Re: [mythtv-users] nVidia and XvMC
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:25:44AM -0600, William Lewis wrote: When I try to fire up watching live TV with XvMC hardware acceleration enabled, I get an X11 BadAlloc error with my nVidia 6200 TC and XOrg 6.8.2. I'm running a subversion branch with 0.18 fixes, and my system is configured with 2 HD-3000s and the latest NVIDIA x86-64 drivers. The processor is an AMD Athlon 64 3200+, and I have 1 GB of ram in it. When I disable the XvMC acceleration, it plays back, but it's very, very choppy, and the sound gives tons of prebuffering pause errors, or something like that. xdpyinfo tells me that I have both XVideo and XVideo-MotionCompensation extensions available. Anyone have any hints or additional configuration questions to help me out? I'd appreciate it tremendously. I think your machine is fast enough that you may not need XvMC... and if you don't need it you might be happier without it. I put up with XvMC only because my AthlonXP 2100 can't cut it without it. Try disabling xvmc and enabling libmpeg2 decoding. (I think it's on the same page in the playback settings.) With mpeg2 decoding you should be able to decode without chopiness, ymmv. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Help Diskless frontend
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 11:18:55AM +, Adam Skinner wrote: Hi , I would like to setup a diskless mythtv frontend. I have a working gentoo based installation working so far (pxe loader , nfs share based kernel) , but this sucks for mythfrontend. I noticed in an earlier post, someone mentioned they had something similar using knoppymyth. Please could you explain a bit more in detail. Any other suggesstions?? Im thinking ramdisk may help. How is anyone going to help you fix anything if you don't explain what's wrong? In fact, you have subsequent posters wondering if there's something wrong with disk-less setups in general based on your condemnation of them as sucks for mythfrontend. Talk about vague. For the record, I've used disk-less/nfs-root frontends before and I'm setting one up now using FC4 and I expect it will work flawlessly (and quietly, once the drive is removed and the fans are undervolted.) Aran ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: Settling the HD debate WAS: Re: [mythtv-users] A warning about Samsung HDDs
... mountain of good info deleted I have experienced drive failures with every brand imaginable as well... the real issue is that the brand and model doesn't say much from month to month about the quality of the drive. (I know, you covered this.) The real thing everyone should keep in mind is that if you care about the data on a drive: do backups or use mirrored drives. backups and mirrors don't really achieve the same goals... I prefer backups myself. Bottom line is though, if losing the data would be painful you better make sure it's on another disk or some removable media (CD, DVD, tape, etc.) Just my 2 cents. PS: I have 8(?) year-old 4GB Seagate SCSI drives in my computer at work and despite being painfully slow by today's standards (not to mention small) they absolutely refuse to die. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Anyone successful yet with an HD-3000 and QAM?
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 02:44:16PM -0400, Jeff Piazza wrote: I've got a working MythTV set-up with a PVR-250, and would like to get a high-def tuner before the infamous broadcast flag deadline. I'm not particularly keen on messing around with OTA reception. I can record QAM stuff from my cable company on an HD3000. It seems to work very well. Can anyone confirm that they've gotten an HD-3000 to work with QAM successfully? Even better, can anyone confirm an HD-3000 (receiving QAM) and a PVR-250 working in the same box? I tried that and bad things happened. (This was a while ago, and it might have been my problem and nothing with the drivers.) I keep them seperated now. Someday I will want them in the same machine and I will try again. I'm waiting for more people on this list to say, yah, I do that, it works. My goal is to have 2xPVR-250's, an Air2PC, and an HD3000 all playing nice in the same system. Thanks in advance, /JEP Aran ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Missing DVB channel scan for ASTC Air2PC cards
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:02:08AM -0500, Trey Boudreau wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:04:26AM +0100, John Pullan wrote: On 4/19/05, Trey Boudreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Prior to 0.18, it seems that the recommended action involved scanning for the channels in mythtv-setup. Unfortunately, CVS (as of midnight Central time, U.S.) doesn't seem to have this feature. What do you mean by doesn't seem to have this feature. ? I can't find any screen anywhere in myth-setup that will allow me to perform a channel scan. Are you sure you've enabled DVB support in this build. I think so: mythtv$ ./configure --enable-dvb --enable-proc-opt ... DVB support yes [/usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r6/include] ... config.h: #define FFMPEG_CONFIGURATION --enable-dvb --enable-proc-opt config.mak: CCONFIG= linux backend release using_oss using_alsa using_arts using_ivtv using_joystick_menu using_dvb using_x11 using_xv using_xrandr config mythtv-setup lets me choose the DVB card type and seems to properly identify the Air2PC cards as Nextwave nxt2002 VSB/QAM frontend ATSC. I just can't get the cards to tune with MythTV. 'azap' from the dvb-apps/dvb-kernel tar-ball indicates a solid signal lock: mythtv $ azap -a 0 KHOU using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' tuning to 57500 Hz video pid 0x, audio pid 0x status 1f | signal fd10 | snr e2a6 | ber 01e0 | unc | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal fd60 | snr e248 | ber 0058 | unc | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal fc40 | snr e100 | ber | unc | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal fd10 | snr e2d6 | ber | unc | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal fd20 | snr e18c | ber | unc | FE_HAS_LOCK Thanks, -- Trey Something similar happened to me. I was using pre-0.18 mythtv and had channel scanning, dvb, etc. everything I needed to use my HD cards. However, when I upgraded to 0.18 I nuked my channel information with the intention of re-scanning. But I didn't have the scan option any more! I was sure configure had reported dvb yes, just like it had previously. I ended up doing a make distclean and rebuilding and there they were. I suspected some bug that caused configure to report it had found what it needed for dvb support, but hadn't or didn't enable it due to some other reason. (Or I just read it wrong, or didn't read it at all.) In any case, I'd just try rebuilding, double-checking your dvb-path setting and make sure that you see USING_DVB in the g++ commands being spit out by make. Aran ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] XvMC and OSD
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 03:19:02PM -0600, Robert Johnston wrote: Having just upgraded to 0.17 (And then to 0.17-CVS after finding the .deb's don't have XvMC enabled by default), I'm seeing that the OSD is still in black and white (As it was in 0.16), but now whenever the OSD displays, the picture jumps and jitters, as though the timebase is jumping all over. The black-and-white OSD I could live with (Using Sasquach-OSD there's not much colour anyway), but the jittering is unacceptible. Has any solution been found for this yet? Anyone working on it? There was a patch recently posted to the devel list that helped this issue for me, without completely fixing it. The name of the patch was xv-xvmc-merge-v1.patch. The changes in that patch don't appear to have been applied to CVS (as of yesterday at least) but they did still apply (with some fuzz) to CVS from yesterday. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] how to upgrade tp 0.17 AND move to a new HW ?
