Re: [mythtv-users] QWERTY remotes

[Nick]

On 24/11/05, Ashley Bostock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Could you post your config files for this.
>
> Thanks,
> Ash.

Because it's recorded in raw mode (not RC5 so will not work with
Hauppauge cards and receivers) the file is 80K and I'm not sure I can
post a file that big. I could email it to you if you like - I'll also
check lirc.org to see if a version is available there.

Nick
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[mythtv-users] Buffer underrun/audio stuttering

[Michael Sciscenti]

I've tried to avoid emailing the list until I was absolutely sure I couldn't get any further without help.I'm trying to get a Mythtv frontend/backend server up and running on a P4 2.8 GHz box with 1 GB RAM and Nvidia Geforce 6800. HDTV over firewire is what I'm having trouble with. I can now reliably connect to the cable box and get HDTV streams using test-mpeg2 and in Mythtv itself, however I've been completely unsuccessful at solving my audio stuttering problem. I've tried every combination of settings and every little suggestion I could find on the internet and this list yet I still get the following errors:
2005-11-24 04:33:52.663 audio waiting for buffer to fill: have 2048 want 4096or2005-11-24 04:33:54.567 WriteAudio: Preparing 4096 bytes (1024 frames)2005-11-24 04:33:54.568 WriteAudio: buffer underrun
Things I've tried but none have gotten rid of the stuttering:ALSA, OSS emulation through ALSA, an asoundrc is present, Xvmc on/off, deinterlacing (bob) on/off, extra sound card buffering on/off (the TV settings option), agressive buffering on/off (in General settings), priority process on/off, etc, you name, I've tried it.
The problem exists in both the current release of mythtv and svn from two days ago. I'm running Gentoo. Does anyone have any suggestions?My configure setting:./configure --disable-distcc --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --disable-altivec --disable-xvmc-vld --disable-directfb --disable-audio-oss --disable-directx --enable-firewire --disable-audio-jack --disable-joystick-menu --enable-lirc --enable-xvmc --enable-opengl-vsync --enable-xv --enable-x11 --enable-proc-opt --disable-dbox2 --disable-ivtv
Also of note, I'm using a PCI firewire card that has a VIA chipset. Some have said there are issues with these, but I dont think its the source of my problems since I'm able to grab streams fine using test-mpeg2 and they playback perfectly in mplayer using xvmc. My motherboard is a SiS chipset.
Any help would be awesome, I'm about at my wits end and starting to look at other platforms, but really would like to stick with myth if possible. Thanks.
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Re: [mythtv-users] How does mythtv-setup assign the tv_grab script?

[ffrr]

Phill Edwards wrote:




Tthere are 2 ways of getting the EPG:

1) Let myth run it
2) Set up a cron job to run it from a shell script.

I think most of us Aussies take the 2nd option as there isn't an 
official tv_grab_au. So in the setup change whatever it is that calls 
the tv_grab_au (can't remember here it is) and just do it all as a 
cron job by setting up a shell script which a) runs tv_grab_au and b) 
runs mythfilldatabase to load the data.



Not sure I understand that.  I have always let myth run  tv_grab_au for 
me.   ...and what's more, I never run tv_grab_au manually, except when 
testing.  Even from the command line, I just run mythfilldatabase and it 
calls tv_grab_au for me and loads the data, all in one shot.



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Re: [mythtv-users] How does mythtv-setup assign the tv_grab script?

[Phill Edwards]

> > Thanks Phill - yes, if you could let me have your script, it may help. 
> > Thanks.
>
>
> post it here (or a link to a download) please, i am about to do the same for 
> a new zealand grabber.
>
> nick (sick of tvnz)

OK - it will be some time over this w/e.

Regards,
Phill
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Re: [mythtv-users] Play DivX Off DVD

[Phill Edwards]

>  If you want a really easy way to play DivX right off a dvd, get a Phillips
> DVP642 DVD Player. Around $50 shipped and natively plays DivX, XVID, mpeg,
> mp3, etc. I've copied NUV files directly to DVDs and they play like a champ.

What format are your NUV files transcoded to?

Regards,
Phill
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[mythtv-users] Running Mythtv-setup without X

[Jason McLeod]

I'm sure this has been asked a million times, but I just can't find  
the answer.


Is there a way to setup a backend slave server without having X  
installed?


-Jason

Blog: http://jayslife.com
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Re: [mythtv-users] How does mythtv-setup assign the tv_grab script?

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:44:11 +1100
Ralph wrote:

> 
> >I think most of us Aussies take the 2nd option as there isn't an official
> >tv_grab_au. So in the setup change whatever it is that calls the tv_grab_au
> >(can't remember here it is) and just do it all as a cron job by setting up a
> >shell script which a) runs tv_grab_au and b) runs mythfilldatabase to load
> >the data.
> >
> >I can share my shell script if you like.
> >
> >HTH,
> >Phill
> 
> Thanks Phill - yes, if you could let me have your script, it may help. Thanks.


post it here (or a link to a download) please, i am about to do the same for a 
new zealand grabber.

nick (sick of tvnz)


> 

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[mythtv-users] How does mythtv-setup assign the tv_grab script?

[Ralph]

I think most of us Aussies
take the 2nd option as there isn't an official
tv_grab_au. So in the setup change whatever it is that calls the
tv_grab_au
(can't remember here it is) and just do it all as a cron job by setting
up a
shell script which a) runs tv_grab_au and b) runs mythfilldatabase to
load
the data.

I can share my shell script if you like.

HTH,
Phill
Thanks Phill - yes, if you could let me have your script, it may help.
Thanks.



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Re: [mythtv-users] How does mythtv-setup assign the tv_grab script?

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:06:09 +1100
Ralph wrote:

> >Why not just run setup again.  You can do it to just change the grabber
> >without doing any damage.
> >
> >ben
> 
> Thanks, but I do have a reason for wanting to know how this can be 
> done specifically without running setup. I could give you more 
> details if you like, but...if there is a simple answer without having 
> to bore you with the details!...?

It must be in the database somewhere - if so you could so mysql from the 
command line to change it.



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Re: [mythtv-users] Play DivX Off DVD

[Jeff Simpson]

On 11/18/05, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Howdy,Just a (possibly) really dumb question - does mythtv play DivX/XviD straightof DVD/CD?How do you set this up?

If you want a really easy way to play DivX right off a dvd, get a
Phillips DVP642 DVD Player. Around $50 shipped and natively plays DivX,
XVID, mpeg, mp3, etc. I've copied NUV files directly to DVDs and they
play like a champ.

 - Jeff

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Re: [mythtv-users] Yet Another New OSD: Gray-OSD

[Tom Lichti]

Greg Estabrooks wrote:


I tried out that font and it looks great, and I'd certainly want to use
one that can reach as mainy users as possible so I'll be including that from 
now on. The license is nice and flexible too which is great.


I'm also considering moving to rounded borders for boxes that don't touch 
the edge of the screen like this.



http://www.phaze.org/mythtv/osd/newgreyosd13.jpg
 

I've got the current one in, and I love it! I like the rounded edges 
too, do it!!! :)


Thanks
Tom
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Re: [mythtv-users] Play DivX Off DVD

[Phill Edwards]

> Easy! :-) You try explaining ssh and symlinking to my 5 year old (or GF
> for that matter)

I thought kiddies these days were well on their way to being expert
hackers by 5, so this ought to be a piece of cake :)
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Re: [mythtv-users] How does mythtv-setup assign the tv_grab script?

[Phill Edwards]

Thanks, but I do have a reason for wanting to know how this can be done
specifically without running setup. I could give you more details
if you like, but...if there is a simple answer without having to bore you
with the details!...?
> While runningmythtv-setup, you're asked to select your location, so that> MythTV knows which tv_grab script mythfilldatabase has to call -eg.> choosing 'Australia' somehow instructs mythfilldatabase to use
the> tv_grab_au script instead of any of the other tv_grab scriptsavailable.>> I'd like to know exactly how this works - or more specifically,how can I> select a different tv_grab script from the command line, ie.
without running> mythtv-setup again. What would I need to edit manually?







Tthere are 2 ways of getting the EPG:

1) Let myth run it
2) Set up a cron job to run it from a shell script.

I think most of us Aussies take the 2nd option as there isn't an
official tv_grab_au. So in the setup change whatever it is that calls
the tv_grab_au (can't remember here it is) and just do it all as a cron
job by setting up a shell script which a) runs tv_grab_au and b) runs
mythfilldatabase to load the data.

I can share my shell script if you like.

HTH,
Phill
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[mythtv-users] Live TV won't change channel

[Patrick Beard]

Hi,
I've just install MythTV on my Ubuntu 'Breezy' system. It is doing
everything it should except change channel when watching Live TV.
Instead the mythbackend logs the following;

2005-11-25 00:50:08.447 Channel(/dev/video0): CheckChannel failed.
Please verify channel "E6" in the "setup" Channel Editor.
2005-11-25 00:50:08.448 Channel(/dev/video0): CheckChannel failed.
Please verify channel "E5" in the "setup" Channel Editor.
2005-11-25 00:50:08.449 Channel(/dev/video0): CheckChannel failed.
Please verify channel "S03" in the "setup" Channel Editor.
2005-11-25 00:50:08.451 Channel(/dev/video0): CheckChannel failed.
Please verify channel "S02" in the "setup" Channel Editor.
2005-11-25 00:50:08.452 Channel(/dev/video0): CheckChannel failed.
Please verify channel "S01" in the "setup" Channel Editor.
2005-11-25 00:50:08.453 Channel(/dev/video0): CheckChannel failed.
Please verify channel "E4" in the "setup" Channel Editor.
2005-11-25 00:50:08.454 Channel(/dev/video0): CheckChannel failed.
Please verify channel "E3" in the "setup" Channel Editor.
2005-11-25 00:50:08.455 Channel(/dev/video0): CheckChannel failed.
Please verify channel "E2" in the "setup" Channel Editor.
2005-11-25 00:50:08.456 Channel(/dev/video0): CheckChannel failed.
Please verify channel "69" in the "setup" Channel Editor.
2005-11-25 00:50:08.457 Error, couldn't find any available channels.
2005-11-25 00:50:08.457 Your database is most likely setup incorrectly.

What I have installed is;

MythTV 0.18.1-5
lirc 0.7.2
IVTV 0.4.0
xmltv 0.5.40-1
mysql-server 4.0.24-10
Kernel 2.6.12-10-k7
Hauppauge PVR-150 (Retail)

No TV out card. This is a bedroom Pc/TV. 

Whatever I set as the 'default' channel is used and works when I watch
live TV - I just can't change to another channel.

I'm in the UK and so I'm using xmltv. I only have five channels entered
into Mythtv as I've not got round to getting a 'sender' for my STB
downstairs.

Can anyone give me a help with this one.

--
Patrick





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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV demo

[Petr Stehlik]

Mattia Martinello píše v Čt 24. 11. 2005 v 16:55 +0100:
> Phill Edwards ha scritto:
> 
> >If you're doing a public demo I think you'd had to be nuts to use
> >anything other than the latest stable release - which is 0.18.1.
> >
> I wish to install the latest stable 0.18.1, but I didn't manage in 
> compiling it on a Debian unstable..

I just managed to compile the mythtv on Debian (almost) unstable. I
could provide a diff but since I couldn't compile mythtv-plugins
(missing bunch of KDE header files :-O) I am afraid you are not
interested.

Petr


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Re: [mythtv-users] problem with mythfilldatabase

[sarvinc]

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 8:31 AM
> To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
> Subject: [mythtv-users] problem with mythfilldatabase
>
> I'm having a problem with mythfilldatabase. I've installed MythTV in Gentoo
> on
> an Athlon 64 system. I've set up an account at zap2it.com and am able to
> log
>
> in and out of their web site. In MythTV I've entered in my log in
> information
> but mythfilldatabase doesn't seem to run properly. When ever I run it I get
> "2005-11-24 13:27:43.826 New DB connection, total: 1
> 2005-11-24 13:27:43.907 New DB connection, total: 2
> Refreshing Tomorrow's data
> 2005-11-24 13:27:43.908 New DB DataDirect connection
> Retrieving datadirect data...
> Grabbing data for Thu Nov 24 2005 offset 1
>
> >From : Fri Nov 25 08:00:00 2005 To : Sat Nov 26 08:00:00 2005 (UTC)
>
> --13:27:43--
> 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... 200 OK
> Length: unspecified [text/xml]
>
>
> [  <=>
> ]
> 192,110   59.20K/s
>
> 13:27:48 (59.11 KB/s) - `-' saved [192110]
>
> Your subscription expires on 02/22/06 09:04:53
> Grab complete.  Actual data from Fri Nov 25 08:00:00 2005 to Sat Nov 26
> 08:00:00 2005 (UTC)
> Clearing data for source...
> Clearing from Fri Nov 25 00:00:00 2005 to Sat Nov 26 00:00:00 2005
> (localtime)
> 2005-11-24 13:27:53.374 New DB connection, total: 3
> 2005-11-24 13:27:53.375 New DB connection, total: 4"
>
> This string of text basically repeats over and over and over. I'm not sure
> what's wrong and any help would be appreciated.

On Thursday 24 November 2005 11:13 pm, David Ellis wrote:
> This is normal, MythTV is retrieving you listings for a window (usually
> about a week or two).
>
> Let it finish (it will take about 10 minutes), and when your done you
> should have a complete set of program guide data.
>
> David
>

Ahh, I've been working on this for a while and just noticed that 2 days worth 
of scheduling had been completed. Now it all makes sense.
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Re: [mythtv-users] timezone problem with dvb and two satellites

[Petr Stehlik]

Jakob Fix píše v Čt 24. 11. 2005 v 23:53 +0100:
> > > Astra 19 is for German TV, and Astra 28 for UK TV.  Now, the problem
> > > is Germany is UTC+0100, and the UK is UTC.
> >
> > I am writing you as I have pretty much exactly the same dish setup. I am
> > excited to see someone thinking the same way as me (German TV + UK TV).
> 
> And, moreover, I live in France :-)  Isn't it difficult for you to
> receive Astra 28?  You must have a big dish.

