[mythtv-users] How to set channel PIDs
Hi sorry if this has been asked before but Im at the end of my whits now. Ive been fiddling around for about 3 weeks trying to get myth working. Firstly I got a semi supported card (dvico fusion plus) one week later got that working. sorta. using tzap and xine (No sound) Anyway figured id go on with myth and cover the sound problem later. Ive now spent 2 weeks on trying to configure tv. Got just about everything else working (dvd's ripping weather rss and browsing) still no tv. Ive read about a thousand howto's and they mostly talk about entering the video and audio pids. Unless Im completely stupid (quite likely these days) I just cant find anywhere to add them now getting desperate as the wife wants to know where the money and time as gone. Ive been using this guide to configure as this seems to be a little more accurate for Australia http://www.users.on.net/~jani/dvico-mythtv-11.html thanks In advance Brett Stevens OS: Suse 9.3 kernel: patched 2.6.11.2 sound alsa video: adequate (this will be a master backend) myth version: mythtv-0.18.1-12 via apt-get lsmod ... snd_pcm_oss54176 0 snd_mixer_oss 19584 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_via82xx29888 0 snd_ac97_codec 73720 1 snd_via82xx snd_pcm 106760 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 34564 1 snd_pcm snd_mpu401_uart10368 1 snd_via82xx snd_rawmidi30240 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 9484 1 snd_rawmidi snd60772 9 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_m pu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device usbserial 30568 0 button 6928 0 battery 9732 0 ac 5124 0 floppy 65584 0 nvram 13192 0 md5 4608 1 ipv6 271424 12 joydev 10304 0 st 39580 0 sr_mod 19876 0 sg 39200 0 cx88_dvb6660 0 cx8802 12164 1 cx88_dvb mt352 6404 1 cx88_dvb cx88xx 49044 2 cx88_dvb,cx8802 i2c_algo_bit9352 1 cx88xx snd_page_alloc 10500 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm btcx_risc 5256 2 cx8802,cx88xx gameport5504 1 snd_via82xx videodev 10240 1 cx88xx video_buf_dvb 7300 1 cx88_dvb tg3 100868 0 i2c_viapro 8336 0 soundcore 11232 1 snd ehci_hcd 40328 0 uhci_hcd 34576 0 video_buf 24068 4 cx88_dvb,cx8802,cx88xx,video_buf_dvb video1394 20812 0 parport_pc 29764 1 ohci1394 39300 1 video1394 lp 13064 0 parport42184 2 parport_pc,lp raw139442604 0 ieee1394 315476 3 video1394,ohci1394,raw1394 dm_mod 64148 0 reiserfs 271988 1 aic7xxx 184152 0 sata_promise 10884 0 libata 50052 1 sata_promise sd_mod 19712 0 scsi_mod 144840 7 st,sr_mod,sg,aic7xxx,sata_promise,libata,sd_mod dmesg BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 0009cc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0009cc00 - 000a (reserved) BIOS-e820: 000f - 0010 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0010 - 7fffc000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 7fffc000 - 7000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 7000 - 8000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: fec0 - fec01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: fee0 - fee01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: - 0001 (reserved) 1151MB HIGHMEM available. 896MB LOWMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 524284 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:16 HighMem zone: 294908 pages, LIFO batch:16 DMI 2.3 present. ACPI: RSDP (v000 ASUS ) @ 0x000f6060 ACPI: RSDT (v001 ASUS A7V8X0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x7fffc000 ACPI: FADT (v001 ASUS A7V8X0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x7fffc0b2 ACPI: BOOT (v001 ASUS A7V8X0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x7fffc030 ACPI: MADT (v001 ASUS A7V8X0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x7fffc058 ACPI: DSDT (v001 ASUS A7V8X0x1000 MSFT 0x010b) @ 0x ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0xe408 Allocating PCI resources starting at 8000 (gap: 8000:7ec0) Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x317 selinux=0 splash=silent resume=/dev/hda1 Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes) Detected 2083.203 MHz processor. Using pmtmr for high-res timesource Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Memory
[mythtv-users] Multiple viewers
Title: Message Still tying to figure out the ultimate design. If I have multiple tuners, say one per free to air channel so as to avoid any arguments about selection. Can more than one watch the same channel using"LiveTV" viewing but starting at different times. If so is there anything special or differrent in the setup? thanks Brett Stevens ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Multiple viewers
Thanks for the info. However can I ask for some design tips. There will be a backend server and 4 clients with a max of 4 very selfish and demanding users. The server will cope with more than that, in fact I think it is probalbly able to handle double. The clients Im thinking of via epia m and minimith via nfs 100/1000mb wired lan I was orriginaly thinking of tuners in the clients as this would allow the live tv function but what about recording. If I allow for, say 2 recorders in the server this would allow for 1/2 the users to watch and record at the same time this may be a problem. However if recording can be done from one of the set top boxes this would be ok. Now I know that this can be done but what happens if someone wants to use this set top whilst a recording is underway or what happens to the scheduled recording. Can it be automatically switched to an idle card, either in the server or a free set top? Thanks Brett Stevens -Original Message- From: Michael T. Dean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 10:47 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Multiple viewers Brett Stevens wrote: Still tying to figure out the ultimate design. If I have multiple tuners, say one per free to air channel so as to avoid any arguments about selection. Can more than one watch the same channel using LiveTV viewing but starting at different times. If so is there anything special or differrent in the setup? Basically, you need one tuner per viewer for LiveTV. If, however, your viewers communicate with one another, and you realize that multiple people want to watch the same show, they should record the show. Then, each viewer could--using his/her frontend--start watching the show (from the recordings section, not from LiveTV) any time he/she desires (even while the show is still recording--starting from the moment the recording starts until it's deleted--even while other viewers are watching the same show) and Myth is only using one tuner to record it regardless of the number of viewers. So using LiveTV hogs a tuner while recordings don't. If you're interested why LiveTV consumes a whole tuner, try to come up with an algorithm for maintaining an X megabyte ring buffer with multiple people watching the same channel from the same tuner. Depending on how much pausing is going on, it's quite possible that the person who's closest to real time is more than X megabytes ahead of the person who paused LiveTV to go make some dinner. So, it's quite easy to go beyond the allowed limit for the buffer to ensure each person has his/her fair share of rewindability. And, then again, there's the whole, If my list of recorded shows isn't more appealing than the things that just happen to be on now, then I know I'm not using the DVR properly perspective (to quote Bruce J. Markey). Basically, once you get used to the DVR, you'll likely record anything and everything you might possibly want to watch. This also has the benefit that (much to Jamie Kellner's horror), you don't have to watch/wait for the commercials (even while it's recording thanks to Chris Pinkham's near-real-time commercial flagging). Not to mention you can playback at faster than real-time and watch the show in significantly less time with no losses (1.75X!!! Thanks Mark Spieth!). But, then again, not everyone is a DVR convert like me. Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Setup question
Title: Message Hii, please let me appologise if this has been covered before. Id like to setup myth with diskless client set top boxes. The question I have is can the set top box be configured to send the normal window manager desktop (perhaps kde) to the standard vga outpout and have the Myth output via the tvout on the card? thanks Brett Stevens ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Probably done to death
Title: Message Hi, Ive been lurking here for a while and would like to ask a number of questions about the project before I request money form the Minister of finance (wife) Im thinking of using the Via EPIA M board for a client ther would be five of them on the network and would use the minimyth distro. I have a fairly good server setup using Suse enterprise 9 and would be using 2 capture / tuner cards for recording. The questions I need to ask are as follows Form the web site " Basic 'live-tv' functionality. Pause/Fast Forward/Rewind "live" TV. " Can the clients use these features via a remote server or must each client have its own HD to use these functions? Can the client using the via-m board sleep and wake easily using the remote? what sort of capture cards do you suggest? what sort of dtv cards for Australia do you suggest for the clients? thanks and again sorry if all this has been asked before Brett Stevens ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Trying to understand the architechture
Again sorry for the nufty questions but Im still trying to understand the architecture of Myth I was under the understanding that it is distributed and that I could have a nuber of backend servers and any number of clients. What Id like to do is setup 5 settop boxes running mythtv frontend and at least one server with 2 tuer/capture cards. However there could be 5 different people watching 5 different programs either live or timestepped or movies etc. In this case do the clients need a capture card or do I just run 5 capture cards in the server. If so dosent I/O become a bit of a problem disk capacity is not an issue nither is network bandwidth. Im just trying to get a full picture of the system so I can design one as best as possible. My thoughts on the capture cards in each client was prompted, firstly from the info on the web site and secondly if the diskless clients are using nfs to the server wouldnt this improve preformance Id realy like to hear from those that have successfully set up a house wide multi client multi source setup thanks again for everybodies help Brett Stevens ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Further discussions on design
Sorry yet another nufty question. In my previous questions I mentioned that Id like to setup 5 client system. Given that 3 of those clients will be positioned in rooms that already have a pc in them I was wondering what form the mythtv frontend takes. If I was to install these clients with some form of Linux with decent video cards for output Can they be installed as dual head? I.E. the current monitor for standard x display, browsing email wpp etc. and the tv out displaying myth??? thanks ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
