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

[David Whyte]

I sometimes find that on my BE/FE box, when I exit playback, I get the
last few milliseconds of sound repeating for about 10 seconds before I
am returned to the menu.

Is there any known fix for this problem?

Whytey

On 11/25/05, James C. Dastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >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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Re: [mythtv-users] 2 Cards one remote - but wrong one!

[Kevin Kuphal]

Brad Fuller wrote:

I mentioned in another msg that I have an HD3000 and a PVR-250.  While 
my 250 remote worked fine before in myth, it doesn' t now that I added 
the HD3000.


It works fine outside of myth using irw:  the button presses are 
indicated on the commandline correctly. But, I don't know why they 
don't work inside of mythtv. I suppose it is because of HD3000 took 
over the /dev/video0 and the PVR-250 was relinquished to video1.

Is that what it could be?

Can you have multiple remotes operating on the different cards? I 
don't see how that would work inside of myth.


Maybe you can only assign one card for livetv? If so, how?

thanks for any pointers!


I'm not sure of your issue specifically, but to answer your questions 
about remotes, the remote has nothing to do with the card specifically.  
Your PVR-250 capture card is really 2 devices to Myth, a video device 
(/dev/video(0|1)) and an LIRC device (the IR receiver part).  As long as 
LIRC is able to communicate with the remote it should work.  That being 
said, double check your ~/.mythtv/lircrc file which is the one that 
MythTV uses if you are set up for native LIRC support.  It could be, for 
whatever reason, that you have your ~/.lircrc file which LIRC by default 
uses set up right, but are missing the entries in ~/.mythtv/lircrc which 
Myth uses.  


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RE: [mythtv-users] Running Mythtv-setup without X

[Korey Fort]

> You don't need to have X installed on your backend.  I don't on mine.  
> What you need is an X server on your PC such as Xmanager from 
> NetSarang (www.xmanager.com for 30 day free trial) and combine is with 
> SSH with X forwarding.
>
> When you configure xstart to connect to the MBE choose ssh and an 
> execution command of "/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -ls -display $DISPLAY".  
> You will then get a little xterm terminal window and in that you can 
> run mythtv-setup.  It takes a while to load over wifi network but it 
> works fine.

Try cygwin on a pc. Install the xorg, ssh packages. There is no trial
period,  http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe


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

[Greg Estabrooks]

> http://www.pixelgirlpresents.com/icons.php?cat=pc

 Thanks for the links!

 Well now I'm still trying to decide

 "plain" info box like this:

 http://www.phaze.org/mythtv/osd/newgreyosd14.jpg

 Or one with a colourful icon like these:

 http://www.phaze.org/mythtv/osd/newgreyosd16.jpg
 http://www.phaze.org/mythtv/osd/newgreyosd15.jpg


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Re: [mythtv-users] Converting shows to PDA suitable format

[Paul V. Gratz]

Doh, I mispoke, see my change below:

On Friday 25 November 2005 11:12 pm, Paul V. Gratz wrote:
> On Friday 25 November 2005 04:32 pm, ffrr wrote:
> > I am fairly new to converting video, so I have been trying to discover
> > the best way to convert my recordings (PAL mpeg-TS from a DVB-T card) to
> > a small format suitable for my Palm Tx PDA.
> >
> > Firstly, I have read that divx is a popular format and the TCPMP player
> > on the palm will play it.  Is xvid the same thing? What's the
> > difference?  Any other suggestions for a target format?
>
> I have a treo 650 and I've encoded a few shows for it.  I have been
> using mencoder to encode it to the built-in lavc endcoder for divx.
> In my understanding divx is an early implementation of mpeg4 (prior to
> the release of the standard). Xvid is another. I'm not sure what the
> relative differences are but I think they more or less amount to the
> same kind of quality per bitrate. Now that mpeg4 is out I think they
> both produce legal mpeg4 output.
>
> > OK, so I have experimented with nuvexport.  Unfortunately, under
> > Knoppmyth R5A22, nuvexport with ffmpeg seems to be broken, so I tried it
> > with --transcode and chose xvid format and a screen width of 240 (a
> > suggestion as a reasonable compromise in quality and size).   The show I
> > am converting was 3.9GB in size.  The problem is, on my mythbox, which
> > is only a 800MHz celeron, it has been over 12 hours, the target file is
> > 200MB and it's still not finished !
> >
> > I tried running transcode manually from the command line on a faster
> > (non-myth) machine I have.  It's a 2.2GHz sempron.  I used this command
> > line
> >
> > transcode -i in.mpg -V -x mplayer -y xvid4,xvid4 -Z 240x160 -E 16000 -b
> > 48,1,7,1 -w 150 -f 24,2 -o out.avi
> >
> > but it still is going slow (<20 fps)
> >
> >
> >
> > So, I guess I am hoping for some suggestions on better ways to do this?

 I get much better performance using mencoder (part of mplayer). Its
 something like 15-20 minutes to encode a 1 hour program on my P4 2.8Hz
 HT machine.  I use nuvexport to give me the raw *.nuv file then I
 run mencoder on that file to re-encode for my palm machine. Here is
 the mencoder command line I use:

(I use nuvexport not mythtranscode)

> mencoder -o outfile.avi -aspect 4:3 -ovc lavc -lavcopts
> vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:turbo:vbitrate=300:aspect=4/3:acodec=mp3:abitrate=96 
> -oac lavc -vf-pre pp=lb -vf scale=320:200 -af volnorm  infile.nuv
>
> Replace outfile.avi and infile.nuv with the input and output files you
> want.  The resultant file is ~150MB for 1 hour.  The quality is very
> high so you could probably halve the 300kbs bit rate and still have a
> usable video if you want smaller files.
>
> The assumption is that you are going from a full screen TV program to
> a full 4:3 aspect ratio output file.  You can get slightly better
> quality if the program is 16:9 and you crop it but it may be more pain
> than its worth (look at the mencoder man page for the info on
> autocrop).
>
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Re: [mythtv-users] Converting shows to PDA suitable format

[Paul V. Gratz]

On Friday 25 November 2005 04:32 pm, ffrr wrote:
> I am fairly new to converting video, so I have been trying to discover
> the best way to convert my recordings (PAL mpeg-TS from a DVB-T card) to
> a small format suitable for my Palm Tx PDA.
>
> Firstly, I have read that divx is a popular format and the TCPMP player
> on the palm will play it.  Is xvid the same thing? What's the
> difference?  Any other suggestions for a target format?
>

I have a treo 650 and I've encoded a few shows for it.  I have been
using mencoder to encode it to the built-in lavc endcoder for divx.
In my understanding divx is an early implementation of mpeg4 (prior to
the release of the standard). Xvid is another. I'm not sure what the
relative differences are but I think they more or less amount to the
same kind of quality per bitrate. Now that mpeg4 is out I think they
both produce legal mpeg4 output.

> OK, so I have experimented with nuvexport.  Unfortunately, under
> Knoppmyth R5A22, nuvexport with ffmpeg seems to be broken, so I tried it
> with --transcode and chose xvid format and a screen width of 240 (a
> suggestion as a reasonable compromise in quality and size).   The show I
> am converting was 3.9GB in size.  The problem is, on my mythbox, which
> is only a 800MHz celeron, it has been over 12 hours, the target file is
> 200MB and it's still not finished !
>
> I tried running transcode manually from the command line on a faster
> (non-myth) machine I have.  It's a 2.2GHz sempron.  I used this command
> line
>
> transcode -i in.mpg -V -x mplayer -y xvid4,xvid4 -Z 240x160 -E 16000 -b
> 48,1,7,1 -w 150 -f 24,2 -o out.avi
>
> but it still is going slow (<20 fps)
>
>
>
> So, I guess I am hoping for some suggestions on better ways to do this?
>

I get much better performance using mencoder (part of mplayer). Its
something like 15-20 minutes to encode a 1 hour program on my P4 2.8Hz
HT machine.  I use mythtranscode to give me the raw *.nuv file then I
run mencoder on that file to re-encode for my palm machine. Here is
the mencoder command line I use:

mencoder -o outfile.avi -aspect 4:3 -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:turbo:vbitrate=300:aspect=4/3:acodec=mp3:abitrate=96  -oac 
lavc -vf-pre pp=lb -vf scale=320:200 -af volnorm  infile.nuv

Replace outfile.avi and infile.nuv with the input and output files you
want.  The resultant file is ~150MB for 1 hour.  The quality is very
high so you could probably halve the 300kbs bit rate and still have a
usable video if you want smaller files.

The assumption is that you are going from a full screen TV program to
a full 4:3 aspect ratio output file.  You can get slightly better
quality if the program is 16:9 and you crop it but it may be more pain
than its worth (look at the mencoder man page for the info on
autocrop).





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[mythtv-users] 2 Cards one remote - but wrong one!

[Brad Fuller]

I mentioned in another msg that I have an HD3000 and a PVR-250.  While 
my 250 remote worked fine before in myth, it doesn' t now that I added 
the HD3000.


It works fine outside of myth using irw:  the button presses are 
indicated on the commandline correctly. But, I don't know why they don't 
work inside of mythtv. I suppose it is because of HD3000 took over the 
/dev/video0 and the PVR-250 was relinquished to video1.

Is that what it could be?

Can you have multiple remotes operating on the different cards? I don't 
see how that would work inside of myth.


Maybe you can only assign one card for livetv? If so, how?

thanks for any pointers!

brad
(yeah, I searched the archives.)
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Re: [mythtv-users] Where's the ESC button on the ATI Remote Wonder?

[Michael T. Dean]

Jakob Fix wrote:


Well, title says it all.  I've been pretty amazed that this remote (I
think it's the first generation) worked "out of the box" with Mythtv,
but there are some functionalities which I haven't discovered yet. 
Maybe someone has a list of these buttons / functions mappings?


- switch between the different audio tracks for live tv (+ on the keyboard)
- display the menu (m on the keyboard)
- pause (p on the keyboard)
etc.
 

Buttons on the remote can be mapped to certain keys (with the driver 
that ships with the kernel) or to certain strings (with LIRC).


So, if you're using LIRC, map the string "Esc" to one of your buttons.

If you're using the kernel driver, you'll have to edit the module's 
source ( drivers/usb/input/ati_remote.c ) or use xmodmap to re-map a key 
that is output by your remote to Esc (note that this will also affect 
your real keyboard--which is a really good reason to use LIRC).


Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] Running Mythtv-setup without X

[Michael T. Dean]

Johnathon Meichtry wrote:

You don't need to have X installed on your backend.  I don't on mine.  
What you need is an X server on your PC such as Xmanager from 
NetSarang (www.xmanager.com for 30 day free trial) and combine is with 
SSH with X forwarding.


When you configure xstart to connect to the MBE choose ssh and an 
execution command of "/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -ls -display $DISPLAY".  
You will then get a little xterm terminal window and in that you can 
run mythtv-setup.  It takes a while to load over wifi network but it 
works fine.


So, you don't have X installed on your backend, yet you're able to run 
an X program (xterm) on your backend from the /usr/X11R6 directory 
(seems a strange name for a directory on a machine without X)?  And 
you're able to run a program with a dependency on X (mythtv-setup) on 
your backend?


not running != not installed

Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] Rundown on Videos

[Robert Johnston]

On 11/25/05, Thom Paine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can I get a rundown on the best way to work with mythvideo?



> I was thinking that I need to NFS mount the /video partition on /video
> on each of the local frontends to get that to work. I've ripped a few
> DVD's to watch on there (funny how Baby Einstein made the list when
> you have a 1 year old) but they don't seem to play.

That's right (About the NFS), what format did you rip the DVD's in,
and what are you trying to play them back in? (Missing Codecs if in
AVI DivX/XviD format, missing DeCSS if you ripped to .iso?)

> Also, can I create directories in my /video/videos directory and will
> it recurse them properly so that I can seperate some of these, like
> the kids shows in one, mine in another, and some of my wife's stuff
> elsewhere? I guess I could just try it and see if it works, but I'd
> rather wait and get some feedback from people who are using this daily
> to see how best to set it up.

You can use folders, and if you enable the "Gallery View Browses
folders" (Or whatever it's titled, something similar to that), it'll
browse the files and folders in a proper manner as you'd expect.

> Also, of the DVD's I ripped, I didn't get the movie posters. Does it
> automatically download them from somewhere, or do I need to hit some
> keys to get that to work?

You need to go into the "Video Manager", and from the menu for each
recording, go to "Search IMDB". This'll do it's best to get the info
and poster from IMDB. If that doesn't work, you can find the movie on
IMDB yourself, and enter the number (without the "tt", so "01234567"
for movie ID "tt01234567", find that ID in the URL) into the "Manually
get from IMDB" option.

> And finally, since I plan on ripping alot of my DVD collection, I'm
> unsure if I should get four 300G SATA drives and set them up in a
> RAID5 array, so I have redundancy, or stripe them altogether and have
> a little more room. I guess the only real savings will by my TV
> recorded shows that I would like to have in the event of hardware
> failure, because all my DVD's I have and can rerip them over time.

If you want the best combination of redundancy and speed, use RAID
0+1. This will, however, only give you 600G of space, rather than the
900G RAID 5 gives you.

Personally, I'd not use RAID 0 on it's own unless you are either
absolutely certain of the uality of the drives, or you really don't
care about what's stored on them.

> Thanks for reading this far and looking forward to some feedback.

eeeEE!!!

Sorry, wrong kind of feedback. :)
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[mythtv-users] Re: [mythtv-commits] Re: Ticket #295: Patch to update uitype.cpp and uilistbtntype.cpp

[Michael T. Dean]

MythTV wrote:


#295: Patch to update uitype.cpp and uilistbtntype.cpp
+---
Reporter:  Paul|Owner:  paulh 
Type:  patch   |   Status:  closed
Priority:  minor   |Milestone:
Component:  mythtv  |  Version:  head  
Severity:  medium  |   Resolution:  fixed 
+---

Comment (by anonymous):

yeah I am dieing for this please let me know when it is!!
 


anonymous,

This is already fixed in SVN as of 35 days and 7 hours before your 
post.  Therefore it will be in 0.19.


Also, Trac is not the place for comments.  Instead your comment (as it's 
not related to development) should have been sent to the -users list.


I just hope you're reading the list since I don't have a valid address 
for anonymous, so I can't send you a reply directly...


Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] kudos

[Brad DerManouelian]

My remote works like a charm. Here's my modprobe.conf. My lirc conf  
is a bit big to include on the list. If you'd like to see it, let me  
know and I can post it or email it to you.


My only issue was that I am using the 350's TV-Out for audio (as well  
as my sound card) so I wanted to map the volume buttons to the  
receiver's volume. I couldn't figure out how to do it, so I went and  
bought a learning remote for about $15. I mapped all the buttons from  
the Hauppauge remote, then mapped the power to my TV's power and  
volume to my receiver.


The only thing left to do remote-wise for me is getting mplayer to do  
more than play/pause and toggle the time remaining display. If anyone  
has a lirc conf for the newer Hauppauge gray remote that's got some  
mplayer controls, I'd appreciate a peek.



[EMAIL PROTECTED] temp]$ more /etc/modprobe.conf
alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-ens1371 index=0
remove snd-ens1371 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1  
|| : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-ens1371

alias snd-card-1 snd-emu10k1
options snd-card-1 index=1
options snd-emu10k1 index=1
remove snd-emu10k1 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 1 >/dev/null 2>&1  
|| : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1

alias usb-controller uhci-hcd
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c

# ivtv modules setup
alias char-major-81 ivtv
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv
install ivtv /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv; /sbin/modprobe  
ivtv-fb
install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install  
lirc_i2c

alias eth0 8139too



On Nov 25, 2005, at 10:24 PM, Thom Paine wrote:


On 11/25/05, korebantic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I just wanted to send out a heartfelt thanks to:

* The developers of Myth-TV...great job!
* This list for being helpful not only to me but to
anyone who asks for help
* The ivtv list
* Jarod Wilson for his Fedora/Myth-TV writeup
(http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/)

With some work and patience I was able to get my
Myth-TV box up and running, and it rocks!

Here are the specs on my setup, for those that are
interested.

Version: Myth-TV 0.18.1
OS: FC4
Capture: Hauppauge PVR350 (also used for video out)
Remote: Hauppauge remote included w/PVR350
Sound: On-board AC'97 Audio Controller
Processor: P4 2.2GHZ
Motherboard: Abitbg7
RAM: 1GB




Did you have any problems getting the remote to work? Mine still fails
to work at all, and I'm at a loss as to what to try next.

What's your modprobe.conf look like? I just have the 1 alias atthe top
for lirc_i2c.

Thanks.


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Re: [mythtv-users] SQL Permissions Startup script

[Paul Andreassen]

On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 10:29 am, Patrick Beard wrote:
> Thanks to Ronald for getting me sorted with channel changing.
>
> The next thing on my 'sort' list is backend start up at boot.
>
> I'm using Ubuntu. I installed the Ubuntu Mythtv binary package. I reckon
> debconf generates a random password for the MythTv user on install.
> However I want to have a MythTV account that I can log into and have the
> frontend start automatically. So I have changed the MythTV user's
> password. Now I can log in as MythTV user and start the backend and
> frontend from the command line, but if I try to use
> '/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend' as created by debconf then I get a mysql
> permission error. I've looked in the '/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend' script
> and can't see any mention of the password.
>
> Any Debian/Ubuntu users out there hit the same problem?
>
> Any pointers?

In my debian packages the mysql permissions for mythtv-backend are read 
from /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt.  Having a quick look, if you install mythweb 
you'll probably have to change the password 
in /etc/mythtv/mythweb-settings.php.

Paul
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Re: [mythtv-users] kudos

[Thom Paine]

On 11/25/05, korebantic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just wanted to send out a heartfelt thanks to:
>
> * The developers of Myth-TV...great job!
> * This list for being helpful not only to me but to
> anyone who asks for help
> * The ivtv list
> * Jarod Wilson for his Fedora/Myth-TV writeup
> (http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/)
>
> With some work and patience I was able to get my
> Myth-TV box up and running, and it rocks!
>
> Here are the specs on my setup, for those that are
> interested.
>
> Version: Myth-TV 0.18.1
> OS: FC4
> Capture: Hauppauge PVR350 (also used for video out)
> Remote: Hauppauge remote included w/PVR350
> Sound: On-board AC'97 Audio Controller
> Processor: P4 2.2GHZ
> Motherboard: Abitbg7
> RAM: 1GB
>
>

Did you have any problems getting the remote to work? Mine still fails
to work at all, and I'm at a loss as to what to try next.

What's your modprobe.conf look like? I just have the 1 alias atthe top
for lirc_i2c.

Thanks.


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[mythtv-users] Rundown on Videos

[Thom Paine]

Can I get a rundown on the best way to work with mythvideo?

I have a master backend working nicely except for the remote. I'm not
really bothered by this atm because I've been watching my recordings
by installing the frontend on my main desktop and it's been working
really well. I also don't have my projector installed yet so I'm not
in a real panic.

Anyways, I have a bunch of files that I would like to move to my
mythbox to watch. I moved one over there to see how it would play and
it works well. So my questions are how best to use mythvideo with
remote front ends?

I was thinking that I need to NFS mount the /video partition on /video
on each of the local frontends to get that to work. I've ripped a few
DVD's to watch on there (funny how Baby Einstein made the list when
you have a 1 year old) but they don't seem to play.

Also, can I create directories in my /video/videos directory and will
it recurse them properly so that I can seperate some of these, like
the kids shows in one, mine in another, and some of my wife's stuff
elsewhere? I guess I could just try it and see if it works, but I'd
rather wait and get some feedback from people who are using this daily
to see how best to set it up.

Also, of the DVD's I ripped, I didn't get the movie posters. Does it
automatically download them from somewhere, or do I need to hit some
keys to get that to work?

And finally, since I plan on ripping alot of my DVD collection, I'm
unsure if I should get four 300G SATA drives and set them up in a
RAID5 array, so I have redundancy, or stripe them altogether and have
a little more room. I guess the only real savings will by my TV
recorded shows that I would like to have in the event of hardware
failure, because all my DVD's I have and can rerip them over time.

Thanks for reading this far and looking forward to some feedback.

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Re: [mythtv-users] kudos

[ffrr]

korebantic wrote:


I just wanted to send out a heartfelt thanks to:

* The developers of Myth-TV...great job!
* This list for being helpful not only to me but to
anyone who asks for help
* The ivtv list
* Jarod Wilson for his Fedora/Myth-TV writeup
(http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/)

With some work and patience I was able to get my
Myth-TV box up and running, and it rocks!
 



