Re: [mythtv-users] Marriage of Email List and Forum, Can't we all just get along!!
And on a forum, you have to read all the names of those threads you have no interest in.With a decent mail client setup correctly you never seethe threads you dont want to read, they are deleted.On a forum, thoseposts are always there, and you have to wade thru them when searchingfor anything.One more reason why not to duplicate work and make peoplelook in multiple places to gain access to this mailing list (ie sign upat forum, then you also have to sign up at the mailing list as well.)And why do you want to have to add more work to what you have to do whenyou come online?You already check your mail, and can have filterssetup to flag any threads youd be interested in;why add on having tovisit a forum, and then wade thru the new posts of the day to see if anyof them are of interest to you?Do people not know how to use a mail client?Do people not want theposts in real time?Do people not understand that a mailing list ismuch more effecient than a forum? He is just looking at keeping the mailing list going here while finding a way for people who don't like mailing lists satisfied too. If you don't like using a forum you wouldn't have to, you could just keep your mail client going as is - this wouldn't affect you. Other people do prefer to not have to set filters on their mail clients, when they can just glance across a topic at a forum and decide to read or not to read. Now what I think would have been most ideal is if you could easily respond right at gossamer threads (or for that matter migrating to an archiving solution that allows responses like that). That would mean those who don't want to have to worry about getting tons of myth mail can just search (for some a new concept) the archives and respond right at the archive and just check back when they wanted to, without ever having to be subscribed to the mailing list getting all of the myth mail. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Suggestions
The easiest way I Have found to delete a recording that went AWOL from the SQL table is either phpmyadmin, or to manually just 'touch _filename_' and then delete from myth. On Apr 7, 2005 3:17 PM, Stuart Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hope no one mind if I mention some things I'd like to see in MythTV (I mighteven dust off my programming skills to help out, time dependant).1. MythTV - It isn't possible to delete a recording from the database if thenuv file has already gone. It is an unusual circumstance but it makes evenmore sense for the database entry to be removed if the corresponding file ismissing. Somehow a recording of mine went awol and without a manual SQL queryI cannot get rid of the entry from mythfrontend.2. MythTV - Could a jumppoint be added to return the user back to the mainmenu? Some of the menus are quite deeply nested and a jumppoint would behandy!3. MythMusic - I'd like the option, that when I insert a CD it willauto-populate the playlist (preferably a clean one) with the CD tracks.I'mbuilding a Myth-box for my elderly parents and want it to be as simple tooperate as possible. Especially useful when used in conjunction with themedia-detection - A CD is inserted, it goes direct to the play screen andall you have to do is press play!4. MythDVD - Whilst I do appreciate the work that went into this module, I'dlike quite to see a better integrated DVD solution. Matching OSDs, menus,key-configs and behaviour. Has anyone looked at building a Myth based GUI forthe Xine-libs?5. Finally, I'm using the Isthmus OSD which iirc, was posted here a while ago.It is by far the best OSD I've yet seen and I wonder if it might be includedin future distributions of MythTV?Thanks for reading and thanks for all the great work that everyone has done sofar!--Stuart Morgan___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-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] Suggestions
May I ask why this is happening so frequently? On Apr 7, 2005 3:36 PM, Stuart Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Thursday 07 Apr 2005 20:28, Howard Cokl wrote: --- Stuart Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. MythTV - It isn't possible to delete a recording from the database if the nuv file has already gone. It is an unusual circumstance but it makes even more sense for the database entry to be removed if the corresponding file is missing. Somehow a recording of mine went awol and without a manual SQL query I cannot get rid of the entry from mythfrontend. I don't know about the rest but as far as the SQL stuff I find it very easy to manipulate the database using webmin.It's one of the first things I install on any linux system that has a database.I don't use the other modules but for databases webmin saves me tons of time.Yup, I have webmin installed on all of my machines. I even know SQL wellenough to manually delete the entry from the database, but firing up webminor exiting to the command line every time this might happen isn't the mostideal solution.--Stuart Morganhttp://www.tase.co.uk ___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-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] Suggestions
Isn't this what I mentioned higher up. oh wellOn Apr 7, 2005 9:39 PM, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:John Sturgeon wrote: Did I read this right?Are you saying that if I touch the missing file, thus creating a zero length file, that mythbackend will clean it up for me and I don't have to go into the UI to delete it?If that's true, then that's fantastic!Almost.If you create a zero length file, you can go into the UI anddelete it.There is no automatic cleanup in this case.Kevin___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-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] Off by one hour
Check the archives.On Apr 7, 2005 10:11 PM, E. Mike Durbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I just go done reinstalling mythtv 0.17 after mydisk crashed (Maxtor SATA).However, after running mythfilldatabase *several*times, the program guide is off by one hour!!!I use Zap2It, and I'm (now) in CDT.Anyone else have this problem?Anyone knowhow to fix it??Thanks!emike___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-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] Daylight savings time
You will have to restart at least the backend if you put in new RPMs.On Apr 6, 2005 10:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Is a restart of any component ( frontend, backend, server etc.. ) required tofix this after putting in the upgraded rpms?Quoting Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : On Tuesday 05 April 2005 22:44, Ian Truelsen wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 01:14:31 -0400 Gabe Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may want to check the archives, and be prepared for a heavy flood of flames.No offense, but this has been covered very heavilyon the list this week.To the point of having the lead developer chatise these types of messages. I have read the archives. I should have pointed out that I cannot downgrade QT without some breakage elsewhere, so that solution is out. The others haven't worked for me. I did not however, see the backend patch, so I am going to try that and see if it gets me anywhere. If you're running ATrpms packages, patched builds have been pushed out. # apt-get update # apt-get install libmyth mythtv mythtv-backend mythtvsetup mythtv-frontend -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got a question? Read this first...http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html MythTV, Fedora Core ATrpms documentation:http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archivehttp://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/ This message was sent using OnNow Hosting Webmail.Hosting and email starting at $4.99/mo http://www.onnow.net ___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-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] cablecard
I gotta say if not for the cost, that looks like that could be a sweet machine to be using for a frontend, looks pretty slick and seems to have quite a bit integrated/easily upgradable.On Apr 6, 2005 4:01 PM, dean collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It will be something very similar. I noticed that there are already devices being shown with Cablecard interfaces. http://anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2317p=5 interesting to note that windows media centre XP will have native cablecard support built from Q3 this year. Cheers, Dean -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Behalf Of Robert Johnston Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 3:56 PM To: David Shay; Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] cablecard On Apr 6, 2005 1:36 PM, David Shay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Until someone decides to make a PCI card with a Cablecard slot, I can't see how this possibly improves the future of MythTV. The chances of that happening seem slim to none in general, and almost certainly none once the broadcast flag ruling is in place. And yes, the broadcast flag still has relevance to cable in some cases, as far as I understand it. Is not this CableCard the equivalent of a CAM, in which case you can use a PCMCIA CAM reader (Or CI (Common Interface) reader) via a PCI-PCMCIA reader. You know, those things that early 802.11b PCI cards needed ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-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] www.d1.com.au
On Apr 6, 2005 10:49 PM, dean collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is involved with commercially distributing MythTV? Well first of all getting a maintenance plan to plan for issues like this DST issue. Then you gotta have a distributor to get you parts for cheap. Then you have to have a standard way to get people setup with accounts through zap2it and correctly configure their machines (setup wizard that maybe runs from another working windows machine and configures the linux machine mysql database) (or maybe some sort of friendly wizard) (or you configure it all for them - they provide email info and address). Also you need a standardized distro that is stable on your hardware, and will provide little to no hiccups ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Controlling a Frontend from a Laptop
I have a much better solution I use here (any annoying to my roomates while at it), i use x2x. x2x forwards keyboard and/or mouse movements to another x server provided you are on the access list. i usually launch with something like x2x -to machinename:0 -east Then whenever I am watching myth and need to skip a commercial, i just move the touchpad to the east of my display, skip the comm and then move it back to my current display to keep chatting on aim or web browsing. There is also a cygwin package that will work with xorg/cygwin that my roomate likes to use on his laptop, if your laptop runs windows. http://x2x.fanstvo.com/On Apr 5, 2005 4:17 PM, Chris Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Right now I use VNC.Works like a charm.Mythweb may work, but Ihave not tried it or read up on it.Chris.On Apr 5, 2005 4:12 PM, Nathan Cournia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I would like to be able to do is control mythfrontend from my laptop.This would be analogous to controlling the frontend from a wireless keyboard, but with my laptop I wouldn't have to worry about the 5 feet limitation of my keyboard since I'll be communicating with the frontend over 802.11b. Has anyone tried to do this before?If not, any ideas on how this may be accomplished?___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-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 full refresh
The way I did was running mythtv-setup, and blowing my sources, and then rechoosing them. Next time I ran mythfilldatabase, I got it all.On Apr 4, 2005 9:22 AM, Bill Oberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was bit by the QT 3.3.4 bug + daylight savings, and have it fixed up with one of the posted workarounds. The problem is that I can't figure out how to do a full refresh of mythfilldatabase. If I run it with: --refresh-today or --refresh-second I got updated data for those days, but days 3 - N are wrong. I don't see a command for "refresh-all" or anything like that, is there? Thanks, William ___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-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] frontend only remote?
