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

[Kirk Grell]

Latest version.  Ok, I'll look again when I get a chance.  Is that in
mythtvsetup or mythfrontend?

Kirk

--- Chris Pinkham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > I don't see any job queue options under recording profiles.  Here
> are
> > all the places I see options regarding job queues:
> 
> What version are you running?  It is in there since before 0.18, it
> will say
> "Run 'Nuvexport Job'" or "Do not run 'Nuvexport job' for new
> recordings".
> They are on the "Post Recording Processing" page of the recording
> profile setup.
> 
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[mythtv-users] Changing width resolution for PVR-250/350's

[f-myth-users]

> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:27:59 -0400
> From: Greg Estabrooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> > But I also saw a neglible change in file sizes, too.  Is this 
> > the expected behavior?

>  Certainly, bitrate is bitrate regardless of the resolution. 2Megabits at 
> 480x480 is just as much data as 2Megabits at 720x480.

Oh duh.  Of course; I totally wasn't paying attention to the bitrate
page.  Well, we already knew I was an idiot... :)

> The difference
> is how much data per sampled pixel. Often lowering the resolution and 
> turning up the bitrate can increase picture quality but it also depends
> on just how clean your source is to start. If you've already got a clean 
source
> then you can get away with a lower bitrate.

Does anyone have suggestions for -their- ideas of reasonable bitrates
before I spend a bunch of time experimenting?  I have a clean feed,
and I've been reasonably happy with either "TiVo High" quality, or
"VHS EP mode" quality (yes, I know the latter is substantially fuzzier,
and yes, I'm not even talking SVHS :).  Approximate figures for either
one would make good starting points for my experimentation.  (And if
anyone thinks that some particular width x height should go along with
these bitrates, by all means, share.)

Since there's both a bitrate and a max bitrate (4500 and 6000 in my
current setup, which are the defaults), there are a lot of variables;
are their any I should stay away from?  Is it sensible to lower the
bitrate to, say, 3000 or even lower, and does it make sense to leave
the max bitrate high?  Is this used only during a scene change or
lots of motion/flow?  I'm using a 350 as my TV-out; has anyone noticed
any particular bugs/crashes/artifacts from using other bitrates?

>  Plus analog cable broadcasts are normally broadcast in a "resolution"
> of close to 544x480 in most markets. People keep focusing on 720x480
> as it is the most well known NTSC DVD resolution.

Right.

> > I didn't restart mythbackend after each set of changes, and I'm not
> > sure if they take effect instantly or not.)

>  They would take effect immediately so the next time a recording is 
started
> they would use the new profile information.

Good.

> > mplayer or something, would using 640x480 or some other size make for
> > a more reasonably-transportable setting?  Any other comments?

>  What do you mean by transportable in this context? Personally all of
> my recordings are done at a resolution of 544x480, but of course ymmv.

Basically, if I decide to move these recordings elsewhere and watch
them on a computer, my guess was that the less rescaling has to
happen, the better.  Since the input material is all 4:3 SD NTSC,
my guess is that I should specify a ratio of width to height that's
-also- 4:3, meaning that no pixels need rescaling if I were to just
display this stream in mplayer or something.  Is this likely to
matter?  (That would work out to 640 x 480, of course.)

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Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2

[Chad]

On 1/17/06, Michael Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/18/06, Justin Hornsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello again.
> >
> > I've just put up version 1.2 of my ProjectGrayhem-wide theme.
> >
>
> Good work, with a good theme.
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Excellent will be trying out in a few minutes, I just installed it.

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

[John Andersen]

On 1/16/06, obscure information. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was wondering about too, for instance:
>
> 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...
>
> Then again, it might just be another time for me to RTFM or RTFW :)

I do this all the time.
Use Find one daily option.  If its not on, it won't be recorded. (DUH).

Works great for daily shows that appear only on week days, even if
it gets shifted around in the daily schedule.  Won't record anything
on the week end, unless they happen to slip in a rerun or something.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Shouldn't XvMC be faster than Xv?

[Scott Alfter]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:13:49PM -0700, Chad wrote:
> 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.
> 
> XvMC is currently working AFAIK, I've got SVN from about 3 days ago
> and it seems to be working just fine for me.
> 
> 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.

I think I figured out the problem: it was the nVidia driver.  8178 was the
version I had been running.  Falling back to 7676 got XvMC working properly
on most of the streams I've thrown at it so far.  

The only sticking point now is the HD feed from the local Fox affiliate.
mplayer claims the streams are encoded at about 38.8 Mbps, which is
impossible (but mplayer plays the streams OK).  I'm fairly sure the streams
are actually encoded at a lower bitrate.  King of the Hill takes ~3.2 GB,
which is about right for 30 minutes of HD.  HD streams from other channels
report more reasonable bitrates; for instance, the most recent Law & Order:
Criminal Intent is reported as being about 15.4 Mbps).

I suspect that's a problem elsewhere, though (maybe even with the
broadcaster), not with the display hardware here.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Advice on adding second capture card

[Paul Barker]

David wrote:

>
>There was some good advice on Nova-Ts in the archives - fairly easy to
>search for. Also easy to find on google.
>
>Do you have good DVB reception?
>This is a good link for UK digital TV - what cable to use from the
>aerial etc...
>http://www.megalithia.com/elect/index.html
>
>I currently have usually bad DVB reception (upgrading the aerial wire
>next week) - and Mythbackend sometimes has problems 'cos it can't sync.
>It's also impossible to say "don't record on this input" so as soon as
>you get xmltv going it will schedule for it and you'll have to delete
>shows by hand.
>
>David
>
>  
>
Thanks David. I'll have a search about in the archives. I've been 
reading plenty of stuff on the web and I know a fair bit more about DVB 
today than I did yesterday! I had a look at the megalithia site and I 
have good line of site to Billsdale (no obstructions) and I'm 21 miles 
away. Since I already have a good loft space aerial I'm going to borrow 
a friends set top box over the weekend and see what kind of reception I 
get from it. If it's not great I'll have to have an outdoor aerial fitted.

With regard to Myth choosing the second tuner, I had assumed that it 
would use the first input (my 250) unless there was a conflict and then 
try to resolve it using the new input (Nova-T) is this the case ?

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

[Chris Pinkham]

>>> I don't see any job queue options under recording profiles.  Here  are
>>> all the places I see options regarding job queues:

>> What version are you running?  It is in there since before 0.18, it will say
>> "Run 'Nuvexport Job'" or "Do not run 'Nuvexport job' for new recordings".
>> They are on the "Post Recording Processing" page of the recording
>> profile setup.

> Latest version.  Ok, I'll look again when I get a chance.  Is that in
> mythtvsetup or mythfrontend?

The recording profiles are in mythfrontend.  I thought you said you
looked at them already.

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Re: [mythtv-users] DVB EIT Not Updating

[John Pullan]

On 18/01/06, Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 17/01/06, Robin Elvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> On Tuesday 17 January 2006 01:51, Nick wrote:> >> > 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.> >> > Nick>> OK, I've had look for tv_grab_dvb and I sort of have it working. I can't seem> to find any guides so I'm guessing most of what I should be doing. I should
> mention that I'm doing this so I can finally record DVB radio.>> I made a fresh DVB scan and got an up to date channels.conf which I put in the> same directory as tv_grab_dvb. Then I ran it and I got some XML. I then ran
> it again and pumped this into mythfilldatabase.> Looking at the output it seems I got data for the radio channels but what> happens to them? My initial mythsetup scan only added the FTA TV channels so
> I don't see any radio in the EPG. Do I need to do this scan again with a> different setting?You need to manually add the radio channels to the channel table - ifyou compare an existing TV channel in the table to its entry in
channels.conf, it's fairly obvious to determine how the radio channelsshould look. In terms of the DVB card - the settings required are inthe list archives as I'm away from my box at the moment.I think radio channel scanning/support is being mooted for a future
release - in the meantime it's just nice to be able to schedule radiorecordings.
I'll just point out that svn does have a patch in trac. I believe it'll be integrated just after 0.19 is let out.

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/926
Regards
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Re: [mythtv-users] Advice on adding second capture card

[Chris Hembrow]

I set my nova-t as the first input, that way I don't tie up my sky box
by recording a freeview channel, unless i'm recording 2 channels.
There is nothing more annoying than getting halfway through a
recording, only to find that the missus has changed sky channel, or
left it on the sky guide for 20 minutes! (and that is despite having
an LCD on the box which shows if/what it's recording)

The only problem I had was with scanning the channels, cuz I have a
cr4p aerial. I had to manually enter the frequencies in mythtvsetup
and do a search then. But this shouldn't be a problem with a decent
aerial.


On 18/01/06, Paul Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David wrote:
>
> >
> >There was some good advice on Nova-Ts in the archives - fairly easy to
> >search for. Also easy to find on google.
> >
> >Do you have good DVB reception?
> >This is a good link for UK digital TV - what cable to use from the
> >aerial etc...
> >http://www.megalithia.com/elect/index.html
> >
> >I currently have usually bad DVB reception (upgrading the aerial wire
> >next week) - and Mythbackend sometimes has problems 'cos it can't sync.
> >It's also impossible to say "don't record on this input" so as soon as
> >you get xmltv going it will schedule for it and you'll have to delete
> >shows by hand.
> >
> >David
> >
> >
> >
> Thanks David. I'll have a search about in the archives. I've been
> reading plenty of stuff on the web and I know a fair bit more about DVB
> today than I did yesterday! I had a look at the megalithia site and I
> have good line of site to Billsdale (no obstructions) and I'm 21 miles
> away. Since I already have a good loft space aerial I'm going to borrow
> a friends set top box over the weekend and see what kind of reception I
> get from it. If it's not great I'll have to have an outdoor aerial fitted.
>
> With regard to Myth choosing the second tuner, I had assumed that it
> would use the first input (my 250) unless there was a conflict and then
> try to resolve it using the new input (Nova-T) is this the case ?
>
> Cheers
> Paul
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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500: problems with sound

[Stef Coene]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 01:14, Greg Woods wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 01:02 +0100, Stef Coene wrote:
> > Anyway, I keep running
> > while true; do ivtvctl -d /dev/video1 -q 0; sleep 10; done
> > in a login prompt for now.
>
> I obviously can't comment on your particular situation, nor am I an
> expert on how ivtv works. That said, what I have observed on my system
> is, it has never been necessary to repeat the ivtvctl command once it
> has been set correctly once. However, there doesn't seem to be any
> consistency in what the argument to -q is. Sometimes it's 0, 1, or 2. I
> just have to trial-and-error it until I get it right, but once set, it
> works until the next reboot.
I have to execute each time I start live tv or record something.

How does mythtv select the audio input?
And it looks like there is a difference between selecting audio input on first 
tune and changing channels.


Stef
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythlcd

[Tomi Makinen]

Where could I moer information about mythlcd and what it shows ?
Does it show clock when you watch TV or dvd ? Or can you configure it easily ?On 1/2/06, Robin Gilks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:> Hello List,>> Is there a way to use mythlcd with the stable 
0.18.1 code ?>> I don't want to run the CVS version if possible>Any reason you particularly want the seperate task driving the LCD? 0.18.1will already talk to an LCD device through LCDproc - its just that the SVN
code has factored out a lot of the LCD stuff to make it easier to supportand to add new features (like better operation with MythMusic).Tick the check box on the last 'appearance' setup screen to enable the LCD
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythlcd

[Robin Gilks]

> Where could I moer information about mythlcd and what it shows ?
> Does it show clock when you watch TV or dvd ? Or can you configure it
> easily
> ?
>
> On 1/2/06, Robin Gilks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > Hello List,
>> >
>> > Is there a way to use mythlcd with the stable 0.18.1 code ?
>> >
>> > I don't want to run the CVS version if possible
>> >
>>
>> Any reason you particularly want the seperate task driving the LCD?
>> 0.18.1
>> will already talk to an LCD device through LCDproc - its just that the
>> SVN
>> code has factored out a lot of the LCD stuff to make it easier to
>> support
>> and to add new features (like better operation with MythMusic).
>>
>> Tick the check box on the last 'appearance' setup screen to enable the
>> LCD
>> stuff and select the items you want displaying...
>>

The easiest way to see what it does is to try it - fortunately you don't
need an LCD for testing!!

Install lcdproc and set up the ncurses driver. Set the size to what you
would expect to use on a real LCD (mine is 2 lines of 20 for example) and
run up LCDd on a seperate virtual screen before you start up mythfrontend.
In Mythfrontend, go into setup/appearance and select the things you want
to be displayed. I think you have to restart the frontend to it to work...

You'll see displayed (including all the scrolling etc) everything you can
expect to see on a real LCD.

Very handy for debugging this method is, as I found when the display I
bought wouldn't run directly off the 3.3volt printer port on an Epia
SP13000 (even with pullup resistors) such that I had to put in voltage
shifting buffers. When I was at last convinced that the software DID work
I debugged the hardware and sorted it!!

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Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for good specifications for mythTV

[Cristo Saulo Bolaños Trujillo]

Which CPU would be required to play back programs recorded with DVB-T ?
Taking into account it would play without hardware mpeg-2 decoder.


On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 06:26:37PM +1100, Phill Edwards wrote:
> > What are some good specs for a mythTV box..I have seen specs for high
> > end machines doing multiple
> > recordingsI am not looking into doing such things...
> 
> Take a look at http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/tiki-pvrhwdb.php
> 
> Also, if you're recording DVB TV then that requires very little CPU
> grunt to record and not too much to play back. However, if it's HD DVB
> TV then the playback seems to require massive grunt.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for high WAF in-wall speakers!!

[David]

Meatwad wrote:

> But please, please, please do your Myth system some justice and put
>
>something, ANYTHING, other than Bose in the room.
>
>* Here is the de facto article I refer prospective clients to when they 
>bring up Bose. If they still have a thing for Bose, I know they are 
>going to be PITA customer and I politely drop them like a hot potato.
>http://www.intellexual.net/bose.html
>
>  
>
Thanks for this - I've always known Bose were crap but have never
bothered Googling for it.
I can use this link to try and help the misguided souls that believe the
glossies.

