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On Tuesday 13 December 2005 03:23, GREG & AMY LINDLEY wrote:
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>
> Going through my email and noticed your note.  I have setup mythtv using a
> touchscreen (a modified PSOne LCD with a touchscreen on the front).  Pretty
> easy to do and it all seems to function with mythtv.  I can give you
> pointers to the docs if you want.  Here is a pic of
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> It was featured in the November issue of CPU magazine
> (www.computerpoweruser.com) - don't know
> if you get this in your country.  The touchscreen functions like a mouse so
> I am not aware of changes required to mythtv to support this.
>
> Thanks,
> Greg

Wow, me likey. Please point to docs...
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Re: [mythtv-users] how many concurrent recordings possible? in HD?

2005-12-12 Thread casey dunn

On 12/11/05, mrwester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks
for the input, I'd thought about this also, but why would capturing
with the DViCO+PVR-350 be different than capturing with DViCO+Tuner1 of
the PVR-500?  The former gives me corrupt digital capture while
the latter does not.  

Mike
Is the 350 physicaly closer to the DViCO than the 500.  It may be electical noise?
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Re: [mythtv-users] watching a bttv recorded show on a non mythtv mplayer?

2005-12-12 Thread casey dunn

On 12/12/05, Daniel Stengel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ok now my question: Did anyone succeed in converting such a nuppelvideo(recorded by a bttv card) to an xvid/divx or watching it on a standardubuntu desktop?Please tell me how!Daniel
I autotranscode my bt878 recordings to mpeg4 with the build in autotranscode and watch them with VLC.  All from ubuntu (dapper) packages.  I belive it will also play the RTJPEG files; I just don't have any handy to test.

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[mythtv-users] Changing default rewind amount

2005-12-12 Thread jgmtfia Mr

I have a weird problem.  Before my last update, my rewind setting was
15 seconds.  After the update it defaulted to 5 seconds.  I could not
find where to change the value back to 15 seconds.  I looked in the
"settings" table in the database and found "RewindAmount" was set to
5.  I changed it to 15 seconds and restarted the front end.  However
the setting is not being honored.

I would appreciate any pointers.
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[mythtv-users] RE: Configuring SPDIF digital out.

2005-12-12 Thread Mat Kyne


I finally got it working.

Here is what I did to enable spdif output to my amp when I switched from a 
SB Live! 5.1 analog surround card to the on-board audio on my Asus 
motherboard.


The obvious first step was to remove the SB Live! Card from the PC. During 
the Power On Self Test (POST), I entered the BIOS settings and enabled the 
on-board audio. Saved the settings ant continued with the boot up.


KDE informed me that the default audio device was missing. I went to the 
Start menu --> System Settings --> Soundcard Detection. KDE found my 
Soundcard and played a test tune. The analog sound was coming out of my TV 
Speakers and nothing was coming out of my Receiver.


I opened up a terminal and typed alsamixer.  I was given an error message :

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: no such file or 
directory.


Googling for that error led me to believe that my modprob.conf file was to 
blame so. . .


# (any text editor) /etc/modprob.conf

-Before--

alias eth0 sk98lin
options snd-emu10k1 index=0
remove snd-emu10k1 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&
1 || : ; }; /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 2>&1 || : ; }; 
/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 2>&1 || : ; }; 
/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0


The intel8x0 is my on-board audio device, and the emu10k1 was my old card. I 
commented out the lines referencing my old sound card and made a few number 
changes in the file. This is my file after editing it.


---After

alias eth0 sk98lin
#options snd-emu10k1 index=0
#remove snd-emu10k1 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&
1 || : ; }; /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
#changed index=1 to index=0 and ... store 1 to store 0
options snd-intel8x0 index=0
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; 
/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 2>&1 || : ; }; 
/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0


I rebooted and still no dice. Same error message from alsamixer. I tried 
creating a .asoundrc file like like the example on the ALSA website.


$ vi /home/mythtv/.asoundrc

pcm.intel8x0 {
  type hw
  card 0
}

ctl.intel8x0 {
  type hw
  card 0
}

Still no digital sound. I attempt to run alsamixer and receive this error 
message:


alsamixer: relocation error: alsamixer: symbol 
snd_mixer_selem_get_playback_dB, version ALSA_0.9 not defined in file 
libasound.so.2 with link time reference


After a few Googles, I find out what needs to be done.
It is time to update drivers and such. But first a little house cleaning.

# mv /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 moved.libasound.so.2
# mv /usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0 moved.libasound/so/2/0/0

--- I later went back and deleted them but you cant be too careful ---

# yum install alsa-utils
# yum install alsa-lib
# yum install alsa-driver

I tried alsamixer again and it worked.
In alsamixer I un-muted IEC958, turned ICE958 Playback all the way down, set 
ICE958 Playback source to [AC-Link], un-muted External Amplifier, turned 
 and  up to 90%. ESC to exit.


--- I dont know if all of this was necessary, but it worked for me. ---

I started up mythfrontend, and navigated to Utilities/Setup -> Setup -> 
General. On the 3rd page I selected Enable AC3 to SPDIF passthrough and  
Audio output device was already on /dev/dsp.

Finish going through the menus in order to make the settings take effect.
After I verified that it worked, I spent a few minutes patting myself on the 
back, and then decided to save my settings.


#  /usr/sbin/alsactl store

--  Thats it. I hope someone can find this information useful. -Mat


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Re: [mythtv-users] advice needed on HD-3000 and PVR-350

2005-12-12 Thread Keith C


On Dec 12, 2005, at 10:29 PM, Brian Foddy wrote:


On Monday 12 December 2005 02:19 pm, Chris Gentle wrote:

Hi.  I'm considering purchasing an HD-3000 and I'd like a little
advice.  I currently have two Hauppauge PVR-350 cards in two
separate machines.  Both machines have fairly low-end hardware so I
use the decoder on both 350 cards.  Output is excellent, by the  
way.  :)


If I purchase one of these cards, can the captured files from the
HD-3000 be transcoded into a stream that can be played back through
the 350's decoder?  The machines are really not fast enough to play
back without the decoder.

Speaking of transcoding, does MythTV use the actual 'transcode'
program or does it use its own internal transcoding?


If they can't play a standard NTSC stream, no way will they
do a HD stream, and the pvr350 can't help you.

To play a decent HD stream, you need some pretty good hardware.
I've been "living" with a P3-1400 and it will barely play with XvMC,
but I would't recommend it.  I'm about to build a much faster
machine, AMD 64X2, but that's overkill.



I upgraded from an AMD AthlonXP 2800 to an AMD Athlon64 3800+ X2  
(dual core) just to be able to play back HD content from my HD3000  
without having to use XvMC (which I never got working right).  It  
takes some beef to watch Conan in 1080i and resize it down to my 720p  
output.


Keith C
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfrontend Playback problems

2005-12-12 Thread Brandon Saunders


Mike,

I saw that in my backend logs during my initial debugging process. I ran a 
repair, and the errors have gone away.  The playback problem persists.  At the 
time I did not clear the table.

I just cleared the table, and the problem still persists.

Brandon

--On Monday, December 12, 2005 10:01 PM -0500 "Michael T. Dean" <[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]> wrote:


Brandon Saunders wrote:


I have been running Myth 0.18.1 for about 2 months now, and all was
well up until about 3-4 weeks ago when I started have trouble playing
back recordings.  Two things are happening, but I cannot tell if they
are related.

1. After about 4 minutes into a show the fastforward stops working.
It just jumps ahead one second.  The display also changes from "Skip
Ahead \n 1:00 of 57:00" to "skip Ahead \n 0:06:15 of 1:25:37" I don't
understand why it doesn't understand the length of the show.


Sounds like a corrupt recordedmarkup table.  Time to do a mysqlcheck.

Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] advice needed on HD-3000 and PVR-350

2005-12-12 Thread Brian Foddy

On Monday 12 December 2005 02:19 pm, Chris Gentle wrote:
> Hi.  I'm considering purchasing an HD-3000 and I'd like a little
> advice.  I currently have two Hauppauge PVR-350 cards in two
> separate machines.  Both machines have fairly low-end hardware so I
> use the decoder on both 350 cards.  Output is excellent, by the way.  :)
>
> If I purchase one of these cards, can the captured files from the
> HD-3000 be transcoded into a stream that can be played back through
> the 350's decoder?  The machines are really not fast enough to play
> back without the decoder.
>
> Speaking of transcoding, does MythTV use the actual 'transcode'
> program or does it use its own internal transcoding?

If they can't play a standard NTSC stream, no way will they
do a HD stream, and the pvr350 can't help you.

To play a decent HD stream, you need some pretty good hardware.
I've been "living" with a P3-1400 and it will barely play with XvMC,
but I would't recommend it.  I'm about to build a much faster
machine, AMD 64X2, but that's overkill.

Brian
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Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV questions

2005-12-12 Thread Keith C


On Dec 12, 2005, at 8:20 PM, Steve Adeff wrote:


On Monday 12 December 2005 19:41, Michael T. Dean wrote:

Todd Ignasiak wrote:

In the U.S., HDTV is broadcast as MPEG2.  The articles I have read
about HDTV in Europe have said MPEG4 (probably H.264 / MPEG4.10 /  
AVC)

will be used.  H.264 takes much more CPU horsepower to decode.   A
3GHz P4 may not ave the horsepower to decode it.


An AMD Athlon X2 4800+ won't decode 1080i60 H.264.  :)

Mike


WOW! thats serious decoding requirements. So basically H.264 is  
going to

require a dedicated DSP?



It will probably require some hand tuned vector code (SSE3, Altivec,  
etc) to make it work.  Or to have your graphics card do it for you.   
The graphics card solution is probably going to be slow to come to  
linux.  Hand tuned code is more likely, but takes some real  
professionals to implement.  For what its worth, my old 1.4 Ghz Mac  
G4 does a decent job of smaller screen sizes because of the work  
Apple did hand coding for the Altivec unit.


For now, I probably wouldn't recommend it for Linux, especially with  
HDs being so cheap (H.264 is basically trading processor for space/ 
bandwidth).


Keith C
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Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire ( 1394) Capture with multiple FW Cards

2005-12-12 Thread Mike Smith

Steve,

I tried to force Mythtv to record a show via the
firewire.  This is what
I get in mythbackend.log:

2005-12-12 22:00:03.229 Changing from None to
RecordingOnly
2005-12-12 22:00:03.238 Using profile 'Default' to
record
2005-12-12 22:00:03.241 StartRecording
2005-12-12 22:00:03.242 Firewire: Initializing Port:
1, Node: 0, Speed: 100Mbps
2005-12-12 22:00:03.243 Firewire: Creating P2P
Connection with Node: 0
libiec61883 warning: Overlayed connection on channel
0.
You may need to manually set the channel on the
receiving node.
2005-12-12 22:00:03.258 Firewire: Created Channel: 0,
Bandwidth Allocation: 0
2005-12-12 22:00:03.259 Firewire: Changing Speed
200Mbps -> 100Mbps
2005-12-12 22:00:18.264 Firewire: No Input in 15
seconds [P:1 N:0] (select)
2005-12-12 22:00:20.926 JobQueue::RecoverQueue:
Checking for unfinished jobs to 

I had the cable box set to channel 912, which is the
HDTV version of
over-the-air CBS, so I would not think it was encoded.

Note: I can connect if external Firewire disk drive to
both my firewire
cards ( motherboard and PCI ) and I can mount
filesystems off of it.
So, I'm confident they are working.

Thanks,

Mike

--- Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Monday 12 December 2005 20:52, Mike Smith wrote:
> > Steve,
> >
> > When I try test-mpeg2 I get the following:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] examples]# ./test-mpeg2 -r 0
> >/tmp/junk.ts
> > libiec61883 warning: No plugs exist on either
> node;
> > using default broadcast channel 63.
> > Starting to receive
> >
> >
> > It says it is starting to receive,  but I end up
> with
> > a zero length
> > file.
> >
> > Since I have two different cards,  how does it
> know
> > which card I my
> > device is on?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mike
> 
> I've been wondering the same thing about all these
> linux firewire apps. they 
> assume you only have 1 firewire card!
> 
> ughh...
> 
> -- 
> Steve
> 


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Re: [mythtv-users] LiveTV isn't flexible enough about its inputs

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:50:27 -0500
   From: "Michael T. Dean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

   >, but I
   >haven't (yet) tested this thoroughly to see which way it works.)
   >Would unchecking that option allow LiveTV to grab the appropriate
   >input from any card, or is this just an architectural limitation
   >of how 0.18.1's LiveTV is supposed to work?
   >
   I'm pretty sure in 0.18.1 you have to explicitly change cards (and 
   perhaps inputs) if a channel isn't available on the current.

How exactly would I do that?  After all, no matter which way the
option is checked, it's basically up to Myth to choose which card is
the one used when capturing input that's going to LiveTV.  Is there
some magic keystroke sequence that says, "Change to card number n,

"Y" (but it just increments cardid's skipping in use ones)

and now change to card n's input m"

"C" (once again, it just cycles through available inputs for which a 
video source is connected).

when in LiveTV?  (And man, is that
ever risky, because it requires someone using LiveTV to have an
intimate knowledge of exactly which card(s) Myth is using [and
planning to use] in order not to disrupt a recording.)

(already covered the skipping in use cards)

Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfrontend Playback problems

2005-12-12 Thread Steve Malenfant

Not sure this is related, but everytime I'm watching a show that is
currently recording (let's says an hour long), it will show something
like 15 minutes of 45 minutes.  As soon as the show end, it will jump
to 30 minutes of 2 hours.  If I restart the show, it shows correctly
the 1 hour lenght of the show.

Steve M.

