Re: [mythtv-users] OT: DVB/HDTV/Analog tuner cards
CC is teletext for hearing impaired. Not that I'm hearing impaired, it's just my preference. Even when watching DVDs, I like to have the subtitles on. In myth, the command to turn on CC is 'c' appropriately enough. Leo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, are the pcHDTV or DVB cards only for HD/Digital television or could I use it on my analog cable tv signal as well? I plan to go to HDTV pretty soon and maybe even upgrade to digital cable for the HD cable stations. I just don?t plan to do it right now. I?m just interested in the best quality picture I can get with mpeg2 encoding and closed captioning from my analog cable signal. Is it possible to do that with DVB or pcHDTV cards? Just wanted to comment/clarify something here. DVB cards (in my case DVB-T) do not just do HD TV, They also do standard definition, SD. In fact, in Australia, it's mostly all SD, as HD is just getting going. The 720x576 mpeg that I get from SD is very good IMHO. You mention using DVB for your analog cable signal, but DVB is for Digital Video. My DVB card will not receive analog signals. As for closed captioning - if you can explain what it is and how to test it, I could try it out for you ___ 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] problems with bt878 capture mode
antec wrote: The other question Ive got, and this is a bit of a newbie question is: why doesnt the 'optical disk' menu have a watch avi option? I mean, how do you watch avi's that are burnt to disc? You want the MythVideo plugin which allows you to play transcoded video using xine or mplayer. Best regards, Leo Przybylski ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: DVB/HDTV/Analog tuner cards
That HT is pretty nice. Congratulations on your hard work. Best regards, Leo Przybylski Scott wrote: On Jul 15, 2005, at 11:09 AM, Leo Przybylski wrote: CC is teletext for hearing impaired. Not that I'm hearing impaired, it's just my preference. Even when watching DVDs, I like to have the subtitles on. In myth, the command to turn on CC is 'c' appropriately enough. As for closed captioning - if you can explain what it is and how to test it, I could try it out for you I would be interested to know if CC were available for mpeg2 streams recorded with the HD3000 card as well I do know that when watching shows via my Samsung HDTV tuner from OTA sources I can see CC text when it is available. In other words, I know for sure that CC text is transmitted in the HDTV OTA signal. Not all programs are closed captioned. The best bet are main stream shows like Late Night or popular dramas (ER, Lost, House, etc) Xine, mplayer, and the internal MythTV video player all decode CC data. As Leo said, for the internal MythTV player the option is 'c' to enable or disable it. For mplayer the option is -subcc and for xine there config file option is subtitles.closedcaption.enabled. I am hearing impaired and addicted to movies :) For me MythTV is one component in the home theater I set up last year and I plan to add the ability to record HDTV shows via a HD3000 adapter soon. For now, MythTV mainly serves as a front end for DVD playback where I let xine handled the CC decoding. The main reasons for using a HTPC to handle DVD playback are to improve picture quality (very noticeable improvement) and handle CC decoding since projectors do not decode CC data. For the curious, photos of my small HT are at http://donpoo.net/ gallery/ht -- Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: BlueCame1 ___ 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] Epia 600 or 800 as backend?
I'm using EPIA-MII12000 for backend and frontend. I use a PVR-250 to defer mpeg encoding though. I tried using an analog WinTV PCI card, but the encoding was too much for that. So if you're going to use USB or PCI devices, first make sure they support hardware mpeg-encoding. I highly recommend the WinTV PVR cards. I replaced my analog card with one in about 5 minutes including all the software setup. Transcoding will probably be a long and painful process for an EPIA. EPIA has a fanless MS 8000 which is going to run a little faster than the 6000, but if you are hardware mpeg-encoding/decoding, I don't see much point in it. You could probably work fine with a 6000. IMHO I think EPIA would make a much better frontend. Especially with Linux BIOS and a 4 GB compact flash card. You can avoid a hard drive entirely. EPIA MII6000 has a compact flash card reader. You can boot from it if you install a linux bios. Of course, you can also do a PXE boot, but that wastes valuable space replicating an OS on a hard drive you are probably going to use for saving your mpeg content to. It is also going to further consume RW I/O bandwidth to that disk. The advantages of not having a hard drive in your frontend are obvious. Your frontend can run not only fanless, but super cool without a hard drive generating heat. I don't know if anyone on here had much luck with the unichrome drivers, but mine are not working well at all. I don't even use XvMC for the mpeg decoding anymore. I just use libmpeg2 and my cpu has not suffered much from it. The recent posts of the pundit sound pretty good to me if you're thinking of going small, quiet and more powerful than an EPIA. For the cost of an EPIA, you could get a pundit barebone which is case and motherboard. Hope this helps you make a decision. Best regards, Leo Przybylski Stephan Krings wrote: Hi, I'd like to build a mythbackend system, which is based on an Epia system with 600 or 800 Mhz preferably without any fan. It should run almost noiseless 24/7 and only needs to do the backend job, that is recording 1 or 2 DVB streams from USB or PCI devices and hosting the MySQL db. All displaying and decoding will be done on another, faster system. Before I get out buying the hardware I'd like to clarify some things. - Is such a configuration possible? Will the Epia hardware be fast enough for the job? - Is it possible to do commflagging and transcoding on another host? Preferably the frontend, which scheduled the recording job? I guess the described backend system will be heavily underpowered to fullfil that task. - Any specific hardware recommendations? Thanks for your attention, Stephan ___ 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] Epia 600 or 800 as backend?
Nice!! I'd better check that out. Thanks, Leo George Nassas wrote: On 14-Jul-05, at 11:32 AM, Leo Przybylski wrote: I don't know if anyone on here had much luck with the unichrome drivers, but mine are not working well at all. I don't even use XvMC for the mpeg decoding anymore. I just use libmpeg2 and my cpu has not suffered much from it. Sure, lots of people. I started with xorg 6.8.2 and overlayed the latest cvs from unichrome.sf.net instructions are on the project site. I believe the unichrome cvs was recently merged with the xorg source so the next xorg will have excellent support unichrome out of the box. Also, the vld support in myth iteself it excellent. As always YMMV but unichrome has been in a good place for at least six months now. - George ___ 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] OT: DVB/HDTV/Analog tuner cards
Hello all, I’ve been camping out on this list just listening what people are saying about their various uses/configurations of mythtv. There is a really huge diversity of configurations. Probably one of the best things about mythtv is this displayed versatility. I’ve been struggling with my own configurations and I’ve tried a few, but still a little behind the curve compared to many of you. I hope you could shed a little light for me. Forgive me for the dumb questions. I’ve tried searching for answers, but I can’t really find anything other than answers for troubleshooting technical issues. Right now, I am using MythTV on EPIA MII12000 with a WinTV-PVR 250. It’s working great for me except I don’t have closed-captioning Argh! What a pain. I noticed nobody really talks about CC on the list much. Maybe no one uses it except for me. It’s a really huge deal for me though. I don’t think I’m hard of hearing, but I find I like to read the conversations more since a lot of the “overacting” on television anymore makes it tough to understand dialogue. Am I going to find a Mpeg2-encoding tv tuner that supports closed captioning out there? I’ve almost reserved myself to going back to my cheap analog tuner and pumping my system up. I found that AMD now makes a low power 64-bit processor “Turion.” It’s like a low power Athlon 64. Goes up to 2 Ghz which should be sufficient for encoding/decoding mpeg2 realtime. I don’t want to use the analog card if I can help it though. Last time I tried it, I couldn’t get sound out of live tv. Must have been something to do with my btaudio driver and ALSA. Anyway, I gave up and that’s how I ended up with the PVR-250. It was just too good at simplifying things for me. I’ve noticed though that there are a whole slew of digital cards that people are talking about using. I don’t know much about them though. I noticed people like to use pcHDTV or DVB cards. I looked at the NEXUS and pcHDTV cards and I just couldn’t figure out if they supported closed captioning well. Does anyone know if they support closed captioning? Also, are the pcHDTV or DVB cards only for HD/Digital television or could I use it on my analog cable tv signal as well? I plan to go to HDTV pretty soon and maybe even upgrade to digital cable for the HD cable stations. I just don’t plan to do it right now. I’m just interested in the best quality picture I can get with mpeg2 encoding and closed captioning from my analog cable signal. Is it possible to do that with DVB or pcHDTV cards? Thanks much for your input, Leo Przybylski ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] OT: DVB/HDTV/Analog tuner cards
Hello all, I’ve been camping out on this list just listening what people are saying about their various uses/configurations of mythtv. There is a really huge diversity of configurations. Probably one of the best things about mythtv is this displayed versatility. I’ve been struggling with my own configurations and I’ve tried a few, but still a little behind the curve compared to many of you. I hope you could shed a little light for me. Forgive me for the dumb questions. I’ve tried searching for answers, but I can’t really find anything other than answers for troubleshooting technical issues. Right now, I am using MythTV on EPIA MII12000 with a WinTV-PVR 250. It’s working great for me except I don’t have closed-captioning Argh! What a pain. I noticed nobody really talks about CC on the list much. Maybe no one uses it except for me. It’s a really huge deal for me though. I don’t think I’m hard of hearing, but I find I like to read the conversations more since a lot of the “overacting” on television anymore makes it tough to understand dialogue. Am I going to find a Mpeg2-encoding tv tuner that supports closed captioning out there? I’ve almost reserved myself to going back to my cheap