Re: [mythtv-users] mythcommflag without using the DB

[Pranav Desai]

That would be great!

I tried downloading the src from the main dev trunk  on the page, but apparently the link seems to be giving some error. 

Can you send me the src.

Thanks

-PranavOn 1/4/06, Chris Pinkham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Thanks for prompt response. Do you know of any other way or tool to detect commercials in a mpeg file ?You can try comskip, it started as a C port of the commercial detection thatI wrote in Myth. A couple Windows users ported it to C a year or two ago
and have been working on their own enhancements to it.I emailed them apatch to get it compiling under Linux and I think they put it in theirSVN.It generates a text file like you are looking for.I'm not sure
of the status of the project, I haven't looked it up in quite a while,but here is a wiki page on it with links to the SVN repository.http://www.sage-community.org/index.cgi/wiki/ComSkip
If you can't get theirs working, I can email you a copy of the source Ihave from them which does compile under Linux, but I can't say I was tooimpressed with their output.You might have more luck creating a fake
'recorded' table entry for your files and then just running themthrough mythcommflag and have mythcommflag print out the skip list orjust run a select against the recordedmarkup table afterwards to get the
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Re: [mythtv-users] Twinhan VisionDTV Remote Control and USB dongle.

[ffrr]

Michael Cowell wrote:



then used mythweb to set appropriate keys using the table that I
made. Worked fine - except that it was impossible to use a regular
keyboard on that frontend from then on.
 

Yes, that's the big problem for me.  I too have the Twinhan remote and I 
don't think it's possible to get them all working and still be able to 
use a regular keyboard.  I still think the best way is to get the 
smallest possible full remote PC k'board and use that. :-(

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Re: [mythtv-users] .19 on Ubuntu working sort of

[David Whyte]

0.19?  I have checked mythtv.org, and searched the archives but no
mention of it being released.  I assume you mean SVN???

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Re: [mythtv-users] Strange behavior with LIRC for pause button

[David Watkins]

On 05/01/06, John Biundo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Paul Harrison wrote:
  One thing that it might be worth checking is your lircrc file used by myth. 
  You can
  usually find it in ~/.mythtv/lircrc.
 
  Look for the key that you use for pause. Mine looks like this:
 
  # Pause
  begin
  prog = mythtv
  button = PAUSE
  repeat = 3
  config = P
  end
 
  and try different values for the 'repeat' setting and see if it makes any 
  difference.
 
  Paul

 Paul, thanks for the suggestion.  As I mentioned, I've tried values of
 0,1,2,3 and 10 for repeat.  None seem to affect the behavior.  I
 restarted lircd between changes.

and are you sure that the lircrc file that you are editing is the one
that mythtv is using?  It's possible you have multiple versions and
mythtv is using a different one.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Twinhan VisionDTV Remote Control and USB dongle.

[ffrr]

Michael Fox wrote:


On 1/4/06, Craig Tinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 


check this out...

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/151845

and look for the patch

it makes the thing a 20 second job.
   



I compiled the program you mentioned, I run it and it gives the
following output;

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/mythtv# ./usbhid-twinhan
Searching /lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/kernel/drivers/usb/input/usbhid.ko
Found
Wrote ok
 




Mine just does this...


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/myth/tmp# ./usbhid-twinhan
Searching /lib/modules/2.6.13.2-chw-3/kernel/drivers/usb/input/usbhid.ko
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/myth/tmp#   

Doesn't seem to find whatever it is searching for.  Any ideas on making 
it work?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Australian Free TV guide/grabber script.

[ffrr]

Michael Fox wrote:


On 1/5/06, Michael Cowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 


The immir script is probably the most widely used tv_grab_au. It's
updated very quickly by Michael Smith (immir) and by users on this list.
   



I am currently using it and it works fine so far, will continue to use
it and monitor things. Although I will certainly look at the oztivo
one, as I knew they had some tv guide data, however hadn't seen or
found script to grab it.
 



I use the oztivo script.  There's info and an example script (it's what 
I am using) on their web site.

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[mythtv-users] Re: Archiving to DVD?

[belcampo]

When I try to burn a dvd I get the following error on the browser:
Warning
at /usr/local/bin/mythburn/mythwebburn/mythtvburndvd_createdvd.php, line
108:
fopen(mythburnconf/mythtvburnconfig.xml): failed to open stream:
Permission denied
First solve this problem, look for mythburn user and group, you filled it in 
mythburn.conf. As root in your mythburn-directory do:
chmod -R xrw user:group mythburnconf

Because after this fail nothing will work of course

You downloaded this file
jre-1_5_0_06-linux-amd64-rpm.bin
RTFM what you should do with it
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[mythtv-users] I want to an complete XML file which stored EPG data from offcial DataDirct

[YanJun Lu]

Hello eveybody  Who can send me for an complete XML file which stored EPG data which from " http://datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com/tvlistings/xtvdService" ,The reason is very simple, Because I want to know what difference between my XML and offcial EPG data which be stored in an XML, pleas.  The file is very important for me, Once I tried use "wget --http-user=xxx --http-passwd=xxx --post-file=/tmp/xxx http://datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com/tvlistings/xtvdService --output-document=/home/EPG " with prompt command in terminal directely. The last I am failed. Thanks in advance 
		 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Twinhan VisionDTV Remote Control and USB dongle.

[Michael Fox]

On 1/5/06, ffrr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Mine just does this...


 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/myth/tmp# ./usbhid-twinhan
 Searching /lib/modules/2.6.13.2-chw-3/kernel/drivers/usb/input/usbhid.ko
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/myth/tmp#

Did you plug in the USB thing before running it or after?
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Re: [mythtv-users] Australian Free TV guide/grabber script.

[Michael Fox]

On 1/5/06, ffrr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I use the oztivo script.  There's info and an example script (it's what
 I am using) on their web site.

I will have to look into it, I am now using immir one, and I lost some
recordings today as I just realised in the arvo that it was an hour
out, so all my shows got missed :( I've since changed the timeoffset
in mythtv-setup to be none instead of auto and its put the guide data
back on time.
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[mythtv-users] Re: fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV

[Brad]

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Re: [mythtv-users] Twinhan VisionDTV Remote Control and USB dongle.

[ffrr]

Michael Fox wrote:


On 1/5/06, ffrr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 


Mine just does this...


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/myth/tmp# ./usbhid-twinhan
Searching /lib/modules/2.6.13.2-chw-3/kernel/drivers/usb/input/usbhid.ko
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/myth/tmp#
   



Did you plug in the USB thing before running it or after?
___
 

The USB dongle was already plugged in. I have been using the remote with 
minimal keys mapped for a few months already.  The usbhid.ko file exists.


As far as I can read the code, it's looking for a certain string of 
characters in the original file and then replaces them.  It seems it 
doesn't find them in mine.  Maybe my newer kernel has a different usbhid 
file, hence the program fails?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Australian Free TV guide/grabber script.

[ffrr]

Michael Fox wrote:


On 1/5/06, ffrr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 


I use the oztivo script.  There's info and an example script (it's what
I am using) on their web site.
   



I will have to look into it, I am now using immir one, and I lost some
recordings today as I just realised in the arvo that it was an hour
out, so all my shows got missed :( I've since changed the timeoffset
in mythtv-setup to be none instead of auto and its put the guide data
back on time.



daylight savings time I guess.
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[mythtv-users] Re: Lost Sound on PVR-350 After Upgrade to IVTV 0.4.1

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:12:40PM -0800, Kirk Bocek wrote:
 I didn't get any firmware error messages after installing 0.4.1 but 
 leaving the same firmware. But I have now rolled back to the 0.4.0 and 
 the previous kernel but *still* have no sound. I have not yet tried the 
 transition from x86_64 to i386.

If there is a regression form 0.4.0 to 0.4.1, please report to the
ivtv lists or the ivtv issue tracker.

 Rob Greene wrote:
 On 1/3/06, Kirk Bocek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 Thanks for the reply. However, I had already performed these steps and 
 was loading
 the correct module. At this point I have rolled back to ivtv 0.4.0 and 
 the previous
 kernel (which *was* working) and still do not have sound.
 
 After a suggestion from Axel Thimm, I am going to side-grade all my Myth 
 packages
 from X86_64 to i386 and see what that does.
 
 
 Same thing happened to me, but my solution (as of now) was to upgrade
 the PVR-[23]50 firmware packages.  I noticed in my IVTV logs that it
 complained about the version of the firmware. I installed the versions
 they indicate in the IVTV wiki and it looks like I'm getting sound.
 (cat /dev/video0 video.mpg yields an MPEG file with sound; have yet
 to see if tonights MythTV recordings come out ok...)
 
 YMMV.
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Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth R5A30

[Dave Bush]

On 1/5/06, Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just to note, when I booted the previous release on my machine itappears my USB keyboard then doesn't function. So its like the usbhidmodule is not loaded, and thus I cant type. Did anyone report similarproblems?
Under same but different - my USB wireless NIC doesn't come up at boot time on the previous version. I wait for the sytem to boot, pull the NIC, wait a few seconds, reinsert it, and everything works fine. 
No, it's not how it should work, but I don't reboot too often so it's something I'm living with for now. Might get your keyboard working for now. Regards, - Dave-- Dave Bush 
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[mythtv-users] Re: Large LCD Televisions?

[Boleslaw Ciesielski]

James C. Dastrup wrote:

start yet). With HDMI/DVI, though the terminal does creep off the
screen (meaning I can't actually see the cursor :-)), the clarity
of the ascii chars is crystal; with the PC input, the letters are
blurry and seem to be be shuddering quite a bit.
 
If the text is blurry using the PC Input, you must not be displaying text in

the LCD's native resolution.  There's no reason text should be blurry or
shuddering.


Actually, DVI vs VGA does make a very visible difference for text 
display on a high resolution LCD (= 1600x1200), at least up close. I am 
not sure if it's visible from a distance, but it's definitely there.


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[mythtv-users] High mythtv CPU usage on EPIA SP8000

[John Roe]

Hi,

I'm running myth svn on debian unstable on a EPIA SP8000, with a Freecom 
DVB USB stick in the UK.


-Running xine with XvMC acceleration plays dvb in about 9% cpu load.  Nice.
-Playing livetv in myth uses around 60% in the frontend, and 30% in the 
backend, with slight video stutter.  CPU is saturated.  Channel changes 
take around 30 seconds.
-Just recording in myth without any playback uses 95% in the backend.  
This sometimes seems to fall later in the recording to around 10%.
-Playing back a recording in myth uses around 60% in the frontend, video 
looks ok.


I'm using viaXvMC in mythfrontend, without this video is unplayable.  
I've tweaked every setting I can find to minimise CPU but can't get much 
lower.


So the question is, are these reasonable figures for this hardware?  
Compared to xine, it seems really high.  And why is the backend using so 
much cpu recording off dvb?  I'd been expecting much better figures than 
this, I'm sure I've seen postings where people have achieved figures 
more like 15% for live tv on similar hardware.


Has anyone got a similar setup running with better cpu usage?  Is there 
anything obvious I need to turn off?


cheers
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Re: [mythtv-users] Popup menus occasionally unresponsive with LIRC

[Dan Christensen]

Wendy Seltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Thanks.  I'm using just the internal player, not Xine, but I'll see if
 moving the mouse has any effect.

In my case (using fvwm as the Window manager) moving the mouse to
somewhere in the centre of the screen solves the problem.  Because of
overscan, I have the myth gui sized to take up a bit less than the
full X area, so if the mouse gets jostled the pointer can end up
pointing at the background.  When this happens, I get the problem you
described where pop-up menus occasionally don't have any buttons
highlighted.  For me, closing the menu with exit and reopening fixes
the problem, but moving the mouse to the middle of the screen prevents
the problem entirely.

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[mythtv-users] New ATI Tuner that supports Cablecard

[Joe Huffner]

If someone already posted this, sorry for the dupe. I saw this at work
and I don't have access to my home email and I wanted to post this
asap.

