Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC Problem

[Luke]

I am not at my MythTV box now but the problem I had was that the make command generated a lot of errors the firsts ones having something to do with missing "../drivers/media/video/bttv.h" and similar files. The command ./configure --with-driver=pixelview_pro succeded without errors. I have two kernel sources installed 
i.e 

/usr/src/kernels/2.6.11.1_1365_FC4/ and 
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.14.1_1656_FC4/
Probably I do not have the correct kernel modules for my chosen driver (PixelView PlayTV Pro - bt878 card). I have no idea how to install those.
On 17/01/06, Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 17/01/06, Luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> I will have a look at this. I had given up on compiling lirc from source. It
> is a nightmare on FC4. If necessary, I will switch over to Gentoo. This> looks promising.When I compiled 0.8.0pre4 on FC4 the other day it was verystraightforward. What problems are you having? Having you got the
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythbackend can't connect to database

[jan]

Carl Fongheiser wrote:
> On 1/15/06, jan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>>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?
> 
> 
> 
> You need to re-emerge qt with "mysql" set in the USE flags.
> 
> Carl Fongheiser
 >
Yes, that made the difference, thanks! Though, I am sure I already did 
that once.

/jan
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Re: [mythtv-users] Adjusting End Time After Record Start

[Nick]

On 17/01/06, George Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All:
>
>  So last night was the season premiere of 24.  Unfortunately, on the East
> Coast, the football game went over by about 15 minutes.  Since the guide
> data could not anticipate this, my recording was set for 8-10 pm and I would
> have lost the last 15 minutes of the show.  Fortunately, I noticed the
> problem and was able to set up a manual recording from 10-10:30 to pick up
> the last portion of the show.  However, it got me thinking if there was a
> way to adjust recording times after a recording had started.  I looked
> through the menus and in the documentation, but couldn't find anything (and
> I didn't want to experiment during a recording that is crucial to the
> happiness of my wife).  Does anyone know if this can be done?

This would be a _very_ useful feature to have. (It's come up before on the list)

Nick
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Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC Problem

[Nick]

On 17/01/06, Luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I will have a look at this. I had given up on compiling lirc from source. It
> is a nightmare on FC4. If necessary, I will switch over to Gentoo. This
> looks promising.

When I compiled 0.8.0pre4 on FC4 the other day it was very
straightforward. What problems are you having? Having you got the
kernel source installed?

Nick
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[mythtv-users] AIDO - Another Media System

[Daniel Jonasson]

A bit of topic but might be interesting for some to 
take a look at.
 
I came across this other home entertainment system 
called AIDO
that I haven't seen mentioned on this 
list. It still 
seems to be under
construction but there are some very 
promising screen shots on
their web site that might give some new 
ideas to the people
developing Myth, not least the ones that 
maintain the themes
since AIDO in my opinion seems to have a 
really nice GUI.
 
Anyway, have a look if you're interested:
http://www.aido.org/
 
-- Daniel 
Jonasson
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythfronend stuttering

[Reuben Perelman]

Chad wrote:

>On 1/16/06, Reuben Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  
>
>>When I run mythfront end on my computer (mythbackend is running on
>>another computer connected to my tv) mythfrontend has short little
>>pasues every couple seconds. My computer is connected to the computer
>>running mythbackend through gigabit ethernet, which should be overkill
>>for mythtv. Mythfrontend runns perfectly on the same computer running
>>mythbackend. Both computers run gentoo linux with ck kernels. What is
>>the problem here?
>>___
>>
>>
>
>Well, there's some info missing here that might help ;)
>
>What CPU, videocard, soundcard and how are all these setup (if
>videocard is NVidia, what drivers, and are you using xvmc...).  :)
>
>Also, on the Gentoo note, I use the SVN-ebuilds most the time (though
>occasionally I forget I have them and grab the latest SVN source and
>compile by hand :D ).
>
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What is xvmc?

Is it really a good idea to use the trunk for something that's as 
complete as mythtv? (I can understand using the trunk for something 
pre-alpha.)

Here are the specs of the computers:

The computer running mythbackend:
Asus K8N-E (nForce4 Ultra)
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ s939
1GB PC3200 (2x512MB)
nVidia GeForce 6600
Using onboard sound
Using onboard ethernet (forcedeth)
Gentoo i686 w/ linux-2.6.15-ck1


My Computer:
Asus K8V-X (Via K8T800)
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ s754
1GB PC3200
nVidia GeForce 6800GT 256MB
M-Audio Revolution 7.1
Using onboard ethernet (marvel 88NE8001)
Gentoo i686 w/ linux 2.6.14-ck6

Switch: Dlink DGS-1005D (both connected with Cat5e, speed is around 
250-280Mb/s)
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Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Problem with XvMC being slow

[Chad]

On 1/16/06, Michael Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/17/06, Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If you are talking to me, no, I've got an Nvidia FX 5200.
>
> I've got an AMD Athlon XP 2800+ with 1.2Gb ram and it struggles to
> play HDTV streams. Video card is a Nvidia FX5200. I was going to make
> sure its running the correct modules for the nvidia card, and then see
> if the XvMC is enabled.
>
> Reading this thread, I might increase the ring buffer to see what
> happens. It cant hurt after all.
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Post back if nothing changes for you; include the output of
mythfrontend with XvMC enabled (preferably playing back a HD clip). 
xorg.conf might be helpful also.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Problem with XvMC being slow

[Michael Fox]

On 1/17/06, Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you are talking to me, no, I've got an Nvidia FX 5200.

I've got an AMD Athlon XP 2800+ with 1.2Gb ram and it struggles to
play HDTV streams. Video card is a Nvidia FX5200. I was going to make
sure its running the correct modules for the nvidia card, and then see
if the XvMC is enabled.

Reading this thread, I might increase the ring buffer to see what
happens. It cant hurt after all.
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythfronend stuttering

[Chad]

On 1/16/06, Reuben Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I run mythfront end on my computer (mythbackend is running on
> another computer connected to my tv) mythfrontend has short little
> pasues every couple seconds. My computer is connected to the computer
> running mythbackend through gigabit ethernet, which should be overkill
> for mythtv. Mythfrontend runns perfectly on the same computer running
> mythbackend. Both computers run gentoo linux with ck kernels. What is
> the problem here?
> ___

Well, there's some info missing here that might help ;)

What CPU, videocard, soundcard and how are all these setup (if
videocard is NVidia, what drivers, and are you using xvmc...).  :)

Also, on the Gentoo note, I use the SVN-ebuilds most the time (though
occasionally I forget I have them and grab the latest SVN source and
compile by hand :D ).

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] Replacing MythTV remote... anyone have any experience with RS 15-2136 (or 15-2137?)

[Kevin Venkiteswaran]

> I have read that the buttons that will illuminate on
> the Kameleon remotes are fixed according to the device
> map in ROM (that is, if you program in a TV, then only
> the buttons for that TV will light up).  If you use
> JP1 to write new data into the remote (to enable
> disabled buttons), then supposedly the newly enabled
> buttons still won't light up.

I can tell you that the buttons that light up are dependent on the
device you program it for. I've never tried JP1 with the remote though.


> If you program a disabled button with an EFC, will it
> light up (where previously it wouldn't because it was
> disabled)?

You can only program buttons that already light up. This is still
advantageous as some buttons send the same IR codes (again, the exact
code sent for each button is dependent on what device you program the
remote for).

These limitations aren't really a concern if you have a "universal" IR
receiver. This allows you to program the remote (with this remote it
really means programming each device the remote can control) to a device
which "turns on" all the buttons. Then for any button that sends a
duplicate IR code you can use EFC to make it unique. You can then use
the power of lirc to map each IR code to whatever function you want. 

Note: I say universal IR receiver b/c I don't believe any RC5 (or
whatever codeset the Hauppauge cards support) compatible device the
Kameleon supports turns on all the buttons. Thus your IR receiver must
be able to receive whatever codes the Kameleon sends when programmed to
a device that turns on all the buttons.

Hope I've helped more than I've confused!

Cheers
Kev



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

[Chad]

On 1/16/06, Adam Propeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are you using an Nvidia card? I've got a Sempton 3100, and I know that I
> couldn't for the life of me, play 1080i or 720p with the Sempron and an ATI
> card.
>
>
> On 1/17/06, Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On 1/16/06, Adam Propeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Steve... I'm assuming that you mean you can play HDTV with one of those
> > > processors and an Nvidia card correct? :-P I still couldn't get my ATI
> to
> > > play HD worth a hoot, and went out and purchased a cheap Nvidia 6200OC
> > > tonight. I've gotten HD to play back fairly smoothly now, but have a bit
> of
> > > playing to get done.
> > >
> > > On 1/6/06, Steve Adeff < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > On Friday 06 January 2006 00:05, Jerry Rubinow wrote:
> > > > > On 1/5/06, Jerry Rubinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> > > > > > On 1/5/06, Joseph A. Caputo < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > > > On Thursday 05 January 2006 1:21, Jerry Rubinow wrote:
> > > > > > > > When using XvMC to play back video, CPU usage is low (30% for
> HD,
> > > 10%
> > > > > > > > for SD), but the video plays back slower than realtime.  I'm
> using
> > > an
> > > > > > > > Nvidia 5200 card, with driver version 7667 (although I've
> tried
> > > every
> > > > > > > > version up to the current 8XXX).
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >  Is there anything I should check?  Anything obviously wrong
> from
> > > the
> > > > > > > > following details?  Or is this the XvMC slowdown I've read
> about?
> > > > > > > > What are my options for fixing this?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I could be way off base on this, but something in my memory is
> > > nagging
> > > > > > > me... something about maybe Nvidia's XvMC not
> supporting/performing
> > > > > > > well at certain resolutions?  Have you tried changing your
> > > horizontal
> > > > > > > resolution to something smaller, like 1024?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > No, but that's a good suggestion - I'll try it tonight.  Thanks.
> > > > >
> > > > > No luck.  I tried setting both X and the GUI setup in myth to
> 800x600
> > > > > and it's still slow playing HD.  Not stuttering, just slower than
> real
> > > > > time.  I didn't mention before, but I'm using pretty much a straight
> > > > > following of Jarod's guide with FC4, 2.6.14, on a P4 2.8.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm so close to having beautiful HD playback, can anybody suggest
> things
> > > to
> > > > > try?
> > > >
> > > > poney up for a faster processor? I know its prbly not an optioin, but
> with
> > > a
> > > > 3.0 or 3.2GHz cpu you'll be able to play back HD without XvMC.
> > > > Does OpenGL sync work with XvMC? I dunno, but might be worth a try.
> Also,
> > > try
> > > > disabling any deinterlacing? Oh, what about audio buffering options,
> have
> > > you
> > > > played with those?
> > > > Also, don't forget you have to restart mythfrontend everytime you make
> one
> > > of
> > > > these changes. minor bug...
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Steve
> > > > ___
> >
> > Hopefully getting the Nvidia will do it.
> >
> > I've got a modest Athlon XP 2500 powering my rig, but the XvMC offset
> > from my FX 5200 takes the load down to ~45% when playing back a 1080i
> > stream (720p is somewhere is the 50% range, though I don't know if
> > that's just what top decided to throw up and there is no difference).
> > So I would assume a decent P4 (2.4ish) should work just fine.
> > Something less should work well too, but a 2.4 would give you enough
> > overhead for realtime comm flagging as well.
> >
> > Not sure why the above poster had to increase the ring-buffer size,
> > this has never been something I've had to tamper with to get my HD
> > working well, but I'm glad no less :)
> >
> > Chad
> > ___

If you are talking to me, no, I've got an Nvidia FX 5200.

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] Shouldn't XvMC be faster than Xv?

[Chad]

Heh :D

Forgot to delete the top posting ;)  How's that for confusing...
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythvideo plugin on xbox - controls don't work

[Adam Anderson]

Mine too. I've got stuff like:
   |# Show OSD
   |begin
   |prog = mplayer
   |button = MENU
   |repeat = 4
   |config = osd
   |end

This is all from a canned lircrc that is specifically designed for
mythtv on the xbox so I have no reason to suspect it is incorrect.

> ...  Which maps my remote "Pause" and "Play" buttons to the
> mplayer "pause" command which pauses/unpauses the playback.
> Do you have similar information in your ~/.lircrc file?

Yes, and there is also stuff for "vlc" and "xine", neither of
which is running.

Thanks again for your help gentlemen. I'll keep you posted.
---


I emailed yesterday but messed up the subject line.  Hopefully I get it
right this time.


You need to add:
lirc=yes
to your /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf

To get mythvideo to start you need to add -nojoystick to your launch
command.

Might want to check this out:
http://www.mythtv-xbox.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=36
Everything is there for a basic setup.

Adam

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Re: [mythtv-users] Shouldn't XvMC be faster than Xv?

[Chad]

XvMC is currently working AFAIK, I've got SVN from about 3 days ago
and it seems to be working just fine for me.

My rig is a XP 2500 with an FX 5200.  What kept dragging me down was
the configure script actually recognizing the Nvidia drivers.  I tried
with XvMCW, but it rarely worked (probably my fault due to little
understanding of how it works), so I removed the wrapper lib and
ldconfig'd, and finally successfully had the configure script finding
libXvMCNVIDIA as the XvMC lib.  From there is was all smooth sailing.

I'm running Gentoo (lastest emerge sync emerge world ~x86), Nvidia's
latest GLX and Kernel modules, and outputting to a 61" Samsung DLP
over a VGA port.

If I can help, I'd be happy to.

Good Luck!

Chad

On 1/16/06, Scott Alfter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been playing around with Subversion builds lately, and I've noticed
> something that shouldn't be the case: XvMC is substantially slower than
> non-XvMC playback.  Even non-HD video won't play back smoothly with XvMC
> enabled.  HD, of course, definitely won't play back under those conditions.
>
> Is there some configuration somewhere that I'm missing, or is XvMC currently
> broken (again)?  I'm currently running the 8629 revision on an Athlon 64
> 3700 with a Geforce 6200, but I saw the same behavior with the 8444 revision
> on the same hardware and on an Athlon XP 3000 with a GeforceFX 5200.
>
>   _/_
>  / v \ Scott Alfter
> (IIGS( http://alfter.us/Top-posting!
>  \_^_/ rm -rf /bin/laden>What's the most annoying thing on Usenet?
>
> ___

XvMC is currently working AFAIK, I've got SVN from about 3 days ago
and it seems to be working just fine for me.