On 12/12/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Brandon Saunders wrote:
>
> > I have been running Myth 0.18.1 for about 2 months now, and all was
> > well up until about 3-4 weeks ago when I started have trouble playing
> > back recordings.  Two things are happening, but I cannot tell if they
> > are related.
> >
> > 1. After about 4 minutes into a show the fastforward stops working.
> > It just jumps ahead one second.  The display also changes from "Skip
> > Ahead \n 1:00 of 57:00" to "skip Ahead \n 0:06:15 of 1:25:37" I don't
> > understand why it doesn't understand the length of the show.
>
> Sounds like a corrupt recordedmarkup table.  Time to do a mysqlcheck.
>
> Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] Touchscreen

2005-12-12 Thread GREG & AMY LINDLEY





  
  
  
  
  
  
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Peter,
 
Going through my email and noticed your note.  I have setup mythtv 
using a touchscreen (a modified PSOne LCD with a touchscreen on the 
front).  Pretty easy to do and it all seems to function with mythtv.  
I can give you pointers to the docs if you want.  Here is a pic of 
it:

  
  

  
  

  


It was featured in the November issue of CPU magazine (www.computerpoweruser.com) - don't 
know if you get this in your country.  The touchscreen functions like a 
mouse so I am not aware of changes required to mythtv to support this.
 
Thanks,
Greg

  - Original Message - 
  From: Peter Osterberg 
  To: R. Geoffrey Newbury ; Discussion about mythtv 
  Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 11:50 
  PM
  Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] 
  Touchscreen
  R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote:> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:52:30 
  +0100, Peter Osterberg wrote:>>   >> Jeff 
  Simpson wrote:>> 
  >>> I have serious thoought of buying one 
  of those expensive boxes with a>>> built 
  in touchscreen. This is mainly because I find it annoying 
  to>>> 
  have>>> to light up my projector when I 
  only want to start a music track. I>>> 
  think it would be really cool if all the standard Myth 
  display>>> could 
  be>>> presented on the touchscreen and 
  the menu could be navigated with just>>> 
  my fingertips.> If you are 
  thinking of having multiple screens anyway, why not just go >>> 
  the console>>> with keyboard and mouse route? Use the projector 
  for actually >>> displaying video + etc,>>> and use 
  the monitor for the menu systems. It would probably cost >>> 
  significantly less than>>> a touchscreen system, and you can 
  still operate it with a remote or >>> arrow keys very 
  easily.>>>  
  >>>   >> To navigate 
  using the keyboard is of course my second option but it >> isn't 
  quite as cool as navigating with a touch screen. I 
  didn't know that it was possible to tweak the Myth GUI to oprerate on 
  >> two separate screen as you describe. Are there any HOWTO 
  available that >> describes how to set that 
  up? I can see how I can manage to get xine or mplayer 
  to display on any >> device using command line options but how do I 
  do this with the "player" >> that Myth uses for displaying TV or 
  recorded shows?>> >> Another 
  route would be to use a programmable remote, such as the Phillips> 
  Pronto, Marantz RC9500 or Sony RM-VL710 series. All of these are> 
  programmable with macros. The Phillips and some of the Sony RM-AV 
  series> have touchscreens. And one of those would be much cheaper than 
  a full> computer box with touchscreen.>> Lots of 
  cell-phones are java enable these days too, and have bluetooth.> You 
  could program your cell phone as a remote...>> I have a 
  Sony-Ericsson T610 and there are at least 2 remote programs for> 
  it...True but that is a one way solution. I want to see music lists etc, I 
  want two way communication in the SAME device.I can come up with 
  lots of solutions. This one would be really cool and that is why I want 
  it.All other HTPC projects I've seen support this. I think it is sad that 
  Myth lacks mouse support since Myth i superiour when it comes to 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Anybody working on Nokia 770 front end?

On Tuesday 13 December 2005 03:13, Nathan Allen Stratton wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Mike Frisch wrote:
> > On 12-Dec-05, at 8:03 PM, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > > On Monday 12 December 2005 13:50, Mike Frisch wrote:
> > >> Is anybody working on a port of the MythTV front end to a Nokia 770?
> > >
> > > I'm considering it.  Well, not a frontend port, but more of a smart
> > > remote
> > > application.  The thing doesn't really have the CPU to display
> > > normally
> > > recorded video from Myth.
> >
> > That's too bad...  I thought it might have been fast enough to play
> > video.
> >
> > It should make a killer remote, if not a bit overkill.
>
> Why not use mythstream to transcode it to 3GPP H.264/AAC at CIF
> resolution? I would like to do this on my treo, but so far the only H.264
> player I found does NOT support AAC. I guess I couldget MP3 Audio, but I
> want to try to stay 3GPP so it works with the most phones out there.
>
> -Nathan

I know Apple audio devices use AAC aside from that I have no idea what you're 
talking about. I'm not sure if my suggestion will be helpful or not, but have 
you taken a look at The Core Media Player for your treo?

http://tcpmp.corecodec.org/about
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Anybody working on Nokia 770 front end?

2005-12-12 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Mike Frisch wrote:

> On 12-Dec-05, at 8:03 PM, Isaac Richards wrote:
>
> > On Monday 12 December 2005 13:50, Mike Frisch wrote:
> >> Is anybody working on a port of the MythTV front end to a Nokia 770?
> >
> > I'm considering it.  Well, not a frontend port, but more of a smart
> > remote
> > application.  The thing doesn't really have the CPU to display
> > normally
> > recorded video from Myth.
>
> That's too bad...  I thought it might have been fast enough to play
> video.
>
> It should make a killer remote, if not a bit overkill.

Why not use mythstream to transcode it to 3GPP H.264/AAC at CIF
resolution? I would like to do this on my treo, but so far the only H.264
player I found does NOT support AAC. I guess I couldget MP3 Audio, but I
want to try to stay 3GPP so it works with the most phones out there.

-Nathan
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Re: [mythtv-users] Media Library - Watch Recordings jump key

2005-12-12 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Brad DerManouelian wrote:

> There's a nice interface in mythweb.
>
> http://yourmythtvbox/mythweb/settings_keys.php

I setup mythweb and see this page, but I don't see any global jump key for
Watch Recordings off of Media Library.

-Nathan

> On Dec 11, 2005, at 10:05 PM, Nathan Allen Stratton wrote:
>
> >
> > I have looked all through Edit Keys and I can't find a jump key for
> > Media
> > Library - Watch Recordings. Is there any way to make one? I want to
> > setup
> > lircrc with a key that jumps right to Watch Recordings page.
> >
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> > Nathan Stratton
> > nathan at robotics.net
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Re: [mythtv-users] Media Library - Watch Recordings jump key


Nathan Allen Stratton wrote:


I have looked all through Edit Keys and I can't find a jump key for Media
Library - Watch Recordings. Is there any way to make one? I want to setup
lircrc with a key that jumps right to Watch Recordings page.
 


It's called "TV Recording Playback"

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[mythtv-users] Re: Anybody working on Nokia 770 front end?

2005-12-12 Thread Mike Frisch



On 12-Dec-05, at 8:03 PM, Isaac Richards wrote:


On Monday 12 December 2005 13:50, Mike Frisch wrote:

Is anybody working on a port of the MythTV front end to a Nokia 770?


I'm considering it.  Well, not a frontend port, but more of a smart  
remote
application.  The thing doesn't really have the CPU to display  
normally

recorded video from Myth.


That's too bad...  I thought it might have been fast enough to play  
video.


It should make a killer remote, if not a bit overkill.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfrontend Playback problems


Brandon Saunders wrote:

I have been running Myth 0.18.1 for about 2 months now, and all was 
well up until about 3-4 weeks ago when I started have trouble playing 
back recordings.  Two things are happening, but I cannot tell if they 
are related.


1. After about 4 minutes into a show the fastforward stops working.  
It just jumps ahead one second.  The display also changes from "Skip 
Ahead \n 1:00 of 57:00" to "skip Ahead \n 0:06:15 of 1:25:37" I don't 
understand why it doesn't understand the length of the show.


Sounds like a corrupt recordedmarkup table.  Time to do a mysqlcheck.

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Re: [mythtv-users] myth.rebuilddatabase.pl issues


Adam Egger wrote:


Does myth.reuilddatabase.pl work with the new names in svn? I have
some missing db entries for several files but the script doesn't seem
to work anymore with SVN.
It still tries to rename to the old name convention with
chan_start_end.nuv and doesn't have and DB info the the renamed files
when it tries to run mythconverg on this file.

On some old nuv-files from my analog card it tries to import but then
it says "execute failed: Duplicate entry".

Is it still supposed to work with the old nuv files?
 


All covered in the ticket description:

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/646

If it really bothers you (more than it did me), see the post I 
referenced in the description.  It describes a better approach for 
fixing the script (which entails rewriting it based off Chris Petersen's 
mythrename.pl script), but I don't use myth.rebuilddatabase enough to 
warrant the time required for a proper fix.


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[mythtv-users] Qt3 install question

2005-12-12 Thread David Remelts


I am in the process of trying to install a new Mythfrontend on my laptop.

I'm using Kanotix 2005-3.  I have done apt-get upgrade and I have done the 
conversion to X.org.


I'm trying to get some of the pre-requisites on the system and when I did 
the following command to install Qt3 it looks like it wants to remove just 
about the whole KDE.  That didn't look right so I aborted - am I doing 
something wrong?



[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/drd775/mythtv-0.18.1# apt-get install qt3-dev-tools
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
 gambas-gb-qt hpoj-xojpanel libjack0.100.0-0 libparted1.6-13 libqt3-mt 
pinentry-qt qsynaptics

 qtparted xxdiff
Suggested packages:
 libparted1.6-dev libparted1.6-i18n libqt3-mt-psql libqt3-mt-mysql 
libqt3-mt-odbc pinentry-doc

Recommended packages:
 jackd libqt3-mt-dev
The following packages will be REMOVED:
 akode akregator ark arts cupsconfig-kanotix dbus-qt-1 dcoprss digikam 
digikamimageplugins gwenview
 k3b k3b-defaults-kanotix k3blibs kaddressbook kadslwatch kaffeine kalarm 
kamera kandy kappfinder
 karm kate kcalc kcharselect kcontrol kde-i18n-de kde-services-kanotix 
kdeadmin-kfile-plugins
 kdeartwork-style kdeartwork-theme-window kdebase kdebase-bin 
kdebase-kio-plugins
 kdegraphics-kfile-plugins kdelibs kdelibs-bin kdelibs4 
kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins
 kdemultimedia-kio-plugins kdenetwork-filesharing kdepasswd kdepim 
kdepim-kfile-plugins
 kdepim-kio-plugins kdepim-kresources kdepim-wizards kdeprint kdesktop 
kdessh kdetv kdm kdvi kedit
 kfax kfind kghostview khelpcenter kicker kile kio-apt kisdnwatch 
kitchensync klaptopdaemon
 kleopatra klipper kmail kmailcvt kmenuedit kmilo kmix kmrml knode knotes 
konq-plugins konqueror
 konqueror-nsplugins konsole konsolekalendar kontact kooka korganizer korn 
kpackage kpager kpdf
 kpersonalizer kpilot kppp krusader ksim ksirc ksmserver ksnapshot ksplash 
ksynaptics ksync
 ksysguard ktip ktnef kuser kviewshell kwalletmanager kwifimanager kwin 
libarts1 libarts1-mpeglib
 libkcal2a libkcddb1 libkdepim1 libkexif1 libkgantt0 libkipi0 
libkleopatra0a libkonq4
 libkpimexchange1 libkpimidentities1 libkscan1 libksieve0 libktnef1 
libmimelib1a libqt3c102-mt
 librss1 lisa mpeglib networkconfig-kanotix networkstatus 
pdf-printerconfig-kanotix secpolicy smb4k

The following NEW packages will be installed:
 libjack0.100.0-0 libparted1.6-13 libqt3-mt qt3-dev-tools
The following packages will be upgraded:
 gambas-gb-qt hpoj-xojpanel pinentry-qt qsynaptics qtparted xxdiff
6 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 129 to remove and 165 not upgraded.
Need to get 5518kB of archives.
After unpacking 278MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.


Regards,
Dave


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Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Modeline Help

2005-12-12 Thread Richard Shaw

It looks like you're right. I tried a 1080i modeline and it did work. I 
would be happy with that but at 27" the text in Firefox was so I 
couldn't read it. Right now I'm messing with 540p which I have working 
but it doesn't look very good. It could be I'm trying to get it to work 
in 4:3 ratio instead of 16:9. I don't really want to have it in 
widescreen since it's not a widescreen television. I guess I shouldn't 
complain too much, the picture is otherwise good and I only paid $450 
for it.


Cory Papenfuss wrote:

If you believe your EDID data, you cannot run 720p.  Indeed, the 
fact that you forced it to 45kHz and it was "jumpy" is an indicator 
that it will not sync there.  Look here (or lots of other places in 
the 'net I'm too lazy to look up right now):

http://www.plasmatvbuyingguide.com/dtv-hdtv-comparison19.html
The bottom chart shows
480i:  31.5kHz/60Hz
720p:  45.0kHz/60Hz
1080i: 33.75kHz/60Hz

I did a Xorg -probeonly and it did not find any compatible 
resolutions over 848x480, however I was not supprised since I've read 
that many do not have proper EDID info. It states that my hsync is 
30-35kHz and my vsync is 58-62Hz. Using modeline calculators it 
appears that if I specify 960x720p that it is not possible to satisfy 
both sync requirements. I tried bumping the max hsync up to 45 but 
was greeted with a "jumpy" screen so it appears is that part may 
correct.


Here's the modeline that I use.  I believe it's pretty much 
frequency-spec compliant with the standard (or at least as close as 
can be made with NVidia's restrictions)


ModeLine "1080i" 74.175824 1920 1960 2008 2200 1080 1084 1094 1125 
interlace -hsync -vsync


That puts out 33.72kHz HSYNC and 29.970 VSYNC.  It will be 
underwheliming to use as a desktop resolution because it will be huge 
and very flickery with the interlacing at 30Hz.  It should work with 
the TV though.


One of the reasons your modeline generate probably didn't work is 
because they rarely offer the "interlace" option.  That effectively 
halves the horizontal scanrate required for a given resolution.  
30-35kHz pretty much limits you to somewhere between 640x480-800x600 
in computer-ese resolutions.  Not much more over EDTV.


