[mythtv-users] Playback of recordings suddenly broken
Hi, Suddenly the playback of all recordings broke here, plays back for 2 secs, then stops for half a second, then 2 seconds OK again?? The frontend log is full of the following: [mpeg2video @ 0xb751c2a4]get_buffer() failed (stride changed) 2006-01-22 10:37:28.251 AFD Error: Unknown decoding error [mpeg2video @ 0xb751c2a4]get_buffer() failed (stride changed) 2006-01-22 10:37:28.252 AFD Error: Unknown decoding error Hadn't changed anything when it happened (Honest :-) ), but since that tried with the newest SVN, which didn't make any difference. Anyone seen this happening? Dag ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] lm_sensors and MythTV
Brian Wood wrote: > On Jan 21, 2006, at 7:48 PM, Robert Tsai wrote: > > >> On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 05:44:40PM -0700, Brian Wood wrote: >> >>> On Jan 21, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Ben Holt wrote: >>> On 21/01/06, Brian Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know the sensors use the i2c bus, as do my Hauppauge cards. The > "sensor-detect" program seemed to want to activate the "sensors" > on the PVR cards (I said no). Is this a known problem and has > anybody had experience with it or perhaps even come up with a > fix? > I ran into this a while back and IIRC I read somewhere at the time that using lmsensors with ivtv causes conflicts. Removing lmsensors fixed the problem. No idea if that will change at any point in the future. >>> That's about what I had decided, but I've run into posts from folks >>> running lm_sensors with MythTV. I think that would have worked if >>> they had a mobo that used ISA access type sensors, but I'm not >>> ready to replace the motherboard just to measure temps. >>> >>> Guess I'll just continue putting my hand by the exhaust fan and >>> seeing how warm it feels :-) >>> >> I'm not sure how applicable this is, but I'm running lm-sensors just >> fine on my HD-3000 system. What if you compile all the sensor-related >> stuff as a loadable module, and then only load the modules you want, >> and don't load the sensor-related module for your PVR card? >> >> > Yeah, the HD-3000 doesn't use ivtv or i2c, so it makes sense that > you're working OK. What you suggest could probably be made to work, > although there might still be problems on the i2C bus. I guess if I > get a lot of free time I might play with it some more. > > Thanks for the suggestion, and the confirmation that it seems to be > only the i2c stuff that is causing problems. > My problem was that it just wouldn't change the channel ever. It would record, just a bunch of stuff I didn't expect to see. I seem to remember lm_sensors showing the ivtv cards. You'd think there has to be a way to make it ignore the ivytv cards. And ivtv or mythtv ignore the other i2c devices if need be. -Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] On Screen info Missing
Michael T. Dean wrote: > On 01/21/2006 07:17 PM, mike choy wrote: > >> Hi Team >> >> When I press the "i" key to get information on current programme it >> comes up with unknown >> The data is there in the programme guide. It shows the channel number >> and time, but no prog info >> >> It was working fine for the last week or so. >> I have completely re-run mythtv-setup and rescanned the channels. >> >> > And your sources are properly associated with inputs in mythtv-setup? > > Mike > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > Hmm Have I missed something here? I stripped the mythtv-setup back to one card only and the OSD info comes back in sync with the epg guide data. I then add the second card back in using mythtv-setup and the OSD info disappears again. Here are my input and source associations: Two dvb cards a kworld dvb, and a freecom usb DVB[1] (DVBInput)--> Freeview-Freecom DVB[0] (DVBInput)--> Freeview-Kworld Mike C ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend laptop linux distro???
On Saturday 21 January 2006 11:09 am, mike choy wrote: > Matt wrote: > > I think the days of "what distro is best" > > is out the window. Ask a group of 10 people and you'll get 10 > > different answers when it comes to distros. > > > > Matt > > I Agree... its SUSE :-) > > Mike C nope, it's GENTOO (2 down, 8 to go) Mat -- mythtv [at] matmrosko [dot] com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] On Screen info Missing -FIXED
mike choy wrote: > Michael T. Dean wrote: > >> On 01/21/2006 07:17 PM, mike choy wrote: >> >> >>> Hi Team >>> >>> When I press the "i" key to get information on current programme it >>> comes up with unknown >>> The data is there in the programme guide. It shows the channel number >>> and time, but no prog info >>> >>> It was working fine for the last week or so. >>> I have completely re-run mythtv-setup and rescanned the channels. >>> >>> >>> >> And your sources are properly associated with inputs in mythtv-setup? >> >> Mike >> ___ >> mythtv-users mailing list >> mythtv-users@mythtv.org >> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >> >> >> > Hmm > > Have I missed something here? I stripped the mythtv-setup back to one > card only and the OSD info comes back in sync with the epg guide data. > > I then add the second card back in using mythtv-setup and the OSD info > disappears again. Here are my input and source associations: > > Two dvb cards a kworld dvb, and a freecom usb > > DVB[1] (DVBInput)--> Freeview-Freecom > DVB[0] (DVBInput)--> Freeview-Kworld > > Mike C > > > > > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > Looks like I got this wrong the input connections should look like this DVB[1] (DVBInput) --> Freeview DVB[0] (DVBInput) --> Freeview ie only one video source is needed, both cards point to the same video source, AND there is only a need to tune the channels against one card. This makes a lot more sense, especially when I add in the DVB -S card at a later date. Mike C ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend laptop linux distro???
Mathew Mrosko schreef: > On Saturday 21 January 2006 11:09 am, mike choy wrote: > >> Matt wrote: >> >>> I think the days of "what distro is best" >>> is out the window. Ask a group of 10 people and you'll get 10 >>> different answers when it comes to distros. >>> >>> Matt >>> >> I Agree... its SUSE :-) >> >> Mike C >> > > nope, it's GENTOO > > (2 down, 8 to go) > > Mat > Ubuntu is sweet as laptop-distro as well. (3 down, 7 to go) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend laptop linux distro???
On Sunday 22 January 2006 01:16, Mathew Mrosko wrote: > On Saturday 21 January 2006 11:09 am, mike choy wrote: > > Matt wrote: > > > I think the days of "what distro is best" > > > is out the window. Ask a group of 10 people and you'll get 10 > > > different answers when it comes to distros. > > > > > > Matt > > > > I Agree... its SUSE :-) > > > > Mike C > > nope, it's GENTOO > > (2 down, 8 to go) The correct answer is "whatever you're most comfortable with". Well, unless whatever you're comfortable with just plain doesn't work. Then the answer is 42. -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgproNeXW7gnu.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend laptop linux distro???
Mathew Mrosko wrote: >On Saturday 21 January 2006 11:09 am, mike choy wrote: > > >>Matt wrote: >> >> >>>I think the days of "what distro is best" >>>is out the window. Ask a group of 10 people and you'll get 10 >>>different answers when it comes to distros. >>> >>>Matt >>> >>> >>I Agree... its SUSE :-) >> >>Mike C >> >> > >nope, it's GENTOO > >(2 down, 8 to go) > >Mat > > Nagh, all you new-fangled players, its Slackware of course ! :-) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend laptop linux distro???
Rudy Zijlstra wrote: > Mathew Mrosko wrote: > > >> On Saturday 21 January 2006 11:09 am, mike choy wrote: >> >> >> >>> Matt wrote: >>> >>> >>> I think the days of "what distro is best" is out the window. Ask a group of 10 people and you'll get 10 different answers when it comes to distros. Matt >>> I Agree... its SUSE :-) >>> >>> Mike C >>> >>> >>> >> nope, it's GENTOO >> >> (2 down, 8 to go) >> >> Mat >> >> >> > Nagh, all you new-fangled players, its Slackware of course ! :-) > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > (4 down 6 to go) cause we know Jarrod wanted to say Fedora :-) Looks like you ARE right Matt Mike C ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend laptop linux distro???
Jos Hoekstra wrote: >Mathew Mrosko schreef: > > >>On Saturday 21 January 2006 11:09 am, mike choy wrote: >> >> >> >>>Matt wrote: >>> >>> >>> I think the days of "what distro is best" is out the window. Ask a group of 10 people and you'll get 10 different answers when it comes to distros. Matt >>>I Agree... its SUSE :-) >>> >>>Mike C >>> >>> >>> >>nope, it's GENTOO >> >>(2 down, 8 to go) >> >>Mat >> >> >> > >Ubuntu is sweet as laptop-distro as well. > >(3 down, 7 to go) >___ >mythtv-users mailing list >mythtv-users@mythtv.org >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > It's Definately GENTOO! :-) :-) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] looking for Craig Eaton
RMH wrote: > back in March, Craig sent email with the subject "Conflict resolution > between HD3000's NTSC and ATSC tuners?" but his email address is now > bouncing. here's the archived message: > > http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2005-March/077576.html > > he apparently got his HD3000 working in both ATSC and NTSC modes, > which is something i would like to do as well. for some reason, how > to do this is not explained anywhere on the web that i can find. if i > could get both modes to work using my one HD3000 card, i think i could > program a conflict resolution into mythtv. Buried somewhere on the pcHDTV site, is an explanation of how the card works. The cx88_dvb driver handles ATSC, the cx8800 driver handles NTSC. Only one driver at a time can talk to the hardware. So you *should* be able to "rmmod cx88_dvb, modprobe cx8800" and watch NTSC content, then "rmmod cx8800, modprobe cx88_dvb" for ATSC. But that may or may not work. You might have to reboot in between. And even if you can do that, there is no guarantee that myth could handle itI suppose that an "external command" such as a channel change could actually be a module changeover, but you would also have problems with the database, and the backend would surely choke on not being able to see one of the cards at startup... Geoff ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend laptop linux distro???
On Sunday 22 January 2006 1:54 am, Rudy Zijlstra wrote: > Mathew Mrosko wrote: > >On Saturday 21 January 2006 11:09 am, mike choy wrote: > >>Matt wrote: > >>>I think the days of "what distro is best" > >>>is out the window. Ask a group of 10 people and you'll get 10 > >>>different answers when it comes to distros. > >>> > >>>Matt > >> > >>I Agree... its SUSE :-) > >> > >>Mike C > > > >nope, it's GENTOO > > > >(2 down, 8 to go) > > > >Mat > > Nagh, all you new-fangled players, its Slackware of course ! :-) http://www.arouse.net/despair-linux/slackware.jpg In case you haven't seen that :) Mat -- mythtv [at] matmrosko [dot] com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Recording HD content from a Comcast/Dish/DTV box
On Sunday 08 January 2006 19:51, Jason Weinstein wrote: > What about a device such as this: http://dv411.com/ediussp.html > > Of course it will need drivers and such, but I doubt you are the only one > that wants to be able to use MythTV with their HD cable or sattelite > without being limited to only the channels "they" let you record in HD. $4k you have to be joking! -- simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend laptop linux distro???
Mathew Mrosko wrote: >On Sunday 22 January 2006 1:54 am, Rudy Zijlstra wrote: > > >>Mathew Mrosko wrote: >> >> >>>On Saturday 21 January 2006 11:09 am, mike choy wrote: >>> >>> Matt wrote: >I think the days of "what distro is best" >is out the window. Ask a group of 10 people and you'll get 10 >different answers when it comes to distros. > >Matt > > I Agree... its SUSE :-) Mike C >>>nope, it's GENTOO >>> >>>(2 down, 8 to go) >>> >>>Mat >>> >>> >>Nagh, all you new-fangled players, its Slackware of course ! :-) >> >> > >http://www.arouse.net/despair-linux/slackware.jpg > >In case you haven't seen that :) > >Mat > > Thats about when i started using Slackware Pat is still keeping up! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] The perfect MythTV Motherboard at last
At th aopen site there is someone saying he is using it for mythtv Quote This is a truly excellent motherboard. It has everything. Ok, not everything. It could do with some more PCI slots, but then you cannot have everything. I use mine as a quiet PVR running MythTV, beside my television. With a quiet PSU, it is almost impossible to tell that the machine is powered up. Most of the time theCPU fam is not even turning. Oh and by the way, just for giggles I have my 1.86G CPU overclocked to 2.1G.All in all a brilliant motherboard. I only wish it was a) cheaper and b) more readily available. http://www.aopen.nl/Products/mb/i915GMm-HFS.htm > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens mike choy > Verzonden: zaterdag 21 januari 2006 20:07 > Aan: Discussion about mythtv > Onderwerp: Re: [mythtv-users] The perfect MythTV Motherboard at last > > Jonathan Lin wrote: > > what about this guy here? > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813137061 > > > > it's intel 915 chipset and has component output for HD. I was able to > > get a cheap P-M 1.5GHz for $50 (one of those deals on techbargains.com). > > > > Anyone has experience with that chipset or maybe even board? > > > > > > > Whoa Component AND DVI out as well as SPDIF, not sure about the Video > playback on the 915 with HD though > would welcome thoughts on the graphics. > > Mike C > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Myth Remote Control
> Its RC6 based so I had to build up a new receiver for lirc as the one > on my nova-t card did not work with it. I also experienced an > interesting problem. To start with I could not get it to work at all > with lirc. The config file checking into cvs did not work for it and > I could not get irrecord to pick it up, it kept thinking it was an > RC5 unit, or it wanted to record in raw mode then woudl not work. Does anyone know how to tell whether your IR receiver is RC5 or RC6? I have 2 I could use - a home made one off eBay or a packard Bell PC remote receiver. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] lm_sensors and MythTV
> I thought it would be a good idea to monitor my CPU temp, as MythTV > can push it a little hard. > > So I tried to get lm_sensors working on my K8M8MS mobo. Or you could try this - http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/147745 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Mounting DVDs via NFS problem
Hello all, Am trying to mount a DVD drive via NFS and am having problems. For note, 192.168.1.2 (hostname - destiny) is the client and 192.168.1.15 (hostname - mythtv) is the server. I have this in my /etc/exports: /media/cdrom0 192.168.1.2(ro,sync) and 192.168.1.2 is in the /etc/hosts.allow. If the DVD is not mounted, it works perfectly fine: destiny:/mnt# mount mythtv:/media/cdrom0 /mnt/mythtv destiny:/mnt# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on mythtv:/media/cdrom0 1829192 1547128184472 90% /mnt/mythtv destiny:/mnt# If I unmount the above, and then mount the DVD on mythtv: mythtv:/home/piers# mount /cdrom mythtv:/home/piers# and try again on destiny, I get: destiny:/# mount mythtv:/media/cdrom0 /mnt/mythtv mount: mythtv:/media/cdrom0 failed, reason given by server: Permission denied destiny:/# and in the logs, I get: Jan 21 21:57:08 localhost kernel: UDF-fs INFO UDF 0.9.8.1 (2004/29/09) Mounting volume 'FIREFLY_D3', timestamp 2003/09/08 20:08 (1000) Jan 21 21:57:39 localhost rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from destiny.10sca.intranet:923 for /media/cdrom0 (/media/cdrom0) Jan 21 21:57:39 localhost rpc.mountd: getfh failed: Operation not permitted I've googled for a long time with the last message but I can't find any help anywhere. I've tried this on my 2 Macs but had the exact same problem: Jan 21 20:34:55 localhost rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from ukyo.10sca.intranet:982 for /media/cdrom0 (/media/cdrom0) Jan 21 20:34:55 localhost rpc.mountd: getfh failed: Operation not permitted Jan 21 21:29:59 localhost rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from akane.10sca.intranet:972 for /media/cdrom0 (/media/cdrom0) Jan 21 21:29:59 localhost rpc.mountd: getfh failed: Operation not permitted I'm hoping you guys can tell me what I'm doing wrong here? Thanks very much in advance! Cheers - Piers ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Bug in 4.2?