Great feeling huh?  !! 


Here are the specs on my setup, for those that are
interested.

Version: Myth-TV 0.18.1
OS: FC4
Capture: Hauppauge PVR350 (also used for video out)
Remote: Hauppauge remote included w/PVR350
Sound: On-board AC'97 Audio Controller
Processor: P4 2.2GHZ
Motherboard: Abitbg7
RAM: 1GB
 



Nice setup.  Mine is much more meagre.

How much storage do you have?  I went for 250GB because that size was 
the best value for money around here.  Seems adequate, but you can 
always use more :-)

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[mythtv-users] kudos

[korebantic]

I just wanted to send out a heartfelt thanks to:

* The developers of Myth-TV...great job!
* This list for being helpful not only to me but to
anyone who asks for help
* The ivtv list
* Jarod Wilson for his Fedora/Myth-TV writeup
(http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/)

With some work and patience I was able to get my
Myth-TV box up and running, and it rocks!

Here are the specs on my setup, for those that are
interested.

Version: Myth-TV 0.18.1
OS: FC4
Capture: Hauppauge PVR350 (also used for video out)
Remote: Hauppauge remote included w/PVR350
Sound: On-board AC'97 Audio Controller
Processor: P4 2.2GHZ
Motherboard: Abitbg7
RAM: 1GB




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[mythtv-users] SQL Permissions Startup script

[Patrick Beard]

Hi,
Thanks to Ronald for getting me sorted with channel changing.

The next thing on my 'sort' list is backend start up at boot.

I'm using Ubuntu. I installed the Ubuntu Mythtv binary package. I reckon
debconf generates a random password for the MythTv user on install.
However I want to have a MythTV account that I can log into and have the
frontend start automatically. So I have changed the MythTV user's
password. Now I can log in as MythTV user and start the backend and
frontend from the command line, but if I try to use
'/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend' as created by debconf then I get a mysql
permission error. I've looked in the '/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend' script
and can't see any mention of the password.

Any Debian/Ubuntu users out there hit the same problem?

Any pointers?

Thanks again,

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Re: [mythtv-users] need hardware advice

[David O]

On 11/25/05, travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for the response. I hope this thread isn't confusing, sincethere is another with the exact same subject (posted right after mind,weird).Is this the motherboard?
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=ASUS+A7N8X-E&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=N&tab=ff&oi=froogler
Yup thats it. 
When you say everything i need, (this is probably a stupid question)does that include a processor? Also, I'll have to get another video
card?
Sorry I guess "everything you need" was misleading.  After you get
the
board you'll also need a CPU, RAM, Hardrive, and video card.  I
meant
that the board is powerful enough and has enough extras to last you
awhile(1GBIT LAN, 1MBIT lan, Soundstorm audio capable of outputting
"everything" in DD, SATA).  Do understand the board is about 1 1/2
years old already and
there are some new technologys out,  but I think for running myth
(without spending a years pay) it should work just fine. 
Additionally I have installed both Slackware 10.1, and Gentoo 2005 on
this MOBO and it went flawlessly.  The only thing that gave me a
hard time was the ATI card(required a couple kernel compiles and lotsa
reading), and the GBIT lan drivers were a little tough to find. 
Everything else was recognized at startup and NVIDIA has linux drivers
for this board.    Also, how do a find a case that know that this will fit in it?

Three letters ATX.  Thats it just do some looking online and youll be ok.
Thanks for the links, I'll keep my eye on them. A good website I foundfor local deals is 
www.salescircular.com (fyi).
thanks.  I'll check it out 


Thanks again!Message: 8Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:04:58 + GMTFrom: "David O" <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] need hardware adviceTo: "Myth-TV  (user)" 
Message-ID:   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Content-Type: text/plainI'm new to myth myself, and like you am getting all my hardwaretogeather.  Your hardware list is'nt bad but here are a few
sugestions.1. Get a motherboard and a seperate video card.   I say this only because you'll be sharing your RAM with youronboard video(9100 IGP) which will reduce your total RAM by anywherefrom 64-256MB depending on how much you allocate.
1.b. DONT USE ATI  I really liked ATI before my switch to linuxbit Nvidia just seems to have more support.  I have a 9800PRO and willbe swapping that for something Nvidia(probobly a 6600GT)   I have an ASUS A7N8X-E that I will be using.  It comes with
everything you'll need and it's only about 55$.2. Last but not least, more RAM and HD space.  For only about 30$ moreyou can triple your HD space if you look for deals.  Check out:
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Re: [mythtv-users] Live TV won't change channel

[Patrick Beard]

Ronald - You are a total Star

Thank you so very much. That did the trick for me.

--
Patrick

On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 22:07 +0100, Ronald Wielink wrote:
> Patrick,
> try multiplying your frequencies by 1000. that did it for me...
> 
> Regards,
> Ronald
> 
> On 11/25/05, Patrick Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hopefully this will come through better! Sorry once again.
> 
> 
> The content of my 'Channel' table is;
> 
> ++-+-+--+--+--+
> | chanid | channum | freqid  | sourceid | callsign |name 
> |
> 
> ++-+-+--+--+--+
> |   1001 | 1   | 551.250 |1 | 1001 |
> BBC1Scotland
> |
> |   1002 | 2   | 519.250 |1 | 1002 |
> BBC2Scotland
> |
> |   1004 | 4   | 471.250 |1 | 1004 | Channel4
> |
> |   1005 | 5   | 687.250 |1 | 1005 |Five
> |
> |   1003 | 3   | 495.250 |1 | 1003 | ITV1
> Scottish |
> 
> ++-+-+--+--+--+
> 
> 
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[mythtv-users] remove remote windows logo?

[travis]

I have a silver remote that came with my Hauppauge 150. It has the
big, green windows logo. Anyone have a remote like this and had any
luck getting the logo out of there? I can't see that it comes apart
easily. Any suggestions? Would be cool to replace it with something
more appropriate.
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Re: [mythtv-users] HELP: No TV after hw install of HD3000 (w/ PVR250 and FC4)

[Brad Fuller]

R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote:

  On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:00:16 -0800, Brad Fuller wrote:
  
  
I now have no livetv. I checked recent recordings and there are no files 
of recent recordings. So, I assume that the tuner is not being 
recognized because of the HD3000 just placed in the pc.

I checked modprobe.conf and cx88-blackbird was installed above the ivtv 
driver automatically after the first reboot. So, I ran the "extras" from 
pcHDTV site which installed: cx88-atsc, cx88-dvb and cx88-risc in 
modprobe.conf. 

  
  
I remember reading, and my setup, has the ivtv driver first (video0 and
video1), followed by whatever cx88* drivers.

If you use cx88_dvb + blackbird, the card should show up at
/dev/dvb/adapter0
If you use cx8800 the card would be (was for me, when I tried it) at
/dev/video2  (NTSC...) I haven't tried the cx88-atsc but I presume that it
could easily show up at /dev/video32..

Geoff
R. Geoffrey Newbury  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 
Mississauga,Ontario, Canada  Facsimile:   905-271-1638
  

The other issue I have after I switch the PVR-250 to video1 is my
remote doesn't work in mythtv. It works fine with "irw".
I suspect it has something to do with this switch from Video0 to Video1
for PVR-250.




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Re: [mythtv-users] HELP: No TV after hw install of HD3000 (w/ PVR250 and FC4)

[Brad Fuller]

R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote:

  On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:00:16 -0800, Brad Fuller wrote:
  
  
I now have no livetv. I checked recent recordings and there are no files 
of recent recordings. So, I assume that the tuner is not being 
recognized because of the HD3000 just placed in the pc.

I checked modprobe.conf and cx88-blackbird was installed above the ivtv 
driver automatically after the first reboot. So, I ran the "extras" from 
pcHDTV site which installed: cx88-atsc, cx88-dvb and cx88-risc in 
modprobe.conf. 

  
  
I remember reading, and my setup, has the ivtv driver first (video0 and
video1), followed by whatever cx88* drivers.
  

thanks Geoff. I remember your msg and I tried that. That didn't seem to
change anything.
While I couldn't find anything that indicated what /dev the PVR-250 is,
I went ahead and changed the HD3000 to video0 and the PVR-250 to
video1. That worked. Now I have live TV.

I also changed the HD3000 to terrestrial input (physical RG6) and
commented all of the cx88's except the cx88-atsc. Fooling around, I
unplugged my antenna and plunged in the cable to the HD3000 (note, that
I'm not even looking at the HD3000). I commented out all of the cx88
entries except cx88-atsc. That resulted in  large blocks at the top of
the picture that flashed.

Fooling around some more, I uncommented all except cx88-dvb in
modprobe.conf and that seemed to get rid of the large B&W blocks.
Note again, that I'm only looking at the PVR-250 input.

There must be a connection between having cx88-atsc and ivtv. But, I
don't know why that would be.
With cx88-dvb and ivtv co-habitating, it doesn't seem to be the problem.

Now, I just need to know how I can get the HD3000 working. And, how I
can view LiveTV with HD3000 with the PVR-250 in -- I don't even know if
there is a way that you can pick which tuner to view live TV.

Also, I like to switch to terrestrial ATSC instead of cable at some
point. Don't know how to do that -- I certainly don't want the B&W
boxes back!

  
If you use cx88_dvb + blackbird, the card should show up at
/dev/dvb/adapter0
If you use cx8800 the card would be (was for me, when I tried it) at
/dev/video2  (NTSC...) I haven't tried the cx88-atsc but I presume that it
could easily show up at /dev/video32..
  

hmmm... I'll try that. 
Do you NEED to also load blackbird?
Where is cx8800 located?

Thatnks for the help!


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Re: [mythtv-users] Channel scan for DVB-S

[Peter Osterberg]

Thank you,

some digging did it for me and you pointed me to the right pile... =o)

Managed to find starting values for each satellite in 
/usr/shar/dvb/dvb-s/ on my gentoo system after merging linuxtv-dvb-apps


Jakob Fix wrote:

Hi,

for Astra 19 I am using the frequency for ZDF or ARD (German telly). 
Do a search for "astra channels.conf" to get some recent frequencies. 
For example, you may be using 11837000 (ARD) and 2750 in the scan

dialog.

HTH

On 25/11/05, Peter Osterberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  

Hi,

just got a new NOVA-CI-S card today and have succesfully installed it in
my MythTV server.

