date:20051116

I'd go with an nforce chipset probably.  I bought an nforce 2 board for this 
purpose and it seems fine, and it is fairly low cost.  Fancier and newer ones 
are probably fine, but I'd avoid anything that was released in the past ~3 
months if possible, unless you have solid information on its reliability in 
similar situations.  [Things a few months old tend to have more bugs worked 
out, and may even have bios updates available.]

For capture, unless your dealing with firewire or HDTV over the air signals, 
you almost certainly want to go with a hauppage card.  I'd just get a PVR 150 
and if you need another later you can add one then.  Of course if your sure 
you want two then the 500's work well apparently.  (A 500 is basically two 
150's on a single pci card.)

For memory 512MB is probably the best choice.  More probably won't help, 
although HDTV might be an exception.

I only used KnoppMyth for a day to try to figure out why my Gentoo 
installation didn't work.  Still, it is a good starting point.

I'm not familiar with that particular motherboard.

As regards to noise, well you need to decide if you want your backend to be 
separate from your frontend(s).  If so, then maybe your backend can make lots 
of noise, but be put somewhere so it doesn't matter.

Your front end can be diskless and fanless if you go with something like VIA 
EPIA, or probably some normal processors, with the right heat sinks.  One 
irritation about diskless systems is they seem to lag a bit more and are of 
course more trouble to initially setup.  Gigabit network based diskless 
systems might be interesting.  Some of the cases on logicsupply.com use power 
supplies without fans, although what all those can be used with would require 
some research...

Good luck.  Btw I'm sure I've seen this topic several times before.  If you 
look around the mythtv web page there should be a link to search old messages 
of this list somewhere.

-Robert

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 07:36 pm, Bertrand M wrote:
> Hello,
>
>   I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction in regards  to
> hardware, as I am getting a little overwhelmed with all the choices.  I run
> FreeBSD and XP at home, but haven't used Linux in a long time.
>
>   Here are my needs:
>
>   - I want to use the Silverstone LC11M case,
>   - I will probably use KnoppMyth as it seems the easiest
>   - am worried about fan noise,
>   - will be using MAME and bittorrent more than actual encoding
>   - but want one capture card with the option of having two at some
> point, - am not worried about money necessarily (if something costs 100$
> more and is THAT much better, fine)
>
>   For a mobo, I was looking at
>   BIOSTAR TForce6100-939
>   but it seems that is very problematic with Linux drivers?
>
>   Another direction I was considering would be to use a mobile Pentium or
> Celeron. Is this common?
>
>   I assumed my first capture card would be a Hauppauge PVR-x50.
>
>   What mobo+cpu combos run the coolest and are least problematic driver
> wise? GPU wise, sounds like nVIDIA is the only way to go, correct?
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [mythtv-users] Ditch FC4 for Linux?

2005-11-16 Thread James Esslinger

You should be able to use the editor nano.

* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.11.16 22:23]:
: On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 05:49:54 -0800, Leigh Saunderson  
: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: 
: >Can you elaborate on what the problem is please ?
: 
: No connection. Laggy performance (like the mouse jerks or stalls) that  
: goes away
: 
: >I was running FC3 on my old work PC and I'm pretty sure the onboard LAN
: >was a Via Rhine (not sure if it was II or not).
: >Relevant lines from dmesg and /var/log/messages showing the detection of
: >the device etc might be useful :-)
: 
: My messages is filled with eth0 stuff ('cause I've spent hours trying to  
: fix it). I'm not sure what to look for.
: 
: I've been using vi which I'm not really equipped (physically or  
: emotionally) to do. Is there another editor I can use in FC4. Something  
: like, say, notepad?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Ditch FC4 for Linux?

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 05:49:54 -0800, Leigh Saunderson  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



Can you elaborate on what the problem is please ?


No connection. Laggy performance (like the mouse jerks or stalls) that  
goes away



I was running FC3 on my old work PC and I'm pretty sure the onboard LAN
was a Via Rhine (not sure if it was II or not).
Relevant lines from dmesg and /var/log/messages showing the detection of
the device etc might be useful :-)


My messages is filled with eth0 stuff ('cause I've spent hours trying to  
fix it). I'm not sure what to look for.


I've been using vi which I'm not really equipped (physically or  
emotionally) to do. Is there another editor I can use in FC4. Something  
like, say, notepad?
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[mythtv-users] Has anyone used a "Compro VideoMate USB Digital TV Sticks" (model U3)?

2005-11-16 Thread W.Kenworthy

Has anyone any experience with a  "Compro VideoMate USB Digital TV
Sticks" (model U3)?  

I am looking at getting a couple but cant find any comments on how
good/suitable they are for MythTV.  Can multiple units be used on one
backend? (I have a machine with no spare PCI slots)  Sensitivity (I cant
see an antenna input on the image) so are they useful or require a high
signal area?  Quality of image?

BillK
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Re: [mythtv-users] How to record LiveTV?


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 11:51:49PM +0100, Yemu wrote:
 

i think that in case there's no program listings 
available mythtv should record until i press "r" again...is there any 
possibility to make mythtv record like this?
   



An even better solution would be to do exactly what VCRs have done for
the last 10 years - the record button activates "OTR" for 30 minutes,
and each additional press adds another 30 minutes up to some maximum
value, at which it resets to 30 minutes.  A different key could be used
to stop the recording, or it could be stopped using the existing menu
entries in the manage recordings or watch recordings menus.
 


Bruce Markey is 40 days ahead of you...

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/7401

Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] LiveTV Broken or Bad Permissions?


Chris Pinkham wrote:


I've been keeping quiet (well, other than the laughing to myself) but decided 
to speak up
because I think it's a bit stupid to "svn update" blindly.

I'm trying to make a new phrase catch on...  I think this should be 
called "Subversion Roulette." ;)


Mike

(No hits with Google containing "Subversion Roulette", however, the one 
page returned from the query


http://www.google.com/search?q=%2B%22subversion+roulette%22

contains the words "Subversion's Roulette's" in a list of seemingly 
random words.  Only the cached version is available-the original is no 
longer on the web.  So, I don't know that I actually invented it, but in 
my world, I did.  :)  
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/161352?search_string=subversion%20roulette;#161352

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: ditch FC4 for Linux?

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:07:21 -0800, Robert Lundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
wrote:


I've installed FC4 on both a via mb with rhine II and an intel laptop  
with a broadcom based chip with similar behavior.


Yeah, I gathered it was an "emerging issue".

On the rhine II I had to go through internet set up to activate my eth0.  
At first, I had to create a fixed ip, go find my name servers, etc.  
After it

was up I was able to delete it in the networking wizard and go back a
properly create a DHCP profile.


Well, actually, I want static IP. So I started with that. But it's not  
getting ANYTHING else on the network.



Have you posted your dmesg to verify if a module is loading?


No, I'm going to do that in an hour or so.


FYI-FC4 is the only distro I've found not properly configuring std NIC
setups.


Yeah, I've gathered that, too. I had an FC3 DVD I had burned a while back  
which didn't seem to be a problem (I would've gone with it but the DVD had  
gotten scratched and, heh, I rather short-sightedly put 2 of my 3 burners  
in the MythTV machine, and the 3rd one's in the shop.)
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[mythtv-users] Re: ditch FC4 for Linux?

2005-11-16 Thread Robert Lundy

I've installed FC4 on both a via mb with rhine II and an intel laptop with a broadcom based chip with similar behavior.

On the rhine II I had to go through internet set up to activate my
eth0.  At first, I had to create a fixed ip, go find my name
servers, etc.  After it was up I was able to delete it in the
networking wizard and go back a properly create a DHCP profile.

Have you posted your dmesg to verify if a module is loading?

FYI-FC4 is the only distro I've found not properly configuring std NIC setups.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot Record VCR

2005-11-16 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Peter Darley wrote:

> Nathan,
>
>   Since your card does the encryption for you, you could just make
> sure that the backend doesn't have any scheduled shows, or shut down
> the backend, then just do the 'cat video0 > file.mpg' trick that
> people use when testing their card setup.   So, just start the cat,
> start the play, then ^C when the video stops.

Right, but I am not trying to just encode mpeg4 video, I want it in myth.

>   It's not what you're asking about, but it seems like it would be the
> simplest way to me. :)

: )

P.S. I notice that mpeg2 is now saved as .mpg files from my HD-3000 card,
why do my hardware mpeg4 convertx units save as .nuv? I thought all
hardware mpeg was going to be .mpg now?

-nathan
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Re: [mythtv-users] Nuvexport problems ffmpeg finishes immediately.

2005-11-16 Thread Chris Petersen

What are people doing about the yuvdenoise problems? If I say "no" to 
'enable noise reduction' ffmpeg still bombs.


And the error it bombs with is important..  if it's the "missing -hq" 
one, you'll have to revert ffmpeg or edit nuvexport to remove the 
option.  The only ffmpeg versions available to us fedora users still 
require -hq, and I'm not going to switch my desktop over to kubuntu any 
time soon.


-Chris
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[mythtv-users] Hardware recommended?

2005-11-16 Thread Bertrand M

Hello,I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction in regards  to hardware, as I am getting a little overwhelmed with all the choices.  I run FreeBSD and XP at home, but haven't used Linux in a long time.Here are my needs:    - I want to use the Silverstone LC11M case,      - I will probably use KnoppMyth as it seems the easiest      - am worried about fan noise,      - will be using MAME and bittorrent more than actual encoding      - but want one capture card with the option of having two at some point,      - am not worried about money necessarily (if something costs 100$ more and is THAT much better, fine)For a mobo, I was looking at      BIOSTAR TForce6100-939  but it seems that is very problematic with Linux drivers?Another direction I was considering
 would be to use a mobile Pentium or Celeron. Is this common?I assumed my first capture card would be a Hauppauge PVR-x50.What mobo+cpu combos run the coolest and are least problematic driver wise?   GPU wise, sounds like nVIDIA is the only way to go, correct?  
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[mythtv-users] and-hda-intel alsamixer has no 'Master' control

2005-11-16 Thread Kirby Bakken

I have a Gigabyte GA-K8N51GMF-9 motherboard; this board has a Realtek 
ALC880 chip.  I'm also running a gentoo 2.6.13-r3 kernel.  After I 
managed to find the ALSA device driver 'package' on the Realtek site, 
and got it working, I still couldn't get any sound out of Mythtv...  I 
had the sound device set to 'ALSA:default', and the mixer to 'default'.  
I finally decided to try changing the source code in audiooutputalsa.cpp 
and change the code that was specifying 'Master' to instead specify 
'Front'.  Lo and behold, sound now works in mythtv.


I don't know how/why the alsamixer for the snd-hda-intel device I has a 
'Front' and no 'Master' control.  all I know is that it doesn't work 
the way it is, and my change made it work


How would I suggest to the mythtv 'development guy(s)' that this might 
be a good addition?  Or was there an easier way to fix/change what I had?

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Re: [mythtv-users] PS2 connected to a PVR 350

2005-11-16 Thread Franco

Hello, I am continuing a thread that I started 50 days ago :-)
It was about connecting a PS2 to a Mythbox via a PVR 350

> >>the hardware encoder (also the decoder) have a delay of 1.5 to 2 secs
> >>you will always have this delay if you get the video from /dev/video0.
> >>ivtv-driver (/dev/video32 or 48; don't know exactly) that did direct
> >>pass-through with nearly zero-delay. You can try to watch this via
> >>mplayer. Maybe it works better.

I've tried but I can only play /dev/video0 with mplayer,
all other devices (video16/24/32/48) result in errors.
Also, what I see in mplayer window is the last channel that 
was tuned by mythfrontend (if any), and NOT what is connected
to the video composite input of the PVR350.

How do I select the input that is acquired by the PVR 350 ?
I remember thare was a handy .pl program in the ivtv directory
but it's not there any more :-(
Is there a way to do it from within myth?

> I don't mean to be snide, but why would you want to run your PS2 through
> your PVR-350? Just hook it up right to the TV.

I had stated it when I opened the thread:

  P.S. For those who forgot my setup and wonder why I want to
  connect the PS2 to the mythbox, my mythbox has a DLP projector
  connected via a 10 meters special cable to the VGA output,
  and we wanted to play the games on the mega-screen :-)
  
  The projector is located on the roof on the opposite side
  of the room, so it is not possible to connect the PS2 directly
  to it... it has to be done via the mythbox


Cheers,
Franco



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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Air2PC HD5000 not working

2005-11-16 Thread Kirby Bakken


Boleslaw Ciesielski wrote:


Len Reed wrote:

I'm not getting far setting up my new Air2PC HD5000.  I've been to a 
lot sites, but I'm having trouble separating out the information on 
2.4 kernels, old air2pc cards, satellite and European formats, etc., 
etc. I'm an experienced mythtv user (I have a separate two PVR-250 
system with multiple front ends).



You will probably have better luck on the linux-dvb list 
(www.linuxtv.org).


There's also www.hd5000.com.  This helped me get the right patches, etc.

2. What modules need to be compiled and loaded?  I loaded everything 
everything in kernel/drivers/media: v4l2-common, videodev, 
v4l1-compat, lgdt330x, dvb-pll, and dvb-core.



I believe the main module that you need to load is b2c2-flexcop-pci. 
It should pull in all the others.


5. In mythtv-setup, do I want to select pcHDTV DTV card or DVB DTV 
capture card (v3.x)?  The latter seems more promising, but I get 
"Frontend ID: Could not open card #0!"  Neither works.