David
PS Any thoughts on the Sonic Amplifier T-Amp 5066? ;)
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Re: [mythtv-users] Missing header files LIRC on FC4

[Luke]

On 18/01/06, Brian Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jan 17, 2006, at 3:30 PM, Luke wrote:I have a situation here, while trying to compile and install lirc from source on FC4.
I have downloaded the latest kernel source for FC4 and it's installed at:  /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel- 2.6.14/linux-2.6.14/I made a symbolic link like so:
 ln -s /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.14/linux-2.6.14  /usr/src/linuxrunning the script  ./configure for lirc is successful
the make command generate errors, the first of which is:error: ../drivers/media/video/bttv.h: No such file or directoryFurther errors below that are probably due to the missing 
bttv.h and similar files.I know the so-called missing header files exist at /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.14/linux-2.6.14/drivers/media/video/* . Where is 
 make looking for the header files. This looks straight forward but, I am lost. Any ideas?Well "make" is certainly not looking *there*, that's for sure. On my old FC3 system 
bttv.h is located in /usr/src/linux/drivers/media/video/Where /usr/src/linux is a link to the proper kernel tree, as your's is.You could simply move the file to that place, but I'm betting that would just cause a different error a little later when it failed to find the next header that it wants.
You could also make a link from the actual location of the "drivers" to the similar position in the actual kernel tree, might work but it's hackneyed.You could also look at the output of "configure" and see where it *thinks* the headers are located, and either point it to the correct place or link that place to the actual location.
Of course, with recent kernel changes, the bttv.h file you have might not be usable or correct for the version of LIRC that you have :-)
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Re: [mythtv-users] Missing header files LIRC on FC4

[Brian Wood]

 On Jan 18, 2006, at 5:49 AM, Luke wrote:On 18/01/06, Brian Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jan 17, 2006, at 3:30 PM, Luke wrote:I have a situation here, while trying to compile and install lirc from source on FC4. I have downloaded the latest kernel source for FC4 and it's installed at:  /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel- 2.6.14/linux-2.6.14/I made a symbolic link like so:  ln -s /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.14/linux-2.6.14  /usr/src/linuxrunning the script  ./configure for lirc is successful the make command generate errors, the first of which is:error: ../drivers/media/video/bttv.h: No such file or directoryFurther errors below that are probably due to the missing bttv.h and similar files.I know the so-called missing header files exist at /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.14/linux-2.6.14/drivers/media/video/* . Where is  make looking for the header files. This looks straight forward but, I am lost. Any ideas?Well "make" is certainly not looking *there*, that's for sure. On my old FC3 system bttv.h is located in /usr/src/linux/drivers/media/video/Where /usr/src/linux is a link to the proper kernel tree, as your's is.You could simply move the file to that place, but I'm betting that would just cause a different error a little later when it failed to find the next header that it wants. You could also make a link from the actual location of the "drivers" to the similar position in the actual kernel tree, might work but it's hackneyed.You could also look at the output of "configure" and see where it *thinks* the headers are located, and either point it to the correct place or link that place to the actual location. Of course, with recent kernel changes, the bttv.h file you have might not be usable or correct for the version of LIRC that you have :-) It appears this is a kernel 2.6.14. Since this is so new, there is no patch for it yet from lirc.org. Maybe I should wait for a patch. The kernel version per se shouldn't be a problem. I was running 2.6.14 on a Gentoo system that worked just fine with what they were calling lirc version 0.8.0_pre1 (before a HDD crash took the system down that is).Gentoo has a version " lirc-0.8.0_pre3" that is claimed to have modifications for the 2.6.15 kernel, all I know about it is that it does not appear to work with 2.6.14.But your header location problems should not be directly related to kernel version, more likely to a squirrely installation of kernel sources, a problem I've had with FC systems in the past.___
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Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2

[Steve Adeff]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 01:43, Justin Hornsby wrote:
> Hello again.
>
> I've just put up version 1.2 of my ProjectGrayhem-wide theme.
>
> I made changes in the following places:
>
> Now showing more items in the menus
> More screen used in 'watch recordings', 'delete recordings' and 'program
> finder'
>
> I didn't change the size of the watermarks (because my source graphics
> aren't high enough resolution).. sorry Isaac.  I'll get round to that
> soon enough ;-)
>
> Get the theme from www.juski.co.uk.
>
> And FYI this theme will work with SVN mythtv as well as 0.18 versions,
> just as the 4:3 theme does.
>
> Regards,
> Justin.

looks good, I still get the cut off date values in Watch Recordings, etc.

-- 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Missing header files LIRC on FC4

[Luke]

On 18/01/06, Brian Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 On Jan 18, 2006, at 5:49 AM, Luke wrote:On 18/01/06, 
Brian Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 On Jan 17, 2006, at 3:30 PM, Luke wrote:I have a situation here, while trying to compile and install lirc from source on FC4. I have downloaded the latest kernel source for FC4 and it's installed at:
  /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel- 2.6.14/linux-2.6.14/I made a symbolic link like so:  ln -s /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.14/linux-
2.6.14  /usr/src/linuxrunning the script  ./configure for lirc is successful the make command generate errors, the first of which is:
error: ../drivers/media/video/bttv.h: No such file or directoryFurther errors below that are probably due to the missing bttv.h and similar files.I know the so-called missing header files exist at 
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.14/linux-2.6.14/drivers/media/video/* . Where is  make looking for the header files. This looks straight forward but, I am lost. Any ideas?
Well "make" is certainly not looking *there*, that's for sure. On my old FC3 system bttv.h is located in /usr/src/linux/drivers/media/video/
Where /usr/src/linux is a link to the proper kernel tree, as your's is.You could simply move the file to that place, but I'm betting that would just cause a different error a little later when it failed to find the next header that it wants. 
You could also make a link from the actual location of the "drivers" to the similar position in the actual kernel tree, might work but it's hackneyed.You could also look at the output of "configure" and see where it *thinks* the headers are located, and either point it to the correct place or link that place to the actual location. 
Of course, with recent kernel changes, the bttv.h file you have might not be usable or correct for the version of LIRC that you have :-) It appears this is a kernel 
2.6.14. Since this is so new, there is no patch for it yet from lirc.org. Maybe I should wait for a patch. 
The kernel version per se shouldn't be a problem. I was running 2.6.14 on a Gentoo system that worked just fine with what they were calling lirc version 0.8.0_pre1 (before a HDD crash took the system down that is).
Gentoo has a version " lirc-0.8.0_pre3" that is claimed to have modifications for the 2.6.15 kernel, all I know about it is that it does not appear to work with 2.6.14.
But your header location problems should not be directly related to kernel version, more likely to a squirrely installation of kernel sources, a problem I've had with FC systems in the past.
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http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-usersEureka! I have modified the following source file: /usr/src/lirc-0.8.0pre2/drivers/lirc_gpio/lirc_gpio.c
Located following lines in the source file: #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,4,0)#include "../drivers/char/bttv.h"#include "../drivers/char/bttvp.h"
#else#include "../drivers/media/video/bttv.h" <  the offending line#endifModified them to#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,4,0)
#include "../drivers/char/bttv.h"#include "../drivers/char/bttvp.h"#else#include "bttv.h"   <=== modified line#endifCopied the files
/usr/src/linux/drivers/media/video/bttv*.h  to/usr/src/lirc-0.8.0pre2/drivers/lirc_gpio/bttv*.h
That's it make && make install perform as expected. ls -lh /dev/lirc* yields shiny new devices.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for high WAF in-wall speakers!!

[Steve Adeff]

On Tuesday 17 January 2006 22:19, Meatwad wrote:
> * Here is the de facto article I refer prospective clients to when they
> bring up Bose. If they still have a thing for Bose, I know they are
> going to be PITA customer and I politely drop them like a hot potato.
> http://www.intellexual.net/bose.html

that article doesn't even touch on why the physics behind bose's engineering 
is bad audio science. my uncle, and acoustic physicist that got there 
designing and building speakers in high school hates Bose for this. Bose even 
advertises its bad science and tries to pass it of as good science. The Wave 
Radio "works" by bouncing the sound off walls, which any good audiophile 
knows changes phasing and timing of frequencies with each wall it bounces off 
of.

ughhh, I hate Bose

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Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for high WAF in-wall speakers!!

[Steve Adeff]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 06:43, David wrote:
> Meatwad wrote:
> > But please, please, please do your Myth system some justice and put
> >
> >something, ANYTHING, other than Bose in the room.
> >
> >* Here is the de facto article I refer prospective clients to when they
> >bring up Bose. If they still have a thing for Bose, I know they are
> >going to be PITA customer and I politely drop them like a hot potato.
> >http://www.intellexual.net/bose.html
>
> Thanks for this - I've always known Bose were crap but have never
> bothered Googling for it.
> I can use this link to try and help the misguided souls that believe the
> glossies.
>
> David
> PS Any thoughts on the Sonic Amplifier T-Amp 5066? ;)

with the right mods its a piece of audio art...
http://www.tnt-audio.com/ampli/t-amp_e.html

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Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: receiver input buzzing/humming

[Steve Adeff]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 02:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:20:40 -0600
> > From: Meatwad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> All excellent points!  Only one question:
> > - If same circuit is not possible, try moving all HT equipment to
> > circuits fed from the same side of the panel if you have 120Vac
> > mains.
>
> Are you trying to say, "put everything on the same phase if you have
> two-phase service"?  If not, I'm not sure what you're trying to say.
> If so, then that isn't necessarily how to do it, since most residential
> two-phase panels actually have alternating phase going -down- the box,
> e.g., if you have two rows of breakers, the phases are most likely to be:
>
> A   A
> B   B
> A   A
> B   B
>
> ...etc all the way down; it's done this way so you can put in
> a two-phase breaker for things like electric stoves & dryers.
> (If you have any of these, they're instantly obvious because
> they're actually two breakers (typically 30A) tied together
> mechanically so that if one trips, both trip.)
>
> Anyway, let's hope the original poster writes back and says
> he's found the problem, whatever it was...

phasing shouldn't matter as long as the grounds are shared and proper sizing, 
etc. Ground loops in proper working equipment are formed when the impedence 
to ground for the two components are different. Connecting them together then 
causes one of the components to enter into the ground return of the other 
component. As well, in theory, properly working two prong components should 
never cause ground loop problems... in theory...

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Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for good specifications for mythTV

[Gavin Haslett]

The Epia P is a great board for a Myth-like box... my next frontend will 
probably have that (for my bedroom) because a fanless configuration would be 
nice.
 
However, it's not without its flaws. The 600Mhz CPU is barely powerful enough 
to run a frontend and backend together... forget trying to use it to transcode. 
The core is based on the old Cyrix core, so a lot of the math takes a back seat 
to integer performance. Not a big deal with video, but when dealing with 
compression/decompression of MPEG-2 or 4 streams this can start to saturate 
these 600Mhz CPUs pretty quickly. All Pentium-class CPU's are not made equal... 
bear that in mind when shopping for a media-PC.
 
Oh, and on the 600Mhz, if you're running MythMusic then better not try to run 
full-screen visualizations either :)
 
I would also point out that even with the XvMC support for these boards, don't 
try HD content. You need a LOT more muscle than this to pump HD to the screen, 
even the 1Ghz version of the board won't handle it. 
 
Be aware of the specs also; I'm not sure if the Epia P does come in a 1.3Ghz 
form, I think it tops at 1Ghz as I recall. Either way, as pointed out above 
since it's based on the Cyrix core some of the floating point ops are a little 
slower than a similarly clocked Intel or AMD. However, the heat and electricity 
used are a lot nicer in these cores.
 
We're still in a phase where embedded systems are a huge compromise... but the 
situation's improving dramatically and continues to. Now, if we can only see 
some lower prices on the hardware :)

-Original Message- 
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Chris Weisiger 
Sent: Tue 1/17/2006 10:53 PM 
To: Discussion about mythtv 
Cc: 
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for good specifications for mythTV



Here is the link

http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/mini_itx/epia_sp/index.jsp

Chris Weisiger wrote:

>The thing is with the mini-itx stuff is that I have an old NES and i 
was
>reading about
>building mini-itx systems and thought while im building it...to build 
it
>in a way
>to use it as a pvr system.which i was looking at getting a mini-itx
>board
>that can handle a 1.3 or so processor
>
>This is the motherboard that I was looking into gettingthats if i
>cant locate
>a mini-itx to handle a pentium processor
>
>
>
>Gavin Haslett wrote:
>
> 
>
>>So long as you're not trying any HD content, this is probably good
>>(though that one's obvious given the 350). I run mine on an AMD 800 
with
>>768MB RAM and it runs like a champ. Single PVR-250 and an NVIDIA card
>>running XvMC for playback.
>>
>>-Original Message-
>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Weisiger
>>Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 10:02 PM
>>To: Discussion about mythtv
>>Subject: [mythtv-users] Looking for good specifications for mythTV
>>
>>What are some good specs for a mythTV box..I have seen specs for high
>>end machines doing multiple recordingsI am not looking into doing
>>such things...
>>
>>All i am looking for is to record a single channel while watching
>>itand the possibility to pause live tv...
>>just a basic recording box
>>
>>I am looking into buiding a mini-itx box with laptop 
componentsslim
>>line cd/dvd, laptop hard drive, dimm or sodimm memory depending on 
what
>>type of mini-itx motherboard i get or is recommended
>>
>>What is the lowest possible processor speed to accomplish recording 
and
>>pausing live tv
>>
>>i was looking into getting a mini-itx with a 1.3 processor? and a
>>pvr-350 card?
>>
>>i know memory helps the system..so i was planning on maxing out the
>>memory..i found a mini-itx board that can support 2 gig or ram...and 
the
>>hard drive space of course is not an issue for me to deal with...it is
>>basically the processor speed..
>>being this is the first
>>attempt at creating a mythTV box...
>>
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[mythtv-users] Video Stutter Problems

[Thomas W. Shelton]

Hello,
 
I have scoured the 
list and the Internet and discovered a lot of good information ... none of which 
has corrected my problem.
 
I'm running 
on 
 
 - Dell 
2.4GHz/512M ram
 - pcHDTV 3000 
Card
 - nVidia 
GeForce FX 5200
 - using NTSC 
with cable -- no cable box.
 - Have Video 
for Linux card specified -- not the pcHDTV(wanted to get the basics working 
first)
 
using the latest 
stable branch from SVN compiled with --enable-Xvmc.  I have "v4l" defined 
in my xorg.conf file.  I also have Xvmc defined in the setup.  I 
believe I have also turned off all commercial flagging.  (specifics of 
which settings to check might help).  The processor also spikes when I run 
glxgears ... not sure if that means anything.
 
When I started the 
image quality was terrible.  I have been able to significantly improve the 
quality but it still stutters.  I ran "top" and both mythbackend and 
mythfrontend are consuming all available resources when watching 
TV.
 
I feel like I'm 
making improvements but have run into a wall.  
 
Any 
thoughts?
 
