date:20051206

I'm not sure what the Linux support is for this device, but it seemed 
interesting enough (and free enough) to post here as a possible IR 
receiver solution for Myth.


http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?sourceid=qIq2Q5WdfyB7AnCSxjQxsiteid=0040932038CMP=AFC-AFFILSku=C250-1160EdpNo=1104138SRCCODE=BEFREE

Kevin

--
Looking for affordable webhosting?  http://www.sitecity.net

___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 and DCT2200

2005-12-06 Thread Mark J. Small

 You'll need an IR blaster to change channels, and a lot of patience.
 I have a low success rate with my IR blaster and my DCT2100.  It's not that
 the IR blaster is so bad, but that the DCT box is very slow, and sometimes
 misses remote button presses.


I finally have things tweaked so that I barely miss any button presses any 
more with my setup.  I found that the most important thing was to use sudo 
and nice to make the change channel script top priority.  That way their is 
not too much delay between digits being sent to the box.

I found in my logs that on the failed channel changes, their was often a 5 
second delay between the first and second digits, thus the first digit was 
lost.  

I would try to change to channel 26 to watch Gundam Seed,  but the 2 would be 
lost and I would be stuck with half an hour of Leno on 6.  

In mythtv-setup my change channel script is call thus:

sudo nice -n 15 /usr/local/tunetv2

where tunetv2 is my customized change channel script that uses the correct ir 
blaster (I have 2).

Give this a try, it may work for you as well.

Mark
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] RE: xbox dvd remote on xebian 1.1.4

2005-12-06 Thread greg

 More info here...irw can see the signal coming from the remote
 ...Snip... 
 This has to be something simple to fix that I'm missing.

 Daniel

Check permissions maybe?  Mine's 644 owned by live:live...

Good luck!

Greg
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: USB IR Receiver Free after rebate

2005-12-06 Thread Phil Bridges

On 12/6/05, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I'm not sure what the Linux support is for this device, but it seemed
 interesting enough (and free enough) to post here as a possible IR
 receiver solution for Myth.

 http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?sourceid=qIq2Q5WdfyB7AnCSxjQxsiteid=0040932038CMP=AFC-AFFILSku=C250-1160EdpNo=1104138SRCCODE=BEFREE

 Kevin



That's IRDA, not plain IR.  I'm not sure what kind of support amongst
devices you'll find for that.
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] RE: xbox dvd remote on xebian 1.1.4

yep, I tried 755 the other day but still no luck :(  Thanks though

Daniel

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  More info here...irw can see the signal coming from the remote
  ...Snip... 
  This has to be something simple to fix that I'm missing.
 
  Daniel

 Check permissions maybe?  Mine's 644 owned by live:live...

 Good luck!

 Greg
 ___
 mythtv-users mailing list
 mythtv-users@mythtv.org
 http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users


___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] yum difficulties FC4 mythtv i386

2005-12-06 Thread Mike Schiller

I had the same problem on x86_64, even though the same installation
method worked for me on an i386 box just last week.  It appears that
something has changed at atrpms, and that the atrpms.repo file on
Jarod's guide isn't yet updated.

Try deleting the contents of /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo and
replacing the text with:

[atrpms]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable

I found this answer at:
http://atrpms.net/install.html

I should mention that it still isn't quite working for me.  After all
of the requisite packages have downloaded I get the error message:

Public key for ffmpeg-0.4.9-10_cvs20050612.rhfc4.at.x86_64.rpm is not installed

So, please let me know if you're able to install without similar
errors.  Does anyone know if this is my problem, or a problem with the
repository?

Thanks,
Mike

On 12/6/05, Tony O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I am using Jarod's guide to install a mythtv front end on a second computer.
 I already have a working front and backend so I am not entirely new to this
 process. But I am stumped at the step in the guide where:

  yum install mythtv-suite

  is called.

  I get the message:

  Parsing package install arguments
  No Match for argument: mythtv-suite
  Nothing to do

  I have added the atrpms as a repository. But I don't see the Fedora Core 4
 version of mythtv in the repository for i386. I see it for i386_x64 FC4 and
 i386 FC3 but not i386 FC4.

  Well let me modify that statement. The packages are there in this
 directory:

  http://atrpms.net/dist/fc4/mythtv/

  but I don't see how I can get yum to see it.

  Here is the part of yum.conf

  [atrpms]
  name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
 baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable

  but the directory
 http://dl.atrpms.net/fc4-i386/atrpms/stable does not exist!
 There is the directory

  http://dl.atrpms.net/fc4-i386/atrpms/testing/

  but mythtv is not in that directory.

  So can someone shed some much needed light on this problem?

  Thanks in advance.

  -TO

  Should I be using a different tool to install a myth?





 --
 --Tony

 The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.-Plutarch
 ___
 mythtv-users mailing list
 mythtv-users@mythtv.org
 http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users



___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] RE: xbox dvd remote on xebian 1.1.4


On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Fred Squires wrote:

 On 12/6/05, Daniel Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  More info here...irw can see the signal coming from the remote
 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ irw
  00559aa6 00 UP XboxDVDRemote
  00559aa6 01 UP XboxDVDRemote
  00558aa7 00 DOWN XboxDVDRemote
  00558aa7 01 DOWN XboxDVDRemote
  00557aa8 00 RIGHT XboxDVDRemote
  00557aa8 01 RIGHT XboxDVDRemote
  00556aa9 00 LEFT XboxDVDRemote
  00531ace 00 1 XboxDVDRemote
  00531ace 01 1 XboxDVDRemote
  00532acd 00 2 XboxDVDRemote
  00533acc 00 3 XboxDVDRemote
 
  I installed my .lircrc file from
  http://bit.blkbk.com/mythtv-xbox.0.4.5-beta.tar.gz
 
  #cd /tmp
  #wget http://bit.blkbk.com/mythtv-xbox.0.4.5-beta.tar.gz
  #tar xpzvf mythtv-xbox.0.4.5-beta.tar.gz
  #cd /tmp/live
  #cp lircrc /home/live/.lircrc
  #ln -s /home/live/.lircrc /home/live/.mythtv/lircrc
 
  When I use the remote without the frontend running I can see the mouse
  moving
  up, down, left, right, etc.  It just seems like lirc isn't letting the
  mythfrontend know about the signals from the remote.
 
  This has to be something simple to fix that I'm missing.
 
  Daniel
 
 
   The remote should work with just Xebian being installed, without messing
   around with any config files.  Try using the remote outside of MythTV to
   move the cursor around the desktop.  It should work.
  
   I think this command will show you if the xbox is receiving the signals:
  
   $/usr/bin/irw
  
   Adam
 

 It sounds like your remote is working but you're missing an lircrc file for
 mythtv, or it's configured improperly.  I can't send you one right now
 because I'm at work, but that might point you in the right direction.

cool, thanks.  I attached the lircrc file that I'm using to this email.

 You should stop the remote from controlling the cursor, it'll make strange and
 annoying things happen in the background. To do this, comment out the
 following line in the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4-xbox InputDevice LIRC-Mouse

I'll give that a try when I get home tonight.

Daniel

# ~/.mythtv/lircrc
#
# MythTV native LIRC config file for
# the Microsoft DVD remote
#
# By Dennis Cartier 2004/05/01
#
# Amalgamated from Jarod Wilson's,
# Amalgamated from Jeff Campbell's,
# .lircrc, the mythtv.org docs, and
# a few touches of my own. :)
#

# Up
begin
prog = mythtv
button = UP
repeat = 4
config = Up
end

# Down
begin
prog = mythtv
button = DOWN
repeat = 4
config = Down
end

# Fast forward (30 sec default)
begin
prog = mythtv
button = RIGHT
repeat = 4
config = Right
end

# Rewind (5 sec default)
begin
prog = mythtv
button = LEFT
repeat = 4
config = Left
end

# Skip forward (10 min default)
begin
prog = mythtv
button = FORWARD
repeat = 4
config = PgDown
end

# Skip backward (10 min default)
begin
prog = mythtv
button = REVERSE
repeat = 4
config = PgUp
end

# OK/Select
begin
prog = mythtv
button = SELECT
repeat = 4
config = Space
end

# Play
begin
prog = mythtv
button = PLAY
repeat = 4
config = Return
end

# Stop
begin
prog = mythtv
button = STOP
config = Esc
end

# Escape/Exit/Back
begin
prog = mythtv
button = BACK
repeat = 4
config = Esc
end

#~ # Power Off/Exit
#~ begin
#~ prog = mythtv
#~ button = OFF
#~ config = Esc
#~ end

#~ # Red means stop!
#~ begin
#~ prog = mythtv
#~ button = RED
#~ config = Esc
#~ end

# Pause
begin
prog = mythtv
button = PAUSE
repeat = 4
config = P
end

#~ # Mute - Xbox has no mixer !! :(
#~ begin
#~ prog = mythtv
#~ button = 
#~ repeat = 4
#~ config = F9
#~ end

#~ # Record
#~ begin
#~ prog = mythtv
#~ button = RECORD
#~ repeat = 4
#~ config = R
#~ end

#~ # Delete
#~ begin
#~ prog = mythtv
#~ button = BLANK
#~ repeat = 4
#~ config = D
#~ end

# OSD browse
begin
prog = mythtv
button = MENU
repeat = 4
config = O
end

# Bring up OSD info
begin
prog = mythtv
button = INFO
repeat = 4
config = I
end

# Bring up XV picture controls
begin
prog = mythtv
button = TITLE
repeat = 4
config = F
end

# Display EPG while in live TV,
# View selected show while in EPG
begin
prog = mythtv
button = DISPLAY
repeat = 4
config = M
end

#~ # Scroll up
#~ begin
#~ prog = mythtv
#~ button = VOL+
#~ repeat = 4
#~ config = Right
#~ end

#~ # Scroll down
#~ begin
#~ prog = mythtv
#~ button = VOL-
#~ repeat = 4
#~ config = Left
#~ end

#~ # Change display aspect ratio
#~ begin
#~ prog = mythtv
#~ button = FULL
#~ repeat = 4
#~ config = W
#~ end

#~ # Seek to previous commercial cut point
#~ begin
#~ prog = mythtv
#~ button = YELLOW
#~ repeat = 4
#~ config = Q
#~ end

#~ # Seek to next commercial cut point
#~ begin
#~ prog = mythtv
#~ button = BLUE
#~ repeat = 4
#~ config = Z
#~ end

# Numbers 0-9

begin
prog = mythtv
button = 0
repeat = 4
config = 0
end

begin
prog = mythtv
button = 1
repeat = 4
config = 1
end

begin
prog = mythtv
button = 2
repeat = 4
config = 2
end

begin
prog = mythtv
button = 3
repeat = 4
config = 3
end

begin
prog = mythtv
button = 4
repeat = 4
config = 4
end

begin
prog = mythtv

Re: [mythtv-users] yum difficulties FC4 mythtv i386

2005-12-06 Thread Mike Schiller

OK, I figured out the public key problem.  The solution was at the top
of the same web page I mention in my last post.  If you have the same
problem try:

rpm --import http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms

Of course, for every problem I solve, another crops up.  When I launch
the frontend on my x86_64 machine, it tries to connect to my i386
backend and segfaults.  The error messages I see are:

mythtv: could not connect to socket
mythtv: No such file or directory
.
.
.
segfault or Bus Error

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
--Mike


On 12/6/05, Mike Schiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I had the same problem on x86_64, even though the same installation
 method worked for me on an i386 box just last week.  It appears that
 something has changed at atrpms, and that the atrpms.repo file on
 Jarod's guide isn't yet updated.

 Try deleting the contents of /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo and
 replacing the text with:

 [atrpms]
 name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
 baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable

 I found this answer at:
 http://atrpms.net/install.html

 I should mention that it still isn't quite working for me.  After all
 of the requisite packages have downloaded I get the error message:

 Public key for ffmpeg-0.4.9-10_cvs20050612.rhfc4.at.x86_64.rpm is not 
 installed

 So, please let me know if you're able to install without similar
 errors.  Does anyone know if this is my problem, or a problem with the
 repository?

 Thanks,
 Mike

 On 12/6/05, Tony O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I am using Jarod's guide to install a mythtv front end on a second computer.
  I already have a working front and backend so I am not entirely new to this
  process. But I am stumped at the step in the guide where:
 
   yum install mythtv-suite
 
   is called.
 
   I get the message:
 
   Parsing package install arguments
   No Match for argument: mythtv-suite
   Nothing to do
 
   I have added the atrpms as a repository. But I don't see the Fedora Core 4
  version of mythtv in the repository for i386. I see it for i386_x64 FC4 and
  i386 FC3 but not i386 FC4.
 
   Well let me modify that statement. The packages are there in this
  directory:
 
   http://atrpms.net/dist/fc4/mythtv/
 
   but I don't see how I can get yum to see it.
 
   Here is the part of yum.conf
 
   [atrpms]
   name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
  baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable
 
   but the directory
  http://dl.atrpms.net/fc4-i386/atrpms/stable does not exist!
  There is the directory
 
   http://dl.atrpms.net/fc4-i386/atrpms/testing/
 
   but mythtv is not in that directory.
 
   So can someone shed some much needed light on this problem?
 
   Thanks in advance.
 
   -TO
 
   Should I be using a different tool to install a myth?
 
 
 
 
 
  --
  --Tony
 
  The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.-Plutarch
  ___
  mythtv-users mailing list
  mythtv-users@mythtv.org
  http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
 
 
 

___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] New widescreen theme coming soon (a little OT)

On Tuesday 06 December 2005 07:20, Justin Hornsby wrote:
 Ok folks.  As promised, I've been beavering away converting my
 ProjectGrayhem theme to wide.  There are some screenshots over at
 www.juski.co.uk/pg-wide

 It'll be out when it's ready, and not before, unlike the last theme I
 bashed out ;)

 Thoughts, opinions etc to the usual place...