85 cm is OK but only for some programs. Some others require > 160 cm :-)

> > What MythTV version are you running?
> 0.18 (from the debian src package)

I am getting there now as well. Recompiled to a different prefix only a
while ago and now I can't get it working :-O Will fix that tomorrow.

> > > I'm retrieving the EPG using tv_grab_dvb which is fed directly into
> > > mythfilldatabase.
> >
> > How do you retrieve the EPG from all streams? the tv_grab_dvd fetches
> > EPG from the actual stream only which usually contains a just few
> > programs. How do you do that?
> 
> well, you're right, although I noticed this, I didn't think much about
> it so far.  I was just happy that it started finally to all work out
> ...  I guess a script that szap's to a stream, then runs tv_grab_dvb,
> szap to another stream etc.

Right. This could do that job. But if the EIT worked (didn't for me yet
but that was in KnoppMyth R5A22) things would be easier.

> > > I have played around with the time offset  for XMLTV listings in
> > > mythtv-setup, but Auto, +0100, or None don't change anything.

> > At worst we could process the XML before importing it :-))
> 
> Well, yes, as final resort.  Maybe one of the developers is interested
> in this problem.
> 
> One question you may be able to answer: How do you assign channel 1 to
> ARD (or BBC 1 or whatever) and channel 2 to ZDF  ?

I haven't do that yet. I used numbers like 6690 :-))) I must admit I
have the stuff for less than a week so I am still in process of setting
things up.

Petr


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[mythtv-users] Re: FC4 and HD-3000 DVB vs.QAM Issue in latest kernel

[Jason Sharpe]

Hey David,
 
No offense taken, I always give the benefit of doubt over email...
 
Thanks for the in depth explanation. I completely see why they are doing that, it is probly better in the long run, but as we both have learned, if you don't know what it means, it might as well be Greek!
 
Now to sleep off the turkey!
 
Jason 

--Message: 5Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 11:23:20 -0500From: "David Ellis" <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] FC4 and HD-3000 DVB vs.QAM Issue in latest   kernelTo: "'R.  Geoffrey Newbury'" <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"'Discussion   about mythtv'" Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain;   charset="us-ascii"My  was actually more of a "I've been there and asked the samequestion", no offense intended, I asked the same question of myself when I
did a kernel upgrade, and it's ironic to see others go thru the same thing.I was happy to share the results of my quest, and meant no offense. Welcometo one of the challenges of email - its hard to convey meanings without the
benefit of the other queues humans are used to.David-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][mailto:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of R. Geoffrey NewburySent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 11:12 AMTo: Discussion about mythtvSubject: Re: [mythtv-users] FC4 and HD-3000 DVB vs.QAM Issue in latest
kernelOn Thu, 24 Nov 2005 02:37:38 -0700, Chad wrote:>I wouldn't worry about it too much, it is very likely it's just the>difference in DVB versions.  As long as myth is picking it up as a DVB>device, and you actually get a picture when all is said and done, you
>can call it a pickle-2.1.3 and it really wouldn't matter.>>I think the chuckle was more of a "it's kind of funny to see how>people interpret things" than a "you're an idiot" thing ;)  But who
>knows...Well I interpreted the 'chuckle' as the bit of the latter.. Someone whoknew something chuckling that someone else did not know what that arcane'Or3874-DD-wigdet' reference actually referred to.
What this actually points out is that the ivtv guys have forgotten thereason for that output: to provide useful information,  -not- just forthem, but for -everyone- who uses the software.The output should say something like:
Found pcHDTV 3000PcHDTV 3000 using tuner chipset: Or3875-DD-widget revision 1.0.5.6PcHDTV 3000 using encoder chipset: TD1234  revision 2.4.6.8Then at least, those who do not know what a TD1234 is would gain as much
useful information out of it as the person who knows.It might even make debugging errors a little easier.Just my 2 cents. Buy some cranberry sauce with it!GeoffR. Geoffrey Newbury  
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RE: [mythtv-users] problem with mythfilldatabase

[David Ellis]

This is normal, MythTV is retrieving you listings for a window (usually
about a week or two). 

Let it finish (it will take about 10 minutes), and when your done you should
have a complete set of program guide data.

David

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 8:31 AM
To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] problem with mythfilldatabase

I'm having a problem with mythfilldatabase. I've installed MythTV in Gentoo
on 
an Athlon 64 system. I've set up an account at zap2it.com and am able to log

in and out of their web site. In MythTV I've entered in my log in
information 
but mythfilldatabase doesn't seem to run properly. When ever I run it I get 
"2005-11-24 13:27:43.826 New DB connection, total: 1
2005-11-24 13:27:43.907 New DB connection, total: 2
Refreshing Tomorrow's data
2005-11-24 13:27:43.908 New DB DataDirect connection
Retrieving datadirect data...
Grabbing data for Thu Nov 24 2005 offset 1
>From : Fri Nov 25 08:00:00 2005 To : Sat Nov 26 08:00:00 2005 (UTC)
--13:27:43--
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... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/xml]


[  <=>
] 
192,110   59.20K/s

13:27:48 (59.11 KB/s) - `-' saved [192110]

Your subscription expires on 02/22/06 09:04:53
Grab complete.  Actual data from Fri Nov 25 08:00:00 2005 to Sat Nov 26 
08:00:00 2005 (UTC)
Clearing data for source...
Clearing from Fri Nov 25 00:00:00 2005 to Sat Nov 26 00:00:00 2005
(localtime)
2005-11-24 13:27:53.374 New DB connection, total: 3
2005-11-24 13:27:53.375 New DB connection, total: 4"

This string of text basically repeats over and over and over. I'm not sure 
what's wrong and any help would be appreciated.

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Re: [mythtv-users] nfslockfile.lock

[Chris Pinkham]

> > No, the master backend does this when it starts up.  How can you expect
> > your backend to record stuff if you have the storage dir mounted
> > read-only?
> 
> Well, only the movies recorded off-line (outside of mythtv) are on that
> filesystem.  > So it makes sense to me to have it mounted read-only
> 
> Anyway, it would be nice if it could be done.
> 
> the backend has other filesystems available to it with write access.

But in mythtv-setup, you evidently configured that read-only directory as
the location for Myth to put new reecordings, that is why it is trying to
make sure it can write there.

If you want Myth to wirte to one of those other filesystems, you need to
specify a directory on one of those filesystems when you run mythtv-setup.

I think you want MythVideo to use this read-only filesystem (configured
via the MythVideo settings page in mythfrontend) and you want mythbackend
(MythTV) to use one of the read-writw filesystems (configured via
mythtv-setup).

-- 
Chris

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Re: [mythtv-users] nfslockfile.lock

[Carl Fongheiser]

On 11/24/05, Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No, the master backend does this when it starts up.  How can you expect> your backend to record stuff if you have the storage dir mounted> read-only?Well,
only the movies recorded off-line (outside of mythtv) are on that
filesystem.  So it makes sense to me to have it mounted
read-onlyAnyway, it would be nice if it could be done.the backend has other filesystems available to it with write access.
The backend only creates the nfslockfile in the recordings
directory.  You need to point the recordings directory somewhere
else.

Carl Fongheiser

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[mythtv-users] nfslockfile.lock

[Yan Seiner]

No, the master backend does this when it starts up.  How can you expect



your backend to record stuff if you have the storage dir mounted



read-only?



Well, only the movies recorded off-line (outside of mythtv) are on that 
filesystem.  So it makes sense to me to have it mounted read-only

Anyway, it would be nice if it could be done.

the backend has other filesystems available to it with write access.

--Yan

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Re: [mythtv-users] I can't tune pvr-150 using mythtv, ivtv-tune works

[Claus Bjerre]

Have a look at the frequencies.c file here :

http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/mythtv/doc/frequencies_8c-source.html

- now you might have a problem because 715.75 MHz doesn't seem to
be a standard frequency matched by an corresponding freqid ?

Your freqid's of '5' and '7' do not really seem to get you into the UHF
band as you would probably like to be. Search for "CHANLIST europe_west[]",
I guess this is where you are located. As for your odd (?) frequency
you might be on your own.

As a sidenote I -think- it should be possible to enter the frequencies
directly rather than using the freqid's as normally done. Unfortunately
I haven't tried to do that.

Hope that might be usefull.

~Claus



On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 20:51:33 +0100, Ronald Wielink  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



Hi there!
I've been trying to get MythTV to work for the past few days but somehow  
I
don't get it to tune to channels. I'm using a single machine with a  
PVR-150

non-MCE.

I'm fairly new to linux, guess that doesn't help much...

What I've done so far is:
Installed MyhthTV using Jarods FC4 guide. I've stayed as close to the
instructions as possible. I have filled the database using  
myhtfilldatabase

--manual using tv_grab_nl_pdb with the information of two channels.

When I choose WatchTV I get a non-tuned image. I can faintly see a TV  
image

so I know
'something' is happening... Selecting channel 1 or 2 results in the image
freezing for a second or two but that's it.
I tried
# /usr/lib/ivtv/ptune-ui.pl &
# mplayer -vo xv /dev/video0

but apparently ptune-ui.pl is not included in the package I installed  
(?!).

Now when I use


ivtv-tune -f715.75
I get
/dev/video0: 715.750 MHz  (Signal Detected)
and the channel actually changes in the front end!

When I try channel up or channel down, I get:
Hi there!
I've been trying to get MythTV to work for the past few days but somehow  
I
don't get it to tune to channels. I'm using a single machine with a  
PVR-150

non-MCE.

I'm fairly new to linux, guess that doesn't help...

What I've done so far is:
Installed MyhthTV using Jarods FC4 guide. I've stayed as close to the
instructions as possible. I have filled the database using  
myhtfilldatabase

--manual using tv_grab_nl_pdb with the information of two channels.

When I choose WatchTV I get a non-tuned image. I can faintly see a TV  
image

so I know
'something' is happening... Selecting channel 1 or 2 results in the image
freezing for a second or two but that's it.
I tried
# /usr/lib/ivtv/ptune-ui.pl &
# mplayer -vo xv /dev/video0

but apparently ptune-ui.pl is not included in the package I installed  
(?!).

Now when I use
ivtv-tune -f715.75
I get
/dev/video0: 715.750 MHz  (Signal Detected)
and the channel actually changes in the front end!

Using Channelup and Channeldown I get:

2005-11-23 22:27:33.187 Channel(/dev/video0): CheckChannel failed. Please
verify channel "E2" in the "setup" Channel Editor.
2005-11-23 22:27:33.187 Error, couldn't find any available channels.
2005-11-23 22:27:33.188 Your database is most likely setup incorrectly.

I get the first line for every channel between 1 and 69 (and E en S
channels).

I suspect I've made an obvious mistake, but I can't find it. Can someone
please help me out?

Thanks a lot, Ronald
=
Here's some more information:
Starting up the backend:

2005-11-23 22:05:42.317 New DB connection, total: 1
Starting up as the master server.
2005-11-23 22:05:42.342 New DB connection, total: 2
2005-11-23 22:05:42.359 New DB connection, total: 3
2005-11-23 22:05:42.403 New DB scheduler connection
2005-11-23 22:05:42.413 mythbackend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1
www.mythtv.org
2005-11-23 22:05:42.414 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2005-11-23 22:05:44.414 Reschedule requested for id -1.
2005-11-23 22:05:44.428 Scheduled 0 items in 0.0 = 0.01 match + 0.01  
place

2005-11-23 22:05:44.432 Seem to be woken up by USER



Starting up the frontend:

2005-11-23 22:07:07.662 New DB connection, total: 1
Total desktop width=1024, height=768, numscreens=1
2005-11-23 22:07:07.678 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0
2005-11-23 22:07:07.685 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1
www.mythtv.org
2005-11-23 22:07:07.686 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2005-11-23 22:07:08.171 Switching to square mode (visor)
mythtv: could not connect to socket
mythtv: Connection refused
lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
2005-11-23 22:07:08.567 Joystick disabled.
2005-11-23 22:07:08.658 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2005-11-23 22:07:08.687 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media
handler
2005-11-23 22:07:08.689 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media
handler
2005-11-23 22:07:08.986 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media
handler
SIP listening on IP Address 192.168.1.65:5060 NAT address 192.168.1.65
SIP: Cannot register; proxy, username or password not set
2005-11-23 22:07:09.578 Starting media monitor.


mysql> use mythconverg;
mysql> select cha

Re: [mythtv-users] Yet Another New OSD: Gray-OSD

[Greg Estabrooks]

> > > http://dejavu.sf.net/ ? These DejaVu fonts are based on Bitstream Vera
> > > but provide a wider range of characters.
> > 
> >  I'll certainly check that out :)
> 
> Thanks. My upcoming Czech translation of MythTV would NOT work with the
> original Vera fonts, you know.


 I tried out that font and it looks great, and I'd certainly want to use
one that can reach as mainy users as possible so I'll be including that from 
now on. The license is nice and flexible too which is great.

 I'm also considering moving to rounded borders for boxes that don't touch 
the edge of the screen like this.


http://www.phaze.org/mythtv/osd/newgreyosd13.jpg


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Re: [mythtv-users] Yet Another New OSD: Gray-OSD

[Petr Stehlik]

Jakob Fix píše v Čt 24. 11. 2005 v 23:07 +0100:
> I would like to know how people make screenshots without losing the
> actually TV image?

http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/LittleGems

Petr


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Re: [mythtv-users] Yet Another New OSD: Gray-OSD

[Jakob Fix]

Nice theme.

