Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport and ffmpeg-CVS

[Chris Petersen]

Further tests seems to suggest that using --transcode
with a single pass and no noise reduction gives virtually
identical picture quality as transcode with multi-pass and
noise reduction.


Contrary to what most people think, the only REAL advantage to multipass 
is that it provides a consistent (nearly guaranteed) output file size, 
and the best possible quality for that size.  Single pass can have 
awesome quality, but if you were to tweak things such that the single 
pass produced a file of the same size as the two-pass file, the two-pass 
one might look slightly better because it would have had a smarter 
"insight" into which frames should be encoded at a higher bitrate, and 
which ones didn't matter (eg. black frame) and could be encoded lower.



The run time on that is 1h 28 minutes (still twice ffmpeg's time)
and it plays perfectly in xine, mplayer, kaffeine, vlc. and
Windows Media Player 9 and later.  It shows
slight jerkyness in Winamp and Windows DivX Player
(older version).


Really strange.  In all of my tests, ffmpeg and transcode (with noise 
reduction enabled) were almost exactly the same speed (about 6 fps for 
me).  I put up with the slowness, though, since whenever I've tried to 
use ffmpeg the output is full of artifacts.



Now if I can just get the command line to work so
I can run these nuvexport jobs from the backend I'll be happy.


/etc/nuvexportrc plus:

nuvexport --transcode --require_cutlist --mode xvid --title some_title

personally, I wouldn't trust it, though.  Too many things can go wrong. 
 You might also want to add the --force_mythtranscode option since I've 
seen transcode freak out with some ivtv recordings.


-Chris
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[mythtv-users] Recording HDTV via cable in the US? (yes another one)

[Matt Goebel]

Hi,

I've just bought a new HDTV and switched over to a HDTV cable box from 
my cable company (Bright House Networks).  They gave me a Motorola 
DCT6200 DVR for two months because they were out of plain non-DVR HDTV 
cables boxes (DCT5100's I believe is what they are using for that). 

So now I'd like to hook that into MythTV to record HDTV content in 720p 
HDTV format (what my TV supports).  What's the status of HD recording 
under Linux?  Is this possible yet?  I know you can do OTA HD 
recording.. but can you do QAM now too if you run everything through the 
cable box first?  I'd like to record HBO,TNT,OLN, and Discover HD in HD 
in addition to the local channels I can get OTA.  If it's possible which 
HD card would I need?  The HD-3000 or Air2PC etc...?  With the DCT6200 
I'm pretty sure Bright House doesn't offer a coaxial output even though 
the box supports one.  That kills that one I think.  I plan to get a 
plain DCT5100 anyway though.. which hopefully does have one.  If not is 
there someway to record in HD with Component or IEEE1394?

Also if none of this is possible would I be able to at least us the 
Svideo output to record in 16:9 DVD quality?  I have 2 PVR-250's and a 
PVR-500 which are both supposed to support up to 720x480 if I'm not 
mistaken. 


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RE: [mythtv-users] LIRC weirdness

[Marty Ravell]

>
>Does myth run with the same privledges as your manual
>tests?
>
>Does the emitter flash at all (view it through a digital camera
>or video cam to convert it to visible wavelength).
>

Hi John,

Thanks for the post. I'd looked at the privilege stuff but given that I
could prove that the script was being run by Mythtv, it just didn't change
the channel, I figured that this was not the problem. 

Just a couple of minutes ago I tracked the problem down to the fact that the
freqid column in the channel table of Myth's database was not filled.

Once I updated this column with the values in the channum column it all came
good.

It seems that Myth sends the freqid column to the channel change script and
not the channum as you would expect.

I suspect that this is a result of the messing about with Australian
tv_grab_au scripts. Mythfilldatabase etc that I've had to do.

WAF just shot up a couple more notches!   :)



Regards
Marty



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Re: [mythtv-users] Help with xorg.conf

[Steve Adeff]

On Saturday 17 December 2005 22:23, Allan Wilson wrote:
> Well I have to admit that I finally took the plunge and purchased a Sony
> KDS-R60XBR1. Basically it is Sony's 60" 1280p model. I am trying to
> configure my FC3/Mythbox for the new TV and not even sure where to start.

sadly, not a true 1080p, which is why I wait for true 1080p tvs...
on the other hand its a beautiful beautiful TV with a great image.
Once you recover your wallet, look into a good scaler, worth the price on a TV 
like yours.


> First question: My TV has four modes that will adjust the picture. I think
> this was designed so that you could choose between 4:3 and 16:9. In a
> perfect world shouldn't Myth takeup the entire screen without using the
> additional modes?

If I understand you correctly, these modes let you stretch 4:3 images to fill 
or not fill the 16:9 space. Depending on how you have X setup you can output 
in 16:9 or not. You will want to set it up to output in 16:9.


> Second Question: How is everyone determing what the mode line should be in
> xorg.conf file. Best way I have seen is PowerStrip method but I can't
> believe that I have to install Windows to do anything in Linux. I have read
> over some of the guides that Jarod points to but they talk about a lot of
> history but I need a Configuring xorg.conf for Dummies. How does everyone
> come up with this line?

Ah, PowerStrip. Don't bother, the EDID information will be printed to the X 
log by both the ATI and NVIDIA drivers.
As for which mode line, use one of the standard ATSC ones (link below). If 
you're using an NVIDIA card, getting 1080i to the TV might be a slight game 
since the linux drivers don't properly support interlaced output thorugh the 
DVI port. Some TV's let you do a 1920x540 and display it as proper 1080i, 
you'll have to play around with this unless you can find someone that has 
already figured it out to kindly give you a modeline.

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

> Third Question: Is anyone else using the KDS-R60XBR1 so we can compare
> notes?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Allan Wilson


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Re: [mythtv-users] Glitches in firewire capture from DCT-6200

[Steve Adeff]

On Saturday 17 December 2005 22:17, Alex Brekken wrote:
> Sorry, no I'm not using wireless.  (not on the Myth boxes anyway)  They're
> using the ethenet ports on the router.
>
> On 12/17/05, Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It does sound like network latency if you're using wireless. Try
> > configuring your router to only use G, not B. That helped my network
> > issues a TON.
> > On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:47 PM, Alex Brekken wrote:
> >
> > I suppose it's possible, although I would think I would have this problem
> > all the time if it was a network thing, rather than intermittantly.  My
> > "network" consists of a D-Link 802.11G router connecting a 40 ft. run of
> > cat-5 cable to my basement where the slave-backend lives.  The master
> > backend/frontend box is right next to the router.
> >
> > On 12/17/05, Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Are you having networking issues?
> > >
> > > On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:19 PM, Alex Brekken wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks guys, yes I changed the speed setting in mythtvsetup to 400
> > > mbps.  Now, plugreport shows that the data_rate=2 and stays there. 
> > > However, it didn't seem to fix my display issues.
> > >  It's not a stuttering necessairly, more of a slow-down - like it's in
> > > slow motion for a second or 2.  -it does this every 3 or 4 seconds. 
> > > "normal speed, slo-mo, normal speed, slo-mo," etc, etc.  The video
> > > itself doesn't break-up at all during this problem.It doesn't do it
> > > all the time, but it can happen on any channel.  I see it both during
> > > liveTV viewing as well as on pre-recorded shows.
> > > The firewire capture is happening on a slave backend box, which is an
> > > older Dell pentium 3 1gHz machine.  I suppose it's possible that the
> > > machine itself is to blame (issue with PCI bus?) but I don't think the
> > > hard drive is the problem.  It's a newer 7200 RPM Western Digital drive
> > > with 8 mb cache.
> > >
> > > Any guesses?  I'd love to be able to utilize Firewire capture, since
> > > it's much more reliable now thanks to those pluctl commands - but if I
> > > can't fix this video slow-mo issue than I think I'll have to ditch it.
> > >
> > > On 12/17/05, Steve Adeff < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > What speed setting do you have set for the firewire capture device?
> > > > try
> > > > increasing it as Myth will change these plug values when you use
> > > > firewire as
> > > > a capture device.
> > > >
> > > > Steve

copy the file to a local machine thats not what your normally viewing the file 
on and see if you still have the issue.

Have you checked to see if your network connection is 100bT and not 10bT for 
some reason?

have you tried manually capping over the firewire to the local harddrive?

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Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC weirdness

[John Andersen]

On 12/17/05, Marty Ravell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> In following the troubleshooting pages on lircsetup.com I tried the
> test_script.sh idea. This works fine from within MythTV. i.e. I get the
> output log produced.
>
>
>
> Next test I tried was to put the line which writes the test log entry into
> the change_chan.sh script itself.
>
>
>
> Weird thing with this is that although the channel is not changed the log
> entry line is created.

Does myth run with the same privledges as your manual
tests?

Does the emitter flash at all (view it through a digital camera
or video cam to convert it to visible wavelength).

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

[Steve Adeff]

On Saturday 17 December 2005 20:08, Curtis Stanford wrote:
> Compiled from source (gentoo). Still doesn't work reliably. Trying a
> new firewire card tonight.
>
> On Dec 17, 2005, at 4:35 PM, Steve Adeff wrote:
> > For all those that responded to me,
> >
> > I managed to fix the issue with my one machine by completely
> > removing the
> > packaged versions of of libavc1394, libiec61883, and libraw1394 (I
> > actually
> > only had libavc1394 installed), and compiling all three from source
> > after
> > which I've had a 99% success rate in channel tuning.
> >
> > Since I don't do capturing via firewire yet. I'm wondering if any
> > of you who
> > do, could let me know if you compiled from source or are using a
> > packaged
> > version of these libraries?
> >
> > --
> > Steve

I never had good luck with the couple VIA firewire chipsets I tried to use. 
I'd be interested to see how you fare with a new card.

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Re: [mythtv-users] PCHDTV3000 + FC4

[Dennis Lou]

From: Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>One difference I've noted from Gentoo is that the
firmware
>seems to be missing.

It's a defect in Jarod's howto.  I opened a ticket a
few months
ago but Jarod's site hasn't been updated in a while.

Firmware goes in /lib/firmware.  There's a script in
/usr/src/linux somewhere that will download and
install it
for you, or you can just go to www.pchdtv.com and put
it
in there manually (that's what I did).

-Dennis

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Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport and ffmpeg-CVS

[John Andersen]

On 12/17/05, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > The output file size is slightly different (350095580 vs 349024640)
> > and the transcode version is indeed a little better, but not 5 times
> > better.
> >
> > Thats right it took transcode 3 hours and 45 minutes to
> > transcode a 1 hour show, and it took ffmpeg 48 minutes.
> >
> > Further, the transcoded version has occasional jerkyness in
> > the video, (I think there is some playback frame dropping
> > happening) on some players, and the video falls behind
> > the audio in other players.
> >
> > This does not happen with ffmpeg.

Followup:

Further tests seems to suggest that using --transcode
with a single pass and no noise reduction gives virtually
identical picture quality as transcode with multi-pass and
noise reduction.

The run time on that is 1h 28 minutes (still twice ffmpeg's time)
and it plays perfectly in xine, mplayer, kaffeine, vlc. and
Windows Media Player 9 and later.  It shows
slight jerkyness in Winamp and Windows DivX Player
(older version).

So this may be my new standard, its cleaner than
ffmpeg.   Down side:  files are 21% bigger at
424221176 bytes.

Now if I can just get the command line to work so
I can run these nuvexport jobs from the backend I'll be happy.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Project Grayhem theme updated

[Ackster]

Justin Hornsby wrote:



Now if you don't mind too much, I'll just get on with the <> 
version ;-)  heheh

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How's that widescreen version coming along?  ;-)I'd really like to 
test it !


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

[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.
>
 
Just an update on this. I received my Turtle Beach Riviera card and it seems
to have fixed all my audio problems! I modified the kernel drivers, and had to
change one line in .asoundrc; from device 4 to device 2; and the problems
described above are gone!
 
Thanks for all those that helped.  I can't say for certain that the on-board
audio hardware was the cause, but a $25 replacement is a good enough
solution for me.
 
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回复： Re: [mythtv-users] libmythtv?

[YanJun Lu]

Oh my god ,that is too easy, as pie as easy to reslove this problem  edit /etc/ld.so.conf ,then added follow line to this file  /lib/local/lib (if not exist, BTW I assum that you are running Fedora core1/2/3/4)  or /xx/xx/xx (the /xx/xx/xx is your mythtv be installed path)Bruce Markey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 写道：  jester wrote:> I'm setting up myth for the first time. When i try and run 'mythtv-setup' I > get the following error:> > # mythtv-setup> mythtv-setup: error while loading shared libraries: libmythtv-0.18.so.0: > cannot open shared object file: No such fileor directoryhttp://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.2-- bjm___mythtv-users mailing
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回复： Re: [mythtv-users] help with chan nel changing

[YanJun Lu]

Hi Yeechan Lee      At first , With respect , Are you from TAIWAN or mainland of China?well, I encounted a big problem when fill EPG database with myself XML file.my colleage fetch EPG data from ORCAL database with PERL lanauage as  a XML output, then I feed EPG database of mythconverg from the XML file with chinese EPG data. I do like this  $mythfilldata --file sourceid=1 offset=-1 /home/EPG/20051216.xml (Am I right?)  but I received hint that nothing to change ,such as program not unchanged 0 (I do not remember exactly)   Thanks and Cheers   Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 写道：  [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>says:> I know this sounds crazy but the TiVo does not use an IR Blaster. In> fact i= t will change the channel even if
 it's only connected to the> TV via coaxial cable. I don't see how and I'm still in awe. Maybe> it's magic?It's not magic; the TiVo, rather, has a very powerful IR blasterbehind its center "eye." In fact, sometimes it can cause problems forthose who do want to use the IR blaster-on-a-plug it comes with tochange channels, causing them to build "forts" around the blaster toprotect it from stray IR signals.Me, I'm glad that MythTV supports FireWire changing; believe me, Idon't miss the IR blaster days!-- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>| +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users  __赶快注册雅虎超大容量免费邮箱?http://cn.mail.yahoo.com___
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[mythtv-users] LIRC weirdness

[Marty Ravell]

I’m making some progress at long last on getting lirc
to work as a receiver through my PVR-350 and a transmitter on a homebrew serial
transmitter to my Foxtel cable box (STU-120). My channel change script (and the
setup itself) is from lircsetup.com. Box is FC3 from Jarod’s guide, front
and backend combined. Everything seems to work pretty cool from the command
line. I can call the chan_change.sh script and my cable box changes channel.
This would tell me that the hardware works fine and that lirc seems to like it’s
configuration.

