Re: [mythtv-users] EPG in Australia?
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 03:21 pm, Daniel Hall wrote: Well actually, what I said is correct. When you say people are 'trying' to copyright the guide data this is not fully true, it *IS* copyrighted data, just because a piece of work is published online does not mean it cannot be copyrighted. Cheers, Daniel. How is it that you can get guide data yet a tiny company like Microsoft can't? Paul -- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] EPG in Australia?
Microsoft seems to be interested in buying the guide data as opposed to creating their own guide service from scratch (as we have). The networks have not allowed MS to buy said data, hence no EPG for MCE from MS. Cheers, Daniel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Andreassen Sent: Tuesday, 25 October 2005 3:51 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] EPG in Australia? On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 03:21 pm, Daniel Hall wrote: Well actually, what I said is correct. When you say people are 'trying' to copyright the guide data this is not fully true, it *IS* copyrighted data, just because a piece of work is published online does not mean it cannot be copyrighted. Cheers, Daniel. How is it that you can get guide data yet a tiny company like Microsoft can't? Paul -- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] EPG in Australia?
Kind of curious myself about how you are able to create from scratch and not Microsoft? I always assumed you had setup a sweet heart licensing deal with the networks (or you were a partially owned consortium like Fly Buys). Dean -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Andreassen Sent: Tuesday, 25 October 2005 1:51 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] EPG in Australia? On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 03:21 pm, Daniel Hall wrote: Well actually, what I said is correct. When you say people are 'trying' to copyright the guide data this is not fully true, it *IS* copyrighted data, just because a piece of work is published online does not mean it cannot be copyrighted. Cheers, Daniel. How is it that you can get guide data yet a tiny company like Microsoft can't? Paul -- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware Selection for backend
Steve Adeff wrote: there are very few nforce 4 boards with agp and 5x pci, and the ones that exist are expensive. I've recently been working on putting together a machine for 3x HD3000 cards and a PVR500. I've found newegg.com to be the best prices for the convenience of buying all in one place. I might be able to save ~$20 shopping around, but screw that... Anyway, the best bang-for-buck for my needs is an nforce3 board for $70, and an Athlon64 3000. I've already got an AGP fx5200 so I'd basically get in for about $500, then get a nice HTPC case. I plan on buying a new 320gig SATA drives specificaly for MythTV as well (and prbly a few more to replace some aging and smaller ATA drives on my file server), they can be had for $140 w/ a 3yr warranty. I've currently got a an Athlon64 3200+ on an nForce4 board, it runs great and was a snap to get MythTV running, so as long as I can do the 3x HD3000 cards and get them working with a PVR500 I'll be good to go! what I need to do is see if its worth it to rent a few more DCT6200 boxes from Comcast and use firewire instead of paying for the HD3000 cards. now that i think of it, I think it might be If you're going to have that much junk, why waste money on an HTPC case? Just get a case with plenty of room for good airflow and hard drives/capture cards and put the computer and the several DCT6200's and the 10+ miles of cables in another room. No matter what people tell you, you can't make a stack of cable STB's, a computer (in any case), various UPS's, and all the wires required by the bunch look good sitting next to your TV. On the other hand, if you put the mess in a different room and leave only a TV and speakers in your viewing room, you have a guest-friendly TV experience and never have to worry about fans on your power supply, CPU, video card, motherboard chipset, etc. detracting from the viewing experience. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] EPG in Australia?
IceTV was started as there was no EPG in Australia. The main man behind IceTV is Peter Vogel (one of the inventors of the Fairlight CMI). But no we are definitely our own company. :) I think for MS the biggest stopping point would be going to all the effort (and cost) of setting up an EPG service from scratch just as a value added service for MCE (sure it's pretty damn important but not really critical for MCE). Daniel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Collins Sent: Tuesday, 25 October 2005 4:54 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] EPG in Australia? Kind of curious myself about how you are able to create from scratch and not Microsoft? I always assumed you had setup a sweet heart licensing deal with the networks (or you were a partially owned consortium like Fly Buys). Dean -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Andreassen Sent: Tuesday, 25 October 2005 1:51 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] EPG in Australia? On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 03:21 pm, Daniel Hall wrote: Well actually, what I said is correct. When you say people are 'trying' to copyright the guide data this is not fully true, it *IS* copyrighted data, just because a piece of work is published online does not mean it cannot be copyrighted. Cheers, Daniel. How is it that you can get guide data yet a tiny company like Microsoft can't? Paul -- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Recording from VHS
Gary Montalbine wrote: When playing back recordings from VHS tapes, there is garbage across the bottom. A search of the archives indicates that it may be scan lines from the VHS A better description of the garbage you're seeing would make it easier for us to help you identify the problem and for us to recommend solutions. and it was recommended that the crop filter be used. I am using a PVR 250 card which I understand uses hardware encoding. MPEG2. The instruction for video filters indicates that the crop filter can not be used for hardware encoding cards. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions on how to get rid of the garbage. Can the crop tool be used? If so, how is it installed? You could always use playback filters. Unfortunately, though, you'll have to keep setting them before playing back VHS recordings and unsetting them before playing back other recordings. http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-10.html#ss10.4 If you're trying to fix it to archive your video, use something like avidemux to crop and apply other filters after recording. (Note, however, that you'll almost definitely have A/V sync issues if you don't use something like ProjectX to clean up the stream before using avidemux.) Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HD Frontend hardware: cases for enclosed spaces
--- Sean Cier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm finally chucking the wretched XBox that has served as my living room frontend for far too long, and building a proper machine. I want HDTV support (only have an SDTV there at the moment, and no HD sources, but the latter will hopefully change before long, and the former will undoubtedly be replaced some day). That means a hefty processor; I'm planning on going Athlon 64. I'll have a hard drive just to avoid the headaches of remote boot, but it'll spin down and presumably not be a factor heat-wise. The catch is, I want to put this in my armoire-style TV cabinet. That means either: -- in a shelf under/over the TV (~5 high X 27 wide x 20 deep, but a case must be no more than 4.2 high to actually be able to get it in there), which is open on the front but enclosed on the sides/rear/top/bottom, or -- in the cabinet area, in which case it'd have a whole half of the cabinet to itself (17w x 19h x 21 deep), but apart from a 1 vertical wire-access slit in the rear, the doors will be closed and it'll be completely enclosed effectively 24/7. With no tuners and such, the hardware demands are relatively light and I never anticipate them growing too far (though perhaps evolving with new video cards, new processors, etc someday) -- but I want something solid that isn't going to give me grief, and something that'll last a while without going completely obsolete. And, I want *full* Myth PVR/music/DVD/video functionality -- no embedded hardware that'll only do half of what my other frontends will. Well, the one thing that might be a sticker is how intensively you plan on using it as a DVD player. If you use that a lot, then I'd recommend putting the Mythbox in the exposed location, for easy access. That means the narrow spot, and that meants getting a very low-profile case. This would cramp your expansion plans, but you'd still probably be able to fit in an AGP card, HDD, and DVD drive, which I guess would be all you would need for a frontend. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythBackend - There but nobodies home
Scott Carr wrote: Carl Fongheiser wrote: On 10/24/05, *Scott Carr* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have already modified mythfilldatabase to work with 5.0. Adding ` to repeat worked fine. Just this annoying 'MySQL server has gone away' message that I am having to restart MythBackend for. Is that *all* that is in your backend log? There's got to be something more there. For one thing, that particular message doesn't come from MythTV. It's nowhere in the source, as of 0.18.1, at least. It is a message from MySQL itself. It is not due to the 8 hour time limit, because it happens at various times. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/gone-away.html So, what do the MySQL logs say? Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OpenGL trouble
Dave wrote: I'm having trouble getting Myth 18.1 to run with OpenGL VSync enabled. My frontend log shows RTC timing method. I've tried: 1. Recompiling (a few times) with the option enabled, 2. Looked in Myth setup for the enable flag (didn't see it) 3. Couldn't find anything in the settings table reffering to OpenGL Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? There's no setting in 0.18.1. If it's compiled in, Myth attempts to use it. Check your frontend log file for mention of OpenGL vsync. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to watch live TV with PVR-350
Boris Burtin wrote: I'm having some trouble getting live TV to work with my MythTV setup (Fedora Core 4, PVR-350). I followed Jarod's guide and have things mostly working. X11 is running through the PVR-350's TV out. When I try to watch live TV, I see garbage (green and pink blocks all over the screen). Check the box that says to use the PVR-350 for output. Even if you have Xv working, you want this checked. Capture/playback from the command line seems to work: # cat /dev/video0 /tmp/test_capture.mpg # mplayer -vo x11 /tmp/test_capture.mpg But if I run mplayer with xv instead of x11 # mplayer -vo xv /tmp/test_capture.mpg I see the same static as when I try to watch live TV. So it sounds like something is wacky with my MythTV configuration? Is it passing the wrong args to mplayer? No. You don't have Xv support enabled for the PVR-350. Make sure you're using a current version of ivtv (ideally, 0.4.0) and search the lists for info on installing John Harvey's PVR-350 Xv support. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HD Frontend hardware: cases for enclosed spaces
Mark Kundinger wrote: Well, the one thing that might be a sticker is how intensively you plan on using it as a DVD player. If you use that a lot, then I'd recommend putting the Mythbox in the exposed location, for easy access. I, personally, find the look of bewilderment on guests' faces amusing when I leave the room to put a DVD in the player. Besides, if you're going to sit through a 90-minute movie (or 60 minutes with time stretch :), the exercise required for walking that extra 20 feet to insert the DVD will do you good. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Unable to watch live TV with PVR-350
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael T. Dean Sent: 25 October 2005 08:31 To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to watch live TV with PVR-350 Boris Burtin wrote: I'm having some trouble getting live TV to work with my MythTV setup (Fedora Core 4, PVR-350). I followed Jarod's guide and have things mostly working. X11 is running through the PVR-350's TV out. When I try to watch live TV, I see garbage (green and pink blocks all over the screen). Check the box that says to use the PVR-350 for output. Even if you have Xv working, you want this checked. Capture/playback from the command line seems to work: # cat /dev/video0 /tmp/test_capture.mpg # mplayer -vo x11 /tmp/test_capture.mpg But if I run mplayer with xv instead of x11 # mplayer -vo xv /tmp/test_capture.mpg I see the same static as when I try to watch live TV. So it sounds like something is wacky with my MythTV configuration? Is it passing the wrong args to mplayer? No. You don't have Xv support enabled for the PVR-350. Make sure you're using a current version of ivtv (ideally, 0.4.0) and search the lists for info on installing John Harvey's PVR-350 Xv support. Mike It looks like you do have Xv support installed and working but the decoder hasn't been initialized. This is probably because you are using an older version of ivtv than 0.4 or the ivtv_init_mpeg.bin file isn't in /lib/modules (should see a message in the kernel logs for this). If you are using an older version I would recommend upgrading. As a last resort the decoder can be initialized with dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 bs=64k count=50 John ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] EPG in Australia?
In Australia only the now and next information is sent via EIT as the stations have copyrighted the programme guide data that they use. All of the online guides are copyrighted with disclaimers specifically against any use of the data in PVR's. As far as I am aware there is only one legal way to get programme guide data in Australia and this is via us at IceTV. I don't think that's correct. The other way is to use the OzTivo guide data which does not have copyright issues. And it's free, unlike IceTV's data. Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] EPG in Australia?
I don't think that's correct. The other way is to use the OzTivo guide data which does not have copyright issues. And it's free, unlike IceTV's data. But how are they getting the data in the first place? Surely if the tv stations are copyrighting the material, then OzTivo (And IceTV's for that matter) is copyrighted as well? Copying it out of the TV Guide doesn't constitute copyright free... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] EPG in Australia?
IceTV was started as there was no EPG in Australia. The main man behind IceTV is Peter Vogel (one of the inventors of the Fairlight CMI). But no we are definitely our own company. :) I think for MS the biggest stopping point would be going to all the effort (and cost) of setting up an EPG service from scratch just as a value added service for MCE (sure it's pretty damn important but not really critical for MCE). Daniel - would you be able to tell us what information is available in the program guide data from IceTV. I think a lot of the info in the Aussie guides is missing compared to what folks in other countries get - eg correct program categories (eg Movie, Current Affairs etc), repeat, classification rating (eg PG, MA etc), subtitles, HD or SD, programids, season etc etc. As the info is free it's understandable that this info is missing. Since IceTV are charging over $150/year for the data it would be nice to know that this information is provided. Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] EPG in Australia?
On 10/25/05, Daniel Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well actually, what I said is correct. When you say people are 'trying' to copyright the guide data this is not fully true, it *IS* copyrighted data, just because a piece of work is published online does not mean it cannot be copyrighted. If the situation in Oz is similar to the one in NZ then the broadcasters are *claiming* that the guide data is copyrighted (and copyrightable) but not everyone agrees. One of the major newspaper owners (Fairfax) has pretty much stated that they don't believe it is, and the situation is far from clear cut legally. See this story: http://www.listener.co.nz/default,4797.sm Regards, Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Video iPod
For those who were interested in the iPod video and generating mythtv content for it, please take a look at http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6467. I have created a starting point that is working, but needs polish. It uses a User Jobs, and creates an RSS feed that can be subscribed to in iTunes. On 10/19/05, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/18/05, John P. Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MythTV Users, On 10/18/05, Joseph A. Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 October 2005 19:02, Jeremy Palenchar wrote: Rather than spend a lot of time trying to hack a solution for this, why not just get Myth to act as a video podcasting station and let iTunes handle all of the formatting and transfer down to the iPod? Will iTunes do that?? I didn't think iTunes handled transcoding/reencoding; the source material must be in the correct format/resolution to begin with, mustn't it? I am not sure about iTunes, but I bet we could get it transcoded with the normal tools. -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users You'd have to use quicktime. That's apple's Answer. I am not so sure. Take a look at: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/creatingvideo.html It does not say that QuickTime Pro is required. If you look at the bottom of the page the video formats that the iPod supports are listed. I thought we have the tools to put video into mp4 already. That's not what I was saying... Apple's answer is that iTunes will not handle any video editing/transcoding functions and that if you wanted to use a video with the iPod and iTunes that you'd have to use an external program. Apple's answer to that is Quicktime, but that doesn't mean it has to be the ONLY answer or OUR answer. Matt ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: EPG in Australia?
Myles Eftos [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing: I don't think that's correct. The other way is to use the OzTivo guide data which does not have copyright issues. And it's free, unlike IceTV's data. But how are they getting the data in the first place? Surely if the tv stations are copyrighting the material, then OzTivo (And IceTV's for that matter) is copyrighted as well? Copying it out of the TV Guide doesn't constitute copyright free... In which jurisdiction was it that a court determined that a collection of factual information cannot be copyrighted? It might have been australia, though I'm not certain. I would say that the copyright on guide data is not concrete (except for reviews contained within). BB ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] audio/video stutter
Can't say if these changes work yet or not though until I get home from work. Fingers are crossed. Thanks for your support. Sad to report. Changes did not solve the stuttering problem. However, I got rid of the "ivtv warning: i2c client addr: " messages by removing the "alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv" from my modprobe.conf file. Now it uses the ivtv version instead of the kernel version. I guess there was a conflict with that module as well.Perhaps this helps point to the cause: -When I use mplayer to play /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 with ATSC data The Picture looks great and plays fine, however the audio is slightly out of sync. -When I use xine to play the save device stream the video works but has trouble buffering (eventually dies) and I get no audio. -Within myth the HD audio/video go into a play-pause cycle. Different timings based on the settings, but it never goes away.I'm wondering if it could have something to do with the ring buffer? I only see this issue with the HD information from the HD5000 card. The SD programming plays just fine. I've bumped up the "HD Buffer" in the front end set-up but that didn't seem to help. Is there a magic number I need to use? Or something a missed perhaps in setting up the card?___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: EPG in Australia?
