Re: [mythtv-users] Back of the envelope calcs for minimum network speed
On 9/6/05, Brian McEntire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow! Thanks all for the great responses! I think I will bite the bullet and run CAT 5e/6. It will be more construction, but in then end, I will either have a reliable video stream or else I'll at least be able to rule out networking as a probable cause. Thanks for the tips! Regarding cable types - I wouldn't spend the extra money on Cat 6. Cat 5e should do ya nicely. -Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Back of the envelope calcs for minimum network speed
On 9/6/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snipRegarding cable types - I wouldn't spend the extra money on Cat 6. Cat 5eshould do ya nicely.-Greg/snipIf you're just buying a cable at WalMart or Best Buy, I would agree.However, if you're planning on running wire behind the walls, Cat6 inbulk is not that much more expensive than Cat5e. At one site, Cat6 is $150 for 1000ft, vs $90 for Cat5e.I tend to spend a little more onfuture-proofing when it's something going behind a wall or under thefloor.It's easier to spend more now than rip stuff out and replace in the future.Micah Good point, especially if that's the best price you can get. My local home center has 1000' boxes of Cat5e for $60. So I use that. If you are really concerned with upgradability, I'd recommend installing a flexible conduit/raceway system. Something like: http://www.carlon.com/Flexible%20Raceway/ResiGard_Intro.html Add a shop vac, a string and a fur-ball, and you can pull whatever the latest and greatest is in the future. -Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] System Setup: Dual Opterons, Firewire, Xvmc, Homebrew Lirc, 64-bit packages, Hdtv (DVI to HDMI), Panasonic PT-AE700U Projector, Optical Digital Audio Surround Output
On 8/24/05, Matt Mousseau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking to put together the system to end all systems. I believe I have spec'd out all the hardware, but I was hoping to get some feedback on everyone's experiences with each individual aspect of the system. First I will post the proposed specs, then the desired software / hardware behavior, then questions that I'm concerned with at the moment. If anyone thinks of something I may have missed, please let me know! Also, as I build this I will be writing a guide. I am very much new to linux, so it should be helpful to the n00bs in the community. System: Mobo: TYAN S2885ANRF (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813151120 ) Proc: AMD Opteron 246 SledgeHammer 400MHz FSB ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16819103412) Raid: HighPoint ROCKETRAID2220 PCI-X SATA Controller (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16816115022 ) Ram: Thinking around 1gb / chip HD's: 4x400gb SATA For my archive ; 2x250gb SATA working; 1x160gb PATA music ; 1x80gb PATA boot Firewire: Basic 4 Port controller (for hookup to my HDTV recievers) Nic's: Thinking the onboards should work, will add new onesif necessary Audio:Need a recomendation here, onboard is Coax SPDIF, was looking for an optical solution (longer run so i'm concerned about noise) Graphics:Recommendations are good here too, I want DVI to HDMI for my projector, as well as a second monitor running (for diagnostics, etc...) Hi Matt- As a noob who has the same mobo I'd love to see what you come up with. I haven't been able to get mine up and running. Of course, the bulk of my problems have been trying to get a PVR-250 running (which you don't have spec'd). The rest of the mobo stuff works great. I had the same plan as you (although not quite as extensive in the automation dept). I bought the same mobo and CPUs. I also bought a couple PVR-250's, only to find out that this mobo only has 1 slot compatible with the cards. I've been trying on and off since April to get this working. My wife and and I had our first child in March, so their hasn't been much free time for me to work on this. I tried the 64-bit OS route and found that I didn't gain much except a headache (be careful of some of the software repository issues regarding the 64-bit distros), so I reverted to the 32-bit versions. I've tried FC3 (jarod's guide), knoppmyth, gentoo, and suse 9.3. (And I'm about to try the new version of MythDora). I couldn't get any of them to work with either of my PVR-250s. It's been a couple months since I've last attempted an install, and I'm sure much has improved in the 64-bit area since then so good luck. I'm not a linux guru, which definitely accounts for some of the delay in getting this to work. My guess is that you will have better luck. Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Burned to DVD, plays 4:3 in DVD players, but 16:9 in MythTV, how do I get it letterboxed?
On 7/21/05, ffrr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used ffmpeg to prepare an mpeg file, source has 16:9 aspect ratio,into DVD format, then used dvdauthor to create a file structure as per amythtv howtoSnipthen I burned the file structure to a DVD using K3B in video DVD mode. The resulting disc plays in a standalone DVD player, but shows fullscreen on the normal TV that its plugged into, just showing a 4:3 aspectratio, and missing the left and right hand sides..In MythTV the DVD disc plays in 16:9 (with black bands above and below on my PC monitor).I want it to play this way on a normal TV and DVDplayer too, i.e. to play letterboxed like most commercial DVDs do onthat same equipment.Can anyone suggest what I need to change? My guess is that your standalone DVD player needs to be setup to show the video as 16:9 instead of 4:3. -Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: atprms.net unreachable?
Good question. The same thing just happened to me. I'm following Jarod's guide to install Myth on a PIII-500Mhz (not exactly a screaming machine). I do have a 7Mbps cable internet connection though. Maybe that's allowing the requests to complete to fast?! I really do appreciate all the effort that Axel puts into maintaining this. -Greg On 6/14/05, Justin Popa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I figured, but why would my single apt-get dist-upgrade cause it to think I am a leet hax0rz? It worked for me again about 5 minutes ago, but 1/2way through the dist-upgrade it went poof again :(On 6/14/05, Axel Thimm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The server blocks any IP that connects more than a dozen time at the same moment (DoS and download accellerators). On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 09:57:57PM -0400, Greg Depasse wrote: Anyone else having trouble getting to atrpms.net ? I'm not subscribed to their mailing list, and I can't get to the website. -Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: atprms.net unreachable? (ip blocking)
It happened to me again tonight. I'm just trying to perform a simple 'apt-get dist-upgrade' on a fresh install of FC3. Oh well. On 6/14/05, Justin Popa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was unblocked... but suprise here... I am blocked again. This time I got to 214 of 290ish though! On 6/14/05, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 14, 2005, at 9:18 PM, Axel Thimm wrote: Certainly has been cleared in the last 24h. What have you been doing? Is it yum again Just back from dinner and found my IP unblocked. This time I was just browsing with Safari on Mac OS X and found myself blocked again after about a dozen or so page visits. At this rate it's going to be along time to pull down the FC4 packages ;) My previous MythTV box was a gentoo build. I switched to FC4 because I was tired of rebuilding packages and heard lots of good things about the atrpms myth packages. Looks like I'll be rolling up my sleeves and rolling my own mythtv packages from source though. :) Half a dozen is vanishingly small if you compare to the total unique client accesses per day. In normal days it's between 10-20K. I haven't checked yet for the unique connects since the release of FC4, but I guess they will be much higher. You've gotta figure that most people don't report the problem. Or if they know it even is a problem they blame their local ISP or reboot their Windows box or do anything but expect the site they're trying to reach is blocking their IP. Having a few years experince of running high volume / high profile services it's even more rare when a clueful user reports something other than it's broke. On a related note, anyone know of atrpms.net mirrors that don't block IPs during normal usage? I would check the atprms.net web site but my IP is currently blocked ;) -- Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: BlueCame1 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] atprms.net unreachable?
Anyone else having trouble getting to atrpms.net? I'm not subscribed to their mailing list, and I can't get to the website. -Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -Uvh http://atrpms.net/dist/fc3/atrpms-kickstart/atrpms-kickstart-25-1.rhfc3.at.i386.rpm Retrieving http://atrpms.net/dist/fc3/atrpms-kickstart/atrpms-kickstart-25-1.rhfc3.at.i386.rpm error: skipping http://atrpms.net/dist/fc3/atrpms-kickstart/atrpms-kickstart-25-1.rhfc3.at.i386.rpm - transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# traceroute atrpms.net traceroute to atrpms.net (160.45.32.86), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 fw.depasse.home (172.16.1.1) 0.672 ms 0.474 ms 0.562 ms 2 68-232-8-1-gate.lndnnh.adelphia.net (68.232.8.1) 29.286 ms 11.403 ms 15.394 ms 3 68-232-8-1-gate.lndnnh.adelphia.net (68.232.8.1) 13.586 ms nh-londonderry-c4-1d-68.170.144.229.gate.lndnnh.adelphia.net (68.170.144.229) 11.496 ms 9.095 ms 4 24.48.204.201 (24.48.204.201) 20.571 ms 15.155 ms 20.205 ms 5 unk-426d0e99.adelphiacom.net (66.109.14.153) 18.484 ms 15.520 ms 28.764 ms 6 p1-00-00-00.a0.cdp00.adelphiacom.net (66.109.1.46) 15.774 ms 35.785 ms 17.428 ms 7 p3-02-00-00.r0.nyc90.adelphiacom.net (66.109.1.21) 53.146 ms 49.308 ms 46.779 ms 8 g1-00-00-00.p0.nyc90.adelphiacom.net (66.109.1.14) 67.318 ms 49.393 ms 56.527 ms 9 198.32.118.40 (198.32.118.40) 50.294 ms 53.318 ms 56.082 ms 10 so-7-0-0-dcr1.was.cw.net (195.2.3.1) 58.595 ms 52.985 ms 53.179 ms 11 so-0-0-0-dcr1.par.cw.net (195.2.10.118) 135.522 ms 136.333 ms 139.827 ms 12 so-0-0-0-dcr1.fra.cw.net (195.2.10.141) 146.853 ms 155.005 ms 149.322 ms 13 so-4-0-0-bcr1.fra.cw.net (195.2.10.37) 152.337 ms 149.889 ms 146.948 ms 14 so-0-0-0-zpr2.dcx.cw.net (166.63.195.190) 149.561 ms 151.010 ms 149.235 ms 15 ge-1-0-0-r2-DCX.de.cw.net (62.208.241.6) 147.734 ms ge-1-2-0-r2-DCX.de.cw.net (62.208.240.5) 148.646 ms ge-1-0-0-r2-DCX.de.cw.net (62.208.241.6) 145.319 ms 16 dfn-gw-DCX.de.cw.net (62.208.252.190) 154.453 ms 148.512 ms 147.103 ms 17 cr-berlin1-po1-0.g-win.dfn.de (188.1.18.53) 130.409 ms 136.433 ms 126.974 ms 18 ar-berlin1-ge6-1.g-win.dfn.de (188.1.20.34) 159.781 ms 151.578 ms 151.461 ms 19 kr-fu-berlin.g-win.dfn.de (188.1.33.45) 128.612 ms 136.199 ms 127.340 ms 20 physik.spine.fu-berlin.de (130.133.98.32) 152.767 ms 158.322 ms 152.717 ms 21 * * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: [OT] *Real* High-Def TV!