 

Problem is that when I run the same script from within
MythTV nothing happens.

 

In following the troubleshooting pages on lircsetup.com I
tried the test_script.sh idea. This works fine from within MythTV. i.e. I get
the output log produced. 

 

Next test I tried was to put the line which writes the test
log entry into the change_chan.sh script itself.

 

Weird thing with this is that although the channel is not
changed the log entry line is created.

 

I know that the script is being run (otherwise the log line
would not be written). Why isn’t the irsend part of the script working
when called by MythTV?

 

Any ideas?

 

 

Regards

Marty

 

 

 






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[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase with myself XML file option error

[YanJun Lu]

I am running Fedora core 3, I want to use myself XML file to  fill EPG database. I am in mainland of China.  My EPG data  is chinese, so I fetch channel and program data from my ORCAL database with perl lanauage(that is not writen by me)  [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythfilldatabase]# mythfilldatabase --file sourceid=-1 offset=-1  /home/Source/20051216.xml### bypassing grabbers, reading directly from file2005-12-16 19:08:11.834 New DB connection, total: 12005-12-16 19:08:11.967 New DB connection, total: 2Updating icons for sourceid: 0Updated programs: 0  Unchanged programs: 0Adjusting program database end times...0 replacements made.Marking repeats...found 0Unmarking repeats from grabber that fall within our new episode window...found 02005-12-16 19:08:12.049 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5)Connection timed out.You probably should
 modify the Master Server settingsin the setup program and set the proper IP address.error resceduling id -1 in ScheduledRecording::signalChangewhat is wrong?Thanks and cheers__赶快注册雅虎超大容量免费邮箱?http://cn.mail.yahoo.com___
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[mythtv-users] no keyboard problem

[travis eddy]

hey guys... i've got a new one for you all
ok this isn't a mythtv only problem too
when i run myth ( i've been using it for years and this problem gets me )
i've got n control. i can see the screen theme whatever you want to call 
it... but i got no keyboard control or mouse ( mouse i know i shouldn't have 
) but my keyboard dosen't work i have to do a atl+tab to swtich to 
something else so i can kill mythfrontend to get it to close.
and this problem also happens to zsnes, only it only happens when zsnes is 
fullscreen , windows it runs fine so what is my problem? i can't figure 
it out.


thanks
-travis

ps
mandrake 10.2
gf4 ti
amd 3000+ 333 fsb ( de tuned to run at like 1.7ghz)
700 or so megs
anything else you may need to know?


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Re: [mythtv-users] Out of spec FSB speeds for a P3?

[Chris Ribe]

No, no MPEG2 acceleration on this machine.  No DVD drive
either.  Although, I do remember shopping for a laptop in 1998 and
a 400Mhz PII being recommnded for software DVD playback.   

On 12/17/05, Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 17/12/05, Chris Ribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> I have a PII 450 w/ a 100Mhz FSB that I used as a frontend with KnoppMyth> last year.  It couldn't handle 720x480 MPEG2, but it could get by 512x320 or
> so.  (I forget the exact resolution I was using).>Chris,Did your video card offer any MPEG2 acceleration features, or was thismostly CPU-work? I think I remember an old AMD K6/3-400 being able to
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[mythtv-users] RE: KnoppMyth R5A22: Can't record or watch TV on second tuner

[Brad Karal]

Yes. Both have "root" and "video".
Is that okay?

Thanks again.

Brad



Quote:
 Do /dev/video0 and /dev/video1 have exactly the same permissions?  Nick 
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Re: [mythtv-users] 150MCE remote quetion

[Carl Fongheiser]

On 12/17/05, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 12/17/05, Carl Fongheiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>> It's a Windows MCE remote.  It works great with the mceusb2 lirc driver.> It's a really nice remote, too.  Oh, and it is a Hauppauge-specific remote,
> in the sense that it's laid out a little differently from other MCE remotes> I've seen.>> Carl Fongheiser>So what is this beanbag they refer to?  Is that the sensor?
I'm not sure why they refer to it as a beanbag, but yes, it's the sensor.   It's actually a plastic  box, about 2" x2", and about 3/4" thick.They also talk about transmitter functionality, but lirc doesn't support that at the moment.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Playing dvb nuv files with vlc

[casey dunn]

I don't know if they count as DVB files but the .nuvs from my Air2PC on myth 18.1 play fine in VLC 8.4.  I use the wxWindows frontend.  It looks quite a bit like the old windows media player or the current media player classic.  There is also kvlc and gvlc.
Do you have all the related librarys installed?  Does VLC is use external a52 and mpeg2 librarys?
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[mythtv-users] Re: mythcommflag failing

[Matt]

On 12/17/05, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   For some reason mythcommflag is failing for me.  I did uninstall
> and reinstall transcode last night, and since then I can't comflag
> anything.  Here's what it says in mythweb for my backend logs:
>
> 1810 commflag 2005-12-17 18:01:25 concord Commercial Flagging Errored
> Commercial Flagging ERRORED for Barbecue University With Steven
> Raichlen "Vegging Out" recorded from channel 1020 at Sat Dec 17
> 17:30:00 2005, unable to find mythcommflag, check your PATH and
> backend logs.
>
> Can you guys help me find the problem?
>


Fixed it... turned out I needed to reset my /etc/ld.so.conf.  Some
reason it lost the /usr/local/lib line out of it, randomly.

http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.2

Thanks!
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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and PSP

[Byron Poland]

FYI.

the latest nuvexport builds have PSP output in there.  I had to edit
the PSP.pm file to get it not to check ffmpeg, the PSP option was
coming up disabled otherwise.

Also cutlist support is in nuvexport.  I ran a HD episode of prison
break through nuvexport, and with the cut list, the episode came in at
260 mb.  looks like av sync is off though.  Its probably because of
using the cutlists though.
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[mythtv-users] Help with xorg.conf

[Allan Wilson]

Well I have to admit that I finally took the plunge and purchased a
Sony KDS-R60XBR1. Basically it is Sony's 60" 1280p model. I am trying
to configure my FC3/Mythbox for the new TV and not even sure where to
start. 

First question: My TV has four modes that will adjust the picture. I
think this was designed so that you could choose between 4:3 and 16:9.
In a perfect world shouldn't Myth takeup the entire screen without
using the additional modes?

Second Question: How is everyone determing what the mode line should be
in xorg.conf file. Best way I have seen is PowerStrip method but I
can't believe that I have to install Windows to do anything in Linux. I
have read over some of the guides that Jarod points to but they talk
about a lot of history but I need a Configuring xorg.conf for Dummies.
How does everyone come up with this line?

Third Question: Is anyone else using the KDS-R60XBR1 so we can compare notes?

Thanks for any help.

Allan Wilson
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Re: [mythtv-users] Glitches in firewire capture from DCT-6200

[Alex Brekken]

Sorry, no I'm not using wireless.  (not on the Myth boxes
anyway)  They're using the ethenet ports on the router.  On 12/17/05, Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:It does sound like network latency if you're using wireless. Try
configuring your router to only use G, not B. That helped my network
issues a TON. On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:47 PM, Alex Brekken wrote:
I
suppose it's possible, although I would think I would have this problem
all the time if it was a network thing, rather than
intermittantly.  My "network" consists of a D-Link 802.11G router
connecting a 40 ft. run of cat-5 cable to my basement where the
slave-backend lives.  The master backend/frontend box is right
next to the router.   On 12/17/05, Brad DerManouelian <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you having networking issues?
On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:19 PM, Alex Brekken wrote:
Thanks guys, yes I changed the speed setting in mythtvsetup to 400
mbps.  Now, plugreport shows that the data_rate=2 and stays
there.  However, it didn't seem to fix my display issues. 
 It's not a stuttering necessairly, more of a slow-down - like
it's in slow motion for a second or 2.  -it does this every 3 or 4
seconds.  "normal speed, slo-mo, normal speed, slo-mo," etc,
etc.  The video itself doesn't break-up at all during this
problem.    It doesn't do it all the time, but it can
happen on any channel.  I see it both during liveTV viewing as
well as on pre-recorded shows. The firewire capture is happening on
a slave backend box, which is an older Dell pentium 3 1gHz
machine.  I suppose it's possible that the machine itself is to
blame (issue with PCI bus?) but I don't think the hard drive is the
problem.  It's a newer 7200 RPM Western Digital drive with 8 mb
cache.  Any guesses?  I'd love to be able to utilize
Firewire capture, since it's much more reliable now thanks to those
pluctl commands - but if I can't fix this video slow-mo issue than I
think I'll have to ditch it.    On 12/17/05, Steve Adeff <
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv-setup?

[John Andersen]

On 12/17/05, Kevin Kuphal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jeremiah Jester wrote:
>
> > I'm at the point in my setup where i can go ahead and start the
> > 'mythtv-setup' but am unable to locate this file anywere. My setup is
> > debain and I've compiled from source.
>
> If I remember correctly, this file isn't installed into the path.  It
> should be under your source directory in mythtv/programs/setup
>
> Kevin

But if you did follow the detailed setup, it WOULD be in your
path.  Especially if compiled from source.

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Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv-setup?

[Nick Rout]

On my system it is mythsetup and is in /usr/bin (and therefore within
$PATH)

On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 18:13:13 -0600
Kevin Kuphal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Jeremiah Jester wrote:
> 
> > I'm at the point in my setup where i can go ahead and start the  
> > 'mythtv-setup' but am unable to locate this file anywere. My setup is  
> > debain and I've compiled from source.
> 
> If I remember correctly, this file isn't installed into the path.  It 
> should be under your source directory in mythtv/programs/setup
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Glitches in firewire capture from DCT-6200

[Brad DerManouelian]

It does sound like network latency if you're using wireless. Try configuring your router to only use G, not B. That helped my network issues a TON. On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:47 PM, Alex Brekken wrote:I suppose it's possible, although I would think I would have this problem all the time if it was a network thing, rather than intermittantly.  My "network" consists of a D-Link 802.11G router connecting a 40 ft. run of cat-5 cable to my basement where the slave-backend lives.  The master backend/frontend box is right next to the router.   On 12/17/05, Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you having networking issues?On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:19 PM, Alex Brekken wrote: Thanks guys, yes I changed the speed setting in mythtvsetup to 400 mbps.  Now, plugreport shows that the data_rate=2 and stays there.  However, it didn't seem to fix my display issues.   It's not a stuttering necessairly, more of a slow-down - like it's in slow motion for a second or 2.  -it does this every 3 or 4 seconds.  "normal speed, slo-mo, normal speed, slo-mo," etc, etc.  The video itself doesn't break-up at all during this problem.    It doesn't do it all the time, but it can happen on any channel.  I see it both during liveTV viewing as well as on pre-recorded shows. The firewire capture is happening on a slave backend box, which is an older Dell pentium 3 1gHz machine.  I suppose it's possible that the machine itself is to blame (issue with PCI bus?) but I don't think the hard drive is the problem.  It's a newer 7200 RPM Western Digital drive with 8 mb cache.  Any guesses?  I'd love to be able to utilize Firewire capture, since it's much more reliable now thanks to those pluctl commands - but if I can't fix this video slow-mo issue than I think I'll have to ditch it.    On 12/17/05, Steve Adeff < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What speed setting do you have set for the firewire capture device? try increasing it as Myth will change these plug values when you use firewire asa capture device.Steve___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users  ___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___
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Re: [mythtv-users] 150MCE remote quetion

[John Andersen]

On 12/17/05, Carl Fongheiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> It's a Windows MCE remote.  It works great with the mceusb2 lirc driver.
> It's a really nice remote, too.  Oh, and it is a Hauppauge-specific remote,
> in the sense that it's laid out a little differently from other MCE remotes
> I've seen.
>
> Carl Fongheiser
>

So what is this beanbag they refer to?  Is that the sensor?


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Re: [mythtv-users] Glitches in firewire capture from DCT-6200

[Alex Brekken]

I suppose it's possible, although I would think I would have this
problem all the time if it was a network thing, rather than
intermittantly.  My "network" consists of a D-Link 802.11G router
connecting a 40 ft. run of cat-5 cable to my basement where the
slave-backend lives.  The master backend/frontend box is right
next to the router.  
On 12/17/05, Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Are you having networking issues?On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:19 PM, Alex Brekken wrote:
Thanks
guys, yes I changed the speed setting in mythtvsetup to 400 mbps. 
Now, plugreport shows that the data_rate=2 and stays there. 
However, it didn't seem to fix my display issues.   It's not
a stuttering necessairly, more of a slow-down - like it's in slow
motion for a second or 2.  -it does this every 3 or 4
seconds.  "normal speed, slo-mo, normal speed, slo-mo," etc,
etc.  The video itself doesn't break-up at all during this
problem.    It doesn't do it all the time, but it can
happen on any channel.  I see it both during liveTV viewing as
well as on pre-recorded shows. The firewire capture is happening on
a slave backend box, which is an older Dell pentium 3 1gHz
machine.  I suppose it's possible that the machine itself is to
blame (issue with PCI bus?) but I don't think the hard drive is the
problem.  It's a newer 7200 RPM Western Digital drive with 8 mb
cache.  Any guesses?  I'd love to be able to utilize
Firewire capture, since it's much more reliable now thanks to those
pluctl commands - but if I can't fix this video slow-mo issue than I
think I'll have to ditch it.    On 12/17/05, Steve Adeff <
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Re: [mythtv-users] RE: Configuring SPDIF digital out.

