date:20051126


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:




Thanks Will, for that and the other info - I believe it is in fact
rohbags' tv_grab_au script that is currently being distributed with
KnoppMyth. 



It is.



It strikes me that it will now need to be modified, since
it will no longer be able to scrape any PayTV data from D1. (I am
Bcc-ing both you and rohbags in on this post, jic he's not aware of 
this yet).



I switched mine to use oztivo, as it has better data for the 
free-ro-air.  I don't use pay tv however, so I can't comment on that.


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Re: [mythtv-users] Recordings backend/storage

On Saturday 26 November 2005 21:23, Greg Oliver wrote:
> Is there any way to have more than 1 directory for storing recorded
> shows/dvd(s)?
>
> IE, a comma separated list or something.  I have tried several ways with
> no success, but would love to have it since in my home network, it is
> really hard to get more than 2 terabytes in one directory - which is
> less than adequate for 900+ dvds I want to put online.
>
> Any ideas/suggestions?
>
> Also,
>
> Is there an known way to get directdata to open accounts for more than 2
> weeks?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg

for MythVideo use a colon. and search the list next time.
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/160153?search_string=multiple%20video%20directory;#160153

Steve
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[mythtv-users] xorg.conf file for fedora, x86_64

2005-11-26 Thread Brady

Is there anywhere that I can download a WORKING xorg.conf file for
Fedora Core 4, x86_64?

It seems that all the examples out there fubar xorg on my system. It
ends up failing to find modules like bitmap and pcidata. When I start
using configs for x86_64 I get "failed to load GLX" no matter what I
do.
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[mythtv-users] Strong signal but no signal lock?

2005-11-26 Thread tgate


using svn 8045.

When I try to watch live tv I get signal strength of 75-80% but it  
claims only partial or no lock and no picture or audio ever starts.   
However, outside of myth, if I use azap I get a lock and can watch  
the program without any trouble.  Anyone else having a problem with  
signal lock and live tv?


mythbackend version: 0.19.20051122-1

the only error I see in the backend log is:
  DVB#0 WARNING - Symbol Rate setting (0) is out of range (min/max: 
5056941/10762000)


and the frontend log reports lots of...
  BACKEND_MESSAGE[]:[]SIGNAL 2[]:[]Signal Lock[]:[]slock 1 1 0 1 30...


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[mythtv-users] Modifying the D1 Home Media Centre to use a tv_grab script

2005-11-26 Thread mythicalbeast

At 08:52 27/11/2005, William Uther wrote:

>- When you do look at the D1 version of mythfilldatabase, it
>might also help to look at this script: http:// 
>www.onlinetractorparts.com.au/rohbags/xmltvau/ .  That script takes
>data from D1 and generates XMLTV data, allowing normal myth users to
>use the XMLTV data.  You want to do the reverse, get normal XMLTV
>data into D1 format.  It might give you insight into how D1 store
>their data and help you add normal XMLTV input back into your HMC.
>Or it might not :)

Thanks Will, for that and the other info - I believe it is in fact 
rohbags' tv_grab_au script that is currently being distributed with 
KnoppMyth. It strikes me that it will now need to be modified, since 
it will no longer be able to scrape any PayTV data from D1. (I am 
Bcc-ing both you and rohbags in on this post, jic he's not aware of this yet).

>- Myth is GPL.  You should be able to get the source to the D1
>version of mythfilldatabase and have a look at it.  Once you have
>this, figuring out how to switch xmltv input back on should be
>relatively easy.  Note, I use the term "relative" in the sense of "it
>will be easier with source than without source".  Depending on your
>mAd haxor skillz, and how much D1 changed mythfilldb, that might not
>be easy in any absolute sense.  But, at least you'd know you're
>working with the right version of mythfilldb, which uses the correct
>database schema, etc.

I believe the source code is on the HMC, which I think the GPL 
licence says it's supposed to be? Unfortunately I have no hacker 
skills, mad or otherwise!

I have posted your suggestions to the HMC forum at 
www.dumbmonkey.atomhosting.info/hmc in the fervent hope that others 
who aren't such newbies as myself may be able to use them for the 
benefit of all!

Cheers,
Ralph.  

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[mythtv-users] Re: Question about myth v ideo

2005-11-26 Thread Mat Kyne

Wow, I didn't expect it to be that obvious. I did search the lists a few 
times, but didn't find that post. I shearched for things like "myth video 
folder image view picture". I guess I didn't have the magic word 
combonation. Thanks for your help, it is greatly appreciated. -Mat



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[mythtv-users] nuvexport "'x' outside of string error"

2005-11-26 Thread James Howison

I'm attempting to convert some of my MPEG2 PVR-500 recordings to  
something smaller and I think that nuvexport is the way to do this.


I'm running Knoppmyth R5A22 with nuvexport 0.2 0.20050922.svn.

I'm trying to run in interactive mode to get used to the program but  
get this error after choosing a show:


'x' outside of string in unpack at /usr/local/share/nuvexport/ 
mythtv/nuvinfo.pm line 34,  line 2.


(I've tried both export to XVID and to .nuv and .sql options).

Has anyone seen this error (there's one google result, some IRC  
discussion with an unanswered (AFAICS) question about this error)?


I get the same error if I do searches via the command-line interface.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
James




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Re: [mythtv-users] Gentoo not building lirc_i2c?

2005-11-26 Thread Louie Ilievski

On Saturday 26 November 2005 03:27 pm, Brady wrote:
> I can not get Gentoo to build the lirc_i2c module for anything. This
> is a recent 2005-r1 install that is completely fresh. i2c is enabled
> and lirc builds lirc_dev but will not build the i2c driver for
> anything.

I'm assuming you're trying to get LIRC working on a Hauppauge card since those 
use lirc_i2c.  When you emerge lirc on Gentoo, you need to pass an option.  
It should look like this:

LIRC_OPTS="--with-driver=hauppauge" emerge lirc

You can also make things easier by just adding 
LIRC_OPTS="--with-driver=hauppauge" to the end of your /etc/make.conf file so 
you can just do "emerge lirc" and not worry about it again.

~Lou
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Re: [mythtv-users] Recordings backend/storage

2005-11-26 Thread Robert Johnston

On 11/26/05, Greg Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there any way to have more than 1 directory for storing recorded
> shows/dvd(s)?
>
> IE, a comma separated list or something.  I have tried several ways with
> no success, but would love to have it since in my home network, it is
> really hard to get more than 2 terabytes in one directory - which is
> less than adequate for 900+ dvds I want to put online.
>
> Any ideas/suggestions?

Use LVM to make a Volume Group from several partitions, then store
everything in that?

> Also,
>
> Is there an known way to get directdata to open accounts for more than 2
> weeks?

You mean Zap2It? I've had my account open for at least 9 months now,
with no problems. Have you confirmed the e-mail they sent you?
--
Robert "Anaerin" Johnston
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Re: [mythtv-users] Myth from SVN

2005-11-26 Thread Michael Haan

On 11/24/05, Stuart Auchterlonie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 02:21:39PM +, Ben Edwards wrote:> On 24/11/05, Ben Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> >> > The latest release of mythtv was in May and the ebuild seems to be up
> > to date. That is unless you want to use an unstable version ;).  I> > tried building from source (on a different distro) and found the user> > and developer comunity not that helpfull.  I think it is because the
> > user comunity dont do it mutch and the developers are (legitematly)> > not that interested in helping people who just want to build myth and> > not develop it.>> Looks like this is to be filed under famus last words.  It seems I
> need a fix from the svn branch also.  Is it possible/not totaly mad to> run frontend from svn against standard backend.  How would I go about> this?>Don't even bother attempting. Won't work.
Stuart___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-usersI tried to use this following the instructions here:  http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds
When I got to this step: ebuild /usr/local/portage/category/program/program.ebuild digestI get a whole bunch of:/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 1458: /usr/portage/eclass/myth-svn.eclass
: No such file or directory!!! ERROR: media-plugins/mythgallery-svn-0.19 failed.!!! Function inherit, Line 1459, Exitcode 1!!! died sourcing /usr/portage/eclass/myth-svn.eclass in inherit()!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.
aux_get(): (0) Error in media-plugins/mythgallery-svn-0.19 ebuild. (1)   Check for syntax error or corruption in the ebuild. (--debug)/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 1458: /usr/portage/eclass/myth-
svn.eclass: No such file or directory!!! ERROR: media-plugins/mythgallery-svn-0.19 failed.!!! Function inherit, Line 1459, Exitcode 1!!! died sourcing /usr/portage/eclass/myth-svn.eclass in inherit()!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.
aux_get(): (0) Error in media-plugins/mythgallery-svn-0.19 ebuild. (1)   Check for syntax error or corruption in the ebuild. (--debug)doebuild(): aux_get() error reading media-plugins/mythgallery-
svn-0.19; abortingAny ideas?
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[mythtv-users] Recordings backend/storage

2005-11-26 Thread Greg Oliver

Is there any way to have more than 1 directory for storing recorded
shows/dvd(s)?

