Re: [mythtv-users] Jump Back and Jump Ahead Amounts
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 02:40:29AM -0500, Chris Pinkham wrote: SVN uses playback groups. You need to set the jump amounts for the Default playback group. The Playback Groups settings page is under the Setup - TV Settings - Playback Groups. That's it. Thanks so much. You may have even saved my life, since my roommate was beginning to go crazy when the fast forward didn't work as expected. :) -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 pgpWTYmIXYAWh.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Recorded programs don't show in Watching Records list
I am having a strange problem. The programs were actually recorded in the filesystem and the database records were partially updated. When I tried to watch the programs, they didn't show in the list of recorded programs in the GUI. However, they are in the database and the files are in the filesystem. The directory entry in the settings table is correct as well. After looking in recorded table I noticed the file names were not in the basename column. So, I added them manually. The files are having the .nuv extension. I then retried to watch the programs and they still don't show up in the list. I looked again at the recorded table and noticed the filesize was not correct as well. I updated the fields manually again. Still don't show up in the list. In the oldrecorded the programs are there as well as in the recordedprogram table. So, what is going on with this? I noticed other programs are having .mpg extensions. Should I change the .nuv to .mpg in the database and in the filenames? I even ran the mythcommflag --file file_name --rebuild script which completed without errors. Any hints would be appreciated. Regards,-- -Daniel Savard ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] cut commercials only, no transcoding
I do this all from a single script without actually looking/editing the commercial points. I trust mythcommflag is doing very good job and I do detect almost all the commercials. Only one time, it deleted everything of the Lost episode after the first commercial. You wouldn't want to do it in Australia. Unfortunately mythcommflag's accuracy is not that high here. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Australian DVB-T resolution
this is pretty horrible, but from the scan output ( channels.conf) and an
mplayer that supports dvb, I just ran:
cat channels.conf | perl -e '$opts= -vo asdfasdf -ao asdfasdf| tee -a
streaminfo; while ($f = STDIN) { if ($f =~ m/radio/i || $f =~ m/jazz/i)
{next;} $f =~ m/(.+?):/; print mplayer \ dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] $opts; ;
}'
Paste the output into another shell and run it, which should fire up mplayer
to interrogate the stream and fail (invalid vo driver), it should take a
while and you might need to nudge it along with ctrl-c. Then you can
cat streaminfo | grep -e Playing -e ^VIDEO: -e ^AUDIO
to get video/audio details for each channel. Just note I've been told
mplayer's bitrate report is not quite right.
Thanks for that Andy. My script ends up looking like this:
mplayer dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] HDTV -vo asdfasdf -ao asdfasdf| tee -a
streaminfo; mplayer dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] TV Sydney -vo asdfasdf -ao
asdfasdf| tee -a streaminfo; mplayer dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -vo asdfasdf
-ao
asdfasdf| tee -a streaminfo; mplayer dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] TV -vo asdfasdf
-ao asdfasdf| tee -a streaminfo; mplayer dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] Digital -vo
asdfasdf -ao asdfasdf| tee -a streaminfo; mplayer dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Digital
1 -vo asdfasdf -ao asdfasdf| tee -a streaminfo; mplayer dvb://[EMAIL
PROTECTED]
Digital 2 -vo asdfasdf -ao asdfasdf| tee -a streaminfo; mplayer
dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] Digital 3 -vo asdfasdf -ao asdfasdf| tee -a
streaminfo;
mplayer dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] HD Digital -vo asdfasdf -ao asdfasdf| tee -a
streaminfo; mplayer dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] Guide -vo asdfasdf -ao
asdfasdf| tee
-a streaminfo; mplayer dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] DIGITAL -vo asdfasdf -ao
asdfasdf| tee -a streaminfo; mplayer dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] HD -vo asdfasdf
-ao asdfasdf| tee -a streaminfo; mplayer dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] GUIDE -vo
asdfasdf -ao asdfasdf| tee -a streaminfo; mplayer dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Digital -vo asdfasdf -ao asdfasdf| tee -a streaminfo; mplayer
dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] Digital 1 -vo asdfasdf -ao asdfasdf| tee -a
streaminfo;
mplayer dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] Digital 2 -vo asdfasdf -ao asdfasdf| tee -a
streaminfo; mplayer dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] Digital 3 -vo asdfasdf -ao
asdfasdf| tee -a streaminfo; mplayer dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] Digital -vo
asdfasdf -ao asdfasdf| tee -a streaminfo; mplayer dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Guide
-vo asdfasdf -ao asdfasdf| tee -a streaminfo; mplayer dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HD -vo asdfasdf -ao asdfasdf| tee -a streaminfo; mplayer
dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] Guide -vo asdfasdf -ao asdfasdf| tee -a streaminfo;
mplayer dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] HD -vo asdfasdf -ao asdfasdf| tee -a
streaminfo; mplayer dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] DIGITAL 1 -vo asdfasdf -ao
asdfasdf| tee -a streaminfo; mplayer dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] DIGITAL 2 -vo
asdfasdf -ao asdfasdf| tee -a streaminfo; mplayer dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED]
EPG
-vo asdfasdf -ao asdfasdf| tee -a streaminfo;
When I run this I get these outputs:
...
Can't init input joystick
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory
Setting up LIRC support...
Playing dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] DIGITAL 1.
Unable to open URL: dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] DIGITAL 1
Exiting... (End of file)
MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.4.4 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Northwood (Family: 8, Stepping: 3)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Can't init input joystick
Unable to open URL: dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] DIGITAL 2
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory
Setting up LIRC support...
Playing dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] DIGITAL 2.
Exiting... (End of file)
MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.4.4 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Northwood (Family: 8, Stepping: 3)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Can't init input joystick
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory
Setting up LIRC support...
Playing dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] EPG.
Unable to open URL: dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] EPG
Would you mind sharing the script file that gets generated for you -
maybe I could hack that for my setup?
Regards,
Phill
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Re: [mythtv-users] Live TV recording as if it was a scheduled
On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 15:54 -0500, Chris Pinkham wrote: I see your point and after Isaac's explanation some time ago I know that it is close to what I want, but I still want to know how much of the Digicam stuff I can download to the disk before I start doing it. Preferably without expiring my recorded auto-expirable shows. Then maybe you should spend your time writing a patch that's been on my TODO list for a while. I want to add something to the disk space section of the mythfrontend status page. Right now it shows how much free space you have available and estimates how much recording time you have left. I want to add code to display how much space could be freed by autoexpiring LiveTV and normal recordings, so you can see how much true disk space you have and an estimate of the (estimated) true recording time you have left based on that. I've often thought that it would be awesome if it would colour code the bar based on recording groups... Ian. -- Ian Campbell You will triumph over your enemy. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What's this means of mostly tables in database?
Why? In other words, you should normally not have to deal with those tables at all. That's what Myth does for you. -MG. Yeh something like that :) Johan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Live TV recording as if it was a scheduled recording
Isaac Richards wrote: That's enough of that. Anyone continuing to act like a 2 year old gets removed from the list. Isaac My thoughts precisely. Some people just don't know when to stop. Johan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] List of vendors that sell Myth boxes
On 1/15/06, David Whyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An Australian company started to sell them. www.d1.com.au is the URL, though I haven't been in a while. Whytey Cheeky sods, from their website: Issue 6: I want to build my own media centre based on my own hardware. Can I buy the Home Media Centre software only? Solution: Unfortunately we cannot sell the HMC software to end users by itself. The HMC is an integrated device and its software is customised to work only on its specific hardware configuration. As such, it is unlikely that our software would function correctly on a machine you have built yourself. However, if you are looking to re-sell or distribute your own media centre device we would be delighted to discuss customising and licensing our software for your device. Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] XvMC, GF6200, FC4, and a black screen....
Any secrets to getting a 6200 happy with XvMC under FC4? Pulled out a working-for-more-than-a-year-GF5200 from a frontend, replaced it with a 6200. I've tried 7667, 7676, 8178, and none of them will do XvMC with this card. Pop the 5200 back in, works like a charm. When I try to get any XvMC playback via mythtv, it goes to a black screen and hangs there complaining about prebuffering. Again, slap 5200 back in, and we're gold. Put 6200 in, and it's non-working for XvMC. Here's the debug all 2006-01-15 03:16:22.748 New DB connection, total: 1 Total desktop width=888, height=508, numscreens=1 2006-01-15 03:16:22.773 Using screen 0, 888x508 at 0,0 2006-01-15 03:16:22.779 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1 www.mythtv.org 2006-01-15 03:16:22.780 Enabled verbose msgs :all 2006-01-15 03:16:23.178 max_width: 888 max_height: 508 2006-01-15 03:16:23.281 Switching to square mode (Iulius) 2006-01-15 03:16:23.530 New DB connection, total: 2 2006-01-15 03:16:23.530 /home/mythtv/.mythtv/joystickmenurc not found. 2006-01-15 03:16:23.531 Joystick disabled. 2006-01-15 03:16:23.591 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin. 2006-01-15 03:16:23.614 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media handler 2006-01-15 03:16:23.615 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media handler 2006-01-15 03:16:23.805 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media handler SIP listening on IP Address 192.168.2.223:5060 NAT address 192.168.2.223 SIP: Cannot register; proxy, username or password not set 2006-01-15 03:16:23.940 generating cache image for: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/blank.png 2006-01-15 03:16:34.164 All Programs 2006-01-15 03:16:34.361 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.4.222:6543 (try 1 of 50) 2006-01-15 03:16:34.362 write-12 21 MYTH_PROTO_VERSION 15: 2006-01-15 03:16:34.375 Using protocol version 15 2006-01-15 03:16:34.375 write-12 24 ANN Playback frontend1 0: 2006-01-15 03:16:34.408 write-12 21 QUERY_RECORDINGS Play: 2006-01-15 03:16:34.451 24 ANN Playback frontend1 1 2006-01-15 03:16:34.566 write-15 24 ANN Playback frontend1 0: 2006-01-15 03:16:34.595 write-16 74 ANN FileTransfer frontend1[]:[]/2017_... 2006-01-15 03:16:34.611 write-15 49 QUERY_FILETRANSFER 30[]:[]REQUEST_BLO... 2006-01-15 03:16:34.618 Read(): reqd=25895, rcvd=25895, rept=25895, error=0 2006-01-15 03:16:34.618 write-15 30 QUERY_FILETRANSFER 30[]:[]DONE: 2006-01-15 03:16:35.955 write-15 24 ANN Playback frontend1 0: 2006-01-15 03:16:35.972 write-16 74 ANN FileTransfer frontend1[]:[]/2017_... 