Re: [mythtv-users] Sports events, LiveTV or Watch Recording?
On 01/28/2006 01:02 AM, Greg Woods wrote: On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 15:16 -0800, Bruce Markey wrote: For any sort of algorithm proposed to second guess a specific situation, there is an opposite example where that exceptional decision would do exactly the wrong thing. The only perfect solution would be a way to tell the scheduler exactly what you want, so it doesn't have to read minds. Such as, an option on extensions that says, allow other recordings to override time extensions. Or something in a record rule that says extend time only if it doesn't conflict with another recording on the same channel. My point was not to criticize the present incarnation of the scheduler, so I hope you didn't take it that way. Only to point out that there is currently no way to resolve the type of conflict I run into other than manually. Or, we could have a page that lists upcoming recordings and shows when you have a conflict. Then you could create a recording override to adjust the rules such that the conflict is resolved appropriately (for your desires)... So, let's say we add an option on recording extensions to allow other recordings to override time extensions. If it's implemented globally, what happens when two programs--one set to record late and the next set to start early--are set to record? Do we override one extension or both or ... If implemented per recording rule, we could still have the same situation if both rules are created to allow recordings to override extensions. What if the user has multiple capture cards? Do we use both so we can have extensions on back-to-back allow extension override recordings? What if one capture card's input has a higher preference than the other? If using both cards, the user may end up with one high-quality recording with an extension and another low-quality recording with an extension when he/she may have preferred two high-quality recordings without extensions. All of these issues were discussed in the thread about soft-padding (that was eventually tabled for various reasons). See: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/146281#146281 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/151647#151647 If we add the setting extend time only if it doesn't conflict with another recording on the same channel, we're opening a 55-gal barrel of worms when you start to consider multiple capture cards, recording priorities, input preferences, and the mapping of recordings to card inputs. Now, I could come up with a nice complicated example showing you one of the problems we might have here (OK, really I probably couldn't come up with a good one, but Bruce Markey could), but no matter what example I gave, I'm sure you'd be able to write back immediately with an answer as to what the scheduler should do... And, _that_ is the key. You know exactly what /you/ want to happen. I know exactly what I want to happen. He knows... So, if the scheduler marks conflicts when there's a potential for problems, the user can easily adjust the schedule to get exactly the behavior she desires. I don't want my computer to think for me--that's why I don't use Windows. That's also why I'm significantly more productive with my computer than people I know who are constantly battling wizards (and I'm not talking about EverQuest or World of Warcraft) and auto tools (and I'm not talking about autoconf/automake). Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Another small bug in mythweb
Hi again, Anyone else have the problem that the showtime in Upcoming recordings doesn't seem to obey the general time display rules? At the moment it shows that 24 will be shown today at 10:50 when the real show time is 22:50. The date is localized correctly though. Best Dag ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Manually enter freq. in database.
On Friday 27 January 2006 23:00, Martin Madsen wrote: Hi Myth-list, I'm using a Hauppauge PVR 350 and MythTV running on a Ubuntu linux. My backend starts fine but I cannot see any channels. (Only snow on the screen) I'm using XMLTV. So I'm looking for a way to put the frequencies into my database manually because the scan channels option in mythtv-setup doesn't work (I can't select it.) Anybody knows what to look after in the database and in what format I need to plug in the frequencies? My frequencies are listed on my cable provider's homepage in this format: http://www.tre-for.dk/default.aspx?m=2i=220 You have to update the columns freqid and finetune in the table channel. I had the same problem as you, so I created an Openoffice spreadsheet that generates the necessary update statements from something like your web page. The idea is that you search the frequency closest to yours in the official list of channels which will give freqid (e.g. 48.250MHz - E2, 55.250MHz - E3, 62.250MHz - E4 etc.) and then calculate finetune = (your freq - official freq) * 16 If you are interested, I can send you the spreadsheet or give all the details if you prefer to use a different tool. Tom ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Segfault when configured MythTV with XvMC
HiI've posted something related to this problem last week but it was left unanswered.DVB-T (both SD and HD channels) doesn't play smoothly on my P4 3.4Ghz FC4 box.So I tried to enable XvMC to see if it would improve playback. When I select as MPEG2 decoder XvMC, trying to match TV will make MythTV segfault.In the console I see:2006-01-28 20:42:27.495 VideoOutputXv Error: Could not open XvMC port... You may wish to verify that your DISPLAY environment variable does not use an external network connection. You may also wish to verify that /etc/X11/XvMCConfig contains the correct vendor's XvMC library./etc/X11/XvMCConfig contains:libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1(I also tried with an absolute path but it made no difference)I am running the latest nVidia driver (8178) Any help would be greatly appreciated, I've been trying to get smooth video for over a week.ThanksJean-Yves ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500: problems with sound
Stef Coene píše v Út 17. 01. 2006 v 23:39 +0100: Still not working, even when changing audio channels. Tuner Audio In is Input 0, so I need ivtvctl -d /dev/video1 -q 0. I upgraded to kernel 2.6.15.1 + ivtv 0.4.2 so only module ivtv is from ivtv, the rest is form the kernel. Still not working. Help :( My last option is swapping the PVR500 for the software based capture card I had before :( Has anyone an idea why changing channels can enable sound? What exactly happens when you change the channel ? FYI: I got PVR150 and have exactly opposite problem: first tuning after MythTV start gets sound but any subsequent tuning to same or different channel = no sound at all. And I haven't found an ivtvctl trick yet that would re-enabled the sound reliably. Petr ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Manually enter freq. in database.
On Friday 27 January 2006 23:00, Martin Madsen wrote: Hi Myth-list, I'm using a Hauppauge PVR 350 and MythTV running on a Ubuntu linux. My backend starts fine but I cannot see any channels. (Only snow on the screen) I'm using XMLTV. So I'm looking for a way to put the frequencies into my database manually because the scan channels option in mythtv-setup doesn't work (I can't select it.) Anybody knows what to look after in the database and in what format I need to plug in the frequencies? My frequencies are listed on my cable provider's homepage in this format: http://www.tre-for.dk/default.aspx?m=2i=220 You have to update the columns freqid and finetune in the table channel. Ok and the channum I can set to what ever I like, depending where I want the channel when zapping in mythfrontend? I had the same problem as you, so I created an Openoffice spreadsheet that generates the necessary update statements from something like your web page. That sounds like the way to do it, and I have the info on the page I linked to en my earlier post. I use PHPMYAdmin to update the data but that shouldn't matter. The idea is that you search the frequency closest to yours in the official list of channels which will give freqid (e.g. 48.250MHz - E2, 55.250MHz - E3, 62.250MHz - E4 etc.) I think you are getting close to my root (not the user :)) problem(s) now. 1. I don't know exactly what number to put under freqid under channels in my database. If the Danish channel TV2 if running on 175,25MHz will I put in 175,25 | 17525 | 175250 or something else? 2. I'm a bit confused by the E2, E3 ect. But I suspect them to be channel numbers like the ones I see when issuing ivtv-tune -l at the very end of the list. Sadly when I issue the command ivtv-tune -l it shows the us-cable channels/frequencies. I should be able to change that by issuing ivtv-tune -t europe-west but still the ivtv -l shows us-cable at the top of the list. Now I don't know if this is important but I would rather be sure since I have struggled all week with myth. :) and then calculate finetune = (your freq - official freq) * 16 If you are interested, I can send you the spreadsheet or give all the details if you prefer to use a different tool. Tom Ok in your calculation you use official freq which I think is the one on www.tre-for.dk but your freq is a little hard to find since I haven't been able to find a utility that is able to scan for channels on my PVR 350. Thankyou very much for your help, I really appreciate it. :) Best Regards Martin I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 466 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try www.SPAMfighter.com for free now! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Transcoded recording and mythburn
Hi Ross, I think i want to convert the original recording back to mpeg2 and use mythburn to create a dvd (image). Is this at all posible or do i need to export to a copy ? I've tried nuvexport but this is (very) slow...is this normal or is there something wrong with my system ? I will also have a look at the other tools you suggested. Is btw there a way to edit a recording (manually cutting commerials) and leave the recording in mpeg2 ? Cheers, Peter The past two weeks I've tried to burn one of my (transcoded) recordings to dvd using mythburn. The problems started after i edited and transcoded the recording. Non transcoded recording don't give any problems when using MythBurn. I think the problem is that MythBurn can't handle recording in NuppelVideo (RTJpg) format. That is correct. MythBurn currently only works with recordings that are MPEG2 and exactly DVD resolution. Is there a way to transcode the recording back to mpeg2 ?? Do you mean .. convert it back into mpeg2 and have it overwrite the file in mythtv so that you can use mythtvburn, or do you mean make a copy of the file that is a proper dvd-ready mpeg2? You might want to try these tools: nuvexport - https://svn.forevermore.net/nuvexport/ nuv2disc - http://extras.mythtvtalk.com/ tovid - http://tovid.org -Ross ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Debian 'apt-get build-dep mythtv' problem?
On 1/28/06, A JM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I notice that currently my Xbox is using xfree86 instead of xorg-x11, I think there is a difference... The librarary 'libxvmc-dev' is part of xorg-x11 so does this mean I need to use xorg-x11 as opposed to xfree86? I think this is all academic. Since the xbox doesn't work with binary only Nvidia linux drivers, your xbox can't make use of xvmc anyway. You only need libxvmc-dev installed if you're enabling xvmc during the mythtv compile. Alex ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Manually enter freq. in database.
I'm using XMLTV. So I'm looking for a way to put the frequencies into my database manually because the scan channels option in mythtv-setup doesn't work (I can't select it.) Anybody knows what to look after in the database and in what format I need to plug in the frequencies? My frequencies are listed on my cable provider's homepage in this format: http://www.tre-for.dk/default.aspx?m=2i=220 You have to update the columns freqid and finetune in the table channel. Ok and the channum I can set to what ever I like, depending where I want the channel when zapping in mythfrontend? Yes, as far as I know. The idea is that you search the frequency closest to yours in the official list of channels which will give freqid (e.g. 48.250MHz - E2, 55.250MHz - E3, 62.250MHz - E4 etc.) I think you are getting close to my root (not the user :)) problem(s) now. 1. I don't know exactly what number to put under freqid under channels in my database. If the Danish channel TV2 if running on 175,25MHz will I put in 175,25 | 17525 | 175250 or something else? You would put E5 into freqid because that is the official identifier of the channel that has the standard frequency of 175.25MHz. and then calculate finetune = (your freq - official freq) * 16 Ok in your calculation you use official freq which I think is the one on www.tre-for.dk but your freq is a little hard to find since I haven't been able to find a utility that is able to scan for channels on my PVR 350. I'm probably using the wrong terminology, but by your freq I meant the actual frequency that you want to tune which is what your provider uses, or to be more precise, the frequency that your capture card thinks it is set to when tuned to the channel in question :). And official freq would be the frequency that is the standard frequency for the given freqid. Your provider could use non-standard frequencies which fall between two standard freqs, that's why you have finetune. Anyway, I checked the web page you mentioned and found 13 channels there. For the first 11 of them, set freqid to E and the value under Kanal concatenated (i.e. E2, E3, ... E12) and for the last two channels freqid is SE9 and SE10 respectively. Finetune is 0 for all the channels. Hope this helps :) Tom ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Debian 'apt-get build-dep mythtv' problem?
How else can I determine if I have the necessary deps needed to build myth aside from running 'build-dep mythtv' will I just have to manually install the needed dep's?Thanks, ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Mythburn and ProjectX
I have been trying to install mythburn on a FC4 box with version .18 of mythtv. My initial problem is that I cannot get ProjectX to run, I get the following error: Loading Basic Classes... Exception in thread main java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: initState at gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GdkGraphics2D.initState(int[], int, int) (/usr/lib/lib-gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.so.6.0.0) at gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GdkGraphics2D.GdkGraphics2D(java.awt.image.BufferedImage) (/usr/lib/lib-gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.so.6.0.0) at gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GdkGraphicsEnvironment.createGraphics(java.awt.image.BufferedImage) (/usr/lib/lib-gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.so.6.0.0) at java.awt.image.BufferedImage.createGraphics() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0) at net.sourceforge.dvb.projectx.subtitle.Subpicture.Subpicture() (Unknown Source) at net.sourceforge.dvb.projectx.common.Common.init() (Unknown Source) at net.sourceforge.dvb.projectx.common.Start.main(java.lang.String[]) (Unknown Source) at gnu.java.lang.MainThread.call_main() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0) at gnu.java.lang.MainThread.run() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0) Has anyone had success installing mythburn outside of knoppmyth? Is there a good howto out there that is illuding me? Thanks. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv rebooting system
Not looking at your logs, just from past experience... Anytime I have behavior like you've described, it was either due to a poor power supply or an IRQ conflict. Have a look also at your CPU fan -- if it's not properly fixed to the chip that can cause overheating and automatic shutdown/reboot. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Scheduled Recordings are keyed off of the callsign field
Howdy, I went and adjust some of the channel names in mythweb so that they showed up down the left of mythweb a little different (to save space more than anything). The text I changed was the 'callsign' field in the mythweb Settings Channels page. Anyways, I just noticed that all of my schedules had been cancelled and immediately realised why, however I don't understand why it is so. I thought each channel would have had a unique ID which is what we would key off so this 'callsign' field can be updated however. I am sure there is a logical reason for why this has heppened, I am just hoping someone can explain it to me. Everything is OK, by going and updating them back they have come back. (Although I had to restart the backend for the changes to take effect, which is why I didn't pick up the problem sooner). Cheers, Whytey -- -- I have GMail invites, if you want one, email me direct. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] SVN ~87xx Live TV via Firewire goes black in middle of show
Every so often Live TV when being viewed over firewire will go black or freeze on a frame, so far it seems to always happen at the end of a clip (commercial or otherwise), but its not just the issues recently with show changes as it happens in the middle of a show. Nothing freezes, simply hitting ESC and going back to Live TV and it works fine. anyone else notice similar?-- Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv rebooting system
On 28/01/06, Nathan A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have the following for my system... AMD 1800+ 756 Megs Memory 120 Gig harddrive space wireless nic PVR-500 I can get mythtv running fine, but after some random amount of time I will have the system reboot. I have seen very little in the logs, what I have seen I posted below. I have noticed that my cpu usage is at 30% -- with no recording going on! So can anyone help a poor soul out? You could look in your system log around the time of your reboots, and also importantly use 'ps aux' and 'top' to see what's running when the system is up to see what's taking so much of your CPU. Also checking 'dmesg' and 'lspci -v' might reveal whether there are several devices sharing IRQs. You could also remove the ivtv card/modules from the system if you believe it is causing the reboots and see if the system stabilises without it. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Debian 'apt-get build-dep mythtv' problem?
-Original Message- From: A JM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'Discussion about mythtv' Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Debian 'apt-get build-dep mythtv' problem? How else can I determine if I have the necessary deps needed to build myth aside from running 'build-dep mythtv' will I just have to manually install the needed dep's? If dependency checking fails, then ./configure or the build will fail. It'll normally produce an error about not being able to find a certain file. Fetch the package that contains the missing file and rebuild. Don't forget to file a bug report if dependency checking fails. - Ken ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Manually enter freq. in database.
