Re: [mythtv-users] Only two HD compatible cards: HD-2000/3000?
From: Daniel Kristjansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 18:37 -0800, Dennis Lou wrote: >> My Sempron 2800+ (754 pin) is just fine for both 720p >> and 1080i at around 40-50% CPU usage including kernel >> de-interlace. > >I won't dispute that, I was giving a spec for trouble free HDTV. > >I've run on lesser machines and it would work 95% of the time >and then look really bad whenever there was a lot of action on >screen. Or it would start to break down if I increased >time-stretch too much, or a commercial flagging was running >with moderate time-stretch, etc. I haven't noticed any problems, but then again I don't use time-stretch on HD content, unless you count up-sampled SD. Even so, I haven't encountered any trouble with time-stretched up-sampled SD either. -Dennis __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Only two HD compatible cards: HD-2000/3000?
From: Daniel Kristjansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Make sure if you get an AMD chip that it is not rated >at 2800+ but is actually running at a >decent Ghz, something like a 4800+ will probably work. My Sempron 2800+ (754 pin) is just fine for both 720p and 1080i at around 40-50% CPU usage including kernel de-interlace. -Dennis __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PCHDTV3000 + FC4
From: Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >One difference I've noted from Gentoo is that the firmware >seems to be missing. It's a defect in Jarod's howto. I opened a ticket a few months ago but Jarod's site hasn't been updated in a while. Firmware goes in /lib/firmware. There's a script in /usr/src/linux somewhere that will download and install it for you, or you can just go to www.pchdtv.com and put it in there manually (that's what I did). -Dennis __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Sweet! PC HD3000 QAM_256 working, now about importing those channels?
From: Brian McEntire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I'd heard rumors that PC HD3000 cards could >receive clear QAM. I can >confirm. Mine is working well. I had to grab the >latest dvb-apps Cool. >It found many more but most are probably >the encrypted QAM variety. After testing >them by tuning with azap and then cat'ing and >mplaying the (below), There's an easier way. If your mplayer is compiled with dvb, you can put channels.conf in your ~/.mplayer directory and do: mplayer dvb:// >I found the four I expected to be clear QAM >and threw out the rest. >NBC:56100:QAM_256:16:17:1 >ABC:56100:QAM_256:144:145:3 >CBS:56700:QAM_256:16:17:1 >FOX:56700:QAM_256:144:145:3 Those look like broadcast channels. Your cable operator should transmit the PSIP data for them so that you shouldn't have to rename them to something more user friendly. If there's no PSIP data, then something is wrong. >Now the question... Has anyone figured out how >to import these channels into >MythTV? I'm running 0.18.1. Inside of mythtv-setup, >the only channel scan >setup options seem to be ATSC or Cable. I tried >cable but it doesn't find >these channels even though the newer versions >of dvb-apps find channels >while scanning. (Not too suprising.) If there's PSIP data, you shouldn't have to. mythtvsetup should pick them up automagically. >I see there is a manual way to add channels, and >since I only have 4, that >would be fine, but is there a way to find out >the zap2it XMLTV ID? Go to labs.zap2it.com, add those channels to your lineup and do a mythfilldatabase. It should show up in your channel table where you can go poke for it. In the past, I bypassed xmltvid and went to mythweb->settings->channels and set the freqid to zap2it's cable channel number but I don't know if it still works the latest svn code. Also, you never know what you'll find unencrypted. Attached is a script I wrote that does the scan for me. On my system, it takes about 12 mins to scan the frequencies and another 20 or so to capture streams and test all the pids. -Dennis __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com qamscan Description: 789681936-qamscan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-150 (Model 1045) - $64.99 @ CompUSA + FAQ
From: "Michael T. Dean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jay Jarvinen wrote: >>With the PVR-350 at about $160 these days, to me .. >>that's like buying >>a ~$100 TV-out card, vs $40-50 for a cheapo >>TV-out vid card. > > >Not to mention you get more from the cheapo TV-out vid >card: OpenGL, >ability to do resolutions greater than standard >definition, XvMC support >(which is very nice for HDTV), VGA/DVI output, >progressive output, >Of course, XvMC assumes you buy an NVIDIA (since ATI's >drivers /still/ >don't support XvMC)... XvMC still has its problems. At least on my 0.18.1 installation with GF4MX, anyway. OSD makes everything stutter, skip and tear and I haven't seen a fix yet (haven't tried latest svn, though). -Dennis __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] possible mythweb + selinux solution
I think the following will get mythweb to work properly with selinux on FC4: /usr/sbin/setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect=1 Comments anyone? My box seems to work now. -Dennis Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] RE: Time change causes problems
I forgot to mention that from www.zap2it.com, the main grid is ok, but when I click on a channel to see its line-up for the week, the shows are 1 hour off. -Dennis __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Live Video stops after 1 second