2006-01-15 03:16:35.991 write-15 49 QUERY_FILETRANSFER 30[]:[]REQUEST_BLO... 2006-01-15 03:16:35.998 Read(): reqd=23817, rcvd=23817, rept=23817, error=0 2006-01-15 03:16:35.998 write-15 30 QUERY_FILETRANSFER 30[]:[]DONE: 2006-01-15 03:16:36.189 write-15 24 ANN Playback frontend1 0: 2006-01-15 03:16:36.206 write-16 74 ANN FileTransfer frontend1[]:[]/2017_... 2006-01-15 03:16:36.267 write-15 49 QUERY_FILETRANSFER 30[]:[]REQUEST_BLO... 2006-01-15 03:16:36.274 Read(): reqd=37869, rcvd=37869, rept=37869, error=0 2006-01-15 03:16:36.274 write-15 30 QUERY_FILETRANSFER 30[]:[]DONE: 2006-01-15 03:16:36.362 write-15 24 ANN Playback frontend1 0: 2006-01-15 03:16:36.391 write-16 74 ANN FileTransfer frontend1[]:[]/2017_... 2006-01-15 03:16:36.407 write-15 49 QUERY_FILETRANSFER 30[]:[]REQUEST_BLO... 2006-01-15 03:16:36.414 Read(): reqd=29750, rcvd=29750, rept=29750, error=0 2006-01-15 03:16:36.414 write-15 30 QUERY_FILETRANSFER 30[]:[]DONE: 2006-01-15 03:16:37.053 write-15 24 ANN Playback frontend1 0: 2006-01-15 03:16:37.070 write-16 74 ANN FileTransfer frontend1[]:[]/2017_... 2006-01-15 03:16:37.087 write-15 49 QUERY_FILETRANSFER 30[]:[]REQUEST_BLO... 2006-01-15 03:16:37.094 Read(): reqd=26994, rcvd=26994, rept=26994, error=0 2006-01-15 03:16:37.094 write-15 30 QUERY_FILETRANSFER 30[]:[]DONE: 2006-01-15 03:16:37.201 write-15 24 ANN Playback frontend1 0: 2006-01-15 03:16:37.219 write-16 74 ANN FileTransfer frontend1[]:[]/2017_... 2006-01-15 03:16:37.235 write-15 49 QUERY_FILETRANSFER 30[]:[]REQUEST_BLO... 2006-01-15 03:16:37.242 Read(): reqd=32333, rcvd=32333, rept=32333, error=0 2006-01-15 03:16:37.242 write-15 30 QUERY_FILETRANSFER 30[]:[]DONE: 2006-01-15 03:16:38.104 write-15 24 ANN Playback frontend1 0: 2006-01-15 03:16:38.124 write-16 74 ANN FileTransfer frontend1[]:[]/1008_... 2006-01-15 03:16:38.143 write-15 49 QUERY_FILETRANSFER 30[]:[]REQUEST_BLO... 2006-01-15 03:16:38.150 Read(): reqd=32641, rcvd=32641, rept=32641, error=0 2006-01-15 03:16:38.150 write-15 30 QUERY_FILETRANSFER 30[]:[]DONE: 2006-01-15 03:16:38.655 write-12 505 QUERY_CHECKFILE[]:[]Sesame Street[]:[... 2006-01-15 03:16:38.710 Output filters for this channel are: '' 2006-01-15 03:16:38.808 AVFD 2006-01-15 03:16:38.808 AVFD: Opening Stream #0: codec id 2 2006-01-15 03:16:38.809 detectInterlace(Detect Scan, Detect Scan,
[mythtv-users] Setting up an FAQ for LiveTV changes
Hi, since the LiveTV changes seem to lead to questions again and again (and sometimes to flamewars), I volunteer to write an FAQ about it. However, while I do know how things are currently working, I'm not 100% sure about the planned state for the 0.19 release. (Esp. from the user perspective: What setting are planned, etc.) I'd be grateful for any pointers to resources (bug tickets, list threads) I can mine for further information. That way, we'd have a single place to point people to when the question comes up again. Jens ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] DVB-T LiveTV not working since update to SVN
Hi, I was experiencing the dreaded prebuffering pause problems with 0.18.1 so after talking with a couple of other guys in the #mythtv-users IRC channel I updated to SVN 8577. If this means I should go to the dev list, please let me know. Since the update was performed, LiveTV has stopped working. I've had a look through the archives and found one person posting that the same happened to them and that is was fixed last month sometime. Symptoms are that selecting Watch TV just puts a black screen up and I can only get out by killing mythfrontend and restarting it. Recording still works fine. Any ideas would be more than welcome! The system is an Epia M1 with a Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T card. The same thing happens when either Via XvMC or standard is selected and XvMC works fine under 0.18.1. Here's the output from mythfrontend when Watch TV is selected: 2006-01-15 11:23:29.269 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2006-01-15 11:23:29.278 Using protocol version 23 2006-01-15 11:23:29.350 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingLiveTV 2006-01-15 11:23:29.358 Using protocol version 23 0: start_time: -9223372036854.775 duration: -9223372036854.775 stream: start_time: -9223372036854.775 duration: -9223372036854.775 bitrate=0 kb/s 2006-01-15 11:23:31.681 AFD: Opened codec 0x82b6620, id(MPEG2VIDEO_XVMC_VLD) type(Video) 2006-01-15 11:23:31.681 NVP: Disabling Audio, params(-1,-1,-1) 2006-01-15 11:23:31.683 AFD: Initializing audio parms from audio track #0 2006-01-15 11:23:31.684 AFD: Audio format changed from id(NONE)-1Hz -1ch 0bps; id(NONE) -1Hz -1ch 0bps to id(NONE)-1Hz -1ch 0bps; id(NONE) -1Hz -1ch 0bps 2006-01-15 11:23:31.684 NVP: Disabling Audio, params(0,-1,-1) 2006-01-15 11:23:36.193 Realtime priority would require SUID as root. 2006-01-15 11:23:36.198 TV: Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2006-01-15 11:23:36.719 Video timing method: DRM 2006-01-15 11:23:37.722 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times. 2006-01-15 11:23:38.722 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times. 2006-01-15 11:23:40.229 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times. 2006-01-15 11:23:43.098 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times. 2006-01-15 11:23:44.518 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times. 2006-01-15 11:23:45.978 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times. 2006-01-15 11:23:47.498 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times. 2006-01-15 11:23:48.960 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times. 2006-01-15 11:23:50.482 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times. The message goes on until I kill mythfrontend. -- Daniel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Short report on Xorg 6.9.0
Hi again, just installed Mandriva 6.9.0 in my Mythbox here and here are some results: - XV finally seems to work with my ProSavage8, at least the Myth picture controls work now. - The picture lost a lot of clearness. This could ofcourse be because of the item above combined with bad settings - XV seems to fix the DVB blockiness in shadows etc. that the low bitrate our local compnies provides us with. - I had to download and install the dri package to get GL working for Mythmusic - The CPU usage for LiveTV went from about 40% to 80%. This puzzles me as I thought that XV working would bring that usage down, not up??? Comments/suggestions on setup welcome as usual. Dag ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Soundblaster Live! 24-bit 7.1 and Leadtek WinFast TV2000XP Expert
Here are some of my sound settings: http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/6004/alsamixervolumecontrol6zo.jpg http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/9592/kmixoutput5mc.jpg http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/4950/kmixswitches5yp.jpg http://img474.imageshack.us/img474/4967/kamix5jd.jpg http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/377/kamixplayback1rz.jpg http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/7677/kamixextsourceplayback4ej.jpg http://img452.imageshack.us/img452/2106/kamixcapture8yq.jpg ALSA is loaded, so I would like to setup MythTV to use ALSA instead of OSS. The following also happens : # amixer set Master,0 100%,100% unmute amixer: Unable to find simple control 'Master',0 And is similar for all the commands to setup from the command line. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OS X MythFrontend 0.18.1 with plugins
If anyone is interested, I have compiled a version of SVN 8602 for Mac and packaged it up. It was tested on a G5 tower with a completely fresh load of OSX without any development environment against an SVN 8602 backend on Linux. Let me know if you have any troubles, although the school term has started and my time to help you out may be limited. It's available at: http://www.xenotropic.com/index.php? option=com_remositoryItemid=33func=fileinfofilecatid=27parent=catego ry I had to change line 983 of osx-packager.pl to read: next if ($file =~ m,/Versions/A/\Q$dep\E,); where it reads next if ($file =~ m,/Versions/A/$dep,); in the original out of SVN. You need to escape the $dep so that it doesn't interpret characters in the variable as a part of the regular expression. Namely there's a C++ library in there, so libstdc++ (or whatever it is) is a screwy regexp that won't compile. I think this is the right fix, but I haven't tested it extensively. It just could screw up the entire regexp and it works because it's evaluating $dep as a literal, but I haven't had much time to look at it. If some other perl guru has a chance to look at it, that'd be cool. Ok, there are now two new 0.18.1 versions at thesniderpad.com. One is the vanilla 0.18.1 and the other is the 0.18.1-fixes branch from SVN. Let me know if you try them and what your status is ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Jeremy McDermond Xenotropic Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Wanted: Australian modes for 720p
Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: I now have a TV (DLP rear projector) that is native 1280x720. Does anyone have good modelines for this? I have a settopbox which delivers 720p50 (on RGB) and the TV is very happy with it. For starters I want my machine to do the same, before changing to use DVI output (the TV has HDMI input). So far I found one modeline that looked like it should work but the nvidia (binary) driver hands after displaying the logo (a bit torn often). I will try to downgrade from 1.0-8187 next. So what, no Australians on this list using a 720p TV? Here is what I have so far. Using RGB (VGA cable) I found that this modeline has the correct horizontal parameters: Modeline 720p50 81.168 1280 1784 1824 2136 720 752 754 760 +hsync +vsync However, vertically I can adjust correctly for the bottom but I loose too much (about 30 pixels) at the top. I could not raise the size (760) any higher (the TV shows nothing then). The TV can also do the equivalent 60Hz, with the same geometry issues (vertically trimmed): Modeline 720p60 81.53 1280 1400 1440 1788 720 752 754 760 +hsync +vsync Trying DVI is even harder. It seems that the HDMI input is accepting the data fine (1280x720) but always displays it with all four sides badly trimmed. The TV simply ignores the blanking periods (which is expected as it has no use) so I have no control over the size or position of the image on the screen. -- Eyal Lebedinsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://samba.org/eyal/ attach .zip as .dat ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Unpredictable Skip/Fast Forward/Rewind behavior
My database is fine too, I have a frontend+backend machine which is fine for ffwd (running linux) its just on the additional mac frontend where I see the issue.Ash.On 14/01/06, David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ant Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 13/01/06, Ashley Bostock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see this as well (Mac OS 10.4 on a powerbook over wireless - resent svn).FWIW, my frontend is also my backend, so there's no network involvedin this bug. Say for example I'm watching a recording that is 30mins in length and I've hit the fast forward key (with sticky keys turned off) at the 20mins mark. The osd will appear with the current position 20:00 of 30:00, then it will flick to showing 0:00 of 30:00 and then move on the fast forward amount 21:00 of 30:00.If I press the button too quickly after the previous press then it will acutally skip from 0:00 of 30:00 to 1:00 of 30:00. Ash On 11/01/06, David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I use the fast forward, rewind, skip forward, or skip backward keys while watching a recording, it's as likely as not that I'll end up back at the beginning, which makes navigation quite difficult.Is this just a plain bug or is there some technique I need to learn in order to make it work better?I'm running the MacOS frontend built from SVN, for what it's worth. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com I was thinking that this sounded like problems I got with a corrupted database. Although after reading the second email I don't think it is, however if you want to check just to be sure: mysqlcheck -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconvergMy database checks out OK.--Dave AbrahamsBoost Consultingwww.boost-consulting.com___ mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Use remote machine to control Myth frontend?