Yes, you need to select DVB choice.


Correct, and if the device drivers aren't loaded, and the subsequent 
/dev/dvb 'tree' of files, this won't work.




6. Is there a simple application that can stand in for mythtv while 
I'm trying to get basic card functionality working?  (I don't want to 
load and configure all of KDE for such a purpose.)  Really, being 
able to cat mpeg2 A+V from a device file to a disk file and then 
playing it with mplayer would suffice, but I'm going to have to be 
able to tune the card.



Yes, you need to start with the utilities from the dvb-apps package 
(www.linuxtv.org again). In particular see azap, atscscan, dvbscan and 
dvbtraffic.


Bolek
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I've been working extensively with this this card...  I'm running Gentoo 
2.6.13-r3, and I've got it to work on three different motherboards with 
three different 'sound chips', and two different video cards.  Feel free 
to email me directly with questions: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: [mythtv-users] Nuvexport problems ffmpeg finishes immediately.

2005-11-16 Thread Brad Fuller


Chris Petersen wrote:

It exhibits the same behavior that you are experiencing.  I did have 
to downgrade my copy of nuvexport to the nuvexport-0.2-0.20050317.cvs 
package, as the newer 20051117 build was dying on yuvdenoise errors.



the yuvdenoise errors are because yuvdenoise is either broken (it was 
for awhile) or has completely changed its cli options (which it also 
did).  Reverting nuvexport won't help that.


What are people doing about the yuvdenoise problems? If I say "no" to 
'enable noise reduction' ffmpeg still bombs.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Ditch FC4 for Linux?


On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:49:26 -0800, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 10:13:53PM +, Jules Bean wrote:

Well, it's worth pointing out, of course, that whether your card works
has everything to with kernel + modules and nothing specifically to do
with the distribution.

What's bothering you, I imagine, is the success (or lack of) the
distributions have in automatically probing the card and setting it up
for you.


Your first point was probably more on-target.  If the installation
kernel can't probe the hardware then that's a really good indication
that the modules don't exist.


Well, in my searches, I discovered that the Knoppix install had items for  
some things called "mii" and "crc32" that were absent from the FC4  
install. And I've fooled with the tools to try to get a feel for what's  
missing but no joy as yet.


I'll post (the relevant portions of) my messages logs in a bit.
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Re: [mythtv-users] How to record LiveTV?

2005-11-16 Thread chris

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 11:51:49PM +0100, Yemu wrote:
> i think that in case there's no program listings 
> available mythtv should record until i press "r" again...is there any 
> possibility to make mythtv record like this?

An even better solution would be to do exactly what VCRs have done for
the last 10 years - the record button activates "OTR" for 30 minutes,
and each additional press adds another 30 minutes up to some maximum
value, at which it resets to 30 minutes.  A different key could be used
to stop the recording, or it could be stopped using the existing menu
entries in the manage recordings or watch recordings menus.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Ditch FC4 for Linux?

2005-11-16 Thread chris

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 10:13:53PM +, Jules Bean wrote:
> Well, it's worth pointing out, of course, that whether your card works 
> has everything to with kernel + modules and nothing specifically to do 
> with the distribution.
> 
> What's bothering you, I imagine, is the success (or lack of) the 
> distributions have in automatically probing the card and setting it up 
> for you.

Your first point was probably more on-target.  If the installation 
kernel can't probe the hardware then that's a really good indication 
that the modules don't exist.  I have an Asus P4P800SE with an on-board 
gigabit Marvell ethernet.  It would boot knoppix and find the ethernet 
no problem, but whenever I tried to install Debian it didn't find the 
network card.  The reason was quite simple: the Debian kernel didn't 
have a Marvell module.  The solution was easy: I installed from the 
netinst CD but stopped the install at the point where it was about to 
go to the network to apt-get the rest of the distro.  I then booted 
Knoppix and copied the kernel and modules onto the hard drive.  After a 
reboot I added the new kernel to the lilo configuration, restarted 
using the new kernel and continued the installation.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Ditch FC4 for Linux?

2005-11-16 Thread Scott Alfter

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 16 Nov 2005 at 5:17, Blake wrote:
>>OK, I've spent the night trying to get FC4 running on my would-be MythTV  
>>box, but there's some problem with the ethernet card (Via Rhine II, on the  
>>motherboard).
> 
> Why don't you just go buy a $10 ethernet card that's supported, and be done 
> with 
> it?

via-rhine isn't exactly an oddball NIC type.  There are tons of systems that
use 'em (mostly based on VIA chipsets of one sort or another).  Assuming that
the hardware hasn't been connected to an Etherkiller, it should work.  If it
doesn't, that would indicate a deficiency of the distro in question.

The built-in NIC in my old notebook (an HP Pavilion XF335) is the same type,
and it works just fine with Gentoo.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Nuvexport problems ffmpeg finishes immediately.

2005-11-16 Thread Chris Petersen

Yeah, VCD won't work on an iPod, I tried that.  My question was more 
about if there is something that needs to be compiled into ffmpeg to 
allow connections to fifos.


fifo's are just files.  What matters is what kind of data coming coming 
out of the fifo, and in this case it's raw data, which should be a 
default option.


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RE: [mythtv-users] lirc send and receive

2005-11-16 Thread Marty Ravell

Just a quick note to say thank you to everyone who offered help getting my
lircd up and running again.

In the end I was able to create a workable lircd.conf file by editing one I
got from lirc.org. I replaced the codes with those reported to me for each
button press by mode2.

It turns out that the hardware and mode2 were working fine all along and it
was the lircd.conf that was at fault.

If anyone is in need of this lircd.conf I am more than happy to email it or
post it up on my website (just thought I'd hold off from spamming the list
with it at this stage).

Now for another crack at getting a transmitter to run as well as this
receiver.


Regards
Marty




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Re: [mythtv-users] LiveTV Broken or Bad Permissions?

2005-11-16 Thread Chris Pinkham

> > Do you at random times go to your coworker's computers and take pieces of
> > code they've been working on and compile them into your programs and put 
> > that code
> > into production use without asking or checking to see if there are any 
> > unintended
> > side-effects in their code?  That's what you're doing if you just "svn 
> > update"
> > without reading the lists to see what's working or not working (whether 
> > intentional
> > or not) at the time.

> 
> yep, I work on the andromda open source project and the public cvs
> always works, or if it doesnt it gets fixed pretty quick. If its not for
> public consumption dont publish it to the public. 
> 

Didn't really answer my question, but that's ok.  Myth's SVN HEAD is not 
guaranteed to be
working 100% of the time although we stive for that.  Just because your project 
does it
doesn't mean Myth has to.  As has been mentioned several times before, it's a 
project by
developers for developers.  The fact that the public has access to the 
repository
is a freebie.  As developers, we try not to break SVN at all and when we do, 
it's not
usually for long periods of time, but it will happen.  Myth's SVN is somewhere 
in
the middle between what we're working on on our own systems and what will be 
released.
It leans toward release quality, but sometimes we break things to make progress.
If you want 100% (or as close to 100% as possible) working release quality 
code, then
you should stick to the -fixes branch.  If you're using Myth SVN, we expect you 
to pay
attention a little.  It's not too much to ask.  Ample warning was given and 
this has been
discussed on the lists since LiveTV was disabled, but there are still people 
almost every
day asking if LiveTV is broken.  If they didn't read the past 2 weeks worth of 
posts talking
about it, why do you think they'd read a simple note somewhere else.

I've been keeping quiet (well, other than the laughing to myself) but decided 
to speak up
because I think it's a bit stupid to "svn update" blindly.  Myth is Myth and 
everything else
is not.  If you're using Myth SVN, (we) the developers expect you to pay 
attention.  That's
that and it isn't going to change.  The commit logs and the -commits mailing 
list aren't just
for the fun of it.  If people can't or don't want to pay attention they should 
stick to the
-fixes branch.

Anyway, that's my $0.02 and all I'm saying on the subject.


/me goes off to break some more stuff in SVN HEAD


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Re: [mythtv-users] MythBurn & mpeg2enc segfault

2005-11-16 Thread Mark Schuren


Yes I also have problems with segfaults using mythburn.

Relevant mythburn log entires:

/usr/src/mythburn/scripts/mpeg2cut-px.sh: line 104: 31325 Illegal 
instruction nice -n 19 mplex -o ${outfile} -f 8 ${base}.m2v 
${audio} >/dev/null


and

/usr/src/mythburn/scripts/createscenemenu.sh: line 360: 32027 
Segmentation fault  nice jpeg2yuv -v 0 -n $framerate -I p -f 
$framerate -j ${tempdir}/sceneselection${index}.jpg
   32028 Illegal instruction | nice mpeg2enc -q 2 -a 2 -v 0 -n p 
-f 8 -o ${tempdir}/sceneselection$index.m2v


My version of the mjpegtools is 1.6.3, all crashing tools are from that 
package it seems.


Here's the complete part where things go wrong:

-> cut-out @ GOP# 5118ile 1018_20051113225600_20051113233500.nuv
100% demuxing A/V PES file 1018_20051113225600_20051113233500.nuv
-> Video: fr/ ct/ 1p/ cg/ og/ dg -> 43043/ 1534/ 0/ 3669/ 0/ 0
-> Video length: 43043 frames @ 00:28:41.720
-> GOP summary: min. 12, max. 36 fields; contains interlaced & 
progressive frames

-> avg. nom. bitrate 1941190bps (min/max: 469200/8220400)
-> set first sequenceheader bitrate to 8220400bps
---> new File: ./1018_20051113225600_20051113233500.m2v

--> MPEG Audio (0xC0)
Audio PTS: first packet 07:58:00.819, last packet 08:38:16.8513233500.mp
Video PTS: start 1.GOP 07:59:00.393, end last GOP 08:37:36.913
-> adjusting audio at video-timeline
-> src_audio: MPEG-1, Layer2, 48000Hz, stereo, 192kbps, CRC @ 00:00:00.000
audio frames: wri/pre/skip/ins/add 71738/0/0/0/0 @ 00:28:41.712 donemp
---> new File: ./1018_20051113225600_20051113233500.mpa

summary of created media files:
.Video (m2v):   43043 Frames00:28:41.720
'./1018_20051113225600_20051113233500.m2v'
Audio 0 (mp2):  71738 Frames00:28:41.7120/0/0/0 
'./1018_20051113225600_20051113233500.mpa'

=> 459094381 bytes written...
Remultiplexing video
mplex -o /content/mythburn/1018_20051113225600_20051113233500.nuv -f 8 
1018_20051113225600_20051113233500.m2v 
./1018_20051113225600_20051113233500.mpa

  INFO: [mplex] mplex version 1.6.3-rc3 (2.2.3 $Date: 2004/01/13 20:45:26 $)
  INFO: [mplex] File 1018_20051113225600_20051113233500.m2v looks like 
an MPEG Video stream.
  INFO: [mplex] File ./1018_20051113225600_20051113233500.mpa looks 
like an MPEG Audio stream.
  INFO: [mplex] Video stream 0: profile 8 selected - ignoring 
non-standard options!

  INFO: [mplex] Found 1 audio streams and 1 video streams
  INFO: [mplex] Selecting dvdauthor DVD output profile
  INFO: [mplex] Multiplexing video program stream!
  INFO: [mplex] Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 
(1018_20051113225600_20051113233500.m2v)

  INFO: [mplex] VIDEO STREAM: e0
  INFO: [mplex] Frame width : 720
  INFO: [mplex] Frame height: 576
  INFO: [mplex] Aspect ratio: 4:3 display
  INFO: [mplex] Picture rate: 25.000 frames/sec
  INFO: [mplex] Bit rate: 8220400 bits/sec
  INFO: [mplex] Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
  INFO: [mplex] CSPF: 0
  INFO: [mplex] Scanning for header info: Audio stream c0 
(./1018_20051113225600_20051113233500.mpa)

  INFO: [mplex] MPEG AUDIO STREAM: c0
  INFO: [mplex] Audio version  : 1.0
  INFO: [mplex] Layer  :2
  INFO: [mplex] CRC checksums  :  yes
  INFO: [mplex] Bit rate   :24576 bytes/sec (192 kbit/sec)
  INFO: [mplex] Frequency  : 48000 Hz
  INFO: [mplex] Mode   :0 stereo
  INFO: [mplex] Mode extension :0
  INFO: [mplex] Copyright bit  :0 no copyright
  INFO: [mplex] Original/Copy  :0 copy
  INFO: [mplex] Emphasis   :0 none
  INFO: [mplex] SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
/usr/src/mythburn/scripts/mpeg2cut-px.sh: line 104: 32204 Illegal 
instruction nice -n 19 mplex -o ${outfile} -f 8 ${base}.m2v 
${audio} >/dev/null

Cleaning up
- datestamp=17-11-2005 00:58
Building MPEG2 GOP index files...
- datestamp=17-11-2005 00:58
- datestamp=17-11-2005 00:58
[fileinfo.c:118] file read error: Success
There are 1 programmes to burn to DVD
- datestamp=17-11-2005 00:58
**
starting createmenubackground.sh
**


lots of following errors, including also in mpeg2enc:

/usr/src/mythburn/scripts/createscenemenu.sh: line 360: 32027 
Segmentation fault  nice jpeg2yuv -v 0 -n $framerate -I p -f 
$framerate -j ${tempdir}/sceneselection${index}.jpg
   32028 Illegal instruction | nice mpeg2enc -q 2 -a 2 -v 0 -n p 
-f 8 -o ${tempdir}/sceneselection$index.m2v



Any ideas anyone? I'm using mandriva 2006.0 with mythtv,
mjpegtools and almost everthing else from the mandriva/plf
rpms. Never had mythburn working previously. No idea where
to start my search for the reason... Should I get a different
mjpegtools package or compile some of the stuff myself from
sources?

