[mythtv-users] liveTV using 100% CPU
Hi, I upgrade my system via ATrpms to the latest mythTV RPMS. Unfortunately now the CPU usage goes up to 100% when I watch live TV. I have use XV controls switched on. When I select output via XvMC the CPU usage becomes 50% (still way too high) and sound has lots of dropouts. Anyone knows how I can fix this or what options affect this performance ? Before the upgrade everything was perfect and live TV hardly used any CPU. I'm using ivtv with a PVR-350. Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] liveTV using 100% CPU
Hello Brian, Are you perchance using an nVidia card with the nVidia drivers? I have the same CPU usage problem and I've read that the latest nVidia binary drivers cause this problem. Of course, trying to regress back to an older driver results in a won't build problem here on a Gentoo system, but I am still working on it. In that case I think that the problem is within mythTV itself because other applications (liek xine) that use XV have no issues. Anyway, I will try to start an older kernel and older nvidia drivers just to see if that works. If so, I'll simply stick to that for now. Thanks, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] liveTV using 100% CPU
On Sunday 08 January 2006 19:02, Marcel Janssen wrote: Hello Brian, Are you perchance using an nVidia card with the nVidia drivers? I have the same CPU usage problem and I've read that the latest nVidia binary drivers cause this problem. Of course, trying to regress back to an older driver results in a won't build problem here on a Gentoo system, but I am still working on it. In that case I think that the problem is within mythTV itself because other applications (liek xine) that use XV have no issues. Anyway, I will try to start an older kernel and older nvidia drivers just to see if that works. If so, I'll simply stick to that for now. I tried the old kernel + nvidia 7676 driver and the 100% CPU issue is gone. I'm just not sure if it's the nvidia driver that causes it or the kernel (different audio driver perhaps because I seen some audio buffer related warnings earlier in mythfrontend). Thanks for the hint. regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Distributing TV throughout house w/MythTV
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 22:27, Michael Tiller wrote: Two more options: 1. You can also use the MediaMVP device from Hauppauge along with the mvpmc software http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net. 2. You can use an XBox and run XBox Media Center with the MythTV pluginshttp://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128346 Don't know if this option was mentioned : Connect the output of your mythbox to a modulator and feed this back to a coax cable if you already have that available through your home to transfer video/audio. Buy a remote extender to extend the remote control to the other room and control your myth box. If no cable is available buy a video transmitter which already includes the remote extender. Disadvantages : 1) video is not perfect (lower quality than a direct output). 2) audio is not in dolby digital, just stereo. Advantage : cheap and doesn't require another frontend. regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] smooth video
On Saturday 12 November 2005 01:52, Alex Brekken wrote: Marcel, I have (had) the same choppy video problems as you. (and I think many people do) For Xine I have tried the -xshm option, and while it did smooth things out, it also caused tearing for me on moving objects. I then tried -xxmc instead. This has been the best option I've found so far - video is quite smooth (though I haven't compared it back-to-back yet with my standalone DVD player). I'll try both xshm and xxmc with xine and see if there's any difference. As far as MythTV goes, Bob deinterlacing is the only way I can get good smooth video. XVMC will as well, but it's fairly unstable for me. The only drawback to Bob is that it causes the OSD to flicker a bit. I can live with that, however, though I hope someday it might get fixed. :) Bob indeed seems to make things more smooth, but still isn't perfect. Thanks, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] smooth video
Hi, I'm having a small issue with getting my video to play smooth in both mythTV and xine. I expect it's not directly related to mythTV or xine but rather something on my system. When I play TV/recordings or any file/DVD with xine I first set my X to a framerate that is appropriate for the format (50Hz for PAL or 59.97 , 71.9Hz for other formats). I'm using a CRT projector with RGB and V/H sync and have my Nvidia FX5700 connected directly to this projector, which should be optimal. I don't see tearing so I think the Vsync is OK but do see very small jumps which are well visible in fast moving images. I'm using FC4 with standard kernel (latest I think) and use most packages from ATrpms, except xine which I compile mostly myself from cvs. Does anyone have tips ? Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re:dd yourself to the mythtv users map!!
