date:20060112

 You must not have small children.  My power and reset button just make a
 clicking sound - cause I disconnected the wires to it! Even my littlest 
 figured out
 how to hold the button for 4 seconds to power it off.

 It turns on by IR remote, and shuts down cleanly by IR remote. If I have to 
 force
 it off, I pull the plug.

Well my small[ish] children show no inclination to turn off anything
[lights, taps, televisions ...]  so I havent' had to worry about the
power-button on my myth box, which does a contolled shutdown of the
machine.

I'd like to know how you turn your myth box on using the IR remote
though.  I'm using the IR receiver that came with my Hauppauge Nova-t
and IFAIK I can't use this for powering up [I'd be happy to be proved
wrong].
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Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR Questions

 - Out of the box, the picture quality from my PVR-150 system doesn't
 equal broadcast quality (of my SD analog cable system) for fast moving
 TV, most notably sports.  Emphasis on out of the box, since I've done
 almost nothing to try to improve the quality.

Could this be due to your output method, rather than the capture? 
I've noticed it too since I stopped using my PVR350 for output and
started using an nVidia card.  Changing the de-interlace algorithm
improved things to the point where I hardly notice it now, but it's
still there.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Australian DVB-T resolution

2006-01-12 Thread Johan Venter

Phill Edwards wrote:
The output you're trying to get comes from the tzap command when you are
creating a channels.conf.
 
 
 Are you sure? When I run tzap like this:

Apologies, the utility you want is dvbscan (or just scan), also part of 
the dvb-utils package.

My debian install has a directory at /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils with 
instructions, but I'm sure if you Google for it you will find it.

tzap/czap/szap use the channels.conf info to tune directly to channels 
when specified on the command line.

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Re: [mythtv-users] mythtvsetup on debian (ubuntu) missing

2006-01-12 Thread Michael Fox

On 1/12/06, Stef Coene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 The command is mythtv-setup.


Certainly is :)


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/usr/bin/mythtv-setup
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[mythtv-users] Why is my 350's audio so much l-l-louder! than the 250's?

2006-01-12 Thread f-myth-users

I just noticed a peculiar situation:

Running 18.1.  MBE has several 250's with ivtv 0.4.1-r1.  SBE/FE has
1 350 with ivtv 0.4.0.  LiveTV uses the 350 because I have avoid
conflicts checked and the 350 is in the FE.  Cable feed is split
across all of them into their RF inputs.  Everything is getting
played back through the 350's AV output, and the 350's audio out
is looped through my sound card and then to the TV.

If I leave all the sliders in the recording profiles for Default/
LiveTV/High/Low quality at 90% (the default), and then start recording
on all tuners on various channels, whatever the 350 is recording has
MUCH louder audio (6-9db, as measured by my trusty dB meter) than the
250's.  If I have the Master and PCM sliders in general setup set to
90%, then on my equipment, this happens to mean that anything on the
250's plays back somewhat quieter than direct to the TV (I can
dual-screen the TV and flip back and forth between direct from the
cable feed or through the Myth box), while the 350 plays back somewhat
louder.  If I raise the Master  PCM sliders to 100%, then the 250's
essentially play back at the level of the direct-to-TV path, but then
the 350 is playing back MUCH louder.  (When I say playing back, of
course, I mean when I play back a stream that was captured by that
card.)

This is true for the 350 regardless of whether I'm using it in LiveTV
mode, or it's capturing just like the rest of the tuners for a
scheduled recording.

I can't just lower the slider for LiveTV and leave it at that, because
I'd like shows recorded by the 350 to have the same approximate volume
as those recorded by the 250's.  Yet I can't seem to find any independent
volume control per-tuner, and I don't understand why this one card would
be capturing as such a high level anyway.  (And if I raise all the
sliders in the recording profiles to 100%, the 250's still give me
reasonable audio---just somewhat louder, of course---while the 350's
audio is so hot that it's clipped and objectionable.)

Is this a well-known effect?  Is it peculiar to 350's vs 250's, or
between ivtv 0.4.0 and 0.4.1-r1?  Is there some register I should be
setting on the 350 or something?  I -could- try installing 0.4.1-x or
even 0.5.x on the 350, but I'd rather leave well enough alone unless
it's likely that this will fix it, since I had problems a while back
with sporadically vanishing audio on ch2 and would rather not disturb
the situation and possibly wind up back there.

[Btw, ivtvctl -Y reports volume = 58950 for both the 350 and the
250's.  By trial and error (switching between LiveTV's output and the
TV's direct input from cable), I find that ivtvctl -y volume=54000
on the 350 normalizes its audio level to that of the TV; I'll have to
play around a little more to make sure that also means it's normalized
to the 250's.  But why should I have to adjust this down so much?
(And it won't stick!  Changing channels or leaving LiveTV is fine,
but reentering LiveTV bashes the register back to 58950!  Is there
any way to make this stick, as a workaround?)]

Thanks for any insights.

(Unfortunately, swapping the 350 into the other machine just to test
ivtv versions w/o reinstalling anything would probably be a fairly
large pain, given that I'd have to schedule up some recordings in
advance, let it go, and then swap back to see how they went---and
because the machines are both headless unless you count the 350.
So I'd rather not swap hardware if there's another way to debug.)
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[mythtv-users] Why is my 350's audio so much l-l-louder! than the 250's?

2006-01-12 Thread f-myth-users

 Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 05:02:33 -0500 (EST)
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 (And it won't stick!  Changing channels or leaving LiveTV is fine,
 but reentering LiveTV bashes the register back to 58950!  Is there
 any way to make this stick, as a workaround?)]

...and before anyone else suggests it, yes, I suppose I -could- employ
the stomach-turning kluge of playing whack-a-mole with the register
value, such as having a background process blindly set it to the right
value once a second, or perhaps check it once a second and reset it if
it's strayed.  If it only gets reset just as the card goes into
capture mode, this means that on average only the first half-second
would be too loud, and the card might still be acquiring and/or
unmuting then anyway.  But it'd be better to figure out why I need to
do this in the first place---and, failing that, if there was some
general hook that gets run before the card goes into capture mode
(whether for LiveTV or scheduled recording) on which I could hang the
appropriate command, without having to recompile 18.1 just to add such
a hook...).
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[mythtv-users] Face lift of MythWeb (themes)

2006-01-12 Thread Joacim J

Hi,

I configured MythWeb but I don't really like the look of GUI. I have
searched for MythWeb templates but haven't found any.

Are you aware of any available?

This guy (swedish site) have some pics of his workseems VERY nice
but not ready yet.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Australian DVB-T resolution

2006-01-12 Thread Phill Edwards

 Apologies, the utility you want is dvbscan (or just scan), also part of
 the dvb-utils package.

Errrm - we're going round in circles here. One of the other posters
suggested it was the output of scan but when I ran that the got a
different output which didn't contain things like resolution, aspect
ration etc (see earlier post).

So either I'm not running that correctly or the output that Eyal
posted came from a different utility. As I'm Sydney's north shore I
ran scan like this:

# scan 
/usr/share/doc/linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0/examples/scan/dvb-t/au-sydney_north_shore

Eyal - could you plase just put me out of my misery here and tell
me how you did it!

Thanks,
Phill
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Re: [mythtv-users] Australian DVB-T resolution

2006-01-12 Thread Matthew Geier


Johan Venter wrote:

Phill Edwards wrote:


The output you're trying to get comes from the tzap command when you are
creating a channels.conf.




Are you sure? When I run tzap like this:



Apologies, the utility you want is dvbscan (or just scan), also part of 
the dvb-utils package.


 My dvbscan (On fedora, with a suse package) doesn't produce output 
like that.

 And the only source package I can find for dvb-utils is over a year old.

 How is your one different - or have the debian packagers made some 
'enhancements' ?


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Re: [mythtv-users] Face lift of MythWeb (themes)

2006-01-12 Thread Fredrik Karlsson

HI,

Could you provide the link?

/Fredrik

On 1/12/06, Joacim J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi,

 I configured MythWeb but I don't really like the look of GUI. I have
 searched for MythWeb templates but haven't found any.

 Are you aware of any available?

 This guy (swedish site) have some pics of his workseems VERY nice
 but not ready yet.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Still Can't Get pcHDTV-3000 Installed

2006-01-12 Thread Drew Tomlinson

On 1/11/2006 8:41 PM Brian Wood said the following:



On Jan 11, 2006, at 9:00 PM, Drew Tomlinson wrote:

  

I assume you mean this How To?

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV



Correct, so you saw the portion I cited.
  

I chose the same options for my kernel as shown under th pcHDTV  
HD-3000
Card heading.  The menuconfig automatically includes DVB_CX22702=m  
and
DVB_OR51132=m in your config file when you select:

Multimedia devices ---
M Video For Linux
Video For Linux ---
M Conexant 2388x (bt878 successor) support
M   DVB Support for cx2388x based TV cards

If you enter Customize DVB Frontends --- after selecting the above,
you will see that you can not set options for

[-] Conexant cx22702 demodulator (OFDM)

Or

[-] OR51132 based (pcHDTV HD3000 card)

So as far as I can tell, I'm missing something else.  Any ideas?



Unfortunately no, but I have a HD-3000 card that I haven't got around  
to setting up yet, so I am very interested in this matter. I just  
remembered seeing that portion of the HT.

I'm not sure what version of the kernel the HowTo was written for,  
things seem to be changing even now with the video devices support.  
I'm not looking forward to the upcoming merge, although I guess in  
the long run it will help.

Isn't Customize DVB frontends under DVB and not v4l? This would  
seem to mean that it should not be selected if you chose v4l conexant  
support. But I'm not anywhere near certain of this.
  


Yes, Customize DVB frontends is under DVB.  However if you compare 
your actual config file with and without DVB Support for cx2388x based 
TV cards selected, you will see that selecting it adds those two 
modules from the Customize DVB frontends menu.

Unfortunately it will be a few days before I can play with my 3000  
card,  but I'll certainly pass along anything I figure out.
  


I got it working!  I'm using Gentoo sources for 2.6.13-r5 and selected 
these choices:

Multimedia devices ---
M Video For Linux
Video For Linux ---
M Conexant 2388x (bt878 successor) support
M   DVB Support for cx2388x based TV cards

I also downloaded Firmware from http://www.pchdtv.com/downloads.html 
and unpacked in to /lib/firmware (not  /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware) as the 
page suggest.  I don't remember where I read about that because I did it 
during a previous attempt to get the card working.

Another issue I had was permissions on the actual devices in 
/dev/dvb/adapter0.  They were root:root with 660.  I read something 
about checking /etc/udev/permissions.d/10-pchdtv.permissions.  It was 
there and seemed like it should set the devices up as root:user but my 
devices remained root:root.  So I edited 
/etc/udev/rules.d/10-pchdtv.rules and added 'GROUP=user' to each entry 
I needed.  Here's an example:

From
KERNEL=dvb0.dvr*,NAME=dvb/adapter0/dvr%n

To
KERNEL=dvb0.dvr*,NAME=dvb/adapter0/dvr%n, GROUP=user

After a reboot, my devices were now owned by root:user and since my 
MythTV user is in the user group, it could access the devices.  I 
don't know if that was the right way to go about it but it works for 
me. (pointers to the right way welcomed)

I tested the card for output as indicated in the guide and it's working 
fine.  Now on the mythtv-setup to finish...  :)

Drew


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Re: [mythtv-users] SVN mythtranscode

2006-01-12 Thread Phill Edwards

 Haven't seen anyone reply to this yet so I will.  Notice he said 'lossless'.
 The MPEG2-MPEG2 transcoding in SVN is for cutting only, it does not
 re-encode the frames (except around the cutpoints I believe).  So, the
 space savings from using it are because you get to cut out those 20 minutes
 of commercials out of every hour of show and if you're using TS files,
 you may save space since the output format is PS.

Thanks Chris. What prompted me to think that lossy might be an option
in SVN was that he said ...using the -m switch (which should turn ON
lossless) creates a file the same size as without it. That implies
that if you don't use the -m switch you get a _lossy_ conversion which
is what I actually want! If there is no lossy trancoding, why is there
a -m flag to specify lossless if that's all it does anyway?

