date:20051118

On 19/11/05, Darren Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks everyone for the advice.  I was able to dig into it this
> evening, and one of my hard drives bit the dust.  It seems to be
> drawing too much current, which causes the power supply to shut itself
> down.
>
> Those hard drives have been spinning 24/7 for a couple years now.  I
> figured they'd give out sooner or later, but I was hoping for later.
> This drive (a maxtor 250gb) only lasted two years...  I guess it's an
> excuse to upgrade.  I found a great deal on newegg on a Western
> Digital 400GB hard drive.  $157 after rebates.  (one rebate is
> "hidden", and doesn't show up until you check out.  You can either
> choose a $20 refund or a 1 year subscription to pc magazine.)

When you get the new drive installed, I'd recommend running smartd (if
you're not already) and running weekly tests on your drives,
especially if they're on 24/7 (might give you a headstart on getting
data saved before the drive finally bites the big one). I'd also look
into the varying warranty levels between the different manufactures
(I've been buying Seagate recently because they're quiet and have a
5yr warranty).

Nick
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Re: [mythtv-users] Upgrading from 0.18.1

On 19/11/05, Steve Pugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Steve Pugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  Hello, all!
>
>  I've been running 0.18.1 on my system (1xPVR-250, 1xPVR-350, using the 350
> for TV-Out) for about six months now.  Have had frequent issues with freezes
> and unwanted pauses while watching recordings, and I *HEAR* that Myth 0.18.2
> includes significant improvements to the way that Myth works with the 350.
>
>  If this is true, I am interested in upgrading.  Can this be confirmed by
> the Powers That Be?  Also, what are the downsides?  I know that the absolute
> latest builds have Live TV broken, so I want to avoid them.
>  *ahem*  As a wise man once said to me, "Why stop after two minutes of
> Googling when 2.001 seconds will yield you results?"
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/155525?page=last
>
>  It certainly sounds straightforward enough, but if there are pitfalls that
> anyone can share with me, t'would be appreciated.

If it's not super-urgent, I'd be tempted to hold off until the next
stable release comes out. It's been 6 months now, so I'm hoping 0.19
will be an early Christmas present for us!

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Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Need help diagnosing backend hardware failure

2005-11-18 Thread Darren Richards

Thanks everyone for the advice.  I was able to dig into it this
evening, and one of my hard drives bit the dust.  It seems to be
drawing too much current, which causes the power supply to shut itself
down.

Those hard drives have been spinning 24/7 for a couple years now.  I
figured they'd give out sooner or later, but I was hoping for later. 
This drive (a maxtor 250gb) only lasted two years...  I guess it's an
excuse to upgrade.  I found a great deal on newegg on a Western
Digital 400GB hard drive.  $157 after rebates.  (one rebate is
"hidden", and doesn't show up until you check out.  You can either
choose a $20 refund or a 1 year subscription to pc magazine.)

thanks,
darren

On 11/18/05, Chris Trown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Darren Richards wrote:
> > Sorry for the OT post, but my wife will be missing Gilmore Girls
> > today, so apparently this is an emergency.  My backend machine decided
> > to shut itself off sometime during the night last night.  Strangely,
> > the power light was still on, but the computer was off.  I reset the
> > PSU switch in back, and turned the computer back on.  After 15 seconds
> > or so, it shut itself off again.  This time the power light was
> > blinking.  I tried again, and this time it only made it 3 or 4 seconds
> > before shutting off.
> >
> > My first thought was that I have a bad power supply.  But with the
> > blinking light, I thought perhaps something was telling the PSU to
> > shut down.  I checked the CPU heatsink and fan, and everything seems
> > to be working.
> >
> > I would greatly appreciate any suggestions.  I figure I'll probably
> > cannibalize another machine and start swapping parts out until it
> > boots...
> >
>
>  If you have a power supply handy, try that first.  I think it's
> the most likely culprit.
>
>  Reseat everything.  Though the MOBO usually beeps at you if the
> video card or Memory is toast.
>
>  Start with the simplest, most likely solution, then go from there.
>
> Chris...
>
>
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[mythtv-users] DVB sometimes "quits"

2005-11-18 Thread Robert Tsai

The symptom is that after some time, DVB appears to stop working. In
this state, MythTV can't make any recordings (although the mythbackend
log shows no signs of trouble), and "azap" can't lock:

status 00 | signal f477 | snr  | ber  | unc  |
status 00 | signal f477 | snr  | ber  | unc  |

I can "fix" this by removing the cx88-dvb module and re-modprobe'ing
it, after which everything looks OK again.

I'm afraid I don't have any more data (or at least I don't know what
else is relevant). FWIW:

Linux 2.6.12.3
AMD64 3500+
Ubuntu hoary
MythTV SVN 7635
2 x HD-3000 (OTA)
uptime 19 days, 7:32 (the first time I saw this, I rebooted)

Has anyone else encountered this problem?

--Rob


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[mythtv-users] mythbrowser "d" key disabled

2005-11-18 Thread Ben Dash

Does anyone know why various keys seem to be disabled
in mythbrowser?  When I run the plugin to browse the
web from inside mythfrontend the "d" key, for example,
seems to remove a tab and so I can't type a "d" into
any text boxes.

"i" opens a popup box asking to enter a URL

"m" opens a MythBrowser popup box menu

"p", "q", "r" and "z" won't print in a text box but
don't seem to do anything that I can see
Am I supposed to be using the keypad a la SMS?  In
which case how is that supposed to work as it's not
SMS as I know it currently.

Is this configurable somewhere?

Thanks!







 



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[mythtv-users] xboxusb lircd.conf

2005-11-18 Thread Ben Dash

Could someone please send me a copy of the lircd.conf
for the lirc_xboxusb driver?

I sounds like they're available in
remotes/xboxusb/lirc.conf.xboxusb in Fedora,
unfortunately, I'm using Gentoo and I can't find the
conf file anywhere.

I've performed a "cat /dev/lirc0" and appear to get
output from my xBox DVD remote so it looks like the
driver is working, however, since irw is giving me
nothing I'm guessing that my lircd.conf is bad.  So
far I have only managed to find an xir one.

Thanks in advance!




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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: NUV to DVD scripts for PVR-xxx owners

2005-11-18 Thread ffrr


Cory Papenfuss wrote:


My future mods will take a MythTV cutlist and pass it to ProjectX for
cutting.

You might want to catch up on the 'MPEG commercial-cut code' thread 
in the Myth dev list. There is a tool in development to cut 
commercials already that is pretty close to working. I mean, it does 
work, but it's not ready for prime time yet.


I'll agree here.  There are a few of us actively working to get 
bugs worked out of this code.  Unlike most other scripts and 
utilities, this one (when the bugs are smashed) should allow for 
essentially lossless MPEG2->MPEG2 transcoding from within mythtv.  It 
will fix PTS discrepancies in ivtv captures, do frame-accurate cutting 
(along with reencoding the few frames around a cut if necessary), and 
make it quite easy to burn the resulting (commercialless) stream to DVD.


Stay tuned... I think there's some good news on this front.

-Cory




Sounds great.  Will it get around the problem I am having with 
mythtvwebburn where the aspect ratio keeps getting altered?  I am hoping 
it will as you won't be doing any conversion and the video from my DVB-T 
card is 720x576 16:9 natively.


Also, will it be possible to use this code without having to install a 
non-release version of mythtv?

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Re: [mythtv-users] How to change which tuner record preference


Bennett Leve wrote:

I have two PVR-350 cards and both are setup using cable in.  If I am 
watching a show and I use mytweb or another frontend to start a new 
recording of a current show it pops me out of the show I am watching 
and takes me to the channel that I want to record.


Is there a way to have the recorder prefer the other tuner?


No.  If it did, you'd be watching the other tuner.  But there is a way 
to fix the problem.


Option a) In setup (General Settings):

Avoid conflicts between live TV and scheduled shows.
If enabled, live TV will choose a tuner card that is less likely to have 
scheduled recordings rather than the best card available.


Option b) Don't watch LiveTV.  Record everything.  ;)

Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] Give HDTV priority over SDTV

2005-11-18 Thread Chad

> Card priority won't work, as both channels are on the same card.
>
> Is there a channel priority?  I must have missed that setting.
>
> But if I want to save space on one show, but have HD on another, and
> both are on the same network, it still doesn't give a solution.
>
> --PC
>
>
>
> ___

I don't know if you use Mythweb or not, but I do and see the "HD"
letters next to programming shown in High Def.  The other shows on
that same channel are not HD, and this allows me to choose which
version I want.

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] Graphics card recommendation

2005-11-18 Thread Chad

> Actually, the only reason I care about PCIe is because I plan on getting
> a higher end CPU and motherboard.  Unfortunately, higher end
> motherboards with >3 PCI slots and a 10/100/1000 network interface
> typically don't come with an AGP slot.

Not a gigabit NIC, but I've got a mobo with 6 PCI's and an AGP, an
ASUS A7V600-X I believe (not at home to peak at the mobo).  It's
Socket A, not sure if that's what you want.

> This box will not only be a
> BE/FE system, but it will also serve other FE boxes as well as being an
> LTSP server.
>
> -Mike
>

Most BE serve other frontends ;)  As for the LTSP server, I looked at
it fairly recently, and it would seem that most of the specs of the
server aren't that stringent (part of the reason for them creating the
project IIRC).  Still, from the additional uses, I don't see a big
reason to go PCI-E with this particular setup.  A nice AGP GF4 MX440
that supports XVMC should certinaly suffice.  If the PCI-E were on the
board I chose, I may look at accomodating it, but I wouldn't base my
search of my mobo off weather it had PCI-E support or not.

Your "other frontends" will be where you may consider PCI-E, depending
on their use, but even still, if they are dedicated FE's, I don't see
any compelling reason to search out a mobo with PCI-E and then further
search out a card that is supported in Linux, AND then search out
weather or not XVMC works with that setup.

Good Luck, with whatever you choose.

Chad
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[mythtv-users] http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/618

Can anyone else running an HD3000 card confirm this issue? I've experienced it 
on two of my systems (both running the same OS, so it might be related to 
that)


Steve
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[mythtv-users] How to change which tuner record preference

2005-11-18 Thread Bennett Leve

I have two PVR-350 cards and both are setup using cable in.  If I am 
watching a show and I use mytweb or another frontend to start a new 
recording of a current show it pops me out of the show I am watching and 
takes me to the channel that I want to record.


Is there a way to have the recorder prefer the other tuner? 


-Bennett
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Re: [mythtv-users] Graphics card recommendation

On Friday 18 November 2005 21:03, Mike Robinson wrote:
> Steve Adeff wrote:
> > On Friday 18 November 2005 19:42, Mike Robinson wrote:
> >>>Interesting in my mythbox I'm using an AGP fx5200 without any of that.
> >>>The reason I like the Nvidia based cards is that the TV-Out is active at
> >>>boot so you can do bios updates as necessary not sure if ATI supports
> >>>that but it was a selling feature when I bought the card.  As far as
> >>>PCI/PCI-E go most PCI-E boards come with 3 or 4 pci slots so if you buy
> >>>the PCI-E card and find it unworkable you can switch it for a PCI
> >>>version.  The new box I'm planning will be using PCI-E
> >>
> >>I think that's my plan...a mobo with at least three PCI slots and a PCIe
> >>slot.  What I haven't figured out is which PCIe graphics card to get.
> >>FX5200 isn't readily available with a PCIe interface.  The next
> >>generation card (the 6200) aparently has some overlay limitation in
> >>Linux.  My head is ready to explode with from all of the different
> >>reviews I've read on various cards.  I plan on getting a beefy CPU, but
> >>I'd still rather not tax it if it can be offloaded to the graphics card.
> >>  Has anyone had experience building a BE/FE HDTV system that performs
> >>without a glitch?...including recordings, live TV, OSD, etc.  If so, I'd
> >>love to know the setup.
> >
> > I have an Albatross FX5200 PCIE card on my file server, I connected it to
> > my HD tv and it worked fine, I assume TV out works as well. 90% of NVIDIA
> > based cards use the NVIDIA reference design, very few vary from it (but
> > when they do, they usually cost $$$ and are really sweet). so you
> > shouldn't have an issue.
> >
> > Steve
>
> Where did you find it?  Do you have a link?  This is the only FX5200
> PCIe link I could find:
>
>http://computing.kelkoo.co.uk/b/a/ps_1498478/111601.html
>
> I'd consider the newer 6xxx Nvidia PCIe cards, but then I read folks
> complaining about Nvidia dropping Xvideo overlay support:
>
>http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/08/msg00205.html
>
> Should I be concerned about this?  This is all new stuff to me.  Does
> this have anything to do with XvMC?

I got it at Newegg, they don't look to carry it anymore. I don't know anything 
about the overlay or XvMC stuff.