On 28/01/06, Martin Madsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok in your calculation you use official freq which I think is the one on www.tre-for.dk but your freq is a little hard to find since I haven't been able to find a utility that is able to scan for channels on my PVR 350. There's a useful utility called ptune-ui which allows you to tune your card and see the results onscreen along with the channel numbers. This is detailed on Jarod Wilson Fedora HOWTO here http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php#capture. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv rebooting system
On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 09:10 -0500, Dewey Smolka wrote: Not looking at your logs, just from past experience... Anytime I have behavior like you've described, it was either due to a poor power supply or an IRQ conflict. Have a look also at your CPU fan -- if it's not properly fixed to the chip that can cause overheating and automatic shutdown/reboot. Thanks for the hint, but I am sure overheating of the cpu isn't the issue. I can run the box for days (I have) and not have it reboot. It only happens when I try running TV... Nasa ___ 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] Mythtv rebooting system
On Jan 28, 2006, at 8:35 AM, Nathan A. Smith wrote: On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 09:10 -0500, Dewey Smolka wrote: Not looking at your logs, just from past experience... Anytime I have behavior like you've described, it was either due to a poor power supply or an IRQ conflict. Have a look also at your CPU fan -- if it's not properly fixed to the chip that can cause overheating and automatic shutdown/reboot. Thanks for the hint, but I am sure overheating of the cpu isn't the issue. I can run the box for days (I have) and not have it reboot. It only happens when I try running TV... Wish I had a nickel for every time I was sure of something like that. MythTV pushes the CPU more than most programs. It is quite possible that you could idle along for weeks with no problem and then have something CPU-intensive cause a heat-related problem in minutes. Not that I am saying that is your problem, just making a point :-) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv rebooting system
Nathan A. Smith wrote: Hi, I have the following for my system... AMD 1800+ 756 Megs Memory 120 Gig harddrive space wireless nic PVR-500 I can get mythtv running fine, but after some random amount of time I will have the system reboot. I have seen very little in the logs, what I have seen I posted below. I have noticed that my cpu usage is at 30% -- with no recording going on! So can anyone help a poor soul out? Nasa PS: logs look a little different when It's rebooted versus when I cold boot it. I posted the info for when it cold boots (as I have already read that is necessary). Applications don't cause spontaneous reboots. Bad drivers, hardware, memory, etc. do. Look in your /var/log/messages when it happens and see what kind of kernel oops happened or, if the logs don't reveal anything, start pulling individual pieces of hardware out and seeing if the reboots stop. If you say it happens when nothing is happening on the box, I would guess a driver/hardware issue. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv rebooting system
Nathan A. Smith wrote: On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 09:10 -0500, Dewey Smolka wrote: Not looking at your logs, just from past experience... Anytime I have behavior like you've described, it was either due to a poor power supply or an IRQ conflict. Have a look also at your CPU fan -- if it's not properly fixed to the chip that can cause overheating and automatic shutdown/reboot. Thanks for the hint, but I am sure overheating of the cpu isn't the issue. I can run the box for days (I have) and not have it reboot. It only happens when I try running TV... Heat can very much be an issue. The CPU and GPU will both fire up more heat when in use watching or recording TV. Have you tried running the system with the case open to relieve temperature and see if that helps? I had a similar issue with one of my systems that was solved by reseating the CPU fan on the CPU using some antec thermal paste and I've never had a problem since. It would only happen when I watched TV Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv rebooting system
On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 14:38 +, Nick wrote: On 28/01/06, Nathan A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have the following for my system... AMD 1800+ 756 Megs Memory 120 Gig harddrive space wireless nic PVR-500 I can get mythtv running fine, but after some random amount of time I will have the system reboot. I have seen very little in the logs, what I have seen I posted below. I have noticed that my cpu usage is at 30% -- with no recording going on! So can anyone help a poor soul out? You could look in your system log around the time of your reboots, and also importantly use 'ps aux' and 'top' to see what's running when the system is up to see what's taking so much of your CPU. Also checking 'dmesg' and 'lspci -v' might reveal whether there are several devices sharing IRQs. Thanks Nick, There are a few devices sharing irq's (usb, audio/usb, firewire/nic) -- the pvr-500 isn't sharing irq's with anything. When the system is idle with mythfrontend running top reads.. Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 100.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si when I start livetv it reads Cpu(s): 28.6% us, 1.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 69.8% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.3% si Does this look normal? Given my 1800... BTW: I am using an ATI 8500DV All-in-wonder as my videocard (I already had it -- didn't/don't want to spend money on something I already have if it will work, I know nvidia is suppose to be better :} ) Nasa You could also remove the ivtv card/modules from the system if you believe it is causing the reboots and see if the system stabilises without it. Nick ___ 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] Scheduled Recordings are keyed off of the callsign field
On 28/01/06, David Whyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, I went and adjust some of the channel names in mythweb so that they showed up down the left of mythweb a little different (to save space more than anything). The text I changed was the 'callsign' field in the mythweb Settings Channels page. Anyways, I just noticed that all of my schedules had been cancelled and immediately realised why, however I don't understand why it is so. I thought each channel would have had a unique ID which is what we would key off so this 'callsign' field can be updated however. I am sure there is a logical reason for why this has heppened, I am just hoping someone can explain it to me. Everything is OK, by going and updating them back they have come back. (Although I had to restart the backend for the changes to take effect, which is why I didn't pick up the problem sooner). Without wishing to step on Bruce's toes (he may decide to provide one of his extremely useful explanations), callsign is used in the scheduling process in order to determine whether channels with different chanids are in fact the same station. The value of callsign is recorded in the record table, so it is likely that by changing the callsign values without similarly updating it in record will result in failed rescheduling when the rules search for the old callsign values which have now changed. Bruce wrote a very useful explanation on a related topic in this thread: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/175218 Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv rebooting system
I can get mythtv running fine, but after some random amount of time I will have the system reboot. I have seen very little in the logs, what I have seen I posted below. I have noticed that my cpu usage is at 30% -- with no recording going on! So can anyone help a poor soul out? Nasa Run memtest for a few hours and see if that causes any problems. Set up and run one of the cpu temp monitors and watch the cpu for overheating when running mythtv. Also try pulling and re-ordering the cards on your motherboard. Could be a bad connection or a irq conflict issue. Mythtv uses more interupts than just about any other program out there so a motherboard that does not handle them well could be the problem as well. My first board based on a via chipset just would not run without crashing. My new nvidia based board runs flawlessly for weeks. Same memory and cards, just different mb. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Video Player that can Bookmark
Folks, I've been watching movies a lot on the ol' Myth system, and I find that I often can't finish a movie in one sitting because of my new daughter. I'm wondering if anyone can suggest a video player that will allow me to save a bookmark of where I left off when I stopped the video, similar to what Myth can do with TV shows? I checked out xine and mplayer, and it doesn't look like either of them can do it, tho I could have missed something. Thanks, Peter Darley ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] First Generation Air2PC Card Requires Extended Initialization
I recently purchased first generation Air2PC cards off eBay. I knew there might be issues, but it seemed like a low-cost way to experiment with digital / HD TV and that has proven to be true. In fact, the first card worked extremely well, no issues whatsoever, so I bought a second one. The second card, however, takes much longer to initialize and lock up on its startup channel - usually several minutes as compared to less than 30 seconds for the first card I bought. Once initialized, both cards work fine. However, mythbackend gives up after 30 seconds so getting them both initialized is a problem. I found I could fix that problem by editing 'dvbchannel.h' in libmythtv, the line that reads: bool TuneTransport(dvb_channel_t channel, bool all=false, int timeout=30); Adding an extra zero to the 'timeout' parameter allows the backend to wait long enough for my slow card to achieve a lock. However, I'm curious if there is an easier way. For example, is there some way to condition the card(s) prior to starting the backend that would allow them to successfully lock up within the default 30 seconds? Also, change of subject, is there some trick to getting XvMC to actually work? When I first tried to use it on two machines, both with 0.18.1, FX5200's and the NVIDIA driver, only the Hardware MPEG checkbox was present on the Playback settings page. On both machines, when that checkbox was checked, playback and live TV would both fail with a message saying that the frontend was unable to initialize the display. After fooling around with the stuff mentioned above, including a recompile of 0.18.1, a checkbox to enable OpenGL vsync suddently appeared on the same settings page as the XvMC checkbox and now XvMC works on that machine. But I don't know why it started working and I haven't been able to duplicate the feat on my other Myth box. Bill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Manually enter freq. in database.
I'm using XMLTV. So I'm looking for a way to put the frequencies into my database manually because the scan channels option in mythtv-setup doesn't work (I can't select it.) Anybody knows what to look after in the database and in what format I need to plug in the frequencies? My frequencies are listed on my cable provider's homepage in this format: http://www.tre-for.dk/default.aspx?m=2i=220 You have to update the columns freqid and finetune in the table channel. Ok and the channum I can set to what ever I like, depending where I want the channel when zapping in mythfrontend? Yes, as far as I know. The idea is that you search the frequency closest to yours in the official list of channels which will give freqid (e.g. 48.250MHz - E2, 55.250MHz - E3, 62.250MHz - E4 etc.) I think you are getting close to my root (not the user :)) problem(s) now. 1. I don't know exactly what number to put under freqid under channels in my database. If the Danish channel TV2 if running on 175,25MHz will I put in 175,25 | 17525 | 175250 or something else? You would put E5 into freqid because that is the official identifier of the channel that has the standard frequency of 175.25MHz. and then calculate finetune = (your freq - official freq) * 16 Ok in your calculation you use official freq which I think is the one on www.tre-for.dk but your freq is a little hard to find since I haven't been able to find a utility that is able to scan for channels on my PVR 350. I'm probably using the wrong terminology, but by your freq I meant the actual frequency that you want to tune which is what your provider uses, or to be more precise, the frequency that your capture card thinks it is set to when tuned to the channel in question :). And official freq would be the frequency that is the standard frequency for the given freqid. Your provider could use non-standard frequencies which fall between two standard freqs, that's why you have finetune. Anyway, I checked the web page you mentioned and found 13 channels there. For the first 11 of them, set freqid to E and the value under Kanal concatenated (i.e. E2, E3, ... E12) and for the last two channels freqid is SE9 and SE10 respectively. Finetune is 0 for all the channels. Hope this helps :) Tom That is really great information Tom, I have tried to put the pieces together all day and I have now finally figured out what you mean. The reason why I took so long even with your fine explanation was: 1. The listings on www.tre-for.dk doesn't fit the signal im getting here for some reason. Might have something to do with tre-for has only recently taken over the company who delivers cable for me. For example the E10 ID should be 210,25MHz and the Channel DR1. But it is in fact a whole other channel. 2. I couldn't get the ivtv-tune utility to show other than us-cable. The reason was me. :D Because I thought I had to issue ivtv-tune -t europe-west to set the settings to Europe-west, followed by ivtv-tune -l and then read the output. The right thing is of course: ivtv-tune -t europe-west -l in one single command. Now the only thing I miss (for now :D) is the REAL frequencies for my cable since the ones on www.tre-for.dk doesn't fit for me, however I don't expect any of you to help me with that. I'll have to find them myself. I'll start off with ptune-ui which has been suggested in another post (Thanks to Nick the knowledgejunkie :D) Thanks for any help provided. I will use this help to help2-3 coworkers who have also bought hardware for at mythbox and who, if it's possible, is more newbs at this than me :) Best Regards Martin Madsen I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 467 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try www.SPAMfighter.com for free now! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Manually enter freq. in database.
On 28/01/06, Martin Madsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok in your calculation you use official freq which I think is the one on www.tre-for.dk but your freq is a little hard to find since I haven't been able to find a utility that is able to scan for channels on my PVR 350. There's a useful utility called ptune-ui which allows you to tune your card and see the results onscreen along with the channel numbers. This is detailed on Jarod Wilson Fedora HOWTO here http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php#capture. I Will look into this utility, it's actually just the thing I need for this to come together. Thanks, Best Regards Martin Madsen Nick I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 467 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try www.SPAMfighter.com for free now! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] First Generation Air2PC Card Requires Extended Initialization
For the Air2PC card, it seems like it's normal... Even if it shows that it can't get alock for a few minutes, it is getting it anyway. Your backend will start normally and start recording just fine after a few minutes. I don't really like that, but that's the way it is. I got 3 cards, and there might be one of them that gives a good status when I boot up my machine. I don't know if it has to do with 2 cards being in the system instead of just one. Steve On 1/28/06, William Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently purchased first generation Air2PC cards off eBay. I knew there might be issues, but it seemed like a low-cost way to experiment with digital / HD TV and that has proven to be true. In fact, the first card worked extremely well, no issues whatsoever, so I bought a second one. The second card, however, takes much longer to initialize and lock up on its startup channel - usually several minutes as compared to less than 30 seconds for the first card I bought. Once initialized, both cards work fine. However, mythbackend gives up after 30 seconds so getting them both initialized is a problem. I found I could fix that problem by editing 'dvbchannel.h' in libmythtv, the line that reads: bool TuneTransport(dvb_channel_t channel, bool all=false, int timeout=30); Adding an extra zero to the 'timeout' parameter allows the backend to wait long enough for my slow card to achieve a lock. However, I'm curious if there is an easier way. For example, is there some way to condition the card(s) prior to starting the backend that would allow them to successfully lock up within the default 30 seconds? Also, change of subject, is there some trick to getting XvMC to actually work? When I first tried to use it on two machines, both with 0.18.1, FX5200's and the NVIDIA driver, only the Hardware MPEG checkbox was present on the Playback settings page. On both machines, when that checkbox was checked, playback and live TV would both fail with a message saying that the frontend was unable to initialize the display. After fooling around with the stuff mentioned above, including a recompile of 0.18.1, a checkbox to enable OpenGL vsync suddently appeared on the same settings page as the XvMC checkbox and now XvMC works on that machine. But I don't know why it started working and I haven't been able to duplicate the feat on my other Myth box. Bill ___ 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] Manually enter freq. in database.