I managed to get as far as to channel scanning and got stuck there.

I found out in some earlier thread that I need to have starting values
for frequency and symbolrate to be able to start the scan.
Before I knew that I just got errors. I picked up two values used for
Astra 28 and found out that it actually initiated the scan and got
readings for SNR etc. Fine!
But it didn't do the trick all the way. So I guess that I'll need
specific starting values for the satellites that I'm trying to scan..

I want to scan Sirius 1W, Thor 5E, Hotbird 13E and Astra 19E.

Could someone help me with starting values for those satellites or help
me with a URL to look them up myself?

Thank you!



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Re: [mythtv-users] HELP: No TV after hw install of HD3000 (w/ PVR250 and FC4)

[R. Geoffrey Newbury]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:00:16 -0800, Brad Fuller wrote:
>I now have no livetv. I checked recent recordings and there are no files 
>of recent recordings. So, I assume that the tuner is not being 
>recognized because of the HD3000 just placed in the pc.
>
>I checked modprobe.conf and cx88-blackbird was installed above the ivtv 
>driver automatically after the first reboot. So, I ran the "extras" from 
>pcHDTV site which installed: cx88-atsc, cx88-dvb and cx88-risc in 
>modprobe.conf. 

I remember reading, and my setup, has the ivtv driver first (video0 and
video1), followed by whatever cx88* drivers.

If you use cx88_dvb + blackbird, the card should show up at
/dev/dvb/adapter0
If you use cx8800 the card would be (was for me, when I tried it) at
/dev/video2  (NTSC...) I haven't tried the cx88-atsc but I presume that it
could easily show up at /dev/video32..

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

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

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[mythtv-users] Where's the ESC button on the ATI Remote Wonder?

[Jakob Fix]

Well, title says it all.  I've been pretty amazed that this remote (I
think it's the first generation) worked "out of the box" with Mythtv,
but there are some functionalities which I haven't discovered yet. 
Maybe someone has a list of these buttons / functions mappings?

- switch between the different audio tracks for live tv (+ on the keyboard)
- display the menu (m on the keyboard)
- pause (p on the keyboard)
etc.

thanks in advance.

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

[Jakob Fix]

Julian,

On 25/11/05, Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greg Estabrooks wrote:
> >> have you tried Everaldo's crystal icons (done for KDE)?
> >> http://everaldo.com/
> >
> >  Thanks, they have some good looking stuff that I will definately
> > check out in more detail.
> >
> >  Keep them coming people, if anyone knows of any good "free"
> > icon sets out there I'd love to take a look at them.
>
> I had a look at the website. There is some very pretty stuff but, and
> this could be me being stupid, I couldn't see any kind of license or
> distribution permissions or anything like that. There is a generic
> copyright notice on the whole website which is totally restrictive.
> You'd probably want to drop an email to the author to clear that up...

No need.

He links to http://www.yellowicon.com/ (Stock Icons heading) Free
Icons section, search for Crystal.

> Jules


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[mythtv-users] Converting shows to PDA suitable format

[ffrr]

I am fairly new to converting video, so I have been trying to discover 
the best way to convert my recordings (PAL mpeg-TS from a DVB-T card) to 
a small format suitable for my Palm Tx PDA.


Firstly, I have read that divx is a popular format and the TCPMP player 
on the palm will play it.  Is xvid the same thing? What's the 
difference?  Any other suggestions for a target format?


OK, so I have experimented with nuvexport.  Unfortunately, under 
Knoppmyth R5A22, nuvexport with ffmpeg seems to be broken, so I tried it 
with --transcode and chose xvid format and a screen width of 240 (a 
suggestion as a reasonable compromise in quality and size).   The show I 
am converting was 3.9GB in size.  The problem is, on my mythbox, which 
is only a 800MHz celeron, it has been over 12 hours, the target file is 
200MB and it's still not finished !


I tried running transcode manually from the command line on a faster 
(non-myth) machine I have.  It's a 2.2GHz sempron.  I used this command line


transcode -i in.mpg -V -x mplayer -y xvid4,xvid4 -Z 240x160 -E 16000 -b 
48,1,7,1 -w 150 -f 24,2 -o out.avi


but it still is going slow (<20 fps)



So, I guess I am hoping for some suggestions on better ways to do this?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Running Mythtv-setup without X

[Johnathon Meichtry]

You don't need to have X installed on your backend.  I don't on mine.  What 
you need is an X server on your PC such as Xmanager from NetSarang 
(www.xmanager.com for 30 day free trial) and combine is with SSH with X 
forwarding.


When you configure xstart to connect to the MBE choose ssh and an execution 
command of "/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -ls -display $DISPLAY".  You will then get 
a little xterm terminal window and in that you can run mythtv-setup.  It 
takes a while to load over wifi network but it works fine.


Johnathon

- Original Message - 
From: "Ben Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "Discussion about mythtv" 
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 7:55 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Running Mythtv-setup without X


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

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?


It wouldn't be fun, and I haven't tried it, but you ought to be able
to edit the database directly and enter the correct values in
~/.mythtv/mysql.txt

- Ben


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

[Jules Bean]

Greg Estabrooks wrote:

have you tried Everaldo's crystal icons (done for KDE)?
http://everaldo.com/


 Thanks, they have some good looking stuff that I will definately
check out in more detail.

 Keep them coming people, if anyone knows of any good "free"
icon sets out there I'd love to take a look at them.


I had a look at the website. There is some very pretty stuff but, and 
this could be me being stupid, I couldn't see any kind of license or 
distribution permissions or anything like that. There is a generic 
copyright notice on the whole website which is totally restrictive. 
You'd probably want to drop an email to the author to clear that up...


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[mythtv-users] pundit r350 and network boot?

[Jakob Fix]

Hi,

I just received the pundit r350 I ordered as a frontend for the living
room.  Besides the considerable noise made by the processor fan (which
possibly may be remedied by a bios update), there seems to be no way
to actually boot over the network!  There's no onboard network, but
they put a PCI network adapter in (so that's one of two PCI slots
taken ...).

I was hoping (and am still) that I can make this a diskless box (see
the http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-24.html#ss24.4).  Does anyone
else have experience and advice with this box?  Have a reference for a
PXE boot capable network adapter?

thanks.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Channel scan for DVB-S

[Jakob Fix]

Hi,

for Astra 19 I am using the frequency for ZDF or ARD (German telly). 
Do a search for "astra channels.conf" to get some recent frequencies. 
For example, you may be using 11837000 (ARD) and 2750 in the scan
dialog.

HTH

On 25/11/05, Peter Osterberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just got a new NOVA-CI-S card today and have succesfully installed it in
> my MythTV server.
>
> I managed to get as far as to channel scanning and got stuck there.
>
> I found out in some earlier thread that I need to have starting values
> for frequency and symbolrate to be able to start the scan.
> Before I knew that I just got errors. I picked up two values used for
> Astra 28 and found out that it actually initiated the scan and got
> readings for SNR etc. Fine!
> But it didn't do the trick all the way. So I guess that I'll need
> specific starting values for the satellites that I'm trying to scan..
>
> I want to scan Sirius 1W, Thor 5E, Hotbird 13E and Astra 19E.
>
> Could someone help me with starting values for those satellites or help
> me with a URL to look them up myself?
>
> Thank you!

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Re: [mythtv-users] run transcode on selected programs schedules

[Larry K]

Since I'm running myth from ATrpms, I guess I'll have to wait until
this feature gets compiled into that distribution.  Sounds like
this new transcoder addresses my issue, tho...
On 11/21/05, Tom Lichti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Larry K wrote:...snip...> I wonder, though...is transcoding the only way to remove commercials> per the cut list?  I mean, I'm not transcoding to reduce the size of> the files, or to change the format of the recorded files, which I
> assume is the primary purpose of transcoding.  Is there another> (easier) way to whack the commercials besides transcoding?The latest SVN has a new mythtranscode that supports cutting only, inthat it does no transcoding, it only cuts based on cutlist. On my 600MB
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[mythtv-users] HELP: No TV after hw install of HD3000 (w/ PVR250 and FC4)

[Brad Fuller]

I've been running FC4 (2.6.13-1) with PVR250 with no problems.

I just installed the HD3000 card (becaue I installed a Zalman fan -- 
really cuts down on noise!) and rebooted.
I now have no livetv. I checked recent recordings and there are no files 
of recent recordings. So, I assume that the tuner is not being 
recognized because of the HD3000 just placed in the pc.


You think that might be it?

I checked mythtv-setup and I didn't see anything that changed or corrupted.

I checked modprobe.conf and cx88-blackbird was installed above the ivtv 
driver automatically after the first reboot. So, I ran the "extras" from 
pcHDTV site which installed: cx88-atsc, cx88-dvb and cx88-risc in 
modprobe.conf. 


IVTV looks ok, but I don't know if the /dev/video0 is assigned here:

ivtv:   START INIT IVTV 
ivtv:  version 0.4.0 (tagged release) loading
ivtv:  Linux version: 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.0
ivtv:  In case of problems please include the debug info
ivtv:  between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when
ivtv:  mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist.
ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 250 card (iTVC16 based)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:0a.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, 
low) -> IRQ 11

ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50]
: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61]
tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 32062, rev = B185, serial# = 7366797
tveeprom: tuner = TCL 2002N 6A (idx = 85, type = 50)
tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x1000)
tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3445 (type = 12)
saa7115 2-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=saa7115, addr=21]
msp34xx: ivtv version
msp34xx: init: chip=MSP3445G-B8, has NICAM support, simple (D) mode, 
simpler (G) no-thread mode

msp34xx: $Id$ compiled on: Oct 21 2005 02:12:13
ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=MSP3445G-B8, addr=40]
tda9885/6/7: chip found @ 0x86
ivtv0: loading /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin
ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02040024
ivtv0 warning: Encoder Firmware can be buggy, use version 0x02040011 or 
0x02050032.

ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total)
ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB total)
ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB total)
ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB 
total)

ivtv0: Create encoder radio stream
tuner 2-0061: type set to 50 (TCL 2002N)
ivtv0: Initialized WinTV PVR 250, card #0
ivtv:    END INIT IVTV  

There is an entry in dmesg of note. It shows the HD3000 at video0. Why 
would this be?:


=
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
cx2388x blackbird driver version 0.0.5 loaded
cx88[0]: subsystem: 7063:3000, board: pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV 
[card=22,autodetected]

TV tuner 52 at 0x1fe, Radio tuner -1 at 0x1fe
cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.5 loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:0b.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, 
low) -> IRQ 11
cx88[0]: subsystem: 7063:3000, board: pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV 
[card=22,autodetected]

TV tuner 52 at 0x1fe, Radio tuner -1 at 0x1fe
cx88[0]/0: found at :00:0b.0, rev: 5, irq: 11, latency: 32, mmio: 
0xea00

: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx88[0])
tuner 1-0061: type set to 52 (Thomson DDT 7610 (ATSC/NTSC))
cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]
cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0
cx88[0]/0: registered device radio0
=

Here's relevant info from lsmod:


msp340025392  0
saa711512816  0
ivtv  227348  0
tuner  37237  0
cx8800 37069  0
v4l1_compat13637  1 cx8800
v4l2_common 5953  1 cx8800
cx88_blackbird 15045  0
cx8802 15429  1 cx88_blackbird
cx88xx 58209  3 cx8800,cx88_blackbird,cx8802
i2c_algo_bit9417  2 ivtv,cx88xx
video_buf  26565  4 cx8800,cx88_blackbird,cx8802,cx88xx
ir_common   8389  1 cx88xx
btcx_risc   5065  3 cx8800,cx8802,cx88xx
tveeprom   11985  1 cx88xx
videodev9921  4 ivtv,cx8800,cx88_blackbird,cx88xx
shpchp 95429  0
i2c_viapro  8529  0
i2c_core   21697  13 
it87,eeprom,lm90,i2c_sensor,i2c_isa,tda9887,msp3400,saa7115,tuner,cx88xx,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom,i2c_viapro



And my modprobe.conf I commented out the cx88 items, but they still 
loaded after reboot:


=
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
alias eth0 via-rhine
alias scsi_hostadapter sata_via
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-via82xx index=0
remove snd-via82xx { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/n

Re: [mythtv-users] Digital Audio with myth

[Phill Edwards]

> Are there any gotchas that I need to be aware of
> when I try to put together a frontend to employ
> digital audio (5.1, 7.1).  I know most tv content is
> only 5.1, but having never tried to use anything more
> than stereo from a computer I'm not sure what I don't
> know.
>
> My receiver has coax and optical inputs.  I'm looking at
> a new Asus MB and most contain Realtek ALC850 8 channel
> audio systems.  If needed, I could also consider a
> audio card that may have better driver support.  What
> cards/chips are other having good success with?
>
> Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

I installed a S/PDIF output onto my motherboard which works a treat.
The only catch was that I can't use the Myth volume controls now -
pressing vol +/- on the remote has no effect. I have to use the
receiver's remote to change volume now. But that's a very minor catch.

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

[Phill Edwards]

> > 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.

Either way will work. I just suspect that as there are a number of
different scripts and sources that people do it wit hcron & shell
scripts so they can switch from one to another if one breaks.

Regards,
Phill
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[mythtv-users] Channel scan for DVB-S

[Peter Osterberg]

Hi,

just got a new NOVA-CI-S card today and have succesfully installed it in 
my MythTV server.


I managed to get as far as to channel scanning and got stuck there.

I found out in some earlier thread that I need to have starting values 
for frequency and symbolrate to be able to start the scan.
Before I knew that I just got errors. I picked up two values used for 
Astra 28 and found out that it actually initiated the scan and got 
readings for SNR etc. Fine!
But it didn't do the trick all the way. So I guess that I'll need 
specific starting values for the satellites that I'm trying to scan..


I want to scan Sirius 1W, Thor 5E, Hotbird 13E and Astra 19E.

Could someone help me with starting values for those satellites or help 
me with a URL to look them up myself?


Thank you!

Sincerely,
Peter Österberg
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Re: [mythtv-users] Yet Another New OSD: Gray-OSD

[Tom Lichti]

Greg Estabrooks wrote:

have you tried Everaldo's crystal icons (done for KDE)?
http://everaldo.com/



 Thanks, they have some good looking stuff that I will definately
check out in more detail.

 Keep them coming people, if anyone knows of any good "free"
icon sets out there I'd love to take a look at them.
  

http://www.pixelgirlpresents.com/icons.php?cat=pc

http://interfacelift.com/icons-win/

http://www.iconcool.com/xp-icons.htm

http://www.xp-icons.com/

http://www.wincustomize.com/Skins.aspx?LibID=2&u=0


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

[Greg Estabrooks]

> have you tried Everaldo's crystal icons (done for KDE)?
> http://everaldo.com/

 Thanks, they have some good looking stuff that I will definately
check out in more detail.

 Keep them coming people, if anyone knows of any good "free"
icon sets out there I'd love to take a look at them.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Running Mythtv-setup without X

[Ben Holt]

On 24/11/05, Jason McLeod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?

It wouldn't be fun, and I haven't tried it, but you ought to be able
to edit the database directly and enter the correct values in
~/.mythtv/mysql.txt

- Ben


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Re: [mythtv-users] Latest version of ivtv fails to change channel in MythTV

[Mark Knecht]

On 11/25/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
>Were there any restarts required? mythbackend or mysql?
>

Moving from /dev/v4l/video0 to /dev/video0 in mythtv-setup and then
restarting mythbackend seems to have done the trick. I'm testing now
but things seem to be working.

Cheers,
Mark
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Re: [mythtv-users] - Someone is using this mce remote?

[Cougar]

Have you tried to use this source fronm http://blatter.com/mceusb/ ? 
It worked for me quite well. 

-- 
Cougar

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, James Oltman wrote:

> I have something similar, but I haven't gotten LIRC to work with that USB IR
> receiver.
> 
> On 11/25/05, Cougar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > 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?
> >
> > Check http://blatter.com/mceusb/ . lircd.conf example are in tar archive.
> >
> > I have such lines for colored buttons:
> >
> > Blue 0x7ba1
> > Yellow   0x7ba2
> > Green0x7ba3
> > Red  0x7ba4
> >
> > ---
> > Cougar
> >
> >
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[mythtv-users] OT: DVI To Component Video Adapter for ATI Cards

[Henry Fleischmann]

Has anyone tried something like this with a Radeon 9100 adapter.
http://www.trianglecables.com/dvi-hdtv200.html
The website say it is only for 8500/9500/9600/9700/9800.

I'm currently stuck with composite out on my Pundit-r and even though I
am connecting to a tube TV, I would like to get something like the
quality I get from component out on my DVD player.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Latest version of ivtv fails to change channel in MythTV

[Mark Knecht]

On 11/19/05, Nick Rosier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/19/05, Isaac Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Saturday 19 November 2005 12:54 pm, Nick Rosier wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > MythTV (svn) in combination with ivtv  0.4.1 (svn 2997) fails to set
> > > channels for my PVR-150. The 350 works fine. Myth gives these errors:
> > >
> > > 2005-11-19 18:12:00.183 ChannelBase: Could not find input: Tuner 0 on
> > > card when setting channel 2
> >
> > Try to delete and resetup the card - I think the ivtv people may have 
> > renamed
> > the inputs on the 150/500.
>
> Thanks Isaac, that fixed the problem. The thought had crossed my mind
> but I had looked at the tables in mysql and didn't think it could be
> related. Seems the 250/350 and 150/500 have different naming-scheme's
> for the tuner.
>
> N.

Hi Nick,
   My Dad's machine is having a similar problem. I've tried deleting
the existing PVR-150 card in mythtv-setup and then creating a new
card. Same problem.

   I have tested the PVR-150 using ivtv-tune and cat
/dev/v4l/video0>test.mpg. I can tune to any channel, record it for
5-10 seconds and play it in mplayer. all looks good so this seems to
be a MythTV issue.

   Were there any restarts required? mythbackend or mysql?

   When I try to watch live TV it plays 1 second of video with audio,
then freezes for about 15 second. It then returns to a Myth screen
that says:

Error was encountered while displaying video.

The log file doesn't say much, unless it's the last line:

2005-11-25 10:52:38.111 adding: gandalf as a client (events: 0)
2005-11-25 10:52:38.155 adding: gandalf as a client (events: 1)
2005-11-25 10:52:38.163 adding: gandalf as a client (events: 0)
2005-11-25 10:52:38.195 adding: gandalf as a client (events: 0)
2005-11-25 10:52:38.211 adding: gandalf as a remote ringbuffer
2005-11-25 10:52:40.567 joined null string in WriteStringList

   I'd really like to solve this today as I got here yesterday and
leave early tomorrow morning.

Thanks,
Mark
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Re: [mythtv-users] need hardware advice

[travis]

Thanks for the response. I hope this thread isn't confusing, since
there is another with the exact same subject (posted right after mind,
weird).

Is this the motherboard?

http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=ASUS+A7N8X-E&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=N&tab=ff&oi=froogler

When you say everything i need, (this is probably a stupid question)
does that include a processor? Also, I'll have to get another video
card?

Also, how do a find a case that know that this will fit in it?

Thanks for the links, I'll keep my eye on them. A good website I found
for local deals is www.salescircular.com (fyi).

Thanks again!

Message: 8
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:04:58 + GMT
From: "David O" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] need hardware advice
To: "Myth-TV  (user)" 
Message-ID:
   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Content-Type: text/plain

I'm new to myth myself, and like you am getting all my hardware
togeather.  Your hardware list is'nt bad but here are a few
sugestions.
1. Get a motherboard and a seperate video card.
   I say this only because you'll be sharing your RAM with your
onboard video(9100 IGP) which will reduce your total RAM by anywhere
from 64-256MB depending on how much you allocate.