On 5/24/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know what the really annoying thing is.Since Joe Public doesn'tknow what HDCP stands for--and typically guesses it's some HighDefinition thing--the marketing guys actually have people believing they're getting a good thing when the TV specs say HDCP...Mike When I see HDCP, I think handicap. Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Optimizing MythTV for AMD64
On 4/3/05, Kyle Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted the following on my homepage this morning: I bought a dual Opteron 244 back in November of 2003 because I wanted a really, really fast desktop machine. Around the same time, I started playing with MythTV, and it wasn't long after that I got a pcHDTV HD-2000 card and began watching high-definition programming. Unfortunately, despite the Opteron's superior I/O bus design and incredibly speedy processing, it had more trouble decoding HDTV than did a much cheaper non-HT uniproc Pentium 4. It has taken quite some time for MythTV to get to the point where it can reasonably be used with this configuration. Recently, a version of ffmpeg that appears to be optimized for AMD64 has been imported into the Myth CVS repository: to get this, make sure to uncheck the uselibmpeg option in Setup/TV Settings/Playback. However, this alone isn't sufficient. SNIP If you have success with this configuration, I'd love to hear about it. If you have problems and are able to determine what I've left out, let me know so I can add the appropriate config elements. Cheers, Kyle I have this same MB/CPU combo, but I am using a 5200 graphics card and a PVR-250. I don't have it working yet (the 250 is eluding me). Do you have any words of wisdom or has anything changed in the past couple weeks since you originally posted this? I was going to try .18, have you tried it yet? Thanks, Greg___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] apt-get install ivtv dependency issue w/ latest kernel FC2
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:08:17 -0800, Big Wave Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity... why are you avoiding FC3? Dave On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:57:54 -0700, Mike McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh forgot one thing... this is a PVR-250. Mike McLaughlin wrote: I am currently installing FC2 and MythTV according to Jarod's HOW-TO guide. I have reached a point after installing the 2.6.10-1.770_FC2 kernel, Nvidia kmdl and now trying to install ivtv. I have ran the following commands with no problems: #apt-get install ivtv-firmware #apt-get install ivtv-kmdl-2.6.10-1.770_FC2 When I go to run this command I get the following dependency error: # apt-get install ivtv Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: ivtv: Depends: ivtv-kmdl-1:0.2.0-66_rc3i.rhfc2.at but it is not installable E: Broken packages Can anyone shed some light on how to fix this so I can get it to install ivtv? Thanks I'm having this same exact problem on an FC3 install. :( -Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] apt-get install ivtv dependency issue w/ latest kernel FC2
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:02:24 -0500, Greg Depasse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:08:17 -0800, Big Wave Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity... why are you avoiding FC3? Dave On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:57:54 -0700, Mike McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh forgot one thing... this is a PVR-250. Mike McLaughlin wrote: I am currently installing FC2 and MythTV according to Jarod's HOW-TO guide. I have reached a point after installing the 2.6.10-1.770_FC2 kernel, Nvidia kmdl and now trying to install ivtv. I have ran the following commands with no problems: #apt-get install ivtv-firmware #apt-get install ivtv-kmdl-2.6.10-1.770_FC2 The following packages have unmet dependencies: ivtv: Depends: ivtv-kmdl-1:0.2.0-66_rc3i.rhfc2.at but it is not installable E: Broken packages Can anyone shed some light on how to fix this so I can get it to install ivtv? Thanks I'm having this same exact problem on an FC3 install. :( -Greg If it matters, I'm installing the i386 version of FC3 on a dual AMD Opteron 64. -Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Hang on boot