I would like to know how people make screenshots without losing the
actually TV image?

Thanks,


On 24/11/05, aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 24/11/05, Greg Estabrooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >  Here are a couple screenshots:
> >
> >  Oops, meant to add this one as well.
> >
> >  http://www.phaze.org/mythtv/osd/newgreyosd10.jpg
> >
>
> Heh, nice choice of screenshots ;)
>
> --
> aaron

--
cheers,
Jakob.
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[mythtv-users] timezone problem with dvb and two satellites

[Jakob Fix]

Hello,

I'm in the process of setting up my mythtv stuff.  I have one
satellite dish with two heads (Astra 19 and Astra 28) connected via
Diseqc 1.1.  Works really good, ie. I can switch from a channel on
input 0 to a channel on input 1 without a hitch.

Astra 19 is for German TV, and Astra 28 for UK TV.  Now, the problem
is Germany is UTC+0100, and the UK is UTC.

The backend's time is

sh-3.00$ date
Thu Nov 24 22:46:33 CET 2005
sh-3.00$ date -u
Thu Nov 24 21:46:42 UTC 2005

but all guide data is off set by one hour backward in time as if CET
were UTC.  ntp is installed, and ntpdate ran.

I'm retrieving the EPG using tv_grab_dvb which is fed directly into
mythfilldatabase.

The downloaded guide data is already wrong:


Tracks


The programme should start at 23:05 and finish at 00:00.

I have played around with the time offset  for XMLTV listings in
mythtv-setup, but Auto, +0100, or None don't change anything.  I have
reloaded the guide data after making these modifications, and
restarted the mythtv backend.

Essentially, at the moment I can't record a programme.

Anyone?

--
cheers,
Jakob.
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RE: [mythtv-users] Live-TV: Segmentation fault

[Jon Whitear]

>
> Hi,
> Would you have any idea about this kind of seg fault. I'm using myth
> svn. Or should the Live-TV even work at all in svn?
>
> 2005-11-24 20:52:22.880 DVB#0 DVB SI Table Parser Started
> 2005-11-24 20:52:23.458 Preview Error: Run() file not local:
> 'myth://127.0.0.1:6543/1001_20051124205222.mpg'
> 2005-11-24 20:52:23.564 DVB#0 CA: SetPMT for ServiceID=1
>

Have a look on Trac. Ticket #689 refers to zero byte recordings with DVB,
a side effect of which is a segfault on entering Lice TV.

Cheers,

Jon

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Re: [mythtv-users] nfslockfile.lock

[Chris Pinkham]

> I have all my movies on a central server which runs mysql and the 
> myth-backend.
> 
> Sometime in the installation process, the backend decided to put a 
> nfslockfile.lock in my movies directory.  This is a minor nit, except 
> that I want my movies to be mounted read-only, and the backend won't 
> start if it can't access the nfslockfile.lock...

No, the master backend does this when it starts up.  How can you expect
your backend to record stuff if you have the storage dir mounted
read-only?

-- 
Chris

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Re: [mythtv-users] Multiple Screen Support?

[Brandon Sherman]

True, but I think that I can probably figure out another way to do  
this until mouse support is native to Myth.  In any case, I think  
I'll be able to find some other box that can sit behind the T.V.


Thanks anyway everyone!
Brandon

On Nov 23, 2005, at 11:56 PM, Jules Bean wrote:


Brandon Sherman wrote:
Yes... quite surprising that there isn't any way to add in support  
for the mouse.  Irony for one of the original Macs, eh? (Don't  
tell me about the Lisa and the Xerox Alto... it is a joke...)
And this would have to be both the backend and the frontend, the  
way the system is being designed.  Not quite enough space for two  
computers here, but MythWifi is neat.


As I understand MythWifi it's quite simply a web front end. A web  
front end doesn't matter which machine it's running on, so there is  
no technical reason it could be run on the same machine that myth  
was running on (but on a different display, otherwise it would be a  
bit daft).


Jules
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[mythtv-users] problem with mythfilldatabase

[sarvinc]

I'm having a problem with mythfilldatabase. I've installed MythTV in Gentoo on 
an Athlon 64 system. I've set up an account at zap2it.com and am able to log 
in and out of their web site. In MythTV I've entered in my log in information 
but mythfilldatabase doesn't seem to run properly. When ever I run it I get 
"2005-11-24 13:27:43.826 New DB connection, total: 1
2005-11-24 13:27:43.907 New DB connection, total: 2
Refreshing Tomorrow's data
2005-11-24 13:27:43.908 New DB DataDirect connection
Retrieving datadirect data...
Grabbing data for Thu Nov 24 2005 offset 1
From : Fri Nov 25 08:00:00 2005 To : Sat Nov 26 08:00:00 2005 (UTC)
--13:27:43--  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... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/xml]


[  <=>  
   ] 
192,110   59.20K/s

13:27:48 (59.11 KB/s) - `-' saved [192110]

Your subscription expires on 02/22/06 09:04:53
Grab complete.  Actual data from Fri Nov 25 08:00:00 2005 to Sat Nov 26 
08:00:00 2005 (UTC)
Clearing data for source...
Clearing from Fri Nov 25 00:00:00 2005 to Sat Nov 26 00:00:00 2005 (localtime)
2005-11-24 13:27:53.374 New DB connection, total: 3
2005-11-24 13:27:53.375 New DB connection, total: 4"

This string of text basically repeats over and over and over. I'm not sure 
what's wrong and any help would be appreciated.
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RE: [mythtv-users] Live-TV: Segmentation fault

[David Maher]

I am seeing exactly the same thing, not much help I know, but at least you know 
you are not alone

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Ellis
Sent: Friday, 25 November 2005 6:04 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Discussion about mythtv'
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Live-TV: Segmentation fault


Do you have a /mythtv/recordings directory with sufficient disk space and
read/write priveleges (for the user running mythbackend)?

David

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mika Orajärvi
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 1:57 PM
To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] Live-TV: Segmentation fault

Hi,
Would you have any idea about this kind of seg fault. I'm using myth
svn. Or should the Live-TV even work at all in svn?


---

Frontend log:

2005-11-24 20:52:22.168 Invalid file handle when
opening /mythtv/recordings/1001_20051124205222.mpg.  6 retries
remaining.
0: start_time: 857.475 duration: -9223372036854.775
stream: start_time: 9527.500 duration: -9223372036854.775 bitrate=0 kb/s
2005-11-24 20:52:23.968 AFD: Opened codec 0x8337230, id(MPEG1VIDEO)
type(Video)
2005-11-24 20:52:25.929 TV: Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-11-24 20:52:25.950 Realtime priority would require SUID as root.
2005-11-24 20:52:26.005 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait
2005-11-24 20:52:26.906 Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
2005-11-24 20:52:27.322 NVP: prebuffering pause
2005-11-24 20:52:27.588 NVP: prebuffering pause
2005-11-24 20:52:27.887 NVP: prebuffering pause
2005-11-24 20:52:28.253 NVP: prebuffering pause
2005-11-24 20:52:28.885 NVP: prebuffering pause
2005-11-24 20:52:29.173 NVP: prebuffering pause
2005-11-24 20:52:29.433 NVP: prebuffering pause
2005-11-24 20:52:29.728 NVP: prebuffering pause
2005-11-24 20:52:29.777 Invalid file handle when
opening /mythtv/recordings/1001_20051124205223.mpg.  4 retries
remaining.
2005-11-24 20:52:30.278 Invalid file handle when
opening /mythtv/recordings/1001_20051124205223.mpg.  3 retries
remaining.
2005-11-24 20:52:30.630 Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
2005-11-24 20:52:30.780 Invalid file handle when
opening /mythtv/recordings/1001_20051124205223.mpg.  2 retries
remaining.
2005-11-24 20:52:31.282 Invalid file handle when
opening /mythtv/recordings/1001_20051124205223.mpg.  1 retries
remaining.
2005-11-24 20:52:31.532 Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
2005-11-24 20:52:31.784 Invalid file handle when
opening /mythtv/recordings/1001_20051124205223.mpg.  0 retries
remaining.
2005-11-24 20:52:32.289
RingBuf(/mythtv/recordings/1001_20051124205223.mpg) Error: File I/O
problem in 'safe_read()'

Segmentation fault


And the Backend log:

2005-11-24 20:52:22.037 TVRec(1): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-11-24 20:52:22.037 GetStartChannel cardid:'1',
defaultainput:'DVBInput'
2005-11-24 20:52:22.880 DVB#0 DVB SI Table Parser Started
2005-11-24 20:52:23.458 Preview Error: Run() file not local:
'myth://127.0.0.1:6543/1001_20051124205222.mpg'
2005-11-24 20:52:23.564 DVB#0 CA: SetPMT for ServiceID=1



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Re: [mythtv-users] RE: Problems with DVD rip

[Johnathon Meichtry]

If your DVD-ROM drive in your PC has the DVD logo on it then I imagine you 
are using an official licensed DVD player and the manufacturer should have 
paid the approriate royalties to the DVD licensing group.


The software you use to decrypt and play it is a different story altogether 
i.e. legal vs. illegal use of deCSS etc.


There is also a very very big difference between ripping DVD's to put in 
your own Myth library and ripping to share with everyone else.  My advice is 
not to be shy and aggresively rip all your DVD's and get them into your Myth 
library as it totally changes the whole experience.  But never share them 
and make sure the computer where you host your ripped mpgs are totally cut 
off from the net i..e show intent that you are doing it for the right 
reasons.


If you remember that you own the physical media but not the content and to 
always look out for the interests of the copyright holder then you pretty 
much can't go wrong.  Thats my 2 cents worth anyway.


Horray for mplayer/mencoder/vobcopy/decss/mythtv and all the other fantastic 
tools that have totally changed the way my children view all their DVD's 
"on-demand" in any room of the house.


Johnathon


- Original Message - 
From: "Steve Adeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 12:27 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] RE: Problems with DVD rip



On Wednesday 23 November 2005 13:14, Michael T. Dean wrote:

Alex Vishnev wrote:
>Thanks for the advice. I did not know that MADAGASCAR was DRM protected.

Technically, any CSS-protected DVD is DRM-protected, and decrypting that
DVD on anything other than a licensed DVD player is a federal felony
offense in the US (Digital Millenium Copyright Act)...

Mike


Civil disobedience. It worked for our founding fathers (subsequently made
illegal by our "elected" officials).

Steve
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RE: [mythtv-users] Audio "drum-beat" problem

[James C. Dastrup]

>This occasionally happens with PVR350 playback (TV Output), when pressing and 
>releasing skip repeatedly, so that it wants to play
>and needs to skip at the same time. Over half a year this happened about 10 
>times 
>and I skip a lot. Due to the sound-hell I press a
>key (skip/play/other) quickly to start/restart playback to normalize it.
>In your case where it get load when you stop playback I never saw.
>
>>
>>I'm using 0.18.1 on two frontends - SUSE 9.3 and Gentoo. Both systems 
>>occasionally
>>have an identical problem when I stop playback. Sometimes I will get a very 
>>loud
>>drumbeat-like sound out of the speakers. In order to stop the sound, I 
>>usually start
>>playback again and then stop, and the sound goes away. It probably happens 5% 
>>of
>>the time.
>>
>>I'm using SPDIF AC3 audio to a receiver. This seems to happen with both SD and
>>HD recordings from a HD3000 and PVR150. I think it's most likely a problem 
>>with
>>mythfrontend and not mythbackend or the hardware.
>>
>>Anyone else experience this? Any solutions?
>>
 
No PVR 350 here. I'm using DVI out to TV for video, and onboard AC'97 audio.
It doesn't seem related at all to skipping back or forth. It only does it when 
I stop playback, 
either live or recorded.
 
 
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[mythtv-users] I can't tune pvr-150 using mythtv, ivtv-tune works

[Ronald Wielink]

Hi there!
I've been trying to get MythTV to work for the past few days but
somehow I don't get it to tune to channels. I'm using a single machine
with a PVR-150 non-MCE.

I'm fairly new to linux, guess that doesn't help much...

What I've done so far is:
Installed MyhthTV using Jarods FC4 guide. I've stayed as close to the
instructions as possible. I have filled the database using
myhtfilldatabase --manual using tv_grab_nl_pdb with the information of
two channels.

When I choose WatchTV I get a non-tuned image. I can faintly see a TV image so I know 
'something' is happening... Selecting channel 1 or 2 results in the image freezing for a second or two but that's it. 
I tried 
# /usr/lib/ivtv/ptune-ui.pl &
# mplayer -vo xv /dev/video0

but apparently ptune-ui.pl is not included in the package I installed (?!). Now when I use 


ivtv-tune -f715.75
I get
/dev/video0: 715.750 MHz  (Signal Detected)
and the channel actually changes in the front end! 

When I try channel up or channel down, I get:
Hi there!
I've been trying to get MythTV to work for the past few days but
somehow I don't get it to tune to channels. I'm using a single machine
with a PVR-150 non-MCE.

I'm fairly new to linux, guess that doesn't help...

What I've done so far is:
Installed MyhthTV using Jarods FC4 guide. I've stayed as close to the
instructions as possible. I have filled the database using
myhtfilldatabase --manual using tv_grab_nl_pdb with the information of
two channels.

When I choose WatchTV I get a non-tuned image. I can faintly see a TV image so I know 
'something' is happening... Selecting channel 1 or 2 results in the image freezing for a second or two but that's it. 
I tried 
# /usr/lib/ivtv/ptune-ui.pl &
# mplayer -vo xv /dev/video0

but apparently ptune-ui.pl is not included in the package I installed (?!). Now when I use 
ivtv-tune -f715.75
I get
/dev/video0: 715.750 MHz  (Signal Detected)
and the channel actually changes in the front end! 