1.b. DONT USE ATI  I really liked ATI before my switch to linux
bit Nvidia just seems to have more support.  I have a 9800PRO and will
be swapping that for something Nvidia(probobly a 6600GT)
   I have an ASUS A7N8X-E that I will be using.  It comes with
everything you'll need and it's only about 55$.
2. Last but not least, more RAM and HD space.  For only about 30$ more
you can triple your HD space if you look for deals.  Check out:
www.techbargains.com.
Or
www.dealnews.com
for all the good daily deals.
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Re: [mythtv-users] question about Shuttle and SiS video

[evan]

  Just wanted to ask this question again.  I'm using a Shuttle  computer with SiS video, Fedora 4, and a Hauppauge PVR350 card.   After installing the IVTV firmware driver in step #10 of the Wilsonnet  setup guide, I get a problem upon reboot.  As Linux is loading  modules and drivers...the screen goes black with a few random blocks  here and there.I'm pretty much stuck there.  Anyone else have a similar issue and  a solution to it?  Or is there a way to prevent it from loading  drivers or modules?If I let Linux boot until I don't see hard-drive activity...I can't get to a console.Thanks,  evanevan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Well, being such a lengthy setup to that point, I'd prefer not to have to trashit and start again.  Is there
 a way to disable, or pick and choose what modulesget loaded on startup, before they actually load (and disable my video output)?Thanks,evan--- Steven Sartorius  wrote:> FWIW, I am successfully running mythtv on a Shuttle SS51G with an  > AverMedia M179 and a Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440.  Don't use the SIS  > graphics though...> > > Steve> > On Oct 29, 2005, at 13:21, echo wrote:> > > I'm having a little issue with my installation of MythTV.  I'm  > > following this> > guide and am up to step #10.> >> > http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php#capture> >> > My hardware:> > * Shuttle XPC SS51G, w/optional DVI, s-vid, RCA out> > * Pentium 4> > * 256 MB RAM> > * Hauppauge PVR350> >> > And as per the Wilsonet setup, I'm using Fedora Core
 4.> >> > OK...on step #10 of the setup you install the IVTV firmware, etc.   > > This is> > where things have gone awry.> >> > Upon reboot of the machine, I'm guess where it load the ivtv  > > module...the text> > on the screen goes wonky...then nothing.  Black screen...and if I  > > hit random> > keys on the keyboard...I get a few green "U"s on the screen.> >> > So...anyone else had that issue?  What did you do to overcome it?> >> > Thanks,> > evan> >> >> >> >> > __> > Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click.> > http://farechase.yahoo.com> > ___> > mythtv-users mailing list> > mythtv-users@mythtv.org> >
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Re: [mythtv-users] CLI for mythvideo db update?

[Steven]

Michael T. Dean schreef:


Travis Osterman wrote:

I know I can manually update my video database throught the myth gui, 
but is there a command line call that will do the same?  I'd like to 
make a cron job take care of making sure that things are current.  
Thanks for the input.



http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/134203#134203
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/104294#104294
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/645

Mike
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Sorry for the double post. There is a 10 min delay on my mail.
While looking at this again. How hard would it be to add an option to 
call "/usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts/imdb.pl -M filename" and add 
that data to the database if only one result is returned?


Steven
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Re: [mythtv-users] Buffer underrun/audio stuttering

[Michael Sciscenti]

Those are good numbers. I'm running at 1920x1080p so perhaps the
scaling is hurting my performance, anything without xvmc is
unacceptable performance wise.

I tried re-compiling the svn version without opengl but no luck, still
getting buffer underruns. Anyone else have any suggestions?On 11/25/05, Curtis Stanford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:Just Standard decoding and Bob de-interlacing, extra audio buffering
with ALSA:default. Not using OpenGL sync. Only uses 40-50% CPUplaying 1080i or 720p. I'm outputting to the DVI port to a native720p HD set.On Nov 25, 2005, at 9:18 AM, Michael Sciscenti wrote:> Thanks, but I have it even with XVMC off (plus HD video is doesnt
> play smoothly at all without xvmc for me). What settings are you> using with XVMC off that youre able to watch HD content?>> On 11/25/05, Curtis Stanford <
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:> On Nov 25, 2005, at 12:02 AM, Michael Sciscenti wrote:>> > 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 4096> >> > or> >> > 2005-11-24 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.>> I had the same problem with XvMC on. Works fine with it off, however.> I'm using FX5200 and P4 
2.4GHz and firewire on DCT-6200.> By the way I also have a cheap $20 PCI firewire card with the VIA> chipset and it works fine. Sometimes, my node switches on me (0 to 1> or 1 to 0) for no apparent reason, but otherwise it works well.
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Re: [mythtv-users] - Someone is using this mce remote?

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I have something similar, but I haven't gotten LIRC to work with that USB IR receiver.On 11/25/05, Cougar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [mythtv-users] CLI for mythvideo db update?

[Steven]

Travis Osterman schreef:

I know I can manually update my video database throught the myth gui, 
but is there a command line call that will do the same?  I'd like to 
make a cron job take care of making sure that things are current.  
Thanks for the input.


-- Travis Osterman



A script was posted recently that does that automaticly using the 
kernels notifications events

http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/645

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Re: [mythtv-users] Running Mythtv-setup without X

[Carl Fongheiser]

On 11/25/05, Chris Ribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
While that certainly is your intention, it isn't necesary.  A
captureless master backend could be used strictly for scheduling and
waking up slave backends.
In theory, sure, but mythtv requires that the master backend has at
least 1 capture card.  Other backends don't necessarily need to
have capture cards.

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Re: [mythtv-users] CLI for mythvideo db update?

[Michael T. Dean]

Travis Osterman wrote:

I know I can manually update my video database throught the myth gui, 
but is there a command line call that will do the same?  I'd like to 
make a cron job take care of making sure that things are current.  
Thanks for the input.


http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/134203#134203
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/104294#104294
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/645

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[mythtv-users] Digital Audio with myth

[Brian Foddy]

Are there any gotchas that I need to be aware of 
when I try to put together a frontend to employ
digital audio (5.1, 7.1).  I know most tv content is
only 5.1, but having never tried to use anything more
than stereo from a computer I'm not sure what I don't
know.

My receiver has coax and optical inputs.  I'm looking at
a new Asus MB and most contain Realtek ALC850 8 channel
audio systems.  If needed, I could also consider a 
audio card that may have better driver support.  What
cards/chips are other having good success with?

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
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Re: [mythtv-users] Running Mythtv-setup without X

[Chris Ribe]

While that certainly is your intention, it isn't necesary.  A
captureless master backend could be used strictly for scheduling and
waking up slave backends.On 11/25/05, Isaac Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Friday 25 November 2005 11:33 am, Andrew Wilson wrote:> . Unless your master backend is a capture-less low power always-on> system running on embedded hardware with only 32MB Ram and no possible> VGA/TV display.  I've not even started looking at this, but it should
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[mythtv-users] CLI for mythvideo db update?

[Travis Osterman]

I know I can manually update my video database throught the myth gui,
but is there a command line call that will do the same?  I'd like
to make a cron job take care of making sure that things are
current.  Thanks for the input.

-- Travis Osterman
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Re: [mythtv-users] Running Mythtv-setup without X

[Andrew Wilson]

So... Is it possible to have network design with a boss machine which is
- low power, embedded (eg, NSLU, MSS)
- always on
- runs the database
- runs a webserver
- runs a central fileserver for recordings etc.
- wakes up capture-capable boxes when there is recording to do
- has no frontend
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Re: [mythtv-users] Running Mythtv-setup without X

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 25 November 2005 11:33 am, Andrew Wilson wrote:
> . Unless your master backend is a capture-less low power always-on
> system running on embedded hardware with only 32MB Ram and no possible
> VGA/TV display.  I've not even started looking at this, but it should
> certainly be possible.

Being a 'backend' means having capture cards.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Buffer underrun/audio stuttering

[Curtis Stanford]

Just Standard decoding and Bob de-interlacing, extra audio buffering  
with ALSA:default. Not using OpenGL sync. Only uses 40-50% CPU  
playing 1080i or 720p. I'm outputting to the DVI port to a native  
720p HD set.


On Nov 25, 2005, at 9:18 AM, Michael Sciscenti wrote:

Thanks, but I have it even with XVMC off (plus HD video is doesnt  
play smoothly at all without xvmc for me). What settings are you  
using with XVMC off that youre able to watch HD content?


On 11/25/05, Curtis Stanford <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
On Nov 25, 2005, at 12:02 AM, Michael Sciscenti wrote:

> 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 4096
>
> or
>
> 2005-11-24 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.

I had the same problem with XvMC on. Works fine with it off, however.
I'm using FX5200 and P4 2.4GHz and firewire on DCT-6200.
By the way I also have a cheap $20 PCI firewire card with the VIA
chipset and it works fine. Sometimes, my node switches on me (0 to 1
or 1 to 0) for no apparent reason, but otherwise it works well.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Running Mythtv-setup without X

[Andrew Wilson]

. Unless your master backend is a capture-less low power always-on
system running on embedded hardware with only 32MB Ram and no possible
VGA/TV display.  I've not even started looking at this, but it should
certainly be possible.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Running Mythtv-setup without X

[Michael T. Dean]

Carl Fongheiser wrote:

On 11/24/05, *Jason McLeod* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 
wrote:


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?


Yes.  If you built mythtv with DirectFB support, you can just run the 
setup program.  Otherwise, the easiest way is probably to ssh in from 
another X display, making sure to enable X11 forwarding.  Otherwise, 
you can install a VNC server, connect with a VNC client, and run the 
setup program that way.


Both of which require having X (the X client libraries at minimum) 
installed on the backend...  Think of it this way, though:  X is just a 
"few" megabytes extra software on a system that routinely 
creates/processes multi-gigabyte files, so it shouldn't be that big a deal.


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Re: [mythtv-users] Buffer underrun/audio stuttering

[Michael Sciscenti]

Thanks, but I have it even with XVMC off (plus HD video is doesnt play
smoothly at all without xvmc for me). What settings are you using with
XVMC off that youre able to watch HD content?On 11/25/05, Curtis Stanford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:On Nov 25, 2005, at 12:02 AM, Michael Sciscenti wrote:> 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 4096>> or>> 2005-11-24 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.
I had the same problem with XvMC on. Works fine with it off, however.I'm using FX5200 and P4 2.4GHz and firewire on DCT-6200.By the way I also have a cheap $20 PCI firewire card with the VIAchipset and it works fine. Sometimes, my node switches on me (0 to 1
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Re: [mythtv-users] Buffer underrun/audio stuttering

[Curtis Stanford]

On Nov 25, 2005, at 12:02 AM, Michael Sciscenti wrote:

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 4096


or

2005-11-24 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.


I had the same problem with XvMC on. Works fine with it off, however.  
I'm using FX5200 and P4 2.4GHz and firewire on DCT-6200.
By the way I also have a cheap $20 PCI firewire card with the VIA  
chipset and it works fine. Sometimes, my node switches on me (0 to 1  
or 1 to 0) for no apparent reason, but otherwise it works well.


Curtis

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

[Michael T. Dean]

Johnathon Meichtry wrote:

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.


