Re: [mythtv-users] Segfault when configured MythTV with XvMC
Jean-Yves Avenard wrote: Hi. I removed the 8178 driver and all references to it, installed 7676. Now XvMC works !!! cool The interesting thing though, is that it plays HD channels fine with Software decoding too ! This happens since I used a 1000Hz timer for the kernel instead of the default 250Hz ... I've tried this before, and had disasterious results with FC2. Now I'm on FC4 and the 7676 driver. Do you have to do anything else (like a xorg.conf setting) other than the switch in the Mythtv setup? ___ 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....
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
Re: [mythtv-users] Video Quality
Kerry Wilson wrote: What is the general consensus on video quality settings? Is there a bitrate where it becomes unnecessary? I have mine set at 720x480 6600 bitrate. I decided that the 6 GB cache is plenty ( I can't imagine rewinding beyond 20 or 30 minutes at the most ) so I might as well have it at a real high bitrate. Should I turn it up any further? I have a pvr-150, do higher settings put more stress on the CPU? This was posted recently: http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/tutorial/bitrate.html It seems very helpful ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and Asterisk?
Marius Schrecker wrote: Now all of the frontends get a caller id OSD message like this when somebody calls. http://www.aldorf.no/mythtv/alert.jpg Was rather shocked to see that George has emigrated to Norway (47)! I was relieved. signed, a US citizen ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Live TV Freeze in HD
Curtis Stanford wrote: In LiveTV, if I switch channels from one HD channel to another, myth hangs. If I press ESC and then 'Watch TV' again, it comes up fine. Switching from non-HD to HD and vice versa seems to work OK, however. I'm using the latest SVN code (as of yesterday) and a DCT-6200 with firewire. The firewire works perfectly in all other respects. Anyone else see this? Curious: how do you switch channels if you are receiving the HD stream from a set top box? Aren't you changing the channels on the box externally? Or does Myth have a way to send channel changes via 1394? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and Asterisk?
Mike wrote: John Biundo wrote: Peter Loron wrote: Yeah, I'd like to use a solid state box for Asterisk, but I need to have a PCI slot for my X100P card to interface with POTS. Have you attempted any integration between Asterisk and Mythtv? The obvious one, of course, is doing caller id OSD. I'm planning to get that going soon. Anything else interesting that people have done? cheers, john You don't need asterisk for that... Just mythnotify from the contrib dir. Thats what I use for callerid via OSD. what hw is required? can you use a plain old modem card? Or do you need something fancy? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and Asterisk?
John Biundo wrote: Brad Fuller wrote: Mike wrote: what hw is required? can you use a plain old modem card? Or do you need something fancy? Don't know what Mike is using for his asterisk-less solution. With asterisk, you need an X100P card, which is a fancy modem, available on ebay for about $15 in the U.S. That's pretty cheap. Thanks. I'll check that out. Any particular mfr that is best? This is clearly out of my league. Sorry I wasn't clear. I was wondering if I just need a modem card to use mythnotify for caller ID. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and Asterisk?
Brad Fuller wrote: John Biundo wrote: Brad Fuller wrote: Mike wrote: what hw is required? can you use a plain old modem card? Or do you need something fancy? Don't know what Mike is using for his asterisk-less solution. With asterisk, you need an X100P card, which is a fancy modem, available on ebay for about $15 in the U.S. That's pretty cheap. Thanks. I'll check that out. Any particular mfr that is best? This is clearly out of my league. Sorry I wasn't clear. I was wondering if I just need a modem card to use mythnotify for caller ID. I'm in the US. Will the X100P work here? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What decides channel order?
Dag Nygren wrote: Dag Nygren wrote: In frontend settings on page "General (basic)": Channel ordering - channel number (numeric) - channel number (alpha) - database order - channel name - ATSC channel Yep, have seen that and changed it. Doesn't help though. It will change the order in the "big" program guide, but not the order of "up" and "down" in the short form guide during LiveTV. Thanks for the advice anyway. The problem I have, and I searched for an answer (and asked a month ago) was why do my ATSC channels seem to be picked randomly when going up and down? For instance, my channel numbers are: 2-1 4-1 4-2 5-1 7-1 9-1 9-2 9-3 9-4 9-5 11-1 11-2 etc. When pressing up-arrow from 7-1, sometimes I get 9-4, sometimes 9-1. When pressing down-arrow from 11-1 I mostly get 9-1. Furthermore, I can never get the next subchannel of it's main channel. For instance going from 4-1 I can never get 4-2. Or going from 9-1 I can never to 9-2. brad Dag ___ 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] What decides channel order?
Dag Nygren wrote: On Saturday 21 January 2006 23:35, Brad Fuller wrote: Dag Nygren wrote: Yep, have seen that and changed it. Doesn't help though. It will change the order in the "big" program guide, but not the order of "up" and "down" in the short form guide during LiveTV. Thanks for the advice anyway. The problem I have, and I searched for an answer (and asked a month ago) was why do my ATSC channels seem to be picked randomly when going up and down? My channels are not random, but always stays the same. But even if I chose "numerical order" going down from channel 3 gives me 3,2,15(!),1. maybe you are really in database order. Which table is used for changing channels? The "channel" table? If so, you could look in there and see if indeed the order is 3,2,15,1 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Sweet! PC HD3000 QAM_256 working, now about importing those channels?
Neil wrote: Let me know how this goes with the Dvico Fusion5HDTV Lite card. I was thinking of getting one of these to replace one of my SD PVR cards. I'm hitting a wall right now. Was really wondering why I wasn't able to make it work. I got the channels.conf, 114 services found as of last night by atscscan. Then I went to zap2it and only selected the channel that was found by atscscan. I ran mythfilldatabase to grab the channel lineup. For my test, I only picked one channel. IIRC, atscscan called the channel as FOX-HD. However, in zap2it, I guess FOX-HD is written as WFLD. I pulled those mplexid, frequency, etc and then updated the channels table. Did I miss anything? Anyways, this morning, I upgraded to pre .19 mythtv. I restored my old backup as of 2 days ago, ran mythtv-setup and added the zap2it lineup. I did a cable QAM-256 scan and it found about 20+ channels. Channels were like C107#1, C107#2, C107#3 and so on. I closed setup ran mythfrontend. I am able to see now the Comcast channels in Watch TV, however, I don't have any program guide for those comcast channels. It is showing "No data". did you run mythfilldatabase And another issue I'm seeing is, I always watch HGTV, Spike, AE and my kids, cartoon network in our regular television. It's just a straight coaxial connection from outside house to our television. However, in my other setup which is the Fusioncard on Mythtv, I scrolled through every channel that myth found but most of them were advertisements, weather channel and news. I didn't see the channels I really like to watch. ANy ideas? I do see some HD though like WTTW-11 even if I only have analog subscription. What about QAM-64, QAM-128, what are these? Will I find channels if I select this? Thanks! ___ 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] zap2it lineup configuration for 2 card configuration
Steve Adeff wrote: On Wednesday 18 January 2006 12:59, Neil wrote: hey guys, I got the fusion lite hdtv 5 card delivered. I would like to know how I would configure the channeling in mythtvsetup. I currently have air2pc and I'm using it for my OTA. I will be using the fusion card for Comcast cable. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Neil since the new card will be using cable instead of OTA you can just log into your current zap2it account and setup a new lineup using comcast cable, then in mythtv-setup you'll want to set up two sources, one for the OTA lineup and one for the Comcast lineup. Your zap2it login information will be the same, but you'll get two options for the lineup. You may also find that you get all the OTA channels on the comcast line. Once you get this going, I'd be interested to know if you find a difference in Comcast's version of the HD stations as compared to OTA. me too. I'm in SF Bay area (Los Gatos) and HD OTA seems to be better than Comcast QAM but I'd like to find out if it's me or them. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] zap2it lineup configuration for 2 card configuration
Steve Adeff wrote: On Wednesday 18 January 2006 13:44, Brad Fuller wrote: Steve Adeff wrote: On Wednesday 18 January 2006 12:59, Neil wrote: hey guys, I got the fusion lite hdtv 5 card delivered. I would like to know how I would configure the channeling in mythtvsetup. I currently have air2pc and I'm using it for my OTA. I will be using the fusion card for Comcast cable. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Neil since the new card will be using cable instead of OTA you can just log into your current zap2it account and setup a new lineup using comcast cable, then in mythtv-setup you'll want to set up two sources, one for the OTA lineup and one for the Comcast lineup. Your zap2it login information will be the same, but you'll get two options for the lineup. You may also find that you get all the OTA channels on the comcast line. Once you get this going, I'd be interested to know if you find a difference in Comcast's version of the HD stations as compared to OTA. me too. I'm in SF Bay area (Los Gatos) and HD OTA seems to be better than Comcast QAM but I'd like to find out if it's me or them. record the same thing on both tuners and compare the mpeg streams. I only have one 250 and one HD. But, when I went to QAM the results were mixed. OTA was much better, but I have more time on OTA than QAM. Just was looking for more benchmarks from others. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Entering USA Cable channels into the DVB tables
Len Reed wrote: Brad Fuller wrote: On 01/16/2006 01:55 PM R. G. Newbury wrote: In the database, Fox digital is my chanid 3785. So I assume I should update channel set freqid = 4 where chanid = 3785; where '4' is the mplexid from the dtv_multiplex table for 669Mhz. In my setup, the freqid is the same as the channum, that is, the number in the EPG which you 'call' for the channel you want. How do you do that when you can have the same freqid for a channel with several subchannels. For instance, in my area channel 11 is freqid 20700 and it has to subchannels. atscsrcid 1 and 2 (for 11-1 and 11-2) Plus, the freqid is really big. Do you just truncate it to 207? Don't confuse freqid with frequency. Mine's all working now (see other detailed posting). The channel table has freqid set to the cable channel my provider and zap2it schedules use. For example, Fox digital (WAGADT) is chanid 3785, channum 785, and freqid 785. I don't think the freqid maters, though, for digital channels. (For analog channels, freqid are standard broadcast or cable channel numbers.) For WAGADT, mplexid is 4 and the serviceid is 2. The atscsrcid is 0 on all my digital channels. Hmmm. In my channel table "freqid" is the same as "frequency" in the dtv_multiplex table, which is what I was referring to. For instance, Fox Digital (KTVUHD) freqid is 72500. To reflect what you have above, Fox Digital: chanid: 2028 channum: 2-1 (this is a number I gave it) freqid: 72500 mplexid: 19 atscsrcid on my digital channels are all different. Examples: name channum mplexid serviceid atscsrcid KTVUHD 2-1 19 31 KTVU-DT 2-2 19 4 2 KBWB-HD 20-1 2 3 1 KBWB-SD 20-2 2 4 2 I have 5 KQED (PBS) OTA HD channels. Their atscsrcid's are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Their mplexid's are all the same, as is their frequency 56900 Their serviceid's are 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 respectfully. Over in the dtv_multiplex table, the first column is the mplexid. The one with '4' as mplexid has the right frequency (66900). As I mentioned, that frequency value is the same as my freqid in the channel table. I bet this is because I'm OTA. So, when I want to tune WAGADT, which my provider calls channel 785, mythbackend pick adapter 3 and channel 785 to get chanid 3785. It looks that up in the channel table to get the mplexid (4) and serviceid (2). It goes to the drv_multiplex table and looks up 4 to get the frequency (66900 Hz). Finally, it tunes the card giving it the frequency and the serviceid. None of this worked until I upgraded to the latest SVN and scanned the channels. I'm guess that the dtv_multiplex table's transportid and networkid needed that step to get set properly; it's not clear to me what those fields do. If that's right, then those fields are involved in tuning or filtering somehow. ___ 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] Entering USA Cable channels into the DVB tables
Curtis Preston wrote: You said: As I mentioned, that frequency value is the same as my freqid in the channel table. I bet this is because I'm OTA. Yes, youre right. My example was for tuning QAM_256 on a cable service (Cox in my case). In that case, the frequid is the big frequency number (e.g. 52700). Im still not sure if you have to put that in there, or if you just need to put the mplexid in the right column. I didn't know either. I figured that MythTV would use mplexid to get the frequency from the dtv_mutliplex table. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] mtd with transcode
I'm stumped. Is there a list of dependencies I need to install in order to get DVD Playback support in svn? also, is this the same set of packages needed to build mtd with transcode support? I've installed just about everything I can think of, but still no joy. I checked the how to and THOUGHT I installed everything needed, but clearly this is not the case. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]$ ./configure # Basic Settings Compile type release Compiler cache no DistCC no Install prefix /usr/local CPU x86 (model name: Pentium III (Coppermine)) Big Endian no MMX enabled yes Vector Builtins yes # Input Support Joystick menuyes lirc support yes Video4Linux sup. yes ivtv support yes FireWire support no DVB support no [/usr/include] DBox2 supportyes # Sound Output Support OSS support yes ALSA support yes aRts support yes JACK support no DTS passthrough no # Video Output Support x11 support yes xrandr support yes xv support yes XvMC support no XvMC VLD support no XvMC pro support no XvMC libs OpenGL vsync no DirectFB no # Misc Features DVD playback no Frontend yes Backend yes Plugins look like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythplugins]$ ./configure which: no sdl-config in (/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/ bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/mythtv/bin) Configuration settings: MythBrowser plugin will be built MythControls plugin will be built MythFlix plugin will be built MythDVD plugin will be built MythGallery plugin will be built MythGame plugin will be built MythMusic plugin will be built MythNews plugin will be built MythPhone plugin will be built MythVideo plugin will be built MythWeather plugin will be built Transcode support will not be included in MythDVD VCD support will not be included in MythDVD OpenGLsupport will be included in MythGallery EXIF support will not be included in MythGallery OpenGLsupport will be included in MythMusic FFTW support will not be included in MythMusic SDL support will not be included in MythMusic AAC support will not be included in MythMusic FESTIVAL support will not be included in MythPhone ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mtd with transcode
On Jan 17, 2006, at 7:14 AM, Simon Levitt wrote: On Tuesday 17 January 2006 12:02, Brad DerManouelian wrote: I checked the how to and THOUGHT I installed everything needed, but clearly this is not the case. From the configure script: if test x$dvd = xyes ; then dvd=no if has_library libdvdnav ; then if has_header dvdnav/dvdnav.h ; then dvd=yes fi fi fi ... echo # Misc Features echo DVD playback $dvd So it basically hinges on whether libdvdnav can be found along with its headers. Hope that helps, Simon., Sure did, man. Thanks. Now I just gotta get past this transcode support in mtd hurdle and I'm back to where I was with stable as far as functionality but with the added goodness of svn. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Entering USA Cable channels into the DVB tables
On 01/16/2006 01:55 PM R. G. Newbury wrote: In the database, Fox digital is my chanid 3785. So I assume I should update channel set freqid = 4 where chanid = 3785; where '4' is the mplexid from the dtv_multiplex table for 669Mhz. In my setup, the freqid is the same as the channum, that is, the number in the EPG which you 'call' for the channel you want. How do you do that when you can have the same freqid for a channel with several subchannels. For instance, in my area channel 11 is freqid 20700 and it has to subchannels. atscsrcid 1 and 2 (for 11-1 and 11-2) Plus, the freqid is really big. Do you just truncate it to 207? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 LiveTV - no go.