Using Channelup and Channeldown I get:

2005-11-23 22:27:33.187 Channel(/dev/video0): CheckChannel failed. Please verify channel "E2" in the "setup" Channel Editor.
2005-11-23 22:27:33.187 Error, couldn't find any available channels.
2005-11-23 22:27:33.188 Your database is most likely setup incorrectly.

I get the first line for every channel between 1 and 69 (and E en S channels).

I suspect I've made an obvious mistake, but I can't find it. Can someone please help me out?

Thanks a lot, Ronald
=
Here's some more information: 
Starting up the backend:

2005-11-23 22:05:42.317 New DB connection, total: 1
Starting up as the master server.
2005-11-23 22:05:42.342 New DB connection, total: 2
2005-11-23 22:05:42.359 New DB connection, total: 3
2005-11-23 22:05:42.403 New DB scheduler connection
2005-11-23 22:05:42.413 mythbackend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1 www.mythtv.org
2005-11-23 22:05:42.414 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2005-11-23 22:05:44.414 Reschedule requested for id -1.
2005-11-23 22:05:44.428 Scheduled 0 items in 0.0 = 0.01 match + 0.01 place
2005-11-23 22:05:44.432 Seem to be woken up by USER



Starting up the frontend:

2005-11-23 22:07:07.662 New DB connection, total: 1
Total desktop width=1024, height=768, numscreens=1
2005-11-23 22:07:07.678 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0
2005-11-23 22:07:07.685 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1 www.mythtv.org
2005-11-23 22:07:07.686 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2005-11-23 22:07:08.171 Switching to square mode (visor)
mythtv: could not connect to socket
mythtv: Connection refused
lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
2005-11-23 22:07:08.567 Joystick disabled.
2005-11-23 22:07:08.658 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2005-11-23 22:07:08.687 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media handler
2005-11-23 22:07:08.689 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media handler
2005-11-23 22:07:08.986 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media handler
SIP listening on IP Address 192.168.1.65:5060 NAT address 
192.168.1.65
SIP: Cannot register; proxy, username or password not set
2005-11-23 22:07:09.578 Starting media monitor.


mysql> use mythconverg;
mysql> select chanid, channum, freqid, sourceid, callsign, name from channel;
++-++--+--+-+
| chanid | channum | freqid | sourceid | callsign | name    |
++-++--+--+-+
|   1000 | 1   |
5 
|    1 |
Ned1 | Nederland 1 |
|   1001 | 2   |
7 
|    1 |
Ned2 | Nederland 2 |
++-++--+--+-+

Nov 23 20:35:36 mithrandir kernel: ivtv:   START INIT IVTV 
Nov 23 20:35:36 mithrandir kernel: ivtv:  version 0.4.0 (tagged release) loading
Nov 23 20:35:36 mithrandir kernel: ivtv:  Linux version: 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.0
Nov 23 20:35:36 mithrandir kernel: ivtv:  In case of proble

[mythtv-users] Install Question from SVN

[A JM]

Just a couple of quick questions I think I now the answers to but want to ask to be sure.

Can I move or delete the "Myth" directory that I downloaded SVN to
after installing Myth (mythtv-setup)? or does it matter from what
directory I use to run setup from?

In the setup script for Myth will it create the directory
'/src/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1/database/mc.sql' assuming I'm using 18.1?
is that where the DB resides as default?

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RE: [mythtv-users] Live-TV: Segmentation fault

[David Ellis]

Do you have a /mythtv/recordings directory with sufficient disk space and
read/write priveleges (for the user running mythbackend)?

David

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mika Orajärvi
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 1:57 PM
To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] Live-TV: Segmentation fault

Hi,
Would you have any idea about this kind of seg fault. I'm using myth
svn. Or should the Live-TV even work at all in svn?


---

Frontend log:

2005-11-24 20:52:22.168 Invalid file handle when
opening /mythtv/recordings/1001_20051124205222.mpg.  6 retries
remaining.
0: start_time: 857.475 duration: -9223372036854.775
stream: start_time: 9527.500 duration: -9223372036854.775 bitrate=0 kb/s
2005-11-24 20:52:23.968 AFD: Opened codec 0x8337230, id(MPEG1VIDEO)
type(Video)
2005-11-24 20:52:25.929 TV: Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-11-24 20:52:25.950 Realtime priority would require SUID as root.
2005-11-24 20:52:26.005 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait
2005-11-24 20:52:26.906 Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
2005-11-24 20:52:27.322 NVP: prebuffering pause
2005-11-24 20:52:27.588 NVP: prebuffering pause
2005-11-24 20:52:27.887 NVP: prebuffering pause
2005-11-24 20:52:28.253 NVP: prebuffering pause
2005-11-24 20:52:28.885 NVP: prebuffering pause
2005-11-24 20:52:29.173 NVP: prebuffering pause
2005-11-24 20:52:29.433 NVP: prebuffering pause
2005-11-24 20:52:29.728 NVP: prebuffering pause
2005-11-24 20:52:29.777 Invalid file handle when
opening /mythtv/recordings/1001_20051124205223.mpg.  4 retries
remaining.
2005-11-24 20:52:30.278 Invalid file handle when
opening /mythtv/recordings/1001_20051124205223.mpg.  3 retries
remaining.
2005-11-24 20:52:30.630 Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
2005-11-24 20:52:30.780 Invalid file handle when
opening /mythtv/recordings/1001_20051124205223.mpg.  2 retries
remaining.
2005-11-24 20:52:31.282 Invalid file handle when
opening /mythtv/recordings/1001_20051124205223.mpg.  1 retries
remaining.
2005-11-24 20:52:31.532 Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
2005-11-24 20:52:31.784 Invalid file handle when
opening /mythtv/recordings/1001_20051124205223.mpg.  0 retries
remaining.
2005-11-24 20:52:32.289
RingBuf(/mythtv/recordings/1001_20051124205223.mpg) Error: File I/O
problem in 'safe_read()'

Segmentation fault


And the Backend log:

2005-11-24 20:52:22.037 TVRec(1): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-11-24 20:52:22.037 GetStartChannel cardid:'1',
defaultainput:'DVBInput'
2005-11-24 20:52:22.880 DVB#0 DVB SI Table Parser Started
2005-11-24 20:52:23.458 Preview Error: Run() file not local:
'myth://127.0.0.1:6543/1001_20051124205222.mpg'
2005-11-24 20:52:23.564 DVB#0 CA: SetPMT for ServiceID=1



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Re: [mythtv-users] BE not recording, log snippet - any ideas?

[Steve Pugh]

Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  In your recording profiles, how many episodes have to got specified tokeep (and record) and how many episodes do you have in your recordingslist? What happens if you disable the jobs queue?NickHi Nick,I only had one or two episodes recorded, and the maximum to keep was six (for Surface, more for some other shows that were missing).  I don't have any transcode operations in the job queue, since I record MPEG-2 from the PVR cards and watch them directly on the PVR-350.  Is not having anything in the jobs queue the same as having it disabled?Thanks, Steve
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[mythtv-users] Live-TV: Segmentation fault

[Mika Orajärvi]

Hi,
Would you have any idea about this kind of seg fault. I'm using myth
svn. Or should the Live-TV even work at all in svn?


---

Frontend log:

2005-11-24 20:52:22.168 Invalid file handle when
opening /mythtv/recordings/1001_20051124205222.mpg.  6 retries
remaining.
0: start_time: 857.475 duration: -9223372036854.775
stream: start_time: 9527.500 duration: -9223372036854.775 bitrate=0 kb/s
2005-11-24 20:52:23.968 AFD: Opened codec 0x8337230, id(MPEG1VIDEO)
type(Video)
2005-11-24 20:52:25.929 TV: Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-11-24 20:52:25.950 Realtime priority would require SUID as root.
2005-11-24 20:52:26.005 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait
2005-11-24 20:52:26.906 Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
2005-11-24 20:52:27.322 NVP: prebuffering pause
2005-11-24 20:52:27.588 NVP: prebuffering pause
2005-11-24 20:52:27.887 NVP: prebuffering pause
2005-11-24 20:52:28.253 NVP: prebuffering pause
2005-11-24 20:52:28.885 NVP: prebuffering pause
2005-11-24 20:52:29.173 NVP: prebuffering pause
2005-11-24 20:52:29.433 NVP: prebuffering pause
2005-11-24 20:52:29.728 NVP: prebuffering pause
2005-11-24 20:52:29.777 Invalid file handle when
opening /mythtv/recordings/1001_20051124205223.mpg.  4 retries
remaining.
2005-11-24 20:52:30.278 Invalid file handle when
opening /mythtv/recordings/1001_20051124205223.mpg.  3 retries
remaining.
2005-11-24 20:52:30.630 Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
2005-11-24 20:52:30.780 Invalid file handle when
opening /mythtv/recordings/1001_20051124205223.mpg.  2 retries
remaining.
2005-11-24 20:52:31.282 Invalid file handle when
opening /mythtv/recordings/1001_20051124205223.mpg.  1 retries
remaining.
2005-11-24 20:52:31.532 Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
2005-11-24 20:52:31.784 Invalid file handle when
opening /mythtv/recordings/1001_20051124205223.mpg.  0 retries
remaining.
2005-11-24 20:52:32.289
RingBuf(/mythtv/recordings/1001_20051124205223.mpg) Error: File I/O
problem in 'safe_read()'

Segmentation fault


And the Backend log:

2005-11-24 20:52:22.037 TVRec(1): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-11-24 20:52:22.037 GetStartChannel cardid:'1',
defaultainput:'DVBInput'
2005-11-24 20:52:22.880 DVB#0 DVB SI Table Parser Started
2005-11-24 20:52:23.458 Preview Error: Run() file not local:
'myth://127.0.0.1:6543/1001_20051124205222.mpg'
2005-11-24 20:52:23.564 DVB#0 CA: SetPMT for ServiceID=1


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Re: [mythtv-users] Audio "drum-beat" problem

[Pascal Favre]

This occasionally happens with PVR350 playback (TV Output), when pressing and releasing skip repeatedly, so that it wants to play 
and needs to skip at the same time. Over half a year this happened about 10 times and I skip a lot. Due to the sound-hell I press a 
key (skip/play/other) quickly to start/restart playback to normalize it.

In your case where it get load when you stop playback I never saw.

- Original Message - 
From: "James C. Dastrup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "Discussion about mythtv" 
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 6:09 PM
Subject: [mythtv-users] Audio "drum-beat" problem


I'm using 0.18.1 on two frontends - SUSE 9.3 and Gentoo. Both systems 
occasionally
have an identical problem when I stop playback. Sometimes I will get a very loud
drumbeat-like sound out of the speakers. In order to stop the sound, I usually 
start
playback again and then stop, and the sound goes away. It probably happens 5% of
the time.

I'm using SPDIF AC3 audio to a receiver. This seems to happen with both SD and
HD recordings from a HD3000 and PVR150. I think it's most likely a problem with
mythfrontend and not mythbackend or the hardware.

Anyone else experience this? Any solutions?






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Re: [mythtv-users] Userfreindly filenames of .nuv files?

[Michael T. Dean]

Michael T. Dean wrote:


Christian Borchmann wrote:


i found and modified mythlink.pl to fit my system.
is there a way to seperate the date and time wit an underscore like
11_22_20_15_ARD...

I am not that good in perl to find out that myself... 


mythlink.pl doesn't exist anymore.  A (way too long) history:
...
As of now, there is not a way to specify date/time formats in 
mythrename.pl.  I have a couple of low-priority changes I plan to make 
to mythrename.pl, so I may add that capability once I find the time 
for the other changes.


After re-reading your request, I realize that what you want can be done 
with mythrename.pl.  Use the "--help" option to get a list of format 
specifiers and the "--format" option to specify the format.


Basically, the section you specified above ( 11_22_20_15_ARD.. ) would 
be something like:


%m_%d_%H_%i_  (I'm not sure whether the ARD is a title or something 
else, so I left it off.)


Mike
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[mythtv-users] Changing MPEG4 bitrate with Plextor ConvertX

[Nathan Allen Stratton]

Anyone able to change the bitrate with the Plextor ConvertX in myth? I go
to the prefs for and started with Live TV, no matter what the bitrate was
100 - 6000 it always used the same. I also have tried changing Default and
file size still is about 1 gig an hour no matter what bitrate I select.

><>
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[mythtv-users] nfslockfile.lock

[Yan Seiner]

I have all my movies on a central server which runs mysql and the 
myth-backend.


Sometime in the installation process, the backend decided to put a 
nfslockfile.lock in my movies directory.  This is a minor nit, except 
that I want my movies to be mounted read-only, and the backend won't 
start if it can't access the nfslockfile.lock...


2005-11-02 08:18:22.079 mythbackend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1 
www.mythtv.org

2005-11-02 08:18:22.094 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
/data/seiner/mythtv/movies/nfslockfile.lock: No such file or directory
Unable to open lockfile!
Be sure that '/data/seiner/mythtv/movies' exists and that both
the directory and that file are writeable by this user.

Any way to tell mythbackend to use a lock file in, say, /var/lock?

--Yan
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Re: [mythtv-users] How to stop a playing Movie with a Function() call?

[Michael T. Dean]

Suchit Rout, Noida wrote:


I have been studying the code of mythtv for a while now.

I understand that while a movie is being played in mythfrontend, a 
loop in tv_play.cpp gets on executing.


 

While a movie is being played, if I press the "Esc" button, the movie 
stops playing and MythTV returns to the screen where we have


 


 * Watch Recordings

 * etc etc

 

Now, what I wanna do is simulate this "Esc pressing" with the help of 
a single function call that can cause the movie to stop and make 
MythTV return to the above mentioned screen. Due to my poor knowledge 
in QT I am unable to solve the problem in hand.


 


Can anyone help me figure this out?

