Re: [mythtv-users] export of mythtv NUV files not in DB
Hmmm, no joy. It looks like nuvexport uses mythtranscode, which looks like it takes the show to transcode from the MythTV database. Since the shows I wish to transcode aren't in the MythTV database, I cannot get mythtranscode to access them. The ffmpeg part of the nuvexport process should work, though, once I can get the video to it in a form it can take. -- EC On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 13:25 -0800, EC wrote: Thank You. That looks like it will do the trick! I'll try it tonight. -- EC On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 14:19 -0500, Tom Lichti wrote: EC wrote: Hi, I'm trying to transcode several MythTV MPeg4 NUV files to DVD standard compliant MPeg2. The files are not in my MythTV database, which makes nuvexport not so good for this (though I really like it - it's great for files that are in the DB). Does anyone have a transcode or mencoder or etc. commandlines/examples that they like? My mplayer/mencoder is configured to understand MythTV streams. I've been playing around with this for some time, and am having quite a bit of trouble. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you run nuvexport in debug mode it shows you all of the command-lines it is running, so you could just do that for something in your database, get the proper command-lines, and then substitute the non-db filenames where appropriate. I haven't tried it, but it should work with a little tweaking. Then you could probably write a small wrapper script to take a filename as input to semi-automate it. Tom ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] export of mythtv NUV files not in DB]
Hello, Thanks for your help, BTW, I appreciate it. I run 0.18.1 currently (on Gentoo). Anyway, my version of nuvexport does support -i, but seems only to use the name as a reference to the MythTV database. It doesn't seem to matter if the file exists or not. It just matters that the name matches a filename in MythTV's active directory of shows. I also have tried updating my nuvexport. I tried nuvexport version: 0.2 0.20051020.svn. That gives me some DB table fields missing warnings (SVN, while I'm using 0.18.1), but it still behaves the same. -- EC On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 09:10 -0500, Tom Lichti wrote: EC wrote: Hmmm, no joy. It looks like nuvexport uses mythtranscode, which looks like it takes the show to transcode from the MythTV database. Since the shows I wish to transcode aren't in the MythTV database, I cannot get mythtranscode to access them. The ffmpeg part of the nuvexport process should work, though, once I can get the video to it in a form it can take. -- My version of mythtranscode allows a -i parameter that lets you specify an input file as opposed to querying the database. I am running a test against a non-MythTV file right now, and it is processing it. Are you running SVN or a point release? Tom ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor ConvertX - Dropped frames watching live tv
Hi, I don't have a good answer for you, but, as a Plextor ConvertX user myself (I use 2 PX-TV402U boxes, MythTV 0.18-1 too), I thought I'd note that it CAN work very well - though at times it seems a bit touchy. You might want to see if you can record OK. When you watch LiveTV, your system has to capture, store, and then decode an MPeg4 stream. The capture is easy because the ConvertX does the MPeg4 encoding itself. Your system has to do the rest, however. MPeg4 takes quite a bit of CPU power to decode. Of course, determining whether it's the recording or the playback of the recording could still be a bit tricky, if you have trouble with recorded shows too... I'd guess it'd be easiest to try the recording on another computer, if possible. If you don't record OK, I would try looking to see if the USB bus is sharing interrupts with a high speed device. I guess it's not really supposed to matter, but, at least sometimes, it does. Also, I assume you are using the latest drivers from plextor/wis (I think it's currently 0.97). If you do record OK, I'd guess that your system isn't being able to quite keep up with the decoding and playing of the stream. It might be that you can optimize/set driver options. It may be that the CPU is a little slow. Somebody else would have to answer that, though. -- EC On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 13:01 -0500, Steven Sluter wrote: I'm running Myth-tv 0.18.1 on an Athlon 800 w/256MB ram. My video card is an Nvidia FX5200 pci card with Nvidia driver v. 7667. OS is Fedora Core 4, with kernel 2.6.13. Hard drive is a 40GB 7200 RPM IDE drive w/ DMA enabled. The ConvertX is hooked up to a USB-2 card. When watching live tv, I notice a slight stutter every 5-8 seconds -- not easily noticed, but enough to be annoying. I have not tried recording a show for later playback. One thing I've noticed is that the Nvidia linux driver doesnt seem to be entirely stable (The computer will lock up if I try and run alsamixer in an xterm). All other 7xxx series drivers were completely unusable, causing the computer to experience frequent lock-ups. I think I've ruled out the hard drive as the culprit. Any ideas? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] export of mythtv NUV files not in DB
Thank You. That looks like it will do the trick! I'll try it tonight. -- EC On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 14:19 -0500, Tom Lichti wrote: EC wrote: Hi, I'm trying to transcode several MythTV MPeg4 NUV files to DVD standard compliant MPeg2. The files are not in my MythTV database, which makes nuvexport not so good for this (though I really like it - it's great for files that are in the DB). Does anyone have a transcode or mencoder or etc. commandlines/examples that they like? My mplayer/mencoder is configured to understand MythTV streams. I've been playing around with this for some time, and am having quite a bit of trouble. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you run nuvexport in debug mode it shows you all of the command-lines it is running, so you could just do that for something in your database, get the proper command-lines, and then substitute the non-db filenames where appropriate. I haven't tried it, but it should work with a little tweaking. Then you could probably write a small wrapper script to take a filename as input to semi-automate it. Tom ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] plextor m402u. Which linux distribution coldplugs it properly ?
Hmmm, on my distribution (gentoo), at least, the coldplug scripts use a slightly different vendor id than the hotplug scripts (coldplug has a leading 0). I don't know if it's a kernel issue, a module loading order issue, or a cold/hot plug issue. I just tweaked the /etc/hotplug/usb/wis-ezusb (supplied by plextor) script to accept either, and everything (ie device cold, computer cold; device hot, computer cold; device cold, computer hot; and device hot, computer hot) works. Here is a quick patch for the wis-ezusb that works for me (YMMV). Just copy it to the directory:/etc/hotplug/usb (or wherever your hotplug usb vendor scripts live), and do patch PATCH_FILE. It's a pretty trivial change (adds just 3 characters). *** wis-ezusb.orig Mon Jun 20 07:21:03 2005 --- wis-ezusb Thu Jun 23 02:52:23 2005 *** *** 18,22 # (USB 2.0) PX-M402U ! 93b/a002/*) FIRMWARE=$FIRMWARE_DIR/hpi_PX-M402U.hex FLAGS=-t fx2 --- 18,22 # (USB 2.0) PX-M402U ! *93b/a002/*) FIRMWARE=$FIRMWARE_DIR/hpi_PX-M402U.hex FLAGS=-t fx2 *** *** 24,28 # (USB 2.0) PX-TV402U ! 93b/a004/*) FIRMWARE=$FIRMWARE_DIR/hpi_PX-TV402U.hex FLAGS=-t fx2 --- 24,28 # (USB 2.0) PX-TV402U ! *93b/a004/*) FIRMWARE=$FIRMWARE_DIR/hpi_PX-TV402U.hex FLAGS=-t fx2 *** *** 30,34 # (USB 2.0) LifeView LR192 (TV Walker Ultra) ! eb1//*) FIRMWARE=$FIRMWARE_DIR/hpi_LR192.hex FLAGS=-t fx2 --- 30,34 # (USB 2.0) LifeView LR192 (TV Walker Ultra) ! *eb1//*) FIRMWARE=$FIRMWARE_DIR/hpi_LR192.hex FLAGS=-t fx2 hi, bought a plextor m402u for my mythtv setup ? Right now I run Mandriva LE2005 and it doesn't coldplug the usb tv tuner properly. I have to hotplug it by removing the usb connection and plugging it back in... Who out there has it working properly after a reload, with no user intervention ? i.e reload the PC and it loads all the appropriate drivers and loads the firmwareand what linux distribution are you using. I figure certain distributions of linux do a better job then others when it comes to coldplugging usb devices. I've never used anything else other then mandrake linux. many thanks ... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Perplexed on plextors (ConvertX)
Just a quick followup: I never could get a set of kernel options under which the cold-plug scripts would detect a cold plextor (either coldplug only detects an already initalized plextor, or I still have configuration issues). If the firmware has been loaded to it, then coldplug detects the unit on subsequent computer reboots. Assuming that the plextor is detected, MythTV functions with it, but it is much touchier about the device than the plextor test app, gorecord. There seem to be many almost right kernel configurations under which gorecord works fine, but MythTV does not. The option set that seems to mostly work for me (still have the completely cold cold plug problem) is: CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_KMOD=y CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y CONFIG_I2C=m CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV=m CONFIG_SOUND=y CONFIG_SND=y CONFIG_USB=m CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=m CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=y CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=y Anyway, I'm up and mostly happy again. Oh, the kernel version I'm using is 2.6.11 (gentoo-r11). Now, I guess I just have to figure out the manual firmware loading for when I cycle the power on the plextor (or figure out why coldplug cannot detect the uninitialized device. (hotplug can)... -- EC On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 10:28 -0700, EC wrote: Hmmm, I had been using my PX-TV402U for about 3 weeks with no problems, and then started having very similar problems after a recent reboot. I don't know what I changed. (I have currently reverted to a PVR250, which works fine - though it's MPEG2). The gentoo-wiki (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_go7007) for the plextor units contains some helpful information, for non-gentoo systems too, I suspect. I really have no insight here, though, if we are having the same problem, some additional details. My symptoms are: gorecord runs fine. hotplug works (and initializes the device), coldplug does NOT work (though it used to. I can configure the unit (mythtv-setup/mythfrontend rcording profiles) with no problem. When I try using it, though, Live TV runs for a few seconds and dies (sometimes/often, the picture is black and white). I'll put the message below. MythTV stops responding to ALL input (keyboard, remote) while in Live TV mode. The channel changer script (I use an external tuner) never gets called (I have it log channel changes) - I believe that is why you get the wrong channel. Scheduled recording DO work (in color, even) - though with the above mentioned problem that the channel changer never gets called. I got sick of playing with it over the weekend, and threw a loaner PVR250 into the box, and set it up. It came up absolutely no problem (start to finish in about 10 minutes), and none of the afore mentioned problems exhibit. I connect the plextor again, and they are all back - though only if I configure the plextor for use. Having it present, with drivers installed is not problem, as long as MythTV isn't trying to use it. Dmesg/kernel logs look OK to me. I suspect something with the way/order that the plextor gets initialized, but haven't been able to track it down yet. It used to work. I did follow the advice on the go7007 gentoo-wiki. It worked for me originally (I did amend it). I suspect the timeout/running for only a few seconds is a result of MythTV not responding to anything while in Live TV. I'll be looking at it some more this evening. Any insight would be appreciated, and I'll post any results I get. I am running Gentoo/kernel 2.6.11-r8. I tried 2.6.11-r11, but it didn't help. My applicable kernel configuration entries (according to the plextor driver documentation) are: CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_KMOD=y CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y CONFIG_I2C=m CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV=y CONFIG_SOUND=y CONFIG_SND=y CONFIG_USB=m CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=m CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=y CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=y I read those from /proc/config.gz for the running kernel. The MythTV error message I get is: 2005-06-19 22:05:26.209 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.0.15:6543 (try 1 o f 5) 2005-06-19 22:05:26.216 Using protocol version 15 2005-06-19 22:05:26.258 Using protocol version 15 2005-06-19 22:05:27.341 Opening audio device '/dev/sound/dsp'. 2005-06-19 22:05:27.341 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/sound/dsp'. 2005-06-19 22:05:27.352 Using XV port 145 2005-06-19 22:05:27.549 Realtime priority would require SUID as root. 2005-06-19 22:05:27.577 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2005-06-19 22:05:27.743 Video timing method: SGI OpenGL 2005-06-19 22:05:47.580 ReadStringList timeout (quick). Remote encoder not responding. 2005-06-19 22:05:47.581 WriteStringList: Bad socket 2005-06-19 22:05:47.581 ReadStringList: Bad socket Remote encoder not responding. 2005-06-19 22:05:47.708 WriteStringList: Bad socket 2005-06-19 22:05:47.708 ReadStringList: Bad socket Remote encoder not responding. 2005-06-19 22:05:47.951 Changing
Re: [mythtv-users] Perplexed on plextors (ConvertX)
Hmmm, I had been using my PX-TV402U for about 3 weeks with no problems, and then started having very similar problems after a recent reboot. I don't know what I changed. (I have currently reverted to a PVR250, which works fine - though it's MPEG2). The gentoo-wiki (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_go7007) for the plextor units contains some helpful information, for non-gentoo systems too, I suspect. I really have no insight here, though, if we are having the same problem, some additional details. My symptoms are: gorecord runs fine. hotplug works (and initializes the device), coldplug does NOT work (though it used to. I can configure the unit (mythtv-setup/mythfrontend rcording profiles) with no problem. When I try using it, though, Live TV runs for a few seconds and dies (sometimes/often, the picture is black and white). I'll put the message below. MythTV stops responding to ALL input (keyboard, remote) while in Live TV mode. The channel changer script (I use an external tuner) never gets called (I have it log channel changes) - I believe that is why you get the wrong channel. Scheduled recording DO work (in color, even) - though with the above mentioned problem that the channel changer never gets called. I got sick of playing with it over the weekend, and threw a loaner PVR250 into the box, and set it up. It came up absolutely no problem (start to finish in about 10 minutes), and none of the afore mentioned problems exhibit. I connect the plextor again, and they are all back - though only if I configure the plextor for use. Having it present, with drivers installed is not problem, as long as MythTV isn't trying to use it. Dmesg/kernel logs look OK to me. I suspect something with the way/order that the plextor gets initialized, but haven't been able to track it down yet. It used to work. I did follow the advice on the go7007 gentoo-wiki. It worked for me originally (I did amend it). I suspect the timeout/running for only a few seconds is a result of MythTV not responding to anything while in Live TV. I'll be looking at it some more this evening. Any insight would be appreciated, and I'll post any results I get. I am running Gentoo/kernel 2.6.11-r8. I tried 2.6.11-r11, but it didn't help. My applicable kernel configuration entries (according to the plextor driver documentation) are: CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_KMOD=y CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y CONFIG_I2C=m CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV=y CONFIG_SOUND=y CONFIG_SND=y CONFIG_USB=m CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=m CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=y CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=y I read those from /proc/config.gz for the running kernel. The MythTV error message I get is: 2005-06-19 22:05:26.209 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.0.15:6543 (try 1 o f 5) 2005-06-19 22:05:26.216 Using protocol version 15 2005-06-19 22:05:26.258 Using protocol version 15 2005-06-19 22:05:27.341 Opening audio device '/dev/sound/dsp'. 2005-06-19 22:05:27.341 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/sound/dsp'. 2005-06-19 22:05:27.352 Using XV port 145 2005-06-19 22:05:27.549 Realtime priority would require SUID as root. 2005-06-19 22:05:27.577 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2005-06-19 22:05:27.743 Video timing method: SGI OpenGL 2005-06-19 22:05:47.580 ReadStringList timeout (quick). Remote encoder not responding. 2005-06-19 22:05:47.581 WriteStringList: Bad socket 2005-06-19 22:05:47.581 ReadStringList: Bad socket Remote encoder not responding. 2005-06-19 22:05:47.708 WriteStringList: Bad socket 2005-06-19 22:05:47.708 ReadStringList: Bad socket Remote encoder not responding. 2005-06-19 22:05:47.951 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None 2005-06-19 22:05:47.954 Changing from None to None If I run it as root, I get the same thing, except no SUID warning (of course). I'm currently running the backend as root. On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 18:19 -0700, Jason H wrote: Latest update: I told it t record Buffy on FX, it recorded Comedy Central - the last channel that gorecord was set to. But I did get 1/2 hr of Bubble Boy, so the recording part works. Now if I could only get MythTV to control the encoder... It looks like mythtv is not talking to the cards properly. Any ideas? --- Jason H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I somehow got rid of the driver loading error, its not in dmesg anymore. Troubles remain though, all of the time now MythTV Live is black. Running gorecord fixes it. But now I have a new problem, it aborts live tv after a few seconds, and says there was a problem (MythTV screen). I cannot find any explanation of the problem on console or in the mythlog table. I am using US-analog cable. I use ntsc-cable in gorecord, and I use us-cable in MythTV. I tried the other entry (us-cable-grs?) no difference. --- Juan Jesús García de Soria Lucena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello... 2005/6/18, Jason H [EMAIL PROTECTED]: And I still get an unable to load firmware message on bootup.
Re: [mythtv-users] Confused about mythtranscode
I used the information found in the changelog for 0.17. http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/0_2e17 - look for Job Queues. It tells how to use it, what variables can be passed, and how. There may be better locations, I don't know. I googled for job queue mythtv. Hope this helps. -- EC On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 09:05 -0700, Fedor Pikus wrote: On 6/7/05, Robert Tsai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And yes, the obvious interesting use for mythtranscode is to remove commercials (and possible disk space savings) for long-time archiving. But I think lots of people prefer to use nuvexport/ffmpeg via User Jobs for those kinds of applications. Is there a howto or any other documentation which describes how to set it up to do this? I found where to enter User Job commands, but there is no documentation on what these commands could be or how to reference the recording itself in the command. I also found checkboxes Run User Job after recording but no menu option to run User Jobs manually. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: NUV player for windows (MPEG4 transcoded)
Yes, that does repackage, and I wouldn't doubt that the result is a
correct AVI file. For some reason, not all of my windows programs like
it (windvd, mainly) - quite possibly buggy programs.
Oh well. I had to switch viewer programs (used windvd - never
enraptured with it, but picture quality was good) to some other player,
currently Nero's. It works quite well. Picture quality isn't quite the
same, but it works, and seems stable. - for when I'm using the windows
machine.
Thanks for the mencode reminder. I'm still getting the hang of it.
--
EC
Shouldn't you be able to just use:
mencoder ${FILENAME}.nuv -oac copy -ovc copy -o ${FILENAME}.avi
which copies the audio and video streams from the NuppelVideo container
into an AVI container without any transcoding.
Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] OT: NUV player for windows (MPEG4 transcoded)
Could you let me know what (if any) command line arguments you pass to mplayer? I am very new to it ( week). It seems to play nearly everything I throw at it except for the mpeg4 nuv files. I get: TiVo file format detected. MPEG: No audio stream found - no sound. MPEG: FATAL: EOF while searching for sequence header. Video: Cannot read properties. No stream found. This is on (or very similar) on both Linux and Windows. I am interesting in getting this to work too. -- EC On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 09:23 -0400, Jeff Simpson wrote: Can anyone suggest a good player for transcoded (MPEG4) NUV files in windows? I've tried a few and they don't seem to play the files, but mplayer can handle them just fine (then again, mplayer handles everything just fine). Thanks! - Jeff ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: NUV player for windows (MPEG4 transcoded)
Very nice. That does seem to work. I tried ffdshow instead of 3vix, and that works too - with any player that uses the dshow filters too. Also, it looks like vlc (http://www.videolan.org) will play the nuv files as well - I don't think it needs the 3vix/ffdshow codecs or the dsmythtv stuff. Ok, my Use flags, for some reason, lacked mythtv. When I added it and re-emerged mplayer, it works. Thanks, -- EC On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 11:28 -0400, Jeff Simpson wrote: On 5/20/05, EC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you let me know what (if any) command line arguments you pass to mplayer? I am very new to it ( week). It seems to play nearly everything I throw at it except for the mpeg4 nuv files. I get: in linux, I give it no options at all, it just plays it. Here are the settings I have included in gentoo, not sure if any of those are important, but it'll give you an idea of what things are included. Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre6-r4 -3dfx +3dnow -3dnowext +X -aalib +alsa (-altivec) -arts +avi -bidi -cdparanoia -debug -dga -directfb -divx4linux -doc -dts -dv -dvb +dvd -dvdread -edl +encode +esd +fbcon -ggi +gif +gtk -i8x0 +ipv6 -jack -joystick +jpeg -libcaca +lirc -live -lzo +mad -matroska -matrox -mmx -mmxext +mpeg +mythtv -nas +nls +nvidia +oggvorbis +opengl +oss +png +real -rtc +samba +sdl +sse -sse2 +svga -tga -theora +truetype +v4l +v4l2 -xanim -xinerama +xmms +xv +xvid -xvmc 0 kB As for the NUV in windows thing, I got it to work. I installed dsMyth and 3ivx: dsMyth: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dsmyth/ 3ivx: http://www.3ivx.com/download/ that seemed to work, nuv files that contain the transcoded mpeg4 recordings open right up in windows media player, now. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: NUV player for windows (MPEG4 transcoded)