This looks very sweet and hopefully won't be too difficult for some decent
developers to get working with Linux and Myth. (However, I suspect there
will be some nasty DRM somewhere)

http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2662


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Re: [mythtv-users] .19 on Ubuntu working sort of

[Steve Adeff]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 00:47, Adam Propeck wrote:
 Ok, I think I got it compiled and installed. I've run Myth-setup and
 mythfilldatabase successfully. For some reason I had to set my
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH to run any of the apps. I'm using a 6200 STB though, and I
 finally got it to successfully let me watch live TV. Internal channel
 changing however is not working. Is there something I need to do? Also, HD

Motorola DCT6200? I assume your using firewire? Did you set the box up in 
mythtv-setup as a firewire connection to a DCT6200?

 channels are extemely slow, so I think I may try to install the fglrx
 drivers into Ubuntu. I have an ATI FireGL X1 - 128MB. I'm assuming that
 with Ubuntu, I leave the driver set to ati in my xorg.conf by default to
 take advantage of the fglrx that is installed out of the box in Ubuntu. Is
 this right? Thanks in advance.

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Re: [mythtv-users] High mythtv CPU usage on EPIA SP8000

[Stutty]

Just to add that I am also using this board (but as backend only - PCI
DVB card) and am seeing mythbackend CPU load sometimes being sustained
at over 30% whilst recording programs. However most of the time it
stays around the Myth 0.18.1 levels of 2-5%.

Have not had time to look into it unfortunately.

Paul
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Large LCD Televisions?

[Steve Adeff]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 08:24, Boleslaw Ciesielski wrote:
 James C. Dastrup wrote:
 start yet). With HDMI/DVI, though the terminal does creep off the
 screen (meaning I can't actually see the cursor :-)), the clarity
 of the ascii chars is crystal; with the PC input, the letters are
 blurry and seem to be be shuddering quite a bit.
 
  If the text is blurry using the PC Input, you must not be displaying text
  in the LCD's native resolution.  There's no reason text should be blurry
  or shuddering.

 Actually, DVI vs VGA does make a very visible difference for text
 display on a high resolution LCD (= 1600x1200), at least up close. I am
 not sure if it's visible from a distance, but it's definitely there.

 Bolek

as well it could, VGA is analog, DVI/HDMI can be digital, and for many HDTV's 
is. 

The problem, as with any connection type, is that the hardware creating the 
signal and the hardware receiving the signal varies. Its like the early Coax 
vs optical S/PDIF connection debate.
All the snobby audiophiles argued over it, many saying Coax was in fact better 
than optical, when in reality the issue was that the electronics for creating 
and receiving the coax signal was of higher quality than the optical 
electronics at the time. Since then the optical parts have caught up and its 
a wash, depending more on individual components than the type of connection.

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Re: [mythtv-users] New ATI Tuner that supports Cablecard

[Phil Bridges]

On 1/5/06, Joe Huffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 If someone already posted this, sorry for the dupe. I saw this at work
 and I don't have access to my home email and I wanted to post this
 asap.

 This looks very sweet and hopefully won't be too difficult for some decent
 developers to get working with Linux and Myth. (However, I suspect there
 will be some nasty DRM somewhere)

 http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2662



Interesting that it works over USB  - even for the internal version. 
Also interesting that future versions may support ethernet rather than
USB.
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Re: [mythtv-users] New ATI Tuner that supports Cablecard

[Steve Adeff]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 09:19, Joe Huffner wrote:
 If someone already posted this, sorry for the dupe. I saw this at work
 and I don't have access to my home email and I wanted to post this
 asap.

 This looks very sweet and hopefully won't be too difficult for some decent
 developers to get working with Linux and Myth. (However, I suspect there
 will be some nasty DRM somewhere)

 http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2662

you won't be able to license use of cablecards without proven DRM which is 
why only Vista will support it (cause MS paid enough money to convince them 
Vista has solid DRM support).

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[mythtv-users] Leadtek Winfast PVR 2000 remote control

[Bryan Bennetts]

Hi all,

I have just started installing the necessary modules for this card and was 
wondering if anyone has got the remote control working for it?

cx88xx does not appear to support this card's remote (yet;), and when I try to 
modprobe lirc_gpio, to use lirc I get :

stella ~ # modprobe lirc_gpio
FATAL: Error inserting lirc_gpio 
(/lib/modules/2.6.14-gentoo-r5/misc/lirc_gpio.ko): Invalid request code

stella ~ # dmesg | tail
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
The bttv_* interface is obsolete and will go away,
please use the new, sysfs based interface instead.
lirc_gpio (-1): could not get card type
The bttv_* interface is obsolete and will go away,
please use the new, sysfs based interface instead.
lirc_gpio (-1): could not get card type
The bttv_* interface is obsolete and will go away,
please use the new, sysfs based interface instead.
lirc_gpio (-1): could not get card type

I'm guessing this is because the bttv dependancy does not know what type of tv 
card it is (and presumably shouldn't since it is a cx88 one!)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks, Bryan.
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Re: [mythtv-users] New ATI Tuner that supports Cablecard

[Jason Werpy]

On 1/5/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 05 January 2006 09:19, Joe Huffner wrote: If someone already posted this, sorry for the dupe. I saw this at work and I don't have access to my home email and I wanted to post this asap.
 This looks very sweet and hopefully won't be too difficult for some decent developers to get working with Linux and Myth. (However, I suspect there will be some nasty DRM somewhere)
 http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2662you won't be able to license use of cablecards without proven DRM which is
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Re: [mythtv-users] New ATI Tuner that supports Cablecard

[Steve Adeff]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 09:43, Jason Werpy wrote:
 On 1/5/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Thursday 05 January 2006 09:19, Joe Huffner wrote:
   If someone already posted this, sorry for the dupe. I saw this at work
   and I don't have access to my home email and I wanted to post this
   asap.
  
   This looks very sweet and hopefully won't be too difficult for some
 
  decent
 
   developers to get working with Linux and Myth. (However, I suspect
   there will be some nasty DRM somewhere)
  
   http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2662
 
  you won't be able to license use of cablecards without proven DRM which
  is
  why only Vista will support it (cause MS paid enough money to convince
  them
  Vista has solid DRM support).
 

 I thought the whole point behind the cablecard thing was that the DRM was
 in the cablecard.  Why would the OS have to provide DRM?  Wouldn't that
 make cablecard really meaningless?

because you could take what you record and distribute it without commercials 
at no monetary reimbursement to the old, outdated thinking television 
industry...

The idea behind cablecards was that you could have a tuner built into a TV or 
DVR thats not provided by the cable company that could tune all the normal 
cable channels that you currently need their specific hardware to tune. As 
well you could technically take your cable card to a friends house under the 
same cable company and get your line-up there. So say you pay for some sports 
package or HD thing and want to do a Football (or Futbol depending on where 
your from) shindig at someones house that doesn't, you just take your card 
there and you would get your lineup.

-- 
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RE: [mythtv-users] New ATI Tuner that supports Cablecard

[Dean Collins]

Lol  my sentiments exactly when I
met with Cablelabs and they point blank said they wouldnt provide me the
development apis for my www.cognation.net/cablecard3
project.



Basically even things like serial ports
they wanted nailed down forget about linux as an OS.



My answer to them was fine, F#*
yourselves and Ill build something in a few years time once we no longer
use cable as the medium. Since then Ive been working with Akimbo and a
few other similar companies to encourage this ip delivered video and once
Cablelabs are nothing but an historic memory Ill try again.







Cheers,



Dean









 

 This looks very sweet and hopefully won't be too difficult for some decent
 developers to get working with Linux and Myth. (However, I suspect there
 will be some nasty DRM somewhere)
 
 http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2662

you won't be able to license use of cablecards without proven DRM
which is 
why only Vista will support it (cause MS paid
enough money to convince them
Vista has solid DRM support).

--
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Re: [mythtv-users] Zap2It multiple sources same cable?

[Preston Crow]

On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 23:02 -0500, Steve Adeff wrote:
 On Wednesday 04 January 2006 18:53, Chris Ribe wrote:
it won't let me choose more than one Comcast Digital Cable even for a
different zip code.
 
  I just did this yesterday without a problem.  My real lineup was already
  setup, and I wanted to set a lineup containing only the HDTV channels.  I
  selected Add new lineup,  and then entered a zip code other than my own.
  I selected Digital cable and then deselected most of the channels.  WHere
  did you run into a problem?
 
 Step 1: Enter Zip Code: I enter my zip code + 1
 Step 2: Please select the TV signal source type for your lineup.: I choose 
 Cable Digital
 Step 3: Please select your Cable Digital provider.: I choose Comcast - 
 Boston 
 - Digital
 Error I receive: This provider has already been selected. Please select 
 another provider.

I expect you have to select a zip code for a different city.  I'm in a
small town, so a different town and a different zip code are the same
thing.

Now if only zap2it would get the right listings for channel 802 (PBS-HD,
not PBS-SD).

--PC

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Re: [mythtv-users] Zap2It multiple sources same cable?

[R. G. Newbury]

Byron Poland wrote:


On 1/3/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 


So I've got three sources from the same cable company, am I doomed to have to
have 3 logins?

1: HD Digital Cablebox via Firewire
2: SD Digital Cablebox via PVR-150
3: pcHDTV HD3000 cia QAM

all from Comcast. Now, each source requires its own specific channel lineup
and all three require a Digital Cable lineup to be selected.

The easiest would be to setup 1 zap2it source for all three and somehow tell
Myth which tuner gets what channels. But I don't think this is possible.
   


See if you can pick a neighboring zip code that has the same services.
I seem to remember doing this to try and circumvent some multiple
lineup issues, I don't remember my exact issues they could of been
related to OTA stuff.
 


I think you only need 2 different lineups at zap2it.
I have ONE logon at zap2it and TWO different lineups. One lineup is 
just  'Cable'. The other is 'Digital'.

Your PVR150 card will use the 'Cable' source.
Your Digital channels should be handled by the Myth database.
You may be able to use the 'other zip-code' trick, but I think that that 
will fail unless you set up a different login. (I haven't tested but I 
thought that Myth could handle a different login for an alternate 
source. The problem is the zap2it end: one login allows only one lineup 
of each type, cable, digital, or broadcast.)


You should be able to get all of the digital channels working properly 
from the one digital lineup.
To get QAM working you have to set up the dtv_mulitplex table and then 
enter the channel PID (as the serviceid) in the channel database.  
Search gossamer threads for a topic heading starting with  Sweet! PC 
HD... for links on how to get that done.


When you select a show, Myth uses the database and searchs to find the 
channel, and parses out the hardware source (and serviceid to give to 
the hardware) and the frequency in order to tune the proper piece of 
hardware.
In this case the source will be either #1 or #3, and it will always 
internally 'tune' to the fixed channel while outputting an IR 
change-channel signal to the cablebox for any channel mapped to #1. At 
least that's how it appears it should work. And people have reported 
here that the two parts of this do work separately. In fact, I'm doing 
the 'source #3' part of that now with my PVR500 and HD3000. Your setup 
is different only in using the 'same' digital source for different 
tuners depending on the channel, but it should work.


You have an advantage in that you can use the cablebox to discover the 
PIDs for all of the digital channels, so it will be a little easier for 
you to set up the HD3000 card's database entries. You may want to get 
phpMyAdmin running on your box, as this requires some mysql database 
bit-bashing which is a lot easier to do with a hand holding gui.


Geoff








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Re: [mythtv-users] Zap2It multiple sources same cable?

[Steve Adeff]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 10:17, Preston Crow wrote:
 On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 23:02 -0500, Steve Adeff wrote:
  On Wednesday 04 January 2006 18:53, Chris Ribe wrote:
 it won't let me choose more than one Comcast Digital Cable even for
 a different zip code.
  
   I just did this yesterday without a problem.  My real lineup was
   already setup, and I wanted to set a lineup containing only the HDTV
   channels.  I selected Add new lineup,  and then entered a zip code
   other than my own. I selected Digital cable and then deselected most
   of the channels.  WHere did you run into a problem?
 
  Step 1: Enter Zip Code: I enter my zip code + 1
  Step 2: Please select the TV signal source type for your lineup.: I
  choose Cable Digital
  Step 3: Please select your Cable Digital provider.: I choose Comcast -
  Boston - Digital
  Error I receive: This provider has already been selected. Please select
  another provider.

 I expect you have to select a zip code for a different city.  I'm in a
 small town, so a different town and a different zip code are the same
 thing.

ok, tried that, but the the lineup is different... anyone know good zipcodes 
to use for comcast in boston?

-- 
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[mythtv-users] Edit Mode overlay menu?

[Steve Adeff]

is there a menu for the edit mode such that I don't have to learn all the keys 
to my remote? I can't find a keymapping for one in the docs, but I've noticed 
that doesn't mean much for SVN...

-- 
thanks,
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[mythtv-users] access denied for remote frontend

[Eric Sharkey]

I'm trying to connect a remote frontend to a working mythtv box and I
keep getting Access Denied errors when the frontend tries to connect
to the mysql server.