Cheers
-Cory



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Re: [mythtv-users] Hard disk access


Mike Grusin wrote:


I've been wondering this myself ever since I got my FE+BE box running.  The
hard drive light blinks approximately every second when it's "not doing
anything" (which doesn't happen much anymore ;)  According to system
information in Myth, almost all of the RAM is being used (512M), but none of
the swap, so the drive access always puzzled me.
 

You're almost definitely running programs that are constantly writing 
data to disk (i.e. syslogd/syslog-ng).  By default, Linux will try to 
dump that data to the disk (because volatile RAM is an unsafe place for 
storage--reliability over quiet/hardware-life).


However, you can configure a "Laptop Mode" and set the amount of time 
the kernel should wait before flushing these buffers.  You'll also want 
to modify the way filesystem access times are handled (i.e. turn off 
access time updates, etc.).


http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/stirling/computergeek/powersaving.html
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7539

And, if you want to understand what's happening, read the articles 
linked from these two articles...


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Re: [mythtv-users] Most flexible / highest quality HD video card FE solution


Brian Foddy wrote:


My TV has a VGA port which accepts up to 1080p, but with that input
the TV will not let me make "color" adjustments -- only white and
black level.  I use an nVideo 5700LE, and the picture quality is
excellent.


Sounds like a very nice tv, (Sammy 1080p??)  I looked at them
long and hard, but decided to wait just  little longer for a few
more features / lower price on 1080p tv sets and went with
a much cheaper upgrade to another crt set (for now).

Yeah.  It is (a nice TV and a Sammy 1080p).  John gave me the 1080p 
modeline he's using with his HL-R6168W to use with my HL-R6768W.  
Thanks, John!  It's perfect.


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

On Monday 12 December 2005 18:35, Graham Mitchell wrote:
> Haven't tried yet, should be there in a couple of months But I'm
> planning 2 lineups... one for the cable boxes (ch > 99), and one (well 2
> actually) for the analog channels (ch < 100). For the 5C ones, I have a
> 3rd 150  card I am going to hook up to my 2nd cable box for that (with a
> different lineup).

Yea, I think what I might do is get a regular box for what I'm using the 
PVR-150 for right now and then use the firewire to the HD box for the 
channels that have 5C=0.

> > they said that they can't give out more than one HDTV cable box per
> > account
>
> BullS%$t I have 2 HD boxes here... OK, they'll charge you $5 for the
> additional box, then screw you another $5 for the HD programming on that
> box too (ie 2 HD boxes cost $20).. I got a nice CSR at the local Comcast
> shop, and she waived the additional HD programming charge.

I'm going to try and call them a few more times tomorrow and see if I can't 
talk to anyone that will let me get two boxes. If not I'll just get a regular 
digital cable box for the other channels.

Then I'll need to find a way to tune the channels on the non-HD box...

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Re: [mythtv-users] Fast-forward/rewind does not work after 50 minutes over remote frontend


John Andersen wrote:


I was under the impression that ext3 was ext2 under the skin and was
2gig max.  But the last time I used it was a gazillion years ago
so what do I know...  ;-)
 


Yeah, it must have been a gazillion years ago...  ;)

With 1KiB blocksize, ext2/ext3 gives a maximum 16GiB file.  With 4KiB 
blocksize, the max file size is 2048GiB (=2TiB)--assuming the filesystem 
has that much space available.


http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/155096#155096

Unfortunately, the HTML destroys the table, but you'll get the idea...

Mike

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Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV questions

On Monday 12 December 2005 19:41, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Todd Ignasiak wrote:
> >In the U.S., HDTV is broadcast as MPEG2.  The articles I have read
> >about HDTV in Europe have said MPEG4 (probably H.264 / MPEG4.10 / AVC)
> >will be used.  H.264 takes much more CPU horsepower to decode.   A
> >3GHz P4 may not ave the horsepower to decode it.
>
> An AMD Athlon X2 4800+ won't decode 1080i60 H.264.  :)
>
> Mike

WOW! thats serious decoding requirements. So basically H.264 is going to 
require a dedicated DSP?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire ( 1394) Capture with multiple FW Cards

On Monday 12 December 2005 20:52, Mike Smith wrote:
> Steve,
>
> When I try test-mpeg2 I get the following:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] examples]# ./test-mpeg2 -r 0 >/tmp/junk.ts
> libiec61883 warning: No plugs exist on either node;
> using default broadcast channel 63.
> Starting to receive
>
>
> It says it is starting to receive,  but I end up with
> a zero length
> file.
>
> Since I have two different cards,  how does it know
> which card I my
> device is on?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike

I've been wondering the same thing about all these linux firewire apps. they 
assume you only have 1 firewire card!

ughh...

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Re: [mythtv-users] Fast-forward/rewind does not work after 50 minutes over remote frontend


Jake wrote:


i think that if the video dir is mounted locally myth will try to use
that first and stream over the myth protocol as a last resort.  i seem
to remember reading about this in the past but maybe i'm way off.
 


Nope.  You're not way off.  :)  (Your statement is correct.)

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Re: [mythtv-users] Backend without xorg?


Raphael Pooser wrote:


just ssh -X it'll get the job done. no X


server


needed on backend machine


, only X client libraries


.


And, BTW, don't use "ssh -X" unless you're running an old (and insecure) 
version of OpenSSH.  Instead, you should use "ssh -Y" because you need 
trusted X11 forwarding.


Mike

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Re: [mythtv-users] Instalation problems.

2005-12-12 Thread Kim Wall


Brad DerManouelian wrote:
The last I knew you can't run it as a Live CD. Only install to your  
drive. I'm 99 44/100% sure that's still correct.


With Knoppmyth you can run a remote frontend from CD (handy for watching 
from your Windows box) - just configure networking and point it at the 
backend's IP, as usual, all the settings are stored in the database.


If you want a backend to do recordings you need to do a HD install.


Kim.
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[mythtv-users] LiveTV isn't flexible enough about its inputs

2005-12-12 Thread f-myth-users

Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:50:27 -0500
From: "Michael T. Dean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>, but I
>haven't (yet) tested this thoroughly to see which way it works.)
>Would unchecking that option allow LiveTV to grab the appropriate
>input from any card, or is this just an architectural limitation
>of how 0.18.1's LiveTV is supposed to work?
>
I'm pretty sure in 0.18.1 you have to explicitly change cards (and 
perhaps inputs) if a channel isn't available on the current.

How exactly would I do that?  After all, no matter which way the
option is checked, it's basically up to Myth to choose which card is
the one used when capturing input that's going to LiveTV.  Is there
some magic keystroke sequence that says, "Change to card number n,
and now change to card n's input m" when in LiveTV?  (And man, is that
ever risky, because it requires someone using LiveTV to have an
intimate knowledge of exactly which card(s) Myth is using [and
planning to use] in order not to disrupt a recording.)  Otherwise,
the only way I see to do this is to put an extra input on my 350
and bring all composite inputs to that card, just 'cause it's the
card being used for output, and that seems crazy.  [Or is this what
you actually meant, e.g., rearrange the hardware?]  Architecturally,
there seems to be no impediment grabbing input from any tuner and
tossing it to any FE, and that would seem to apply for any input
to any tuner.

OTOH, I'd certainly believe it if there's some implementation
limitation in 0.18.1 that makes this not work.  In which case,
I'll repeat my question:  Does this sort of thing at least work
in SVN?  And is it truly an implementation restriction in 0.18.1,
or is something misconfigured in my setup?

Thanks...
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Re: [mythtv-users] single channel, with no guide info


William Kenworthy wrote:


I have just added a set top box input to mythtv on a v4l analog input.
Good picture and sound, but I have run into an unexpected problem.
Currently, I want to use manual tuning and dont want to pollute my guide
database with the channel information - I want mythtv to have a single
channel, with no guide info.  However, without this info its difficult
to record anything - is there a workaround?  Ideally I would like to
press "R", have it start recording until I manually stop it.
 


Manual Recording...

See also 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/156994#156994 for why 
you shouldn't record with "R" if you don't have guide data (second 
paragraph)...


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Re: [mythtv-users] Instalation problems.

The last I knew you can't run it as a Live CD. Only install to your  
drive. I'm 99 44/100% sure that's still correct.


On Dec 12, 2005, at 8:51 PM, korebantic wrote:


Brad is right -- although KnoppMyth is based on Knoppix, and you can
run it only from a CD if you want (Which I do when I want to run the
frontend on my PC), you also have the option of KnoppMyth installing
itself on your harddrive.

On 12/12/05, Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
He said KnoppMyth, not Knoppix. I would also recommend KnoppMyth  
for a
beginner and experienced users who are tired of fiddling with this  
and that
until it works exactly as you want it to. :) It walks you through  
the whole
setup relatively effortlessly. Just remember to set up your Zap2It  
account
(assuming you're in the U.S.) before starting. It'll save you some  
time and

possibly some frustration.


On Dec 12, 2005, at 8:18 PM, Bill Kenny wrote:
Yeah, I am pretty set on using Ubuntu, I Guess I could look at the  
others as

well, Isn't Knoppix a slow live CD?

On 12/12/05, William < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

--
Does anyone have MythTV installed on Ubuntu Breezy 5.10? I have been

having
so much trouble installing it on Ubuntu that I have tried 7 times  
without
success that I don't know whats right, whats installed  that I  
have been
reinstalling Ubuntu every time. I have used the How-to on  
Ubuntu's forum,

that its so incorrect that I have given up on that.


http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91511&highlight=mythtv


Does ANYONE have a How-To that will work? I am new to Linux so a  
link

that's

is kinda designed for someone like me would be great!
--
Thanks
Bill
--

Well Bill, if all you want to do is get mythtv running on a linux  
system
there are several easier options. If you are bound and determined  
to use
ubuntu you are pushing the envelope a bit so there are not as  
good of docs

yet.

The first thing I would suggest is KnoppMyth
( www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html ) Pertty much

turn-key. Loads linux and

mythtv in one shot.

The second is a great howto at (wilsonet.com/mythtv/) This is a  
great step
by step howto that was based (last time i looked) on Fedora Core.  
I set

mine

up with this howto but have since customized mine quite a bit.



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Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire ( 1394) Capture with multiple FW Cards

2005-12-12 Thread Mike Smith

Steve,

When I try test-mpeg2 I get the following:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] examples]# ./test-mpeg2 -r 0 >/tmp/junk.ts
libiec61883 warning: No plugs exist on either node;
using default broadcast channel 63.
Starting to receive


It says it is starting to receive,  but I end up with
a zero length
file.

Since I have two different cards,  how does it know
which card I my
device is on?

Thanks,

Mike

--- Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Monday 12 December 2005 00:02, Mike Smith wrote:
> > Steve,
> >
> > Here is the output of lspci:
> >
> >
> > 01:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments
> > TSB82AA2 IEEE-1394b Link Layer Controller (rev 01)
> >
> > 01:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments
> > TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
> 
> looks good, from what I've seen TI makes the better
> of the FireWire chipsets. 
> My laptop has one and whenever I connect it to a
> cablebox its been nothing 
> short of perfect.
> 
> > I think the second one is the for the onboard
> 1394.
> > The first is the
> > Belkin card I recently installed.  The Belkin card
> was
> > on the Hardware
> > Compatibility list on the linux1394.org web site.
> >
> > How do I find out if the 5C Digital Rights
> Management
> > is enabled
> > on my video stream.
> 
> When connecting the firewire to your PC, if you get
> a channel over firewire it 
> is set to 5C=0 (ie disabled) (if that box even
> supports 5C?). The DCT6xxx 
> series has a service menu that you can use to see if
> 5C is enabled. I don't 
> know about the receiver you have though. Check
> avsforum.com you might be able 
> to find something. 
> 
> But the other way is to tune the channel and see if
> it outputs the video over 
> firewire and is picked up by your PC. OTA stations
> are not supposed to be 
> blocked, and usually the basic cable channels are
> not. Its the movie channels 
> (like HBO) and extended digital cable channels that
> are, when the cable 
> company decides to do it. My fathers cable company
> has no 5C restrictions 
> even though they can, mine has 5C enabled on all but
> the OTA and basic cable 
> channels. Both are Comcast, though in different
> areas!
> 
> try running test-mpeg2 with it connected to your pci
> firewire card and see if 
> you can get one of the OTA channels (PBS HD is
> usually a good one to try) to 
> stream. 
> 
> >
> > Note - when I connect my SA3250HD to my television
> > with the firewire
> > connection,  I think I get every channel via
> firewire,
> > which surprised
> > me.  I get the 900 level HDTV channels ( including
> the
> > local HDTV
> > channels in Cincinnati ), I even get the analog
> > stations from
> > channel 3 - 100.  The latter surprised me.
> >
> > Thanks,
> 
> Your TV supports 5C and so can tell the cable box
> that it is a 5C=1 device 
> (view once). So while totally cool from a technology
> perspective, useless for 
> testing for PC capture =(
> 
> -- 
> Steve
> 
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > --- Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Saturday 10 December 2005 01:29, Mike Smith
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to get my SA3250HD cable box to
> work
> > >
> > > with
> > >
> > > > the Firewire capture.
> > > > Cable company is Time Warner in Cincinnati. 
> After
> > >
> > > a
> > >
> > > > lot of phone calls,
> > > > and email, they finally give me an SA3250HD
> with
> > > > active 1394 ports.  I
> > > > can connect it to the 1394 ports on my TV and
> > >
> > > watch
> > >
> > > > HDTV from it.
> > > >
> > > > I struggled for weeks to try getting this to
> work
> > >
> > > with
> > >
> > > > the onboard
> > > > 1394 ports on my ASUS motherboard.  Built the
> > >
> > > 2.6.12
> > >
> > > > kernel needed
> > > > for latest drivers from linux1394.org.  No
> luck.
> > >
> > > I
> > >
> > > > try following
> > > > Jarod's guide for setting it up on Fedora (
> I'm
> > >
> > > using
> > >
> > > > Mandrivia 2006 ).
> > > > I finally noticed Jarods comment that he could
> not
> > >
> > > get
> > >
> > > > the FW ports on
> > > > his ASUS motherboard to work,  so I purchased
> a
> > >
> > > Belkin
> > >
> > > > 1394 board that
> > > > was recommended on the linux1394.org site.
> > > >
> > > > I have it in.  The card is recognized.  But, 
> I
> > >
> > > can't
> > >
> > > > figure out
> > > > what is meant by port and node in a two board
> > >
> > > context.
> > >
> > > >  Here
> > > > is the output of plugreport:
> > > >
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# plugreport
> > > > Host Adapter 0
> > > > ==
> > > >
> > > > Node 0 GUID 0x00e018899531
> > > > --
> > > > libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR
> > > > libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR
> > > >
> > > > Host Adapter 1
> > > > ==
> > > >
> > > > Node 0 GUID 0x000f2142f10c
> > > > --
> > > > oMPR n_plugs=1, data_rate=2, bcast_channel=63
> > > > oPCR[0] online=1, bcast_connection=0,
> > > > n_p2p_connections=0
> > > > channel=0, data

Re: [mythtv-users] Instalation problems.