On Saturday 29 October 2005 15:06, Alexander Petkov wrote: I've changed the default zoom level to world, so everyone's country is visible on 1st view: http://www.frappr.com/mythtv Unfortunately this page doesn't render well (both in firefox and konqueror on FC4). I can't add myself as I always get an error saying Invalid city. The map doesn't render at all in Konqueror and in firefox shows a lot of garbage. Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re:dd yourself to the mythtv users map!!
On Sunday 30 October 2005 12:39, Marcel Janssen wrote: On Saturday 29 October 2005 15:06, Alexander Petkov wrote: I've changed the default zoom level to world, so everyone's country is visible on 1st view: http://www.frappr.com/mythtv Unfortunately this page doesn't render well (both in firefox and konqueror on FC4). I can't add myself as I always get an error saying Invalid city. The map doesn't render at all in Konqueror and in firefox shows a lot of garbage. In windows + firefox it works :-( ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re:dd yourself to the mythtv users map!!
On Sunday 30 October 2005 16:48, Paul K wrote: It seems to be working here w/ Firefox and Slackware... I tried firefox,mozilla and konqueror in FC4, none worked. Maybe a 64bit issue or some javascript issue ? Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Monitor CD/DVD with Fedora?
On Sunday 30 October 2005 04:40, Brian Bosch wrote: Just a quick follow-up, this seems to be working for me: /dev/hdb /media/cdrecorder iso9660,udf pamconsole,rw,exec,noauto,user 0 0 The DVD menu now appears as it should, even after a reboot. Note that as I was messing around today I switched dvd drives from DVD-ROM to a DVD-ROM/CD-RW. Not sure if that had any effect or not... I've done the same and in my case the DVD gets mounted. MythTV seems to be looking for VIDEO_TS but when I look on the DVD, there's video_ts. Apparently mythTV doesn't see it's a DVD. Any way this can be solved. Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Monitor CD/DVD with Fedora?
On Sunday 30 October 2005 19:04, Marcel Janssen wrote: On Sunday 30 October 2005 04:40, Brian Bosch wrote: Just a quick follow-up, this seems to be working for me: /dev/hdb /media/cdrecorder iso9660,udf pamconsole,rw,exec,noauto,user 0 0 The DVD menu now appears as it should, even after a reboot. Note that as I was messing around today I switched dvd drives from DVD-ROM to a DVD-ROM/CD-RW. Not sure if that had any effect or not... I've done the same and in my case the DVD gets mounted. MythTV seems to be looking for VIDEO_TS but when I look on the DVD, there's video_ts. Apparently mythTV doesn't see it's a DVD. Any way this can be solved. It seems that for some reason the DVD doesn't get mounted in the correct way. When I mount manually using the udf filesystem, VIDEO_TS shows up correctly. I wonder why it doesn't get mounted this way. Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Monitor CD/DVD with Fedora?
On Sunday 30 October 2005 19:38, Marcel Janssen wrote: On Sunday 30 October 2005 19:04, Marcel Janssen wrote: On Sunday 30 October 2005 04:40, Brian Bosch wrote: Just a quick follow-up, this seems to be working for me: /dev/hdb /media/cdrecorder iso9660,udf pamconsole,rw,exec,noauto,user 0 It seems that for some reason the DVD doesn't get mounted in the correct way. When I mount manually using the udf filesystem, VIDEO_TS shows up correctly. OK it's solved. It seems that in fstab iso9660,udf is correct. I had it written like udf,iso9660 and that somehow didn't do it. regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Monitor CD/DVD with Fedora?