On 01/28/2006 04:18 AM, Tom Burt wrote: On Friday 27 January 2006 23:00, Martin Madsen wrote: Hi Myth-list, I'm using a Hauppauge PVR 350 and MythTV running on a Ubuntu linux. My backend starts fine but I cannot see any channels. (Only snow on the screen) I'm using XMLTV. So I'm looking for a way to put the frequencies into my database manually because the scan channels option in mythtv-setup doesn't work (I can't select it.) Anybody knows what to look after in the database and in what format I need to plug in the frequencies? My frequencies are listed on my cable provider's homepage in this format: http://www.tre-for.dk/default.aspx?m=2i=220 You have to update the columns freqid and finetune in the table channel. I had the same problem as you, so I created an Openoffice spreadsheet that generates the necessary update statements from something like your web page. The idea is that you search the frequency closest to yours in the official list of channels which will give freqid (e.g. 48.250MHz - E2, 55.250MHz - E3, 62.250MHz - E4 etc.) and then calculate finetune = (your freq - official freq) * 16 If you are interested, I can send you the spreadsheet or give all the details if you prefer to use a different tool. Note, also, that you can change channum, freqid, and finetune using MythWeb's channel settings page... Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Fedora Core 4 ivtv install
Scott, Yes, I ran 'yum update' successfully. I am still getting the same error (user or otherwise) though; when I type 'yum install ivtv-firmware-audio' yum tells me: 'Nothing to do' I am pointing to both stable and testing atrpms package depositories, am I perhaps naming the package wrong? I can't be the only person who is going through Jarod's guide with FC4... anyone else run into this problem? ~ Todd ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythburn and ProjectX
On 01/28/2006 07:34 AM, Jonathan Smith wrote: I have been trying to install mythburn on a FC4 box with version .18 of mythtv. My initial problem is that I cannot get ProjectX to run, I get the following error: Loading Basic Classes... Exception in thread main java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: initState at gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GdkGraphics2D.initState(int[], int, int) Don't use the GNU Java implementation. Use Sun's JDK or JRE ( http://java.sun.com/j2se ). Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Video Player that can Bookmark
On 01/28/2006 11:41 AM, Peter Darley wrote: I've been watching movies a lot on the ol' Myth system, and I find that I often can't finish a movie in one sitting because of my new daughter. I'm wondering if anyone can suggest a video player that will allow me to save a bookmark of where I left off when I stopped the video, similar to what Myth can do with TV shows? I checked out xine and mplayer, and it doesn't look like either of them can do it, tho I could have missed something. Internal Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Documentation on undocumentated features?
On 1/28/06, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/27/2006 09:59 PM, Chad wrote: :) I'm wondering if there is documentation on things that don't have documentation in the regular documentation nor in the OSD (when you highlight a feature there is sometimes a small description on it's use, but not on all features)? If so, where? My immediate example is in the transcoding settings screen. When you arrow down to the Maximum Quality and Minimum Quality options, the only note you get is not very helpful: Modifying the default may have severe consequences I get that this means it's probably not something a new user should play with, but how about those wanting to play around and possibly even break their machine? ;) Pick a list. Any list. One list to a customer, please. Mike ___ :) I wasn't sure which list to send this to, and rather than wait days on one list to not get a response I figured I'd fire one off to both at the same time. I guess I'd equate this to duplicate posting on a forum which is bad etiquette, I just didn't think about it at the time, so my appologies. Will just pick one in the future :) Chad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Video Player that can Bookmark
On 1/28/06, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/28/2006 11:41 AM, Peter Darley wrote: I've been watching movies a lot on the ol' Myth system, and I find that I often can't finish a movie in one sitting because of my new daughter.I'm wondering if anyone can suggest a video player that will allow me to save a bookmark of where I left off when I stopped the video, similar to what Myth can do with TV shows?I checked out xine and mplayer, and it doesn't look like either of them can do it, tho I could have missed something. InternalMikeI don't think Internal allows for bookmarking outside of TV though, MythVideo doesn't offer the option.-- Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] First Generation Air2PC Card Requires Extended Initialization
On January 28, 2006 12:52 pm, Steve Malenfant wrote: For the Air2PC card, it seems like it's normal... Even if it shows that it can't get alock for a few minutes, it is getting it anyway. Your backend will start normally and start recording just fine after a few minutes. I don't really like that, but that's the way it is. I got 3 cards, and there might be one of them that gives a good status when I boot up my machine. I don't know if it has to do with 2 cards being in the system instead of just one. Steve Any word on whether these puppies support QAM256, or if they ever will? Mark On 1/28/06, William Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently purchased first generation Air2PC cards off eBay. I knew there might be issues, but it seemed like a low-cost way to experiment with digital / HD TV and that has proven to be true. In fact, the first card worked extremely well, no issues whatsoever, so I bought a second one. The second card, however, takes much longer to initialize and lock up on its startup channel - usually several minutes as compared to less than 30 seconds for the first card I bought. Once initialized, both cards work fine. However, mythbackend gives up after 30 seconds so getting them both initialized is a problem. I found I could fix that problem by editing 'dvbchannel.h' in libmythtv, the line that reads: bool TuneTransport(dvb_channel_t channel, bool all=false, int timeout=30); Adding an extra zero to the 'timeout' parameter allows the backend to wait long enough for my slow card to achieve a lock. However, I'm curious if there is an easier way. For example, is there some way to condition the card(s) prior to starting the backend that would allow them to successfully lock up within the default 30 seconds? Also, change of subject, is there some trick to getting XvMC to actually work? When I first tried to use it on two machines, both with 0.18.1, FX5200's and the NVIDIA driver, only the Hardware MPEG checkbox was present on the Playback settings page. On both machines, when that checkbox was checked, playback and live TV would both fail with a message saying that the frontend was unable to initialize the display. After fooling around with the stuff mentioned above, including a recompile of 0.18.1, a checkbox to enable OpenGL vsync suddently appeared on the same settings page as the XvMC checkbox and now XvMC works on that machine. But I don't know why it started working and I haven't been able to duplicate the feat on my other Myth box. Bill ___ 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 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv rebooting system
On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 11:24 -0500, William wrote: I can get mythtv running fine, but after some random amount of time I will have the system reboot. I have seen very little in the logs, what I have seen I posted below. I have noticed that my cpu usage is at 30% -- with no recording going on! So can anyone help a poor soul out? Nasa Run memtest for a few hours and see if that causes any problems. Set up and run one of the cpu temp monitors and watch the cpu for overheating when running mythtv. Also try pulling and re-ordering the cards on your motherboard. Could be a bad connection or a irq conflict issue. Mythtv uses more interupts than just about any other program out there so a motherboard that does not handle them well could be the problem as well. My first board based on a via chipset just would not run without crashing. My new nvidia based board runs flawlessly for weeks. Same memory and cards, just different mb. Thanks everyone, I should know better... I took the cover off and it's ran stable for the last hour and a half... (didn't last that long before). Nasa ___ 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] Summery of my problems
Robert Johnston wrote: On 1/26/06, Dylan R. Semler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've only really been working with LiveTV so far. HD is able to stream pretty well to the frontend, but there are some problems. In the first minute or so after I change a channel, there are a few pauses but eventually it smooths out (something I can live with). However, whenever there is fast motion in the video, every other line gets slightly offset--I guess this is described as combing. How do I fix this? Enable DeInterlacing. The Combing is your (Progressive) laptop display trying to show an interlaced signal. DeInterlacing corrects this. This did the trick For analog, the picture quality is pretty bad (noisy) and there are about three or four horizontal lines at the top of the screen that have some random patterns of black and white streaks. The picture quality is much better using tvtime and those lines do not appear. Those lines are called the VBI (Vertical Blank Interrupt). They're what gets sent as the TV's scanning electron beam travels from bottom-right to top-left to start the next screenful. The Random Patterns you see are (Most likely) the Timecode, and the Closed Captioning data. You can adjust the Overscan parameters in Myth to remove these. Adjusting the overscan in myth turned out to be less than ideal. First of all, the adjustments apply to both the HD and the analog feeds so if I make adjustments that remove the black vbi lines on the top in analog I have to live with a few unchanging colored lines at the bottom of HD--very annoying. Furthermore, my vertical over/underscan percentage would ideally be less than 1 (to cleanly remove all of the vbi lines and nothing more), but myth only seems to allow integers for this field. When this is set to 1 there are a few colored lines at the bottom of the picture similar to what is seen in HD. Also, I found changing the 'Scan displacement (Y)' didn't seem to do anything. As for the noise, make sure that Myth is tuning into the same frequency (EXACTLY the same frequency) as TVTime is. It sounds like Myth's off by a few Khz. Also, the color balance is not quite right, but when I press F to 'rotate between Picture Adjustments (Colour, Hue, etc.)', nothing happens. If I press 'G', I am able to make the adjustments for the recording. Also, the backend logs indicate that its using v4l v1 rather than v4l v2: IIRC, ATI cards don't support the XV picture controls. This is a problem with their drivers. Not surprising, however, if I run the frontend on the master backend with the GeForce2 as well as another frontend with a GeForce4 and still, I have the same result; pressing 'f' in livetv does nothing. Channel(/dev/video0)::SwitchToInput(in 0): Error -1 while setting video mode (v2), Invalid argument, trying v4l v1 2006-01-26 22:52:21.234 Channel(/dev/video0)::SwitchToInput(in 0): Setting video mode with v4l version 1 worked Check the drivers you are using. Non-mythtv issue but maybe someone has a clue. The master backend does not draw the desktop onto the entire monitor or tv (when using s-video out). There is a black bar on the left side where the monitor and tv are scanning, but nothing is drawn (does that make any sense?). I am currently running without any nvidia drivers, but the problem exists with a driver installed as well. Any ideas? Make sure you are using the NVidia driver (Just having it installed does no good, it needs to be defined in your Xorg.conf/XFree86Settings-4 file). Also check your ModeLines to make sure you're using a proper modeline for your display (And make sure you have the correct type of TV-Out defined. Outputting a PAL picture to an NTSC TV will give black borders, as the picture sizes are different). I installed the nvidia driver and made the adjustments to xorg.conf, which seems to have helped for the monitor. However, tv out still is not perfect. I set tv-out standard to NTSC in xorg.conf (which is the default anyways), however it does not fill the entire screen. I'm pretty sure this TV was bought in the US but maybe I'll play with the other format options and see if I get lucky. Other things I forgot to bring up. My laptop has a widescreen display (16:10) and analog displays in full screen (i.e. stretched.) Is it possible to have it displayed at the correct aspect ratio with black bars on the sides? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv rebooting system
On Jan 28, 2006, at 10:11 AM, Nathan A. Smith wrote: On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 11:24 -0500, William wrote: I can get mythtv running fine, but after some random amount of time I will have the system reboot. I have seen very little in the logs, what I have seen I posted below. I have noticed that my cpu usage is at 30% -- with no recording going on! So can anyone help a poor soul out? Nasa Run memtest for a few hours and see if that causes any problems. Set up and run one of the cpu temp monitors and watch the cpu for overheating when running mythtv. Also try pulling and re-ordering the cards on your motherboard. Could be a bad connection or a irq conflict issue. Mythtv uses more interupts than just about any other program out there so a motherboard that does not handle them well could be the problem as well. My first board based on a via chipset just would not run without crashing. My new nvidia based board runs flawlessly for weeks. Same memory and cards, just different mb. Thanks everyone, I should know better... I took the cover off and it's ran stable for the last hour and a half... (didn't last that long before). I just noticed that is was 38 years ago this week when I started my first Computer Programming class. They were having trouble with the machine (IBM 1620) and had to remove some cover plates to get better cooling. I guess some things never change. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Video Player that can Bookmark
Folks, Internal does allow bookmarking outside of TV, but It's an unfulfilling player for movies. For one thing, the Internal player won't work correctly for odd sizes, which movies often are. It'll stretch the image to fill the screen. Also, since it doesn't allow options in the 'command line' like you can set up for external players, it means that I would have to have the same settings for watch TV as I do for watching through MythVideo, so even if it would display things how I would like, I would have to mess with the display every time I or (more importantly) the wife wanted to watch a movie. Lastly, it doesn't scale the image as well and just doesn't look as nice as Xine, which is what I usually use. So, on the whole the problems with Internal for use in MythWeb outweigh this particular benefit. Unless I'm mistaken about how flexible Internal is, which is certainly possible. :) Thanks, Peter Darley -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steven Adeff Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 9:10 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Video Player that can Bookmark On 1/28/06, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/28/2006 11:41 AM, Peter Darley wrote: I've been watching movies a lot on the ol' Myth system, and I find that I often can't finish a movie in one sitting because of my new daughter. I'm wondering if anyone can suggest a video player that will allow me to save a bookmark of where I left off when I stopped the video, similar to what Myth can do with TV shows? I checked out xine and mplayer, and it doesn't look like either of them can do it, tho I could have missed something. Internal Mike I don't think Internal allows for bookmarking outside of TV though, MythVideo doesn't offer the option. -- Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Video Player that can Bookmark
On 01/28/2006 12:19 PM, Peter Darley wrote: Internal does allow bookmarking outside of TV Yes. Thus the videobookmarks table. But, I can't address your concerns (I use--and like xine--but I don't have kids to distract me during the movie... ;). Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] [OT] Dish Network and DVB
All, I don't want to create a huge off topic thread. However, I would like to know if it's possible in the US to use DVB-S cards to access dish network streams (legally). I've been searching for a while now and can't find a definitive answer. I currently have a Dish Network subscription and a receiver, but a DVB card would be preferable over the receiver if it's possible. Thanks, Brian ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Dish Network and DVB
I don't want to create a huge off topic thread. However, I would like to know if it's possible in the US to use DVB-S cards to access dish network streams (legally). I've been searching for a while now and can't find a definitive answer. I currently have a Dish Network subscription and a receiver, but a DVB card would be preferable over the receiver if it's possible. Huge off topic answer - Legally, no. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Summery of my problems
Michael T. Dean wrote: On 01/27/2006 01:07 AM, Robert Johnston wrote: On 1/26/06, Dylan R. Semler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For analog, the picture quality is pretty bad (noisy) and there are about three or four horizontal lines at the top of the screen that have some random patterns of black and white streaks. The picture quality is much better using tvtime and those lines do not appear. As for the noise, make sure that Myth is tuning into the same frequency (EXACTLY the same frequency) as TVTime is. It sounds like Myth's off by a few Khz. Being off by a few KHz shouldn't matter. Many of the NTSC cable channel frequencies are off by 12.5 KHz (and the same goes for IRC, and HRC varies by 5-15KHz), but the tuner hardware's fine-tuning mechanism should still be able to find the appropriate center frequency. See http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/164614#164614 (which was totally ignored by the guy complaining in Trac that the frequencies are off) for an in-depth listing of what frequencies are off and why it shouldn't matter. If you (Dylan) want to try an academically-correct list of frequency definitions, I'd be happy to create one for you (against SVN--just let me know which frequency list you're using: ntsc_bcast, ntsc_cable, ntsc_hrc, ntsc_irc (I'm assuming NTSC based on your e-mail address)), but you'll have to do all the testing because I don't have any RF-modulated sources. Well it's worth a shot. I'd love to get better picture quality. I'm using ntsc_cable. Or, to find out if it's worth testing a more precise frequency list, play with the fine tuning values in Myth for the affected channels. And, most importantly, make sure you're using the right tuner definition--just because you get a bad picture doesn't mean you've chosen the right tuner; often it means you've chosen the wrong one. ;) By choosing the right tuner, are you referring to the setting in mythtv-setup - capture cards? I have the standard V4l capture card selected for analog. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Segfault when configured MythTV with XvMC
On Saturday 28 January 2006 01:49, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote: DVB-T (both SD and HD channels) doesn't play smoothly on my P4 3.4Ghz FC4 box. I am running the latest nVidia driver (8178) Any help would be greatly appreciated, I've been trying to get smooth video for over a week. I'd try yanking the nVidia 8178 driver and install 7676 instead. Lots of folks have had issues w/the latest one. I haven't yet had a chance to see if its simply a case of Myth needing to be rebuilt against the newer nVidia libs (which has been the case at least once in the past). -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpuF5BTQvoBT.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 / fine tune frequencies
snip
Are you sure it's a tuning issue and not a tuner module issue? (Are you
sure you're using the right tuner definition?)