2005-12-12 Thread korebantic

Brad is right -- although KnoppMyth is based on Knoppix, and you can
run it only from a CD if you want (Which I do when I want to run the
frontend on my PC), you also have the option of KnoppMyth installing
itself on your harddrive.

On 12/12/05, Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> He said KnoppMyth, not Knoppix. I would also recommend KnoppMyth for a
> beginner and experienced users who are tired of fiddling with this and that
> until it works exactly as you want it to. :) It walks you through the whole
> setup relatively effortlessly. Just remember to set up your Zap2It account
> (assuming you're in the U.S.) before starting. It'll save you some time and
> possibly some frustration.
>
>
> On Dec 12, 2005, at 8:18 PM, Bill Kenny wrote:
> Yeah, I am pretty set on using Ubuntu, I Guess I could look at the others as
> well, Isn't Knoppix a slow live CD?
>
> On 12/12/05, William < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > --
> > Does anyone have MythTV installed on Ubuntu Breezy 5.10? I have been
> having
> > so much trouble installing it on Ubuntu that I have tried 7 times without
> > success that I don't know whats right, whats installed  that I have been
> > reinstalling Ubuntu every time. I have used the How-to on Ubuntu's forum,
> > that its so incorrect that I have given up on that.
> >
> http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91511&highlight=mythtv
> >
> > Does ANYONE have a How-To that will work? I am new to Linux so a link
> that's
> > is kinda designed for someone like me would be great!
> > --
> > Thanks
> > Bill
> > --
> >
> > Well Bill, if all you want to do is get mythtv running on a linux system
> > there are several easier options. If you are bound and determined to use
> > ubuntu you are pushing the envelope a bit so there are not as good of docs
> > yet.
> >
> > The first thing I would suggest is KnoppMyth
> > ( www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html ) Pertty much
> turn-key. Loads linux and
> > mythtv in one shot.
> >
> > The second is a great howto at (wilsonet.com/mythtv/) This is a great step
> > by step howto that was based (last time i looked) on Fedora Core. I set
> mine
> > up with this howto but have since customized mine quite a bit.
> >
> >
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Re: [mythtv-users] LiveTV isn't flexible enough about its inputs


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


I -do- have "avoid conflicts with recordings" checked, and I'm
reluctant to uncheck it since I'd rather that LiveTV not step on
a recording.  (Though if -all- that button does is to change the
priority of which card gets used for what,


It does, as it says in the setting's help text:

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



it's not doing what I'd
expect---what I'd -want- it to do is to say, "If all tuners are
currently in use for recording and you want LiveTV, warn me so I
don't ruin a recording"

Already does this with or without the avoid conflicts option.  (Perhaps 
goes even beyond this by not letting you watch TV until you cancel one 
of the recordings.)



and likewise "grab LiveTV away from me if
you need all tuners for recording while I'm watching live"

Used to have a popup to ask you whether to continue LiveTV or do the 
recording, but i don't know about now (after the LiveTV rewrite).  I'm 
guessing it's still there.  I don't use LiveTV, so I can't really say.



, but I
haven't (yet) tested this thoroughly to see which way it works.)
Would unchecking that option allow LiveTV to grab the appropriate
input from any card, or is this just an architectural limitation
of how 0.18.1's LiveTV is supposed to work?

I'm pretty sure in 0.18.1 you have to explicitly change cards (and 
perhaps inputs) if a channel isn't available on the current.



 (And does SVN overcome this limitation?)
 

Pretty sure it does.  (But, as I said before, I don't use LiveTV, so I 
may be wrong.)


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Re: [mythtv-users] Winfast PVR 2000 have no picture when watching TV with MythTV

卢炎君 wrote:

> Hi team
> Winfast PVR 2000 have no picture when watching TV with MythTV
> 1.I am sure that I complete config MythTV with no any problem
> 2.I am running FC3 and installed the lastest version of MythTV
> successfully with no any problem
> 3.I loaded Winfast PVR 2000's driver with no any problem BTW to use
> CX8800 driver module

If you're not getting a picture in MythTV, I would argue with the
accuracy of 1) (specifically the last 4 words). Unfortunately, you
didn't provide enough information to help us diagnose the configuration
problem.

Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] Hardware is detected as Winfast TV2000 XP by Fedore core 3, in fact , but my hardware is Winfast PVR2000

卢炎君 wrote:

> Why? I got a PVR card name by Winfast PVR2000,some detail info as :
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lspci -v
> 01:01.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Winfast TV2000 XP (rev 05)
> Subsystem: LeadTek Research Inc.: Unknown device 663c
> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
> Memory at fc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
> Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
> Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
> 01:01.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant: Unknown device 8802 (rev 05)
> Subsystem: LeadTek Research Inc.: Unknown device 663c
> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
> Memory at fd00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
> Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2

The PCI device name database is not all that accurate or complete. Don't
worry about what it says--it's only important what your drivers say.

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Re: [mythtv-users] PAL tv output PVR350; X display screen size is to small

On Monday 12 December 2005 12:24, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> Manually set your GUI size. Utilities/Setup->Setup->Appearance->Next
>
> I have the same setup as you, but using NTSC. I set my GUI to:
>
> width 642
> height 455
> X offset 34
> Y offset 15
>
> I got these numbers through trial and error and these work best for
> me. I had to choose an OSD theme that didn't cut off on the sides too
> much, as well. I'm using Titivillus-OSD, but with PAL, you might have
> better luck with others.
>

Just wanted to express my thanks as well. I messed with AspectRation stuff in 
xorg.conf for three hours last night. This did the trick in 3 minutes. Anyone 
have a suggestion on how I can fix OSD?
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Re: [mythtv-users] Use of the Rerun flag?


Michael Freeman wrote:

yeah...i just noticed it didn't flag an episode of american dad as a 
rerun (it had shown on fox before, but not on adult swim)...


From XMLTV DTD (TMS seems to use the same definition for determining 
previously shown):

-



-
See http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/166447#166447 for 
some discussion of using this (under the section responding to "> The 
specific, plausable case I gave was trying to recording first runs ").


However, I'm of the opinion that getting them into the database is a 
better approach.  I like having a list of everything I've watched 
because after a while, I can't remember (maybe I'm just much older than 
you)...  I'd even like to see an option in MythWeb to allow me to add 
programs to previously recorded without first creating a recording rule 
(i.e. for putting movies in the database).  Maybe I'll play with this 
after Chris finishes his big rewrite...


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Re: [mythtv-users] Instalation problems.

He said KnoppMyth, not Knoppix. I would also recommend KnoppMyth for a beginner and experienced users who are tired of fiddling with this and that until it works exactly as you want it to. :) It walks you through the whole setup relatively effortlessly. Just remember to set up your Zap2It account (assuming you're in the U.S.) before starting. It'll save you some time and possibly some frustration.On Dec 12, 2005, at 8:18 PM, Bill Kenny wrote:Yeah, I am pretty set on using Ubuntu, I Guess I could look at the others as well, Isn't Knoppix a slow live CD? On 12/12/05, William < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:--Does anyone have MythTV installed on Ubuntu Breezy 5.10? I have been havingso much trouble installing it on Ubuntu that I have tried 7 times withoutsuccess that I don't know whats right, whats installed that I have beenreinstalling Ubuntu every time. I have used the How-to on Ubuntu's forum, that its so incorrect that I have given up on that.http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91511&highlight=mythtv Does ANYONE have a How-To that will work? I am new to Linux so a link that'sis kinda designed for someone like me would be great!--ThanksBill--Well Bill, if all you want to do is get mythtv running on a linux system there are several easier options. If you are bound and determined to useubuntu you are pushing the envelope a bit so there are not as good of docsyet.The first thing I would suggest is KnoppMyth( www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html ) Pertty much turn-key. Loads linux andmythtv in one shot.The second is a great howto at (wilsonet.com/mythtv/) This is a great step by step howto that was based (last time i looked) on Fedora Core. I set mineup with this howto but have since customized mine quite a bit.___mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- ThanksBill___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___
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Re: [mythtv-users] Instalation problems.

Yeah, I am pretty set on using Ubuntu, I Guess I could look at the others as well, Isn't Knoppix a slow live CD? On 12/12/05, William <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:--Does anyone have MythTV installed on Ubuntu Breezy 
5.10? I have been havingso much trouble installing it on Ubuntu that I have tried 7 times withoutsuccess that I don't know whats right, whats installed  that I have beenreinstalling Ubuntu every time. I have used the How-to on Ubuntu's forum,
that its so incorrect that I have given up on that.http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91511&highlight=mythtv
Does ANYONE have a How-To that will work? I am new to Linux so a link that'sis kinda designed for someone like me would be great!--ThanksBill--Well Bill, if all you want to do is get mythtv running on a linux system
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Re: [mythtv-users] Press select to change the channel in the program guide


Paul Sicard wrote:

I figured out what's going on (at least in the version of MythTV in 
Knoppmyth R5A26).  If it's described anywhere, I can't find it, so for 
the benefit of others...


 

It seems that the guide you bring up from Live TV ("Show Program 
Guide" in the "TV Playback" section in Mythweb keybinding 
configuration) behaves differently from the "Program Guide" 
("Jumppoint" in Mythweb keybinding configuration).


The former has a live TV window in the upper right hand corner and you 
can select channels from it.


The latter has no live TV and you cannot switch to a live tv channel 
from it, only set up recordings.


 

That seems totally counterintuitive - the guide should act the same 
everywhere.  Why take away functionality in some places?  A bug?


So, if the "Program Guide" in the "Manage Recordings" page takes you to 
LiveTV, how would you schedule a recording?


In other words, the jump point takes you to the "Manage Recordings" 
program guide.  In LiveTV, use the menu ("M") to get to the program guide.


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Re: [mythtv-users] Anybody working on Nokia 770 front end?

2005-12-12 Thread Isaac Richards

On Monday 12 December 2005 13:50, Mike Frisch wrote:
> Is anybody working on a port of the MythTV front end to a Nokia 770?

I'm considering it.  Well, not a frontend port, but more of a smart remote 
application.  The thing doesn't really have the CPU to display normally 
recorded video from Myth.

Isaac
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Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot tune channels above 55


Dan wrote:


Apologies if this is a driver issue rather than a
MythTV issue, but I have been unable to tune channels
above 55.  55 itself is snowy, from 55-60, I get
reminents of Ch 55, and above 60, I get static.  My
setup is Fedora Core 3, Hauppauge PVR-500, and ivtv
0.4 driver.

I followed the instructions at
 to get everything up and
running, but found I had to add "options ivtv
tuner=57,57" to my modprobe.conf to get my tuner
recognized properly.

Actually, the problem you have is that your tuner is *not* set 
properly.  If it were set properly, you wouldn't have tuning problems...


You have the Samsung TCPN 2121P30A tuner.  As of 2.6.14.3, there's no 
definition for this tuner in the Linux kernel.  (It may be in 
2.6.15-rc5, but I didn't think it was worth wasting kernel.org's 
bandwidth to check--it's unlikely to have gone in since 2.6.14.3.)  So, 
you'll have to either:

   a) hack one together (using type 57 as a starter and adjusting
   b) get the tuner's data sheet so you can create a real definition
   c) find someone else to do a) or b)
   d) wait until someone does a) or b)

When I had a PVR-250 (actually 4 of them) with an undefined tuner, I did 
a), then someone found the data sheet, so I did b) (my "best guesses" in 
a) weren't perfect).


If you can get the data sheet, I'll do b) for you (so you can do half of 
b) and c) ;).


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Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV questions


Todd Ignasiak wrote:


In the U.S., HDTV is broadcast as MPEG2.  The articles I have read
about HDTV in Europe have said MPEG4 (probably H.264 / MPEG4.10 / AVC)
will be used.  H.264 takes much more CPU horsepower to decode.   A
3GHz P4 may not ave the horsepower to decode it.


An AMD Athlon X2 4800+ won't decode 1080i60 H.264.  :)

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Re: [mythtv-users] Hard disk access


Beat me to it. I was just going to suggest that.
Might be easier on the eyes to run a lsof -p (probably in your /usr/ 
sbin dir) on each PID you've got running to see exactly what files it  
has open.


On Dec 12, 2005, at 5:45 PM, Andrew Wilson wrote:


You can track which process is reading/writing the disk by doing:

 echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump

Then use 'dmesg' to tell you process is using the disk. Turn off
tracking again with

 echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump

Hope this helps
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Re: [mythtv-users] Xine audio output through PVR350 tv-out

That certainly is the solution. The reason is because the Hauppauge  
cards don't handle the audio stream of anything that's been  
transcoded. It needs to go through the sound card. The solution below  
makes it easy by piping all the audio (one way or another) through  
your sound card so you don't have to worry about which device it's  
coming from. Took me a little while to get the appropriate levels  
down, but I've got it all working through ALSA.