Regards,
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Re: [mythtv-users] Face lift of MythWeb (themes)

2006-01-12 Thread Joacim J

Of course :-) ...sorry http://htpcblog.blogspot.com/

On 1/12/06, Fredrik Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 HI,

 Could you provide the link?

 /Fredrik

 On 1/12/06, Joacim J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Hi,
 
  I configured MythWeb but I don't really like the look of GUI. I have
  searched for MythWeb templates but haven't found any.
 
  Are you aware of any available?
 
  This guy (swedish site) have some pics of his workseems VERY nice
  but not ready yet.
 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Questionaire: What do you have your case powerbutton do?

2006-01-12 Thread Stephen Dolan


 I'd like to know how you turn your myth box on using the IR remote
 though.  I'm using the IR receiver that came with my Hauppauge Nova-t
 and IFAIK I can't use this for powering up [I'd be happy to be proved
 wrong].

I'd also be very interested in knowing how this is done. Currently, my
power button kills mythfrontend and since its a combined FE/BE and the
BE is set to shutdown if idle, this will also shut the machine down
assuming nothing is recording and there are no flagging jobs running.
I use nvram-wakeup then to automatically power the machine on when it
needs to record the next show
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Re: [mythtv-users] Project Grayhem Wide weird font size issue...

2006-01-12 Thread Justin Hornsby

Steve wrote:

I got my new system drive and have Myth setup, but now when I go into the 
Manage Recordings Screen Schedule Recordings and Upcoming Recordings have 
Recordings below Schedule/Upcoming and only showing the top half because 
the menu option below it is covering it...

I have no idea how to solve this, I tried changing the Appearance font sizes 
to no avail...


Works fine on my system, so I've no idea what's wrong either.

All the menu text should appear on one line per item, as the screenshots on my 
website show.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Australian DVB-T resolution

2006-01-12 Thread David Whyte

On 1/12/06, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Apologies, the utility you want is dvbscan (or just scan), also part of
  the dvb-utils package.

 Errrm - we're going round in circles here. One of the other posters
 suggested it was the output of scan but when I ran that the got a
 different output which didn't contain things like resolution, aspect
 ration etc (see earlier post).

 So either I'm not running that correctly or the output that Eyal
 posted came from a different utility. As I'm Sydney's north shore I
 ran scan like this:

 # scan 
 /usr/share/doc/linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0/examples/scan/dvb-t/au-sydney_north_shore

 Eyal - could you plase just put me out of my misery here and tell
 me how you did it!


Just send the email to Eyal direct too.  Perhaps they only check the
mythTV list now and again.

Whytey


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Re: [mythtv-users] SVN mythtranscode

2006-01-12 Thread Robin Gilks


 Haven't seen anyone reply to this yet so I will.  Notice he said
 'lossless'.
 The MPEG2-MPEG2 transcoding in SVN is for cutting only, it does not
 re-encode the frames (except around the cutpoints I believe).  So, the
 space savings from using it are because you get to cut out those 20
 minutes
 of commercials out of every hour of show and if you're using TS files,
 you may save space since the output format is PS.

 Thanks Chris. What prompted me to think that lossy might be an option
 in SVN was that he said ...using the -m switch (which should turn ON
 lossless) creates a file the same size as without it. That implies
 that if you don't use the -m switch you get a _lossy_ conversion which
 is what I actually want! If there is no lossy trancoding, why is there
 a -m flag to specify lossless if that's all it does anyway?

Thanks Phil - thats the question I was really asking!! - not to mention
how to make the choice from the GUI with an existing recording, something
I now know can't be done at present. The difference in files sizes I was
looking for was in the OUTPUT files as I expected that without the -m
switch I'd get a smaller file (mpeg4) than WITH the -m switch.

Sounds like a feature request to me Please can we have an option in the
Previously Recorded menus to select what type of transcoding to do on the
currently selected recording...

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Re: [mythtv-users] SVN mythtranscode

2006-01-12 Thread Adam Egger

On 1/12/06, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Haven't seen anyone reply to this yet so I will.  Notice he said 'lossless'.
  The MPEG2-MPEG2 transcoding in SVN is for cutting only, it does not
  re-encode the frames (except around the cutpoints I believe).  So, the
  space savings from using it are because you get to cut out those 20 minutes
  of commercials out of every hour of show and if you're using TS files,
  you may save space since the output format is PS.

 Thanks Chris. What prompted me to think that lossy might be an option
 in SVN was that he said ...using the -m switch (which should turn ON
 lossless) creates a file the same size as without it. That implies
 that if you don't use the -m switch you get a _lossy_ conversion which
 is what I actually want! If there is no lossy trancoding, why is there
 a -m flag to specify lossless if that's all it does anyway?

-m doesn't mean lossless, it just means Perform MPEG2 to MPEG2
transcode. You can change the transcode settings for this profile to
lossless in mythfrontend.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Workaround for WM Focus Issues

 If anyone knows of a solution to the problem or a less ugly workaround,
 please let me know.
 
 
 I found a fix digging around the net.  There's  a section of Xine source code
 that sets the focus to the root window upon exit (event.c line 1814-1819).
 The attached patch comments out that section.  Apply to xine-ui-0.99 and
 recompile.  This fixed it for me!
 
 
 For the archives...  I can confirm that this fix works (finally got
 around to testing it) and, as pointed out by Petr Stehlik in another
 thread, it's already applied to xine-ui 0.99.4 and above.  So the
 easiest fix is to upgrade xine.

Well if you're using KDE then Jarod Wilson has a suggestion in his
excellent howto

http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/

something to do with the 'focus follows mouse' KDE setting.

Now I'm using the ratpoison window manager with mythtv and Xine, and
have never had a problem with window focus.
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Re: [mythtv-users] SVN mythtranscode

2006-01-12 Thread Phill Edwards

 -m doesn't mean lossless, it just means Perform MPEG2 to MPEG2
 transcode. You can change the transcode settings for this profile to
 lossless in mythfrontend.

So that implies that there is also a lossy MPEG2 to MPEG2 transcode
option, right?
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Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR Questions

2006-01-12 Thread Steve Nuffer

You mentioned you cleared up the resolution. by changing the de-interlace algorithm. Can you explain this a little bit further? I recently changed from the 350 output to a nVidia card as well.Steve
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Re: [mythtv-users] Why is my 350's audio so much l-l-louder! than the 250's?

2006-01-12 Thread Ant Daniel

On 12/01/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 05:02:33 -0500 (EST)
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

  (And it won't stick!  Changing channels or leaving LiveTV is fine,
  but reentering LiveTV bashes the register back to 58950!  Is there
  any way to make this stick, as a workaround?)]

 ...and before anyone else suggests it, yes, I suppose I -could- employ
 the stomach-turning kluge of playing whack-a-mole with the register
 value, such as having a background process blindly set it to the right
 value once a second, or perhaps check it once a second and reset it if
 it's strayed.  If it only gets reset just as the card goes into
 capture mode, this means that on average only the first half-second
 would be too loud, and the card might still be acquiring and/or
 unmuting then anyway.  But it'd be better to figure out why I need to
 do this in the first place---and, failing that, if there was some
 general hook that gets run before the card goes into capture mode
 (whether for LiveTV or scheduled recording) on which I could hang the
 appropriate command, without having to recompile 18.1 just to add such
 a hook...).
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From my reading of the ivtv list I know that there are differences
between sound levels of 150/500  250/350 but I thought that the
250/350 was consistent.

It might be worth checking on with ivtv list if there should be a
difference in sound between these.
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Re: [mythtv-users] QMYSQL3 Error on Fedora FC4 x86_64

2006-01-12 Thread Brian Fischer

Would this be something that should be updated in CVS, or should the user
create symlinks to point to the correct files?  
I am not linux savvy enough to fix it by seeding copies of libraries all
over a replacement library tree.

As far as looking at the MythTv source: the following 3 files have QMYSQL
in them:
dbsettings.cpp
mythcontext.cpp
mythdbcon.cpp

So far I think a lot of people would be grateful for instructions on a
solution to this issue!  Please keep submitting advice!

-Brian


Geoff Said: QUOTE
I remember running across this problem. It turned out to be due to a
change in name of the qt libraries, from something like 'qt' to
'qt-3.3'. I don't remember how this eventually went away, but I
remember
attempting to fix it by seeding copies of libraries all over a
replacement library tree.

You may want to look at the source for mythtv-setup to see what it
is
actually calling...it is probably trying to call something which
does
not exist on your system...

(I presume that you have actually included the qt libraries when
installing mysql etc.)

Geoff
END QUOTE

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Re: [mythtv-users] SVN mythtranscode

2006-01-12 Thread Adam Egger

On 1/12/06, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  -m doesn't mean lossless, it just means Perform MPEG2 to MPEG2
  transcode. You can change the transcode settings for this profile to
  lossless in mythfrontend.

 So that implies that there is also a lossy MPEG2 to MPEG2 transcode
 option, right?

I haven't tried to resize the video or to change to audio yet but
there are options to do so in the Autodetect MPEG2 profile. I just use
the new mythtranscode to remove commercial breaks and to make my
recordings smaller (TS--PS) in only one or two minutes.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Face lift of MythWeb (themes)

2006-01-12 Thread Adam Egger

On 1/12/06, Joacim J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Of course :-) ...sorry http://htpcblog.blogspot.com/

Oh I like it, it looks very nice and up-to-date (besides of the retro
pictures).
Who's the swedish guy?
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Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb returns blank pages

2006-01-12 Thread Kyle Hoondert

More than once. Totally cleaned my mythweb dir, got new SVN and
installed. I will look into a php upgrade, maybe there was some bug
with the version I am using.Thanks,Kyle
---Original Message---
From: Chris Petersen 
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb returns blank pages
Sent: Jan 11 '06 23:16

 Chris, I did this, and it helped me to figure out some things, but I'm
 still stuck with this in my error log:

 [09-Jan-2006 09:10:46] PHP Fatal error:  Cannot redeclare setting()
 (previously declared in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/includes/utils.php:24)
 in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/includes/utils.php on line 24

 Ever seen this before? Any ideas?

The only thing I can think of is if something is calling require instead 
of require_once.  I've checked my tree, and utils.php is called only 
from init.php and db.php, both via require_once.

 From your error message, yours is obviously pulling it twice, which 
means that your version of php is broken and not doing require_once 
properly, or something's messed up in your code.

I don't remember, have you done a complete clean install?

-Chris

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Re: [mythtv-users] Odds of Linux CableCARD support?

On Thursday 12 January 2006 00:44, Ross Campbell wrote:
 The whole HD thing is really starting to stink.

 US government forcing adoption of HDTV due to all of the egg on their
 face because of the lack of interest around their non-open standard.

 US governemnt forced to subsidize TV upgrades for the masses so that
 we can get this superior TV that is being mandated by the
 government. Cost to taxpayers? 1.5 billion.

 New TV buyers dissatisfied by the lack of HD programming.

 Cable companies moving channels from basic cable or extended basic to
 digital cable just to force people to rent their underpowered cable
 boxes and pay more per month.

 Eventually there will be a CableCARD Jon and we'll be in an awkward
 position of having *hardware* that is legal to use under Windows and
 illegal to use under Linux!

 Then, I'm sure a new standard will be proposed and we'll need to buy
 new TVs all over again.

 When will this madness stop???

 I think I'll stick with SDTV and use my government HDTV subsidy money
 to buy another hard drive.


 -Ross

when people stop thinking they need the government and start realizing that in 
reality the government needs them. until then they will continue to let 
governments rule over their lives making foolish and just plain dumb 
decisions that if they don't abide by, men with guns come knocking on their 
door.

-- 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Project Grayhem Wide weird font size issue...

On Thursday 12 January 2006 05:59, Justin Hornsby wrote:
 Steve wrote:
 I got my new system drive and have Myth setup, but now when I go into the
 Manage Recordings Screen Schedule Recordings and Upcoming Recordings
  have Recordings below Schedule/Upcoming and only showing the top half
  because the menu option below it is covering it...
 