IE, a comma separated list or something.  I have tried several ways with
no success, but would love to have it since in my home network, it is
really hard to get more than 2 terabytes in one directory - which is
less than adequate for 900+ dvds I want to put online.

Any ideas/suggestions?

Also,

Is there an known way to get directdata to open accounts for more than 2
weeks?

Thanks,

Greg

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [mythtv] various error(?) log messages

Petr Stehlik píše v Ne 27. 11. 2005 v 02:41 +0100:
> > like this until the recording is finished or you cancel the recording.
> > In LiveTV you should be given a dialog that tells you how to change to
> > another channel. (Answer in mythtv-users, I'll look for your reply there.)

I have been browsing the channels in browse mode of Live TV now and
noticed that the channels I am after are not there at all. But they are
in mythtv-setup. Weird. So I clicked on another channel (Tiny POP) and
got a message that all inputs are already used and that I should stop a
recording. Note that I haven't started any recording yet, I am just
playing in the Live TV.

> I just did a fresh rescan. Note that I had to add this particular
> transponder (12607 on EuroBird1)

transport, not transponder.

>  since I've been missing two programs -

TEST CT24 and TOP TV.

> 2005-11-27 02:26:01.857 TVRec(2) Error: Channel: '6' was not found in
> the database.

mythfrontend doesn't see the channels. Dunno why. They are in database
and mythtv-setup put them there a little while ago during full scan.

Petr


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[mythtv-users] Re: [mythtv] various error(?) log messages

Daniel Kristjansson píše v So 26. 11. 2005 v 19:49 -0500:
> > 3)  Program #28676 not found in PAT!
> > Program Association Table
> >  PSIP prefix(0x0) tableID(0x0) length(73) extension(0x42a)
> >   version(16) current(1) section(0) last_section(0)
> >  tsid: 1066
> This is a problem. Did you get your channels from a recent scan with a
> recent SVN checkout, or some other way? This is saying that the transport
> doesn't contain the channel you want to record. It will print out messages
> like this until the recording is finished or you cancel the recording.
> In LiveTV you should be given a dialog that tells you how to change to
> another channel. (Answer in mythtv-users, I'll look for your reply there.)

I just did a fresh rescan. Note that I had to add this particular
transponder (12607 on EuroBird1) since I've been missing two programs -
and one of them now crashes MythTV the following way:

2005-11-27 02:26:01.857 TVRec(2) Error: Channel: '6' was not found in
the database.
Most likely, your DefaultTVChannel setting is wrong.
Could not start livetv.
2005-11-27 02:26:01.858 TVRec(2) Error: Failed to create RingBuffer 1
2005-11-27 02:26:01.859 TVRec(2): Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
2005-11-27 02:26:02.060 Finished recording Unknown: channel 63990

It's interesting it finishes with channel "63990" while I asked for "6".
Anyway, a mysql record with channum="6" is in database.

Bad is that it's completely locked and I have to kill both frontend and
backend (frontend reports problem displaying video and offers returning
to menu but it never returns there, and until backend is killed the
frontend always lock up with a black screen in LiveTV):

2005-11-27 02:35:51.660 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543
(try 1 of 5)
2005-11-27 02:36:11.662 ReadStringList timeout (quick).
2005-11-27 02:36:11.663 Unexpected response to MYTH_PROTO_VERSION: 
2005-11-27 02:36:11.663 TV: Attempting to change from None to None

Petr


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Re: [mythtv-users] Accessing content other then tv from frontend


Nedim Cholich wrote:


Possibly a newbe question.

I've just finished building my myth backend. Things seem to work fine 
(except I haven't put up antenna for HD3000). Before I start building 
fronend(s) I am testing the setup from my laptop. While both live and 
recorded tv works great, mythfrontend seems to want to access, videos, 
pictures and music from local filesystem. Is this how it's suppose to 
be? Am I suppose to export these files through nfs or myth can stream 
these like it does tv?





That's what I have ended up doing.  I now have the storage on my myth 
box exported via nfs, and mounted to the remote machine in the same 
place in the tree, to ensure things like file paths and symlinks all 
work.  Once done, it is all very transparent and works very well.

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


Jeff volckaert wrote:

I use Virtualdub under windows.  That way I can cut the commercials by 
hand.




What's Windows?   Just kidding :-)  but I haven't used that operating 
system for years !

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[mythtv-users] Accessing content other then tv from frontend

2005-11-26 Thread Nedim Cholich

Possibly a newbe question.

I've just finished building my myth backend. Things seem to work fine
(except I haven't put up antenna for HD3000). Before I start building
fronend(s) I am testing the setup from my laptop. While both live and
recorded tv works great, mythfrontend seems to want to access, videos,
pictures and music from local filesystem. Is this how it's suppose to
be? Am I suppose to export these files through nfs or myth can stream
these like it does tv?

Thanks.
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Re: [mythtv-users] DVB EPG in MythTV?

2005-11-26 Thread Rudy Zijlstra


Joe Votour wrote:


Newer SVN versions of MythTV apparently do support
pulling in data from the DVB program descriptors (I
live in North America, where DVB isn't available, so I
can't comment on how well it works).  I have done some
DVB-related work for my employer though, so I do know
how the system works.

The EIT is the "Event Information Table" (if I
remember my TLAs correctly).  The DVB specification
supports sending lots (and I mean lots) of information
within it (the basics such as show start/end times,
program name and genre, but also things like complete
cast lists, MPEG format information, etc.).

The way it works is that within the MPEG-2 stream that
is received by your DVB card, there are video, audio
and PCR (timing) PIDs for one or many "channels",
there are extra PIDs that are added in by your
provider (or may come from the original satellite feed
- regardless of how they got there, they are there). 
A DVB card can listen on these PIDs and capture/parse
the data, and turn it into program guide entries. 
Most of it is TLV-type (type, length, value) data with

a fair amount of ASCII text.

As I said, I don't know the specifics of the EIT
processing within MythTV, but I would suggest that you
stick with the tv_grab programs if you get accurate
data from them.  The reasons that I suggest this are:
1. With the DVB streams that I have seen, the program
guide information within the DVB stream is only good
for 1-2 hours (typically, you get the "now" and
"next", the currently showing program, and the next
program).  This means that it will be difficult to
plan far ahead in the future for scheduling, since the
data just won't be there.
2. In order to get complete EIT data, your DVB card
will likely need to hit multiple frequencies to
capture the EIT data on those frequencies.  If you
have a single card and aren't recording, this won't be
an issue, but if you're recording back to back shows
and only have a single card, you've got nothing to
tune to other frequencies to find the EIT data.  In
that case, you're missing program guide listings.

 

There is EIT next/now (which you have been describing above) and EIT 
schedule.
EIT schedule can cover as many days ahead as the operator wants to / has 
data available / has bandwidth available.


Typically, the dutch xml grabber can get 3 day ahead (limit of the 
website where it is taken from), and Astra satellites typically have 
between 3 and 5 days available in the stream.



Again, this information doesn't come from the MythTV
implementation (I've implemented this in the past, and
it's quite painful), but comes from my knowledge in
the area.  YMMV, depending on what kind of hardware
you have, and how much program data you want (I'm
quite happy with DataDirect, and having about 10 days
worth of listings).
 

Which is only available to those living in the US (which many of us are 
not).
Myth takes the program info from the tuned stream, irrespective whether 
you are watching that stream or not.



-- Joe

--- Jakob Fix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 


Hello,

I've heard that Myth should be capable by now to
retrieve EPG data
from the DVB stream.  There seems to be quite some
talk on the dev
list.

Is this correct?  If so, which version of Myth
should one have in
order for this to work?

So far I'm using tv_grab_dvb which works fine
although it has some
problems with timezones, and it only gets the
current channel's
transport stream's EPG data.

Oh, and what does EIT mean, and what's the
   


Event Information Table


difference with EPG
   


Electronic Program Guide


(wikipedia was no help here)?
   


The EIT can be used to fill the database needed for the EPG.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Converting shows to PDA suitable format

2005-11-26 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton

On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Paul V. Gratz wrote:

> Yeah this is the same player I'm using on my Treo.  I haven't tried
> mythstream though. I don't think that player has the ability to pick
> up a stream via TCPIP.  Even if it did, my only internet access on
> that phone is through SprintPCS's vision plan which has really low
> data bandwidth (think dialup).  It'd be a cool hack though.  Perhaps I
> could get it working over bluetooth...

Well it is ok data for video, since I am using mobitv on my treo
(http://www.mobitv.com/treo.html) and can watch it for a while without any
drops.

><>
Nathan Stratton
nathan at robotics.net
http://www.robotics.net
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Re: [mythtv-users] Converting shows to PDA suitable format

2005-11-26 Thread Jeff volckaert

I use Virtualdub under windows.  That way I can cut the commercials by hand.

Jeff
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[mythtv-users] Gentoo not building lirc_i2c?

2005-11-26 Thread Brady

I can not get Gentoo to build the lirc_i2c module for anything. This
is a recent 2005-r1 install that is completely fresh. i2c is enabled
and lirc builds lirc_dev but will not build the i2c driver for
anything.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Yet Another New OSD: Gray-OSD

2005-11-26 Thread Lee


I'll second (or is it third) that...


