Re: [mythtv-users] Gentoo 0.17 ebuild?
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:27:55 -0500, Tom Dombrosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's in there. You have to unmask it by commenting out the mythtv-0.17 lines in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask IMHO, it would be better to add entries to /etc/portage/package.unmask rather than editing the portage provided package.mask file. I have ebuilds available that are different than the ones provided in gentoo's bugzilla entry... I started with those ebuilds as a base, but changed them to work the way that I used mythtv... If you want, you can grab the individual ebuilds from http://threeputt.org/ebuilds. I have an ebuild for mythtv proper, one for all of the mythtv-plugins, and one for mythweb... Since I run a combined frontend/backend only, I preferred only having three packages to emerge/maintain... If you also run a combined frontend/backend, you may want to try these ebuilds. Regards, -- Jeff Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] TV out success stories?
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:57:00 -0800, Michael R. Dilworth (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm about to build my first mythtv box, I've been lurking here for a little over a month and have dug through the archives as well is google. I believe I have enough info to pull it off, with one exception TV out. I'm looking for a easy, (i.e. hardware I can find with out going used/ebay) TV out solution. I'd recommend tv-out via the Hauppauge pvr-350. Despite the many posts to the mailing list, I had no trouble running X using the pvr-350's framebuffer. In addition to outstanding picture quality, the pvr-350's hardware decoder requires almost no CPU time when playing back mpeg2 recordings or live tv. I am running ivtv-0.2.0-rc3f and it seems very stable with my pvr-250mce and pvr-350. The output will need to be composite, aka RCA, NOT dvi/svid etc... I will be plugging the output into my Avcast network. The pvr-350 has a dongle cable that has RCA output and s-video output. While s-video should be used if your TV has a s-video connection, the video RCA cable can be used if your TV has only RCA inputs. I would also like to be able to have both TV Out and X running on the console,. I haven't tried this and your X configuration will certainly be more complicated. What's the reason you want to run both over the console, as well as your tv? I plan to be running Fedora(1, 2 or 3) and Myth 17 (I'm waiting until it comes out) There are plenty of people running myth on FCx and Jarrod's howto is one of the most comprehensive. If you're relatively new to Linux, FCx will probably be the easiest. I, however, am using gentoo and love it. Mythtv 0.17 should be out this week, but if it gets delayed for some reason, you could always start with 0.16 and upgrade when available. I approached my mythtv install this way: I first installed with FC2 using Jarrod's howto and one I got it up and running and learned a bunch along the way, I wiped my disk clean and reinstalled with gentoo. No particular reason, other than I'd been interested in gentoo for a while and wanted an excuse to install it. Hope that helps, -- Jeff Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Updated gentoo, now everything mythtv segfaults
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:17:24 -0500, Jim Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't get any debug, no log messages etc... gdb tells me nothing. If I run anything myth, mythfrontend, mythbackend, mythsetup.. all segfaults. Any idea where I should start digging? The obvious question is... What did you emerge on gentoo? If you emerged something that mythtv has as a dependency, you should probably emerge mythtv again. I'm pretty new to gentoo, but you may see if the following identifies anything that needs to be updated: emerge -uDpv --newuse world Hope that helps, -- Jeff Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] AMD Issues
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:42:52 -0600, Matt White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Distro: Gentoo (optimized for athlon-xp) Myth Version: CVS 2004-Dec-11 Video Card: GeForce MX4000 On my old P4, recording two streams and watching one ran at about 50-60% cpu utilization. On the new AMD, the same thing takes 100%+. If I am watching something when there are two recordings, everything is extremely sluggish. I'm running the same Myth and IVTV code on the new one as I was on the old one (it was working, why screw with it?). I'm using gentoo on a AMD Athlon XP 2800+. One major difference is that I have a pvr-350 and a pvr-250mce, so I get the benefit of h/w decoding via the pvr-350... When recording two channels and watching a third recording, my max cpu utilization is around 10%... Try running top or sar to figure out which processes are eating up your CPU time... -- Jeff Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] About mythfilldatabase
On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:46:33 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all I am enjoying MythTV on Vine linux in Japan . I have one question how to set up mythfilldatabase to set up the MythTV . (snip) What is the Argument of mythfilldatabase ? The option to run mythfilldatabase in the settings dialogs is just one method of running mythfilldatabase. I believe most people setup a cron job for their mythtv user to run mythfilldatabase at a particular time of day. For example, here's my crontab entry for user mythtv: 30 03 * * * /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase /var/log/mythtv/mythfilldatabase.log 21 The arguments you pass to mythfilldatabase are dependent upon your guide listing source. You can get a list of the arguments by running mythfilldatabase --help. Hope that helps, -- Jeff Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Hardware question...
