I've noticed so far, but will
keep an eye on it.

>
> > Also - is it just me or is the video quality of 'The Daily Show'
> > really bad?
>
> Not watched it myself, but I do remember a video-savvy friend (who was
> watching via a normal STB) commenting about the low contrast on IRC at
> the time.

It's looked pretty washed out since I started recording it. One
question I have is whether More4 is showing all 4 weekly episodes. In
the US, it's broadcast Mon-Thu @11pm, and here a day later, but
Friday's schedule is blank and Monday's episode is listed as a Global
Edition compilation of the previous week.

Nick
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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and Comcast On Demand

[Chris Ribe]

Regarding Carl's suggestion, can you tune in digital stations while the
amp and splitter are in place?  If so, it probably isn't a signal
strength issue. On 10/12/05, Chris Ribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
FWIW, Comcast uses splitters that are only rated to 900Mhz or 1.2GHz when they do installations.  

I've encountered similar problems doing installs for people, but
unfortunately I don't know what the solution is (one time it turned out
that the problem was a temporary and neighborhood wide, but it just
happened to commence while I was punching down the distribution block
in someones basement).   I've heard that Comcast will provide an
amplifier if one is necesary.  On 10/12/05, jesse k <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I have a MythTV/Gentoo box which is working very nicely. I've managedto enable all the functionality I want other than getting premiumchannels to work (the various HBOs). This is fine with me as On Demandobviates the need to record those shows. However, the hardware I've
used to split and amplify my cable signal seems to interfere with theOn Demand service.The setup (
http://jessekirchner.com/file/cable_setup.txt) I have is as
follows. I use a Radio Shack 16-2568 2-way splitter (40-2150MHz) todivide the incoming co-ax cable signal. One line goes to theWinTV-PVR350 card in my MythTV box from which I deliver the signalover S-Video to my television. Due to signal degradation from the
splitter, I use a Radio Shack 15-1170 inline powered amplifier(50-2200MHz) to boost the strength before the Motorola DCT2000 seriesset-top box. The signal is carried by co-ax from the set-top box tothe television.
I cannot use On Demand with the above-described setup. When I want tocatch up on Rome or Six Feet Under (RIP), I need to unhook the inputline from the splitter and feed it directly into the set-top box

during which time, my MythTV box cannot record with a live signal(however, it will dutifully record hours of static). I've tried to noavail removing the amplifier to see if that is blocking the On Demandsignal. This leads me to suspect that the frequency pass on the
splitter (40-2150MHz) is too narrow. (And yes, I realize that theamplifier frequency pass is almost identical, but I dont have thehardware to check that individually and I want to take this one thingat a time.)
I'd like to find a splitter that will allow the necessary frequenciesthrough, but I have no idea where to start. Before I bug Comcast (Idon't have much faith in their ability to help with non-standard
questions), I want to see if anyone in this forum has encountered a
similar difficulty or might know a good place to post this query.Also, if I seem to have a lapse in understanding, please feel free toschool me.--Jesse Kirchner

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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and Comcast On Demand

[Chris Ribe]

FWIW, Comcast uses splitters that are only rated to 900Mhz or 1.2GHz when they do installations.  

I've encountered similar problems doing installs for people, but
unfortunately I don't know what the solution is (one time it turned out
that the problem was a temporary and neighborhood wide, but it just
happened to commence while I was punching down the distribution block
in someones basement).   I've heard that Comcast will provide an
amplifier if one is necesary.  On 10/12/05, jesse k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a MythTV/Gentoo box which is working very nicely. I've managedto enable all the functionality I want other than getting premiumchannels to work (the various HBOs). This is fine with me as On Demandobviates the need to record those shows. However, the hardware I've
used to split and amplify my cable signal seems to interfere with theOn Demand service.The setup (http://jessekirchner.com/file/cable_setup.txt) I have is as
follows. I use a Radio Shack 16-2568 2-way splitter (40-2150MHz) todivide the incoming co-ax cable signal. One line goes to theWinTV-PVR350 card in my MythTV box from which I deliver the signalover S-Video to my television. Due to signal degradation from the
splitter, I use a Radio Shack 15-1170 inline powered amplifier(50-2200MHz) to boost the strength before the Motorola DCT2000 seriesset-top box. The signal is carried by co-ax from the set-top box tothe television.
I cannot use On Demand with the above-described setup. When I want tocatch up on Rome or Six Feet Under (RIP), I need to unhook the inputline from the splitter and feed it directly into the set-top box
during which time, my MythTV box cannot record with a live signal(however, it will dutifully record hours of static). I've tried to noavail removing the amplifier to see if that is blocking the On Demandsignal. This leads me to suspect that the frequency pass on the
splitter (40-2150MHz) is too narrow. (And yes, I realize that theamplifier frequency pass is almost identical, but I dont have thehardware to check that individually and I want to take this one thingat a time.)
I'd like to find a splitter that will allow the necessary frequenciesthrough, but I have no idea where to start. Before I bug Comcast (Idon't have much faith in their ability to help with non-standardquestions), I want to see if anyone in this forum has encountered a
similar difficulty or might know a good place to post this query.Also, if I seem to have a lapse in understanding, please feel free toschool me.--Jesse Kirchner
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Re: [mythtv-users] changing channels on a bt848

[Nick]

On 12/10/05, W.Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can someone describe how mythtv changes channels with a v4l analog card
> (bt848)?  The card works fine using xawtv, but I cant get channel
> changing to work within myth even though I can get a picture if I preset
> the channel.  A DVB-T card installed works fine.

You need to make sure that the freqid field for those channels you
receive on the analog card is populated with the correct frequency
information for your area. In my case, in the UK where analog channel
'numbers' are between 20-69, I have the appropriate frequency number
for the 5 analog channels in my channels table.

You should be able to make sure the fields are correctly populated
using the channel editor in mythtv-setup.

Nick
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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and Comcast On Demand

[Carl Fongheiser]

On 10/12/05, jesse k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a MythTV/Gentoo box which is working very nicely. I've managedto enable all the functionality I want other than getting premiumchannels to work (the various HBOs). This is fine with me as On Demandobviates the need to record those shows. However, the hardware I've
used to split and amplify my cable signal seems to interfere with theOn Demand service.
On Demand most likely requires use of a return channel, which your
amplifier may be blocking.  If you can find an amplifier
compatible with cable modems, you likely will have found one that will
work for you.  The splitter is most likely not the problem -- the
frequency range you quoted is adequate for cable modems and digital
cable on most systems.

Carl Fongheiser

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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 Was Working, Now Isn't

[Nick]

On 12/10/05, Kirk Bocek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My PVR-350 was working fine, recording and watching live TV. Then I
> tried to add a second capture card. I gave up on the second card but now
> the PVR-350 stopped working. All I get is a black screen.
>
> The "copy /dev/video0 > file.mpg" test works fine -- the card is
> receiving a signal on the tuner0 input.
>
> Can *anyone* make *any* suggestions on what to do next?

Please post the output from your frontend and backend logs when trying
to watch TV and it  fails.

> Is there someway to 'reset' mythtv? I have removed all the tuner cards
> in myth-setup and re-added the PVR-350 several time with no success.

It's therefore less likely to be MythTV (make sure you have checked
Use PVR-350 output in frontend setup) and could be ivtv setup related.
Were you using the ivtv xv driver to run your X session, or just using
the PVR output for live TV and recordings?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: OT: nVidia and XvMC?

[Howard Christeller]

Also, searching various nVidia-related boards didn't yield any
definitive answers to my problem, but it did mention a few peoplehaving problems with XvMC with various incarnations of nVidia'sdrivers. Also, nothing about my specific card (6200). So, if anyonehas a similar setup to mine, and you have XvMC working, could you
please tell me which version of nVidia's drivers you're using? Thanks!I'm using a 6200 and an Athlon XP 2500+ on Debian, so it's XFree86, rather than X.org. Nvidia driver version 7174.


My TV (Panasonic PT-47X54) does 540P and 1080i.  It will accept
480i/p, and convert it to 540p.  It won't do 720p at all.