I also like it with the rounded corners, but I'd ditch the icons for
this particular OSD. As stated, those are nice, but better used
somewhere else (also hinting at another OSD). Wink.


On 11/26/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 


Greg Estabrooks wrote:

   


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


 


IMHO the plain fits well with the "plain, simple, gray" design of the
OSD.  Not that the icons wouldn't be good for another OSD...  (hint, hint ;)

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


Paul V. Gratz wrote:


Yeah I think mencoder is faster (its certainly easier to figure out
than transcode).  The processor may have something to do with it too,
P4's excel at code that has very predictable branches like video
encoding.  Less branch mispredict penalty means they can really take
advantage of their deep pipelines.

Paul

 



I just tried a few recordings with mencoder, and the files are about the 
same size as those from ffmpeg, but I think they are better quality when 
played on the Palm with TCPMP (might be because they are mpeg4).


And it IS faster, even on my 2.2GHz Sempron, I get 40+ fps.  Anything 
better than real time, I am happy with. :-)

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


Paul V. Gratz wrote:


On Saturday 26 November 2005 09:38 am, Wendy Seltzer wrote:
 


On 11/26/05, Nathan Allen Stratton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
   


What player are you using on your 650? Have you been able to stream
anything to your treo using mythstream?
 


Not the original poster, but I've transcoded a few shows to the 650 for
playback with TCPMP
, which works quite well with Xvid or avi
files, as well as mp3s.

   



Yeah this is the same player I'm using on my Treo.  I haven't tried
mythstream though. I don't think that player has the ability to pick
up a stream via TCPIP.  Even if it did, my only internet access on
that phone is through SprintPCS's vision plan which has really low
data bandwidth (think dialup).  It'd be a cool hack though.  Perhaps I
could get it working over bluetooth...

Paul

 



I use TCPMP as well.  I am fairly sure I read that streaming was not 
there yet, but it's coming.


I have the latest palm Tx and it has WiFi and Bluetooth.  Even so, I 
would prefer to have the movie on the expansion card.  WiFi on a palm is 
good in short bursts - like for email and a bit of web surfing, but 
really drains the battery.  Not good for watching a movie for a couple 
of hours.

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[mythtv-users] This Unix doesn't support device files for audio access

Hi,

0.18.1 grabs sound from /dev/dsp (bt8x8 connected to AUX of onboard
sound) properly. With recent SVN versions I get just silence and backend
log contains the following messages:

2005-11-26 23:40:45.034 Channel(/dev/video0): SetFormat(PAL) fmt(PAL)
input(0)
2005-11-26 23:40:45.285 NVR::AudioInit() This Unix doesn't support
device files for audio access. Skipping
2005-11-26 23:40:45.315 NVR: Could not detect audio blocksize
2005-11-26 23:40:45.403 NVR::doAudioThread() This Unix doesn't support
device files for audio access. Skipping
VIDIOCSYNC: Input/output error
VIDIOCSYNC: Input/output error

Any idea what has changed and how I should adapt in the sound settings,
please?

Petr


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

2005-11-26 Thread Paul V. Gratz

On Saturday 26 November 2005 09:38 am, Wendy Seltzer wrote:
> On 11/26/05, Nathan Allen Stratton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What player are you using on your 650? Have you been able to stream
> > anything to your treo using mythstream?
>
> Not the original poster, but I've transcoded a few shows to the 650 for
> playback with TCPMP
> , which works quite well with Xvid or avi
> files, as well as mp3s.
>

Yeah this is the same player I'm using on my Treo.  I haven't tried
mythstream though. I don't think that player has the ability to pick
up a stream via TCPIP.  Even if it did, my only internet access on
that phone is through SprintPCS's vision plan which has really low
data bandwidth (think dialup).  It'd be a cool hack though.  Perhaps I
could get it working over bluetooth...

Paul

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

2005-11-26 Thread Paul V. Gratz

On Saturday 26 November 2005 06:26 am, ffrr wrote:
> Paul V. Gratz wrote:
>
> > I use nuvexport to give me the raw *.nuv file
>
> What is a raw *.nuv file?   I feed the nuv files, as recorded, straight
> into ffmpeg. It can handle the mpeg2-TS directly.

I've recently switched from software to hardware encoding so I've had
both the mjpeg and mpeg2 files in side the .nuv container.

>
> I will be comparing mencoder, especially as you report very good speed.
> Thanks.
>

Yeah I think mencoder is faster (its certainly easier to figure out
than transcode).  The processor may have something to do with it too,
P4's excel at code that has very predictable branches like video
encoding.  Less branch mispredict penalty means they can really take
advantage of their deep pipelines.

Paul

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Re: [mythtv-users] DVB EPG in MythTV?

Jakob Fix píše v So 26. 11. 2005 v 22:48 +0100:
> I've heard that Myth should be capable by now to retrieve EPG data
> from the DVB stream.  There seems to be quite some talk on the dev
> list.
> 
> Is this correct?  If so, which version of Myth should one have in
> order for this to work?

I just compiled latest SVN and can see some EIT related changes in the
setup GUI (finally it doesn't force me to enter XMLTV nor DataDirect if
I select the EIT). It even seems to do something since I just started
the backend and it is tuning in the background to various channels, see
below:

2005-11-26 23:14:03.971 EITScanner: Now looking for EIT data on channel
51014
2005-11-26 23:14:04.563 DVB#0 DVB SI Table Parser Started

2005-11-26 23:19:29.514 EITScanner: Now looking for EIT data on channel
30202
2005-11-26 23:19:30.028 DVB#0 DVB SI Table Parser Started
...

However, I haven't seen anything in EPG yet. Maybe if I give it enough
time?

To your question "which version" I must tell that I've seen some EIT
related settings even in 0.18.1, IIRC but I don't think it worked. Then
in -r 7738 there were some improvements and in this SVN head now it
seems to be finally implemented logically and maybe that it even
works :-)

Petr


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Re: [mythtv-users] New DVB problems....

2005-11-26 Thread Peter Osterberg


Peter Osterberg wrote:

Michael T. Dean wrote:

Peter Osterberg wrote:

I got everything working yesterday but for some reasen my devices 
got lost. I don't knwo what manouver I did to make them dissapear.


I'm running Gentoo, with vanilla kernel 2.6.11.11 and Myth 0.18.1-r2.

.My card is a NOVA-CI-S

The devices might have disapeared after a reboot, not sure but I am 
certain that I don't know how to recreate them.
I've tried MAKEDEV dvb since I found some "howto" telling me to try 
that but it says "don't know how to make device "dvb"".


Any suggestions?


With 2.6.11, try upgrading/reinstalling udev and/or hotplug and if 
that doesn't work, Google for udev--you'll probably have to edit your 
scripts because they're not creating the devices for you.  Of course, 
that assumes that you have all the appropriate DVB kernel drivers 
installed for the current kernel (not having them would mean you 
don't get the device nodes even with a working udev/hotplug install)...


Mike
I reinstalled udev, installed hotplug and coldplug (emerge suggested 
that) but it didn't help.
The kernel modules that I have are DVB Core Support and Budget cards 
with onboard CI connector.


I have other modules as well, all that were needed to get my plain old 
WinTV PVR 350 to work. The two above are the newly installed modules 
for the satellite card.


I haven't touched the kernel or any modules since it worked so I guess 
that it shouldn't be a kernel issue.



Also...

This is what I find when greping in my udev folder...

mythtv udev # grep -R dvb *
rules.d/50-udev.rules:# dvb devices
rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL=="dvb*", PROGRAM="/etc/udev/scripts/dvb.sh 
%k", NAME="%c", GROUP="video", MODE="0660"
scripts/dvb.sh:echo $1 | sed -e 
's#^dvb\([0-9]\)\.\([^0-9]*\)\([0-9]\)#dvb/adapter\1/\2\3#'


Should there be anything else/more?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Fast Forward not working properly with PVR-350/ivtv 0.4.0

I've had this problem since the beginning of time (for me, around .15,
hahaha). I've never heard anybody comment on a solution, or any of the
devs acknowledge it.

On 11/9/05, Curtis White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having the exact same problem. I just thought I had the remote or
> something mis-configured and was going to work on it later. But maybe
> not.
>
>
> On 11/8/05, Daniel Segel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I don't know if this is a MythTV or ivtv issue. I'm running a fairly
> > recent svn version of MythTV (with broken Live TV that I don't use
> > anyway), and when I fast forward (or rewind) in a recorded program the
> > video moves along quickly, but the time counter moves at the normal pace
> > (e.g. 1 second per second) and then when I exit Fast Forward it jumps
> > back to the place I started at (or nearby). I *don't* have the option to
> > correct for reaction time enabled.
> >
> > Daniel
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Re: [mythtv-users] Recording quits early

2005-11-26 Thread Phil Bridges

On 11/26/05, Roger McClurg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >Roger McClurg wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>> I'm using myth 0.18.1. When recording two hour shows, recording stops
> >>> after one hour and 50 minutes. I tried using the option to record 10
> >>> minutes past the program end, but it too quit after 1 hour and 50
> >>> minutes.
> >>>
> >>> Can anyone please point me in the right direction?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Are the files exactly 2GB?  Are you using Samba?
> >
> >Mike
> >
>
> I have files in excess of 4 Gig. Not using Samba. I'm using a combined
> b/e f/e and am writing to a local drive.


