Re: [mythtv-users] No TV or Video with SVideo
I finally got my video card to use the SVideo Out on my nVidia Ti4200. However, although the GUI shows up as expected, when I play live TV or any type of video (like AVI), nothing shows up. The screen is just blue. It's not hung as I can hit escape to get back to the menu. I tried searching the list first but wasn't able to locate anything that helped out. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm attaching my xorg.conf file that I use for the SVideo. Blue instead of video usually means that the video is being displayed on another screen. Common solution is to physically disconnect any other screens you may have plugged in at the time X loads, since most cards will detect these screens, even if you don't have them defined in xorg.conf. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nvidia, opengl, kernel and more
Can someone please share their combination of nvidia driver, kernel, opengl settings, etc. if you have it working? Thanks a bunch for everyone submitting their configs, now I 'almost' have my FX5200 running just fine. Two more problems: 1) The On Screen Display graphics are in black--white and 'blinky', when XvMC is used. If I turn of XvMC, then they're in color, but then CPU is too high and I get prebuffering pauses. Anyone know how to get my color OSD back with XvMC? 1) Slight prebuffering pauses while the OSD in displayed, during which CPU is goes up to about 75%, up from normal 45% during HD playback. This may be related to problem #1 above. I'm using nvidia driver 7676. Any thoughts? winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Dish Network and DVB
I don't want to create a huge off topic thread. However, I would like to know if it's possible in the US to use DVB-S cards to access dish network streams (legally). I've been searching for a while now and can't find a definitive answer. I currently have a Dish Network subscription and a receiver, but a DVB card would be preferable over the receiver if it's possible. Huge off topic answer - Legally, no. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] re-record deleted shows
I've got a couple of shows I'd like to rerecord. Some cases I'd like to re-record all episodes, and in other cases I'd like to re-record a specific episode. What's the easiest way to start over with a blank history for a show? What's the easiest way to re-record a particular episode? I'm familiar with phpMyAdmin, so I can get into the database and make the changes manually (if needed). No need to worry about phpMyAdmin or direct database access, as this ability is already in the GUI. Manage Recordings - Previously Recorded - and then find a show you want to re-record, hit Enter on it, and you have the option to Remove that Episode, or Remove all Episodes with that title. Once it's gone, MythTV will never now it ever recorded in the past. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] hd-3000 recording issues while and watchingrecordings from pvr-500
I have a weird problem when i'm watching recordings on my combined frontend/backend. If I'm watching tv on or even a recording from my pvr-500 or 350 while its trying to record a program on the HD-3000 via QAM.. I get a lot of artifacts in the recording. If i were to azap -r channel and watch a recording it goes from LOCKED unlocked LOCKED unlocked LOCKED over and over and over. The CPU is only being used at about 30% during all of this. If I just do azap -r channel without watching anything it is LOCKED all of the time. Anybody have any ideas of how I can track this down and try to fix it? I'm lost with this one. debian sarge 2.6.14.4 ivtv 0.4.2 but these aren't even recording when it happens. mythtv 0.18.1 sb live nvidia ti4600 with nvidia Thanks -Mike Just one thought, check your interrupts. This has caused problems for me in the past. cat /proc/interrupts From the dmesg output, it looks as if you may be sharing IRQ's with devices that don't like to be shared. The worst devices I've seen that often share and often cause problems are USB adapters and NIC's. Don't load the USB drivers if you don't have to. Also, move some cards around in the PCI slots if possible. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] hd-3000 recording issues while and watchingrecordings from pvr-500
James C. Dastrup wrote: I have a weird problem when i'm watching recordings on my combined frontend/backend. If I'm watching tv on or even a recording from my pvr-500 or 350 while its trying to record a program on the HD-3000 via QAM.. I get a lot of artifacts in the recording. If i were to azap -r channel and watch a recording it goes from LOCKED unlocked LOCKED unlocked LOCKED over and over and over. The CPU is only being used at about 30% during all of this. If I just do azap -r channel without watching anything it is LOCKED all of the time. Anybody have any ideas of how I can track this down and try to fix it? I'm lost with this one. Just one thought, check your interrupts. This has caused problems for me in the past. cat /proc/interrupts From the dmesg output, it looks as if you may be sharing IRQ's with devices that don't like to be shared. The worst devices I've seen that often share and often cause problems are USB adapters and NIC's. Don't load the USB drivers if you don't have to. Also, move some cards around in the PCI slots if possible. This would make sense in that i only have the problem when sound is playing back. 0:6427484 XT-PIC timer 1: 10 XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 4: 9 XT-PIC serial 5: 110884 XT-PIC ivtv1 7: 40564 XT-PIC parport0 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 9: 1 XT-PIC acpi 10:7099603 XT-PIC ivtv0, nvidia 11: 494167 XT-PIC ivtv2, uhci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2, eth0 12:5256246 XT-PIC cx88[0], EMU10K1, cx88[0] 14:3480859 XT-PIC ide0 15:1912283 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 21 MIS: 0 I guess I should go into the bios and try to somehow shove it on another interrupt? Is it supposed to show up twice like that? Suere enough, the evil USB's AND you NIC are on the same IRQ. Also, if possible, disable or don't load your parralel port when you're not using it, which should free up another IRQ, as well as your USB drivers, if you don't use them. My troubels have taught me that you should always have your NIC on it's own IRQ, same with USB. If your BIOS supports assigning IRQ's do that, or you may need to move cards arounds. Many mobo's have an unavoidable relationship between the onboard devices IRQ's and a particular slot, could be any slot, you'll have to move things around to find out which. The frustarting part of this is some IRQ's always go unused, no matter what you do, leaving you less to work with. I don't know whether ivtv or cx88 cards mind if they share IRQ's or not, or if there are other devices that don't mind. If someone else has experience with this, let us know. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] hd-3000 recording issues while andwatchingrecordings from pvr-500
On 1/27/06, James C. Dastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James C. Dastrup wrote: Suere enough, the evil USB's AND you NIC are on the same IRQ. Also, if possible, disable or don't load your parralel port when you're not using it, which should free up another IRQ, as well as your USB drivers, if you don't use them. My troubels have taught me that you should always have your NIC on it's own IRQ, same with USB. Just one quick question, how to tell linux not to load parport during boot-up? Same way you would any other driver. Compile it as a module M instead of built-in * in the kernel. Then, most distros have a config file for what modules to autoload at boot time; don't include it in there either. If it keeps loading on you, and you don't need it, just don't even build it at all in the kernel. I haven't used a parallel port in at least 5 years, so that's the first thing that comes out when compiling my kernels. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Sports events, LiveTV or Watch Recording?
I'd love to be able to say, record 30 minutes late *unless* it conflicts with another recording on the same channel, but I haven't found any way to do that yet There are two areas where you can set this. In Utilities/Setup, Setup, TV Settings, General, Time to record past end of show And, in the properties of each recording, you can set it to record past the end of the show. I'm pretty sure these settings do exactly what you are asking. The time extensions are ignored if there is a conflict. I use it all the time, but only in 2 minutes in each direction, just in case a show starts early or late, and I hate missing the last 10 seconds of a show. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Sports events, LiveTV or Watch Recording?
But, the global pre-/post-roll have a max of 10 minutes (600 seconds)*. Won't work for the OP's desired 30 minutes. The GUI on my unmodified Gentoo + Myth 0.18.1-r2 allows it to go to 1800 seconds (30 minutes). But, yeah, that would require a lot of storage in the long run. I like my 2 minute (4 minute total) extensions, and it comes in handy very often. Also, interesting that you say the purpose of this feature was to support slow capture cards, or avoid the OSD display of the source. I would bet most people had no clue about that, and simply like being able to beat the DVR-unfriendly-networks that like to start and stop shows early. In other words, if all capture cards become fast and the OSD problem goes away, I hope developers don't remove this feature. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Can't get glx to load
The main reason I want to reduce CPU usage at this point is that I'm playing back 720p HD using libmpeg2 and the CPU is bouncing between around 80% and 93%+, with the result that I'm getting stutter. I'm looking for anything that I can do to reduce the CPU load. I'm running a 2.8GHz P4, and I know people have talked about doing HD on 2.4 GHz machines, so I'm not sure why it's so high. I'm not running any deinterlace. Can't do XvMC on Sis. So, why are you getting rid of the NVIDIA card (which can do XvMC)? I'd say the XvMC is your best bet. Any other method of reducing CPU usage is likely to provide negligible gains during playback--that is any method short of transcoding HDTV to a lower resolution. Because a Pundit motherboard only has PCI slots, and PCI doesn't seem to have the bandwidth for HD. I'm not sure how much lower XvMC's bandwidth requirements are (if at all) than non-XvMC video, but I was never able to get XvMC to play acceptably over the PCI. The on-board Sis, on the other hand, seems to have the bandwidth, and I _should_ have the CPU, but I'm not sure why it's getting maxed out. I compiled Myth with O3 and the processor-specific option. Ahh. So, at this point I have to punt and say my only suggestion is a different frontend :( or transcoding to a lower resolution. Perhaps someone smarter has better suggestions. I'm very close - maybe a 5% or 10% reductionin CPU might do it. Thanks for trying (and for the glx suggestions). Overclocking is a good way to lower the CPU by a few %'s. Most modern mobos and CPU's can handle overclocking a little bit. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Lirc (lirc_serial) with 2.6.15.1
Someone got lirc_serial module with 2.6.15 kernel working? I have the lirc_serial module working with lirc-0.8.0pre3 on gentoo with a 2.6.15 kernel. I did not use gentoo's lirc, but downloaded from lirc.org. No issues whatsoever. I tried lirc-0.7.2 some symbol error at module loading. This seems to be fixed in lirc-0.8. But with 0.8 I have got a seg fault at module loading. Even lirc-cvs is not working for me. For now I'm back at kernel 2.6.13... winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nvidia, opengl, kernel and more
Hi Yeah, driver will not compile with 2.6.15, however the patch to make them compile is this one: I heard there's a problem with 2.6.15 and the nvidia drivers. There's a patch somewhere. Are you talking about nVidia's 1.0.8178 driver? It compiled cleanly for me with 2.6.15, using their supplied installer script. There were problems with older nVidia drivers not compiling against newer kernels IIRC, I think 6169 had a problem with 2.6.14+, even though gentoo had them both listed as stable. I had to use the unstable package to even get a clean compilation. The nVidia drivers are one of the few areas where Gentoo's portage system seems to screw me up, hence the usage of nVidia's installer. Just remember that the drivers must be compiled against the actual running kernel sources, even a seemingly minor change will require a re-compile. I'm not getting any compile errors or any errors in X or any errors in Myth. I've tried various version of the kernel and nvidia drivers, all of which compile and load just fine. I've recompiled myth with the -opengl USE flag. Playback problems still existed, although they were slightly different. Still, not watchable. Each time I try a different nvidia driver, I recompile myth. Can someone please share their combination of nvidia driver, kernel, opengl settings, etc. if you have it working? winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] getting more pissed off about IVTV
Well, the moderator finally reviewed my 4 emails to the ivtv-users and ivtv-devel lists. And I got a unanimous up yours from him. This is very sad. I guess my last hope is the email I sent Hans. Which is the first in the list below. What more can I do? It seems several people suggested you get the card replaced, as many other have seen the same exact thing you have with one bad tuner. No good software will ever fix bad hardware. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000/FC4 not working