I can get a 1080i screen using component out, but playing video locks
it up hard.  I'm using 540p over the DVI output, and the 2500+
just keeps up.  Skipping forward or backward on 1080i material
causes it to stutter briefly, until it settles down.  720p is
slightly better, and 480i is no problem at all.  Everything is
converted to 540P.  It works well enough that I'm waiting before
upgrading.

I did need to recompile MythTV to get XvMC to work.

The new nVidia 6150 chipset with integrated graphics looks like a
possible upgrade.  It appears to be designed for HDTV, unlike the
GPUs where the primary aim is 3D gaming performance.  I like my
6200, but get the feeling that HDTV is an afterthought.  At any
rate, I'll upgrade when I see a good 1080i solution at a budget price.

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Re: [mythtv-users] seperate frontend settings for different machines?

[chris]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:48:03PM -0400, Steve Adeff wrote:
> I just got myth compiled on my laptop to use as a frontend and I'm noticing 
> that its using the same settings as the frontend on my backend. is this 
> supposed to happen?

It's optional.

Go to "Utilities/Setup", "Setup", "General", and on page 2 check the
option to "Use custom identifier for frontend preferences" and specify a
unique name for the machine.

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[mythtv-users] Re: OT: nVidia and XvMC?

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 05:30:22PM -0700, Mark Linford wrote:
> On 10/12/05, Mark Linford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 10/12/05, Axel Thimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 05:52:47AM -0700, Mark Linford wrote:
> > > > On 10/11/05, Tj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > Mark Linford wrote:
> > > > >
> >
> > > > > If you use libXvMCW, check that you have a file /etc/X11/XvMCConfig 
> > > > > and
> > > > > the contents is just "libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1" without the quotes. 
> > > > > If
> > > > > it doesn't exist, create it and libXvMCW should work fine now..
> > > > >
> > > > Yep, I have that exact XvMCConfig file, with no luck ...
> > >
> > > Check ls -lu /etc/X11/XvMCConfig before and after running the frontend.
> >
> > Before running mythfrontend:
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 27 Oct 12 05:40 /etc/X11/XvMCConfig
> >
> > And after:
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 27 Oct 12 17:14 /etc/X11/XvMCConfig
> >
> > Hmmm. Is it supposed to change like that?

Yes, that means it was read, e.g. xvmcw became active.
You should do the same with libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1.

> A couple of other things I forgot to mention:
> 
> Looking at my /var/log/Xorg.0.log file, I see this line:
> 
> (II) Loading extension XVideo
> (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
> 
> So, it looks like nVidia is using XvMC ...

xvmcw is working, and nvidia xvmc, too. The missing bit is the
link. Does xvmcw find libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1?

Do you have multiple versions of nvidia drivers installed? If yes, use
nvidia-graphics-switch to choose one.

> Also, searching various nVidia-related boards didn't yield any
> definitive answers to my problem, but it did mention a few people
> having problems with XvMC with various incarnations of nVidia's
> drivers. Also, nothing about my specific card (6200). So, if anyone
> has a similar setup to mine, and you have XvMC working, could you
> please tell me which version of nVidia's drivers you're using? Thanks!

Just install all available ones from atrpms and use
nvidia-graphics-switch in runlevel 3 to switch from one to the other.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net


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[mythtv-users] Channel Deletion and Wildcard Channel Rules - 2 annoying problems!

[David Bennett]

Hello,

  A small annoying problem I have been having, but since I am NOT
using ZapIt (in Japan, so xhtml), I can't seem to figure it out.

1) Deleting Channels -> I have deleted these unneeded channels a
billion times from MythWEB. But every time I run mythfilldatabase they
are back (both on the front end and in mythweb) they are back.

 Am I missing something? Is there somewhere else I should be deleting
channels? Should I be doing it directly from the database (if so,
how?)

2) Channel Rules -> I asked a while back how to search for a program
and then record it. I was told to setup a Wildcard Search from the
front end since it is not possible on MythWEB. After I set it up, I
cannot find it on any menus but it just works. Now that I want to make
some changes, I don't know how to alter/delete these search and
records. Again, is there some menu somewhere that has them, or do I
have to manually do it through the database (if so, how).

Any information would be great.
Thank you

David
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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and the new video iPod -- how long do we have to wait? :)

[David Whyte]

Surely this is just another nuvexport profile???  So what your asking
for is integration of nuvexport into myth, which is User Jobs???

Unless I misunderstand :\

On 10/13/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just announced today (Wed 10/12/2005), the video iPod:
>http://www.apple.com/ipod/ipod.html
>
> 150 hours of video (Video capacity is based on 4 minutes per H.264
> 750-Kbps video combined with 128-Kbps audio.) on a 2.5" screen.
>
>
> So, in light of this new announcement, I'm throwing the gauntlet down.
> I will pledge $10 towards a pot to reward someone/some team that
> makes it possible to export mythtv recordings to the new video ipod in
> 3 months time. (Let's say 1/31/2006).  That way when I get one of
> these for Christmas, my MythTV will be all ready for it.  :)
>
> What do the rest of you think?
> mark
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: OT: nVidia and XvMC?

[Mark Linford]

On 10/12/05, Mark Linford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/12/05, Axel Thimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 05:52:47AM -0700, Mark Linford wrote:
> > > On 10/11/05, Tj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Mark Linford wrote:
> > > >
>
> > > > If you use libXvMCW, check that you have a file /etc/X11/XvMCConfig and
> > > > the contents is just "libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1" without the quotes. If
> > > > it doesn't exist, create it and libXvMCW should work fine now..
> > > >
> > > Yep, I have that exact XvMCConfig file, with no luck ...
> >
> > Check ls -lu /etc/X11/XvMCConfig before and after running the frontend.
>
> Before running mythfrontend:
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 27 Oct 12 05:40 /etc/X11/XvMCConfig
>
> And after:
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 27 Oct 12 17:14 /etc/X11/XvMCConfig
>
> Hmmm. Is it supposed to change like that?
>
A couple of other things I forgot to mention:

Looking at my /var/log/Xorg.0.log file, I see this line:

(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation

So, it looks like nVidia is using XvMC ...


Also, searching various nVidia-related boards didn't yield any
definitive answers to my problem, but it did mention a few people
having problems with XvMC with various incarnations of nVidia's
drivers. Also, nothing about my specific card (6200). So, if anyone
has a similar setup to mine, and you have XvMC working, could you
please tell me which version of nVidia's drivers you're using? Thanks!

Mark
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[mythtv-users] Help converting HD recording to burn to dvd

[Byron Poland]

I am recording something for a friend.  I have an HD only back end. 
Does anyone have a formula for going from a HD mpeg2 stream to a DVD
compatible mpeg2 stream?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Comcast being coy?

[Chris Ribe]

I haven't tried, but I'm almost certain the answer is yes. 
Digital and analog cable coexist on the same line, as everybody in a
neighborhood shares the same line.     
       On 10/12/05, Kevin Kuphal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Chris Ribe wrote:> I have to pay something like $6/month for the box and another $8/month> for "Digital Basic Access" or some other such nonsense.  The bottom> line is that it is $14 more than the basic cable that I was getting.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: OT: MythTV Home Automation

[Ross Campbell]

> I am glad to know that my assumption about the people on this list was> correct. - Unfortunately Heyu and Heyu2 will not work for me (I have the
> Firecracker PC Module), but most importantly it won't do the part with the> phone. That is the most important part for me.
I use BlueLava as a web frontend to bottlerocket and my X10 Firecracker. To me, that's easier than dealing with a phone.

http://www.sgtwilko.f9.co.uk/bluelava/

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[mythtv-users] MythTV and Comcast On Demand

[jesse k]

I have a MythTV/Gentoo box which is working very nicely. I've managed
to enable all the functionality I want other than getting premium
channels to work (the various HBOs). This is fine with me as On Demand
obviates the need to record those shows. However, the hardware I've
used to split and amplify my cable signal seems to interfere with the
On Demand service.

The setup (http://jessekirchner.com/file/cable_setup.txt) I have is as
follows. I use a Radio Shack 16-2568 2-way splitter (40-2150MHz) to
divide the incoming co-ax cable signal. One line goes to the
WinTV-PVR350 card in my MythTV box from which I deliver the signal
over S-Video to my television. Due to signal degradation from the
splitter, I use a Radio Shack 15-1170 inline powered amplifier
(50-2200MHz) to boost the strength before the Motorola DCT2000 series
set-top box. The signal is carried by co-ax from the set-top box to
the television.