Steve
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Re: [mythtv-users] xorg.conf for PAL TV out, can't get it to work

2005-11-18 Thread Wade Maxfield

My brother has a gForce mx4000 card with TV-OUT and he would like to 
use his tv as viewing screen.

But I can't get it to work.
When the tv is the only connected "monitor" (via the S-VIDEO) then 
at startup I do get all the linux startup on the tv.

That part works fine - so we got the hardware correct (at least)
But when X (xorg) takes over then all we get is  basically nothing.

I tried some of the setups I found on the web, stating that "this 
works..." - well not so here.

Have anyone here gotten TV-OUT to work on a PAL system?
I would like to see a xorg.conf for that

Thanks,
Karsten



This is what I've got working on a Leadtek nVidia 5700 via the s-video port

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Videocard0"
Driver  "nvidia"
VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier   "TV-Out"
VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName"TV 800x600"
HorizSync30.0 - 50.0
VertRefresh  50.0 - 60.0
Option  "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor"TV-Out"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TVStandard" "PAL-I"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
Option "TVOutFormat" "S-VIDEO"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth 24
Modes"800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection


 - Wade
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Re: [mythtv-users] Graphics card recommendation

2005-11-18 Thread Chad

>  Has anyone had experience building a BE/FE HDTV system that performs
> without a glitch?...including recordings, live TV, OSD, etc.  If so, I'd
> love to know the setup.
>
>
>
>
> ___

IMHO, if this is going to be a dedicated BE/FE (and assumingly
eventually a dedicated one or the other when you get addtional
hardware) I wouldn't be so pressed to find PCI-E.  AGP Nvidia GF4 that
support XVMC should be plenty.  Why dump a bunch of really fast,
really screamin hardware in there and create that much more heat and
cost?  You can get by, assuming you're doing XVMC offloading for all
HD, with much less of a system.  And if you are just recording with
PVR's or HD tuners recording HD, CPU is barely touched, it's all
hardware driven captures.  A P4 1.8-2.4Ghz should be plenty (AMD XP
1800-2600).  There is no need to see what hardware does what, again,
assuming this is only a myth system and NOT a gaming platform or a
desktop.

:)

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Re: [mythtv-users] Graphics card recommendation

2005-11-18 Thread Mike Robinson


Ross Campbell wrote:




On 11/17/05, *Mike Robinson* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> wrote:


I'm building a new MythTv BE/FE (my first) and would like some input
regarding the graphics card.  I will be recording ATSC OTA channels from
two HD3000 cards, so I'll need to support HD playback.  I've seen the
FX5200 based cards recommended often, but I can only find them with an
AGP interface.  From what I'm told, if I'm going to build a new system,
PCI-E is the way to go for the graphics card.


I would worry more about getting a fanless graphics card than whether 
it's PCIe or AGP


I've already put soundproofing in my case to cut hard drive noise. The 
noisiest things now are the fans. Last thing I'd want is to add another fan.


-Ross


Actually, the only reason I care about PCIe is because I plan on getting 
a higher end CPU and motherboard.  Unfortunately, higher end 
motherboards with >3 PCI slots and a 10/100/1000 network interface 
typically don't come with an AGP slot.  This box will not only be a 
BE/FE system, but it will also serve other FE boxes as well as being an 
LTSP server.


-Mike

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Re: [mythtv-users] Graphics card recommendation

On 11/17/05, Mike Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm building a new MythTv BE/FE (my first) and would like some inputregarding the graphics card.  I will be recording ATSC OTA channels fromtwo HD3000 cards, so I'll need to support HD playback.  I've seen the
FX5200 based cards recommended often, but I can only find them with anAGP interface.  From what I'm told, if I'm going to build a new system,PCI-E is the way to go for the graphics card.
I would worry more about getting a fanless graphics card than whether it's PCIe or AGP

I've already put soundproofing in my case to cut hard drive noise. The
noisiest things now are the fans. Last thing I'd want is to add another
fan.

-Ross
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Re: [mythtv-users] Graphics card recommendation

2005-11-18 Thread Mike Robinson


Steve Adeff wrote:


On Friday 18 November 2005 19:42, Mike Robinson wrote:


Interesting in my mythbox I'm using an AGP fx5200 without any of that.
The reason I like the Nvidia based cards is that the TV-Out is active at
boot so you can do bios updates as necessary not sure if ATI supports
that but it was a selling feature when I bought the card.  As far as
PCI/PCI-E go most PCI-E boards come with 3 or 4 pci slots so if you buy
the PCI-E card and find it unworkable you can switch it for a PCI
version.  The new box I'm planning will be using PCI-E


I think that's my plan...a mobo with at least three PCI slots and a PCIe
slot.  What I haven't figured out is which PCIe graphics card to get.
FX5200 isn't readily available with a PCIe interface.  The next
generation card (the 6200) aparently has some overlay limitation in
Linux.  My head is ready to explode with from all of the different
reviews I've read on various cards.  I plan on getting a beefy CPU, but
I'd still rather not tax it if it can be offloaded to the graphics card.
 Has anyone had experience building a BE/FE HDTV system that performs
without a glitch?...including recordings, live TV, OSD, etc.  If so, I'd
love to know the setup.



I have an Albatross FX5200 PCIE card on my file server, I connected it to my 
HD tv and it worked fine, I assume TV out works as well. 90% of NVIDIA based 
cards use the NVIDIA reference design, very few vary from it (but when they 
do, they usually cost $$$ and are really sweet). so you shouldn't have an 
issue.


Steve




Where did you find it?  Do you have a link?  This is the only FX5200 
PCIe link I could find:


  http://computing.kelkoo.co.uk/b/a/ps_1498478/111601.html

I'd consider the newer 6xxx Nvidia PCIe cards, but then I read folks 
complaining about Nvidia dropping Xvideo overlay support:


  http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/08/msg00205.html

Should I be concerned about this?  This is all new stuff to me.  Does 
this have anything to do with XvMC?


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Re: [mythtv-users] remote MythTV system has suddenly lost sound


Mark Knecht wrote:


On 11/18/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Heh.  You've lost your "-l".  ;)
   


I'm lame. I don't get it.
 


Your post said:


gandalf ~ # ls -al /dev/v4l/video
video0   video24  video32 


So, you showed an "ls" with a "-l" argument, but the tab auto-completion 
doesn't have the details from a long listing format, so it looks like an 
"ls" without the "-l" (although without the "*" at the end of "video", 
you would have gotten a "ls: video: No such file or directory", so I'm 
actually stretching my joke a bit too far)...  Which means that really, 
I--not you--am lame for finding it amusing.


In the interest of full disclosure, I should also admit that when Endaf 
Jones posts and ends his message with "# Endaf" (i.e. 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/151468#151468 ), my 
brain always says, "#endaf without #af".  The really scary part is when 
the other voice says, "That's not what it would say!  It would say, 
'invalid preprocessing directive #Endaf' because of the capital 'E'."


Perhaps I spend too much time on computers...  To get away from 
computers, I'm going to go watch some TV output by my Myth box to my new 
set that contains an ATI Xilleon media processor...  Wait a minute.


Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] remote MythTV system has suddenly lost sound

On 11/18/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> There is no one home at the remote end to tell me the results of the
> 3PM recording experiment in MythTV. BAck later. Thanks.
>
> - Mark
>

Hi,
   The 3PM recording seems to have worked fine. Thanks for the
feedback along the way.

cheers,
Mark
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Re: [mythtv-users] Upgrading from 0.18.1

2005-11-18 Thread Phill Edwards

> I've been running 0.18.1 on my system (1xPVR-250, 1xPVR-350, using the 350
> for TV-Out) for about six months now.  Have had frequent issues with freezes
> and unwanted pauses while watching recordings, and I *HEAR* that Myth 0.18.2
> includes significant improvements to the way that Myth works with the 350.
>
> If this is true, I am interested in upgrading.  Can this be confirmed by the
> Powers That Be?  Also, what are the downsides?  I know that the absolute
> latest builds have Live TV broken, so I want to avoid them.
>
> One point of note is that I did not download and build my current version
> from scratch, I used the saucy Knoppmyth R5A16 distro.
>
> I am willing to compile, but am also a little afeared (this is THE
> television system in the house, and both I and my wife have shows we're
> hooked on, so failure is not an option ;-)

I don't think there is any such thing as 0.18.2. 0.18.1 is the latest
release version. anything later than that is in SVN which means a
whole new ball game.

Regards,
Phill
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Re: [mythtv-users] Graphics card recommendation

On Friday 18 November 2005 19:42, Mike Robinson wrote:
> > Interesting in my mythbox I'm using an AGP fx5200 without any of that.
> > The reason I like the Nvidia based cards is that the TV-Out is active at
> > boot so you can do bios updates as necessary not sure if ATI supports
> > that but it was a selling feature when I bought the card.  As far as
> > PCI/PCI-E go most PCI-E boards come with 3 or 4 pci slots so if you buy
> > the PCI-E card and find it unworkable you can switch it for a PCI
> > version.  The new box I'm planning will be using PCI-E
>
> I think that's my plan...a mobo with at least three PCI slots and a PCIe
> slot.  What I haven't figured out is which PCIe graphics card to get.
> FX5200 isn't readily available with a PCIe interface.  The next
> generation card (the 6200) aparently has some overlay limitation in
> Linux.  My head is ready to explode with from all of the different
> reviews I've read on various cards.  I plan on getting a beefy CPU, but
> I'd still rather not tax it if it can be offloaded to the graphics card.
>   Has anyone had experience building a BE/FE HDTV system that performs
> without a glitch?...including recordings, live TV, OSD, etc.  If so, I'd
> love to know the setup.

I have an Albatross FX5200 PCIE card on my file server, I connected it to my 
HD tv and it worked fine, I assume TV out works as well. 90% of NVIDIA based 
cards use the NVIDIA reference design, very few vary from it (but when they 
do, they usually cost $$$ and are really sweet). so you shouldn't have an 
issue.

Steve
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Re: [mythtv-users] Graphics card recommendation

2005-11-18 Thread Mike Robinson

Interesting in my mythbox I'm using an AGP fx5200 without any of that.  
The reason I like the Nvidia based cards is that the TV-Out is active at

boot so you can do bios updates as necessary not sure if ATI supports
that but it was a selling feature when I bought the card.  As far as
PCI/PCI-E go most PCI-E boards come with 3 or 4 pci slots so if you buy
the PCI-E card and find it unworkable you can switch it for a PCI
version.  The new box I'm planning will be using PCI-E


I think that's my plan...a mobo with at least three PCI slots and a PCIe 
slot.  What I haven't figured out is which PCIe graphics card to get. 
FX5200 isn't readily available with a PCIe interface.  The next 
generation card (the 6200) aparently has some overlay limitation in 
Linux.  My head is ready to explode with from all of the different 
reviews I've read on various cards.  I plan on getting a beefy CPU, but 
I'd still rather not tax it if it can be offloaded to the graphics card. 
 Has anyone had experience building a BE/FE HDTV system that performs 
without a glitch?...including recordings, live TV, OSD, etc.  If so, I'd 
love to know the setup.



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Re: [mythtv-users] Upgrading from 0.18.1

2005-11-18 Thread Steve Pugh

Steve Pugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Hello, all!I've been running 0.18.1 on my system (1xPVR-250, 1xPVR-350, using the  350 for TV-Out) for about six months now.  Have had frequent  issues with freezes and unwanted pauses while watching recordings, and  I *HEAR* that Myth 0.18.2 includes significant improvements to the way  that Myth works with the 350.   If this is true, I am  interested in upgrading.  Can this be confirmed by the Powers That  Be?  Also, what are the downsides?  I know that the absolute  latest builds have Live TV broken, so I want to avoid them.  *ahem*  As a wise man once said to me, "Why stop after two minutes of Googling when 2.001 seconds will yield you results?"http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/155525?page=lastIt certainly sounds straightforward enough, but if there are pitfalls that anyone can share with me, t'would be appreciated.Best,      Steve
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Re: [mythtv-users] remote MythTV system has suddenly lost sound

On 11/18/05, Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Mark,
>
> I would check to make sure that the ivtv card is correctly defined in
> the database (either check the DB directly or use mythtvsetup). It may
> be (from the errors) that the currently defined card is now
> incorrectly setup and as such the backend can't use Tuner0, although
> it is still defined in the card's setup within MythTV.

OK, walking through myth-setup I don't see anything obvious. There is
still one card set up, there is still one Zap2It account with the
right name and password, and there is still one connection from Tuner0
to the the Zap2It account. I think it looks reasonable.

However, after running mythtv-setup it tells me to run
mythfilldatabase. When I try to run that I get lousy results:

--16:04:49--  http://datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com/tvlistings/xtvdService
   => `-'
Resolving datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com... 206.18.98.160
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 500 Internal Server Error
16:04:50 ERROR 500: Internal Server Error.