My rig is a XP 2500 with an FX 5200.  What kept dragging me down was
the configure script actually recognizing the Nvidia drivers.  I tried
with XvMCW, but it rarely worked (probably my fault due to little
understanding of how it works), so I removed the wrapper lib and
ldconfig'd, and finally successfully had the configure script finding
libXvMCNVIDIA as the XvMC lib.  From there is was all smooth sailing.

I'm running Gentoo (lastest emerge sync emerge world ~x86), Nvidia's
latest GLX and Kernel modules, and outputting to a 61" Samsung DLP
over a VGA port.

If I can help, I'd be happy to.

Good Luck!

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

[Adam Propeck]

Are you using an Nvidia card? I've got a Sempton 3100, and I know that
I couldn't for the life of me, play 1080i or 720p with the Sempron and
an ATI card.On 1/17/06, Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 1/16/06, Adam Propeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Steve... I'm assuming that you mean you can play HDTV with one of those> processors and an Nvidia card correct? :-P I still couldn't get my ATI to
> play HD worth a hoot, and went out and purchased a cheap Nvidia 6200OC> tonight. I've gotten HD to play back fairly smoothly now, but have a bit of> playing to get done.>> On 1/6/06, Steve Adeff <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > On Friday 06 January 2006 00:05, Jerry Rubinow wrote:> > > On 1/5/06, Jerry Rubinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:> > > > On 1/5/06, Joseph A. Caputo < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > > > > On Thursday 05 January 2006 1:21, Jerry Rubinow wrote:
> > > > > > When using XvMC to play back video, CPU usage is low (30% for HD,> 10%> > > > > > for SD), but the video plays back slower than realtime.  I'm using> an
> > > > > > Nvidia 5200 card, with driver version 7667 (although I've tried> every> > > > > > version up to the current 8XXX).> > > > > >> > > > > >  Is there anything I should check?  Anything obviously wrong from
> the> > > > > > following details?  Or is this the XvMC slowdown I've read about?> > > > > > What are my options for fixing this?> > > > >> > > > > I could be way off base on this, but something in my memory is
> nagging> > > > > me... something about maybe Nvidia's XvMC not supporting/performing> > > > > well at certain resolutions?  Have you tried changing your> horizontal
> > > > > resolution to something smaller, like 1024?> > > >> > > > No, but that's a good suggestion - I'll try it tonight.  Thanks.> > >> > > No luck.  I tried setting both X and the GUI setup in myth to 800x600
> > > and it's still slow playing HD.  Not stuttering, just slower than real> > > time.  I didn't mention before, but I'm using pretty much a straight> > > following of Jarod's guide with FC4, 
2.6.14, on a P4 2.8.> > >> > > I'm so close to having beautiful HD playback, can anybody suggest things> to> > > try?> >> > poney up for a faster processor? I know its prbly not an optioin, but with
> a> > 3.0 or 3.2GHz cpu you'll be able to play back HD without XvMC.> > Does OpenGL sync work with XvMC? I dunno, but might be worth a try. Also,> try> > disabling any deinterlacing? Oh, what about audio buffering options, have
> you> > played with those?> > Also, don't forget you have to restart mythfrontend everytime you make one> of> > these changes. minor bug...> >> > --> > Steve
> > ___Hopefully getting the Nvidia will do it.I've got a modest Athlon XP 2500 powering my rig, but the XvMC offsetfrom my FX 5200 takes the load down to ~45% when playing back a 1080i
stream (720p is somewhere is the 50% range, though I don't know ifthat's just what top decided to throw up and there is no difference).So I would assume a decent P4 (2.4ish) should work just fine.Something less should work well too, but a 
2.4 would give you enoughoverhead for realtime comm flagging as well.Not sure why the above poster had to increase the ring-buffer size,this has never been something I've had to tamper with to get my HD
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Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Problem with XvMC being slow

[Chad]

On 1/16/06, Adam Propeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve... I'm assuming that you mean you can play HDTV with one of those
> processors and an Nvidia card correct? :-P I still couldn't get my ATI to
> play HD worth a hoot, and went out and purchased a cheap Nvidia 6200OC
> tonight. I've gotten HD to play back fairly smoothly now, but have a bit of
> playing to get done.
>
> On 1/6/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Friday 06 January 2006 00:05, Jerry Rubinow wrote:
> > > On 1/5/06, Jerry Rubinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > On 1/5/06, Joseph A. Caputo < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > On Thursday 05 January 2006 1:21, Jerry Rubinow wrote:
> > > > > > When using XvMC to play back video, CPU usage is low (30% for HD,
> 10%
> > > > > > for SD), but the video plays back slower than realtime.  I'm using
> an
> > > > > > Nvidia 5200 card, with driver version 7667 (although I've tried
> every
> > > > > > version up to the current 8XXX).
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  Is there anything I should check?  Anything obviously wrong from
> the
> > > > > > following details?  Or is this the XvMC slowdown I've read about?
> > > > > > What are my options for fixing this?
> > > > >
> > > > > I could be way off base on this, but something in my memory is
> nagging
> > > > > me... something about maybe Nvidia's XvMC not supporting/performing
> > > > > well at certain resolutions?  Have you tried changing your
> horizontal
> > > > > resolution to something smaller, like 1024?
> > > >
> > > > No, but that's a good suggestion - I'll try it tonight.  Thanks.
> > >
> > > No luck.  I tried setting both X and the GUI setup in myth to 800x600
> > > and it's still slow playing HD.  Not stuttering, just slower than real
> > > time.  I didn't mention before, but I'm using pretty much a straight
> > > following of Jarod's guide with FC4, 2.6.14, on a P4 2.8.
> > >
> > > I'm so close to having beautiful HD playback, can anybody suggest things
> to
> > > try?
> >
> > poney up for a faster processor? I know its prbly not an optioin, but with
> a
> > 3.0 or 3.2GHz cpu you'll be able to play back HD without XvMC.
> > Does OpenGL sync work with XvMC? I dunno, but might be worth a try. Also,
> try
> > disabling any deinterlacing? Oh, what about audio buffering options, have
> you
> > played with those?
> > Also, don't forget you have to restart mythfrontend everytime you make one
> of
> > these changes. minor bug...
> >
> > --
> > Steve
> > ___

Hopefully getting the Nvidia will do it.

I've got a modest Athlon XP 2500 powering my rig, but the XvMC offset
from my FX 5200 takes the load down to ~45% when playing back a 1080i
stream (720p is somewhere is the 50% range, though I don't know if
that's just what top decided to throw up and there is no difference). 
So I would assume a decent P4 (2.4ish) should work just fine. 
Something less should work well too, but a 2.4 would give you enough
overhead for realtime comm flagging as well.

Not sure why the above poster had to increase the ring-buffer size,
this has never been something I've had to tamper with to get my HD
working well, but I'm glad no less :)

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[mythtv-users] Shouldn't XvMC be faster than Xv?

[Scott Alfter]

I've been playing around with Subversion builds lately, and I've noticed
something that shouldn't be the case: XvMC is substantially slower than
non-XvMC playback.  Even non-HD video won't play back smoothly with XvMC
enabled.  HD, of course, definitely won't play back under those conditions.

Is there some configuration somewhere that I'm missing, or is XvMC currently
broken (again)?  I'm currently running the 8629 revision on an Athlon 64
3700 with a Geforce 6200, but I saw the same behavior with the 8444 revision
on the same hardware and on an Athlon XP 3000 with a GeforceFX 5200.

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

[Adam Propeck]

Steve... I'm assuming that you mean you can play HDTV with one of those
processors and an Nvidia card correct? :-P I still couldn't get my ATI
to play HD worth a hoot, and went out and purchased a cheap Nvidia
6200OC tonight. I've gotten HD to play back fairly smoothly now, but
have a bit of playing to get done.On 1/6/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Friday 06 January 2006 00:05, Jerry Rubinow wrote:> On 1/5/06, Jerry Rubinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > On 1/5/06, Joseph A. Caputo <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > > On Thursday 05 January 2006 1:21, Jerry Rubinow wrote:> > > > When using XvMC to play back video, CPU usage is low (30% for HD, 10%> > > > for SD), but the video plays back slower than realtime.  I'm using an
> > > > Nvidia 5200 card, with driver version 7667 (although I've tried every> > > > version up to the current 8XXX).> > > >> > > >  Is there anything I should check?  Anything obviously wrong from the
> > > > following details?  Or is this the XvMC slowdown I've read about?> > > > What are my options for fixing this?> > >> > > I could be way off base on this, but something in my memory is nagging
> > > me... something about maybe Nvidia's XvMC not supporting/performing> > > well at certain resolutions?  Have you tried changing your horizontal> > > resolution to something smaller, like 1024?
> >> > No, but that's a good suggestion - I'll try it tonight.  Thanks.>> No luck.  I tried setting both X and the GUI setup in myth to 800x600> and it's still slow playing HD.  Not stuttering, just slower than real
> time.  I didn't mention before, but I'm using pretty much a straight> following of Jarod's guide with FC4, 2.6.14, on a P4 2.8.>> I'm so close to having beautiful HD playback, can anybody suggest things to
> try?poney up for a faster processor? I know its prbly not an optioin, but with a3.0 or 3.2GHz cpu you'll be able to play back HD without XvMC.Does OpenGL sync work with XvMC? I dunno, but might be worth a try. Also, try
disabling any deinterlacing? Oh, what about audio buffering options, have youplayed with those?Also, don't forget you have to restart mythfrontend everytime you make one ofthese changes. minor bug...
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Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Problem with XvMC being slow

[Adam Propeck]

What did you change it to?On 1/15/06, Jerry Rubinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 1/7/06, Jerry Rubinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>> On 1/6/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > On Friday 06 January 2006 00:05, Jerry Rubinow wrote:
> > > On 1/5/06, Jerry Rubinow < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > > > On 1/5/06, Joseph A. Caputo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:> > > > > On Thursday 05 January 2006 1:21, Jerry Rubinow wrote:> > > > > > When using XvMC to play back video, CPU usage is low (30% for HD,> 10%> > > > > > for SD), but the video plays back slower than realtime.  I'm using
> an> > > > > > Nvidia 5200 card, with driver version 7667 (although I've tried> every> > > > > > version up to the current 8XXX).> > > > > >
> > > > > >  Is there anything I should check?  Anything obviously wrong from> the> > > > > > following details?  Or is this the XvMC slowdown I've read about?> > > > > > What are my options for fixing this?
> > > > >> > > > > I could be way off base on this, but something in my memory is> nagging> > > > > me... something about maybe Nvidia's XvMC not supporting/performing
> > > > > well at certain resolutions?  Have you tried changing your> horizontal> > > > > resolution to something smaller, like 1024?> > > >> > > > No, but that's a good suggestion - I'll try it tonight.  Thanks.
> > >> > > No luck.  I tried setting both X and the GUI setup in myth to 800x600> > > and it's still slow playing HD.  Not stuttering, just slower than real> > > time.  I didn't mention before, but I'm using pretty much a straight
> > > following of Jarod's guide with FC4, 2.6.14, on a P4 2.8.> > >> > > I'm so close to having beautiful HD playback, can anybody suggest things> to> > > try?
> >> > poney up for a faster processor? I know its prbly not an optioin, but with> a> > 3.0 or 3.2GHz cpu you'll be able to play back HD without XvMC.> > Does OpenGL sync work with XvMC? I dunno, but might be worth a try. Also,
> try> > disabling any deinterlacing? Oh, what about audio buffering options, have> you> > played with those?> > Also, don't forget you have to restart mythfrontend everytime you make one
> of> > these changes. minor bug...>>> I'm already at the fastest processor a Pundit will accept, so I'd have to> scrap my whole nice form factor frontend to do that.  I'm using OpenGL sync,
> and deinterlacing is already disabled.  I haven't played with audio options> at all, but I don't think that can be it, since if I turn off XvMC, NTSC> plays back fine, but with it on, it plays back slow (not stuttering, just
> slow-mo).> I'm out of town this weekend, but when I get back, I'm going to try> compiling mplayer with xvmc support and see if that has problems playing> back too.  That will at least either eliminate myth from the equation or
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Re: [mythtv-users] HD-3000 for sale

[Chris Pinkham]

> that way. So I'd like to sell my very lightly-used &
> functional card for $150 & thought I'd post it here

Isaac's fee for using this mailing list for classified ads is much
higher than eBay's fee.  You should have gone there first.

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Re: [mythtv-users] mythfronend stuttering

[Kirby Bakken]

John P Poet wrote:

>On 1/16/06, Reuben Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  
>
>> John P Poet wrote:
>> On 1/16/06, Reuben Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> When I run mythfront end on my computer (mythbackend is running on
>>another computer connected to my tv) mythfrontend has short little
>>pasues every couple seconds. My computer is connected to the computer
>>running mythbackend through gigabit ethernet, which should be overkill
>>for mythtv. Mythfrontend runns perfectly on the same computer running
>>mythbackend. Both computers run gentoo linux with ck kernels. What is
>>the problem here?
>>
>> Are you running SVN? If so, I can send you a patch which *might* help.
>>
>> I'm using 0.18.1
>>
>> Also, you can try compling with -Os instead of -O3. I have found that
>>helps.
>>
>>
>> How do I compile one package liky mythtv with -0s using portage?
>>
>>
>
>Sorry, can't help you there.  I have never used Gentoo.  If you were
>building from the SVN tree, I could help.
>
>John
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You can change the 'global' compiler option settings in 
/etc/make.conf  You can change that file, emerge mythtv, and then 
change it back (or leave it).  I run gentoo also, but am running pretty 
much the latest svn...  All I did was fetched the latest svn, ran 
.configure with some 'key' options (I use: ./configure --enable-xvmc 
--enable-opengl-vsync --enable-dvd --enable-dvb --enable-proc-opt), then 
qmake mythtv.pro, make, and finally make install.  The only difference I 
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[mythtv-users] HD-3000 for sale

[Dan Gapinski]

Hello,

After purchasing this card, I've decided that it would
be best for me to capture HD broadcasts over firewire
from our cable set-top box, and use Myth to record
that way. So I'd like to sell my very lightly-used &
functional card for $150 & thought I'd post it here
before posting it on Ebay. It has all documentation
I'll ship it by insured, tracked mail. 

If you're interested in this offer, please email me
directly. I will warrant it for 15 days so that you
can make sure it is working for you. 