I spent most of last night looking through the list archive and googling but still can't make headway with my setup. If I missed something please feel free to tell me to RTFM, as long as you point me to the FM. I'm setting up 0.18.2 on FC4 using an Nvidia 5200-based card and an HD3000 with an OTA antenna. The system is an Athlon 1700+ with 512MB of RAM and the latest FC4 kernel and nvidia drivers. I followed Jarod's FC how-to and I have myth installed and configured but a couple of things are still wrong. After a reboot I have to manually modprobe cx88-dvb then chmod /dev/dvb/adapter0/* so that the mythtv user can read the video card. (The latest HD3000 firmware is being loaded.) Once I do that, if I tell myth that the card is a standard v4l it'll pull in stations but the quality is far worse than with a TV hooked up to the same line. It won't let me do a channel scan when set as a standard v4l card and the audio is often out of sync with the video. When I set the capture card type as dvb it'll do a channel scan and find plenty of channels and they do come in very clearly, but they stutter a lot even though the CPU load is only about .75 and there is at least 100MB of free RAM. Looks to me like you hd3000 is working just fine, at least in DVB mode. Your problems now are mythtv/video settings and audio card settings. A good way to test this is capture a video stream and play outside of myth, with mplayer or something, and you may notice the playback is fine. And, I feel yor pain. I have a new Nvidia 5200 card and I get the same stuttering, only within myth, even with low CPU usage (see my current e-mails since last night). Nobody has been able to help yet. I pop my ATI 9600 card in - and everything is perfect. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nvidia 6x00 vs mythtv and mpeg offload
On 1/26/06, Big Wave Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe most people feel it is the Nvidia 5200. To some degree this is a hot topic, where people have their die-hard opinions. It seems as if the general opinion though is that MythTV favors Nvidia. I have had quite a bit of pain with the 6xxx cards.. the 5xxx cards just work. 5200's just work? Really? Please, let me in on your secret. I've built several myth systems, always with ATI, and now *that's* a video card that just works. No worries about opengl, XvMC, OSD, driver versions, compile options, etc. People may be getting sick of me today, but my new 5200 is still giving me headaches. And it seems I'm not the only one, with other recent posts. Sure, the nvidia driver is running great for everything I do, including playing HD video full screen with mplayer, but once I try to play video in myth, even SD content, playback is horrible. All I'm asking is for someone that has a 5200 that works, to provide me their kernel version, nvidia driver version, xorg.conf, mythtv version and compile settings, nvidia-settings, etc, but I haven't received anything yet. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nvidia 6x00 vs mythtv and mpeg offload
5200's just work? Really? Please, let me in on your secret. I've built several myth systems, always with ATI, and now *that's* a video card that just works. No worries about opengl, XvMC, OSD, driver versions, compile options, etc. lol... No worries about OpenGL 2.0--because ATI's drivers only support OpenGL 1.3. No worries about XvMC--because ATI's drivers don't support XvMC. :) Exactly. And if my HD content plays just fine without that support, then I'm not exactly sure why I need it. Kinda like if my Toyota gets me to work in the same amount of time as Ferrari, I'm not exactly impressing my friends, but my boss (wife) doesn't really care. And at least my Toyota (ATI) isn't in the shop all the time, unlike my Ferrari (nvidia). Oh, BTW, the latest ATI drivers support OpenGL 2.0. https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.21.7.html#178987 winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Quick Question (MythDVD)
Ronald Kohsman wrote: I keep clicking on the rip dvd and nothing happens. I'm not sure where the log file is or where to look for the error. I looked in the /var/log/mythtv nothing Are you getting the initial prompt to Start the MythTranscoding daemon (mtd)? If this appears, you should hit a number to start it. Or you may start it manually. It may be helpful to start it manually, from a terminal window, so you can see much easier what is going on. Be sure you start mtd under the same user account as mythfrontend! If you sudo mythfrontend, then be sure to sudo mtd as well. Once mtd is running, you should be able to hit 0, and the contents of your DVD will appear. Once you have select at least one title to process, hit 0 again. At this point, if you get nothing, or it returns to the main screen, the mtd has it's own log file that it keeps. 'mtd.log' is found in the directory you specify in setup for the location of the video temp directory. Hope something here helps, James winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Quick Question (MythDVD)
I am not getting to next screen...just acts as if I am clicking it...nothing happens. -r I gave a few other suggestions, such as starting mtd manually, and looking in the mtd.log file. What is the result of these? On 1/25/06, James C. Dastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ronald Kohsman wrote: I keep clicking on the rip dvd and nothing happens. I'm not sure where the log file is or where to look for the error. I looked in the /var/log/mythtv nothing Are you getting the initial prompt to Start the MythTranscoding daemon (mtd)? If this appears, you should hit a number to start it. Or you may start it manually. It may be helpful to start it manually, from a terminal window, so you can see much easier what is going on. Be sure you start mtd under the same user account as mythfrontend! If you sudo mythfrontend, then be sure to sudo mtd as well. Once mtd is running, you should be able to hit 0, and the contents of your DVD will appear. Once you have select at least one title to process, hit 0 again. At this point, if you get nothing, or it returns to the main screen, the mtd has it's own log file that it keeps. 'mtd.log ' is found in the directory you specify in setup for the location of the video temp directory. Hope something here helps, James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Ronald Kohsman Secure Applications Group (614) 530-0911 Direct [EMAIL PROTECTED] winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] nvidia, opengl, kernel and more
I've been using ATI cards with lots of success for a while now. Just for fun, I decided to try nvidia, so I have a new FX5200, based on everything I've read that should be a good card. Brand new gentoo installation, myth 0.18.1, P4 3.0, HD tuner cards. Anyway, I'm running into lots of playback problems. No crashing, myth is running great as always, but playback of live tv or recorded programs is giving me lots of problems. I haven't tried all yet, but several combinations of nvidia drivers, kernel (2.6.14 and 2.6.15), XvMC on/off, ffmpeg2, deinterlacing, opengl (BTW, if I understand correctly, to turn opengl on/off with gentoo, I just recompile mythtv with the USE flag of opengl or -opengl, right?). Anyway, sometimes the CPU is too high, or choppy video, or black-n-white OSD, prebuffering pauses, choppy audio, stuttering, etc. I must add that using mplayer to view any video plays it *perfectly* on this computer, and playing the video on my other frontends (ATI cards and a ROKU) also plays everything perfectly. I guess my question is, What is the best combination for nvidia? What driver ver? What kernel? What opengl setting? Xorg.conf settings? If anyone has similar hardware and has it running well, please let me know your working combination. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Mountable IR receiver
Is anyone aware of an IR receiver that is designed to be mounted in an external drive bay? Either a full-size 5.25 bay or a floppy bay would be fine. I may have to make my own, but I'd rather pay for a more professional looking solution. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mountable IR receiver
James C. Dastrup wrote: Is anyone aware of an IR receiver that is designed to be mounted in an external drive bay? Either a full-size 5.25 bay or a floppy bay would be fine. I may have to make my own, but I'd rather pay for a more professional looking solution. Google on Soundgraph iMon. There are various internal and external versions of an IR receiver/VFD combo. The IR/VFD units are the ones in the Silverstone line of cases and the drivers are available in lirc. Nice stuff, thanks. Of course, it's a little pricey for a simple IR receiver, since I don't really need the remote, much less the VFD. Might as well buy another Silverstone case, which I already with another frontend. Trying to make use of leftover/cheaper stuff for the kids TV. But I'll definitely keep this in mind. Thanks, James winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mountable IR receiver
James C. Dastrup wrote: Is anyone aware of an IR receiver that is designed to be mounted in an external drive bay? Either a full-size 5.25 bay or a floppy bay would be fine. I may have to make my own, but I'd rather pay for a more professional looking solution. Google on Soundgraph iMon. There are various internal and external versions of an IR receiver/VFD combo. The IR/VFD units are the ones in the Silverstone line of cases and the drivers are available in lirc. Nice stuff, thanks. Of course, it's a little pricey for a simple IR receiver, since I don't really need the remote, much less the VFD. Might as well buy another Silverstone case, which I already with another frontend. Trying to make use of leftover/cheaper stuff for the kids TV. But I'll definitely keep this in mind. I'm not clear on why you want it to fit in an external drive bay Same reason why I like internal harddrives, internal TV tuners, internal dvd-drives, etc. The first company to sell a DVR, or any home theater component, with an external IR receiver you have to hang off the side, will be the last DVR that company ever sells (and I'm not talking about optional IR extenders, which are a great idea). I'm not sure why there aren't more internally-mounted IR receivers. It's nice on the Silverstone and other high-end cases, but it would also be nice to have a budget case or add-on internal IR receiver. -- but if you're just looking for an IR receiver in a nice case check out http://www.home-electro.com/ira3.php. They offer an OEM model which comes without a shiny black case if you want to mount it in an existing enclosure. They are a little pricey but they work flawlessly with lirc, have their own micro-controller to avoid polling by the cpu (minimal as it may be), and use standard ethernet cable to transmit the signal (the upside being that you can get around the serial cable length issue; I run mine through more than 75 feet of cable through multiple walls and floors). Still, looks like a good product winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] whats the best graphics card for HD playback?
The truth is graphics drivers aren't there yet, for any card, for the kind of tasks we might want to do with mythtv, when it comes to HD. Raphael What tasks might I want to do, besides watch TV, that mythtv, the driver and card aren't able to handle? Because watching TV is just fine. I have an ATI 9600, and even with everything you hear about how bad ATI's card are in Linux, I have a beautiful HD picture with no problems. I have yet to discover a problem with my card and HD playback. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] whats the best graphics card for HD playback?
On Monday 23 January 2006 12:17, James C. Dastrup wrote: The truth is graphics drivers aren't there yet, for any card, for the kind of tasks we might want to do with mythtv, when it comes to HD. Raphael What tasks might I want to do, besides watch TV, that mythtv, the driver and card aren't able to handle? Because watching TV is just fine. I have an ATI 9600, and even with everything you hear about how bad ATI's card are in Linux, I have a beautiful HD picture with no problems. I have yet to discover a problem with my card and HD playback. James are you running 1080i through the DVI port with this card? I've been thinking of getting an ATI card since I from what I understand they can do interlaced modes using the DVI output, just want to verify. One frontend is using 720p over VGA and the other is running 1080i over DVI. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Cost of MythTV Machines
Subscription-based and pre-built HD DVR's are coming around. For example, Dish recently announced their dual-tuner, dual-TV HD DVR. This is probably the closest system to MythTV that I've seen, even has news, weather, caller ID, and games. See it here, pictures, specs, even pricing: http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?p=503421 So, if all you want is a HD DVR for not a lot of money, you're looking in the wrong place. But people here like building computers, like electronics, like the challenges, etc. If you really like flying, are you going to just buy tickets and fly from airport to airport all day in someone else's jet with someone else flying, or are you going to go out and get yourself a pilot's license, co-op a plane, and get in the cockpit? It's not going to be cheaper, but much more fulfilling at the end of the day. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] whats the best graphics card for HD playback?