On Sunday 30 October 2005 19:44, Marcel Janssen wrote: On Sunday 30 October 2005 19:38, Marcel Janssen wrote: On Sunday 30 October 2005 19:04, Marcel Janssen wrote: On Sunday 30 October 2005 04:40, Brian Bosch wrote: Just a quick follow-up, this seems to be working for me: /dev/hdb /media/cdrecorder iso9660,udf pamconsole,rw,exec,noauto,user 0 It seems that for some reason the DVD doesn't get mounted in the correct way. When I mount manually using the udf filesystem, VIDEO_TS shows up correctly. OK it's solved. It seems that in fstab iso9660,udf is correct. I had it written like udf,iso9660 and that somehow didn't do it. It's unfortunately not solved. Now mythTV won't mount a normal CD any more. I'm starting to think there's a bug in FC4. udf makes it work for DVD. iso9660 for CD. auto doesn't work correctly but should work I think. Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] DVD/CD monitoring stopped working after upgrade to FC4
Hi, Monitoring of DVD/CD stopped wroking after I upgraded my FC3 box to FC4. I saw that the path was changed in FC4 from /mnt/cdrom to /media/cdrom but in mythTV setup I see it monitors /dev/cdrom, which is still correct. I really wonder how monitoring works because I can't find anything wrong with the settings. Anyone have some tips what to check ? regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Looking to get a remote
On Thursday 27 October 2005 05:01, Jon Solomon wrote: Anyone have any suggestions about what kind of remote I should get for my new frontend? If you want to get a high-end remote, I suggest the Philips (or Marantz) Pronto which comes in various types. See : http://www.pronto.philips.com My setup for a Pronto ru890 can be seen here : http://members.home.nl/mphm.janssen/linuxvideo/software/pronto/pronto.html The advantage is that the buttons can be given their own icons and therefore each function can be recognized far more easier than with a conventional remote. Plus you have the advantage to automatically jump between menus, which is quite nice when you select a video from mythTV and xine/mplayer starts that automatically the main controls for that video player pop up. Check ebay for a second hand one and the price may even be acceptable (I found one for 75Euro). Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] TV-out modeline nvidia issue
Hi, I'm trying to get a setup working with two display devices connected. One is a CRT projected and the other one a CRT Television. I have the CRT projector working in 960x720 for all refresh rates that I need and that works well. Now I would like to add TV-out to that, but they have to use the exact same modeline as for the CRT projector (at least same resolution and refresh rate) I've set up to use TV-out in the device section of xorg.conf, but somehow I always get an error like : (**) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes for display device TV-0: (**) NVIDIA(0): Mode [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 61.5 MHz, 60.5 kHz, 100.0 Hz (WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to find mode 960x720a50Hz for display device 1 in (WW) NVIDIA(0): MetaMode 960x720a50Hz,960x720a50Hz Obviously it can't find the modeline for the TV device and I can't find anywhere how to specify it for this TV out. For the CRT projector I did this in the Monitor section, but the TV doesn't have a monitor section. Anyone knows how to get this to work or where to specify the modeline for the TV-out ? Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Best Soundcard?
On Thursday 13 October 2005 21:13, Kevin Kuphal wrote: I have a Turtle Beach Riviera that works *great* and was optical outputs. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829118103 $25 I use a terratec Aureon 5.1 http://sounden.terratec.net/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=222 Worked straight away with the optical output on Fedora Core. About $20-25 Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv vers 0.18.1.20050523-1 Mythfrontend gives Unexpected response to MYTH_PROTO_VERSION
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 19:50, Warren Roberts wrote: I just upgraded to Fedora Core 4 and installed myth-suite. The frontend and backend are the same version but the frontend gives a Unexpected response to MYTH_PROTO_VERSION error. Do you perhaps have some older things on your system from before the upgrade ? Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How to get 1366x768?
On Wednesday 29 June 2005 17:40, Glen Dragon wrote: FYI.. You will need the modeline as described below. You will need to use nvidia 7167 (or earlier) rather than than the 7664. They broke high resolutions on LCDs in the 7664 release. Just create a modeline using one of the available modeline generators and try them : http://www.tkk.fi/Misc/Electronics/faq/vga2rgb/calc.html http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl Be careful to input valid data for your monitor and make sure you set that data also correctly in your xorg.conf. No need for that other OS at all. regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Pundit-R / PVR-150/250 - it doesn't fit...