Maybe this is just a temporary problem?

>
> As it's an ivtv card, I'd also check the ivtv output upon driver
> loading to make sure the tuner itself is being correctly identified
> and initialised. May also be worth using ivtvctl to get the info on
> the card's setting now you've upgraded to newer ivtv drivers.

I tried

cat /dev/v4l/video0 >test1.mpg

and then ssh'ed it back here. It's only about 2 seconds of video but
it plays in mplayer and does have audio so the problem doesn't seem to
be specifically an ivtv failure at this point.

There is no one home at the remote end to tell me the results of the
3PM recording experiment in MythTV. BAck later. Thanks.

- Mark
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[mythtv-users] DCT6412 firewire - one port changes channel, one sends video?

Anyone have a DCT6412? I'm at my folks and my dad has one. I plugged my laptop 
in to his 6412 and one of the firewire ports seems to not accept the channel 
change command via 6200ch but the other does. The port that accepts the 
channel change won't send out video, but the port that won't accept channel 
changes does!

anyone know whats up? am I doing something wrong for this box? I've run the 
plugctl commands but they don't seem to do anything but change the 
datarate...

Steve
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Re: [mythtv-users] LIve TV and changing channels -- unstable

2005-11-18 Thread Mark Kundinger

--- Norm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> If I change the channel 3 or more times, the backend 'forgets' to
> change 
> the channel and the frontend gets stuck waiting for data that will
> never 
> arrive.  I typically have to restart both. 
> 
> Is this a typical problem with DVB or is there something more stable
> out 
> there?  I can record from different stations and it has no problems 
> jumping to the right station to record...

You know I have a similar problem, using a Matrox Marvel G400-TV
plugged into analog cable.  If I channel-flip aggressively (not always
three times), then after a while, the screen goes black, the frontend
and backend both hang and need to be restarted.

However, I can channel-flip aggressively with my PVR-250 (analog
again), without problem.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Section 22.2 MythTv Documention Missing? (Hauppauge....remote...LIRC..)

2005-11-18 Thread Nick Rout

Are you looking on the website or your computer? when myth was installed on my 
computer the following files were included:

/usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-1.html
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-10.html
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-11.html
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-12.html
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-13.html
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-14.html
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-15.html
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-16.html
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-17.html
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-18.html
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-19.html
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-2.html
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-20.html
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-21.html
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-4.html
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-5.html
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-6.html
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-7.html
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-8.html
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-9.html
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-singlehtml.html
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO.html



On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:20:54 -0800
Mark H wrote:

> Section 22.2 "Hauppauge PVR-250 remote and MythTV's native LIRC
> support"  is no longer in the Documentation.
> I am not sure if other doc's have been removed too.  Is it possible to
> add a section for archived Docs?  I
> didn't see it moved anywhere nor is it covered in a different section.
>  Hopefully it was moved and I just
> didn't see it.  Can someone please put it back?

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Re: [mythtv-users] xorg.conf for PAL TV out, can't get it to work

On Friday 18 November 2005 05:42, Karsten Jeppesen wrote:
> My brother has a gForce mx4000 card with TV-OUT and he would like to
> use his tv as viewing screen.
> But I can't get it to work.
> When the tv is the only connected "monitor" (via the S-VIDEO) then at
> startup I do get all the linux startup on the tv.
> That part works fine - so we got the hardware correct (at least)
> But when X (xorg) takes over then all we get is  basically nothing.
>
> I tried some of the setups I found on the web, stating that "this
> works..." - well not so here.
> Have anyone here gotten TV-OUT to work on a PAL system?
> I would like to see a xorg.conf for that
>
> Thanks,
> Karsten

The nvidia drivers have an option that sets the TV output format, look at the 
readme available via their driver download page its in there, i noticed it a 
few days ago while setting up my DVI output for HDTV.

Steve
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Re: [mythtv-users] Which is the best HDTV Tuner Card

On Thursday 17 November 2005 22:19, Todd Ignasiak wrote:
> On 11/17/05, Tom Dombrosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 11/17/05, Nathan Allen Stratton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Steve Adeff wrote:
> > > > the website never gets updated, the HD3000 DOES support QAM, I've
> > > > been
> >
> > using
> >
> > > > it this way for about 2 months now.
> > > >
> > > > QAM is used by cable companies, so if you recieve your HDTV via a
> > > > cable
> >
> > line
> >
> > > > then you would use QAM(most likely QAM256).
> > >
> > > You only get local right? I think at least Comcast scrambles all the
> > > other HDTV making the new QAM support not worth a lot.
> > >
> > > -Nathan
> >
> >  Comcast has more unscrambled channels than Cox did for me.  ESPN-HD,
> > INHD1, INHD2, DISC-HD, TNT-HD, and CSN-HD are all in the clear.
>
> This differs per region..  My Comcast provider used to have ESPN-HD,
> InHD1 and InHD2 in the clear, and they just started scrambling it a
> month or two ago.
>
> The locals remain unscrambled.  But, those can be received for free
> with a decent antenna.

OTA analog must remain unscrambled, FCC regulations.

Steve
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Re: [mythtv-users] Which is the best HDTV Tuner Card

On Thursday 17 November 2005 22:16, Jason Gabriele wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 November 2005 13:57, Todd Ignasiak wrote:
> > > The DVico "FusionHDTV 3 QAM" and FusionHDTV 5 Gold and Lite
> >
> > are also
> >
> > > supported in Linux.
> >
> > looking into the Fusion cards I found this:
> > http://www.fusionhdtv.co.kr/eng/Products/HDTV5usb.aspx
> >
> > which looks pretty cool, I'll await to see what the final
> > specs are when they get posted.
> >
> >
> > Steve
>
> I have a fusion 5 gold and would not recommend it if you plan on watching
> analog tv off the same card. HDTV reception works but analog tv was washed
> out and sound wouldn't work until I changed the channel. I tried both V4L
> cvs and the stock 2.6.14 drivers and had the same problem with both. I
> reverted back to my wintv go card (the machine only has 1 pci slot) and the
> fusion 5 is just sitting in a box now. I guess I will wait a while and hope
> someone fixes the driver. I saw there are some new patches in 2.6.15 that
> might fix the problem however.

no mpeg2 encoding of NTSC though right? I never tried NTSC with my HD3000, but 
I'm willing (and already have) spent $70 on a PVR150.


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Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV and EPIA Nehemiah

2005-11-18 Thread Nick Rout

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:18:02 -0500
Michael Haan wrote:

> I'm thinking about trying it, but I want to be reasonably sure it'll work
> before I start buying equipment. Any reason why I couldn't build myth with
> HW on this linux variant (I believe it derives from gentoo, which I've used
> before: http://www.epios.net

The gentoo wiki has a section on unichrome, I am not sure how up to date this 
info is, but here is what it says:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/Unichrome

"This Howto is about installing a kernel and Xorg on a motherboard with
VIA CLE266 or KM400/KN400 chipset. Support for K8M800 and PM800/CN400 is
still limited.

The CLE266 VIA chipsets allow hardware mpeg2 decoding of videos, thus
taking the load off the CPU. At the end of this howto you should be able
to play a mpeg2 file with as little as 5% CPU usage. Multiple mpeg2
steams are not supported by the hardware, so you will only get hardware
decoding for one video file.

The CN400 supports mpeg2 and mpeg4 decoding, but the drivers are still
in heavy development to make use of the this hardware. The next version
of xorg-x11 (6.9 / 7.0) should contain full support for the CL266 and,
at least, partial support for the CN400 chipsets.

A user on the forums has had some success getting the unichrome drivers
to work without using any CVS repositories and without using software
packages outside of portage. It might be advisable to view that series
of posts [1] in addition to reading this HOWTO. "

[1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-361352.html

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Re: [mythtv-users] QAM question

On Friday 18 November 2005 09:12, Mark J. Small wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm looking in to the HD cards like the 3000 and the fusion 5 to use with
> digital cable.  On my system there are a lot of SD channels in the clear as
> well.
>
> I was looking at the diagnostic menus on my cable box, and there I can see
> information like the frequency and whether the channel is in the clear or
> not.  I have seen three options as to whether a channel is clear or not.
> They are:
>
> CLR -- obviously clear
> UNE -- unencrypted??
> UNC -- encrypted
>
> Does anyone know what the difference between clear and unencrypted is? 
> Would I be able to get unencrypted channels with a tuner card?
>
> Mark

many cable companies encrypt the signal so that only a cable box can unencrypt 
it, then 5C comes into play as to whether the box will send the signal out 
over firewire.
5C=0 is basically off, ie no 5C device needed
5C=1 is copy once
5C=2 is copy never (ie only for playback to a TV).

I happen to be visiting the folks this weekend and made the discovery that 
their DCT6412 has 5C=0 for EVERYTHING. I'm jealous, and trying to figure out 
how to get this dual tuner DVR to send the video to my laptop, its a lot more 
finicky than my DCT6200 at home.

Steve
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Welcome to the "mythtv-users" mailing list (Digest mode)

On 18/11/05, Cesar Ramirez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, I like to subscribe to post to the list. I have created an account
> already.

If using GMail, you normally won't see your posts until someone
replies. If you want to make sure posts are working, you can check the
list archive here:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/

(just wait a couple of hours for your message to show up.)

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Re: [mythtv-users] remote MythTV system has suddenly lost sound

On 18/11/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/18/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > Heh.  You've lost your "-l".  ;)
>
> I'm lame. I don't get it.
>
> >
> > >gandalf ~ # ls -al /dev/v4l/video0
> > >crw-rw  1 root video 81, 0 Nov 18 07:13 /dev/v4l/video0
> > >gandalf ~ #
> > >
> > >
> > Is the user running mythbackend in the video group?  Is the user running
> > mythfrontend in the (probably) audio group?
> >
> > Perhaps group settings got changed before the reboot.  Since Myth was
> > already running in a process with previous group settings, they didn't
> > cause problems.  However, when rebooting, Myth got a new process--with
> > the new group settings...
> >
> > Mike
>
> I've found one problem. The machine has two kernels. It appears that
> the default setting is for the old kernel. I have no idea what kernel
> was running before.
>
> I've updated the ivtv driver for the new kernel and it is loading
> fine. The problems we are seeing now are:
>
> 1) Old recordings have audio. Recent recordings do not. Chalk that up
> to some temporary problem that we'll fix. No big deal.
>
> 2) Watch TV just freezes. We get 1 second of audio and 1 second of
> video. The frozen screen sits for 5-10 second and then Myth comes back
> to the normal 6 circle screen where you choose what do do. This is a
> major problem.
>
> 3) If I look in the mythbackend log file I see this:
>
> 2005-11-18 14:51:35.786 joined null string in WriteStringList
> 2005-11-18 14:52:14.938 adding: gandalf as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-11-18 14:52:14.954 adding: gandalf as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-11-18 14:52:14.961 adding: gandalf as a remote ringbuffer
> 2005-11-18 14:52:17.367 joined null string in WriteStringList
> 2005-11-18 14:55:22.760 adding: gandalf as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-11-18 14:55:22.908 adding: gandalf as a client (events: 1)
> 2005-11-18 15:00:02.383 ChannelBase: Could not find input: Tuner 0 on
> card when setting channel 2
>
> We attempted to set up a 3PM recording on channel 2. The last line
> looks like problems.
>
> I'm looking at the failing machine and comparing it to my working
> machine here. The groups seem to be the same.

Mark,

I would check to make sure that the ivtv card is correctly defined in
the database (either check the DB directly or use mythtvsetup). It may
be (from the errors) that the currently defined card is now
incorrectly setup and as such the backend can't use Tuner0, although
it is still defined in the card's setup within MythTV.

As it's an ivtv card, I'd also check the ivtv output upon driver
loading to make sure the tuner itself is being correctly identified
and initialised. May also be worth using ivtvctl to get the info on
the card's setting now you've upgraded to newer ivtv drivers.

Nick
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Re: [mythtv-users] custom Example Clauses in Custom Record?

