Re: [mythtv-users] knoppmyth PVR-150 MCE usb transmitter HOWTO
Sergio P. Cesar wrote: 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 http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6206 Regards, Cecil ___ 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
Sergio P. Cesar wrote: 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 http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6206 Regards, Cecil He said USB on the mce version, not the standard pvr-150 which uses the i2c drivers in ivtv with the connector on the card itself. -- 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 25/10/05, Scot L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 16:25, Steve Adeff wrote: 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. 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). Been sorting through the options available using one of the EPIA boards. Trying to find one that has s-video output and mpeg2 decoding that can handle shows recorded using PVR cards. 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. My main backend system had four 300GB drives with one LVM group setup as a 1TB file system which I use for recordings. At this point I did not bother with raid. If a drive fails I lose the recordings. Yes, and I've always assumed the whole group would be lost, or is there a way to recover files from the disks that haven't failed? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] EPG in Australia?
I wouldn't mind checking out that config file. I use the ninemsn grabber
(sydney) at the moment, but wouldn't mind trying the OzTivo guide.
Here you go. Note that this is a .py file called, in my case,
tv_grab_au_tuhs.py. Also, you will need to register on
www.tvguide.org.au to get a username and password. It's free.
# This is a configure script for the tv_grab_au_tuhs XMLTV grabber.
# see: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/xmltv/tv_grab_au_tuhs.html
global channels, authinfo
# Modify the following to list the channels you wish to grab. The 'Display'
# entry is the human readable display name (currently ignored by mythTV 0.18
# when using DVB). The 'tuhs' entry is the channel name on the tvguide.org.au
# web site. XMLTV ids can also be re-written by adding a 'local' entry:
channels = ({'Display': 'ABC Digital', 'tuhs': 'ABC-NSW', 'local':
'nsw.abc.gov.au'}, \
{'Display': 'ABC 2', 'tuhs': 'ABC2', 'local':
'abc2.abc.gov.au'}, \
{'Display': 'Nine Digital', 'tuhs': 'Nine-Syd',
'local': 'sydney.nine.com.au'}, \
{'Display': 'SBS Digital', 'tuhs': 'SBS-NSW', 'local':
'sydney.sbs.com.au'}, \
{'Display': 'Seven Digital', 'tuhs': 'Seven-Syd',
'local': 'sydney.seven.com.au'}, \
{'Display': 'Ten Digital', 'tuhs': 'Ten-NSW', 'local':
'sydney.ten.com.au'})
# Note: Here is an example of a re-written XMLTV ID:
# {'Display': 'ABC Digital', 'tuhs': 'ABC-NSW',
'local': 'ABC-NSW.tvguide.org.au'}
authinfo.add_password(realm, 'minnie.tuhs.org', 'YourLogonName', 'YourPassword')
Regards,
Phill
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[mythtv-users] Upgraded Mandriva to 2006 - problems with mysql and myth
The upgrade from 2005LE to 2006 was fairly smooth, and nearly everything works - except mythtv The problem seems to be something to do with mysql permissions and/or host names. The back end dies as follows... 2005-10-26 17:59:40.637 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-10-26 17:59:41.079 mythbackend: MythBackend started as master server 2005-10-26 17:59:41.334 DVB#0 DVB SI Table Parser Started 2005-10-26 17:59:41.822 DVB#0 Using DVB card 0, with frontend DST DVB-T. 2005-10-26 17:59:41.953 New DB connection, total: 3 2005-10-26 17:59:43.574 DVB#0 DVB signal 6200 | snr 5000 | ber 811e058 | unc b7811134 2005-10-26 17:59:43.578 DVB#0 Status: LOCK. 2005-10-26 17:59:43.579 DVB#0 Multiplex Locked 2005-10-26 17:59:44.331 DVB#0 Successfully tuned to channel 1601. 2005-10-26 17:59:44.604 New DB scheduler connection 2005-10-26 17:59:45.557 mythbackend version: 0.18.20050523-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-10-26 17:59:45.850 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2005-10-26 17:59:45.999 AutoExpire: Found 1 recorders w/max rate of 138 MiB/min 2005-10-26 17:59:46.040 AutoExpire: space: 2.0 GB w/freq: 10 min 2005-10-26 17:59:47.561 Reschedule requested for id -1. 2005-10-26 17:59:47.706 Scheduled 15 items in 0.1 = 0.07 match + 0.07 place 2005-10-26 17:59:47.712 scheduler: Scheduled items 2005-10-26 17:59:47.719 Seem to be woken up by USER 2005-10-26 17:59:55.560 mythbackend: Running housekeeping thread 2005-10-26 18:07:01.336 New DB connection, total: 1 No setting found for this machine's BackendServerIP. Please run setup on this machine and modify the first page of the general settings. and mythtv-setup saysthis many times at the prompt... 2005-10-26 18:30:41.910 Unable to connect to database! 2005-10-26 18:30:41.910 Driver error was [1/1045]: QMYSQL3: Unable to connect Database error was: Access denied for user 'mythtv'@'localhost' (using password: YES) Mysql is running, and I can see all the data in the mythconverg database from Webmin. I have tried resetting the password for the user mythtv (it's supposed to be mythtv isn't it?) Any ideas? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Upgraded Mandriva to 2006 - problems with mysql and myth
On 26/10/05, ffrr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The upgrade from 2005LE to 2006 was fairly smooth, and nearly everything works - except mythtv The problem seems to be something to do with mysql permissions and/or host names. The back end dies as follows... 2005-10-26 17:59:40.637 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-10-26 17:59:41.079 mythbackend: MythBackend started as master server 2005-10-26 17:59:41.334 DVB#0 DVB SI Table Parser Started 2005-10-26 17:59:41.822 DVB#0 Using DVB card 0, with frontend DST DVB-T. 2005-10-26 17:59:41.953 New DB connection, total: 3 2005-10-26 17:59:43.574 DVB#0 DVB signal 6200 | snr 5000 | ber 811e058 | unc b7811134 2005-10-26 17:59:43.578 DVB#0 Status: LOCK. 2005-10-26 17:59:43.579 DVB#0 Multiplex Locked 2005-10-26 17:59:44.331 DVB#0 Successfully tuned to channel 1601. 2005-10-26 17:59:44.604 New DB scheduler connection 2005-10-26 17:59:45.557 mythbackend version: 0.18.20050523-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-10-26 17:59:45.850 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2005-10-26 17:59:45.999 AutoExpire: Found 1 recorders w/max rate of 138 MiB/min 2005-10-26 17:59:46.040 AutoExpire: space: 2.0 GB w/freq: 10 min 2005-10-26 17:59:47.561 Reschedule requested for id -1. 2005-10-26 17:59:47.706 Scheduled 15 items in 0.1 = 0.07 match + 0.07 place 2005-10-26 17:59:47.712 scheduler: Scheduled items 2005-10-26 17:59:47.719 Seem to be woken up by USER 2005-10-26 17:59:55.560 mythbackend: Running housekeeping thread 2005-10-26 18:07:01.336 New DB connection, total: 1 No setting found for this machine's BackendServerIP. Please run setup on this machine and modify the first page of the general settings. Well the problem appears to be here. Have you set an IP address on the backend? Database connection looks OK to me, unless you're connecting to the wrong database? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Upgraded Mandriva to 2006 - problems with mysql and myth
David Watkins wrote: Well the problem appears to be here. Have you set an IP address on the backend? Database connection looks OK to me, unless you're connecting to the wrong database? Thanks for the help. It's fixed now, and here's what I think happened - 1. After the upgrade, the ethernet connection didn't work. 2. I set up a new connection, BUT I accidentally set up the firewire network connection (and I used the old address that my machine used to have) 3. When I discovered my mistake, I setup the ethernet card, but because the old address was in use, I used the next available address. 4. Mythbackend didn't like this. 5. I used Webmin to see if mysql was running (it was) 6. I reset the mythtv user password in mysql, to mythtv, or so I thought, but must have got it wrong. 7. So, I reset the machine's ip to the original address (and told firewire it would have to depend on dhcp :-)) 7. I tried to log into mysql at a console prompt as mythtv, and got the access denied error 8. Then I logged into mysql as root, and did a 'GRANT ALL ON mythconverg.* TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] IDENTIFIED BY *mythtv*; ' 9. Now it all works!!! So, don't know if the ip change somehow upset the backend (even though I had it configured to localhost or 127.0.0.1), but the rest was my fault. I have related it all here in case it helps somebody else sometime during an upgrade :-) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Installing projectX from source?
On 10/25/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 20:36, Robin Gilks wrote:
Greetings
I'm having a go at mythburn but having problems installing projectx
as
I
use Gentoo so have no nicely packaged system.
Looks like projectx was removed from portage about 3 months ago so I
wonder is anyone has an ebuild for the latest or a wrapper that will
get
rid of the 'can't find common-net library' errors.
Cheers
projectX is java so download the java sdk and run the command they tell
you to
run and it will compile.
Steve
Java is platform independant - it doesn't need to be compiled.
Just install the Java runtime: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/java.xml
then download the projectx.jar file and run java -jar projectx.jar
Dave
But projectx doesn't come as a jar file - it comes as a bunch of .java
files that are compiled by the sdk into a jar file - that step works fine.
What I can't get right is where do I put the library files it depends on
that are created during the 'compile' step. Does java have a seperate
search path that it uses to hunt out missing bits?
Sounds to me like everyone who has suceeded with this is running an rpm
distro :-((
Getting there... now I get the error:
Exception in thread main java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
net/sourceforge/dvb/projectx/common/X
Googling shows lots of people with the same error but so far I've not
found a solution. Again it comes down to the installation I think in that
the files are found when the jar is compiled but then NOT found at run
time ;-((
Note that this error occurs with just a simple {equivalant of} projectx
--help!!
--
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[mythtv-users] Re: MythWeb recorded programs preview thumbnails corrupt
On 10/21/05, Sammo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nobody experiencing the same problem? I noticed that a similar problem occurs when I pause a recording and seek backwards/forwards. The paused image looks something like the example I posted before (with lots of blocky artifacts). When I unpause / resume playback, the image becomes fine again. On 9/13/05, Sammo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The png preview thumbnails that are displayed in the mythweb/recorded_programs.php page all look currupt. The video files are recorded from DVB-T TS in Sydney, Australia. I've attached one image as an example. Just upgraded to SVN 7589 .. seems to fix the problem. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Anyway of making the fonts smaller
Tried changing them in settings but made no difference :-(. Also I guess once I have made them smaller I will then want to increase the number of characters for the prog descriptions. Is there a way of doing this? Maybe I need to use a different theme? Regards, Ben-- Ben Edwards - Bristol, UK, EnglandWARNING:This email contained partisan views - dont ever accuse me of using the veneer of objectivityIf you have a problem emailing me use http://www.gurtlush.org.uk/profiles.php?uid=4(email address this email is sent from may be defunct) ___ 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 Wednesday 26 October 2005 06:26, David Bennett wrote: This may seem like a terribly lazy question but this: I usually run with a custom kernel that matches my hardware exactly. When moving to another box, I first copy on a recent knoppix kernel and modules and make that my default kernel. Once on the new box I can see what hardware it found (using dmesg and lspci) and cook a new custom kernel. IS EXACTLY what I would like to do. Problem is I have no idea how to copy on a new kernel and have that load as the default kernel. At that point I wouldn't know what to be looking for in dmesg and lspci to make a new kernel, and once I did find out what I needed I wouldn't know how to get it and make a new kernel. I don't suppose anyone knows of a step-by-step manual on how to do exactly this? ... anyone? You need to copy the kernel itself and the modules. The kernel can be found in /boot and normally starts with vmlinuz. The modules can be found in directory /lib/modules/kernel name. kernel name is the output you get if you run uname -r . And this can probably also found in the name of the kernel. To be able to boot the kernel, you have to update the bootloader (lilo or grub). If you use debian, you can use update-grub to update the grub config file (it scans /boot for kernels). It's possible you can run it on other distributions too. I don't know. What I do, I always leave the kernel in place that is installed by the distribution and add my own custom kernel. So I can choose at boot time the kernel I want to boot, and of course, I make sure my kernel is listed first. Stef ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Installing projectX from source?
I get the same error
if I run the build.sh but if I try the ebuild that is basically an update of
the .82 version(the last one in portage) I get a different error but it still
doesn't work.
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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:04:05 +1300 (NZDT)
From: Robin Gilks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Installing projectX from source?
To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org
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On 10/25/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 20:36, Robin Gilks wrote:
Greetings
I'm having a go at mythburn but having problems installing projectx
as
I
use Gentoo so have no nicely packaged system.
Looks like projectx was removed from portage about 3 months ago so I
wonder is anyone has an ebuild for the latest or a wrapper that will
get
rid of the 'can't find common-net library' errors.
Cheers
projectX is java so download the java sdk and run the command they tell
you to
run and it will compile.
Steve
Java is platform independant - it doesn't need to be compiled.
Just install the Java runtime: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/java.xml
then download the projectx.jar file and run java -jar projectx.jar
Dave
But projectx doesn't come as a jar file - it comes as a bunch of .java
files that are compiled by the sdk into a jar file - that step works fine.
What I can't get right is where do I put the library files it depends on
that are created during the 'compile' step. Does java have a seperate
search path that it uses to hunt out missing bits?