Help!

Mark


Stuart Auchterlonie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



Has anyone had problems with mpeg2enc segfaulting while
it tries to encode files on b

Re: [mythtv-users] LiveTV Broken or Bad Permissions?

2005-11-16 Thread Robin Gilks


> On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 18:27 -0500, Chris Pinkham wrote:
>> > IMHO, I simple line in the README to say LiveTV is disabled would save
>> a
>> > lot of hassle. Seems lazy to me. I tried the SVN to get better support
>> > for my DVB-T card and had the same problem. Why should I have to
>> follow
>> > the development forums. Im not a mythtv developer.
>> >
>> > btw Ive only been programming for 40 years.
>>
>> 
>> 40 years, wow... ;)
>> 
> your welcome.
>>
>> Do you at random times go to your coworker's computers and take pieces
>> of
>> code they've been working on and compile them into your programs and put
>> that code
>> into production use without asking or checking to see if there are any
>> unintended
>> side-effects in their code?  That's what you're doing if you just "svn
>> update"
>> without reading the lists to see what's working or not working (whether
>> intentional
>> or not) at the time.
> 
> yep, I work on the andromda open source project and the public cvs
> always works, or if it doesnt it gets fixed pretty quick. If its not for
> public consumption dont publish it to the public.
> 


Its not 'published to the public', its published to other DEVELOPERS so
that 'it gets fixed pretty quick'


Doh

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Re: [mythtv-users] MyBlaster/Dish Network

True, I originally had change_channel.sh and change_channel2.sh in my mythtv 
configuration, and it was easier to not go in and change things.  It was a 
bit of lazyness on my part I suppose.

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 05:58 pm, William wrote:
> > [---/usr/local/bin/change_channel.sh---]
> > #!/bin/bash
> > perl /usr/local/bin/MyBlaster.pl $1
>
> Its good to see that my scripts are still getting used. I just wanted to
> add a note about starting the script. You do not need to call the script
> from with a shell. Just put:
>
> /usr/local/bin/MyBlaster.pl
>
> in the script field for that capture card. If you need to use options:
>
> /usr/local/bin/MyBlaster.pl  
>
> Mythtv will append the channel number to the end of the string and will
> call the script shell itself. No need to double shell the thing. Also will
> give you a noticable speed increase when changing channels.
>
> PS - I should have time this winter to pull the learning mode code into the
> origional command set and will release an update.  Check sourceforge for
> the latest version which is currently 1.4.1
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RE: [mythtv-users] MyBlaster/Dish Network

2005-11-16 Thread William

 
> [---/usr/local/bin/change_channel.sh---]
> #!/bin/bash
> perl /usr/local/bin/MyBlaster.pl $1
> 

Its good to see that my scripts are still getting used. I just wanted to add
a note about starting the script. You do not need to call the script from
with a shell. Just put:

/usr/local/bin/MyBlaster.pl

in the script field for that capture card. If you need to use options:

/usr/local/bin/MyBlaster.pl  

Mythtv will append the channel number to the end of the string and will call
the script shell itself. No need to double shell the thing. Also will give
you a noticable speed increase when changing channels.

PS - I should have time this winter to pull the learning mode code into the
origional command set and will release an update.  Check sourceforge for the
latest version which is currently 1.4.1


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Re: [mythtv-users] LiveTV Broken or Bad Permissions?

2005-11-16 Thread Martin West

On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 18:27 -0500, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> > IMHO, I simple line in the README to say LiveTV is disabled would save a
> > lot of hassle. Seems lazy to me. I tried the SVN to get better support
> > for my DVB-T card and had the same problem. Why should I have to follow
> > the development forums. Im not a mythtv developer.
> > 
> > btw Ive only been programming for 40 years.
> 
> 
> 40 years, wow... ;)
> 
your welcome.
> 
> Do you at random times go to your coworker's computers and take pieces of
> code they've been working on and compile them into your programs and put that 
> code
> into production use without asking or checking to see if there are any 
> unintended
> side-effects in their code?  That's what you're doing if you just "svn update"
> without reading the lists to see what's working or not working (whether 
> intentional
> or not) at the time.

yep, I work on the andromda open source project and the public cvs
always works, or if it doesnt it gets fixed pretty quick. If its not for
public consumption dont publish it to the public. 

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Re: [mythtv-users] LiveTV Broken or Bad Permissions?

2005-11-16 Thread Chris Pinkham

> IMHO, I simple line in the README to say LiveTV is disabled would save a
> lot of hassle. Seems lazy to me. I tried the SVN to get better support
> for my DVB-T card and had the same problem. Why should I have to follow
> the development forums. Im not a mythtv developer.
> 
> btw Ive only been programming for 40 years.


40 years, wow... ;)


Do you at random times go to your coworker's computers and take pieces of
code they've been working on and compile them into your programs and put that 
code
into production use without asking or checking to see if there are any 
unintended
side-effects in their code?  That's what you're doing if you just "svn update"
without reading the lists to see what's working or not working (whether 
intentional
or not) at the time.

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Re: [mythtv-users] LiveTV Broken or Bad Permissions?

2005-11-16 Thread Martin West

IMHO, I simple line in the README to say LiveTV is disabled would save a
lot of hassle. Seems lazy to me. I tried the SVN to get better support
for my DVB-T card and had the same problem. Why should I have to follow
the development forums. Im not a mythtv developer.

btw Ive only been programming for 40 years.

On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 17:14 -0500, Tom E. Craddock Jr. wrote:
> Steve Adeff wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 November 2005 14:01, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> > 
> >>Paul Wheeler wrote:
> >>
> >>>I think the main reason a lot of people are using svn is the lack of a
> >>>recent release, he last release was about 9 months ago I always
> >>>stuck to the latest release version but using dvb in the uk with a
> >>>deaf housemate I was practically forced to use svn to get myth to work
> >>>properly and have subtitles. I know there was meant to be more
> >>>planning of intermediate releases (bug fix releases) however it just
> >>>simply wasnt working. IMHO I cant see a release hasnt been done a
> >>>while ago. The jumps in development are huge. I am sure a more regular
> >>>release schedule will help one of the main problems myth has which is
> >>>its stability. By regular releases more bugs will be found and can be
> >>>fixed better. I do understand that myth is a young project and that it
> >>>is still in fairly heavy development but 9 months between releases
> >>>when the svn changelog is so active just isnt right.
> >>
> >>OK.  But even so, this does not mean that users who wouldn't normally
> >>use SVN are exempt from the responsibilities expected of *anyone* using
> >>SVN--i.e. reading and keeping up with the -dev and -commits lists...
> >>
> >>Just my $0.02.
> >>
> >>Mike
> > 
> > 
> > Show me where onthe SVN page it says to read and keep up with the lists? 
> > 
> > As well, in the documentation, while it mentions you should join the lists, 
> > it 
> > does not say anything about how to search the lists (ie gossamer) to see 
> > what 
> > the current state of SVN is in.
> > 
> > I don't know where else there is with official Myth Documentation that 
> > talks 
> > about SVN, but I'll assume theres nothing there. Maybe a little 
> > clarification 
> > in the documentation (but apparently NOT on the SVN page itself) should 
> > talk 
> > about this stuff.
> > 
> > Steve
> 
> 
> I think its one of those, if you are going to venture into the deep end 
> of the waters, you should know how to swim thingsIf your going to go 
> and use SVN, then you should at least know how to use it, ie know how to 
> read up on the changelog/commit lists/dev lists.  I was never TOLD that 
> myself, if just makes a hell of alot of sense to me that way.  If I want 
> to use something, esp code thats actively being developed, then Id want 
> to know whats going on with that code...the only way to know that is to 
> either talk to the dev themselves (dev list is for that) or read their 
> thoughts (commit list and trac for that).
> 
> Tom
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Re: [mythtv-users] FYI: The Current Zap2it survey/Reqeust.

2005-11-16 Thread Ian White



On Nov 16, 2005, at 7:32, George Nassas wrote:


On 15-Nov-05, at 9:37 PM, Chris Ribe wrote:

"Just asking the whole world to use some time between 9:00am and  
midnight
 would accomplish little (because 9:00am and midnight come at  
different

 times in each time zone)"


Since they're distributing North American listings I would guess  
the bulk of their users are in one of those time zones.


Have a look at the concurrency pictures they have posted. This seems  
to be the last one they made public after having announced a desire  
to change times.


http://docs.tms.tribune.com/tech/tmp/ 
concurrency_2004-06-08_to_2004-07-12.png


Ian
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Re: [mythtv-users] Play Audio/Video Backwards

2005-11-16 Thread Geoff Scott

On 11/16/05, Marty Ravell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I think you need to install the little known MythSatanicRitual module. Not
> sure if is available on ATRPMs though.
>
> ;)
>
> Regards
> Marty
>

I missed this module.  I assume it has it's own theme as well? 
Multiple presses of the "6" key unlock new features and hidden menus?

:D

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Re: [mythtv-users] How to record LiveTV?

2005-11-16 Thread Yemu

Dnia środa, 16 listopada 2005 22:58, Michael T. Dean napisał:
> Adam Greenbaum wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 23:13 +0100, Yemu wrote:
> >> Dnia wtorek, 15 listopada 2005 22:04, Richard Jones napisał:
> >>> I can't figure how to record LiveTV. The online docs suggest that
> >>> hitting
> >>> "r" will toggle it, but doing so just displays 'Recording ""' in the
> >>> top left of the screen for a few moments. Nothing appears to be written
> >>> anywhere. If I'm in browse mode, the message that appears (written over
> >>> the
> >>> "Browse" text) is "Record" and it stays until I hit "r" again. Nothing
> >>> appears to be written anywhere though.
> >>
> >> i also have the similar problem :-( hitting "r" makes nothing... and
> >> i checked
> >> "watch recordings" - there are only scheduled recordings there
> >
> > This is what happens if you don't have tv listings for the current
> > channel. Myth doesn't know the finish time or name of the current
> > program so it just doesn't start. Fix your listings and the problem
> > should go away.
>
> And the 'Recording ""' (no name in quotes) seems to indicate this is
> exactly what's happening.

i think that's also the case for me and that's not good :-( the problem is 
that mythtv is used in such exotic countries like poland ;-), and we don't 
have a xmltv grabber here...i think that in case there's no program listings 
available mythtv should record until i press "r" again...is there any 
possibility to make mythtv record like this?


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[mythtv-users] Re: cannot capture audio

2005-11-16 Thread RKVJ

Yes, I made sure that the line-in is set as the
record-source and is muted. Tvtime and xawtv work
properly when I unmute the line-in. Another way I'm
able to get hear the real-time audio is increasing the
volume level on "AC97" control, with the
"capture"(which I believe is AC97 capture) also
selected as a recording source. The funny thing about
AC97 is that it continues to play even after I exit
out of mythtv !

Essestially, I'm not able to get the audio
captured/buffered. Any ideas on how to debug/fix the
problem further?

Thanks

RKVJ



 On 16/11/05, RKVJ  wrote:
> Hi Mythtv-users,
>
> I'm trying to get mythtv up on an AMD64 machine that
> runs Fedora 4(32-bit OS, since I couldn't get mythtv
> to work on x86_64 version) and haven't had any luck
in
> getting the buffered sound to work(record or
> playback). I'm using a 'Hauppauge WintvGo(uses bt878
> chipset)' for video capture and 'Creative sound
> blaster live value' for sound card. I use a patch
> cable to feed the output of the capture card to the
> sound card via its line-in.

Does your TV card support snd-bt8x8?

>
> There are several posts related to the issue but I
> couldn't find any resolution to the problem. The
> issues that I see are very similar to the one posted
> in the folloing thread
> -
>

>
>
>
> Some information on my installation/hardware:
>
> I used Jarod Wilson's installation steps for
guidance.
> mostly; referred to the mythtv website for
> troubleshooting tips.
>
> I tried the sound-test from the mythtv installation
> notes - fired-up xawtv, with the line-in on the
> sound-card muted and tried 'aplay /dev/dsp'; I do
see
> the underrun messages such as :
>
> ---
> underrun!!! (at least 10.483 ms long)
> underrun!!! (at least 11.528 ms long)
> underrun!!! (at least 11.565 ms long)
> underrun!!! (at least 11.567 ms long)
> underrun!!! (at least 11.563 ms long)
> underrun!!! (at least 11.569 ms long)
> underrun!!! (at least 11.565 ms long)
>
> ---
>
> but do not hear any sound :(
>
> I can record tv, but only without the sound, which
is
> probably because the audio-capture is not happening
> through /dev/dsp.

Have you monitored your sound mixer settings whilst
playing TV and
making sure your line in is set up to record/muted and
your ouput
devices are set to sufficient volume?

