date:20060102


Jason wrote:


2nd try.

Im sure this has been brought up before, but does anyone know of a way to get the FM tuner to 
work in mythtv? Ive searched and cant seem to find anything.


 

Assuming you can get it to work *outside* of Myth with other radio 
applications:


http://mythextra.napsi.net/mythFM.html

Kevin
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[mythtv-users] mythlcd

2006-01-02 Thread Chris

Hello List,

Is there a way to use mythlcd with the stable 0.18.1 code ?

I don't want to run the CVS version if possible

Thanks in advance

Chris

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[mythtv-users] Quick question - Do I have to kill backend before I re-run mythv-setup?

2006-01-02 Thread Kirk Grell

I've got just about everything running and am waiting
on the satellite box to be hooked up.  I need to run
'mythtv-setup' one more time to setup the 'directv.pl'
script to control the receiver.  Do I need to shutdown
the backend before I run mythtv-setup?  I've looked on
Google  MythTv.org and searched the list but didn't
see anything regarding this.

Thanks,
Kirk



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[mythtv-users] Wireless Keyboard Questions -- Belkin MediaPilot worth it?

2006-01-02 Thread Dewey Smolka

Happy New Year all,

I went and made the dumbass mistake of buying a marked-down wireless
keyboard at Microcenter the other day (that makes 4 of 6 (IIRC) marked
down or closeout items I've bought there that were incompatible or
broken). It's a Belkin F8E832-BNDL.

So I plugged it in and nothin' happened. Both the keyboard and the
mouse were signalling transmission but the reciever showed nothing.
There's a purple PS/2 keyboard plug and a USB with a green mouse PS/2
adapter. I tried it with both PS/2s and with USB-only, per the
instructions, but it just sat there lifeless.

I called Belkin support, and their answer was we don't support
Linux. I asked him if the transmitter was transparent, and if the
devices were handled by standard PS/2 drivers. He said they don't
support Linux. So I asked him how I could figure out if the
transmitter was working or not and he said they don't support Linux.

Anyway, the transmitter's not working, and it's my own damn fault for
buying an orange ticket item to save a few bucks.

So I've got to return it. I really like the looks of the Belkin MediaPilot
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0228206
but am a little remiss about Belkin based on their tech support.

I know the MediaPilot is USB, and I've seen a few acounts of people
running them for Myth. Anyone have any first hand experience with this
piece? Anyone have anything positive (or negative) about Belkin
products in general?

Anyone have any recommendations for a small wireless keyboard,
preferably with built-in pointer?
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Re: [mythtv-users] Live Playback of HDTV isn't smooth

2006-01-02 Thread Byron Poland

On 1/2/06, Kichigai Mentat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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  I've got a backend with 3 hd tuners in it, and a frontend with an
  Athlon 2500+ (overclocked to 2700+)  I'm using an nvidia 6200 to drive
  a westinghouse lvm-37w1 at 1920x1080, with sound going out via ac3
  passthrough.  Recorded programs play back great.  However when I try
  watching live tv, (usually sports) things just aren't right.  Audio is
  fine, but video is somewhere between smooth and jerky.  Its tough to
  describe, but the more you watch it, the more it starts to hurt your
  eyes.  Sometimes it looks like things are going in slowmotion, and
  then it speeds up then back down.  Anyone have any suggestions?
 Well, it sounds to me like your computer can't handle the playback.
 Something tells me an Athlon 2500+ (That's not the clock speed,
 actually) would offer up enough power to handle this, and I think the
 nVidia 6200 does hardware MPEG-2 decoding, but I don't know if it's
 capable of doing HD. But, since apparently recordings play fine, this
 can't be the problem. So, what does this leave us? The only
 specification you haven't mentioned: RAM.

 How much RAM do you have? Is it good (IE have you run a RAM test on
 it?)?
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Its got 1 gig of ram, and is okay, I've had bad ram before, so know
what to look for.  I've even went so far as to put a gigabit nic card
in the frontend and the backend, plus a gigabit switch between them,
but it makes no difference.

It has something to do with the ringbuffer, as if I tell Myth to
record the program, and watch it from the recording folder as it
grows, it plays back fine.

I just realized my cache and recordings reside on different disks.  I
might investigate that to see if it is something.  But it also sounds
that .19 may fix this problem as it is going to treat livetv in a
completely different way, at least thats what I gather.
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[mythtv-users] mythdvd -- use pvr350 audio out?

2006-01-02 Thread Matt Price

Hi folks,

I have myth working great now, can watch tv, hear the sound(!),
record, etc.  The onboard audio on my computer works poorly, so I use
the audio out on my pvr350 capture card when watching tv.  works great
there.  But now I have difficulty watching dvd's.  So I wondered
whether I could output the audio stream via the pvr350's native
audio.  I suppose them ain thing would be to identify the device used
by hte msp3400 driver theat runs the pvr350's audio.  Anyone kow how
to do that?

thanks,

matt


was wondering whether it was 


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Re: [mythtv-users] Quick question - Do I have to kill backend before I re-run mythv-setup?

I've been told on the list that it is a good idea, perhaps even
necessary. Hopefully someone will follow this up with more
information.On 1/2/06, Kirk Grell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got just about everything running and am waitingon the satellite box to be hooked up.I need to run'mythtv-setup' one more time to setup the 'directv.pl'script to control the receiver.Do I need to shutdown
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Re: [mythtv-users] Quick question - Do I have to kill backend before I re-run mythv-setup?

2006-01-02 Thread Kirk Grell

Ok.  Is there a clean way to exit the backend?  Or
just kill the process?

Kirk

--- Chris Ribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I've been told on the list that it is a good idea,
 perhaps even necessary.
 Hopefully someone will follow this up with more
 information.
 
 On 1/2/06, Kirk Grell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  I've got just about everything running and am
 waiting
  on the satellite box to be hooked up.  I need to
 run
  'mythtv-setup' one more time to setup the
 'directv.pl'
  script to control the receiver.  Do I need to
 shutdown
  the backend before I run mythtv-setup?  I've
 looked on
  Google  MythTv.org and searched the list but
 didn't
  see anything regarding this.
 
  Thanks,
  Kirk
 
 
 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Why FireWire makes sense even for those without HDTV displays


It's important to note that different cable providers have differentpolicies regarding what channels their boxes output on FireWire. Many
do not output the premium, copy-protected channels, but some do. It'spossible some providers' boxes only output the digital channels andnot the analog (generally those below 100) channels; my box outputsboth.


Just to clarify this point, some cable providers (like mine - Comcast)
only make OTA rebroadcasts available unprotected over firewire.
The only channels I get over firewire are CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX, and
PBS. I pay $14 extra per month for this priviledge ($8/month for
the box and $6/month for something along the lines of a digital basic
upgrade). 

This is on top of the $9/month I was paying for basic cable (Analogue
OTA and local access only). As a bonus, I can get ESPNHD, TNTHD,
DSCHD, iNHD1, iNHD2, and NESNHD from the S-video output. (None of my
HDTV monitors have anything other than VGA/DVI-I inputs). 

In addition to the substantial cost of the firewire solution (which I
find bearable because I am 100+ miles from the broadcast towers),
it is less than perfectly reliable in operation - although I cannot
compare it to other HDTV capture solutions.



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Re: [mythtv-users] Quick question - Do I have to kill backend before I re-run mythv-setup?

2006-01-02 Thread Ramses Smeyers


Kirk,


Ok.  Is there a clean way to exit the backend?  Or
just kill the process?


just a kill should do fine

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Pooh, and it came out on this side! I wonder if it would do it again? And he went back for some 
more fir-cones. It did. It kept on doing it.
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[mythtv-users] Lost Sound on PVR-350

2006-01-02 Thread Kirk Bocek

I recently tried upgrading ivtv from 0.4.0 to 0.4.1 and the kernel from 
2.6.13.2 to 2.6.14.4. In the process I somehow lost sound on live tv and 
 while playing back recorded programs that I am sure have sound.


I still have sound through Xine and MythMusic.

I have rolled everything back to 0.4.0 and the original kernel but still 
don't have sound on the recordings.


I am at a loss what to do next. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Myth is installed from the ATrpms collection. Along the way I noticed 
that a mix of i386 and x86_64 RPMs were installed. I cleaned that up and 
only x86_64 versions are left. Could I have missed something there?


Use PVR-350 TV out/MPEG decoder *is* selected. TV audio through 
PVR-350 is *not* selected. Alsamixer settings should be correct since I 
am getting sound out of Xine and MythMusic.


The correct msp3400.ko is being loaded.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Kirk
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RE: [mythtv-users] Quick question - Do I have to kill backend before I re-run mythv-setup?

2006-01-02 Thread William

Title: Message



In my 
experience you can run mythtv-setup anytime including when the backend is 
running but no changes will take effect until you restart the backend. For me 
"service mythbackend restart" works just fine on my FC2 
system.

  
  -Original Message-From: 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
  Behalf Of Chris RibeSent: Monday, January 02, 2006 10:46 
  AMTo: Discussion about mythtvSubject: Re: [mythtv-users] 
  Quick question - Do I have to kill backend before I re-run 
  mythv-setup?I've been told on the list that it is a good 
  idea, perhaps even necessary. Hopefully someone will follow this up with 
  more information.
  On 1/2/06, Kirk 
  Grell [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  wrote:
  I've 
got just about everything running and am waitingon the satellite box to 
be hooked up.I need to run'mythtv-setup' one more time to 
setup the 'directv.pl'script to control the receiver.Do I 
need to shutdown the backend before I run mythtv-setup?I've 
looked onGoogle  MythTv.org and searched the list but didn'tsee 
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[mythtv-users] Easiest way to burn shows to DVD?

2006-01-02 Thread Dave Ansell


Hi,

Please can someone advise me the easiest way to copy shows to DVD 
before I waste loads more time and trash loads more DVDs!


My shows are on mythbackend (FC3), recorded from DBV-T  (UK) as 
mpeg2-TS.
 I have DVD burner in my frontend machine but not in the backend.  Also 
I have a windows machine with DVD burner which can see the files via Samba 
share.


 So far I tried recording on NeroVision Express from my Nero 6 software 
on the weindoze box.   This looked to be going fine at first - Nero 
understood all the files and when I previewed the project in Nero it looked 
fine.   Unfortunately after burning to DVD the sound and video were badly 
out of sync.  Wasted several DVDs trying diferent options but whatever I do 
I cant get them to sync.Don't understand this because, as I say it looks 
fine in preview.  Can only deduce things go wrong in the transcode/burn 
process.


 I then started trying to install the MythBurn plugin.  However, I got 
stuck with sorting out the compatability issues there seem to be between 
ImageMagick and dvdauthor packages.



   Anyway,  can anyone who has a simple working setup please advise?

Thanks,
Dave

PS  I dont really want to do a load of command line stuff every time I burn 
a show if at all possible.



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Re: [mythtv-users] Easiest way to burn shows to DVD?

Hi,

On 1/2/06, Dave Ansell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Please can someone advise me the easiest way to copy shows to DVD
 before I waste loads more time and trash loads more DVDs!

You might want to use a rewritable disc for testing. They're not that
much more expensive than regular DVDs and you should be able to re-use
them.

   I have DVD burner in my frontend machine but not in the backend.  Also
 I have a windows machine with DVD burner which can see the files via Samba
 share.

I can't comment on any Windows solutions, since I've never used any
DVD bruning software under Windows. On Linux I'd recommend MythBurn,
which, of course depends on mythweb. I'm not sure if it's possible to
run mythweb on a frontend machine (never tried).

   I then started trying to install the MythBurn plugin.  However, I got
 stuck with sorting out the compatability issues there seem to be between
 ImageMagick and dvdauthor packages.

Could you post the package versions and any error messages you get
while installing or running the software?

 Anyway,  can anyone who has a simple working setup please advise?

I installed MythBurn on Gentoo, so I can't comment much on FC, but I'm
sure that others will know more if you supply them with some
additional data. I'm using it to burn DVB-T recordings to DVD and it
works great.

 PS  I dont really want to do a load of command line stuff every time I burn
 a show if at all possible.

Once installed, you can use MythBurn without ever using the command
line. It's all done via a web interface. Works great for me.

Jens
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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 250 sound troubles

2006-01-02 Thread Peter Judge

On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 05:19 -0500, Tom E. Craddock Jr. wrote:
 Hi,
 
 
 After doing a smart upgrade last week, I started to have problems with 
 my recordings.  I had issues similar to this posting 
 (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/167825?search_string=no%20sound%20pvr-250;#167825)
  
 where the OP states that the image was cropped and zoom so only the left 
 hand side was recorded, and I had no sound.  I rebooted my backend this 
 weekend and that fixed the issues with the cropping, but I still get no 
 sound on my pvr250.  I have a pvr150 in this box as well as a 2nd tuner, 
   and sound works fine on it. As I followed Jarods FC4 guide, I made 
 sure that I had moved msp3400.ko to msp3400.ko.orig and I still had no 
 sound.  Reading thru dmesg when I did that, I saw that it reported that 
 no msp3400 fw was loaded.  On a side note, this box also as a HD-3000 in 

There are a number of (fairly recent) messages on this list about the
sound issues with ivtv 4.1. Those emails recommend moving the version of
msp3400 from wherever to the kernel/../media/video directory. It's not
clear your message whether you moved the msp3400-ivtv to msp3400. You
need to do that. 

Alternatively, you can add the following line to your modprobe.conf:
alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv

This did the trick for me as opposed to moving and renaming files.

HTH,
Peter


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[mythtv-users] Single quote breaks myth2ipod script

Just got myth2ipod working. However, the test show I was using had a  
single quote in the name which broke the script. Had to s/\'/_/g on  
the title and subtitle. There may be other invalid characters I  
haven't run across yet, as well. Just wanted to let the author know  
so the change could be included in future versions, but I didn't see  
any contact info on the myth2ipod page so I'm hoping they see it here.