Thanks for the replies thus far! I have looked in to each of these and they all have their merits. I'm not sure which I'll use. It isn't quite as simple as I'd hoped. But that's the beauty of Linux/MythTV. So many options, so little time! THANKS! On 1/14/06, Footer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an older machine that I'm using as a Myth box configured as both a frontend and backend hooked up in my entertainment center. Since it's old, it has limited storage so what I'd like to do, is use a remote machine (another Linux box) to store and play music from but pipe it over to the old Myth box so that it plays on my entertainment center sound system. Both of these machines are on my home network and are wired (not wireless). I know I can make a remote hard disk to store and play music from but what I want to do is be able to use the remote machine to also control and play that music (use amaroK for example vs. MythMusic) on the Myth box hooked up to the entertainment center. Does anyone know if this is possible and how I would go about configuring it? I hope my explanation isn't too confusing! And I apologize for the goofy sounding subject! Wasn't easy to come up with ... :) Thanks! PS. I use KnoppMyth on my Myth box and Webmin to configure it remotely. I also have Vncserver working so I can VNC to it remotely but that's not what I'm after! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Howto to configure jack or arts in mythfrontend
Hi everybody, can anybody tell me how I can configure jack or arts in my mythfrontend? To the doc writers: The documention doesn't capture that topic yet. (Only the point that you should disable such deamons, because otherwise the alsa devices are not accessible, but that was the time before arts and jack plugins were in mythtv I think...) To get closer to my problem, I will give you some output I get. First of all mythtv is compiled only with arts and jack support (no alsa, no oss). Starting jack with jackd -d alsa -S -d hw:0,0 gives: [...] creating alsa driver ... hw:0,0|hw:0,0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|16bit control device hw:0 configuring for 48000Hz, period = 1024 frames, buffer = 2 periods Starting mythfrontend with configured audiodevice JACK:hw0,0 result in looping: 2006-01-15 13:50:46.268 Error opening audio device (hw:0,0), the error num was: 7 hw:0,0: Illegal seek 2006-01-15 13:50:46.275 Error opening audio device (hw:0,0), Port not found. hw:0,0: Illegal seek Both started as root! Anybody here who can give me a hint? Second topic arts: Which device name comes after ARTS:...? I only get this by reading the sourcecode (so also a point for documentation). Cheers, Michael ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_ch
I modified the mythfillepg script. The script grab the data to a file and read the file in. Works good with tv_grab_ch. mythfillepg grab the missing days, mythfillepg manual grab TOTAL_DAYS bye Thomas script: mythfillepg #!/bin/bash # Customized mythfilldatabase script that efficiently grabs# # only the needed days to minimize load and bandwidth. # # # # Created by: Jeroen Brosens # # e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]# # web:http://www.fotoniq.nl/projects/mythtv/ # # Modified: Thomas Kuster# # e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # web:http://www.fam-kuster.ch # # # # Modified:# # Manual grab to file then read in.# # Now you can use a grabber that is not supported by Mythtv# # # # Below are some variables that can be edited to you liking. # # Make sure you set your GRABOPTIONS correctly!# # NOTE: Some grabbers do not support the same arguments that # # I used, please check this for your one. # # Mythbackend settings; usually these will do fine. BACKEND_HOST=localhost STATUSPORT=6544 # Number of days in the guide that should be filled TOTAL_DAYS=7 # XMLTV Data File XMLTV_DATA_FILE=/home/mythtv/xmltv_data/data.xml # XMLTV Config File XMLTV_CONFIG_FILE=/home/mythtv/.xmltv/tv_grab_ch.conf # XMLTV Grabber GRABBER=tv_grab_ch # date DATE=`date` ### # Do not edit below this line # ### echo -e Fill-EPG-Script START: $DATE\nUser (whoami): `whoami` OFFSET=$(wget http://$BACKEND_HOST:$STATUSPORT -qO /dev/stdout | \ grep guide data until | grep -o ([0-9]* | tr -d () echo Offset (read out): $OFFSET if [ -n $1 ] then OFFSET=0 fi if (( $OFFSET )) then TO_GRAB=$(($TOTAL_DAYS - $OFFSET)) else OFFSET=0 TO_GRAB=$TOTAL_DAYS echo No Offset or manual run fi echo Will grab $TO_GRAB days. if (( $TO_GRAB 0 )) then echo $GRABBER --config-file $XMLTV_CONFIG_FILE --days $TO_GRAB\ --offset $OFFSET --output $XMLTV_DATA_FILE $GRABBER --config-file $XMLTV_CONFIG_FILE --days $TO_GRAB\ --offset $OFFSET --output $XMLTV_DATA_FILE echo Finished grabbing fi mythfilldatabase --update --file 1 -1 $XMLTV_DATA_FILE echo Finished. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Sound drops out during HDTV programming
I am having almost the same problem - seems to be isolated to the channels with weaker reception, but not always. VERY similar setup - Athlon XP 2900+, HD-3000, playback via an FX5200 or FX5500 depending on the front-end. Analog audio output. I've had this problem on and off for the last few months, but for some reason seemed to be worse with the recordings last night. That's why I'm on here searching for a solution. Rob ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Howto to configure jack or arts in mythfrontend
Hi, have it running. If any other person will try jack in combination with mythtv, only do the following: 1. start jackd 2. Go into your mythfrontend in the general configuration. There you need to put a JACK: in the audiodevice. 3. Now try to view a tv show or video. You should be able to enjoy the sound now :-). Cheers, Michael Michael Obster wrote: Hi everybody, can anybody tell me how I can configure jack or arts in my mythfrontend? To the doc writers: The documention doesn't capture that topic yet. (Only the point that you should disable such deamons, because otherwise the alsa devices are not accessible, but that was the time before arts and jack plugins were in mythtv I think...) To get closer to my problem, I will give you some output I get. First of all mythtv is compiled only with arts and jack support (no alsa, no oss). Starting jack with jackd -d alsa -S -d hw:0,0 gives: [...] creating alsa driver ... hw:0,0|hw:0,0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|16bit control device hw:0 configuring for 48000Hz, period = 1024 frames, buffer = 2 periods Starting mythfrontend with configured audiodevice JACK:hw0,0 result in looping: 2006-01-15 13:50:46.268 Error opening audio device (hw:0,0), the error num was: 7 hw:0,0: Illegal seek 2006-01-15 13:50:46.275 Error opening audio device (hw:0,0), Port not found. hw:0,0: Illegal seek Both started as root! Anybody here who can give me a hint? Second topic arts: Which device name comes after ARTS:...? I only get this by reading the sourcecode (so also a point for documentation). Cheers, Michael ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Logrotate settings for mythbackend.log?
Robert Tsai wrote: You could try running manually: logrotate -d -v -s /var/lib/logrotate/status logrotate.conf and it will tell you why it thinks something doesn't need to be rotated. Substitute /var/lib/logrotate/status (breezy) with the path to your distribution's system logrotate.status file. Very nice! I'll give that a try; thanks! -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] More on Short report on Xorg 6.9.0
- The CPU usage for LiveTV went from about 40% to 80%. This puzzles me as I thought that XV working would bring that usage down, not up??? Did some more testing on this and sure enough: Disabling XV made the CPU peak at 100% without really doing a good job; Stuttering in both Audio and Video. In other words it seems like 6.9.0 needs about twice as much CPU cycles to do the same jobs. Not good. My CPU is an Athlon 2000+. Dag ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Unpredictable Skip/Fast Forward/Rewind behavior
Ashley Bostock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My database is fine too, I have a frontend+backend machine which is fine for ffwd (running linux) its just on the additional mac frontend where I see the issue. It's beginning to sound like a Mac-only issue. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC, GF6200, FC4, and a black screen....
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 03:23 -0700, Blammo wrote: Any secrets to getting a 6200 happy with XvMC under FC4? Pulled out a working-for-more-than-a-year-GF5200 from a frontend, replaced it with a 6200. Unfortunately the GeForce 6xxx 7xxx cards don't provide very good XVideo support. I have a GeForce 6200 sitting in my box of forgotten electronics for this reason. I believe they want us to write OpenGL shader programs for doing video decompression, color conversion and scaling. No one has volunteered to write such a beast for MythTV yet. My 6200 was supposed to upgrade a 5200 so I could drive a new monitor, but I ended up upgrading to an old 5800 instead, it works much better with video than the 6200 and it can drive my new DVI monitor too. -- Daniel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DVB-T LiveTV not working since update to SVN
I was experiencing the dreaded prebuffering pause problems with 0.18.1 so after talking with a couple of other guys in the #mythtv-users IRC channel I updated to SVN 8577. If this means I should go to the dev list, please let me know. You picked a bad version. See ticket #1013. 8573 broke DVB because of locking around the avcodec_open calls. This was temporarily fixed in 8586, then 8590 rebroke it and was refixed in 8604 I believe. http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/1013 You should update to at least 8604. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] 350/500 setup. Tuner #3 cannot tune about 60 or so.
