Re: [mythtv-users] Tivo as backend
alright well don't hold your breath. control freaks you guess? you can pretty much bet they will not be loosening their grip anytime soon. I agree it'd be nice to have an all in one every media type supported device. its a nice dream, for now. On Mar 28, 2005, at 9:24 PM, Griffon -- wrote: Well, personally I would love to have my HD Tivo integrate with Myth. That would give me 2 HD OTA and 2 HD Sat tuners able to do direct hard drive writes. If the TV recordings showed up directly in my MythTv with maybe little Tivo icons on them or something then the wife could hit everything in one place and never have to switch the TV input :). Personally I could a lot cool things with this idea at least as far as D*TV goes. I would hack my HD Tivo in a second if I thought I could have slick integration and truly centralize all my music vids and TV from one UI. One of the most frustrating things aboute D*TV is they make it point to keep any type of nice Tivo feature of upate as far away from their customers as possible (control freaks I guess). -Griffon On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:50:48 -0800, M. Barnabas Luntzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mar 28, 2005, at 7:31 PM, Rob Walker wrote: Has anyone figured out how to point their front end to a Tivo box? I was thinking that we could get a lot of the listings via the web interface, and then use the mplayer which can play the tmf files. thanks, rob huh? tivo is a closed system...I guess something might be possible with a modified series 1. But I can't for the life of me figure out why anybody with a mythtv system would want to do this. Did I miss something? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- -Griffon ___ 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] Tivo as backend
On Mar 28, 2005, at 7:31 PM, Rob Walker wrote: Has anyone figured out how to point their front end to a Tivo box? I was thinking that we could get a lot of the listings via the web interface, and then use the mplayer which can play the tmf files. thanks, rob huh? tivo is a closed system...I guess something might be possible with a modified series 1. But I can't for the life of me figure out why anybody with a mythtv system would want to do this. Did I miss something? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Two Different Backend systems talking together
Richard J. Sears wrote: Hey Everyone, I have a second house that I want to put MythTV into. I have a T1 at my first house and a 3MB dsl line in the other house. I wanted to share programs and music and stuff between the sites without having to have cable, the music files, etc in both places. Is there any way for one complete Myth system to talk to another and transfer the requested movies or music in the background fr later viewing..? Does someone have a good way to set this up..? ** Richard J. Sears how about just have rsync run out of cron and move things incrementally to sync one /video (or wherever you keep your nuvs) to the other machine? you'd have to get a little fancier to sync the mysql databases but not much...dump db, move text file, import new sql file. the crunch would be moving the gigs and gigs of nuv files. could all be scripted quite trivially. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv-xbox
do you use an xbox DVD remote control with these and if so, does it work in mplayer? trying to get to the bottom of this problem I've been having... thanks On Mar 18, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Shaun Bryant wrote: I am running it on 4 Xboxes here without problem. You just need to make sure you run an apt-get update & apt-get install mythfrontend anytime you update the backend server(s). Shaun -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Loron Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 11:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv-xbox Acutally there's a 0.4.5 beta on there from the end of October. I believe that works with 0.17. -Pete Listman wrote: Is the mythtv-xbox still being worked on? The latest file on http://bit.blkbk.com/ is mythtv-xbox.0.4.4.tar.gz with a date of 12-Sep-2004 09:01. That file does not work for me connecting to the latest 0.17 release. I guess I'll starting watching them over smb shares or install FC3 on the xbox - hmm I'd really like to try that any way Has anyone ran mythtv on an FC3 xbox install? BTW yes you can install FC3 on an xbox http://www.xbox-linux.org/XFedora_HOWTO ___ 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 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] apache 2gb limit? mythweb