Nick
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--- RKVJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi Mythtv-users,
> 
> I'm trying to get mythtv up on an AMD64 machine that
> runs Fedora 4(32-bit OS, since I couldn't get mythtv
> to work on x86_64 version) and haven't had any luck
> in
> getting the buffered sound to work(record or
> playback). I'm using a 'Hauppauge WintvGo(uses bt878
> chipset)' for video capture and 'Creative sound
> blaster live value' for sound card. I use a patch
> cable to feed the output of the capture card to the
> sound card via its line-in.
> 
> There are several posts related to the issue but I
> couldn't find any resolution to the problem. The
> issues that I see are very similar to the one posted
> in the folloing thread
> -
>

> 
> 
> 
> Some information on my installation/hardware:
> 
> I used Jarod Wilson's installation steps for
> guidance.
> mostly; referred to the mythtv website for
> troubleshooting tips.
> 
> I tried the sound-test from the mythtv installation
> notes - fired-up xawtv, with the line-in on the
> sound-card muted and tried 'aplay /dev/dsp'; I do
> see
> the underrun messages such as :
> 
> ---
> underrun!!! (at least 10.483 ms long)
> underrun!!! (at least 11.528 ms long)
> underrun!!! (at least 11.565 ms long)
> underrun!!! (at least 11.567 ms long)
> underrun!!! (at least 11.563 ms long)
> underrun!!! (at least 11.569 ms long)
> underrun!!! (at least 11.565 ms long)
> 
> ---
> 
> but do not hear any sound :(
> 
> 
> I can record tv, but only without the sound, which
> is
> probably because the audio-capture is not happening
> through /dev/dsp. 
> 
> If any of you mythtv-users have a similar
> configuration as mine and have solved the issue,
> please post it on the list.
> 
> 
> Here's the relevant excerpt from lspci:
> 
>
-
> 02:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree
> Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
> Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.
> WinTV
> Series
> Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle-
> MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr-
> DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR-
>  Latency: 64 (4000ns min, 100

Re: [mythtv-users] Dumb DVD ripping question.

2005-11-16 Thread Phill Edwards

> Yes, but you have to update the library somehow. I forget just now but there
> is something like scan or update video library or something like that.

Utilities/Setup --> Video Manager.
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Re: [mythtv-users] MyBlaster/Dish Network

I'm going to use the format [FILENAME] and then paste the file.  The 
only change to the perl script was just an edit to make it find the file 
easier.  Perhaps it wasn't even needed.  I have everything in /usr/local/bin.  
To use these you will need to copy paste these into files and make the 
scripts executable.  Myth calls the change_channel scripts.

[Don't forget the alternate keys are for receiver remote code 2.  This is 
settable on the receiver, or at least the ones I have.]

-Robert Denier

[---/usr/local/bin/change_channel.sh---]
#!/bin/bash
perl /usr/local/bin/MyBlaster.pl $1

[---/usr/local/bin/change_channel2.sh---]
#!/bin/bash
cd /usr/local/bin
perl /usr/local/bin/MyBlaster.pl changechannel d2.keys $1

[---/usr/local/bin/d2.keys---]
power = 1B008B0300C70C1700C7058900BE0354010091212100
select = 1B008C0300C90C1500C9058700C00352010091122100
exit = 1B008C0300C90C1400C9058600C003570100911211212100
0 = 1B008C0300C90C1400C9058700C003540100911211122100
1 = 1B008C0300C90C1500C9058700C00354010092112100
2 = 1B008C0300C90C1400C9058700C00354010092122100
3 = 1B008C0300C90C1400C9058700C00356010092212100
4 = 1B008C0300C90C1500C9058700C9034A0100911121112100
5 = 1B008C0300C90C1400C9058600C9034E0100911121122100
6 = 1B008C0300C90C1400C9058600C903510100911121212100
7 = 1B008C0300C90C1400C9058700C9034D0210911122112100
8 = 1B008C0300C90C1400C9058700C9034C0100911122122100
9 = 1B008C0300C90C1400C9058700C9034C0100911122212100

[---/usr/local/bin/MyBlaster.pl---]
#!/usr/bin/perl

# MyBlaster.pl:  Controller for the MyBlaster serial IR blaster 
(www.mytvstore.com)
# By William Munson [wmunson] (July 26, 2004, ver-1.4)
#
# This code is being released into the public domain for non-profit use.
# For commercial use please contact me at our support forum:
# http://www.mythtvtalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=622#622
#
# Version 1.0 - Initial release of code.
# Version 1.1 - Added macro feature.
# Version 1.2 - Fixed some timing issues in the data transfer to MyBlaster.
# Version 1.3 - Fixed output for devices other than DSS/Satellite receivers.
# - Added support for port locking which keeps a second instance
#   suspended until the 1st has completed.
# Version 1.4 - Public Release #1 - Updated documentation for release.
# Version 1.4.1 - Added Learing and emitting learned keys - Vlado


$|=1;
use POSIX qw(:termios_h);
use FileHandle;
use Time::HiRes qw( sleep );


# Defaults to standard COM2 port, 19200 baud.
my $serial=init_serial("/dev/ttyS0","19200"); # Com 1
# my $serial=init_serial("/dev/ttyS1","19200"); # Com 2

# Device code for the piece of equipment you want to control. This info can
# be found in the MyBlaster Library folder.
#
# 775 controls a standard Dishnet receiver.
$remote_code="775";

# Device Type is a hex value from 0 to A and represents the type of device you
# want to control. Below is a list of the available device type codes.
# 0=TV, 1=CABLE, 2=Video Acc, 3=DSS/Satellite, 4-VCR, 5=Laser Disk, 6=DVD
# 7=Tuner/Amp, 8=Amplifier, 9=CD, A=Home Control
$Device_Type="3";

# Duplicate process protection. Enable this if you use the same blaster to 
control
# multiple devices. With this enabled, multiple instances of the program will 
each
# sleep until the blaster port is free. Uses a lock file.
$Use_Locking=0;

# Lock File name.
$LockFile="/tmp/MyBlaster.lock";

# remote file prefix. The file name will be $prefix_.keys
$remote_prefix = "/home/mythtv/MyBlaster_";

# Use verbose output mode for debugging.
$verbose=0;

# Time delay between each channel digit.
$inter_key_delay=0.1;

# Emit time. This is the length of time the command is sent. Probably a
# good idea to leave this alone but if you are getting repeats of buttons
# then you can shorten it a little bit.
$Emit_Time=0.333;

# Learn Time. This is the length of time we let MyBlaster to try to learn a 
command.
$Learn_Time=3.0;

# Enable to press a key to finalize channel entry
$finalize=1;

# Key used to finalize channel entry
$finalize_key="select";

# Enable to clear the on screen display more quickly.
$quick_clear=1;

# Key used to clear the display. Taken from keymap below.
$quick_clear_key="exit";

# Time to wait until clearing the display
$clear_delay=2.0;

# Misc variables needed by the program
$Count=0;

# These keys should be common to all device codes. The remote buttons
# may have different names. Feel free to change the name but not the value.
%keymap=(1 => "0x01",
 2 => "0x02",
 3 => "0x03",
 4 => "0x04",
 5 => "0x05",
 6 => "0x06",
 7 => "0x07",
 8 => "0x08",
 9 => "0x09",
 0 => "0x0a",
vol_up => "0x0b",
vol_dn => "0x0c",
  mute => "0x0d",
 ch_up => "0x0e",
 ch_dn => "0x0f",

RE: [mythtv-users] Play Audio/Video Backwards

2005-11-16 Thread Marty Ravell

Geoff Scott wrote:

>So I watch Lost.  There's a character on Lost, Walt, who has started
>to talk backwards.  I was wondering if Myth has a way to play the
>video/audio backwards so I don't have to go surf to some fan site to
>figure out what he said.  I like being able to slow down the
>recording, or speed it up, but reversing it would be... well, pretty
>cool.
>  
>

I think you need to install the little known MythSatanicRitual module. Not
sure if is available on ATRPMs though.

;)

Regards
Marty



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RE: [mythtv-users] lirc send and receive

2005-11-16 Thread Marty Ravell


>Repeat after me, including slap of forehead at appropriate time"Oh
>damn, irw won't work when lircd is running...[EMAIL PROTECTED]

I'm not trying to be contrary but I think you will find that irw must have
lircd running in order for it to work.

irw dumps information received on a domain socket to stdout. (According to
it's man page)

In the case of what we are trying to do it is lircd which is sending this
information to the socket.

I agree with you that using mode2 or irrecord needs lircd to be stopped. As
stated in my previous post I do not have a problem getting mode2 or irrecord
to work.

Am I being completely stupid on this point? (it is quite possible)


>NOWHERE on the lirc.org site does it make it clear that the lircd.conf
>file and the lircrc file must match in the NAMES of the keys.
>
>So if lircd.conf calls a button  "vol+"  the lircrc file will not map
>properly into your applications if it is referred to as "Volume-Up" (or
>likely even "VOL+"
>
>And of course, the lircd.conf must correctly map the transmitted codes to
>something..
>


Am I correct in thinking that irw should return the names of the keys
pressed as they match up in the lircd.conf file?

It was my understanding that irw was not dependant on the lircrc file. Is
this a mistake I am making?


>
>Since you got that far, I presume you have the /dev stuff figured out. I
>had to make a rules file in /etc/udev/rules.d called 11-lirc.rules
>with the following line in it, so that lirc would work:
>
>KERNEL="lirc0" SYMLINK="lirc" GROUP="mythtv" MODE="0660"
>
>This ensures that /dev/lirc0 is created, that a symlink of /dev/lirc is
>created and the group and permissions are set correctly.
>

I have 3 files in this directory:

10-wacom.rules
50-udev.rules
lirc.rules

I'm assuming that the lirc.rules is the one we are talking about (you
mentioned 11-lirc.rules).

My lirc.rules contains:


KERNEL="lirc[0-9]*",   NAME="lirc%n"
KERNEL="lirc0",SYMLINK="lirc"


/dev/lirc0 is being created as I can cat it and see characters produced by
button presses (mode2 works etc).

Any ideas?


Regards
Marty





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Re: [mythtv-users] Play Audio/Video Backwards


Geoff Scott wrote:


So I watch Lost.  There's a character on Lost, Walt, who has started
to talk backwards.  I was wondering if Myth has a way to play the
video/audio backwards so I don't have to go surf to some fan site to
figure out what he said.  I like being able to slow down the
recording, or speed it up, but reversing it would be... well, pretty
cool.
 

Pretty sure Myth doesn't support this, but you could probably do it in 
something like Cinelerra (if you can get that beast to work :) or some 
other non-linear editor.


Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] LiveTV Broken or Bad Permissions?

2005-11-16 Thread Tom E. Craddock Jr.


Steve Adeff wrote:

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 14:01, Michael T. Dean wrote:


Paul Wheeler wrote:


I think the main reason a lot of people are using svn is the lack of a
recent release, he last release was about 9 months ago I always
stuck to the latest release version but using dvb in the uk with a
deaf housemate I was practically forced to use svn to get myth to work
properly and have subtitles. I know there was meant to be more
planning of intermediate releases (bug fix releases) however it just
simply wasnt working. IMHO I cant see a release hasnt been done a
while ago. The jumps in development are huge. I am sure a more regular
release schedule will help one of the main problems myth has which is
its stability. By regular releases more bugs will be found and can be
fixed better. I do understand that myth is a young project and that it
is still in fairly heavy development but 9 months between releases
when the svn changelog is so active just isnt right.


OK.  But even so, this does not mean that users who wouldn't normally
use SVN are exempt from the responsibilities expected of *anyone* using
SVN--i.e. reading and keeping up with the -dev and -commits lists...

Just my $0.02.

Mike



Show me where onthe SVN page it says to read and keep up with the lists? 

As well, in the documentation, while it mentions you should join the lists, it 
does not say anything about how to search the lists (ie gossamer) to see what 
the current state of SVN is in.


I don't know where else there is with official Myth Documentation that talks 
about SVN, but I'll assume theres nothing there. Maybe a little clarification 
in the documentation (but apparently NOT on the SVN page itself) should talk 
about this stuff.


Steve



I think its one of those, if you are going to venture into the deep end 
of the waters, you should know how to swim thingsIf your going to go 
and use SVN, then you should at least know how to use it, ie know how to 
read up on the changelog/commit lists/dev lists.  I was never TOLD that 
myself, if just makes a hell of alot of sense to me that way.  If I want 
to use something, esp code thats actively being developed, then Id want 
to know whats going on with that code...the only way to know that is to 
either talk to the dev themselves (dev list is for that) or read their 
thoughts (commit list and trac for that).


Tom

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Re: [mythtv-users] Ditch FC4 for Linux?

2005-11-16 Thread Jules Bean


Blake wrote:
OK, I've spent the night trying to get FC4 running on my would-be 
MythTV box, but there's some problem with the ethernet card (Via Rhine 
II, on the motherboard). If anyone has encountered this problem and 
can steer me right on how to fix it, I'll stick with FC4, but 
otherwise, I don't want to chase down this bug for weeks before I can 
even GET to my myth installation.


So, KnoppMyth: No. FC4: No. What's next? Gentoo?


Well, it's worth pointing out, of course, that whether your card works 
has everything to with kernel + modules and nothing specifically to do 
with the distribution.


What's bothering you, I imagine, is the success (or lack of) the 
distributions have in automatically probing the card and setting it up 
for you. Now it's a while since I've installed from scratch (will be 
doing so shortly though my when myth box starts coming together!) but I 
have heard that Ubuntu has a very good reputation for hardware 
autodetection.


Jules
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Re: [mythtv-users] lirc send and receive

2005-11-16 Thread Jon Reynolds


http://www.lircsetup.com/lirc/blaster/index.php
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Re: [mythtv-users] How to record LiveTV?