Sounds to me like everyone who has suceeded with this is running an rpm
distro :-((
Getting there... now I get the error:
Exception in thread main java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
net/sourceforge/dvb/projectx/common/X
Googling shows lots of people with the same error but so far I've not
found a solution. Again it comes down to the installation I think in that
the files are found when the jar is compiled but then NOT found at run
time ;-((
Note that this error occurs with just a simple {equivalant of} projectx
--help!!
--
Robin Gilks
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[mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri
Hello All, I seem to be missing /dev/dri using a pvr-350 with an nvidia card as the myth is bitching about this and i only get a blank screen when recording, I can watch tv OK. Any ideas, TIA -- cybersource.us 115 Richfield Road Williamsville, New York 14221 716-553-8525 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Upgrade to MySql 5.0
Is anyone running MythTV with MySQL 5.0? Are there any config changes that I will need to make to get it to work properly? Is there a way that I can run MySQL 5.0 in parallel with MySQL 3.23.58 (just to hedge my bets!) Thanks, Adrian. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb listings painfully slow?
Hi all, I am a newbie to Myth(TV) but finally have things up and running on a FC4 box. The system is reasonably fast, an Intel 2.5GHZ with 512 megs of ram. However, when I attempt to access Mythweb from other machines on the network, the process of opening the channel listings on the main page is painfully slow. I only have about 100 channels in my lineup and I've never been patient enough to wait for the page to open completely. I usually stop loading after about 5 minutes or so and by that time, I only get the first 15 or 20 channels. As indicated, I'm new to Myth and Apache as well so am not sure where to begin troubleshooting. Any thoughts would be much appreciated. Thanks, --Al Do you by chance have logos loading up for your channels? I find when I add logos it makes it very slow. Dennis ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Upgrade to MySql 5.0
Adrian Kladnig wrote: Is anyone running MythTV with MySQL 5.0? Are there any config changes that I will need to make to get it to work properly? Is there a way that I can run MySQL 5.0 in parallel with MySQL 3.23.58 (just to hedge my bets!) Thanks, Adrian. I had problems with mythfilldatabase and MYSQL 5.0, I wouldn't upgrade just yet. I read somewhere that repeat is now a MYSQL keyword and it breaks the mythfilldatabase SQL. Lee ___ 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 Wed, 2005-10-26 at 04:05, David Watkins wrote: On 25/10/05, Scot L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My main backend system had four 300GB drives with one LVM group setup as a 1TB file system which I use for recordings. At this point I did not bother with raid. If a drive fails I lose the recordings. Yes, and I've always assumed the whole group would be lost, or is there a way to recover files from the disks that haven't failed? That is my assumption as well. Been working fine since February. Since this is not a critical business system if a drive fails it fails. I spend some time rebuilding things and moving on. If you are concerned about a hard drive failures then you need to setup RAID on your system or have a backup strategy that makes copies of your recordings directory. For a PVR I did not feel that was needed. Have not done this yet but I do plan on backing up the database so it can be restored. (need to get that scripted and in place this weekend :) ) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Upgrade to MySql 5.0
I wonder if that tiny database (sqlite?) that comes with php5 (?) is adequate for mythtv. The main thing is it treats everything as strings. I don't think it has support for accessing remotely so it may not be useful.. I found it useful when I needed a database and didn't have the space for mysql... On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 09:14 -0400, Lee Koloszyc wrote: Adrian Kladnig wrote: Is anyone running MythTV with MySQL 5.0? Are there any config changes that I will need to make to get it to work properly? Is there a way that I can run MySQL 5.0 in parallel with MySQL 3.23.58 (just to hedge my bets!) Thanks, Adrian. I had problems with mythfilldatabase and MYSQL 5.0, I wouldn't upgrade just yet. I read somewhere that repeat is now a MYSQL keyword and it breaks the mythfilldatabase SQL. Lee ___ 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] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade
Byron Poland wrote: Since upgrading my backend to Knoppmyth R5A22, all of the recordings I've made are missing the basename, progstart, and progend fields (ie they are blank). this causes jobs like commercial flagging to fail. If I fill in the missing data manually into the tables, things work as expected. Anyone else seeing anything like this? I know very little of mysql. When my commfaging stopped working, I looked at the tables with mysqlcc and saw the missing data. Sounds like a DB update was missed. If you do not have the basename field in your DB, execute this SQL statement against it: ALTER TABLE recorded ADD COLUMN basename varchar(128) NOT NULL DEFAULT; and then, once it is in your database, run this: UPDATE recorded SET basename = CONCAT(chanid, '_', DATE_FORMAT(starttime, '%Y%m%d%H%i00'), '_', DATE_FORMAT(endtime, '%Y%m%d%H%i00'), '.nuv'); ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Upgrade to MySql 5.0
Robert Denier wrote: I wonder if that tiny database (sqlite?) that comes with php5 (?) is adequate for mythtv. The main thing is it treats everything as strings. I don't think it has support for accessing remotely so it may not be useful.. I found it useful when I needed a database and didn't have the space for mysql... sqlite doesn't run as a daemon, right? So it probably doesn't have network support, so you'd probably be limited to a single combined front/backend. -- Jesse Guardiani Programmer/Sys Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] transcoding shows manually
Hello, I've been reading about transcoding to cut out commercials or transcoding to mpeg4 lately, but I'm not sure how it works from the frontend. I see the ability to start a transcode job when I press the right arrow key while looking at a recording in the Watch Recordings menu, but how do I control what exactly that transcode job DOES? For example, for some shows I would like to just cut out the commercials, but leave the show as mpeg2. For others, I'd like the cut the commercials and transcode the mpeg4. I don't want to do any of this automatically right after the show is recorded because (1) commercial detection isn't perfect and (2) I burn a lot of shows to DVD so it's useful to have them come in as mpeg2. How do I do that? Do I have to use command line tools? Or are there GUI options? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani Programmer/Sys Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Installing projectX from source?
On Tue, October 25, 2005 11:53 pm, Robin Gilks said: But projectx doesn't come as a jar file - it comes as a bunch of .java files that are compiled by the sdk into a jar file - that step works fine. What I can't get right is where do I put the library files it depends on that are created during the 'compile' step. Does java have a seperate search path that it uses to hunt out missing bits? Sounds to me like everyone who has suceeded with this is running an rpm distro :-(( I built it from the official sources and run it from my home directory. I am not sure what libraries you're talking about because Java's libraries (called classes) are included with the Java development kit. I did not have to install anything more than the JDK on my Ubuntu machine to compile ProjectX. ___ 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
Carl Fongheiser wrote: On 10/24/05, Scott Carr [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. Carl Fongheiser 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 Even so, there's nothing else in your backend log? Anything else you can provide will help us help you. Carl Fongheiser I have since had to reboot my system again. The weird thing is that _none_ of the MySQL Server has gone away items were in the log since the last time I had restarted the MythBackend. Is there some way to put the MythBackend in Debug mode, so more messages will be posted to the log? That way I can see what it was doing last, and have more info to tell the list. Thanks -- Scott Carr OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org ___ 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
Michael T. Dean wrote: 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 Not too much of anything. I am beginning to think those messages were from a while ago, there is no date associated with the message in the MythBackend logs, so it is difficult to know when things occurred. -- Scott Carr OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [Fwd: PVR-150 - Random Noise/Blockiness top 1/6 of screen]
Lee Koloszyc wrote: 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 Yes, I have run into this problem on occasion. I believe it is a FirmWare problem, not necessarily with the IVTV drivers. I haven't fixed it yet, on my side, but if you find something let me know. -- Scott Carr OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Anyway of making the fonts smaller
Ben Edwards wrote:
Tried changing them in settings but made no difference :-(.
Also I guess once I have made them smaller I will then want to
increase the number of characters for the prog descriptions. Is there
a way of doing this?
Maybe I need to use a different theme?
Regards,
Ben
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You can change this pretty easily in the theme. If you look under
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/{Theme You Are Using}, and open the ui.xml
file. Look for:
font name={each font you want to change} base=info
size15/size
size:small12/size:small
size:big17/size:big
/font
And change the size. Depending on the them you are using you may have
to change several different locations. You will also need to experiment
a little to make sure things line up correctly. The nice thing is once
you make a change to a specific screen, you can exit the screen and come
back and the changes are in affect.
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OpenOffice.org
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http://documentation.openoffice.org
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Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade
On 10/26/05, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Byron Poland wrote: Since upgrading my backend to Knoppmyth R5A22, all of the recordings I've made are missing the basename, progstart, and progend fields (ie they are blank). this causes jobs like commercial flagging to fail. If I fill in the missing data manually into the tables, things work as expected. Anyone else seeing anything like this? I know very little of mysql. When my commfaging stopped working, I looked at the tables with mysqlcc and saw the missing data. Sounds like a DB update was missed. If you do not have the basename field in your DB, execute this SQL statement against it: ALTER TABLE recorded ADD COLUMN basename varchar(128) NOT NULL DEFAULT; and then, once it is in your database, run this: UPDATE recorded SET basename = CONCAT(chanid, '_', DATE_FORMAT(starttime, '%Y%m%d%H%i00'), '_', DATE_FORMAT(endtime, '%Y%m%d%H%i00'), '.nuv'); ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Thanks for your reply. I already have the basename field, it just doesn't get filled in for new recording. so I just ran the second statement, and it seems to be working now. My progstart and progend fields also weren't working but using the statement you provided as a base I got them to work: UPDATE recorded SET progstart = CONCAT(DATE_FORMAT(starttime, '%Y%m%d%H%i00')); and UPDATE recorded SET progend = CONCAT(DATE_FORMAT(endtime, '%Y%m%d%H%i00')); And they seem to be working again too with a test recording, that now fills the fields correctly. Thanks for your help. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Freeze when deleting program
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I converted my system to XFS on (software) RAID-5 when I installed MythTV and it's been rock-solid. The box also hosts IMAP, SMB, VNC and Apache2 servers, and has never seemed to have any problem deleting large files while recording. Both mythweb and the remote front-end seem to come back almost instantly even when deleting files in the 6-8 Gb range. Hello all, it is now Wednesday, and I converted my 200GB 'recordings' partition to XFS on Saturday. Since then, I have had *zero* freezes when deleting programs from the Myth interface, and *zero* freezes when deleting from Mythweb. As Chris said, response is positively zippy after deletes. This includes deletes from both the Interface and Mythweb while no tuners, one tuner, and both tuners were active, and deletes of shows currently recording at the time. Pleased as punch, I am, and I thank everyone who helped to steer me toward this conclusion. Best, Steve __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] 150 or 150MCE
On 10/16/05, Carl Fongheiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/16/05, Joe Votour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a kit of the PVR-150MCE that comes with an MCE remote, versus the regular retail PVR-150 that comes with the Hauppauge remote. How this would be at retail, well, I don't know, I would think it would be more of an OEM or white box thing. No, I deliberately meant to say retail -- it was sold in a printed box labelled WinTV PVR-150 Media Center Kit. It's now available at most Best Buy stores for $119. Carl Fongheiser I think for the purposes of the initial poster they are referring to the PVR150 MCE (model 1042) which is pretty much an OEM white box PVR150 with FM radio, RCA audio jacks, no IR chips/jack, and no included remote/blaster. The PVR150 retail edition (model 1045) comes with a remote/Ir blaster, has a 1/8 stereo minijack for audio input (*sigh*), and a pretty box/warranty. There is, as Carl points out a new model 1062 retail kit which is a PVR150MCE card with a MCE compatible/certified USB IR remote/blaster/etc... designed for MCE 2005. To the original poster... If you just need the card itself and have no need for the remote control/blaster or have designs on other remote/etc... the pvr150MCE is pretty much driver compatible with the retail edition and you can save yourself a few bucks. e. -- http://www.byopvr.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Freeze when deleting program
Hi, What Flavor OS are you running? I have heard Fedora 4 has problems with XFS and that JFS works better with it. David On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 07:43 -0700, Steve Pugh wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I converted my system to XFS on (software) RAID-5 when I installed MythTV and it's been rock-solid. The box also hosts IMAP, SMB, VNC and Apache2 servers, and has never seemed to have any problem deleting large files while recording. Both mythweb and the remote front-end seem to come back almost instantly even when deleting files in the 6-8 Gb range. Hello all, it is now Wednesday, and I converted my 200GB 'recordings' partition to XFS on Saturday. Since then, I have had *zero* freezes when deleting programs from the Myth interface, and *zero* freezes when deleting from Mythweb. As Chris said, response is positively zippy after deletes. This includes deletes from both the Interface and Mythweb while no tuners, one tuner, and both tuners were active, and deletes of shows currently recording at the time. Pleased as punch, I am, and I thank everyone who helped to steer me toward this conclusion. Best, Steve __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ 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] FC4 MythTV - Computer powering down... sort of! - FRUSTRATION!!