Thanks for your interest,
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythfronend stuttering

[John P Poet]

On 1/16/06, Reuben Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  John P Poet wrote:
>  On 1/16/06, Reuben Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>  When I run mythfront end on my computer (mythbackend is running on
> another computer connected to my tv) mythfrontend has short little
> pasues every couple seconds. My computer is connected to the computer
> running mythbackend through gigabit ethernet, which should be overkill
> for mythtv. Mythfrontend runns perfectly on the same computer running
> mythbackend. Both computers run gentoo linux with ck kernels. What is
> the problem here?
>
>  Are you running SVN? If so, I can send you a patch which *might* help.
>
>  I'm using 0.18.1
>
>  Also, you can try compling with -Os instead of -O3. I have found that
> helps.
>
>
>  How do I compile one package liky mythtv with -0s using portage?

Sorry, can't help you there.  I have never used Gentoo.  If you were
building from the SVN tree, I could help.

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Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC, GF6200, FC4, and a black screen....

[Adam Propeck]

Wow. Thanks for that! The NVAGP "1" saved me as well. I'm still seeing
the occasional blip, and one of my previously recorded HD shows gives
me an "Unable to initialize video" message, but XVMC is enabled now
with my 6200. I may try NVAGP "0" or commenting that line out all
together to see what the difference is. With this card, is there a
recommendation on OpenGL vsync, and XV picture control?On 1/16/06, Blammo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 1/15/06, Daniel Kristjansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:> 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.After much pain and suffering, I got it working by setting NVAGP "1"
in the config file.However, now I hook up the componant dongle, and I'm back where I started.I think I'm going to try compiling AGPGART as a module (Fedora4) so Ican try NVAGP, see if that solves some of the oddness.
I, like you, was hoping this was an upgrade to the 5700 that was inthe box... It was smooth for the playoffs this weekend, but I'm tryingto get the dongle working.I'll let you know how it does.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on Debian - is it dead?

[Mike]

drbob wrote:
> I'd really like to try out mythtv. However my only option would be to 
> run the backend on my debian server (the frontend would be on a dual 
> boot windows/linux machine).
>
> The problem is my server runs debian stable. I could countenance an 
> upgrade to etch but not to sid (I can't trust sid with my email and 
> filestore). Is there be a package for debian stable or etch in the 
> pipeline? The webpage of the new package maintainers is down 
>  and I can find no info on the list since 
> the announcement a month ago of the new repository.
>
> It's beginning to look depressingly like I would need to switch 
> distributions to use mythtv :-( Any suggestions on what to do welcome.
>   

Yeah, its dead.

I run it on debian sarge with my own compile of everything that isn't in 
the normal repos. (like ffmpeg and all of that) One thing that I ended 
up doing was building my own 2.6.14 kernel package for the HD-3000 
drivers rather than trying to build them into the old kernel. (which is 
also possible)

http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DigitalTelevision

If all your worried about is things like ivytv then I probably wouldn't 
bother with going that far. Also all of my frontends run sarge where I 
built everything by hand too

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Re: [mythtv-users] streaming to windows (directly through myth)

[Andy Foster]

On 1/17/06, Adam Propeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

DSMYTH.  Google it or look at sourceforge specifically. It sets up the Myth:// and Mythlive:// and all that stuff. ok, I should probably clarify myself. I have DSMyth installed. The problems I was talking about come from when, after ds 'sets up' the myth:// and mythlive:// uri's, wmp/vlc/media player of choice is launched with the uri as an argument (at least I assume this is what happens). No player knows how to handle the myth:// protocol, for instance WMP gives this error:
"The selected file has a scheme that is not recognized by Windows Media Player, but the Player may still be able to play it..."If it continue to attempt to play it it says "Windows Media Player encountered an unknown error"
So my question remains the same as before. 

On 1/16/06, Michael T. Dean <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Andy Foster wrote:> This question rears its ugly head every couple of months but I'm a
> little baffled by what is needed, minimally, to stream videos from myth.>> Some people say they're able to play simply by installing dsmyth,> clicking on the 
myth://hostname:6543/xyz.mpg link in the appropriate> browser, and the media player of choice launches and starts streaming.>> I don't understand how they do this at all. This is the myth protocol,
> and thats the mythbackend address, but how does their media player> understand the myth:// uri? As I understand it in this case the media> player is basically being launched with the uri as an argument. I have
> tried this with wmp, media player classic and videolan client, none of> them comprehend the myth:// uri, and my backend log shows no access> attempts.>> As an alternative I tried disabling the url rewriting for windows
> clients so that myweb simply provides a> http://hostname/valid/path/to/files.mpg

 . When I click this, it> prompts me to download it. I can download and then watch it without
> problems (unless the file is over 2gb, but thats another matter), but> considering the sizes involved I'd prefer to stream. If I put this uri> directly into videolan, it works>> Both of these behaviours seem to be correct to me, but are
> unfortunately not what I want. So how do I either:> 1. make the media players understand the myth protocol?> 2. make my browser (firefox) allow me to pass the http:// uri to the> program of my choosing?
>> I understand there are a lot of workarounds for this, including samba> shares (I've tried this but similarly have not been able to launch> anything from a valid file:// uri), videolan on both client and
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on Debian - is it dead?

[Steve Adeff]

On Monday 16 January 2006 21:21, drbob wrote:
> I'd really like to try out mythtv. However my only option would be to
> run the backend on my debian server (the frontend would be on a dual
> boot windows/linux machine).
>
> The problem is my server runs debian stable. I could countenance an
> upgrade to etch but not to sid (I can't trust sid with my email and
> filestore). Is there be a package for debian stable or etch in the
> pipeline? The webpage of the new package maintainers is down
>  and I can find no info on the list since
> the announcement a month ago of the new repository.
>
> It's beginning to look depressingly like I would need to switch
> distributions to use mythtv :-( Any suggestions on what to do welcome.

Christian Marillat's depositry has MythTV now thanks to the work of some devs,

http://debian.video.free.fr/

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Re: [mythtv-users] LiveTV related ideas/comments

[Joe Votour]

--- pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>   Hopefully this is the right place to post this
> comment/question - if not,
> please let me know.
>   I just grabbed the latest svn after hanging out
> with 7738, the last one prior
> to livetv/ringbuffer changes.  In the time between
> them, mythtv has seen a lot
> of improvements, and it seems pretty stable.  That
> is to say, I have yet to
> crash it or find any bugs.Overall I am highly
> impressed with the
> development work that's been done in the past few
> months.  I really like the
> way LiveTV now works.  The Watch Recordings menu
> seems a little clunky with
> respect to this new LiveTV, however.  What do you
> guys think of having a LiveTV
> program group?  
>   Here's how I picture it would work:  By default,
> all LiveTV recordings would
> go into a LiveTV( or user configurable ) program
> group, to keep them together. 
> You could choose to display that group or not, and
> you could still choose to
> dump them into the "All Programs" filter if you
> want.  As it stands you can
> dump them into All Programs or not, and if not they
> don't show up anywhere,
> that I can tell  - please correct me if I am missing
> something.  I think it
> would be handy to be able to have them show up under
> one place like a LiveTV
> group, so that you have an option to see them all
> together without having them
> interspersed in All Programs or scattered around
> elsewhere.
>   Does anyone think this is a worthwhile
> enhancement?  Is it possible already
> via some other method that I missed?
> 
> pete
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If you would check out the latest SVN (and read the
-dev and -commits list like those running SVN should
do), then you'd notice that LiveTV (and the groupings)
work as you have described.  There is now a "LiveTV"
group, I don't know if it is user-configurable or not.

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Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC Problem

[Luke]

I will have a look at this. I had given up on compiling lirc from source. It is a nightmare on FC4. If necessary, I will switch over to Gentoo. This looks promising.On 17/01/06, 
Brian Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jan 16, 2006, at 3:54 PM, Luke wrote:I followed the instructions given in 
Jarod C. Wilson's guide.Therefore, my kernel version is 2.6.14-1_1656_FC4. The "0.8.0-CVS" lirc version are obtained from the ATrpms together with the kernel modules as directed in the guide. As for the LIRC_OPTS variable, this is the first time I have heard of it. Where to I check that and how should I set it.  One more thing, I discovered that I do not have /dev/lirc rather I have /dev/lircd. Is this normal? 
Check out this URL:http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV
The section on setting up lirc shows how to set those things up, and explains a bit about the devices. That particular portion is not distribution-specific to Gentoo.

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Re: [mythtv-users] exit and shutdown from mythtv

[Tim]

ok, i'm dumb.  
the exit command in the general setup was simply 'halt'.  it obviously 
needs to be 'sudo halt' (or 'sudo /sbin/halt' if no alias is defined in sudoers 
file).  then i can reset my permissions to the way they should be on halt 
(chmod -s /sbin/halt).  is this the way to do it?  
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Re: [mythtv-users] Intermittant high disk activity

[Meatwad]

>On Monday 16 January 2006 16:41, mike choy wrote:
>> Hi Team
>>
>> Having just put my SUSE 10.0 Myth machine into production with 0.18.1
>> all seems to be well except that
>> every now and then the front end video pauses, and the disk activity
>> light goes like crazy, almost as if the machine
>> has gone into some sort of paging mode. The duration can vary from a few
>> seconds to 15/20 seconds.
>> If  I exit from watching live tv back to the main menu the disk activity
>> stops.
>>
>> Any idea how I can find out whats going on?

I've just completed a bare metal install of FC4 x86_64 and noticed some 
intermittent yet sustained bursts from the HD while working on the myth 
install. A quick look at top showed prelink and make processes banging 
away. Just a short time ago the culprit was makewhatis.

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Re: [mythtv-users] mythfronend stuttering

[Reuben Perelman]

John P Poet wrote:

  On 1/16/06, Reuben Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  
  
When I run mythfront end on my computer (mythbackend is running on
another computer connected to my tv) mythfrontend has short little
pasues every couple seconds. My computer is connected to the computer
running mythbackend through gigabit ethernet, which should be overkill
for mythtv. Mythfrontend runns perfectly on the same computer running
mythbackend. Both computers run gentoo linux with ck kernels. What is
the problem here?

  
  
Are you running SVN?  If so, I can send you a patch which *might* help.
  

I'm using 0.18.1

  
Also, you can try compling with -Os instead of -O3.  I have found that helps.

  

How do I compile one package liky mythtv with -0s using portage?

  John
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[mythtv-users] LiveTV related ideas/comments

[pete]

  Hopefully this is the right place to post this comment/question - if not,
please let me know.
  I just grabbed the latest svn after hanging out with 7738, the last one prior
to livetv/ringbuffer changes.  In the time between them, mythtv has seen a lot
of improvements, and it seems pretty stable.  That is to say, I have yet to
crash it or find any bugs.Overall I am highly impressed with the
development work that's been done in the past few months.  I really like the
way LiveTV now works.  The Watch Recordings menu seems a little clunky with
respect to this new LiveTV, however.  What do you guys think of having a LiveTV
program group?  
  Here's how I picture it would work:  By default, all LiveTV recordings would
go into a LiveTV( or user configurable ) program group, to keep them together. 
You could choose to display that group or not, and you could still choose to
dump them into the "All Programs" filter if you want.  As it stands you can
dump them into All Programs or not, and if not they don't show up anywhere,
that I can tell  - please correct me if I am missing something.  I think it
would be handy to be able to have them show up under one place like a LiveTV
group, so that you have an option to see them all together without having them
interspersed in All Programs or scattered around elsewhere.
  Does anyone think this is a worthwhile enhancement?  Is it possible already
via some other method that I missed?

pete

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Re: [mythtv-users] User jobs not in queue

[Chris Pinkham]

> I believe I've setup a user job correctly in
> mythsetup, but the job never shows up in the queue
> (verified with --verbose jobqueue).  

Did you turn them on for the recording profiles for the
shows you are trying to run the job on?   Also, what
happens if you queue a job manually through the 
Watch Recordings screen?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Scheduler Not Resolving Conflict

[Derek Battams]

Quoting Bruce Markey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Derek Battams wrote:
>> The scheduler has marked Letterman in conflict for tonight, even though
>> it could resolve the conflict by choosing a later showing of Colbert.
>> If I add a manual override and force the later showing of Colbert to
>> record then the conflict resolves itself.  Why doesn't the scheduler
>> fix the conflict itself?  Judging from what I see, the scheduler should
>> have recorded the 2am Colbert on Tuner 2 to allow Letterman to record
>> at 11:35pm.
>
> You are using a version from before Oct 5th 2005. This is probably
> fixed in http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/7391 though the
> description doesn't specify this obscure case.
>
> For yucks, try temporarily raising the channel priority for
> 286 by 1 in TV Settings->Recording Priorities->Channel Priorities.
> This should change the 03:35 and 05:00 showings' total priority to 8.

Increasing 286's priority by 1 did not change the schedule.  Increasing 
it by 2 resolved the conflict (scheduler chose to record the 2am Jon 
Stewart and the 2:30am Colbert on ch. 286 and that resolved the 
Letterman conflict).

  - Derek
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[mythtv-users] User jobs not in queue

[Kirk Grell]

I believe I've setup a user job correctly in
mythsetup, but the job never shows up in the queue
(verified with --verbose jobqueue).  

Where do I look next as to why my job never gets
queued?  I've searched this mailing list, but couldn't
get any further.

BTW, I do see (finished) Flagging and Transcoding jobs
in the queue from the mythbackend verbose output.  So,
I know there are some jobs in the queue, just not user
ones.

Thanks,
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythfronend stuttering

[John P Poet]

On 1/16/06, Reuben Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I run mythfront end on my computer (mythbackend is running on
> another computer connected to my tv) mythfrontend has short little
> pasues every couple seconds. My computer is connected to the computer
> running mythbackend through gigabit ethernet, which should be overkill
> for mythtv. Mythfrontend runns perfectly on the same computer running
> mythbackend. Both computers run gentoo linux with ck kernels. What is
> the problem here?

Are you running SVN?  If so, I can send you a patch which *might* help.

Also, you can try compling with -Os instead of -O3.  I have found that helps.