Steve Adeff wrote: On Friday 13 January 2006 17:04, Brad Fuller wrote: I shouldn't say that I _never_ get LiveTV with HD3000 in MythTV, but I rarely do. MythTV seems to record HDTV programs just fine and I can play them back within MythTV fine, too. It's just when I switch to the HD3000 tuner I just get black screen and the errors like: "taking too long to be allowed to read" Any tweaks that I can perform? There was a msg about this last may: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/130910?search_string=HD3 000%20Live;#130910 but no reply. I have a MX4000/64mb, maybe that's just not enough for MythTV AND Live HDTV? thanks, brad SVN? what revision? did u check trac? sorry for not mentioning. Not svn, 0.18.1-116.rhfc4.at ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 LiveTV - no go.
On 07:53 AM Brad Fuller wrote: SVN? what revision? did u check trac? sorry for not mentioning. Not svn, 0.18.1-116.rhfc4.at just upgraded to .117 - no improvement ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Myth could not locate the menu file setup.xml
If you're running svn without any prefix options, it's likely in /usr/ local/share/mythtv. Best way to find out is something like find /usr/ -name setup.xml Since it's obviously not where frontend is expecting it to be, you can run your frontend with your $MYTHTVDIR environment variable pointing to that location like: $ export MYTHTVDIR=/usr/local/ $ mythfrontend There's a command-line switch to tell it which directory, as well. I forgot what it is, but mythfrontend --help should tell you. On Jan 16, 2006, at 6:38 PM, Ole Sandum wrote: At my FC4 installation it's in /usr/share/mythtv/ along with fonts and menu resources for all the myth modules. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I run $ mythtv-setup it says Myth could not locate the menu file setup.xml. We will now return to the main menu Is there some way I can get it and where does it need to go? ___ 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] mythfrontend not working
How did you install mythtv? On Jan 16, 2006, at 8:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I enter the command to run mythfrontend it says command not found. I think it is missing because I cant find it anyware. Is there someplace I can get it? ___ 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] mythfrontend not working
It should have installed into a directory in your path for you, then. To find it, you would run something like find /usr -name=mythfrontend and it will tell you where it is. However, it sounds like your whole install is a bit messed up. I would run sudo yum install myth-suite and see if it fixes it up for you. On Jan 16, 2006, at 8:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used yum. The command I used was yum install myth-suite. Brad DerManouelian wrote: How did you install mythtv? On Jan 16, 2006, at 8:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I enter the command to run mythfrontend it says command not found. I think it is missing because I cant find it anyware. Is there someplace I can get it? ___ 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 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend not working
You either need to disable checking for keys or add the appropriate key. Looks like it never installed properly in the first place. I can't remember off hand how to do that. Maybe someone else can help out? On Jan 16, 2006, at 9:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I do that all I get is warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e Public key for perl-XML-SAX-0.12-7.noarch.rpm is not installed . I also tried yum install mythtv. Brad DerManouelian wrote: It should have installed into a directory in your path for you, then. To find it, you would run something like find /usr -name=mythfrontend and it will tell you where it is. However, it sounds like your whole install is a bit messed up. I would run sudo yum install myth-suite and see if it fixes it up for you. On Jan 16, 2006, at 8:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used yum. The command I used was yum install myth-suite. Brad DerManouelian wrote: How did you install mythtv? On Jan 16, 2006, at 8:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I enter the command to run mythfrontend it says command not found. I think it is missing because I cant find it anyware. Is there someplace I can get it? ___ 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 ___ 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
[mythtv-users] EPG in LiveTV using SVN
I checked out the dev list and didn't see anything about this here, so I thought I would post here before bothering the devs. I recently upgraded from 0.18.1 to svn as of last night. Loading the EPG through schedule recordings takes a REALLY long time to load. I'd say about 15-20 seconds whereas it took about 1 second in 0.18.1. Scrolling to display a new listing also takes a very long time (several seconds). Seems like I'm having a mysql issue, but not sure what that issue might be. Once the record is loaded, I can scroll back to it without an issue and left/right scrolls are fine since the record is loaded for that channel. The bigger issues is watching LiveTV and entering the EPG. It never shows up. It makes frontend peg one of my processors (normally runs VERY low since I use PVR-350's TV-out) and never displays (left it like this for half an hour before I realized I had tried to enter the EPG and it never happened). Once I choose to enter the EPG, I can't do anything else with front end. Won't exit. Just keeps playing LiveTV. So I ssh in, kill the frontend process and I get a black screen that I can't seem to get rid of. At that point, I reboot to get back to where I was. I thought maybe it was a theme issue since I was using ProjectGrayham and GrayOSD which might not contain support for SVN (if additional support is needed?), but I had the same issues using GANT that came with SVN. I have other issues, but these are the ones that don't seem to be solved by install the dependencies, stupid. Still sorting out what I need to get transcoding to work. Any tips on what needs to be loaded for that are appreciated! Thanks, Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] EPG in LiveTV using SVN
On Jan 14, 2006, at 11:00 AM, Brad DerManouelian wrote: I checked out the dev list and didn't see anything about this here, so I thought I would post here before bothering the devs. I recently upgraded from 0.18.1 to svn as of last night. Loading the EPG through schedule recordings takes a REALLY long time to load. I'd say about 15-20 seconds whereas it took about 1 second in 0.18.1. Scrolling to display a new listing also takes a very long time (several seconds). Seems like I'm having a mysql issue, but not sure what that issue might be. Once the record is loaded, I can scroll back to it without an issue and left/right scrolls are fine since the record is loaded for that channel. The bigger issues is watching LiveTV and entering the EPG. It never shows up. It makes frontend peg one of my processors (normally runs VERY low since I use PVR-350's TV-out) and never displays (left it like this for half an hour before I realized I had tried to enter the EPG and it never happened). Once I choose to enter the EPG, I can't do anything else with front end. Won't exit. Just keeps playing LiveTV. So I ssh in, kill the frontend process and I get a black screen that I can't seem to get rid of. At that point, I reboot to get back to where I was. I thought maybe it was a theme issue since I was using ProjectGrayham and GrayOSD which might not contain support for SVN (if additional support is needed?), but I had the same issues using GANT that came with SVN. I have other issues, but these are the ones that don't seem to be solved by install the dependencies, stupid. Still sorting out what I need to get transcoding to work. Any tips on what needs to be loaded for that are appreciated! Thanks, Brad Don't you hate it when you solve the problem almost IMMEDIATELY after hitting send?? I checked my logs and it couldn't find my channel icons. I copied them to where it was looking for them and all was well again. Sorry for the noise. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 LiveTV - no go.
Brad Fuller wrote: I shouldn't say that I _never_ get LiveTV with HD3000 in MythTV, but I rarely do. MythTV seems to record HDTV programs just fine and I can play them back within MythTV fine, too. It's just when I switch to the HD3000 tuner I just get black screen and the errors like: taking too long to be allowed to read Any tweaks that I can perform? There was a msg about this last may: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/130910?search_string=HD3000%20Live;#130910 but no reply. I have a MX4000/64mb, maybe that's just not enough for MythTV AND Live HDTV? Hmmm.. no one has a handle on this? Interesting.. Ok, another somewhat related question: Anyone in the SF Bay area using comcast analog cable receiving ATSC? I tried it and only get a few channels. If you are, can you forward your channels.conf file? brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] HD3000 LiveTV - no go.
I shouldn't say that I _never_ get LiveTV with HD3000 in MythTV, but I rarely do. MythTV seems to record HDTV programs just fine and I can play them back within MythTV fine, too. It's just when I switch to the HD3000 tuner I just get black screen and the errors like: taking too long to be allowed to read Any tweaks that I can perform? There was a msg about this last may: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/130910?search_string=HD3000%20Live;#130910 but no reply. I have a MX4000/64mb, maybe that's just not enough for MythTV AND Live HDTV? thanks, brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] pcHDTV 3000 Installed, Now What?
Drew Tomlinson wrote: I finally got my pcHDTV 3000 card installed on Gentoo. I created a ~/.azap/channels.conf and verified the card is working by tuning with azap -r and using mplayer to view /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0. Next I went into mythtv-setup and added the new card under Capture Card Setup as card type of DVB. It saw the pcHDTV 3000 card as card 0 and ATSC. I left everything at the defaults. Then I setup a Video Source for it in the same manner in which I did for my PVR-250. I created a new Zap2It lineup with appropriate channels. Next I moved on the Input Connections. For [DVB:0], I set Video Source tho the source I created in the previous step. I'm not sure what to put for Starting Channel or if it's even necessary. My lineup shows one channel as KCRADT and the number as 3_1. The corresponding entry in ~/.azap/channels.conf for that entry is KCRA-DT (the difference is the -). Should channels.conf be edited to match the KCRADT that is shown in the lineup? And do I need to set Starting Channel and if so, do I use name (KCRADT) or number (3_1)? I exit mythtv-setup and start myth backend. Then I start mythfrontend. Now how do I access my new card? I tried LiveTV and it shows the PVR-250. The user guide says the Y will switch between cards. So I press Y but all I get is a blank screen. Also, how can I specify that I want to use the pcHDTV card specifically for a recording. I saw Input preference in the Input Connections menu and understand that sets a priority. But can I specify explicitly? I'd like to see if I can record even though I can see Live TV. Any suggestions on what to check next to get this working? I feel like I'm so close yet so far... :) I didn't see that you actually scanned the channels in mythtv-setup. channels.conf is not used in Mythtv, you need to scan the channels to obtain the channel information in myth. That's probably why you have a blank screen. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with Mounting DVDs
On Jan 11, 2006, at 6:55 AM, Mark Rissberger wrote: Brad DerManouelian wrote: On Jan 8, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote: Brad DerManouelian wrote: On Jan 8, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Mark Rissberger wrote: I'm pretty sure that they are all encrypted. Even if they were encrypted, they should still mount, right? The only problem would be playing them. How does everyone else have their DVD drives setup (in /etc/fstab and Myth)? /dev/hda/media/cdromauto,iso9660 pamconsole,exec,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdb/media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto 0 0 hda is my DVD-ROM and hdb is my CD-RW drive. I remember playing with these settings a bit until I got it to work how I wanted. I don't know if iso9660 is necessary but once it started working, I stopped messing with it. This looks much better than the one in your original post ( http:// www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/171962#171962 ), which-- strangely enough--shows hdc as your CD-ROM. Mike That was someone else's post. I was just posting mine since he asked how other people set up their fstab file. Since mine works for me, I posted it. - --- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Brad, I'll try mounting it your way. Does the 'auto' setting cause any issues with ejecting easily though? Thanks for the help, Mark Not at all. auto refers to the file system type. noauto (as in pamconsole,exec,noauto) refers to not letting kde autorun anything once the disc is inserted. At least that's what I gathered from playing with the settings. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with Mounting DVDs
On Jan 11, 2006, at 7:11 AM, Mark Rissberger wrote: Brad DerManouelian wrote: On Jan 11, 2006, at 6:55 AM, Mark Rissberger wrote: Brad DerManouelian wrote: On Jan 8, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote: Brad DerManouelian wrote: On Jan 8, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Mark Rissberger wrote: I'm pretty sure that they are all encrypted. Even if they were encrypted, they should still mount, right? The only problem would be playing them. How does everyone else have their DVD drives setup (in /etc/fstab and Myth)? /dev/hda/media/cdromauto,iso9660 pamconsole,exec,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdb/media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto 0 0 hda is my DVD-ROM and hdb is my CD-RW drive. I remember playing with these settings a bit until I got it to work how I wanted. I don't know if iso9660 is necessary but once it started working, I stopped messing with it. This looks much better than the one in your original post ( http:// www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/171962#171962 ), which-- strangely enough--shows hdc as your CD-ROM. Mike That was someone else's post. I was just posting mine since he asked how other people set up their fstab file. Since mine works for me, I posted it. --- -- --- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Brad, I'll try mounting it your way. Does the 'auto' setting cause any issues with ejecting easily though? Thanks for the help, Mark Not at all. auto refers to the file system type. noauto (as in pamconsole,exec,noauto) refers to not letting kde autorun anything once the disc is inserted. At least that's what I gathered from playing with the settings. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users alrighty then. I guess I was a bit confused by that. Especially since my 'noauto' was definitely not having an effect on kde autorunning or not. I was still continuously getting the File Manager auto popping up until I deleted '.kde/Autostart/Autorun.desktop'. I'll give your suggestion a shot later and let you know how it turned out. Thanks again, Mark Of course I could just be making that up. It's been a while... I noticed that I don't have a .kde/Autostart/Autorun.desktop file so that very well could have something to do with it. Thinking about it deeper, noauto might have something to do with LVM? I used to have an issue booting with a DVD in the drive until I added noauto. (On boot LVM would sit there looking at my DVD forever until I ejected it) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How to KEEP mythtv running when user exits
Matt Mossholder wrote: I don't know why everyone keeps focusing on restarting myth, when what is actually needed is to solve the root cause as mentioned here: But when my wife/kids exit from the top menu by mistake (one too many exit button presses) they're left at the befuddling command prompt. All you need to do is tell the front end that the key to quit the front end is different from the exit key. This is done by going to Settings-General, and on the 4th screen, the top item (System Exit Key), change the key that is used to exit the front end to something other than Esc. This is the BEST solution! Best to try Alt-Esc first if you're on KDE. Ctrl-Esc defaults to the Process Table of KDE System Guard (unless you've changed it.) On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 13:20 -0500, MythTV wrote: Jarod's how-to under Tips and Tricks Make Myth more Wife friendly (http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/tips.php) has a technique to make a button the remote restart the frontend. - Todd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 11:16 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [mythtv-users] How to KEEP mythtv running when user exits Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:50:07 -0800 From: John Biundo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all. I've got mythtv starting up automatically upon boot (by running mythfrontend in user mythtv's .xsession). No problem there. But when my wife/kids exit from the top menu by mistake (one too many exit button presses) they're left at the befuddling command prompt. After futzing with inittab to try to get this working, and googling around along a bunch of wild goose chases, I'm throwing my hands up and beseeching the gurus how to do this ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OS X MythFrontend 0.18.1 with plugins
On Jan 11, 2006, at 8:22 PM, David Snider wrote: On Jan 10, 2006, at 6:17 PM, Jens Baumeister wrote: On 1/11/06, Jens Baumeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, sorry, I don't, as I currently use the frontend build without the plugins. (IIRC it always crashed upon launch - I Clarifying myself here: The thesniderpad.com build *with* the frontend crashes for me - that's why I use the one wihtout the plugins. Well, that's a bummer. It sounds like we have a mixture of people who it works for and who it doesn't. I did compile a new 0.18.1 with plugins today. I replaced the one on my site with that build. I tested it on my Mac Mini and it worked like a charm. That probably doesn't say much though, since the last one did too.. For those of you who can't get it working, let me know. I'd be interested to see the output of uname -a, env, set, contents of .profile and others... The more information the better. Anyway, if anybody wants to try again, the new build of 0.18.1 is @ http://www.thesniderpad.com/index.php? option=com_remositoryItemid=36func=selectid=2 Feedback as usual is always appreciated. This didn't work for me. I'm running a straight-up 0.18.1 backend. It looks like this was compiled with some other branch. Version claims 0.18.2, MythTV project, www.mythtv.org However, your 0.18.1 without plugins works ok for me. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OS X MythFrontend 0.18.1 with plugins
On Jan 11, 2006, at 10:37 PM, David Snider wrote: This didn't work for me. I'm running a straight-up 0.18.1 backend. It looks like this was compiled with some other branch. Version claims 0.18.2, MythTV project, www.mythtv.org However, your 0.18.1 without plugins works ok for me. Yeah, it's the 0.18-fixes that were put in.. For some reason it lists as 0.18.2 even though there isn't an official 0.18.2 version. What didn't work? Unfortunately, I didn't look much into it. I launched it and it immediately stopped. I've just install svn backend, so I'm afraid I won't be able to see the error message any more. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OSX frontend mouse?