Have you checked the *global* settings?  IIRC, there's a place there
to set the start and end time adjustment that overrides all other
settings.
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Re: [mythtv-users] New DVB problems....

2005-11-26 Thread Peter Osterberg


Michael T. Dean wrote:

Peter Osterberg wrote:

I got everything working yesterday but for some reasen my devices got 
lost. I don't knwo what manouver I did to make them dissapear.


I'm running Gentoo, with vanilla kernel 2.6.11.11 and Myth 0.18.1-r2.

.My card is a NOVA-CI-S

The devices might have disapeared after a reboot, not sure but I am 
certain that I don't know how to recreate them.
I've tried MAKEDEV dvb since I found some "howto" telling me to try 
that but it says "don't know how to make device "dvb"".


Any suggestions?


With 2.6.11, try upgrading/reinstalling udev and/or hotplug and if 
that doesn't work, Google for udev--you'll probably have to edit your 
scripts because they're not creating the devices for you.  Of course, 
that assumes that you have all the appropriate DVB kernel drivers 
installed for the current kernel (not having them would mean you don't 
get the device nodes even with a working udev/hotplug install)...


Mike
I reinstalled udev, installed hotplug and coldplug (emerge suggested 
that) but it didn't help.
The kernel modules that I have are DVB Core Support and Budget cards 
with onboard CI connector.


I have other modules as well, all that were needed to get my plain old 
WinTV PVR 350 to work. The two above are the newly installed modules for 
the satellite card.


I haven't touched the kernel or any modules since it worked so I guess 
that it shouldn't be a kernel issue.


Sincerely,
Peter Österberg
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Re: [mythtv-users] DVB EPG in MythTV?

2005-11-26 Thread Joe Votour

Newer SVN versions of MythTV apparently do support
pulling in data from the DVB program descriptors (I
live in North America, where DVB isn't available, so I
can't comment on how well it works).  I have done some
DVB-related work for my employer though, so I do know
how the system works.

The EIT is the "Event Information Table" (if I
remember my TLAs correctly).  The DVB specification
supports sending lots (and I mean lots) of information
within it (the basics such as show start/end times,
program name and genre, but also things like complete
cast lists, MPEG format information, etc.).

The way it works is that within the MPEG-2 stream that
is received by your DVB card, there are video, audio
and PCR (timing) PIDs for one or many "channels",
there are extra PIDs that are added in by your
provider (or may come from the original satellite feed
- regardless of how they got there, they are there). 
A DVB card can listen on these PIDs and capture/parse
the data, and turn it into program guide entries. 
Most of it is TLV-type (type, length, value) data with
a fair amount of ASCII text.

As I said, I don't know the specifics of the EIT
processing within MythTV, but I would suggest that you
stick with the tv_grab programs if you get accurate
data from them.  The reasons that I suggest this are:
1. With the DVB streams that I have seen, the program
guide information within the DVB stream is only good
for 1-2 hours (typically, you get the "now" and
"next", the currently showing program, and the next
program).  This means that it will be difficult to
plan far ahead in the future for scheduling, since the
data just won't be there.
2. In order to get complete EIT data, your DVB card
will likely need to hit multiple frequencies to
capture the EIT data on those frequencies.  If you
have a single card and aren't recording, this won't be
an issue, but if you're recording back to back shows
and only have a single card, you've got nothing to
tune to other frequencies to find the EIT data.  In
that case, you're missing program guide listings.

Again, this information doesn't come from the MythTV
implementation (I've implemented this in the past, and
it's quite painful), but comes from my knowledge in
the area.  YMMV, depending on what kind of hardware
you have, and how much program data you want (I'm
quite happy with DataDirect, and having about 10 days
worth of listings).

-- Joe

--- Jakob Fix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've heard that Myth should be capable by now to
> retrieve EPG data
> from the DVB stream.  There seems to be quite some
> talk on the dev
> list.
> 
> Is this correct?  If so, which version of Myth
> should one have in
> order for this to work?
> 
> So far I'm using tv_grab_dvb which works fine
> although it has some
> problems with timezones, and it only gets the
> current channel's
> transport stream's EPG data.
> 
> Oh, and what does EIT mean, and what's the
> difference with EPG
> (wikipedia was no help here)?
> 
> --
> cheers,
> Jakob.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Issues with OSD placement

I figured it out... it fubars in any mode (ie, I've pressed W during
playback) if I have aspect override turned on to Fill in
tv-->playback. If I leave that in any other mode, it works perfectly.
Strange that it breaks things even when I use W afterwards. I don't
understand.

On 11/26/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sasha Z wrote:
>
> >http://img455.imageshack.us/img455/8413/mythimg011pd.jpg
> >http://img455.imageshack.us/img455/1343/mythimg020uz.jpg
> >
> >The OSD seems misplaced, and this only started happening with recent
> >SVN. I'm not seeing much about it in the -dev list, other than an OSD
> >aspect ratio patch (which doesn't seem to be my problem, just
> >placement).
> >
> >I'm running SVN 804-something (aka, today's).
> >
> >Any thoughts on what may be causing that particular niggle?
> >
> >
> Are you in a zoom mode?  (I.e. did you choose "Change Aspect Ratio" from
> the menu or toggle aspect ratio with the "w" key?)
>
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Re: [mythtv-users] New DVB problems....


Peter Osterberg wrote:

I got everything working yesterday but for some reasen my devices got 
lost. I don't knwo what manouver I did to make them dissapear.


I'm running Gentoo, with vanilla kernel 2.6.11.11 and Myth 0.18.1-r2.

.My card is a NOVA-CI-S

The devices might have disapeared after a reboot, not sure but I am 
certain that I don't know how to recreate them.
I've tried MAKEDEV dvb since I found some "howto" telling me to try 
that but it says "don't know how to make device "dvb"".


Any suggestions?


With 2.6.11, try upgrading/reinstalling udev and/or hotplug and if that 
doesn't work, Google for udev--you'll probably have to edit your scripts 
because they're not creating the devices for you.  Of course, that 
assumes that you have all the appropriate DVB kernel drivers installed 
for the current kernel (not having them would mean you don't get the 
device nodes even with a working udev/hotplug install)...


Mike
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[mythtv-users] [mythtv] Modifying the D1 Home Media Centre to use a tv_grab script

2005-11-26 Thread William Uther


Hi,
  A few quick points.

   - Myth is GPL.  You should be able to get the source to the D1  
version of mythfilldatabase and have a look at it.  Once you have  
this, figuring out how to switch xmltv input back on should be  
relatively easy.  Note, I use the term "relative" in the sense of "it  
will be easier with source than without source".  Depending on your  
mAd haxor skillz, and how much D1 changed mythfilldb, that might not  
be easy in any absolute sense.  But, at least you'd know you're  
working with the right version of mythfilldb, which uses the correct  
database schema, etc.
   - I've seen some posts about setting up cron jobs to call  
mythfilldatabase rather than having myth call it.  This seems  
somewhat irrelevant to me.  You can set things up either way, but you  
need to get mythfilldatabase running and accepting XMLTV input  
first.  I'm assuming that the HMC already calls some version of  
mythfilldatabase - I'd just leave that part of things alone, until  
you know you need to mess with it.
   - When you do look at the D1 version of mythfilldatabase, it  
might also help to look at this script: http:// 
www.onlinetractorparts.com.au/rohbags/xmltvau/ .  That script takes  
data from D1 and generates XMLTV data, allowing normal myth users to  
use the XMLTV data.  You want to do the reverse, get normal XMLTV  
data into D1 format.  It might give you insight into how D1 store  
their data and help you add normal XMLTV input back into your HMC.   
Or it might not :)
   - Once you get all that working, there are other XMLTV sources  
than just tvguide.org.au: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/xmltv/ .   
Don't get me wrong, they're a great source and probably the one I'd  
try first (I wrote the XMLTV grabber :), but don't think they're the  
only source.


Be well,

Will  :-}

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

On Saturday 26 November 2005 00:27, Greg Estabrooks wrote:
> > 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

definitely the colorful icon version, adds minimal screen coverage but adds 
the cool factor. Its too bad theres no way to further customize the skins 
while running, such that a person could decide to show the icons or not.

btw, I really like the position information box you've created. The only thing 
I can add for a comment is to get rid of the wasted space to minimize the box 
height.

great work!