 

 

I would like to run a thread alongwith the RunMainLoop (if i am 
correct) in tv_play.cpp that wuold keep on checking for some signal 
(not exactly signal per se, it could be a change in value in a 
database table etc).


the moment I detect that change, my function is called and the movie 
play stops, making MythTV to return to the abov screen.



Just to let you know...  Your messages--all three of them so far

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/163412?#163412
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/163064?#163064
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/162524?#162524

--/are/ coming through.  It's always a good idea to wait a few hours 
after you post and then search the archives if you're afraid your 
messages are not going through.  You can search by subject


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

or even using your own e-mail address

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/engine?do=search;;list=mythtv

However, no one is responding to your question, "Can anyone help me 
figure this out?"  This probably means no one can help.


Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] Capturing 5.1 audio

[Michael T. Dean]

Bob wrote:


Steve Adeff wrote:

My goal *IS* to skip the analog step. Right now, to capture from a 
cable box (since my firewire output is limited by 5C, g...) ... 
I'd love to be able to capture the video via DVI to a dedicated mpeg 
encoder so I could do HDTV, but I'll wait for the hardware to be 
available for that (or 5C gets cracked),


I hadn't realised that DRM was quite such a "clear and present danger"
as you 'merkins would say, someone in a non DMCA'd country needs to look
for a way round this DTCP stuff.


The problem with cracking 5C (and it's technologies, like HDCP) is that 
5C provides a means by which "substantially compromised" protection 
schemes can be revoked.  So, if someone were able to crack HDCP (i.e. 
create a computer program to masquerade as a 5C-compliant device and 
then decrypt the HDCP output from a 5C-compliant receiver), and the 5C's 
decided to revoke HDCP as a valid protection scheme, all new 
5C-compliant hardware would see HDCP as insecure.  So, once HDCP is 
revoked, all new hardware would down-res video to 480p when connected to 
any other piece of hardware that supports 5C protection using HDCP.


So, once HDCP is cracked, if you decided to use that crack, you would 
not be able to buy any new components for your system (because they see 
your HDCP system as insecure) until something else gets cracked, at 
which point you could switch to using the next cracked technology (but, 
no more HDCP because the new component that supports the next cracked 
technology sees HDCP as insecure).  This "technology freeze" may not 
seem like such a big deal to you (how often am I going to upgrade my 
$4000 TV), but--especially when dealing with things like 
cable-company-owned STB's, you may not have a choice whether to upgrade 
(i.e. they switch from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), so you have to 
upgrade).


I'm hoping that once the general public (who aren't using cracks) get 
burned once or twice having to replace equipment to protect the media 
corporations' interests, the "learning-the-hard-way" will cause enough 
of a public outcry to sway the politicians' blind support of the media 
conglomerates.  Now, with just a few techies complaining, the 
politicians have little incentive to do anything about it (at least 
until we start Internet voting--then they'll want to sway the votes of 
the people who crack the voting system so they can get the 2 million 
votes per techie ;).


Mike
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[mythtv-users] Audio "drum-beat" problem

[James C. Dastrup]

I'm using 0.18.1 on two frontends - SUSE 9.3 and Gentoo. Both systems 
occasionally
have an identical problem when I stop playback. Sometimes I will get a very 
loud 
drumbeat-like sound out of the speakers. In order to stop the sound, I usually 
start 
playback again and then stop, and the sound goes away. It probably happens 5% 
of 
the time.
 
I'm using SPDIF AC3 audio to a receiver. This seems to happen with both SD and
HD recordings from a HD3000 and PVR150. I think it's most likely a problem with
mythfrontend and not mythbackend or the hardware.
 
Anyone else experience this? Any solutions?
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Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth R5A26

[Michael T. Dean]

Lee wrote:


Michael T. Dean wrote:


Lee wrote:


My humble apologies for including a SVN version in R5A22.  It was a
mistake.  This has been rectified alnog with a few other small fixes.

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6944
http://www.mysettopbox.tv/CHANGELOG.txt 


Been wondering if I should post this or not, so I'm posting with 
the hope that perhaps it's possible to "head off some problems at 
the pass."  Should someone mention the

   a) danger,
   b) issues, or
   c) proper approach (including downgrading the DB Schema)
of "upgrading" from R5A22 to R5A26?  (Option c being the ideal.)  
Going from anything before R5A22 to R5A26 isn't a problem, but 
those users who upgraded to R5A22 have a database version 
(somewhere at or after 1095) greater than that expected by R5A26 
(probably 1083) and are likely to have problems with an upgrade to 
R5A26.


OK... for the sake of argument, lets say I wiped my R5A22 install 
and installed R5A26 from scratch... but then restored the 
mythconverg database from A22 into my A26 install... Am I screwed? 


The restore probably won't work right.  You'll have to edit the 
restore script to deal with things like basename and progstart and 
progend columns in the recorded table (although it's possible MySQL 
will "do its best with what it's got").  Probably many other similar 
issues.


Then, once you get it working, you'll need to rename any recordings 
that use the new filename format (i.e. chanid_starttime.{nuv,mpg}) to 
the old filename format (i.e. chanid_starttime_endtime.nuv).


And then you'd have to take care of any other issues that I haven't 
anticipated...


So, in all, it's probably more work than it's worth.


It may well be more trouble... but hey that's were I am right now :/
The db version is indeed 1095... but all the old recordings are .NUV 
files so no renaming needed...
MySQL reload seemed to have worked OK... and everything seems to be OK 
the moment... (aside from my remote but I think that's a Knoppmyth 
customisation problem...)

So I guess I may be OK until it's time to upgrade?


OK, let me rephrase my conclusion:

"So, in all, it's probably more work than it's worth to 'upgrade' to 
R5A26 instead of just staying with (or re-installing) R5A22."  ;)


Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] Myth/HDTV dream system?

[R. Geoffrey Newbury]

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:16:35 -0500, Len Reed wrote:

>Steve Adeff wrote:
>> This is what I did:
>> 
>> Silverstone LC16M-S
>Speaking of the remote...I assume that the IR receiver is limited to the 
>IR codes that the Silverstone remote can send.  (Contrast: a homebrew 
>LIRC serial remote, which can handle almost anything.)  Is that true? 
>Are you using this for your remote control?

 I have the Silverstone LC11-M case. It uses the iMon Median VFD and iMon
PAD IR.
I can tell you that the IR receiver does not appear to be limited in any
way on its reception of IR signals.

I happened to be fighting with my lirc setup, and getting no response. I
had mode2 running, when I used the TV remote to change the volume of the
TV, which was not hooked up to mythtv. And I was suprised to see output on
the monitor! A quick check showed that the IR receiver/mode2 combo could
handle a couple of the various remotes lying around. And my lirc setup was
fine: my Silverstone remote had dead batteries! I'm buying some more
batteries today so I can check out the remaining orphan remotes.

BTW I think that this could provide a means of mapping/determining the key
codes of any remote. No that you can do much with that, unless you have a
'learning' remote which you can program at the byte level  or for example,
a Hewlett Packard calculator with IR output, which can be programmed at
the byte level, or for another example, a bluetooth enabled cell phone
which has a Java JVM in it, and a Java program to present the choices.


Geoff

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Re: [mythtv-users] Ghosted Audio

[David Aquilina]

On 11/24/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 13:30:06 +
> From: David Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Ghosted Audio
> To: Discussion about mythtv 
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Thanks for the reply...

>
> Well you could play with the mixer, and make sure that all unused
> inputs and outputs are muted, particularly the mic input which would
> the most prone to picking up unwanted signals.

Already done. Had to fight with the mixer for a while to get it
functional, and so only the bare minimum is unmuted...

>
> In the mixer and in mythtvsetup make sure the recording and playback
> gains are sensible.  eg you're not recording sound at a very low
> level, and then playing back at a very high gain.
>

Also already done... in fact, I'm not even using MythTV's internal
mixer. Hrm, maybe that's the problem? I'll have to poke at that today.

> Remove any unused external leads that might be plugged into your sound
> card - they can act as little aerials.

There's only the patch cable from the bttv card and the cable out to
the speakers, unfortunately.

> Move the sound card to a slot far away from the capture card.

Admittedly I hadn't thought of that. Something else I'll have to try.

> I must admit none of the above seem very likely - you may just have
> faulty hardware.

Is your thought the soundcard is leaky (signal-wise), the bttv card is
leaky, or both?

thanks,
David
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RE: [mythtv-users] Re: FC4 and HD-3000 DVB vs.QAM Issue in latest kernel

[David Ellis]

Sorry for the late reply – I was out
kinda late last night.

 

As I mentioned earlier – I went thru
the same thing, so I’ll try to answer (which is why I chuckled).

 

I suspect the DVB maintainers (who have
been doing a lot of updates to this driver as demand increases) started
including more detailed information for the hardware on the card. This was
probably done to help debug some obscure bug that effected a single
individual/group and it helped the maintainer determine if the hardware on the
card was different than what they were running. Some capture card vendors
(Hauppauge in particular) are known to change tuners and encoders on a pretty
regular basis. I have two PVR 250’s each with a different tuner –
although they were bought at the same time.

 

The good news in all this is that the card
does continue to work in Myth, and works quite well.

 

David

 









From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Sharpe
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005
12:23 AM
To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: FC4
and HD-3000 DVB vs.QAM Issue in latest kernel



 





Hey David,





 





Thanks for your reply.





 





I am glad I could provide a chuckle ?!?.





 





Anyway, the first time I installed FC4 it always referred to it as a
HD3000 when it loaded the frontend even with the latest kernel. Any reason why
that might have changed? Should I just go ahead and proceed with Myth like
usual? 





 





I am just trying to understand what would have changed in the kernel
from a month ago that now it is being referred to differently...





 





Hey, you don't learn unless you ask..:)





 





Jason





 





 

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Message: 19
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 23:14:17 -0500
From: "David Ellis" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] FC4 and HD-3000 DVB vs.QAM Issue in latest
   kernel
To: "'Discussion about mythtv'" < mythtv-users@mythtv.org>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"





For each capture card there is a tuner chip that actually tunes to the 
correct channel, and an encoder that actually encodes the content received
into MPEG or V4l raw stream (this is a beginners interpretation but more or
less correct)



In this case you have a Oren Encoder (or more likely Oren Compatible 
Encoder), and a Thompson Tuner that is combined into an HD 3000 card.



David



_

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Behalf Of Jason Sharpe
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 10:02 PM
To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org 
Subject: [mythtv-users] FC4 and HD-3000 DVB vs.QAM Issue in latest kernel



Hello All,

As soon as I start to trick myself into believing that I am actually
starting to get the hang of this (Been tinkering with Linux for about 3 
months or so, Myth about a month) something comes along and makes me think I
couldn't pour water out of a boot if there were instructions written on the
bottom of it.

Anyway, here is my hardware (however I think it is a software issue): 

AMD64 3200+ (Dual Core)
2 Gig Ram
MSI K8N Neo4 Mobo
Nvidia 6600 256Meg
HD-3000 (for OTA HD)
1 Terabyte of HD Space

I had this hardware up and running with Myth for the past week or two just
tinkering to learn/play and it was working pretty well.  Because I
did so
much "playing" with it, along with getting a DCT-6208 yesterday I
wanted to
add (I know you don't have to wipe clean to add a source), plus I just 
wanted more experience with Linux and Myth. I reinstalled FD4 this afternoon
from scratch.

I followed Jarod's guide the first time and it went pretty smooth. The
HD-3000 was recognized and worked pretty much as close to "out of the
box" 
as you can get.

Now I am having an issue with FC4 and the latest kernel. I use the DVD ISO
to install FC4 x86 choosing the packages that Jarod lists. This installs
kernel 2.6.11-1.1369smp. When I finish the initial boot setup (enabling NTP 
and setting up a user, etc) I log into X and look at the dmesg. (ie. NOTHING
has been done to configure/customize anything)



Here is what it says:



** 





cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.4 loaded
cx88[0]: subsystem: 7063:3000, board: pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV
[card=22,autodetected]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC2] enabled at IRQ 17
ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01: 07.2[A] -> Link [APC2] -> GSI 17 (level,
low) ->
IRQ 233
cx88[0]/2: found at :01:07.2, rev: 5, irq: 233, latency: 32, mmio:
0xfc00
cx88[0]/2: cx2388x based dvb card
DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0]). 
DVB: registering frontend 0 (pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV)...
cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.4 loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:07.0[A] -> Link [APC2] -> GSI 17 (level, low)
->
IRQ 233
cx88[0]/0: found at :01: 07.0, rev: 5, irq: 233, latency: 32, mmio:
0xfb00
tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx88[0])
tuner 2-0061: type set to 52 (Thomson DDT 7610 (ATSC/NTSC))
cx88[0]/0: registered device vid

RE: [mythtv-users] FC4 and HD-3000 DVB vs.QAM Issue in latest kernel

[David Ellis]

My  was actually more of a "I've been there and asked the same
question", no offense intended, I asked the same question of myself when I
did a kernel upgrade, and it's ironic to see others go thru the same thing.

I was happy to share the results of my quest, and meant no offense. Welcome
to one of the challenges of email - its hard to convey meanings without the
benefit of the other queues humans are used to.

David

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R. Geoffrey Newbury
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 11:12 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] FC4 and HD-3000 DVB vs.QAM Issue in latest
kernel

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 02:37:38 -0700, Chad wrote:
>I wouldn't worry about it too much, it is very likely it's just the
>difference in DVB versions.  As long as myth is picking it up as a DVB
>device, and you actually get a picture when all is said and done, you
>can call it a pickle-2.1.3 and it really wouldn't matter.
>
>I think the chuckle was more of a "it's kind of funny to see how
>people interpret things" than a "you're an idiot" thing ;)  But who
>knows...

Well I interpreted the 'chuckle' as the bit of the latter.. Someone who
knew something chuckling that someone else did not know what that arcane 
'Or3874-DD-wigdet' reference actually referred to.

