Re: [mythtv-users] Error when compiling SVN on XBOX?? any ideas?

[Chad]

On 1/29/06, A JM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It turned out to be a gcc error but it was a version incompatability issue.
> The Xbox was running ver. 3 and the desktops were running ver. 4. I was able
> to upgrade the Xbox and finally got it compiling, I'm keeping my fingers
> crossed that it finishes without errors...
>
> How difficult is ccache to set up?
>
> Thanks,
>
> ___

Piece of cake for me, but I tend to think I know a bit about linux sometimes :)

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Re: [mythtv-users] Error when compiling SVN on XBOX?? any ideas?

[Chad]

On 1/29/06, A JM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well I finally got over the hump of the build-deep problem with my XBOX as
> it turns out I just had to use a more recent version of Xebian, I was using
> 1.1.2 and didn't realize 1.1.4 was available. I ran 'apt-get build-dep
> mythtv' and all appeared to be fine and I was able to still boot Xebian.
>
> So, I've finally gotten to the point where I can try and compile Myth and I
> get the follwoing error, hopefully someone can help me out.
>
>
> xbox:/usr/src/mythtv# make
> cd libs && make -f Makefile
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/mythtv/libs'
> cd libavutil && make -f Makefile
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/usr/src/mythtv/libs/libavutil'
> distcc gcc -c -pipe -march=pentium3 -w -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch
> -fomit-frame-pointer -D_REENTRANT -DPIC -fPIC  -DMMX -Di386 -DUSING_DBOX2
> -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DPREFIX=\"/usr/local\"
> -DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
> -I/usr/share/qt3/mkspecs/default -I. -I.. -I../.. -o
> mathematics.o mathematics.c
> distcc gcc -c -pipe -march=pentium3 -w -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch
> -fomit-frame-pointer -D_REENTRANT -DPIC -fPIC  -DMMX -Di386 -DUSING_DBOX2
> -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DPREFIX=\"/usr/local\"
> -DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
> -I/usr/share/qt3/mkspecs/default -I. -I.. -I../.. -o
> integer.o integer.c
> distcc gcc -c -pipe -march=pentium3 -w -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch
> -fomit-frame-pointer -D_REENTRANT -DPIC -fPIC  -DMMX -Di386 -DUSING_DBOX2
> -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DPREFIX=\"/usr/local\"
> -DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
> -I/usr/share/qt3/mkspecs/default -I. -I.. -I../.. -o
> rational.o rational.c
> distcc gcc -c -pipe -march=pentium3 -w -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch
> -fomit-frame-pointer -D_REENTRANT -DPIC -fPIC  -DMMX -Di386 -DUSING_DBOX2
> -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DPREFIX=\"/usr/local\"
> -DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
> -I/usr/share/qt3/mkspecs/default -I. -I.. -I../.. -o
> intfloat_readwrite.o intfloat_readwrite.c
> rm -f libmythavutil-0.18.so.0.18.0 libmythavutil-0.18.so
> libmythavutil-0.18.so.0 libmythavutil-0.18.so.0.18
> distcc g++ -shared -Wl,-soname,libmythavutil-0.18.so.0 -o
> libmythavutil-0.18.so.0.18.0 mathematics.o integer.o rational.o
> intfloat_readwrite.o-lpthread
> mathematics.o(.gnu.linkonce.t.__i686.get_pc_thunk.bx+0x0):
> In function `__i686.get_pc_thunk.bx':
> : multiple definition of `__i686.get_pc_thunk.bx'
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.5/crtbeginS.o(.gnu.linkonce.t.__i686.get_pc_thunk.bx+0x0):
> first defined here
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> distcc[11058] ERROR: compile (null) on localhost failed
> make[2]: *** [libmythavutil-0.18.so.0.18.0] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/mythtv/libs/libavutil'
> make[1]: *** [sub-libavutil] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/mythtv/libs'
> make: *** [sub-libs] Error 2
>
>
> ___

Looks to me to be a GCC failure, I tend to get these when things get
"hot".  I see distcc is at work, what about ccache?  Might save you
some heat if you can get past those early compiles faster.  Another
option might be to completely remove your xbox from the build process
via DISTCC_HOSTS, just don't list localhost

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Re: [mythtv-users] Guide data setup for mixed ATSC/QAM & NTSC backend? Multiple xmltv feeds needed?

[Chad]

On 1/29/06, Daniel Kristjansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 14:19 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> > On 01/29/2006 01:59 PM, Todd Ignasiak wrote:
> > > I am trying to clean up my MythTV configuration a bit.  Part of that
> > > effort is to use a single Zap2it / xmltv guide account, so I can deal
> > You have two Myth video sources, one for SDTV and one for HDTV channels?
>
> What most users do is set up several listings on the same zap2it account
> with slightly different zip codes. So if your neighborhood is in 10023,
> you can use the neighboring neighborhoods 10022, 10024, etc for
> additional listings, since you probably get the same OTA/Cable signals
> as your immediate neighbors.
>
> -- Daniel
>
> ___

Hoping that I don't hijack this thread too much:

What about the option for "TV Format" where ATSC and NTSC appears? 
I've got one big, new HDTV and the rest of my TV's are all old school
32" CRT's...

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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and TV

[Chad]

> Q:  Where do I put in the correct freq table for US Broadcast?
>
> --Yan
> ___

When you run mythtv-setup on the backend, under the General option,
you come upon a screen that says:
Global Backend Setup

In that screen there lies that option.

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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and TV

[Chad]

On 1/29/06, Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chad wrote:
>
> >{LOG SNIP}
> >
> >Glancing over your logs, it looks ok.  What kind of signal are you
> >using? analog cable TV, digital cable TV, Satellite, Rooftop
> >Antenna..?
> >
> >
> Broadcast antenna...  Is it possible that MythTV is setting the card for
> Composite rather than antenna in?  Any way to test / log that?
>
> >You can set both local and global settings from the frontend depending
> >on what you are trying to adjust.  At the top of the screen it
> >generally tells you if it's global options you are changing.
> >
> >
> I've been all through the frontend and I can't find anywhere where I
> would set NTSC/PAL or anything like that...
>
> I've tried this on both frontends now with the identical result...
>
> --Yan
>
> ___

When you run mythtv-setup from the backend, you should be able to set
NTSC/PAL, as well as set the Video Source to pair with your Television
input (after you setup your Video Source of course).

HTH

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Re: [mythtv-users] LiveTV breaks LIRC

[Chad]

On 1/29/06, K Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've seen a few issues posted about LIRC (lircd) working and then
> stopping, but I haven't read about my problem, and certainly haven't
> seen any fixes.  I have a SilverStone HTPC case with a Soundgraph iMON
> LCD/IR receiver built in.  I have LIRC running, and using IRW, can poke
> and see my all my remote commands over and over.  I can also navigate
> around mythfrontend.  But when I go to LiveTV, sometimes the remote
> stops functioning immediately, sometimes after up to 10 presses.
>
> After the remote stops responding, dmesg shows nothing wrong,
> /var/log/lircd using debug level 2 shows all the events up to the time
> it stops, and no sign of a problem. irw stays working, but no longer
> shows activity.  In order to get lircd working again, I have to kill
> lircd and rmmod lirc_imon and lirc_dev (and restart them).
>
> The only other issue/clue I can think of is that if I run  lircd -D
> with anything higher than 2, I get a seg fault.
>
> Help!  I've been troubleshooting for days, and my friend google is
> staying quiet on this one.
> ___


IRQ conflict with your tuner card?  Heat?

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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and TV

[Chad]

{LOG SNIP}

Glancing over your logs, it looks ok.  What kind of signal are you
using? analog cable TV, digital cable TV, Satellite, Rooftop
Antenna..?

You can set both local and global settings from the frontend depending
on what you are trying to adjust.  At the top of the screen it
generally tells you if it's global options you are changing.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Odd problem setting up Remote Frontend

[Chad]

On 1/29/06, Amankhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/28/06,  wrote:
>
> >Do you have the firewall enabled on the backend?
>
> No, its turned off and SELinux is disabled.
>
> On 1/28/06, Chad  wrote:
>
> >A quick last thought:
> >
> >Are the backend and the frontend running the exact same version
> >(0.18.1, 0.18, SVN revision)?
> >
> >They need to be.
>
> Yes, they are.  Just checked it & both are the same.
>
> Jonathan
>
> ___


So, if you take your 'new' frontend out of the equation, and just
change the loopback address on the single machine (the FE/BE combo) to
actual internal IP's (well, just 1 IP, the IP of the machine it's
running on should be in both fields), does this happen then too?  Is
there anything odd about your network setup that we should be thinking
about?  Is MySQL running on the backend or on another machine?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Odd problem setting up Remote Frontend

[Chad]

On 1/28/06, Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/28/06, Amankhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > After successfully running MythTV on Fedora for almost a year now (thanks to
> > Jarod's guide!), I recently decided to setup a second PC for running a
> > remote frontend in my bedroom.
> >
> > Setup went fine & everything is working great on my new machine, but I have
> > encountered a very strange problem when setting up the communications
> > between the remote frontend & the backend machine.
> >
> > When I change the Host IP address & Master Server IP address in mythtvsetup
> > (as per Jarod's guide on this page:
> > http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/tips.php ), 2 things happen:
> >
> > 1.  In the frontends on both my main machine & the remote machine, I can no
> > longer watch Live TV.  The message I receive is the same one for when all
> > capture cards are currently recording.  I have both a PVR150 and PVR250 in
> > my machine, and at the time of this message neither card is recording.  Both
> > cards work fine when used to capture video via a command line prompt.  In
> > essence, the cards are not doing anything even though Myth says they are.
> >
> > 2.  In those same machines, I can no longer schedule any recordings nor do I
> > show any recordings as being previously scheduled.  I can attempt to
> > schedule a program to record, but it doesn't appear to "save" my request.
> > The backend shows no errors from these attempts.
> >
> > As soon as I change the Host IP & Master Server IP back to the loopback
> > address, everything is fine again.  I can watch Live TV, my scheduled
> > recordings have returned & I can queue shows to record.
> >
> > It has completely baffled me, and I have no idea what the problem might be.
> > Any help would be appreciated, and if anyone needs more information just let
> > me know.  Thank you!
> >
> >
> > The backend shows no errors for any of this, and
> >
> > ___
>
>
> I don't think you necessarily have to change the host IP, so for
> testing, leave it at loopback.
>
> Make sure you have the correct internal IP for the backend:
> /sbin/ifconfig
>
> should give that to you.  Then, on the frontend, plug that value in
> under 'Master'.  So host should be 127.0.0.1 and Master should be
> something like 192.168.0.10
>
> Restart your frontend, and see what happens.
>
> Are you running a backend process on the frontend?  If so, you don't
> need to be..
>
> Chad
>

A quick last thought:

Are the backend and the frontend running the exact same version
(0.18.1, 0.18, SVN revision)?

They need to be.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Odd problem setting up Remote Frontend

[Chad]

On 1/28/06, Amankhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> After successfully running MythTV on Fedora for almost a year now (thanks to
> Jarod's guide!), I recently decided to setup a second PC for running a
> remote frontend in my bedroom.
>
> Setup went fine & everything is working great on my new machine, but I have
> encountered a very strange problem when setting up the communications
> between the remote frontend & the backend machine.
>
> When I change the Host IP address & Master Server IP address in mythtvsetup
> (as per Jarod's guide on this page:
> http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/tips.php ), 2 things happen:
>
> 1.  In the frontends on both my main machine & the remote machine, I can no
> longer watch Live TV.  The message I receive is the same one for when all
> capture cards are currently recording.  I have both a PVR150 and PVR250 in
> my machine, and at the time of this message neither card is recording.  Both
> cards work fine when used to capture video via a command line prompt.  In
> essence, the cards are not doing anything even though Myth says they are.
>
> 2.  In those same machines, I can no longer schedule any recordings nor do I
> show any recordings as being previously scheduled.  I can attempt to
> schedule a program to record, but it doesn't appear to "save" my request.
> The backend shows no errors from these attempts.
>
> As soon as I change the Host IP & Master Server IP back to the loopback
> address, everything is fine again.  I can watch Live TV, my scheduled
> recordings have returned & I can queue shows to record.
>
> It has completely baffled me, and I have no idea what the problem might be.
> Any help would be appreciated, and if anyone needs more information just let
> me know.  Thank you!
>
>
> The backend shows no errors for any of this, and
>
> ___


I don't think you necessarily have to change the host IP, so for
testing, leave it at loopback.

Make sure you have the correct internal IP for the backend:
/sbin/ifconfig

should give that to you.  Then, on the frontend, plug that value in
under 'Master'.  So host should be 127.0.0.1 and Master should be
something like 192.168.0.10

Restart your frontend, and see what happens.

Are you running a backend process on the frontend?  If so, you don't
need to be..

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Re: [mythtv-users] New Pundit?

[Chad]

On 1/28/06, George Landon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It looks Asus has introduced a new Pundit model, the P1-PH1.  It is
> only listed on the Global site, so I'm not sure about availability.
> Looks like they stuck with ATI for the chipset though.
>
> http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=1&l2=3&l3=0&model=999&modelmenu=1
>
> Anyone have more information on this from a Myth point of view?
>
>
> --
> George V. Landon
> PhD Candidate, Computer Science
> Digital Media Networks Lab
> University of Kentucky
> ___

Just taking a quick glance at it, it looks nice!  I don't think the
specs really look that great though, but I guess it depends on what
they are expecting to get for one of these.  They do accept a CPU fast
enough to do HD, so being an ATI based board really wouldn't matter so
much I guess, other than I hate ATI to the marrow of my existence, it
seems like a decent enough barebones Frontend.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Should a SBE/FE be running mysqld?

