Re: [mythtv-users] Zap2It DataDirect programming questions

[Greg Mitchell]

Steve Adeff wrote:
Does the Zap2It DataDirect service contain information about all episodes of 
all shows such that I could search it for information about say Show X Season 
Y Episode Z, regardless if the show is set to air in the next two weeks?


I don't believe so.  There are websites out there that provide that 
information though - tv.com, epguides.com, episodelist.com all provide 
that sort of info.


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Re: [mythtv-users] Long term stability?

[Greg Mitchell]

Does anyone have a backend that runs for a week or more under reasonably
heavy use?  By run, I mean with no manual intervention or cron jobs
resetting things/etc.  I still have to occasionally do
a /etc/init.d/mythbackend restart although I'm not quite sure why...


My uptime was around 81 days until I had to reboot because something 
went wrong with ivtv and it wasn't recording anymore.



If people do, perhaps a few could give their

1) PVR hardware


1 PVR 250


2) Motherboard chipset


VIA K8T800 Pro + VT8237R - AMD64 3200+


3) Kernel version


2.6.9r14


4) IVTV version.


0.3.6f


5) Firmware version?


22037 (?)


6) System Memory


1Gb PC3200

I'm running Gentoo AMD64 with Myth 0.18.1-r2

It's been remarkably stable for me - I think the problem that happened 
this weekend was the first backend trouble I've had since I started 
running Myth back in March or so.


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Re: [mythtv-users] XBox IR remote & lirc?

[Greg Mitchell]

The LIRC support requires a 2.6-series kernel (so using something
Xebian-based I think probably doesn't work), there are other drivers, look
around on http://www.xbox-linux.org, for kernel 2.4.


All I know is that the myth-xbox scripts at http://bit.blkbk.com/ which 
are based on Xebian fully supports the DVD remote dongle - even comes 
with the remote definition file and .lircrc.


It uses something called xir - don't know anything about it other than 
the fact that I have been controlling my xbox mythfrontend with a 
universal RCA remote since I got it set up.


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Re: [mythtv-users] Transcoding DVD that myth couldn't rip

[Greg Mitchell]

Ryan Steffes wrote:
If the program you used makes a clean dvd copy, you'll need to cat the 
vob files together before you can use my script.  Let me know if it's 
helpful.


Looks like exactly what I needed - I had to fix it up a bit - there were 
missing ;'s in the argument parsing case (no biggie, just wouldn't let 
me force a language)


I spent a lot of time staring blankly at the mencoder man page before I 
broke down and asked for help ;)


Thanks!

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Re: [mythtv-users] Dealing with funny sources

[Greg Mitchell]

Donavan Stanley wrote:

On 8/14/05, Greg Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


I know some of you are in the situation where some channels are
available via firewire, but others are not.  Have you been defining two
Zap2It accounts to handle this?



You don't need multiple accounts just multiple lineups.


But the multiple lineups would be of the same source with different 
channels selected - Zap2It won't let me do that.


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[mythtv-users] Dealing with funny sources

[Greg Mitchell]

Hi,

I'm thinking of moving from Bell ExpressVu to Shaw cable up here in 
Canada.  I've read reports that Shaw has the firewire ports enabled on 
their HD receivers, but mixed reports as to what's available via firewire.


I know some of you are in the situation where some channels are 
available via firewire, but others are not.  Have you been defining two 
Zap2It accounts to handle this?


Also, I'm running an AMD64 3200+ machine, but I haven't been able to get 
xvmc working.  Will I be able to play HD back on this machine?


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Re: [mythtv-users] Going HDTV! Assistance REALLY appreciated please

[Greg Mitchell]

HDTV source:  Bell expressview in Canada with DVI/component out



My questions are these:
What HDTV card is best and where to get it?  How about the HD card from 
http://www.pchdtv.com/ ( pcHDTV™ HD-3000 ) will this work OK?  Is there 
an easier choice?


I'll save you a lot of trouble - the pcHDTV3000 won't capture 
component/DVI out.  With expressvu you can't use Myth and High def.


Your best option is going to be to go with a cable box that has firewire 
out.  I don't have any advice on the rest of your questions though - I 
haven't got a high def set up just yet myself.


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Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on xbox

[Greg Mitchell]

then there is something about the different bois's needed. the guy
that i talked to down at the local swap meet here in AUS said that you
need a special bois 'cromwell' i think. and that you can load this
into the aladin.