On Jan 9, 2006, at 11:03 PM, Todd Houle wrote:On Jan 8, 2006, at 9:23 PM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:A remote would help quite a bit actually. I've set up mine and I never have to touch the keyboard. Full control from across the room is nice. :) The only time I ever touch the keyboard is when I enter a search phrase.Also keep in mind that there are major UI changes in the works (from what I've read, anyway).___What do you use for a Mac remote? I bought the keyspan remote and don't like it too much. very small and flimsy feeling... ToddI bought a learning remote and mapped the buttons to it. Plus now I have more buttons at my disposal. I think it cost $18 at Radio Shack.___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV w/ Mac OS X Frontend
It sounds like your MySQL database isn't accepting remote connections. Do you have any other remote front ends successfully connecting? On Jan 10, 2006, at 1:35 PM, Matt Jordan wrote: Hi all, I currently have a MythTV (on Ubuntu) box that is working well but I wanted to try to run the Myth frontend from an OS X box. I downloaded two different builds of the MythFrontend for OS X and they both start and ask for the language. After that, they ask for the hostname (IP) of the backend, database name and such. When I click Finish the program just closes. There is no indication that it crashed, it just quits. Can anyone help me out with this? (The MythTV Linux box is up and running and I can access the MythWeb interface from the Mac and everything.) Thanks! Matt ___ 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] MythWeb Thumbnail Errors
On Jan 10, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Kichigai Mentat wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello. The MythTV system is fully functional, but one thing I've noticed is that in MythWeb, I get errors like the following: Warning at /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/includes/mythbackend.php, line 305: copy(image_cache/1008_2006010923_20060109233000.nuv.png): failed to open stream: Permission denied The data is stored on an EXT3 volume, and still has a good amount of free space. Recordings are fine, and I can download the NUV files through the browser. Not too sure what's causing this, but I've also gone and changed the mode of one of the files to 776, on a hunch. This didn't change the error. Any help would be appreciated, but this is hardly a critical problem. Thanks. Just a hunch, but check the permissions on the parent directories. Whatever user PHP is running as (apache user) will need read and (I believe) execute permissions on ancestor directories leading to the file on which it's trying to perform a copy. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] i2c_adapter i2c-0: sendbytes: error - bailout.
I've been running without issue for a couple of months on 0.18.1, but last night and again just now while watching a recorded program (I was also recording just now, I don't know if it was recording anything last night) my machine locked up. I see this error scattered throughout /var/log/messages: i2c_adapter i2c-0: sendbytes: error - bailout. Running a PVR-350 (using TV-out) with ivtv 0.4.0. Any ideas where to start looking? What other info would help in where to start looking? Aside from this, the machine seems to be just fine. Also notable is that I updated X recently. Do I need to update my ivtv drivers, as well? I've been afraid to with reports of losing sound with 0.4.1. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OS X MythFrontend 0.18.1 with plugins
On Jan 10, 2006, at 7:02 PM, Matt Hannan wrote:David Snider wrote: On Jan 9, 2006, at 9:24 PM, Matt Hannan wrote: Well, sir, you may want to check that build of the frontend. Idownloaded it twice and they both seem borked up.Are there any other locations to get frontend with the plugins? I'mlooking for 0.18.1 stable. Hmm.. What happens? I'm running it right now with no problems on Tiger. You can check http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MythOnMacOsx gkruse has a site as well as another gentlemen. If it really is borked up, let me know what it is doing so that I can either remove it or fix it.___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Well, the straight-up MythFrontend downloads and installs fine.But the package from your site did not.First of all it did not show the Myth icon, but rather a, I guess, default icon.I'm downloading it again so I can walk you thru what I am seeing.HAZAH!Someone else is having the same problem.[quote="Matt Jordan" MythTV w/ Mac OSX Frontend}I downloaded two different builds of the MythFrontend for OS X andthey both start and ask for the language. After that, they ask forthe hostname (IP) of the backend, database name and such. When Iclick "Finish" the program just closes. There is no indication thatit crashed, it just quits.[/quote]I had that, too.OK, back to the download.It shows just a couple pieces of paper, a pen, a pencil and a ruler.That is the mounted icon. It does not show the external CD drive thing.Double-clicking it has it bouncing around in the dock a couple of times and then disappearing.Firing up Terminal and cding to Desktop shows the file as MythFrontend.app.Any help?MattAs much as it pains me to help you after the treatment I received from you...The problem is that you aren't able to connect to the MySQL database. Unfortunately the OS X frontend doesn't fail gracefully in that situation. However, if you launch it from a terminal, you'll see error messages.PBG4:~/Desktop/MythTV/MythFrontend.app/Contents/MacOS bderman$ ~/Desktop/MythTV/MythFrontend.app/Contents/MacOS/mythfrontend 2006-01-10 19:10:27.666 Using runtime prefix = /Users/bderman/Desktop/MythTV/MythFrontend.app/Contents/Resources2006-01-10 19:10:27.677 New DB connection, total: 12006-01-10 19:10:28.130 Total desktop dim: 1280x854, with 1 screen[s].2006-01-10 19:10:28.143 Running in a window2006-01-10 19:10:28.147 Using screen 0, 1280x781 at 0,22etc.If you're only getting the MythFrontend.app application then you don't have any of the plugins (like you were complaining about before). You'll need to either compile the plugins yourself or download a dmg containing all the plugins like from http://thesniderpad.comI'm assuming you are running backend on a different machine. If you download pre-compiled binaries you need to make sure the protocol versions match up. If they don't, you'll see something like "Protocol version mismatch (frontend=22,backend=15)" when trying to use a recent SVN frontend with 0.18.1 backend.If you are having problems establishing a connection to the backend, make sure MySQL on your backend is accepting remote connections (search the forums). If you can login from command line on the machine you're running front end from (search the forums), follow the instructions in the link you referenced to set up the database parameters correctly in FrontEnd.-Brad___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth and suggestions?
On Jan 10, 2006, at 7:30 PM, Bret Schuhmacher wrote: Does KnoppMyth do suggestions natively? Do I need a new plug-in? I can't find any settings for suggestions, thumbs up/down, etc. Thanks, Bret If you go to a costume party at your boss's house, wouldn't you think a good costume would be to dress up like the boss's wife? Trust me, it's not. -- Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey I think you're looking for the Tivo user group. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How to KEEP mythtv running when user exits
On Jan 10, 2006, at 7:50 PM, John Biundo wrote: Hi all. I've got mythtv starting up automatically upon boot (by running mythfrontend in user mythtv's .xsession). No problem there. But when my wife/kids exit from the top menu by mistake (one too many exit button presses) they're left at the befuddling command prompt. After futzing with inittab to try to get this working, and googling around along a bunch of wild goose chases, I'm throwing my hands up and beseeching the gurus how to do this. I'm running KDE. Don't want to give it up (unless I absolutely have to). Putting a line like: m7:2345:respawn:/bin/su - mythtv -c /usr/bin/ startx in my /etc/inittab doesn't work. When I test it, by exiting from mythtv, this method fails with a message about the user not being allowed to start the x server. Which puzzles me because user mythtv IS allowed to run startx, and the command line 'su -mythtv -c /usr/bin/startx' works fine when I'm logged in as root. What am I missing? How do other people handle this? Thanks! cheers, john You can have MythTV prompt you when you exit. Are you sure you want to exit? The default is NO and will send you back to the main menu. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth and suggestions?
On Jan 10, 2006, at 7:59 PM, Bret Schuhmacher wrote: No, actually, I was asking if this: http://www.templetons.com/brad/myth/suggest.html Was the only implementation and/or if it's built in and I can't find it. Rgds, Bret I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they choose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas. -- Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad DerManouelian Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 7:37 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth and suggestions? On Jan 10, 2006, at 7:30 PM, Bret Schuhmacher wrote: Does KnoppMyth do suggestions natively? Do I need a new plug-in? I can't find any settings for suggestions, thumbs up/down, etc. Thanks, Bret If you go to a costume party at your boss's house, wouldn't you think a good costume would be to dress up like the boss's wife? Trust me, it's not. -- Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey I think you're looking for the Tivo user group. It was a (bad) joke. Sorry. No, it's not built in. I actually haven't seen any MythWish activity in a while. Anyone still working on it? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OS X MythFrontend 0.18.1 with plugins
On Jan 10, 2006, at 8:09 PM, Matt Hannan wrote:Brad DerManouelian wrote: As much as it pains me to help you after the treatment I received from you... I do hope you are joking. The problem is that you aren't able to connect to the MySQL database. Actually, it turns out that the MySQL stuff is fine. It is bombing out because it can't find any themes! Unfortunately the OS X frontend doesn't fail gracefully in that situation. However, if you launch it from a terminal, you'll see error messages.PBG4:~/Desktop/MythTV/MythFrontend.app/Contents/MacOS bderman$ ~/Desktop/MythTV/MythFrontend.app/Contents/MacOS/mythfrontend2006-01-10 19:10:27.666 Using runtime prefix = /Users/bderman/Desktop/MythTV/MythFrontend.app/Contents/Resources2006-01-10 19:10:27.677 New DB connection, total: 12006-01-10 19:10:28.130 Total desktop dim: 1280x854, with 1 screen[s].2006-01-10 19:10:28.143 Running in a window2006-01-10 19:10:28.147 Using screen 0, 1280x781 at 0,22etc.If you're only getting the MythFrontend.app application then you don't have any of the plugins (like you were complaining about before). You'll need to either compile the plugins yourself or download a dmg containing all the plugins like from http://thesniderpad.com Yes, yes. I know all that. And I am grabbing the "broken" dmg from thesniderpad.com, stable, not SVN.What is odd is that the no-plugins version fires up with no problem and lets me choose between Blue or G.A.N.T.OK, so I just copied the sniderpad MythFrontend to Applications, from where Myth was running with the non-plugin version, and it still does not work. Bombs looking for themes. I'm assuming you are running backend on a different machine. If you download pre-compiled binaries you need to make sure the protocol versions match up. If they don't, you'll see something like "Protocol version mismatch (frontend=22,backend=15)" when trying to use a recent SVN frontend with 0.18.1 backend. Nope, but good detective work. If you are having problems establishing a connection to the backend, make sure MySQL on your backend is accepting remote connections (search the forums). If you can login from command line on the machine you're running front end from (search the forums), follow the instructions in the link you referenced to set up the database parameters correctly in FrontEnd. All of that is fine. I have 018.1 running on a Suse box as a remote frontend. Not noob. Just not a Mac guy. ;-)And I think there is an issue with the "stable" build at thesniderpad.com.How about the SVN builds? Are they current or this mysterious 0.19 that folks are talking about?Thanks for your help, Brad. Seriously. You seem a level headed person.MattI'm using MythTV 0.18.1 Frontend for MacOSX from thesniderpad.com and don't have the same issue. What's your error message?___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with Mounting DVDs
On Jan 8, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Mark Rissberger wrote: I'm pretty sure that they are all encrypted. Even if they were encrypted, they should still mount, right? The only problem would be playing them. How does everyone else have their DVD drives setup (in /etc/fstab and Myth)? /dev/hda/media/cdromauto,iso9660 pamconsole,exec,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdb/media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto 0 0 hda is my DVD-ROM and hdb is my CD-RW drive. I remember playing with these settings a bit until I got it to work how I wanted. I don't know if iso9660 is necessary but once it started working, I stopped messing with it. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OSX frontend mouse?
