[mythtv-users] BO interfacing
Hi, Just curious who's interested in this topic (if anyone)... I've created an interface to provide a PC interface with a BO system. The current design (http://www.ivor.it/beolink) allows you to read the non-standard BEO4 infra-red remote control signals, but the interface can also be used to connect direct to the BO datalink wiring and read the datalink messages. At the moment the interface purely produces an RS232 stream, and I haven't got around to actually hooking up to control mythtv yet... however, this potentially opens up other possibilities for BO integration since it will be possible to detect events from other BO equipment and similarly would be possible to feed the datalink with data from the PC. (for example you would be able to use your BO remote on a separate link room TV and get it to play the video off your main room myth pvr). So I wanted to find out what level of interest there is for this out there. Cheers, -- Ivor Hewitt. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] EPIA/Unichrome drivers (semi O/T:)
Just a heads up for those that don't follow events on the unichrome mailing lists. Hardware mpeg acceleration has been removed completely from the unichrome.sf.net driver. Therefore, there is a now a new driver project: http://www.openChrome.org If you use Xorg-cvs then you already have a pretty recent openchrome driver. However, if you have been building the driver from source... and you use mpeg hardware acceleration then you will need to change over. Cheers, -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: EPIA 10k: Mplayer crash in fullscreen or no picture displayed in a window
On 8/3/05, Matthew Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 04/08/2005, at 7:29 AM, Ivor Hewitt wrote: Brett, Hi sorry don't check the -users often, too much traffic to keep on top of. There's a current patch against mplayer cvs on the unichrome snapshot page: http://myth.ivor.org/unichrome Thanks for that Ivor. Are there any plans to roll the driver back into the mplayer trunk at some point? Absolutely. In progress. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: EPIA 10k: Mplayer crash in fullscreen or no picture displayed in a window
Brett, Hi sorry don't check the -users often, too much traffic to keep on top of. There's a current patch against mplayer cvs on the unichrome snapshot page: http://myth.ivor.org/unichrome On 6/28/05, Brett May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Matthew, Thanks for the feedback. I am using the pre6 patch from the Epia Wiki site, maybe it is different to the one on the Unichrome site. Will have to check it when I get home tonight (no internet at work). Atleast I know that someone has it working. Nothing worse than trying to get it to work and finding that no one has it working. Appreciate the reply :-) Brett Matthew Phillips wrote: On 24/06/2005, at 1:58 PM, Brett May wrote: So no one is using an EPIA then?? Michael, Bill, Matthew, Orn, MagicITX, Ivor, anyone out there? Michael, missed your post earlier. I can report that I'm able to use mplayer successfully in FS mode with -vo xvmc -vc ffmpeg12mc on my M10K. This is the older mplayer pre6 with the patch from the Unichrome project - not sure if this is the same one as you're using. I saw a post about a patch against mplayer pre7, but failed to track it down - it's not been posted at the project site http:// sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=102048. This is on FC3, and I don't have anything insightful to suggest for Gentoo unfortunately, except maybe that you try mplayer pre6 with the official patch. Sorry I can't be much more help, Matthew. Brett May wrote: Hi All, I know quite a few people on this list are using EPIA 10k's for their MythBox and I am wondering if any have mplayer working to watch videos from MythVideo. I am using Gentoo 2.6.10-r6, Xorg with xvmc, MythTV 0.18, and have patched Mplayer using the patch and ebuild on EpiaWiki. When my command line in MythVideo is: mplayer -fs -vc xvmc -vo ffmpeg12mc %s mplayer crashes with BadDrawable (happens in both twm and ratpoison). When my command line in MythVideo is: mplayer -vc xvmc -vo ffmpeg12mc %s there is no picture displayed, stays displaying the MythVideo screen but mplayer is running and outputting debug information to the xterm as if it was playing the video. Any help would be appreciated, this is one of the last issues blocking me putting my Mythbox in its rightfull place in the lounge room. ___ 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] Re: OpenGL vsync
On 7/20/05, Asher Schaffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not trying to hijack this thread, but I am having opengl vsync problems as well, but I'm on an epia. As far as I can tell opengl should be working okay, I can compile everything with opengl enabled, but the logs show: The unichrome driver has drm vsync. Use that. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] TV won't sync in Mythtv menus
On 7/15/05, Robin Gilks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings An odd one here on an Epia SP13000 m/b. Watching TV, playing back a recording, watching video (mplayer) or DVD (Xine) are all fine when I use the Unichrome driver in 720x576NoScale mode but the Mythtv menus are screwed up - interlace problem I think. define screwed up and interlace problem I think ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Remote to use w/ EPIA M10000
I've got a lirc ir receiver plugged into the internal com port header on the epia. Fits nicely inside a cubid case with a little ir window cut out below the floppy. Works a charm with a sky+ remote which includes a mini keyboard. On 7/2/05, Matthew Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/07/2005, at 11:24 AM, Pane, Chris wrote: So – Today my motherboard arrived and I realized I hadn't come up with a remote control solution. My prototype myth box as a mast/ slave PC with a PVR250, and I got lirc working with that. My back end in my real deployment will be that same PC, with the PVR250 card being used for PVR Functionality, but since it is not part of my front end, is of no use. So my question (Which I am currently researching as I type). What are people with EPIA m1 doing for remotes I ended up using the remote that came with the VisionPlus DVB card. It's base station makes it look like a USB keyboard so, rather than setting up LIRC, the thing is to remap application keys to match the remote. Myth, mplayer and xine all let you do that, so it's worked quite well. It sounds icky, and I was planning on putting in a better solution, but this has worked surprisingly well, so I'll likely not bother. Matt. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Fanless HDTV backend on EPIA SP 8000E Vs. EPIA PD 6000E
On 5/31/05, Eric Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I've got Myth running just fine on my desktop P4, but I want to add a fanless low power server to my network so I can have a Myth backend running 24/7 with minimal noise and power, and physical size. Does anyone have experience with the differences between the EPIA SP 8000E ($250) and the EPIA PD 6000E ($180) running the Myth backend processes (MySql, Apache, MythWeb ,Mythbackend, CommFlagg and Transcode ) with the pcHDTV 3000 or the Air2Pc? I think I'll be fine with the PD 6000E for all of the main backend processes, but if the SP 8000E is worth the extra dough for transcoding HDTV down to DVD, then I'll pony up the difference. transcoding HDTV down to DVD Will take forever, and a day (or two) on an EPIA. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: DVB board advice
Yup me. Works fine. I've got both a Nova-T and an Avermedia. Can't say there's any noticeable difference between the two. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv 0.18.1 ebuild defect?
The ebuild should check for the xvmc wrapper, and then fall back to viaxvmc like the myth configure script does. On 5/25/05, MagicITX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently used the 0.18.1 ebuild to install mythtv on an EPIA SP13000. This board uses the CN400 north bridge which needs the Unichrome Pro driver. It appears to me that the ebuild is looking for /usr/lib/libviaXvMC to build in VIA hardware acceleration. The library for the Unichrome Pro driver is /usr/lib/libviaXvMCPro. I believe the ebuild should first look for libviaXvMCPro and then fall back to libviaXvMC. -- Tim www.magicitx.com ___ 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] Re: Playback of Transcoded (MPEG4) file on Epia ME6000
The gcc compiler hasn't got any scheduling logic for the c3 since via hasn't released that information or contributed to the gcc development. and since the c3 design is based off the old cyrix dies I suspect that the 586 optimisations might be a reasonable match. -Os is all very well but that just tries to pack everything into the smallest space and so disables all word alignment and doesn't try to optimise the code for speed. -O2 seems like a reasonable compromise for the c3. It doesn't unroll loops but does do some optimisations. Personally I always found 586 and -O2 gave decent performance... with the added benefit I can use the same binaries on P3, C3 and C3-2 which helps testing and debugging (for me). If I have time I might run some benchmarks with different options. On 4/22/05, Devan Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd have to agree with Ivor's flag settings, I've found on my TC that i586 works better than C3 On 4/22/05, Ivor Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/22/05, Neale Swinnerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got a Epia ME6000 working well as a Myth frontend. I've got the XvMC playback so that watching Live TV or recordings is great (I've got a backend with 2 x Hauppauge DVB-T cards). 1. I'd have thought an m6000 would struggle. Out of interest what cpu load are you seeing in mplayer? 2. Why are you transcoding dvb-t recordings anyway? do you really need to save disk space that badly. Wouldn't you rather watch the original quality? -march=c3 -Os -fomit-frame-pointer What about just -march=i586 -O2 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Thanks, Devan Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Playback of Transcoded (MPEG4) file on Epia ME6000
On 4/22/05, Neale Swinnerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got a Epia ME6000 working well as a Myth frontend. I've got the XvMC playback so that watching Live TV or recordings is great (I've got a backend with 2 x Hauppauge DVB-T cards). 1. I'd have thought an m6000 would struggle. Out of interest what cpu load are you seeing in mplayer? 2. Why are you transcoding dvb-t recordings anyway? do you really need to save disk space that badly. Wouldn't you rather watch the original quality? -march=c3 -Os -fomit-frame-pointer What about just -march=i586 -O2 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Request info from working M10K frontend.
