RE: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD
Out of space? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George Galt Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 3:16 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD On 25 Aug 2005 10:26:35 -0700, Jim Reith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:05 PM 8/25/2005, you wrote: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I think that was it. I'm burning my first DVD now, so hopefully this will be all work out! George are you using chapter menus? See if you have the problem with them that I'm seeing where the first chapter won't start when selected but the 2nd chapter will (and then you can skip back to the first) Not sure who's doing maintenance on the chapter menu functionality Guess :-) Well, at least I know who now 8^) Problem is, I can't reproduce the problem. Chapter menu works just fine, starting first chapter definitely works for me. I'll try a DVD in a couple of standalone players to see if one of them shows the effect. yes, this was in a standalone player. How many titles on your DVD? i have seen it in two places. On the 4 30 minute show one and on the single 2 hour movie one. i have only tried the DVDs on the picky player in our livingroom. Bye, Martin ___ 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 Well, no joy on the burn. I get the message libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO. in a few places, and then the big one: Remultiplexing video mplex -o /home/mythtv/DVD/temp/2028_2004110106_2004110107.nuv -f 8 2028_2004110106_2004110107.m2v ./2028_2004110106_2004110107.mpa INFO: [mplex] mplex version 1.6.3-rc1 (2.2.3 $Date: 2004/01/13 20:45:26 $) INFO: [mplex] File 2028_2004110106_2004110107.m2v looks like an MPEG Video stream. INFO: [mplex] File ./2028_2004110106_2004110107.mpa looks like an MPEG Audio stream. INFO: [mplex] Video stream 0: profile 8 selected - ignoring non-standard options! INFO: [mplex] Found 1 audio streams and 1 video streams INFO: [mplex] Selecting dvdauthor DVD output profile INFO: [mplex] Multiplexing video program stream! INFO: [mplex] Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 (2028_2004110106_2004110107.m2v) INFO: [mplex] VIDEO STREAM: e0 INFO: [mplex] Frame width : 640 INFO: [mplex] Frame height: 480 INFO: [mplex] Aspect ratio: 4:3 display INFO: [mplex] Picture rate: 29.970 frames/sec INFO: [mplex] Bit rate: 6048000 bits/sec INFO: [mplex] Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes INFO: [mplex] CSPF: 0 INFO: [mplex] Scanning for header info: Audio stream c0 (./2028_2004110106_2004110107.mpa) INFO: [mplex] MPEG AUDIO STREAM: c0 INFO: [mplex] Audio version : 1.0 INFO: [mplex] Layer :2 INFO: [mplex] CRC checksums : no INFO: [mplex] Bit rate :28672 bytes/sec (224 kbit/sec) INFO: [mplex] Frequency : 48000 Hz INFO: [mplex] Mode :0 stereo INFO: [mplex] Mode extension :0 INFO: [mplex] Copyright bit :0 no copyright INFO: [mplex] Original/Copy :0 copy INFO: [mplex] Emphasis :0 none INFO: [mplex] SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream: INFO: [mplex] rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate: 6407296 INFO: [mplex] target data-rate specified : 1008 INFO: [mplex] Setting specified specified data rate: 1008 INFO: [mplex] Run-in Sectors = 89 Video delay = 13019 Audio delay = 16022 INFO: [mplex] New sequence commences... INFO: [mplex] Video e0: buf= 0 frame=00 sector= INFO: [mplex] Audio c0: buf= 0 frame=00 sector= **ERROR: [mplex] Failed write: /home/mythtv/DVD/temp/2028_2004110106_2004110107.nuv Cleaning up Return value is 0 I'm assuming that this is not simply an issue of being able to write to the directory, since the scripts have written other files there, but there appears to be no additional information. Any thoughts on what this failure means? George ___ 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] Redhat 9
You could just compile the source files if you're having problems going to FC4? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Erickson Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 1:37 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] Redhat 9 I haven't updated my mythtv since .16.. I figured it works then why mess with it. I just have to reboot it 1 time every 6 days other wise the mythbackend just locks up.. Anyhow. My question is... Does the last version of mythtv still run on Redhat 9 or do i actually have to breakdown and upgrade to the latest Fedora? Dave ___ 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] Help! FC2/XFS: Input/Output error