[Paul V. Gratz]

On Saturday 17 December 2005 04:59 pm, James C. Dastrup wrote:
> I might suggest that all alsa utilities, alsactl, and everything else is NOT 
> required
> to use digital out with MythTV.  I'm using MythTV 0.18.1 on Gentoo and I only
> have the necessary alsa drivers compiled in the kernel. I've never used 
> alsamixer
> or alsactl, or installed/emerged alsa-utils, alsamixer, aplay, or anything 
> else 
> alsa related. I'm not starting any alsa services during startup. The only 
> thing I did is:
>  
> Enable alsa support and driver in the kernel.
> Put .asoundrc in my home directory.
> Set MythTV as follows:
>   -Enable AC3
>   -Device = "ALSA:digital"
>   -Mixer = "digital"
>  
> and that's it.  I also have all the other mythplugins working by setting 
> their device
> to ALSA:digital. Is my setup unique, or are people doing more than need to
> to get digital audio working?
>  
> 

Does setting the mixer to digital allow volume control from mythtv of
the digital out? I'd like to be able to do that.  Also I'd like to be
able have both analog and digital have the same output, is that
possible?

Thanks!
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Re: [mythtv-users] Glitches in firewire capture from DCT-6200

[Brad DerManouelian]

Are you having networking issues?On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:19 PM, Alex Brekken wrote:Thanks guys, yes I changed the speed setting in mythtvsetup to 400 mbps.  Now, plugreport shows that the data_rate=2 and stays there.  However, it didn't seem to fix my display issues.   It's not a stuttering necessairly, more of a slow-down - like it's in slow motion for a second or 2.  -it does this every 3 or 4 seconds.  "normal speed, slo-mo, normal speed, slo-mo," etc, etc.  The video itself doesn't break-up at all during this problem.    It doesn't do it all the time, but it can happen on any channel.  I see it both during liveTV viewing as well as on pre-recorded shows. The firewire capture is happening on a slave backend box, which is an older Dell pentium 3 1gHz machine.  I suppose it's possible that the machine itself is to blame (issue with PCI bus?) but I don't think the hard drive is the problem.  It's a newer 7200 RPM Western Digital drive with 8 mb cache.  Any guesses?  I'd love to be able to utilize Firewire capture, since it's much more reliable now thanks to those pluctl commands - but if I can't fix this video slow-mo issue than I think I'll have to ditch it.    On 12/17/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What speed setting do you have set for the firewire capture device? tryincreasing it as Myth will change these plug values when you use firewire asa capture device.Steve___ mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___
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[mythtv-users] mythcommflag failing

[Matt]

Hi,

   For some reason mythcommflag is failing for me.  I did uninstall
and reinstall transcode last night, and since then I can't comflag
anything.  Here's what it says in mythweb for my backend logs:

1810 commflag 2005-12-17 18:01:25 concord Commercial Flagging Errored
Commercial Flagging ERRORED for Barbecue University With Steven
Raichlen "Vegging Out" recorded from channel 1020 at Sat Dec 17
17:30:00 2005, unable to find mythcommflag, check your PATH and
backend logs.

Can you guys help me find the problem?
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Re: [mythtv-users] Glitches in firewire capture from DCT-6200

[Alex Brekken]

Thanks guys, yes I changed the speed setting in mythtvsetup to 400
mbps.  Now, plugreport shows that the data_rate=2 and stays
there.  However, it didn't seem to fix my display issues. 
 It's not a stuttering necessairly, more of a slow-down - like
it's in slow motion for a second or 2.  -it does this every 3 or 4
seconds.  "normal speed, slo-mo, normal speed, slo-mo," etc,
etc.  The video itself doesn't break-up at all during this
problem.    It doesn't do it all the time, but it can
happen on any channel.  I see it both during liveTV viewing as
well as on pre-recorded shows.
The firewire capture is happening on a slave backend box, which is an
older Dell pentium 3 1gHz machine.  I suppose it's possible that
the machine itself is to blame (issue with PCI bus?) but I don't think
the hard drive is the problem.  It's a newer 7200 RPM Western
Digital drive with 8 mb cache.

Any guesses?  I'd love to be able to utilize Firewire capture,
since it's much more reliable now thanks to those pluctl commands - but
if I can't fix this video slow-mo issue than I think I'll have to ditch
it.   
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Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport and ffmpeg-CVS

[Matt]

On 12/17/05, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 12/17/05, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Yea, I got it to finally work by installing transcode from source
> > rather than the ubuntu package, although I think the error had to do
> > with something else, but I do realize that it's slow as John said.  I
> > kicked off 12 half hour shows last night (12 hours ago), and it's only
> > completed 5 so far.
>
> I exported the same show twice, once with transcode and once
> with ffmpeg, in both cases leaving the resolution the same and
> selecting the defaults.
>
> The output file size is slightly different (350095580 vs 349024640)
> and the transcode version is indeed a little better, but not 5 times
> better.
>
> Thats right it took transcode 3 hours and 45 minutes to
> transcode a 1 hour show, and it took ffmpeg 48 minutes.
>
> Further, the transcoded version has occasional jerkyness in
> the video, (I think there is some playback frame dropping
> happening) on some players, and the video falls behind
> the audio in other players.
>
> This does not happen with ffmpeg.
>
>

Well, I wish I could use ffmpeg to do it.  Unfortunantly, ffmpeg
doesn't have stable releases really, they tell you to build off CVS,
and if you want a stable release you have to use on that's over two
years old or perhaps an apt package.

BTW... my process is still running.  10/12 shows done... and it's been 21 hours.
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Re: [mythtv-users] libmythtv?

[Joe Votour]

Chances are that MythTV was installed under /usr/local
(with libmythtv.so being put in /usr/local/lib), and
that isn't in your library search path.

Try adding the line "/usr/local/lib" to your
/etc/ld.so.conf file, and run ldconfig (all as root).

(If MythTV was installed someplace else, that can be
worked around too, but I think that /usr/local is most
common, except for Fedora and their packagers who have
a thing for putting everything in /usr.)

-- Joe

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> I'm setting up myth for the first time. When i try
> and run 'mythtv-setup' I 
> get the following error:
> 
> # mythtv-setup
> mythtv-setup: error while loading shared libraries:
> libmythtv-0.18.so.0: 
> cannot open shared object file: No such fileor
> directory
> 
> Ideas?
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] I am having some audio problems.

[Nick]

On 18/12/05, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am having some audio problems.  Sound sometimes stays muted (?) when
> switching to a channel.  A change back and forward from another video
> card, or exit live TV and reenter that mode and sound is fine.  This is
> annoying, but I can live with it.  However, whats worse is that some
> recordings lose sound part way through.  In particular, a daily news
> program loses sound just as the weather report starts - wierd as its
> hard to see something in a video signal causing the audio to switch off
> at this point in a recording every day!  Other programs also sometimes
> have the same problem.  There is no problem with the sound (alsa)
> system, and exiting the recording and after going to live TV its ok
> (same program, sound can go while watching the recording as its being
> made).

Does this happen only with recordings with multiple audio channels, or
all the time? There was/is an issue whereby silent audio tracks could
be selected incorrectly. Exiting out of the recording and restarting
it would usually solve the issue.

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Re: [mythtv-users] libmythtv?

[Bruce Markey]

jester wrote:
I'm setting up myth for the first time. When i try and run 'mythtv-setup' I 
get the following error:


# mythtv-setup
mythtv-setup: error while loading shared libraries: libmythtv-0.18.so.0: 
cannot open shared object file: No such fileor directory


http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.2

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Re: [mythtv-users] I am having some audio problems.

[Mark Knecht]

On 12/17/05, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am having some audio problems.  Sound sometimes stays muted (?) when
> switching to a channel.  A change back and forward from another video
> card, or exit live TV and reenter that mode and sound is fine.  This is
> annoying, but I can live with it.  However, whats worse is that some
> recordings lose sound part way through.  In particular, a daily news
> program loses sound just as the weather report starts - wierd as its
> hard to see something in a video signal causing the audio to switch off
> at this point in a recording every day!  Other programs also sometimes
> have the same problem.  There is no problem with the sound (alsa)
> system, and exiting the recording and after going to live TV its ok
> (same program, sound can go while watching the recording as its being
> made).
>
> I am sure I have seen others with this problem, but I cant find a cure.
>
> BillK
>

Bill,
   Hi. A very common audio problem we have is when starting any
recording we are likely to get no sound. We find that

1) If we let it run about 15-20 seconds we start getting sound

or more interesting

2) If we hit the back up button (left arrow) we get sound immediately!

This happens on multiple Myth servers and multiple backends, all running Gentoo.

- Mark
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Re: [mythtv-users] DvbScan -- HELP!!!!

[Nick]

On 18/12/05, Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can someone tell me where to get this for FC4?

You can get dvb-apps source from here:

http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/

Not sure about RPMs...

Nick
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[mythtv-users] I am having some audio problems.

[William Kenworthy]

I am having some audio problems.  Sound sometimes stays muted (?) when
switching to a channel.  A change back and forward from another video
card, or exit live TV and reenter that mode and sound is fine.  This is
annoying, but I can live with it.  However, whats worse is that some
recordings lose sound part way through.  In particular, a daily news
program loses sound just as the weather report starts - wierd as its
hard to see something in a video signal causing the audio to switch off
at this point in a recording every day!  Other programs also sometimes
have the same problem.  There is no problem with the sound (alsa)
system, and exiting the recording and after going to live TV its ok
(same program, sound can go while watching the recording as its being
made).

I am sure I have seen others with this problem, but I cant find a cure.

BillK


-- 
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[mythtv-users] Video problems: vertical jitter, temporal jerkiness, artifacts, pausing

[Sasha Z]

My issues:

I've recently fixed up my backend (by switching back to old software,
ie, mysql4)... but I'm still having some playback issues with the
frontend.

1) Vertical jitter
There is a constant 1px vertical up and down jitter with an
occassional 2 or 3 pixel jitter. It's seriously annoying, and doesn't
just affest the OSD, but the whole screen. It gets a little better
when I switch from bob2x to kerneldeint, but it doesn't eliminate the
jitter.

2) Jerkiness
The framerate doesn't seem constant There's jerkiness out the ears,
which is especially evident on news tickers. It's not occassional, but
it isn't regular. I don't really know how to better describe this, but
I suppose I could camcorder my TV screen and post the video to make it
clearer.

3) Artifacts
I get total screen blockiness with random distribution of green and
purple blocks every now and then. There's no entry in the frontend
log.

4) Pausing
In almost every recording, there's at least one series of pauses in
both video and audio. Both will pick up and stay in sync with no loss
in content after an indeterminate length. Each pause will be 1 - 15
seconds in duration, and these series of pauses will last up to a
minute. It's tremendously irritating.

My setup:

I have a Toshiba 34HF85 TV, which I'm driving with an FX5200 card via
DVI --> HDMI.I found a modeline for a 30HF83 TV which seems to work
very well. I have tried with and without denoise3d, with and without
opengl vsync (without is slightly better... go figure). I'm running
8306 SVN, but I've had at problems 1 and 2 since forever (I started
using myth with 0.15) 3 and 4 appeared with 0.18.

The frontend is a homebrew box, 1.5GHz Athlon XP with 512MB of RAM on
an nForce2 motherboard.

The backend is a Dell SC420 2.8GHz P4 with a PVR-150MCE and a PVR-250MCE.

The two boxes are wired on a 100mbit/s network.

Does anybody have any thoughts on these issues? They're killing the
usability of the TV portion of my myth setup. mplayer via mythvideo
works great, as do mythmusic and mythdvd.
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[mythtv-users] libmythtv?

[jester]

I'm setting up myth for the first time. When i try and run 'mythtv-setup' I 
get the following error:

# mythtv-setup
mythtv-setup: error while loading shared libraries: libmythtv-0.18.so.0: 
cannot open shared object file: No such fileor directory

Ideas?

Thanks,
JJ
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[mythtv-users] DvbScan -- HELP!!!!

[Michael Haan]

Can someone tell me where to get this for FC4?
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Re: [mythtv-users] FC-4 installation - Are these dead symlinks wrong?

[Nick]

On 17/12/05, Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  I'm working on getting the remote control to work on my FC-4 installation
> (Jarods guide, very nice).  I don't think lircd is starting properly.  Could
> this be the reason?
>
>  # /sbin/chkconfig --list | grep lirc
>  lircd   0:off   1:off   2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off
>
>  Using "ls -color" to check each of the rc*.d directories I get this on each
> of the "on" directories.  Each is highlighted in red, which /etc/DIR_COLORS
> defines as a dead symlink.
>
>  lrwxrwxrwx  1 root 14 Dec 11 18:37 K71lirc -> ../init.d/lirc
>
>  And, /etc/init.d/ does not have a lirc file, but it does have a lircd file.
>  Should the symlink be pointing to /etc/init.d/lircd instead?  If so, how do
> I correct it?  Thanks,

If you don't have any entries in your /etc/rc2.d through /etc/rc5.d
directories with links to /etc/init.d/lircd then yes. What do you get
if you run:

/sbin/service lircd status

As chkconfig states that the lircd service is 'on' in runlevels 2-5,
there should be symlinks in these directories, starting with 'S' to
denote the service is to start in the particular runlevel (a 'K'
symlink states the service should be killed).

To fix the problem (i.e. if the lircd symlinks are _not_ present in
your runlevel directories) and you _do_ have a /etc/init.d/lircd file,
you can run:

chkconfig --level 2345 lircd on

This should create the appropriate symlinks to ensure lircd starts in
the appropriate runlevels.