On 4/20/05, BARKER, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW - has anyone gotten the new VIA open source Unichrome driver to work with recent releases ? Works fine for me. :) I had a very quick look but the docs in the distribution seemed a bit poor and I haven't looked at them in depth. Which docs in particular? Perhaps either pointing out which bits are bad and need improving or making the improvements would help? Regards, -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Request info from working M10K frontend.
BTW - has anyone gotten the new VIA open source Unichrome driver to work with recent releases ? Oops, I've just realised you mean VIA's new open source Unichrome driver release as opposed to the new Unichrome open source driver release. Doh. Must pay attention, must pay attention. This is going to get confusing, VIA Open Source Unichrome driver vs Open Source Unichrome VIA driver Ho hum. Anyway, in summary, no there's no point trying to use the VIA driver with myth since the VIA driver only provides their proprietary ddmpeg API. -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Configure script says XvMC support no (err, YES!)
./configure --help ./configure --enable-xvmc On 4/19/05, D. L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the ./configure script says XvMC support no and I need xvmc, should I fix this before I qmake/make? # Video Output Support x11 support yes xrandr support yes xv support yes XvMC support no XvMC VLD support no OpenGL vsync no DirectFB no I need xvmc because I'm doing hidef/pchdtv and I only have an athlon 2100+. My friend has the same setup and is successful using myth with xvmc, so I think I need it. The configure script has changed since he compiled myth. Doing websearches, I see that you used to uncomment the xvmc lines in settings.pro, but my settings.pro has no xvmc lines. Again, I suspect this is because of changes/enhancements to the configure script. Is the XvMC support no line gospel? If so, how do I change this to YES? I have a nVidia FX5200 (MSI) and verified that the latest drivers (7174) are loading, by looking at my Xorg.0.log after X starts. No other revs of nvidia drivers were installed on this system. Many thanks in advance for your help, Donn ___ 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] Configure script says XvMC support no (err, YES!)
On 4/19/05, john roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had this issue. You will find the configure script looks only in one location for the lib's for various things (such as xvmc, xv, others). Adding --enable-xvmc has no effect here since it checks to see if the lib's exist. And if they do not - then it disables the feature. As you'll see from his post he has his libraries in:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] lib]# pwd /usr/X11R6/lib He hasn't specified --enable-xvmc ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv 0.17 on EPIA triying to output to /dev/nvidia0
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 16:36, Mark Gawler wrote: Hi, Can anyone explain why Myth 0.17 is attempting to use an /dev/nvidia0 output device When I (Gentoo) have configured it to use Unichrome XvMC_VLD output. The settings seem to have had some effect as the TV Player settings Use HW XVMC VLD Decoding (Via only) is there and selected. 2005-04-03 16:03:15.116 nVidiaVideoSync: Could not open device /dev/nvidia0, No such file or directory Segmentation fault That message is not important. Your segfault is something else. Any suggestions? Do a distclean. Get a debug build. Get a backtrace. -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV does not access hardware decoding (VIA XvMC)? But Xine does!
On Saturday 02 Apr 2005 17:13, Raimund Moedlhammer wrote: Am Sa, 2005-04-02 um 09.30 schrieb Ivor Hewitt: Can you ldd libmythtv-0.17.so libviaXvMC.so.1 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libviaXvMC.so.1 (0x40e0f000) libXvMC.so.1 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMC.so.1 (0x40e1e000) I also checked if /usr/X11R6/lib/libviaXvMC.so.1 ist there: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]$ ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libviaXvMC.so.* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root17 11. Feb 18:30 /usr/X11R6/lib/libviaXvMC.so.1 - libviaXvMC.so.1.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 55648 7. Feb 21:32 /usr/X11R6/lib/libviaXvMC.so.1.0 Ta. I assume that matches the libxvmc you built? Can you post your mythfrontend -v all log too. I think some of the xvmc messages go to stderr and some to stdout, so you'll probably want to:- mythfrontend -v all 21 log -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Woes
On Saturday 02 Apr 2005 20:48, Donavan Stanley wrote: On Apr 1, 2005 2:10 PM, Tom E. Craddock Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mat Kyne wrote: So my question that I lay before the all-knowing Mythtv guru's is this, What am I doing wrong. Do I just need a faster processor (I currently have a 2.4 Ghz Celeron that I bought just for this)? Or are there other things that I can try first. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks -Mat Yes, you need a faster processor. A 2.4 celery wont cut it. I just barely got by with a AMD XP2100+. ummm no. My 2.5 celeron does just fine using libmpeg2 for playback, and no XvMC enabled. For HDTV res output? I'm surprised it's that's good. -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Black bar over playback
On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 00:38, Ryan Claeys wrote: If I switch Myth to display in a window this all can still be seen within the window. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. This is running on a EPIA M1 system, using the via-unichrome driver, and a PVR-250 Card. Running Fedora Core 3 Installed using Jarod's how to as a guideline. Running myth-tv 0.17 from atrpms, kernel-2.6.10-1.770_14.rhfc3.at, and the unichrome driver recompiled from Terry Barnaby's source RPM's to match the kernel. Is this outputting to monitor or TV? What resolution? Have you got your DisplaySize set correctly in your x config? Does the stock unichrome driver have the same problem? -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] S-video widescreen - both in and out
David wrote: I don't think you can. from : http://www.creativevideo.co.uk/pages/cvp_info_widescreen_explained.htm Its a common misconception that there are more pixels in a recorded 16:9 SD image than a 4:3 one because in reality all PAL D:1 images are actually 720x576 pixels, its just that a true 16:9 image is anamorphically squeezed into 720x576 pixels So a TV signal (again, AFAIK) only contains 720x576 pixels. A widescreen TV signal has the same number of pixels but each pixel is a different shape (in fact, for anamorphic, they're not even the same shape as each other - I *think* anamorphic is not relevant here) So (again AFAIK) there's no point in messing about with resolutions - the card will essentially scale to 720x576 anyway. This all changes for 16:9 projector (and probably 16:9 plasma/lcd screens and HDTV) where there are a different number of pixels. My projector actually has 856x480 (square) pixels (the US is a big market so I get stuck with NTSC height sigh) so in my case the applications can just scale the video and it all looks fine! (This is just by way of giving you a decent argument to give to the wife to buy a projector grin) Same here. Actually I find I get a much higher video quality by outputting 720x576 and letting the Plasma do the scaling instead. It seems the scaling algorithms in my video chipset (VIA) aren't a match for JVC's! -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV does not access hardware decoding (VIA XvMC)? But Xine does!