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 15:51:20 -0600, Andrew Close [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, this is slightly off-topic, but it concerns the MythBox i'm putting together. :) i finally recieved all my hardware and have assembled it. however, my PVR-250 doesn't seat completely in the motherboard 'AND' anchor to the case. if i seat the card all the way then there is about 1/4 inch between the case and where the card would screw into the case. Hmmm... I have the same case, the same motherboard, and I had no problems installing a pvr-250 *and* a pvr-350 in the coolermaster atc-620c... my question is: should i just leave the card held only by the PCI riser? or should i unscrew the motherboard and shim it so that the PCI card can be fully seated AND screwed into the case? my only concern with the second option is that when the motherboard heats up it could be damaged from being warped... any suggestions? I'd check that both your motherboard and card are seated correctly. Good luck. -- Jeff Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] I can't beleive it's this.... complex
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 23:42:55 -0500, Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, granted, I'm pushing it a little bit by going with AMD64. But this Myth project seems more and more unlikely the further I get in. Does someone have a straight forward install guide for the following specs: AMD64 3800+ SuSE 9.2 1 PVR-350 The OS is running, I've got MySQL installed, and I'm looking for a straight-forward guide to getting this up and running. Anyone? The most frequently referenced documentation if Jarod's HOWTO, located at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php. I used his HOWTO for my initial mythtv setup and while I fought with ivtv for a day or so, it basically had everything I needed to install mythtv. I've since reinstalled, using gentoo, and it was a breeze after having gone through Jarod's HOWTO, even though his doc is geared towards Fedora (core 2 when I did it) core 3. You didn't mention your Linux background/experience, so I'm guessing, but if you're not very familiar with Linux, I'd recommend that you install Fedora, since that what most people appear to be using and can probably provide more assistance. BTW, what type of problems are you having? -- Jeff Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv cvs ebuild (gentoo)
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:19:53 -0500, Jeff Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using the CVS release of mythtv on a gentoo box, and it works great, but I'd really like to have it install files into the normal places. Is there an ebuild out there that will download and install the CVS copies of the various packages? I'd throw one together, but I'd hate to reinvent the wheel if one already exists. Thanks! I'm not sure what you consider the normal places. The myhtv manual builds result in the binaries, etc. being placed into /usr/local/bin. Most rpm or ebuilds I've seen place the binaries, etc. into /usr/bin. I've seen several ebuilds floating around. Search this list to find examples. I believe the ebuild available at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66337 is the one that most gentoo users are using. I took a whack at creating my own ebuilds based on the work above, which better fits my needs. Here are my ebuilds if you want to play with them: http://threeputt.org/ebuilds/mythtv-0.17_pre.ebuild http://threeputt.org/ebuilds/mythtv-plugins-0.17_pre.ebuild http://threeputt.org/ebuilds/mythweb-0.17_pre.ebuild I run a combined frontend/backend system, so my preference was to have as few ebuilds as possible, so the mythtv ebuild has what people normally break up into backend/frontend builds and the mythtv-plugins has all of the standard myth plugins, plus nuvexport. The mythweb ebuild, obviously only has the mythweb stuff... :) These ebuilds are a work in progress, so if you find any problems, I'd appreciate you letting me know. Thanks, -- Jeff Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Gentoo and CVS
Jim Kusznir wrote: Learning a bit about portage and making ebuilds took me about half a day; but after that I could crank out the ebuilds for each subpart in about 3 minutes each. If you're interested, I could send some instructions. Keep in mind that I'm still a gentoo developer-wannabe (aka very new to making ebuilds), so this is basically the minimum required to work; not really the best it can be. Jim, I'd be interested in whatever instructions you could put together... I'm not currently a gentoo user and I've been putting it off since the whole point of gentoo seems to be build from source using ebuilds and I don't currently know anything about ebuilds... :) I suspect that others may be interested as well and I believe it's definitely on topic, since gentoo seems like a reasonably popular platform for mythtv. Thanks, Jeff ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Lightweight window manager recommendation
Travis Osterman wrote: I've been using Myth on my dedicated fc1 box for roughly one year now and have only wonderful things to say. During the holidays I am planning on performing some hardware upgrades to my system and am will be installing gentoo on my Myth box. I haven't ventured far in the relm of window managers (I prefer gnome myself) so I was looking for a recommendation on a lightweight wm that would offer a slight increase in performance from KDE. I've seen blackbox and fvwm mentioned in the mythtv.org howto and would appreciate any more information whether one is preferrable or if there are other undocumented alternatives. Thank you all for a wonderful project and community. Travis, take a look at ratpoison. It seems perfect for mythtv... Search the mailing list archives, it has been discussed several times... ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