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:39:31AM +0200, Uwe Schmidt wrote: Actually, I ran a 0.16 with two DVB-S cards mounted in an old 400 MHz PC, SuSe 9.1, compiled from source, running as backend only. everything is working quite well, but I want to move the DVB-S cards to a housing where cooling them is possible. For the old Siemens-PC-housing, there is no possibiolity to mount any fans in a senseful way therefor. and, because of DVB-support improved a lot from 0.16 to 0.17, I also want to upgrade. so, question: how to upgrade and move to another HW ? - first install the 0.16 on the new HW, install database-backup from old box, copy /video to the new one and upgrade to 0.17 - install 0.17 on the new HW, copy /video and - erm, how to restore db-backup ? - ?? You should follow your first option above. The second option you mentioned is not very feasible... you'll end up reconfiguring everything. However, it might be wiser to decide which is more important to you, changing out the hardware or upgrading. I would choose one of the two to do first and then let it sit for at least a week before doing the other. That way you can decide if 0.17 broke something for you, or if the hardware upgrade broke something. Something to consider is that 0.18 is due out soonish. another question: if backend is upgraded to 0.17, do I need to upgrade the frontends also ? or are the protocols 0.17 / 0.16 compatible ? Yes, you have to upgrade it all. 0.16 frontends will not talk to 0.17 backends. TIA, Uwe Aran ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Partial channels?
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 10:46:18AM +0200, Hugo van der Kooij wrote: Hi, I could not find this in a websearch. Is it possible to indicate that a certain channel is only available during certain hours? My cable company sends out National Geographic for most of the time but replaces it with Bloomberg from 03:00 to 12:00 during this time I can not get a NGC recording and would like my schedules to keep this information away so it will not try to rerecord in this timeframe. If the time is fixed you can easily concoct an sql statement to delete records from the program table for that channel during that time frame. Run this statement everyday after mythfilldatabase is done running and you're good to go. If you wanted to know if there was some slick interface in mythtv to handle this, the answer is not that I know of. The only in-myth solution is to just not schedule programs during that time on that channel. Or if it does catch a recording during that time, delete it and allow re-recording and hope they play it again outside that window. Aran ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Capture Card Priority
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 10:27:56PM +0930, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote: Guys, Is there a setting that will make myth use one card as a priority before it uses another? I have Foxtel Digital coming in thru my PVR-350, and Free to Air Digital coming in through a DVB-T Card. I would have thought that myth would have been smart enough to work out that if there are 2 programs to be recorded at the same time and one is on Fox and on TV that it would use my DVB card to record the program on FTA and the PVR-350 to record the show on fox (note that I also get all the FTA channels through foxtel - which is useful if I want to record 2 FTA programs at once). However I caught Mythtv NOT recording a show on Foxtel becuase it was recording a show that was on Free To Air - stupidly it was recording the Free to air program of the Foxtel input. ??? M. Likely what happened is that mythtv considered one recording more important than the other and thus chose to put that higher priority recording on the higher priority card, usually the first card you configured unless you adjusted the input preference under the Input connections in the mythtv-setup program. In any case, if you want to know how the scheduler works you could do worse than reading the documentation on the subject. It explains things a lot better than I can. http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-11.html#ss11.6 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] I'm a mythtv failure
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 09:47:26AM -0700, Kelly wrote: I'm done. Three weekend, 50 hours and still no live HDTV that isn't jerky. When trying to decide if the capture is bad or if the plaback just isn't working it's helpful to have another program to try playing back the captures in. mplayer supports xvmc playback. Tryi playing your captured files in mplayer. To enable xvmc I had to do this on the command line: -vo xvmc -vc ffmpeg12mc It seems that the version mplayer I am using tries to use libmpeg2 by default but since libmpeg2 doesn't work with xvmc (just as in mythtv) it would fail to play at all. YMMV. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Woes
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 02:10:24PM -0500, Tom E. Craddock Jr. wrote: Mat Kyne wrote: So my question that I lay before the all-knowing Mythtv guru's is this, What am I doing wrong. Do I just need a faster processor (I currently have a 2.4 Ghz Celeron that I bought just for this)? Or are there other things that I can try first. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks -Mat Yes, you need a faster processor. A 2.4 celery wont cut it. I just barely got by with a AMD XP2100+. A 2.4 celeron would be fine with XvMC correctly working. It might be fast enough with libmpeg2, but I wouldn't bet on it. It's easy enough to try though. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Anyone using LVM2 w/ ext3 for video storage
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 10:28:43PM -0700, Devan Lippman wrote: I wanted to create a mount point that I could easily add capacity to later as I needed. To do this I created an LVM2 volume (currently caontaining only one pv) and formatted ext3 over this. When I went to boot the machine up the next day it was unable to mount the volume or even filecheck it. I'm wondering if I rebuild this volume will this become a common occurance? If so is there anyone who's found a more reliable solution? Lots of other people responded, but I need to add my 2 cents. There is nothing unreliable about LVM. I've used it on many production servers, many people use it for their MythTV system. You just don't have it configured correctly. Have you read the LVM HOWTO? It's very useful and easy to find on google, it may be included with your LVM install. ext3 is probably an OK choice. The oficial myth docs recommend JFS or XFS. I've used ext3 in the past and it did work. I think JFS is a better choice and it's what I use now. However, ext3 and reiserfs have an advantage over XFS and JFS because I don't know of any way to shrink an XFS or JFS filesystem. I find that useful sometimes, perhaps you won't care. Perhaps I'm wrong about XFS and JFS too :) Aran ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] hdtv guide data