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[mythtv-users] Myth 0.18: Recorded vs. Recordedprogram

2006-01-02 Thread Larry K

Hello database gurus!Can anyone explain the difference between the Recorded and the Recordedprogram tables in Mythtv 0.18? In my system, the Recorded table has 8 more rows than the Recordedprogram table (8 out of 151).
The reason I ask is that I want to modify my nuvexport script to sort the results by the syndicatedepsidodenumber column when I choose a show title to get all the subtitle (episode) detail information.  Right now, the script queries the recorded table and the rows are returned in the order they were inserted into the table. The Recorded table does not have the syndicatedepsidodenumber column, whereas the Recordedpropgram table does. As I was about to modify the script I realized that the Recordedpropgram table seems to be missing some entries that are present in the Recorded table, so this may foil my plan. 
Larry
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Re: [mythtv-users] Microsoft Remote Keyboard





I've  purchased the MS remote keyboard (and the MS remote control 
unit) for use in Myth.  There was a thread in October about this but 
it didn't say if and how the person got the keyboard to work.  There 
seems to be plenty of information for getting the remote control to 
work but I can't seem to find anything on the keyboard.  Has anyone 
got this to work?  If so, how?



Trying again...


Sorry, that would be me that was planning on getting an MS MCE Keyboard...
Unfortunately I have got around to it yet, as I've been busy with 
work/Christmas/etc...


I was just planning on running irrecord, adding the the output to the 
existing lirc config file and the adding the extra keys to the lircrc file.

Seemed pretty straight forward... Have you tried it?

Lee

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Re: [mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV


Matt Hannan wrote:

Happy New Year to you all.

I finally have FC4 running on my Mac Mini.
MythTV is installed but I am having several issues.

First, MythMusic emits just a horrible blast of static, even if the
volume control is set to mute.
Any one got this running?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] yum.repos.d]$ mythfrontend
2006-01-01 12:17:01.546 New DB connection, total: 1
Total desktop width=1024, height=768, numscreens=1
2006-01-01 12:17:01.651 Running in a window
2006-01-01 12:17:01.764 Using screen 0, 1024x717 at 0,0
2006-01-01 12:17:01.796 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If you
see a long pause here it means the Schema is already locked and is being
upgraded by another Myth process.
2006-01-01 12:17:01.797 New DB connection, total: 2
2006-01-01 12:17:01.804 Database Schema upgrade complete, unlocking.
2006-01-01 12:17:01.804 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1
www.mythtv.org
2006-01-01 12:17:01.804 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2006-01-01 12:17:02.172 Switching to square mode (MythCenter)
2006-01-01 12:17:02.751 Joystick disabled.
mythtv: could not connect to socket
mythtv: No such file or directory
lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
2006-01-01 12:17:02.870 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2006-01-01 12:17:02.897 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media
handler
2006-01-01 12:17:02.898 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media
handler
2006-01-01 12:17:03.374 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media
handler
2006-01-01 12:17:04.161 Starting media monitor.
2006-01-01 12:17:08.643 New DB connection, total: 3
XMLParse::LoadTheme(): Can't
open: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/MythCenter/music-ui.xml
XMLParse::LoadTheme(): Using default theme file
2006-01-01 12:17:18.062 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2006-01-01 12:17:18.063 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2006-01-01 12:19:31.759 Connecting to backend server: 10.25.68.3:6543
(try 1 of 5)
2006-01-01 12:19:31.765 Using protocol version 15
XMLParse::LoadTheme(): Can't
open: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/MythCenter/music-ui.xml
XMLParse::LoadTheme(): Using default theme file
2006-01-01 12:19:49.223 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2006-01-01 12:19:49.223 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.

Multimedia Systems Selector is all set to Alsa.
I managed to get MythVideo working by adding the -ao alsa switch. 
Not really seeing where I could enter this for MythMusic. 



Second, Watch TV kills Myth.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] yum.repos.d]$ mythfrontend
2006-01-01 11:45:33.526 New DB connection, total: 1
Total desktop width=1024, height=768, numscreens=1
2006-01-01 11:45:33.544 Running in a window
2006-01-01 11:45:33.550 Using screen 0, 1024x717 at 0,0
2006-01-01 11:45:33.556 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If you
see a long pause here it means the Schema is already locked and is being
upgraded by another Myth process.
2006-01-01 11:45:33.568 New DB connection, total: 2
2006-01-01 11:45:33.581 Database Schema upgrade complete, unlocking.
2006-01-01 11:45:33.582 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1
www.mythtv.org
2006-01-01 11:45:33.582 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2006-01-01 11:45:33.768 Switching to square mode (MythCenter)
2006-01-01 11:45:34.231 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2006-01-01 11:45:34.304 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media
handler
2006-01-01 11:45:34.305 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media
handler
mythtv: could not connect to socket
mythtv: No such file or directory
lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
2006-01-01 11:45:34.374 Joystick disabled.
2006-01-01 11:45:34.795 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media
handler
2006-01-01 11:45:35.584 Starting media monitor.
2006-01-01 11:45:38.896 Connecting to backend server: 10.25.68.3:6543
(try 1 of 5)
2006-01-01 11:45:38.903 Using protocol version 15
2006-01-01 11:45:38.943 Using protocol version 15
2006-01-01 11:45:41.141 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2006-01-01 11:45:41.141 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2006-01-01 11:45:41.164 Using XV port 69
Segmentation fault


Third, Watch Recordings blows up when I go to select a show to watch:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] yum.repos.d]$ mythfrontend
2006-01-01 12:25:29.280 New DB connection, total: 1
Total desktop width=1024, height=768, numscreens=1
2006-01-01 12:25:29.454 Running in a window
2006-01-01 12:25:29.615 Using screen 0, 1024x717 at 0,0
2006-01-01 12:25:29.621 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If you
see a long pause here it means the Schema is already locked and is being
upgraded by another Myth process.
2006-01-01 12:25:29.833 New DB connection, total: 2
2006-01-01 12:25:29.836 Database Schema upgrade complete, unlocking.
2006-01-01 12:25:30.044 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1
www.mythtv.org
2006-01-01 12:25:30.045 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2006-01-01 12:25:30.382 Switching to square mode (MythCenter)
mythtv: could not connect to socket
mythtv: No such file or directory
lirc_init

Re: [mythtv-users] Why FireWire makes sense even for those without HDTV displays

2006-01-02 Thread Yeechang Lee

Chris Ribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] says:
 Just to clarify this point, some cable providers (like mine -
 Comcast) only make OTA rebroadcasts available unprotected over
 firewire.  The only channels I get over firewire are CBS, ABC, NBC,
 FOX, and PBS.

Ouch! Too bad. As noted, this definitely varies, even within the
providers themselves; it's entirely possible that if you were to move
to the next county over Comcast's offerings (and the box, for that
matter) over FireWire might be completely diffferent. RCN, my
provider, in San Francisco is--shall we say--much more generous, but
RCN in NYC might be completely different; I really don't know.

 In addition to the substantial cost of the firewire solution (which
 I find bearable because I am 100+ miles from the broadcast towers),
 it is less than perfectly reliable in operation - although I cannot
 compare it to other HDTV capture solutions.

Neither can I, but I've had zero problems with FireWire since I
started running each hour with cron the little script comprised of
four plugctl lines that's been posted here several times, and even
before then any issues were infrequent, only occurred some of the
times I restarted mythbackend, and could be cured by rerunning
mythtv-setup to move the FireWire node used from 2 (the usual number
with my setup) to 1, then moving it back after the next MythTV box
reboot.

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Re: [mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV

Prefering MythMusic to iTunes takes a rare kind of insanity, perhaps. 

Other than that, why?  On 1/2/06, Matt Hannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matt Hannan wrote: Happy New Year to you all. I finally have FC4 running on my Mac Mini. MythTV is installed but I am having several issues. First, MythMusic emits just a horrible blast of static, even if the
 volume control is set to mute. Any one got this running? [EMAIL PROTECTED] yum.repos.d]$ mythfrontend 2006-01-01 12:17:01.546 New DB connection, total: 1 Total desktop width=1024, height=768, numscreens=1
 2006-01-01 12:17:01.651 Running in a window 2006-01-01 12:17:01.764 Using screen 0, 1024x717 at 0,0 2006-01-01 12:17:01.796 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If you see a long pause here it means the Schema is already locked and is being
 upgraded by another Myth process. 2006-01-01 12:17:01.797 New DB connection, total: 2 2006-01-01 12:17:01.804 Database Schema upgrade complete, unlocking. 2006-01-01 12:17:01.804 mythfrontend version: 
0.18.1.20050523-1 www.mythtv.org 2006-01-01 12:17:01.804 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2006-01-01 12:17:02.172 Switching to square mode (MythCenter)
 2006-01-01 12:17:02.751 Joystick disabled. mythtv: could not connect to socket mythtv: No such file or directory lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages 2006-01-01 12:17:02.870
 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin. 2006-01-01 12:17:02.897 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media handler 2006-01-01 12:17:02.898 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media
 handler 2006-01-01 12:17:03.374 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media handler 2006-01-01 12:17:04.161 Starting media monitor. 2006-01-01 12:17:08.643 New DB connection, total: 3
 XMLParse::LoadTheme(): Can't open: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/MythCenter/music-ui.xml XMLParse::LoadTheme(): Using default theme file 2006-01-01 12:17:18.062 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.
 2006-01-01 12:17:18.063 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2006-01-01 12:19:31.759 Connecting to backend server: 10.25.68.3:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2006-01-01 12:19:
31.765 Using protocol version 15 XMLParse::LoadTheme(): Can't open: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/MythCenter/music-ui.xml XMLParse::LoadTheme(): Using default theme file 2006-01-01 12:19:49.223 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.
 2006-01-01 12:19:49.223 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'. Multimedia Systems Selector is all set to Alsa. I managed to get MythVideo working by adding the -ao alsa switch. Not really seeing where I could enter this for MythMusic.
 Second, Watch TV kills Myth. [EMAIL PROTECTED] yum.repos.d]$ mythfrontend 2006-01-01 11:45:33.526 New DB connection, total: 1 Total desktop width=1024, height=768, numscreens=1
 2006-01-01 11:45:33.544 Running in a window 2006-01-01 11:45:33.550 Using screen 0, 1024x717 at 0,0 2006-01-01 11:45:33.556 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If you see a long pause here it means the Schema is already locked and is being
 upgraded by another Myth process. 2006-01-01 11:45:33.568 New DB connection, total: 2 2006-01-01 11:45:33.581 Database Schema upgrade complete, unlocking. 2006-01-01 11:45:33.582 mythfrontend version: 
0.18.1.20050523-1 www.mythtv.org 2006-01-01 11:45:33.582 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2006-01-01 11:45:33.768 Switching to square mode (MythCenter)
 2006-01-01 11:45:34.231 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin. 2006-01-01 11:45:34.304 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media handler 2006-01-01 11:45:34.305 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media
 handler mythtv: could not connect to socket mythtv: No such file or directory lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages 2006-01-01 11:45:34.374 Joystick disabled. 2006-01-01 11:45:
34.795 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media handler 2006-01-01 11:45:35.584 Starting media monitor. 2006-01-01 11:45:38.896 Connecting to backend server: 
10.25.68.3:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2006-01-01 11:45:38.903 Using protocol version 15 2006-01-01 11:45:38.943 Using protocol version 15 2006-01-01 11:45:41.141 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.
 2006-01-01 11:45:41.141 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2006-01-01 11:45:41.164 Using XV port 69 Segmentation fault Third, Watch Recordings blows up when I go to select a show to watch:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] yum.repos.d]$ mythfrontend 2006-01-01 12:25:29.280 New DB connection, total: 1 Total desktop width=1024, height=768, numscreens=1 2006-01-01 12:25:29.454 Running in a window
 2006-01-01 12:25:29.615 Using screen 0, 1024x717 at 0,0 2006-01-01 12:25:29.621 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If you see a long pause here it means the Schema is already locked and is being
 upgraded by another Myth process. 2006-01-01 12:25:29.833 New DB connection, total: 2 2006-01-01 12:25:29.836 Database Schema upgrade complete, unlocking. 2006-01-01 12:25:30.044 mythfrontend version: 
0.18.1.20050523-1 www.mythtv.org 2006-01-01 12:25:30.045 Enabled verbose msgs : important

Re: [mythtv-users] Easiest way to burn shows to DVD?

2006-01-02 Thread Rick


Dave Ansell wrote:

Hi,

Please can someone advise me the easiest way to copy shows to DVD 
before I waste loads more time and trash loads more DVDs!


My shows are on mythbackend (FC3), recorded from DBV-T  (UK) as 
mpeg2-TS.
 I have DVD burner in my frontend machine but not in the backend.  
Also I have a windows machine with DVD burner which can see the files 
via Samba share.


 So far I tried recording on NeroVision Express from my Nero 6 
software on the weindoze box.   This looked to be going fine at first - 
Nero understood all the files and when I previewed the project in Nero 
it looked fine.   Unfortunately after burning to DVD the sound and video 
were badly out of sync.  Wasted several DVDs trying diferent options but 
whatever I do I cant get them to sync.Don't understand this because, 
as I say it looks fine in preview.  Can only deduce things go wrong in 
the transcode/burn process.


 I then started trying to install the MythBurn plugin.  However, I 
got stuck with sorting out the compatability issues there seem to be 
between ImageMagick and dvdauthor packages.



   Anyway,  can anyone who has a simple working setup please advise?

Thanks,
Dave

PS  I dont really want to do a load of command line stuff every time I 
burn a show if at all possible.



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Get VideoReDo Plus, run your nuv through that, cut the commericials, 
then burn with Nerovision express 3.  I believe you can try out 
VideoReDo Plus without buying.  Once you try it you'll never look back


ciao,
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Re: [mythtv-users] Live Playback of HDTV isn't smooth

On Sunday 01 January 2006 18:22, Byron Poland wrote:
 I've got a backend with 3 hd tuners in it, and a frontend with an
 Athlon 2500+ (overclocked to 2700+)  I'm using an nvidia 6200 to drive
 a westinghouse lvm-37w1 at 1920x1080, with sound going out via ac3
 passthrough.  Recorded programs play back great.  However when I try
 watching live tv, (usually sports) things just aren't right.  Audio is
 fine, but video is somewhere between smooth and jerky.  Its tough to
 describe, but the more you watch it, the more it starts to hurt your
 eyes.  Sometimes it looks like things are going in slowmotion, and
 then it speeds up then back down.  Anyone have any suggestions?

are you playing back 1080i content? does 720p content make a difference?
(it should, 720p requires about 1/3 less CPU and an Athlon at 2700 should be 
fine for 720p, 1080i is pushing it without XvMC).