 Regards,
 Justin.

looks great, can't wait!

Steve
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: USB IR Receiver Free after rebate

2005-12-06 Thread Tom Lichti


Phil Bridges wrote:

On 12/6/05, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  

I'm not sure what the Linux support is for this device, but it seemed
interesting enough (and free enough) to post here as a possible IR
receiver solution for Myth.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?sourceid=qIq2Q5WdfyB7AnCSxjQxsiteid=0040932038CMP=AFC-AFFILSku=C250-1160EdpNo=1104138SRCCODE=BEFREE

Kevin





That's IRDA, not plain IR.  I'm not sure what kind of support amongst
devices you'll find for that.
  
I have a similar unit, and from all the documentation I read, it 
_cannot_ work, at least the way LIRC is designed.


Tom
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] XVMC Support for Intel 810

2005-12-06 Thread Jeff Roberts

I've got a couple of small compaq deskpro en's that i use for
frontends.  They are celeron 700's.  With the on board i810 they
couldnt handle 720x480 video from my pvr-500.  I bought a couple of
geforce mx4000 pci cards for them and now they work like champs.  I
highly reccomend this solution.  The pci geforce cards can be had for
less than $50 new.  A lot of them have svideo out as an added bonus.

On 12/6/05, Jeff Clemens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 It does appear that the ATRPMS myth package has XvMC support (per a posting
 on the ATRPMS list that I found.  In any case, it doesn't seem to work with
 the Intel 810 as far as I can tell.  I just need a little acceleration, as
 most of the time, playback works perfectly, it's only after I've hit rewind
 or fast forward that the video starts to lag... It never catches back up,
 unless I slow playback down to 50% speed for 30 seconds... I can then switch
 it back to 100% (or faster) and have it run perfectly indefinitely (unless I
 rewind or fast forward again).  So just a little bit of acceleration would
 have things working perfectly.

 I'm considering turning off the onboard vga and picking up an nVidia card
 unless I can get acceleration working on the 810.  It would be nice to not
 have to use my one remaining PCI slot for vga, but if it works, that could
 be the solution.



 On 12/5/05, Todd Ignasiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  If I remember correctly,   the Intel 810/815 chips don't support the full
 MPEG2 acceleration capabilities.
 
  XvMC supports offload of MPEG2 Motion Compensation (which is the MC in
 XvMC) and iDCT (inverse Discrete Cosine Transform).   iDCT is the more CPU
 intensive component of the two.   But, I think the i810 only offloads the
 MC.   So, you probably won't get much boost out of XvMC on that platform.
 
  A Google search turn up this page, which talks about the capapilities of
 various cards with DxVA, the Windows equivalent to XvMC:
 http://www.elecard.com/technology/dxva.shtml(Note that
 it doesn't include the newer NVidia GeForce 4MX or GeForce FX cards, which
 support full iDCT offload in Linux.)
 
 
 
 
  On 12/4/05, Jeff Clemens  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
  
   So from what i've read, XVMC was originally developed for the Intel 810
 chipset, but I can't seem to find any information on how to get it working
 with anything but nVidia video cards.
  
   I'm running FC4 on a fairly underpowered (700Mhz) box.  I actually have
 2 of the same boxes, but one uses a PVR350 and therefore uses the
 accelerated output, but my other box uses VGA for display, and I get really
 choppy video without XVMC.  If I enable XVMC in the setup screen, I get
 Can't initialize Video messages when trying to playback a recording.
  
   Any tips/tricks that anyone on here knows about?
  
   Thanks,
  
   Jeff
   ___
   mythtv-users mailing list
   mythtv-users@mythtv.org
   http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
  
  
  
 
 
  ___
  mythtv-users mailing list
  mythtv-users@mythtv.org
  http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
 
 
 


 ___
 mythtv-users mailing list
 mythtv-users@mythtv.org
 http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users



___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Changing watch recordings groups

2005-12-06 Thread James Grant

Hey there, I have a question about the watch recordings screen.  I really 
like how it creates program groups based on the show title, then shows each 
episode inside the the list for the group

but...

what I don't like, is how every movie that i record gets its own program group 
created, with  (obviously) only one episode inside the group.  What I was 
wondering is, if there was a special way to continue grouping by show title 
for everything except movies, and have all movies go into a special group, 
called Movies.  I'd be happy moving them manually after recording is done, 
or automatically would be even better!

Alias -Fait Accompli
Out of the Box

Lost - What Kate Did
The Other 48 Days
Collision
Abandoned
Orientation
Adrift

Movies -Assassins
The Mummy
Mortal Kombat
Multiplicity
etc.

Is this possible?

Cheers,
   James


-- 
James Grant
Lightbox Technologies Inc.
http://www.lightbox.org
613-294-3670
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] yum difficulties FC4 mythtv i386

2005-12-06 Thread Michael Bochynski

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 10:30 -0500, Mike Schiller wrote:
 OK, I figured out the public key problem. 

Would this email help? It was posted on this very list:
posted on Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:31:35 +0100  (12:31 EST):


Hello,

apt.physik.fu-berlin.de was already deprecated more than a year ago,
and apt.atrpms.net was deprecated in July 2005.

While = 90% of the users have switched, there are still about 5000
users on apt.atrpms.net and 2000 on apt.physik.fu-berlin.de (numbers
derived from unique daily visits).  apt.atrpms.net is mainly used by
FC3 users, and apt.physik.fu-berlin.de by RH9 and FC1 users.

Please update your apt and yum configurations to use
dl.atrpms.net. E.g. for FC3:

= apt config for FC3/i386

# 
# atrpms
# Fedora Core 3 - i386 - ATrpms
# 
rpm http://dl.atrpms.net fc3-i386/atrpms stable
#rpm-src http://dl.atrpms.net/src fc3-i386/atrpms stable

= yum config for FC3/i386

[atrpms]
name=Fedora Core 3 - i386 - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc3-i386/atrpms/stable
failovermethod=priority

=

Replace fc3 with fc2/rh9 etc.

apt.atrpms.net and apt.physik.fu-berlin.de will be withdrawn by the
end of this year.

Thanks!
-- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net


___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Changing watch recordings groups

 what I don't like, is how every movie that i record gets its own program 
 group 
 created, with  (obviously) only one episode inside the group.  What I was 
 wondering is, if there was a special way to continue grouping by show title 
 for everything except movies, and have all movies go into a special group, 
 called Movies.  I'd be happy moving them manually after recording is done, 
 or automatically would be even better!

The groupings are normally determined by the programs's title and subtitle 
unless
you've turned on some other settings in which case you may see categories or
recording groups I believe.  I think what you want can be accomplished in 
current
SVN by using the title/subtitle editor for a recording and changing the title to
Movies and the subtitle to the actual movie name.  If you're running a 0.18.x
version, you'll have to wait for 0.19.  If you're running SVN, look on the 
popup INFO
menu for a recording to access the editor.

-- 
Chris

___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Configuring SPDIF digital out.

2005-12-06 Thread Mat Kyne

I  recently replaced my home theatre reciever with one that has digital 
inputs (old one was  5.1 analog), 2 coax and 1 optical.  Naturally I would 
like to get the best sound from my  HD-MythTV box,  (that might be the 
reason I bought the new reciever but don't tell that to my wife), so I 
removed the SB Live! 5.1 (analog) sound card that i had installed, went into 
the BIOS settings and enabled the onboard soundcard  that has a SPDIF coax 
connector.  When I rebooted, KDE told me that it could not find the sound 
card, So I went under System Settings - Soundcard Detection, and it foud it 
rightaway. Cool. ( I have the line out  from the mother board connected to 
my TV and the Coax connected to my reciever) Sound comes out of the Tv but 
not the reciever. I go into Myth Frontend, and select a HD  recording to 
play, Again sound out of the TV but not the reciever.  I then gointo 
settings and switch between the 3 settings available to me, and when i try 
to play a HD recording Myth informs me that it cannot find the sound card. 
Well at this time i figure that the ALSA mixer has muted the SPDIF connector 
so I  try to open up alsamixer and get the following error message:
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or 
directory


I tried to google that, but I only found people who had the same error 
message, not what  they had done to fix it.  I tried looking in my 
/etc/modprob.conf file:


alias eth0 sk98lin
options snd-emu10k1 index=0
remove snd-emu10k1 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 /dev/null 21 || : ;
}; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1
alias char-major-81 cx8800
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd
alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
# nvidia kernel module
alias char-major-195 nvidia-1_0-7174
alias nvidia nvidia-1_0-7174
options snd-intel8x0 index=1
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 1 /dev/null 21 || :
; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-intel8x0 index=0
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 /dev/null 21 || :
; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0

and I am not sure what to do with it. The options snd-intel8x0 index=1 line 
is refering to my newly detected sound caard, and the emu10k1 is the old 
one.


Also if I type aplay -l, the following is displayed:

 List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices 
card 1: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH5]
 Subdevices: 1/1
 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH5 - 
IEC958]

 Subdevices: 1/1
 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I am at a loss for what to do.  Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to 
give as much information as possible. -Mat



___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Changing watch recordings groups

2005-12-06 Thread James Grant

Excellent thanks - im running 0.18.1, and my gf would kill me if i broke it 
upgrading to SVN, so i'll wait till 0.19.

Definitely changing the Title to Movies and the Subtitle to the movie name 
would produce the desired results...  Thanks!

I suppose I could write a quick php interface to make the changes directly in 
the database...  or add it (temporarily?) to mythweb..  (has this ability 
been added to mythweb in svn?)

  James

On Tuesday 06 December 2005 11:04 am, Chris Pinkham wrote:
  what I don't like, is how every movie that i record gets its own program
  group created, with  (obviously) only one episode inside the group. 
  What I was wondering is, if there was a special way to continue grouping
  by show title for everything except movies, and have all movies go into a
  special group, called Movies.  I'd be happy moving them manually
  after recording is done, or automatically would be even better!

 The groupings are normally determined by the programs's title and subtitle
 unless you've turned on some other settings in which case you may see
 categories or recording groups I believe.  I think what you want can be
 accomplished in current SVN by using the title/subtitle editor for a
 recording and changing the title to Movies and the subtitle to the actual
 movie name.  If you're running a 0.18.x version, you'll have to wait for
 0.19.  If you're running SVN, look on the popup INFO menu for a recording
 to access the editor.

-- 
James Grant
Lightbox Technologies Inc.
http://www.lightbox.org
613-294-3670
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC not working within Myth

2005-12-06 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury

On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 21:54:51 -0700, John DiLorenzo wrote:
Hi Guys,

I'm slowly fixing all the problems of my Myth setup, but I just can't figure
out my LIRC problem...

Here's the issue:

LIRCD seems to run on startup, but IRW won't work and a /sbin/service lircd
status comes back with lircd dead but subsys locked

If it does this on every boot then there is something wrong in the lirc
backend. Does it say this if you reboot and immediately run 'service lirc
status' or did you get this after playing around? If the latter then
whatever you *did* killed it.
For testing, you may want to try adding a script to rc.local which does a)
 rm -f -y /var/lock/subsys/lircd and b) service lircd restart.

At least then you can be sure that the backend is up.


If I do a /sbin/modprobe lirc_i2c  and then start the service manually,
everything looks good and irw shows me button presses like a madman...
After getting it to work, I start up my frontend and try using the remote
there-  nothing happens.

Here's my configuration:

Athlon 2100 running Fedora Core 4 installed using Jarod's guide
PVR-150 using the new grey/black remote.

I'm using the lircrc file for that remote listed on Jarod's page.  It seems
to be complete and in the correct places, including a .lircrc file located
in the MYTHTV user's home folder.

Any ideas?

During my 8 round arm-wrestle with lirc, I discovered
a)  that multiple copies of lircrc (and .lircrc) are a prescription
for disaster. I removed all of them except for the ultimate default
instance /etc/.lircrc.

b)  that the *names* of the buttons in the lircd.conf and lircrc
files must be exactly the same for (at least) myth to handle them
properly. If the incoming ir code (00012345 etc.) maps to VolumeUp in
lircd.conf, it must be mapped exactly to VolumeUp in lircrc (not Vol+ or
Volume+) for the match to work Think of the codes and descriptions as
case statements, in the 2 files:
Case 00012345  then VolumeUp... Case VolumeUp then irxevent
V+5.

Once I got that correct, my remote worked in myth... (not that the buttons
map to things that I find useful, but at least things are being passed
through properly).

HTH

Geoff




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

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

___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] RE: xbox dvd remote on xebian 1.1.4

2005-12-06 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 00:38:39 -0500 (EST), Daniel Walton wrote:

More info here...irw can see the signal coming from the remote

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ irw
00559aa6 00 UP XboxDVDRemote
00559aa6 01 UP XboxDVDRemote
00558aa7 00 DOWN XboxDVDRemote
00558aa7 01 DOWN XboxDVDRemote
00557aa8 00 RIGHT XboxDVDRemote
00557aa8 01 RIGHT XboxDVDRemote
00556aa9 00 LEFT XboxDVDRemote
00531ace 00 1 XboxDVDRemote
00531ace 01 1 XboxDVDRemote
00532acd 00 2 XboxDVDRemote
00533acc 00 3 XboxDVDRemote

I installed my .lircrc file from
http://bit.blkbk.com/mythtv-xbox.0.4.5-beta.tar.gz

As I understand it, irw reports the ir code and the key mapping from the
lircd.conf file.
The lircrc file has to have the same name for the key mapping.
Check both files to see if the name is reported as UP or UP
XboxDVDRemote in lircd.conf and whether it is the same in lircrc.
You may want to edit the lircd.conf file to remove the XboxDVDRemote if
that exists in every line.
Make sure lircrc uses the same names, exactly.