I have the new Hauppauge 500 with the Samsung chips. According to the trac this chip was added in as tuner #68 in tuner.h. http://ivtvdriver.org/trac/ticket/63 http://ivtvdriver.org/trac/changeset/3120 However, when I installed Axel's RPM for 4.2 and the requisite bits, I see the following, and my tuner doesn't work. It appears that there is a hard set upper limit of 67 that was set somewhere and not updated in the code when the 68th tuner got added... Do I need to grab a svn? Jan 22 08:46:10 mythtv kernel: tuner 2-0061: tuner 0x61: Tuner count greater than 67 Jan 22 08:46:10 mythtv kernel: tuner 2-0061: tuner type not set Jan 22 08:46:10 mythtv kernel: tuner 2-0061: tuner type not set Jan 22 08:46:10 mythtv kernel: ivtv1: Initialized WinTV PVR 500 (unit #1), card #1 . . . Jan 22 08:46:10 mythtv kernel: tuner 3-0061: tuner 0x61: Tuner count greater than 67 Jan 22 08:46:10 mythtv kernel: tuner 3-0061: tuner type not set Jan 22 08:46:10 mythtv kernel: tuner 3-0061: tuner type not set Jan 22 08:46:10 mythtv kernel: ivtv2: Initialized WinTV PVR 500 (unit #2), card #2 $ rpm -qa | grep ivtv ivtv-firmware-audio-0.0.1-5.at ivtv-firmware-dec-2.02.023-8.at ivtv-firmware-1.8a-8.at ivtv-kmdl-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4-0.4.2-101.rhfc4.at ivtv-firmware-enc-2.04.024-8.at ivtv_xdriver-0.10.6-3.rhfc4.at perl-Video-ivtv-0.13-7.rhfc4.at ivtv-0.4.2-101.rhfc4.at ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] looking for Craig Eaton
On Jan 22, 2006, at 3:13 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote: > RMH wrote: > >> back in March, Craig sent email with the subject "Conflict resolution >> between HD3000's NTSC and ATSC tuners?" but his email address is now >> bouncing. here's the archived message: >> >> http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2005-March/077576.html >> >> he apparently got his HD3000 working in both ATSC and NTSC modes, >> which is something i would like to do as well. for some reason, how >> to do this is not explained anywhere on the web that i can find. >> if i >> could get both modes to work using my one HD3000 card, i think i >> could >> program a conflict resolution into mythtv. > > Buried somewhere on the pcHDTV site, is an explanation of how the card > works. The cx88_dvb driver handles ATSC, the cx8800 driver handles > NTSC. > Only one driver at a time can talk to the hardware. > So you *should* be able to "rmmod cx88_dvb, modprobe cx8800" and watch > NTSC content, then "rmmod cx8800, modprobe cx88_dvb" for ATSC. > But that may or may not work. You might have to reboot in between. > And > even if you can do that, there is no guarantee that myth could handle > itI suppose that an "external command" such as a channel change > could actually be a module changeover, but you would also have > problems > with the database, and the backend would surely choke on not being > able > to see one of the cards at startup... > The upcoming kernel "merger" of v4l and DVB should take care of this problem. At least I hope it does, as we will all deserve *something* for the inevitable pain that kernel changes cause. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] lm_sensors and MythTV
On Jan 22, 2006, at 4:59 AM, Phill Edwards wrote: >> I thought it would be a good idea to monitor my CPU temp, as MythTV >> can push it a little hard. >> >> So I tried to get lm_sensors working on my K8M8MS mobo. > > Or you could try this - > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/147745 Looks very interesting, but it would still seem to depend on getting lm_sensors and ivtv to cooperate. The folks getting this working may not have been using ivtv, or may have been using mobos with ISA sensor access. OTOH it probably can be made to work with ivtv and i2c, I just need more spare time... I think ivtv only uses i2c for the remote control stuff. If I eschew the remote it might solve some problems. I've been thinking of trying to get a small wireless keyboard anyway... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] XvMC - Nvidia isssues?
Hi This is my first post to the list after getting my system up and running. I have a Mythtv setup which I'm really pleased with it's 95% perfect! However - that remaining 5% is always worth persuing so... I'm using XvMC which means my Athlon XP 1600 trundles away at 15% usage whilst playing DVB-T (standard definition PAL) video. This has 3 issues which reading through the list have been mentioned on and off - but I haven't found all the answers. First off - the menus become monochrome, which isn't a biggy and worth putting up with for the performance gain (but it would be nice to know if this is preventable). Secondly the menus cause the video to jump when they appear, which can be very distracting - this has been mentioned a lot on the list from what I can see. Hopefully I have something useful to add here I have Quadro FX500 card (don't ask why I'm sticking such an expensive card in a PVR box) and I found enabling overlays ( |Option "Overlay" "true") |gets rid of this problem - this is listed as a quadro only option and I'd be interested to know if anyone has success with this option using a non-quadro card, as I could then sell it as I've been intending to do. Lastly the problem which I count as my final 5% - I have an issue with some programs where the video stutters (the video may stutter in time too, but it's hard to tell when your ears are hurting). It's been a complete bafflement to me as it happens on only some programs (not channels) and non of the configurations I've tried get rid of it (other than diabling XvMC) - playing the same .nuvs with mplayer reveals that the only unique characteristic of these recording seems to be that the audio is at 256 kbits, whereas most of the other recording I have are at 192... I haven't been very scientific in checking it - but it seems to be consistant, having checked a few recordings. It happens to about 1 in 5 recordings, or maybe less, at the moments - but is fustrating as I have to go in to my options and reconfigure everytime I want to watch such a recording. I've only seen this issue posted once by a guy who said he was using the via equivalent of XvMC (I haven't found his post again - as it was a while ago) - which might be important as is implies it isn't a driver problem (I get the same issue when running the frontend on my laptop with a completely different sound card and older Quadro card). Is anyone else familier with this problem? I'm in the UK - where we don't have HDTV yet, so I can't be that my systems overwhelmed by what I'm throwing at it? Any help/interest would be appreciated. Dan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] AC3 and/or S/PDIF (again)
> > No, Ben, I don't. And, as I understand it, this is impossible. Since > > we're just passing through a digital signal to the receiver, it's > all up to > > the receiver to deal with it. In order to change the volume, we > would need > > to decode the audio, sample down the volume, reencode it, then > pass it on > > to the receiver. Maybe it's possible, but it certainly is not very > > efficient. And, by the way, this is all just speculation. I don't > really > > know how it works, but my explanation made sense to me. > > And your explanation is more or less correct. If you're passing raw > digital > audio, its completely raw, you can't controll its volume level. > Might be best > to let Myth do the audio decoding and pass PCM audio instead of raw > digital > audio. Could also try to rig up something with an irblaster if > you're dead > set on having the amp in a different room and passing raw audio. > > -- > Jarod Wilson > jarod[at]wilsonet.com I though this might be the case, I have to say I don't really know about digital audio, but I had hoped that maybe it would be quite easy to manipulate it in the digital realm, so not having to convert it, just simply dividing each digital value by the volume level. I guess not. I thought maybe I could use an irbalster to swap the inputs on my amp between regular 2 channel pcm for tv and music, then have it auto switch to 5.1 when you play a dvd, and then switch back again for TV. I guess this could be done quite easily with a shell script set as the player for the dvd & video playback. Not idea, but would allow the osd for volume in TV etc. Ben ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC - Nvidia isssues?
On 22/01/06, Dan Seddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > This is my first post to the list after getting my system up and > running. I have a Mythtv setup which I'm really pleased with it's 95% > perfect! However - that remaining 5% is always worth persuing so... I'm > using XvMC which means my Athlon XP 1600 trundles away at 15% usage > whilst playing DVB-T (standard definition PAL) video. This has 3 issues > which reading through the list have been mentioned on and off - but I > haven't found all the answers. > > First off - the menus become monochrome, which isn't a biggy and worth > putting up with for the performance gain (but it would be nice to know > if this is preventable). > > Secondly the menus cause the video to jump when they appear, which can > be very distracting - this has been mentioned a lot on the list from > what I can see. Hopefully I have something useful to add here I have > Quadro FX500 card (don't ask why I'm sticking such an expensive card in > a PVR box) and I found enabling overlays ( |Option "Overlay" "true") > |gets rid of this problem - this is listed as a quadro only option and > I'd be interested to know if anyone has success with this option using a > non-quadro card, as I could then sell it as I've been intending to do. > > Lastly the problem which I count as my final 5% - I have an issue with > some programs where the video stutters (the video may stutter in time > too, but it's hard to tell when your ears are hurting). It's been a > complete bafflement to me as it happens on only some programs (not > channels) and non of the configurations I've tried get rid of it (other > than diabling XvMC) - playing the same .nuvs with mplayer reveals that > the only unique characteristic of these recording seems to be that the > audio is at 256 kbits, whereas most of the other recording I have are at > 192... I haven't been very scientific in checking it - but it seems to > be consistant, having checked a few recordings. It happens to about 1 in > 5 recordings, or maybe less, at the moments - but is fustrating as I > have to go in to my options and reconfigure everytime I want to watch > such a recording. I've only seen this issue posted once by a guy who > said he was using the via equivalent of XvMC (I haven't found his post > again - as it was a while ago) - which might be important as is implies > it isn't a driver problem (I get the same issue when running the > frontend on my laptop with a completely different sound card and older > Quadro card). Is anyone else familier with this problem? I'm in the UK - > where we don't have HDTV yet, so I can't be that my systems overwhelmed > by what I'm throwing at it? > > Any help/interest would be appreciated. > > Dan > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > I used to have problems playing back some DVB-T recordings, notably from shows which had 2 audio tracks (one blank, presumably 'audio description' and the normal stereo audio track). I managed to fix it by changing the capture card settings (advanced option in mythtv-setup in the capture card page) to only use TS recording. This is now the default behavour in SVN and can't be changed from mythtv-setup. The result is - no more recordings with dodgy audio. Regards, Justin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC - Nvidia isssues?
Dan Seddon wrote: > Hi > This is my first post to the list after getting my system up and > running. I have a Mythtv setup which I'm really pleased with it's 95% > perfect! However - that remaining 5% is always worth persuing so... I'm > using XvMC which means my Athlon XP 1600 trundles away at 15% usage > whilst playing DVB-T (standard definition PAL) video. This has 3 issues > which reading through the list have been mentioned on and off - but I > haven't found all the answers. > > First off - the menus become monochrome, which isn't a biggy and worth > putting up with for the performance gain (but it would be nice to know > if this is preventable). > > Secondly the menus cause the video to jump when they appear, which can > be very distracting - this has been mentioned a lot on the list from > what I can see. Hopefully I have something useful to add here I have > Quadro FX500 card (don't ask why I'm sticking such an expensive card in > a PVR box) and I found enabling overlays ( |Option "Overlay" "true") > |gets rid of this problem - this is listed as a quadro only option and > I'd be interested to know if anyone has success with this option using a > non-quadro card, as I could then sell it as I've been intending to do. > > Lastly the problem which I count as my final 5% - I have an issue with > some programs where the video stutters (the video may stutter in time > too, but it's hard to tell when your ears are hurting). It's been a > complete bafflement to me as it happens on only some programs (not > channels) and non of the configurations I've tried get rid of it (other > than diabling XvMC) - playing the same .nuvs with mplayer reveals that > the only unique characteristic of these recording seems to be that the > audio is at 256 kbits, whereas most of the other recording I have are at > 192... I haven't been very scientific in checking it - but it seems to > be consistant, having checked a few recordings. It happens to about 1 in > 5 recordings, or maybe less, at the moments - but is fustrating as I > have to go in to my options and reconfigure everytime I want to watch > such a recording. I've only seen this issue posted once by a guy who > said he was using the via equivalent of XvMC (I haven't found his post > again - as it was a while ago) - which might be important as is implies > it isn't a driver problem (I get the same issue when running the > frontend on my laptop with a completely different sound card and older > Quadro card). Is anyone else familier with this problem? I'm in the UK - > where we don't have HDTV yet, so I can't be that my systems overwhelmed > by what I'm throwing at it? > > Any help/interest would be appreciated. > > Dan > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > Dan Just so we are all in sync, what version of the driver are you using? Also on the video stutter thing, it might be the problem with mainly white or mainly black screens problem that a lot of people have had issues with on DVB which manifests itself as an audio stutter as well. You see it most during adverts which use blank screens alot. The fix to this seems to be to move to TS rather than PS stream processing on your dvb card. Meanwhile I'll go and have a look at my rig on the XvMC overlay thing and report back. I dont use it at the mo cause I like colour menus, the machine running at 15 to 30% is no big thing to me as its not doing much else. Mike C ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC - Nvidia isssues?