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: New issue affect old previously unaffected build [WAS Re: [mythtv] Re: Ticket #900: HDTV at greater than 1.0 speed stutters

On Sunday 01 January 2006 16:17, John P Poet wrote:
 On 1/1/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Sunday 01 January 2006 12:19, Steve Adeff wrote:
 
  I'm really getting frustrated, there must be something I'm missing. I
  went all the way back to 8199 and I'm still getting stuttering! I even
  rebooted the machine. I've tried both gcc-4.0 and gcc-3.3. I do a make
  uninstall and make distclean before each compile but they still have
  stuttering for 1080i output.
 
  Help!

 Steve,

 Try doing a clean check-out of the latest svn (svn co
 http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/mythtv), not a svn update.

 Then, try adding the attached patch to it: patch -p0  RingBuffer.patch.

 I still get an occational stutter, but they are very infrequent.

 John

I've been using clean check outs  (ie: svn -r 8350 co http://.), but I'll 
get a latest svn and apply your patch and see what happens, though like I 
said before, I'm getting it even with a verified working version of SVN, but 
at this point I'll try anything short of reformatting my system...

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Re: [mythtv-users] Hiding channels to avoid scheduling shows on them

2006-01-02 Thread Derek Battams


Quoting Moasat [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


Do I understand things wrong - that hiding a channel does not prevent the
scheduler from scheduling shows on it?  I have a custom record schedule to
record my favorite team on any channel, but the scheduler is picking up
games on Fox Sports Net channels that I currently do not get.

I thought that by hiding the channels, it would prevent the scheduler from
picking shows on those channels but it appears to be doing it anyway.
Shouldn't hiding be enough?  Or do I have to actually delete them?


I'm in the same situation, sort of, for recording Edmonton Oilers 
games, which I've solved using a custom record rule.  The situation for 
me is that Oilers games are broadcast on the regional Rogers Sportsnet 
channel and on the NHL Centre Ice package.  As a digital subscriber, I 
do get all of the regional Sportsnet channels, but NHL games are 
blacked out on the regional channel (since I don't live in the Edmonton 
region), but available on Centre Ice, which I subscribe to.  I don't 
want to simply remove the regional Sportsnet listings from Myth since I 
do get the channels, just not NHL games outside my region.  Here is the 
custom record rule I use to record Oilers games:


program.title = NHL Hockey AND program.subtitle LIKE %Edmonton% AND 
channel.callsign NOT IN (SPONET1, SPONET3, SPONET4)


Basically, this rule allows me to record all Edmonton games not 
appearing on the regional Sportsnet channels that would be blacked out 
for me.  Since I live in Ontario, SPONET2 is not included as I would 
get Oilers games on this channel and so that's why I didn't include 
SPONET2 in my rule.  You should be able to do the same with Fox 
Sports Net.


Hope that helps,

Derek
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Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Playback pixelation

On Sunday 01 January 2006 23:06, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote:
 As I said, it all works correctly under Windows Media Centre on the same
 harware/antenna.

 M.
 - Original Message -
 From: Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
 Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 1:24 PM
 Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Playback pixelation

  On Sunday 01 January 2006 19:52, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote:
  Howdy,

  I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions in regards to getting HDTV
  working properly with Mythtv.

  System Specs :

  Fedora Core 3
  Intel 845 Board
  P4 2.8
  512MB RAM
  PVR-350
  DVICO DVB-T Lite
  NVIDIA FX5200

  Whenever I play back HDTV, the screen appears to pixelate and not
  playback correctly. I have tested playback under a separate install of
  Windog Media Centre on the same PC and it works fine.

  CPU usage does not appear to be very high during HDTV playback under
  myth.

  Can anyone help?

  M.

  sounds like your signal is bad, have you checked to make sure your
  getting good signal quality?

Try using mplayer on the same recording and see if you still get pixelation. 

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Re: [mythtv-users] Single quote breaks myth2ipod script

On 1/2/06, Brad DerManouelian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Just got myth2ipod working. However, the test show I was using had a
 single quote in the name which broke the script.
[...]
 Just wanted to let the author know
 so the change could be included in future versions, but I didn't see
 any contact info on the myth2ipod page so I'm hoping they see it here.

It's a known issue. Unfotunately, the script hasn't been updated since
November. There's ongoing discussion int he mysettopbox.tv-Thread
linked from the myth2ipod page:

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=38860

Jens
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Re: [mythtv-users] Default input on TV tuner card

2006-01-02 Thread ozizaeb

Thanks for the suggestion.  Even though I put v4lctl -c /dev/video setinput 
Tuner 0 just before my backend startup, I still had the problem.  I did 
verify (with the v4lctl list command) that it did switch it from the default 
of Composite 0 to Tuner 0.  I still had to press C in live TV though.

When trying your suggestion I also found that in the KnoppMyth distro, it does 
bootup step to set ivtv parameters.  I set IVTV_TUNER='4' in 
my /etc/sysconfig/ivtv/cfg-0 and it still didn't solve my problem.


On Sunday 01 January 2006 21:48, William Kenworthy wrote:
 I have this problem for a v4l card and alsa.  I solved it by putting
 some lines in local.start (gentoo uses this file as the last part of the
 bootup sequence for user commands before starting X - other didtros do
 similar)

 /etc/conf.d/local.start ## myth related stuff
 _

 mtd -d

 amixer set Master,0 77%,77% unmute
 echo
 amixer set PCM,0 77%,77% unmute
 echo
 amixer set Line,0 77%,77% mute captur
 echo
 amixer set Capture,0 10%,10% captur

 v4lctl -c /dev/video setinput Composite1
 v4lctl -c /dev/video setnorm PAL
 

 On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 21:02 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I have a problem were after a reboot and startup of mythbackend and
  mythfrontend that the default input for the tuner card seems to get lost.
  After every reboot, when I go into Watch TV, I get snow.  C which
  corrects the problem and tunes to Tuner 0.  The weird thing is I have
  one capture card (Happauge PVR-250) and have already set the Default
  input field in mythtv-setup to Tuner 0 (because I'm running of the RCA
  jack of the PVR-250 card).  The other weird thing is that when I go into
  Watch TV after the reboot, the OSD shows Tuner 0 on it and when I hit
  C it still shows Tuner 0 but I get the picture.
 
  I'm currenty using the KnoppMyth R5A22 distro but I've also seen the same
  thing when I used to run Debian etch and the current svn build.
 
  Any thoughts?
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Re: [mythtv-users] Who do you have to kill to ACTUALLY get MythGames/xmame working?

2006-01-02 Thread Jeff Clemens

I just recently sat down and finally got Mythgame working in FC4. There were a few steps I had to go through to get it to work.

The first was to use a wrapper script I wrote to make Myth return an older version number.

Here's the script:

#!/bin/bash
# Shell Script to return old version number for Xmame if the version
# argument is given, otherwise run Xmame with all arguments
# this is a test version, may need to reconstruct the string without the
# -version argument, so that we can call Xmame even if the -version
# argument is given. This depends on the functionality of MythTV
# which is why we're writing this script in the first place

flag=0
for X in $*
do
if [ $X = '-version' ]; then
flag=1
fi
if [ $X = '--version' ]; then
flag=1
fi
if [ $X = '-history_file' ]; then
G=1
echo 1
else
if [ $G != 1 ]; then
export F=$F $X
else
G=0
echo 0
fi
fi

done
if [ $flag = 1 ]; then
echo 'xmame (x11) version 0.96 (May 11 2005)'
else
# echo OUTPUT:
# echo $F
xmame $F
fi
This is probably not the most elegant script, but I wrote it at 3AM one morning. It also gets rid of the --history_file option, since that doesn't seem to be supported in the new versions of xmame. I put this script in /usr/bin and changed the setup in mythgame to call /usr/bin/blah (the name of the script) instead of /usr/bin/xmame.

I also noticed that some of the settings from the hidden mythgame setup screen (from within mythgame, not mythgame setup, select system xmame, then press m) correspond to settings that xmame doesn't recognize, but there is a section for manually adding options to the command line on the last page. I had to set the joystick type to NONE, then manually set the joystick type to 2, since none of the possible settings in mythTV correspond to the correct joystick type that I need. (wireless Logitech Wingman)

To figure out what I needed to change, I watched the STDOUT from mythfrontend as I tried to select a mythgame game. It shows what the command line it's trying to run is, but doesn't show any Xmame error messages. I then switched to an xterm window, and pasted that command line into it. This allowed me to see the error messages and make the appropriate changes. I then made the changes directly to the command line until I could get xmame to come up cleanly.

Once I knew what the command line should be, I could make the appropriate changes in the regular and hidden mythgame setup screens to get myth to issue the proper command line.

The hidden setup screen was key in this, and it took me a while to find out how to access it. Again, to get to it, you have to have System as one of the searchcategories in the regular mythtv setup, then you just need to go to Media/PlayGames and select the category for Xmame games then press M on the keyboard.

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I don't likethe idea of having to use MythGame from CVS if possible.You couldn't just mixSVN MythGame with
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Re: [mythtv-users] pchdtv 3000 and channels.conf

2006-01-02 Thread Adam Gianola

here's a post I've found useful on this topic:http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/150073
On 1/1/06, Michael Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what database tables and columns would i feed the contents ofhttp://www.digitalregime.com/patches/channels.conf-qam-correct into?it looks like the : is the field separator.
On 12/31/05, Michael Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i don't even care about scanning.i just want to know why the import option isn't there for my atsc card, even though the source code says
 such an option should be showing up. On 12/31/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  On Saturday 31 December 2005 17:14, Michael Freeman wrote:
   i know that i can always fall back to using phpMyAdmin to just put the   damn info in the database, but i'd rather figure out why mythsetup is   just plain not happy.
 see http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/109 as an explanation of what   i'm trying to enable. On 12/31/05, Michael Haan 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On 12/31/05, Michael Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a generic 
channels.conf i got from   http://www.digitalregime.com/patches/channels.conf-qam-correct   
 My issue is getting the bleeping scan wizard to show the Import channels.conf option like all indications say it should for ATSC cards (which is what it's detecting my pcHDTV 3000 as).
 Using dvb-atsc-tools from   http://www.pchdtv.com/downloads.html, I was
able to find that channel 104 was one of my local stations (by capturing a short clip from it). I just want to import the 
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  That's not exactly how I did it.It was much more manual.never was able to get myth's scanning to work for the pcHDTV HD3000 card, I
  just created the db entries by hand from the channels.conf file, works like a  charm. Of course, at some point it would be nice for Myth to actually  properly scan with the HD3000...
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Re: [mythtv-users] Live Playback of HDTV isn't smooth

2006-01-02 Thread Byron Poland

On 1/2/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Sunday 01 January 2006 18:22, Byron Poland wrote:
  I've got a backend with 3 hd tuners in it, and a frontend with an
  Athlon 2500+ (overclocked to 2700+)  I'm using an nvidia 6200 to drive
  a westinghouse lvm-37w1 at 1920x1080, with sound going out via ac3
  passthrough.  Recorded programs play back great.  However when I try
  watching live tv, (usually sports) things just aren't right.  Audio is
  fine, but video is somewhere between smooth and jerky.  Its tough to
  describe, but the more you watch it, the more it starts to hurt your
  eyes.  Sometimes it looks like things are going in slowmotion, and
  then it speeds up then back down.  Anyone have any suggestions?

 are you playing back 1080i content? does 720p content make a difference?
 (it should, 720p requires about 1/3 less CPU and an Athlon at 2700 should be
 fine for 720p, 1080i is pushing it without XvMC).

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It's usually 720p, because I notice it most with ABC and FOX football.
 1080i isn't a problem since I'm not doing any deinterlacing, its all
done on the tv.
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[mythtv-users] @ PVR-250's only one loaded???

2006-01-02 Thread A JM

I have 2 PVR-250's in my box but only one is showing that it's Initialized anyone have any thoughts on why the second is initialized?#Modeprobe.conf
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv
alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtvWhen running '/sbin/lspci -v' both cards are active so they are identified.But I only see a single card when running the below? Any thoughts or ideas?# /bin/dmesg |grep Initialized

ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 250, card #0Thanks.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Live Playback of HDTV isn't smooth

On Monday 02 January 2006 13:21, Byron Poland wrote:
 On 1/2/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Sunday 01 January 2006 18:22, Byron Poland wrote:
   I've got a backend with 3 hd tuners in it, and a frontend with an
   Athlon 2500+ (overclocked to 2700+)  I'm using an nvidia 6200 to drive
   a westinghouse lvm-37w1 at 1920x1080, with sound going out via ac3
   passthrough.  Recorded programs play back great.  However when I try
   watching live tv, (usually sports) things just aren't right.  Audio is
   fine, but video is somewhere between smooth and jerky.  Its tough to
   describe, but the more you watch it, the more it starts to hurt your
   eyes.  Sometimes it looks like things are going in slowmotion, and
   then it speeds up then back down.  Anyone have any suggestions?
 
  are you playing back 1080i content? does 720p content make a difference?
  (it should, 720p requires about 1/3 less CPU and an Athlon at 2700 should
  be fine for 720p, 1080i is pushing it without XvMC).
 
  --
  Steve

 It's usually 720p, because I notice it most with ABC and FOX football.
  1080i isn't a problem since I'm not doing any deinterlacing, its all
 done on the tv.

deinterlacing being done on your tv... try playing back on a computer monitor.

-- 
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Re: [mythtv-users] removed store files,

2006-01-02 Thread falstaff

 
 
 I ran out of disk in my /mnt/store file system, so I removed two recordings
 I had in there. I have my disk space back, but both mythfrontend and mythweb
 see the two recordings as still there. How to I remove the information from
 the database?
 thanks
 
I found that removing records from the 'recorded' table in the mythconverg
database did what I needed.
I installed phpMyAdmin for mysql to look thru the database, and remove records.
thanks

Danny Aldham

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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 250 sound troubles

2006-01-02 Thread Peter Judge

On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 13:27 -0500, Tom E. Craddock Jr. wrote:

 
 Peter,
 
 Thanks for your time.  Yes I did try moving the msp3400-ivtv to the dir 
 you mention above, as well as at the end of my modprobe.conf, I already 
 have alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv.  I will try again to make sure that it 
 isnt it, thanks for your time.

This is probably stating the obvious, but I don't believe you should do
both.

-- Peter

 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Easiest way to burn shows to DVD?

2006-01-02 Thread Dave Ansell

- Original Message - 
From: Jens Baumeister [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Easiest way to burn shows to DVD?