[Chad]

On 1/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I recently noticed that my SBE/FE machine has a mysqld running.
> I'm guessing that there's no reason for this to be the case, since
> presumably the only place mysqld should be running is on the master
> backend, but I figured I'd check, just in case.  (I also assume I
> should just remove its startup script from /etc/init.d and call it
> a day if it's not supposed to be there.)
> ___

Nope, doesn't need to be running if the SBE/FE is ONLY that and not
something in addition to that, it may then need to be running ;)

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Re: [mythtv-users] Documentation on undocumentated features?

[Chad]

On 1/28/06, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 01/27/2006 09:59 PM, Chad wrote:
> > :)
> >
> > I'm wondering if there is documentation on things that don't have
> > documentation in the regular documentation nor in the OSD (when you
> > highlight a feature there is sometimes a small description on it's
> > use, but not on all features)?  If so, where?
> >
> > My immediate example is in the transcoding settings screen.  When you
> > arrow down to the "Maximum Quality" and "Minimum Quality" options, the
> > only note you get is not very helpful:  "Modifying the default may
> > have severe consequences"
> >
> > I get that this means it's probably not something a new user should
> > play with, but how about those wanting to play around and possibly
> > even break their machine?  ;)
> >
> >
> Pick a list.  Any list.  One list to a customer, please.
>
> Mike
>
> ___

:)  I wasn't sure which list to send this to, and rather than wait
days on one list to not get a response I figured I'd fire one off to
both at the same time.  I guess I'd equate this to duplicate posting
on a forum which is bad etiquette, I just didn't think about it at the
time, so my appologies.  Will just pick one in the future :)

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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv rebooting system

[Chad]

 Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: Initialized WinTV PVR 500 (unit
> #1), card #0
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: ivtv:  ==  NEXT CARD
> ==
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: ivtv1: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card
> (cx23416 based)
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC4] enabled
> at IRQ 19
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :04:09.0[A] ->
> Link [APC4] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: ivtv1: Unreasonably low latency timer,
> setting to 64 (was 32)
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: tveeprom: Second (radio) tuner idx 101
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: tveeprom: ivtv version
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 23552, rev =
> D492, serial# = 7814386
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: tveeprom: tuner = Philips FQ1236A MK4
> (idx = 92, type = 57)
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom =
> 0x08, v4l2 = 0x1000)
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: tveeprom: audio processor = CX25843 (type
> = 25)
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: tveeprom: decoder processor = CX25843
> (type = 1e)
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: ivtv1: i2c attach to card #1 ok
> [client=tveeprom, addr=50]
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: tuner (ivtv): chip found at addr 0xc2
> i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #1
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: ivtv1: i2c attach to card #1 ok
> [client=(tuner unset), addr=61]
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: cx25840 1-0044: ivtv driver
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: cx25840 1-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88
> (ivtv i2c driver #1)
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: cx25840 1-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw
> firmware (14264 bytes)
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: ivtv1: i2c attach to card #1 ok
> [client=cx25840, addr=44]
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: wm8775 1-001b: ivtv driver
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: wm8775 1-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv
> i2c driver #1)
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: ivtv1: i2c attach to card #1 ok
> [client=wm8775, addr=1b]
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: tda9887 1-0043: (ivtv) chip found @ 0x86
> (ivtv i2c driver #1)
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: ivtv1: i2c attach to card #1 ok
> [client=tda9887, addr=43]
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: ivtv1: This is the second unit of a
> PVR500
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: ivtv1: Correcting tveeprom data: no radio
> present on second unit
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: ivtv1: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware
> (262144 bytes)
>
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: ivtv1: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: ivtv1: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream:
> 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total)
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: ivtv1: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream:
> 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB total)
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: ivtv1: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream:
> 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB total)
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: ivtv1: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio
> stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total)
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: tuner: type set to 57 (Philips FQ1236A
> MK4) by ivtv i2c driver #1
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: ivtv1: Initialized WinTV PVR 500 (unit
> #2), card #1
> Jan 27 22:13:33 mythtv kernel: ivtv:    END INIT
> IVTV  
>
>
> ___


Not looking at your logs, just from past experience...  Anytime I have
behavior like you've described, it was either due to a poor power
supply or an IRQ conflict.

Just some thoughts!

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[mythtv-users] Documentation on undocumentated features?

[Chad]

:)

I'm wondering if there is documentation on things that don't have
documentation in the regular documentation nor in the OSD (when you
highlight a feature there is sometimes a small description on it's
use, but not on all features)?  If so, where?

My immediate example is in the transcoding settings screen.  When you
arrow down to the "Maximum Quality" and "Minimum Quality" options, the
only note you get is not very helpful:  "Modifying the default may
have severe consequences"

I get that this means it's probably not something a new user should
play with, but how about those wanting to play around and possibly
even break their machine?  ;)

Thanks!

Chad
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[mythtv-users] Sports events, LiveTV or Watch Recording?

[Chad]

I rarely watch sports events of any type, so I'm a bit clueless in
this arena.  I know that they can go longer than anticipated, so I
would assume people watch LiveTV and then just pause it to give them
the ability to skip parts they don't want to watch or commercials or
whatever.  But then I started thinking and it would seem that Watch
Recording might be better, if I want to channel surf a bit during
boring parts or whatever, I can just save my position, exit Watch
Recordings, then head to LiveTV and watch something else for a bit,
then return and miss nothing...

I've got it currently setup to Record, and have it End Late by 60
minutes.  Should I remove this and just go LiveTV, or should I extend
or decrease this time?

Any thoughts?  I'm specifically talking about the Super Bowl, but
figured it might apply to any sport on TV.

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] Lost MythVideo somehow

[Chad]

On 1/27/06, Jeff Clemens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not sure when or why this happened, but I just noticed it upon returning
> from vacation.
>
> I no longer have access to Mythvideo at all.  When I select any of the
> mythvideo options, either from the media menu, or the setup menu, the system
> pauses for a second, then returns me to the main menu.  I've done a couple
> of upgrades lately, but the first upgrade was before I noticed the problem
> (and I think I watched some videos after that upgrade), the second upgrade
> that included mythTV pieces was after I noticed the change, and didn't seem
> to fix the change.  I'm sure it's probably a permissions issue, but I
> haven't had a chance to dig in yet.  Seems to be affecting both my master
> FC3 box, and my slave FC4 box.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Jeff
> ___

Launch 'mythfrontend mythvideo' from the command line, see if there is
any output as to what's going on.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Bored at Work

[Chad]

On 1/27/06, David Whyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/27/06, Mike Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Slightly OT, to the tune of Money for Nothing, apologies to Dire Straits:
>
> Bravo!  It made me chuckle..and realise you really must be bored :P
>
> Have a great weekend then ;)
>
> --
> --
>
> I have GMail invites, if you want one, email me direct.
> ___

This belongs in a wiki!  :D  Excellent job, gave me a laugh.

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] convert a lvm xfs partition to jfs

[Chad]

On 1/26/06, Dawning Sky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On 1/26/06, Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > If you're running FC3 with an FC3 kernel, you have the jfs module. What
> you
> > may not have is the user-space utilities to create a jfs file system, so:
> >
> >  install jfsutils
>
>
> Thanks, Jarod.  I just converted my recordings partition to jfs.  Still
> having problem playing live TV from HD-3000.  Recordings made from HD-3000
> while watching other recordings are also unplayable.
>
> I didn't have this problem before I upgraded to 2.6.12 FC3 kernel.  Before
> that, I was using 2.6.11 FC3 kernel and compiled my own dvb driver.   I
> suspect there's something wrong with the dvb driver in the 2.6.12+ kernels.
>
> > --
> > Jarod Wilson
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> Xiaotian
>
>
> ___

'Problems' is quite vague.  Maybe you didn't upgrade your nvidia
drivers after the kernel upgrade, or the nvidia driver wasn't for the
kernel that you upgraded to.  Maybe the cat chewed through the cable
and you are getting intermittent problems receiving a signal ;)

What kind of 'problems' are you seeing?
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Re: [mythtv-users] How much storage do you have for MythTV?

[Chad]

> To keep somewhat on the topic of recording space, my Directv tivo stores
> about 36 hours of SD programming (at about 1GB/hr), and its quality is
> vastly superior to what I get get from my Comcast cable and PVR-150.

Is the PVR also set to record at ~1GB/hr too?
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Re: [mythtv-users] nvidia, opengl, kernel and more

[Chad]

> Can someone please share their combination of nvidia driver, kernel,
> opengl settings, etc. if you have it working?
>
> ___

Sure:

Gentoo with:
# emerge -pv nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.8178  0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8178  -dlloader 0 kB

# uname -r:
2.6.13-gentoo

# eselect opengl show
nvidia

What else did you want

Xorg.conf will be attached (if it lets me), but I'm on a windows box
ATM, so it'll be in 'txt' format...

HTH

Chad
# File generated by xorgconfig.

#
# Copyright 2004 The X.Org Foundation
#
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
# copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
# to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
# the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
# and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
# Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
# 
# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
# all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
# 
# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL
# The X.Org Foundation BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
# WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF
# OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
# SOFTWARE.
# 
# Except as contained in this notice, the name of The X.Org Foundation shall
# not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other
# dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from
# The X.Org Foundation.
#

# **
# Refer to the xorg.conf(5x) man page for details about the format of 
# this file.
# **

# **
# Module section -- this  section  is used to specify
# which dynamically loadable modules to load.
# **
#
Section "Module"

# This loads the DBE extension module.

Load"dbe"   # Double buffer extension

# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
SubSection  "extmod"
  Option"omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection

# This loads the font modules
Load"type1"
#Load"speedo"
Load"freetype"
#Load"xtt"

# This loads the GLX module
Load   "glx"
# This loads the DRI module
#Load   "dri"

EndSection

# **
# Files section.  This allows default font and rgb paths to be set
# **

Section "Files"

# 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.

RgbPath "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)
# 
# 

FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
#FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/local/"
#FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo/"
#FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/TrueType/"
#FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/freefont/"

# The module search path.  The default path is shown here.
ModulePath  "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
ModulePath  "/usr/lib/modules"


EndSection

# **
# Server flags section.
# **

Section "ServerFlags"

# Uncomment this to cause a core dump at the spot where a signal is 
# received.  This may leave the console in an unusable state, but may
# provide a better stack trace in t

Re: [mythtv-users] How much storage do you have for MythTV?

[Chad]

On 1/25/06, Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/25/06, Chris Ribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > My /video partition is 140 GB, but I don't really use myth for recording
> > much.  If I want to make sure something gets recorded, I usemy directv tivo,
> >  If I want watch something on nework tv, I use test-mpeg2 and  mplayer on my
> >  myth box.
> >
> > Come to think of,  I don't really use myth for anything.   I just tinker
> > with it in my spare time for fun.
> >
> >
> > On 1/24/06, Tom Lichti < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Chris wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 16:39 +1100, Michael Fox wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> On 1/24/06, Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>> 8 X $150 320GB Western Digital drives = 2560 GB = $1200
> > > >>> 2 X Infrant ReadyNAS 600 units without drives = $1200
> > > >>>
> > > >
> > > > hhmm i think i would go for something like this if you need _a lot_ of
> > > > storage.
> > > >
> > > >
> > http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?segment=VTrak&product_id=149
> > > >
> > > > e1000 fibercard and be happy :-))
> > > >
> > > We have a couple of those in our computer room, soon to be deployed.
> > > Very nice... :)
> > >
> > > Tom
> > > ___
>
> I broke down and bought another drive.  I started out with a 200GB
> SATA drive, and for ~100 bucks I picked up a second 250GB SATA, so I'm
> pusingg about 450 for my Myth directory that holds everything Myth
> (data wise, like music, TV, videos... not the application/config's
> etc).
>
> Chad
>

I mostly just wanted to point out "what's pusingg" :D  I meant pushing...

But, I've also got about 75GB sitting on my desktop for the rare
occasion I turn that into a backend and use it's tuner (when enough
TV's are wanting LiveTV programming).  So that makes it just over 1/2
TB, which sounds much cooler than 450GB...

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Re: [mythtv-users] How much storage do you have for MythTV?

[Chad]

On 1/25/06, Chris Ribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My /video partition is 140 GB, but I don't really use myth for recording
> much.  If I want to make sure something gets recorded, I usemy directv tivo,
>  If I want watch something on nework tv, I use test-mpeg2 and  mplayer on my
>  myth box.
>
> Come to think of,  I don't really use myth for anything.   I just tinker
> with it in my spare time for fun.
>
>
> On 1/24/06, Tom Lichti < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Chris wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 16:39 +1100, Michael Fox wrote:
> > >
> > >> On 1/24/06, Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> 8 X $150 320GB Western Digital drives = 2560 GB = $1200
> > >>> 2 X Infrant ReadyNAS 600 units without drives = $1200
> > >>>
> > >
> > > hhmm i think i would go for something like this if you need _a lot_ of
> > > storage.
> > >
> > >
> http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?segment=VTrak&product_id=149
> > >
> > > e1000 fibercard and be happy :-))
> > >
> > We have a couple of those in our computer room, soon to be deployed.
> > Very nice... :)
> >
> > Tom
> > ___

I broke down and bought another drive.  I started out with a 200GB
SATA drive, and for ~100 bucks I picked up a second 250GB SATA, so I'm
pusingg about 450 for my Myth directory that holds everything Myth
(data wise, like music, TV, videos... not the application/config's
etc).

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] Laptop CPU in Desktop Mainboard

[Chad]

On 1/24/06, Michael Starks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have been thinking of using a laptop CPU to save power on a new MythTV
> system.  Basically, I'd like to be able to use the cpuspeed daemon to
> drop the CPU speed when there isn't a lot going in.  Has anyone done
> with with a full-size mainboard?  Any other tips?
> ___


Why not just look into using the Wake/Sleep feature(s)?