Thanks. I'll be waiting for the released version. I'm taking no chances with the premier of 24 on tonight. :) The fact that it's the third tuner (so rarely used except for live tv), I think I can wait. Stewart Larsen It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. ~ Ben Franklin Hackers do for love what others wouldn't do for money. If you think technology will solve your security problems, you don't understand the technology and you don't understand the problems. ~Bruce Schneier Joe Votour wrote: --- Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stewart wrote: I had my myth box set up with a 350 card, using the 350's TV output and all was well. I added a 50 card yesterday and everything appears to work well, but the second tuner on the 500 is having issues when tuning channels above 56. 56 comes in fine, but channels 57-60 all tune to a nasty garbled Channel 57, and anything above that is really bad. Wrong tuner defintion... options ivtv ivtv_std=1 tuner=57,57,57 Something you never need to specify... Jan 14 16:57:41 mythtv kernel: ivtv1: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card (cx23416 based) ... Jan 14 16:57:41 mythtv kernel: tveeprom: tuner = Samsung TCPN 2121P30A (idx = 87, ... Jan 14 16:57:41 mythtv kernel: ivtv2: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card (cx23416 based) ... Jan 14 16:57:41 mythtv kernel: tveeprom: tuner = Samsung TCPN 2121P30A (idx = 87, type = 4) http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/166976#166976 My offer to Dan is hereby extended to you... (Dan didn't take me up on it.) Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Looks like (b) and (c) have been done, therefore (d) is no longer necessary. :) The ivtv 0.4.2 SVN apparently has support for the Samsung TCPN 2121P30A tuner. I don't have one of the Samsung tuners, but I am running a checkout of ivtv 0.4.2 SVN from about a week ago for a fix for the PVR-350 audio dropouts. Looks like Hans wants to release 0.4.2 soon, so if you're not comfortable with running SVN, then it should only be a week or so before it is released (hopefully). -- Joe __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OS X MythFrontend 0.18.1 with plugins
Jeremy McDermond wrote: If anyone is interested, I have compiled a version of SVN 8602 for Mac and packaged it up. It was tested on a G5 tower with a completely fresh load of OSX without any development environment against an SVN 8602 backend on Linux. Let me know if you have any troubles, although the school term has started and my time to help you out may be limited. It's available at: http://www.xenotropic.com/index.php? option=com_remositoryItemid=33func=fileinfofilecatid=27parent=catego ry I had to change line 983 of osx-packager.pl to read: next if ($file =~ m,/Versions/A/\Q$dep\E,); where it reads next if ($file =~ m,/Versions/A/$dep,); in the original out of SVN. You need to escape the $dep so that it doesn't interpret characters in the variable as a part of the regular expression. Namely there's a C++ library in there, so libstdc++ (or whatever it is) is a screwy regexp that won't compile. I think this is the right fix, but I haven't tested it extensively. It just could screw up the entire regexp and it works because it's evaluating $dep as a literal, but I haven't had much time to look at it. If some other perl guru has a chance to look at it, that'd be cool. Hey, buddy. That installed like butter! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DVB-T LiveTV not working since update to SVN
Hi Chris et al, I was experiencing the dreaded prebuffering pause problems with 0.18.1 so after talking with a couple of other guys in the #mythtv-users IRC channel I updated to SVN 8577. If this means I should go to the dev list, please let me know. You picked a bad version. See ticket #1013. 8573 broke DVB because of locking around the avcodec_open calls. This was temporarily fixed in 8586, then 8590 rebroke it and was refixed in 8604 I believe. http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/1013 You should update to at least 8604. Thanks for that - it's currently building a new checkout as I write this as that was one of my first guesses, but one of the most time consuming in terms of fixing (Epias don't build very fast :-) -- Daniel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] programs that are scheduled a minute early/run a minute late
It seems that the networks (most likely in an effort to thwart us time-shifting, commercial-skipping content thieves) are scheduling programs to start and/or end a minute early/late. For example, on 1/26 at 9:59PM, ER is scheduled to air. It will only be recorded of course if there is not something scheduled in the 9-10 timeslot. This can be dealt with easily enough (manually) simply by scheduling the 9-10 program to stop recording a minute early. It's a pain to have to watch the scheduled programs list for this kind of situation however. What about a feature in mythtv to always end a recording early if a conflict overlap is within some allowed time? So I could set mine to 1 minute and if the scheduler ever sees a time overlap of a minute or less, it will schedule the preceding program a minute early. I suppose one could/should also be able to choose to start the subsequent program late, allowing the previous program to complete. Or maybe even split the difference. Whatever. I just know that having to do this manually is less than optimal. Thots? b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Controlling multiple GI-2200 cable boxes via lirc
Hello,I've got a myth system I've been running successfully for a few days now with a single PVR-150 capture card in it, and I'm looking to install a PVR-500 alongside it so that I can record 2 shows and still watch live tv. Currently I'm using an IR blaster from www.irblaster.info and their configuration instructions for using an external cable box, which coincidentally uses the same programming as my GI-2200.I'm wondering what my best option is for controlling 3 GI-2200 boxes with one or two IR blasters? I've noticed that on the irblaster.info site that he has a 4-LED IR blaster on one serial wire available as well as a 2-LED blaster. Does anyone have any experience trying to control multiple 2200's (or equivalent) with one serial cable? I've seen reference on a few sites re: satellite boxes that can do this if they are programmed to receive alternate IR commands, but I doubt that will work on my older cable boxes... Thanks in advance!~Drew, the annoying Linux newbie. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] programs that are scheduled a minute early/run a minute late
It seems that the networks (most likely in an effort to thwart ustime-shifting, commercial-skipping content thieves) are scheduling programs to start and/or end a minute early/late.For example, on 1/26at 9:59PM, ER is scheduled to air.It will only be recorded of courseif there is not something scheduled in the 9-10 timeslot.This can be dealt with easily enough (manually) simply by scheduling the 9-10 program to stop recording a minute early.It's a pain to have towatch the scheduled programs list for this kind of situation however.What about a feature in mythtv to always end a recording early if a conflict overlap is within some allowed time?So I could set mine to 1minute and if the scheduler ever sees a time overlap of a minute orless, it will schedule the preceding program a minute early.I suppose one could/should also be able to choose to start the subsequent program late, allowing the previous program to complete.Ormaybe even split the difference.Whatever.I just know that having todo this manually is less than optimal. I would definitely prefer to have the following program start one minute later. I would rather miss the start of a program than the end. Unfortunately I do not have the time to implement such a feature... Niels Dybdahl ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] 1080i Mitsubishi WS-48311
I have the WS-48313 with the followingModeline 1920x1080 74.250 1920 2008 2052 2200 1080 1084 1094 1124 interlace +hsync +vsyncI had to add the followingHorizSync 15-75which overrulled the EDID so I had to use Option UseEdidFreqs FALSEas well.I do have about a 5% overscan as well, but I have changed the mythtv gui to be 1820 x 1000 with an X displacement of 100 and y displacement of 80 to make everything fit -NickOn 1/14/06, Andy Alsup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a WS-55513 and I used this for 1080 on DVI with a 5200.Ithink it came from Jarod's setup guide.Overscan is still 5%, but I'm content that it works.ModeLine in1080i 74.5 1760 1888 2096 2208 960 1012 1028 1126 -hsync -vsync interlace___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] programs that are scheduled a minute early/run a minute late
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 17:33 +0100, Niels Dybdahl wrote: I would definitely prefer to have the following program start one minute later. I would rather miss the start of a program than the end. Seriously? Considering the last few minutes of every program are just credits and/or advertisement for what's on next? Unfortunately I do not have the time to implement such a feature... Heh. Me neither. :-( b. -- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server. Brian J. Murrell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] OSD isthmus makeover
For some reason I do not get the channel number or the channel name in the lower left hand corner like you do. I am using the latest cvs and fc4. Any ideas? Also, if you need more info please let me know. Thanks in advance. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] lyngsat-logo channel scanner
because your search algorithm doesn't match about 30% of my channels. It's a simple fuzzy match based on the name of the logo. If it doesn't find a match Hit F and try entering your own Yup! You have to do it, it's not always going to match (or even display a correct option). I just wanted to say Greg have done an amazing job! I always wanted to try fuzzy logic on something, but never had a good candidate. There always was a simpler way. As for lyngsat and dish customers, on lyngsat.com there are pages that list the channels by satellites, like 110,119 and 61. Here's an example http://www.lyngsat.com/packages/dish61.html Please note that the page references all the icons from lyngsat-logo.com. If one just needs small icons, everything could be gathered from those pages. No need to match call signs or anything like this. Channel numbers are there to rescue. Now the fun part, the big logos have the same file name but different location and extension. If one wants the logos instead of icons, all that needs to be done is to replace /icon/ with /logo/ and change the file extension into jpg. I wrote a small java program to verify the idea and it worked for me. I've put it on the web here http://web.tampabay.rr.com/abaiko/mythlyng.zip The program needs Java 1.5 to run. mysql connector is included, just unpack the zip into a folder on your frontend and run it something like this: java -jar mythlyng.jar -v It should locate your mysql.txt file, connect to the server and list your video sources. Once you know which source corresponds to which satellite, run it like this: java -jar mythlyng.jar -d dish110 -s 1 repeat for other sources if desired. Switch -b switches between icons and logos. Logos are on by default. SY Alex ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb shuts down my machine
mike choy wrote: Any one know why my machine should shutdown as soon as I access mythweb from a remote machine. The programmme guide does get displayed, and then down she goes. SUSE 10.0 running 0.18.1 I do have a shut down script installed on inactivity, and maybe this is being triggered. I'm not convinced because I dont get a warning message. Mike C ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Update It does look like mythweb is activating my shutdown script. The backend thinks that the front end has started, but is not active, so starts a shutdown sequence. Mike C ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Is anyone successfully using a Pioneer DVR-110D to burn from mythburn?
Folks: I won't waste bandwidth chronicling all the twists and turns here, but I am having a very difficult time getting a Pioneer DVR-110D drive to burn using mkisofs. A quick recap: 1) Yes, DMA is enabled and working. Transfer mode preferred by my setup is UDMA4, but changing to SDMA makes no difference. 1a) Yes, there's an 80-wire cable on the drive. 2) Yes, cdrtools is up-to-the-bleeding-edge and built from source on my machine. 3) Trying different media (Fujifilm DVD-RW and Maxell DVD-R) does produce different results. I can get a burn to complete on the Maxells by throttling the speed down (via speed=1 to growisofs), but it won't burn full speed. The DVD-RWs always fail at the same place, around 33% of the way through. 4) Size does not matter -- a 1 hr. show or a 7-minute manual grab behaves as badly as a (requanted) 2-hour movie. I can post long logfiles and specific errors if anyone thinks it'll help them. All the best, Tb. -- _ Thomas R. Bruce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Director,Legal Information Institute Cornell Law School http://www.law.cornell.edu ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Unpredictable Skip/Fast Forward/Rewind behavior
David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ashley Bostock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My database is fine too, I have a frontend+backend machine which is fine for ffwd (running linux) its just on the additional mac frontend where I see the issue. It's beginning to sound like a Mac-only issue. Incidentally, I went crawling through the code to try to understand what's going on, but this particular area is uncommented and completely inscrutable, at least to me. Can any Myth developers who've worked on this code help? -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Mythbackend can't connect to database
I have started configuring mythtv according to the instructions in http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythInstall, but I'm stuck at starting mythbackend; I get this error: QSqlDatabase: QMYSQL3 driver not loaded QSqlDatabase: available drivers: 2006-01-15 18:52:14.743 New DB connection, total: 1 2006-01-15 18:52:14.744 Unable to connect to database! 2006-01-15 18:52:14.747 No error type from QSqlError? Strange... 2006-01-15 18:52:14.747 Failed to init MythContext, exiting. Where do I get this driver? This is my setup, if needed: Gentoo linux, kernel 2.6.15-rc5, mysql: Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.18, mythtv 0.18.1-rc2, qt 3.3.4-r8. /jan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythbackend can't connect to database
On 1/15/06, jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have started configuring mythtv according to the instructions inhttp://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythInstall, but I'm stuck atstarting mythbackend; I get this error: QSqlDatabase: QMYSQL3 driver not loadedQSqlDatabase: available drivers:2006-01-15 18:52:14.743 New DB connection, total: 12006-01-15 18:52:14.744 Unable to connect to database!2006-01-15 18:52:14.747 No error type from QSqlError?Strange...2006-01-15 18:52:14.747 Failed to init MythContext, exiting.Where do I get this driver?You need to re-emerge qt with mysql set in the USE flags. Carl Fongheiser ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up an FAQ for LiveTV changes
Jens Baumeister wrote: Hi, since the LiveTV changes seem to lead to questions again and again (and sometimes to flamewars), I volunteer to write an FAQ about it. However, while I do know how things are currently working, I'm not 100% sure about the planned state for the 0.19 release. (Esp. from the user perspective: What setting are planned, etc.) I'd be grateful for any pointers to resources (bug tickets, list threads) I can mine for further information. That way, we'd have a single place to point people to when the question comes up again. Jens ___ You mean besides the archives at gossamer-threads for the -users, -dev, and -commit lists? Tom ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Project Grayhem Wide weird font size issue...