Hi,
[snip]

Could you post the package versions and any error messages you get
while installing or running the software?
[snip]

Jens

-

Hi Jens,
   thanks for that.   Sounds like Mythburn is the way to go.

  My problem with install is that readin the HowTo
http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=MythTVBurn_Scripts_HowTo

it states:
 Take special note of dvdauthor/imagemagick versions: dvdauthor  0.6.12 
does NOT work with imagemagick  6.0.7.x.

Whereas I have installed:
dvdauthor-0.6.10
ImageMagick-6.2.2.0

I cannot find an update for dvdauthor beyond 0.6.11 which is the latest on 
sourceforge.
Likewise I dont know how to downgrade ImageMagick to 6.0.7.x or if doing so 
will break anything else.

Hence I stopped at this point in the howto.  Any further advice would be 
welcome, thanks.  eg, can I downgrade ImageMackick with apt-get?(sorry I 
am not a Linux expert I just try to follow the instructions !!)

thanks again,
Dave

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Re: [mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV


On Jan 2, 2006, at 2:05 PM, Matt Hannan wrote:


Well, count me as a rare insane person!
I can't for the life of me figure why people like iTunes.
It seems so kludged together and will not let me do what I want it  
to do.

NEVER LET SOFTWARE BOSS YOU AROUND.

Anyway, thanks for the reply, but I would rather like to keep this  
thread to fixing MythTV issues than iTunes bashing.


Matt


Now I'm wondering what MythMusic does that iTunes doesn't? I ask because
1) You're the first person I've heard that has complained about  
functionality in iTunes (other complaints like size/cpu usage, but  
never that one)
2) I don't like MythMusic, so maybe you've got some secret way of  
using it that makes it better that I haven't seen.


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Re: [mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV

Sorry for the confusion. The why part of my question was why are you trying to use a Mac Mini as a Myth box? 

I ask strictly out of curiousity, as I have no helpful advice to offer.On 1/2/06, Matt Hannan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:Well, count me as a rare insane person!I can't for the life of me figure why people like iTunes.
It seems so kludged together and will not let me do what I want it to do.NEVER LET SOFTWARE BOSS YOU AROUND.Anyway, thanks for the reply, but I would rather like to keep thisthread to fixing MythTV issues than iTunes bashing.
MattChris Ribe wrote: Prefering MythMusic to iTunes takes a rare kind of insanity, perhaps. Other than that, why? On 1/2/06, *Matt Hannan* 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Hannan wrote:  Happy New Year to you all. 
  I finally have FC4 running on my Mac Mini.  MythTV is installed but I am having several issues.   First, MythMusic emits just a horrible blast of static, even if the
  volume control is set to mute.  Any one got this running?   [EMAIL PROTECTED] yum.repos.d]$ mythfrontend  2006-01-01 12:17:01.546 New DB connection, total: 1
  Total desktop width=1024, height=768, numscreens=1  2006-01-01 12:17:01.651 Running in a window  2006-01-01 12:17:01.764 Using screen 0, 1024x717 at 0,0  2006-01-01 12:17:
01.796 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If you  see a long pause here it means the Schema is already locked and is being  upgraded by another Myth process.
  2006-01-01 12:17:01.797 New DB connection, total: 2  2006-01-01 12:17:01.804 Database Schema upgrade complete, unlocking.  2006-01-01 12:17:01.804 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1
  www.mythtv.org http://www.mythtv.org  2006-01-01 12:17:01.804 Enabled verbose msgs : important general  2006-01-01 12:17:
02.172 Switching to square mode (MythCenter)  2006-01-01 12:17:02.751 Joystick disabled.  mythtv: could not connect to socket  mythtv: No such file or directory  lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
  2006-01-01 12:17:02.870 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.  2006-01-01 12:17:02.897 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media  handler
  2006-01-01 12:17:02.898 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media  handler  2006-01-01 12:17:03.374 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media
  handler  2006-01-01 12:17:04.161 Starting media monitor.  2006-01-01 12:17:08.643 New DB connection, total: 3  XMLParse::LoadTheme(): Can't  open: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/MythCenter/music-
ui.xml  XMLParse::LoadTheme(): Using default theme file  2006-01-01 12:17:18.062 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.  2006-01-01 12:17:18.063 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
  2006-01-01 12:19:31.759 Connecting to backend server: 10.25.68.3:6543 http://10.25.68.3:6543  (try 1 of 5)
  2006-01-01 12:19: 31.765 Using protocol version 15  XMLParse::LoadTheme(): Can't  open: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/MythCenter/music-ui.xml  XMLParse::LoadTheme(): Using default theme file
  2006-01-01 12:19:49.223 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.  2006-01-01 12:19:49.223 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.   Multimedia Systems Selector is all set to Alsa.
  I managed to get MythVideo working by adding the -ao alsa switch.  Not really seeing where I could enter this for MythMusic.Second, Watch TV kills Myth.
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] yum.repos.d]$ mythfrontend  2006-01-01 11:45:33.526 New DB connection, total: 1  Total desktop width=1024, height=768, numscreens=1  2006-01-01 11:45:
33.544 Running in a window  2006-01-01 11:45:33.550 Using screen 0, 1024x717 at 0,0  2006-01-01 11:45:33.556 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If you  see a long pause here it means the Schema is already locked and
 is being  upgraded by another Myth process.  2006-01-01 11:45:33.568 New DB connection, total: 2  2006-01-01 11:45:33.581 Database Schema upgrade complete, unlocking.
  2006-01-01 11:45:33.582 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1  www.mythtv.org http://www.mythtv.org  2006-01-01 11:45:
33.582 Enabled verbose msgs : important general  2006-01-01 11:45:33.768 Switching to square mode (MythCenter)  2006-01-01 11:45:34.231 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
  2006-01-01 11:45:34.304 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media  handler  2006-01-01 11:45:34.305 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media
  handler  mythtv: could not connect to socket  mythtv: No such file or directory  lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages  2006-01-01 11:45:
34.374 Joystick disabled.  2006-01-01 11:45: 34.795 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media  handler  2006-01-01 11:45:35.584 Starting media monitor.  2006-01-01 11:45:
38.896 Connecting to backend server: 10.25.68.3:6543 http://10.25.68.3:6543  (try 1 of 5)  2006-01-01 11:45:
38.903 Using protocol version 15  2006-01-01 11:45:38.943 Using protocol version 15  2006-01-01 11:45:41.141 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.  2006-01-01 11:45:41.141 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
  2006-01-01 11:45:41.164 Using

Re: [mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV


My setup has the Mini in the living room.
I am trying to get it to the point where I do not have to leave Myth in 
order to listen to music.
There currently is, to the best of my knowledge, no plugin for music in 
MythTV for OSX.
This is one of the reasons why I loaded FC4, so I can get full MythTV 
support.


I have been using MythTV since the early days, but always on x86 hardware.
The last time I had MythTV-x86 running in the living room, MythMusic was 
the most used plugin.

I have no doubt that this will be any different now.

I am trying to get the living room friendly Mini to play nice with MythTV.
This is the machines primary function.

Matt



Brad DerManouelian wrote:

On Jan 2, 2006, at 2:05 PM, Matt Hannan wrote:


Well, count me as a rare insane person!
I can't for the life of me figure why people like iTunes.
It seems so kludged together and will not let me do what I want it  
to do.

NEVER LET SOFTWARE BOSS YOU AROUND.

Anyway, thanks for the reply, but I would rather like to keep this  
thread to fixing MythTV issues than iTunes bashing.


Matt


Now I'm wondering what MythMusic does that iTunes doesn't? I ask because
1) You're the first person I've heard that has complained about  
functionality in iTunes (other complaints like size/cpu usage, but  
never that one)
2) I don't like MythMusic, so maybe you've got some secret way of  
using it that makes it better that I haven't seen.




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Re: [mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV


Well, because I like the fact that the Mini is dead silent.
Very living room friendly.

There are a bunch of folks actually running Linux on the Mini. FC3  4, 
Ubuntu, straight up Deb, Suse, etc.
But my question is MythTV related. FC4 is running fine on it, but I have 
issues with MythTV, so I post here.


Matt



Chris Ribe wrote:
Sorry for the confusion.  The why part of my question was why are 
you trying to use a Mac Mini as a Myth box? 


I ask strictly out of curiousity, as I have no helpful advice to offer.

On 1/2/06, *Matt Hannan* [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Well, count me as a rare insane person!
I can't for the life of me figure why people like iTunes.
It seems so kludged together and will not let me do what I want it
to do.
NEVER LET SOFTWARE BOSS YOU AROUND.

Anyway, thanks for the reply, but I would rather like to keep this
thread to fixing MythTV issues than iTunes bashing.

Matt


Chris Ribe wrote:
 Prefering MythMusic to iTunes takes a rare kind of insanity,
perhaps.

 Other than that, why?





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[mythtv-users] Newbie hard drive question - PVR350 / KnoppMyth


Happy New Year,


long time listener, first time caller here

So a co worker (hey Todd) got me all excited about MythTV and over the 
past few weeks I have successfully set up my own box using KnoppMyth and 
a PVR350. Here is my rig.


Asus P4S8X Mother Board
Nvidia Ti4200 8X AGP 128 MB Video Card
512 MB DDR SDRAM
One WD 20 gig ATA 100 HD
One Maxtor 100 gig SATA HD
Happauge PVR350
KnoppMyth RA526


So far I have all the basics working. I had originally had it hook up
to a 17 inch CRT monitor while I was building and testing, but just 
recently got the TV Out working and hooked it up to my TV set. But this
is where my troubles have started. First off it has started to freeze 
during playback of recorded shows and during DVD rips (something that

never happened before).

Here is my file system.

/root, /cache and /swap are all on my WD 20 gig harddrive on IDE0
/myth is on a SATA 100 gig harddrive

I suspect most of my problems are because of the SATA and was wondering 
how to go about trouble shooting something like this. I have used Linux 
for a long time but I am by no means an expect. I believe my kernel was 
compiled with support for my hard drive which sits ona Raid0 by itself.  
By the way could this be a problem having a single drive as a Raid0? 
Finally, would my rig work better if I set both drives up under LVM as 
one drive and is this possible to do this with a one hard drive on a IDE 
channel and one on a Raid?


Hope this all makes sense.

Thanks so much in advance,

Philip


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Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie hard drive question - PVR350 / KnoppMyth

2006-01-02 Thread Christopher Farnham

Do you have any messages in your /var/log/messages file or otherpertinent files around the time that your system freezes?-- Christopher Farnham[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[mythtv-users] Problem populating mythtv with channel information (missing PIDS)

2006-01-02 Thread LJ Wilkinson

I apologize for asking a question that I know has been asked before, but 
I can't find a solution that will work for me. I also apologize for 
being as verbose as I am, but I feel I am doing something fundamentally 
stupid and I don't want to leave out my mistake. Essentially, my problem 
is that I can not get the correct channel information info mythtv 
(missing PIDS messages). Here's the story:


I have a HD-3000 tuner card with the latest firmware installed. I'm 
running fedora core 4 installed as per the wilsonnet instructions. I am 
using the latest (non-cvs) version of mythtv as of a week ago. I am 
trying to capture ATSC OTA stations (I live in the US). I have created a 
channels.conf file using the tools found in dvb-apps. I am able to store 
a stream as an mpeg using the dvb-apps software and watch said mpeg and 
all is groovy. The card seems to be working well and I have good signal 
strength (85% +) on most channels.


The problem is occurring when I try to populate my channel list in myth. 
Here is what I have tried from mythtv-setup:

1. Clear all settings upon mythtv-setup startup.
2. Fill out the general settings.
3. Under the capture card settings, use the DVB card type (the pchdtv 
forums are quite clear on not using the hd-3000 card type). Under 
advanced, click the “record in TS format...” checkbox as suggested by 
several people at various forums.
4. Under the video source setup, fill out a name, use data direct and 
populate my zap2it login info, click “Retrieve Lineups.” The lineup box 
fills in correctly with my information. The channel frequency table is 
set at “default” which should be us-bcast from my general settings
5. Under Input sources, change the video source to the one created in 
step 4 and change the staring channel to 41
6. Exit mythtv-setup, start mythbackend, run mythfilldatabase. The 
mythconverge.channel table is now populated with 13 rows
7. Get back into mythtv-setup. Do a full channel scan. The 
mythconverge.dtv_multiplex table is now populated with about 10 rows. 
The mplexid, serviceid, atscsrcid columns are all null in the channel table
8. When I start the mythbackend and then mythfrontend, I'm getting 
errors about PIDS not existing.


After getting this error, I try the following:
1. Find the row in the channel table that I want to use as a test. 
Delete all other rows (I'm trying reduce the possible sources for 
error). Change the channum from 4_1 to 41 because I saw a post somewhere 
saying that at some point mythtv had issues with special characters.
2. Find the row in dtv_multiplex table that has the correct frequency 
based on my channels.conf file. Delete all the other rows. Update my 
channel row and set mplexid equal to the dtv_multiplex mplex id.
3. Change the serviceid to “1” in the channel row. I did this based on a 
forum entry that suggested that you use “1” for the first mutiplexed 
sub-channel within a channel and “2” for second, etc. I suspect that 
this is where I have gone wrong, but I don't know what to do instead.
4. When I start the mythbackend and then the mythfrontend and watch 
livetv, I get the following output from mythbackend:


[EMAIL PROTECTED] dvbtraffic]$ mythbackend
2006-01-02 12:07:26.121 New DB connection, total: 1
Starting up as the master server.
2006-01-02 12:07:26.183 New DB connection, total: 2
2006-01-02 12:07:26.193 DVB#0 DVB SI Table Parser Started
2006-01-02 12:07:26.194 DVB#0 Using DVB card 0, with frontend Oren 
OR51132 VSB/QAM Frontend.