Adam Greenbaum wrote:


On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 23:13 +0100, Yemu wrote:


Dnia wtorek, 15 listopada 2005 22:04, Richard Jones napisał:

I can't figure how to record LiveTV. The online docs suggest that 
hitting

"r" will toggle it, but doing so just displays 'Recording ""' in the top
left of the screen for a few moments. Nothing appears to be written
anywhere. If I'm in browse mode, the message that appears (written 
over the

"Browse" text) is "Record" and it stays until I hit "r" again. Nothing
appears to be written anywhere though.


i also have the similar problem :-( hitting "r" makes nothing... and 
i checked

"watch recordings" - there are only scheduled recordings there


This is what happens if you don't have tv listings for the current
channel. Myth doesn't know the finish time or name of the current
program so it just doesn't start. Fix your listings and the problem
should go away.


And the 'Recording ""' (no name in quotes) seems to indicate this is 
exactly what's happening.


Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] LiveTV Broken or Bad Permissions?

2005-11-16 Thread Steve Adeff

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 14:01, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Paul Wheeler wrote:
> >I think the main reason a lot of people are using svn is the lack of a
> >recent release, he last release was about 9 months ago I always
> >stuck to the latest release version but using dvb in the uk with a
> >deaf housemate I was practically forced to use svn to get myth to work
> >properly and have subtitles. I know there was meant to be more
> >planning of intermediate releases (bug fix releases) however it just
> >simply wasnt working. IMHO I cant see a release hasnt been done a
> >while ago. The jumps in development are huge. I am sure a more regular
> >release schedule will help one of the main problems myth has which is
> >its stability. By regular releases more bugs will be found and can be
> >fixed better. I do understand that myth is a young project and that it
> >is still in fairly heavy development but 9 months between releases
> >when the svn changelog is so active just isnt right.
>
> OK.  But even so, this does not mean that users who wouldn't normally
> use SVN are exempt from the responsibilities expected of *anyone* using
> SVN--i.e. reading and keeping up with the -dev and -commits lists...
>
> Just my $0.02.
>
> Mike

Show me where onthe SVN page it says to read and keep up with the lists? 

As well, in the documentation, while it mentions you should join the lists, it 
does not say anything about how to search the lists (ie gossamer) to see what 
the current state of SVN is in.

I don't know where else there is with official Myth Documentation that talks 
about SVN, but I'll assume theres nothing there. Maybe a little clarification 
in the documentation (but apparently NOT on the SVN page itself) should talk 
about this stuff.

Steve
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[mythtv-users] Play Audio/Video Backwards

2005-11-16 Thread Geoff Scott

So I watch Lost.  There's a character on Lost, Walt, who has started
to talk backwards.  I was wondering if Myth has a way to play the
video/audio backwards so I don't have to go surf to some fan site to
figure out what he said.  I like being able to slow down the
recording, or speed it up, but reversing it would be... well, pretty
cool.

G
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Re: [mythtv-users] Ditch FC4 for Linux?

2005-11-16 Thread Steve Adeff

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 16:06, Blake wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:28:17 -0800, Phill Wiggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> > Or, could it be something other than Rhine II?  If it's Gigabit, it
> > might use the VIA Velocity module.
>
> I don't think so. I'm pretty sure that the manuals mentioned it, though
> it's been a few years.
>
> Also, under Knoppix, the card is identified as Rhine-II and it works.

So boot into Knoppix, see what module is being used to power the network card, 
grab the packages on another computer, burn the packages to a CD, install the 
packages, enable the network card, setup your network, done!

Steve
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Re: [mythtv-users] $20 tuner at CompUSA

Found drivers and documentation for the card at
http://fmi.compusa.com/driver.asp?SKU=333088
This gentoo page has a good description on how to set up conexant tv tuners:
- http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV

The file that it references as a list of BTTV cards is here (and doesn't list that card, afaict): 
- http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Cardlist.BTTV
Likewise, a list of tuners that doesn't seem to include that one:
- http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Tuners
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[mythtv-users] Configure oddity

I grabbed svn 7738 of mythtv to take a look at Live Tv. It would not 
configure to include lirc despite changing the defaults at the top of 
the configure file, *and* including --enable-lirc in the configure call.


I traced the code to this bit, which starts at about line 1638 in the file:

*** Fragment *
#test for lirc client libraries 
if test x"$lirc" = x"yes" ; then   # IF IT IS NO, EXIT, 
IF YES

   lirc="no"  # SET TO NO AND TEST
   if has_library liblirc_client.so ; then# CHANGE IT BACK IF 
THE CLIENT LIBRARY EXISTS >>WHICH IT DOES

   lirc="yes"
   fi
fi

#test for lirc client header
if test x"$lirc" = x"yes" ; then#SAME AS ABOVE
  lirc="no"   
cat > $TMPC << EOF

#include 
int main( void ) { return 0; }
EOF
   if $cc $CFLAGS $ARCHFLAGS -o $TMPE $TMPC 2> /dev/null ; then# I 
HAVE NO IDEA WAS THIS DOES! BUT IT FAILS..
   lirc="yes"   
   fi

fi


*End Fragment ***

To get configure to work, I changed the 2 lirc="no" lines to lirc="yes".

I have liblirc_client.so in /usr/lib and that folder is included in 
ld.so.conf.

And there is a /lirc/lirc_client.h in /usr/include

As far as I can tell, by running the code portions sequentially, it 
should work

Except for the line which I cannot understand.
This is on a Via SP13000 which use the arch flag..

Anyone have any ideas?


Geoff



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[mythtv-users] Front end/Back end functionality

2005-11-16 Thread Doug Hall

My plan is to have a tower PC back end in my bedroom (to help counter  
my wife's snoring ;-) and a front end XBox or Hauppauge MediaMVP in  
the den, as the front end.


I expect that I can connect my cable TV to the back end (obviously),  
and yet still control everything (including pausing live TV) from the  
front end. Is this correct? Also, if I go with the XBox, what  
advantages will I have over the MediaMVP? Will I, for example, be  
able to decode DVDs on the XBox, and have the resulting files stored  
on my back end? Is there any advantage to having the hard drive in  
the XBox? For those of you using the MediaMVP as a front end, how is  
that working out for you?


Thanks for all responses!
Doug
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: $20 tuner at CompUSA

2005-11-16 Thread Robert Johnston

On 11/16/05, Cory Papenfuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 2388xTF. The manual says "The New Hardware Wizard will...detect the
> > ÿÿConexant 23880 Video Capture (NTSC)ÿÿ device."
>
> Software-based card.  Probably fairly similar to the bttv for
> support, but it will take lots of CPU to record.  Hardware-based cards
> (e.g. the PVR-150) are in general better quality for less space/cpu.

Erm, from the description (DVB-T), it's a Digital card. Though I don't
know of anywhere in the US that's using DVB-T.
--
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Re: [mythtv-users] MyBlaster/Dish Network

2005-11-16 Thread greg

> I can send someone the files I'm using if someone needs them.  You will
> need a
> serial IR blaster, and one receiver set with id 1 and the other with id 2.

Getting it to work with two dish network receivers is very cool - I'd like
your changed files if you don't mind!

Thank,

Greg
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Re: [mythtv-users] How to record LiveTV?

This is what happens if you don't have tv listings for the currentchannel. Myth doesn't know the finish time or name of the current
program so it just doesn't start. Fix your listings and the problemshould go away.
Another possibility is that your myth partition is full. Despite having
policies on auto-expire and such, I've still run into cases where not
having enough disk space prevented me from hitting record on live TV.

 - Jeff
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: $20 tuner at CompUSA

2005-11-16 Thread Cory Papenfuss

2388xTF. The manual says "The New Hardware Wizard will...detect the 
ÿÿConexant 23880 Video Capture (NTSC)ÿÿ device."


	Software-based card.  Probably fairly similar to the bttv for 
support, but it will take lots of CPU to record.  Hardware-based cards 
(e.g. the PVR-150) are in general better quality for less space/cpu.


-cory

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* Cory Papenfuss*
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student   *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   *
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[mythtv-users] MyBlaster/Dish Network

Overall the MyBlaster serial seems rock solid with two dish network receivers, 
where the IR blaster did flaky channel changes no matter how long I messed 
with it, especially when myth was doing the channel changing.  [When myth is 
changing the channel, there are other things going on that seem to make IR 
blasters less reliable.]

I can send someone the files I'm using if someone needs them.  You will need a 
serial IR blaster, and one receiver set with id 1 and the other with id 2.

Note, I don't have anything particularly new, I just did a couple minor 
changes to a set of perl scripts linked in a past list post.

-Robert



 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Nuvexport problems ffmpeg finishes immediately.

2005-11-16 Thread Jason McLeod

Yeah, VCD won't work on an iPod, I tried that.  My question was more  
about if there is something that needs to be compiled into ffmpeg to  
allow connections to fifos.


-Jason

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On 15-Nov-05, at 8:18 PM, Chris Petersen wrote:

It exhibits the same behavior that you are experiencing.  I did  
have to downgrade my copy of nuvexport to the  
nuvexport-0.2-0.20050317.cvs package, as the newer 20051117 build  
was dying on yuvdenoise errors.


the yuvdenoise errors are because yuvdenoise is either broken (it  
was for awhile) or has completely changed its cli options (which it  
also did).  Reverting nuvexport won't help that.


In case your wondering why so much work for aac, it's so I can  
encode for my iPod Video.


fyi, the ipod will play mpeg files straight from the pvr-x50 cards,  
which means that it will probably play vcd just fine, too.


-Chris
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Re: [mythtv-users] How to record LiveTV?

2005-11-16 Thread Adam Greenbaum

On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 23:13 +0100, Yemu wrote:
> Dnia wtorek, 15 listopada 2005 22:04, Richard Jones napisał:
> > I can't figure how to record LiveTV. The online docs suggest that hitting
> > "r" will toggle it, but doing so just displays 'Recording ""' in the top
> > left of the screen for a few moments. Nothing appears to be written
> > anywhere. If I'm in browse mode, the message that appears (written over the
> > "Browse" text) is "Record" and it stays until I hit "r" again. Nothing
> > appears to be written anywhere though.
> 
> i also have the similar problem :-( hitting "r" makes nothing... and i 
> checked 
> "watch recordings" - there are only scheduled recordings there 

This is what happens if you don't have tv listings for the current
channel. Myth doesn't know the finish time or name of the current
program so it just doesn't start. Fix your listings and the problem
should go away.

Adam.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: $20 tuner at CompUSA

On 11/16/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I
downloaded the manual. It's a .doc but OOo2.0 opens it fine. The
bundled WinApp is called WinTVR3. The screenshots refer to a Conexant
2388xTF. The manual says "The New Hardware Wizard will...detect the
"Conexant 23880 Video Capture (NTSC)" device."The picture shows an F connector for RF input.There
also appears to be a 9-pin mini-DIN socket. There is a multi-headed
cable that plugs into this port. The 4 branches are labeledS-Video (appears to be female S-Video Mini-DIN),Video IN (female RCA),Audio IN (appears to be female 3.5mm phone jack), andAudio OUT (appears to be female
3.5mm phone jack).Anyone know if this card will work with MythTV?Bob Koblish
If that is for sure a Conexant 2388x, that chipset should be supported
in the 2.6 kernel by v4l, in which case it will work in linux. No
guarantees, of course, since I don't know that anyone is using that
card with linux, or if there are any differences between the other
cards using that chipset and that one.

I got that from a google search which turned up this page:

http://www.overclockers.com.au/wiki/MythTV

"Digitalnow DNTV Live! DVB-T

Chipset: Conexant 2388x

Support: Full Support under Kernel 2.6.12+

Kernel Modules Required: cx88xx, cx88-dvb. Drivers will autodetect card type

Remote: Works under lircd 0.7.2+. Requires /dev/input support in lircd"

Keep in mind that the ONLY thing those two cards have in common is the chipset, so it may not work at all.

I still say that you should opt for a more commonly used card, just
because it will be much easier in the long run. the Hauppauge PVR-150
is as cheap as $60 online, and you'll get instant gratification, as
you'll be up and running in minutes->hours, as opposed to
days->weeks that the conexant no-name card will surely take.

- Jeff

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Re: [mythtv-users] Ditch FC4 for Linux?

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:28:17 -0800, Phill Wiggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
wrote:


Or, could it be something other than Rhine II?  If it's Gigabit, it  
might use the VIA Velocity module.


I don't think so. I'm pretty sure that the manuals mentioned it, though  
it's been a few years.


Also, under Knoppix, the card is identified as Rhine-II and it works.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Ditch FC4 for Linux?

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:30:04 -0800, R. Geoffrey Newbury  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



In modprobe.conf:

alias eth0 via-rhine


I'm pretty sure that's in there. I believe that's what I saw whilst  
grepping.


But that only works if the via-rhine module is compiled into the kernel  
if

I understand things correctly..
So you may need to do a yum update kernel, configure and compile the new
kernel.  (well if you are doing a kernel compile you may as well be doing
it to a new kernel with lots of new drivers built in.. There's a large
difference between the 2.6.11 kernel on the FC4 iso's and the latest
2.6.14 or even 2.6.15-rc kernels.)


Yeah, but I can't yum. No network, no internet, etc.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Ditch FC4 for Linux?


On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:55:27 -0800, Russel Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


When installing Debian a while back, I had to install a spare NIC
because the installation CD did not have drivers for my on-board NIC.
Once things were installed and up-to-date, the on-board NIC worked
fine and I was able to remove the extra.   I have no idea if this
would help with FC4.


It might. I probably have a spare NIC card around here somewhere.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Ditch FC4 for Linux?