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 09:40:15AM -0800, Gregg wrote: I have setup a hd3000. It works great if I setup the channels manually, but If I try to use the listings from zap2it it records nothing and leaves a 'B' in the file size field on mythweb. Is there some way I can populate the guide data in the channels I setup manually? -Gregg When you scan for channels and run mythfilldatabase you get two sets of the same channels. (More or less.) Those added by the scan have no guide info, but you can tune them. mythfilldatabase added channels that cannot be tuned but have guide data (obviously.) So, you have two choices: 1) Add xmltvid's to those channels added by the scan and mark the mythfilldatabases as not visible. This is in the channel editor, BTW. However, marking them not visible doesn't remove them from livetv browse, just the guide. This is the easiest and if you don't use livetv much or at all just do this one. You can't delete the mythfilldatabase channels, they'll just come back next time it runs. 2) Update the channel entries for the mythfilldatabase added entries so that they can be tuned, then delete the scanned channels from the channel table. 2 is a bit more involved and you have to look at your mysql tables. The important values are in the channel table... for the scanned channels you will see entries in the mplexid, serviceid, and atscsrcid fields. In the equivalent mythfilldatabase added channel record, set the above fields to what you see in the scanned channel entry. You have to do this for each channel. When you're done you should be able to tune the mythfilldatabase channels. When you're sure it's all working you can delete the channel records corresponding with the scanned channels. This is more or less what I did and it worked for me. I have to give credit to mchou on the IRC channel for explaining it to me though! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] xbox or ps2 as frontend
On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 12:10:51PM -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: A search on Google for xbox mythtv brings up http://bit.blkbk.com/ as the very 1st hit. This page says MythTV-XBox Release 0.4 This is the fourth release of MythTV for the XBOX. Thanks for the link. I have found a couple of instances of xbox use as frontend where the user has experienced an occasional choppy display. I was wondering if anyone else could corroborate? -- Sameer I had no choppy a/v issues with 0.16, except at the very start of playback in mythtv or xine. At the start of playback there is usually some paging activity which explains the choppiness. This persists for no more than a couple seconds. With 0.17, I occasionally get a slight video stutter during normal playback. It could be I broke something though during the upgrade. Basically I think an xbox makes a great SD only playback machine. You want HD playback from an xbox under linux/mythtv? IMHO, highly unlikely to ever happen and certainly isn't possible now. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] configure did not detect my cpu
*** WARNING *** Your CPU was not detected properly: uname -m: i686 uname -p: model name: Celeron (Coppermine) flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse This is an xbox, which is a Celeron 733 MHz. -- Aran Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythbackend CPU usage when running low on diskspace
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 02:50:55PM +0100, Jens Baumeister wrote: Hi all, I have a DVB-T mythbox using 0.16, though I'm planning to upgrade to 0.17 in a few weeks - currently I'm too busy and also a bit reluctant to touch a system that's running smooth. There's just one thing that's bothering me: Every time I run low on HD space on my video partition ( 4 GB left ), mythbackend will start eating up a lot of CPU resources. (As in: 0% idle, jerky video playback, dropped frames while recording) This stops as soon as I free up some more space. It can't be related commercial flagging as I don't have that turned on. It shouldn't be auto-expiry as that's set to kick in at 2 GB left. Does anyone have any idea what mythbackend is doing there? You could look in the mythbackend.log file that's mythtv's way of TELLING you what mythbackend is doing. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Myth Video: some .avi files stutter now with .17...worked with .16
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 01:29:16PM -0500, Justin Walther wrote: True...I most likely upgraded other components, specifically mplayer at the same time. I am using FC3 and atrpms and just ran an apt-get update apt-get upgrade when the .17 rpms became available. I tried playing these files with xine and it worked just fine so I'm now sure its a problem with mplayer. What the problem is I don't know but I get a stutter still when i play these files outside of myth just in mplayer. As a suggestion make sure mplayer is using the right video output... this is usually specified with -vo (like -vo xv). If you don't specify one it makes it's own choice. Maybe with the upgrade, it's making a different choice from before. Worth a shot... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv-xbox
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 01:54:52PM -0800, M.Barnabas Luntzel wrote: do you use an xbox DVD remote control with these and if so, does it work in mplayer? trying to get to the bottom of this problem I've been having... Yes, and yes, although you weren't asking me specifically. My remote works in all lirc aware apps that I've chosen to configure. I've used mplayer in the past, currently I use xine. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] log files too big
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 05:50:56PM -0500, Mary Strimel wrote: hi, I have a smallish root filesystem (7 GB or so), and the mythbackend.log files are quickly filling my disk. I have not installed myth-debug; also, when I go through the setup there is an option for logging that is *unchecked* on my system. In a moment of haste (or stupidity) I deleted two of the largest log files and bolloxed my mythtv completely. I can't imagine how deleting log files could mess up a system. This seems so unlikely as to be impossible. Syslog won't create files it's supposed to write to, but I don't think mythbackend has that problem. Even if it did, the worst thing that would result is you'd get no logging to the mythbackend.log file. once I've done reinstalling it, is there some way to safely purge these files, or better yet, have them not created in the first place (or created somewhere else?) Try seeing if you are setting --verbose=all when running mythbackend. Try --verbose=quiet or something. If a lot of info is being written to the log, try reading it and see if it's important. I'm also not sure why you think you need to reinstall. Maybe if you were more specific with the problems you are having someone might be able to help you and save you the time of re-installing things! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] TV Overscan