What this actually points out is that the ivtv guys have forgotten the
reason for that output: to provide useful information,  -not- just for
them, but for -everyone- who uses the software.
The output should say something like: 
Found pcHDTV 3000
PcHDTV 3000 using tuner chipset: Or3875-DD-widget revision 1.0.5.6
PcHDTV 3000 using encoder chipset: TD1234  revision 2.4.6.8

Then at least, those who do not know what a TD1234 is would gain as much
useful information out of it as the person who knows.

It might even make debugging errors a little easier.

Just my 2 cents. Buy some cranberry sauce with it!

Geoff
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[mythtv-users] - Someone is using this mce remote?

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Hi all,
someone is using this remote?

http://193.202.63.249/csiga/mce/mce_remote2.JPG

It works well,except that I don't have the four colored buttons working!!

Anyone has a good lircd.conf for that,please?


Thanks!
Alessandro


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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV demo

[Ian Campbell]

On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 17:05 +0100, Petr Stehlik wrote:
> Please does someone have the src deb packages of 0.18.1 yet? They are
> not downloadable from the original location 

they seem to have moved to mythtv.old:
http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/dists/unstable/mythtv.old/source/

Ian.
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Do not open shrink-wrap until you have read and agreed to the conditions
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Re: [mythtv-users] FC4 and HD-3000 DVB vs.QAM Issue in latest kernel

[R. Geoffrey Newbury]

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 02:37:38 -0700, Chad wrote:
>I wouldn't worry about it too much, it is very likely it's just the
>difference in DVB versions.  As long as myth is picking it up as a DVB
>device, and you actually get a picture when all is said and done, you
>can call it a pickle-2.1.3 and it really wouldn't matter.
>
>I think the chuckle was more of a "it's kind of funny to see how
>people interpret things" than a "you're an idiot" thing ;)  But who
>knows...

Well I interpreted the 'chuckle' as the bit of the latter.. Someone who
knew something chuckling that someone else did not know what that arcane 
'Or3874-DD-wigdet' reference actually referred to.

What this actually points out is that the ivtv guys have forgotten the
reason for that output: to provide useful information,  -not- just for
them, but for -everyone- who uses the software.
The output should say something like: 
Found pcHDTV 3000
PcHDTV 3000 using tuner chipset: Or3875-DD-widget revision 1.0.5.6
PcHDTV 3000 using encoder chipset: TD1234  revision 2.4.6.8

Then at least, those who do not know what a TD1234 is would gain as much
useful information out of it as the person who knows.

It might even make debugging errors a little easier.

Just my 2 cents. Buy some cranberry sauce with it!

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

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[mythtv-users] Re: FC4 and HD-3000 DVB vs.QAM Issue in latest kernel

[Jason Sharpe]

Thanks Chad!
 
I didn't take the chuckle negatively at all..:)
 
Anyway, thanks for the info. I was just surprised by the change and, in the thirst for knowledge, wondered why.
 
It was really weird when I went ahead and did the full "yum upgrade" and after the reboot, it wouldn't load the DVB drivers at all...
 
I looked in modules.pcimap and removed the "cx88-blackbird" line and rebooted and it loaded the DVB drivers again. Just goes to show how easy upgrading software will break something...:)
 
Thanks!Jason
 

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> BTW, Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!>> Thanks in advance,>> Jason> ___Happy Thanksgiving to you!:)I wouldn't worry about it too much, it is very likely it's just the
difference in DVB versions.  As long as myth is picking it up as a DVBdevice, and you actually get a picture when all is said and done, youcan call it a pickle-2.1.3 and it really wouldn't matter.I think the chuckle was more of a "it's kind of funny to see how
people interpret things" than a "you're an idiot" thing ;)  But whoknows...Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV demo

[Petr Stehlik]

Mattia Martinello píše v Čt 24. 11. 2005 v 16:55 +0100:
> Phill Edwards ha scritto:
> 
> >If you're doing a public demo I think you'd had to be nuts to use
> >anything other than the latest stable release - which is 0.18.1.
> >
> I wish to install the latest stable 0.18.1, but I didn't manage in 
> compiling it on a Debian unstable..

I think I managed to compile the deb-src packages of 0.18.1 (that
DISAPPEARED from internet yesterday?!) under mixture of
testing/unstable. So you might want to check those, if you can get hold
of them.

Please does someone have the src deb packages of 0.18.1 yet? They are
not downloadable from the original location and wayback machine didn't
cache them :-(

Petr


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Re: [mythtv-users] Yet Another New OSD: Gray-OSD

[Petr Stehlik]

Greg Estabrooks píše v Čt 24. 11. 2005 v 11:47 -0400:
> > May I please suggest you to replace Vera with DejaVu fonts from
> > http://dejavu.sf.net/ ? These DejaVu fonts are based on Bitstream Vera
> > but provide a wider range of characters.
> 
>  I'll certainly check that out :)

Thanks. My upcoming Czech translation of MythTV would NOT work with the
original Vera fonts, you know.

Petr


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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV demo

[Mattia Martinello]

Phill Edwards ha scritto:


If you're doing a public demo I think you'd had to be nuts to use
anything other than the latest stable release - which is 0.18.1.

I wish to install the latest stable 0.18.1, but I didn't manage in 
compiling it on a Debian unstable..


The error during making process is:

g++ -c -pipe -march=pentium4 -Wall -W -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch 
-fomit-frame-pointer reetype-config --cflags -D_REENTRANT -DPIC -fPIC 
-DMMX -Di386 -DUSING_IVTV -DUSING_DVB -DUSING_DVB_EIT -DUSING_XRANDR 
-D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DPREFIX=\"/usr/local\" -DUSING_XV 
-DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -DQT_SHARED -DQT_TABLET_SUPPORT 
-I/usr/share/qt3/mkspecs/default -I. -I/usr/local/include 
-I/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.12-1/include -I../.. -I../libmyth -I.. 
-Idvbdev -Impeg -I../libavcodec -I../libmythmpeg2 -I/usr/include/qt3 -o 
channeleditor.o channeleditor.cpp
/usr/include/qt3/qsqldatabase.h:63: warning: 'class 
QSqlDriverCreatorBase' has virtual functions but non-virtual destructor
/usr/include/qt3/qxml.h:224: warning: 'class QXmlReader' has virtual 
functions but non-virtual destructor
/usr/include/qt3/qxml.h:407: warning: 'class QXmlContentHandler' has 
virtual functions but non-virtual destructor
/usr/include/qt3/qxml.h:424: warning: 'class QXmlErrorHandler' has 
virtual functions but non-virtual destructor
/usr/include/qt3/qxml.h:433: warning: 'class QXmlDTDHandler' has virtual 
functions but non-virtual destructor
/usr/include/qt3/qxml.h:441: warning: 'class QXmlEntityResolver' has 
virtual functions but non-virtual destructor
/usr/include/qt3/qxml.h:448: warning: 'class QXmlLexicalHandler' has 
virtual functions but non-virtual destructor
/usr/include/qt3/qxml.h:461: warning: 'class QXmlDeclHandler' has 
virtual functions but non-virtual destructor

scanwizard.h:111: error: expected )' before '*' token
scanwizard.h:117: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'ScanWizard' 
with no type

scanwizard.h:117: error: expected ';' before '*' token
make[2]: *** [channeleditor.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory /home/mattia/mythtv-0.18.1/libs/libmythtv'
make[1]: *** [sub-libmythtv] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory /home/mattia/mythtv-0.18.1/libs'
make: *** [sub-libs] Error 2

The SVN 7738 goes well.

Bye,
Mattia.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Yet Another New OSD: Gray-OSD

[Greg Estabrooks]

> May I please suggest you to replace Vera with DejaVu fonts from
> http://dejavu.sf.net/ ? These DejaVu fonts are based on Bitstream Vera
> but provide a wider range of characters.

 I'll certainly check that out :)


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Re: [mythtv-users] Yet Another New OSD: Gray-OSD

[aaron]

On 24/11/05, Greg Estabrooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >  Here are a couple screenshots:
>
>  Oops, meant to add this one as well.
>
>  http://www.phaze.org/mythtv/osd/newgreyosd10.jpg
>

Heh, nice choice of screenshots ;)

--
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Re: [mythtv-users] Yet Another New OSD: Gray-OSD

[Petr Stehlik]

Greg Estabrooks píše v Čt 24. 11. 2005 v 11:39 -0400:
>  http://www.phaze.org/mythtv/osd/Gray-OSD-20051124-01.tgz

>  Note, I'm including the fonts I used right in the OSD itself
> so you shouldn't have to install anything to get the same look.

May I please suggest you to replace Vera with DejaVu fonts from
http://dejavu.sf.net/ ? These DejaVu fonts are based on Bitstream Vera
but provide a wider range of characters.

Thanks.

Petr


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[mythtv-users] Myth RTSP support?

[Nathan Allen Stratton]

Any plans to support RTSP with MythBackend? It would be nice to use some
of the new MPEG4 boxes out there like the AmiNET124.

http://www.aminocom.com/products/ipstb/aminet124.html

><>
Nathan Stratton
nathan at robotics.net
http://www.robotics.net
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Re: [mythtv-users] Yet Another New OSD: Gray-OSD

[Greg Estabrooks]

>  Here are a couple screenshots:

 Oops, meant to add this one as well.

 http://www.phaze.org/mythtv/osd/newgreyosd10.jpg
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[mythtv-users] Yet Another New OSD: Gray-OSD

[Greg Estabrooks]

  As some of you have seen Bryan Mayland posted a mockup of an OSD
and since I liked it so much I started going on up based one that.
Bryan also started one based on the save overall look so my will look
quite similar to his, though as I add more stuff the looks will diverge 
more.

 I've put up a first "beta" of it for anyone who wants to try it out.
I still have to add the editmode stuff but if you are not editing
your recordings this should work pretty well as is.


 http://www.phaze.org/mythtv/osd/Gray-OSD-20051124-01.tgz

 Here are a couple screenshots:

 http://www.phaze.org/mythtv/osd/newgreyosd11.jpg
 http://www.phaze.org/mythtv/osd/newgreyosd11.jpg
 http://www.phaze.org/mythtv/osd/newgreyosd12.jpg

 I tried to keep everything well within the area that shouldn't be affected
by overscan.

 Note, I'm including the fonts I used right in the OSD itself
so you shouldn't have to install anything to get the same look.


 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Anable to record from other vedio source

[David Watkins]

On 24/11/05, Rama, Ganesh Koti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have built Mythtv on Fedora core 3.Using Win Tv Express v4l card.
> I am able to watch tv when I give composite video input from a set top
> box.
> But not able to record the same.
> I am in India & I don't have any kind of EPG support.
> So I just want to record whatever I watch on Tv.
> Plz help me out.

Most of mythtv depends on having tv guide information in the database.
 As I understand it your only option in the current stable release
0.18.1 is to use 'Manual Recording' from the 'Manage Recordings' menu.
 You choose a channel, start time and a durations.  It's a bit fiddly
but it does work - I use it for recording off my VCR.

I believe that the current SVN build has a one-touch recording feature
which sounds like what you were hoping for.  If you search the archive

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

for recording live TV you should find a fairly long discussion.
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Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC with USB remote control: how?

[David Watkins]

> > I'm using my HP Pavilion w5180.ch running SuSE 9.3.
> >
> > How can I configure my remote control device to work with LIRC?
>
> Linux has detect the usb device as a keyboard and mouse.  You don't need lirc.
>
> You can either change MythTv key mapping to match your remote with MythWeb or
> modify the Linux usb keyboard table to match MythTv.
>

But you can use lirc if you want to.  For me it was the only way I
found to reduce the key repeat rate to a manageable level.

just start lircd with the -d device option.


see here

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/142466?search_string=repeat%20remote%20lircd;#142466
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Re: [mythtv-users] Myth/HDTV dream system?

[Len Reed]

Steve Adeff wrote:

This is what I did:

Silverstone LC16M-S
Athlon64 3200+
512MB RAM
2x 320G SATA150 HD
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum
PVR150
HD3000


I'm putting together an HDTV myth system that may end up a lot like 
this.Other than capture cards (one HD5000, two PVR-250s) I haven't 
bought anything yet.


Why did you choose the LC16M?  I'm considering the LC10M, which is a bit 
cheaper.  Are you using all those control and function buttons on your 
LCM16M (FF, REW, Function, etc.)?  Even if they work I suspect I'd 
always use the remote control.


Speaking of the remote...I assume that the IR receiver is limited to the 
IR codes that the Silverstone remote can send.  (Contrast: a homebrew 
LIRC serial remote, which can handle almost anything.)  Is that true? 
Are you using this for your remote control?


Thanks,
Len
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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV demo

[Sasha Z]

Arch Linux uses GCC4 by "default". It's a badass distro, and I have
PKGBUILD's for SVN if you want them. :)

On 11/24/05, Phill Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On this saturday I will have to do a public demo of MythTV at the
> > Linuxday 2005 event here in Trento, Italy.
> > I will use a DVB card with a Linux frontend and backend and a Mac OS X
> > frontend.
> >
> > I wish to know what version of MythTV it better that I use. All has to
> > do a bit stable, because MythTV shouldn't crash in public! :-)
> >
> > The current SVN version has a bug on LiveTV (i sent a ticket and a
> > message to dev list) that hangs Mythfrontend with a segmentation fault
> > error. Will this bug be solved before Saturday?
> >
> > If I can't use the latest SVN, what version in the SVN it's better to
> > use to make a demo of MythTV?
>
> If you're doing a public demo I think you'd had to be nuts to use
> anything other than the latest stable release - which is 0.18.1.
> Despite what one of the other posters said, 0.18.1 runs very well and
> there are many of us on this list running it quite happily on FC3 and
> FC4, for example. The reason for that is that Jarod Wilson's guide is
> the best to get a MythTV system up and running and it uses FC3 or FC4
> and ATRPMs for binary RPMs.
>
> Good luck - hope it goes well.
>
> Regards,
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RE: [mythtv-users] stable and bleeding edge together peacefully?