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:17:51 +0200, Stef Coene wrote: IS EXACTLY what I would like to do. Problem is I have no idea how to copy on a new kernel and have that load as the default kernel. At that point I wouldn't know what to be looking for in dmesg and lspci to make a new kernel, and once I did find out what I needed I wouldn't know how to get it and make a new kernel. I don't suppose anyone knows of a step-by-step manual on how to do exactly this? ... anyone? Running FC4 you can get a new kernel using yum install kernel* After the process is finished you will see the new files in /boot and yum will update your grub menu to boot from the new kernel., BUT the new kernel will not be configured for your hardware. For that you need to configure and compile the kernel. You will need the kernel source (available as a plain vanilla version from kernel.org) and the development stuff (compiler etc.) The Linux documentation project has removed the kernel howto and the replacement supposedly at http://www.digitalhermit.com/~kwan/kernel.html. never seems to load. There is a good description of the process at http://www.epialinux.org. Follow the kernel link bottom left of the first paragraph on the head page. That description is specific for a via epia board which has the advantage of discussing exactly how you configure a kernel and deal with specific driver issues. For example, if you are doing a mythtv box, you may not need firewire or bluetooth or sata or scsi depending on your hardware, but you should select *every* module in the device driver dvb section even if you do not have the listed hardware. What I do, I always leave the kernel in place that is installed by the distribution and add my own custom kernel. So I can choose at boot time the kernel I want to boot, and of course, I make sure my kernel is listed first. As noted, if you do a kernel upgrade using yum, it will automatically upgrade a grub menu.lst. It is not particularly difficult to do, although slightly time-consuming. (For example, the actual compile is one of those things you should start just before going to lunch! If you are going to do this, I suggest you should first do a 'ls -al /boot /tmp/boot1.txt' and save a copy of /boot/grub/menu.lst, so you have the starting state. Then do a yum upgrade to the newest available kernel. When that is done make a boot2.txt. These two will show you exactly what has changed as the new one was installed. THEN get the new source, put it into a new folder and configure/make/install from that. (So you end up with three branches (miniumum) in /usr/src/kernels: the original 2.6.11 of your install, the upgraded 2.6.12-2 (or whatever the latest rpm at freshrpms or atrpms serves up to yum) and the source version... presently 2.6.13.4 As noted, yum will amend a grub menu.lst, but you will have to do it with vi (or whatever) for your source build version. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 Mississauga,Ontario, Canada Facsimile: 905-271-1638 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Freeze when deleting program
On 10/26/05, Steve Pugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I converted my system to XFS on (software) RAID-5 when I installed MythTV and it's been rock-solid.The box also hosts IMAP, SMB, VNC and Apache2 servers, and has never seemed to have any problem deleting large files while recording.Both mythweb and the remote front-end seem to come back almost instantly even when deleting files in the 6-8 Gb range.Hello all, it is now Wednesday, and I converted my200GB 'recordings' partition to XFS on Saturday.Since then, I have had *zero* freezes when deletingprograms from the Myth interface, and *zero* freezes when deleting from Mythweb.As Chris said, responseis positively zippy after deletes.This includes deletes from both the Interface andMythweb while no tuners, one tuner, and both tunerswere active, and deletes of shows currently recording at the time.Pleased as punch, I am, and I thank everyone whohelped to steer me toward this conclusion.Thanks for the update, Steve. Can you post the size(s) of the the recordings that were deleted? If you don't have that data, that's OK. I ask for the size data because on my EXT3 filesystem, deleting smaller size recordings don't always cause the freeze. But deleting huge HDTV, two-hour recordings never fails to cause the hiccup. By smaller size, I mean under 2.5 GB; larger size, over 7.5 GB. Thanks again for posting your experiences with XFS filesystem. -- MM ___ 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: Carl Fongheiser wrote: On 10/24/05, *Scott Carr* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[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. Carl Fongheiser 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 Even so, there's nothing else in your backend log? Anything else you can provide will help us help you. Carl Fongheiser I have since had to reboot my system again. The weird thing is that _none_ of the MySQL Server has gone away items were in the log since the last time I had restarted the MythBackend. Is there some way to put the MythBackend in Debug mode, so more messages will be posted to the log? That way I can see what it was doing last, and have more info to tell the list. You can start it with various --verbose options. Check the command-line help for more details. (I think --help will print them out) Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Freeze when deleting program
--- Mercury Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you post the size(s) of the the recordings that were deleted? If you don't have that data, that's OK. I ask for the size data because on my EXT3 filesystem, deleting smaller size recordings don't always cause the freeze. But deleting huge HDTV, two-hour recordings never fails to cause the hiccup. By smaller size, I mean under 2.5 GB; larger size, over 7.5 GB. Thanks again for posting your experiences with XFS filesystem. My pleasure! (Heck, I'm just glad to contribute in some way...) The majority of deleted recordings were 2.7GB (one-hour dramas). I did delete a football game that had wound up somewhere in the 4-5GB range, and right now I've got a 5.4GB figure skating show waiting for my wife to see it before I can nuke it. I was, however, seeing my freezes with half-hour programs (~1.2-1-4GB) as well as longer ones. Best, Steve __ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Freeze when deleting program
--- David Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What Flavor OS are you running? I have heard Fedora 4 has problems with XFS and that JFS works better with it. Hi there, I am running Knoppmyth R5A16 which is based on Knoppix and therefore more akin to Debian than Fedora. OK, the first part I'm sure about, the whole Debian thing I have no idea about. I should really backspace over that, but I've already invested all of these extra keystrokes, so there's no turning back. Best, Steve __ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Freeze when deleting program
On 10/26/05, Steve Pugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Mercury Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you post the size(s) of the the recordings that were deleted? If you don't have that data, that's OK. I ask for the size data because on my EXT3 filesystem, deleting smaller size recordings don't always cause the freeze. But deleting huge HDTV, two-hour recordings never fails to cause the hiccup. By smaller size, I mean under 2.5 GB; larger size, over 7.5 GB. Thanks again for posting your experiences with XFS filesystem.My pleasure!(Heck, I'm just glad to contribute in some way...)The majority of deleted recordings were 2.7GB(one-hour dramas).I did delete a football game thathad wound up somewhere in the 4-5GB range, and rightnow I've got a 5.4GB figure skating show waiting for my wife to see it before I can nuke it.I was, however, seeing my freezes with half-hourprograms (~1.2-1-4GB) as well as longer ones.OK, great info! Your experiences with XFS, and several papers written about different filesystems, have convinced me to use XFS for the video/recordings partition the next time I build (or re-build) a system. Thanks, Steve. -- MM ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MythTV vs Freevo
Does anyone know of any differences between functionality of MythTV and Freevo? I just setup a FreeBSD sysem and looking for the best entertainment system I can make. Has anyone sucessfully installed MythTV on FreeBSD? FreeBSD is the only platform I am familiar with other then Windows and the MAC OS. Thank you, Joshua Lewis ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Freeze when deleting program
On 10/26/05, Mercury Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/26/05, Steve Pugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Mercury Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you post the size(s) of the the recordings that were deleted? If you don't have that data, that's OK. I ask for the size data because on my EXT3 filesystem, deleting smaller size recordings don't always cause the freeze. But deleting huge HDTV, two-hour recordings never fails to cause the hiccup. By smaller size, I mean under 2.5 GB; larger size, over 7.5 GB. Thanks again for posting your experiences with XFS filesystem. My pleasure! (Heck, I'm just glad to contribute in some way...) The majority of deleted recordings were 2.7GB (one-hour dramas). I did delete a football game that had wound up somewhere in the 4-5GB range, and right now I've got a 5.4GB figure skating show waiting for my wife to see it before I can nuke it. I was, however, seeing my freezes with half-hour programs (~1.2-1-4GB) as well as longer ones. OK, great info! Your experiences with XFS, and several papers written about different filesystems, have convinced me to use XFS for the video/recordings partition the next time I build (or re-build) a system. you may also want to look into converting /cache/cache into XFS. it allows the cache to be cleaned out quicker. i don't remember whether or not this sped up channel changes or not though... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV vs Freevo
Joshua Lewis wrote: Does anyone know of any differences between functionality of MythTV and Freevo? MythTV appears to be more polished, and has more features. It was also a bit easier to setup, for me. I just setup a FreeBSD sysem and looking for the best entertainment system I can make. Has anyone sucessfully installed MythTV on FreeBSD? FreeBSD is the only platform I am familiar with other then Windows and the MAC OS. Thank you, Joshua Lewis -- Scott Carr OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV vs Freevo
On 10/26/05, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of any differences between functionality of MythTV andFreevo? http://www.google.com/search?hl=enlr=q=mythtv+vs+freevobtnG=Search You will probably get a slightly more biast opinion here;) I just setup a FreeBSD sysem and looking for the best entertainment systemI can make. http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=mythtv+freebsdbtnG=Google+Search Ben Has anyone sucessfully installed MythTV on FreeBSD? FreeBSD is the onlyplatform I am familiar with other then Windows and the MAC OS. Thank you,Joshua Lewis___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users-- Ben Edwards - Bristol, UK, EnglandWARNING:This email contained partisan views - dont ever accuse me of using the veneer of objectivity If you have a problem emailing me usehttp://www.gurtlush.org.uk/profiles.php?uid=4(email address this email is sent from may be defunct) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV vs Freevo
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 11:25, Joshua Lewis wrote: I just setup a FreeBSD sysem and looking for the best entertainment system I can make. Has anyone sucessfully installed MythTV on FreeBSD? FreeBSD is the only platform I am familiar with other then Windows and the MAC OS. I don't know about Freevo, but for MythTV, I'd say that going with a FreeBSD system is asking for headaches. I'm not saying it couldn't work (I know the frontend will; not sure about the backend), but as a newbie, and unless you're a FreeBSD guru, you'd probably be better served by picking a platform with a larger installed base, so if you have any problems someone on the -users list is more likely to be able to help you. The most popular platforms for MythTV seem to be Fedora Core (various versions, thanks to Jarod Wilson's excellent guide) and Debian (what many of the main devs use, IIRC), or KnoppMyth (which is a Debian/Knoppix-based LiveCD that can install a working Myth system to your hard drive in minutes). There are plenty of other distros/platforms represented (Gentoo, Slackware, Mac OS X), but I'd guess that over 50% of users are on a Fedora- or Debian-based Linux distribution. Just food for thought. Good luck in your endeavors! -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Can't record from composite.
Hi. I've just got my mythtvbox up and running but i have a problem with it. i'm using a a wintv pvr 350 card which seems to working fine because i can watch my old videotapes and satellite tv through it but i can't record from s-video composite or tuner. when i press r while watching it just says record at the top of the screen but nothing actually records. My main reason for building this machine was to record from an external vcr and satellite receiver so i haven't downloaded any xmltv channels lists. Does mythtv support recordings from external sources? if so, what could i be doing wrong? Thanks in advance. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Xbox as FE
Vladan Bato wrote:
I'll send you the files as soon as I get back to my Xbox (probably
wednesday).
Here are the files I promised: the xir and xpad drivers recompiled for
Xebian 1.1.4 (kernel 2.4.31-xbox).
For those who missed the previous posts: these drivers allow you to use
some cheap aftermarket xbox remotes that are not recognized by the
original xir driver. On the other hand, you'll loose the support for
some cheap aftermarket gamepads.
To use them, just replace the original drivers in
/lib/modules/2.4.31-xbox/kernel/drivers/usb/
(make a backup first).
If you'd rather like to compile your own kernel, I also attached a patch
against the 2.4.31-xbox kernel sources.
Cheers,
--
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
diff -ur kernel-source-2.4.31-xbox-original/drivers/usb/xir.c kernel-source-2.4.31-xbox/drivers/usb/xir.c
--- kernel-source-2.4.31-xbox-original/drivers/usb/xir.c 2005-06-10 17:43:01.0 +0200
+++ kernel-source-2.4.31-xbox/drivers/usb/xir.c 2005-10-20 23:39:58.0 +0200
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@
vendor, product, dvd-dongle, name */
{ 0x040b, 0x6521, Gamester Xbox DVD Movie Playback Kit IR },
{ 0x045e, 0x0284, Microsoft Xbox DVD Movie Playback Kit IR },
+ { 0x, 0x, Chinese-made Xbox Controller }, /* WTF are device IDs for? */
{ 0x, 0x, nothing detected - FAIL }
};
diff -ur kernel-source-2.4.31-xbox-original/drivers/usb/xpad-core.c kernel-source-2.4.31-xbox/drivers/usb/xpad-core.c
--- kernel-source-2.4.31-xbox-original/drivers/usb/xpad-core.c 2005-06-10 17:43:01.0 +0200
+++ kernel-source-2.4.31-xbox/drivers/usb/xpad-core.c 2007-11-30 15:40:45.0 +0100
@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@
{ 0x0e6f, 0x0006, 0, Edge wireless Controller },
{ 0x0f30, 0x0202, 0, Joytech Advanced Controller },
{ 0x12ab, 0x8809, 1, Xbox DDR dancepad },
- { 0x, 0x, 0, Chinese-made Xbox Controller }, /* WTF are device IDs for? */
{ 0x, 0x, 0, nothing detected - FAIL }
};
xir.o
Description: Binary data
xpad.o
Description: Binary data
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Re: [mythtv-users] Installing projectX from source?
Robin Gilks wrote:
But projectx doesn't come as a jar file
Yes it does.
- it comes as a bunch of .java
files that are compiled by the sdk into a jar file - that step works fine.
What I can't get right is where do I put the library files it depends on
that are created during the 'compile' step. Does java have a seperate
search path that it uses to hunt out missing bits?