I've read the docs and googled this to find all of the common problems
and none of them seem to fit my situation.

The mysql server is up and correctly configured for remote access.
If on the remote frontend box I run:

  mysql -h mythtered -u mythtv -pmypassword mythconverg

Then I get connected correctly and can see all of the tables, yet when
mythfrontend tries to connect to the same host using the same dbname,
username, and password it gets access denied.

I snarfed the mysql network traffic and looked at the difference
between the mysql command line client and the mythfrontend traffic and
noticed that mysql sends a packet that looks like:

0x:  4508 0080 7379 4000 4006 019a c0a8 2201  [EMAIL 
PROTECTED]@..
0x0010:  c0a8 220b a157 0cea 6049 546a f15c f05f  W..`ITj.\._
0x0020:  8018 05b4 b4ad  0101 080a 60a6 271b  `.'.
0x0030:  9ebf dbb9 4800 0001 8da6 0300  0001  H...
0x0040:  0800         
0x0050:      6d79 7468 7476 0014  mythtv..
0x0060:  c18a 400a ccf7 be84 35aa df4f dd48 f934  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0x0070:  f16d 8e76 6d79 7468 636f 6e76 6572 6700  .m.vmythconverg.

while mythfrontend looks like:

0x:  4508 0058 b25c 4000 4006 c2de c0a8 2201  [EMAIL 
PROTECTED]@..
0x0010:  c0a8 220b a11b 0cea 5f6d 528a f03e 2a70  ..._mR..*p
0x0020:  8018 05b4 2aa8  0101 080a 60a5 e0e1  *...`...
0x0030:  9ebf 9582 2000 0001 8d20  006d 7974  .myt
0x0040:  6874 7600 5f5c 4952 555e 525d 006d 7974  htv._\IRU^R].myt
0x0050:  6863 6f6e 7665 7267  hconverg

It looks like both of these packets end with username, obscured password,
and database name but, but the mythfrontend is using fewer characters
for the password, so it must be using some sort of different password
obfuscation algorithm, or a different password.

Any idea what could cause this?

Both machines are Debian Sid running the same mythtv 0.18.1 packages.

Eric
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[mythtv-users] Do I need a new DVI cable for 1080p?

[Yeechang Lee]

I have a new 37 Westinghouse panel that offers 1080p through DVI. I
have it hooked up to my Pentium 4 3.0GHz MythTV frontend/backend and
its Nvidia 6200TC card with the DVI-D cable that came with my
four-year old 17 monitor.

The picture looks fantastic, but having never owned a HDTV before I don't
know if I'm missing out on something. Two things:

1) When there's movement of the entire picture (if, say, the camera
   pans or zooms, as opposed to a person walking across a static room)
   when playing a HD recording, sometimes I'll see the top 1/6 of the
   screen slightly out of phrase with the remainder; it changes
   slightly ahead or behind the rest. Otherwise, the picture is
   entirely consistent. Is this simply a function of the computer not
   being able to quite keep up with the work of displaying the
   movement? I do have Myth deinterlacing with the kernel codec
   without XvMC, have OpenGL XV sync on on both nvidia-settings and
   Myth, and am using Jarod Wilson's modeline for this specific panel.

2) /var/log/Xorg.log tells me that the card has a single link
   connection to the display. Should I buy a new, explicitly dual-link
   DVI cable?  My cable's connectors have all the pins needed for dual
   link, but I don't know if that's the only factor involved in
   whether a cable is dual-link compliant or not.

-- 
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[mythtv-users] Re: .19 on Ubuntu working sort of

[Luis Ochoa]

On 1/5/06, Adam Propeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 For some reason I had to set my
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH to run any of the apps.

You shouldn't have to do that if you run ldconfig as root.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Problem with XvMC being slow

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 1:21, Jerry Rubinow wrote:
 When using XvMC to play back video, CPU usage is low (30% for HD, 10%
 for SD), but the video plays back slower than realtime.  I'm using an
 Nvidia 5200 card, with driver version 7667 (although I've tried every
 version up to the current 8XXX).
 
  Is there anything I should check?  Anything obviously wrong from the
 following details?  Or is this the XvMC slowdown I've read about? 
 What are my options for fixing this?
 
  If I use libmpeg2, SD plays back fine (~30% CPU), but HD maxes out
 the CPU.  I'm using current SVN myth as of a couple of days ago. 
 /etc/X11/XvMCConfig points to libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1.  My GUI is
 1280x720.  I'm not using any filters, and I have Enable OpenGL
 vertical sync for timing checked.

I could be way off base on this, but something in my memory is nagging 
me... something about maybe Nvidia's XvMC not supporting/performing 
well at certain resolutions?  Have you tried changing your horizontal 
resolution to something smaller, like 1024?

HTH,

JAC
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[mythtv-users] Re: Zap2It multiple sources same cable?

[Boleslaw Ciesielski]

Preston Crow wrote:

Now if only zap2it would get the right listings for channel 802 (PBS-HD,
not PBS-SD).


I sent them e-mail about it few weeks ago, but there was no reply. It's 
silly, because the same PBS-HD in the OTA lineup is correct, so they 
have the data...


Bolek
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Re: [mythtv-users] Struggling with Xwindows DVI to HDTV 1080i

[Len Reed]

Chris Lynch wrote:


I have 1080i working on my 6600 over DVI-HDMI, but didn't bother with 
component with the following modeline:


ModeLine 1920x1080i 74.2 1920 2008 2052 2200 1080 1084 
1089 1125 +hsync +vsync interlace


Let me know if you need more - it looks great on my set (JVC HD-61FH96).


Interesting...

A couple of requests:
1. What version of nvidia's driver are you using?
2. Could you post your full xorg.conf file?

Thanks, Len
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Re: [mythtv-users] optimizing speed/power consumption [was: slow startup, channel change]

[Matt Price]

THanks robert,

On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 21:29 -0600, Robert Johnston wrote:
 On 1/4/06, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  I know this is a slow system, but I have a hauppauge pvr-350
  installed, so most of the heavy lifting should be taken care of.  Are
  there any tweaks I can apply to speed up the funcitoning of the gui?
 
 The Prescaling Images IS what's done to speed up the GUI. If we
 didn't do that (And it's cached for following runs, so it shouldn't
 take near so long the second time) then we'd have to re-scale the
 images every time you change screen.
 

I see.  As you suggested I built a slightly less complex theme.  Since I
know nothing about myth or xml, I just deleted al lthe buttons from
theme.xml in the default /GANT theme, which produced a noticable speedup
both in the initial startup and in the screen redraws when flipping
between options.  There's still a short delay between rescaling images
and the appearance of the main menu -- not sure what causes that, as
it's not reported in the onscreen messages.  But all in all this seems a
pretty good solution.  

 As the besic premise is that the Myth box is kept running 24/7, you
 should only have to see the Prescaling Images prompt once in a blue
 moon.
 

eventuallyv I do want to go to 24/7 usage -- though I was htinkinga bout
giving the system a break a few hours a day to save electricity.
failing that, it would be nice to be able to greatly diminish power
consumption when system is idle by spinning down the drive, reducing cpu
activity, etc. Since my system is noisier than I'd like that'd have
multiple bonuses.  I figure this must be a trick other people have tried
-- what techniques do folks use?

 Another suggestion would be to make sure that the 350 is in the
 highest PCI slot you can, not a shared PCI/ISA slot, as that will
 enable the card to use BusMastering, which will speed things up
 some. Also make sure you have enabled DMA transfers on your hard-drive
 with HDParm (If they're supported on your motherboard).
 

DMA is on, but I will look in to the slot -- I think I may have the card
in the scond slot, not the first, and can easily change that.  

 Unfortunately, as it's only a PIII system you have, manipulating
 fullscreen graphics will be slow. The only thing I could recommend is
 to perhaps change the rendering method, or build yourself a Theme
 that has only basic colours in (No fancy images to scale and resize =
 performance boost). That's about it, though. Sorry.
 --

thanks for hte hints.

matt


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Re: [mythtv-users] New ATI Tuner that supports Cablecard

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 9:35, Steve Adeff wrote:
 On Thursday 05 January 2006 09:19, Joe Huffner wrote:
  If someone already posted this, sorry for the dupe. I saw this at 
  work 
  and I don't have access to my home email and I wanted to post this
  asap.
 
  This looks very sweet and hopefully won't be too difficult for some 
  decent 
  developers to get working with Linux and Myth. (However, I suspect 
  there 
  will be some nasty DRM somewhere)
 
  http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2662
 
 you won't be able to license use of cablecards without proven DRM 
 which is  
 why only Vista will support it (cause MS paid enough money to convince 
 them  
 Vista has solid DRM support).

Ummm unless ATI has built DRM directly into their card/device (i.e., 
making it impossible for an open source Linux driver to be developed), 
then the only way this wouldn't (eventually) work under other OSes 
would be if ATI (or OEMs) were denied a license to develop hardware 
based on this design using the CableCard APIs, protocols or whatever.

Other than that, if the card is manufactured (and it might only be OEM 
for WinMCE PCs, but that's what eBay is for...) then I don't think your 
cable company can legally refuse to give you a CableCard to plug into 
it.  And, since it's only CableCard 1.0, I don't think there's any way 
they could selectively disable just those receivers without obsoleting 
their entire installed CableCard base.

Am I way off base in this?

-JAC
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Re: [mythtv-users] access denied for remote frontend

[Eric Sharkey]

Thanks for the reply, Steve.

 On Thursday 05 Jan 2006 16:16, Eric Sharkey wrote:
 You need to change mysql's startup file...
 
 /etc/sysconfig/mysqld

I assume you mean /etc/mysql/my.cnf.

 eg...
 
 # (oe) Remove --skip-networking to enable network access from
 # non local clients. Access from localhost will still work.
 # MYSQLD_OPTIONS=--skip-networking
 MYSQLD_OPTIONS=
 
 # (oe) set TMPDIR and TMP environment variables
 TMPDIR=${datadir}/.tmp
 TMP=${TMPDIR}

How does this help?

As I said, I have no problems connecting to the mysql server
from the remote frontend using the mysql command line client.
The mysql server is configured for remote network access and it
works.  The problem is not a skip-networking setting or anything
like that.  If it was, I couldn't connect at all.

I have tmpdir set to /tmp.  I've not read anything that suggests
that this setting would be important, provided that /tmp has
sufficent space.

The problem seems to be that the mythfrontend client is not sending
the right password or not sending it in the right way.  I can't
figure out why.

Eric
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Re: [mythtv-users] Do I need a new DVI cable for 1080p?

[Steve Adeff]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 11:19, Yeechang Lee wrote:
 The picture looks fantastic, but having never owned a HDTV before I don't
 know if I'm missing out on something. Two things:

 1) When there's movement of the entire picture (if, say, the camera
pans or zooms, as opposed to a person walking across a static room)
when playing a HD recording, sometimes I'll see the top 1/6 of the
screen slightly out of phrase with the remainder; it changes
slightly ahead or behind the rest. Otherwise, the picture is
entirely consistent. Is this simply a function of the computer not
being able to quite keep up with the work of displaying the
movement? I do have Myth deinterlacing with the kernel codec
without XvMC, have OpenGL XV sync on on both nvidia-settings and
Myth, and am using Jarod Wilson's modeline for this specific panel.

very well could be speed, did you notice this on your previous HD screen?

It may also be your tv trying to do double duty in i-p conversion?
from what I remember people here saying, that TV accepts 1080p signals, does 
your tv show that it is accepting your computers signal as progressive?

 2) /var/log/Xorg.log tells me that the card has a single link
connection to the display. Should I buy a new, explicitly dual-link
DVI cable?  My cable's connectors have all the pins needed for dual
link, but I don't know if that's the only factor involved in
whether a cable is dual-link compliant or not.

dual link only requires the extra connectors on the cable to carry a signal, 
yours might have the pins but no wires from one end to the other.

Whether it matters I'm not sure. Your TV would definitely have to support dual 
link, which it should, and the video card would as well, which I'm not sure 
of. If they do, in theory the picture quality will be better as more data can 
be sent... I have no experience in practice with this though, but at the 
price ramelectronics.net and some of the other quality online cable stores 
have DVI-D dual link cables for, it might just be worth buying one, testing 
and returning if the results aren't worth the price you paid.