 I have no idea how to solve this, I tried changing the Appearance font
  sizes to no avail...

 Works fine on my system, so I've no idea what's wrong either.

 All the menu text should appear on one line per item, as the screenshots on
 my website show.

 Justin.

yea, I don't get it either... DPI, first thing I checked, but Xorg's log shows 
it setting DPI to 100...

ughh.
thanks,
Steve
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Re: [mythtv-users] Odds of Linux CableCARD support?

2006-01-12 Thread Dean Collins

 Cable companies moving channels from basic cable or extended basic to
 digital cable just to force people to rent their underpowered cable
 boxes and pay more per month.

 Eventually there will be a CableCARD Jon and we'll be in an awkward
 position of having *hardware* that is legal to use under Windows and
 illegal to use under Linux!


Not really, CableLabs have already proposed a new standard for the
Cablecard standard, it's a time wasting scam but pushes back the limits
imposed on them by the FCC.

It was when I was briefed on this new standard that I decided to walk
from the US cable tv market.

I'll be back in 3 years when everything is being delivered via IP.

For those of you that were at CES 2006 you'll have seen that this is
coming both on a large scale and small scale implementations much faster
than anyone thought.

The cabletv industry as we know it in 2005 will be as dead as the telcos
are today, not gone but on the endangered species list, with every day
for them being measured as a good day.


Cheers,

Dean


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Re: [mythtv-users] SVN mythtranscode

On Thursday 12 January 2006 06:17, Adam Egger wrote:
 On 1/12/06, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   Haven't seen anyone reply to this yet so I will.  Notice he said
   'lossless'. The MPEG2-MPEG2 transcoding in SVN is for cutting only, it
   does not re-encode the frames (except around the cutpoints I believe). 
   So, the space savings from using it are because you get to cut out
   those 20 minutes of commercials out of every hour of show and if you're
   using TS files, you may save space since the output format is PS.
 
  Thanks Chris. What prompted me to think that lossy might be an option
  in SVN was that he said ...using the -m switch (which should turn ON
  lossless) creates a file the same size as without it. That implies
  that if you don't use the -m switch you get a _lossy_ conversion which
  is what I actually want! If there is no lossy trancoding, why is there
  a -m flag to specify lossless if that's all it does anyway?

 -m doesn't mean lossless, it just means Perform MPEG2 to MPEG2
 transcode. You can change the transcode settings for this profile to
 lossless in mythfrontend.

 Adam

to add to Adam's remarks... you CAN'T do a lossless transcode from a lossy 
format to a lossy format. it's impossible. you can do what may seem an 
imperceivable loss in quality, but inherent to lossy formats, any transcoding 
done will loose quality. If you do any decrease in resolution, filtering, 
etc, even more so.

what the new SVN MPEG2-MPEG2 transcode can do when just doing commercial 
cutting is to copy frames where possible, and do a reencode of frames that 
require it around cut points only. I believe the quality level of this 
reencode is set similar to the rest of the mpeg, maybe slightly better to 
help preserve quality, Geoff would be better to explain what his work did.

-- 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Face lift of MythWeb (themes)

2006-01-12 Thread Joacim J

On 1/12/06, Adam Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On 1/12/06, Joacim J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Of course :-) ...sorry http://htpcblog.blogspot.com/

 Oh I like it, it looks very nice and up-to-date (besides of the retro
 pictures).
 Who's the swedish guy?

His name is Mathias and I have been  in contact with him regarding
DVB-T in sweden. I will contact him if he want to publish the theme to
the public

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Regards
Joacim
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Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR Questions

2006-01-12 Thread Gavin Haslett

I have to say that I use a PVR250 and an nVidia card as well (GeForceMX440). I 
would agree that playing with the interlace settings can get rid of a lot of 
the fast moving quality problems. And yes, I do see them occasionally, 
especially if I turn deinterlace off entirely.
 
Generally the problem with fast moving usually ends up with a tearing effect, 
or a jerkiness especially in full-screen pans. Using both XvMC and kernel 
deinterlace yields (imnsho) a picture that's almost indistinguishable from my 
satellite box hooked directly to the TV... that is if you can ignore the 
occasional obvious compression artifact (like when the video changes suddenly 
seeing a frame or more of what looks like low-res video). My wife and kids 
don't notice it, though... I only notice it because I'm a perfectionist.
 
The only problem with this setup is, of course the flickering OSD. Still, we 
just live with that for now.
 
I have noticed that the video looks a little better in terms of fast movement 
when transcoded to MPEG4... but I don't like the amount of color bleed that 
MPEG4 allows which MPEG2 doesn't. Might be fixed with a few fiddles with the 
transcode settings, but I've not dedicated a whole hell of a lot of time to 
that yet.

-Original Message- 
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of David Watkins 
Sent: Thu 1/12/2006 3:29 AM 
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtv 
Cc: 
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR Questions



 - Out of the box, the picture quality from my PVR-150 system doesn't
 equal broadcast quality (of my SD analog cable system) for fast 
moving
 TV, most notably sports.  Emphasis on out of the box, since I've 
done
 almost nothing to try to improve the quality.

Could this be due to your output method, rather than the capture?
I've noticed it too since I stopped using my PVR350 for output and
started using an nVidia card.  Changing the de-interlace algorithm
improved things to the point where I hardly notice it now, but it's
still there.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID problems - the unspokenmythtvproblem?

2006-01-12 Thread David Bennett

Yeechang and everyone else who has been so helpful,


 I must admit I am quite fascinated by the Raid and NAS discussions,
but given that I ran into the same problem of being unable to record
two programs at once on my software RAID, I am grateful for Yeechang
to try and help steer things back towards my original question.

Quick summary: When on a software RAID two programs cannot be recorded
when they start at the same time. The second program (always starting
0.3 seconds after the first) does not record and ends up as a 0 byte
file. This only happens when the video/recordings is on my software
raid. (this is key. i can switch over to another non raided hard drive
and have no problems doing the exact same thing!)

I an running linux kernel 2.6, 512mb, celeron (fairly fast but a
celeron nonetheless). I am using 2 drives in Raid 1 (had same trouble
with Raid 5 though) and am using a Sata IDE extender to add sata ports
(but this is probably irrelevant as I had the problem before I
installed this.) Some people have suggested that the celeron might be
the problem, but is this possible?

No errors on dmesg, and no errors on mythbackend.log until I try and
see the recorded programs on mythweb. Memory is full (as always... is
this normal?) but the Swap is empty (only 1%). Top doesnt show
Mythbackend anywhere near the top.

Here is what my log shows:

2006-01-12 20:59:02.889 Started recording けものみち on channel: 4 on cardid:
1, sourceid 1
2006-01-12 20:59:03.029 New DB connection, total: 4
2006-01-12 20:59:03.033 New DB connection, total: 5
2006-01-12 20:59:03.043 scheduler: Last message repeated 7 times
2006-01-12 20:59:03.060 scheduler: Schedule Change
2006-01-12 20:59:03.078 Started recording 白夜行 on channel: 6 on cardid: 2, s
ourceid 1
QMetaObjectCleanUp::setMetaObject: Double use of QMetaObjectCleanUp!
2006-01-12 20:59:03.875 Changing from None to RecordingOnly
2006-01-12 20:59:03.877 Changing from None to RecordingOnly
2006-01-12 22:09:00.037 Finished recording けものみち on channel: 4

the 2nd program's video file is 0 byte file size. (and the 2nd program
always does not seem to work.)

Suggestions so far:

celeron cant handle it (cache issues) --- a possibility?
memory -- not sure myself
drive spinning - maybe the drives are spinning down. this is also
possible but as they are sata i cant seem to change them with hdparm.

So much frustration!!
arg, any ideas? raid caching or the likes? (-- i made that up!)

thank you kindly
david

ps. yeechan - i am quite excited to hear how your ReadyNAS handles!
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Re: [mythtv-users] Still Can't Get pcHDTV-3000 Installed

2006-01-12 Thread Brian Wood


On Jan 12, 2006, at 3:43 AM, Drew Tomlinson wrote:


 I got it working!  I'm using Gentoo sources for 2.6.13-r5 and selected
 these choices:

 Multimedia devices ---
 M Video For Linux
 Video For Linux ---
 M Conexant 2388x (bt878 successor) support
 M   DVB Support for cx2388x based TV cards

 I also downloaded Firmware from http://www.pchdtv.com/downloads.html
 and unpacked in to /lib/firmware (not  /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware)  
 as the
 page suggest.  I don't remember where I read about that because I  
 did it
 during a previous attempt to get the card working.

 Another issue I had was permissions on the actual devices in
 /dev/dvb/adapter0.  They were root:root with 660.  I read something
 about checking /etc/udev/permissions.d/10-pchdtv.permissions.  It was
 there and seemed like it should set the devices up as root:user but my
 devices remained root:root.  So I edited
 /etc/udev/rules.d/10-pchdtv.rules and added 'GROUP=user' to each  
 entry
 I needed.  Here's an example:

 From
 KERNEL=dvb0.dvr*,NAME=dvb/adapter0/dvr%n

 To
 KERNEL=dvb0.dvr*,NAME=dvb/adapter0/dvr%n, GROUP=user

 After a reboot, my devices were now owned by root:user and since my
 MythTV user is in the user group, it could access the devices.  I
 don't know if that was the right way to go about it but it works for
 me. (pointers to the right way welcomed)

 I tested the card for output as indicated in the guide and it's  
 working
 fine.  Now on the mythtv-setup to finish...  :)

 Drew

Great, glad to hear it, I'm running 2.6.14 but I think it'll be  
similar enough. I have had the card working outside MythTV and it  
seems to work, so I know I have the firmware etc. correct.

I wanted to grab one of those cards now, before the government makes  
them illegal to sell because they will ignore any sort of broadcast  
flag which the evil forces are still pressuring Congress to mandate.

I intended the card for off-air ATSC reception but was surprised to  
find it received all of the digital QAM signals on my local cable  
system, including the premium and pay-per-view stuff, unfortunately I  
have not found any of that worth watching :-)
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Re: [mythtv-users] Still Can't Get pcHDTV-3000 Installed

On Thursday 12 January 2006 09:10, Brian Wood wrote:
 On Jan 12, 2006, at 3:43 AM, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
  I got it working!  I'm using Gentoo sources for 2.6.13-r5 and selected
  these choices:
 
  Multimedia devices ---
  M Video For Linux
  Video For Linux ---
  M Conexant 2388x (bt878 successor) support
  M   DVB Support for cx2388x based TV cards
 
  I also downloaded Firmware from http://www.pchdtv.com/downloads.html
  and unpacked in to /lib/firmware (not  /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware)
  as the
  page suggest.  I don't remember where I read about that because I
  did it
  during a previous attempt to get the card working.
 
  Another issue I had was permissions on the actual devices in
  /dev/dvb/adapter0.  They were root:root with 660.  I read something
  about checking /etc/udev/permissions.d/10-pchdtv.permissions.  It was
  there and seemed like it should set the devices up as root:user but my
  devices remained root:root.  So I edited
  /etc/udev/rules.d/10-pchdtv.rules and added 'GROUP=user' to each
  entry
  I needed.  Here's an example:
 
  From
  KERNEL=dvb0.dvr*,NAME=dvb/adapter0/dvr%n
 
  To
  KERNEL=dvb0.dvr*,NAME=dvb/adapter0/dvr%n, GROUP=user
 
  After a reboot, my devices were now owned by root:user and since my
  MythTV user is in the user group, it could access the devices.  I
  don't know if that was the right way to go about it but it works for
  me. (pointers to the right way welcomed)
 
  I tested the card for output as indicated in the guide and it's
  working
  fine.  Now on the mythtv-setup to finish...  :)
 
  Drew

 Great, glad to hear it, I'm running 2.6.14 but I think it'll be
 similar enough. I have had the card working outside MythTV and it
 seems to work, so I know I have the firmware etc. correct.

 I wanted to grab one of those cards now, before the government makes
 them illegal to sell because they will ignore any sort of broadcast
 flag which the evil forces are still pressuring Congress to mandate.