John
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Re: [mythtv-users] exit and shutdown from mythtv

[Tim]

so, 
i've worked on it a little more.  found a couple 
issues.
1) 
need to have /sbin/halt in the sudoers file:
"live  ALL=NOPASSWD:/sbin/shutdown, /sbin/halt, 
/sbin/reboot"
2) 
need to have /sbin in my user path.  did this by adding "PATH=$PATH:/sbin" 
to the .bashrc file in my mythtv user's directory.  
 
then 
the sudo  commands worked.  unfortunately, that's not how mythtv must 
call for shutdown.  i get "halt: must be superuser".
 
so i typed "chmod +s /sbin/halt".  now it works.  i can exit 
from the menu button and my frontend will shutdown.  the sudo file stuff 
doesn't mean anything now, and all users can now halt the system.  is there 
a better way to do this?  thanks.
-Original Message-
the 'exit and 
shutdown' button used to work for me.  isn't now though.  i've noticed 
that the user i am logging in with does not have priveleges to run 
shutdown.  so, i editted the sudoers file.  didn't seem to change 
anything though.  here's my file, username live:
 

# /etc/sudoers # 
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. # # 
See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file. # # 
Host alias specification # User alias specification # Cmnd alias 
specification Cmnd_Alias    SHUTDOWN = /sbin/shutdown # 
User privilege specification root    ALL=(ALL) ALL 
live    ALL = NOPASSWD: SHUTDOWN 

 
but, when i choose 
the 'exit and shutdown' button, i get a command not 
found.  specifically, 'sh: line 1: halt: command not found'.  any 
ideas?  
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on Debian - is it dead?

[Philip Nelson]

drbob wrote:
> It's beginning to look depressingly like I would need to switch
> distributions to use mythtv :-( Any suggestions on what to do welcome.

Compile from source. Everything goes to /usr/local so it's fine. All
dependencies can be found in the normal debian stable repository (you
probably want that marillat source as well), so all you need to compile is
mythtv.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Replacing MythTV remote... anyone have any experience with RS 15-2136 (or 15-2137?)

[Joe Votour]

--- Kevin Venkiteswaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> > So I've gone to Radio Shack's site and was looking
>
> 
> I use the Kameleon 6-in-1 remote and absolutely love
> it. I liked it so
> much I gave one to a friend for xmas for his mythtv,
> and another to my
> dad for his non-mythtv home theatre. 
> 
> Some things to be aware of, as you'll likely read
> about them in reviews
> of the remote:
> 
> -it does support JP1 but there are no plugs for it.
> Ie, there are solder
> points but no connector. (if you aren't adventurous
> on modding your
> remote, just use efc (extended functionality codes,
> off-hand). these are
> programmed using the remote buttons -- no soldering
> required!)
> 
> -it supposedly drains batteries, largely in part by
> the motion sensing.
> this can be turned off though, which i did and
> haven't replace my
> batteries after 2.5 months of use.
> 
> -with the motion sensing off you have to push a
> button to turn the
> remote on. but the pushed button *does* send a
> signal. so you have to
> get used to pushing a button with no effect (ie, the
> setup button at the
> very bottom of the remote since it must be held for
> 2 seconds to
> activate)
> 
> -grease on the screen is noticeable. if you like to
> eat chips and donuts
> while using the remote, these kameleon remotes are
> (likely) not for you.
> 
> -i recommend at least the 6-in-1. there is an 8-in-1
> Kamelon if you
> really need that many devices.
> 
> The three largest features of the remote I love are:
> -macro programming for the power button: turn on or
> off all devices with
> a single click
> -a home-theatre mode that lets you assign blocks of
> buttons to different
> devices! ie, volume goes to your receiver,
> everything else goes to
> mythtv
> -a wild display that is a topic of conversation
> every time someone sees
> it.
> 
> I have produced (what I think to be) a great
> lircd.conf and
> corresponding .lircrc for the 6-in-1. I even have
> step-by-step
> instructions for some EFC coding to enable all the
> buttons.
> Unfortunately my wiki, where all this data is, is
> currently off-line
> because I recently moved. But it will be back online
> within the first
> week of February.
> 
> Cheers
> Kevin
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I have read that the buttons that will illuminate on
the Kameleon remotes are fixed according to the device
map in ROM (that is, if you program in a TV, then only
the buttons for that TV will light up).  If you use
JP1 to write new data into the remote (to enable
disabled buttons), then supposedly the newly enabled
buttons still won't light up.

If you program a disabled button with an EFC, will it
light up (where previously it wouldn't because it was
disabled)?

I'm looking for a new remote, that's why I ask.

-- Joe

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Re: [mythtv-users] digital sound output

[Mike Schiller]

Thanks for your help on this one.  I've decided to switch to an older
motherboard I have, and that fixed (nearly) everything.  I found (on
this list and others) that I'm not the only one to have had problems
getting alsa to work right on the Asus K8N-E deluxe, and unless anyone
out there can contradict me, I'd recommend to everyone to stay away
from that board for now.  My audio problems may stem from the fact
that my kernel and alsa drivers weren't up to date.  Unfortunately,
when I update my kernel (via yum upgrade), everything stops working,
and I get the error:

Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device :00:06.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 1 of device :00:00.0
PCI: Error while updating region :00:06.0/4 (1001 != f001)
PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #1:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for :01:00.0


>From what I gather, it's an IDE and IDE DMA problem.  So you may not
have a problem if you use a SATA drive, but I can't say for sure on
this.

I hope my frustration helps someone else out there.

--Mike
On 1/13/06, Mike Schiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for the offer of help.  I'm going to do a fresh install today,
> and will get back to you tomorrow with all the details of  my problem
> (I want to make some notes as I go so that I don't misstate anything).
>  I do have a couple of quick questions about your setup if you get a
> chance..
>
> Are you running Fedora 4?
> What kernel are you using?
> What version of the alsa-lib rpm do you have installed?
> What motherboard do you have -- is it NV4 based with CK804 (alsamixer
> will tell you if it is a CK804)?
>
> Thanks again,
> Mike
>
> On 1/12/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thursday 12 January 2006 16:21, Mike Schiller wrote:
> > > I've had substantial problems configuring my motherboard's (Asus k8n-e
> > > deluxe with the nvidia ck804  + rt alc850) sound output to work
> > > properly.  I see others have had problems with this setup, and I'm
> > > torn as to whether I should invest even more time to document the
> > > problem and make a proper post requesting help, or if I should simply
> > > move on to another sound card.  To test the waters, I was hoping some
> > > folks out there could let me know if they had trouble configuring any
> > > of the following 7.1 channel spdif capable sound cards:
> > >
> > >
> > > 1st Choice
> > > --
> > > Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 4 Sound Card
> > > Model: SB0610< Is this a new model?  I couldn't
> > >find much info on it
> > > http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7293822&type=product&productC
> > >ategoryId=cat01053&id=1118841165481
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 2nd Choice
> > > --
> > > Turtle Beach CATALINA 8 (7.1) Channels 24-bit 96KHz PCI Interface
> > > Sound Card - Retail
> > > Model #: TBS-3430-01
> > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829118106
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 3rd Choice
> > > --
> > > Turtle Beach TBS-3300-01 8 (7.1) Channels 24-bit 96KHz PCI Interface
> > > Montego DDL Sound Card - Retail
> > > Model #: TBS-3300-01
> > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829118109
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Please note, that specifically, I'm looking to have xine or mplayer
> > > pass the surround sound from a dvd (or a dvd imported by mythtv) to my
> > > stereo over the optical (or coax for the soundblaster) spdif output,
> > > and I want the stereo output from recorded programs to go to my stereo
> > > over the same optical cable.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for all of your help.  Also, any .asoundrc files or
> > > tips would be greatly appreciated!
> > >
> > > --Mike
> >
> > whats the problem your having? I've gotten my ALC850 working perfectly doing
> > what you want, maybe I can help.
> >
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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 & 500 in same box, sound issues

[Joe Votour]

--- Intense Red <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I have a PVR-350 in my system which worked fine
> with the PVR-350's hardware 
> decoder.  The only "problem" was that MythTV is so
> slick TV watching has 
> increased and 1 tuner was not enough. :-)
> 
>So I added a PVR-500 to the box.  The system is a
> combo frontend/backend 
> which outputs to the TV using the PVR-350's TV out,
> and it also serves as a 
> backend to a couple of computers in the house.
> 
>Adding the PVR-500 was no problem -- drop it in,
> IVTV found it 
> automagically, and I added the 2 tuners (etc.) to
> mythtv-setup and all works 
> well.  Well, all except the local TV sound (remote
> frontends work just fine).
> 
>If I turn off the "Use the PVR-350's TV out /
> MPEG decoder" setting in the 
> frontend, both video and sound work fine.  Sound
> comes out of the TV like it 
> should.  If I turn on the "Use the PVR-350's TV out
> / MPEG decoder", I get 
> video but no sound.
> 
>Can anyone whack me with a clue-bat?
> 
>On a semi-related note, MythTV seems to grab
> whichever one of the 3 tuners 
> it wants to record things.  What I'd like to do is
> to "reserve" the PVR-350 
> for live TV, and to have Myth do recordings only off
> from the 2 PVR-500's 
> tuners.  Is this possible?
> 
>  Thanks in advance.
> 
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When using the PVR-350 MPEG decoder, the sound comes
out the breakout connector on the card.  You'll need
to loop the sound to your sound card (as discussed in
the archives to death) and configure the mixer
correctly.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with sound watching TV

[Reuben Perelman]

You need to increase the volume in mythtv. There is a keyboard key that 
you use to do it, but I forget what it is.

Cristo Saulo Bolaños Trujillo wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I've tried to watch TV, but I get following failure: sound is very very
>very very ... very low, nearly null.
>
>Right: I've a pinnacle PC TV connected to a SB Live 5.1! through line
>input, and works right when watching TV on xawtv, or listening an
>external sound font (mp3 player).
>
>I tried to record sound when showing tv with xawtv and it worked, low
>sound, but worked (I used audacity).
>
>When I try mythfrontend, I can view TV but *not* listen it (sound is
>nearly null and line-input connected to tv-card), but if a plug another
>sound font, like mp3 player, I can listen something, altought with mp3
>player volume on top.
>
>Where may be the failure ? A hardware issue when recording ? Mythtv
>issues ?
>
>Thanks.
>
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[mythtv-users] mythfronend stuttering

[Reuben Perelman]

When I run mythfront end on my computer (mythbackend is running on 
another computer connected to my tv) mythfrontend has short little 
pasues every couple seconds. My computer is connected to the computer 
running mythbackend through gigabit ethernet, which should be overkill 
for mythtv. Mythfrontend runns perfectly on the same computer running 
mythbackend. Both computers run gentoo linux with ck kernels. What is 
the problem here?
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Re: [mythtv-users] Replacing MythTV remote... anyone have any experience with RS 15-2136 (or 15-2137?)

[Kevin Venkiteswaran]

> So I've gone to Radio Shack's site and was looking at the Kameleon line, and
> I'm pondering buying either a 15-2136 (
> http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2103081&cp) or a
> 15-2137 (http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2103082&cp).
> Obviously, I'd prefer the 2137 since it has the ability to control 6 devices
> instead of 4, but I'll settle for whichever one becomes available at Radio
> Shack first.  I'm curious if anyone has had any success setting up one of
> these remotes?  I looked around quite extensively, but aside from some IRC
> chatter I found in Google referencing mythtv and the 15-2136, I'm unable to
> find any information about successful use of one of these remotes.
> 

I use the Kameleon 6-in-1 remote and absolutely love it. I liked it so
much I gave one to a friend for xmas for his mythtv, and another to my
dad for his non-mythtv home theatre. 

Some things to be aware of, as you'll likely read about them in reviews
of the remote:

-it does support JP1 but there are no plugs for it. Ie, there are solder
points but no connector. (if you aren't adventurous on modding your
remote, just use efc (extended functionality codes, off-hand). these are
programmed using the remote buttons -- no soldering required!)

-it supposedly drains batteries, largely in part by the motion sensing.
this can be turned off though, which i did and haven't replace my
batteries after 2.5 months of use.

-with the motion sensing off you have to push a button to turn the
remote on. but the pushed button *does* send a signal. so you have to
get used to pushing a button with no effect (ie, the setup button at the
very bottom of the remote since it must be held for 2 seconds to
activate)

-grease on the screen is noticeable. if you like to eat chips and donuts
while using the remote, these kameleon remotes are (likely) not for you.

-i recommend at least the 6-in-1. there is an 8-in-1 Kamelon if you
really need that many devices.

The three largest features of the remote I love are:
-macro programming for the power button: turn on or off all devices with
a single click
-a home-theatre mode that lets you assign blocks of buttons to different
devices! ie, volume goes to your receiver, everything else goes to
mythtv
-a wild display that is a topic of conversation every time someone sees
it.

I have produced (what I think to be) a great lircd.conf and
corresponding .lircrc for the 6-in-1. I even have step-by-step
instructions for some EFC coding to enable all the buttons.
Unfortunately my wiki, where all this data is, is currently off-line
because I recently moved. But it will be back online within the first
week of February.

Cheers
Kevin

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[mythtv-users] Problems with sound watching TV

[Cristo Saulo Bolaños Trujillo]

Hello,

I've tried to watch TV, but I get following failure: sound is very very
very very ... very low, nearly null.

Right: I've a pinnacle PC TV connected to a SB Live 5.1! through line
input, and works right when watching TV on xawtv, or listening an
external sound font (mp3 player).

I tried to record sound when showing tv with xawtv and it worked, low
sound, but worked (I used audacity).

When I try mythfrontend, I can view TV but *not* listen it (sound is
nearly null and line-input connected to tv-card), but if a plug another
sound font, like mp3 player, I can listen something, altought with mp3
player volume on top.

Where may be the failure ? A hardware issue when recording ? Mythtv
issues ?

Thanks.

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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 & 500 in same box, sound issues

[Steve Pugh]

Intense Red wrote:

>   I have a PVR-350 in my system which worked fine with the PVR-350's hardware 
>decoder.  The only "problem" was that MythTV is so slick TV watching has 
>increased and 1 tuner was not enough. :-)
>  
>
Heh...I know how that goes, I started off with two tuners and then 
realized that sometimes a man needs to watch live TV while two shows are 
recording.  Was quite pleased with how smoothly the addition went, once 
I got over a few "you learn something new every day" moments.

>   On a semi-related note, MythTV seems to grab whichever one of the 3 tuners 
>it wants to record things.  What I'd like to do is to "reserve" the PVR-350 
>for live TV, and to have Myth do recordings only off from the 2 PVR-500's 
>tuners.  Is this possible?
>  
>
Just about, as far as I know.  There is a priority setting that you can 
assign to each tuner card within mythtv-setup.  I can't recall WHERE, 
but when you find it, you can drop the PVR-350 down to a lower priority 
setting.  This won't EXCLUDE it from recording, but it'll make it the 
last card selected, which will give you the same net effect except for 
those times when you want to record three shows simultaneously (also 
known as Sunday Nights At Our House, now that "24" is back.)