Sounds to me like everyone who has suceeded with this is running an rpm
distro :-((
Getting there... now I get the error:
Exception in thread main java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
net/sourceforge/dvb/projectx/common/X
Googling shows lots of people with the same error but so far I've not
found a solution. Again it comes down to the installation I think in that
the files are found when the jar is compiled but then NOT found at run
time ;-((
Note that this error occurs with just a simple {equivalant of} projectx
--help!!
You do realize that there's absolutely no reason to compile your own
with a Java application, right?
Just download the compiled version as directed on my previous post:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/156916#156916
However, I now realize you have to find it yourself--doom9 only accepts
requests with a referrer within their domain and they don't even do it
right, so you might have to clear some stuff out of your browser for it
to work if you've already clicked on a direct link (the easiest way is
to just restart your browser). Go to http://www.doom9.org/ , click on
Download, then search for ProjectX, then download the zip file that
contains the binary version (the jar file).
Mike
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[mythtv-users] nuv2disc problem
When I first go into nuv2disc it lets me select files to transcode but then I get it to transcode it does not seem to do anything. I am using KnoppixMyth with a nova-t dvb card. Any Idead? Ben-- Ben Edwards - Bristol, UK, EnglandWARNING:This email contained partisan views - dont ever accuse me of using the veneer of objectivityIf you have a problem emailing me use http://www.gurtlush.org.uk/profiles.php?uid=4(email address this email is sent from may be defunct) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Installing projectX from source?
Robin Gilks wrote:
Getting there... now I get the error:
Exception in thread main java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
net/sourceforge/dvb/projectx/common/X
Googling shows lots of people with the same error but so far I've not
found a solution. Again it comes down to the installation I think in that
the files are found when the jar is compiled but then NOT found at run
time ;-((
Note that this error occurs with just a simple {equivalant of} projectx
--help!!
Your CLASSPATH is incorrect. You shouldn't be running it from the loose
class files, anyway.
java -jar ProjectX.jar
will take care of all your CLASSPATH issues.
Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri
Cyber Source wrote: I seem to be missing /dev/dri using a pvr-350 with an nvidia card as the myth is bitching about this and i only get a blank screen when recording, I can watch tv OK. Any ideas, TIA I didn't respond to your other post ( http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/156907?#156907 ) last night because I couldn't figure out what you're talking about and was hoping someone else would interpret your question better than me. So, what do you mean by, i only get a blank screen when recording? Recording is done by the backend and the backend does not affect the screen (the mythfrontend /is/ the screen). Do you mean, When playing back recordings, I only see a blank screen? Or, perhaps, My system records only black with no audio, and I've verified this by playing a recording on another computer with another media player? Or, something different? Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Installing projectX from source?
I feel kind of stupid now, it seems the way to run it on gentoo is the
following:
#chmod 777 build.sh
#./build.sh
#cp ProjectX.jar /usr/bin/
#/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02/bin/java -jar /usr/bin/ProjectX.jar
now it works for me.
**
I get the same error
if I run the build.sh but if I try the ebuild that is basically an update of
the .82 version(the last one in portage) I get a different error but it still
doesn't work.
Message: 15
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:04:05 +1300 (NZDT)
From: Robin Gilks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Installing projectX from source?
To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org
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On 10/25/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 20:36, Robin Gilks wrote:
Greetings
I'm having a go at mythburn but having problems installing projectx
as
I
use Gentoo so have no nicely packaged system.
Looks like projectx was removed from portage about 3 months ago so I
wonder is anyone has an ebuild for the latest or a wrapper that will
get
rid of the 'can't find common-net library' errors.
Cheers
projectX is java so download the java sdk and run the command they tell
you to
run and it will compile.
Steve
Java is platform independant - it doesn't need to be compiled.
Just install the Java runtime: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/java.xml
then download the projectx.jar file and run java -jar projectx.jar
Dave
But projectx doesn't come as a jar file - it comes as a bunch of .java
files that are compiled by the sdk into a jar file - that step works fine.
What I can't get right is where do I put the library files it depends on
that are created during the 'compile' step. Does java have a seperate
search path that it uses to hunt out missing bits?
Sounds to me like everyone who has suceeded with this is running an rpm
distro :-((
Getting there... now I get the error:
Exception in thread main java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
net/sourceforge/dvb/projectx/common/X
Googling shows lots of people with the same error but so far I've not
found a solution. Again it comes down to the installation I think in that
the files are found when the jar is compiled but then NOT found at run
time ;-((
Note that this error occurs with just a simple {equivalant of} projectx
--help!!
--
Robin Gilks
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Re: [mythtv-users] Upgrade to MySql 5.0
Robert Denier wrote: I wonder if that tiny database (sqlite?) that comes with php5 (?) is adequate for mythtv. The main thing is it treats everything as strings. I don't think it has support for accessing remotely so it may not be useful.. I found it useful when I needed a database and didn't have the space for mysql... Read entire thread starting at: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/153103#153103 Note, though, that it will not work now, but is being considered for the future. 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
Brian, I see this exact same issue - the choppy video which you describe as a stopping and starting effect - on my firewire video as well. Everything else with my Firewire setup works well, except this. The thing is, I see it on standard def. TV as well as HD - although not all the time and not on every channel. It's very random. My CPU usage looks no different viewing Firewire-recorded video than it does when I'm viewing video recorded from my PVR-250. (which works flawlessly, not choppy at all) Turning off the use video as timebase setting on the frontend seems to help a bit, but not 100%. Just for reference, my Firewire box (DCT6200) is hooked up to a Dell P3 1Ghz, which is conifgured as a slave-backend streaming the video to my master backend/frontend box which is in my living room. While I can't prove it, I don't think my network is the issue here - nor is the harddrive. I've sorta been assuming that maybe it's a slow PCI bus/motherboard issue on the Dell box, but I'm not sure. Anyway, I realize you're having other issues with FireWire but I just thought I'd see if you were seeing this choppy video stuff on non-HD content as well. 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] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade
Kevin Kuphal wrote: Sounds like a DB update was missed. If you do not have the basename field in your DB, execute this SQL statement against it: ALTER TABLE recorded ADD COLUMN basename varchar(128) NOT NULL DEFAULT; and then, once it is in your database, run this: UPDATE recorded SET basename = CONCAT(chanid, '_', DATE_FORMAT(starttime, '%Y%m%d%H%i00'), '_', DATE_FORMAT(endtime, '%Y%m%d%H%i00'), '.nuv'); Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it dangerous to run updates this way? In this case, won't it mean that future updates are guaranteed to fail? Since this approach does not update the DBSchemaVer in the database (settings table), next time the backend gets started, it will try to update from the DBSchemaVer it thinks it's using (which is probably the prior version), and will fail because the update contains DDL. If the update contained only DML, it wouldn't make any difference (assuming the DML is idempotent), but DDL changes are never idempotent. Specifically, since the basename column was there, but wasn't properly filled, the DBSchemaVer is probably 1094, so next time mythbackend is started, it will try to update to 1095, and will fail on the ADD COLUMN because the basename column exists (ERROR 1060: Duplicate column name 'basename'), so it will bail out and stop trying to update (i.e. never going to 1099--not even making it to 1096). It seems like the user should shut down mythbackend, then submit: UPDATE settings SET data = '1095' WHERE value = 'DBSchemaVer'; then restart the backend and verify--using the logs--that any requested schema version upgrades succeeded (i.e. Database Schema upgrade complete, unlocking.) or at least that it doesn't say, Current Schema Version: , followed by Newest Schema Version : , (meaning we have the current schema version for the version of Myth in use, so no upgrade was required). (The code in Myth actually deletes the DBSchemaVer setting and then inserts a new one, so if there's some reason that's required, it would be more correct than the UPDATE above.) Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade
Byron Poland wrote: On 10/26/05, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Byron Poland wrote: Since upgrading my backend to Knoppmyth R5A22, all of the recordings I've made are missing the basename, progstart, and progend fields (ie they are blank). this causes jobs like commercial flagging to fail. If I fill in the missing data manually into the tables, things work as expected. Anyone else seeing anything like this? I know very little of mysql. When my commfaging stopped working, I looked at the tables with mysqlcc and saw the missing data. Sounds like a DB update was missed. If you do not have the basename field in your DB, execute this SQL statement against it: ALTER TABLE recorded ADD COLUMN basename varchar(128) NOT NULL DEFAULT; and then, once it is in your database, run this: UPDATE recorded SET basename = CONCAT(chanid, '_', DATE_FORMAT(starttime, '%Y%m%d%H%i00'), '_', DATE_FORMAT(endtime, '%Y%m%d%H%i00'), '.nuv'); ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Thanks for your reply. I already have the basename field, it just doesn't get filled in for new recording. so I just ran the second statement, and it seems to be working now. My progstart and progend fields also weren't working but using the statement you provided as a base I got them to work: UPDATE recorded SET progstart = CONCAT(DATE_FORMAT(starttime, '%Y%m%d%H%i00')); and UPDATE recorded SET progend = CONCAT(DATE_FORMAT(endtime, '%Y%m%d%H%i00')); And they seem to be working again too with a test recording, that now fills the fields correctly. OK, following on to my previous post--which hinted at the fact that future updates will fail--you're now at schema version 1096--which also contains non-idempotent DDL--so you would need to run: UPDATE settings SET data = '1096' WHERE value = 'DBSchemaVer'; Also, this seems to confirm my suspicions that all future updates are guaranteed to fail if you mess with your database schema incorrectly... And, the bad thing is that I've seen many suggestions like this that totally ignored DBSchemaVer. Therefore, can you post the error messages that exist in your mythbackend log file (if you aren't currently logging, just start up mythbackend before updating DBSchemaVer so you can get them). If you do so, others who see them in their logs will have a reference in the archives. (OK, maybe I'm being too optimistic assuming people will read /both/ their logs /and/ the archives. ;) Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Can't record from composite.
Greg Burke wrote: I've just got my mythtvbox up and running but i have a problem with it. i'm using a a wintv pvr 350 card which seems to working fine because i can watch my old videotapes and satellite tv through it but i can't record from s-video composite or tuner. when i press r while watching it just says record at the top of the screen but nothing actually records. MythTV is a PVR that records programs based on guide listings. Therefore, the R key simply requests recording of the current program. If you don't have any guide data, there is no current program, so it doesn't do anything. SVN has something of an instant timer record feature where pressing R when there is no program info will start recording for 60 minutes and then you can adjust the end time as desired. However, you're better off doing it correctly--using a Manual Recording rule. See http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/153279#153279 My main reason for building this machine was to record from an external vcr and satellite receiver so i haven't downloaded any xmltv channels lists. So, why not just: dd if=/dev/video0 of=~/BabysFirstBirthday.mpg bs=64k for the VCR. Myth really isn't providing any benefit here--may actually be making things much harder. The satellite, on the other hand, should be set up with guide data and an appropriate control mechanism (i.e. IR blaster/serial link--see the archives http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/ ). Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only??
Hello, I've recently switch TV providers (because the company I work for is offering TV services now) and we have Amino AmiNet110's for set top boxes. I'm using a MyBlaster, the serial one from my tv store (mytvsore dot com). I use the MyBlaster.pl that you can download for use with the MyBlaster and I've found that is I run the MyBlaster.pl from the command prompt it changes the channel great, but when I am in Myth and it tries to change the channel using the same script it fails the majority of the time. There's typically three things could happen when it fails, one is it could do nothing. It's rare but it's happened a couple of times), another is that it misses a digit (usually at the beginning or middle of the channel number), and the third is that it may repeat a number (for instance 8 turns into 88). I'm not sure why this would happen in just Myth. I've used TVtime and XawTV to test the channel changing from the command line, and that works flawlessly, changing the channel while Myth is running and watching live TV also works flawlessly. It only fails when Myth itself tries to change the channel with the MyBlaster.pl script. I've played around with the timing in the MyBlaster.pl script and have re trained the MyBlaster with the IR codes over a dozen times, nothing seems to change how it acts tho, it works from the command line great but acts really weird when Myth goes to change the channel. The other thing I have done is made my own channelchange.pl and had it call the MyBlaster script to send the raw IR code to the MyBlaster script, that hasn't helped either though. Has anyone seen this? Or have any other ideas on a fix? Any help would be great. Thank You, Scott ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only??
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:08:53AM -0700, Scott S. wrote: There's typically three things could happen when it fails, one is it could do nothing. It's rare but it's happened a couple of times), another is that it misses a digit (usually at the beginning or middle of the channel number), and the third is that it may repeat a number (for instance 8 turns into 88). I'm not sure why this would happen in just Myth. I've used TVtime and XawTV to test the channel changing from the command line, and that works flawlessly, changing the channel while Myth is running and watching live TV also works flawlessly. It only fails when Myth itself tries to change the channel with the MyBlaster.pl script. I have the exact problem. Not sure why it happens, but I simply added two dummy commands (two Exit commands sent to my satellite receiver) to my script and it seems to work okay now. My channel changer script works perfectly from the command-line, but seems to lag from within MythTV. Somebody mentioned using nice to increase the priority to the channel changing command (irsend, in my case) but I didn't figure out how to formulate the command-line to do that. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only??
On 26-Oct-05, at 1:08 PM, Scott S. wrote: Has anyone seen this? Or have any other ideas on a fix? Any help would be great. I haven't seen this problem with mine but I remember when I was setting up a modem I had a heck of a time getting the serial connection to work reliably. One thought I have is when you test it through the command line are you the same user as the myth backend? I remember that being a factor for some reason, you may have to add the backend user to the dialout group or whoever owns the serial port. Or, do the channel change through a script that explicitly sets the line parameters before running the channel change script. - George ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only??
I'm having a similiar issue with a USB connected blaster..so I'm pretty sure its not related to the serial line speed or configuration. What I've noticed is it only pops up if the same blaster is used to receive the command as send the command. Symptoms: 1) recording is 100% reliable (thank you lord) 2) changing channels is 25% reliable 3) Using previous channel to flip back and forth is reliable. I'm going to experiment with inserting sleep settings to see if it helps. David - Original Message - From: George Nassas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 1:19 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only?? On 26-Oct-05, at 1:08 PM, Scott S. wrote: Has anyone seen this? Or have any other ideas on a fix? Any help would be great. I haven't seen this problem with mine but I remember when I was setting up a modem I had a heck of a time getting the serial connection to work reliably. One thought I have is when you test it through the command line are you the same user as the myth backend? I remember that being a factor for some reason, you may have to add the backend user to the dialout group or whoever owns the serial port. Or, do the channel change through a script that explicitly sets the line parameters before running the channel change script. - George ___ 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: MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only??
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 01:22:47PM -0400, David Ellis wrote: What I've noticed is it only pops up if the same blaster is used to receive the command as send the command. I use discrete send and receive IR emitters/receivers and I have the problem. 2) changing channels is 25% reliable Mine was about 75-80% prior to making the small mod to my change channel script. 3) Using previous channel to flip back and forth is reliable. Same here. I'm going to experiment with inserting sleep settings to see if it helps. Or insert a dummy command. Send something that it doesn't matter if the receiver sees it or not. I send EXIT twice which should put my satellite receiver into a consistent state. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only??
I had a lot of trouble changing channels reliably since I moved to dish
network 301 receivers from a 5xx series. Someone suggested that the gap
value in the file may have to be changed and that it was cpu/serial port
dependent.
I kept changing it and figured it was a lost cause at one point, and was
about to order a MyBlaster, but then I decided to change it some more
and eventually ended up with something that seems ok. I started with a
gap of 175000 and ended with 40 in /etc/ledxmitd.conf.
I tossed together this script to zap and restore things to try different
gap values. I'm sure someone could clean it up if they cared to do
so...
#!/bin/bash
modprobe -r ledxmit_serial
modprobe -r ledxmit_dev
PID=$(ps -A | grep ledxm | egrep -o [0-9]{3,5})
echo Found PID=[$PID]
if [[ $PID != ]]
then
echo Killing existing instance of ledxmit...
kill -s 9 $PID
fi
/bin/echo Starting ledxmit stuff...
setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none
update-modules
modprobe ledxmit_serial
nice -n -20 /usr/local/lirc-ledxmit/sbin/ledxmit-ledxmitd
For reference that is an AMD XP 2000+ (Technically it is actually an AMD
MP 1900+ running as a 2000+.) with an nforce 2 motherboard.
It seems that the normal way of entering remote codes from an unknown
remote will determine the value of the gap, but, unfortunately, dish
network receivers run at 56kHz(?) and my IR receiver doesn't pick up
them, so I was stuck working from a premade file and guessing.
-Robert
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 13:19 -0400, George Nassas wrote:
On 26-Oct-05, at 1:08 PM, Scott S. wrote:
Has anyone seen this? Or have any other ideas on a fix? Any help would
be great.
I haven't seen this problem with mine but I remember when I was setting
up a modem I had a heck of a time getting the serial connection to work
reliably. One thought I have is when you test it through the command
line are you the same user as the myth backend? I remember that being a
factor for some reason, you may have to add the backend user to the
dialout group or whoever owns the serial port. Or, do the channel
change through a script that explicitly sets the line parameters before
running the channel change script.
- George
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Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire source and channel changer
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 11:05 -0500, Alex Brekken wrote: Anyway, I realize you're having other issues with FireWire but I just thought I'd see if you were seeing this choppy video stuff on non-HD content as well. I do not see this choppy video with SD content through the firewire. Brian ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] EIT Guide won't fill
I've downloaded and am testing the latest build 7596. In particular I wanted to try out the EIT on-air guide downloading. I was getting this same error while trying to get the on-air guide from previous versions. Screenfuls of the following is spewed out: 2005-10-26 13:53:53.161 Desired program #110 not found in PAT. Can Not create single program PAT. Am I missing something? What does this mean? Thx ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade
On 10/26/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Byron Poland wrote: On 10/26/05, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Byron Poland wrote: Since upgrading my backend to Knoppmyth R5A22, all of the recordings I've made are missing the basename, progstart, and progend fields (ie they are blank). this causes jobs like commercial flagging to fail. If I fill in the missing data manually into the tables, things work as expected. Anyone else seeing anything like this? I know very little of mysql. When my commfaging stopped working, I looked at the tables with mysqlcc and saw the missing data. Sounds like a DB update was missed. If you do not have the basename field in your DB, execute this SQL statement against it: ALTER TABLE recorded ADD COLUMN basename varchar(128) NOT NULL DEFAULT; and then, once it is in your database, run this: UPDATE recorded SET basename = CONCAT(chanid, '_', DATE_FORMAT(starttime, '%Y%m%d%H%i00'), '_', DATE_FORMAT(endtime, '%Y%m%d%H%i00'), '.nuv'); ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Thanks for your reply. I already have the basename field, it just doesn't get filled in for new recording. so I just ran the second statement, and it seems to be working now. My progstart and progend fields also weren't working but using the statement you provided as a base I got them to work: UPDATE recorded SET progstart = CONCAT(DATE_FORMAT(starttime, '%Y%m%d%H%i00')); and UPDATE recorded SET progend = CONCAT(DATE_FORMAT(endtime, '%Y%m%d%H%i00')); And they seem to be working again too with a test recording, that now fills the fields correctly. OK, following on to my previous post--which hinted at the fact that future updates will fail--you're now at schema version 1096--which also contains non-idempotent DDL--so you would need to run: UPDATE settings SET data = '1096' WHERE value = 'DBSchemaVer'; Also, this seems to confirm my suspicions that all future updates are guaranteed to fail if you mess with your database schema incorrectly... And, the bad thing is that I've seen many suggestions like this that totally ignored DBSchemaVer. Therefore, can you post the error messages that exist in your mythbackend log file (if you aren't currently logging, just start up mythbackend before updating DBSchemaVer so you can get them). If you do so, others who see them in their logs will have a reference in the archives. (OK, maybe I'm being too optimistic assuming people will read /both/ their logs /and/ the archives. ;) Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users You've totally lost me for the most part. (Like I said I know very little of mysql). I'll check my backend log on a restart.. and post anything related to DBSchemaVer. How was my DB supposed to be updated in the first place? I'm not home now, but will read this thread a few more times and see if I can put it together, and post some relevent sections of my backend log. If I didn't already have so many recordings that I haven't watched, and a hand made qam channel lineup I'd consider wiping it clean... Also I have the mysql db dump from when I backed it ub before the knoppmyth upgrade. Perhaps I can delete the newer recordings, to get them off the drive, and then re-instate the backup and do what ever update I was supposed to do in the beginning. Well I'll check the logs first and post back. I appreciate the help, hopefully this thread becomes useful to others. ___ 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 26, 2005, at 11:54 AM, Brian C. Huffman wrote: On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 11:05 -0500, Alex Brekken wrote: Anyway, I realize you're having other issues with FireWire but I just thought I'd see if you were seeing this choppy video stuff on non-HD content as well. I do not see this choppy video with SD content through the firewire. Brian I'm seeing choppy video and especially audio when viewing HD channels. It seems to only happen when I change channels (not all the time). Curtis ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri
Michael T. Dean wrote: Cyber Source wrote: I seem to be missing /dev/dri using a pvr-350 with an nvidia card as the myth is bitching about this and i only get a blank screen when recording, I can watch tv OK. Any ideas, TIA I didn't respond to your other post ( http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/156907?#156907 ) last night because I couldn't figure out what you're talking about and was hoping someone else would interpret your question better than me. So, what do you mean by, i only get a blank screen when recording? Recording is done by the backend and the backend does not affect the screen (the mythfrontend /is/ the screen). Do you mean, When playing back recordings, I only see a blank screen? Or, perhaps, My system records only black with no audio, and I've verified this by playing a recording on another computer with another media player? Or, something different? Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Hello Mike, Thanks for getting back to me. I fully know how mythtv works, backend/frontend, etc.. In my frustation, shorter emails go out, ya know? Anyway, when your watching tv and you select m, it takes you to the schedule and show the current channel in the upper right corner (if that's your option). Then when you hit enter and decide to record that running show, it will change to recording (and watching) the selection you just made because when your recording you can't watch another channel, etc. It's at that point that my screen goes black, no sound no anything. I can hear the drive crunching, look in the directory that the recording is going into, and watch it grow, just it is only recording a black screen, no video, no audio. I have started mythfrontend with -v all option and looking at that see that it is bitching about audio rates that it wants and cant have and that it is dropping frames, so I suspect that it's a sound issue. I had it configured with the onboard via sound card, then installed a sound blaster live, still same results. Sound works fine for watching tv and all other sound functions. Also, if I run cat /dev/video0 /tmp/someshow.mpg, it records beautifully with sound, etc. I must have some setting wrong in my myth record options but this is a pvr-350 and initially thought I had something wrong with the ivtv modules. I have AMD 3000+, FC4, 512MB RAM, 2.6.13-1352 kernel with all options installed as per wilsonet.com/mythtv. Not real familiar with ivtv, I thought that maybe it was trying to record using a different device node, whatever. At this point I am really frustrated, any thoughts? TIA -- cybersource.us 115 Richfield Road Williamsville, New York 14221 716-553-8525 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only??