-- 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Problem with XvMC being slow

[Jerry Rubinow]

On 1/5/06, Joseph A. Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Thursday 05 January 2006 1:21, Jerry Rubinow wrote:
  When using XvMC to play back video, CPU usage is low (30% for HD, 10%
  for SD), but the video plays back slower than realtime.  I'm using an
  Nvidia 5200 card, with driver version 7667 (although I've tried every
  version up to the current 8XXX).
 
   Is there anything I should check?  Anything obviously wrong from the
  following details?  Or is this the XvMC slowdown I've read about?
  What are my options for fixing this?

 I could be way off base on this, but something in my memory is nagging
 me... something about maybe Nvidia's XvMC not supporting/performing
 well at certain resolutions?  Have you tried changing your horizontal
 resolution to something smaller, like 1024?

No, but that's a good suggestion - I'll try it tonight.  Thanks.

-Jerry
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Re: [mythtv-users] New ATI Tuner that supports Cablecard

[Steve Adeff]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 11:51, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
 On Thursday 05 January 2006 9:35, Steve Adeff wrote:
  On Thursday 05 January 2006 09:19, Joe Huffner wrote:
   If someone already posted this, sorry for the dupe. I saw this at
   work
   and I don't have access to my home email and I wanted to post this
   asap.
  
   This looks very sweet and hopefully won't be too difficult for some
   decent
   developers to get working with Linux and Myth. (However, I suspect
   there
   will be some nasty DRM somewhere)
  
   http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2662
 
  you won't be able to license use of cablecards without proven DRM
  which is
  why only Vista will support it (cause MS paid enough money to convince
  them
  Vista has solid DRM support).

 Ummm unless ATI has built DRM directly into their card/device (i.e.,
 making it impossible for an open source Linux driver to be developed),
 then the only way this wouldn't (eventually) work under other OSes
 would be if ATI (or OEMs) were denied a license to develop hardware
 based on this design using the CableCard APIs, protocols or whatever.

 Other than that, if the card is manufactured (and it might only be OEM
 for WinMCE PCs, but that's what eBay is for...) then I don't think your
 cable company can legally refuse to give you a CableCard to plug into
 it.  And, since it's only CableCard 1.0, I don't think there's any way
 they could selectively disable just those receivers without obsoleting
 their entire installed CableCard base.

 Am I way off base in this?

 -JAC

no, your right, once the CableCard tuner-cards are out in the wild anyone with 
the expertise to write drivers for linux very well could. I imagine it would 
take some time for it all to happen, at which point they might be on to some 
new method of preventing themselves from having to create a new business 
model

-- 
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Re: [mythtv-users] New ATI Tuner that supports Cablecard

[Preston Crow]

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 12:10 -0500, Steve Adeff wrote:
 no, your right, once the CableCard tuner-cards are out in the wild anyone 
 with 
 the expertise to write drivers for linux very well could. I imagine it would 
 take some time for it all to happen, at which point they might be on to some 
 new method of preventing themselves from having to create a new business 
 model

Most likely the card will only send out encrypted video using
Microsoft's DRM system.  I doubt we'll be very effective in getting
these cards to work with Linux unless someone completely cracks that
DRM.

It would be nice, but I'm not terribly optimistic at this point.

--PC

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[mythtv-users] samsung TV and firewire output

[Todd Hutchinson]

Hi,

I'm considering purchasing a Samsung 4667W TV.  This
TV has 2 firewire input/output ports.  I realize that
myth does not currently support recording from the
FireWire ports of TVs, but it is something that I
would like to try--it should be similar to using
FireWire on a cable box, right?  I came across an
article in The Perfect Vision magazine about
FireWire output on another Samsung TV.  To quote the
article:

I attempted to make a recording on an RCA DVR, 
The HL-R5668 had no problem recognizing the RCA DVR,
and the set was able to play and fast-scan any of the
recordings I had previously stored on it. However, the
Samsung would not allow me to record any new cable
content on the DVR. Instead, it displayed an on-screen
notice that the content was copy-protected. This
occurred with my local digital-broadcast channels
(terrestrial channels that are rebroadcast on digital
cable) as well as premium content such as HBO. Copy
restrictions are prohibited on rebroadcast channels,
so that couldn't have been the problem.
   I finally learned from Samsung that the HL-R5668
does not have a PID (Program Identifier) filter. This
filter is essential for recording digital-cable
signals, which carry two complete HD channels in the
same 6MHz bandwidth as single-channel over-the-air
broadcasts. A program ID filter allows only one
channel to pass through the FireWire cable to the
recorder, which can't record two channels at once. ...
The Samsung rep I spoke with assured me that digital
recordings of terrestrial broadcasts can be performed,
but I didn't try it.

So, if I understand this correctly, it's not possible
to record from the TVs firewire ports if it is fed a
cable TV signal.  (I realize that I could use the
firewire output from the cable box instead).  But, if
I use an antenna to recieve channels OTA, will I have
the same problem.  Do you concur?

Ultimately, I'd like to use mythtv to record from the
FireWire output of the TV. Is there any hope of doing
that with this TV?  I did read the thread from a
couple of weeks ago about using HAVi to control a
TV--might be fun to try with this TV, if I can get
over the above problem.

Thanks,

Todd 




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[mythtv-users] SVN lossless MPEG2 transcode for HD process question

[Steve Adeff]

I tried using this for my first time, and since I've never done transcoding I 
think I may be confused...

First, I don't have any transcode jobs setup, so I ran mythtranscode manually. 
Here's what I did...

Used edit mode to place two cutpoints (I just wanted to save one interview 
segment from a talk show). When I play back the recording it honors the 
cutpoints, so I ran:
mythtranscode -m -i /MythTV/tv/1807_20060105020500.mpg -l --showprogress

and in the end I got 

-rw-r--r--  1 mythtv mythtv 7.2G Jan  5 03:04 1807_20060105020500.mpg
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root   7.1G Jan  5 11:39 1807_20060105020500.mpg.tmp

so I'm hoping I'm just doing something wrong... but I don't know what...

thanks for the help!
-- 
Steve
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[mythtv-users] MythTV and mysql-4.1.16/mysql-5

[Andreas Witte]

Heya List,

yesterday i tried to move one step ahead with mysql and
installed the 4.1.16 of the database. No care about the
mythtv-datas, starting with a plain empty database, done
all in the howto.

If i start mythbackend (or setup) i run into following
error:

---

2006-01-05 18:18:14.490 Current Schema Version:
2006-01-05 18:18:14.490 Newest Schema Version : 1121
2006-01-05 18:18:14.494 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.
2006-01-05 18:18:14.497 New DB connection, total: 2
2006-01-05 18:18:14.499 Inserting MythTV initial database information.
2006-01-05 18:18:14.501 New DB connection, total: 3
2006-01-05 18:18:14.511 Upgrading to schema version 1112
2006-01-05 18:18:14.591 DB Error (Performing database upgrade):
Query was: CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `jumppoints` (  `destination`
varchar(128) NOT NULL default '',  `description` varchar(255) default NULL,
`keylist` varchar(32) default NULL,  `hostname` varchar(255) NOT NULL
default '',  PRIMARY KEY  (`destination`,`hostname`));
Error was: Driver error was [2/1071]:
QMYSQL3: Unable to execute query
Database error was:
Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes

new version: 1112
2006-01-05 18:18:14.592 Database Schema upgrade FAILED, unlocking.
2006-01-05 18:18:14.593 Couldn't upgrade database to new schema

---

I read several posts about this and only found that one solution is
to change utf8 to latin1 (utf8 takes 3 bytes per char, latin1 just 1,
as far as i understood). I tried this in my.cnf with no success... ;(

I also tried mysql-5.0 and run into the same error.

Any idea, whats the latest mysql i may use for mythtv ? Its a pain to
recompile qt after mysql again and again (im using gentoo).

At the moment im unable to build the mythconverg database.

Regards and thanks in advance,
Andreas

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Re: [mythtv-users] Do I need a new DVI cable for 1080p?

[kteague]

 -Original Message-
when playing a HD recording, sometimes I'll see the top 1/6 of the
screen slightly out of phrase with the remainder; it changes

I own the same TV, however, I have not used it under Linux yet.  I've been 
playing a lot of 1080i content from my PC using Windows Media Player 10, and I 
have not noticed the problem you're describing here.  I do, at times, see my 
video and audio stutter, but I believe it's due to CPU and/or HDD I/O -- most 
likely HDD I/O.  The stutter is very occasional and only lasts for a split 
second.  The PC I'm using is slower than yours, also.  It's a 2.4GHz P4 w/1GB 
and an nVidia 5700 Ultra.

Being that it's only affecting a small portion of your video, I have a feeling 
your problem may be due to deinterlacing.  Perhaps you can try disabling the 
deinterlacing option to see if it remedies the problem.


 2) /var/log/Xorg.log tells me that the card has a single link
connection to the display. Should I buy a new, explicitly dual-link
DVI cable?  My cable's connectors have all the pins needed for dual
link, but I don't know if that's the only factor involved in
whether a cable is dual-link compliant or not.

Based on the information I read here:
   http://www.datapro.net/techinfo/dvi_info.html#Page03
I don't think a dual-link cable would do you any good, as the monitor can 
display a maximum resolution of 1920x1080.  I'm sure that using a dual-link 
cable shouldn't hurt, but I don't think you'll get any benefit from it.

- Ken


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Re: [mythtv-users] samsung TV and firewire output

[Steve Adeff]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 12:19, Todd Hutchinson wrote:
 Hi,

 I'm considering purchasing a Samsung 4667W TV.  This
 TV has 2 firewire input/output ports.  I realize that
 myth does not currently support recording from the
 FireWire ports of TVs, but it is something that I
 would like to try--it should be similar to using
 FireWire on a cable box, right?  I came across an
 article in The Perfect Vision magazine about
 FireWire output on another Samsung TV.  To quote the
 article:

 I attempted to make a recording on an RCA DVR, 
 The HL-R5668 had no problem recognizing the RCA DVR,
 and the set was able to play and fast-scan any of the
 recordings I had previously stored on it. However, the
 Samsung would not allow me to record any new cable
 content on the DVR. Instead, it displayed an on-screen
 notice that the content was copy-protected. This
 occurred with my local digital-broadcast channels
 (terrestrial channels that are rebroadcast on digital
 cable) as well as premium content such as HBO. Copy
 restrictions are prohibited on rebroadcast channels,
 so that couldn't have been the problem.
I finally learned from Samsung that the HL-R5668
 does not have a PID (Program Identifier) filter. This
 filter is essential for recording digital-cable
 signals, which carry two complete HD channels in the
 same 6MHz bandwidth as single-channel over-the-air
 broadcasts. A program ID filter allows only one
 channel to pass through the FireWire cable to the
 recorder, which can't record two channels at once. ...
 The Samsung rep I spoke with assured me that digital
 recordings of terrestrial broadcasts can be performed,
 but I didn't try it.

 So, if I understand this correctly, it's not possible
 to record from the TVs firewire ports if it is fed a
 cable TV signal.  (I realize that I could use the
 firewire output from the cable box instead).  But, if
 I use an antenna to recieve channels OTA, will I have
 the same problem.  Do you concur?

 Ultimately, I'd like to use mythtv to record from the
 FireWire output of the TV. Is there any hope of doing
 that with this TV?  I did read the thread from a
 couple of weeks ago about using HAVi to control a
 TV--might be fun to try with this TV, if I can get
 over the above problem.

 Thanks,

 Todd

there is no copy protection for OTA, why would there be, they're giving it out 
for free to begin with.

As for recording *from* the tv, is this so you can record OTA stuff? I don't 
see when you would otherwise want to be able to do this when you could just 
connect the device your feeding the TV into the MythTV computer directly?

-- 
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Re: [mythtv-users] New ATI Tuner that supports Cablecard

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 12:15, Preston Crow wrote:
 On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 12:10 -0500, Steve Adeff wrote:
  no, your right, once the CableCard tuner-cards are out in the wild 
anyone with 
  the expertise to write drivers for linux very well could. I imagine 
it would 
  take some time for it all to happen, at which point they might be on 
to some 
  new method of preventing themselves from having to create a new 
business 
  model
 
 Most likely the card will only send out encrypted video using
 Microsoft's DRM system.  I doubt we'll be very effective in getting
 these cards to work with Linux unless someone completely cracks that
 DRM.

Hmmm interesting.  Certainly possible, but the (Vista) driver would 
need to handshake with the card somehow to get the decryption key... 
unless it was hard-coded into Vista (would even MS be that stupid?).  
Thus it *should* be a matter of reverse-engineering a driver that could 
handshake with the card to get the key.