Isn't this the reason that we have USB keyboards and mice nowadays hotplug support in our kernels?On Apr 4, 2005 12:13 PM, PAUL WILLIAMSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/04/05 11:24 AM On a frontend only machine, ( no capture card) what is the best option for a remote control? Are there any inexpensive options to add a remote control to a PC that interfaces well with lirc/mythtv? Recomendations? Experiences? Thank you, MarkI *highly* recommend a wireless keyboard like an airboard,coupled with a learning remote.I messed around withLIRC for a while, and got it working fairly good.But therewere occasions where I wanted to have a keyboard (likeif Myth segfaulted or the machine went otherwiseunresponsive), and since plugging in a keyboard or mousewhile the system is powered on is generally a no-no,I always had to ssh in to the box, shut it down, plugthe keyboard in, fire it back up, etc.Then I have noreason to have the keyboard.I like LIRC, I just don'twant to have to deal with it on a system like Mythwhere there will be all sorts and ages of people usingit.Once LIRC gets every issue ironed out and I don'tneed to worry about compiling from source or addingin patches that may or may not fix my problem, I maytry it again.I rarely have focus problems.The myth developershave done a pretty good job of handing focus backto where it belongs.At least I think they are the onesdoing it.Once I figure out the jump points in myth and remapsome of the xine keys, I'll be extremely happy withthat solution.The IR receivers for the keyboardseven work with the Xantech and other IR repeatersystems out there!Paul___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-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] Zap2it Data off?
I havent checked today to see if this has been resolved since DST has passed now. I'll see later on this evening if it is still happenening for todays recordings. I'm glad to hear i'm not crazy though!On Apr 3, 2005 2:11 PM, Ryan A. Carris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Apr 3, 2005 12:18 PM, Steven Loberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daylight savings, On Apr 3, 2005 1:07 PM, Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 3, 2005 1:45 AM, Mario L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason all of my zap2it data has been off. I have two mythtv setups, one in eastern time and one in central time.The one in central time has its recordings off by a single hour all of a sudden today, and the one in eastern time has all of its recordings off by two hours today.I thought it was just a coincidence with FX, but its all of the stations.I double checked my clocks and timezones, and then compared the zap2it data to tvguide data, and the zap2it data isn't properly shoing up.I'm wondering if this will be resolved by itself with the DST switch in twenty minutes, but I'm not sure.If it isn't resolved, what is the easiest way to blow all the guide data and rebuild without blowing the entire myth database?Also has anyone else noticed this today? Yes, I noticed this yesterday(saturday) morning also.I had justinstalled a new motherboard, so I thought it was me.I can't countthe number of times I have checked the system's timezone settings.NTP is up and running, and I have the correct time.My hardware clockis set to UTC.Yesterday the TZ was set to CST, and today itcorrectly switched to CDT.I've been battleing this since yesterday, thinking it was me, or DST.I've done everything, including dropping my database, but nothing.But, after seeing my clock correctly switch, and all the posts, I'mconviced it is Zap2it. I'm a little bothered that we haven't seen apeep out of the myth gurus out there.We'll see..___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Zap2it Data off?
Well I'm still not sure what to think - some of my data is matching up now, but not all of it. It might be a fault of just a few of the stations not providing the correct data due to the DST savings time change not at all zap2it's fault. My central time mythtv setup was worse though from what I saw, it looks like it was trying to record a futurama at 3 or 4 in the morning today, when normally it airs around 10:30 or so. To get an idea of how widespread this is, what stations are people having trouble with and where are you located? I'm having: Raleigh/Durham area NC (EDT) Problem Stations: FX, Comedy Central, UPN The only station I could verifably say is working is FOX Ames area IA (CDT) Problem Stations: Cartoon Network, Comedy Central No verified working stations Anyone with the issues want to compare to what they have working for their local area?On Apr 3, 2005 7:18 PM, Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Ryan A. Carris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been battleing this since yesterday, thinking it was me, or DST. I've done everything, including dropping my database, but nothing. But, after seeing my clock correctly switch, and all the posts, I'm convinced it is Zap2it.Hmm, I'm in Eastern Time, in Canada, and things are working fine forme.I happened to reboot my machine not too long after the changeto EDT, because of a power failure, so there's a slight chance thatis why my system is ok, but I assume people have tried that?In any case, it doesn't look like a blanket Zap2it problem.Maybejust for some providers?Or maybe the providers themselves are atfault?Dan___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-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] Zap2it Data off?
For some reason all of my zap2it data has been off. I have two mythtv setups, one in eastern time and one in central time. The one in central time has its recordings off by a single hour all of a sudden today, and the one in eastern time has all of its recordings off by two hours today. I thought it was just a coincidence with FX, but its all of the stations. I double checked my clocks and timezones, and then compared the zap2it data to tvguide data, and the zap2it data isn't properly shoing up. I'm wondering if this will be resolved by itself with the DST switch in twenty minutes, but I'm not sure. If it isn't resolved, what is the easiest way to blow all the guide data and rebuild without blowing the entire myth database? Also has anyone else noticed this today? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Daylight Savings Time, NTP, and reboot
Well here is what I have found:portablemario supermario # dateSun Apr3 01:59:44 EST 2005portablemario supermario # dateSun Apr3 03:00:04 EDT 2005portablemario supermario # Linux does adjust automatically, even if you are set to local. Actually looking at mythweb for sunday morning, it looks like my program guide decides to just skip 2 oclock all together as though it already accounts for the fact that we switch to DST: 01:45 AM 03:00 AM I have no recordings ending right at 3 anyway, so I'm not too worried. On Apr 1, 2005 8:32 AM, Michael J. Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Christensen wrote: I don't think that would be an appropriate test.When daylight savings time comes into effect, the computer's clock isn't adjusted by an hour; it's just the human-readable display of the time that changes. Dan PS: Please trim quoted material and don't top post.I didn't say to adjust the clock to account for daylight savings time, I said to advance the clock to say 1:58 am Sunday morning. The machine will act exactly as if it is that time and do whatever it's going to do when 2:00 am arrives. Certainly it's an appropriate test.The machine has no idea if the time arrives at what it is as a result of real time passing or being forcibly set to that time. Obviously, if you schedule a recording based on the program guide, what is recorded will not be correct but *something* will be recorded. -- Michael J. Lynch What if the hokey pokey IS what it's all about -- author unknown ___ 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] Daylight Savings Time, NTP, and reboot
Well if ntp isn't running, will linux adjust automatically for daylight savings time? I mean i have a client that runs at startup and thats it. On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:24:23 -0500, Jeff Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just changed my clock to be UTC in hopes that it will prevent any problems before they happen. I'm going to leave mine on right through the change, we'll see what it does - Jeff On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:19:50 -0500, Bryan Halter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Clarke wrote: Hi All, Hoping for some quick guidance on this, I've got myth up and running and all is good. I'm going away for a couple days starting tomorrow and I won't be back until tuesday or wednesday. Is Daylight Savings Time going to screw anything up for me? Should I set the backend computer to re-boot early Sunday morning? TIA, Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I haven't had any problems with this -- Bryan Halter [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP 0x55AB8EA4 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- email me if you want a gmail invite, I have some invites ___ 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] Daylight Savings Time, NTP, and reboot
I'm still a bit confused Well so if you have your timezone set to local, and that is the time saved to your HW clock, will there be issues? On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:25:05 -0500, Jeff Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there's a seperate TZ for myth? I have my timezone set for gentoo properly already, i think (times appear correct at the console when I type date and hwclock shows the time in GMT). -Jeff On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:18:27 -0600 (CST), Brian Foddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assuming your system timezone (TZ) variable is set correctly, you shouldn't need to do anything for the time shift. Doesn't matter if NTP is running or not, as it internally works on UTC time only. To the user who changed their system clock to UTC manually, unless you override the TZ variable for mythtv, you could be heading for trouble by trying to out-smart the already smart system. Brian On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Chris Clarke wrote: Hi All, Hoping for some quick guidance on this, I've got myth up and running and all is good. I'm going away for a couple days starting tomorrow and I won't be back until tuesday or wednesday. Is Daylight Savings Time going to screw anything up for me? Should I set the backend computer to re-boot early Sunday morning? TIA, Chris ___ 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 -- email me if you want a gmail invite, I have some invites ___ 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] DVD Authoring and MythTV Archive howto (writing one...)