Now if I can just get my transcoded TV to pipe audio through my sound  
card instead of my PVR-350 (which can't handle it, so I get no audio  
at all), it would be perfect. Basically, if I turn off Use PVR-350's  
hardware decoder, I get no audio. Anyone have pointers on that?



On Dec 12, 2005, at 4:52 PM, korebantic wrote:


Koen,

Your message was cut off, but I can guess what you are asking. This is
a similiar question I asked a couple of weeks ago. You need to use
your audiocard for all output by feeding the audio-out from the PVR
back into the record/line-in of the audio card. In this way, liveTv,
DVD's, output from Xine/mplayer will always come from one source (your
audio card). You can get any of the needed cabling adapters from
radioshack.

Make sense?

On 12/12/05, Koen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi,

I've now got (with the help from some people subscribed to this  
list) an almost perfectly playhing Mythbox. I'm using a Hauppauge  
PVR 350 on Gentoo Linux.


I've got a dvd-collection in "iso"-format that's ready to be  
burned to dvd. I love to play them with Xine, with works without a  
charm. The audio

however is transmitted through my audiocard and not thr
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythbackend can't find channel is database


Brad Fuller wrote:


Mitko Haralanov wrote:


On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 23:53:42 -0800
Mitko Haralanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
   


After playing with the channel setup and number, I finally have
all the channels that I can receive over the air with their correct
channel number in the database and Zap2It with the correct listings.

However, now I am having a problem getting mythbackend to find
the channels in the database so it can get the channel options. I get
the following messages in the log:

2005-12-07 23:41:31.131 DVB#0 Using DVB card 0, with frontend pcHDTV HD3000 
HDTV.
2005-12-07 23:41:31.134 DVB#0 ERROR - Unable to find channel in database.
2005-12-07 23:41:31.135 DVB#0 ERROR - Failed to get channel options for channel 
.
2005-12-07 23:41:31.138 DVB#0 Recorder: Card opened successfully (using PS 
mode).
2005-12-07 23:41:31.149 DVB#0 ERROR - No PIDS set, please correct your channel 
setup.


I know that the No PIDs message means that the staring channel
is invalid. I tried setting the starting channel to 2_1 (that channel is
in the database with that channel number) but I get the same message
and when I look in the database, the startchan field of the HD3000 in
the cardinput table is empty!!

Is the problem that mythbackend does not know how to accept
channels of the form 2_1? If that is the problem, how should the
channels be represented?


Well, I still have not been able to find a solution to this!
Unfortunately, it renders LiveTV unusable since the HD3000 seems to be
the default tuner that mythbackend wants to use and, therefore, I can
never get into LiveTV to change the inputs to one of the PVR-250s.

I would appreciate any help on this!!

One thing that I noticed is that the channel table in the
database does not have anything in the mplexid, serviceid, and
atscsrcid columns for the HD3000 channels. Is that how it should be?

nope, you should have those filled in. You should see what I did in 
the msg that I referred you to in the last thread. It has what I 
filled in and how I did it. freqid also needs to be filled in with the 
right frequency.


Here's an explanation from Michael Dean about card priority:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/164523#164523


And here's Bruce Markey's post that corrected the mistakes in my post.  :)

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/164739#164739

Mike
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RE: [mythtv-users] X Bad_alloc Error

2005-12-12 Thread William

> I'm experiencing an error which I cannot figure out.
> This is a Via SP13000 motherboard, running Fedora 4 on 
> 2.6.14-1.1644_FC4 
> with mythtv svn 8205. I have xorg.conf set for 800x600 with 16 bit 
> depth. These settings are down from 1280x1024x16 which was what I had 
> set before things went bad.
> Note that there is not output, yet, to TV.. this is only 
> monitor output. I am at a loss to understand what is causing 
> this.. Help  gratefully accepted... Geoff

I cannot speak about the exact cause of your error but it sounds like a lack
of resources. Since you are running a svn version its anyones guess if you
have a problem or its the current version in svn. Probably the best thing to
do would be to fall back to the release version until you get it working and
then try upgrading. Maybe by then, the problem will be gone from svn. :)

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Re: [mythtv-users] XBox Media Center Question

2005-12-12 Thread Phill Edwards

> Well, I was just referring to the native XBMC media player. There is a
> Myth plugin script for XBMC that supposedly allows Live TV, and I
> presume time stretch, but I can't get it to work with latest SVN, so
> it's a non-starter for me (which is also the reason I can't run any of
> the Myth/Debian/Xbox combos either).

You're referring to xbmcmythtv (see sourceforge) which is a set of
python scripts which run under XBMC. This includes support for live TV
(if you can get it to work) and commercial skipping. It doesn't do
time stretch, though, AFAIK.

Regards,
Phill
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RE: [mythtv-users] Multiple Myth Backends on different cable lineups?

2005-12-12 Thread Dave Packham

Ok I got so far in testing to find out that any recordings on the remote
System 1 even if copied to the System 2 file system will still play via
the network from the System 1 via a stream.   Any way to force it to
play from the local copy? Instead of streaming it?  

Ill keep on working.. 

Dave Packham

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Packham
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 10:14 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: [mythtv-users] Multiple Myth Backends on different cable
lineups?

I need to try to setup up two backends in different cities and record
content from both of them to be played back on only one frontend/backend
system.  

System 1Solo backend no frontend.  cap card with tv lineup #1

System 2Front/Backend system with local 2 cap card with tv
lineup #2.

Can I setup the backend on system 1 to point its DB to system 2 for
recording and guide info.  Then record the video file to a local HD
"/video/tv" when would then be transferred to the System 2 via scp or
rsync to a similar named directory structure "/video/tv" on system2 for
local playback? 

I know that the show could not be watched live and would give an error
if I tried to watch it live,  but after copy it would reside on the
local server for playback from the recorded area?

Can this work?

And how would I go about merging the two TV listing lineups?  Can I make
one of them start at 200 or something?

I can transfer files at 1.1megs between the two systems so I don't think
that's enough to watch TV from a live stream. 

Any thoughts?

Thanks

Dave Packham
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RE: [mythtv-users] Instalation problems.

2005-12-12 Thread William

--
Does anyone have MythTV installed on Ubuntu Breezy 5.10? I have been having
so much trouble installing it on Ubuntu that I have tried 7 times without
success that I don't know whats right, whats installed  that I have been
reinstalling Ubuntu every time. I have used the How-to on Ubuntu's forum,
that its so incorrect that I have given up on that.
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91511&highlight=mythtv

Does ANYONE have a How-To that will work? I am new to Linux so a link that's
is kinda designed for someone like me would be great!
-- 
Thanks
Bill 
--

Well Bill, if all you want to do is get mythtv running on a linux system
there are several easier options. If you are bound and determined to use
ubuntu you are pushing the envelope a bit so there are not as good of docs
yet.

The first thing I would suggest is KnoppMyth
(www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html ) Pertty much turn-key. Loads linux and
mythtv in one shot.

The second is a great howto at (wilsonet.com/mythtv/) This is a great step
by step howto that was based (last time i looked) on Fedora Core. I set mine
up with this howto but have since customized mine quite a bit.

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

2005-12-12 Thread Graham Mitchell

Haven't tried yet, should be there in a couple of months But I'm
planning 2 lineups... one for the cable boxes (ch > 99), and one (well 2
actually) for the analog channels (ch < 100). For the 5C ones, I have a
3rd 150  card I am going to hook up to my 2nd cable box for that (with a
different lineup).

> they said that they can't give out more than one HDTV cable box per
account

BullS%$t I have 2 HD boxes here... OK, they'll charge you $5 for the
additional box, then screw you another $5 for the HD programming on that
box too (ie 2 HD boxes cost $20).. I got a nice CSR at the local Comcast
shop, and she waived the additional HD programming charge.

Graham

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Adeff
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 4:39 PM
To: mythtv-dev@mythtv.org
Cc: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv] Re: single source (cablebox) two input methods
(pvr-150and firewire) work together?

On Thursday 08 December 2005 09:34, Steve Adeff wrote:
> Sent this to the user list with no response, so I assume its not
possible.
> -
> 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?
> --
>
> Since many people will have a similar setup with their cable box (some
> channels 5C=0 some 5C=1, a nice ability would be to be able to have
Myth
> take some channels via firewire and some via a PVR-150 from the same
cable
> box.
>
> any thoughts?

just want to add a note... I just called my cable company (comcast) and
they 
said that they can't give out more than one HDTV cable box per account.
I 
talked to my father who uses Comcast across the country and he says
thats the 
policy there as well. Who knows how long this (silly) rule will apply,
but it 
does increase the desireability (at least in the short term) of this
feature.

-- 
Steve
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Re: [mythtv-users] Instalation problems.

I saw that, but it talks about a Nvidia graphix card, and I have an ATI
x300, I am a newbie at this and I dont know if that has to be done with
my ATI.

On 12/12/05, kev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:





www.abarbaccia.com 
this has helped for me hope it helps you too


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bill 
KennySent: 12 December 2005 18:45To: 
mythtv-users@mythtv.org.Subject: [mythtv-users] Instalation 
problems.

Hello All,
 
Does anyone have MythTV installed on Ubuntu Breezy 5.10? I have been having 
so much trouble installing it on Ubuntu that I have tried 7 times without 
success that I don't know whats right, whats installed  that I have been 
reinstalling Ubuntu every time. I have used the How-to on Ubuntu's forum, that 
its so incorrect that I have given up on that. http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91511&highlight=mythtv

Does ANYONE have a How-To that will work? I am new to Linux so a link 
that's is kinda designed for someone like me would be great!-- 
ThanksBill 

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RE: [mythtv-users] Instalation problems.

2005-12-12 Thread kev




www.abarbaccia.com 
this has helped for me hope it helps you too


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill 
KennySent: 12 December 2005 18:45To: 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [mythtv-users] Instalation 
problems.

Hello All,
 
Does anyone have MythTV installed on Ubuntu Breezy 5.10? I have been having 
so much trouble installing it on Ubuntu that I have tried 7 times without 
success that I don't know whats right, whats installed  that I have been 
reinstalling Ubuntu every time. I have used the How-to on Ubuntu's forum, that 
its so incorrect that I have given up on that. http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91511&highlight=mythtv
Does ANYONE have a How-To that will work? I am new to Linux so a link 
that's is kinda designed for someone like me would be great!-- 
ThanksBill 
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[mythtv-users] X Bad_alloc Error

2005-12-12 Thread R. G. Newbury



I'm experiencing an error which I cannot figure out.
This is a Via SP13000 motherboard, running Fedora 4 on 2.6.14-1.1644_FC4 
with mythtv svn 8205. I have xorg.conf set for 800x600 with 16 bit 
depth. These settings are down from 1280x1024x16 which was what I had 
set before things went bad.

Note that there is not output, yet, to TV.. this is only monitor output.
I am at a loss to understand what is causing this..
Help  gratefully accepted...
Geoff

Here is the error reported by mythfrontend. Mythbackend is no more useful.

2005-12-06 20:13:42.754 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.96:6543 
(try 1 of 5)

2005-12-06 20:13:42.762 Using protocol version 22
2005-12-06 20:13:42.804 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-12-06 20:13:42.829 Using protocol version 22
2005-12-06 20:13:43.386 Invalid file handle when opening 
/video/2135_20051206201342.mpg.  6 retries remaining.

0: start_time: 5859.060 duration: -9223372036854.775
stream: start_time: 65100.668 duration: -9223372036854.775 bitrate=0 kb/s
2005-12-06 20:13:45.728 AFD: Opened codec 0x834d230, 
id(MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC_VLD) type(Video)

2005-12-06 20:13:50.413 TV: Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-12-06 20:13:50.419 Using realtime priority.
2005-12-06 20:13:50.480 Video timing method: DRM
X Error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) 11
 Major opcode:  140
 Minor opcode:  18
 Resource id:  0x2800016
2005-12-06 20:13:52.277 NVP: prebuffering pause
2005-12-06 20:13:55.336 Video sync method can't support double framerate 
(refresh rate too low for bob deint)
2005-12-06 20:13:55.336 AFD: Opened codec 0x84abf10, 
id(MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC_VLD) type(Video)

2005-12-06 20:13:55.339 AFD: Opened codec 0x85123e0, id(AC3) type(Audio)
2005-12-06 20:13:55.386 AFD: Initializing video at 528x480 pixels.
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
 what():  St9bad_alloc
Aborted



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Re: [mythtv-users] Hard disk access

2005-12-12 Thread Andrew Wilson

You can track which process is reading/writing the disk by doing:

 echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump

Then use 'dmesg' to tell you process is using the disk. Turn off
tracking again with

 echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump

Hope this helps
Andrew
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RE: [mythtv-users] Is there any ordering dependencybetween transcodingand commflagging?

2005-12-12 Thread Mike Grusin

Thanks Raphael!  I didn't even realize there was an onscreen menu when
watching recordings (d'oh!).  Thus it's far better than my solution, which
was nothing. =D

Best, -MG

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Raphael Pooser
> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 8:45 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Is there any ordering dependencybetween
> transcodingand commflagging?
>
>
> Mike Grusin wrote:
>
> >What I'd like to know, is if there's an easy way to toggle
> auto-skip on and
> >off while watching a recording?  Rewinding into the commercial zone, you
> >have to be very careful not to hit that first "jump" or it helpfully
> >shuttles you around it again...
> >
> >-MG.
> >
> >
> Yup that would be an annoying problem to hit the jump point again.
> Probably you knew this already and this is not your "easy" solution,
> but, just map the key 'm' to somewhere on your remote to get your on
> screen menu (or hit the m button on your keyboard of course, or whatever
> key you mapped it to).  In there is the commercial autoskip option for
> the current recording.  Select the menu item and you get a set of
> checkboxes.  Just hit autoskip off, or notify only.  Have to do it
> sometimes myself for those shows where the commflag is messed up, and it
> skips the commercials in the last 10 min of a show, but skips all the
> way to end of the recording by accident.
> Raphael
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Re: [mythtv-users] Instalation problems.