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 08:29:14AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to get my MythTV to fill the whole TV screen. I think I understand from the docs that the Myth overscan settings only affect the TV image within the X-Window *not* the X-Window size/position on the TV screen. So how do I persuade my X-Window, which is currently slightly smaller than the screen with slightly wavy edges, to expand? I have tried xvidtune, but my hardware doesnt seem to respond to that! My hardware is motherboard based graphics and TV Out based on Intel 815E and Focus 453 chipsets. Anything else I can try? I wrote a huge (too big) article on overscan and sent it to the list just a little while back. Perhaps you won't find it useful, and I missed some stuff (like I don't think I even mentioned xvidtune, or powerstrip) but it does cover many ways in which you can affect overscan. I actually expected to get some feedback on it by sending it to the list... or more likely to get flamed for using incorrect terminology and the like. It was meant to be a practical guide for actually fixing things, but the beginning got to be a bit wordy so just skip a few paragraphs in if you want to get to the bits that actually discuss how to adjust things. Correcting/Adjusting Overscan In X.org/MythTV NOTE: I am not a video expert. I believe what follows is useful for someone trying to correct overscan in the context of running MythTV on a CRT. I don't own an LCD display, DFP, or projector. This info may or may not be useful to those trying to run MythTV on something other than a CRT. I'd welcome corrections to any of the info that follows. What is Overscan and why is it a problem? Overscan is the solution to the problem of completely filling the screen edge to edge and avoiding distortions that appear in the video image at the edge of the screen. Essentially when you are watching TV there is some portion of the image that is not viewable by you, it's off the screen. When watching TV you probably don't notice this and in most cases it doesn't matter. TV show producers, movie-makers, set-top box designers, and even console video game makers are well aware that they cannot expect to use the edges of the display and expect viewers at home to be able to see it. So, they confine themselves to a rectangle in the middle of the screen. This is a problem when using software designed for display on a computer monitor. The application designer often makes the (perfectly reasonable) assumption that you can see every pixel. So, when traditional desktop applications collide with display on a TV, some required portion of the image gets cut off, often a menu bar, panel or set of icons. It can also be a problem when interfacing a video card to a TV. Sometimes the overscan is so unreasonable that even when playing video too much of the image is off the edge of the screen. So, how do you fix this overscan issue? Before we get to that I'll talk briefly about three elements that you will see on your TV while running MythTV and what if any amount of overscan might be appropriate. 1. Application UI This includes the general UI of MythTV but might also include interfaces for applications launched from within MythTV like xine or various game emulators, or possibly any other Linux application. For MythTV you can have some considerable overscan present and the MythTV UI is still quite usable. The exceptions are IMHO the Setup screens and the Guide. The setup menus are particularly hard to use with any overscan because you often can't tell if a particular checkbox is checked, or read the descriptions of various options, or see the Cancel, Back, Next/Finish buttons at the bottom of the screen. Now, MythTV has some easily used options to put the UI within the viewable area of the screen. They're great but there are some downsides to using them which we'll talk about later when we get to them. Other programs may or may not be adjustable in the same way. Normal desktop-type windowed applications can be resized to use only the viewable portion of your screen, if you can get a hold of the edge in the first place. Most applications that can be used in fullscreen mode (like the video game emulators) use the whole screen and that's it therefore you're stuck. For general application use you really don't want any overscan at all. Ideally the viewable portion of the display would fill your TV edge to edge with no overscan and no underscan. Some slight underscan (where there are black borders around the edge of the screen) would actually be preferable to any overscan for normal application use. 2. Video When watching video you could argue that having no over or underscan would be ideal. For various reasons, some slight overscan is probably preferable and inevitable. The reason that some overscan might be preferable is that you may find black borders around the edge of the screen to be distracting. Of
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Xbox frontend problems with recordings
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 03:11:47PM -0700, Stephen Atkins wrote: Well I'm happy to report that that seems to have fixed things for now. It does seem that with a udp nfs to my video/record dir the playback of the recordings was not good. With out it mounted it worked fine. It now also playes fine with a tcp nfs mount. Thanks for the sugestion. Stephen I'm glad you got it working but I've used udp nfs to play back recordings on my xbox machines for ages without an issue. Also, all my mythvideo stuff works AOK also. The xbox can be used to rip a VOB from a DVD writing it to an NFS mounted filesystem and play back the same VOB with xine over NFS at the same time. The options on the xboxes for the nfs mount are: rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nfsvers=3 In /etc/exports on the server: /var/video xbox2(rw,async,no_root_squash) no_root_squash isn't really a requirement, depending... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What to do on XBox when the backend crashes
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:06:44AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I'm got my MythTV 0.16 running on a headless remote backend. One of the frontend machines in my setup is an XBox (v1.4) running Xebian 1.0.3. The problem I have is when the backend crashes or goes away. Eventually, I get the dreaded pop-up window (on the XBox) that the Connection to the backend server has been lost... is the backend running... or something to that effect. At this point the only option displayed on screen is to press OK. On a normal computer, you can usually hit the ENTER or SPACE key to get rid of that box. However, on my XBox I can't click on it. I hit every button on my XBox DVD Remote but I can't dismiss that box. And since I don't have a keyboard hooked up, the only thing I can do is to hard power-off my XBox (or SSH into the XBox and issue a shutdown -r now). What do other users do? I used to have this problem... at some point it just went away. I now get the dreaded message when something has gone wrong, but I just hit Back (Escape) on my remote and away it goes. I'm certain I had no issues with this while using 0.16. Nor does 0.17 give me any trouble. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Xbox NFS root
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:13:22AM -0500, Ken Davis wrote: Has anyone used the current scripts on bit.blkbk.com to upgrade their Xbox frontend using the NFS root option? The 4.4 script stops with a libc6 error during the install.pl -c phase. I may have seen and gotten around this error before, apparently a human memory issue. Anyone else seen this? The 4.5-beta appears to have issues. It does a wget for a file called initrd.$version(initrd.0.4.5-beta) which doesn't exist. I got around it by hardcoding to the initrd.0.4.4 that does exist, but then it locked up(twice) during the apt-get update. Anyone doing NFS root with the other distros available for the Xbox? At the end of the day, I'm trying to upgrade both my frontends to .17.. I never got the NFS install to work either, at least in recent versions of the mythtv-xbox scripts. I actually did it by hand with an earlier version that didn't support NFS as an install target, but it was a bit of a pain. I would suggest that if your only goal is to get to 0.17 then doing an apt-get upgrade with whatever you've currently got would be fairly easy. There are only a very few packages that are xbox specific despite all the packages with xebian in the version. I think they include the kernel, nv-drv-xbox, possibly lirc, and alsa, maybe. I just avoided upgrading those packages (since I had no issues with them anyway) and it worked out just fine. I think mythmusic used to require an xbox specific version as well (due to the lack of mixer, maybe) but the generic debian version from the mythtv repo seems to work fine for me. Just in case you're interested, here is what I used for my sources.list: deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sarge/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sarge/non-US main contrib non-free # Sources need for MythTV deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main deb http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian unstable mythtv deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] new nvidia driver 1.0-7167