Best,
Steve

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[mythtv-users] Adjusting End Time After Record Start

[George Galt]

All:

So last night was the season premiere of 24.  Unfortunately, on
the East Coast, the football game went over by about 15 minutes. 
Since the guide data could not anticipate this, my recording was set
for 8-10 pm and I would have lost the last 15 minutes of the
show.  Fortunately, I noticed the problem and was able to set up a
manual recording from 10-10:30 to pick up the last portion of the
show.  However, it got me thinking if there was a way to adjust
recording times after a recording had started.  I looked through
the menus and in the documentation, but couldn't find anything (and I
didn't want to experiment during a recording that is crucial to the
happiness of my wife).  Does anyone know if this can be done?

Thanks,

George
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Re: [mythtv-users] following jarod's guide, missing packages?

[George Galt]

Travis:

At a rather early screen during the set up process, there should have
been a selection for the type of use to which the computer would be
put: something along the lines of "server" "workstation" "desktop" and
"custom" (or something close to that).  You needed to select
"custom" as the type of set up.  Otherwise, the installer only
allows you to see options relevant to the type of computer you are
setting up.  My guess is that you selected "workstation" or
something along those lines, which assumes that you need a minimal
GUI/graphic environment.

Hope this helps.

GeorgeOn 1/16/06, travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Travis,> I recommend that you check out the official FC4 install guide:> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc4/index.html
>> This may help answer some of your questions...>Thanks, I had looked at that, but I still don't see why I am notseeing all the packages. For example, my X Window System package says
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Re: [mythtv-users] following jarod's guide, missing packages?

[travis]

> Hi Travis,

> I recommend that you check out the official FC4 install guide:
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc4/index.html
>
> This may help answer some of your questions...
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Thanks, I had looked at that, but I still don't see why I am not
seeing all the packages. For example, my X Window System package says
[1/1] not [35/39].
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[mythtv-users] PVR-350 & 500 in same box, sound issues

[Intense Red]

   I have a PVR-350 in my system which worked fine with the PVR-350's hardware 
decoder.  The only "problem" was that MythTV is so slick TV watching has 
increased and 1 tuner was not enough. :-)

   So I added a PVR-500 to the box.  The system is a combo frontend/backend 
which outputs to the TV using the PVR-350's TV out, and it also serves as a 
backend to a couple of computers in the house.

   Adding the PVR-500 was no problem -- drop it in, IVTV found it 
automagically, and I added the 2 tuners (etc.) to mythtv-setup and all works 
well.  Well, all except the local TV sound (remote frontends work just fine).

   If I turn off the "Use the PVR-350's TV out / MPEG decoder" setting in the 
frontend, both video and sound work fine.  Sound comes out of the TV like it 
should.  If I turn on the "Use the PVR-350's TV out / MPEG decoder", I get 
video but no sound.

   Can anyone whack me with a clue-bat?

   On a semi-related note, MythTV seems to grab whichever one of the 3 tuners 
it wants to record things.  What I'd like to do is to "reserve" the PVR-350 
for live TV, and to have Myth do recordings only off from the 2 PVR-500's 
tuners.  Is this possible?

 Thanks in advance.

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Re: [mythtv-users] mythvideo plugin on xbox - controls don't work

[Keith Hanlan]

On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Kevin Kuphal wrote:

>>> Keith Hanlan wrote:
>>>
 Can somebody suggest a course of action?


>>> It has nothing to do with mythvideo.
>>>
>>
>> There were two problems noted; one of them is mplayer/xbox/lirc
>> but the other is mythvideo. Specifically, I couldn't get
>> mythvideo's "internal" playback to work. Mythvideo is rather short
>> on documentation but I believe I'm supposed to be able to
>> configure it to use mythfrontend's internal playback. When I do
>> that, I get no response.
>>
>>
>Did you use "internal" or "Internal".  The latter is correct.

Ahh! Excellent. One problem down. One more to go. Thanks.

>> I know that lirc is working for me since I use it successfully
>> with mythtv. I know that mplayer is trying to use lirc since it
>> logs the fact: "Setting up LIRC support..."
>>
>Having LIRC set up for mythtv does not mean that mplayer LIRC
>support is configured properly.

Agreed. My point was merely that lirc itself is working in that it
is receiving input from my remote and passing them on. But Michael
Dean points out that the cursor movements that I see during
mplayer indicate lircMD, not lircD.

>Get LIRC support working in mplayer outside of Myth and it will
>work when launched from Myth

I'll try that. When the TV is next left unattended ...

>> Actually, I know that mplayer is using lirc because when I press
>> the arrow buttons, I see the X cursor appear and move. That
>> suggests that mplayer using lirc incorrectly. However, I can't
>> figure out how.
>>
>I don't see how.

Me either...

> That probably means that "something" is receiving those commands
> and moving the mouse.  Mplayer should respond by skipping
> forward and back or do whatever you have the left/right buttons
> programmed to do in mplayer, not move the X cursor.

Since it isn't, one could speculate that mplayer either that
1. mplayer isn't reading the correct input.conf (but it is since
there's only the one input.conf file around)
2. lirc is reading the wrong .lircrc (but it isn't since the same
file is used to configure input for mythtv and *that* is
working.)

Michael Dean wrote:
> that's lircmd, the LIRC mouse daemon, which is configured in X
> (see section "Configuring lircmd (the LIRC mouse daemon)" in
> http://www.lirc.org/html/configure.html ) and has nothing to do
> with MPlayer, so your postulate, "I know that mplayer is using
> lirc because..." is invalid.  Note, also, that if you use the
> cursor buttons for the mouse, you cannot use them for other
> functions (not reliably, at least).

Ahhh! Another penny drops. It seems reasonable that I would want
to keep lircmd running though. As a test though, I'll see what
happens when I disable it.

Michael continues:
> Actually, LIRC receives a button press and transmits a string to
> *all* registered LIRC clients as configured in the .lircrc.  So,
> if you've mapped the play button to "P" for Myth and to "play"
> for MPlayer, when you press play, LIRC sends "P" to Myth and
> "play" to MPlayer.  It is up to the application to know when to
> ignore the button press.  Myth begins ignoring the button
> presses when you start a video from MythVideo.

That's Interesting. Does X begin ignoring input received from
lircmd when mythtv starts? Or does mythtv somehow direct lircmd to
stop messing around with the cursor?

I assume that Myth doesn't begin ignoring input from lirc if one
uses the "Internal" player though. Am I right?

> And, Kevin is right--it has nothing to do with Myth.  You just
> have to configure LIRC to work with mplayer.  Note, also, that
> you need to use the appropriate commands for the strings (i.e.
> not letters like with Myth).  You can get a list of the commands
> with:

The .lircrc and .mplayer/config files looks good though. I'm still
puzzled. But I've got some new ideas from you guys so I'll play
around a bit more and the results will hopefully point me more
closely to the solution.

One last thing Michael. You wrote:
> Let it keep using the default one in /etc/mplayer/input.conf
> (i.e.  don't put one in ~/.mplayer).

That contradicts the mplayer man page which states:
   "The default configuration file for the input system is
~/.mplayer/input.conf but it can be overriden using the -input
conf option."
and the file itself has a comment
   "## The file should be placed in the $HOME/.mplayer directory."

Either way though, it doesn't seem to matter. I'll reconfirm
though by explicitly adding the -input option to the mythvideo
player configuration.

>> I assumed that lirc receives the keypress events, translates
>> them to some sort of command and passes them to mplayer. So,
>> why would it translate them to the *wrong* events when it sends
>> the commands to mplayer as opposed to mythtv?
>>
> No, LIRC receives IR button presses and changes them into
> mplayer functions based on the configuration you specify in your
> ~/.lircrc file.

umm. I think that's what I said.
>
>For example, mine has s

[mythtv-users] Mythtv on Debian - is it dead?

[drbob]

I'd really like to try out mythtv. However my only option would be to 
run the backend on my debian server (the frontend would be on a dual 
boot windows/linux machine).

The problem is my server runs debian stable. I could countenance an 
upgrade to etch but not to sid (I can't trust sid with my email and 
filestore). Is there be a package for debian stable or etch in the 
pipeline? The webpage of the new package maintainers is down 
 and I can find no info on the list since 
the announcement a month ago of the new repository.

It's beginning to look depressingly like I would need to switch 
distributions to use mythtv :-( Any suggestions on what to do welcome.

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Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend not working

[Brad DerManouelian]

You either need to disable checking for keys or add the appropriate  
key. Looks like it never installed properly in the first place. I  
can't remember off hand how to do that. Maybe someone else can help out?

On Jan 16, 2006, at 9:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> When I do that all I get is "
>
> warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID  
> db42a60e
>
>
> Public key for perl-XML-SAX-0.12-7.noarch.rpm is not installed
>
> ".  I also tried "yum install mythtv".
>
> Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>> It should have installed into a directory in your path for you, then.
>> To find it, you would run something like find /usr -name=mythfrontend
>> and it will tell you where it is. However, it sounds like your whole
>> install is a bit messed up. I would run sudo yum install myth-suite
>> and see if it fixes it up for you.
>>
>>
>> On Jan 16, 2006, at 8:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> I used yum.  The command I used was "yum install myth-suite.
>>>
>>> Brad DerManouelian wrote:
 How did you install mythtv?

 On Jan 16, 2006, at 8:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
 wrote:

> When I enter the command to run mythfrontend it says "command not
> found".
>
> I think it is missing because I cant find it anyware.  Is there
> someplace I can
> get it?
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend not working

[theironduck . junk]

When I do that all I get is "

warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e


Public key for perl-XML-SAX-0.12-7.noarch.rpm is not installed

".  I also tried "yum install mythtv".

Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> It should have installed into a directory in your path for you, then.
> To find it, you would run something like find /usr -name=mythfrontend
> and it will tell you where it is. However, it sounds like your whole
> install is a bit messed up. I would run sudo yum install myth-suite
> and see if it fixes it up for you.
>
>
> On Jan 16, 2006, at 8:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> I used yum.  The command I used was "yum install myth-suite.
>>
>> Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>>> How did you install mythtv?
>>>
>>> On Jan 16, 2006, at 8:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>
 When I enter the command to run mythfrontend it says "command not
 found".

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 someplace I can
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Re: [mythtv-users] DVB-T and encrypted channels

[drbob]

Joacim J wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I now have a working TV-card in MythTV but can only get the free
>channels. Now I want to get the encrypted channels working that I am
>paying for. I have a card-reader in my server (no MythTV stuff on that
>machine). Therefore I am thinking about using cardsharing programs to
>read the keys from the card and decrypt the channels within my HTPC
>(with MythTV of course).
>
>What software do I need to get this work on MythTV?
>--
>Regards
>Joacim
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This is pure speculation, but there does appear to be a dvb-t card 
available that supports a common interface slot. If your service 
provider can supply you with a CAM module (topup tv in the UK provide 
CAMs to subscribers on request for use in idtvs) then it *might* be 
possible to get the channels into mythtv. I think you'd be exploring 
uncharted territory though:

CAM compatible dvb-t card: 
http://www.dvbshop.net/product_info.php/info/p44_Technotrend-Budget-T-3000-Hybrid-D-A.html
CI-add on to use cam: 
http://www.dvbshop.net/product_info.php/info/p52_Technotrend-Budget-PCI-CI.html

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Re: [mythtv-users] Re-record a show that I tell to stop recording?

[Bruce Markey]

Nick wrote:
> On 12/01/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> In tryng to test some things I've told Myth to stop recording a show then
>> asked it to begin recording it again but it doesn't do it.
>>
>> 1) I'm having it "record only this showing"
>> 2) then I stop the recording
>> 3) then I go to that shows recordings property page, set it to not record,
>> save the setting
>> 4) go back in and tell it to record only this showing again,
>> but it doesn't.
>>
>> I'm hoping I'm just doing something wrong, but how can I get it to again
>> record a showing that I previously told it to stop recording?

Yep. You should press Enter on that showing from the conflicts
page or any other scheduling page (epg, proglist, etc.) and click
"Reactivate". You don't need to remove the rule and make a new one
or add an override, just reactivate.

If you stopped or deleted a recording in progress, the scheduler
needs to keep track of this fact so that it doesn't restart the
recording each time the scheduler runs or restart it if the master
backed is restarted. Reactivate is specifically for this situation
to tell the scheduler that you want to start recording again.


> I'm wondering if it is not scheduling/recording it again because the
> showing has been marked as having been recorded already, even though
...
> I would also browse the 'previously recorded' listing and erase the
> entry and see if this cures the problem if the above suggestion
> doesn't.

In current SVN, this would actually work. The recstatus is now kept
in the oldrecorded and the the scheduler checks this. Removing the
item from Previously Recorded causes a change to be signaled so the
scheduler runs and there is no recstatus of the current showing. So
unless there is a later showing that it could record instead, it
would restart the current showing.

For 0.18.x or earlier, this would not work as the state was held
in the memory of scheduler.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Scheduler Not Resolving Conflict

[Bruce Markey]

Derek Battams wrote:
> The scheduler has marked Letterman in conflict for tonight, even though 
> it could resolve the conflict by choosing a later showing of Colbert.  
> If I add a manual override and force the later showing of Colbert to 
> record then the conflict resolves itself.  Why doesn't the scheduler 
> fix the conflict itself?  Judging from what I see, the scheduler should 
> have recorded the 2am Colbert on Tuner 2 to allow Letterman to record 
> at 11:35pm.

You are using a version from before Oct 5th 2005. This is probably
fixed in http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/7391 though the
description doesn't specify this obscure case.

For yucks, try temporarily raising the channel priority for
286 by 1 in TV Settings->Recording Priorities->Channel Priorities.
This should change the 03:35 and 05:00 showings' total priority to 8.

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Re: [mythtv-users] DVB EIT Not Updating

[Nick]

On 16/01/06, Robin Elvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I had a bit of a problem last night with my Myth box where I had no EPG
> data. After a bit of head scratching and playing with settings I finally
> worked out what it was.
>
> It turns out that last week when I had a problem with DVB-T audio
> recording the Audio Description track rather than the normal sound I also
> set the "Open DVB Card On Demand" setting. It seems that if you don't
> watch Live TV or record much then the card doesn't get opened (as I
> wanted) but this also means that no EPG data gets captured.
>
> I did search around for a bit but I haven't found any mention of this. I'm
> sorry if I missed an obvious post but I thought I'd share my experience in
> case anyone else has the same problem.

For this precise reason I use a program called tv_grab_dvb to get the
DVB EPG data when the card is not being used in MythTV. DVB radio
channels are not supported well in 0.18.1 so I use tv_grab_dvb to get
the listings for them so I can at least schedule DVB radio in TS
format.