On Thursday 17 November 2005 20:56, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Steve Adeff wrote:
> >I don't really use many of the examples, but I've come up with some
> > clauses that work for *me*. Is there a way to replace/add my clauses to
> > the examples easily?
>
> Post them here and Bruce Markey will probably add those that would be
> useful to others...  ;)
>
> If it's really stuff that's not useful to anyone, you'll have to modify
> programs/mythfrontend/customrecord.cpp (around about line 100).
>
> Mike

thats what I was looking for!  I'll mine if I think they're worth it, I'm 
still playing around to see how accurate/necesary they are =)

thanks,
Steve
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Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV and EPIA Nehemiah

2005-11-18 Thread Michael Haan

On 11/18/05, R. Geoffrey Newbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Michael Haan wrote:> I'm thinking about trying it, but I want to be reasonably sure it'll> work before I start buying equipment.  Any reason why I couldn't build> myth with HW on this linux variant (I believe it derives from gentoo,
> which I've used before:  http://www.epios.netI have the SP13000 board and the unichrome-pro drivers, but I justlearned today (another thread) that I should have libviaXvMCPro.so.xx
 in/etc/X11/XvMCconfig... I actually had libNVIDIA.so.xx???If you are going down the 'roll-your-own' route, check outhttp://groundstate.ca/C3Myth where Austin Action explains how to do all
the unichrome bits under Mandriva... you will have to do similar thingswith the unichrome sourcecode. And some of that is now obsolete with theinclusion of stuff into Xorg...but what bits I am not sure!
This board plays DVD's very nicely and can expand a standard TV to fullscreen with stutter artifacts. But I do not know if it can actuallyhandle the MPEG4 output of HDTV...It would be nice!There is no doubt that it can handle the input side of an HD stream, so
it will do as a backend. The question is whether it will front as well.Geoff> On 11/18/05, *Bryan Halter* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote:>>>On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:33:34 +1300 (NZDT), Robin Gilks wrote:
>>Is anyone aware whether the EPIA Nehemiah boards with the CLE266 MPEG2/4decoders are capable of serving as a viable HDTV frontend, either now, or
inthe near future?>>>With a CLE266 no, with a CN400 (e.g. SP13000) very likely yes. Only the>>>CN400 has mpeg4 decode capability anyway (apparently).
 Are you sure about that? And if so, using what software>> drivers... I have an SP13. I did not think that I could 'do'>> HDTV with it. I do have an HD3000 card, but I was not intending
>> to attempt actual HDTV output to screen. Geoff R. Geoffrey>> Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users>>If you're going to try it you would need the unichrome drivers.  I was wondering about this myself and would love to hear an update onces someone tries it.
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I've already got a ready to go backend.  In fact, it was a combo fe/be and it handled hd.  Problem was, it ran so hot that even water cooling it wasn't enough (i'm just guessing about that. certainly fan-cooling was not enough but i've been experiencing intermittant lock-ups which, i now read, could just've been a myth thing) so i had to leave the case open.  Needless to say, it was loud.  So, when the mobo died yesterday i started think about making the fe/be split, but i need a machine that can handle FE hdtv duties *quietly* - hence the reason I'm thinking about this.
Can anyone out there with one of these machines try playing an hdtv clip and see if it works?
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Re: [mythtv-users] Deinterlacing and VGA->PAL TV

On 18/11/05, Shaun Lowry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I have DVB-T tuner cards in my BE and connect my FE's VGA output to my
> widescreen PAL TV's RGB SCART input (with appropriate cabling and modelines),
> will there be any need to deinterlace any more, or can MythTV sync the input 
> and
> output such that the interlacing matches?

I have my main frontend (ATI using S-Video) connected to my Sony Wega
TV, and have no need to deinterlace anything (and have seen only mild
issues with tickers, more when using my PVR-350 for TV output).

Nick
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Re: [mythtv-users] xorg.conf for PAL TV out, can't get it to work

On 18/11/05, Karsten Jeppesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My brother has a gForce mx4000 card with TV-OUT and he would like to
> use his tv as viewing screen.
> But I can't get it to work.
> When the tv is the only connected "monitor" (via the S-VIDEO) then at
> startup I do get all the linux startup on the tv.
> That part works fine - so we got the hardware correct (at least)
> But when X (xorg) takes over then all we get is  basically nothing.
>
> I tried some of the setups I found on the web, stating that "this
> works..." - well not so here.
> Have anyone here gotten TV-OUT to work on a PAL system?
> I would like to see a xorg.conf for that

The xorg logfile is usually helpful when things don't go to plan.
Also, most (if not all) European PAL TV's work at 50Hz, so I tend to
specify this in my xorg.conf file, instead of providing a range (e.g.
50-120Hz) as some TVs may not cope well with refresh rates outside of
their tolerance.

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Re: [mythtv-users] DVB-T cards for the UK

On 18/11/05, James Fidell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone care to recommend DVB-T cards for Freeview reception. I have a
> Hauppauge Nova-t card already, but how do others compare?

I picked up a few V-Stream DVB Xpert cards which work fine and seem to
tune quicker than my Nova-T and also seem to have less issues when
signal strength is not optimal.

Nick
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Re: [mythtv-users] remote MythTV system has suddenly lost sound

On 11/18/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> Heh.  You've lost your "-l".  ;)

I'm lame. I don't get it.

>
> >gandalf ~ # ls -al /dev/v4l/video0
> >crw-rw  1 root video 81, 0 Nov 18 07:13 /dev/v4l/video0
> >gandalf ~ #
> >
> >
> Is the user running mythbackend in the video group?  Is the user running
> mythfrontend in the (probably) audio group?
>
> Perhaps group settings got changed before the reboot.  Since Myth was
> already running in a process with previous group settings, they didn't
> cause problems.  However, when rebooting, Myth got a new process--with
> the new group settings...
>
> Mike

I've found one problem. The machine has two kernels. It appears that
the default setting is for the old kernel. I have no idea what kernel
was running before.

I've updated the ivtv driver for the new kernel and it is loading
fine. The problems we are seeing now are:

1) Old recordings have audio. Recent recordings do not. Chalk that up
to some temporary problem that we'll fix. No big deal.

2) Watch TV just freezes. We get 1 second of audio and 1 second of
video. The frozen screen sits for 5-10 second and then Myth comes back
to the normal 6 circle screen where you choose what do do. This is a
major problem.

3) If I look in the mythbackend log file I see this:

2005-11-18 14:51:35.786 joined null string in WriteStringList
2005-11-18 14:52:14.938 adding: gandalf as a client (events: 0)
2005-11-18 14:52:14.954 adding: gandalf as a client (events: 0)
2005-11-18 14:52:14.961 adding: gandalf as a remote ringbuffer
2005-11-18 14:52:17.367 joined null string in WriteStringList
2005-11-18 14:55:22.760 adding: gandalf as a client (events: 0)
2005-11-18 14:55:22.908 adding: gandalf as a client (events: 1)
2005-11-18 15:00:02.383 ChannelBase: Could not find input: Tuner 0 on
card when setting channel 2

We attempted to set up a 3PM recording on channel 2. The last line
looks like problems.

I'm looking at the failing machine and comparing it to my working
machine here. The groups seem to be the same.

- Mark
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Re: NUV to DVD scripts for PVR-xxx owners

2005-11-18 Thread Mike Frisch

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 02:50:41PM -0800, Ross Campbell wrote:
>How about using links (a text-based web browser) to select show with
>MythtvBurn from inside of an terminal window? ;)

MythWeb ain't friendly to links/lynx/whatever...
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Re: NUV to DVD scripts for PVR-xxx owners


I am familiar with mythburn/mythtvburn.  I want to do similar thingsfrom the command-line without needing a web browser.  I do most work on
my MythTV box from a remote ssh connection.  I want to create ISOswithout the need for selecting shows through MythWeb.

How about using links (a text-based web browser) to select show with MythtvBurn from inside of an terminal window? ;)

-Ross

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Re: [mythtv-users] Give HDTV priority over SDTV

2005-11-18 Thread Preston Crow

On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 17:32 -0500, Erik Karlin wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:44:10PM -0500, Preston Crow wrote:
> > It would be really nice to be able to specify whether to try to record
> > the HD or SD version of a program.  With my set up, I get both via
> > digital cable QAM, so setting the priority by the tuner isn't good
> > enough.
> > 
> > I suppose I might be able to set up a search that looks for the title
> > and "HD" in the description, and give that higher priority than the same
> > search without the HD.  That would only work if I want the HD version (I
> > suppose I might someday want the SD version for some shows to save
> > space).

> Wouldn't the card priority settings and/or channel priority settings
> take care of that automatically?

Card priority won't work, as both channels are on the same card.

Is there a channel priority?  I must have missed that setting.

But if I want to save space on one show, but have HD on another, and
both are on the same network, it still doesn't give a solution.

--PC

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Mythburn hosed my /video directory

On 11/18/05, Joshua Fechner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK. So that was just stupid on my part. I guess I had read
that post some time ago but had forgotten about it. Well, I
recorded a show as a test and used Mythburn again.
...without reinstalling mythburn and specifying a proper temp dir?!?
After getting your question answered at least twice on the email list?

Huh?
When I did it,
it didn't appear to have done anything.
I'm sure "it" did "something". Whether "it" is mythtv or mythtvburin,
I'm also sure that there is a logfile of exactly what was done. Have
you looked at the logfile?
I checked my /video
folder and everything was gone again.
See above.
So if I'm correct then
Mythburn deletes everything in the working folder everytime it
runs?
See above.
Is it just me or is that kind of stupid?
Having a program that uses gigs of temp space *not* clean up it's temp dir after a run would seem stupid to me...
Anyway, my
second problem is that Mythweb still lists all of my former (now
deleted) programs under "Recorded Programs" even though they don't seem
to exist anywhere. They even show the thumbnail. How do I
get rid of them?
Well, you can delete any image files in /video since the recordings are gone.

You're going to have to delete the recordings' info from MySQL. I find
phpMyAdmin to be a very helpful tool for working with MySQL when sql
syntax doesn't isn't second nature. Install phpMyAdmin and you should
be able to track down and delete those database entries relatively
easily

That's the last time I use Mythburn.
... before you reinstall it and specify a valid temp dir and clean the orphaned records out of your database. ;)

-Ross

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Re: [mythtv-users] Give HDTV priority over SDTV

2005-11-18 Thread Erik Karlin

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:44:10PM -0500, Preston Crow wrote:
> I think this is a feature request:
> 
> It would be really nice to be able to specify whether to try to record
> the HD or SD version of a program.  With my set up, I get both via
> digital cable QAM, so setting the priority by the tuner isn't good
> enough.
> 
> I suppose I might be able to set up a search that looks for the title
> and "HD" in the description, and give that higher priority than the same
> search without the HD.  That would only work if I want the HD version (I
> suppose I might someday want the SD version for some shows to save
> space).
> 
> --PC
> 
Wouldn't the card priority settings and/or channel priority settings
take care of that automatically?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Give HDTV priority over SDTV

2005-11-18 Thread Kevin Kuphal


Preston Crow wrote:


I think this is a feature request:

It would be really nice to be able to specify whether to try to record
the HD or SD version of a program.  With my set up, I get both via
digital cable QAM, so setting the priority by the tuner isn't good
enough.

I suppose I might be able to set up a search that looks for the title
and "HD" in the description, and give that higher priority than the same
search without the HD.  That would only work if I want the HD version (I
suppose I might someday want the SD version for some shows to save
space).

 

How is the HD vs. SD program differentiated in your lineup?  Is it on 
different channels?


Kevin

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[mythtv-users] Give HDTV priority over SDTV

2005-11-18 Thread Preston Crow

I think this is a feature request:

It would be really nice to be able to specify whether to try to record
the HD or SD version of a program.  With my set up, I get both via
digital cable QAM, so setting the priority by the tuner isn't good
enough.

I suppose I might be able to set up a search that looks for the title
and "HD" in the description, and give that higher priority than the same
search without the HD.  That would only work if I want the HD version (I
suppose I might someday want the SD version for some shows to save
space).

--PC


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Re: [mythtv-users] automatically launching VideoLan or Windows Media Player with .NUV files?


Brad Fuller wrote:

It's relevant... in that when you hover over the PNG/link in the 
"Recording Programs" page of the .nuv video it should say:

myth://.nuv

I just didn't have to configure mythweb for that to work this time 
(had to configure mythweb to tell it where my videodir was, etc.)


You'll get a couple of warnings that you can safely click thru at first.

I really don't know how this works since on linux I don't see myth:// 
but it says http://


I'm sure many people here know how this works. I'd like to know more 
about it.


User-Agent string?

Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware recommended?