Thanks,
Thomas
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[mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

[Aaron Aguilar]

I had myth setup on a XP2100 processor system and everything worked quite well.  Now that I have upgraded to a new computer with a P4 3.2Ghz processor, during live TV, mythfrontend actually uses more of my CPU.  Sometimes up to 99%.  When this happens I get a prebuffering pause and the video kind of glitches.  Anybody ever experience something like this?  I have tried changing most of the settings in the setup and didn't see any improvement.  I was thinking about trying another kernel or video card, but the video card doesn't seem to be the problem.
Notable differences in systems:AMD XP2100 procNvidia FX5200Fedora Core 32.6.10 kernelHauppauge PVR250P4 3.2Ghz procATI X300 Fedora Core 42.6.14-SMP kernelHauppauge PVR250
Thanks for any help you can offer!A
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Re: [mythtv-users] DVICO Fusion HDTV 5 Lite vs HD3000

[Brandon Beattie]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 08:29:31PM -0500, Michael Haan wrote:
> Yes, there are two splitters between the source and the card - there is also
> a cable modem and an amplifier.  You may be right that this is an
> attenuation issue but the 3000 in the same rig with the same setup worked
> almost flawlessly under a previous gentoo incarnation so that makes me
> suspicious.  I am using reiser (just as I was before) - I could try
> switching that but I'd need a recommendation for what to use.

I'd still have the remote check on your cable line done.  Use XFS or JFS
if you're going to be storing over 200 GB's in a single directory.  Both
of these handle this situation well.  XFS for me has shown better
results overall, but some people think JFS is more stable than XFS.
I've been using both for years with no problems, so it's just opinion.
Stay away from ReiserFS though at all costs if you're going to store
more than 200 GB's in a single directory.  

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Re: [mythtv-users] Video Stutter Problems

[Kevin Kuphal]

Thomas W. Shelton wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I have scoured the list and the Internet and discovered a lot of good 
> information ... none of which has corrected my problem.
>  
> I'm running on 
>  
>  - Dell 2.4GHz/512M ram
>  - pcHDTV 3000 Card
>  - nVidia GeForce FX 5200
>  - using NTSC with cable -- no cable box.
>  - Have Video for Linux card specified -- not the pcHDTV(wanted to get 
> the basics working first)
>  
> using the latest stable branch from SVN compiled with --enable-Xvmc.  
> I have "v4l" defined in my xorg.conf file.  I also have Xvmc defined 
> in the setup.  I believe I have also turned off all commercial 
> flagging.  (specifics of which settings to check might help).  The 
> processor also spikes when I run glxgears ... not sure if that means 
> anything.
>  
> When I started the image quality was terrible.  I have been able to 
> significantly improve the quality but it still stutters.  I ran "top" 
> and both mythbackend and mythfrontend are consuming all available 
> resources when watching TV.
>  
> I feel like I'm making improvements but have run into a wall. 
>  
> Any thoughts?
Are you running with OpenGL Vsync enabled?  Also, what version of the 
Nvidia drivers are you using.  I myself have found, and have others, 
that 7676 seems to work the best of the recent driver releases for XvMC.

Kevin
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Re: [mythtv-users] Commflag-related IOBOUND errors

[Brandon Beattie]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 04:52:02PM -0800, Yeechang Lee wrote:
> Rescheduling's always seemed pretty lightweight on my setup, but I
> *do* see intermittent IOBOUNDs; when they occur, they appear every
> five minutes on the dot for 3-8 seconds (:10:02-05, :20:02-08,
> :25:02-06, etc.), especially when I'm recording dual HD streams and
> especially especially when also watching a third stream, using gigabit
> Ethernet and a RAID 1 NAS. I am pretty sure this is related to my
> frontend/backend checking for user/commflag jobs every five minutes;
> before I changed this from the default setting of every minute, I'd
> see the IOBOUNDs pop up in the exact same way (you guessed it) every
> minute. (Note, also, that I see the IOBOUNDs even if I'm outside the
> 2:30-6am time block I've told the backend to run commflag jobs in.)
> It's quite possible that this is a swap-related issue and that adding
> more RAM to my 512MB system would take care of this, but as a
> cheapskate I'm reluctant to do so because I haven't run into any other
> memory-related issues I know of.

Every time a recording, transcode, commercial detection, and so on start
or finish the recordings table is updated.  If you use EIT monitoring
with a HD tuner than every time this finishes it can cause the
recording scheduler to be re-run.  Adding RAM will not help at all.
This is purely a system and disk IO issue.  I have my mysql databases on
a seperate drive than recordings, but I still get IO bound issues once
in a while.  The thread for rescheduling does take all the CPU and IO it
can get for those few seconds, and with the mysql and disk writing
threads they don't always work well together.  It's a known problem but
only shows up for HD users more so because HD requires such a large
amount of bandwidth and it can't really stand a hickup.  Also, the PCI
bus can be occupied and cause data from the card to be lost if the
system IO can't be freed up quick enough to handle the data.  HD tuner
cards have a rather small cache on them.  If anything occupies the
system IO longer than 500ms then you risk losing data from the HD tuner,
and Myth and the scheduler does this at times.

It's also not just disk access, if you use a remote frontend you'll
notice network traffic (Depending on the motherboards and ethernet
chipset) will also stutter during the time the schedular runs.

The best way to fix this?  Keep the drive for the database on a
different disk than one used for recordings.  Use XFS or JFS.  Make sure
nothing else IO intensive is running when the schedular runs.  Intel
based systems have less of a problem than AMD from what I've seen (Intel
systems with hyper threading that is).  Reiser is a good choice though
for the filesystem holding the database, since it does a better job with
sub GB size files.  

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Re: [mythtv-users] Video Stutter Problems

[Thomas W. Shelton]

Yes ... OpenGL vsync is enabled.

nVidia - I just installed in the last couple of days so I pulled the
latest from the nVidia website.  It appears to be 8178.

Are there utilities I can use to make sure OpenGL and Xvmc are installed
and operating properly?

Thomas

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Kuphal
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 9:26 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Video Stutter Problems

Thomas W. Shelton wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I have scoured the list and the Internet and discovered a lot of good 
> information ... none of which has corrected my problem.
>  
> I'm running on
>  
>  - Dell 2.4GHz/512M ram
>  - pcHDTV 3000 Card
>  - nVidia GeForce FX 5200
>  - using NTSC with cable -- no cable box.
>  - Have Video for Linux card specified -- not the pcHDTV(wanted to get

> the basics working first)
>  
> using the latest stable branch from SVN compiled with --enable-Xvmc.  
> I have "v4l" defined in my xorg.conf file.  I also have Xvmc defined 
> in the setup.  I believe I have also turned off all commercial 
> flagging.  (specifics of which settings to check might help).  The 
> processor also spikes when I run glxgears ... not sure if that means 
> anything.
>  
> When I started the image quality was terrible.  I have been able to 
> significantly improve the quality but it still stutters.  I ran "top"
> and both mythbackend and mythfrontend are consuming all available 
> resources when watching TV.
>  
> I feel like I'm making improvements but have run into a wall. 
>  
> Any thoughts?
Are you running with OpenGL Vsync enabled?  Also, what version of the
Nvidia drivers are you using.  I myself have found, and have others,
that 7676 seems to work the best of the recent driver releases for XvMC.

Kevin
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Re: [mythtv-users] Video Stutter Problems

[Kevin Kuphal]

Thomas W. Shelton wrote:
> Yes ... OpenGL vsync is enabled.
>
> nVidia - I just installed in the last couple of days so I pulled the
> latest from the nVidia website.  It appears to be 8178.
>
> Are there utilities I can use to make sure OpenGL and Xvmc are installed
> and operating properly?
>
>   
There are problems with OpenGL Vsync on the newer drivers.  Try 
disabling that and see if that helps or downgrade your drivers to 7676

Kevin
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Re: [mythtv-users] Compiling Mythtv on an Xbox error?

[Tom Lichti]

A JM wrote:
> Here is a post from the terminal:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# startx
> hostname: Unknown host
>
Don't do this from a terminal, do it from the actual tv screen, or have 
the system start up in runlevel 5. Look in /etc/inittab for

id:5:initdefault:

If it's not 5, make it 5, and reboot. X should start automatically.

Tom
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[mythtv-users] programid field

[Dag Nygren]

Hi,

What part of mythtv is responsible for filling in 
program.programid ?

They seem to be empty for all the entries I have in
the table.

Dag

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Re: [mythtv-users] lircrc questions -- was: playslist for recorded tv?

[Matt Price]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 07:57:14PM -0500, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> > in the "watch recordings" menu, it's possible to select a recorded
> > program, push the right button, and then select "add to playlist".
> >
> 
> After you tag a few recordings, hit the MENU key and you'll find a
> few things you can do with the playlist.
> 

ah.  Now I understand what was going on.  The Menu key was named
improperly in my lircrc -- lirc sees it as "Menu/i" and it was called
"Menu" (this is on a pvr-350 w/ a black/silver remote).  Now that
I'ver enamed it I'm getting the playlist menu when I'm in the "watch
recordings" screen.  Thanks everyone!  I still don't see a way to move
things around in the playlist etc, but this is already a major improvement.

while we're on the subject of lircrc...  I have a couple of questions
about it.  I'd really like to map my "play" button to the "play"
function, which is currently mapped to "Ctrl+P" in the mythweb
bindings interface.  But I can't seem to figure out how to write
"control-P" properly in the lircrc file.  "Ctrl-P", "Ctrl+P", and
"\P", all seem to fail.  There are a couple of other control keys in
the standard keybindings; I'd like to be able to map them as well, if
possible. 

in addition...  

I've had to reboot several times lately (mostly because of a buggy
power cable, I think), so I've noticed something I mightn't otherwise.
When I boot up, I autologin the mythtv user from gdm, which runs a
minimal wm & starts mythfrontend directly.  The first time I do
this after booting, mythfrontend doesn't seem to receive any
keypresses from the remote (though I can check with irw that the
remote is in fact sending, and lircd is up and receiving).  If I 
/etc/init.d/gdm restart
then things seem to work fine again.  Anyone know what the deal is
with that?  Do I need to modify my init scripts somehow perhaps?

thanks again,

matt

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History Department, University of Toronto
(416) 978-2094

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Re: [mythtv-users] Video Stutter Problems

[Jerry Rubinow]

On 1/18/06, Thomas W. Shelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have scoured the list and the Internet and discovered a lot of good
> information ... none of which has corrected my problem.
>
> I'm running on
>
>  - Dell 2.4GHz/512M ram
>  - pcHDTV 3000 Card
>  - nVidia GeForce FX 5200
>  - using NTSC with cable -- no cable box.
>  - Have Video for Linux card specified -- not the pcHDTV(wanted to get the
> basics working first)
>
> using the latest stable branch from SVN compiled with --enable-Xvmc.  I have
> "v4l" defined in my xorg.conf file.  I also have Xvmc defined in the setup.
> I believe I have also turned off all commercial flagging.  (specifics of
> which settings to check might help).  The processor also spikes when I run
> glxgears ... not sure if that means anything.
>
> When I started the image quality was terrible.  I have been able to
> significantly improve the quality but it still stutters.  I ran "top" and
> both mythbackend and mythfrontend are consuming all available resources when
> watching TV.
>
> I feel like I'm making improvements but have run into a wall.
>
> Any thoughts?

For the backend, dumb question - is dma enabled on the disk(s)?

For the frontend, I had to recompile with processor specific
optimizations before I got reasonable CPU usage.

YMMV.

-Jerry
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[mythtv-users] No sound -- does it matter?

[jwg]

Hello,

A total newbie question. I'm unable to get my PC sound working. Do I 
really care?

I intend to set this box up as a headless MythTV box, i.e. no monitor, 
keyboard or mouse,
running Fedora Core 4, with PVR 350, located with our entertainment 
stack, and manage it
with a combination of the IR remote control and web interface. It will 
drive the family TV through
the PVR 350 outputs.

So do I really care that the PC sound doesn't work? Can't I just ignore 
this and forge ahead?

/jim G.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for good specifications for mythTV

[Chris Hembrow]

the epia sp 8000 is 800mhz fanless, and has hardware mpeg-4
acceleration. That's my next front end :)

On 18/01/06, Gavin Haslett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Epia P is a great board for a Myth-like box... my next frontend will 
> probably have that (for my bedroom) because a fanless configuration would be 
> nice.
>
> However, it's not without its flaws. The 600Mhz CPU is barely powerful enough 
> to run a frontend and backend together... forget trying to use it to 
> transcode. The core is based on the old Cyrix core, so a lot of the math 
> takes a back seat to integer performance. Not a big deal with video, but when 
> dealing with compression/decompression of MPEG-2 or 4 streams this can start 
> to saturate these 600Mhz CPUs pretty quickly. All Pentium-class CPU's are not 
> made equal... bear that in mind when shopping for a media-PC.
>
> Oh, and on the 600Mhz, if you're running MythMusic then better not try to run 
> full-screen visualizations either :)
>
> I would also point out that even with the XvMC support for these boards, 
> don't try HD content. You need a LOT more muscle than this to pump HD to the 
> screen, even the 1Ghz version of the board won't handle it.
>
> Be aware of the specs also; I'm not sure if the Epia P does come in a 1.3Ghz 
> form, I think it tops at 1Ghz as I recall. Either way, as pointed out above 
> since it's based on the Cyrix core some of the floating point ops are a 
> little slower than a similarly clocked Intel or AMD. However, the heat and 
> electricity used are a lot nicer in these cores.
>
> We're still in a phase where embedded systems are a huge compromise... but 
> the situation's improving dramatically and continues to. Now, if we can only 
> see some lower prices on the hardware :)
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Chris Weisiger
> Sent: Tue 1/17/2006 10:53 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for good specifications for mythTV
>
>
>
> Here is the link
>
> 
> http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/mini_itx/epia_sp/index.jsp
>
> Chris Weisiger wrote:
>
> >The thing is with the mini-itx stuff is that I have an old NES and i 
> was
> >reading about
> >building mini-itx systems and thought while im building it...to 
> build it
> >in a way
> >to use it as a pvr system.which i was looking at getting a 
> mini-itx
> >board
> >that can handle a 1.3 or so processor
> >
> >This is the motherboard that I was looking into gettingthats if i
> >cant locate
> >a mini-itx to handle a pentium processor
> >
> >
> >
> >Gavin Haslett wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>So long as you're not trying any HD content, this is probably good
> >>(though that one's obvious given the 350). I run mine on an AMD 800 
> with
> >>768MB RAM and it runs like a champ. Single PVR-250 and an NVIDIA 
> card
> >>running XvMC for playback.
> >>
> >>-Original Message-
> >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Weisiger
> >>Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 10:02 PM
> >>To: Discussion about mythtv
> >>Subject: [mythtv-users] Looking for good specifications for mythTV
> >>
> >>What are some good specs for a mythTV box..I have seen specs for 
> high
> >>end machines doing multiple recordingsI am not looking into 
> doing
> >>such things...
> >>
> >>All i am looking for is to record a single channel while watching
> >>itand the possibility to pause live tv...
> >>just a basic recording box
> >>
> >>I am looking into buiding a mini-itx box with laptop 
> componentsslim
> >>line cd/dvd, laptop hard drive, dimm or sodimm memory depending on 
> what
> >>type of mini-itx motherboard i get or is recommended
> >>
> >>What is the lowest possible processor speed to accomplish recording 
> and
> >>pausing live tv
> >>
> >>i was looking into getting a mini-itx with a 1.3 processor? and a
> >>pvr-350 card?
> >>
> >>i know memory helps the system..so i was planning on maxing out the
> >>memory..i found a mini-itx board that can support 2 gig or 
> ram...and the
> >>hard drive space of course is not an issue for me to deal with...it 
> is
> >>basically the processor speed..
> >>being this is the first
> >>attempt at creating a mythTV box...
> >>
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Re: [mythtv-users] No sound -- does it matter?