I cannot use On Demand with the above-described setup. When I want to
catch up on Rome or Six Feet Under (RIP), I need to unhook the input
line from the splitter and feed it directly into the set-top box
during which time, my MythTV box cannot record with a live signal
(however, it will dutifully record hours of static). I've tried to no
avail removing the amplifier to see if that is blocking the On Demand
signal. This leads me to suspect that the frequency pass on the
splitter (40-2150MHz) is too narrow. (And yes, I realize that the
amplifier frequency pass is almost identical, but I dont have the
hardware to check that individually and I want to take this one thing
at a time.)

I'd like to find a splitter that will allow the necessary frequencies
through, but I have no idea where to start. Before I bug Comcast (I
don't have much faith in their ability to help with non-standard
questions), I want to see if anyone in this forum has encountered a
similar difficulty or might know a good place to post this query.
Also, if I seem to have a lapse in understanding, please feel free to
school me.
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[mythtv-users] MythTV and the new video iPod -- how long do we have to wait? :)

[mythtv]

Just announced today (Wed 10/12/2005), the video iPod:
http://www.apple.com/ipod/ipod.html

150 hours of video (Video capacity is based on 4 minutes per H.264 
750-Kbps video combined with 128-Kbps audio.) on a 2.5" screen.



So, in light of this new announcement, I'm throwing the gauntlet down.
I will pledge $10 towards a pot to reward someone/some team that 
makes it possible to export mythtv recordings to the new video ipod in 
3 months time. (Let's say 1/31/2006).  That way when I get one of 
these for Christmas, my MythTV will be all ready for it.  :)


What do the rest of you think?
mark
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: OT: MythTV Home Automation

[Harry Orenstein]

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 6:30 pm, Mat Kyne wrote:
> I am glad to know that my assumption about the people on this list was
> correct. - Unfortunately Heyu and Heyu2 will not work for me (I have the
> Firecracker PC Module), but most importantly it won't do the part with the
> phone. That is the most important part for me.

Can't help with phone control, but if you want to control the firecracker 
google for bottlerocket.  Command line control of the firecracker.


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Re: [mythtv-users] OT: MythTV Home Automation

[Harry Orenstein]

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 11:59 pm, Thom Paine wrote:
> > BTW, don't forget that with X-10 you will need to have a module at the
> > circuit-breaker panel to allow devices on one phase to talk to devices
> > on the other phase.
>
> I forget the size offhand, but you can put something like a 350 picofarad
> capacitor to jump the phases to get the x10 signals to pass. But you better
> google it back up because I'm not sure. It talks about the signal having to
> run all the way out of the house to the pole to make the jump, whereas
> doing the jump in your panel.
>
> --
> -=/>Thom

Or, if you are not a risk-taker, you could try one of these:

http://www.smarthome.com/4816H.HTML


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[mythtv-users] MythMusic volume

[Sage]

When I'm playing songs via MythMusic, my volume control does not work.
 If I hit the up/down volume keys on the remote, there is a volume bar
that moves up and down, but the actual sound does not increase or
decrease.

Volume controls work fine for watching recordings or live tv.  In the
"General" settings, I have the volume controls configured to
manipulate the Master volume.  I'm using ALSA sound drivers.

Is this normal behavior for MythMusic?  What can I do to get volume
control working?

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Re: [mythtv-users] OT: MythTV Home Automation

[Tim Litwiller]

 I have heardabout Linux computer based answering machines, that will effectively give
you voicemail. It seems to me that any computer can discern one touch-tonefrom another. So why can't I use specific tones to run specific commands.-(this is one of the few times I wished I had chosen computer engineering
over mechanical engineering)- Surely some one has thought of this before.Thanks for the replies, and keep 'em coming. -Matwhat you need is asterisk  - then program an autoattendant so regular callers your phone rings several times and then goes to voicemail - but if you press a key sequence - you get a voice menu of things you can do. then connect that to agi scripts that do the things you want.
I'm not doing any home automation with mine yet.  But I'm working to ward that.
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb on PDA says "Empty beers" ?

[Michael T. Dean]

Paul Andreassen wrote:


On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:28 am, Michael T. Dean wrote:
 


Did you read the thread to which Phill linked or did you get bored
reading the second or third post and decide that the fourth wasn't worth
reading?

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/130712?nohighlight=1#130
712

Says that it's been fixed in SVN and that Chris (xris) committed the fix
on May 15, 2005.  That means you can go to the MythWeb revision log at

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/log/trunk/mythplugins/mythweb
   

I know about and can go to http://svn.mythtv.org/ but from there how do you 
get to the log lists?  Is it under Browse Source?
 

Well, we know it's MythWeb and we want changes specific to that, so 
click on "Browse Source" ( http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/browser ), then on 
"trunk", "mythplugins", and "mythweb", then--since we don't know for 
sure which file, we'll check all revisions to MythWeb--"Revision Log" 
(underneath "Search" on the nav bar).  From there, I simply used the 
browser's Find In Page to find "Australian"  (in FF, I used "/aus").



and find

05/15/05 17:36:24   @6407[6407]   xris  hopefully
fix things so that australian NEVER shows up automatically.

which links you to changeset 6407

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/6407

Which shows the exact changes you need to make.

Now that you know how to fish...  ;)
   



Please give some more fishing tips...
 


Guess I forgot to show you an appropriate casting technique...  :)

Happy fishing.

Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] Controlling a cable box that outputs only on a single channel.

[Michael T. Dean]

Steve wrote:

Thank you search master (Hehe, I guess I missed that reply). But I 
sort of rolled another question in with this post two birds-- one 
stone, kinda deal.


Gotta admit searching the lists is easier when you're the author of the 
post you're seeking...  ;)


Mike



On 10/11/05, *Michael T. Dean* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> wrote:


Steve wrote:

> I have a strange predicament, or at least I haven't stumbled upon
> anyone else with it yet. I have a Scientific Atlanta 4200HD box.
I am
> using the cable out on the back of my cable box and it goes into my
> second tuner card (PVR-250). Here's the problem:
>
> The cable box's cable out only broadcasts on channel 3. So when Myth
> has a listing for lets say... channel 5, it tunes from 3 to 5.
Now it
> only picks up static, however for it to work, it needs to stay tuned
> on 3. The cable box can be on whatever channel needs to be
recorded,
> that's why I bought an IR Blaster, but getting that to work is a
> problem for later. I hope most, or at least all of this, made sense.
>
>
>
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/15#15

Mike



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[mythtv-users] seperate frontend settings for different machines?

[Steve Adeff]

I just got myth compiled on my laptop to use as a frontend and I'm noticing 
that its using the same settings as the frontend on my backend. is this 
supposed to happen?

Steve
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[mythtv-users] mythbackend failure/freeze

[Andrew S]

i run the following and get

[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# mythbackend &
[1] 8192
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# 2005-10-12 18:03:44.327 New DB connection, total: 1
Starting up as the master server.
2005-10-12 18:03:44.365 New DB connection, total: 2
2005-10-12 18:03:44.391 New DB connection, total: 3
2005-10-12 18:03:44.414 New DB scheduler connection
 is defined, but isn't attached to a cardinput.
2005-10-12 18:03:44.429 mythbackend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1 www.mythtv.org
2005-10-12 18:03:44.430 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2005-10-12 18:03:46.427 Reschedule requested for id -1.
2005-10-12 18:03:46.685 Scheduled 0 items in 0.3 = 0.25 match + 0.01 place
2005-10-12 18:03:46.691 Seem to be woken up by USER

whereupon it freezes. any seggustions?-- -Andrew Shttp://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=user/register&r=116629"Hanging is too good for punners. They should be drawn and quoted."
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: DMA not enabled

[Kirk Bocek]

The last thing I read about SATA drives said that DMA is always enabled. 
  On the few Linux boxes I've built with SATA drives, it hasn't been an 
issue.