Ben Buxton wrote: Myles Eftos [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing: In which jurisdiction was it that a court determined that a collection of factual information cannot be copyrighted? It might have been australia, though I'm not certain. I would say that the copyright on guide data is not concrete (except for reviews contained within). BB That would be my initial assumption. If no 'work' or 'artistic' input is contained in the item, there would be nothing to copyright. Look at it this way, the title of the show, the artists names, the rating, the length, etc, are all copied into the guide. from the information supplied by the people who made the show, by the person preparing the guide. The layout and presentation may be copyrightable, but that is not being used here, just the info contained within. All that leaves is the info pertaining to what show is on when. The schedule.I find it hard to see how that could be copyrightable either. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] audio/video stutter
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 03:11:22AM -0700, tgate wrote: -Within myth the HD audio/video go into a play-pause cycle. Different timings based on the settings, but it never goes away. I'm wondering if it could have something to do with the ring buffer? I did some package updates on my system recently (libc6 upgrade, XFree to XOrg, etc.) and started having some stuttering, play/pause cycles and ultimately some kernel panics. Most of the useful information had scrolled off the screen, but there were some messages about resetting the IDE and some drive not ready errors. I checked SMART and everything was fine. My load averages also shot up to 0.65 during recording, whereas they had never been above 0.10 before, and my remote front-end would crash its X session(!) because of whatever was happening inside mythfrontend. The frontend hasn't been upgraded since it was first installed, so whatever is crashing the frontend is originating on the backend. Part of the problem turned out to be the fact that my BIOS had decided to assign the same IRQ to all three IDE channels *and* the ivtv board *and* the ethernet adaptor (and yes, I did have non-PnP OS selected). I went into the PCI settings and manually forced the cards onto different IRQs and the load went back down to 0.05 while doing simultaneous record and playback. I thought I had the problem solved, but then after watching live TV for about 5 minutes the back-end kernel had another panic with the same symptoms. I recompiled my ivtv driver (just in case) but don't think it will accomplish much. I'm starting to run out of ideas BTW, my ivtv driver doesn't like the firmware: ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 ivtv: Encoder Firmware may be buggy, use version 0x02040011 ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 250 card with 5 streams Well, I'd *love* to use version 0x02040011 if that would help, but haven't the slightest idea where I would get it or how I would load it. Hippauge changed the internal structure of the DLL on their Windows installation CD-Rom so that the firmware-extraction script that came with ivtv doesn't work. -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] encoding very long
Hi, I transcode my .nuv files into XviD but it's extremly long (about 30 minutes for only one minute of movie). The encoding frames is about 0.6 fps. I use this command : nuvexport --transcode $nuvexport --transcode --debug Choose a function, or episode(s) to remove: c Where would you like to export the files to? [.] Enable Myth cutlist? [Yes] Enable noise reduction (slower, but better results)? [No] Enable deinterlacing? [Yes] Crop broadcast overscan (2% border)? [Yes] Audio bitrate? [128] Variable bitrate video? [Yes] Multi-pass (slower, but better quality)? [Yes] Video bitrate? [960] Default resolution based on 4:3 aspect ratio. Width? [624] Height? [464] First pass... forking: /usr/bin/nice -n19 transcode -V --print_status 16 --import_asr 2 --export_asr 2 --export_fps 25.000,3 -Z 620x464 -Y 0,-2,0,-2 -i /home/laurentpat/video_mythtv/1000_20051014154600_20051014154700.nuv -x mpeg2 -j 10,10,10,10 -J smartyuv -y xvid,null -N 0x55 -b 128,0,2,0 -R 1,/tmp/xvid.17301.log -w 960 -o /dev/null 21 Final pass... forking: /usr/bin/nice -n19 transcode -V --print_status 16 --import_asr 2 --export_asr 2 --export_fps 25.000,3 -Z 620x464 -Y 0,-2,0,-2 -i /home/laurentpat/video_mythtv/1000_20051014154600_20051014154700.nuv -x mpeg2 -j 10,10,10,10 -J smartyuv -y xvid -N 0x55 -b 128,0,2,0 -R 2,/tmp/xvid.17301.log -w 960 -o ./Un voyage sans retour.avi 21 I tried to set Multipass to No but It don't change the fps. Does anyone know how can I improve the encoding? Vince This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] encoding very long
On 25/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I transcode my .nuv files into XviD but it's extremly long (about 30 minutes for only one minute of movie). The encoding frames is about 0.6 fps. I use this command : nuvexport --transcode $nuvexport --transcode --debug [...] Does anyone know how can I improve the encoding? You didn't mention your system specs; transcoding is pretty CPU-intensive. Also, if there's anything else running on the system (for example another recording using software encoding) then nuvexport will get a lot less CPU (by design) because the commands it spawns run at the lowest priority level. I haven't ever tried converting to XviD before, but on my Athlon 2800 converting a one-hour recording to SVCD or DVD can take over an hour. Back in the early days of nuvexport, it used to take about 8 hours to convert a one-hour recording to SVCD on my Athlon 1.33 GHz machine. -- aaron Oh oh oh. I'm incoherent with excitement. Please tell me what fascinating bit of badger-spewtumly inconsequential trivia you will assail me with next. -- Arthur Dent ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] FC4 MythTV - Computer powering down... sort of! - FRUSTRATION!!
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 00:46 -0400, Steve Adeff wrote: On Tuesday 25 October 2005 00:26, David Bennett wrote: good call, I didn't even think of that, had that problem a LOOONG time ago, good lesson to learn, its one of those things you'll never let happen again. as to the question about moving hardware over... yes, as long as linux supports the hardware and your not doing a major cpu change, moving the harddrive to all new hardware will work fine, I've done this a few times. Steve Yes, I was talking about the standoffs. They are basically a long, hex shaped section, with a threaded post on the bottom, and a threaded hole down the middle of the hex section. You don't always have to have ALL of the metal lined holes in the motherboard connected to the case via the standoffs, but you should generally try to get quite a few. With regards to running the hard drive in a different system, yes, you generally can. There are a few things to be careful with (raid, special controllers, etc.) which might make this more difficult, but typically it is OK. Make sure to clean up any system specific drivers out of /etc/modules (or your distro's equiv), and any other hardware that isn't configured by the hotplugging system. --Matt ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] encoding very long
Selon aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You didn't mention your system specs; transcoding is pretty CPU-intensive. Also, if there's anything else running on the system (for example another recording using software encoding) then nuvexport will get a lot less CPU (by design) because the commands it spawns run at the lowest priority level. I haven't ever tried converting to XviD before, but on my Athlon 2800 converting a one-hour recording to SVCD or DVD can take over an hour. Back in the early days of nuvexport, it used to take about 8 hours to convert a one-hour recording to SVCD on my Athlon 1.33 GHz machine. I have a VIA Epia-M 1 (Processor C3 1Ghz) I looked at the CPU activity when I transcoded the files. The First pass used all the CPU available (so approximatively 80%) but the second pass used only 30%. Is there a way to force the programm using more CPU? Do you know how many time takes normally an ecoding in XviD for a movie about 1h30? Vince This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OpenGL ATI Radeon MythMusic MythGallery Problem
On 10/24/05, Lee Koloszyc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am also using the proprietary driver, version 8.18.6 and running Gentoo 2.6.13. It is also 64 bit. Can you send me your fglrxinfo output? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] I have a question about Video over firewire?
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 08:32:23AM -0400, Claude Boucher wrote: Derek Tattersall wrote: I have an Explorer 2200 connected to my MythTV system (through the S-Video and the RCA out of the Explorer). It works fine, but you'll need an IR Blaster to change the channels. The SciAtl boxes do not have a serial port, so the only way to change channels from the computer would be to use an infrared transmitter. Some of the Sci Atl boxes have firewire ports. Are they supported? The IR blaster solution doesn't work for me. Once you've setup the transmitter, the rest of the setup is almost trivial. In my experience, the audio volume coming out of the digital cable is slightly lower than the analog (coax). As for HD, I haven't tried it. Anyway, you won't be able to capture HD at full res with an Hauppauge PVR-250. Claude I am aware of that. My questions are more in the context of what is a good upgrade path to HDTV. I bought a new monitor, a 37 16x9 HD compatible LCD display that I am using as (among other things) the display for my mythtv frontend. Since this thing can display HDTV resolutions, I was wondering what is the best way to get the digital and HD channels my Cable operator provides, and if possible, watch and record them through mythtv. Thanks Derek These are the decoder boxes my cable company provides: Scientific Atlanta Explorer 2000, 2100, 2200, 3100, 3200, 3250 or 8000 models Pace DC-150 or DC-550 HD models Does anyone have any experience with any of these models? How well can they be made to play with mythtv? I would prefer not to have to use an IR Blaster if I can avoid it. I am already using all the PC's serial ports, and anyway when I last tried to use an IR Blaster it wasn't very reliable for me. Therefore I want to use the firewire port for channel control if I can. If I can use the firewire port for the video that would be even better. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Trouble running mythtv-setup
Greetings, I have assembled a PC running FC4 per instructions listed at Jarod's site. Everything works up until I try to run mythtv-setup. It looks like the X-server just freezes up. When I ssh into the machine top reveals that X is using up 100% of the processor!! I am running FC4 on an AMD Athlon 64. ECS MoBo (SiS chipset). 200 GB Maxtor SATA drive. I am able to capture video and sound using the Hauppage WinTV card. Everything displays properly, just that mythtv does will not complete setup. Here is an excerpt from lspci lspci output 00:0d.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR 250 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 177 Memory at e800 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP 8x] (rev c1) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp.: Unknown device a096 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 225 Memory at ec00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at e000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] [virtual] Expansion ROM at ed00 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0 And from X /tmp file /etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x /var/gdm/:0.Xservers -h -l :0 mythtv xset: bad font path element (#159), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntaxstartkde: Starting up... kbuildsycoca running... (pam-panel-icon:2898): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: clearlooks, ** (eggcups:2899): WARNING **: failed request with status 1030 (eggcups:2899): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: clearlooks, (system-config-display:2915): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: clearlooks,/usr/share/system-config-display/xConfigDialog.py:436: GtkWarning: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: clearlooks, xml = gtk.glade.XML(/usr/share/system-config-display/display.glade, domain=system-config-display)2005-10-23 02:55:06.330 New DB connection, total: 1Total desktop width=1024, height=768, numscreens=1 2005-10-23 02:55:06.387 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,02005-10-23 02:55:06.390 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1 www.mythtv.org2005-10-23 02:55:06.391 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2005-10-23 02:55:07.087 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T.)Corrupt JPEG data: bad Huffman code2005-10-23 02:55:07.425 Joystick disabled.2005-10-23 02:55:07.439 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-10-23 02:55:07.540 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.2005-10-23 02:55:07.650 Inserting MythDVD initial database information.2005-10-23 02:55:26.228 New DB connection, total: 1Total desktop width=1024, height=768, numscreens=1 2005-10-23 02:55:26.235 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,02005-10-23 02:55:26.237 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1 www.mythtv.org2005-10-23 02:55:26.238 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2005-10-23 02:55:26.509 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T.)Corrupt JPEG data: bad Huffman code2005-10-23 02:55:26.823 New DB connection, total: 22005-10-23 02:55:26.824 Joystick disabled.2005-10-23 02:55: 26.856 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.2005-10-23 02:55:26.863 Inserting MythDVD initial database information.X Error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) 10 Major opcode: 2 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x67 I noticed that the background jpg was garbled the SECOND time I ran the setup routine. The first run through went ok except for freezing X. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] EPG in Australia?
But that doesn't explain how your data is produced outside of the 'supposed' copyright restrictions? Cheers, Dean -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Hall Sent: Tuesday, 25 October 2005 3:01 AM To: 'Discussion about mythtv' Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] EPG in Australia? IceTV was started as there was no EPG in Australia. The main man behind IceTV is Peter Vogel (one of the inventors of the Fairlight CMI). But no we are definitely our own company. :) I think for MS the biggest stopping point would be going to all the effort (and cost) of setting up an EPG service from scratch just as a value added service for MCE (sure it's pretty damn important but not really critical for MCE). Daniel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Collins Sent: Tuesday, 25 October 2005 4:54 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] EPG in Australia? Kind of curious myself about how you are able to create from scratch and not Microsoft? I always assumed you had setup a sweet heart licensing deal with the networks (or you were a partially owned consortium like Fly Buys). Dean -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Andreassen Sent: Tuesday, 25 October 2005 1:51 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] EPG in Australia? On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 03:21 pm, Daniel Hall wrote: Well actually, what I said is correct. When you say people are 'trying' to copyright the guide data this is not fully true, it *IS* copyrighted data, just because a piece of work is published online does not mean it cannot be copyrighted. Cheers, Daniel. How is it that you can get guide data yet a tiny company like Microsoft can't? Paul -- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MythTV on Slackware 10.2 using DVB-T Video Card
Hi, I am fairly new to Linux, I have used Ubuntu before and now have a PC with Slackware 10.2 on it. I was hoping some of you may have succeeded where I have failed and could help me. Any help will be much appreciated. I am trying to install MythTV 0.18.1 on Slackware 10.2. The problem is I have a Hauppage WinTV Nova-T DVB-T PCI card. This is the new card with the Conexant cx2388x chipset. I updated the kernel to 2.6.13, which was on CD2 of Slackware 10.2. This kernel is supposed to support this card and I think it might because when I run lsmod | grep dvb I get the following: x88_dvb 6916 0 mt352 6148 1 cx88_dvb or51132 9732 1 cx88_dvb video_buf_dvb 4484 1 cx88_dvb dvb_core 71848 1 video_buf_dvb lgdt330x 7324 1 cx88_dvb cx22702 5636 1 cx88_dvb dvb_pll 7940 3 cx88_dvb,or51132,cx22702 cx8802 8708 2 cx88_dvb,cx88_blackbird cx88xx 51744 4 cx8800,cx88_dvb,cx88_blackbird,cx8802 video_buf 17156 6 cx8800,cx88_dvb,video_buf_dvb,cx88_blackbird,cx8802,cx88xx i2c_core 16656 9 cx88_dvb,mt352,or51132,lgdt330x,cx22702,cx88xx,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom,i2c_viapro I am no expert but doesn't this show that the drivers are loaded? I have followed the guide given on the MythTV site and am now trying to install it. When I run ./configure it says DVB Support: no which I am assuming is not correct. So I manually use ./configure --enable-dvb. Then I do the qmake mythtv.pro and make and make install. It won't install if I do this; it seems to do a make again even when I type make install. Under /dev I have: dvb0.demux0 dvb0.dvr0 dvb0.frontend0 dvb0.net0 video - video0 video0 - v4l/video0 video1 video2 video3 /v4l/vbi0 /v4l/video0 What has gone wrong? Is it me just being stupid? Thanks Martin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] EPG in Australia?