 I intended the card for off-air ATSC reception but was surprised to
 find it received all of the digital QAM signals on my local cable
 system, including the premium and pay-per-view stuff, unfortunately I
 have not found any of that worth watching :-)

Drew, glad to hear you finally got it working, I was almost going to suggest a 
different distro! (the new Kanotix's kernel has support without having to 
change anything, I just installed it on my new system drive...).

Brian, lucky, that you get the premium channels over QAM, does this include 
HBO and the like? I noticed my cable has these two, but they do a weird 
rotating thing where the channel will change without actually changing the 
channel (at least it does this on my TV's QAM, I don't think I was ever able 
to get these channels on my HD3000...)

-- 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID problems - the unspokenmythtvproblem?

On Thursday 12 January 2006 09:01, David Bennett wrote:
 Yeechang and everyone else who has been so helpful,


  I must admit I am quite fascinated by the Raid and NAS discussions,
 but given that I ran into the same problem of being unable to record
 two programs at once on my software RAID, I am grateful for Yeechang
 to try and help steer things back towards my original question.

 Quick summary: When on a software RAID two programs cannot be recorded
 when they start at the same time. The second program (always starting
 0.3 seconds after the first) does not record and ends up as a 0 byte
 file. This only happens when the video/recordings is on my software
 raid. (this is key. i can switch over to another non raided hard drive
 and have no problems doing the exact same thing!)

 I an running linux kernel 2.6, 512mb, celeron (fairly fast but a
 celeron nonetheless). I am using 2 drives in Raid 1 (had same trouble
 with Raid 5 though) and am using a Sata IDE extender to add sata ports
 (but this is probably irrelevant as I had the problem before I
 installed this.) Some people have suggested that the celeron might be
 the problem, but is this possible?

 No errors on dmesg, and no errors on mythbackend.log until I try and
 see the recorded programs on mythweb. Memory is full (as always... is
 this normal?) but the Swap is empty (only 1%). Top doesnt show
 Mythbackend anywhere near the top.

 Here is what my log shows:

 2006-01-12 20:59:02.889 Started recording けものみち on channel: 4 on cardid:
 1, sourceid 1
 2006-01-12 20:59:03.029 New DB connection, total: 4
 2006-01-12 20:59:03.033 New DB connection, total: 5
 2006-01-12 20:59:03.043 scheduler: Last message repeated 7 times
 2006-01-12 20:59:03.060 scheduler: Schedule Change
 2006-01-12 20:59:03.078 Started recording 白夜行 on channel: 6 on cardid: 2,
 s ourceid 1
 QMetaObjectCleanUp::setMetaObject: Double use of QMetaObjectCleanUp!
 2006-01-12 20:59:03.875 Changing from None to RecordingOnly
 2006-01-12 20:59:03.877 Changing from None to RecordingOnly
 2006-01-12 22:09:00.037 Finished recording けものみち on channel: 4

 the 2nd program's video file is 0 byte file size. (and the 2nd program
 always does not seem to work.)

 Suggestions so far:

 celeron cant handle it (cache issues) --- a possibility?
 memory -- not sure myself
 drive spinning - maybe the drives are spinning down. this is also
 possible but as they are sata i cant seem to change them with hdparm.

 So much frustration!!
 arg, any ideas? raid caching or the likes? (-- i made that up!)

 thank you kindly
 david

 ps. yeechan - i am quite excited to hear how your ReadyNAS handles!

As a test I just set two HD shows to record, both began at the same time and 
both are being written to my RAID5 array. this is with MythTV SVN though.

-- 
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[mythtv-users] Software RAID5 no improvement to transfer speed...

well I got my software RAID5 up and running. 3 drives, no spares.
but I still get playback stuttering while recording 2 HD channels and playing 
1 prerecorded HD show. The cpu usage hasn't gone higher than 96% so I don't 
think its a cpu usage problem. 
I do have all three drives connected to the same onboard SATA150 controller 
though I don't know if this could be a problem?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Missing category colors in epg

2006-01-12 Thread Hans Hvelplund Odborg

On Thursday 12 January 2006 07:28, Korey Fort wrote:
mythtv/themes/default/categories.xml
Does this file exist on your system?
no it didn't. So i reemerged mythtv (I'm using gentoo)
Now it works, (though theres still no categories.xml to be found)

This is where the category colors are and qtlook.txt.
I have qtlook.txt in the following places:
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/blue/qtlook.txt
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/Minimalist-wide/qtlook.txt
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/Iulius/qtlook.txt
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/sleek/qtlook.txt
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/visor/qtlook.txt
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/MythTVMediaCenter/qtlook.txt
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/G.A.N.T./qtlook.txt
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/abstract/qtlook.txt
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/Titivillus/qtlook.txt
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/PurpleGalaxy/qtlook.txt

Colors are working again so I'm happy.

Let ye without segmentation fault cast the first int!

Korey Fort
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hans Hvelplund Odborg
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 8:44 PM
To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] Missing category colors in epg

After resetting  my Program list and seting everything up again in the
channeleditor of mythsetup I've now lost the colors in the epg.

This is both when accessed on tv and mythweb.
I can see in the database (program table) that most shows are categorized
(such as news, kids, comedy, drama, etc.)

So how come there's no color?
I'm using 0.18.1
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[mythtv-users] Re-record a show that I tell to stop recording?

In tryng to test some things I've told Myth to stop recording a show then 
asked it to begin recording it again but it doesn't do it. 

1) I'm having it record only this showing
2) then I stop the recording
3) then I go to that shows recordings property page, set it to not record, 
save the setting
4) go back in and tell it to record only this showing again, 
but it doesn't.

I'm hoping I'm just doing something wrong, but how can I get it to again 
record a showing that I previously told it to stop recording?

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thanks!
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Re: [mythtv-users] Questionaire: What do you have your casepowerbutton do?


 I'd like to know how you turn your myth box on using the IR remote
 though.  I'm using the IR receiver that came with my Hauppauge Nova-t
 and IFAIK I can't use this for powering up [I'd be happy to be proved
 wrong].

I'd also be very interested in knowing how this is done. Currently, my
power button kills mythfrontend and since its a combined FE/BE and the
BE is set to shutdown if idle, this will also shut the machine down
assuming nothing is recording and there are no flagging jobs running.
I use nvram-wakeup then to automatically power the machine on when it
needs to record the next show

 
I have an IR keyboard. The BIOS is configured
to power-on with any key-press.  I programmed my remote to send
the key-presses from my keyboard. That's also how I send all other
commands. I don't use LIRC at all on the front end.  My keyboard
is  always put away and I only need it if I'm working on that 
computer for some other purpose.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID5 no improvement to transfer speed...

2006-01-12 Thread Brian Wood


On Jan 12, 2006, at 7:39 AM, Steve Adeff wrote:

 well I got my software RAID5 up and running. 3 drives, no spares.
 but I still get playback stuttering while recording 2 HD channels  
 and playing
 1 prerecorded HD show. The cpu usage hasn't gone higher than 96% so  
 I don't
 think its a cpu usage problem.
 I do have all three drives connected to the same onboard SATA150  
 controller
 though I don't know if this could be a problem?

It sure might be, whatever tool you are using to measure CPU load  
(top?) is averaging over some period of time, if the average is 96%  
then you are almost certainly hitting peaks of 100%+.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Questionaire: What do you have yo ur casepowerbutton do?

2006-01-12 Thread Mark J. Small

On January 12, 2006 11:00 am, James C. Dastrup wrote:
  I'd like to know how you turn your myth box on using the IR remote
  though.  I'm using the IR receiver that came with my Hauppauge Nova-t
  and IFAIK I can't use this for powering up [I'd be happy to be proved
  wrong].
 
 I'd also be very interested in knowing how this is done. Currently, my
 power button kills mythfrontend and since its a combined FE/BE and the
 BE is set to shutdown if idle, this will also shut the machine down
 assuming nothing is recording and there are no flagging jobs running.
 I use nvram-wakeup then to automatically power the machine on when it
 needs to record the next show

 I have an IR keyboard. The BIOS is configured
 to power-on with any key-press.  I programmed my remote to send
 the key-presses from my keyboard. That's also how I send all other
 commands. I don't use LIRC at all on the front end.  My keyboard
 is  always put away and I only need it if I'm working on that
 computer for some other purpose.

So why doesn't a remote signal meant for your TV, VCR, stereo, etc wake your 
computer?  This always seemed to be the biggest roadblock for using the 
remote to wake my frontend.

Mark
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Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID5 no improvement to transfer speed...

2006-01-12 Thread Ramses Smeyers

Hi,

 1 prerecorded HD show. The cpu usage hasn't gone higher than 96% so
 I don't
 think its a cpu usage problem.

 It sure might be, whatever tool you are using to measure CPU load
 (top?) is averaging over some period of time, if the average is 96%
 then you are almost certainly hitting peaks of 100%+.

try running
vmstat 1 100

you will notice the following:

us: percentage of total processor time consumed by user-space
sy: percentage of total processor time consumed by the kernel
wa: percentage of total processor time spent in I/O wait
id: percentage of total processor time spent idle

high us/sy points to not enough CPU, high wa points to IO wait time -- 
disks cannot follow the load

hope this helps

tata,
Ramses

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Re: [mythtv-users] Linux newbie strikes again... PVR-150 not outputting to X300...

2006-01-12 Thread obscure information.

Nevermind - I figured it out before work this morning; I just set it like:

Option MonitorLayout TV

Option ForceMonitors TVAnd ensured that the monitor cable was not connected to the video card during bootup.I'm sure I'll be back with more stupid questions this evening when I get home though :)
~Drew
On 1/11/06, obscure information. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,

Thanks for the quick reply!

How do I rearrange my displays? Is it as simple as changing

Option MonitorLayout CRT,TV

Option ForceMonitors CRT,TV

Option MonitorLayout TV,CRT

Option ForceMonitors TV,CRT

I apologize in advance for any dumb questions. Thanks for the help.

~DrewOn 1/11/06, Michael T. Dean
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
obscure information. wrote: I've been working on my mythtv install for a bit now, but I've encountered an issue now that everything is more-or-less configured. I've got a PVR-150 that appears to be configured properly, based on
the fact that I can tune in channels and view them on the monitor.I can also view the output from my ATI X300 video card using the proprietary fglrx driver on my TV without issue. When I start the myth frontend, I can see my initial menu (
i.e. watch tv, setup, etc.) on the TV and the CRT at the same time.As soon as I select Watch TV, I get a blue screen on my TV and the output shifts solely to my CRT.Going back to the previous menu, bringing up the
guide, and the like all result in the picture reappearing on the TV.Your video card's drivers--like all of them I've ever seen--onlysupports Xv on one display.The other display shows the Xv color key.
To put the video on the TV (and the color key on your CRT), you need torearrange your displays.If you don't want the color key on the CRT,you need to re-think your configuration.Mike

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Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID5 no improvement to transferspeed...

2006-01-12 Thread Johnathon Meichtry

Using top check your load averages.  On my server where is it constantly 
recording 3-4 PAL DTT programs my load averages are:  load average: 0.24, 
0.54, 0.71

If yours show 1.0 then I would imagine you have a problem.  Software RAID 
in my opinion should take up no more than 3-5% if the server is busy.

Also check 0.0% wa as this is IO waits and would be greater than 30% or 
more if your SATA controller/disks is the bottleneck rather than the CPU.

Johnathon


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To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID5 no improvement to 
transferspeed...



On Jan 12, 2006, at 7:39 AM, Steve Adeff wrote:

 well I got my software RAID5 up and running. 3 drives, no spares.
 but I still get playback stuttering while recording 2 HD channels
 and playing
 1 prerecorded HD show. The cpu usage hasn't gone higher than 96% so
 I don't
 think its a cpu usage problem.
 I do have all three drives connected to the same onboard SATA150
 controller
 though I don't know if this could be a problem?

It sure might be, whatever tool you are using to measure CPU load
(top?) is averaging over some period of time, if the average is 96%
then you are almost certainly hitting peaks of 100%+.
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[mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging not working

2006-01-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hello all,

I've been trying to figure out why mythtv has not been commercial
flagging. Per the log it looks like it starts and finishes (see below).