Much more difficult, perhaps, but maybe not impossible...

 It would be nice, but I'm not terribly optimistic at this point.

I prefer to remain hopeful :-)

-JAC
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Re: [mythtv-users] X Output on PVR-350

[Rajeev Goonewardene]

Well, the xrandr support is important since it allows the access to  
the RandR extension in X.  From the man page, the first line of the  
Description is Xrandr is used to set the screen size, orientation   
and/or  reflection.  My only guess on the cause of the problem is  
that your current version of X doesn't have the randr extension.   
Here is the info on my machine querying xorg-x11 package:


[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# rpm -q xorg-x11
--xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2_4.rhfc4.at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# rpm -q xorg-x11 --list | grep xrandr
--/usr/X11R6/bin/xrandr
--/usr/X11R6/man/man1/xrandr.1x.gz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# which xrandr
--/usr/X11R6/bin/xrandr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]#


If your output to the above commands is different, you might want to  
do an update - and make sure you followed all the instructions in:
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php, sections 5. Get your system  
up-to-date and 6. Configure 3rd-party package repositories


If this doesn't work, please send the output from the above commands,  
your xorg.conf file and your dmesg output.


Rajeev.


When I try to change the GUI settings in mythfrontend - setup, those
fields are disabled. I also get a message that to use different GUI
settings xrandr support is required. I am not an X (or fedora) expert.
Any ideas what the problem might be?

David

Rajeev Goonewardene wrote:



David Robison wrote:




I've seen some write ups on this problem but I am still unclear  
how to
solve it. I have a PVR-350 card and I'm trying to run the X  
output on

the card. However, the mythtv screens are clipped on all sides. It
as if
the X screen is larger than the PVR-350 screen. I've tried various
changes in my xorg.conf file but that does not seem to make a
difference. Any guidence would be appreciated. I'm using the  
xorg.conf

from http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/xorg.conf-PVR350.txt.




I had this problem as well with my PVR350 and TV Out on Fedora  
Core 4.


Here are some things to try:

I followed the following document for setup:

http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php?
SIDexpandables=closedivtv=openpvr350out=open

If you use Fedora Core 4, there is a paragraph about a bug in urw-
fonts package in Fedora Core 4 - this helped somewhat  Search for
urw-fonts in the above document.

Next, in the documentation from the mythtv site:
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html
I followed the directions under MythTV Dimensions and played around
with the x/y sizes and offsets and it fixed the screens and things
seem to work.

I also made changes some as per the section on Overscan Dimensions.

Hope it helps,

Rajeev.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Popup menus occasionally unresponsive with LIRC

[Kyle Kelly]

On Wednesday 04 January 2006 17:53, Wendy Seltzer wrote:
 I've been trying to debug this without much luck -- any suggestions would
 be welcome.

 Most of the time, my remote (X10 Lola vi lirc_atiusb module) works
 beautifully.  Sometimes, however, when I invoke popup menus from the remote
 (e.g., with the key mapped to M, in watch recording or play music screens),
 none of the buttons is highlighted, and up and down arrows do nothing.  ESC
 from the remote closes the popup.  Hitting remote-M again has the same
 problem.

 Entering M from the keyboard instead shows the menu with first button
 selected, and from there, I can again navigate with the remote.  (Very
 rarely, the keyboard shows the same problem, but it tends to last for only
 one keypress there.)

 None of the logs shows anything out of the ordinary, or any difference
 between times when the remote works and times when it doesn't.  It often
 varies within a single session.

 This has been happening sporadically for months (currently running svn ~
 rev 8490).  Anyone else seeing this, or have suggestions where to look for
 the problem?

 --Wendy
 --
 Wendy Seltzer
 http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/

Happens to me all the time, to fix I exit the pop-up then press i.  That 
pop-up is always fine, and then I close it and return to m which is now 
fine.  Hope that works for you as well.
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Re: [mythtv-users] access denied for remote frontend

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Jan 5, 2006, at 11:54 AM, Eric Sharkey wrote:



Thanks for the reply, Steve.


On Thursday 05 Jan 2006 16:16, Eric Sharkey wrote:
You need to change mysql's startup file...

/etc/sysconfig/mysqld


I assume you mean /etc/mysql/my.cnf.


eg...

# (oe) Remove --skip-networking to enable network access from
# non local clients. Access from localhost will still work.
# MYSQLD_OPTIONS=--skip-networking
MYSQLD_OPTIONS=

# (oe) set TMPDIR and TMP environment variables
TMPDIR=${datadir}/.tmp
TMP=${TMPDIR}


How does this help?

As I said, I have no problems connecting to the mysql server
from the remote frontend using the mysql command line client.
The mysql server is configured for remote network access and it
works.  The problem is not a skip-networking setting or anything
like that.  If it was, I couldn't connect at all.

I have tmpdir set to /tmp.  I've not read anything that suggests
that this setting would be important, provided that /tmp has
sufficent space.

The problem seems to be that the mythfrontend client is not sending
the right password or not sending it in the right way.  I can't
figure out why.

Eric


I've had problems with invalid characters in passwords before. Not  
specifically with myth, but if I have an FTP account with a slash in  
the password, I can connect with some clients, but not others. Maybe  
something along the same lines is happening here? Try changing your  
password to alphanumeric (if not already) and try again. If it  
already is, sorry for the noise. :)


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Re: [mythtv-users] Large LCD Televisions?

[Marius Schrecker]

 Hi everyone,

 First off, I'm completely new to mythtv and to PVR/home theatre in
 general...and usual thanks to the folks who work on mythtv and support
 the project - great job!

 Now ... here's my situation. I recently purchased a Pundit-R BookPC
 (http://www.cappuccinopc.com/bookpc-pundit-r.asp), a HD-3000 card,
 and a Samsung LNR408D 40 LCD Flat Panel television
 (http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_techspecs_full.php/masterid=7676889).
 Ideally, I'd like to set up a home theatre for cable/FTA satelite, HDTV,
 and PVR goodness. The Pundit-R is a bit low-powered for anything serious,
 but I figured it was a cheap way to get started. My Samsung LCD TV is
 still returnable (for about 20 days or so), so if anyone has any
 suggestions
 for a better choice that's comparable (price and quality, etc.) I'm all
 ears.

 My problem is that I can't get the TV to display Xorg. I've got a
 DVI-HDMI
 cable that I'm using to do the display out to the TV, it almost works fine
 in text mode (except for the fact that the screen size seems to be too
 large
 for the display and my cursor and the left-hand side is cropped off the
 screen).
 My xorg.conf file looks mostly like
 http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/xorg.conf-HD.txt
 except that I've obviously got a different video card. Basically, the only
 error I've got to go off is the TV's 'mode not supported' whenever I try
 to startx.

 So my questions ... is anyone here actually using a largish (~40) LCD
 HDTV-
 capable TV with linux? If so, which ones work really well (ie, any
 recommendations?)? Any ideas for how to get this Samsung working with X?


I'm still feeling my way here too, so don'tknow if this will help, but I
have a cheap 32 LCD TV that gives very good results using ATI.dvi out
/TV.hdmi in. No overscan and absolutely crystal clear X. I set up my
modelines by reading the specs in the tv manual then feeding the numbers
into videogen.

I can't tell you the modelines right now as the TV's in for repairs
(clears throat), and I havent set up ssh  on the mythbox, but the TV
manual gave me this information for 1366x768:

Horizontal frequency = 49KHz, Vertical Frequency = 60Hz,

 If your manual has a table of supported resolutions and refresh rates
then all you need is videogen.

If I use different timings I get an out of range message on the tv, so
this kind of panel is priobably very sensitive to the timings.

What I'd really like is a 50Hz (PAL) input mode for interlaced analog TV
The DVI modes listed are 480p-60Hz, 576p-50Hz, 720p-50Hz, 720p-60Hz,
1080i-50Hz and 1080i-60Hz

If I could translate those into modelines...


Marius
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Re: [mythtv-users] access denied for remote frontend

[Eric Sharkey]

 I've had problems with invalid characters in passwords before. Not  
 specifically with myth, but if I have an FTP account with a slash in  
 the password, I can connect with some clients, but not others. Maybe  
 something along the same lines is happening here? Try changing your  
 password to alphanumeric (if not already) and try again. If it  
 already is, sorry for the noise. :)

Thanks, but the password already is alphanumeric...

Eric
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[mythtv-users] color adjustments to pvr-350

[Matt Price]

hi folks,

myth is running great, but the recordings look funny when played on my
pvr-350 (kinda green and a little washed out).  Tried copying one of the
files to another computer and playing via mplayer on a normal (crt
monitor) xsession, and the color distortion doesn't appear.  It also
seems to me that 

dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16

that is, playing the pvr-350's video-in directly to its video-out, also
doesn't give the color distortion (though I have to experiment with that
more extensively -- it's difficult b/c it won't work when mythfrontend
is running).  

can't find documentation re: how to adjust colorsi n myth or using ivtv
-- can anyone help?  anyone seen this problem before?  

thanks,

matt

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Re: [mythtv-users] mythcommflag without using the DB

[Pranav Desai]

Hey Chris,I did find the src. I will take a look at it and see if I can get it working.Thanks for your help.-PranavOn 1/4/06, Pranav Desai
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:That would be great!


I tried downloading the src from the main dev trunk  on the page, but apparently the link seems to be giving some error. 

Can you send me the src.

Thanks

-PranavOn 1/4/06, Chris Pinkham 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Thanks for prompt response. Do you know of any other way or tool to detect commercials in a mpeg file ?You can try comskip, it started as a C port of the commercial detection thatI wrote in Myth. A couple Windows users ported it to C a year or two ago
and have been working on their own enhancements to it.I emailed them apatch to get it compiling under Linux and I think they put it in theirSVN.It generates a text file like you are looking for.I'm not sure
of the status of the project, I haven't looked it up in quite a while,but here is a wiki page on it with links to the SVN repository.
http://www.sage-community.org/index.cgi/wiki/ComSkip
If you can't get theirs working, I can email you a copy of the source Ihave from them which does compile under Linux, but I can't say I was tooimpressed with their output.You might have more luck creating a fake
'recorded' table entry for your files and then just running themthrough mythcommflag and have mythcommflag print out the skip list orjust run a select against the recordedmarkup table afterwards to get the

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[mythtv-users] ongoing DataDirect problems?

[Andrew Gallatin]

I'm trying (and failing) to run mythfilldatabase to update my
listings.  I think this may be the same issue as decribed last week by
Bruce Markey over in the dev list at
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/169821

If I save post file, and run the same wget command that
mythfilldatabase does, I see that the data I get back
has valid station,lineup,and schedules data.  However,
it seems to be missing programs and everything after that.
The tail end of the downloaded file looks like this:

schedule program='SH019112' station='30646' time='2006-01-06T04:00:00Z' 
duration='PT07H00M'/
/schedules
programs
/programs
productionCrew
/productionCrew
genres
/genres
/xtvd
/xtvdResponse
/ns1:downloadResponse
/SOAP-ENV:Body
/SOAP-ENV:Envelope



Are they known to be working on things?  Is anybody getting
(working) listings from them?  I've only got listings up
until Sunday, and I'm going out of town this weekend, so
I'm a bit paranoid..

Thanks,

Drew
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Re: [mythtv-users] color adjustments to pvr-350

[Brad DerManouelian]

Try turning off your xV picture controls.
Or better yet.. adjust them. :)

On Jan 5, 2006, at 1:49 PM, Matt Price wrote:


hi folks,

myth is running great, but the recordings look funny when played on my
pvr-350 (kinda green and a little washed out).  Tried copying one  
of the

files to another computer and playing via mplayer on a normal (crt
monitor) xsession, and the color distortion doesn't appear.  It also
seems to me that

dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16

that is, playing the pvr-350's video-in directly to its video-out,  
also
doesn't give the color distortion (though I have to experiment with  
that

more extensively -- it's difficult b/c it won't work when mythfrontend
is running).

can't find documentation re: how to adjust colorsi n myth or using  
ivtv
-- can anyone help?  anyone seen this problem before?  


thanks,

matt

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Re: [mythtv-users] ongoing DataDirect problems?

[Kirk Bocek]

The last good fill I received was around Jan 1. I'd like to know what the 
status is also.