IceTV was started as there was no EPG in Australia. The main man behind IceTV is Peter Vogel (one of the inventors of the Fairlight CMI). But no we are definitely our own company. :) I think for MS the biggest stopping point would be going to all the effort (and cost) of setting up an EPG service from scratch just as a value added service for MCE (sure it's pretty damn important but not really critical for MCE). Daniel - I trialled the service you sell tonight and here's some feedback for you, and for others in the MythTV community as well. 1) When you sign up and provide an email address the web page doesn't accept email addresses with + signs in them. Many valid email addresses contain a + sign so this seems an odd bit of validation to prevent people from registering with them. 2) There only seems to be program data available for 7 days which is no different from what is already available for free. 3) Programs are not categorised correctly. For example, all movies are marked as such by prepending the word MOVIE: to the movie name. It would be more useful if this was recorded as the category type as MythTV sets this field aside in the database for this type of info. 4) The perl script doesn't allow you to configure what XMLTVIDs you want to use for each channel which is a pain if you're IDs are something different to what the perl script assigns. 5) The web UI doesn't allow you to mark certain channels to NOT download. Eg, I may not want the data for HD channels but it downloads it anyway which then causes it to be uploaded into the MythTV database, even though I don't want these channels in there. 6) The information provided generally seems to be no more than what is already available currently for free. 7) On a more positive note, the download is very fast. My conclusion is that I can't currently see any compelling reason to pay over $150/year for the service as it doesn't seem to provide anything extra than I already get for free. Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HD Frontend hardware: cases for enclosed spaces
How far away is your frontend machine from the TV? :) I assume there's some logical limit to how long your S-Video/VGA/DVI cable can be before you lose quality (or it doesn't work at all), right? On 10/25/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I, personally, find the look of bewilderment on guests' faces amusingwhen I leave the room to put a DVD in the player.Besides, if you'regoing to sit through a 90-minute movie (or 60 minutes with time stretch :), the exercise required for walking that extra 20 feet to insert theDVD will do you good.Mike___mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] EPG data and the program table
Does anyone have any docco on what the different columns in the program table should be populated with and how htis relates to what's in the XMLTV file? For example, I believe the users in the US get EPG data which populates the program.category_type column with 'Movie' which then lets other apps written for MythTV such as tvwish find programs that are movies. Here in Australia the EPG data is very ordinary for a number of reasons I won't go into here. For example, we have no guide data that allows mythfilldatabase to populate the program.category_type column. However, if we knew what the values are supposed to go into the program table columns then we could write scripts to do some automatic conversions such as converting categoryMovie/category in the XML file to category_typeMovie/category_type. I'm just using category_type as an example. There are lots of others such as programid, syndicatedepisodenumber, showtype, seriesid - hopefully you get my drift. If someone could point to some docco or provide further info on this then that would be extremely helpful for those of us who live in EPG-challenged countries. Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Seattle Comcast firewire not working as of today -- 5C?
I haven't called Comcast yet to complain. I will do that tomorrow, but something tells me that won't get me anywhere. I'd be interested in finding out how this is goes. I've been wanting to get into HDTV but am reluctant to spend money on hardware that I can't ever use (except for local) -- _\ | /_ (@ @) -oOOo-(_)-oOOo- ~ Mark Gardner ~ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] best THX/Dolby digital speaker system for price?
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 14:24 -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: snip I've yet to see a an all encompasing system for less than $500US that was worth the money. If your at all interested in it sounding good expect to spend closer to $1000US. My opinion, buy an Energy or Paradigm satelite system, which will cost ~$500 and a standalone receiver, a good one can be had for $300. That's out of my league. I'll buy a flat screen TV before I spend that kind of cash on audio. I'm currently using an old 2.1 system from 1995. :) I'm just looking to upgrade to something that doesn't suck completely and doesn't cost more than $300. Best bang for at or under $300. Consider that you've been using your current system for 10 years. You'll likely use your new system for that long or longer. Spend a little extra money if you can, it's worth it in the long run. Good sound can really make the DVD watching experience. Go to a few audio stores that let you listen to systems - got to regular stores and maybe a higher end store just for comparison. Find some things that sound good, then go on ebay or amazon auctions or craigslist. Even used, $300 is going to be tough. Good luck. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] air2pc hd5000 and pvr 350 issues
Hi Everyone, I did a search in google and couldn't find any solutions so I figured I would ask here. Feel free to point me in a better direction if you know of one. I'm having a problem getting the video from my air2pc hd5000 card displayed on the tv out of my pvr 350. My hardware is fairly underpowered (800 mhz PII) so I want to make full use of the pvr350. I have installed the latest knoppmyth (R5A22). The cable from my cable company (RCN in Boston) is connected to the HD5000. Nothing is connected to the input of the pvr 350. The tv out of the pvr 350 is connected to my tv. I have read a lot of instructions and I can get X to run on the pvr 350 tv out. I have gone in to the mythtv setup and set the flag to use the tv out pn the pvr 350 to display video. I can't get any video to play on the pvr 350 tv out. When I run X on the PC monitor and don't have the PVR 350 flag set in mythtv, I can see live hdtv played on the PC monitor. When I run X on the PC monitor and and have the PVR 350 flag set in mythtv, live TV still comes out on my PC monitor. When I run X on the pvr 350 out and have the PVR 350 flag set in mythtv, when I try to watch live TV, X crashes, restarts, presents me with the X windows login screen for 25 seconds, and eventually logs in automatically as the mythtv user and starts mythtv again. I'm not sure where to start to debug this. So here are a couple of questions/ideas. I believe that the hd5000 card simply reads the mpeg2 transport stream from my cable company and saves it to a file. Can the pvr 350 decoder decode an mpeg2 transport stream? Are there some log files I should be looking at for status and errors? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Jim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] best THX/Dolby digital speaker system for price?
Gabe Rubin wrote: I got a nice ONKYO 6.1 all in one system last year from Fry's. Normally around $500, but on clearance for $250. Maybe my ears are crap, but it sounds real good to me. I am always seeing these systems on slick deals, so go there, or froogle for a comparable set-up. Also look at www.edealinfo.com Chris... -- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety -- Benjamin Franklin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HD Frontend hardware: cases for enclosed spaces
Alex Brekken wrote: On 10/25/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I, personally, find the look of bewilderment on guests' faces amusing when I leave the room to put a DVD in the player. Besides, if you're going to sit through a 90-minute movie (or 60 minutes with time stretch :), the exercise required for walking that extra 20 feet to insert the DVD will do you good. How far away is your frontend machine from the TV? :) I assume there's some logical limit to how long your S-Video/VGA/DVI cable can be before you lose quality (or it doesn't work at all), right? Just on the other side of a wall (about 2 feet as the cable runs, thanks to a drill). However, I choose to walk around the wall instead of trying to fit through the cable conduit--although I'd probably get even more interesting looks if I tried :)--so I end up walking at least 10 feet there and back (depending on my starting position--probably about 15 feet each way if I start from the couch). But, yeah, you want to be careful with long runs. Each cable type has its own limit, but the hard part is that you don't know what that limit is until you hit it. (The theoretical limits may be quite different from reality. Depending on your components, environment, etc., you may find your limit is significantly shorter or longer than people will tell you it should be.) Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythKaraoke?
On 10/22/05, Alex Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't ask me how this came to mind but has anyone thought about the possibility of creating a plugin for Karaoke inside of Myth? hmm, i'm thinking that may be an itch best left unscratched... ;) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: air2pc hd5000 and pvr 350 issues
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So here are a couple of questions/ideas. I believe that the hd5000 card simply reads the mpeg2 transport stream from my cable company and saves it to a file. Can the pvr 350 decoder decode an mpeg2 transport stream? No, this is not possible. PVR-350 hardware decoder is not capable of decoding HDTV streams. If you really want to use the 350 decoder you have to transcode to something smaller. Make sure that it's max 720x480, mpeg2 video and mp2 audio. Bolek ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] encoding very long
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 07:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Selon aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You didn't mention your system specs; transcoding is pretty CPU-intensive. Also, if there's anything else running on the system (for example another recording using software encoding) then nuvexport will get a lot less CPU (by design) because the commands it spawns run at the lowest priority level. I haven't ever tried converting to XviD before, but on my Athlon 2800 converting a one-hour recording to SVCD or DVD can take over an hour. Back in the early days of nuvexport, it used to take about 8 hours to convert a one-hour recording to SVCD on my Athlon 1.33 GHz machine. I have a VIA Epia-M 1 (Processor C3 1Ghz) I looked at the CPU activity when I transcoded the files. The First pass used all the CPU available (so approximatively 80%) but the second pass used only 30%. Is there a way to force the programm using more CPU? Do you know how many time takes normally an ecoding in XviD for a movie about 1h30? Vince with my xvid settings and filters it usually takes me 4hrs to encode a 45min show. Athlon64 3200+ pretty much dedicated to it. Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Seattle Comcast firewire not working as of today -- 5C?
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 01:32, Andy Alsup wrote: I have been using Comcast DCT-6200 w/ firewire since April sometime. I got all channels including premium, no problems. Starting today, I am only able to capture analog channels, and occasionally local HD. I had Monday Night Football set to record, and that failed. I am wondering if they have thrown the big 5C switch. Anyone else that HAD firewire working in the Comcast Seattle market, but now its not? In the advanced menu (power button, then ok/menu button) under the Interface Status section, there is a field: 5C implementation. So far, for channels that I can record, that field is 0, for channels where recoding now fails it is 1. Anyone else see this? I haven't called Comcast yet to complain. I will do that tomorrow, but something tells me that won't get me anywhere. I have comcast in Boston and this is how I've got things as well, only the OTA and analog cable channels. nice thing though is the box will convert to 480p for those channels which makes things easier. Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OpenGL trouble
On 10/25/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave wrote:I'm having trouble getting Myth 18.1 to run with OpenGL VSync enabled. My frontend log shows RTC timing method.I've tried:1. Recompiling (a few times) with the option enabled,2. Looked in Myth setup for the enable flag (didn't see it) 3. Couldn't find anything in the settings table reffering to OpenGLAny ideas what I'm doing wrong?There's no setting in 0.18.1.If it's compiled in, Myth attempts to useit.Check your frontend log file for mention of OpenGL vsync. Mike___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Hmm, frontend log shows: nVidiaVideoSync: VBlank ioctl did not work, unimplemented in this driver? Could not open device /dev/dri/card0, No such file or directory Video timing method: RTC I've reinstalled the nvidia drivers (7667), and I can run glxgears sucessfully. I'm on an AMD 64 3000+ w/2.6.12.3 running gentoo What else can I do to troubleshoot the VBlank ioctrl error? Thanks Dave ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Trouble running mythtv-setup
Robert Callicotte wrote: I have assembled a PC running FC4 per instructions listed at Jarod's site. Everything works up until I try to run mythtv-setup. It looks like the X-server just freezes up. When I ssh into the machine top reveals that X is using up 100% of the processor!! I am running FC4 on an AMD Athlon 64. ECS MoBo (SiS chipset). 200 GB Maxtor SATA drive. I am able to capture video and sound using the Hauppage WinTV card. Everything displays properly, just that mythtv does will not complete setup. Here is an excerpt from lspci ... /etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp /etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x /var/gdm/:0.Xservers -h -l :0 mythtv xset: bad font path element (#159), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax ... 2005-10-23 02:55:07.087 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T.) Corrupt JPEG data: bad Huffman code ... X Error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) 10 Major opcode: 2 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x67 You don't have the appropriate permissions on X. Looks like you're using ssh to run mythtv-setup, but you're using untrusted X11 forwarding. If so, you need to run ssh -Y instead of ssh -X. If not, it may have something to do with GDM not properly setting permissions on things--which would also explain those gdm errors... Then again, you might want to check the theme to see if the images are actually corrupt (as mentioned above) before digging deep into GDM simply because it should take much less time to check. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] audio/video stutter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, my ivtv driver doesn't like the firmware: ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 ivtv: Encoder Firmware may be buggy, use version 0x02040011 ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 250 card with 5 streams Well, I'd *love* to use version 0x02040011 if that would help, but haven't the slightest idea where I would get it or how I would load it. Hippauge changed the internal structure of the DLL on their Windows installation CD-Rom so that the firmware-extraction script that came with ivtv doesn't work. Probably won't help, but http://www.ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Firmware gives all the info you need to get the appropriate firmware. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OpenGL trouble
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 11:00 -0400, Dave wrote: On 10/25/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave wrote: I'm having trouble getting Myth 18.1 to run with OpenGL VSync enabled. My frontend log shows RTC timing method. I've tried: 1. Recompiling (a few times) with the option enabled, 2. Looked in Myth setup for the enable flag (didn't see it) 3. Couldn't find anything in the settings table reffering to OpenGL Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? There's no setting in 0.18.1. If it's compiled in, Myth attempts to use it. Check your frontend log file for mention of OpenGL vsync. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Hmm, frontend log shows: nVidiaVideoSync: VBlank ioctl did not work, unimplemented in this driver? Could not open device /dev/dri/card0, No such file or directory Video timing method: RTC I've reinstalled the nvidia drivers (7667), and I can run glxgears sucessfully. I'm on an AMD 64 3000+ w/2.6.12.3 running gentoo What else can I do to troubleshoot the VBlank ioctrl error? Thanks Dave I have the same problemthe latest 2.6 kernel in debian unstable. I'm even worse off, I dont even have /dev/rtc. Anybody has any idea how to proceed? mythtv says: nVidiaVideoSync: VBlank ioctl did not work, unimplemented in this driver? DRMVideoSync: Could not open device /dev/dri/card0, No such file or directory RTCVideoSync: Could not open /dev/rtc, No such file or directory. jondz ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] program guide font size
Okay here's a stupid question -- how do you change the size of the font in the Program Guide? in Settings-Appearance-Font Size seems to only change the font-size of the menus... I thought it might auto-adjust if i changed the # of channels and # of 30 mins timeslots to show, but even reduced to 2 and 2, there's big boxes with small text in them still. (almost too small to read) James -- James Grant Lightbox Technologies Inc. http://www.lightbox.org 613-294-3670 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] New MythTV setup