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 19:44, Mark Knecht wrote: The Pundit-R already has the riser card so the PVRs are parallel to the motherboard. The 150 low profile looks like a very reasonable solution. Not, I think, as well tested as the other PVR cards but worth a shot. A friend of mine build a pvr-350 into a Pundit-R. While doing so he had to bend the chassis a little, but eventually it did fit. I wonder if the PVR-150 is any larger ? Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Pundit-R - ATI or SiS
On Monday 30 May 2005 22:52, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, NewEgg.com has two versions of the Pundit-R. One uses an ATI chipset so it's equivalent to the laptop I'm typing this on, but it costs $41 more than one that uses a SiS chipset which is probably closer to my son's $199 desktop machine: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=GoDEPA=0type=descri ption=Pundit-R Which unit are people using for MythTV? I run mythfrontend on my laptop so I'm reasonably comfortable with it's capabilities, but saving $41 seems like a good thing also. My son's machine doesn't run mythfrontend today so I have no idea how well that works. I installed a Pundit-R (so with the ATI onboard VGA) for a friend of mine a few weeks ago with FC3 and mythTV following Jarod's guide. After some struggle with the ATI driver (compiled and patched from source) everything worked (including TV-out). It runs a PVR350 with the ivtv driver and mythtv-0.18 just fine. I only added a simple soundcard to the machine because of the optical spdif on the front of the Pundit-R instead of the back. The soundcard I used was a Terratec Aureon PCI ($25) and installation was very easy regarding the optical spdif (just some mixer settings I believe). Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] liblibmythFM.so ??
Hi, I just compiled mythFM and got it installed from the src.rpm I found on the web. After I compiled and installed it I got a listen to radio menu but when I select it, it doesn't work. On the console I see that it is looking for plugin /usr/lib/mythtv/plugins/liblibmythFM.so what is there is : /usr/lib/mythtv/plugins/libmythfm.so Anyone knows why it looks for the wrong plugin or where that is defined ? Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] liblibmythFM.so ??
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 19:03, Egeekial wrote: Try symlinking it... that won't fix anything, but it might have it work. Yes, symlinking works. I just wonder where the liblibmythFM.so comes from. regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] mythFM and PVR-350
Hi, Now I got mythFM installed and it's menus are working. Playing from /dev/video24 works as described in the README.radio of ivtv works. It also seems that /dev/radio0 is fine in mythFM as I see some indication of a signal in mythFM but I don't have sound form mythFM (other sound works well). I set /dev/video0 as the recording source but that doesn't seem to work. Any idea what I've been missing ? regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Scary times ahead
On Wednesday 11 May 2005 14:16, Martin wrote: I have just finished my first ever Linux install at work to look at evaluating Nessus security scanning. I found Linux to be a nightmare, mainly because I have never seen it before, and coming from a strong windows background (MCSE) even the simplest things seemed strange - some examples Check system logs - where are they? what are they called? mostly : /var/log Install software and then go to start it up - where is the icon? Where is the program kept? what is the equivalent of .exe in linux? .exe is something not necessary. executable files are just executables and don't depend on an extension. It has been like that even before MS got involved :-) G - (find ./ -name...) I tell you this so you will understand how little linux knowledge I have! As a result I decided to create myself a linux project to teach me the basics and get to know my way around, because I do like the open source model and think it is the way forward, so a Fedora HTPC is my pet project. Good, persistence will get you there. I have been reading up and understand alot of drivers are in development (ivtv) etc For those of you Linux Gurus who fancy a laugh, I will be documenting the entire process as I feel it will be useful for other newbies as alot of docs assume a level of linux knowledge that some people just do not have. Perhaps you can just start with a guide like Jarod's and add things to that for real new Linux users. Perhaps some more in depth information about the issued commands and links to background information which is valid for Fedora (if people use google, they will often find a lot of outdated information). The one question I am not sure on is remote controls, what is the best remote to use with the PVR 500 card, there seems to be many options,( mainly radioshack) so I thought I would throw it out to the community to see what was the most popular choice. We have many universal/learning remotes in the UK, so I dont want to end up buying the wrong one. If you like programmable remotes, I can advice you a Philips pronto. Just look for one on ebay I suggest. I bought the ru890 (lower type) and it's very nice to have all software controlled by this and use your own icons per function : http://members.home.nl/mphm.janssen/linuxvideo/software/pronto/pronto.html I use a irman remote device with that :http://www.evation.com/ Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] channel scanning
Hi, Somehow my scanning button in the channel editor is disabled but when I fill in all information manually it works well. Is it possible to get the scanning button enabled ? (any reason why is it disabled ?) regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: [ATrpms-users] Kernel problem when accessing Watch Recordings page in MythTV