2005-11-16 Thread Russel Hill

On 11/16/05, Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:57:11 -0800, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Why don't you just go buy a $10 ethernet card that's supported, and be
> > done with it?
>
> While that's not a bad general suggestion, I suppose, I had to take out a
> card to fit the PVR-150 in.

When installing Debian a while back, I had to install a spare NIC
because the installation CD did not have drivers for my on-board NIC. 
Once things were installed and up-to-date, the on-board NIC worked
fine and I was able to remove the extra.   I have no idea if this
would help with FC4.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Ditch FC4 for Linux?

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:22:07 -0800, Torbjørn Heltne  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Just wanted to mention that I have installed FC3 and FC4 (also FC2 if  
memory serves me) *many* times on PCs equipped with Rhine-II. IIRC,  
these were all different flavours of mini-ITX boards. Works just fine  
out of the box, every time. Is it possible that your NIC is defective?


No. I can boot into Knoppix (live CD, DHCP detection) and it works  
instantly.


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Re: [mythtv-users] Ditch FC4 for Linux?


On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:57:11 -0800, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Why don't you just go buy a $10 ethernet card that's supported, and be  
done with it?


While that's not a bad general suggestion, I suppose, I had to take out a  
card to fit the PVR-150 in.
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[mythtv-users] Re: $20 tuner at CompUSA

2005-11-16 Thread n3hat

I downloaded the manual. It's a .doc but OOo2.0 opens it fine. The bundled 
WinApp is called WinTVR3. The screenshots refer to a Conexant 2388xTF. The 
manual says "The New Hardware Wizard will...detect the “Conexant 23880 Video 
Capture (NTSC)” device." 

The picture shows an F connector for RF input. 
There also appears to be a 9-pin mini-DIN socket. There is a multi-headed cable 
that plugs into this port. The 4 branches are labeled 
S-Video (appears to be female S-Video Mini-DIN), 
Video IN (female RCA),
Audio IN (appears to be female 3.5mm phone jack), and
Audio OUT (appears to be female 3.5mm phone jack).

Anyone know if this card will work with MythTV?

Bob Koblish

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Re: [mythtv-users] Trouble getting Fedora?

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:04:57 -0800, Chris Trown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
wrote:




  I would start by making sure that the images you are downloading
are not currupt  Check the MD5 sums of the image vs. what Fedora
publishes.  On Linux, use md5sum.  On windows, I use a utility called
Hashcalc from SlavaSoft.

http://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/

  Once you know that you have good images, then you can focus on
getting the CDs burned correctly.  Others more knowledgeable than I will
no doubt comment on that here.


Actually, Dennis Hand had the answer. According to the FAQ I needed to put  
in the NODMA parm when checking. That resolved the problem.
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[mythtv-users] Black screen with pcHDTV-3000

2005-11-16 Thread Kris Clark

Help!
I need advice to get my pcHDTV 3000 card to work with Mythtv. I am using FC4 
release. I have had Mythtv working with a new WinTV-PVR-150 tuner alone, but 
then read about the incompatibility with the 3000. I removed the PVR-150 to be 
able to setup the 3000 solo. All I get in Myth  watch TV is a black screen. I 
have a valid channels.conf file and in a terminal I have been able to record HD 
broadcasts to a .ts file and play them back using xine. I am running out of 
ideas to resolve the Mythtv problem. I have googled to the end of the internet 
for hints and tips to try but so far the screen remains black.
Thanks-mrrusty.

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[mythtv-users] Re: Problem with mythburn - stopped due to error

2005-11-16 Thread jonny Linux




About a month or two ago I had mythburn working really well. But I haven't used it for a while, and now it doesn't work!


I'm running FC3 with a DVB tuner.
I'm not sure which part is causing the problem, everything seems to work OK, with no error messages apart from:
... log snipped... 
This seems similar to the problem mentioned here:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/148141

But I've followed those steps, (I discovered I did have transcode 1.0
instead of 0.6.14, so I downgraded, and it still doesn't work).

Just to say, although I thought I'd checked - it turned out to be a
permissions problem on the dvd target directory! The other errors
seemed to be suggesting it was something else that was wrong!

Jonny
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[mythtv-users] Re: $20 tuner at CompUSA

2005-11-16 Thread n3hat

I emailed their tech support through the CompUsa website. This was the reply: 
"It's a "Conexant Broadcast decoder" chipset. We currently do not support 
Linux. I believe this to be a standard card chipset but I can't guarantee 
compatibility. "

Hope this helps.
-Bob Koblish


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Re: [mythtv-users] Patch kernel problem.....





Thanks!  That worked. I'm 90% there now.   I guess
we all learn by our mistakes...



Jacob Steenhagen wrote:

  On Wed, November 16, 2005 2:14 pm, Brent Backstrom wrote:
  
  
It's the patch right after the X11 section...

It points to
https://svn.wilsonet.com/svn/mythtvology/trunk/mkinitrd-ivtv.patch

Humm  I wonder what I did wrong?

I might try removing it and see what happens.

  
  
Oh, that one Ya, I didn't have much luck with that either. If you did
the patch the way he suggested (creating the mkinitrd-ivtv file), you can
undo it simply by running:

mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-$KVER.img $KVER
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[mythtv-users] Europe: How do you access teletext?

2005-11-16 Thread Karsten Jeppesen

When you press M, then you can select teletext, but how do you get 
these pages on the screen


Karsten

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Re: [mythtv-users] Patch kernel problem.....

On Wed, November 16, 2005 2:14 pm, Brent Backstrom wrote:
> It's the patch right after the X11 section...
>
> It points to
> https://svn.wilsonet.com/svn/mythtvology/trunk/mkinitrd-ivtv.patch
>
> Humm  I wonder what I did wrong?
>
> I might try removing it and see what happens.

Oh, that one Ya, I didn't have much luck with that either. If you did
the patch the way he suggested (creating the mkinitrd-ivtv file), you can
undo it simply by running:

mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-$KVER.img $KVER
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[mythtv-users] tvbatchgrabber.pl

2005-11-16 Thread Steve Adeff

I discovered this over on the mysettopbox.tv forum, apparently KnoppMyth R4A22 
comes with it, I tried to grab it from the forum but the patch doesn't want 
to work for me, does anyone have a copy of the patched version they could 
email me?

thanks!
steve
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Re: [mythtv-users] Ditch FC4 for Linux?

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:19:43 -0800, Chris Trown wrote:

>Blake wrote:
>> OK, I've spent the night trying to get FC4 running on my would-be 
>> MythTV  box, but there's some problem with the ethernet card (Via Rhine 
>> II, on the  motherboard). If anyone has encountered this problem and can 
>> steer me  right on how to fix it, I'll stick with FC4,

In modprobe.conf:

alias eth0 via-rhine

But that only works if the via-rhine module is compiled into the kernel if
I understand things correctly..
So you may need to do a yum update kernel, configure and compile the new
kernel.  (well if you are doing a kernel compile you may as well be doing
it to a new kernel with lots of new drivers built in.. There's a large
difference between the 2.6.11 kernel on the FC4 iso's and the latest
2.6.14 or even 2.6.15-rc kernels.)

Geoff

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Re: [mythtv-users] Trouble getting Fedora?

2005-11-16 Thread Torbjï¿½rn Heltne

Blake wrote:
> I'm really at a loss, here. Short of going down and buying FC4 
> from the store.

Does your MB's bios allow you to boot from an USB device - e.g. a pen drive? 
Several of mine do. (Lucky me! cÂ¨,) )
check out the files:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/images/README>
and
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/images/diskboot.img>
What I have done with great success is to write this file to my pen drive, boot 
from it and install over the 'net. Works great.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Patch kernel problem.....





It's the patch right after the X11 section... 

It points to  
https://svn.wilsonet.com/svn/mythtvology/trunk/mkinitrd-ivtv.patch

Humm  I wonder what I did wrong?

I might try removing it and see what happens.

Thanks!




Jacob Steenhagen wrote:

  On Wed, November 16, 2005 2:02 pm, Brent Backstrom wrote:
  
  
I patched the kernel, as part of Jarod's guide, to get the frame buffer
to load earlier in the boot process.  How I can't get anything to work
correctly.  I also see an error when I boot.  "tuner: unknown parameter
'ntsc'" and "insmod: error inserting '/lib/tuner.ko'  unknown symbol in
module".

Has anyone else seen this before?

Can I unpatch my kernel and get my video back?

  
  
IIRC, Jerod's guide (I assume you're talking about the FC4 one) doesn't
have any kernel patches in it. Are you talking about the patch to
rc.sysinit and the lirc.rules file? If so, yes, you should be able to
reverse that in order to get things back to the way they were:

patch -R /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit < rc.sysinit-mm.diff

And to answer your other question, no I haven't seen that... everything
worked fine for me after applying that patch.
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Re: [mythtv-users] lirc send and receive

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 00:25:40 +1100, Marty Ravell wrote:

In trying to get both my PVR 350 to receive lirc and a serial transmitter
to
work I managed to screw up my lirc (see several recent postings)

>1. irw returns nothing (although see point 4)
>2. Myth of course doesn't respond to remote as a result.
>3. mode2 spits out codes so I know that the hardware is doing something.

***
If you read the installation instructions given at lirc.org you can miss
one little fact... (Been there, got the T-shirt..)

You have to do your testing *without lircd running*
About 3 paragraphs into the 'Testing your Hardware and Configuration'
section of 'Installation' it says, after a discussion of using mode2:

"Well, the driver seems to work, now let's test if lircd also does its
job. This only works, if lircd uses a config file which fits to your
remote control"

Repeat after me, including slap of forehead at appropriate time"Oh
damn, irw won't work when lircd is running...[EMAIL PROTECTED]

*
>4. irrecord makes files but these are unreliable as all hell (incorrect
>button assignments etc). They do however work to some degree.

I had no problems with irrecord. At the very least, use irrecord of see
what your remote is sending, and then look at all of the examples in  the
/remotes folder. That's where I found out that the remote I was using was
NOT the one I thought it was: completely different key codes...so of
course it would not work...

>5. Have tried all sorts of lirc.conf files posted to this list, on various
sites (mainly the lirc homesite) as well as in the ivtv and lirc
directories
on my box. No joy.

NOWHERE on the lirc.org site does it make it clear that the lircd.conf
file and the lircrc file must match in the NAMES of the keys.

So if lircd.conf calls a button  "vol+"  the lircrc file will not map
properly into your applications if it is referred to as "Volume-Up" (or
likely even "VOL+"

And of course, the lircd.conf must correctly map the transmitted codes to
something..

Since you got that far, I presume you have the /dev stuff figured out. I
had to make a rules file in /etc/udev/rules.d called 11-lirc.rules
with the following line in it, so that lirc would work:

KERNEL="lirc0" SYMLINK="lirc" GROUP="mythtv" MODE="0660"

This ensures that /dev/lirc0 is created, that a symlink of /dev/lirc is
created and the group and permissions are set correctly.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Patch kernel problem.....

On Wed, November 16, 2005 2:02 pm, Brent Backstrom wrote:
> I patched the kernel, as part of Jarod's guide, to get the frame buffer
> to load earlier in the boot process.  How I can't get anything to work
> correctly.  I also see an error when I boot.  "tuner: unknown parameter
> 'ntsc'" and "insmod: error inserting '/lib/tuner.ko'  unknown symbol in
> module".
>
> Has anyone else seen this before?
>
> Can I unpatch my kernel and get my video back?

IIRC, Jerod's guide (I assume you're talking about the FC4 one) doesn't
have any kernel patches in it. Are you talking about the patch to
rc.sysinit and the lirc.rules file? If so, yes, you should be able to
reverse that in order to get things back to the way they were:

patch -R /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit < rc.sysinit-mm.diff

And to answer your other question, no I haven't seen that... everything
worked fine for me after applying that patch.
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[mythtv-users] Re: Libmpeg and weird colors

2005-11-16 Thread Robert Lundy

I actually fixed the strange colors-somehow the hue color control was set to "0" instead of 50.

As to my issues with using libmpeg only and no xvmc-

My test backend is an Athlon XP 3200 (400mhz) on a Foxconn SiS based MB using 512mb Geil PC3200 DDR.  Video card is an Nividia 5600 AGP.  Audio is the onboard SiS stuff using the inXXX driver.  DMA is on as verified by hdparm.  Proc util w/o xvmc is about 60-80% depending on options (opengl sync on/off, use video as timebase, deinterlacing method, etc.)  Last night I almost got it consistently watchable.  720p 60fps seems to be harder to deal with than 1080i sources.  My HD card is a rev 1 (Broadcom decoder) Air2pc.  OS is FC4 with the 
2.6.13-1532 kernel.  I'm using the atrpms version of myth.

My test frontend is a Sempron (socket 462) 3000 on a VIA based MB built by ASAS for compaq.  Video is an Nvidia 5200.  Audio is a MadDog Envy 24 card using the ICEXXX driver.  Everything else is the same as the master backend.  This PC is also at 60-80% proc utilization with almost acceptable playback w/o xvmc.

I'm not a complete noob, but I'm also not a Linux genius.  Something is bottnecking me-FC4, the hardware, the video card, something.  The only thing different on the laptop, other than an intel chip and ati graphics is that the kernel is the Fedora version of 
2.6.14-.

I'm almost at the point I'm going to ebay all this stuff and go buy Intel.  But I haven't built an Intel based pc since a PIII-733 in 2000.  I don't even know what memory matches what chip.  I've just been an AMD person.