> >I managed to fix it by changing the capture card settings (advanced >option in mythtv-setup in the capture card page) to only use TS >recording. This is now the default behavour in SVN and can't be >changed from mythtv-setup. The result is - no more recordings with >dodgy audio. > > > Thank's for the response - that's quite interesting. I think I've done that myself (trying all possible permutations) and am fairly sure my current config is TS as I was under the impression you need this to play .nuvs back on other media players, though I'm at work right now and can't check - what's intesting is that (now I think about it) it's possible that I haven't had recent *recordings* with the issue (the recordings I'm testing the problem with are quite old), but I do get issues with live TV currently. Do you know if this option effects buffering as well as recording? It might make a good RFE is so? Cheers Dan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC - Nvidia isssues?
mike choy wrote: >Dan Seddon wrote: > > >>Hi >>This is my first post to the list after getting my system up and >>running. I have a Mythtv setup which I'm really pleased with it's 95% >>perfect! However - that remaining 5% is always worth persuing so... I'm >>using XvMC which means my Athlon XP 1600 trundles away at 15% usage >>whilst playing DVB-T (standard definition PAL) video. This has 3 issues >>which reading through the list have been mentioned on and off - but I >>haven't found all the answers. >> >>First off - the menus become monochrome, which isn't a biggy and worth >>putting up with for the performance gain (but it would be nice to know >>if this is preventable). >> >>Secondly the menus cause the video to jump when they appear, which can >>be very distracting - this has been mentioned a lot on the list from >>what I can see. Hopefully I have something useful to add here I have >>Quadro FX500 card (don't ask why I'm sticking such an expensive card in >>a PVR box) and I found enabling overlays ( |Option "Overlay" "true") >>|gets rid of this problem - this is listed as a quadro only option and >>I'd be interested to know if anyone has success with this option using a >>non-quadro card, as I could then sell it as I've been intending to do. >> >>Lastly the problem which I count as my final 5% - I have an issue with >>some programs where the video stutters (the video may stutter in time >>too, but it's hard to tell when your ears are hurting). It's been a >>complete bafflement to me as it happens on only some programs (not >>channels) and non of the configurations I've tried get rid of it (other >>than diabling XvMC) - playing the same .nuvs with mplayer reveals that >>the only unique characteristic of these recording seems to be that the >>audio is at 256 kbits, whereas most of the other recording I have are at >>192... I haven't been very scientific in checking it - but it seems to >>be consistant, having checked a few recordings. It happens to about 1 in >>5 recordings, or maybe less, at the moments - but is fustrating as I >>have to go in to my options and reconfigure everytime I want to watch >>such a recording. I've only seen this issue posted once by a guy who >>said he was using the via equivalent of XvMC (I haven't found his post >>again - as it was a while ago) - which might be important as is implies >>it isn't a driver problem (I get the same issue when running the >>frontend on my laptop with a completely different sound card and older >>Quadro card). Is anyone else familier with this problem? I'm in the UK - >>where we don't have HDTV yet, so I can't be that my systems overwhelmed >>by what I'm throwing at it? >> >>Any help/interest would be appreciated. >> >>Dan >>___ >>mythtv-users mailing list >>mythtv-users@mythtv.org >>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >> >> >> >> >Dan Just so we are all in sync, what version of the driver are you using? > > > I'm fairly certain I'm running 8178 (stuck here at work) - though I stepped through 7667-8178 to see if this effected things, with no obvious difference. Is there a concensus on the best driver to use? >Also on the video stutter thing, it might be the problem with mainly >white or mainly black screens problem >that a lot of people have had issues with on DVB which manifests itself >as an audio stutter as well. You see it >most during adverts which use blank screens alot. The fix to this seems >to be to move to TS rather than PS stream processing on your dvb card. > > Yes, I know of this problem, it differs to the one I'm mentioning - I seem to get it mainly with libmpeg maybe partly with Mythtvs decoding, but I don't think I get is at all with XvMC (unless I'm mistaken). In fact on the whole I get much smoother playback with XvMC (it's just what I mentioned which is a problem). Though, since you mention TS is the cure - I should check my mythtv-setup again as Justin mentions this too and that I get the black frame problem implies I may not have it enabled as I thought. >Meanwhile I'll go and have a look at my rig on the XvMC overlay thing >and report back. I dont use it at the mo cause I like colour menus, the >machine running at 15 to 30% is no big thing to me as its not doing much >else. > > Yup - colour menus are nice ; ) Though, I do find XvMC is smoother generally with my machine + HDTV is imminant in the UK and I don't fancy my chances of getting it to run on my current CPU without a leg-up from my video card I've just been glancing at a few options in the Nvidia help though and I noticed this hidding in what seems like the wrong section: |Option "XvmcUsesTextures" "boolean"| Forces XvMC to use the 3D engine for XvMCPutSurface requests rather than the video overlay. Default: false (video overlay is used when available). Could be of use for getting the menus not to jitter (on
Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend laptop linux distro???
On Jan 22, 2006, at 4:14 AM, Rudy Zijlstra wrote: > Mathew Mrosko wrote: > >> On Sunday 22 January 2006 1:54 am, Rudy Zijlstra wrote: >> >> >>> Mathew Mrosko wrote: >>> >>> On Saturday 21 January 2006 11:09 am, mike choy wrote: > Matt wrote: > > >> I think the days of "what distro is best" >> is out the window. Ask a group of 10 people and you'll get 10 >> different answers when it comes to distros. >> >> Matt >> >> > I Agree... its SUSE :-) > > Mike C > > nope, it's GENTOO (2 down, 8 to go) Mat >>> Nagh, all you new-fangled players, its Slackware of course ! :-) >>> >>> >> >> http://www.arouse.net/despair-linux/slackware.jpg >> >> In case you haven't seen that :) >> >> Mat >> >> > Thats about when i started using Slackware Pat is still keeping > up! Gee - nobody's even mentioned YGGDRASIL, wonder whatever happened to that one? I remember when the Infomagic Developer's CD set went from 2 to 3 disks, and we all thought that things were really getting out of hand... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC - Nvidia isssues?
Terrestrial HDTV is _not_ imminent in the UK, and $ky's HDTV won't be capturable by any PC. It _may_ arrive on freesat first though. In any case, when HD does arrive here it's going to be MPEG4 based, so pray that a CPU / graphics card powerful enough to decode it will be cheap enough. In addition to that, terrestrial HD arriving is dependent on a couple of things: 1. The analogue switch-off 2. The band space not being sold to the highest bidder and a mobile phone company winning the bid. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC - Nvidia isssues?
Dan Seddon wrote: > Hi > This is my first post to the list after getting my system up and > running. I have a Mythtv setup which I'm really pleased with it's 95% > perfect! However - that remaining 5% is always worth persuing so... I'm > using XvMC which means my Athlon XP 1600 trundles away at 15% usage > whilst playing DVB-T (standard definition PAL) video. This has 3 issues > which reading through the list have been mentioned on and off - but I > haven't found all the answers. > > First off - the menus become monochrome, which isn't a biggy and worth > putting up with for the performance gain (but it would be nice to know > if this is preventable). > Search the archives or http://svn.mythtv.org for ChromaKey OSD. I'm not sure if this was put in before 0.18 or not, but in SVN you can enable a setting in the database to use a 16 color OSD for XvMC use and on mine it works great. > Lastly the problem which I count as my final 5% - I have an issue with > some programs where the video stutters (the video may stutter in time > too, but it's hard to tell when your ears are hurting). It's been a > complete bafflement to me as it happens on only some programs (not > channels) and non of the configurations I've tried get rid of it (other > than diabling XvMC) - playing the same .nuvs with mplayer reveals that > the only unique characteristic of these recording seems to be that the > audio is at 256 kbits, whereas most of the other recording I have are at > 192... I haven't been very scientific in checking it - but it seems to > be consistant, having checked a few recordings. It happens to about 1 in > 5 recordings, or maybe less, at the moments - but is fustrating as I > have to go in to my options and reconfigure everytime I want to watch > such a recording. I've only seen this issue posted once by a guy who > said he was using the via equivalent of XvMC (I haven't found his post > again - as it was a while ago) - which might be important as is implies > it isn't a driver problem (I get the same issue when running the > frontend on my laptop with a completely different sound card and older > Quadro card). Is anyone else familier with this problem? I'm in the UK - > where we don't have HDTV yet, so I can't be that my systems overwhelmed > by what I'm throwing at it? > Are you using OpenGL Vsync? Seems any Nvidia driver above 7676 (which I'm use with great success) has problems with OpenGL Vsync enabled. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC - Nvidia isssues?
>Terrestrial HDTV is _not_ imminent in the UK, and $ky's HDTV won't be >capturable by any PC. It _may_ arrive on freesat first though. > >In any case, when HD does arrive here it's going to be MPEG4 based, so >pray that a CPU / graphics card powerful enough to decode it will be >cheap enough. > >In addition to that, terrestrial HD arriving is dependent on a couple of >things: > >1. The analogue switch-off > >2. The band space not being sold to the highest bidder and a mobile >phone company winning the bid. > > That all sounds a bit naff if true. I thought there had been a lot of talk about the BBC broadcasting before the World Cup in HDTV in London on terrestial digital? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC - Nvidia isssues?
Kevin Kuphal wrote: >Dan Seddon wrote: > > >>Hi >>This is my first post to the list after getting my system up and >>running. I have a Mythtv setup which I'm really pleased with it's 95% >>perfect! However - that remaining 5% is always worth persuing so... I'm >>using XvMC which means my Athlon XP 1600 trundles away at 15% usage >>whilst playing DVB-T (standard definition PAL) video. This has 3 issues >>which reading through the list have been mentioned on and off - but I >>haven't found all the answers. >> >>First off - the menus become monochrome, which isn't a biggy and worth >>putting up with for the performance gain (but it would be nice to know >>if this is preventable). >> >> >> >Search the archives or http://svn.mythtv.org for ChromaKey OSD. I'm not >sure if this was put in before 0.18 or not, but in SVN you can enable a >setting in the database to use a 16 color OSD for XvMC use and on mine >it works great. > > >> >> >Are you using OpenGL Vsync? Seems any Nvidia driver above 7676 (which >I'm use with great success) has problems with OpenGL Vsync enabled. > > > > Yes - doing a search after Mike's mail came up with that, I'm going to roll back when I get home. I had tried OpenGL Vsync - but I'm definietly using a newer driver than 7676, so that sounds like good advice. I now know what I should be looking for in the logs from an earlier mail too, so I'm feeling a lot more optimistic about sorting this out! The ChromaKey stuff sounds like the way to go as I was just reading something about that in Nvidia help! Maybe I'll have XvMC going without any downsides : ) I have 0.18 from ATrpms - but I'll do a search on ChromaKey OSD. Thanks for the help! Dan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Strange Audio Behavior - Static in One Speaker
I've been searching the lists for the last few days trying to find out what I may have done wrong to cause the behavior that I'm experiencing with no luck so I finally decided to ask for help here. Everything is working very well and my system is stable. I can watch TV using the TV Viewer in Redhat FC4 and if I un-mute the line in, audio is flawless. Sound/music also plays flawlessly. So, I have the patch cable from the Hauppauge WinTV Go Plus to the line in of my Diamond Monster Sound audio card. When I run MythTV and select Watch TV, it fires up fine. However, only the right speaker has audio. The left speaker starts having a tiny amount of static. This static then starts getting louder about every second preceded by a small "pop" sound. Each time, it's as if the volume of the static is doubled until it becomes so loud it just distorts horribly. If I use kmix and slide the balance all the way to the right speaker, I still hear the audio from the TV card fine. If I slide it all the way to the left, it's pure static. Does anyone have ANY suggestions whatsoever? I'm including potential hardware info at the end of this message and if I've forgotten anything, or can include additional information, please let me know. I'm dying to have this working, it's such a sweet application! Thanks in advance for any insight! System Summary: AMD Athlon 1800Mhz, Riva TNT2, Diamond Monster Sound (Aureal Vortex 2 -- module: snd-au8830). [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lspci -v 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400/A] Chipset Host Bridge Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400/A] Chipset Host Bridge Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 8 Memory at d000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Capabilities: [80] AGP version 3.5 Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 Memory behind bridge: da00-dbff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d800-d9ff Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11) Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV Series Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 Memory at dc044000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2 00:08.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11) Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV Series Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 Memory at dc045000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Aureal Semiconductor Vortex 2 (rev fe) Subsystem: Diamond Multimedia Systems Monster Sound II Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5 Memory at dc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K] I/O ports at c000 [size=8] I/O ports at c400 [size=8] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys Gigabit Network Adapter (rev 12) Subsystem: Linksys EG1032 v2 Instant Gigabit Network Adapter Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12 Memory at dc04 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] I/O ports at c800 [size=256] Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data 00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 I/O ports at cc00 [size=16] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 I/O ports at d000 [size=32] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 I/O ports at d400 [size=32] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC - Nvidia isssues?
> That all sounds a bit naff if true. I thought there had been a lot > of talk about the BBC broadcasting before the World Cup in HDTV in > London on terrestial digital? Well, it's our government who 'own' the airwaves, so it's likely they'll sell off the analogue space to the highest bidder IMHO. As for UK HD being MPEG4 - I saw an article in Electronics Times recently which stated it as a fact - a fact which is causing people concern over how current Freeview receivers will work in future. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] YUV Component output from a NVidia GeForce 6200 Card
On 1/21/06, Soren Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Bought myself a GeForce 6200 the other day. Works great on a regular monitor > but what does not do that. What Brand/Model is it? > > The attractive part about this card is that it claims that it can produce > progressive scan YUV component output. That seems to be correct the problem > is that I can not get it to do so in the resolutions that I need. > Does it have a break-out-box? Or are you using the audio authority box? Thanks, Dave -- -- Are Your Friends Lemmings? -- http://www.lemmingshirts.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC - Nvidia isssues?
Justin Hornsby wrote: >>That all sounds a bit naff if true. I thought there had been a lot >>of talk about the BBC broadcasting before the World Cup in HDTV in >>London on terrestial digital? >> >> > >Well, it's our government who 'own' the airwaves, so it's likely >they'll sell off the analogue space to the highest bidder IMHO. > > > Yes - that rings true, hence the rush to stop analgue. I guess how much HDTV we see before then depends on who can squeeze how much in to the space currently available to Digital Terrestial. >As for UK HD being MPEG4 - I saw an article in Electronics Times >recently which stated it as a fact - a fact which is causing people >concern over how current Freeview receivers will work in future. > > Maybe the two issues are tied to each other - if the bandwidth doesn't arrive quickly enough (things never do here) MPEG4 would get more in to the same space. It might cause a bit of grief with all the people who've bought very expensive "HD-ready" sets though ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC - Nvidia isssues?