2006-01-12 10:00:28.823 Starting Commercial Flagging for The Grim
Adventures of Billy and Mandy recorded from channel 1047 at Thu Jan 12
10:00:00 2006.
illegal option: '-V' (use --help)
2006-01-12 10:00:29.378 Finished, 10 break(s) found.

However, when I watch the program and tell it to skip the commercial, it
says 'not flagged'.

Here is what I have done: 

1) Went through the entire setup and made sure the commcerial flagging
was turned on. Which did nothing to fix the issue.
2) Deleted the Mythtv databases and started over from scratch.

If it matters, I am using Fedora 3.

Any idea what's going on?

Thanks,
K Murphy
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[mythtv-users] MythTV Happy Land WAS=Re: Software RAID5 no improvement to transfer speed...

On Thursday 12 January 2006 09:39, Steve Adeff wrote:
 well I got my software RAID5 up and running. 3 drives, no spares.
 but I still get playback stuttering while recording 2 HD channels and
 playing 1 prerecorded HD show. The cpu usage hasn't gone higher than 96% so
 I don't think its a cpu usage problem.
 I do have all three drives connected to the same onboard SATA150 controller
 though I don't know if this could be a problem?

nevermind, it was the sql database access speed that was limited, apparently 
running it on another computer over a 100bT network isn't fast enough for 
whatever reason. I moved the database back to the local machine (which I'd 
been meaning to do anyway) and all seems to be ok now...
I'm recording 2 HD, 1SD and playing back 1HD.

w! except for my strangely high CPU usage everything is working 
wonderfully!

Thanks! to all who have helped me with all my MythTV problems, getting my RAID 
array setup, etc. I've documented much of my efforts in my latest rebuild to 
the new mythtv.org wiki for anyone that wishes to learn from it.

-- 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Questionaire: What do you have your casepowerbutton do?

 I have an IR keyboard. The BIOS is configured
 to power-on with any key-press.  I programmed my remote to send
 the key-presses from my keyboard. That's also how I send all other
 commands. I don't use LIRC at all on the front end.  My keyboard
 is  always put away and I only need it if I'm working on that
 computer for some other purpose.

That's a neat idea.  Was it hard to find a keyboard and remote that
share the same protocol?
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[mythtv-users] blue border around mplayer

2006-01-12 Thread Dan Adams

When watching tv there is a little blue border on the top and left side
of the screen. I've seen this before when watching dvd's. Anyone know
how to get rid of this?

-- 
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Software Engineer
Interactive Factory

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Re: [mythtv-users] Questionaire: What do you have your casepowerbutton do?

 I have an IR keyboard. The BIOS is configured
 to power-on with any key-press.  I programmed my remote to send
 the key-presses from my keyboard. That's also how I send all other
 commands. I don't use LIRC at all on the front end.  My keyboard
 is  always put away and I only need it if I'm working on that
 computer for some other purpose.

So why doesn't a remote signal meant for your TV, VCR, stereo, etc wake your
computer?  This always seemed to be the biggest roadblock for using the
remote to wake my frontend.

 
If your logic is correct, then every command sent by any remote would activate
any IR receiver and process any command on any device. The answer is the 
same reason that when you power on your TV with your remote, you're DVD player 
doesn't also turn on.
 
The signal sent for the TV is ignored by the keyboard's IR Receiver. The IR 
Keyboard receiver only picks up keyboard commands. If I program one
button on my remote to send the letter A, and another button to send
the TV's Volume Up, only the letter A will turn the computer on, since the
keyboard doesn't even have a Volume Up button, much less matching
the same IR signal that the TV would accept.


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Re: [mythtv-users] blue border around mplayer

2006-01-12 Thread James Oltman

Look up xvattr. There is a COLORKEY you need to change to something AROUND 0 but not 0. It changes that color down to blackish.On 1/12/06, Dan Adams 
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Re: [mythtv-users] -[S]- mythtvsetup on debian (ubuntu) missing

John Biundo wrote:

Bret Schuhmacher wrote:
  

You sure?  Do
Find / -name mythtv-setup 

Should be at /usr/bin/mythtv-setup.




That's where mine is.

Here's what's installed:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-cache policy mythtv
mythtv:
   Installed: 0.18.1-5
   Candidate: 0.18.1-5
   Version table:
  *** 0.18.1-5 0
 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/multiverse Packages
 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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If you really don't find it after what these guys have suggested, you 
might want to uninstall it with a purge.  That removes all related 
config files as well as compiled binaries from local repositories.  
apt-get remove purge mythtv something along those lines just man 
apt-get.  reinstalling from source after that once you're sure 
everything is gone will probably fix the prob.  Maybe you accidentally 
have a nonexecutable file called mythtv-setup somehwere, or you need to 
mark mythtv-setup as executable for some reason?  Just thinking out loud.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Questionaire: What do you have your casepowerbutton do?

2006-01-12 Thread Tom Lichti

David Watkins wrote:
 I have an IR keyboard. The BIOS is configured
 to power-on with any key-press.  I programmed my remote to send
 the key-presses from my keyboard. That's also how I send all other
 commands. I don't use LIRC at all on the front end.  My keyboard
 is  always put away and I only need it if I'm working on that
 computer for some other purpose.
 

 That's a neat idea.  Was it hard to find a keyboard and remote that
 share the same protocol?
   
My problem is that I have two IR keyboards, and I can 'learn' both of 
them on my remote, but when I try to send the keys, it doesn't work, and 
I never bothered to figure out why, I just learned the Hauppage Grey 
remote keys instead. Any thoughts?

Tom

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Re: [mythtv-users] Questionaire: What do you have yourcasepowerbutton do?

 I have an IR keyboard. The BIOS is configured
 to power-on with any key-press.  I programmed my remote to send
 the key-presses from my keyboard. That's also how I send all other
 commands. I don't use LIRC at all on the front end.  My keyboard
 is  always put away and I only need it if I'm working on that
 computer for some other purpose.

That's a neat idea.  Was it hard to find a keyboard and remote that
share the same protocol?

 
All of my programmable remotes, a cheap-o $10 one, a $60 one, and
a $250 Harmony 880 are able to learn and send the commands from my
Fentek IR keyboard.  I never even thought there would be a problem,
but I suppose maybe other keyboards or other remotes may not work.

Although, it is a real PITA to get the commands working properly.
Too often, the commands are sent too much or not at all, so I've had to
re-learn every command several times until it was perfect. I think the
reason has something to do with the repeat rate in a keyboard, but
possibly something deeper into the protocol. But now, every signal is
sent every time just right.

Someday I'd like to use LIRC to read the keyboard's signals, then clean
them up in lircd.conf, then send them with LIRC back to a learning
remote. I think this may help solve the trail-and-error method I did.


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Re: [mythtv-users] Washed out colours.

Joseph Faisal Nusairat wrote:


 I noticed the colours seem pretty washed out.

 Is that because of the video card more or the PVR-150??



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Lot of things, because you have the recording picture pofiles setup in 
mythtv, which you can adjust while watching live TV if you want (I think 
hit 'g' or whtever key you mapped it to on your remote) and then you can 
adjust brightness, contrast, tint, etc, there in mythtv for recording 
pictures.  Then on top of that, you can also adjust these settings for 
watching recordings; it just applies some settings to the stream coming 
through to your TV.  After that you of course got your TV brightness 
contrast, etc.
So, you can get in a situation where all three, or mainly just the 
recording colors and your external TV colors, are competing. For 
instance, if the TV contrast needs to be turned up because your mythtv 
contrast is way low, it's going to look really bad.  My experience is 
use the TV controls to make your linux desktop look nice and vibrant 
outside of mythtv, or to make the mythtv gui look nice, same thing.  Get 
a picture with a bunch of compementary colors and maybe a person in it  
Then adjust the mythtv recording colorspace, and you'll be sure that 
this action is compensating for you tuner only and not tuner + TV.  If 
the tuner is bad you can only go so far but you can improve beyond what 
you think is acceptable, I'm guessing.
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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Happy Land WAS=Re: Software RAID5 no improvement to transfer speed...

2006-01-12 Thread Brian Wood


On Jan 12, 2006, at 8:19 AM, Steve Adeff wrote:

 w! except for my strangely high CPU usage everything is working
 wonderfully!

Are you using an nVidia card with their 1.0.8178 drivers? This is a  
common problem. I solved it by commenting out load glx in  
xorg.conf, but there are other (and better?) solutions.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Questionaire: What do you have yourcasepowerbutton do?

 I have an IR keyboard. The BIOS is configured
 to power-on with any key-press.  I programmed my remote to send
 the key-presses from my keyboard. That's also how I send all other
 commands. I don't use LIRC at all on the front end.  My keyboard
 is  always put away and I only need it if I'm working on that
 computer for some other purpose.

That's a neat idea.  Was it hard to find a keyboard and remote that
share the same protocol?


All of my programmable remotes, a cheap-o $10 one, a $60 one, and
a $250 Harmony 880 are able to learn and send the commands from my
Fentek IR keyboard.  I never even thought there would be a problem,
but I suppose maybe other keyboards or other remotes may not work.

Although, it is a real PITA to get the commands working properly.
Too often, the commands are sent too much or not at all, so I've had to
re-learn every command several times until it was perfect. I think the
reason has something to do with the repeat rate in a keyboard, but
possibly something deeper into the protocol. But now, every signal is
sent every time just right.

 
Forgot to mention - what helped teach the learning remote was how long
I held the keyboard's key while learning. For example, many learning
remotes say that during the learning process, to hold down the sending
remote button until the learning remote lights up as successful. But, this
often failed.  I usually had to press the key very quickly;  .1 second, 
in order to learn the signal properly. Depending on how long I pressed
the keyboard's key during learning determined how it worked.
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[mythtv-users] MPEG4-MPEG4 transcode?

2006-01-12 Thread Steve Briggs

I record as MPEG4, flag commercials, then transcode 
to MPEG4 to remove commercials.  The video paramters 
(resolution, bit rate, etc. remain the same).

The output file doesn't seek properly on playback.

Does anyone else transcode MPEG4-MPEG4 for commercial
removal?  Does it work for you?  What version of myth 
are you using?

I see a discussion of a new capability with MPEG2-MPEG2
transcoding for commercial removal where it cuts out 
the commercials and does minimal reecoding as needed 
near the cut points.  That's exactly what I want to do,
but with MPEG4.  Is there a similar capability existing 
or planned for MPEG4-MPEG4 transcoding?

TIA
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Re: [mythtv-users] -[S]- mythtvsetup on debian (ubuntu) missing

2006-01-12 Thread H P Ladds

I have a suggestion, but I'm a noob. So I'll phrase it as a question :

Why not use the locate command to search for Mythtv?

Mythtv is bundled with Ubuntu? Wow!



On 1/12/06, Raphael Pooser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 John Biundo wrote:

 Bret Schuhmacher wrote:
 
 
 You sure?  Do
 Find / -name mythtv-setup
 
 Should be at /usr/bin/mythtv-setup.
 
 
 
 
 That's where mine is.
 
 Here's what's installed:
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-cache policy mythtv
 mythtv:
Installed: 0.18.1-5
Candidate: 0.18.1-5
Version table:
   *** 0.18.1-5 0
  500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/multiverse Packages
  100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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 If you really don't find it after what these guys have suggested, you
 might want to uninstall it with a purge.  That removes all related
 config files as well as compiled binaries from local repositories.
 apt-get remove purge mythtv something along those lines just man
 apt-get.  reinstalling from source after that once you're sure
 everything is gone will probably fix the prob.  Maybe you accidentally
 have a nonexecutable file called mythtv-setup somehwere, or you need to
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Re: [mythtv-users] plextor convertx audio trouble

2006-01-12 Thread Jason

Jason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
 I received my Plextor ConvertX PX-TV402U this afternoon.  Other than
 needing to force hotplug with 'make install USE_UDEV=n', the install
 went smoothly. :)
 
 Recording with gorecord went well, I can see and hear the file.
 gorecord reports using /dev/video and /dev/dsp1. 
 