Any other troubleshooting tips are appreciated.  I could live with xvmc's shortcomings for a while-until something else gets fixed or figured out.

> Hmmm, and I always thought that an Athlon 3000 or higher could play smooth > HD with no Xvmc... What's your CPU look like on the AMD box when playing HD > content? 
> > On 11/14/05, Robert Lundy  wrote: > > Have been suprised with how well my P4M 1.6ghz laptop has been doing as a > > frontend, considering its got ATI graphics, meaning no xvmc. Compared to 
> > my AMD athlon 3200, which plays HD choppily without xvmc, the results > > have been awesome. Why are these intel chips so much better? > > > > Anyway, to get the smooth(er) playback, I started using libmpeg-but the 
> > colors are almost like a negative-people are green, pizza looked blue. > > Weird. > > > > Is this typical behavior? I'm thinking its reading something strange > > about the colorspace. Video is the Radeon mobility M300 PCIe in a Dell 
> > inspiron 9300, using the newest ATI proprietary driver (released > > 11/11/05?). > > it should be able to, my two Athlon64 3200+ computers can do it with ~40% cpu 
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Re: [mythtv-users] No Sound in MythTV on WinTV PVR-350 card


Jacob Steenhagen wrote:


On Wed, November 16, 2005 1:17 pm, Michael T. Dean wrote:
 


Frontend setup.  It was added in changeset 5819 (
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/5819 ), so if you're not running
SVN, you either need to patch your 0.18 version or upgrade to SVN (all
SVN disclaimers apply--you should be reading the -dev and -commits list
to run SVN, some things are currently disabled in SVN, etc.).
   


I'm very new to MythTV and was hoping to get away with using the RPM based
(read, pre-compiled, easy to update) packages. I know that building
yourself gives more flexibility than using pre-packaged stuff, but
sometimes simplicity is prefered.
 


Good plan.


Anyway, it looks like revision 5918 was commited 23-Mar-2005 while version
0.18.1 of MythTV was released 16-May-2005. I know it's possible that it
branched before that, but I'm hoping that maybe you'll tell me that 0.18.1
contains the patch from rev 5918 (I'm not home now, so I can't check it
out).

You're right.  Actually, it's in 0.18 (and 0.18.1 and 0.18-fixes).  I 
didn't look closely enough at the date.  So, basically, it means that 
you just didn't see the setting in setup.


Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 Question/ Trouble - NEWBIE





OK, I got it to work late last night   But I
patched the kernel to load the frame buffer earlier and now I can't
tune...  (See separate post)

Thanks for the help.

I'll just keep plugging along




Jacob Steenhagen wrote:

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On 11/15/05, Brent Backstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


  Trying to put together a myth installation and ran into a snag.

testing by doing

dd if=/dev/video of=/dev/video16 bs=64k

I get sound out of the PVR-350 outputs, but no output from the composite
video?
  

  
  
IIRC, in order to get both sound and video using dd, I had to run the
following sequence (this is from memory, so there may be typos and I
think the fact that this is from memory proves I've done it way too many
times :):

ivtvctl -p 4
ivtvctl -u 0x3000
ivtvfbctl /dev/fb1 -noglobalalpha -localalpha
dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16

I don't claim to know what each command does, but I would suspect that the
one you really need is the ivtvfbctl one...
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[mythtv-users] Patch kernel problem.....





I patched the kernel, as part of Jarod's guide, to get
the frame buffer to load earlier in the boot process.  How I can't get
anything to work correctly.  I also see an error when I boot.  "tuner:
unknown parameter 'ntsc'" and "insmod: error inserting '/lib/tuner.ko' 
unknown symbol in module".

Has anyone else seen this before?

Can I unpatch my kernel and get my video back?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

    Brent






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Re: [mythtv-users] LiveTV Broken or Bad Permissions?


Paul Wheeler wrote:


I think the main reason a lot of people are using svn is the lack of a
recent release, he last release was about 9 months ago I always
stuck to the latest release version but using dvb in the uk with a
deaf housemate I was practically forced to use svn to get myth to work
properly and have subtitles. I know there was meant to be more
planning of intermediate releases (bug fix releases) however it just
simply wasnt working. IMHO I cant see a release hasnt been done a
while ago. The jumps in development are huge. I am sure a more regular
release schedule will help one of the main problems myth has which is
its stability. By regular releases more bugs will be found and can be
fixed better. I do understand that myth is a young project and that it
is still in fairly heavy development but 9 months between releases
when the svn changelog is so active just isnt right.
 

OK.  But even so, this does not mean that users who wouldn't normally 
use SVN are exempt from the responsibilities expected of *anyone* using 
SVN--i.e. reading and keeping up with the -dev and -commits lists...


Just my $0.02.

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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 Question/ Trouble - NEWBIE

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> On 11/15/05, Brent Backstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Trying to put together a myth installation and ran into a snag.
>>
>> testing by doing
>>
>> dd if=/dev/video of=/dev/video16 bs=64k
>>
>> I get sound out of the PVR-350 outputs, but no output from the composite
>> video?

IIRC, in order to get both sound and video using dd, I had to run the
following sequence (this is from memory, so there may be typos and I
think the fact that this is from memory proves I've done it way too many
times :):

ivtvctl -p 4
ivtvctl -u 0x3000
ivtvfbctl /dev/fb1 -noglobalalpha -localalpha
dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16

I don't claim to know what each command does, but I would suspect that the
one you really need is the ivtvfbctl one...
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Re: [mythtv-users] Attractive cases and cheap DVD burners

2005-11-16 Thread Joseph A. Caputo

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 13:26, Raphael Pooser wrote:
> Have to ask because I have never been able to figure out what the 
> difference is: What is the difference between xv and xvmc.  I read 
> somewhere that xvmc is a hardware thing while xv is jsut somekind of 
> software extension.  But if that were true, than why is xv dependant 
> on  
> the graphics card driver at all?  The ati cards can use xv, but not 
> xvmc, why is that, and is there a giant performance difference between 
> the two?  I read on this list a guy using xvmc with an nvidia card 
> taking 2-3% proc time in X to run a 720x480 stream, which is exactly 
> how  
> much is takes using xv with an ati card?  Would it take even more 
> using  
> xv and not xvmc?  Sorry for the seemingly obvious to answer question.  
> My friend is getting ready to builf a myth box using nvidia and as I 
> use  
> ATI I want to make sure I have enough knowledge to help.

Xv is "X Video".  I don't know everything it does, but the main thing 
that Myth uses it for is to scale video output to your display size.  
Without Xv, if you ran your Myth display at 800x600, but recorded your 
programs at some other resolution, then in order to display the video 
playback at full screen resolution the video would have to be scaled in 
software, which takes a lot of CPU.  Xv enables this to be done in 
hardware.

XvMC is "X Video Motion Compensation".  It is an extension to Xv that 
enables the video card to perform part or all of the MPEG-1/2 decoding.  
The level of support for this is heavily dependent on both the hardware 
and the driver.

HTH,

JAC
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Re: [mythtv-users] Attractive cases and cheap DVD burners

2005-11-16 Thread Jesse Guardiani


Raphael Pooser wrote:

Michael T. Dean wrote:


[...]

Have to ask because I have never been able to figure out what the 
difference is: What is the difference between xv and xvmc.  I read 
somewhere that xvmc is a hardware thing while xv is jsut somekind of 
software extension.  But if that were true, than why is xv dependant 
on the graphics card driver at all?  The ati cards can use xv, but not 
xvmc, why is that, and is there a giant performance difference between 
the two?  I read on this list a guy using xvmc with an nvidia card 
taking 2-3% proc time in X to run a 720x480 stream, which is exactly 
how much is takes using xv with an ati card?  Would it take even more 
using xv and not xvmc?  Sorry for the seemingly obvious to answer 
question.  My friend is getting ready to builf a myth box using nvidia 
and as I use ATI I want to make sure I have enough knowledge to help.



XV is efficient software decoding.
XVMC is hardware assisted software decoding.

On my nvidia 5200 + Celeron D @ 2.93ghz + 1Gb DDR 3200 RAM, normal mpeg2 
playback takes about 13-15% CPU using XV.
Using XVMC, it takes between 8-10% CPU. So no, it's not a dramatic 
difference unless you're using a low power CPU like a 733mhz

P3.

I don't even bother with XVMC for three reasons:
1.) The OSD is GRAYSCALE for some reason. (is this fixed in SVN yet?)
2.) FF, Rew, Next, and Prev cause about 5-10 seconds of jitter and 
skipping when using XVMC.
3.) Even without any sort of de-interlacing turned on, I get really bad 
flicker on the OSD.
For example, when I change the volume the OSD volume bar is 
unintelligible it flickers so much.


Also, note that it really is just hardware assist. It's nothing like the 
PVR 350's hardware playback.
With the 350, I could max out my CPU and compile code in the background 
while watching a show
without any skipping, jitter, etc. With the nvidia card it doesn't 
matter if I use XV or XVMC, I always
get some skipping and jitter while compiling code in the background or 
burning a DVD. (would a real

P4 with HT enabled solve this?)

If the jitter, flicker, and grayscale problems could all be eliminated 
then XVMC would kick-a**, but

as-is it seems rather pointless on my hardware.

--
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Programmer/Sys Admin
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Re: [mythtv-users] No Sound in MythTV on WinTV PVR-350 card

On Wed, November 16, 2005 1:17 pm, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Frontend setup.  It was added in changeset 5819 (
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/5819 ), so if you're not running
> SVN, you either need to patch your 0.18 version or upgrade to SVN (all
> SVN disclaimers apply--you should be reading the -dev and -commits list
> to run SVN, some things are currently disabled in SVN, etc.).

I'm very new to MythTV and was hoping to get away with using the RPM based
(read, pre-compiled, easy to update) packages. I know that building
yourself gives more flexibility than using pre-packaged stuff, but
sometimes simplicity is prefered.

Anyway, it looks like revision 5918 was commited 23-Mar-2005 while version
0.18.1 of MythTV was released 16-May-2005. I know it's possible that it
branched before that, but I'm hoping that maybe you'll tell me that 0.18.1
contains the patch from rev 5918 (I'm not home now, so I can't check it
out).
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RE: [mythtv-users] Re: Hauppauge PVR-250 and PCHDTV-3000 with2.6.14.2kernel

2005-11-16 Thread James C. Dastrup


>>So are you saying that the PCHDTV-3000 will not work with the 150 or 500
>>cards? I currently have that as my hardware setup and was looking to
>>setup the PCHDTV-3000 within the next few weeks. Now I'm not sure if it
>>is worth the effort. I don't want to break what I have, my wife wont
>>forgive me if I do that.
>
>I have a HD-3000 and PVR-150 working just fine together.
>Kernel DVB drivers (2.6.13) for the HD-3000 (module cx88-dvb)
>ivtv 0.3.7 for the 150.
>Ignoring the ivtv instructions, I didn't not replace or overwrite any files,
>or do anything except a simple compile and install.
>As long as I load the 150 first, the cx88-dvb driver loads just fine.

>Could you post your modprobe.conf file, and quickly explain how you are
>feeding the cards (cable/antenna etc) and how you handle your Guide
>Listings.
>
>I'm having problems in these areas.
 
I did not modify modprobe.conf at all.  I'm using the default  that came
with SUSE 9.3.  I don't see anything in there related to ivtv. I can still 
post it if you want.
HD-3000 is picking up digital Over the Air (SLC, UT area)
PVR-150 is using the S-Video Input from a Dish 301
 
If you're using the 2.6.12+ kernel, you should be able to get the HD-3000
working without any extra mods, patches or anything - the kernel fully
supports it.
 
I installed and configured the HD-3000 first.  Getting the channels configured
was a little strange. I first use the MythTV channel scan feature.  It worked 
great.
But then pulling in the listing from zap2it had some problems - it created
duplicate channels for everything. To fix it, I modify the MySQL channels table
directly by copying the XMLTVID from the Zap2It records to the scanned records,
and then deleted the Zap2It channel records. mythfilldatabase works fine.
 
Adding the PVR-150 to MythTV was pretty straightforward, Zap2It worked fine.


 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Trouble getting Fedora?

2005-11-16 Thread Walter Boese Jr.

I've had the same problemwith bad media checks.  The checksums checked 
out okay, but I could run the media check multiple times on the same 
disk and get a mix of pass and fails.  As long as I got a pass I called 
it good.  Not that this is a guarantee, but it worked for me.


Walter Boese Jr.



Chris Trown wrote:

Blake wrote:


Hey, guys,

I decided to give up on KnoppMyth (for reasons discussed earlier) 
and try  FC4 with Jaro(e?)d's guide, but I'm having a helluvatime 
getting an FC4  that passes the media test. I've donwloaded the discs 
via BitTorrent, then  FTPed them from Fedora, and I'm getting discs 
that look good, that  boot--the torrent one even installs 
beautifully*--but that when FC checks  them, says they don't pass the 
media check. I just cracked open a new  stack of TDK CDs, and still 
got the media check failure. I've used at  least two different CD 
burners--one CD, one DVD, actually.


I don't know what the deal is. I'm using a CD Burner XP Pro to 
burn the  ISO images, which I've never had trouble with before. I used 
it for  Knoppmyth for example, with no problem, and Knoppix. Though, I 
didn't do  any media checks, I just booted them and they worked. 
(Well, not  KnoppMyth, but it didn't fail to install, just didn't do 
what I wanted  after the installation.)


I'm really at a loss, here. Short of going down and buying FC4 
from the  store.