[Petr Stehlik]

David Raine píše v Čt 24. 11. 2005 v 13:42 +:
> But then, I'd have to make sure that the gdm startup and backend startup 
> stuff was using the same PATH, for me it was easier to build 0.18.1 and 
> latest SVN and then, using the symlinks, I was guaranteed that I was using 
> the latest libs.

True, the libs!

> I also had all sorts of problems when the shared loader 
> could see both libraries. 

I realized that changing $PATH didn't help for /etc/ld.so.conf... As
well as I can't hide myth libs from /usr/lib. Uninstalling the packages
is the only choice.

> Build 0.18 from source and install in /usr/local/mythX - once you have 
> everything working, remove the relevant files from /usr/bin, /usr/lib, etc. 
> - ie, do a manual unistall.

apt-get remove mythtv will do.

> You can rely on PATH precedence for the binaries but not for the shared libs.

Yes.

Thanks.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Myth from SVN

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 02:21:39PM +, Ben Edwards wrote:
> On 24/11/05, Ben Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > The latest release of mythtv was in May and the ebuild seems to be up
> > to date. That is unless you want to use an unstable version ;).  I
> > tried building from source (on a different distro) and found the user
> > and developer comunity not that helpfull.  I think it is because the
> > user comunity dont do it mutch and the developers are (legitematly)
> > not that interested in helping people who just want to build myth and
> > not develop it.
> 
> Looks like this is to be filed under famus last words.  It seems I
> need a fix from the svn branch also.  Is it possible/not totaly mad to
> run frontend from svn against standard backend.  How would I go about
> this?
> 

Don't even bother attempting. Won't work.


Stuart

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Re: [mythtv-users] Play DivX Off DVD

[Steven]

Phill Edwards wrote:

I'm doing this with automount on FC3. Here's what I did to set it up:

1. # mkdir /mnt/auto

2. add this line to /etc/auto.misc (the only uncommented line):
cd  -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/cdrom

3. add this line to /etc/auto.master (the only uncommented line):
/mnt/auto   /etc/auto.misc --timeout=60

4. cd to your mythvideo directory where you keep your videos and do this:
ln -s /mnt/auto/cd DISC
(yes, your linking to a non-existent direcory, as per the docs)
(you can call your link whatever you want, I chose DISC for no reason
whatsoever)

5. Run these commands to start the automount service and make sure it
starts at boot:
# /sbin/chkconfig autofs on
# /sbin/service autofs start

6. Use MythVideo in Listings mode, so that everytime you look for a
video, it rescans the directory. If you have a disc in the drive, then
DISC will show up as a folder. If you don't have a disc in, then the
DISC folder will not be there. Also if you wait for 60 seconds, the
drive unmounts (after exiting MythVideo) and you can eject the disc by
using the button on the drive. I couldn't get the unmount to work for
values less than 60 seconds.


Here's an alternative.

1) Burn your recording to disk.
2) Create a link to the burned file on the media in your videos dir - eg
$ ln -s /media/cdrom/Bladerunner.avi Bladerunner.avi
3) The file will show up in the video listings and play when you
choose to play it - just make sure you inserted the disk first, that's
all!

Easy!
Phill


Easy! :-) You try explaining ssh and symlinking to my 5 year old (or GF 
for that matter)

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Re: [mythtv-users] Myth from SVN

[Ben Edwards]

On 24/11/05, Ben Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 23/11/05, Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm running on Gentoo and I don't think the ebuild has been updated lately.
> > I'm considering pulling and building myth from subversion, but I'm not sure
> > how to do it.  Can someone tell me how?
>
> The latest release of mythtv was in May and the ebuild seems to be up
> to date. That is unless you want to use an unstable version ;).  I
> tried building from source (on a different distro) and found the user
> and developer comunity not that helpfull.  I think it is because the
> user comunity dont do it mutch and the developers are (legitematly)
> not that interested in helping people who just want to build myth and
> not develop it.

Looks like this is to be filed under famus last words.  It seems I
need a fix from the svn branch also.  Is it possible/not totaly mad to
run frontend from svn against standard backend.  How would I go about
this?

Humbely Yours,
ben

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[mythtv-users] Settings for Music quality OGG or MP3...

[Christian Borchmann]

Hallo,

is there a way to cahnge the bitrate for ogg or mp3 encoding?

i would like to have 384 kb/s...

any ideas?

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RE: [mythtv-users] stable and bleeding edge together peacefully?

[David Raine]

> >possible to compile and install the SVN head so it would be able to
> >coexist on the same setup where I got the 0.18.1 stable working?

> I installed one to prefix=/usr/local/mythSVN and the other to
> prefix=/usr/local/mythSTABLE. I then have a script that removes and
> recreates symlinks to /usr/local/myth as required - this way I don't 
have to

> change the PATH for the mythytv user

so you added /usr/local/myth/bin to your $PATH?


yes.


> I do have to re-run ldconfig after the
> symlinks are set up to make sure the libraries are referenced OK.

What if you had two user accounts: "stable" and "svn" and their $PATH
pointed to /usr/local/mythSTABLE/bin (mythSVN respectively) directly?
That would save you the ldconfig, I guess.


But then, I'd have to make sure that the gdm startup and backend startup 
stuff was using the same PATH, for me it was easier to build 0.18.1 and 
latest SVN and then, using the symlinks, I was guaranteed that I was using 
the latest libs. I also had all sorts of problems when the shared loader 
could see both libraries. Now, I just run a script "mythswitch SVN|STABLE" 
and all gets reset.



Pity I got the 0.18.1 installed to /usr/bin. I cannot unsymlink that
path :-) Now I would have to rely on the precedence of /usr/local/bin if
PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH. However, if myth keeps the same names for all
binaries this *could* work. What do you think?


Build 0.18 from source and install in /usr/local/mythX - once you have 
everything working, remove the relevant files from /usr/bin, /usr/lib, etc. 
- ie, do a manual unistall.  You will find these files in 
/usr/local/mythX/bin, lib. You can rely on PATH precedence for the binaries 
but not for the shared libs.



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Re: [mythtv-users] Ghosted Audio

[David Watkins]

On 24/11/05, David Aquilina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I'm fairly new to MythTV and am experiencing an occasional problem
> with ghosting audio. When viewing some previously recorded shows, if
> something else is being recorded at the same time I'll hear the audio
> from the new recording in addition to the previously recorded show's
> audio. Worst yet, it's not a simple pass-through - it appears to
> actually be incorporated in the recording and replays exactly the same
> each time the recording is played.
>
> Has anyone encountered this before?
>
> Unfortunately, it's not consistent at all. It's most commonly
> encountered while watching a recording while something else is being
> recorded at the same time, however it doesn't always happen under
> those circumstances. It seems to always occur when I attempt to watch
> something as it's being recorded.
>
> No settings have been changed between shows with correct audio and
> shows with ghosted audio being recorded. For that matter, the system
> has not even been rebooted between those shows nor any of the myth
> components restarted.
>
> I am using:
>
> - MythTV .18 as pulled from
> http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-18-fixes/mythtv on
> November 22nd
> - Fedora Core 4 (kernel 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4) (x86, NOT x86_64)
> - A WinTV bttv capture card
> - A Yamaha YMF724 sound card. It both records from the bttv card and
> outputs to the speakers.
> - The system is a 1.6Ghz Sempron64 with 512M memory, nForce3-based
> motherboard, and an 80G ATA hard drive.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. If more information is
> needed, please let me know and I'd be happy to provide any other
> details I might have missed.

Well you could play with the mixer, and make sure that all unused
inputs and outputs are muted, particularly the mic input which would
the most prone to picking up unwanted signals.

In the mixer and in mythtvsetup make sure the recording and playback
gains are sensible.  eg you're not recording sound at a very low
level, and then playing back at a very high gain.

Remove any unused external leads that might be plugged into your sound
card - they can act as little aerials.

Move the sound card to a slot far away from the capture card.


I must admit none of the above seem very likely - you may just have
faulty hardware.

Hope this helps
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[mythtv-users] How does mythtv-setup assign the tv_grab script?

[Ralph]

Why not just run setup
again.  You can do it to just change the grabber
without doing any damage.

ben

Thanks, but I do have a reason for wanting to know how this can be done
specifically without running setup. I could give you more details
if you like, but...if there is a simple answer without having to bore you
with the details!...?
> While running
mythtv-setup, you're asked to select your location, so that
> MythTV knows which tv_grab script mythfilldatabase has to call -
eg.
> choosing 'Australia' somehow instructs mythfilldatabase to use
the
> tv_grab_au script instead of any of the other tv_grab scripts
available.
>
> I'd like to know exactly how this works - or more specifically,
how can I
> select a different tv_grab script from the command line, ie.
without running
> mythtv-setup again. What would I need to edit manually?






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Re: [mythtv-users] Myth from SVN

[Ben Edwards]

On 23/11/05, Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm running on Gentoo and I don't think the ebuild has been updated lately.
> I'm considering pulling and building myth from subversion, but I'm not sure
> how to do it.  Can someone tell me how?

The latest release of mythtv was in May and the ebuild seems to be up
to date. That is unless you want to use an unstable version ;).  I
tried building from source (on a different distro) and found the user
and developer comunity not that helpfull.  I think it is because the
user comunity dont do it mutch and the developers are (legitematly)
not that interested in helping people who just want to build myth and
not develop it.

Ben

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RE: [mythtv-users] Two Nova-T cards?

[Weston, Toby]

Just a quick update, I changed the test strategy that I got from
http://www.ethics-gradient.net/myth/mythdvb.html from;

/usr/src/linuxtv-tools/linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0/util/szap/tzap -a 0 "BBC TWO"
/usr/src/dvbstream/dvbstream-0.5/dvbstream -c 0 -ps -qam 16 -cr 3_4 600 601
| mplayer -

to

...
/usr/src/dvbstream/dvbstream-0.5/dvbstream -c 0 -o -ps -qam 16 -cr 3_4 600
601 | mplayer -

So, ensuring I have the "-o" in there and it all works! Great! I use the
passthrough on the cards and it seems ok. I got to test for the first time
within Myth and that works (basically), very slow to do anything (which is
odd because when I have 2xPVR-250s in the same box it was fine, but more
tweaks to ensue).

Very impressed that this all worked straight out the box with stock kernels!

Thanks for the suggestions guys.
Toby

Ben Edwards wrote:
> On 23/11/05, Jules Gosnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I have two NOVA-Ts (different chipsets). Individually they both work
>> fine. When I put them both in together, my signal seemed seriously
>> degraded and MythTV seemed to get pretty confused (perhaps because it
>> could not tune the cards) - chaos ensued, myth fell apart, so I took
>> out one of the cards.
> 
> Have you tried bying a amplifier for your areal.  You can get them
> from argos or dixons.  I have not tried this with freeview but I have
> with analog TV when I was running several sets.  Not sure if the
> normal ones work but you can get freevew ones.   
> 
> Ben
> 
>> I haven't had the courage or time to try again yet - but this is
>> something that I shall need to do over the next couple of weeks. If
>> anyone can give me any pointers I would be very grateful.
>> 
>> The card installed at the moment gives 'Philips Semiconductors
>> SAA7146' via lspci - the other uses the Connexant chipset. They both
>> seem to be model '909' (but I thought that different chipset implied
>> different model no.). 
>> 
>> I'd be interested to know what needed patching in the
>> driver[s]/kernel and what chipsets other people are running with.
>> Somehow, I can't see myself getting this working by christmas :-(
>> 
>> Perhaps if we all put our heads together we can figure this one out.
>> The Philips card is on loan (I was too pessimistic to buy one
>> straight away!). So I could go pick another Connexant based card if
>> that helped (only one driver to hack :-) ).
>> 
>> Jules
>> 
>> 
>> Ciaran wrote:
>> 
>>> On 11/22/05, Weston, Toby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
 
Just wondering what people's experiences of using two Nova-T
 DVB cards in the 
 
UK? I know people have with great success but were there any
 gotchas? The 
 
reason I ask is I got my first card running (yey!) and got all
 flashy and 
 
threw in the other one, now ... neither work! I'll look into it
 more but just
 
wondered if there was any obvious no-nos?
 
 
 
Cheers,
 
Toby
 
 
 
Ps, although I get FE_HAS_LOCK ok from tzap, mplayer doesn't
 display
 
anything or give me anything meaningful to work from (other
 than something 
 
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>>> Err, it really was as simple as throwing both cards in for me!
>>> Sorry, but yes a pair of Nova-t  cards do definately work.  When I
>>> got it working the drivers needed modifications and I had to hack
>>> the kernel, I've not dared upgrade to the recent kernel for fear of
>>> losing my TV ;)
>>> Cheers, if there's anything you need from me, just ask.
>>> 
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RE: [mythtv-users] stable and bleeding edge together peacefully?

[Petr Stehlik]

David Raine píše v Čt 24. 11. 2005 v 12:39 +:
> >possible to compile and install the SVN head so it would be able to
> >coexist on the same setup where I got the 0.18.1 stable working?

> I installed one to prefix=/usr/local/mythSVN and the other to 
> prefix=/usr/local/mythSTABLE. I then have a script that removes and 
> recreates symlinks to /usr/local/myth as required - this way I don't have to 
> change the PATH for the mythytv user

so you added /usr/local/myth/bin to your $PATH?

> I do have to re-run ldconfig after the 
> symlinks are set up to make sure the libraries are referenced OK.