You don't /need/ cromwell, and in fact if you get a new xbox, chances 
are good that cromwell won't work for you.


I'll tell you about my setup, so you know what's possible.

I got my box hard-modded by a local guy with a so-called "cheap-mod" 
(DuoX2) dunno why it's called a cheapmod, since it seems to do 
everything I'd want...


There are two buttons on a stock Xbox - power and eject.  The way the 
installer hooked it up (and maybe this is default, I dunno) pushing the 
eject button to power up starts the XBox with the modchip disabled. 
Powering on with the power button starts the box with the 
modchip/launches a non-ms dashboard.


From there, I booted up a Xebian cd, and followed the install at 
http://bit.blkbk.com/ - pretty simple.  The XBox remote dongle worked 
"out of the box" and everything is pretty smooth - aside from the 
occasional crash :(


Anyway, for more details, you can read the full saga at: 
http://www.mythtv-xbox.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=6


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Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to Initialize Video

[Greg Mitchell]

Anyway, mythfrontend runs fine, and I even get a preview video when I
go to "Watch Recordings" but when I pick a recording, I get an "Unable
to Initialize Video" message, and the log shows:


If you go to Setup...TV Settings...Playback and turn off "Use XvMC
Hardware Decoding" (or similar XvMC options) does it help?


That seems to have fixed it.  Thanks!

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[mythtv-users] Unable to Initialize Video

[Greg Mitchell]

Here's my environment:

AMD64/GeForce FX 5200 based gentoo backend server
XBox frontend

Everything is running 0.18.1, and working fine.

I want to run mythfrontend on the AMD64 box as well, but have no 
interest in TV out (it's going to be hooked up to a projector if I ever 
get it working)


Anyway, mythfrontend runs fine, and I even get a preview video when I go 
to "Watch Recordings" but when I pick a recording, I get an "Unable to 
Initialize Video" message, and the log shows:

<*SNIP*>
2005-06-07 21:01:08.925 Broadcasting free space avail
2005-06-07 21:01:08.929 Broadcasting free space avail
2005-06-07 21:01:08.931 Killing AudioOutputDSP
2005-06-07 21:01:08.934 OutputAudioLoop: Stop Event
2005-06-07 21:01:08.934 kickoffOutputAudioLoop exiting
2005-06-07 21:01:08.934 Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded
2005-06-07 21:01:08.934 Decoder not alive, and trying to play..
2005-06-07 21:01:08.937 Changing from None to None
<*SNIP*>

and I can't watch anything.

I just emerged 0.18.1 tonight, hoping that explicitly stating the "X 
-directfb" use flags might have an impact, but it doesn't seem to have 
helped.


Any thoughts on how I can get this going?  Any further information I can 
supply to help diagnose what's wrong?


Thanks in advance,

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Re: [mythtv-users] How do I removed existing mysql database and start over?

[Greg Mitchell]

if it was a problem bindging to a port, you wouldn't need mysql root
access, only root access to the machine itself ... you might be able to
run the following to see if it is setup to only bind locally:

grep 'skip-networking' /etc/rc.*

there are probably other ways to make it only bind locally, but the
--skip-networking option is the one i use ... to make it only bind
locally, you would have had to edit files to make it happen, so if you
never did that, it's probably not a binding issue :)


I think Mark is using Gentoo, and at least in my Gentoo install, the 
skip-networking setting was on by default in /etc/mysql/my.cnf (I have 
that line commented out, as well as the bind-address=127.0.0.1 line from 
the default)


Could that be at the root of at least some of the problems?

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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV - Xbox - Xebian - black screen - bad

[Greg Mitchell]

   Question - we don't need any screensaver function on this Myth
frontend. We will just turn the TV off. What feature of either MythTV
or X is causing the screen to go black and how do I turn this off so
that the screen is always on when people turn on the TV?


It's DPMS - you can disable it by commenting out the DPMS line in 
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4


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Re: [mythtv-users] Remain in MPEG-2 but remove commercials?

[Greg Mitchell]

I probably have a somewhat different issue to deal with than most. My
mother just had a stroke and is laid up in bed recovering. I went to
her place this last week and set up a Myth backend on their PC using a
PVR-150 and then built an XBox based frontend. She's using it but is
limited to the XBox remote control. I showed her how to use the
forward arrow to skip forward but it seems she always overruns the
start of the next section of her shows and is having a hard time
backing up to where she wants to be.