On Monday 09 May 2005 16:02, Phill Edwards wrote: Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this as I can't use MythTV while this problem persists? Have you tried switching off XV controls ? What happens if you play in a window instead of full screen (perhaps mythtv is using XVidModeExtension when going full screen) ? Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and EM8300
On Monday 09 May 2005 19:31, Nick wrote: It may be possible to use the Hollywood+ card as a regular X display (without acceleration) for a myth system (as is currently the case with the PVR350). I don't think that is supported on the dxr3/H+ card. Framebuffer was never implemented for this card as far as I know. It's just an mpeg decoder card. It is highly likely though you may get accelerated mpeg2 playback in xine (one of the output options). I have one of these lying around so may have a go and see where I get to. It is even possible to play other vidoe formats through the card using xine (mplayer also). These video's will be reencoded on the fly to mpeg1 and than send to the mpeg decoder on the card. It is possible to get a menu kind of system also on this card using mms http://mms.sunsite.dk/ regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] vnc used, now channels gone
Hi, I started mythtv via vnc and it seems that due to that I lost all my channels in mythtv ?!?!? Anyone knows why this can happen ? Anyways, I tried to put them back via mythfilldatabase --xawchannels but i have no idea what is meant by sourceid= cardinput I tired both television which is set in my xawtvrc and Tuner 0 which is the one used for mythtv (my xawtv comes from another PC with another card). None of this works. What is the right syntax ? btw: does scannig channels work ? In my mythtv-0.18 the scanning button in the channel editor is disabled. Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Pundit-r TV-out
On Thursday 05 May 2005 02:16, Marcel Janssen wrote: 2) the ATI latest drivers don't compile for me somehow (FC3). Is there any good documentation to make it work or better to not use them ? OK, got the ATI drivers to work (or at least loading :-)) I've managed to get TV-out, but the image isn't correct. Tried dozens of PAL modelines but none of them work. The best I get is 640x480 and this gives me about 3 times the image on my TV. Colours are correct, just the image is displayed about 3 times in vertical direction, so squashed. Horizontal seems fine. Any idea how to get the modeline correct ? Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Pundit-r TV-out
Hello Nick, Welcome to the Pundit-R TV-out pain ... :-) Your story covers about all steps I've done in the past hourse. It's not easy to get it to work but finally I've got an image on my TV (which actually doesn't look bad at all). If you are after a cheap GFX card with TV, try a GeForce MX440 based card, they're very popular amonst myth users I think. Are those PCI also ? (the Pundit-R doesn't have an AGP slot) Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Pundit-r TV-out
Hi, I have a hard time getting the TV-out to work on a Pundit-R and wonder if someone has got it working. I tried the following : 1) through BIOS select TV-out : this seems to work but as soon X starts it gets distorted, which seems to indicate a wrong modeline : Anyone figured out a working one for PAL or NTSC ? 2) the ATI latest drivers don't compile for me somehow (FC3). Is there any good documentation to make it work or better to not use them ? Better : any repository that keeps working RPMS ? 3) any recommendation for a cheap PCI card with TV-out that does work ? Thanks for any help. Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Pundit-r TV-out
On Thursday 05 May 2005 02:34, Xiaotian Sun wrote: 2) the ATI latest drivers don't compile for me somehow (FC3). Is there any good documentation to make it work or better to not use them ? Better : any repository that keeps working RPMS ? If it complains about libstdc++.so.5, then install compat-libstdc++ will solve the problem. Unfortunately that's not it. It doesn't just complain, it spits out dozens of errors when I try to compile the kernel module (I run an atrpms kernel, doesn't matter whether I chose a 2.6.10 or 2.6.11 kernel). The kernel is defenately not the problem here, it's the drivers for sure. I just don't know whether anyone has got working drivers for ATI for a 2.6.11 kernel. It's the first time I use ATI drivers and as far as I know drivers it even complains about calls that are already outdated a long time ago. Are these drivers very old or did I miss something very obvious on ATI's site ? Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Silverstone LC03V VFD
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 17:42, Paul wrote: It will work with the stock LCDproc source/packages but I know the version I was using at the time had to be patched at get the character mapping sorted out among other things. I also did some character mapping for my DIGN4 VFD (it's samsung I believe). The mapping instructions I found here : http://www.angerman.net/articles/jukebox/#lcdproc I'm not sure if your display is a parallel mode one, but the main trick to get it working well in my case with LCDproc was setting the correct mode in the BIOS for the parallel port (you may have to experiment with the correct settings). Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] audio resample
On Thursday 17 March 2005 21:15, Marcel Janssen wrote: How can I get pcm to play at 48000Hz ? Can mythmusic do the resampling or does one need to use Alsa for it ? regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] audio resample
On Thursday 17 March 2005 22:12, Marcel Janssen wrote:
On Thursday 17 March 2005 21:15, Marcel Janssen wrote:
How can I get pcm to play at 48000Hz ?