Nick
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[mythtv-users] Few items: IR, Multiple recording directories, etc..

[Greg Oliver]

OK - I have been using myth for a couple months for mainly DVD
ripping/displaying throughout the house, but have a few questions I
cannot find answered in the archives.

1.  Unfortunately I have a Dish Network DVR 522, which has 1 RF and one
IR remote.  I have a universal Pronto TSU3000 which will do both, but
from what I can see, LIRC will only do IR.  The PVR-522 only allows
recording one channel from the same channel - In other words, if I
schedule it from tuner 2, it only records from tuner 2 and I can only
watch from tuner 1 on a different channel (which is why I want MythTV
badly).  I will assume the easiest route will be to buy 2 separate
tuners for Dish and have 2 capture cards.

2.  When ripping DVDs it originally wanted a destination directory,
which I filled and then changed to a new directory followed by (:)s in
the configuration which was recommended by a mailing list member
originally.  If I do change the recording directory, every time I go
into video setup, all the original videos from the original directory
seem lost to myth even though in MySQL, they are correct, it always asks
me to delete them from the GUI when I am doing an IMDB lookup for new
recording.  If I tell it no to all, it works fine, but I would really
like a way around this.

3.  I really do not want to run LVM2 because I have differing hard drive
capacities and it wastes space in that situation, so I am looking for a
way to do it differently - any ideas?

4.  I need an IR receiver, an IR blaster, and an RF blaster on one
machine - is that possible with dual capture cards?  I can get an IR/RF
transceiver for my remote, but the LIRC page and nothing I have found
here point me in the right direction.

Thanks,

Greg

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

[Nick]

On 18/12/05, Johan Kihlström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a similar setup as above and just did aplay somesoundfile.wav and
> it went out the right way(through spdif into SurroundrReciever)
>
> A lot of hours compiling an googling felt very worthwhile at that point.
> Now if only I could get Xine to output to spdif instead of crashing...

Johan,

When I got xine working with my SPDIF output, the only lines I needed
to check (in ~/.xine/config) were:

# device used for stereo output
audio.device.alsa_front_device:default

# pass through to SPDIF
audio.output.speaker_arrangement:Pass Through

My default PCM device is my SPDIF output (configured using Mike Dean
excellent Digital Sound HOWTO), after specifying the speaker option,
everything worked immediately, and my blue Dolby Digital light lit up
as soon as I played a DVD.

The other SPDIF related entries were OK left at their defaults:

#audio.device.alsa_passthrough_device:iec958:AES0=0x6,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x0,AES3=0x2
#audio.device.alsa_surround51_device:plug:surround51:0

Do you get any errors when xine crashes?

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

[Curtis Stanford]

Compiled from source (gentoo). Still doesn't work reliably. Trying a  
new firewire card tonight.


On Dec 17, 2005, at 4:35 PM, Steve Adeff wrote:


For all those that responded to me,

I managed to fix the issue with my one machine by completely  
removing the
packaged versions of of libavc1394, libiec61883, and libraw1394 (I  
actually
only had libavc1394 installed), and compiling all three from source  
after

which I've had a 99% success rate in channel tuning.

Since I don't do capturing via firewire yet. I'm wondering if any  
of you who
do, could let me know if you compiled from source or are using a  
packaged

version of these libraries?

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

[Nick]

On 17/12/05, Marius Schrecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I might suggest that all alsa utilities, alsactl, and everything else is
> > NOT required
> > to use digital out with MythTV.  I'm using MythTV 0.18.1 on Gentoo and I
> > only
> > have the necessary alsa drivers compiled in the kernel. I've never used
> > alsamixer
> > or alsactl, or installed/emerged alsa-utils, alsamixer, aplay, or anything
> > else
> > alsa related. I'm not starting any alsa services during startup. The only
> > thing I did is:
> >
> > Enable alsa support and driver in the kernel.
> > Put .asoundrc in my home directory.
> > Set MythTV as follows:
> >   -Enable AC3
> >   -Device = "ALSA:digital"
> >   -Mixer = "digital"
> >
> > and that's it.  I also have all the other mythplugins working by setting
> > their device
> > to ALSA:digital. Is my setup unique, or are people doing more than need to
> > to get digital audio working?
> >
>
> The simpler the better. I don't care how little is installed as long as I
> can get digital output, so far no go, everything looks as if it should be
> working, just no sound :(
>
> I'd love to know how to test spdiff out as simply as possible, if I can
> bypass aplay then so much the better!
> Can I stream a 48KHz file straight to spdiff out?

You can use aplay -D  and then send it out of your spdif
whilst testing. You can get a list of all PCM devices by running aplay
-L - choose one that your SPDIF is aliased to (commonly spdif) and see
if you get any sound.

The digital sound HOWTO really does explain everything you should need
to do to get SPDIF output - the one hurdle is commonly determining
which controls in the mixer need to be set to allow this. In my most
basic asoundrc file (which sounds everything by default to my SPDIF) I
have used:

pcm.!default {
type hw
card 0
device 1
}

The card/device to specify can be determined using `aplay -l` - for my
system my SPDIF was given as device 1 - yours may be different. Note
that this device expects 48kHz audio - if it's not the same format it
may play back too slow/fast or not at all. The excellent asoundrc in
the HOWTO uses the plug and dmix plugins to allow on-the-fly rate
conversion.

Nick
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Re: [mythtv-users] 0.18.1-fixes library version conflict

[Torsten Crass]

Hi Jarod,

> You still have an old libmyth laying around somewhere, there is no other
> explanation. I've upgraded several systems from stock 0.18.1 to the -fixes
> version, and I wouldn't have checked the stuff into the -fixes branch if
> they
> didn't work. :)

hey, cool, thanks for alle the effort you guys are spending developing
Myth! I'm sure it really rocks -- once you get it up and running... ;-)

> That would be gcc 4, not glibc 4, but yes, many gcc 4 compile fixes in in
> the
> -fixes branch.

Oh, the whole "fixes" branch compiles well using gcc 4 -- but it
definitely was glibc 4 complaining about "invalid pointer"s when I tried
launching my gcc 3.4-compiled 0.18.1 frontend...

> I think we should have done a 0.18.2 tarball a while back, not sure its
> worth
> it at this point in time... But that's another story...

That's a little bit confusing indeed -- the svn.mythtv.org website talks
about the "stable 0.18.2 branch", whereas the svn repositories are called
"0.18-fixes" and, furthermore, the compiled software itself claims to be
version "0.18.2005something"...

> I'd strongly advise checking out ccache...

Ah! I must admit that I'm only moderately familiar with linux, but I've
heared about man pages before, so I definitely will check it out!

> # find / -name "*myth*"

I did *almost* exaclty that; however, after realising that finding just
"myth*" is not enough (we're talking about >lib There has to be something old still on your system somewhere. I presume
> you
> halted all running myth processes at the same time you removed everything?

You presume correctly; at least "# ps -e | grep myth" didn't show up with
anything.

> Something memory-resident is the only other thing that really makes sense
> outside of having an old libmyth still on your system somewhere.

Thanks for all your comments! Since you're the Master of the Fixes, I
really value your advice and will try it out the things you suggested
first thing tomorrow morning, X-mas time and family issues permitting.

Good night (got late again -- damn Win XP is not liking my new SATA hdd...
I hope Linux will peroform better with regard to this...) --

Torsten
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Re: [mythtv-users] recording every day....

[Bruce Markey]

Maurizio Salvadeo wrote:

hi, is my first time in the list. i'd like to record a program every day,
also saturday and sunday, and for a long period. my mythtv schedules only
weekdays for 2 weeks. someone know how to do it?


This sounds like you are using Manual Recording. If so, you may
have wanted to mention that so that you wouldn't get a clueless
wrong answer in reply (however, knowing the M.O. of the responder,
I'm not sure that would have prevented it). If you are not grabbing
listings yet, you should try to resolve that as soon as possible
as recording from TV listings is much more useful than manual
recording.

If you were recording from listings and set a Timeslot rule, it
would record only on the days where that title was in the listing
at that time on that station regardless of the day of the week.

If, on the other hand, you set a Manual rule to "Record in this
timeslot every day", many shows are Monday thru Friday and should
be recorded five days a week and other things like The Weather
Channel could record seven day per week. The way to make this
distinction in myth is if the "Date or day of the week" is set
to Saturday or Sunday, it will schedule a manual record all seven
days, otherwise M-F only.

For 5-day, 7-day or once per week, the scheduler fills in about
two weeks worth and as days pass, the last scheduled date moves
ahead to always be about two weeks away.

Hope this helps,

--  bjm


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Re: [mythtv-users] recording every day....

[Nick]

On 17/12/05, Maurizio Salvadeo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi, is my first time in the list. i'd like to record a program every day,
> also saturday and sunday, and for a long period. my mythtv schedules only
> weekdays for 2 weeks. someone know how to do it?

This is the often-discussed 'feature' which excludes showings on
weekends if you happen to setup a 7-day schedule between Monday and
Friday. Just make sure to setup the schedule using a showing of the
program on a Saturday or Sunday, and you should then see 7 days of
scheduled recordings.

Nick
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Re: [mythtv-users] Out of spec FSB speeds for a P3?

[Nick]

On 17/12/05, Chris Ribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a PII 450 w/ a 100Mhz FSB that I used as a frontend with KnoppMyth
> last year.  It couldn't handle 720x480 MPEG2, but it could get by 512x320 or
> so.  (I forget the exact resolution I was using).
>

Chris,

Did your video card offer any MPEG2 acceleration features, or was this
mostly CPU-work? I think I remember an old AMD K6/3-400 being able to
play DVD, but I could be imagining it (it was a while ago)!

Nick
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Re: [mythtv-users] Some questions regarding ATI Radeon drivers and overscanning

[Nick]

On 17/12/05, Ole Andre Schistad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all, first post to the mailing list but a user of 6 months.
>
> I have a working mythtv system that I recently acquired a cheap
> powercolor radeon 9250 card for. The TVout is amazingly clear, using an
> SVHS to SCART cable, but the overscan (or lack thereof) leaves something
> to be desired.
>
> First of all, there seems to be a bug in many of ATIs driver releases
> that totally prevents the card from overscanning at all - the
> fireglcontrolpanel application has no effect whatsoever on the screen
> size. This applies (as far as I've seen) to all releases since 8.16 of
> their xorg driver. Wether it also applies to the regular XFree86 package
> is unknown.
>
> Secondly, even in those driver releases where the fireglcontrolpanel can
> modify the image, the Xserver is ignoring the settings in the config
> when it loads. Only after I fire up the control panel application does
> the screen adjust to the preset overscan values - which clearly is not
> how things ought to work
>
> Since I refuse to believe that this is how it's supposed to be, I'm
> hoping for some feedback from other ATI users on the list who
> (hopefully) have a working setup.
>
> My own system runs on the following config;
>
> Gentoo 2005.1
> Xorg 6.8.2-r2
> Framebuffer in kernel, using standard vga driver
> kernelversjon 2.6.12-6 (gentoo-sources)
> Motherboard: EPoX 8HMMI-A (VIA K8M800 chipset, mATX formfactor)
>
> ATI drivers tested: 8.8.25, 8.14.13, 8.16.20, 8.18.8 & 8.20.8
>
> It would be very helful if you could please post your own config if you
> are able to adjust overscan and have it stick.

I'm running fglrx 8.12.10 on my onboard Radeon 9100IGP chip (Pundit-R)
and have the following in my xorg.conf:

# === TV-out Management ===
Option "NoTV"   "no"
Option "TVStandard" "PAL-I"
Option "TVHSizeAdj" "-26"
Option "TVVSizeAdj" "0"
Option "TVHPosAdj"  "22"
Option "TVVPosAdj"  "0"
Option "TVHStartAdj""-6"
Option "TVColorAdj" "0"

My Xorg.0.log file has the following entries where the above lines
seem to be followed:

(**) fglrx(0): Option "NoTV" "no"
(**) fglrx(0): Option "TVStandard" "PAL-I"
(**) fglrx(0): Option "TVHSizeAdj" "-26"
(**) fglrx(0): Option "TVVSizeAdj" "0"
(**) fglrx(0): Option "TVHPosAdj" "22"
(**) fglrx(0): Option "TVVPosAdj" "0"
(**) fglrx(0): Option "TVHStartAdj" "-6"
(**) fglrx(0): Option "TVColorAdj" "0"

Do have have these entries in your xorg.conf file?

TV-Out is great and the overscan settings are honoured. This was the
first version of the driver that fixed TV-Out for the 9100IGP, so I've
not yet upgraded (I may have to as I'm going to upgrade the systems
from FC2 to FC4 over Christmas (after most of the movies and specials
I'm recording have been on...)

Nick
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv-setup?

[Kevin Kuphal]

Jeremiah Jester wrote:

I'm at the point in my setup where i can go ahead and start the  
'mythtv-setup' but am unable to locate this file anywere. My setup is  
debain and I've compiled from source.


If I remember correctly, this file isn't installed into the path.  It 
should be under your source directory in mythtv/programs/setup


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[mythtv-users] wakeup-script execution

[Andreas Witte]

Hello List,

would'nt it be better to execute the wakeup-script/program
in a cycling-way? This would ensure a recording wont miss,
even the PC is shut down manually. The present state is,
that the wakeup-script will be execute before mythtv 
want shutdown the PC - am i right ?