 I've used mythtv for over two years (well, since 0.7-8ish), never saw
 anything like this.
 
 No matter what I try, mythbackend will only open /dev/sound/dsp.  I set
 it everywhere to /dev/dsp1, and when I enter setup again, it's changed to
 /dev/dsp... wtf?  So I went into mythconverg and changed the only
 value='AudioDevice' I have in settings to /dev/dsp1.  That sticks.
 Unfortunately, when mythfrontend is running remotely (the only way I
 ever run it), I get no audio.  An 'lsof | grep myth | grep dsp' yields 
 only one line with mythbackend opening /dev/sound/dsp  
 
 So I search the source (0.18.1), I can see some default values set to
 '/dev/dsp', but I don't see any hard-coded lines.
 
 Right now, I'm re-merging (gentoo) mythtv with debugging support.  In
 the meantime, any ideas?

okay, little bit clearer head this morning.  Gentoo has a new ebuild for
a pre-release of 0.19.  I'll try that tonight.


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Re: [mythtv-users] Questionaire: What do you have yourcasepowerbutton do?

James C. Dastrup wrote:

I have an IR keyboard. The BIOS is configured
to power-on with any key-press.  I programmed my remote to send
the key-presses from my keyboard. That's also how I send all other
commands. I don't use LIRC at all on the front end.  My keyboard
is  always put away and I only need it if I'm working on that
computer for some other purpose.
  

That's a neat idea.  Was it hard to find a keyboard and remote that
share the same protocol?



 
All of my programmable remotes, a cheap-o $10 one, a $60 one, and
a $250 Harmony 880 are able to learn and send the commands from my
Fentek IR keyboard.  I never even thought there would be a problem,
but I suppose maybe other keyboards or other remotes may not work.

Although, it is a real PITA to get the commands working properly.
Too often, the commands are sent too much or not at all, so I've had to
re-learn every command several times until it was perfect. I think the
reason has something to do with the repeat rate in a keyboard, but
possibly something deeper into the protocol. But now, every signal is
sent every time just right.

Someday I'd like to use LIRC to read the keyboard's signals, then clean
them up in lircd.conf, then send them with LIRC back to a learning
remote. I think this may help solve the trail-and-error method I did.


  



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eh, my power button just shuts down the system right now.  I think using 
it as killall mythfrontend is a good idea generally, and let the BE shut 
down your system.  I never use the power button on my system though 
because I just use a couple of shortcuts on the desktop to shut down or 
restart if needed.
The machine is just set so that it will always shut off at 2:30am using 
the shutdown command with time option and then power back on at 9:00am 
using the BIOS RTC alarm.  The computer runs all day until 2:30 am but 
when not recording it runs in such a low power state that it's fine not 
to shut it down.  Shutting down the HD's, the graphics card output, and 
using athcool on the processor, the system uses much less power than a 
windows machine would in standby (not suspend to RAM).
I would love to get STR working on my linux box because then pressing 
any key would have the same effect to me as powering on the system, 
except it would be instant-on.  Unfortunately, STR conflicts with one of 
my drivers and can't unload the kernel module.  I was gonna write a 
quite two liner that unloads the module and then reloads it on wakup but 
just haven't got to it yet.
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Re: [mythtv-users] MPEG4-MPEG4 transcode?

2006-01-12 Thread Preston Crow

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 07:47 -0800, Steve Briggs wrote:
 I record as MPEG4, flag commercials, then transcode 
 to MPEG4 to remove commercials.  The video paramters 
 (resolution, bit rate, etc. remain the same).
...
 I see a discussion of a new capability with MPEG2-MPEG2
 transcoding for commercial removal where it cuts out 
 the commercials and does minimal reecoding as needed 
 near the cut points.  That's exactly what I want to do,
 but with MPEG4.  Is there a similar capability existing 
 or planned for MPEG4-MPEG4 transcoding?

Most people, especially the developers, use the PVR-xxx cards that have
built-in MPEG-2 encoders, so I wouldn't expect to see much work going in
to improving transcoding with a MPEG-4 source.

Of course, once Hauppauge or someone like them starts selling cards with
MPEG-4 encoders, we'll start to see a lot of attention paid to MPEG-4
source material.

--PC

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Re: [mythtv-users] MPEG4-MPEG4 transcode?

2006-01-12 Thread Wendy Seltzer

On 1/12/06, Preston Crow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 07:47 -0800, Steve Briggs wrote: I record as MPEG4, flag commercials, then transcode to MPEG4 to remove commercials.The video paramters (resolution, bit rate, etc. remain the same).
... I see a discussion of a new capability with MPEG2-MPEG2 transcoding for commercial removal where it cuts out the commercials and does minimal reecoding as needed near the cut points.That's exactly what I want to do,
 but with MPEG4.Is there a similar capability existing or planned for MPEG4-MPEG4 transcoding?
Chris Pinkham is helping to debug the MPEG4-MPEG4 transcoding right
now (bug #760). It worked at 7738, but broke in the big live-tv rewrite.

--Wendy
-- Wendy Seltzerhttp://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/

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Re: [mythtv-users] -[S]- mythtvsetup on debian (ubuntu) missing

H P Ladds wrote:

I have a suggestion, but I'm a noob. So I'll phrase it as a question :

Why not use the locate command to search for Mythtv?

Mythtv is bundled with Ubuntu? Wow!



On 1/12/06, Raphael Pooser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  

John Biundo wrote:



Bret Schuhmacher wrote:


  

You sure?  Do
Find / -name mythtv-setup

Should be at /usr/bin/mythtv-setup.





That's where mine is.

Here's what's installed:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-cache policy mythtv
mythtv:
  Installed: 0.18.1-5
  Candidate: 0.18.1-5
  Version table:
 *** 0.18.1-5 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/multiverse Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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If you really don't find it after what these guys have suggested, you
might want to uninstall it with a purge.  That removes all related
config files as well as compiled binaries from local repositories.
apt-get remove purge mythtv something along those lines just man
apt-get.  reinstalling from source after that once you're sure
everything is gone will probably fix the prob.  Maybe you accidentally
have a nonexecutable file called mythtv-setup somehwere, or you need to
mark mythtv-setup as executable for some reason?  Just thinking out loud.
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far as I know it's not bundled, certainly not in hoary that I've been 
using.  You can get it from repositories though, so almost as good as 
being bundled.  Those .18.1 repository builds were reported as broke for 
breezy though, so not really bundled at all.  Maybe they're fixed now, 
or maybe the guy who started the thread compiled the .18.1 source.
Raphael
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Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID5 no improvement to transferspeed...

On Thursday 12 January 2006 10:15, Johnathon Meichtry wrote:
 Using top check your load averages.  On my server where is it constantly
 recording 3-4 PAL DTT programs my load averages are:  load average: 0.24,
 0.54, 0.71

 If yours show 1.0 then I would imagine you have a problem.  Software RAID
 in my opinion should take up no more than 3-5% if the server is busy.

 Also check 0.0% wa as this is IO waits and would be greater than 30% or
 more if your SATA controller/disks is the bottleneck rather than the CPU.

 Johnathon


 - Original Message -
 From: Brian Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org
 Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 3:05 PM
 Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID5 no improvement to
 transferspeed...

 On Jan 12, 2006, at 7:39 AM, Steve Adeff wrote:
  well I got my software RAID5 up and running. 3 drives, no spares.
  but I still get playback stuttering while recording 2 HD channels
  and playing
  1 prerecorded HD show. The cpu usage hasn't gone higher than 96% so
  I don't
  think its a cpu usage problem.
  I do have all three drives connected to the same onboard SATA150
  controller
  though I don't know if this could be a problem?

 It sure might be, whatever tool you are using to measure CPU load
 (top?) is averaging over some period of time, if the average is 96%
 then you are almost certainly hitting peaks of 100%+.

Just to let you guys know, it was an SQL issue, I sent a new email, but 
changed the subject announcing it... I had my other machine (over 100bT) 
running the SQL db, once I moved it back to the local machine it plays back 
fine.

thanks for the info though, some good info.

Johnathon: I don't even notice 3% use by the RAID, I've seen %wa as high as 
6%. I get load averges around 4 while watching HD and recording 2 shows.

Ramses: great command! I need to store that to my repertoire.

-- 
Steve
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Re: [mythtv-users] Questionaire: What do you have yo ur casepowerbutton do?

2006-01-12 Thread Mark J. Small

On January 12, 2006 11:28 am, James C. Dastrup wrote:
  I have an IR keyboard. The BIOS is configured
  to power-on with any key-press.  I programmed my remote to send
  the key-presses from my keyboard. That's also how I send all other
  commands. I don't use LIRC at all on the front end.  My keyboard
  is  always put away and I only need it if I'm working on that
  computer for some other purpose.
 
 So why doesn't a remote signal meant for your TV, VCR, stereo, etc wake
  your computer?  This always seemed to be the biggest roadblock for using
  the remote to wake my frontend.

 If your logic is correct, then every command sent by any remote would
 activate any IR receiver and process any command on any device. The answer
 is the same reason that when you power on your TV with your remote, you're
 DVD player doesn't also turn on.

 The signal sent for the TV is ignored by the keyboard's IR Receiver. The IR
 Keyboard receiver only picks up keyboard commands. If I program one
 button on my remote to send the letter A, and another button to send
 the TV's Volume Up, only the letter A will turn the computer on, since the
 keyboard doesn't even have a Volume Up button, much less matching
 the same IR signal that the TV would accept.


Ahh, that makes sense.  The keyboard IR receiver is a little bit smart about 
things.  

Unfortunately that rules out doing a similar thing with lirc, since the 
computer would have to power-on to decide whether the signal was something 
that it was supposed to pay attention to or not.  

Mark
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Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID5 no improvement to transferspeed...

2006-01-12 Thread Johnathon Meichtry

Hi Steve,

Cool!

On my modern 3.6GHZ server, cpu usage on raid is negligible - something less 
than 1% but on much slower machines in the past I have seen it up around 3% 
so the point I was trying to make was that it should never cause the CPU to 
head up into the 90's under even the most extreme situation unless of course 
there is some major a bug.

My IO waits are a different matter.  If software RAID (RAID1) is in use and 
server is busy, io waits (wa) never really exceed 10% but with my hardware 
RAID5 array frequently I see it getting up to 40% io waits if it is really 
busy.  Its quite ironic as that is why I paid loads of money for it - my bet 
is there is a bug in the controller firmware but the manufacturer doesn't 
seem to be doing much about it at least the server performs well so I don't 
bother myself too much over it.

If your load averages are 0.40 then to me that is fine but if it is 4.00 
then that is not so good as most Unix pros would consider that to be an 
overloaded CPU.  Of course its all speculation and people interpret load 
averages differently.

Regards,

Johnathon

- Original Message - 
From: Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID5 no improvement to 
transferspeed...

Just to let you guys know, it was an SQL issue, I sent a new email, but
changed the subject announcing it... I had my other machine (over 100bT)
running the SQL db, once I moved it back to the local machine it plays back
fine.

thanks for the info though, some good info.

Johnathon: I don't even notice 3% use by the RAID, I've seen %wa as high as
6%. I get load averges around 4 while watching HD and recording 2 shows.

Ramses: great command! I need to store that to my repertoire.

-- 
Steve
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Re: [mythtv-users] plextor convertx audio trouble

2006-01-12 Thread Bret Schuhmacher

I have a Plextor, too.  I'm using KnoppMyth 0.18.2.  I initially had
problems selecting /dev/dsp2, too.  All I did was delete and retype
/dev/dsp2 and then alt-F to exit the screen.  I had to go back to
check it, but it eventually stuck after several tries.

Bret

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 10:52 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] plextor convertx audio trouble

Jason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
 I received my Plextor ConvertX PX-TV402U this afternoon.  Other than 
 needing to force hotplug with 'make install USE_UDEV=n', the install 
 went smoothly. :)
 
 Recording with gorecord went well, I can see and hear the file.
 gorecord reports using /dev/video and /dev/dsp1. 
 
 I've used mythtv for over two years (well, since 0.7-8ish), never saw 
 anything like this.
 
