Re: [mythtv-users] Re: mythmusic shuts down mythfrontend
Hmmm I find if I put the visualizer into random mode and make it full screen it will crash to desktop or even lock the system (kill process another terminal to recover does work) repeatable after 10-15 minutes. Myth music also seems to crash out at a somewhat random rate (can be fine for hours ore minutes and then boom). I haven't found a pattern accept for as it related to the visualizer running full screen.This is with 18.0. Though lately I have been using MCE for music since it can play back pictures and has the nice intro and close captions, not an alternative for everyone though. On 8/8/05, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/8/05, Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All the versions I have tried, it did the same. Currently, I'm using SVN trunk of last month. If I don't have any files selected to play and try to navigate in MythMusic, the frontend crashes and dumps me to the desktop. As soon as I have a file or directory selected beforehand, music plays normally. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- -Griffon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] any mythtv users have experence with 169time.com
I'm reading the bellow description of this sale unit they have and it sounds like they are pushing their AVX1, but what I'm wondering is does anyone have any first hand experience getting this product or a like one from them HD firwire out to work with Mythtv? --- DirecTV Toshiba HDTV receiver with firewire 169time output for HDTV recording already added. Use directly with an AVX1 processor (build your own or buy the AVX1 here) and a suitable HD firewire connected recording device (DVHS tape, hard drive, PC) for both OTA and DirecTV satellite HDTV recording. Includes the IR remote, A/V cable, and user manual. DirecTV activation is not required to make this purchase, but is needed to receive satellite HDTV. Receiver features both OTA and satellite HDTV reception. It has component YPrPb, Composite, and S-Video outputs for compatibility with most HD and standard monitors, plus the recordable digital HDTV output. This is a Toshiba model DST-3000. It is refurbished and like new. It is nearly identical to the Hughes model E8 or E86, and the Mitsubishi model SRHD5. The unit operates identical to the stock DST-3000 except that since the 169time upgrade is already installed, the recordable HDTV signal is sent over firewire when a HDTV channel is tuned. 169time part number 1R. I'd Appreciate any first hand feedback, thanks! -- -Griffon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Clock in myth
Yeah I was continplating this the other day, it would be nice to be able to pop one up in vidplayer too. I think the TV shell has one allready but hte rest of the interface's could certinaly use one IMO. On 5/22/05, Lego Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, So, I may be the only one, but I would really like to have a clock in the corner of myth. Maybe not when I am watching TV or movie, but when I am going through menus, it would be really useful. So, any thoughts? Is that done and I just need to enable it, or is there hack or does it need to be implemented? Thanks. Andy ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- -Griffon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Keybindings
I fixed this by setting a unique identifyer in the mysql.txt file in the /home/mythtv/ More info here http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4281highlight= On 5/17/05, Joe Henley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm running MythTV version 18 from atrms.net. It's version 109 for Fedora Core 3. I cannot find a way to get changes to the keybindings to stick. I'm trying to adjust several of them, plus a couple of jump points using MythWeb. But no luck. I've tried to open up the MySQL security to %@%, adjusted every permission I can find, etc. but nothing seems to work. Anyone got any good ideas/suggestions? TIA Joe Henley ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- -Griffon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Anyone happy with wireless?