Kirk

Andrew Gallatin wrote:
 I'm trying (and failing) to run mythfilldatabase to update my
 listings.  I think this may be the same issue as decribed last week by
 Bruce Markey over in the dev list at
 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/169821
 
 If I save post file, and run the same wget command that
 mythfilldatabase does, I see that the data I get back
 has valid station,lineup,and schedules data.  However,
 it seems to be missing programs and everything after that.
 The tail end of the downloaded file looks like this:
 
 schedule program='SH019112' station='30646' time='2006-01-06T04:00:00Z' 
 duration='PT07H00M'/
 /schedules
 programs
 /programs
 productionCrew
 /productionCrew
 genres
 /genres
 /xtvd
 /xtvdResponse
 /ns1:downloadResponse
 /SOAP-ENV:Body
 /SOAP-ENV:Envelope
 
 
 
 Are they known to be working on things?  Is anybody getting
 (working) listings from them?  I've only got listings up
 until Sunday, and I'm going out of town this weekend, so
 I'm a bit paranoid..
 
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RE: [mythtv-users] Popup menus occasionally unresponsive with LIRC

[David Ellis]

This is a focus issue with your window managerbasically if mythfrontend
doesn't have focus when you access a menu you can't navigate it properly.

If you play around with the focus settings in your Window Manager(in KDE its
in KDE Control Center), you can usually make the problem disappear.

This problem is most noticeable after playing a video in Xine (for me
anyways).

David

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kyle Kelly
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 1:24 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Popup menus occasionally unresponsive with LIRC

On Wednesday 04 January 2006 17:53, Wendy Seltzer wrote:
 I've been trying to debug this without much luck -- any suggestions would
 be welcome.

 Most of the time, my remote (X10 Lola vi lirc_atiusb module) works
 beautifully.  Sometimes, however, when I invoke popup menus from the
remote
 (e.g., with the key mapped to M, in watch recording or play music
screens),
 none of the buttons is highlighted, and up and down arrows do nothing.
ESC
 from the remote closes the popup.  Hitting remote-M again has the same
 problem.

 Entering M from the keyboard instead shows the menu with first button
 selected, and from there, I can again navigate with the remote.  (Very
 rarely, the keyboard shows the same problem, but it tends to last for only
 one keypress there.)

 None of the logs shows anything out of the ordinary, or any difference
 between times when the remote works and times when it doesn't.  It often
 varies within a single session.

 This has been happening sporadically for months (currently running svn ~
 rev 8490).  Anyone else seeing this, or have suggestions where to look for
 the problem?

 --Wendy
 --
 Wendy Seltzer
 http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/

Happens to me all the time, to fix I exit the pop-up then press i.  That 
pop-up is always fine, and then I close it and return to m which is now 
fine.  Hope that works for you as well.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Zap2It multiple sources same cable?

[R. G. Newbury]

Steve Adeff wrote:


On Thursday 05 January 2006 10:26, R. G. Newbury wrote:
 


Byron Poland wrote:
   


On 1/3/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 


So I've got three sources from the same cable company, am I doomed to
have to have 3 logins?

1: HD Digital Cablebox via Firewire
2: SD Digital Cablebox via PVR-150
3: pcHDTV HD3000 cia QAM

all from Comcast. Now, each source requires its own specific channel
lineup and all three require a Digital Cable lineup to be selected.

The easiest would be to setup 1 zap2it source for all three and somehow
tell Myth which tuner gets what channels. But I don't think this is
possible.
   


See if you can pick a neighboring zip code that has the same services.
I seem to remember doing this to try and circumvent some multiple
lineup issues, I don't remember my exact issues they could of been
related to OTA stuff.
 


I think you only need 2 different lineups at zap2it.
I have ONE logon at zap2it and TWO different lineups. One lineup is
just  'Cable'. The other is 'Digital'.
Your PVR150 card will use the 'Cable' source.
Your Digital channels should be handled by the Myth database.
You may be able to use the 'other zip-code' trick, but I think that that
will fail unless you set up a different login. (I haven't tested but I
thought that Myth could handle a different login for an alternate
source. The problem is the zap2it end: one login allows only one lineup
of each type, cable, digital, or broadcast.)

You should be able to get all of the digital channels working properly
from the one digital lineup.
To get QAM working you have to set up the dtv_mulitplex table and then
enter the channel PID (as the serviceid) in the channel database.
Search gossamer threads for a topic heading starting with  Sweet! PC
HD... for links on how to get that done.

When you select a show, Myth uses the database and searchs to find the
channel, and parses out the hardware source (and serviceid to give to
the hardware) and the frequency in order to tune the proper piece of
hardware.
In this case the source will be either #1 or #3, and it will always
internally 'tune' to the fixed channel while outputting an IR
change-channel signal to the cablebox for any channel mapped to #1. At
least that's how it appears it should work. And people have reported
here that the two parts of this do work separately. In fact, I'm doing
the 'source #3' part of that now with my PVR500 and HD3000. Your setup
is different only in using the 'same' digital source for different
tuners depending on the channel, but it should work.

You have an advantage in that you can use the cablebox to discover the
PIDs for all of the digital channels, so it will be a little easier for
you to set up the HD3000 card's database entries. You may want to get
phpMyAdmin running on your box, as this requires some mysql database
bit-bashing which is a lot easier to do with a hand holding gui.

Geoff
   



except that my hdtv cable box gets a different set of channels than my 
non-hdtv digital cable box which is a different set of channels that my DVB 
card can receive. If I could, I would have one lineup and tell MythTV which 
channels from the lineup each input is actually able to receive, but from 
what I understand there is no way to do this as the visible setting will 
still let Myth try and record a channel a source might not have.


 

Yes, in this case, each tuner uses a different subset of all of the 
channels which are sent down your cable. Your cableco (and zap2it) 
differentiate between the analog and digital parts of the spectrum but 
Myth handles them indiscriminately except as it is told how to handle 
them by the database.


I think that there is a way to make myth select a particular channel out 
of a single datadirect lineup. It involves faking myth into thinking 
that there are 2 different lineups for hardware tuning purposes while 
having the same lineup for mythfilldatabase purposes.


To do this it helps to understand how myth goes about tuning a channel.

At 
http://www.cuymedia.com/doxygen-dev-docs/html/group__db__schema.html
there is a discussion of the mysql database schema used by myth.


Quote:


   Digital Television Multiplex Table (dtv_multiplex)

This table contains the information needed to tune to a particular 
frequency on a particular input.


The primary key, 'mplexid', is automatically generated by the database. 
The most important field is the 'frequency' field which contains the 
transmission frequency in Hertz. The 'sourceid' which tells us which 
card and on what input of that card this multiplex applies to according 
to the Video Source Table (videosource) 
http://www.cuymedia.com/doxygen-dev-docs/html/group__db__schema.html#videosource_table. 
Along with a channel number 'sourceid' also uniquely identifies a 
channel in the Channel Table (channel) 
http://www.cuymedia.com/doxygen-dev-docs/html/group__db__schema.html#channel_table. 
The 'modulation' field tells us whether 

Re: [mythtv-users] Popup menus occasionally unresponsive with LIRC

[Pekka Jääskeläinen]

On 1/5/06, David Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 This problem is most noticeable after playing a video in Xine (for me
 anyways).

This problem is not connected to Xine fully (although I know the long-standing
focus bug of Xine which is also very annoying). I've experienced this
randomly since I started using MythTV (around 1-2 years ago).

Now I also get this problem in my dedicated MythFrontend box which hasn't
any window manager running at all - I just start MythFrontend as the
first client
in the X server.

This is quite an annoying problem, I'll try to debug it somehow (by attaching to
the mythfrontend process with gdb) when it occurs again.

There's also even more annoying problem with the dedicated box:
when I get 'back' from the recordings menu (try to get to the main
menu) the whole mythfrontend disappears sometimes. I get the classic X server
background with mouse cursor centered in it, and there's no way out of
the state without remotely restarting mythfrontend or reseting the box (I don't
have keyboard nor mouse connected to the box).

This problem might have something to do with the problem in topic, or
not, as I'm not sure
if the mythfrontend just gets minimized/totally out of focus
somehow. Sounds pretty
far-fetched though.

I'm not running the latest SVN, though, but a revision from around June '05.

--
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Re: [mythtv-users] color adjustments to pvr-350

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On 1/5/06, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi folks,myth is running great, but the recordings look funny when played on mypvr-350 (kinda green and a little washed out).Tried copying one of thefiles to another computer and playing via mplayer on a normal (crt
monitor) xsession, and the color distortion doesn't appear.It alsoseems to me thatdd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16that is, playing the pvr-350's video-in directly to its video-out, alsodoesn't give the color distortion (though I have to experiment with that
more extensively -- it's difficult b/c it won't work when mythfrontendis running).can't find documentation re: how to adjust colorsi n myth or using ivtv-- can anyone help?anyone seen this problem before?
yes, I've definitely seen this problem before, to fix it you need to change some registers in the PVR350:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/164931?search_string=green%20350;#164931 depending on which revision of the 350 you have, the registers are different, but those are the ones I reverse-engineered.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Popup menus occasionally unresponsive with LIRC

[Steve Adeff]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 14:15, David Ellis wrote:
 This is a focus issue with your window managerbasically if mythfrontend
 doesn't have focus when you access a menu you can't navigate it properly.

 If you play around with the focus settings in your Window Manager(in KDE
 its in KDE Control Center), you can usually make the problem disappear.

 This problem is most noticeable after playing a video in Xine (for me
 anyways).

 David

am I the only person who doesn't use a WM at all?

-- 
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Re: [mythtv-users] ongoing DataDirect problems?

[John Biundo]

Andrew Gallatin wrote:

Are they known to be working on things?  Is anybody getting
(working) listings from them?  I've only got listings up
until Sunday, and I'm going out of town this weekend, so
I'm a bit paranoid..


I was just about to post a question about DataDirect.

I'm still setting up my Myth box.  It's partially working, but I've had 
a big problem with channel lineups, and I've been trying to figure out a 
way around it and hacking (just a little) at my database.


My mythfilldatabase results from this morning have been problematic, and 
I wasn't sure whether it was zap2it or me that was the problem.  I was 
just about to destroy and recreate my database, suspecting I might have 
messed something up, but figured I'd post here first, when I saw this 
message.


rant
Of all the parts and pieces of MythTV, this has been the hardest to deal 
with, the most frustrating, and the scariest.  My cable provider isn't 
listed at zap2it labs, though apparently they WERE there up until a few 
weeks ago when, according to another subscriber's post, they 
mysteriously disappeared.  I've had ZERO response from zap2it despite 
patient, polite e-mails and posts on the forum.  I remain very nervous 
that my $800 + 30+ hours investment in MythTV is riding on this very 
shaky foundation.


Right now I'm working through a procedure to hack my database to 
generate the right listings for my cable provider from a nearby 
competitor of theirs.  This has been most frustrating, and is 
complicated by the fact that now, apparently, I can't even get reliable 
downloads from zap2it.

/rant
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Re: [mythtv-users] Popup menus occasionally unresponsive with LIRC

[Greg Estabrooks]

 am I the only person who doesn't use a WM at all?

 Very few people go without a wm as most encounter various focus 
problems without one. Especially if they use external players for
MythDVD and MythVideo.

 Anyone who doesn't has just been lucky so far :)

 A small minimal WM can save you time and hassle and doesn't use up
much in the way of ram or CPU.


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Re: [mythtv-users] ongoing DataDirect problems?

[John Biundo]

Andrew Gallatin wrote:
  If I save post file, and run the same wget command that

mythfilldatabase does, I see that the data I get back
has valid station,lineup,and schedules data.  However,
it seems to be missing programs and everything after that.
The tail end of the downloaded file looks like this:


Hi Andrew,

As a follow-up to my last post, I was thinking it would be great to be 
able to verify the downloaded data (i.e., to answer my question of 
whether it was the downloaded data that was borked, or my tables from my 
microsurgery on them).  Which lead to wondering how to get at the wget 
command that's emitted by mythfilldatabase.  Which lead me back to your 
post! ;-)


Could you elaborate on your statement above so I can figure out how to 
get at my equivalent set of wget commands?


Thanks!

john
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Re: [mythtv-users] Popup menus occasionally unresponsive with LIRC

[Steve Adeff]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 14:54, Greg Estabrooks wrote:
  am I the only person who doesn't use a WM at all?

  Very few people go without a wm as most encounter various focus
 problems without one. Especially if they use external players for
 MythDVD and MythVideo.

  Anyone who doesn't has just been lucky so far :)

  A small minimal WM can save you time and hassle and doesn't use up
 much in the way of ram or CPU.