Check that you haven't run out of space? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 1:05 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] Help! FC2/XFS: Input/Output error Hi community Got a problem with my Mythbox: Tried to copy a file from my video partition, which is using the XFS filesystem, and getting this error message: cp: reading 'filename': Input/Output error I checked with xfs_check and also tried xfs_repair. Both couldn't find and fix anything. What can I do? Thanks in advance! -- Regards 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] can't change channels on PVR-350
I have the same problem. I was just about to post a message when I found yours. I have a 350 and a 250 in my backend. I just upgraded to FC4 (using apt). Prior to this, everything was working properly. After the upgrade, I am able to watch previously recorded programs and access the backend from my remote frontend without any issues. But, when I try to watch live tv, I can watch one channel (channel 4). When I try to change channels, the guide shows that the channel has changed and updates the info, but the channel is stuck. i.e. if I change to channel 5, it shows the program info for chan 5, but the video/audio from channel 4. I've tried scheduling recordings for different channels, but I get the proper program name, but again, video/audio from channel 4. I can not for the life of me find any errors in any logs. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JR Powers-Luhn Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 1:06 AM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] can't change channels on PVR-350 Howdy- I'm trying to build a MythTV box with a PVR-350 and a pcHDTV tuner cards using Fedora Core 3 (mostly following Jared's guide). I installed ivtv version 0.2.0 and could watch and record video, but only one channel. I can't change using myth OR ptune-ui. Nothing glaringly obvious in the logs, but I'm new and could have missed something. I tried putting a line in modprobe.conf telling it that I had tuner 47 (that information gleaned from the logs), but to no avail. Anyone think they can help? I'm eager to see myth in action. JR ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] GeForce2 Card A Wide Screen TV Via SVideo
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drew Tomlinson Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 3:41 PM To: john sturgeon; Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] GeForce2 Card A Wide Screen TV Via SVideo On 6/29/2005 11:30 AM john sturgeon wrote: On 6/28/05, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to configure X to fill up my wide screen HDTV via SVideo with a GeForce 2 card? I can get the regular 4:3 (640x480) resolution but would like to have the desktop fill my 16:9 display. I also use nvtv to shift the display to fill the 4:3 screen but have been unable to find a way to make those settings permanent. Is this possible? Or have I reached the limits of the card and need something newer. Suggestions? Thanks, Drew If you have HDTV, why don't you get a VGA - Component adapter like the Audio Authority 9A60? Do you have any HDTV content to view? Ultimately, I suspect I will go that route. However this box is more a proof of concept that was built with spare hardware I already owned. As it's only an AMD Athlon 750mhz processor, an HDTV card at this point is out of the question from my understanding. But as it is, the performance is quite good (probably thanks to the Win-TV 250 mpeg encoder) unless I try to transcode files. Then there's a wait. :) Anyway, when I buy the components to build my real system, an HDTV card and component video will be the way I go. But for now, I was just hoping to make the system better. SVID is only going to give you 640x480. You can change the screen resolution in myth to something 16:9 and use your tv to stretch the picture. But ultimately, it's still 640x480 that's coming out of the TV out on your card. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Defrag XFS?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of j2 Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 5:48 PM To: 'Discussion about mythtv' Subject: [mythtv-users] Defrag XFS? Not strictly a MythTV question, but is there a util (apart from backup/restore) to defrag XFS? My recording partition is getting very sluggish after being in use for a while? How much space are you using? I believe xfs performance drops as the drive approaches 100% utilization.. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Re: Question about diskless system