Dan Seddon wrote: >Justin Hornsby wrote: > > > >>>That all sounds a bit naff if true. I thought there had been a lot >>>of talk about the BBC broadcasting before the World Cup in HDTV in >>>London on terrestial digital? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Well, it's our government who 'own' the airwaves, so it's likely >>they'll sell off the analogue space to the highest bidder IMHO. >> >> >> >> >> >Yes - that rings true, hence the rush to stop analgue. I guess how much >HDTV we see before then depends on who can squeeze how much in to the >space currently available to Digital Terrestial. > > > >>As for UK HD being MPEG4 - I saw an article in Electronics Times >>recently which stated it as a fact - a fact which is causing people >>concern over how current Freeview receivers will work in future. >> >> >> >> >Maybe the two issues are tied to each other - if the bandwidth doesn't >arrive quickly enough (things never do here) MPEG4 would get more in to >the same space. It might cause a bit of grief with all the people who've >bought very expensive "HD-ready" sets though > > Not likely. The TV sets are HD-ready independent of whether MPEG2 or MPEG4-P10 (H.264) is used, as it is the external STB which does the decoding. Those sets should have either HDMI or DVI input. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC - Nvidia isssues?
> Maybe the two issues are tied to each other - if the bandwidth doesn't > arrive quickly enough (things never do here) MPEG4 would get more in to > the same space. It might cause a bit of grief with all the people who've > bought very expensive "HD-ready" sets though > ___ and to them I say (in the style of Nelson from The Simpsons...) H-h :-P Justin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend laptop linux distro???
To hell with distributions... Download the source and compile it yourselves!!! Wimps!!! ;) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend laptop linux distro???
Gavin Haslett wrote: > To hell with distributions... Download the source and compile it > yourselves!!! Wimps!!! ;) That's what I do. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Has somebody got a *complete* list of dependencies for mythburn?
On 1/21/06, Adam Bodnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Were you running the CVS version of mythburn on .18 or SVN? > I'm running CVS mythburn on .18 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC - Nvidia isssues?
Rudy Zijlstra wrote: >Dan Seddon wrote: > > > >>Justin Hornsby wrote: >> >> >> >> >> That all sounds a bit naff if true. I thought there had been a lot of talk about the BBC broadcasting before the World Cup in HDTV in London on terrestial digital? >>>Well, it's our government who 'own' the airwaves, so it's likely >>>they'll sell off the analogue space to the highest bidder IMHO. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Yes - that rings true, hence the rush to stop analgue. I guess how much >>HDTV we see before then depends on who can squeeze how much in to the >>space currently available to Digital Terrestial. >> >> >> >> >> >>>As for UK HD being MPEG4 - I saw an article in Electronics Times >>>recently which stated it as a fact - a fact which is causing people >>>concern over how current Freeview receivers will work in future. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Maybe the two issues are tied to each other - if the bandwidth doesn't >>arrive quickly enough (things never do here) MPEG4 would get more in to >>the same space. It might cause a bit of grief with all the people who've >>bought very expensive "HD-ready" sets though >> >> >> >> >Not likely. The TV sets are HD-ready independent of whether MPEG2 or >MPEG4-P10 (H.264) is used, as it is the external STB which does the >decoding. Those sets should have either HDMI or DVI input. > > I was thinking that they had built in digital recievers, maybe they don't? It would annoy me if I had to buy yet another box having shelled out - the slick minimalism of my flatscreen might feel a bit compromised ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] capturing via firewire
On 1/20/06, David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gabe Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Will I even need the pvr anymore? > > Your Myth box is the PVR ;-) > I was not clear, I meant the pvr-350. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC - Nvidia isssues?
Dan Seddon wrote: >Rudy Zijlstra wrote: > > >>Dan Seddon wrote: >> >> >>>Justin Hornsby wrote: >>> >>> As for UK HD being MPEG4 - I saw an article in Electronics Times recently which stated it as a fact - a fact which is causing people concern over how current Freeview receivers will work in future. >>>Maybe the two issues are tied to each other - if the bandwidth doesn't >>>arrive quickly enough (things never do here) MPEG4 would get more in to >>>the same space. It might cause a bit of grief with all the people who've >>>bought very expensive "HD-ready" sets though >>> >>> >>Not likely. The TV sets are HD-ready independent of whether MPEG2 or >>MPEG4-P10 (H.264) is used, as it is the external STB which does the >>decoding. Those sets should have either HDMI or DVI input. >> >> >> >> >I was thinking that they had built in digital recievers, maybe they >don't? It would annoy me if I had to buy yet another box having shelled >out - the slick minimalism of my flatscreen might feel a bit compromised > > Some can, most don't. In any case you'll be able to use an external STB... Lots cheaper than replacing the flatscreen ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend laptop linux distro???
Paul Bender wrote: > Gavin Haslett wrote: > >> To hell with distributions... Download the source and compile it >> yourselves!!! Wimps!!! ;) >> > > That's what I do. > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > I agreeThe SUSE Source 8-) Mike C ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Bug in 4.2?
On 01/22/2006 08:49 AM, Stewart wrote: > I have the new Hauppauge 500 with the Samsung chips. According to the trac > this chip was added in > as tuner #68 in tuner.h. > > http://ivtvdriver.org/trac/ticket/63 > http://ivtvdriver.org/trac/changeset/3120 > Wouldn't this be a more appropriate question for ivtv-devel? Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC - Nvidia isssues?
Rudy Zijlstra wrote: > Dan Seddon wrote: > > >> Justin Hornsby wrote: >> >> >> >> That all sounds a bit naff if true. I thought there had been a lot of talk about the BBC broadcasting before the World Cup in HDTV in London on terrestial digital? >>> Well, it's our government who 'own' the airwaves, so it's likely >>> they'll sell off the analogue space to the highest bidder IMHO. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> Yes - that rings true, hence the rush to stop analgue. I guess how much >> HDTV we see before then depends on who can squeeze how much in to the >> space currently available to Digital Terrestial. >> >> >> >> >>> As for UK HD being MPEG4 - I saw an article in Electronics Times >>> recently which stated it as a fact - a fact which is causing people >>> concern over how current Freeview receivers will work in future. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> Maybe the two issues are tied to each other - if the bandwidth doesn't >> arrive quickly enough (things never do here) MPEG4 would get more in to >> the same space. It might cause a bit of grief with all the people who've >> bought very expensive "HD-ready" sets though >> >> >> > Not likely. The TV sets are HD-ready independent of whether MPEG2 or > MPEG4-P10 (H.264) is used, as it is the external STB which does the > decoding. Those sets should have either HDMI or DVI input. > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > I believe that they allowed Component Video in the door at the last minute as a nod to Classic sets. The BBC will have HD up and running on Sky in 2006 as I understand it, With a bit of luck this will not require an encryption card and we will see PC Sat cards that can deal with the stream. now HD DVD is another scam Mike C ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC - Nvidia isssues?
On 01/22/2006 12:29 PM, Rudy Zijlstra wrote: > Dan Seddon wrote: >> Rudy Zijlstra wrote: >>> Dan Seddon wrote: Justin Hornsby wrote: > As for UK HD being MPEG4 - I saw an article in Electronics Times > recently which stated it as a fact - a fact which is causing people > concern over how current Freeview receivers will work in future. Maybe the two issues are tied to each other - if the bandwidth doesn't arrive quickly enough (things never do here) MPEG4 would get more in to the same space. It might cause a bit of grief with all the people who've bought very expensive "HD-ready" sets though >>> Not likely. The TV sets are HD-ready independent of whether MPEG2 or >>> MPEG4-P10 (H.264) is used, as it is the external STB which does the >>> decoding. Those sets should have either HDMI or DVI input. >> I was thinking that they had built in digital recievers, maybe they >> don't? It would annoy me if I had to buy yet another box having shelled >> out - the slick minimalism of my flatscreen might feel a bit compromised > Some can, most don't. In any case you'll be able to use an external > STB... Lots cheaper than replacing the flatscreen > Generally, (at least in the US) a set can be called an "HDTV" if--and only if--it has an integrated digital tuner/decoder (in the US that means MPEG-2). An HD-Ready set simply has the appropriate resolution. Don't know if manufacturers are using the same guidelines across the pond, though. (Wikipedia says there's a standard for HD Ready - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_ready - and the standard does not require a tuner/decoder.) Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Bug in 4.2?
I already took it there and got my fix. Thanks... Stewart Larsen It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. ~ Ben Franklin Hackers do for love what others wouldn't do for money. If you think technology will solve your security problems, you don't understand the technology and you don't understand the problems. ~Bruce Schneier Michael T. Dean wrote: > On 01/22/2006 08:49 AM, Stewart wrote: > >>I have the new Hauppauge 500 with the Samsung chips. According to the trac >>this chip was added in >>as tuner #68 in tuner.h. >> >>http://ivtvdriver.org/trac/ticket/63 >>http://ivtvdriver.org/trac/changeset/3120 >> > > Wouldn't this be a more appropriate question for ivtv-devel? > > Mike > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] YUV Component output from a NVidia GeForce 6200Card
Hi, Thanks for the reply - it's a PNY GeForce 6200 and it has a regular CRT output, a DVI output and a DIN connector to which the breakout box is connected. The breakout is providing RCA connectors for RGB/YUV, Composite Video and S-Video. So no audio authority box. /S -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Big Wave Dave Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 8:23 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] YUV Component output from a NVidia GeForce 6200Card On 1/21/06, Soren Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Bought myself a GeForce 6200 the other day. Works great on a regular monitor > but what does not do that. What Brand/Model is it? > > The attractive part about this card is that it claims that it can produce > progressive scan YUV component output. That seems to be correct the problem > is that I can not get it to do so in the resolutions that I need. > Does it have a break-out-box? Or are you using the audio authority box? Thanks, Dave -- -- Are Your Friends Lemmings? -- http://www.lemmingshirts.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Strange Audio Behavior - Static in One Speaker
On Sunday 22 January 2006 17:13, Dave Bixler wrote: > I've been searching the lists for the last few days trying to find out > what I may have done wrong to cause the behavior that I'm experiencing > with no luck so I finally decided to ask for help here. > > Everything is working very well and my system is stable. I can watch TV > using the TV Viewer in Redhat FC4 and if I un-mute the line in, audio is > flawless. Sound/music also plays flawlessly. > > So, I have the patch cable from the Hauppauge WinTV Go Plus to the line > in of my Diamond Monster Sound audio card. When I run MythTV and select > Watch TV, it fires up fine. However, only the right speaker has audio. > The left speaker starts having a tiny amount of static. This static > then starts getting louder about every second preceded by a small "pop" > sound. Each time, it's as if the volume of the static is doubled until > it becomes so loud it just distorts horribly. If I use kmix and slide > the balance all the way to the right speaker, I still hear the audio > from the TV card fine. If I slide it all the way to the left, it's pure > static. Does anyone have ANY suggestions whatsoever? I'm including > potential hardware info at the end of this message and if I've forgotten > anything, or can include additional information, please let me know. > I'm dying to have this working, it's such a sweet application! > > Thanks in advance for any insight! I think I have a very similar problem to yours except that I have TV audio on the left hand side. I'm still testing my problem and trying to find a solution. My findings so far: - if I unmute line in, audio is perfect with tvtime - if I mute line in, I get sound from the left speaker in myth. However, sound from the right speaker is not simply static, it is recording form the mic! Yes, that's what is happening: left input is line-in, right input is from the mic at the same time! Please check if this is your case, too. I have two mic plugs, one in the front, one on the rear side of the machine, so if you happen to have a similar PC, you might need to also select the correct mic in kmix to check this. - I can reproduce the "pop" sound getting louder, can't remember which setting influences this in kmix, but by playing around with controls I could easily get rid of this problem. I cannot check this right now, as a longer recording is in progress on my box. - the problem does not seem to be related to myth however: if I eg. record sound from line in with krecord, the same thing happens: the left side is recording from the line input, the right side from the mic. I suspect the problem is that the sound driver is incompatible with the mixer circuit in the integrated sound card. My motherboard is an ASUS A7N8X-X (nforce2 chipset). Recording works perfectly under Windows, at least. I have no idea where to go next, already tried google, without success. But I'm not an expert in Linux... Tom ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Recording HD content from a Comcast/Dish/DTV box
http://169time.com is a cheaper solution though On 1/22/06, Simon Kenyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 08 January 2006 19:51, Jason Weinstein wrote: > > What about a device such as this: http://dv411.com/ediussp.html > > > > Of course it will need drivers and such, but I doubt you are the only one > > that wants to be able to use MythTV with their HD cable or sattelite > > without being limited to only the channels "they" let you record in HD. > > $4k > > you have to be joking! > -- > simon > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DVB subtitles comments
Hey, Just installed svn version of mythtv and I am eager to try out subtitles. When I go to playback and select menu->subtitles->Finnish, mythtv just Subtitle track 1, no text shows up . What could be wrong here ? Someone mentioned about enabling them. Do I need to do something else to display the text ? I did not find anyt keyboard command for that from mythtv.org - Tomi -On 12/26/05, Paul Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message -From: "Kim Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: "Discussion about mythtv" < mythtv-users@mythtv.org>Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 10:03 PMSubject: Re: [mythtv-users] DVB subtitles comments> Piers Kittel wrote:> > subtitles on E4 (and I imagine, on other channels) > > hasn't been fixed.  Or do I need to do something on my own end?>> > http://www.biased.org/misc/mythtv/P1010088.JPG> > http://www.biased.org/misc/mythtv/P1010089.JPG>> I'm pretty sure that this is a result of the channel in question being> transmitted at a lower-than-usual resolution (E4, More4 and the minor> ITV channels spring to mind) to cram ever more into the available > bandwidth.  I assume the subtitles are transmitted with absolute pixel> offsets to specify their position, based on a full PAL image (presumably> this makes life easier for STBs).>> I suspect the blue bar is another symptom of the same thing - my > freeview STB likes to make green ones on More4 occasionally, and the> 'correct' fix is a bit of overscan.>>> Kim.The current DVB subtitle code makes no attempt to scale the subtitle images which are scaled and positioned to be correct at a video size of 720x576.Some channels like E4 typically use a video resolution of 544x576 so when  thesubtitle images are passed to the OSD for display the wrong position and image size is given for the video resolution being used.Could you try the attached patch and report back.I'd be interested to know if DVB in NTSC land uses subtitles and if so are you seeingsimilar problems with the subtitles displaying in the wrong position or partly of the screen. Thanks, Paul___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Strange Audio Behavior - Static in One Speaker
Tom Burt wrote: On Sunday 22 January 2006 17:13, Dave Bixler wrote: I've been searching the lists for the last few days trying to find out what I may have done wrong to cause the behavior that I'm experiencing with no luck so I finally decided to ask for help here. Everything is working very well and my system is stable. I can watch TV using the TV Viewer in Redhat FC4 and if I un-mute the line in, audio is flawless. Sound/music also plays flawlessly. So, I have the patch cable from the Hauppauge WinTV Go Plus to the line in of my Diamond Monster Sound audio card. When I run MythTV and select Watch TV, it fires up fine. However, only the right speaker has audio. The left speaker starts having a tiny amount of static. This static then starts getting louder about every second preceded by a small "pop" sound. Each time, it's as if the volume of the static is doubled until it becomes so loud it just distorts horribly. If I use kmix and slide the balance all the way to the right speaker, I still hear the audio from the TV card fine. If I slide it all the way to the left, it's pure static. Does anyone have ANY suggestions whatsoever? I'm including potential hardware info at the end of this message and if I've forgotten anything, or can include additional information, please let me know. I'm dying to have this working, it's such a sweet application! Thanks in advance for any insight! I think I have a very similar problem to yours except that I have TV audio on the left hand side. I'm still testing my problem and trying to find a solution. My findings so far: - if I unmute line in, audio is perfect with tvtime - if I mute line in, I get sound from the left speaker in myth. However, sound from the right speaker is not simply static, it is recording form the mic! Yes, that's what is happening: left input is line-in, right input is from the mic at the same time! Please check if this is your case, too. I have two mic plugs, one in the front, one on the rear side of the machine, so if you happen to have a similar PC, you might need to also select the correct mic in kmix to check this. - I can reproduce the "pop" sound getting louder, can't remember which setting influences this in kmix, but by playing around with controls I could easily get rid of this problem. I cannot check this right now, as a longer recording is in progress on my box. - the problem does not seem to be related to myth however: if I eg. record sound from line in with krecord, the same thing happens: the left side is recording from the line input, the right side from the mic. I suspect the problem is that the sound driver is incompatible with the mixer circuit in the integrated sound card. My motherboard is an ASUS A7N8X-X (nforce2 chipset). Recording works perfectly under Windows, at least. I have no idea where to go next, already tried google, without success. But I'm not an expert in Linux... Tom ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Thanks for the feedback. I tried what you suggested, but the mic does not seem to be on the other channel. Granted, this card has several inputs on the board itself, so it's completely possible that one of those are being used. I tried changing the settings from mic1 to mic2 in kmix but it didn't seem to matter. I do think that what you've said about our problems possibly being the same is correct. Another thing that I tried was enabling the microphone as record. I fired up MythTV and then spoke into the mic. What came out of the left channel was my voice, but then the right channel (again) started to degrade. However, what I noticed was that my voice was echoed into that channel as well as the static, like a feedback loop. --Dave ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] After "long" livetv pause, then rewind, mythfrontend becomes unstable
> >Anybody else seen this, or got any clues? > > I have experienced the same thing. After a long pause the screen went black. The program was still in the ringbuffer, and was watchable from mplayer. If only I have had backed it up before entering live-tv again... >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. > > > I am not that familiar with the inner workings of mythtv, so I might not be the best person to ask. Have you experimented with different ringbuffer sizes? >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! > > I also felt a quite negative atmosphere right after the apperence of this bug... //Simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2
On 1/21/06, John P Poet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/21/06, Justin Hornsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you want to know what might be coming next, try > > www.juski.co.uk/mythfrontend2.png, > > http://www.juski.co.uk/mythfrontend3.png, > > http://www.juski.co.uk/mythfrontend4.png > > and http://www.juski.co.uk/pg.png > > I like. > > Thanks, > > John > ___ Excellent! I appreciate the work you are putting into it, and understand the bit of a break ;) Thanks for a great theme! Chad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] whats the best graphics card for HD playback?