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Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC Problem

[Nick]

On 16/01/06, Luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have finally installed lirc for my MythTV box. I can start the lircd
> daemon [OK]. If I check the status soon after, I see that the daemon is
> running. However, if I run /usr/bin/irw I get no output and the lircd daemon
> dies. My log files show the following entries:
>
> Jan 16 21:26:55 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3464]: lircd(userspace) ready
> Jan 16 21:27:10 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3464]: accepted new client on
> /dev/lircd
> Jan 16 21:27:10 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3464]: could not get file information
> for /dev/lirc
> Jan 16 21:27:10 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3464]: default_init(): No such file or
> directory
> Jan 16 21:27:10 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3464]: caught signal
>
> Jan 16 21:27:28 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3497]: lircd(userspace) ready
> Jan 16 21:27:47 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3497]: accepted new client on
> /dev/lircd
> Jan 16 21:27:47 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3497]: could not get file information
> for /dev/lirc
> Jan 16 21:27:47 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3497]: default_init(): No such file or
> directory
> Jan 16 21:27:47 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3497]: caught signal
>
> What could be the problem here? My remote input is onboard the Prolink
> PixelView PlayTV Pro card (a bttv bt878 card).

Simple question - the log states that /dev/lirc does not exist - is
this true? It is entirely possible that /dev/lirc0 _does_ exist but
the lircd startup script is defaulting to use /dev/lirc. Creating
symlink from /dev/lirc0 to /dev/lirc (if this is the case) should fix
it. Make sure the symlink has appropriate access permissions for
mythtv users. You can also edit the startup script to explicitly set
the device, but the symlink is easier.

I use a udev rule to make sure the symlink is created at boot as some
applications may look for /dev/lirc and others /dev/lirc0.

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Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend not working

[Brad DerManouelian]

It should have installed into a directory in your path for you, then.  
To find it, you would run something like find /usr -name=mythfrontend  
and it will tell you where it is. However, it sounds like your whole  
install is a bit messed up. I would run sudo yum install myth-suite  
and see if it fixes it up for you.


On Jan 16, 2006, at 8:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I used yum.  The command I used was "yum install myth-suite.
>
> Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>> How did you install mythtv?
>>
>> On Jan 16, 2006, at 8:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> When I enter the command to run mythfrontend it says "command not
>>> found".
>>>
>>> I think it is missing because I cant find it anyware.  Is there
>>> someplace I can
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend not working

[theironduck . junk]

I used yum.  The command I used was "yum install myth-suite.

Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> How did you install mythtv?
>
> On Jan 16, 2006, at 8:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> When I enter the command to run mythfrontend it says "command not
>> found".
>>
>> I think it is missing because I cant find it anyware.  Is there
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend not working

[Steve Pugh]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>It did not work.  How can I find where the binary is?
>  
>

Navigate up to the root / folder, and type "locate -name mythfrontend"

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Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend not working

[Brad DerManouelian]

How did you install mythtv?

On Jan 16, 2006, at 8:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> When I enter the command to run mythfrontend it says "command not  
> found".
>
> I think it is missing because I cant find it anyware.  Is there  
> someplace I can
> get it?
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend not working

[theironduck . junk]

It did not work.  How can I find where the binary is?

Michael Fox wrote:
> On 1/17/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> When I enter the command to run mythfrontend it says "command not found".
>>
>> I think it is missing because I cant find it anyware.  Is there someplace I
can
>> get it?
>
> Maybe the path to the program is not in your environment path string.
> My mythfrontend is in /usr/bin
>
> So try this;
>
> cd /usr/bin
> ./mythfrontend
>
> See if it runs, if not try and find where the binary is and then cd to
> the dir and then issue ./mythfrontend to run it.
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[mythtv-users] XvMC for an EPIA Box (Playing DVDs on a Mini-ITX)?

[Matt Jordan]

I have MythTV running on a Mini-ITX (EPIA) box and DVD performance is
extremely bad.

First off:

The system is EPIA CL-1 board with the CLE266 graphics chipset. I
am running Ubuntu (Breezy) and I have recompiled the kernel to enable
Unichrome support and X indicates that direct rendering is enabled.

Although TV plays back perfectly (at least at 640x480), trying to play
a DVD pushes the CPU to 100% usage and the video is horribly garbled. 
I am to understand that I need to use XvMC to enable the native MPEG-2
decoding hardware that this board is equipped with.  The problem is
that I don't know how.

What should I do to compile or add in the support for XvMC?  Does
anyone have a Debian package of MPlayer or Xine with it integrated?

Thanks!
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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 250

[Nick]

On 16/01/06, Mike Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a Hauppauge PVR 250 card which I can tune using ptune.pl (I have
> generated a list of channel numbers/frequencies which correspond to local TV
> channel) but I don't know how to get Mythtv to change channels. Currently
> all I get is static and no channel change when I try. As far as I can tell
> mythtv doesn't know anything about the configuration specifics of the card.
>
> Is there a channel config file or database entry which should be populated?

The 'channel' table in the database - for tuner based channels, there
is a field called 'freqid' which should contain the "channel number"
i.e. between 21-69 in the UK. This is the tuning information that
MythTV uses internally to tune the PVR card to a channel.

Nick
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend not working

[Michael Fox]

On 1/17/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I enter the command to run mythfrontend it says "command not found".
>
> I think it is missing because I cant find it anyware.  Is there someplace I 
> can
> get it?

Maybe the path to the program is not in your environment path string.
My mythfrontend is in /usr/bin

So try this;

cd /usr/bin
./mythfrontend

See if it runs, if not try and find where the binary is and then cd to
the dir and then issue ./mythfrontend to run it.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Schedule changes

[Nick]

On 16/01/06, Mike Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I set up mythtv over Christmas and am just working out some of the
> idiosyncrasies with my setup. I'm new to the list so apologies if I ask any
> commonly answered questions.
>
> Myth backend is doing lots of unwanted schedules changes like this:
>
> 2006-01-15 21:01:25.424 Schedule Change on Channel 1296
> 2006-01-15 21:01:25.430 Old: 2006-01-18T06:00:00 2006-01-18T06:58:00 GMTV
> Newshour
> 2006-01-15 21:01:25.432 New: 2006-01-18 05:30:00 2006-01-18 09:25:00 ITV
> Early Morning News
>
> which are overriding the mythfilldatabase updates each morning with
> (apparently) incorrect data (e.g. one film shown four times in a row with
> each showing less than an hour long.)
>
> 1. Why does it do this?

This scenario is possible if you are running >1 card using separate
listings grabbers - e.g. for the UK, you could be using a PVR-xx0 card
with the uk_rt XMLTV grabber, and a DVB card using the DVB EPG. If you
channels are configured in a certain way, the first update could be
populating program information using the uk_rt grabber against
channels which include the DVB channels, and then any DVB channels
which are configured to get their listings from the DVB EPG will be
updated again, resulting in the log entries you are seeing.

> 2. Where does the data come from?

LIkely the DVB EPG

> 3. How does it know which channels to update?

DVB channels can be configured to get their listings from the DVB EPG

> 4. If the answer to the above is related to the configuration of the
> mythfilldatabase side of things then why is it getting incorrect data from
> my input source?

It is more likely the data being retrieved is correct, but the
configuration of the grabbers/mythfilldatabase/channels is causing
this behaviour

> 5. How do I stop it?

Assuming that the behaviour is caused by having 2 sources of listings
data running, I would ensure that only DVB channels for which there
are no listings available from the uk_rt grabber are set to use the
EPG, and all other channels use a common source. This should not only
stop data being overwritten, but also aid the scheduler tremendously
by ensuring that channels available on multiple input sources have the
same listings information. (Imagine if you have ITV1 available on your
PVR's tuner, PVR's direct cable input from an external Sky/NTL box,
_and_ on a DVB card. If the listings information for the channel
differs on the three sources, there is a very high chance that a
program's listing information will have different description/subtitle
etc which will wreak havoc with the scheduler.)

Obviously, I have made a few guesses here about your setup, but
without a DVB card I can't see another possible source for the
listings updates you are seeing.

Nick
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[mythtv-users] mythfrontend not working

[theironduck . junk]

When I enter the command to run mythfrontend it says "command not found".

I think it is missing because I cant find it anyware.  Is there someplace I can
get it?
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Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC, GF6200, FC4, and a black screen....

[Blammo]

On 1/15/06, Daniel Kristjansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.

After much pain and suffering, I got it working by setting NVAGP "1"
in the config file.

However, now I hook up the componant dongle, and I'm back where I started.

I think I'm going to try compiling AGPGART as a module (Fedora4) so I
can try NVAGP, see if that solves some of the oddness.

I, like you, was hoping this was an upgrade to the 5700 that was in
the box... It was smooth for the playoffs this weekend, but I'm trying
to get the dongle working.

I'll let you know how it does.
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Re: [mythtv-users] exit and shutdown from mythtv

[Robin Gilks]

> the 'exit and shutdown' button used to work for me.  isn't now though.

Sounds like you need to define the full path to the shutdown command in
the setup box. By default, most systems put shutdown into /sbin and a
non-root user doesn't have /sbin in its path.

Try putting /sbin/shutdown (or /usr/sbin/shutdown if thats where your
distro stores it) into the dialog box.

-- 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Entering USA Cable channels into the DVB tables

[Len Reed]

Thanks, Michael.

I'm not sure what you mean by my having PSIP data, though.  The channel 
line I quoted was one I cobbled together using the dvb utilities.  I 
started with a list of the cable frequencies and ran azap.  Taking the 
frequencies it found, I then ran it and dvbtraffic to snoop things. 
That gave me the PIDs.  I plugged those back into my channel file and 
finally was able to run "azap -r" and cat combined video+audio from the 
device, and play that back with mplayer.  Oh, I changed the first column 
to "CBS" using "vi". :)

CBS:66900:QAM_256:2176:2177:1

Any way, I never was able to get mythbackend to record DVB using 0.18.2. 
  Today I ungraded to the latest SVN.  myth-setup's channel scanner then 
found my channels, calling them things like "99#1".  I still have to use 
a bit of mysql to clean that up and tie the channels to zap2it 
schedules, but that I know to be straightforward.

Cheers,
Len


Michael Freeman wrote:
> for instance, my fox affiliate is on 675 MHz as service 1 according to 
> PID 0x...which is mplexid 274, serviceid 1 for digital channel 168 
> in my channels db
> 
> On 1/15/06, * Michael Freeman* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > wrote:
> 
> you don't need to enter the PIDs.  you need the service ID from PID
> 0x for each channel.
> if you set the mplexid and the serviceid, myth will find the rest
> automatically (as a crapcast subscriber, i'm envious that you have
> actual PSIP data for your channels)
> 
> 
> 
> On 1/15/06, *Len Reed* < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Intermittant high disk activity

[Gavin Haslett]

I had this problem when my machine was "fresh out of the box" as well. I found 
that setting mythfrontend suid root fixed that. Not perfect from a security 
standpoint, I know... but the box is well defended behind a firewall and its 
own internal firewall.
 
Another possibility is memory. Or possibly something that's running in the 
background.
 
Oh, one other possibility would be filesystem in use on the video partition. 
I've found (through trial and error) that XFS is by far the best filesystem to 
use on the video partition for general use. It deletes instantly, almost never 
seems to get fragmented or "busy" and generally is a nice FS to use. I tried 
ReiserFS (kept trying to rewrite journals while I was trying to watch TV) and 
ext3 (fragmented too easily for my tastes)... though I've been led to believe 
from a friend of mine that you can use an ext2 partition for buffers so long as 
you keep 'em below 2Gb. That apparently works well.
 
As mentioned before, it could also be MySQL... but to be honest I doubt it. 
Normally MySQL is pretty solid and doesn't just randomly do stuff unless you 
tell it. However, I wouldn't rule it out.
 
Gavin
 

-Original Message- 
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Steve Adeff 
Sent: Mon 1/16/2006 5:24 PM 
To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org 
Cc: 
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Intermittant high disk activity



On Monday 16 January 2006 16:41, mike choy wrote:
> Hi Team
>
> Having just put my SUSE 10.0 Myth machine into production with 0.18.1
> all seems to be well except that
> every now and then the front end video pauses, and the disk activity
> light goes like crazy, almost as if the machine
> has gone into some sort of paging mode. The duration can vary from a 
few
> seconds to 15/20 seconds.
> If  I exit from watching live tv back to the main menu the disk 
activity
> stops.
>
> Any idea how I can find out whats going on?
>
> Mike C

mysql?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up an FAQ for LiveTV changes

[Brian Wood]

On Jan 16, 2006, at 3:12 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
>>
> And often the 'misinformation' is not untrue, but just not  
> applicable to
> the precise situation. The inclusion of the dvb modules in the  
> kernel is
> one area which has competely up-ended the state of affairs which  
> existed
> at say, kernel 2.6.4...

Get ready to be up-ended again:-(

With the upcoming "merger" of the v4l and dvb kernel sections I  
suspect a lot more pain is in the works.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Replacing MythTV remote... anyone have any experience with RS 15-2136 (or 15-2137?)

[Joe Votour]

--- Robert Tsai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 03:50:48PM -0500, obscure
> information. wrote:
> > Hi Rob,
> > 
> > What JP1 software are you using?
> 
> Some stuff called RemoteMaster and "IR", which I got
> from
> hifi-remote.com and/or the JP1 Yahoo! Groups.
> 
> > I'm a little leery of going that route, only
> because I know that the
> > 15-2133 requires physical modification in order to
> use JP1
> > programming, and I really don't want to run the
> risk of screwing up
> > on the soldering, as it's been about 10 years
> since I last used a
> > soldering iron.
> 
> The 15-2116 does not require any physical
> modification; there is a JP1
> port right under the battery cover. Didn't even need
> a screwdriver.
> 
> > Where could I find more information about JP1
> programming?  I've
> > been to hifi-remote, but I couldn't find
> information regarding
> > either the 2136 or 2137 there.
> 
> If they are extremely new models, it's possible that
> no one there has
> played with one. You could always ask them.
> 
> --Rob
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The other catch is that a lot of the newer remotes
(like the URC-10820 I have my eye on) aren't JP1
remotes, but JP1.1 or JP1.2 remotes.  The JP1.2
remotes have the same connector (a 3x2), but the
internals are totally different.

If the remote is a JP1.2, then forget about being able
to use the JP1 tools (different CPU, different means
of communication that hasn't been reverse engineered
yet, and the progress is slow).  Also, some of the
newer Radio Shack remotes might not support EFCs,
which allow you to program codes to buttons that don't
normally send them (which JP1 could fix).

