Re: [mythtv-users] hdtv file size?
Jesse Guardiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > I've been thinking about HDTV a bit more lately. Considering pricing > an HDTV LCD screen, weighing my options for a linear upgrade path > over the next year or so - things like that. I'm curious... how > large are HDTV recordings? I posted a comprehensive writeup of my experiences with HDTV recordings very recently on this list; see http://www.mail-archive.com/mythtv-users@mythtv.org/msg55101.html>. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] How do I search for movies beyond next 24 hours?
[Also posted to alt.video.ptv.mythtv.] mythfrontend's built-in Search List for 'Movies' (at least with 0.18.1 under ATrpms) only displays the next 24 hours' worth. Same goes for selecting the Movie program type in the Advanced search. However, I could have sworn that at least once, about four weeks ago, using the Advanced search showed me all movies over the entire 14-day period MythTV has the program data for. a) Was I imagining things four weeks ago? I know I've upgraded my ATrpms packages (to another 0.18.1 release) at least once between then and now. Have things changed? b) How can I again see all the movies MythTV knows about from the frontend? Is there an xml configuration file I can tweak? -- http://www.pobox.com/~ylee/> PERTH > * Homemade 2.8TB RAID 5 storage array: http://groups.google.ca/groups?selm=slrnd1g04a.5mt.ylee%40pobox.com> ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Can an iTunes TV download play on MythTV?
Hello all,
I've downloaded an episode of "The Office" from iTunes, and I'm trying
to play it under MythTV. Unfortunately, it does not work. Same goes
for mplayer. Do I need a codec or something? Or is it simply not
possible to play a download from iTunes under linux/MythTV?
The output from mplayer is below. Any recommendations would be appreciated!
--
m4v
MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.2.3 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6,
Stepping: 10)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
Playing /video/dvd/01 The Office_ An American Workplace.m4v.
ISO: Unknown File Type Major Brand: M4V
QuickTime/MOV file format detected.
--
MOV track #0: 6533 chunks, 59489 samples
Audio bits: 16 chans: 2 rate: 44100
MOV: Found MPEG4 audio Elementary Stream Descriptor atom (51)!
Fourcc: drms
--
MOV track #1: 5494 chunks, 33152 samples
MOV: AVC decoder configuration record atom (45)!
MOV: Found unknown movie atom sinf (924)!
Image size: 320 x 192 (24 bpp)
Display size: 320 x 192
Fourcc: drmi Codec: ''
--
MOV: longest streams: A: #0 (59489 samples) V: #1 (33152 samples)
VIDEO: [drmi] 320x192 24bpp 24.000 fps0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
==
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x736D7264.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
==
No vidix driver name provided, probing available ones (-v option for details)!
vo: X11 running at 800x600 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
[unichrome] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[cyberblade] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[SiS] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[savage_vid] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[rage128] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[pm3] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[mga] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[mga] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[mach64] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[radeon] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[nvidia_vid] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
vosub_vidix: Couldn't find working VIDIX driver
==
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x696D7264.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
==
Exiting... (End of file)
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Re: [mythtv-users] Odd problem setting up Remote Frontend
On 1/28/06, Amankhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > After successfully running MythTV on Fedora for almost a year now (thanks to > Jarod's guide!), I recently decided to setup a second PC for running a > remote frontend in my bedroom. > > Setup went fine & everything is working great on my new machine, but I have > encountered a very strange problem when setting up the communications > between the remote frontend & the backend machine. > > When I change the Host IP address & Master Server IP address in mythtvsetup > (as per Jarod's guide on this page: > http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/tips.php ), 2 things happen: > > 1. In the frontends on both my main machine & the remote machine, I can no > longer watch Live TV. The message I receive is the same one for when all > capture cards are currently recording. I have both a PVR150 and PVR250 in > my machine, and at the time of this message neither card is recording. Both > cards work fine when used to capture video via a command line prompt. In > essence, the cards are not doing anything even though Myth says they are. > > 2. In those same machines, I can no longer schedule any recordings nor do I > show any recordings as being previously scheduled. I can attempt to > schedule a program to record, but it doesn't appear to "save" my request. > The backend shows no errors from these attempts. > > As soon as I change the Host IP & Master Server IP back to the loopback > address, everything is fine again. I can watch Live TV, my scheduled > recordings have returned & I can queue shows to record. > > It has completely baffled me, and I have no idea what the problem might be. > Any help would be appreciated, and if anyone needs more information just let > me know. Thank you! > > > The backend shows no errors for any of this, and > > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > Do you have the firewall enabled on the backend? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 / fine tune frequencies
> The only way to tell for sure is from the ivtv initialization log > messages, which you can retrieve with: > > tac /var/log/messages | > sed -n '/=\ \ END INIT IVTV\ \ =/,/= START INIT IVTV =/p; >/= START INIT IVTV =/q' | > tac > > However, from your modprobe.conf, I notice that you're not specifying a > tuner definition (i.e. options ivtv tuner=XXX), so it's likely you are > using the right one. > > If you really want to see if it's a tuning issue, I'm going to be > posting a patch for SVN that fixes the frequency definitions so they're > "academically correct" in the thread > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/177694#177694 . > You're welcome to apply it to SVN, compile, and test. It shouldn't make > any difference (the tuner hardware's fine-tuning mechanism should be > able to "zero-in" on the channel, anyway), but it's possible that your > cable company is transmitting some channels at frequencies that are off > in the opposite direction that the tuner frequency list is off, so the > delta is too large for the fine-tuning mechanism on these channels. > > Mike > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > Mike, Thanks for the nifty command... Here's the output... Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv: START INIT IVTV Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv: version 0.4.2 (tagged release) loading Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.0 Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist. Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 350 card (cx23415 based) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] enabled at IRQ 11 Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:0d.0[A] -> Link [LNKF] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: tveeprom: ivtv version Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 48132, rev = K268, serial# = 7734528 Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: tveeprom: tuner = LG TAPE H001F MK3 (idx = 68, type = 47) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x1000) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: tveeprom: audio processor = MSP4448 (type = 1b) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: tveeprom: decoder processor = SAA7115 (type = 13) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50] Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61] Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: saa7115 1-0021: ivtv driver Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: saa7115 1-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=saa7115, addr=21] Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: saa7127 1-0044: ivtv driver Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: saa7127 1-0044: saa7129 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=saa7127, addr=44] Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: msp3400 1-0040: ivtv driver Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: msp3400 1-0040: chip=MSP4448G-A2 +nicam +simple +simpler +radio mode=simpler Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=MSP4448G-A2, addr=40] Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: msp3400 1-0040: msp34xxg daemon started Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: tda9885/6/7: chip found @ 0x86 Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tda9887, addr=43] Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw firmware (262144 bytes) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02040024 Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0 warning: Encoder Firmware can be buggy, use version 0x02040011 or 0x02050032. Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: Decoder revision: 0x02020023 Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB total) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB total) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total) Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: Create encoder radio stream Jan 26 10:04:34 stumpy kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder MPEG stream: 16 x 65536 buf
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 / fine tune frequencies
Are you sure it's a tuning issue and not a tuner module issue? (Are you
> sure you're using the right tuner definition?)
>
> Mike
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Well, I'm not sure what you mean by definition. Here's my
modprobe.conf and the corresponding output of lspci.
/etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 e100
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
options snd-card-0 index=0
install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 &&
/usr/sbin/a lsactl restore
>/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ;
}; /sbin/ modprobe -r
--ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
alias usb-controller uhci-hcd
# This is for WinTV PVR-350 IVTV
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
# nvidia kernel module
alias char-major-195 nvidia-1_0-7667
alias nvidia nvidia-1_0-7667
install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_i2c
lspci -v
01:0d.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 d000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
This is all on Fedora Core 4 with atrpms. Most channels are pretty
good just as they are, but there are a handful of channels that are
distinctly not correct. For example, channel 72 is fuzzy/snowy
through the PVR-350 but it's excellent when I hook it up direct to the
TV.
Is there something I've missed in the setup? Any recommendations are welcome...
Thanks,
Matt
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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 / fine tune frequencies
On 12/16/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew K. Lee wrote: > > >Is there such a thing as fine tuning frequencies for a PVR 350? I've > >got a half dozen channels that seem to have extra static/noise through > >the Hauppage PVR 350. The channels look great when the cable is > >hooked up directly to the TV, but through the PVR 350 I get vertical > >bars on channel 58, and snow on channel 72 (and other channels to a > >lesser degree). The defect happens whether it is live TV or recorded. > > > >So, I'm wondering if I need to "fine tune" some of the frequencies or > >something. I'm using Fedora Core 4, atrpms, the PVR 350, and S-Video > >out on an nVidia 5200. > > > >Any help would be appreciated. > > > > > MythWeb Settings|Channels > > Mike > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > Thanks for your help. I tried to fine tune my PVR-350 using mythweb as recommended, but I'm not sure how to come up with the +/- value. I tried trial and error. It got (subjectively) better, but I would think there should be a scientific or more accurate method to find out what the channels need to be fine tuned to? I Googled around a bit, but the only procedure I found involved using xawtv or TV time, neither of which worked with the PVR-350. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Matt ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Harmony 880 Remote?
A JM wrote: > I'm not seeing that coupon apply correctly??? Anyone else having luck? > It was dead around 10:00 this morning. It was an 800 use coupon. Lee ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] HDTV tearing solved
I've previously reported here a tearing in the top 1/6 to 1/8 of the picture on my 1080p panel with an Nvidia GeForce 6200 TC, the 7676 drivers, and MythTV 0.18.1 (see http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/173841> for more info). I am happy to report that I've solved the issue. I'd always had Sync to VBlank for OpenGL enabled in both nvidia-settings and in mythfrontend. (By the way, loading the glx module in xorg.conf or XF86Config is required for OpenGL sync to work; the *only* reliable way of seeing whether mythfrontend is actually using it is to check mythfrontend's log output, so start it from an xterm. If it says RTC, it's not using OpenGL.) However, that never helped with the tearing as far as I could see. After seeing a recent message by Jarod Wilson regarding his .nvidia-settings-rc, I tried *also* turning Sync to VBlank under 'X Server XVideo Settings' in nvidia-settings. (I'd always kept it off after, I think, having read someplace that I was supposed to.) This got rid of the tearing, but the picture now flickered as if it was skipping every other frame. I now tried switching the deinterlace settings in mythfrontend from 'Kernel' to 'Bob,' which of course offers twice the framerate. That did it; I now have a tear-free and pretty much rock-solid playback. I now give MythTV's output a grade of 99% instead of 95% as before; not 100% because there still *occasionally* seems to be some flickering, but it's so minor that it could very well be my hypochondriac imagination. I only wish I'd figured this out before ordering a used PCX 5300, which arrived today. That said, I only paid $45 including shipping and it's entirely possible that it will live up to my reason for buying it, namely to give me such smooth playback (or perhaps even better) without having to take the above extra steps. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Connect mythtv-users list to Usenet?
I've read that mythtv-users gets about 2400 messages a month. Based on my experience I believe it. Thank goodness there's a digest, and that because it's standards-compliant (unlike Yahoo! Groups) my mail reader can burst them easily. That said, the Usenet group alt.video.ptv.mythtv is now up and running; I requested it be added to news.individual.net, probably the most popular non ISP-tied newsserver, and presumably it'll appear on Google Groups shortly for archiving. It doesn't have many posts yet. I'd *much* prefer to be able to read this list through my newsreader through some sort of mail-to-news gateway of the kind that exists for many moderated newsgroups. I know this list is being intentionally withheld from Gmane, but how do The Powers that Be feel about Usenet? -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Ripping DVD hangs up
On 1/24/06, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? > > 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 ) > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > Yeah, I saw this on an ARccOS protected DVD. No solution, sorry. Matt ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How much storage do you have for MythTV?
Nathan Allen Stratton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > The 2.0TB comes from four 500GB drives ($1400), which are pretty > > pricey on a $/GB basis right now. > > Why did you go with 500 gig drives? I ended up going with 12 320 gig > drives for 3.5 TB because it was much lower cost then going with 500 > gig drives. Unfortunately the Infrant only takes four drives. I could have gone this route: 8 X $150 320GB Western Digital drives = 2560 GB = $1200 2 X Infrant ReadyNAS 600 units without drives = $1200 So, for $2400 or about $300 more than I paid I could have gained an extra NAS unit and 560GB more space. Slightly cheaper on a $/GB basis than my $2100 for 2000GB, but incredibly so. Yes, I earlier acknowledged I could have built a second rackmount server-based eight-drive array for considerably less, but also as mentioned earlier I simply did not want the hassle of dealing with another computer on top of the three Linux (primary server, storage server, MythTV box) and one OS X box (iBook) in my studio apartment. Closet space, or lack thereof, was and remains a serious concern! -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How much storage do you have for MythTV?
Jake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > I'm already there! That ~$1100 figure I mentioned earlier for my > > HD-capable MythTV box didn't include the $2100 I paid for an > > Infrant ReadyNAS 600 with 2TB in RAID 0 that I'm solely dedicating > > to MythTV. > > geeez, $2100 for only 2TB seems rediculous but i guess you get a > small form factor and lower power consumption out of a NAS (i > assume). Precisely. I already had a 2.8TB RAID 5 array in a dual Xeon server, and frankly neither wanted nor needed more computing capacity (or accompanying administrative hassle). I also highly value a single filespace (yes, yes, I know you can do much of the same thing with multiple mounts in a single directory, but it's just not quite the same), which I gather isn't so much a concern for you. The 2.0TB comes from four 500GB drives ($1400), which are pretty pricey on a $/GB basis right now. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] How much storage do you have for MythTV?
Ross Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > My MythTV box is now at around 600gb and that seems like just about > enough storage for me for now with non-HD recordings, Indeed. A FireWire capture of a non-HDTV cable channel takes about 19MB/minute. 600GB = 526 hours. HDTV takes up to sevenfold more space (see http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2006-January/118576.html>) per time period. > but I can see a day in the not too distant future where the bulk of > my mythtv expense will be STORAGE, and not computer parts. I'm already there! That ~$1100 figure I mentioned earlier for my HD-capable MythTV box didn't include the $2100 I paid for an Infrant ReadyNAS 600 with 2TB in RAID 0 that I'm solely dedicating to MythTV. And yet, I haven't gained *that* much with the Infrant in terms of actual programming length versus the circa-2000 TiVo I upgraded in 2001 to 200GB. That could do 246 hours of the lowest-quality (but still quite watchable in most circumstances, if you ask me, especially with movies on TCM) recordings. I figure my Infrant with eight times the space only gives me about 100 more hours of recording time in HD (assuming a blend of high- and regular-bandwidth HD channels). In other words, within mere months I'm going to have to once again begin the methodical culling process of less- or unwatched programs I became so familiar with on the 200GB TiVo. I've used up 741G of it in five weeks of MythTV recording with two HDTV cable boxes (and now an OTA card for just a few programs a week). Some of the programs responsible: * The Untouchables, 125 minutes, 16GB * St. Elmo's Fire, 120 minutes, 15GB * Shakespeare in Love, 125 minutes, 16GB * Ben-Hur, 215 minutes, 15GB * The Matrix Revolutions, 135 minutes, 11GB * A Passage to India, 165 minutes, 21GB * La Bamba, 110 minutes, 14GB All except Ben-Hur and Matrix are from HDnet Movies, which is an especial godsend for any movie lover. (I *can't wait* for the day TCM starts broadcasting in HD!) My all-time champion, now unfortunately lost in a box rebuild, was NBC's The Sound of Music annual broadcast. Four hours, including commercials, and 28GB! > I'd also be interested to know the % of mythtv users who don't use > RAID. By RAID I presume you mean RAID 5. I occasionally wonder whether I should have gone RAID 5 on the Infrant. However, that'd have meant giving up 25% or 500GB of space and, as you can see, I can definitely put the 500GB to use . . . And more! Oh, my wallet is feeling the pain already. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] whats the best graphics card for HD playback?
Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > GeForce 6200 here, DVI to DVI at 1080p, absolutely flawless. Which makes it all the more annoying that my eVVAG GeForce 6200TC can't do 1080p without that slight tearing issue I've previously written about. I've tried overclocking with the Collbits bit set, which doesn't seem to do much good. And yes, I'm using SGI OpenGL timing. I'll report on whether the used PCX 5300 I bought will take care of the issue. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Intel integrated video sufficient for MythTV HD?
sean darcy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > First up was intel 945g integrated video. Supports hdtv, 1080p and > mpeg-2 hw decoding. But are there HD Myth-capable accelerated drivers for the Intel video chipsets? Like for the 915g chipset on my box's motherboard? My understanding is that there aren't, but maybe I just naively assumed that Nvidia and Via Unichrome were the only HD-capable video solutions with Linux driver support. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Cost of MythTV Machines
Brian Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > With some recent discussion here about CPUs and costs I wonder what > the "average" cost of a MythTV machine might be. > > I have seen some "turnkey" machines offered for what I consider to > be very high prices, even given the fact that the builders deserve a > certain profit. I do not wish to mention names, but $1500 for what > seems to be a minimal front/back-end box with 1 capture card seems > quite high to me, Presuming you're talking about Mythic.TV's Dragon, $1450 seems to me a reasonably fair price for high-quality, well-chosen components (solid motherboard with both gigabit Ethernet and FireWire, for example) preassembled inside a nice case that fits well lookwise into a component stack. (Although I do wonder about the Nvidia 6200TC, given that by most accounts a MX5200 would deliver better performance for a lwoer price. I'm looking forward to seeing for myself when my cheap eBay-purchased PCX 5300 arrives this week; thanks, Scott, for pointing it out.) Plus custom scripts to ease the KnoppMyth installation (I'm sorry, but one of the cruelest things I can think of is to give a novice KnoppMyth and tell him it's an out-of-the-box way to turn any computer into a super-TiVo instantly, as so much online literature more or less claims. SATA drives require manual installation? Dire warnings against USB keyboards and mice? Sheesh.) onto the box. I didn't go the Dragon route, but in retrospect perhaps I should have. Here's what I've spent so far: * $800 Sony VGC-RB Pentium 4 3.0GHz (nice, understated black case with Sony logo, although minitower instead of the Dragon's stereo component-style case) * $70 Nvidia GeForce 6200TC PCI Express card * $40 Nvidia PCX 5300 PCI Express card (to replace previous) * $80 D-Link gigabit Ethernet PCI Express card * $80 URC MX-500 universal learning remote * $40 IR wireless keyboard/mouse * $160 HD5000 HDTV capture card -- * $1190 Total (to simplify matters I'm excluding sales tax from everything). The Sony computer cost $800 as part of a bundle that also included a $200 Sony flat-panel monitor and $120 Epson all-in-one printer; I'll probably end up selling the monitor, so that should reduce the $800 cost by some amount. If I ever want digital sound output I'll probably have to invest $50 in a PCI sound card to replace the onboard Intel HDA audio, and then I'll lose the ability to put a second HDTV capture card in the computer. (I guess I could go USB, but that's another box hanging off the box.) Now, it is true that with my setup I do get some things I wouldn't have had with Dragon, like the wireless keyboard/mouse and what is unquestionably the most sophisticated <$100 remote on Earth. However, the Dragon approach has certain advantages as well, like a slightly-nicer case, more slots, 512MB more memory, better sound hardware, and a second gigabit Ethernet port. Oh, and $210 in cash, but then look again at the list of things Dragon has that my setup doesn't. Besides, my time is worth money, after all. [The following is *not* addressed to Brian specifically; Brian, please don't take it as such. It's also in some ways a repeat of what I wrote in http://www.mail-archive.com/mythtv-users@mythtv.org/msg53363.html>.] I know this is the cue for half the list to jump in with how they built a great MythTV box out of the parts sitting in the closet, or how they bought a $100 motherboard and a $25 case and a $100 CPU, etc., etc., and built a great MythTV box. Hey, more power to you. Guess what? Most of you aren't even trying to do HDTV, or if you are you're likely the ones trying to play 1080i with a low-end Celeron or two year-old AMD and finding that even XvMC doesn't help much. Let me repeat: My time is worth money. Or, conversely, it can be worthwhile to pay someone else to do the heavy lifting in the whole parts procurement and assembly phase of MythTV. Heaven knows this list is living proof that the software phase is difficult enough! Don't get me wrong: I appreciate the tinkering and constant striving toward perfection as much as the next guy. That's why I took the gamble of buying the PCX 5300 although honestly the HDTV picture I get right now is quite satisfactory; I really do want to go from a 95% HDTV picture to 100%. That's why I spent half of Saturday puzzling over getting the HD5000 plus indoor antenna to finally pick up a few over-the-air channels (fortunately, including the two HD network affiliates that RCN cable in San Francisco doesn't carry) after several false starts at the issue. But can I understand someone who prefers the destination to the journey, and is willing to pay a bit more to get there that much faster? Absolutely. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] No can do for multiple HD5000s?
I seem to recall seeing someplace that two HD5000 cards can't be used in the same machine. True? -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Some real-life HDTV bandwidth/reliability observations
Please consult the list archive for more on my setup. Quick recap: * Frontend/backend: 3.0GHz Hyperthreaded Pentium 4 with 512MB running Fedora Core 4 and MythTV 0.18.1 from ATrpms * Program sources: Two Motorola DCT-6200 boxes through FireWire (Point-to-point at 200Mbps). * MythTV storage: Infrant ReadyNAS 600 gigabit Ethernet-capable NAS in ext3 over RAID 0, mounted via CIFS [1] * Network: D-Link PCI Express gigabit Ethernet card and SMC gigabit Ethernet switch My experiences: * Frontend/backend (frontend presumably swapped out to disk, DPMS on) and storage are idle: Two HDTV (from the premium movie channels, say) programs record simultaneously without IOBOUND errors. One high-bandwidth [2] HDTV program, or one high-bandwidth and one regular HDTV, seems OK; I haven't empirically tested two yet, but believe it should also be all right. * I'm watching a HDTV program and I'm also copying non-MythTV files from the Infrant to another machine on the network: One HDTV program and one non-HDTV program record simultaneously without IOBOUND errors, generally speaking, except a burst for 4-6 seconds at occasional five-minute multiples as Brandon Beattie and I have discussed here recently. Two HDTV recordings at once result in steady IOBOUND errors. * I delete a program from the frontend: A few lines of IOBOUND errors regardless of what I am recording. Interestingly, deleting files outside mythfrontend doesn't seem to be a problem, as I think I've recently noted. * Frontend/backend is idle, and I'm also copying non-MythTV files from the Infrant to another machine on the network: Two HDTV programs record simultaneously without IOBOUND errors. One high-bandwidth HDTV program (such as anything from HDNet) generates slightly more serious (up to about 10 seconds) IOBOUND bursts at occasional five-minute intervals. * A single medium-load commflag job is running and I'm also copying non-MythTV files from the Infrant to another machine on the network: One HDTV program records with 4 to 6-second IOBOUND bursts at occasional five-minute multiples. Bandwidth use: * Digital non-HDTV channels generate the smallest files at about 900-1000MB/hour for a movie channel and up to 1200MB/hour for a cartoon (with probably a lower-quality feed). * Analog channels such as TCM generate about 2900MB/hour due to the extra noise. HDTV movie channels generate about 4400MB-4700MB/hour. * A high-bandwidth HDTV channel generates 7400-7700MB/hour . . . * Except for ABC (and, presumably, Fox), whose 720p programs record at about 5.8GB/hour. Other notes: * I've seen the occasional mangled channel change (typically a digit dropped) over FireWire when using live TV, but haven't seen it yet with a recording. * I still *do* see the dreaded "recording previews fine but kills mythfrontend on playback or at first OSD display [or at best, OSD doesn't come up at all]" issue with perhaps one of every dozen recordings. I haven't noticed any particular pattern regarding channels, but this is my #1 annoyance with MythTV at the moment, and--if I may plea to the developers and/or the ATrpms packager--ample justification for an interim hotfix release for the 0.18.x series as opposed to having non-SVN users wait for the fix I understand is in SVN to appear with 0.19. (By contrast, I can live with "frontend crashes after two or three source changes during live TV" and "changing channels in live TV mangles the sound, requiring an escape and reentry into live TV to fix" issues; as an old TiVo hand I know just how useless live TV generally is.) [1] Please see the list archives for why I use CIFS and not NFS. [2] Such as anything from HDNet or Discovery HD Theater and, interestingly, most network affiliates over cable. I presume OTA broadcasts' bandwidth demands would be even greater. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Conventional Wisdom Watch
John Biundo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > Interesting post. How might the LVM2 performance hit manifest > itself? Could it be the source of some strangeness I'm seeing with > pre-buffering pauses? I can't speak to your particular situation. All I know is that my local read and write speeds on an eight-spindle, JFS-on-LVM2-on-(single) software RAID 5 went up by several multiples when I made the sole change of removing LVM2 from the equation. I have previously noted here that none of the several large-scale academic RAID arrays that most resemble my setup uses LVM2. > Also related to your filesystem comments: might jfs NOT be a great > choice for the ringbuffer? I've got it on its own jfs partition > now. 10GB. Should I consider switching that to reiserfs or xfs? I based my comment on what several comparative benchmarks I've read reported regarding XFS versus JFS (all of them also noting that the differences weren't that great) and the feeling that I should say *something* negative about JFS. On the other hand, when I removed LVM2 on my array as mentioned above I did briefly try XFS, only to find that bonnie++ reported speeds about two thirds that of JFS's, so I reverted to what I knew best. I was quite serious about ReiserFS; in my experience it is definitely the filesystem people love to hate as much as love. XFS and JFS get plaudits from pretty much everyone who uses them, albeit with the occasional caveat that they as of yet do not have *on Linux* the real-life performance lifetimes that ext2 and ext3 do. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Conventional Wisdom Watch
Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
> Ok, so I'm not sure what the consensus is. My distro is FC4, kernel is
> 2.6.14 from ATrpms. My main partition is ext3 everything else is on
> ReiserFS/RAID device. So, is the suggestion for me to rebuild my kernel, or
> remake the RAID FS using XFS or JFS, or some combination of the two?
Conventional Wisdom Watch (with apologies to Newsweek)
Rebuild kernel <>Good: Old 8K stack option restores stability to
multiple filesystem layers. Bad: You'd
better know how to manually roll your own
kernel or at the least edit and rebuild
source RPMs.
ReiserFSV Many people swear by it, but many others
swear at it, especially when dealing with
gigabyte-sized files of the kind MythTV
produces. Why take the chance?
XFS ^ Balanced read/write performance. But
is it true that the kernel maintainers
dislike it?
JFS ^ Back by full faith and credit of one of the
largest IT companies on Earth. Writes not quite
as good as reads, though.
Ext3<>Reliable, rock-solid, battle-proven, and no
hours-lonk fsck. But slow, slow, slow, slow.
LVM2^ Flexibility makes extending or modifying
partitions easy. But be prepared for the
performance hit.
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Re: [mythtv-users] DVICO Fusion HDTV 5 Lite vs HD3000
Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > echo "You have a 4kstacks-enabled kernel, and using XFS, especially > in conjunction with software RAID and/or LVM, is likely to lead to > stack overflows, which cause your machine to do Bad Things." As I've recently written here, I saw the exact same stack overflow errors with Fedora Core 3 and various 2.6.x kernels when using JFS, not XFS, with LVM2 and software RAID. Recompiling the kernel to turn off 4k stacks (and thus go back to the old 8k behavior) indeed fixed this issue. Those interested should see the relevant bugzilla.redhat.com entry. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Commflag-related IOBOUND errors
Brandon Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > Every time a recording, transcode, commercial detection, and so on start > or finish the recordings table is updated. The IOBOUND errors I mentioned that are occurring at five-minute multiples (and one-minute multiples before I changed the "check every x seconds" setting in the backend from the default) occur independent of any recording starts or stops. As previously mentioned I have set commflag jobs to only occur in the early morning, and I never do transcode. > If you use EIT monitoring with a HD tuner than every time this > finishes it can cause the recording scheduler to be re-run. Sorry, don't know what EIT monitoring is; I use FireWire with my HD cable boxes. > Adding RAM will not help at all. This is purely a system and disk IO > issue. This both gladdens my wallet while dimming my hopes for always-pristine (subject to the vagaries of cable provider compression) HD recordings regardless of circumstance. > Also, the PCI bus can be occupied and cause data from the card to be > lost if the system IO can't be freed up quick enough to handle the > data. HD tuner cards have a rather small cache on them. If > anything occupies the system IO longer than 500ms then you risk > losing data from the HD tuner, and Myth and the scheduler does this > at times. Hmm. If it's not a swapping issue, perhaps I should turn the ringbuffer size on the frontend back up to the maximum? I thought that only applied to Live TV. Is there a separate ringbuffer setting I am not aware of in 0.18.1? (Live TV is set to record locally, but I wonder if maybe it's better to trade network bandwidth for disk IO bandwidth and set it to go to the same place the recordings go to?) > The best way to fix this? Keep the drive for the database on a > different disk than one used for recordings. Done. I keep the database on a local SATA drive, but the recordings go to an Infrant 600 2TB over gigabit Ethernet . . . > Use XFS or JFS. . . . and which uses ext3, not JFS (as I use pretty much everywhere else), as its filesystem. (Although the Infrant folks use straightforward md-compatible RAID on the 600 [and even their proprietary X-RAID on the X6 is md-readable], I think they've tweaked with the ext3 filesystem code a bit. When I delete a recording, the system gives me back control as quickly as when I recorded to my JFS-based RAID array, but only for a split second; then there is a distinct 'hang' for a few moments as the deletions occur. And yes, this does cause a few bursts of IOBOUNDs when I am doing HDTV recording at the time.) > Make sure nothing else IO intensive is running when the schedular > runs. That's easy; the MythTV box doesn't do anything else but MythTV, and the Infrant is going to be dedicated solely to Myth (at least once I've moved my remaining non-Myth video collection off it). > Intel based systems have less of a problem than AMD from what I've > seen (Intel systems with hyper threading that is). Check that; the MythTV box is a 3.0GHz Pentium 4. > Reiser is a good choice though for the filesystem holding the > database, since it does a better job with sub GB size files. = Like I said, I am using JFS pretty much everywhere else, and that includes the MythTV box's local disk. I wonder if this is a latency issue? Unfortuantely I can't tweak up the latency on my PCI Express gigabit Ethernet card with setpci; I've tried. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Commflag-related IOBOUND errors
Brandon Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > Also just so it's known, you can have the best system, raid 10, and > still get corrupted video. There are a few things that can cause > this. The update scheduled recordings task is nasty in Myth... and > Mysql can be nasty too. I see (Weekly) a single recording lose data > when it spawns this task. Rescheduling's always seemed pretty lightweight on my setup, but I *do* see intermittent IOBOUNDs; when they occur, they appear every five minutes on the dot for 3-8 seconds (:10:02-05, :20:02-08, :25:02-06, etc.), especially when I'm recording dual HD streams and especially especially when also watching a third stream, using gigabit Ethernet and a RAID 1 NAS. I am pretty sure this is related to my frontend/backend checking for user/commflag jobs every five minutes; before I changed this from the default setting of every minute, I'd see the IOBOUNDs pop up in the exact same way (you guessed it) every minute. (Note, also, that I see the IOBOUNDs even if I'm outside the 2:30-6am time block I've told the backend to run commflag jobs in.) It's quite possible that this is a swap-related issue and that adding more RAM to my 512MB system would take care of this, but as a cheapskate I'm reluctant to do so because I haven't run into any other memory-related issues I know of. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] PCX 5300 and 1080p/1080i?
Scott Alfter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > nVidia used to produce the GeforcePCX 5300, which was basically > (IIRC) a GeforceFX 5200 with a PCI Express-to-AGP bridge chip. I > found one on eBay yesterday and snagged it for about $40; when it > arrives, it's going into my Mythbox and the 6200 I bought for it > last weekend is going back to Fry's. I'd be *very* curious to hear how the PCX 5300 turns out in a HDTV environment. I too have a 6200 TC PCI Express card (but, alas, can't take it back) and, although the 1920x1080 picture is actually 95% acceptable, it'd be nice to be able to reliably and cheaply eliminate the tearing issue I've talked about here previously and which Brandon Beattie talks about at http://www.linuxis.us/linux/media/howto/linux-htpc/video.html>. > (My main complaint with the 6200 is that colors are way too saturated, and > there's no way to crank them back to more natural levels within MythTV.) Not having had the benefit of using MythTV with another video card or with HDTV I probably don't know the difference, but hey, if I can get better colors by moving downstream, I'm up for it. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB
Rob Bongiovi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > The XP2900+ at 400Mhz can play HD (1080i) without > XvMC. Rob, thanks; that is helpful. In my case, I can play 1080p content on my 6200 TC fine; it's just that, as I've written, I sometimes see the "shimmer" (top layer of screen moving slightly off sync with rest) I and others have described when the entire camera moves. Do you see anything like that? -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Odds of Linux CableCARD support?
Jonathan Oexner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > Yeah, I was happy to learn that RCN Boston doesn't use 5C > encryption. I'm happy to report that RCN San Francisco does not either. Once CableCARD 2.0 ships, what do y'all think are the odds of a PCI-slot expansion board that comes with one or two CableCARD slots, *regardless of Linux support*? I figure that having the hardware actually available (as opposed to slots only being available on new, presumably MCE-enabled, PCs) is more than 50% of getting MythTV support done, and if it takes binary, non-free drivers for Linux support--à la Nvidia or ATi--I don't mind as long as they work. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Will I regret this purchase?
Richard Bronosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > My wife's biggest criteria for getting an HDTV for the sitting room was > having a solid black bezel. So today I ordered: > http://www.digital1234.com/product.jsp?x=LC32D4U (Sharp Aquos LC32D4U) > > Does anyone have one of these? What's been your mileage? Any MythTV/X > setting recommendations? If you haven't already, run, don't walk, to www.avsforum.com. I hate recomending non-Usenet/mailing list message forums in general, but AVSForum is the world's best resource for something like this. A second resource I'm fond of, not just for HDTVs but just about anything from soup to nuts, is http://www.consumersearch.com/ and its "reviews of reviews." For HDTVs, note that it has both overall top picks and, down the page, additional ones per display format. To keep this somewhat relevant, I'll note that its LCD recommendations was one of the reason I went for my Westinghouse 37" 1080p panel. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Partly OT - recording DCT-6412 content via
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N Dugas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
> Now I have a new question: I noticed that the test-mpeg2 program can
> only capture about 2 gig.
As others have noted, what you're facing is almost certainly a
filesystem issue. However, Ext2 and ext3 haven't had a 2GB filesize
limit for many, many years. Samba *does* have a 2GB limit, which I ran
into at
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/169825>; are
you saving the recordings to a Samba mount? If so, switch to cifs.
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[mythtv-users] You get what you pay for (within limits)
James C. Dastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > I think the point here is that we know spending a months salary or > more will get us a superior system, which is obviously what you've > done, unless you have more creative ways of obtaining your hardware, We're not very far apart; I'm a cheapskate, too, and bought said server plus enclosure on eBay. The nine 400GB drives cost twice as much as the server, actually, even though I got a fantastic price on them through an unusually-generous CompUSA sale a year ago. > but myself and others believe we are just building a fancy VCR, and > we actually enjoy pushing the envelope of our older unused hardware, > and we simply enjoy the challenge. It's fun to find out how far some > old motherboard can go and what we can do for cheap. I'm much more > impressed by someone who can get MythTV up and running on some old > junk than by those that do it the "proper" way. No disagreements here. But what about when the hardware really isn't sufficient? Sadly, a lot (OK, most) of the time, we get anguished laments on mythtv-users, punctuated with the occasional user who is positively upset because reality has cruelly shattered his hopes for a cheap TiVo. Going HDTV has further raised the bar; heck, as I've noted elsewhere, I made the mistake in thinking that a $80 6200TC would be sufficient for a 100%-perfect HDTV image on my 37" 1080p panel (which I paid $1460 for through careful vendor selection and some opportune griping to the right person when it bungled the delivery) instead of the 97% perfect I'm getting now. I'm not going to spring for a $120 6600GT because the 97% is good enough for now, but were I to do it again I'd have paid the extra money, yes (or, if also feasible, spent $30 *less* for the PCX 5300). I've been 100% Linux at home for ten years this month, and every moment of tinkering has been enjoyable worthwhile. I also, however, believe in building things that last. I'm also a software person at heart, and by comparison fiddling with hardware is a major pain. That's why I went to the effort of building a RAID array on real server hardware instead of (since I didn't have an unused system in the closet) trying to cobble together something from cheap $399 PC specials at CompUSA. I won't have to worry about upgrading the hardware there for a few years to come. Similarly, with the Myth frontend/backend, I bought a classy-looking Sony 3.0GHz Pentium 4 system at Fry's at its day-after-Thanksgiving sale--again for a terrific price--rather than trying to shoehorn my four year-old AMD desktop into the task or going for one of the el cheapo Celeron/Sempron wonders also advertised that day. In my experience this approach saves time, grief, and yes, money, in the long run. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Comcast and Firewire 5c
On second thought, I realized that Ian's shell script won't help me in my particular desire to find channels Zap2It doesn't know about. This is because the cable box, when tuned to a nonexistent channel, won't change channels. The script has no way of knowing this and thus thinks the "new" channel is working (Because, after all, the MPEG-2 signal is still coming over, right?). -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Ian's neat shell script for verifying working channels
Ian Forde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
> I replaced the task with a small shell script.
Nice; I have it running now. Notes for others:
* Obviously, change the paths for test-mpeg2 and 6200ch.
* You'll want to modify the 2 in the following line:
${GETCH} -r 2 > /tmp/testscan.${channum} &
to whatever node your FireWire connection is on. When I added a second
cable box, my FireWire connections rearranged themselves and are now
on nodes 1 and 3 versus 2 previously.
My cable provider does not encode any channels over FireWire with 5C,
so I'm more curious as to what channels will show up that I didn't
know about.
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[mythtv-users] Video cards that can smoothly handle HD displaying without tearing
Matt Mossholder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > I've got a Sempron 64 3100+, running Nvidia driver rev 7667, with 1080i > output over DVI, and have only some very slight tearing, which is > consistently about 20% down from the top. Load is reasonable. What Nvidia video card? I've previously written here of a very similar tearing (I described it as shimmering) issue with my 6200 TC, and am very curious to hear of those who *aren't* seeing such issues with HD content. I have read elsewhere that a 6600GT is just fast enough to handle the displaying; it's also possible that a 5200 (which, I understand, has some hardware overlay features that the 6xxx-series cards don't support with current Linux drivers) would also work well in such a scenario, but I don't know. (If that's true, I'd also be curious about whether the $50-70 PCX 5300--the only 5200-like solution that would work on my PCI Express setup--would be a suitable modern replacement. Since I don't intend to play modern games on my MythTV box I'd rather go that route than pay $130 for a 6600GT.) -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID problems - the unspoken mythtvproblem?
-got lost in the shuffle as people (including me, now) took the opportunity raised by his rather melodramatic subject line and message text to discuss various RAID issues of their own. However, my sense is that as chris wrote, David's issue is not RAID-related per se; rather, some minor RAID-related performance/latency issue simply worsens a race condition (in layman's terms, two things trying to do the same thing at the same time and conflicting) within the Myth scheduler software. (And, David, I haven't had the chance to benchmark my Infrant for MythTV purposes yet, although I certainly look forward to doing so after my current use for it is done. If it tests well I will likely use it to hold my MythTV recordings. No question that it's by far the best-reviewed "NAS in a box" consumer/SMB-grade solution out there.) -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] 64bit IDE RAID options?
James C. Dastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > Is anyone aware of a PCI-X 64bit / 133MHz capable IDE RAID HBA? > Or, how about a PCI 64bit / 33 Mhz MHz capable IDE RAID HBA? People generally consider 3Ware's 7xxx (ATA) and 8xxx/9xxx-series (SATA) cards, which all support 64-bit/66MHz PCI-X, the standard for high-quality, reasonably-priced, true hardware RAID cards. (Or just for JBOD, as I'm doing with two 7506-4 cards and eight 400GB ATA drives I'm using in part for MythTV.) -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: [linux-lvm] Re: more info on the hang with 2.6.15-rc5
Matt Darcy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > Judging from the ammount of problems with this driver it is %90 the > driver and %10 raid interaction with the dirver > > I don't believe this is an LVM issue, more a case of the driver's just > not ready for use, so if you use it with raid and lvm you speed up the > crash. I'm coming into this late, but could your issue be related to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=167173>? -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] dvd image files dont all play.
hondaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > I have lots of archived dvd images in .iso format. Some of them play, > some of them dont. Is there an easy explanation why? The ones that > dont play in mythtv play on my pc using vlc so I know they work. VLC (and Xine) support DVD menus; mplayer (which I'll bet you're using as the MythVideo player for .isos) does not support menus. I'll bet that your player command line for .iso looks something like mplayer dvd:// -dvd-device %s This plays the first track, which on most DVDs contains the movie (as opposed to the trailer, special features, etc.). However, not all DVDs adhere to this standard. What you'll have to do for those that don't is to create a special mplayer command. If track five contains the movie (as is the case on one of my DVD images) you'd amend dvd:// to dvd://5. The easier solution may be to switch to xine, which can also play .isos straight from the command line although I don't have the proper syntax right in front of me. I haven't made the change myself yet, but probably will as DVD menu support is, after all, a nice thing, and the mplayer featureset hasn't seen meaningful changes in years. It's sad as a longtime user and fan to say so, but I fear that the mplayer developers' notorious obstinancy has finally caught up to them. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Do I need a new DVI cable for 1080p?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > Based on the information I read here: >http://www.datapro.net/techinfo/dvi_info.html#Page03 > I don't think a dual-link cable would do you any good, as the monitor can d= > isplay a maximum resolution of 1920x1080. Yes, but that Webpage is almost certainly assuming 1080i on the part of the reader. I figure that if my card can do 1080p, and the monitor can do 1080p (and, of course, all LCD panels are by definition progressive devices, whether or not the input signal is such), so I'd want the connection in between to be able to handle 1080p. Based on my reading of Xorg.log my cable doesn't seem to qualify. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Do I need a new DVI cable for 1080p?
I have a new 37" Westinghouse panel that offers 1080p through DVI. I have it hooked up to my Pentium 4 3.0GHz MythTV frontend/backend and its Nvidia 6200TC card with the DVI-D cable that came with my four-year old 17" monitor. The picture looks fantastic, but having never owned a HDTV before I don't know if I'm missing out on something. Two things: 1) When there's movement of the entire picture (if, say, the camera pans or zooms, as opposed to a person walking across a static room) when playing a HD recording, sometimes I'll see the top 1/6 of the screen slightly out of phrase with the remainder; it changes slightly ahead or behind the rest. Otherwise, the picture is entirely consistent. Is this simply a function of the computer not being able to quite keep up with the work of displaying the movement? I do have Myth deinterlacing with the kernel codec without XvMC, have OpenGL XV sync on on both nvidia-settings and Myth, and am using Jarod Wilson's modeline for this specific panel. 2) /var/log/Xorg.log tells me that the card has a single link connection to the display. Should I buy a new, explicitly dual-link DVI cable? My cable's connectors have all the pins needed for dual link, but I don't know if that's the only factor involved in whether a cable is dual-link compliant or not. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OSD Font has overlapping lines
Byron Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > I'm playing around with different OSD themes. I'd been using > blueosd for a while but the program info was always cut off when I > pulled it up on screen. most of the other OSD's all have this > different problem. I've found that the Titivillus OSD has the twin benefits of being a) least vulnerable to the overlapping-text bug and b) by far, in my highly subjective (but surely correct) opinion, the best-looking OSD. I'm trying Retro out after its recent appearance here, but otherwise I also prefer the Titivillus theme to all others I've seen. I'm surprised no one has yet made a mock-Tivo theme. Let's face it: TiVo (and a lot of venture-capital financing) solved 90% of the UI issues MythTV faces six years ago! -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] UK DVB Satellite in US
Is it possible to recieve UK dvb satellites in the US? I live on the east coast (In the grand sceme of scale, almost as east as you can get in the US). From what i've been able to gather channels like BBC are FTA on dvb sats. It would be cool if I could recieve them. No, sorry, the footprint of the UK sats, is focused pretty tightly on the UK, spreading out across Europe. http://www.uk-satellite-tv.co.uk/footprintsinstallation_103674.html Lee ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ssh attack
not that I leave mythtv open to the outside anyways, I use mod_proxy from an external apache system to forward requests to and from the myth backends web interface. I always have to get around via that one gateway machine that I have hardened. Mike, What did you do in the external Apache config to get this to work? I've been playing with reverse proxies but can't get it to work... Lee ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie hard drive question - PVR350 / KnoppMyth
Not that I recall. I mostly look at /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend for errrors but I think it freezes before it has time to spit out any problems. At least that is my best guess. Any idea about SATA hardrives and IDE harddrives sharing the load? I'm wondering if there is a problem there. Do you have any messages in your /var/log/messages file or other pertinent files around the time that your system freezes? Does that motherboard have a VIA chipset? Well documented cause of problems... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Why FireWire makes sense even for those without HDTV displays
Chris Ribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > Just to clarify this point, some cable providers (like mine - > Comcast) only make OTA rebroadcasts available unprotected over > firewire. The only channels I get over firewire are CBS, ABC, NBC, > FOX, and PBS. Ouch! Too bad. As noted, this definitely varies, even within the providers themselves; it's entirely possible that if you were to move to the next county over Comcast's offerings (and the box, for that matter) over FireWire might be completely diffferent. RCN, my provider, in San Francisco is--shall we say--much more generous, but RCN in NYC might be completely different; I really don't know. > In addition to the substantial cost of the firewire solution (which > I find bearable because I am 100+ miles from the broadcast towers), > it is less than perfectly reliable in operation - although I cannot > compare it to other HDTV capture solutions. Neither can I, but I've had zero problems with FireWire since I started running each hour with cron the little script comprised of four plugctl lines that's been posted here several times, and even before then any issues were infrequent, only occurred some of the times I restarted mythbackend, and could be cured by rerunning mythtv-setup to move the FireWire node used from 2 (the usual number with my setup) to 1, then moving it back after the next MythTV box reboot. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Microsoft Remote Keyboard
I've purchased the MS remote keyboard (and the MS remote control unit) for use in Myth. There was a thread in October about this but it didn't say if and how the person got the keyboard to work. There seems to be plenty of information for getting the remote control to work but I can't seem to find anything on the keyboard. Has anyone got this to work? If so, how? Trying again... Sorry, that would be me that was planning on getting an MS MCE Keyboard... Unfortunately I have got around to it yet, as I've been busy with work/Christmas/etc... I was just planning on running irrecord, adding the the output to the existing lirc config file and the adding the extra keys to the lircrc file. Seemed pretty straight forward... Have you tried it? Lee ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Why FireWire makes sense even for those without HDTV displays
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > I apologize in advance for my lack of knowledge regarding HDTV and > FireWire, but could you give me some more details of the setup you're > running? I've got an HD cable box I have the Motorola DCT-6200 (two of them, actually, although I am awaiting the second FireWire cable). As I understand it the Scientific-Atlanta box also works (but see below). A question for those who've done it; can the dual-tuner Motorola DCT-64xx DVR box support two FireWire outputs at once? I'd love to get rid of the second cable box if I can. It's important to note that different cable providers have different policies regarding what channels their boxes output on FireWire. Many do not output the premium, copy-protected channels, but some do. It's possible some providers' boxes only output the digital channels and not the analog (generally those below 100) channels; my box outputs both. > and a great HDTV I'm awaiting the delivery of the Westinghuse LVM-37W1, a 37" 1080p (Woo-hoo!) panel from J&R (the one Jarod Wilson on the list has). In retrospect I should've bought from Crutchfield; like J&R it offers no sales tax unless you're in its home state (VA, versus NY for J&R) but also offers free shipping on TVs and what I hear is a generous return policy. J&R and its freight company totally bungled the shipping. I got a very, very generous discount due to the mishap, but it's still frustrating to have the panel be five days late. > Could I use the FireWire out with channel switching (either via an > IR Blaster or serial/USB interface) The ATrpms and KnoppMyth versions of MythTV both support FireWire signal input *and built-in channel changing output*, at least to a DCT-6200. That's right; no IR blasters or anything else! (I am told the Scientific-Atlanta box requires a blaster, but don't know for sure.) Although wholly unnecessary, I still out of habit stop pushing buttons on the IR remote when MythTV changes channels (old TiVo IR blaster veterans will understand). > to get channels from my cable box to my MythTV box and then put out > the signal via DVI/Component to the TV? This is exactly how MythTV (or any DVR) works, but I think you already know that, and your main concern is the following: > Would I still get the true HD signal out to the TV? As mentioned I don't have an HDTV display right now, so I don't know for sure, but I can tell you that the box still happily sends out non-HDTV signals from its rear outputs. The same channel as whatever the MythTV box has set the cable box to, of course. I'd be surprised to find that HDTV signals don't behave that way, but am open to being told otherwise. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Why FireWire makes sense even for those without HDTV displays
Steve Hodge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > I made sure > > to get an IR keyboard/mouse so I could teach the codes to my remote; > > this way I haven't had to bother with lirc. > > That's a benefit I hadn't thought of. Does it work ok? I went into my setup's pros and cons in great, great detail in the message you replied to. I'm glad of the choices I made, especially every time I see another lirc-related question on the list. Or, for that matter, all the ivtv/btvt-related questions; I'd highly recommend anyone in the US using cable whose provider supplies a HDTV box (which are all FireWire-equipped by FCC mandate) to consider switching to it even if it means a few more dollars a month and *even if you don't have an HDTV display*. FireWire cards and cables are under $10 each at Monoprice.com, Linux has great support for the Lucent chipset and others, and my FireWire setup with ATrpms' MythTV build was about as plug-and-play as it gets [unlike the HD5000, which I still haven't gotten working yet on Fedora Core 4; the directions at hd5000.com and elsewhere simply don't apply to my particular setup, as I've previously lamented here]. Yes, the one caveat is that copy-protected channels might not be available through it, but you never know, and I presume you can use your NTSC encoder card for those channels. I don't know for sure, having never had to deal with NTSC capture cards, and I'm glad for it! > It's become our controller of choice. I've got a lirc setup as well > but the keyboard is just so much more reliable and convenient that we > don't bother with the remote at all. My keyboard is light and easy to handle as well, but I'd hate to have to go back to only having that without my remote. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] My wireless keyboard/mouse/remote setup
mike choy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > I have several learning remotes, and all of them really struggle to > learn the key board, it can take 8 or 9 times for it to learn each > key. I can't speak for other learning remote, but I've never had any trouble teaching the MX-500 keystrokes *unless it needs a modifier*. Then I've never had it work right, but then I haven't tried eight or nine times per key. > Also have you tried the KDE keyboard customisation > > http://www.acaciaclose.co.uk/31338/37429.html Yes, I've used KHotKeys. Note that it still needs keycodes generated for keys that don't already have them assigned. I prefer to use LinEAK because of a) the xosd plugin and b) the fact that it works regardless of whether KDE is running or not. Although I haven't tried it xhkeys might be preferable, if only because it leverages the preexisting X11-based keystrings instead of using its own unique keystrings the way LinEAK does. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] My wireless keyboard/mouse/remote setup
Larry's Club Cars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > With a wireless keyboard and wireless mouse > in the frontend, do I really need a remote control? I too have a wireless keyboard, but still bought myself a learning remote. A keyboard is nice for many MythTV-related tasks, and very efficient in many ways, but it just can't replace the convenience of sitting back on a comfortable chair navigating the frontend with one thumb. At the same time, a remote can't replace the convenience of a keyboard in simple things like entering letters and words. I made sure to get an IR keyboard/mouse so I could teach the codes to my remote; this way I haven't had to bother with lirc. I bought an ACK-581 (http://www.directron.com/ack581.html>). Positives include: * The keyboard and integrated mouse thumbpad work well, and at the end of the day that's what counts. Two PS/2 cables snake out of the IR receiver, so no compatibility worries about USB keyboards under Linux, as the KnoppMyth people warn against (although I'm using Fedora Core 4). * The black color goes well with the rest of my entertainment setup (although, naturally, the big-screen flat panel I've ordered only comes in silver). Beige is also available. * LinEAK's xosd plugin givss me nice-looking on-screen feedback for the multimedia keys. Negatives include: * Since seemingly few have heard of this model before, it's not supported out-of-the-box by LinEAK. It's not hard to add support with some perusing of LinEAK's documentation, but still an annoyance considering just how many keyboards LinEAK *does* support. * Not all the multimedia keys generate xev-visible keycodes out of the box; I had to write a little shell script to generate them with setkeycodes after figuring out the proper ones with the LinEAK documentation. (Mysteriously, following said steps, the Mute and Volume Up keys generated the same keycodes, meaning I had to reassign Volume Up to a vacant keycode.) Sometimes, for some reason I can't figure out, the new keycodes disappear and I have to rerun the shell script. I thus set up a cron entry to regenerate them regularly. * If an IR signal gets cut off or garbled mid-keystroke (if, say, the line of sight gets interrupted while typing), the last-typed key is liable to continue to repeat endlessly until I push another key. I'm not sure if this is a quirk of this keyboard or the way the x86 keyboard signaling architecture in general is designed. My learning remote is the fabled URC MX-500. Its price has come down a *lot* recently; mine was only $80 or so from Amazon.com. Positives include: * Enormous flexibility. I won't go into the remote's many virtues in detail; see the lengty review at http://www.remotecentral.com/mx500/> for more detail. Let's just say the remote can do pretty much anything you'd ever want an IR-based remote to do (with a couple of caveats that I'll get to), all with surprising ease of use, and that there's a reason it's been the king of super-programmable (yet still somewhat mass-market) remotes for years. Negatives include: * Size. It's big, even for a six-footer like me. Not a problem for me, and the remote and its keys all *feel* great, but those with small hands should be aware. * I can't figure out how to get taught keys to auto-repeat. The manual makes some vague mention of holding down the keys you teach to it on the source (the keyboard, in my case) in order to get the MX-500 to repeat, but for me that either does nothing or results in endlessly-repeating keys (no doubt with an identical cause to the similar issue I mentioned earlier regarding the keyboard). Why URC didn't enable the remote's keys to repeat automatically, without further effort, by holding keys down (or, perhaps, some setting to enable or disable repeating per key) I won't ever know. * I also can't figure out how to program keys with Shift-, Alt-, or Control-modifications (attempts to do so result in the modifiers often "sticking," again, no doubt related to the endless-repeating issue), although I suspect this is probably an issue with training any learning remote with a keyboard. Let me close the subject of remotes and keyboards with a puzzle. With the ATrpms MythTV packaging, I can't get the keystroke-editing function in Mythweb to work with the global keys section; any keys I put in there don't stick. Suggestions? -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Scheduled wakeup acpi-alarm vs nvram-wakeup
I did not have any success with the guess-helper script in nvram-wakeup hence the look at acpi again. Its just woken up recorded two progs and gone turned its self off using the acpi method. I will be documenting this on my website http://www.acaciaclose.co.uk in a few days. The bios reboot and reboot might explain why I was not seeing any changes in the bios, but the system was happy to wake up in anycase. Funny enough I was playing with this last week, my Asus NF7 is also unsupported. I tried the guess-helper, but it returned rubbish, so I tried the manual method and 15mins and a load of reboots later, I had config file which looked very like the one in the instructions... I also have the reboot problem, i.e. the wakeup doesn't work without rebooting the box first, but I followed the "more complex, but faster" instructions to install the reboot kernel and it works fine now. Just need to set up all the scripts in Myth now... :) Lee ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Samba 3 better than NFS 3 for recording over Ethernet
Brad wrote: > Are you sure you don't have a drive failure? RAID 5 will continue on = > normally but your speed will sink fast if a drive fails. I am well aware of how mdadm handles drive failures and how to monitor the array's and drives' health. Believe me, they're fine as far as I can tell. And as I've written, iostat shows all drives in the array with similar performance measures. Michael J. Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > Orpossibly there was a reason for the *fantastic* price. Although I am a believe in the old adage "Never buy anything from the back of the truck or from a man out of breath," the fantastic price came from a CompUSA sale. The drives were sealed retail models. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ALSA and real AC3 passthrough
Petr Stehlik wrote: But does it allow for AC3 passthrough at the same time? Do you have some AC3 sound source? Have you tried say HD DVB-S or perhaps DVD replayed via the internal Myth DVD player (I guess that one would use the AC3 passthrough but I use xine so I don't know). If I am not misunderstanding you, yes dmix allows for anything to be sent through the spdif connection. Myth TV uses mplayer/xine to play DVD's depending how you set it up. I am using xine for mine as I like having the menus. It plays both DTS/DD and works well. Occasionly I run into a DVD where it switches from stereo to DTS/DD and it causes Xine to say the Audio Card is in use, so I am not sure if you can be playing an MP3 or something at the same time as running a AC3 soundtrack from a movie, I can try that this weekend. It surely can play multiple MP3s/MythTV recording at the same time over SPDIF though. Lee ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Myth2ipod status
I'm using it, but had to hack it about due to a problem i've had with DVB recordings. For some reason on certain programs, there appear to be 2 audio tracks, and myth2ipod doesn't work out which one is the valid track to use, and so I was getting encoded video but either none, or the wrong audio occasionally. I modified the script to transcode programs to 2 seperate files, one for each audio track. Later on, I manually look to se which one had the correct audio in it, and delete the bad file. It works for me but its a bit of a pain to have to go looking through the recordings to pick the bad ones out. I did look at using nuvexport, but for some reason it just bombs out as soon as I try and export any shows. Not had time to find out why yet. Also it fails on shows with a ' in the title. Still, its very useful and much appreciated ! Best Regards Lee Jarod Wilson wrote: It works great for me, I transcoded about 75 Daily Show episodes w/it over the past two days and stashed 'em on my shiny new video iPod. Video quality is exceptionally good for such a tiny screen, and A/V sync has been perfect on every file thus far. Also, you can add "tested fully functional on FC4, RHEL4 and Gentoo" to the list. Thought I'd throw out a little positive feedback. :) On Friday 30 December 2005 00:08, WiFi Fun wrote: Oh, I have seen a few other people with issues, but most worked them out. It was a quick hack to start with, but I have been so swamped lately that I have had zero time to work on it. If you want to post a patch, or suggestions that would be cool. You can also fork it if you want. That is up to you, but I will post some changes if you want to forward them on. On 12/30/05, WiFi Fun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew, I just saw your post on the Myth User list. I have tried to email you back twice now. One it bounced, the other time I got no response. Anyway, if you get this what is the problems? I have had little time to do anything with it, and a few folks and myself who are using it have not had a problem. If you send me the bugs, I will see if I can post an update this weekend. Chris On 12/29/05, Andrew McNabb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's been about two months since I've seen anything updated on myth2ipod.com. In that time I've tried several times to email the people who have been working on the project, but I haven't gotten any responses. I've seen a couple of bugs that have been bothering me a lot, and I'm sure other people are running into them, too. Does anyone know what's going on? Is anyone still working on the project? Would it be a bad idea to fork off a myth2ipod2 or something? ___ 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] Samba 3 better than NFS 3 for recording over Ethernet
Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > Yeechang, what kind of drives are in your RAID 5? ATA-133? 7200 RPM? = > 8MB Cache? They are Seagate Barracuda.8 400GB PATA drives (I got a fantastic price on 'em a year ago, the month after their debut). Not far from the state of the art for drives even today, and needless to say each with 7200RPM and 8MB cache. I'd be shocked if having gone SATA (and paying $1000 more for the privilege; like I said, it was a fantastic price) or another make/model would have made a difference, especiallly since the 3ware cards virtualize the computer-drive connection into its own SCSI-like interface regardless of drive. It's not a case of one drive subtly slowing things down for everything else because a) iostate measures for all drives are always fairly consistent and the dd read benchmarks I've done for each drive directly (sd[a-h]) are consistent. The dd read benchmarks I've done for /dev/md0 interestingly show about twice the performance of /dev/VolGroup0x/LogVol0x, indicating to me that lvm2 does appear to be a chokepoint, if not perhaps the only one; rebuilding the array and doing empirical tests of different RAID/LVM/filesystem configurations will presumably tell me more. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ALSA and real AC3 passthrough
Petr Stehlik wrote:
My question is whether it's possible to set up the .asoundrc in a way
that it handles both DVB-S AC3 real passthrough and also analog->digital
conversion plus 32kHz->48kHz resampling.
Petr
I am not sure about your motherboard but with the intel8x0 built into my
motherboard I am able to do it.
In the .asoundrc I found on the web there is an Alsa section called dmix
(digital mix) which will convert the analog sound to the proper format
for sending out through the spdif.
For my card it is like this:
pcm.nforce { type dmix ipc_key 1234 slave { pcm "hw:0,1" period_time 0
period_size 1024 buffer_size 4096 rate 44100 } }
This may help, it is for gentoo, but you should get the general idea:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA_sound_mixer_aka_dmix
Lee
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Samba 3 better than NFS 3 for recording over Ethernet
Ryan Steffes wrote: > Hmm, I wonder if this may be related to why nfs apparently locks my > machine in heavy use. It started when I switched to gigabit nics > and I was blaming the cards, until I realized I could do high data > transfers with the computer as long as I don't use nfs. Simon Lundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > I have had the same exact problem. The machine hardlocks, and a cold > = boot is necissary. I eventually changed nics to a 100Mbit in the > frontend. Might the two of you be using Marvell-based gigabit Ethernet cards and/or SysKonnect drivers? After I moved from the built-in Intel-based 100Mbps Ethernet jack on my MythTV frontend/backend to the D-Link DGE-560T--a PCI Express 1x gigabit Ethernet card, for which I had to download SysKonnect's own version of sk98lin--I found that I could consistently crash the system hard by using dd or mv to max out the traffic to my RAID 5 file server (which remained stable, and has always had gigabit Ethernet), regardless of jumbo frames. I have not seen this issue while simultaneously recording and playing back HD streams, but might well do so once I start recording more than one HD stream at once. I look forward to the core Linux kernel's own sk98lin or skge drivers supporting my card, hopefully soon. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV system
Hi, I’m considering putting together a MythTV system based on the following products: Avermedia TV tuner Digital PCI Card (DVB-T 771) I understand that it’s possible to get the iMon remote + VFD (in the LC16m) to work properly (http://www.harbaum.org/till/twonky/), and that the dual Avermedia cards are supported. My question is: Before I commit myself to but this stuff can anybody see anything that could cause me some serious problems? Can't comment on the rest of the setup but the Avermedia 771's are great, I run three of them in my Mythbox, fed from an external 4 way tv distribution amp they work fine. All three recording, while playing back a recorded show :) I'm running KnoppMyth R5A26, but see no reason why FC won't do the same. Also, it may be just me, isn't an AMD64 and 1GB a little OTT to run a pair of SD cards? (where there is no need to process the incoming video?) Regards, Lee ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Standalone VFD/LCD recommendations?
I'm looking for recommendations on an add-on VFD or LCD display for my MythTV box. Most of the relevant threads I've looked at deal with cases with built-in displays, unfortunately. My criteria: * Fits into a 5.25" drive bay. * Readable 8' away in the dark. * As many lines and columns as is practical while complying with the previous two criteria. * Prebuilt; I don't want to have to solder. * Cheap as possible. * Usable hard buttons and status lights (a red light to indicate that a recording is occurring, for example) would be nice, but not essential. Suggestions? I've seen the Crystalfontz and Matrix Orbital displays, but it's hard to tell online how readable they are. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Samba 3 better than NFS 3 for recording over Ethernet
Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > Something odd going on there, I have an almost identical setup for > my master backend, and NFS works great at handling multiple HDTV > streams (both my HD capture devices are in slave backends that write > to the master via NFS), along with the occasional SD stream thrown > in as well. To make a long story short, my 2.8TB JFS-on-LVM2-on-software RAID 5 array has certain mysterious performance bottlenecks that result in 7.5-10MB/s local write speeds, despite eight spindles and two 3Ware 7506 controller cards in JBOD mode and on separate buses and with iowait never going above a few percentage points at the very most. Over the network that's even slower, of course. I've going to be rebuilding the array after backing it up to an Infrant 600 (the clear winner, in my mind, among the recent spate of "NAS in a shoebox" offerings popping up all over the place) with four 500GB drives I'll be temporarily using in RAID 0 for the time being, and am looking forward to finding out whether the bottleneck is in mdadm, lvm2 (the likeliest suspect in my mind; none of the several academic self-assembled terabyte-RAID 5 array setups I've read benchmarks for online seems to use it, although otherwise essentially identical), JFS, or elsewhere. I would be surprised if, once I reach write performance on the array closer to theoretical potential, I can use NFS to stream recordings to it without any trouble. But in the meanwhile I'm glad Samba lets me stream a HDTV recording while also playing back a HDTV stream with no IOBOUND error messages (except the very occasional one or two if I'm doing something disk- but non-MythTV related on the frontend/backend MythTV box); after a month of butting my head against seemingly-endless IOBOUND messages with NFS v3 that's a good thing, believe me. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Samba 3 better than NFS 3 for recording over Ethernet
Greg Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > What mount option are you passing to the nfs share.. I've been using the nfsvers=3, tcp, and 32K read/write buffers options someone else mentioned in my home network NFS setup since long before taking up MythTV. Believe me, I'd still much rather use NFS--I'm a *lot* more comfortable with fiddling with NFS export and mount options than with smb.conf--but Samba works and works well. > SMB versus nfs and smb being faster is impossible IMO. Again, speaking as someone who's had a lot more hands-on experience with NFS than Samba, I know very well that modern Samba is as fast as, if not faster than (and certainly a lot more interoperable across platforms) than NFS. Many found NFS pre-v3 to be noticeably slower than Samba, for example, and although as I've mentioned I've always used NFS v3 the notion that today's Samba is faster--or at least more efficient in some way I haven't figured out yet on my particular setup--than NFS is hardly a strange one. N.B. - To be completely accurate, I'm actually using cifs, as smbfs has a 2GB file limit which I only discovered after mythbackend kept crashing with no error messages whatsoever after a certain point in my HDTV recordings. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Samba 3 better than NFS 3 for recording over Ethernet
Buechler, Mark R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > My recordings directory is a raid5 set which isn't the fastest in the world [...] > Another thing I'm considering is HD. If I attempt to vew HD content from my > DVB card while streaming it to the raid5 array it can't really handle it too > well - whereas with a separate live tv buffer it wasn't a problem. I'm going to blatantly hijack this thread to record for posterity that, at least with my setup (streaming HDTV recordings to a software RAID 5+LVM2 array over Gigabit Ethernet with Fedora Core and the ATrpms version of MythTV 18.1), Samba 3 is rock solid while NFS 3 is pretty guaranteed to generate near-endless IOBOUND error messages in mythbackend.log. More detail when I have the time and inclination to write up my experiences, but I hope this helps others in my situation in the meanwhile; a month of IOBOUND error messages despite endless tuning attempts. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] myth selecting the wrong sound channel
William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
> Ive emailed about this problem before and the help has gotten me a
> little way along - it seems that a number of others have the same
> problem without a solution we can find.
>
> On selecting a channel, it may (randomly, works sometimes, sometimes
> not) have sound. A press of the sound channel select ("+") on a
> keyboard brings the sound back. Worse, this results in some recordings
> being blank, and some recordings losing sound half way through.
My trouble is similar, yet entirely different. Audio on the first
television channel in Live TV is always fine, but when changing
channels, there's a good chance the audio will be distorted, fainter,
and crackly. Before I switched over to ALSA, the problem was even more
peculiar: certain audio tracks would be entirely missing on my
two-speaker, no Dolby decoder system. For example, in the movie
"Alexander" I could hear the clanging of swords in battles but the
dialogue would be so faint I could barely tell there were spoken words
at all. In both situations the picture flickers a little, too, as if
the CPU is spending more time with the audio than normal. Neither
switching sound channels nor muting one channel at a time (as I
previously saw suggested here, I think) does nothing to help, but
exiting then reentering Live TV always fixes the problem (pre- and
post-ALSA). On the other hand, I've *never* had the issue with a
recording, thank goodness.
I am using the ATrpms version on Fedora Core 4 with an Intel HDA
motherboard audio system.
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Re: [mythtv-users] DCT-6200 Firewire issue User Database
[A somewhat belated answer to a survey question.] Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > 1. firewire chipset being used (lspci|grep FireWire) Agere Systems FW323 (rev 61) > 2. your plugreport output for the Node connected to the DCT. Node 2 GUID 0x000e5cfffe5d3a08 -- oMPR n_plugs=1, data_rate=2, bcast_channel=63 oPCR[0] online=1, bcast_connection=0, n_p2p_connections=1 channel=63, data_rate=3, overhead_id=0, payload=376 iMPR n_plugs=0, data_rate=2 > 3. the output from a 6200ch -v channel change > 4. Your Kernel (uname -r) > 5. Your 'modinfo raw1394' output > 6. your accuracy rate (0 - 5, 5=3Dperfect channel changes, 0=3Dnumbers get = > > detected but rarely does it work). > 7. a brief description of what your box does when you try and change channe= > ls. = > > I have a brief description of what happens to me below in the quoted email. > > Hopefully we can figure this out and end the problem. > > -- = > > Steve > > On Monday 12 December 2005 13:12, Steve Adeff wrote: > > On Monday 12 December 2005 10:50, Frank Lynch wrote: > > > On 11/30/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I wrote a script that would change the channel +1 run test-mpeg and if > > > > data was received write the channel and "ok" in a text file. This was > > > > so I could quickly figure out what channels were 5C'd for me, through > > > > the whole script I didn't run into a channel change error. I then > > > > played around with it (in awe that it actually worked of course) and > > > > again had no issues. all through p2p. > > > > > > Hi Steve, > > > Would you mind sharing your script with the list? > > > I'm in the process of setting up a firewire connection to my cable > > > box, and your script could save me quite a bit of time (as opposed to > > > going through and manually finding out which channels are 5C'd). > > > thanks, > > > --Frank > > > > i would, but I think I deleted it (ie. I can't find it...). > > > > whats funny is that now that I have a permanent Myth setup with my cable > > box using 6200ch to tune the channels I've noticed a lot of mis-changes. > > > > I'm sitting here ssh'd in to the machine running 6200ch over and over > > trying different channels (this box is p2p only which may be of issue?) a= > nd > > am getting qute a few mis-controled channel changes. > > > > it looks like whats happening is the box thinks it receives doubles of so= > me > > numbers. This will either cause the box to think its receiving 4 or 5 > > numbers. > > ie. tell it to tune to 256 and when it errors I get: > > 255 <- no 6 even gets sent! > > 2556 =3D ch 6 gets tuned > > 25566 =3D ch 66 gets tuned. > > > > so far its usually the middle # that gets repeated but I've had the third > > number repeated occasionally. > > > > Which leads me to think that perhaps its something wrong with > > libavc1394/libraw1394 or the 6200ch program. > > -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hard-lockup in myth....
Buzz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > I get a hard-lockup (no mouse/kbd responsiveness, ie no further interrupts, > video freezes, nill disk activity) in myth (both in 0.18.x from Atrpms and > CVS) when entering livetv. = Unless it's been changed in the past few weeks, J. Wilson's Fedora MythTV howto recommends the Nvidia 7667 drivers, which almost alway caused hard locks on Live TV. Upgrading to 7676 solved that issue. (I'm still dealing with the "every sixth or so HDTV and non-HDTV recording crashes on playback, either immediately or with any action that displays the OSD" issue, but I recall that it's been fixed in SVN.) -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV & Linux Newbie - A few ?'s
One more question: I've read in the archives that the MCE remote will work, but what about the IR blaster? Will this have to be replaced with on from irblaster.info <http://irblaster.info/> or similar? The Windows MCE remote consists of the remote that hold in your hand and a receiver which picks up the Infra Red signals, this a small box which plugs into a a spare USB port. The remote do work, but have issues, in that you need the right version of LIRC to make it work... The receiver also has a couple of socket on the back of it where you can plug in supplied IR transmitters that can control set top boxes (cable/satellite box) HOWEVER, the IR blaster/transmit function do not work under Linux due to a lack of drivers, so if you need to control an separate box, then you will need some other IR blaster hardware... HTH, Lee ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Adventures in HDTV - Notes from the trenches
Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > no HDTV currently accepts 1080p input. Not many do, but there are some and more such models are coming out each week; the Magnolia Audio/Video I visited last week was highlighting their selection of them. Now, there are a few caveats: * No readily-available source of 1080p content other than computers (including MythTV, natch). Not cable, not over-the-air broadcasts, not videogames. It's likely HD-DVD and Blu-Ray (including the PlayStation 3) will carry 1080p content, though. * TVs that take 1080p input will sometimes restrict them to only a given input port while others only do 1080i. * Some models that claim to do true 1080p, like a certain Sceptre 37", will internally convert to 1080i then convert back to 1080p, or pull some other tricks. Others, like a Westinghouse 37", is said to be true 1080p all the way. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Only two HD compatible cards: HD-2000/3000?
Daniel Kristjansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > There are still two cards being sold now which work well: > * pcHDTV HD-3000 > * AirStar HD-5000 I have an AirStar HD-5000 and, I must say, I've had no luck whatsoever getting this card to work with MythTV-through-ATrpms on Fedora Core 4. All existing online documentation, including www.hd5000.com, seems to involve either a) backdating to an earlier kernel version that the current stock 2.6.14- I'm running now, and/or b) covers the earlier Air2PC cards. While the stock b2c2-flexcop-pci module autodetects and loads fine, with appropriate dmesg signals, none of the stock frontend modules (such as lgdt330x) does anything, and I sure wish there was a straightforward way to compile just an updated module and nothing else to modprobe for my purposes, the way that I was able to download the driver for my PCI Ethernet gigabit Ethernet card (a newer version of a driver with my stock kernel) and compile it on the fly. Yes, I could roll my own kernel; I've been doing it for ten years this January. I'd just rather not have to do it again this time around. > Hardware decoding for HDTV is pretty deficient at the moment, there is a > VIA motherboard chipset which some people have reported success with and > a nVidia 5xxx chipsets work ok with Chromakey OSD, while the nVidia 6xxx > and 7xxx chipsets are pretty sucky when it comes to HDTV playback. Do I understand you to say that my 6200 is actually *inferior* to a 5200 in decoding HDTV recordings for Myth? That's new to me. Heck, I'm not even sure there *are* any 5xxx-vintage cards that are also PCI Express-compatible, which I need in my situation. > You'll be much happier with HDTV playback if you get a processor running > at 2.8 Ghz or above and use software decoding. And indeed, for the record, I've had no trouble with non-XvMC HDTV decoding on my late model Pentium 4 3.0GHz uniprocessor frontend/backend; in fact, XvMC still causes noticeable flickering when OSD pops up. It's more than usable, and I'd be happy with it if I had to resort to it, but as many others have observed (especially back when, as I gather, Myth's XvMC support was much weaker than it is now) it's nice to not have to. -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] help with channel changing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > I know this sounds crazy but the TiVo does not use an IR Blaster. In > fact i= t will change the channel even if it's only connected to the > TV via coaxial cable. I don't see how and I'm still in awe. Maybe > it's magic? It's not magic; the TiVo, rather, has a very powerful IR blaster behind its center "eye." In fact, sometimes it can cause problems for those who do want to use the IR blaster-on-a-plug it comes with to change channels, causing them to build "forts" around the blaster to protect it from stray IR signals. Me, I'm glad that MythTV supports FireWire changing; believe me, I don't miss the IR blaster days! -- Yeechang Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] remotes (yet AGAIN)
I love the buttons on the Hauppauge remote, but it's very unresponsive. Buttons have to be held down usually. Sometimes for 5 seconds or more. The receiver has to be at a certain angle to the remote, and that angle seems to change during the course of playback. *Very* poor range. Etc... my wife is highly annoyed, and I am too. I noticed the same during 2 months. Change your batteries and you will be happy. I use rechargable NiMH. I just charged them a few days ago. No luck. I don't have a Hauppauge remote, but I have tried running other remotes on rechargeable batteries, and a lot of them just won't, I guess due to the lower voltage that the rechargeables push out ... Stick a fresh set of Alkalines in the remote and try it again, you never know... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Google Maps && MythTV users?
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[mythtv-users] PVR 350 / fine tune frequencies
Hello all, Is there such a thing as fine tuning frequencies for a PVR 350? I've got a half dozen channels that seem to have extra static/noise through the Hauppage PVR 350. The channels look great when the cable is hooked up directly to the TV, but through the PVR 350 I get vertical bars on channel 58, and snow on channel 72 (and other channels to a lesser degree). The defect happens whether it is live TV or recorded. So, I'm wondering if I need to "fine tune" some of the frequencies or something. I'm using Fedora Core 4, atrpms, the PVR 350, and S-Video out on an nVidia 5200. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Matt ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC not working within Myth
> Hi Guys, > > I'm slowly fixing all the problems of my Myth setup, but I just can't > figure out my LIRC problem... > > Here's the issue: > > LIRCD seems to run on startup, but IRW won't work and a /sbin/service lircd > status comes back with "lircd dead but subsys locked" > > If I do a /sbin/modprobe lirc_i2c and then start the service manually, > everything looks good and irw shows me button presses like a madman... > After getting it to work, I start up my frontend and try using the remote > there- nothing happens. > > Here's my configuration: > > Athlon 2100 running Fedora Core 4 installed using Jarod's guide > PVR-150 using the new grey/black remote. > > I'm using the lircrc file for that remote listed on Jarod's page. It seems > to be complete and in the correct places, including a .lircrc file located > in the MYTHTV user's home folder. I've got the same problem. I've searched the archives without much luck. The only thing that gets close is a guy who said fixed the issue by updating his lirc-kmdl file. I'm using FC4-i386 and atrpms. I immediately tried to upgrade to see if there was a newer version available. Unfortunately I'm getting 404 errors for the stable branch of atrpms right now. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DVB-T PCI Cards
It's been talked about for a while, but myth (or more likely the dvb drivers) can't currently do this. DVB cards are cheap, buy three... works for me :) haven't had a clash since I did :) Hi I Have been reading on other sites about the possibility of recording/viewing more than one channel from a single DVB-T card if the channels are on the same Multiplex, my question before I go out and but a couple of Nova-T's is can mythtv do this? and is there a how-to? Thanks in advance Robb ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] I'm thinking of switching to windows :(
SixArm wrote: For my forth attempt I decided to go as clean as possible. 64Bit Gentoo. I want to take advantage of the Athlon's Quiet & Cool and from what I was under the assumption this is related to the 64bit distro? I was able to build all the device drivers except for the lirc stuff, but I'll sort that out after I can see some HD. If anyone's got a similar setup or some feed back I'd really appreciate it. My next step is to toss the HD3000 into the box of parts in the basement and work on a windows solution. I really rather not do this. I seem to only get static from the cards, and it's hard to tell which device is associated with each card. Here's some troubleshooting info from my current Gentoo setup: mythtv ~ # uname -a Linux mythtv 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 #5 SMP Sat Nov 26 20:44:25 PST 2005 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux ivtv0: Failed to load module tveeprom ivtv0: Failed to load module tuner ivtv0: Failed to load module saa7115 ivtv0: Failed to load module saa7127 ivtv0: Failed to load module msp3400 ivtv0: Failed to load module tda9887 Any feedback would be appreciated. Cheers, -sixarm I had am running similar hardware (same MB and a 3000+ on 64 bit gentoo linux) and had this similar problem. If I recall correctly it is some kind of conflict between the ivtv modules and the kernel ones. I think I just moved/symlinked both places to the same directory. I can't get into my box now, so I am unable to check. Do a find for those files and you will probably find 2 copies. Lee ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Stuttering audio on live TV with SVN
I just checked --- I'm also running ivtv 0.4.0. I've been tracking svn for some time now. At some point I also had stuttering on live tv and very high cpu load, but upgrading my ivtv to 0.4.0 fixed the problem. Unfortunately, you're already running that version, so that isn't the problem... Still, maybe this is worth mentioning: When I had the same problem, before I upgraded to ivtv 0.4.0, I noticed that syslogd and klogd were consuming all the cpu. This made recordings somewhat unreliable and live tv hard to watch. I could kill the klogd process and things would run better, but things were still unreliable overall. Anyway, it sounds like your problem is a different one. I am not on the very latest svn right now (I up to 8038), so maybe this is something very recent?... Peter On 11/29/05, Mike Frisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 03:35:02PM -0500, Peter Lee wrote:>Hmm.. strange. I'm also running 0.4.0 (or maybe it is 0.4.1, I need to>check).I could try upgrading (assuming it doesn't break my working 0.18.1installation).>Do recordings work OK? Is the cpu load high during live tv? What svn>version are you running? Maybe this is something recent? I am running>8038.I haven't tried recording, but I will do so tonight. My CPU load is fairly high. Do you think that the SVN version willcause additional CPU load due to the debug binaries (assuming the SVNbuild environment builds debug by default) Stupidly, I never thought of this...I had the same issue with 7664 but am trying to run the latest SVN now.Mike.___mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://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] Stuttering audio on live TV with SVN
Hmm.. strange. I'm also running 0.4.0 (or maybe it is 0.4.1, I need to check). Do recordings work OK? Is the cpu load high during live tv? What svn version are you running? Maybe this is something recent? I am running 8038. Peter On 11/29/05, Mike Frisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 03:11:30PM -0500, Peter Lee wrote:>What version of the ivtv driver are you using? I think svn now really>needs a fairly up-to-date driver. If, for example, you are still running >something like ivtv 0.1.9, then things like live tv probably won't work>well.>>At least that's my experience.Thanks for the reply, Peter.I am running 0.4.0 on a 2.6.13.4 kernel.I realize 0.5.0 exists, but thought I read somewhere that it was justre-based 0.4.0 for an updated video4linux layer.I can run 0.18.1 without problem, but as soon as I change binaries to the SVN version, it starts stuttering.Any suggestions where I can start debugging?mike.___mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://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] Stuttering audio on live TV with SVN
Hi, Mike. What version of the ivtv driver are you using? I think svn now really needs a fairly up-to-date driver. If, for example, you are still running something like ivtv 0.1.9, then things like live tv probably won't work well. At least that's my experience. Peter On 11/29/05, Mike Frisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is anybody else having this problem with the SVN version of MythTV?18.1 works fine, SVN stutters badly when viewing live TV.I am not even sure where to start debugging.___ mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://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] adding cards to an existing system
** install the cards one at a time ** i) get the cards working properly outside of MythTV iii) once working, enter mythtvsetup and add the new card iii) configure the new video source if you need to, and connect to new card's input(s) iv) configure listings for the new video source v) configure channel/card priorities for the new card Back up your database before starting anything, and take Mercury's advice and check the archives for any issues relevant to your particular cards. Or you can do what I did... Power down the box, install the new card, power up the box. The box goes straight into myth-setup, add the card, assign the channel list. Start up Myth and presto everything worked great :) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Dvico FUSIONHDTV5 USB
http://www.tvtechnology.com/dlrf/one.php?id=1082 This new tuner just came out. Looks interesting and can be had for $150 or so. Recieves both HDTV ATSC, QAM and NTSC signals. Anyone know anything more about this? Lee ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Yet Another New OSD: Gray-OSD
I'll second (or is it third) that... I also like it with the rounded corners, but I'd ditch the icons for this particular OSD. As stated, those are nice, but better used somewhere else (also hinting at another OSD). Wink. On 11/26/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greg Estabrooks wrote: http://www.pixelgirlpresents.com/icons.php?cat=pc Thanks for the links! Well now I'm still trying to decide "plain" info box like this: http://www.phaze.org/mythtv/osd/newgreyosd14.jpg Or one with a colourful icon like these: http://www.phaze.org/mythtv/osd/newgreyosd16.jpg http://www.phaze.org/mythtv/osd/newgreyosd15.jpg IMHO the plain fits well with the "plain, simple, gray" design of the OSD. Not that the icons wouldn't be good for another OSD... (hint, hint ;) Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth R5A26
Michael T. Dean wrote:
Lee wrote:
My humble apologies for including a SVN version in R5A22. It was a
mistake. This has been rectified alnog with a few other small fixes.
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6944
http://www.mysettopbox.tv/CHANGELOG.txt
Been wondering if I should post this or not, so I'm posting with the
hope that perhaps it's possible to "head off some problems at the
pass." Should someone mention the
a) danger,
b) issues, or
c) proper approach (including downgrading the DB Schema)
of "upgrading" from R5A22 to R5A26? (Option c being the ideal.)
Going from anything before R5A22 to R5A26 isn't a problem, but those
users who upgraded to R5A22 have a database version (somewhere at or
after 1095) greater than that expected by R5A26 (probably 1083) and
are likely to have problems with an upgrade to R5A26.
OK... for the sake of argument, lets say I wiped my R5A22 install and
installed R5A26 from scratch... but then restored the mythconverg
database from A22 into my A26 install... Am I screwed?
The restore probably won't work right. You'll have to edit the
restore script to deal with things like basename and progstart and
progend columns in the recorded table (although it's possible MySQL
will "do its best with what it's got"). Probably many other similar
issues.
Then, once you get it working, you'll need to rename any recordings
that use the new filename format (i.e. chanid_starttime.{nuv,mpg}) to
the old filename format (i.e. chanid_starttime_endtime.nuv).
And then you'd have to take care of any other issues that I haven't
anticipated...
So, in all, it's probably more work than it's worth.
It may well be more trouble... but hey that's were I am right now :/
The db version is indeed 1095... but all the old recordings are .NUV
files so no renaming needed...
MySQL reload seemed to have worked OK... and everything seems to be OK
the moment... (aside from my remote but I think that's a Knoppmyth
customisation problem...)
So I guess I may be OK until it's time to upgrade?