Solved. I inserted a sleep command in the changechannel script BEFORE I send the command. sleep .5 Its possibly a thread contention issue of some sort? Anyway experiment with different sleep options to get the best configuration for your setup. David - Original Message - From: David Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 1:22 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only?? I'm having a similiar issue with a USB connected blaster..so I'm pretty sure its not related to the serial line speed or configuration. What I've noticed is it only pops up if the same blaster is used to receive the command as send the command. Symptoms: 1) recording is 100% reliable (thank you lord) 2) changing channels is 25% reliable 3) Using previous channel to flip back and forth is reliable. I'm going to experiment with inserting sleep settings to see if it helps. David - Original Message - From: George Nassas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 1:19 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only?? On 26-Oct-05, at 1:08 PM, Scott S. wrote: Has anyone seen this? Or have any other ideas on a fix? Any help would be great. I haven't seen this problem with mine but I remember when I was setting up a modem I had a heck of a time getting the serial connection to work reliably. One thought I have is when you test it through the command line are you the same user as the myth backend? I remember that being a factor for some reason, you may have to add the backend user to the dialout group or whoever owns the serial port. Or, do the channel change through a script that explicitly sets the line parameters before running the channel change script. - George ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade
Michael T. Dean wrote: Kevin Kuphal wrote: Sounds like a DB update was missed. If you do not have the basename field in your DB, execute this SQL statement against it: ALTER TABLE recorded ADD COLUMN basename varchar(128) NOT NULL DEFAULT; and then, once it is in your database, run this: UPDATE recorded SET basename = CONCAT(chanid, '_', DATE_FORMAT(starttime, '%Y%m%d%H%i00'), '_', DATE_FORMAT(endtime, '%Y%m%d%H%i00'), '.nuv'); Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it dangerous to run updates this way? In this case, won't it mean that future updates are guaranteed to fail? Since this approach does not update the DBSchemaVer in the database (settings table), next time the backend gets started, it will try to update from the DBSchemaVer it thinks it's using (which is probably the prior version), and will fail because the update contains DDL. If the update contained only DML, it wouldn't make any difference (assuming the DML is idempotent), but DDL changes are never idempotent. Specifically, since the basename column was there, but wasn't properly filled, the DBSchemaVer is probably 1094, so next time mythbackend is started, it will try to update to 1095, and will fail on the ADD COLUMN because the basename column exists (ERROR 1060: Duplicate column name 'basename'), so it will bail out and stop trying to update (i.e. never going to 1099--not even making it to 1096). It seems like the user should shut down mythbackend, then submit: UPDATE settings SET data = '1095' WHERE value = 'DBSchemaVer'; then restart the backend and verify--using the logs--that any requested schema version upgrades succeeded (i.e. Database Schema upgrade complete, unlocking.) or at least that it doesn't say, Current Schema Version: , followed by Newest Schema Version : , (meaning we have the current schema version for the version of Myth in use, so no upgrade was required). depends. I ran into this very problem moving up SVN versions and my DBSchemaVer was well beyond what was necessary for that update to trigger but it never did so I was running into the same problem. I think there is something broken with that particular update but I can't see anything wrong with it from looking at the code. I think you will find that his DBSchemaVer is correct and the statement didn't execute. I wouldn't recommend anyone setting their DBSchemaVer manually. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:14:27 -0400, Cyber Source wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: Cyber Source wrote: I seem to be missing /dev/dri using a pvr-350 with an nvidia card as the myth is bitching about this and i only get a blank screen when recording, I can watch tv OK. Any ideas, TIA Also, if I run cat /dev/video0 /tmp/someshow.mpg, it records beautifully with sound, etc. I must have some setting wrong in my myth record options but this is a pvr-350 and initially thought I had something wrong with the ivtv modules. I have AMD 3000+, FC4, 512MB RAM, 2.6.13-1352 kernel with all options installed as per wilsonet.com/mythtv. This could affect all video cards which do hardware acceleration using dri. I am running an Epia SP13000 and have a similar problem with dri (and drm and XvMC) being disabled. I suspect that your blank screen is because the system cannot properly display out through the nvidia card. I think that live TV would use the PVR350' output directly: no further processing required. Please do 2 things: First: look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see if the following snippet exists (it will be well down the lisiting), drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: Open failed big snip (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled Second: See if you have a node /dev/dri/card0 I think that this is a udev problem. The node /dev/dri/card0 does not get created. About 4 days ago I found a web-site about udev development which had a changelog comment from about March, about some change (removal) to the handling of dri. I cannot find that page nowit is not any of the main udev pages. But it is clear that /dev/dri/card0 does not get created at any time by udev or xorg or whatever. And dri seems to have no known major-minor number allowing creation through a mknod or udev rule. Help please. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 Mississauga,Ontario, Canada Facsimile: 905-271-1638 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade
On 10/26/05, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: Kevin Kuphal wrote: Sounds like a DB update was missed. If you do not have the basename field in your DB, execute this SQL statement against it: ALTER TABLE recorded ADD COLUMN basename varchar(128) NOT NULL DEFAULT; and then, once it is in your database, run this: UPDATE recorded SET basename = CONCAT(chanid, '_', DATE_FORMAT(starttime, '%Y%m%d%H%i00'), '_', DATE_FORMAT(endtime, '%Y%m%d%H%i00'), '.nuv'); Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it dangerous to run updates this way? In this case, won't it mean that future updates are guaranteed to fail? Since this approach does not update the DBSchemaVer in the database (settings table), next time the backend gets started, it will try to update from the DBSchemaVer it thinks it's using (which is probably the prior version), and will fail because the update contains DDL. If the update contained only DML, it wouldn't make any difference (assuming the DML is idempotent), but DDL changes are never idempotent. Specifically, since the basename column was there, but wasn't properly filled, the DBSchemaVer is probably 1094, so next time mythbackend is started, it will try to update to 1095, and will fail on the ADD COLUMN because the basename column exists (ERROR 1060: Duplicate column name 'basename'), so it will bail out and stop trying to update (i.e. never going to 1099--not even making it to 1096). It seems like the user should shut down mythbackend, then submit: UPDATE settings SET data = '1095' WHERE value = 'DBSchemaVer'; then restart the backend and verify--using the logs--that any requested schema version upgrades succeeded (i.e. Database Schema upgrade complete, unlocking.) or at least that it doesn't say, Current Schema Version: , followed by Newest Schema Version : , (meaning we have the current schema version for the version of Myth in use, so no upgrade was required). depends. I ran into this very problem moving up SVN versions and my DBSchemaVer was well beyond what was necessary for that update to trigger but it never did so I was running into the same problem. I think there is something broken with that particular update but I can't see anything wrong with it from looking at the code. I think you will find that his DBSchemaVer is correct and the statement didn't execute. I wouldn't recommend anyone setting their DBSchemaVer manually. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Here is the relevant part of my backend log on on startup: 2005-10-26 15:02:15.804 Using runtime prefix = /usr QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty 2005-10-26 15:02:15.953 New DB connection, total: 1 2005-10-26 15:02:15.991 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If you see a long pause here it means the Schema is already locked and is being upgraded by another Myth process. QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty 2005-10-26 15:02:16.005 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-10-26 15:02:16.013 Database Schema upgrade complete, unlocking. no errors... it does do this on every start of the backend though. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri
Cyber Source wrote: no sound no anything. I can hear the drive crunching, look in the directory that the recording is going into, and watch it grow, just it is only recording a black screen, no video, no audio. I have started mythfrontend with -v all option and looking at that see that it is bitching about audio rates that it wants and cant have and that it is dropping frames, so I suspect that it's a sound issue. I had it configured with the onboard via sound card, then installed a sound blaster live, still same results. Sound works fine for watching tv and all other sound functions. Also, if I run cat /dev/video0 /tmp/someshow.mpg, it records beautifully with sound, etc. I must have some setting wrong in my myth record options but this is a pvr-350 and initially thought I had something wrong with the ivtv modules. I have AMD 3000+, FC4, 512MB RAM, 2.6.13-1352 kernel with all options installed as per wilsonet.com/mythtv. Not real familiar with ivtv, I thought that maybe it was trying to record using a different device node, whatever. At this point I am really frustrated, any thoughts? TIA Change your recording profiles in Myth. You should specify an appropriate audio sample rate--use 48KHz. Won't fix your /dev/dri problem, but should allow you to watch recordings. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade
Byron Poland wrote: Here is the relevant part of my backend log on on startup: 2005-10-26 15:02:15.804 Using runtime prefix = /usr QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty 2005-10-26 15:02:15.953 New DB connection, total: 1 2005-10-26 15:02:15.991 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If you see a long pause here it means the Schema is already locked and is being upgraded by another Myth process. QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty 2005-10-26 15:02:16.005 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-10-26 15:02:16.013 Database Schema upgrade complete, unlocking. no errors... it does do this on every start of the backend though. What does SELECT data FROM settings WHERE value = 'DBSchemaVer'; give? Thanks, Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri
Michael T. Dean wrote: Cyber Source wrote: no sound no anything. I can hear the drive crunching, look in the directory that the recording is going into, and watch it grow, just it is only recording a black screen, no video, no audio. I have started mythfrontend with -v all option and looking at that see that it is bitching about audio rates that it wants and cant have and that it is dropping frames, so I suspect that it's a sound issue. I had it configured with the onboard via sound card, then installed a sound blaster live, still same results. Sound works fine for watching tv and all other sound functions. Also, if I run cat /dev/video0 /tmp/someshow.mpg, it records beautifully with sound, etc. I must have some setting wrong in my myth record options but this is a pvr-350 and initially thought I had something wrong with the ivtv modules. I have AMD 3000+, FC4, 512MB RAM, 2.6.13-1352 kernel with all options installed as per wilsonet.com/mythtv. Not real familiar with ivtv, I thought that maybe it was trying to record using a different device node, whatever. At this point I am really frustrated, any thoughts? TIA Change your recording profiles in Myth. You should specify an appropriate audio sample rate--use 48KHz. Won't fix your /dev/dri problem, but should allow you to watch recordings. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I did that first off, I remember that from long ago. -- cybersource.us 115 Richfield Road Williamsville, New York 14221 716-553-8525 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade
On 10/26/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Byron Poland wrote: Here is the relevant part of my backend log on on startup: 2005-10-26 15:02:15.804 Using runtime prefix = /usr QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty 2005-10-26 15:02:15.953 New DB connection, total: 1 2005-10-26 15:02:15.991 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If you see a long pause here it means the Schema is already locked and is being upgraded by another Myth process. QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty 2005-10-26 15:02:16.005 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-10-26 15:02:16.013 Database Schema upgrade complete, unlocking. no errors... it does do this on every start of the backend though. What does SELECT data FROM settings WHERE value = 'DBSchemaVer'; give? Thanks, Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users mysql SELECT data FROM settings WHERE value = 'DBSchemaVer'; +--+ | data | +--+ | 1099 | +--+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri
Cyber Source wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: Cyber Source wrote: no sound no anything. I can hear the drive crunching, look in the directory that the recording is going into, and watch it grow, just it is only recording a black screen, no video, no audio. I have started mythfrontend with -v all option and looking at that see that it is bitching about audio rates that it wants and cant have and that it is dropping frames, so I suspect that it's a sound issue. I had it configured with the onboard via sound card, then installed a sound blaster live, still same results. Sound works fine for watching tv and all other sound functions. Also, if I run cat /dev/video0 /tmp/someshow.mpg, it records beautifully with sound, etc. I must have some setting wrong in my myth record options but this is a pvr-350 and initially thought I had something wrong with the ivtv modules. I have AMD 3000+, FC4, 512MB RAM, 2.6.13-1352 kernel with all options installed as per wilsonet.com/mythtv. Not real familiar with ivtv, I thought that maybe it was trying to record using a different device node, whatever. At this point I am really frustrated, any thoughts? TIA Change your recording profiles in Myth. You should specify an appropriate audio sample rate--use 48KHz. Won't fix your /dev/dri problem, but should allow you to watch recordings. I did that first off, I remember that from long ago. Did you do that in all of your profiles? It sounds like you did it for LiveTV, but not for the Default profile. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri
R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:14:27 -0400, Cyber Source wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: Cyber Source wrote: I seem to be missing /dev/dri using a pvr-350 with an nvidia card as the myth is bitching about this and i only get a blank screen when recording, I can watch tv OK. Any ideas, TIA Also, if I run cat /dev/video0 /tmp/someshow.mpg, it records beautifully with sound, etc. I must have some setting wrong in my myth record options but this is a pvr-350 and initially thought I had something wrong with the ivtv modules. I have AMD 3000+, FC4, 512MB RAM, 2.6.13-1352 kernel with all options installed as per wilsonet.com/mythtv. This could affect all video cards which do hardware acceleration using dri. I am running an Epia SP13000 and have a similar problem with dri (and drm and XvMC) being disabled. I suspect that your blank screen is because the system cannot properly display out through the nvidia card. I think that live TV would use the PVR350' output directly: no further processing required. Please do 2 things: First: look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see if the following snippet exists (it will be well down the lisiting), drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: Open failed big snip (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled Second: See if you have a node /dev/dri/card0 I think that this is a udev problem. The node /dev/dri/card0 does not get created. About 4 days ago I found a web-site about udev development which had a changelog comment from about March, about some change (removal) to the handling of dri. I cannot find that page nowit is not any of the main udev pages. But it is clear that /dev/dri/card0 does not get created at any time by udev or xorg or whatever. And dri seems to have no known major-minor number allowing creation through a mknod or udev rule. Help please. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 Mississauga,Ontario, Canada Facsimile: 905-271-1638 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I have no devices under /dev/dri , I also have no instance of drm in my xorg log. I am using the 3D nvidia driver and you are suppose to comment out the Load dri option, does this have to do with that? If so, why is it trying to use dri vs glx? -- cybersource.us 115 Richfield Road Williamsville, New York 14221 716-553-8525 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri
Michael T. Dean wrote: Cyber Source wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: Cyber Source wrote: no sound no anything. I can hear the drive crunching, look in the directory that the recording is going into, and watch it grow, just it is only recording a black screen, no video, no audio. I have started mythfrontend with -v all option and looking at that see that it is bitching about audio rates that it wants and cant have and that it is dropping frames, so I suspect that it's a sound issue. I had it configured with the onboard via sound card, then installed a sound blaster live, still same results. Sound works fine for watching tv and all other sound functions. Also, if I run cat /dev/video0 /tmp/someshow.mpg, it records beautifully with sound, etc. I must have some setting wrong in my myth record options but this is a pvr-350 and initially thought I had something wrong with the ivtv modules. I have AMD 3000+, FC4, 512MB RAM, 2.6.13-1352 kernel with all options installed as per wilsonet.com/mythtv. Not real familiar with ivtv, I thought that maybe it was trying to record using a different device node, whatever. At this point I am really frustrated, any thoughts? TIA Change your recording profiles in Myth. You should specify an appropriate audio sample rate--use 48KHz. Won't fix your /dev/dri problem, but should allow you to watch recordings. I did that first off, I remember that from long ago. Did you do that in all of your profiles? It sounds like you did it for LiveTV, but not for the Default profile. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users no all of them -- cybersource.us 115 Richfield Road Williamsville, New York 14221 716-553-8525 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] mysql update on remote frontend broke MythTV
Hi, I've been reading a number of things about this latest mysql update and wanted to take it slow. On one of my Gentoo frontend boxes I gave it a go this morning. Bad results so far. On the frontend where I did the update and am having trouble I now have: * dev-db/mysql Available versions: !3.23.58-r1 4.0.22 4.0.22-r2 4.0.24 4.0.25-r2 ~4.0.26 ~4.1.13-r1 ~4.1.14 ~5.0.12_beta ~5.0.13_rc Installed: 4.1.14 Homepage:http://www.mysql.com/ Description: A fast, multi-threaded, multi-user SQL database server On the backend, whch hasn't been touched, and is working with the other machines in the house, I have: * dev-db/mysql Available versions: [M]3.23.58-r1 [M]4.0.22 [M]4.0.22-r2 [M]4.0.24 [M]4.0.25-r2 [M]4.0.26 [M]4.1.13-r1 [M]4.1.14 [M]5.0.12_beta Installed: 4.0.25-r2 Homepage:http://www.mysql.com/ Description: A fast, multi-threaded, multi-user SQL database server On the machine that's having trouble, when I run mythfrontend I just get the page saying it couldn't contact the server and starts off asking me about language, which server, etc. If I run mythfrontend in a terminal I see this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mythfrontend QSqlDatabase: QMYSQL3 driver not loaded QSqlDatabase: available drivers: 2005-10-26 12:18:05.257 New DB connection, total: 1 2005-10-26 12:18:05.259 Unable to connect to database! 2005-10-26 12:18:05.259 No error type from QSqlError? Strange... 2005-10-26 12:18:05.259 Unable to connect to database! 2005-10-26 12:18:05.260 No error type from QSqlError? Strange... 2005-10-26 12:18:05.260 Database not open while trying to load setting: GuiVidMo deResolution 2005-10-26 12:18:05.260 Unable to connect to database! SNIP 2005-10-26 12:18:06.022 No error type from QSqlError? Strange... 2005-10-26 12:18:06.022 Unable to connect to database! 2005-10-26 12:18:06.037 No error type from QSqlError? Strange... 2005-10-26 12:18:06.037 Database not open while trying to load setting: Language So apparently it's not communicating with the server. etc-update did do a bunch of edits to /etc/mysql/my.cnf, which seems like a prime target for creating a problem like this, but I've looked through it and nothing of immense interest (to me) seems as if it got changed. There's lots of new stuff added though. So, has anyone else run into something like this yet? If this is a Gentoo specific thing then I'll take the question over there but I'm sure there are great MySQL folks here so I thought I'd ask. Thanks, Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] How to get rid of User Job?