Then make sure that the proper command is called in myth in the stanza for
the keypress in lircrc.

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

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

___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC not working within Myth

2005-12-06 Thread Sdk

 I've got the same problem.  I've searched the archives without much
 luck.  The only thing that gets close is a guy who said fixed the
 issue by updating his lirc-kmdl file.

I'm that guy. I had the same issue after doing a dist-upgrade and
jarod instructed me to upgrade my lirc-kmdl. I did that, rebooted and
lirc worked after that.


 I'm using FC4-i386 and atrpms.  I immediately tried to upgrade to see
 if there was a newer version available.  Unfortunately I'm getting 404
 errors for the stable branch of atrpms right now.
 ___
 mythtv-users mailing list
 mythtv-users@mythtv.org
 http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] latest svn and pwm to voltage conversion for fans

2005-12-06 Thread Marius Schrecker

Hi again,

two questions:
1. What is the state of the latest svn? Anything I should be avoiding

2. More like train of thought than a question, but here goes:
Still on the quest for a quieter mythbox. I'm swapping my 2 pin 92mm
SilenX fan for an updated 3 pin version with rpm monitoring. I happened to
mention to the supplier that I'd be using pwm to control it, and he said
that pwm wasn't supported because of the extra vibration caused by the
pulsing, and pointed me to a statement by the manufacturer which
identified pwm contacts as being 4 pin. My contacts are 3 pin, but
fancontrol identifies the pwm interface in sys and slows down my other
fans. Question is if anyone can think of a way (other than connecting up
an oscilloscope) to identify what's coming out of the contacts. It could
be that as they are 3 pin the pwm signal is filtered onboard to produce a
variable voltage...or not, in which case I could connect up a simple
filter network myself, I might lose a couple of extra dB by running the
fans from smooth dc rather than pwm. I'd need to know the frequency in
order to get the low pass filter right.

Has anyone done anything similar?
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Configuring SPDIF digital out.

2005-12-06 Thread Marius Schrecker

 I  recently replaced my home theatre reciever with one that has digital
 inputs (old one was  5.1 analog), 2 coax and 1 optical.  Naturally I would
 like to get the best sound from my  HD-MythTV box,  (that might be the
 reason I bought the new reciever but don't tell that to my wife), so I
 removed the SB Live! 5.1 (analog) sound card that i had installed, went
 into
 the BIOS settings and enabled the onboard soundcard  that has a SPDIF coax
 connector.  When I rebooted, KDE told me that it could not find the sound
 card, So I went under System Settings - Soundcard Detection, and it foud
 it
 rightaway. Cool. ( I have the line out  from the mother board connected to
 my TV and the Coax connected to my reciever) Sound comes out of the Tv but
 not the reciever. I go into Myth Frontend, and select a HD  recording to
 play, Again sound out of the TV but not the reciever.  I then gointo
 settings and switch between the 3 settings available to me, and when i try
 to play a HD recording Myth informs me that it cannot find the sound card.
 Well at this time i figure that the ALSA mixer has muted the SPDIF
 connector
 so I  try to open up alsamixer and get the following error message:
 alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or
 directory

 I tried to google that, but I only found people who had the same error
 message, not what  they had done to fix it.  I tried looking in my
 /etc/modprob.conf file:

 alias eth0 sk98lin
 options snd-emu10k1 index=0
 remove snd-emu10k1 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 /dev/null 21 || : ;
 }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1
 alias char-major-81 cx8800
 alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
 alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd
 alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
 # nvidia kernel module
 alias char-major-195 nvidia-1_0-7174
 alias nvidia nvidia-1_0-7174
 options snd-intel8x0 index=1
 remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 1 /dev/null 21 || :
 ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
 alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
 options snd-card-0 index=0
 options snd-intel8x0 index=0
 remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 /dev/null 21 || :
 ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0

 and I am not sure what to do with it. The options snd-intel8x0 index=1
 line
 is refering to my newly detected sound caard, and the emu10k1 is the old
 one.

 Also if I type aplay -l, the following is displayed:

  List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices 
 card 1: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH5]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
 card 1: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH5 -
 IEC958]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

 I am at a loss for what to do.  Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to
 give as much information as possible. -Mat


I take it you've looked at the digital sound howto (link from Jarods
wonderful guide).
there's a sample asoundrc there that might help you.

Cheers

Marius
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb and

2005-12-06 Thread Jeff Simpson

However thanks to Andrew because the apt-get did acutally installapache2 and now I have to use it because if I start 
1.3 itdownloads the text of the php page (go figure)yeah, that's a typical thing for apache to do when it doesn't have mod_php working. It does the same thing with perl if the perl module isn't working. It's probably because it also installed php and mod_php again (with apache2), so the apache1 version of them is gone. You may as well do the full update to apache2 while you're at it, because it's going to keep trying to install itself with every update anyway, I bet. I have the opposite problem - apache1 keeps wanting to install, despite the fact that I've had apache2 installed and operating for years! gah...
- Jeff
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] lirc 0.72 ebuild failing

2005-12-06 Thread Preston Crow

On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 17:47 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 The newer kenrl (starting with 2.6.13) removed
 some of the classes used in lirc = 0.7.2. The CVS version worked for me
 and I modified the ebuild to use it. If you're interested you can download
 it from here:
 
 http://www.jehster.net/gentoo/packages/lirc/lirc-0.8.0_pre1.ebuild
 
 and followed the directions here to install it:
 
 http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds
 
 You'll also have to unmask it by adding =app-misc/lirc-0.8.0_pre1 ~x86 to
 /etc/portage/package.keywords and emerged it as normal.

Your ebuild gave me modules that load, but I'm
missing /etc/init.d/lircd.  I fixed that with:

# cd /usr/local/portage/app-misc/lirc
# mkdir files
# cp -p /usr/portage/app-misc/lirc/files/lirc[a-z]* files/
# ebuild lirc-0.8.0_pre1.ebuild digest
# emerge lirc

So the ebuild is fine, it just requires files that are in the regular
portage tree to be copied into the overlay tree.  Now everything seems
to be fine, though I'm not in front of the machine, so I can't test the
remote.

--PC


___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] lirc 0.72 ebuild failing

2005-12-06 Thread mythtv

Preston Crow wrote:
 Your ebuild gave me modules that load, but I'm
 missing /etc/init.d/lircd.  I fixed that with:

 # cd /usr/local/portage/app-misc/lirc
 # mkdir files
 # cp -p /usr/portage/app-misc/lirc/files/lirc[a-z]* files/
 # ebuild lirc-0.8.0_pre1.ebuild digest
 # emerge lirc

 So the ebuild is fine, it just requires files that are in the regular
 portage tree to be copied into the overlay tree.  Now everything seems
 to be fine, though I'm not in front of the machine, so I can't test the
 remote.

Yeah, I forgot that part in my original reply. Thanks for pointing that out.

Roy

___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 and DCT2200

2005-12-06 Thread Ian Forde

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 07:56 -0600, Carl Fongheiser wrote:
 On 12/6/05, Dopey Dog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 If I have a PVR-250, do I still need my Motorola DCT2200
 decoder for my digital channels?  or can the PVR-250 decode
 everything?
 
 The PVR-250 doesn't decode digital channels.  You still need your
 cable box.  You'll need an IR blaster to change channels, and a lot of
 patience. I have a low success rate with my IR blaster and my DCT2100.
 It's not that the IR blaster is so bad, but that the DCT box is very
 slow, and sometimes misses remote button presses.

Sigh...

It's not a foregone conclusion that you'll need an IR blaster.  With a
DCT-2200, you may be able to use a serial cable...

-I
 

___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Re: yum difficulties FC4 mythtv i386

2005-12-06 Thread Tony O'Rourke

I believe it was just a matter of bad timing. When I was looking the
stable directory at atrpms did not exist. Now I look and the
directory is there with a date stamp of 06-Dec-2005 12:33. So I'll
chalk it up to bad timing and/or maintenance over at the repository.
In response to a previous suggestion, I had already made the necessary
change to yum.conf to find the correct domain http://dl.atrpms.net/
over at atrpms so that was not the issue. Now that the directory does
in fact exist I'll bet it will work when I go home and try it tonight.
On 12/6/05, Tony O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am using Jarod's guide to install a mythtv front end on a second
computer. I already have a working front and backend so I am not
entirely new to this process. But I am stumped at the step in the guide
where:

yum install mythtv-suite

is called.

I get the message:

Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: mythtv-suite
Nothing to do

I have added the atrpms as a repository. But I don't see the Fedora
Core 4 version of mythtv in the repository for i386. I see it for
i386_x64 FC4 and i386 FC3 but not i386 FC4.

Well let me modify that statement. The packages are there in this directory:

http://atrpms.net/dist/fc4/mythtv/

but I don't see how I can get yum to see it.

Here is the part of yum.conf

[atrpms]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable

but the directory http://dl.atrpms.net/fc4-i386/atrpms/stable does not exist! There is the directory


http://dl.atrpms.net/fc4-i386/atrpms/testing/

but mythtv is not in that directory.

So can someone shed some much needed light on this problem?

Thanks in advance.

-TO

Should I be using a different tool to install a myth?



-- --TonyThe mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.-Plutarch 

-- --TonyThe mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.-Plutarch 
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC not working within Myth

2005-12-06 Thread John DiLorenzo

OK, tonight I'll try the following:

1. Figure out if LIRC is dead on startup, or if it's me running IRW that kills it. Then create a script to ensure LIRC runs properly on reboot.

2. Remove all copies of lircrc besides /etc/.lircrc.

3. Compare lircrc and lircd.conf to make sure the buttons are named the same.

If this doesn't work, I may try upgrading the lirc-kmdl. Last thing to try is reinstall myth from the tarball and verify that LIRC is compiled with it...

Sound good?
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Is common Interface supposed to work?

2005-12-06 Thread Wim Fokkens









Hi



I am trying to get Knoppmyth R5A26 working. I own a
KNC1 dvb-s card with CI. I am living in the Netherlands so all the satellite
channels are encrypted. The knoppmyth setup detects my KNC1 card correctly and
a channel scan finds all the relevant Dutch channels at Astra 19.2.

Also when I reboot my system I see the following messages.

Budged AV : CAM
inserted

Dvb ca adaptor 0: cam detected and initialised successfully.



So this all sounds promising.



I set my starting channel at a free to air channel
and when I start live TV, it is working.

Thru mythweb I deleted all the channels I dont
have a subscription for.



So my channel list now contains one FTA channel and
several encrypted channels witch I am allowed to watch.

But when I push the arrow up or down button in live TV
(going from FTA channel to an encrypted channel), the image freezes and after a
while I get thrown back at the main menu.



So apparently encrypted channels are not working.



Is it possible to watch encrypted channels with Myth
TV, and if so how do I get it working?



Thanks in advance



Wim






___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge Nova-T PCI and LIRC

2005-12-06 Thread Druid

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 11:07 +, Graeme Hilton wrote: 
 On Tue, 6 December, 2005 10:59 am, Adrian Kladnig wrote:
  Graeme Hilton wrote:
 
 Yay!  It's working!  I recompiled lirc with the --driver=devinput option
 and started lircd with the command line 'lircd --driver=dev/input
 --device=/dev/input/event0' then 'irxevent '.
 
 I've remapped a few of the buttons in /home/mythtv/.lircrc so they make
 more sense to me and my GF.
 
  I struggled for about a month with this. Eventually, I ended up
  modifying budget-ci.c to make the remote work. I found that the Nova-t
  doesn't use LIRC at all, the only problem being that I have to recompile
  everytime I install a new kernel.

Like I said, took me a while to figure out. ;-)

FWIW the lirc 'hauppauge' i2c device works on my old
2.6.11-rc2-bk3-20050125153357-default kernel'd suse 9.1
so must be the latest dvb code in the kernel (which given that all I did
was install SuSE 10, didn't even bother to configure the cards and
everything worked is rather nice :-) esp in comparison to the grief with
suse 9.1 )

My bigest mistake was not trying the remote until after I'd installed
lirc and assuming it'd work the same as my previous system.

  Your method seems so much easier, so I'll have to give it a go!
 
 Quite simple now I know what steps to follow!  I'm still using the latest
 FC4 x86_64 kernel (2.6.13) with no modifications so no need to keep
 recompiling every few weeks/months. 

2.6.13-15-smp in my case although unless there is a real reason to, I
doubt I'll change that.

I also run lirc via the suse init script and (irexec
via .kde/Autostart), I can post a copy of the init script if you want
but I assume something similar is included in all the distro's (s)rpm's

HTH

Druid



___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Easiest installation?

2005-12-06 Thread Cecil Watson

Marcus wrote:
 I'm new to MythTV. If I use KnoppMyth do I only need a free partition? Can I 
 specify which partition to install to?
 Reading the docs it seemed like it would automatically install to hda1.
 
Yes, it will do an auto install _if_ you select auto install.  You can
do a manual install and install to any partition you want.

 I want myth to co-exist on my regular desktop PC.
Define co-exist.  This can mean numerous things.
 I'm using Debian and the MythTV packages are currently not maintained. I 
 don't know how to tweak the source or makefiles to compile, so is KnoppMyth 
 my best options?
 