What OS are you using for your diskless client? I've been trying to set up a pundit diskless frontend using Fedora, but have had 0 luck. I've managed to get it to pull a boot image from my dhcp/tftp server, but I keep on getting init errors when it starts loading... Anyone know of any proper diskless client instructions? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Littlejohn Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 4:42 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Question about diskless system Sounds like a good video card. To answer your question. I am using the diskless system as a frontend and backend slave (one pvr350 card). It does fine as this, but I try and avoid any heavy work like commercial flagging on this box as it gets loud when all the fans start spinning up. All the heavy work is done on the nfs master backend box. Guess that leaves the chip, memory (I have 512Mb), or nfs optimization? Dan On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:26:54 -0700, Norman Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right now, I'm using an MX440. That chip seems good on my other back-end, and I had nothing but problems when I used a TNT2 a few years ago with freevo (until I got the 440). Are you using your diskless system as a backend and frontend, or just frontend? Thanks, Norman Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What video card are you using? I believe that the video card (chip) could have quite an effect. I am using a Pentium 1.8 and a FX5200 video card and have excellent diskless performance. The diskless machine has no hard drive in it at all and runs well. As a data point, I also have a AMD 3200 (backend) with a very old TNT2 and it is very slow when I use a frontend on it. I would vote for the extra memory. Dan On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:54:08 -0700, Norman Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen from time to time folks talking about using a diskless setup, but I'm having problems seeing what their results are like. I just set up an old piece of hardware to see if I could do it (since the spare hard drive I have is VERY noisy). It appears to work as a front-end, but it's slow when skipping ahead or back. This also could be due to the fact that I'm playing back 720x480 on an Athlon 650. Does anyone have performance data to provide on their diskless setups? If I were to rebuild to a Celeron D 2.5G and add a 878 grabber, would I still be able to use this diskless setup and be happy with performance as both front-end and a diskless backend (streaming to my other backend/database/etc)? For my config's sake, my primary backend is providing the NFS root image, and I'm using the noisy hard drive to provide the etherboot zlilo image to netboot off a PCI NIC (the on-board NIC is too flaky to use). If I don't want swap space or anything else on the hard drive, and I'm running XFCE (stripped debian build) is 256MB enough, or should I keep it at 512MB just to be safe? Or is there a good reason why I should throw swap onto the noisy drive and just hope that the 'hdparm -S' timeout keeps the drive dpun down (with either 256 or 512MB)? Thanks, Norman ___ 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] Error with atrpms and 18.1?
I just re-installed my HDTV frontend this weekend. (ran into issues trying to create a separate diskless frontend, but that's another story). I check through the mailing list and discover that 18.1 is available. My backend is running FC3 using atrpms. I was able to do an apt-get dist-upgrade and upgrade to 18.1 without any issues. My new frontend give me this error when I try to upgrade: The following packages have unmet dependencies: mythtv-suite: Depends: mythplugin (= 0.18) but it is not installable E: Broken packages Anyone have any ideas? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Can't access setup after switching toMinimalist-wide on non wide screen
I found that you need to hit pgdn on your keyboard when you're at the icon with the down arrow. To get around this, I edited the file /usr/share/mythtv/mainmenu.xml and removed the phone menu. (don't use it). Then I just restarted the frontend. Everything now fits on the screen. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hary wilke Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 7:47 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: [mythtv-users] Can't access setup after switching toMinimalist-wide on non wide screen I was playing around with themes today and i got myself in a bit of a quandary. As the title suggests i changed my theme to Minimalist-wide and am stuck on it. After checking out the theme, i went up to the top menu and can only see Watch TV - Media Library - Manage Recor - Inform Center - Optical Disks - Phone but i can't see Setup when anything other than Watch TV is selected a little down arrow appears where the first item of a second row of icons would start, but i can't seem to be able to go down. if i arrow key right of Phone i'm sent back to Watch TV and the up and down keys don't do diddly for me. I'm feeling a bit silly right about now. Is there another way to change the theme? i'm guessing that the setting is somewhere in the database eh? any hints on how to reset it to one of the default themes? -hary stuck in a corner ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] INFO: RAID comparison for MythTV