New nvidia drivers were released today. Unfortunately they don't mention fixing any bugs related to 1080i output over DVI, which is what I wanted them to fix. Still, the changes list is so small that surely they've fixed more than what they list in the many months since the last release. I won't be able to check anything out until I get home but here's hoping this release fixes some of the issues with the nvidia driver... http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=47401 Aran ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Correcting/Adjusting Overscan In X.org/MythTV
Correcting/Adjusting Overscan In X.org/MythTV NOTE: I am not a video expert. I believe what follows is useful for someone trying to correct overscan in the context of running MythTV on a CRT. I don't own an LCD display, DFP, or projector. This info may or may not be useful to those trying to run MythTV on something other than a CRT. I'd welcome corrections to any of the info that follows. What is Overscan and why is it a problem? Overscan is the solution to the problem of completely filling the screen edge to edge and avoiding distortions that appear in the video image at the edge of the screen. Essentially when you are watching TV there is some portion of the image that is not viewable by you, it's off the screen. When watching TV you probably don't notice this and in most cases it doesn't matter. TV show producers, movie-makers, set-top box designers, and even console video game makers are well aware that they cannot expect to use the edges of the display and expect viewers at home to be able to see it. So, they confine themselves to a rectangle in the middle of the screen. This is a problem when using software designed for display on a computer monitor. The application designer often makes the (perfectly reasonable) assumption that you can see every pixel. So, when traditional desktop applications collide with display on a TV, some required portion of the image gets cut off, often a menu bar, panel or set of icons. It can also be a problem when interfacing a video card to a TV. Sometimes the overscan is so unreasonable that even when playing video too much of the image is off the edge of the screen. So, how do you fix this overscan issue? Before we get to that I'll talk briefly about three elements that you will see on your TV while running MythTV and what if any amount of overscan might be appropriate. 1. Application UI This includes the general UI of MythTV but might also include interfaces for applications launched from within MythTV like xine or various game emulators, or possibly any other Linux application. For MythTV you can have some considerable overscan present and the MythTV UI is still quite usable. The exceptions are IMHO the Setup screens and the Guide. The setup menus are particularly hard to use with any overscan because you often can't tell if a particular checkbox is checked, or read the descriptions of various options, or see the Cancel, Back, Next/Finish buttons at the bottom of the screen. Now, MythTV has some easily used options to put the UI within the viewable area of the screen. They're great but there are some downsides to using them which we'll talk about later when we get to them. Other programs may or may not be adjustable in the same way. Normal desktop-type windowed applications can be resized to use only the viewable portion of your screen, if you can get a hold of the edge in the first place. Most applications that can be used in fullscreen mode (like the video game emulators) use the whole screen and that's it therefore you're stuck. For general application use you really don't want any overscan at all. Ideally the viewable portion of the display would fill your TV edge to edge with no overscan and no underscan. Some slight underscan (where there are black borders around the edge of the screen) would actually be preferable to any overscan for normal application use. 2. Video When watching video you could argue that having no over or underscan would be ideal. For various reasons, some slight overscan is probably preferable and inevitable. The reason that some overscan might be preferable is that you may find black borders around the edge of the screen to be distracting. Of course if you have no under and no over scan, there shouldn't be black borders but usually that's nor perfectly possible anyway. Also, some programming (TV shows, movies, etc.) don't use the whole display area. They include black bars as a portion of the video you are trying to play back. If your TV has no overscan at all noticeable black bands will appear when you play back video like this. You may or may not find this distracting. If your display is underscanned (like the default configuration of xbox xebian is on my TV) then playing back video which already contains some black bars can appear downright absurd. In addition most TVs exhibit some distortion at the edges which make the image appear bent or bowed at the edges, particularly in the corners. Sometimes you can correct this, depending on the TV. In other cases the only practical way to hide these is to push them off the edge of the viewable screen. For the reasons above I would prefer some slight amount of overscan when watching video, others may disagree. 3. OSD/Video Overlay When playing back video (whether via xine or MythTV or whatever) you can usually bring up some kind of On Screen Display or overlay (so-called because it's overlayed on top of the video you are watching.) In general you really
Re: [mythtv-users] new nvidia driver 1.0-7167
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 10:13:26AM -0600, Aran Cox wrote: New nvidia drivers were released today. Unfortunately they don't mention fixing any bugs related to 1080i output over DVI, which is what I wanted them to fix. Still, the changes list is so small that surely they've fixed more than what they list in the many months since the last release. I won't be able to check anything out until I get home but here's hoping this release fixes some of the issues with the nvidia driver... http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=47401 Well so far it doesn't seem to have changed anything for me. I get results similar to 6629 when trying to display a 1080i mode via DVI. Oh well... I guess I should be happy my TV does 720p and that I have a mode that works well for that. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How to reply to messages in mythtv-users Archives?