2005-11-18 Thread Kirby Bakken

Bertrand M wrote:

 From: Kirby Bakken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> I have a 'BIOSTAR TForce6100-939' MB and an HD5000 HD capture card. The
> on-board video does not currently work with any Nvidia driver 
version. I'm told
> that one of the 'next' available drivers will work. However, I have 
an Nvidia 5200

> PCIExpres x16 card, and this card is NOT fast enough to display HD
> video, so I doubt if the on-board video would either (once Nvidia 
ships a driver

> that'll work).

so if you had to do it again, would you get the same components? I'm 
wondering if I should just bend over and use Sage TV until the Linux 
drivers catch up. (blasphemy, I'm sorry)

The Biostar MB worked well enough, I had to manually patch sata drivers, 
I had to build the system with an ATA HD and add sata later...  It took 
me a couple of days off and on to get that working.  I've been '100' off 
with my Nvidia numbers... i.e. 5200 should have been 6200. The MB comes 
with built-in Nvidia 6200 video.  It doesn't work yet with existing 
drivers.  It should soon (so I'm told).  I discovered that I had to move 
up to a Nvidia 6600GT card in order to get a video card that was either 
a) fast enough, or b) worked well enough with XvMc...  I'm not sure, 
because by now I also have a Gigabyte MB that's roughly equilvalent to 
the Biostar, but the audio chip is an ALC880, and I'm having trouble 
getting that to work with Myth The device driver that I got to work 
(by downloading from the Reatek site) results in a mixer with no 
'Master' slider, so therefore, Myth 'barfs' because it can't set the 
Master slider.  I'm told there are ways around that if you 'craft' the 
.asoundrc file, but I haven't gotten to that yet (anybody have any 
examples of doing that?  :-)  )

> I'm going to have a Nvidia 5600GT card to try in a few hours...  
hopefully that'll

> work.

Any luck?

Yes, see above.  With this card, I finally got to non-stuttering 
video/audio on 'most' stations.  WITH XvMc and the Gigabyte (Nvidia)  
6600GT card, I was able to get about 55% CPU utilization on most 
channels, but on PBS channels (I think those are 'full' 1080i), I was 
runnig about 96% CPU, and it still stuttered..  This is with an 
overclocked Athlon64 3500+.

> I was able to get the sound, network, and sata working on that MB...

how much trouble was it?

I'm debating on going 'back' to the Biostar MB, as at least I had sound 
working with that  I'm thinking that the ALC880 sound chip is 
probably better, but If I can't get it working, who cares.

From: "R. Geoffrey Newbury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> If you are NOT trying to build a gaming machine, nor necessarily an HDTV
> capable machine,

I completely forgot to mention, but I /do/ want HDTV. I assumed HD-3000.

> then the VIA Epia series are fast enough and run cool.

I was told to avoid them because "TV cards tyically use large amounts 
of DMA traffic, and VIA chipsets are notoriously poor in this area."

> If you want more 'grunt' then your choice of mini-ATX motherboard 
should focus
> on a newer one using the Centrino Mobile chipset. The Pentium-M  
#758 for

Why no AMD?

> With a mini-ATX motherboard, you can then choose an AGP video 
card... but

> again, choices are limited by the quiet/heat requirements.

Aren't there any mobos with on-board video that is good enough for 
these purposes?

> The very latest nVidia boards are apparently quite capably handled 
by existing

> drivers, but the very latest are all very hot, and noisy due to having
> their own fans. If you want quiet you must step back a few levels..

I think I've realized that performance is more important than noise, 
though I don't want a loud beast.

In order of importance,

CASE > PERFORMANCE > NOISE > MONEY

with not too many sacrifices to any hopefully?

> In any event, with the Silverstone case, you should go for the 
PVR500 to get 2

> tuners on one card

I've been hearing that a lot, guess I better :)

> No-one here can decide for you, but we can help with a decision tree 
to help

> you decide.

thank you for all the help. I guess I was hoping there was one 
mobo/cpu combo that was head and shoulders the winner for HDTV mATX 
PVR applications.

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[mythtv-users] Deinterlacing and VGA->PAL TV

2005-11-18 Thread Shaun Lowry

If I have DVB-T tuner cards in my BE and connect my FE's VGA output to my
widescreen PAL TV's RGB SCART input (with appropriate cabling and modelines),
will there be any need to deinterlace any more, or can MythTV sync the input and
output such that the interlacing matches?

Shaun.
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RE: [mythtv-users] Re: Mythburn hosed my /video directory

2005-11-18 Thread William

quote-
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Fechner
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 4:59 PM
To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: Mythburn hosed my /video directory

OK.  So that was just stupid on my part.  I guess I had read that post some
time ago but had forgotten about it.  Well, I recorded a show as a test and
used Mythburn again.  When I did it, it didn't appear to have done anything.
I checked my /video folder and everything was gone again.  So if I'm correct
then Mythburn deletes everything in the working folder everytime it runs?
Is it just me or is that kind of stupid?  Anyway, my second problem is that
Mythweb still lists all of my former (now deleted) programs under "Recorded
Programs" even though they don't seem to exist anywhere.  They even show the
thumbnail.  How do I get rid of them?  That's the last time I use Mythburn. 
end

I am sure there are ways to fix it with mysql commands but one way that
works is to create a file with the correct filename in your video dir and
then use the normal delete function to delete everything. I think there is a
thumbnail file with a matching name created for each program file so look
for thumbs without programs and touch the missing files. They can be empty.

BTW - Mythburn is a very complicated install on anything other than a
knoppMyth system. I am not surprised it didnt work for you. 

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Mythburn hosed my /video directory

2005-11-18 Thread Carl Fongheiser

On 11/18/05, Joshua Fechner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK.  So that was just stupid on my part.  I guess I had read
that post some time ago but had forgotten about it.  Well, I
recorded a show as a test and used Mythburn again.  When I did it,
it didn't appear to have done anything.  I checked my /video
folder and everything was gone again.  So if I'm correct then
Mythburn deletes everything in the working folder everytime it
runs?  Is it just me or is that kind of stupid?  Anyway, my
second problem is that Mythweb still lists all of my former (now
deleted) programs under "Recorded Programs" even though they don't seem
to exist anywhere.  They even show the thumbnail.  How do I
get rid of them?  That's the last time I use Mythburn.


It's you.  The installation script tells you the directory
contents will be blown away.  You didn't pay attention.  Make
a directory for mythburn, rerun the installation script, give it the
new location, and you'll be fine in the future.

As far as getting rid of the former programs, you can do this:

$ mysql -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg
mysql> delete from recorded;
mysql> quit


Carl Fongheiser
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Re: [mythtv-users] DirecTV HD recording

2005-11-18 Thread Michael Chmilar

Thanks for the info.

It would be nice to connect the r5000hd receiver directly to the myth
box. Those tools would be useful to help figure out the demuxing of
the DirecTV streams, and making TS files.

I am still pursuing the DVHS emulation angle, though, as it looks
like less work than doing the direct connection.


--- Byron Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> I used to have 3 directivo's all hacked for exporting recordings. 
> My
> understanding was that the directivo's stored pretty much the
> straight
> digital feed from directv.  The issue with tivo export was getting
> an
> understanding of the MFS file system which tivo uses to store
> recordings.  Once that was done, tools like tytool, and tydemux,
> and
> now even vlc and mplayer, were developed to be able to read the
> files.
>  wouldn't it be interesting to see what the stream coming from one
> of
> these modified recievers was?  I'd love to be able to record espn
> hd
> football on my mythbox.  no way to do that currently.
> 

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[mythtv-users] Re: Mythburn hosed my /video directory

2005-11-18 Thread Joshua Fechner

OK.  So that was just stupid on my part.  I guess I had read that post some time ago but had forgotten about it.  Well, I recorded a show as a test and used Mythburn again.  When I did it, it didn't appear to have done anything.  I checked my /video folder and everything was gone again.  So if I'm correct then Mythburn deletes everything in the working folder everytime it runs?  Is it just me or is that kind of stupid?  Anyway, my second problem is that Mythweb still lists all of my former (now deleted) programs under "Recorded Programs" even though they don't seem to exist anywhere.  They even show the thumbnail.  How do I get rid of them?  That's the last time I use Mythburn.
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Re: [mythtv-users] automatically launching VideoLan or Windows Media Player with .NUV files?

2005-11-18 Thread Brad Fuller


Andrew Cheyne wrote:


Brad Fuller wrote:


Brad Fuller wrote:


Michael T. Dean wrote:


Andrew Cheyne wrote:


Brad,

 The DSMyth filters work fine for viewing the .nuc files. The 
problem is that I cant just click on them through the Myth web 
interface and have either Windows Media Player or LanVideo play 
the contents. It's not really a MythTV issue.




With DSMyth Fileter, I click on the icon/file link in mythweb and it 
automatically starts windows media player (or whatever you 
configured it for in dsmyth configuration) and starts playing the 
video.  DSMyth configures this your client machine for this.


in the past, I remember having to configure mythweb to pass myth:// 
when you click on the PNG/link of the recorded video.
I just upgraded last week, with complete reformated my backend, and 
I don't remember having to mess with that.. S maybe mythweb is 
already configured to do that.


In any case, what you request does work with DSMyth and mythweb.
Just call up mythweb and click on the PNG and Windows Media starts 
up and plays. I have it on all the Windows PCs in the house.




Holy crap... my  first language really is English!
Basically I said:
DSMyth Filters will do what you are asking for. You might need to 
hunt around the archives if the backend needs to be configured for " 
myth:// ". But, as I said, I didn't have to do that this time.


DSMyth configures your windows client just fine. BTW, I couldn't get 
the latest cvsbuild-2005-10-1 to work.  But I did get 0.10.0 working 
fine... but I had to make sure and uninstall the old DSMyth first.


here's the dnl:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87267#files




Brad,

  When you said you didn't have to do it this time, I assumed your 
reference to the myth:// stuff wasn't relevant anymore. I just 
followed (some of) the instructions I found on a previous link and it 
all works fine now.


It's relevant... in that when you hover over the PNG/link in the 
"Recording Programs" page of the .nuv video it should say:

myth://.nuv

I just didn't have to configure mythweb for that to work this time (had 
to configure mythweb to tell it where my videodir was, etc.)


You'll get a couple of warnings that you can safely click thru at first.

I really don't know how this works since on linux I don't see myth:// 
but it says http://


I'm sure many people here know how this works. I'd like to know more 
about it.


brad
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Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware recommended?

2005-11-18 Thread Bertrand M

From: Kirby Bakken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have a 'BIOSTAR TForce6100-939' MB and an HD5000 HD capture card. The > on-board video does not currently work with any Nvidia driver version. I'm told > that one of the 'next' available drivers will work. However, I have an Nvidia 5200 > PCIExpres x16 card, and this card is NOT fast enough to display HD > video, so I doubt if the on-board video would either (once Nvidia ships a driver > that'll work).so if you had to do it again, would you get the same components? I'm wondering if I should just bend over and use Sage TV until the Linux drivers catch up. (blasphemy, I'm sorry)> I'm going to have a Nvidia 5600GT card to try in a few hours... hopefully that'll > work.Any luck?> I was able to get the sound, network, and sata working on that MB...
how much trouble was it? From: "R. Geoffrey Newbury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If you are NOT trying to build a gaming machine, nor necessarily an HDTV > capable machine, I completely forgot to mention, but I /do/ want HDTV. I assumed HD-3000. > then the VIA Epia series are fast enough and run cool.I was told to avoid them because "TV cards tyically use large amounts of DMA traffic, and VIA chipsets are notoriously poor in this area."> If you want more 'grunt' then your choice of mini-ATX motherboard should focus > on a newer one using the Centrino Mobile chipset. The Pentium-M #758 forWhy no AMD? > With a mini-ATX motherboard, you can then choose an AGP video card... but > again, choices are limited by the quiet/heat requirements.Aren't there any mobos with on-board video
that is good enough for these purposes? > The very latest nVidia boards are apparently quite capably handled by existing > drivers, but the very latest are all very hot, and noisy due to having > their own fans. If you want quiet you must step back a few levels.. I think I've realized that performance is more important than noise, though I don't want a loud beast.In order of importance,CASE > PERFORMANCE > NOISE > MONEYwith not too many sacrifices to any hopefully? > In any event, with the Silverstone case, you should go for the PVR500 to get 2 > tuners on one cardI've been hearing that a lot, guess I better :) > No-one here can decide for you, but we can help with a decision tree to help > you decide.thank you for all the help. I guess I was hoping there was one mobo/cpu combo that was head and shoulders
the winner for HDTV mATX PVR applications.
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Re: [mythtv-users] DirecTV HD recording

2005-11-18 Thread Byron Poland

On 11/18/05, Michael Chmilar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> --- "Michael T. Dean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > So if you get it working, you'd actually have to have a mod'ed
> > DirecTV
> > receiver and a Windows PC with (something?) in and firewire out for
> > each
> > channel you want to record concurrently--all that plus your MythTV
> > box(es)?  Sounds like a very ineffecient process...
> >
> > Mike
>
> Yes. A separate Windows PC must host the r5000hd. (The modded DirecTV
> receiver outputs over USB2.) Unfortunately, the stream emanating from
> the receiver is in DirecTV's proprietary format. To read directly off
> the USB2 port, you have to reverse engineer the format. The r5000hd
> crew has figured out how to convert DirecTV's format to a standard TS
> stream, but their driver is only implemented on Windows.
>
> This is essentially the same as the 169time and AVX-1. The AVX-1,
> from what I understand, is pretty much a Windows PC.