I get errors installing IVTV and I cants seem to get anywere without
them before the actuall MythTV installation. Did you look at the link I
provided for the How-To file?

Thanks
Bill
On 12/12/05, Stef Coene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 12 December 2005 19:44, Bill Kenny wrote:> Hello All,>> Does anyone have MythTV installed on Ubuntu Breezy 5.10? I have been having> so much trouble installing it on Ubuntu that I have tried 7 times without
> success that I don't know whats right, whats installed  that I have been> reinstalling Ubuntu every time. I have used the How-to on Ubuntu's forum,> that its so incorrect that I have given up on that.
> http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91511&highlight=mythtv> Does ANYONE have a How-To that will work? I am new to Linux so a link
> that's is kinda designed for someone like me would be great!I have the frontend running on my laptop and that's working great.  Thebackend is a debian box.As far as I can see, mythtv is included with ubuntu.  What's the problem you
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[mythtv-users] Re: TV-out on PVR-350, Denmark, PAL.. any Danes here with a modprobe.conf?

2005-12-12 Thread Flemming André Frederiksen

Sorry about the html, sitting on a windows pc. This one is sendt in text
format.

Is it possible to delete ones own messages on the list?

/FAF

- Original Message - 
From: Flemming André Frederiksen
To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 10:52 PM
Subject: TV-out on PVR-350, Denmark, PAL.. any Danes here with a
modprobe.conf?

Hi

I'm in Denmark and trying to setup my modprobe.conf, using a PVR-350 on a
FC4.

Any Danes here who can paste a valid PAL setup for the PVR-350 (990)? plz

At one point I actually had a very nice picture on my 32" Panasonic 100 Hz
TV, but somehow I lost it.
Now I'm trying to eliminate the possibility of an improper modprobe.conf, so
that I can move on to the
rest of the configuration.

I have mostly been following this Howto:
http://www.wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php on a FC4 as described.
Also tried the KnoppMyth, but I like to do it myself, so that I can finetune
the installation.

Eventually I will move on to Debian, but for now I will test the FC4
mythtv-suite, yum has actually become
really nice. Need to make more research on the debian setup.

Today I'v used a few hours setting up a Danish discussion forum, so that I
can keep track of the progress.
The site will also be useful for other purposes, like having a place where
Danes can share configurations
and experiences. The main purpose is to write and share danish
documentation, like howtos and tutorials,
and of-course the forum.

Plz feel free to join in and share your knowledge, could really need some
examples of modprobe.conf :)

The site does not contain much, as it's very new, only spent a few hours
setting it up.The categories are made
mainly from memory, not from a site plan, so they might be illogical. If you
have desires or ideas please contribute
and tell me what the site needs, so that it can become helpful for the
community. I got tired of not being able to
find any danish website with mythtv related knowledge, so I ended up
creating this one on a subdomain.
If members will join, and the site becomes active, I will buy a domain-name
for the site.

Till then, thank you for your time.

/FAF

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Re: [mythtv-users] DCT-6200 Firewire issue User Database

2005-12-12 Thread David Rudder


Thanks Steve, for this and the rest of your help!

Steve Adeff wrote:

I'm trying to figure out the issue with this firewire thing. My laptop is 
perfectly accurate when changing channels but my mythbox isn't. theres a 
couple differences between the two though. Since this comes up so much as a 
problem for people I want to start collecting information on the issue to see 
if I can find out where the problem is.


Could anyone that is using firewire to control a Motorola DCT-6xxx series 
cable box respond to me off list with the following info:

1. firewire chipset being used (lspci|grep FireWire)
 


[EMAIL PROTECTED] proc]# lspci|grep FireWire
00:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host 
Controller (rev 80)



2. your plugreport output for the Node connected to the DCT.
 


[EMAIL PROTECTED] proc]# plugreport
Host Adapter 0
==

Node 0 GUID 0x00152ed1547e
--
oMPR n_plugs=1, data_rate=2, bcast_channel=63
oPCR[0] online=1, bcast_connection=0, n_p2p_connections=0
   channel=0, data_rate=2, overhead_id=0, payload=376
iMPR n_plugs=0, data_rate=2

Node 1 GUID 0x0011d83491ed
--
libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR
libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR


3. the output from a 6200ch -v channel change
 


[EMAIL PROTECTED] contrib]# ./6200ch -v 120
node 0: vendor_id = 0x152f model_id = 0x64cb
AV/C Command: 120 = Op1=0x00487C21 Op2=0x00487C22 Op3=0x00487C20
(I had to change some vendor and model ID numbers in the 6200ch source)


4. Your Kernel (uname -r)
 


[EMAIL PROTECTED] contrib]# uname -r
2.6.14-1.1644_F


5. Your 'modinfo raw1394' output
 


[EMAIL PROTECTED] proc]# modinfo raw1394
filename:   
/lib/modules/2.6.14-1.1644_FC4/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/raw1394.ko

license:GPL
vermagic:   2.6.14-1.1644_FC4 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.0
depends:ieee1394
alias:  ieee1394:ven*mo*spA02Dver00010001*
alias:  ieee1394:ven*mo*spA02Dver0100*
alias:  ieee1394:ven*mo*spA02Dver0101*
alias:  ieee1394:ven*mo*spA02Dver0102*
srcversion: 9435F3B41F2674B91625E97

6. your accuracy rate (0 - 5, 5=perfect channel changes, 0=numbers get 
detected but rarely does it work).
 

5 - The channel change always works, I think. Since so many recordings 
are messed up, it's possible the channel changes are not working 
perfectly and I don't notice.


7. a brief description of what your box does when you try and change channels. 
I have a brief description of what happens to me below in the quoted email.
 


This is with a DCT-6412.

The channel change always works, but video input only works sporadically 
(25-33% of the time).  I can reproduce this with test-mpeg2, so it's not 
a mythtv thing.  Steve Adeff has given me some good help, and I'm 
looking at swapping my DCT-6412 for a normal DCT-6200.  The more I play 
with this box, the more truly broken is seems.


-Dave


Hopefully we can figure this out and end the problem.

 



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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Mythbackend losing sql connection on the start of some recordings

2005-12-12 Thread Sasha Z

Another update, it only seems to be unable to connect to the schedules
tables... specifically the upcoming recordings. Everything else seems
to work just fine, listings, recorded programs, job queue history,
etc.

What could possibly be going on?

On 12/11/05, Sasha Z <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK, it seems to really happen at two times. One right at the start of
> a recording, and again at the end of (some) listings updates.
>
> On 12/9/05, Sasha Z <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Anybody have further information on this? (ie, bump)
> >
> > > On 12/3/05, Michael Eldridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have to restart the backend about once a day for things to work
> > > > properly. Should we open a ticket about this issue?
> > > >
> > > > On 11/28/05, Sasha Z <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I seem to be losing the database connection before some recordings,
> > > > > but not all. Mysql is *not* dying, and I am able to open and
> > > > > manipulate the database via the mysql console without trouble.
> > > > > Mythbackend itself isn't crashing either, it's just no longer able to
> > > > > communicate with the database.
> > >
> >
>
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[mythtv-users] TV-out on PVR-350, Denmark, PAL.. any Danes here with a modprobe.conf?

2005-12-12 Thread Flemming André Frederiksen




Hi
 
I'm in Denmark and 
trying to setup my modprobe.conf, using a PVR-350 on a 
FC4.
 
Any Danes here who 
can paste a valid PAL setup for the PVR-350 (990)? 
plz
 
At one point I 
actually had a very nice picture on my 32" Panasonic 100 Hz TV, but somehow I 
lost it. Now I'm trying to eliminate the possibility of an improper 
modprobe.conf, so that I can move on to the rest of the 
configuration.
 
I have mostly been 
following this Howto: http://www.wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php on 
a FC4 as described. Also tried the KnoppMyth, but I like to do it myself, so 
that I can finetune the installation.
 
Eventually I will 
move on to Debian, but for now I will test the FC4 mythtv-suite, yum 
has actually become really nice. Need to make more research on the debian 
setup.
 
Today I'v used a few 
hours setting up a Danish discussion forum, so that I can keep track of the 
progress. The site will also be useful for other purposes, like having a place 
where Danes can share configurations and experiences. The main purpose is to 
write and share danish documentation, like howtos and tutorials, and of-course 
the forum.
 
Plz feel free to join 
in and share your knowledge, could really need some examples of modprobe.conf 
:)
 
The site does not 
contain much, as it's very new, only spent a few hours setting it up.The 
categories are made mainly from memory, not from a site plan, so they might 
be illogical. If you have desires or ideas please contribute and tell me 
what the site needs, so that it can become helpful for the community. I got 
tired of not being able to find any danish website with mythtv related 
knowledge, so I ended up creating this one on a subdomain. If members will 
join, and the site becomes active, I will buy a domain-name for the 
site.
 
Till then, thank you 
for your time.
 
/FAF
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Re: [mythtv-users] Xine audio output through PVR350 tv-out

2005-12-12 Thread korebantic

Koen,

Your message was cut off, but I can guess what you are asking. This is
a similiar question I asked a couple of weeks ago. You need to use
your audiocard for all output by feeding the audio-out from the PVR
back into the record/line-in of the audio card. In this way, liveTv,
DVD's, output from Xine/mplayer will always come from one source (your
audio card). You can get any of the needed cabling adapters from
radioshack.

Make sense?

On 12/12/05, Koen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've now got (with the help from some people subscribed to this list) an 
> almost perfectly playhing Mythbox. I'm using a Hauppauge PVR 350 on Gentoo 
> Linux.
>
> I've got a dvd-collection in "iso"-format that's ready to be burned to dvd. I 
> love to play them with Xine, with works without a charm. The audio
> however is transmitted through my audiocard and not thr
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[mythtv-users] Re: single source (cablebox) two input methods (pvr-150 and firewire) work together?

On Thursday 08 December 2005 09:34, Steve Adeff wrote:
> Sent this to the user list with no response, so I assume its not possible.
> -
> 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?
> --
>
> Since many people will have a similar setup with their cable box (some
> channels 5C=0 some 5C=1, a nice ability would be to be able to have Myth
> take some channels via firewire and some via a PVR-150 from the same cable
> box.
>
> any thoughts?

just want to add a note... I just called my cable company (comcast) and they 
said that they can't give out more than one HDTV cable box per account. I 
talked to my father who uses Comcast across the country and he says thats the 
policy there as well. Who knows how long this (silly) rule will apply, but it 
does increase the desireability (at least in the short term) of this feature.

-- 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Hard disk access

2005-12-12 Thread Leo Weppelman

On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 06:57:46PM +0100, Herman Kuiper wrote:
> >Adding mythfrontend, the light blinks at ~2Hz.  It blinks much more when
> >watching live TV, transcoding, etc., but I've never seen it blink less.  I
> >show 122MB free RAM, so I don't -think- it's swapping, but ?
> 
> Isn't it MySQL logging? My MySQL daemon is configured (probably by default, 
> can't remember turning it on) to log all queries, and I think the Myth 
> regularly queries the database (e.g.  some queries on job settings just 
> came by).

The older installations of Debian had mysql logging on. The newer do
not. If you want to turn off the mysql logging, comment out the
line in /etc/mysql/my.cnf containing '/var/log/mysql/mysql.log'.

I got my myth system - containing both backend and frontend - to the
point that the disk shuts down when the system is idle for more than 5
minutes. [ I like quiet systems ;-) ]

Leo.
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Re: [mythtv-users] VideoOutputXv Error

2005-12-12 Thread Carl Fongheiser

On 12/12/05, cardboil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
    Option  "OpenGLOverlay" "no"Try changing this line to:   Option "TVOverlay"Carl Fongheiser
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Re: [mythtv-users] Instalation problems.

2005-12-12 Thread Stef Coene

On Monday 12 December 2005 19:44, Bill Kenny wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Does anyone have MythTV installed on Ubuntu Breezy 5.10? I have been having
> so much trouble installing it on Ubuntu that I have tried 7 times without
> success that I don't know whats right, whats installed  that I have been
> reinstalling Ubuntu every time. I have used the How-to on Ubuntu's forum,
> that its so incorrect that I have given up on that.
> http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91511&highlight=mythtv
> Does ANYONE have a How-To that will work? I am new to Linux so a link
> that's is kinda designed for someone like me would be great!
I have the frontend running on my laptop and that's working great.  The 
backend is a debian box.
As far as I can see, mythtv is included with ubuntu.  What's the problem you 
have installing it ?

Stef
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Re: [mythtv-users] RE: STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!

On Monday 12 December 2005 17:49, Michael Bochynski wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 18:30 -0500, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> [...]
>
> > Also, the Linksys sucked to configure. After support was of no help
> > ("What version of Windows are you running? You don't have a Windows
> > PC? Sorry, you can't configure it any other way."), I had to borrow a
> > Windows laptop to configure it.
>
> [...]
>
> You might want to look into VMWare. Instead of borrowing a laptop, you
> can just install Windows on VMWare. The only requirement is a couple of
> gig of free space. Depends what's easier for you.
>
> Michael

Hmmm, I'm having a hard time believing you had trouble with a Linksys router. 
I've set up probably 20 ~ 30 home networks. On Linksys routers to access the 
setup and configuration web page go to the address  192.168.1.1 in a web 
browser. That seems pretty simple to me. Netgear's address is 192.168.0.1 and 
so on and so forth. I have a wireless network here at home and a few Linux 
boxes going. SCP usually runs around 1 MB, but we do have two 802.11b Windows 
laptops that probably slow the network down more than anything else. I 
suggest avoiding things that require Windows drivers to work and sticking 
with something that has native support (i.e. Madwifi) instead.
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[mythtv-users] Re: DCT-6200 Firewire issue User Database

2005-12-12 Thread Nick Fasano


1. firewire chipset being used (lspci|grep FireWire)


[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# lspci|grep FireWire
03:02.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port  
(rev 04)

(this is the firewire port on my SB Audigy Platinum Pro)


2. your plugreport output for the Node connected to the DCT.