There is no need to tweak any source or makefiles to compile MythTV.
Robert has done an excellent job with the MythTV docs, highly suggest
you read it.
 Thanks,
 
 Marcus
 
Regards,

Cecil
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] New widescreen theme coming soon (a little OT)

2005-12-06 Thread Jesse Guardiani


Justin Hornsby wrote:
Ok folks.  As promised, I've been beavering away converting my 
ProjectGrayhem theme to wide.  There are some screenshots over at 
www.juski.co.uk/pg-wide


It'll be out when it's ready, and not before, unlike the last theme I 
bashed out ;)


Thoughts, opinions etc to the usual place...


I totally dig the images, like the red speaker and the brighter camera. 
Are those

in the latest versions of the non-wide theme?

And BTW, how do these wide themes work? Do you have to have a widescreen
TV to use them? How are they enabled?

Thanks!

--
Jesse Guardiani
Programmer/Sys Admin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] RE: xbox dvd remote on xebian 1.1.4

2005-12-06 Thread Fred Squires

On 12/6/05, Daniel Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Fred Squires wrote: On 12/6/05, Daniel Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:   More info here...irw can see the signal coming from the remote
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ irw  00559aa6 00 UP XboxDVDRemote  00559aa6 01 UP XboxDVDRemote  00558aa7 00 DOWN XboxDVDRemote  00558aa7 01 DOWN XboxDVDRemote
  00557aa8 00 RIGHT XboxDVDRemote  00557aa8 01 RIGHT XboxDVDRemote  00556aa9 00 LEFT XboxDVDRemote  00531ace 00 1 XboxDVDRemote  00531ace 01 1 XboxDVDRemote
  00532acd 00 2 XboxDVDRemote  00533acc 00 3 XboxDVDRemote   I installed my .lircrc file from  
http://bit.blkbk.com/mythtv-xbox.0.4.5-beta.tar.gz   #cd /tmp  #wget http://bit.blkbk.com/mythtv-xbox.0.4.5-beta.tar.gz
  #tar xpzvf mythtv-xbox.0.4.5-beta.tar.gz  #cd /tmp/live  #cp lircrc /home/live/.lircrc  #ln -s /home/live/.lircrc /home/live/.mythtv/lircrc   When I use the remote without the frontend running I can see the mouse
  moving  up, down, left, right, etc.It just seems like lirc isn't letting the  mythfrontend know about the signals from the remote.   This has to be something simple to fix that I'm missing.
   Daniel The remote should work with just Xebian being installed, without messing   around with any config files.Try using the remote outside of MythTV to
   move the cursor around the desktop.It should work. I think this command will show you if the xbox is receiving the signals: $/usr/bin/irw
 Adam  It sounds like your remote is working but you're missing an lircrc file for mythtv, or it's configured improperly.I can't send you one right now
 because I'm at work, but that might point you in the right direction.cool, thanks.I attached the lircrc file that I'm using to this email. You should stop the remote from controlling the cursor, it'll make strange and
 annoying things happen in the background. To do this, comment out the following line in the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4-xbox InputDevice LIRC-MouseI'll give that a try when I get home tonight.
DanielYours looks basically like mine.I have mine in /home/live/.lircrcwith a symlink from /home/live/.mythtv/lircrc no dot in front of the lircrc.-- I probably still have a few (well, now a whole bunch) gmail invites.
Drop me a line (off list) if you'd like an account.
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] PVR-150 out of the box?

2005-12-06 Thread dewag

I just bought a PVR150 for use of mythTV on my Suse OSS 10 machine.
At this moment I have only black  white signal; no colours in mythtv or
mediaplayer.

Peter
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] New widescreen theme coming soon (a little OT)

2005-12-06 Thread Jack R. Hyde

Nice, this would make Project Grayhem the first wide enabled Vertical 
selection theme? I don't like the horizontal selection of Minimalist 
wide (or the look really, but I hate to bash the first and only? 
widescreen theme) so really looking forward to this. Figure I can also 
run a diff after you do all the hard work and maybe apply what I learn 
to some of the other themes =)


Though it's quite possible I am far to lazy to actually get around to 
doing so.

___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-150 out of the box?

2005-12-06 Thread Steve Pugh

dewag [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  I just bought a PVR150 for use of mythTV on my Suse OSS 10 machine.At this moment I have only black  white signal; no colours in mythtv ormediaplayer.  Hi Peter, which version of Myth are you using? When  you say "no colours out of mediaplayer", are you talking about watching  something that you captured on your 150?Also, what is the output when you run "ivtvctl --all" from a prompt?Best,   Steve
	
		Yahoo! Shopping 
Find Great Deals on Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping ___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Distributing TV throughout house w/MythTV

2005-12-06 Thread Michael Tiller

Two more options:1. You can also use the MediaMVP device from Hauppauge along with the mvpmc software.2. You can use an XBox and run XBox Media Center with the 
MythTV plugins.I am quite familiar with #1 and have two of them in my house right now. I haven't actually done #2 yet, but I have softmodded my XBox and gotten XBMC installed so I'm pretty close.P.S. - Rob thanks for the torrent link I'll have to try it out. Is that Myth 
0.18? (or at least protocol compatible)--MikeOn 12/5/05, Robert Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On 11/30/05, Trent Albright [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
For your distributed frontends you can also give KnoppMyth a whirl, I'm using it as we speak and it works quite well for me:
http://mysettopbox.tv/ 

On 11/30/05, Robert La Ferla [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 wrote: 
Can MythTV be used to distribute television throughout a house?i.e.The ability to watch different LIVE programs and/or recorded programs in
different rooms from a single backend?___mythtv-users mailing list

mythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
___mythtv-users mailing list

mythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

The xbox makes for a great remote frontend at a descent price. You can watch live tv on the remote frontend also, as long as there is a tuner available. Pick up a used xobx for $100, have it modded, and dowload the following torrent:


http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3397792

Unzip to d:\debian on the xbox, add a menu item to your dashboard and away you go. You may need to re-ip the dist, update the hosts fileand make some other config changes to the mythfrontend.-- 
Rob Anderson[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] New widescreen theme coming soon (a little OT)

2005-12-06 Thread Justin Hornsby


Jesse Guardiani wrote:

I totally dig the images, like the red speaker and the brighter camera. 
Are those

in the latest versions of the non-wide theme?

And BTW, how do these wide themes work? Do you have to have a widescreen
TV to use them? How are they enabled?

Thanks!



Jesse, the new watermarks aren't (yet) in the 4:3 theme.  You can easily 
add them yourself when I release the wide one ;-)  Tip: they use the 
same filenames.


I'd strongly advise that you don't use a widescreen theme on a 4:3 
screen - the text area placement  all kinds of things go wrong when you 
scale that much.  Wide is based on 1280x720, whereas 4:3 themes are 
based on 800x600.


I've thought of doing a half-way house for people like me who have wide 
TVs but are using a 4:3 screen resolution - i.e. make amorphic images 
where you really notice them being stretched.  What does everyone else 
think?


Jus.
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] New widescreen theme coming soon (a little OT)

2005-12-06 Thread Justin Hornsby


Jack R. Hyde wrote:
Nice, this would make Project Grayhem the first wide enabled Vertical 
selection theme? I don't like the horizontal selection of Minimalist 
wide (or the look really, but I hate to bash the first and only? 
widescreen theme) so really looking forward to this. Figure I can also 
run a diff after you do all the hard work and maybe apply what I learn 
to some of the other themes =)


Though it's quite possible I am far to lazy to actually get around to 
doing so.

___


Glad you like it Jack, but there's more to converting a theme to wide 
than stretching a few images (don't I just know it - lol).


And er.. yes it'll be the first vertical selection wide theme... and the 
second 'free' theme in all.


Making a theme is time-consuming but fun... what's stopping people? ;-)

Regards,
J.
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] New widescreen theme coming soon (a little OT)

2005-12-06 Thread Graeme Hilton

Justin Hornsby wrote:
 I've thought of doing a half-way house for people like me who have wide
 TVs but are using a 4:3 screen resolution - i.e. make amorphic images
 where you really notice them being stretched.  What does everyone else
 think?

That's a great idea and one theme I'd definitely use.

-- 
Graeme Hilton
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Re: Strange MythBackend troubles

2005-12-06 Thread Mike Frisch

On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:26:44PM -0800, Jeff Clemens wrote:
So occasionally, my master backend gets into a strange state.   I have a
frontend and a backend running on each of 2 boxes.  The master backend
occasionally gets into a state where the frontend will report that the
backend is down when trying some things (like deleting a recording for
instance), but other menu items that use the backend work fine.  When it's
in this state, neither frontend works correctly.
/sbin/service mythbackend restart fixes the problem temporarily.

I cannot offer much other than to say the same thing happens regularly
to me.  I cannot predict when it will happen but it happens somewhat
frequently.  It is as if the frontend loses track of the backend.
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] New widescreen theme coming soon (a little OT)

2005-12-06 Thread A JM

I just wanedt to say thanks for all the hard work guys! I know that for myself I wouldn't take on such a task and really appreciate the time and effort that goes into making these available to the group.Keep up the great work!! Awesome themes!!
AJM,
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Easiest installation?

2005-12-06 Thread Jeff Simpson

On 12/6/05, Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm new to MythTV. If I use KnoppMyth do I only need a free partition? Can I specify which partition to install to?Reading the docs it seemed like it would automatically install to hda1.I want myth to co-exist on my regular desktop PC.
I'm using Debian and the MythTV packages are currently not maintained. I don't know how to tweak the source or makefiles to compile, so is KnoppMyth my best options?I suggest installing them together in one operating system - if you try to put Debian on one partition and KnoppMyth on another, you'll have to reboot to go back and forth still (or some kind of weird virtual machine thing, not worth it IMO).
If you have a free partition anyway, give knoppmyth a try to get your feet wet if you want, but I think you'll eventually want to do one of:A). Dedicate a seperate machine to myth, run whatever distro you like (knoppix, etc)
B). Get myth installed in your debian system so you can use both at onceC). Reinstall to a different distro so you can get myth to work (*cough* gentoo *cough*)I think you should be able to get it to work with debian if you look around for a writeup of the install. Can't be much harder than apt-get mythtv, right?
- Jeff
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Changing watch recordings groups

 Excellent thanks - im running 0.18.1, and my gf would kill me if i broke it 
 upgrading to SVN, so i'll wait till 0.19.
 
 Definitely changing the Title to Movies and the Subtitle to the movie name 
 would produce the desired results...  Thanks!
 
 I suppose I could write a quick php interface to make the changes directly in 
 the database...  or add it (temporarily?) to mythweb..  (has this ability 
 been added to mythweb in svn?)

With 0.18, you could always use a user job either simple or fancy.  Simplest
would be just a job that took a chanid and starttime as arguments and just
ran a simple sql command to change the title and subtitle for that recording.
Then you just turn that job on for each movie you schedule.

A little more complex would be to make a job that took a chanid, starttime,
endtime, and category and it tried to look at the length of the recording and
the category and intelligently guess whether it should be moved to Movies or
not.  Then you could put this job on all recordings.

I'd take door #1 as it's simple and much easier than coding up a bunch of
php to make an editor and stuff.  Instead it's just a simple sql command piped
through mysql.

-- 
Chris

___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Strange MythBackend troubles

2005-12-06 Thread Druid

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 16:49 -0500, Mike Frisch wrote:
 On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:26:44PM -0800, Jeff Clemens wrote:
 So occasionally, my master backend gets into a strange state.   I have a
 frontend and a backend running on each of 2 boxes.  The master backend
 occasionally gets into a state where the frontend will report that the
 backend is down when trying some things (like deleting a recording for
 instance), but other menu items that use the backend work fine.  When 
  it's
 in this state, neither frontend works correctly.
 /sbin/service mythbackend restart fixes the problem temporarily.
 
 I cannot offer much other than to say the same thing happens regularly
 to me.  I cannot predict when it will happen but it happens somewhat
 frequently.  It is as if the frontend loses track of the backend.

I think this is what has happened to me on a few occasions, the backend
has stopped recording, the status page works still works but the
frontend won't play but lists all the shows etc.

Again a rcmythbackend restart fixed but I didn't discover exactly why it
happened.

Druid

___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] New widescreen theme coming soon (a little OT)

On Tuesday 06 December 2005 16:37, Justin Hornsby wrote:
 Jack R. Hyde wrote:
  Nice, this would make Project Grayhem the first wide enabled Vertical
  selection theme? I don't like the horizontal selection of Minimalist
  wide (or the look really, but I hate to bash the first and only?
  widescreen theme) so really looking forward to this. Figure I can also
  run a diff after you do all the hard work and maybe apply what I learn
  to some of the other themes =)
 
  Though it's quite possible I am far to lazy to actually get around to
  doing so.
  ___

 Glad you like it Jack, but there's more to converting a theme to wide
 than stretching a few images (don't I just know it - lol).

 And er.. yes it'll be the first vertical selection wide theme... and the
 second 'free' theme in all.

 Making a theme is time-consuming but fun... what's stopping people? ;-)

 Regards,
 J.

Justin,

Theres a flickr thingy with caps of the newer Project Mayhem screens. Dunno if 
you've seen them but they've got some added eyecandy stuff for you to think 
about integrating.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cubicgarden/sets/587049/
main menu: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cubicgarden/33771691/in/set-587049/

of particular note are the new buttons on the bottom right that correspond to 
the power and scripts button for XBMC but could be used for Utilities/Setup.
as wel the main buttons have changed styles that allow you to place them 
closer together to save some space.

theres caps of most of the screens for you to use.

thanks for the hard work on all this!

Steve
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Problems transcoding

In 1.18.1:

I'm having problems transcoding.  I've got an MBE/SBE setup with
several 250's in the BE and one 350 in the SBE/FE.  Commflagging
is set to begin immediately upon episode start.  I've been trying
to see how I like MPEG4 transcoding from the MPEG2 being produced
by the 250's, but I can't seem to get the transcoder to run at all.