Unless you have, and you are having as much luck as I have ;) (which is none)

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] Broadcast flag and a kick in the teeth

[Chad]

On 1/25/06, Derek Diget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> C-SPAN has the Senate's Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
> Tuesday hearing on "Communications Issues: Broadcast and Audio Flag"
>
> See
> 
> and scroll down to about the middle of the page.  The RealStream URL is
> 
>
> To bad the EFF was not able to give testimony. :(
>
> --
> Derek
>
> On Jan 25, 2006 at 02:16 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> =>It's a few days old, but in case you haven't heard...
> =>
> =>As if pushing the broadcast flag through wouldn't be enough to make the
> =>MPAA/RIAA happy...  The latest proposed legislation trying to
> =>retroactively ratify the FCC's broadcast flag regulations adds new
> =>wording to completely prohibit new, better ways of working with media
> =>(I'm pretty sure that includes Myth) unless approved by the FCC (giving
> =>the lobbyists a chance to add their input in the decision-making
> =>process).  Bill courtesy of Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.).
> =>
> =>http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004340.php
> =>
> =>and, don't forget to write your Senator...
> =>
> =>http://action.eff.org/site/Advocacy?id=205
> =>
> =>and, you may want to order a couple more HDTV tuners...
> =>
> =>Mike
> ___

What will it take to put this to rest?  How can both RIAA/MPAA and Us
all be happy and let these "Broadcast Flag" like things stop?

Any ideas?
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Re: [mythtv-users] should I just switch to SVN

[Chad]

> From a stability standpoint, what is the consensus on .19 vs. .18 for a
> mixture of HD and SD?
>
> Gary
>
>
> ___

Not sure what mean by this, but with a fairly current SVN, I've got a
mixture working great, so I'd say .19 is probably going to be as
stable if not more for the mix.

HTH

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting DVDs via NFS problem

[Chad]

On 1/22/06, Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Geoff,
>
> > One answer which will last through a reboot would be to amend the line
> > in 50-udev.rules to add a "Group=mythtv" and "Mode=770" to the line
> > describing /dev/hdc or whatever your hardware is listed as ( as in fstab).
> >
> > HTH
> > Geoff
>
> OK installed udev, and the /etc/udev/rules.d/020_permissions.rules
> seemes OK to me but still not working.  Here's the snippet from the file:
>
> # IDE devices
> BUS="ide", KERNEL="hd[a-z]", SYSFS{removable}="1", \
>PROGRAM="/bin/cat /proc/ide/%k/media", RESULT="cdrom*",
> GROUP="cdrom", MODE="770"
>
> There's no entry for hdc anywhere.
>
> The snippet for my user in the groups file is:
>
> cdrom:x:24:piers
>
> And the CDROM mount directory still shows:
>
> dr-xr-xr-x  3 4294967295 4294967295 88 2003-09-08 21:08 cdrom0
>
> What am I doing wrong here?
>
> Thanks so much for your help again!
>
> Cheers - Piers
> ___

I think installing Udev is more than just apt-get install udev, but I
could be wrong ;)

You could change your entry in fstab or mount with option:
mount -t -o umask=000 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom

Or, you can edit your existing entry in fstab, in the 'defaults'
section, remove defaults and type:
umask=000

See how that goes for ya.

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2

[Chad]

On 1/21/06, John P Poet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/21/06, Justin Hornsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If you want to know what might be coming next, try
> > www.juski.co.uk/mythfrontend2.png,
> > http://www.juski.co.uk/mythfrontend3.png,
> > http://www.juski.co.uk/mythfrontend4.png
> > and http://www.juski.co.uk/pg.png
>
> I like.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
> ___

Excellent!  I appreciate the work you are putting into it, and
understand the bit of a break ;)

Thanks for a great theme!

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] Gray OSD

[Chad]

On 1/21/06, Justin Hornsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 21/01/06, Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > So, I've got the Nvidia XvMC 'issue' where the OSD is all gray (fast
> > forward shows time in a gray box, etc..).  I love it.  I'm wondering
> > if there is an easy way to do this all the time (after the XvMC issue
> > is fixed, on other boxes not running Nvidia cards, Xv output...) the
> > Gray OSD using the different OSD-Themes totally fits the look of my
> > MythTV system?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Chad
>
> search the archives for Gray OSD... a new OSD which is nicely greyscale 
> already.
>
> Or just edit all the colour out of the graphics in the OSD theme PNGs
> ___

Cool, I'll check out the Gray OSD first, then if I need to, I guess
I'll modify a set of OSD-Themes to be all gray...

Thanks for the fast response!

Chad
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[mythtv-users] Gray OSD

[Chad]

Hello!

So, I've got the Nvidia XvMC 'issue' where the OSD is all gray (fast
forward shows time in a gray box, etc..).  I love it.  I'm wondering
if there is an easy way to do this all the time (after the XvMC issue
is fixed, on other boxes not running Nvidia cards, Xv output...) the
Gray OSD using the different OSD-Themes totally fits the look of my
MythTV system?

Thanks!

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] Missing .nuv files?

[Chad]

On 1/21/06, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael Still wrote:
>
> >Michael T. Dean wrote:
> >
> >>What error message do you get when you try to delete?  SVN should allow
> >>you to delete a recording even without the original file.
> >>
> >>
> >I'm not at home at the moment, so I don't have the exact message, but
> >given that...
> >
> >The message happens when I hit right arrow on an episode entry to get to
> >the menu with delete and job options and so forth. That menu doesn't
> >appear and I get a "the file is missing" error message instead.
> >
> >I can write it up more exactly when I get home tonight if you would like.
> >
> >
> So, what happens if you go into the "Delete Recordings" screen instead
> of the "Watch Recordings" screen?  Can you delete it from there?
>
> Mike
> ___

I remember hearing about this feature, but I was recently in the same
boat.  And with a relatively recent SVN (within a week of today), I
couldn't delete them.  It would allow me to, and they would disappear
temporarily, but within 3-5 seconds, they'd just re-appear.  I did the
"touch 1041_nuv" to get me to a point where I could delete them.

HTH

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2

[Chad]

On 1/19/06, Justin Hornsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 19/01/06, Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Just flipping through my settings and saw this:
> >
> > http://www.curvins.com/images/Text-Cutoff.png
> >
> > Is this a 'my problem' with resolution/Font DPI, or something else?
> >
> > (This is an VNC window just so I could get the screenshot and post it
> > easily, but it looks the same on the actual TV where this exists).
> >
> > I'm running a modeline for 1280x720, at 100DPI (forced in startx).
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Chad
>
> One of the causes for this is the button graphics not being wide
> enough in some cases.  Help yourself to the new buttons here:
> http://www.juski.co.uk/newbuttons/
>
> Want a different coloured button?  just rename button_on_colour.png to
> button_on.png in the root dir of the theme.
>
> Justin.
> ___

This did fix it!  However, now the buttons are 'underlayed'.  The Font
is imposed over the top, on the right hand half of the button.  But I
do like the idea of color options :)

Thanks!

Chad
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[mythtv-users] Things I did in FC4 to make some items work

[Chad Delatte]

Here's some hints that I did to make some things work
properly in myth.  This is with fc4 and kernel 2.14. 
They may be wrong as my linux exp is very limited, but
they seemed to work for me.

Getting mythnotify to work.
I followed the howto and still was unable to make
caller id work at boot up.  I found that i had to add
mythtv to the uucp group so that my login had
permissions to read and right to the dev.  Chown and
chmod do not work after a reboot with the newer
version of fc4

Getting realtime priority to work.
Pam has changed since the documentation I read. 
Mainly the rtpriority entry has been shortened to
rtprio.  However, this still did not work so I added:
@mythtv  -   rtprio  50
@mythtv  -   nice0
Into /etc/security/limits.conf
That worked right away.  I tried adding my user
account to the audio group, but I was uncertain what
that was.

Getting the automatic playing of cd's and dvd's to
work.
Unfortunately, Jarod's website is a little outdated. 
I was able to figure out how to get this to work. 
Leave the iso9660 entry and replace the very last
entry called 'managed' with 'user' minus the quotes. 
All my cd's and dvd's autoplay perfect!

Getting lcdproc to work.
I believe that this is also a permission problem.  You
need to add uucp again to the mythtv user group.

Hope this helps some people.  

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Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2

[Chad]

On 1/19/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 19 January 2006 03:49, Justin Hornsby wrote:
> > Right...
> >
> > All you folks using this theme, if you could go into ui.xml and edit
> > from line 1657 to read like this:
> >
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
> > That will fix the dates being cropped.  The next (a week or so away)
> > release will have this fix in place.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Justin.
>
> That did it, thanks!
>
> --
> Steve
> ___

Just flipping through my settings and saw this:

http://www.curvins.com/images/Text-Cutoff.png

Is this a 'my problem' with resolution/Font DPI, or something else?

(This is an VNC window just so I could get the screenshot and post it
easily, but it looks the same on the actual TV where this exists).

I'm running a modeline for 1280x720, at 100DPI (forced in startx).

Thanks!

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] AC3 and/or S/PDIF (again)

[Chad]

On 1/19/06, Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/19/06, William Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Everything is running into my AV Receiver, that's where my volume is
> > >controlled.  I uncheck the box for internal volume controls.  There
> > >was a post to the list a while back on how to send everything out over
> > >the spdif, and have your receiver decide if it's AC3 or PCM, the key
> > >was in the .asoundrc.  I can't find it off hand, but a bit of a search
> > >will probably turn it up, it was probably in the last 2 weeks.
> > >
> > >Chad
> >
> > I came across something while browsing through the developer's mailing
> > list...  Do you have "Enable video as timebase" checked or unchecked?
> >
> >
> > ___
>
> Unchecked, although I hear it's probably a good idea to have it
> checked; but since my system is running problem free, I leave it as
> is.
>


Found the thread, here's the quote:
-
To answer myself my own question: yes, it is possible. The
following .asoundrc (have spent whole evening on figuring it out :-)
does exactly what I always wanted:
=
pcm.!default {
   type plug
   slave {
   pcm "spdif"
   rate 48000
   format S16_LE
   }
}
=
BTW, the "format" line might not even be necessary. The key is the "rate
48000" (converts 32 and 44 kHz to SPDIF's 48 kHz) and pcm
"spdif" (routes sound via the digital out). With this and "ALSA:default"
set up everywhere (both TV and Music) everything plays correctly via the
digital out, including real digital AC3 5.1 passthrough sound from HD
channels. I am excited!
------

If I had found it on gossamer I'd link you to it, but I found it in my
email archives, so it won't do you much good ;)

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Re: [mythtv-users] AC3 and/or S/PDIF (again)

[Chad]

On 1/19/06, William Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Everything is running into my AV Receiver, that's where my volume is
> >controlled.  I uncheck the box for internal volume controls.  There
> >was a post to the list a while back on how to send everything out over
> >the spdif, and have your receiver decide if it's AC3 or PCM, the key
> >was in the .asoundrc.  I can't find it off hand, but a bit of a search
> >will probably turn it up, it was probably in the last 2 weeks.
> >
> >Chad
>
> I came across something while browsing through the developer's mailing
> list...  Do you have "Enable video as timebase" checked or unchecked?
>
>
> ___

Unchecked, although I hear it's probably a good idea to have it
checked; but since my system is running problem free, I leave it as
is.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Watch Recordings, display fewer shows?

[Chad]

On 1/19/06, Justin Hornsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyway.. I don't want to see "When a show has been as refreshingly
> original as Desperate Housewives, the worry is that its second series
> "
>
> Just tell me what the episode is about!
>
> Justin.
> ___

Totally agree with that :D

Thanks for pointing out how to change it, I do like the idea of
showing more shows rather than longer descriptions, was just hoping to
be able to see the difference.

Thanks again!

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] AC3 and/or S/PDIF (again)

[Chad]

On 1/19/06, William Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >To both of you, when I finally broke down and used Myth's internal
> >alsa controls, everything went smooth from there.  My Audio Output
> >Device is:
> >ALSA:default
>
> I am using ALSA:default also...  What are you doing for volume control and
> mixer device?  And when I uncheck the AC3 passthrough box, everything is
> sent to the receiver fine...  Just no 5.1.
>
>
> ___

Everything is running into my AV Receiver, that's where my volume is
controlled.  I uncheck the box for internal volume controls.  There
was a post to the list a while back on how to send everything out over
the spdif, and have your receiver decide if it's AC3 or PCM, the key
was in the .asoundrc.  I can't find it off hand, but a bit of a search
will probably turn it up, it was probably in the last 2 weeks.

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Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2

[Chad]

On 1/19/06, Justin Hornsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Right...
>
> All you folks using this theme, if you could go into ui.xml and edit
> from line 1657 to read like this:
>
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
> That will fix the dates being cropped.  The next (a week or so away)
> release will have this fix in place.
>
> Thanks,
> Justin.
> ___

Done.

Thanks!
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[mythtv-users] Watch Recordings, display fewer shows?

[Chad]

Hello!

I love my current setup, but occasionally I feel that the Watch
Recordings screen (the lower portion) feels bunched up.  If I could
display fewer shows (meaning I'd have to scroll more) I think I might
be able to get a feel to see if that would work better for me, and
give the screen more room.

One very quick example that was recently shown:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/justin.hornsby2/pg-wide/screenshots/06.png

If my description is that long, it just gets cut off with ... at the end.