2006-01-02 12:07:26.197 New DB connection, total: 3
2006-01-02 12:07:27.492 DVB#0 DVB signal da5d | snr fa45 | ber 0 | unc 0
2006-01-02 12:07:27.492 DVB#0 Status: LOCK.
2006-01-02 12:07:27.492 DVB#0 Multiplex Locked
2006-01-02 12:07:51.696 DVB#0 Timeout Getting PMT
2006-01-02 12:07:51.696 DVB#0 ERROR - Tuning for channel #41 failed.
2006-01-02 12:07:51.706 New DB scheduler connection
2006-01-02 12:07:51.718 New DB connection, total: 4
2006-01-02 12:07:51.720 mythbackend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1 
www.mythtv.org

2006-01-02 12:07:51.720 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2006-01-02 12:07:51.916 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2006-01-02 12:07:51.916 adding: mythtv.ljwilkinson.com as a client 
(events: 0)

2006-01-02 12:07:51.948 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2006-01-02 12:07:51.948 adding: mythtv.ljwilkinson.com as a client 
(events: 1)

2006-01-02 12:07:51.968 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2006-01-02 12:07:51.968 adding: mythtv.ljwilkinson.com as a client 
(events: 0)

2006-01-02 12:07:51.992 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2006-01-02 12:07:51.992 adding: mythtv.ljwilkinson.com as a client 
(events: 0)
2006-01-02 12:07:52.008 adding: mythtv.ljwilkinson.com as a remote 
ringbuffer

2006-01-02 12:07:52.032 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2006-01-02 12:07:52.085 DVB#0 Recorder: Card opened successfully (using 
TS mode).
2006-01-02 12:07:52.087 DVB#0 ERROR - No PIDS set, please correct your 
channel setup.

2006-01-02 12:07:53.092 DVB#0 WARNING - No

Re: [mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV


On Jan 2, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Matt Hannan wrote:


My setup has the Mini in the living room.
I am trying to get it to the point where I do not have to leave  
Myth in order to listen to music.
There currently is, to the best of my knowledge, no plugin for  
music in MythTV for OSX.
This is one of the reasons why I loaded FC4, so I can get full  
MythTV support.


I have been using MythTV since the early days, but always on x86  
hardware.
The last time I had MythTV-x86 running in the living room,  
MythMusic was the most used plugin.

I have no doubt that this will be any different now.

I am trying to get the living room friendly Mini to play nice with  
MythTV.

This is the machines primary function.

Matt


Still not sure what you meant by [iTunes]... will not let me do what  
I want it  to do.


That aside, my solution would have been to get MythMusic working  
under OS X. :) I don't think people have ventured into making this  
work because most people would rather just run iTunes - that's why I  
never bothered, anyway.


I agree that the mini makes a VERY nice (small, quiet, stylish, nice  
price point) machine to sit in your living room.


Now onto the hopefully helpful part:
Do you have /dev/adsp? If so, try that as your audio device instead  
of /dev/dsp for MythMusic.



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Re: [mythtv-users] Why FireWire makes sense even for those without HDTV displays

2006-01-02 Thread Alex Malinovich

On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 04:41 -0800, Yeechang Lee wrote:
 Alex Malinovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] says:
--snip--
  Would I still get the true HD signal out to the TV?
 
 As mentioned I don't have an HDTV display right now, so I don't know
 for sure, but I can tell you that the box still happily sends out
 non-HDTV signals from its rear outputs. The same channel as whatever
 the MythTV box has set the cable box to, of course.

I'll be anxiously awaiting you getting your new TV because this setup
sounds like EXACTLY what I want to do. Please let us (well, me :) ) know
as soon as you get it up and running with the new TV and any problems
you encounter along the way. In the meantime, I'm going to get on the
phone with my cable provider and see what they can tell me about the
FireWire output on my box. Thanks again for all the info.

-- 
Alex Malinovich
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[mythtv-users] Redirecting PVR-350 audio to soundcard for live TV / playback

2006-01-02 Thread Jan Kat

After googling this problem for over a week, I'm beginning to think
there is no solution.  But hopefully someone here can tell me once and
for all if this can be done or if it can't and I just need to let it go
and move on.

My setup:

Compaq DeskPro EN SFF - 400MHz Celeron (Mendocino), 128MB RAM, ES1869
onboard sound

WinTV PVR-350 (model 48132, rev. K268) w/ tuner LG TAPE H001F MK3 (type
47)

Gentoo 2005.4, kernel 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 (gentoo-sources)

IVTV 0.4.0 (latest from IVTV site)

MythTV 0.18.1-r1 (emerged)


My problem (and some history):

The PC is a small form factor originally intended as a network
appliance.  Painted black, it looks sharp with my other stereo
components.  However, there is no audio line-in on the rear bezel nor
pinned out on the motherboard.

I started with a 2.4 kernel but couldn't tune in any stations; an
upgrade to 2.6 seems to have fixed that (though it could have been one
of the many other things I tried).  Everything works, but the audio from
live TV and playback comes through the PVR-350 (in MythVideo, mplayer
plays video through the PVR-350 and audio through the ES1869).

As noted, I can't loopback audio from the PVR-350 to the ES1869 as there
is no line-in.  I know that audio can be pulled directly over the PCI
bus from bttv cards; I'm wondering if the same can be done with a
PVR-350, and how I would set that up?

I read that MythTV 0.18.1 fixes live TV audio loss when viewing mpeg2
transport streams.  That sure sounds like my problem, but maybe I've
misconfigured something so that bug fix isn't implemented?  Maybe
Gentoo's MythTV-0.18.1-r1 is configured a certain way and I need to
unmerge it and download and compile directly from the MythTV site?

I have one PCI slot free so I can put another sound card in, but I find
this solution distasteful as I already have a perfectly good (if
incomplete) sound card on the motherboard (which took some effort to set
up, too).  But if I have no choice, I have no choice.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Redirecting PVR-350 audio to soundcard for live TV / playback

2006-01-02 Thread Joe Votour



--- Jan Kat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 After googling this problem for over a week, I'm
 beginning to think
 there is no solution.  But hopefully someone here
 can tell me once and
 for all if this can be done or if it can't and I
 just need to let it go
 and move on.
 
 My setup:
 
 Compaq DeskPro EN SFF - 400MHz Celeron (Mendocino),
 128MB RAM, ES1869
 onboard sound
 
 WinTV PVR-350 (model 48132, rev. K268) w/ tuner LG
 TAPE H001F MK3 (type
 47)
 
 Gentoo 2005.4, kernel 2.6.14-gentoo-r5
 (gentoo-sources)
 
 IVTV 0.4.0 (latest from IVTV site)
 
 MythTV 0.18.1-r1 (emerged)
 
 
 My problem (and some history):
 
 The PC is a small form factor originally intended as
 a network
 appliance.  Painted black, it looks sharp with my
 other stereo
 components.  However, there is no audio line-in on
 the rear bezel nor
 pinned out on the motherboard.
 
 I started with a 2.4 kernel but couldn't tune in any
 stations; an
 upgrade to 2.6 seems to have fixed that (though it
 could have been one
 of the many other things I tried).  Everything
 works, but the audio from
 live TV and playback comes through the PVR-350 (in
 MythVideo, mplayer
 plays video through the PVR-350 and audio through
 the ES1869).
 
 As noted, I can't loopback audio from the PVR-350 to
 the ES1869 as there
 is no line-in.  I know that audio can be pulled
 directly over the PCI
 bus from bttv cards; I'm wondering if the same can
 be done with a
 PVR-350, and how I would set that up?
 
 I read that MythTV 0.18.1 fixes live TV audio loss
 when viewing mpeg2
 transport streams.  That sure sounds like my
 problem, but maybe I've
 misconfigured something so that bug fix isn't
 implemented?  Maybe
 Gentoo's MythTV-0.18.1-r1 is configured a certain
 way and I need to
 unmerge it and download and compile directly from
 the MythTV site?
 
 I have one PCI slot free so I can put another sound
 card in, but I find
 this solution distasteful as I already have a
 perfectly good (if
 incomplete) sound card on the motherboard (which
 took some effort to set
 up, too).  But if I have no choice, I have no
 choice.
 
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You have two options here:
1. Don't use the PVR-350 MPEG-2 decoder for watching
shows.  Use Xv that is provided with the newest
drivers (0.4.x).
2. Put in a second sound card and use it for looping
the sound.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Sweet! PC HD3000 QAM_256 working, now about importing those channels?

2006-01-02 Thread Adam Gianola

I just wanted to thank you all for this thread, as it helped me get my hd3000 working. i had tried working on it long ago and became frustrated and had only slight success, but now it's working great using these instructions. I have comcast and they don't help out by sending the psip information. i get the standard broadcast hd stations now! Best of all, i get many of the regular analog stations too, which look even better than on the analog capture card, the analog tv, or even the digital-cable hd-dvr box.
Thanks again!AdamOn 9/16/05, Jason Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Awesome I'm glad you got it working.I threw thistogether off the top of my head while at work today...I just went through this last week and it was prettydifficult to gather all of the info to make it work.
Along with a lot of trail and error.Another Tip.It may or may not apply.There is a nifty shortcut toquckly gather all of you QAM freq if you have an HDSTB.I have a Scientific-Atlanta 3250HD.The SA box
is all I can speak to but I'm sure other STBs willhave something similar.If you can get into thestatus menu of you STB you can tune one of you HDchannels and it will display the QAM freq.Its kind of nice when trying to find which channel is
on what freq.For example channel 708 is my localHDCBS channel via my STB.I tune the STB to 708, thenhold the + button on the STB until the mail ledflashes the hit the info button on the STB.Wala! the
status menu.Check www.avsforum.com for details onhow to get the status menus on your specific model.This has saved me a bunch of time on finding channels. Now all I have to do is use the STB to find the freq.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie hard drive question - PVR350 / KnoppMyth

Not that I recall. I mostly look at /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend for 
errrors but I think it freezes before

it has time to spit out any problems. At least that is my best guess.

Any idea about SATA hardrives and IDE harddrives sharing the load? I'm 
wondering if there

is a problem there.

Philip

Christopher Farnham wrote:


Do you have any messages in your /var/log/messages file or other
pertinent files around the time that your system freezes?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Redirecting PVR-350 audio to soundcard for live TV / playback



On Jan 2, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Joe Votour wrote:


You have two options here:
1. Don't use the PVR-350 MPEG-2 decoder for watching
shows.  Use Xv that is provided with the newest
drivers (0.4.x).
2. Put in a second sound card and use it for looping
the sound.

-- Joe


His CPU speed won't support option 1. A third option is to use an  
external mixer. Plug the audio from your PVR-350 and the audio from  
your onboard audio into the mixer and then out from your mixer to  
your TV/receiver/whatever you're listening on. I did this for a while  
and worked like a charm until I figured out my sound card loop issues  
(lots of noise = wrong alsa mixer settings).


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Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie hard drive question - PVR350 / KnoppMyth

2006-01-02 Thread Christopher Farnham

Any idea about SATA hardrives and IDE harddrives sharing the load? I'mwondering if there
is a problem there.Nope, no idea. I was asking about your /var/log/messages because I have a similarsetup (except I have one drive). When the system froze it dumped errors out to my
messages file which I was able to track down to incompatible ivtv drivers with myPVR350 firmware. Updating my firmware fixed the problem.But if you aren't getting logging messages then that may not be it.
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythlcd

2006-01-02 Thread Robin Gilks


 Hello List,

 Is there a way to use mythlcd with the stable 0.18.1 code ?

 I don't want to run the CVS version if possible


Any reason you particularly want the seperate task driving the LCD? 0.18.1
will already talk to an LCD device through LCDproc - its just that the SVN
code has factored out a lot of the LCD stuff to make it easier to support
and to add new features (like better operation with MythMusic).

Tick the check box on the last 'appearance' setup screen to enable the LCD
stuff and select the items you want displaying...

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Re: [mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV


Brad DerManouelian wrote:

On Jan 2, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Matt Hannan wrote:


My setup has the Mini in the living room.
I am trying to get it to the point where I do not have to leave  Myth 
in order to listen to music.
There currently is, to the best of my knowledge, no plugin for  music 
in MythTV for OSX.
This is one of the reasons why I loaded FC4, so I can get full  
MythTV support.


I have been using MythTV since the early days, but always on x86  
hardware.
The last time I had MythTV-x86 running in the living room,  MythMusic 
was the most used plugin.

I have no doubt that this will be any different now.

I am trying to get the living room friendly Mini to play nice with  
MythTV.

This is the machines primary function.

Matt


Still not sure what you meant by [iTunes]... will not let me do what  
I want it  to do.


That aside, my solution would have been to get MythMusic working  
under OS X. :) I don't think people have ventured into making this  
work because most people would rather just run iTunes - that's why I  
never bothered, anyway.


I agree that the mini makes a VERY nice (small, quiet, stylish, nice  
price point) machine to sit in your living room.


Now onto the hopefully helpful part:
Do you have /dev/adsp? If so, try that as your audio device instead  
of /dev/dsp for MythMusic.



The goal is a dedicated MythTV system running in the living room.
That being said, MythMusic should be along for the ride, ie: auto boot 
into MythTV and just run from there.


iTunes has MANY down sides. I no longer have it running even on my 
Windows systems, and, obviously, my Mac is now a Penguin.
I do not feel I can support any software that insists on telling me how 
I can handle my data files, mp3s included. I should be the ultimate 
master of how my systems run, not the other way around.
I was running iTunes off of an NFS share, but I want the WHOLE MythTV 
experience. Playing music meant exiting Myth and launching iTunes.

http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MythOnMacOsx
No Music support.
My OS X finally went buggy, so I loaded FC4 hoping for media center 
nirvana.

Maybe it isn't there yet.

Basically, this is not a massive issue, but rather a configuration question.
MythMusic issues static, WatchTV blows up, Watch Recordings does the 
same. Pretty much the core three things I love MythTV for!


Let's stay on topic, folks. This is not an iTunes issue, but rather a 
MythTV one.


I will look into that /dev/adsp, but I do not seem to have that as an 
option in mythsetup or frontend utilities. Are you successfully running 
MythTV on a Mac?


Am I really the only one running MythTV on a Mac Mini? It seems from the 
Google searches that I would be a late-comer.


Again, Happy New Year to all and thanks for the replies.

Matt

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Re: [mythtv-users] Lost Sound on PVR-350

2006-01-02 Thread Scot L. Harris

On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 11:42, Kirk Bocek wrote:
 I recently tried upgrading ivtv from 0.4.0 to 0.4.1 and the kernel from 
 2.6.13.2 to 2.6.14.4. In the process I somehow lost sound on live tv and 
   while playing back recorded programs that I am sure have sound.
 
 I still have sound through Xine and MythMusic.
 
 I have rolled everything back to 0.4.0 and the original kernel but still 
 don't have sound on the recordings.
 
 I am at a loss what to do next. Does anyone have any suggestions?
 
 Myth is installed from the ATrpms collection. Along the way I noticed 
 that a mix of i386 and x86_64 RPMs were installed. I cleaned that up and 
 only x86_64 versions are left. Could I have missed something there?
 