On 1/23/06, Greg Estabrooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been surprised that the Dxr6 / EM8621 video decoder cards haven't gotten any traction with the MythTV crowd. It seems to be an ideal card Got a link to these cards? Maybe I've just being blind (wouldn't be the first time) but all I can find are the chips themselves and not commercially available pci cards with them onboard. The only one I found is the AllWell EM6821 PCI card, their site has some links to docs for it ( http://www.allwell.tv/ ). Other links with info: http://www.mpeg-playcenter.com/modules.php?name=Forumsfile=viewtopict=5343 http://www.sigmadesigns.com/products/em8620Lseries.htm So, if I understand correctly, this can potentially do for HD content what a PVR-350 currently does for SD content? Awesome. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] XP2100 outperforms my P4-3.2Ghz
AMD XP2100 proc Nvidia FX5200 Fedora Core 3 2.6.10 kernel Hauppauge PVR250 P4 3.2Ghz proc ATI X300 Fedora Core 4 2.6.14-SMP kernel Hauppauge PVR250 Where you using the Nvidia drivers for the XP2100? I would bet the driver off-loaded some of the playback to the video card. I would try the FX5200 in the new system with the Nvidia dirvers and see what happens. Jeff Even with the offloading that Nvidia drivers do, there is obvisouly some sort of problem here. I have a P4 3.0 with an ATI 9600 (AGP) and I don't experience any prebuffering pauses or stuttering, and my CPU will hang around 70% during 1080i content. I also have another frontend with a P4 2.26 and an ATI 9600. This also handles 1080i pretty well, with only minor stuttering when the video first starts and CPU about 90%. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] pauses during hd playback
I have been running mythtv for almost two years now and until recently everything has been fine. It seems that in the last few months, when I playback HD content on the frontend it will seem to skip a few seconds and show mpeg noise on the screen. When the backend starts recording, it gets worse. It starts to pause every few seconds. I am only showing about 20% cpu usage on X on the frontend while it is happening. The frontend is a P4 3ghz with 1gig memory, NVIDIA card. The backend is an Athlon XP 2000 with 512 megs memory. The backend has been able to record 2 HD streams and 1 250 at the same time while I playback one on the frontend (until recently). I have updated to the latest cvs yesterday. I am usually a few weeks behind. It has not made any difference. The backend seems to be having problems. I am no expert, but here is the TOP results: Is it an interrupt problem? I noticed that ivtv1 is on an interrupt by itself, but ivtv0, eth0, and skystar2 are on one interrupt with the highest number and the ERR number keeps rising: CPU0 0: 1095715619 XT-PIC timer 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 3: 6114 XT-PIC ohci_hcd 5: 1 XT-PIC ohci_hcd 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 9: 0 XT-PIC acpi 10: 398925 XT-PIC Skystar2, SiS SI7012 11:4301199 XT-PIC ivtv1 12: 180839091 XT-PIC ehci_hcd, eth0, ivtv0, Skystar2 14: 38733591 XT-PIC ide0 15: 554797 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 ERR: 13806 My next question would be how to change / move what interrupts the cards use and how I should group them. The frontend reports 'video behind (or audio ahead), playing video at double speed'. Even the fastest machines out there can be affected by IRQ sharing. I've especially seen problem with NIC's and USB controllers sharing IRQ's with anything else. To solve this, first attempt to spread out the IRQ's using your computer's BIOS. Also, trying moving some cards from one slot to another, as it's common for particular slots to share with on-board devices. Also, disable unused devices in the BIOS and don't load drivers for devices you don't use. For example, do you really need three USB host controllers loaded on your backend? winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up an FAQ for LiveTV changes
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page . the new MythTV Wiki is up, and those who wish to support MythTV by writing helpful FAQ's etc should take advantage of it. Is there a link to this wiki from the main page at www.mythtv.org? I couldn't find one. In my opinion, it would only make sense that's it's linked, and this ought to be considered the official wiki/FAQ for mythTV. The mailing lists are great, but they're not for everyone, especially because they aren't organized. But this wiki does need to start getting filled out a bit. I added a little bit to it yesterday, and I'll add more as I get a chance. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Video Database Protection needed
I was wondering if a little clarification could be added here about how to clear out the database entries once the videos have been deleted or moved. Mine still thinks I have them. You mentioned something about a prompt. When you go in Utilities/Setup - Video Manager, the frontend will do a quick scan to verify that all the videos in the database actually exist. If they are gone, or even if the path is not there and they can't be found (not mounted?), then you will get a prompt to keep or delete the database record. You also have the option for 'No to All' and 'Yes to All'. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Nearly 100% install of MYTHYV...
On my slave backend, which does not run mysql, the script also failed. Not sure if this is the same situation you are in, but it is very easy to create your own init script, since you've already discovered that mythbackend runs fine from a command line. The Gentoo install docs a pretty clear on how to create your own. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jerry McBride Sent: Sun 1/15/2006 2:47 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: [mythtv-users] Nearly 100% install of MYTHYV... I've just finished trying to iron out a mythtv install here in my house. I've got it all running as smooth as silk, save one single problem I am unable to start the mythbackend server via it's startup script. During restart or from a command line, executing the startup script on my gentoo server, /etc/init.d/mythbackend start results in normal output, but the backend shuts down almost immediately. There's no error messages in dmesg, messages or even mythbackend.log... The script executes normally, it's just that mythbackend shuts down Now... if I run the backend server from the commandline like a normal program with: mythbackend --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log --pidfile /var/run/mythbackend.pid --daemon --verbose all The backend server stays up and everything operates normally. The parameters are the same as provided in the startup script... nothing changed. Anyone have a clue where to start looking Thank you, in advance, Jerry McBride ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Wireless Keyboards Learning Remotes, Just don't get it!
Hello All, Please don't flame me as I have been scouring the net and this list in particular for several days trying to figure out exactly how to use my learning remote with my wireless keyboard. I understand the idea, but I don't understand exactly how to carry out the process. I know how to teach my remote a key, but I don't get how you know what codes are being sent by the keyboard. Maybe I am missing something, or using the wrong search terms, but something is preventing me from getting the whole picture. I have a One For All 6131 Remote, unmodified. On the back it says: URC-6131nB00 I don't remember what brand my keyboard is, and it doesn't say anything anywhere on it other than the FCC label. (If there is a way to discover the internals of the kbd, it would be appreciated) Regardless, it is a PS/2 wireless keyboard/mouse combo that comes with a rather ugly and cumbersome remote that I would rather not use. If someone could either tell me, or point me in the right direction to the actual process of finding the keyboard codes or whatever I need to proceed, it would be greatly appreciatd. Again, I have searched and have found info so close to what I need, but not quite there, that I may just be using the wrong search terms. Please, only constructive criticism and advice, I feel dumb enough already ;). Thanks in advance First of all, there is a difference between a programmable remote and a learning remote. A programmable remote requires you to tell your remote the device you want it to control. This usually means selecting a 3 or 4 digit code and plug that in your remote. Then all the buttons are set to control your device. A learning remote does not use a code to define your device. You teach the remote, button-by-button, how to control your device. This usually is done by pointing the original device's remote to your learning remote, pressing some keys as described in the manual, and then your new remote learns the signal sent by your device's remote. With IR keyboards, it is probably very unlikely that your keyboard has a device code available for your remote. Therefore, you need to put your remote in learning mode, and teach it, key-by-key, all the commands, A, B, C, D, F1, F2, Enter, Shift, CTRL, ALT, etc... that you need on your remote. You don't need to know the brand, model, part#, of your keyboard at all. As far as how you make your particular remote learn, you'll just have to read the manual. Then, use your IR keyboard as the sending remote as if it was a regular remote control. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] X.org modeline for Samsung HLR5067W?
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 10:44:14PM -0700, James C. Dastrup wrote: much. Finally I learned that I didn't need a modeline and Xorg would determine the settings on its own using the PC Input. Now, the picture is perfect, with only a slight overscan, maybe 5-15 pixels in each direction. When watching TV, a little overscan is _good_, since most broadcasts have a crappy edge because overscan What video card do you have? I'm assuming you have the resolution set to 1280x720? I'm using an ATI 9600 SE at 1280x720 I'm using the same Modeline you posted in your original post right now, with no overscan and just a slight black border. It's *almost* perfect, but I agree with you, a hint of overscan would be preferable (if for no other reason than I paid a lot for this TV and I don't want to lose a single inch of viewable area!). Yes, the black border was there, until I used the TV's internal adjustments to get rid of it. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Questionaire: What do you have your casepowerbutton do?
I'd like to know how you turn your myth box on using the IR remote though. I'm using the IR receiver that came with my Hauppauge Nova-t and IFAIK I can't use this for powering up [I'd be happy to be proved wrong]. I'd also be very interested in knowing how this is done. Currently, my power button kills mythfrontend and since its a combined FE/BE and the BE is set to shutdown if idle, this will also shut the machine down assuming nothing is recording and there are no flagging jobs running. I use nvram-wakeup then to automatically power the machine on when it needs to record the next show I have an IR keyboard. The BIOS is configured to power-on with any key-press. I programmed my remote to send the key-presses from my keyboard. That's also how I send all other commands. I don't use LIRC at all on the front end. My keyboard is always put away and I only need it if I'm working on that computer for some other purpose. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Questionaire: What do you have your casepowerbutton do?
I have an IR keyboard. The BIOS is configured to power-on with any key-press. I programmed my remote to send the key-presses from my keyboard. That's also how I send all other commands. I don't use LIRC at all on the front end. My keyboard is always put away and I only need it if I'm working on that computer for some other purpose. So why doesn't a remote signal meant for your TV, VCR, stereo, etc wake your computer? This always seemed to be the biggest roadblock for using the remote to wake my frontend. If your logic is correct, then every command sent by any remote would activate any IR receiver and process any command on any device. The answer is the same reason that when you power on your TV with your remote, you're DVD player doesn't also turn on. The signal sent for the TV is ignored by the keyboard's IR Receiver. The IR Keyboard receiver only picks up keyboard commands. If I program one button on my remote to send the letter A, and another button to send the TV's Volume Up, only the letter A will turn the computer on, since the keyboard doesn't even have a Volume Up button, much less matching the same IR signal that the TV would accept. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Questionaire: What do you have yourcasepowerbutton do?
I have an IR keyboard. The BIOS is configured to power-on with any key-press. I programmed my remote to send the key-presses from my keyboard. That's also how I send all other commands. I don't use LIRC at all on the front end. My keyboard is always put away and I only need it if I'm working on that computer for some other purpose. That's a neat idea. Was it hard to find a keyboard and remote that share the same protocol? All of my programmable remotes, a cheap-o $10 one, a $60 one, and a $250 Harmony 880 are able to learn and send the commands from my Fentek IR keyboard. I never even thought there would be a problem, but I suppose maybe other keyboards or other remotes may not work. Although, it is a real PITA to get the commands working properly. Too often, the commands are sent too much or not at all, so I've had to re-learn every command several times until it was perfect. I think the reason has something to do with the repeat rate in a keyboard, but possibly something deeper into the protocol. But now, every signal is sent every time just right. Someday I'd like to use LIRC to read the keyboard's signals, then clean them up in lircd.conf, then send them with LIRC back to a learning remote. I think this may help solve the trail-and-error method I did. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Questionaire: What do you have yourcasepowerbutton do?
I have an IR keyboard. The BIOS is configured to power-on with any key-press. I programmed my remote to send the key-presses from my keyboard. That's also how I send all other commands. I don't use LIRC at all on the front end. My keyboard is always put away and I only need it if I'm working on that computer for some other purpose. That's a neat idea. Was it hard to find a keyboard and remote that share the same protocol? All of my programmable remotes, a cheap-o $10 one, a $60 one, and a $250 Harmony 880 are able to learn and send the commands from my Fentek IR keyboard. I never even thought there would be a problem, but I suppose maybe other keyboards or other remotes may not work. Although, it is a real PITA to get the commands working properly. Too often, the commands are sent too much or not at all, so I've had to re-learn every command several times until it was perfect. I think the reason has something to do with the repeat rate in a keyboard, but possibly something deeper into the protocol. But now, every signal is sent every time just right. Forgot to mention - what helped teach the learning remote was how long I held the keyboard's key while learning. For example, many learning remotes say that during the learning process, to hold down the sending remote button until the learning remote lights up as successful. But, this often failed. I usually had to press the key very quickly; .1 second, in order to learn the signal properly. Depending on how long I pressed the keyboard's key during learning determined how it worked. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID problems - theunspokenmythtvproblem?
for what its worth, I am using 2 firewire encoders with a local 7 drive raid5. I am using latest ATrpms on FC3. kernel 2.6.12 smp. I have had no problems with simultaneous HD recordings (even starting at the same time), and the performance seems to be better than my old 2 drive LVM configuration. No recording problems at all. I actually stopped getting glitches in my HD records (part due to better RAID performance, part due to no longer running commercial detection) Interesting you mentioned commercial detection as a source of problems. I, too, have _almost_ no more problems with HD recording anymore on my remote (NFS) software raid5 recordings, after I disabled commercial detection. I did notice a couple glitches during a show last night. I was a little surprised, because I haven't see any problems in days. Afterwards, I noticed my MRTG monitoring found a spike in CPU at the same time. I think it was my cron job of backing up the mysql database, which also backs it up to the same remote NFS server. Guess I should move it to a better time. So it seems that NFS storage and/or software raid, although it works, is just very sensitive to anything else going on. Hopefully I can make it a little more robust with gigabit links and maybe even hardware raid in the future. But like others, I'm just afraid of hardware raid in the long run, esp with the questionable ability to replace a failed HBA in the future with a compatible one. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Suspend options with mythtv
HI everybody, I've been thinking about the things that still bother me about my mythtv setup, and the worst one is definately boot time on the frontend. It takes my P3-733 a couple of minutes to boot fully in to mythtv. I was hoping that some sort of hibernation/suspend to disk setup would help me with this. Does anyone out there do this sort of thing? Any mythtv related caveats? How about root over NFS? My system has a hard drive that I boot from, and then spin down. I suppose I could spin it back up to do the suspend to disk... How much faster would a resume be than a full boot? Mark I've done this using Suspend2 (http://www.suspend2.net/) and it works just fine suspending to disk. Definitely speeds up the boot-up process. I haven't been able to get it working with my P3 HT frontend, since it doesn't seem to like SMP, although it's supposed to work. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] AV sync and PVR-150
I know this topic has been discussed before, so if someone can direct me to a previous thread that addressed my exact issue, let me know. I couldn't find one. I have a PVR-150 and every recording it makes has an audio delay of exactly 111 ms. How do I know the exact amount? Because when I open the .nuv file in avidemux2, it tells me. Also, the slight delay is noticeable when playing in myth, mplayer, windows, or just about anywhere else. If I play the file in mplayer with the -delay .111 option, then it is perfect. It's only slight, which is why I've been living with it for a long time. It does NOT seem to be related to my audio receiver, sound card, NFS, HDD, cabling, etc., but rather to original recorded stream itself. Does anyone have any idea what's going on? As far as a workaround, is it possible to have a default a/v sync when playing back recordings from the PVR-150? Or, even better, is it possible to avoid the delay when it originally records? Is it possible to adjust the delay in the ivtv drivers? Is the problem in the firmware? I've tried a couple different driver versions, currently on gentoo's 0.4.0-r3, but the delay is always the same. Thanks, James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Questionaire: What do you have your case powerbutton do?