Hello List, I am getting ready to build a mythTV machine from a lot of extra parts I have around and would like some input on hardware and interfacing into my current AV system. I have an Athalon 1700 on an Abit KD7 raid motherboard with 256 mb ram. 1) should I consider getting 4 drives the same size and use the hardware raid in stripping mode? 2) I have a WinTV PVR 250 working for capture using ivtv 0.4.0. The hardware browser says it is a Intermext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder, is this good enough for MythTV? 3) The video card is a Matrox Millennium G400 AGP, the one that can use dual head, had it doing TV out under RedHat 9. Will it work well with MythTV? 4) Sound. My current AV system has a Sony 5.1 amp with a MD (digital tape) input and output, like old cassette tape monitior recievers. The motherboard has a VIA AC97 audio controller with a 5.1 fiber output which I think can be inputted to the Sony MD input. Is there another audio card I could add to capture 5.1 into MythTV. My AV source is DirecTV which provides 5.1 (if available) to the amp. I have been reading Jarod Wilson's Fedora 4 FAQ for mythTV which I find very helpful on the subject, but obviously can't address every hardware configuration possible, hence this posting. Thanks in advance to any that can help and make recommendations. Thanks, David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New MythTV setup
On 10/25/05, David Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, I am getting ready to build a mythTV machine from a lot of extra parts I have around and would like some input on hardware and interfacing into my current AV system. welcome to the joy/obsession that is MythTv! ;) sounds like you're starting out the way quite a few ppl do. I have an Athalon 1700 on an Abit KD7 raid motherboard with 256 mb ram. if you are only planning on doing analog capture and playback then this should be fine. once you start to venture into HDTV land you will need a bit more power. 1) should I consider getting 4 drives the same size and use the hardware raid in stripping mode? this may be overkill. :) i don't think you need to worry about hard drive performance since that usually isn't the bottleneck. if you want to use RAID because it's cool or to back up your data then that's fine. but you shouldn't need to worry about I/O performance from newer IDE hard drives. they're good enough. 2) I have a WinTV PVR 250 working for capture using ivtv 0.4.0. The hardware browser says it is a Intermext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder, is this good enough for MythTV? yep, it's the preferred card for analog capture (in most cases). now that ivtv is stablizing the PVR-150 and PVR-500 are becoming more and more used mainly because they are cheaper. but if yo already have a 250 then you're golden. 3) The video card is a Matrox Millennium G400 AGP, the one that can use dual head, had it doing TV out under RedHat 9. Will it work well with MythTV? i'm going to have to defer this to the archives: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/ search for your video card and see what the response is like. i believe the nVidia 5400(?) series a very popular card. i'm using onboard video out on my mobo which uses the nVidia nforce2 chipset. works great. 4) Sound. My current AV system has a Sony 5.1 amp with a MD (digital tape) input and output, like old cassette tape monitior recievers. The motherboard has a VIA AC97 audio controller with a 5.1 fiber output which I think can be inputted to the Sony MD input. Is there another audio card I could add to capture 5.1 into MythTV. My AV source is DirecTV which provides 5.1 (if available) to the amp. if you're going to run sound to an external receiver then any soundcard will do. if you really want 5.1 or better sound then look for sound cards that support S/PDIF passthrough. this just hands the audio signal off to your receiver to do the processing. you really don't need to buy a fancy/expensive sound card for this. I have been reading Jarod Wilson's Fedora 4 FAQ for mythTV which I find very helpful on the subject, but obviously can't address every hardware configuration possible, hence this posting. Thanks in advance to any that can help and make recommendations. Jerod's guide is excellent and i've read it a couple of times myself. however i'm going to plug my favorite distro for MythTv. check out KnoppMyth - http://mysettopbox.tv visit the forums and the wiki - both of which are great resources, even for ppl who swear by other distros. my original MythTv setup consisted of a handful of old parts. once i got it working and realized how much i liked it i did some research on themore recent hardware that is supported and built a new system. :) i'm actually thinking of splitting my Myth install up across multiple machines now. if you feel that you need a better sound card or video card due to responses here or in the archives, then you may want to consider looking for a new motherboard with onboard options. this may be cheaper than replacing multiple cards and give you the ability to upgrade in the future (ie more power...). good luck! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] TV Playback Quality Problem
Folks, I get consistent poor quality tv playback on my new mythtv frontend. These problems are twofold. First, the quality is just crummy, with horizontal lines as if it was getting poor reception off the air. The second is that there are a lot of decoding glitches, like areas of picture not updating when they should so there is a distorted picture. I can play back the same recordings on my windows machine, and they don't show either the general poor quality, or the decoding distortion, so I believe it is really a playback problem. Also, I can play back divx videos (such as ripped dvds) on the mythbox and they come out very clean and sharp. I'm wondering where I should start troubleshooting this? The video card is an on-board SiS that has an mpeg2 decoder. I'm wondering if maybe it's using the hardware decoder which may not be the best? If so, is there a way to get it to not use the onboard decoder and decode in software as it is with the divx? Any suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks, Peter Darley ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New MythTV setup
David Wallace wrote: Hello List, Hi! I am getting ready to build a mythTV machine from a lot of extra parts I have around and would like some input on hardware and interfacing into my current AV system. I have an Athalon 1700 on an Abit KD7 raid motherboard with 256 mb ram. For use with a PVR-series card this should be enough... But comercial flagging and trancoding need much horsepower, so a faster Prozessor is always nice, if you plan to transcode alot. BTW: I would build this Box with 512MB RAM. You can never have enough RAM ;) 1) should I consider getting 4 drives the same size and use the hardware raid in stripping mode? For Data-Security i would never use Striping or raid0 If you consider buying 4 Drives, i would suggest to use Linux Software-RAID5 LVM 2) I have a WinTV PVR 250 working for capture using ivtv 0.4.0. The hardware browser says it is a Intermext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder, is this good enough for MythTV? This should work fine with ivtv 4.0 Myth. The PVR-Series has the great advantage, that the videostream coming out of the card is already MPG2, so your CPU just needs to store it to your HDD(s) without any encoding. 3) The video card is a Matrox Millennium G400 AGP, the one that can use dual head, had it doing TV out under RedHat 9. Will it work well with MythTV? If you get TV-Ot working, you can give it a try. I read somewhere, that the Matrox Millenium G400 Series has an excellent TV-OUT. 4) Sound. My current AV system has a Sony 5.1 amp with a MD (digital tape) input and output, like old cassette tape monitior recievers. The motherboard has a VIA AC97 audio controller with a 5.1 fiber output which I think can be inputted to the Sony MD input. Is there another audio card I could add to capture 5.1 into MythTV. My AV source is DirecTV which provides 5.1 (if available) to the amp. Don't know about this... Maybe there will be problems with Audio/Video-Sync if you want to record the video with the PVR and the Sound as 5.1. AFAIK, the PVR's cannot record 5.1 Also the PVR's have a 2sec-delay compared to watching the same content directly on a TV. This is the time needed to do the Hardware-MPG2 encoding. Maybe someone else could give you more detailed information on this. I have been reading Jarod Wilson's Fedora 4 FAQ for mythTV which I find very helpful on the subject, but obviously can't address every hardware configuration possible, hence this posting. Thanks in advance to any that can help and make recommendations. Thanks, David hth, Jan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: MythKaraoke?
On 10/22/05, Alex Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't ask me how this came to mind but has anyone thought about the possibility of creating a plugin for Karaoke inside of Myth? There's already a top-notch karaoke player for Linux called PyKaraoke: http://www.kibosh.org/pykaraoke/ Not that getting drunk singing loudly, out of key is my kind of thing of course ;-) Juski. # This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by NetIQ MailMarshal # ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] program guide font size
On 10/25/05, James Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay here's a stupid question -- how do you change the size of the font in the Program Guide? in Settings-Appearance-Font Size seems to only change the font-size of the menus... I thought it might auto-adjust if i changed the # of channels and # of 30 mins timeslots to show, but even reduced to 2 and 2, there's big boxes with small text in them still. (almost too small to read) James First thing to do is make sure you are running at 100dpi. There is some info here: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf1473/MythFAQ.html#q23 you can also search this list for many discussions about font size. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] EPG data and the program table
On 25/10/05, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any docco on what the different columns in the program table should be populated with and how htis relates to what's in the XMLTV file? For example, I believe the users in the US get EPG data which populates the program.category_type column with 'Movie' which then lets other apps written for MythTV such as tvwish find programs that are movies. Here in Australia the EPG data is very ordinary for a number of reasons I won't go into here. For example, we have no guide data that allows mythfilldatabase to populate the program.category_type column. However, if we knew what the values are supposed to go into the program table columns then we could write scripts to do some automatic conversions such as converting categoryMovie/category in the XML file to category_typeMovie/category_type. I'm just using category_type as an example. There are lots of others such as programid, syndicatedepisodenumber, showtype, seriesid - hopefully you get my drift. If someone could point to some docco or provide further info on this then that would be extremely helpful for those of us who live in EPG-challenged countries. Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-11.html#ss11.8 Might give you some clues. (especially the working with SQL section). Also there's some schema doc somewhere (can't find the link) but you could cd into docs and make devdocs -- John ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] program guide font size
Thanks, this was exactly the problem. Sorry I didn't figure this one out on my own :) James On Tuesday 25 October 2005 12:44 pm, Asher Schaffer wrote: On 10/25/05, James Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay here's a stupid question -- how do you change the size of the font in the Program Guide? in Settings-Appearance-Font Size seems to only change the font-size of the menus... I thought it might auto-adjust if i changed the # of channels and # of 30 mins timeslots to show, but even reduced to 2 and 2, there's big boxes with small text in them still. (almost too small to read) James First thing to do is make sure you are running at 100dpi. There is some info here: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf1473/MythFAQ.html#q23 you can also search this list for many discussions about font size. -- James Grant Lightbox Technologies Inc. http://www.lightbox.org 613-294-3670 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Re: Transcode to DVD-compatible MPEG-2 without quality loss?
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 11:03:55PM -0400, Steve Adeff wrote: I need to see if mencoder requires the ProjectX step or not (I think the mplayer demuxer is able to handle the file without the need though), but i think I might be passing all my recordings through mencoder for processing (ivtc, crop, resize), save as a huffyuv and then open in avidemux2 for commercial cutting and final encode. How do you tell mencoder to simply remux the file instead of transcoding it? Which is kinda nice, cause I think one can then setup MythTV to automatically run the mencoder part right after recording(or during? i haven't looked into this part of MythTV yet), with custom settings for the show in question for the shows I want to backup, then take the huffYUV file and edit in avidemux2. Sounds good! I haven't tried doing this conversion using ProjectX from within MythTV, but that would be very useful. java -jar ProjectX.jar -out outdir srcfile.nuv works great from the console without the need for user interaction. In the meantime, I've written a quick little perl script that dumps the program description, filename, and date so I can see what file is what show. Mike. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Error parsing parameters when trying to scan channels
Hi again, I wasn't really sure how to use the script but I tried following: [code] ./zap2myth.pl -x DVB.xmltv channels.conf channels.sql mysql -p channels.sql [/code] I think that messed up mythtv Database totally cause now I can't even run mythbackend because of error: [code] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.mythtv$ mythbackend 2005-10-25 17:54:33.498 New DB connection, total: 1 Starting up as the master server. 2005-10-25 17:54:33.511 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-10-25 17:54:33.516 DVB#0 DVB SI Table Parser Started 2005-10-25 17:54:35.098 DVB#0 Using DVB card 0, with frontend Philips TDA10021 DVB-C. 2005-10-25 17:54:35.099 DVB#0 CA: CI handler successfully initialized! 2005-10-25 17:54:35.099 DVB#0 ERROR - Unable to find channel in database. 2005-10-25 17:54:35.100 DVB#0 ERROR - Failed to get channel options for channel 3. 2005-10-25 17:54:35.101 DVB#0 CA: CI handler thread running 2005-10-25 17:54:35.108 New DB scheduler connection 2005-10-25 17:54:35.118 mythbackend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-10-25 17:54:35.119 Enabled verbose msgs : important general QServerSocket: failed to bind or listen to the socket Failed to bind port: 6543 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.mythtv$ [/code] Maybe you could tell how should I have used that script? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OpenGL trouble
Joe Votour wrote: --- Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave wrote: I'm having trouble getting Myth 18.1 to run with OpenGL VSync enabled. 3. Couldn't find anything in the settings table reffering to OpenGL There's no setting in 0.18.1. If it's compiled in, Myth attempts to use it. Check your frontend log file for mention of OpenGL vsync. That is (partially) incorrect. If by (partially) incorrect, you mean that /all/ the information I gave is correct, but that information does not apply if not using the specific version I quoted, I completely agree. If OpenGL support is compiled into MythTV in 0.18.1, then there is a checkbox present that allows you to enable/disable it. (I'd know, I put it there). Current SVN, see around line 2227-2239 and lines 2944-2946 (case-insentitive search for OpenGL) http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/browser/trunk/mythtv/programs/mythfrontend/globalsettings.cpp - Definitely has a setting 0.18.1, no mention of OpenGL anywhere in the settings... http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/browser/tags/release-0-18-1/mythtv/programs/mythfrontend/globalsettings.cpp - Definitely does /not/ have a setting 0.18-fixes, see around lines 2095-2106 and 2151-2154 and note that the last commit was the commit of your patch http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/browser/branches/release-0-18-fixes/mythtv/programs/mythfrontend/globalsettings.cpp - Definitely has a setting And, the changesets that included the patch: http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/6509 http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/6526 So, it seems it's in the branch post 0.18.1--in 0.18-fixes, which might one day become 0.18.2. However, I assumed when the OP said he was using 0.18.1, he meant he was using 0.18.1... We have waa too many versions of 0.18.1 out there... Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Firewire source and channel changer
All, Is there anyone that is successfully using Firewire as both a source as well as a method to change channels on the DCT6200 (using another source). I'm trying to setup Firewire to handle the analog channels and then use a PVR-250 w/ the 6200ch contributed program to change channels on the other source. I've setup two different lineups in zap2it and that part is working as it should. However, I have spent hours troubleshooting and trying different combinations of point to point vs. broadcast and I can't get both to work reliably. Somtimes the firewire works great by itself - meaning I can enter and exit liveTV repeatedly and flawlessly and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes I can use LiveTV in the Firewire and then switch back and forth to the other input and change channel using 6200ch, but at most, I've been able to make this flip-flop about 4 times before the firewire stops working. When this happens, sometimes I'm able to stop mythbackend, unload all *1394* modules, reload the modules, and then start mythbackend and it will work again. Sometimes not. This is one of the most finicky and unpredictable things that I think I've ever worked with. FYI - I've experimented w/ the options mentioned in another email: plugctl -n 1 opcr[0].channel=63 plugctl -n 1 opcr[0].bcast_connection=1 or: plugctl -n 1 opcr[0].n_p2p_connections=1 Neither one *completely* fixes my problem. I've gotten either of these (with some fiddling) to get the firewire source to work predictablyuntil I bring the other source w/ the 6200ch binary into the equation - then it goes to crap again. :-( Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Brian ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythKaraoke?