On Jan 8, 2006, at 6:13 PM, David Abrahams wrote: Within the MythTV frontend on my mac the mouse becomes invisible and inoperable. At first I thought that was just how MythTV worked, but then I happened to access the frontend over VNC from a Linux box, and the mouse worked! Can anyone tell me how to get the mouse working on my MacOS frontend? Thanks in advance, Dave Utilities/Setup-Appearance-Screen Settings (second screen in Appearance) There's a checkbox for Hide Mouse Cursor in Myth You'll find that some buttons works with a mouse, but theme-specific stuff probably won't. Myth isn't meant to be used with a mouse, but there is some support for it left over from legacy code, I believe. You'd be much better off getting used to not using the mouse. It's faster... really! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Playback performance [all platforms]
David Abrahams wrote: David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If this is really something that can be fixed by configuration rather than programming, my apologies in advance, but so far I think it's a developer issue. Whoops; I *meant* to send it to the developer's list heck, copy us users. I want to know! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with Mounting DVDs
On Jan 8, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote: Brad DerManouelian wrote: On Jan 8, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Mark Rissberger wrote: I'm pretty sure that they are all encrypted. Even if they were encrypted, they should still mount, right? The only problem would be playing them. How does everyone else have their DVD drives setup (in /etc/fstab and Myth)? /dev/hda/media/cdromauto,iso9660 pamconsole,exec,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdb/media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto 0 0 hda is my DVD-ROM and hdb is my CD-RW drive. I remember playing with these settings a bit until I got it to work how I wanted. I don't know if iso9660 is necessary but once it started working, I stopped messing with it. This looks much better than the one in your original post ( http:// www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/171962#171962 ), which-- strangely enough--shows hdc as your CD-ROM. Mike That was someone else's post. I was just posting mine since he asked how other people set up their fstab file. Since mine works for me, I posted it. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Import existing video file?
On Jan 8, 2006, at 6:35 PM, David Abrahams wrote: I have an existing video recording in a format already supported by MythTV playback. How can I add it to my backend's list of recordings? Thanks in advance, Dave Drop it in your mythvideo directory and go to Utilities/SetupVideo Manager (assuming you are auto-scanning your videos directory). It will scan the folder and add it to your videos list. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OSX frontend mouse?
On Jan 8, 2006, at 9:03 PM, David Abrahams wrote: Brad DerManouelian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Jan 8, 2006, at 6:13 PM, David Abrahams wrote: Within the MythTV frontend on my mac the mouse becomes invisible and inoperable. At first I thought that was just how MythTV worked, but then I happened to access the frontend over VNC from a Linux box, and the mouse worked! Can anyone tell me how to get the mouse working on my MacOS frontend? Thanks in advance, Dave Utilities/Setup-Appearance-Screen Settings (second screen in Appearance) There's a checkbox for Hide Mouse Cursor in Myth You'll find that some buttons works with a mouse, but theme-specific stuff probably won't. Oh, like the top-level menus. Too bad :( Myth isn't meant to be used with a mouse, but there is some support for it left over from legacy code, I believe. You'd be much better off getting used to not using the mouse. It's faster... really! I am an inveterate emacs user and I generally prefer not using a mouse... really! But Myth's keyboard interface is so unpredictable for me (sometimes spacebar selects/presses the current widget -- e.g. for buttons -- but if you're on a checkbox it presses the Next button!?!) that a mouse is much less frustrating. Also in configuration screens with many items it's a lot faster to click the *one* I care about. Furthermore, I'd much rather keep a little mouse on my coffee table than an entire keyboard. Yes, I will be setting up a remote, but that will inherit all the same problems of the keyboard UI. There's very little I've found in the MythTV UI that can really take advantage of the keyboard anyway. In fact, it seems like in many screens where a keyboard _could_ be really great, the UI only lets you use the arrow keys. For example, when setting the duration or time of a recording in the manual record screen I should be able to type in a number. Instead I can only scroll through a list of numbers that often doesn't include the exact value I want. A remote would help quite a bit actually. I've set up mine and I never have to touch the keyboard. Full control from across the room is nice. :) The only time I ever touch the keyboard is when I enter a search phrase. Also keep in mind that there are major UI changes in the works (from what I've read, anyway). ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythMusic AlbumArt
On Jan 7, 2006, at 5:45 AM, Andrew Wilson wrote: Is it possible to use album art to select which music to play? - ie click on the album cover to play the album... I couldn't see how to do this in myth music (or any other linux music program) No. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HD-3000, FC4, PVR-250/500
Chris Lynch wrote: On 1/7/06, Chris Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/7/06, Dylan R. Semler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I removed the extra lins from my modprobe and am trying to slim down what's still going wrong. Hrm I keep feeling I'm pretty close, but then seem to uncover something else.Has anyone been able to compile linuxtv-dvb-apps under FC4 or know of an RPM source?I can't run azap or anything yet as I can't get it installed since GCC4 seems to have a problem wit the sources. Thanks, Chris I found that the dvb-apps cvs worked much better for me than the stuff packaged on the HD-3000 website.Try it from cvs: cvs -z3 -d ':pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/linuxtv' co -P dvb-apps Also, if it helps, this thred got things going for me: http://www.pchdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1128 Great! Thanks for the tip! Just got it compiled and am going to try out azap. Thanks to everyone so far - so here's where I am: - I have gotten tzap to pick up a station - I have successfully done a cat from /dev/dvb/... while using tzap and have played it back in mplayer. Yay! At least I know the card works now! Huge relief... The last step seems to be getting Myth to bring up an HD station. When I do it goes to a black screen and bombs back to the menu. I'm wondering if this is a default station problem perhaps? I'm not sure what notation I should use for setting a default... ie. 25 or 25_1 for example. have you scanned channels in mythtv-setup? Mythtv is a separate setup from the azap, etc. Running azap (or tzap) to obtain channels.conf is great to make sure you have the card working and getting the right channels for your location. But, setting up the channels in mythtv requires scanning in mythtv-setup. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MX4000 Dual X Servers - Config Help please :-)
Steve Daniels wrote: Replying to my first post... how embarrassing! - Original Message - From: Steve Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 9:52 AM Subject: [mythtv-users] MX4000 Dual X Servers - Config Help please :-) I think what I need is two seperate xorg.conf's and gdm.conf set up to call the properly. I'm just going down this route now, but would really appreciate some help. It'd be great if someone who has already done something like this or similair could donate their config files. I've googled till I'm blue in the face, but with people haveing so many different names for this type of configuration it's hard to find any real results. Any info I seem to find appears to be outdated as well :-( Just googlin again and found this post: http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2005-March/078557.html The second one down remindinded me about the following links.. http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/ More specifically: ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/people/jan_kasprzak/xorg-dualhead/ I remember checking the above's mirror and seeing out of date packages and being disheartend. But just checked the above ftp site and found they're not so out of date after all. So I'm currently downloading ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/people/jan_kasprzak/xorg-dualhead/xorg-x11-6.8.2-37dualhead.src.rpm which will hopefully compile to allow me to run two Xorg servers at once. Does anyone else have experience with this? I have the same setup: MX4000 - one output feeding a CRT at 1280 and the S-Video feeding a tv. Most of the time, the mythfrontend is running on the S-Video and I use the CRT for checking mythtv, running mythtv-setup, etc. Only one xorg.conf: Section ServerLayout Identifier single head configuration Screen 0 ScreenLCD Screen 1 ScreenTV RightOf ScreenLCD InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection #NEW FROM FC2 Section ServerFlags Option BlankTime 0 Option StandbyTime 0 Option SuspendTime 0 Option OffTime 0 EndSection Section Files # RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like .txt or .db). There is normally # no need to change the default. # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules FontPath unix/:7100 EndSection Section Module Load v4l Load dbe Load extmod Load fbdevhw Load glx Load record Load freetype Load type1 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd OptionXkbModel pc105 OptionXkbLayout us EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse OptionProtocol IMPS/2 OptionDevice /dev/input/mice OptionZAxisMapping 4 5 OptionEmulate3Buttons yes EndSection Section Monitor Identifier MonitorLCD VendorName Envision ModelNameEN-710e DisplaySize 320240 HorizSync30.0 - 70.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 130.0 #Energy Star - turns monitor off/on OptionDPMS EndSection Section Monitor Identifier MonitorTV VendorName Panasonic ModelNameA TV HorizSync30.0 - 50.0 VertRefresh 60.0 #Energy Star - turns monitor off/on OptionDPMS EndSection Section Device Identifier nvidiaLCD Driver nvidia VendorName BFG BoardName NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX BusID PCI:1:0:0 Option XvmcUsesTextures true Screen 0 EndSection Section Device Identifier nvidiaTV Driver nvidia VendorName BFG BoardName NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX BusID PCI:1:0:0 Option XvmcUsesTextures true #added NvAGP 13Dec2005 Option NvAGP 3 Screen 1 EndSection Section Screen Identifier ScreenLCD Device nvidiaLCD MonitorMonitorLCD DefaultDepth 24 Option ConnectedMonitorCRT SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 Modes1280x1024 1280x960 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes1280x1024 1280x960 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection EndSection Section Screen Identifier ScreenTV Device nvidiaTV MonitorMonitorTV DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes480x480 640x480 800x600 EndSubSection Option ConnectedMonitorTV Option TVOutFormat
Re: [mythtv-users] Re:MX4000 Dual X Servers - Config Help please :-)
Alexander Petkov wrote: Brad, What does your xorg.conf do? Is it a separate desktop on each monitor? How's the mouse pointer shared? It spans.. as if you put the two monitors together and you end up with a wide landscape look. Yes, each screen has it's own desktop. The mouse spans as well -- when you move to the right it will move from the CRT (on the left) to the TV (on the right). ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MX4000 Dual X Servers - Config Help please :-)
Steve Daniels wrote: - Original Message - From: Brad Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 7:58 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MX4000 Dual X Servers - Config Help please :-) Steve Daniels wrote: Replying to my first post... how embarrassing! - Original Message - From: Steve Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 9:52 AM Subject: [mythtv-users] MX4000 Dual X Servers - Config Help please :-) I think what I need is two seperate xorg.conf's and gdm.conf set up to call the properly. I'm just going down this route now, but would really appreciate some help. It'd be great if someone who has already done something like this or similair could donate their config files. I've googled till I'm blue in the face, but with people haveing so many different names for this type of configuration it's hard to find any real results. Any info I seem to find appears to be outdated as well :-( Does anyone else have experience with this? I have the same setup: MX4000 - one output feeding a CRT at 1280 and the S-Video feeding a tv. Most of the time, the mythfrontend is running on the S-Video and I use the CRT for checking mythtv, running mythtv-setup, etc. Hmm, I'm not sure that'll work, justs looks like a standard dual screen config to me. Don't know what you mean. It does work for me TV on the right and Monitor on the left. Isn't that what you want? Thanks for the input Brad - but I want the displays to be entirely seperate like a multi-seat system. Otherwise if I'm surfing the web on the vga screen, when someone try's to use the remote to change the channel or something on the frontend on the s-vid their keypresses will come through to the web browser because it has focus, and not to mythfrontend :-( Not on my setup. Two separate desktops. You start mythtv like this from the CRT: xset s off xset -dpms export DISPLAY=:0.1 mythfrontend I'm giving up on this, slinging this box in the loft as a dedicated server and not going to try running a desktop off of it as well as a full time mythfrontend. I just wish winmyth/dsmyth would work with .18.1-fixes the only time I've had dsmyth working and i've been able to play files by clicking on the in mythweb was when the BE was a knoppmyth box. I'll leave that to another post perhaps! Thanks for your time Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV
On Jan 6, 2006, at 12:30 AM, Mike wrote:Brad DerManouelian wrote: On Jan 5, 2006, at 4:08 PM, Mike wrote: Chris Ribe wrote: Prefering MythMusic to iTunes takes a rare kind of insanity, perhaps.Other than that, why? You seriously don't know why he'd want MythMusic instead of iTunes? Have you ever used brand name iTunes on linux? (HA HA) Have you ever used Linux? Have you ever used MythTV? Do you understand the conceptual 'point' of what all this stuff is and does?-Mike I didn't make the comment you quoted and I understand why someone would choose MythMusic over iTunes, but not because of a lack of functionality in iTunes which is what the original poster complained about. I tried numerous times to understand specifically what functionality he was looking for that couldn't get with iTunes and I didn't get a specific response to that.Turns out it wasn't a functionality problem at all. He was just frustrated with OS X and switched to Linux. Again - I have no issue with that because I know the pain of trying to do development-level stuff on OS X when you're used to Linux. I love OS X as a front end to my music, graphics, mail, web browsing life but I can't use it for the games, PVR, dev part of my life. I can't even write scripts on it. Even the commercial text editors for OS X suck. I read his original post again and all he said was that he didn't like iTunes. The golden question is why do we care why he doesn't like iTunes when he's sitting there with a computer running linux? Last time I checked, iTunes doesn't run on Linux and that my friend sounds like 'lack of functionality' right there. ;)I'm personally interested in his success with MythTV, Mac Mini and Linux. If I find out that that it works well for him, I might be in the same boat and want to go buy one too. I could care less about OSX or any of the applications designed to run on OSX. If I get one it'll be running linux with mythtv and nothing else. But not to be too frank about it, I've used iTunes... I personally think its inadequate and quirky as a media management tool. The purpose for iTunes, above all else, is for you to buy music from Apple and make Apple stock go up. Everything else is just icing. If I were to use something like iTunes as a media management tool for a desktop (which again, has little to do with mythtv...) I'd be more inclined to use something that doesn't run so badly with the size of my library much like mediamonkey. But I have to ask, why should a mythtv list even care what I think about tools like this?-MikeOriginal poster stated in post #4 (I didn't say it was in his original post), "I can't for the life of me figure why people like iTunes. It seems so kludged together and will not let me do what I want it to do." This is the comment I questioned because... forget it. Just re-read post #4 and #5. I don't need to explain myself again since it's already there. Besides, this isn't helping. Clearly no one has any idea how to fix these issues and my guess it because no one's done it before. As I stated, I'm eager for these issues to be worked out as well since I plan on doing the same thing. I wish I had the extra machine and time it would take to work on it.___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MythMusic AlbumArt
I was trying to find a script to automatically add album art to my
MythMusic directories. I came across the one in this thread: http://
www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/140895 but it only adds
art as you RIP a CD. I have way too many albums already ripped so
this wasn't going to work for me.