On Thursday 31 Mar 2005 20:05, Raimund Moedlhammer wrote: Hello list, I am heading to install a TV and PVR on a VIA Epia ME6000 and using onboard hardware acceleration (CLE 266). I use a DVB-T capture card (TechniSat AirStar 2TV). I installed Fedora Core 2 with kernel 2.6.10-1.8_FC2. I applied the kernel-via-drm from Terry Barnaby´s site (http://www.kingcot.eclipse.co.uk/unichrome/fc2/) and most of the new xorg-x11 rpms from here: http://washington.kelkoo.net/epia/FC2/RPMS/ I have installed xine-lib-1.0.0-999.1.beam.rc7.fc2.i386.rpm from http://www.kingcot.eclipse.co.uk/unichrome/ (after I have solved the dependencies). Now Xine is able to play DVD very well and using hw acc. But I still struggle with MythTV 0.17. The CPU usage is very high (mythfrontend ~50%, total ~92%) and I get a very choppy life stream when watching TV. I have compiled it with XvMC support, enabled XvMC_VLD support in settings.pro (and NOT nvidia-XvMC) In mythfrontend´s settings I can select use hardware XvMC MPEG Decoding and Use HW XVMC VLC Decoding (Via only) I have already tried all sorts of combination (one or the other on, both on or none) and there is no difference in performance and log messages. When I start live TV in mythfrontend I get no messages in console that XvMC is being used. First I was asking in the Unichrome list (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6926603forum_id=38 837) but then I was told it is a Myth issue... So find much more details (logs, settings, suggestions, results,...) there. Does anyone have an idea what I did wrong?? Thanks for help Raimund Can you ldd libmythtv-0.17.so -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV .18 impending release? If so, what's in it?
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 08:38, Maverick wrote: Cobblers. There's no restriction on -dev users as you'll notice by the amount of complete crap that gets posted there. Yup, I requested and got the confirmation email this time. It musta gotten lost before... Ah well such is life. I'm talking about 3'rd party apps. I've seen several things posted on -users that people are like announcing, but there doesn't seem to be any history of them having been working on it. One such example I ran into is: http://mythextra.napsi.net/ Hokay. That's someone's independent project that they're working on outside the myth tree I thought you were talking about features incorporated into mythtv. They've worked on something in their own and announced it on users. What's the problem there? That has nothing to do with the mythtv development process. In any case, all the projects on that page (mythmail available under download) are not linked from any of the mythtv.org pages. I realize it's not usable in the sense of being in CVS, but it would be really cool if there where a section on mythtv.org, like here: http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=Downloads There's a wiki for that sort of unrelated link. Expecting mythtv to link to everyone and his dog's project is unrealistic. If someone wants to work on something on their own then announce it. Fine. If someone wants to work on something and get help they can announce their intention. If someone wants to work on something and announce changes on myth-dev they can. It could have links to different modules in development or unfinished, so we could at least find them without having to troll -dev -users, google, etc. The only reason I found out about mythMail is because I typed 'mythmail' in google... My lucky day! :) Oh the pain. Having to trawl through google or the archives for information. :-) Who knows, maybe if people knew about some of the addon's, they'd be more willing to help develop them. Perhaps the people working on the addon's don't want anyone else working on them. Cheers, -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV .18 impending release? If so, what's in it?
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 06:25, Maverick wrote: Yeah, I'm somewhat new to mythtv (3 months), and I tried to join the dev list to submit a bug fix patch and never got a confirmation email. I guess they have all the developers they want, and don't want any newbs submitting bug fixes. Oh well. Maybe I'll try again... Cobblers. There's no restriction on -dev users as you'll notice by the amount of complete crap that gets posted there. I understand the not wanting to play 20 questions, but it would be nice to see a list of what is planned for myth, after all, there might be someone able to help code a particularly new feature, or already working on it as a hack of their own, as to yet be shared. I see new addons and stuff for myth just appear on this list with no warning, sometimes, I go, 'gee, I'm glad I wasn't working on that!' Nothing just appears by magic. Everything that gets included gets discussed on the dev and/or users lists. -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Via EPIA Xv Motion Compensation
Örn Einar Hansen wrote: Þann Fimmtudagur 24 mars 2005 12:48 skrifaði Kristian Kalweit: Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES) Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. VDecoder init failed :( Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.3.1 Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2)) What's your MPlayer command line? -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] This account is currently not available.
Don wrote: Richard C. Isaacson wrote: Are you just setting up your install? If so look at the shell in /etc/passwd. You should be able to just do a su mythtv. Otherwise change the shell that the account is using. -rich Don wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] don]$ su - mythtv Password: This account is currently not available. Why am I getting this error? dlw ___ 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 Are you just setting up your install? .yes. This is what /etc/password has; mythtv:x:75:75:mythtvbackend User:/var/lib/mythtv:/sbin/nologin Otherwise change the shell that the account is using. I do not know what this means? With :/sbin/nologin you have prevented this account having an interactive login... and using su - mythtv you are trying to use the login shell. either change /sbin/nologin or just su instead of su - -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Via EPIA Xv Motion Compensation
Örn Einar Hansen wrote: Þann Fimmtudagur 24 mars 2005 15:49 skrifaði Ivor Hewitt: RTFM: mplayer -vo xvmc -vc ffmpeg12mc path to movie :-) Outstanding! Thanks ... now I'm seeing less than 20% CPU usage when playing a movie. At least, it's clear at this point ... that it's not the XvMC that is failing ... it's MythTV that is. The question is now ... why. I'm going to recompile MythTV with some changed parameters, to see if that helps. I have changed the XvMC environment, after building MythTV ... not that is should matter :-( but then I've taken that out of the equation. The settings, that I see being relevant in MythTV are: Use libmpeg for decoding - false Use Xv for picture control - false Use XvMC - true Use VLD XvMC - true Use Xv for picture control - true -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Cutting NUVs
Ralph Little wrote: Hi, What is the easiest way to cut a .nuv into 2 pieces. I want to archive a big recording onto a CD. Sorry if this is a FAQ - couldn't find anything definitive in the archive... :( What sort of .nuv is it? if it's an mpeg2 nuv then mpeg2cut should do the trick. -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Epia M: LiveTV blank
On Sunday 20 Mar 2005 20:40, Bill Weir wrote: Can someone point me in the right direction? Reviewing the users thread I don't see an answer to this. I'm trying to get MythTV to work on an Epia-M client with Unichrome HW MPEG accelleration, with the video feed on a separate backend. When I pull up LiveTV I get a blank screen. I can ESC out of it, and when I go to exit out of mythfrontend, it won't let me exit. I want to be able to hit LiveTV and see live TV. I know it's possible (not a backend problem) because I tried installing MythTV 0.17 from RPM's and it all worked, except I got a frame rate of 2 - 3 frames per second (it wasn't using hardware acceleration). 1. Can you try the sample mp2decoder application from the unichrome site, that will test whether your decoding is working. 2. What hardware are you using. 3. Can you get a mythfrontend -v all log for the failing playback. 4. What do you see in the X log when you start playback. -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] VIA EPIA-M
On Sunday 20 Mar 2005 21:52, Ron Johnson wrote: To bottom-line this thread: An 1GHz EPIA-M with a PVR-150 should easily be able to watch live TV because... - the PVR-150 is H/W encoding to MPEG-2 - a MythTV process is writing that encoded stream to disk - another process is pushing the encodes stream from disk to the Unichrome MPEG-2 decoder. - the Unichrome driver is pumping the decoded data to the video card. Did I miss anything? Spot on. Hopefully that will kill this thread. then again. -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Epia M: LiveTV blank
On Sunday 20 Mar 2005 21:47, Bill Weir wrote: Ivor, Thank you very much for responding. 1. I guess mp2decoder isn't working. Mp2player x.mpg gives: starting up mpeg2 video testapp... found 24bit TrueColor beginning to parse the Xvideo extension... Chosen Xv port: 64 XvMC error in file xvmc-test.c line110: Exiting. Fatal error - exiting. Run time: 0 frames in 0.00 seconds. Hi, What size is your AGP window in the BIOS? Do you have: Option EnableAGPDMA true in your X.org device section? What res/depth are you trying to run at? -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Epia M: LiveTV blank