On 1/21/06, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Lynch wrote: > > >On 1/21/06, Chris Ribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>I'm in a similar situation to you, Frank, and I am looking for an answer to > >>the same question. > >> > >>From what I've gathered so far, the NVidia 5200 series seem to work the > >>best. I'd like to hear more confirmation on that before I go drop $40 on > >>one, though. > >> > >> > >Does the amount of video ram play a factor? > >The 5200 seems to come with either 128 or 256mb of ram. > >I'd like to have my graphics card do as much work as possible, I want > >ot keep my cpu for tasks like commercial flagging (and occasional > >transcoding). > > > > > RAM is not a problem. It's primarily important for 3D rendering with > many textures, so the 128MB will work well (be way more memory than you > need) for HD MPEG-2 decoding. > > As far as best card goes, the best card is one whose drivers support the > functionality you need. Right now, this means NVIDIA. Don't get ATI. > > The 6xxx series (at least some of them--there may be one or two > "holdovers" in the group) of NVIDIA cards use pixel shaders for Xv > (instead of the video overlay used by previous generations). Myth has > been designed to work well with the video-overlay-based Xv (including > providing an ability to adjust hue/saturation/brightness), and still has > work to be done for providing better support for the PS-based video. > Therefore, you're probably better off going with a 5200 than a > 6800+--unless, of course, you want to do some GLSL programming for > Myth... ;) > > Also, you won't get better MPEG-2 performance (including display of > software-decoded MPEG-2 /and/ hardware-assisted MPEG-2 decoding with > XvMC) from a "faster" or newer card. And, on the bright side, the 5200 > is dirt-cheap compared to the newer-generations of cards, so save your > money and go for a 5200. > I had a 6600 because I'm trying to drive an HDTV at 1080i, and it came with component out. I had intermittent success. myth and the nvidia drivers are like the Bickersons. They only get along enough to stay together. And new nvidia drivers seem to cause more problems than they solve. So now that I'm looking for a new mb for a myth frontend, I'm looking for a non-nvidia card that plays well with myth ( which means that open source is *really* important ); does hw MPEG-2 decoding; and has component out at 1080i. I'd also like MPEG-4 decoding and 1080p - if possible. AND, I'd like it to have drivers that are in Xorg-7.0.0. So, if I'm off nvidia I certainly don't want ATI since they have proprietary drivers and even more problem reports than nvidia. I have an old 8500dv, which I really like and is fully supported by xorg, but doesn't do hw decoding or 1080i tv out. First up was intel 945g integrated video. Supports hdtv, 1080p and mpeg-2 hw decoding. No mention if it supports mpeg-4 decoding, so I assume it doesn't. Also supports hdtv component out through a "Media Expansion Card". Sounds good, but it turns out there are NO Media Expansion Cards" available. AverMedia announced one for 3q2005 ( even won an Intel rpize for it!), but it's not been released ( or died somewhere ) and the MSRP is $199!!! Next I looked at via unchrome pro: mpeg-2, mpeg-4, 1080p ( so I assume it's 16:9). Drivers in xorg-7.0. But.. didn't find any with component out, the unichrome drivers have split ( unichrome.sf and openchrome), and the mpeg-4 is only for boards with the via c7. Finally it appears via really isn't supporting ( assisting) the xorg drivers which don't support mpeg-4. Sorta stuck. I guess I'm going to do the intel 945g with a vga->component breakout box. I do realize this is only a intel solution. Should be a better choice somewhere. sean ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] After "long" livetv pause, then rewind, mythfrontend becomes unstable
Simon Lundell wrote: > >> >> Anybody else seen this, or got any clues? >> >> > I have experienced the same thing. After a long pause the screen went > black. The program was still in the ringbuffer, and was watchable from > mplayer. If only I have had backed it up before entering live-tv again... > >> 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. >> >> >> > I am not that familiar with the inner workings of mythtv, so I might not > be the best person to ask. > Have you experimented with different ringbuffer sizes? > >> 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! >> >> > I also felt a quite negative atmosphere right after the apperence of > this bug... > > //Simon > Hi Simon, Thanks for the reply and suggestion. I've also decided to focus some attention on the ringbuffer. Moving it off LVM, maybe even to a different filesystem (it's on JFS right now). Maybe resizing it is a good experiment too. It sounds like maybe your problem is in the past -- do you still see it? If so, do you notice any particular patterns? If not, any ideas what finally resolved it? Thanks, john ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] looking for Craig Eaton
On 22/01/06, Brian Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The upcoming kernel "merger" of v4l and DVB should take care of this > problem. At least I hope it does, as we will all deserve *something* > for the inevitable pain that kernel changes cause. I'm _really_ looking forward to the upcoming merger of ivtv and the kernel (DVB is already there). The number of users who have problems running DVB and ivtv cards in the same box due to conflicting modules is proof of the problem this poses. Hopefully, once it's there, this pain will be a thing of the past ... (Open question to any devs - was it a requirement that the ivtv modules have identical names to those in the kernel, even though this seems to have caused all the conflicts and where there was a necesary separation between the kernel and ivtv modules in order to make things work?). I guess it's not Linux if there's no pain involved ;-) Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] After "long" livetv pause, then rewind, mythfrontend becomes unstable
On 18/01/06, John Biundo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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! Why not schedule regular recordings for important programs and remove LiveTV from the loop. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] lm_sensors and MythTV
> Looks very interesting, but it would still seem to depend on getting > lm_sensors and ivtv to cooperate. The folks getting this working may > not have been using ivtv, or may have been using mobos with ISA > sensor access. OTOH it probably can be made to work with ivtv and > i2c, I just need more spare time... I don't think this does rely on lm_sensors. I just downloaded it and it worked without having to set up lm_sensors. Give it a go and see what happens. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Missing sound on one channel
i had this problem. turned out to be a channel tuning problem. go to mythweb -> settings icon -> channels -> finetune field. i had to adjust between 0-5 in the finetune setting. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mitch Anderson Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 10:47 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] Missing sound on one channel -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've just recently setup a MythTV box, currently with only one PVR-150, and I'm having one issue with it. Every channel works perfectly (both recording and live tv), except one. The picture is fine but no sound. I don't see any errors in the log for the backend or frontend (they're separate). I'm running Gentoo on the box(AMD Duron 800) with ivtv version 0.4.0-r3. I've started an emerge world to update some system libraries along with getting the latest testing release of ivtv (0.4.2), its there anything else that might cause this? Any ideas would be appreciated, Mitch -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD0wA+q783p7dpJgkRAgLCAJ96NDBJuDlY3Fn/cHXaZMYu7YcfXQCgiAC1 DounW1cr5bTMbFO5wfXoj84= =gjc6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] whats the best graphics card for HD playback?
> -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens sean darcy > Verzonden: zondag 22 januari 2006 20:30 > Aan: Discussion about mythtv > Onderwerp: Re: [mythtv-users] whats the best graphics card for HD > playback? > > On 1/21/06, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Frank Lynch wrote: > > > > >On 1/21/06, Chris Ribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > >>I'm in a similar situation to you, Frank, and I am looking for an > answer to > > >>the same question. > > >> > > >>From what I've gathered so far, the NVidia 5200 series seem to work > the > > >>best. I'd like to hear more confirmation on that before I go drop $40 > on > > >>one, though. > > >> > > >> > > >Does the amount of video ram play a factor? > > >The 5200 seems to come with either 128 or 256mb of ram. > > >I'd like to have my graphics card do as much work as possible, I want > > >ot keep my cpu for tasks like commercial flagging (and occasional > > >transcoding). > > > > > > > > RAM is not a problem. It's primarily important for 3D rendering with > > many textures, so the 128MB will work well (be way more memory than you > > need) for HD MPEG-2 decoding. > > > > As far as best card goes, the best card is one whose drivers support the > > functionality you need. Right now, this means NVIDIA. Don't get ATI. > > > > The 6xxx series (at least some of them--there may be one or two > > "holdovers" in the group) of NVIDIA cards use pixel shaders for Xv > > (instead of the video overlay used by previous generations). Myth has > > been designed to work well with the video-overlay-based Xv (including > > providing an ability to adjust hue/saturation/brightness), and still has > > work to be done for providing better support for the PS-based video. > > Therefore, you're probably better off going with a 5200 than a > > 6800+--unless, of course, you want to do some GLSL programming for > > Myth... ;) > > > > Also, you won't get better MPEG-2 performance (including display of > > software-decoded MPEG-2 /and/ hardware-assisted MPEG-2 decoding with > > XvMC) from a "faster" or newer card. And, on the bright side, the 5200 > > is dirt-cheap compared to the newer-generations of cards, so save your > > money and go for a 5200. > > > > I had a 6600 because I'm trying to drive an HDTV at 1080i, and it > came with component out. > > I had intermittent success. myth and the nvidia drivers are like the > Bickersons. They only get along enough to stay together. And new > nvidia drivers seem to cause more problems than they solve. > > So now that I'm looking for a new mb for a myth frontend, I'm looking > for a non-nvidia card that > > plays well with myth ( which means that open source is *really* important > ); > does hw MPEG-2 decoding; > and has component out at 1080i. > > I'd also like MPEG-4 decoding and 1080p - if possible. > > AND, I'd like it to have drivers that are in Xorg-7.0.0. > > So, if I'm off nvidia I certainly don't want ATI since they have > proprietary drivers and even more problem reports than nvidia. I have > an old 8500dv, which I really like and is fully supported by xorg, but > doesn't do hw decoding or 1080i tv out. > > First up was intel 945g integrated video. Supports hdtv, 1080p and > mpeg-2 hw decoding. No mention if it supports mpeg-4 decoding, so I > assume it doesn't. Also supports hdtv component out through a "Media > Expansion Card". Sounds good, but it turns out there are NO Media > Expansion Cards" available. AverMedia announced one for 3q2005 ( even > won an Intel rpize for it!), but it's not been released ( or died > somewhere ) and the MSRP is $199!!! > > Next I looked at via unchrome pro: mpeg-2, mpeg-4, 1080p ( so I assume > it's 16:9). Drivers in xorg-7.0. But.. didn't find any with component > out, the unichrome drivers have split ( unichrome.sf and openchrome), > and the mpeg-4 is only for boards with the via c7. Finally it appears > via really isn't supporting ( assisting) the xorg drivers which don't > support mpeg-4. > > Sorta stuck. I guess I'm going to do the intel 945g with a > vga->component breakout box. > I do realize this is only a intel solution. > I f you want Intel and component maybe this is something http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowImage.asp?image=13-137-061-01.jpg,13-137-0 61-02.jpg,13-137-061-03.jpg,13-137-061-04.jpg,13-137-061-05.jpg&CurImage=13- 137-061-01.jpg&Description=AOpen%20i915GMm-HFS%20Socket%20479%20Intel%20915G %20Micro%20ATX%20Intel%20Motherboard%20-%20Retail > Should be a better choice somewhere. > > sean > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Recording HD content from a Comcast/Dish/DTV box
On 01/22/2006 01:35 PM, Mudit Wahal wrote: > http://169time.com is a cheaper solution though > Yeah, but has anyone ever made it work with Myth, or are those still empty promises? Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC - Nvidia isssues?