Any idea where I can make the change?  I have seen screenshots that
show a different amount of shows displayed than my own, so I'm pretty
sure it has been an option.  I think I'm just overlooking where this
option is stored (but I've really looked hard and just got done with a
search on the lists to see if it was easily found).  I've tried
hitting "m" when in the Watch Recordings screen, but it doesn't seem
like any of those options apply.

Thanks for any ideas!

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] AC3 and/or S/PDIF (again)

[Chad]

On 1/19/06, Adam Propeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having something similar that's driving me batty. I tried to switch to
> /dev/adsp for my sound device, but it can't initialize audio when I do that.
> If I keep /dev/dsp as the sound device and enable passthrough, I get
> horrible noises eminating from my receiver. I've got a Sound Blaster Audigy
> 2 and I'm going from 1/8" phono plug to RCA to my receiver's Coax digital
> input. I've successfully used this method from my Windows computer in the
> past to send digital audio. What am I doing wrong?
>
>
> On 1/18/06, William Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This is a new one for me...
> >
> > I am running subversion from yesterday, and I cannot for the life of me
> get
> > S/PDIF to send a 5.1 signal to my receiver.  Xine works fine.  Mplayer
> works
> > fine with Myth recordings.  But Myth does strange things.  When I start a
> > program, it may stutter then go out for ten seconds then start back up for
> a
> > couple of seconds.  If I turn off AC3 pass through, then everything works
> > fine, but it's only two channel sound.  Any help would be most
> appreciated,
> > because this is driving me insane.
> >
> > Thanks in advance, and I'd be more than happy to provide more information
> if
> > it will help.
> > Will Lewis
> >
> >
> > ___

To both of you, when I finally broke down and used Myth's internal
alsa controls, everything went smooth from there.  My Audio Output
Device is:
ALSA:default

You can use something similar, maybe ALSA:spdif

Good Luck!

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2

[Chad]

On 1/18/06, Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/18/06, Justin Hornsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > RIGHT!
> >
> > I found out what the issue is... it's my bloody domain forwarding service...
> >
> > doing a wget http://www.juski.co.uk/pg-wide/ui.xml resulted in a file
> > of some 628bytes.. WRONG!
> >
> > So where you need to get it from is..
> > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/justin.hornsby2/pg-wide/ui.xml
> >
> > My apologies for this monumental screwup :-)  Just goes to show.. you
> > pay peanuts, you get monkeys.  I won't be using that domain provider
> > again.
> >
> > Justin.
> > ___
>
> No worries, glad you found it so quickly :)
>
> I'll try the new one right now.
>
> Thanks,
> Chad
>

Looks good!  I adjusted my DPI to 100 and it looks like it's working great.

Thanks for the work!

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2

[Chad]

On 1/18/06, Justin Hornsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> RIGHT!
>
> I found out what the issue is... it's my bloody domain forwarding service...
>
> doing a wget http://www.juski.co.uk/pg-wide/ui.xml resulted in a file
> of some 628bytes.. WRONG!
>
> So where you need to get it from is..
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/justin.hornsby2/pg-wide/ui.xml
>
> My apologies for this monumental screwup :-)  Just goes to show.. you
> pay peanuts, you get monkeys.  I won't be using that domain provider
> again.
>
> Justin.
> ___

No worries, glad you found it so quickly :)

I'll try the new one right now.

Thanks,
Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2

[Chad]

On 1/18/06, Justin Hornsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Right..
>
> You've got 20 more pixels to play with in the date field...
>
> Download the new ui.xml from here: http://www.juski.co.uk/pg-wide/ui.xml
>
> If you still have issues, tell me what screen res & font size you're
> using (I've checked it at 1280x720, at the default font size & found
> it to be okay).
>
> Regards,
> Justin.
> ___

So after having the issue, I looked at (vimdiff'd) the 2 files and
they are far different.  The default ui.xml is a very big file, the
new one is quite small; comparing number of lines it's like 20:1
ratio.

My guess is either that the ui.xml above is supposed to replace a
portion of the ui.xml in the default file, or it's supposed to be a
different file and was named ui.xml?

Just stabbing in the dark, I don't know themes at all.

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2

[Chad]

On 1/18/06, Justin Hornsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 18/01/06, Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > After making that change I get the following error:
> >
> > "Myth could not locate the selector object..."
> >
> > My Screen Res and Font Size, :D  I haven't quite figured it out yet to
> > be honest.  I'm trying Modelines that supposedly give me a 1280x720,
> > but my screen size appearance never changes and my Xorg.0.log has:
> > Virtual screen size determined to be 1024 x 768
> >
> > Which I assume means that is my resolution.  I'm using an incorrect
> > DPI that I have to force in my startx script, and I can't quite pin
> > point where my problem exists.
> >
> > None of this applies to your Theme, but figure I should point it all
> > out so others don't see my post and do something stupid like I have
> > thinking it's correct.
> >
> > Chad
> > ___
>
> Could not locate selector object?  On which screen?  I'm not seeing
> any such errors here.
>
> Justin
> ___

On trying to access the Watch Recordings screen.

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2

[Chad]

On 1/18/06, Justin Hornsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Right..
>
> You've got 20 more pixels to play with in the date field...
>
> Download the new ui.xml from here: http://www.juski.co.uk/pg-wide/ui.xml
>
> If you still have issues, tell me what screen res & font size you're
> using (I've checked it at 1280x720, at the default font size & found
> it to be okay).
>
> Regards,
> Justin.
> ___

After making that change I get the following error:

"Myth could not locate the selector object..."

My Screen Res and Font Size, :D  I haven't quite figured it out yet to
be honest.  I'm trying Modelines that supposedly give me a 1280x720,
but my screen size appearance never changes and my Xorg.0.log has:
Virtual screen size determined to be 1024 x 768

Which I assume means that is my resolution.  I'm using an incorrect
DPI that I have to force in my startx script, and I can't quite pin
point where my problem exists.

None of this applies to your Theme, but figure I should point it all
out so others don't see my post and do something stupid like I have
thinking it's correct.

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2

[Chad]

On 1/18/06, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 01/18/06 15:53, Chad wrote:
>
> >On 1/18/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>looks good, I still get the cut off date values in Watch Recordings, etc.
> >>
> >>
> >I did too, but I lowered my DPI to 75 from 100 and now it works on all
> >3 digit dates (1/11 but not 11/11 for example).  I blamed my own setup
> >as I've been tweaking my font recently and probably dorked something,
> >but since you mentioned it, I figure I should say "me too".
> >
> >
> Please don't suggest using the wrong DPI.  Displays for mythfrontend
> should be set to 100 DPI.  Changing the DPI only changes the problems
> (probably to ones you feel are less intrusive) but does not fix them.
>
> Mike
> ___

No worries, I wasn't suggesting to anyone to modify their DPI, I was
just pointing out what I did, figure this might help with
troubleshooting.

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Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2

[Chad]

On 1/18/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 January 2006 01:43, Justin Hornsby wrote:
> > Hello again.
> >
> > I've just put up version 1.2 of my ProjectGrayhem-wide theme.
> >
> > I made changes in the following places:
> >
> > Now showing more items in the menus
> > More screen used in 'watch recordings', 'delete recordings' and 'program
> > finder'
> >
> > I didn't change the size of the watermarks (because my source graphics
> > aren't high enough resolution).. sorry Isaac.  I'll get round to that
> > soon enough ;-)
> >
> > Get the theme from www.juski.co.uk.
> >
> > And FYI this theme will work with SVN mythtv as well as 0.18 versions,
> > just as the 4:3 theme does.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Justin.
>
> looks good, I still get the cut off date values in Watch Recordings, etc.
>
> --
> Steve
> ___

I did too, but I lowered my DPI to 75 from 100 and now it works on all
3 digit dates (1/11 but not 11/11 for example).  I blamed my own setup
as I've been tweaking my font recently and probably dorked something,
but since you mentioned it, I figure I should say "me too".

Otherwise, I really like this theme!  It looks great on my TV with my
setup.  And I use XvMC so I get the gray OSD too which matches
perfectly with this theme :D

Thanks!
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Re: [mythtv-users] ProjectGrayhem-wide theme version 1.2

[Chad]

On 1/17/06, Michael Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/18/06, Justin Hornsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello again.
> >
> > I've just put up version 1.2 of my ProjectGrayhem-wide theme.
> >
>
> Good work, with a good theme.
> ___

Excellent will be trying out in a few minutes, I just installed it.

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Re: [mythtv-users] mythfronend stuttering

[Chad]

> >Well, there's some info missing here that might help ;)
> >
> >What CPU, videocard, soundcard and how are all these setup (if
> >videocard is NVidia, what drivers, and are you using xvmc...).  :)
> >
> >Also, on the Gentoo note, I use the SVN-ebuilds most the time (though
> >occasionally I forget I have them and grab the latest SVN source and
> >compile by hand :D ).
> >
> >Chad
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> >
>
> What is xvmc?

Xvideo Motion Compensation.  In lamen terms it offloads the video to
the graphics processing unit (GPU) from the CPU.  It's drawback is
that it generally only does mpeg2 decoding.

> Is it really a good idea to use the trunk for something that's as
> complete as mythtv? (I can understand using the trunk for something
> pre-alpha.)

Not always no.  I think a lot of people on here suggest the Trunk
because it's been a fair amount of time since the last stable release
(which is a better guideline as to whether or not to use SVN/CVS or
the official release).  However, it's not absolutely necessary, it's
just that there are some really good code updates/upgrades/additions
in the SVN release that may make your system play nicer than the
latest release (currently 0.18.x).

> Here are the specs of the computers:
>
> The computer running mythbackend:
> Asus K8N-E (nForce4 Ultra)
> AMD Athlon 64 3700+ s939
> 1GB PC3200 (2x512MB)
> nVidia GeForce 6600
> Using onboard sound
> Using onboard ethernet (forcedeth)
> Gentoo i686 w/ linux-2.6.15-ck1

Sounds nice, also sounds like a TON of overkill in areas that don't
need it if this is JUST a backend. :)

> My Computer:
> Asus K8V-X (Via K8T800)
> AMD Athlon 64 3000+ s754
> 1GB PC3200
> nVidia GeForce 6800GT 256MB
> M-Audio Revolution 7.1
> Using onboard ethernet (marvel 88NE8001)
> Gentoo i686 w/ linux 2.6.14-ck6

Certainly sounds like a decent enough system, as long you look into
and use XvMC, you should be able to playback mpeg2 content without
'stutter'.

> Switch: Dlink DGS-1005D (both connected with Cat5e, speed is around
> 250-280Mb/s)
> ___

Good Luck!

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Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Problem with XvMC being slow

[Chad]

On 1/16/06, Michael Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/17/06, Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If you are talking to me, no, I've got an Nvidia FX 5200.
>
> I've got an AMD Athlon XP 2800+ with 1.2Gb ram and it struggles to
> play HDTV streams. Video card is a Nvidia FX5200. I was going to make
> sure its running the correct modules for the nvidia card, and then see
> if the XvMC is enabled.
>
> Reading this thread, I might increase the ring buffer to see what
> happens. It cant hurt after all.
> ___

Post back if nothing changes for you; include the output of
mythfrontend with XvMC enabled (preferably playing back a HD clip). 
xorg.conf might be helpful also.
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythfronend stuttering

[Chad]

On 1/16/06, Reuben Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I run mythfront end on my computer (mythbackend is running on
> another computer connected to my tv) mythfrontend has short little
> pasues every couple seconds. My computer is connected to the computer
> running mythbackend through gigabit ethernet, which should be overkill
> for mythtv. Mythfrontend runns perfectly on the same computer running
> mythbackend. Both computers run gentoo linux with ck kernels. What is
> the problem here?
> ___

Well, there's some info missing here that might help ;)

What CPU, videocard, soundcard and how are all these setup (if
videocard is NVidia, what drivers, and are you using xvmc...).  :)

Also, on the Gentoo note, I use the SVN-ebuilds most the time (though
occasionally I forget I have them and grab the latest SVN source and
compile by hand :D ).

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Problem with XvMC being slow

[Chad]

On 1/16/06, Adam Propeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are you using an Nvidia card? I've got a Sempton 3100, and I know that I
> couldn't for the life of me, play 1080i or 720p with the Sempron and an ATI
> card.
>
>
> On 1/17/06, Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On 1/16/06, Adam Propeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Steve... I'm assuming that you mean you can play HDTV with one of those
> > > processors and an Nvidia card correct? :-P I still couldn't get my ATI
> to
> > > play HD worth a hoot, and went out and purchased a cheap Nvidia 6200OC
> > > tonight. I've gotten HD to play back fairly smoothly now, but have a bit
> of
> > > playing to get done.
> > >
> > > On 1/6/06, Steve Adeff < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > On Friday 06 January 2006 00:05, Jerry Rubinow wrote:
> > > > > On 1/5/06, Jerry Rubinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> > > > > > On 1/5/06, Joseph A. Caputo < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > > > On Thursday 05 January 2006 1:21, Jerry Rubinow wrote:
> > > > > > > > When using XvMC to play back video, CPU usage is low (30% for
> HD,
> > > 10%
> > > > > > > > for SD), but the video plays back slower than realtime.  I'm
> using
> > > an
> > > > > > > > Nvidia 5200 card, with driver version 7667 (although I've
> tried
> > > every
> > > > > > > > version up to the current 8XXX).
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >  Is there anything I should check?  Anything obviously wrong
> from
> > > the
> > > > > > > > following details?  Or is this the XvMC slowdown I've read
> about?
> > > > > > > > What are my options for fixing this?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I could be way off base on this, but something in my memory is
> > > nagging
> > > > > > > me... something about maybe Nvidia's XvMC not
> supporting/performing
> > > > > > > well at certain resolutions?  Have you tried changing your
> > > horizontal
> > > > > > > resolution to something smaller, like 1024?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > No, but that's a good suggestion - I'll try it tonight.  Thanks.
> > > > >
> > > > > No luck.  I tried setting both X and the GUI setup in myth to
> 800x600
> > > > > and it's still slow playing HD.  Not stuttering, just slower than
> real
> > > > > time.  I didn't mention before, but I'm using pretty much a straight
> > > > > following of Jarod's guide with FC4, 2.6.14, on a P4 2.8.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm so close to having beautiful HD playback, can anybody suggest
> things
> > > to
> > > > > try?
> > > >
> > > > poney up for a faster processor? I know its prbly not an optioin, but
> with
> > > a
> > > > 3.0 or 3.2GHz cpu you'll be able to play back HD without XvMC.
> > > > Does OpenGL sync work with XvMC? I dunno, but might be worth a try.
> Also,
> > > try
> > > > disabling any deinterlacing? Oh, what about audio buffering options,
> have
> > > you
> > > > played with those?
> > > > Also, don't forget you have to restart mythfrontend everytime you make
> one
> > > of
> > > > these changes. minor bug...
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Steve
> > > > ___
> >
> > Hopefully getting the Nvidia will do it.
> >
> > I've got a modest Athlon XP 2500 powering my rig, but the XvMC offset
> > from my FX 5200 takes the load down to ~45% when playing back a 1080i
> > stream (720p is somewhere is the 50% range, though I don't know if
> > that's just what top decided to throw up and there is no difference).
> > So I would assume a decent P4 (2.4ish) should work just fine.
> > Something less should work well too, but a 2.4 would give you enough
> > overhead for realtime comm flagging as well.
> >
> > Not sure why the above poster had to increase the ring-buffer size,
> > this has never been something I've had to tamper with to get my HD
> > working well, but I'm glad no less :)
> >
> > Chad
> > ___

If you are talking to me, no, I've got an Nvidia FX 5200.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Shouldn't XvMC be faster than Xv?