On 1/12/06, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 12 January 2006 12:58, Justin Hornsby wrote: 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 shows it setting DPI to 100... ughh. thanks, Steve Well 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/fontsize adjust 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/buttonarea Where 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.Tahoma! that was it, installed it and now my screen fonts are fixed. I'dsuggest mentioning this on your web page since many people may not have itinstalled as its not one of the default fonts with X. Hmm... I'm sitting in very much the same situation as you were, only having installed the font from an rpm I found on the net things havent changed. I was just wondering where the font was stored on your system since it fixed the issue - the rpm I installed threw Tahoma and the other 'Microsoft' fonts in /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/ (I'm running FC4 btw). Cheers,/drdaz ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Turtle Beach/CM8738 Live TV Sound Not Working
(Fedora Core 4) -Sound works with Mythmusic and recorded shows. -I have an .asounrc file in /home/mythtv which is suitable to the sound card. -The audio out from my PVR350 is patched to the line in on the sound card. -I have muted and unmuted various settings in alsamixer, but haven't found that magical combination. The best I can get is some static at low volume. Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb shuts down my machine
It does look like mythweb is activating my shutdown script. The backend thinks that the front end has started, but is not active, so starts a shutdown sequence. Well, considering that mythweb is basically a frontend, that makes sense. Sounds like your script needs a little tweaking. -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] List of vendors that sell Myth boxes
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:48:01 -0800 R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My neighbor saw a Myth system at a party. He mentioned it to me. (Frontend, Backend, multiple tuners, ...) I told him I was looking into it too. But my knowledge is very superficial. He asked me ...is there a list of vendors that sell Myth boxes? Sounds like a good question. So I thought I might post it here. http://www.magicitx.com/ they have both complete systems, and kits That's where I bought my only MythTV box -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OSD isthmus makeover
On 1/16/06, Chad Delatte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason I do not get the channel number or the channel name in the lower left hand corner like you do. I am using the latest cvs and fc4. Any ideas? Also, if you need more info please let me know. Thanks in advance. Live TV or Playback? As playback doesn't show a channel number or anything in the left corner. It will merely show the program name and description info. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] 350/500 setup. Tuner #3 cannot tune about 60 or so.
Stewart wrote: Thanks. I'll be waiting for the released version. I'm taking no chances with the premier of 24 on tonight. :) The fact that it's the third tuner (so rarely used except for live tv), I think I can wait. Be very careful. Both of the PVR-150's in the 500 are identical Samsung's, so they should be acting the same. Perhaps your test setup was incorrect. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] mythfrontend laptop linux distro???
I need some opinions here please. I'd like to install a linux distro on my laptop for daily usage and for a mythfrontend. Question is what is the best suitable distro for my laptop. I tried suse in the past, but I hate all those "missing dependencies" with installing rpms. Gentoo is great (my backend is running on it), but the emerging of kde errored after compiling of a complete day!!! So not an option for me anymore. Knoppmyth is more for a cd frontend and not appropiate for my dual booted laptop I think. How's fedora nowadays. is it the same story as with the dependencies of suse? Someexperiences are welcome Regards Rick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Recorded programs don't show in Watching Records list
Daniel Savard wrote: I am having a strange problem. The programs were actually recorded in the filesystem and the database records were partially updated. When I tried to watch the programs, they didn't show in the list of recorded programs in the GUI. However, they are in the database and the files are in the filesystem. The directory entry in the settings table is correct as well. After looking in recorded table I noticed the file names were not in the basename column. So, I added them manually. The files are having the .nuv extension. I then retried to watch the programs and they still don't show up in the list. I looked again at the recorded table and noticed the filesize was not correct as well. I updated the fields manually again. Still don't show up in the list. In the oldrecorded the programs are there as well as in the recordedprogram table. So, what is going on with this? I noticed other programs are having .mpg extensions. Should I change the .nuv to .mpg in the database and in the filenames? I even ran the mythcommflag --file file_name --rebuild script which completed without errors. Any hints would be appreciated. Sounds like you have/have had multiple versions of Myth running. Did you by any chance upgrade from KnoppMyth R5A22 to either R5A26 or R5A30? Do you have a backend running a different version from a frontend? Do you have multiple frontends, perhaps with different versions? Do you have multiple installations of Myth (i.e. one in /usr and one in /usr/local)? Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] DVB subtitles fixed, thanks
Just noticed that the subtitles in DVB doesn't pop up on top of the OSD any more. Didn't see this happening in the commits but a big thanks to whoever fixed it :-)) Dag ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend laptop linux distro???
Rick van der Mieden wrote: I need some opinions here please. I'd like to install a linux distro on my laptop for daily usage and for a mythfrontend. Question is what is the best suitable distro for my laptop. I tried suse in the past, but I hate all those missing dependencies with installing rpms. Gentoo is great (my backend is running on it), but the emerging of kde errored after compiling of a complete day!!! So not an option for me anymore. Knoppmyth is more for a cd frontend and not appropiate for my dual booted laptop I think. How's fedora nowadays. is it the same story as with the dependencies of suse? Some experiences are welcome Regards Rick consider Ubuntu - great distro with no real dep problems and is good as both a desktop os and for running frontend (I run both backend and frontends on my network here) hth Craig ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend laptop linux distro???
I need some opinions here please. I'd like to install a linux distro on my laptop for daily usage and for a mythfrontend. Question is what is the best suitable distro for my laptop. I tried suse in the past, but I hate all those missing dependencies with installing rpms. Gentoo is great (my backend is running on it), but the emerging of kde errored after compiling of a complete day!!! So not an option for me anymore. Knoppmyth is more for a cd frontend and not appropiate for my dual booted laptop I think. How's fedora nowadays. is it the same story as with the dependencies of suse? Some experiences are welcome Regards Rick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users My personal fav is linuxfromscratch, you make the system to exactly how you want it. I would steer clear of RH based distro's (centos, mandrake,suse etc) and probably go for debian is i HAD to use a distro Stuart -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] DVB Tuning
Hello, I have installed MythTV and everything appears to work well when using the standard v4l drivers with my PCHDTV 3000 card. When I scan for channels using the DVB drivers and the QAM256 option, I see that some of the channels lock but when I try to view, I get nothing. I'm in Atlanta with Comcast cable and I'm scanning directly through the cable ... no cable box in the mix. I've tried a few different variations to no avail. I've even downloaded the dvb-apps from linuxtv and tried to do it manually with even worse results. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Thomas ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Nearly 100% install of MYTHYV...
I've just finished trying to iron out a mythtv install here in my house. I've got it all running as smooth as silk, save one single problem I am unable to start the mythbackend server via it's startup script. During restart or from a command line, executing the startup script on my gentoo server, /etc/init.d/mythbackend start results in normal output, but the backend shuts down almost immediately. There's no error messages in dmesg, messages or even mythbackend.log... The script executes normally, it's just that mythbackend shuts down Now... if I run the backend server from the commandline like a normal program with: mythbackend --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log --pidfile /var/run/mythbackend.pid --daemon --verbose all The backend server stays up and everything operates normally. The parameters are the same as provided in the startup script... nothing changed. Anyone have a clue where to start looking Thank you, in advance, Jerry McBride ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up an FAQ for LiveTV changes
On 1/16/06, Tom E. Craddock Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jens Baumeister wrote: since the LiveTV changes seem to lead to questions again and again (and sometimes to flamewars), I volunteer to write an FAQ about it.You mean besides the archives at gossamer-threads for the -users, -dev, and -commit lists?Actually, I wouldn't minding seeing this, or even a more overarching document addressing the general state of SVN for those who aren't avidly tracking myth development. True, all the information is out there on the mailing list and trac for you to find, but the problem is you actually need to be explicitly searching for it (or trawl through a LOT of information). LiveTV is one of the more obvious things to check up on, but issues such as recordings not being saved, transcoding acting up, obscure behaviour with scheduling and recording profiles (all recent or ongoing svn issues that have left a few scratching their heads) are a little harder to anticipate. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Setting up an FAQ for LiveTV changes
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:21:16 -0500 From: Tom E. Craddock Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jens Baumeister wrote: Hi, since the LiveTV changes seem to lead to questions again and again (and sometimes to flamewars), I volunteer to write an FAQ about it. However, while I do know how things are currently working, I'm not 100% sure about the planned state for the 0.19 release. (Esp. from the user perspective: What setting are planned, etc.) I'd be grateful for any pointers to resources (bug tickets, list threads) I can mine for further information. That way, we'd have a single place to point people to when the question comes up again. Jens You mean besides the archives at gossamer-threads for the -users, -dev, and -commit lists? [Someone's volunteering to make the documentation better, and you're actively trying to discourage him? Why? Not to mention that this sort of documentation has to be written -sometime- as part of a user manual, right? Presumably the end state is for the way LiveTV operates to be documented somewhere, the proposed FAQ would be a good start at getting that written.] In any event---yes, in addition to the archives. Searching archives is a poor substitute for organized information in a central place. The archives are huge (2400 messages/month! 14 meg/month!); poorly organized (threads often wander); and invariably contain large amounts of outdated information---by definition, most of it is old. Further, it's never clear from any given message whether some later message might obsolete it---and it's often hard to tell, since it's very hard to prove a negative, e.g., that there -isn't- some other message/ thread that, if only you'd used a slightly different search term, you'd have found. People who don't also subscribe to all the lists may not know that there's been a discussion about something, hence won't know if they've used the wrong search term and failed to find it. Finally, even if you succeed in all that, searching through archives is very time consuming compared to just reading a web page---and the web page could have author(s) and a modification-date and a here are exactly the versions we're talking about and not these other versions over here and all sorts of other contextual data that would make using the information a whole lot easier. If information changes that obsoletes a wiki page, it's likely someone will update it. If an old thread gets obsoleted, it will -never- get updated, but it won't be obvious where the new information is. And regardless of whether you think that the information is theoretically available in the archives, it clearly isn't available enough in practice, or we wouldn't have exactly the problem that Jens is trying to solve---namely that the list is full of people asking the same questions about LiveTV over and over. That stuff is clearly already in the archives, and clearly not being found. He's proposing to save everybody a lot of time (the questioners, the answerers, those who read the list and have to wade past the same questions a lot), and I'd think that anyone who's offering to do this should be showered with candy and flowers, not made to justify his actions for a situation that's obviously chewing up peoples' time and leading to flamewars and hard feelings. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up an FAQ for LiveTV changes
On 1/15/06, Tom E. Craddock Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jens Baumeister wrote: I'd be grateful for any pointers to resources (bug tickets, list threads) I can mine for further information. You mean besides the archives at gossamer-threads for the -users, -dev, and -commit lists? Since I'm explicitly doing this for public documentation , I don't think it's impolite to ask those in the community for a few pointers where to start. I thought somebody on the list might remember a useful thread or commit they read and give me a pointer like search for keyword xyz, because such a hint could speed up searching a bit. (E.g.: Perhaps there's a mail or a commit somewhere with a list of proposed Live TV features.) Feel free to ignore me if you can't or don't want to help me gathering info, but don't treat me like a Newbie barging in and demanding: I broke my mythbox, fix it for me NOW!, because I'm not doing this for myself - it's my way of trying to give a bit back to the community. Jens ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up an FAQ for LiveTV changes
Jens Baumeister wrote: since the LiveTV changes seem to lead to questions again and again (and sometimes to flamewars), I volunteer to write an FAQ about it. However, while I do know how things are currently working, I'm not 100% sure about the planned state for the 0.19 release. (Esp. from the user perspective: What setting are planned, etc.) I'd be grateful for any pointers to resources (bug tickets, list threads) I can mine for further information. That way, we'd have a single place to point people to when the question comes up again. I'll throw out a couple of topics that should probably be discussed and see if it gets the ball rolling. Others, please add topics and/or references I forgot. (Since Jens is going to the trouble of writing up the info, we might as well help him find all of it. Doing so should be much easier than answering the same question 50 times on the list. :) Definitely should discuss things like: - playgroups (not really a LiveTV thing, but something else that's likely to confuse people moving to 0.19) http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/7965 - the user can actually save the entire program (not just from the point he/she presses R--at least the part of the program that the user has watched in LiveTV) http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/786 - there is no longer a directory set aside for LiveTV (so people using a separate partition for LiveTV will no longer use the LiveTV partitions or will have to re-configure their systems). http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/7780 - *all* shows the user sees in LiveTV are separate recordings. Therefore, if the user watches LiveTV through a show change, there will be 2 recordings created. Also, if the user channel surfs, he/she may create hundreds of LiveTV files. And, most importantly, the fact that this is nothing to worry about. - all LiveTV recordings are put in the LiveTV recording group http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/7854 - setting to show or hide LiveTV recordings in All Recordings (by default hidden) http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/8047 and for MythWeb http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/8611 - autoexpire (no longer a system-wide setting option; it's always enabled, however--as always--you can specify autoexpire settings on a per-recording basis) -- short LiveTV recordings (less than 2 minutes) and their autoexpire policy -- long LiveTV recordings (more than 2 minutes) and their autoexpire policy http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/7863 and http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/8047 - disk usage by LiveTV available in the autoexpire list http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/8609 - how to save a LiveTV recording (during LiveTV with R, and after the fact change recording group (and autoexpire setting?)) - references? - how to manually delete LiveTV recordings (and a note that there's no reason to do this--but telling people how will probably prevent a lot of arguments) http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/163500#163500 - if you jump back to the previous program in LiveTV, it goes to 5 seconds before the end and short recordings may have been autoexpired, so you may not see the channel surfs http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/7838 and http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/7866 - LiveTV recordings do not count towards Max Episodes count http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/7863 - If there's no program data, Myth will create programs that end every half hour or at the beginning of the next program http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/7923 - the fact that MythTV can record things on a schedule so you never have to watch LiveTV ;) That's all I can think of that users need to know (and a few things they don't need to know but might think they need to know). Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Nearly 100% install of MYTHYV...