Can mythmusic do the resampling or does one need to use Alsa for it ?
It seems like the following in .asoundrc works :
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm spdif
slave {
pcm spdif
rate 48000
}
}
Regards,
Marcel
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[mythtv-users] initally no sound, but sound when switching channel
Hi, When I switch to live TV I have no sound. when I change the channel I get sound. When I leave live TV and enter it again I again have no sound. Switch channel and sound is there. This makes recordings to have no sound at all. Any solution ? Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] gamma correction
Hi, I'm using mythtv to playback liveTV through XV and my graphics card doesn't seem to have (or I just can't find) a gamma correction in the drivers for XV. Is it possible to add gamma correction in the playback part of mythtv ? Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: very serious A/V sync issues -0.16 works well
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 09:11, Axel Thimm wrote: Just a thought, what's your CPU load, and are you using XvMC? CPU load is about 40% (incl deinterlacing) when watching live TV. I'm using XV, not XvMC. Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] very serious A/V sync issues
Hello Matt, Sounds to me like the opengl_vsync issue. You need to recompile Myth without opengl_vsync set. I don't think anyone has found a different work-around. I did this and everything was peachy. It's worth a try, anyway. Search for it on the list if you aren't sure what this means. I've already tried that but found no difference. Besides that I think the ATrpms mythtv packages are compiled with the opengl_vsync disabled. Anyways, thanks the suggestion. I'v tried really a lot of things by now and nothing seems to have either positive or negative influence on the A/V sync. As a last resort I will try to trace back through CVS to find a version that still works for me hoping to find out what commit caused the problem on my system. Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: very serious A/V sync issues
On Monday 07 March 2005 18:31, Axel Thimm wrote: Did 0.16 work (the packages are still up there)? Actually 0.16 worked well. I am downgrading now so I'll try when that's ready and report the results back. Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: very serious A/V sync issues
On Monday 07 March 2005 18:31, Axel Thimm wrote: Did 0.16 work (the packages are still up there)? Hmm, a downgrade is not as easy as it seems. I had the visor theme installed and after downgrading, the mythfrontend won't start because it can't the theme. I thought just look for the config file and change the theme name, but I can't find a config file for mythtv ??!! Where are these settings stored ? regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: very serious A/V sync issues -0.16 works well
On Monday 07 March 2005 18:31, Axel Thimm wrote: Did 0.16 work (the packages are still up there)? I just managed to downgrade to 0.16. 0.16 works well. Audio/Video is well in sync both with live TV and recorded shows. How can get any usefull debug data from 0.17 to find what is wrong ? Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: very serious A/V sync issues -0.16 works well
On Monday 07 March 2005 19:32, Axel Thimm wrote: After a couple of builds and tests you should be able to spot the commit that broke your system. Unfortunately builds take a while. I know, so will try this next weekend I think. I'll get on this when I have found something or at least minimised the problem through CVS. Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: very serious A/V sync issues
On Monday 07 March 2005 21:21, Gabe Rubin wrote: apt-get install phpmyadmin That didn't work. Which repository is it in ? Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] movie trailer plugin!