I started out by building a mesh G network using linksys 54g's. This was good for the basics but when it came to streaming the vob's it often break down even, also interference was causing speed drop outs so it would renegotiate at 12 or so for a wile, this would make streams unusable even if a I set s huge cache on mp layer. So I sucked it up and spent a weekend and about a hundred bucks wiring the whole house with cat. It was a total pain in the ass but the end result has been very worth it. WAF has gone way up since I finished that. -Griffon On 5/1/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/30/05, Chris Pinkham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's what I ended up doing as well. I recommend the Linksys WRT54G router which you can then turn into a wireless bridge through modified firmware, the best of which, IMO, is available at http://www.sveasoft.com . These things can frequently be had for around $50 after rebate, which there is usually one somewhere. I'm using my WRT54G as a bridge between my wired and wireless networks using stock firmware. The frontend in my living room uses a Belkin PCI 54G card using ndiswrapper. I'm able to transfer about 3Mbytes/sec over the network from one of my wired servers. Seems to be working pretty well. My wifes computer (which is used a lot more heavily than the Myth frontend usually) is also connected at 54Mb/s via another Belkin PCI card using ndiswrapper. I don't use the Linksys as my router to the internet, it is only used a a wireless bridge between my internal networks. -- Chris So 3MB/S == 27Mb/S or about half the advertized speed. I suspect that this is pretty good with network overhead. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- -Griffon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Music player + gallery playback software bounty $100 for meeting requirments
Yeah that is sort of why I was thinking that taking it from the perspective of being a visual plug in might be the simplest approach, then it's only relying on the underlying player being present and X. -Griffon On 4/28/05, Cecil Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, Griffon -- wrote: Two months from today. Features required: On demand start playback of Gallery after starting music active que/play-list. Have UI elements to adjust what is the start gallery folder. Recursive lookup in gallery allowing pics in sub folders to play. Have UI elements for random or ordered photo play settable Allow GL transitions Allow music song skip/next/back without interrupting photo playback. Must be reasonable simple to install/add to current versions of Myth. Lets say .17 and .18. Particularly KnopMyth (it's my bounty dam it and I'm no rocket scientist with this stuff :) ). If someone were to develop this, the only way it would make it into KnoppMyth is if were officially part of MythTV. Now the KnopMyth folks maybe willing include, but not I. Regards, Cecil -- -Griffon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Music player + gallery playback software bounty $100 for meeting requirments
Yes it has been talked about a lot, probable suggesting that it's highly desired by a lot of folks :). This is the one thing I miss most from MCE. I'll go so far as to offer a $100 software bounty out of my pocket to anyone (payable via paypal please) who will write/add this feature to the Myth music player (maybe via the visualizer?), or a whole new module or gallery (I don't care that much as long as it works right). It's not much cash compared to the time but maybe it will tip the bucket and push somebody who has been thinking about doing it anyway into action. This bounty will go to the first person to meet the requirements and release something stable and in good working order. This bounty will remain open for Two months from today. Features required: On demand start playback of Gallery after starting music active que/play-list. Have UI elements to adjust what is the start gallery folder. Recursive lookup in gallery allowing pics in sub folders to play. Have UI elements for random or ordered photo play settable Allow GL transitions Allow music song skip/next/back without interrupting photo playback. Must be reasonable simple to install/add to current versions of Myth. Lets say .17 and .18. Particularly KnopMyth (it's my bounty dam it and I'm no rocket scientist with this stuff :) ). All the current standard music playback operations must be supported (random play, repeat/no repeat etc.) Nice but not really required: MP3 overlay tags in a corner at start and end of song Song, album, artist (graphic). It's another MCE-ism but a nice touch. Mapping certain play lists to certain gallery folders (ie starting play list Will trigger a certain montage) Feels like I'm missing something important but I'm drawing a blank. This would IMHO take the music player to the next level. I'm not on the dev alias, if somebody who is would like to cross post this there I would appreciate it. -- -Griffon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythVideo Question