But I was wondering, what do other folks use their power button for if not to turn off/suspend their machine? Mine does a controlled shutdown of the whole machine. You must not have small children. My power and reset button just make a clicking sound - cause I disconnected the wires to it! Even my littlest figured out how to hold the button for 4 seconds to power it off. It turns on by IR remote, and shuts down cleanly by IR remote. If I have to force it off, I pull the plug. Also, mythfrontend runs from a script which starts it in a loop. So if it ever crashes (which it rarely ever does), or if someone accidentally exits out of it (more likely), it starts right back up. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Questionaire: What do you have your casepowerbutton do?
Also, mythfrontend runs from a script which starts it in a loop. So if it ever crashes (which it rarely ever does), or if someone accidentally exits out of it (more likely), it starts right back up. Could you possibly post that script your're using to make the frontend restart when exited/crashed? I've been just browsing around trying to guess how to do it, but havn't really searched hard enough :). Thanks. Sure. Here it is. #!/bin/bash #myth.sh #This script starts the MythTranscode Daemon and #start mythfrontend in a loop, in case it closes # sudo mtd -d while [ /bin/true ] do sudo killall mythfrontend sudo mythfrontend sleep 2 done winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID
Don't do this. You shouldn't mix raidtab and mdadm raidtab is obsolete with newer md. Uninstall it. using mdadm the above would be: mdadm --create /dev/md0 --chunk=32 --level=raid0 --raid-devices=2 /dev/hda1 /dev/hdc1 I suggest reading man mdadm (and why are you setting chunk to 32?) If you decide to go raid5 then you *must* use mdadm -F (otherwise you may well miss a disk failure - it's easy to do). Of course if you use raid0 this isn't important since you'll spot a drive failure as soon as the system crashes ;) David David, do you have a good source of reading on mdadm other than the Software RAID HOWTO? I'm going to be setting up my RAID5 across 3 drives today and want to make sure I do it correctly. Whether you use the a raidtab file and mkraid, or the mdadm command above, the end result is exactly the same. md-based Software RAID is Software RAID, regardless of which tools get you there. In fact, if you find a good HOWTO (are you referring to the Gentoo HOWTO? If so, it works fine), then I suggest following it. No sense is trying to figure it out with man pages. In my opinion, man pages suck as a learning tool. They are just a reference manual if you already have an idea what you're doing, and they are written without the intent of teaching people how to do something. How's that? Because most man pages don't even include examples! A good HOWTO or walk-through is vastly superior. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID problems - the unspokenmythtvproblem?
...a proper server setup should have more than enough bandwidth for even the largest software RAID 5 setups. Note I wrote proper server setup. By this I mean a high-quality motherboard with 64-bit PCI-X or PCI Express slots and multiple buses serving the expansion slots. My RAID 5 array is on a Supermicro X5DAL-G motherboard with two 64-bit 133MHz PCI-X slots and three buses (one for each of the PCI-X slots and a third for the regular PCI slots; there is a reason why 3Ware cards support 64-bit PCI-X). By contrast, simply stuffing controller cards and drives into the old unused consumer-grade system you have sitting in the closet is not ideal. At best performance will be acceptable; at worst your poor motherboard--never designed for the amount of stress you're applying to its (likely single) bus by sending so much data over it at once--will freak out, causing parity errors. I think the point here is that we know spending a months salary or more will get us a superior system, which is obviously what you've done, unless you have more creative ways of obtaining your hardware, but myself and others believe we are just building a fancy VCR, and we actually enjoy pushing the envelope of our older unused hardware, and we simply enjoy the challenge. It's fun to find out how far some old motherboard can go and what we can do for cheap. I'm much more impressed by someone who can get MythTV up and running on some old junk than by those that do it the proper way. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] fusionhdtv 5 lite -- how do i make it work?
i just added a fusionhdtv 5 lite to my box...linux knows it's there, it can pick up channels with a scan, and mythfilldatabase has been run. yet when i tune to it, i get nothing...blackness and then mythfrontend drops back to the main menu. what am i doing wrong? Sounds exactly what I experienced earlier this week installing a new DVB card. The solution was to set the starting channel in mythtv-setup. By default, it's empty. Be sure to put in a valid channel, e.g. 5-2 winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] NFS or SAMBA for Video Stream
I am running mythtv with a separate video server. I currently have it connect with a smb share. The only problem is a quick pause in movies every 5 minutes or so. Not really a bother, but is a tweek to smb available or would nfs do better? Movies ripped by mythtv don't require much bandwidth at all to play - I would be surprised if it had anything to do with NFS vs SAMBA and proper tuning. Have you verified that there is no pause if you were to play them from a local HDD relative to the frontend? Can you play them from another frontend or even a Windows PC? It could be something else, such as an IRQ conflict between your NIC and another device, another process using high CPU every 5 minutes, etc. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] NFS or SAMBA for Video Stream
Samba is great dealing with windows machines Only because on Windows, you don't have any choice. Windows Services for Unix (SFU) is a choice. I couldn't tell you how well it works. Just my $.02. -Ross winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID
All RAID0 does is join (or grow) partitions together. It is very useful if you have, for example, three 100GB disks about like them joined into a 300GB partition. Not exactly. A true RAID 0 (or a striped set) alternates writing each block from one disk to the other. This increases performance because 2 chunks of data can be written at the same time - one chunk to disk 1, one chunk to disk2, etc. Joining partitions together, or extending a volume, is not RAID 0. This does not necessarily increase performance, because data typically won't be written to the second disk until the first is full. In both scenarios, your useable space equals all your disks combined, but only the striped set improves performance. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] 64bit IDE RAID options?
Is anyone aware of a PCI-X 64bit / 133MHz capable IDE RAID HBA? Or, how about a PCI 64bit / 33 Mhz MHz capable IDE RAID HBA? All the ones I'm seeing are 32-bit / 33mhz. In case you're wondering why, I have a server-class machine (hence the unique PCI slots) but would like to make use of my fairly new IDE drives. Maybe they don't exist? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID
?On Monday 09 January 2006 14:53, James C. Dastrup wrote: All RAID0 does is join (or grow) partitions together. It is very useful if you have, for example, three 100GB disks about like them joined into a 300GB partition. Not exactly. A true RAID 0 (or a striped set) alternates writing each block from one disk to the other. This increases performance because 2 chunks of data can be written at the same time - one chunk to disk 1, one chunk to disk2, etc. Joining partitions together, or extending a volume, is not RAID 0. This does not necessarily increase performance, because data typically won't be written to the second disk until the first is full. In both scenarios, your useable space equals all your disks combined, but only the striped set improves performance. So what will mdadm do? What is my best option for using 2 drives to get the most speed out of them as a combined drive? mdadm does a true RAID 0 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Import existing video file?
I don't think the video manager is what I want. First of all, it's apparently only designed for using an external player, not for playing within the MythTV frontend. Secondly, the video manager seems completely messed up when you are running multiple frontends, since they are recorded in the global backend database but only referenced relative to the frontend's local filesystem. 1) Change the player to Internal for just that recording, then it uses MythTV's native internal player. 2) Change the Video path so it matches on all frontend. This is easily done by just adjusting your mount points. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID
So what will mdadm do? What is my best option for using 2 drives to get the most speed out of them as a combined drive? mdadm does a true RAID 0 Ok, let me ask the question again... I have 2, possibly 3, 320gig SATA drives. I want to build a RAID array that will maximize the speed of read and writes to the array. I have no concern with redundency because I will archive what I wish to keep to another drive. Using mdadm or lvm2, what type or RAID setup should I use? mdadm RAID 0 with 3 drives, JFS (my favorite) or XFS file system. Some may disagree, but in such a simple setup, I don't see any reason to add lvm on top of this RAID array, but others may prefer it. Also note, I don't believe you can boot off of a md RAID 0 drive, so you'll need another driver (or network boot) for your boot partition. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] question about RAID
mdadm RAID 0 with 3 drives, JFS (my favorite) or XFS file system. Some may disagree, but in such a simple setup, I don't see any reason to add lvm on top of this RAID array, but others may prefer it. Also note, I don't believe you can boot off of a md RAID 0 drive, so you'll need another driver (or network boot) for your boot partition. Ok, thats what I thought. do I have to use any special mdadm settings in order to do RAID0 and have it stripe across the drives? Nothing special. Just a /etc/raidtab like so: # /var/video (RAID 0) raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 0 nr-raid-disks 2 chunk-size 32 persistent-superblock 1 device /dev/hda1 raid-disk 0 device /dev/hdc1 raid-disk 1 Is it possible to add another drive to the RAID0 later to increase the speed later? I have the feeling the 2 will be enough for now, but... I don't know. I think this is where lvm come in handy, but I've never done it. But, since your data isn't important, you shouldn't have to worry about losing it and creating a new array if something goes wrong winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID problems - the unspoken mythtvproblem?
Just another datapoint - I've been using a software raid setup for 12 months now with no issues with mythtv. My raid arrays are in a seperate machine from my dedicated backend and two frontends, they are all networked over gigibit ethernet using NFS. I've recorded 4 streams from PVR250s before while watching another stream without a problem. I am using ext3 filesystem on my arrays and the file server is a Duron 1Ghz machine. I have 9 drives connected to several $20 Promise IDE cards. Server is currently running Debian Sarge using mdadm tools. Most of the complaints I see around software raid come from people with HD tuners. I've been using software RAID for a few weeks and I'm seeing the same problems others are. I have two HD tuners and one PVR150 with a 100mbit remote storage of 4 IDE drives in RAID 5. The PVR 150 recordings are fine, but HD streams are not so great, especially if I have auto-commercial detection running or anything else going on while recording. I wonder if you had an HD tuner if any problems would creep up. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] X.org modeline for Samsung HLR5067W?
Have your tried changing the TV's aspect option from 16:9 to WidePC? That should get rid of the black borders, at least it does on my HLR6167. That option is only available when using the PCInput, not DVI. When using DVI on these TV's, your options are much more limited. The PC input allows you to resize, move up, down, left, right, etc. Also, I went back and forth between DVI and PC input, and I could not tell a difference in quality - both were great. Yes, I've tried that. I figured I would eventually use that once I stop fiddling with all the settings of the Linux and Myth. I would have to use the GUI offset and size option to center it and fit it on the screen since WidePC causes the image to be cropped. (I can't see the login prompt in WidePC) To get around that problem, I use a console framebuffer splash with padding around the text. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] X.org modeline for Samsung HLR5067W?