-- 
Steve
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Re: [mythtv-users] HD Playback using ATI 9550

On Wednesday 23 November 2005 18:31, N Dugas wrote:
> Steve Adeff wrote:
> > On Tuesday 22 November 2005 12:13, Tom Dombrosky wrote:
> >>On 11/22/05, N Dugas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>Steve Adeff wrote:
> On Monday 21 November 2005 16:28, N Dugas wrote:
> >I've got a myth box that I'd like to do HD playback. It's connected to
> >a DCT6412. I'd like to re-use a spare ATI 9550 with 256M for this. Is
> >this possible? Every thing I found suggests I use Nvidia due to
> >superior drivers.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Norm
> 
> what processor?
> 
> Steve
> >>>
> >>>Currently: Athlon XP 1800 but I've got an Athlon XP 3000 that may make
> >>>it's way into that PC. I'm using the onboard video for playback
> >>>currently but HD stutters too much to make it watchable.
> >>>
> >>>This pc:
> >>>Asus A7N8X-VM/400
> >>>1G OCZ Dual DDR Ram
> >>>Athlon XP 1800 CPU
> >>>PCI IEEE1394 card
> >>>
> >>>DCT-6412 connected via 1394
> >>>
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>Norm
> >>
> >>My personal experience has been that nvidia cards work better with myth
> >>than radeons. A lot of people have had success with Radeons so I don't
> >> want to give them a bad reputation. Your onboard video will work with
> >> xvmc, which drastically lowers the cpu requirements for hd decoding. I
> >> can do it easily on an Athlon XP 2000 with xvmc enabled. You would need
> >> to use the nvidia binary drivers though. I recommend sticking with the
> >> onboard nvidia stuff.
> >>
> >>Tom
> >
> > Use the onboard GeForce, drop the XP3000 in as well ;-)
> >
> > With the 3000 you won't need XvmC, but like what Tom said it will reduce
> > CPU requirements. The faster CPU can be used for commercial detect, etc.
> >
> > Steve
> One more question came to mind.  This onboard video is GeForce 4MX.
> Will this be ok?  I'm going to try XvmC to see what the results are soon
> (hopefully tonight).
>
> Norm

Should be fine, might not get interlaced output support (don't remember if the 
GeForce4 GPU supports it) but XvMC is there.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Digital Audio with myth

On Friday 25 November 2005 15:28, Phill Edwards wrote:
> > 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

or an advantage.

Steve
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Re: [mythtv-users] Recording quits early

2005-11-26 Thread Roger McClurg




Roger McClurg wrote:

 

I'm using myth 0.18.1. When recording two hour shows, recording stops 
after one hour and 50 minutes. I tried using the option to record 10 
minutes past the program end, but it too quit after 1 hour and 50 
minutes.


Can anyone please point me in the right direction?
   



Are the files exactly 2GB?  Are you using Samba?

Mike



I have files in excess of 4 Gig. Not using Samba. I'm using a combined 
b/e f/e and am writing to a local drive.

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[mythtv-users] New DVB problems....

2005-11-26 Thread Peter Osterberg

I got everything working yesterday but for some reasen my devices got 
lost. I don't knwo what manouver I did to make them dissapear.


I'm running Gentoo, with vanilla kernel 2.6.11.11 and Myth 0.18.1-r2.

.My card is a NOVA-CI-S

The devices might have disapeared after a reboot, not sure but I am 
certain that I don't know how to recreate them.
I've tried MAKEDEV dvb since I found some "howto" telling me to try that 
but it says "don't know how to make device "dvb"".


Any suggestions?

Sincerely,
Peter Österberg



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Re: [mythtv-users] Issues with OSD placement


Sasha Z wrote:


http://img455.imageshack.us/img455/8413/mythimg011pd.jpg
http://img455.imageshack.us/img455/1343/mythimg020uz.jpg

The OSD seems misplaced, and this only started happening with recent
SVN. I'm not seeing much about it in the -dev list, other than an OSD
aspect ratio patch (which doesn't seem to be my problem, just
placement).

I'm running SVN 804-something (aka, today's).

Any thoughts on what may be causing that particular niggle?
 

Are you in a zoom mode?  (I.e. did you choose "Change Aspect Ratio" from 
the menu or toggle aspect ratio with the "w" key?)


Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] New HDD for Mythtv 5400 or 7200 rpm

Splitting up backend and frontend is awesome, especially when you
netboot the frontend off the backend. That way all the heat and noise
is on the other end of the network from the TV and the user. I'd go
7200 so that you can use more tuners in the future.

On 11/26/05, Marko Nurmenniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Johnathon Meichtry wrote:
>
> > If it's for a frontend get a 4400rpm >60gb laptop HDD with a 2.5"-3.5"
> > IDE adapter.  It'll be nice and quiet.  Don't use anything less than a
> > recent 60gb HDD or the noises made by the heads when in use will drive
> > you nuts.
> >
> > Johnathon
>
> It is possible to reduce seek noise with hdparm. I have done it with my
> apache server which is running less than a meter from my right ear.
> Quiet as a mouse now.
> I have not noticed performance effect in my use but there might be some
> in heavy duty usage.
>
> -M
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Re: [mythtv-users] New HDD for Mythtv 5400 or 7200 rpm


Johnathon Meichtry wrote:

I agree, if its for a backend go for speed speed speed.  Get the drive 
with the fastest RPM, the largest cache and fastest interface you can 
afford e.g. 7200rpm SATA.  If possible get the fastest PCI-X SATA card 
you can find and you'll break the PCI bottleneck.


IMHO, more gigs are far more important than fast drives.  Spend money on 
space, not on speed.  (Also, RPM's and cache are only two of about 5 
hard drive parameters that are required to determine the hard drive 
performance characteristics)


MPEG-2 streams don't take much bandwidth.  A 10.8Mb/sec stream (the 
maximum allowed by the DVD specification--including audio and video) is 
1,350,000 bytes per second (=1318KiB/sec=1.29MiB/sec).  Since the 
PVR-x50's electronics will hit the quality ceiling far before that kind 
of bandwidth is required, you'll most likely use something like 
4-6Mb/sec for "high-quality" recordings, meaning you'll using at most 
60% of that, or about 0.75MiB/sec.  If you use MPEG-4, you need even 
less bandwidth.


Even for high-definition, bandwidth isn't a problem.  High-definition 
recordings seem to be between 4-10GiB/hr (averaging about 7GiB/hr), so 
taking the worst-case scenario (10GiB/hr), we have 
2982616bytes/sec=2912KiB/sec=2.85MiB/sec.  At this rate, you should be 
able to write several high-def streams concurrently even with "slow" 
hard drives.


Make sure it's UDMA66 or above (and you're unlikely to be able to find a 
new drive today that's not) and that you have an 80-wire IDE cable (if 
using PATA) and you'll be fine.


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

I also like it with the rounded corners, but I'd ditch the icons for
this particular OSD. As stated, those are nice, but better used
somewhere else (also hinting at another OSD). Wink.


On 11/26/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greg Estabrooks wrote:
>
> >>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
> >
> >
> IMHO the plain fits well with the "plain, simple, gray" design of the
> OSD.  Not that the icons wouldn't be good for another OSD...  (hint, hint ;)
>
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[mythtv-users] Issues with OSD placement

http://img455.imageshack.us/img455/8413/mythimg011pd.jpg
http://img455.imageshack.us/img455/1343/mythimg020uz.jpg

The OSD seems misplaced, and this only started happening with recent
SVN. I'm not seeing much about it in the -dev list, other than an OSD
aspect ratio patch (which doesn't seem to be my problem, just
placement).

I'm running SVN 804-something (aka, today's).

Any thoughts on what may be causing that particular niggle?
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Re: [mythtv-users] New HDD for Mythtv 5400 or 7200 rpm

2005-11-26 Thread Marko Nurmenniemi


Johnathon Meichtry wrote:

If it's for a frontend get a 4400rpm >60gb laptop HDD with a 2.5"-3.5" 
IDE adapter.  It'll be nice and quiet.  Don't use anything less than a 
recent 60gb HDD or the noises made by the heads when in use will drive 
you nuts.


Johnathon


It is possible to reduce seek noise with hdparm. I have done it with my 
apache server which is running less than a meter from my right ear. 
Quiet as a mouse now.
I have not noticed performance effect in my use but there might be some 
in heavy duty usage.


-M
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Re: [mythtv-users] New HDD for Mythtv 5400 or 7200 rpm

2005-11-26 Thread Johnathon Meichtry

I agree, if its for a backend go for speed speed speed.  Get the drive with 
the fastest RPM, the largest cache and fastest interface you can afford e.g. 
7200rpm SATA.  If possible get the fastest PCI-X SATA card you can find and 
you'll break the PCI bottleneck.


If it's for a frontend get a 4400rpm >60gb laptop HDD with a 2.5"-3.5" IDE 
adapter.  It'll be nice and quiet.  Don't use anything less than a recent 
60gb HDD or the noises made by the heads when in use will drive you nuts.


Johnathon



- Original Message - 
From: "Brandon Sherman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "Discussion about mythtv" 
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] New HDD for Mythtv 5400 or 7200 rpm


Hallo.
I'd go with the faster drive.  There could be more heat and more
power draw, but it will make sure that you won't have any issues
later down the line if you add extra tuners, etc.