What if you had two user accounts: "stable" and "svn" and their $PATH
pointed to /usr/local/mythSTABLE/bin (mythSVN respectively) directly?
That would save you the ldconfig, I guess.

Pity I got the 0.18.1 installed to /usr/bin. I cannot unsymlink that
path :-) Now I would have to rely on the precedence of /usr/local/bin if
PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH. However, if myth keeps the same names for all
binaries this *could* work. What do you think?

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Re: [mythtv-users] How does mythtv-setup assign the tv_grab script?

[Ben Edwards]

On 24/11/05, Ralph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


While running mythtv-setup, you're asked to select your location, so that
MythTV knows which tv_grab script mythfilldatabase has to call - eg.
choosing 'Australia' somehow instructs mythfilldatabase to use the
tv_grab_au script instead of any of the other tv_grab scripts available.

I'd like to know exactly how this works - or more specifically, how can I
select a different tv_grab script from the command line, ie. without
running mythtv-setup again. What would I need to edit manually?
Why not just run setup again.  You can do it to just change the grabber without doing any damage.

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RE: [mythtv-users] stable and bleeding edge together peacefully?

[David Raine]

I just got the 0.18.1 working (from .deb) on a fresh debian sid install
(after giving up on KnoppMyth R22) and I am wondering whether it is
possible to compile and install the SVN head so it would be able to
coexist on the same setup where I got the 0.18.1 stable working?

Note that puting SVN to /usr/local (while the stable lays in /usr) and
renaming the database (I don't mind keeping two databases) might not be
enough so I decided to ask if someone runs such setup successfully.


I have both on my system - 0.18.1 for the g/f (stable, no change to 
behaviour) and latest SVN for when she's out and I can try out the bleeding 
edge.


I installed one to prefix=/usr/local/mythSVN and the other to 
prefix=/usr/local/mythSTABLE. I then have a script that removes and 
recreates symlinks to /usr/local/myth as required - this way I don't have to 
change the PATH for the mythytv user. I do have to re-run ldconfig after the 
symlinks are set up to make sure the libraries are referenced OK.


Yes, two databases are required.

Regards
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Re: [mythtv-users] Two Nova-T cards?

[Ben Edwards]

On 23/11/05, Jules Gosnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have two NOVA-Ts (different chipsets). Individually they both work
> fine. When I put them both in together, my signal seemed seriously
> degraded and MythTV seemed to get pretty confused (perhaps because it
> could not tune the cards) - chaos ensued, myth fell apart, so I took out
> one of the cards.

Have you tried bying a amplifier for your areal.  You can get them
from argos or dixons.  I have not tried this with freeview but I have
with analog TV when I was running several sets.  Not sure if the
normal ones work but you can get freevew ones.

Ben

> I haven't had the courage or time to try again yet - but this is
> something that I shall need to do over the next couple of weeks. If
> anyone can give me any pointers I would be very grateful.
>
> The card installed at the moment gives 'Philips Semiconductors SAA7146'
> via lspci - the other uses the Connexant chipset. They both seem to be
> model '909' (but I thought that different chipset implied different
> model no.).
>
> I'd be interested to know what needed patching in the driver[s]/kernel
> and what chipsets other people are running with. Somehow, I can't see
> myself getting this working by christmas :-(
>
> Perhaps if we all put our heads together we can figure this one out. The
> Philips card is on loan (I was too pessimistic to buy one straight
> away!). So I could go pick another Connexant based card if that helped
> (only one driver to hack :-) ).
>
> Jules
>
>
> Ciaran wrote:
>
> >On 11/22/05, Weston, Toby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>
> >>Just wondering what people's experiences of using two Nova-T DVB cards
> >>in the
> >>
> >>UK? I know people have with great success but were there any gotchas?
> >>The
> >>
> >>reason I ask is I got my first card running (yey!) and got all flashy
> >>and
> >>
> >>threw in the other one, now ... neither work! I'll look into it more but
> >>just
> >>
> >>wondered if there was any obvious no-nos?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>
> >>Toby
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Ps, although I get FE_HAS_LOCK ok from tzap, mplayer doesn't display
> >>
> >>anything or give me anything meaningful to work from (other than
> >>something
> >>
> >>about working on 2 steams(?))
> >>
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> >Err, it really was as simple as throwing both cards in for me! Sorry,
> >but yes a pair of Nova-t  cards do definately work.  When I got it
> >working the drivers needed modifications and I had to hack the kernel,
> >I've not dared upgrade to the recent kernel for fear of losing my TV
> >;)
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Re: [mythtv-users] Two Nova-T cards?

[Neil Bird]

Around about 23/11/05 17:09, Weston, Toby typed ...

Thanks, will do tonight when I can get at my box. BTW anyone know how I can
get outlook to reply to list messages properly? I'm annoying myself with
this top-posting!


  Tools/Options.
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  Then remember  after you hit   - it won't do that bit :-(

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Re: [mythtv-users] QWERTY remotes

[Ashley Bostock]

Could you post your config files for this.Thanks,Ash.On 11/23/05, Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:On 22/11/05, Allan Stirling <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Nathan Allen Stratton wrote:> > Anyone know of any small QWERTY remotes that can be used with myth? I have> > seen lots of wireless keyboards, but I want something much smaller. You
> > don't need to type a lot, so something shaped lime my treo 650 would be> > very coo.> >> If you're in the UK,>> http://www.sky.com/skycom/skynavigator
>> Is very nice. Works well with lirc - Myth doesn't understand case (UPPER /> lower) from the remote, though).I'm a big fan of my Navigator remote - I do miss the skip buttons thatthe Hauppauge remotes have through. The hidden keyboard is great when
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[mythtv-users] Anable to record from other vedio source

[Rama, Ganesh Koti]

Hi all,
I have built Mythtv on Fedora core 3.Using Win Tv Express v4l card.
I am able to watch tv when I give composite video input from a set top
box.
But not able to record the same.
I am in India & I don't have any kind of EPG support.
So I just want to record whatever I watch on Tv.
Plz help me out.

Regards,
Ganesh.
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Re: [mythtv-users] IR RX/TX that works

[Paul Andreassen]

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 02:28 am, Nick wrote:
> My main FE/BE system only has a single serial port, so I soldered a
> receiver and transmitter into the same serial connector - both work
> like a charm (only 1 instance of LIRC needed).

Thanks Nick but I want to avoid soldering if possible.  Think I'll try a 
prebuilt usb version, just hope there not more trouble.

Paul
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Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC with USB remote control: how?

[Paul Andreassen]

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 05:14 pm, Enrico Ballarin Dolfin wrote:
> I'm trying to configure my USB remote control, delivered together with my
> PC (HP Pavilion w5180.ch), to use it inside MythTV. To do it, the remote
> control has to be accessible through LIRC, that seems to require a serial
> device instead of a USB one.
>
> When I connect to the PC the USB receiver of my remote control, I can see
> with "dmesg" following generated lines:
>
> usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
> input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [3353:3713] on usb-:00:1d.0-1
> input: USB HID v1.10 Device [3353:3713] on usb-:00:1d.0-1
>
> When I have an terminal window open and I press the buttons of the remote
> control, characters are displayed on the terminal window e.g. 1 till 9 if I
> press the numerical buttons or a few character sequences for other buttons.
>
> I'm using my HP Pavilion w5180.ch running SuSE 9.3.
>
> How can I configure my remote control device to work with LIRC?

Linux has detect the usb device as a keyboard and mouse.  You don't need lirc.

You can either change MythTv key mapping to match your remote with MythWeb or 
modify the Linux usb keyboard table to match MythTv.

Here is a program I wrote to change the mapping table in usbhid.ko, you would 
have to do your own modifications:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/engine?do=post_attachment;postatt_id=7787;list=mythtv

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[mythtv-users] How does mythtv-setup assign the tv_grab script?

[Ralph]

While running mythtv-setup, you're asked to select your location, so that
MythTV knows which tv_grab script mythfilldatabase has to call - eg.
choosing 'Australia' somehow instructs mythfilldatabase to use the
tv_grab_au script instead of any of the other tv_grab scripts available.

I'd like to know exactly how this works - or more specifically, how can I
select a different tv_grab script from the command line, ie. without
running mythtv-setup again. What would I need to edit manually?


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Re: [mythtv-users] Play DivX Off DVD

[Phill Edwards]

> I'm doing this with automount on FC3. Here's what I did to set it up:
>
> 1. # mkdir /mnt/auto
>
> 2. add this line to /etc/auto.misc (the only uncommented line):
> cd  -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/cdrom
>
> 3. add this line to /etc/auto.master (the only uncommented line):
> /mnt/auto   /etc/auto.misc --timeout=60
>
> 4. cd to your mythvideo directory where you keep your videos and do this:
> ln -s /mnt/auto/cd DISC
> (yes, your linking to a non-existent direcory, as per the docs)
> (you can call your link whatever you want, I chose DISC for no reason
> whatsoever)
>
> 5. Run these commands to start the automount service and make sure it
> starts at boot:
> # /sbin/chkconfig autofs on
> # /sbin/service autofs start
>
> 6. Use MythVideo in Listings mode, so that everytime you look for a
> video, it rescans the directory. If you have a disc in the drive, then
> DISC will show up as a folder. If you don't have a disc in, then the
> DISC folder will not be there. Also if you wait for 60 seconds, the
> drive unmounts (after exiting MythVideo) and you can eject the disc by
> using the button on the drive. I couldn't get the unmount to work for
> values less than 60 seconds.

Here's an alternative.

1) Burn your recording to disk.
2) Create a link to the burned file on the media in your videos dir - eg
$ ln -s /media/cdrom/Bladerunner.avi Bladerunner.avi
3) The file will show up in the video listings and play when you
choose to play it - just make sure you inserted the disk first, that's
all!

Easy!
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Re: [mythtv-users] Myth from SVN

[Chad]

On 11/23/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael Haan wrote:
>
> > I'm running on Gentoo and I don't think the ebuild has been updated
> > lately.  I'm considering pulling and building myth from subversion,
> > but I'm not sure how to do it.  Can someone tell me how?
>
> Step 1)  Sign up for and make sure you read the dev and commits lists
> for MythTV (and, if you haven't been doing so lately, read the archives
> for a couple weeks back to see what issues you will have -
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/ and
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/ ).
>
> Step 2) http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.4
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If you want the ease of ebuilds:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66337

You'll need a PORTDIR_OVERLAY defined et al.

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] FC4 and HD-3000 DVB vs.QAM Issue in latest kernel

[Chad]

> BTW, Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jason
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Happy Thanksgiving to you!

:)

I wouldn't worry about it too much, it is very likely it's just the
difference in DVB versions.  As long as myth is picking it up as a DVB
device, and you actually get a picture when all is said and done, you
can call it a pickle-2.1.3 and it really wouldn't matter.

I think the chuckle was more of a "it's kind of funny to see how
people interpret things" than a "you're an idiot" thing ;)  But who
knows...

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] bttv audio / snd_bt87x guide?

[Chad]

On 11/23/05, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Don't want to discourage you from pursuing this, but I've NEVER had
> > luck with snd-bt87x btaudio OR any related anything on those bttv
>
> As an aside, what *is* a recommended second (lower budget) card?  I'd
> rather not shell out for another pvr350, is there something that's a bit
> lower than it, but will still work properly and is well supported?

It seems that most people are able to actually get the PVR-150's
working well, and I've seen them for ~65 bucks if you aren't pressed
for time (ebay, specials, rebates...).

But I've just been too cheap also.  I've got about 6 of those cards
around the house figuring "I can figure out snd-bt87x, only to find
out that a handful of cards actually have the chip soldered onto em to
use the audio on the card.  Maybe I'll take 2 or 3 and throw em up on
ebay and take the 'winnings' to buy a 150 or if I'm really rich that
day, maybe a 500 ;)

Good Luck!

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] Userfreindly filenames of .nuv files?

[ffrr]

Jules is basically right.  The problem is not that the remote 
filesystem doesn't follow symlinks, it's that NFS allows the symlink 
to be read as a symlink.  Then, the local kernel attempts to follow 
the symlink and that file location doesn't exist on your local 
machine.  If you make sure that the path to the recordings directory 
is identical on the local filesystem, it will work.  For example, if 
you have your recordings in "/myth/recordings" on the backend, either 
mount "/myth" at "/myth" or mount the recordings directory at 
"/myth/recordings" (depending on how much of the myth tree you want 
exported).



That might be easy enough to do.




and that's what I did.  Works great.   thanks again
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Re: [mythtv-users] Userfreindly filenames of .nuv files?

[ffrr]

This is as far as I know not true. I have used symlinks over NFS in 
the past quite extensively.


Typically they should be relative. Does this script perhaps use 
absolute links?




Don't know.  Is that easy to fix?




(Incidentally, programs which don't show symbolic links in their file 
dialogs are really broken)



Agreed.




Jules is basically right.  The problem is not that the remote 
filesystem doesn't follow symlinks, it's that NFS allows the symlink 
to be read as a symlink.  Then, the local kernel attempts to follow 
the symlink and that file location doesn't exist on your local 
machine.  If you make sure that the path to the recordings directory 
is identical on the local filesystem, it will work.  For example, if 
you have your recordings in "/myth/recordings" on the backend, either 
mount "/myth" at "/myth" or mount the recordings directory at 
"/myth/recordings" (depending on how much of the myth tree you want 
exported).



That might be easy enough to do.


Another option is to use Samba.  With Samba you can a) specify a 
password (unlike NFS, which simply uses UID--which is easy to fake), 


hmmm, but security isn't an issue

b) potentially get better filesystem performance (although tuning 
Samba is significantly more difficult than tuning NFS, so often you 
get worse performance), c) access the linked files (Samba allows you 
to specify you want it to follow symlinks for you since Windows 
doesn't support symlinks).


Yes it would have to wouldn't it !


Thanks for the ideas guys.
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