[Chad]

Heh :D

Forgot to delete the top posting ;)  How's that for confusing...
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Re: [mythtv-users] Shouldn't XvMC be faster than Xv?

[Chad]

XvMC is currently working AFAIK, I've got SVN from about 3 days ago
and it seems to be working just fine for me.

My rig is a XP 2500 with an FX 5200.  What kept dragging me down was
the configure script actually recognizing the Nvidia drivers.  I tried
with XvMCW, but it rarely worked (probably my fault due to little
understanding of how it works), so I removed the wrapper lib and
ldconfig'd, and finally successfully had the configure script finding
libXvMCNVIDIA as the XvMC lib.  From there is was all smooth sailing.

I'm running Gentoo (lastest emerge sync emerge world ~x86), Nvidia's
latest GLX and Kernel modules, and outputting to a 61" Samsung DLP
over a VGA port.

If I can help, I'd be happy to.

Good Luck!

Chad

On 1/16/06, Scott Alfter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been playing around with Subversion builds lately, and I've noticed
> something that shouldn't be the case: XvMC is substantially slower than
> non-XvMC playback.  Even non-HD video won't play back smoothly with XvMC
> enabled.  HD, of course, definitely won't play back under those conditions.
>
> Is there some configuration somewhere that I'm missing, or is XvMC currently
> broken (again)?  I'm currently running the 8629 revision on an Athlon 64
> 3700 with a Geforce 6200, but I saw the same behavior with the 8444 revision
> on the same hardware and on an Athlon XP 3000 with a GeforceFX 5200.
>
>   _/_
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XvMC is currently working AFAIK, I've got SVN from about 3 days ago
and it seems to be working just fine for me.

My rig is a XP 2500 with an FX 5200.  What kept dragging me down was
the configure script actually recognizing the Nvidia drivers.  I tried
with XvMCW, but it rarely worked (probably my fault due to little
understanding of how it works), so I removed the wrapper lib and
ldconfig'd, and finally successfully had the configure script finding
libXvMCNVIDIA as the XvMC lib.  From there is was all smooth sailing.

I'm running Gentoo (lastest emerge sync emerge world ~x86), Nvidia's
latest GLX and Kernel modules, and outputting to a 61" Samsung DLP
over a VGA port.

If I can help, I'd be happy to.

Good Luck!

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Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Problem with XvMC being slow

[Chad]

On 1/16/06, Adam Propeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve... I'm assuming that you mean you can play HDTV with one of those
> processors and an Nvidia card correct? :-P I still couldn't get my ATI to
> play HD worth a hoot, and went out and purchased a cheap Nvidia 6200OC
> tonight. I've gotten HD to play back fairly smoothly now, but have a bit of
> playing to get done.
>
> On 1/6/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Friday 06 January 2006 00:05, Jerry Rubinow wrote:
> > > On 1/5/06, Jerry Rubinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > On 1/5/06, Joseph A. Caputo < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > On Thursday 05 January 2006 1:21, Jerry Rubinow wrote:
> > > > > > When using XvMC to play back video, CPU usage is low (30% for HD,
> 10%
> > > > > > for SD), but the video plays back slower than realtime.  I'm using
> an
> > > > > > Nvidia 5200 card, with driver version 7667 (although I've tried
> every
> > > > > > version up to the current 8XXX).
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  Is there anything I should check?  Anything obviously wrong from
> the
> > > > > > following details?  Or is this the XvMC slowdown I've read about?
> > > > > > What are my options for fixing this?
> > > > >
> > > > > I could be way off base on this, but something in my memory is
> nagging
> > > > > me... something about maybe Nvidia's XvMC not supporting/performing
> > > > > well at certain resolutions?  Have you tried changing your
> horizontal
> > > > > resolution to something smaller, like 1024?
> > > >
> > > > No, but that's a good suggestion - I'll try it tonight.  Thanks.
> > >
> > > No luck.  I tried setting both X and the GUI setup in myth to 800x600
> > > and it's still slow playing HD.  Not stuttering, just slower than real
> > > time.  I didn't mention before, but I'm using pretty much a straight
> > > following of Jarod's guide with FC4, 2.6.14, on a P4 2.8.
> > >
> > > I'm so close to having beautiful HD playback, can anybody suggest things
> to
> > > try?
> >
> > poney up for a faster processor? I know its prbly not an optioin, but with
> a
> > 3.0 or 3.2GHz cpu you'll be able to play back HD without XvMC.
> > Does OpenGL sync work with XvMC? I dunno, but might be worth a try. Also,
> try
> > disabling any deinterlacing? Oh, what about audio buffering options, have
> you
> > played with those?
> > Also, don't forget you have to restart mythfrontend everytime you make one
> of
> > these changes. minor bug...
> >
> > --
> > Steve
> > ___

Hopefully getting the Nvidia will do it.

I've got a modest Athlon XP 2500 powering my rig, but the XvMC offset
from my FX 5200 takes the load down to ~45% when playing back a 1080i
stream (720p is somewhere is the 50% range, though I don't know if
that's just what top decided to throw up and there is no difference). 
So I would assume a decent P4 (2.4ish) should work just fine. 
Something less should work well too, but a 2.4 would give you enough
overhead for realtime comm flagging as well.

Not sure why the above poster had to increase the ring-buffer size,
this has never been something I've had to tamper with to get my HD
working well, but I'm glad no less :)

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] OSD isthmus makeover

[Chad Delatte]

No more ideas?  It's my one last problem :)

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[mythtv-users] OSD isthmus makeover

[Chad Delatte]

Live tv,  I also get this when I start live tv. I
don't know if it's related.

2006-01-15 15:32:21.633 Unknown tag bold in font
2006-01-15 15:32:21.677 Unknown tag bold in font
2006-01-15 15:32:21.846 Unknown altfont: notifygray in
textarea: option1

Thanks

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[mythtv-users] OSD isthmus makeover

[Chad Delatte]

For some reason I do not get the channel number or the
channel name in the lower left hand corner like you
do.  I am using the latest cvs and fc4. Any ideas? 
Also, if you need more info please let me know. Thanks
in advance.

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[mythtv-users] Thanks for all your help!

[Chad]

I've been tooling around the list for a little while learning a bit of
this and that along the way (I already had a decent linux background,
just not a myth one).

>From reading the threads on here (and around the web) and
learning/understanding how Myth works and the different options that
are available; I finally have a myth setup that is working exactly
like I want it to and is VERY 'anyone else' friendly too.  I am very
happy with Myth right now :)

Thanks everyone who helps out on the list, all the developers,
testers, Documentation writers, Isaac...  It's a real treat to use a
working mythtv setup  (running a relative recent SVN).  I've got my
big TV (Samsung 61" DLP monitor) playing back a beautiful HD picture
over the VGA input; and a 6.1 JBL surround system powered by an Onkyo
receiver that gets fed from a Digital Coax out on my soundcard. 
Everything works just like it should.

Master backend is sort of just the backup, to keep everything together
and in one place, it's been working for quite a while actually, it's
the frontend that I am finally very happy with:

Slave/Frontend System hardware is:
Asus A7V266, Athlon XP 2500+
512MB RAM
Nvidia FX 5200
SB Live 5.1
pcHDTV 3000 and a few el cheapo bt87x cards (for those things that
happen to not be on OTA channels)
1/2TB WD SATA drives
Lirc via an RCA RCU-810A remote (and a custom serial receiver)
Gentoo, using the SVN ebuilds.

Thanks everyone!

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] svn stable == trunk ?

[Chad]

On 1/14/06, Ronald Pijnacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In the last week, there has been some talk whether svn stable was
> usable or not for the average Joe. So, I thought I might as well
> try out the stable svn to see the differences with 0.18.1.
>
> However, from the main web-site I could not identify which is the
> stable svn. Is this trunk? branches/release-0-18-fixes? Something
> all together different?
>
> Regards,
>
> Ronald.
> ___

Stable SVN, :D  Military Intelligence!  :D  These are oxymorons.

Basically, Stable is 0.18, or you can go unstable/bleeding edge and go
SVN.  Your options are laid out on trac I think quite nicely:
http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/wiki
Stable link:
svn co http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-18-fixes/mythtv
SVN link:
svn co http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/mythtv

HTH

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] Improving picture quality

[Chad]

On 1/14/06, mike choy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After much thinking
>
> I have come to realize that the trick to improve quality is to reduce
> the number of times the picture is scaled manipulated
> Lets assume that I have a PAL DVB picture of  704X576 50hz which is
> coming down my dvb capture card.
> I want to output to a digital display using DVI.
>
> Here are the number of times the picture gets scaled.
>
> 1.MythTV scales the picture according to the parameters in its playback
> settings
> -deinterlace
> -aspect ration overide
> -GUI/TV size
> 2.xv scales the picture to the org.conf display resolution
> 3. The nvidia driver does some internal scaling
> 4. The digital display device scales to the device parameters
>
> My current strategy is to set the Myth and Xorg resolutions to be the
> same as my display device
> there by all the scaling that goes on before the display is only done by
> a factor of 1.
>
> have I got this right?
>
> Mike C
>
> ___

Mathmatically speaking, sounds about right.  Will it actually make
your image look better, it's hard to say, but I doubt you'll see
*vast* improvements; but I guess it really depends on what your
picture looks like (what is 'poor' about the quality of the picture)?

Is it blocky, fuzzy, have lines through it, lots of glitches, pause a lot...

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] Revised MythTV Subversion ebuilds for Gentoo available

[Chad]

> Is there a version that is generally accepted as functional with nothing
> major broken?  i.e., I remember seeing some emails about the SVN live TV
> being broken some weeks back.
>
> BillK
>
> ___

There is, it's 0.18.1 ;)

Really, when things aren't broken, it appears 0.19 will be released,
so a 'good' answer to your question is my first one; otherwise, expect
a few oddities.  If you don't know this exists, it's a nice thing to
be able to see:
http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/roadmap

And to see the specifics you click on the number of open tickets:
http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&milestone=0.19

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Re: [mythtv-users] [Fwd: [Lxmsuite-updates] Subscription notice]

[Chad]

On 12/29/05, Karl Grindley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> this sucks. :(
>
> So, what's the plan now?  revert back to old zap2it services?
>
> Karl
>

I guess I read about the boat long after it had left :)  I keep trying
to go to their website assuming it's just temporarily down, but I
guess it's not temp...

I guess I should be happy that I'm content with zap2it and was just
curious about the themes that were offered.

Oh well...

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] Revised MythTV Subversion ebuilds for Gentoo available

[Chad]

On 1/11/06, Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/11/06, Scott Alfter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > Chad wrote:
> > > On 1/10/06, Scott Alfter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> The MythTV Subversion ebuild I obtained from Gentoo Bugzilla won't build
> > >> MythTV with FireWire support because the dependencies are
> > >> incorrect/outdated. I don't know if someone else has put up an updated
> > >> ebuild somewhere else already, but here's what I'm now using:
> > >>
> > >> http://alfter.us/files/mythtv-svn-ebuilds.tar.bz2
> > >
> > > Excellent.  If you reply to that bug report and attach your fix, it
> > > will be more centralized.
> >
> > I considered doing that, but the bug-wranglers apparently have their 
> > panties in
> > a bunch over continued activity on a bug that's marked RESOLVED WONTFIX.
> >
>
> If the myth community wants an SVN ebuild, then they can either
> provide one, or deal with the traffic, IMHO.  I don't see the problem,
> unless it's mis-communication?  If there is anything I (we as a
> group?) can do, I think we should.  Gentoo is a community driven
> distro, not a dictated or corporate driven one.
>
> Chad
>

Ok, this started to bug me a little too much, so I started a thread
over on the Gentoo forums to see if anyone had any input on it:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-422062.html


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Re: [mythtv-users] Revised MythTV Subversion ebuilds for Gentoo available

[Chad]

On 1/11/06, Scott Alfter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Chad wrote:
> > On 1/10/06, Scott Alfter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> The MythTV Subversion ebuild I obtained from Gentoo Bugzilla won't build
> >> MythTV with FireWire support because the dependencies are
> >> incorrect/outdated. I don't know if someone else has put up an updated
> >> ebuild somewhere else already, but here's what I'm now using:
> >>
> >> http://alfter.us/files/mythtv-svn-ebuilds.tar.bz2
> >
> > Excellent.  If you reply to that bug report and attach your fix, it
> > will be more centralized.
>
> I considered doing that, but the bug-wranglers apparently have their panties 
> in
> a bunch over continued activity on a bug that's marked RESOLVED WONTFIX.
>

If the myth community wants an SVN ebuild, then they can either
provide one, or deal with the traffic, IMHO.  I don't see the problem,
unless it's mis-communication?  If there is anything I (we as a
group?) can do, I think we should.  Gentoo is a community driven
distro, not a dictated or corporate driven one.