Having said that, hdparm is actually for IDE drives only. On all the 
boxes I've built, the SATA drives show up using SCSI nomenclature 
(/dev/sda, etc.) Although you can query and test /dev/sdx drives with 
hdparm, you're not supposed to be able to set parameters.


Does your motherboard have some sort of IDE emulation for the SATA 
drives? You might try turning that off and going with a native SATA 
interface. If your OS is installed on the SATA drive, this will involve 
using a rescue disk as the drive designation will change.


Hope this helps.

Kirk Bocek

Phil Strong wrote:

SATA and DMA not working how can I resolve this guys?

On 10/11/05, *Phil Strong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 > wrote:


I recently replaced my mythbox with a shiny new machine that now has
SATA drives.  After initial install of OS and Myth ... I play live
tv and it is slow and/or skips.  I checked the hdparm for /dev/hda5
(/video) and find out that DMA is disabled :).

How do I go about enabling DMA?

If the answer is reinstall how do I insure this won't happen again?

-- 
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Synergetic Data Systems
(w) 240 793 6565
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[mythtv-users] myth music is so slow

[Justin Hunt]

Hi everyone,

I finnaly decided to setup myth music and imported about 200 songs (i
have 6500 copying to the server, but wanted to have some
output...).  I then proceded to the select music screen and tried
to find bare naked ladies, 10 minutes later im still waiting for the
songs to show up.

This backend isnt real slow (a p4 1.7 ghz with 650mb ram),  and it
isnt doing anything else.  Is there anything i can do to speed it
up?

Thanks for the help,-- Justin Hunt[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://bd.ls.laHome/Cell: 416-409-0178
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Re: [mythtv-users] Deleting Records that are Symlinks

[Andrew Wilson]

There's an option in mythtv-setup to '"Follow symlinks when deleting files"
(3rd screen of General Setup) I think that will do what you want

cheers
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[mythtv-users] Re: DMA not enabled

[Phil Strong]

SATA and DMA not working how can I resolve this guys?On 10/11/05, Phil Strong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:I recently replaced my mythbox with a shiny new machine that now has
SATA drives.  After initial install of OS and Myth ... I play live
tv and it is slow and/or skips.  I checked the hdparm for
/dev/hda5 (/video) and find out that DMA is disabled :).

How do I go about enabling DMA?

If the answer is reinstall how do I insure this won't happen again?-- Phil StrongSynergetic Data Systems(w) 240 793 6565
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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Re: [mythtv-users] playlist problem

[Chris Pinkham]

> > Is there any fix for the following problem?
> > Say I have a recording group called "Default". I add the show under it 
> > to my playlist. Then going under playlist options, I ask it to change 
> > the recording group. The mythfrontend immediately crashes. This 
> > happens *every time*. Does this happen just on my computer or does 
> > this happen on everybody's? Is there any fix for this?
> >
> I've seen it to.  Haven't had a chance to look into the code to see what 
> is happening.  In the meantime, just select each show individually and 
> change the recording group one at a time.  It seems to only affect 
> playlists.

I haven't seen or been able to reproduce this on two systems.  I did
find one bug while looking at this though. :)  With the new listbox code
I added recently, when you change the recording group, the listbox would
always highlight the "Default" group if you were changing the group for
a playlist rather than highlighting the current recording group name as
it should.  Should have a fix for this in SVN later tonight.

-- 
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Re: [mythtv-users] OT: MythTV Home Automation

[Thom Paine]

BTW, don't forget that with X-10 you will need to have a module at thecircuit-breaker panel to allow devices on one phase to talk to devices
on the other phase.
I forget the size offhand, but you can put something like a 350
picofarad capacitor to jump the phases to get the x10 signals to pass.
But you better google it back up because I'm not sure. It talks about
the signal having to run all the way out of the house to the pole to
make the jump, whereas doing the jump in your panel.
-- -=/>Thom
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Re: [mythtv-users] Returning to playback speed 1X doesn't play at 1X

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Why not time the commercial while playing normally.  Then exit,restart the program and increase the speed and check the times again.
I have noticed it, but just assumed it wsd my head playing around withme.  It has a habbit of doing that :\
Alright, so I tested this by comparing the OSD display of the "time within the recording" vs a stopwatch in hand.

After 2 mins of real-time, the recording was lagging behind by 11-12 seconds (ie 1:48)

6 minutes - behind by 23 seconds
8 minutes - behind by 30 seconds
10 minutes - behind by 38 seconds
15 minutes - behind by 42 seconds.

Any ideas what do to next?


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Re: [mythtv-users] Who wants to help me develop a new theme? It's time.

[Andrew Close]

On 10/12/05, Richard Bronosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  Andrew Close wrote:
>  On 10/12/05, Richard Bronosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>  The gods of User Experience have spoken (
> http://www.apple.com/imac/frontrow.html ) let's offer them
> the highest
> form of flattery.
>
>
>
> hmm, it kinda looks like Apple ripped off CenterStage:
> http://centerstageproject.com/index.php
>
> i believe CneterStage was supposed to be an opensource media center
> for the Mac platform...

>
>  I wouldn't call it a ripoff.  They look nothing alike.  But if you are
> referring to the concept, I would say that Apple is extremely careful not to
> step on the toes of 3rd party and Open Source developers.  Apple could have
> built in FTP functionality years ago, but has respected Fetch Softworks and
> Panic Software.

oh i didn't necessarily mean it in a negative way. :)  some of the
early CenterStage screenshots looked fairly similar to what Apple is
now offering.  hopefully they'll compliment each other.  too bad Apple
doesn't pair up with OSS projects or take them under their wing.  that
would be kinda cool.

>
>  (Don't even bring up Konfabulator... that argument has been made.
> Dashboard is a very different product built on existing Apple technologies,
> where Konfabulator was built on heavy JS & HTML processing layers.
> Konfabulator had a different goal in mind, and they have reached it now that
> Yahoo! has purchased them.)

i agree, different circumstance.  Konfabulator actually 'borrowed'
from older Apple desk widgets from what i understand.  and Dashboard
widgets are far superior to Konfab widgets. ;)  not that i've found
either particularly useful.

i'm an Apple Geek and have been for ~3 years now.  i just wish they
would have updated the Powerbooks today...

back on topic :)

i would love to see some nicer themes/UIs come along for Myth.  i
unfortunetely am not graphically gifted.  i know what i like though.
:)  the Myxer theme was a huge step forward i thought.  at least it
gave users fairly easy access to theming their MythBox.
i'm all for flattering Apple by 'borrowing' their theme.  or possibly
working with the CenterStage guys to use their look & feel...  they
would probably be more approachable anyway.

what about an overhaul to MythWeb while we're at it? :)  give it a
similar look & feel, or make it semi-themable.  just a thought.

my background is similar to yours Richard.  let me know if you want to
bounce other ideas around or how i can help.  i'd like to contribute
to the Myth community and OSS in general if i can.
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Re: [mythtv-users] playlist problem

[Kevin Kuphal]

Ashu Desai wrote:


Hello,
Is there any fix for the following problem?
Say I have a recording group called "Default". I add the show under it 
to my playlist. Then going under playlist options, I ask it to change 
the recording group. The mythfrontend immediately crashes. This 
happens *every time*. Does this happen just on my computer or does 
this happen on everybody's? Is there any fix for this?


I've seen it to.  Haven't had a chance to look into the code to see what 
is happening.  In the meantime, just select each show individually and 
change the recording group one at a time.  It seems to only affect 
playlists.


Kevin
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[mythtv-users] playlist problem

[Ashu Desai]

Hello,
Is there any fix for the following problem?
Say I have a recording group called "Default". I add the show under it
to my playlist. Then going under playlist options, I ask it to change
the recording group. The mythfrontend immediately crashes. This happens
*every time*. Does this happen just on my computer or does this happen
on everybody's? Is there any fix for this?

Thanks,
Ash.
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[mythtv-users] dvb ts file playback in mplayer liba52 problems...?

[Steve Adeff]

anyone else with a dvb card try playing back their TS files in mplayer have 
problems with liba52 upon playback? I get a bunch of "crc error"s and the the 
sound quite out on me, but things seem to playback fine in myth.


Steve
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: OT: MythTV Home Automation

[Thom Paine]

On 10/11/05, Mat Kyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am glad to know that my assumption about the people on this list wascorrect. - Unfortunately Heyu and Heyu2 will not work for me (I have theFirecracker PC Module), 
That is unfortunate. I have the old stuff, and I have the module that works with heyu. 

I have heardabout Linux computer based answering machines, that will effectively give
you voicemail. It seems to me that any computer can discern one touch-tonefrom another. So why can't I use specific tones to run specific commands.-(this is one of the few times I wished I had chosen computer engineering
over mechanical engineering)- Surely some one has thought of this before.Thanks for the replies, and keep 'em coming. -Mat
Let me check my linuxtoys book. I think I read in there exactly that.
At least you could run a script that would talk to the module and maybe
give you some feedback. Ir maybe you could force the module to reset
itself to either on or off.
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[mythtv-users] OT: Projector / LCD CloneMode

[Tobias Hilbert]

Hi

I would like to run my LCD and projector without switching cables everytime.
My frontend has an nvidia 6600gt with VGA and dvi output. The projector is 
connected via a 7m hdmi cable.
The toshiba LCD got both VGA and hdmi inputs. Does anyone has a similar setup?
One solution i tried is running twinview in clone mode with my LCD connected 
via VGA cable but the performance 
with both devices running at 720p was quite sluggish. I am thinking about 
getting a different graphics card with two 
dvi output. 
Any suggestions?

Tobias
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Re: [mythtv-users] Who wants to help me develop a new theme? It's time.

[Richard Bronosky]

Andrew Close wrote:

  On 10/12/05, Richard Bronosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  
  
The gods of User Experience have spoken (
http://www.apple.com/imac/frontrow.html ) let's offer them the highest
form of flattery.

  
  
hmm, it kinda looks like Apple ripped off CenterStage:
http://centerstageproject.com/index.php

i believe CneterStage was supposed to be an opensource media center
for the Mac platform...
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I wouldn't call it a ripoff.  They look nothing alike.  But if you are
referring to the concept, I would say that Apple is extremely careful
not to step on the toes of 3rd party and Open Source developers.  Apple
could have built in FTP functionality years ago, but has respected
Fetch Softworks and Panic Software.

(Don't even bring up Konfabulator... that argument has been made. 
Dashboard is a very different product built on existing Apple
technologies, where Konfabulator was built on heavy JS & HTML
processing layers.  Konfabulator had a different goal in mind, and they
have reached it now that Yahoo! has purchased them.)

-- 


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Re: [mythtv-users] ivtv 4.x compatible with HD-3000 DVB?

[ToadMazter]

I should have read the response to one of my orginal posts. 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/154170
I may have to delete the ivtv tveeprom file and use the kernel one.  Regardless, I'm still going to install it now.  I'll report back my findings... 
On 10/12/05, ToadMazter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for the response. I assume I won't have to mess with tveeprom files, so I'm going to install ivtv now...


On 10/11/05, Cecil Watson <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

ToadMazter wrote:> I just noticed that the ivtv 4.x drivers are now on ATRPMS. Has anyone been> succesful with these and the PVR-150/500, and can it co-reside with the 
> HD-3000 DVB drivers?Not that I'm using Fedora, but yes.Regards,Cecil
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[mythtv-users] lirc problems

[Andrew S]

and i was doing so well, too.

i am using a happauge wintv go plus. it has the same ir chip as the
regular ones so i just used the ittv settings from
http://www.wilsonet.com/mythtv/index.php

i got no response from irw, so i checked /var/log/messages and found the following (the box is named mythtv):







Oct 12 16:38:04 mythtv kernel: lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61 
Oct 12 16:38:04 mythtv kernel: ivtv:   START INIT IVTV 
Oct 12 16:38:04 mythtv kernel: ivtv:  version 0.4.0 (tagged release) loading
Oct 12 16:38:04 mythtv kernel: ivtv:  Linux version: 2.6.12-1.1456_FC4 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.0
Oct 12 16:38:04 mythtv kernel: ivtv:  In case of problems please include the debug info
Oct 12 16:38:04 mythtv kernel: ivtv:  between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when
Oct 12 16:38:04 mythtv kernel: ivtv:  mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist.
Oct 12 16:38:04 mythtv kernel: ivtv:    END INIT IVTV  
Oct 12 16:38:04 mythtv kernel: cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.4 loaded
Oct 12 16:38:04 mythtv kernel: lirc_i2c: chip found @ 0x71 (Hauppauge IR (PVR150))
Oct 12 16:38:04 mythtv kernel: lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 10
Oct 12 16:39:25 mythtv lircd-0.7.2[2661]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
Oct 12 16:40:51 mythtv lircd-0.7.2[2661]: removed client
Oct 12 16:50:45 mythtv automount[7113]: failed to mount /misc/.directory
Oct 12 16:50:45 mythtv automount[7114]: >> /usr/sbin/showmount: can't get address for .directory
Oct 12 16:50:45 mythtv automount[7114]: lookup(program): lookup for .directory failed
Oct 12 16:50:45 mythtv automount[7114]: failed to mount /net/.directory
Oct 12 16:53:34 mythtv automount[7157]: failed to mount /misc/.directory-- -Andrew Shttp://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=user/register&r=116629
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Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire and DCT-6200

[Alex Brekken]

As another data point, I'm running 18.1 on FC3 and have been using
FireWire on a DCT-6200 for a few months now.  I've got a Belkin
FireWire card.  The main issue I have is the same that I've seen
many other Firewire users complain about, which is often times when
starting a recording (or LiveTV) it doesn't actually capture
anything.  So you get either a zero-size file, or it just times
out.  If you keep trying it will work, but I would say that
roughly 40% of the time it doesn't.  Once it DOES start capturing
it's great, but it's nowhere near reliable enough for me to use it as
anything more than as an experimental thing.  Channel-changing,
however, does work flawlessly all the time.  On 10/12/05, Big Wave Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Big Wave Dave wrote:

  
  

Was this using  Myth from src?... or running the lastest RPMs
posted on ATrpms?


I'm running the latest "stable" (non-bleeding) RPMs, and have the same
problems as Curtis. 

My FireWire card:
Kouwell Model
KW-1582V - (aka BTC 1394 PCI Card)
http://www.kouwell.com.tw/pr-m3.htm#1582v

If I recall correctly, it was listed in linux1394.org
compatibility list at the time I bought it.


Thanks,
Dave

  
  
Since it will likely be asked:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# rpm -qa | grep myth
  mythweb-0.18-67.at
  mythbrowser-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-theme-purplegalaxy-0.20031214-3.at
  myththemes-0.18-104.at
  mythtv-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
  mythweather-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-theme-MythCenter-0.17-1.at
  mythtv-theme-photo-4-6.at
  mythtv-suite-0.18.1-55.at
  mythtv-themes-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-backend-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-setup-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
  mythgame-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-theme-isthmus-0.20040804-1.at
  mythtv-theme-visor-0.16.2-5.at
  mythmusic-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythnews-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythmkmovie-1.1.4-4.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-theme-MediaCenter-0.17-4.at
  mythtv-theme-abstract-0.20040910-2.at
  mythtv-frontend-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
  mythphone-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythplugins-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-theme-sleek-0.35-2.at
  libmyth-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
  mythvideo-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythgallery-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythdvd-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  
DaveI should clarify that mine DOES work about 60-70% of the time.  I would obviously like to improve that though. :-)

Dave


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Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire and DCT-6200

[Big Wave Dave]

Big Wave Dave wrote:

  
  

Was this using  Myth from src?... or running the lastest RPMs
posted on ATrpms?


I'm running the latest "stable" (non-bleeding) RPMs, and have the same
problems as Curtis. 

My FireWire card:
Kouwell Model
KW-1582V - (aka BTC 1394 PCI Card)
http://www.kouwell.com.tw/pr-m3.htm#1582v

If I recall correctly, it was listed in linux1394.org
compatibility list at the time I bought it.