I think the culprit is php. I didn't bother digging into it because I didn't care enough before. but since you asked... is something like this in your error log? [Thu Mar 17 14:22:31 2005] [error] [client 192.168.1.1] (75)Value too large for defined data type: access to /mythweb/video_dir/1501_2005031318_2005031319.nuv failed, referer: http://.xx:8080/mythweb/recorded_programs.php bug seems to be kinda old: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=27792&edit=3 but I think thats what you're up against. may need to recompile php, but thats a pain if you're sticking to rpms like I am. I especially like this line: [22 Oct 2004 1:53am CEST] [EMAIL PROTECTED] This bug has been fixed in CVS. I didn't dig too much further, there might be a similar bug posted that I didn't check for. On Mar 17, 2005, at 1:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are transmitting a large file then the browser you are connecting to the webserver with will also need handle large files. When I was coding my webserver I ran into this issue and found that the problem usually lies on the browser side. - Original Message - From: Jeff Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, March 17, 2005 4:10 pm Subject: [mythtv-users] apache 2gb limit? mythweb Not directly myth related, but I'm sure that somebody else on this list has run into it before. I'd like to use mythweb as a way to get an http link to the raw NUV files (to use with wget or similar). When attempting to download files > 2gb in size, apache throws a strange error (I don't have the error handy, but it was clear that it was a file size issue). Is there a particular way that apache needs to be compiled so that large files will work? I'm running 2.0.52-rc1 on a gentoo system. (maybe a use flag that enables large file support?) -- email me if you want a gmail invite, I have some ___ 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] Re: Xbox frontend problems with recordings
do you guys have issues with playing divx / mpeg through mythvideo / mplayer and lirc? or does it all just work for you and I just have the normal Mark voodoo? On Mar 17, 2005, at 10:49 AM, Tony Lill wrote: The problem is probably NFS, or at least NFS over udp. If you unmount the backend from your xbox, then it will use a tcp connection to the backend, and it should be smoother. It probably uses this method for live tv. You could also try setting the tcp option in /etc/fstab. I haven'd tried that yet, but unmounting the backend store fixed the playback hiccups. -- Tony Lill, [EMAIL PROTECTED] President, A. J. Lill Consultantsfax/data (519) 650 3571 539 Grand Valley Dr., Cambridge, Ont. N3H 2S2 (519) 241 2461 --- http://www.ajlc.waterloo.on.ca/ "Welcome to All Things UNIX, where if it's not UNIX, it's CRAP!" Stephen Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hello all. I'm still having a few issues with playing back a recording on the xbox front end. Live TV is no problem. It looks like the back end isn't sending the video over the network in a constant enough stream. I'm using a 10/100 broad band router and these are the only two machines on the network so I'm sure its not other network congestion. I was wondering if anyone out there who has an xbox setup could let me know what settings they are using in their recording profiles or any where else that might make a difference. I'm using a pvr-250 BTW. Thanks Stephen ___ 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
[mythtv-users] xbox, xebian, mplayer, lirc
(sorry for the resend, subject got munged) xebian using software from http://bit.blkbk.com/ I had to use mythtv-xbox.0.4.5-beta.tar.gz since the perl script in the latest (stable?) just hangs and dies on me. got a strange issue with mplayer and lirc. this actually happens in mythfrontend or outside of it, so its not myth specific. with lirc=yes in ~live/,mplayer/config, mplayer says "cant find config" on init and segfaults. if I comment that out or set it to "no", mplayer works fine except I have no control over it (not exactly ideal). note that this is with playing divx files over nfs or locally, and using the xbox IR remote dvd thingy. I cant seem to figure this out. where is mplayer looking for lirc configuration that it cant find? everything works fine until I try to play mpeg or divx. thanks for your help. kinda stumped. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] (no subject)
xebian using software from http://bit.blkbk.com/ I had to use mythtv-xbox.0.4.5-beta.tar.gz since the perl script in the latest (stable?) just hangs and dies on me. got a strange issue with mplayer and lirc. this actually happens in mythfrontend or outside of it, so its not myth specific. with lirc=yes in ~live/,mplayer/config, mplayer says "cant find config" on init and segfaults. if I comment that out or set it to "no", mplayer works fine except I have no control over it (not exactly ideal). note that this is with playing divx files over nfs or locally, and using the xbox IR remote dvd thingy. I cant seem to figure this out. where is mplayer looking for lirc configuration that it cant find? everything works fine until I try to play mpeg or divx. thanks for your help. kinda stumped. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Several configuration questions
rpm -e packagename might be a tedious process due to dependencies... On Mar 10, 2005, at 1:11 PM, Robert Buchanan wrote: Is there any clean way to uninstall the ATrpms RPMs which I installed via yum, so that I can compile and install mythtv by hand? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mtyh email client?