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Johnston Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 7:14 PM To: MagicITX; Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] INFO: RAID comparison for MythTV Incorrect. As RAID5 uses drives in sets of 3 (2 data + 1 CRC), then you have to lose 2/3rds of the drives in the array for it to fail. With just 3 drives, that means if 2 of the 3 drives fail, the array is hosed. With 6 drives, that means 4 of those 6 have to fail, and so on. Generally with RAID5 arrays that aren't a multiple of 3 (14-drive, say), the array is configured with 12 drives in the array, and 2 drives as Hot Spares that are swapped in automatically if any one drive fails. RAID5 means striped data with striped parity. It is not based on a 2 data, 1 CRC system. This is just the minimum amount of drive you need to create one. You can have any amount of drives greater than 2 in a RAID5. If you have a 14 disk RAID5, data is striped across all 14 disks. If you lose any drive, then the system will recover the missing information from the drive through parity. If you lose a 2nd drive, there is no parity information to recover the data from. The idea of 2 data + 1 CRC may work for a 3 disk RAID5, but does not work for any other. If a RAID5 loses a disk when it is reduced (1 drive already failed), then you've lost all of your data. In general you'd have to have 2 complete physical failures to lose all of your data. Because it's always possible to re-assemble the raid and recover data from the parts of the disk that are not destroyed (bad sectors, etc). ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Toshiba DVI input at 1080i with a nvidia 5200
I've tried to get DVI working on my 57H83. Was NEVER able to get even a rolling picture. I went the Audio Authority route: Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 VendorName Toshiba ModelName57in HDTV via AA 9A60 HorizSync31.0 - 46.0 VertRefresh 59.0 - 61.0 #VertRefresh 60.0 DisplaySize 1257 707 Option dpms ModeLine 1200x675 75.600 1200 1352 1392 1680 675 695 708 750 +hsync +vsync ModeLine 540p 36.787 848 976 1056 1120 480 504 510 559 +hsync +vsync ModeLine 720p 74.250 1152 1304 1336 1648 648 685 690 750 +hsync +vsync ModeLine 1080i 73.943 1776 1920 1976 2208 1000 1038 1043 1125 interlace +hsync +vsync EndSection Currently using the 720p modeline which is almost a perfect fit -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Tsai Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 10:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Toshiba DVI input at 1080i with a nvidia 5200 On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:46:44AM -0400, Ianic Brisson wrote: I'm trying to get the DVI input on my Toshiba 42HDX82 to work at 1080i (or 540p) with my nvidia FX5200, but the best I get is a rolling screen. I've tried everything from PowerStrip to tinckering with the modelines to get various refresh rates bot to no avail. It works in 480p and 720p (with an ugly upconversion to 1080i). I've read that Toshiba and/or nvidia doesn't work through DVI in 1080i but couldn't confirm. If anybody's got an angle that could help me out on this, it would be appreciated. My MythTV Box is just waiting for this last step to get rolling. I have the Toshiba 42H83 (next year's model) working at 960x540p with DVI: Section Monitor Identifier Toshiba 42H83 DisplaySize 93 52 HorizSync 31-46 VertRefresh 59-61 Mode 540p DotClock40.86 HTimings960 992 1144 1176 VTimings540 551 557 568 Flags +HSync +VSync EndMode EndSection The video card is a Chaintech SH5200-DVI. Unfortunately, there is overscan that I am unable to correct. With overscan, my effective resolution is decreased to 856x480+56+32. I've tried the Audio Authority 9A60; that brought me up to about 952x504+0+20, but every time I switched the TV to that component input, the convergence was completely reset and I'd have to fix it up again. Upon switching away from those component inputs, I'd have to again fix up the convergence. The extra resolution was not worth the hassle of resetting the convergence every time and having more parts to deal with, so I went back to the DVI. --Rob ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Weird audio problem
I have a strange problem. Whenever I restart mythbackend there's no sound in live TV or in any recordings. I've discovered that if I just restart the backend and leave it, any new recordings will not have any sound. If I watch live TV there will not be any sound either. The only way around this has been to restart the backend, go to a frontend client, go to live TV and change the channel. Once I change a channel, everything works like it should from that point on. Anyone have any ideas? I don't even know where to start looking ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
