Re: [mythtv-users] MythBurn

[Jim Reith]

At 01:19 PM 1/25/2006, you wrote:
>Jim Reith wrote:
> > At 12:26 PM 1/25/2006, you wrote:
> >
> >> Any reason why MythBurn is not included in the mythtv-suite?  It is one
> >> of the things I was looking forward to the most with a MythTV.
> >>
> >
> > it's now included with the latest KnoppMyth
> >
> >
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>I am using Ubuntu, I did a KnoppMyth install and everything worked
>pretty good, then I started having some problems and did not know where
>to start.
>So I decided to use Ubuntu ( My current favorite distro ) so I could
>learn some of the ins & outs.  Only thing is I could not get MythBurn to
>install.  the install.sh just seemed to loop and also it had some
>dependencies that I could not resolve ProjectX.jar and tcrequant.

Well, MythBurn has been under some recent development. I know I was
helped by Martin (Bene??) and there has since been someone else
working on the scripts. I'm sure it's just a matter of them not
having that Distro available for their testing. I would do a search
in the archives during December and you should find some stuff. My
questions were answered back in the July to September timeframe last year



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Re: [mythtv-users] MythBurn

[Jim Reith]

At 12:26 PM 1/25/2006, you wrote:
>Any reason why MythBurn is not included in the mythtv-suite?  It is one
>of the things I was looking forward to the most with a MythTV.

it's now included with the latest KnoppMyth



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Re: [mythtv-users] Ripping DVD hangs up

[Jim Reith]

At 02:44 PM 1/24/2006, you wrote:
On 24 Jan 2006 11:38:20 -0800,
Jim Reith
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:





http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,119577,pg,4,00.asp


"Despite efforts by media and drive vendors to improve
compatibility, your double-layer DVD+R disc may not play correctly in a
DVD player or in an older, single-layer DVD drive."


That part's true.  However, commercial DVD's have been dual-layer
for years.

correct but if the drive it is being played on is a legacy drive just put
in the box, it could be an issue. Note the recent discussion of costs
where people assembled their MythBox from stuff hanging around to see if
they wanted to even bother, only buying a tuner card that they didn't
already have. I know I probably have some single layer DVD ROMs sitting
in my collection.
Carl Fongheiser

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Re: [mythtv-users] Ripping DVD hangs up

[Jim Reith]

At 02:27 PM 1/24/2006, you wrote:
On 24 Jan 2006 11:23:40 -0800,
Jim Reith
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:


At 02:11 PM 1/24/2006, you wrote:

>During (roughly the middle) of ripping a DVD to my hard drive it
locks

>up my whole system. Has anyone else had this issue and what can
be done

>to address it?

Are you trying to rip a dual layer DVD in a single layer drive?



There's no such thing.  All DVD drives should be able to *read* a
dual-layer DVD. 


http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,119577,pg,4,00.asp

"Despite efforts by media and drive vendors to improve
compatibility, your double-layer DVD+R disc may not play correctly in a
DVD player or in an older, single-layer DVD drive."
Carl Fongheiser 

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Re: [mythtv-users] Ripping DVD hangs up

[Jim Reith]

At 02:11 PM 1/24/2006, you wrote:
>During (roughly the middle) of ripping a DVD to my hard drive it locks
>up my whole system. Has anyone else had this issue and what can be done
>to address it?

Are you trying to rip a dual layer DVD in a single layer drive?

>PVR-350
>Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 PCI (using this tv out not the pvr-350)
>512 MB Ram
>AMD +1900 XP cpu
>Fedora Core 4 (using http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/index.php )
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Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth R5A30

[Jim Reith]

At 02:26 PM 1/6/2006, you wrote:

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On Jan 4, 2006, at 19.18, Cecil Watson wrote:


Get it while it is hot!

http://mysettopbox.tv
http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html
http://mysettopbox.tv/CHANGELOG.txt

Regards,

Cecil

I just installed R5A30, and all I had to do was tweak one channel
setting so I could get sound.

Just a note for people: R5A30 still requires the same tweak used in
R5A26 to get front-ends working.


does R5A30  have the remote reset patch included? Is it using IVTV 4.2?



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Re: [mythtv-users][OT] - How grab VHS tapes?

[Jim Reith]

At 09:05 AM 12/7/2005, you wrote:
On 12/7/05, Alessandro
Boggiano
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:


Hi all,

usually if I want watch a VHS,I can use the antenna cable between
the

vcr and the tv (I know,the quality is bad),put channel 36 on my tv
and

it works!

I'd like to do the same thing with my mythtv system in order to
recorder 

the vhs tape: so I unplegged the antenna from the tv and plugged the
vcr

as above.


Should work. I've done this with my VCR, setting myth to channel 3 in my
case.
Not sure what VCR picks channel 36 - does the VCR have a switch on the
back to 
select which channel to use? (I think mine has a 3/4
switch).
Since it's an Italy email address, it's probably all PAL



Now the problem is that I can't find a valid channel/frequency with
my 

PVR-150: I use ivtv-0.4.0 and the program ptune-ui.pl (I hacked
the

source to have a fine tune to 50) to set the channel.

But I can'f find a valid frequency!


I think you can use ivtvctl to manually pick an actual frequency, but I'm
surprised that ptune 
didn't work without being hacked. Do you normally use the cable input on
the PVR, or the
composite/svideo? If you don't normally use the tuner, is it possible
that you have it set to the
wrong country frequency sets? (I am guessing that you aren't in the US
based on the channel-36-VCR, 
since I've never heard of such a thing over here - VHF here only goes
2-13, and if you are cable-ready,
chances are you don't need to use RF modulation on the antenna
input)


For a couple of secs I had a valid picture from the tape,but it
disappared!


Keep in mind that that myth has a large delay, so if you are trying
things on the VCR, they take a long
time to show up on the screen (same with tuning channels on the PVR -
when you change the channel, 
it has to propogate through the card AND through the
ring-buffer.
Might be better to use the component or S-video inputs if
possible

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RE: [mythtv-users] Attractive cases

[Jim Reith]

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?


I went the full size desktop (horizontal) case route. I ended up with
a Cooler Master Cavalier case (black for $100 through
ChiefValue.com). It has a pop down door over the DVD drive area so it
has a plain face when closed and it's got a quiet set of fans. it
also has 6 PCI slots and 4 internal drive bays and it blends in well
with my stereo/set top box. It's a combination front/backend box with
3 tuner cards in it (PVR-350/150/500) and 3 200gb HDs. You're going
to pay more than minimum to get something that isn't a beige box but
in the end it's worth it if it's going to be out where you can see
it. YMMV

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Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth R5A22 seriously broken (was: RE: Mythtv -0.18.1 using protocol 15)

[Jim Reith]

At 02:19 PM 11/3/2005, you wrote:

On Thursday 03 November 2005 02:05 pm, Jim Reith wrote:
> At 01:51 PM 11/3/2005, you wrote:
> >On 03 Nov 2005 09:39:30 -0800, Jim Reith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > At 11:04 AM 11/3/2005, you wrote:
> in the packages put together and a lot of the problems people were
> having on the ivtv-dev list were what caused the release to be put
> together. Lots had changed from R5A16 to 22 and so it was felt that
> we wanted a more recent starting point to work from and people wanted
> to use the autodetect features of ivtv 4.0 for all the cards
> supported since ivtv 2.0 in R5A16 (pvr-150/500 for example)

And again, there's nothing there that requires using the SVN version of Myth.


So it was a poor choice for the packager that was trying to include
more up to date pieces for a long in the tooth distribution



Why do you keep using the newer version of ivtv as an excuse for
this?  It has
absolutely nothing to do with the version of mythtv in the distro.


No it doesn't but the point of the distro update was to get people
newer versions than R5A16 included. And it was driven by the need to
get ivtv 4.0 into it.



> And as I said before, KnoppMyth problems should be vetted in the
> mysettopbox.tv forums at least initially

I'm not signing up for a crappy forum.


I'm assuming you're not the original poster. My point was that
whomever complained about KnoppMyth here should have looked to the
forum that supports it and that is monitored by the distro packager
before complaining in the general list.



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Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth R5A22 seriously broken (was: RE: Mythtv -0.18.1 using protocol 15)

[Jim Reith]

At 01:51 PM 11/3/2005, you wrote:

On 03 Nov 2005 09:39:30 -0800, Jim Reith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 11:04 AM 11/3/2005, you wrote:
> >
> >The version of ivtv distributed has absolutely nothing to do
with the version
> >of mythtv in the distribution.
>
> yes it does. It has everything to do with it. It was a package deal.
> There was a need for people to have a turnkey ivtv 4.0 solution and
> someone took the time to put the package together in a usable form.
> it fits a need and it is appreciated by those of us using it.

Wait - you have to have the SVN version of MythTV to use IVTV 4.0?


not specifically to my understanding but there were interdependencies
in the packages put together and a lot of the problems people were
having on the ivtv-dev list were what caused the release to be put
together. Lots had changed from R5A16 to 22 and so it was felt that
we wanted a more recent starting point to work from and people wanted
to use the autodetect features of ivtv 4.0 for all the cards
supported since ivtv 2.0 in R5A16 (pvr-150/500 for example)

And as I said before, KnoppMyth problems should be vetted in the
mysettopbox.tv forums at least initially



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Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth R5A22 seriously broken (was: RE:Mythtv-0.18.1 using protocol 15)

[Jim Reith]

At 01:35 PM 11/3/2005, you wrote:
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 13:15
-0500, Isaac Richards wrote: 


Sure.  I can pretty easily fix this by putting up a big "DO NOT
USE KNOPPMYTH
R5A22, IT WILL NOT BE SUPPORTED" posting on the main page of the
mythtv
website.  I don't particularly want to do that, but I will if this
doesn't
get resolved relatively quickly.

Isaac

:) not to be ironic here, but you should have done it a week ago, when I
happily downloaded Knoppmyth R5A22 and lost a day or two figuring out
what is going on :) Funny thing is that when I just sorted it out and get
old Knoppmyth, this issue is discussed here ...
Well, it's been discussed at

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6691 which is probably
the better place for this stuff to be done rather than the general
list/forum since it's KnoppMyth specific
Maybe not as harsh a disclaimer as much as pointing people to the
KnoppMyth forums as the primary support mechanism?

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Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth R5A22 seriously broken (was: RE: Mythtv -0.18.1 using protocol 15)

[Jim Reith]

At 11:04 AM 11/3/2005, you wrote:

On Thursday 03 November 2005 10:54 am, Jim Reith wrote:
> >People need to stop distributing SVN versions.  The people who do don't
> > ever think what they're doing will break people's multi-computer setups.
> > It's also pretty idiotic to pick a random checkout date and release as if
> > it were stable.  This is _not_ 0.18.2, or anything related to it.
> >
> >As far as I'm concerned, nobody should use KnoppMyth until they revert to
> >using a stable release, or at _least_ a checkout from the
> > release-0-18-fixes branch..
>
> but it is perfectly acceptable for those of us using single machines
> and it does resolve the problem with needing to move to the Stable
> ivtv 4.0 branch that many of us need

The version of ivtv distributed has absolutely nothing to do with the version
of mythtv in the distribution.


yes it does. It has everything to do with it. It was a package deal.
There was a need for people to have a turnkey ivtv 4.0 solution and
someone took the time to put the package together in a usable form.
it fits a need and it is appreciated by those of us using it. It was
stable for what it was intended. Just because people are using mixed
environments and not updating all of the systems in a cluster isn't a
reason for the maintainer to reverse the solution. If all machines
were upgraded the protocol issue goes away. 18.2 or 19.0 isn't on the
horizon. Something better that 2.0 has been needed for a while.
besides, you always have the option of using any one of several other
distributions or rolling your own. That's the whole point of "your
mileage may vary"



> it just needs the caveat stated somewhere visible

No, it needs to be fixed ASAFP.


go for it. This is open source. Dive in and make it so. Don't put
demands on others.


Isaac

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Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth R5A22 seriously broken (was: RE: Mythtv -0.18.1 using protocol 15)

[Jim Reith]

At 11:06 AM 11/3/2005, Isaac Richards wrote:

On Thursday 03 November 2005 10:13 am, Michael Bochynski wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 11:24 +, fred bloggs wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I've had an install of Mythtv on gentoo for a few months, and it has been
> > working fine - and happily works with a frontend from another gentoo
> > install.
> >
> > However, last night I was trying to get a Knoppmyth frontend and also
> > winMyth to work, and when they connect to my backend I get the error:
> >
> > MainServer::HandleVersion - Client speaks protocol version 18 but we
> > speak 15!
> >
> > The backend is version  0.18.1.20050510-1, the gentoo install is version
> > mythtv-0.18.1-r1, and the tarball is called mythtv-0.18.1.tar.bz2 - so I
> > am pretty sure I am running 0.18.1:)
> >
> > Looking at problems people have had with protocol errors the protocol
> > number seems to track the release number, so why is my 0.18,1 install
> > using an old protocol - 15, and how can I get it to use 18?
> >
> > thanks
>
> I had the same problem. It turns out that the Knoppmyth R5A22 has Mythtv
> 0.18.2svn, which supposedly uses protocol 18.

People need to stop distributing SVN versions.  The people who do don't ever
think what they're doing will break people's multi-computer setups.  It's
also pretty idiotic to pick a random checkout date and release as if it were
stable.  This is _not_ 0.18.2, or anything related to it.

As far as I'm concerned, nobody should use KnoppMyth until they revert to
using a stable release, or at _least_ a checkout from the release-0-18-fixes
branch..


but it is perfectly acceptable for those of us using single machines
and it does resolve the problem with needing to move to the Stable
ivtv 4.0 branch that many of us need

it just needs the caveat stated somewhere visible



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Re: [mythtv-users] No data in mythweb program listings?

[Jim Reith]

At 09:07 AM 10/31/2005, you wrote:
Hi all,
 
I'm suddenly having an issue with mythweb where in all
channels are showing "NO DATA".  According to the backend
status, I should have guide data until 2005-11-14 03:12 (14 days).
I've run mythfilldatabase several times and am getting the same
results.  My first thought was database corruption, but I ran
mysqlcheck and didn't turn up any errors in mythconverg.
 
Any ideas as to where to go next would be appreciated.
 
are you due to have filled out a 3 month survey with the
provider?
Thanks,
 
--Al
 
 
 
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RE: [mythtv-users] Why did my remote control quit working?

[Jim Reith]

At 02:40 PM 10/28/2005, you wrote:

 
At 01:43 PM 10/28/2005, you wrote:
Hi all-
 
My remote control with my PVR-150 was working great when I used the
packaged install (mythtv-suite). Then I decided I wanted to tweak some of
the plugin settings, so I decided to build from source.
 
I have built from source and got basically everything working like it
used to, but my remote control doesnt work with mythtv anymore.
 
When I compiled, the ./configure script reported lirc support : yes
 
I can still run my remote with irw, the messages are received correctly
(lircd is running).
 
I can also use the remote with irxevent piping the remote commands to
mythtv.
 
However, Id really prefer to get native remote control support in mythtv
so I could use my existing lircrc file.
 
I searched the archive with nothing pointing directly to my problem.
 
Thoughts?
 
Any log files I should post to help the members of this great community
to figure out whats going on?
 
Eric.

There are some reports that ivtv causes the remote to stop working after
a while. Does it come back for a short period if you reboot? On the ivtv
list there was a patch which basically puts in an IR reset into the code.
There are also patches to do the same with a once a minute cron job. This
might not be your case where you say it works with irw.
 
 
That is an interesting idea, but a couple things: Concerning reboot: it
makes no difference. The remote _always_ works with irw and
irxevent, but _never_ in mythtv. I did compile ivtv from source
whereas before I was using the pre-built binaries in the package install,
so what you say is possible, but since it works with irw always, I
wouldn’t think the problem is with the driver. Other thoughts? TIA,
Eric.
Well, the lircrc file is what controls the functionality away from irw.
Are you sure it didn't get corrupted/overwritten?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Why did my remote control quit working?

[Jim Reith]

At 01:43 PM 10/28/2005, you wrote:
Hi all-
 
My remote control with my PVR-150 was working great when I used the
packaged install (mythtv-suite). Then I decided I wanted to tweak some of
the plugin settings, so I decided to build from source.
 
I have built from source and got basically everything working like it
used to, but my remote control doesn’t work with mythtv anymore.
 
When I compiled, the ./configure script reported “lirc support : yes”

 
I can still run my remote with irw, the messages are received correctly
(lircd is running).
 
I can also use the remote with irxevent piping the remote commands to
mythtv.
 
However, I’d really prefer to get native remote control support in mythtv
so I could use my existing lircrc file.
 
I searched the archive with nothing pointing directly to my problem.
 
Thoughts?
 
Any log files I should post to help the members of this great community
to figure out what’s going on?
 
Eric.
There are some reports that ivtv causes the remote to stop working after
a while. Does it come back for a short period if you reboot? On the ivtv
list there was a patch which basically puts in an IR reset into the code.
There are also patches to do the same with a once a minute cron job. This
might not be your case where you say it works with irw.

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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 sound loop into soundcard

[Jim Reith]

At 09:19 AM 10/28/2005, you wrote:

Hey I have an audio question - with all the hundreds of cables i have lying
around here, I haven't found one yet that will take the PVR-350 TV out L/R
RCA audio and allow me to feed them back into my sound card's 'Line In'.

The cable that i thought for sure would work is a spare computer
speaker cable
for old stereo sound cards that just have L/R.  its a small jack on one end
that plugs into the speaker plug on the soundcard, with two RCA's on the
other end to plug into the L/R speaker.  I figured if it works to go 'out' it
would also work to come back in??

I have a SB Audigy sound card, and in alsamixer, turned "Line" in up to max,
"Mic" in (just in case) up to max , (and actually every other control there
just to be sure) and i still don't get any sound coming out of my computer
speakers.

The only thing I can think of, is maybe the line is is mono and the stereo
jack isn't making connections in the right place?  I'm pretty sure its stereo
though, so

has anyone else had any luck feeding the sound from the 350 TV out back into
their sound card?

(i know that there's sound coming out, because i can plug the RCA jacks
directly into the back of my TV and the sound works fine... but I'd really
prefer the sound to go through the computer speakers so the volume can be
controlled with myth (not to mention, my computer speakers blow the TV
speakers away any day).

Thanks,
  James


I got a Y cable at Radio Shack for about $7 and it worked fine. Check
your settings on the sound side and make sure you don't have
something muted. That seems to be the most likely problem



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Re: [mythtv-users] Adding PVR 500 to 350 system

[Jim Reith]

I bought it through our local computer store on campus.  I got it at their
cost of $135.  I help them with troubleshooting, so they let me buy stuff
at cost. It came in quickly - about 2 days after ordering.


Buy.com was $131 shipped last week but they sold out quickly and I'm
on backorder



Thanks for the info.  I'll drop in the PVR500 and go straight to
mythtv-setup and see what happens.  I should have new ivtv drivers as this
system is only a month old - i'm not home now so can't check. I guess I
look in logs for version numbers?


I think the version number prints out at the top of the ivtv section in dmesg

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Re: [mythtv-users] Adding PVR 500 to 350 system

[Jim Reith]

At 02:33 PM 10/27/2005, you wrote:
Sorry for the newbie question,
but I'm a little nervous about breaking this new Myth system now that my
wife relies on it so much! I'm hoping to get this done in time to record
ER for her tonight...
I have a Fedora 4 system built about a month ago using Jarrod's guide and
help from this list (thanks everyone!).  It's on a Dell GX 140
(1.7GHz) and a PVR350 which is working great.  I just bought a
PVR500MCE and am getting ready to put it in when I get home from work
today.  

You pick it up on buy.com in the recent sale? Mine's on
backorder
What do I do to set this
up?  I guess add
 alias char-major-81-1 ivtv 
 alias char-major-81-2 ivtv 
to my modprobe.conf file.?   What else do I need to
do?  
What version of ivtv are you running? You'll need one of the more recent
ones, 3.8 through 4.0 would be good. If you use 4.0 (the latest stable
now) you should have everything autodetected.

I see the following in Jarrod's
guide- is this relevant to setting up the PVR 500- to tell it to use the
tuner for input... Or is it only for testing?
# /usr/bin/ivtvctl -u 0x3000 -d
/dev/video1
# /usr/bin/ivtvctl -p 4 -d /dev/video1
# /usr/bin/ivtvctl -f width=720,height=480 /dev/video1

Then of course, set it up in mythtv-setup - I think I can handle that...

This was setup about a month ago, so I assume somewhat recent...  My
cable modem is down this week (thanks comcast) so I can't see what
versions I am running from here.
Thanks
   Todd
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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350.. TV-out I can't get sound to work

[Jim Reith]

At 12:50 PM 10/20/2005, you wrote:


 Hi

 I had mythtv running fine with audio and everything
and then tried to get it to display in a TV... I am
using the s-video outout and the image is great on the
TV but I don;t get any audio anymore.
 I tried to use the mv msp3400.ko msp3400.ko.orig like
Jarod suggests in HOW To  but i get this message
  mv: cannot stat `msp3400.ko': No such file or
directory
 This is what I have on etc/modprof.conf
ivtv modules setup
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv
alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv
install ivtv /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv;
/sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb

any ides how to get sound to work

thanks for all your help


I assume you have the audio from the 350 pigtail connected into the
line-in of your sound card as the howto's specify? This is necessary.
you can go straight from the pigtail to the tv audio in but then you
won't get audio for non-350 viewing.



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Re: [mythtv-users] Upgrading KnoppMyth to IVTV 0.4.x

[Jim Reith]

At 11:07 AM 10/13/2005, you wrote:

I've been researching this for a few days now.  I've followed a few
guides, but never got everything to work.  (This may have been due to IVTV
0.3.x bugs that have now been worked out.)  I want to get a definitive
answer in the archives so that this process is easier for all in the future.

I've tried these URLs:
http://www.bitbenderforums.com/~ralpha6/knoppmyth/knoppmythtv.htm "MythTV
- An Open Source alternative to TiVo"
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4704 "My PVR-500 IVTV
Setup...{and pvr250, pcHDTV}"
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4822 "R5A16 Rocks!!! PVR-250,
PVR-500, and pcHDTV all work now."
http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto "IVTV Howto"

The first is for KnoppMyth R5A12 & IVTV 0.3.2s
The second is for KnoppMyth R5A15.1 & IVTV 0.3.5f
The third is for KnoppMyth RA516 & IVTV 0.3.6
The forth is for IVTV 0.4.0 but not specific to KnoppMyth

I know that IVTV 0.4.0 changed a few things, utilities and stuff I think.
So is there a definitive best guide for the KnoppMyth User/ Linux Newbie?
Are there any changes that need to be made to one of these guides to get
it ready for IVTV 0.4.0?


I'm on the brink of doing this same thing on my box. The biggest change is
that now IVTV doesn't need any module options. Everything is autodetected.
I'll be taking the plunge soon as my box is down and in need of reloading


--


Thank you for your time,
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RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV Filled Hard drive MySQL service will notstart at boot.

[Jim Reith]

At 10:01 AM 10/7/2005, you wrote:

My mythbackend.log file is just 6K, so I don't think that is the problem.
Any other suggestions?

Chris


When my system crashed and died, it was the system logs that overfilled and
caused it to crash. On my distribution they were in /var/log/ (messages*
for example) It got to the point where my system couldn't boot because it
couldn't write the "out of space" log entry because the log was "out of
space"... duh! If you don't have separate partitions set up that could fill
up the file system. Use the df and du commands to find where it's being
hogged (and use man df or man du to see what they tell you)

Jim



-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kristian Kalweit
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 9:19 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Filled Hard drive MySQL service will
notstart at boot.

Chris Gackstatter schrieb:

>
>
>
>
> *Can someone tell me which how to find the offending file and how do I
> get rid of it?*
>
Should be something in /var/log  ...

Maybe mythbackend.log?

Try:
locate mythbackend.log
to find it.


Kristian.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting two hard drives to single mounting point

[Jim Reith]

Hi,

I'm not sure if this has been asked before or if its even possible,
but is there any way to mount two HD's to a single mounting point in
Linux?  I just added a second HD to my mythbox and was hoping there
might be a way for /video to point to both of them.  Thanks.

Azmat


Search for LVM for how to create a multiple disk logical volume

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[mythtv-users] OSX frontend questions

[Jim Reith]

I'm going to be rebuilding my Knoppmyth front/backend machine this weekend
and I think I'm going to set it up so i can access it from additional front
ends. Since we're mostly a Mac house, I'm considering setting up OSX
frontends on a couple of the Macs (Tiger). I'm a little fuzzy on the split
between front and backend functionality. Will I be able to use mythburn on
the Macs or is that primarily a backend process?



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RE: [mythtv-users] Controlling multiple cable boxes

[Jim Reith]

At 10:11 AM 9/13/2005, you wrote:

It would be very exciting to have 2 machines
(computer to cable box) talk to each other over a USB to USB
connection. I believe USB is somewhat like SCSI in that
there must be an initiator and a listener to have a means
for 2 machines to talk together.

Does anyone have an idea of how to connect 2 machines using
a USB to USB technique?

Jerry


I wouldn't think it would be that hard to emulate a keyboard if that truly
did work right now. KVMs emulate that currently (they don't simply "pass
through" as you will find if you ever try to use a "special" keyboard with
one). I know I used to do that type of thing with serial terminals for load
testing using a Z-80 (to load test terminal servers) way back when. I can't
imagine there aren't similar tools available now



> On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 09:14 -0400, Gerald J. Berg wrote:
> > I have a pvr-350 and a pvr-500 in my MythTV box.
> > An IR Blaster would require multiple serial ports
> > to control the 3 cable boxes. These days, USB
> > ports are easier to come by than serial ports.
> > Has anyone heard of a way to control multiple
> > cable boxes using one or more USB ports?
>
> I'm hoping to use the CommandIR beta hardware from
> http://www.innovationone.ca.  It is already supported by lirc and
> controls up to 4 separate devices using a single USB port.

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:14:36AM -0400, Brian Long wrote:

Along these lines, does anyone know how to control a cable box via
direct USB connections? I know my cable box has a USB port, and if I
hook up a USB keyboard to it, I can change the channels by hitting the
number keys.

I dug a little into it, and it would seem that I'd need a USB
host-to-host cable, but researching linux that for linux, I really only
came up with drivers that I use for my linux ipaq.

Does anyone have any other pointers? It would hugely cut down on my
channel changing time.



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Re: [mythtv-users] What's the most recent stable version?

[Jim Reith]

I use 0.3.7b-1 (Debian SID source package) with a PVR 350 in a VIA EPIA ME6000
and the sound is good, but I use the vga and sound out on the motherboard.
You use the PVR 350 video an sound out?


Yes, i have had very good luck with the 350 outputs. I only moved up
to the devo builds to get the 150 working


Not as loud as when I playback music, I mean not on the same volume level.
Sorry for this formulation (my bad english), I hope you understand what I
mean.
I can not correct it, with the mixer setting in myth (or can I set the volume
level for mythmusic lower).


Thank you for the data point.


bye
thomas

Am Montag, 12. September 2005 20.44 schrieb Jim Reith:

 I'm about to rebuild my box due to a crash last week. I was using ivtv 3.6y
 with my pvr-150 and 350. I'm reading about people having sound problems
 with 3.7 and now 3.8. What is the latest version that seems to be
 reasonably stable or should I just go back and rebuild with 3.6y?

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[mythtv-users] What's the most recent stable version?

[Jim Reith]

I'm about to rebuild my box due to a crash last week. I was using ivtv 3.6y
with my pvr-150 and 350. I'm reading about people having sound problems
with 3.7 and now 3.8. What is the latest version that seems to be
reasonably stable or should I just go back and rebuild with 3.6y?



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Re: [mythtv-users] Controlling multiple cable boxes

[Jim Reith]

At 11:07 AM 9/12/2005, you wrote:

Pete Stagman wrote:


On 9/12/05, Gerald J. Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
wrote:

I have a pvr-350 and a pvr-500 in my MythTV box.

An IR Blaster would require multiple serial ports
to control the 3 cable boxes. These days, USB
ports are easier to come by than serial ports.

Has anyone heard of a way to control multiple
cable boxes using one or more USB ports?


You wouldn't need multiple serial ports if your cable boxes can be set
for different IR codes, like satellite receivers. I don't know if they
can or not, wouldn't hurt to ask your cable company.

Instructions here: www.lircsetup.com 


And that is the difference between an IR *blaster* and an IR
*transmitter*.  A transmitter doesn't have the range/angle of
effectiveness to control multiple devices, but a blaster does.

Mike


But maybe he doesn't want all three of his set top boxes to change to
channel 39 at the same moment. As for asking your cable company, they are
less than helpful when they sell a DVR service as part of their offering



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Re: [mythtv-users] Using firewire or usb external drives

[Jim Reith]

As for Fry's, I bought a 200gb Maxtor from them on thursday in order
to recover my Mythbox this weekend, paid for it to be overnighted and
Airborne has fumbled it and even though they said it would come today
and they were sorry it got screwed up, it's now after 5pm and won't
get to me before monday when it will have to be rerouted to my work
address. (sorry, I needed to vent)


Just out of curiosity, how did you order from Fry's? Their website
is just an ad for their ISP!


Fry's owns outpost.com. They're even listed in the header

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Re: [mythtv-users] Using firewire or usb external drives

[Jim Reith]

I haven't used firewire with MythTV or Linux.


I've been primarily using them with my Macs but I bought them in
order to have the flexibility of moving from one system/OS to
another. In the past I did this with SCSI but the Macs have moved on
from there.


I did however buy a firewire Maxtor 250GB firewire drive from Fry's
about a year ago. It was FAT formatted and I didn't bother to change
it. (Which was, perhaps, a mistake). It was reasonably fast, but
hugely flaky, and within about six months, it crashed, taking all my
data with it. (I had been using it as a backup and a storage place
for ripped game CDs.)


I've always bought bare drives and an enclosure and had no problems
currently. And while my wife used to work for Quantum which became
Maxtor, and I buy their drives, if you read the  complaints on
various lists, Maxtor is low on the list of drives to buy.
Personally, I had the same problem with a series of Fujitsu drives.
YMMV




Now, a single report, by itself, should not necessarily sway one for
or against any particular product. But I went back to Fry's a year
later (which was, also, perhaps, a mistake, although I didn't buy
anything) and they had a huge display of these Maxtor
drives--same models, same prices, but EVERY SINGLE ONE WAS A RETURN.

So, instead, I bought a 250GB Seagate (internal) and a NAS kit. Works well.


I like the enclosure kits and tend to buy combo USB/Firewire cases.

As for Fry's, I bought a 200gb Maxtor from them on thursday in order
to recover my Mythbox this weekend, paid for it to be overnighted and
Airborne has fumbled it and even though they said it would come today
and they were sorry it got screwed up, it's now after 5pm and won't
get to me before monday when it will have to be rerouted to my work
address. (sorry, I needed to vent)

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Re: [mythtv-users] Using firewire or usb external drives

[Jim Reith]

Hello all,

I'm setting up my first Mythtv system on Gentoo and had a question
about storage. What kind of problems will I run into if I base all
my storage for recorded programs, stored movies, MP3s, etc. on
external USB or firewire drives? For now I am putting my frontend
and backend on the same system (Asus Pundit-r 3Ghz, 200GB HD) which
only has 1 HD bay but I plan to move to separate frontend and
backend setup if I find Mythtv and I get along ok. External drives
seem like a good solution due to ease of expansion the ability to
migrate them fairly easily to other systems.


Sounds to me like you should consider your next move to separate your
front and backends and use the Pundit as a frontend and get a chassis
with extra storage bays for a bigger "in a closet somewhere" backend.
I currently have 4 IDE slots in my combo backend and since I've
filled my 3 200gb disks, I'm considering moving my DVD burner to
external and putting in a 4th drive in the box.



Should I avoid I stick with one directory per drive and avoid
JFS/XFS? Is performance to low? Are their know problems with JFS or
XFS on these kinds of drives? If I add all the drives to one files
system will the spanned file systems be difficult to get back up on
a different system that recognize the drives in a different order
than the original?

I am fairly familiar with JFS on SCSI drives using HP-UX (as of a
couple years ago) but have never used it on Linux or with IDE.

Thanks in advance!
Henry
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Re: [mythtv-users] How best to recover a fubar'd system?

[Jim Reith]

Jim Reith wrote:

On 8-Sep-05, at 10:20 AM, Jim Reith wrote:


I've got 550gb of videos I'd like to salvage if possible. my
other choice is to swap in a virgin drive and rebuild on that
and then copy
the root over onto the bad partition once it's up and running



I'm certainly not an expert but when I hosed my system in a less
drastic way I booted up knoppix and used it to mount my old drives
to copy off whatever I needed. Search for a directory called
mythconverg and then pull out all the .myd files and that should get
you the database. Even if you can't get all of the files the
recordings and videometadata tables are the most important ones for
getting you back to where you were before your crash.



mythconverg doesn't seem to be found when I do a "du | grep -i
converg". I've got a lot of stuff remapped to Lost and Found. I seem
to have at least some intact structure but it won't boot off the
partition so I've booted off the KnoppMyth CD and exited to the
prompt. I've mounted the partition and I'm poking around manually.
Where's the directory where these would be located?


/var/lib/mysql


yeah, I found that out on the KnoppMyth live CD I was using. fsck
from that was segfaulting so I followed another suggestion and
downloaded and ran "Recovery Is Possible" and managed to get fsck to
run with that to completion. It must have been a high level inode
that got roached as most of the filesystem got remapped to
lost+found. /var isn't even a directory 8^( It's there but an actual
file rather than a directory. I've been using grep and find but I'm
not having a lot of luck.


really not having a lot of luck. /etc is missing, /var is missing,
I'm not finding a lot of files in the lost+found directory. life is
not good. I managed to find my ivtv config file and I'm still poking
in a few other directories but it's not real promising. i found some
of the log files and I guess there were some database issues 3-4 days
in advance of the failure.

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Re: [mythtv-users] How best to recover a fubar'd system?

[Jim Reith]

Jim Reith wrote:

On 8-Sep-05, at 10:20 AM, Jim Reith wrote:


I've got 550gb of videos I'd like to salvage if possible. my
other choice is to swap in a virgin drive and rebuild on that and then copy
the root over onto the bad partition once it's up and running



I'm certainly not an expert but when I hosed my system in a less
drastic way I booted up knoppix and used it to mount my old drives
to copy off whatever I needed. Search for a directory called
mythconverg and then pull out all the .myd files and that should get
you the database. Even if you can't get all of the files the
recordings and videometadata tables are the most important ones for
getting you back to where you were before your crash.



mythconverg doesn't seem to be found when I do a "du | grep -i
converg". I've got a lot of stuff remapped to Lost and Found. I seem
to have at least some intact structure but it won't boot off the
partition so I've booted off the KnoppMyth CD and exited to the
prompt. I've mounted the partition and I'm poking around manually.
Where's the directory where these would be located?


/var/lib/mysql


yeah, I found that out on the KnoppMyth live CD I was using. fsck
from that was segfaulting so I followed another suggestion and
downloaded and ran "Recovery Is Possible" and managed to get fsck to
run with that to completion. It must have been a high level inode
that got roached as most of the filesystem got remapped to
lost+found. /var isn't even a directory 8^( It's there but an actual
file rather than a directory. I've been using grep and find but I'm
not having a lot of luck.

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Re: [mythtv-users] How best to recover a fubar'd system?

[Jim Reith]

On 8-Sep-05, at 10:20 AM, Jim Reith wrote:


I've got 550gb of videos I'd like to salvage if possible. my
other choice is to swap in a virgin drive and rebuild on that and then copy
the root over onto the bad partition once it's up and running


I'm certainly not an expert but when I hosed my system in a less
drastic way I booted up knoppix and used it to mount my old drives
to copy off whatever I needed. Search for a directory called
mythconverg and then pull out all the .myd files and that should get
you the database. Even if you can't get all of the files the
recordings and videometadata tables are the most important ones for
getting you back to where you were before your crash.



mythconverg doesn't seem to be found when I do a "du | grep -i
converg". I've got a lot of stuff remapped to Lost and Found. I seem
to have at least some intact structure but it won't boot off the
partition so I've booted off the KnoppMyth CD and exited to the
prompt. I've mounted the partition and I'm poking around manually.
Where's the directory where these would be located?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Automatic deletion on drive fillup doesn't work

[Jim Reith]

I have 650GB on my master backend shared out the sole Myth slave
frontend/backend
via NFS on which I keep all my recorded shows.  A few days ago this filled up.
Instead of automaticly deleting older or lower priority shows, as I
thought Mythtv
was supposed to do, it just continued on recording shows of 0 bytes.  I had to
manually got through and delete old/bad recorded shows and restart
the backends
before everything worked again.  Is this a known issue and if so how
do I fix it?


This is at least part of the reason my system got fubar'd this week
so I'd be interested if we have some setting wrong or something. It
detected it was running out of space because Mythweb told me so.
Isn't this working?

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Re: [mythtv-users] What is the fsck equivalent for LVM?

[Jim Reith]

At 02:12 PM 9/8/2005, you wrote:

On 08 Sep 2005 10:37:20 -0700, Jim Reith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a three disk LVM currently on a crashed system. I would like to
> verify it. What is the equivalent to fsck?
>
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As long as your volume group and logical volume information is intact
and you can activate your volume group, then the standard fsck for the
filesystem you have should work.

If your VG or LVOL is bad, I think you would be pretty much out of
luck.  You could try vgscan possibly.


Well, my root partition is toast so someone recommended I do an Update
Install (KnoppMyth) and then follow the LVM Upgrade instructions (which i
think say to use vgscan after editing the fstab)



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[mythtv-users] What is the fsck equivalent for LVM?

[Jim Reith]

I have a three disk LVM currently on a crashed system. I would like to
verify it. What is the equivalent to fsck?



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[mythtv-users] How best to recover a fubar'd system?

[Jim Reith]

I posted this on the Knoppmyth forums (and got a complaint on why it was an
installation issue) http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5955

I have a 3 month old installation that was working well until I allowed it
to fill the disks. Once the recording section filled it started getting
errors and the log files filled the root partition and it was all downhill
from there. Apparently there were some shared blocks that e2fsck wasn't too
happy about and I was never able to get it clean. So... I appear to have a
good LVM partition of videos but I need to rebuild my root partition. I'm
afraid to just let it do an install and have it roach something that I will
need or init the /myth directories. is there something here (which I
haven't been able to find in my search) that describes this type of
recovery? I've got 550gb of videos I'd like to salvage if possible. my
other choice is to swap in a virgin drive and rebuild on that and then copy
the root over onto the bad partition once it's up and running. I await your
collective words of wisdom...



yeah, hda1 is totally toast. it filled and the fsck found a bunch of
problems including some duplicate inodes and it segfaults now when I run it
on the partition from the Knoppmyth CD. The /myth/tv partition (lvm) filled
but still had a few megabytes. I made the mistake of trying to delete a
known bad recording through mythweb and it hung, I couldn't even ssh in and
when I rebooted, fsck roached hda1 as it came back up.

So, I assume that from your comments/solutions that the database is on the
root partition?

is there enough info in the .nuv files to recover the names/dates of the
recordings or will I have to sort them and manually fill them back in?

none of it is irreplaceable. i'm sure I can regather all the old repeats
I've been collecting to archive. I just wish I had had more time to write
them to DVD since I had just gotten Martin's MythBurn scripts working. I
wish it had deleted/expired some of the old recordings and freed some space
but it didn't.
_
R5A16, ivtv 3.6y, PVR-150 (Tuner 50, NTSC), PVR-350 (Tuner 47, NTSC, Video
out), Sempron 2800+, 2Gb RAM, 600Gb HD

So, can anyone give me a possible recovery method with the root partition
totally roached? An upgrade install was what has been suggested in the
forum using the LVM instructions which seems to just update the root
partition but then I have the issues with recreating the database...



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RE: [mythtv-users] Mythburn problem

[Jim Reith]

At 07:13 AM 9/6/2005, you wrote:


I will puto sudo for whole mythburn.sh command line. This should do the
trick.

Maybe it would be good idea to put this option "Run script as ROOT" to
install script?


I don't run my script as root and it runs fine. just make sure that you
allow the Apache user to have access and it should work. I remember having
to set some directories and devices to it but it's fine now. Running things
sudo should be your LAST attempt



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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR250 & PVR500 with only static

[Jim Reith]

At 11:22 AM 9/1/2005, you wrote:

In reading the mailing lists, Jarod stated that the tuner should be set to
57 which they are. The 250's are set to 2. Should they be something else?


Actually, at this point in the drivers, your tuners should auto-detect.



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Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 and High-Def

[Jim Reith]

At 10:02 AM 9/1/2005, you wrote:

There is a difference between a PVR250 or PVR350 in that they only do SD


and the 350 has tv-out which the 250 lacks



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Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

[Jim Reith]

At 02:29 PM 8/29/2005, you wrote:

On 8/29/05, Martin Bene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > By the way, many of my recordings are transcoded to mpeg4...
> > Should I assume this script won't transcode them properly?
>
> Unfortunately: yes, you should assume that. The script not only won't
> transcode them properly, it won't transcode them at all :-)
>
> The scripts assume that the original files are mpeg2 in a DVD comaptible
> resolution (720x576 for pal and 720x480 for ntsc; 704x576 and 704x480
> are also mentioned in the standard and should work, as should a few
> low-res settings).
>
> Transcoding differet formats is on the radar for the scripts, but not
> right away.
>
> Next thing I'll add is recoding mpeg2 audio to ac3 for ntsc DVDs - on
> pal, mpeg2 is a required format for all players so no problems there. On
> NTSC ac3 is required and mpeg2 optional; just another way to introduce
> artifical regional incompatibilities in the DVD standard. Works nicely
> on my system, just need to bundle it up as a tarball.
>
> After that, I'd like to have bitrate reduction using tcrequant - some of
> the DVB stations I receive broadcast at bitrates of ~ 7500kb/s which
> comes to ~ 4GB per hour. Meaning: a feature length film won't fit on a
> DVD as-is.
>
> Once that works I might add transcoding of different formats - no
> promises though: my system is DVB only, and I don't currently transcode
> anything, so motivation is fairly low.
>
> Bye, Martin

I've been following this thread for a few days, and hoped to try out
the scripts sometime this week. However, after seeing this post it
appears as though I need some clarification.

If I understand correctly, if I have already transcoded programs from
MPEG2 (recorded from PVR250s and/or PVR500) to MPEG4, then I cannot
use these scripts to burn to DVD. Is this correct?

I guess what I need to do is start recording programs with a different
profile, so that they will not be automagically transcoded, if I want
to burn them to DVD. Please confirm...


Yes, this scripts only massage the containers, it doesn't re-encode the
program. Works very well if you have mpeg2 from a pvr-xxx board. I'm
playing around with a version that will also transcode because I did a
bunch of recordings initially at 480x480 resolution so make sure you're
also recording at 720x480 (for NTSC)



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Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

[Jim Reith]

At 12:14 PM 8/29/2005, you wrote:

Hi there,

It worked for a single burn and now having updated some packages, it's
broken once again. Here's a log output:


Yeah, when I first started using it I had some "unstable" packages and it
wasn't happy. I had to downgrade to stable releases before I got it to
work. Martin should be able to give you the package releases that work. i
have it but it will have to wait until I'm home tonight



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Re: [mythtv-users] XBOX Frontend question (actually a debian question!)

[Jim Reith]

At 11:02 AM 8/29/2005, you wrote:

Jim,

  I suspect as much, unfortunately I do not know enough about Linux to
figure out where to put what. I have done a little digging, but may I
ask if you have any advice as to where I can just toss an smbmount
command? (I am also unclear as to whether I need to change the syntax
to suit a certain scripting language or if I can just put in the
command as-is)


Well, I run KnoppMyth which is a variation of Debian and I'm at work, not
home. The best thing to do is to look around in the how-tos for your
specific distribution, read the man pages and learn what you need to know
about it. it wouldn't be good to just take the advice of someone random off
the web without some understanding of what you're causing to happen. your
distribution initialization may be different. Generally there's a random
local startup script you can add it to, be it rc.local or miscutils.sh or
whatever and anything you can use at the command line will generally work.
you just need to figure out where in the sequence you need it to take
place. Obviously you can't access the network before it's initialized, for
example. While the software is free, there is a learning curve.



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Re: [mythtv-users] XBOX Frontend question (actually a debian question!)

[Jim Reith]

At 10:49 AM 8/29/2005, you wrote:

Evervyone is probably right about renaming the name of the share, but
should I be lead to believe that there is no way to run a command as
linux reboots? (ie, no "autoexec.bat" type of thing happening in
Debian?)


that's what the /etc/init.d directories are all about.



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Re: [mythtv-users] Converting to MPEG and/or buring to DVD - a guide?

[Jim Reith]

At 10:27 AM 8/29/2005, you wrote:

Sorry to trouble everyone, (round 2!)

 Thanks to all of your help I have got a wonderful MythTV setup
working which my wife and I absolutely adore. Just a few more little
bugs to sort out and everything will be perfect. I have been putting
it off, so I have decided to post these two messages in an attempt to
seek out the answers to the last few remaining bugs.

(2) Converting NUV to MPEG. Also, burning a DVD.

Now that I have these huge NUV files working perfectly on my backend,
I am looking for a way to turn them into MPEG's (or DIVX) to share to
my windows box (or with friends), and to make DVD's for the
non-computer using family.

I have looked around the menus, and i have waded through this mailing
list. Unfortunately there seems to be a numerous opinions on how to do
both of the above. I am wondering if anyone is maintaining, or is
aware of a "mythtv" guide to converting to mpeg, and a "mythtv" guide
to burning to DVD?

I my wrong in assuming that these two features will one day be a
simple menu option from within mythtv? Any sort of advice or place
where I can gather more info would be great.


What's your tv card currently? Are you familiar with martin's recent work
on MythBurn?

http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2005-August/100231.html



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Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth and Hauppauge 350

[Jim Reith]

At 08:40 AM 8/29/2005, you wrote:

Hello, this is my first post so please bear with me.
I have a P3 933 mhz, the PVR-350 with grey remote, and an old Nvidia TNT2
in the AGP slot.
MythTV comes up and I escape out to the command line.
I type
lircd start

and then I try to run
irw
when I hit buttons on the remote nothing happens.
The IR receiver is plugged in through what looks like a headphone
connector on the back of the PVR-350, I plugged it in there since it fit
and came with the card.
There are no LED's on the remote. I am not sure if the remote is at fault,
the receiver or my configuration.

MY pvr-350 only has the remote plugged in right now as I have not figured
out how I am going to connect this thing to the TV yet.
Is there a cable that connects the sound card to the PVR-350? the only
cables I found were a IR receiver, FM radio antenna, the big cable mess,
and a little adapter piece. I have an onboard i8x0 sound with three plugs.

thank you for your time and have a good day


http://knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=HauppaugeThreeFiftyInstallation

Check out the section on lircrc in
http://knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=LIRCHowTo to set up your remote

You need to determine if you have the silver or grey remote to set up the
buttons properly.



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Re: [mythtv-users] Watch TV

[Jim Reith]

At 08:38 AM 8/29/2005, you wrote:

I get like this:
MythTV is already using all available inputs for recordings.If
you want
to watch an in-progress recording,select one from the playback menu.If
you want to watch live TV, cancel one of the in-progress recordings from
the delete menu.

What does it mean?


it means that all your tuners are busy recording stuff and there's none
free to watch live tv. if you only have one tuner, you can't record and
watch tv at the same time. The tuner is tied up


And what is wrong with me ?




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Re: AW: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

[Jim Reith]

OK, back to the scripts and add some more checks to make sure all the
stuff required for successfull DVD creation is available.


Since we all seem to be having similar problems with getting all the
pieces right, maybe an installation verification/validation script
would be useful? Something that checks for all the pieces in the
right place and logs the results. it would certainly make your job
easier if it had a log an end user could validate

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Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

[Jim Reith]

At 01:05 PM 8/25/2005, you wrote:

Content-class: urn:content-classes:message
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"

>
> >I think that was it.  I'm burning my first DVD now, so hopefully this
> >will be all work out!
> >
> >George
>
> are you using chapter menus? See if you have the problem with
> them that I'm
> seeing where the first chapter won't start when selected but the 2nd
> chapter will (and then you can skip back to the first)
>
> Not sure who's doing maintenance on the chapter menu functionality

Guess :-)


Well, at least I know who now 8^)



Problem is, I can't reproduce the problem. Chapter menu works just fine,
starting first chapter definitely works for me.
I'll try a DVD in a couple of standalone players to see if one of them
shows the effect.


yes, this was in a standalone player.


How many titles on your DVD?


i have seen it in two places. On the 4 30 minute show one and on the single
2 hour movie one. i have only tried the DVDs on the picky player in our
livingroom.



Bye, Martin
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Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

[Jim Reith]

I think that was it.  I'm burning my first DVD now, so hopefully this
will be all work out!

George


are you using chapter menus? See if you have the problem with them that I'm
seeing where the first chapter won't start when selected but the 2nd
chapter will (and then you can skip back to the first)

Not sure who's doing maintenance on the chapter menu functionality



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Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

[Jim Reith]

At 11:58 AM 8/24/2005, you wrote:

Jim Reith wrote:
> One wrinkle I've seen with the DVDs I've burned using Martin's MythBurn
> modifications is that the first chapter in the chapter menu isn't
> selectable to start (on my DVD player) If I cursor to the second one it
> starts fine and then if I skip backwards I can get it to play the first
> chapter but the first one isn't playable (it does get selected/highlighted)
> from the chapter menu. Anyone got any thoughts on that?
>

I observed this same problem.  One other problem was with the creation
of chapters.  The movie I was archiving was about 2 hours long.  The
first 10 chapters were about 2 minutes each, and the last chapter was
about 1-1/2 hours.


interesting. I didn't look at that since we were simply trying to watch a
previously recorded movie away from our MythBox



Overall, though, mythburn worked well for me.  I am very, very pleased
to have a working solution after being bitten far too many times by the
PVR-x50 a/v sync issue that Cory Papenfuss has explained so often.
Thanks so much to Martin for working on this.


Yes, definitely a "good job" to Martin


By the way, I use Debian, and I didn't have any problems getting the
dependencies and permissions set up.  The only wrinkle was to create a
projectx executable that user 'www-data' (the username that runs apache)
could run.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

[Jim Reith]

One wrinkle I've seen with the DVDs I've burned using Martin's MythBurn
modifications is that the first chapter in the chapter menu isn't
selectable to start (on my DVD player) If I cursor to the second one it
starts fine and then if I skip backwards I can get it to play the first
chapter but the first one isn't playable (it does get selected/highlighted)
from the chapter menu. Anyone got any thoughts on that?



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Re: [mythtv-users] Help, PVR-350 TV Out doesn't work

[Jim Reith]

At 08:31 AM 8/22/2005, you wrote:

I've found an article about this firmware message which says it's
nothing to warry about

http://svn.wilsonet.com/projects/mythtvology/ticket/20

So I guess that's not that. Will keep looking.


But it should also have pointed you to the recommended ones and when one if
having unusual problems it doesn't hurt to use the firmware the developers
are testing with... hence the warning. Who's to say at what point a newer
firmware won't break something?



--- Gera Makarov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> How do I install the right version of the firmware?
>
> I've checked the permissions all looks ok.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --- Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On 8/22/05, Gera Makarov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > And here's the output of /sbin/lspci -v if it can help at all.
> > >
> > > 00:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc
> > iTVC15
> > > MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
> > > Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR-350
> > > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
> > > Memory at d800 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
> > > Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
> >
> > I would also check the mythfrontend logfile to see if there is any
> > extra info listed there. Check the permissions of the ivtv created
> > devices /dev/videoxx to make sure the mythfrontend user can access
> > them (might need to modify the udev rules to do this on FC4.
> >
> > One of your firmwares for the 350 is buggy, you might consider
> > updating it to a new one (check the ivtv messages log for the
> error).
> >
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Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT - Controlling the CPU fan

[Jim Reith]

Title: Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT - Controlling the
CPU fan


> Even though my Myth backend does not
sit in the lounge, it does sit in
> the study and the fan noise is driving the family nuts to point
they
> want the backend shutdown when they are in there.
>
> I have done heaps of searching around and can't seem to find any
solid
> info but I would like to be able to throttle back the fan on the
CPU
> when the backend is idling as it seems to most of the time.
>
> I have lm_sensors running and I know the speed of the fan, but I
can't
> find any way to control it.  It is a Sempron 2400 sitting on
a crappy
> generic mobo.  Also, I am sure I could afford to turn the
fan down as
> the highest temperature the CPU has gotten to so far is 50
degree
> celcius (although it is winter-ish here in QLD, Australia
atm).
>
> Anyways, does anyone have any suggestions other than sticking the
box
> in the garage?

You could buy a Zalman fan - they're very quiet. I have one and
I've
been very pleased with it.

Chances are the fan speed is controlled by the motherboard and
the only way you can really control it is by reducing the temp in the
case.

Since you said you were using lm_sensors I assume you've seen
this page?

http://knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=Power+Management

I found that making my (3) disk drives sleep after being idle for
5 minutes dropped my case temperature 10 degrees

mbmon -c 1 -t >
starting_temp.log


# more starting_temp.log

Temp.= 55.0, 25.0, 44.0; Rot.= 4787,    0,   
0
Vcore = 1.65, 1.65; Volt. = 3.34, 4.92, 11.80, -10.74, -4.66
Thu Aug 11 18:34:20 EDT 2005


# more spundown_temp.log

Temp.= 45.0, 25.0, 32.0; Rot.= 4591,    0,   
0
Vcore = 1.66, 1.65; Volt. = 3.34, 4.92, 11.80, -10.74, -4.63
Fri Aug 12 05:43:42 EDT 2005




[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# mbmon -c 1 -t
Temp.= 43.0, 25.0, 32.0; Rot.= 4530,    0,   
0
Vcore = 1.65, 1.66; Volt. = 3.33, 4.92, 11.73, -10.74, -4.63
Mon Aug 15 06:26:53 EDT 2005

One of the other suggestions I've seen but not tried is to use
12v fans but run them off the 5v supply so they spin slow and quiet.
There are also adapters so you can dial down the fan voltages with a
little pot. I agree that the Zalman fans are VERY quiet. I have one
also. I've also bought round IDE cables to help case airflow and it
happens that there are some on sale VERY cheap this week
http://store.yahoo.com/svcompucycle/clearance.html (at the
bottom of the page)

One thing you want to make sure of is to not turn the fans down
manually and fry your CPU


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Re: [mythtv-users] volume problem

[Jim Reith]

At 09:42 AM 8/19/2005, you wrote:

I am using PVR-250 and has an integrated audio capture. The output
goes straight to my Sony Trinitron TV.
When I watch the same stuff on regular tv, volume is normal. It
suffers only when I watch stuff via MythTV.
I haven't tried the nuvexport stuff.


I'm assuming you've checked the mixer levels to make sure you don't have
some setting set low?


Thanks,
Ash.

On 8/19/05, George Nassas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 19-Aug-05, at 8:21 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 04:21:18PM -0500, Ashu Desai wrote:
> >> reason, when I playback, I have to turn up the volume a bit (almost
> >> half way) to hear the dialogues, however if there is a background
> >> music going on, then it becomes too loud. To give an example (and this
> >
> > What capture card?  Integrated audio capture or a separate audio input
> > device?  What kind of audio output?  Playback on television or using
> > monitor and speakers?
>
> I've experienced similar problems and I thought it was me. I'm
> recording on a pvr-350 using the integrated audio. Playback is on an
> epia m1 through the built-in unichrome video and whatever onboard
> sound chip it has. Output device is an SD TV. Not all programs exhibit
> the behaviour and I haven't noticed a pattern for which ones do since I
> figured it was the inexorable march of time catching up with me.
>
> - George
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[mythtv-users] Rerecording to overwrite?

[Jim Reith]

Is it possible to set up MythTV to re-record previously recorded shows that
still exist in the database? I have 2 months worth of shows recorded at
480x480 that I would like to re-record at 720x480 but i don't want to
delete the 480x480 shows prior to them coming back on in case I want to
re-watch them. The 480x480 plays fine but is a hassle putting on DVD
(Martin has explained to me a way I can re-encode them when transferring
but I'd prefer to have the larger size when it becomes available) is this
possible? (oh, and I only want to do it against my 480x480 recordings so
something on a per recording basis is probably preferred)

Jim (not home where I can poke around my Myth box to check)



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Re: [mythtv-users] Prebuffering pause - how I fixed mine

[Jim Reith]

At 09:29 AM 8/18/2005, you wrote:

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 04:39:02AM -0400, Joe Carter wrote:
> Then I realised my hub (another freebie cast off) is just a 10Mbps one.
> Directly link the two machines (100Mb cards) and voila, it works.
> So bog standard ethernet can't cope with fast streams from sources like
> the BBC. Superb picture btw :-)

When you use a non-synchronous hub (regardless of speed) the throughput
falls dramatically because the connection is simplex and the
collision-detection method of arbitrating access leads to a lot of
failed transmissions and wasted bandwidth while the nodes back off for
a random period of time before retransmitting.  It's like trading in
your telephone for a CB radio.  Utilization rates of 40% are typical.

A direct connection would improve the bandwidth usage even without the
increase to 100MBit because the connection would become full-duplex and
there would be no collisions since there is only one transmitter on
each pair of wires.

If you want to have more than 2 computers you need to use a switch (or
"broadband router").


and with gigabit networking becoming more and more accessible, you can find
100Mbit autodetecting switches for dirt cheap lately. Search the online
deal websites of go grab an "open box" special at your local supplier. You
might even be able to find someone who has upgraded that's willing to sell
you their old one (which would still be an upgrade to you)



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Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

[Jim Reith]

At 09:43 AM 8/18/2005, you wrote:

On 8/13/05, Martin Bene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Another update for the mythburn scripts, no new features this time but
> major rewrite of configuration.
[...]
> Let me know why it doesn't work for you and how I broke your system :-)

I'm on Gentoo - config worked fine.

First Problem: The auto-detection of ProjectX. My ProjectX comes as a
jar that needs to be called from java. I'm sure I could have put
together a shell script that mimics the "projectx" executable the
script wants to see, but being a lazy guy, I just hard-coded the
correct command into the script...

DVD creation went well (escept for the flipped thumbnails, but I found
the flag for that), next snag I hit was my apache user not being
allowed to write DVDs. I'll fix that another  day - calling growisofs
manually to write out the DVD produced a fine looking result (except
for the thumbs, but that should be taken care of now).

As soon as I get the permissions issue sorted out, this will be my new
default way of burning DVDs from Myth. Thanks a lot for your effort!


I am also happy to report back to the list that backchannel Martin and I
have sorted out my system problems. First I had some unstable releases
loaded and downgraded to the stable versions. Next I also had access
permissions to fix on /dev/dvd. Finally we found that I've been recording
all my shows at 480x480 for some reason so I had to change that back to
720x480. This morning I was able to create a working DVD with chapter menus
from my KnoppMyth machine. Thank you Martin for your scripts and your help
and patience.

Jim (yea! 8^)



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[mythtv-users] Attention list owner(s)

[Jim Reith]

Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:40:53 -0400 (EDT)
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Re: [mythtv-users] Cables and more space...ideas?

[Jim Reith]

At 12:33 PM 8/17/2005, you wrote:

James Oltman wrote:

I hate to say this, but I use WinBloze and DVD Shrink to do what you are
wanting to do.


arg, was hoping to stay away from that, mostly so i could just ssh into my
server and do what i needed to do :( ... oh well, at least i have a dual
boot on my main desktop and i'm in windoze when i need to use photoshop
and my fiance is using the ibook ...

-g-


for the iBook Roxio's Popcorn does a lot of the DVD Shrink functionality



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Re: [mythtv-users] New MythDora v1.4

[Jim Reith]

The very first selection in the list from plugging MythDora into Google
states
http://www.pvrguide.no-ip.com/bbs/index.php?showtopic=4987
"MythDora is a FC3/OS with MythTV-0.18.1 all on one
CD."
At 12:31 PM 8/17/2005, you wrote:
On 8/17/05, Neil Davidson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



> At 3:51 PM -0400 8/16/05, Dennis Hand wrote:

> >The newest version of MythDora is out. It can be downloaded here

> >http://g-ding.tv/?q=MythDora.

> >And no Dora the Explorer puns please. 

>

> It occurs to me that nowhere in your announcement message or

> on your Web page do you actually say what MythDora *does*.

> Why should I download it?

>

> If your goal is to get as many people to use your program as 

> possible, the first place to start is to summarize what it


 


> is. Many useful open source programs get lost in obscurity

> for the simple reason that their authors assume everyone 

> knows what it is.

> --

I agree. It took me a while of reading the like to work out is was a

tailored Myth distroat least I think that's what it is :)


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[mythtv-users] MythBurn settings

[Jim Reith]

Title: MythBurn settings


When I run the current version of MythBurn I'm seeing the
following line in the output:

video
basics: 480*480 @ 29.97fps @ 0.6735 (4:3) @ 600bps, vbvBuffer
112

Where is the 480x480 value coming from? I went through all the
settings and I've got to admit I can't find it anywhere. I thought I
found it in one of my transcoding profiles but I reset that and it's
still there. Anyone?

The problem is that while I can now generate a playable DVD with
all the menu settings, it plays tiled with a second copy 3/4 of the
width of the screen. This seems to be my last stumbling block. Where
is the scripts getting this value from?

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Re: [mythtv-users] mplex missing

[Jim Reith]

On 16/08/2005, at 7:47 PM, Jim Reith wrote:


I had to downgrade my system to work with Martin's scripts and I seem
to be missing a few things. one major problem is I'm missing
/usr/bin/mplex. What package do I had to reload in order to get it?


If you mean RPM package, it's from mjpegtools. http://rpmfind.net/
is a good source for this kind of thing.

Matt.


actually I'm running Knoppmyth so it was apt-get but that's the
package and the script ran to completion.

Thanks

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[mythtv-users] mplex missing

[Jim Reith]

I had to downgrade my system to work with Martin's scripts and I seem
to be missing a few things. one major problem is I'm missing
/usr/bin/mplex. What package do I had to reload in order to get it?

Thanks, Jim

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Re: [mythtv-users] Extending recordings once they've started (was Re: Tennis)

[Jim Reith]

At 11:58 AM 8/15/2005, you wrote:

I have had this situtation as well.  The only thing I could think to
do was record the next couple programs on the same channel...not
elegant, but I got to wathc the end of the game



I had her go in and record an additional 3 hours with a manual recording
through the web interface. I was pleased with how well she did since I
hadn't shown her the web access previously



On 15 Aug 2005 07:19:29 -0700, Jim Reith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 10:10 AM 8/15/2005, you wrote:
> >On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 10:58:56PM -0400, Chuck Vohs wrote:
> > > Is there an easy way to record sporting goods from the scheduled start
> > > until they are over?
> >
> >And, on a more general note, is there now, or will there ever be, a
> >good way to extend a recording that has already started, when you
> >discover that it's going to run long, for whatever reason?
> >
> >It appears to be the case, through at least 0.17, that modifying a
> >recording sked once the recording starts is ignored.
>
> As my wife discovered yesterday when the baseball game I was at went into a
> rain delay (under 18.1)
>
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Re: [mythtv-users] Gee, I THOUGHT I was a linux fan.

[Jim Reith]

At 10:59 AM 8/15/2005, you wrote:
Comments in-line.
On 8/15/05, Richard Bronosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 4. I tried watching a DVD from my NEC 16xDL-DVD-RW but the Xine
screen
> flashes for a second and then I'm back to the MythTV GUI.  I
tried
> ripping a DVD but it keeps telling me there are no jobs.  What
am I
> doing wrong here?  Is there a log I can check?
> 
It is possible that Xine is in the background.  Have you tried
showing
the DVD from a CLI instance of xine?
Is mtd running? 
(http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-19.html)
Chances are you were trying to show a commercial DVD and so you need to
load the "optional encryption" library
libdvdcss which isn't included to have legal
deniability. I'm sure you can manage to google to find what you need
given that hint.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Extending recordings once they've started (was Re: Tennis)

[Jim Reith]

At 10:10 AM 8/15/2005, you wrote:

On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 10:58:56PM -0400, Chuck Vohs wrote:
> Is there an easy way to record sporting goods from the scheduled start
> until they are over?

And, on a more general note, is there now, or will there ever be, a
good way to extend a recording that has already started, when you
discover that it's going to run long, for whatever reason?

It appears to be the case, through at least 0.17, that modifying a
recording sked once the recording starts is ignored.


As my wife discovered yesterday when the baseball game I was at went into a
rain delay (under 18.1)



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Re: [mythtv-users] Tennis

[Jim Reith]

At 09:18 AM 8/15/2005, you wrote:

On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 09:00, Fred Squires wrote:
> On 8/15/05, David Whyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > I've been doing that so I end up getting 4-5 hour recordings where
> > > the game ends up being only 3.5 hours long. Is there a simple way
> > > once they are recorded to prune off the end, after the event is done?
> >
> > only by adding a cut list and then transcoding but that generally
> > makes the video a different format such as MPEG4.
> >
> > Whytey
>
> Not necessarily, if you simply want to not see it just create a cut
> point at the end of the match.  The player will then skip anything
> after the cut point, but you won't save any space that way.

Why not just hit the exit button once the match ends?  I don't think you
have to sit and watch the entire recording all the way to the end.  :)


Well, the most recent situation was a baseball game I was attending and got
home after the extended recording had finished



Are you saving these matches after they are watched?  Probably easier to
watch them and delete them than to schedule additional processing time
and your time to create an edit list and transcode.


I'm hoping to burn them to DVD to send to my daughter away at school



I hit a similar problem once, a sports show pushed the start of a movie
that was to be recorded out by about 30 minutes.  Needless to say the
end of the movie was not recorded which did not go over to well.  But
that is the same problem with a standard VCR if you don't know the show
is being delayed for some reason and there is no way to modify the
recording schedule.


yep, same issue



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Re: [mythtv-users] Tennis

[Jim Reith]

At 09:00 AM 8/15/2005, you wrote:

On 8/15/05, David Whyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 15 Aug 2005 03:10:54 -0700, Jim Reith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Each recording schedule you create you can specify that it records an
> > >extra X minutes.  Also, you can say that for any and every recording
> > >schedule you create you can record extra time.
> > >
> > >You just need to look in the setup and the recording screens.
> > >
> > >Whytey
> >
> > I've been doing that so I end up getting 4-5 hour recordings where
> > the game ends up being only 3.5 hours long. Is there a simple way
> > once they are recorded to prune off the end, after the event is done?
>
> only by adding a cut list and then transcoding but that generally
> makes the video a different format such as MPEG4.
>
> Whytey

Not necessarily, if you simply want to not see it just create a cut
point at the end of the match.  The player will then skip anything
after the cut point, but you won't save any space that way.


and what is the suggested method for manually modifying/creating these
cutlists?



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Re: [mythtv-users] Tennis

[Jim Reith]

Each recording schedule you create you can specify that it records an
extra X minutes.  Also, you can say that for any and every recording
schedule you create you can record extra time.

You just need to look in the setup and the recording screens.

Whytey


I've been doing that so I end up getting 4-5 hour recordings where
the game ends up being only 3.5 hours long. Is there a simple way
once they are recorded to prune off the end, after the event is done?



On 8/15/05, Chuck Vohs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 I had my wife sold on this mythtv...it's up and running and seemed to be
 working great.
 Then I tried recording Tennis, every time it is on, no matter what
 channel, for her.
 Well, today it recorded Tennis, but it cut off the final couple of
 games, I think because the programming for the schedule said it was only
 on for 2 hours.
 Is there an easy way to record sporting goods from the scheduled start
 until they are over?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Cases for a PVR box... recommendations.

[Jim Reith]

 >> # allow the disks to spindown after 5 minutes of idle

   /sbin/hdparm -S 60 /dev/hda
   /sbin/hdparm -S 60 /dev/hdb
   /sbin/hdparm -S 60 /dev/hdd



I have SATA drives, so I can't do
this.  But thanks for the tip!



? are you sure, I have S-ATA and doing a hdparm -S  /dev/sda
gives me a definite click as the drive spins down and starts up again (I
haven't mounted the partitions noatime yet).

I'd say it's worth giving it a try.



Simple enough. Go to a shell and try

/sbin/hdparm -y 

That will put your drive in powersave mode immediately (if possible) then

/sbin/hdparm -C 

and it will show you the current status like mine shows

# /sbin/hdparm -C /dev/hdd

/dev/hdd:
 drive state is:  standby




Marius
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Re: [mythtv-users] Cases for a PVR box... recommendations.

[Jim Reith]

Title: Re: [mythtv-users] Cases for a PVR box...
recommendations.


On 08/12/2005 12:20 PM, Jim Reith wrote:
Put a piece of red plastic over the two
leds and now I get a subtle
lavender glow from them


I use a bit of electrical tape over my blindingly blue LED. 
Works great.

My wife really likes purple so the red over blue had a high WAF
8^)


I found that setting my three HDDs to
spin down after 5 minutes gave me a
10 degree drop in temps according to mbmon. That made the fans slow
down
and made the ambient noise much less. I've also just bought
replacement IDE
cables that are round so i won't have as many obstructions to case
airflow


Can you tell us how you set the drives to spin down after 5 minutes?
I'd like to do the same thing.  Thanks.

--Dylan
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http://knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=Power+Management

This is in my /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh, which is in a different
place than the above how-to points to. The first 240 numbers represent
5 second intervals so 60*5 = 300 = 5 minutes. The 240 in the how-to is
20 minutes. I do notice that my hda drive doesn't sleep or at least
not when I'm checking it but the other two do. I have a three disk lvm
set up including most of the first disk and all of the other two (all
200gb Maxtors)

# allow the disks to spindown after 5 minutes of idle
 /sbin/hdparm -S 60 /dev/hda
 /sbin/hdparm -S 60 /dev/hdb
 /sbin/hdparm -S 60 /dev/hdd


# /sbin/hdparm -C /dev/hdd

/dev/hdd:
 drive state is:  standby

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Re: [mythtv-users] Cases for a PVR box... recommendations.

[Jim Reith]

At 02:13 PM 8/12/2005, you wrote:

My wife had the same complaint about the LED.  I just unplugged the
HDD connector, and poof no more problems.  I am referring to the
CAV-T04 which is only $50 (w/300 watt psu) plus shipping here:
http://www.svc.com/coolermaster-htpc.html

I have no affiliation with them, just purchased this one product from
them and it was shipped promptly via UPS.


This is the one i got in all black

http://www.chiefvalue.com/app/productdetails.asp?submit=search&item=11-119-071

Put a piece of red plastic over the two leds and now I get a subtle
lavender glow from them

I found that setting my three HDDs to spin down after 5 minutes gave me a
10 degree drop in temps according to mbmon. That made the fans slow down
and made the ambient noise much less. I've also just bought replacement IDE
cables that are round so i won't have as many obstructions to case airflow


Hope it helps

Jason

On 11 Aug 2005 14:29:41 -0700, Jim Reith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I second the aria and coolermaster cases.  I have one of each, and
> >both power supplies are quiet and both met the WAF.  The coolermaster
> >has the advantage of being a full ATX and is easier to add stuff to,
> >but the Aria is a very well designed micro-ATX case.  Depends on what
> >your other equipment looks like.
> >
> >Jason
>
> yeah, the Cooler Master case I mentioned is nice as a combined
> front/backend since it has room for my ATX motherboard with 5 PCI
> slots. The only WAF issue was the too bright LEDs for in the bedroom
>
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Re: [mythtv-users] Cases for a PVR box... recommendations.

[Jim Reith]

At 10:20 AM 8/12/2005, you wrote:

Robert Johnston wrote:


On 11/08/05, R. Geoffrey Newbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



On 11 Aug 2005 07:11:22 -0700, Jim Reith wrote:




My question is, of those specialized cases out there, what are people's
favorites - which ones have proven to be more stable.


I'm just putting together a box using the Silverstone LC11M as my case.
This box is intended to replace the 2 VCR's next to the TV so I wanted a
smallish and neat case.
This case is good looking 'restrained' and well made.



I've got MythTV box in the base LC11 case, and the case is virtually
silent (I can't hear it unless I put my head right next to it).




I am using a Via Epia SP13000 motherboard and there is a 'gotcha' involved
there.
The case has 3 horizontal PCI slots in the back and will take full length
PCI cards BUT the included PCI riser card expects that the first slot will
be an AGP slot, and the PCI riser card will fit into the second slot of
the motherboard. Of course a mini-itx board has no second slot! and no AGP
slot. The answer is that you will need a PCI extension ( $8.00 at Logic
Supply in Waterbury Vermont: great service from them BTW!), to go between
a PCI riser card in a mini-ITX board PCI slot and your cards, so that then
your cards will line up with the back of the case. Second gotcha is that
there does not appear to be a 3 slot PCI riser card made anywhere...so you
will be limited to using 2 PCI cards. The third slot is limited to AGP use
only (and then only if you have a board with an AGP slot.). Since I am
intending to use the on board video of the EPIA MB, 2 slots are sufficient
for my Hauppauge PVR500 and a pcHDTV card.



I'm using an ASRock mATX board, which has 1xAGP and 3xPCI (Only 2 of
which can be used in this case). It is more than adequate to run 1xAGP
NVidia 5200 and 2xPVR250's, along with 2x250Gb WD HDD's, and the whole
system is silent. The most annoying part of the whole case is the
ULTRA-BRIGHT-OMGMYEYES Blue LED's on the front. :)



Personally, I would STRONGLY disrecommend the Silverstone LC11:

* The hard disk bays don't have room for SATA disks, due to the front fan
getting in the way of the SATA power cables
* There's a big metal rivet at the back, which prevents you from plugging
a VGA cable into an AGP graphics card
* The AGP/PCI riser module _REALLY_ doesn't work, I had massive problems
with video corruption and cards not being recognised at boot
* The integrated motherboard risers are too large, and cause shorting
unless you screw the board in tightly at EXACTLY the right angle

I bought a slightly larger Coolermaster Cavalier4, and fixed all my issues
in one go (without adding any noise).

My board is an AOpen i855GMEm-LFS, a mATX board which takes Pentium-M
CPUs. I've got an AGP GeForce 5200 and two Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T DVB-T cards.


Yeah, it's the Cavalier4 I have as well, with a full ATX in it. Plus you
still have the ULTRA-BRIGHT-OMGMYEYES Blue LED's on the front. :)


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Re: AW: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

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Hi Jim,


 If you need a willing victim/beta tester, I'd be happy to
 work on it with you and give you another box to validate
 things on. I'm NTSC but running KnoppMyth R5A16. One of the
 reasons I built this machine was to have a software project
 to "play" in and maybe contribute stuff back and this is one
 piece that would be a big win in WAF


OK, I've now got a first hack ready to break your system :-)

This version uses projectx for remux and commercial cutting. Cutting is
NOT frame accurate, projectx rounds to the nearest GOP. Avidemux2 (which
was used for cutting previosuly) doesn't round - it just produces broken
output files if your cutpoints aren't on a Keyframe.

Requirements:
- projectx (well, obviously )
- Xvfb or local X server

See http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=32174#32174 for
details.

Changes implemented:

- support for multiple audio streams. Commerical cut or remux will keep
around all audio streams from the original recording. If you've got
recordings with multiple audio streams (say, german and english streams)
you'll get a DVD that allows you to switch languages. I haven't yet
figured out how to find out which stream has which langauge and get this
info over to the DVD, so the audio streams won't have nice names.

- chapter submenu is optional and configurable via the web interface.
while I like having the chapter marks in my titels I don't like the
chapter submenu.
- blue face / upside down thumbnails configurable via variables at the
top of mythtvburn.sh
- add a title listbox to the "burn DVD" webpage similar to the listbox
in "recorded programs". makes it much easier to pick a couple of
episodes from the same series.

- if commercial cutting is disabled, revert to old behaviour and use
cutpoints as chapter marks

patch can be downloaded at
http://mabene.icomedias.com/mythburn/cut-0.3.diff


Ok, I've patched mythburn a bit so I should probably revert back to
the stock CVS version to start this. I'll do that tonight. At that
point I assume I should just try running the package like I had
normally been and let you know success (to both of our surprises) or
send you the log



diff is against current CVS version of mythburn. Let me know how badly
it breaks your system. I've tried this stuff on a  gentoo system with
DVB TS Recordings in PAL Format so your box should be about as different
as it's possible to be.

Bye, Martin

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Re: AW: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

[Jim Reith]

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Hi Jim,


 If you need a willing victim/beta tester, I'd be happy to
 work on it with you and give you another box to validate
 things on. I'm NTSC but running KnoppMyth R5A16. One of the
 reasons I built this machine was to have a software project
 to "play" in and maybe contribute stuff back and this is one
 piece that would be a big win in WAF


OK, I've now got a first hack ready to break your system :-)


Oh goodie 8^)



This version uses projectx for remux and commercial cutting. Cutting is
NOT frame accurate, projectx rounds to the nearest GOP. Avidemux2 (which
was used for cutting previosuly) doesn't round - it just produces broken
output files if your cutpoints aren't on a Keyframe.

Requirements:
- projectx (well, obviously )
- Xvfb or local X server

See http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=32174#32174 for
details.

Changes implemented:

- support for multiple audio streams. Commerical cut or remux will keep
around all audio streams from the original recording. If you've got
recordings with multiple audio streams (say, german and english streams)
you'll get a DVD that allows you to switch languages. I haven't yet
figured out how to find out which stream has which langauge and get this
info over to the DVD, so the audio streams won't have nice names.

- chapter submenu is optional and configurable via the web interface.
while I like having the chapter marks in my titels I don't like the
chapter submenu.
- blue face / upside down thumbnails configurable via variables at the
top of mythtvburn.sh
- add a title listbox to the "burn DVD" webpage similar to the listbox
in "recorded programs". makes it much easier to pick a couple of
episodes from the same series.