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Re: [mythtv-users] 1080i content and xv

[Chad]

On 1/11/06, Chris Ribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'll give xine a try, but I'd still like to get playback working with MythTV
> (not MythVideo).
>
> I'm fairly certain the problem isn't with my display. (480i content works
> fine, FWIW).  I'm using the VGA out to my computer monitor, running at a
> resolution of 1600x1200.
>
> I'll give xine a try, but I believe the problem is with the nVidia driver.

You could always unload the driver, load the xorg 'nv' driver, and
then try xv.  It would help you to narrow down your problem.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Revised MythTV Subversion ebuilds for Gentoo available

[Chad]

On 1/10/06, Scott Alfter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> The MythTV Subversion ebuild I obtained from Gentoo Bugzilla won't build 
> MythTV
> with FireWire support because the dependencies are incorrect/outdated.  I 
> don't
> know if someone else has put up an updated ebuild somewhere else already, but
> here's what I'm now using:
>
> http://alfter.us/files/mythtv-svn-ebuilds.tar.bz2
>
> To enable FireWire support, make sure ieee1394 is among your USE flags.  The
> ebuild pulls in the latest versions of libraw1394, libavc1394, and 
> libiec61883,
> so you'll need to tag them with ~x86 or ~amd64 (as appropriate) in
> /etc/portage/package.keywords.  Unpack the tarball to /usr/local/portage, and
> make sure "PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage" is in /etc/make.conf.
>
>  _/_
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> (IIGS( http://alfter.us/Top-posting!
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>
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Excellent.  If you reply to that bug report and attach your fix, it
will be more centralized.

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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Book

[Chad]

Jarod, I'm surprised you haven't mentioned your bit in a book that IS
published ;)

I have been fortunate enough to review "Linux Multimedia Hacks" by
Oreilly, and thought it was quite cool to see you in there.  Great
section, well written and easy to follow.  I assume this is from your
MythTV-ology website?

:)

Chad

On 1/4/06, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/3/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Monday 02 January 2006 23:04, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > > On Monday 02 January 2006 19:20, Terry Dawson wrote:
> > > > Is anyone working on a book for MythTV?
> > >
> > > Yup.
> >
> > Not to insult your work on a book, but wouldn't a proper Wiki make more 
> > sense?
> > I mean granted, noone will end up reading it, like they don't use gossamer
> > right now, but with as much as Myth changes it would just seem to make 
> > sense.
> >
> > And while I'm at it, where is mythtv.info moving to?
> >
> > --
> > Steve
>
>
> Just to add... I think a book and a wiki have very different uses.
> I'm still going to point back to the asterisk example for this one:
>
> Asterisk wiki: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk - very nice,
> fluid, and extremely help place to get information and examples for
> all areas of Asterisk.
>
> Asterisk Book: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/asterisk/index.html and
> here http://www.asteriskdocs.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=11
> (free) - Great overview of asterisk, good for "what is asterisk",
> "how/why would I use it", high level overviews, and configuration
> appendices.  Not fluid, and not low level; however, it is fairly
> detailed.
>
> each serve their own purpose and compliment the other.
>
> Thanks!
> Matt
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Re: [mythtv-users] how to feed 1280x720p to a large TV?

[Chad]

On 12/31/05, James C. Dastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My Samsung DLP does this as well by default, but there is a menu option on 
> the TV to change the aspect
> from 'PC' to 'WideTV 16:9'.  Then, the image fills the screen with a little 
> bit of overscan, which is easy to
> compensate for.  So, what aspect options does your TV have?
>
>

Same here, must be our quality TV's ;)  (Samsung DLP).

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] ALSA and real AC3 passthrough

[Chad]

> How would your reciever understand a mix of AC3 and PCM data at the same
> time?  Or were you using two seperate outputs (ie: digital for AC3 and
> analog for MP3/etc)?
>
> Jeff.
>
>

My receiver detects whether it's digital or analog and 'switches'
accordingly from the same input.  My test is from DVD's and AVI's, as
well as from xbox games.  I have my DVD player hooked up to my
receiver via optical, and if a movie is AC3 (Dolby Digital) the
receiver 'clicks' and shows a light that says "Dolby Digital". 
Otherwise, it just outputs with whatever fancy arrangement I pick (all
stereo which outputs the same audio to the L/R to the Rear L/R, or a
surround that is created by the receiver).  Same with Xbox games that
support DD/AC3 audio.

I'm not so lucky however.  I cannot, for the life of me, get any of my
soundcards actually working with their SPDIF ports (digital coax). 
I've tried nearly every setting in alsamixer and dorked with my
/etc/asound.state file, tried different options with ~/.asoundrc but
get nothing, no PCM or AC3.

Just figured I'd clarify how some people probably expect this to work.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Important information concerning DataDirect's outage

[Chad Jannusch]

On 12/30/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 10:47:25AM -0600, Chad Jannusch wrote:> Watch out with that though, because as right now, I still can't get any data
> from Zap2it (DirecTV - Champaign, IL), and mythfilldatabase seems to clear out> everything else with the "correct" No data info. So you might end up loosing> the data you already have.
Does it connect if you run the mythfilldatabase manually?It occurred to me that they might be trying to "load balance" by simplycapping the number of simultaneous connections, so that those who are
still using the default connection times (and therefore swamping theservice at peak times while leaving it idle at other times) get servedon a lottery basis.  My mythfilldatabase runs at 3:05pm Eastern and has
NEVER MISSED A SINGLE DAY during all of the times people are reportingZap2It to be broken.  FWIW, the downloads happen faster if you avoidthe peak periods as well.--Joke template: Three guys walk into a bar. One of them is a wee bit
stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-usersWell I'm actually in Charleston. Good Ol' EIU, but we get the Champaign
DTV schedule. And to answer Chris, yep, I tried mythfilldatabase just
from the console as well, Zap2it just kept feeding me 8kb data files
with nothing of use (I'm assuming they were full of 'No Data' entries
or somesuch), around 12:30 today (it's been out since around 8am
yesterday) the Zap2it started giving me listings again. So all is well.
I'm assuming it was related to the problems they've been having the
past couple of days. As far as the load balancing theory, I'm not too
sure, I even tried to create a second account with listings from a
nearby cable provider and that wasn't pulling in anything either.

--Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] Important information concerning DataDirect's outage

[Chad Jannusch]

Watch out with that though, because as right now, I still can't get any data from Zap2it (DirecTV - Champaign, IL), and mythfilldatabase seems to clear out everything else with the "correct" No data info. So you might end up loosing the data you already have.
--ChadOn 12/30/05, William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
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Re: [mythtv-users] ssh attack

[Chad]

On 12/29/05, Matt Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This of course won't happen behind a properly configured firewall, correct?
>
> Darren Hart wrote:
>
> > I'm sure nobody here is dumb enough to do this, but since I was,
> > thought I'd pass the word.
> >
> > There is an ssh attack going around with a brute force login using
> > 2187 different username/password pairs, one such pair happens to be:
> >
> > mythtv:mythtv
> >
> ___

MythTV shouldn't be on the external network anyway, IMHO.  I grab my
listings on a seperate box that is directly connected, it also hosts
my mysql db for myth, but myth isn't directly connected (it's actually
completely blocked when I do a port scan, and I've got un-necessary
services shut off/uninstalled).

Security can't be a sometimes thing, otherwise you end up a 45 year
old billionaire.

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Hardware (video and audio card) questions, differences and features?

[Chad]

On 12/28/05, Johan Venter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chad wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I'm looking for an easy-to-use website that will explain the
> > differences of the nvidia cards to me.  MythTV says I need a Geforce 4
> > or better to do XvMC, but I've got an MX440 and it barely (nearly
> > unusably) does it.  I am looking for a faster/better/newer card and
> > want to know the difference in the 5200, 6200, 6600, GT versions of
> > those, the 4000...
>
> I use the SVideo out on an MX440 and had little luck with XvMC in 0.18.2
> (the fixes release), but am having far more luck with the latest SVN -
> it's totally watchable and lowers my CPU usage quite significantly (to
> the point where HD channels used to be unwatchable, but now only
> ocassionaly skip with a 'pre-buffering pause').
>
> > I'm looking for a card that actually works (well) in linux/mythtv with
> > it's Digital Coax output.  I have yet to actually be able to get
> > anything to play through my digital out and have my receiver pick it
> > up as a Dolby Digital sound source (when it's a HD recording with DD
> > audio).
>
> Believe it or not, I'm using the AC97 onboard audio on a KT600 chipset
> mainboard through the SPDIF out.
>
> All I did was enable IEC968 output in alsamixer, turn IEC968 playback
> all the way *down* (it seems to work in reverse?), and pointed Myth to
> use alsa:spdif as the output device.
>
> For mplayer, I use a command line similar to:
>mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo xv -ao alsa:device=spdif -ac hwac3,
> (NOTE: extra ',' at the end is required, tells mplayer to fallback to
> other codes if it can't access hardware ac3, or the stream is not ac3 at
> all)
>
> > The best I've gotten is a loud repeated 'beat' (which is my best
> > description, I would guess it's an analog version of the digital
> > pulse?) which I quickly mute or kill.  I've tried/used a cmipci, an
> > emu10k1, and onboard via-82xx, all through very new versions of ALSA,
> > with no avail.
>
> That's it, my AC97 chipset uses the via-82xx driver.
>
> Regards,
>
> Johan
> ___

Excellent news, I guess I'll continue working with my onboard audio to
see what I can get, sounds promising :)

As for my video, I broke down last night and bought an FX5200,
supposedly this is a great card for doing HDTV decoding through XvMC. 
I found a matrix that isn't completely accurate comparing the
different cards, but it seemed accurate enough for me to pick a decent
card.

Thanks for the reply!

Chad
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[mythtv-users] [OT] Hardware (video and audio card) questions, differences and features?

[Chad]

Hello!

I'm looking for an easy-to-use website that will explain the
differences of the nvidia cards to me.  MythTV says I need a Geforce 4
or better to do XvMC, but I've got an MX440 and it barely (nearly
unusably) does it.  I am looking for a faster/better/newer card and
want to know the difference in the 5200, 6200, 6600, GT versions of
those, the 4000...

Second question:

I'm looking for a card that actually works (well) in linux/mythtv with
it's Digital Coax output.  I have yet to actually be able to get
anything to play through my digital out and have my receiver pick it
up as a Dolby Digital sound source (when it's a HD recording with DD
audio).

Optimally, I would set my output device to something suitable
(/dev/dsp?) and it would send it out the digital coax jack on the
soundcard, and my receiver would auto-detect (which it does with
things like DVD's) it's audio type (digital or analog) and playback
actual sound that's pleasing to the ears.

The best I've gotten is a loud repeated 'beat' (which is my best
description, I would guess it's an analog version of the digital
pulse?) which I quickly mute or kill.  I've tried/used a cmipci, an
emu10k1, and onboard via-82xx, all through very new versions of ALSA,
with no avail.

Thanks!
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Re: [mythtv-users] Shockwave frontend

[Chad]

> On 12/16/05, Charles Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Has anyone ever considered building a frontend from Shockwave?

Do you mean like Macromedia Flash?
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[mythtv-users] QAM and OTA, do they play well together?

[Chad]

Hello!

I am in a temporary situation where I have to tote my box up and down
the stairs to record and watch TV (TV in basement, antenna cable
upstairs).  I am in the process of running new cable to the basement
from the antenna, but with christmas, my project has really had to
take a back seat.

So I am wondering how easy ( what steps should I take? ) is it to just
plop in the cable-company cable and use QAM instead of toting this box
up and down the stairs everyday?  I will probably switch back to OTA
once I get the cables ran, I get quite a few channels and a great
signal.

I am using a pcHDTV 3000 using the dvb drivers, and have it working
great with OTA.

Thanks!