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 09:37 am, Andrew Close wrote: On 10/22/05, Alex Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't ask me how this came to mind but has anyone thought about the possibility of creating a plugin for Karaoke inside of Myth? hmm, i'm thinking that may be an itch best left unscratched... ;) If only it was me. My two year old LOVES karaoke. The way I see it, karaoke is just another version of the Sing Alongs that I used to watch Sunday nights on The Wonderful World of Disney back in the early 70's. Only with better music :-) -alex ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] TV Playback Quality Problem
SNIP I get consistent poor quality tv playback on my new mythtv frontend. These problems are twofold. First, the quality is just crummy, with horizontal lines as if it was getting poor reception off the air. The second is that there are a lot of decoding glitches, like areas of picture not updating when they should so there is a distorted picture. I can play back the same recordings on my windows machine, and they don't show either the general poor quality, or the decoding distortion, so I believe it is really a playback problem. Also, I can play back divx videos (such as ripped dvds) on the mythbox and they come out very clean and sharp. I'm wondering where I should start troubleshooting this? The video card is an on-board SiS that has an mpeg2 decoder. I'm wondering if maybe it's using the hardware decoder which may not be the best? If so, is there a way to get it to not use the onboard decoder and decode in software as it is with the divx? /SNIP Are the horizontal lines a result of not deinterlacing the playback? If you haven't already, walk through the setup menu to TV to playback (I can't remember the menu path). One the 1st screen you can set deinterlacing on and select the algorithm. Good luck, Todd ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] program guide font size
Although the FAQ is technically correct; think of the use-case. Monitor Size for X is generally with your face 2 feet from the screen. What is the Monitor Size when you are 30 feet away (to your eye)? Here is what the Monitor section of my XFree86-4 looks like: ~~ # Little Text # DisplaySize 400 300 # DisplaySize 360 270 # DisplaySize 320 240 # DisplaySize 280 210 # DisplaySize 240 180 DisplaySize 200 150 # DisplaySize 160 120 # DisplaySize 120 90 # DisplaySize 80 60 # DisplaySize 40 30 # HUGE Text I just uncomment out different lines until it is just right. Each TV in my house used a different line to be just right. It is a balancing act, I would be amazed at any system that work at 40x30!...be somewhere between both ends will be just right for you. Hope that helps, Todd - Original Message - From: James Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 10:22 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] program guide font size Thanks, this was exactly the problem. Sorry I didn't figure this one out on my own :) James On Tuesday 25 October 2005 12:44 pm, Asher Schaffer wrote: On 10/25/05, James Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay here's a stupid question -- how do you change the size of the font in the Program Guide? in Settings-Appearance-Font Size seems to only change the font-size of the menus... I thought it might auto-adjust if i changed the # of channels and # of 30 mins timeslots to show, but even reduced to 2 and 2, there's big boxes with small text in them still. (almost too small to read) James First thing to do is make sure you are running at 100dpi. There is some info here: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf1473/MythFAQ.html#q23 you can also search this list for many discussions about font size. -- James Grant Lightbox Technologies Inc. http://www.lightbox.org 613-294-3670 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] OT: Silverstone LC16m
I'm just wondering if the front buttons work, play, stop, skip, etc? I don't have the case yet but I'm thinking of getting it. Thanks, Dan. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MythKaraoke?
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 11:39 am, Justin Hornsby wrote: On 10/22/05, Alex Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't ask me how this came to mind but has anyone thought about the possibility of creating a plugin for Karaoke inside of Myth? There's already a top-notch karaoke player for Linux called PyKaraoke: http://www.kibosh.org/pykaraoke/ Not that getting drunk singing loudly, out of key is my kind of thing of course ;-) Of course not ;-) Actually, PyKaraoke is what I'm using on my laptop. I wrote the author in hopes that he might want to create an add-in for something like this in Myth. I figured it didn't hurt to try and ask. You never know -alex ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] program guide font size
Asher, I have a question about this: My video card will only go up to 1280x1024 on tv out, but I'm displaying it on a 16:9 aspect tv. Right now I have DispaySize=400 225, which tells xine etc that the screen isn't really 4:3. Would it work to set it to 462 260, being that 260 = 1024*2.54, and 462 = 260*(16/9)? I got this because the 1024 px height is the 'real' hight of the display, and then the width is relative to that. Of course, it occures to me that I could just try it and see what happens, but I've written this now, so if someone has some feedback before I have a chance to try this I would appreciate it. On Oct 25, 2005, at 9:44 AM, Asher Schaffer wrote: On 10/25/05, James Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay here's a stupid question -- how do you change the size of the font in the Program Guide? in Settings-Appearance-Font Size seems to only change the font-size of the menus... I thought it might auto-adjust if i changed the # of channels and # of 30 mins timeslots to show, but even reduced to 2 and 2, there's big boxes with small text in them still. (almost too small to read) James First thing to do is make sure you are running at 100dpi. There is some info here: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf1473/MythFAQ.html#q23 you can also search this list for many discussions about font size. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] [Fwd: PVR-150 - Random Noise/Blockiness top 1/6 of screen]
Occasionaly while recording or watching TV the channel will have a band of white/black transparent blocks at the top of the screen, probably about 1/6 of the whole height (about 4-6 in. on a 36in TV). Switching to a new channel and back will cause it to go away. I tried searching for the answer but must not have been searching on the right terms. I am running the PVR-150 with IVTV 4.0 drivers. I have run with other versions of IVTV with the same problem. Currently I am using S-Video in, but it did the same thing with Cable in on both my Pentium 3 and the current Athlon 64 machine. Has anyone had this problem have a solution for it? Thanks, Lee ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Silverstone LC16m
On Oct 25, 2005 06:25 PM, Dan Brow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just wondering if the front buttons work, play, stop, skip, etc? I don't have the case yet but I'm thinking of getting it. Thanks, Dan. I was concerned about that too and as a result have been looking more at the LC-10m. If you find out the buttons work please let me know that would make an amazing case ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] program guide font size
Todd wrote: Although the FAQ is technically correct; think of the use-case. Monitor Size for X is generally with your face 2 feet from the screen. What is the Monitor Size when you are 30 feet away (to your eye)? Here is what the Monitor section of my XFree86-4 looks like: ~~ # Little Text # DisplaySize 400 300 # DisplaySize 360 270 # DisplaySize 320 240 # DisplaySize 280 210 # DisplaySize 240 180 DisplaySize 200 150 # DisplaySize 160 120 # DisplaySize 120 90 # DisplaySize 80 60 # DisplaySize 40 30 # HUGE Text I just uncomment out different lines until it is just right. Each TV in my house used a different line to be just right. It is a balancing act, I would be amazed at any system that work at 40x30!...be somewhere between both ends will be just right for you. Note that when you do this, it is completely impossible for your text/graphics to line up properly when using a theme that was created correctly. Normally, a program calculates the appropriate position of graphic elements (in pixels = dots) relative to fonts (specified in points = 1/72 inch) based on the DPI (Dots Per Inch) specified by the windowing system. However, this requires run-time calculations. Myth's theming engine allows the creation of themes that combine text and graphical elements, but since the themes are simple XML (text) files, there is no ability to do calculations. Therefore, all themes are supposed to be created to use a fixed DPI--100 DPI--so that graphics and fonts line up appropriately on any /properly-configured/ Myth system. Now you know why the technically correct FAQ is completely correct--it's correct by specification--and using DisplaySize (which is used by X to calculate DPI) to adjust font sizes is incorrect. And, now you know why the little arrows in your playback box, etc. are in the wrong places... If you were to adjust your DisplaySize and then adjust all your themes for the resulting DPI, it would be just as correct as using 100DPI with the provided themes. However, that approach takes much more time and is likely to result in much bigger font problems when re-displaying Myth screens (i.e. mythtv-setup) on other systems on your network (which may not be using 100DPI, but are likely to be close enough to 100DPI that it will still be readable--especially on a monitor 2 feet in front of your eyes). So, please don't tell people to simply adjust their DisplaySize to fix font size problems. The /only/ correct way to adjust font size is to edit the font names and font sizes in the theme. (Editing font names is required when the specified font is not installed on your system. If Myth requests a non-existant font, X font substitution will select another font as a replacement and often the font metrics are very different from the requested font, so to take the unknown element out of the system, you must ensure the theme requests an installed font.) Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Commell LV-667T with HDTV
Hello everyone, I am new here and to Linux base stuff, and would like to ask if the LV-667T is a good choice, I have one that I have not even opened yet and was thinking of selling it but before I do wanted some input on what I could do with it or use it for, I dont know anything yet about Linux but sure I could learn, I really purchased it because I wanted a HTPC and decided to go with another faster Motherboard because of the things I read about the LV-667T not really being able to handle the HD streams or something like that, so I just went without HD for now, but was wondering if drivers or available now or if anyone here has this board and what they are using it for, I have other questions but do not want to get to long, so thanks for now Kf4odq ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] TV Playback Quality Problem
Todd, No, it's being deinterlaced. I've gone through as well and tried all the different deinterlacing algorythms, and they didn't make any difference. I also tried the, erm... libmpeg or something. The non-default mpeg library, which actually made things worse in terms of artifacts. Thanks, Peter Darley On Oct 25, 2005, at 11:13 AM, MythTV wrote: Are the horizontal lines a result of not deinterlacing the playback? If you haven't already, walk through the setup menu to TV to playback (I can't remember the menu path). One the 1st screen you can set deinterlacing on and select the algorithm. Good luck, Todd ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Silverstone LC16m
I was concerned about that too and as a result have been looking more at the LC-10m. If you find out the buttons work please let me know that would make an amazing case Will do, I'm looking at a 2 week wait for the case though. But I will post. Dan. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] program guide font size
Peter Darley wrote: I have a question about this: My video card will only go up to 1280x1024 on tv out, but I'm displaying it on a 16:9 aspect tv. Right now I have DispaySize=400 225, which tells xine etc that the screen isn't really 4:3. Would it work to set it to 462 260, being that 260 = 1024*2.54, and 462 = 260*(16/9)? I got this because the 1024 px height is the 'real' hight of the display, and then the width is relative to that. Does your 16:9 TV have any inputs besides the S-Video/Composite/SCART connection you're using? You would be much better off using a proper 16:9 ratio in X and using 100 DPI on both axes. If you use anything besides 100 DPI square pixels (i.e. 100 DPI in both the horizontal and vertical planes), some of your graphic elements are likely to be misaligned. (See my other post in the thread.) I.e. the approach you're using will give you a calculated DPI of 70x100. That will result in proper vertical alignment of text/graphics (which is probably more important than horizontal alignment--because of arrows next to selected items, etc.) but will result in horizontal alignment problems. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire source and channel changer
On Oct 25, 2005, at 12:01 PM, Brian C. Huffman wrote: All, Is there anyone that is successfully using Firewire as both a source as well as a method to change channels on the DCT6200 (using another source). Yes ... well, mostly I'm trying to setup Firewire to handle the analog channels and then use a PVR-250 w/ the 6200ch contributed program to change channels on the other source. I've setup two different lineups in zap2it and that part is working as it should. However, I have spent hours troubleshooting and trying different combinations of point to point vs. broadcast and I can't get both to work reliably. Somtimes the firewire works great by itself - meaning I can enter and exit liveTV repeatedly and flawlessly and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes I can use LiveTV in the Firewire and then switch back and forth to the other input and change channel using 6200ch, but at most, I've been able to make this flip-flop about 4 times before the firewire stops working. When this happens, sometimes I'm able to stop mythbackend, unload all *1394* modules, reload the modules, and then start mythbackend and it will work again. Sometimes not. This is one of the most finicky and unpredictable things that I think I've ever worked with. FYI - I've experimented w/ the options mentioned in another email: plugctl -n 1 opcr[0].channel=63 plugctl -n 1 opcr[0].bcast_connection=1 or: plugctl -n 1 opcr[0].n_p2p_connections=1 Neither one *completely* fixes my problem. I've gotten either of these (with some fiddling) to get the firewire source to work predictablyuntil I bring the other source w/ the 6200ch binary into the equation - then it goes to crap again. :-( Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Brian The options you mentioned brought me from about 50% reliability to more like 95%. Although 6200ch never gives me a problem (I had to add my DCT2000 model to 6200ch to get it to work), the firewire video itself is sometimes a little flakey. I've found using the first two plugctl options above works best for me with myth set to broadcast and node 1. Sometimes, recordings are short as I've mentioned in previous messages and sometimes the video/ audio goes choppy after changing channels. Also, LiveTV seems to screw things up occasionally so that I have to restart the backend. It's not quite bad enough that I want to go back to my PVR-250 but it's close. If it weren't for HD, I would go back to my PVR-250 in a minute. Curtis ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] program guide font size
Michael, Indeed, it has the component input that I'm using. It's a DigiMatrix box, and someone said that it should be able to do 1920x1080 (1080i), but I have not been able to get this to work, and the refrence for Mr. Winischhoffer's SiS driver at: http:// www.winischhofer.at/linuxsispart1.shtml#24 seems to say that tv-out only goes up to 1280x1024. I would love to hear that I'm wrong about this however, and any pointers toward getting a higher resolution tv out would be grand! :) It does have 1280x720, so I guess I'll try that. Thanks, Peter Darley On Oct 25, 2005, at 11:59 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote: Peter Darley wrote: I have a question about this: My video card will only go up to 1280x1024 on tv out, but I'm displaying it on a 16:9 aspect tv. Right now I have DispaySize=400 225, which tells xine etc that the screen isn't really 4:3. Would it work to set it to 462 260, being that 260 = 1024*2.54, and 462 = 260*(16/9)? I got this because the 1024 px height is the 'real' hight of the display, and then the width is relative to that. Does your 16:9 TV have any inputs besides the S-Video/Composite/ SCART connection you're using? You would be much better off using a proper 16:9 ratio in X and using 100 DPI on both axes. If you use anything besides 100 DPI square pixels (i.e. 100 DPI in both the horizontal and vertical planes), some of your graphic elements are likely to be misaligned. (See my other post in the thread.) I.e. the approach you're using will give you a calculated DPI of 70x100. That will result in proper vertical alignment of text/graphics (which is probably more important than horizontal alignment--because of arrows next to selected items, etc.) but will result in horizontal alignment problems. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Some Quick Questions about MythTV
I am seriously considering the MythTV as an alternative to having 5 satellite receivers and DVD players and computers and stuff in my house. I want desperately to consolidate my house. I questions is three fold. One is the MythTV documentation on PDF somewhere or available to download so I can read it on my way home on the train? Two: Can I even do what I am trying to do? The Windows XP Media Center allows you to hook up an X-Box or media extender to TV's so you can watch your Prerecorded information from a TV not directly hooked to the Media Center PC. That is what I want to do with MythTV. Although it looks like MythTV can record my DVD's to disk drive where I can't get a confirmed yes on that ability for Windows MCPC. I would like to load all my families DVD's (If they are all loaded the way I want then I don't have to keep baying new DVD's when my kids scratch them. I got to get a new Harry Potter this weekend), MP3's and hook up like 5 TV tuners to the system so everyone can watch and record TV from there own room. Then I can watch Sci-Fi and Westwing until I am blue in the face in my bedroom while my wife watches Desperate House Wives and America's Next top Model downstairs (ok those two shows have enough hotties that I don't mind so much) but you get the picture. I got Barney in one room and GI Joe in another and so on and so fourth. Three: I plan to get a truly beefy system to do all of this. I am looking into a SARA raid array to prevent data loss and if possible dual core system (do they make duel CPU Dual Core motherboards) I want to avoid any kind of Encoding in the main processors. So do I need a certain TV Tuner to do everything in the tuner and such? Let's pretend money is no object (unfortunately it is so this will be an ongoing project) how would you design your system. I know a lot of these questions can be answered by the documentation but I only have time to read it offline and have not been able to find a way to print or view it offline. Thank you in advance for any recommendations and advice. Thank you, Joshua Lewis ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] logfiles: where?