 Use PVR-350 TV out/MPEG decoder *is* selected. TV audio through 
 PVR-350 is *not* selected. Alsamixer settings should be correct since I 
 am getting sound out of Xine and MythMusic.
 
 The correct msp3400.ko is being loaded.
 
 Any ideas?

It has been a long time since I messed with my mythtv setup but I seem
to recall having to specify the DSP device for audio in one of the
mythtv setup menus.  Seems like this was a dummy sound device.  Once
that was set I had sound out the PVR-350 output.



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Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie hard drive question - PVR350 / KnoppMyth



Not that I recall. I mostly look at /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend for 
errrors but I think it freezes before

it has time to spit out any problems. At least that is my best guess.

Any idea about SATA hardrives and IDE harddrives sharing the load? I'm 
wondering if there

is a problem there.


Do you have any messages in your /var/log/messages file or other
pertinent files around the time that your system freezes?


Does that motherboard have a VIA chipset? 
Well documented cause of problems...

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: New issue affect old previously unaffected build [WAS Re: [mythtv] Re: Ticket #900: HDTV at greater than 1.0 speed stutters

On Sunday 01 January 2006 16:17, John P Poet wrote:
 On 1/1/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Sunday 01 January 2006 12:19, Steve Adeff wrote:
 
  I'm really getting frustrated, there must be something I'm missing. I
  went all the way back to 8199 and I'm still getting stuttering! I even
  rebooted the machine. I've tried both gcc-4.0 and gcc-3.3. I do a make
  uninstall and make distclean before each compile but they still have
  stuttering for 1080i output.
 
  Help!

 Steve,

 Try doing a clean check-out of the latest svn (svn co
 http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/mythtv), not a svn update.

 Then, try adding the attached patch to it: patch -p0  RingBuffer.patch.

 I still get an occational stutter, but they are very infrequent.

 John

no go, but like I said, its stuttering on 8306 which was fine for me for 2 
weeks. I don't think this is directly Myth's fault, I just don't know what 
else it could be other than perhaps the version of the compilers I'm using 
since thats all I updated.

It also only occurs with 1080i content, 720p and below is fine (now...). 1080i 
content is now peaking my CPU where it stutters where before it wasn't.

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Re: [mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV



On Jan 2, 2006, at 3:25 PM, Matt Hannan wrote:


The goal is a dedicated MythTV system running in the living room.
That being said, MythMusic should be along for the ride, ie: auto  
boot into MythTV and just run from there.


I agree.



iTunes has MANY down sides. I no longer have it running even on my  
Windows systems, and, obviously, my Mac is now a Penguin.
I do not feel I can support any software that insists on telling me  
how I can handle my data files, mp3s included. I should be the  
ultimate master of how my systems run, not the other way around.


Ok, so nothing specific. Just a general I don't like it because I  
don't like it or I don't like it because I didn't read enough to  
figure out how to become the 'ultimate master' of my data files with  
iTunes. I can accept that.


I was running iTunes off of an NFS share, but I want the WHOLE  
MythTV experience. Playing music meant exiting Myth and launching  
iTunes.

http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MythOnMacOsx
No Music support.
My OS X finally went buggy, so I loaded FC4 hoping for media center  
nirvana.


Went buggy. OK...


Maybe it isn't there yet.


MythTV is still pre-1.0 release, you know.

Basically, this is not a massive issue, but rather a configuration  
question.
MythMusic issues static, WatchTV blows up, Watch Recordings does  
the same. Pretty much the core three things I love MythTV for!


Let's stay on topic, folks. This is not an iTunes issue, but rather  
a MythTV one.


I will look into that /dev/adsp, but I do not seem to have that as  
an option in mythsetup or frontend utilities. Are you successfully  
running MythTV on a Mac?


I'm running Front end on 3 Macs under OS X, but just for recorded  
shows and live TV. Your issue isn't a Mac issue. It's a FC4/Mac  
hardware issue, so I can only guess at what's wrong. I based my /dev/ 
adsp hunch on what I saw in my x86 FC4 setup.


Am I really the only one running MythTV on a Mac Mini? It seems  
from the Google searches that I would be a late-comer.


You're likely the only one wanting to run MythMusic on a mini with  
FC4 instead of OS X. Others will learn from your experiences. :)




Again, Happy New Year to all and thanks for the replies.

Matt


-Brad

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[mythtv-users] Lots of prebuffering pause and xvMC error

2006-01-02 Thread Rob

As per my previous post, I'm still struggling with getting smooth HDTV
playback.   The system is a 2.8ghz P4 with a FX5200 video card with the
Nvidia 7676 driver.  I am currently using the SVN head revision, but my
problems were there with the 0.18.1 version as well.  

When xvMC is enabled, my CPU usage is only 35-45% playing 1080i.  However, I
get rashes of 

2006-01-02 12:40:54.470 NVP: prebuffering pause
2006-01-02 12:40:54.587 NVP: prebuffering pause
2006-01-02 12:40:54.702 NVP: prebuffering pause
2006-01-02 12:40:54.754 NVP: prebuffering pause
2006-01-02 12:40:54.871 NVP: prebuffering pause
2006-01-02 12:40:54.987 NVP: prebuffering pause

Sometimes several per second, and the audio gets garbled when it gets bad.
I can sometimes tune away and tune back to a channel and it will play
smoothly for some period of time before it breaks up again.Extra audio
buffering is enabled.  If I disable extra audio buffering, video runs in
slow motion.   I've tried with and without xvMC, no matter what I do my
system has trouble keeping up with the audio.  I've tried ALSA output as
well as OSS.

The same happens on 720p channels that use even less CPU.   I don't get it?
I've verified that AGP is on, with 8x with fast writes and sideband enabled
(and also without).  

Another interesting error in the log:

2006-01-02 12:08:04.864 VideoOutputXv Error: ProcessFrameXvMC: Failed to get
OSD lock

I can't find any references to this error anywhere on the net.  The
black-and-white OSD does appear.  I'm not sure it's important although I
would like the OSD to perform better than it does.  Any thoughts?


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Re: [mythtv-users] ssh attack

2006-01-02 Thread Mike


Darren Hart wrote:

I'm sure nobody here is dumb enough to do this, but since I was, 
thought I'd pass the word.


There is an ssh attack going around with a brute force login using 
2187 different username/password pairs, one such pair happens to be:


mythtv:mythtv

Likle I said, I'm sure noone else but me thought that was a good idea 
:-)  Once in they must ahve found some app to exploit and get root, 
then it starts scanning addresses - to propogate I guess.  There are 
some indications that cupsys may have been the culprit there.  Anyway, 
just a heads up, it manifests itself with several sshf processes 
running (78 in my case) and lots of failed login attempts in 
/var/log/auth.log*


--Darren



A good thing to do is block out all ssh logins from accounts you don't 
want ssh from. And they dont really do it by exploiting root first. 
There are a few worms out there that find holes in your run of the mill 
php applications like cacti or phpbb. It essentually cats a perl script 
in tmp and then inits it with perl as a process. Then that totally 
oblivios server sits there with a user process that runs out checking 
username and passwords on random ip's to see if they get in on anything. 
Then it notifys whoever set themselves up with the ip username and 
password so they can do 'whatever' on that machine depending on how they 
got it.


Basic rule of thumb with ssh, don't let anything expect predefined 
accounts to log into ssh (expecially root). You log in with your 
predefined account and su to root when you need it. And don't have blank 
or matching username/passwords.


After that since my usernames and passwords are obscure anyways, I 
simply ignore these attecks. (not that I leave mythtv open to the 
outside anyways, I use mod_proxy from an external apache system to 
forward requests to and from the myth backends web interface. I always 
have to get around via that one gateway machine that I have hardened. 
Then I setup logcheck, logwatch, snmp and snort to review what is 
happening for me. Atleast make sure your using logwatch to review logs 
each day. Then you won't have too many suprises. But these attacks with 
mythtv:mythtv have been going on for quite some time now.


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[mythtv-users] Re: Frontend crash when watching live TV

2006-01-02 Thread Fedor Pikus

I have some more information which will hopefully help to diagnose the
problem: IVTV problems do not appear to be critical, I can record on
both tuners (one of the tuners now gives be a narrow line of blinking
pixels along the top).

The only thing I cannot do at all is watch live TV (I can even watch a
recording which is being recorded, only not live TV). Mythfrontend
freezes for a while, then crashes. The log contains this:

X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
 Major opcode: 141
 Minor opcode: 14
 Resource id: 0x1ae
2006-01-02 12:30:31.925 Couldn't get the color key color, and we need it.
You likely won't get any video.
2006-01-02 12:30:32.182 Realtime priority would require SUID as root.
2006-01-02 12:30:32.183 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2006-01-02 12:30:32.440 Video timing method: SGI OpenGL
2006-01-02 12:30:32.662 prebuffering pause
2006-01-02 12:30:32.665 WriteAudio: buffer underrun
2006-01-02 12:30:52.183 ReadStringList timeout (quick).
Remote encoder not responding.
2006-01-02 12:30:52.183 WriteStringList: Bad socket
2006-01-02 12:30:52.183 ReadStringList: Bad socket
Remote encoder not responding.
2006-01-02 12:30:52.184 WriteStringList: Bad socket
2006-01-02 12:30:52.184 ReadStringList: Bad socket
Remote encoder not responding.
ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
2006-01-02 12:30:52.186 WriteStringList: Bad socket
2006-01-02 12:30:52.186 ReadStringList: Bad socket
Remote encoder not responding.
2006-01-02 12:30:52.191 WriteStringList: Bad socket
2006-01-02 12:30:52.191 ReadStringList: Bad socket
Remote encoder not responding.
ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)

Any sugestions now?

Thanks,
Fedor
On 1/1/06, Fedor Pikus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After upgrading to the latest MythTV from ATRPMs (latest ivtv, kernel,
lirc) I'm getting a consistent crash when trying to watch live tv and
some of ivtv modules don't want to load anymore. I'd appreciate any
suggestions on how to get the system back. 

Here are the RPMs I loaded:

kernel-2.6.12-1.1381_FC3
alsa-kmdl-2.6.12-1.1381_FC3-1.0.10-42.rhfc3.at
nvidia-graphics7174-kmdl-2.6.12-1.1381_FC3-1.0_7174-68.rhfc3.at
ivtv-kmdl-2.6.12-1.1381_FC3-0.4.1-99.rhfc3.at
lirc-kmdl-2.6.12-1.1381_FC3-0.8.0-52_cvs20051114.rhfc3.at
ivtv-0.4.1-99.rhfc3.at
ivtv-firmware-dec-2.02.023-8.at
ivtv-firmware-audio-0.0.1-5.at
ivtv-kernheaders-0.4.1-99.rhfc3.at
ivtv_xdriver-0.10.6-3.rhfc3.at
ivtv-firmware-enc-2.04.024-8.at
ivtv-firmware-1.8a-8.at

Here is what I get in the system log about ivtv (I have PVR-350 and PVR-150):

Jan 1 23:00:45 myth kernel: ivtv:  START INIT IVTV 
Jan 1 23:00:45 myth kernel: ivtv: version 0.4.1 (tagged release) loading
Jan 1 23:00:45 myth kernel: ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4
Jan 1 23:00:45 myth kernel: ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between
Jan 1 23:00:45 myth kernel: ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with
Jan 1 23:00:45 myth kernel: ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist.
Jan 1 23:00:45 myth kernel: ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 350 card (cx23415 based)
Jan 1 23:00:45 myth kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:0a.0[A] - Link [LNKC] - GSI 10 (level, low) - IRQ 10
Jan 1 23:00:45 myth kernel: tveeprom: ivtv version
Jan 1 23:00:45 myth kernel: tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 48132, rev = K168, serial# = 2942510
Jan 1 23:00:45 myth kernel: tveeprom: tuner = LG TAPE H001F MK3 (idx = 68, type = 47)
Jan 1 23:00:45 myth kernel: tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x1000)
Jan 1 23:00:45 myth kernel: tveeprom: audio processor = MSP4448 (type = 1b)
Jan 1 23:00:45 myth kernel: tveeprom: decoder processor = SAA7115 (type = 13)
Jan 1 23:00:45 myth netfs: Mounting NFS filesystems: succeeded
Jan 1 23:00:45 myth kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50]
Jan 1 23:00:45 myth kernel: tuner (ivtv): chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0
Jan 1 23:00:45 myth kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61]
Jan 1 23:00:45 myth kernel: saa7115 0-0021: ivtv driver
Jan 1 23:00:45 myth kernel: saa7115 0-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
Jan 1 23:00:45 myth netfs: Mounting other filesystems: succeeded
Jan 1 23:00:45 myth kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=saa7115, addr=21]
Jan 1 23:00:45 myth kernel: saa7127: Unknown parameter `i2c_enable'
Jan 1 23:00:45 myth kernel: saa7127 0-0044: ivtv driver
Jan 1 23:00:46 myth kernel: saa7127 0-0044: saa7127 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
Jan 1 23:00:46 myth kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=saa7127, addr=44]
Jan 1 23:00:46 myth kernel: msp3400 0-0040: ivtv driver
Jan 1 23:00:46 myth kernel: msp3400 0-0040: chip=MSP4448G-A2 +nicam +simple +simpler +radio mode=simpler
Jan 1 23:00:46 myth kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=MSP4448G-A2, addr=40]
Jan 1 23:00:46 myth kernel: msp3400

Re: [mythtv-users] Easiest way to burn shows to DVD?

On 1/2/06, Dave Ansell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Take special note of dvdauthor/imagemagick versions: dvdauthor  0.6.12
 does NOT work with imagemagick  6.0.7.x.

[...]
 I cannot find an update for dvdauthor beyond 0.6.11 which is the latest on
 sourceforge.

There's a page with alpha releases of dvdauthor 0.6.12 here:

http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/alpha/

However I'm not sure whether one should be installing alpha software,
especially since I've got dvdauthor 0.6.11 and imagemagick 6.2.4.2-r1
installed, and things work for me, so I'm not sure why the HOWTO
states this.

 Likewise I dont know how to downgrade ImageMagick to 6.0.7.x or if doing so
 will break anything else.
[...]
 Any further advice would be
 welcome, thanks.  eg, can I downgrade ImageMackick with apt-get?

I never used apt-get - perhaps someone else can shed some light onto
this: Is it more advisable to try downgrading ImageMagick or are the
requirements in  the HOWTO wrong?