analog tuner and pumping my system up. I found that AMD now makes a low power 64-bit processor “Turion.” It’s like a low power Athlon 64. Goes up to 2 Ghz which should be sufficient for encoding/decoding mpeg2 realtime. I don’t want to use the analog card if I can help it though. Last time I tried it, I couldn’t get sound out of live tv. Must have been something to do with my btaudio driver and ALSA. Anyway, I gave up and that’s how I ended up with the PVR-250. It was just too good at simplifying things for me. I’ve noticed though that there are a whole slew of digital cards that people are talking about using. I don’t know much about them though. I noticed people like to use pcHDTV or DVB cards. I looked at the NEXUS and pcHDTV cards and I just couldn’t figure out if they supported closed captioning well. Does anyone know if they support closed captioning? Also, are the pcHDTV or DVB cards only for HD/Digital television or could I use it on my analog cable tv signal as well? I plan to go to HDTV pretty soon and maybe even upgrade to digital cable for the HD cable stations. I just don’t plan to do it right now. I’m just interested in the best quality picture I can get with mpeg2 encoding and closed captioning from my analog cable signal. Is it possible to do that with DVB or pcHDTV cards? Thanks much for your input, Leo Przybylski ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] PVR-250 records only one channel
Hello, I believe I saw a thread on this earlier, but I can't seem to find it. If anyone has a link to the thread from the archives, that would be helpful. My problem is that when I watch LiveTV with MythTv 0.18 using my PVR-250, it only plays for about 2 seconds and then hangs and kicks out. I see the following in my mythbackend output: 2005-05-04 21:48:01.391 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2005-05-04 21:48:10.967 joined null string in WriteStringList 2005-05-04 21:48:31.243 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None I am able to schedule a recording; however, no matter what station I choose using the EPG, it only records channel 4. Very unusual to me. Does anyone have any ideas? BTW, yes. I got tired of my bt878 card and am now on pvr-250. I'm happy that sound finally works. If only I could watch the channel I want for longer than 2 seconds. Leo Przybylski ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 records only one channel
All, I figured out why it would only play for a few seconds. I needed to enable libmpeg2 decoding. Still having the other problem though. I can only watch channel 4.. Even with LiveTV (now that I have it working.) Leo Przybylski Leo Przybylski wrote: Hello, I believe I saw a thread on this earlier, but I can't seem to find it. If anyone has a link to the thread from the archives, that would be helpful. My problem is that when I watch LiveTV with MythTv 0.18 using my PVR-250, it only plays for about 2 seconds and then hangs and kicks out. I see the following in my mythbackend output: 2005-05-04 21:48:01.391 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2005-05-04 21:48:10.967 joined null string in WriteStringList 2005-05-04 21:48:31.243 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None I am able to schedule a recording; however, no matter what station I choose using the EPG, it only records channel 4. Very unusual to me. Does anyone have any ideas? BTW, yes. I got tired of my bt878 card and am now on pvr-250. I'm happy that sound finally works. If only I could watch the channel I want for longer than 2 seconds. Leo Przybylski ___ 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] Re: undefined reference to `ScreenSaverX11::ScreenSaverX11[in-charge]()' during build of mythtv-0.18
No, sorry. I'm still trying. Leo Przybylski Richard Holgate wrote: Hi, Just wondering if you got anywhere with this error. I've hit the same problem today, can't seem to figure it out. FYI I'm using gentoo linux, trying to compile mythtv 0.18 for use with directfb. I have previously been able to compile 0.18 for use with X11, without getting this error, but now am stuck. Richard - Hello all, I've been working with mythtv now for awhile. Never had any real problems. Now I'm trying to install 0.18 onto a new system. I am running into linking errors below. Does anyone know much about this? I can't find anything anywhere on this. - make[2]: Nothing to be done for `first'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/BUILD/mythtv-0.18/filters/onefield' cd bobdeint make -f Makefile