I changed the Default recording group to automatically transcode
after recording, changed it to 720x480 from the default 480x480,
and left everything else alone (including MPEG-2 PS; what are the
definitions of the various types in this field, and which should I be
using?).

If I schedule a recording, it -appears- (from the mythweb status page)
that transcoding starts -immediately-, e.g., even before commflagging
is finished, even though I don't have transcode before commflagging
checked.

The status page also says Errored about the transcoding job, but I
can't figure out where any of this might really be logged (not in
mythweb, and not in any logs I can find), so I can't debug -why- it's
errored.

Also, according to mythweb, the transcoder ran on the SBE, even though
the commflagger ran on the MBE.  This is okayh with me (especially
since I can't seem to get the commflagging to loadbalance; that'll be
my next mesage), but only if the transcoder actually -works-.  But is
the transcoder running on the SBE somehow contributing to the problem?
(Note that the SBE and MBE share the same recordings directory via NFS.)

[FWIW, I also have the button checked to preserve the original
recordings after transcoding, since I'd like to A/B compare them.]

I then tried going to the Transcoder-From MPEG2 menu item, changed
its resolution, and left everything else alone.  (It looks like
various checkboxes for things like interlacing  so forth should
probably get set, but I haven't touched them for the moment until I
can see -anything- from transcoding.)  It didn't change the behavior.
Again, which of these am I -supposed- to be setting---the one in the
various recording profiles, or the ones in the Transcoders group?  The
doc on this is -very- thin on the ground, and it's totally obscured by
zillions of random google hits about transcoding that aren't helping.

Thanks...
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] RE: xbox dvd remote on xebian 1.1.4

I commented out

 InputDevice LIRC-Mouse

in my XFree86 config file and that stoped the mouse from moving over the screen
via the remote but the remote still isn't working in myth.  Here are the file
permissions, how I launch myth (via apps on bootup), etc:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ whoami
live
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l .lircrc
-rwxr-xr-x  1 live live 7062 Dec  6 17:37 .lircrc
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l .mythtv/lircrc
lrwxrwxrwx  1 live live 18 Dec  6 00:20 .mythtv/lircrc
- /home/live/.lircrc
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat .fluxbox/apps
[startup] {mythfrontend}
[app] (mythfrontend)
  [Deco]{NONE}
[end]

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/lirc$ cat lircd.conf
#
# LIRCD configuration file for Xbox DVD Kit
#
# Marko Friedemann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#
#
# brand: Microsoft
# model: Xbox DVD Remote
# supported devices: Xbox DVD Remote via xir driver
#
# comment:   EXPERIMENTAL
#

begin remote

name  XboxDVDRemote
bits   24

begin codes

SELECT  0x05f4a0b
UP  0x0559aa6
DOWN0x0558aa7
RIGHT   0x0557aa8
LEFT0x0556aa9
INFO0x053cac3

9   0x0539ac6
8   0x0538ac7
7   0x0537ac8
6   0x0536ac9
5   0x0535aca
4   0x0534acb
3   0x0533acc
2   0x0532acd
1   0x0531ace
0   0x0530acf

DISPLAY 0x052aad5
BACK0x0527ad8
SKIP-   0x0522add
SKIP+   0x0520adf
STOP0x051fae0
REVERSE 0x051dae2
FORWARD 0x051cae3
TITLE   0x051aae5
PAUSE   0x0519ae6
PLAY0x0515aea
MENU0x0508af7

  end codes

end remote
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/lirc$


My lircd.conf file looks ok...I'm stumped.

Daniel

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote:

 On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 00:38:39 -0500 (EST), Daniel Walton wrote:

 More info here...irw can see the signal coming from the remote
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ irw
 00559aa6 00 UP XboxDVDRemote
 00559aa6 01 UP XboxDVDRemote
 00558aa7 00 DOWN XboxDVDRemote
 00558aa7 01 DOWN XboxDVDRemote
 00557aa8 00 RIGHT XboxDVDRemote
 00557aa8 01 RIGHT XboxDVDRemote
 00556aa9 00 LEFT XboxDVDRemote
 00531ace 00 1 XboxDVDRemote
 00531ace 01 1 XboxDVDRemote
 00532acd 00 2 XboxDVDRemote
 00533acc 00 3 XboxDVDRemote
 
 I installed my .lircrc file from
 http://bit.blkbk.com/mythtv-xbox.0.4.5-beta.tar.gz

 As I understand it, irw reports the ir code and the key mapping from the
 lircd.conf file.
 The lircrc file has to have the same name for the key mapping.
 Check both files to see if the name is reported as UP or UP
 XboxDVDRemote in lircd.conf and whether it is the same in lircrc.
 You may want to edit the lircd.conf file to remove the XboxDVDRemote if
 that exists in every line.
 Make sure lircrc uses the same names, exactly.

 Then make sure that the proper command is called in myth in the stanza for
 the keypress in lircrc.

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

 ___
 mythtv-users mailing list
 mythtv-users@mythtv.org
 http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users




___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Changing watch recordings groups


James Grant wrote:

Hey there, I have a question about the watch recordings screen.  I really 
like how it creates program groups based on the show title, then shows each 
episode inside the the list for the group


but...

what I don't like, is how every movie that i record gets its own program group 
created, with  (obviously) only one episode inside the group.  What I was 
wondering is, if there was a special way to continue grouping by show title 
for everything except movies, and have all movies go into a special group, 
called Movies.  I'd be happy moving them manually after recording is done, 
or automatically would be even better!


Alias - Fait Accompli
Out of the Box

Lost -  What Kate Did
The Other 48 Days
Collision
Abandoned
Orientation
Adrift

Movies -Assassins
The Mummy
Mortal Kombat
Multiplicity
etc.

Is this possible?

 

Sort of.  You can put all your Movies into a recording group called 
Movies and set your default Watch Recording screen to show both Titles 
and Recording groups but this will not remove the titles for shows that 
are in the recording group.  It will give you a new title called 
Movies that will list all the movies. 


Kevin

--
Looking for affordable webhosting?  http://www.sitecity.net


___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Distributing TV throughout house w/MythTV


Michael Tiller wrote:


Two more options:

1. You can also use the MediaMVP device from Hauppauge along with the 
mvpmc software http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net.


2. You can use an XBox and run XBox Media Center with the MythTV 
plugins http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128346.


I am quite familiar with #1 and have two of them in my house right 
now.  I haven't actually done #2 yet, but I have softmodded my XBox 
and gotten XBMC installed so I'm pretty close.


P.S. - Rob thanks for the torrent link I'll have to try it out.  Is 
that Myth 0.18? (or at least protocol compatible)


For completeness, MythRoku runs on the Roku HD devices for cheap ($200) 
HD frontends.


Kevin

--
Looking for affordable webhosting?  http://www.sitecity.net


___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Problems in load-balancing commflagging

In 1.18.1:

I'm trying to figure out if I can load-balance commflagging.  I've got
an MBE/SBE setup with 5 250's in the BE and one 350 in the SBE/FE.
Commflagging is set to begin immediately upon episode start.  I'd like
to run commflagging as soon as possible, in parallel as much as
possible, since it appears that I can easily run 5-6 jobs on even one
of my hosts without really saturating it.  (Well, 5 commflaggers
saturate the CPU, but not the disk, and I see no skipping in the
recordings being made while this happens.)

However, I've got some problems:

(a) The setup page that deals with running jobs tops out at 5, e.g., I
can't tell myth to schedule more than 5 jobs in parallel because
the control just won't go any higher.  Why's it got this limit?
(The jobs also started 1 minute apart, so doing 5-minute test
recordings meand that the 5th job didn't evne start until the
recordings were over, so I set the time to check between jobs
from 60 seconds down to 10.  I'd be happy if that could be set
down to 1, if it didn't cause Myth to thrash, or, even better,
if it was smart enough to start -all eligible jobs at once- in
each sweep---then I could leave it at the default 60s, but all
commflagging jobs would be started simultaneously, one per
simultaneous recording.)
(b) Possibly because of (a), if I do a test recording of 6 things
simultaneously, commflagging only happens on 5 of them at once.
The 6th waits until the others are done, and then runs.  They
all run on the MBE, even though I don't have run jobs only on
original recording host set, but OTOH, there's that cap of 5
jobs total, so would I ever see that sixth job on the SBE?

What I'd -like- to see happen is for all 6 jobs to run at once.  Even
if 5 of them run on the MBE and one runs on the SBE, that's actually
okay with me, because I can probably soak up the remaining CPU on the
SBE doing transcoding from MPEG2 to MPEG4, but to do this requires
that I have a lot of jobs running.  (I don't know if transcoding will
count against the 5-job limit I see or not, since I haven't yet
managed to get transcoding to run at all; see previous message.)

An even cleverer thing (but which I wouldn't be surprised can't happen
in the current Myth architecture) would be to load-balance the commflagging,
so that (if I'm recording with 6 tuners), 3 of them happen on the MBE,
and 3 happen on the SBE.  Myth would have to be reasonably intelligent
in its job-scheduling for this to work, though.  And it still might
make sense to try to push as many of them on the MBE as possible,
since commflagging can't happen -faster- than real-time anyway for
recordings in progress, and this would leave the SBE free to be the
transcoding engine.

Thanks!
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] DVB Recordings Switching Aspect Ratios

2005-12-06 Thread Brandon Stoll

I'm not sure if this is something everyone sees or if nobody else
has complained, but all the channels I'm getting with Comcast are
recording and whenever a 4:3 program/ad comes on, there is a huge
white bar at the top of the recording.  When I use the cable connected
to my TV's digital tuner, it either cuts this off or doesn't have this
problem at all.  It's hard to give an example without putting a big
recording up, and the JPEG compression kills the effect the lines have
on the video, but here are a few screenshots- the first showing a
normal picture, the second two being commercials during the same
recording.

http://www.mrmagoo.org/temp/HDTV-1.jpg
http://www.mrmagoo.org/temp/HDTV-2.jpg
http://www.mrmagoo.org/temp/HDTV-3.jpg

Is this normal?  If it is, how hard would it be to have MythTV
detect the line to automatically switch to the correct aspect ratio
and cut these lines off?  They are incredibly annoying since they
flicker white/black on one side, and I'd like to have a correctly
stretched picture since burn-in is an issue for me.  Another thing I
found interesting is some of the PVR350 recordings have this same
faint line show up every once and a while-almost as if the image was
being cropped badly by the broadcaster.  I have no other cards that
can get QAM, so I don't even know if this is a driver thing but it
really doesn't look like it to me.
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] New widescreen theme coming soon (a little OT)

2005-12-06 Thread Jack R. Hyde


Justin Hornsby wrote:

Jack R. Hyde wrote:
Nice, this would make Project Grayhem the first wide enabled Vertical 
selection theme? I don't like the horizontal selection of Minimalist 
wide (or the look really, but I hate to bash the first and only? 
widescreen theme) so really looking forward to this. Figure I can 
also run a diff after you do all the hard work and maybe apply what I 
learn to some of the other themes =)


Though it's quite possible I am far to lazy to actually get around to 
doing so.

___


Glad you like it Jack, but there's more to converting a theme to wide 
than stretching a few images (don't I just know it - lol).


Yep, I briefly looked into doing a mythcenter-wide, but the amount of 
changes was pretty staggering I thought. Just resizing some of the 
images as you pointed out is the easy part, which is why I was thinking 
running a diff on the xml between the two versions (wide  non wide) 
would be a valuable learning tool.
And er.. yes it'll be the first vertical selection wide theme... and 
the second 'free' theme in all.


Making a theme is time-consuming but fun... what's stopping people? ;-)

Regards,
J.
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users



___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] single source (cablebox) two input methods (pvr-150 and firewire) work together?

ok, DCT6200, with 5C on many channels, os some channels can be received 
through the firewire no problem, the rest can use the pvr-150. 

Is there a way to set it up so that when Myth needs to record a 5C=0 channel 
it uses the firewire transfer from the box but when it needs to record a 
5C=1+ it uses the PVR-150? I can manually tell Myth which channels use 
firewire and which use the PVR-150 but what I need to know is if there is a 
way to tell it that both methods are using the same cable box and therefore 
it can't use both simultaneously?

thanks!

Steve
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB Recordings Switching Aspect Ratios

On Tuesday 06 December 2005 17:59, Brandon Stoll wrote:
 I'm not sure if this is something everyone sees or if nobody else
 has complained, but all the channels I'm getting with Comcast are
 recording and whenever a 4:3 program/ad comes on, there is a huge
 white bar at the top of the recording.  When I use the cable connected
 to my TV's digital tuner, it either cuts this off or doesn't have this
 problem at all.  It's hard to give an example without putting a big
 recording up, and the JPEG compression kills the effect the lines have
 on the video, but here are a few screenshots- the first showing a
 normal picture, the second two being commercials during the same
 recording.

 http://www.mrmagoo.org/temp/HDTV-1.jpg
 http://www.mrmagoo.org/temp/HDTV-2.jpg
 http://www.mrmagoo.org/temp/HDTV-3.jpg

 Is this normal?  If it is, how hard would it be to have MythTV
 detect the line to automatically switch to the correct aspect ratio
 and cut these lines off?  They are incredibly annoying since they
 flicker white/black on one side, and I'd like to have a correctly
 stretched picture since burn-in is an issue for me.  Another thing I
 found interesting is some of the PVR350 recordings have this same
 faint line show up every once and a while-almost as if the image was
 being cropped badly by the broadcaster.  I have no other cards that
 can get QAM, so I don't even know if this is a driver thing but it
 really doesn't look like it to me.

haven't noticed this here.