Chad, There is a patch at the forum that hosts mythtvburn, that at least allows for compatability in gentoo. I nabbed the patch, but the author seems to have made a few mistakes in it too. If you grab that cvs, you'll be a little bit better off, but from the looks of it, the author still hasn't made any major changes for a bit. Mario On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 03:09:04 -0700, Chad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you possibly submit your fixes to the author, or create a tarball and submit it to the list for the generic users? :) Cool On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:59:09 +0200, Fredrik Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I thinkit is not OT to point ot that there is a working solution for knoppmyth which runs from th web intercace and that I was able to port to regular mythtv without much trouble. http://sourceforge.net/projects/mythburn/ There are some work being done on a frontend plugin too in the CVS. /Fredrik On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 06:17:17 -0500 (EST), Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Jeff Simpson wrote: While the outline looks good, I don't think the organization of the writeup was ever the brick wall preventing anything. The real lack is in decent software applications to do the job.(ie, I think we should be looking for people who can fix the missing parts rather than re-write up the workarounds) but while we're at it, add these utilities to the toolbox, these are all I use to make dvds out of PVR-350 NUVs: nuvexport (using avidemux2, MPEG2-MPEG2 cut option) dvdstyler (for making dvd iso) k3b (for burning dvd) I'll agree to this. The problem with one-touch dvd authoring from ivtv-captured files is that they're not consistent. Some procedures work well for some, and not for others. Two big problems are: 1. No lossless MPEG2 cutting that does not break streams. This would ideally be rolled into MythTV so when commercials are cut out of an MPEG2 stream, the losslessly-cut MPEG2 stream is what remains. Current somewhat working methods include: A. avidemux: cut/demux/remux (what nuvexport does). This method works most of the time, but breaks when a capture does not have a constant A/V offset throughout. B. gopdit/gopchop: cuts in-place. This method works somewhat, but the correctness of the resulting stream hasn't been fully verified. There are some details (timestamp manipulation, open/closed GOPs, broken GOPs, etc) that need to be investigated. 2. No MythTV support for MPEG2-MPEG2 cutting. Ideally, one would want to apply a cutlist to a capture to save the master footage on the backend with commercials removed. Since this tool doesn't yet exist properly, it's not rolled into MythTV proper... see #1 above. Lather, rinse, repeat. One other point to note is that the ivtv does a *horrible* job of producing low-mid quality captures. If one is trying to build a broadcast-quality archive DVD, they cannot record at a low enough bitrate to do so straight off the card without crappy quality. I use a 2-pass transcode to get very acceptable 2.2 Mbps 352x480 archival DVDs. Roughly 760MB per 42-minute show. That's 6 hour-long shows on one DVD. If you try to capture at that directly, it'll look horrible. -Cory * * Cory Papenfuss* * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * * ___ 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] MYthTV replacement for Intercom?
Paul, This sounds like a great idea, but how many rooms are you looking at doing - it seems as though it will be a bit pricey? I do think your ideal setup will be to buy identical hardware for each room, and then netboot each machine, however - just so you can maintain such an extravagent set up. mario On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:22:12 -0500, PAUL WILLIAMSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm an open book at this point. I know I need: USB Camera Microphone Speakers (thinking of in wall or in-ceiling kind) ~15 or 17 inch monitor PC Wireless keyboard Programmable remote With this setup, I figure I can give the residents of each room a full featured PC for browsing, watching TV, potential (video) phone, room to room calling, access to all the typical mythtv functionality, etc. Paul Chris Menard [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/30/05 8:50 AM What kind of hardware are you thinking of? On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:29:22 -0500, PAUL WILLIAMSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know it's crazy sounding, but can mythphone call other mythphones in the same house? I have an old NuTone intercom that I'm ripping out, and was thinking that rather than patching all the station holes, I could put a small PC in them and an LCD panel over the hole and have myth tv frontends in every room. Now if mythphone could somehow call another frontend locally, I'd be quite happy... Should I just get out the drywall and spackling compound? Paul ___ 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] DVD Authoring and MythTV Archive howto (writing one...)
So then is the builtin cutlist modification in mythfrontend not good still for exporting via nuvexport then? Or is avidemux2 messing up on my machine? Or is avidemux2 not well supported on amd64 by some chance? On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:30:39 -0500, Jeff Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is that using the built-in cutlist modification in mythfrontend? Or are you somehow doing it from avidemux? If the commercial flags aren't in the right place, chances are there's no easy way to fix it without doing it manually. There's only so much perfection we can expect from the commercial flagging functions when the tv stations control what they broadcast for the start and finish of commercials. On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:21:52 -0500, Mario L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well when I say cutlist directly from mythconverg, I mean that I pull the cutlist I customized - hence I went back over the commercial skips generated perfect them. I'll have to try to manualy use avidemux2 and see if it comes out correctly - I'm just looking for some sort of way to minimize that large amount of human interaction required (correcting myth's comm skips takes maybe 1 - 3 minutes for me now) - be able to get these burned without a lengthy process needed for each one. On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:57:18 -0500 (EST), Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and loaded my commercials cutlist out of mysql, but neither would listen to it. They both would work until the first commercial break and then they would just continue adding on that part each time. So I would only have the portion of the show up until the first commercial break looped over and over again. When you use avidemux2, do you provide the cutlist right from the mythconverg sql table then and it works fine for you? I provide a cutlist by manually going through in avidemux and choosing commercial points. Not much fun, but at the point it's still easier than trying to automate it. Even the commercial detection needs some hand-interaction to get it just right. -Cory * * Cory Papenfuss* * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * * ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- email me if you want a gmail invite, I have some invites ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Skip
I would love to see this feature working really well - sometimes you just have a show that you dont want to wait until its finished recording to see what happens (eh hem Stargate SG1 Atlantis later this summer) :) On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:32:37 -0600, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm pretty sure it has been checked into CVS, but I haven't used it. Basically, it'll display Live TV a few seconds behind what it would normally show it at. It'll then mark the commercials. I think it'll work and continue to mark even if you pause. This feature was developed within the last week, so it's still bleeding edge for myth. Matt On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:23:32 +0100, Ashley Bostock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some work on almost real time commercial detection has been done, not sure if its been checked in to CVS yet, do a search on the dev list. On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:00:36 -0500, Tim Sailer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing that I miss on MythTV that the Replay has is the commercial skip during 'live' TV. I know, you can't do that. My daughter keeps trying. :) But, if you pause the show for about 10 minutes, then pick it up, you see Replay skip past the commercials. What would it take to get this into MythTV? Impossible? Not practical? Myth is an awesome app, and I'm lovin every minute of it, but little things like this would make it a Tivo/Replay killer! Tim -- Tim SailerCoastal Internet, Inc. Network and Systems OperationsPO Box 726 http://www.buoy.com Moriches, NY 11955 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (631) 399-2910 (888) 924-3728 ___ 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] DVD Authoring and MythTV Archive howto (writing one...)
Cory, I have been looking at a great way to get my recordings to looks a lot better after transcode , but havent found anything acceptable. Instead I have had to just deal with the size of the recordings thrown at me from my PVR250 and deal. Do you just transcode as a job right from myth to 352x480, or do you have a process you follow after your recordings are all done? On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 06:17:17 -0500 (EST), Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Jeff Simpson wrote: While the outline looks good, I don't think the organization of the writeup was ever the brick wall preventing anything. The real lack is in decent software applications to do the job.(ie, I think we should be looking for people who can fix the missing parts rather than re-write up the workarounds) but while we're at it, add these utilities to the toolbox, these are all I use to make dvds out of PVR-350 NUVs: nuvexport (using avidemux2, MPEG2-MPEG2 cut option) dvdstyler (for making dvd iso) k3b (for burning dvd) I'll agree to this. The problem with one-touch dvd authoring from ivtv-captured files is that they're not consistent. Some procedures work well for some, and not for others. Two big problems are: 1. No lossless MPEG2 cutting that does not break streams. This would ideally be rolled into MythTV so when commercials are cut out of an MPEG2 stream, the losslessly-cut MPEG2 stream is what remains. Current somewhat working methods include: A. avidemux: cut/demux/remux (what nuvexport does). This method works most of the time, but breaks when a capture does not have a constant A/V offset throughout. B. gopdit/gopchop: cuts in-place. This method works somewhat, but the correctness of the resulting stream hasn't been fully verified. There are some details (timestamp manipulation, open/closed GOPs, broken GOPs, etc) that need to be investigated. 2. No MythTV support for MPEG2-MPEG2 cutting. Ideally, one would want to apply a cutlist to a capture to save the master footage on the backend with commercials removed. Since this tool doesn't yet exist properly, it's not rolled into MythTV proper... see #1 above. Lather, rinse, repeat. One other point to note is that the ivtv does a *horrible* job of producing low-mid quality captures. If one is trying to build a broadcast-quality archive DVD, they cannot record at a low enough bitrate to do so straight off the card without crappy quality. I use a 2-pass transcode to get very acceptable 2.2 Mbps 352x480 archival DVDs. Roughly 760MB per 42-minute show. That's 6 hour-long shows on one DVD. If you try to capture at that directly, it'll look horrible. -Cory * * Cory Papenfuss* * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * * ___ 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] FW: Linux/MythTV drivers for 2nd gen PVR cards
I'm a bit confused here, I've got a 250MCE that has support through ivtv w/ chris kennedy's patches? What designs are they referring to? On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:08:48 +0100, Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure why this message was sent to me, but here it is for anyone interested in Pluto. Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: 28 March 2005 11:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Linux/MythTV drivers for 2nd gen PVR cards I read your post about MythTV and PVR Drivers. Most of the popular new PVR cards sold for Windows XP MC are based on Connexant's Blackbird design, which hasn't had drivers for Linux or Myth. We have been working on these drivers and released an alpha version at http://plutohome.com . Pluto even has a self-booting kick-start CD that will automatically install configure everything for you, including a ready-to-go Myth system. It's the fastest and easiest way to get a MythTV PVR up and running, and also installs Xine, Asterisk and our own software to give you the most advanced media entertainment, home automation, security, telecom computing system, controllable with your Symbian Bluetooth mobile phone, as well as PDA's and Webpads. We're working hard to harden the drivers as quickly as possible and would like as much feedback as possible. These 2nd generation Blackbird cards are lower in price and offer better picture quality than the current models supported in IVTV, so be sure to check them out. visit: plutohome.com , click 'support', 'support site', and choose CX88 Blackbird Drivers from the projects menu This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ 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] FW: Linux/MythTV drivers for 2nd gen PVR cards
Oh i see thanks On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:28:19 -0500, Tom E. Craddock Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mario L wrote: I'm a bit confused here, I've got a 250MCE that has support through ivtv w/ chris kennedy's patches? What designs are they referring to? The IVTV wiki has info about the card design they are talking about, the Blackbird. IVTV drivers dont work with them currently, so pluto has made a driver which does the same for the blackbird cards what IVTV does now for the other 1/2/350/500s now. Tom ref: http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php?page=SupportedHardwarehighlight=blackbird ___ 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] DVD Authoring and MythTV Archive howto (writing one...)
I dont mean to overly thread hijack, but: Well i was having issues with avidemux2, but they werent A/V sync issues. I was actually originally trying to use either nuvexport or the script that came with mythtvburn to attempt to cut commercials followed by burn, and ran into issues. Both of these used avidemux2, and loaded my commercials cutlist out of mysql, but neither would listen to it. They both would work until the first commercial break and then they would just continue adding on that part each time. So I would only have the portion of the show up until the first commercial break looped over and over again. When you use avidemux2, do you provide the cutlist right from the mythconverg sql table then and it works fine for you? On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:06:27 -0500 (EST), Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Mario L wrote: Cory, I have been looking at a great way to get my recordings to looks a lot better after transcode , but havent found anything acceptable. Instead I have had to just deal with the size of the recordings thrown at me from my PVR250 and deal. Do you just transcode as a job right from myth to 352x480, or do you have a process you follow after your recordings are all done? If you search the list, you'll find previous posts on what I've done. Basically, if there aren't any A/V sync glitches in the capture (e.g. capturing from tape), I use avidemux2 directly. Basically: - Capture at 640x480, 5Mbps or so - Edit commercials from within avidemux - Choose HQ3D denoise, 1/2 D1 resolution, 2-pass transcoding of video (roughly 3-4 hours/hour show on 2.4GHz machine) - Remux .m2v audio - qdvdauthor for fancy menus - dvdauthor to master - mkisofs to image - growisofs to burn If the sync is broken, there's a workaround. Basically, it involves using 'mencoder' to encapsulate the MPEG2 stream into an .avi. Then use rebuild b-frames from within avidemux to resync A/V as an AVI. Then transcode as normal. Avidemux can't deal with changing A/V sync within a capture. -Cory * * Cory Papenfuss* * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * * ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] xbox or ps2 as frontend
Search the list archives, these have been discussed previously. On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:26:58 -0800, Sameer Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody used either of these as frontends? If so can you share the details? I am mostly looking for performance related issues given the xbox has 64MB RAM... -- Sameer ___ 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] SUID Root
I was under the impression that compiling with opengl is only supported for an nvidia series video card. I am working under an ati series video card. Is this correct? If not, then I'll be recompiling later tonite :). On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:39:43 +1000, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 08:33:08PM -0500, Mario L wrote: I have been trying to make mythfrontend run as SUID root, but can't seem to have much luck. I have already done chmod a+s /usr/local/bin/mythfrontend, but still when I launch, I get interruptions when the computer runs an apache request and I still see it using usleep in the term: suid root might get you real-time priority but it doesn't get you a better sync method (other than usleep). You should compile with OpenGL to get that. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [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] SUID Root
Well its running better reniced, but if I can just do an opengl vsync instead with my ATI card, I'd prefer to do that On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:44:55 -0500, Dan Wilga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2:18 PM +1030 3/26/05, Matthew Phillips wrote: On 26/03/2005, at 12:44 PM, Mario L wrote: No i haven't, but wouldn't I have to do that each time I launched myth? Yes, but it's not hard to do: sudo /usr/bin/renice -5 `ps -e | grep mythfrontend | cut -f1 -d ` You can put that in a script that runs the frontend. Why not just do: nice -5 mythfrontend to run it in the first place? -- Dan Wilga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Administrator http://www.mtholyoke.edu Mount Holyoke CollegeTel: 413-538-3027 South Hadley, MA 01075Who left the cake out in the rain? ___ 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: How well does commercial detection work?
Comedy central presents works consistently for me. On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:43:44 -0700, SpikeyGG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg, i think it probably has a lot to do with the shows you're recording/watching: American Idol, the smurfs (!?!?!)... i'm pretty sure the developers put clauses in the code that screws up commercial detection for shows such as these. ;) Hehehe, now that's just funny! Actually, I recorded The Smurfs because I didn't know they still showed it. I used to watch it as a kid... I can't believe how horrible the cartoon is. Don't worry it was a one time thing! :) actually it does appear to depend on what shows are being recorded. some work better than others partially because those are the shows that the devs watch and test on regularly. others work well because they conform to some sort of standards, if there is any such beast. you may have to bribe one of the devs to spend some time with American Idol to determine if the show/network is doing something goofy before/during/after a commercial break... Could someone suggest a show that works all the time? I'll record it and see if the commercials get detected correctly. Looking back through the messages from good ol' gossamer, it sounds like Jeopardy! works fairly well. I'll try that to start with (if I can find it in the programming guide). So I just checked out a brand-new clean CVS version of mythtv and recompiled and got it up and running. I reran the commercial detection on the same Simpsons episode I was usiung before using the default blank frame detection, it found three of the four commercial breaks but again they are between 20 seconds and 1 minute of offset from where they should be. I tried running it again with the ALL method and it again only found 1 break right at the front which was also 20+ seconds off (same as before). I'll try wheel of fortune next. Thanks, -Greg ___ 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] xbox or ps2 as frontend
Whats making you hold off on moving up with the times on myth? So much has changed since .15. On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:58:59 -0600, Scott Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:10:51 -0800, Sameer Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A search on Google for xbox mythtv brings up http://bit.blkbk.com/ as the very 1st hit. This page says MythTV-XBox Release 0.4 This is the fourth release of MythTV for the XBOX. Thanks for the link. I have found a couple of instances of xbox use as frontend where the user has experienced an occasional choppy display. I was wondering if anyone else could corroborate? -- Sameer ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users If you have XMBC there is a mythtv python script that you can use with it also. It has been flawless for playback of recorded shows. I think the newer stuff also has live-tv capabilities, but since I'm still running myth 15.1, I can't move up to the newer version. Scott ___ 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] xbox or ps2 as frontend
You can do what i did when i made a big upgrade. Make an image of the drive using partimage, you screw it up - revert back. Just give yourself a day to fumble with it - or just go knoppmyth and have the least amount of headache. On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:30:39 -0600, Scott Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:11:10 -0500, Mario L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whats making you hold off on moving up with the times on myth? So much has changed since .15. Mostly because I'm running on Core 1 and everything is working like a champ. Fear of breaking it and getting an earful from the wife. I'm a big fan of the 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' camp. I'm sure I'll bite the bullet here pretty soon and get it up to date once I have a good chunk of time in order to debug in case things go wrong. But if I'm going to do the upgrade I'm going to move up to Core 3, the most recent ivtv drivers, and latest Myth. That's a lot to smaller in one sitting :) Scott ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Small Disto for FrontEnd
Okay then, in the case of NFS then, it would be to my advantage to do
the gigabit networking that I was thinking was pointless for a mythtv
network then, since everything is initially ran from network, from
what I understand?
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 09:02:44 -0700, Adam Felson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 00:52 -0500, Mario L wrote:
So then does the PXE boot run all the files off nfs, or does it cache
them locally in memory?
All PXE boot does it bring the kernel in. Once the actually kernel that
is going to be used is loaded, the PXE bootloader is gone.
I'm not sure how NFS handles caching. Programs that are running have
their active parts sitting in memory. A peek at 'vmstat' on my running
epia mythfrontend shows:
procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io --system--
cpu
r b swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy
id wa
0 0 0 185596 0 234600098 0 151 138 7 0
92 0
So, there's some caching going on.
It's a good idea to use a ramdisk for /tmp.