* You might say, "Why do you care?" But I don't want to invest the 
time in  trying to make Myth work if I'm screwed from the start 
because I've got a  bad FC image.





 I would start by making sure that the images you are downloading 
are not currupt  Check the MD5 sums of the image vs. what Fedora 
publishes.  On Linux, use md5sum.  On windows, I use a utility called 
Hashcalc from SlavaSoft.


http://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/

 Once you know that you have good images, then you can focus on 
getting the CDs burned correctly.  Others more knowledgeable than I will 
no doubt comment on that here.


Chris...




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Re: [mythtv-users] Ditch FC4 for Linux?

2005-11-16 Thread Phill Wiggin


Torbjørn Heltne wrote:


On 16 Nov 2005 at 5:17, Blake wrote:

   

OK, I've spent the night trying to get FC4 running on my would-be MythTV  
box, but there's some problem with the ethernet card (Via Rhine II, on the  
motherboard). If anyone has encountered this problem and can steer me  
right on how to fix it, I'll stick with FC4, but otherwise, I don't want  
to chase down this bug for weeks before I can even GET to my myth  
installation.


So, KnoppMyth: No. FC4: No. What's next? Gentoo?
 

Why don't you just go buy a $10 ethernet card that's supported, and be done with 
it?
   



Just wanted to mention that I have installed FC3 and FC4 (also FC2 if memory 
serves me) *many* times on PCs equipped with Rhine-II. IIRC, these were all 
different flavours of mini-ITX boards. Works just fine out of the box, every 
time. Is it possible that your NIC is defective?

 

Or, could it be something other than Rhine II?  If it's Gigabit, it 
might use the VIA Velocity module.


(I run Gentoo on several boxes. Some with Rhine II cards and some with 
Velocity cards... all work fine w/ Gentoo.  I haven't tried FC4.)


--Phill W.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Attractive cases and cheap DVD burners

2005-11-16 Thread Raphael Pooser


Michael T. Dean wrote:


James C. Dastrup wrote:


On 11/15/05, tgate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 


It turns out that all the major noise is coming from my graphics
card, an nvidia gforce 6600 which has a fan.  Could someone suggest
an alternative that is good but without a fan.  Or is there some
clever mod that can be done which makes it okay to unplug the
graphics card fan?


I use the ATI RADEON 9600 SE. No fan and plays back HD content
perfectly for me. Using ATI's driver, which I know many people
complain about, but HD/SD TV watching it has given me no problems.


But no XvMC for the ATI cards, so make sure you don't need it.

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Have to ask because I have never been able to figure out what the 
difference is: What is the difference between xv and xvmc.  I read 
somewhere that xvmc is a hardware thing while xv is jsut somekind of 
software extension.  But if that were true, than why is xv dependant on 
the graphics card driver at all?  The ati cards can use xv, but not 
xvmc, why is that, and is there a giant performance difference between 
the two?  I read on this list a guy using xvmc with an nvidia card 
taking 2-3% proc time in X to run a 720x480 stream, which is exactly how 
much is takes using xv with an ati card?  Would it take even more using 
xv and not xvmc?  Sorry for the seemingly obvious to answer question.  
My friend is getting ready to builf a myth box using nvidia and as I use 
ATI I want to make sure I have enough knowledge to help.

Raphael
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Re: [mythtv-users] Air2PC HD5000 not working

2005-11-16 Thread tgate

On Nov 16, 2005, at 9:57 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:1. I see references to the "dvb-kernel" but strong indications that that code has now been incorporated into the standard kernel. Is standard 2.6.14.1 plus that patch enough or do I need a bunch more patches? If not, what patches do I need?I had to compile a new kernel. 1. Is there any firmware that has to be loaded to the card? I didn't see anything on the supplied CD-ROM.No 2. What modules need to be compiled and loaded? I loaded everything everything in kernel/drivers/media: v4l2-common, videodev, v4l1-compat, lgdt330x, dvb-pll, and dvb-core.Pretty sure the dvb-core (after the patch) should work. 3. Do I need to set any options for these modules?Not that I recall. 4. Do I need to create any device files? I did a bunch of mknods in /dev/dvb/adapter0 (audio0, ca0, video, etc.), but I don't know if they're needed. They're all major device 212.The module should do that for you when it loads. 5. In mythtv-setup, do I want to select pcHDTV DTV card or DVB DTV capture card (v3.x)? The latter seems more promising, but I get "Frontend ID: Could not open card #0!" Neither works.DVB DTV capture card (v3.x)If you launched myth-setup as a regular user then you will not be able to see the card because the permissions on the /dev/dvb directory is not compatible.You can either launch mythtv-setup as root or as root, chmod -R 777 /dev/dvb then switch back to your normal user and run mythtv-setup 6. Is there a simple application that can stand in for mythtv while I'm trying to get basic card functionality working? (I don't want to load and configure all of KDE for such a purpose.) Really, being able to cat mpeg2 A+V from a device file to a disk file and then playing it with mplayer would suffice, but I'm going to have to be able to tune the card. the dvb-tools azap, etc... I was able to confirm being able to watch ATSC Tv without ever installing myth. In fact trying to get it to work in myth is a whole new ball of wax that I haven't yet figured out.did you check out hd5000.com ? That's pretty helpful. If you follow the How-To there but use the hd5000-cleanup.patch it should work. When I ran the patch I found most of the changes had already been made so I did not force the patch for those sections. The patched failed for one block but it was only in a comments section so it had no adverse effect.___
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Re: [mythtv-users] Ditch FC4 for Linux?

2005-11-16 Thread Torbjï¿½rn Heltne


>On 16 Nov 2005 at 5:17, Blake wrote:
>
>> OK, I've spent the night trying to get FC4 running on my would-be MythTV  
>> box, but there's some problem with the ethernet card (Via Rhine II, on the  
>> motherboard). If anyone has encountered this problem and can steer me  
>> right on how to fix it, I'll stick with FC4, but otherwise, I don't want  
>> to chase down this bug for weeks before I can even GET to my myth  
>> installation.
>> 
>> So, KnoppMyth: No. FC4: No. What's next? Gentoo?
>
>
>Why don't you just go buy a $10 ethernet card that's supported, and be done 
>with 
>it?

Just wanted to mention that I have installed FC3 and FC4 (also FC2 if memory 
serves me) *many* times on PCs equipped with Rhine-II. IIRC, these were all 
different flavours of mini-ITX boards. Works just fine out of the box, every 
time. Is it possible that your NIC is defective?

-- 
TorbjÃ¸rn Heltne
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Re: [mythtv-users] No Sound in MythTV on WinTV PVR-350 card


Jacob Steenhagen wrote:


On Wed, November 16, 2005 12:03 pm, Michael T. Dean wrote:
 


Sorry.  Couldn't figure that out from what was left in the reply to
which I responded.

So, did you check the box:

TV audio through PVR-350 only
Normally, PVR-350 audio is looped into a sound card; here you can
indicate when that is not the case. MythTV cannot control TV volume when
this option is checked.
   


Ya, I have a tendency to cut out cruft when I'm replying...

Anyway, I don't recall seeing any such box anywhere. Is that supposed to
be in mythtv-setup? Or in the config in the mythfrontend? I'll be more
than happy to look again when I get home :).
 

Frontend setup.  It was added in changeset 5819 ( 
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/5819 ), so if you're not running 
SVN, you either need to patch your 0.18 version or upgrade to SVN (all 
SVN disclaimers apply--you should be reading the -dev and -commits list 
to run SVN, some things are currently disabled in SVN, etc.).



It's also my understanding that when there is no seperate sound card that
other media functions (such as playing DVD's, MP3's, and games) don't
work.

Well, the audio won't work.  How the app deals with lack of audio is 
dependent on the app.


Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 Question/ Trouble - NEWBIE

On 11/15/05, Brent Backstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



  


Trying to put together a myth installation and ran into
a snag.  

testing by doing

    dd if=/dev/video of=/dev/video16 bs=64k

I get sound out of the PVR-350 outputs, but no output from the
composite video?
Try using ivtvctl to pick input/output ports. If I'm understanding how
the PVR works, the device node is the same for svideo vs composite, but
you have to select which one to enable on the card with the ivtvctl
command. Another thing to try is to do one-sided tests: either test
recording OR video out individually, that should help you narrow down
where the problem lies.

 - Jeff

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Re: [mythtv-users] Rip DVD to H.264

2005-11-16 Thread Robert May

I haven't built my MythTV box quite yet so I don't know everything
works.  To rip from DVD to H.264 you might want to look at this app:
http://handbrake.m0k.org/ .  I don't know if you could control it via
MythTV but it seems like it would at least save you from having to rip
and then convert.

-Robert

On 11/16/05, Joshua Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am curious. Can I rip my DVD's to H.264?
>
> I love my DVD's. I hate how much space they take in my living room. I am
> attempting to setup my firt MythTV box using Knopmyth. The problems is I
> only have a small drive right now.
>
> There will be no TV on this box it will purly be a movie sytem. But I am
> looking at my 100+ DVD's and my 60GB drive and thinking this isn't going
> to cut it. I am hopeing to rectify this problem in the next year but
> untill I can prove to my wife this will work I am on a strict budget.
>
> I was experimenting with H.264 yesterday and I was able to get my 7GB DVD
> down to a Single GB. I had no problem with the quality. So I was wondering
> if there is some way to view an H.264 movie in MythTV.
>
> I am still clueless when it comes to PVR/Media Centers. So I am sorry if I
> use the wrong terminology but can I add some type of codec to read the new
> files? Can I setup MythTV to rip the DVD to H.264 instead of MPEG4? Saving
> me a lot of time.
>
> Any ideas would be a great help.
>
>
> Thank you,
> Joshua Lewis
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Re: [mythtv-users] Ditch FC4 for Linux?

2005-11-16 Thread match

On 16 Nov 2005 at 5:17, Blake wrote:

> OK, I've spent the night trying to get FC4 running on my would-be MythTV  
> box, but there's some problem with the ethernet card (Via Rhine II, on the  
> motherboard). If anyone has encountered this problem and can steer me  
> right on how to fix it, I'll stick with FC4, but otherwise, I don't want  
> to chase down this bug for weeks before I can even GET to my myth  
> installation.
> 
> So, KnoppMyth: No. FC4: No. What's next? Gentoo?


Why don't you just go buy a $10 ethernet card that's supported, and be done 
with 
it?





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Re: [mythtv-users] xorg high cpu usage while playing video in mythtv

2005-11-16 Thread Raphael Pooser


Nick wrote:


On 12/11/05, Raphael Pooser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 


I've noticed relatively high processor usage by xorg when playing back
previously recorded video.  To play back a 480x480 resolution rtjpeg
recording, xorg take 40% processor time.  To play back a 384x480 video
it takes about 33%.  This is on top of the normal usage by
mythfrontend.  Mythfrontend takes about 13% to play back the recording.
Mythbackend takes about 35-30% to record a 480x480 stream.  It seems to
me, it should take a lot more power to record something using software
encoding like I am than to actually play it back.  I must be missing
hardware acceleration for the video playback, I'm guessing.  I'm using a
radeon9600pro with the vga hooked directly up to the vga input of an lcd
TV.  So the TV is acting like a monitor.  Thing is, I have the
proprietary ATI fglrz drivers installed.  But since I'm not really using
any of the functions of this driver, like opengl or TVout, maybe there
is a better driver I could install that could accelerate this 2D
video Anyone know what a normal amount for xorg to be using during
playback is, and if mine is abnormally high what are some methods I can
use to get that back down to a manageable 10-15%?
   



Raphael,

I use the fglrx drivers on my frontend system (2GHz Celeron, Radeon
9100IGP) and when just testing, got 3-4% X usage and 13% mythfrontend
usage whilst playing back a 720x576 MPEG2 recording.

First thing is to make sure you have xv working (type 'xvinfo' at the
prompt and check the output). The MPEG4 codecs require more CPU power
to decode than MPEG2 which is how they offer better compression
ratios.

Nick
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Hey I got XV working by basically recompiling the kernel module from 
fglrx.  Not sure why it didn't work last time, now suddenly the kernel 
module is working and gives me 3D acceleration, and as I suspected it 
can also use XV at the same time (don't know why it couldn't, I guess 
because the kernel module wasn't loading properly).  Anyway, now that 
that is solved, I get about 1% cpu usage in X when playing a 480x480 
stream.  So far so good.  Only problem, now my overscan settings in 
mythtv won't work properly.  I normally set it to overscan the vertical 
by 2, to get rid of some ugly noise on the top of all my cable channels 
coming in (normally you wouldn't see on a tube TV).  Now, when I use the 
overscan, my video window which used to have black strips of about two 
pixels above and below the image are now filled with garbage.  It seems 
to be whatever would be in the video frame buffer before the overscan 
was applied to make those strips black.  It is annoying because the 
overscan gets rid of the cable TV noise inherent in the signal but now 
causes the graphics card to add it's own noise.  Has anyone seen this / 
have a solution?  It's a radeon 9600 pro using fglrx drivers.  Hmm, 
maybe I could try recording the video in a different resolution and see 
if the problem is related to the actual screen resolution as video plays 
back.
I also had the picture offset too far to the right in the x direction 
but was able to fix that somehow using a combination of horizontal 
overscan and scan placement.  The horizontal overscan actually doesn't 
work, but has to be set to particular values to get the horizontal scan 
placement to work!  Anyway, that's fixed, leaving me with only the 
vertical overscan problems.

Raphael
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Re: [mythtv-users] How to record LiveTV?