Does AVIMERG work on WMV (m$ ASF wrapper I think) files? I know newer version of virtual dub do not which leaves *shudder* the ms media client thing that...well lets just a rather not use it. I'ts only a small percentage of my files but it would be nice to do a series of joins on a few of them. On 4/13/05, James Stembridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/13/05, Sasha Z [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some reason that you don't just rejoin the files? it's trivially easy in virtualdub, and you can batch them up to go eat a sandwich. Rejoining the files does indeed work well, assuming they are avi's at least. Personally I use avimerge which is part of transcode. Unfortunately I have yet to find a suitable solution for ogm's. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- -Griffon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Satelite service recommendation for use w/ MythTV
I don't think those vision cards will work with Direct TV, they look like they are for DVB. D*TV uses DSS or DSB or somthing like that (all I kno is the DVB stuff dosn't work with it, shame since there are bunch of cards for that on the market. On Apr 2, 2005 12:27 AM, Maverick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Voom: Thanks for letting me know it's dead.. :) PCI Tuner Cards: I found one manufacture that makes terrestrial tuner cards: http://www.twinhan.com/product_terrestrial.asp Of course, you can't view the encrypted channels. Though there's a ton of 'illegal' sites selling a Vision PCI card that supposedly tunes everything with the right driver. Of course, no Linux drivers so it's not even an option. Dish vs. DirecTV: Seems like Dish is the way to go. DirecTV's site annoyed me, and as far as I can tell their cheapest plan is $42/mo, and for that same amount, I can get Dish's top 60 w/ locals + HD or other similar combos for similar costs. As for firewire hacked tuners, I can't seem to find anything, so if anyone has any info on that, it would be cool. I'd definitely like to use Myth with satellite, or it's not worth it. Cable is of course an option, but they are about 30% more expensive for the same (digital) programming. :( Anyone know if Adelphia does firewire out on their digital/HD boxes? -Kenneth ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- -Griffon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Satelite service recommendation for use w/ MythTV
Voom is effectively dead, so no joy there. Though there are many strange maneuver's going around it and the satellites. http://www.techdirt.com/search.pl?query=voom DirectTV is ok in the north CA area, but he HD situation is frustrating. Basically your choices are, only have OTA and combine it with D*TV, buy a HD Tivo and then maybe mod it or switch back and fourth. I have the HD Tivo and then on my myth back end I have a regular RCA box so we flip back and fourth mainly using Myth as a Video/DVD/Music player and most HD or live TV is watched on the Tivo (though myth works fine for the non HD stuff). It's something less then ideal. I have never quite gotten why there are no after market capture decoder cards for D*TV that would let a comp work just like the HD Tivo box since it's mainly just doing a raw write for the unscrambled content. Probable something to with lawyers though :p though tying the card to the MAC or however it works. Still seems like somthing should be out there slipping in from offshore. Is anyone actually able to capture HD content via fire wire either via modded box for over comcast? I havn't noticed many posts about that working, only not working. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Parental control settings for videos getting dumped
Anyone? How can the partental controls be made continouse agsint all frontends? On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:15:57 -0800, Griffon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there I hope somebody can shed some light on how the parental controls are supposed to work. I have set my video files up a couple times now and and all is well accept for if my frontend reboots it dumps all the settings on the individual files. Is this supposed to happen, in as the level is only stored on the frontend or can this be set so it's setting to the backend and all frontend instances will see the same security settings? I also noticed that mythweb video file filtering dosn't seem to respect parental control settings but then it maybe related the above issue... Is this just a config thing that I'm missing somwhere? Thanks! -- -Griffon -- -Griffon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Buffering Video On Playback?