I used to have 3 directivo's all hacked for exporting recordings.  My
understanding was that the directivo's stored pretty much the straight
digital feed from directv.  The issue with tivo export was getting an
understanding of the MFS file system which tivo uses to store
recordings.  Once that was done, tools like tytool, and tydemux, and
now even vlc and mplayer, were developed to be able to read the files.
 wouldn't it be interesting to see what the stream coming from one of
these modified recievers was?  I'd love to be able to record espn hd
football on my mythbox.  no way to do that currently.
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Re: [mythtv-users] automatically launching VideoLan or Windows Media Player with .NUV files?

2005-11-18 Thread Andrew Cheyne


Brad Fuller wrote:


Brad Fuller wrote:


Michael T. Dean wrote:


Andrew Cheyne wrote:


Brad,

 The DSMyth filters work fine for viewing the .nuc files. The 
problem is that I cant just click on them through the Myth web 
interface and have either Windows Media Player or LanVideo play the 
contents. It's not really a MythTV issue.



With DSMyth Fileter, I click on the icon/file link in mythweb and it 
automatically starts windows media player (or whatever you configured 
it for in dsmyth configuration) and starts playing the video.  DSMyth 
configures this your client machine for this.


in the past, I remember having to configure mythweb to pass myth:// 
when you click on the PNG/link of the recorded video.
I just upgraded last week, with complete reformated my backend, and I 
don't remember having to mess with that.. S maybe mythweb is already 
configured to do that.


In any case, what you request does work with DSMyth and mythweb.
Just call up mythweb and click on the PNG and Windows Media starts up 
and plays. I have it on all the Windows PCs in the house.



Holy crap... my  first language really is English!
Basically I said:
DSMyth Filters will do what you are asking for. You might need to hunt 
around the archives if the backend needs to be configured for " 
myth:// ". But, as I said, I didn't have to do that this time.


DSMyth configures your windows client just fine. BTW, I couldn't get 
the latest cvsbuild-2005-10-1 to work.  But I did get 0.10.0 working 
fine... but I had to make sure and uninstall the old DSMyth first.


here's the dnl:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87267#files



Brad,

  When you said you didn't have to do it this time, I assumed your 
reference to the myth:// stuff wasn't relevant anymore. I just followed 
(some of) the instructions I found on a previous link and it all works 
fine now.


Thanks!

Andrew


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Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV and EPIA Nehemiah


Michael Haan wrote:

I'm thinking about trying it, but I want to be reasonably sure it'll 
work before I start buying equipment.  Any reason why I couldn't build 
myth with HW on this linux variant (I believe it derives from gentoo, 
which I've used before:  http://www.epios.net


I have the SP13000 board and the unichrome-pro drivers, but I just 
learned today (another thread) that I should have libviaXvMCPro.so.xx in 
/etc/X11/XvMCconfig... I actually had libNVIDIA.so.xx???


If you are going down the 'roll-your-own' route, check out 
http://groundstate.ca/C3Myth where Austin Action explains how to do all 
the unichrome bits under Mandriva... you will have to do similar things 
with the unichrome sourcecode. And some of that is now obsolete with the 
inclusion of stuff into Xorg...but what bits I am not sure!


This board plays DVD's very nicely and can expand a standard TV to full 
screen with stutter artifacts. But I do not know if it can actually 
handle the MPEG4 output of HDTV...It would be nice!


There is no doubt that it can handle the input side of an HD stream, so 
it will do as a backend. The question is whether it will front as well.


Geoff








On 11/18/05, *Bryan Halter* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> wrote:




R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote:


On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:33:34 +1300 (NZDT), Robin Gilks wrote:

 


Is anyone aware whether the EPIA Nehemiah boards with the CLE266 MPEG2/4
decoders are capable of serving as a viable HDTV frontend, either now, or
in
the near future?
 


With a CLE266 no, with a CN400 (e.g. SP13000) very likely yes. Only the
CN400 has mpeg4 decode capability anyway (apparently).
   


Are you sure about that? And if so, using what software
drivers... I have an SP13. I did not think that I could 'do'
HDTV with it. I do have an HD3000 card, but I was not intending
to attempt actual HDTV output to screen. Geoff R. Geoffrey
Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600
Mississauga,Ontario, Canada Facsimile: 905-271-1638
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If you're going to try it you would need the unichrome drivers.  I was 
wondering about this myself and would love to hear an update onces someone 
tries it.



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Re: [mythtv-users] automatically launching VideoLan or Windows Media Player with .NUV files?

2005-11-18 Thread Brad Fuller


Brad Fuller wrote:


Michael T. Dean wrote:


Andrew Cheyne wrote:


Brad,

 The DSMyth filters work fine for viewing the .nuc files. The 
problem is that I cant just click on them through the Myth web 
interface and have either Windows Media Player or LanVideo play the 
contents. It's not really a MythTV issue.


With DSMyth Fileter, I click on the icon/file link in mythweb and it 
automatically starts windows media player (or whatever you configured 
it for in dsmyth configuration) and starts playing the video.  DSMyth 
configures this your client machine for this.


in the past, I remember having to configure mythweb to pass myth:// 
when you click on the PNG/link of the recorded video.
I just upgraded last week, with complete reformated my backend, and I 
don't remember having to mess with that.. S maybe mythweb is already 
configured to do that.


In any case, what you request does work with DSMyth and mythweb.
Just call up mythweb and click on the PNG and Windows Media starts up 
and plays. I have it on all the Windows PCs in the house.


Holy crap... my  first language really is English!
Basically I said:
DSMyth Filters will do what you are asking for. You might need to hunt 
around the archives if the backend needs to be configured for " myth:// 
". But, as I said, I didn't have to do that this time.


DSMyth configures your windows client just fine. BTW, I couldn't get the 
latest cvsbuild-2005-10-1 to work.  But I did get 0.10.0 working fine... 
but I had to make sure and uninstall the old DSMyth first.


here's the dnl:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87267#files
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Re: [mythtv-users] automatically launching VideoLan or Windows Media Player with .NUV files?

2005-11-18 Thread Andrew Cheyne

I went back to the DSMyth website to make sure I had configured things 
properly and found the following:


http://svn.wilsonet.com/projects/mythtvology/ticket/88

I haven't tried it yet, but it looks like it will do what I want to do.

Thanks for the pointers,
Andrew

Michael T. Dean wrote:


Brad Fuller wrote:


In any case, what you request does work with DSMyth and mythweb.
Just call up mythweb and click on the PNG and Windows Media starts up 
and plays. I have it on all the Windows PCs in the house.



Not worth $150 to me.  (Don't have Windows...  ;)  But, this means 
it's possible.  I'll have to look into the mms: protocol stuff that 
Mike mentioned (as well as the myth: protocol you mentioned), too...


Thanks,
Mike
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[mythtv-users] Compile error in mythdvd


I'm trying to compile the mythdvd plugin.
If fails with an error:

**
make[2]: Entering directory `/backup/mythtv/mythplugins/mythdvd/mythdvd'
g++ -c -pipe -march=c3-2 -Wall -W -Wall -Wno-switch -Os 
-fomit-frame-pointer -D_REENTRANT -DPIC -fPIC  -D_GNU_SOURCE 
-DPREFIX=\"/usr/local\" -DMMX -Di386 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 
-DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -DQT_PLUGIN -DQT_SHARED 
-I/usr/lib/qt-3.3/mkspecs/default -I. -I/usr/local/include 
-I/usr/kde/3.3/include -I/usr/local/include 
-I/usr/src/kernels/2.6.13.4/include -I/usr/X11R6/include 
-I/usr/lib/qt-3.3/include -o dvdripbox.o dvdripbox.cpp

In file included from /usr/include/dvdread/ifo_read.h:24,
from dvdinfo.h:16,
from dvdripbox.h:23,
from dvdripbox.cpp:20:
/usr/include/dvdread/ifo_types.h:35:2: error: #error "Must include 
 or  before any libdvdread header."

make[2]: *** [dvdripbox.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/backup/mythtv/mythplugins/mythdvd/mythdvd'
make[1]: *** [sub-mythdvd] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/backup/mythtv/mythplugins/mythdvd'
make: *** [sub-mythdvd] Error 2
***

The chunk of the file referred to is as follows. I have added the 
 references to inttyps.h and stdint.h  but that DOES NOT WORK.

***added***
#include 
#include 
original***
#include 

#if defined(__BEOS__)
#if !defined(_INTTYPES_H_) && !defined(_INTTYPES_H) && 
!defined(_STDINT_H_) && !defined(_STDINT_H)
#error "Must include  or  before any libdvdread 
header."

#endif
#else
#if !defined(UINT8_MAX) || !defined(UINT16_MAX) || !defined(INT32_MAX)
#error "Must include  or  before any libdvdread 
header."

#endif
#endif

Line 35 of the file is the latter error line so it is the  'if 
!defined(UINT...' etc which fails.. but stdint.h has those definitions.
And putting #undef (_BEOS_) prior to the error checking group does 
nothing either (huh??)..


Help please.

Geoff


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Re: [mythtv-users] automatically launching VideoLan or Windows Media Player with .NUV files?


Brad Fuller wrote:


In any case, what you request does work with DSMyth and mythweb.
Just call up mythweb and click on the PNG and Windows Media starts up 
and plays. I have it on all the Windows PCs in the house.


Not worth $150 to me.  (Don't have Windows...  ;)  But, this means it's 
possible.  I'll have to look into the mms: protocol stuff that Mike 
mentioned (as well as the myth: protocol you mentioned), too...


Thanks,
Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythburn hosed my /video directory

2005-11-18 Thread Jon Reynolds


Michael T. Dean wrote:

Ross Campbell wrote:

I've had a few video files that disappeared that leave  
orphan/undeletable entries in the  recording database too... while I 
can delete them manually, it  would be nice if regular "delete" would 
delete the database entry even if the file doesn't exist.



Does in SVN.  Will in 0.19.


Sweet.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythburn hosed my /video directory


Ross Campbell wrote:

I've had a few video files that disappeared that leave  
orphan/undeletable entries in the  recording database too... while I 
can delete them manually, it  would be nice if regular "delete" would 
delete the database entry even if the file doesn't exist.


Does in SVN.  Will in 0.19.

Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] automatically launching VideoLan or Windows Media Player with .NUV files?

2005-11-18 Thread Brad Fuller


Michael T. Dean wrote:


Andrew Cheyne wrote:


Brad,

 The DSMyth filters work fine for viewing the .nuc files. The problem 
is that I cant just click on them through the Myth web interface and 
have either Windows Media Player or LanVideo play the contents. It's 
not really a MythTV issue.


  It used to be that you could configure applications to handle the 
mime types for a browser, but I cant seem to find where you set that 
anywhere. QuickTime seems to want to try and play the content from 
the .NUV file everytime.



Even if you fix your MIME types (Tools|Options (for Windows) or 
Edit|Preferences (for *nix), then click Downloads, then change the 
action for nuv files in the File Types area), won't your browser 
(Firefox or IE or ...) download the file first, then start the 
associated application?  So, after downloading 2GB, your wife can 
watch her show.


If there's a way to have FF (or whatever) automatically pass the URL 
to another app, please let me know.


With DSMyth Fileter, I click on the icon/file link in mythweb and it 
automatically starts windows media player (or whatever you configured it 
for in dsmyth configuration) and starts playing the video.  DSMyth 
configures this your client machine for this.


in the past, I remember having to configure mythweb to pass myth:// when 
you click on the PNG/link of the recorded video.
I just upgraded last week, with complete reformated my backend, and I 
don't remember having to mess with that.. S maybe mythweb is already 
configured to do that.


In any case, what you request does work with DSMyth and mythweb.
Just call up mythweb and click on the PNG and Windows Media starts up 
and plays. I have it on all the Windows PCs in the house.


brad
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythburn hosed my /video directory

On 11/18/05, Joshua Fechner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I got mythburn and haphazardly ran
the install script.
I guess so, huh ;) ?
 I told it to use my /video directory for
temporary storage of files.
bad idea. it's a temp *DIR*... never really checked, but I could believe that mythburn cleans up the temp dir when it's done.
  When I went to run mythburn over the
web it seemed to work fine.  On looking at my system, however, I
noticed that the /video directory was now empty and the owner of the
directory had changed to apache (who I had entered as the owner of
httpd in the install script.  Now when I go to the "Recorded
Programs" page on MythWeb it still shows all of the shows that
were recorded.
Yeah, because the recordings are still in the database. You'll need to purge them out of database manually :(
I have tried deleting them but they won't go
away.
I've had a few video files that disappeared that leave 
orphan/undeletable entries in the  recording database too... while
I can delete them manually, it  would be nice if regular "delete"
would delete the database entry even if the file doesn't exist.