And everyone has a war story about a different brand of hard drive.
Get one with at least a 3 year warranty.  Seagate, I believe, has 5
year warranties now but I'm not sure.

Brandon

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[mythtv-users] LIRC experience and ideas

2005-11-26 Thread Robert Denier

Typically to use LIRC you need a receiver and a compatible remote.  I bought 
packard bell receivers which come with the little packard bell remotes, that 
I wouldn't really recommend for long term use.

Here is the best plan I could come up with, so far anyway...

1) Buy a nice learning universal remote.
2) Set it to use the TIVO dvr code or something else nice, perhaps a dvd code.  
Make sure whatever you use gets responses in mode2.

At this point you will have a remote with a lot of buttons you can map, and 
likely some that don't do anything, that you want to use.  You could try to 
search for codes forever that make all the buttons you want to work, to 
actually work, but, well, I found that problematic.

Another alternative is the following.

3) Choose a secondary remote that isn't used with anything.  I used the 
packard bell one.  Take the file from your secondary remote and do something 
like
cat secondaryRemoteLirc.conf >> /etc/lirc.conf
The goal here is to append the secondary remote codes to this file.  Now go in 
and relabel all the secondary remote codes to something else.  I suggest 
prepending something like pb_.

4) Now take the buttons that don't do anything and teach them using them 
buttons from the secondary remote.

5) Finally edit your lircrc file to make it all work.

This should allow you to use all the buttons on a learning remote you want, 
without trying to find a magical code that has all the buttons active, and 
that your receiver can see the codes from.

Good Luck.
-Robert

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[mythtv-users] Xebian and 2.6 for mythtv

2005-11-26 Thread C. R. Oldham

Greetings,

>From the lists I seem to have gleaned that some people are running a 2.6
kernel on an Xbox with Xebian.  I managed to get the kernel compiled, but
it's not able to mount the root filesystem.  I get

Cannot open root device "ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2" or
unknown-block(0,0) 
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing : VFS unable to mount root fs on
unknown-block(0,0)

On a "regular" linux install I could fix this (e.g. lilo or grub needs
better options) but I don't understand and can't find docs for the xbox boot
process.

Has anyone been successful with a 2.6 kernel and Xebian?  How do you get it
booted?  I have Xebian installed on a native ext2 filesystem (drive "F") on
my Xbox and did have it running under 2.4.  It's just not quite fast enough
for mythtv.  I see almost imperceptible stuttering when playing DVDs with
Xine, and I was hoping that the better IO layer in 2.6 would get rid of
that.

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Re: [mythtv-users] New HDD for Mythtv 5400 or 7200 rpm

2005-11-26 Thread Brandon Sherman


Hallo.
I'd go with the faster drive.  There could be more heat and more  
power draw, but it will make sure that you won't have any issues  
later down the line if you add extra tuners, etc.


And everyone has a war story about a different brand of hard drive.   
Get one with at least a 3 year warranty.  Seagate, I believe, has 5  
year warranties now but I'm not sure.


Brandon

On Nov 26, 2005, at 8:31 AM, Christian Borchmann wrote:


hallo,

what hdd should i buy 5400 or 7200 rpm?

anyone uses the maxtor 5a320j0 disk? 320 gb for smal money...

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Re: [mythtv-users] New HDD for Mythtv 5400 or 7200 rpm

2005-11-26 Thread Marko Nurmenniemi

William wrote:

Christian Borchmann
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 11:32 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: [mythtv-users] New HDD for Mythtv 5400 or 7200 rpm

hallo,

what hdd should i buy 5400 or 7200 rpm?
anyone uses the maxtor 5a320j0 disk? 320 gb for smal money...

--
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Either is fast enough to keep up with mythtv so its up to you. Personally I
would go for the faster drive. 

IMHO - MAxtor drives are junk. Have had to replace 2 already. Of course,
they were both covered under warrenty so its not a huge deal. I noticed both
times they upgraded me to a different drive so it might be model specific.
Mine were both 240gb drives from about a year ago.

I have a 4800rpm laptop drive on mine...it is a frontend though.
Server has 5400rpm disks because of price, power reqs. and cooling needs 
are smaller.

-M

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

2005-11-26 Thread Mercury Morris

On 11/26/05, Shardayyy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:















I have actually tried removing the LIRC
package that was part of FC4 and am not sure if I got it all. Can you please give
a simple command that would do that for Fedora Core.Simple? 
No, not strictly simple.  As I remember, I had to use the --force
option of the rpm command.  See the man page for rpm.  After
issuing the command, I seem to remember that mplayer didn't work, UNTIL
I had successfully installed LIRC.  But this is all from memory, I
can retrieve the notes if absolutely necessary.


Also I was only able to get theses buttons
to work (up, down, left, right and the number buttons) and while these buttons
work, they seem to repeat 4 times for every button I push.

 

Any help would be appreciated.
As noted above, I can go through the log books for the MythTV systems
and extract the notes.  But, I'd rather not make that effort,
preferring instead to try to answer specific questions.

Here are some of the other things needed to get the ATI Remote Wonder
working.  Remember that most of these items are part of the LIRC
package, but you have to copy some files to the right place(s) for your
particular system.

You will need a file called "/etc/lircd.conf" that matches your ATI
Remote Wonder.  Most of the time, you can use one of the files in
the LIRC package.  But, you can also use irrecord to make your own
file, one that you absolutely know will match.  To use irrecord,
see the man page for it.  The man page is pretty good, but I'm not
sure how clearly it states that you have to stop other programs from
running while you run irrecord.  Also, irrecord requires one
specific device, /dev/lirc.  You may have to create a symbolic
link to /dev/lirc0 on your system.

But that's not all!  The names you chose (or are already in place)
in /etc/lircd.conf, must match the names in the file.
~/.mythtv/lircrc.  If they don't all match, then only those that
do match will work.  (Like say maybe, up, down, left, right,
)  When the names don't match, the key doesn't work.  For
example, one person might call the green key at the top "Power",
another might call it "On", or "System", or whatever.  I had this
problem for the green key, and it was hard to track down, but very easy
to fix.

Please read any and all documentation for LIRC that you can, as well as
the mailing list for LIRC.  The mailing list can be found on the
LIRC website, lirc.org, but news.gmane.org has the archive and it's a
bit easier to search there (on gmane).  Also please review your
LIRC installation, control files, etc.  If you come up with what
you think is a good installation but it still doesn't work, then post
the details of the problem.  I'll try to help solve specific
problems.

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

2005-11-26 Thread Shardayyy









I have actually tried removing the LIRC
package that was part of FC4 and am not sure if I got it all. Can you please give
a simple command that would do that for Fedora Core.

 

Also I was only able to get theses buttons
to work (up, down, left, right and the number buttons) and while these buttons
work, they seem to repeat 4 times for every button I push.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

 

 









From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mercury Morris
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005
12:18 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users]
Where's the ESC button on the ATI Remote Wonder?



 



On 11/26/05, Jakob
Fix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

Mercury, Michael,

thanks for the recommendations to use LIRC.  Is it painless to switch
from the kernel support to LIRC?  Is there some Howto for
this?  I'm
really uneasy to fix something that's not broke (well, it is not 
working, agreed).  I'm using the frontend on a Breezy Ubuntu, the
backend is on a Debian.



Well, complete disclosure
requires the following to be said:  There is a bit of work to be done switching
from kernel support to LIRC.  But after doing the work, I was quite happy
to have made the extra effort.

Here is how I started: I removed the LIRC package that had been loaded as part
of Fedora Core 3 installation.  Then, I downloaded lirc-0.7.2 package from
lirc.org.  By following the documentation in
the lirc-0.7.2 package (and there is a lot of documentation scattered
throughout), I was able to make the switch.

Before copying all my notes from the process, I recommend that you start with
the lirc-0.7.2 (or whatever is the latest) package and see how far you can get.
Since you are using both Ubuntu AND Debian, I'll assume that you know your way
around Linux.

Here's a hint: Only one of the kernel modules, ati_remote -and- lirc_atiusb,
can be active.  So, you must rename the ati_remote kernel module, AND then
you have to adjust the Ubuntu equivalent file for Fedora Core's
"/etc/modprobe.conf".

By now, it might seem that LIRC isn't worth it, like it might be way too much
work.  It isn't.  The LIRC package is really WELL DONE.  I have
no regrets whatsoever.  In fact, the package is so good, I was able to
figure out how to have multiple ATI Remote Wonder remotes controlling multiple
MythTV systems.  Having multiple MythTV systems using only the kernel
support might be a real challenge.

-- 
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[mythtv-users] mythtv on TV!

2005-11-26 Thread wctpl0l02

Hi all,

Wasn't it time for some publicity for the MythTV project?

I saw a PC running MythTV on TV.

It was shown on 3sat (program: neues) on Saturday 26/11/2005 around 18:30 MET.
The program's webpage is http://www.3sat.de/neues/ and the show was about:

 Home-Entertainment und IP-TV
   neues am 26. November: Diese Woche bei neues: Fernsehen όber das
   Internet "IP-TV", Media-Center PCs und Videocast's

To all MythTV developers: keep up the good work!