The default xbox remote definition doesn't have keys mapped to the 
commercial skip buttons - I mapped the "Skip+" and "Skip-" buttons to be 
 "Z" and "Q" respectively.  While I don't trust the commercial skip 
enough to set it to autoskip, pressing Skip+ (next track) when the 
commercials come up jumps to the end of the break 99% of the time (the 
other 1% it's 15-30 seconds from the end of the break)


Commercial skipping is good on the shows that I record, but it 
occasionally will flag a false break - using the Z button makes it so 
that I have to identify breaks, but I don't have to identify how long 
they are.


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Re: [mythtv-users] Feature request: backwards compatability

[Greg Mitchell]

I too would like this feature - I have 3 Xbox frontends running 
XboxMyth, and having to do them all on the same day is somewhat of a 
pain...


Out of curiosity, why do it three times?  You should be able to do it 
once, then copy over the "rootfs" file and simply change the hostname, 
shouldn't you?


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Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie: A few questions

[Greg Mitchell]

I can give you a couple of answers...Surely others can fill in the 
blanks. :)

3) There seem to be lots of recording options but one that I really miss 
from TiVo is the wishlist option.  Yes, I can use regular expressions to 
*snip*
description.  Can this be done?
Yes.  You can do this from "Manage" -> "Schedule Recordings" -> "Search 
Words" -> "Advanced"

5) I read somewhere that MythTV should be smart about DPMS stuff.  It 
would be nice if it was at a menu if it could go into powersafe mode 
(but obviously I don't want it doing that while it is playing).  Is 
there a way to do this?
On my Xbox install, it went to screenblanker when in menus, but playback 
automatically suspended DPMS/reenabled when you go back to menus.  Dunno 
if this is the true default, but it was the default on the xbox.

7) I've created a couple of recording groups.  But I haven't been able 
to find a way to organize recorded programs by these groups under "Watch 
Recordings".
In the Watch Recordings page, hit the menu button (M I think - I just 
hit a button on my remote) it will pull up a menu from which you can 
choose "Show group list as recording groups"

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Re: [mythtv-users] How does MythTV w/Xbox client on XBMC compare toMCE 2005 ?

[Greg Mitchell]

[RANT] An alternative would be to use a hacked BIOS (EvolutionX or
others) but I don't really like that idea so I've pretty much given up
on making this XBox useful in the short term. Hacked BIOS's are great
for kids playing games but it's my opinion, and only my opinion, that
adults shouldn't go down that path. I *think* you could make a new
XBox work with EvoX but I decided not to spend my time on it and am
now looking into some sort of mini/micro-ATX platform as a quiet
frontend only machine.[/RANT]
I understand that your views on IP rights differ from mine, but they're 
not so far apart as you might think.  My view is that using a hacked 
bios isn't wrong because I have the right to use the original bios that 
was hacked in the first place (know what I mean?)  Yes, the people who 
hacked it broke the DMCA or whatever law to modify the thing, but 
honestly, I paid for the hardware, I paid for the bios, why can't I use 
a modified version of that bios.  I think that is only fair.

That's not to say that I support a lot of the things that hacked bioses 
are used for - game piracy and the like.  Those things are wrong wrong 
wrong.  I don't use my xbox for that, even though it's technically able 
with the bios that's installed.  I suspect there are a lot of people out 
there in the same boat as me, though we're clearly in the minority on 
the "xbox-scene"

It would be great to be able to use cromwell, and avoid all the 
potential pitfalls, but as you know, that's not an option for those of 
us with 1.6 boxen.

I don't view using my hardware to do the legal things I want it to do as 
illegal, immoral or childish.

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Re: [mythtv-users] xbox-mythtv v.18 / remote woes

[Greg Mitchell]

I've got a few issues.  First off, after following the installation
instructions, it seems there are some conflicts that prevented 
What version of the scripts did you install from?  I used 0.45 beta, and 
everything "just worked" for me.  You might want to try clicking that ok 
button with the xbox controller.

FWIW, I did the installs via ssh using Xebian 1.12.
Greg
P.S. There's a dedicated myth-xbox forum at http://www.mythtv-xbox.org/
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Re: [mythtv-users] First frontend only machine

[Greg Mitchell]

OK, that's a bit better, but I suppose I'd really like it to be
running something other than ext2 if possible. Was nothing else
supported in the Xebian kernel? That would be unfortunate. If ext3 is
supported then you could give it a journal now, right? (Need to check
that but I think you can turn the journal on and off when you want.)
I don't know if the kernel supports other filesystems - it didn't give 
me a choice of filesystem when I did the install.  I don't see any 
reference to filesystem choice on the xbox-linux site either.  It does 
seem odd, now that you mention it.  Gentoox appears to support a full 
range, so there's no real reason why Xebian can't too.