what was that quote...something like "every software project grows until it includes an email client"... I imagine one could access a webmail (squirrelmail or some such) on the mythbrowser, if you just have to have a quick and dirty solution. as far as your other questions, I find the mythweb browser and mythnews almost unusable on my television display. not a big deal for me, its not what I want out of my mythtv. On Mar 9, 2005, at 8:44 AM, Frank Lynch wrote: Hi Folks, I'm seriously thinking about building a PVR. I've done some research and I really like the look of MythTV. I really like the fact that you have an integrated news reader & web browser. I was wondering if there are any plans to integrate an email client? I was also wondering if its sane to attempt to use a regular NTSC (not a Hi-Def) TV as a display if your going to use MythBrowser and MythNews - do the fonts render in a readable way? If its possible to use MythNews on a regular NTSC TV then surly its possible to build or run an email client? If you currently run an email client in a non-HD MythTV environment I'd be very interested in hearing about your experiences - what would you recommend, whats to be avoided, any major gotchas etc? Cheers, --Frank ___ 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] [Opinion] FC3 really sucks for mythtv use
On Mar 6, 2005, at 8:36 AM, Darryl Wisneski - ski wrote: If you don't follow the instructions meticulously there are bound to be "anomolies," (to put it scientifically) regardless of distro, in your system. I wonder if you tried again from scratch with the same distro, if you would have gotten it to work? I think there is a high probability of success. right. I found that any problems that came up during the whole installation were due to me not following the directions explicitly. take the time to read each part through and don't skip ANYTHING, there is a reason its in the instructions! as far as different distributions and different hardware, that problem isn't going to go away anytime soon. too many different hardware configurations and cosmic rays and gremlins. You cant get FC3 to work? I cant get FC2 to work, etc etc. Even if we all had the exact same hardware and the exact same OS, I imagine there'd still be installation anomalies (however probably less so...see Mac os X and Solaris). But that aint the world we live in... I have absolutely everything running on my FC3 myth box. web, email, tv, web dev (tomcat / apache / mysql). I'd even run a quake server on it if it was just a bit more beefy. Granted I have a little more experience than the average user, but I don't feel like I needed to rely on this in order to get the whole system running using the wilsonet instructions. Just follow them, success can be yours. as an aside I just sold my tivo. good riddance. and I've got about a dozen people wanting me to help them build a myth box at some point, after I've showed them what it can do and how great it is. anyway keep plugging away at it, take your time and have fun! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Removing Parts of Myth
rpm -e packagename but you may run into dependency issues and whatnot...I am hesitant to even mention this since the damage that can be done if you start getting into forcing rpm removals can be major. do you absolutely have to remove them? taking them out of the menus is probably safer On Mar 1, 2005, at 6:14 AM, Thom Paine wrote: I've installed my system with Jarod's guide on FC3 and the rpm's from Axel's site. Is there a way to remove the phone and gallery and game portions of myth after an install with the rpm's? I edited the .xml files so that the phone portion is removed from the menu screen, but I'd rather remove them altogether. Thanks. -- -=/>Thom ___ 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
OT Re: [mythtv-users] Mac Mini memory?
depends on your needs. if you wanted to do heavy lifting with it (like, photoshop, final cut, whatever) then I'd say go get a gig. for me 512 seems to work just fine for myth frontend, garageband, ssh, email, and web browsing. little bit off topic, if you want to discuss it more I imagine we should take it off list On Feb 27, 2005, at 1:54 PM, Fa Yoeu wrote: Is 512 enough for doing most things or is 1Gig required? On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:56:31 -0800, M. Barnabas Luntzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: os X is barely usable just by itself with 256, much less running any applications - I recommend at least 512, thats what I have... if you're going to do it yoursefl, pay attention to any warranty you might or might not void by opening the unit. I have no idea if this is even an issue but it's something to keep in mind. On Feb 27, 2005, at 12:36 PM, Piers Kittel wrote: If I order the Mac Mini, would 256MB be enough for MythTV plus OSX, also for DVD/video playback - and if not, should I order 256MB extra (£50) or buy it seperately (£44) and flog off the memory and put it in myself? Thanks very much for your help in advance! Cheers - Piers ___ 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 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mac Mini memory?