So I wrote a little script to use in concert with Paul's amazon.pl
script. Now I can use the AlbumArt visualization and see most of my
collection. I'm posting it here in case anyone's in the same boat as
me. The script assumes you have your music organized by musicroot/
artist/album. It will also detect when album art can't be found and
skips it if it runs across the album name again during the same run
(in the event that you have albums with many artists on a single
album and you're strictly organizing by artist/album). It's also
smart enough to skip an album if the art is already there (from a
previous run). Feel free to mod as needed.
Make sure amazon.pl is in your path, then pass your music directory
root as an argument to this script (e.g. ./albumart.pl /mythtv/music/):
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $musicdir = shift || die( Specify the music directory root\n );
$musicdir =~ s/\/$//g;
my @albumsnoart;
opendir MYDIR, $musicdir || die( Couldn't open $musicdir\n );
my @artists = grep !/^\.\.?$/, readdir MYDIR;
closedir MYDIR;
foreach my $artist ( @artists )
{
my $artistdir = $musicdir./.$artist;
if ( -d $artistdir )
{
next if $artist eq Compilations;
opendir MYDIR, $artistdir || die( Couldn't open $artistdir
\n );
my @albums = grep !/^\.\.?$/, readdir MYDIR;
closedir MYDIR;
foreach my $album ( @albums )
{
next if ( grep(/$album/,@albumsnoart) );
my $albumdir = $artistdir./.$album;
if ( -d $albumdir )
{
print Grabbing art for $artist - $album...;
if (-f $albumdir./folder_large.jpg )
{
print SKIPPING: I already have art for this
album.\n;
next;
}
`amazon.pl $musicdir/$artist/$album $artist
$album`;
if ( -f $albumdir./folder_large.jpg )
{
print DONE\n;
}
else
{
print NOT FOUND: Sorry, no album art found.\n;
push( @albumsnoart, $album );
}
}
}
}
}
Also, I had to patch amazon.pl with this so the script won't bail
when it can't find any art:
--- amazon.pl 2006-01-06 18:16:00.0 -0500
+++ /usr/local/bin/amazon.pl2006-01-06 06:48:22.0 -0500
@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@
$titleid++;
my $image = get $ama_uri if (defined($ama_uri) $ama_uri ne );
+if ( $image )
+{
if ($ama_uri ne length($image) eq 807) {
if (defined $opt_d) { printf(# this image is blank\n); }
$ama_uri = ;
@@ -138,7 +140,7 @@
close INFO;
}
-
+}
#
# Main Program
#
-Brad
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Re: [mythtv-users] MythMusic AlbumArt
All the free ones I found have links that don't resolve. Luckily, I don't need them any more. On Jan 6, 2006, at 7:43 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Brad DerManouelian wrote: I was trying to find a script to automatically add album art to my MythMusic directories. I came across the one in this thread: http:// www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/140895 but it only adds art as you RIP a CD. I have way too many albums already ripped so this wasn't going to work for me. There are a number of Linux programs that will download your entire music tree of album art, even some for Windows and put it into the folder appropriate for the Album Art vizualization to use. I'm sure a quick google will reveal them. Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV
Just to throw in my 2 cents... I think the comment made earlier suggesting that getting the MythMusic module working under OSX would be the more logical path, considering that the other core modules are all working under OSX already.I also think you're completely cracked for preferring MythMusic over iTunes... I mean, I like Myth as much as anyone here, but seriously.Just as an aside, if you're sole excuse for hating iTunes is because "(you) do not feel (you) can support any software that insists on telling (you) how (you) can handle (your) data files, mp3s included." By which, I assume you mean the manner in which iTunes allows you to resort your music directory automatically. You should know that you can turn this feature off (and a dialog tells you so from the very start) by deselecting the "Keep iTunes Music Folder Organized" option in Prefs. Oh, that's simple.Also, you can run iTunes and MythFrontend at the same time under OSX.___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] access denied for remote frontend
On Jan 5, 2006, at 11:54 AM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
Thanks for the reply, Steve.
On Thursday 05 Jan 2006 16:16, Eric Sharkey wrote:
You need to change mysql's startup file...
/etc/sysconfig/mysqld
I assume you mean /etc/mysql/my.cnf.
eg...
# (oe) Remove --skip-networking to enable network access from
# non local clients. Access from localhost will still work.
# MYSQLD_OPTIONS=--skip-networking
MYSQLD_OPTIONS=
# (oe) set TMPDIR and TMP environment variables
TMPDIR=${datadir}/.tmp
TMP=${TMPDIR}
How does this help?
As I said, I have no problems connecting to the mysql server
from the remote frontend using the mysql command line client.
The mysql server is configured for remote network access and it
works. The problem is not a skip-networking setting or anything
like that. If it was, I couldn't connect at all.
I have tmpdir set to /tmp. I've not read anything that suggests
that this setting would be important, provided that /tmp has
sufficent space.
The problem seems to be that the mythfrontend client is not sending
the right password or not sending it in the right way. I can't
figure out why.
Eric
I've had problems with invalid characters in passwords before. Not
specifically with myth, but if I have an FTP account with a slash in
the password, I can connect with some clients, but not others. Maybe
something along the same lines is happening here? Try changing your
password to alphanumeric (if not already) and try again. If it
already is, sorry for the noise. :)
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Re: [mythtv-users] color adjustments to pvr-350
Try turning off your xV picture controls. Or better yet.. adjust them. :) On Jan 5, 2006, at 1:49 PM, Matt Price wrote: hi folks, myth is running great, but the recordings look funny when played on my pvr-350 (kinda green and a little washed out). Tried copying one of the files to another computer and playing via mplayer on a normal (crt monitor) xsession, and the color distortion doesn't appear. It also seems to me that dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 that is, playing the pvr-350's video-in directly to its video-out, also doesn't give the color distortion (though I have to experiment with that more extensively -- it's difficult b/c it won't work when mythfrontend is running). can't find documentation re: how to adjust colorsi n myth or using ivtv -- can anyone help? anyone seen this problem before? thanks, matt ___ 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] Project Grayhem WIDE theme now available
Thanks, Justin! I don't use Widescreen, but I'm glad to know that when I do one day, I won't have to change themes. I have lots of Photoshop experience and a little design experience and was considering whipping one up myself. Any idea how much time it took for your first theme? That will help me decide if I can dedicate some cycles to it (and maybe finish it). -Brad On Jan 5, 2006, at 4:42 PM, Justin Hornsby wrote: Hi folks. Just a quickie to let you know that the widescreen version of my ProjectGrayhem theme is now available from www.juski.co.uk As far as I can tell, it all works (with SVN downloaded on 04 Jan 2006), but send bug reports etc to me I'll try to put em right. Thanks for all the kind words of praise encouragement so far.. you never know I might just roll another one out at some point. Regards, Justin ___ 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] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV
On Jan 5, 2006, at 4:08 PM, Mike wrote: Chris Ribe wrote: Prefering MythMusic to iTunes takes a rare kind of insanity, perhaps. Other than that, why? You seriously don't know why he'd want MythMusic instead of iTunes? Have you ever used brand name iTunes on linux? (HA HA) Have you ever used Linux? Have you ever used MythTV? Do you understand the conceptual 'point' of what all this stuff is and does? -Mike I didn't make the comment you quoted and I understand why someone would choose MythMusic over iTunes, but not because of a lack of functionality in iTunes which is what the original poster complained about. I tried numerous times to understand specifically what functionality he was looking for that couldn't get with iTunes and I didn't get a specific response to that. Turns out it wasn't a functionality problem at all. He was just frustrated with OS X and switched to Linux. Again - I have no issue with that because I know the pain of trying to do development-level stuff on OS X when you're used to Linux. I love OS X as a front end to my music, graphics, mail, web browsing life but I can't use it for the games, PVR, dev part of my life. I can't even write scripts on it. Even the commercial text editors for OS X suck. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV
On Jan 5, 2006, at 6:34 PM, Matt Hannan wrote: Mike wrote: Chris Ribe wrote: Prefering MythMusic to iTunes takes a rare kind of insanity, perhaps. Other than that, why? You seriously don't know why he'd want MythMusic instead of iTunes? Have you ever used brand name iTunes on linux? (HA HA) Have you ever used Linux? Have you ever used MythTV? Do you understand the conceptual 'point' of what all this stuff is and does? -Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users OH MY GOD!!! THANK YOU! And I thought about this for a bit. My biggest pet peeve with iTunes: playlists. Who thinks that is a good idea? Not me! If I come home from the record shoppe (Yes, I actually BUY physical pieces of plastic encoded in various ways with music) with 5 new CD's and a couple of LP's (Audacity rules!), after I get done ripping them and setting up the ID3 tags, the last thing I want to do is have to manually add them to a freaking playlist! They should just be there. I set MythMusic to look at a directory and it plays anything in that directory (Yes, I set my only playlist in MythMusic to All my music). Having to add the files to the iTunes library is the biggest waste of my time I have ever encountered. If I want to listen to music, it just is there. Mike, rock on. At least someone understands! Matt You do know that you can use the Browse bar, right? Command-B (Ctrl-B on Windows). I have mine on by default so I forget that some people don't know it's there. Click your artist, double-click your album and it starts playing. How much easier do you need it to be? The only time I use playlists is when I'm burning a compilation CD. Adding files to the Library is the biggest waste of time? Really? Dragging and dropping a folder of music onto the iTunes window is that time-consuming? Or maybe the time it takes to select FileAdd Folder to Library, choose the folder and click OK if you don't like drag and drop. Or are you talking about how hard it is to add a CD you've just bought to the Library? You know.. popping it in, waiting for it to finish, then taking the CD out again. Please tell me how much easier it is to do these things in MythMusic so I can switch. Thanks, Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV
On Jan 5, 2006, at 9:09 PM, Matt Hannan wrote: Brad DerManouelian wrote: On Jan 5, 2006, at 6:34 PM, Matt Hannan wrote: Mike wrote: Chris Ribe wrote: Prefering MythMusic to iTunes takes a rare kind of insanity, perhaps. Other than that, why? You seriously don't know why he'd want MythMusic instead of iTunes? Have you ever used brand name iTunes on linux? (HA HA) Have you ever used Linux? Have you ever used MythTV? Do you understand the conceptual 'point' of what all this stuff is and does? -Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users OH MY GOD!!! THANK YOU! And I thought about this for a bit. My biggest pet peeve with iTunes: playlists. Who thinks that is a good idea? Not me! If I come home from the record shoppe (Yes, I actually BUY physical pieces of plastic encoded in various ways with music) with 5 new CD's and a couple of LP's (Audacity rules!), after I get done ripping them and setting up the ID3 tags, the last thing I want to do is have to manually add them to a freaking playlist! They should just be there. I set MythMusic to look at a directory and it plays anything in that directory (Yes, I set my only playlist in MythMusic to All my music). Having to add the files to the iTunes library is the biggest waste of my time I have ever encountered. If I want to listen to music, it just is there. Mike, rock on. At least someone understands! Matt You do know that you can use the Browse bar, right? Command-B (Ctrl-B on Windows). I have mine on by default so I forget that some people don't know it's there. Click your artist, double- click your album and it starts playing. How much easier do you need it to be? The only time I use playlists is when I'm burning a compilation CD. Adding files to the Library is the biggest waste of time? Really? Dragging and dropping a folder of music onto the iTunes window is that time-consuming? Or maybe the time it takes to select FileAdd Folder to Library, choose the folder and click OK if you don't like drag and drop. Or are you talking about how hard it is to add a CD you've just bought to the Library? You know.. popping it in, waiting for it to finish, then taking the CD out again. Please tell me how much easier it is to do these things in MythMusic so I can switch. Thanks, Brad Brad, Please. You are killing me. No keyboard or mouse on Mini. No CTRL-B. No drag anything. I have a remote control for the box, that is it. And so far I am only proving that it is [i]impossible[/i] to Myth [u]in Linux[/u] on a Mac! Which was totally not what I set out to do. I am not in a single machine environment. My main workstation is Suse 10.0. My server is FC2 (hey, it still runs like a champ! why screw with it?). The picture frame on my wall is XP and my TV/ stereo machine is the Mac Mini, which was OS X Tiger, but is now FC4. I do not store my MP3's all willy-nilly because iTunes will do the sorting. I store them based on /artist/year_album/ track - artist - album - title.mp3. This has evolved over years of ripping my music collection. I am closing in on 9000 mp3 files, organized in a way that I like and that has proven to work, on the server. Do you know what a pain in the arse it is to reorganize this because I mistakenly fire up iTunes and have not reset that Let iTunes F with your collection because we know better than you check box? Same story in WMP, which runs on a laptop I have here. iTunes works for you. Good. Fine. Go enjoy it. iTunes does not work for me. Good. Fine. I will not use it if I do not have to. Getting MythMusic to work is not the goal here. Getting MythTV, as a whole, to work within Linux on PowerPC hardware is. Thank you. Matt I'm not questioning your objective. Of course I hope you get everything working the way you need it to on whatever OS you'd like. Whatever your findings will make MythTV better for more people. In fact, once you figure it all out, I plan on getting a new machine to replace my son's mini and using it as my front end so I can get this noisy monster tower out of my living room. I only questioned your comment that iTunes doesn't have some features that MythMusic has which is why you prefer it. I thought I was missing something. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Popup menus occasionally unresponsive with LIRC