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 11:34:26AM +1100, Sammo wrote: Try importing the archived messages: http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2005-March.txt.gz http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2005-February.txt.gz and then try to reply to them in a normal fashion. They are in mbox format, so Thunderbird should be able to handle them. Thanks! I just extracted the 2005-March.txt and renamed it to .mbox extension in my Thunderbird Mail/Local Folders directory, and it works. Still, I find it hard to keep up with the mailing list using my mail client. What do you use to manage your mailing lists? What I have found is that it's far easier to keep up with a mail list like this one with a text based client like mutt than it is with even a good graphical client, like thunderbird, kmail, evolution, etc. Mutt (and probably pine as well) is an email machine. It can read mbox format mail boxes so you can probably get it to read your thunderbird mail folders without needing to convert or decide to use only one or the other. Aran ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV on Xbox - praise
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:23:29PM -0800, Nav Jagpal wrote: Thanks for the info; I will try that... As soon as I can get Xebian to boot again! I've had this problem in the past: I get the http://xbox-linux.sf.net; in the corner, and what looks like a green square near the left side of the screen.. Has anyone seen this? Is there a way to fix this? Xbox seems to freeze at this point. I have two xbox units and one never does this. The other does this and the only way I know to fix it is to shut it off and leave it off for about ten seconds. Usually for me it works on the 2nd or 3rd try. It's annoying but I just fixed it by leaving it on all the time. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV on Xbox - praise
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 10:47:07AM -0800, Nav Jagpal wrote: Thanks.. I wanted to know about the picture before I went and purchased the remote. My experience with VNC on Debian is that you cannot control the console, but can control what I call virtual desktops ? This depends on how you set up VNC. IIRC you can do it both ways, where you control the real X server on the system or a fake X server, like a virtual one. Both are useful in certain circumstances. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: mythtv backend on a headless fileserver
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:38:18PM +, Lasse Lindgård wrote: Please accept my apologies for bringing religion into the discussion. Just tell me: If I compile mythtv with Qt/E I will be able to launch the setup program if I just attach a monitor to my server? Thank you for your time There is no reason for you to attach a monitor to your server, no matter what version of Qt you link mythtv's setup program against. You must have an X server somewhere if you intend to run mythfrontend. cygwin's port of XFree86/Xorg will do fine if all you have is a windows machine. If you have a linux workstation you just ssh over to the server, run the X application (setup in this case) and the program's window appears on your workstation. Of course, ssh isn't always set up like this. You might have to enable X11Forwarding in the sshd_config file on the server and ForwardX11 in the ssh_config (or .ssh/config) file on the client side. Restart sshd on the server and log back in from your workstation, if you have to change these config files. Even if you don't want to monkey with that, on your workstation you can run something like: xhost + or xhost +thatmythserver Then, on the server run something like: export DISPLAY=myworkstation:0 Again, the window opened by the mythtv setup program will magically appear on your workstation. It's the power of X! That's why X11/Qt is no big deal for the setup program... you don't have to actually run X on the server... you just need the client libraries. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Confused on multi-tuner systems
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:11:03PM -0800, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: If I understand things correctly, myth obtains the sound for a tv program it is recorded from the sound card, which gets its signal from the loop wire (taking the audio out from the tv card and putting it into the aux or line in on the sound card). So, if you put two bttv based cards in one system, and they are looping through the same sound card, and it was recording two programs at once, wouldn't both recordings get the audio from both shows overlapped? How does it separate the audio from the different cards? Am I being stupid here and missing something simple? You should try and get btaudio working. It allows you to record sound directly from the card over the PCI bus. btaudio is a sound driver that is included with the linux kernel. Not every bttv card works with btaudio though, I had two bttv cards at one point and I never could get either to work. I ended up with two audio cards to support the two bttv cards. Something else to keep in mind: capturing from three bttv cards will take some significant CPU power. Not out of the reach of a modern system probably, but if you're like me the backend is not exactly state of the art. good luck! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: XvMC and Prebuffering Pauses
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:39:22AM -0600, Neil wrote: Brad Templeton writes: On Athlon-3000s people typically see about 80% usage. On P4-3ghz we see more like 55% usage but that number is probably a touch misleading due to hyperthreading. Hi Brad, Just curious since I bought an Athlon 64 3000+ cpu. I'm also waiting for my 6600 GT nvidia graphics adapter. You are saying that when I start playing HD, my cpu utilization will hit 80% too? This value is bad! Please confirm. He was likely refering to xv only (not xvmc) software based decoding. The numbers should be lower if you use the XvMC support that I assume the 6600GT card includes. If you choose to not use XvMC, those numbers would be correct. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Is there a good guide for setting up a system with seperate backend and frontend?