-Ross


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[mythtv-users] Wrong audio stream used by mythburn

2005-11-18 Thread jonny Linux

Hi,

I have mythburn with mythtv 0.18.1, running on FC3 with a DVB-T card.
Sometimes when I burn, i get no audio on some of the programmes. I
think its because there are two audio streams provided in the original
TS, and one of them is blank.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks,

Jonny
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Re: [mythtv-users] automatically launching VideoLan or Windows Media Player with .NUV files?

2005-11-18 Thread Mike Angstadt

http://download.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/streaming-howto-en.pdf

There's a section dealing with the mms protocol, which is like what I
mentioned before.  You should be able to use Videolan to stream to
either the videolan client, or windows media player over the mms
protocol.On 11/18/05, Mike Angstadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm sure there is a way to send the URL to another app.  Some
applications already automatically grab certain URLs (like torrent://
or I think edonkey:// can do this).  I'm not sure how to do this,
and it's likely something that has to be integrated with the other
software.

Though of a brief search it looks like VideoLan is supposed to be
packaged with a plugin for Firefox, which would allow you to view the
file right in the browser.

-MikeOn 11/18/05, Michael T. Dean <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Andrew Cheyne wrote:> Brad,>>  The DSMyth filters work fine for viewing the .nuc files. The problem> is that I cant just click on them through the Myth web interface and> have either Windows Media Player or LanVideo play the contents. It's
> not really a MythTV issue.>>   It used to be that you could configure applications to handle the> mime types for a browser, but I cant seem to find where you set that> anywhere. QuickTime seems to want to try and play the content from the
> .NUV file everytime.Even if you fix your MIME types (Tools|Options (for Windows) orEdit|Preferences (for *nix), then click Downloads, then change theaction for nuv files in the File Types area), won't your browser
(Firefox or IE or ...) download the file first, then start theassociated application?  So, after downloading 2GB, your wife can watchher show.If there's a way to have FF (or whatever) automatically pass the URL to
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Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV and EPIA Nehemiah

2005-11-18 Thread Michael Haan

I'm thinking about trying it, but I want to be reasonably sure it'll work before I start buying equipment. Any reason why I couldn't build myth with HW on this linux variant (I believe it derives from gentoo, which I've used before:
http://www.epios.netOn 11/18/05, Bryan Halter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote:

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:33:34 +1300 (NZDT), Robin Gilks wrote:

Is anyone aware whether the EPIA Nehemiah boards with the CLE266 MPEG2/4decoders are capable of serving as a viable HDTV frontend, either now, orinthe near future?

With a CLE266 no, with a CN400 (e.g. SP13000) very likely yes. Only theCN400 has mpeg4 decode capability anyway (apparently).

Are you sure about that? And if so, using what software drivers...
I have an SP13. I did not think that I could 'do' HDTV with it.
I do have an HD3000 card, but I was not intending to attempt actual HDTV
output to screen.

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If you're going to try it you would need the unichrome drivers. I was wondering about this myself and would love to hear an update onces someone tries it.

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Re: [mythtv-users] automatically launching VideoLan or Windows Media Player with .NUV files?

2005-11-18 Thread Mike Angstadt

I'm sure there is a way to send the URL to another app.  Some
applications already automatically grab certain URLs (like torrent://
or I think edonkey:// can do this).  I'm not sure how to do this,
and it's likely something that has to be integrated with the other
software.

Though of a brief search it looks like VideoLan is supposed to be
packaged with a plugin for Firefox, which would allow you to view the
file right in the browser.

-MikeOn 11/18/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Andrew Cheyne wrote:> Brad,>>  The DSMyth filters work fine for viewing the .nuc files. The problem> is that I cant just click on them through the Myth web interface and> have either Windows Media Player or LanVideo play the contents. It's
> not really a MythTV issue.>>   It used to be that you could configure applications to handle the> mime types for a browser, but I cant seem to find where you set that> anywhere. QuickTime seems to want to try and play the content from the
> .NUV file everytime.Even if you fix your MIME types (Tools|Options (for Windows) orEdit|Preferences (for *nix), then click Downloads, then change theaction for nuv files in the File Types area), won't your browser
(Firefox or IE or ...) download the file first, then start theassociated application?  So, after downloading 2GB, your wife can watchher show.If there's a way to have FF (or whatever) automatically pass the URL to
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Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV and EPIA Nehemiah

2005-11-18 Thread Bryan Halter







R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote:

  On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:33:34 +1300 (NZDT), Robin Gilks wrote:

  
  

  Is anyone aware whether the EPIA Nehemiah boards with the CLE266 MPEG2/4
decoders are capable of serving as a viable HDTV frontend, either now, or
in
the near future?
  

With a CLE266 no, with a CN400 (e.g. SP13000) very likely yes. Only the
CN400 has mpeg4 decode capability anyway (apparently).

  
  
Are you sure about that? And if so, using what software drivers...
I have an SP13. I did not think that I could 'do' HDTV with it.
I do have an HD3000 card, but I was not intending to attempt actual HDTV
output to screen.

Geoff
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If you're going to try it you would need the unichrome drivers.  I was wondering about this myself and would love to hear an update onces someone tries it.



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Re: [mythtv-users] remote MythTV system has suddenly lost sound


Mark Knecht wrote:


Hi,
  I run a remote setup for my parents. It's worked very well for
about 6 months. Very few problems. However a couple of days ago my dad
called, told me there was a power outage and wanted to shut the
machines down before the UPS's ran out of juice. We shut them down by
hand even though the APC ups daemon probably would have done it
anyway.

  Since bringing the system up he has had no sound for the last two
days. Video seems to be working fine.

  The backend machine itself is still recording, and alsa is working
on that system. Remotely I can do aplay FILE.wav and my dad reports
that he hears sound, so the failure is not a total sound failure.

  I checked that mythfrontend says it's using /dev/dsp, and that
/dev/dsp does exist:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -la /dev/dsp
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 9 Nov 18 07:13 /dev/dsp -> sound/dsp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $

  How can I get more info on what is going wrong?

  I rebooted the system earlier this morning. I'm getting these
troubling messages in the mythbackend.log file:

Starting up as the master server.
2005-11-18 07:13:54.659 New DB connection, total: 2
2005-11-18 07:13:54.706 Channel(/dev/v4l/video0)::Open(): Can't open
video device, error "No such file or directory"
2005-11-18 07:13:54.760 Channel(/dev/v4l/video0)::Open(): Can't open
video device, error "No such file or directory"
2005-11-18 07:13:54.761 ChannelBase: Could not find input: Tuner 0 on
card when setting channel 4

2005-11-18 07:13:54.766 New DB scheduler connection
2005-11-18 07:13:54.776 New DB connection, total: 3
2005-11-18 07:13:54.784 mythbackend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 www.mythtv.org
2005-11-18 07:13:54.841 Enabled verbose msgs :important
2005-11-18 07:14:02.391 Seem to be woken up by USER
2005-11-18 09:40:42.939 adding: gandalf as a client (events: 0)
2005-11-18 09:40:51.522 adding: gandalf as a client (events: 1)


However /dev/v4l/video0 does exist:

gandalf ~ # ls -al /dev/v4l/video
video0   video24  video32
 


Heh.  You've lost your "-l".  ;)


gandalf ~ # ls -al /dev/v4l/video0
crw-rw  1 root video 81, 0 Nov 18 07:13 /dev/v4l/video0
gandalf ~ #
 

Is the user running mythbackend in the video group?  Is the user running 
mythfrontend in the (probably) audio group?


Perhaps group settings got changed before the reboot.  Since Myth was 
already running in a process with previous group settings, they didn't 
cause problems.  However, when rebooting, Myth got a new process--with 
the new group settings...


Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] DirecTV HD recording

2005-11-18 Thread Michael Chmilar

--- "Michael T. Dean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> So if you get it working, you'd actually have to have a mod'ed
> DirecTV 
> receiver and a Windows PC with (something?) in and firewire out for
> each 
> channel you want to record concurrently--all that plus your MythTV 
> box(es)?  Sounds like a very ineffecient process...
> 
> Mike

Yes. A separate Windows PC must host the r5000hd. (The modded DirecTV
receiver outputs over USB2.) Unfortunately, the stream emanating from
the receiver is in DirecTV's proprietary format. To read directly off
the USB2 port, you have to reverse engineer the format. The r5000hd
crew has figured out how to convert DirecTV's format to a standard TS
stream, but their driver is only implemented on Windows.

This is essentially the same as the 169time and AVX-1. The AVX-1,
from what I understand, is pretty much a Windows PC.

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Re: [mythtv-users] DirecTV HD recording


Michael Chmilar wrote:


There is also the r5000hd. http://www.r5000hd.com

Users who have had both the 169time and r5000hd consider the r5000hd
to be a far more reliable device. (There are two threads on the
r5000hd at http://www.avsforum.com, under the HDTV Recorders and
Players section. Lots of former 169time users. (There is also an
"upgrade" deal for 169time users).)

The r5000hd must be hosted on a Windows PC (much like the AVX1 for
the 169time). The Windows capture application for r5000hd has the
capability to output the data stream over firewire to a DVHS deck,
and it can be controlled (ie. tune to channel, start recording, stop)
by sending commands using telnet.
 

So if you get it working, you'd actually have to have a mod'ed DirecTV 
receiver and a Windows PC with (something?) in and firewire out for each 
channel you want to record concurrently--all that plus your MythTV 
box(es)?  Sounds like a very ineffecient process...


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Re: [mythtv-users] automatically launching VideoLan or Windows Media Player with .NUV files?


Andrew Cheyne wrote:


Brad,

 The DSMyth filters work fine for viewing the .nuc files. The problem 
is that I cant just click on them through the Myth web interface and 
have either Windows Media Player or LanVideo play the contents. It's 
not really a MythTV issue.


  It used to be that you could configure applications to handle the 
mime types for a browser, but I cant seem to find where you set that 
anywhere. QuickTime seems to want to try and play the content from the 
.NUV file everytime.


Even if you fix your MIME types (Tools|Options (for Windows) or 
Edit|Preferences (for *nix), then click Downloads, then change the 
action for nuv files in the File Types area), won't your browser 
(Firefox or IE or ...) download the file first, then start the 
associated application?  So, after downloading 2GB, your wife can watch 
her show.


If there's a way to have FF (or whatever) automatically pass the URL to 
another app, please let me know.


Mike
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[mythtv-users] Re: Re: NUV to DVD scripts for PVR-xxx owners

2005-11-18 Thread Mike Frisch

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 02:04:42PM -0500, Phill Wiggin wrote:
> This may not be completely on-target, but someone wrote some mythburn
> scripts that can do this through the mythweb interface. (Links are in
> the archives.)  I don't know if they take the same approach, or if you
> could re-use some of what they've done for your purpose (or even if
> you're the person that created them.. :)).

I am familiar with mythburn/mythtvburn.  I want to do similar things
from the command-line without needing a web browser.  I do most work on
my MythTV box from a remote ssh connection.  I want to create ISOs
without the need for selecting shows through MythWeb.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Performance of the HD MPEG2 decoders

2005-11-18 Thread Todd Ignasiak

On 11/18/05, Cymen Vig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/18/05, Todd Ignasiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 11/17/05, Robert Tsai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/127168
> > >
> > > --Rob
> >
> > Thanks for the link.  I missed that thread in all my searches.  There
> > is a lot of good AMD64 info there.
> >
> > I guess ffmpeg is optimized for 64 bit, libmpeg2 is not, so that
> > explains the performance I'm seeing.
> >
> >
> > Now, if I could find a solution for the stuttering related to XvMC +
> > OSD, I would be all set.
>
> What version of mythtv are you running? The current stable release has
> the known bug with XvMC and the OSD. If you use the SVN version
> (search around -- I think 7738 or 7739 was the latest before Live TV
> was disabled for development work *) you'll get a grayscale OSD but
> the stutter is pretty much gone.
>
> Maybe the above is common knowledge but I was surprised to see the
> option to enable XvMC but no warnings about the stutter issue. Perhaps
> I missed a glaring warning and rationally, an 0.18.1 release is
> supposed to have issues so I'm not *too* surprised.
>
> (*) I'm not certain about this -- maybe Live TV is fixed in current SVN.
>

I'm using SVN 7737, which was shortly before Live TV was disabled, but
I don't think it was the last one before the change.   I'll check
it out tonight & see if I'm getting the grayscale OSD  (gray OSD would
be fine with me, if it enabled smooth playback all the time).
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Re: [mythtv-users] non-interactive nuvexport!

2005-11-18 Thread Chris Petersen


Does the --out=filename.mov parameter work for you?


um, the parameter is --name ...  but now that I look at the code, I see 
that it's looking for --filename.  I just updated the packages on my 
site to support both.