On 22/01/06, Dan Seddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > This is my first post to the list after getting my system up and > > running. I have a Mythtv setup which I'm really pleased with it's 95% > > perfect! However - that remaining 5% is always worth persuing so... I'm > > using XvMC which means my Athlon XP 1600 trundles away at 15% usage > > whilst playing DVB-T (standard definition PAL) video. This has 3 issues > > which reading through the list have been mentioned on and off - but I > > haven't found all the answers. > > > > First off - the menus become monochrome, which isn't a biggy and worth > > putting up with for the performance gain (but it would be nice to know > > if this is preventable). > > > > Secondly the menus cause the video to jump when they appear, which can > > be very distracting - this has been mentioned a lot on the list from > > what I can see. Hopefully I have something useful to add here I have > > Quadro FX500 card (don't ask why I'm sticking such an expensive card in > > a PVR box) and I found enabling overlays ( |Option "Overlay" "true") > > |gets rid of this problem - this is listed as a quadro only option and > > I'd be interested to know if anyone has success with this option using a > > non-quadro card, as I could then sell it as I've been intending to do. > > > > Lastly the problem which I count as my final 5% - I have an issue with > > some programs where the video stutters (the video may stutter in time > > too, but it's hard to tell when your ears are hurting). It's been a > > complete bafflement to me as it happens on only some programs (not > > channels) and non of the configurations I've tried get rid of it (other > > than diabling XvMC) - playing the same .nuvs with mplayer reveals that > > the only unique characteristic of these recording seems to be that the > > audio is at 256 kbits, whereas most of the other recording I have are at > > 192... I haven't been very scientific in checking it - but it seems to > > be consistant, having checked a few recordings. It happens to about 1 in > > 5 recordings, or maybe less, at the moments - but is fustrating as I > > have to go in to my options and reconfigure everytime I want to watch > > such a recording. I've only seen this issue posted once by a guy who > > said he was using the via equivalent of XvMC (I haven't found his post > > again - as it was a while ago) - which might be important as is implies > > it isn't a driver problem (I get the same issue when running the > > frontend on my laptop with a completely different sound card and older > > Quadro card). Is anyone else familier with this problem? I'm in the UK - > > where we don't have HDTV yet, so I can't be that my systems overwhelmed > > by what I'm throwing at it? I was having the EXACT same issues with my standard PVR-250. If I disabled the XvMC it would jump and stutter, but enabling it messed up the menus. I was running the nvidia version 8178 and downgrading to 7676 solved it all. -- Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org Gentoo Linux 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 2800+ 15:46:23 up 6 days, 1:30, 2 users, load average: 0.14, 0.08, 0.10 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] looking for Craig Eaton
I was dreading installing my PVR150 alongside my working DVB-T tuner, but luckily I managed to get by using the original V4L modules (phew!). Justin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] limits.conf for realtime priority
>> I guess this is a typo in the docs, and the comment in the file is >> correct. Can someone confirm this? > > As of PAM 0.79, the name was changed to rtprio. I've updated the > example in the HOWTO. running pam 0.79-3 (at least I have: # dpkg -l | grep libpam ii libpam-modules 0.79-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules for PAM ii libpam-runtime 0.79-3 Runtime support for the PAM library ii libpam0g 0.79-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules library ii libpam0g-dev 0.79-3 Development files for PAM ). I've changed my limits.conf to: # added by Marius for Mythfrontend: *- rtprio0 *- nice0 @mythtv - rtprio 50 @mythtv - nice0 # End of file but I'm still getting this when I run mythfrontend (as user mythtv): ... ... 2006-01-22 21:57:59.905 TV: Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2006-01-22 21:57:59.942 Realtime priority would require SUID as root. 2006-01-22 21:57:59.961 Video timing method: RTC What have I misunderstood? Do I need more of PAM? Cheers Marius ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend laptop linux distro???
mike choy wrote: > Paul Bender wrote: > >>Gavin Haslett wrote: >> >> >>>To hell with distributions... Download the source and compile it >>>yourselves!!! Wimps!!! ;) >>> >> >>That's what I do. >>___ >>mythtv-users mailing list >>mythtv-users@mythtv.org >>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >> >> > > I agreeThe SUSE Source 8-) That's like making pancakes from Bisquick: sure they are not as bad as frozen, but they are not as good as your own recipe. 8-) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New Install - Hang on entering live tv
Well, it is working now. When I rebuilt the machine with the new hard drive, the only thing I did different (that I know of) was I got the nvidia drives from nvidia.com instead of yum'ing them from atrpms. This gave me slightly newer drivers (8178) as opposed to, I think, 8150. But 8178 are is the driver that Brian had to comment out the glx and dri which I did not have to do. So its not a complete explanation. May 8178+glx works on the 6200 but not on the 5700 that Brian has and both cards fail with the earlier drivers? For people searching for answers with similar problems... Here is what is working now... FC4 x86_64 GeForce 6200 video card mythtv-0.18.1-117.rhfc4.at No manual changes to xorg.conf (used nvidia-xconfig) NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8178-pkg2.run video driver (from nvidia's site) xorg.conf module section... Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "fbdevhw" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "freetype" Load "type1" Load "dri" EndSection --BobG -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Wood Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 5:31 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] New Install - Hang on entering live tv On Jan 21, 2006, at 1:51 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote: > Bob wrote: > >> Thanks to everyone who replied. I thought I would post an update >> even though >> I am dead in the water due to the hard drive crashing. >> >> 1) I recorded a show. The file was created, but trying to watch >> the show >> resulted in the same blank screen crash that I have gotten originally >> entering LiveTV. I think this points to an nvidia driver issue >> particular to >> the myth internal player. (mplayer works fine). >> >> > Because MPlayer doesn't use OpenGL vsync. > >> 2) I was very optimistic about Brian's suggestion of removing the >> "load glx" >> from the xorg.conf. I commented it out, and even restarted the >> machine (not >> just X) but the problem persisted. >> >> > NVIDIA's drivers are auto-loading the GLX module. You either need > Myth > 0.18.1 (or below) compiled without OpenGL support or Myth 0.18- > fixes or > SVN (which has a runtime setting in frontend settings to disable > OpenGL > vsync). In a "short" time, though, upgrading to 0.19 will give you > this > option (and 0.19 may be ready before your new hard drive arrives... > (fingers crossed) ;) > Hmmm... I was using 0.18.1 compiled *with* OpenGL support, which caused me trouble with nVidia's 1.0.8178 drivers. Commenting out "load glx" (as well as "load dri", suggested by the nVidia docs) did indeed solve my problem. This was with a 5700 card. My CPU load is now below 5% when watching TV and it looks good (well, for consumer grade encoding that is). It doesn't seem that the nVidia drivers are loading GLX. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC - Nvidia isssues?
> > I was having the EXACT same issues with my standard PVR-250. If I > disabled the XvMC it would jump and stutter, but enabling it messed up > the menus. I was running the nvidia version 8178 and downgrading to > 7676 solved it all. Hmm... The 7676 thing got me quite excited on the way home from work - but having taken a look at my system, I am using 7676. So, close but no banana Also, all the other things seem OK as well - OpenGl Vsync is working fine (looking at the log) and TS is enabled (though my problem "test .nuv" was recoreded when I didn't have this enabled - the problem has continued since I last went anywhere near mythtv-setup). However - now I know how get at log, yes I'm pretty new to this... :/ I can tell you that I get this whenever I'm playing problematic video: 2006-01-22 21:43:56.498 WriteAudio: buffer underrun 2006-01-22 21:43:56.562 A/V diverged by 4.55715 frames, extending frame to keep audio in sync 2006-01-22 21:43:56.646 A/V diverged by 4.6491 frames, extending frame to keep audio in sync 2006-01-22 21:43:56.727 A/V diverged by 4.44933 frames, extending frame to keep audio in sync 2006-01-22 21:43:56.809 A/V diverged by 4.04322 frames, extending frame to keep audio in sync 2006-01-22 21:43:56.891 A/V diverged by 3.47615 frames, extending frame to keep audio in sync Which takes me back to the difference in audio in this recording (256 vs 192) - though Justin did mention this might be a TS issue earlier, where the TS version contained more than one audio channel. It's notable that I get 2006-01-22 21:43:56.498 WriteAudio: buffer underrun On *all* recordings/live tv - but only on some does it progress to the stuttering and above. So maybe the jump from 192 to 256 is the straw that breaks the camel's back - so to speak. What I don't understand is why I would get this when I'm running XvMC, but not the rest of the time - though I can't check what I get the rest of the time right now, as my flatmates watching the telly Anyway - the above looks like a good nugget to go searching with, so I'm going to do exactly that. But, thanks for the help and if anyone can think of anything else that would be great! Thanks Dan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] poor audio and video
I have two problems that may or may not be related, one with poor audio and another with poor video. I'm using Fedroa Core 4 64-bit and everything runs beautifully in TvTime, however, when I play "live" tv in MythTv, the audio only plays out of one speaker and the quality of the sound is sub-par. By this I mean there is a little bit of static and frequent "pops". I have played around a lot with alsamixer with the levels, and to get this question out of the way, yes my line in is muted and set as the capture. I have set the volumes on "Master" and "PCM" to around 75% to assure teh audio is not peaking out. "Capture" is set to 0% (not mutable) because there is even more static and overall "tinny" quallity when it is raised (still one speaker only). "Wave" is turned up as well as the "AC97 Capture" is turned up (not sure why these in particular, but with experimentation, I don't get any of the recorded audio without them). As for the video, the overall picture quality is poor. excluding the brightness, contrast, colour and hue, the picutre has a lot of thin horizontal lines in it. It seems like once MythTV takes in the captured media, it just butchers the quality. These right now are my two biggest problems and would appreciate any help I can get with this. Thanks, Tom ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2
On 1/21/06, Justin Hornsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for your comments, but after this update (to ver 1.3) I'm going > to try to have a rest from it. There'll be no more changes for a wee > while. I can understand wanting a rest. One advantage of you "resting", is that it opens the door for some of the rest of us to tweak it ;-) Attached it a patch with fixes group_info section so it will not overlap with the selector section, as seen here: http://snoopy.isa-geek.net:8044/shot2-watch-left.jpg It also moves the date over a bit, so it does not overlap the scissors. I also moved some of the text areas around just a bit, to take more advantage of the screen real estate -- but not violate the 5% rule. John --- ProjectGrayhem-wide-orig/ui.xml 2006-01-21 18:27:14.0 -0700 +++ ProjectGrayhem-wide/ui.xml 2006-01-22 14:58:52.0 -0700 @@ -1674,15 +1674,15 @@ 0 - 40,400,1240,240 + 40,460,1240,270 -15,12,779,45 +15,0,779,40 title -20,50,1260,90 -25,50,1260,90 +20,45,1260,120 +20,45,1260,120 info yes @@ -1690,7 +1690,7 @@ 0 - 20,460,1280,270 + 20,460,1180,270 20,0,900,40 20,0,580,40 @@ -1698,24 +1698,24 @@ -20,40,1260,40 +20,40,1120,40 subtitle yes -20,74,800,30 +20,74,370,30 greyfont -170,110,540,30 +225,110,525,30 greyfont -20,150,1000,100 -20,140,1000,200 +20,140,1150,100 +20,140,1150,100 info yes %LONGREPEAT%%STARS%%DESCRIPTION% @@ -1746,16 +1746,17 @@ + 1 - 20,460,1000,270 + 20,460,1180,270 -20,0,640,40 +20,0,900,40 20,5,640,40 title -20,47,600,40 +20,47,1120,40 subtitle yes @@ -1766,12 +1767,12 @@ -400,74,440,30 +425,74,725,30 greyfont -20,110,980,70 -20,110,1255,70 +20,110,1160,70 +20,110,1160,70 info yes %LONGREPEAT%%STARS%%DESCRIPTION% ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] limits.conf for realtime priority
Marius Schrecker wrote: >>>I guess this is a typo in the docs, and the comment in the file is >>>correct. Can someone confirm this? >> >>As of PAM 0.79, the name was changed to rtprio. I've updated the >>example in the HOWTO. > > > running pam 0.79-3 (at least I have: (obviously Debian or Debian-based distro) > > but I'm still getting this when I run mythfrontend (as user mythtv): > ... > ... > 2006-01-22 21:57:59.905 TV: Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV > 2006-01-22 21:57:59.942 Realtime priority would require SUID as root. > 2006-01-22 21:57:59.961 Video timing method: RTC > > What have I misunderstood? > Do I need more of PAM? See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=313588 -- it seems the official Debian package does not (yet) have the appropriate patch applied. I was surprised to see this, as I though I'd had it working before, but maybe it's that my own patched packages got superseded by a new official version. -Doug signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Playback of recordings suddenly broken
> Hi, > > Suddenly the playback of all recordings broke here, > plays back for 2 secs, then stops for half a second, then > 2 seconds OK again?? > > The frontend log is full of the following: > > [mpeg2video @ 0xb751c2a4]get_buffer() failed (stride changed) > 2006-01-22 10:37:28.251 AFD Error: Unknown decoding error > [mpeg2video @ 0xb751c2a4]get_buffer() failed (stride changed) > 2006-01-22 10:37:28.252 AFD Error: Unknown decoding error > > Hadn't changed anything when it happened (Honest :-) ), > but since that tried with the newest SVN, which didn't make any > difference. Just wanted to report that I found the problem in case someone searches the list for similar problems: The culprit was one fairly recent recording, that when I browsed the recorded list made the mpeg2video stuff go crazy. I have the preview turned on and as this was one of the latest shows recorded I always started out passing this one. Anything watched or browsed after that had the stuttering problem. This is of course an error recovery bug in the mpeg2video code, if anyone is interested to look closer at it plase drop me a mail and I can send you the problematic show, or part of it. I also tried to play it with xine and mplayer. Mplayer cannot play it while xine will not even notice any problems. Dag ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] ivtv0 warning: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW #xxx: Stealing a Buffer
Hi a couple of times now, my mythtv box (combined back/frontend) has locked up. I'm running FC4 as per Jarods guide. The hard drive activity starts going crazy, and the box stops responding to any input. This happened this evening, and 2 recordings stopped at 21:46. I rebooted the box and checked var/log/messages, and at 21:46, the message "ivtv0 warning: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW #xxx: Stealing a Buffer" started appearing over and over. Given the time this started, I'm guessing it's related. Any idea what could have caused this, and how to stop it happening again. Thanks ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting DVDs via NFS problem