I've done a bit of searching, but can't seem to find a definitive answer to the question, what is the correct xorg modeline to use for the Samsung HLR5067W HDTV? This is about the best I've found thus far: Modeline 1280x720 79.159 1280 1424 1552 1760 720 723 730 750 But it's still overscanned along the bottom edge, a bit too short and a bit too narrow (actually, it's probably the perfect height, but the TV adjustments won't let me move the picture up any more, so there's black along the top and it's cutoff on the bottom). I'm under the assumption that this modeline should also work for the whole HLRxx67W series of Samsung HDTVs (which includes HLR4667W, HLR5067W, HLR5667W, HLR6167W). I have the HL-R6167W. I tried forever to to find a good modeline, but never did. I was also using the DVI jack. Picture was pretty good using this modeline: Modeline 1280x720 74.500 1280 1344 1472 1664 720 723 728 748 -hsync +vsync but there was a slight moire effect and I didn't like the overscan, there was too much. Finally I learned that I didn't need a modeline and Xorg would determine the settings on its own using the PC Input. Now, the picture is perfect, with only a slight overscan, maybe 5-15 pixels in each direction. When watching TV, a little overscan is _good_, since most broadcasts have a crappy edge because overscan is expected on regular TV's. Just have the MythFrontend GUI in a window, adjust to match your screen area, and play video back full screen. Works perfect for me. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] X.org modeline for Samsung HLR5067W?
I have the HLR5067W. I'm currently using a nvidia FX5200, VGA out. Its also not perfect, I do have some black borders. In a dark theater room though, they are not noticable. I've always planned on using the DVI instead, I already have the cable, but swapping in a Windows drive just to run powerstrip is more than I feel like doing right now, just to find what looks good. Have your tried changing the TV's aspect option from 16:9 to WidePC? That should get rid of the black borders, at least it does on my HLR6167. That option is only available when using the PCInput, not DVI. When using DVI on these TV's, your options are much more limited. The PC input allows you to resize, move up, down, left, right, etc. Also, I went back and forth between DVI and PC input, and I could not tell a difference in quality - both were great. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] ATI HDTV working...
...almost. I'm trying to make use of my ATI HDTV Wonder card, which has been collecting dust since I dropped WinMCE. So, I installed the new 2.6.15 kernel, and everything is going well so far, except: Using azap, I get a happy FE_HAS_LOCK. But, when I: cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 test.mpg the file is empty. I also get this repeating error in dmesg: cx88[0]/2: queue is empty - first active cx88[0]/2: cx8802_start_dma w: 0, h: 0, f: 2 cx88[0]/2: setting the interrupt mask cx88[0]/2: [df081580/0] cx8802_buf_queue - first active cx88[0]/2: cx8802_timeout cx88[0]/2: cx8802_stop_dma cx88[0]/2: restarting queue cx88[0]/2: cx8802_restart_queue cx88[0]/2: cx8802_restart_queue: queue is empty Anyone else working on this? Any ideas what's going on? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Re: ATI HDTV working...
James C. Dastrup wrote: ...almost. I'm trying to make use of my ATI HDTV Wonder card, which has been collecting dust since I dropped WinMCE. So, I installed the new 2.6.15 kernel, and everything is going well so far, except: Using azap, I get a happy FE_HAS_LOCK. But, when I: cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 test.mpg the file is empty. I also get this repeating error in dmesg: You need to keep azap -r running in a second shell at the same time. Also, the channels.conf file must specify the audio and video pids. Bolek Yes, that's what I'm doing. It works fine with my HD-3000. That error must have something to do with it, so I'm still researching that. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Re: ATI HDTV working...
It's working now! I re-extracted the firmware using the provided tool and that fixed the error messages. But it still wouldn't cat to a file. I'm not sure why, but after I had both azap AND dvbtraffic running, then I could create the mpg file, which plays back just fine in mplayer. If dvbtraffic isn't running, then no output. Strange, I don't recall having to do that in the past, but sure enough, I verified I have to do that to capture from my HD3000 as well. Anyway, now I just have to get both of these cards working in the same box at the same time, and my MythTV will then have 2 ATSC tuners. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] myth and mplayer picture controls
When I change the picture controls (brightness, contrast, etc) within mplayer (using the number keys: 1,2,3,etc) from MythVideo, I've noticed that those settings are also applied to watching live TV or recordings. Is this supposed to occur? And to make it more frustrating, there doesn't seem to be any way of changing it within MythTV playback so I have to go back to MythVideo (mplayer) and make the adjustments there. Why do the settings carry over to TV? I thought those settings were mplayer-specific. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Large LCD Televisions?
Use the PC-Input instead of HDMI. With the PC input, X will automatically configure itself, since it will be able to read the monitor information. You don't even need a modeline. The Samsung TV's are pretty good, I have one myself. If you have too much overscan or underscan, you can compensate quite a bit of it using the TV. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jay R. Ashworth Sent: Wed 1/4/2006 3:54 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Large LCD Televisions? On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 05:50:29PM -0500, Joshua Ferraro wrote: My problem is that I can't get the TV to display Xorg. I've got a DVI-HDMI cable that I'm using to do the display out to the TV, it almost works fine in text mode (except for the fact that the screen size seems to be too large for the display and my cursor and the left-hand side is cropped off the screen). My xorg.conf file looks mostly like http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/xorg.conf-HD.txt except that I've obviously got a different video card. Basically, the only error I've got to go off is the TV's 'mode not supported' whenever I try to startx. You are almost certainly overscanning the TV. I would recommend trying to get X into a lower resolution mode (if you're configured in the traditional fashion, Ctrl-Alt-+ and - ought to rotate between them), and if that works, go into your config file and lock off the modes that scan too high. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Large LCD Televisions?
No, PC input is the same quality as DVI. At least on my TV (Samsung 61 DLP and ATI 9600), PC and DVI/HDMI quality is equal. Also FYI, I'm not sure if it's my ATI card's DVI out, or my TV's processing, but when I use HDMI, there is a slight delay in the picture from the source. This results in the audio being out of sync, although it is very very slight. I can compensate with my receiver's adjustements, but I don't have to when I use PC. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Joshua Ferraro Sent: Wed 1/4/2006 4:24 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Large LCD Televisions? On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 04:05:51PM -0700, James C. Dastrup wrote: Use the PC-Input instead of HDMI. With the PC input, X will automatically configure itself, since it will be able to read the monitor information. You don't even need a modeline. The Samsung TV's are pretty good, I have one myself. If you have too much overscan or underscan, you can compensate quite a bit of it using the TV. Ho hum ... doesn't that defeat the purpose of having digital HDMI in the first place? I thought the PC output would be much poorer quality than the DVI on my ATI card ... Joshua winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] ATI HDTV Wonder with MythTV?
I just read that the newly released 2.6.15 kernel has support in it for the ATI HDTV Wonder. Has anyone gotten it to work with MythTV yet? Very interesting! I've had an ATI HDTV Wonder sitting around ever since I gave up on WinMCE. It would be nice to get this working with linux. I'll try it later this week maybe, assuming I can get some time to bring down my backend without missing any shows. Of note, the kernel changelog has the ATI HDTV updates in the v4l section and mentions analog support only. It may not work for a digital signal. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Large LCD Televisions?
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 04:36:46PM -0700, James C. Dastrup wrote: No, PC input is the same quality as DVI. At least on my TV (Samsung 61 DLP and ATI 9600), PC and DVI/HDMI quality is equal. Hmmm ... well I might be doing something wrong ... but my first impression is what I'm seeing in text mode (haven't gotten X to start yet). With HDMI/DVI, though the terminal does creep off the screen (meaning I can't actually see the cursor :-)), the clarity of the ascii chars is crystal; with the PC input, the letters are blurry and seem to be be shuddering quite a bit. If the text is blurry using the PC Input, you must not be displaying text in the LCD's native resolution. There's no reason text should be blurry or shuddering. Are you using a framebuffer at the TV's native resolution? I would suggest the VESA VGA framebuffer, and not the ATI fb driver. I see a lot of freezing in X if you also have the ATI fb driver loaded. Also FYI, I'm not sure if it's my ATI card's DVI out, or my TV's processing, but when I use HDMI, there is a slight delay in the picture from the source. This results in the audio being out of sync, although it is very very slight. I can compensate with my receiver's adjustements, but I don't have to when I use PC. Interesting ... so that means you've actually gotten the DVI/HDMI output on the ATI working with your Samsung? Weird about the delay ... I wonder if it has to do with the fact that DVI is only video and you're using anothe source for audio input from your PC to the TV (rather than using the HDMI audio which would be ideal if there was a video card that supported HDMI). Yes, I got a modeline using entech's Monitor Asset Manager on Windows XP with the same hardware. It worked fairly well, but I always had a slight moire pattern in X. Once I dumped the modeline and plugged in the PC Input, I got a perfect picture. About the delay, I thought of that, so I plugged in a PC Monitor to the PC output and the TV to the DVI output and mirrored the display in X. Watching both at the same time, there was definitely a delay on the TV. Again, not sure if it was due to the TV or the DVI hardware on the video card. Joshua winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] ATI HDTV Wonder with MythTV?
I just read that the newly released 2.6.15 kernel has support in it for the ATI HDTV Wonder. Has anyone gotten it to work with MythTV yet? Very interesting! I've had an ATI HDTV Wonder sitting around ever since I gave up on WinMCE. It would be nice to get this working with linux. I'll try it later this week maybe, assuming I can get some time to bring down my backend without missing any shows. Of note, the kernel changelog has the ATI HDTV updates in the v4l section and mentions analog support only. It may not work for a digital signal. Doh... nevermind that - I think I see it now: [PATCH] dvb: add support for plls used by nxt200x - Added support for the following: Philips TUV1236D - ATI HDTV Wonder * get_dvb_firmware: - Added support for the NXT2004 firmware. This firmware works with both the ATI HDTV Wonder and the AVerTVHD MCE a180. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] how to feed 1280x720p to a large TV?