Steve
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Changing watch recordings groups

2005-12-06 Thread chris

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 05:20:30PM -0500, Chris Pinkham wrote:
 A little more complex would be to make a job that took a chanid, starttime,
 endtime, and category and it tried to look at the length of the recording and
 the category and intelligently guess whether it should be moved to Movies or
 not.

For people who get their listings from zap2it you can tell whether or
not it's a movie simply by looking at the category_type field in the
recordedprograms table.

-- 
Joke template: Three guys walk into a bar. One of them is a wee bit
stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Problems in load-balancing commflagging

 (a) The setup page that deals with running jobs tops out at 5, e.g., I
 can't tell myth to schedule more than 5 jobs in parallel because
 the control just won't go any higher.  Why's it got this limit?

The Max of 5 simultaneous jobs (per backend) was set prior to the
creation of realtime flagging.  With realtime flagging and hardware
encoding cards I can see how someone might want more than 5 jobs running
at a time on a host.  I've bumped this number up to 10 in my source tree
so it'll be in SVN with my next commit.

The default check frequency is 60 seconds, but it goes down to 10 or
up to 300 seconds in 5-second increments.  I don't think 10 seconds is
too long to wait for a queue run, but don't see harm in setting this
as low as 5 seconds.  Going all the way to 1 could cause problems for
some people though for a couple reasons.  The constant database hits
querying for new jobs and the added system load from firing off 5-10
jobs at 1-second intervals could cause hickups in recording so I didn't
want to go that low.  I also didn't want to fire off multiple jobs in
the same cycle because that would have the same effect.  Thinking about
it now, I can see a alternative in the middle though.  I could make it
so that the JobQueue sleeps for JobQueueCheckFrequency seconds in between
runs normally, but when it fires off a job, it could be modified to
only sleep for 5 or 10 seconds so it could pickup another job quicker.

 (b) Possibly because of (a), if I do a test recording of 6 things
 simultaneously, commflagging only happens on 5 of them at once.
 The 6th waits until the others are done, and then runs.  They
 all run on the MBE, even though I don't have run jobs only on
 original recording host set, but OTOH, there's that cap of 5
 jobs total, so would I ever see that sixth job on the SBE?

One of them should have run on the SBE as long as you have the SBE
configured to allow running flagging jobs.  Turn on JobQueue debugging
with -v jobqueue on the backend to see if it tells you why it isn't
firing off the 6th job on the SBE.  With -v jobqueue enabled, it
prints out information about every job everytime through the loop
so you can see what's running, what's queued, what's finished, etc..

 An even cleverer thing (but which I wouldn't be surprised can't happen
 in the current Myth architecture) would be to load-balance the commflagging,
 so that (if I'm recording with 6 tuners), 3 of them happen on the MBE,
 and 3 happen on the SBE.  Myth would have to be reasonably intelligent

This is on my TODO list, but I haven't sat down and looked at it much
because it hasn't been that high of a priority.  I'd like to make it so
that the Queue could prefer a less-busy backend (based on number of items
recording and jobs running).  I have a few other things on my list to
help improve it as well such as creating a concept of a rush job so
if you start watching a recording that isn't flagged it could queue a
flagging job and push it to the head of the queue and wakeup the sleeping
ProcessQueue thread.

-- 
Chris

___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] More HD stuttering

2005-12-06 Thread Jean Connelly

My system seems to be a heck of a lot peppier since I neutered acpi with

acpi=ht pci=noacpi

as kernel boot options. I thought that I was supposed to have kacpid using 80% of my CPU...

Now my HDTV playback has regular pauses instead of continuous hiccups... woohoo.

-Jean
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Distributing TV throughout house w/MythTV

2005-12-06 Thread Marcel Janssen

On Tuesday 06 December 2005 22:27, Michael Tiller wrote:
 Two more options:

 1. You can also use the MediaMVP device from Hauppauge along with the mvpmc
 software http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net.

 2. You can use an XBox and run XBox Media Center with the MythTV
 pluginshttp://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128346

Don't know if this option was mentioned :

Connect the output of your mythbox to a modulator and feed this back to a coax 
cable if you already have that available through your home to transfer 
video/audio. Buy a remote extender to extend the remote control to the other 
room and control your myth box.
If no cable is available buy a video transmitter which already includes the 
remote extender.

Disadvantages :
1) video is not perfect (lower quality than a direct output).
2) audio is not in dolby digital, just stereo.

Advantage :
cheap and doesn't require another frontend.

regards,
Marcel
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

RE: [mythtv-users] Re: sorry to bother you about your xbox mythtv image

2005-12-06 Thread William


-Original Message-

Go ahead and download the torrent file from the following location:

http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3397792

-

I was finally able to download the file and it does work. I need to figure
out how you are setting up the smb mount but at least its able to play
recorded tv. 

If anyone wants this I can put it online at a host with some bandwidth. :)

___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] RE: xbox dvd remote on xebian 1.1.4

2005-12-06 Thread Adam Anderson

On 12/6/05, Daniel Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Fred Squires wrote:

  On 12/6/05, Daniel Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   More info here...irw can see the signal coming from the remote
  
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ irw
   00559aa6 00 UP XboxDVDRemote
   00559aa6 01 UP XboxDVDRemote
   00558aa7 00 DOWN XboxDVDRemote
   00558aa7 01 DOWN XboxDVDRemote
   00557aa8 00 RIGHT XboxDVDRemote
   00557aa8 01 RIGHT XboxDVDRemote
   00556aa9 00 LEFT XboxDVDRemote
   00531ace 00 1 XboxDVDRemote
   00531ace 01 1 XboxDVDRemote
   00532acd 00 2 XboxDVDRemote
   00533acc 00 3 XboxDVDRemote
  
   I installed my .lircrc file from
   http://bit.blkbk.com/mythtv-xbox.0.4.5-beta.tar.gz
  
   #cd /tmp
   #wget http://bit.blkbk.com/mythtv-xbox.0.4.5-beta.tar.gz
   #tar xpzvf mythtv-xbox.0.4.5-beta.tar.gz
   #cd /tmp/live
   #cp lircrc /home/live/.lircrc
   #ln -s /home/live/.lircrc /home/live/.mythtv/lircrc
  
   When I use the remote without the frontend running I can see the mouse
   moving
   up, down, left, right, etc.  It just seems like lirc isn't letting the
   mythfrontend know about the signals from the remote.
  
   This has to be something simple to fix that I'm missing.
  
   Daniel
  
  
The remote should work with just Xebian being installed, without
 messing
around with any config files.  Try using the remote outside of
 MythTV to
move the cursor around the desktop.  It should work.
   
I think this command will show you if the xbox is receiving the
 signals:
   
$/usr/bin/irw
   
Adam
  
 
  It sounds like your remote is working but you're missing an lircrc file
 for
  mythtv, or it's configured improperly.  I can't send you one right now
  because I'm at work, but that might point you in the right direction.

 cool, thanks.  I attached the lircrc file that I'm using to this email.

  You should stop the remote from controlling the cursor, it'll make
 strange and
  annoying things happen in the background. To do this, comment out the
  following line in the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4-xbox InputDevice
 LIRC-Mouse

 I'll give that a try when I get home tonight.

 Daniel


Yours looks basically like mine.
I have mine in /home/live/.lircrc
with a symlink from /home/live/.mythtv/lircrc no dot in front of the
lircrc.

Sounds like you have everything right.  The only difference is I used the
packages which were available at the time and you complied MythTV yourself.
Maybe that has something to do with it, or the config files are in the wrong
location for you.

Another idea is try running mythfrontend from command line and see what the
output is, to the terminal, when you use the remote.

Adam

___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] RE: xbox dvd remote on xebian 1.1.4

2005-12-06 Thread Mlists

   You should stop the remote from controlling the cursor, it'll make
  strange and
   annoying things happen in the background. To do this, comment out the
   following line in the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4-xbox InputDevice
  LIRC-Mouse
 
  I'll give that a try when I get home tonight.
 
  Daniel
 
 
 Yours looks basically like mine.
 I have mine in /home/live/.lircrc
 with a symlink from /home/live/.mythtv/lircrc no dot in front of the
 lircrc.
 
 Sounds like you have everything right.  The only difference is I used the
 packages which were available at the time and you complied MythTV yourself.
 Maybe that has something to do with it, or the config files are in the wrong
 location for you.
 
 Another idea is try running mythfrontend from command line and see what the
 output is, to the terminal, when you use the remote.
 
 Adam
 

I know when I compiled my version on Xbox I had to use the configure
switch --enable-lirc for it to work.

Norm

___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Configuring SPDIF digital out.

2005-12-06 Thread Nick

On 06/12/05, Mat Kyne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I  recently replaced my home theatre reciever with one that has digital
 inputs (old one was  5.1 analog), 2 coax and 1 optical.  Naturally I would
 like to get the best sound from my  HD-MythTV box,  (that might be the
 reason I bought the new reciever but don't tell that to my wife), so I
 removed the SB Live! 5.1 (analog) sound card that i had installed, went into
 the BIOS settings and enabled the onboard soundcard  that has a SPDIF coax
 connector.  When I rebooted, KDE told me that it could not find the sound
 card, So I went under System Settings - Soundcard Detection, and it foud it
 rightaway. Cool. ( I have the line out  from the mother board connected to
 my TV and the Coax connected to my reciever) Sound comes out of the Tv but
 not the reciever. I go into Myth Frontend, and select a HD  recording to
 play, Again sound out of the TV but not the reciever.  I then gointo
 settings and switch between the 3 settings available to me, and when i try
 to play a HD recording Myth informs me that it cannot find the sound card.
 Well at this time i figure that the ALSA mixer has muted the SPDIF connector
 so I  try to open up alsamixer and get the following error message:
 alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or
 directory

As Marius suggested, check out the digital sound howto -
http://mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo and also the ALSA docs
for your card -
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Intelcard=ICH+southbridge+AC97+audio.chip=440MX%2C+i810%2C+i810E%2C+i820%2C+ICH4%2C+ICH5%2C+ICH6module=intel8x0

Essentially you need to make sure your .asoundrc and mixer settings
are correct to allow audio to be routed throught the SPDIF output.

I would also remove all references to your old Creative card and the
duplicate reference to another intel8x0 card that appear to be in your
modprobe.conf file.

Nick
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Why does /dev/dvb reset permisions on boot?

2005-12-06 Thread Nick

On 06/12/05, Weston, Toby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi folks,

 Probably an obvious question (bit of Linux newbie here I'm afraid) but why
 would the permissions on my dvb devices reset to allow just root access each
 time I reboot? Myth can't access them as the 'mythtv' user doesn't have
 write permission but I change this using chmod... it just can't retain the
 change...

udev issue - the cleanest solution is to write your own rules for DVB
(and other) devices - the following page is a great introduction to
udev and should get you sorted:

http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php

Essentially, create the rule for the DVB devices by coping the content
of the existing udev rules file (which could get overwritten if udev
is updated) and create a new rule file (with a filename that is
alphanumerically less than the name of the main rules file) with the
amended owner/group/permissions. These settings will then be applied
everytime the machine starts. I created various groups (e.g.
audio/video/lirc) when configuring my various udev devices and then
add users to these groups when they require access.

Nick
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] RE: xbox dvd remote on xebian 1.1.4

ahh, now we're getting somewhere.  When I run configure it says no for lirc
support even if I do --enable-lirc.  There must be something that I need to
install that is missing.  I'll do some digging.

Daniel

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Mlists wrote:

You should stop the remote from controlling the cursor, it'll make
   strange and
annoying things happen in the background. To do this, comment out the
following line in the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4-xbox InputDevice
   LIRC-Mouse
  
   I'll give that a try when I get home tonight.
  
   Daniel
  
 
  Yours looks basically like mine.
  I have mine in /home/live/.lircrc
  with a symlink from /home/live/.mythtv/lircrc no dot in front of the
  lircrc.
 
  Sounds like you have everything right.  The only difference is I used the
  packages which were available at the time and you complied MythTV yourself.
  Maybe that has something to do with it, or the config files are in the wrong
  location for you.
 
  Another idea is try running mythfrontend from command line and see what the
  output is, to the terminal, when you use the remote.
 
  Adam
 

 I know when I compiled my version on Xbox I had to use the configure
 switch --enable-lirc for it to work.

 Norm



___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Slave times out connecting to master

2005-12-06 Thread Nick

On 05/12/05, Cecil Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I've ran into an anomalous issue reorganizing my home entertainment
 system this weekend.  I have a master and a slave backend.
 Unfortunately, my slave cannot connect to the master.  I get a string of:

 2005-12-04 17:39:48.266 Connecting to master server: :6543
 2005-12-04 17:39:49.081 Connection to master server timed out.

 in my backend log.  Notice it does not have it IP of my master in the
 above.  The master is configured correctly, I can view records on the
 slave from the master.  I can even use the tuners on the slave to watch
 live tv on the slave.  However, the tuners are listed as not connected
 on the master.  I'm using SVN 8101 currently.  I also tried SVN 8045
 which I had running previously.  I don't think it is an SVN issue,
 rather I'm lost in the forest and now cannot see the trees.  Any
 suggestions?

Some ideas:

On the slave machine search for all files named 'mysql.txt' in .mythtv
directories and check whether any are missing the correct information
for the mythconverg database. You need to check you are connecting to
the master backend's database and not running a second copy of the
database on the slave.

In the database (or running mythtvsetup on the slave) check to ensure
the value for the setting 'BackendServerIP' is set to the correct IP
address for the slave (and that the hostname value is valid) and also
that the MasterServerIP is pointing to the main backend IP (hostname
for this should be NULL).

Lastly, I would try pinging the master backend from the slave to
ensure outbound connections are working and that there are no
firewall-type issues.