The install is done by script though, so in theory it wouldn't be too 
hard to change those few lines involving building the loopback file and 
mounting it to use ext3.  I'm not really comfortable enough with 
loopback filesystems to tackle that on my own though without doing some 
reading first.  I'm a little hindered by the fact that I don't have a 
copy of the script laying around either...

The nice thing with doing multiple installs though is that once you've 
got an image built, you should be able to just copy over the files and 
touch those config files involving network identity to give the machines 
unique hostnames and IPs.

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Re: [mythtv-users] First frontend only machine

[Greg Mitchell]

This issue has come up a couple of times so I need to ask about it.
What's so bad about the power getting pulled on an XBox frontend
machine? 
It was probably me that mentioned it the other time too :)  I don't 
think it's inherently any worse than pulling the plug on any linux pc, 
but it's running Ext2, so if the filesystem gets corrupted, it can screw 
up the whole system.

Now, if you install to the gamesave partition, you can just backup the 
"rootfs" file and copy it back across in case something goes sour. 
Should be able to do that without having to make a trip down.

In all honesty, that's the first time I've ever had a linux system that 
wouldn't boot up because of a failed fsck after a power cycle, so I 
don't know if it's just a fluke or what.  It did only happen once, and 
my son has hit the power button at least a dozen times without causing 
it since.

If you install a file manager on the frontend, and just leave two copies 
of rootfs on the box, you should be able to do a system restore within 
seconds...Not something I looked into, because it's a pretty quick thing 
to do over the LAN, and I just backed up rootfs to my backend machine.

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Re: [mythtv-users] First frontend only machine

[Greg Mitchell]

Probably won't be anything beyond 1.6, right? With the next XBox due
to get talked about next month they probably won't continue to do much
with the older design.
The 1.6b is what I wound up with - I don't know what the difference is, 
but when my softmod failed, I assumed that's what the problem was. 
There is a newer softmod than the one that I used though, so it's 
possible that 1.6b's are softmoddable.

I went to Fry's today but they didn't have any XBoxs in stock!
I had to get the MechWarrior 2 bundle to get an XBox.  Kinda crazy, 
you'd think they'd have supply figured out by now.

OK, I wanted to use Gentoo but I'll check Xebian out. Are you a Debian
user in real life or did Xebian offer something specific in terms of
doing the install? (Like everything from an XBox controller, etc?)
I use Gentoo on my backend server, so it seemed like a logical choice. 
I even went so far as to have Gentoox installed and started the "magic" 
step which didn't go so well.

Reading up on it, d 24 hour compile to get MythTV installed didn't 
appeal to me though (especially since people reported problems getting 
it to go,) and a 30 minute install with Xebian (from inserting the 
install disc to mythfrontend) is tough to beat.

I created a 1.5Gb rootfs on the gamesave partition which was easy to 
back up for when my 2 year old decides to turn off the xbox and the 
filesystem gets screwed up.  (Only happened once so far ;)  Note that 
this means that I didn't have to upgrade the hard drive or anything, and 
the XBox is fully functional as an XBox still.

If you want the full details of what I did, they're available at:
http://www.mythtv-xbox.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=6
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Re: [mythtv-users] First frontend only machine

[Greg Mitchell]

Kanetse - Is it a true statement that if I go the direction of a
software mod to start that nothing is lost other than time if it
doesn't meet my needs? If I can back out the software mods later then
I have a new XBox again and could add a hardware mod at that point?
Depending on how wrong things go...When I attempted my first soft-mod, 
using the hard drive hotswap technique and UDE2, it didn't work, so I 
tried to restore the backup that supposedly gets created as the first 
step.  Wel.Let's just say I used the wrong restore command, and 
the first step formatted my hard drive (blowing away my backup...whoops.)

I think it would have been recoverable with a lot of work, and I could 
have tried again, but instead I just got a modchip installed by a local 
guy, and he kindly also restored my hard drive to a usable state.