-Chris
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[mythtv-users] Upgrading from 0.18.1

2005-11-18 Thread Steve Pugh

Hello, all!I've been running 0.18.1 on my system (1xPVR-250, 1xPVR-350, using the  350 for TV-Out) for about six months now.  Have had frequent  issues with freezes and unwanted pauses while watching recordings, and  I *HEAR* that Myth 0.18.2 includes significant improvements to the way  that Myth works with the 350.If this is true, I am interested in upgrading.  Can this be  confirmed by the Powers That Be?  Also, what are the  downsides?  I know that the absolute latest builds have Live TV  broken, so I want to avoid them.One point of note is that I did not download and build my current version from scratch, I used the saucy Knoppmyth R5A16 distro.I am willing to compile, but am also a little afeared (this is THE  television system in the house, and both I and my wife have shows we're  hooked on, so failure is not an option ;-)Many thanks to all for any pointers, links to the source I need,  advice,
 soothing words, offers of free HD-ready systems, and curry  recipes!Best,      Steve  
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: NUV to DVD scripts for PVR-xxx owners

2005-11-18 Thread Cory Papenfuss


My future mods will take a MythTV cutlist and pass it to ProjectX for
cutting.

You might want to catch up on the 'MPEG commercial-cut code' thread in the 
Myth dev list. There is a tool in development to cut commercials already that 
is pretty close to working. I mean, it does work, but it's not ready for 
prime time yet.


	I'll agree here.  There are a few of us actively working to get 
bugs worked out of this code.  Unlike most other scripts and utilities, 
this one (when the bugs are smashed) should allow for essentially lossless 
MPEG2->MPEG2 transcoding from within mythtv.  It will fix PTS discrepancies in ivtv 
captures, do frame-accurate cutting (along with reencoding the few frames 
around a cut if necessary), and make it quite easy to burn the resulting 
(commercialless) stream to DVD.


Stay tuned... I think there's some good news on this front.

-Cory

--

*
* Cory Papenfuss*
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student   *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   *
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Re: [mythtv-users] automatically launching VideoLan or Windows Media Player with .NUV files?

2005-11-18 Thread Andrew Cheyne


Brad,

 The DSMyth filters work fine for viewing the .nuc files. The problem 
is that I cant just click on them through the Myth web interface and 
have either Windows Media Player or LanVideo play the contents. It's not 
really a MythTV issue.


  It used to be that you could configure applications to handle the 
mime types for a browser, but I cant seem to find where you set that 
anywhere. QuickTime seems to want to try and play the content from the 
.NUV file everytime.


Thanks,
Andrew

Brad Fuller wrote:


Andrew Cheyne wrote:


Hello,

  I've just started using MythTV, and the first thing my wife wants 
to be able to do is play her recorded shows on the PC (WinXP) in her 
office. I got it to work by doing this:


- Installed VideoLan client.
- Use Firefox to browse to the web server on my mythtv box, 
right-click on the ".nuv" link for the show I want to watch and 
select "Copy Link location".

- Open VideoLan and open the HTTP stream with the copied value.

  That all seems to be a bit manual. Is there a way I can tell 
Firefox to just automatically launch VideoLan with the file stream? 
Or, with the appropriate filters installed, could I get Windows Media 
Player to do the same thing?



I use:
http://dsmyth.sourceforge.net/

Works fine.



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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythburn hosed my /video directory

2005-11-18 Thread George Galt

See this thread: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/161135

The mythburn scripts specifically say that the contents of the temp
directory will be deleted.  If you used your /video partition for
that, everything is gone.

Sorry, but this means that there probably isn't anything wrong with your system.

GeorgeOn 11/18/05, Joshua Fechner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I had about 15GB of video in my /video directory and wanted to try
burning some of it onto DVD.  I got mythburn and haphazardly ran
the install script.  I told it to use my /video directory for
temporary storage of files.  When I went to run mythburn over the
web it seemed to work fine.  On looking at my system, however, I
noticed that the /video directory was now empty and the owner of the
directory had changed to apache (who I had entered as the owner of
httpd in the install script.  Now when I go to the "Recorded
Programs" page on MythWeb it still shows all of the shows that
were recorded.  I have tried deleting them but they won't go
away.  Obviously I did something wrong but I don't know
what.  I could care less that my shows are not there anymore but
I'm concerned that my system won't work correctly now.  Has anyone
had any problems like this?  What did I do wrong?

 
Thanks in advance,
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: NUV to DVD scripts for PVR-xxx owners

2005-11-18 Thread Phill Wiggin

This may not be completely on-target, but someone wrote some mythburn
scripts that can do this through the mythweb interface. (Links are in
the archives.)  I don't know if they take the same approach, or if you
could re-use some of what they've done for your purpose (or even if
you're the person that created them.. :)).

At any rate, the mythburn script (maybe mythtvburn) can burn directly
to DVD or create the iso for later burning.  Using the mythweb
interface, you can pick out the episodes you want to burn, and it'll
create the DVD menu for you and even put chapter markings in each
episode.

Mythtvburn has the same limitation on needing an MPEG-2 card using
720x480 (maybe 352x480), but it's become invaluable to me.

--Phill W.

On 11/18/05, Tom Lichti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mike Frisch wrote:
>
> >My future mods will take a MythTV cutlist and pass it to ProjectX for
> >cutting.
> >
> >
> You might want to catch up on the 'MPEG commercial-cut code' thread in
> the Myth dev list. There is a tool in development to cut commercials
> already that is pretty close to working. I mean, it does work, but it's
> not ready for prime time yet.
>
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[mythtv-users] Mythburn hosed my /video directory

2005-11-18 Thread Joshua Fechner

I had about 15GB of video in my /video directory and wanted to try burning some of it onto DVD.  I got mythburn and haphazardly ran the install script.  I told it to use my /video directory for temporary storage of files.  When I went to run mythburn over the web it seemed to work fine.  On looking at my system, however, I noticed that the /video directory was now empty and the owner of the directory had changed to apache (who I had entered as the owner of httpd in the install script.  Now when I go to the "Recorded Programs" page on MythWeb it still shows all of the shows that were recorded.  I have tried deleting them but they won't go away.  Obviously I did something wrong but I don't know what.  I could care less that my shows are not there anymore but I'm concerned that my system won't work correctly now.  Has anyone had any problems like this?  What did I do wrong?

 
Thanks in advance,
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[mythtv-users] Section 22.2 MythTv Documention Missing? (Hauppauge....remote...LIRC..)

2005-11-18 Thread Mark H

Section 22.2 "Hauppauge PVR-250 remote and MythTV's native LIRC support"  is no longer in the Documentation.I am not sure if other doc's have been removed too.  Is it possible to add a section for archived Docs?  I 
didn't see it moved anywhere nor is it covered in a different section.  Hopefully it was moved and I justdidn't see it.  Can someone please put it back? 
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[mythtv-users] uk_rt grabber time offset for Europe

2005-11-18 Thread Daniel Polak

I use both the Dutch grabber and uk_rt grabber. There is a one hour time 
difference between the Netherlands and the UK. When we were on summer 
time the times for UK programs were correct. After the switch to winter 
time the times for programs on UK channels are off by one hour.


How do I correct this?

Daniel

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Re: [mythtv-users] Performance of the HD MPEG2 decoders

2005-11-18 Thread Cymen Vig

On 11/18/05, Todd Ignasiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/17/05, Robert Tsai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/127168
> >
> > --Rob
>
> Thanks for the link.  I missed that thread in all my searches.  There
> is a lot of good AMD64 info there.
>
> I guess ffmpeg is optimized for 64 bit, libmpeg2 is not, so that
> explains the performance I'm seeing.
>
>
> Now, if I could find a solution for the stuttering related to XvMC +
> OSD, I would be all set.

What version of mythtv are you running? The current stable release has
the known bug with XvMC and the OSD. If you use the SVN version
(search around -- I think 7738 or 7739 was the latest before Live TV
was disabled for development work *) you'll get a grayscale OSD but
the stutter is pretty much gone.

Maybe the above is common knowledge but I was surprised to see the
option to enable XvMC but no warnings about the stutter issue. Perhaps
I missed a glaring warning and rationally, an 0.18.1 release is
supposed to have issues so I'm not *too* surprised.

(*) I'm not certain about this -- maybe Live TV is fixed in current SVN.

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

2005-11-18 Thread Jeff Simpson

On 11/18/05, Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thank you for all the answers.I see some confusion so I'll clarify my setup:I have a DLP projector with VGA, S-video and videocompositeinputs (BENQ PB6100).Previous discusion held on this mailing list suggested that
I had to use the VGA input to get the best out of it.So I bought a (long/special/expensive/high quality) VGA cableand layed it through the wall and roof, and my plans were to haveall the output passing through the VGA.
So when my friends came with their PS2 and wanted to play with it,it seemed me the most natural thing to connect it to the PVR350and leave the rest untouched.I see that I should, instead, forget about linux, ivtv and mythtv,
turn off the PC and just run a dedicated cable from the PS2 tothe projector... that's a bit sad but ok... :-)
It's probably the best choice. You may still be able to use myth in this somehow:
If the projector has an auto-sense input, you can have it normally use VGA, but
when svideo signal shows up, use that. Then you can have a myth command that
triggers the passthrough and effectively swaps "game mode" on and off. It would look
like myth was still controlling things. Alternatively, if the projector has a remote to
switch inputs, you could use an IR blaster from myth to perform the same task.

But overall, it's effectively not connected to myth at all.

SNES, NES, MAME, etc, can still be played from myth, however :-D

However, I'll try the suggested commands.This link instead:
http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php?page=3DTvPassThroughreturns a "page cannot be found" error...
Remove the "3D" from that, not sure how it got in there, looking back
at the thread I don't see it. It should just be "page=TVPassThrough"

http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php?page=TvPassThrough

- Jeff
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[mythtv-users] remote MythTV system has suddenly lost sound

Hi,
   I run a remote setup for my parents. It's worked very well for
about 6 months. Very few problems. However a couple of days ago my dad
called, told me there was a power outage and wanted to shut the
machines down before the UPS's ran out of juice. We shut them down by
hand even though the APC ups daemon probably would have done it
anyway.

   Since bringing the system up he has had no sound for the last two
days. Video seems to be working fine.

   The backend machine itself is still recording, and alsa is working
on that system. Remotely I can do aplay FILE.wav and my dad reports
that he hears sound, so the failure is not a total sound failure.

   I checked that mythfrontend says it's using /dev/dsp, and that
/dev/dsp does exist:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -la /dev/dsp
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 9 Nov 18 07:13 /dev/dsp -> sound/dsp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $

   How can I get more info on what is going wrong?

   I rebooted the system earlier this morning. I'm getting these
troubling messages in the mythbackend.log file:

Starting up as the master server.
2005-11-18 07:13:54.659 New DB connection, total: 2
2005-11-18 07:13:54.706 Channel(/dev/v4l/video0)::Open(): Can't open
video device, error "No such file or directory"
2005-11-18 07:13:54.760 Channel(/dev/v4l/video0)::Open(): Can't open
video device, error "No such file or directory"
2005-11-18 07:13:54.761 ChannelBase: Could not find input: Tuner 0 on
card when setting channel 4

2005-11-18 07:13:54.766 New DB scheduler connection
2005-11-18 07:13:54.776 New DB connection, total: 3
2005-11-18 07:13:54.784 mythbackend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 www.mythtv.org
2005-11-18 07:13:54.841 Enabled verbose msgs :important
2005-11-18 07:14:02.391 Seem to be woken up by USER
2005-11-18 09:40:42.939 adding: gandalf as a client (events: 0)
2005-11-18 09:40:51.522 adding: gandalf as a client (events: 1)


However /dev/v4l/video0 does exist:

gandalf ~ # ls -al /dev/v4l/video
video0   video24  video32
gandalf ~ # ls -al /dev/v4l/video0
crw-rw  1 root video 81, 0 Nov 18 07:13 /dev/v4l/video0
gandalf ~ #

   Any ideas welcome.

Thanks,
Mark
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Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV and EPIA Nehemiah

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:33:34 +1300 (NZDT), Robin Gilks wrote:

>
>> Is anyone aware whether the EPIA Nehemiah boards with the CLE266 MPEG2/4
>> decoders are capable of serving as a viable HDTV frontend, either now, or
>> in
>> the near future?
>
>With a CLE266 no, with a CN400 (e.g. SP13000) very likely yes. Only the
>CN400 has mpeg4 decode capability anyway (apparently).

Are you sure about that? And if so, using what software drivers...
I have an SP13. I did not think that I could 'do' HDTV with it.
I do have an HD3000 card, but I was not intending to attempt actual HDTV
output to screen.

Geoff
R. Geoffrey Newbury  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 

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

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Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend config