Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV w/Digital Cox Service ?
I've read that you can rig up one of those infared remote things from the computer to the digital box to control the channels. My PVR250 came with one of those cables with an ir blaster to do this...you might do some searching for that...and I'm sure people on the list do this with both digital cable and satellite. I've also heard some digital boxes can be controlled by a serial cable and maybe even firewire too... Do a little google searching on those terms...should give you a start.. HTH, K On Mar 26, 2005, at 9:05 PM, Richard Sears wrote: So, my question - Is there some way to hook up the Cox digital box to the MythTV backend so that I can use the Myth system to control the digital box and output it to Myth so it can be recorded, played, etc..? Or am I stuck with simple analog cable with my myth system..? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions
I've just emerged everything. Worked great on my 0.15 install...trouble was...the box was too weak. I've built another box...emerged everything for 0.16. All is working fine except no sound on TV capture or live...I'm troubleshooting that. The ebuilds for ivtv are built on gentoo for the PVR 250/350...and worked just fine last time...just a couple of settings I'm guessing I've got to do this time.. HTH, Kelly On Mar 24, 2005, at 1:11 PM, Rickard Olsson wrote: Richard J. Sears wrote: I guess I was wondering what you Gentoo folks thought about this. Did you use emerge to do the job, did you have trouble later patching and compiling addons or other programs to make MythTV the best it could..? I used the CVS just before 0.17 came out and the ebuilds when it was released. The ebuilds were a no-brainer to setup. There are some USE flags that you need for stuff like nuvexport and ffmpeg that I haven't seen documented anywhere (aac, threads and another that I don't recall right now), but other than that, no problems. Most other sundry files are in portage - it's possible that there's something missing but I haven't found anything. There's been no real need for any config file management issues (MythTV has just one config file AFAIK and you normally edit it through mythsetup, the rest is in the database). / Rickard Olsson,IT-Konsult/ / Telefon: +46 70 635 01 42/ / http://www.webhackande.se/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge 401 or PVR 250?
I'm not familiar with the 401, but, the 250 had hardware compression which is nice for taking a load off your cpu... Drivers for this card via ivtv are pretty good... K On Mar 24, 2005, at 5:48 PM, Scott Apple wrote: Hello I'm getting ready to setup a Mythtv box but I'm stuck as to what card would be best to go with. Some people say that 401 is much easier to setup while the 250 can sometimes have issues. I'm relatively new when it comes to Linux (ie: I'm not going to be editing source code anytime soon etc). So basically I wanted to know which card is better. I'm not going to be trying to do anything too fancy with this box, just watch live tv pause it and record shows every so often. The box I'll be running it on is a 1.7ghz p4 with 768rdram and a soundblaster live. The 401 card seems to be about 50$ cheaper then the 250 but if the 250 is what I need to get the job done right then I'll go for that. Thanks in advance for any advice. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Energy Usage of MythBoxes
Yeah...getting way OT...but, from what I've read...the Kyoto as written, could really potentially put the US at a severe disadvantage...and let many other countries off the hook like China and India..etc. It needs to be re-written so as to be more fair in its considerations of economies both existing and potential My $0.02, K On Mar 20, 2005, at 9:26 PM, Robert Denier wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 12:25 +1100, Phill Edwards wrote: On Sunday 20 March 2005 14:33, Brad Templeton wrote: [snip] T Yes I think it is quite dumb that my country (the US) refuses to sign up to Kyoto, or to at least try to work out some version the US can sign. We are after all the biggest polluters. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: PVR 250, Picture, No Sound..IVTV problem? Read archives....tried most everything, but, am stuck...
Hello..thanks for the reply. I've seen someone else is posting with same type problemswith same advice. I'm using a gentoo distro... I went to /etc/modules.d/aliases, and added the suggested line. I did modules-update command...and this indeed put the line in my /etc/modules.conf However, I still get picture but, no sound when playing directly from mplayer (mplayer /dev/video0), nor with mythtv. Have I missed something else...would this require a computer reboot or is there another command to refresh a process this affects? Thanks in advance.. K On Mar 19, 2005, at 10:15 AM, Adam Gianola wrote: perhaps an 'alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv' in the modprobe.conf could help... On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 10:04:25 -0600, Kelly Grigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please excuse if this did make the list before...just reposting after changing my settings to make sure I get my posts back to myself...to confirm my mails are making it to the list properly. Same problems right now tho...any help appreciated. TIA, K Begin forwarded message: Hello all!! First, I pretty much had myth 0.15 working on a slower boxbut, sound was choppy no matter what I did...so, I built another box, ASUS motherboard, Athlon processor servername 2.6.8-gentoo-r8 # uname -a Linux servername 2.6.8-gentoo-r8 #3 SMP Sat Oct 16 06:00:33 CDT 2004 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux 500 MB ram Audigy2 soundcard Alsa Other than that...I used the same working prv250 card, and harddrives. I'm running Gentoo with a 2.6 kernel I'm trying to get myth 0.16 running. I've to pretty much everything going on it with the exception of sound with the video. On music...sounds plays great. I can get myth to record video, just no sound. I can watch tv live, but, no sound. I tried mplayer /dev/video0picture, but, no sound. So, I'm guessing it is ivtv error. When I start the mplayer...I get no errors...it appears to be trying to play sound. I have ivtv 0.2.0_rc3-r3 (I emerged with gentoo's package mgmt system...it says it is already set up to run with pvr 250/350and it worked last time before rebuilding box ) I've been reading through the archives, and the links to the wiki...and have tried the following: n /etc/modules.conf add or edit this line: options msp3400 once=1 simple=1 standard=XX or on the command line, type: insmod msp3400 once=1 simple=1 standard=XX where XX is one of: 0x20 USA, Argentina 0x21 USA, Argentina However, doing the insmod msp3400 gave the following: 2.6.8-gentoo-r8 # insmod msp3400 once=1 simple=1 standard=0x20 insmod: can't read 'msp3400': No such file or directory However lsmod shows I have tht module: 2.6.8-gentoo-r8 # lsmod Module Size Used by snd_pcm_oss50088 0 snd_mixer_oss 18176 1 snd_pcm_oss orinoco_pci 5440 0 orinoco40268 1 orinoco_pci hermes 7808 2 orinoco_pci,orinoco lirc_dev 13708 0 ivtv 514452 0 tuner 18576 0 saa711511908 0 msp340021908 0 i2c_algo_bit8840 1 ivtv videodev7872 1 ivtv i2c_core 19648 5 ivtv,tuner,saa7115,msp3400,i2c_algo_bit nvidia 4819092 18 snd_emu10k193000 1 snd_rawmidi21028 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_pcm83844 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1 snd_timer 22084 1 snd_pcm snd_seq_device 7240 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi snd_ac97_codec 64964 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_page_alloc 9480 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_util_mem3904 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_hwdep 7812 1 snd_emu10k1 snd47140 12 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_timer,s nd _seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_util_mem,snd_hwdep (I have not tried to get lirc working yet...and am just playing to my monitor right now.) I tried the suggestions on this thread that seemed to be the most relavent: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/80563? search_string=mplayer%20pvr%20250%20no%20sound;#80563 But these failed... I checked and my msp3400 seems to be in the correct place From the /lib/modules/2.6.8-gentoo-r8 directory I do: find . -name msp3400* ./extra/msp3400.ko ./extra/msp3400.ko_old ./kernel/drivers/media/video/msp3400.ko ./kernel/drivers/media/video/msp3400.ko_old (the _old files are just where I backed up the original files...in case I was to try to move them...but, I've not done anythig here as of yet) When I do: 2.6.8-gentoo-r8 # modinfo msp3400 parm: probe:List of adapter,address pairs to scan additionally parm: probe_range:List of adapter,start-addr,end-addr triples to scan additionally parm: ignore:List of adapter,address pairs not to scan parm: ignore_range:List of adapter,start-addr,end-addr triples not to scan parm: force:List of adapter,address pairs to boldly assume to be present description:device
Re: [mythtv-users] SPDIF output works for MythMusic, but not MythTV
I'm a little confused...and this may be part of my problem I'm having with my pvr 250. I thought you didn't have to jumper the sound from the pvr card to your audio card? I'd tried myth before on an older box, but, didn't have to physically connect the cards to get sound from tv and music. Has this changed? Could this be why I get sound from music, but, no sound/only video from tv recordings or live? Also, what exactly is spdif? TIA, K On Mar 18, 2005, at 3:35 PM, Brad Benson wrote: On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:48:15 -0600, Andrew Close [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can buy a male to male stereo patch cable and plug one end into the output of your pvr-350 and the other into the input of your sound card. when you listen to music it will be the same as usual. when you watch tv you should now get sound out of the SPDIF port. not pretty, but it should work. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Do you get your own emails? (was:Re: OT: Reply-To munging / mailing list configuration)
I've got a question. Is there some type of rule on this list server...where it does NOT send messages you send back to you? I've posted a few messages...but, never saw them show up on the listI'm not sure if they're getting through to you out there or not. I saw one show up on the archives...but, I never received it myself... TIA, cayenne On Mar 18, 2005, at 10:10 PM, Isaac Richards wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 10:53 pm, Justin Gombos wrote: * Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-18 22:14]: My own taste is that high-traffic lists should normally send replies just to the author being replied to, you should have to explicitly do a group reply to get the message to the whole group! I can see where you're coming from and why there would be a temptation to encourage off-list traffic, but I think when it comes down to it the will of the sender is not going to be influenced by convenience.snip ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Fwd: PVR 250, Picture, No Sound..IVTV problem? Read archives....tried most everything, but, am stuck...
Please excuse if this did make the list before...just reposting after changing my settings to make sure I get my posts back to myself...to confirm my mails are making it to the list properly. Same problems right now tho...any help appreciated. TIA, K Begin forwarded message: Hello all!! First, I pretty much had myth 0.15 working on a slower boxbut, sound was choppy no matter what I did...so, I built another box, ASUS motherboard, Athlon processor servername 2.6.8-gentoo-r8 # uname -a Linux servername 2.6.8-gentoo-r8 #3 SMP Sat Oct 16 06:00:33 CDT 2004 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux 500 MB ram Audigy2 soundcard Alsa Other than that...I used the same working prv250 card, and harddrives. I'm running Gentoo with a 2.6 kernel I'm trying to get myth 0.16 running. I've to pretty much everything going on it with the exception of sound with the video. On music...sounds plays great. I can get myth to record video, just no sound. I can watch tv live, but, no sound. I tried mplayer /dev/video0picture, but, no sound. So, I'm guessing it is ivtv error. When I start the mplayer...I get no errors...it appears to be trying to play sound. I have ivtv 0.2.0_rc3-r3 (I emerged with gentoo's package mgmt system...it says it is already set up to run with pvr 250/350and it worked last time before rebuilding box ) I've been reading through the archives, and the links to the wiki...and have tried the following: n /etc/modules.conf add or edit this line: options msp3400 once=1 simple=1 standard=XX or on the command line, type: insmod msp3400 once=1 simple=1 standard=XX where XX is one of: 0x20 USA, Argentina 0x21 USA, Argentina However, doing the insmod msp3400 gave the following: 2.6.8-gentoo-r8 # insmod msp3400 once=1 simple=1 standard=0x20 insmod: can't read 'msp3400': No such file or directory However lsmod shows I have tht module: 2.6.8-gentoo-r8 # lsmod Module Size Used by snd_pcm_oss50088 0 snd_mixer_oss 18176 1 snd_pcm_oss orinoco_pci 5440 0 orinoco40268 1 orinoco_pci hermes 7808 2 orinoco_pci,orinoco lirc_dev 13708 0 ivtv 514452 0 tuner 18576 0 saa711511908 0 msp340021908 0 i2c_algo_bit8840 1 ivtv videodev7872 1 ivtv i2c_core 19648 5 ivtv,tuner,saa7115,msp3400,i2c_algo_bit nvidia 4819092 18 snd_emu10k193000 1 snd_rawmidi21028 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_pcm83844 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1 snd_timer 22084 1 snd_pcm snd_seq_device 7240 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi snd_ac97_codec 64964 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_page_alloc 9480 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_util_mem3904 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_hwdep 7812 1 snd_emu10k1 snd47140 12 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd _seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_util_mem,snd_hwdep (I have not tried to get lirc working yet...and am just playing to my monitor right now.) I tried the suggestions on this thread that seemed to be the most relavent: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/80563? search_string=mplayer%20pvr%20250%20no%20sound;#80563 But these failed... I checked and my msp3400 seems to be in the correct place From the /lib/modules/2.6.8-gentoo-r8 directory I do: find . -name msp3400* ./extra/msp3400.ko ./extra/msp3400.ko_old ./kernel/drivers/media/video/msp3400.ko ./kernel/drivers/media/video/msp3400.ko_old (the _old files are just where I backed up the original files...in case I was to try to move them...but, I've not done anythig here as of yet) When I do: 2.6.8-gentoo-r8 # modinfo msp3400 parm: probe:List of adapter,address pairs to scan additionally parm: probe_range:List of adapter,start-addr,end-addr triples to scan additionally parm: ignore:List of adapter,address pairs not to scan parm: ignore_range:List of adapter,start-addr,end-addr triples not to scan parm: force:List of adapter,address pairs to boldly assume to be present description:device driver for msp34xx TV sound processor author: Gerd Knorr license:GPL vermagic: 2.6.8-gentoo-r8 SMP K7 4KSTACKS gcc-3.3 depends:i2c-core Now according to the manual I got from Mythtv...it seems to indicate that since I don't have parm: standard int, that I may be using the wrong modulebut, I'm at a loss on this issue... I've seen where myth does seem to try to mute things and have toggled the ivtvctl -y mute=0with no avail. lspci give this: 2.6.8-gentoo-r8 # lspci :00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) (rev c1) :00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 0 (rev c1) :00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation