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] alternative GPU - graphics cards with open sourcedrivers question

[Chad]

On 12/8/05, Todd Ignasiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For more info on the S3 graphics, check out the OpenChrome project and
> mailing lists.  They have a lot of info on the various chips and the subtle
> differences in features/support.
>
> I think the easiest (maybe only) way to go is to get a motherboard with
> Unichrome video.
>
> Also,  I think S3 Graphics is owned by VIA, aren't they?   Are they at risk
> for going under?
>
>
> On 12/8/05, Bob < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Todd Ignasiak wrote:
> > > I looked into these a while back, and I was unable to find any
> > > standalone video cards available for purchase.  With the video
> > > processing capabilities they have, the S3 products would make ideal
> > > HTPC video cards.
> > >
> > >   As you mentioned, the Unichrome is available integrated into many
> > > motherboards.   S3 also announced a couple new models recently, the
> > > S25 and S27.
> >
> > I belive these are PCI Express models
> > http://www.s3graphics.com/en/products/index.jsp but I'm
> sure someone
> > could put them on an AGP card with a converter like some of the Nvidia
> > cards, I think it's the 6600s that are natively PCI-E but have AGP
> > versions available through the magic of a little chip.
> >
> > > If you can find one, there are still a few questions..  Does the
> > > driver from the unichrom project support these chips?   Do the
> > > standalone cards have the same MPEG decoder capabilities as the
> > > unichrome?
> >
> > Don't know but I'd have thought their'll be plenty of similarities
> > though one big difference is going to be in memory handling, I'm pretty
> > sure the on-board unichrome GPU uses some of the system RAM but an
> > expansion card model won't.  As for the MPEG stuff, the specs claim
> > acceleration and given the man hours involved in developing such a
> > feature it's probably the same~ish but I'm speculating.
> >
> > > I currently use an Nvidia FX5200 (it's fanless, and supports XvMC
> > > MPEG2 acceleration).   But, I would like to replace it with a card
> > > that has open source drivers.. if something is out there.
> >
> > Me too, lets hope a the turnover provided by the VIA boards is enough to
> > stop S3 going under (as everyone on /. seems to think it will) until a
> > major card fab puts the chips on something we can buy and thus promote
> > better support for open source software from hardware manufacturers.
> >
> > --
> > tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 34132, rev = J158,
> > tveeprom: tuner = Philips FM1236 MK3 (idx = 58, type = 4)
> > tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3416 (type = 14)
> > (new type Model 401)
> > model name  : mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP Processor
> > cpu MHz : 2277.214
> > cache size  : 512 KB
> > (Plenty o' grunt on an ECS k7s5a MB)
> > Knoppmyth R5A16 (unmodified)
> > http://mysettopbox.tv/CHANGELOG.txt
> > MythTV 0.18.1
> > ___

As for 'not wanting to get a new motherboard' I wouldn't worry too
much (depending on why you are concerned ;) ).  I have found a couple
of outlets where you can grab motherboards with the chipsets that
support unichrome on them for ~20-30 bucks (that's less than the cost
of an Nvidia standalone) that also have a few other niceties
integrated.  I know, most of us are probably anti-integrated, but it
really isn't so bad for 25 bucks ;)

Go hunting for a board to suite your needs before ruling it out, you
may be happy with your find.

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Trancoding 'live'

[Chad]

On 12/4/05, Chris Ribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The best bang for the buck upgrade path is probably to just upgrade the CPU
> on your frontend to something that can handle HD decoding.
>
>

I completely agree.  I can't seem to find a STB that works with ATSC
that is less than the cost of a AMD64 3200 (which is enough power to
decode a HD stream).  I'd rather fork over the ~200 bucks to build a
high def capable frontend than feed something into something, and then
that something out to something, which may be capable of then
reconverting that something into something (where something is analog
or digital depending on where it's placed ;) ).

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] Adding movies to MythTV

[Chad]

> (1) I wouldn't waste my time writing up a bunch of documentation
> without talking to rkulagow first. Seems like it would really suck to
> spend a ton of time writing up something only to find out there's no
> interest. Maybe I'm misunderstanding here though, is he solely in
> charge of all the documentation? Or are there other venues for
> submitting docs?

My understanding is that the Trac system is also a possible place to
submit your 'changes/additions' to the documentation.  I could be
wrong, this could be just for documentation on bug reports etc.  Good
question for the dev list I'd guess.

> (2) Are there any good SGML wysiwyg editors? IMO limiting the format
> like this isn't helping move the documentation forward. If someone has
> to learn SGML tags, its going to be less likely to find people to
> help. Lots more people know HTML, and there are many good HTML editors
> around. The easier it is to add documentation, the more that will get
> written.

Plain text is also an option.  Not sure, but my guess is that yet even
more people can write in plain text than in HTML ;)

Chad
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[mythtv-users] Re: MythRecipe installation errors..... HELP!!!

[Chad Schaaf]

On Dec 2, 2005, at 12:56 AM, Chad Schaaf wrote:



More errors.. am I missing something  Is there a specific  
directory that I should be installing from  My system in FC2  
just updated to 0.18.1.   Complete log is below:



[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythrecipe]# . recipes
cd mythModule && make -f Makefile
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mythtv/mythrecipe/mythModule'
g++ -c -pipe -Wall -W -g -D_REENTRANT -fPIC  -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPREFIX= 
\"/usr\" -DDEBUG=1 -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -DQT_PLUGIN -DQT_SHARED - 
DQT_NO_DEBUG -I/usr/lib/qt-3.3/mkspecs/default -I. -I/usr/include - 
I/usr/lib/qt-3.3/include -o main.o main.cpp

In file included from main.cpp:9:
Modulesettings.h:7:29: mythtv/settings.h: No such file or directory
Modulesettings.h:8:32: mythtv/mythcontext.h: No such file or directory
In file included from main.cpp:9:
Modulesettings.h:36: error: syntax error before `{' token
Modulesettings.h:41: error: syntax error before `{' token
In file included from main.cpp:10:
ModuleWindow.h:14:32: mythtv/mythwidgets.h: No such file or directory
ModuleWindow.h:15:30: mythtv/dialogbox.h: No such file or directory
ModuleWindow.h:16:34: mythtv/volumecontrol.h: No such file or  
directory

ModuleWindow.h:17:29: mythtv/xmlparse.h: No such file or directory
ModuleWindow.h:18:34: mythtv/uilistbtntype.h: No such file or  
directory

In file included from ModuleWindow.h:20,
 from main.cpp:10:
ViewRecipeWindow.h:14:32: mythtv/mythwidgets.h: No such file or  
directory
ViewRecipeWindow.h:15:30: mythtv/dialogbox.h: No such file or  
directory
ViewRecipeWindow.h:16:34: mythtv/volumecontrol.h: No such file or  
directory

ViewRecipeWindow.h:17:29: mythtv/xmlparse.h: No such file or directory
ViewRecipeWindow.h:18:34: mythtv/uilistbtntype.h: No such file or  
directory

In file included from ModuleWindow.h:20,
 from main.cpp:10:


With some more digging I have found that my myth directory is located  
in /usr/share/mythtv and the settings.pro file reflects this.   Upon  
looking for mythtv/settings.h I can not find this file or any of  
the files that are said to be missing.   I installed this system  
using Jerod Fedora Core howto and installed MythTV via apt-get...
Am I missing some files that would allow me to compile this plugin or  
any other plugin??   I am fairly new to Linux, so I am sorry if I am  
missing something stupid.   Thanks for all your help!


--
Chad Schaaf

P.S,MythTV works great even when I delete my entire hard drive  
that stores my recordings. I even have been able to upgrade from  
0.16 to 0.18 to 0.18.1 without having any problems...  My wife loves  
this software and would love it more if I can get two more things  
working. one being mythrecipe and second, mythburn.   Thanks  
again for all your help!


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Re: [mythtv-users] mythbackend identity crisis!

[Chad]

On 12/1/05, Gerald Schepens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not as far as I know.  All my mysql.txt are symlinked to the same one.
>

Which distro?  A while back Gentoo had a bug with this.  The person
working on it refused to see it as a problem with anything Gentoo was
doing, not sure where it's at now (I've since gone SVN, start the
backend by local.start or by hand depending on what I'm doing).

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mutiple Backends on different Cable TV systems

[Chad]

But, if "Live TV" isn't an issue, you could rsync the 2 storage
directories to have them local.  To me this wouldn't be too usable. 
Cool factor high, usability factor low.

You'd also have to work with database differences... (unless you
actually had the Master/Slave backend working).

Good luck!
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[mythtv-users] MythRecipe installation errors..... HELP!!!

[Chad Schaaf]

r defined
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:183: Error: symbol `statusString' is already defined
{standard input}:207: Error: symbol `db' is already defined
{standard input}:230: Error: symbol `lcd_volume_visible' is already  
defined

{standard input}:235: Error: symbol `muted' is already defined
{standard input}:241: Error: symbol `widget_focus' is already defined
{standard input}:306: Error: symbol `nodeType' is already defined
{standard input}:312: Error: symbol `player_process' is already defined
{standard input}:318: Error: symbol `player_output' is already defined
{standard input}:324: Error: symbol `player_output_file' is already  
defined
{standard input}:330: Error: symbol `player_output_stream' is already  
defined
{standard input}:336: Error: symbol `player_output_buffer' is already  
defined

{standard input}:341: Error: symbol `mute' is already defined
{standard input}:347: Error: symbol `statusString' is already defined
{standard input}:353: Error: symbol `directions_cnt' is already defined
{standard input}:359: Error: symbol `directions_top' is already defined
{standard input}:365: Error: symbol `cur_directions' is already defined
{standard input}:371: Error: symbol `db' is already defined
{standard input}:376: Error: symbol `lcd_volume_visible' is already  
defined

{standard input}:381: Error: symbol `muted' is already defined
{standard input}:387: Error: symbol `widget_focus' is already defined
make[1]: *** [main.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mythtv/mythrecipe/mythModule'
make: *** [sub-mythModule] Error 2



Thanks for any help!

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Re: [mythtv-users] remote-controlled mythfrontend?

[Chad]

On 12/1/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 23:09:02 -0500
>From: Chris Ribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>MythWiFi is what you are looking for. Search for it.
>
> Huh.  I'd -never- have guessed from the name; I assumed that was some
> sort of bandwidth-scrunching thing for people who wanted to stream
> video over 802.11.  Thanks!
>
> ...though from its website documentation and a quick look at its
> code, it -looks- like it basically sends fake keypress events to the
> frontend, acting essentially like an IR remote control, e.g., to do
> anything, you have to be looking at the frontend and know what state
> it's in, etc.  Do you know offhand if anyone's successfully used this
> more for "play this specific thing" rather than for "emulate these
> buttons"?
>
> I -suppose- I could either (a) script it so it backs all the way out
> to the top of the UI no matter where it might be starting from, then
> goes back in and "pages" down to the right thing and plays it, or (b)
> use the general idea and have it talk more directly to the DB and
> frontend (but if I'm not simulating buttons, I'll have to make sure
> I'm not confusing the front end...).
>
>
> ___

You -could- use jump points.

Cool
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Re: [mythtv-users] Are there any xbox mythtv distros stillbeingsupported?

[Chad]

Does anything exist where I don't have to modify my xbox?  I want to
be able to play Halo 2 online for a while longer (until the 360 forces
me to no longer play anything ever again).  I've read that if you
modify the filesystem on the xbox (or add your own files) that xbox
live won't let you on.  I've also heard that unless you get a 'mod
chip' that is switchable (turn it on and off) the same thing applies,
and then you are risking your xbox (being a hardware mod that is
soldered on).

Any clarity on this stuff or ideas?

Thanks!

Chad
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[mythtv-users] MythRecipe on 0.18

[Chad Schaaf]

I have downloaded the source for MythRecipe from http:// 
mythextra.napsi.net/download.html


I can not seem to get to install the error(s) I get are below:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythrecipe]# . recipes
cd mythModule && make -f Makefile
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mythtv/mythrecipe/mythModule'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/share/qt3/mkspecs/default/ 
qmake.conf', needed by `Makefile'.  Stop.

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mythtv/mythrecipe/mythModule'
make: *** [sub-mythModule] Error 2


Any help would be greatly appreciated

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Re: [mythtv-users]Help on implementing myth on multiple/various TV's

[Chad]

> I'm sure those starving students each have a PC on their desk - you can't
> convince them to run linux & myth? :-P

:D  I'm just trying to provide a visualization that a lot of people
can grasp.  How about a retirement home, that's probably easier to see
;)

> MediaMVP at $75 a pop is a pretty good deal. Another good choice would be
> xbox, but they are still $100 or so (but much easier to convince students to
> buy, since they can still be used for games, if modded correctly).

Both options would be nice, but both are above the price I'd like to
set.  The Xbox might not be a bad idea, but I still think it would be
too much to 'sell' these folks on.  I'm going to continue searching
out bulk discount suppliers for a full fledged frontend.

> To save money, I think you'll want to either clone some TVs (force two
> people to share control of one, or have a dead display with no control at
> all), or have the frontends be portable, and make the TVs that aren't using
> them watch normal live TV.

The cloning idea might not be bad.  I picture by that you mean that
the 2 TV's will display the same thing at the same time.  If the
program is changed, it's changed on both sets.  It might work for some
of the community rooms (that as noted in the previous message might be
a good place to have HD offerings).

> I like the idea of the shared frontend. I would think given the right
> hardware it would be possible for a single computer to house 2 or 3
> frontendsmore if you can get video cards with tvout that will be happy
> working together in groups > 2. Controlling the frontends could get
> complicated...you'd either need a LOT of serial ports (most new PCs have
> only one, sometimes 2), or some USB ir receivers...and depending on how far
> apart these TVs are, the cable run for the IR receiver might be too long.
>

Assuming I can get a frontend to control 4 TV's a piece, the other 2
slots could be a PCI card with USB slots or serial ports necessary for
the remote controls.  This also assumes we'd be using the same or a
very similar setup in the frontends as the backends.  With the idea of
1 PC controlling 4 TV's (or the TV's controlling the frontend
depending on your POV) I could increase the cost of a single a PC and
split that cost 4 ways, meaning a 200 dollar box, just cost 50 bucks,
and you don't lose anything in the split.


 ___

So, focusing more on the frontends, does anyone (or has anyone tried)
know if you can do something like an LTSP server for the frontends? 
What I am thinking is that if you can have a single box (as described
in the first message) that has 6 PCI slots, 4 of them being used for
PCI Videocards (any suggestions for PCI cards that have a composite
out and probably do some hardware acceleration?) and the other 2 for
some sort of controllers (USB's, Serials, something else?).  You'd
need 4 instances of mythfrontend running from this box, but I think
using seperate accounts this might be able to be done (the linux part
of all this I think I can handle?  but the myth part I certainly will
need help with implementing).  What kind of CPU would I need to look
at?  How much of this setup could be done by offloading to the video
card?
Any other ideas for hardware on the frontend that I'm missing?  Ooh,
audio.  Looks like I might only be able to squeeze 2 TV's (videocards)
onto each box, plus 2 soundcards.  Hmm...  Unless there are soundcards
that have 2 outputs (both would need to be analog).

I'll keep thinking..

Thanks for the replies so far!

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users]Help on implementing myth on multiple/various TV's

[Chad]

On 12/1/05, Eric S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chad -
>
> On RF Only Inputs - Video Composite to RF convertors are simple and cheap to
> buy at Radio Shack or the like . . . .

So hooking it up would be done using something like a Composite out
from the video, and a 3mm mini-stereo --> RCA converter cable, then
into the modulator.  Sounds doable.

Surprised I didn't think of those, my mom actually uses one on her
ancient TV :)  Thanks!

> Not sure if anyone has ever tired to scale Myth on the level you are
> talking, would be interesting.   Start with one Master Backend, make all
> other backend slaves.  Probably best to centralize all your storage.  With
> the number of tuners and possible live streams you are talking about you can
> use a Terabyte easy.  Think RAID 0, for speed, this is TV, you don't need
> redundant or rebuiladable, you need FAST.  A Gigabit Ethernet between each
> backend and the storage server(s) would be good.

What about between the frontends and the backends, would that be
necessary to also have the gigabit Ethernet there as well?  If not,
I've seen some fairly cheap integrated boards that would probably be
able to handle a frontend configuration (and might be cheaper in
bulk).

> I would be concerned about fully loading 6 slots w/ PVR500's (assuming you
> can find a good 6 slot MB, as they are increasingly hard to find).  Most MBs
> start sharing IRQ's if you have anything more than three slots full.  Not to
> say for certain that it wouldn't work, but you might want to be aware of
> this possible risk.

Excellent point, didn't think of that.  I'll be sure to watch for that.

> The least expensive workable front-end I know of is the Hauppauge MediaMVP
> w/ MVPmc. (http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net) Not nearly as nice the standard
> Myth frontend, but allows viewing of recorded and live TV.  You can pick
> these up for probably $75 each, maybe less if making a bulk buy.  Hopefully
> you have Cat5(e) networking throughout the building already.

Thanks, the cabling is in place, not a problem there.  I'd rather not
go with the MVP at this point, from what I've read it's not quite what
I would like it to be.  A full blown frontend is more likely what I'll
go for, just hoping to find mega discounts on bulk buys.

> Forget HD, you would need $300-400 frontends to handle playback.  If there
> is a large HDTV or two in the facility maybe go for a combo slave backend/HD
> capable frontend box in that location only.

This is a great idea, a community room for HD viewing of select shows.
 Maybe a few of those series I mentioned earlier; certainly with the
option and abillty to have one in your own room should you want to
sport your own HD capable frontend.

> BTW, not sure what you are really up to, but in a dorm or apartment scenario
> this could be viewed as rebroadcast of copyrighted material, not to mention
> sharing cable subscription with potential customers, both of which could get
> you in very hot water depending on the scale of the fraud.
>
> ___

Thanks for tip!  Actually, if anything, think of more like a community
of your family members and close friends, all living very close
together.  Something like a trailer park full of just people you know
and love.  If this ever becomes realized, I'd certainly make sure that
anyone receiving this would also have a concurrent subscription to
whatever programming source we offered.  It very likely wouldn't
become a legal issue at all.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Adding movies to MythTV

[Chad]

On 12/1/05, Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Phill Edwards wrote:
>
> >>I'd like to add external movies in different formats, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, etc.
> >>to MythTV.
> >>The same goes for mp3 and photos.
> >>I couldn't find any documentation related to how can I do it.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >For music you need to use the MythMusic application. For photos you
> >need MythGallery. For external movies it's MythVideo. Have a bit of a
> >search around for these. There's probably not a huge amount of docco
> >on them. I think most people just go into the apps and start playing
> >with them to see how they work.
> >
> >You will need to go into the Setup screens for them first to tell Myth
> >which directories the files will all live in.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Phill
> >
> >
> I'd have to agree with you on the documentation - it really needs a few
> simple pointers.  No doubt if everything works first time it's not hard
> but I've tried all three and struggled to make them work at first.  I'm
> OK with MythGallery, but still failing with Music...
>
> Rick
>
>
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The beauty of all this is you and I can both contribute to these docs.
 If they need a workup, submit one.

Chad
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[mythtv-users]Help on implementing myth on multiple/various TV's

[Chad]

Evenin!

I have been killing myself trying to figure out a solution for the following:

A semi-large to large network of 25+ TV's with various inputs on a
mythTV network.

One of the biggest problems being that several of these TV's will only
have RF inputs.

The second biggest problem being that unless I can find a mythfrontend
for each TV for $20 bucks or less, I would need to find a more
multi-head solution.  Can I run multiple frontends from a single box? 
If I placed a mobo with 6 pci slots in a box, and had 6 PCI videocards
in each box, then could I build a frontend for 60-120 bucks that could
power the demands of LiveTV for each TV?

The backends aren't an issue, I could splurge on the backends, say
around 700 a piece for them; they could include enough tuners (1 for
each TV, plus say 10+ to spare for recordings).  The processing would
be minimal (all PVR's or HDTV tuners), the I/O on the HD might become
an issue, but I could dedicate a few boxes to just storage.

I guess I should paint a picture instead of telling you the ways I've
thought to implement this, and you can offer advice on how to tackle
it.

Picture a dorm, or a large hospital, or even a large office building. 
The dorm or hospital are easier to illustrate.  In each room in this
100 bed hospital lives 2 TV's, one for each bed.  This would equate to
100 TV's.  Now the backends could easily be absorbed quickly by the
routine users (the "staff" of the hospital or chronic patients) but
the cost of frontends would take quite a while to absorb, hence the
low cost need.  Also, not every TV in this hospital would be a quality
TV, more likely just your average 100 dollar wal-mart special, which
likely just has an RF input for cable or 'rabbit ears'.
How could you roll out Myth to actually work most (say, 90%) of the
time in this situation?  The patients or staff would assume they could
not only watch the game that's on right now (and pause it while the
nurse changes their dressing) but could flip through a variety of
programs that were recorded by other patients or staff, or even a
series (similar to Comcast's On Demand feature).
Now, in retrospect, a hospital could easily absorb the cost of this
setup, so picture this in a Dorm setting with starving students
wanting this setup.  They could still probably get the initial cost of
a couple (say 8-9?) backends that each have 6 pci's full of PVR-500's,
and 2 or 3 rigs that are just file servers (storage).  This cost, my
out of the air guess, would be somewhere in the ball park of 2-3
thousand USD.  Pulling their money (assuming 100 students) that's only
30 bucks a student.  They can probably do that and convince each other
to do it to ensure a 100% commitment (that means that every single
person ponies up the 30 bucks to get this backend running).  However,
to then tell them they have to spend more than an additional 20-30
bucks to actually get their content, they won't ever be up to it.

So, total cost I guess would have to somewhere in the ballpark of
5-6k, each student spending a max of 60 dollars total to have this.

Anyone have any ideas of how to implement that?

:)

(Yeah, I have spent too much time learning about LTSP and thinking of
how myth could do the same ;) ).

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythplugins ---> correct install directory

[Chad]

On 11/30/05, Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>
> > Depends on your installation.  If your installation is configured for
> > /usr/local as the prefix, then /usr/local/lib is correct.  If it is
> > configured for /usr then /usr/lib is correct.
> > Kevin
> >
> Kevin,
>   Everything else myth seems to go to /usr/local on my Debian
> system.  Half of the plugins go to /usr/lib/myth/plugins and the other
> half to /usr/local/lib/mythtv/plugins (these show up in myth).  Indeed,
> if I symlink to the plugins in /lib/mythtv/plugins/ then they show up
> under myth.  I suspect that the make files have had the leading
> /usr/local omitted for the install_root variable.  Does this sound correct?
>
> Cheers Ben
> ___

If you are rolling your own packages (using sources from official SVN
or official stable) then you can specify where you want your installs
to go (I believe default is /usr/local).  If you are using deb's or
something similar (not your own packages) and they are all from the
same source, they should also be installing the same location.  If
this is not the case, you are far better off contacting the maintainer
of these packages to let them know of their 'error'.

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb-svn problem

[Chad]

> People who run unstable
> code have no right to bitch about things not being documented.
>
> -Chris
> ___

I totally agree with this and think it whole heartedly should be understood.

However, I don't necessarily take feedback on these lists as
'bitching' at least not all the time ;)

But of course, the right place to do this constructive bitching would
be on a real bug report.

Thanks for the quality product!  I think I would have dropped myth in
the beginning had I not also had mythweb as a great bragging rights
tool to show off to co-workers.

Cool
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Re: [mythtv-users] Myth from SVN

[Chad]

On 11/23/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael Haan wrote:
>
> > I'm running on Gentoo and I don't think the ebuild has been updated
> > lately.  I'm considering pulling and building myth from subversion,
> > but I'm not sure how to do it.  Can someone tell me how?
>
> Step 1)  Sign up for and make sure you read the dev and commits lists
> for MythTV (and, if you haven't been doing so lately, read the archives
> for a couple weeks back to see what issues you will have -
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/ and
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/ ).
>
> Step 2) http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.4
>
> Mike
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If you want the ease of ebuilds:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66337

You'll need a PORTDIR_OVERLAY defined et al.

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Re: [mythtv-users] FC4 and HD-3000 DVB vs.QAM Issue in latest kernel

[Chad]

> BTW, Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jason
> ___

Happy Thanksgiving to you!

:)

I wouldn't worry about it too much, it is very likely it's just the
difference in DVB versions.  As long as myth is picking it up as a DVB
device, and you actually get a picture when all is said and done, you
can call it a pickle-2.1.3 and it really wouldn't matter.

I think the chuckle was more of a "it's kind of funny to see how
people interpret things" than a "you're an idiot" thing ;)  But who
knows...

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] bttv audio / snd_bt87x guide?

[Chad]

On 11/23/05, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Don't want to discourage you from pursuing this, but I've NEVER had
> > luck with snd-bt87x btaudio OR any related anything on those bttv
>
> As an aside, what *is* a recommended second (lower budget) card?  I'd
> rather not shell out for another pvr350, is there something that's a bit
> lower than it, but will still work properly and is well supported?

It seems that most people are able to actually get the PVR-150's
working well, and I've seen them for ~65 bucks if you aren't pressed
for time (ebay, specials, rebates...).

But I've just been too cheap also.  I've got about 6 of those cards
around the house figuring "I can figure out snd-bt87x, only to find
out that a handful of cards actually have the chip soldered onto em to
use the audio on the card.  Maybe I'll take 2 or 3 and throw em up on
ebay and take the 'winnings' to buy a 150 or if I'm really rich that
day, maybe a 500 ;)

Good Luck!

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] bttv audio / snd_bt87x guide?

[Chad]

On 11/23/05, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, I've investigated my setup some more and figure that my issues with
> my knoppmyth setup not giving me sound for video recorded with a second
> wintv-go (bttv based) card.   I think this is due to sound drivers not
> working except for going out directly from the card (out of sync as the
> sound is "raw").
>
> Anyway, there are a lot of pages out there talking about btaudio, snd_bt87x,
> bttv audio, etc.  It seems that btaudio is depricated (and the tarball
> available won't build) and replaced by the snd_bt87x module.  I have
> found the card and tuner values from dmesg, just wondering where in my
> knoppmyth setup to put these options.
>
> Does anyone have their /etc/knoppmyth/modules/bttv they can share, or is
> there a definitive bt87x audio guide somewhere?  My system is pvr350 as
> the main card, a wintv-go as the secondary, with sound working fine
> except for when the 350 is recording and I'm playing live tv from the
> wintv-go.
>
> I *think* that I just need to add a "options tuner type=xxx" (or something
> like that) to that file.  However, if the card is recognized automatically
> (dmesg has a card=xx and tuner=xx in it) wouldn't that mean the system
> already knows about it?
>
> TIA
>
> Alan
>
> --

Don't want to discourage you from pursuing this, but I've NEVER had
luck with snd-bt87x btaudio OR any related anything on those bttv
cards.  The audio out to line-in/Mic-in are the only way I've been
able to get it to work, but the audio always has a hum (I have
searched far a wide for decent 3.5mm stereo cables but they don't
exist for a decent price), sometimes the hum is very faint, other
times is screeching so bad I have to simply delete and re-record the
program and hope it doesn't get too bad that time.

I've since then switched to HD-3000's and just grab all my shows in
HD.  The ones that aren't in HD, I try my luck at as before, but they
are fewer and farther between than my HD shows were.

:)

Good Luck!

Chad
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Re: [mythtv-users] RE: Problems with DVD rip

[Chad]

Seems the assumption is that the world falls under the DMCA...

This list is a list for users of MythTV.  Is it not also for the
official modules of MythTV?

If it is, then this is certainly the place to discuss ripping DVD's;
moreso, it's NOT illegal for everyone on earth.

;)

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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV demo

[Chad]

> Is there a distro that uses gcc 4 by default?  By default, Gentoo uses
> 3.3 on x86 and 3.4 on AMD64.  It considers gcc 4 too bleeding-edge for
> production use.
>

FC4 does by default, ubuntu's latest, and "what is default" on a
Gentoo box?  ;)  I use GCC 4 there too, by default.

Chad
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