- if commercial cutting is disabled, revert to old behaviour and use
cutpoints as chapter marks

patch can be downloaded at
http://mabene.icomedias.com/mythburn/cut-0.3.diff

diff is against current CVS version of mythburn. Let me know how badly
it breaks your system. I've tried this stuff on a  gentoo system with
DVB TS Recordings in PAL Format so your box should be about as different
as it's possible to be.


yeah, NTSC, KnoppMyth, and Analog PVR-350 recordings.

I may play with this a little tonight actually since there's nothing
scheduled to be recorded and no baseball game on to watch.

Should we keep this onlist or take it backchannel?



Bye, Martin

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Re: [mythtv-users] Cases for a PVR box... recommendations.

[Jim Reith]

I second the aria and coolermaster cases.  I have one of each, and
both power supplies are quiet and both met the WAF.  The coolermaster
has the advantage of being a full ATX and is easier to add stuff to,
but the Aria is a very well designed micro-ATX case.  Depends on what
your other equipment looks like.

Jason


yeah, the Cooler Master case I mentioned is nice as a combined
front/backend since it has room for my ATX motherboard with 5 PCI
slots. The only WAF issue was the too bright LEDs for in the bedroom

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Re: [mythtv-users] Cases for a PVR box... recommendations.

[Jim Reith]

At 09:43 AM 8/11/2005, you wrote:

On 8/11/05, Forrest Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is likely part of a FAQ that I've yet to locate.  So apologies if so.
>
> I read an article on the O'Reilly site about building a MythTV box in a
> more specialized case:
>
> http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/06/22/myth_tv.html
>
> As far as I know, he's not finished the experience - he mentions some
> technical problems (but doesn't get into details).
>
> My question is, of those specialized cases out there, what are people's
> favorites - which ones have proven to be more stable.
>
> I'm considering dual-tier model, too, for a backend storage and frontend
> server to the TV.   That will depend on what info I find, etc!
>
>
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Antec Aria. Looks good, plenty of power, comfy inside.


Been very happy with my CoolMaster Cavalier case. Even happier after
putting a filter over the high visibility blue HD and Power LEDs. They were
bright enough to cast shadows in the bedroom and middle of the night
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Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Comcast Chicago changing channel lineup, SCI-FI moving to digital only

[Jim Reith]

At 03:14 PM 8/9/2005, you wrote:

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 14:56 -0400, Jim Reith wrote:
>
> Not really an investment in cable boxes as the cable company probably
> provides at least one with your digital subscription

And what of the additional ones I need for the PVR recording cards (1
each) and the other TVs in the house?  They don't come anywhere near as
free.  And what do I do with them when I want to change providers?
Yeah, I could sell them, not nearly at the same price I paid for them,
if at all.


Like I said, my cable provider only charges me $1 per additional box. I
have 3 at my house now... standard digital package plus $2



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Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Comcast Chicago changing channel lineup, SCI-FI moving to digital only

[Jim Reith]

At 02:43 PM 8/9/2005, you wrote:

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 14:38 -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote:
>
> So the S-Video input on the PVR line of cards allows the card to select
> the channel on digital cable?

No.

> Or do you mean that would be used from
> the digital cable box and then an IR blaster has to be used to change
> the channels on the cable box?

Yup.  Hence my "None" comment before.  Practically "None" without having
to invest in cable boxes and set up I/R blasters.  :-(


Not really an investment in cable boxes as the cable company probably
provides at least one with your digital subscription



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Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Comcast Chicago changing channel lineup, SCI-FI moving to digital only

[Jim Reith]

At 02:38 PM 8/9/2005, you wrote:

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 14:28, Jim Reith wrote:
> At 02:15 PM 8/9/2005, you wrote:
> >On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 13:51 -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote:

> >
> > > If/when they go full digital
> > > which cards can be used?
> >
> >None.  Welcome to America.
>
> Not true. Both cards will work using their S-Video inputs
>
>

So the S-Video input on the PVR line of cards allows the card to select
the channel on digital cable?  Or do you mean that would be used from
the digital cable box and then an IR blaster has to be used to change
the channels on the cable box?


The latter. You set the input to S-Video and then change channels on the
settopbox through a scripts and the IRBlaster




> > > Or do we have to play games with IR blasters
> > > to switch channels on the cable box?
> >
> >Yup.
>
> yeah
>


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Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Comcast Chicago changing channel lineup, SCI-FI moving to digital only

[Jim Reith]

At 02:15 PM 8/9/2005, you wrote:

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 13:51 -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote:
>
> Still have that channel here.

Wow.  Cableco lied to me.  Imagine my surprise.


Still available in new England as well



> Currently I have the cable going direct to the PVR-350 and PVR-250.

Yup.

> I
> assumed this was the basic analog service.

Analog service anyway.  Not sure about the adjectives.

> If/when they go full digital
> which cards can be used?

None.  Welcome to America.


Not true. Both cards will work using their S-Video inputs



> Or do we have to play games with IR blasters
> to switch channels on the cable box?

Yup.


yeah



> Would not be good having to have a
> separate cable box for each encoder.

Yup.  Sounds like the cableco has a cash crop side business in selling
marked up cable boxes huh?  And since every cableco is using some
different technology, it's not like 20 years ago when you needed a
"standard" cable box just to get more channels and we just had to wait
for TVs to have the cable box integrated into it.  How many TV
manufacturers do you think are going to put 17 different digital tuners
in their TVs.


Charter is nice enough to provide additional digital boxes for a buck a
month rental after you buy the initial service so it's not a big deal other
than needing two IRBlasters



It's not like standards don't exist though.  DVB for one.  American
cablecos just want to lock you into their service by making you have to
"throw away" a large investment in hardware to change providers.
Apparently Europeans didn't stand for that and now they have DVB (for
satellite at least anyway) and can buy their tuners anywhere they want
(and with one standard, TV makers will have one thing they can integrate
into the TV).

b.


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Re: [mythtv-users] Max number of recordings - unexpected episode deletions

[Jim Reith]

At 12:27 PM 8/9/2005, you wrote:

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 06:56:47AM -0400, Timothy G. Schaefer wrote:
> The real issue is with it set to "stop recording when at max
recordings" it
> would occasionally record back to back episodes, go over the limit, then
> delete to get back within the limit. With it leaving them in the database
> as seen, it's going to make my goal of seeing all 600 episodes of cops
hard

This is *also* within your control.  Navigate to "Utilities/Setup",
"Setup", "TV Settings", "General" and go to the third page.  Set the
check-box for "Re-record programs which have automagically expired".
It's too late for the stuff you've already lost, but there's another
menu page where you can erase the "already seen" records for episodes
manually.

I can understand why you're having problems finding these setup
options.  MythTV is great software but the menu system is is hopelessly
disorganized.  You should probably take some time to look everywhere in
the menus.  You'll not be able to remember where everything is, but at
least you'll know that options exist so you can search for them when
you need them.


I agree about the menu system. It might make sense to revamp this at some
point or have a shadow set of menus where the settings for everything is
reorganized into a more memorable layout. Too bad we can't have something
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Re: AW: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

[Jim Reith]

At 11:11 AM 8/9/2005, you wrote:

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> Thanks for the tips. Have you got yours working reliably currently?
>
> I'm tossing another 200gb drive in as an additional LVM drive
> so I should
> be ok for a while longer but eventually I do need to burn
> stuff and remove it.

No :-)

I'm just rewriting the whole commercial cutting and remultiplexing part
to use projectx for demux + cut and mplex for remultiplexing the
seperated streams. Projectx looks like the best OS project for
avoiding/fixing a/v sync problems at the moment. While cutting can't be
done at arbitrary frames (GOP only), I've got high hopes that the result
will actually WORK. I'll let you know how it goes.

Bye, Martin


If you need a willing victim/beta tester, I'd be happy to work on it with
you and give you another box to validate things on. I'm NTSC but running
KnoppMyth R5A16. One of the reasons I built this machine was to have a
software project to "play" in and maybe contribute stuff back and this is
one piece that would be a big win in WAF

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Re: AW: AW: AW: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

[Jim Reith]

At 10:46 AM 8/9/2005, you wrote:

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> not having perused the scripts carefully, what's the format
> of lockfile
> names I should watch for? They'll be in the top level
> (mythtv/mythburn/mythburn/) directory? might be useful to
> write a little
> wrapper script that gets called when it finishes regardless since a
> successful completion wouldn't leave any behind.

*.lck
Also, you could check if the temp directory is completely empty before
starting a bur job; I've seen strange things happen if gop index files
got left lying round there.

Bye, Martin


Thanks for the tips. Have you got yours working reliably currently?

I'm tossing another 200gb drive in as an additional LVM drive so I should
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Re: AW: AW: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

[Jim Reith]

At 10:10 AM 8/9/2005, you wrote:

> My other question that perhaps you can answer (that was tacked on to my
> mod
> approval blocked one) is why if I run MythBurn twice in a row on the exact
> same file with the same parameters do I get  different results? Why isn't
> the outcome consistently the same for the same inputs? Where is the
> randomness getting injected?

MythBurnDVD makes use of various lockfiles that don't get cleaned up when
the whole thing crashes - it's likely you're running into that.  Have a
look in your mythburn directory for any stray lockfiles and delete them
(if nothing is running)


not having perused the scripts carefully, what's the format of lockfile
names I should watch for? They'll be in the top level
(mythtv/mythburn/mythburn/) directory? might be useful to write a little
wrapper script that gets called when it finishes regardless since a
successful completion wouldn't leave any behind.



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Re: AW: AW: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

[Jim Reith]

At 07:45 AM 8/9/2005, you wrote:

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> >Yep, that problem happens when mythburn tries to cut commericals from
> >the mpeg2 files. To do so, it needs to find the number of the last
> >frame, which it gets from the recordedmarkup table.
>
> How do I disable the commercial cutting in MythBurn?

Exactly as stated before: on the page where you select the file to burn,
uncheck the "use cutlist" checkbox.

See screenshot:

http://mabene.icomedias.com/mythburn/mythburn1.jpg

Bye, Martin


My other question that perhaps you can answer (that was tacked on to my mod
approval blocked one) is why if I run MythBurn twice in a row on the exact
same file with the same parameters do I get  different results? Why isn't
the outcome consistently the same for the same inputs? Where is the
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Re: AW: AW: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

[Jim Reith]

At 07:45 AM 8/9/2005, you wrote:

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> >Yep, that problem happens when mythburn tries to cut commericals from
> >the mpeg2 files. To do so, it needs to find the number of the last
> >frame, which it gets from the recordedmarkup table.
>
> How do I disable the commercial cutting in MythBurn?

Exactly as stated before: on the page where you select the file to burn,
uncheck the "use cutlist" checkbox.

See screenshot:

http://mabene.icomedias.com/mythburn/mythburn1.jpg

Bye, Martin


I tried to send a jpg of my interface earlier but I just got notified that
it awaits moderator approval...

I don't have any cutlist checkboxes. All of my entries look like your top
show, only the first column has the checkbox. I don't  use cutlists but I
do have commercial flagging enabled and someone said they thought that
could be screwing me up

Jim





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Re: AW: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

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 > I managed to get the button to show but when I run it it complains
 > during the framegrabbing that it can't get frame 6. I've seen
 > reference to that but no solutions

 As far as I can tell, the cause of that error is having
 commercial cutting
 enabled.  I can't burn DVD's with the cutlist enabled, but
 DVDs work just
 fine if I disable the cutlist stuff.  It produces really slick looking
 DVDs too.  I just wish I could get the cutlist stuff to work.


Yep, that problem happens when mythburn tries to cut commericals from
the mpeg2 files. To do so, it needs to find the number of the last
frame, which it gets from the recordedmarkup table.


How do I disable the commercial cutting in MythBurn?



Problem is the type of marks in the recordedmarkup table; PVRx50
recordungs have type 6 marks (gop counters?) while DVB records type 9
markers (frame numbers).

Support for comericial cutting in mythburn is flakey at best [I should
know - the commerical cutting hack for mythburn was mine]; there just
isn't any tool that can do frame accurate mpeg2 cuts without reencoding.

Bye, Martin

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[mythtv-users] Re: Archiving Shows to DVD

[Jim Reith]

Title: Re: Archiving Shows to DVD


Ok, I ran MythTVBurn again tonight on a
different recorded show (Tripping the Rift) and it got further but it
dies with the error below. Does this ring any bells with anyone?

- datestamp=08-08-2005 23:28
Building MPEG2 GOP index files...
- datestamp=08-08-2005 23:28
- datestamp=08-08-2005 23:28
/myth/mythburn/mythburn/mythtvburn.sh: line
328: /usr/local/bin/tcdemux: No such file or directory
Return value is 127
***
MythTV BurnDVD stopped due to error
***

It appears to be actually located in
/usr/bin so I made a symbolic link to it in /usr/local/bin but does
this indicate that something isn't configured properly?

The command line used to do the burn
is:

Command line:nice /myth/mythburn/mythburn/mythtvburn.sh 'ntsc'
'plasma-fractal.png' 'menumusic.mp2' 'yes' 'no' 'yes' 'barbwire.png'
'no' '1073_2005080322_20050803223000.nuv' 'nocut' >
/myth/mythburn/mythburn/log.txt 2>&1 &

running it again I get the old error of

INFO: MPEG
version: mpeg2
INFO: TV standard: ntsc
INFO: Aspect ratio: 4:3
INFO: Resolution: 704x480
INFO: Audio ch 0 format: mp2/2ch, 48khz 20bps

ERR:  Cannot jump to chapter 2 of title 1, only 1 exist
ERR:  in VTSM pgc 1, button scene_1_2
Return value is 1
***
MythTV BurnDVD stopped due to error
***

bummer... Any thoughts or things I should check?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

[Jim Reith]

At 01:56 PM 8/8/2005, you wrote:

>>As far as I can tell, the cause of that error is having commercial
>> cutting
>>enabled.  I can't burn DVD's with the cutlist enabled, but DVDs work just
>>fine if I disable the cutlist stuff.  It produces really slick looking
>>DVDs too.  I just wish I could get the cutlist stuff to work.
>
> How  do I go about disabling that so I can try it? My understanding is
> that
> it causes errors in the audio sync as well. I assume it's literally just a
> list of detected sync points and the original recording is there in total
> otherwise the DVD writing wouldn't care if they were missing on the file.
> i
> can see it set to Yes in MythWeb but There doesn't seem to be any way to
> unset it

When you go to burn the DVD, there's a checkbox to select the show,


yes, before you go to the bottom and click the button to select and continue


and if
you've built a cutlist, there's a checkbox for "Use Cutlist" which is
checked by default.  Uncheck it, and you should be sailing.


What i remember from the UI I saw was a "Yes" in the column and no
checkbox. And I even think I tried to click the yes and it wasn't a link.
I'm doing this from a remote machine. I have considered cutting and pasting
the command line and changing the Yes to No. I wonder why the checkboxes
are missing on the version I chose. I just loaded it  from the recent
pointer in the how to... Have to check again tonight or tomorrow morning
when I'm home. I'll live with the commercials if I can get the programs burnt


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Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

[Jim Reith]

At 12:05 PM 8/8/2005, you wrote:

>>>1. mythburn. I got quite far with this... I downloaded from
>>>sourceforge 
>>>(http://sourceforge.net/projects/mythburn/), tinkered with
>>>install.sh (changed directories and user/group names) and
>>>successfully ran it:
>>>MythWeb is installed at /var/www/html/mythweb
>>>Installing DVD Menu option into MythWeb
>>>However, there is no DVD menu option - there are *no* options under
>>>MythWeb. I restarted backend, just in case - is there any last
>>>steps to configure mythweb to enable this option?
>
> I managed to get the button to show but when I run it it complains
> during the framegrabbing that it can't get frame 6. I've seen
> reference to that but no solutions

As far as I can tell, the cause of that error is having commercial cutting
enabled.  I can't burn DVD's with the cutlist enabled, but DVDs work just
fine if I disable the cutlist stuff.  It produces really slick looking
DVDs too.  I just wish I could get the cutlist stuff to work.


How  do I go about disabling that so I can try it? My understanding is that
it causes errors in the audio sync as well. I assume it's literally just a
list of detected sync points and the original recording is there in total
otherwise the DVD writing wouldn't care if they were missing on the file. i
can see it set to Yes in MythWeb but There doesn't seem to be any way to
unset it



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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection

[Jim Reith]

At 11:51 AM 8/8/2005, you wrote:

What release of which piece enables this? That would be great


Since it's not touted in the release notes of .18 or .18.1, I'd say svn
only at this time.


another .19 feature to look forward to




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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection

[Jim Reith]

At 11:16 AM 8/8/2005, you wrote:

> A commercial flagging process is run after a show completes recording.

Commerical flagging now starts shortly after a program starts recording
and stays behind real-time.  Once the program finishes recording the
commerical flagger will go to "full speed", so the last 5 minutes don't
necessarily take 5 minutes to flag.


What release of  which piece enables this? That would be great



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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection

[Jim Reith]

At 10:49 AM 8/8/2005, you wrote:

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 09:37, Jim Reith wrote:
> At 09:19 AM 8/8/2005, you wrote:

> >You are correct, and that does work just fine on my PVR-350 system.  I
> >actually rarely watch live tv anymore.  I watch recorded shows almost
> >100% of the time on the myth box, primarily to take advantage of the
> >commercial flagging process.  This does mean watching stuff time shifted
> >by about an hour and 12 minutes or so if I want to watch them the same
> >night they are broadcast.
>
> yeah, we've  done that as well. The biggest issue we now have is that with
> multiple tuners, we no longer have to choose which show to watch so we're
> getting even further behind and if you consider the star treks and 7 days
> shown during the day we always missed and things like MI-5 shown at 4am...
> well, the disk is full and I'm unable to write things out to DVD

:)

I have noticed that after about 6 months the rate of shows being
recorded has tapered off some since there are many more duplicates now.
The database does a good job of just recording things that have not been
seen before.  Of course I did setup a 1TB /video file system for the
recordings which helps buffer things.  :)


yeah, I just  picked up another 200gb disk to throw in. I do  wish I could
get some type of DVD write to work (within that box rather than the "copy
to Mac" method. I do  figure that at some point we'll get into repeat mode
where new recordings aren't as frequent



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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection

[Jim Reith]

At 09:19 AM 8/8/2005, you wrote:

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 09:09, Jim Reith wrote:
> At 08:57 AM 8/8/2005, you wrote:

> >
> >If you are trying to skip commercials in live tv as far as I know that
> >is not currently part of mythtv.
>
> but you can use the skip button to jump ahead 30 seconds at a time which
> works  quite nicely as long as you're not watching it live (start it
and pause)
>

You are correct, and that does work just fine on my PVR-350 system.  I
actually rarely watch live tv anymore.  I watch recorded shows almost
100% of the time on the myth box, primarily to take advantage of the
commercial flagging process.  This does mean watching stuff time shifted
by about an hour and 12 minutes or so if I want to watch them the same
night they are broadcast.


yeah, we've  done that as well. The biggest issue we now have is that with
multiple tuners, we no longer have to choose which show to watch so we're
getting even further behind and if you consider the star treks and 7 days
shown during the day we always missed and things like MI-5 shown at 4am...
well, the disk is full and I'm unable to write things out to DVD



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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, closed captioning, commercial detection

[Jim Reith]

At 08:57 AM 8/8/2005, you wrote:

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 01:05, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote:

> Also, what about commercial detection? Is that supposed to work with
> PVR-x50's, or not? If it is, then I'd love to figure out what I need
> to change to make it work on my system.

Commercial detection works just fine with my box which has a PVR-350 and
a PVR-250 in it.

Commercial detection AFAIK only works on recorded shows.  A commercial
flagging process is run after a show completes recording.  Once the
process is done you can watch the show and set it to auto skip.  This
works fairly well in my setup.

If you are trying to skip commercials in live tv as far as I know that
is not currently part of mythtv.


but you can use the skip button to jump ahead 30 seconds at a time which
works  quite nicely as long as you're not watching it live (start it and pause)



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Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

[Jim Reith]

Felix wrote:

Dave Ansell wrote:


Hi,
 My Myth box seems to have achieved a high Child Acceptance
Factor (WAF not quite so good!) but unfortunately my disk is now
filling up rapidly with cartoon shows which need to be watched
repeatedly and never deleted!

 Is there a straightforward way to transfer shows to DVD in a
sensible format for viewing on DVD players, etc.My recordings
are from DVB-T in TS format.  I have tried transcode, but it fails
to run with the out-of-the box Myth settings (Myth 0.18.1 atrpms)


  Any pointers much appreciated.   And by the way I am a complete
newbie when it comes to DVD authoring.!

cheers,
Dave



I tried three options and all three failed in one way or another
:-( . I'll try to describe them here, and if somebody notices some
glarious goofs (or not so glarious) - I would greatly appreciate
the feedback. I am fairly new to DVD authoring, and to MythTV, and
I *have* to burn the shows on DVD for my reputation to survive...

1. mythburn. I got quite far with this... I downloaded from
sourceforge 
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/mythburn/), tinkered with
install.sh (changed directories and user/group names) and
successfully ran it:
MythWeb is installed at /var/www/html/mythweb
Installing DVD Menu option into MythWeb
However, there is no DVD menu option - there are *no* options under
MythWeb. I restarted backend, just in case - is there any last
steps to configure mythweb to enable this option?


I managed to get the button to show but when I run it it complains
during the framegrabbing that it can't get frame 6. I've seen
reference to that but no solutions



2. nuvexport - I got RPM from here

(http://forevermore.net/files/nuvexport/). It requires LVE library
which I got from sourceforge. But LVE doesn't compile


Again, under Knoppmyth this is installed but when I select Create DVD
it complains that the current screen is too small and to run it at
800x600 (my display is an NTSC tv)



3. Instructions from mythtv docs

(http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.20): Step 2 says
Run *avidemux2* and open the .nuv file which corresponds with the
program you wish to burn to DVD.
when I do that, avidemux2 tells me that "This looks like mpeg. Do
you want to index it?". Sure... When I click on "Scan file for
audio stream", it finds Mpeg audio 0: 2 channels, 384 kbps shift
66s. So, indexing goes for couple minutes, and then it tells
"Beware: No valid audio codec found! Save(A+V) will generate bad
AVI. Save audio will work". Not only that, but the picture becomes
square (say, 4x4 instead of 4x3) and all objects deformed.


And on this front I just drag the NUV over to my Mac and process it
there but since I have a slow mac, this takes quite a bit of
processing. I'd rather do it all on the Myth box. preferably with
some working background script fired off from a selection like
MythBurn.


Any ideas? Please!
Felix


Felix, I haven't tried mythburn, I have tried the other two and
have found option 4 (ProjectX/dvdauthor) better :-)
Not perfect, but better. ProjectX allows you to cut out
unwanted segments without stuffing the audio/video sync, the
other two caused me problems in that area.

The only problem I've had with ProjectX/dvdauthor
is that the burnt discs won't play perfectly in some DVD
players. Seems to be something causing jumping/looping
problems. But hey, they work fine in mine (Pioneer).

cheers
Carl.

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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, just static

[Jim Reith]

Title: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350, just
static


Jim Reith wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to setup a box using Knoppmyth and a PVR350 card.

I get picture but just static.

I've tryied the following while having LiveTV running, run ivtvctl
-R,
and run scantv in parallell.

When I just run ivtvctl -R it responds with saying that frequency is
set
to 0 even though I've hard coded the channel number for two channels
in
mythtv-setup. I stays at 0 whatever channel i switch to.

So I let it run while letting scantv perform a full scan. When I do
this
I get variations in the static and sometimes I even get something
that
could become a picture with some luck :-).

I've also tried to run mplayer /dev/video0 while performing a scan
with
scantv with almost the same result. The static shows up a bit
differently but it almost becomes a picture at the same
frequencies.

So I guess that I have got two issues. One, no clear picture,
there
should be one since I get picture on a regular TV using the same
antenna
cable. Two, MythTV keeps setting my card to frequency 0 whenever I
change channel. It does at least set my card to input from Tuner 0,
I
can see that when I run ivtvctl -P.

Anyone? Please! :-)



What is your output device?
Do you have an input source set up?
Have you run mythfilldatabase or edited the frequency into the DB?

Also, what distro and what software versions?





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For the moment I use my regular monitor
as output device, ATI Radeon 9600. I get exactly the same picture when
I hook it up to a DLP projector via the ATI card. Haven't tried to
connect via the PVR350 card yet.

ivtv 0.2.0
Myth 0.18.1
Knoppmyth Release 5A16, the above is the ones included in this
release.

Same release I started with. I've since added a PVR-150 as a
second tuner and have 350gb of shows on disk. I had to upgrade to ivtv
3.6y to get the 150 working but the 350 worked fine with Knoppmyth
originally I assume you followed this?
http://knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=HauppaugeThreeFiftyInstallation

I did set everything up the first time in
mythtv-setup, after that did I run mythfilldatabase, getting channels
for Sweden, then I changed the values for two channels since I have
cable TV here and I know that the channels aren't at the same
frequencies. I ran /etc/cron.daily/myth-backend after I did those
changes in myhttv-setup.

I haven't had any peak in the database yet. Is there something
interesting to be found in there or might it be easyier to make the
changes directly in the database? I am very familiar with SQL so it
wouldn't be a problem if you think that it is easyier.

You don't need to modify the SQL db. There is a channel editor
that will let you make the settings. Since I was able to get my
listings online, I didn't have to do any of that and it worked.


Your 350 is Pal I assume? I can share with you my 2.0 working
ivtv

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/mythtv/modules# cat ivtv.350only
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
#options ivtv debug=1
#options tuner type=2
options msp3400  simple=1
install ivtv /sbin/modprobe tuner; /sbin/modprobe msp3400;
/sbin/modprobe saa7115;  /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv; 
/sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb; /sbin/modprobe lirc_i2c
remove ivtv /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove ivtv &&
/sbin/modprobe -r saa7115 && /sbin/modprobe -r msp3400 &&
/sbin/modprobe -r tuner && /sbin/modprobe -r ivtv-fb &&
/sbin/modprobe -r lirc_i2c

I really think your problem probably lies in your input settings
for your source, your cable. I don't think you have the channel
frequencies set properly and so, while it works, it's not tuned to
anything. Maybe someone successful in Sweden can chime in with at
least one known good cable frequency?

hope this helps some.

Jim


Thank you!!

/Peter

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