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:53:50AM -0600, T. Waldren wrote: After seeing my mythbox in action, a friend wants to create their own. Being more monitarily endowed then me, he is going to plop down some cash on a fast backend, and some parts to make 2 frontends. He is asking for my help, since I am the only person that he knows who has a mythbox, and the only other person I know lives near chicago (not near me), and I of course and still a newbie at all this stuff, so I am going to need help. Continuing my trend of asking users group, instead of 'seaching via google' is there a good document explaining the tricks, etc for building a myth system with a seperate backend and frontend? Please consider reading the documentation available at www.mythtv.org and possibly http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php A couple more questions. Should we wait until all the issues that seem to be coming up with .17 on this list are gone (say a couple of weeks) or is it fairly stable and these are just oddities? That's a decision only you can make. From people's experience, does a standard ethernet network (10/100 mbps network) offer enough thoughput to run two playback only frontends connecting to one recording only backend, without any problems? Yes. And the last one (I can think of at this time). How do you setup multiple drives are the place for mythtv to store files, or can this even be done? For instance, if I have two 80 gig drives, can I make that into one 160 gig space for mythtv to store recordings? http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.3 Please reconsider simply asking questions instead of searching. The available documentation is excellent and there almost no questions that haven't been asked and answered over and over again on the mailing list. There is a searchable mail archive of this list here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/ Aran ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for hardware recommendations
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 07:26:10AM -0700, Shawn Willden wrote: I'm building a home theatre of sorts in my basement. I have a semi-decent 5.1 audio system and I'm going to get a nice screen (probably the Samsung 46 DLP -- still working on that decision) and I'd like to hook a computer up to it to act as a video jukebox, to play any of the several thousand Oggs in my music collection, to show pictures from my database of digital images, etc. However, since this box needs to go into the home theatre environment, I obviously need something that looks and sounds more like audio/video equipment than a PC. So, I'm looking for suggestions. It doesn't actually have to look all that nice, as long as it can be hidden away on a shelf behind a closed door. It does, however, have to be fairly small, and run fairly cool. I didn't think about putting a computer in when I had the shelving built, so it doesn't have a lot of vertical room, and it also doesn't have a lot of air circulation, particularly if the cabinet door is closed. However, I also don't think it necessarily has to be all that powerful. It doesn't have to have much disk, since there's a 100-BaseT/Gig-E socket wired back to my server. Enough processing power to transcode effectively would be nice, but I could do that elsewhere, perhaps even distributed across a few machines (there's an Athlon64 3400+ and a couple of Athlon 1.4Ghz boxes around). It does need to have good audio out, so it can make use of the 5.1 sound system, and a decent video card. Video outputs depend on the inputs the TV has, I suppose. That Samsung I've been looking at has DVI inputs. Oh, and a low price would be nice, too. Would a Mac mini be a good choice? It's quiet, pretty, fairly cheap, and should run Linux just fine. Or I guess MythTV has a Mac port. But it doesn't look like the mini has much in the way of audio outputs :-( Suggestions? Read the other million posts with this exact same topic in the mail archives? http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/ I use an xbox. If you don't care about HDTV you might consider that. It has a Toslink-style optical jack (or so I gather, I've never used it) that I assume would do 5.1. I use it to play back oggs, various video files including ripped DVD's, etc. Works well for me. If you want HDTV with DVI output and so one... you are going to have to start reading the archives, maybe anandtech.com, silentpcreview.com, maybe nvidia forums for driver issues, http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/mythhd.php, http://thegeorges.us/mythtv/, and so on. Aran ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Recomendation for Diskless Front End
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:19:29PM -0800, Ben Dash wrote: I'd really like to use my XBox as a diskless mythtv frontend. Since I'm not planning on using the XBox for anything other than Myth and XBox games I don't really want to swap out the standard 8 or 10 gig drive. I'd prefer to put etherboot onto some free space on the existing disk, or even better in the SmartXX EEPROM, then boot Gentoo off the LAN. Does anyone have any idea how doable that would be? I think it's doable... the issue is that I think you would really want some swap... and that means swap over nfs or possibly nbd (network block device?) The reason I say this is that the xbox has only 64 megs and I know from experience that it uses that swap frequently. Particularly when switching from mythtv to xine and back. Anyway, maybe you planned on swap over nfs/etc. but the whole idea always seemed dodgy. Probably people do it all the time, but whatever. I always thought that a CF/IDE adapter would be awesome until I discovered that flash memory generally has a limit on the number of writes it can handle before it's toast. This would make it a bad choice for a swap device in a 64 meg system running relatively large apps like mythtv, X.org, and xine. The cronwell replacement bios supports network booting so you should be good there. Has anyone already tried it? No, but I think it's readily doable. I own two xboxes and I'll probably put cromwell on one of them one of these days. Currently I use the MechInstaller/font exploit that makes it possible to play xbox games and run linux. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV and MythTV
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 07:02:33PM -0500, Preston Crow wrote: On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 18:33, Tom E. Craddock, Jr. wrote: Drew Zerdecki wrote: 2.) Not sure if anyone has had success with DVI out to a DVI to HDMI converter, It's not a converter, it's a cable, and it's what I use. HDMI is DVI with a different connector for all practical purposes. (Yes, HDMI also includes audio, but few people who have HDTV still use TV speakers for sound. Yes, HDMI implies support for HDCP which was optional for DVI, but that just means it will decrypt if needed, not that encryption is required.) So yes, DVI-out from my nVidia 5200 to my HDMI input on my TV works, provided you get the mode lines exactly correct (and you turn off the EDID information, since the TV can't provide the exact video modes correctly). I thought I read a discussion that implied that it was unclear if anyone had gotten an DVI-HDMI connection to work, at least in interlace mode. I looked back at recent posts from you and didn't see anything where you revealed the modelines you are using. Can you share them? I was able to get my Ti4200 to do DVI-HDMI to work at 720p, with hideous overscan but was never able to get a viewable 1080i resolution. Thanks, Aran ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Good ivtv 2.0 driver?