I have in /etc/fstab:
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,nosuid,size=4M,mode=777 0 0
On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 00:52 -0500, Mario L wrote:
So then does the PXE boot run all the files off nfs, or does it cache
them locally in memory?
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:13:36 -0700, Adam Felson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 15:40 -0500, Mario L wrote:
Where have you been looking about PXE booting? I am considering
setting up PXEboot for my next upcoming frontend, and I was going to
go the gentoo route with it:
PXE booting was a snap for me using gentoo.
Steps:
set up dhcp server and have frontend boot pxelinux
compile a kernel that does uses nfs root partition
copy gentoo stage 2 to directory where root is mounted
on big desktop, chroot to that directory follow the gentoo howto for
building the system ('emerge system' etc.)
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Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Detection
I was having similar problems with my new addiction Nip/Tuck. I have decided to just go on what commercial detection has been finding just creating a cut list before I watch the show. Hell, it takes 5-10 minutes to put together a cutlst the show doesnt break when suddenly a commercial is detected 5 seconds long when Christian and Julia start to make out (Megan O'hare episode), or a 3 second commercial break while Juila walks in on Matt's 3 some. Its probably better this way, it forces me to perfect all the commercial breaks before I get ready to burn to DVD, intead of just go on the breaks that are still a little bit off. On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 12:54:07 -0500, aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I don't mean this to be a complaint, but rather more of a data point... On Jan 17, there was a fairly major revamping of the way commerical detection works. I found that with this new code, detection was working better than I ever imagined was possible. Then, on Jan 23, there was a modification to the brightness thresholds. With this change, the commercial detection was still VERY good, but not as good as the Jan 17 version. Since then, other changes were made, including some sort of aspect-ratio detection, I think. I've found that with the current version, detection isn't as good as it was even prior to Jan 17. It works really well on some shows, especially ones that are letterboxed, but on others it looks almost random sometimes. A couple of shows that used to detect really well no longer detect well. For example, Jeopardy (you can stop laughing now :) . The first couple of breaks detect fine, but the Final Jeopardy round is detected as a commercial now so that, essentially, the show ends after Double Jeopardy. It does this consistently now, night after night. With the old version of the commercial detection, all the commercials were detected correctly. I don't know what to suggest for how to improve it. I'm sure the current version is working great for some people. But for me, it's not as good as it used to be. And it's not as good as I know it can be. -- aaron ___ 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] Frontend slave mode - duplicating a master frontend
Well you can always hit spacebar before living the room in the case of recordings. It'll save yourself a bookmark to continue off of. I don't watch any live tv, and dont have any advice for it, however. On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 14:30:24 +0100, Mark Hindess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'd quite like to be able to set up a mythtv frontend in my kitchen. Most of the time, I'd like it to be as independent as my other frontends. But I'd also like to be able to operate it in a slave mode, where it can show whatever is showing on my master living room frontend. I'm mostly thinking about watching live tv and watching recordings - rather than mythvideo. So that you could walk between the two rooms and carry on watching the same show. Is this ever likely to be possible with mythtv? (Obviously there will be synchronisation issues, but I think I can live with a certain amount of that.) Regards, Mark. ___ 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] Commercial Detection
Whoops sorry! I didn't even think before posting a spoiler. I'll watch myself in the future On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 12:03:00 -0800, Ian Forde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 13:17 -0500, Mario L wrote: I was having similar problems with my new addiction Nip/Tuck. I have decided to just go on what commercial detection has been finding just creating a cut list before I watch the show. Hell, it takes 5-10 minutes to put together a cutlst the show doesnt break when suddenly a commercial is detected 5 seconds long when Christian and Julia start to make out (Megan O'hare episode), or a 3 second commercial break while Juila walks in on Matt's 3 some. Its probably better this way, it forces me to perfect all the commercial breaks before I get ready to burn to DVD, intead of just go on the breaks that are still a little bit off. And I'm just in the middle of watching the Megan O'Hara episode! Thanks for the spoiler! ;) -I ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] SUID Root
What distributions/kernels don't allow this any longer? I am running Gentoo 2005.0 AMD64, with gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.11-r4. On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 08:40:14 -0500, Doug Larrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mario L wrote: I have been trying to make mythfrontend run as SUID root, but can't seem to have much luck. I have already done chmod a+s /usr/local/bin/mythfrontend, but still when I launch, I get interruptions when the computer runs an apache request and I still see it using usleep in the term: You are probably running one of the distributions/kernels that no longer allows threads of the same process to have different effective UIDs. I have an idea of how to fix this (have one realtime-priority video output thread that's reused) but need to find development time to fix it. If someone who is running such a distribution/kernel has more motivation and gets to it before I do, that would be lovely. -Doug ___ 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] Gentoo USE Flags for Backend Only System
RAID10 eh? Never heard of it.. maybe you mean RAID0+1 On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 07:52:27 -0800, MagicITX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm doing the same thing. My backend is an AMD64 with 4x SATA 300gb drives configured as RAID10. I have 4x PVR250 MCE capture cards. OS is Gentoo. It has an ATI Radeon X300 video card since I will do some kind of video output even if it is only status information. The system is up and running. The only problem I have is switching between composite and tuner inputs on the cards (nothing coming in over composite). I'm working on the frontend system right now. I don't know how you will run mythsetup without X on the backend. You can always populate the db directly I guess. I believe MythWeather will only need to be on the frontend. I don't have enough experience with the other packages to comment. Since I'm in process right now I can't be a whole lot of help but wanted to let you know what I'm doing so we can compare notes. On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 05:53:23 -0800, Richard J. Sears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I figured I would break this topic out into a new thread. David Morrison said: ---SNIP- Here's mine too so you can compare which flags to use or pull out. Note that this is my everyday box too so there's a lot of other flags in here related to other things I use. Also, my box is an AMD Athlon so you might want to change the 3dnow and 3dnonoex flags if your's is an Intel. USE=nuvexport ffmpeg lirc dvb divx4linux matroska dvdread theora truetype encode svga xvid divx gnome gtk kde qt mysql dvd cdr dvdr alsa acpi cups dga encode gphoto2 mpeg oggvorbis samba x86 -nls mmx sse 3dnow 3dnowex mmxext v4l v4l2 network Also, here's my package.keywords file: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python-CSV $ cat /etc/portage/package.keywords media-tv/mythtv ~x86 media-tv/linuxtv-dvb ~x86 media-plugins/mythweather ~x86 media-plugins/mythvideo ~x86 media-plugins/mythgallery ~x86 media-plugins/mythmusic ~x86 www-apps/mythweb ~x86 media-libs/a52dec ~x86 media-video/ffmpeg ~x86 And my package.unmask [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python-CSV $ cat /etc/portage/package.unmask =media-libs/a52dec-0.7.4-r4 I needed the ~x86 versions of a52dec and ffmpeg in order to make nuvexport work, so if you won't be using those you can remove them. SNIP- My intention is to build a dedicated backend system to handle the Mythbackend stuff, and a dedicated (several actually) frontend system that will be connected to my TVs. The backen will have the HD3000 and several PVR-250 cards on a Dual Athlon system with 1GB RAM and 4 x 300GB Maxtor SATA Drives. Video card is nothing special. From reading the threads, it appears that I do not need X on my backend system as I can just ssh into the box and manage everything like that. Is this correct..? Is they any benefits to installing X on the backend system other than to have a GUI to more around in..? Second, do I need to install all of the plugins (like mythweather, mythvideo, etc) on the backend, or on the frontend (or on both)..? Is there a breakdown of what needs to be installed on a 'backend only' system and then on a 'frontend only' system, or do you install all of ti and configure them different..? Thanks :-) ** Richard J. Sears Vice President American Internet Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.adnc.com 858.576.4272 - Phone 858.427.2401 - Fax INOC-DBA - 6130 I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things . . Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like you do when nobody's watching. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Tim www.magicitx.com ___ 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] Small Disto for FrontEnd
Where have you been looking about PXE booting? I am considering setting up PXEboot for my next upcoming frontend, and I was going to go the gentoo route with it: I'm not sure which option I'll choose yet, but it looks like there is a way to make it share a filesystem with your booting system, which could be interesting: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/diskless-howto.xml or there is the option of letting it boot from its own set of directories, which I think will probably be the better of the two options: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_Diskless_Install Has anyone gone the gentoo route for PXE booting though? On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:17:20 -0800, Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reinserted by me: -- What would be the most suitable linux distro to install myht frontend in say a 256Mb or 512Mb CF card? Would it run under something like DSL (Damn Small Linux)? Have you looked into MiniMyth? -- On Friday 25 March 2005 11:45, Dave Ansell wrote: I did, but it seemed to be configured specifically for EPIA hardware which could be very diferent to mine. Ah, hadn't considered that. Yeah, its very tailored to an EPIA. Sounds like maybe DSL is indeed a better option. How configurable is it, do you know? I don't have a clue, haven't actually used it. My EPIA is running FC3 at the moment, off a 10GB laptop HD, so I didn't worry much about space. As for Myth on DSL, I don't see any reason why it wouldn't run on it, once you've got all the necessary bits in place. How much work getting said bits in place would be, I haven't a clue. In that respect, MiniMyth would obviously be easier if you can adapt it for your hardware, since the Myth part of the equation is already taken care of. If I were installing on a CF card, I'd probably use Debian or Fedora myself, building the system up in a chroot on another machine, then rsync it onto the flash card when appropriately trimmed, but that's just me. :-) PS - Dave, don't trim quite so much of the original message, leave enough context that people don't have to already know the entire thread to understand what you're talking about... -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got a question? Read this first... http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html MythTV, Fedora Core ATrpms documentation: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archive http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/ ___ 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] Gentoo USE Flags for Backend Only System
Oh interesting, I guess I learn something new every day right? On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:30:56 +, Allan Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mario L wrote: RAID10 eh? Never heard of it.. maybe you mean RAID0+1 Not necessarily. http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/01093607424 Besides, raid10 is common usage. Cheers, Allan. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] SUID Root
I have been trying to make mythfrontend run as SUID root, but can't seem to have much luck. I have already done chmod a+s /usr/local/bin/mythfrontend, but still when I launch, I get interruptions when the computer runs an apache request and I still see it using usleep in the term: 2005-03-25 20:23:18.683 Changing from WatchingPreRecorded to None 2005-03-25 20:23:18.735 Changing from None to None 2005-03-25 20:23:18.787 Enable DPMS 2005-03-25 20:24:22.566 All Programs 2005-03-25 20:24:26.664 Disable DPMS 2005-03-25 20:24:27.609 Opening audio device 'default'. 2005-03-25 20:24:28.131 Using XV port 67 2005-03-25 20:24:29.148 Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded 2005-03-25 20:24:29.156 Realtime priority would require SUID as root. 2005-03-25 20:24:29.162 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait 2005-03-25 20:27:49.803 Changing from WatchingPreRecorded to None 2005-03-25 20:27:49.869 Changing from None to None 2005-03-25 20:27:49.913 Enable DPMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -alh /usr/local/bin/ total 2.3M drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 480 Mar 25 20:19 . drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 344 Mar 17 23:04 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 Mar 17 23:04 .keep lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Feb 13 00:42 findwine - /usr/local/winetools/findwine -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 158K Feb 10 18:36 mtd -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 474K Mar 25 20:19 mythbackend -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 41K Mar 25 20:19 mythcommflag -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 9.4K Mar 25 20:19 mythepg -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 248K Mar 25 20:19 mythfilldatabase -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 969K Mar 25 20:19 mythfrontend -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 15K Mar 25 20:19 mythjobqueue -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 8.4K Mar 25 20:19 mythprogfind -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 101K Mar 25 20:19 mythtranscode -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 15K Mar 25 20:19 mythtv -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 173K Mar 25 20:19 mythtv-setup -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 18K Mar 25 20:19 mythtvosd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Feb 13 00:41 wt - /usr/local/winetools/wt210jo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] SUID Root
. and here i have been going tried running as different users, with tons of different permissions. Is there a way to run it with sudo then? When I try, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo mythfrontend mythfrontend: cannot connect to X server On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:18:46 +1030, Matthew Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26/03/2005, at 12:03 PM, Mario L wrote: I have been trying to make mythfrontend run as SUID root, but can't seem to have much luck. I have already done chmod a+s /usr/local/bin/mythfrontend, but still when I launch, I get interruptions when the computer runs an apache request and I still see it using usleep in the term Yeah, I spent some time trying to fix that too. Only to find out that the real-time feature has been disabled in 0.17 due to it causing instability on some boxes. The checkbox is still there though, just to keep you confused :/ Cheers, Matthew. ___ 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] SUID Root
No i haven't, but wouldn't I have to do that each time I launched myth? On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:29:49 +1030, Matthew Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26/03/2005, at 12:22 PM, Mario L wrote: . and here i have been going tried running as different users, with tons of different permissions. Is there a way to run it with sudo then? When I try, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo mythfrontend mythfrontend: cannot connect to X server I believe the app has to invoke real-time prioritizing via an API - just running as root doesn't do that. Have you tried upping the priority with something like renice -5 [mythfrontend PID]? Matthew ___ 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] SUID Root
OK ill get that setup tomorrow when i have access to my frontend again. Thanks On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:18:51 +1030, Matthew Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26/03/2005, at 12:44 PM, Mario L wrote: No i haven't, but wouldn't I have to do that each time I launched myth? Yes, but it's not hard to do: sudo /usr/bin/renice -5 `ps -e | grep mythfrontend | cut -f1 -d ` You can put that in a script that runs the frontend. You need to give the user you run myth as (or anyone in the mythtv group in my case) permission to renice to -5 as root. Using visudo to add this line does that: %mythtv ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/renice -5 [0-9]* Matthew. ___ 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] watching recordings on windows via samba share to myth box
well if you have the myth tv filters installed, you can add additional columns to the folder view of your samba share. the myth filters add i know at least description channel episode, and probably some others. You can then just browse the folder and choose one, and open it in your media player of choice. On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:47:56 -0500, thunderducks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I would share this hack in case anyone else was looking to do this: I've installed the VLC client on my laptop and was happy with the way the way recordings played via the samba share to my recordings directory. The one thing that was missing for me was a decent description of the hard to decipher file names. Enter the mythweb recordings page which has a beautiful layout of your recordings with descriptions etc. So I thought, why not hack the php code to redirect to local samba file - so here's the process I went through to get that done. 1. on the windows machine I installed the latest version of VideoLan Client (vlc) www.videolan.org 2. on the windows machine I registered a new protocol called vlc. I did this by creating a new key using regedit that points anything with the vlc: prefix to the vlc viewer. Here is the structure of the new key: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT] [vlc] (Default) = URL:vlc Protocol URL Protocol = [DefaultIcon] (Default) = vlc.exe [shell] [open] [command] (Default) = c:\Program Files\videolan\vlc\vlc.exe %L 3. On the myth side, I edited the recorded_progams.php (buried in a themes directory). I only changed the line that creates the image link(it's buried in an if statement that determines creates a URL for the image if you have that feature turned on) - I figure that way if I still want to download the program I can just click on the description and it will still function as the author intended. So comment out the original image tag and replace it with something like this(you'll need to adjust for the name of your samba share and the directory that your recordings are stored in): echo 'a href=vlc:Mythtv\\video\\recordings\\'.basename($show-filename).'' once again, just for reference, Mythtv is the name of my box and my recordings are in /video/recordings/ - so you'll need to adjust accordingly. Anyway, just a little hack I thought I'd throw out there in case anyone else was looking for something similar. I've had success with it on 3 different windows machines so far. I'm not a programmer or anything, so please let me know if there was an easier way to do this that I missed. Kent ___ 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] Small Disto for FrontEnd
So then does the PXE boot run all the files off nfs, or does it cache
them locally in memory?
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:13:36 -0700, Adam Felson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 15:40 -0500, Mario L wrote:
Where have you been looking about PXE booting? I am considering
setting up PXEboot for my next upcoming frontend, and I was going to
go the gentoo route with it:
PXE booting was a snap for me using gentoo.
Steps:
set up dhcp server and have frontend boot pxelinux
compile a kernel that does uses nfs root partition
copy gentoo stage 2 to directory where root is mounted
on big desktop, chroot to that directory follow the gentoo howto for
building the system ('emerge system' etc.)
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[mythtv-users] Re: Archiving TV shows to DVD
I have been having the same problem with lvemux as previously posted: supermario temp # lvemux -r -1 -sh 0 -v inputfile.m2v -a inputfile.mp2 \-o /var/mythburn/temp/1071_2005031922_20050319233000.nuv GOP timestamps will be rebuild ERROR: opening A/V streams (0/0) I'm on gentoo, so while emerging lve, i hit ctrl-z and went to check the makefile. Every file in the package is compiled with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE . This show I am trying to do this with was taken from a PVR250MCE, and is about 3.3 gigs. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Capture Sat content using PVR-250
Oh man you guys are gonna make me switch from cable to satelite if this is the case you know with these older receivers having firewire On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:59:12 -0500, David George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/22/2005 3:06 PM, john roberts wrote: Does the RCA box have composite video out and some sort of audio line out? This would then be fed into the PVR-250? Yes, on both counts. You would actually want to connect the s-video output and the audio L/R to the inputs on the PVR-250. Are there other sat boxes with Firewire? Is this a better option now that firewire is now supported? There are some older Directv receivers with firewire, but I have no experience with them. It could potentially be a better option. Wouldn't need to buy a PVR-250 and possibly wouldn't need to build a serial channel changer cable. I wonder if we would get the Dolby Digital through the firewire. Hmm, you are going to make me buy one of these and try it out aren't you...? ;-) -- David HDTV capable frontend I am working on (now with a picture) http://mythhd.info ___ 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] Too slow?
You would have much better luck with a graphics card, I'd say pick one up from a local retailer with a 30 day return exchange policy, give it a shot and see how it works for you. Also use a more lightweight window manager, KDE is much extra bloat that you dont need running on such a weak frontend. On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:56:45 -, Mike Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I had a PII 400 MHz system given to me and I wonder if the more knowledgeable among the group could advise me. The CPU supports only MMX1 The M/B has the SIS 620 Chipset The M/B has onboard graphics (Using 8MB Main Memory) Total memory fitted as of now 128MB (Myth-Suite 0.17) X/KDE runs fine with no visual defects but display of live TV and recorded TV from my existing Backend, stutters with prebuffer pauses and there is a broad Mauve vertical bar on the right side of the screen I would like to use this as a remote Frontend Would I be better off using a PCI Graphics card (if so any recommendations) Or am I wasting my time? Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 With Myth-TV WITHOUT IVTV?
What is difficult about going to chris kennedy's site and downloading the source code. Make sure you have kernel sources installed in /usr/src/linux make, make install ? On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:28:32 -0600, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: herminio wrote: Is there anyway of using Myth-TV WITHOUT the IVTV drivers? I have a PVR-250 with the Conexant CX23416-12 chip. I'm about to get another PVR-Card just so I can use Myth-TV. Unfortunately, IVTV on SUSE 9.1 Pro has been a living nightmare to get working. When I have to record a program, I just boot into W2K and use SageTV, which works flawlessly. What you're asking is like asking if you can use SageTV without the Windows 2000 drivers for your card. Your problem lies with Suse and IVTV, not MythTV. I don't know if you've tried, but working with the IVTV mailing list to resolve your problems with the distribution you chose would be the route pursue. Kevin ___ 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] PVR-250 With Myth-TV WITHOUT IVTV?
When you say refuses to boot, how much have you diagnosed this? Does the same thing happen when you modprobe ivtv before rebooting? Does the computer just freeze at that point? On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:26:43 -0500, herminio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried make make install several times. Usually, my PC refuses to boot up after that. Maybe it is a problem with the Suse distro, or the ivtv driver, or me. I've been using linux since the 0.9 kernel. Sometimes, I just want things to work on my computer, and not have to hack and chop at every piece of new hardware I throw in my Pc. I'll try the ivtv list, again. Mario L wrote: What is difficult about going to chris kennedy's site and downloading the source code. Make sure you have kernel sources installed in /usr/src/linux make, make install ? On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:28:32 -0600, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: herminio wrote: Is there anyway of using Myth-TV WITHOUT the IVTV drivers? I have a PVR-250 with the Conexant CX23416-12 chip. I'm about to get another PVR-Card just so I can use Myth-TV. Unfortunately, IVTV on SUSE 9.1 Pro has been a living nightmare to get working. When I have to record a program, I just boot into W2K and use SageTV, which works flawlessly. What you're asking is like asking if you can use SageTV without the Windows 2000 drivers for your card. Your problem lies with Suse and IVTV, not MythTV. I don't know if you've tried, but working with the IVTV mailing list to resolve your problems with the distribution you chose would be the route pursue. Kevin ___ 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] PVR-250 With Myth-TV WITHOUT IVTV?
Well if you are just looking for something that works (tm), just go knoppmyth, package management will be a sinch with it, and you'll be up and running pretty quick. On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:57:52 -0500, herminio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not running anything right now, but I've tried 0.17, 0.19, 2.0, and 3.0. Nothing compiled successfully. I'm gonna try a different distro. Possibly something that plays more nicely with MythTV. Khanh Tran wrote: What version of ivtv are you using? I'm running under 9.0, but 9.1 should be no issue. -Khanh -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Behalf Of herminio Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 6:27 PM To: Mario L; Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 With Myth-TV WITHOUT IVTV? I've tried make make install several times. Usually, my PC refuses to boot up after that. Maybe it is a problem with the Suse distro, or the ivtv driver, or me. I've been using linux since the 0.9 kernel. Sometimes, I just want things to work on my computer, and not have to hack and chop at every piece of new hardware I throw in my Pc. I'll try the ivtv list, again. Mario L wrote: What is difficult about going to chris kennedy's site and downloading the source code. Make sure you have kernel sources installed in /usr/src/linux make, make install ? On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:28:32 -0600, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: herminio wrote: Is there anyway of using Myth-TV WITHOUT the IVTV drivers? I have a PVR-250 with the Conexant CX23416-12 chip. I'm about to get another PVR-Card just so I can use Myth-TV. Unfortunately, IVTV on SUSE 9.1 Pro has been a living nightmare to get working. When I have to record a program, I just boot into W2K and use SageTV, which works flawlessly. What you're asking is like asking if you can use SageTV without the Windows 2000 drivers for your card. Your problem lies with Suse and IVTV, not MythTV. I don't know if you've tried, but working with the IVTV mailing list to resolve your problems with the distribution you chose would be the route pursue. Kevin ___ 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 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] log files too big
have you looked to see why your log files are filling up so rapidly, perhaps what the contents were? I have the verbosity level of my backend set to none, and my log file dates back to december - but is still only 533K. On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:50:56 -0500, Mary Strimel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I have a smallish root filesystem (7 GB or so), and the mythbackend.log files are quickly filling my disk. I have not installed myth-debug; also, when I go through the setup there is an option for logging that is *unchecked* on my system. In a moment of haste (or stupidity) I deleted two of the largest log files and bolloxed my mythtv completely. once I've done reinstalling it, is there some way to safely purge these files, or better yet, have them not created in the first place (or created somewhere else?) thank you, Mary ___ 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] mythtv-xbox
mythtv-xbox is based off debian, and you can just update the mythTV packages within this debian install. After looking at that page it looks like that is actually one of the installation steps they talk about, updating packages. On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:09:36 -0800 (PST), Listman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
Re: [mythtv-users] How much horse power?
500tb seems like quite a bit of space, does autoexpire ever run for you? On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:59:56 -0500, James Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry Sanderson wrote: I'm hoping to put together my dream system in the next couple of weeks. It will look like this: Home built backend - Athlon 64, 3800 - 2GB Ram - Lot's of hard-drives (4x250M = 1TB) - WinTV PVR 150 - pchdtv HD-3000 A fanless frontend from www.hushtechnologies.com The questions: 1) Do I need a powerhouse frontend to display HDTV streamed from the backend over gigabit ethernet? I was hoping to get away with a modest CPU to keep the box cool. 2) Any issues with my choice of tv tuners? Will I be able to record an ATSC stream off the pchdtv card while watching an NTSC stream off the WinTV card? 3) Any experience using a 64-bit distro with these cards? Thanks for any guidance you have! Man, that backend is way overkill. I am running two Air2pc cards, 2 PVR250's and 500tb of storage on a Athlon 2400 512 megs of memory. That is even more that I need. The power needs to be in the frontend. My frontend is a P4 3g 1gig memory NVidia 5200. - James ___ 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] PVR350 Decoding HD?
Would the PVR350's MPEG2 decoder be able to handle decoding HD over SVIDEO. We weren't planning on buying and HDTV yet, but would still like the improvement involved of running a regular TV at 1024x768, and downscaling the HD if at possible? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] apache 2gb limit? mythweb
Based upon this post: http://lists.debian.org/debian-apache/2005/01/msg00078.html I wouldn't go quickly to blame it on apache. Also a look at the possible useflags for apache, it doesnt seem that there is any useflags that would enable large file support on the ebuild supermario supermario # emerge -pv apache These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] net-www/apache-2.0.53 [2.0.52-r2] -apache2 -debug -doc -ldap -mpm-leader -mpm-peruser -mpm-prefork -mpm-threadpool -mpm-worker -no-suexec +ssl -static-modules -threads 5,009 kB On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:31:57 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [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] [PVR-350 TVOUT - Watch DivX?]
I moved my PVR350 into one my master backend since it couldnt play anything but mpeg2 for crap - especially since that frontend is only a celeron 1.2 with 256 ram. This re-encodes smoothly on your machine/plays back smoothly? What are your specs? On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:41:49 +1030, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually - that line below now works fine :) Can someone else tell me if it works for them? M. - Original Message - From: Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) To: Discussion about mythtv Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 11:40 PM Subject: [mythtv-users] [PVR-350 TVOUT - Watch DivX?] Peoples, After playing around with mplayer's ivtv/ivtvosd output and not been very impressed by the output, I had a thought that you could use mencoder to re-encode the video to mpeg 2 and then just pipe it out to the ivtv video decoder device. mencoder divx-movie.avi -of mpeg -o /dev/video16 -oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video acodec=mp2 Appears to give me watchable video, but no sound. Does anyone know how to get mencoder to output the sound stream so it will play on the PVR-350? M. ___ 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: Can a master backend have no inputs?