Wendy Seltzer wrote: I've been trying to debug this without much luck -- any suggestions would be welcome. Most of the time, my remote (X10 Lola vi lirc_atiusb module) works beautifully. Sometimes, however, when I invoke popup menus from the remote (e.g., with the key mapped to M, in watch recording or play music screens), none of the buttons is highlighted, and up and down arrows do nothing. ESC from the remote closes the popup. Hitting remote-M again has the same problem. Entering M from the keyboard instead shows the menu with first button selected, and from there, I can again navigate with the remote. (Very rarely, the keyboard shows the same problem, but it tends to last for only one keypress there.) None of the logs shows anything out of the ordinary, or any difference between times when the remote works and times when it doesn't. It often varies within a single session. This has been happening sporadically for months (currently running svn ~ rev 8490). Anyone else seeing this, or have suggestions where to look for the problem? --Wendy -- I have this problem too, but it seems to always be in the Media LibraryWatch Recordings when I want right arrow (from remote) to delete a program. The symptom is no button are lit up and up/dwn doesn't move the cursor. If I exit and try again it usually work. Referring to a previous reply to your question: I'm using the viewer that is standard too -- I assume that is mplayer. But, I don't see how this is the problem because it seems to be random when this symptom occurs. brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Single quote breaks myth2ipod script
Just got myth2ipod working. However, the test show I was using had a single quote in the name which broke the script. Had to s/\'/_/g on the title and subtitle. There may be other invalid characters I haven't run across yet, as well. Just wanted to let the author know so the change could be included in future versions, but I didn't see any contact info on the myth2ipod page so I'm hoping they see it here. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV
On Jan 2, 2006, at 2:05 PM, Matt Hannan wrote: Well, count me as a rare insane person! I can't for the life of me figure why people like iTunes. It seems so kludged together and will not let me do what I want it to do. NEVER LET SOFTWARE BOSS YOU AROUND. Anyway, thanks for the reply, but I would rather like to keep this thread to fixing MythTV issues than iTunes bashing. Matt Now I'm wondering what MythMusic does that iTunes doesn't? I ask because 1) You're the first person I've heard that has complained about functionality in iTunes (other complaints like size/cpu usage, but never that one) 2) I don't like MythMusic, so maybe you've got some secret way of using it that makes it better that I haven't seen. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV
On Jan 2, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Matt Hannan wrote: My setup has the Mini in the living room. I am trying to get it to the point where I do not have to leave Myth in order to listen to music. There currently is, to the best of my knowledge, no plugin for music in MythTV for OSX. This is one of the reasons why I loaded FC4, so I can get full MythTV support. I have been using MythTV since the early days, but always on x86 hardware. The last time I had MythTV-x86 running in the living room, MythMusic was the most used plugin. I have no doubt that this will be any different now. I am trying to get the living room friendly Mini to play nice with MythTV. This is the machines primary function. Matt Still not sure what you meant by [iTunes]... will not let me do what I want it to do. That aside, my solution would have been to get MythMusic working under OS X. :) I don't think people have ventured into making this work because most people would rather just run iTunes - that's why I never bothered, anyway. I agree that the mini makes a VERY nice (small, quiet, stylish, nice price point) machine to sit in your living room. Now onto the hopefully helpful part: Do you have /dev/adsp? If so, try that as your audio device instead of /dev/dsp for MythMusic. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Redirecting PVR-350 audio to soundcard for live TV / playback
On Jan 2, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Joe Votour wrote: You have two options here: 1. Don't use the PVR-350 MPEG-2 decoder for watching shows. Use Xv that is provided with the newest drivers (0.4.x). 2. Put in a second sound card and use it for looping the sound. -- Joe His CPU speed won't support option 1. A third option is to use an external mixer. Plug the audio from your PVR-350 and the audio from your onboard audio into the mixer and then out from your mixer to your TV/receiver/whatever you're listening on. I did this for a while and worked like a charm until I figured out my sound card loop issues (lots of noise = wrong alsa mixer settings). ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV
On Jan 2, 2006, at 3:25 PM, Matt Hannan wrote: The goal is a dedicated MythTV system running in the living room. That being said, MythMusic should be along for the ride, ie: auto boot into MythTV and just run from there. I agree. iTunes has MANY down sides. I no longer have it running even on my Windows systems, and, obviously, my Mac is now a Penguin. I do not feel I can support any software that insists on telling me how I can handle my data files, mp3s included. I should be the ultimate master of how my systems run, not the other way around. Ok, so nothing specific. Just a general I don't like it because I don't like it or I don't like it because I didn't read enough to figure out how to become the 'ultimate master' of my data files with iTunes. I can accept that. I was running iTunes off of an NFS share, but I want the WHOLE MythTV experience. Playing music meant exiting Myth and launching iTunes. http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MythOnMacOsx No Music support. My OS X finally went buggy, so I loaded FC4 hoping for media center nirvana. Went buggy. OK... Maybe it isn't there yet. MythTV is still pre-1.0 release, you know. Basically, this is not a massive issue, but rather a configuration question. MythMusic issues static, WatchTV blows up, Watch Recordings does the same. Pretty much the core three things I love MythTV for! Let's stay on topic, folks. This is not an iTunes issue, but rather a MythTV one. I will look into that /dev/adsp, but I do not seem to have that as an option in mythsetup or frontend utilities. Are you successfully running MythTV on a Mac? I'm running Front end on 3 Macs under OS X, but just for recorded shows and live TV. Your issue isn't a Mac issue. It's a FC4/Mac hardware issue, so I can only guess at what's wrong. I based my /dev/ adsp hunch on what I saw in my x86 FC4 setup. Am I really the only one running MythTV on a Mac Mini? It seems from the Google searches that I would be a late-comer. You're likely the only one wanting to run MythMusic on a mini with FC4 instead of OS X. Others will learn from your experiences. :) Again, Happy New Year to all and thanks for the replies. Matt -Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV
On Jan 2, 2006, at 4:14 PM, Matt Hannan wrote: Ok, so nothing specific. Just a general I don't like it because I don't like it or I don't like it because I didn't read enough to figure out how to become the 'ultimate master' of my data files with iTunes. I can accept that. No, I played with iTunes for months. My first Mac is this Mini. I have read. And read. And read. Like I said, I had it working with an NFS share for my server, which is also my mythbackend machine. And sure, I don't like iTunes. Sue me for saying it. ;-) I'd rather use XMMS, to tell you the truth. Hell, use Windows Media Player for all I care. :) I was trying to get out of you what you couldn't do with iTunes that you can do with MythMusic so I could propose a solution for anyone who happens upon this thread in the future. Your answer is Play music without leaving Myth Frontend. I have no iTunes solution - yet. If the need should arise, I might try playing with MythMusic to allow users to specify the binary that plays the music files so you can choose an external player like MythVideo does. I wouldn't count on that since I have everything working how I need it to work. I think this had A LOT to do with fink. I was trying to get XMMS running, but had zero positive results. Then Software Update stopped working. Then iTunes stopped working. So here I am with FC4. I will reload Tiger if I have to, but I am trying to get a full-boat MythTV system running, which is just not going to happen under OS X. Basically, this is not a massive issue, but rather a configuration question. MythMusic issues static, WatchTV blows up, Watch Recordings does the same. Pretty much the core three things I love MythTV for! Let's stay on topic, folks. This is not an iTunes issue, but rather a MythTV one. Can you get audio from X to work? If not, it's a I can't get audio to work under FC4 using a Mac mini issue, not a MythTV issue. I will look into that /dev/adsp, but I do not seem to have that as an option in mythsetup or frontend utilities. Are you successfully running MythTV on a Mac? To change the device MythMusic uses for audio, go to Utilities/ SetupSetupMedia SettingsMusic SettingsGeneral SettingsFirst Screen Audio Device. What are your options other than /dev/dsp? Do they match ls -l /dev/ | grep dsp ? I'm running Front end on 3 Macs under OS X, but just for recorded shows and live TV. Your issue isn't a Mac issue. It's a FC4/Mac hardware issue, so I can only guess at what's wrong. I based my / dev/ adsp hunch on what I saw in my x86 FC4 setup. Granted. MythTV under OS X was nice, but it did not include support for music. Kill me for rather listening to music than watching TV. Did you build your OS X front end with the mythmusic plugin? Just saying... Again, granted. That is why this thread has fc4.ppc in its subject! I seriously doubt I am the only wanting this functionality. If so, I am now the Geek King of the World, which I seriously doubt. Once the holidays are over, I am willing to bet that I get an actual answer to this. Timing is everything, and New Years is not the right time! I'm betting you are, in fact, the only one who has loaded FC4 on their mini and wants to play MythMusic with it (and reads this list). Prepare to wear your crown. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Frontend - Backend : Connectivity
On Jan 2, 2006, at 5:25 PM, R wrote: Will this work? In THIS house, the Backend is connected to Comcast cable. It is also connected to Comcast internet behind a firewall. My relative lives across the street. We could put a Frontend in THAT house behind that firewall. Make the appropriate changes to both the firewalls so that the Frontend and Backend can communicate with eachother. What do you think? Or is it better to just get wireless gear, secure it of course, and forget connectivity over the internet? Our houses are about 100 feet apart. You'll get better speed over wireless. 100 feet should mean little interference. If this is your only need, I recommend getting 802.11a gear. You can get it pretty cheap now, it's fast, and no one seems to think to try to hack on that band. :) Your only issue might be drivers. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] WinTV PVR-350 - Do I still need a video out card?
You can use the 350 to handle all your X output as well. Jarod's guide tells you how to do it in Fedora. The only problem is the overscan. You will lose the edges of your desktop area since the TV (deliberately) cuts it off. If you're using your computer for more than Myth, it would get annoying, however I find it completely usable for all myth-related activities. In fact, I'm ready to pull the video card completely from my machine and use only the 350. On Dec 31, 2005, at 10:54 AM, Acid Einstein wrote: I know a lot of people have used a 350 in their MythTV setup. I'm currently using a 250 with a nVidia based card for video out. I'm thinking of getting a 350 and slapping it in the same MythTV box so i can view and record at the same time. But if I get a 350 will I no longer require the video out features on my video card? Ideally i'd like to remove the nVidia card and replace it with something cheap. But i'm afraid the Video Out on the 350 will only work for watching TV or only within MythTV. I'm hoping it just works like any other video card with TV out but when the hauppage website states that it requiers a video card with direct draw to function I get a little scared. Any advice would be great. thanks. ___ 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] Serious concerns about LiveTV Ringbuffer chang es - a Q for develo pers
On Dec 31, 2005, at 12:29 PM, Steve Adeff wrote: I'd still think it would be worth paying the $500 for a UPS for that system, save yourself the hassle of a power outtage destroying some of those drives. Happened to me once and thats why I use a UPS now =) Speaking of APC... I might have a job interview with them next week... I don't know how this helps, but having been unemployed for a few months I'm excited =D I just set up an APC Smart-UPS SC1500. Tells me I have 63 minutes of battery at 100% charge. USB plug play was nice. Just install the software, configure and go. I got it for around $350. I can also get a bunch of dumb (cheap) UPS's for my other boxes and use this one to shut down other systems when it detects the power is out after X minutes. It's also nice to get emails telling me when the battery needs to be replaced or that the power went out, came back on, etc. Great investment for peace of mind. Are you interviewing in RI? I live relatively close to APC's HQ. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] audio out on a Hauppauge pvr-350
Do you get an error from Myth when you watch something? How are you hooking up your audio? Out from your 350 and into your sound card or direct from your 350 to speakers/receiver? On Dec 31, 2005, at 6:21 PM, Matt Price wrote: hi folks, trying to get audio out to work on a hauppauge pvr-350. This is on a dell optiplex gx1, running ubuntu breezy's mythtv packages (18.1-5). I have an xserver running on the tv-out, working fine, and I have tried the dd test : dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 bs=64k which successfully produced audio and video. howver when I run mythtv I get no sound output, despite having checked the use pvr-350' audio in the mythfrontend setup utility. video is also slightly off, with the edges of the screen vanishing (very frustrating when I'm doing the settings!). bur for now I'm concentrating on the lack of audio, which is crippling b/c the onboard sound card does not seem to be recognized by ubuntu (apparently I'm not the only one with this problem, see http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=388581 ). Can someone direct me to some info on this? I've googled around but am getting worn out after many defeats. I tried this solution: http://jonobacon.org/viewcomments.php?id=590 adding the following to /etc/modules.d/ivtv alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 ivtv options ivtv ivtv_std=2 tda9887=0 ivtv_debug=1 options msp3400 once=1 simple=1 options tuner pal=1 install ivtv /sbin/modprobe tuner; /sbin/modprobe msp3400; /sbin/modprobe saa7115; \ /sbin/modprobe saa7127; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv; \ /usr/local/bin/ivtvctl -j reg=0x6c,val=0xfa; /sbin/modprobe lirc_i2c; \ /sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb; \ /usr/local/bin/ivtvfbctl /dev/fb0 -noglobalalpha -localalpha but no luck, no change. can anyone offer some advice? hanks, matt --- Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] History Department, University of Toronto (416) 978-2094 ___ 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] audio out on a Hauppauge pvr-350