Licensed with the DVD FLLC (DVD Format/Logo Licensing Corporation - 
http://www.dvdfllc.co.jp and 
http://www.dvdfllc.co.jp/nolise/dvdlogo2.htm ) but not with the DVD CCA 
(DVD Copy Control Association - http://www.dvdcca.org/ and 
http://www.dvdcca.org/css/ ).  The DVD CCA license is the one required 
to play back CSS-encrypted material.   (Considering how many licenses a 
DVD player requires, it's amazing they're affordable at all.  Especially 
when you consider some of those licenses mean nothing.  The DVD FLLC is 
licensing the use of the DVD Format/Logo for material that complies with 
the DVD format established by the DVD Forum.  But, the DVD Forum is a 
/self-appointed/ administrator of the DVD format.  Wouldn't it be nice 
to vote yourself in charge of something and start charging license fees 
for the use of that something.)


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


And the use of deCSS is only illegal (in the US--and unlicensed in other 
countries (which may mean illegal in those countries, too)) because 
deCSS is not a DVD CCA-licensed software product.


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.


Ethically, yes.  Legally (in the US), it's still a federal felony 
offense because you are circumventing technological measures designed to 
protect copyrighted material--a direct violation of the DMCA.  Too bad 
ethics have little to do with legality.


  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.


Good advice, but it doesn't change the legality of the act...  ;)  Of 
course, I've never played a DVD on my Myth box because doing so would be 
illegal, but if I had, I would agree with you that it makes watching DVD 
movies a better experience because my Myth box gives me full control 
over playback (including timestretch, post-processing quality, picture 
correction, etc.) and the picture I get on my 67" 1080p TV is^H^Hwould 
be much better than that I get from any other DVD player I've ever seen.


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.


Here!  Here!



Johnathon


- Original Message - From: "Steve Adeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 12:27 AM
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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] MythDVD offline Archive or Catalog?

[Garth Benedict]

This thread has recently got a little spotlight here
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/161889  I
played around with the scripts and think I have something to add. 
I think these scripts are must haves for anyone not ripping their
DVDs.  Excellent scripts.

Changes:

prompt_for_media:
    Automatically removed '_'s, which I have in my filenames.  
    Added -xrm "xterm*allowSendEvents: true" to the xterm command so it can support mouse events.
    Changed font/geometry to better fit my hi-def
screen.  (If anyone has success getting an even bigger font
displayed, please write)

prompt:
    Eject the DVD tray
    Added some spaces to pretty up the display

mousemove:
   No change, just attaching for convenience

xine:
   Simple scipt to call mousemove after calling xine

myth-load.sh:
   Force irxevent to start up before mythfrontend (amongst a couple of other things too)

All but the last script I put in /use/local/bin/.  I updated the
DVD Play command to force /use/local/bin/xine (make sure all the
scripts chmod a+x).  To get the remote keypress to work, I needed
to switch as many lirc events to use irxevent as possible.  


# Escape/Exit/Back
begin
    prog = irxevent
    button = BACK/EXIT
    config = Key Escape CurrentWindow
    repeat = 3
end

begin
    prog = irxevent
    button = CH+
    config = Key Up CurrentWindow
    repeat = 3
end

begin
    prog = irxevent
    button = CH-
    config = Key Down CurrentWindow
    repeat = 3
end

begin
    prog = irxevent
    button = VOL+
    config = Key Right CurrentWindow
    repeat = 5
end

begin
    prog = irxevent
    button = VOL-
    config = Key Left CurrentWindow
    repeat = 3
end

begin
    prog = irxevent
    button = UP
    config = Key Up CurrentWindow
    repeat = 3
end

begin
    prog = irxevent
    button = DOWN
    config = Key Down CurrentWindow
    repeat = 3
end

begin
    prog = irxevent
    button = RIGHT
    config = Key Right CurrentWindow
    repeat = 5
end

begin
    prog = irxevent
    button = LEFT
    config = Key Left CurrentWindow
    repeat = 3
end

begin
    prog = irxevent
    button = OK
    config = Key Return CurrentWindow
    repeat = 3
end


begin

    prog = irxevent

    button = 0

    config = Key 0 CurrentWindow

    repeat = 3

end



begin

    prog = irxevent

    button = 1

    config = Key 1 CurrentWindow

    repeat = 3

end


begin

    prog = irxevent

    button = 2

    config = Key 2 CurrentWindow

    repeat = 3

end



begin

    prog = irxevent

    button = 3

    config = Key 3 CurrentWindow

    repeat = 3

end


begin

    prog = irxevent

    button = 4

    config = Key 4 CurrentWindow

    repeat = 3

end



begin

    prog = irxevent

    button = 5

    config = Key 5 CurrentWindow

    repeat = 3

end


begin

    prog = irxevent

    button = 6

    config = Key 6 CurrentWindow

    repeat = 3

end



begin

    prog = irxevent

    button = 7

    config = Key 7 CurrentWindow

    repeat = 3

end


begin

    prog = irxevent

    button = 8

    config = Key 8 CurrentWindow

    repeat = 3

end



begin

    prog = irxevent

    button = 9

    config = Key 9 CurrentWindow

    repeat = 3

end


I was getting double events for some of the buttons so I commented out
my original mythtv/xine/mplayer configs for the above buttons.  

I would love to see this functionality included in core myth. 
Maybe a DVD RIP option to 'Symlink Only', and have a special directory
for 'DVD Library' to put it.
On 9/24/05, Craig Tinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Michael T. Dean wrote:> Michael T. Dean wrote:>>> Roman Romaniuk wrote:> I have a fairly large DVD collection, but nowhere near sufficient>>> disk space to be able to host all of it on my backend server. Is
>>> there any way to maintain the DVD listing within mythdvd, but have a>>> note pop up requesting that the user insert the appropriate DVD (and>>> possibly noting the DVD's location)  into the drive when it is
>>> selected for play?>> As of now, there's nothing within Myth to handle it.  However, it's>> not too difficult to "fake it"...>>> Forgot--some people use spaces in their filenames.  Updated
> prompt_for_media properly parses DVD name even when it includes> spaces.  I guess that just means you shouldn't write code--even what> seems like simple code--at 3:00 in the morning...>> Mike
>>>>#!/bin/bash>>MEDIA_TYPE=$1>FILE_NAME=$2>># Find the name of the disc>case "${MEDIA_TYPE}" in
>  DVD)>DISC_NAME=`basename "$FILE_NAME" .dvd`>;;>  CD)>DISC_NAME=`basename "$FILE_NAME" .cd`>;;>  VCD)>DISC_NAME=`basename "$FILE_NAME" .vcd`
>;;>esac>># Prompt the user to insert the disc>xterm -bg NavyBlue -fg White +sb -fs 18 -geometry 40x6 \>  -e prompt "Please insert ${MEDIA_TYPE}:" "${DISC_NAME}"
>># Play the disc>case "${MEDIA_TYPE}" in>  DVD)>xine --no-splash --auto-play=fhq --auto-scan dvd>;;>  CD)>xine --no-splash --auto-play

RE: [mythtv-users] Re: Hauppauge PVR-250 and PCHDTV-3000 with2.6.14.2 kernel

[R. Geoffrey Newbury]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:21:16 -0700, James C. Dastrup wrote:

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

I am working on getting my HDTV3000 working on cable. Not quite there yet
but I know of at least one other person who has this working. My problems
relate to the mysql setup as information has to be poked into the tables.

My PVR500 works fine, *using the kernel version tveeprom*. My HDTV3000
receives using azap and plays back (with sound) using mplayer. Just
haven't got the mysql table entries correct for QAM256. (Not enough time
for playing around!)

The trick is that the ivtv code has been adjusted in the recent past to
work with the kernel (pcHDTZV) version of tveeprom.
So the recommended line of "alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv" seen in some
how-to's is now obsolete. That line forced the system  to use the ivtv
version which *was* necessary, but is no longer. 

There has probably been even further code integration in ivtv .5.

Use the cx88-dvb module. The card shows up at /dev/dvb/adapterx. The
PVR500 shows up at /dev/video1(2).

Geoff


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

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

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

[Jakob Fix]

Greg,

have you tried Everaldo's crystal icons (done for KDE)?
http://everaldo.com/

On 25/11/05, Greg Estabrooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've got the current one in, and I love it! I like the rounded edges
> > too, do it!!! :)
>
>  I've updated Gray-OSD for those who want to try it out.
>
>  http://www.phaze.org/mythtv/osd/Gray-OSD-20051125-01.tgz
>
>  And of course the obligatory new screenshot:
>
>  http://www.phaze.org/mythtv/osd/newgreyosd14.jpg
>
>  I've changed to use the DejaVu fonts, changed the various popup boxes
> to have rounded corners and various other tweaks.
>
>  I have yet to do up the edit mode stuff but it's coming.
>
>  Can anyone point me at a good site of nice clean looking icon packs?
> Preferrably some with a good license and that are not either 90's looking
> or tiny ? :)   I am looking for icons for various things including
> a phone related one and an alert type icon. Any pointers would be
> welcomed :)
>
>
>
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Re: [mythtv-users] need hardware advice

[David O]

I'm new to myth myself, and like you am getting all my hardware togeather.  
Your hardware list is'nt bad but here are a few sugestions.
1. Get a motherboard and a seperate video card.
I say this only because you'll be sharing your RAM with your onboard 
video(9100 IGP) which will reduce your total RAM by anywhere from 64-256MB 
depending on how much you allocate.

1.b. DONT USE ATI  I really liked ATI before my switch to linux bit Nvidia 
just seems to have more support.  I have a 9800PRO and will be swapping that 
for something Nvidia(probobly a 6600GT)
I have an ASUS A7N8X-E that I will be using.  It comes with everything 
you'll need and it's only about 55$.
2. Last but not least, more RAM and HD space.  For only about 30$ more you can 
triple your HD space if you look for deals.  Check out:
www.techbargains.com. 
Or
www.dealnews.com
for all the good daily deals.

--Original Message--
From: From: travis
To: To: Myth-TV  (user)
Subject: [mythtv-users] need hardware advice

  Ok, I've been lurking around for many many months and finally, for my
birthday, I got a Hauppauge card! I wasn't smart, I got the 150 MCE
version, not realising it didn't have tv-out.