 No matter what I try, mythbackend will only open /dev/sound/dsp.  I 
 set it everywhere to /dev/dsp1, and when I enter setup again, it's 
 changed to /dev/dsp... wtf?  So I went into mythconverg and changed 
 the only value='AudioDevice' I have in settings to /dev/dsp1.  That
sticks.
 Unfortunately, when mythfrontend is running remotely (the only way I 
 ever run it), I get no audio.  An 'lsof | grep myth | grep dsp' yields

 only one line with mythbackend opening /dev/sound/dsp
 
 So I search the source (0.18.1), I can see some default values set to 
 '/dev/dsp', but I don't see any hard-coded lines.
 
 Right now, I'm re-merging (gentoo) mythtv with debugging support.  In 
 the meantime, any ideas?

okay, little bit clearer head this morning.  Gentoo has a new ebuild for
a pre-release of 0.19.  I'll try that tonight.


Jason.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Face lift of MythWeb (themes)

2006-01-12 Thread Chris Petersen

 His name is Mathias and I have been  in contact with him regarding
 DVB-T in sweden. I will contact him if he want to publish the theme to
 the public

The svn version of mythweb has been designed specifically to make skins 
easier to write/use.  It's nowhere near perfect yet (since there's still 
a lot of code that needs to be made more css-friendly), but I'm hoping 
that it's a step in the right direction.

I'd like to move away from the idea of changing themes to change the 
look.  My long term goal is to end up with two usable themes for MythWeb 
-- standard full-javascript and a light/compact theme for people who 
don't like javascript or use text-only browsers (any other themes would 
be specialty ones like wml or wap).

I totally welcome people to contribute new skins, but since much of this 
will be in a state of flux for awhile, I ask that skin authors be aware 
that if they don't keep up with the changes, I'll disable the skin.

fyi, I'm also in the middle of redesigning the main theme/skin to make 
it a little more user friendly.

-Chris
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Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging not working

2006-01-12 Thread Chris Pinkham

 2006-01-12 10:00:28.823 Starting Commercial Flagging for The Grim
 Adventures of Billy and Mandy recorded from channel 1047 at Thu Jan 12
 10:00:00 2006.
 illegal option: '-V' (use --help)
 2006-01-12 10:00:29.378 Finished, 10 break(s) found.

You've got an old copy of mythcommflag laying around somewhere that
doesn't work with the current version of the JobQueue.  The -V option was
added specifically for the JobQueue but the mythcommflag that is being found
in your $PATH doesn't support that option.  Search for an old mythcommflag
binary and get rid of it.

-- 
Chris

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Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging not working

2006-01-12 Thread Tom Lichti

Chris Pinkham wrote:
 2006-01-12 10:00:28.823 Starting Commercial Flagging for The Grim
 Adventures of Billy and Mandy recorded from channel 1047 at Thu Jan 12
 10:00:00 2006.
 illegal option: '-V' (use --help)
 2006-01-12 10:00:29.378 Finished, 10 break(s) found.
 

 You've got an old copy of mythcommflag laying around somewhere that
 doesn't work with the current version of the JobQueue.  The -V option was
 added specifically for the JobQueue but the mythcommflag that is being found
 in your $PATH doesn't support that option.  Search for an old mythcommflag
 binary and get rid of it.

   
Just out of curiousity, is that an uppercase V or lowercase v? I am 
using current SVN, and I only have a lowercase v (verbose) option.

Thanks
Tom
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Re: [mythtv-users] ATA 33 fast enough?

2006-01-12 Thread Scott Alfter

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 I have an old P 3 @ 450 mhz slot 1 cpu and an ATA 33 IDE / motherboard
 laying around.  Is this fast enough for PVR 150?  I am considering making it
 a backend with an AMD 1.2 ghz PVR 350 frontend.

I'm running a cobbled-together security DVR (a PVR-150 and a few small shell
scripts, running on Linux and Samba) on a 300-MHz K6-2.  Since the card is
probably going to generate no more than 1 MB/s in normal operation, your
machine ought to work well enough as a backend.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging not working

2006-01-12 Thread Chris Pinkham

  2006-01-12 10:00:28.823 Starting Commercial Flagging for The Grim
  Adventures of Billy and Mandy recorded from channel 1047 at Thu Jan 12
  10:00:00 2006.
  illegal option: '-V' (use --help)

 Just out of curiousity, is that an uppercase V or lowercase v? I am 
 using current SVN, and I only have a lowercase v (verbose) option.

Upper.  It's not mentioned in the --help since it isn't meant for use
by the user.  It is a bitmap of the -v verbose options.  Myth uses this
bitmap internally for printing verbose messages, so I created the -V
command-line option to pass that bitmap to mythcommflag and mythtranscode
so the JobQueue would start them with the same verbose options that
mythbackend (or mythjobqueue) was started with.

-- 
Chris

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[mythtv-users] Xorg 6.9?

2006-01-12 Thread Adam Propeck

Has anyone ever played with Xorg 6.9 at all? I recently compiled it
from CVS and am having trouble getting the same modelines and
resolutions to work as before. It keeps trying to send my projector
into a REALLY high clock rate and I'm worried I'll damage the thing if
I'm not careful. Any idea what I should be checking? It keeps trying to
goto 1280x1024 even though I'm specifying 1280x720 and 1024x768.
Thanks, -Adam
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Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID problems - the unspokenmythtvproblem?

2006-01-12 Thread Andy Alsup

for what its worth, I am using 2 firewire encoders with a local 7
drive raid5.  I am using latest ATrpms on FC3.  kernel 2.6.12 smp.

 I have had no problems with simultaneous HD recordings (even starting
at the same time), and the performance seems to be better than my old
2 drive LVM configuration.

My system:

P4 3.2  (with HT)
1 G RAM
2 onboard SATA ports
3 ATA/133 cards with 2 channels each -- one drive per channel
6 x wd2500  (woot's 250 G drive)
2 x Hitachi SATA 250 G
2 x on-board Firewire capture

6 ATA and 1 SATA make the raid5, and the other SATA is root.  /dev/md0
is formatted XFS for 1.45 TB

The only RAID problem I had was one of the WD drives dropped off, not
bad, just needed a reset.  The system hung twice during the subsequent
rebuilds.  Added the drive back, and its all happy now.

No recording problems at all.  I actually stopped getting glitches in
my HD records (part due to better RAID performance, part due to no
longer running commercial detection)
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Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging not working

2006-01-12 Thread Tom Lichti

Chris Pinkham wrote:
 2006-01-12 10:00:28.823 Starting Commercial Flagging for The Grim
 Adventures of Billy and Mandy recorded from channel 1047 at Thu Jan 12
 10:00:00 2006.
 illegal option: '-V' (use --help)
 

   
 Just out of curiousity, is that an uppercase V or lowercase v? I am 
 using current SVN, and I only have a lowercase v (verbose) option.
 

 Upper.  It's not mentioned in the --help since it isn't meant for use
 by the user.  It is a bitmap of the -v verbose options.  Myth uses this
 bitmap internally for printing verbose messages, so I created the -V
 command-line option to pass that bitmap to mythcommflag and mythtranscode
 so the JobQueue would start them with the same verbose options that
 mythbackend (or mythjobqueue) was started with.
   
Ok, cool. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something.

Tom
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Re: [mythtv-users] Project Grayhem Wide weird font size issue...

2006-01-12 Thread Justin Hornsby

On 1/12/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
yea, I don't get it either... DPI, first thing I checked, but Xorg's log showsit setting DPI to 100...ughh.thanks,SteveWell Steve.. one thing you can check for is that you have the Tahoma (for the wide theme) or Verdana (for the 4:3 theme) font installed - if mythtv can't find the font it'll substitute its own choice in, which may be 'sub-optimal'. 
You could also try taking the menu text font size down a notch.. in theme.xml, line 40:fontsize21/fontsizeadjust that a little to see if that helps. You'll need to quit mythfrontend  restart it to see any changes though.
Aside from that, making the button area larger (higher and slightly wider) may help.. and that's defined in line 4 of theme.xml:buttonarea80,200,390,338/buttonareaWhere 80,200 are the co-ordinates of the top left corner and 390,338 are the width  height respectively.
I've been asked by another user to enlarge the button area, so I'll probably do that myself for the next version.Regards,Justin
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Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID problems - theunspokenmythtvproblem?

for what its worth, I am using 2 firewire encoders with a local 7
drive raid5.  I am using latest ATrpms on FC3.  kernel 2.6.12 smp.

 I have had no problems with simultaneous HD recordings (even starting
at the same time), and the performance seems to be better than my old
2 drive LVM configuration.

No recording problems at all.  I actually stopped getting glitches in
my HD records (part due to better RAID performance, part due to no
longer running commercial detection)

 
Interesting you mentioned commercial detection as a source of problems.
I, too, have _almost_ no more problems with HD recording anymore on
my remote (NFS) software raid5 recordings, after I disabled 
commercial detection.
 
I did notice a couple glitches during a show last night. I was a little
surprised, because I haven't see any problems in days.  Afterwards,
I noticed my MRTG monitoring found a spike in CPU at the same time.
I think it was my cron job of backing up the mysql database, which
also backs it up to the same remote NFS server. Guess I should move
it to a better time.

So it seems that NFS storage and/or software raid, although it works,
is  just very sensitive to anything else going on.  Hopefully I can
make it a little more robust with gigabit links and maybe even
hardware raid in the future. But like others, I'm just afraid of hardware
raid in the long run, esp with the questionable ability to replace a 
failed HBA in the future with a compatible one.
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Re: [mythtv-users] DVI 1080i via ATI Radeon DVI? pink bar issue?

2006-01-12 Thread Scott


On Jan 7, 2006, at 7:02 PM, Steve Adeff wrote:

 I'm looking at possibly getting a new AGP video card for my  
 mythbox. I want to
 output 1080i DVI to my TV and since the nvidia drivers currently  
 don't allow
 that I'm thinking of going to an ATI Radeon card. I don't use XvMC  
 as from
 what I read it doesn't sound like its worth the hassle, I'd just as  
 soon buy
 a faster processor.

 What I'm worried about is the pink bar issue, which I notice on my  
 laptop's
 ATI X200 running at 1280x768 when I try and playback HDTV. I was  
 wondering if
 this anyone knows if this is a driver issue, if theres specific  
 versions of
 the Radeon that don't have this issue, etc?

 I currently run Debian64 kernel=2.6.13 with Xorg 6.9.0(via Debian  
 Back Ports)
 on my Mythbox.

My FC3 box (not myth) and my gentoo 2005.x box (used for myth) both  
had Radeon 7xxx cards. Both boxes showed the pink bar issue when  
trying to play 1080i content via Xv. Playback of 720p content via Xv  
was fine. The desktop running at 1280x720 was normal, as expected.  
This was tested/seen under the radeon.o XFree86/Xorg driver, not the  
ATI binary driver.

I haven't gone back and tried the current radeon.o or ATI driver.


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Re: [mythtv-users] mythconverg Error message

2006-01-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On 1/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I am getting the following error from mythconverg:

 Error: Got error 124 from storage engine

 ... when I issue the following SQL statment:

 SELECT MAX( endtime ) FROM program


 Any idea what this error message means or how to fix it?  The perl
 script I had containing this SQL statement has been running regularly
 for a number of months without issue (although I hadn't checked on it
 recently).

 Note: Using MythTV 0.18.1


Well, I managed to fix the problem by backing up the mythconverg
database, dropping the database and then restoring it.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Xorg 6.9?

On Thursday 12 January 2006 12:19, Adam Propeck wrote:
 Has anyone ever played with Xorg 6.9 at all? I recently compiled it from
 CVS and am having trouble getting the same modelines and resolutions to
 work as before. It keeps trying to send my projector into a REALLY high
 clock rate and I'm worried I'll damage the thing if I'm not careful. Any
 idea what I should be checking? It keeps trying to goto 1280x1024 even
 though I'm specifying 1280x720 and 1024x768. Thanks, -Adam

I had it running on my Debian Stable + Backports install before I installed my 
new system drive. Seemed to work fine for me. Did you limit the clock rate it 
can use in your Monitor section with the lines that look like
HorizSync   15 - 46
VertRefresh 59 - 61
?