[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# plugreport
Host Adapter 0
==

Node 0 GUID 0x00023c014102776a
--
libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR
libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR

Node 1 GUID 0x6a7702414102776a
--
libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR
libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR

Node 2 GUID 0x6a7702414102776a
--
libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR
libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR

Node 3 GUID 0x000ce5fffe9dcb4b
--
oMPR n_plugs=1, data_rate=2, bcast_channel=63
oPCR[0] online=1, bcast_connection=0, n_p2p_connections=0
channel=0, data_rate=2, overhead_id=0, payload=376
iMPR n_plugs=0, data_rate=2
(always comes up as node 3, even after reboot)


3. the output from a 6200ch -v channel change


[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# 6200ch -v 500
node 3: vendor_id = 0x0ce5 model_id = 0x620a
AV/C Command: 500 = Op1=0x00487C25 Op2=0x00487C20 Op3=0x00487C20


4. Your Kernel (uname -r)


[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# uname -r
2.6.12-MythTV
(this is a custom kernel, not one of the ATRPM kernels)


5. Your 'modinfo raw1394' output


[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# modinfo raw1394
filename:   /lib/modules/2.6.12-MythTV/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/ 
raw1394.ko

license:GPL
alias:  char-major-171-0 * 16
vermagic:   2.6.12-MythTV SMP PENTIUM4 REGPARM gcc-3.4
depends:ieee1394
alias:  ieee1394:ven*mo*spA02Dver00010001*
alias:  ieee1394:ven*mo*spA02Dver0100*
alias:  ieee1394:ven*mo*spA02Dver0101*
alias:  ieee1394:ven*mo*spA02Dver0102*


6. your accuracy rate (0 - 5, 5=perfect channel changes, 0=numbers get
detected but rarely does it work).


5 - To the best of my knowledge, it has never missed a channel change  
in the two months I've been using firewire and my 6200 box.


7. a brief description of what your box does when you try and  
change channels.


It has always worked perfectly for me.  I'm using FC3 and mythtv from  
a recent SVN.  I'd be happy to give any more info that might help.


-Nick
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Re: [mythtv-users] False "previously recorded" flag for new episode?

2005-12-12 Thread Tom Lichti


Garry Cook wrote:
My Grey's recorded fine too, although Desparate Housewives didn't. Any 
chance that was a rerun, or am I seeing the same problem with a 
different show?
I don't think DH was on. My schedule shows a special 'Extreme Makeover' 
in it's place. Didn't want to compete with Survivor, I guess... :)


Tom
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RE: [mythtv-users] Pluto!

2005-12-12 Thread Glen Johnson

I've been playing with Pluto a bit lately.
The one problem I've ran into is that it didn't autoinstall ivtv and the
drivers for the two pvr-350 cards in my system.
Not sure if it not supposed to do that or not.  I found some info in the
Pluto forum about compiling ivtv but it didn't work and I've not had a
lot of time to troubleshoot it.
It also could be the junk via system board I'm using.
Unless I can get that resolved, I'll not go any further with it.

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Hamer
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 1:00 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Pluto!

Andrew Close wrote:
> On 12/10/05, Joshua Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>>Back story:
>>I am building a house in KY (insert Red Neck Joke Here!) and am
designing
>>the house around homeentertainment.
> 
> 
> no red neck jokes. :)  i'm jealous and envious.  i wanna build a home
like that!
> 
> 
>>quad CAT6 drops in every room
>>Dual AV jacks in every room
>>Built in speakers in lots of rooms
>>
>>MythTV in the basement
>>dumb terminals at each TV.
>>
>>Then I found another product called Pluto. www.plutohome.com
>>
>>It uses MythTV for Tivo like functionality. But uses other programs to
>>control the home. A smart home or Home automation. climate control,
>>Lights, TV, Astrik PBX, Security. All sorts of goodies.
>>
>>It is completely open source. This seems to good to be true. Has
anyone
>>used MythTV and Pluto and have any experiances to share?
>>
>>Pluto can use bluetooth from your handheld or Cell phone to have your
>>MythTV program follow you from room to room to room. Cool. Ok I need
to
>>stop watching so much TV.
> 
> 
> as others have mentioned there are a couple Pluto threads floating
> around.  one turn off is that the bluetooth phone has to be a Symbian
> OS phone i believe.  that limits your choices a bit.  Pluto's MythTv
> functionality is a watered down version of Myth.  both of those
> statements are hearsay, i 'believe' i read them in other posts or on
> some other forum as i've never played with Pluto myself.  although i
> have checked out their website and if i had the time and money, would
> play around with it. :)
> 
> good luck with the house.  i'd love more details/updates. :)
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i'd be very curious to know if anyone has actually gotten plutohome to 
do much. maybe i'm just a little slow, but i can't seem to configure any

of my X10 stuff with their "easy to use" but utterly confusing web 
interface.

however, if you have a bunch of wireless windows CE devices lying around

to use as remotes, the touchscreen interfaces (orbiters) are pretty
cool.

as far as myth functionality, pluto has its own interface for music and 
videos, so it only uses myth for live tv and recordings. actually, the 
orbiters just have a button that launches myth, and a remote interface 
that pushes keyboard strokes to myth when buttons are pressed.

overall, installation with the kickstart cd was easy, though you may 
have serious problems that are very difficult to debug. also you can 
probably expect to spend a lot of time configuring things, especially if

you find the web interface as confusing as i did.
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Re: [mythtv-users] False "previously recorded" flag for new episode?

2005-12-12 Thread Garry Cook

My Grey's recorded fine too, although Desparate Housewives didn't. Any chance that was a rerun, or am I seeing the same problem with a different show?
 
--
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Re: [mythtv-users] PAL tv output PVR350; X display screen size is to small

2005-12-12 Thread Cudeso MailList


Brad DerManouelian wrote:


Manually set your GUI size. Utilities/Setup->Setup->Appearance->Next

I have the same setup as you, but using NTSC. I set my GUI to:

width 642
height 455
X offset 34
Y offset 15

I got these numbers through trial and error and these work best for  me.
I had to choose an OSD theme that didn't cut off on the sides too  much,
as well. I'm using Titivillus-OSD, but with PAL, you might have  better
luck with others.




Thanks!
That did it, in combination with a better theme it fits nicely on my (old) 
tv.


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[mythtv-users] Xine audio output through PVR350 tv-out

2005-12-12 Thread Koen

Hi,

I've now got (with the help from some people subscribed to this list) an almost 
perfectly playhing Mythbox. I'm using a Hauppauge PVR 350 on Gentoo Linux.

I've got a dvd-collection in "iso"-format that's ready to be burned to dvd. I 
love to play them with Xine, with works without a charm. The audio
however is transmitted through my audiocard and not thr
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[mythtv-users] advice needed on HD-3000 and PVR-350

2005-12-12 Thread Chris Gentle

Hi.  I'm considering purchasing an HD-3000 and I'd like a little
advice.  I currently have two Hauppauge PVR-350 cards in two
separate machines.  Both machines have fairly low-end hardware so I
use the decoder on both 350 cards.  Output is excellent, by the way.  :)

If I purchase one of these cards, can the captured files from the
HD-3000 be transcoded into a stream that can be played back through
the 350's decoder?  The machines are really not fast enough to play
back without the decoder.

Speaking of transcoding, does MythTV use the actual 'transcode'
program or does it use its own internal transcoding?

-- 
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Re: [mythtv-users] LiveTV Freezes frontend

2005-12-12 Thread Dag Nygren

> Dag Nygren wrote:
> > 
> > Just read the text for commit r8238 about broken signal monitoring.
> > Could this be the reason?
> > Are we all using a Twinhan VisionPlus DVB-T card?
> > (with a possibly broken driver?)
> 
> No, I Have Technisat Cablestar2 DVB-C cards. The driver seems to work, 
> at least I can tune into every channel with czap and watch them with 
> MPlayer.

OK, there goes that theory about dame cards.
I also know that my driver works in sense of recieving something as I can
use earlier versions of Myth without any problems pointing to the driver
but I was thinking of the signal monitoring problems possibly blocking
the reception. And I cannot swear that the signal monitoring part of the
driver is OK.

Then there is only the country we have in common ;-)

Dag

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Re: [mythtv-users] LiveTV Freezes frontend

2005-12-12 Thread Markus Heikkilä


Dag Nygren wrote:


Just read the text for commit r8238 about broken signal monitoring.
Could this be the reason?
Are we all using a Twinhan VisionPlus DVB-T card?
(with a possibly broken driver?)


No, I Have Technisat Cablestar2 DVB-C cards. The driver seems to work, 
at least I can tune into every channel with czap and watch them with 
MPlayer.


--
Mahe

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Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire ( 1394) Capture with multiple FW Cards

On Monday 12 December 2005 00:02, Mike Smith wrote:
> Steve,
>
> Here is the output of lspci:
>
>
> 01:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments
> TSB82AA2 IEEE-1394b Link Layer Controller (rev 01)
>
> 01:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments
> TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)

looks good, from what I've seen TI makes the better of the FireWire chipsets. 
My laptop has one and whenever I connect it to a cablebox its been nothing 
short of perfect.

> I think the second one is the for the onboard 1394.
> The first is the
> Belkin card I recently installed.  The Belkin card was
> on the Hardware
> Compatibility list on the linux1394.org web site.
>
> How do I find out if the 5C Digital Rights Management
> is enabled
> on my video stream.

When connecting the firewire to your PC, if you get a channel over firewire it 
is set to 5C=0 (ie disabled) (if that box even supports 5C?). The DCT6xxx 
series has a service menu that you can use to see if 5C is enabled. I don't 
know about the receiver you have though. Check avsforum.com you might be able 
to find something. 

But the other way is to tune the channel and see if it outputs the video over 
firewire and is picked up by your PC. OTA stations are not supposed to be 
blocked, and usually the basic cable channels are not. Its the movie channels 
(like HBO) and extended digital cable channels that are, when the cable 
company decides to do it. My fathers cable company has no 5C restrictions 
even though they can, mine has 5C enabled on all but the OTA and basic cable 
channels. Both are Comcast, though in different areas!

try running test-mpeg2 with it connected to your pci firewire card and see if 
you can get one of the OTA channels (PBS HD is usually a good one to try) to 
stream. 

>
> Note - when I connect my SA3250HD to my television
> with the firewire
> connection,  I think I get every channel via firewire,
> which surprised
> me.  I get the 900 level HDTV channels ( including the
> local HDTV
> channels in Cincinnati ), I even get the analog
> stations from
> channel 3 - 100.  The latter surprised me.
>
> Thanks,

Your TV supports 5C and so can tell the cable box that it is a 5C=1 device 
(view once). So while totally cool from a technology perspective, useless for 
testing for PC capture =(

-- 
Steve

>
> Mike
>
> --- Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Saturday 10 December 2005 01:29, Mike Smith
> >
> > wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to get my SA3250HD cable box to work
> >
> > with
> >
> > > the Firewire capture.
> > > Cable company is Time Warner in Cincinnati.  After
> >
> > a
> >
> > > lot of phone calls,
> > > and email, they finally give me an SA3250HD with
> > > active 1394 ports.  I
> > > can connect it to the 1394 ports on my TV and
> >
> > watch
> >
> > > HDTV from it.
> > >
> > > I struggled for weeks to try getting this to work
> >
> > with
> >
> > > the onboard
> > > 1394 ports on my ASUS motherboard.  Built the
> >
> > 2.6.12
> >
> > > kernel needed
> > > for latest drivers from linux1394.org.  No luck.
> >
> > I
> >
> > > try following
> > > Jarod's guide for setting it up on Fedora ( I'm
> >
> > using
> >
> > > Mandrivia 2006 ).
> > > I finally noticed Jarods comment that he could not
> >
> > get
> >
> > > the FW ports on
> > > his ASUS motherboard to work,  so I purchased a
> >
> > Belkin
> >
> > > 1394 board that
> > > was recommended on the linux1394.org site.
> > >
> > > I have it in.  The card is recognized.  But,  I
> >
> > can't
> >
> > > figure out
> > > what is meant by port and node in a two board
> >
> > context.
> >
> > >  Here
> > > is the output of plugreport:
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# plugreport
> > > Host Adapter 0
> > > ==
> > >
> > > Node 0 GUID 0x00e018899531
> > > --
> > > libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR
> > > libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR
> > >
> > > Host Adapter 1
> > > ==
> > >
> > > Node 0 GUID 0x000f2142f10c
> > > --
> > > oMPR n_plugs=1, data_rate=2, bcast_channel=63
> > > oPCR[0] online=1, bcast_connection=0,
> > > n_p2p_connections=0
> > > channel=0, data_rate=0, overhead_id=0,
> > > payload=146
> > > iMPR n_plugs=0, data_rate=2
> > >
> > > Node 1 GUID 0x00d0035600b17934
> > > --
> > > libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR
> > > libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR
> > >
> > >
> > > What should I use a node and port in the
> >
> > mythtv-setup
> >
> > > for the firewire
> > > capture device?
> > >
> > > An interesting side note:  I disabled the onboard
> > > firewire in the BIOS
> > > setup,  but the gigabit ethernet stopped working.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Mike
> >
> > whats the firewire chipset for your onboard
> > firewire?
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> > plugctl -n 2 opcr[0].channel=63
> > plugctl -n 2 opcr[0].n_p2p_connections=1
> > plugctl -n 2 opcr[0].bcast_connection=1
> > plugctl -n 2 opcr[0].data_rate=3

Re: [mythtv-users] Instalation problems.