actually, I have 2 problems. 1. I created a directory called /var/log/mythtv, and made sure that mythtv has write permissions to it, and restarted several times, but still there are no logs there. Sorry if this is a dumb question but: where are the mythtv logs supposed to be? 2. live tv is not working ... I get a blank screen for a few seconds and it returns to the menu. This process seems to break the connection between the frontend and backend (i.e., If I try to do other things after attempting livetv, mythtv informs me that the backend is not running or is improperly configured ). Everything else works great. I've searched for other posts about this, but they seem to address much earlier versions of myth or are otherwise inapplicable (whole system crashes, for example). my system: $ 200 wal mart box with ubuntu hoary, mythtv 0.18.1 compiled from source, PVR-250 [although live tv showed the same exact symptoms with a PVR-150 installed] If I can solve # 1, I'll send more information and hopefully solve problem # 2! thanks, Mary mstrimel(at)comcast(dot)net ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Some Quick Questions about MythTV
comments inline On 10/25/05, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seriously considering the MythTV as an alternative to having 5 satellite receivers and DVD players and computers and stuff in my house. I want desperately to consolidate my house. I questions is three fold. One is the MythTV documentation on PDF somewhere or available to download so I can read it on my way home on the train? http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.4 Two: Can I even do what I am trying to do? The Windows XP Media Center allows you to hook up an X-Box or media extender to TV's so you can watch your Prerecorded information from a TV not directly hooked to the Media Center PC. That is what I want to do with MythTV. Although it looks like MythTV can record my DVD's to disk drive where I can't get a confirmed yes on that ability for Windows MCPC. I would like to load all my families DVD's (If they are all loaded the way I want then I don't have to keep baying new DVD's when my kids scratch them. I got to get a new Harry Potter this weekend), MP3's and hook up like 5 TV tuners to the system so everyone can watch and record TV from there own room. Then I can watch Sci-Fi and Westwing until I am blue in the face in my bedroom while my wife watches Desperate House Wives and America's Next top Model downstairs (ok those two shows have enough hotties that I don't mind so much) but you get the picture. I got Barney in one room and GI Joe in another and so on and so fourth. Essentially, you want to view programs on a TV that is not where the main server is? MythTV runs in a client/server form (frontend/backend), so this would be possible by placing a frontend (X-Boxes can work) by the TV. Three: I plan to get a truly beefy system to do all of this. I am looking into a SARA raid array to prevent data loss and if possible dual core system (do they make duel CPU Dual Core motherboards) I want to avoid any kind of Encoding in the main processors. So do I need a certain TV Tuner to do everything in the tuner and such? Let's pretend money is no object (unfortunately it is so this will be an ongoing project) how would you design your system. I know a lot of these questions can be answered by the documentation but I only have time to read it offline and have not been able to find a way to print or view it offline. To be honest, the backend doesn't need to be too powerful if you're running MPEG2 encoders such as the Hauppauge PVR series. Transcoding to Divx format *would* require some horsepower. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: apt-get upgrade = borked mythtv
On 10/15/05, Tom Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I did an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade today and now my system is borked. I can't play any video files -- no recordings or Well, I finally threw in the towel and reinstalled with KnoppMyth. The install was super easy. The good news is that now my PVR-250's MPEG acceleration using XvMC VLD is working, which it never did on my old FC3 system. The bad news is that it's so jerky it's unwatchable. So now I have a Debian system that is a mix of stable, testing, and unstable. I know better than to try an apt-get update on that mix. :) Tom ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New MythTV setup
On 10/25/05, David Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, I am getting ready to build a mythTV machine from a lot of extra parts I have around and would like some input on hardware and interfacing into my current AV system. I have an Athalon 1700 on an Abit KD7 raid motherboard with 256 mb ram. This should do nicely for recording and playback of SD signals, as well as the plugins (MythMusic, MythVideo, etc). It can probably handle recording HD signals, but probably not HD playback. Still, HD shouldn't really be a priority for you right now -- get an SD rig working the way you want it, then plan on upgrading to HD if that's what you want. I'd recommend boosting the RAM to 512. 1) should I consider getting 4 drives the same size and use the hardware raid in stripping mode? It's probably not necessary right now. I'd recommend starting with a single large HDD or two. 250 GB drives these days are going for $100-120. If you use an LVM (which seems to be the default install behavior of FC4) you can add storage later. RAID is only really necessary if you're scared of losing data from an HDD failure,. 2) I have a WinTV PVR 250 working for capture using ivtv 0.4.0. The hardware browser says it is a Intermext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder, is this good enough for MythTV? This is the best supported card under Myth. It is a hardware MPEG-2 capture card, meaning that the card converts the signal to MPEG-2 and dumps it to the HDD saving CPU cycles for other things. The PVR-250 works more or less out of the box with ivtv and Myth. If you have the remote for the card, it will work in lirc. 3) The video card is a Matrox Millennium G400 AGP, the one that can use dual head, had it doing TV out under RedHat 9. Will it work well with MythTV? I can't say for sure, but I use a Matrox Millenium G450 (dual VGAs) on a different machine, and have never had a problem with it. I know that mine is recognized and easy to configure under Linux, and supports OpenGL. I'm not sure about other things specific to TV-out. I expect this card should work. If not, look for an nvidia gf4 or fx5200 card -- you can pick one up with S-Video out for around $40-$60 new, or a lot less used, refurb, or on ebay. 4) Sound. My current AV system has a Sony 5.1 amp with a MD (digital tape) input and output, like old cassette tape monitior recievers. The motherboard has a VIA AC97 audio controller with a 5.1 fiber output which I think can be inputted to the Sony MD input. Is there another audio card I could add to capture 5.1 into MythTV. My AV source is DirecTV which provides 5.1 (if available) to the amp. I'm not sure I can help you here. How does the 5.1 signal go out otherwise? If it's in the coax signal that the PVR-250 captures, then Myth can deal with it, I think. There are cheap cards with SPDIF ins on them -- the Turtle Beach Catalina runs about $50. I use a TB Riviera, which puts out 5.1 through three analog ports and SPDIF. I have been reading Jarod Wilson's Fedora 4 FAQ for mythTV which I find very helpful on the subject, but obviously can't address every hardware configuration possible, hence this posting. Thanks in advance to any that can help and make recommendations. Good luck. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: apt-get upgrade = borked mythtv
On 10/25/05, Tom Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The install was super easy. The good news is that now my PVR-250's MPEG acceleration using XvMC VLD is working, which it never did on my old FC3 system. The bad news is that it's so jerky it's unwatchable. Oops, I meant my VIA M10K's MPEG2 decoding. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Silverstone LC16m
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 14:53, Dan Brow wrote: I was concerned about that too and as a result have been looking more at the LC-10m. If you find out the buttons work please let me know that would make an amazing case Will do, I'm looking at a 2 week wait for the case though. But I will post. Dan. I am getting this case as well and have been told by Silverstone tech support that the front panel buttons work in conjunction with the IRman remote control interface, so yes, they work, they output commands that LIRC picks up and then you assign them. I'm hoping this is true! Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] knoppmyth PVR-150 MCE usb transmitter HOWTO
Has anyone been able to get this to work with a DishNetwork HD receiver and change the channel? I am looking for a HOWTO, or a script to use the USB port IR transmitter. Thanks -- Sergio ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire source and channel changer
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 13:05 -0600, Curtis Stanford wrote: On Oct 25, 2005, at 12:01 PM, Brian C. Huffman wrote: All, Is there anyone that is successfully using Firewire as both a source as well as a method to change channels on the DCT6200 (using another source). Yes ... well, mostly I'm trying to setup Firewire to handle the analog channels and then use a PVR-250 w/ the 6200ch contributed program to change channels on the other source. I've setup two different lineups in zap2it and that part is working as it should. However, I have spent hours troubleshooting and trying different combinations of point to point vs. broadcast and I can't get both to work reliably. Somtimes the firewire works great by itself - meaning I can enter and exit liveTV repeatedly and flawlessly and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes I can use LiveTV in the Firewire and then switch back and forth to the other input and change channel using 6200ch, but at most, I've been able to make this flip-flop about 4 times before the firewire stops working. When this happens, sometimes I'm able to stop mythbackend, unload all *1394* modules, reload the modules, and then start mythbackend and it will work again. Sometimes not. This is one of the most finicky and unpredictable things that I think I've ever worked with. FYI - I've experimented w/ the options mentioned in another email: plugctl -n 1 opcr[0].channel=63 plugctl -n 1 opcr[0].bcast_connection=1 or: plugctl -n 1 opcr[0].n_p2p_connections=1 Neither one *completely* fixes my problem. I've gotten either of these (with some fiddling) to get the firewire source to work predictablyuntil I bring the other source w/ the 6200ch binary into the equation - then it goes to crap again. :-( Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Brian The options you mentioned brought me from about 50% reliability to more like 95%. Although 6200ch never gives me a problem (I had to add my DCT2000 model to 6200ch to get it to work), the firewire video itself is sometimes a little flakey. Hmmm...DCT2000? I thought that was one of the older boxes that didn't support firewire out? Or do I have something confused? Either way, how did you determine the model # - I'm assuming it's a hexidecimal #. And then was it simply adding it into the defines at the top of the 6200ch.c file? I wish I had the code in front of me so that I could ask the question more intelligently. I've found using the first two plugctl options above works best for me with myth set to broadcast and node 1. Sometimes, recordings are short as I've mentioned in previous messages and sometimes the video/ audio goes choppy after changing channels. Also, LiveTV seems to screw things up occasionally so that I have to restart the backend. Do you put these in an init script somewhere? Or create an init script that runs before mythbackened? I've also seen someone mention actually hardcoding these into a function (presumably in mythtv). It's not quite bad enough that I want to go back to my PVR-250 but it's close. If it weren't for HD, I would go back to my PVR-250 in a minute. Curtis Sort of off topic, but what kind of hardware do you have? Is your backend / frontend the same machine (for the HD)? I have a P4 2GHz w/ 512 meg of memory and (I believe) an 845GVB motherboard. I *know* that my board does not support hyperthreading (I was being cheap at the time). I'm also using the Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440. I know that my motherboard only supports 4X AGP (not 8X). So I don't know if any of these are my problem With preliminary testing (when the firewire is working), I get sort of a continual stop and start when playing back HD content as if *something* can't keep up. It doesn't look to me like my CPU is being killed - I see it at around a load of 2-3 (which is a little higher than regular content), but didn't seem terrible. And watching hard drive activity (which is set to use DMA) also doesn't seem bad at all...so I'm not sure if it's a bus or an IRQ issue or what. I'll be happy to just get the firewire straightened out first and then look into this issue. Thanks! Brian ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Some Quick Questions about MythTV
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 15:18, Joshua Lewis wrote: I am seriously considering the MythTV as an alternative to having 5 satellite receivers and DVD players and computers and stuff in my house. I want desperately to consolidate my house. I questions is three fold. One is the MythTV documentation on PDF somewhere or available to download so I can read it on my way home on the train? Two: Can I even do what I am trying to do? The Windows XP Media Center allows you to hook up an X-Box or media extender to TV's so you can watch your Prerecorded information from a TV not directly hooked to the Media Center PC. That is what I want to do with MythTV. Although it looks like MythTV can record my DVD's to disk drive where I can't get a confirmed yes on that ability for Windows MCPC. Have read that many people utilize X-Box systems as frontend systems. These connect to the backend system to pull recordings. Not sure if there are any limitations on such an X-Box frontend. I've been looking at putting together a diskless frontend system using small form factor motherboard but have not spent enough time to pick out the right mother board yet. I would like to load all my families DVD's (If they are all loaded the way I want then I don't have to keep baying new DVD's when my kids scratch them. I got to get a new Harry Potter this weekend), MP3's and hook up like 5 TV tuners to the system so everyone can watch and record TV from there own room. Then I can watch Sci-Fi and Westwing until I am blue in the face in my bedroom while my wife watches Desperate House Wives and America's Next top Model downstairs (ok those two shows have enough hotties that I don't mind so much) but you get the picture. I got Barney in one room and GI Joe in another and so on and so fourth. You can do that, just build a big server with lots of disk drives and encoder cards and deploy diskless front ends to each TV. Have not played around much with the DVD options in mythtv. But it appears that it can be done. You will want to make sure the frontends you use support the right protocols so xine can be used on your TVs. I understand that allows you to get the full menus from the DVDs. Others should have better comments on this feature. Three: I plan to get a truly beefy system to do all of this. I am looking into a SARA raid array to prevent data loss and if possible dual core system (do they make duel CPU Dual Core motherboards) I want to avoid any kind of Encoding in the main processors. So do I need a certain TV Tuner to do everything in the tuner and such? Let's pretend money is no object (unfortunately it is so this will be an ongoing project) how would you design your system. I know a lot of these questions can be answered by the documentation but I only have time to read it offline and have not been able to find a way to print or view it offline. The big decision is going to be based around the signal input. If you just want/need the analog channels off most cable services (all I use) it is fairly easy. Get a big tower system with lots of drives and plenty of cooling, install several PVR-500's (two tuners per card), setup as many diskless front end systems as you need. The PVR-500's are not that expensive. I have found that watching live tv is not done much anymore. I setup recording rules to capture all the shows I am interested in. Then you can watch them when ever you want. If you are using PVR-500 tuners you won't require that much CPU. The CPU will mostly be needed for commercial flagging jobs. Check out Jarod's guide for building the system. It will help a lot. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] logfiles: where?