Cheers,

-- 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Recording quits early


Roger McClurg wrote:

I'm using myth 0.18.1. When recording two hour shows, recording stops 
after one hour and 50 minutes. I tried using the option to record 10 
minutes past the program end, but it too quit after 1 hour and 50 
minutes.


Can anyone please point me in the right direction?


Are the files exactly 2GB?  Are you using Samba?

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

2005-11-26 Thread Mercury Morris

On 11/26/05, Jakob Fix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mercury, Michael,thanks for the recommendations to use LIRC.  Is it painless to switchfrom the kernel support to LIRC?  Is there some Howto for this?  I'mreally uneasy to fix something that's not broke (well, it is not
working, agreed).  I'm using the frontend on a Breezy Ubuntu, thebackend is on a Debian.Well,
complete disclosure requires the following to be said:  There is a
bit of work to be done switching from kernel support to LIRC.  But
after doing the work, I was quite happy to have made the extra effort.

Here is how I started: I removed the LIRC package that had been loaded
as part of Fedora Core 3 installation.  Then, I downloaded
lirc-0.7.2 package from lirc.org.  By following the documentation
in the lirc-0.7.2 package (and there is a lot of documentation
scattered throughout), I was able to make the switch.

Before copying all my notes from the process, I recommend that you
start with the lirc-0.7.2 (or whatever is the latest) package and see
how far you can get.
Since you are using both Ubuntu AND Debian, I'll assume that you know your way around Linux.

Here's a hint: Only one of the kernel modules, ati_remote -and- lirc_atiusb,
can be active.  So, you must rename the ati_remote kernel module,
AND then you have to adjust the Ubuntu equivalent file for Fedora
Core's "/etc/modprobe.conf".

By now, it might seem that LIRC isn't worth it, like it might be way
too much work.  It isn't.  The LIRC package is really WELL
DONE.  I have no regrets whatsoever.  In fact, the package is
so good, I was able to figure out how to have multiple ATI Remote
Wonder remotes controlling multiple MythTV systems.  Having
multiple MythTV systems using only the kernel support might be a real
challenge.

-- 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Recording OK, but frontend logs an error


Gerald J. Berg wrote:

Every time my backend records a movie, the frontend reports a series 
of error messages. The recording is ok and there are no error messages 
in the backend log. Here is a series of messages from the frontend log 
including before, during and after. The messages that are confusing 
start at 04:25:03.993.



I'm assuming you're using SVN (since you didn't say).

It's not an error. Just messages. Nothing to worry about (unless it 
doesn't record).


It appears there is an extra forward slash (‘/’) in the path and that 
might be the issue.


Not on *nix. Might cause problems on some broken (wind)OS's, but hasn't 
been a problem on *nix for years and years and years.


Or the frontend might simply be attempting to monitor the recording 
too quickly as the file is just being created.



Yep.

Does anyone recognize this error? Does anyone think I should attempt 
to identify the reason for the error messages?



Nope.

Mike


2005-11-26 03:22:50.475 prebuffering pause

2005-11-26 04:25:02.834 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None

2005-11-26 04:25:02.834 Enable DPMS

2005-11-26 04:25:03.961 Using protocol version 15

2005-11-26 04:25:03.993 Invalid file handle when opening 
/video/store//1400_20051126042500_2005112606.nuv. 4 retries remaining.


2005-11-26 04:25:04.495 Invalid file handle when opening 
/video/store//1400_20051126042500_2005112606.nuv. 3 retries remaining.


2005-11-26 04:25:04.997 Invalid file handle when opening 
/video/store//1400_20051126042500_2005112606.nuv. 2 retries remaining.


2005-11-26 04:25:05.499 Invalid file handle when opening 
/video/store//1400_20051126042500_2005112606.nuv. 1 retries remaining.


2005-11-26 04:25:06.007 Disable DPMS

2005-11-26 04:25:06.015 Using protocol version 15

2005-11-26 04:25:06.470 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.

2005-11-26 04:25:06.470 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.

2005-11-26 04:25:06.701 Using XV port 240

2005-11-26 04:25:07.150 Changing from None to WatchingRecording

2005-11-26 04:25:07.179 Realtime priority would require SUID as root.

2005-11-26 04:25:07.279 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait

2005-11-26 04:25:09.733 prebuffering pause

2005-11-26 04:25:10.760 prebuffering pause

2005-11-26 04:25:11.694 prebuffering pause

2005-11-26 04:25:30.953 prebuffering pause

2005-11-26 06:00:00.355 Changing from WatchingRecording to 
WatchingPreRecorded


Thanks, Jerry



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[mythtv-users] Recording quits early

2005-11-26 Thread Roger McClurg

I'm using myth 0.18.1. When recording two hour shows, recording stops 
after one hour and 50 minutes. I tried using the option to record 10 
minutes past the program end, but it too quit after 1 hour and 50 minutes.


Can anyone please point me in the right direction?

Roger

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


Greg Estabrooks wrote:


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
 

IMHO the plain fits well with the "plain, simple, gray" design of the 
OSD.  Not that the icons wouldn't be good for another OSD...  (hint, hint ;)


Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] Question about myth v ideo


Mat Kyne wrote:

I was wondering if this is possible.  I usualy edit and transcode my 
recordings from HDTV to XviD. After I do this I store my shows in 
varoius folders - sorted by show - in the myth video default directory 
so that I can watch them again and store them untli the season is 
over, and then burned to dvd.  I like to view my videos in gallery 
mode, but when I navigate to a folder I get a picture of a manilla 
folder.  Is there a way to have myth video show an image for a 
directory? Maybe something like folder.jpg stored in the directory? I 
know nothing about coding, and very little about Linux, but I have 
seen this feature in other programs and i was wondering if it is 
possible in Myth.  Thanks -Mat


Hint for next time:  try first (or at least search--even if you searched 
for folder.jpg), then post.


http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/69517#69517

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RE: [mythtv-users] New HDD for Mythtv 5400 or 7200 rpm

2005-11-26 Thread William



> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> Christian Borchmann
> Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 11:32 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: [mythtv-users] New HDD for Mythtv 5400 or 7200 rpm
> 
> 
> hallo,
> 
> what hdd should i buy 5400 or 7200 rpm?
> 
> anyone uses the maxtor 5a320j0 disk? 320 gb for smal money...
> 
> -- 
> Christian "SPITFIRE" Borchmann 
> 

Either is fast enough to keep up with mythtv so its up to you. Personally I
would go for the faster drive. 

IMHO - MAxtor drives are junk. Have had to replace 2 already. Of course,
they were both covered under warrenty so its not a huge deal. I noticed both
times they upgraded me to a different drive so it might be model specific.
Mine were both 240gb drives from about a year ago.

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Re: [mythtv-users] xine DVD playback freezes halfway through...

2005-11-26 Thread Ramon Redondo

> Hello,
> I am running the newest version of xine/xine-lib/libdvdcss and am experiencing
> a problem where DVD playback freezes 1/2 to 2/3 of the way through the disk.
>
> Everything about the playback goes flawlessly up until the point it freezes,
> sometimes I notice that the playback (and additional attempts to play after
> this happens) just get exceedingly slow and choppy.  Some disks do not have
> this problem, and there have been circumstances where I can get through the
> problem disk without freezes.
>
> xine-check comes up clean, I notice a few Suspected RCE Region Protection!!!
> notices on the terminal prior to the freeze up.

I started having this same problem after my system had been up several
years.  I tried _everything_, including trying to chase down the 'RCE'
messages, which were a red herring.  In the end it appeared that it
was just the DVD drive failing... it was actualyl having trouble
reading sectors off some disks.  Switching in a new drive fixed the
problem.  I don't have a suggestion for which drive to use, since I
finally got around to fixing this YESTERDAY.
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[mythtv-users] New HDD for Mythtv 5400 or 7200 rpm

2005-11-26 Thread Christian Borchmann

hallo,

what hdd should i buy 5400 or 7200 rpm?

anyone uses the maxtor 5a320j0 disk? 320 gb for smal money...

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

2005-11-26 Thread Jakob Fix

Mercury, Michael,

thanks for the recommendations to use LIRC.  Is it painless to switch
from the kernel support to LIRC?  Is there some Howto for this?  I'm
really uneasy to fix something that's not broke (well, it is not
working, agreed).  I'm using the frontend on a Breezy Ubuntu, the
backend is on a Debian.

Thanks again.

On 26/11/05, Mercury Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/25/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > 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).
>
>  Just wanted to add a strong recommendation and add a second to Mike's
>  reason for using LIRC.  While the ATI Remote Wonder does indeed work
>  "out of thebox", LIRC gives you complete, easy control by simply modifying
>  the file "lircrc" in the ~/.mythtv directory.
>
>  LIRC - it's the better choice.
>
>  --
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[mythtv-users] Xbox CVS deb packages of version 22?

2005-11-26 Thread Mlists

Anyone have the deb packages built for a recent CVS build with version
22 support?