AFAIK you still need to set your audio device. I was getting the same error trying to use /dev/adsp but only root had permissions on that device. /dev/dsp worked for me. I followed Jarod's guide to set up. I'm not sure which part of it set up my audio device correctly (I'm guessing it's part of the ivtv driver), but it might help to look through it. On Dec 31, 2005, at 7:08 PM, Matt Price wrote: On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 06:26:13PM -0800, Brad DerManouelian wrote: Do you get an error from Myth when you watch something? How are you hooking up your audio? Out from your 350 and into your sound card or direct from your 350 to speakers/receiver? I was getting a no such device error earlier, before I found the setting which let me use the pvr-350's audio-out. I think this is because the main onboard sound card isn't detected, and thus /dev/dsp isn't created. (no sound in ubuntu either). no there aren't any errors that I can find, though I will look further. I'm trying to use the direct audio out, so am not hooking up through the sound card. matt On Dec 31, 2005, at 6:21 PM, Matt Price wrote: hi folks, trying to get audio out to work on a hauppauge pvr-350. This is on a dell optiplex gx1, running ubuntu breezy's mythtv packages (18.1-5). I have an xserver running on the tv-out, working fine, and I have tried the dd test : dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 bs=64k which successfully produced audio and video. howver when I run mythtv I get no sound output, despite having checked the use pvr-350' audio in the mythfrontend setup utility. video is also slightly off, with the edges of the screen vanishing (very frustrating when I'm doing the settings!). bur for now I'm concentrating on the lack of audio, which is crippling b/c the onboard sound card does not seem to be recognized by ubuntu (apparently I'm not the only one with this problem, see http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=388581 ). Can someone direct me to some info on this? I've googled around but am getting worn out after many defeats. I tried this solution: http://jonobacon.org/viewcomments.php?id=590 adding the following to /etc/modules.d/ivtv alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 ivtv options ivtv ivtv_std=2 tda9887=0 ivtv_debug=1 options msp3400 once=1 simple=1 options tuner pal=1 install ivtv /sbin/modprobe tuner; /sbin/modprobe msp3400; /sbin/modprobe saa7115; \ /sbin/modprobe saa7127; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv; \ /usr/local/bin/ivtvctl -j reg=0x6c,val=0xfa; /sbin/modprobe lirc_i2c; \ /sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb; \ /usr/local/bin/ivtvfbctl /dev/fb0 -noglobalalpha -localalpha but no luck, no change. can anyone offer some advice? hanks, matt Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] History Department, University of Toronto (416) 978-2094 ___ 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 --- Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] History Department, University of Toronto (416) 978-2094 ___ 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] Important information concerning DataDirect's outage
Bruce Markey wrote: Bruce Markey wrote: Zap2It appears to be suffering some system problems today. This may cause unfortunate problems when running mythfilldatabase It appears that Zap2It was delivering listings again by about 1am PST although the forums at labs.zap2it.com still don't work. If you are missing data for Friday (or today), running mfdb manually should fix the problem. If you are using SVN, update to current for a fix which will verify that the successful grab actually has new program data before clearing old data. If you have good data today, it may still be a good idea to make a backup of your program table in case Zap2It's problems continue. interesting.. I have data for today (friday), none for tomorrow (sat) from midnight to midnight, and then data starts again at midnight sun morning. in a nutshell: saturday is blank. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Important information concerning DataDirect's outage
William wrote: interesting.. I have data for today (friday), none for tomorrow (sat) from midnight to midnight, and then data starts again at midnight sun morning. in a nutshell: saturday is blank. try mythfilldatabase --refresh-today should do today and tomorrow. that worked fine. (I backed up just in case) Thanks! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Samba 3 better than NFS 3 for recording over Ethernet
On Dec 29, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Yeechang Lee wrote: Brad DerManouelian [EMAIL PROTECTED] says: Yeechang, what kind of drives are in your RAID 5? ATA-133? 7200 RPM? = 8MB Cache? They are Seagate Barracuda.8 400GB PATA drives (I got a fantastic price on 'em a year ago, the month after their debut). Not far from the state of the art for drives even today, and needless to say each with 7200RPM and 8MB cache. Then you're right. You should be getting MUCH better performance out of these drives. I'm still sticking to my guns that RAID 5 is one of the slowest RAID choices. :) It's just a simple fact. Are you sure you don't have a drive failure? RAID 5 will continue on normally but your speed will sink fast if a drive fails. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] frontend setup (NFS ?) need clarification
On Dec 30, 2005, at 11:01 AM, Franco wrote: Hello, Hi How should I set up things so that I can play all my video, music, etc. from all the frontends? I believe the answer is NFS, but should I setup things so that the paths look the same from every machine? I see that if I try to browse the videos from a frontend, I can see all the video covers I had setup in the backend database, but when I try to play them, I get a file not found (or similar) error. What's the purpose, then, of having the paths configurable in the frontend, if they need to be just the same as frontend ones? Your covers and video files need to point to the same path. Not specifically the same exact text. For instance, if you store your videos in /mythtv/videos on your backend machine, the frontend on that same machine should point to /mythtv/videos. However, if you NFS mount to /videos on your remote frontend machine, you should enter / videos in that setup. Another reason for this being configurable is that I have DVD's ripped on my backend machine, but I don't want my kids trying to stream that much data over wireless, so they keep their respective videos on their local machines (rip it on the backend machine, then copy it over the network to their local machine for viewing later). Their video directory is local, but the music/photos catalog is an NFS mount. And how do I should setup things, as I have my videos, music, etc., split among the disks of the various machines? I'd like to be able to watch/listen ALL my stuff from EVERY mythbox in the house... NFS mount wherever you have your data. I believe you can use colons to separate multiple paths. For instance, /mythtv/videos:/videos will look to both directories to populate your videos. I simplified my life by storing everything in a LVM on my backend machine (hooked right to my TV, so I use it as my main frontend machine, as well), then I just have a single location for all my data and can mount it on any other machine I please. Last question: the only thing I found mentioned in the FAQ, was the myth:// URL... do I need to use that and where do I put it? Never used it before. Sorry I can't help there. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Samba 3 better than NFS 3 for recording over Ethernet
On Dec 30, 2005, at 3:11 PM, Yeechang Lee wrote: Brad wrote: Are you sure you don't have a drive failure? RAID 5 will continue on = normally but your speed will sink fast if a drive fails. I am well aware of how mdadm handles drive failures and how to monitor the array's and drives' health. Believe me, they're fine as far as I can tell. And as I've written, iostat shows all drives in the array with similar performance measures. You've checked all the stuff I would check, then. Next I would start questioning the RAID card or hardware connections. Write speeds of 7-10MB/sec is what I would expect out of RAID 5 with ATA-100, 2MB cache drives. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Samba 3 better than NFS 3 for recording over Ethernet
On Dec 28, 2005, at 10:51 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 28 December 2005 22:37, Brad DerManouelian wrote: On Dec 28, 2005, at 10:30 PM, Yeechang Lee wrote: To make a long story short, my 2.8TB JFS-on-LVM2-on-software RAID 5 array has certain mysterious performance bottlenecks that result in 7.5-10MB/s local write speeds, despite eight spindles and two 3Ware 7506 controller cards in JBOD mode and on separate buses and with iowait never going above a few percentage points at the very most. Over the network that's even slower, of course. This actually sounds pretty typical of RAID 5 to me. Every write results in 2 simultaneous writes. Even slower when you're doing it in software. Great for redundancy, terrible for throughput. That's the trade-off. Erm, software RAID 5 isn't *that* bad. I've got a sw RAID 5 array that only consists of four ATA drives, and can write at a sustained rate of 30MB/s without a problem. I've got a 5-drive U320 software RAID 5 array in another machine that does ~80MB/s without a problem. My point is that RAID 5 is *MUCH* slower than just about any other RAID config and you should expect your max speed to be half of your fastest drive. Put those U320's on RAID 0+1 and you'll likely double your speed (and half your recoverability). That being said, the original poster obviously hasn't got that kind of throughput and RAID 5 is cutting whatever he has in half. Yeechang, what kind of drives are in your RAID 5? ATA-133? 7200 RPM? 8MB Cache? -Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] zap2it account setup?
Kevin Maute wrote: Folks, This is a problem for me to even get out of the starting gate with MythTV. I have unsuccessfully set up my account after at least 6 attempts. Any ideas? unless you told the group what the problems were in another thread, you might want to start with describing the problems. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Eh - unrequested recording of live TV?!
Search the forums. Are we really talking about this again? On Dec 28, 2005, at 7:11 AM, Chris Picton wrote: Greg Estabrooks wrote: schedule, etc. It would be an absolute ballache to have to delete all the mini recordings. You don't have to. Myth will auto expire them after I think a configurable period of time( a day? ) Can you auto expire them after a second? My machine is running short on space. I am always fighting to keep enough space free for the next few scheduled recordings. I have never turned on auto-expire, though as my recorded shows are hardly ever rebroadcast, so I don't want them deleted. Can you set myth to only autoexpire a certain subset of your recordings? . Plus if at anytime more space is required for a regular recording myth will expire livetv recordings first. Will it auto-expire while recording (Ie, if there is only 500Mb free and dropping fast, start autoexpiring)? ___ 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] Samba 3 better than NFS 3 for recording over Ethernet
On Dec 28, 2005, at 10:30 PM, Yeechang Lee wrote: To make a long story short, my 2.8TB JFS-on-LVM2-on-software RAID 5 array has certain mysterious performance bottlenecks that result in 7.5-10MB/s local write speeds, despite eight spindles and two 3Ware 7506 controller cards in JBOD mode and on separate buses and with iowait never going above a few percentage points at the very most. Over the network that's even slower, of course. This actually sounds pretty typical of RAID 5 to me. Every write results in 2 simultaneous writes. Even slower when you're doing it in software. Great for redundancy, terrible for throughput. That's the trade-off. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Disabling IRQ
On Dec 25, 2005, at 7:10 AM, Marko Nurmenniemi wrote: Brad DerManouelian wrote: After about half an hour of watching a video, I get this message. (Xine dies immediately and mplayer continues on for a few minutes more, then eventually dies, as well). It only happens when watching a DVD directly or ripped using either perfect or compressed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1 I had this happen on my server. Problem I had was related to RAID-5 controllers which were disabled after heavy activity. I'm running a MSI 694D board with two PIII-800 processors. The fix was to force the IRQ selection off from Fedora with a Grub boot command. Don't know if it helps but this what is working for me. pci=noacpi This is placed to the grub.conf after the kernel string As far as I recall, I've got the same motherboard (I have 3 dual processor boards and I never remember which is in which box). I added the kernel switch and now I'm playing through a movie now to see if it solved the issue. Thanks! At least my IRQ's look reasonably assigned now. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1 0: 127733 127624IO-APIC-edge timer 1:845923IO-APIC-edge i8042 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 0 0IO-APIC-edge acpi 7: 0 0IO-APIC-edge parport0 8: 0 1IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 180610 179903 IO-APIC-level ivtv0 10: 0 0 IO-APIC-level Ensoniq AudioPCI 11: 3025 3113 IO-APIC-level eth0 12: 6453 6411 IO-APIC-level EMU10K1, uhci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2 14: 40518 40181IO-APIC-edge ide0 15: 7745 8076IO-APIC-edge ide1 NMI: 0 0 LOC: 255267 255266 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Windows and Fedora Core
It's easier to install Windows first since grub (FC4 default) will get installed over the Windows boot manager and is much more accommodating of Windows than the other way around. When you boot your machine after the linux install, you'll have the option of booting into a specific linux kernel or Windows. I also recommend putting Linux and Windows on completely separate drives if you can. Separate partitions on the same drive should be ok, but makes for less fun when something goes wrong. On Dec 25, 2005, at 8:28 PM, Jason Rottman wrote: Hi, is there a specific order I should install Fedora Core and Windows if I want/need them both on the same machine? Is there a preferred way of doing this, with some form of a boot manager? Thanks. ___ 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] (no subject)
I thought I was having a problem when I first tried this, but it turned out to be a lot of excess in/outputs turned on that didn't need to be causing insane amounts of noise. I also didn't have my capture level high enough so I was blasting my receiver to compensate. Once I turned off anything I didn't need and adjusted the levels, it was all good. I ended up only using Mic 1 for capture at 100, PCM set to 92, Wave set to 92 and Master set to 92. alsamixer from a remote session helped a lot in my sound card config by playing something on the myth front end and adjusting from remote session until the audio levels were where I needed them to be. Then alsactl store to retain the settings.On Dec 25, 2005, at 10:00 PM, Joshua Frank wrote:I have tried this. It is possible by using alsactl to capture the line out and redirect. The problem is that the sound quality is very poor when you do this. I beleive the artical on how to do this was on the myth wiki site. My advice is not to try. On 12/23/05, Rajeev Goonewardene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,I have successfully got mythtv working and it works great - veryimpressed by the work, thank you Issac and Jarod for the great software and howtos. One small question, I have the PVR-350 card andI was wondering if I can get mplayer to play the DVD sound throughthe PVR350's audio out so I don't have to switch cables when watchinga DVD. This also would be nice for any media I am playing through mplayer.Any help would be really appreciated.Thanks,Rajeev.___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users-- Joshua Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED]___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] Help!! My system has crashed (maybe OT?)