I have never defined or set any User Jobs. However, it seems like everytime my slave backend records a show, User Job #3 gets assigned to some other recording, even if it wasn't recorded on the slave backend. How do I tell MythTV not to run this phantom 'User Job #3' (in mythfrontend or in the mythconverg database)? Example: 2005-10-25 19:58:57.976 Started recording Close to Home on channel: 1009 on cardid: 1, sourceid 1 2005-10-25 19:58:58.124 Started recording The Biggest Loser on channel: 1016 on cardid: 2, sourceid 1 2005-10-25 20:58:57.745 Started recording Supernatural on channel: 1013 on cardid: 3, sourceid 1 2005-10-25 21:00:14.954 Started recording The Amazing Race: Family Edition on channel: 1009 on cardid: 1, sourceid 1 cardid 1 and 2 are on my master backend. cardid 3 is the only tuner on my slave backend. But somehow, The Amazing Race: Family Edition is Queued for User Job #3, and it never completes. All other shows recorded both before and after are transcoded and commercial flagged properly. In fact, even The Amazing Race: Family Edition is commercial flagged. It's just that the Job Queue shows it being Queued for User Job #3 (and no other jobs are currently running or queued). Thanks ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade
Byron Poland wrote: On 10/26/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Byron Poland wrote: Here is the relevant part of my backend log on on startup: 2005-10-26 15:02:15.804 Using runtime prefix = /usr QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty 2005-10-26 15:02:15.953 New DB connection, total: 1 2005-10-26 15:02:15.991 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If you see a long pause here it means the Schema is already locked and is being upgraded by another Myth process. QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty 2005-10-26 15:02:16.005 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-10-26 15:02:16.013 Database Schema upgrade complete, unlocking. no errors... it does do this on every start of the backend though. What does SELECT data FROM settings WHERE value = 'DBSchemaVer'; give? mysql SELECT data FROM settings WHERE value = 'DBSchemaVer'; +--+ | data | +--+ | 1099 | +--+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) And it's still trying to upgrade the database on every backend restart? (You keep seeing the, Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade, message?) Were there lines: Current Schema Version: 109X Newest Schema Version : 1099 above the, Setting lock, message in the log? Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri
Michael T. Dean wrote: Cyber Source wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: Cyber Source wrote: no sound no anything. I can hear the drive crunching, look in the directory that the recording is going into, and watch it grow, just it is only recording a black screen, no video, no audio. I have started mythfrontend with -v all option and looking at that see that it is bitching about audio rates that it wants and cant have and that it is dropping frames, so I suspect that it's a sound issue. I had it configured with the onboard via sound card, then installed a sound blaster live, still same results. Sound works fine for watching tv and all other sound functions. Also, if I run cat /dev/video0 /tmp/someshow.mpg, it records beautifully with sound, etc. I must have some setting wrong in my myth record options but this is a pvr-350 and initially thought I had something wrong with the ivtv modules. I have AMD 3000+, FC4, 512MB RAM, 2.6.13-1352 kernel with all options installed as per wilsonet.com/mythtv. Not real familiar with ivtv, I thought that maybe it was trying to record using a different device node, whatever. At this point I am really frustrated, any thoughts? TIA Change your recording profiles in Myth. You should specify an appropriate audio sample rate--use 48KHz. Won't fix your /dev/dri problem, but should allow you to watch recordings. I did that first off, I remember that from long ago. Did you do that in all of your profiles? It sounds like you did it for LiveTV, but not for the Default profile. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users This might be a clue, I always remember under system status, it saying under tuner status that tuner 0 is not recording, it says tuner 1 now, I only have 1 tuner, where can this be checked and changed? -- cybersource.us 115 Richfield Road Williamsville, New York 14221 716-553-8525 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mysql update on remote frontend broke MythTV
Mark Knecht wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mythfrontend QSqlDatabase: QMYSQL3 driver not loaded Thanks, Mark ___ I had that message once, I re-emerged qt and it fixed it. Lee ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade
On 10/26/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Byron Poland wrote: On 10/26/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Byron Poland wrote: Here is the relevant part of my backend log on on startup: 2005-10-26 15:02:15.804 Using runtime prefix = /usr QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty 2005-10-26 15:02:15.953 New DB connection, total: 1 2005-10-26 15:02:15.991 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If you see a long pause here it means the Schema is already locked and is being upgraded by another Myth process. QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty 2005-10-26 15:02:16.005 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-10-26 15:02:16.013 Database Schema upgrade complete, unlocking. no errors... it does do this on every start of the backend though. What does SELECT data FROM settings WHERE value = 'DBSchemaVer'; give? mysql SELECT data FROM settings WHERE value = 'DBSchemaVer'; +--+ | data | +--+ | 1099 | +--+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) And it's still trying to upgrade the database on every backend restart? (You keep seeing the, Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade, message?) Were there lines: Current Schema Version: 109X Newest Schema Version : 1099 above the, Setting lock, message in the log? Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users No lines like that. the only thing mentioning the Schema was the messages I posted. full start up logs are below. I just restarted the backend, and ran the mysql statement from above, and the schema version still reports as 1099 2005-10-26 16:07:36.072 Using runtime prefix = /usr QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty 2005-10-26 16:07:36.104 New DB connection, total: 1 2005-10-26 16:07:36.115 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If you see a long pause here it means the Schema is already locked and is being upgraded by another Myth process. QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty 2005-10-26 16:07:36.129 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-10-26 16:07:36.134 Database Schema upgrade complete, unlocking. Starting up as the master server. 2005-10-26 16:07:36.290 mythbackend: MythBackend started as master server 2005-10-26 16:07:36.303 DVB#0 Using DVB card 0, with frontend pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV. QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty 2005-10-26 16:07:36.317 New DB connection, total: 3 2005-10-26 16:07:37.466 DVB#1 Using DVB card 1, with frontend Nextwave nxt2002 VSB/QAM frontend. QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty 2005-10-26 16:07:37.935 New DB scheduler connection 2005-10-26 16:07:37.952 mythbackend version: 0.19.20050712-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-10-26 16:07:37.957 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2005-10-26 16:07:37.963 AutoExpire: Found 3 recorders w/max rate of 349 MiB/min 2005-10-26 16:07:37.970 AutoExpire: space: 3.7 GB w/freq: 5 min 2005-10-26 16:07:38.365 adding: piper.tube013.org as a slave backend server 2005-10-26 16:07:38.372 adding: glide as a slave backend server 2005-10-26 16:07:39.952 Reschedule requested for id 0. 2005-10-26 16:07:39.957 Reschedule requested for id 0. 2005-10-26 16:07:39.961 Reschedule requested for id -1. 2005-10-26 16:07:40.235 Scheduled 51 items in 0.3 = 0.16 match + 0.12 place 2005-10-26 16:07:40.246 scheduler: Scheduled items 2005-10-26 16:07:40.257 Seem to be woken up by USER 2005-10-26 16:07:43.375 AutoExpire: Found 3 recorders w/max rate of 349 MiB/min 2005-10-26 16:07:43.386 AutoExpire: space: 3.7 GB w/freq: 5 min 2005-10-26 16:07:47.953 mythbackend: Running housekeeping thread 2005-10-26 16:07:48.406 AutoExpire: Found 3 recorders w/max rate of 349 MiB/min 2005-10-26 16:07:48.415 AutoExpire: space: 3.7 GB w/freq: 5 min ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Sudden lockups on my Myth box
Hi Steve On Wednesday 26 October 2005 02:01, Steve Pugh wrote: this evening, I experienced 3 total machine lockups on my mythbox. I had to hard reset it. That same machine has been running for months, no apparent hardware problems. Does anybody have a clue what is going on? Hi Joe, I can't offer anything specific, but I've had something similar happen to me (system hang when trying to delete a corrupted .nuv file from MythWeb). I'd say it's safe to say that something earlier had corrupted the .nuv and the transcoder just couldn't deal with it. If you have any logs going back to when that clip was recorded, that might give you some insight into what caused the corruption. Hm, really nothing special here. The log is, ehrm, very normal: 2005-10-25 19:27:01.906 Started recording Tagesschau on channel: 1 on cardid: 2, sourceid 1 2005-10-25 19:27:02.158 scheduler: Last message repeated 1 times 2005-10-25 19:27:02.191 scheduler: Schedule Change 2005-10-25 19:27:02.589 Changing from None to RecordingOnly 2005-10-25 20:00:00.001 Finished recording Tagesschau on channel: 1 2005-10-25 20:00:00.070 scheduler: Finished recording 2005-10-25 20:00:00.103 Changing from RecordingOnly to None 2005-10-25 20:00:00.104 Reschedule requested for id 0. 2005-10-25 20:00:01.297 Scheduled 39 items in 1.2 = 0.00 match + 1.19 place 2005-10-25 20:00:01.309 scheduler: Scheduled items 2005-10-25 20:00:10.341 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-10-25 20:00:10.376 Transcoding from /myth/rec/1_20051025192700_20051025195000.nuv to /myth/rec/1_20051025192700_20051025195000.nuv.tmp And then, probably minutes later, the crash (I can tell because I control the machine from outside, and alarms started to trickle in at 20:04, when the check interval is 5 minutes). I realize that's an obvious and incredibly lame response, but I thought I'd at least give you a shout back so you knew you weren't alone ;-) I appreciate that, really :-) I was starting to get nervous that it would be a heat problem or somesuch. Now, after deleting that one specific recording, things are normal again. The box recorded 4 clips since yesterday and transcoded them successfully. Besides, I pondered the machine with some CPU intensive jobs just to verify that heat would not be a problem. I hope that this was a unique incident .. CU, Joe ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Satellite, RF or IR
Hey guys, great forum, very helpful so far. I have Dish Network with 1 box for 2 TVs. One signal is controlled by an IR remote, the other with an RF remote. I'm trying to decide on the best setup and which signal to put the myth box on. My concerns are if I put it on the IR signal, the signal in the living room, that someone (the kids) may come in and change the channel while Myth is recording, without knowing it's recording. Controlling this signal with Myth shouldn't be hard since I have the IR blaster that comes with the hauppauge card; why did they make that cord so short?!?! If I connect it to the RF line, I'm not worried about getting the channel changed, since that line goes into a bedroom that is rarely used, but then Myth can't change the Satellite channel since it can't communicate on the RF signal. So I'm sure I'm not alone in this boat, so what have other people tried? Also is it possible to build a device that would allow the computer to communicate with the dish box over RF, something like an RF blaster...grin. Do you guys with digital cable and cable boxes have this same problem? I suppose I could get another satellite tuner just for the computer and let the IR blaster do the rest. Thanks for any suggestions! David Barkman ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mysql update on remote frontend broke MythTV
On 10/26/05, Lee Koloszyc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mythfrontend QSqlDatabase: QMYSQL3 driver not loaded Thanks, Mark ___ I had that message once, I re-emerged qt and it fixed it. Lee Thank you Lee. That seems to have fixed it. cheers, Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade
Byron Poland wrote: On 10/26/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Byron Poland wrote: On 10/26/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Byron Poland wrote: Here is the relevant part of my backend log on on startup: 2005-10-26 15:02:15.804 Using runtime prefix = /usr QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty User doesn't have ~/.qt dir? Missing Current Schema Version: message as of changeset 7260... 2005-10-26 15:02:15.953 New DB connection, total: 1 2005-10-26 15:02:15.991 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If you see a long pause here it means the Schema is already locked and is being upgraded by another Myth process. QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty 2005-10-26 15:02:16.005 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-10-26 15:02:16.013 Database Schema upgrade complete, unlocking. ... mysql SELECT data FROM settings WHERE value = 'DBSchemaVer'; +--+ | data | +--+ | 1099 | +--+ ... 2005-10-26 16:07:36.115 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If you see a long pause here it means the Schema is already locked and is being upgraded by another Myth process. Most likely you are inadvertently running an older version of mythbackend. This would explain why you don't see the version message, why it thinks the schema version number doesn't match and why the basename field is not being filled in. If there is more than one machine involved, check that you have installed the same version on all machines. Run locate mythbackend to see if there is more than one executable. If you start the backend from a script, check the path in the script and if from the commandline, check which mythbackend. -- bjm ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] %5Bmythtv-users%5D%20UK%20DVB-t%20channel%20renumberingIn-Reply-To=
Hello, If you have access to a prog like the MySQL query browser you can edit the channels manually (there is a shell based SQL query prog as well but I prefer using the GUI for what I am doing). If you do want to edit the channel numbers manually, the table of interest is in the mythconverg database and is called channels. The MySQL query browser can be obtained from: http://www.mysql.com/products/tools/query-browser/ (info) http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/query-browser/1.1.html (download) The procedure is: 1) Run the query browser 2) Connect to your MySQL server using the appropriate username and password. 3) On the right there will be a list of databases. Double click on mythconverg 4) In the list of tables for the database, double click on the channels table. 5) At the top of the window, there will be a Execute button. Click on it. The results for the table should now be displayed. 6) At the bottom of the window, there is a start editing button. Click on that. 7) Double click on the channel number that you which to change (channum field) and enter the new value. Do this for all of the channels that you wish to change. 8) When you have finished, click on the Apply changes button. 9) Restart the back end. 10) Try it out with the new channel numbers. Be careful when you are editing the DB manually. Make sure that you do not change the wrong thing. If you are really unsure, make a back-up of the DB as described in the mythtv user docs. Robert Manning ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade
On 10/26/05, Bruce Markey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Byron Poland wrote: On 10/26/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Byron Poland wrote: On 10/26/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Byron Poland wrote: Here is the relevant part of my backend log on on startup: 2005-10-26 15:02:15.804 Using runtime prefix = /usr QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty User doesn't have ~/.qt dir? Missing Current Schema Version: message as of changeset 7260... 2005-10-26 15:02:15.953 New DB connection, total: 1 2005-10-26 15:02:15.991 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If you see a long pause here it means the Schema is already locked and is being upgraded by another Myth process. QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty 2005-10-26 15:02:16.005 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-10-26 15:02:16.013 Database Schema upgrade complete, unlocking. ... mysql SELECT data FROM settings WHERE value = 'DBSchemaVer'; +--+ | data | +--+ | 1099 | +--+ ... 2005-10-26 16:07:36.115 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If you see a long pause here it means the Schema is already locked and is being upgraded by another Myth process. Most likely you are inadvertently running an older version of mythbackend. This would explain why you don't see the version message, why it thinks the schema version number doesn't match and why the basename field is not being filled in. If there is more than one machine involved, check that you have installed the same version on all machines. Run locate mythbackend to see if there is more than one executable. If you start the backend from a script, check the path in the script and if from the commandline, check which mythbackend. -- bjm ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users This might be it. I had to compile from SVN to get the protocol on my frontend (ubuntu) (Which I also use as a slave backend to commflag and transcode) to match up with the backend (knoppmyth R5A22) so they very well could be different versions. I just located the source for the knoppmyth version, and am compiling it now. Will just equalizing all the version fix any problems or do I have prolems that need to be addressed? I may start my upgrade over again, I'll just loose some of my newer recordings which aren't too many in number. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade
Bruce Markey wrote: Byron Poland wrote: On 10/26/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Byron Poland wrote: On 10/26/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Byron Poland wrote: Here is the relevant part of my backend log on on startup: 2005-10-26 15:02:15.804 Using runtime prefix = /usr QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty User doesn't have ~/.qt dir? Or is running from an environment without a HOME, so is lacking permissions on /.qt? If so, the improper env may also give PATH issues, which may have an impact on the rest... Missing Current Schema Version: message as of changeset 7260... Thank you I couldn't figure out how he could have gotten the Setting lock message without the Current Schema Version because it wouldn't be possible with the /current/ code. 2005-10-26 15:02:15.953 New DB connection, total: 1 2005-10-26 15:02:15.991 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If you see a long pause here it means the Schema is already locked and is being upgraded by another Myth process. QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty 2005-10-26 15:02:16.005 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-10-26 15:02:16.013 Database Schema upgrade complete, unlocking. ... mysql SELECT data FROM settings WHERE value = 'DBSchemaVer'; +--+ | data | +--+ | 1099 | +--+ ... 2005-10-26 16:07:36.115 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If you see a long pause here it means the Schema is already locked and is being upgraded by another Myth process. Most likely you are inadvertently running an older version of mythbackend. This would explain why you don't see the version message, why it thinks the schema version number doesn't match and why the basename field is not being filled in. If there is more than one machine involved, check that you have installed the same version on all machines. Run locate mythbackend to see if there is more than one executable. If you start the backend from a script, check the path in the script and if from the commandline, check which mythbackend. And I couldn't figure out why Myth would attempt an upgrade if his DBSchemaVer is 1099--since there's no 1100, yet. But, 1094 != 1099, and upgrade succeeds because no SQL is executed and doUpgradeTVDatabaseSchema( ) returns true. I never would have thought of multiple different versions of mythbackend... So, basically, the mythbackend he's running--and that's creating the logs--is SVN rev 7259 or less (because there's no Current Schema Version) and not 7429 or above (which expects DBSchemaVer 1099). So, at some time he ran a newer version of mythbackend (rev 7429 or above) that upgraded his schema and is now running an older version. This would also explain why his basename and progstart/progend columns are not being set--because they didn't exist in that old version. And, by running the SQL--to update basename, progstart, and progend for all the existing recordings--it made it look as if it fixed the problem, when, in fact, it just fixed the existing recordings, and all new recordings will continue to have problems because they won't have values for these columns because the old version of mythbackend won't set them. I'm so glad you chimed in. I don't think I ever would have gotten there on my own and it's been driving me crazy all afternoon. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade
Byron Poland wrote: I had to compile from SVN to get the protocol on my frontend (ubuntu) (Which I also use as a slave backend to commflag and transcode) to match up with the backend (knoppmyth R5A22) so they very well could be different versions. I just located the source for the knoppmyth version, and am compiling it now. Will just equalizing all the version fix any problems or do I have prolems that need to be addressed? I may start my upgrade over again, I'll just loose some of my newer recordings which aren't too many in number. According to the changelog ( http://www.mysettopbox.tv/CHANGELOG.txt ), R5A22 is using MythTV 0.18.2svn, which is probably the current SVN version of 0.18-fixes? http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/browser/branches/release-0-18-fixes You'll have to get more info from some KnoppMyth experts, though. If it is 0.18-fixes, it's expecting DBSchemaVer 1083 and you have 1099. Between the two have been a lot of changes, including a bunch of DDL--dropped tables, added tables, and added columns. Therefore, you're probably better off starting over from your pre-upgrade backup or just upgrading to current SVN... Most things might work OK with the older version, but I wouldn't risk it. If you start over, you can import the new recordings with myth.rebuilddatabase.pl. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] new recordings missing database fields after R5A22 upgrade
On 10/26/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Byron Poland wrote: I had to compile from SVN to get the protocol on my frontend (ubuntu) (Which I also use as a slave backend to commflag and transcode) to match up with the backend (knoppmyth R5A22) so they very well could be different versions. I just located the source for the knoppmyth version, and am compiling it now. Will just equalizing all the version fix any problems or do I have prolems that need to be addressed? I may start my upgrade over again, I'll just loose some of my newer recordings which aren't too many in number. According to the changelog ( http://www.mysettopbox.tv/CHANGELOG.txt ), R5A22 is using MythTV 0.18.2svn, which is probably the current SVN version of 0.18-fixes? http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/browser/branches/release-0-18-fixes You'll have to get more info from some KnoppMyth experts, though. If it is 0.18-fixes, it's expecting DBSchemaVer 1083 and you have 1099. Between the two have been a lot of changes, including a bunch of DDL--dropped tables, added tables, and added columns. Therefore, you're probably better off starting over from your pre-upgrade backup or just upgrading to current SVN... Most things might work OK with the older version, but I wouldn't risk it. If you start over, you can import the new recordings with myth.rebuilddatabase.pl. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Cool. I appreciate everyone's help. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Really simple multiple capture card question
I am setting up a system with an old bttv card and a new PVR-150 installed. How do I figure out which card corresponds to which device? I.e. is the PVR-150 /dev/video0, /dev/video1, /dev/video24, or /dev/video32? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: MyIRBlaster - Myth Issues Only??
Hello, Thanks for your all your responses. I am running the script from the command line as my mythtv user. I tried putting in the clear key twice before sending the channel change and it still works from the command line just fine but going through Myth it seems to have the same problems. Do you put the clear key before or after emitting the digits? I would say mine works through Myth more around 25% of the time as well, are there any other tricks out there to try? Thank You, Scott ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...
... fortunately this has not happened (yet!) but I am preparing for the worst. Jarod's MythTV guide recommends LVM as an option to create nice and big MythTV partitions. I followed the guide and have recently added another 250G to my original drive with Mytbtv-users help. A hard drive failure on my Windows computer got me thinking. If one of the drives in the LVM group dies, what happens? Does the whole partition go down? Do you only lose files that were stores on the LVM drive? Better yet, if a drive dies, how do you replace it? DO you have to Shrink the LVM and do stuff with it, or just pop in a new drive and it automatically works? LVM seems like a great idea, but now that I have set it up, I am worried that 1 drive failig will result in the loss of 2 drives of data. Any input would be appreciated! david ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Mythburn output files
Me again :-)) Many thanks to everyones help with projectx - I'm getting a lot further now. The current problem is that despite my setting the output directory and temp directory in the .conf file, someone (not sure which app) is trying to write to the directory containing the nuv files. This is a demux step as I'm seeing .m2v and .m2p created if I allow write permissions for the mythburn user. Any ideas where I look for this problem? or should I just re-install mythburn so that it creates a new .conf file in case its missing something? Cheers -- Robin Gilks ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OpenGL trouble
Ok, I still can't get myth to use OpenGL with my nvidia 5200 video card. In the frontend log, I'm getting: 2005-10-26 20:12:32.506 nVidiaVideoSync: VBlank ioctl did not work, unimplemented in this driver? 2005-10-26 20:12:32.506 DRMVideoSync: Could not open device /dev/dri/card0, No such file or directory 2005-10-26 20:12:32.507 Video timing method: RTC I'm sure OpenGL is installed and working b/c: * nvidia-settings shows OpenGL Settings * glxgears (~1200 fps) tuxracer work ok * /var/log/Xorg.0.log: (II) LoadModule: glx (II) Loading /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so (II) Module glx: vendor=NVIDIA Corporation (II) Loading extension GLX (II) Loading extension NV-GLX (II) Initializing extension GLX I've recompiled 18.1 many times with the enable opengl flag, with no luck. I've search the mailing list and I am now out of ideas. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated! Dave ___ 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. Good point, but I don't really mind opening the doors to get at the DVD player -- heck, that's where my old DVD player was before it gave up the ghost. So should I take it that nobody's tried to use a frontend in an enclosed space like these before, or that people have tried and simply had no airflow problems either way? -spc -- /-Sean Cier [EMAIL PROTECTED]-\ (Dreams of falling, dreams of flying; ) ( a man who never dreams goes slowly mad) \-http://www.PostHorizon.com/scier -/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] mythtv frontend
Hi people I have been doing a bit of googling for an answer but haven't been able to come up with much so came here for an answer. I have a couple of questions that I hope someone can help me with ... 1. I am looking to setup a mythtv frontend that is : small, diskless, cheap, not noisy, and will work over a 802.11g wireless network. Is this possible and if so does anyone have any suggestions. Even if it is a commercial product I don't mind (but would still rather building something mini-itx myself). 2. Is it possible to use a thin-client as a mythtv frontend? Would it require 100Mbit ethernet to handle the video throughput? How much ram would the thin-client need? thanks for any help pantz ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] mac osx frontend and mysql
do i need to install mysql on my mac before i can use the frontend? i get this message 2005-10-26 22:29:39.934 Database not open while trying to save setting: Language 2005-10-26 22:29:39.936 Unable to connect to database! 2005-10-26 22:29:39.936 Driver error was [1/2003]: QMYSQL3: Unable to connect Database error was: Can't connect to MySQL server on '192.168.1.5' (61) 2005-10-26 22:29:41.905 Unable to connect to database! 2005-10-26 22:29:41.906 Driver error was [1/2003]: QMYSQL3: Unable to connect Database error was: Can't connect to MySQL server on '192.168.1.5' (61) 2005-10-26 22:29:41.906 Failed to init MythContext, exiting. I can't find anything in the stuff about mythcontext either. So is mysql compiled in? I get teh same error no matter whoes build i use. Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OpenGL trouble
Ok, I did some poking around in the configure script and vsync.cpp, and it looks like USING_OPENGL_VSYNC is not being set. Then I found this thread, which says the same thing: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/131589?search_string=OpenGL%20vsync%20problem%20with%200.18.1;#131589 I'll give it a shot and post how it goes. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Looking to get a remote
Anyone have any suggestions about what kind of remote I should get for my new frontend? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