On Windows, the dsMyth stuff will convert a .nuv to a .avi without trans-coding. The resulting .avi seems fine, though I've not tried it on a LARGE file. On linux, I'm still looking. Nuvexport is the closest I've found, but, as mentioned, it does seem to always want to trans-code. -- EC On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 13:53 -0400, Preston Crow wrote: On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 13:47, Jeff Simpson wrote: At one time, there was a difference between nuv files that were recorded in MPEG-4 from a capture card and nuv files that were transcoded from MPEG-2. Is that still true? Is it relevant? yes, both true and relevant! I have no problems playing the mpeg2 (direct from hauppauge) files, but I was having problems with the mpeg4 transcoded ones. Now they both work thanks to 3ivx and dsMyth I think you missed my point. There are two ways to generate mpeg4 files in Myth. You can generate them as the result of transcoding, or if you have a raw capture card (e.g., bt878), Myth can encode it directly to mpeg4. But what are 3ivx and dsMyth? I'm looking for a way to convert files trancoded into mpeg4 into standard .avi files without re-encoding them. --PC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Plextor PX-TV402U problem
I have an odd (apparently) PX-TV402U problem with my MythTV box(es). When I try to record or to watch Live TV, I get a green screen with static at the top 1/2 inch or so of the screen. I do get sound. This is the same with all inputs (composite, S-Video, Tuner). The test application (gorecord) that Plextor supplies runs properly - so I do not believe that it is a driver issue. I am running MythTV v 0.18.1, which has direct support for the device. I currently have 2 MythTV boxes - my main one (P4/3Ghz) - currently using a Hauppauge 250 - which works, and a test box (AthlonXP 2700+). It also works when I put in the Hauppauge 250. Neither work with the Plextor unit (same static/green screen). I returned the original PX-TV402U for another unit. I get the same result. So, 2 Plextor devices, 2 computers, same problem. If I put both units in a system, the 250 works while the Plextor gives me the static/green screen. Both computers are running Gentoo. I am currently using (gentoo-sources) kernel 2.6.11-r9, though I have tried 2.6.7-r3, and 2.6.11-r8 as well. I am using the 2005.0 layout. Has anyone any suggestions? In looking around in the Gentoo forums, and looking through this list, it seems that there are others using the PX-TV402U, but I seem to be the only one having problems... I have been running my (main) MythTV box for about 1 year, and really like it. I have been using Gentoo for about the same amount of time, and after an initial learning curve (including a hardware problem), find it very nice. Thanks -- Eric C. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Plextor PX-TV402U problem
Thank you very much! That was, indeed, the problem. I think I will add this go the gentoo wiki for the device. -- EC On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 11:15 -0400, Nathan Lutchansky wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:05:17AM -0700, EC wrote: I have an odd (apparently) PX-TV402U problem with my MythTV box(es). When I try to record or to watch Live TV, I get a green screen with static at the top 1/2 inch or so of the screen. I do get sound. Go into the setup menu, into recording profiles, and set some good values for the USB Mpeg-4 Encoder profile group. This should really be in an FAQ or something. -Nathan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