On Sunday 20 Mar 2005 22:31, Bill Weir wrote: Ivor, - AGP aperature in BIOS was 64M; I have now enlarged it to 256M - perhaps this was the wrong direction - not sure what the aperature does. Now -v all gives continuously repeating messages like this: 32M should be fine. If mp2player doesn't work then you have a problem you need fixing before trying something more complex like mythtv. What benchmarks are you getting in your X log? In fact what memory have you got in the machine and what are the BIOS memory speed settings? 2005-03-20 14:24:33.532 Broadcasting free space avail 2005-03-20 14:24:33.536 audio waiting for buffer to fill: have 3072 want 4096 Occasionally interspersed with 2005-03-20 14:24:33.577 Timed out waiting for free video buffers. 2005-03-20 14:24:33.577 Attempting video sync thread restart - Still nothing notable in Xorg.0.log (I think) - Yes I have included the EnableAGPDMA in the Device section, per Jaxon Lee's doc: Section Device Identifier Videocard0 Driver via VendorName Videocard vendor BoardName S3 UniChrome # Bill Added stuff per http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=26963group_id=102048 # 3/20/05 Option DisableIRQ Option EnableAGPDMA EndSection Screen for VideoCard0 is as follows (depth is 16 or 24? I'm new to X): Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Videocard0 MonitorMonitor0 DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 Modes800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes800x600 640x480 EndSubSection EndSection -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ivor Hewitt Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 2:05 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Epia M: LiveTV blank On Sunday 20 Mar 2005 21:47, Bill Weir wrote: Ivor, Thank you very much for responding. 1. I guess mp2decoder isn't working. Mp2player x.mpg gives: starting up mpeg2 video testapp... found 24bit TrueColor beginning to parse the Xvideo extension... Chosen Xv port: 64 XvMC error in file xvmc-test.c line110: Exiting. Fatal error - exiting. Run time: 0 frames in 0.00 seconds. Hi, What size is your AGP window in the BIOS? Do you have: Option EnableAGPDMA true in your X.org device section? What res/depth are you trying to run at? -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Epia M: LiveTV blank
On Sunday 20 Mar 2005 22:31, Bill Weir wrote: Ivor, - AGP aperature in BIOS was 64M; I have now enlarged it to 256M - perhaps this was the wrong direction - not sure what the aperature does. Now -v all gives continuously repeating messages like this: 2005-03-20 14:24:33.532 Broadcasting free space avail 2005-03-20 14:24:33.536 audio waiting for buffer to fill: have 3072 want 4096 Also compile the unichrome driver with XV_DEBUG and see what logs you get then. Occasionally interspersed with 2005-03-20 14:24:33.577 Timed out waiting for free video buffers. 2005-03-20 14:24:33.577 Attempting video sync thread restart - Still nothing notable in Xorg.0.log (I think) - Yes I have included the EnableAGPDMA in the Device section, per Jaxon Lee's doc: Section Device Identifier Videocard0 Driver via VendorName Videocard vendor BoardName S3 UniChrome # Bill Added stuff per http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=26963group_id=102048 # 3/20/05 Option DisableIRQ Option EnableAGPDMA EndSection Screen for VideoCard0 is as follows (depth is 16 or 24? I'm new to X): Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Videocard0 MonitorMonitor0 DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 Modes800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes800x600 640x480 EndSubSection EndSection -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ivor Hewitt Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 2:05 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Epia M: LiveTV blank On Sunday 20 Mar 2005 21:47, Bill Weir wrote: Ivor, Thank you very much for responding. 1. I guess mp2decoder isn't working. Mp2player x.mpg gives: starting up mpeg2 video testapp... found 24bit TrueColor beginning to parse the Xvideo extension... Chosen Xv port: 64 XvMC error in file xvmc-test.c line110: Exiting. Fatal error - exiting. Run time: 0 frames in 0.00 seconds. Hi, What size is your AGP window in the BIOS? Do you have: Option EnableAGPDMA true in your X.org device section? What res/depth are you trying to run at? -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] VIA EPIA-M
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 18:28, Örn Einar Hansen wrote: Þann Fimmtudagur 17 mars 2005 11:27 skrifaði Matthew Phillips: I have an EPIA M1N system with the same IO chipset and have seen that DMA thread before when investigating why my system was periodically locking up. In my case it actually turned out to be the 2.6.9 kernel's support of Longhaul CPU speed control - upgrading to 2.6.10, which has this turned off by default, has left me with a system that runs for weeks without fault. I didn't find any reliable way to trigger the lockups though, so if it freezes every time you try live tv, then this is likely another problem. Well, I'm able to see live TV with xawtv ... which brings me to believe that it can be done. However, to see it with xawtv I have to turn off Xvideo support ... weird. No no no. you are able to see it with xawtv because xawtv is simply rendering the raw video image that's being generated from your capture card onto the screen. Mythtv operates by encoding and then decoding the video stream to provide you with live tv pausing. This is why you can watch TV with xawtv and not with mythtv. I'm currently using SuSE 9.2 ... and am toying with the idea of completely enrolling a local gentoo distribution. Matthew. ___ 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 -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] VIA EPIA-M
On Thursday 17 Mar 2005 19:16, Torsten Schenkel wrote: I don't know for sure, but I seriously doubt the Epia has the muscle for on the fly compression decompression and i/o bandwidth for twice full size PAL video (to and fro the processor) and twice compressed video (to and from HD) Many people are successfully using EPIA based myth boxes... and if you're using the embedded mpeg decoder they're not even stretched. -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] VIA EPIA-M
On Thursday 17 Mar 2005 22:33, Torsten Schenkel wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 17.03.2005, 20:13 + schrieb Ivor Hewitt: On Thursday 17 Mar 2005 19:16, Torsten Schenkel wrote: I don't know for sure, but I seriously doubt the Epia has the muscle for on the fly compression decompression and i/o bandwidth for twice full size PAL video (to and fro the processor) and twice compressed video (to and from HD) Many people are successfully using EPIA based myth boxes... and if you're using the embedded mpeg decoder they're not even stretched. I know, me being among the first ones :-) But as you said: H/W mpeg decoder, which goes with a h/w mpeg encoder as the pvr250 or combined en-/decoder as the pvr350. S/W mpeg2 encoding is out of the question on the EPIA, divx encoding might just be ok, but doing both and the bandwidth for the 2 uncompressed and the 2 compressed streams will kill of the small thing i guess. The bandwidth won't kill it but you're correct there's absolutely no way you're going to do live mpeg2 compression on an epia. I doubt you'd be able to do mpeg4 either. And scrolling back I see the original question is about using an analogue capture card in an EPIA. so quite right... it's not going to work. Cheers, -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] VIA EPIA-M
On Thursday 17 Mar 2005 22:56, Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 20:13 +, Ivor Hewitt wrote: On Thursday 17 Mar 2005 19:16, Torsten Schenkel wrote: I don't know for sure, but I seriously doubt the Epia has the muscle for on the fly compression decompression and i/o bandwidth for twice full size PAL video (to and fro the processor) and twice compressed video (to and from HD) Many people are successfully using EPIA based myth boxes... and if you're using the embedded mpeg decoder they're not even stretched. How is that done? By using a closed-source driver? http://unichrome.sf.net -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] EPIA M10K + DVD Play CPU Usage
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 11:11 +, Ivor Hewitt wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: I tried getting XvMC to run using some .mpg file I had laying around, and it took me a while to discover hardware decoding does not work on all video files given to Xine. But it should work on DVD right? I've been pointed out that Divx doesn't work. You need to get some logs to figure out what is/isn't working. Yes it will do DVD just fine... and an M10K has plenty of grunt to do a Divx anyway. Okay.. Here are Xorg's Logs (tar.bz2'ed attached.) Relevent details are pasted here. (II) VIA(0): 3D Engine has been initialized. (II) VIA(0): [drm] DRM interface version 1.2 (II) VIA(0): [drm] drmAgpEnabled succeeded (II) VIA(0): direct rendering enabled (II) VIA(0): [XvMC] Initialized XvMC extension. I've also attached the log files for running xine --verbose=9 -V xxmc. Looking though it, I have no idea if it really is using xxmc/XvMC. xine -help will show you what video out drivers you have available. It looks like your xine isn't compiled with xxmc support. Please try reconfiguring xine and/or paste a copy of your xine config.log. I've also recompiled xine on my laptop and had Xvmc enabled, but I still don't see anything that resembles xvmc being used at all. And does your laptop have xvmc support? Please help me, right now, I can't play DVDs because it keep complaining of Dropped frames. Actually that should be Please help me. Right now, I can't... :-) BTW : This is a Gentoo system with 2.6.9 kernel + xorg-x11-6.8.2 + R30(Unichrome) + 0.13 libxvmc + drm from CVS. BTW : Why are 'Gentoo systems' the ones that have all the problems compiling and using the drivers? ;-) Cheers, -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Zooming in mplayer?
On Saturday 12 Mar 2005 08:45, j2 wrote: Is it possible to make mplayer zoom a video which is a smaller format? I have some _old_ video-rips that's in 360x288 which I still would like to view in full screen for nostalgic reasons? mplayer -zoom -fs -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: mythtv backend on a headless fileserver
Peter Loron wrote: Ok, this is drifting a bit OT, but I'm going to strike while the iron is hot. I've got my backend machine set up and pretty much working, but it is going in the closet so I don't have to listen to it. I need to get VNC working. In the past when I was running FC1, I just did apt-get for TightVNC and I was all set. Starting a VNC server and connecting yielded me my complete KDE/Gnome/WhateverWM desktop. Now that I'm running FC3, TightVNC doesn't seem to be available, and when I connect using the already installed vncserver, all I get is a minimalist TWM environment. How to get a full-on desktop? I'm suspecting I need to edit one or more of the X config files, but I'm clueless. If there's a FAQ for this one, please point me to it. Why bother with a full-on desktop anyway? You have X installed on the machine, I assume you have X somewhere else too... ssh into the machine, set your DISPLAY to be your desktop machine, and just run your X apps as normal. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Anyone else having problems ripping new movies?
Peter Valdemar Morch wrote: john roberts homepagez-at-lycos.com |Lists| wrote: I'm surprised I haven't seen this posted yet - but from google-ing around I found there is a new encryption method being used on some of the latest movies. This seems to prevent libdvdcss (1.2.8) from working. Just thought you might want to know why MythDVD/Rip doesn't work on some of the latest movies. -John But, uhm, if libdvdcss fails, doesn't that affect playback as well as ripping? If not, how so? Do you have a link or two to the story? What did you search for? Is this just the new Macrovision RipGuard protection you are talking about? Link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/15/macrovision_ripguard/ This is not a new encryption system. They would not be able to change encryption algorithms otherwise all existing players would stop working. Basically this is the same as the CD protection they introduced where they fill the DVD with artificial errors in an attempt to confuse PC ripping software, although (hopefully) consumer players will be able to ignore the faults. Obviously introducing all these errors will reduce the life of the disc since the existing error correction capabilities will be severely reduced... and you'll have to buy replacement discs more often, and you won't have been able to take a backup copy... and... hold on... it's as if they want you to have to keep buying the same disc over and over. :-) -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it/goog - MSN Search unbiased? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mini frontend
On Tuesday 08 Mar 2005 21:50, Henk Poley wrote: Op dinsdag 08 maart 2005 12:38, schreef Kristian Kalweit: This is a very nice one: http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/processors/luke/ Now only a good USB2.0 capture device that is supported by Linux (no PCI). btw, VIA has been very uhm.. flexible with release dates. The nano-ITX EPIA board should been abundantly available by now (for months already). But messages like Expected January 2005 (maybe a few examples a bit earlier !) in webshops in march 2005 isn't really asuring. Indeedey. EPIA-SP launched March 2004. Available March 2005. :-) -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] EPIA-SP
On Monday 28 Feb 2005 15:05, Pedro Sigwald wrote: has anyone tryied this epia board with linux drivers? i've read that has some kind of MPEG-4 support. pedro You need to follow the unichrome.sf.net mailing lists for updates on the status of support. At the moment support is basic (video modes work), MPEG2 support is almost working. Regards, -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How to enable XvMC in 0.17?
On Sunday 27 Feb 2005 19:13, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 01:11, Isaac Richards wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 12:09 am, Jarod Wilson wrote: We actually did have it turned on at one point, and Isaac asked that it not be, because there were users who upgraded and suddenly had broken systems, since they didn't use nVidia cards for output. I believe the problem with patching it so the default is to have XvMC disabled is that there isn't anywhere to set it off, other than in the user's config database. I could be mistaken though. You simply have to switch the default value to off in the settings code. Ah, so I am indeed mistaken. In that case, if a tiny patch was added to flip that default, would you be okay with the primary ATrpms Myth build including nVidia XvMC support? Also, with a minor tweak it should be possible to alter the XvMC support to detect NVidia or Unichrome at runtime, in the same fashion as the MPlayer plugin. -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How to enable XvMC in 0.17?
On Sunday 27 Feb 2005 19:36, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 11:32, Ivor Hewitt wrote: Also, with a minor tweak it should be possible to alter the XvMC support to detect NVidia or Unichrome at runtime, in the same fashion as the MPlayer plugin. Oooh, now that would be sexy... Hmm, for certain interpretations of sexy. :-) Too busy trying to get unichrome-pro support working at the moment though. -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] sky plus navigator remote, which IR receiver?
Ashley Bostock wrote: I've recently brought a sky plus navigator remote (one with the keyboard inside) and want to set it up to be used with my mythtv box (pundit). What's the best IR receiver to get or build? I dont mind which. Any good tutorials ppl can recommend - I found loads on google, but I think I need to make sure it supports RC6 codes? I'm using a homemade IR serial receiver, effectively the same design as the one on the LIRC site. -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it/goog - MSN Search unbiased? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] sky plus navigator remote, which IR receiver?
Neil Bird wrote: Around about 17/02/05 08:15, Ashley Bostock typed ... I've recently brought a sky plus navigator remote (one with the keyboard inside) and want to set it up to be used with my mythtv box (pundit). Can't help with the rx h/w as I'm using the rx unit that comes with the PVR-350, but if you create/find an lirc config file for it before I get a chance to cobble one, please post it! I just bought one myself, but actually can't find any configs for it online! Hi I've been meaning to post my sky+ config for contrib but at the moment there's a double key bounce on the mini-keyboard which I've been meaning to tidy up before posting... but I don't rely on the keyboard enough to fix it... so it's been like that for months and I still haven't posted it. :-( The only slight wrinkle in my config at the moment is that I was taking advantage of the TV key to go to live TV mode but that changes all the keycodes and you have to press the SKY button to flip them back. If no-one else has a complete config to post, I'll engage arse-gear and sort it out. -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it/goog - MSN Search unbiased? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Need Unichrome X background for M10K
On Wednesday 16 Feb 2005 06:05, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 16:26, Ivor Hewitt wrote: On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 17:47, Eric Webb wrote: After googling a lot, I'm confused by all of the different EPIA development. I guess Via is doing some and others are doing their own stuff. Yup pretty much. Although going onto the unichome mailing list is probably a good step for information about graphics support. I don't think you should be using viafb, if not mistaken that's for FrameBuffer as in usage for console. Unichrome is not viafb. -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it/goog - MSN Search unbiased? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Update on using epia m10000 for a frontend
On Wednesday 16 Feb 2005 01:20, Adam Felson wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 05:39 +, Ivor Hewitt wrote: ..snump.. Well your experience is just your experience isn't it? With 5MBs DVB-T my M9000 struggles without XvMC with a high bitrate DVD it stutters. OK. I'm not doing hdtv and my data streams barely do 1.5mbps. aha. I tries xine with -V xxmc and it works fine. Tried to compile mythtv with xvmc and the link balks that it can't find the XvMC library. Checked /usr/X11R6/lib and it's there: # ls /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMC* /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMC.so@/usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMC.so.1.0* /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCW.so.1@ /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMC.so.1@ /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCW.so@ /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCW.so.1.0* Well post yer failing linkage. /usr/X11R6/lib is in the ld.so.conf file so I don't know what the deal is. Back to xv only for now. Sure if it works for you why not stick with it. -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it/goog - MSN Search unbiased? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re:#0 DVB ERROR
Yvon free wrote: To: list Mythtv-users mythtv-users@mythtv.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed I would really appreciate a quick response, my MythTV is down! I posted before about how my Debian .16-.17 resulted in no signal. The schema upgrade looked OK, yet when I attempt to tune I get the error above. Anyone knows how I can fix the upgrade? How I can fix the DB? do some extra setup? I would rather not start from an empty DB - I want to keep my recordings. Anyway, what is this 'transport' and which SQl table holds this data? My dvb_channel table has NULL for trasportid (is this what the error is about?). Thanks the transports are in the dtv_multiplex, i think there a 0 mplexid with no value in the fields. all the dvb_tables are empty What happens when you scan a frequency in the channel editor? -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it/goog - MSN Search unbiased? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re:#0 DVB ERROR
On Tuesday 15 Feb 2005 21:01, Mike Choy wrote: Yvon free wrote: To: list Mythtv-users mythtv-users@mythtv.org snippetychomp Anyway, what is this 'transport' and which SQl table holds this data? My dvb_channel table has NULL for trasportid (is this what the error is about?). Thanks the transports are in the dtv_multiplex, i think there a 0 mplexid with no value in the fields. all the dvb_tables are empty What happens when you scan a frequency in the channel editor? Ivor As far as i can see the scan just reloads the channel info, should not touch your other database items Well what's the point of the dvb channel scan then? :-) What it touches depends on which scan option he chooses in channel setup. He could do a full rescan to repoulate the dtv_multiplex table. He could scan a frequency to see if he tunes to anything. Could post a log. etc etc etc. -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it/goog - MSN Search unbiased? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mplayer: error
On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 08:01, Ivor Hewitt wrote: On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 16:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you! What does all this mean? [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# ldconfig [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# ldd -r `which mplayer` libsmbclient.so.0 = /usr/lib/libsmbclient.so.0 (0x00d9f000) libfontconfig.so.1 = /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x001fd000) ** libpostproc.so.0 = /usr/lib/libpostproc.so.0 (0x0060f000) ** libgtk-1.2.so.0 = /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 (0x00c02000) libgdk-1.2.so.0 = /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0 (0x00223000) According to that it's found the library just fine in /usr/lib. So is it still not working? -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it/goog - MSN Search unbiased? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] EPIA Decoder (was: Myth running ... user questions)
On Monday 14 Feb 2005 18:38, James Harrell wrote: My understanding from the literature on the EPIA boards is that this isn't really an MPEG decoder, but some form of math co-processor that offloads some of the decoding from the main processor. Please correct me if I'm wrong. The CLE266 included in the EPIA-M series boards does more mpeg decoding than NVidia XvMC, but less than the full decoding DXR3. It does halfway between. However My goal here would be a low-cost, quiet (fanless) box using minimal CPU. The EPIA 5000 is pretty cheap, just not sure if I move to the software (hardware assisted) decoding that: a) the box would be able to handle this at 500 or 733 mhz - or - b) the box would overheat running the CPU full-tilt to do the hardware assisted decoding in a fanless box The 5000 doesn't include the CLE266 mpeg decoding. It has an Apollo PLE133 based chipset. -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it/goog - MSN Search unbiased? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mplayer: error
On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 16:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you! What does all this mean? [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# ldconfig [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# ldd -r `which mplayer` libsmbclient.so.0 = /usr/lib/libsmbclient.so.0 (0x00d9f000) libfontconfig.so.1 = /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x001fd000) ** libpostproc.so.0 = /usr/lib/libpostproc.so.0 (0x0060f000) ** libgtk-1.2.so.0 = /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 (0x00c02000) libgdk-1.2.so.0 = /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0 (0x00223000) According to that it's found the library just fine in /usr/lib. -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it/goog - MSN Search unbiased? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Need Unichrome X background for M10K
On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 17:47, Eric Webb wrote: It looks like this version of slack runs X.org's X server versus Xfree's. I'm completely new to X.org... who are they, what's different, what's the (brief) story here? In brief: XFree86 changed their license. A lot of developers didn't like it or the fact that XFree86 developement was glacial. So X.org forked the code just before the license change and proceeded onwards. Look on the X.org site for more detail. I see a lot of mention of XvMC and I see what it stands for, but I don't understand where it fits into the picture. XvMC was NVidias extension to X to provide hardware MPEG acceleration (providing MC - motion compenstation, and IDCT). It made sense for the unichrome development to build on this rather than invent a new interface, so what was called XxMC and a variety of other names was created. This provides support for a higher level acceleration called VLD. Although the CLE266 does also support MC and IDCT too. The CN400 provides MPEG4 MC acceleration so its likely that will be implemented in the unichrome driver using XvMC also. After googling a lot, I'm confused by all of the different EPIA development. I guess Via is doing some and others are doing their own stuff. Yup pretty much. Although going onto the unichome mailing list is probably a good step for information about graphics support. Thus far, I'm using the ALSA snd_via82xx module that came with slackware, Recent ALSA has good via support. I don't know if there are any great advantages to VIA's binary sound drivers... but I've never had a distro they would install on so I can't say. But when I start up mythbackend and mythfrontend, I get a blank screen and then the console locks up. I can still telnet into the machine, and I see that mythfrontend repeatedly compains Timed out waiting for free video buffers. Why? You'd need to post backend and frontend logs. Should I dump the viafb driver and use the one from the Unichrome project? Should I use the plain X support, XvMC, or DRI? Which buys me hardware MPEG-2 decompression? Well clearly that would be my recommendation. But you should ask for a second opinion. -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it/goog - MSN Search unbiased? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Update on using epia m10000 for a frontend
On Monday 14 Feb 2005 04:41, Adam Felson wrote: On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 02:56 -0500, Eric Webb wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 08:28 pm, Adam Felson wrote: I left settings.pro alone (stock).. we'll try XvMC accelleration later on. I did some looking, and I feel pretty good about my xorg.conf now. And, yeah, I've been through epiawiki and via arena... but I'm still clueless about where to go from here. My experience is that xvmc isn't worth the bother. With xv (xvideo, nonaccelerated frame buffer output), I never use more than 60% CPU and never miss a frame. Well your experience is just your experience isn't it? With 5MBs DVB-T my M9000 struggles without XvMC with a high bitrate DVD it stutters. Of course the cle266 has the capability of decoding up to four mpeg streams simultaneously which you'll never achieve using software. Also some people may be running passively cooled boxes, or simply prefer the idea of not running their machine maxxed out all the time Finally the MPEG out through the unichrome chipset runs through the HQV filters which can do de-blocking. Last time I compared native XV to XvMC on my box the XvMC was certainly of higher visual quality. To recap: I can fire up the front end, see menus, EPG, but when I try to view video -- live or recorded -- I get a blank screen and the console locks up. If I telnet in, I see frontend complaining that it times out waiting for free video buffers. So let's say that I compile MythTV without XvMC, and I'm running X.Org 6.7 with the included via driver. Is this recent enough? Don't. Just compile it with the XV output. Leave the xvmc junk commented out. Ho hum, I take it you've had difficulties using xvmc then? You could perhaps also suggest leaving the VIA junk behind and buying hardware from a manufacturer who bothers to support their customers on linux. -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it/goog - MSN Search unbiased? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mplayer: error
On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 15:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #cd /usr/lib #ln -s libpostproc.so.0 libpostproc.so.0 #ln -s libpostproc.so.0 libpostproc.so # mplayer -vo xv /tmp/test_capture.mpg mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libpostproc.so.0: cannot open shared object file: Error 40 Please Help Thanks! # ldconfig # ldd -r `which mplayer` -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it/goog - MSN Search unbiased? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] One more rsync question
James Pifer wrote: I have the following script for backing up my myth recordings, videos, etc. At one point it was working correctly, but now it recopies everything every time it runs. I used to have a -a switch, but then I would get chown errors. I tried -c for checksum, but that was taking forever, maybe I should use it and be patient? I know I'm using the dangerous --delete, but I want it working that way. I've looked through all the rsync options, but I can't figure out which switches I should use. I obviously don't want it copying 200+ gig every night, just new changes. Any quick suggestions? Try and find out what the problem with the -a flag is. I guess if that's not working its probably having trouble checking for date/time diffs. and since you're using rsync.. why are you mounting the storage directory with nfs. You should run the rsync daemon with storage as an export. Thanks, James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] what is kswapd0?