I thought that you could have frontends already assigned to commercial flagging anyway since sometime shortly after .16 was released? On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:08:22 -0700, Garry Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:38:51 -0600, Jesse Perkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought the master backend needed at least one input, but the slaves did not require an input. On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:17:01 +, Stephen Boddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can a master backend have no capture cards or devices, and only have them in one or more slave backends? The docs seem a bit ambiguous about this (admittedly unusual) case. Last time I asked this it was wrapped up in a bloody big post, and I think people couldn't be bothered, hence the to-the-point post. TIA -- Steve Boddy -- Jesse Perkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jperkins.homeip.net OK, I'm not doubting you here, you may very well be correct. I don't know the answer to these questions, as I currently only run one MythTV box, combo BE/FE. However, wouldn't a backend without inputs just be a frontend? What would be the purpose of a slave backend with no inputs? Would it be to distribute transcoding and commercial flagging jobs? Garry ___ 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] Wireless G USB Dongles
I dont have any experience with getting the wireless usb g to work, ony integrated g. But you could always have the possibility of doing a wireless bridge. On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 21:19:17 +, Ciaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone gotten a 802.11g USB dongle working on their Myth box yet. I want to put a new frontend into my [wireless] network and as it is a pundit I have no card space [2 tuners], and the pcmcia slot would look quite ugly if filled at the front ? As much as I can grasp from googling is that USB + 802.11g + Linux is a painful experience, but if someone has some hardware that they know works, I can at least get this kit safe in the knowledge that its possible, I can get it up and running once I'm sure in something g -- - Ciaran (I now have far too many G-Mail invites available, anyone who wants one, gets one, just ask [off group]) ___ 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] ivtv-0.2 vs ivtv-0.3
Looks like they are starting to mention linux support on thet 250 MCE too http://www.hauppauge.com/Pages/products/data_pvr250mce.html You can also use the WinTV-PVR-250MCE under Windows XP to watch TV in a window and record your TV shows by using applications like SageTV and BeyondTV. These applications are great if you already have a Windows XP system and would like to add TV watching and recording. The WinTV-PVR-250MCE is supported by Linux TV applications such as MythTV, too. On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 06:12:38 -0500, Maverick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These cards are perilously close to being ready for production use by the general populace, if you ask me. Still need to do some serious testing, I With that kind of news, I took a look at: http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr500mce.html and I noticed the following: ---snip--- System Requirements: Processor requirements: Pentium® IV processor 1.2GHz or faster for TV pause with full screen playback Windows®XP Media Center Edition 2005, WindowsXP Home or WindowsXP Professional Note: when using the WinTV-PVR-500MCE with WindowsXP, you need a third party TV application such as MythTV, SageTV or BeyondTV Free PCI slot Sound card VGA card (PCI or AGP) with Media Center 2005 certified driver DVD decoder certified for use with Media Center 2005 ---snip--- How long has MythTV be available for Windows XP and why wasn't I aware of it? :) Wonder if they're just trying to pick up the search engine traffic. -Kenneth ___ 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: autostarting mythfrontend under GNOME?
or you could always go for the more lightweight but still using gtk2 xfce4.2 On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:34:10 -0500, Bryan Halter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thom Sturgill wrote: Not to beat a dead horse too badly, but determining whether you are in an xterm is trivial. .bash_profile: if [ $TERM != xterm ] then ./startmyth fi then write a simple startmyth script (make sure its executable): #!/bin/bash sleep 10 # let gnome finish startup /usr/bin/mythfrontend Of course adding it to .xsession works equally, but more people are adept at scripts than configuring X. - Thom Thom Sturgill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 09:38:59AM -0500, Thom Sturgill wrote: docs are on autostarting mythfrontend under KDE, any way to do that under GNOME, too? What's wrong with calling it from .bash_profile ? I really like mythfrontend, but not as much as to call a copy of it on each invocation of the bash :) In other words, unless bash is executed with the specific -l or --login argument, these files are ONLY executed at login. Right: including login via ssh, for example! I doubt Alex wants one copy running for each login. He wants one for each X session. Completely different beast. I use .xsession. .xinitrc might work too. But I don't know about Gnome. Dan -- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users My question (I'm actually curious) is why Gnome? Why not use something lightweight like Ratpoison and just at exec mythfrontend to the .xinitc. Gnome is awfully heavy just to run mythfrontend. -- Bryan Halter [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP 0x55AB8EA4 ___ 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] Capture Card in Frontend
You have two options for that frontend capture card. You could run a second backend on that frontend to utilize that card, or run something like tvtime on that frontend just to watch live tv. On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 17:52:54 -0800 (PST), Jordack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 2 PVR-250 in my main backend which runs all day. I also have a pvr-250 in a remote frontend. How can I utilize the frontend capture card. The Frontend already connects and works great off the back end, do I simply need to mount the /recording directory on the front end and start mythbackend? Also is it possible to assign the frontend capture card a low priority? I dont plan on having any wake on lan and want my system to use the frontend as little as possible. __ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ ___ 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] MythTV review from a long-time TiVo user
So I tested out this evening with not pressing buttons for a really long time while watching myth - and xscreensaver does kick in eventually, but i can just hit a key on my remote to kill it. It just happened to coincidently press a button each time before it would normally kick in, be it volume or commercial skip. On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:09:38 -0500, Ben Giddings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Donavan Stanley wrote: Myth will allow your existing screensaver to kick in as needed, provided you have one of course. This doesn't appear to be entirely accurate to me. I believe that Myth only supports DPMS. If you turn on screensavers in KDE or use xscreensaver, the screensaver will kick in regardless of whether you are watching a show or not. I tried this again last night just to be sure and it started up 10 mintutes into our TV show. I've just done a quick instrumentation of the code and verified that the calls are being made to disable/enable the screensaver properly as well as turn off dpms. Why they're not working for all users, I'm not sure and right now I'm too tired to dig into it. Just as a data point, using KDE's screensaver, it doesn't seem to kick in when I'm using Myth, but I can't get it to go away using the remote (using LIRC native in Myth). If I hit a keyboard key though, it does the right thing. Ben ___ 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] MythTV review from a long-time TiVo user
I'm not using native lirc support. I am using irxevent, now that i realize. I still haven't had any occurences of xscreensaver kicking in when watching TV. It might just be coincidental, that maybe I press buttons before the end of the recording, later tonite i'll try not pressing anything for an entire ep of something and see if xscreensaver kicks in. On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 13:52:44 -0500, Joseph A. Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 13:06, Donavan Stanley wrote: On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:25:38 -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: Just wanted to chime in here -- I tried last night with 2/12 CVS. DPMS behaves properly, but xscreensaver doesn't. Myth doesn't end the screensaver when remote buttons are pressed. I'll try this weekend after I upgrade to current CVS. Are you using native lirc support or irxevent? Native LIRC. -JAC ___ 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] MythTV review from a long-time TiVo user
I was about to mention it does seem that myth makes the appropriate calls to xscreensaver consistently for me. I can watch TV without worrying about the screensaver coming up, but when I am at the main menu, if I just wait xscreensaver will enable, and then later my dpms will kick in. I can even wake it up using my remote and lirc. On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 11:32:21 -0600, Lane Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:36:54 -0500, Donavan Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just done a quick instrumentation of the code and verified that the calls are being made to disable/enable the screensaver properly as well as turn off dpms. Why they're not working for all users, I'm not sure and right now I'm too tired to dig into it. Wow. I'm really excited to hear this. I may try this out over the weekend! Lane -- Meetup with other Myth users! http://mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MUG ___ 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] Announcing TVWish Beta -- A super wishlist for Myth
If I had previously heard of MythRecommend I would have used it. I think at this point however, I'm going to wait until TVWish and mythrecommend are merged. On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 12:02:57 -0800, Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:25:53AM -0500, Nicholas McCoy wrote: On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:59:50 -0800, Brad Templeton Brad, have you looked at MythRecommend at all? Its a script you run on your computer which uploads your recording schedule to a database and then downloads lists of shows that were scheduled by others who have the same shows scheduled as you. The output is fairly raw, which makes it hard to use. Another problem is it doesn't have a large user base, so there isn't much information to draw correlations out of. This is a particularly good reason to integrate TV Wish with MythRecommend. Why have 2 starving recommendation systems when one can do the same job. Mythrecommend is hard to find, and it claims the upload is anonymous but it's not, your IP address (mine is static) will be recorded in the web logs. tvwish started as a giant wishlist, and series abridger, but the ablility to import your list from a web URL makes it work as a recommendation system for people who want to set themselves up as a critic. There is no shortage of critics in the world fortunately. However, down the road a rating system and recommendation system are in the plans. Do you know how many people upload data with mythrecommend? There are only 9 references to it on the whole web. I'm not sure how MythRecommend fairs in some of the things you worry about. It appears to be pretty private. You only upload a list of show titles, nothing about whether you actually watched or anything like that. I don't know what protections they have against spam, but I didn't have to set up an account to use it. Lists of what you read and watch are among the things you will find privacy advocates care the most about. Librarians, for example, destroy circulation records after books are returned so that people can't come and demand to see what people are reading. There is a long history of that. ___ 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] commercial auto skip broken/bug in 0.16
I can vouch for having this issue too. I upgraded to CVS to try and fix other problems as well as this. It seems that this will happen less frequently, but will still occur for at least 1 of the commercial breaks during an one hour episode, or every few half hour episodes. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