At 02:24 PM 10/25/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. I created a directory called /var/log/mythtv, and made sure that mythtv has write permissions to it, and restarted several times, but still there are no logs there. Sorry if this is a dumb question but: where are the mythtv logs supposed to be? They're wherever you put them in the startup command using the -l option. For example: /usr/local/bin/mythbackend -d -l /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log 2. live tv is not working ... I get a blank screen for a few seconds and it returns to the menu. This process seems to break the connection between the frontend and backend (i.e., If I try to do other things after attempting livetv, mythtv informs me that the backend is not running or is improperly configured ). Everything else works great. I've searched for other posts about this, but they seem to address much earlier versions of myth or are otherwise inapplicable (whole system crashes, for example). Try to do a brief (1 minute) recording. That seems to have fixed this annoyance for some people: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/126743 I think that this was something that cleared up for me after I started using the svn. -- Mickey Chandler Chief Operating Whizard Whizardries, Inc.: http://www.whizardries.com Our new site: http://www.my-debt-reduction-plan.com/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Some Quick Questions about MythTV
Hi Josh, On 10/25/05, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seriously considering the MythTV as an alternative to having 5 satellite receivers and DVD players and computers and stuff in my house. I want desperately to consolidate my house. I questions is three fold. One is the MythTV documentation on PDF somewhere or available to download so I can read it on my way home on the train? :) i don't really know if the MythTv docs are consolidated enough to print out and read in dead tree form. although i really haven't looked. i get most of my Myth info from this very resource here. and when i don't see an active thread regarding the topic i'm researching i turn to http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/ or http://www.mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/ Two: Can I even do what I am trying to do? The Windows XP Media Center allows you to hook up an X-Box or media extender to TV's so you can watch your Prerecorded information from a TV not directly hooked to the Media Center PC. That is what I want to do with MythTV. Although it looks like MythTV can record my DVD's to disk drive where I can't get a confirmed yes on that ability for Windows MCPC. you can do anything/everything with MythTv! ;) yes, from your description, you can do that with MythTv. I would like to load all my families DVD's (If they are all loaded the way I want then I don't have to keep baying new DVD's when my kids scratch them. I got to get a new Harry Potter this weekend), MP3's and hook up like 5 TV tuners to the system so everyone can watch and record TV from there own room. Then I can watch Sci-Fi and Westwing until I am blue in the face in my bedroom while my wife watches Desperate House Wives and America's Next top Model downstairs (ok those two shows have enough hotties that I don't mind so much) but you get the picture. I got Barney in one room and GI Joe in another and so on and so fourth. the trick is that aside from your 5 tuners you may still need 5 your 5 satellite tuners depending on the type of signal you get. if you're looking at SDTV (analog) you can get away with your feed and a splitter. if you're looking at digital then you will most likely need settop boxes. HDTV is another animal... so it depends on what type of signal you are trying to capture and how it's provided to you. Three: I plan to get a truly beefy system to do all of this. I am looking into a SARA raid array to prevent data loss and if possible dual core system (do they make duel CPU Dual Core motherboards) I want to avoid any kind of Encoding in the main processors. So do I need a certain TV Tuner to do everything in the tuner and such? Let's pretend money is no object (unfortunately it is so this will be an ongoing project) how would you design your system. I know a lot of these questions can be answered by the documentation but I only have time to read it offline and have not been able to find a way to print or view it offline. surprisingly you don't need a Cray to do what you want to do. if you're using the Hauppauge PVR cards or other capture cards that do the video encoding for you then you really don't need an uber-powerful backend system. even with HDTV. the cards will do most of the work, depending on the cards you get. if you want to transcode your recordings into another format you may want a higher power system. you will need a LOT of disk space. i started ripping my very meager dvd collection to watch via MythVideo and the 350GB i had just didn't cut it. :) even keeping up with SD broadcasts i find i'm running out of room with 300GB. but i don't watch Modern Marvels as often as it's played either. you can use an xbox as a front end but there are gotcha's that may come along with it. there is also the Hauppauge Media-MVP (http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_mediamvp.html) that some ppl are playing with and using for a light weight front end. so what you want is doable with Myth and not necessarily difficult. but you will need to research a bit. i think most of the responses you'll get are like mine, lot's of fluff and not a lot of detail. :) you'll definitely get more pointed responses with directed questions. shotgun questions get shotgun answers. ;) maybe mention what type of signal you'll be capturing and what you want to do with it. watch it and delete it? back up to dvd? transcode for later viewing on your video iPod? that's the first question that will need to be answered. then ppl can help you pick out your hardware. oh, and where do you live? US, Europe, Aus, etc. it's easier to get advice from someone in your locale. not that other ppl can't help, it's just easier to get accurate responses from ppl that have gone through the setup in your area. ok, i'm sure i've rambled on much too long about this. :) good luck! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] logfiles: where?
On 10/25/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: actually, I have 2 problems.1. I created a directory called /var/log/mythtv, and made sure that mythtv has write permissions to it, and restarted several times, but still there are no logs there.Sorry if this is a dumb question but: where are the mythtv logs supposed to be?2. live tv is not working ... I get a blank screen for a few seconds and it returns to the menu.This process seems to break the connection between the frontend and backend (i.e., If I try to do other things after attempting livetv, mythtv informs me that the backend is not running or is improperly configured ). Everything else works great.I've searched for other posts about this, but they seem to address much earlier versions of myth or are otherwise inapplicable (whole system crashes, for example).my system: $ 200 wal mart box with ubuntu hoary, mythtv 0.18.1 compiled from source, PVR-250 [although live tv showed the same exact symptoms with a PVR-150 installed]If I can solve # 1, I'll send more information and hopefully solve problem # 2!thanks,Marymstrimel(at)comcast(dot)net___ mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users As for your logging question, be sure to pass -l /var/log/mythtv/logfilename to the frontend and backend. For example: mythfrontend -l /var/log/mythtv/mythtvfrontend.log mythbackend -l /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Re: Transcode to DVD-compatible MPEG-2 without quality loss?
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 13:47, Mike Frisch wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 11:03:55PM -0400, Steve Adeff wrote: I need to see if mencoder requires the ProjectX step or not (I think the mplayer demuxer is able to handle the file without the need though), but i think I might be passing all my recordings through mencoder for processing (ivtc, crop, resize), save as a huffyuv and then open in avidemux2 for commercial cutting and final encode. How do you tell mencoder to simply remux the file instead of transcoding it? -oac copy -ovc copy -f mpeg (or maybe its mpg?) should work Which is kinda nice, cause I think one can then setup MythTV to automatically run the mencoder part right after recording(or during? i haven't looked into this part of MythTV yet), with custom settings for the show in question for the shows I want to backup, then take the huffYUV file and edit in avidemux2. Sounds good! I haven't tried doing this conversion using ProjectX from within MythTV, but that would be very useful. java -jar ProjectX.jar -out outdir srcfile.nuv works great from the console without the need for user interaction. I'm hoping mencoder doesn't require the ProjectX step, and from what I can see, it doesn't. Of course, the file I just tried it on will now not open in avidemux for some reason, even though the last couple I ran this through worked. Go figure. I'm hoping mean (the avidemux2 guy) can figure out the ish as being able to run: mencoder inputfile.mpg $1 -oac copy -ovc lavc -of avi -noodml -vf pullup,softskip,crop=1272:712:0:0,scale=960:528 -ofps 24000/1001 -lavcopts vcodec=huffyuv:format=422p:aspect=1.78 -o outputfile.avi while a recording is going will set me up for loading it in avidemux for commercial cutting and a final encode with XviD and should cut my processing time down by about an hour. For those that don't care about cutting commercials, if you use -ovc xvid and use the xvid options or lavc's mpeg4 (the defaults are great for both, just give it a final output size) you can fit an HDTV show into 700megs that is from what I can tell at worse 95% of the original file. In the meantime, I've written a quick little perl script that dumps the program description, filename, and date so I can see what file is what show. you mind sending out that perl script? I'd find it very useful! thanks, Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Silverstone LC16m
On 10/25/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 25 October 2005 14:53, Dan Brow wrote: I was concerned about that too and as a result have been looking more at the LC-10m. If you find out the buttons work please let me know that would make an amazing case Will do, I'm looking at a 2 week wait for the case though. But I will post. Dan. I am getting this case as well and have been told by Silverstone tech support that the front panel buttons work in conjunction with the IRman remote control interface, so yes, they work, they output commands that LIRC picks up and then you assign them. I'm hoping this is true! i figured that case was going to be one of those $1000+ cases. it's very sharp and extremely cool if all the buttons will actually interface with LIRC. nice to see it's less than $300 http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=Silverstone+LC16hl=enhs=K9Tlr=client=firefox-arls=org.mozilla:en-US:officialsa=Ntab=ffoi=froogler ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] program guide font size
I have had great results, maybe it is not for everyone. I am not having they issues you talk about with the font I have chosen and the DPI am using. You are right for how the screen is going to laid out. I am right for what it looks like across the room. You are further right that myth will have trouble keeping HUGE fonts in small rectangles...if you don't pick good font. I choose tall narrow fonts and life is good. I can see it, and text doesn't spill everywhere. Just trying give other people multiple ways to do things...one will work best for them. Todd - Original Message - From: Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] program guide font size Todd wrote: Although the FAQ is technically correct; think of the use-case. Monitor Size for X is generally with your face 2 feet from the screen. What is the Monitor Size when you are 30 feet away (to your eye)? Here is what the Monitor section of my XFree86-4 looks like: ~~ # Little Text # DisplaySize 400 300 # DisplaySize 360 270 # DisplaySize 320 240 # DisplaySize 280 210 # DisplaySize 240 180 DisplaySize 200 150 # DisplaySize 160 120 # DisplaySize 120 90 # DisplaySize 80 60 # DisplaySize 40 30 # HUGE Text I just uncomment out different lines until it is just right. Each TV in my house used a different line to be just right. It is a balancing act, I would be amazed at any system that work at 40x30!...be somewhere between both ends will be just right for you. Note that when you do this, it is completely impossible for your text/graphics to line up properly when using a theme that was created correctly. Normally, a program calculates the appropriate position of graphic elements (in pixels = dots) relative to fonts (specified in points = 1/72 inch) based on the DPI (Dots Per Inch) specified by the windowing system. However, this requires run-time calculations. Myth's theming engine allows the creation of themes that combine text and graphical elements, but since the themes are simple XML (text) files, there is no ability to do calculations. Therefore, all themes are supposed to be created to use a fixed DPI--100 DPI--so that graphics and fonts line up appropriately on any /properly-configured/ Myth system. Now you know why the technically correct FAQ is completely correct--it's correct by specification--and using DisplaySize (which is used by X to calculate DPI) to adjust font sizes is incorrect. And, now you know why the little arrows in your playback box, etc. are in the wrong places... If you were to adjust your DisplaySize and then adjust all your themes for the resulting DPI, it would be just as correct as using 100DPI with the provided themes. However, that approach takes much more time and is likely to result in much bigger font problems when re-displaying Myth screens (i.e. mythtv-setup) on other systems on your network (which may not be using 100DPI, but are likely to be close enough to 100DPI that it will still be readable--especially on a monitor 2 feet in front of your eyes). So, please don't tell people to simply adjust their DisplaySize to fix font size problems. The /only/ correct way to adjust font size is to edit the font names and font sizes in the theme. (Editing font names is required when the specified font is not installed on your system. If Myth requests a non-existant font, X font substitution will select another font as a replacement and often the font metrics are very different from the requested font, so to take the unknown element out of the system, you must ensure the theme requests an installed font.) Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire source and channel changer
On Oct 25, 2005, at 1:40 PM, Brian C. Huffman wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 13:05 -0600, Curtis Stanford wrote: The options you mentioned brought me from about 50% reliability to more like 95%. Although 6200ch never gives me a problem (I had to add my DCT2000 model to 6200ch to get it to work), the firewire video itself is sometimes a little flakey. Hmmm...DCT2000? I thought that was one of the older boxes that didn't support firewire out? Or do I have something confused? Either way, how did you determine the model # - I'm assuming it's a hexidecimal #. And then was it simply adding it into the defines at the top of the 6200ch.c file? I wish I had the code in front of me so that I could ask the question more intelligently. Sorry! I meant DCT6200. The plugreport command shows a thing called GUID, which in my case was 0x0014e8fffe1d4773. The first 6 hex digits seem to be the ID needed for 6200ch (in my case 0014e8). I've found using the first two plugctl options above works best for me with myth set to broadcast and node 1. Sometimes, recordings are short as I've mentioned in previous messages and sometimes the video/ audio goes choppy after changing channels. Also, LiveTV seems to screw things up occasionally so that I have to restart the backend. Do you put these in an init script somewhere? Or create an init script that runs before mythbackened? I've also seen someone mention actually hardcoding these into a function (presumably in mythtv). I just made a script that for now I just run by hand after a reboot or other screw up. It's not quite bad enough that I want to go back to my PVR-250 but it's close. If it weren't for HD, I would go back to my PVR-250 in a minute. Curtis Sort of off topic, but what kind of hardware do you have? Is your backend / frontend the same machine (for the HD)? I have a P4 2GHz w/ 512 meg of memory and (I believe) an 845GVB motherboard. I *know* that my board does not support hyperthreading (I was being cheap at the time). I'm also using the Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440. I know that my motherboard only supports 4X AGP (not 8X). So I don't know if any of these are my problem With preliminary testing (when the firewire is working), I get sort of a continual stop and start when playing back HD content as if *something* can't keep up. It doesn't look to me like my CPU is being killed - I see it at around a load of 2-3 (which is a little higher than regular content), but didn't seem terrible. And watching hard drive activity (which is set to use DMA) also doesn't seem bad at all...so I'm not sure if it's a bus or an IRQ issue or what. I'll be happy to just get the firewire straightened out first and then look into this issue. Thanks! Brian My backend is separate from the frontend. My backend is an Athlon 2300 with some cheap ECS motherboard. I bought a $20 firewire card to connect to the DCT-6200. I use two 80GB drives with software RAID striping to get better disk performance. Not sure if I need that or not. I haven't build a frontend for HD yet so I'm testing with my old Shuttle which contains a 2.4GHz P4 with hyperthreading and a Nvidia FX5200 card using DVI output. If you're using the same machine for front and back, you may have a problem watching HD LiveTV as it is recording and playing back at the same time. My front end CPU usage is only 20-25% when watching HD because the XvMC on the FX5200 is helping out a lot. There's not much load on the backend as it's just copying stuff from firewire to the hard drive. By the way, load is not a good way to measure CPU usage. It's just showing the average number of jobs in the queue. Try 'top' or 'vmstat'. I usually just type 'vmstat 2' and it spits out a line every two seconds showing the CPU busy/idle stats on the right side. Curtis ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Seattle Comcast firewire not working as of today -- 5C?
I talked to on CSR at Comcast, who said yes they do support Firewire, and it should be working. After I explained the problem she said we wouldn't turn on Copy Protection, so it must be a Motorola problem. She told me to call Motorola... So, I jumped through the hoop and called Motorola just so I could say I've been down that road if asked again. Of course Mot CSR says they don't do anything with the copy protection, and its a Comcast problem. I tell him I know, but I need more info to give Comcast because the CSRs don't know what system I'm talking about. He couldn't give me any more data, only that (in his opinion) it is a firmware option that Comcast controls. So I call Comcast back and eventually get transfered to a CSR guy who at first told me that firewire was not supposed to work, but after I insisted, he looked it up on their knowledge base and confirmed that it IS supposed to work on the 6200. Nice that they actually have that fact documented somewhere. Still, the CSR group doesn't have any contacts in engineering, and as far as he knew, no way to escalate to the guys who run the headend. He opened a ticket for me with Engineering and Construction group, so I don't know what that is, but it sounds like guys who dig ditches and run cable, not control software. Still, he was very helpful which was nice. I'll see what comes from this open ticket. I may have a trench digging truck show up in my yard as a result. The City of Seattle has a Cable Consumers hotline that says they will help follow through on issues for consumers. I will call them and give this much info and see if they can help get the data to the right person. I knew this day was coming, so I may have to accept the fact that I'll get no more movies in HD. As far as I can tell though, the 5C implementation is only supposed to cover very narrow content types like PPV, and certainly not block the local HD channels. At very least, I am going to push for a published list of channels and content types that Comcast agrees are supposed to be available on firewire without content protection turned on. If there is a documented list, at least we have some way of knowing if they are being compliant with the FCC rules. Does anyone else in Seattle have personal experience to share? Jarod, aren't you using firewire on one of your boxes? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Re: Transcode to DVD-compatible MPEG-2 without quality loss?