os X is barely usable just by itself with 256, much less running any applications - I recommend at least 512, thats what I have... if you're going to do it yoursefl, pay attention to any warranty you might or might not void by opening the unit. I have no idea if this is even an issue but it's something to keep in mind. On Feb 27, 2005, at 12:36 PM, Piers Kittel wrote: If I order the Mac Mini, would 256MB be enough for MythTV plus OSX, also for DVD/video playback - and if not, should I order 256MB extra (£50) or buy it seperately (£44) and flog off the memory and put it in myself? Thanks very much for your help in advance! Cheers - Piers ___ 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] Failure to connect to remote backend
ah it was not this at all. your comments did point me in the right direction though. the backend was telling the frontend to look on 127.0.0.1. the backend still had that configuration, knowing nothing about my 192.168.1.3. as soon as I ran mythtvsetup and set it to the right IP, the frontend magically worked. I had no line like you mentioned in my.cnf so I knew that couldn't be it. this little step might go in a document someplace, I was working off of http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MythOnMacOsx perhaps mention that the backend has to be setup with an IP address other than 127.0.0.1. hmm looks like I can add an edit myself. I'll go ahead and do that... thanks much On Feb 26, 2005, at 12:35 PM, Louie Ilievski wrote: I had this same problem on Gentoo as well, and then figured it out. Edit /etc/mysql/my.cnf, and on line 69, it says bind-address. I just comment mine out, but if you want you can specifically put the network address of your card. I'm not sure, but I believe that commenting it out binds it to all addresses it has. ~Lou M.Barnabas Luntzel wrote: yeah what is that file? been trying to get an os X frontend running, I give it my backend IP (also gone through the sql commands below) and yet it still tries to contact 127.0.0.1 mysql port. On Feb 26, 2005, at 9:27 AM, Greg Miller wrote: It's in the Mythtv Documentation. I can't remember the name of the file but you have to change the bind address from 127.0.0.1 (or what ever it is) to your IP. I had the same problem with Gentoo. Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lonnie Borntreger Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 5:38 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Failure to connect to remote backend Most new packages of mysql have network access turned off by default. Check your mysql startup files and make sure that they allow network access. On Mandrake (and Redhat, I think) that is set in /etc/sysconfig/mysql, but I don't know about Gentoo. Lonnie On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 13:22 +1300, Bernard Mentink wrote: Hi All, I have just done a fresh install of Gentoo on my master server which runs mythfrontend and a master mythbackend, IP is 192.168.0.3 My remote frontend is at IP 192.168.0.2. I am getting the following error while trying to access the MySQL database from the remote frontend: Unable to connect to database! Driver error was [1/2003]: QMYSQL3: Unable to connect Database error was: Can't connect to MySQL server on '192.168.0.3' (111) - My mysql.txt on the frontend is: DBHostName=192.168.0.3 DBUserName=mythtv DBPassword=mythtv DBName=mythconverg I have grant'ed all permission to mythconverg database on the master backend, so do not know why I cannot access it? Any Idea's anyone? I presume I do not have to have the mysql daemon running on the frontend, mythfrontend should just use the backend's database. Cheers, ebike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.4.0 - Release Date: 2/22/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.5.0 - Release Date: 2/25/2005 ___ 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 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Failure to connect to remote backend
yeah what is that file? been trying to get an os X frontend running, I give it my backend IP (also gone through the sql commands below) and yet it still tries to contact 127.0.0.1 mysql port. On Feb 26, 2005, at 9:27 AM, Greg Miller wrote: It's in the Mythtv Documentation. I can't remember the name of the file but you have to change the bind address from 127.0.0.1 (or what ever it is) to your IP. I had the same problem with Gentoo. Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lonnie Borntreger Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 5:38 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Failure to connect to remote backend Most new packages of mysql have network access turned off by default. Check your mysql startup files and make sure that they allow network access. On Mandrake (and Redhat, I think) that is set in /etc/sysconfig/mysql, but I don't know about Gentoo. Lonnie On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 13:22 +1300, Bernard Mentink wrote: Hi All, I have just done a fresh install of Gentoo on my master server which runs mythfrontend and a master mythbackend, IP is 192.168.0.3 My remote frontend is at IP 192.168.0.2. I am getting the following error while trying to access the MySQL database from the remote frontend: Unable to connect to database! Driver error was [1/2003]: QMYSQL3: Unable to connect Database error was: Can't connect to MySQL server on '192.168.0.3' (111) - My mysql.txt on the frontend is: DBHostName=192.168.0.3 DBUserName=mythtv DBPassword=mythtv DBName=mythconverg I have grant'ed all permission to mythconverg database on the master backend, so do not know why I cannot access it? Any Idea's anyone? I presume I do not have to have the mysql daemon running on the frontend, mythfrontend should just use the backend's database. Cheers, ebike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.4.0 - Release Date: 2/22/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.5.0 - Release Date: 2/25/2005 ___ 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] v.17 success stories?
works great. all JFW'd (just f'ing worked). apt-get dist-upgrade on atrpms-stable, FC3, up from .16. made me de-install mythstream, but I'll live. On Feb 14, 2005, at 12:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those that are having troubles are usually more vocal, but I would like to hear from folks who are having success with v.17. I am interested in upgrading my v.16 systems, but they are working so well it makes me nervous. ---Dan ___ 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] TV out success stories?
ah yeah, I have it backwards. decoding, encoding...my 250 does the encoding. sorry for the confusion. On Feb 10, 2005, at 11:47 AM, Joe Votour wrote: Minor nit here... If you're using the 5200 for TV-Out, then I don't think that you can be using the PVR-250 for MPEG-2 decoding. On the other hand, the 250 is doing hardware encoding. While it's true that some of the older PVR-250 cards do have a hardware decoder (mine does), I don't think that the ivtv driver can use it for anything. On the PVR-350, the hardware decoded MPEG-2 stream is pumped out to the TV-out chip, and thus the decoded MPEG-2 is not available in that way either. -- Joe --- "M.Barnabas Luntzel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Feb 9, 2005, at 6:24 PM, Ben Dash wrote: Do both of those nVidia cards do the MPEG decoding or is that still done by the CPU? the 5200 is just for tv out. I have a hauppauge PVR-250 to do the mpeg decoding. people seem to have some success with the PVR-350 which does both in (as well as mpeg decoding) and out...YMMV. no problem with the nvidia fx 5200 here, too. The nVidia GeForce 4 MX 440 is cheap, easy to install, and works great. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ 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 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ___ 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] TV out success stories?
On Feb 9, 2005, at 6:24 PM, Ben Dash wrote: Do both of those nVidia cards do the MPEG decoding or is that still done by the CPU? the 5200 is just for tv out. I have a hauppauge PVR-250 to do the mpeg decoding. people seem to have some success with the PVR-350 which does both in (as well as mpeg decoding) and out...YMMV. no problem with the nvidia fx 5200 here, too. The nVidia GeForce 4 MX 440 is cheap, easy to install, and works great. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ 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] TV out success stories?
no problem with the nvidia fx 5200 here, too. On Feb 9, 2005, at 4:27 PM, Jå§òÑ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The nVidia GeForce 4 MX 440 is cheap, easy to install, and works great. ___ 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
OT: Re: [mythtv-users] [NEW THEME] 'MythCenter'
you must be joking. biggest strength? their biggest strength is their (arguably loosening) stranglehold and legions of lawyers. anyway, off topic. On Feb 4, 2005, at 8:34 AM, Craig Partin wrote: Well, Microsofts biggest strength is their UI design. Despite all their faults they are pretty good at it. I think the MCE look is very slick, simple, and visually appealing. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] sony.pl all of a sudden doesnt work
well. power cycling my receiver did the trick. that one little thing I forgot to try before posting... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of M. Barnabas Luntzel Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 12:53 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: [mythtv-users] sony.pl all of a sudden doesnt work and I get this, from commandline, verbose on: [EMAIL PROTECTED] lirc]# /usr/local/bin/sony.pl 938 SEND: 0xFA [?] 0x2 [] RECV: 0xF0[START PKT] 0xF5[ERR 2] SEND: 0xFA [?] 0x7 [] RECV: 0xF0[START PKT] 0x02( 2) 0xF4[END PKT] Current Channel is: 2 Changing channel to 938. SEND: 0xFA [?] 0x46 [F] 0x3 [] 0xAA [?] 0x0 [] RECV: Error (0x00) lirc thinks its changing channels with the remote. what is this error? mythbackend.log gets the same info as above. I went through mythtvsetup and confirmed that the external program is pointed at the right script. /dev/ttyS0 is there and seems to be happy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] lirc]# ls -la /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root uucp 4, 64 Feb 3 00:47 /dev/ttyS0 what gives? why would it just stop working? thanks for any suggestions. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] sony.pl all of a sudden doesnt work
and I get this, from commandline, verbose on: [EMAIL PROTECTED] lirc]# /usr/local/bin/sony.pl 938 SEND: 0xFA [?] 0x2 [] RECV: 0xF0[START PKT] 0xF5[ERR 2] SEND: 0xFA [?] 0x7 [] RECV: 0xF0[START PKT] 0x02( 2) 0xF4[END PKT] Current Channel is: 2 Changing channel to 938. SEND: 0xFA [?] 0x46 [F] 0x3 [] 0xAA [?] 0x0 [] RECV: Error (0x00) lirc thinks its changing channels with the remote. what is this error? mythbackend.log gets the same info as above. I went through mythtvsetup and confirmed that the external program is pointed at the right script. /dev/ttyS0 is there and seems to be happy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] lirc]# ls -la /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root uucp 4, 64 Feb 3 00:47 /dev/ttyS0 what gives? why would it just stop working? thanks for any suggestions. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: free Mac Mini, with a catch (was Re: New Mac Mini)
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[mythtv-users] LED recording indicator
something I liked about my (now unplugged) tivo, was that I could tell it was recording by the red light on the front panel. so I was thinking, how difficult would it be to make my own? Couldn't be much more difficult than making your own IR blaster. pport to LED, USB to LED. maybe even one of those USB lamps for sale could be purposed for this. anybody else thought about / done something like this? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] works
this is quite remarkable. while not trivial to get running... its totally awesome. thanks so much to everyone. to those having issues: keep plugging away. its totally worth it. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] remote to sony.pl link
thanks...total brain fart. I had thought I rebooted the whole system. this works after I restarted the backend. now if only dtv would activate my new card... thanks again! On Jan 16, 2005, at 1:09 PM, Jim Kusznir wrote: I use sony.pl to change channels on my system. Mythbackend calls whatever is in the "channel change script" with the channel number as the argument. Therefore, if sony.pl works from the command line and you have the full path to the executable in myth setup, and you've restarted the back end since making the change, it should work. If not, I would run the frontend through a terminal (ssh in, set the display approprately, and run mythfrontend manually) so you can see any errors and such. If you add debugging print statements to sony.pl, you should see it here as well as any permissions problems. --Jim mark luntzel wrote: probably something simple and I'm having a brain fart but... I have it all working, except I cant seem to figure out how to pass remote control signals to the (working from the command line) sony.pl. scouring google, docs...I put the path to the sony.pl in the mythtvsetup as the external channel changer, but it seems to me that lirc will have to know something about it? or is mythtv misconfigured? this is a serial connection to low speed data port on a sony sat b50 through a hauppauge 250, sony.pl working from the command line...as I said everything is working except this last trivial changing channel business. thanks! -- -- ___ 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] mythfilldatabase howto?
your database isn't running and/or you did not set it up correctly. mysql.sock exists but is mysql running? did you set the database up? did you read this: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php#mysql for fedora but shouldn't matter for the purposes of mysql. On Jan 16, 2005, at 12:36 PM, Teruel de Campo wrote: I'm new to linux. My first project as an introduction to linux has been MythTV. Im am not familiar with mysql. I am reading from the site as well as man and a book I got (mysql /Duboi). - Sytem: SuSE 9.2 running amd64. Wintv-pvr 350 ivtv 0.3.2.a mythtv 0.16 -- Present status: ivtv device driver working very well both sound and video mythv working very well. both watch tv and recording. The three steps i did to install and run mythtv: (1) run the ./setup for mythtv . When setup finishes it ask to run mythfilldatabase to populate the channel. I have to IGNORE this instruction (2) run backend (3) run front end Setup the mythfilldatabase inside mythtv and waint until the following day to populate the channels with information. Then everything OK --- Here my questions. (1) if I run mythfilldatabase $ mythfilldatabase It runs, it connects to DataDirect, it seems to get all the information, then loops again and again and finally stop with error that can not access mysql.sock exist and if I change the permission. chown -R mysql /var/lib/mysql then reports a error in program.myi The final result is that I have to reinstall the mc.sql and also mythtv. So my approach is just to IGNORE to run mythfilldatabase except within mythtv as I said before. My questions: running $ mythfilldatabase is this correct? Or I am missing option/parameters? (2) How can you run mythfilldatabase from outside of mythtv? How can I refresh the channels from outside mythtv?. In the mythtv manual there is a session in how to use the cron method. Is this the ONLY other way to do it?. In summary my impression is that running $ mythfilldatabase without parameters is not correct (BTW --help did not help me) That there are only 2 ways to run it one is within mythtv like I am doing it now and the other is with cron. Am I correct? Any ideas, any instructions, any general statments may help me to understand what I am doing with mythfilldatabase/mysql TIA -=terry(Denver)=- ___ 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] Setting up MythTV in a wierd way ...
before you get too deep in this, and maybe I dont know about sun blades (definitely dont know much) but is this a sun machine with SPARC processor(s)? Has anybody installed this mess on a sun sparc, maybe sparc linux (solaris seems unlikely)? if there are success stories of mythtv on sun hardware, I will be pleasantly surprised. then again maybe you just want to process the video files on this box. still do not see how you'll get this stuff to run. under x86 emulation, its going to be dog ass slow (which is pretty slow). On Jan 5, 2005, at 3:50 PM, Bear Paw wrote: My roomate scored some equipment at a .com auction ... a LCD projector, some SCSI hard drives, some LCD monitors ... but the cream of the crop is a Sun Blade 1000. It has 2 36Gig FC drives, it has one SCSI connector open so we can throw a system disk in there. it has 4 PCI slots and we were going to try to use that for recording/encoding. It has room for one more drive in the case ... I guess we could use an ext. SCSI cage ... Greetings peoples ... I'm really new at MythTV but I've been tracking its progress for some time. My question has to do making a really weird setup. System one: 4 tuner cards, records and encodes shows and transfers them to fileserver System two: File server, this will hold the MythTV backend and dish out files to all the frontends. System 3-N: MythTV frontends What we really want is for SysOne to cache the files to its harddrives then transfer them to SysTwo. Is this doable or should we just try to put it all on one system? Thanks Bear Paw I'm not quite clear what the goal is, just to use 1 machine as the backend and have it write to a file server? You can do that by using NFS, why do you want to cache it first? I'm not sure if it is possible to do the cacheing, but it might be possible using rsync or something similiar. --- - ___ 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] OT: WARNING: Error inserting ledxmit_dev
I suppose so. maybe you should start clean...because something is wonky. sorry, not much help. On Jan 5, 2005, at 8:41 AM, pete stagman wrote: I think so, if it were the wrong kernel, wouldn't i get a lot more errors than that? --P On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 10:19, M. Barnabas Luntzel wrote: did you compile the program on the machine you're using, with the same kernel and kernel source? my biggest hassle with this was actually getting the kernel source for FC3... On Jan 5, 2005, at 3:52 AM, pete wrote: Hi, I've searched the archives and posted to the lirc list for this but can't find an answer. Wondering if someone could give me a little help, please. I have lirc using the receiver from a pvr-250 and I'm trying to compile a second instance of lirc to use a homebrew serial blaster. FC3 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 lirc-0.7.0 using the steps from this site: http://www.mmdsi.com/mythtv/ MythTV_DISH_IR_LED_TX_via_Modified_LIRC.html Or is there a way to use both devices with one instance of lirc? I keep getting this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# /sbin/depmod -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# /sbin/modprobe ledxmit_serial WARNING: Error inserting ledxmit_dev (/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.681_FC3/misc/ledxmit_dev.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) FATAL: Error inserting ledxmit_serial (/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.681_FC3/misc/ledxmit_serial.ko): Unknownsymbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) #dmesg ledxmit_dev: Unknown symbol copy_to_user ledxmit_serial: Unknown symbol copy_from_user ledxmit_serial: Unknown symbol ledxmit_unregister_plugin ledxmit_serial: Unknown symbol ledxmit_register_plugin Thanks, --Pete -- pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ 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 --- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: WARNING: Error inserting ledxmit_dev
did you compile the program on the machine you're using, with the same kernel and kernel source? my biggest hassle with this was actually getting the kernel source for FC3... On Jan 5, 2005, at 3:52 AM, pete wrote: Hi, I've searched the archives and posted to the lirc list for this but can't find an answer. Wondering if someone could give me a little help, please. I have lirc using the receiver from a pvr-250 and I'm trying to compile a second instance of lirc to use a homebrew serial blaster. FC3 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 lirc-0.7.0 using the steps from this site: http://www.mmdsi.com/mythtv/ MythTV_DISH_IR_LED_TX_via_Modified_LIRC.html Or is there a way to use both devices with one instance of lirc? I keep getting this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# /sbin/depmod -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# /sbin/modprobe ledxmit_serial WARNING: Error inserting ledxmit_dev (/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.681_FC3/misc/ledxmit_dev.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) FATAL: Error inserting ledxmit_serial (/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.681_FC3/misc/ledxmit_serial.ko): Unknownsymbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) #dmesg ledxmit_dev: Unknown symbol copy_to_user ledxmit_serial: Unknown symbol copy_from_user ledxmit_serial: Unknown symbol ledxmit_unregister_plugin ledxmit_serial: Unknown symbol ledxmit_register_plugin Thanks, --Pete -- pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ 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] Poll: apt-get FC3 install