On Sunday 06 March 2005 14:55, Joseph Caputo wrote: Apple might be a good place to try for trailers (www.apple.com/quicktime). Personally, I think a more useful plugin would be movie time listings from local theaters. I know Apple's 'Sherlock' tool gets this information (as well as the trailers) via a feed from one of their partners (i.e., no scraping needed), but I haven't seen anyone try to leech off of it yet... I'm sure it wouldn't make Apple happy. How about this trailer page : http://davestrailerpage.co.uk/ problem is perhaps getting a listing from there. Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] very serious A/V sync issues
Hi, When I record a program in mythtv it plays out of sync in mythtv (audio is up to 2 seconds ahead of video) mplayer plays the recorded files (the nuv files I recording with mythtv) perfectly in sync. This makes me believe that the recorded files are OK but mythtv playback is wrong here. Now, it could be a problem with mythtv in relation to my system (fully up to date FC3 with ATrpms), but since I have no problems with any other video related software (xine,mplayer,oggle,xawtv etc) I have no clue left what I could change on my system except mythtv to solve the issue. Which options affect A/V sync ? If it is a bug in mythtv (which I believe), how can I analyze the problem or submit data on this issue ? Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] very serious A/V sync issues
On Sunday 06 March 2005 22:34, Marcel Janssen wrote: Hi, When I record a program in mythtv it plays out of sync in mythtv (audio is up to 2 seconds ahead of video) mplayer plays the recorded files (the nuv files I recording with mythtv) perfectly in sync. This makes me believe that the recorded files are OK but mythtv playback is wrong here. Now, it could be a problem with mythtv in relation to my system (fully up to date FC3 with ATrpms), but since I have no problems with any other video related software (xine,mplayer,oggle,xawtv etc) I have no clue left what I could change on my system except mythtv to solve the issue. Which options affect A/V sync ? If it is a bug in mythtv (which I believe), how can I analyze the problem or submit data on this issue ? Forgot to tell that I use OSS drivers for my soundcard because there are no alsa drivers available and I use SPDIF output. regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] very serious A/V sync issues
On Sunday 06 March 2005 22:57, Marcel Janssen wrote: On Sunday 06 March 2005 22:34, Marcel Janssen wrote: Hi, When I record a program in mythtv it plays out of sync in mythtv (audio is up to 2 seconds ahead of video) mplayer plays the recorded files (the nuv files I recording with mythtv) perfectly in sync. This makes me believe that the recorded files are OK but mythtv playback is wrong here. Now, it could be a problem with mythtv in relation to my system (fully up to date FC3 with ATrpms), but since I have no problems with any other video related software (xine,mplayer,oggle,xawtv etc) I have no clue left what I could change on my system except mythtv to solve the issue. Which options affect A/V sync ? If it is a bug in mythtv (which I believe), how can I analyze the problem or submit data on this issue ? Forgot to tell that I use OSS drivers for my soundcard because there are no alsa drivers available and I use SPDIF output. Could it be that OSS support is broken ? Anyone having mythtv working well with OSS drivers ? regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC problems....Aargh!
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 08:33, Christopher Robbins wrote: ActuallyI´m running SuSE 9.2 Professional. I´ve got the most experience with it, and it wasn´t too hard. But there wasn´t much documentation for SuSE/Myth, so I wrote a howto here - http://www.homerengineeringcorp.net/mythtv/myth.html So, you have LIRC support compiled in. Since you changed the permissions on /dev/lircd did the previous error message from the mythtv log disappear ? Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC problems....Aargh!
Hi Chris, myth. Any help is greatly appreciated. It looks like your lirc device does not exist or you have no permission to access it. from you log file : Feb 26 10:41:35 linux lircd 0.7.1pre2: could not open /dev/lirc Feb 26 10:41:35 linux lircd 0.7.1pre2: default_init(): No such device Another thing I'm not 100% sure of is that I think you need to specify the remote name in the following sections : begin remote = grayHauppauge prog = mythtv button = TV repeat = 3 config = F5 end I have this for each section in my lircrc file. Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC problems....Aargh!
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 20:09, Christopher Robbins wrote: linux:~ # ls -l /dev/lirc* crw--- 1 root root 61, 0 Feb 28 22:14 /dev/lirc crw--- 1 root root 61, 0 Feb 28 22:14 /dev/lirc0 srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 28 22:32 /dev/lircd prw--- 1 root root 0 Oct 2 01:37 /dev/lircm Should I chmod both lirc and lirc0? I think /dev/lirc is enough, but than again I don't even have a /dev/lirc0. regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC problems....Aargh!