Check what your projector's rates are and put them in there, X should pay 
attention to them, or it will use what it gets from the devices EDID if you 
have that working.

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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Happy Land WAS=Re: Software RAID5 no improvement to transfer speed...

On Thursday 12 January 2006 10:45, Brian Wood wrote:
 On Jan 12, 2006, at 8:19 AM, Steve Adeff wrote:
  w! except for my strangely high CPU usage everything is working
  wonderfully!

 Are you using an nVidia card with their 1.0.8178 drivers? This is a
 common problem. I solved it by commenting out load glx in
 xorg.conf, but there are other (and better?) solutions.

I'm using 7676, but this brings up a good question, what Modules do I not need 
on a dedicated Myth frontend? and if I can disable anything I don't need, I 
figure I should right?

So I've spent some time playing with what Modules get loaded and what NVIDIA 
settings work best for me. I was able to get my Xorg CPU use down from ~25% 
to 15%, it sits around 5% now, occasionaly jumps as high 10%, I saw it hit 
14.7% at one point, but I think that was an anomoly.

So I'm pretty happy now. Here's the relevant sections of my xorg.conf file for 
anyone that wants to play around. I would highly suggest spending the time to 
see what settings work best with your GPU, setup, etc. as these may not work 
best for you!

First, what made the MOST difference, this is at the end of the xorg.conf 
file:
Section Extensions
Option  Composite 1
Option  RENDER1
EndSection
I previously only had one on, never both. This made a big difference.


Then, my Extensions, I basically turned everything off, went one by one to 
see what I needed, I don't do the 3d stuff (yet) so I disabled those for now 
as well...
Section Module
#   Load  ddc  # ddc probing of monitor
#   Load  GLcore
#   Load  dbe
#   Load  dri
Load  extmod
#   Load  glx
#   Load  bitmap # bitmap-fonts
#   Load  type1
#   Load  freetype
#   Load  record
EndSection

and finally my Device section for nvidia (7676) driver.
Section Device
Identifier  nvhdtv
Driver  nvidia
VendorName  All
BoardName   All
#   BusID   PCI:1:0:0
Option  RenderAccel False
Option  ConnectedMonitor DFP
Option  NoLogo False # I like the pretty logo =)
Option  DPMS False
Option  IgnoreDisplayDevices  TV
Option  AllowGLXWithComposite False
Option  RandRRotation True
Option  Coolbits  False
Option  HWCursor True
Option  SWCursor False
Option  CursorShadow False
Option  DPI 100 x 100
EndSection

oddly enough, RandRRotation needs to be on! Setting it to False makes my Xorg 
CPU usage go way up!

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[mythtv-users] Uninstalling IVTV

2006-01-12 Thread Chris

How would I go about un-installing IVTV so I can reinstall it?

I am using Fedora Core 4 with yum.

Exact command lines appreciated. :)

-Chester

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Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID problems - theunspokenmythtvproblem?

On Thursday 12 January 2006 12:59, James C. Dastrup wrote:
 for what its worth, I am using 2 firewire encoders with a local 7
 drive raid5.  I am using latest ATrpms on FC3.  kernel 2.6.12 smp.
 
  I have had no problems with simultaneous HD recordings (even starting
 at the same time), and the performance seems to be better than my old
 2 drive LVM configuration.
 
 No recording problems at all.  I actually stopped getting glitches in
 my HD records (part due to better RAID performance, part due to no
 longer running commercial detection)

 Interesting you mentioned commercial detection as a source of problems.
 I, too, have _almost_ no more problems with HD recording anymore on
 my remote (NFS) software raid5 recordings, after I disabled
 commercial detection.

 I did notice a couple glitches during a show last night. I was a little
 surprised, because I haven't see any problems in days.  Afterwards,
 I noticed my MRTG monitoring found a spike in CPU at the same time.
 I think it was my cron job of backing up the mysql database, which
 also backs it up to the same remote NFS server. Guess I should move
 it to a better time.

 So it seems that NFS storage and/or software raid, although it works,
 is  just very sensitive to anything else going on.  Hopefully I can
 make it a little more robust with gigabit links and maybe even
 hardware raid in the future. But like others, I'm just afraid of hardware
 raid in the long run, esp with the questionable ability to replace a
 failed HBA in the future with a compatible one.

u know, when I had my db running on a seperate machine over 100bT I found that 
things slowed way down, nothing to do with the recordings drive speed!

Once I brought the db back to the backend machine that does the capturing and 
storing everything went back to normal. I don't have commercial detection 
enabled though. I wonder how much of the problems you two notice with 
commercial detection has more to do with SQL not keeping up with all the 
access its being asked of by Myth, or something along those lines?

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[mythtv-users] Recording digital-audio channels over FireWire appears to not work in MythTV

2006-01-12 Thread Scott Alfter

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The local cable system has a bunch of audio channels up in the 900s with music,
talk radio, etc.  Out of curiosity, I tried recording from them over FireWire
with the same tools that grab HD channels and such.  With the cable box set to
one of the audio channels, it spits out a transport stream containing just an
AC3 audio stream--no video.  test-mpeg2 captures this stream with no problems.
 mplayer should be able to play it; I know it can demux it and dump the AC3
stream to a file (use the -dumpaudio option, with -dumpfile to specify an
output filename).  The AC3 file can then be played as-is or converted to
another format.

The talk-radio stream I grabbed as a test looks like it's encoded at 128 kbps.
 The graphics displayed on the cable box's analog outputs are generated by the
cable box.  They're not part of the incoming stream, which is why the captured
stream contains only audio.

Where MythTV comes into this is that it you would think that since it's capable
of recording from FireWire-equipped cable boxes, it'd be able to grab these
audio-only streams.  It would appear that the lack of a video stream confuses
mythbackend, though, as you end up with a zero-byte file.

I know that radio != TV, but it seems to me that this could be a nice extra
capability that probably wouldn't need much extra work to get it working right.
 I suspect there are some sanity checks of the incoming stream that are getting
confused by the lack of video; disabling these checks for certain channels (and
disabling other processing, such as commercial flagging, that won't work
without video) would get the job done.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Project Grayhem Wide weird font size issue...

2006-01-12 Thread Justin Hornsby

Incidentally - for the next release of my theme I'm combining the wide  4:3 themes into one archive because they have so much in common in terms of graphics files.I've also experimented with using JPGs for the watermarks  title graphics.. that shaves some 4MB off the archive size - it works okay but will that have any negative implications?
Regards,Justin.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID problems - theunspokenmythtvproblem?

2006-01-12 Thread Robert Kulagowski

 I wonder how much of the problems you two notice with
 commercial detection has more to do with SQL not keeping up with all the 
 access its being asked of by Myth, or something along those lines?

A sure-fire way for me to get glitches in recordings (TFW errors in the
log) is for mythfilldatabase to kick off and start pulling data from
datadirect.  I haven't found the magic configuration that will allow me
to still capture on two or three pvr-250's while mfdb is doing its thing.


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Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID5 no improvement to transferspeed...

On Thursday 12 January 2006 11:47, Johnathon Meichtry wrote:
  - Original Message -
  From: Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
  Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 4:21 PM
  Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID5 no improvement to
  transferspeed...

  Just to let you guys know, it was an SQL issue, I sent a new email, but
  changed the subject announcing it... I had my other machine (over 100bT)
  running the SQL db, once I moved it back to the local machine it plays 
back
  fine.

  thanks for the info though, some good info.

  Johnathon: I don't even notice 3% use by the RAID, I've seen %wa as high 
as
  6%. I get load averges around 4 while watching HD and recording 2 shows.

  Ramses: great command! I need to store that to my repertoire.

 Hi Steve,

 Cool!

 On my modern 3.6GHZ server, cpu usage on raid is negligible - something
 less than 1% but on much slower machines in the past I have seen it up
 around 3% so the point I was trying to make was that it should never cause
 the CPU to head up into the 90's under even the most extreme situation
 unless of course there is some major a bug.

gotcha, well, I don't even notice it come up in top, so I'm happy =)

 My IO waits are a different matter.  If software RAID (RAID1) is in use and
 server is busy, io waits (wa) never really exceed 10% but with my hardware
 RAID5 array frequently I see it getting up to 40% io waits if it is really
 busy.  Its quite ironic as that is why I paid loads of money for it - my
 bet is there is a bug in the controller firmware but the manufacturer
 doesn't seem to be doing much about it at least the server performs well so
 I don't bother myself too much over it.

Ok, I've got only one RAID array, RAID 5, my db is currently on a non RAID 
UDMA5 ATA Seagate Barracuda 7200 drive (might move this to RAID5 for 
protection though). In top, my wa% is always at 0.0, with occasional jumps to 
3.3 or 3.4 (this is with top's update speed set to .3).
Right now I'm recording 2 HD shows and watching 1, recording 1 PBS show and 
watching 1 in fact, with 
load average: ~5.50 ~5.10 ~3.5
cpu ~90%us, 0.0% wa.
and no visible visual or audio hiccup.

Some of this is due to the xorg.conf changes I made, documented in another 
email to the list.

 If your load averages are 0.40 then to me that is fine but if it is 4.00
 then that is not so good as most Unix pros would consider that to be an
 overloaded CPU.  Of course its all speculation and people interpret load
 averages differently.

I can understand, look at what top says my load averages are, sure I'm dong a 
lot but I'm not seeing anthing wrong with my playback as I watch a PBS HD 
stream.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Recording digital-audio channels over FireWire appears to not work in MythTV

On Thursday 12 January 2006 13:22, Scott Alfter wrote:
 The local cable system has a bunch of audio channels up in the 900s with
 music, talk radio, etc.  Out of curiosity, I tried recording from them over
 FireWire with the same tools that grab HD channels and such.  With the
 cable box set to one of the audio channels, it spits out a transport stream
 containing just an AC3 audio stream--no video.  test-mpeg2 captures this
 stream with no problems. mplayer should be able to play it; I know it can
 demux it and dump the AC3 stream to a file (use the -dumpaudio option, with
 -dumpfile to specify an output filename).  The AC3 file can then be played
 as-is or converted to another format.

 The talk-radio stream I grabbed as a test looks like it's encoded at 128
 kbps. The graphics displayed on the cable box's analog outputs are
 generated by the cable box.  They're not part of the incoming stream, which
 is why the captured stream contains only audio.

 Where MythTV comes into this is that it you would think that since it's
 capable of recording from FireWire-equipped cable boxes, it'd be able to
 grab these audio-only streams.  It would appear that the lack of a video
 stream confuses mythbackend, though, as you end up with a zero-byte file.

 I know that radio != TV, but it seems to me that this could be a nice extra
 capability that probably wouldn't need much extra work to get it working
 right. I suspect there are some sanity checks of the incoming stream that
 are getting confused by the lack of video; disabling these checks for
 certain channels (and disabling other processing, such as commercial
 flagging, that won't work without video) would get the job done.


there is a patch in SVN for doing similar for DVB radio, it should work for 
this as well since it creates its own video. I haven't tried it personally 
yet though...

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[mythtv-users] Recommend an HD/SD tuner card?

2006-01-12 Thread Dorsey Graphics

Here's the situation. . .

   I'm setting up a new system as a PVR. It will have a 3.4 GHz P4,  
and a GeForce 6800 for video out. It will also have about 400GB of  
drive space (it's an old gaming system that I'm relegating for use as  
a PVR).  Should be a pretty cool system by most respects.

   I currently have a WinTV 250 which I'll put in it to control my  
DirecTV RCA DRD435RH. I may get a second identical DirecTV box, or I  
may go with Comcast. We'll see.

   My question is - I may get an HD plasma/LCD/projector this year.  
Keeping that in mind, I'd like my second tuner card to have the  
option for recording HD.

   Can you recommend a PCI card that works well for HD, also has an  
option for SD (for use until I purchase the new TV), and that will  
not break the bank?

   Compatibility with BeyondTV and MythTV is important, as I am not  
sure which I will use yet.

thanks,

---S
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