[mythtv-users] Thoughts please
I have a hidden MythTV box. The wife was pissed at my collection of homebuilt amps and cables all over the place so I replaced most of it with a MythTV box and moved this, along with my power amp, to a custom built cabinet under the floor (timber frame house). The only problem that I have with this is that the DVD drive is of course no longer accessible. (To get to my Myth box I literally have to go outside, around the side of the house and open the cabinet with a deadlock key) The last component that I have inside (sitting on top of the TV) is a DVD player. I would like to get rid of this as well and was wondering if anyone out there in MythTV land has come across a similar situation? I have another Linux box (the house server in another room) which does my firewall, mail server etc and I was thinking that I could perhaps setup a script on this machine and an NFS share (or similar) so that if we go to the video store we could put the disk into this machine and rip it into the Myth machine. My Myth box runs a Hauppauge PVR-350 and given my experiences with the current framebuffer drivers I am leaning towards leaving it using the hardware decoder as it does now. My questions therefore are : Can I rip a DVD in such a way as to produce nuv files that the 350s hardware decoder can display? Is it possible to setup a separate machine so that I could use the DVD Playing capability of Myth? (Im thinking perhaps that I could setup a separate backend install on my home server? Any ideas? Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Live conflict
I have a system with a single PVR-350 running FC3 (per Jarod ATRPMs). Front and backend are on the one machine. If I go to Watch TV when the system happens to be recording something I get a lockup with a blank picture. Previously I would get a nice page saying that the tuner was busy and a button to return to the menu. Once I get to the blank screen nothing short of killing and restarting mythfrontend will clear it up. Anyone have an idea as to why the nice screen with button no longer appears? Does anyone know what the mechanism is like in Myth that takes care of working out if there is a recording happening in order to trigger the correct screen? Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] LIRC weirdness
Im making some progress at long last on getting lirc to work as a receiver through my PVR-350 and a transmitter on a homebrew serial transmitter to my Foxtel cable box (STU-120). My channel change script (and the setup itself) is from lircsetup.com. Box is FC3 from Jarods guide, front and backend combined. Everything seems to work pretty cool from the command line. I can call the chan_change.sh script and my cable box changes channel. This would tell me that the hardware works fine and that lirc seems to like its configuration. Problem is that when I run the same script from within MythTV nothing happens. In following the troubleshooting pages on lircsetup.com I tried the test_script.sh idea. This works fine from within MythTV. i.e. I get the output log produced. Next test I tried was to put the line which writes the test log entry into the change_chan.sh script itself. Weird thing with this is that although the channel is not changed the log entry line is created. I know that the script is being run (otherwise the log line would not be written). Why isnt the irsend part of the script working when called by MythTV? Any ideas? Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] LIRC weirdness
Does myth run with the same privledges as your manual tests? Does the emitter flash at all (view it through a digital camera or video cam to convert it to visible wavelength). Hi John, Thanks for the post. I'd looked at the privilege stuff but given that I could prove that the script was being run by Mythtv, it just didn't change the channel, I figured that this was not the problem. Just a couple of minutes ago I tracked the problem down to the fact that the freqid column in the channel table of Myth's database was not filled. Once I updated this column with the values in the channum column it all came good. It seems that Myth sends the freqid column to the channel change script and not the channum as you would expect. I suspect that this is a result of the messing about with Australian tv_grab_au scripts. Mythfilldatabase etc that I've had to do. WAF just shot up a couple more notches! :) Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] LIRC Tansmitter and Receiver
I'm working through the instructions at www.lircsetup.com in order to get my MythTV box to be able to use a homebuilt serial transmitter and the receiver on my PVR-350 at the same time. Whenever I have the install line for the serial device in modprobe.conf like : install lirc_serial setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_serial The serial device seems to work (I can do an irsend and see the LED flashing). The big problem is however that the IR receiver on the PVR-350 stops working. As soon as I comment out the above line and reboot the 350's receiver works fine. The only difference I can see between my setup and that Anyone have any idea why there would be a conflict between the two like this? Any idea how I can track down what is going on? Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Omission