So, with a failed softmod you should be able to install a modchip and 
recover from some pretty serious booboos.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Myth Firewire Capture on Gentoo

[Greg Mitchell]

Devan Lippman wrote:
I'm not a gentoo guy (I run from source) but simply installing the
firewire drivers allowed configure to detect the required libraries
and then enable firewire in myth.  I think the ones needed were
libavc1394-0.5.0, libraw1394-1.2.0, libiec61883, and of course the
linux kernel drivers for 1394.
IIRC from when I initially installed my backend (0.17,) libiec61883 was 
the stumbling block.  The compilation failed when I had ieee1394 in my 
use flags.  I took it out of my default use flags, since I didn't really 
need it there.

Subsequently that flag was removed from the ebuild.  I see that it's 
back in the 0.18 ebuild though, so maybe there's an ebuild for 
libiec61883 and I just don't see it.

As always, ymmv :)
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[mythtv-users] 1.6b XBox (Xebian Myth0.17) won't playback recordings

[Greg Mitchell]

After seeing some people have success with using the 1.6 XBoxes as 
frontends, I took the plunge and picked one up.

After a disasterous attempted soft-mod (note to self, 3AM is not the 
correct time to be answering questions such as "do you want to format 
your hard drive?") I got a chip installed, and everything seems to be 
going ok.

The xebian install disc hung right after boot with a little bit of text 
and a single green pixel.  Being a Gentoo bigot, I tried Gentoox, but 
compiling stuff on the xbox was just to painful for me to deal with. 
Anyway, after seeing a tip about using xromwell.xbe to launch the Xebian 
disc, I managed to get Xebian installed.

I added the sarge/myth stuff to the sources file, and did an
apt-get update
apt-get install mythtv-frontend.
Everything went well, I had to set the window sizes manually in the 
mythfrontend (I used something like 590x435 with 25 offsets and 5% 
overscan) and with a little monkeying I got the remote working too.

Only problem is that I can't view recordings.  When I go to the screen 
with a live preview, it goest to a black screen, then the console, then 
the grey default X screen, then boots me back to the recordings screen. 
 If I shut off live previews, I can then pick a recording and start it, 
which results in the same sequence of black screen, console, grey 
screen, back to previous screen.

The console has a message like "agpgart: Unsupported NVidia chipset 
(device id: ), you might want to try agp_try_unsupported=1"   Google 
didn't have any advice :/

Any suggestions on what I can do to fix this?  Or does 1.6b just not 
work, and I misread some other posters?

For the time being, I'm using the XBMC MythTV scripts to watch stuff, 
but it's not as nice as using a real full frontend...

Thanks in advance.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MythViewer 0.01 available

[Greg Mitchell]

> Are you sure that's the error msg?  There isn't any reference
> to a module named "wxc" in my program nor can I find that in
> anything else on my system.

Here's the exact output :/

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./mv.py", line 7, in ?
import sys,wx,MySQLdb,os,popen2,threading,types,datetime
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/wx/__init__.py", line 45, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/wxPython/__init__.py", line 20, in ?
ImportError: No module named wxc

fwiw, if I run the python interpreter and type "import wx" I get essentially
the same thing (with the obvious exception of the top 2 lines

Something borked in my install of wxPython I guess.  I will continue to
pursue it, but it'll have to wait a bit until I can spend some serious time
figuring out what I've done wrong.


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Re: [mythtv-users] MythViewer 0.01 available

[Greg Mitchell]

Ok, I stand corrected - 2.5.3.1 is in portage.  I had to do some unmasking
to get it to go - specifically wxGTK-2.5.3 which has some issues apparently.

Even after all that though, when I try to run mv.py, I get an "ImportError:
No module named wxc" so something isn't installed right.

Unfortunately I don't have time to look into it right now, so I'll have to
drop it for a few days :(


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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MythViewer 0.01 available

[Greg Mitchell]

> That didn't work, which isn't a good sign.  I checked portage though,
> and it appears that I emerged 2.4.2.4 - Apparently 2.5.3.1 is masked -
> I'll unmask and emerge it to see what happens.

Another quick update - it appears that 2.5.3.1 isn't in portage - kind of
strange.  I'll do a manual install, and get back to you one more time.

Greg


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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MythViewer 0.01 available

[Greg Mitchell]

> At a shell prompt, enter the command "python" to start the
> Python interpreter.  The ">>>" is the python prompt.  At that
> prompt, type the two following commands:

That didn't work, which isn't a good sign.  I checked portage though, and it
appears that I emerged 2.4.2.4 - Apparently 2.5.3.1 is masked - I'll unmask
and emerge it to see what happens.