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:45:45PM -0500, MacNean C. Tyrrell wrote: I need a good 0.2.0 driver for ivtv. I have two pvr-250's. Because i had to send one back to Hauppauge because the tv tuner went bad and of course the new one they sent was a new type of tuner, basically the type 39 or whatever. So if i use pre2 the new tv tuner gets stuck on one channel after awhile. Well at least i think its with the pre2 drivers. So far it hasn't happened with the 0.2.0 drivers. I really like the pre2 106u driver, no artifacts, really really clear picture, i really really liked it. Well with the 106u drivers, like i said the tuner sticks on one channel. However i'm using the ivtv-0.2.0-rc3e but there are artifacts and like small skippings, that i got with the old 105k driver i used to use (i think it was 105k, can't remember), but as long as i upgraded to 106u, it's been perfect. Well the 2.0 rc3 has the same problems as the old one i used with artifacts and such, but i can use both tuners now. So does anyone know of a good ivtv 0.2.0 driver that doesn't have artifacts or problems, it's uptime is a long time, etc? rc3d is the first version I've used that's been absolutely rock solid. You may want to try it or something newer, and double check you have your modules.conf/modprobe.conf set up correctly. (In most cases you don't have to do anything special anymore, but make sure the correct supporting cast of drivers is loaded in the right order, or that the correct one is loaded at all.) My uptime with rc3d was only interupted by a catastrophic failure of my motherboard and was otherwise fantastic. YMMV of course. Aran ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] myth music database fill
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 08:46:42AM -0500, Al Faller wrote: Hi, I looked through the archives and didn't find a similar issue - but I appologize if this is a duplicate. I have a substancial number of mp3s that are on my myth box. When I have mythtv scan my music for changes, it only gets about 3/4 of the way through then chokes. It would appear maybe their is a database setting which is restricting the number of items in the music db? Has anyone seen this before? What kinds of info can I provide to figure this one out? Pentium 3 - 1 Gigahertz 256 mb ram ~35,000 mp3s I don't know if there is a limit to the size of the database (table really) but my guess is not. Maybe so though, but in any case try running mythfrontend with --verbose and see if it gives you some indication of why it stopped. Aran ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: smart package manager to replace apt/yum
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 09:49:53AM -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: On Tuesday 01 February 2005 18:17, Brad Templeton wrote: On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:44:09AM -0500, John Johnson wrote: I just don't understand why it (software installation) can't be as easy as it is on a Mac. On a Mac, in most cases, installing software consists of dragging the application from the file you downloaded into the Applications folder. That's it. The Mac gets that (clearly desirable) drag and install at a very high price. As I understand it, the main price that Mac packagers pay for having drag-and-install is disk usage, because any dependencies that aren't part of the base system (i.e., Apple-supplied stuff) are bundled into the package. So, if you had 3 different packages from 3 vendors that all used, say, libmp3lame, then each package would either statically link libmp3lame, or bundle a version of the shared library in with the app (Fink packages aside, since they're not really OS X packages). Obviously, the cost here is disk space -- potentially 3 copies of a library on your disk -- but it does give the added benefit of peaceful coexistence of packages which use different versions of the same library, totally side-stepping any dependency hell whatsoever. And the downside is more than disk space. What if you discover a bug in libmp3lame, and would like to upgrade that. Can you replace just libmp3lame in your mac package? I guess you'd have to upgrade all your apps that contain the buggy libmp3lame huh? In my mind mac os and windows dodge the issues at hand in their own way, neither succeeding. rpm/apt/yum/deb/etc. try to solve the issue by tracking actual dependencies. It can be painful at times but basically complex software has complex dependancies. However, I look forward to innovations in package management ;) I could say more, but this is totally OT, and I'm biased and I don't use MacOS or Windows much, so I don't even really know what I'm talking about :) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Master and Slave Backend Crashes
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:04:26PM -0600, Dave Anderson wrote: At 09:34 PM 1/25/2005, you wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 10:11 pm, Dave Anderson wrote: I have two myth boxes setup. One is a master and the other a slave. I'm experiencing periodic backend crashes but I don't see anything in the mythbackend log about it. Is there somewhere else to look? A flag I have to set? http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-20.html#ss20.2 Isaac ___ Does anyone know if Axel compiled with debugging support? Or will I have to do this the hard way? Dave I think you should be able to download the source rpm and modify the spec file slightly to enable debug (and possibly disable release?) and rebuild the rpms. Whether or not you consider this harder than the hard way (which I assume meant compiling from source) is up to you! Aran ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nVidia card choices, and processors for HDTV playback
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 12:23 -0800, Brad Templeton wrote: On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:59:24AM -0800, Scott Alfter wrote: It works for me (the Gainward card is in the Myth box). Yes, there are reports of working at 720p. What we want to find out is if anybody is doing 1080i to an HDTV over DVI/HDMI from the 5200, and if so, to what TVs. Several of us have tried to make this work and get a double vision problem where the two half-frames are out of vertical alignment by about 20 lines, I think. Progressive modes would of course not have this issue. I'm very interested in the description of the this problem you see when doing 1080i over a DVI/HDMI cable. I'll have to look at it again, but it seems that what you are describing is exactly what I see on my Ti4200 doing the same thing. I haven't looked at it in a while, but I always found it hard to describe the problem. Usually I just ended up calling it messed up. But I could still sort of make out images, like the nvidia logo, etc. I'm hopeful that someone will figure this out... I'd hate to have to buy a VGA-component converter when there's an all digital option... -- Aran Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Success Stories?
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:49 -0500, Roy Murphy wrote: I've been reading this list for about two months and I'm about ready to buy some HW for a MythBox, but I'm having a hard time finding setups that work well in the archives. I'm going to be driving a 1080i native HDTV CRT with a VGA-Composite adaptor (no DVI or HDMI inputs on this model). I hear that an nvidia adapter can drive HD with less processor, but interlace dosn't work. Assuming I have a hefty processor (3.4 GHz P4) which graphics chipsets could drive HD through VGA? ATI? SIS? Intel Extreme? Unichrome? I had a Ti4200 connected to an HDTV via a DVI-HDMI cable. It worked at 720p but it was terribly overscanned and I was never very happy with the picture quality. I could never get 1080i to display correctly. The display was always messed up, like not in sync or something. It was kind of hard to describe and I never fixed it. I always assumed that it would look better in 1080i than 720p since 1080i is supposedly the native resolution for my TV. I also had the same problems with 540p resolutions. I recently switched from that system to an Xbox at 480p and am much happier with the image quality. I haven't tried the xbox in 720p or 1080i (which I understand is possible.) I don't actually have any real HD content to play yet anyway, so it hasn't mattered and the xbox isn't even remotely fast enough to decode HD content so I may not bother. I'll probably be trying again soon... once I have the HD3000 card recording shows the urge to be able to play them back will be pretty strong. In the meantime I was planning to transcode the HD content into something my xbox's can handle. Anyway, good luck... -- Aran Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