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Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth R5A26
My humble apologies for including a SVN version in R5A22. It was a mistake. This has been rectified alnog with a few other small fixes. http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6944 http://www.mysettopbox.tv/CHANGELOG.txt Been wondering if I should post this or not, so I'm posting with the hope that perhaps it's possible to "head off some problems at the pass." Should someone mention the a) danger, b) issues, or c) proper approach (including downgrading the DB Schema) of "upgrading" from R5A22 to R5A26? (Option c being the ideal.) Going from anything before R5A22 to R5A26 isn't a problem, but those users who upgraded to R5A22 have a database version (somewhere at or after 1095) greater than that expected by R5A26 (probably 1083) and are likely to have problems with an upgrade to R5A26. OK... for the sake of argument, lets say I wiped my R5A22 install and installed R5A26 from scratch... but then restored the mythconverg database from A22 into my A26 install... Am I screwed? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Unused processes?
169 ?S 0:00 [jfsIO] 170 ?S 0:00 [jfsCommit] 171 ?S 0:00 [jfsSync] 172 ?S< 0:00 [xfslogd/0] 173 ?S< 0:00 [xfsdatad/0] 174 ?S 0:00 [xfsbufd] I've just run a PS looking thru what's running and noticed the above... Given that I run ext2/3 and not JFS or XFS, should these processing be running? Also, why are six copies of Apache running? And six consoles? I'm running KnoppMyth A26 on a Athlon XP, NF7 Nforce mobo, 512MB ram, 2x Avermedia 771 DVB-T. Cheers, Lee ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nonlinear 16:9 stretch?
On 11/21/05, Robert Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 21 November 2005 02:14 pm, Cory Papenfuss wrote:> > Currently I use the built in stretch mode on my TV to stretch 4:3 to> > 16:9. It does a nonlinear stretch so the edges of the picture are > > stretched more than the middle. Windows MCE has this feature too.> >> > Before I burn an evening mucking with a working X config, i'd like to> > know if MythTV do this also, or does it stretch the entire picture > > evenly?>> I think I remember this thread coming up before. I really doubt> that you will find anything from within the X config that will allow you> to do that. Modelines are linear. Unless the specific video card driver > has a special mode for it (non that I'm aware of do), you're screwed.>> That should probably be done at the application (i.e. mythtv)> level. I don't think anyone has done it yet.> > -CoryWhy would you want this? Is there a screen shot somewhere showing whythis is useful? I'm just curious... I'm one of the people who started a thread on this about a year and a half ago. I have this feature on my Panasonic plasma display and *love* it. Basically, for 4:3 content, the picture is stretched to fill the 16:9 display but the middle 50% or so of the image is not stretched (much). Since many (most) programs have most of the action in the middle 50% of the image, this means that the main part of the image appears largely unadulterated, and yet the full 16:9 panorama effect is produced. Note that for sports, like hockey and football and especially auto racing, I turn this feature off because those programs often do make use of the entire image. Now the reason I would like MythTV or Linux/nVidia to support this is that my plasma monitor only supports this special mode in svideo or component inputs. The vga input only supports 16:9 linear stretch. At one time I wanted to use the vga input, and hence my question about whether mythtv or linux might support this. When this was discussed last year, I think people were generally saying that this would be computationally too expensive to implement in software, and so the matter was dropped. But I still think it is a great feature, and that there would be value in having it somehow. On the other hand, I've since gone with a vga-to-component adapter, so the issue no longer applies in my case. But if I ever buy a new 16:9 display that doesn't support this mode, then I would of course be interested in this again. Peter ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] TivoToGo
Hi. Just ran across the following article of possible interest. Perhaps there are Tivo developers looking at the MythTV feature set?... http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/personal_technology/13223039.htm Peter ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How to record LiveTV?
and then they go buy a Tivo because if your watching live tv and hit record it automatically sets a manual record for the program your watching using the buffer to make sure you get the whole thing. Probably one of the biggest features myth is missing. I'm sure it is coming... Been in SVN for over a week now, actually. Another nail in the Tivo's coffin :) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT - Power Control
Can anyone think of a simple device to buy that connects to a computer that allows you to turn off and on a 115V device? An obvious Myth application would be to control a pc monitor with a fixed on off switch, or perhaps a fixed audio amplifier. Of course, I'm actually tentatively planning to stick it on my satellite modem's connector and let a cron job force reset the thing every night so, hopefully, it stays stable the rest of the time. Actually for my purpose, a little power timer like at a hardware store would likely work. I do have an eventual goal to control an audio amplifier's power from a linux console though.. [I do realise I could build something, but I'd rather just find a stock solution.] For controlling one item, you're better off with a cheap mechanical time switch... If you're going to be controlling a load of things, X10 Appliance Modules will be what you're after. See X10.COM for details... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New mythtv theme
...now I have to redo my "Please Wait" wallpaper that shows while the frontend is loading or reloading :) Is that available ? With installation instructions? :) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-150 and IRBlaster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the link. I have followed it but I cant seem to get anything out of Step 8. Everything up to this step seems to have worked but when I run this step I dont seem to be getting anything out of the IRBlaster. I tried the digital camera trick as well and I didnt see anything either. When I try to run another irsend command after the first one I get the following error: ./irsend: could not connect to socket ./irsend: Connection refused Anyone have any ideas. Dave Hmm I had this problem at some point, not sure how I fixed it. Make sure lircd is loaded at startup and make sure you are using the right device in the send script. I know on Gentoo it ended up being /dev/lirc/0 and not /dev/lirc0. Also check to make sure that lirc_i2c is not loading, I would also check the comments on that same page (and all other posts for the irblaster) and see if someone else asked the same question. Mark is very good at answering questions people have on his blog and there may be some insight there. Lee ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] question about PVR-150 and PVR-150 MCE in same backend
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Different take: Can two retail 150s with IR Blasters be used within Myth (two cable boxes)? Just checking, but I doubt I want to pay for another cable box since much of what we watch is on analog anyway. I'm pretty sure I saw that this was NOT possible in Windows, and saw some stuff in the archives LIRC can do that now. I'm fairly certain myth doesn't care which card the ir blaster is on as long as the channel change script set in myth options points to the proper lirc device. So yes it could be done and should be pretty easy to setup. Lee ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 150 Remote
Daniel Agar wrote: I'm using Fedora core 4 with atrpms and have everything up and working with my pvr 150 but occasionally the remote stops responding and after a reboot only the /dev/lircd device is created but not the required /dev/lirc and /dev/lirc0. I've tried recreating these device files manually and checking udev settings but everything seems to be fine. Some googling revealed problems with the IR locking up on this card but I haven't found any firm solution. So I was wondering if a lot of other PVR 150 users are experiencing this issue and what, if any solutions have been found. Thanks http://www.blushingpenguin.com/mark/blog/?m=200510 this fixed it for me on Gentoo. Seems to be succesful for a lot of people. Lee ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-150 and IRBlaster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone been successful in getting the onboard IRBlaster of a PVR150 to work with directtv using lirc or some other program? Any help would be appreciated I am pulling my hair out over this one. I used this page here to get it up and working: http://www.blushingpenguin.com/mark/blog/?m=200510 Check a few posts back to as there is more information on how to find the code for your DirectTV box. Lee ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OTA HD Antennas??
Quoting A JM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: What's the opinion on AntennasDirect? Are they reputable and trustworthy? I'm thinking of going with the DB4 HDTV now that I've seen that it mirrors the Channel Master bt is just a bit smaller. Thanks for all the input. AJM, I've only ordered once from them (2 DB4's). Everything went through fine. The order was delivered within a week. -lee ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OTA HD Antennas??
Quoting Doug Larrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Are they all UHF or are some in VHF? If you can get away with a UHF-only antenna they're much smaller. I have one of these: http://www.antennasdirect.com/42XG_television_antenna.html and it works well for me about 25 miles west of the Boston stations. I did *not* have as good luck with the Radio Shack version of this. You might also consider something like http://www.antennasdirect.com/DB4_HDTV_antenna.html which is less directional and therefore easier to aim. I'm using this antenna(DB4_HDTV) with exceptional results. Luckily all my channels are coming from the same direction within a 20 degree spread. I just have the antenna leaning against the wall in my office hooked up to a HD3000 (haven't had time to monkey around the attic yet) and it picks up the channels I want. Pretty good for a descent price$$. -lee ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Black frame border around picture
Dan Wilga wrote: At 1:30 PM -0500 11/7/05, Lee Koloszyc wrote: This is still an open bug, I think the last driver it worked in was 8.14.13. It is not fixed as of 8.18.8 http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=216 You can vote for it there. Hoepfully it is fixed next go round. Considering this site is the "unofficial Bugzilla for the ATi Linux driver", does ATI even read it? If past performance is any indication, I doubt it. From what I have read on the Rage3d forums they actually look at it now and the people there seem to believe that ATI has started to "listen". I guess time will tell though:) It is a shame because I really like ATI cards, I just wish the Linux support was better. Lee ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] UK schedules - Sky Three vs. Sky Travel ?
jonny Linux wrote: On my Mythbox there is no S3, just did a rescan, but ST is showing Paul McKenna... Ah, so ST is playing S3's schedule, well no, as by Saturday, it seems to have drifted back to the ST schedule and hence doesn't list the new(ish) season of 24... Hi Lee, Sky Three has replaced Sky Travel on Freeview only. Sky Travel still continues on Satelite, so thats why Radio Times still has it on the website. Sky haven't got round to renaming channel 11 "Sky Three" yet, but it is definitely Sky Three. Are you using Radio Times data on your mythbox or are you using the DVB listings? The DVB listings seem to be blank after Wednesday, on both mythtv and on my standalone Freeview box - I'm thinking of changing to the Radio Times listings for it. But I've just looked on the Radio Times website, and Sky Three definitely shows 24 at 9pm on both Saturday 12th November and 19th November. During the day Sky Three mainly shows the sort of programmes Sky Travel used to - but then changes in the evening. I'm using the RT listings on my Mythbox, but looking at the RT website early this morning, both S3 and ST were both listed under Freeview... On Myth's Saturday listings there are no 24's... Guess I'll keep an eye on it over the next few days... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] UK schedules - Sky Three vs. Sky Travel ?
Does anyone know what's going on with the replacement of Sky Travel by Sky Three? Looking on the Freeview website, it seems to infer that S3 has replaced ST, as S3 is listed as being on channel 11, the channel ST was on. So far so good. On the RadioTimes website, the source most UK types use for data, it lists S3 and ST... S3 is showing Paul McKenna and ST is showing Luton Airport... On my Mythbox there is no S3, just did a rescan, but ST is showing Paul McKenna... Ah, so ST is playing S3's schedule, well no, as by Saturday, it seems to have drifted back to the ST schedule and hence doesn't list the new(ish) season of 24... Any ideas? Lee ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Black frame border around picture
Dan Wilga wrote: Well, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with this problem. These adjustments seem to have completely stopped working in the ATI proprietary driver released mid-October. There is a new version now on the web site which I haven't tried yet. The README doesn't mention this problem, but perhaps it has been fixed anyway. I'll try it tonight. This is still an open bug, I think the last driver it worked in was 8.14.13. It is not fixed as of 8.18.8 http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=216 You can vote for it there. Hoepfully it is fixed next go round. Lee ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] expansion for my system
I'm planning some expansion for my system. How are multiple DVB cards handled on the audio front? I presume an audio card with multiple inputs is required (what sort of input? - I am currently using the onboard cd-in) - which sound cards(s) are recommended? With DVB, the audio is part of the received mpeg data stream, it comes out of the DVB card and gets dumped straight to disk. No messing about with compressing etc. You only need one audio card that's the one that outputs the sound that you listen to. I have two DVB-T cards in my Mythbox, and only the onboard Nforce audio, thats connected via a 3.5mm jack to the AV amp... Works like a champ! Lee ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv to tivo ty
After this friday I'm going to have 3 hacked Directv tivo's with out service. I'm curious if anyone has ever been successful converting mythtv recordings to TY files that can be inserted onto the tivo. I'm going to start looking into it. Figured I'd announce it here to see if anyone else has any interest. Tivo recordings are just slightly wonky mpeg2 files (at least thats what Tytool seems to generate). However, I'm pretty sure that none of the tools allow video to be put back onto the Tivo, due to the encrypted filing systems used. Just what the Myth recordsings on your Mythbox... Well I found patches to mplex that enable it to generate ty files. Seems people are having success with ripped dvds. the tivo tool mfs_ftp allows you to extract and insert ty streams. I've got mostly HD streams, so I'm going to have to down convert the content and give it a shot. RIght now I can't afford frontends for each place I have a tivo, so I'm hoping to do this as a stopgap. Cool. Seems things are moving on in Tivoland too. Let us know how you get on! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