My Samsung DLP does this as well by default, but there is a menu option on the TV to change the aspect from 'PC' to 'WideTV 16:9'. Then, the image fills the screen with a little bit of overscan, which is easy to compensate for. So, what aspect options does your TV have? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Calvin Harrigan Sent: Sat 12/31/2005 8:56 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] how to feed 1280x720p to a large TV? Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: I have this LG DLP TV (52SZ8R) which says it has a 1280x720 resolution. What settings do I use so that I feed it this resolution? A quick test (from a Windows machine) that shows 1280x720 fine on my LCD monitor shows the image on the TV with black borders on all four sides. Maybe the RGB input has some limits? I plan to feed it DVI once I set up a proper Myth client, or maybe component. Anyone got a modeline? Happy New Year everyone. My Sony does the same thing, from what I've read on the net the TV itself is doing it to avoid clipping the edges of the display that might have important info/utilities like the taskbar, etc. I have yet to find a way to disable it. The display looks great, with the lights off I can't even tell there is a black border, the TV trim is black and the blacks on the display are really dark. Calvin... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] LAN bandwidth consumption
I have MRTG running on my network and I can easily see how much bandwidth is used on all my computers, backends, frontends, etc. In regards to just network bandwdith (ignoring any other limitations - CPU, HDD speed, other network traffic, etc), over a 100Mbit network: 1080i HD content uses a good 19 Mbit/sec. So, I bet you could easily get 3 frontends showing HD content from one backend. A fourth would bring it to 76 Mbit/sec, which would be pushing it, but maybe would work. SD content is up to 6 Mbit/sec, so theoretically you could have over 10 frontends pulling content from the same backend. But for some reason I find that unlikely due to other factors, but I don't know. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of John P. Mitchell Sent: Sat 12/31/2005 3:36 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] LAN bandwidth consumption All, Let me start by saying I am NOT a computer scientist and do not fully understand all of the mechanisms involved with the complex systems we play with now days. So take everything I say with a grain of salt, and PLEASE feel free to correct me, since I want to know if I have something wrong. John Andersen wrote: On 12/31/05, Larry's Club Cars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Newbie here. I have a 100Mb LAN. I plan to have 1 Myth backend and 2 frontends. Assuming that the 2 frontends are running simultaneously. How much of the 100Mb LAN will be used? Very good question. But your question does not include enough information as the answer depends on the bit rate of the recorded content. I will use my system as an example since I have two frontends and a backend just like you (I convert roughly to megabytes since that is what I think in): I record my content at 4400kilobit/second, which I understand is something like half quality DVD. I usually have two 4400kilobit/second or ( (4400 / 8) / 1000 = .55 ) .55megabyte/second streams running across my ( (100 / 8) * .8 = 10 ) 10megabyte/sec LAN, for a consumption of about 1.1megabyte/second of a 10megabyte/second network. (The .8 reflects real world utilization versus specification throughput of the network. Yes I know that certain special built applications can get the full 12.5megabyte/second throughput, but for general network applications I think 80% is a safe number. Even at 80% utilization it would seem you are doing REALLY well or the network is only being utilized by a single application.) Which leads into the next interesting question: what do you want to do with your content? This question usually dictates your requirements for recorded bit rate. I wanted a flexible platform agnostic format that would be easy to archive to a format that would be platform agnostic once in archived format. I also wanted to minimize the number of encodings to preserve the end result content quality as much as possible. Therefore I choose MPEG2 hardware encoders that record my content at 4400kilobit/second. This creates about 2gigabyte/hour of recorded content. This fits an average two and a half hour movie or three average one hour length TV episodes sans commercials nicely on a DVD-R for archival. The DVD-R plays nicely on almost every device I have put it in and is easy enough for the family members (besides me :-) ) to manipulate. According to my quick glance at gkrellm, I'm pulling 600 to 800k bytes per second across lan from my backend to my laptop. I've pulled two streams over the cat5 100mb lan with no problem what so ever. Interesting response, but still not super helpful as we do not know the content bit rate. -- --JSA- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Regards, John P. Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email Sticker: My Boss is a Jewish carpenter http://www.GoboLinux.org | User #00010110 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] OT: Anyone up for a little modeline assistance?
On my one my front ends I have a Samsung HP-R5072 50 Plasma TV. It is a great TV and so far I love it! I hooked up the front end I built for it which has a 6600GT PCI-E card in it using a DVI HDMI cable for it. I am having a little bit of an issue getting the proper modeline for it. I have tried a couple of the online calculators and tried their output but the frequency must not be right as the picture isn't in sync and text is unreadable. I tried using gtf and the same modeline as my BenQ PE7700 projector (both using [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and both display correctly however there is about 10-15% overscan. I have also searched but since the best resolution that it suggests is 1360X768 doesn't seem to standard. I attached a capture from the manual showing a table of resolutions and frequencies and am looking for a bit of help. The manual says The PC text quality of HP-R5072 is optimum in WXGA mode (1360 x [EMAIL PROTECTED]). However I am currently using 1280X720 and it looks perfect so I figure I would stick with that so my content would look the same on the projector or plasma. I also tried xvidtune, however no matter what I settings I change, I can't see any difference in the picture when I apply it. So in the overscanned desktop I started the FE and set the GUI to 1280X720 and told it to display video at the same size. When the FE is running, there is only like 2-5% overscan which wouldn't be to big of a deal, but it is right on the edge of cutting text off in the GUI so it is kind of annoying. Use the PC Input jack instead. I have a Samsung HL-R6167 61 DLP. I originally used a DVI-HDMI and tried forever to get a perfect modeline. The best I could get wasn't good enough. I always had a bad moire effect in the X grey pattern, although TV viewing was acceptable. I finally gave up, and used the PC-input to the TV. Now, no modeline required. X determines the appropriate settings automatically and no moire effect, either. The picture is just as bright and clear as with HDMI. Resolution is set the the TV's native 1280x720. Using the PC Input there is some overscan, but it's not too bad. Since it affects the GUI, just run the GUI in a window and position and scale it so it fits the screen better. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] RE: Configuring SPDIF digital out.
I might suggest that all alsa utilities, alsactl, and everything else is NOT required to use digital out with MythTV. I'm using MythTV 0.18.1 on Gentoo and I only have the necessary alsa drivers compiled in the kernel. I've never used alsamixer or alsactl, or installed/emerged alsa-utils, alsamixer, aplay, or anything else alsa related. I'm not starting any alsa services during startup. The only thing I did is: Enable alsa support and driver in the kernel. Put .asoundrc in my home directory. Set MythTV as follows: -Enable AC3 -Device = ALSA:digital -Mixer = digital and that's it. I also have all the other mythplugins working by setting their device to ALSA:digital. Is my setup unique, or are people doing more than need to to get digital audio working? winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Audio problems - Do I need new hardware?
Using 0.18.1, I have two audio problems, both of which I've researched quite a bit, but thought I would check one last time if any solutions are available. I'm using an ASUS P4P800-VM with on-board AC'97 audio using optical audio out to a receiver. Digital audio works fine for HDTV and DVD. The two problems are: 1) Very annoying, loud, audio drum-beat-like sound when playback stops, only occurs occasionally. Happens when stopping liveTV, Recorded, mplayer, etc. 2) MythMusic plays back ripped audio too fast, chipmunk-style. From what I can tell, most people don't experience these problems, and some have suggested the MythMusic problems is due to cheap audio hardware. If I'm going to buy an add-on PCI Audio Card, can anyone recommend one that is known to work well with linux/MythTV? Do you get the drum-beat-like sound during normal playback with low volume material? The drum-beat sound only occurs after audio playback has stopped, when no sound is supposed to be produced. It's almost as if the audio hangs on a sound and keeps repeating it in a loop. During playback, audio is perfect. Considering it happens with mplayer (called from MythVideo), I'm starting to think it has nothing to do with Myth, but rather the hardware, or maybe even drivers (It doesn't happen in Windows, same hardware). I ordered a Turtle Beach Riviera this morning (thanks, Dewey), and I'll post an update if it resolves it. Just an update on this. I received my Turtle Beach Riviera card and it seems to have fixed all my audio problems! I modified the kernel drivers, and had to change one line in .asoundrc; from device 4 to device 2; and the problems described above are gone! Thanks for all those that helped. I can't say for certain that the on-board audio hardware was the cause, but a $25 replacement is a good enough solution for me. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Audio problems - Do I need new hardware?
Using 0.18.1, I have two audio problems, both of which I've researched quite a bit, but thought I would check one last time if any solutions are available. I'm using an ASUS P4P800-VM with on-board AC'97 audio using optical audio out to a receiver. Digital audio works fine for HDTV and DVD. The two problems are: 1) Very annoying, loud, audio drum-beat-like sound when playback stops, only occurs occasionally. Happens when stopping liveTV, Recorded, mplayer, etc. 2) MythMusic plays back ripped audio too fast, chipmunk-style. From what I can tell, most people don't experience these problems, and some have suggested the MythMusic problems is due to cheap audio hardware. If I'm going to buy an add-on PCI Audio Card, can anyone recommend one that is known to work well with linux/MythTV? Do you get the drum-beat-like sound during normal playback with low volume material? The drum-beat sound only occurs after audio playback has stopped, when no sound is supposed to be produced. It's almost as if the audio hangs on a sound and keeps repeating it in a loop. During playback, audio is perfect. Considering it happens with mplayer (called from MythVideo), I'm starting to think it has nothing to do with Myth, but rather the hardware, or maybe even drivers (It doesn't happen in Windows, same hardware). I ordered a Turtle Beach Riviera this morning (thanks, Dewey), and I'll post an update if it resolves it. Thanks, James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Audio problems - Do I need new hardware?
Using 0.18.1, I have two audio problems, both of which I've researched quite a bit, but thought I would check one last time if any solutions are available. I'm using an ASUS P4P800-VM with on-board AC'97 audio using optical audio out to a receiver. Digital audio works fine for HDTV and DVD. The two problems are: 1) Very annoying, loud, audio drum-beat-like sound when playback stops, only occurs occasionally. Happens when stopping liveTV, Recorded, mplayer, etc. 2) MythMusic plays back ripped audio too fast, chipmunk-style. From what I can tell, most people don't experience these problems, and some have suggested the MythMusic problems is due to cheap audio hardware. If I'm going to buy an add-on PCI Audio Card, can anyone recommend one that is known to work well with linux/MythTV? winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Key mappings in MythVideo
Doesn't setting it to internal mean it will use mplayer? I think so, No, Internal means it will use the internal mythtv player. The same player thatis used for LiveTV/Watching recordings. So the keys should be identical. I use the Internal player and have never had a key not work just like normal. I have the same problem. I'm using 0.18.1. I sure wish it was fixed, too. Maybe it's fixed in the current release? Is the problem even being addressed? winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] MythRoku HD1000 Rev A or Rev B
Do you need the Rev B HD1000 with the extra RAM or is the Rev A enough for MythRoku? Thanks, Todd I use the HD1000 RevA and it works great. Of course, I always create a swap file as well. A swapfile on a CF card or NFS works fine. Don't CF cards typically have a limited number of write/rewrite cycles before they fail? I'd think a swap file on one would cause it to go bad very quickly. Maybe, but not quickly. I used it regularly for a several months with the ROKU until I bothered to figure out how to automount a swap file on a NFS share during the ROKU boot-up. That same CF card has been around for years with thousands of read/writes from the ROKU, digital cameras and more. I know they're supposed to have a limit, but I haven't seen it yet. I'm still using it. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] MythRoku HD1000 Rev A or Rev B
I'm thinking about buying a HD1000 for a high def myth frontend, how do you like it? Does the UI look ok, is the 30 second skip responsive? I'm a little worrid about the wife approval factor :) Daniel I think it works well enough for recorded shows. It's very responsive, once you learn the buttons! If you haven' seen it, the ROKU remote has very limited buttons and therefore the same button does several things with MythRoku and it's not intuitive. It may be better with another programmable remote, but I haven't done that. Although LiveTV works, I don't use it often, too cumbersome. Also, mythroku is just for live or recorded TV viewing, it doesn't have all the other features that MythTV has. But, ROKU has it's own image gallery, weather forecast, etc, so you can still do more with it. As a small, perfectly quiet, linux-based, Hi-Def front-end, I would highly recommend it. A new version was released this month, but I haven't tried it yet. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] MythRoku HD1000 Rev A or Rev B
Do you need the Rev B HD1000 with the extra RAM or is the Rev A enough for MythRoku? Thanks, Todd I use the HD1000 RevA and it works great. Of course, I always create a swap file as well. A swapfile on a CF card or NFS works fine. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Are there any xbox mythtv distrosstillbeingsupported?
Does anything exist where I don't have to modify my xbox? I want to be able to play Halo 2 online for a while longer (until the 360 forces me to no longer play anything ever again). I've read that if you modify the filesystem on the xbox (or add your own files) that xbox live won't let you on. I've also heard that unless you get a 'mod chip' that is switchable (turn it on and off) the same thing applies, and then you are risking your xbox (being a hardware mod that is soldered on). Use a free online service for x-box without any stupid restrictions, such as xbconnect.com. Mod all you want and still play with yer friends. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] I'm thinking of switching to windows :(
Just an off-topic tip: My biannual Windows reinstall takes 5 minutes. Image a working system up to your network, then image it down when you need to rebuild. And if you use sysprep, then even any hardware changes don't affect the image process. Or, put a sysprep'ed image on a DVD and just image it to any computer - you never need to see the installation again. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Michael T. Dean Sent: Wed 11/30/2005 12:27 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] I'm thinking of switching to windows :( And drivers, and ... I always set aside a minimum of 8 hours for my biannual (that's twice a year, not biennial--once every two years) Windows re-install of my gaming system and I don't have to install any apps on that system save the one game I'm playing at the time. Not to mention the obviously-flawed Windows installer to which people have grown so accustomed that they no longer seem to notice the flaws. You start the Windows install, you format your disk, it copies files, it reboots, and *then* it asks for the CD key. Gee, thanks Microsoft, for wiping my disk and preventing me from continuing to use my old OS before you told me that some crook OEM sold me an unlicensed Windows CD with my computer. (OK, this one has never happened to me, but still... That's basically imposing the death sentence without judge and jury.) So, the real flaw--that's always a problem--is the fact that there are at least three different points during the install at which the entire process comes to a complete stop waiting for user input. I was helping a Windows fan-boy install FC4 and after it asked all the information it needed and started downloading packages, I said, Oh, wait. We have a problem. I know you really like Windows, and many apps for FC4 are designed to work like those on Windows, but the installer doesn't. It won't stop 45 minutes from now asking for more information, so when we come back, the install will be complete. OK, not all Linux distros do their installers correctly, either--yes, this means you Ubuntu--but come on... Does Microsoft really expect me to sit there in front of the installer reading their Windows XP ads for 45 minutes? If so, you'd think they at least have enough ads that they don't repeat throughout the install. And I won't even get into the installer loading drivers for every possible piece of hardware before the installer can begin. (Ever hear of auto-detection, MS?) Mike winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Audio drum-beat problem
I'm using 0.18.1 on two frontends - SUSE 9.3 and Gentoo. Both systems occasionally have an identical problem when I stop playback. Sometimes I will get a very loud drumbeat-like sound out of the speakers. In order to stop the sound, I usually start playback again and then stop, and the sound goes away. It probably happens 5% of the time. I'm using SPDIF AC3 audio to a receiver. This seems to happen with both SD and HD recordings from a HD3000 and PVR150. I think it's most likely a problem with mythfrontend and not mythbackend or the hardware. Anyone else experience this? Any solutions? winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Audio drum-beat problem
This occasionally happens with PVR350 playback (TV Output), when pressing and releasing skip repeatedly, so that it wants to play and needs to skip at the same time. Over half a year this happened about 10 times and I skip a lot. Due to the sound-hell I press a key (skip/play/other) quickly to start/restart playback to normalize it. In your case where it get load when you stop playback I never saw. I'm using 0.18.1 on two frontends - SUSE 9.3 and Gentoo. Both systems occasionally have an identical problem when I stop playback. Sometimes I will get a very loud drumbeat-like sound out of the speakers. In order to stop the sound, I usually start playback again and then stop, and the sound goes away. It probably happens 5% of the time. I'm using SPDIF AC3 audio to a receiver. This seems to happen with both SD and HD recordings from a HD3000 and PVR150. I think it's most likely a problem with mythfrontend and not mythbackend or the hardware. Anyone else experience this? Any solutions? No PVR 350 here. I'm using DVI out to TV for video, and onboard AC'97 audio. It doesn't seem related at all to skipping back or forth. It only does it when I stop playback, either live or recorded. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Re: Hauppauge PVR-250 and PCHDTV-3000 with2.6.14.2 kernel
So are you saying that the PCHDTV-3000 will not work with the 150 or 500 cards? I currently have that as my hardware setup and was looking to setup the PCHDTV-3000 within the next few weeks. Now I'm not sure if it is worth the effort. I don't want to break what I have, my wife wont forgive me if I do that. I have a HD-3000 and PVR-150 working just fine together. Kernel DVB drivers (2.6.13) for the HD-3000 (module cx88-dvb) ivtv 0.3.7 for the 150. Ignoring the ivtv instructions, I didn't not replace or overwrite any files, or do anything except a simple compile and install. As long as I load the 150 first, the cx88-dvb driver loads just fine. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Attractive cases and cheap DVD burners
On 11/15/05, tgate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It turns out that all the major noise is coming from my graphics card, an nvidia gforce 6600 which has a fan. Could someone suggest an alternative that is good but without a fan. Or is there some clever mod that can be done which makes it okay to unplug the graphics card fan? I use the ATI RADEON 9600 SE. No fan and plays back HD content perfectly for me. Using ATI's driver, which I know many people complain about, but HD/SD TV watching it has given me no problems. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Re: Hauppauge PVR-250 and PCHDTV-3000 with 2.6.14.2kernel
On 13-Nov-05, at 2:28 AM, Ed Tomlinson wrote: On Saturday 12 November 2005 20:06, Dustin Nicholas Jenkins wrote: By default, the cx88* drivers load up fine on my Sarge AMD64 install and take input from my PCHDTV-3000 card. I also have an Hauppauge PVR-250 that requires the ivtv driver. My problem is that when I build the ivtv driver and replace the msp3400, tveeprom, tuner, and tda9887 modules with the ivtv supplied ones, my cx88* drivers no longer load complaining of the following (excerpt from loading cx88-dvb): WARNING: Error inserting cx88xx (/lib/modules/2.6.14.2/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88xx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting cx8802 (/lib/modules/2.6.14.2/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx8802.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) FATAL: Error inserting cx88_dvb (/lib/modules/2.6.14.2/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-dvb.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) I ran depmod -a after moving the old versions of the afore mentioned modules aside, but no luck. Are the modules built by ivtv so different? Doesn't depmod take care of this kind of problem? Or should I forget the cx88* drivers that come with the kernel and install the ivtv and PCHDTV drivers separately? I've also read that much of the ivtv stuff is being built into the video4linux module, so I'm wondering if I should build that separately too. I had a similar problem with my PVR-150 and HD-3000. The solution was: First, I got my HD-3000 running and tested using the built-in kernal drivers (2.6.13). Then, I download ivtv 0.3.7 (latest at the time) and did a straightforward compile and install. There were a few error but I ignored them and didn't do anything else, didn't edit modprobe.conf or anything. Then, as long as I load ivtv first, cx88-dvb loads just fine. If I load cx88-dvb first, then neither card works. Weird, can't explain it, but now both cards work perfectly. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Attractive cases
I'm coming round to thinking that the nicest case out there is the Accent HT-400 ( http://www.arisetec.com/products/HT-400.htm ) since it is full-size, well-designed, comes with built in IR hardware and an attractive panel to mount an VFD behind. It's not cheap, though. A close second seems to be the Ahanix D.Vine 5. I've looked at a few cases by Silverstone and I just don't think they look as nice (subjective, obviously). Does anyone have any really good or bad reports about any of these cases I should take into account? I think the advantages of the Silverstone cases is they have so many options when it comes to size, expansion, and looks. For example, Silverstone offers the only HT-style case I found that supports 3 full-height expansion slots (1xAGP, 2xPCI) in a low-profile design, such as the LC-11M, which is also very quiet. Not everyone wants those boxy-like Shuttle cases, or the full-size monster PC cases, like the Aristec HT-400 with 6+ expansion slots in their home-theater. No one would ever buy a TiVo that big, so why make my own that big? winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] pchdtv3000 svideo input w/Dish HD?
Replying to my own email. Heh... What about these cards: http://www.foresightimaging.com/PRODUCTS/hdp/accustream170.htm Cool, but at $2500 each, and only in quantities of 100... http://www.unigraf.fi/files/products/ufg-01.pdf Doesn't looks like this one supports all HD resolutions, and framerates decline in the higher resolutions. One reason why they'll be expensive - anytime you grab a signal from a DVI/HDMI cable or component cables, you're pulling the decoded signal. You'll have to reencode the signal, and that will require some serious processing power. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Proliant server as a backend...
Hi all, Would the following be acceptable as a media/tuner backend server multiple (4 or more) frontends... Proliant 8500r Quad PIII Xeon 700/2MB CPU's 2GB Ram; 2 x 1000SX Fiber NIC; 1 x Dual 10/100 backup NIC 4 x 73GB U160 SCSI drives, RAID (0/1/5); 2 x PVR250 PAL Tuners; All PCI slots are 64bit and the NIC's will be in 66mhz slots. I can chuck a spare SB Live card w/digital/optical 5.1 in, as well as another couple of tuner cards (either PVR250's or DVB cards). I may be able to add another 4 CPU's (if I can find them) if that would help... Probably would be awesome, but you better check PCI slot compatibilty with your tuner cards and audio cards, as many servers supply different speeds AND voltages to the PCI slots than your typical consumer-style PCI expansion cards support. Some cards may fit and not work, and other cards just won't fit at all, due to the PCI voltage-keyed slots. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Proliant server as a backend...
If I am going to archive stuff, I can offload to a 1TB fibre attached RAID5 set I have kicking about ... It'll be mainly Wrestling (I know...) and probably things like the Simpsons/Brainiac that we'd want to keep - or other such high-brow entertainment! :-) I'm having trouble picturing a pro-wrestling fan with a small datacenter in his house winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] pchdtv3000 svideo input w/Dish HD?
I'm reading up on all this hdtv stuff so I can drool about it. I've read that only terrestrial hdtv is available for linux, but I'm not about to invest money in an antennae. I've got Dish currently, and I don't plan to go hybrid. I see that the pchdtv3000 has an svideo input. Shouldn't this input work with svideo outputs from receivers like the Dish HD receivers? Or is there a format issue? Also, can the pchdtv receive normal NTSC input on it's svideo? Or would one need a pvr x50 for that still? You would need a card cable of capturing an HD signal over a wired input, and I'm not aware of any card that will. SVideo inputs cannot accept an HD signal. Personally, I wouldn't use the HD-3000 for anything other than Over-The-Air digital, because you can get a PVR-150 for 1/3 the price to get an svideo signal. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] native resolution vs 1080i for HDTV and SD on1280x768 lcd?
If I do add a HDTV tuner (planning to use OTA or QAM, not cable tv provided external box) to the setup, I'll need to use the FX5200. I've searched and googled for a few days now and perhaps since my questions are so basic, I've not found the answers. My questions are- Should I output via DVI at native resolution? Or should I get an external transcoder box to process the DVI or VGA out to component 1080i or 720p and let the tv scale to 1280x768? What about one of the Nvidia 6200 or 6600 cards that have the HDTV component outputs? they have a fan (a minus), but since these cards are now cheaper than a transcoder box may make more sense if the component outputs work in Linux. And finally, when you have a SD/HDTV myth setup, do you watch your SD content over the 1080i connection and let the video card scale? or would it be best to use 720p and use deinterlacing in mythtv? (I will only be getting a few HD channels, most of my viewing is still SD) Or is there another completely differnt way to do this and I've just missed it? Thanks, I'm not sure what you mean by native resolutions. Do you mean change the resolution depending on what you're watching? Is that possible in Myth? Even if that was possible, only CRT's support all native resolutions - all fixed pixel displays, such as your 30 LCD will do their own conversion, either up or down. I would suggest outputting at whatever your TV supports, which sounds like it's probably 1280x720. I watch both SD and HD content useing my Radeon 9600 SE's DVI connection straight the the HDMI input. Resolution is set at 1280x720 (matches my TV) and all content gets scaled automatically by Myth. All signals looks great. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] OTA HD Antennas??
So my requirements are, something I can install in the attic and requires no user intevention. If you have an attic, just buy the biggest UHF antenna you can fit. The same old TV antennas that you've seen on roofs for the past 50 years are the same ones that work with digital broadcasts. Most places sell them for under $100. Also, when testing your signal, if possible, use a tuner other than your Linux HDTV card, unless you're positive that your setup is working perfectly. Unfortunately, HDTV tuners are hard to come by, unless you have a new big TV with it built-in or a HD sattelite receiver. Otherwise, I might even suggest you get your HD card working under Windows to test your signal, at least if your background is in Windows. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Long term stability?
Does anyone have a backend that runs for a week or more under reasonably heavy use? By run, I mean with no manual intervention or cron jobs resetting things/etc. I still have to occasionally do a /etc/init.d/mythbackend restart although I'm not quite sure why... If people do, perhaps a few could give their 1) PVR hardware 2) Motherboard chipset 3) Kernel version 4) IVTV version. 5) Firmware version? 6) System Memory I'm running 0.18.1 and my backend has been up for over 3 months solid. I use: -SuSE 9.3 with a 2.6.13 kernel -pcHDTV HD-3000 and PVR-150 SuSE doesn't seem all that popular in this crowd, but I think it does an excellent job with MythTV; hardly any tweaking needs to be done. For more details, check out http://www.dastrup.com/template_mythtv_specs.asp winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Tivo/Yahoo deal - How convenient!