Regards,
Andreas

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

[Johan Kihlström]

sön 2005-12-18 klockan 00:55 +0100 skrev Marius Schrecker:
> > I might suggest that all alsa utilities, alsactl, and everything else is
> > NOT required
> > to use digital out with MythTV.  I'm using MythTV 0.18.1 on Gentoo and I
> > only
> > have the necessary alsa drivers compiled in the kernel. I've never used
> > alsamixer
> > or alsactl, or installed/emerged alsa-utils, alsamixer, aplay, or anything
> > else
> > alsa related. I'm not starting any alsa services during startup. The only
> > thing I did is:
> >
> > Enable alsa support and driver in the kernel.
> > Put .asoundrc in my home directory.
> > Set MythTV as follows:
> >   -Enable AC3
> >   -Device = "ALSA:digital"
> >   -Mixer = "digital"
> >
> > and that's it.  I also have all the other mythplugins working by setting
> > their device
> > to ALSA:digital. Is my setup unique, or are people doing more than need to
> > to get digital audio working?
> >
> 
> The simpler the better. I don't care how little is installed as long as I
> can get digital output, so far no go, everything looks as if it should be
> working, just no sound :(
> 
> I'd love to know how to test spdiff out as simply as possible, if I can
> bypass aplay then so much the better!
> Can I stream a 48KHz file straight to spdiff out?
> 
> Marius
> 
> 
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I have a similar setup as above and just did aplay somesoundfile.wav and
it went out the right way(through spdif into SurroundrReciever) 

A lot of hours compiling an googling felt very worthwhile at that point.
Now if only I could get Xine to output to spdif instead of crashing...

Good luck!
Johan

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[mythtv-users] mythtv-setup?

[Jeremiah Jester]

I'm at the point in my setup where i can go ahead and start the  
'mythtv-setup' but am unable to locate this file anywere. My setup is  
debain and I've compiled from source.


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Re: [mythtv-users] Tuning Woes

[Kichigai Mentat]

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On Dec 17, 2005, at 13.05, Mike Wafkowski wrote:


Not to get into cat fight 8^) but the specs you quoted would be easily
handled by a decent 250. The X-Factor here though is that no PSU  
actually
puts out the power it's rated at. You can google around to verify  
that.


I have two systems currently runnng quite happily with 250 W. They are
clones of each other

Specs are Mobile Celeron 1.7 running at 2.8 GHz, two 256 meg ram  
sticks,
Three HD's (20, 80 and 160 gig) 128 meg mx440 agp video, DVD/CD  
cutter,

two tuner Cards, Firewire card, FD, .

No offense, but I think my two PVR systems probably "outsuck" the  
system
you're specing. Which doesn't at all rule out that your PS is not  
providing

enough juice, but in practice should.
O.K., maybe you're right on this one. But I guess that either way, we  
can trace the cause of many of these problems to being caused by some  
kind of problem with the PSU, and the problem is best solved by  
replacing the PSU with one of higher quality.


Peace,
MRW

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On Dec 16, 2005, at 13.00, Brian Bosch wrote:


On 12/16/05, Mike Wafkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I believe (and my experience is) that flaky PSUs can produce an
amazing
number of hard to track problems. It also seems that most of us
end up
checkng it out last or almost last. Don't just think about
underpowered,
think flaky.

While I am taking your advice rather seriously, I think I'm going to
stick with underpowered. After looking at the PSU, it's only rated to
about 250 Watts. Something tells me that an AMD Athlon 850 MHz with
256 MB of RAM, 10/100 Mib NIC, 56k Modem (I plan to remove this), PCI
VGA card, Sound card, and a Hauppauge PVR-150 might draw a little
more power than 250 watts.

No offense.


Agreed, that and flaky RAM have bitten me in the past.  All kinds of
strange errors cropped up in both cases, and I wasted a lot of time
troubleshooting...
I don't think the RAM is the problem here, but I'll keep that in  
mind.


Thank you both for the advice.

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

[Marius Schrecker]

> I might suggest that all alsa utilities, alsactl, and everything else is
> NOT required
> to use digital out with MythTV.  I'm using MythTV 0.18.1 on Gentoo and I
> only
> have the necessary alsa drivers compiled in the kernel. I've never used
> alsamixer
> or alsactl, or installed/emerged alsa-utils, alsamixer, aplay, or anything
> else
> alsa related. I'm not starting any alsa services during startup. The only
> thing I did is:
>
> Enable alsa support and driver in the kernel.
> Put .asoundrc in my home directory.
> Set MythTV as follows:
>   -Enable AC3
>   -Device = "ALSA:digital"
>   -Mixer = "digital"
>
> and that's it.  I also have all the other mythplugins working by setting
> their device
> to ALSA:digital. Is my setup unique, or are people doing more than need to
> to get digital audio working?
>

The simpler the better. I don't care how little is installed as long as I
can get digital output, so far no go, everything looks as if it should be
working, just no sound :(

I'd love to know how to test spdiff out as simply as possible, if I can
bypass aplay then so much the better!
Can I stream a 48KHz file straight to spdiff out?

Marius


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Re: [mythtv-users] Yes!! LiveTV works on DVB-T

[Steve Adeff]

On Saturday 17 December 2005 07:08, Dag Nygren wrote:
> > > I've been running 8199 for a while now. When it says a recording will
> > > start I have to make sure to exit to the menu, but I've been able to
> > > watch live TV for a while (and NEVER try to record something while in
> > > LiveTV)...
>
> Just tested this and it s still there. If you watch LiveTV when a recording
> is about
> to start you are in trouble...
> In our case the LiveTV was just there with noone watching and a recording
> should have started 10 minutes ago.
> Now the system claims to be recording, but most definitely is not.
>
> Dag

like I said, you have to go back to the main menu, its a issue that the devs 
know about, and very well could be fixed by now...

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[mythtv-users] FC-4 installation - Are these dead symlinks wrong?

[Don]

I'm working on getting the remote control to work on
my FC-4 installation (Jarods guide, very nice).  I don't think lircd is
starting properly.  Could this be the reason?

# /sbin/chkconfig --list | grep lirc
lircd   0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

Using "ls -color" to check each of the rc*.d directories I get this on
each of the "on" directories.  Each is highlighted in red, which
/etc/DIR_COLORS defines as a dead symlink.

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root 14 Dec 11 18:37 K71lirc -> ../init.d/lirc

And, /etc/init.d/ does not have a lirc file, but it does have a lircd
file.  Should the symlink be pointing to /etc/init.d/lircd instead?  If
so, how do I correct it?  Thanks,
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Re: [mythtv-users] Shockwave frontend

[Steve Adeff]

On Saturday 17 December 2005 16:14, tgate wrote:
> > Why?
> >
> > On 12/16/05, Charles Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Has anyone ever considered building a frontend from Shockwave?
>
> I've been thinking about this for a while now.  I think it would be
> more of a theme then a whole frontend I think though.  It could make
> for some slick animated menus which could expand the themeability in
> some interesting ways.
>
> I'd first look into incorporating the ming c++ library...  http://
> ming.sourceforge.net/

the dev's are working on a new UI that should be able to do that stuff without 
all the sucky-ness of shockwave.

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[mythtv-users] Program Finder- Idea for improvement

[Steve Adeff]

I tried using the Program Finder today. I went to the first letter of the 
program name and spent the next 45 seconds scrolling...

It would be nice to be able to narrow down shows by spelling out the first few 
letters and having the results table sorted by this. (basically what the TiVo 
does).

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

[Steve Adeff]

For all those that responded to me,

I managed to fix the issue with my one machine by completely removing the 
packaged versions of of libavc1394, libiec61883, and libraw1394 (I actually 
only had libavc1394 installed), and compiling all three from source after 
which I've had a 99% success rate in channel tuning.

Since I don't do capturing via firewire yet. I'm wondering if any of you who 
do, could let me know if you compiled from source or are using a packaged 
version of these libraries?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Glitches in firewire capture from DCT-6200

[Steve Adeff]

On Friday 16 December 2005 22:30, Azmat wrote:
> I've been using this script in a cron job for the last week, but I'm
> still seeing glitching.  Its mostly occurring at the start of a show
> and then clears up in the middle.  Is it possible that I might need to
> use a faster processor or bump up my RAM?  Right now I'm running an
> Athlon XP 2400+ with 1G of RAM.  Thanks in advance for the help.
>
> Azmat
>
> On 12/9/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > there was a thread a while back regarding this. You can search on
> > Gossamer for more info. basically you want to run this bash script. It
> > will set the p2p or broadcast connection to 1 depending on what your
> > machine will use. From what I've found bcast is prefered when available,
> > which is why it comes second (since its one or the other) p2p is
> > sometimes only available and when this is the case its fine. data_rate
> > doesn't need to be 3, but it increases speed if your using firewire for
> > capture and not just channel changing. I have it run before mythbackend
> > starts when I run it via init.d and I've found it resets sometimes so I
> > run it hourly as a cron job.
> >
> > oh, and the -n # is which node it is. In case you have more than one
> > firewire connection have it run for each connection as well.
> >
> > #!/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
> >
> > --
> > Steve
> >
> > On Friday 09 December 2005 14:52, Azmat wrote:
> > > Here's my plugreport output:
> > > Host Adapter 0
> > > ==
> > >
> > > Node 0 GUID 0xd10080357942
> > > --
> > > libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR
> > > libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR
> > >
> > > Node 1 GUID 0x4279358080357942
> > > --
> > > libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR
> > > libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR
> > >
> > > Node 2 GUID 0x000f9e103008
> > > --
> > > oMPR n_plugs=1, data_rate=2, bcast_channel=63
> > > oPCR[0] online=1, bcast_connection=0, n_p2p_connections=0
> > > channel=63, data_rate=0, overhead_id=0, payload=376
> > > iMPR n_plugs=0, data_rate=2
> > >
> > > On 12/9/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > On Friday 09 December 2005 12:44, Azmat wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > My mythtv system is running on an AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2 GHz) with
> > > > > 1G RAM, a PVR-350 and firewire capture from my Motorola DCT-6200
> > > > > cable box.  Whenever I do firewire capture from the box through
> > > > > Myth, the recording exhibits a audio/video glitching.  The picture
> > > > > will momentarily become pixelated and there will be a brief skip. 
> > > > > I can tell the glitch is in the recording because when I rewind and
> > > > > playback it is reproducible.  There is no pattern or regularity to
> > > > > the glitching.  Sometimes it will be at the start of the show and
> > > > > will disappear in the middle, only to reappear later.  It doesn't
> > > > > prevent me from recording shows, but is just become a huge
> > > > > annoyance that I'd like to take care of.  Does anyone have any idea
> > > > > what might be wrong? Do you think a faster processor would help?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks in advance,
> > > > >
> > > > > Azmat
> > > >
> > > > run plugreport and paste the output.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Steve
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > >
> > > Azmat
>
> --
>
>
> Azmat


What speed setting do you have set for the firewire capture device? try 
increasing it as Myth will change these plug values when you use firewire as 
a capture device.

Steve
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Re: [mythtv-users] Glitches in firewire capture from DCT-6200

[Steve Adeff]

On Saturday 17 December 2005 17:54, David Rudder wrote:
> According to Dan Dennedy (one of the linux1394 authors), data_rate is a
> code.  0 means 100Mbps.  1 means 200Mbps.  2 means 400Mbps.  If you have
> it set to 100Mbps in the Mythtv setup, Mythtv will cause this change.  I
> don't have the original email that has this info.  You can probably find
> it in the linux1394 mailing list archives.  You can try upping this
> value in Myth.  It might be worth a look at your disk speed, too.
>
> -Dave
>
> Alex Brekken wrote:
> > Steve, running the commands you and curtis specified:
> >
> > plugctl -n 2 opcr[0].channel=63
> > plugctl -n 2 opcr[0].bcast_connection=1
> >
> > greatly improves my firewire reliability.  However, I still find it
> > almost unusable due to some slowdown/stuttering in the image.  (I also
> > have a PVR-250 which works flawlessly)  I know it's not my network, so
> > I was very curious to try out the data_rate command you listed above,
> > thinking that it might fix this issue.  (plugctl -n 2
> > opcr[0].data_rate=3)
> >
> > Running this command and then plugreport shows that the data_rate
> > variable does get set to 3, (before it was zero), HOWEVER, as soon as
> > I begin to record a show or watch live TV, it immediately gets set
> > back to zero.  You mentioned that you run this through a cron job
> > every hour, although I'm finding that if I try to set the data_rate
> > back to 3 while something is recording, it immediately freezes and
> > stops recording.
> >
> > Any other tricks or ideas to somehow keep this setting  at 3?  (or
> > anything greater than zero)
> >
> > On 12/16/05, *David Rudder* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
> > wrote:
> >
> > Are you sure this isn't a drive-speed issue?  Check hdparm -v
> > /dev/.  Also, make sure you have at least a 7200 RPM drive.
> > The dct-6200 will send out an mpeg stream.  I think MythTV just
> > copies it to disk.  So, there's very little CPU or memory involved.
> >
> > You can try running test-mpeg2 (from the libiec61883 package).  It
> > outputs the raw mpeg stream from the 6200.  If it gets the same
> > corruption you see in myth, then you know it's not a myth issue.
> > test-mpeg2 > file.mpg
> > wait maybe 30 seconds, then hit ctrl-c.  mplayer file..mpg should
> > display
> > the file.
> >
> > -Dave
> >
> > Azmat wrote:
> > >I've been using this script in a cron job for the last week, but I'm
> > >still seeing glitching.  Its mostly occurring at the start of a show
> > >and then clears up in the middle.  Is it possible that I might
> >
> > need to
> >
> > >use a faster processor or bump up my RAM?  Right now I'm running an
> > >Athlon XP 2400+ with 1G of RAM.  Thanks in advance for the help.
> > >
> > >Azmat
> > >
> > >On 12/9/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > > wrote:
> > >>there was a thread a while back regarding this. You can search
> >
> > on Gossamer for
> >
> > >>more info. basically you want to run this bash script. It will
> >
> > set the p2p or
> >
> > >>broadcast connection to 1 depending on what your machine will
> >
> > use. From what
> >
> > >>I've found bcast is prefered when available, which is why it
> >
> > comes second
> >
> > >>(since its one or the other) p2p is sometimes only available and
> >
> > when this is
> >
> > >>the case its fine. data_rate doesn't need to be 3, but it
> >
> > increases speed if
> >
> > >>your using firewire for capture and not just channel changing. I
> >
> > have it run
> >
> > >>before mythbackend starts when I run it via init.d and I've
> >
> > found it resets
> >
> > >>sometimes so I run it hourly as a cron job.
> > >>
> > >>oh, and the -n # is which node it is. In case you have more than
> >
> > one firewire
> >
> > >>connection have it run for each connection as well.
> > >>
> > >>#!/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
> > >>
> > >>--
> > >>Steve
> > >>
> > >>On Friday 09 December 2005 14:52, Azmat wrote:
> > >>>Here's my plugreport output:
> > >>>Host Adapter 0
> > >>>==
> > >>>
> > >>>Node 0 GUID 0xd10080357942
> > >>>--
> > >>>libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR
> > >>>libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR
> > >>>
> > >>>Node 1 GUID 0x4279358080357942
> > >>>--
> > >>>libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR
> > >>>libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR
> > >>>
> > >>>Node 2 GUID 0x000f9e103008
> > >>>--
> > >>>oMPR n_plugs=1, data_rate=2, bcast_channel=63
> > >>>oPCR[0] online=1, bcast_connection=0, 