Anyone? Is there know way to set additional buffering? On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:37:28 -0800, Griffon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: George had asked about this a while back but I couldn't find a response. Since I'm seeing similar issues I thought I would repose the original question. Basically is there a way to set a larger buffer for video playback to iron out the hiccups (most noticeable with dvd rips streaming off the NFS backend) My backend is a P4 1.7 and my front end is IBM T40 laptop 1.5M so it seems to be network rather then horse power issue. I'm using the recomdned mount config line in the docs Any thoughts? Seems like full speed G should be enough for at least single streams. Thansk! -- -Griffon Hi, Ive been playing with a wifi (802.1G) laptop running mythfrontend. It /amost/ works, but occasionly you get a little stutter. I assume this is because the wifi is dropping out a little. Because it works most of the time, I have concluded that the bandwidth of the wifi is at least enough to stream myth shows (from DVB). Can you set Myth to read ahead a little and buffer it, to compensate for small temporary dropouts in the connection? all it would have to do would be to read at (say) 110% speed, and dip into the buffer when needed. As an aside, can mplayer be made to do this? thanks g -- -Griffon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Tivo as backend
MythTIvo is cool but with a D*TV unit you have to hack the box, this is not so big with cheap $99 Tivo but I'm scared to try that with my really expensive HD one. Plus if I mug all our shows my wife will kill me... but that is a separate issue. I might go for it anyway though if MythTivo actually integrated with the watch recording module but it sits off as more it's own thing...basicaly making it a streaming toaster, not a bad thing but not really lending it's self to a high WAF setup since programing and finding things become disjointed. Also I don't think you can tune to live streams but I could be wrong about that (only got to mess around with it a bit at friends on a series one Tivo). Definitely a project I have high hopes for though :). There is a good looking tutorial on hacking the Tivo (and the HD one) at http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/printthread.php?t=37015 I'd be interested if anyone has done this on the HD D*TV unit. I know a few folks who where thinking about decided to wait to see if the fantasy patch ever appears from D*TV. On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:49:49 -0500, David George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob Walker wrote: Has anyone figured out how to point their front end to a Tivo box? I was thinking that we could get a lot of the listings via the web interface, and then use the mplayer which can play the tmf files. Have you tried MythTiVo? http://tivo-mplayer.sourceforge.net/mythtivo.html -- David HDTV capable frontend I am working on (now with a picture) http://mythhd.info ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- -Griffon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Parental control settings for videos getting dumped
Hi there I hope somebody can shed some light on how the parental controls are supposed to work. I have set my video files up a couple times now and and all is well accept for if my frontend reboots it dumps all the settings on the individual files. Is this supposed to happen, in as the level is only stored on the frontend or can this be set so it's setting to the backend and all frontend instances will see the same security settings? I also noticed that mythweb video file filtering dosn't seem to respect parental control settings but then it maybe related the above issue... Is this just a config thing that I'm missing somwhere? Thanks! -- -Griffon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
You might try Knoppmyth I have it running as a front end on an IBM T40 that has an ATI mobility 7500 chipset. Course I can't seem to get the DVD player to work but video is fine after some HD resolution issues where sorted out. On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:46:14 -0800 (PST), Matt Lutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I've been lurking here for a while, and just set up myth for the first time this weekend. I ran into a few problems that I was able to overcome, but I'm stuck now with this one thing. I have a laptop (P4 2Ghz) that I wanted to use as a frontend. The problem is that I can't seem to get it to play any video, I just get a blue screen. When I ran myth and set the environment variable to disable xv, it worked but the picture was real sloppy. Is there a possibility that my ATI Mobility graphics card simply doesn't support it, or have I installed it wrong? I'm running Fedora 3. Any help would be greatly appreciated. oh - I tried installing the gatos drivers, but now X won't come up at all. I'm going to try and re-install X later today. I'm not sure if that means the drivers simply aren't compatible, or if I just did it wrong. thanks a lot. Matt __ 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 -- -Griffon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Buffering Video On Playback?