Although the Yahoo portal for your Tivo is new, this feature, with the minimum 1-hour in advance, has been around for a while at tivo.com. Slowly, the canned and subscription DVR's are listening to what people really want. But I don't understand why they won't just put a simple web interface on their own devices. MCE has a similar feature - logon to msn.com and schedule a recording, but no remote access directly to your MCE from a browser. Reasons like this are why we all love our MythTV. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mark H Sent: Mon 11/7/2005 9:03 AM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] Tivo/Yahoo deal - How convenient! Check out the recent deal to schedule Tivo via Yahoo portal. Like always, there is some half-assed Tivo catch. Here is the kicker: Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo advises users to pre-schedule the recordings at least an hour ahead of time if the TiVo box is connected to a broadband connection on their home network, or at least 36 hours if it is connected via dialup. http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=14338hed=Yahoo+Meets+TiVo -How's that for convenience! winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Tivo/Yahoo deal - How convenient!
All these average consumers have a public web interface on their Linksys, Netgear, D-link routers already. Are Linksys and Netgear worried about the security risk? Now, because it's off by default on the public side and only advanced users know how to go in and turn it on. And if someone does turn it on and get hacked because they didn't change the default password, nobody blames Linksys. Plus, TiVo already has a network connection, and although it's not using port 80, it doesn't mean it's not hackable. Having a web interface on a home appliance isn't the problem, it's the $$. Like William said, they want to track what you're watching and have all that control. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Joseph A. Caputo Sent: Mon 11/7/2005 10:25 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Tivo/Yahoo deal - How convenient! On Monday 07 November 2005 11:53, James C. Dastrup wrote: Although the Yahoo portal for your Tivo is new, this feature, with the minimum 1-hour in advance, has been around for a while at tivo.com. Slowly, the canned and subscription DVR's are listening to what people really want. But I don't understand why they won't just put a simple web interface on their own devices. MCE has a similar feature - logon to msn.com and schedule a recording, but no remote access directly to your MCE from a browser. Reasons like this are why we all love our MythTV. I'd say it's pretty likely that the lack of a web interface in 'canned' DVR appliances has more to do with security/liability issues. It's much more secure for the DVR to query a remote web site every hour than it is to have an open web server running on the DVR appliance. After all, the average consumer may not have a firewall, etc, etc... Imagine the negative publicity and possible lawsuits that would arise if a default web server configuration on a Tivo or MCE was found to have an exploitable security flaw? At least with MythWeb, the user has to set up configure their own web server. It's not much of a hurdle, but at least any security issues are entirely the user's own responsibility. -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] HDTV digital static with DVB
Sorry, I don't know the answer to your question, but I was wondering where you are located physically and how you can tell that there are digital OTA broadcasts in your area? I live in the Phoenix metro area (Chandler) and can't seem to find any information on whether or not any of the local TV stations are broadcasting digital (other than the local PBS affiliate KAET). http://www.antennaweb.org/ http://www.antennaweb.org winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Configuring GUI display for HD
entechtaiwan.net's Monitor Asset Manager on a Windows PC should give you a pretty good modeline. Or, just google around for what modeline's others with your same TV have used. I could be wrong, but the modeline is all about your display, and should not really be different from one driver to the next. When you say the desktop is too big, are you sure that's just not from the unavoidable overscan? All TV's have overscan and I think CRT's are the worst. If you have a decent picture but you're losing the sides, you may be OK - just adjust MythTV's x,y offsets. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Drew Zerdecki Sent: Fri 11/4/2005 9:39 AM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] Configuring GUI display for HD Hello, I am trying to get the Myth GUI and video to display correctly on my HDTV CRT TV (right now the desktop is too big). Can anyone recommend a framework for doing so? Should I first find a modeline so that X fits perfectly on the screen then proceed to tweak Myth's x,y offsets etc? What is the best way to determine the best modeline? I have used Powerstrip under XP and have found a good modeline for Windows, but when I copy this modeline to linux, the display is pretty far off. I imagine this is due to differences in Nvidia's (fx5200) drivers between XP and linux. Is there a Powerstrip type program for linux that would enable me to make slight adjustments to the resolution timings in real-time so I can see the resulting display as I tweak? Sorry for all the questions and I appreciate any suggestions. Thanks, Drew ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Re: Usability Issues: WAS Re: Simultaneousrecordings fail spectacularly [SOLVED!]
Although I think there's room for improvement, I think Myth does a darn good job at the UI. Anytime you take the features of a full keyboard-and-mouse system and port it to the buttons on a remote, you're going to have problems. But with that said, my wife (NOT a techie in anyway) and my kid (6 year old) have absolutely NO problem working MythTV. Some of it needs work, and if you want to use the advanced features, anything beyond a Tivo or other PVR, you better have a programmable remote. I use the Harmony 880, which has a great display for adding in those custom buttons. things like using the Menu button to select the channel in the EPG have *GOT* to be fixed. Wha? I press OK (Select) in the EPG and it works fine. So I think we have the starting point, but just add a few extra touches, such as, If you're supposed to use the Right Arrow Key to pull up a new menu, then the GUI should indicate that with an right-arrow icon or something. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mike Frisch Sent: Fri 11/4/2005 11:03 AM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: Usability Issues: WAS Re: Simultaneousrecordings fail spectacularly [SOLVED!] On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:42:28PM -0500, R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote: Thank you for opening this can of worms. I thought it was just me. Glad to know I'm not alone. Nope, you're definitely not alone. We CAN do better. If someone points me to the right place in the code, at least I can provide some pseudocode for the logical structure which *I* think is needed at various places. (Probably the wrong structure on the first pass, but a place to start.) I think a good starting point would be to 'storyboard' or flowchart an improved OSD/menu system (perhaps based on the behaviour of existing STBs- satellite receivers, PVRs, cable boxes, etc). Maybe it's just my configuration (although I used somebody else's .lircrc) but, things like using the Menu button to select the channel in the EPG have *GOT* to be fixed. The EPG/menu interactions don't flow well compared to standalone STBs. I'd be willing to help in any way possible. I am a professional software developer who has built UIs for more than 10 years now. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Re: Re: Usability Issues: WAS Re:Simultaneousrecordings fail spectacularly [SOLVED!]
As another example, using the menu to get to the EPG. That option shouldn't even be there. Every modern day remote has an EPG/guide button. Again, I am still a relative MythTV newbie so perhaps it's just my config. This works for me. In TV Playback, there is an Action called GUIDE. I assigned the letter S to this, and Guide button on my remote sends the letter S and it works great. It's differnet then the Menu button. things like using the Menu button to select the channel in the EPG have *GOT* to be fixed. . Wha? I press OK (Select) in the EPG and it works fine. Hmmm... mine does not. I think there is a setting in Setup of the frontend that allows you to press 'Enter' on a channel to select it while in the guide. MythTV button behavior is almost identical to my old and unused Dish DVR. winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Digital Audio and TimeStretch
Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I'm relatively new here. Does anyone know if it's possible to use time streching (faster) and still use AC3 digital audio? As it is right now, depending on what I watch, I will Enable or Disable AC3 to SPDIF Passthrough, since some shows I want to speed through, and others I want to enjoy. When I try to time stretch with this enabled, the audio is crackly and virtually inaudible. If it's technically impossible to speed-up digital audio, it may be a nice future feature if, when timestretching your playback, the audio could automatically revert to plain old stereo. James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] nForce4 Audio on FC4, it plays some of the time....
I had a very similar problem. I was finally able to figure out that KDE was
messing with my alsa settings everytime it started, even when I told it not to.
You can test this by opening up alsamixer and while your audio is playing, mess
with the settings until you hear something. I solved this problem by simply
putting a script in KDE's /.Autostart folder, so after KDE starts, my mixer
settings go back to the way I want them. You can find more detail at
http://www.dastrup.com/template_mythtv.asp and look in the Audio section.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jason Sharpe
Sent: Wed 11/2/2005 2:01 PM
To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] nForce4 Audio on FC4, it plays some of the time
Hey All!
I have been playing with FC4 a couple of months now just learning and playing.
Something I wanted to tackle was getting spdif optical output on my MOBO
working so I can run Myth.
I have been partially successful, but I am sure I am missing something. First
off my stats:
-FC4 x86 (latest kernel installed with yum update on a fresh install)(Sorry at
work, not in front of the box)
-AMD64 4200+ (Dual Core)
-MSI K8N Platinum Mobo
-2 Gig of Ram
-Gigabyte GeForce 6800 Vid Card
-Plenty of HD Space!
-Running KDE
I hooked up an coax optical cable from my on-board sound to my receiver and I
followed the instructions at :
http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo
http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo
I had a hard time getting the nForce4 audio to work. After searching online for
a while I was able to find other people that selected OSS in the KDE Sound
Control Center. Then after locking the frequency to 48k I was about to get the
optical port on the mobo to light up.
On the HOW TO there is a link for a test .au file. I downloaded that file and
if I double click it it opens the default audio player. I can't remember the
name of it, but I believe it starts with a and is only 4 or 5 letters long.
(I couldn't find a default package list for FC4 online to try to remember what
the name is.) It plays just fine if I just play the audio file that way.
#aplay -l shows this:
# aplay -l
List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices
card 0: CK804 [NVidia CK804], device 0: Intel ICH [NVidia CK804]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CK804 [NVidia CK804], device 2: Intel ICH - IEC958 [NVidia CK804 -
IEC958]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 [/CODE]
I used the .asoundrc listed below as suggested by the HOWTO:
# Override the default output used by ALSA.
# If you do not override the default, your default
# device is identical to the (unmixed) analog device
# shown below. If you prefer mixed and/or digital
# output, uncomment the appropriate four lines below
# (only one slave.pcm line).
pcm.!default {
type plug
## Uncomment the following to use mixed analog by default
# slave.pcm dmix-analog
## Uncomment the following to use unmixed digital by default
# slave.pcm digital-hw
## Uncomment the following to use mixed digital by default
slave.pcm dmix-digital
}
# Alias for analog output on the nForce2/4 (hw:0,0)
# - This is identical to the device named default--which
# always exists and refers to hw:0,0 (unless overridden)
# - Therefore, we can specify hw:0,0, default, or analog
# to access analog output on the nForce2/4
pcm.analog {
type plug
slave.pcm analog-hw
}
# Control device (mixer, etc.) for the nForce2 card
ctl.analog {
type hw
card 0
}
# Alias for (rate-converted) mixed analog output on the
# nForce2 (hw:0,0)
# - This will accept audio input--regardless of rate--and
# convert to the rate required for the dmix plugin
# (in this case 48000Hz)
pcm.mixed-analog {
type plug
slave.pcm dmix-analog
}
# Control device (mixer, etc.) for the nForce2 card
ctl.mixed-analog {
type hw
card 0
}
# Alias for (rate-converted) digital (S/PDIF) output on the
# nForce2 (hw:0,2)
# - This will accept audio input--regardless of rate--and
# convert to the rate required for the S/PDIF hardware
# (in this case 48000Hz)
pcm.digital {
type plug
slave.pcm digital-hw
}
# Control device (mixer, etc.) for the nForce2 card
ctl.digital {
type hw
card 0
}
# Alias for mixed (rate-converted) digital (S/PDIF) output on the
# nForce2/4 (hw:0,2)
# - This will accept audio input--regardless of rate--and
# convert to the rate required for the S/PDIF hardware
# (in this case 48000Hz)
pcm.mixed-digital {
type plug
slave.pcm dmix-digital
}
# Control device (mixer, etc.) for the nForce2 card
ctl.mixed-digital {
type hw
card 0
}
# The following devices are not useful by themselves. They
# require specific rates, channels, and formats. Therefore,
# you probably do not want to use them directly. Instead use
# of of the devices defined above.
# Alias for analog output on the nForce2 (hw:0,0)
# Do not use this directly--it requires specific rate,
# channels, and format
pcm.analog-hw {
type hw
card 0