Piers Kittel wrote: >Hello all, > >Am trying to mount a DVD drive via NFS and am having problems. For >note, 192.168.1.2 (hostname - destiny) is the client and 192.168.1.15 >(hostname - mythtv) is the server. > >I have this in my /etc/exports: > >/media/cdrom0 192.168.1.2(ro,sync) > >and 192.168.1.2 is in the /etc/hosts.allow. > >If the DVD is not mounted, it works perfectly fine: > >destiny:/mnt# mount mythtv:/media/cdrom0 /mnt/mythtv >destiny:/mnt# df >Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > >mythtv:/media/cdrom0 1829192 1547128184472 90% /mnt/mythtv >destiny:/mnt# > >If I unmount the above, and then mount the DVD on mythtv: > >mythtv:/home/piers# mount /cdrom >mythtv:/home/piers# > >and try again on destiny, I get: > >destiny:/# mount mythtv:/media/cdrom0 /mnt/mythtv >mount: mythtv:/media/cdrom0 failed, reason given by server: Permission >denied >destiny:/# > >and in the logs, I get: > >Jan 21 21:57:08 localhost kernel: UDF-fs INFO UDF 0.9.8.1 (2004/29/09) >Mounting volume 'FIREFLY_D3', timestamp 2003/09/08 20:08 (1000) >Jan 21 21:57:39 localhost rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from >destiny.10sca.intranet:923 for /media/cdrom0 (/media/cdrom0) >Jan 21 21:57:39 localhost rpc.mountd: getfh failed: Operation not permitted > >I've googled for a long time with the last message but I can't find any >help anywhere. > >I've tried this on my 2 Macs but had the exact same problem: > >Jan 21 20:34:55 localhost rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from >ukyo.10sca.intranet:982 for /media/cdrom0 (/media/cdrom0) >Jan 21 20:34:55 localhost rpc.mountd: getfh failed: Operation not permitted >Jan 21 21:29:59 localhost rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from >akane.10sca.intranet:972 for /media/cdrom0 (/media/cdrom0) >Jan 21 21:29:59 localhost rpc.mountd: getfh failed: Operation not permitted > >I'm hoping you guys can tell me what I'm doing wrong here? > Just guessing: 2 possible answers. 1. It looks like the mount on the server is exclusive and no-one else is allowed access while the server 'owns' it. 2. You, as a user on destiny, do not have permission to actually read anything mounted on mythtv. Maybe add yourself (piers) to a group on the server and on the client, and give the group access rights to mythtv:/media/cdrom. Geoff ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2
On 1/22/06, John P Poet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/21/06, Justin Hornsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks for your comments, but after this update (to ver 1.3) I'm going > > to try to have a rest from it. There'll be no more changes for a wee > > while. The attached patch does not fix anything. It rearranges some of the info on the "Watch Recordings" screen a a bit. >From this: http://snoopy.isa-geek.net:8044/shot12-rearrange-old.jpg To this: http://snoopy.isa-geek.net:8044/shot13-rearrange-new.jpg I am just throwing this out there to see what Justin (and everyone else) thinks. John --- ProjectGrayhem-wide/ui.xml 2006-01-22 15:38:09.0 -0700 +++ ProjectGrayhem-wide-new/ui.xml 2006-01-22 15:33:59.0 -0700 @@ -1690,7 +1690,7 @@ 0 - 20,460,1180,270 + 20,460,1180,260 20,0,900,40 20,0,580,40 @@ -1704,18 +1704,18 @@ -20,74,370,30 +20,80,370,30 greyfont -225,110,525,30 +437,80,525,30 greyfont -20,140,1150,100 -20,140,1150,100 +20,110,950,140 +20,110,1150,140 info yes %LONGREPEAT%%STARS%%DESCRIPTION% @@ -1723,24 +1723,24 @@ type/commflagged.png -84,106 +309,75 type/autoexpire.png -52,106 +277,75 type/bookmark.png -116,106 +341,75 type/cutlist.png -148,106 +373,75 type/processing.png -20,106 +245,75 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] DVB OTA channel help
I've been trying to get one last atsc channel working correctly in the myth database. Its the local ABC channel, and its HD broadcasting on channel 50. I admit my channel database is very old, since the wee-early days of hd in myth. At the time, I was able to do a full scan, and with a lot of manual tweaking of the database, I got the main channels ok (NBC, CBS, etc), but ABC has always been a wrong. I'm just looking for some process, manual or automatic scan to shove this channel in correctly, then I'll match up the xmltvid. Its a strong channel, so tuning it shouldn't be a problem. Anyone have any tips? Thanks, Brian ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] looking for Craig Eaton
Brian Wood wrote: >On Jan 22, 2006, at 3:13 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote: > > > >>RMH wrote: >> >> >> >>>back in March, Craig sent email with the subject "Conflict resolution >>>between HD3000's NTSC and ATSC tuners?" but his email address is now >>>bouncing. here's the archived message: >>> >>>http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2005-March/077576.html >>> >>>he apparently got his HD3000 working in both ATSC and NTSC modes, >>>which is something i would like to do as well. for some reason, how >>>to do this is not explained anywhere on the web that i can find. >>>if i >>>could get both modes to work using my one HD3000 card, i think i >>>could >>>program a conflict resolution into mythtv. >>> >>> >>Buried somewhere on the pcHDTV site, is an explanation of how the card >>works. The cx88_dvb driver handles ATSC, the cx8800 driver handles >>NTSC. >>Only one driver at a time can talk to the hardware. >>So you *should* be able to "rmmod cx88_dvb, modprobe cx8800" and watch >>NTSC content, then "rmmod cx8800, modprobe cx88_dvb" for ATSC. >>But that may or may not work. You might have to reboot in between. >>And >>even if you can do that, there is no guarantee that myth could handle >>itI suppose that an "external command" such as a channel change >>could actually be a module changeover, but you would also have >>problems >>with the database, and the backend would surely choke on not being >>able >>to see one of the cards at startup... >> >> >> >The upcoming kernel "merger" of v4l and DVB should take care of this >problem. At least I hope it does, as we will all deserve *something* >for the inevitable pain that kernel changes cause. > I doubt that the kernel merge will help in this situation. Fact is, that the hardware works in 2 distinct modes and requires 2 distinct driver modules to work properly. If the hardware were in fact built in parallel, with 2 of each of the required sections then it might work... but that means that the card would in effect need to be 2 tuners, behind the actual radio wave level tuner.. Although having the 2 modules in the kernel implies a fair bit of stability and ability to play nice, it does not mean that switching hardware modes will necessarily be easy. IF myth had some mechanism to ignore a missing input, and to be warned to resurrect that input upon a change, we might be able to do something, but none of that exists, and probably cannot until the actual api which the kernel modules will use, is established.. But it would be nicethen you could have an extra available NTSC tuner in cases of conflict, with that piece of hardware prioritized to recording ATSC first. Geoff ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2
Thanks John. I'll roll the patch into the main bundle as soon as I get the chance.. I appreciate the input. Stuff like this would be harder to miss if we had a theme designer app testing even the tiniest things can take ages and it's very easy to overlook stuff without having a humongous check-list. Excuses, excuses, I know... ;-) Cheers, Justin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2
On 22/01/06, John P Poet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/22/06, John P Poet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/21/06, Justin Hornsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Thanks for your comments, but after this update (to ver 1.3) I'm going > > > to try to have a rest from it. There'll be no more changes for a wee > > > while. > > The attached patch does not fix anything. It rearranges some of the > info on the "Watch Recordings" screen a a bit. > > From this: > http://snoopy.isa-geek.net:8044/shot12-rearrange-old.jpg > To this: > http://snoopy.isa-geek.net:8044/shot13-rearrange-new.jpg > > I am just throwing this out there to see what Justin (and everyone else) > thinks. > > John A! Well, there's a good reason the channel name space is so wide in the released version. I guess in the USA you don't get channel names like 'Paramount Comedy Plus 1', or 'Discovery Home and Leisure'... get my drift? ;-) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] poor audio and video
Thomas Baker wrote: >I have two problems that may or may not be related, one with poor audio >and another with poor video. I'm using Fedroa Core 4 64-bit and >everything runs beautifully in TvTime, however, when I play "live" tv in >MythTv, the audio only plays out of one speaker and the quality of the >sound is sub-par. By this I mean there is a little bit of static and >frequent "pops". I have played around a lot with alsamixer with the >levels, and to get this question out of the way, yes my line in is muted >and set as the capture. I have set the volumes on "Master" and "PCM" to >around 75% to assure teh audio is not peaking out. "Capture" is set to >0% (not mutable) because there is even more static and overall "tinny" >quallity when it is raised (still one speaker only). "Wave" is turned >up as well as the "AC97 Capture" is turned up (not sure why these in >particular, but with experimentation, I don't get any of the recorded >audio without them). As for the video, the overall picture quality is >poor. excluding the brightness, contrast, colour and hue, the picutre >has a lot of thin horizontal lines in it. It seems like once MythTV >takes in the captured media, it just butchers the quality. These right >now are my two biggest problems and would appreciate any help I can get >with this. > > If you want anyone to attempt to answer your question, telling them what capture card and audio card you're using would make it much easier. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] iMedia MythTV for VIA EPIA platform
Hi there I am interested in trying this. However I have a M9000 which I understand (and I may be wrong) uses i586 binaries, and i686 will fail. Your mini distro seems to be compiled for i686. Can you offer any comments before I give it a try? My reference for the i586/686 thing is here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags#Nehemiah_.28C5XL.29.2FC5P_.28Via.29 my cpuinfo is : processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : VIA C3 Ezra stepping: 9 cpu MHz : 933.063 cache size : 64 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow bogomips: 1868.49 Thanks for any input. On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:13:57 +0200 s.dragoss wrote: > Mini-Box.com released the iMedia MythTV distro. Based on MythTV 0.18.x is > designed to run on VIA EPIA mini-itx mainboards and Hauppauge PVR cards. Is > one of the smallest out-of-the-box MythTV (0.18.1) distribution using only > ~128Mb of storage. We are very interested in getting a feedback!! Thanks > > For more info you need to set up a complete system check the link > http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.17/it.A/id.421/.f > For those that want iMedia Mythtv, you can download from: > http: > http://resources.mini-box.com/online/iMedia%20MythTV%20Linux/imedia-2.6.7-rev4-minibox-mythtv.iso > ftp: > ftp://testing-mythtv:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/imedia-2.6.7-rev4-minibox-mythtv.iso -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting DVDs via NFS problem
Geoff, > Just guessing: 2 possible answers. 1. It looks like the mount on the > server is exclusive and no-one else is allowed access while the server > 'owns' it. > 2. You, as a user on destiny, do not have permission to actually read > anything mounted on mythtv. Maybe add yourself (piers) to a group on the > server and on the client, and give the group access rights to > mythtv:/media/cdrom. Brilliant thanks for your help! OK have done a bit of investigation and have found the following: when DVD drive is unmounted, the directory is: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2005-06-07 19:30 cdrom0 but when I mount the DVD, I get: dr-xr-xr-x 3 4294967295 4294967295 88 2003-09-08 21:08 cdrom0 The full path is /media/cdrom0 How do I fix this issue? Thanks very much for your help again Regards - Piers ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2
On 1/22/06, Justin Hornsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A! > > Well, there's a good reason the channel name space is so wide in the > released version. > > I guess in the USA you don't get channel names like > 'Paramount Comedy Plus 1', or 'Discovery Home and Leisure'... get my drift? > ;-) Ah, okay. In the USA we have channel *names* which are that long, but our channel *call signs* are not. John ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting DVDs via NFS problem
Piers Kittel wrote: >Geoff, > > > >>Just guessing: 2 possible answers. 1. It looks like the mount on the >>server is exclusive and no-one else is allowed access while the server >>'owns' it. >>2. You, as a user on destiny, do not have permission to actually read >>anything mounted on mythtv. Maybe add yourself (piers) to a group on the >>server and on the client, and give the group access rights to >>mythtv:/media/cdrom. >> >> > > >Brilliant thanks for your help! > >OK have done a bit of investigation and have found the following: > >when DVD drive is unmounted, the directory is: > >drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2005-06-07 19:30 cdrom0 > >but when I mount the DVD, I get: > >dr-xr-xr-x 3 4294967295 4294967295 88 2003-09-08 21:08 cdrom0 > >The full path is /media/cdrom0 > >How do I fix this issue? > >Thanks very much for your help again > > One answer which will last through a reboot would be to amend the line in 50-udev.rules to add a "Group=mythtv" and "Mode=770" to the line describing /dev/hdc or whatever your hardware is listed as ( as in fstab). HTH Geoff ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting DVDs via NFS problem
Geoff, > One answer which will last through a reboot would be to amend the line > in 50-udev.rules to add a "Group=mythtv" and "Mode=770" to the line > describing /dev/hdc or whatever your hardware is listed as ( as in fstab). > > HTH > Geoff Cheers again, but I don't seem to have a 50-udev.rules file? Am running Debian by the way. Thanks very much for your help again! Cheers - Piers ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting DVDs via NFS problem
Geoff, > One answer which will last through a reboot would be to amend the line > in 50-udev.rules to add a "Group=mythtv" and "Mode=770" to the line > describing /dev/hdc or whatever your hardware is listed as ( as in fstab). > > HTH > Geoff I guess I need to run "apt-get install udev"? Cheers - Piers ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] AC3 and/or S/PDIF (again)
On Sunday 22 January 2006 08:29 am, Ben Suffolk wrote: > > > > No, Ben, I don't. And, as I understand it, this is impossible. Since > > > we're just passing through a digital signal to the receiver, it's > > all up to > > > the receiver to deal with it. In order to change the volume, we > > would need > > > to decode the audio, sample down the volume, reencode it, then > > pass it on > > > to the receiver. Maybe it's possible, but it certainly is not very > > > efficient. And, by the way, this is all just speculation. I don't > > really > > > know how it works, but my explanation made sense to me. > > > > And your explanation is more or less correct. If you're passing raw > > digital > > audio, its completely raw, you can't controll its volume level. > > Might be best > > to let Myth do the audio decoding and pass PCM audio instead of raw > > digital > > audio. Could also try to rig up something with an irblaster if > > you're dead > > set on having the amp in a different room and passing raw audio. > > > > -- > > Jarod Wilson > > jarod[at]wilsonet.com > > I though this might be the case, I have to say I don't really know > about digital audio, but I had hoped that maybe it would be quite > easy to manipulate it in the digital realm, so not having to convert > it, just simply dividing each digital value by the volume level. I > guess not. > > I thought maybe I could use an irbalster to swap the inputs on my amp > between regular 2 channel pcm for tv and music, then have it auto > switch to 5.1 when you play a dvd, and then switch back again for TV. > I guess this could be done quite easily with a shell script set as > the player for the dvd & video playback. Not idea, but would allow > the osd for volume in TV etc. > > Ben Actually there is supposed to be a plugin for this in alsa called "softvol". Check out the bottom of this page: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/pcm_plugins.html I messed with it for a while but I've been unable to figure out how to make it work Paul pgpDxLAkJKmqg.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Changing channels on DCT2000 series/audio questions