same here, works fine as of yesterday...other than the yum weirdness. On Dec 30, 2004, at 8:47 PM, Adam Blomfield wrote: I installed on FC3 this afternoon using apt-get, other than the problem with yum dependencies it work fine. On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:00:57 + (GMT), Clive at Rational <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd like to know if anyone has had success using the apt-get mythsuite packages on an FC3 system? (I haven't). Anyone try and fail using mythsuite on FC3 and revert to source-based install (horror, nightmare) and had success or failure? I'm starting to feel a bare-bones approach might do the job. Clive ___ 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] LIRC ledxmit ir blaster daemon dies
ah. probably wrong list. sorry about that. On Dec 30, 2004, at 7:00 PM, M. Barnabas Luntzel wrote: fedora core 3, kernel 2.6.9-1.681_FC3, mythtv 0.16...all working fine, except for the ledxmitd stuff: ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] LIRC ledxmit ir blaster daemon dies
fedora core 3, kernel 2.6.9-1.681_FC3, mythtv 0.16...all working fine, except for the ledxmitd stuff:
following directions on http://losdos.dyndns.org:8080/public/mythtv-info/MythTV_DISH_IR_LED_TX_via_Modified_LIRC.htm
the kernel module from lirc 0.7.0 seems to load fine, except for the "Badness in sleep_on_timeout" business shown below (trying to track this down, bugzilla seems to be down currently)
ledxmit_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 72
Badness in sleep_on_timeout at kernel/sched.c:3022
[<02306ddb>] sleep_on_timeout+0x5d/0x23a
[<0211bba9>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xc
[<02125a64>] __request_region+0x52/0x74
[<22d6389e>] init_port+0x1c7/0x22b [ledxmit_serial]
[<22d6427f>] init_module+0x33/0x89 [ledxmit_serial]
[<0213be92>] sys_init_module+0x207/0x2ef
ledxmit_serial: auto-detected active high receiver
ledxmit_dev: ledxmit_register_plugin:sample_rate: 0
lsmod | grep led
ledxmit_serial 13600 0
ledxmit_dev13708 1 ledxmit_serial
dmesg shows ttyS0 on irq 4:
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
I've run
/bin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none
numerous times, just to be sure theres nothing hanging around on the port.
I get this:
ledxmit_serial: IRQ 3 busy
in /var/log/messages, and this in /tmp/ledxmitd.log:
Dec 30 18:33:10 toecutter.warpath.org ledxmitd 0.7.0: ledxmitd(serial) ready
Dec 30 18:33:18 toecutter.warpath.org ledxmitd 0.7.0: accepted new client on /dev/ledxmitd
Dec 30 18:33:18 toecutter.warpath.org ledxmitd 0.7.0: could not open /dev/ledxmit
Dec 30 18:33:18 toecutter.warpath.org ledxmitd 0.7.0: default_init(): Device or resource busy
Dec 30 18:33:18 toecutter.warpath.org ledxmitd 0.7.0: caught signal
this happens every time I try to run /usr/local/lirc-ledxmit/bin/ledxmit-irsend SEND_ONCE JVC_RAW 2
these files exist:
ls -la /dev/ledxmit*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root13 Dec 30 18:00 /dev/ledxmit -> /dev/ledxmit0
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 72, 0 Dec 30 18:04 /dev/ledxmit0
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Dec 30 18:33 /dev/ledxmitd
modprobe ledxmit_serial barks:
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.conf line 19: ignoring bad line starting with 'below'
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.conf line 21: ignoring bad line starting with 'pre-install'
the overall behavior exists when I comment these two lines out as well.
here is whats in my modprobe.conf:
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
alias eth0 sk98lin
alias scsi_hostadapter sata_via
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
options snd-card-0 index=0
install snd-via82xx /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-via82xx && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-via82xx { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-via82xx
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd
# ivtv modules setup
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
#alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv
install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_i2c
# nvidia kernel module
alias char-major-195 nvidia-1_0-6629
# Module for IR out
alias char-major-72 ledxmit_serial
below ledxmit_serial ledxmit_dev
options ledxmit_serial irq=3 io=0x3f8
pre-install lirc_serial /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none
I've tried to strace the daemon:
open("/dev/ledxmit", O_RDWR)= -1 EBUSY (Device or resource busy)
probably trying to use IRQ 3, but I modified the myth-ledxmit.sh configure line like so:
./configure --program-prefix=ledxmit- --prefix=/usr/local/lirc-ledxmit \
--with-major=72 --with-port=0x2f8 --with-irq=4 --with-transmitter \
--enable-sandboxed --with-driver=serial
to use 4 instead of 3.
anyway. thanks for your help. hope thats enough background info...
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