Mike
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Well, I'm not sure what you mean by definition. Here's my
modprobe.conf and the corresponding output of lspci.
/etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 e100
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
options snd-card-0 index=0
install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0
/usr/sbin/a lsactl restore
/dev/null 21 || :
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 /dev/null 21 || : ;
}; /sbin/ modprobe -r
--ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
alias usb-controller uhci-hcd
# This is for WinTV PVR-350 IVTV
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv
alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv
install ivtv /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv; /sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb
# nvidia kernel module
alias char-major-195 nvidia-1_0-7667
alias nvidia nvidia-1_0-7667
install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_i2c
lspci -v
01:0d.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15
MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR-350
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at d000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
This is all on Fedora Core 4 with atrpms. Most channels are pretty
good just as they are, but there are a handful of channels that are
distinctly not correct. For example, channel 72 is fuzzy/snowy
through the PVR-350 but it's excellent when I hook it up direct to the
TV.
Is there something I've missed in the setup? Any recommendations are welcome...
Thanks,
Matt
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[mythtv-users] KDE logs out immediately after logging in
I suspect this is a problem with KDE rather than Mythtv, but I was hoping maybe one of you could point me in the right direction to start debugging this. I built a Mythtv box using FC3 about a year ago and followed the Fedora HOWTO, including the step to log into KDE and start the Mythtv frontend automatically after booting up. This worked faultlessly until I recently moved house. I've finally got around to setting the box up again (I believe) in the same way as before. Now after booting, I am presented with a KDE login screen. After entering the login, I am immediately thrown back to the login screen. I know the login details are correct because if I enter wrong details, I get a message telling me they're wrong. Any idea what would be causing KDE to immediately log out after logging in like this? I haven't included many specifics here because I'm not sure what specifics are relevant to this problem, so just ask if you need more detail. I'm mystified what has happened when apparently nothing has changed except my home address. -- Best regards, Derek ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] KDE logs out immediately after logging in
On Jan 28, 2006, at 11:35 AM, Derek Scollon wrote: I suspect this is a problem with KDE rather than Mythtv, but I was hoping maybe one of you could point me in the right direction to start debugging this. I built a Mythtv box using FC3 about a year ago and followed the Fedora HOWTO, including the step to log into KDE and start the Mythtv frontend automatically after booting up. This worked faultlessly until I recently moved house. I've finally got around to setting the box up again (I believe) in the same way as before. Now after booting, I am presented with a KDE login screen. After entering the login, I am immediately thrown back to the login screen. I know the login details are correct because if I enter wrong details, I get a message telling me they're wrong. Any idea what would be causing KDE to immediately log out after logging in like this? I haven't included many specifics here because I'm not sure what specifics are relevant to this problem, so just ask if you need more detail. I'm mystified what has happened when apparently nothing has changed except my home address. You obviously haven't been made aware of the region locking the MPAA has imposed on KDE, since it has heard that KDE can play DVDs. Just kidding. Are you being presented with a graphical KDE login? If you can get back to booting into text mode, then starting KDE with startx, you can then see what messages KDE is giving you when you try to start it. You could also check the appropriate log files, but the above method is more likely to spot your problems. Normally if you start in text mode you would have a .xinitrc file in your home directory, the contents of which is exec startkde, I'm not sure how you are starting kde. You are correct, however, this is a kde or system problem, not a MythTV one. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Debian 'apt-get build-dep mythtv' problem?
Well I seem to have been able to udate the system and run 'apt-get build-dep mythtv' however the first thing it asks me when installeing the deps is a question about about the default xserver? Which do I want as a default? xserver - xorg xserver - xfree86 I went with xserver - xorg, probably a mistake since I can't boot to a desktop... After rebooting this is the message that just keeps looping.Jan 28 19:19:36 xbox lpd[2912]: restartedJan 28 19:19:38 xbox /usr/sbin/cron[2922]: (CRON) INFO (pidfile fd = 3) Jan 28 19:19:38 xbox /usr/sbin/cron[2923]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok)Jan 28 19:19:36 xbox lpd[2912]: restartedJan 28 19:19:38 xbox /usr/sbin/cron[2922]: (CRON) INFO (pidfile fd = 3)Jan 28 19:19:38 xbox /usr/sbin/cron[2923]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok) Jan 28 19:19:38 xbox /usr/sbin/cron[2923]: (CRON) INFO (Skipping @reboot jobs -- not system startup)Jan 28 19:19:47 xbox init: Trying to re-exec initJan 28 19:42:44 xbox shutdown[5192]: shutting down for system reboot Jan 28 19:42:44 xbox init: Switching to runlevel: 6Jan 28 19:42:47 xbox kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff HartmannJan 28 19:42:47 xbox kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 25M Jan 28 19:42:47 xbox kernel: agpgart: Unsupported NVIDIA chipset (device id: 02a5), you might want to try agp_try_unsupported=1.Jan 28 19:42:47 xbox kernel: agpgart: no supported devices found.Jan 28 19:42:52 xbox lircd 0.7.1pre2[1479]: caught signalJan 28 19:42:58 xbox kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.Jan 28 19:42:58 xbox kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating.Jan 28 19:42:59 xbox exiting on signal 15Jan 28 19:44:45 xbox syslogd 1.4.1#17: restart.Jan 28 19:44:46 xbox xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/ (unreadable)Jan 28 19:44:46 xbox xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID (unreadable)Jan 28 19:44:48 xbox kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff HartmannJan 28 19:44:48 xbox kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 25MJan 28 19:44:48 xbox kernel: agpgart: Unsupported NVIDIA chipset (device id: 02a5), you might want to try agp_try_unsupported=1. Jan 28 19:44:48 xbox kernel: agpgart: no supported devices found.Jan 28 19:44:52 xbox kernel: i2c-amd756: SMBus collision! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Summery of my problems
On 01/28/2006 12:46 PM, Dylan R. Semler wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: Or, to find out if it's worth testing a more precise frequency list, play with the fine tuning values in Myth for the affected channels. And, most importantly, make sure you're using the right tuner definition--just because you get a bad picture doesn't mean you've chosen the right tuner; often it means you've chosen the wrong one. ;) By choosing the right tuner, are you referring to the setting in mythtv-setup - capture cards? I have the standard V4l capture card selected for analog. No, I mean the tuner definition used by your tuner module. Some cards autodetect the tuner, while others force the user to specify a tuner using either the deprecated tuner module option: options tuner type=XX or the card option: options ivtv tuner=XX or options bttv tuner=XX or ... I've seen many people who thought they choose the right one--typically because the one on the HOWTO they were reading didn't work, so after Googling, they found that they could just change the number, and after experimenting with 2 or 3, they found one that gave video/audio on some channels, so they thought they had it. What they don't typically realize is that there are about 70 tuner definitions, so choosing 2 or 3 at random (or, more likely, from the low-end, or right next to the one in the HOWTO) you're unlikely to pick the right one. Also, what most people don't realize is that given any particular tuner, the likelihood of several definitions providing perfect audio/video on some channels is extremely high, but only one definition should provide perfect audio/video on all channels. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 / fine tune frequencies
On 01/28/2006 01:32 PM, Matthew K. Lee wrote: Are you sure it's a tuning issue and not a tuner module issue? (Are you sure you're using the right tuner definition?) Well, I'm not sure what you mean by definition. Here's my modprobe.conf and the corresponding output of lspci. The only way to tell for sure is from the ivtv initialization log messages, which you can retrieve with: tac /var/log/messages | sed -n '/=\ \ END INIT IVTV\ \ =/,/= START INIT IVTV =/p; /= START INIT IVTV =/q' | tac However, from your modprobe.conf, I notice that you're not specifying a tuner definition (i.e. options ivtv tuner=XXX), so it's likely you are using the right one. If you really want to see if it's a tuning issue, I'm going to be posting a patch for SVN that fixes the frequency definitions so they're academically correct in the thread http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/177694#177694 . You're welcome to apply it to SVN, compile, and test. It shouldn't make any difference (the tuner hardware's fine-tuning mechanism should be able to zero-in on the channel, anyway), but it's possible that your cable company is transmitting some channels at frequencies that are off in the opposite direction that the tuner frequency list is off, so the delta is too large for the fine-tuning mechanism on these channels. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] OpenGL Support and PiP
With my previous incarnation of MythTV PiP worked just fine. Due to hardware problems I have had to re-build and things are mostly working now, but PiP is not. The only differences (that I'm aware of) are a newer kernel, newer version of LIRC (shouldn't matter), and the fact that I have compiled MythTV without OpenGL support. This was due to high CPU load when watching live TV. Originally I solved this by commenting out load glx in my X config, but this time I took some advice and simply compiled without OpenGL. My CPU load is now reasonable even with glx loaded. The system does see at least two capture cards, because I can watch one channel and record another without problems. IVTV detect shows everything OK. Before I re-compile MythTV with OpenGL support in an effort to resolve this problem, does it make sense that this could have anything to do with it? Itdoesn't make real sense to me but I'm running out of ideas :-) Any other ideas as to what might make PiP mal-function? Gentoo linux, 2.6.15, amd64, plenty of storage and RAM MythTV 0.18.1 IVTV 0.4.2 LIRC 0.8.0_pre3 PVR-150, PVR-350, HD-3000 nVidia 5700 video card Much thanks for any input, as always. Brian Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] nuvexport
Dear All: I have a question about nuvexport. I use it to export my Myth recordings into VCD format frequently. So I would issue the command: nuvexport --mode=vcd --infile=location to my recording Lately, I have noticed that exported VCD would be fine for the first few minutes and then the picture would start to be out of sync with the audio. Is there anything I can do to fix this problem? My machine is a AMD Athlon XP 2400 with 512MB RAM and running Linux kernel 2.6.9. And nothing major is running during nuvexport is running (other than mysqld, and linux system resources) any pointers much appreciated! --Vincent ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythburn and ProjectX
Thanks Mike, I forgot, to mention that I did install Sun's JDK and JRE, but it seems to use the GNU libraries, how can I correct this? On 1/28/06, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/28/2006 07:34 AM, Jonathan Smith wrote: I have been trying to install mythburn on a FC4 box with version .18 of mythtv. My initial problem is that I cannot get ProjectX to run, I get the following error: Loading Basic Classes... Exception in thread main java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: initState at gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GdkGraphics2D.initState(int[], int, int) Don't use the GNU Java implementation. Use Sun's JDK or JRE ( http://java.sun.com/j2se ). 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] Summery of my problems
Michael T. Dean wrote: On 01/28/2006 12:46 PM, Dylan R. Semler wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: Or, to find out if it's worth testing a more precise frequency list, play with the fine tuning values in Myth for the affected channels. And, most importantly, make sure you're using the right tuner definition--just because you get a bad picture doesn't mean you've chosen the right tuner; often it means you've chosen the wrong one. ;) By choosing the right tuner, are you referring to the setting in mythtv-setup - capture cards? I have the standard V4l capture card selected for analog. No, I mean the tuner definition used by your tuner module. Some cards autodetect the tuner, while others force the user to specify a tuner using either the deprecated tuner module option: options tuner type=XX or the card option: options ivtv tuner=XX or options bttv tuner=XX I'm not sure about any of this. My tuner worked for analog right when I plugged it in. I just booted and ran tvtime, no problems. For HD i did have to load the firmware and make some udev adjustments. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythburn and ProjectX
On 01/28/2006 02:36 PM, Jonathan Smith wrote: Thanks Mike, I forgot, to mention that I did install Sun's JDK and JRE, but it seems to use the GNU libraries, how can I correct this? Modify the PATH used such that Sun's program java is found first. Also, you may want to specify a JAVA_HOME environment variable. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Scheduled Recordings are keyed off of the callsign field
Nick wrote: On 28/01/06, David Whyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, I went and adjust some of the channel names in mythweb so that they showed up down the left of mythweb a little different (to save space more than anything). The text I changed was the 'callsign' field in the mythweb Settings Channels page. Anyways, I just noticed that all of my schedules had been cancelled and immediately realised why, however I don't understand why it is so. I thought each channel would have had a unique ID which is what we would key off so this 'callsign' field can be updated however. I am sure there is a logical reason for why this has heppened, I am just hoping someone can explain it to me. Everything is OK, by going and updating them back they have come back. (Although I had to restart the backend for the changes to take effect, which is why I didn't pick up the problem sooner). Without wishing to step on Bruce's toes (he may decide to provide one Not at all. I cut my big toe last night so it would have been extra painful ;-) but this is a good explanation. of his extremely useful explanations), callsign is used in the scheduling process in order to determine whether channels with different chanids are in fact the same station. The value of callsign is recorded in the record table, so it is likely that by changing the callsign values without similarly updating it in record will result in failed rescheduling when the rules search for the old callsign values which have now changed. Correct. This applies to rules that care about the station. All and Find* rules match without checking the station but Single, Timeslot, Weekslot and, of course, Channel all do care. These rules will no longer match if the rule's station doesn't match the new callsigns. However, there is a trick you can use to fix these without having to recreate all the rules. The trick is that when you save changes to a rule, it stores the information from the showing that you are editing including the callsign. Therefore: - In mythfrontend, go to the Recording Priorities (AKA Set Priorities) page. Rules that have matching showings are in green (or the Will Record color for your theme). Rules with no matches are white and say (Recording 0 of 0) below the title. - Highlight a white title that you know no longer matches because of the callsign change. - Press Info for the recording options page. Change the record type to Record at any time on any channel for now then Save these settings. - Back on the priorities list, press O for the upcoming episodes list. These now all match the rule. Highlight the single showing or a showing in the timeslot that you want to record. - Press Info for the recording options page. Change the record type back to the intended type then Save these settings. This save will update the rule with the current station(!). - Rinse and repeat for the other rules affected. This same trick is useful for other things like changing a timeslot. Say I record a 10pm showing of a show each week but there is a 2am rebroadcast which usually works out better. I can change the type to all, select the 2am showing and change the type back to Weekslot. It's now set to record at 2am each week with all the same parameters as before. -- bjm ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Summery of my problems
On 01/28/2006 12:46 PM, Dylan R. Semler wrote:
Michael T. Dean wrote:
On 01/27/2006 01:07 AM, Robert Johnston wrote:
On 1/26/06, Dylan R. Semler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For analog, the picture quality is pretty bad (noisy)... The picture quality
is much better using tvtime and those lines do not appear.
As for the noise, make sure that Myth is tuning into the same
frequency (EXACTLY the same frequency) as TVTime is. It sounds like
Myth's off by a few Khz.
Being off by a few KHz shouldn't matter. Many of the NTSC cable channel
frequencies are off by 12.5 KHz (and the same goes for IRC, and HRC
varies by 5-15KHz), but the tuner hardware's fine-tuning mechanism
should still be able to find the appropriate center frequency. See
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/164614#164614 (which
was totally ignored by the guy complaining in Trac that the frequencies
are off) for an in-depth listing of what frequencies are off and why it
shouldn't matter.
If you (Dylan) want to try an academically-correct list of frequency
definitions, I'd be happy to create one for you (against SVN--just let
me know which frequency list you're using: ntsc_bcast, ntsc_cable,
ntsc_hrc, ntsc_irc (I'm assuming NTSC based on your e-mail address)),
but you'll have to do all the testing because I don't have any
RF-modulated sources.
Well it's worth a shot. I'd love to get better picture quality. I'm
using ntsc_cable.
OK. Attached is a patch that will correct the frequencies used for
ntsc_cable, ntsc_hrc, and ntsc_irc. Those used for ntsc_bcast are
already correct. Apply the patch to current SVN and recompile and
install to test.
Note, however, that it may be better to leave ntsc_cable (standard
cable) unmodified. The modified channels in the standard cable
definition are definitely using frequencies that are not used by the
cable company, but that's because the FCC requires that they be offset.
(Cable channels operating on frequencies used in the aeronautical
radiocommunications bands 118-137MHz, 225-328.6MHz, and 335.4-400MHz are
required to be offset by 12.5kHz from 25kHz-spaced channels, and those
on frequencies used in the aeronautical radiocommunications bands
108-118MHz and 328.6-335.4MHz are required to be offset by 25kHz from
50kHz-spaced channels.) The FCC doesn't specify whether the offset
should be positive or negative, but it's more common within the cable
industry to use a positive offset. The current standard cable
definition uses the frequency before the offset (which is right in the
middle of a positive or negative offset), but the patched version
assumes a positive offset (meaning that if a cable company uses a
negative offset, we'll be off by 25kHz on many channels and 50kHz on 98
and 99).
So, since you're a standard cable user, please let me know if you really
do see a difference with the modified frequency values--and try not to
be swayed by the placebo effect. ;) If there really is a difference
(and I still don't think there will be), we may want to call the
modified ntsc_cable NTSC Cable (1) and create another that uses a
negative offset and label it NTSC Cable (2).
Those most likely to see any difference with the patch are HRC users (as
some of their frequencies--mainly the higher frequencies--were off by as
much as 60kHz). However, it's likely the only difference they will see
will be a slightly faster tuning cycle (unlikely to be noticeable in
Myth, though, because of the other delays in channel changing--and,
quite possibly, not noticeable at all by human perception even if you
tried the before/after frequencies in tvtime or something).
Also, technically, standard cable doesn't have a channel 1, and HRC and
IRC don't have T-7 through T-14 (but, I fixed the IRC definitions,
since IRC was a modified copy of standard and standard had defined T-7
through T-14 incorrectly). While we could remove them, it's probably
not worth the effort...
BTW, this patch definitely needs testing before being applied to SVN
(and should probably do something smarter with the standard cable
definition, as described above). Therefore, I'm not putting it in a
ticket, but it's here for anyone who wants to test/use it.
Mike
Index: libs/libmythtv/frequencies.c
===
--- libs/libmythtv/frequencies.c(revision 8744)
+++ libs/libmythtv/frequencies.c(working copy)
@@ -109,9 +109,9 @@
{ 12,205250 },
{ 13,211250 },
-{ 14,121250 },
-{ 15,127250 },
-{ 16,133250 },
+{ 14,121262 },
+{ 15,127262 },
+{ 16,133262 },
{ 17,139250 },
{ 18,145250 },
{ 19,151250 },
@@ -121,35 +121,35 @@
{ 22,169250 },
{ 23,217250 },
{ 24,223250 },
-{ 25,229250 },
-{ 26,235250 },
-{ 27,241250 },
-{ 28,247250 },
-{ 29,253250 },
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[mythtv-users] How to minimize CPU usage
I'm running myth with separate front/back end computers. The frontend is a 2.8GHz P4 with 512MB ram, trying to display 720p HD, but I'm maxing out the CPU - myth ~65+%, X around 30+%. The video is at times choppy when there's a lot of stuff changing in the frame. What can I do to reduce CPU usage? Here's what I've done so far: -compiled myth with --enable-proc-opt (using SVN from less than a week ago) -using ratpoison for window manager -not using any deinterlacing Note: XvMC is not an option. I'm running FC4. mythfrontend -v playback reports that it's using Xvideo, format I420, using realtime priority, video timing method: RTC (glx vsync not supported in my driver). Then I get a lot of video ahead of audio dropping frames messages, and then a lot of audio ahead of video messages. /proc/meminfo says there's 100MB free while running myth, so I guess it's not swapping. What might be causing the high CPU? I've read about people with 2.4Ghz P4s not having a problem with HD, so it seems like there should be something I can do. Would compiling my own kernel help? With what options? Anything else I can try first? -Jerry ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OpenGL Support and PiP
On Saturday 28 January 2006 11:19, Brian Wood wrote: With my previous incarnation of MythTV PiP worked just fine. Due to hardware problems I have had to re-build and things are mostly working now, but PiP is not. The only differences (that I'm aware of) are a newer kernel, newer version of LIRC (shouldn't matter), and the fact that I have compiled MythTV without OpenGL support. This was due to high CPU load when watching live TV. Originally I solved this by commenting out load glx in my X config, but this time I took some advice and simply compiled without OpenGL. My CPU load is now reasonable even with glx loaded. Uh, why recompile to disable OpenGL, when you can simply toggle it off in the settings? Before I re-compile MythTV with OpenGL support in an effort to resolve this problem, does it make sense that this could have anything to do with it? Itdoesn't make real sense to me but I'm running out of ideas :-) Any other ideas as to what might make PiP mal-function? nVidia driver version change, possibly. Gentoo linux, 2.6.15, amd64, plenty of storage and RAM MythTV 0.18.1 IVTV 0.4.2 LIRC 0.8.0_pre3 PVR-150, PVR-350, HD-3000 nVidia 5700 video card What nVidia driver are you using? The latest one results in pegged cpus on playback for some folks, while 7676 works just fine. Though I dunno if 7676 compiles against 2.6.15 w/o patching... -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpO82kjcVm0s.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OpenGL Support and PiP
On Jan 28, 2006, at 2:00 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Saturday 28 January 2006 11:19, Brian Wood wrote: With my previous incarnation of MythTV PiP worked just fine. Due to hardware problems I have had to re-build and things are mostly working now, but PiP is not. The only differences (that I'm aware of) are a newer kernel, newer version of LIRC (shouldn't matter), and the fact that I have compiled MythTV without OpenGL support. This was due to high CPU load when watching live TV. Originally I solved this by commenting out load glx in my X config, but this time I took some advice and simply compiled without OpenGL. My CPU load is now reasonable even with glx loaded. Uh, why recompile to disable OpenGL, when you can simply toggle it off in the settings? Ah, that's true of the SVN versions but not the plain-vanilla 0.18.1, which I am trying to stay with for several reasons. Before I re-compile MythTV with OpenGL support in an effort to resolve this problem, does it make sense that this could have anything to do with it? Itdoesn't make real sense to me but I'm running out of ideas :-) Any other ideas as to what might make PiP mal-function? nVidia driver version change, possibly. Gentoo linux, 2.6.15, amd64, plenty of storage and RAM MythTV 0.18.1 IVTV 0.4.2 LIRC 0.8.0_pre3 PVR-150, PVR-350, HD-3000 nVidia 5700 video card What nVidia driver are you using? The latest one results in pegged cpus on playback for some folks, while 7676 works just fine. Though I dunno if 7676 compiles against 2.6.15 w/o patching... I'm using 8178, but PiP was working fine with this same nVidia driver in my previous installation. BTW - I've seen people having different results with the same version of nVidia drivers, and I now realize that I am using the 64- bit drivers, 32-bit versions with the same release number might behave differently. This might explain some of the inconsistent reports about nVidia drivers. We should all report our architectures when reporting problems (I'm as guilty as anyone here), as well as the kernel version as the nVidia modules compiles against it and its sources. I've also discovered that trying to engage PiP (by typing V) locks up my frontend in that ESC does not get me out of it. Killing the frontend from an ssh login allows me to see a waiting for input message repeated many times. It's just frustrating because I *did* have it working :-) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Another small bug in mythweb
Depending on the language you use, MythWeb has the ability to use
different languages. If you use the English language prompts (located in
the file /var/www/html/mythweb/languages/English.php in my own distro),
you can change the displayed time by modifying the 'generic_time' line
from the default 12-hour + AM/PM format ('%I:%M %p') to 24-hour time
('%H:%M). That's how I fixed my own French.php file.
Good luck
Claude
Dag Nygren a écrit :
Hi again,
Anyone else have the problem that the showtime in
Upcoming recordings doesn't seem to obey the general
time display rules?
At the moment it shows that 24 will be shown today at
10:50 when the real show time is 22:50.
The date is localized correctly though.
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[mythtv-users] sound suddenly not encoding
Hello, My mythbox has been running great for several months now. Suddenly, it is failing to encode sound and it also refuses to schedule new recordings. When I try to watch livetv, the backend log shows strange error flushing buffer. If I run mythbackend with the -v all option, the log shows a very long string as follws (not sure if this is an error or not): 2006-01-28 16:22:09.065 6 128000 2006-01-28 16:22:09.097 6 128000 2006-01-28 16:22:09.260 6 128000 2006-01-28 16:22:09.277 6 128000 2006-01-28 16:22:09.308 6 128000 2006-01-28 16:22:09.359 6 128000 2006-01-28 16:22:09.425 6 128000 2006-01-28 16:22:09.460 6 128000 2006-01-28 16:22:09.471 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None I'm pretty certain it's not a sound card problem, because if I unmute line-in I can hear the appropriate sound a few seconds ahead of the video feed, and my old recordings play sound. I uninstalled and re-installed lame and toggled many sound settings but it didn't seem to help. I also have a problem where myth will not accept new recordings ... when I hit save these settings, the guide says the show is not recording. Yet I can record from live tv by hitting r, with no sound of course. These problems seem to have cropped up at the same time but I'm not sure if they're related. I have searched the newsgroup archives, saw some mentions of the flushing buffer' error but no solutions. Any ideas? TIA Mary ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OpenGL Support and PiP
On 01/28/06 16:16, Brian Wood wrote: On Jan 28, 2006, at 2:00 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Saturday 28 January 2006 11:19, Brian Wood wrote: this time I took some advice and simply compiled without OpenGL. Uh, why recompile to disable OpenGL, when you can simply toggle it off in the settings? Ah, that's true of the SVN versions but not the plain-vanilla 0.18.1, which I am trying to stay with for several reasons. Right. The setting is available in 0.18-fixes SVN and (of course) SVN head, but 0.18.1 and below do not have the setting. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv rebooting system
I should know better... I took the cover off and it's ran stable for the last hour and a half... (didn't last that long before). I'd look into either some thermal compound for your CPU heatsink or adding a large but quiet case fan to your system. The thermal paste makes a huge difference in my CPU temperature and fixed this issue for me. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How to minimize CPU usage
Jerry Rubinow wrote: I'm running myth with separate front/back end computers. The frontend is a 2.8GHz P4 with 512MB ram, trying to display 720p HD, but I'm maxing out the CPU - myth ~65+%, X around 30+%. The video is at times choppy when there's a lot of stuff changing in the frame. What can I do to reduce CPU usage? Here's what I've done so far: -compiled myth with --enable-proc-opt (using SVN from less than a week ago) -using ratpoison for window manager -not using any deinterlacing Note: XvMC is not an option. I'm running FC4. mythfrontend -v playback reports that it's using Xvideo, format I420, using realtime priority, video timing method: RTC (glx vsync not supported in my driver). Then I get a lot of video ahead of audio dropping frames messages, and then a lot of audio ahead of video messages. /proc/meminfo says there's 100MB free while running myth, so I guess it's not swapping. What might be causing the high CPU? I've read about people with 2.4Ghz P4s not having a problem with HD, so it seems like there should be something I can do. Would compiling my own kernel help? With what options? Anything else I can try first? Try using libmpeg2 for your playback. I'd suggest looking into hyperthreading support in your kernel to see if it is enabled. I believe this means using an SMP kernel. I'm not sure if that will make a difference but it might. And lastly, your video card and drivers do help alot. I've struggled with my choice of ATI on one of my frontends and as I'm moving to HD, I'm biting the bullet and spending the $40 on an Nvidia FX card and it will be one of the best $40 I've spent on my system as it means HD playback on my 2.4ghz Celeron with XvMC. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] sound suddenly not encoding -- update
UPDATE: After posting the message below, I tried running mythbackend -v audio to look for more info. I also switched to the onboard sound instead of my installed soundcard. This seems to have fixed both problems, although I confess to being completely baffled (I had tried restarting the backend and the machine several times before writing but it made no difference). If anyone knows what this might have been, I'd love to hear it in case this happens again. I've run out of sound cards :) Hello, My mythbox has been running great for several months now. Suddenly, it is failing to encode sound and it also refuses to schedule new recordings. When I try to watch livetv, the backend log shows strange error flushing buffer. If I run mythbackend with the -v all option, the log shows a very long string as follws (not sure if this is an error or not): 2006-01-28 16:22:09.065 6 128000 2006-01-28 16:22:09.097 6 128000 2006-01-28 16:22:09.260 6 128000 2006-01-28 16:22:09.277 6 128000 2006-01-28 16:22:09.308 6 128000 2006-01-28 16:22:09.359 6 128000 2006-01-28 16:22:09.425 6 128000 2006-01-28 16:22:09.460 6 128000 2006-01-28 16:22:09.471 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None I'm pretty certain it's not a sound card problem, because if I unmute line-in I can hear the appropriate sound a few seconds ahead of the video feed, and my old recordings play sound. I uninstalled and re-installed lame and toggled many sound settings but it didn't seem to help. I also have a problem where myth will not accept new recordings ... when I hit save these settings, the guide says the show is not recording. Yet I can record from live tv by hitting r, with no sound of course. These problems seem to have cropped up at the same time but I'm not sure if they're related. I have searched the newsgroup archives, saw some mentions of the flushing buffer' error but no solutions. Any ideas? TIA Mary ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Another small bug in mythweb
Depending on the language you use, MythWeb has the ability to use
different languages. If you use the English language prompts (located in
the file /var/www/html/mythweb/languages/English.php in my own distro),
you can change the displayed time by modifying the 'generic_time' line
from the default 12-hour + AM/PM format ('%I:%M %p') to 24-hour time
('%H:%M). That's how I fixed my own French.php file.
Thanks for the answer, but
I knew about that setting and all the other time displays are fine. It is only
the one in
Upcoming recordings and showtime that is wrong
Dag
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Re: [mythtv-users] Fedora Core 4 ivtv install
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 11:56:50AM -0500, Todd Page wrote: Scott, Yes, I ran 'yum update' successfully. I am still getting the same error (user or otherwise) though; when I type 'yum install ivtv-firmware-audio' yum tells me: 'Nothing to do' Maybe at that time it was already installed? Check with rpm -q ivtv-firmware-audio If it isn't already installed rpm will tell you. I am pointing to both stable and testing atrpms package depositories, am I perhaps naming the package wrong? I can't be the only person who is going through Jarod's guide with FC4... anyone else run into this problem? -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net pgpCrv55KlbRv.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Help Developing MythWeb
I just installed mp3act this morning. Extremely fun. I have the streaming and jukebox mode working perfectly after a couple tweaks for permissions. This in mythweb would be a dream. I will never go back to mythweb or even myth music now that this is working. Need my laptop handy but it is worth it. Maybe once this new mythweb in 0.19 comes out I will see if they can be integrated for those wanting/needing something like this.On 1/25/06, Big Wave Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:For those that may be interested... I use: http://www.mp3act.net/It's a great AJAX frontend that has a MySQL backend.It isn't aplayer but provides .m3u files that can be streamed. Almost allmedia players that I've seen support m3u playlists. Just my 2 cents...DaveOn 1/25/06, Kerry Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Music Player is currently being used in the Jinzora Media Player.So it should be alright, just in case, I emailed the developers.So the new featuresmythweb music needs is: * Browser Based Music Player * .M3U Download ( for use in ITunes, Winamp and other MP3 players ) * Playlist Editor Chris Petersen wrote: Really, I have no idea about how all the licensing works.Any flash/actionscript gurus care to recreate something like musicplayer? Ah, if it's flash-based, it's probably fine. The issue with BSD is that it requires attribution, and the GPL explicitly forbids clauses that require you to do anything to the code other than keep it GPL. -Chris ___ 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 Are Your Friends Lemmings?-- http://www.lemmingshirts.com___ mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How to minimize CPU usage
On 1/28/06, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry Rubinow wrote: I'm running myth with separate front/back end computers. The frontend is a 2.8GHz P4 with 512MB ram, trying to display 720p HD, but I'm maxing out the CPU - myth ~65+%, X around 30+%. The video is at times choppy when there's a lot of stuff changing in the frame. What can I do to reduce CPU usage? Here's what I've done so far: -compiled myth with --enable-proc-opt (using SVN from less than a week ago) -using ratpoison for window manager -not using any deinterlacing Note: XvMC is not an option. I'm running FC4. mythfrontend -v playback reports that it's using Xvideo, format I420, using realtime priority, video timing method: RTC (glx vsync not supported in my driver). Then I get a lot of video ahead of audio dropping frames messages, and then a lot of audio ahead of video messages. /proc/meminfo says there's 100MB free while running myth, so I guess it's not swapping. What might be causing the high CPU? I've read about people with 2.4Ghz P4s not having a problem with HD, so it seems like there should be something I can do. Would compiling my own kernel help? With what options? Anything else I can try first? Try using libmpeg2 for your playback. I'd suggest looking into hyperthreading support in your kernel to see if it is enabled. I believe this means using an SMP kernel. I'm not sure if that will make a difference but it might. And lastly, your video card and drivers do help alot. I've struggled with my choice of ATI on one of my frontends and as I'm moving to HD, I'm biting the bullet and spending the $40 on an Nvidia FX card and it will be one of the best $40 I've spent on my system as it means HD playback on my 2.4ghz Celeron with XvMC. Kevin Sorry, I left out that I'm using libmpeg2. Hyperthreading - hmm, unfortunately I just checked and my CPU doesn't support hyperthreading (it's a 533MHz bus 2.8GHz P4). I tried going the FX 5200 route, only to discover that I I can't achieve the transfer speeds I need over PCI (my motherboard only has two slots, both PCI). 1280x720x(24 or 32) bits, 30 frames a second (or 60, even worse) - PCI's max throughput is 600 to 700 Mbits/sec. I tried XvMC on the 5200 but it was always a bit glitchy. The onboard graphics is AGP, but now instead of being limited by bus speed, it's by CPU speed. Very frustrating, since it's s close to working properly. -Jerry ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Scheduler issues related to plus one channels
All, Perhaps this is one for the wish-list. Here in the UK (and probably everywhere else!) we have a few channels that follow another channel by one hour. For example E4 and E4+1. Unfortunately when mythfilldatabase grabs new data from the Radio Times website there are often differences in title, subtitle and description between the two channels. When there are scheduled recordings on these channels I often end up with several recordings of the same program, no matter the setting of the duplicate detection. Would it be useful to be able to define a channel as being a copy of another channel, plus an offset? In this way Myth should be able to more effectively detect duplicate recordings. It might also have the side-effect of making shorter download times for listings updates! Perhaps this could be incorporated into channel setup with a dialog to allow the user to select a channel and an offset. This data can be stored in the database (channels table). When Myth checks the schedules it can create a virtual channel to display in the epg, use when calculating conflicts etc I'm not familiar with the mythtv codebase, so please let me know if this has been suggested before, or if this is just a silly idea! Cheers, Graeme Hilton ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How to minimize CPU usage
You could try reducing your color depth. I have an older NVidia card that didn't work well for HDTV, but I was able to get it working by changing the color depth from Millions of Colors to Thousands of Colors in the Display Settings. On 1/28/06, Jerry Rubinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/28/06, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry Rubinow wrote: I'm running myth with separate front/back end computers.The frontend is a 2.8GHz P4 with 512MB ram, trying to display 720p HD, but I'm maxing out the CPU - myth ~65+%, X around 30+%.The video is at times choppy when there's a lot of stuff changing in the frame.What can I do to reduce CPU usage? Here's what I've done so far: -compiled myth with --enable-proc-opt (using SVN from less than a week ago) -using ratpoison for window manager -not using any deinterlacing Note: XvMC is not an option. I'm running FC4. mythfrontend -v playback reports that it's using Xvideo, format I420, using realtime priority, video timing method: RTC (glx vsync not supported in my driver).Then I get a lot of video ahead of audio dropping frames messages, and then a lot of audio ahead of video messages. /proc/meminfo says there's 100MB free while running myth, so I guess it's not swapping. What might be causing the high CPU?I've read about people with 2.4Ghz P4s not having a problem with HD, so it seems like there should be something I can do.Would compiling my own kernel help?With what options?Anything else I can try first? Try using libmpeg2 for your playback.I'd suggest looking into hyperthreading support in your kernel to see if it is enabled.I believe this means using an SMP kernel.I'm not sure if that will make a difference but it might.And lastly, your video card and drivers do help alot.I've struggled with my choice of ATI on one of my frontends and as I'm moving to HD, I'm biting the bullet and spending the $40 on an Nvidia FX card and it will be one of the best $40 I've spent on my system as it means HD playback on my 2.4ghz Celeron with XvMC. KevinSorry, I left out that I'm using libmpeg2.Hyperthreading - hmm, unfortunately I just checked and my CPU doesn't support hyperthreading(it's a 533MHz bus 2.8GHz P4).I tried going the FX 5200 route, onlyto discover that I I can't achieve the transfer speeds I need over PCI (my motherboard only has two slots, both PCI).1280x720x(24 or 32)bits, 30 frames a second (or 60, even worse) - PCI's max throughput is600 to 700 Mbits/sec.I tried XvMC on the 5200 but it was always abit glitchy.The onboard graphics is AGP, but now instead of being limited by bus speed, it's by CPU speed.Very frustrating, since it'ss close to working properly.-Jerry___mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How to minimize CPU usage
Jerry Rubinow wrote: On 1/28/06, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry Rubinow wrote: I'm running myth with separate front/back end computers. The frontend is a 2.8GHz P4 with 512MB ram, trying to display 720p HD, but I'm maxing out the CPU - myth ~65+%, X around 30+%. The video is at times choppy when there's a lot of stuff changing in the frame. What can I do to reduce CPU usage? Here's what I've done so far: -compiled myth with --enable-proc-opt (using SVN from less than a week ago) -using ratpoison for window manager -not using any deinterlacing Note: XvMC is not an option. I'm running FC4. mythfrontend -v playback reports that it's using Xvideo, format I420, using realtime priority, video timing method: RTC (glx vsync not supported in my driver). Then I get a lot of video ahead of audio dropping frames messages, and then a lot of audio ahead of video messages. /proc/meminfo says there's 100MB free while running myth, so I guess it's not swapping. What might be causing the high CPU? I've read about people with 2.4Ghz P4s not having a problem with HD, so it seems like there should be something I can do. Would compiling my own kernel help? With what options? Anything else I can try first? Try using libmpeg2 for your playback. I'd suggest looking into hyperthreading support in your kernel to see if it is enabled. I believe this means using an SMP kernel. I'm not sure if that will make a difference but it might. And lastly, your video card and drivers do help alot. I've struggled with my choice of ATI on one of my frontends and as I'm moving to HD, I'm biting the bullet and spending the $40 on an Nvidia FX card and it will be one of the best $40 I've spent on my system as it means HD playback on my 2.4ghz Celeron with XvMC. Kevin Sorry, I left out that I'm using libmpeg2. Hyperthreading - hmm, unfortunately I just checked and my CPU doesn't support hyperthreading (it's a 533MHz bus 2.8GHz P4). I tried going the FX 5200 route, only to discover that I I can't achieve the transfer speeds I need over PCI (my motherboard only has two slots, both PCI). 1280x720x(24 or 32) bits, 30 frames a second (or 60, even worse) - PCI's max throughput is 600 to 700 Mbits/sec. I tried XvMC on the 5200 but it was always a bit glitchy. The onboard graphics is AGP, but now instead of being limited by bus speed, it's by CPU speed. Very frustrating, since it's s close to working properly. Hmm. I'm about to buy an FX5500 PCI for use in my frontend. Are you saying that you can't drive HD content to the PCI card because it is PCI, not AGP? I'm using XvMC on my MX440 AGP and it works great with Myth and the 7676 Nvidia drivers on the SVN. You might want to give XvMC with that driver version another shot when 0.19 is released on your FX5200. I've found it to be very solid. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] FX5500 PCI and HDTV
I'm about to get an FX5500 PCI to put in my small form factor frontend. Does anyone know if the 5500 PCI will have any trouble driving the HDTV content down the bus? I plan on using XvMC because the processor is only a 2.4ghz Celeron. Just looking for anyone with experience with the FX PCI cards and HDTV. Thanks, Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] We may have a couple a good guys....
Video ipod indeed... hahaha. That was a good read, and those guys do deserve some praise. Thanks for the link! On 1/27/06, Mark H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found this link on digg. Very good information. Maybe we should send our senators ipods. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004343.php ___ 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
[mythtv-users] Problem watching DVB-T recordings on PVR-350 output
I'm running Gentoo, using mythtv-svnsnapshot 8642 as it is distributed as a gentoo unstable package. DVB-T recordings are recorded as MPEG-TS and these are replayed on the OSD of the PVR-350. This results in very jerky motion, as the OSD is nowhere near fast enough for this purpose. When watching recording made from the PVR-350 itself (MPEG-PS) the hardware decoder is employed and it works great. It used to work (somewhat) with mythtv-0.18.1, but that was probably due to the fact that it was setup to convert MPEG-TS to MPEG-PS while recording. I have noticed a ticked (#222) saying that this was forced off, as it ruined too many things. How do I get mythtv to output MPEG-TS to the hardware decoder on the PVR-350 and not the OSD? I have been searching the frontend and setup for options related to this but to no avail. Regards, -- Morten Grouleff. Mythtv on Gentoo with 2xPVR-350+1xNova-DVB-T ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Slave backend screwing up master
Hi ! I have a weird problem in my setup. (0.18.1 running on Ubuntu) My Master Backend is running just fine as a standalone. Due to lack of PCI-slots i had to place my second PVR 350 in my frontend, configuring it as a slave backend. Still everything looks fine, BUT - When starting my slave, the master backend gets problems capturing video. When using only one capture-card the system consequently chooses the capturecard from my slave backend. If both are needed, i get the following error-message on my master backend : -- 2006-01-28 15:08:21.419 Couldn't read data from the capture card in 15 seconds. Stopping. -- If I stop the slave backend everything works just fine on the master, and i can capture data manually from both cards using 'cat /dev/video0'... Does anybody have an idea what is happening ?? Regards, Johan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OpenGL Support and PiP
On Saturday 28 January 2006 13:44, Michael T. Dean wrote: On 01/28/06 16:16, Brian Wood wrote: On Jan 28, 2006, at 2:00 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Saturday 28 January 2006 11:19, Brian Wood wrote: this time I took some advice and simply compiled without OpenGL. Uh, why recompile to disable OpenGL, when you can simply toggle it off in the settings? Ah, that's true of the SVN versions but not the plain-vanilla 0.18.1, which I am trying to stay with for several reasons. Right. The setting is available in 0.18-fixes SVN and (of course) SVN head, but 0.18.1 and below do not have the setting. Ah, my mistake. I thought we'd got that OpenGL toggle patch into 0.18.1. Well, if you want to stay 0.18.1-ish, you might try building off the 0-18-fixes branch, rather than the 0.18.1 tarball. -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpHzwS9zMM11.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 / fine tune frequencies
Matthew K. Lee wrote:
snip
Are you sure it's a tuning issue and not a tuner module issue? (Are you
sure you're using the right tuner definition?)
Mike
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Well, I'm not sure what you mean by definition. Here's my
modprobe.conf and the corresponding output of lspci.
/etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 e100
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
options snd-card-0 index=0
install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0
/usr/sbin/a lsactl restore
/dev/null 21 || :
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 /dev/null 21 || : ;
}; /sbin/ modprobe -r
--ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
alias usb-controller uhci-hcd
# This is for WinTV PVR-350 IVTV
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv
alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv
install ivtv /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv; /sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb
# nvidia kernel module
alias char-major-195 nvidia-1_0-7667
alias nvidia nvidia-1_0-7667
install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_i2c
lspci -v
01:0d.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15
MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR-350
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at d000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
This is all on Fedora Core 4 with atrpms. Most channels are pretty
good just as they are, but there are a handful of channels that are
distinctly not correct. For example, channel 72 is fuzzy/snowy
through the PVR-350 but it's excellent when I hook it up direct to the
TV.
Is there something I've missed in the setup? Any recommendations are welcome...
Thanks,
I think I'm having similar trouble, but with a much larger block of
channels (Time Warner Cable in Minneapolis) and KnoppMyth installation.
A PVR-350 card that can tune in channels 2-13 in fine, 14-20 are snow,
21-36 come in fine, then 37-60 are snow and lastly, 60+ are OK
I've also messed with the fine-tuning on mythweb with no success. I
called my cable company and they said they use the standard
frequencies. I've tried the other 1 or 2 (don't remember now) settings
for USA in myth setup with no success either (actually, worse results)
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: ivtv: START INIT IVTV
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: ivtv: version 0.4.0 (tagged release)
loading
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.13.2-chw-3 SMP
preempt 586 gcc-3.3
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: ivtv: In case of problems please include
the debug info
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END
INIT IVTV lines when
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist.
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 350 card
(iTVC15 based)
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:10.0[A] -
Link [LNKD] - GSI 11 (level, low) - IRQ 11
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: tuner (ivtv): chip found at addr 0xc2
i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok
[client=(tuner unset), addr=61]
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: msp34xx: ivtv version
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: msp34xx: init: chip=MSP3448W-A2, has NICAM
support, simple (D) mode, simpler (G) no-thread mode
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: msp34xx: $Id$ compiled on: Oct 9 2005
22:52:16
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok
[client=MSP3448W-A2, addr=40]
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: saa7115 1-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv
i2c driver #0)
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok
[client=saa7115, addr=21]
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: tveeprom: ivtv version
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 48132, rev =
K268, serial# = 7875278
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: tveeprom: tuner = LG TAPE H001F MK3 (idx =
68, type = 47)
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom =
0x08, v4l2 = 0x1000)
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: tveeprom: audio processor = MSP4448 (type =
1b)
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: tveeprom: decoder processor = SAA7115 (type
= 13)
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok
[client=tveeprom, addr=50]
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: saa7127 1-0044: saa7129 found @ 0x88 (ivtv
i2c driver #0)
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok
[client=saa7127, addr=44]
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: tda9885/6/7: (ivtv) chip found @ 0x86
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok
[client=tda9887, addr=43]
Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: ivtv0: loading
Re: [mythtv-users] We may have a couple a good guys....