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 15:46, Steve Adeff wrote: On Tuesday 25 October 2005 13:47, Mike Frisch wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 11:03:55PM -0400, Steve Adeff wrote: I need to see if mencoder requires the ProjectX step or not (I think the mplayer demuxer is able to handle the file without the need though), but i think I might be passing all my recordings through mencoder for processing (ivtc, crop, resize), save as a huffyuv and then open in avidemux2 for commercial cutting and final encode. How do you tell mencoder to simply remux the file instead of transcoding it? -oac copy -ovc copy -f mpeg (or maybe its mpg?) should work Which is kinda nice, cause I think one can then setup MythTV to automatically run the mencoder part right after recording(or during? i haven't looked into this part of MythTV yet), with custom settings for the show in question for the shows I want to backup, then take the huffYUV file and edit in avidemux2. Sounds good! I haven't tried doing this conversion using ProjectX from within MythTV, but that would be very useful. java -jar ProjectX.jar -out outdir srcfile.nuv works great from the console without the need for user interaction. I'm hoping mencoder doesn't require the ProjectX step, and from what I can see, it doesn't. Of course, the file I just tried it on will now not open in avidemux for some reason, even though the last couple I ran this through worked. Go figure. I'm hoping mean (the avidemux2 guy) can figure out the ish as being able to run: mencoder inputfile.mpg $1 -oac copy -ovc lavc -of avi -noodml -vf pullup,softskip,crop=1272:712:0:0,scale=960:528 -ofps 24000/1001 -lavcopts vcodec=huffyuv:format=422p:aspect=1.78 -o outputfile.avi while a recording is going will set me up for loading it in avidemux for commercial cutting and a final encode with XviD and should cut my processing time down by about an hour. For those that don't care about cutting commercials, if you use -ovc xvid and use the xvid options or lavc's mpeg4 (the defaults are great for both, just give it a final output size) you can fit an HDTV show into 700megs that is from what I can tell at worse 95% of the original file. In the meantime, I've written a quick little perl script that dumps the program description, filename, and date so I can see what file is what show. you mind sending out that perl script? I'd find it very useful! thanks, Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users addendum: mencoder inputfile.mpg $1 -oac copy -ovc lavc -of avi -noodml -vf pullup,softskip,scale=960:544 -ofps 24000/1001 -lavcopts vcodec=huffyuv:format=422p:aspect=1.78 -o outputfile.avi (ie, remove the crop and leave the scale. the other line was my attempt to remove the unneeded lines, but it turns out, its not a big deal, and to just leave them in makes no difference, this is also slightly faster. Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] program guide font size
Peter Darley wrote: Indeed, it has the component input that I'm using. Oh. I saw TV out and was thinking NTSC/PAL and thought the limitation was on your card's defined sizes for modes it would scale to NTSC/PAL. Since you're using component output, using a size much larger than 720x480/576 makes sense. But, I was hoping there was a VGA or DVI connection available on the TV so you could totally circumvent the TV out circuitry. It's a DigiMatrix box, and someone said that it should be able to do 1920x1080 (1080i), but I have not been able to get this to work, and the refrence for Mr. Winischhoffer's SiS driver at: http:// www.winischhofer.at/linuxsispart1.shtml#24 seems to say that tv-out only goes up to 1280x1024. I would love to hear that I'm wrong about this however, and any pointers toward getting a higher resolution tv out would be grand! :) It does have 1280x720, so I guess I'll try that. Definitely a better choice than 1280x1024. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Seattle Comcast firewire not working as of today -- 5C?
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 16:05, Andy Alsup wrote: I talked to on CSR at Comcast, who said yes they do support Firewire, and it should be working. After I explained the problem she said we wouldn't turn on Copy Protection, so it must be a Motorola problem. She told me to call Motorola... So, I jumped through the hoop and called Motorola just so I could say I've been down that road if asked again. Of course Mot CSR says they don't do anything with the copy protection, and its a Comcast problem. I tell him I know, but I need more info to give Comcast because the CSRs don't know what system I'm talking about. He couldn't give me any more data, only that (in his opinion) it is a firmware option that Comcast controls. So I call Comcast back and eventually get transfered to a CSR guy who at first told me that firewire was not supposed to work, but after I insisted, he looked it up on their knowledge base and confirmed that it IS supposed to work on the 6200. Nice that they actually have that fact documented somewhere. Still, the CSR group doesn't have any contacts in engineering, and as far as he knew, no way to escalate to the guys who run the headend. He opened a ticket for me with Engineering and Construction group, so I don't know what that is, but it sounds like guys who dig ditches and run cable, not control software. Still, he was very helpful which was nice. I'll see what comes from this open ticket. I may have a trench digging truck show up in my yard as a result. The City of Seattle has a Cable Consumers hotline that says they will help follow through on issues for consumers. I will call them and give this much info and see if they can help get the data to the right person. I knew this day was coming, so I may have to accept the fact that I'll get no more movies in HD. As far as I can tell though, the 5C implementation is only supposed to cover very narrow content types like PPV, and certainly not block the local HD channels. At very least, I am going to push for a published list of channels and content types that Comcast agrees are supposed to be available on firewire without content protection turned on. If there is a documented list, at least we have some way of knowing if they are being compliant with the FCC rules. Does anyone else in Seattle have personal experience to share? Jarod, aren't you using firewire on one of your boxes? So your getting 5C'd out of your local stations? I can understand why my local Comcast 5C's the digital channels and pay-for channels( I hate it, but what can i do?), but the FCC could slap them around for 5C'ing OTA stations. Maybe call and ask to speak to one of their operations managers or engineers? Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] knoppmyth PVR-150 MCE usb transmitter HOWTO
Has anyone been able to get this to work with a DishNetwork HD receiver and change the channel? I am looking for a HOWTO, or a script to use the USB port IR transmitter. Thanks -- Sergio The mce USB setup in lirc does NOT support the IR blaster connectors on the back of the receiver box. I'm using a second copy of lircd with the serial interface for the irsend and it works great... Just remember to specify another lock file name and device name for the second instance (see lirc docs for details). -- Robin Gilks ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Some Quick Questions about MythTV
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 15:42, Scot L. Harris wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 15:18, Joshua Lewis wrote: I am seriously considering the MythTV as an alternative to having 5 satellite receivers and DVD players and computers and stuff in my house. I want desperately to consolidate my house. I questions is three fold. One is the MythTV documentation on PDF somewhere or available to download so I can read it on my way home on the train? Two: Can I even do what I am trying to do? The Windows XP Media Center allows you to hook up an X-Box or media extender to TV's so you can watch your Prerecorded information from a TV not directly hooked to the Media Center PC. That is what I want to do with MythTV. Although it looks like MythTV can record my DVD's to disk drive where I can't get a confirmed yes on that ability for Windows MCPC. Have read that many people utilize X-Box systems as frontend systems. These connect to the backend system to pull recordings. Not sure if there are any limitations on such an X-Box frontend. I've been looking at putting together a diskless frontend system using small form factor motherboard but have not spent enough time to pick out the right mother board yet. the Xbox can not handle raw HD MPEG-TS streams. But for standard definition TV I've found it to be perfect. It is also able to handle what are termed hr.hdtv XviD encodes. Which is a 1/2 res full AC3 audio encode of HDTV shows. They're popular in the scene and a great way to archive HDTV shows in a small file size with near equal quality. as for other options, there is a device called Roku, which can handle HDTV MPEG2 streams and standard def. TV. The MythTV build for it is still in inafancy though, but it promises to be a great, cheap frontend ($300). I would like to load all my families DVD's (If they are all loaded the way I want then I don't have to keep baying new DVD's when my kids scratch them. I got to get a new Harry Potter this weekend), MP3's and hook up like 5 TV tuners to the system so everyone can watch and record TV from there own room. Then I can watch Sci-Fi and Westwing until I am blue in the face in my bedroom while my wife watches Desperate House Wives and America's Next top Model downstairs (ok those two shows have enough hotties that I don't mind so much) but you get the picture. I got Barney in one room and GI Joe in another and so on and so fourth. You can do that, just build a big server with lots of disk drives and encoder cards and deploy diskless front ends to each TV. Have not played around much with the DVD options in mythtv. But it appears that it can be done. You will want to make sure the frontends you use support the right protocols so xine can be used on your TVs. I understand that allows you to get the full menus from the DVDs. Others should have better comments on this feature. Three: I plan to get a truly beefy system to do all of this. I am looking into a SARA raid array to prevent data loss and if possible dual core system (do they make duel CPU Dual Core motherboards) I want to avoid any kind of Encoding in the main processors. So do I need a certain TV Tuner to do everything in the tuner and such? Let's pretend money is no object (unfortunately it is so this will be an ongoing project) how would you design your system. I know a lot of these questions can be answered by the documentation but I only have time to read it offline and have not been able to find a way to print or view it offline. The big decision is going to be based around the signal input. If you just want/need the analog channels off most cable services (all I use) it is fairly easy. Get a big tower system with lots of drives and plenty of cooling, install several PVR-500's (two tuners per card), setup as many diskless front end systems as you need. The PVR-500's are not that expensive. I'm also going to add that there are some recent posts concerning LVM's and RAID that you'll want to search gossamer for. You look to be building a rather large file server into your backend, and at this point these are your best bets. I'm trying to see if the dev's will entertain the idea of having more than one recordings directory that would allow for all this to be much easier. I have found that watching live tv is not done much anymore. I setup recording rules to capture all the shows I am interested in. Then you can watch them when ever you want. If you are using PVR-500 tuners you won't require that much CPU. The CPU will mostly be needed for commercial flagging jobs. Check out Jarod's guide for building the system. It will help a lot. as well, HDTV capture and using the PVR are not cpu intensive at all, where the cpu for the backend stuff comes in is in commercial flagging, transcoding (re-encoding from the original recorded mpeg to other formats), and in your case, probably DVD-ripping. Ask around
Re: [mythtv-users] Seattle Comcast firewire not working as of today -- 5C?
Correct, none of the digital channels work, including the locals. The locals is an obvious problem, but I think even some or most of the digital chanels should be open too. I think what we really need is full disclosure of what will be protected, and what won't. My best leverage may be that I can say, well, it worked up until now. If it had never worked, I would have a hard time getting past the first layer I think. As I read the FCC rules, it doesn't seem to say anything about 5C being required, only that content protection is supposed to be limited to certain content types: The LEGAL document containing these rules is Code of Federal Regulations Title 47, Chapter I, Subchapter C, Part 76, specifically §76.1904, paragraph (b)(1): (1) Commercial audiovisual content shall not be encoded so as to prevent or limit copying thereof except as follows: (i) To prevent or limit copying of video-on-demand or pay-per-view transmissions, subject to the requirements of paragraph (b)(2) of this section; and (ii) To prevent or limit copying, other than first generation of copies, of pay television transmissions, non-premium subscription television, and free conditional access delivery transmissions; and (2) With respect to any commercial audiovisual content delivered or transmitted in form of a video-on-demand or pay-per-view transmission, a covered entity shall not encode such content so as to prevent a covered product, without further authorization, from pausing such content up to 90 minutes from initial transmission by the covered entity (e.g., frame-by-frame, minute-by-minute, megabyte by megabyte). So, I'm no lawyer, but I think this means that requiring 5C compliant devices in order to record content that isn't protected is not allowed. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Some Quick Questions about MythTV
Joshua Lewis wrote: Two: Can I even do what I am trying to do? The Windows XP Media Center allows you to hook up an X-Box or media extender to TV's so you can watch your Prerecorded information from a TV not directly hooked to the Media Center PC. That is what I want to do with MythTV. You will need a MythTV frontend at every TV. One frontend per display, so for 5 TV's, you'll need 5 frontends. Options include computers In MCE terms, Microsoft Windows Media Center PC is like a combined MythTV frontend/backend. Media Center Extender is a MythTV frontend. TTBOMK, you cannot have multiple Media Center backends, but MythTV allows you to use as many backends and as many frontends as desired and backends do not need to also be frontends. So, whereas a Media Center PC has to be pretty beefy (for playback), a MythTV backend--that's not serving as a frontend--typically can be a very low-end computer. Although it looks like MythTV can record my DVD's to disk drive where I can't get a confirmed yes on that ability for Windows MCPC. Definitely can with MythTV. Biggest problem is storage space. DVD's--especially if you do full menus, etc.--take up a lot of space. I would like to load all my families DVD's (If they are all loaded the way I want then I don't have to keep baying new DVD's when my kids scratch them. I got to get a new Harry Potter this weekend), MP3's and hook up like 5 TV tuners to the system so everyone can watch and record TV from there own room. Then I can watch Sci-Fi and Westwing until I am blue in the face in my bedroom while my wife watches Desperate House Wives and America's Next top Model downstairs (ok those two shows have enough hotties that I don't mind so much) but you get the picture. I got Barney in one room and GI Joe in another and so on and so fourth. If you stick with satellite (and are using DISH or DirecTV), you'll need to keep the 5 satellite receivers (because they encrypt the signals so only their equipment can decrypt it). If not (i.e. if you're using FTA), search the lists for more info. And, remember, you'll need a MythTV frontend for each TV... Three: I plan to get a truly beefy system to do all of this. I am looking into a SARA raid array to prevent data loss and if possible dual core system (do they make duel CPU Dual Core motherboards) I want to avoid any kind of Encoding in the main processors. So do I need a certain TV Tuner to do everything in the tuner and such? Let's pretend money is no object (unfortunately it is so this will be an ongoing project) how would you design your system. Go with Hauppauge PVR-150's (preferred) or PVR-250's (more expensive, older, take more power, and lower quality--bigger number doesn't mean better) for analog TV. If you're doing HDTV, you can get HD-x000's or Air2PC. See http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1 for more info. Also, note that bigger is not necessarily better. Since you're going to have to have 5 frontends for 5 TV's, and since frontends need more power than backends (when using the PVR-x50's/HDTV capture cards), you could parallelize the system by making some of those additional frontends into combined frontends/backends. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Silverstone LC16m
I am getting this case as well and have been told by Silverstone tech support that the front panel buttons work in conjunction with the IRman remote control interface, so yes, they work, they output commands that LIRC picks up and then you assign them. The hot key function buttons are USB, hopefully the tech guy you spoke with didn't just take a hit from his crack pipe :) He might have been thinking about the function nob which is part of the imon stuff. http://www.silverstonetek.com/downloao/installation% 20guide/lc16mmanual.jpg I'm hoping this is true! i figured that case was going to be one of those $1000+ cases. it's very sharp and extremely cool if all the buttons will actually interface with LIRC. a $1000 case better be gold plated, or interface with your brain. nice to see it's less than $300 http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=Silverstone+LC16hl=enhs=K9Tlr=client=firefox-arls=org.mozilla:en-US:officialsa=Ntab=ffoi=froogler It's about $350 CDN. I just need to debate on silver or black. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