I thought I could built up from this old machine I have. It's a
'monorail.' Since I am still really new to all this, here is the info
I see upon booting:

AMD-K6(tm)-2
CPU Clock: 350
HD: 495MB

base memory: 640k
extended memory: 97280k
cache memory: 1024

I thought I could at least put the card in and watch some live tv, but
then I see that the live tv  setting wants at least 3 gigs, so I guess
my half-gig hd just isn't going to cut it. I also need more ram, and I
guess a faster processor. So my question is should/can I build up this
machine, or would it be better to start over? This is what I was
looking at for the second option (to get me started):

  1  Kingston ValueRAM 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200)
Unbuffered System Memory Model KVR400/512R - Retail
Model #: KVR400/512R
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16820141436
$37.57
1   Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST380011A 80GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100
Hard Drive - OEM
Model #: ST380011A
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16822148015
$55.00
1   ASUS Pundit-R Intel Socket 478 Intel Pentium 4/Celeron ATi 9100IGP
(RS300) Barebone - Retail
Model #: PUNDIT-R SECURITYKEY
** This item is warranted through the product manufacturer only.
http://www.new
BB PIN: 400BC2BC
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[mythtv-users] need hardware advice

[travis]

Ok, I've been lurking around for many many months and finally, for my
birthday, I got a Hauppauge card! I wasn't smart, I got the 150 MCE
version, not realising it didn't have tv-out.

I thought I could built up from this old machine I have. It's a
'monorail.' Since I am still really new to all this, here is the info
I see upon booting:

AMD-K6(tm)-2
CPU Clock: 350
HD: 495MB

base memory: 640k
extended memory: 97280k
cache memory: 1024

I thought I could at least put the card in and watch some live tv, but
then I see that the live tv  setting wants at least 3 gigs, so I guess
my half-gig hd just isn't going to cut it. I also need more ram, and I
guess a faster processor. So my question is should/can I build up this
machine, or would it be better to start over? This is what I was
looking at for the second option (to get me started):

  1  Kingston ValueRAM 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200)
Unbuffered System Memory Model KVR400/512R - Retail
Model #: KVR400/512R
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16820141436
$37.57
1   Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST380011A 80GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100
Hard Drive - OEM
Model #: ST380011A
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16822148015
$55.00
1   ASUS Pundit-R Intel Socket 478 Intel Pentium 4/Celeron ATi 9100IGP
(RS300) Barebone - Retail
Model #: PUNDIT-R SECURITYKEY
** This item is warranted through the product manufacturer only.
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16856110024
$146.00
Subtotal:   $238.57

(There is a wish list here:
http://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/Wishlist/WishShareShow.asp?ID=1767213&WishListTitle=ANOTHER+MYTH)

Anything I am missing here?

Thanks for any advice, and sorry for the long post.

--
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
- Lewis Carroll.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Running Mythtv-setup without X

[Carl Fongheiser]

On 11/24/05, Jason McLeod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm sure this has been asked a million times, but I just can't findthe answer.Is there a way to setup a backend slave server without having Xinstalled?
Yes.  If you built mythtv with DirectFB support, you can just run
the setup program.  Otherwise, the easiest way is probably to ssh
in from another X display, making sure to enable X11 forwarding. 
Otherwise, you can install a VNC server, connect with a VNC client, and
run the setup program that way.

Carl Fongheiser

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

[Greg Estabrooks]

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

 I've updated Gray-OSD for those who want to try it out.

 http://www.phaze.org/mythtv/osd/Gray-OSD-20051125-01.tgz

 And of course the obligatory new screenshot:

 http://www.phaze.org/mythtv/osd/newgreyosd14.jpg

 I've changed to use the DejaVu fonts, changed the various popup boxes
to have rounded corners and various other tweaks.

 I have yet to do up the edit mode stuff but it's coming.

 Can anyone point me at a good site of nice clean looking icon packs?
Preferrably some with a good license and that are not either 90's looking
or tiny ? :)   I am looking for icons for various things including
a phone related one and an alert type icon. Any pointers would be
welcomed :)



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Re: [mythtv-users] Live TV won't change channel

[Patrick Beard]

Hopefully this will come through better! Sorry once again.


The content of my 'Channel' table is;
++-+-+--+--+--+
| chanid | channum | freqid  | sourceid | callsign |name
|
++-+-+--+--+--+
|   1001 | 1   | 551.250 |1 | 1001 | BBC1Scotland
|
|   1002 | 2   | 519.250 |1 | 1002 | BBC2Scotland
|
|   1004 | 4   | 471.250 |1 | 1004 | Channel4
|
|   1005 | 5   | 687.250 |1 | 1005 |Five
|
|   1003 | 3   | 495.250 |1 | 1003 | ITV1 Scottish |
++-+-+--+--+--+


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Re: [mythtv-users] Live TV won't change channel

[Patrick Beard]

Apologies to the group for the formatting of my previous post.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Live TV won't change channel

[Patrick Beard]

> Go into the channel editor and make sure you have valid UK channel
> numbers for the 5 channels you have defined (i.e. between 20-69). E6
> is I think a European channel number, which is why you are getting the
> error messages. I assume since you are getting some video, you
> currently have the Tuner0 configured against a video source (analog TV
> channels?)
> 
> If you make sure you have the correct XMLTVIDs for each channel, you
> should be able to get listings too.
> 
> Nick

Thanks for the reply Nick.

This is what I have in the 'channels' table in the database. I have put
the frequencies in place if the ID's (Thanks Ronald) but I still get the
same results. 



1001  


1


551.250  


1 


1001  


BBC1 Scotland



0



scotland.bbc1.bbc.co.uk  


0  


32768


32768


32768


32768  


Default 


0 


1



0


NULL


NULL


NULL


1002


2


519.250


1


1002


BBC2 Scotland



0



scotland.bbc2.bbc.co.uk


0


32768


32768


32768


32768


Default


0


1



0


NULL


NULL


NULL


1004


4


471.250


1


1004


Channel 4



0



channel4.com


0


32768


32768


32768


32768


Default


0


1



0


NULL


NULL


NULL


1005


5


687.250


1


1005


Five



0



channel5.co.uk


0


32768


32768


32768


32768


Default


0


1



0


NULL


NULL


NULL


1003


3


495.250


1


1003


ITV1 Border Scottish



0



scottish.border-tv.com


0


32768


32768


32768


32768


Default


0


1



0


NULL


NULL


NULL


I was expecting to see some strange entries, but it all looks ok to me
(but I know zilch about this stuff)
One of the things I don't understand is - when I try to change channel
and get the 'Please verify channel' error. It mentions a lot of
channels. The list in my first posts was just a snippit.

Using ivtv-tune to find my channels I used the following;

ivtv-tune -teurope-west -c31 -d/dev/video0  This gave me 551.250Mhz and
the channel was BBC1

ivtv-tune -teurope-west -c27 -d/dev/video0  This gave me 519.250Mhz and
the channel was BBC2

ivtv-tune -teurope-west -c24 -d/dev/video0  This gave me 495.250Mhz and
the channel was ITV

ivtv-tune -teurope-west -c21 -d/dev/video0  This gave me 471.250Mhz and
the channel was Ch4

ivtv-tune -teurope-west -c48 -d/dev/video0  This gave me 687.250Mhz and
the channel was Five

Does the content of my 'channel' table look ok?

Any more suggestions would be most welcome - as I'm at a loss to know
what to try next.

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[mythtv-users] backend thinks encoder is in use

[Todd Houle]

  I was looking at my backend status and it says I have 1 card in  
use when I really have none in use.  It says 'encoder 3 is watching  
Live tv' but I know that is not true.  Perhaps a frontend  
crashed...?   How can I turn off that encoder without rebooting the  
whole box?  do I need to kill the backend and restart it?

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

[Ronald Wielink]

Claus, thanks for your help.
I fixed it by entering the frequencies (in KHz!) directly rather than the channel numbers. 
Regards, Ronald. 
On 11/24/05, Claus Bjerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 tobe 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 (?) frequencyyou 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. UnfortunatelyI haven't tried to do that.Hope that might be usefull.~ClausOn 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

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

[Cougar]

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> 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?

Check http://blatter.com/mceusb/ . lircd.conf example are in tar archive.

I have such lines for colored buttons:

Blue 0x7ba1
Yellow   0x7ba2
Green0x7ba3
Red  0x7ba4

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Re: [mythtv-users] Live TV won't change channel

[Ronald Wielink]

Patrick,
I had a similar problem. In my case, entering the frequencies (in Khz!!!) rather than the channel numbers did the trick.
 
Good luck,
 
Ronald 
On 11/25/05, Patrick Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,I've just install MythTV on my Ubuntu 'Breezy' system. It is doingeverything 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 0.18.1-5lirc 0.7.2
IVTV 0.4.0xmltv 0.5.40-1mysql-server 4.0.24-10Kernel 2.6.12-10-k7Hauppauge 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 enteredinto Mythtv as I've not got round to getting a 'sender' for my STBdownstairs.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Live TV won't change channel

[Nick]

On 25/11/05, Patrick Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.

Go into the channel editor and make sure you have valid UK channel
numbers for the 5 channels you have defined (i.e. between 20-69). E6
is I think a European channel number, which is why you are getting the
error messages. I assume since you are getting some video, you
currently have the Tuner0 configured against a video source (analog TV
channels?)

If you make sure you have the correct XMLTVIDs for each channel, you
should be able to get listings too.

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

[Nick]

On 24/11/05, Steve Pugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> In your recording profiles, how many episodes have to got specified to
> keep (and record) and how many episodes do you have in your recordings
> list? What happens if you disable the jobs queue?
>
> Nick
> Hi 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?

If you have no defined jobs, I assume that getJobsInQueue just runs to
see if any new jobs have been added. The log entries that does concern
me are:

 2005-11-21 19:57:26.295 Found -1 episodes in recording profile 56
using max expiration

I don't use max episodes to control if a program is recorded, but I
would guess that the -1 entry is an error value? I would do the normal
things like check database consistency, restart the backend etc, but
hopefully a more experienced user could point out what else might be
causing this behaviour.

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

[Nick]

On 24/11/05, Weston, Toby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 -

A very easy way to test DVB (assuming you have a valid channels.conf
file in ~/.tzap) is:

tzap -o - "BBC TWO" |xine stdin://

tzap takes care of all the tuning and puts the stream to standard out,
and then xine (or mplayer) reads it in and displays it.

Nick
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