On Jan 28, 2006, at 6:19 PM, Sasha Z wrote: Video ipod indeed... hahaha. That was a good read, and those guys do deserve some praise. Thanks for the link! On 1/27/06, Mark H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found this link on digg. Very good information. Maybe we should send our senators ipods. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004343.php For the record, I've never found eff.org anything but paranoid propaganda designed to spread outrage at the expense of accuracy. But that's just my opinion. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Tivo to Myth migration
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:15:28 -0800 From: Ian Forde [EMAIL PROTECTED] not sure if anyone's even remotely interested in this, but I've cobbled together a script that will pull a show from a S1 Tivo and put it into the Watch Recordings screen on myth. The script still needs some finishing touches though. (Okay - it's pretty rough to look at. That's very slick. We're actually in the process of migrating from TiVo to Myth right now as we cut over our research platform, so this could come in quite handy. (I've had a network interface in the box for years, but never really used it; this is an original series 1 TiVo running 3.0-01-1-000.) Do you or anyone else happen to know of a way to migrate (or at least pull out, so I can run perl scripts or Emacs macros or whatever) the season pass and wishlist information? We've currently got a combined SP/WL list of at least 400, and it'd be nice to convert those into the appropriate mysql rules for the Myth, so someone doesn't have to type in every single one by hand (at least this time with a real keyboard, unlike the TiVo. :) Something that goes all the way would be most excellent, but even something that just dumps the SP/WL into a file that could be massaged would be better than sitting there with both UI's side-by-side on the screen, transcribing rules... Thanks! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OpenGL Support and PiP
On Jan 28, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Saturday 28 January 2006 13:44, Michael T. Dean wrote: On 01/28/06 16:16, Brian Wood wrote: On Jan 28, 2006, at 2:00 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Saturday 28 January 2006 11:19, Brian Wood wrote: this time I took some advice and simply compiled without OpenGL. Uh, why recompile to disable OpenGL, when you can simply toggle it off in the settings? Ah, that's true of the SVN versions but not the plain-vanilla 0.18.1, which I am trying to stay with for several reasons. Right. The setting is available in 0.18-fixes SVN and (of course) SVN head, but 0.18.1 and below do not have the setting. Ah, my mistake. I thought we'd got that OpenGL toggle patch into 0.18.1. Well, if you want to stay 0.18.1-ish, you might try building off the 0-18- fixes branch, rather than the 0.18.1 tarball. No problem, I know how hard it is to keep track of what patch is in what release. Meanwhile the plot has thickened. PiP *does* work fine if I enable it via the on-screen menu (brought up with M), but pressing V still doesn't work and locks up the frontend so that it still works but needs an external kill to get out of it. I can certainly live with this, and as soon as I update my LIRC configs it will (hopefully) become academic. I'd say that I've proven it does not have anything to do with OpenGL, so thus endeth this thread :-) Much thanks to all and sorry to have involved the list in my Red Herring search. Still wonder what's going on, but you can't know everything. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Laptop CPU in Desktop Mainboard
On 1/24/06, Michael Starks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The power savings are so small as to not be meaningull in a desktop. I'm sure the unstated goal here is heat and fan noise reduction. Actually, I don't care too much about heat and noise since the server is in the basement. I truly am interested in energy conservation but at the same time having a server powerful enough for multiple tasks (Myth, Mister House, Asterisk, security cams, etc). In that case you are truly on a fools errand. You will NEVER save enough energy with this CPU to recover your costs. Vastly more power could be saved by huge passive heat sinks and getting rid of fans. Running a computer headless saves well in excess of 80 percent of the power utilized by the typical desktop computer. Finding the lowest consumption disk drives or running fewer of them will save more. But chaseing after the miniscule savings on this CPU, especially since you will probably have to replace the mobo tu use it will save you nothing. -- --JSA- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slave backend screwing up master
johan Henæs wrote: Hi ! I have a weird problem in my setup. (0.18.1 running on Ubuntu) My Master Backend is running just fine as a standalone. Due to lack of PCI-slots i had to place my second PVR 350 in my frontend, configuring it as a slave backend. Still everything looks fine, BUT - When starting my slave, the master backend gets problems capturing video. The fact that there is another machine out in the world shouldn't affect the ability of the existing card to read data. Something may have been inadvertently reconfigured in the process of adding the slave but I suspect this is a misperception of the cause. When using only one capture-card the system consequently chooses the capturecard from my slave backend. If both are needed, i get the Now this doesn't add up. If you left the original master card and input as is, it would be the first choice and the slave would only be used if there were two recordings at the same time. There is something that you didn't explain here. following error-message on my master backend : -- 2006-01-28 15:08:21.419 Couldn't read data from the capture card in 15 seconds. Stopping. -- If I stop the slave backend everything works just fine on the master, and i can capture data manually from both cards using 'cat /dev/video0'... Does anybody have an idea what is happening ?? Nope. But this would provide more solid clues. $ mysql -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg mysql select cardid,videodevice,cardtype,hostname from capturecard; mysql select cardinputid,cardid,sourceid,inputname from cardinput; -- bjm ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythburn and ProjectX
Thank you Mike, I had to recompile ProjectX using the j2SDK, launch using j2re java runtime and it worked fine. Now on to getting Mytburn to work. I was reading a thread that mentions that the mythburn script wont work in .19, I thought that mythburn was going to be included with .19? I subscripe to both the developer and user lists, but where can I see the new features being released in the upcoming.19? All I see on mythtv.org is the .18.1 On 1/28/06, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/28/2006 02:36 PM, Jonathan Smith wrote: Thanks Mike, I forgot, to mention that I did install Sun's JDK and JRE, but it seems to use the GNU libraries, how can I correct this? Modify the PATH used such that Sun's program java is found first. Also, you may want to specify a JAVA_HOME environment variable. 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] We may have a couple a good guys....
To paraphrase a certain dead grunge idol: Just because they're paranoid, don't mean they're not after them.On 1/28/06, Brad DerManouelian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Jan 28, 2006, at 6:19 PM, Sasha Z wrote: Video ipod indeed... hahaha. That was a good read, and those guys do deserve some praise. Thanks for the link! On 1/27/06, Mark H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found this link on digg. Very good information.Maybe we should send our senators ipods. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004343.phpFor the record, I've never found eff.org anything but paranoidpropaganda designed to spread outrage at the expense of accuracy. Butthat's just my opinion.___mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Summery of my problems
Michael T. Dean wrote: On 01/28/2006 12:46 PM, Dylan R. Semler wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: On 01/27/2006 01:07 AM, Robert Johnston wrote: On 1/26/06, Dylan R. Semler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For analog, the picture quality is pretty bad (noisy)... The picture quality is much better using tvtime and those lines do not appear. As for the noise, make sure that Myth is tuning into the same frequency (EXACTLY the same frequency) as TVTime is. It sounds like Myth's off by a few Khz. Being off by a few KHz shouldn't matter. Many of the NTSC cable channel frequencies are off by 12.5 KHz (and the same goes for IRC, and HRC varies by 5-15KHz), but the tuner hardware's fine-tuning mechanism should still be able to find the appropriate center frequency. See http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/164614#164614 (which was totally ignored by the guy complaining in Trac that the frequencies are off) for an in-depth listing of what frequencies are off and why it shouldn't matter. If you (Dylan) want to try an academically-correct list of frequency definitions, I'd be happy to create one for you (against SVN--just let me know which frequency list you're using: ntsc_bcast, ntsc_cable, ntsc_hrc, ntsc_irc (I'm assuming NTSC based on your e-mail address)), but you'll have to do all the testing because I don't have any RF-modulated sources. Well it's worth a shot. I'd love to get better picture quality. I'm using ntsc_cable. OK. Attached is a patch that will correct the frequencies used for ntsc_cable, ntsc_hrc, and ntsc_irc. Those used for ntsc_bcast are already correct. Apply the patch to current SVN and recompile and install to test. Note, however, that it may be better to leave ntsc_cable (standard cable) unmodified. The modified channels in the standard cable definition are definitely using frequencies that are not used by the cable company, but that's because the FCC requires that they be offset. (Cable channels operating on frequencies used in the aeronautical radiocommunications bands 118-137MHz, 225-328.6MHz, and 335.4-400MHz are required to be offset by 12.5kHz from 25kHz-spaced channels, and those on frequencies used in the aeronautical radiocommunications bands 108-118MHz and 328.6-335.4MHz are required to be offset by 25kHz from 50kHz-spaced channels.) The FCC doesn't specify whether the offset should be positive or negative, but it's more common within the cable industry to use a positive offset. The current standard cable definition uses the frequency before the offset (which is right in the middle of a positive or negative offset), but the patched version assumes a positive offset (meaning that if a cable company uses a negative offset, we'll be off by 25kHz on many channels and 50kHz on 98 and 99). So, since you're a standard cable user, please let me know if you really do see a difference with the modified frequency values--and try not to be swayed by the placebo effect. ;) If there really is a difference (and I still don't think there will be), we may want to call the modified ntsc_cable NTSC Cable (1) and create another that uses a negative offset and label it NTSC Cable (2). Those most likely to see any difference with the patch are HRC users (as some of their frequencies--mainly the higher frequencies--were off by as much as 60kHz). However, it's likely the only difference they will see will be a slightly faster tuning cycle (unlikely to be noticeable in Myth, though, because of the other delays in channel changing--and, quite possibly, not noticeable at all by human perception even if you tried the before/after frequencies in tvtime or something). Mhhh, probably good to improve, but for the silicon tuners i know about, (which are both the ones we use on our products as well as some others), this makes no difference at all. Most modern (silicon) tuners are able to finetune to the correct frequency if the initial frequency is within 125KHz of the correct frequency. We make use of this is the scanning algo, as this makes it possible in Europe to scan with 250KHz steps in case we have to do a frequency sweep Please keep in mind, Europe cable does not have any standard to adhere to. Cheers, Rudy ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OSX client editing problems...
David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom E. Craddock Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Sutherland wrote: Hi there.. I have a linux backend, 0.18.1, and an OSX frontend.. I've tried 3 verisons of the 0.18.1 OSX client binaries, and all 3 have the same behavour.. (the versions I tried at the one from goof.com, and the ones from thesniperpad.com..) Watching TV works.. Watching recording works, including fast forward, rewind, time stretch, zoom, etc.. But the moment I hit 'E' to enter edit mode, it freezes.. All I see in the client is the frozen frame.. No keys work.. I have to forcibly kill the client.. Backend seems fine, no restarting necessary.. I do have a linux frontend that seems able to edit without issue.. Any ideas? --John In about a week-ish or so, once .19 is released, use the .19 binaries. Its been fixed in SVN at some point, cant tell ya the revision # tho. I had the same problems (on .18.1) and once I started running/compiling SVN regularly along with the nightly OSX binary builds that are posted on thesniderpad.com's dloads section (which I really do appreciate) I found that hitting 'E' works fine. Yes, it's fixed in SVN. Unfortunately fast forward, skip forward, rewind, skip back and E all have the same new problem: sometimes the transport unaccountably ends up at zero. I believe I've found the problem. Please see http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2006-January/044360.html -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Unpredictable Skip/Fast Forward/Rewind behavior
David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ashley Bostock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My database is fine too, I have a frontend+backend machine which is fine for ffwd (running linux) its just on the additional mac frontend where I see the issue. It's beginning to sound like a Mac-only issue. Incidentally, I went crawling through the code to try to understand what's going on, but this particular area is uncommented and completely inscrutable, at least to me. Can any Myth developers who've worked on this code help? I believe I've found the problem. Please see http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2006-January/044360.html -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Mythvideo script.. might be of some use to somebody
Hi. I was just messing about came up with this script to play all videos after the current selected video in mythvideo.. it's a bit hacky but it might come in handy www.juski.co.uk/scripts/multiplay.tar I know there was no need to tar it, but my webspace doesn't like perl scripts living on there. Regards, Justin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 / fine tune frequencies
snip The only way to tell for sure is from the ivtv initialization log messages, which you can retrieve with: tac /var/log/messages | sed -n '/=\ \ END INIT IVTV\ \ =/,/= START INIT IVTV =/p; /= START INIT IVTV =/q' | tac However, from your modprobe.conf, I notice that you're not specifying a tuner definition (i.e. options ivtv tuner=XXX), so it's likely you are using the right one. If you really want to see if it's a tuning issue, I'm going to be posting a patch for SVN that fixes the frequency definitions so they're academically correct in the thread http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/177694#177694 . You're welcome to apply it to SVN, compile, and test. It shouldn't make any difference (the tuner hardware's fine-tuning mechanism should be able to zero-in on the channel, anyway), but it's possible that your cable company is transmitting some channels at frequencies that are off in the opposite direction that the tuner frequency list is off, so the delta is too large for the fine-tuning mechanism on these channels. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Mike, Thanks for the nifty command... Here's the output... Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv: START INIT IVTV Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv: version 0.4.2 (tagged release) loading Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.0 Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist. Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 350 card (cx23415 based) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] enabled at IRQ 11 Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:0d.0[A] - Link [LNKF] - GSI 11 (level, low) - IRQ 11 Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: tveeprom: ivtv version Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 48132, rev = K268, serial# = 7734528 Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: tveeprom: tuner = LG TAPE H001F MK3 (idx = 68, type = 47) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x1000) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: tveeprom: audio processor = MSP4448 (type = 1b) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: tveeprom: decoder processor = SAA7115 (type = 13) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50] Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61] Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: saa7115 1-0021: ivtv driver Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: saa7115 1-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=saa7115, addr=21] Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: saa7127 1-0044: ivtv driver Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: saa7127 1-0044: saa7129 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=saa7127, addr=44] Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: msp3400 1-0040: ivtv driver Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: msp3400 1-0040: chip=MSP4448G-A2 +nicam +simple +simpler +radio mode=simpler Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=MSP4448G-A2, addr=40] Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: msp3400 1-0040: msp34xxg daemon started Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: tda9885/6/7: chip found @ 0x86 Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tda9887, addr=43] Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw firmware (262144 bytes) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02040024 Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0 warning: Encoder Firmware can be buggy, use version 0x02040011 or 0x02050032. Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: Decoder revision: 0x02020023 Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB total) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB total) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: Create encoder radio stream Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder MPEG stream: 16 x 65536 buffers (1024KB total) Jan 26