Re: [mythtv-users] 150MCE remote quetion

[Carl Fongheiser]

On 12/17/05, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 12/17/05, Don Sheehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Can anyone tell me which remote this is? I have tried Jarod's howto and many> others from the archives but none seem to make this work. I have tried it in
> Gentoo to no avail and have fallen back to Knoppmyth.>> Any help appreciated!>> About half way down this page is a good picture> 
http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr150mcekit.html>> Is it gray, silver, black, pewter, brushed aluminum, ...I'm not even convinced that is a Hauppauge remote.  It doesn'tlook like any I've seen.
Further, the 15mce does not have provision for a remote sothis is some external (probably third party) device.It's a Windows MCE remote.  It works great with the mceusb2 lirc driver.  It's a really nice remote, too.  Oh, and it is a Hauppauge-specific remote, in the sense that it's laid out a little differently from other MCE remotes I've seen.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Playing dvb nuv files with vlc

[John Andersen]

On 12/17/05, Mike Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> May be of interest/use to this list. I finally got vlc to compile. I've
> documented everything here http://www.londoncrime.org/blog
>
> If I get the thing to work fully with myth file I'll document it all
> and post an update
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike

If there ever was a piece of software designed by a committee
it would have to be vlc.

The whole ui and options panel is a total nightmare, with
the ability to tweak everything and no guidance on any of it.

What is really needed is for someone to put a new frontend
on that monster like the Kaffiene did with xine.



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Re: [mythtv-users] 150MCE remote quetion

[John Andersen]

On 12/17/05, Don Sheehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can anyone tell me which remote this is? I have tried Jarod's howto and many
> others from the archives but none seem to make this work. I have tried it in
> Gentoo to no avail and have fallen back to Knoppmyth.
>
> Any help appreciated!
>
> About half way down this page is a good picture
> http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr150mcekit.html
>
> Is it gray, silver, black, pewter, brushed aluminum, ...

I'm not even convinced that is a Hauppauge remote.  It doesn't
look like any I've seen.

Further, the 15mce does not have provision for a remote so
this is some external (probably third party) device.

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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-150

[John Andersen]

On 12/17/05, Wylie Swanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Unfortunately, cold power cycle has not seemed to do the trick.  I even took
> the machine out of the cabinet, removed the cards, hung out, put them back
> in, and still no luck.  I have the problem with two PVR-250's.  The PcHDTV
> 3000 and Air2PC HD-5000 still working fine, of course.   :-/
>
> Any suggestions?  Leave power off for a day?  Hrmm.  Is there no known way
> to do a hardware reset on the Hauppuage cards via software?

The fast way to cycle any machine is to pull the plug, andwith the plug
still disconnected, cycle the power switches (the one in the back as
well as the front panel switch if you have two).This will drain
any residual charge held in the transformers and capacitors in
the power supply.

This may be an issue with your bios doing the old plug and play
setup.  If your bios is set to plug and play, try the opposite setting.
(Note: Non PnP OS actually means that the bios will try to do
the PnP setup before system boot).

Not seeing a complete thread here, I have to ask if
you have two cards in the same machine?  If so have
you tried swapping slots?




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

[James C. Dastrup]

I might suggest that all alsa utilities, alsactl, and everything else is NOT 
required
to use digital out with MythTV.  I'm using MythTV 0.18.1 on Gentoo and I only
have the necessary alsa drivers compiled in the kernel. I've never used 
alsamixer
or alsactl, or installed/emerged alsa-utils, alsamixer, aplay, or anything else 
alsa related. I'm not starting any alsa services during startup. The only thing 
I did is:
 
Enable alsa support and driver in the kernel.
Put .asoundrc in my home directory.
Set MythTV as follows:
  -Enable AC3
  -Device = "ALSA:digital"
  -Mixer = "digital"
 
and that's it.  I also have all the other mythplugins working by setting their 
device
to ALSA:digital. Is my setup unique, or are people doing more than need to
to get digital audio working?
 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Glitches in firewire capture from DCT-6200

[David Rudder]

According to Dan Dennedy (one of the linux1394 authors), data_rate is a 
code.  0 means 100Mbps.  1 means 200Mbps.  2 means 400Mbps.  If you have 
it set to 100Mbps in the Mythtv setup, Mythtv will cause this change.  I 
don't have the original email that has this info.  You can probably find 
it in the linux1394 mailing list archives.  You can try upping this 
value in Myth.  It might be worth a look at your disk speed, too.


-Dave

Alex Brekken wrote:


Steve, running the commands you and curtis specified:

plugctl -n 2 opcr[0].channel=63
plugctl -n 2 opcr[0].bcast_connection=1

greatly improves my firewire reliability.  However, I still find it 
almost unusable due to some slowdown/stuttering in the image.  (I also 
have a PVR-250 which works flawlessly)  I know it's not my network, so 
I was very curious to try out the data_rate command you listed above, 
thinking that it might fix this issue.  (plugctl -n 2 
opcr[0].data_rate=3)


Running this command and then plugreport shows that the data_rate 
variable does get set to 3, (before it was zero), HOWEVER, as soon as 
I begin to record a show or watch live TV, it immediately gets set 
back to zero.  You mentioned that you run this through a cron job 
every hour, although I'm finding that if I try to set the data_rate 
back to 3 while something is recording, it immediately freezes and 
stops recording. 

Any other tricks or ideas to somehow keep this setting  at 3?  (or 
anything greater than zero) 

On 12/16/05, *David Rudder* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 
wrote:


Are you sure this isn't a drive-speed issue?  Check hdparm -v
/dev/.  Also, make sure you have at least a 7200 RPM drive.
The dct-6200 will send out an mpeg stream.  I think MythTV just copies
it to disk.  So, there's very little CPU or memory involved.

You can try running test-mpeg2 (from the libiec61883 package).  It
outputs the raw mpeg stream from the 6200.  If it gets the same
corruption you see in myth, then you know it's not a myth issue.
test-mpeg2 > file.mpg
wait maybe 30 seconds, then hit ctrl-c.  mplayer file..mpg should
display
the file.

-Dave

Azmat wrote:

>I've been using this script in a cron job for the last week, but I'm
>still seeing glitching.  Its mostly occurring at the start of a show
>and then clears up in the middle.  Is it possible that I might
need to
>use a faster processor or bump up my RAM?  Right now I'm running an
>Athlon XP 2400+ with 1G of RAM.  Thanks in advance for the help.
>
>Azmat
>
>On 12/9/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>
>>there was a thread a while back regarding this. You can search
on Gossamer for
>>more info. basically you want to run this bash script. It will
set the p2p or
>>broadcast connection to 1 depending on what your machine will
use. From what
>>I've found bcast is prefered when available, which is why it
comes second
>>(since its one or the other) p2p is sometimes only available and
when this is
>>the case its fine. data_rate doesn't need to be 3, but it
increases speed if
>>your using firewire for capture and not just channel changing. I
have it run
>>before mythbackend starts when I run it via init.d and I've
found it resets
>>sometimes so I run it hourly as a cron job.
>>
>>oh, and the -n # is which node it is. In case you have more than
one firewire
>>connection have it run for each connection as well.
>>
>>#!/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
>>
>>--
>>Steve
>>
>>On Friday 09 December 2005 14:52, Azmat wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Here's my plugreport output:
>>>Host Adapter 0
>>>==
>>>
>>>Node 0 GUID 0xd10080357942
>>>--
>>>libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR
>>>libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR
>>>
>>>Node 1 GUID 0x4279358080357942
>>>--
>>>libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR
>>>libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR
>>>
>>>Node 2 GUID 0x000f9e103008
>>>--
>>>oMPR n_plugs=1, data_rate=2, bcast_channel=63
>>>oPCR[0] online=1, bcast_connection=0, n_p2p_connections=0
>>>channel=63, data_rate=0, overhead_id=0, payload=376
>>>iMPR n_plugs=0, data_rate=2
>>>
>>>On 12/9/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>
On Friday 09 December 2005 12:44, Azmat wrote:


>Hi,
>
>My mythtv system is running on an AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2 GHz)
with 1G
>RAM, a PVR-350 and firewire capture from my Motorola DCT-6200
cable
>b

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport and ffmpeg-CVS

[John Andersen]

On 12/17/05, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Yea, I got it to finally work by installing transcode from source
> rather than the ubuntu package, although I think the error had to do
> with something else, but I do realize that it's slow as John said.  I
> kicked off 12 half hour shows last night (12 hours ago), and it's only
> completed 5 so far.

I exported the same show twice, once with transcode and once
with ffmpeg, in both cases leaving the resolution the same and
selecting the defaults.

The output file size is slightly different (350095580 vs 349024640)
and the transcode version is indeed a little better, but not 5 times
better.

Thats right it took transcode 3 hours and 45 minutes to
transcode a 1 hour show, and it took ffmpeg 48 minutes.

Further, the transcoded version has occasional jerkyness in
the video, (I think there is some playback frame dropping
happening) on some players, and the video falls behind
the audio in other players.

This does not happen with ffmpeg.



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

[Marius Schrecker]

>From previous post:
>
> Could someone with working spdiff post the output from
> alsactl store -f somefile ?
>
> as it looks like not all the controls are visible in the mixers.
>
>
I'm still not having any luck with this.

Would really love it if someone with a working nVidia CK804 digital out
could post the output from alsactl . as it's the only way to see what the
mixer settings really are.

Here's mine (not working):

$ alsactl store -f ~/alsastate
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat alsastate
state.CK804 {
control.1 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'Master Playback Switch'
value true
}
control.2 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 31'
iface MIXER
name 'Master Playback Volume'
value.0 22
value.1 29
}
control.3 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'Center Playback Switch'
value false
}
control.4 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 1
comment.range '0 - 31'
iface MIXER
name 'Center Playback Volume'
value 31
}
control.5 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'LFE Playback Switch'
value false
}
control.6 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 1
comment.range '0 - 31'
iface MIXER
name 'LFE Playback Volume'
value 0
}
control.7 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 2
iface MIXER
name 'Surround Playback Switch'
value.0 false
value.1 false
}
control.8 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 31'
iface MIXER
name 'Surround Playback Volume'
value.0 0
value.1 0
}
control.9 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'Master Mono Playback Switch'
value false
}
control.10 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 1
comment.range '0 - 31'
iface MIXER
name 'Master Mono Playback Volume'
value 31
}
control.11 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'PC Speaker Playback Switch'
value false
}
control.12 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 1
comment.range '0 - 15'
iface MIXER
name 'PC Speaker Playback Volume'
value 0
}
control.13 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'Phone Playback Switch'
value true
}
control.14 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 1
comment.range '0 - 31'
iface MIXER
name 'Phone Playback Volume'
value 0
}
control.15 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'Mic Playback Switch'
value false
}
control.16 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 1
comment.range '0 - 31'
iface MIXER
name 'Mic Playback Volume'
value 0
}
control.17 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'Mic

[mythtv-users] libexif mythplugins versioning info?

[Allan McIntosh]

Is there some where I can check on current svn dependency version 
requirements?


I have the following rpm installed which results in the error below:

libexif-devel i386 0.6.12-3 release


make[2]: Entering directory 
`/home/al/src/mythplugins/mythgallery/mythgallery'
g++ -c -pipe -Wall -W -O3 -march=pentiumpro -fomit-frame-pointer 
-D_REENTRANT -fPIC -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPREFIX=\"/usr\" -DHAVE_MMX 
-DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -DQT_PLUGIN -DQT_SHARED 
-I/usr/lib/qt-3.3/mkspecs/default -I. -I/usr/include 
-I/usr/lib/qt-3.3/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -o galleryutil.o 
galleryutil.cpp
galleryutil.cpp: In static member function ‘static long int 
GalleryUtil::getNaturalRotation(const char*)’:
/usr/include/libexif/exif-entry.h:61: error: too few arguments to 
function ‘const char* exif_entry_get_value(ExifEntry*, char*, unsigned int)’

galleryutil.cpp:65: error: at this point in file
make[2]: *** [galleryutil.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/home/src/tmp/mythplugins/mythgallery/mythgallery'


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[mythtv-users] PCHDTV3000 + FC4

[Michael Haan]

I've just reconstituted my Myth box, converting from Gentoo to FC4 using Jarod's guide and also adding a card (DVICO Fusion 5 Lite).The box also has a pchdtv3000 and a pvr-350, both of which were working under Gentoo (the 3000 using dvb).  I don't care the time being if the Fusion works (though, it would be a bonus).  I think the 350 is working but I'm not sure - can I get ptune from yum?
Ok, so the real question:  The 3000 doesn't seem to be working.  One difference I've noted from Gentoo is that the firmware seems to be missing.  Not sure if that's ok now on FC4.  If not, the recommeded location /usrhotplug doesn't exist - do I just create it, must I install something, or is it somewhere else?  Also, dvb channel scanning doesn't seem to work, but I assume that's a firmware deal.  Anyone?  Jarod, you out there?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MythWeb problem permisssion error... [FIXED]

[Johan Venter]

A JM wrote:

Self answered:

'apache' needed write permissions on /var/www/html/mythweb to create the 
folder image_cahce, etc.


Thx,


Ah, didn't see your reply before I posted. Apologies.

Johan.
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Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb problem permisssion error...

[Johan Venter]

A JM wrote:
 > 


*Warning* at /var/www/html/mythweb/includes/init.php, line 149:
mkdir() [function.mkdir ]: 
Permission denied



*Fatal Error* at /var/www/html/mythweb/includes/init.php, line 150:
Error creating path for image_cache: Please check permissions.


Create a directory in /var/www/html/mythweb called 'image_cache' and set 
its ownership and permissions such that the web server can write to it.


In my case I went:

  # mkdir image_cache
  # chown mythtv.www-data image_cache
  # chmod g+w image_cache

This is clearly pointed out in the instructions in the README file, have 
a browse through it if you have more trouble.


Johan.
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[mythtv-users] Commonly seen bug with undocumented solution!

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

I've encountered this bug numerous times and sometimes it was solved
erratically, by either recompiling glibc with -O3 ops, or other unknown
reasons. 

I've also done quite a bit of searching in the past month or two and
seem to have found that this bug is caused by an audio issue while using
the
Live TV playback.

Hardware: Hauppauge WinTV PVR2 (using pvrusb2 driver
http://www.isely.net/pvrusb2.html).  The device streams a mpeg2 stream
on /dev/v4l/video0 and is very stable.  Mike also is extremely
aggressive with both the development and maintaining of the pvrusb2
driver.  I can easily do:

$ cat /dev/v4l/video0 > test.mpg | mplayer test.mpg (test.mpg being a
fifo file.)

Yet, mythtv has issues with playback of this stream using the Live TV
profile.  I'm seeing this issue on both, my server and laptop.  Both
using nvidia cards.  And I've recompiled mythtv with & without nvidia
and opengl options including currently debug (-g).  I've also recompiled
libmpeg2 along with 3-4 different versions of nvidia drivers.  I've also
toggled all sound options within mythtv settings.

(Please, when replying, omit any unneeded text such as most of the
details listed below!) 

As I'm guessing, running into an issue with sound processing through a
buffer causing video to hang after < 1 second of playback.  On my
laptop, Live TV will stutter erratically.  I'm using a SBLive Value card
using the kernel emu10k1 driver.  No other issues with any other sound
or video playing apps on my system. The pvrusb2 kernel logs show
streaming is just fine & dandy and waiting for mythtv to stream it.

I've seen this bug posted several times without any solution using
google.

# aplay -l
 List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices 
card 0: Live [SBLive! Value [CT4670]], device 0: emu10k1 [ADC
Capture/Standard PCM Playback]
  Subdevices: 32/32
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  ...
  Subdevice #31: subdevice #31
card 0: Live [SBLive! Value [CT4670]], device 2: emu10k1 efx
[Multichannel Capture/PT Playback]
  Subdevices: 8/8
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 0: Live [SBLive! Value [CT4670]], device 3: emu10k1 [Multichannel
Playback]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

$ mythfrontend -v all -l mythfrontend.log

2005-12-17 12:54:26.731 New DB connection, total: 1
Total desktop width=1024, height=768, numscreens=1
2005-12-17 12:54:26.757 Running in a window
2005-12-17 12:54:26.758 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0
2005-12-17 12:54:26.795 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1
www.mythtv.org
2005-12-17 12:54:26.795 Enabled verbose msgs :all
2005-12-17 12:54:28.355 max_width: 1024 max_height: 768
2005-12-17 12:54:28.480 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T.)
mythtv: could not connect to socket
mythtv: No such file or directory
lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
2005-12-17 12:54:29.392 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2005-12-17 12:54:29.548 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media
handler
2005-12-17 12:54:29.552 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media
handler
2005-12-17 12:54:30.193 generating cache image
for: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/blank.png
2005-12-17 12:54:30.357 Starting media monitor.
2005-12-17 12:54:34.560 New DB connection, total: 2
2005-12-17 12:54:34.637 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543
(try 1 of 5)
2005-12-17 12:54:34.638 write->14 21  MYTH_PROTO_VERSION 15:
2005-12-17 12:54:34.669 Using protocol version 15
2005-12-17 12:54:34.669 write->14 37  ANN Playback
localhost2.localdomain 0:
2005-12-17 12:54:34.702 write->14 29  GET_NEXT_FREE_RECORDER[]:[]-1:
2005-12-17 12:54:34.724 37  ANN Playback localhost2.localdomain 1
2005-12-17 12:54:34.726 write->16 21  MYTH_PROTO_VERSION 15:
2005-12-17 12:54:34.748 Using protocol version 15
2005-12-17 12:54:34.748 write->16 37  ANN Playback
localhost2.localdomain 0:
2005-12-17 12:54:34.765 write->16 44  QUERY_RECORDER
1[]:[]SETUP_RING_BUFFE...
2005-12-17 12:54:34.782 write->17 37  ANN Playback
localhost2.localdomain 0:
2005-12-17 12:54:34.830 write->18 39  ANN RingBuffer
localhost2.localdomain 1:
2005-12-17 12:54:34.865 write->16 33  QUERY_RECORDER
1[]:[]SPAWN_LIVETV:
2005-12-17 12:54:38.221 write->16 37  QUERY_RECORDER
1[]:[]GET_PROGRAM_INFO:
2005-12-17 12:54:38.253 Output filters for this channel are: ''
2005-12-17 12:54:38.309 write->17 53  QUERY_RECORDER
1[]:[]REQUEST_BLOCK_RI...
2005-12-17 12:54:38.338 Read(): reqd=128000, rcvd=128000, rept=128000,
error=0
2005-12-17 12:54:38.339 write->17 66  QUERY_RECORDER
1[]:[]SEEK_RINGBUF[]:[...
2005-12-17 12:54:38.355 write->17 53  QUERY_RECORDER
1[]:[]REQUEST_BLOCK_RI...
2005-12-17 12:54:38.370 Read(): reqd=128000, rcvd=128000, rept=128000,
erro

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MythWeb problem permisssion error

[A JM]

That was it. Thanks for the post.On 12/17/05, belcampo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Saturday 17 December 2005 19:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:> MythWeb problem permisssion errorThe php and image directory have to be owned by apache, maybe they are not
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Re: [mythtv-users] Shockwave frontend

[tgate]

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Re: [mythtv-users] Glitches in firewire capture from DCT-6200

[Alex Brekken]

Steve, running the commands you and curtis specified:

plugctl -n 2 opcr[0].channel=63
plugctl -n 2 opcr[0].bcast_connection=1

greatly improves my firewire reliability.  However, I still find
it almost unusable due to some slowdown/stuttering in the image. 
(I also have a PVR-250 which works flawlessly)  I know it's not my
network, so I was very curious to try out the data_rate command you
listed above, thinking that it might fix this issue.  (plugctl -n
2 opcr[0].data_rate=3) 

Running this command and then plugreport shows that the data_rate
variable does get set to 3, (before it was zero), HOWEVER, as soon as I
begin to record a show or watch live TV, it immediately gets set back
to zero.  You mentioned that you run this through a cron job every
hour, although I'm finding that if I try to set the data_rate back to 3
while something is recording, it immediately freezes and stops
recording.  

Any other tricks or ideas to somehow keep this setting  at 3?  (or anything greater than zero)  On 12/16/05, David Rudder <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Are you sure this isn't a drive-speed issue?  Check hdparm -v
/dev/.  Also, make sure you have at least a 7200 RPM drive.The dct-6200 will send out an mpeg stream.  I think MythTV just copiesit to disk.  So, there's very little CPU or memory involved.
You can try running test-mpeg2 (from the libiec61883 package).  Itoutputs the raw mpeg stream from the 6200.  If it gets the samecorruption you see in myth, then you know it's not a myth issue.test-mpeg2 > 
file.mpgwait maybe 30 seconds, then hit ctrl-c.  mplayer file.mpg should displaythe file.-DaveAzmat wrote:>I've been using this script in a cron job for the last week, but I'm>still seeing glitching.  Its mostly occurring at the start of a show
>and then clears up in the middle.  Is it possible that I might need to>use a faster processor or bump up my RAM?  Right now I'm running an>Athlon XP 2400+ with 1G of RAM.  Thanks in advance for the help.
>>Azmat>>On 12/9/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:there was a thread a while back regarding this. You can search on Gossamer for
>>more info. basically you want to run this bash script. It will set the p2p or>>broadcast connection to 1 depending on what your machine will use. From what>>I've found bcast is prefered when available, which is why it comes second
>>(since its one or the other) p2p is sometimes only available and when this is>>the case its fine. data_rate doesn't need to be 3, but it increases speed if>>your using firewire for capture and not just channel changing. I have it run
>>before mythbackend starts when I run it via init.d and I've found it resets>>sometimes so I run it hourly as a cron job.oh, and the -n # is which node it is. In case you have more than one firewire
>>connection have it run for each connection as well.#!/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-->>SteveOn Friday 09 December 2005 14:52, Azmat wrote:>>>Here's my plugreport output:
>>>Host Adapter 0>>>==>>Node 0 GUID 0xd10080357942>>>-->>>libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR
>>>libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR>>Node 1 GUID 0x4279358080357942>>>-->>>libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR>>>libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR
>>Node 2 GUID 0x000f9e103008>>>-->>>oMPR n_plugs=1, data_rate=2, bcast_channel=63>>>oPCR[0]  bcast_connection=0, n_p2p_connections=0
>>>channel=63, data_rate=0, overhead_id=0, payload=376>>>iMPR n_plugs=0, data_rate=2>>On 12/9/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:>>On Friday 09 December 2005 12:44, Azmat wrote:>Hi,>>My mythtv system is running on an AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2 GHz) with 1G
>RAM, a PVR-350 and firewire capture from my Motorola DCT-6200 cable>box.  Whenever I do firewire capture from the box through Myth, the>recording exhibits a audio/video glitching.  The picture will
>momentarily become pixelated and there will be a brief skip.  I can>tell the glitch is in the recording because when I rewind and playback>it is reproducible.  There is no pattern or regularity to the
>glitching.  Sometimes it will be at the start of the show and will>disappear in the middle, only to reappear later.  It doesn't prevent>me from recording shows, but is just become a huge annoyance that I'd
>like to take care of.  Does anyone have any idea what might be wrong?>Do you think a faster processor would help?>>Thanks in advance,
>>Azmat>>run plugreport and paste the output.--Steve
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Re: [mythtv-users] help with channel changing

[Yeechang Lee]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
> I know this sounds crazy but the TiVo does not use an IR Blaster. In
> fact i= t will change the channel even if it's only connected to the
> TV via coaxial cable. I don't see how and I'm still in awe. Maybe
> it's magic?

It's not magic; the TiVo, rather, has a very powerful IR blaster
behind its center "eye." In fact, sometimes it can cause problems for
those who do want to use the IR blaster-on-a-plug it comes with to
change channels, causing them to build "forts" around the blaster to
protect it from stray IR signals.

Me, I'm glad that MythTV supports FireWire changing; believe me, I
don't miss the IR blaster days!

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Tuning problem with two DVB-C cards

[Markus Heikkilä]

belcampo wrote:

On Saturday 17 December 2005 19:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Tuning problem with two DVB-C cards


To use 2 cards, you also have to define 2 sources, like DVBC1 and DVBC2 and in 
input-connections tell Myth to use DVBC1 as source for card1 etc.
Then you'll be able to scan both card's with their own/identical I think 
source.


I already tried that also. Same result, card #1 doesn't scan channels. 
With czap it tunes just fine.


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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: pvr 250 and 500 combo problems

[Wylie Swanson]

Unfortunately, I haven't had the same luck.My understanding from MythTV threads and beyond is that the registers on the PVR card need to clear for it to fully reset.  This may have to do with the ivtv drivers having been reverse engineered, but there have been reports of this with official Windows drivers too.  
 I have two PVR 250's that are currently unusable.  ;-/WOn 12/7/05, David Montz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:I had a problem similar to this while using gentoo. What I did was
uninstalled both cards then uninstalled anything related to ivtv, and ivtvitself. Then I placed both cards back in and reinstalled the removedsoftware/drivers... And it magically grabbed all three tuners for me.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Frontend freeze when deleting recording

[Cymen Vig]

On 10/23/05, Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:41:25AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:34:33AM -0500, Mercury Morris wrote:
> > > My guess is that there are quite few MythTV folks that are not aware of 
> > > the
> > > "delete-a-recording-while-recording" I/O bottleneck.  They, and I, will 
> > > be most
> > > interested in the results you might observe regarding filesystem 
> > > stability and
> > > how fast XFS can delete a recording concurrent with recording a program.
> >
> > I converted my system to XFS on (software) RAID-5 when I
> > installed MythTV and it's been rock-solid.  The box also
> > hosts IMAP, SMB, VNC and Apache2 servers, and has never
> > seemed to have any problem deleting large files while
> > recording.
>
> I had my first hang of this sort in quite a while earlier today and
> it has me suspecting that delete-while-recording may not have
> anything to do with it (or at least may not be the only cause)...
>
> Like chris, I use XFS, but no RAID.  My hang this morning took place
> while I was half-watching low priority shows on my TV while also
> going through movie listings via mythweb on my laptop.  The delete
> hang occurred when I issued the delete order while waiting for
> mythweb to return from scheduling a recording.  There was no
> recording in progress at the time and I have my mysql database on a
> separate physical hard drive (and separate SATA channel) from my
> stored recordings, so it seems extremely unlikely that an I/O
> bottleneck would have been involved.  With no knowledge of the actual
> code involved, the circumstances of this loss of contact between
> mythbackend and the database suggests to me that the actual issue may
> be related to deleting a recording while another database update is
> in progress.  The apparent link to recording may instead be due to
> the database being updated when recordings begin/end.