[Kevin Kuphal]

jwg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A total newbie question. I'm unable to get my PC sound working. Do I 
> really care?
>
> I intend to set this box up as a headless MythTV box, i.e. no monitor, 
> keyboard or mouse,
> running Fedora Core 4, with PVR 350, located with our entertainment 
> stack, and manage it
> with a combination of the IR remote control and web interface. It will 
> drive the family TV through
> the PVR 350 outputs.
>
> So do I really care that the PC sound doesn't work? Can't I just ignore 
> this and forge ahead?
>
>   
On a headless backend with a PVR-350, it shouldn't matter.  Proceed :)

Kevin
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Re: [mythtv-users] No sound -- does it matter?

[David Schmidt]

On 1/18/06, Kevin Kuphal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> jwg wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > A total newbie question. I'm unable to get my PC sound working. Do I
> > really care?
> >
> > I intend to set this box up as a headless MythTV box, i.e. no monitor,
> > keyboard or mouse,
> > running Fedora Core 4, with PVR 350, located with our entertainment
> > stack, and manage it
> > with a combination of the IR remote control and web interface. It will
> > drive the family TV through
> > the PVR 350 outputs.
> >
> > So do I really care that the PC sound doesn't work? Can't I just ignore
> > this and forge ahead?
> >
> >
> On a headless backend with a PVR-350, it shouldn't matter.  Proceed :)
>
> Kevin

Well, kinda..

If you will *really* only be doing video/audio through the 350, it won't matter.

However, the 350 is only good for MPEG2 and framebuffer.  If you wish
to use MythMusic or (IIRC) MPEG4 stuff in MythVideo, those play audio
through the sound system.  In fact, to do those reasonably, you need
to loop the 350 audio out back into the soundcard in.

Also, without using the loopback/sound system, Myth cannot control the
volume of the (MPEG2) audio--you'd have to set your remote to control
the TV or amplifier level.

HTH

DS (still trying to get any sound out of his new prototype 350 system).
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Re: [mythtv-users] No sound -- does it matter?

[Sdk]

On 1/18/06, jwg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A total newbie question. I'm unable to get my PC sound working. Do I
> really care?
>
> I intend to set this box up as a headless MythTV box, i.e. no monitor,
> keyboard or mouse,
> running Fedora Core 4, with PVR 350, located with our entertainment
> stack, and manage it
> with a combination of the IR remote control and web interface. It will
> drive the family TV through
> the PVR 350 outputs.
>
> So do I really care that the PC sound doesn't work? Can't I just ignore
> this and forge ahead?
>
> /jim G.
>
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It matters if you want to watch videos (not recordings), listen to
music, or play games.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Compiling Mythtv on an Xbox error?

[A JM]

Maybe I'm using the wrong terminology. When my Xbox boots I select through the menu to boot Linux once that completes I'm sitting at a blank screen with a "Login:" on the TV. I log in to the system then I am sitting at a command line at which time I've tried to simply start X by "start x".
My last post was from a VNC connection in which case it was able to start the Mythfrontend.I'll check on the runlevel and post back.Thanks,
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Re: [mythtv-users] Video Stutter Problems

[Thomas W. Shelton]

Yes DMA is enable ... I was getting writes of about 50m/sec when I
tested.

I'll disable OpenGL and recompile with some optimizations.  I'm running
Kubuntu ... Any thoughts on where to find optimizations ?

Thanks for the help ...

Thomas 

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Rubinow
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 10:59 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Video Stutter Problems

On 1/18/06, Thomas W. Shelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have scoured the list and the Internet and discovered a lot of good 
> information ... none of which has corrected my problem.
>
> I'm running on
>
>  - Dell 2.4GHz/512M ram
>  - pcHDTV 3000 Card
>  - nVidia GeForce FX 5200
>  - using NTSC with cable -- no cable box.
>  - Have Video for Linux card specified -- not the pcHDTV(wanted to get

> the basics working first)
>
> using the latest stable branch from SVN compiled with --enable-Xvmc.  
> I have "v4l" defined in my xorg.conf file.  I also have Xvmc defined
in the setup.
> I believe I have also turned off all commercial flagging.  (specifics 
> of which settings to check might help).  The processor also spikes 
> when I run glxgears ... not sure if that means anything.
>
> When I started the image quality was terrible.  I have been able to 
> significantly improve the quality but it still stutters.  I ran "top" 
> and both mythbackend and mythfrontend are consuming all available 
> resources when watching TV.
>
> I feel like I'm making improvements but have run into a wall.
>
> Any thoughts?

For the backend, dumb question - is dma enabled on the disk(s)?

For the frontend, I had to recompile with processor specific
optimizations before I got reasonable CPU usage.

YMMV.

-Jerry
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Re: [mythtv-users] Compiling Mythtv on an Xbox error?

[A JM]

Initially /etc/inittab was set for 3, I changed it to 5 rebooted and got the same login screen prompting for me to login:?
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Re: [mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

[Adam Propeck]

What motherboards in each system?On 1/18/06, Aaron Aguilar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I had myth setup on a XP2100 processor system and everything worked
quite well.  Now that I have upgraded to a new computer with a P4
3.2Ghz processor, during live TV, mythfrontend actually uses more of my
CPU.  Sometimes up to 99%.  When this happens I get a
prebuffering pause and the video kind of glitches.  Anybody ever
experience something like this?  I have tried changing most of the
settings in the setup and didn't see any improvement.  I was
thinking about trying another kernel or video card, but the video card
doesn't seem to be the problem.
Notable differences in systems:AMD XP2100 procNvidia FX5200Fedora Core 32.6.10 kernelHauppauge PVR250P4 3.2Ghz procATI X300 Fedora Core 42.6.14-SMP kernelHauppauge PVR250
Thanks for any help you can offer!A

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Re: [mythtv-users] Compiling Mythtv on an Xbox error?

[Tom Lichti]

A JM wrote:
> Initially /etc/inittab was set for 3, I changed it to 5 rebooted and 
> got the same login screen prompting for me to login:?
Is the login screen graphical or text? Your system really does not sound 
like it is completely setup. Every Fedora installation I've ever done 
automatically boots into the graphical login manager.

Tom
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Re: [mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

[Jeff volckaert]

AMD XP2100 procNvidia FX5200Fedora Core 32.6.10 kernelHauppauge PVR250P4 3.2Ghz procATI X300 Fedora Core 42.6.14-SMP kernelHauppauge PVR250

Where you using the Nvidia drivers for the XP2100?  I would bet
the driver off-loaded some of the playback to the video card.  I
would try the FX5200 in the new system with the Nvidia dirvers and see
what happens.

Jeff

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[mythtv-users] analog video camera and Mythtv?

[Roger Hanson]

I have a KnoppMyth box (front and back end) with a PVR-350 card that 
runs great.

I'd like to try connecting my Analog video camera to the PVR-350 card 
using the S-video port and the line-in port on the PVR-350 card.

In mythtv-setup,
I've added a video source called camera
In the input connections, I chose S-video 0

I go back to the frontend watch tv, press the C key on the keyboard and 
nothing happens.  ( have the video camera turned on and playing a tape)

Did I do something wrong?
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Re: [mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

[James C. Dastrup]

>>AMD XP2100 proc
>>Nvidia FX5200
>>Fedora Core 3
>>2.6.10 kernel
>>Hauppauge PVR250
>>
>>P4 3.2Ghz proc
>>ATI X300 
>>Fedora Core 4
>>2.6.14-SMP kernel
>>Hauppauge PVR250 
>>
>Where you using the Nvidia drivers for the XP2100?  I would bet the driver 
>off-loaded 
>some of the playback to the video card.  I would try the FX5200 in the new 
>system with 
>the Nvidia dirvers and see what >happens.
>
>Jeff

Even with the offloading that Nvidia drivers do, there is obvisouly some sort 
of problem
here.  I have a P4 3.0 with an ATI 9600 (AGP) and I don't experience any 
prebuffering
pauses or stuttering, and my CPU will hang around 70% during 1080i content.

I also have another frontend with a P4 2.26 and an ATI 9600.  This also handles 
1080i 
pretty well, with only minor stuttering when the video first starts and CPU 
about 90%.



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Re: [mythtv-users] Compiling Mythtv on an Xbox error?

[A JM]

It's text not graphical.The install is a loopback file so it's not really a full install of Fedora (not404.com) if I understand correctly, my guess is that it's been messaged and stripped down. However I did install xorg on it so I would think X should run?
Any reason why changing /etc/inittab didn't change the startup behavior? Is there a log I could look at to find out if there are some messeges or problems while trying to start x?Thanks,

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Re: [mythtv-users] Commflag-related IOBOUND errors

[Yeechang Lee]

Brandon Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
> Every time a recording, transcode, commercial detection, and so on start
> or finish the recordings table is updated.

The IOBOUND errors I mentioned that are occurring at five-minute
multiples (and one-minute multiples before I changed the "check every
x seconds" setting in the backend from the default) occur independent
of any recording starts or stops. As previously mentioned I have set
commflag jobs to only occur in the early morning, and I never do
transcode.

> If you use EIT monitoring with a HD tuner than every time this
> finishes it can cause the recording scheduler to be re-run.

Sorry, don't know what EIT monitoring is; I use FireWire with my HD
cable boxes.

> Adding RAM will not help at all. This is purely a system and disk IO
> issue.

This both gladdens my wallet while dimming my hopes for
always-pristine (subject to the vagaries of cable provider
compression) HD recordings regardless of circumstance.

> Also, the PCI bus can be occupied and cause data from the card to be
> lost if the system IO can't be freed up quick enough to handle the
> data.  HD tuner cards have a rather small cache on them.  If
> anything occupies the system IO longer than 500ms then you risk
> losing data from the HD tuner, and Myth and the scheduler does this
> at times.

Hmm. If it's not a swapping issue, perhaps I should turn the
ringbuffer size on the frontend back up to the maximum? I thought that
only applied to Live TV. Is there a separate ringbuffer setting I am
not aware of in 0.18.1? (Live TV is set to record locally, but I
wonder if maybe it's better to trade network bandwidth for disk IO
bandwidth and set it to go to the same place the recordings go to?)

> The best way to fix this?  Keep the drive for the database on a
> different disk than one used for recordings.

Done. I keep the database on a local SATA drive, but the recordings go
to an Infrant 600 2TB over gigabit Ethernet . . .

> Use XFS or JFS.

. . . and which uses ext3, not JFS (as I use pretty much everywhere
else), as its filesystem. (Although the Infrant folks use
straightforward md-compatible RAID on the 600 [and even their
proprietary X-RAID on the X6 is md-readable], I think they've tweaked
with the ext3 filesystem code a bit. When I delete a recording, the
system gives me back control as quickly as when I recorded to my JFS-based
RAID array, but only for a split second; then there is a distinct
'hang' for a few moments as the deletions occur. And yes, this does
cause a few bursts of IOBOUNDs when I am doing HDTV recording at the
time.)

> Make sure nothing else IO intensive is running when the schedular
> runs.

That's easy; the MythTV box doesn't do anything else but MythTV, and
the Infrant is going to be dedicated solely to Myth (at least once
I've moved my remaining non-Myth video collection off it).

> Intel based systems have less of a problem than AMD from what I've
> seen (Intel systems with hyper threading that is).

Check that; the MythTV box is a 3.0GHz Pentium 4.

> Reiser is a good choice though for the filesystem holding the
> database, since it does a better job with sub GB size files.  =

Like I said, I am using JFS pretty much everywhere else, and that
includes the MythTV box's local disk.

I wonder if this is a latency issue? Unfortuantely I can't tweak up
the latency on my PCI Express gigabit Ethernet card with setpci; I've
tried.