Hi folks, I'm wondering if anyone is using a Tyan K8W S2885 motherboard with a PVR-250? I searched Gossamer and the pvrhw.goldfish.org sites. Both came up empty. I can't get the card and mb working together. I've got the following: Tyan Thunder K8W S2885 (bios is up to date) Dual AMD64 Opteron 248 Gigabyte FX5200 Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250 - MODEL 980 (I know it's overkill for myth, but I have plans to add other services to it - namely vmware) My first attempt at installing myth was with a simpler distro - KnoppMyth R5A10 - just to get things working. The card was detected (according to a quick message during boot), and then I'm able to see a line that says: pcilib: Can't open sys/bus/pci/devices. I've googled this and I'm not sure if it's related to my problem. It seems that that message has to do with udev (which I'm not familiar with). A couple scrolling screens later during boot, the system hangs. Here's a link to the screenshot: http://photos5.flickr.com/7117745_bdffe0c44b_o.jpg If I remove the PVR-250 boot continues, but that destroys the whole idea. I would have tried a different PCI slot (everything else is unused), but the PVR-250 can't fit in any of the other slots (the slots are keyed differently). I'd appreciate any insight that folks have, especially if anyone got a similar configuration running. Thanks, Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] RE: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 26, Issue 42
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 21:49:47 -0800, Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the Tivo, which is what I used before mythtv, you had the nice ability to pause the live show (without turning it into a recording) and watch a bit of something else just to build your buffer. Hi- Long time lurker, nearly a myth owner (and soon to be an ex-owner of tivo). Brad, can you clarify the above statement? Does it mean that you can't pause live TV? Or does it mean that you can't pause live TV and watch a recorded show at the same time? Thanks, Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] (Almost) A small victory for consumers in the US
As reported in engadget (http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000683034752/): The Hollywood studios don't much like it at all, but Congress is finally going to bat for the right of consumers to enjoy movies they way they want to. It just happens to be in protection of censorware programs like ClearPlay that automatically edit out anything that could conceivably make a movie family unfriendly. Anyway, to protect your right to remove the topless scene from Titanic, the House is about to pass the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005, a bill which the Senate already approved last month and is expected to easily score a presidential signature. The bill would make it explicitly clear that it is not a violation of copyright law to alter somebody's work without permission, as long as it's for private use only and these altered copies of the work are not redistributed in anyway. We actually sort of agree with this onepeople should be allowed to do what they want with the DVDs they buy (just like it's perfectly legal for someone to black out all the naughty parts of books)but hopefully just to piss off Congress someone'll figure out a way to add a little extra sex, violence, and profanity to movies. I would think that this would be welcome legislation to us especially in the area of comm'l skip. I just wonder if it applies. -Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Announcing TVWish Beta -- A super wishlist for Myth
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 13:36:21 -0800, Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are many types of suggestion engines I have been thinking about. Many people are familiar with Tivo's, which takes the log of what you have recorded, or given thumbs up/down to, and remembers things like titles, genres, actors and such. It then scans all new programming and gives weights to how closely they match what it remembers and generates suggestions from the best weights. One could code this for myth without any external data (though right now myth I believe discards much of this information once a show has past, or so I gather from looking at the tables that appear to contain it.) If you want to amalgamate data from other users, I am not sure how to efficiently do that with a server running on your own machine. You could have people just upload anonymized data to an open server which simply gathers the raw data, and then the user's own machine sucks it down and analyses it to generate suggestions. That seems to involve a lot of data flow, or am I missing your goal. I saw this white paper written by a couple of Tivo engineers on how their collaborative recommendation system works. It's pretty interesting. Perhaps it could provide some benefit here. Original Word Doc: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~pazzani/Personalization/ali-kdd04.doc Google HTML cache: http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:EiwJD7vqU5gJ:www.ics.uci.edu/~pazzani/Personalization/ali-kdd04.doc%20%22determined%20by%20which%20channels%20are%20received%20at%20that%20TiVo%22hl=en -Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] fastest Myth start
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 21:48:18 +, Ivor Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 18 Jan 2005 21:30, David George wrote: On 1/18/2005 12:59 PM, mail.com wrote: Interested to know how fast you guys can get your machines to boot from cold As a starter for 10 i'm currently at 2mins from cold to the myth menu To identify the bottlenecks, here's a cool utility to measure and graph the processes that run during boot: http://www.bootchart.org/ -Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