Nick
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Problems in load-balancing commflagging

Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 19:02:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Chris Pinkham [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 (a) The setup page that deals with running jobs tops out at 5, e.g., I
 can't tell myth to schedule more than 5 jobs in parallel because
 the control just won't go any higher.  Why's it got this limit?

The Max of 5 simultaneous jobs (per backend) was set prior to the
creation of realtime flagging.  With realtime flagging and hardware
encoding cards I can see how someone might want more than 5 jobs running
at a time on a host.  I've bumped this number up to 10 in my source tree
so it'll be in SVN with my next commit.

Ok.  (I'm running 1.18.1 'cause SVN is way too unstable for me, but I
might be willing to try recompiling from 1.81.1 sources if enough
things accumulate that it seems worthwhile.  Which file defines that
parameter?)

The default check frequency is 60 seconds, but it goes down to 10 or
up to 300 seconds in 5-second increments.  I don't think 10 seconds is
too long to wait for a queue run, but don't see harm in setting this
as low as 5 seconds.  Going all the way to 1 could cause problems for
some people though for a couple reasons.  The constant database hits
querying for new jobs and the added system load from firing off 5-10
jobs at 1-second intervals could cause hickups in recording so I didn't
want to go that low.  I also didn't want to fire off multiple jobs in
the same cycle because that would have the same effect.  Thinking about
it now, I can see a alternative in the middle though.  I could make it
so that the JobQueue sleeps for JobQueueCheckFrequency seconds in between
runs normally, but when it fires off a job, it could be modified to
only sleep for 5 or 10 seconds so it could pickup another job quicker.

That would certainly work, and I agree there's no point going lower
than 10 seconds or so if it'll cause glitches.  I'll leave mine at 10s
for the moment.

 (b) Possibly because of (a), if I do a test recording of 6 things
 simultaneously, commflagging only happens on 5 of them at once.
 The 6th waits until the others are done, and then runs.  They
 all run on the MBE, even though I don't have run jobs only on
 original recording host set, but OTOH, there's that cap of 5
 jobs total, so would I ever see that sixth job on the SBE?

One of them should have run on the SBE as long as you have the SBE
configured to allow running flagging jobs.  Turn on JobQueue debugging
with -v jobqueue on the backend to see if it tells you why it isn't
firing off the 6th job on the SBE.  With -v jobqueue enabled, it
prints out information about every job everytime through the loop
so you can see what's running, what's queued, what's finished, etc..

I tried this, and -everything- changed.  More in next message.

 An even cleverer thing (but which I wouldn't be surprised can't happen
 in the current Myth architecture) would be to load-balance the 
commflagging,
 so that (if I'm recording with 6 tuners), 3 of them happen on the MBE,
 and 3 happen on the SBE.  Myth would have to be reasonably intelligent

This is on my TODO list, but I haven't sat down and looked at it much
because it hasn't been that high of a priority.  I'd like to make it so
that the Queue could prefer a less-busy backend (based on number of items
recording and jobs running).  I have a few other things on my list to
help improve it as well such as creating a concept of a rush job so
if you start watching a recording that isn't flagged it could queue a
flagging job and push it to the head of the queue and wakeup the sleeping
ProcessQueue thread.

That's a cute idea.
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC not working within Myth

2005-12-06 Thread John DiLorenzo

Well, no luck.

I'm going to try to rebuild mythtv from the tarball and see what I get.

FYI, the LIRCD service is DOA before I use it, it seems to need the modprobe lirc_i2c before it will do anything. 

lircrc and lircd.conf files look good. I removed all the lircrc
files but /etc/.lircrc I may put them back after
rebuilding. 

Oh well, tomorrow's project
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] some atrpms packages for x86_64 actually built for i686?

2005-12-06 Thread Mike Schiller

I'm having a problem installing the mythtv-suite on an x86_64 machine
running Fedora 4.

After adding the atrpms.repo  to my /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory
according to Jarod's guide, I run:

yum install mythtv-suite

Everything appears to install fine.  as a normal user, I launch
mythfrontend, and am able to configure mythfrontend to access the
database running on my master back end.  The setup window, exits, then
the normal mythfrontend screen appears, and immediately disappears.  I
get the following errors printed to my console:

Conflict in /usr/lib/qt-3.3/plugins/inputmethods/libqimsw-multi.so:
  Plugin uses incompatible Qt library!
  expected build key x86_64 Linux g++-4.* full-config, got i686
Linux g++-4.* full-config.
Conflict in /usr/lib/qt-3.3/plugins/inputmethods/libqimsw-none.so:
  Plugin uses incompatible Qt library!
  expected build key x86_64 Linux g++-4.* full-config, got i686
Linux g++-4.* full-config.
Conflict in /usr/lib/qt-3.3/plugins/inputmethods/libqsimple.so:
  Plugin uses incompatible Qt library!
  expected build key x86_64 Linux g++-4.* full-config, got i686
Linux g++-4.* full-config.
Conflict in /usr/lib/qt-3.3/plugins/inputmethods/libqxim.so:
  Plugin uses incompatible Qt library!
  expected build key x86_64 Linux g++-4.* full-config, got i686
Linux g++-4.* full-config.


I then uninstall mythdvd (yum remove mythdvd), but still get the error:

Bus error

Then, I run:

yum remove mythgallery
yum remove mythphone
yum remove mythmusic

Now, I'm able to run the frontend and watch live tv, recordings, and
videos, but can't listen to music, play dvd's, or browse photos.  Does
anyone know a (preferably RPM) way to get these features back?

Thanks,
Mike
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Problems in load-balancing commflagging

 The Max of 5 simultaneous jobs (per backend) was set prior to the
 creation of realtime flagging.  With realtime flagging and hardware

 might be willing to try recompiling from 1.81.1 sources if enough
 things accumulate that it seems worthwhile.  Which file defines that
 parameter?)

mythtv/setup/backendsettings.cpp  Search for JobQueueMaxSimultaneousJobs.
There are 3 numbers on the line where the HostSpinBox is declared.
The first is the minimum (needs to stay at = 1), the second is the max,
and the third is the step increment.

-- 
Chris

___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Problems in load-balancing commflagging

Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 19:02:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Chris Pinkham [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 (b) Possibly because of (a), if I do a test recording of 6 things
 simultaneously, commflagging only happens on 5 of them at once.
 The 6th waits until the others are done, and then runs.  They
 all run on the MBE, even though I don't have run jobs only on
 original recording host set, but OTOH, there's that cap of 5
 jobs total, so would I ever see that sixth job on the SBE?

One of them should have run on the SBE as long as you have the SBE
configured to allow running flagging jobs.  Turn on JobQueue debugging
with -v jobqueue on the backend to see if it tells you why it isn't
firing off the 6th job on the SBE.  With -v jobqueue enabled, it
prints out information about every job everytime through the loop
so you can see what's running, what's queued, what's finished, etc..

Things are now broken in a different way.  I have many questions.

I tried running mythbackend -d -v jobqueue (as the mythtv user) on
the MBE, and got -very- different results than I was getting before;
I suspect that this is because I hadn't restarted mythbackend since
trying to turn on transcoding.  (It's been booted -many- times since
setting up commflagging, but that was in previous weeks.)  Do changes
to transcoding and/or recording profiles only take effect on restart
of the backend?  I didn't -think- so (and it'd be pretty inconvenient
if it always took a backend restart to change this sort of thing) but
I haven't done anything else to the box

My test environment was to start recording on channels 2,3,4,5,6,7
simultaneously for 5 minutes via manual scheduling.

The -previous- behavior (before I restarted mythbackend this evening
with -v jobqueue was to do all commflagging on the MBE, with the
first 5 jobs running in parallel, and the sixth running (I think!) on
the MBE as well (coulda been the SBE; I might not have noticed if it
was), but definitely after the first five.  Transcoding errored out
and didn't run at all.

-Now- what happens is the following:
(a) The instant recording was due to commence, the backend logged a
bunch of Skipping Flag Commercials job for chanid 1002 @
20051206213500, should be run on 'sbe' instead; it logged one of
these page channel I'd scheduled (with appropriate chanid's, of
course).  I have no idea why the MBE (which has 5 of the 6 tuners)
is suddenly claiming that the SBE should be running commflagging
instead of the MBE.  No commflagging jobs ever ran on the MBE, as
far as I could tell by running ps -elf | grep comm a lot.
(b) One commflagging job started up on the SBE.  When it finished,
another started, and so forth---no parallelism.
(c) Five transcoding jobs started up on the MBE, in parallel, as soon
as recording finished.  (Before, -no- transcoding job were starting.)
(d) The sixth transcoding job claimed an errored state instead of
doing anything.  I can't -guarantee- that was the job that
corresponded to the recording on the SBE's tuner, but I'm
suspicious that it might have been, since it was channel 7 and
they might have been allocated to tuners in the order in which I
created the schedules.  [select * from mythlog isn't telling me
what tuner recorded what; is there some better way to find out?]

So, my still-unanswered questions:
(a) How do I debug this better?  If a job claimed errored, how do I
grab ahold of its diagnostic output so I can see -why- it errored?
(b) What's going on w/the job queues here?
(c) Transcoding was supposed to start -after- commflagging, but it
didn't.  Why not?
(d) Why did 1 out of 6 transcoding jobs get an error, and what exactly
-was- the error?
(e) There are at least two places to turn on transcoding---one is in
the various profiles for Default, LiveTV, High, and Low, and one
is in the Transcoding-MPEG2 slot one menu page away.  Which of
these -should- I turn on, and which -shouldn't- I?  (Right now,
they're -both- on, because turning on the Default one didn't do
anything when I tried it; see previous message about that.)
(f) Is MPEG2-PS the right thing in that menu, or should it be TS, or
is it something else entirely?  Where are these choices
documented?
(g) Why is the diagnostic output from mythbackend mentioning that it's
studiously ignoring a bunch of commflagging jobs from two days
ago?  (That's the last time I tried to record anything.)  -Those-
jobs ran okay, incidentally, and on the MBE.  It's also mentioning
the two Errored transcoding jobs I tried to run that day when I
was trying to debug transcoding.  Why are they still hanging
around in the job queue?  What makes them go away?
(h) What other options does mythbackend take, and what do they do?
(I note that it has no manpage.)

Thanks!
___
mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Strange MythBackend troubles

2005-12-06 Thread Josh Tallen

On 12/6/05, Druid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 16:49 -0500, Mike Frisch wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:26:44PM -0800, Jeff Clemens wrote: So occasionally, my master backend gets into a strange state. I have a frontend and a backend running on each of 2 boxes.The master backend
occasionally gets into a state where the frontend will report that the backend is down when trying some things (like deleting a recording for instance), but other menu items that use the backend work fine.When it's
in this state, neither frontend works correctly. /sbin/service mythbackend restart fixes the problem temporarily. I cannot offer much other than to say the same thing happens regularly
to me.I cannot predict when it will happen but it happens somewhat frequently.It is as if the frontend loses track of the backend.I think this is what has happened to me on a few occasions, the backend
has stopped recording, the status page works still works but thefrontend won't play but lists all the shows etc.I think I am experiencing a similar problem. Occaisionally a program will stop recording partway through. It's not always obvious that this has happened, because the frontend appears to work fine. I can still watch recorded programs, including the one that failed, up to the point where it stopped. Everything appears to work, but it will not attempt to record any other programs. What really sends it into a tailspin is trying to delete a program after this has happened. The frontend completely freezes and must be killed along with a restart of the backend to get things back to normal. This problem started about two months ago, but I haven't changed anything that I can think of since I installed
0.18.1 (other than the possible upgrade of the ivtv drivers). Nothing seems to be logged about this in any log that I can find, and I'm completely stumped. --Josh
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Problems in load-balancing commflagging

Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 23:18:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Chris Pinkham [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 The Max of 5 simultaneous jobs (per backend) was set prior to the
 creation of realtime flagging.  With realtime flagging and hardware

 might be willing to try recompiling from 1.81.1 sources if enough
 things accumulate that it seems worthwhile.  Which file defines that
 parameter?)

mythtv/setup/backendsettings.cpp  Search for JobQueueMaxSimultaneousJobs.
There are 3 numbers on the line where the HostSpinBox is declared.
The first is the minimum (needs to stay at = 1), the second is the max,
and the third is the step increment.

Thanks!  I'll add this to my queue of things to change if I decide to
recompile 1.18.1.

(I wish SVN wasn't protocol-incompatible with the stable release, and
that SVN had dangerous work done out on a branch instead of on the
mainline; if those two things weren't true, I could afford to at least
see if some of these issues might be fixed there, but with the current
situation, I'd need two dedicate a pair of machines just to SVN if I
also wanted to make sure I had a setup that worked reliably enough to
actually record with while also making sure the new configuration
worked, and I just don't have that much spare hardware... :)
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Strange MythBackend troubles


Jeff Clemens wrote:

So occasionally, my master backend gets into a strange state.   I have 
a frontend and a backend running on each of 2 boxes.  The master 
backend occasionally gets into a state where the frontend will report 
that the backend is down when trying some things (like deleting a 
recording for instance), but other menu items that use the backend 
work fine.  When it's in this state, neither frontend works correctly. 
/sbin/service mythbackend restart fixes the problem temporarily.
 
The other strange issue is that the tuner on the slave backend does 
not seem to be recognized ever.  I haven't looked into this too 
extensively, since I rarely need to record more than one show at a 
time, but may spend some time on it this week.  It also appears that 
when I watch live TV on the slave box, it's using the tuner from the 
master box, not the local tuner. 
 
Any ideas?


Do you often leave your frontend on the Watch Recordings screen for long 
periods of time?