Thanks,
Dave

  
  
Since it will likely be asked:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# rpm -qa | grep myth
  mythweb-0.18-67.at
  mythbrowser-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-theme-purplegalaxy-0.20031214-3.at
  myththemes-0.18-104.at
  mythtv-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
  mythweather-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-theme-MythCenter-0.17-1.at
  mythtv-theme-photo-4-6.at
  mythtv-suite-0.18.1-55.at
  mythtv-themes-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-backend-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-setup-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
  mythgame-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-theme-isthmus-0.20040804-1.at
  mythtv-theme-visor-0.16.2-5.at
  mythmusic-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythnews-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythmkmovie-1.1.4-4.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-theme-MediaCenter-0.17-4.at
  mythtv-theme-abstract-0.20040910-2.at
  mythtv-frontend-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
  mythphone-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythplugins-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-theme-sleek-0.35-2.at
  libmyth-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
  mythvideo-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythgallery-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythdvd-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  
DaveI should clarify that mine DOES work about 60-70% of the time.  I would obviously like to improve that though. :-)

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Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire and DCT-6200

[Todd Greene]

For what its worth, I use the DCT-6200 and Firewire reliably.  However,
I can't give you my system specifics, since my root partition of my HD
crashed yesterday, and I can't boot the system.  However, it took a
while to get it to work right, and each system reboot (which thankfully
wasn't often) required a manual process.  I was using the firewire port
built-in to the Foxconn motherboard.

(1) Run plugreport: .  Each time I rebooted, the DCT would show up
either in node 0 or node 1 (often changing per reboot).  So, for each
reboot, I would have to re-run mythtvsetup and change the DCT-6200 node
if it had changed.  There seemed to be no rhyme or reason as to why it
keeps changing nodes on reboots.

(2) Get test-mpeg2 to work:  On each reboot, I would need to run
"test-mpeg2 -r [NODE#]"  mutiple times (This step is KEY!!) until I get
some output.  You'll know when you get output, its basically a stream
of binary junk to stdout.  If you don't see output after 1 second,
press ctrl-c and try again.  With 10 tries, you'll get it to work.

(3) Now start mythbackend, and it should work "reliably" until the next
reboot.
 
Hope this is helpful.  Once I rebuilt my machine with a new HD, I'll be
happy to answer specific config questions...

-- Todd




Big Wave Dave wrote:

  
  

Was this using  Myth from src?... or running the lastest RPMs
posted on ATrpms?


I'm running the latest "stable" (non-bleeding) RPMs, and have the same
problems as Curtis. 

My FireWire card:
Kouwell Model
KW-1582V - (aka BTC 1394 PCI Card)
http://www.kouwell.com.tw/pr-m3.htm#1582v

If I recall correctly, it was listed in linux1394.org
compatibility list at the time I bought it.


Thanks,
Dave

  
  
Since it will likely be asked:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# rpm -qa | grep myth
  mythweb-0.18-67.at
  mythbrowser-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-theme-purplegalaxy-0.20031214-3.at
  myththemes-0.18-104.at
  mythtv-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
  mythweather-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-theme-MythCenter-0.17-1.at
  mythtv-theme-photo-4-6.at
  mythtv-suite-0.18.1-55.at
  mythtv-themes-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-backend-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-setup-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
  mythgame-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-theme-isthmus-0.20040804-1.at
  mythtv-theme-visor-0.16.2-5.at
  mythmusic-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythnews-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythmkmovie-1.1.4-4.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-theme-MediaCenter-0.17-4.at
  mythtv-theme-abstract-0.20040910-2.at
  mythtv-frontend-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
  mythphone-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythplugins-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-theme-sleek-0.35-2.at
  libmyth-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
  mythvideo-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythgallery-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythdvd-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  
Dave
 
  
  
  

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RE: [mythtv-users] Not your everyday newbie questions

[tgate]

On Oct 12, 2005, at 8:24 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


The provider (Comcast) decides which programs are allowed
to be played and recorded any number of times, recorded one time,  
or only

viewed (not recorded). The unlimited 5c setting is unencrypted and a
computer should be able to access it. However, the other two  
options are

encrypted and AFAIK no computer based systems can access them.



I don't want to diverge from this topic, but with regard to being  
able to decrypt channels that you are legally paying for, I was under  
the impression that this device ( th dreambox  http:// 
www.dreamboxusa.com/ ) had the ability to decode (with software I  
think) encrypted pay channels.  It seems it may also be popular with  
people pursuing a not-so-legal approach to home entertainment, but  
they evidently have overcome many hurdles with recording encrypted HD/ 
SD data.


 I have no experience with it myself, but was curious if anyone on  
this list knew more of the technical details and if they, or  
something similar could get rolled into myth?


-todd

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Re: [mythtv-users] Not your everyday newbie questions

[Phil Strong]

Can we please expand on this firewire use for a comcast box?

I was under the impression this was used as a comm channel for the
mythbox to send signals to change channels and such much like a similar
usb connection.  Am I wrong?On 10/11/05, Robert Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 13:56 -0400, R. Stavros Bezas wrote:> Robert,> In regards to the "1:1 pixel mapping" idea you suggested: Do you have> any more information regarding this so I can look further into it, I
> am curious to find out more about it.1:1 mapping only applies to discrete devices like lcd's and dmd (digitalmicromirror device). Thanks to google I now know that is what DLP uses.(This is difference between a technical article read years ago and
something useful.)At any rate those devices have some real physical resolution since thereis a discrete number of elements.  Perhaps it is 1920x1080.  I don'tknow.  What you want to do is set your graphics card to that physical
resolution and use a dvi/hdmi cable to send it to your tv.Now the key to 1:1 pixel mapping is your sending digital data for saycoordinate 100,500 over that dvi cable.  That data should only be usedto change the intensities associated with the 100,500th element.  That
is all there is to it.  One would think it would be obvious and workeverywhere there is a digital connection, but it doesn't.The vizio I have, for one, I couldn't get it to work with the hdmiconnection, but apparently many tv's take that digital signal and
rescale it and make it fit the available pixels, hence even if you inputthe exact size for your xorg.conf file, you get something that isslightly smeared on your screen.How do you determine if this is happening?  Well create a png file that
is composed of a black and white lines arranged vertically.  Black linesfor the even numbered lines, and white for the odd or visa versa.  Showthat on your tv and if it looks even and uniform then you have 1:1
mapping, if not, then not.Again, if its mostly video your showing, I doubt you can really tellfrom a few feet away.  You might tell with text, and well it will beobvious with that kind of prepared image.  In general though a 1:1
mapping should make things a little sharper than it otherwise be whensent from a computer.Note that you may not be able to manage your full resolution as a 1:1mapping.  The panel I'm getting is 1366x768 and I've read reports that
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Re: [mythtv-users] FC4 and HD-3000 - my steps to success... and a couple questions.

[ToadMazter]

Thanks for the response!  This helps me understand the function of those rules files better, and should make the fix permananent.
On 10/11/05, Simpson, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Don't put customizations in the 50-udev.rules file. Take your entire line starting with "KERNEL=" and put it in a separate file called 
10-mythtv.rules in the same directory. Udev reads the files in alpha-numeric order and will stop when it finds a match in your new file.Richard.
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Re: [mythtv-users] ivtv 4.x compatible with HD-3000 DVB?

[ToadMazter]

Thanks for the response. I assume I won't have to mess with tveeprom files, so I'm going to install ivtv now...
On 10/11/05, Cecil Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ToadMazter wrote:> I just noticed that the ivtv 4.x drivers are now on ATRPMS. Has anyone been> succesful with these and the PVR-150/500, and can it co-reside with the
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[mythtv-users] scheduler and sports

[Neil Cronin]

Is there any built-in support for lengthening the duration of sports
show recordings if it's detected that the show will last longer than
it's scheduled for (e.g.., extra innings, overtime, etc)?  I don't see
anything in the UI for this in 0.18.  I can imagine three ways to do
this:

- inspect the frames and try to guess if the show is continuing past
its scheduled end time (hardest, best)
- write a scheduler plug in that can scrape a site like espn.com to
determine if the game is over. (hard, ok solution)
- write a shell or perl script that is invoked by cron that can scrape
a site like espn.com to determine if the game is over, and if it's
still in progress, talk to mythbackend via mythweb to extend the
recording (easiest, worst solution)

Has anyone already tackled this?  Or is there an existing solution?