Thanks for the link! I found a few things: 1.) I was, in fact, changing the channel on my cable box (serial cable was going from my mthtv box to the Motorola STB- I just didn't see the numbers changing). This seems to be all set. 2.) Regardless, I don't seem to be getting any cable coming into the PVR-250. I'm beginning to wonder if perhaps the hardware is screwed, since I only seem to get channel 4, and changing the channel, while effective on the cable box, does not show any change in channel in MythTV. Also, I seem to be getting nothing but white noise unless the coax cable is jiggled out some. Could this be an ivtv thing, not interpreting the cable signal correctly? Or is it more likely to be hardware-related? 3.) I put the .asoundrc in the mythtv home directory, and when I logged back in to see if it worked, it froze my X session. It didn't go through the rest of the startup, and I had to kill my X session. Is there any way to see why this happened? Thanks so much for your help so far, guys! On 1/20/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 20 January 2006 14:35, John Brooks wrote:> Hi! I'm struggling with getting my MythTV box going- it's been a lot more> difficult than I'd expected, but I'm really close. I have two issues in> front of me now: >> 1.) When I try to change channels, I end up getting static on every other> channel except channel three. I'm guessing that this is because the channel> I'm changing is on the OVR receiver, and not the Motorola DCT2000 series > set top box I'm connected to. I have a serial cable going out from theI assume you mean PVR. But yes, you need to have MythTV change the channel onthe DCT2000, this requries you to use the change channel script and tell the Tivo that your PVR card should use the DCT2000 script to change channels. Itsounds like your using the coax to feed the PVR from the DCT2000 though. Iwould suggest getting some AV cables from radio shack/etc and connect the DCT2000 via svideo/composite for video and the RCA audio cables for sound,the picture quality should be much better. You then tell MythTV that yourusing that input along with where the channel change script is. > first serial port (which I'm assuming is ttyS0), and I got my hands on a> copy of "channel" from here:>> http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5906&view=previous&>> Once I got the permissions on ttyS0 set correctly, I told mythtv to use> /usr/bin/channel to change channels; this does not appear to work. I'm not > sure how to look for output that might tell em what's going wrong here.MythTV may not be running as the same user you got the script to work with.Check to see what user mythbackend runs as (prbly "mythtv", possibly "root" but from the sound of it not), and su to that user and make sure the scriptworks manually.>> 2.) I have a mobo with an nforce chipset (ABIT NF7-S), and thus SP/DIF> output. I was able to get the digital sound working in xmms, so I know the > sound works. However, I'm not sure how to get the sound working in MythTV.> I tried following the instructions on this page, but still can't get sound:you will need the proper asoundrc for your soundchip, if its an AC'97 compatible chip your probably using the intel alsa drivers for AC'97 and canuse the asound found here:http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Asoundrc_alc850 you will need to copy it as ".asoundrc" to the home folder of the user runningmythfrontend.you must then, in Setup>General, 3 pages in, tell MythTV to use "ALSA:digital"for Audio output device, and enable AC3 to SPDIF passthrough. Make sure Internal Volume Controls are turned off.--Steve___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2
On 22/01/06, John P Poet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah, okay. In the USA we have channel *names* which are that long, but > our channel *call signs* are not. > > John Well in the UK we don't really have 'callsigns', so can we reach a compromise somehow? Could you live with 2 lines of programme description? with the grabber I use, even 3 lines is nowhere near enough to see the full text, so I figured two would make no difference. Justin. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2
On 1/22/06, Justin Hornsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22/01/06, John P Poet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ah, okay. In the USA we have channel *names* which are that long, but > > our channel *call signs* are not. > > > > John > > Well in the UK we don't really have 'callsigns', so can we reach a > compromise somehow? > > Could you live with 2 lines of programme description? with the > grabber I use, even 3 lines is nowhere near enough to see the full > text, so I figured two would make no difference. No compromise necessary. We can leave as you designed it. I just thought it "looked" better with the Channel/Flags/Date on one line. John ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting DVDs via NFS problem
Geoff,
> One answer which will last through a reboot would be to amend the line
> in 50-udev.rules to add a "Group=mythtv" and "Mode=770" to the line
> describing /dev/hdc or whatever your hardware is listed as ( as in fstab).
>
> HTH
> Geoff
OK installed udev, and the /etc/udev/rules.d/020_permissions.rules
seemes OK to me but still not working. Here's the snippet from the file:
# IDE devices
BUS="ide", KERNEL="hd[a-z]", SYSFS{removable}="1", \
PROGRAM="/bin/cat /proc/ide/%k/media", RESULT="cdrom*",
GROUP="cdrom", MODE="770"
There's no entry for hdc anywhere.
The snippet for my user in the groups file is:
cdrom:x:24:piers
And the CDROM mount directory still shows:
dr-xr-xr-x 3 4294967295 4294967295 88 2003-09-08 21:08 cdrom0
What am I doing wrong here?
Thanks so much for your help again!
Cheers - Piers
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[mythtv-users] Performance from a different perspective
I currently have an XP2600 and 6200 video card that seems to have enough processing power for HD in Windows, but requires xvmc in Linux. Due to the stability and usability issues with xvmc, I would like to get my system to the point where I will not need to use it. Most of what has been written about performance requirements centers around raw cpu speed, with a P4 2.4 being the common minumum. But I wonder how much other factors such as cache size, memory bus speed, memory size, etc. might impact overall performance? With that in mind, I would be interested in hearing other's thoughts on how those factors (and any others that should be included) relate to video display? When comparing one cpu to another, what is the list of important items, and in what priority? For example, P4 vs. Celeron. Celerons are cheaper, even at faster clock speeds. If cpu speed was the only factor, then the choice seems clear. But somehow I don't think that is the case, because there are differences between them that generally make a P4 faster. But do those differences matter for a HTPC system? Things get even muddier when you toss AMD chips into the mix. Gary ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] poor audio and video
Sorry, I forgot to include some important info. Capture Card: Hauppauge WinTV Radio 401 Sound Card: Creative Labs SB Live! Video Card: PNY GeForce 6200 Thanks, Tom Thomas Baker wrote: >>I have two problems that may or may not be related, one with poor audio >>and another with poor video. I'm using Fedroa Core 4 64-bit and >>everything runs beautifully in TvTime, however, when I play "live" tv in >>MythTv, the audio only plays out of one speaker and the quality of the >>sound is sub-par. By this I mean there is a little bit of static and >>frequent "pops". I have played around a lot with alsamixer with the >>levels, and to get this question out of the way, yes my line in is muted >>and set as the capture. I have set the volumes on "Master" and "PCM" to >>around 75% to assure teh audio is not peaking out. "Capture" is set to >>0% (not mutable) because there is even more static and overall "tinny" >>quallity when it is raised (still one speaker only). "Wave" is turned >>up as well as the "AC97 Capture" is turned up (not sure why these in >>particular, but with experimentation, I don't get any of the recorded >>audio without them). As for the video, the overall picture quality is >>poor. excluding the brightness, contrast, colour and hue, the picutre >>has a lot of thin horizontal lines in it. It seems like once MythTV >>takes in the captured media, it just butchers the quality. These right >>now are my two biggest problems and would appreciate any help I can get >>with this. >> >> > > If you want anyone to attempt to answer your question, telling them what capture card and audio card you're using would make it much easier. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DVB OTA channel help
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 04:57:18PM -0600, Brian Foddy wrote: > I've been trying to get one last atsc channel working correctly in > the myth database. Its the local ABC channel, and its HD > broadcasting on channel 50. > > I admit my channel database is very old, since the wee-early days of > hd in myth. At the time, I was able to do a full scan, and with a > lot of manual tweaking of the database, I got the main channels ok > (NBC, CBS, etc), but ABC has always been a wrong. > > I'm just looking for some process, manual or automatic scan to shove > this channel in correctly, then I'll match up the xmltvid. Its a > strong channel, so tuning it shouldn't be a problem. > > Anyone have any tips? I have a similar problem; I can't get all available channels. Have you tried repositioning the antenna? I'm at the point where I have to choose between one PBS channel and ABC. --Rob signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Sync rates for Sharp 32 inch LCD
--- Richard Bronosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just want this information to be search locatable, > which it currently is not. > > I have a Sharp Aquos LC-32D4U which does NOT have > DVI in, and therefore Sharp > gives no frequency info for it, so I looked for the > info on one of their DVI > capable models. > > Page 56 of > http://sharpusa.com/files/tel_man_LC26_32GA5U.pdf > suggests that the > 1366x768 capable 32" Aquos LCDs can do H rates of > 31.5-68.7kHz and V rates > 60-85Hz. I still haven't found out the dot clock. > > Thank you for your time, > --==<< R i c h a r d B r o n o s k y >>==-- > > Nearly all viruses and spyware are designed to use > Microsoft internet products. > Protect yourself by avoiding Internet Explorer & > Outlook/Outlook Express. > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > Don't know what the dot clock is on the LCD, but I'm using this modeline to get "Dot by Dot" into my Sharp (through DVI). If you can decipher the modeline, maybe you can find the dot clock in it? I don't know anything about modelines, only that this one works great. The resolution comes out of the video card as 1368x768, but works great with the 1366x768 native res of the LCD. The picture is limited only by what the LCD display can produce. ModeLine "1368x768" 85.5 1360 1424 1536 1792 768 771 776 794 -hsync -vsync To use it, the display input needs to be set to "PC digital" or something like that. Hope this helps, -Todd __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting DVDs via NFS problem
On 1/22/06, Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Geoff,
>
> > One answer which will last through a reboot would be to amend the line
> > in 50-udev.rules to add a "Group=mythtv" and "Mode=770" to the line
> > describing /dev/hdc or whatever your hardware is listed as ( as in fstab).
> >
> > HTH
> > Geoff
>
> OK installed udev, and the /etc/udev/rules.d/020_permissions.rules
> seemes OK to me but still not working. Here's the snippet from the file:
>
> # IDE devices
> BUS="ide", KERNEL="hd[a-z]", SYSFS{removable}="1", \
>PROGRAM="/bin/cat /proc/ide/%k/media", RESULT="cdrom*",
> GROUP="cdrom", MODE="770"
>
> There's no entry for hdc anywhere.
>
> The snippet for my user in the groups file is:
>
> cdrom:x:24:piers
>
> And the CDROM mount directory still shows:
>
> dr-xr-xr-x 3 4294967295 4294967295 88 2003-09-08 21:08 cdrom0
>
> What am I doing wrong here?
>
> Thanks so much for your help again!
>
> Cheers - Piers
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I think installing Udev is more than just apt-get install udev, but I
could be wrong ;)
You could change your entry in fstab or mount with option:
mount -t -o umask=000 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
Or, you can edit your existing entry in fstab, in the 'defaults'
section, remove defaults and type:
umask=000
See how that goes for ya.
Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] Performance from a different perspective
On Jan 22, 2006, at 5:11 PM, Gary Manning wrote: > I currently have an XP2600 and 6200 video card that seems to have > enough > processing power for HD in Windows, but requires xvmc in Linux. > Due to the > stability and usability issues with xvmc, I would like to get my > system to > the point where I will not need to use it. > > Most of what has been written about performance requirements > centers around > raw cpu speed, with a P4 2.4 being the common minumum. But I > wonder how > much other factors such as cache size, memory bus speed, memory > size, etc. > might impact overall performance? > > With that in mind, I would be interested in hearing other's > thoughts on how > those factors (and any others that should be included) relate to video > display? > > When comparing one cpu to another, what is the list of important > items, and > in what priority? For example, P4 vs. Celeron. Celerons are > cheaper, even > at faster clock speeds. If cpu speed was the only factor, then the > choice > seems clear. But somehow I don't think that is the case, because > there are > differences between them that generally make a P4 faster. But do > those > differences matter for a HTPC system? Things get even muddier when > you toss > AMD chips into the mix. > Then there's my theory, in 3 easy steps: Examine Checkbook Balance (CB) Place finger on CPU List in Catalog Move finger over prices, get as close to (CB) above as you can without going over But seriously, there are *so* factors involved, including what it is you want to do with your machine, that it's virtually impossible to reduce this sort of thing down to a formula. "What you want to do" is perhaps the hardest thing to figure out, but I can guarantee one thing: It will be quite different from what you thought in the first place. Nobody ever complained about having too much CPU, or RAM, I'd go for the best I could afford. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:43:36PM -0500, Anthony Vito wrote: > > HyperThreading is a horrible kludge. It required every OS to rewrite > their process schedulers to not die context switching to an imaginary > processor. The Linux kernel claims to have a hyper threading aware > scheduler, but I've never been happy with it running on a loaded > server. With mythTV, you'll really won't notice any difference either > way, so just the standard kernel. > > Like Brian said, dual cores are a different matter. You must run the > SMP kernel or your not using half the silicon. > However much of a kludge HyperThreading is, and I don't doubt that it's a horrible kludge, performance on my 2.4 GHz P4 has improved dramatically since I enabled it. When I'm running two CPU-intensive programs at the same time--an extremely common situation--latency is much less of an issue. I'm really happy with the results, even if the design is awful. But when dual-core processors become affordable, I'd love to get one. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 pgpTNE4HEVoQL.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