On 1/15/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am unable to start the mythbackend server via it's startup script. During restart or from a command line, executing the startup script on my gentoo server, /etc/init.d/mythbackend start results in normal output, but the backend shuts down almost immediately. What exactly is in your /etc/init.d/mythbackend script? Have your tried running 'strace -o /tmp/mythbackend.out /etc/init.d/mythbackend start' and figuring out where the error is? -Ross ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Oops, sorry (was: Setting up an FAQ for LiveTV changes)
On 1/15/06, Jens Baumeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/15/06, Tom E. Craddock Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feel free to ignore me if you can't or don't want to help me gathering info, but don't treat me like a Newbie Sorry Tom and everybody, I misread that mail - I'm tired, stressed out and not a native speaker, so I thought Tom was mocking me for asking for pointers when he was just wondering whether documentation is necessary. As for that: Like I said, it's my way of giving something back to the community. So please, ignore my ranting - I'll go and have a good night's rest now. *Reminds himself to re-read mails before answering them next time around...* Sorry again. Jens ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Internal player stability issues with PVR-350
Hello, I'm new to mythtv. I re-used an older system with the addition of a PVR-350. It has worked pretty flawlessly, and I'm very impressed with the quality of the software. Since I have a PVR-350 with mpeg2 hardware decoding, I've been trying to convert my VHS tapes to mpeg2 files to use the Internal player to make use of the hardware decoder. On another system, I use my DV camera to capture VHS, then I use transcode to transcode to 352x480 mpeg2. When I play it in mythvideo using the Internal player, it more or less plays fine, but occasionally will lock up the system, particularly when doing rew/ff. I see the following msgs in syslog: Jan 14 23:58:07 mythtv kernel: ivtv0 warning: 1000 ms time out waiting for firmware Jan 14 23:58:07 mythtv kernel: ivtv0 warning: Failed api call 0x0003 with result 0xfff0 Jan 14 23:58:07 mythtv kernel: ivtv0 warning: DEC: error changing speed Jan 14 23:58:07 mythtv kernel: ivtv0 warning: DEC: error in slow/fast mode Jan 14 23:58:15 mythtv kernel: ivtv0 warning: 1000 ms time out waiting for firmware Jan 14 23:58:15 mythtv kernel: ivtv0 warning: Failed api call 0x0044 with result 0xfff0 Jan 14 23:58:23 mythtv kernel: ivtv0 warning: 1000 ms time out waiting for firmware Jan 14 23:58:23 mythtv kernel: ivtv0 warning: Failed api call 0x004a with result 0xfff0 Jan 14 23:58:31 mythtv kernel: ivtv0 warning: 1000 ms time out waiting for firmware ... Since I haven't had one issue with playback of myth recorded mpeg2, I am wondering if there is a special resolution/bitrate/etc that I need to follow in order for the internal player to work on misc mpeg2 video? Or is this something I need to ask the ivtv developers as well? Thanks Jason ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Nearly 100% install of MYTHYV...
On Sunday 15 January 2006 16:56, Ross Campbell wrote:
On 1/15/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am unable to start the mythbackend server via it's startup script.
During restart or from a command line, executing the startup script on my
gentoo server, /etc/init.d/mythbackend start results in normal output,
but the backend shuts down almost immediately.
What exactly is in your /etc/init.d/mythbackend script?
Here's the script:
#!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-tv/mythtv/files/0.18-mythbackend.rc,v
1.3 2005/05/22 22:43:19 cardoe Exp $
depend() {
need net
use mysql
}
checkconfig() {
if [ ${MYTH_USER} != root ]; then
for i in $(groups ${MYTH_USER/:*/}) ; do
[[ ${i} == audio ]] audio=yes
[[ ${i} == video ]] video=yes
done
if [ -z ${audio} -o -z ${video} ] ; then
ewarn
[[ -z ${audio} ]] \
ewarn ${HILITE}${MYTH_USER/:*/}${NORMAL} is not in the
audio group
[[ -z ${video} ]] \
ewarn ${HILITE}${MYTH_USER/:*/}${NORMAL} is not in the
video group
ewarn
ewarn insufficient permissions discovered
ewarn mythbackend may not start correctly
ewarn
fi
fi
}
start() {
[[ -z ${MYTH_USER} ]] MYTH_USER=nobody
[[ -z ${MYTH_NICE} ]] MYTH_NICE=0
[[ -z ${MYTH_VERBOSE} ]] MYTH_VERBOSE=none
checkconfig
HOME=/var/log/mythtv/
QTDIR=/usr/qt/3
# Work around any strange permissions that may be on these files.
chown -R ${MYTH_USER} /var/log/mythtv/
ebegin Starting MythTV Backend
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --chuid ${MYTH_USER} \
--exec /usr/bin/mythbackend --nicelevel ${MYTH_NICE} \
--make-pidfile --pidfile /var/run/mythbackend.pid \
--background -- --verbose ${MYTH_VERBOSE} \
--logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log
eend $?
}
stop () {
ebegin Stopping MythTV Backend
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile=/var/run/mythbackend.pid
eend $?
}
# end of script
Have your tried running 'strace -o /tmp/mythbackend.out
/etc/init.d/mythbackend start' and figuring out where the error is?
No, I haven't until just now. Running your suggestion gives me a trace of the
start-and-stop daemon which isn[t of much help. Changing the script to
eliminate the start-and-stop nonsense and just having mythbackend execute
under strace... it shows in the last few lines no setting found for this
machine... run setup... Which doesn't make sense to me, because it finds the
mysql database just fine when mythbackend is executed from a commandline.
Hmmm I've got a basic configuration problem with my Gentoo server.
Wow... where do I start?
Thanks for your help, Ross... at least I'm onto a thread...
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Re: [mythtv-users] Oops, sorry (was: Setting up an FAQ for LiveTV changes)
On 1/15/06, Jens Baumeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/15/06, Jens Baumeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/15/06, Tom E. Craddock Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feel free to ignore me if you can't or don't want to help me gathering info, but don't treat me like a NewbieSorry Tom and everybody, I misread that mail - I'm tired, stressed outand not a native speaker, so I thought Tom was mocking me for asking for pointers when he was just wondering whether documentation isnecessary. As for that: Like I said, it's my way of giving somethingback to the community.So please, ignore my ranting - I'll go and have a good night's rest now. *Reminds himself to re-read mails before answering them next time around...*Actually, you're not the only one who read it that way.../drdaz ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Trouble installing lirc on FC4 (lirc-kmdl-2.6.14-1.1653_FC4)
Hello I am using Jarod Wilson's Myth install guide for FC4. Everything works OK except for lirc. I believe the problem is that there is not a packge for lirc built for my kernel version. I am somewhat new to linux(long time computer user...just not Linux). So I may be off base. Anyways, when I try # yum install lirc-kmdl-$KVER I see no match for argument lirc-kmdl-2.6.14-1.1653_FC4. I did a lot of googling and searching but could not find the answer. I also tried installing lirc 0.7.2 from lirc.org but when I tried to compile I received an error that my kernel sources were missing. I am a bit over my head here and looking for some knowledgeable advice. Thanks in advance for any help. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Nearly 100% install of MYTHYV...
On my slave backend, which does not run mysql, the script also failed. Not sure if this is the same situation you are in, but it is very easy to create your own init script, since you've already discovered that mythbackend runs fine from a command line. The Gentoo install docs a pretty clear on how to create your own. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jerry McBride Sent: Sun 1/15/2006 2:47 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: [mythtv-users] Nearly 100% install of MYTHYV... I've just finished trying to iron out a mythtv install here in my house. I've got it all running as smooth as silk, save one single problem I am unable to start the mythbackend server via it's startup script. During restart or from a command line, executing the startup script on my gentoo server, /etc/init.d/mythbackend start results in normal output, but the backend shuts down almost immediately. There's no error messages in dmesg, messages or even mythbackend.log... The script executes normally, it's just that mythbackend shuts down Now... if I run the backend server from the commandline like a normal program with: mythbackend --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log --pidfile /var/run/mythbackend.pid --daemon --verbose all The backend server stays up and everything operates normally. The parameters are the same as provided in the startup script... nothing changed. Anyone have a clue where to start looking Thank you, in advance, Jerry McBride ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend laptop linux distro???