I was gunna say, I've used mplayer for MythVideo a total of about 50 times and 
never had a focus problem. Haven't played with Xine yet (still need to get 
the whole lirc thing working for it). I'll count myself lucky for now =)

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Re: [mythtv-users] Zap2It multiple sources same cable?

[Steve Adeff]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 14:32, R. G. Newbury wrote:
 Steve Adeff wrote:
 On Thursday 05 January 2006 10:26, R. G. Newbury wrote:
 Byron Poland wrote:
 On 1/3/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 So I've got three sources from the same cable company, am I doomed to
 have to have 3 logins?
 
 1: HD Digital Cablebox via Firewire
 2: SD Digital Cablebox via PVR-150
 3: pcHDTV HD3000 cia QAM
 
 all from Comcast. Now, each source requires its own specific channel
 lineup and all three require a Digital Cable lineup to be selected.
 
 The easiest would be to setup 1 zap2it source for all three and somehow
 tell Myth which tuner gets what channels. But I don't think this is
 possible.
 
 See if you can pick a neighboring zip code that has the same services.
 I seem to remember doing this to try and circumvent some multiple
 lineup issues, I don't remember my exact issues they could of been
 related to OTA stuff.
 
 I think you only need 2 different lineups at zap2it.
 I have ONE logon at zap2it and TWO different lineups. One lineup is
 just  'Cable'. The other is 'Digital'.
 Your PVR150 card will use the 'Cable' source.
 Your Digital channels should be handled by the Myth database.
 You may be able to use the 'other zip-code' trick, but I think that that
 will fail unless you set up a different login. (I haven't tested but I
 thought that Myth could handle a different login for an alternate
 source. The problem is the zap2it end: one login allows only one lineup
 of each type, cable, digital, or broadcast.)
 
 You should be able to get all of the digital channels working properly
 from the one digital lineup.
 To get QAM working you have to set up the dtv_mulitplex table and then
 enter the channel PID (as the serviceid) in the channel database.
 Search gossamer threads for a topic heading starting with  Sweet! PC
 HD... for links on how to get that done.
 
 When you select a show, Myth uses the database and searchs to find the
 channel, and parses out the hardware source (and serviceid to give to
 the hardware) and the frequency in order to tune the proper piece of
 hardware.
 In this case the source will be either #1 or #3, and it will always
 internally 'tune' to the fixed channel while outputting an IR
 change-channel signal to the cablebox for any channel mapped to #1. At
 least that's how it appears it should work. And people have reported
 here that the two parts of this do work separately. In fact, I'm doing
 the 'source #3' part of that now with my PVR500 and HD3000. Your setup
 is different only in using the 'same' digital source for different
 tuners depending on the channel, but it should work.
 
 You have an advantage in that you can use the cablebox to discover the
 PIDs for all of the digital channels, so it will be a little easier for
 you to set up the HD3000 card's database entries. You may want to get
 phpMyAdmin running on your box, as this requires some mysql database
 bit-bashing which is a lot easier to do with a hand holding gui.
 
 Geoff
 
 except that my hdtv cable box gets a different set of channels than my
 non-hdtv digital cable box which is a different set of channels that my
  DVB card can receive. If I could, I would have one lineup and tell MythTV
  which channels from the lineup each input is actually able to receive,
  but from what I understand there is no way to do this as the visible
  setting will still let Myth try and record a channel a source might not
  have.

 Yes, in this case, each tuner uses a different subset of all of the
 channels which are sent down your cable. Your cableco (and zap2it)
 differentiate between the analog and digital parts of the spectrum but
 Myth handles them indiscriminately except as it is told how to handle
 them by the database.

 I think that there is a way to make myth select a particular channel out
 of a single datadirect lineup. It involves faking myth into thinking
 that there are 2 different lineups for hardware tuning purposes while
 having the same lineup for mythfilldatabase purposes.

 To do this it helps to understand how myth goes about tuning a channel.

 At
 http://www.cuymedia.com/doxygen-dev-docs/html/group__db__schema.html
 there is a discussion of the mysql database schema used by myth.

 Quote:


 Digital Television Multiplex Table (dtv_multiplex)

 This table contains the information needed to tune to a particular
 frequency on a particular input.

 The primary key, 'mplexid', is automatically generated by the database.
 The most important field is the 'frequency' field which contains the
 transmission frequency in Hertz. The 'sourceid' which tells us which
 card and on what input of that card this multiplex applies to according
 to the Video Source Table (videosource)
 http://www.cuymedia.com/doxygen-dev-docs/html/group__db__schema.html#video
source_table. Along with a channel number 'sourceid' also uniquely
 identifies a
 channel in the Channel Table (channel)
 

Re: [mythtv-users] Large LCD Televisions?

[Niels Dybdahl]

I can't tell you the modelines right now as the TV's in for repairs(clears throat), and I havent set up sshon the mythbox, but the TV
manual gave me this information for 1366x768:Horizontal frequency = 49KHz, Vertical Frequency = 60Hz,Running 60 Hz in a PAL-country does not sound very good to me.Niels Dybdahl

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Re: [mythtv-users] color adjustments to pvr-350

[Matt Price]

hi jeff,
 
 can't find documentation re: how to adjust colorsi n myth or
 using ivtv
 -- can anyone help?  anyone seen this problem before?
 
 yes, I've definitely seen this problem before, to fix it you need to
 change some registers in the PVR350:
 
 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/164931?search_string=green%20350;#164931
  
 
 depending on which revision of the 350 you have, the registers are
 different, but those are the ones I reverse-engineered. 
 

ok, great, thanks.  looks a ibt hairy to me, but I will give it a go.
esp with regard to the first of the registers you discuss in this
thread: if I don't want to mess with the screen position (yet) do I just
recet the last digit of the register?  I don't read hex and actually
have almost no idea what you're saying in that post...

thanks,

matt


 
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Re: [mythtv-users] ongoing DataDirect problems?

[Andrew Gallatin]

John Biundo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Andrew Gallatin wrote:
If I save post file, and run the same wget command that
  mythfilldatabase does, I see that the data I get back
  has valid station,lineup,and schedules data.  However,
  it seems to be missing programs and everything after that.
  The tail end of the downloaded file looks like this:
 
 Hi Andrew,
 
 As a follow-up to my last post, I was thinking it would be great to be 
 able to verify the downloaded data (i.e., to answer my question of 
 whether it was the downloaded data that was borked, or my tables from my 
 microsurgery on them).  Which lead to wondering how to get at the wget 
 command that's emitted by mythfilldatabase.  Which lead me back to your 
 post! ;-)
 
 Could you elaborate on your statement above so I can figure out how to 
 get at my equivalent set of wget commands?

I just ran ps while mythfilldatabase was running and captured
the wget command.  For me, it was something like:

wget --http-user='myusername' --http-passwd='mypasswd' --post-file=/tmp/zot  
--header='Accept-Encoding:gzip' 
http://datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com/tvlistings/xtvdService 
--output-document=- | gzip -df

I got the post file by suspending mythfilldatabase and hard-linking
to the file that it was using, so that it did not get deleted.
My post file looks like:

?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?
SOAP-ENV:Envelope
xmlns:SOAP-ENV='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'
xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema'
xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'
xmlns:SOAP-ENC='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/'
SOAP-ENV:Body
ns1:download  xmlns:ns1='urn:TMSWebServices'
startTime xsi:type='xsd:dateTime'2006-01-08T05:00:00Z/startTime
endTime xsi:type='xsd:dateTime'2006-01-09T05:00:00Z/endTime
/ns1:download
/SOAP-ENV:Body
/SOAP-ENV:Envelope


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[mythtv-users] RE: fusion hdtv 5 gold or lite?

[Neil]

I have both cards and they seem to work about the same, for analog and 
digital. I'm not aware of a way to use the card to tune both analog and 
digital, since there doesn't seem to be a way to tell Myth that the two 
different interfaces are sharing one tuner. Someone can correct me if I'm 
missing something, but when I set up both a V4L analog and a DVB source, 
they fight with each other.  

There is nothing unusual about tuning QAM with the Fusion lite. Cable QAM 
has never been easier than it is with the current SVN version of Myth. 
Just modprobe dvb-bt8xx with an appropriate kernel, configure the card in 
Myth and do a scan. Since cable doesn't usually give you PSIP data you'll 
have a bunch of unnamed channels you can surf through and find what you 
want.  


-- Rob


Hi Rob, 

Thanks for the inputs. So that means, the Fusion HDTV lite is very well 
supported now in linux and by mythtv. Do you have notes on how to scan a QAM 
and setup mythtv? This way, there is a less likelihood of me ruining up my 
existing air2pc setup. 

Thanks! 


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Re: [mythtv-users] Do I need a new DVI cable for 1080p?

[Yeechang Lee]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] says:
 Based on the information I read here:
http://www.datapro.net/techinfo/dvi_info.html#Page03
 I don't think a dual-link cable would do you any good, as the monitor can d=
 isplay a maximum resolution of 1920x1080.

Yes, but that Webpage is almost certainly assuming 1080i on the part
of the reader. I figure that if my card can do 1080p, and the monitor
can do 1080p (and, of course, all LCD panels are by definition
progressive devices, whether or not the input signal is such), so I'd
want the connection in between to be able to handle 1080p. Based on my
reading of Xorg.log my cable doesn't seem to qualify.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Do I need a new DVI cable for 1080p?

[Steve Adeff]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 16:00, Yeechang Lee wrote:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] says:
  Based on the information I read here:
 http://www.datapro.net/techinfo/dvi_info.html#Page03
  I don't think a dual-link cable would do you any good, as the monitor can
  d= isplay a maximum resolution of 1920x1080.

 Yes, but that Webpage is almost certainly assuming 1080i on the part
 of the reader. I figure that if my card can do 1080p, and the monitor
 can do 1080p (and, of course, all LCD panels are by definition
 progressive devices, whether or not the input signal is such), so I'd
 want the connection in between to be able to handle 1080p. Based on my
 reading of Xorg.log my cable doesn't seem to qualify.

from my quick google search it appears that single-link 1080p DVI cables 
exist, which would lead me to assume that single link is capable of 1080p 
signal transmission.

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Re: [mythtv-users] How to unsubsribe

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Re: [mythtv-users] RE: fusion hdtv 5 gold or lite?

[Steve Adeff]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 15:46, Neil wrote:
 I have both cards and they seem to work about the same, for analog and
 digital. I'm not aware of a way to use the card to tune both analog and
 digital, since there doesn't seem to be a way to tell Myth that the two
 different interfaces are sharing one tuner. Someone can correct me if I'm
 missing something, but when I set up both a V4L analog and a DVB source,
 they fight with each other.
 
 There is nothing unusual about tuning QAM with the Fusion lite. Cable QAM
 has never been easier than it is with the current SVN version of Myth.
 Just modprobe dvb-bt8xx with an appropriate kernel, configure the card in
 Myth and do a scan. Since cable doesn't usually give you PSIP data you'll
 have a bunch of unnamed channels you can surf through and find what you
 want.
 
 -- Rob

 Hi Rob,

 Thanks for the inputs. So that means, the Fusion HDTV lite is very well
 supported now in linux and by mythtv. Do you have notes on how to scan a
 QAM and setup mythtv? This way, there is a less likelihood of me ruining up
 my existing air2pc setup.

 Thanks!

 Neil

as a side note I see they have a dual tuner DVB-T card for Europe/Australia, I 
wonder if they plan on a dual tuner ATSC/QAM card for HDTV in the States...

I sure hope so!

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

[Mike]

Chris Ribe wrote:

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

Other than that, why? 

You seriously don't know why he'd want MythMusic instead of iTunes? Have 
you ever used brand name iTunes on linux? (HA HA) Have you ever used 
Linux? Have you ever used MythTV? Do you understand the conceptual 
'point' of what all this stuff is and does?


-Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth R5A30

[Michael Fox]

On 1/6/06, Dave Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Under same but different - my USB wireless NIC doesn't come up at boot
 time on the previous version. I wait for the sytem to boot, pull the NIC,
 wait a few seconds, reinsert it, and everything works fine.

 No, it's not how it should work, but I don't reboot too often so it's
 something I'm living with for now. Might get your keyboard working for now.

I might try what you suggest however getting behind the machine each
time could be a pain, although it would be nice if it just worked
after the kernel boots (much like it does on ubuntu etc)

I've downloaded the new release, will experiment I think when time
permits (or atleast between show recordings)
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[mythtv-users] Viewing and controlling HD content from Frontend

[R]

Assuming that the backend has a HD tuner card connected to a Channel
Master 4228 antenna.