George had asked about this a while back but I couldn't find a response. Since I'm seeing similar issues I thought I would repose the original question. Basically is there a way to set a larger buffer for video playback to iron out the hiccups (most noticeable with dvd rips streaming off the NFS backend) My backend is a P4 1.7 and my front end is IBM T40 laptop 1.5M so it seems to be network rather then horse power issue. I'm using the recomdned mount config line in the docs Any thoughts? Seems like full speed G should be enough for at least single streams. Thansk! -- -Griffon Hi, Ive been playing with a wifi (802.1G) laptop running mythfrontend. It /amost/ works, but occasionly you get a little stutter. I assume this is because the wifi is dropping out a little. Because it works most of the time, I have concluded that the bandwidth of the wifi is at least enough to stream myth shows (from DVB). Can you set Myth to read ahead a little and buffer it, to compensate for small temporary dropouts in the connection? all it would have to do would be to read at (say) 110% speed, and dip into the buffer when needed. As an aside, can mplayer be made to do this? thanks g ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Tivo as backend
Well, personally I would love to have my HD Tivo integrate with Myth. That would give me 2 HD OTA and 2 HD Sat tuners able to do direct hard drive writes. If the TV recordings showed up directly in my MythTv with maybe little Tivo icons on them or something then the wife could hit everything in one place and never have to switch the TV input :). Personally I could a lot cool things with this idea at least as far as D*TV goes. I would hack my HD Tivo in a second if I thought I could have slick integration and truly centralize all my music vids and TV from one UI. One of the most frustrating things aboute D*TV is they make it point to keep any type of nice Tivo feature of upate as far away from their customers as possible (control freaks I guess). -Griffon On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:50:48 -0800, M. Barnabas Luntzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 28, 2005, at 7:31 PM, Rob Walker wrote: Has anyone figured out how to point their front end to a Tivo box? I was thinking that we could get a lot of the listings via the web interface, and then use the mplayer which can play the tmf files. thanks, rob huh? tivo is a closed system...I guess something might be possible with a modified series 1. But I can't for the life of me figure out why anybody with a mythtv system would want to do this. Did I miss something? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- -Griffon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] HDTV output 1280x720 and X frustration
Hi folks, I'm hoping somebody can help me understand what steps I can take to resolve a X desktop resolution problem I'm having. Basically the situation is this, I have a laptop running just as a frontend (off of KnoppixMyth CD, though I could do a full install if I needed to). This is talking to the back end in the garage and all is ok as far as that goes. I need the laptop frontend to be outputting 1280x720 via the VGA port, this is going to a Panyy LC13 tv on the RGB2. I can't for the life of me seem to get X to do this, I have edited the XF86 config files and added the resolution in the monitor area and the ModeLine 1280x720 172.04 1280 1336 1616 1728 720 722 734 760 and restarted X but this dosn't seem to take, no matter what I try I end up with something around 1024 or lower and that just looks awful, and the UI dosn't fit correctly on the Panny. I'm a little frustrated, I swear I just want to right click on my dam desktop and set a new res like in windows, it dosn't seem like this should be act of god to do :p. Anyway Is there a way to start x with a specific desktop size maybe? Startx 1280x720? I have been reading and tweaking for two days and still havn'g been able to get this to behave right. If anyone has any ATI card and a LC13 I would be interested in seeing your XF86Config-4 Thanks! -- -Griffon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] record HDTV over Satellite is now possible?
That is an interesting product line, I would love to See some alternatives to the HD Tivo but this company seems to be charging a ridiculous premium and they are not offering an open support mode or anything to really give incentive to what could be a large audence for them (the MythTV users)l. Seems like a business model that will never mange to expand, but who knows. It dose give me hope that maybe (just maybe) somebody will come out with or we can import in, a proper PCI capture card that we can work with D*TV or that somebody else will start selling these same modified boxes for a lot less (some of them are double the cost of a unmodified unit). I have never quite understood what is so hard, it looks like the HD Tivo just has a in line decoder and couple raw capature cards which makes it all a driver hissue, but I'm certinaly no expert :). I looked over on the AVS but didn't see any success stories with Myth .17. If anyone here dose try one of these out and it works let us know, it's still probable a cheaper option then the HD Tivo (which I own and would like a lot more if D*TV would ever let it be networked so I can hook MythTivo up, bastards). -Griffon On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:45:21 -0500, Kyle Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vincent K. Britton wrote: Does anyone here have experience integrating this in to MythTV. Do you think it would work with .17 with its new Firewire Recording capability? I looked into this a few months ago, and (at least at the time) their hardware/software interface was proprietary, so they would not release the source code to their driver. I'm trying to keep the number of crappy closed source drivers to a minimum (NVidia's being the only one I use), so I scrapped the idea. I would be very interested if they decided to GPL the driver, because it would be the only real non-OTA option for unencrypted HDTV short of performing a DIY illegal import of some unlicensed cablecard-USB or cablecard-PCI interface. Cheers, Kyle ___ 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