[mythtv-users] MythTV and TV
I've been using MythTV successfully for about a year... But now I want to watch TV. My setup is as follows: tooth - FC2 mythtv backend, mysql server, file server, and also houses the WinTV card. hermes - KnoppMyth box. Mounts files via NFS I got everything set up, as per the docs. I can click on WatchTV on hermes, and I get a mostly green window with a bar of black and color fuzz at the top. This is the typical thing you see if the TV card is not set to the correct frequency/channel/standard. After a while, the backend says: Couldn't read data from the capture card in 15 seconds. Stopping. That wouldn't be so bad, except that a few seconds later it segfaults (log attached at bottom of this message.) I am in the US, I have everything set to NTSC and so on. I tested the card in another box, and xawtv can pull in channels just fine. The really bad thing is that I've googled about and it seems that the solution is to manually enter the frequency tables into mySQL... Before I go that route, I figured I'd ask for advice. Any suggestions? I have a pcHDTV coming next week, but I'd really like to have this figured out by then... === [EMAIL PROTECTED] yan]# /usr/bin/mythbackend -v all 2006-01-28 16:29:45.565 New DB connection, total: 1 Starting up as the master server. 2006-01-28 16:29:45.582 New DB connection, total: 2 2006-01-28 16:29:45.595 Channel(/dev/video0):SetFormat(): Probed input: 0, name = Television 2006-01-28 16:29:45.596 Channel(/dev/video0):SetFormat(): Probed input: 1, name = Composite1 2006-01-28 16:29:45.596 Channel(/dev/video0):SetFormat(): Probed input: 2, name = S-Video 2006-01-28 16:29:45.597 Channel(/dev/video0):SetFormat(): Probed input: 3, name = Composite3 2006-01-28 16:29:45.600 Channel(/dev/video0)::SwitchToInput(in 0) 2006-01-28 16:29:45.603 Channel(/dev/video0)::SwitchToInput() setting video mode to NTSC 2006-01-28 16:29:45.609 New DB connection, total: 3 2006-01-28 16:29:45.611 Channel(/dev/video0):SetFormat(): Probed input: 0, name = Television 2006-01-28 16:29:45.612 Channel(/dev/video0):SetFormat(): Probed input: 1, name = Composite1 2006-01-28 16:29:45.612 Channel(/dev/video0):SetFormat(): Probed input: 2, name = S-Video 2006-01-28 16:29:45.613 Channel(/dev/video0):SetFormat(): Probed input: 3, name = Composite3 2006-01-28 16:29:45.621 Channel(/dev/video0)::TuneTo(7): curList[5].freq(175250) 2006-01-28 16:29:45.621 Channel(/dev/video0)::TuneToFrequency(2804) 2006-01-28 16:29:45.630 New DB scheduler connection 2006-01-28 16:29:45.635 JobQueue::RecoverQueue: Checking for unfinished jobs to recover. 2006-01-28 16:29:45.636 mythbackend version: 0.18.2.20051227-1 www.mythtv.org 2006-01-28 16:29:45.637 Enabled verbose msgs :all 2006-01-28 16:29:45.638 New DB connection, total: 4 2006-01-28 16:29:45.644 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: findJobs search bitmask 4, found 0 total jobs 2006-01-28 16:29:47.642 Reschedule requested for id -1. Query 0: /record.search = 0 AND (record.recordid = -1 OR -1 = -1) AND program.manualid = 0 AND program.title = record.title 2006-01-28 16:29:47.833 |-- Start DB Query 0... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.835 |-- 0 results in 0.002566 sec. 2006-01-28 16:29:47.836 +-- Done. 2006-01-28 16:29:47.841 PruneOldRecords... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.841 AddNewRecords... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.842 |-- Start DB Query... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.846 |-- 0 results in 0.003313 sec. Processing... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.846 +-- Cleanup... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.846 Sort by time... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.846 PruneOverlaps... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.847 Sort by priority... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.847 BuildListMaps... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.847 SchedNewRecords... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.847 Scheduling: 2006-01-28 16:29:47.847 Sort retrylist... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.847 MoveHigherRecords... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.847 Retrying: 2006-01-28 16:29:47.847 ClearListMaps... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.847 Sort by time... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.848 PruneRedundants... --- print list start --- Title - SubtitleChan ChID Day Start End S C I T N Pri --- print list end --- 2006-01-28 16:29:47.848 Scheduled 0 items in 0.2 = 0.19 match + 0.01 place 2006-01-28 16:29:47.851 Seem to be woken up by USER 2006-01-28 16:29:55.643 JobQueue::RecoverQueue: Checking for unfinished jobs to recover. 2006-01-28 16:29:55.647 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: findJobs search bitmask 4, found 0 total jobs 2006-01-28 16:29:55.648 JobQueue::ProcessQueue() started 2006-01-28 16:29:55.651 JobQueue currently set at 1 job(s) max and to run new jobs from 00:00 to 23:59 2006-01-28 16:29:55.654 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: findJobs search bitmask 4, found 0 total jobs 2006-01-28 16:30:08.032 13 ACCEPT[]:[]15 2006-01-28 16:30:08.038 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2006-01-28 16:30:08.038 adding: hermes as a client (events: 0) 2006-01-28 16:30:08.038 2 OK 2006-01-28 16:30:08.045 Getting next free recorder after : -1 2006-01-28 16:30:08.047 Checking card 1. Best card so far 1 2006-01-28
Re: [mythtv-users] KDE logs out immediately after logging in
On 1/28/06, Derek Scollon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect this is a problem with KDE rather than Mythtv, but I was hoping maybe one of you could point me in the right direction to start debugging this.This usually happens if the user you attempt to login as, does not have write permission to .kde. Be sure the ownership of /home/[your_user] and .kde is what it should be by logging in as root verifying permissions.-- -J ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 / fine tune frequencies
On 01/28/2006 08:38 PM, Matthew K. Lee wrote: The only way to tell for sure is from the ivtv initialization log messages, which you can retrieve with: tac /var/log/messages | sed -n '/=\ \ END INIT IVTV\ \ =/,/= START INIT IVTV =/p; /= START INIT IVTV =/q' | tac However, from your modprobe.conf, I notice that you're not specifying a tuner definition (i.e. options ivtv tuner=XXX), so it's likely you are using the right one. Thanks for the nifty command... Here's the output... Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: tveeprom: tuner = LG TAPE H001F MK3 (idx = 68, type = 47) ... Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: tuner 1-0061: type set to 47 (LG NTSC (TAPE series)) Yep. You're using the right tuner, so that's not the issue. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 / fine tune frequencies
On 01/28/2006 06:51 PM, Roger Hanson wrote: I think I'm having similar trouble, but with a much larger block of channels (Time Warner Cable in Minneapolis) and KnoppMyth installation. A PVR-350 card that can tune in channels 2-13 in fine, 14-20 are snow, 21-36 come in fine, then 37-60 are snow and lastly, 60+ are OK I've also messed with the fine-tuning on mythweb with no success. I called my cable company and they said they use the standard frequencies. I've tried the other 1 or 2 (don't remember now) settings for USA in myth setup with no success either (actually, worse results) Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: tveeprom: tuner = LG TAPE H001F MK3 (idx = 68, type = 47) ... Jan 26 11:00:49 pvr kernel: tuner: type set to 47 (LG NTSC (TAPE series)) by ivtv i2c driver #0 According to your init messages, you're using the right tuner type, and your non-working channels aren't right for using the wrong frequency list (i.e. using standard instead of HRC or IRC). However, the symptoms do sound correct for a bad tuner definition. Who's tuner module are you using, the one distributed with your kernel or the one that came with ivtv? The one in ivtv 0.4.0 has the correct definition, but then again so should the one in 2.6.13.2... Sorry I can't be of more help... Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How to minimize CPU usage
On 1/28/06, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry Rubinow wrote: On 1/28/06, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry Rubinow wrote: I'm running myth with separate front/back end computers. The frontend is a 2.8GHz P4 with 512MB ram, trying to display 720p HD, but I'm maxing out the CPU - myth ~65+%, X around 30+%. The video is at times choppy when there's a lot of stuff changing in the frame. What can I do to reduce CPU usage? Here's what I've done so far: -compiled myth with --enable-proc-opt (using SVN from less than a week ago) -using ratpoison for window manager -not using any deinterlacing Note: XvMC is not an option. I'm running FC4. mythfrontend -v playback reports that it's using Xvideo, format I420, using realtime priority, video timing method: RTC (glx vsync not supported in my driver). Then I get a lot of video ahead of audio dropping frames messages, and then a lot of audio ahead of video messages. /proc/meminfo says there's 100MB free while running myth, so I guess it's not swapping. What might be causing the high CPU? I've read about people with 2.4Ghz P4s not having a problem with HD, so it seems like there should be something I can do. Would compiling my own kernel help? With what options? Anything else I can try first? Try using libmpeg2 for your playback. I'd suggest looking into hyperthreading support in your kernel to see if it is enabled. I believe this means using an SMP kernel. I'm not sure if that will make a difference but it might. And lastly, your video card and drivers do help alot. I've struggled with my choice of ATI on one of my frontends and as I'm moving to HD, I'm biting the bullet and spending the $40 on an Nvidia FX card and it will be one of the best $40 I've spent on my system as it means HD playback on my 2.4ghz Celeron with XvMC. Kevin Sorry, I left out that I'm using libmpeg2. Hyperthreading - hmm, unfortunately I just checked and my CPU doesn't support hyperthreading (it's a 533MHz bus 2.8GHz P4). I tried going the FX 5200 route, only to discover that I I can't achieve the transfer speeds I need over PCI (my motherboard only has two slots, both PCI). 1280x720x(24 or 32) bits, 30 frames a second (or 60, even worse) - PCI's max throughput is 600 to 700 Mbits/sec. I tried XvMC on the 5200 but it was always a bit glitchy. The onboard graphics is AGP, but now instead of being limited by bus speed, it's by CPU speed. Very frustrating, since it's s close to working properly. Hmm. I'm about to buy an FX5500 PCI for use in my frontend. Are you saying that you can't drive HD content to the PCI card because it is PCI, not AGP? I'm using XvMC on my MX440 AGP and it works great with Myth and the 7676 Nvidia drivers on the SVN. You might want to give XvMC with that driver version another shot when 0.19 is released on your FX5200. I've found it to be very solid. Kevin When I was trying to do HD over the PCI FX5200, I consistently had slowness/skipped frames/stuttering. I eventually did some calculations, and 720p at 24bits and 30 frames per second is 632 Mbits/sec. I saw in the list archives that PCI's maximum transfer speed ranges between 600-700 Mbits/sec. However, I think 24 bit video is actually using 32 bips per pixels (alpha), and isn't HD refreshing at 60 frames/sec? So I must not be figuring something right, or else I wouldn't be getting anything approaching viewable, but I was actually getting something pretty close, so I'm not entirely sure what's going on. But in any case, it seems like at a minimum, it's close to PCI's capacity. As far as XvMC, I have no idea how the bandwidth of what's being pushed to the card for XvMC compares that of non-XvMC (although I would really like to know). I do know I had various problems with XvMC displaying correctly. Maybe due to bandwidth issues also, but I don't know. But I will give it another shot at some point before I throw in the towel on this computer and relegate it to an SD frontend for the tv upstairs. -Jerry ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Summery of my problems
On 01/28/2006 08:29 PM, Rudy Zijlstra wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: On 01/28/2006 12:46 PM, Dylan R. Semler wrote: Michael T. Dean wrote: On 01/27/2006 01:07 AM, Robert Johnston wrote: On 1/26/06, Dylan R. Semler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For analog, the picture quality is pretty bad (noisy)... The picture quality is much better using tvtime and those lines do not appear. As for the noise, make sure that Myth is tuning into the same frequency (EXACTLY the same frequency) as TVTime is. It sounds like Myth's off by a few Khz. Being off by a few KHz shouldn't matter. Many of the NTSC cable channel frequencies are off by 12.5 KHz (and the same goes for IRC, and HRC varies by 5-15KHz), but the tuner hardware's fine-tuning mechanism should still be able to find the appropriate center frequency. See http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/164614#164614 (which was totally ignored by the guy complaining in Trac that the frequencies are off) for an in-depth listing of what frequencies are off and why it shouldn't matter. If you (Dylan) want to try an academically-correct list of frequency definitions, I'd be happy to create one for you (against SVN--just let me know which frequency list you're using: ntsc_bcast, ntsc_cable, ntsc_hrc, ntsc_irc (I'm assuming NTSC based on your e-mail address)), but you'll have to do all the testing because I don't have any RF-modulated sources. Well it's worth a shot. I'd love to get better picture quality. I'm using ntsc_cable. OK. Attached is a patch... If there really is a difference (and I still don't think there will be) Read this probably good to improve, but for the silicon tuners i know about, (which are both the ones we use on our products as well as some others), this makes no difference at all. Most modern (silicon) tuners are able to finetune to the correct frequency if the initial frequency is within 125KHz of the correct frequency. We make use of this is the scanning algo, as this makes it possible in Europe to scan with 250KHz steps in case we have to do a frequency sweep Please keep in mind, Europe cable does not have any standard to adhere to. That's what I've been saying all along--since someone mentioned that the frequency might be off by a few kHz... However, it's hard to convince people it's not a problem if they can't test it for themselves... ;) Personally, I don't think it's worth changing the definitions in the source, but between the This is so trivial to fix that it's silly not to. comment in Trac ( http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/610 and my response http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/164614#164614 ), and common wisdom about using the finetune values to adjust frequencies by a few kHz (which is often suggested), I figured a patch on the list that lets people see for themselves that it doesn't matter would be the best way to get other people to see it my way. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] IVTV 0.4.2 and MythTV
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 12:03:35PM -0800, Elwe Singollo wrote: This could be my problem, but cycling through myth-setup did not seem to help. Should I change it to tuner1 instead (old tuner2)? How/what exactly did you change your mysql table entries? I edited the capturecard table. I made sure that the defaultinput column was Tuner instead of Tuner 0. I actually had two extra rows that I had to delete. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 pgpxlvGKRrvRp.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] re-record deleted shows
Hello, I've got a couple of shows I'd like to rerecord. Some cases I'd like to re-record all episodes, and in other cases I'd like to re-record a specific episode. What's the easiest way to start over with a blank history for a show? What's the easiest way to re-record a particular episode? I'm familiar with phpMyAdmin, so I can get into the database and make the changes manually (if needed). Why I need to do this: 1) I think this actually a usability issue - I wanted to start putting some quotas on certain shows so that I wouldn't have 20 episodes lying around. So I went into the recording profiles and selected max episode limits thinking it will not record if there are X number of episodes already recorded. As true as that may be, I didn't realize it would actually go and delete the existing recordings to meet that number. I don't believe it's a very good thing that it would automatically delete existing recordings, the rule should apply to all NEW recordings. For example, if I set any other new setting on the recording rule (user jobs, start/stop times, transcoding, commercial flagging, etc)... it would only apply to new recordings. So anyway, I'm not sure which ones got deleted and which ones didn't. So, to fix it I'll just re-record the series and delete the ones I've already watched. 2) Every now and then an episode of a given show will be labled incorrectly. Not necessarily myth's fault, I understand that. I'm usually smart enough to remeber to selected the delete and re-record option for those particular instances, but other times I push buttons to quickly and it deletes with me knowing that the correct episode won't record again. This is due to human error :) Thanks! Matt ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