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[mythtv-users] autotranscode old shows?

2006-01-02 Thread Paul V. Gratz

Hey all,

  I was just wondering if there was an easy way to set myth up to go
back and transcode a bunch of shows that I have already recorded from
mpeg2 - mpeg4.  I tried a couple things with phpmyadmin like marking
them 1 for autotranscode and 1 for autojob but they do not seem to get
scheduled for transcoding.  Is there a way to do this that I can
automate (I want to do it for whole large groups of programs).
Thanks!
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythdvd using VLC?

2006-01-02 Thread MagicITX

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Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie hard drive question - PVR350 / KnoppMyth


Where can I get the firmware update for my PVR350?

Christopher Farnham wrote:


Any idea about SATA hardrives and IDE harddrives sharing the load? I'm
wondering if there
is a problem there.


Nope, no idea.  I was asking about your /var/log/messages because I 
have a similar
setup (except I have one drive).  When the system froze it dumped 
errors out to my
messages file which I was able to track down to incompatible ivtv 
drivers with my

PVR350 firmware.  Updating my firmware fixed the problem.

But if you aren't getting logging messages then that may not be it.

-chris




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Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie hard drive question - PVR350 / KnoppMyth

I'm not sure I have a VIA. I thought the motherboard had an SIS chipset? 
Where do I double

check this info?

Thanks

Lee wrote:



Not that I recall. I mostly look at /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend for 
errrors but I think it freezes before

it has time to spit out any problems. At least that is my best guess.

Any idea about SATA hardrives and IDE harddrives sharing the load? 
I'm wondering if there

is a problem there.


Do you have any messages in your /var/log/messages file or other
pertinent files around the time that your system freezes?



Does that motherboard have a VIA chipset? Well documented cause of 
problems...

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Re: [mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV


Brad DerManouelian wrote:
iTunes has MANY down sides. I no longer have it running even on my  
Windows systems, and, obviously, my Mac is now a Penguin.
I do not feel I can support any software that insists on telling me  
how I can handle my data files, mp3s included. I should be the  
ultimate master of how my systems run, not the other way around.



Ok, so nothing specific. Just a general I don't like it because I  
don't like it or I don't like it because I didn't read enough to  
figure out how to become the 'ultimate master' of my data files with  
iTunes. I can accept that.
No, I played with iTunes for months. My first Mac is this Mini. I have 
read. And read. And read. Like I said, I had it working with an NFS 
share for my server, which is also my mythbackend machine. And sure, I 
don't like iTunes. Sue me for saying it. ;-) I'd rather use XMMS, to 
tell you the truth.




I was running iTunes off of an NFS share, but I want the WHOLE  
MythTV experience. Playing music meant exiting Myth and launching  
iTunes.

http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MythOnMacOsx
No Music support.
My OS X finally went buggy, so I loaded FC4 hoping for media center  
nirvana.


Went buggy. OK...
I think this had A LOT to do with fink. I was trying to get XMMS 
running, but had zero positive results. Then Software Update stopped 
working. Then iTunes stopped working. So here I am with FC4. I will 
reload Tiger if I have to, but I am trying to get a full-boat MythTV 
system running, which is just not going to happen under OS X.





Maybe it isn't there yet.


MythTV is still pre-1.0 release, you know.
I have been MythTVing since about 0.13. Whatever was current at RH7.2. 
It has come a long way, and I am just looking to get feedback from Mac 
Mini users. It all seems to be sound related.




Basically, this is not a massive issue, but rather a configuration  
question.
MythMusic issues static, WatchTV blows up, Watch Recordings does  the 
same. Pretty much the core three things I love MythTV for!


Let's stay on topic, folks. This is not an iTunes issue, but rather  
a MythTV one.


I will look into that /dev/adsp, but I do not seem to have that as  
an option in mythsetup or frontend utilities. Are you successfully  
running MythTV on a Mac?


I'm running Front end on 3 Macs under OS X, but just for recorded  
shows and live TV. Your issue isn't a Mac issue. It's a FC4/Mac  
hardware issue, so I can only guess at what's wrong. I based my /dev/ 
adsp hunch on what I saw in my x86 FC4 setup.


Granted. MythTV under OS X was nice, but it did not include support for 
music. Kill me for rather listening to music than watching TV.




Am I really the only one running MythTV on a Mac Mini? It seems  from 
the Google searches that I would be a late-comer.


You're likely the only one wanting to run MythMusic on a mini with  
FC4 instead of OS X. Others will learn from your experiences. :)


Again, granted. That is why this thread has fc4.ppc in its subject! I 
seriously doubt I am the only wanting this functionality. If so, I am 
now the Geek King of the World, which I seriously doubt. Once the 
holidays are over, I am willing to bet that I get an actual answer to 
this. Timing is everything, and New Years is not the right time!


Again, Happy New Year to all and thanks for the replies.

Matt


-Brad


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Re: [mythtv-users] ssh attack



not that I leave mythtv open to the outside anyways, I use mod_proxy 
from an external apache system to forward requests to and from the 
myth backends web interface. I always have to get around via that one 
gateway machine that I have hardened. 


Mike,

What did you do in the external Apache config to get this to work?
I've been playing with reverse proxies but can't get it to work...

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Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie hard drive question - PVR350 / KnoppMyth

2006-01-02 Thread Fedor Pikus

On 1/2/06, Philip Isaacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where can I get the firmware update for my PVR350?
Here:

http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Firmware

Christopher Farnham wrote: Any idea about SATA hardrives and IDE harddrives sharing the load? I'm
 wondering if there is a problem there. Nope, no idea.I was asking about your /var/log/messages because I have a similar setup (except I have one drive).When the system froze it dumped
 errors out to my messages file which I was able to track down to incompatible ivtv drivers with my PVR350 firmware.Updating my firmware fixed the problem. But if you aren't getting logging messages then that may not be it.
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[mythtv-users] [OT] UK DVB Satellite in US

2006-01-02 Thread Nathan Ford

I have a quick question for the knowledgable mythtv peoples.

Is it possible to recieve UK dvb satellites in the US? I live on the
east coast (In the grand sceme of scale, almost as east as you can get
in the US). From what i've been able to gather channels like BBC are
FTA on dvb sats. It would be cool if I could recieve them.

I could most likely get an angle on the sat, but dunno how wide the
dispersal is on the transponder.

Anyone with more knowledge than me care to enlighten me on the subject?

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[mythtv-users] Compiling from source, question on configure output

2006-01-02 Thread David Haertig


[ I don't think my first attempt posted.  Sorry if
this is a duplicate. ]

I'm just about ready to compile, but have a few
questions on prerequesites and/or adviseable
things to have previously installed before
compiling.

First, I'm using xorg not XFree86.  What is needed
regarding this for compiling?  The HOWTO talks
of XFree86-devel but I can find no such thing for
xorg (standard Debian SID repositories).

I ran apt-get xserver-xorg source but I doubt this
is what's actually needed.  Any hints?

Second, does my configure output below show any
big misses?  I'm not sure what all of the things
being probed for represent.  For example, does
OpenGL vsync no represent a pitfall?

I'm using a Hauppauge PVR-150 capture card and an
nVidia MX4000-based video card (nVidia drivers
currently installed).

Thanks!

 # cat configure.out
 # Basic Settings
 Compile type release
 Compiler cache   no
 DistCC   no
 Install prefix   /usr/local
 CPU  x86 (model name: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 
3000+)

 Big Endian   no
 MMX enabled  yes
 Vector Builtins  no

 # Input Support
 Joystick menuyes
 lirc support yes
 ivtv support yes
 FireWire support no
 DVB support  no [/usr/src/linux-2.6.14-1-686/include]

 # Sound Output Support
 OSS support  yes
 ALSA support yes
 aRts support no
 JACK support no

 # Video Output Support
 x11 support  yes
 xrandr support   no
 xv support   yes
 XvMC support no
 XvMC VLD support no
 OpenGL vsync no
 DirectFB no

 Creating config.mak and config.h
 config.h is unchanged
 #

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[mythtv-users] mythfrontend on windows

2006-01-02 Thread Rick van der Mieden




Hi 
There,

I've got a 
mythfrontend and backend running in the living room connected to the TV, but I'd 
like to have a frontend running on my laptop, which is running windows xp, to 
watch livetv. So I installed winmyth with mythtv filters. But I can't get it to work. 
Connection to my mysql backend is ok, but I get a lot of stupid windows errors 
if it is starting at all. (I've got the latest .net 1.1 running as 
well)
Is there anyone with 
experience with running mythfrontend on windows? Is there any other way to get a 
mythfrontend running (someone tried it with vmware or something?). 

I know it will work 
if install a linux besides the windows, but that's not really an option right 
now.

I hope to get some 
reactions.

Regards,

Rick
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Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie hard drive question - PVR350 / KnoppMyth

2006-01-02 Thread Scot L. Harris

On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 15:08, Philip Isaacs wrote:
 Not that I recall. I mostly look at /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend for 
 errrors but I think it freezes before
 it has time to spit out any problems. At least that is my best guess.
 
 Any idea about SATA hardrives and IDE harddrives sharing the load? I'm 
 wondering if there
 is a problem there.
 
 Philip

When you moved it to the TV is it in a cabinet?  Could you have a heat
related problem?



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Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] UK DVB Satellite in US


Nathan Ford wrote:


I have a quick question for the knowledgable mythtv peoples.

Is it possible to recieve UK dvb satellites in the US? I live on the
east coast (In the grand sceme of scale, almost as east as you can get
in the US). From what i've been able to gather channels like BBC are
FTA on dvb sats. It would be cool if I could recieve them.

I could most likely get an angle on the sat, but dunno how wide the
dispersal is on the transponder.

Anyone with more knowledge than me care to enlighten me on the subject?
 

Usually these satellites cover a specific geographic area.  If you know 
the satellite name or service, just google it for a coverage map and you 
can probably find what you're looking for.


Kevin
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend on windows


Rick van der Mieden wrote:


Hi There,
 
I've got a mythfrontend and backend running in the living room 
connected to the TV, but I'd like to have a frontend running on my 
laptop, which is running windows xp, to watch livetv. So I installed 
winmyth with mythtv filters. But I can't get it to work. Connection to 
my mysql backend is ok, but I get a lot of stupid windows errors if it 
is starting at all. (I've got the latest .net 1.1 running as well)
Is there anyone with experience with running mythfrontend on windows? 
Is there any other way to get a mythfrontend running (someone tried it 
with vmware or something?).
I know it will work if install a linux besides the windows, but that's 
not really an option right now.
 


Ever thought of just booting the Knoppix CD which will provide a 
frontend from the CD (no installation required)?


Kevin
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Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] UK DVB Satellite in US

On 1/2/06, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Nathan Ford wrote:

 Is it possible to recieve UK dvb satellites in the US? I live on the
 east coast (In the grand sceme of scale, almost as east as you can get
 in the US).

 Usually these satellites cover a specific geographic area.  If you know
 the satellite name or service, just google it for a coverage map and you
 can probably find what you're looking for.

There's a footprint for Astra 2D (the satellite for UK TV) here:

http://www.satmania.com/images/footprints/1044.gif

Unfortunately, it only touches the North American continent on the
easternmost parts of Newfoundland, so I don't think you'd be able to
receive it. :-(

Jens
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Re: [mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV



On Jan 2, 2006, at 4:14 PM, Matt Hannan wrote:

Ok, so nothing specific. Just a general I don't like it because  
I  don't like it or I don't like it because I didn't read enough  
to  figure out how to become the 'ultimate master' of my data  
files with  iTunes. I can accept that.
No, I played with iTunes for months. My first Mac is this Mini. I  
have read. And read. And read. Like I said, I had it working with  
an NFS share for my server, which is also my mythbackend machine.  
And sure, I don't like iTunes. Sue me for saying it. ;-) I'd rather  
use XMMS, to tell you the truth.


Hell, use Windows Media Player for all I care. :) I was trying to get  
out of you what you couldn't do with iTunes that you can do with  
MythMusic so I could propose a solution for anyone who happens upon  
this thread in the future. Your answer is Play music without leaving  
Myth Frontend. I have no iTunes solution - yet. If the need should  
arise, I might try playing with MythMusic to allow users to specify  
the binary that plays the music files so you can choose an external  
player like MythVideo does. I wouldn't count on that since I have  
everything working how I need it to work.


I think this had A LOT to do with fink. I was trying to get XMMS  
running, but had zero positive results. Then Software Update  
stopped working. Then iTunes stopped working. So here I am with  
FC4. I will reload Tiger if I have to, but I am trying to get a  
full-boat MythTV system running, which is just not going to happen  
under OS X.
Basically, this is not a massive issue, but rather a  
configuration  question.
MythMusic issues static, WatchTV blows up, Watch Recordings does   
the same. Pretty much the core three things I love MythTV for!


Let's stay on topic, folks. This is not an iTunes issue, but  
rather  a MythTV one.


Can you get audio from X to work? If not, it's a I can't get audio  
to work under FC4 using a Mac mini issue, not a MythTV issue.




I will look into that /dev/adsp, but I do not seem to have that  
as  an option in mythsetup or frontend utilities. Are you  
successfully  running MythTV on a Mac?


To change the device MythMusic uses for audio, go to Utilities/ 
SetupSetupMedia SettingsMusic SettingsGeneral SettingsFirst  
Screen Audio Device. What are your options other than /dev/dsp? Do  
they match ls -l /dev/ | grep dsp ?




I'm running Front end on 3 Macs under OS X, but just for recorded   
shows and live TV. Your issue isn't a Mac issue. It's a FC4/Mac   
hardware issue, so I can only guess at what's wrong. I based my / 
dev/ adsp hunch on what I saw in my x86 FC4 setup.


Granted. MythTV under OS X was nice, but it did not include support  
for music. Kill me for rather listening to music than watching TV.


Did you build your OS X front end with the mythmusic plugin? Just  
saying...


Again, granted. That is why this thread has fc4.ppc in its  
subject! I seriously doubt I am the only wanting this  
functionality. If so, I am now the Geek King of the World, which I  
seriously doubt. Once the holidays are over, I am willing to bet  
that I get an actual answer to this. Timing is everything, and New  
Years is not the right time!


I'm betting you are, in fact, the only one who has loaded FC4 on  
their mini and wants to play MythMusic with it (and reads this list).  
Prepare to wear your crown.