Tj wrote: anybody has any ideas what is kswapd0? When watching live TV or doing a recording, that process eats up 99.9% of the CPU... kernel swap daemon. What version of the kernel are you using? there's a known bug in 2.6.10:- http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/2/3/303 Cheers, -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it/goog - MSN Search unbiased? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] what feature for this?
On Wednesday 09 Feb 2005 20:39, Neil wrote: What should I install to have this kind of feature as shown below(schedules and so on)? http://mythtv.sourceforge.net/mc/epgvideo.png ? That's just mythtv. what do you mean? -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it/goog - MSN Search unbiased? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] cvs - mythtvsetup
On Saturday 05 Feb 2005 18:44, Sigurd Nes wrote: I just compiled mythtv from cvs (0.17) - but mythtvsetup seems to be missing. I followed the instructions given at http://mythtv.info/moin.cgi/UpgradeToCvsHowTo Any clues? Yup, this has been covered again and again. The CVS install does not rename and install a file called mythsetup. That's simply something that some packaged versions of mythtv have chosen to do. The setup program is just built in the root setup directory. i.e. ./setup/setup -- Ivor http://www.ivor.it/goog - MSN Search unbiased? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] SIS Mpeg decoder
On Wednesday 02 Feb 2005 21:54, MacNean C. Tyrrell wrote: Ivor Hewitt wrote: snippety Would the makes of windvd or powerdvd whatever be able to give information? Not a snowflakes chance in hell. Plus below it mentions mpeg1/2 standard compliance, since it's standard couldn't there be a way to write code based on the standard to use the decoder? Well all the the mpeg player code is based on the standard :) Its finding out what level of acceleration is provided and hooking in at the right level. It says it provides IDCT and MC acceleration. i.e. it provides XvMC style accelleration. 2. Is there any software available at all? I assume there must be something otherwise why would they sell the chips? Supposedly windvd can use the dvd decoder to it's fullest potential, according to sis website, there are 2 other dvd navigator systems that can but their names escape me at this momment. The windows driver also i believe has the ability to make use of the decoder. I'm not sure how MPEG support is provided on Windows, I don;t know if its provided by extension drivers that are part of the video driver or if the DVD player app developers have to implement support in each app. 4. Do you have the skill to disassemble a driver? I don't know. I was more hoping to get more info and pass that on to Thomas Winischhofer and help him with the driver. I would love to learn. I am a decent programmer, but this is something i've never done before. I don't care if it takes me a long time, from the way mythtv performs for me, unless hardware fails, i'll prolly keep using the same system for a very long time, have for 1.5 years now, and therefore that includes the sis gpu. Well it isn't impossible, and it depends where you are in the world and the terms of the license agreement on the drivers as to what the legal status of doing it is... but it's certainly fun! :- http://www.ivor.it/cle266/guide.html :-) 5. in what way is SIS refusing to help? what discussions have you had with them? I have not had any personal conversations with SiS. This information was from Thomas Winischhofer, he's the one who wrote and upkeeps the sis driver for linux. I personally wouldn't mind trying to contact them, i just don't know where to start. LIke i said never done this before and would love to. Well it won't cost you anything to at least try and approach them and see if you can find out what the issues are. They might be prepared to release specs under NDA. Cheers, Ivor. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Via EPIA Experiences
On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 01:48, Mark Anderson wrote: Folks, I am thinking about setting up a mythfrontend based on the VIA EPIA MII1000 motherboard and was hoping someone with some experience with the EPIAs could answer a couple of questions for me: If you search the archives you'll fine many peoples comments about them. 1.Can it can playback DVB mpeg2 video without stuttering? Yup. But not PIP currently because that is still done in software. 2.Does the XvMC for the VIA provide a colour OSD? Only with the experimental patch. 3.I'm guessing that HD is out of the question even with XvMC? With a cle266 yes. -- Ivor Hewitt. http://www.ivor.it - tech | http://www.ivor.org - hedge ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Putting a toe in the CVS water
Phill Edwards wrote: Ah, there's a bit of assumption on my part. No, those are the binary RPMs (the .i386 gives it away, that's the processor type). Source RPMs have .src.rpm at the end and should be identical no matter what platform it is for. (After all, it's still source at that point, so not platform specific.) Oh - I thought these would be source RPMs as I got the list from http://atrpms.net/dist/fc2/myth-cvs/ I'm a bit confused now as I thought it a list of CVS RPMs would be source code. Those are pre-built binary packages of the source code from CVS from a particular date. I didn't see the rest of this thread, so maybe a daft question but if you want to use the CVS source code. ummm why don't you use CVS to get the source code? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie needs help choosing hardware for use in the UK
Neil Milne wrote: Avermedia DVB-T PCI Card £64.44 Hauppauge WinTV-Nova-T Freeview receiver PCI (909) £62.06 Vision + PCI TV Tuner - HDTV Compatible + Remote £46.06 Any ideas what the HDTV compatible mean in the Cheapo Vision+ card? Do they just mean DVB-T? In theory, but I've read that the Hauppauge cards are much better at holding a weak signal which was important for me as I'm pretty far from the transmitter... Hmmm, I have the opposite experience, although my Nova-T is much older than my Avermedia. The Avermedia is the one that gets the best signal. I'm guessing I won't need any soundcards in a DVB only system? For playback perhaps? :-) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Picture in picture not working....?
Jules Gosnell wrote: Andrew Wilson wrote: I've got dual DVB-T tuners in a VIA M10k with debian 2.6.9 and unichrome drivers. Myth is going nicely, but for a few problems. I can't get picture in picture going at all. V is supposed to toggle it on/off, right? Doesn't do anything for me. Each tuner works fine. I can record off both simultaneously, and the Y key to change inputs works. Has anyone got this feature working? Andrew Are you using the unichrome driver with h/w mpeg support enabled - I am and seem to have sacrificed the on-screen-display - I was thinking of getting another DVB card and started wondering how the pic-within-pic and OSD were implemented - perhaps using the h/w support on the Via m/b closes the door on both of these - can anyone more knowledgeable comment ? This was mentioned recently. The normal XvMC and XvMC-VLD modules do not enable Pip. There is an experimental version in the Experimental Colour OSD HACK(tm) patch but it's, well, experimental. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] No listings on remote MythFrontend
Ok, I have two systems setup -- a backend running FC2 (that is also setup as a MythTV Frontend) named 'mythtv-backend' at IP address 192.168.1.20, and a frontend running KnoppMyth (installed to HD) named 'mythtv-lr' at address 192.168.1.21. On the backend system, I can do everything perfectly. On the frontend system, I can watch Live TV and recorded programs just fine and can also use the 'browse' feature while in Live TV to browse the programs on other channels. But when I pull up the Program Guide (either via Live TV or via Manage Recordings/Schedule Recordings/Guide, I don't have any listings on the screen. (Strange, because the individual listings show in 'browse' mode, and they are using the same database, right?) Hmm weird. Do you get anything if you run mythepg? also try running with verbose logging and bringing up the program guide and see if it tells you what it can't do. can't recall the exact '-v' setting so use mythfrontend --help. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What NOT to do to your Myth box...
tommy wrote: Ok, so this is pretty tragic, it's also amusing if you're a sick bastard like snip Feel my pain... ROFL. Ok I feel your pain. Ok yes I did burst out laughing so I guess I have a cruel streak. Hey it's only TV. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Picture in picture not working....?
Andrew Wilson wrote: Ivor - where I can I pick up your OSD patch? http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/engine?list=mythtvdo=search_resultssearch_forum=allsearch_string=osd+colour+hacksearch_type=AND ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythCVS and Unichrome on EPIA M10K
Paul Barker wrote: Tom Hughes wrote: Use -L to specify the directory to search when linking - ld.so.conf is only vused to find libraries at run time. Ah, right. I'll try adding a -L /usr/X11R6/lib. Have others had to do the same on a Fedora box ? That's already specified as a default lib path in the settings.pro file in EXTRA_LIBS. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythCVS and Unichrome on EPIA M10K
On Wednesday 05 Jan 2005 21:56, Paul Barker wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# ld -lviaXvMC ld: cannot find -lviaXvMC Hmm, any ideas ? Please post the log of your failing build. -- Ivor Hewitt. http://www.ivor.it - tech | http://www.ivor.org - hedge ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] OT: Asus V9560 BIOS
Ok off topic... but everyone's got a few video cards around here. :-) So I thought it was worth a try. Has anyone here got an Asus V9560 VS video card? I'm in need of a bios following a bit of, ahem, experimentation. The original bios version was 4.31.20.28.00 I believe. Although I think it needs to be a special Asus Bios rather than a generic NVidia one (which I've already tried) for the dual DVI on the card. (Memo to self, make sure you don't overwrite the backup of the bios you've just taken with the new version) Thanks, -- Ivor Hewitt. http://www.ivor.it - tech | http://www.ivor.org - hedge ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to create XvMC Blocks
On Friday 31 Dec 2004 22:42, toad six wrote: I have compiled MythTV .16 to use XvMC by editing the settings.pro file for my Epia M1, via CLE266 chip. XvMC has been tested using m2player, and it works fine. MythTV compiles OK, but when I start the frontend, I get an error: Using XvMC version 1.1 date Using XV port 56 Unable to create XvMC Blocks ... Killed Did you enable the XvMC VLD section or the XVMC section? Sounds like you're using the wrong one. Has anybody else seen this error? I am using cvs xorg, drm, and mesa... Kernel 2.6.9 with the epia patch... If any other info is needed, please let me know... -- Ivor Hewitt. http://www.ivor.it - tech | http://www.ivor.org - hedge ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] finetunning X on g450 TV
On Wednesday 29 Dec 2004 07:51, h.engemann wrote: Hi, i managed to get the tv out running on my matrox g450. The main problem now is that the picture is black and white and unstable. Are there any things i can do to fine tune the output? Also the configuration of X was a bit incomplete, he mist to write the config for the first monitor. http://www.bglug.ca/matrox_tvout/g450_tvout_howto.html I use a debian/sid, nova-t(90002) and a PAL TV. Are you sure the matrox card is outputting PAL and not NTSC. -- Ivor Hewitt. http://www.ivor.it - tech | http://www.ivor.org - hedge ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] RE: DVB in the UK (EPG)
On Tuesday 14 Dec 2004 12:26, Andrew Wilson wrote: On Sunday 12 Dec 2004 20:09, Stephen Tait wrote: Edit: I've found a site selling what purports to be one http://www.thedigiboxshop.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=18, but I can't see a keyboard anywhere... You can buy them anywhere... dixons, currys etc. They flip open and there's a qwerty keyboard inside. Forgive my ignorance: Can you use this thing as a regular keyboard in X using lirc? That would just be dandy! Oh indeedey, very handy. -- Ivor Hewitt. http://www.ivor.it - tech | http://www.ivor.org - hedge ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DVB in Guildford, UK...
On Monday 13 Dec 2004 15:16, Jules Gosnell wrote: Are aerials directional ? Perhaps the one on my roof just happens to be pointing more in the direction of the Guildford transmitter ? Um yes and polarised horizontally or vertically and some aerials are also 'tuned' to just pick up some frequencies (and thus cut out more interference). I did have a nice link somewhere about the aerial types... but googling will probably get the information quicker. I tried a few different aerials and ended up with a simple maxview wideband one with an amp, that picked up the best signal for me. The ofcom site has a list of transmitters and frequencies: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/reception_advice/regions/view_transmitters.asp-itv_region_id=3.html http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/reception_advice/digital_trans_guide/index.asp-region=3.html There, crystal palace is horizontal and guildford is vertical. -- Ivor Hewitt. http://www.ivor.it - tech | http://www.ivor.org - hedge ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DVB in the UK (EPG)
On Sunday 12 Dec 2004 18:33, Tom Hughes wrote: I don't think the visionplus one comes with a remote control. The remote with the nova-t is pretty good and works well with MythTV. It'd be worth the extra for that. I have other plans for a remote. Aside from anything else I want to mount the receiver internally if I can. I use a Sky+ remote with my mythbox. Works like a charm and includes a full size keyboard under the flap. An almost perfect design for a PVR. :-) -- Ivor Hewitt. http://www.ivor.it - tech | http://www.ivor.org - hedge ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DVB in the UK (EPG)
On Sunday 12 Dec 2004 20:09, Stephen Tait wrote: I use a Sky+ remote with my mythbox. Works like a charm and includes a full size keyboard under the flap. An almost perfect design for a PVR. :-) Oooh, tasty! Does anyone know if they sell spares? Does it operate through LIRC, or some kinda PS/2 adapter you made from sticky backed plastic...? Oh indeed I don't have sky. They sell just the handsets for £20 and they're very nicely made. No problems with lirc and a homemade IR receiver. Edit: I've found a site selling what purports to be one http://www.thedigiboxshop.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=18, but I can't see a keyboard anywhere... You can buy them anywhere... dixons, currys etc. They flip open and there's a qwerty keyboard inside. -- Ivor Hewitt. http://www.ivor.it - tech | http://www.ivor.org - hedge ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DVB in the UK (EPG)
On Thursday 09 Dec 2004 19:15, James Hansen wrote: I've read a number of posts stating how poor the EPG broadcast with the DVB signal is, and that everyone uses the ukrt (radio times) list. My problem is i dont have internet access at home to download these listings, so my question is, is the broadcast EPG really that terrible to the point that it is unusable? I have no problems using the dvb epg data for the channels I'm interested in. ITV3 doesn't seem to be transmitting a 7 day guide but everything else is fine. -- Ivor Hewitt. http://www.ivor.it - tech | http://www.ivor.org - hedge ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Grey text with XvMC
Preston Crow wrote: If you enable XvMC in Myth, the on-screen display has no color. Is this a fundamental limitation with XvMC, or is it something Myth hasn't worked around yet? Yes this is a current intentional design feature of the Myth XvMC. I produced a patch for the EPIA xvmc which would also work for other xvmc, but haven't sorted out a diff of my current version yet. Been meaning to put up a current patch for a few weeks now but haven't had time. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] EPIA-M Unichrome xvmc vld
On Tuesday 07 Dec 2004 03:33, Steven wrote: Hi, Is anyone else seeing this or does this give anyone an idea of what is realy wrong here? Could it be the spurious interupt IRQ message? Could it be that my via drm version is too old? (I'm using the one included in the 2.6.8.1-epia1 kernel = 1.3) What version of the unichrome driver are you using? I assume fairly old since it hasn't worked with drm1.3 for quite some time. Its certainly worth trying the latest drm and unichrome drivers. -- Ivor Hewitt. http://www.ivor.it - tech | http://www.ivor.org - hedge ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