Thanks,
Neil
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Re: [mythtv-users] configure did not detect my cpu

[Nick Rosier]

On 12/10/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  *** WARNING ***
>  Your CPU was not detected properly:
>uname -m: i686
>uname -p:
>  model name: AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-28
>   flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat
> pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 pni syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext
> 3dnow pni lahf_lm

What would be the best way to detect the Sempron's based on the K8
core (without 64-bit extensions); I've modified my configure script to
detect this but this is specific for my Sempron, there are also 3300+
IIRC.

@@ -1218,6 +1218,9 @@
 # Athlon 64
elif expr "$processor" : ".*AMD Athlon(tm) 64" > /dev/null ; then
ARCHFLAGS="-march=k8"
+# AMD Sempron K8-core
+   elif expr "$processor" : ".*AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3100+" >
/dev/null ; then
+   ARCHFLAGS="-march=k8"

N.
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[mythtv-users] Re: OT: MythTV Home Automation

[Mat Kyne]

For all who were interested in the ability to control your box from a 
standard telephone; here is something that looks like it might do the job. 
If I get it to work, I will repost with all the details here. -Mat 
http://www.vocpsystem.com/



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Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC compiled in yum packages?

[R. Geoffrey Newbury]

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:25:01 +0100, Jules Gosnell wrote:

>>If you are on an Epia system, this might be of help...
>
>http://washington.kelkoo.net/epia/
>
>There is an Epia RPM repository here, which includes xorg built with 
>Unichrome drivers. You just install the kernel-module (may need 
>rebuilding for your system),

Could you explain which kernel-module you are referring to here, please?

The via video driver???


> just point yum at the repository and suck down 
>xorg and maybe xine-lib (for h/w enabled xine),


G.


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Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

[bill peck]

On 10/12/05, Joe Huffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- MythTV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Do you need the Photobridge HD (HD1500) or is the> HD1000 OK?  The main> difference I see is the HD1500 has 128MB RAM and the
> HD1000 is 64MB, but not> sure if that is much a limitation.>> Thanks,> Todd>
For live tv you press "info" on the remote which pops up the on screen
info like the current channel and a description of what is
playing.  While this is up you can "browse" to other
channels.  The Roku does support additional remote codes with
something like a harmony remote, but mythroku isn't updated to take
advantage of it yet.

>> -Original Message-> From: 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf> Of Chris Gackstatter> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 2:38 PM
> To: 'Discussion about mythtv'> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for> Frontend only fanless> solution>> I run MythRoku on a Roku Photobridge HD.  What is> there is easy to install
> and works great.  MythRoku can use some more work> but it is the only HiDef> solution out there.  Right now MythRoku only plays> recorded shows and you> can pause live TV.  You will need a front end on
> another machine to schedule> recordings and you can not rewind or FF live TV.> This will come with Time> and more people working on the port.>> I will say this I implemented MythTV because of the
> Roku.  I did not want> the noisy box in my media room.> -Original Message-> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf> Of Brad Fuller> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:01 AM> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for> Frontend only fanless> solution>> Todd Ignasiak wrote:>> > One frontend I've been looking into is the "Roku> Photobridge HD" (
> >>http://www.rokulabs.com/products/photobridge/index.php> ).   It's a> > media player for HDTV's.  It is Linux based, and
> has a hardware MPEG2> > decoder onboard.  They encourage open source> developement on their> > platform, and someone has ported the MythTV> frontend.> >> > He has made some big improvements lately, and I'm
> thinking of picking> > up the Roku box to give it a try.  Check out> "mythroku" at> > http://mythroku.blogspot.com/>> Do you know what mpeg2 decoder chip they use? I
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Re: [mythtv-users] Who wants to help me develop a new theme? It's time.

[Andrew Close]

On 10/12/05, Richard Bronosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The gods of User Experience have spoken (
> http://www.apple.com/imac/frontrow.html ) let's offer them the highest
> form of flattery.

hmm, it kinda looks like Apple ripped off CenterStage:
http://centerstageproject.com/index.php

i believe CneterStage was supposed to be an opensource media center
for the Mac platform...
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[mythtv-users] Does MythTV performance scale?

[Mike Frisch]

I have MythTV running frontend and backend (mysql is running on my server)
on a Celeron 1.2GHz, ATI 7500 video, and 384MB RAM.

Everything works quite well in my setup, video playback is smooth, but the
menu system is dog slow.  If I throw (much) more CPU at this, am I going
to get snappy menus and good overall response?

Most bothersome is the delay when bringing up the EPG or after having
selected a channel to view.

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[mythtv-users] Who wants to help me develop a new theme? It's time.

[Richard Bronosky]

The gods of User Experience have spoken ( 
http://www.apple.com/imac/frontrow.html ) let's offer them the highest 
form of flattery.


Lets see if we can get a hold of some full res screenshots, and put 
together a team to turn this out quickly.  Please reply to this email 
with a list of your skills.


Richard Bronosky: Photoshop - professional, Web Design - professional, 
Web Application Development - professional, MySQL & Oracle Development - 
professional, Unix Tools - professional, Linux & MythTV Installation & 
Management - total newbie


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Protect yourself by avoiding Internet Explorer & Outlook/Outlook Express.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire and DCT-6200

[Big Wave Dave]

Was this using  Myth from src?... or running the lastest RPMs posted on ATrpms?


I'm running the latest "stable" (non-bleeding) RPMs, and have the same problems as Curtis. 

My FireWire card:
Kouwell Model KW-1582V - (aka BTC 1394 PCI Card)

http://www.kouwell.com.tw/pr-m3.htm#1582v

If I recall correctly, it was listed in linux1394.org compatibility list at the time I bought it.


Thanks,
Dave
Since it will likely be asked:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# rpm -qa | grep myth
mythweb-0.18-67.at
mythbrowser-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
mythtv-theme-purplegalaxy-0.20031214-3.at
myththemes-0.18-104.at
mythtv-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
mythweather-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
mythtv-theme-MythCenter-0.17-1.at
mythtv-theme-photo-4-6.at
mythtv-suite-0.18.1-55.at
mythtv-themes-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
mythtv-backend-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
mythtv-setup-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
mythgame-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
mythtv-theme-isthmus-0.20040804-1.at
mythtv-theme-visor-0.16.2-5.at
mythmusic-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
mythnews-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
mythmkmovie-1.1.4-4.rhfc3.at
mythtv-theme-MediaCenter-0.17-4.at
mythtv-theme-abstract-0.20040910-2.at
mythtv-frontend-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
mythphone-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
mythplugins-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
mythtv-theme-sleek-0.35-2.at
libmyth-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
mythvideo-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
mythgallery-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
mythdvd-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at

Dave
 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire and DCT-6200

[Big Wave Dave]

On 10/11/05, Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Oct 11, 2005, at 20:23, Curtis Stanford wrote:> Is anyone seriously using firewire input with a dct-6200 receiver> reliably?/me raises hand.> I just got mine working a few days ago and when it's working, it's
> great. However, more often than not, recordings come up short or> the channel doesn't change. It hasn't made it through an hour long> recording yet without the backend saying:>> Firewire: No Input in 15 seconds [P:0 N:1] (select)
>> Then the recording stops. If anyone has any experience with this,> I'd appreciate a pointer to the component that may be giving me> problems. Is it the receiver, mythtv, linux, or my cheap firewire
> card?My money would be on the firewire card. Your symptoms sound similarto those I saw with the onboard firewire on one of my systems. Adifferent FireWire card (WD one bundled with a drive that I got ages
ago) and the FW port on my Audigy sound cards all work great though(currently using the Audigy's port in production).--Jarod Wilson[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Was this using  Myth from src?... or running the lastest RPMs posted on ATrpms?

I'm running the latest "stable" (non-bleeding) RPMs, and have the same problems as Curtis. 

My FireWire card:
Kouwell Model KW-1582V - (aka BTC 1394 PCI Card)
http://www.kouwell.com.tw/pr-m3.htm#1582v

If I recall correctly, it was listed in linux1394.org compatibility list at the time I bought it.


Thanks,
Dave
 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: gray bars and ghosting on certain channels

[Scot L. Harris]

On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 12:42, Neil Cronin wrote:
> Thanks.  As I mentioned, when I plug the coax directly into the
> television, the signal is fine.  No gray bars or ghosting.  I'm not
> ruling out a bad connection (either on my 350 or internal to it), or
> just a bad cable that somehow makes a better connection to my tv.
> 
> The fact that it happens only on certain channels makes me think that
> this problem is related to my 350 card or mobo, or is at least somehow
> related to the frequency of these channels, either electrically or via
> some software settings.
> 
> Thanks,
> -neil

Have you looked at the cards settings using:

/usr/bin/ivtvctl -a

On a second PVR-350 I installed recently I found that the dnr_temporal
was set to something other than 0.  This caused significant ghosting. 
Once I set it to 0 using:

/usr/bin/ivtvctl -c dnr_temporal=0

The ghosting went away.  Interestingly my master backend system with a
PVR-350 did not have this problem and those settings defaulted to 0 on
that system.


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[mythtv-users] Deleting Records that are Symlinks

[Keith R]

I've run out of space on the primary location (local disk) where I
like to store recordings so have setup a script to move old
locations to an NFS mount then symlink them back to the original
location.

I'm able to watch the recordings just fine that are linked,
however when I try to delete them from mythweb or from the
frontend the files (neither the link nor the actual file) are not
removed and the mythbackend throws an error that the file could
not be found so it will not delete the data.

I've enabled the delete symlink targets in the setup with
no result.  When I try to do an ls of the file that mythbackend
reports does not exist it does in fact exist.  There are no
permission issues since I can remove the file and the link as the
mythtv user.  Lastly, note that the symlinks are to the
full/absolute path not a relative path.

Anyone experience this?  I really like my current solution since
it allows me to more effectively utilzie the storage around my
house and it allows me to keep certain programs on local disk.
But I gotta be able to delete stuff!


Keith.

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[mythtv-users] Live tv on startup

[Damien Bally]

Hello

Is there an option to have live tv when mythfrontend is launched instead of
selecting it manually ?
I searched the list archives with no result. Perharps this possibility
doesn't exist.

Thanks

Damien


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Re: [mythtv-users] Best Soundcard?

[Derek Meek]

so what sound card (or AMD-CPU motherboard with integrated sound) would
you recommend - i noticed the ~$80 price for the audigy 2 zs plat. pro
was 'noise' on pricewatch and the cheapest one is actually $200, which
is waay too muchOn 10/12/05, Lee Koloszyc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Your problem won't be caused by conduction between the motherboard and>the case. I'm not sure what else it could be though, bad earth? cheap>speakers?>>Adam>>It could also be a noisy power supply or some component plugged into it
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[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase and zap2it 404 on icon fetch ?

[Matt SF]

Hi all --

my compile problems with the .18.1 release (with -4 diffs) are a non-issue 
since i went ahead and compiled a recent subversion version instead :)

anyway, since I manually populated the database with channel data from the 
XMLTV scripts, and then imported it into the database, mythfilldatabase 
now seems to try to fill in missing icons each time it runs:


Main temp tables populated.  Updating myth channels...
Updating icons for sourceid: 1
Attempting to fetch icon with: wget --timestamping 
--directory-prefix=/home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels 
http://tvlistings2.zap2it.com/tms_network_logos/pacific
--10:38:18--  http://tvlistings2.zap2it.com/tms_network_logos/pacific
   => `/home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels/pacific'
Resolving tvlistings2.zap2it.com... 206.18.98.202
Connecting to tvlistings2.zap2it.com[206.18.98.202]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
10:38:18 ERROR 404: Not Found.


So it appears that's an invalid URL at Zap2It nowadays.  Is there a way I 
can disable this auto icon update attempt?  Or change the URL... ?  Or do 
I have to recompile mythfilldatabase?

thanks!
-matt


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Re: [mythtv-users] Best Soundcard?

[Lee Koloszyc]

Your problem won't be caused by conduction between the motherboard and
the case. I'm not sure what else it could be though, bad earth? cheap
speakers?

Adam
 

It could also be a noisy power supply or some component plugged into it 
or even a motherboard with bad isolation.



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Re: [mythtv-users] Best Soundcard?

[Adam Greenbaum]

On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 08:33 -0500, Derek Meek wrote:
> I was thinking about getting an Audigy for the mythbox i'll be
> building.  Is there a better card?  On my SB Live! Value in my desktop
> i expirience some faint background noise on my speakers -it's
> noticable enoguh to be annoying, is this perhaps an issue with unclean
> power that I will need to take extra steps to make sure the
> motherboard is isolated from the case [electrically] on the mythbox?

An alternative is spending your money on an amp that does
optical/coaxial digital in. You can use any old soundcard (that does
digital out) with it then. 
Your problem won't be caused by conduction between the motherboard and
the case. I'm not sure what else it could be though, bad earth? cheap
speakers?

Adam

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RE: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless

[MythTV]

Thanks to list I think I have it straight.  The 
*current* HD1000 and HD1500 are the same hardware, but the HD1500 comes with a 
256MB CF card and some of their gallery art.  Both of these have 128MB 
RAM.  The Revision A HD1000 only had 64MB of RAM, but the current Rev B 
HD1000 has 128 MB.  The spec sheet on the Roku web site still shows the Rev 
A HD1000 which is what threw me.
 
I'm trying to find one local, but no seems to have either 
in stock in MD.
 
- Todd


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris 
GackstatterSent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 10:31 AMTo: 
'Discussion about mythtv'; 'Message-ID:'Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] 
Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless


I have an HD 1000, it is my 
understanding that the only difference between the HD1000 and HD1500 is that the 
1500 comes with additional software for displaying screen savers on you HDTV 
when not in use.  When you read about additional RAM were they talking 
about RAM in the machine or RAM on a Card.  I think they give you a larger 
card because they provide you with more software.
 
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Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless
  
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Do you need the Photobridge 
HD (HD1500) or is the HD1000 OK?  The main
difference I see is the 
HD1500 has 128MB RAM and the HD1000 is 64MB, but 
not
sure if that is much a 
limitation.
 
Thanks,
Todd
 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: gray bars and ghosting on certain channels

[Neil Cronin]

Thanks.  As I mentioned, when I plug the coax directly into the
television, the signal is fine.  No gray bars or ghosting.  I'm not
ruling out a bad connection (either on my 350 or internal to it), or
just a bad cable that somehow makes a better connection to my tv.

The fact that it happens only on certain channels makes me think that
this problem is related to my 350 card or mobo, or is at least somehow
related to the frequency of these channels, either electrically or via
some software settings.

Thanks,
-neil


On 10/12/05, Mike Frisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I see vertical gray bars and ghosting on some of the lower channels
> > via live tv and recorded programs on all my frontends.  Upping the
> > resolution in my profile reduces the effect, but it is still very very
> > noticeable.  I don't see it when the coax is plugged directly into my
> > tv.  The cable comes from comcast in the san francisco bay area.
>
> I'd recommend connecting that cable feed directly to a television to see
> if it exists there (I suspect it does).
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Re: [mythtv-users] Converting MythWEB WAP theme to chtml

[Joe Buckshin]

On 10/12/05, Neale Swinnerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > The problem is that my phone (and any I-Mode emulator) is bringing up
> > the html code in the WAP theme directory as a black screen. I thought
> > that this was because it was WML or something, but if it is indeed
> > html (it is! confirmed through firefox!) then something in the code is
> > not going over well with the chtml browser. I just have to identify
> > what is making the black screen...
> >
>
> Have you tried my patch?
>
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/327
>
> It might render a bit better, although I've only really tested on a SE
> P910i, the new handheld.css stylesheet my help
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I would start with a little 'hello world' chtml page.  Put it on the
server and make sure your phone can see it.  Once you have established
that the connection is ok and the phone is able to display the content
you can start to modify the pages.  From what I understand, chtml is
stripped down html, and doesn't support certain tags.  You will
probably need to remove things like tables and images (depending on
the model phone you have).  Start reading through some of the chtml
specs to see what needs to be changed.

w3 spec:
http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-compactHTML-19980209/

outline of docomo's extensions by browser level:
http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/p_s/i/tag/s1.html

Also, some emulators have debug output to help you determine what
problems have occurred.

Joe
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