> From: Mike Kobler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I recently got a WinTV 350 card working but now am > having problems > watching live TV. It starts up just fine, but then > one second later, > stops. I get these errors from the frontend. ... >I'm running a backend on a PII and the frontend is a AthlonXP. >Note that I can record/watch recorded videos just fine. Both >are running version 0.17. I get the same thing. Recordings and "cat /dev/video > tst.mpg ; mplayer tst.mpg" work but "Watch TV" from mythtv menu doesn't. However, it's at the bottom of my priority list since I never use "Live TV" (I find that the picture quality of "Live TV" isn't as good as live tv). That being said, this might help: Everything was working fine before, but then I mucked up something else unrelated so I kept the xfs data partition and formatted/installed root/boot with FC3. Here's my configs: Hardware: -- Athlon XP1800 ECS K7S5A MB AverMedia M179 MPEG encoder nVidia NV17 (GF4 MX440) monolithic front/back end Before: -- FC2 Kernel 2.6.9 (don't remember the rest) Myth 0.17 atrpms from late Feb nvidia-graphics6629 After: - FC3 kernel 2.6.10-1.770_14.rhfc3.at mythtv-0.17-97.rhfc3.at nvidia-graphics7167-1.0_7167-67.rhfc3.at ivtv-0.1.10-49.2_pre2_ck100zz.rhfc3.at Also, I had to disable RenderAccel, otherwise X would lockup after starting myth. ivtv 0.2 would load but wouldn't give me /dev/video0 (don't remember the dmesg errs offhand). The ringbuffer is on the xfs data partition that didn't get touched during the upgrade. The entire sql db was saved/restored for the upgrade. All in all, I think it was a huge mistake to "upgrade". One of these days, I'll toss a DVD burner in that box and partimage root/boot to an RW disc before I muck things up. -Dennis P.S. This is what my backend log says. The null string looks suspect. 2005-03-24 09:45:28.200 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-03-24 09:45:28.244 adding: localhost.localdomain as a client (events: 0) 2005-03-24 09:45:28.310 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-03-24 09:45:28.314 adding: localhost.localdomain as a client (events: 0) 2005-03-24 09:45:28.324 adding: localhost.localdomain as a remote ringbuffer 2005-03-24 09:45:28.406 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2005-03-24 09:45:31.723 joined null string in WriteStringList 2005-03-24 09:45:54.677 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None Here's my frontend log: 2005-03-24 09:45:28.166 Using protocol version 14 2005-03-24 09:45:31.243 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-03-24 09:45:31.243 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-03-24 09:45:31.331 Using XV port 105 2005-03-24 09:45:31.696 The realtime priority setting is not enabled. 2005-03-24 09:45:31.718 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2005-03-24 09:45:31.811 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait 2005-03-24 09:45:32.479 prebuffering pause 2005-03-24 09:45:51.724 ReadStringList timeout (quick). 2005-03-24 09:45:51.724 WriteStringList: Bad socket 2005-03-24 09:45:51.725 ReadStringList: Bad socket 2005-03-24 09:45:51.725 WriteStringList: Bad socket 2005-03-24 09:45:51.725 ReadStringList: Bad socket 2005-03-24 09:45:51.725 WriteStringList: Bad socket 2005-03-24 09:45:51.725 ReadStringList: Bad socket 2005-03-24 09:45:51.758 WriteStringList: Bad socket 2005-03-24 09:45:51.758 ReadStringList: Bad socket 2005-03-24 09:45:54.675 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None 2005-03-24 09:45:54.686 Changing from None to None __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Mythvideo listing suddenly empty
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 08:17:29 -0800, Ian Forde
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Which is why I put this little gem into a script in
/etc/cron.daily:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> datenow=`date +"%Y%m%d"`
> mysqldump --opt mythconverg >
/var/lib/backups/mysqldump-${datenow}.sql
> gzip -9 /var/lib/backups/mysqldump-${datenow}.sql
A couple suggestions:
1) Only back up specific tables by specifying them
after
'mythconverg' in your mysqldump line.
e.g. mysqldump --opt mythconverg settings caturecard
cardinput
2) using a pipe vs. redirect will save interim
drive space.
e.g. mysqldump --opt mythconverg settings capturecard
| gzip -9 -c > backup.sql.gz
3) bzip2 does a better job at compressing my DB
than gzip
-Dennis
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Re: [mythtv-users] Progress bar on import images
From: Kevin Barsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >In MythGallery when you hit "Import" from the menu >(This runs a script on my system), is there the >facility to put up a progress bar and tell >it when to increment? Unless someone else put it in sometime after I coded it, no. (I haven't looked at the code in a while) How do you intend to send a message from your script to MythGallery? As I recall, scripts just run from a system() call. -Dennis __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb 0.17 vs. Safari et al
From: Chris Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> D'oh! I was afraid of that. I'm using MacOSX 10.2.8 >> and Safari 1.0. > >ah, that makes sense. I have no older safari to >test with. I know that >there were a number of bugs with the javascript >support in 1.0, though. > pity apple doesn't let earlier OSX versions use it. So I guess that brings us back to a variant of the original question: Should MythWeb be made to work with Safari 1.0? -Dennis __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb 0.17 vs. Safari et al
From: Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 07:38:06AM +1100, Nick Tan wrote: >> The mouseovers work just fine for me with >> Safari (1.2.4) and Mythweb 0.17. > >I had this problem. The javascript was moved to >another directory. >You need to do a new cvs checkout with the -dP option. I forgot to mention that mouseovers work fine in Firefox and the other Gecko-based browsers. As mentioned in an earlier post, it appears that it's the 1.0 version of Safari that's the problem. I'm too cheap to upgrade to Panther :) -Dennis P.S. I think I still have my RHF 2nd prize winnings, The RHF Joke Book from circa 1991. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb 0.17 vs. Safari et al
> From: Nick Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The mouseovers work just fine for me with Safari > (1.2.4) and Mythweb 0.17. D'oh! I was afraid of that. I'm using MacOSX 10.2.8 and Safari 1.0. Guess I'll just have to use another browser since 1.2 requires 10.3 or higher. -Dennis __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MythWeb 0.17 vs. Safari et al
The latest MythWeb seems to have broken the mouseovers in Safari and IE5 (last version available for Mac). I presume Konquerer probably has the same problem. Before I go about patching it, has anyone else started looking at the problem? I'd hate to duplicate someone else's effort. -Dennis __ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