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Re: [mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

[belcampo]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 17:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I had myth setup on a XP2100 processor system and everything worked quite
> well.  Now that I have upgraded to a new computer with a P4
> 3.2Ghzprocessor, during live TV, mythfrontend actually uses more of my
> CPU.
> Sometimes up to 99%.  When this happens I get a prebuffering pause and the
> video kind of glitches.  Anybody ever experience something like this?  I
> have tried changing most of the settings in the setup and didn't see any
> improvement.  I was thinking about trying another kernel or video card, but
> the video card doesn't seem to be the problem.
> Notable differences in systems:
>
> AMD XP2100 proc
> Nvidia FX5200
> Fedora Core 3
> 2.6.10 kernel
> Hauppauge PVR250
>
> P4 3.2Ghz proc
> ATI X300
> Fedora Core 4
> 2.6.14-SMP kernel
> Hauppauge PVR250
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer!
> A
If your Nvidia had Nvidia's drivers it would have had hard-decode support, if 
your ATI card uses the xorg drivers it doesn't have that. I can run 800x600 
on a 300MHz machine with the right Nvidia drivers, it fails to play 480x480 
with the xorg drivers.
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Re: [mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

[Steve Adeff]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 12:33, James C. Dastrup wrote:
> >>AMD XP2100 proc
> >>Nvidia FX5200
> >>Fedora Core 3
> >>2.6.10 kernel
> >>Hauppauge PVR250
> >>
> >>P4 3.2Ghz proc
> >>ATI X300
> >>Fedora Core 4
> >>2.6.14-SMP kernel
> >>Hauppauge PVR250
> >
> >Where you using the Nvidia drivers for the XP2100?  I would bet the driver
> > off-loaded some of the playback to the video card.  I would try the
> > FX5200 in the new system with the Nvidia dirvers and see what >happens.
> >
> >Jeff
>
> Even with the offloading that Nvidia drivers do, there is obvisouly some
> sort of problem here.  I have a P4 3.0 with an ATI 9600 (AGP) and I don't
> experience any prebuffering pauses or stuttering, and my CPU will hang
> around 70% during 1080i content.
>
> I also have another frontend with a P4 2.26 and an ATI 9600.  This also
> handles 1080i pretty well, with only minor stuttering when the video first
> starts and CPU about 90%.

were Render or Composite turned on in your xorg.conf? One of them needs to be 
on for Xorg to be able to offload rendering to the card.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Video Stutter Problems

[Thomas W. Shelton]

> -Original Message-
> From: Jerry Rubinow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 12:54 PM
> To: Thomas W. Shelton
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Video Stutter Problems
> 
> On 1/18/06, Thomas W. Shelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have scoured the list and the Internet and discovered a 
> lot of good 
> > information ... none of which has corrected my problem.
> >
> > I'm running on
> >
> >  - Dell 2.4GHz/512M ram
> >  - pcHDTV 3000 Card
> >  - nVidia GeForce FX 5200
> >  - using NTSC with cable -- no cable box.
> >  - Have Video for Linux card specified -- not the 
> pcHDTV(wanted to get
> 
> > the basics working first)
> >
> > using the latest stable branch from SVN compiled with --enable-Xvmc.
> > I have "v4l" defined in my xorg.conf file.  I also have Xvmc defined
> in the setup.
> > I believe I have also turned off all commercial flagging.  
> (specifics 
> > of which settings to check might help).  The processor also spikes 
> > when I run glxgears ... not sure if that means anything.
> >
> > When I started the image quality was terrible.  I have been able to 
> > significantly improve the quality but it still stutters.  I 
> ran "top"
> > and both mythbackend and mythfrontend are consuming all available 
> > resources when watching TV.
> >
> > I feel like I'm making improvements but have run into a wall.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> 
> > For the backend, dumb question - is dma enabled on the disk(s)?
> >
> > For the frontend, I had to recompile with processor specific 
> > optimizations before I got reasonable CPU usage.
> >
> > YMMV.
> >
> > -Jerry
> 
> On 1/18/06, Thomas W. Shelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yes DMA is enable ... I was getting writes of about 50m/sec when I 
> > tested.
> >
> > I'll disable OpenGL and recompile with some optimizations.  I'm 
> > running Kubuntu ... Any thoughts on where to find optimizations ?
> >
> > Thanks for the help ...
> 
> Try adding --enable-proc-opt to ./configure.
> 


OK ... I did that orinally ... I'll keep at it and let you know if the
OpenGL removal helps.
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[mythtv-users] zap2it lineup configuration for 2 card configuration

[Neil]

hey guys, 

I got the fusion lite hdtv 5 card delivered. I would like to know how I 
would configure the channeling in mythtvsetup. I currently have air2pc and 
I'm using it for my OTA. I will be using the fusion card for Comcast cable. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated! 

Thanks, 

Neil
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Re: [mythtv-users] DVICO Fusion HDTV 5 Lite vs HD3000

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 06:49, Brandon Beattie wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 08:29:31PM -0500, Michael Haan wrote:
> > Yes, there are two splitters between the source and the card - there is
> > also a cable modem and an amplifier.  You may be right that this is an
> > attenuation issue but the 3000 in the same rig with the same setup worked
> > almost flawlessly under a previous gentoo incarnation so that makes me
> > suspicious.  I am using reiser (just as I was before) - I could try
> > switching that but I'd need a recommendation for what to use.
>
> I'd still have the remote check on your cable line done.  Use XFS or JFS
> if you're going to be storing over 200 GB's in a single directory.  Both
> of these handle this situation well.  XFS for me has shown better
> results overall, but some people think JFS is more stable than XFS.

I can qualify that...

> I've been using both for years with no problems, so it's just opinion.
> Stay away from ReiserFS though at all costs if you're going to store
> more than 200 GB's in a single directory.

if [ $distro=="Fedora Core" && $kernel=="stock" ]
then
  echo "You have a 4kstacks-enabled kernel, and using XFS, especially in 
conjunction with software RAID and/or LVM, is likely to lead to stack 
overflows, which cause your machine to do Bad Things."
elif [ $kernel_stacks != 4k ]
  echo "XFS should be fine"
fi

:)

That said, I like XFS quite a bit myself, and have used it without a problem 
on Fedora Core in the past (though I'm just using ext3 right now on my RHEL4 
MBE). The other caveat is to have solid backup power, because XFS's 
aggressive caching might lead to random data corruption if your machine 
suddenly loses power.

http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#nulls

-- 
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Re: [mythtv-users] zap2it lineup configuration for 2 card configuration

[Steve Adeff]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 12:59, Neil wrote:
> hey guys,
>
> I got the fusion lite hdtv 5 card delivered. I would like to know how I
> would configure the channeling in mythtvsetup. I currently have air2pc and
> I'm using it for my OTA. I will be using the fusion card for Comcast cable.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Neil

since the new card will be using cable instead of OTA you can just log into 
your current zap2it account and setup a new lineup using comcast cable, then 
in mythtv-setup you'll want to set up two sources, one for the OTA lineup and 
one for the Comcast lineup. Your zap2it login information will be the same, 
but you'll get two options for the lineup.

You may also find that you get all the OTA channels on the comcast line. Once 
you get this going, I'd be interested to know if you find a difference in 
Comcast's version of the HD stations as compared to OTA.

-- 
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[mythtv-users] After "long" livetv pause, then rewind, mythfrontend becomes unstable

[John Biundo]

Hi all,

After a "long" pause*, if I attempt to rewind livetv, things become 
unstable.  Often, mythfrontend becomes unresponsive for a long time 
(maybe several minutes), then resumes rewinding or playing.

[*I reproduced the problem this morning by pausing for about 45 minutes; 
I'm not sure what the shortest pause that would trigger this is, but 
"brief" (say 1 or 2 minutes) pauses don't trigger it]

When this happens, I often see messages in the mythfrontend log like:
"prebuffering pause"
and
"Waited too long for decoder to pause"

Interestingly, once this condition is obtained, I can continue to 
fastfoward, pause, and play without problem.  Further rewinds cause the 
same problem.

By the way, if there are well-known explanations or descriptions for 
these mythfrontend messages (prebuffering pause, waited too long...) I 
would surely love to hear them!  Googling these messages hasn't been 
very fruitful so far.

Anybody else seen this, or got any clues?

I'm fairly new to MythTV, but have decent linux skills and am willing to 
try to track this problem down if I can get a little guidance on how to 
best collect data, generate some hypotheses, and test them.

Thanks in advance for any help.  This problem has certainly raised some 
"uncomfortableness" in the household, and has people feeling the need to 
reach for video tape when something crucial needs to be recorded!

Cheers,
john

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Re: [mythtv-users] Compiling Mythtv on an Xbox error?

[Tom Lichti]

A JM wrote:
> It's text not graphical.
>
> The install is a loopback file so it's not really a full install of 
> Fedora (not404.com ) if I understand correctly, my 
> guess is that it's been messaged and stripped down. However I did 
> install xorg on it so I would think X should run?
Perhaps...I don't know for sure.
>
> Any reason why changing /etc/inittab didn't change the startup 
> behavior? Is there a log I could look at to find out if there are some 
> messeges or problems while trying to start x?

/var/log/x(something).log. xorg and XFree have different names, it's 
likely xorg.0.log or something to that effect.

Tom
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Re: [mythtv-users] DVICO Fusion HDTV 5 Lite vs HD3000

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 10:04 -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> MBE). The other caveat is to have solid backup power, because XFS's 
> aggressive caching might lead to random data corruption if your machine 
> suddenly loses power.
All file systems will give you data corruption if your machine
suddenly loses power (with standard PC's). With standard params
ext3 will be a little better because it keeps puts a copy of the
data being written in the journal before it writes it in the correct
location, also as a security matter XFS will zero the bytes in a
partially written blocks on fsck, while ext3 just leaves the corrupted
block in place, which is often useful if the data is a text file.

AFAIK Except for ReiserFS, all other Linux filesystems will only
corrupt files open for writing, so this isn't entirely random...
However, files can include directories...

For the video store, XFS and JFS are really the only reasonable
options. For your main Linux partitions ext3 and ReiserFS can
have some real advantages.

-- Daniel

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Re: [mythtv-users] Compiling Mythtv on an Xbox error?

[A JM]

I just ran a 'yum update' and it seems to have found some xorg packages, I'll install and get back.Thanks,
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Re: [mythtv-users] zap2it lineup configuration for 2 card configuration

[Brad Fuller]

Steve Adeff wrote:

  On Wednesday 18 January 2006 12:59, Neil wrote:
  
  
hey guys,

I got the fusion lite hdtv 5 card delivered. I would like to know how I
would configure the channeling in mythtvsetup. I currently have air2pc and
I'm using it for my OTA. I will be using the fusion card for Comcast cable.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Neil

  
  
since the new card will be using cable instead of OTA you can just log into 
your current zap2it account and setup a new lineup using comcast cable, then 
in mythtv-setup you'll want to set up two sources, one for the OTA lineup and 
one for the Comcast lineup. Your zap2it login information will be the same, 
but you'll get two options for the lineup.

You may also find that you get all the OTA channels on the comcast line. Once 
you get this going, I'd be interested to know if you find a difference in 
Comcast's version of the HD stations as compared to OTA.
  

me too. I'm in SF Bay area (Los Gatos) and HD OTA seems to be better
than Comcast QAM but I'd like to find out if it's me or them.



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Re: [mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

[Marius Schrecker]

> On Wednesday 18 January 2006 17:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I had myth setup on a XP2100 processor system and everything worked
>> quite
>> well.  Now that I have upgraded to a new computer with a P4
>> 3.2Ghzprocessor, during live TV, mythfrontend actually uses more of my
>> CPU.
>> Sometimes up to 99%.  When this happens I get a prebuffering pause and
>> the
>> video kind of glitches.  Anybody ever experience something like this?  I
>> have tried changing most of the settings in the setup and didn't see any
>> improvement.  I was thinking about trying another kernel or video card,
>> but
>> the video card doesn't seem to be the problem.
>> Notable differences in systems:
>>
>> AMD XP2100 proc
>> Nvidia FX5200
>> Fedora Core 3
>> 2.6.10 kernel
>> Hauppauge PVR250
>>
>> P4 3.2Ghz proc
>> ATI X300
>> Fedora Core 4
>> 2.6.14-SMP kernel
>> Hauppauge PVR250
>>
>> Thanks for any help you can offer!
>> A
> If your Nvidia had Nvidia's drivers it would have had hard-decode support,
> if
> your ATI card uses the xorg drivers it doesn't have that. I can run
> 800x600
> on a 300MHz machine with the right Nvidia drivers, it fails to play
> 480x480
> with the xorg drivers.
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Why are you using a SMP kernel? I've never used a Dual Core processor, but
I'm guessing that even then you'd probably be better off with a standard
(optimized) kernel.

The viedo drivers probably are your first bet though. A word of warning:
the proprietary fxlrx drivers don't work with X.org 6.9, so if you want to
try them, don't upgrade x until ATI bring out the next version.

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

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/16/06 23:23, Joe Votour wrote:

>--- 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?
>>
>>
>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,
>
And it's been there since [7854].

> I don't know if it is user-configurable or not.
>  
>
Nope.  Always called LiveTV.

And, the LiveTV changes were even pointed out in an e-mail on /this/ 
list just 3 days ago.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/174316#174316

Of course, it was the one on-topic post in the entire thread buried by a 
stupid flame war (something like 23 off-topic posts), so I can see why 
you might have missed it...

Mike
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[mythtv-users] New Install - Hang on entering live tv

[Bob]

I have searched the archives and googled this topic to no avail.

 

When I select “Watch Live TV” from the main menu…

* the screen goes blank

* sometimes I hear a brief time of audio then it stops

* X consumes 98% of cpu

* the keyboard / mouse is unresponsive

* both backend and front end continue to run.

* I can still ssh in and recover by doing "init 3",
"init 5"

 

/var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log (these lines are written when I go into
Live TV)

…

2006-01-18 02:56:01.100 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback

2006-01-18 02:56:01.106 adding: server3.home.junga.com as a client
(events: 0)

2006-01-18 02:56:01.132 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback

2006-01-18 02:56:01.137 adding: server3.home.junga.com as a client
(events: 0)

2006-01-18 02:56:01.148 adding: server3.home.junga.com as a remote
ringbuffer

2006-01-18 02:56:01.172
Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV

 

Things I have tried.

I have rebooted.

I can view the PVR 150 output with “mplayer –vx vo
/dev/video0”

I tried having the video sent to a ext partition instead of the JFS
one.

I tried an old version of the video driver.

I follow FedoraMthology website and troubleshooting guides on mythtv
and ivtv sites.

 

 

Here are the system specs…

This is a new, never before working system

x86_64 MSI mb

PVR 150 – using cable tuner

GeForce 6200 vid card 24bit x 1024x768

Video is stored on a JFS lvm partition mounted at /video/ (it has 777
permission)

No IR (yet)

Fedora 4

All binary install from atrpms and freshrpms

ivtv-0.4.1-100

mythtv-0.18.1-117

7667 and 8178 versions of nvidia drivers tried

 

/etc/modprobe.conf

…

alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv

alias tuner tuner-ivtv

alias tda9887 tda9887-ivtv

alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv

alias char-major-81 ivtv

# nvidia kernel module

alias char-major-195 nvidia-1_0-7667

alias nvidia nvidia-1_0-7667

 

Any ideas?

 

--BobG






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Re: [mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

[Aaron Aguilar]

I can't remember the motherboards off the top of my head.  The
XP2100 is an Asus something, and the P4 is from Dell, I can check when
I get home.  

Steve--  I have the standard xorg.conf that came with the fglrx driver.  Is there a flag I need to add?  

Marius-- This is the default kernel that linux uses if you have a
hyperthreading processor.  The fglrx driver seems to work fine,
unless it is causing this problem of course.