Thanks for the quick response.

Greg


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Re: [mythtv-users] MythViewer 0.01 available

[Greg Mitchell]

> MythViewer is a little program [about 300 lines of Python] that
> I wrote to browse/view/delete MythTV programs.  I've made it
> available at .

Hi Grant,

That program looks great, but I can't get it to run.  I'm running Gentoo on
an AMD64 platform - first issue was lack of wx (I emerged wxpython) then
lack of MySQLdb (I emerged mysql-python) which was no big deal

Now that I supposedly have all the python libraries installed, I get the
following error when I run ./mv.py -v:
MythViewer version 0.01
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./mv.py", line 397, in ?
app = MyApp(False)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/wxPython/wx.py", line 1951, in
  __init___wxStart(self.OnInit)
  File "./mv.py", line 392, in OnInit
frame = MyFrame(None,'MythViewer')
  File "./mv.py", line 222, in __init__
self.Bind(wx.EVT_TREE_SEL_CHANGED, self.onSelChanged, self.tree)
AttributeError: MyFrame instance has no attribute 'Bind'


I'm not a Python programmer, so I have no idea what's wrong, but I thought
I'd report it to you, in hopes that it's something simple.

Thanks,

Greg


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Re: [mythtv-users] Gentoo AMD64 2.6.10 and ivtv

[Greg Mitchell]

1) If you gentoo on x86_64, how did you get ivtv running?
I compiled 0.3 from source, so didn't use the ebuild.  I'm sure that at 
some point that will come back to bite me in the ass, but I'll deal with 
it then :)

2) Is anyone familiar with this error and/or the fix?
This is a fairly simple one I think - you have to enable the appropriate 
I2C support in your kernel config:

Device Drivers -->
  I2C support -->
I2C support
  I2C Device Support (Dunno if you need this, but I have it)
 I2C Algorithms -->
   I2C bit-banging interfaces
Should do the trick.
Let me know if you have troubles with it.
Greg
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Re: [mythtv-users] Cable Modem == Free Basic Cable.

[Greg Mitchell]

Someone told me that you can take the line from your cable modem and 
stick it in a regular "cable ready" TV and get basic cable.  So I stuck 
it into my PVR-250 and sure enough was able to tune up to channel 99. So 
now I have Comedy Central, CNN, History, Travel for free (yes, I know 
I'm still paying for the net connection).
Be aware that the cable company can install a filter at any time to 
remove your access to the "free cable" but they haven't yet (for 
whatever reason)

Around here they started filtering probably 7 years ago.  At first they 
had imperfect filters, and you could still get a handful of channels 
(something like 3-6 IIRC) my friends and I called it "cable scraps." 
They have been filtering everything here for at least a couple of years 
I think, though I don't really know/care since I get satellite service.

I'm a little surprised that any cable company out there isn't filtering, 
since I think the filters are dirt cheap.

Greg
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Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Can IDE and SCSI mix?

[Greg Mitchell]

...
While browsing HP documentation I came across a note that stated that
Linux only supports SATA or SCSI - not both at the same time. IIRC,
the note was regarding RH9, so it may be out of date. I'll be using
FC2 or FC3.
...

Heh - that's some serious FUD being put out there by HP... my slave
backend as 1 IDE DVD-ROM, 3*IDE hard drives, and is directly connected
to a 12*36GB SCSI Sun Diskpack.  About 800GB in total and it works just
fine...
I could see SATA and SCSI having problems coexisting, since Linux seems 
to treat SATA and SCSI similarly.  At least in Gentoo, my SATA drive 
comes up as /dev/sd0.

Note that I'm not saying it's impossible to run SATA and SCSI, just that 
it wouldn't surprise me that there might be problems.

As was mentioned previously, SATA and IDE are different beasts.
FWIW, the end result is the same, don't worry about IDE and SCSI 
coexistence, they should be just fine.

Greg
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Re: [mythtv-users] Audio sync trouble with DVD export

[Greg Mitchell]

I've got PVR-250 MPEG-2 files that I'd like to burn to DVD without
re-transcoding.
...
Any ideas?
Admittedly, I'm no expert on Myth (having not installed it yet, and not 
even used my PVR250 at all yet) but your problem sounds exactly like 
what would happen if the audio was the wrong sample rate.  DVDs require 
48Khz audio, and if you've got 44.1Khz audio and just mux it without 
converting it, you'll have sync problems.

Greg
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