On the frontend - What do I need to have (hardware wise)
and
what do I need to do (software and configuration wise):

To be able to view all the HD content
and
To be able to (remotely) control the HD tuner card


From what I can gather, there is more to it than just running the frontend.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Australian Free TV guide/grabber script.

[Michael Fox]

On 1/5/06, ffrr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 daylight savings time I guess.

Yep.

All sorted now, will keep an eye on it when we swap back from
daylights savings..
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Re: [mythtv-users] ongoing DataDirect problems?

[Andrew Gallatin]

Andrew Gallatin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 I'm trying (and failing) to run mythfilldatabase to update my
 listings.  I think this may be the same issue as decribed last week by
 Bruce Markey over in the dev list at
 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/169821

As an update, it just got somewhat better.  Something changed at
DataDirect, and they now seem to be sending most of the information.
I have most of next week's listings, except for TNT-HD, which I get
about 50% of my programming from (one show every day).  I guess
I get to see how the manual recording feature in Myth works :(

Drew
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[mythtv-users] Project Grayhem WIDE theme now available

[Justin Hornsby]

Hi folks.

Just a quickie to let you know that the widescreen version of my 
ProjectGrayhem theme is now available from www.juski.co.uk


As far as I can tell, it all works (with SVN downloaded on 04 Jan 2006), 
but send bug reports etc to me  I'll try to put em right.


Thanks for all the kind words of praise  encouragement so far.. you 
never know I might just roll another one out at some point.


Regards,
Justin
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Re: [mythtv-users] Large LCD Televisions?

[Petr Stehlik]

Niels Dybdahl píše v Čt 05. 01. 2006 v 21:26 +0100:
 I can't tell you the modelines right now as the TV's in for
 repairs
 (clears throat), and I havent set up ssh  on the mythbox, but
 the TV 
 manual gave me this information for 1366x768:
 
 Horizontal frequency = 49KHz, Vertical Frequency = 60Hz,
 
 Running 60 Hz in a PAL-country does not sound very good to me.

Seems like all the TVs are designed, developed or planned to be sold in
NTSC countries since they are all (all I know) 60 Hz only. When I tried
to feed LCD with 50 Hz it didn't show any picture.

Petr



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Re: [mythtv-users] ongoing DataDirect problems?

[John Biundo]

Andrew Gallatin wrote:

As an update, it just got somewhat better.  Something changed at
DataDirect, and they now seem to be sending most of the information.
I have most of next week's listings, except for TNT-HD, which I get
about 50% of my programming from (one show every day).  I guess
I get to see how the manual recording feature in Myth works :(



Drew,

First off, thanks for the help figuring out the wget stuff.

Things seem to be in flux there.  Which makes debugging my problem a 
real headache, since one of my questions is whether I've mucked up my 
database, or the data coming in is bad.


Anyway, my wget returned a bunch of program data.  Then, I saw your 
message and reran mythfilldatabase, and I now have data for about 6 out 
of 72 channels.


Argghhh!  I guess I need to take a break from this for a while.

john
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Re: [mythtv-users] Zap2It multiple sources same cable?

[Byron Poland]

could you fudge it in the tables by manipulating the xmltvid?
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Re: [mythtv-users] Project Grayhem WIDE theme now available

[Steve Adeff]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 16:42, Justin Hornsby wrote:
 Hi folks.

 Just a quickie to let you know that the widescreen version of my
 ProjectGrayhem theme is now available from www.juski.co.uk

 As far as I can tell, it all works (with SVN downloaded on 04 Jan 2006),
 but send bug reports etc to me  I'll try to put em right.

 Thanks for all the kind words of praise  encouragement so far.. you
 never know I might just roll another one out at some point.

 Regards,
 Justin

you rule! if I lived near you I'd buy you a few rounds at the pub.

I'm gunna install this and let you know how it goes, thanks for all your 
work!!

-- 
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[mythtv-users] Singe DVB tuner, two channel recording

[Matthew Geier]

Is there ANY way I can convince myth to record two programs at the same 
time using a single tuner card?.  It just happens that both programs I 
want to record are on the same transponder, so the hardware CAN recieve 
both channels at the same time.
 I know the hardware can do it, as i've done multicast streaming of the 
DVB channels - streammed both channels out onto the LAN from the single 
tuner card - using VLC to demux the two channels out of the transport 
and multicast them on different multicast groups.


Any ideas ?




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[mythtv-users] upgrading ivtv driver in knoppmyth?

[James Howison]

I'm running Knoppmyth R22 and would like to try the ivtv 0.4.1  
drivers while trouble shooting tuning on one of the tuners of my  
PVR500 (/dev/video1 is not working well).


Has anyone successfully done this yet?  Could you share the steps.  I  
believe that it involves both a movement and renaming of the firmware  
and a change to the kernel modules ... so I'm a bit nervous about  
trying this.  Any success or horror stories?


Thanks,
James
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Re: [mythtv-users] Large LCD Televisions?

[Steve Adeff]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 16:43, Petr Stehlik wrote:
 Niels Dybdahl píše v Čt 05. 01. 2006 v 21:26 +0100:
  I can't tell you the modelines right now as the TV's in for
  repairs
  (clears throat), and I havent set up ssh  on the mythbox, but
  the TV
  manual gave me this information for 1366x768:
 
  Horizontal frequency = 49KHz, Vertical Frequency = 60Hz,
 
  Running 60 Hz in a PAL-country does not sound very good to me.

 Seems like all the TVs are designed, developed or planned to be sold in
 NTSC countries since they are all (all I know) 60 Hz only. When I tried
 to feed LCD with 50 Hz it didn't show any picture.

 Petr

from my understanding this is the case, especially for digital sources. The 50 
and 60hz were chosen to be able to use the power source as a timing device, 
but with modern electronics this is no longer required, and I don't think any 
advanced modern tv's use power for freq. timing.

-- 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Singe DVB tuner, two channel recording

[Steve Adeff]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 16:56, Matthew Geier wrote:
  Is there ANY way I can convince myth to record two programs at the same
 time using a single tuner card?.  It just happens that both programs I
 want to record are on the same transponder, so the hardware CAN recieve
 both channels at the same time.
   I know the hardware can do it, as i've done multicast streaming of the
 DVB channels - streammed both channels out onto the LAN from the single
 tuner card - using VLC to demux the two channels out of the transport
 and multicast them on different multicast groups.

  Any ideas ?

One of the dev's is working on this currently, search the -dev list.
iirc, he's hoping to have it going for 0.20.

-- 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Viewing and controlling HD content from Frontend

[Steve Adeff]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 16:14, R wrote:
 Assuming that the backend has a HD tuner card connected to a Channel
 Master 4228 antenna.

 On the frontend - What do I need to have (hardware wise)
 and
 what do I need to do (software and configuration wise):

 To be able to view all the HD content
 and
 To be able to (remotely) control the HD tuner card

 From what I can gather, there is more to it than just running the
  frontend.

Myth, in SVN at least, is more than capable of doing this, I do it currently 
and its worked for both recordings and LiveTV(to its limited ability right 
now). What you need is the proper speed hardware to playback the MPEG files 
which requries a 3.0GHz or greater equivalent speed processor. XvMC lowers 
this requirement but isn't bulletproof right now. That said, the faster the 
processor the better. I get by with Athlon64 3200+'s, but if I had the money 
for a faster processor I would want something faster. You'll also want a fast 
network, I'm running on 100bT without issue.

-- 
Steve



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[mythtv-users] Transcoding on a non myth machine

[Jay Ung]

I was wondering if it iis possible to transcode .nuv to avi on a machine 
that is not a mythtv machine using nuvexport.I am a total noob when it 
comes to transcoding.  I would love to use my home server as the transcode 
machine.  The mythtv box doesn't really have the horsepower.  But the server 
is not a backend or have any mythtv stuff installed.  If it is possible to 
transcode this way, is it possible to cut commercials?


Basically what I would love to do is record a program, copy it to the server 
via cron job, cut commercials, and transcode to xvid, then move it back.  I 
would love to do this completely automatically.  So am I smoking crack, or 
is this possible.


Thanks,

joe


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Re: [mythtv-users] color adjustments to pvr-350

[Jeff Simpson]

ok, great, thanks.looks a ibt hairy to me, but I will give it a go.esp with regard to the first of the registers you discuss in this
thread: if I don't want to mess with the screen position (yet) do I justrecet the last digit of the register?I don't read hex and actuallyhave almost no idea what you're saying in that post...thanks,
mattHere's what I get when I run ivtvctl -J. I suggest running this command and saving the results to a file, either by copying and pasting or running ivtvctl -J  saa7127_registers.txt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] jeff]# ivtvctl -J ioctl: IVTV_IOC_G_SAA7127_REG 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F: 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 19 1d 77 41 00 38 00 00 0030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 13 00 00 00 00 00 0040: 00 00 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 3f 3f 0050: 3f 80 80 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 a3 98 d3 39 2e 2e 
0060: 7a b1 4d 1f 7c f0 21 77 41 88 41 12 fe 00 90 11 0070: 41 c3 00 3e b8 03 15 16 15 16 1a 01 c0 00 00 00 The left column is the first digit of the register address, and the top row is the second digit. So in this register map, to find register 006C, you follow the 0060 line across until it hits the 0C column, you see that fe is the value it holds.
Since we know from the other post that the last 3 binary digits of register 6C is the color problem, we can try changing them. I don't know what I had in there initially, but you should be able to run the same command and get a register map printout.
to change the value, run this:ivtvctl -j reg=0x6c,val=0xFE -d/dev/video0 (replace val with the value you want to set it to).
If it doesn't work, try other values. Since the very last digit is the green problem, I would suggest taking whatever number is in that register map, and making it even, which is to say change the rightmost digit to an E, C, A, 8, 6, 4, 2, or 0 by subtracting one from the value that is there. subtracting in hex isn't all that hard, each digit is the same as decimal, except after 9 come A-F.
So if you have 23 in that spot, make it a 22. If you have D7 make it D6, etc. Lets assume I had FF so I made it FE and it was happy.
worst case you can reset it back to what you had by using the same command and replacing the val= line with the value that was in the register to begin with. If you save a copy of your original register map, you can always go back to it by comparing it to what the map says afterwards and correcting the differences.

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[mythtv-users] ATI HDTV working...

[James C. Dastrup]

...almost.
 
I'm trying to make use of my ATI HDTV Wonder card, which has been collecting 
dust
since I dropped WinMCE. So, I installed the new 2.6.15 kernel, and everything 
is going
well so far, except:
 
Using azap, I get a happy FE_HAS_LOCK. But, when I:
 
cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0  test.mpg
 
the file is empty. I also get this repeating error in dmesg:
 
cx88[0]/2: queue is empty - first active
cx88[0]/2: cx8802_start_dma w: 0, h: 0, f: 2
cx88[0]/2: setting the interrupt mask
cx88[0]/2: [df081580/0] cx8802_buf_queue - first active
cx88[0]/2: cx8802_timeout
cx88[0]/2: cx8802_stop_dma
cx88[0]/2: restarting queue
cx88[0]/2: cx8802_restart_queue
cx88[0]/2: cx8802_restart_queue: queue is empty

Anyone else working on this? Any ideas what's going on?
 
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Re: [mythtv-users] color adjustments to pvr-350

[Jeff Simpson]

find register 006C, you follow the 0060 line across until it hits the 0C column, you see that fe is the value it holds.
I mean in my register map you see that fe is the value it holds. Your results may vary.
ivtvctl -j reg=0x6c,val=0xFE -d/dev/video0 (replace val with the value you want to set it to).
I meant to say replace 0xFE with the value you want to set it to, as in val=NEWVALUEcurses to not having a wiki or forum for this! Maybe I should post this to a wiki
- Jeff
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[mythtv-users] Re: ATI HDTV working...

[Boleslaw Ciesielski]

James C. Dastrup wrote:

...almost.
 
I'm trying to make use of my ATI HDTV Wonder card, which has been collecting dust

since I dropped WinMCE. So, I installed the new 2.6.15 kernel, and everything 
is going
well so far, except:
 
Using azap, I get a happy FE_HAS_LOCK. But, when I:
 
cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0  test.mpg
 
the file is empty. I also get this repeating error in dmesg:


You need to keep azap -r running in a second shell at the same time. 
Also, the channels.conf file must specify the audio and video pids.


Bolek
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