If anybody has figured out EFCs on the Radio Shack
15-2146 remote (the one with the voice prompts), I'd
love to know how they did it - it looks good for a PVR
setup.

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Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC Problem

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Re: [mythtv-users] Myth could not locate the menu file setup.xml

[Brad DerManouelian]

If you're running svn without any prefix options, it's likely in /usr/ 
local/share/mythtv.

Best way to find out is something like find /usr/ -name setup.xml

Since it's obviously not where frontend is expecting it to be, you  
can run your frontend with your $MYTHTVDIR environment variable  
pointing to that location like:
$ export MYTHTVDIR=/usr/local/
$ mythfrontend &

There's a command-line switch to tell it which directory, as well. I  
forgot what it is, but mythfrontend --help should tell you.



On Jan 16, 2006, at 6:38 PM, Ole Sandum wrote:

> At my FC4 installation it's in /usr/share/mythtv/ along with fonts and
> menu resources for all the myth modules.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> When I run
>>
>> $ mythtv-setup
>>
>> it says "Myth could not locate the menu file setup.xml.  We will  
>> now return to
>> the main menu"
>>
>> Is there some way I can get it and where does it need to go?
>>
>>
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Re: [mythtv-users] Lost sound on EPIA SP -- how to diagnose?

[Ole Sandum]

Paul Bender wrote:

>Ole Sandum wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello everybody,
>>
>>It seems everyone else's problems here are far more exotic, but I am out
>>of things to try and going desperate. So here goes:
>>
>>Just to try it out, I built a pilot FE/BE combo with FC4 on a VIA EPIA
>>SP8000 a couple of months ago. It was running nicely, but was begging
>>for faster hardware and more storage. So over christmas, I got myself a
>>nice Athlon 64-based box full of slots and drives to put the BE on. Hit
>>a couple of bumps on the way, but has it running nicely now using the
>>pure 64-bit packages from "atrpms-testing", mythfilling program guides
>>and recording everything in sight. Sweet. Thank you Axel, thank you
>>Jarod, and thank you everone else contributing.
>>
>>Now to the problem: somewhere along the way I lost the sound on the EPIA
>>and I can't get it back. It's just plain analog stereo out to the TV
>>set, so nothing fancy, but I don't know how to diagnose it. I've tried
>>un-/reinstall the alsa-{drivers,lib,utils} packages, skimming log files
>>for messages, but everything seems normal. Except the output remains
>>silent. I suppose this happened as a result of updating packages, but
>>since the original installaion was done months ago, I don't have a
>>precise recollection of what was installed/updated when.
>>
>>So please, any hints for places to look, stuff to read, or things to try
>>out will be most welcome.
>>
>>tia
>>
>>regards,
>>/Ole
>>
>>
>
>Are the "PCM", "Master" and "VIA DXS" mixer settings set to non-zero 
>values? When I updated from ALSA 1.0.9 to 1.0.10, I found that I had to 
>explicitly set the "VIA DXS" mixer settings to a non-zero value.
>  
>
I think the already are. Output from "amixer contents" is thus: (long 
post, sorry)

numid=11,iface=MIXER,name='Master Mono Playback Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw---,values=1
  : values=on
numid=12,iface=MIXER,name='Master Mono Playback Volume'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---,values=1,min=0,max=31,step=0
  : values=28
numid=1,iface=MIXER,name='Master Playback Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw---,values=1
  : values=on
numid=2,iface=MIXER,name='Master Playback Volume'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---,values=2,min=0,max=31,step=0
  : values=22,22
numid=9,iface=MIXER,name='Headphone Playback Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw---,values=1
  : values=on
numid=10,iface=MIXER,name='Headphone Playback Volume'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---,values=2,min=0,max=31,step=0
  : values=28,28
numid=34,iface=MIXER,name='3D Control - Center'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---,values=1,min=0,max=15,step=0
  : values=0
numid=35,iface=MIXER,name='3D Control - Depth'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---,values=1,min=0,max=15,step=0
  : values=0
numid=31,iface=MIXER,name='3D Control - Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw---,values=1
  : values=off
numid=26,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Playback Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw---,values=1
  : values=on
numid=27,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Playback Volume'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---,values=2,min=0,max=31,step=0
  : values=25,25
numid=7,iface=MIXER,name='Surround Playback Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw---,values=2
  : values=off,off
numid=8,iface=MIXER,name='Surround Playback Volume'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---,values=2,min=0,max=31,step=0
  : values=0,0
numid=3,iface=MIXER,name='Center Playback Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw---,values=1
  : values=off
numid=4,iface=MIXER,name='Center Playback Volume'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---,values=1,min=0,max=31,step=0
  : values=31
numid=5,iface=MIXER,name='LFE Playback Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw---,values=1
  : values=off
numid=6,iface=MIXER,name='LFE Playback Volume'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---,values=1,min=0,max=31,step=0
  : values=0
numid=20,iface=MIXER,name='Line Playback Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw---,values=1
  : values=on
numid=21,iface=MIXER,name='Line Playback Volume'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---,values=2,min=0,max=31,step=0
  : values=27,27
numid=22,iface=MIXER,name='CD Playback Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw---,values=1
  : values=on
numid=23,iface=MIXER,name='CD Playback Volume'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---,values=2,min=0,max=31,step=0
  : values=27,27
numid=19,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Boost (+20dB)'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw---,values=1
  : values=off
numid=33,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Select'
  ; type=ENUMERATED,access=rw---,values=1,items=2
  ; Item #0 'Mic1'
  ; Item #1 'Mic2'
  : values=0
numid=17,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Playback Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw---,values=1
  : values=off
numid=18,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Playback Volume'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---,values=1,min=0,max=31,step=0
  : values=0
numid=15,iface=MIXER,name='Phone Playback Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw---,values=1
  : values=off
numid=16,iface=MIXER,name='Phone Playback Volume'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---,values=1,min=0,max=31,step=0
  : values=0
numid=13,iface=MIXER,name='PC Speaker Playback Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw---,values=1
  : values=off
numid=14,iface=MIXER,name=

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth could not locate the menu file setup.xml

[Ole Sandum]

At my FC4 installation it's in /usr/share/mythtv/ along with fonts and 
menu resources for all the myth modules.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>When I run
>
>$ mythtv-setup
>
>it says "Myth could not locate the menu file setup.xml.  We will now return to
>the main menu"
>
>Is there some way I can get it and where does it need to go?
>  
>

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Re: [mythtv-users] Intermittant high disk activity

[Steve Adeff]

On Monday 16 January 2006 16:41, mike choy wrote:
> Hi Team
>
> Having just put my SUSE 10.0 Myth machine into production with 0.18.1
> all seems to be well except that
> every now and then the front end video pauses, and the disk activity
> light goes like crazy, almost as if the machine
> has gone into some sort of paging mode. The duration can vary from a few
> seconds to 15/20 seconds.
> If  I exit from watching live tv back to the main menu the disk activity
> stops.
>
> Any idea how I can find out whats going on?
>
> Mike C

mysql?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Nearly 100% install of MYTHYV...

[Steve]

Heh, no problem... Glad to help because this exact same problem was giving me nothing but trouble and for weeks I was starting mythbackend manually so I decided I should do something about it.
On 1/16/06, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 16 January 2006 01:28, Steve wrote:> I had this exact same problem with my backend and I simply changed my init
> script around a bit to look like this, try it out for yourself:>I took your script, emaild it to my son at home, he twiddled with it a tad bitand...IT WORKS!Kinda :')
I took your script and had to morph it a bit to:#!/sbin/runscriptdepend() {   need net   use mysql}start() {   [[ -z "${MYTH_VERBOSE}" ]] && MYTH_VERBOSE="none"
   QTDIR=/usr/qt/3   #fixes for bug #101308   unset DISPLAY   unset SESSION_MANAGER   # Work around any strange permissions that may be on these files.   chown -R mythtv /var/log/mythtv/
   ebegin "Starting MythTV Backend"   /usr/bin/mythbackend -l /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log-p /var/run/mythbackend.pid -v all -d   eend $?}stop () {   ebegin "Stopping MythTV Backend"
   killall -2 mythbackend   rm  /var/run/mythbackend.pid   eend $?}# end of scriptWhen I get home tonight, I'm going to try to add the start-and-stop stuffbackinto it ad see how that effects it. Better still, I'm going to find out
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[mythtv-users] Myth could not locate the menu file setup.xml

[theironduck . junk]

When I run

$ mythtv-setup

it says "Myth could not locate the menu file setup.xml.  We will now return to
the main menu"

Is there some way I can get it and where does it need to go?
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Re: [mythtv-users] Lost sound on EPIA SP -- how to diagnose?

[Paul Bender]

Ole Sandum wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> It seems everyone else's problems here are far more exotic, but I am out
> of things to try and going desperate. So here goes:
> 
> Just to try it out, I built a pilot FE/BE combo with FC4 on a VIA EPIA
> SP8000 a couple of months ago. It was running nicely, but was begging
> for faster hardware and more storage. So over christmas, I got myself a
> nice Athlon 64-based box full of slots and drives to put the BE on. Hit
> a couple of bumps on the way, but has it running nicely now using the
> pure 64-bit packages from "atrpms-testing", mythfilling program guides
> and recording everything in sight. Sweet. Thank you Axel, thank you
> Jarod, and thank you everone else contributing.
> 
> Now to the problem: somewhere along the way I lost the sound on the EPIA
> and I can't get it back. It's just plain analog stereo out to the TV
> set, so nothing fancy, but I don't know how to diagnose it. I've tried
> un-/reinstall the alsa-{drivers,lib,utils} packages, skimming log files
> for messages, but everything seems normal. Except the output remains
> silent. I suppose this happened as a result of updating packages, but
> since the original installaion was done months ago, I don't have a
> precise recollection of what was installed/updated when.
> 
> So please, any hints for places to look, stuff to read, or things to try
> out will be most welcome.
> 
> tia
> 
> regards,
> /Ole
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Are the "PCM", "Master" and "VIA DXS" mixer settings set to non-zero 
values? When I updated from ALSA 1.0.9 to 1.0.10, I found that I had to 
explicitly set the "VIA DXS" mixer settings to a non-zero value.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Replacing MythTV remote... anyone have any experience with RS 15-2136 (or 15-2137?)

[Robert Tsai]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 03:50:48PM -0500, obscure information. wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
> What JP1 software are you using?

Some stuff called RemoteMaster and "IR", which I got from
hifi-remote.com and/or the JP1 Yahoo! Groups.

> I'm a little leery of going that route, only because I know that the
> 15-2133 requires physical modification in order to use JP1
> programming, and I really don't want to run the risk of screwing up
> on the soldering, as it's been about 10 years since I last used a
> soldering iron.

The 15-2116 does not require any physical modification; there is a JP1
port right under the battery cover. Didn't even need a screwdriver.

> Where could I find more information about JP1 programming?  I've
> been to hifi-remote, but I couldn't find information regarding
> either the 2136 or 2137 there.

If they are extremely new models, it's possible that no one there has
played with one. You could always ask them.

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[mythtv-users] exit and shutdown from mythtv

[Tim]

the 'exit and 
shutdown' button used to work for me.  isn't now though.  i've noticed 
that the user i am logging in with does not have priveleges to run 
shutdown.  so, i editted the sudoers file.  didn't seem to change 
anything though.  here's my file, username live:
 

# /etc/sudoers # 
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. # # 
See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file. # # 
Host alias specification # User alias specification # Cmnd alias 
specification Cmnd_Alias    SHUTDOWN = /sbin/shutdown # 
User privilege specification root    ALL=(ALL) ALL 
live    ALL = NOPASSWD: SHUTDOWN 

 
but, when i choose 
the 'exit and shutdown' button, i get a command not 
found.  specifically, 'sh: line 1: halt: command not found'.  any 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Trouble installing lirc on FC4 (lirc-kmdl-2.6.14-1.1653_FC4)

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 04:32:18PM -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> What you may not understand here is that you may be missing the *kernel* 
> sources for your setup. It is not particularly made clear in Jarod's 
> guide that you need 'kernel-dvel' for the sources,

No, you only need the kernel sources if you wnat to build kernel
modules, not if you just want to download the kmdls and use them.
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[mythtv-users] Different Tuners have different sounds??

[James Oltman]

I have a PVR-350 and a PVR-250 in my backend machine.  There is a
NOTICEABLE difference in the audio quality between the two cards.  My
350 sounds much better than the 250.  The 250 has a staticy sound to
it.  I have to turn up the volume of my home theater just to get the
same volume of audio on the 250 as I get on the 350.  What can I do to
change this?  Is there a setting in Mythsetup that needs to be
checked?  Is it something that I need to change every time I log in? 
Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I need to increase the GAF. 
Thanks!
Jim
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Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC Problem

[Luke]

I followed the instructions given in Jarod C. Wilson's guide.Therefore, my kernel version is 2.6.14-1_1656_FC4. The "0.8.0-CVS" lirc version are obtained from the ATrpms together with the kernel modules as directed in the guide.
As for the LIRC_OPTS variable, this is the first time I have heard of it. Where to I check that and how should I set it.  One more thing, I discovered that I do not have /dev/lirc rather I have /dev/lircd. Is this normal?
On 17/01/06, Brian Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jan 16, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Luke wrote:> I have finally installed lirc for my MythTV box. I can start the> lircd daemon [OK]. If I check the status soon after, I see that the> daemon is running. However, if I run /usr/bin/irw I get no output
> and the lircd daemon dies. My log files show the following entries:>> Jan 16 21:26:55 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3464]: lircd(userspace) ready> Jan 16 21:27:10 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3464]: accepted new client
> on /dev/lircd> Jan 16 21:27:10 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3464]: could not get file> information for /dev/lirc> Jan 16 21:27:10 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3464]: default_init(): No> such file or directory
> Jan 16 21:27:10 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3464]: caught signal>> Jan 16 21:27:28 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3497]: lircd(userspace) ready> Jan 16 21:27:47 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3497]: accepted new client
> on /dev/lircd> Jan 16 21:27:47 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3497]: could not get file> information for /dev/lirc> Jan 16 21:27:47 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3497]: default_init(): No> such file or directory
> Jan 16 21:27:47 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3497]: caught signal>> What could be the problem here? My remote input is onboard the> Prolink PixelView PlayTV Pro card (a bttv bt878 card).I'm not familiar with the "
0.8.0-CVS" lirc version, and you don'tmention what kernel version you are using, but I have noticed thatlirc seems to be very sensitive to kernel version, for example0.8.0_pre1 works with my 2.6.14 kernel, while 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Lost sound on EPIA SP -- how to diagnose?