Norm

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

2005-11-26 Thread Mercury Morris

On 11/25/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Buttons on the remote can be mapped to certain keys (with the driverthat 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'ssource ( 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 affectyour real keyboard--which is a really good reason to use LIRC).
Just wanted to add a strong recommendation and add a second to Mike's
reason for using LIRC.  While the ATI Remote Wonder does indeed work
"out of thebox", LIRC gives you complete, easy control by simply modifying
the file "lircrc" in the ~/.mythtv directory.

LIRC - it's the better choice.

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

2005-11-26 Thread Wendy Seltzer

On 11/26/05, Nathan Allen Stratton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Paul V. Gratz wrote:> 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.What player are you using on your 650? Have you been able to streamanything to your treo using mythstream?
Not the original poster, but I've transcoded a few shows to the 650 for playback with TCPMP
, which works quite well with Xvid or avi files, as well as mp3s.  

I used nuvexport to transcode; can't recall how long it had to churn away.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Myth/HDTV dream system?

2005-11-26 Thread Len Reed


R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote:

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



Steve Adeff wrote:


This is what I did:

Silverstone LC16M-S


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



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


Very interesting.  My ati wonder USB receiver (from a "Lola" x10 system) 
seems only to get its own codes.




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


I'd be interested in knowing what you find out.



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


I'm interested in getting arbitrary signals for two reasons:
1. determine codes from the various remotes, as you say.  (I can now do 
that with a homebrew receiver, but it needs a real -- not USB -- serial 
port and those are rare these days.   Also, my receiver, built from the 
low-end of what's on lirc.org, is not really suited to production use.)
2. Allow use of the *best* remote from my home theatre system.  If I can 
process any code, I can pick the remote based solely on size and keypad 
arrangement.  (Many remote controls seems to have be designed for use by 
some species other than H. sapiens.)  Also, when the most-pressed keys 
wear out, I can replace it without having to buy an expense matching 
replacement.


My plan is to capture the IR codes at the computer and then translate 
and retransmit (over a real serial port use LIRC and wires to small IR 
diodes) to the various equipment.  This allows me to use an Athlon-64 
running Linux to control things, rather than a so-called Universal remote.


Consider the following as an example.  If I switch to "DVD" then one 
button labeled DVD on the remote could cause all of the following to happen:

a. switch HT amp to DVD audio input
b. raise volume on amp to compensate for lower input (skip if already in 
DVD mode).

c. switch TV input to DVD
d. set TV aspect ratio
e. turn off TV's built-in speakers (which I may use for simple viewing, 
e.g., the news, instead of the surround sound system).


Subsequent presses of FF, REW, pause, etc. would be translated and 
passed on to the DVD player.  Pressing another button would reconfigure 
everything for mythtv.


Much of the above can be done without so elaborate a scheme, but no 
univeral remote is going to allow the flexibilty that this will.  The 
end result is a system where the complexity is hidden inside LIRC setup 
and perl srcripts inside the HT computer, and a single remote provides a 
simple, consistent, and powerful control point.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Rundown on Videos

2005-11-26 Thread Kevin Kuphal


Thom Paine wrote:


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?)

   



I ripped them in Perfect for now, but I'm sure the problem is that it
can't mount the file as it's stored on the MBE and not locally on the
frontend. They play no problem on the MBE. I'm sure most of the codecs
are available, and when I checked the /video/videos directory, it
ripped it as a .VOB. I just picked up another DVD for $6 at Walmart
and I tried ripping that on Excellent, to see the file size and
quality difference.

 


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.

   



That good, thanks.


 


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.

   



Alright. I didn't experiment much with theis yet as the remote doesn't
want to work, but the MBE seems to run very well. It's stable and
sends recordings out to frontends with no problems.


 


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.

   



Raid 0+1 is two drives striped together (600G) and then mirrored on
the other two drives? Maybe I should get a cheap raid 5 card with 5 or
6 SATA ports on it for better performance?
 

I'd forget about RAID unless you simply *cannot* lose the data on the 
drives or you are doing *true* hardware RAID since software RAID can be 
a tricky proposition.  I've gone back and forth with RAID and ended up 
not using it.  I back up my DVD rips to dual-layer DVDs (most rips are 
Divx with AC3 tracks for space) which is cheap and does the job.  
Anything else I can lose since it's just TV.  Best part, I get to use 
all the space I paid for rather than losing some to RAID.


Just my 2 cents.

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

2005-11-26 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Paul V. Gratz wrote:

> 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.

What player are you using on your 650? Have you been able to stream
anything to your treo using mythstream?

-nathan
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[mythtv-users] No DVD video until I transcode something

2005-11-26 Thread Brad DerManouelian

I've recently installed xine-lib to enable DVD playback. Before xine,  
I got purple/green blocks for video. Now I've got a strange issue  
that feels like a permissions problem, but I'm not sure where to check.


When I reboot the machine (something I've been doing a lot more than  
I like, lately), and I immediately try to RIP or watch a DVD, I get  
the purple/green blocks. This problem goes away whenever I transcode  
anything. So after a reboot, I need to record some live tv for a  
couple of seconds, transcode it (which makes me lose audio for some  
other reason), then go back to watch DVD and it's fine.


It's not a huge deal since I shouldn't be rebooting very often, but  
these kinds of puzzles bug me until I figure them out. Any ideas?


-brad

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[mythtv-users] Recording OK, but frontend logs an error

2005-11-26 Thread Gerald J. Berg

Every time my backend records a movie, the frontend reports a series of
error messages. The recording is ok and there are no error messages in the
backend log. Here is a series of messages from the frontend log including before,
during and after. The messages that are confusing start at 04:25:03.993. It
appears there is an extra forward slash (‘/’) in the path and that
might be the issue. Or the frontend might simply be attempting to monitor the
recording too quickly as the file is just being created.

Does anyone recognize this error? Does anyone think I should attempt to
identify the reason for the error messages?

2005-11-26 03:22:50.475 prebuffering pause

2005-11-26 04:25:02.834 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None

2005-11-26 04:25:02.834 Enable DPMS

2005-11-26 04:25:03.961 Using protocol version 15

2005-11-26 04:25:03.993 Invalid file handle when opening
/video/store//1400_20051126042500_2005112606.nuv. 4 retries
remaining.

2005-11-26 04:25:04.495 Invalid file handle when opening
/video/store//1400_20051126042500_2005112606.nuv. 3 retries
remaining.

2005-11-26 04:25:04.997 Invalid file handle when opening
/video/store//1400_20051126042500_2005112606.nuv. 2 retries
remaining.

2005-11-26 04:25:05.499 Invalid file handle when opening /video/store//1400_20051126042500_2005112606.nuv.
1 retries remaining.

2005-11-26 04:25:06.007 Disable DPMS

2005-11-26 04:25:06.015 Using protocol version 15

2005-11-26 04:25:06.470 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.

2005-11-26 04:25:06.470 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.

2005-11-26 04:25:06.701 Using XV port 240

2005-11-26 04:25:07.150 Changing from None to WatchingRecording

2005-11-26 04:25:07.179 Realtime priority would require SUID as root.

2005-11-26 04:25:07.279 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait

2005-11-26 04:25:09.733 prebuffering pause

2005-11-26 04:25:10.760 prebuffering pause

2005-11-26 04:25:11.694 prebuffering pause

2005-11-26 04:25:30.953 prebuffering pause

2005-11-26 06:00:00.355 Changing from WatchingRecording to
WatchingPreRecorded

Thanks, Jerry

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[mythtv-users] MythTV on Itanium (IA-64)?

2005-11-26 Thread Erik Dooper

Hi,

maybe a weird question - I can get my hands on a dual Itanium 64-bit
box, w/ 4GB mem for little $$. I have been looking for a decent server,
since my PIII-933 is about to give up, and this came across my path.

Does somebody have any experiences running MythTV (backend only with a
PVR 250 and a PVR500MCE) on such an architecture (IA-64)? How dependent
is MythTV on the IA-32 architecture?

regards,

Erik
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Re: [mythtv-users] Rundown on Videos

2005-11-26 Thread Thom Paine

> 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?)
>

I ripped them in Perfect for now, but I'm sure the problem is that it
can't mount the file as it's stored on the MBE and not locally on the
frontend. They play no problem on the MBE. I'm sure most of the codecs
are available, and when I checked the /video/videos directory, it
ripped it as a .VOB. I just picked up another DVD for $6 at Walmart
and I tried ripping that on Excellent, to see the file size and
quality difference.

> 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.
>

That good, thanks.


> 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.
>

Alright. I didn't experiment much with theis yet as the remote doesn't
want to work, but the MBE seems to run very well. It's stable and
sends recordings out to frontends with no problems.


> 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.
>

Raid 0+1 is two drives striped together (600G) and then mirrored on
the other two drives? Maybe I should get a cheap raid 5 card with 5 or
6 SATA ports on it for better performance?

> 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.
>

Yes, the quality of hard drives is questionable these days. Thats why
I wanted to use raid.

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