Kevin

--
Looking for affordable webhosting?  http://www.sitecity.net

___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Problems in load-balancing commflagging

Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 23:42:00 -0500 (EST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

-Now- what happens is the following:
(a) The instant recording was due to commence, the backend logged a
bunch of Skipping Flag Commercials job for chanid 1002 @
20051206213500, should be run on 'sbe' instead; it logged one of
these page channel I'd scheduled (with appropriate chanid's, of
course).

Whoops, I misspoke:  10 seconds after recording started (e.g., the
next time my every-10s job queue got checked), I got the Skipping
messages, -and- I -also- got one of Found Flag Commercials job for
chanid 1002 @ 20051206213500 in Running state and 5 of Found
Flag Commercials job for chanid 100x @ 20051206213500 in Queued
state, for x in 2,3,4,5,6,7 (yes, including 7, despite the later
error running that job).  That sort of thing persisted for each later
iteration.  Each iteration -also- said Currently Running 0 jobs.,
which makes no sense.

3 different sets of logging output are below, to try to make sense of
all this.

Here's the backend just after I started it:

2005-12-06 21:22:39.727 New DB connection, total: 1
Starting up as the master server.
2005-12-06 21:22:39.747 New DB connection, total: 2
2005-12-06 21:22:39.748 mythbackend: MythBackend started as master server
2005-12-06 21:22:39.755 New DB connection, total: 3
2005-12-06 21:22:40.710 New DB scheduler connection
2005-12-06 21:22:40.713 JobQueue::RecoverQueue: Checking for unfinished jobs to 
recover.
2005-12-06 21:22:40.714 mythbackend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 www.mythtv.org
2005-12-06 21:22:40.714 Enabled verbose msgs : important general jobqueue
2005-12-06 21:22:40.718 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: findJobs search bitmask 4, 
found 10 total jobs
2005-12-06 21:22:40.719 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: Ignore 'Flag Commercials' Job 
for 1002 @ 20051204142500 in Finished state.
2005-12-06 21:22:40.719 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: Ignore 'Flag Commercials' Job 
for 1003 @ 20051204142500 in Finished state.
2005-12-06 21:22:40.719 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: Ignore 'Flag Commercials' Job 
for 1004 @ 20051204142500 in Finished state.
2005-12-06 21:22:40.721 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: Ignore 'Flag Commercials' Job 
for 1005 @ 20051204142500 in Finished state.
2005-12-06 21:22:40.721 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: Ignore 'Flag Commercials' Job 
for 1006 @ 20051204142500 in Finished state.
2005-12-06 21:22:40.721 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: Ignore 'Flag Commercials' Job 
for 1007 @ 20051204142500 in Finished state.
2005-12-06 21:22:40.721 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: Ignore 'Flag Commercials' Job 
for 1002 @ 20051205043000 in Finished state.
2005-12-06 21:22:40.722 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: Ignore 'Transcode' Job for 
1002 @ 20051205043000 in Errored state.
2005-12-06 21:22:40.722 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: Ignore 'Flag Commercials' Job 
for 1002 @ 20051206172000 in Finished state.
2005-12-06 21:22:40.722 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: Ignore 'Transcode' Job for 
1002 @ 20051206172000 in Errored state.
2005-12-06 21:22:40.873 adding: sbe as a slave backend server
2005-12-06 21:22:42.713 Reschedule requested for id 0.
2005-12-06 21:22:42.713 Reschedule requested for id -1.
2005-12-06 21:22:42.800 Scheduled 0 items in 0.1 = 0.08 match + 0.00 place
2005-12-06 21:22:42.804 scheduler: Scheduled items
2005-12-06 21:22:42.806 Seem to be woken up by USER

...and here's what happened just after recording commenced, including
the start of the recordings and the first 10s update.  (And yes, it
-does- appear that ch7 was recorded on the SBE's tuner, and ch7 is the
one that later got the error transcoding---since I'm pretty sure that
cardid 6 is the SBE's 350, since that was the card I defined last when
running mythtv-setup.)

Note that there was never an entry showing the start or end of
transcoding for ch7 (the one that errored).

2005-12-06 21:35:02.944 Started recording 2 WGBH - 21:35 (Manual Record) on 
channel: 1002 on cardid: 1, sourceid 1
2005-12-06 21:35:02.948 New DB connection, total: 4
2005-12-06 21:35:02.951 New DB connection, total: 5
2005-12-06 21:35:02.971 scheduler: Last message repeated 8 times
2005-12-06 21:35:02.974 scheduler: Schedule Change
2005-12-06 21:35:02.975 Started recording 3 LOOR003 - 21:35 (Manual Record) 
on channel: 1003 on cardid: 2, sourceid 1
2005-12-06 21:35:02.977 Started recording 4 WBZ - 21:35 (Manual Record) on 
channel: 1004 on cardid: 3, sourceid 1
2005-12-06 21:35:02.978 Started recording 5 WCVB - 21:35 (Manual Record) on 
channel: 1005 on cardid: 4, sourceid 1
2005-12-06 21:35:02.979 Started recording 6 WFXT - 21:35 (Manual Record) on 
channel: 1006 on cardid: 5, sourceid 1
2005-12-06 21:35:02.981 New DB connection, total: 6
2005-12-06 21:35:03.014 New DB connection, total: 7
2005-12-06 21:35:03.016 New DB connection, total: 8
2005-12-06 21:35:03.018 New DB connection, total: 9
2005-12-06 21:35:03.021 New DB connection, total: 10
2005-12-06 21:35:03.022 Started recording 7 WHDH - 21:35 (Manual Record) on 
channel: 1007 on cardid: 6,

[mythtv-users] pvr 250 and 500 combo problems

2005-12-06 Thread David Montz

I have been using WinTv pvr 250 for several months with no problems. 
I have recently added a second tuner card, pvr 500.  I have spent days
trying to get these to work together.  The strange thing is that
either card works fine when the other is removed.  However, when both
cards are installed only the pvr 500 initializes correctly.  Here is
my ivtv init log, lspci results and modprobe.conf.  The only thing
that seems suspect is that both cards are using IRQ 5.  Any help would
be appreciated.

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)
ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x50 not found for command 0x0!
ivtv0: Error -19 reading Hauppauge eeprom.
ivtv0: Possible causes: the tveeprom module was not loaded, or
ivtv0: the eeprom kernel module was loaded before the tveeprom module.
ivtv0: Could not detect tuner standard, defaulting to NTSC.
ivtv0: loading /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin
ivtv0: Encoder revision: 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 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not found for command 0x40046403!
ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not found for command 0x40046404!
ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x40 not found for command 0x40086d11!
ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x40 not found for command 0x80287610!
ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x40 not found for command 0x40287611!
ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x00 not found for command 0x40307603!
ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x40 not found for command 0x40307603!
ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not found for command 0x40046403!
ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x40 not found for command 0x80287610!
ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x40 not found for command 0x40287611!
ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not found for command 0x40046406!
ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x00 not found for command 0x4004760f!
ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x40 not found for command 0x4004760f!
ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not found for command 0x40046406!
ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x40 not found for command 0x80287610!
ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x40 not found for command 0x40287611!
ivtv0: Initialized WinTV PVR 250, card #0
ivtv:  ==  NEXT CARD  ==
ivtv1: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card (iTVC16 based)
ivtv1: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
tveeprom: ivtv version
ivtv1: i2c attach to card #1 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50]
tuner (ivtv): chip found at addr 0xc0 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #1
ivtv1: i2c attach to card #1 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=60]
tuner (ivtv): chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #1
ivtv1: i2c attach to card #1 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61]
tda9885/6/7: (ivtv) chip found @ 0x86
ivtv1: i2c attach to card #1 ok [client=tda9887, addr=43]
ivtv1: This is the first unit of a PVR500
cx25840 1-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
ivtv1: i2c attach to card #1 ok [client=cx25840, addr=44]
wm8775 1-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
ivtv1: i2c attach to card #1 ok [client=wm8775, addr=1b]
ivtv1: Detected a TEA5767 radio tuner. Enabling radio support.
ivtv1: loading /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin
ivtv1: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
ivtv1: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total)
ivtv1: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB total)
ivtv1: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB total)
ivtv1: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total)
ivtv1: Create encoder radio stream
tuner: type set to 57 (Philips FQ1236A MK4) by ivtv i2c driver #1
ivtv1: Initialized WinTV PVR 500 (unit #1), card #1
ivtv:  ==  NEXT CARD  ==
ivtv2: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card (iTVC16 based)
ivtv2: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
tveeprom: ivtv version
ivtv2: i2c attach to card #2 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50]
tuner (ivtv): chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #2
ivtv2: i2c attach to card #2 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61]
tda9885/6/7: (ivtv) chip found @ 0x86
ivtv2: i2c attach to card #2 ok [client=tda9887, addr=43]
cx25840 2-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #2)
ivtv2: i2c attach to card #2 ok [client=cx25840, addr=44]
wm8775 2-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #2)
ivtv2: i2c attach to

Re: [mythtv-users] Strange MythBackend troubles

2005-12-06 Thread Stephen Norris

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 22:51 -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
 Do you often leave your frontend on the Watch Recordings screen for long 
 periods of time?
 
 Kevin

I see this happen if I leave the frontend on that screen...

I also suspect log rotation - I find sometimes the backend is logging
into the already rotated log, and eventually the backend seems to seize
up.

Stephen

___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Xv strangeness...

2005-12-06 Thread Matt Mossholder





Ok, here's an odd one... I have been building a new diskless HDTV FE/BE lately. I plan on hooking this up to a Panasonic CT-34WX15 HD Tube. After having built it next to my desk, attached to my desktop's monitor, I thought I had everything working fine... HD playback was working, recording OTA was working, etc. Now, I go to hook it up to my HDTV, and as soon as I tell it to play anything: BOOM. hard crash with a black screen. Nothing is making it into the syslog, so no luck there.

The one thing that I have discovered is that if I playback content with mplayer, it works fine using the -vo x11 option, and crashes exactly the same way using the -vo xv option, again, while attached to the HDTV.

Anyone seen this before?

Help! :)


 --Matt 


___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Strange MythBackend troubles


Stephen Norris wrote:


On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 22:51 -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
 

Do you often leave your frontend on the Watch Recordings screen for long 
periods of time?


Kevin
   



I see this happen if I leave the frontend on that screen...

I also suspect log rotation - I find sometimes the backend is logging
into the already rotated log, and eventually the backend seems to seize
up.
 

Actually, I used to have this with 0.18.1 but I don't anymore with SVN 
and I think it was this patch:


http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/392

I don't know if you compiled from the 0.18.1 source, but if you did, try 
applying the patch in the ticket and see if that cleans up the problem 
for you.  Summary of the changes is in the ticket.  I believe after 
applying this, my problem disappeared.


Kevin

--
Looking for affordable webhosting?  http://www.sitecity.net

___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Re: sorry to bother you about your xbox image

2005-12-06 Thread Julian Scarfe

If anyone wants this I can put it online at a host with some 
bandwidth. :)


that would be great. I can't seem to get the torrent.

___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] alternative GPU - graphics cards with open source drivers question

2005-12-06 Thread Bob

Most people round here like Nvidia GPUs as the drivers (though closed) 
work and they support XvMC (as long as you're not 64 bit yet), I gather 
some of the older (R250) Radion chips work as well and have open source 
drivers, as does one of the old Matrox cards, but for people who which 
to vote with their wallet and support companies that release open source 
drivers, the only current options are S3 and Intel.


I know some people use the UniChrome GPUs with VIA boards, and others 
have Intel chip-sets with on-board graphics, but I don't want to change 
my Motherboard, I can't find a source of S3s DeltaChrome S8 AGP graphics 
cards and I don't think the Intel GPUs come on separate cards.


The s3s http://www.s3graphics.com/en/products/delta_chrome/ look 
perfect, they have HDTV output, moderate 3D performance (enough for SNES 
emulators?), can be passively cooled and have open source drivers.


Has anyone used a DeltaChrome based graphics card with Myth, what's it 
like and where can I get one?


Thanks

PS. I'm not bashing Nvidia or ATI, I have a bunch of cards from both and 
don't want this to turn into a flame war, but I do like the idea of a 
pure system and I hate the current beta driver, benchmark massage, 
shenanigans which can't happen with an open source driver.


--
tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 34132, rev = J158,
tveeprom: tuner = Philips FM1236 MK3 (idx = 58, type = 4)
tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3416 (type = 14)
(new type Model 401)
model name  : mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP Processor
cpu MHz : 2277.214
cache size  : 512 KB
(Plenty o' grunt on an ECS k7s5a MB)
Knoppmyth R5A16 (unmodified)
http://mysettopbox.tv/CHANGELOG.txt
MythTV 0.18.1
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Xv strangeness...

2005-12-06 Thread Matt Mossholder





Answering my own question (Don't you hate that? :) Appears this is a problem related to the 6000 and 7000 series cards, when using DVI and Xv with texture sync to VBlank ENABLED. Disabling this resolved the problem but leads to tearing. Better than nothing, I guess.

 --Matt

 On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 01:02 -0500, Matt Mossholder wrote:

Ok, here's an odd one... I have been building a new diskless HDTV FE/BE lately. I plan on hooking this up to a Panasonic CT-34WX15 HD Tube. After having built it next to my desk, attached to my desktop's monitor, I thought I had everything working fine... HD playback was working, recording OTA was working, etc. Now, I go to hook it up to my HDTV, and as soon as I tell it to play anything: BOOM. hard crash with a black screen. Nothing is making it into the syslog, so no luck there.

The one thing that I have discovered is that if I playback content with mplayer, it works fine using the -vo x11 option, and crashes exactly the same way using the -vo xv option, again, while attached to the HDTV.

Anyone seen this before?

Help! :)


 --Matt  

___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users




___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Very low audio level after transcoding