[R. G. Newbury]

Ole Sandum wrote:

>Hello everybody,
>
>It seems everyone else's problems here are far more exotic, but I am out
>of things to try and going desperate. So here goes:
>
>Just to try it out, I built a pilot FE/BE combo with FC4 on a VIA EPIA
>SP8000 a couple of months ago. It was running nicely, but was begging
>for faster hardware and more storage. So over christmas, I got myself a
>nice Athlon 64-based box full of slots and drives to put the BE on. Hit
>a couple of bumps on the way, but has it running nicely now using the
>pure 64-bit packages from "atrpms-testing", mythfilling program guides
>and recording everything in sight. Sweet. Thank you Axel, thank you
>Jarod, and thank you everone else contributing.
>
>Now to the problem: somewhere along the way I lost the sound on the EPIA
>and I can't get it back. It's just plain analog stereo out to the TV
>set, so nothing fancy, but I don't know how to diagnose it. I've tried
>un-/reinstall the alsa-{drivers,lib,utils} packages, skimming log files
>for messages, but everything seems normal. Except the output remains
>silent. I suppose this happened as a result of updating packages, but
>since the original installaion was done months ago, I don't have a
>precise recollection of what was installed/updated when.
>
>So please, any hints for places to look, stuff to read, or things to try
>out will be most welcome.
>  
>
Is sound turned on in the BIOS?
Did you fiddle with the internal jumpers, even to set something else?
Can you get any sounds if you try to play a wav file with various programs?
Have you tried all of the outputs? I had my output plugged into the line 
input at one stage BTDT!
Have you tried fiddling with kmix and made sure that the volume is 
turned up?
Is the external amp properly set up?  Kinda silly to curse the machine 
when you have inadvertantly switched on 'Tape Monitor' and thus 
effectively turned off the input? Might help to plug in some earphones 
directly to the motherboard.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb shuts down my machine

[mike choy]

Paul Harrison wrote:
> - Original Message - 
> From: "Chris Petersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" 
> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 8:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb shuts down my machine
>
>
>   
>>> One possible way to prevent Mythweb from triggering the backend to shutdown 
>>> the
>>> machine is to change 'ANN Playback ' to 'ANN Monitor ' in mythbackend.php.
>>>   
>
>   
>> Except that I believe "playback" is required for doing stuff like 
>> grabbing thumbnails (or eventually, streaming recordings themselves).
>> 
>
>   
>> -Chris
>> 
>
> 'Monitor' and 'Playback' connections are the same the only difference is 
> 'monitor' 
> connections don't block shutdown or trigger the flag in the backend that 
> starts the 
> checking for no active connections. I believe everything should work the same 
> with
> both 'Monitor' or 'Playback' connection types. The only difference is Mythweb 
> won't
> affect the shutdown status in the backend in any way. Streaming recordings 
> may need
> a different approach not sure how that works. 
>
>
> Paul H.
>
>
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I'll give it try later in the week
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Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Problem with XvMC being slow

[Steve Malenfant]

The problem I've seen on my system are :

- Use Video as Time Base (experimental).  For some reason mine was
checked and sometime it would work just fine.  Disabling that solved
my problem.
- Not using Alsa drivers, every time a new kernel gets out you have to
go get the alsa driver, pain that it doesn't upgrade on it's own.
- Ring Buffer Size is a problem when too high on my backend, looks
like every few seconds my frontend would have to wait for I/O from the
backend and pause frames for a few milliseconds.  When you check with
"top" and you see "wa" using CPU time, that's a problem.
- My 100$ PC from fry's (Duron 1600) with PCI MX4400 is enough to play 1080i HD.

Steve M.

On 1/15/06, Jerry Rubinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/7/06, Jerry Rubinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On 1/6/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Friday 06 January 2006 00:05, Jerry Rubinow wrote:
> > > > On 1/5/06, Jerry Rubinow < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > On 1/5/06, Joseph A. Caputo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > > On Thursday 05 January 2006 1:21, Jerry Rubinow wrote:
> > > > > > > When using XvMC to play back video, CPU usage is low (30% for HD,
> > 10%
> > > > > > > for SD), but the video plays back slower than realtime.  I'm using
> > an
> > > > > > > Nvidia 5200 card, with driver version 7667 (although I've tried
> > every
> > > > > > > version up to the current 8XXX).
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >  Is there anything I should check?  Anything obviously wrong from
> > the
> > > > > > > following details?  Or is this the XvMC slowdown I've read about?
> > > > > > > What are my options for fixing this?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I could be way off base on this, but something in my memory is
> > nagging
> > > > > > me... something about maybe Nvidia's XvMC not supporting/performing
> > > > > > well at certain resolutions?  Have you tried changing your
> > horizontal
> > > > > > resolution to something smaller, like 1024?
> > > > >
> > > > > No, but that's a good suggestion - I'll try it tonight.  Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > No luck.  I tried setting both X and the GUI setup in myth to 800x600
> > > > and it's still slow playing HD.  Not stuttering, just slower than real
> > > > time.  I didn't mention before, but I'm using pretty much a straight
> > > > following of Jarod's guide with FC4, 2.6.14, on a P4 2.8.
> > > >
> > > > I'm so close to having beautiful HD playback, can anybody suggest things
> > to
> > > > try?
> > >
> > > poney up for a faster processor? I know its prbly not an optioin, but with
> > a
> > > 3.0 or 3.2GHz cpu you'll be able to play back HD without XvMC.
> > > Does OpenGL sync work with XvMC? I dunno, but might be worth a try. Also,
> > try
> > > disabling any deinterlacing? Oh, what about audio buffering options, have
> > you
> > > played with those?
> > > Also, don't forget you have to restart mythfrontend everytime you make one
> > of
> > > these changes. minor bug...
> >
> >
> > I'm already at the fastest processor a Pundit will accept, so I'd have to
> > scrap my whole nice form factor frontend to do that.  I'm using OpenGL sync,
> > and deinterlacing is already disabled.  I haven't played with audio options
> > at all, but I don't think that can be it, since if I turn off XvMC, NTSC
> > plays back fine, but with it on, it plays back slow (not stuttering, just
> > slow-mo).
> > I'm out of town this weekend, but when I get back, I'm going to try
> > compiling mplayer with xvmc support and see if that has problems playing
> > back too.  That will at least either eliminate myth from the equation or
> > point to myth as the culprit.
>
> For anybody following this thread, increasing the ringbuffer size was
> what finally fixed this problem.
>
> -Jerry
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Re: [mythtv-users] MVPMC

[Nick Craig-Wood]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 06:53:59PM +, Mike Richardson wrote:
> I'm using the MVP box as a front end to Mythtv. When I use NFS the playback
> quality if perfect. When I use the myth protocol it becomes jerky and
> pixelated in places. I get these messages in the mythtv log:
> 
> MainServer::HandleVersion - Client speaks protocol version 8 but we speak 15!

I think this error is normal.

> at the start of the watching session and 
> 
> WriteBlock zerocnt timeout

Doesn't sound so good though!

> each time the picture jerks. Is this a mythtv or MVPMC issue? Any
> suggestions on how I can cure it in 'myth protocol' mode?

Did you try upping the TCP buffers for the MythTV protocol? (See the
config screens in MVPMC itself)

> (The on-screen graphics are quite useful).

Do you use -r /nfs/path/to/mythtv/recordings or use the filebrowser to
play the recordings.  The former (which I use) gives the program info
on the screen which is what I presume you mean by the on-screen
graphics, but plays the files via NFS.  Its works well here!

BTW You'll probably get a better answer on the mvpmc mailing list!

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Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up an FAQ for LiveTV changes

[R. G. Newbury]

Nick wrote:

>On 16/01/06, Michael Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  
>
>>On 1/16/06, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Thats why FAQs are done now isn't it?
>>>  
>>>
>>Good idea.
>>
>>
>
>Any single source of correct, concise and timely information is a
>bonus in my book. 
>  
>
 ii) the 'misinformation' that they may include (I've been put in that

>bracket too - only by trying to help out fellow users when useful
>information doesn't exist). I don't think a lot of the misinformation
>is written intentionally either, it's usually a user wanting to help a
>fellow user but not having the same level of comprehension as the
>devs.
>
>  
>
And often the 'misinformation' is not untrue, but just not applicable to 
the precise situation. The inclusion of the dvb modules in the kernel is 
one area which has competely up-ended the state of affairs which existed 
at say, kernel 2.6.4...

Geoff

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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb shuts down my machine

[mike choy]

Chris Petersen wrote:
>> One possible way to prevent Mythweb from triggering the backend to shutdown 
>> the
>> machine is to change 'ANN Playback ' to 'ANN Monitor ' in mythbackend.php.
>> 
>
> Except that I believe "playback" is required for doing stuff like 
> grabbing thumbnails (or eventually, streaming recordings themselves).
>
> -Chris
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Thanks team
I need to have a real hard think about the use case here, I suspect that
I wont  need use mythweb, unless a front end is running.
I will also have a look at the pre-shutdown-check command that  I have
just spotted.

Mike C


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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb schedule recordings - possible to add a new type "weekday"?

[Adam Propeck]

It's probably on at different times. Couldn't you do the "record any
time on any channel" type of recording mode? Then anytime it's on you'd
be good to go?On 1/16/06, Chris Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to record old Simpsons reruns off of Fox Monday - Friday, but> there doesn't appear to be an option for this type of recording...Why not record them on weekends, too?-Chris___
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Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC Problem

[Brian Wood]

On Jan 16, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Luke wrote:

> I have finally installed lirc for my MythTV box. I can start the  
> lircd daemon [OK]. If I check the status soon after, I see that the  
> daemon is running. However, if I run /usr/bin/irw I get no output  
> and the lircd daemon dies. My log files show the following entries:
>
> Jan 16 21:26:55 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3464]: lircd(userspace) ready
> Jan 16 21:27:10 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3464]: accepted new client  
> on /dev/lircd
> Jan 16 21:27:10 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3464]: could not get file  
> information for /dev/lirc
> Jan 16 21:27:10 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3464]: default_init(): No  
> such file or directory
> Jan 16 21:27:10 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3464]: caught signal
>
> Jan 16 21:27:28 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3497]: lircd(userspace) ready
> Jan 16 21:27:47 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3497]: accepted new client  
> on /dev/lircd
> Jan 16 21:27:47 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3497]: could not get file  
> information for /dev/lirc
> Jan 16 21:27:47 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3497]: default_init(): No  
> such file or directory
> Jan 16 21:27:47 media lircd-0.8.0-CVS[3497]: caught signal
>
> What could be the problem here? My remote input is onboard the  
> Prolink PixelView PlayTV Pro card (a bttv bt878 card).

I'm not familiar with the "0.8.0-CVS" lirc version, and you don't  
mention what kernel version you are using, but I have noticed that  
lirc seems to be very sensitive to kernel version, for example  
0.8.0_pre1 works with my 2.6.14 kernel, while 0.8.0_pre3 does not,  
although pre3 says that it has modifications for the 2.6.15 kernel.

I assume you have checked that LIRC_OPTS is pointing to the correct  
character device for your setup.


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Re: [mythtv-users] Lost sound on EPIA SP -- how to diagnose?

[Kevin Kuphal]

Ole Sandum wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> It seems everyone else's problems here are far more exotic, but I am out
> of things to try and going desperate. So here goes:
>
> Just to try it out, I built a pilot FE/BE combo with FC4 on a VIA EPIA
> SP8000 a couple of months ago. It was running nicely, but was begging
> for faster hardware and more storage. So over christmas, I got myself a
> nice Athlon 64-based box full of slots and drives to put the BE on. Hit
> a couple of bumps on the way, but has it running nicely now using the
> pure 64-bit packages from "atrpms-testing", mythfilling program guides
> and recording everything in sight. Sweet. Thank you Axel, thank you
> Jarod, and thank you everone else contributing.
>
> Now to the problem: somewhere along the way I lost the sound on the EPIA
> and I can't get it back. It's just plain analog stereo out to the TV
> set, so nothing fancy, but I don't know how to diagnose it. I've tried
> un-/reinstall the alsa-{drivers,lib,utils} packages, skimming log files
> for messages, but everything seems normal. Except the output remains
> silent. I suppose this happened as a result of updating packages, but
> since the original installaion was done months ago, I don't have a
> precise recollection of what was installed/updated when.
>
> So please, any hints for places to look, stuff to read, or things to try
> out will be most welcome.
>
>   
I hate to point out the obvious, but did you run alsa-mixer and unmute 
things?

Kevin
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[mythtv-users] Lost sound on EPIA SP -- how to diagnose?

[Ole Sandum]

Hello everybody,

It seems everyone else's problems here are far more exotic, but I am out
of things to try and going desperate. So here goes:

Just to try it out, I built a pilot FE/BE combo with FC4 on a VIA EPIA
SP8000 a couple of months ago. It was running nicely, but was begging
for faster hardware and more storage. So over christmas, I got myself a
nice Athlon 64-based box full of slots and drives to put the BE on. Hit
a couple of bumps on the way, but has it running nicely now using the
pure 64-bit packages from "atrpms-testing", mythfilling program guides
and recording everything in sight. Sweet. Thank you Axel, thank you
Jarod, and thank you everone else contributing.

Now to the problem: somewhere along the way I lost the sound on the EPIA
and I can't get it back. It's just plain analog stereo out to the TV
set, so nothing fancy, but I don't know how to diagnose it. I've tried
un-/reinstall the alsa-{drivers,lib,utils} packages, skimming log files
for messages, but everything seems normal. Except the output remains
silent. I suppose this happened as a result of updating packages, but
since the original installaion was done months ago, I don't have a
precise recollection of what was installed/updated when.

So please, any hints for places to look, stuff to read, or things to try
out will be most welcome.

tia

regards,
/Ole

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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweb shuts down my machine

[mike choy]

Chris Petersen wrote:
>> One possible way to prevent Mythweb from triggering the backend to shutdown 
>> the
>> machine is to change 'ANN Playback ' to 'ANN Monitor ' in mythbackend.php.
>> 
>
> Except that I believe "playback" is required for doing stuff like 
> grabbing thumbnails (or eventually, streaming recordings themselves).
>
> -Chris
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Thanks team
I need to have a real hard think about the use case here, I suspect that 
I wont  need use mythweb, unless a front end is running.
I will also have a look at the pre-shutdown-check command that  I have 
just spotted.

Mike C

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