I've got two laptops that run Fedora 4 and Knoppix. By far the better of the two on the frontend duties is the Knoppix box... but that's a more powerful machine. My Fedora laptop is actually only a PIII-class CPU (500Mhz), but with a nice trim config (XFCE instead of one of the heavy WM's) the performance is more than acceptable. Runs Myth playback pretty well for SD, but for HD I wouldn't even attempt it. Depends a lot on what kind of stuff you're going to do with it. I use my laptop primarily for "Office-type" applications; Email, Web, word processing etc... I only really use Myth on my laptops for editing video (creating cutlists, not cutting video). From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick van der MiedenSent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 3:04 PMTo: 'Discussion about mythtv'Subject: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend laptop linux distro??? I need some opinions here please. I'd like to install a linux distro on my laptop for daily usage and for a mythfrontend. Question is what is the best suitable distro for my laptop. I tried suse in the past, but I hate all those "missing dependencies" with installing rpms. Gentoo is great (my backend is running on it), but the emerging of kde errored after compiling of a complete day!!! So not an option for me anymore. Knoppmyth is more for a cd frontend and not appropiate for my dual booted laptop I think. How's fedora nowadays. is it the same story as with the dependencies of suse? Someexperiences are welcome Regards Rick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb shuts down my machine
Chris Petersen wrote: It does look like mythweb is activating my shutdown script. The backend thinks that the front end has started, but is not active, so starts a shutdown sequence. Well, considering that mythweb is basically a frontend, that makes sense. Sounds like your script needs a little tweaking. -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Thanks Chris Except that if I started a standard front end I would not expect it to kick the backend scripts until I closed the front end down. Whats different with Mythweb, that makes the backend think that its gone away even when its up? Mike C ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend laptop linux distro???
Gavin Haslett wrote: I've got two laptops that run Fedora 4 and Knoppix. By far the better of the two on the frontend duties is the Knoppix box... but that's a more powerful machine. My Fedora laptop is actually only a PIII-class CPU (500Mhz), but with a nice trim config (XFCE instead of one of the heavy WM's) the performance is more than acceptable. Runs Myth playback pretty well for SD, but for HD I wouldn't even attempt it. Depends a lot on what kind of stuff you're going to do with it. I use my laptop primarily for Office-type applications; Email, Web, word processing etc... I only really use Myth on my laptops for editing video (creating cutlists, not cutting video). *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Rick van der Mieden *Sent:* Sunday, January 15, 2006 3:04 PM *To:* 'Discussion about mythtv' *Subject:* [mythtv-users] mythfrontend laptop linux distro??? I need some opinions here please. I'd like to install a linux distro on my laptop for daily usage and for a mythfrontend. Question is what is the best suitable distro for my laptop. I tried suse in the past, but I hate all those missing dependencies with installing rpms. Gentoo is great (my backend is running on it), but the emerging of kde errored after compiling of a complete day!!! So not an option for me anymore. Knoppmyth is more for a cd frontend and not appropiate for my dual booted laptop I think. How's fedora nowadays. is it the same story as with the dependencies of suse? Some experiences are welcome Regards Rick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Suse 10 is going v nice here, dependancy issues are mainly due to not setting up your on line repositories right. get them sorted, and you will find it a doddle especially as yast gives you options to overide as needed. I moved from fedora core 4 because I found what redhat did with the build trees and source code was a bit of a pain. Sorry to plug the website but its all here. http://www.acaciaclose.co.uk Mike C ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend laptop linux distro???
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 22:04 +0100, Rick van der Mieden wrote: I need some opinions here please. I'd like to install a linux distro on my laptop for daily usage and for a mythfrontend. Question is what is the best suitable distro for my laptop. I tried suse in the past, but I hate all those missing dependencies with installing rpms. Gentoo is great (my backend is running on it), but the emerging of kde errored after compiling of a complete day!!! So not an option for me anymore. Knoppmyth is more for a cd frontend and not appropiate for my dual booted laptop I think. How's fedora nowadays. is it the same story as with the dependencies of suse? Some experiences are welcome I run Mandriva on my Compaq 1250 (1GHz mobile Athlon) with 128M RAM and use that as a MythTV frontend when in my office doing work with my desktop. No problems at all. Lonnie Borntreger ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] cut commercials only, no transcoding
On 1/15/06, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do this all from a single script without actually looking/editing the commercial points. I trust mythcommflag is doing very good job and I do detect almost all the commercials. Only one time, it deleted everything of the Lost episode after the first commercial. You wouldn't want to do it in Australia. Unfortunately mythcommflag's accuracy is not that high here. Yeah, a movie on the weekend got flagged for 10 ads, however then another show didnt get flagged much at all. Very odd, oh well, guess I manually flag them. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Trouble installing lirc on FC4 (lirc-kmdl-2.6.14-1.1653_FC4)
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 05:43:54PM -0500, Tommy Nijem wrote: Hello I am using Jarod Wilson's Myth install guide for FC4. Everything works OK except for lirc. I believe the problem is that there is not a packge for lirc built for my kernel version. I am somewhat new to linux(long time computer user...just not Linux). So I may be off base. Anyways, when I try # yum install lirc-kmdl-$KVER I see no match for argument lirc-kmdl-2.6.14-1.1653_FC4. I did a lot of googling and searching but could not find the answer. I also tried installing lirc 0.7.2 from lirc.org but when I tried to compile I received an error that my kernel sources were missing. I am a bit over my head here and looking for some knowledgeable advice. Thanks in advance for any help. set KVER to 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net pgpZZz5mGIYyq.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport and ffmpeg on Ubuntu
On 1/13/06, Chris Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: don't denoise, or use --transcode Chris, Thought I'd mention someothing else. On the weekend, I did a nuvexport (using ffmpeg as I passed no commad line arguments). And the mpg file given looked okay, but no commerical cuts were done. (this process took 24mins) So I did an nuvexport --transcode (however after about 20 hours the export still wasn't complete) Is that normal? Thanks ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport and ffmpeg on Ubuntu
So I did an nuvexport --transcode (however after about 20 hours the export still wasn't complete) Is that normal? transcode is slightly slower than ffmpeg for most stuff, significantly slower for mpeg stuff. imho, the quality from transcode is better, though. -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Nearly 100% install of MYTHYV...
On Sunday 15 January 2006 17:46, James C. Dastrup wrote: On my slave backend, which does not run mysql, the script also failed. Not sure if this is the same situation you are in, but it is very easy to create your own init script, since you've already discovered that mythbackend runs fine from a command line. The Gentoo install docs a pretty clear on how to create your own. Well here's what I figured out... if I try to start the backend server through the gentoo init scripts, it'll die each and every time I try. However, starting it from /etc/conf.d/local.start works perfectly What the? Cheers. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Compiling Mythtv on an Xbox error?
Responding to my own thread. The answer was that gcc-3.2 and g++-3.2 were not installed I also enabled memalign and the error disappeared when running ./configure. Currently the XBOX has been compiling for nearly 24 hours, this is insane! How much longer can it go Can I compile this on another box then move it back to the xbox? I found this thread with the suggestion to mount the drive but no real directions (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/103065?search_string=how%20long%20compile%20xbox;#103065 ) does anyone have any ideas? thanks, ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Mythburn / transcode error
as I try to use mythburn it always stop with the following error: transcode v0.6.14 (C) 2001-2003 Thomas Oestreich, 2003-2004 T. Bitterberg [framecode.c:549]syntax error I've tried to use many different transcode 0.6.14, 1.01, 1.02 with the same error message any idea ??? -- - Claude Gélinas agr., dta Phyto Ressources inc. == Varennes, Québec, Canada Tél.: (450) 652 9764, Fax.:(450) 652 6182 Des questions sur les insectes et maladies des plantes ornementales ? Want to know more about ornamental plant pest ? http://www.phyto.qc.ca ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] playslist for recorded tv?
in the watch recordings menu, it's possible to select a recorded program, push the right button, and then select add to playlist. does anyone know a) what this playlist is? -- I've never seen it actually activated. b) whether there's some way to manipulate the playlist more directly (e.g. change the order in which shows are viewed, etc c) escape into the playlist while viewing, etc... The playlist would be very useful for me as my kids watch shows that are 12-19 minutes long -- I'dl ike to set them up with an hour of TV in such a way that I don't have to run upstairs to the TV every 10 minutes. However, I haven't been able to use the playlist in a useful way at all. And while the docs talk about playlists for mythmusic, I don't see any such discussion for straight mythtv. failing a builtin playlist generator, anyone have any ideas for command-line playlist generation? thanks, matt --- Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] History Department, University of Toronto (416) 978-2094 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] OSD isthmus makeover
Live tv, I also get this when I start live tv. I don't know if it's related. 2006-01-15 15:32:21.633 Unknown tag bold in font 2006-01-15 15:32:21.677 Unknown tag bold in font 2006-01-15 15:32:21.846 Unknown altfont: notifygray in textarea: option1 Thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport and ffmpeg on Ubuntu
On 1/16/06, Chris Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I did an nuvexport --transcode (however after about 20 hours the export still wasn't complete) Is that normal? transcode is slightly slower than ffmpeg for most stuff, significantly slower for mpeg stuff. imho, the quality from transcode is better, though. So it will complete. Hrmm. Its just too slow, think I'd sooner not use it. Although that means at the cost of not having the cut list taken into account. It would appear the ubuntu ffmpeg build doesn't support psp, ipod nuvexport options. Not compiled with the right switches. I am coming to the conclusion that in some cases I will be better off building my own. Guess I will go do some reading. My wife is thinking of buying a PSP, so it might be handy to export into PSP format. Thanks ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OSD isthmus makeover
On 1/16/06, Chad Delatte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Live tv, I also get this when I start live tv. I don't know if it's related. 2006-01-15 15:32:21.633 Unknown tag bold in font 2006-01-15 15:32:21.677 Unknown tag bold in font 2006-01-15 15:32:21.846 Unknown altfont: notifygray in textarea: option1 You should of replied to the question I gave you, rather then do a new email. As now its not linked to the original post you made. Hopefully someone can confirm the above info means. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Nearly 100% install of MYTHYV...
On 15/01/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 15 January 2006 17:46, James C. Dastrup wrote: On my slave backend, which does not run mysql, the script also failed. Not sure if this is the same situation you are in, but it is very easy to create your own init script, since you've already discovered that mythbackend runs fine from a command line. The Gentoo install docs a pretty clear on how to create your own. Well here's what I figured out... if I try to start the backend server through the gentoo init scripts, it'll die each and every time I try. However, starting it from /etc/conf.d/local.start works perfectly What the? Hi all, When I've seem MythTV failing to start properly using init scripts I've found that sometimes there is a /.mythtv folder with an incorrectly setup mysql.txt file. During init, root's home directory can be / in addition to /root, both of which can contain a .mythtv folder containing the DB details. Fixing up the contents of the /.mythtv/mysql.txt file fixed the DB connection details which had been stopping the mythbackend from starting. Starting the process when the system had fully booted (when the user's environment was going to be /root or /home/$MYTHBACKEND_USER) would be fine because the mysql.txt files for these users were correct. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport and ffmpeg on Ubuntu
So it will complete. Hrmm. Its just too slow, think I'd sooner not use it. Although that means at the cost of not having the cut list taken into account. cutlist should work fine with ffmpeg. It would appear the ubuntu ffmpeg build doesn't support psp, ipod nuvexport options. Not compiled with the right switches. these are semi-broken in nuvexport, too.. they don't work when they should. I'm working on some PSP patches right now, actually.. but you still need `ffmpeg -formats` to list PSP as an option. (dunno what to do yet about ipod). -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Wanted: Australian modes for 720p
On 1/15/06, Eyal Lebedinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what, no Australians on this list using a 720p TV? Looks like it. I can confirm I am not.. So cant help with your query.. hopefully someone reads who is using 720p Thanks ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] playslist for recorded tv?
in the watch recordings menu, it's possible to select a recorded program, push the right button, and then select add to playlist. After you tag a few recordings, hit the MENU key and you'll find a few things you can do with the playlist. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport and ffmpeg on Ubuntu
On 1/16/06, Chris Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So it will complete. Hrmm. Its just too slow, think I'd sooner not use it. Although that means at the cost of not having the cut list taken into account. cutlist should work fine with ffmpeg. I had a movie with 10 flagged commericals sections. When I converted to mpg using nuxexport with no options (thus using ffmpeg) the cutlist of those 10 flagged sections were not removed. I've just installed the latest nuvexport and will rerun again. It would appear the ubuntu ffmpeg build doesn't support psp, ipod nuvexport options. Not compiled with the right switches. these are semi-broken in nuvexport, too.. they don't work when they should. I'm working on some PSP patches right now, actually.. but you still need `ffmpeg -formats` to list PSP as an option. (dunno what to do yet about ipod). ipod output would be handy too. If you need any testing, then just give us a yell. Would be happy to help in anyway possible. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend laptop linux distro???