In my experience it is the database and not the file system causing
the delays. I copied a few 2.2 GB shows during testing and found that
deleting them was practically instantaneous on my XFS file system.
Meanwhile, deleting shows in the Mythfrontend would cause at least 2-4
seconds of freezing.

After tweaking MySQL's my.cnf file I have almost instantaneous
deletes. Now, if I select delete on a 30 minute show, the control
returns immediately and I can go up and down in the list. The show
remains in the list for a second or two and then disappears.

My my.cnf (changes from Gentoo default):

Disable binary logging (remove binary logs from data dir which look
like *.0001, etc):
--
#log-bin
--

Increase limits:
--
key_buffer  = 64M  # increased from 32M
max_allowed_packet  = 1M
table_cache = 256
sort_buffer_size= 4M   # was 512K
net_buffer_length   = 8K
read_buffer_size= 1M   # was 512K
read_rnd_buffer_size= 1M
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 16M
language= /usr/share/mysql/english

#tmp_table_size = 64M
tmp_table_size  = 128M
--

Increase more limits (adjusting log file and buffer requires stopping
db, removing files, starting db as far as I can tell):
--
innodb_buffer_pool_size = 64M
innodb_additional_mem_pool_size = 8M
innodb_data_file_path   = ibdata1:10M:autoextend
innodb_log_file_size= 5M
innodb_log_buffer_size  = 8M
--

More limits that shouldn't come into play:
--
[isamchk]
key_buffer  = 20M
sort_buffer_size= 20M
read_buffer = 2M
write_buffer= 2M

[myisamchk]
key_buffer  = 20M
sort_buffer_size= 20M
read_buffer = 2M
write_buffer= 2M
--

This has resulted in a dramatic improvment for me but my combination
frontend/backend has 1 GB of RAM. The memory usage isn't too drastic:

 PID USER  PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+  COMMAND
5681 mysql 15   0  194m  39m 4244 S  0.0  3.9   0:00.11 mysqld
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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-150

[Wylie Swanson]

Unfortunately, cold power cycle has not seemed to do the trick.  I even took the machine out of the cabinet, removed the cards, hung out, put them back in, and still no luck.  I have the problem with two PVR-250's.  The PcHDTV 3000 and Air2PC HD-5000 still working fine, of course.   :-/
Any suggestions?  Leave power off for a day?  Hrmm.  Is there no known way to do a hardware reset on the Hauppuage cards via software?WOn 10/31/05, 
Rudy Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Shawn wrote:>John Cartwright wrote:Hello,I've got a PVR-150. Sometimes for whatever reason mine gets>>recognized as a PVR-250 like your dmesg output says in which case I
>>lose video. The only solution I've found to this problem has been>>to turn the machine completely off for about 10 - 30 seconds and>>then try again. I think I read somewhere that the registers in the
>>tuner take a while to completely clear hence the 10 - 30 second>>wait. Hope this helps. Let us know if you find something that>>works out better.>>This has happened to me also, and performing a cold boot (turning the
>machine off and unplugging it for 30 seconds) usually does the trick.>I've read that it has something to do with the firmware.>>No, With the HW retaining settings until all kinds of elcos and such
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Re: [mythtv-users] Tuning Woes

[Mike Wafkowski]

Not to get into cat fight 8^) but the specs you quoted would be easily
handled by a decent 250. The X-Factor here though is that no PSU actually
puts out the power it's rated at. You can google around to verify that.

I have two systems currently runnng quite happily with 250 W. They are
clones of each other

Specs are Mobile Celeron 1.7 running at 2.8 GHz, two 256 meg ram sticks,
Three HD's (20, 80 and 160 gig) 128 meg mx440 agp video, DVD/CD cutter,
two tuner Cards, Firewire card, FD, .

No offense, but I think my two PVR systems probably "outsuck" the system
you're specing. Which doesn't at all rule out that your PS is not providing
enough juice, but in practice should.

Peace,
MRW

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> > On 12/16/05, Mike Wafkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I believe (and my experience is) that flaky PSUs can produce an
> >> amazing
> >> number of hard to track problems. It also seems that most of us
> >> end up
> >> checkng it out last or almost last. Don't just think about
> >> underpowered,
> >> think flaky.
> While I am taking your advice rather seriously, I think I'm going to
> stick with underpowered. After looking at the PSU, it's only rated to
> about 250 Watts. Something tells me that an AMD Athlon 850 MHz with
> 256 MB of RAM, 10/100 Mib NIC, 56k Modem (I plan to remove this), PCI
> VGA card, Sound card, and a Hauppauge PVR-150 might draw a little
> more power than 250 watts.
>
> No offense.
> >
> > Agreed, that and flaky RAM have bitten me in the past.  All kinds of
> > strange errors cropped up in both cases, and I wasted a lot of time
> > troubleshooting...
> I don't think the RAM is the problem here, but I'll keep that in mind.
>
> Thank you both for the advice.
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Re: [mythtv-users] RE: Configuring SPDIF digital out.

[Joacim J]

On 12/17/05, Joacim J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hmmm, I have some sound when running:

/usr/bin/aplay /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav

But the volume is very low and having 100% volume in alsamixer

Sorry for not testing enough before posting.

Increasing VIA  DXS was the solution 

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[mythtv-users] Re: MythWeb problem permisssion error

[belcampo]

On Saturday 17 December 2005 19:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> MythWeb problem permisssion error
The php and image directory have to be owned by apache, maybe they are not 
there at all. So go to your mythweb directory, check if directories 
php_sessions and image_cache exist, if they exist,
as root chown apache:apache php_sessions and image_cache, and off you go
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Re: [mythtv-users] 150MCE remote quetion

[Kichigai Mentat]

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On Dec 17, 2005, at 11.19, Don Sheehan wrote:

Can anyone tell me which remote this is? I have tried Jarod's howto  
and many others from the archives but none seem to make this work.  
I have tried it in Gentoo to no avail and have fallen back to  
Knoppmyth.
What version of KnoppMyth? KnoppMyth R5A26 asked me what kind of  
remote I would be using (if any) and I chose "hauppauge" (Option 16 I  
think). It then asked me which Hauppauge remote, and option D was  
"PVR-150 reciever/blaster" which is what you should have.


Just try using a newer version of KnoppMyth, it should help, but you  
may still have to do some manual configuration of the actual controls.


Any help appreciated!

About half way down this page is a good picture
http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr150mcekit.html

Is it gray, silver, black, pewter, brushed aluminum, ...
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Re: [mythtv-users] RE: Configuring SPDIF digital out.

[Joacim J]

On 12/17/05, Joacim J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 12/17/05, Marius Schrecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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 Google's, 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 can't 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 don't 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 menu's 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>> --  That's it. I hope someone can find this information useful. -Mat>

I am trying to get my SPDIF to work. I have an onboard soundcard (ASUS A8V Deluxe with VIA chipset)/sbin/lspci -v00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
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[mythtv-users] Re: Tuning problem with two DVB-C cards

[belcampo]

On Saturday 17 December 2005 19:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Tuning problem with two DVB-C cards
To use 2 cards, you also have to define 2 sources, like DVBC1 and DVBC2 and in 
input-connections tell Myth to use DVBC1 as source for card1 etc.
Then you'll be able to scan both card's with their own/identical I think 
source.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Program Guide time is shifted

[Beny Spensieri Jr]

Jesse Guardiani wrote:
>   
>Check `date` on your mythtv backend box. Is it also 5
hours off?
>If so, fix it.
>I recommend that you set your hardware clock to UTC
and use:
>CLOCK="UTC"

'date' was good, but I did set the system to use UTC
and it seems to have fixed the problem.  I'm using FC4
so setting UTC was a bit different but it did the
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[mythtv-users] HDTV with Analog tuning support?

[Rob]

Hi guys,

 

I’m using the DVICo Fusion HDTV Lite.  When I
first set Myth up, it worked fine as an analog V4L analog tuner card.    I
then proceeded to follow some of the online guides to configure it for HDTV over
QAM cable.   That worked, no problem.   But now it seems
like Myth treats them as separate cards, and they “fight” over the
card.   Is it possible to inform Myth that these two sources are
really one shared source?  Or is that simply not a supported
configuration?  

   








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Re: [mythtv-users] Tuning Woes

[Kichigai Mentat]

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On Dec 16, 2005, at 13.00, Brian Bosch wrote:


On 12/16/05, Mike Wafkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I believe (and my experience is) that flaky PSUs can produce an  
amazing
number of hard to track problems. It also seems that most of us  
end up
checkng it out last or almost last. Don't just think about  
underpowered,

think flaky.
While I am taking your advice rather seriously, I think I'm going to  
stick with underpowered. After looking at the PSU, it's only rated to  
about 250 Watts. Something tells me that an AMD Athlon 850 MHz with  
256 MB of RAM, 10/100 Mib NIC, 56k Modem (I plan to remove this), PCI  
VGA card, Sound card, and a Hauppauge PVR-150 might draw a little  
more power than 250 watts.


No offense.


Agreed, that and flaky RAM have bitten me in the past.  All kinds of
strange errors cropped up in both cases, and I wasted a lot of time
troubleshooting...

I don't think the RAM is the problem here, but I'll keep that in mind.

Thank you both for the advice.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Building first MythTV back end box...

[Mike Wafkowski]

If you're talking about replacing instead of adding, the answer is no
problem, the drive would not likely pull more than an addtional 5-10 watts
at most. I'm sure you can get the specs for any particular drive at the
manfacturer's website.

Regards,
Mike Wafkowski

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> You guys are awesome!!  Thanks for helping me with
> this.
>
> I'll definitely go with the 150 (probably the MCE
> version).  Smaller board, less heat, cheaper, easier
> to setup, yet good quality.  And It didn't even dawn
> on me that I'd be using the S-Video input on the card
> instead of the tuner.  Duh.  :)
>
> Thanks again for your help!
>
> Just thought of a couple of more questions.
>
> 1) How does the audio work on the PVR150 in MythTV.
> Would the audio outputs on the receiver go to the
> audio inputs on the 150 or to the audio input of the
> sound card?
>
> 2) In a Shuttle XPC case running at 3Ghz with the
> other components mentioned in my original post, would
> bumping the hard drive from 200G to 300G be a cause
> for concern regarding both heat and the power
> requirements?  The Shuttle case only has a 250W power
> supply.
>
> Kirk
>
> --- John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On 12/16/05, Kirk Grell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > I could bump down to PVR-150.  Main thing is that
> > I
> > > really want as high quality of video as I can get
> > > before transcoding.  In terms of MPEG2, does
> > output
> > > from the PVR-150 look as good as output from the
> > > PVR-350?
> >
> > I have one of each.
> >
> > I think the video on the 150 is a bit softer than
> > the 350,
> > perhaps due to better comb filters.  Both cards work
> > fine
> > with 18.1, and ivtv 0.4.1.  (I had problems getting
> > 0.4.0 working on the 150 card, but it might have
> > been
> > my H.U.A. disease.
> >
> >
> > My 150 card is MCE version, which includes a FM
> > Radio tuner
> > but no TVout (because it has no decoder).
> >
> > Note that in really small computer cases, the 150
> > fits better
> > than the 350, because the 350 is just enough longer
> > to
> > impose some difficulty in small cases.
> >
> > You can't beat the price of a 150.
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[mythtv-users] 150MCE remote quetion

[Don Sheehan]

Can anyone tell me which remote this is? I have tried Jarod's howto and many others from the archives but none seem to make this work. I have tried it in Gentoo to no avail and have fallen back to Knoppmyth.
 
Any help appreciated!
 
About half way down this page is a good picture
http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr150mcekit.html
 
Is it gray, silver, black, pewter, brushed aluminum, ...
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Re: [mythtv-users] help with channel changing

[Michael T. Dean]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Is there another card I can buy to skip the IR blaster step?

I know this sounds crazy but the TiVo does not use an IR Blaster. In fact it 
will change the channel even if it's only connected to the TV via coaxial 
cable. I don't see how and I'm still in awe. Maybe it's magic? Maybe my TV has 
something to do with it.
 

Some digital cable boxes provide a serial port connection you can use to 
change channels.  Others have a firewire port.  Others require you to 
change channel using buttons on the cable box or using an IR signal (i.e 
the remote provided by the cable box).  It is impossible for an external 
device to change the channel on its own (i.e. it must ask the cable box 
to change the channel) because the cable company is transmitting the 
signal in a proprietary encrypted format that only their cable boxes can 
tune.  Therefore, getting another card won't help.


If the cable box supports serial or firewire, you could hook those up.  
Note, however, that it's very unlikely that TiVo is using either of 
these to change the channel.  When you say that the TiVo can change 
channels when it's "only connected to the TV via coaxial cable," I'm 
assuming you mean when the TiVo is not connected to the digital cable 
box.  If so, in that configuration, the TiVo is tuning using the analog 
channels which are also transmitted on the same cable connection (and 
you won't be able to get any digital-only channels).


Your TV should be completely independent of any channel changing 
functionality.  If using a TiVo or a digital cable box, the TV simply 
displays whatever you feed it via the S-Video/Composite connection.


Mike
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[mythtv-users] Re: MythWeb problem permisssion error... [FIXED]

[A JM]

Self answered:'apache' needed write permissions on /var/www/html/mythweb to create the folder image_cahce, etc.Thx,
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