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 02:15, Christopher Robbins wrote: Still nothingShould I reinstall and start from scratch? (Includ. recompiling mythtv?) In case you've use ATrpms mythtv packages, that wouldn't be necessary. It should work. Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] A/V sync big issue
On Saturday 26 February 2005 21:17, Marcel Janssen wrote: Hi, I still have a big issue with mythtv-0.17. I can't watch liveTV and recordings due to a very serious A/V sync issue. Audio is up to 2 seconds ahead of video. May it be possible that it's an oss issue ? I'm still using oss drivers for sound as there's no alsa driver for my sound card. btw: mplayer plays fine with my pvr-350, so I think the issue is within mythtv. Regrads, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] A/V sync big issue
On Saturday 26 February 2005 22:00, Marcel Janssen wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2005 21:17, Marcel Janssen wrote: Hi, I still have a big issue with mythtv-0.17. I can't watch liveTV and recordings due to a very serious A/V sync issue. Audio is up to 2 seconds ahead of video. Actually I found the audio is also sometimes ahead of video. I don't know what mythTV is trying to do with A/V sync but I'm sure that part of mythTV is seriously broken. Has this issue been solved in current CVS ? If so, I move to using CVS. If not, I will move back to MythTV 0.16 (didn't have this issue) I don't understand why other users don't have this problem. I never get audio/video in sync, no matter what options I set. I know it's not a driver issue (mplayer/xine work fine) and the problem is 99.9% sure within mythtv. regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] lirc in Myth w/PVR 350
On Monday 21 February 2005 21:12, Michael Smith wrote: name grayHauppauge begin prog = mythtv button = Off config = Esc end I think it should read this : begin remote= grayHauppauge prog = mythtv button = Off config = Esc end For every section of course. regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Installing 0.16 from atrpms
On Monday 14 February 2005 10:19, Jarod Wilson wrote: # apt-get install mythtv-backend=0.16 mythtv-frontend=0.16 mythtv-[etc]=0.16 But why not just upgrade the backend to 0.17 also? Went off without a hitch here... The upgrade also went fine here, but unfortunately mythtv 0.17 is not very usable over here. When watching live TV and playing recordings, the audio is about a second ahead of video. Sometimes when I start live TV it seems in sync , so it seems like the failure is caused at the start of playback. I think I've tried all available options that could influence the behaviour without any success and I think it is related to mythTV 0.17. So, problems with the new package might get someone to move back to a previous version. Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] live TV A/V sync problem
Hi, I upgraded to MythTV 0.17 (Atrpms) today and now my live TV is out of sync. It seems sound is a bit ahead of video. Anything a can do to get it back in sync again ? I'm using firmware 0x02040024 for the encoder and the driver mentions it may be buggy. Regarding stability I have not much complains though and only like to change things when it wolves the sync problem. Would another firmware help ? Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] live TV A/V sync problem
On Sunday 13 February 2005 15:08, Marcel Janssen wrote: I upgraded to MythTV 0.17 (Atrpms) today and now my live TV is out of sync. It seems sound is a bit ahead of video. Also my shows recorded last week play out of sync with 0.17 (played well using 0.16). I've tried all settings regarding audio and used video as timebase. Unfortunately nothing works so far. The audio seems almost a second ahead of video and only sometimes when I start TV it seems in sync. Audio is always ahead of video, never the other way around. I play through spdif if that makes a difference. Regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Will a PVR-[23]50 help HD playback?
On Monday 17 January 2005 16:06, Brandon Beattie wrote: Yes, many of us have. A pvr-x50 will Not decode HD. You'll have to get an nvidia geforce FX series card, the most popular is the 5200 Last weekend I tried an FX5700 and was hoping for better quality video than my Matrox G550. I've been trying mythtv and xine (all possible output modes) and was amazed that my old G550 has better image quality than this rather new FX5700. I switched back to the G550 and take for granted that the maximum resolution I can get is not as large as the FX5700 can do. Quality means more to me than resolution and the Matrox card clearly won that in my case (CRT projection with 2m*1.5m screen so you'll see all artefacts easily :-) ). xvmc using the FX5700 seems to have best quality but I need gamma correction (which I found was not possible so this option wasn't suitable for my setup). I was actually surpriced by these results as I thought that the FX5700 would win in quality over the G550. Unfortunately it didn't unless it needs some serious tweaking. Both cards where compared with same resolutions and refresh rates. regards, Marcel ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