make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/BUILD/mythtv-0.18/filters/bobdeint' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `first'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/BUILD/mythtv-0.18/filters/bobdeint' make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/BUILD/mythtv-0.18/filters' cd programs make -f Makefile make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/BUILD/mythtv-0.18/programs' cd mythepg make -f Makefile make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/BUILD/mythtv-0.18/programs/mythepg' g++ -o mythepg main.o -L/usr/share/qt3/lib -L../../libs/libmyth -L../../libs/libmythtv -L../../libs/libavcodec -L../../libs/libavformat -lmythtv-0.18 -lmythavformat-0.18 -lmythavcodec-0.18 -lmyth-0.18 -lfreetype -lmp3lame -lasound -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lqt-mt -lXext -lX11 -lm -lpthread ../../libs/libmyth/libmyth-0.18.so: undefined reference to `ScreenSaverX11::ScreenSaverX11[in-charge]()' --- Here's some other information: hezekiah:/usr/src/BUILD/mythtv-0.18# g++ -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.5/specs Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.3 --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=xlib --enable-objc-gc i486-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-5) hezekiah:/usr/src/BUILD/mythtv-0.18# uname -a Linux hezekiah 2.6.8 #6 Wed Mar 16 13:47:44 MST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux Thanks much if anyone can help, Leo Przybylski ___ 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] No sound in mythtv, but other applications use sound fine
Kendric Beachey wrote: I had pretty much the same problem recently. A good friend gave me this advice: You need to look into using the dmix functionality of ALSA instead of the deprecated (on 2.6 kernels) OSS sound platform. Look at http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo to see about setting up an .asoundrc. Mostly you download the one he provides and probably change the device parts inside it to correspond to your digital output. Also uncomment the appropriate line to pick what you want as default. Then type this in as the sound device in myth ALSA:mixed-analog. I did this and used the appropriate tests to make sure I didn't mess anything up inadvertantly. I did: % aplay -D mixed-analog $HOME/english.au I was able to hear it and assumed it worked, but when I use ALSA:mixed-analog with MythTV, I still get no sound when playing back recordings or watching live tv. To use Myth's volume control with ALSA it's as simple as putting mixed-analog (as opposed to ALSA:mixed-analog in the sound device part) in the mixer device setting. I left Master in the control part. I tried to use external mixer settings and doing this. Neither seemed to help my situation. In /etc/mplayer.conf, set ao=alsa:device=mixed-analog If you use arts in KDE (which is the default), tell it to use the mixed-analog too. Go into sound system settings, force it to use ALSA, and override the device location and put mixed-analog in there. Then go ahead and play some Metallica in noatun or Juk while you watch TV or a recording. Listen the sounds mix! Hope this helps. Thanks much for the input. I believe it set me in the right path. I hope I can work this out soon. So frustrating. If anytone else can help, I'd greatly appreciate it. Leo Przybylski ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] No sound in mythtv, but other applications use sound fine
Once in awhile, I'll notice my backend output shows: Can't read vbi data Would this be harmful to recording? Leo Przybylski Kendric Beachey wrote: I had pretty much the same problem recently. A good friend gave me this advice: You need to look into using the dmix functionality of ALSA instead of the deprecated (on 2.6 kernels) OSS sound platform. Look at http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo to see about setting up an .asoundrc. Mostly you download the one he provides and probably change the device parts inside it to correspond to your digital output. Also uncomment the appropriate line to pick what you want as default. Then type this in as the sound device in myth ALSA:mixed-analog. To use Myth's volume control with ALSA it's as simple as putting mixed-analog (as opposed to ALSA:mixed-analog in the sound device part) in the mixer device setting. I left Master in the control part. In /etc/mplayer.conf, set ao=alsa:device=mixed-analog If you use arts in KDE (which is the default), tell it to use the mixed-analog too. Go into sound system settings, force it to use ALSA, and override the device location and put mixed-analog in there. Then go ahead and play some Metallica in noatun or Juk while you watch TV or a recording. Listen the sounds mix! Hope this helps. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