On 1/18/06, Marius Schrecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 January 2006 17:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:>> I had myth setup on a XP2100 processor system and everything worked>> quite
>> well. Now that I have upgraded to a new computer with a P4>> 3.2Ghzprocessor, during live TV, mythfrontend actually uses more of my>> CPU.>> Sometimes up to 99%. When this happens I get a prebuffering pause and
>> the>> video kind of glitches. Anybody ever experience something like this? I>> have tried changing most of the settings in the setup and didn't see any>> improvement. I was thinking about trying another kernel or video card,
>> but>> the video card doesn't seem to be the problem.>> Notable differences in systems: AMD XP2100 proc>> Nvidia FX5200>> Fedora Core 3>> 
2.6.10 kernel>> Hauppauge PVR250 P4 3.2Ghz proc>> ATI X300>> Fedora Core 4>> 2.6.14-SMP kernel>> Hauppauge PVR250 Thanks for any help you can offer!
>> A> If your Nvidia had Nvidia's drivers it would have had hard-decode support,> if> your ATI card uses the xorg drivers it doesn't have that. I can run> 800x600> on a 300MHz machine with the right Nvidia drivers, it fails to play
> 480x480> with the xorg drivers.> ___> mythtv-users mailing list> mythtv-users@mythtv.org> 
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users>Why are you using a SMP kernel? I've never used a Dual Core processor, butI'm guessing that even then you'd probably be better off with a standard
(optimized) kernel.The viedo drivers probably are your first bet though. A word of warning:the proprietary fxlrx drivers don't work with X.org 6.9, so if you want totry them, don't upgrade x until ATI bring out the next version.
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Re: [mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz

[Brian Foddy]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Marius Schrecker wrote:


On Wednesday 18 January 2006 17:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I had myth setup on a XP2100 processor system and everything worked
quite
well.  Now that I have upgraded to a new computer with a P4
3.2Ghzprocessor, during live TV, mythfrontend actually uses more of my
CPU.
Sometimes up to 99%.  When this happens I get a prebuffering pause and
the
video kind of glitches.  Anybody ever experience something like this?  I
have tried changing most of the settings in the setup and didn't see any
improvement.  I was thinking about trying another kernel or video card,
but
the video card doesn't seem to be the problem.
Notable differences in systems:

AMD XP2100 proc
Nvidia FX5200
Fedora Core 3
2.6.10 kernel
Hauppauge PVR250

P4 3.2Ghz proc
ATI X300
Fedora Core 4
2.6.14-SMP kernel
Hauppauge PVR250

Thanks for any help you can offer!
A

If your Nvidia had Nvidia's drivers it would have had hard-decode support,
if
your ATI card uses the xorg drivers it doesn't have that. I can run
800x600
on a 300MHz machine with the right Nvidia drivers, it fails to play
480x480
with the xorg drivers.
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Why are you using a SMP kernel? I've never used a Dual Core processor, but
I'm guessing that even then you'd probably be better off with a standard
(optimized) kernel.


I disagree.  Its hard for me to imagine any realworld situation
where a smp kernel on a hyperthreaded cpu would not perform at least
as well as a non-smp kernel.  And if you have a true dual core cpu,
definately use it.  HT may only be a very modest improvement, but
I have 2 machines with 2 Xeon HT cpus, and I set them both up for 4
cpu smp support.


Brian
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Re: [mythtv-users] zap2it lineup configuration for 2 c ard configuration

[Steve Adeff]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 13:44, Brad Fuller wrote:
> Steve Adeff wrote:
> >On Wednesday 18 January 2006 12:59, Neil wrote:
> >>hey guys,
> >>
> >>I got the fusion lite hdtv 5 card delivered. I would like to know how I
> >>would configure the channeling in mythtvsetup. I currently have air2pc
> >> and I'm using it for my OTA. I will be using the fusion card for Comcast
> >> cable.
> >>
> >>Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>
> >>Neil
> >
> >since the new card will be using cable instead of OTA you can just log
> > into your current zap2it account and setup a new lineup using comcast
> > cable, then in mythtv-setup you'll want to set up two sources, one for
> > the OTA lineup and one for the Comcast lineup. Your zap2it login
> > information will be the same, but you'll get two options for the lineup.
> >
> >You may also find that you get all the OTA channels on the comcast line.
> > Once you get this going, I'd be interested to know if you find a
> > difference in Comcast's version of the HD stations as compared to OTA.
>
> me too. I'm in SF Bay area (Los Gatos) and HD OTA seems to be better
> than Comcast QAM but I'd like to find out if it's me or them.

record the same thing on both tuners and compare the mpeg streams.

-- 
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[mythtv-users] record a show on channel X or Y

[Daniel Walton]

Is it possible to schedule a show to record only on specific channels?  That or
say "record on any channel except channel X"?

I have one HDTV OTA tuner card and two PVR-150s.  Sometimes there are two HD
shows on at the same time that I want to record so I record one of them in HD
and the other in SD on a PVR-150.  In order to make this work I've assigned my
HD card a higher priority and for any HD show I tell it to "record on any
channel".  This way the higher priority show records in HD, the lower in SD.

The problem is when there is a third station that airs lots of repeats of a
show. Take CSI for example, new episodes air on CBS via channel 5_1 in HD and
channel 3 in SD but SpikeTV (channel 40) shows lots of older shows that aren't
always flagged as 'Repeat'.

How can I tell Myth to record CSI on channel 5_1 or 3 but not channel 40?

Daniel

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Re: [mythtv-users] record a show on channel X or Y

[Steve Adeff]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 14:35, Daniel Walton wrote:
> Is it possible to schedule a show to record only on specific channels? 
> That or say "record on any channel except channel X"?
>
> I have one HDTV OTA tuner card and two PVR-150s.  Sometimes there are two
> HD shows on at the same time that I want to record so I record one of them
> in HD and the other in SD on a PVR-150.  In order to make this work I've
> assigned my HD card a higher priority and for any HD show I tell it to
> "record on any channel".  This way the higher priority show records in HD,
> the lower in SD.
>
> The problem is when there is a third station that airs lots of repeats of a
> show. Take CSI for example, new episodes air on CBS via channel 5_1 in HD
> and channel 3 in SD but SpikeTV (channel 40) shows lots of older shows that
> aren't always flagged as 'Repeat'.
>
> How can I tell Myth to record CSI on channel 5_1 or 3 but not channel 40?
>
> Daniel
>

set up as many "record only on this channel" recordings for the two channels 
you want with the priorities you want.

-- 
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[mythtv-users] Silverstone Lascala 17 Case

[peter]

Hi,

I'm thinking of replacing my current FE with an HD-capable FE, and was
thinking of putting it all in Silverstone Lascala 17 case: 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811163055 .

Is anyone using one of these? And failing that, any other comments on
good, reasonably-priced cases?

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Re: [mythtv-users] zap2it lineup configuration for 2 card configuration

[Brad Fuller]

Steve Adeff wrote:

  On Wednesday 18 January 2006 13:44, Brad Fuller wrote:
  
  
Steve Adeff wrote:


  On Wednesday 18 January 2006 12:59, Neil wrote:
  
  
hey guys,

I got the fusion lite hdtv 5 card delivered. I would like to know how I
would configure the channeling in mythtvsetup. I currently have air2pc
and I'm using it for my OTA. I will be using the fusion card for Comcast
cable.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Neil

  
  since the new card will be using cable instead of OTA you can just log
into your current zap2it account and setup a new lineup using comcast
cable, then in mythtv-setup you'll want to set up two sources, one for
the OTA lineup and one for the Comcast lineup. Your zap2it login
information will be the same, but you'll get two options for the lineup.

You may also find that you get all the OTA channels on the comcast line.
Once you get this going, I'd be interested to know if you find a
difference in Comcast's version of the HD stations as compared to OTA.
  

me too. I'm in SF Bay area (Los Gatos) and HD OTA seems to be better
than Comcast QAM but I'd like to find out if it's me or them.

  
  
record the same thing on both tuners and compare the mpeg streams.
  

I only have one 250 and one HD.
But, when I went to QAM the results were mixed. OTA was much better,
but I have more time on OTA than QAM.
Just was looking for more benchmarks from others.



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Re: [mythtv-users] record a show on channel X or Y

[Daniel Walton]

But then it will record CSI on channel 5_1 and 3, I only want it to record on
one or the other.

Daniel

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Steve Adeff wrote:

> On Wednesday 18 January 2006 14:35, Daniel Walton wrote:
> > Is it possible to schedule a show to record only on specific channels?
> > That or say "record on any channel except channel X"?
> >
> > I have one HDTV OTA tuner card and two PVR-150s.  Sometimes there are two
> > HD shows on at the same time that I want to record so I record one of them
> > in HD and the other in SD on a PVR-150.  In order to make this work I've
> > assigned my HD card a higher priority and for any HD show I tell it to
> > "record on any channel".  This way the higher priority show records in HD,
> > the lower in SD.
> >
> > The problem is when there is a third station that airs lots of repeats of a
> > show. Take CSI for example, new episodes air on CBS via channel 5_1 in HD
> > and channel 3 in SD but SpikeTV (channel 40) shows lots of older shows that
> > aren't always flagged as 'Repeat'.
> >
> > How can I tell Myth to record CSI on channel 5_1 or 3 but not channel 40?
> >
> > Daniel
> >
>
> set up as many "record only on this channel" recordings for the two channels
> you want with the priorities you want.
>
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Re: [mythtv-users] record a show on channel X or Y

[Kevin Kuphal]

Daniel Walton wrote:
> But then it will record CSI on channel 5_1 and 3, I only want it to record on
> one or the other.
>   
I'm pretty sure you can do this with an advanced recording rule with 
something like title LIKE "CSI" and channel != 40.  Bruce is better with 
the syntax of these but I think there are other examples in the archives 
that would help.

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

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/17/06 14:29, Nick wrote:

>On 16/01/06, 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?
>>
>>
>
>AIUI this relates to the difference between scheduling an 'every day'
>recording on a weekday (Mon - Fri) or at the weekend (Sat - Sun) and
>the differing scheduler behaviour.
>
Doesn't this apply only to manual recordings?  On regular recordings, 
Myth has guide data to know whether the same show is broadcast on 
weekends/weekdays.  So--unless the OP is using manual recordings 
(something he should have told us)-- he should just say to record every 
day and Myth will know whether the Simpsons are on Saturday and Sunday.

Also, it makes no difference whether you schedule the "in this timeslot 
every day" manual recording "on a weekday" or not--it's whether you set 
the "Date or day of the week:" to Saturday or Sunday.  Therefore, on 
Tuesday I can schedule the recording, while setting the day of the week 
to Saturday to get 7 day/week manual recordings.  (I'm sure this is what 
you mean, but it's not what you're saying.  :)

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Re: [mythtv-users] DVICO Fusion HDTV 5 Lite vs HD3000

[Yeechang Lee]

Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
> echo "You have a 4kstacks-enabled kernel, and using XFS, especially
> in conjunction with software RAID and/or LVM, is likely to lead to
> stack overflows, which cause your machine to do Bad Things."

As I've recently written here, I saw the exact same stack overflow
errors with Fedora Core 3 and various 2.6.x kernels when using JFS,
not XFS, with LVM2 and software RAID. Recompiling the kernel to turn
off 4k stacks (and thus go back to the old 8k behavior) indeed fixed
this issue. Those interested should see the relevant
bugzilla.redhat.com entry.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for high WAF in-wall speakers!!

[Richard Bronosky]

Wow, great stuff.  I like the link you included.

To answer the you're whipped... and, you should do what sounds best...
arguments.  Let me say that I agree with her "ahem" (I don't think the
following word is appropriate for her, but here goes) Logic.  I have
never owned a surround system.  Just about anything I do is going to
sound better than the speakers built into the plasma.  I'm just seeing
the opportunity to step it up a notch as I am currently installing the
crown molding.  (I didn't think of doing this while I had the sheet
rock crew in replacing the popcorn ceilings with flat.)  I'm looking
for an improvement not a pinnacle.  This is not the right room in the
house for a home theater.  I have one of those.  I'll be investing in
it later.  I want this space to look great and function for general TV
viewing.  The quality sound for this space will be coming from a baby
grand player piano.  The TV viewing is less of a feature.  My wife is
an excellent decorator and I trust her.

So, with that said, I'm shooting for the $1000 for all 5 and a sub
range.  The greatest challenge is that there is no back wall or right
wall to this viewing space.  You can see what I'm talking about on my
flickr page.  The TV is going above the fireplace.

http://flickr.com/photos/richardbronosky/61454844/
http://flickr.com/photos/richardbronosky/61454250/
http://flickr.com/photos/richardbronosky/61454890/
that bare column stands at what used to be the corner of a separate
room, seen in these before shots:
http://flickr.com/photos/richardbronosky/56052452/
http://flickr.com/photos/richardbronosky/56052494/

The issue of not having a back wall (cause it's open to the kitchen)
makes me think that speakers in the walls or in the ceiling will be
hard to point toward the viewing space.  Suggestions?

Meatwad wrote:

  Richard Bronosky wrote:

  
  
Why is it that Bose can use those tiny little cube speakers for there
flag ship product, but their in-wall speakers have to have a 8 3/4" by
6" face plate?

  
  
Bose use tiny little cube speakers in their flagship product because a) 
they have a very high WAF, b)they are INSANELY inexpensive to 
manufacture and c)they are marketed towards upscale consumers who read 
high-brow magazines without bothering to learn even the most basic 
tenets* of proper loudspeaker design.

Don't know why they took a traditional design approach to their in-walls 
seeing as nearly everything else they design is non-traditional. FWIW, 
they still sound absolutely awful.

In-walls can sound fantastic when designed well with quality components. 
Look at Sonance, RBH, Polk or Niles just to name a few of the entry 
level players. If your budget allows and you want to get very accurate 
sound from in-ceiling speakers, look at Triad. Another in-wall/ceiling 
which has a very different approach with some amazingly detailed imagery 
are Cabasse iO coaxials.

But please, please, please do your Myth system some justice and put 
something, ANYTHING, other than Bose in the room.

* Here is the de facto article I refer prospective clients to when they 
bring up Bose. If they still have a thing for Bose, I know they are 
going to be PITA customer and I politely drop them like a hot potato.
http://www.intellexual.net/bose.html

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Re: [mythtv-users] record a show on channel X or Y

[Mike Richardson]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 02:01:44PM -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> Daniel Walton wrote:
> > But then it will record CSI on channel 5_1 and 3, I only want it to record 
> > on
> > one or the other.
> >   
> I'm pretty sure you can do this with an advanced recording rule with 
> something like title LIKE "CSI" and channel != 40.  Bruce is better with 
> the syntax of these but I think there are other examples in the archives 
> that would help.

On a related note, is there a way of grouping channels or relating channels?

e.g. BBC1 on source 1 and 2
C4, E4, E4+1 on source 1, C4 on source 2.
ITV, ITV2 on source 1, ITV on source 2, etc etc.

Thanks

Mike

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Re: [mythtv-users] Silverstone Lascala 17 Case

[Steve Adeff]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 14:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm thinking of replacing my current FE with an HD-capable FE, and was
> thinking of putting it all in Silverstone Lascala 17 case:
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811163055 .
>
> Is anyone using one of these? And failing that, any other comments on
> good, reasonably-priced cases?

I've got the 16 in Silver, its a work of art, great construction looks 
beautiful.

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Re: [mythtv-users] record a show on channel X or Y

[Daniel Walton]

yeah, that should do the trick.  I have an advanced recording rule to record any
ACC vs ACC basketball game so I should be able to figure something out for CSI
:)

thx
Daniel

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Kevin Kuphal wrote:

> Daniel Walton wrote:
> > But then it will record CSI on channel 5_1 and 3, I only want it to record 
> > on
> > one or the other.
> >
> I'm pretty sure you can do this with an advanced recording rule with
> something like title LIKE "CSI" and channel != 40.  Bruce is better with
> the syntax of these but I think there are other examples in the archives
> that would help.
>
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Re: [mythtv-users] DVICO Fusion HDTV 5 Lite vs HD3000

[Michael Haan]

On 1/18/06, Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:> echo "You have a 4kstacks-enabled kernel, and using XFS, especially> in conjunction with software RAID and/or LVM, is likely to lead to
> stack overflows, which cause your machine to do Bad Things."As I've recently written here, I saw the exact same stack overflowerrors with Fedora Core 3 and various 2.6.x kernels when using JFS,
not XFS, with LVM2 and software RAID. Recompiling the kernel to turnoff 4k stacks (and thus go back to the old 8k behavior) indeed fixedthis issue. Those interested should see the relevant
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Ok, so I'm not sure what the consensus is.  My distro is FC4, kernel is 2.6.14 from ATrpms.  My main partition is ext3 everything else is on ReiserFS/RAID device.  So, is the suggestion for me to rebuild my kernel, or remake the RAID FS using XFS or JFS, or some combination of the two?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for high WAF in-wall speakers!!

[Steve Adeff]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 15:09, Richard Bronosky wrote:
> Wow, great stuff.  I like the link you included.
>
> To answer the you're whipped... and, you should do what sounds best...
> arguments.  Let me say that I agree with her "ahem" (I don't think the
> following word is appropriate for her, but here goes) Logic.  I have
> never owned a surround system.  Just about anything I do is going to
> sound better than the speakers built into the plasma.  I'm just seeing
> the opportunity to step it up a notch as I am currently installing the
> crown molding.  (I didn't think of doing this while I had the sheet rock
> crew in replacing the popcorn ceilings with flat.)  I'm looking for an
> improvement not a pinnacle.  This is not the right room in the house for
> a home theater.  I have one of those.  I'll be investing in it later.  I
> want this space to look great and function for general TV viewing.  The
> quality sound for this space will be coming from a baby grand player
> piano.  The TV viewing is less of a feature.  My wife is an excellent
> decorator and I trust her.
>
> So, with that said, I'm shooting for the $1000 for all 5 and a sub
> range.  The greatest challenge is that there is no back wall or right
> wall to this viewing space.  You can see what I'm talking about on my
> flickr page.  The TV is going above the fireplace.
>
> http://flickr.com/photos/richardbronosky/61454844/
> http://flickr.com/photos/richardbronosky/61454250/
> http://flickr.com/photos/richardbronosky/61454890/
> that bare column stands at what used to be the corner of a separate
> room, seen in these before shots:
> http://flickr.com/photos/richardbronosky/56052452/
> http://flickr.com/photos/richardbronosky/56052494/
>
> The issue of not having a back wall (cause it's open to the kitchen)
> makes me think that speakers in the walls or in the ceiling will be hard
> to point toward the viewing space.  Suggestions?
>
> Meatwad wrote:
> > Richard Bronosky wrote:
> >> Why is it that Bose can use those tiny little cube speakers for there
> >> flag ship product, but their in-wall speakers have to have a 8 3/4" by
> >> 6" face plate?
> >
> > Bose use tiny little cube speakers in their flagship product because a)
> > they have a very high WAF, b)they are INSANELY inexpensive to
> > manufacture and c)they are marketed towards upscale consumers who read
> > high-brow magazines without bothering to learn even the most basic
> > tenets* of proper loudspeaker design.
> >
> > Don't know why they took a traditional design approach to their in-walls
> > seeing as nearly everything else they design is non-traditional. FWIW,
> > they still sound absolutely awful.
> >
> > In-walls can sound fantastic when designed well with quality components.
> > Look at Sonance, RBH, Polk or Niles just to name a few of the entry
> > level players. If your budget allows and you want to get very accurate
> > sound from in-ceiling speakers, look at Triad. Another in-wall/ceiling
> > which has a very different approach with some amazingly detailed imagery
> > are Cabasse iO coaxials.
> >
> > But please, please, please do your Myth system some justice and put
> > something, ANYTHING, other than Bose in the room.
> >
> > * Here is the de facto article I refer prospective clients to when they
> > bring up Bose. If they still have a thing for Bose, I know they are
> > going to be PITA customer and I politely drop them like a hot potato.
> > http://www.intellexual.net/bose.html

if you can live with regular ol' speakers I'd recommend the Energy Take 5 (or 
whatever the new set they replaced the Take 5 with) or Paradigm's Cinema 
series. They all consist of small satelite speakers with a subwoofer and 
sound excellent. My dad has the Energy Take 5 and I was blown away by how 
good it sounds for the price and size. They have great staging and depth, 
something I was not expecting from them.

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Re: [mythtv-users] SVN 8625 Tuner Status strangeness

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/17/06 22:42, Steve Adeff wrote:

>On Tuesday 17 January 2006 22:28, Chris Pinkham wrote:
>  
>
>>>Tuner Status says Tuner 3 is recording, but the file being written is
>>>2068_blah, so wouldn't that mean its Tuner 2?
>>>  
>>>
>>No, the 2068 is the chanid.  This is probably the second source you
>>setup (whether you have 2 or had 1 and deleted it and added another).
>>
>>
>
>So source and tuner are not the same... strange, but I guess it doesn't really 
>matter. I'll just have to remember 2 and 3 are backwards.
>
>  
>
Source as in "video sources" as in channel lineups.  Has nothing to do 
with capture cards/tuners/inputs.  I have one source and 2 capture cards 
and set up a box with one source and 4 capture cards.  Every one of my 
recordings (and every recording on the 4 card box) starts with "1" (i.e. 
1009_xxx, 1035_xxx) regardless of which tuner records them.

Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] Changing width resolution for PVR-250/350's

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/17/06 20:27, Greg Estabrooks wrote:

>>But I also saw a neglible change in file sizes, too.  Is this 
>>the expected behavior?
>>
>>
>
> Certainly, bitrate is bitrate regardless of the resolution. 2Megabits at 
>480x480 is just as much data as 2Megabits at 720x480.
>
Or, put another way, which weighs more, a ton of feathers or a ton of 
bricks.  ;)

> Plus analog cable broadcasts are normally broadcast in a "resolution"
>of close to 544x480 in most markets. People keep focusing on 720x480
>as it is the most well known NTSC DVD resolution.
>  
>
Yep.  The only reason I used 720x480 is because it allows me to "easily" 
put the recordings on DVD without transcoding.  I could also use 352x480 
and probably wouldn't see a difference in quality, but that's a whole 
other story...

Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] record a show on channel X or Y

[Gregorio Gervasio, Jr.]

> Daniel Walton writes:

>> set up as many "record only on this channel" recordings for the two channels
>> you want with the priorities you want.

d> But then it will record CSI on channel 5_1 and 3, I only want it to record on
d> one or the other.


No, try it out.  As long as it has enough information to
detect duplicate episodes, it will only record one of them.

I think you may also get away with using one channel record
entry if you give both channels the same "callsign".  I've done this
between QTA and QAM channels.

I should note that I've sometimes seen zap2it provide
different episode information between the digital and analog channels
but then correct them as airtime gets closer.  Myth will think it has
to record both channels until mythfilldatabase updates the program
database ~1 day before airtime.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for high WAF in-wall speakers!!

[Steve Adeff]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 15:21, Steve Adeff wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 January 2006 15:09, Richard Bronosky wrote:
> > Wow, great stuff.  I like the link you included.
> >
> > To answer the you're whipped... and, you should do what sounds best...
> > arguments.  Let me say that I agree with her "ahem" (I don't think the
> > following word is appropriate for her, but here goes) Logic.  I have
> > never owned a surround system.  Just about anything I do is going to
> > sound better than the speakers built into the plasma.  I'm just seeing
> > the opportunity to step it up a notch as I am currently installing the
> > crown molding.  (I didn't think of doing this while I had the sheet rock
> > crew in replacing the popcorn ceilings with flat.)  I'm looking for an
> > improvement not a pinnacle.  This is not the right room in the house for
> > a home theater.  I have one of those.  I'll be investing in it later.  I
> > want this space to look great and function for general TV viewing.  The
> > quality sound for this space will be coming from a baby grand player
> > piano.  The TV viewing is less of a feature.  My wife is an excellent
> > decorator and I trust her.
> >
> > So, with that said, I'm shooting for the $1000 for all 5 and a sub
> > range.  The greatest challenge is that there is no back wall or right
> > wall to this viewing space.  You can see what I'm talking about on my
> > flickr page.  The TV is going above the fireplace.
> >
> > http://flickr.com/photos/richardbronosky/61454844/
> > http://flickr.com/photos/richardbronosky/61454250/
> > http://flickr.com/photos/richardbronosky/61454890/
> > that bare column stands at what used to be the corner of a separate
> > room, seen in these before shots:
> > http://flickr.com/photos/richardbronosky/56052452/
> > http://flickr.com/photos/richardbronosky/56052494/
> >
> > The issue of not having a back wall (cause it's open to the kitchen)
> > makes me think that speakers in the walls or in the ceiling will be hard
> > to point toward the viewing space.  Suggestions?
> >
> > Meatwad wrote:
> > > Richard Bronosky wrote:
> > >> Why is it that Bose can use those tiny little cube speakers for there
> > >> flag ship product, but their in-wall speakers have to have a 8 3/4" by
> > >> 6" face plate?
> > >
> > > Bose use tiny little cube speakers in their flagship product because a)
> > > they have a very high WAF, b)they are INSANELY inexpensive to
> > > manufacture and c)they are marketed towards upscale consumers who read
> > > high-brow magazines without bothering to learn even the most basic
> > > tenets* of proper loudspeaker design.
> > >
> > > Don't know why they took a traditional design approach to their
> > > in-walls seeing as nearly everything else they design is
> > > non-traditional. FWIW, they still sound absolutely awful.
> > >
> > > In-walls can sound fantastic when designed well with quality
> > > components. Look at Sonance, RBH, Polk or Niles just to name a few of
> > > the entry level players. If your budget allows and you want to get very
> > > accurate sound from in-ceiling speakers, look at Triad. Another
> > > in-wall/ceiling which has a very different approach with some amazingly
> > > detailed imagery are Cabasse iO coaxials.
> > >
> > > But please, please, please do your Myth system some justice and put
> > > something, ANYTHING, other than Bose in the room.
> > >
> > > * Here is the de facto article I refer prospective clients to when they
> > > bring up Bose. If they still have a thing for Bose, I know they are
> > > going to be PITA customer and I politely drop them like a hot potato.
> > > http://www.intellexual.net/bose.html
>
> if you can live with regular ol' speakers I'd recommend the Energy Take 5
> (or whatever the new set they replaced the Take 5 with) or Paradigm's
> Cinema series. They all consist of small satelite speakers with a subwoofer
> and sound excellent. My dad has the Energy Take 5 and I was blown away by
> how good it sounds for the price and size. They have great staging and
> depth, something I was not expecting from them.

I should add, my parents remodel will have a similar layout for their 
hometheatre room, 3 walls, no back wall. My mom's plan is to continue to use 
the Energy Take 5 (she enjoys the home theatre experience as much as my dad, 
it just took the great quality and living room comfort experience in person 
to convince her). Using wall mounts for the surrounds, mounting them about 
1ft below the ceiling and angling them towards the sitting area. The front 
l/r will sit on some very stylish stands that she picked out to match the tv 
stand she picked out. She's an Architect/Interior Decorator, so after a 
half-hour of explaining room acoustics to her we were able to lay this design 
out.

That said, I do love what you've done with the place, the large room is the 
same concept my parents are going for, it really opens the place up and gives 
the feeling of grandeur. Good luck in convincing the w

Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for high WAF in-wall speakers!!

[Greg Woods]

I was surprised to see all the anti-Bose venom here. My Bose system
(with the cube speakers) works pretty well for us, that's all I know.
The cube speakers are also very easy to mount and position pretty much
anywhere you need them. 

I'm not an audiophile, but I am sound-sensitive and was one of the first
to adopt CR02 cassette tapes (I'm giving away my age here) because I
couldn't stand the hiss on the older-style tapes, and I had to learn to
use "audacity" in order to make listenable OGG files out of some of
those old tapes, so I'm not totally deaf to audio issues.

Also, Consumer Reports rated the Bose system very highly in their tests
of surround sound systems. They do unbiased tests with sound frequency
meters and trained experts as well as ordinary users to evaluate the
sound. I'm not going to try and argue audio science with people who most
likely know a lot more about it than I do. I only know I like my Bose
cube speaker surround sound system.

--Greg


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Re: [mythtv-users] No sound -- does it matter?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/18/06 11:05, jwg wrote:

>A total newbie question. I'm unable to get my PC sound working. Do I 
>really care?
>
>I intend to set this box up as a headless MythTV box, i.e. no monitor, 
>keyboard or mouse,
>running Fedora Core 4, with PVR 350, located with our entertainment 
>stack, and manage it
>with a combination of the IR remote control and web interface. It will 
>drive the family TV through
>the PVR 350 outputs.
>  
>
Driving the TV through PVR-350 outputs is /not/ headless.  The TV is the 
head (on which you'll be displaying X Windows)...

Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] SVN 8625 Tuner Status strangeness

[Steve Adeff]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 15:23, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 01/17/06 22:42, Steve Adeff wrote:
> >On Tuesday 17 January 2006 22:28, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> >>>Tuner Status says Tuner 3 is recording, but the file being written is
> >>>2068_blah, so wouldn't that mean its Tuner 2?
> >>
> >>No, the 2068 is the chanid.  This is probably the second source you
> >>setup (whether you have 2 or had 1 and deleted it and added another).
> >
> >So source and tuner are not the same... strange, but I guess it doesn't
> > really matter. I'll just have to remember 2 and 3 are backwards.
>
> Source as in "video sources" as in channel lineups.  Has nothing to do
> with capture cards/tuners/inputs.  I have one source and 2 capture cards
> and set up a box with one source and 4 capture cards.  Every one of my
> recordings (and every recording on the 4 card box) starts with "1" (i.e.
> 1009_xxx, 1035_xxx) regardless of which tuner records them.
>
> Mike

ah. so the first digit is the source, not the tuner! vewy intwesting

-- 
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Re: [mythtv-users] record a show on channel X or Y

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/18/06 14:56, Daniel Walton wrote:

>But then it will record CSI on channel 5_1 and 3, I only want it to record on
>one or the other.
>
duplicate matching...

Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for high WAF in-wall speakers!!

[Josh Burks]

On 1/18/06, Richard Bronosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  Wow, great stuff.  I like the link you included.
>
>  To answer the you're whipped... and, you should do what sounds best...
> arguments.  Let me say that I agree with her "ahem" (I don't think the
> following word is appropriate for her, but here goes) Logic.  I have never
> owned a surround system.  Just about anything I do is going to sound better
> than the speakers built into the plasma.  I'm just seeing the opportunity to
> step it up a notch as I am currently installing the crown molding.  (I
> didn't think of doing this while I had the sheet rock crew in replacing the
> popcorn ceilings with flat.)  I'm looking for an improvement not a pinnacle.
>  This is not the right room in the house for a home theater.  I have one of
> those.  I'll be investing in it later.  I want this space to look great and
> function for general TV viewing.  The quality sound for this space will be
> coming from a baby grand player piano.  The TV viewing is less of a feature.
>  My wife is an excellent decorator and I trust her.
>
>  So, with that said, I'm shooting for the $1000 for all 5 and a sub range.
> The greatest challenge is that there is no back wall or right wall to this
> viewing space.  You can see what I'm talking about on my flickr page.  The
> TV is going above the fireplace.
>
>  http://flickr.com/photos/richardbronosky/61454844/
>  http://flickr.com/photos/richardbronosky/61454250/
>  http://flickr.com/photos/richardbronosky/61454890/
>  that bare column stands at what used to be the corner of a separate room,
> seen in these before shots:
>  http://flickr.com/photos/richardbronosky/56052452/
>  http://flickr.com/photos/richardbronosky/56052494/
>
>  The issue of not having a back wall (cause it's open to the kitchen) makes
> me think that speakers in the walls or in the ceiling will be hard to point
> toward the viewing space.  Suggestions?
>

I know I'm jumping in late, but if I had your situation, I'd love to
have this Klipsch system:
http://www.klipsch.com/product/product.aspx?cid=936&dmore=False&rmore=False
http://www.klipsch.com/product/product.aspx?cid=906

I believe you can hang the speakers on the wall, and they're low
profile, so they blend with the tv. Use the stands for the speakers
that have to go where there's no walls.

Josh
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Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2

[Chad]

On 1/18/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 January 2006 01:43, Justin Hornsby wrote:
> > Hello again.
> >
> > I've just put up version 1.2 of my ProjectGrayhem-wide theme.
> >
> > I made changes in the following places:
> >
> > Now showing more items in the menus
> > More screen used in 'watch recordings', 'delete recordings' and 'program
> > finder'
> >
> > I didn't change the size of the watermarks (because my source graphics
> > aren't high enough resolution).. sorry Isaac.  I'll get round to that
> > soon enough ;-)
> >
> > Get the theme from www.juski.co.uk.
> >
> > And FYI this theme will work with SVN mythtv as well as 0.18 versions,
> > just as the 4:3 theme does.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Justin.
>
> looks good, I still get the cut off date values in Watch Recordings, etc.
>
> --
> Steve
> ___

I did too, but I lowered my DPI to 75 from 100 and now it works on all
3 digit dates (1/11 but not 11/11 for example).  I blamed my own setup
as I've been tweaking my font recently and probably dorked something,
but since you mentioned it, I figure I should say "me too".

Otherwise, I really like this theme!  It looks great on my TV with my
setup.  And I use XvMC so I get the gray OSD too which matches
perfectly with this theme :D

Thanks!
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Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/18/06 15:53, Chad wrote:

>On 1/18/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  
>
>>looks good, I still get the cut off date values in Watch Recordings, etc.
>>
>>
>I did too, but I lowered my DPI to 75 from 100 and now it works on all
>3 digit dates (1/11 but not 11/11 for example).  I blamed my own setup
>as I've been tweaking my font recently and probably dorked something,
>but since you mentioned it, I figure I should say "me too".
>  
>
Please don't suggest using the wrong DPI.  Displays for mythfrontend 
should be set to 100 DPI.  Changing the DPI only changes the problems 
(probably to ones you feel are less intrusive) but does not fix them.

Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] SVN 8625 Tuner Status strangeness

[Tom Lichti]

Steve Adeff wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 January 2006 15:23, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> On 01/17/06 22:42, Steve Adeff wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tuesday 17 January 2006 22:28, Chris Pinkham wrote:
>>>   
> Tuner Status says Tuner 3 is recording, but the file being written is
> 2068_blah, so wouldn't that mean its Tuner 2?
>   
 No, the 2068 is the chanid.  This is probably the second source you
 setup (whether you have 2 or had 1 and deleted it and added another).
 
>>> So source and tuner are not the same... strange, but I guess it doesn't
>>> really matter. I'll just have to remember 2 and 3 are backwards.
>>>   
>> Source as in "video sources" as in channel lineups.  Has nothing to do
>> with capture cards/tuners/inputs.  I have one source and 2 capture cards
>> and set up a box with one source and 4 capture cards.  Every one of my
>> recordings (and every recording on the 4 card box) starts with "1" (i.e.
>> 1009_xxx, 1035_xxx) regardless of which tuner records them.
>>
>> Mike
>> 
>
> ah. so the first digit is the source, not the tuner! vewy intwesting
>   
So I've got 4 different sources for 4 different cards (with the same 
analog lineup) for nothing? I'm sure I tried it with one source and it 
didn't work. What am I missing?

Tom
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Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for high WAF in-wall speakers!!

[David]

Richard Bronosky wrote:

> 
> http://flickr.com/photos/richardbronosky/61454890/

you missed a bit...
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Re: [mythtv-users] Silverstone Lascala 17 Case

[Nick Tan]

I have the LC17 in black and its great.  The only problem I had with it
was the button for the optical drive on the case didn't push the eject
button on the drive itself enough to make it eject.  So I've just taken
out the optical drive and run without one.

> Hi,
>
> I'm thinking of replacing my current FE with an HD-capable FE, and was
> thinking of putting it all in Silverstone Lascala 17 case:
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811163055 .
>
> Is anyone using one of these? And failing that, any other comments on
> good, reasonably-priced cases?
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Peter


I have the LC17 in black and its great.  The only problem I had with it
was the button for the optical drive on the case didn't push the eject
button on the drive itself enough to make it eject.  So I've just taken
out the optical drive and run without one.  One day I'll try to fix it up.
 It shouldn't be too hard - I think I'll just have to add an extra bit of
plastic or something to the pushbutton mechanism to make it push further
in on the optical drive.

Nick



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Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2

[Justin Hornsby]

Right..

You've got 20 more pixels to play with in the date field...

Download the new ui.xml from here: http://www.juski.co.uk/pg-wide/ui.xml

If you still have issues, tell me what screen res & font size you're
using (I've checked it at 1280x720, at the default font size & found
it to be okay).

Regards,
Justin.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Silverstone Lascala 17 Case

[.]

Nick Tan wrote:
> I have the LC17 in black and its great.  The only problem I had with it
> was the button for the optical drive on the case didn't push the eject
> button on the drive itself enough to make it eject.  So I've just taken
> out the optical drive and run without one.
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm thinking of replacing my current FE with an HD-capable FE, and was
>> thinking of putting it all in Silverstone Lascala 17 case:
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811163055 .
>>
>> Is anyone using one of these? And failing that, any other comments on
>> good, reasonably-priced cases?
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>> Peter
> 
> 
> I have the LC17 in black and its great.  The only problem I had with it
> was the button for the optical drive on the case didn't push the eject
> button on the drive itself enough to make it eject.  So I've just taken
> out the optical drive and run without one.  One day I'll try to fix it up.
>  It shouldn't be too hard - I think I'll just have to add an extra bit of
> plastic or something to the pushbutton mechanism to make it push further
> in on the optical drive.
> 
> Nick
> 

Why not call the eject command from a button on the remote control?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Silverstone Lascala 17 Case

[Nick Rosier]

On 1/18/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 January 2006 14:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm thinking of replacing my current FE with an HD-capable FE, and was
> > thinking of putting it all in Silverstone Lascala 17 case:
> > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811163055 .
> >
> > Is anyone using one of these? And failing that, any other comments on
> > good, reasonably-priced cases?
>
> I've got the 16 in Silver, its a work of art, great construction looks
> beautiful.

How's the noise of the fans? I'm looking for a new case and really
want a quiet one.

N.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Silverstone Lascala 17 Case

[Nick Tan]

>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm thinking of replacing my current FE with an HD-capable FE, and was
>>> thinking of putting it all in Silverstone Lascala 17 case:
>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811163055 .
>>>
>>> Is anyone using one of these? And failing that, any other comments on
>>> good, reasonably-priced cases?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks,
>>> Peter
>>
>>
>> I have the LC17 in black and its great.  The only problem I had with it
>> was the button for the optical drive on the case didn't push the eject
>> button on the drive itself enough to make it eject.  So I've just taken
>> out the optical drive and run without one.  One day I'll try to fix it
>> up.
>>  It shouldn't be too hard - I think I'll just have to add an extra bit
>> of
>> plastic or something to the pushbutton mechanism to make it push further
>> in on the optical drive.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>
> Why not call the eject command from a button on the remote control?
>

Because if I'm putting in or taking out a disk I have to go up to the
machine anyway, so I prefer pressing a physical button.  But I don't use
it much - I play dvd's on my normal dvd player.  The only thing I was
planning on using it for was to burn dvd's, but I find that easier to do
on my powerbook anyway.


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Re: [mythtv-users] Silverstone Lascala 17 Case

[Joe Votour]

--- Nick Rosier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 1/18/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 18 January 2006 14:50,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm thinking of replacing my current FE with an
> HD-capable FE, and was
> > > thinking of putting it all in Silverstone
> Lascala 17 case:
> > >
>
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811163055
> .
> > >
> > > Is anyone using one of these? And failing that,
> any other comments on
> > > good, reasonably-priced cases?
> >
> > I've got the 16 in Silver, its a work of art,
> great construction looks
> > beautiful.
> 
> How's the noise of the fans? I'm looking for a new
> case and really
> want a quiet one.
> 
> N.
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I don't know how the noise is on the fans (I take the
spec sheet with a grain of salt), but at least there
are plentiful options for changing out the fans on
that case, as they are 80mm fans.

I have the LC03 case which has 60mm fans on the back,
and while I've undervolted them, they're still the
noisiest part of the case (except when the hard drive
seeks/writes).  Unfortunately, it's hard to find quite
60mm fans.

-- Joe

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[mythtv-users] Conventional Wisdom Watch

[Yeechang Lee]

Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
> Ok, so I'm not sure what the consensus is.  My distro is FC4, kernel is
> 2.6.14 from ATrpms.  My main partition is ext3 everything else is on
> ReiserFS/RAID device.  So, is the suggestion for me to rebuild my kernel, or
> remake the RAID FS using XFS or JFS, or some combination of the two?

Conventional Wisdom Watch (with apologies to Newsweek)

Rebuild kernel  <>Good: Old 8K stack option restores stability to
  multiple filesystem layers. Bad: You'd
  better know how to manually roll your own
  kernel or at the least edit and rebuild
  source RPMs.
ReiserFSV Many people swear by it, but many others
  swear at it, especially when dealing with
  gigabyte-sized files of the kind MythTV
  produces. Why take the chance?
XFS ^ Balanced read/write performance. But
  is it true that the kernel maintainers
  dislike it?
JFS ^ Back by full faith and credit of one of the
  largest IT companies on Earth. Writes not quite
  as good as reads, though.
Ext3<>Reliable, rock-solid, battle-proven, and no
  hours-lonk fsck. But slow, slow, slow, slow.
LVM2^ Flexibility makes extending or modifying
  partitions easy. But be prepared for the
  performance hit.

-- 
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[mythtv-users] My list of MythTV links

[Curtis Preston]

Before I start posting questions, I thought my first post to
the list would be my list of Mythtv links that I have compiled over the last
few months.  What would I have done without these?

 

Feel free to append to this list with your own favorite
links.

 

Overviews of HTPC (Home Theatre PCs):

http://www.2cpu.com/review.php?id=106&page=1

http://www.linuxis.us/linux/media/howto/linux-htpc/video.html

http://www.mysuperpc.com/build.shtml
(not really HTPC related, but interesting)

 

 

HOW-TOs, Installs:

http://www.mysettopbox.tv/doc.html

http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythInstall

http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/mythtv/

http://home.comcast.net/~alf_park/mythtv.html

http://www.homerengineeringcorp.net/mythtv/myth.html

http://www.blastzone.net/~kamikazi/hardware/mythtv/

http://www.wilson-stowe.com/drupal/node/2
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php 
http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DigitalTelevisionDVB 
http://www.ethics-gradient.net/myth/mythdvb.html 
http://wendy.seltzer.org/mythtv/ 
http://www.eff.org/broadcastflag/cookbook/

http://www.linuxtv.org/

http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/personal/angel/mythtv/air2pc-howto.html

 

How to use powerstrip to get custom resolutions on your HDTV
TV:

http://www.keohi.com/keohihdtv/experttips/markrejhon/htpc_superguide.html
 (Very thorough)

http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/powerstrip.html

 

Forums:

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?forumid=11

http://www.pchdtv.com/forum/

http://www.mythtvtalk.com/forum/

 

Mailing lists:

http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users/

http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev/

http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-commits/

 

Email archive:

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

 

Wikis:

http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/

http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/FrontPage

 

 






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