How's fedora nowadays. is it the same story as with the dependencies of suse? I've had no problem with either FC3 or FC4 in a dual-boot notebook (Compaq EVO n800c) -- everything including the touchpad worked out of the box. I think the only real hardware problem Linux has with laptops these days is with embedded wireless devices, which my notebook doesn't have. I was able to set up and run Myth frontends on both with little problem just by following Jarod Wilson's guide. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport and ffmpeg on Ubuntu
I had a movie with 10 flagged commericals sections. When I converted to mpg using nuxexport with no options (thus using ffmpeg) the cutlist of those 10 flagged sections were not removed. flag != cutlist. You also have to tell nuvexport to to use the cutlist. If you did all of that and it still didn't work, something's likely up with that particular recording and freaking out mythtranscode. ipod output would be handy too. If you need any testing, then just give us a yell. Would be happy to help in anyway possible. Yeah, working on that, too. my ipod can't play videos, so it's low on my list until someone sends me a patch. -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Trouble installing lirc on FC4 (lirc-kmdl-2.6.14-1.1653_FC4)
On 15/01/06, Tommy Nijem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I am using Jarod Wilson's Myth install guide for FC4. Everything works OK except for lirc. I believe the problem is that there is not a packge for lirc built for my kernel version. I am somewhat new to linux(long time computer user...just not Linux). So I may be off base. Anyways, when I try # yum install lirc-kmdl-$KVER I see no match for argument lirc-kmdl-2.6.14-1.1653_FC4. I did a lot of googling and searching but could not find the answer. I also tried installing lirc 0.7.2 from lirc.org but when I tried to compile I received an error that my kernel sources were missing. I am a bit over my head here and looking for some knowledgeable advice. Thanks in advance for any help. When using Jarod's FC guides, it pays dividends to ensure you are running a kernel version that matches the version Axel builds his kernel modules for (especially when you are using multiple modules like lirc, ivtv etc). You could install the newer kernel: yum install kernel kernel-devel The -656 version of the kernel was released on 6 Jan 2006, so chances are you installed the system before this and got the prior kernel installed. Older versions (=0.7.2) of lirc may not build properly on newer 2.6.14 kernels, so if going the compilation route, use a newer version (I installed lirc-0.8.0pre4 yesterday with no trouble on a 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 system.) Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport and ffmpeg on Ubuntu
On 1/16/06, Chris Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a movie with 10 flagged commericals sections. When I converted to mpg using nuxexport with no options (thus using ffmpeg) the cutlist of those 10 flagged sections were not removed. flag != cutlist. So commercial flagging is not the same as cutlist? Then how does the commercial flagging become a cutlist to honour at export. Hopefully that makes sense. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend laptop linux distro???
On 16/01/06, Dewey Smolka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How's fedora nowadays. is it the same story as with the dependencies of suse? I've had no problem with either FC3 or FC4 in a dual-boot notebook (Compaq EVO n800c) -- everything including the touchpad worked out of the box. I think the only real hardware problem Linux has with laptops these days is with embedded wireless devices, which my notebook doesn't have. I was able to set up and run Myth frontends on both with little problem just by following Jarod Wilson's guide. Same here running a RHEL4 notebook - took a little tinkering getting the IPW2200 wireless working, but no problems at all. I'm interested in the reasons people suggest against installing/using Fedora/RedHat - I've not had any problems with them (currently using FC2/FC4/RHEL4 MythTV systems). The one overriding issue I (and most DVB/ivtv users) have faced is getting their respective modules playing nicely together. Now that the ivtv project is being integrated in to the kernel this should become a thing of the past. On my laptop, the only devices not usable are the memory card reader and the smartcard reader, which I can live with. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] playslist for recorded tv?
Matt Price wrote: in the watch recordings menu, it's possible to select a recorded program, push the right button, and then select add to playlist. does anyone know a) what this playlist is? -- I've never seen it actually activated. It is what it says, a playlist of recordings. You can activate it by pressing MENU and the Playlist Options to get options for playing as well as other manipulations of the list b) whether there's some way to manipulate the playlist more directly (e.g. change the order in which shows are viewed, etc No c) escape into the playlist while viewing, etc... I'm not sure what this means, perhaps if you could clarify The playlist would be very useful for me as my kids watch shows that are 12-19 minutes long -- I'dl ike to set them up with an hour of TV in such a way that I don't have to run upstairs to the TV every 10 minutes. However, I haven't been able to use the playlist in a useful way at all. And while the docs talk about playlists for mythmusic, I don't see any such discussion for straight mythtv. I use this just for that all the time. Add each item to the playlist in the order you want, then press MENU to start it. It even has a shuffle mode if you want. I expect to make good use of this during the superbowl where we watch the game upstairs and I rack up 4 hours worth of shows for the kids downstairs. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] new pc
On 13/01/06, bruno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello there I have a new pc: mb Asus A8N-E cpu Athlon64 3200 ram 512 MB hd sata 160GB video ATI RADEON X700 256MB Can I install Suse10 + MythTV or other linux distro ? Sure you can. You don't specify what capture device you intend to use though. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] DVD playback on macos X
Hi I'm wondering what software people are using on MacOS X frontends, I've been trying to get xine working cause I'd like to be able to use the menus but I'm not able to pass command line arguments to xine on macos. - Tommi ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What's this means of mostly tables in database?
On 13/01/06, YanJun Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All There are a lots of tables in database of mythconverg, As for my database, There are 45 tables in database, In a other word , I do not know what's the function of the mostly tables but only for few essential tables ,for example, channel/program/record/recorded/oldrecorded/oldrecoredprogram/ and so on. I have no idea for mostly tables , Can anyone explain what's means of these tables? Best regards and give greatly appreciate You can find an overview of the DB schema here: http://cuymedia.net/doxygen-dev-docs/html/group__db__schema.html If you need more information, use the source Lu! Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport and ffmpeg on Ubuntu
So commercial flagging is not the same as cutlist? Then how does the commercial flagging become a cutlist to honour at export. flagging is just flagging. mythtranscode has a --gencutlist option to import the flag list as a cutlist (I still need to include this in nuvexport), or if you're like me and don't trust the flagging to be completely accurate (it's not), start watching the show in the frontend, press E to edit, then Z to import the flag list as a cutlist, then adjust it as needed and press E to exit back to watching (then esc to go back to the menu)... -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Entering USA Cable channels into the DVB tables
I'm using 0.18.2 There have been a number of posting on the DVB channel tables, but it still isn't clear to me. I've also looked at http://www.cuymedia.com/doxygen-dev-docs/html/group__db__schema.html Maybe with an example someone can clear it up. I have an HD5000 card connected to cable. Here is a sample channel, as seen by azap. Using this information, I can use the DVB utils to capture the signal and play it via mplayer. The following example is for my local (Atlanta) FOX affiliate on Gwinnett Charter cable, for what it's worth: FOX:66900:QAM_256:2048:2049:2 So, my dtv_multiplex table has an entry with mplexid=4, frequency=66900, sourceid=qam_256, etc. In the database, Fox digital is my chanid 3785. So I assume I should update channel set freqid = 4 where chanid = 3785; where '4' is the mplexid from the dtv_multiplex table for 669Mhz. I further guess that the channel table should get the serviceid (last column of the azap line, 2): update channel set serviceid = 2 where chanid = 3785; Where do I encode the video and audio pids (2048 and 2049 in hex, 8264 and 8265 in decimal)? Now, assuming that I can get this all working, do I then need an additional rows in dtv_multiplex for the other channel on 669 MHz? CBS:66900:QAM_256:2176:2177:1 Thanks for the help, Len ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Internal player stability issues with PVR-350
Jason Surprise wrote: I'm new to mythtv. I re-used an older system with the addition of a PVR-350. It has worked pretty flawlessly, and I'm very impressed with the quality of the software. Since I have a PVR-350 with mpeg2 hardware decoding, I've been trying to convert my VHS tapes to mpeg2 files to use the Internal player to make use of the hardware decoder. On another system, I use my DV camera to capture VHS, then I use transcode to transcode to 352x480 mpeg2. When I play it in mythvideo using the Internal player, it more or less plays fine, but occasionally will lock up the system, particularly when doing rew/ff. I see the following msgs in syslog: ... Why not record from the VHS tapes with your PVR-350? It produces MPEG-2 that it happily plays back... Since I haven't had one issue with playback of myth recorded mpeg2, I am wondering if there is a special resolution/bitrate/etc that I need to follow in order for the internal player to work on misc mpeg2 video? Or is this something I need to ask the ivtv developers as well? That would be a more appropriate place than the Myth list. ;) Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Nearly 100% install of MYTHYV...
Hi Nick, On Sunday 15 January 2006 19:55, Nick wrote: When I've seem MythTV failing to start properly using init scripts I've found that sometimes there is a /.mythtv folder with an incorrectly setup mysql.txt file. During init, root's home directory can be / in addition to /root, both of which can contain a .mythtv folder containing the DB details. Fixing up the contents of the /.mythtv/mysql.txt file fixed the DB connection details which had been stopping the mythbackend from starting. After running updatedb/slocate I found exactly 3 mysql.txt files. I eliminated all but one and... it's still the same situation. Thanks for the tip though. Starting the process when the system had fully booted (when the user's environment was going to be /root or /home/$MYTHBACKEND_USER) would be fine because the mysql.txt files for these users were correct. This makes sense to me save one thing... Even after the computer is fully booted, try to execute the mythbackend script from a command line fails... But executing mythbackend as a program succeeds. It's not a real show stopper by far, just one of those things I can't fix... Cheers. Jerry ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Full Screen Video
On 13/01/06, Dawson, Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there Has anybody out there achieved full screen playback via a 625 line PAL TV. I currently have a conventional set-up using X and TV out. The combined effect means I get a picture that is no more than 75% of the screen. Yeah, I can see what's happening, but it's not popular with She Who Must Be Obeyed! Getting fullscreen playback on a CRT typically means fighting against overscan. Your video drivers may have overscan controls which allow you to 'stretch' the picture on the TV so that it takes up more of the screen. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