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Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] UK DVB Satellite in US




Is it possible to recieve UK dvb satellites in the US? I live on the
east coast (In the grand sceme of scale, almost as east as you can get
in the US). From what i've been able to gather channels like BBC are
FTA on dvb sats. It would be cool if I could recieve them.

No, sorry, the footprint of the UK sats, is focused pretty tightly on 
the UK, spreading out across Europe.


http://www.uk-satellite-tv.co.uk/footprintsinstallation_103674.html

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Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend on windows

2006-01-02 Thread Niels Dybdahl

Is there anyone with 
experience with running mythfrontend on windows? Is there any other way to get a 
mythfrontend running (someone tried it with vmware or something?).It is easier just to install the dsmyth driver (and a suitable codec if not already there) and then play recordings with a player of your choice (I use ZoomPlayer, because it is easy to set up to handle non-square pixels and it starts fast). If you want to watch livetv, then start recording via mythweb and watch that recording.
Now I have set up an additional PC with MythTV, so I seldom use Windows PCs to watch recordings...Niels Dybdahl
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: New issue affect old previously unaffected build [WAS Re: [mythtv] Re: Ticket #900: HDTV at greater than 1.0 speed stutters

2006-01-02 Thread John P Poet

On 1/2/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Sunday 01 January 2006 16:17, John P Poet wrote:
  On 1/1/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   On Sunday 01 January 2006 12:19, Steve Adeff wrote:
  
   I'm really getting frustrated, there must be something I'm missing. I
   went all the way back to 8199 and I'm still getting stuttering! I even
   rebooted the machine. I've tried both gcc-4.0 and gcc-3.3. I do a make
   uninstall and make distclean before each compile but they still have
   stuttering for 1080i output.
  
   Help!
 
  Steve,
 
  Try doing a clean check-out of the latest svn (svn co
  http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/mythtv), not a svn update.
 
  Then, try adding the attached patch to it: patch -p0  RingBuffer.patch.
 
  I still get an occational stutter, but they are very infrequent.
 
  John

 no go, but like I said, its stuttering on 8306 which was fine for me for 2
 weeks. I don't think this is directly Myth's fault, I just don't know what
 else it could be other than perhaps the version of the compilers I'm using
 since thats all I updated.

 It also only occurs with 1080i content, 720p and below is fine (now...). 1080i
 content is now peaking my CPU where it stutters where before it wasn't.

 --
 Steve

A new version of ALSA came out not too long ago.  If you are using it,
maybe it is the cause?  If you are not using it maybe it will help?

John
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Re: [mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV

2006-01-02 Thread Jarod Wilson

On Monday 02 January 2006 13:46, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
  Let's stay on topic, folks. This is not an iTunes issue, but  
  rather  a MythTV one.

 Can you get audio from X to work? If not, it's a I can't get audio  
 to work under FC4 using a Mac mini issue, not a MythTV issue.

He said audio works fine w/mythvideo (or rather, the player mythvideo 
launches).

Most likely, there's no available or functional oss emulation, so either oss 
emulation modules just need to be loaded, or the audio output stuff has to be 
adjusted for native alsa output settings.

And I need to actually try out FC4/ppc Myth. :)

-- 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Myth 0.18: Recorded vs. Recordedprogram

2006-01-02 Thread Bruce Markey


Larry K wrote:
Can anyone explain the difference between the Recorded and the 
Recordedprogram tables in Mythtv 0.18?  In my system, the Recorded table 
has 8 more rows than the Recordedprogram table (8 out of 151).


Recorded is predates the other and is the information about a
recorded file and the attributes of that recording, some of which
are not from 'program'. Recordedprogram was added later to copy the
info from the program table for the show so that these fields would
be available for the Program Details page. You may have some recordings
made before this was added.

The reason I ask is that I want to modify my nuvexport script to sort 
the results by the syndicatedepsidodenumber column when I choose a show 


Had you looked at many of these, the producers schemes for labeling
are all over the map, include letters, need to be sorted as strings
that may not be in sequential order and often aren't present at all.
TMS programids are in a standard format, always present, always
unique and will sort sequentially.

title to get all the subtitle (episode) detail information.   Right now, 
the script queries the recorded table and the rows are returned in the 
order they were inserted into the table.  The Recorded table does not 
have the syndicatedepsidodenumber column, whereas the Recordedpropgram 
table does.  As I was about to modify the script I realized that the 
Recordedpropgram table seems to be missing some entries that are present 
in the Recorded table, so this may foil my plan. 


Query both to try to get what you need. If there isn't an entry in
recordedprogram then, oh well...

--  bjm
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Frontend crash when watching live TV

2006-01-02 Thread Doug Bunger

Does the frontend have MythMusic loaded, and does it
work?  I had similar problems, which were sound
related (you are getting a message 2006-01-02
12:30:32.665 WriteAudio: buffer underrun).  I found
that KDE's sound deamon wouldn't share the audio
device, so I had to kill artsd.  I've not hacked
enough of the code to tell you why, but live audio
(ring buffered) is served differently from recorded,
so one working does not assure the other will work.

--- Fedor Pikus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I have some more information which will hopefully
 help to diagnose the
 problem: IVTV problems do not appear to be critical,
 I can record on both
 tuners (one of the tuners now gives be a narrow line
 of blinking pixels
 along the top).
 
 The only thing I cannot do at all is watch live TV
 (I can even watch a
 recording which is being recorded, only not live
 TV). Mythfrontend freezes
 for a while, then crashes. The log contains this:
 
 X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
   Major opcode:  141
   Minor opcode:  14
   Resource id:  0x1ae
 2006-01-02 12:30:31.925 Couldn't get the color key
 color, and we need it.
 You likely won't get any video.
 2006-01-02 12:30:32.182 Realtime priority would
 require SUID as root.
 2006-01-02 12:30:32.183 Changing from None to
 WatchingLiveTV
 2006-01-02 12:30:32.440 Video timing method: SGI
 OpenGL
 2006-01-02 12:30:32.662 prebuffering pause
 2006-01-02 12:30:32.665 WriteAudio: buffer underrun
 2006-01-02 12:30:52.183 ReadStringList timeout
 (quick).
 Remote encoder not responding.
 2006-01-02 12:30:52.183 WriteStringList: Bad socket
 2006-01-02 12:30:52.183 ReadStringList: Bad socket
 Remote encoder not responding.
 2006-01-02 12:30:52.184 WriteStringList: Bad socket
 2006-01-02 12:30:52.184 ReadStringList: Bad socket
 Remote encoder not responding.
 ASSERT: i = nodes in
 /usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
 2006-01-02 12:30:52.186 WriteStringList: Bad socket
 2006-01-02 12:30:52.186 ReadStringList: Bad socket
 Remote encoder not responding.
 2006-01-02 12:30:52.191 WriteStringList: Bad socket
 2006-01-02 12:30:52.191 ReadStringList: Bad socket
 Remote encoder not responding.
 ASSERT: i = nodes in
 /usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
 
 Any sugestions now?
 
 Thanks,
 Fedor
 
 On 1/1/06, Fedor Pikus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  After upgrading to the latest MythTV from ATRPMs
 (latest ivtv, kernel,
  lirc) I'm getting a consistent crash when trying
 to watch live tv and some
  of ivtv modules don't want to load anymore. I'd
 appreciate any suggestions
  on how to get the system back.
 
  Here are the RPMs I loaded:
 
  kernel-2.6.12-1.1381_FC3
  alsa-kmdl-2.6.12-1.1381_FC3-1.0.10-42.rhfc3.at
 

nvidia-graphics7174-kmdl-2.6.12-1.1381_FC3-1.0_7174-68.rhfc3.at
  ivtv-kmdl-2.6.12-1.1381_FC3-0.4.1-99.rhfc3.at
 

lirc-kmdl-2.6.12-1.1381_FC3-0.8.0-52_cvs20051114.rhfc3.at
  ivtv-0.4.1-99.rhfc3.at
  ivtv-firmware-dec-2.02.023-8.at
  ivtv-firmware-audio-0.0.1-5.at
  ivtv-kernheaders-0.4.1-99.rhfc3.at
  ivtv_xdriver-0.10.6-3.rhfc3.at
  ivtv-firmware-enc-2.04.024-8.at
  ivtv-firmware-1.8a-8.at
 
  Here is what I get in the system log about ivtv (I
 have PVR-350 and
  PVR-150):
 
  Jan  1 23:00:45 myth kernel: ivtv: 
  START INIT IVTV
  
  Jan  1 23:00:45 myth kernel: ivtv:  version 0.4.1
 (tagged release) loading
  Jan  1 23:00:45 myth kernel: ivtv:  Linux version:
 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3 686
  REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4
  Jan  1 23:00:45 myth kernel: ivtv:  In case of
 problems please include the
  debug info between
  Jan  1 23:00:45 myth kernel: ivtv:  the START INIT
 IVTV and END INIT IVTV
  lines, along with
  Jan  1 23:00:45 myth kernel: ivtv:  any module
 options, when mailing the
  ivtv-users mailinglist.
  Jan  1 23:00:45 myth kernel: ivtv0: Autodetected
 WinTV PVR 350 card
  (cx23415 based)
  Jan  1 23:00:45 myth kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt
 :00:0a.0[A] - Link
  [LNKC] - GSI 10 (level, low) - IRQ 10
  Jan  1 23:00:45 myth kernel: tveeprom: ivtv
 version
  Jan  1 23:00:45 myth kernel: tveeprom: Hauppauge:
 model = 48132, rev =
  K168, serial# = 2942510
  Jan  1 23:00:45 myth kernel: tveeprom: tuner = LG
 TAPE H001F MK3 (idx =
  68, type = 47)
  Jan  1 23:00:45 myth kernel: tveeprom: tuner fmt =
 NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08,
  v4l2 = 0x1000)
  Jan  1 23:00:45 myth kernel: tveeprom: audio
 processor = MSP4448 (type =
  1b)
  Jan  1 23:00:45 myth kernel: tveeprom: decoder
 processor = SAA7115 (type =
  13)
  Jan  1 23:00:45 myth netfs: Mounting NFS
 filesystems:  succeeded
  Jan  1 23:00:45 myth kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to
 card #0 ok
  [client=tveeprom, addr=50]
  Jan  1 23:00:45 myth kernel: tuner (ivtv): chip
 found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus
  ivtv i2c driver #0
  Jan  1 23:00:45 myth kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to
 card #0 ok
  [client=(tuner unset), addr=61]
  Jan  1 23:00:45 myth kernel: saa7115 0-0021: ivtv
 driver
  Jan  1 23:00:45 myth kernel: saa7115 0-0021:
 saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv
  i2c driver #0)
  Jan  1

[mythtv-users] Frontend - Backend : Connectivity

2006-01-02 Thread R

Will this work?

In THIS house, the Backend is connected to Comcast cable.
It is also connected to Comcast internet behind a firewall.

My relative lives across the street.
We could put a Frontend in THAT house behind that firewall.

Make the appropriate changes to both the firewalls so that the
Frontend and Backend can communicate with eachother.

What do you think?

Or is it better to just get wireless gear, secure it of course,
and forget connectivity over the internet?

Our houses are about 100 feet apart.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Frontend - Backend : Connectivity


R wrote:


Will this work?

In THIS house, the Backend is connected to Comcast cable.
It is also connected to Comcast internet behind a firewall.

My relative lives across the street.
We could put a Frontend in THAT house behind that firewall.

Make the appropriate changes to both the firewalls so that the
Frontend and Backend can communicate with eachother.

What do you think?

Or is it better to just get wireless gear, secure it of course,
and forget connectivity over the internet?

Our houses are about 100 feet apart.
 

I'd go wireless.  Most broadband can't come close to delivering the 
bandwidth needed to play the recordings.  Even 802.11b falters most of 
the time in the real world.  Get a couple 802.11g APs, lock them to G, 
secure them, and bridge your network.  It will probably be the path of 
least resistance.


Kevin
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Re: [mythtv-users] Frontend - Backend : Connectivity


On Jan 2, 2006, at 5:25 PM, R wrote:


Will this work?

In THIS house, the Backend is connected to Comcast cable.
It is also connected to Comcast internet behind a firewall.

My relative lives across the street.
We could put a Frontend in THAT house behind that firewall.

Make the appropriate changes to both the firewalls so that the
Frontend and Backend can communicate with eachother.

What do you think?

Or is it better to just get wireless gear, secure it of course,
and forget connectivity over the internet?

Our houses are about 100 feet apart.


You'll get better speed over wireless. 100 feet should mean little  
interference.
If this is your only need, I recommend getting 802.11a gear. You can  
get it pretty cheap now, it's fast, and no one seems to think to try  
to hack on that band. :) Your only issue might be drivers.


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Re: [mythtv-users] Frontend - Backend : Connectivity


Brad DerManouelian wrote:


On Jan 2, 2006, at 5:25 PM, R wrote:


Will this work?

In THIS house, the Backend is connected to Comcast cable.
It is also connected to Comcast internet behind a firewall.

My relative lives across the street.
We could put a Frontend in THAT house behind that firewall.

Make the appropriate changes to both the firewalls so that the
Frontend and Backend can communicate with eachother.

What do you think?

Or is it better to just get wireless gear, secure it of course,
and forget connectivity over the internet?

Our houses are about 100 feet apart.



You'll get better speed over wireless. 100 feet should mean little  
interference.
If this is your only need, I recommend getting 802.11a gear. You can  
get it pretty cheap now, it's fast, and no one seems to think to try  
to hack on that band. :) Your only issue might be drivers.


Whatever you do, don't try and go with internal wireless cards.  Use 
external access points that can bridge (check this before you buy).  No 
drivers, no mess.


Kevin
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Re: [mythtv-users] Microsoft Remote Keyboard

2006-01-02 Thread Justin Clacherty


Lee wrote:

Sorry, that would be me that was planning on getting an MS MCE 
Keyboard...
Unfortunately I have got around to it yet, as I've been busy with 
work/Christmas/etc...


Know the feeling.

I was just planning on running irrecord, adding the the output to the 
existing lirc config file and the adding the extra keys to the lircrc 
file.

Seemed pretty straight forward... Have you tried it?


Ok.  I haven't tried that, I wasn't sure if it was just some special 
keyboard driver that would be required or if I'd need an lirc config 
file.  I'll give irrecord a go, should have some time later on in the week.


Thanks,
Justin.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Frontend - Backend : Connectivity