Probably not. Most likely MySQL was being accessed when you lost power which resulted in a head crash on the platter killing those sectors. Hard to avoid that sort of thing without a UPS. On Dec 24, 2005, at 11:27 AM, Dave Ansell wrote: Thanks. I ran Maxtor diag and it found and repaired some bad sectors. As a result MySQL got trashed but at least the system booted. Reinstall of MySQL finally fixed it. Question remains Is the Hard Disk on the way out? Guess I will have to wait and see on that one. thanks for the help Dave - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Discussion about mythtv' mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 12:35 PM Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Help!! My system has crashed (maybe OT?) The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon: Device: /dev/hda, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/messages). You can also use the smartctl utility for further investigation. No additional email messages about this problem will be sent. Now the system boots past udev, etc as far as the graphical rotating hour glass which just sits there rotating. That error message sounds like you have had a drive failure. First thing I would try is to download and burn the drive diagnostic disk from your drive manufacturer and make sure that the drive is still good. It will likely find that one or more sectors of the drive are no longer readable. If you have only had it running for a year there is a good chance that the drive is still under warrenty. If the drive is still good then I would recommend a fresh start with a format and reload. -- -- ___ 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
[mythtv-users] Disabling IRQ
After about half an hour of watching a video, I get this message. (Xine dies immediately and mplayer continues on for a few minutes more, then eventually dies, as well). It only happens when watching a DVD directly or ripped using either perfect or compressed. Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Sat Dec 24 20:22:24 2005 ... mythtv kernel: Disabling IRQ #11 Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Sat Dec 24 20:22:37 2005 ... mythtv kernel: Disabling IRQ #185 It's disabling my sound card that I'm not using (on board sound is enabled, but I'm using my SoundBlaster Live card for everything) and for some reason my USB ports to which I have attached a wireless Microsoft USB mouse. Mouse still works after these messages, just REAL slow/choppy movement. Anyone have any idea why? And why only when watching a DVD? Any other info that would be useful in diagnosing? Even advice as to which list I should be posting it to would help. :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1 0: 12565073 12678697IO-APIC-edge timer 1:107133IO-APIC-edge i8042 5: 0 0 IO-APIC-level acpi 7: 0 0IO-APIC-edge parport0 8: 1 0IO-APIC-edge rtc 11: 102896 97104 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2 14:28668212879769IO-APIC-edge ide0 15: 267122 243089IO-APIC-edge ide1 169: 129606 129627 IO-APIC-level eth0 177: 46100 45820 IO-APIC-level Ensoniq AudioPCI 185: 100387 99613 IO-APIC-level EMU10K1 193: 20452716 20522406 IO-APIC-level ivtv0 NMI: 0 0 LOC: 25242234 25242233 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# tail -50 /var/log/messages Dec 24 19:54:05 mythtv kernel: ivtv0-osd warning: Source video: Interlaced Dec 24 19:54:05 mythtv kernel: ivtv0 warning: Enable video output Dec 24 19:54:12 mythtv lircd-0.7.2[2732]: removed client Dec 24 19:54:18 mythtv lircd-0.7.2[2732]: accepted new client on /dev/ lircd Dec 24 19:54:18 mythtv kernel: ivtv0-osd warning: Need to adjust to width 544 src_w 544 dst_w 720 src_x 0 dst_x 0 Dec 24 19:54:18 mythtv kernel: ivtv0-osd warning: Need to adjust to height 320 src_h 320 dst_h 376 src_y 0 dst_y 52 Dec 24 19:54:18 mythtv kernel: ivtv0-osd warning: Source video: Interlaced Dec 24 19:54:18 mythtv kernel: ivtv0 warning: Enable video output Dec 24 20:01:01 mythtv crond(pam_unix)[17407]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Dec 24 20:01:01 mythtv crond(pam_unix)[17407]: session closed for user root Dec 24 20:22:24 mythtv kernel: irq 11: nobody cared (try booting with the irqpoll option) Dec 24 20:22:24 mythtv kernel: [c0143fdb] __report_bad_irq+0x24/0x7f Dec 24 20:22:24 mythtv kernel: [c028a95c] usb_hcd_irq+0x20/0x48 Dec 24 20:22:24 mythtv kernel: [c01440b6] note_interrupt+0x62/0xac Dec 24 20:22:24 mythtv kernel: [c0143a90] __do_IRQ+0xd7/0xe7 Dec 24 20:22:24 mythtv kernel: [c0105b1e] do_IRQ+0x4e/0x86 Dec 24 20:22:24 mythtv kernel: === Dec 24 20:22:24 mythtv kernel: [c011625c] smp_apic_timer_interrupt +0xc1/0xca Dec 24 20:22:24 mythtv kernel: [c0104426] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 Dec 24 20:22:24 mythtv kernel: [c0216025] acpi_processor_idle +0x0/0x291 Dec 24 20:22:24 mythtv kernel: [c0216119] acpi_processor_idle +0xf4/0x291 Dec 24 20:22:24 mythtv kernel: [c0101a24] cpu_idle+0x4e/0x63 Dec 24 20:22:24 mythtv kernel: handlers: Dec 24 20:22:24 mythtv kernel: [c028a93c] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x48) Dec 24 20:22:24 mythtv kernel: [c028a93c] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x48) Dec 24 20:22:24 mythtv kernel: Disabling IRQ #11 Dec 24 20:22:37 mythtv kernel: irq 185: nobody cared (try booting with the irqpoll option) Dec 24 20:22:37 mythtv kernel: [c0143fdb] __report_bad_irq+0x24/0x7f Dec 24 20:22:37 mythtv kernel: [c01440b6] note_interrupt+0x62/0xac Dec 24 20:22:37 mythtv kernel: [c0143a90] __do_IRQ+0xd7/0xe7 Dec 24 20:22:37 mythtv kernel: [c0105b1e] do_IRQ+0x4e/0x86 Dec 24 20:22:37 mythtv kernel: === Dec 24 20:22:37 mythtv kernel: [c011625c] smp_apic_timer_interrupt +0xc1/0xca Dec 24 20:22:37 mythtv kernel: [c0104426] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 Dec 24 20:22:37 mythtv kernel: [c0216025] acpi_processor_idle +0x0/0x291 Dec 24 20:22:37 mythtv kernel: [c0216119] acpi_processor_idle +0xf4/0x291 Dec 24 20:22:37 mythtv kernel: [c0101a24] cpu_idle+0x4e/0x63 Dec 24 20:22:37 mythtv kernel: [c03ed87f] start_kernel+0x173/0x1ca Dec 24 20:22:37 mythtv kernel: [c03ed304] unknown_bootoption +0x0/0x1b6 Dec 24 20:22:37 mythtv kernel: handlers: Dec 24 20:22:37 mythtv kernel: [e0c7e680] (snd_emu10k1_interrupt +0x0/0x480 [snd_emu10k1]) Dec 24 20:22:37 mythtv kernel: Disabling IRQ #185 Dec 24 20:28:46 mythtv lircd-0.7.2[2732]: accepted new client on /dev/ lircd Dec 24 20:29:01 mythtv lircd-0.7.2[2732]: accepted new client on /dev/ lircd Dec 24 20:31:09 mythtv lircd-0.7.2[2732]: removed client Dec
Re: [mythtv-users] Having fun with OSD
http://efilmcritic.com/fo.rdf looks to be the culprit. They don't use a description element that the script is looking for. Here's my "I just woke up and don't feel like testing it" hack. Looks like it should work..#!/usr/bin/perl -wuse strict;use LWP::Simple;use XML::RSS;use DBI;use HTML::Entities ();my $dbh = DBI-connect('dbi:mysql:mythconverg','mythtv','mythtv');my $sql = "SELECT url FROM newssites ORDER BY updated DESC";my $sth = $dbh-prepare( $sql );$sth-execute || die ('Could not execute SQL statement: $sql');my $sNews;while ( my $row = $sth-fetchrow ){ my $rss = new XML::RSS; $rss-parse( get( $row ) ); foreach my $item (@{$rss-{'items'}}) { $sNews .= "$item-{'title'}" if ( $item-{'title'} ); $sNews .= " - $item-{'description'}" if ( $item-{'description'} ); $sNews .= " " if ( $item-{'title'} $item-{'description'} ); }}$sNews = HTML::Entities::encode($sNews);`mythtvosd --template=scroller scroll_text="$sNews"`;On Dec 22, 2005, at 11:47 PM, Phill Edwards wrote:On 23/12/05, Brad DerManouelian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have the URL to the feed causing the error? It's more likelythat the RSS feed doesn't conform to the standard than your librarybeing wonky. The URLs returned by the query are as below. I'll go through them oneat a time and try to find the culprit. I'll probably want to filterthe query anyway as this would scroll for hours so thanks for thepointer!| http://news.zdnet.com/2260-1_22.xml || http://efilmcritic.com/fo.rdf || http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk//rss/newsonline_uk_edition/technology/rss.xml || http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/wp-rss2.php || http://rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com/pcmag.xml || http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss.xml || http://rss.topix.net/rss/world/australia.xml || http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_offbeat.rss || http://rss.topix.net/rss/news/weird.xml || http://dwlt.net/tapestry/dilbert.rdf || http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/science/nature/rss.xml || http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_tech.rss || http://abc.net.au/news/syndicate/topstoriesrss.xml || http://abc.net.au/news/syndicate/breakingrss.xml || http://abc.net.au/news/syndicate/worldrss.xml || http://abc.net.au/news/syndicate/entertainmentrss.xml || http://abc.net.au/news/syndicate/businessrss.xml || http://abc.net.au/news/syndicate/ruralrss.xml || http://abc.net.au/sport/syndicate/sport_all.xml || http://abc.net.au/sport/syndicate/rugby_union.xml || http://abc.net.au/sport/syndicate/cricket.xml || http://abc.net.au/sport/syndicate/soccer.xml || http://abc.net.au/sport/syndicate/rugby_league.xml || http://abc.net.au/sport/syndicate/afl.xml || http://abc.net.au/news/syndicate/offbeatrss.xml || http://abc.net.au/news/syndicate/sciencerss.xml || http://abc.net.au/news/syndicate/healthrss.xml || http://abc.net.au/news/syndicate/politicsrss.xml || http://mail.google.com/mail//feed/atomRegards,Phill___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___
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Re: [mythtv-users] Interesting false match
On Dec 23, 2005, at 12:14 PM, Al Mcintosh wrote: Well, I am not going to get into the specifics right now as the details surrounding the patent are still unclear. I will mention the biggest problem will be powering the time machine as it requires a tremendous amount of power obtained from plutonium. I would like to mention I can definitly see a mythplugin for recording shows in the past. IE: Like the episode of Time tunnel when Tony and Doug had to escape from Krakatoia before it erupted! Try googling for flux capacitor. Now that Live TV programs stick around for a while, I suppose making the Live TV group visible and moving shows to your recorded programs group you actually could add things to your recorded that aired in the past. :) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Having fun with OSD
Do you have the URL to the feed causing the error? It's more likely that the RSS feed doesn't conform to the standard than your library being wonky. On Dec 22, 2005, at 11:10 PM, Phill Edwards wrote: Yeah, sorry about that. I wasn't handling some HTML entities that the shell doesn't like. Apply the mod that Graeme Hilton suggested earlier in the thread and you should be all set. Look at my quoted text above for where the lines go. I've made those changes but it still gives me the same errors: ... Use of uninitialized value in exists at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/XML/RSS.pm line 1432. Use of uninitialized value in exists at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/XML/RSS.pm line 1432. Use of uninitialized value in exists at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/XML/RSS.pm line 1432. Use of uninitialized value in exists at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/XML/RSS.pm line 1432. ... As it's coming from RSS.pm I'm wondering if there's something wrong with the perl-XML-RSS package I've installed? Regards, Phill ___ 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] OSD Now/Next information from database?
On Dec 22, 2005, at 11:35 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Isn't that what browse mode is for? Press o while watching LiveTV to enter browse mode. Then, to see what's on next, use the right arrow. And, with browse mode, you can get Next-next and Next-next-next and ... ;) If you really like browse mode, you can set your channel up/down buttons to always use browse mode. I think he is referring to next timeslot, not next channel. Kevin Up/Down shows next/prev channel. Left/Right shows timeslots. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Having fun with OSD
On Dec 21, 2005, at 4:07 AM, Phill Edwards wrote:You inspired me. I just wrote this quick script to display myMythNews headlines. Anyone know if it's possible to trigger anexternal script while watching TV? I set it to run every hour, butI'd much prefer it to run when I hit a button on my remote and feellike being depressed.Use/modify it if you like.#!/usr/bin/perl -wuse strict;use LWP::Simple;use XML::RSS;use DBI;use HTML::Entities ();my $dbh = DBI-connect('dbi:mysql:mythconverg','mythtv','mythtv');my $sql = "SELECT url FROM newssites ORDER BY updated DESC";my $sth = $dbh-prepare( $sql );$sth-execute || die ('Could not execute SQL statement: $sql');my $sNews;while ( my $row = $sth-fetchrow ){ my $rss = new XML::RSS; $rss-parse( get( $row ) ); foreach my $item (@{$rss-{'items'}}) { $sNews .= "$item-{'title'} - $item-{'description'} "; }}$sNews = HTML::Entities::encode($sNews); `mythtvosd --template=scroller scroll_text="$sNews"`; Thanks Brad. I tried it but when I do a test run from the command lineI get these errors:Yeah, sorry about that. I wasn't handling some HTML entities that the shell doesn't like. Apply the mod that Graeme Hilton suggested earlier in the thread and you should be all set. Look at my quoted text above for where the lines go.___
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Re: [mythtv-users] Gray-OSD change font?
On Dec 21, 2005, at 11:38 AM, Greg Estabrooks wrote: display. Works with recordings, but displays the token for live tv. Not sure if there's a way around this, but wanted to mention it. I'll take a look at that. Haven't looked at this one yet, but I'll check it out tonight. (no livetv while at work using my vmware dev session) :) I changed it to %STARTTIME% - %ENDTIME% %STARTDATE% and it gave me what I wanted in both recordings and Live TV. I think those are the tokens I used, anyway. I'm at work and can't check it at the moment, but I guessed when I changed it as much as I'm guessing now so both guesses are probably equal. :) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Interesting false match
Doesn't sound false to me. You asked to record House on any time, any channel. That's exactly what it did. :) On Dec 21, 2005, at 10:32 PM, Allan McIntosh wrote: Hey, I have a record schedule for new episodes of the series House, which is set to record at any time on any channel. There is a movie on the IFC called House that I believe falsely falls under this record schedule. ___ 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] Re: DVD Transcode doesn't work after kernel upgrade.
On Dec 11, 2005, at 8:12 PM, Brad DerManouelian wrote: Hoping someone can help. I used to be able to transcode DVD's except it was insanely slow. Luckily, I was using a dual processor motherboard with a single processor in it, so I bought a matching pair and upgraded my kernel to 2.6.14-1.1644_FC4smp #1 SMP Sun Nov 27 03:39:31 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux. Now transcode doesn't work on anything other than Perfect. Solved this and posting for posterity. xine-lib looked to be installed, but uninstalling and re-installing after the kernel upgrade solved my problem. Hope my efforts helps someone else in the future. :) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Having fun with OSD
Thanks! I actually ran into that and never posted a mod except my mod
only accounted for double-quotes. Yours like like more of a real fix. :)
On Dec 20, 2005, at 6:48 AM, Graeme Hilton wrote:
Thanks for the script Brad.
Here's a modification so that it doesn't bomb on odd characters:
Add after use DBI;
use HTML::Entities ();
and just before the last line, add
$sNews = HTML::Entities::encode($sNews);
Cheers,
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On Mon, 19 December, 2005 3:03 am, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
You inspired me. I just wrote this quick script to display my
MythNews headlines. Anyone know if it's possible to trigger an
external script while watching TV? I set it to run every hour, but
I'd much prefer it to run when I hit a button on my remote and feel
like being depressed.
Use/modify it if you like.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;
use XML::RSS;
use DBI;
my $dbh = DBI-connect('dbi:mysql:mythconverg','mythtv','mythtv');
my $sql = SELECT url FROM newssites ORDER BY updated DESC;
my $sth = $dbh-prepare( $sql );
$sth-execute || die ('Could not execute SQL statement: $sql');
my $sNews;
while ( my $row = $sth-fetchrow )
{
my $rss = new XML::RSS;
$rss-parse( get( $row ) );
foreach my $item (@{$rss-{'items'}})
{
$sNews .= $item-{'title'} - $item-
{'description'} ;
}
}
`mythtvosd --template=scroller scroll_text=$sNews`;
On Dec 18, 2005, at 5:56 PM, Sasha Z wrote:
...and so how do you enforce that? But that is a funny idea. Kudos!
On 12/18/05, Support [ Ian Ward ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought I would share the mythtv user's crontab with the list.
Open Source is even good for parenting ;-)
0 21 * * * /usr/bin/mythtvosd --template=alert
alert_text=Jessica or
Tegan, who is doing the wash up??
20 21 * * 0-4 /usr/bin/mythtvosd --template=alert alert_text=!!!
Time
for BED !!!
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Re: [mythtv-users] DVB, HD3000 and Myth
Michael Haan wrote: I know people are doing this, so it must be documentable. What are the steps for configuring a fresh install to tune qam? That is: 1) How do I find-out how to tune my channels? 2) How do I import this into myth? 3) What else? Seems like there are a-lot of people doing this, so I know the info is out there. Although for OTA, here's what I did: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/165554/#165554. It has links to other msgs here that helped me. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