2005-12-12 Thread korebantic

Try this, unless you insist on Ubuntu. This guide is Fedora Core 4:

http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/



On 12/12/05, Bill Kenny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Does anyone have MythTV installed on Ubuntu Breezy 5.10? I have been having
> so much trouble installing it on Ubuntu that I have tried 7 times without
> success that I don't know whats right, whats installed  that I have been
> reinstalling Ubuntu every time. I have used the How-to on Ubuntu's forum,
> that its so incorrect that I have given up on that.
> http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91511&highlight=mythtv
>
> Does ANYONE have a How-To that will work? I am new to Linux so a link that's
> is kinda designed for someone like me would be great!
> --
> Thanks
> Bill
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Re: [mythtv-users] Picture in Picture

2005-12-12 Thread Joseph A. Caputo

On Monday 12 December 2005 13:59, Joshua Lewis wrote:
> David Whyte
> > On 12/11/05, Joshua Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Front end will have no video capture. I just want video out audio 
> >> out to 
> >> hook to the tv. I would like to use my Picture in Picture feature. 
> >> I am 
> >> asuming I will need two video out/audio out cards?
> >>
> >
> > Not sure if you know this, but myth offers PiP when watching live tv
> > already, so long as you have two seperate tuner cards.
> >
> > Sweet eh?? :P
> >
> >
> So I am thinking old school where a TV has two TV Tuners in the back 
> and 
> you are supposed to plug a line into each.
> 
> You are saying you only have to plug in the one tuner and MythTV does 
> the 
> PiP from the one tuner?
> 
> That is pretty sweet.

I think you're using "tuner" in multiple, confusing ways.

YES you need 2 or more tuner cards available to Myth in order to have 
Myth do PIP.

NO, you do not need to connect Myth to your TV "twice".  Your TV does 
not even need to have a PIP function; Myth composites the PIP picture 
internally and sends a single image to the TV.

Now, if your TV supports PIP natively, you could tune the TV to a 
station, and tune the PIP window to Myth... which, in turn, could be 
showing a PIP display... so you'd get PIPIP :-)

-JAC
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythbackend startup script for Debian

On Monday 12 December 2005 03:33, Marius Schrecker wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I'm having a hard time setting up a startup script on Debian unstable
> using svn from a few days ago.
>
> The sample scripts in the contrib directory of the source don't use Debian
> controls, and as mythbackend has a builtin daemon mode I'm not sure I
> should use a script based on skeleton.
>
> Can anyone point me at a working script, or tell me the best approach to
> make one myself? I think I used a script from the 0.18 deb last time
> (before my hard disk crash), but this time it's pure svn.
>
> Cheers
>
> Marius

here's my init.d script for Kanotix64:

##
#! /bin/sh
#
# mythtv-server MythTV capture and encoding backend
#
# Based on:
#
# skeleton  example file to build /etc/init.d/ scripts.
#   This file should be used to construct scripts for /etc/init.d.
#
#   Written by Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
#   Modified for Debian GNU/Linux
#   by Ian Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
#
# Version:  @(#)skeleton  1.9.1  08-Apr-2002  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/mythbackend
NAME="mythbackend"
DESC="MythTV server"

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

set -e

USER=mythtv
RUNDIR=/var/run/mythtv
ARGS="--daemon --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log --pidfile 
$RUNDIR/$NAME.pid"
EXTRA_ARGS=""
NICE=0

if [ -f /etc/mythtv/mythbackend ]; then
  . /etc/mythtv/mythbackend
fi

ARGS="$ARGS $EXTRA_ARGS"

mkdir -p $RUNDIR
chown -R $USER $RUNDIR


case "$1" in
  start)
echo -n "Starting $DESC: $NAME"
start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile $RUNDIR/$NAME.pid \
--chuid $USER --nicelevel $NICE --exec $DAEMON -- $ARGS
echo "."
;;
  stop)
echo -n "Stopping $DESC: $NAME "
start-stop-daemon --stop --oknodo --pidfile $RUNDIR/$NAME.pid \
--chuid $USER --exec $DAEMON -- $ARGS
echo "."
;;
  restart|force-reload)
echo -n "Restarting $DESC: $NAME"
start-stop-daemon --stop --oknodo --pidfile $RUNDIR/$NAME.pid \
--chuid $USER --exec $DAEMON -- $ARGS
echo "."
sleep 3
start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile $RUNDIR/$NAME.pid \
--chuid $USER --nicelevel $NICE --exec $DAEMON -- $ARGS
echo "."
;;
  *)
N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
# echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2
echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac

exit 0
##


-- 
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Re: [mythtv-users] False "previously recorded" flag for new episode?

2005-12-12 Thread Universo Dos Mil

For what it's worth, I'm recording off WABC in NY.
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Re: [mythtv-users] LiveTV Freezes frontend

2005-12-12 Thread Dag Nygren

> I opened a trouble ticket on something similar. You might want to have a 
> look and comment on it if it sounds the same.
> 
> http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/754

It is not really the same as this doesn't give you any liveTV, just a black 
screen.
I also saw your problem in earlier 81xx versions, but the usable one at the 
moment is
8145 for me, which has a much lower frequency of the problem.
This only crashes now and then and have an occasional hiccup when the program 
changes.
(Plus of course the disk wasting automatic recording of every b...dy program 
you point your
livetv finger at...)

Dag

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Re: [mythtv-users] Picture in Picture

2005-12-12 Thread Tom Lichti


Joshua Lewis wrote:

So I am thinking old school where a TV has two TV Tuners in the back and
you are supposed to plug a line into each.

You are saying you only have to plug in the one tuner and MythTV does the
PiP from the one tuner?

That is pretty sweet.
  

Might want to read it again...


Not sure if you know this, but myth offers PiP when watching live tv
already, so long as you have two seperate tuner cards.


***two separate tuner cards.***

Tom
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Re: [mythtv-users] Picture in Picture

2005-12-12 Thread Joshua Lewis

So I am thinking old school where a TV has two TV Tuners in the back and
you are supposed to plug a line into each.

You are saying you only have to plug in the one tuner and MythTV does the
PiP from the one tuner?

That is pretty sweet.


Thank you,
Joshua Lewis



David Whyte
> On 12/11/05, Joshua Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Front end will have no video capture. I just want video out audio out to
>> hook to the tv. I would like to use my Picture in Picture feature. I am
>> asuming I will need two video out/audio out cards?
>>
>
> Not sure if you know this, but myth offers PiP when watching live tv
> already, so long as you have two seperate tuner cards.
>
> Sweet eh?? :P
>
>
> --
> --
>
> I have GMail invites, if you want one, email me direct.
>

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Re: [mythtv-users] LiveTV Freezes frontend

2005-12-12 Thread Jason Mollman

I opened a trouble ticket on something similar. You might want to have a 
look and comment on it if it sounds the same.


http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/754

Jason

Dag Nygren wrote:
I'm having trouble with LiveTV. Every time I try to watch TV with 
mythtv I get only black screen and mythfrontend stops responding to 
any input and must be killed.


Yep,
same here.
Is this a Finnish problem only??

Dag

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[mythtv-users] Anybody working on Nokia 770 front end?

2005-12-12 Thread Mike Frisch

Is anybody working on a port of the MythTV front end to a Nokia 770?
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[mythtv-users] DCT-6200 Firewire issue User Database

I'm trying to figure out the issue with this firewire thing. My laptop is 
perfectly accurate when changing channels but my mythbox isn't. theres a 
couple differences between the two though. Since this comes up so much as a 
problem for people I want to start collecting information on the issue to see 
if I can find out where the problem is.

Could anyone that is using firewire to control a Motorola DCT-6xxx series 
cable box respond to me off list with the following info:
1. firewire chipset being used (lspci|grep FireWire)
2. your plugreport output for the Node connected to the DCT.
3. the output from a 6200ch -v channel change
4. Your Kernel (uname -r)
5. Your 'modinfo raw1394' output
6. your accuracy rate (0 - 5, 5=perfect channel changes, 0=numbers get 
detected but rarely does it work).
7. a brief description of what your box does when you try and change channels. 
I have a brief description of what happens to me below in the quoted email.

Hopefully we can figure this out and end the problem.

-- 
Steve

On Monday 12 December 2005 13:12, Steve Adeff wrote:
> On Monday 12 December 2005 10:50, Frank Lynch wrote:
> > On 11/30/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I wrote a script that would change the channel +1 run test-mpeg and if
> > > data was received write the channel and "ok" in a text file. This was
> > > so I could quickly figure out what channels were 5C'd for me, through
> > > the whole script I didn't run into a channel change error. I then
> > > played around with it (in awe that it actually worked of course) and
> > > again had no issues. all through p2p.
> >
> > Hi Steve,
> > Would you mind sharing your script with the list?
> > I'm in the process of setting up a firewire connection to my cable
> > box, and your script could save me quite a bit of time (as opposed to
> > going through and manually finding out which channels are 5C'd).
> > thanks,
> > --Frank
>
> i would, but I think I deleted it (ie. I can't find it...).
>
> whats funny is that now that I have a permanent Myth setup with my cable
> box using 6200ch to tune the channels I've noticed a lot of mis-changes.
>
> I'm sitting here ssh'd in to the machine running 6200ch over and over
> trying different channels (this box is p2p only which may be of issue?) and
> am getting qute a few mis-controled channel changes.
>
> it looks like whats happening is the box thinks it receives doubles of some
> numbers. This will either cause the box to think its receiving 4 or 5
> numbers.
> ie. tell it to tune to 256 and when it errors I get:
> 255   <- no 6 even gets sent!
> 2556 = ch 6 gets tuned
> 25566 = ch 66 gets tuned.
>
> so far its usually the middle # that gets repeated but I've had the third
> number repeated occasionally.
>
> Which leads me to think that perhaps its something wrong with
> libavc1394/libraw1394 or the 6200ch program.
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[mythtv-users] Instalation problems.

Hello All,
 
Does anyone have MythTV installed on Ubuntu Breezy 5.10? I have been having so much trouble installing it on Ubuntu that I have tried 7 times without success that I don't know whats right, whats installed  that I have been reinstalling Ubuntu every time. I have used the How-to on Ubuntu's forum, that its so incorrect that I have given up on that. 
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91511&highlight=mythtv
Does ANYONE have a How-To that will work? I am new to Linux so a link that's is kinda designed for someone like me would be great!-- ThanksBill 
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Re: [mythtv-users] EIT scanning broken?

2005-12-12 Thread Simon Tennant

On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 11:03:50AM +0100, Simon Tennant wrote:
> Using revision 8234, I am no longer receiving EIT updates.  I have
> channels tuned and am able to view them with no problem.  The log file
> shows:
>   StartActiveScan called with 0 channels
> 

Just following up on my own post.  Discovered that I need to set "use
on Air Program Guide" in the channel editor.

S.

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RE: [mythtv-users] Audio problems - Do I need new hardware?

2005-12-12 Thread James C. Dastrup

>> Using 0.18.1, I have two audio problems, both of which I've researched
>> quite a bit, but thought I would check one last time if any solutions are
>> available. I'm using an ASUS P4P800-VM with on-board AC'97 audio using
>> optical audio out to a receiver. Digital audio works fine for HDTV and DVD.
>>  The two problems are:
>>
>> 1) Very annoying, loud, audio drum-beat-like sound when playback stops,
>> only occurs occasionally. Happens when stopping liveTV, Recorded, mplayer,
>> etc. 2) MythMusic plays back ripped audio too fast, chipmunk-style.
>>
>> >From what I can tell, most people don't experience these problems, and
>> > some have
>>
>> suggested the MythMusic problems is due to cheap audio hardware.
>> If I'm going to buy an add-on PCI Audio Card, can anyone recommend one that
>> is known to work well with linux/MythTV?
>
>Do you get the drum-beat-like sound during normal playback with low volume
>material?
>
 
The drum-beat sound only occurs after audio playback has stopped, when
no sound is supposed to be produced. It's almost as if the audio hangs on 
a sound and keeps repeating it in a loop. During playback, audio is perfect.
 
Considering it happens with mplayer (called from MythVideo), I'm starting
to think it has nothing to do with Myth, but rather the hardware, or maybe
even drivers (It doesn't happen in Windows, same hardware). I ordered 
a Turtle Beach Riviera this morning (thanks, Dewey), and I'll post an update
if it resolves it.
 
Thanks,
James
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[mythtv-users] Re-using/moving hardware around

2005-12-12 Thread N Dugas

I'm planning on shuffling some hardware around and I'd like to run this 
by the list to see if anyone might be able to shed some light on 
potential issues I might run into...


Current Myth box:
Asus A7NX8-E Deluxe Mobo
1 Gig Dual DDR Ram
Athlon XP 3000 CPU
ATI Radeon 9550 w/256M Ram
Hauppauge PVR 350
Seagate 250G disk

The box is in my living room.  Everything here is working just fine

In my rec room, I have an HD and a Moto 6412 that I'd like to stream to 
my PC via firewire.  I know the firewire is active since I've played 
around with it at one time.


What I'd like to do:
Rebuild the living room Myth box with existing HW I have:
MSI KT4V-L Mobo (Via KT400 chipset)
512M RAM
Athlon XP 1800
Leadtek Winfast 2000XP Deluxe
Move from Living PC to this new one:
Hauppauge PVR 350
Seagate 250G HD (moving this so I don't lose all of my current 
recordings, I can just rebuild the kernel)


For the Moto 6412 firewire connected box:
Asus A7NX8-E Deluxe Mobo
1 Gig Dual DDR Ram
Athlon XP 3000 CPU
Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 w/ 256M
1x Seagate 200G
1x Seagate 250G

A few questions that are stuck in my mind:
1 - how is the firewire on the Asus Mobo?  If it's not great, I have a 
3-port IEEE1394 card I can stick into that box (I think it's a Dynex - 
from Best Buy).


2 - I plan on connecting the on-board SPDIF to my stereo.  Has anyone 
done it with this board (or any other NForce2 board) and will I have to 
screw around to get it working?


Thanks for your input.  I think I'll be doing this early in the new year.

Norm


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Re: [mythtv-users] DCT-6200 Firewire issue