Sorry, the line in my last post reading : The only difference I can see between my setup and that Should have read : The only difference I can see between my setup and that of the one mentioned in lircsetup.com is that the versions of some of the components that I have installed are more recent than those mentioned. Sorry about the premature send. Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] 350 FB and Mame
One of the last things that I have yet to get sorted with my rig is the playing of Mame. I run an FC3 combined front and backend from Jarod's guide (ATRPMs) with X on the framebuffer of a Hauppauge PVR-350 (PAL). MB is an Intel with a 2.8GHz P4, 512Mb RAM and 500g of disk. Video quality for recorded shows is of course excellent on the 350 and it is for this reason that I am resisting the idea of going to a normal video card with TV out. Is Mame over the 350's framebuffer viable? Are there any good guides to getting it setup? Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] 350 FB and Mame
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Votour Sent: Friday, 2 December 2005 2:23 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] 350 FB and Mame If you're using Xv, then MAME on the PVR-350 framebuffer is quite usable. Of course, it depends on the game also. On my Athlon64 3200+, playing my favorite game, Mortal Kombat II, I could get about 50fps on a GeForce 5200FX. The same scenario on my PVR-350 would get me about 40fps. The only catch that you might have is that part of the screen will be chopped off, unless you can play with the geometry settings or something. I never really got to this part, since I switched back to the 5200FX. -- Joe How would you rate the performance of the 5200FX for video playback compared with the hardware decoder output of the PVR350? Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] tv_grab_au
For a while now my tv_grab_au script seems to have been missing out on anything much in the way of details. I get the show names and channels etc but nothing in the way of descriptions or episode info etc. I am running the www.immir.com script version 1.44. My channels are a selection from Foxtel and FTA in Sydney. Anyone else getting this behaviour? I've tried setting the -slow option but this doesn't seem to have any effect. Not being able to code in Perl I'm not really able to debug this. Any help will be seriously appreciated. Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au
I noticed similar behaviour, though if I go and look into the future, there seems to be more descriptions, so I am guessing once I am through one whole week with everything stable I think it should work. I worked this one out this morning. My EPG now has full descriptions etc for all shows including even today's. Get rid of your cached.pl or run the script with --ignore-cache. If you take a look at the newly created xml you'll notice that it have all the description info. I looked at options on mythfilldatabase as well but in the end they were not necessary. A simple run of mythfilldatabase against the new guide.xml seemed to update things fine. Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] lirc send and receive
In trying to get both my PVR 350 to receive lirc and a serial transmitter to work I managed to screw up my lirc (see several recent postings) Ive lost the URL to the site that was walking me through the required steps for getting both functions to work (one instance of lirc). Anyone have the link handy? Since all the things I have tried to do to get lirc back up and receiving correctly have failed Id like to go back over what exactly it was that I was doing when I rooted it. Maybe that will shed some light. Current state of play: 1. irw returns nothing (although see point 4) 2. Myth of course doesnt respond to remote as a result. 3. mode2 spits out codes so I know that the hardware is doing something. 4. irrecord makes files but these are unreliable as all hell (incorrect button assignments etc). They do however work to some degree. 5. Have tried all sorts of lirc.conf files posted to this list, on various sites (mainly the lirc homesite) as well as in the ivtv and lirc directories on my box. No joy. Box is FC3, Jarods guide and a PVR-350. Ta Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] lirc send and receive
Repeat after me, including slap of forehead at appropriate timeOh damn, irw won't work when lircd is running...slap[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not trying to be contrary but I think you will find that irw must have lircd running in order for it to work. irw dumps information received on a domain socket to stdout. (According to it's man page) In the case of what we are trying to do it is lircd which is sending this information to the socket. I agree with you that using mode2 or irrecord needs lircd to be stopped. As stated in my previous post I do not have a problem getting mode2 or irrecord to work. Am I being completely stupid on this point? (it is quite possible) NOWHERE on the lirc.org site does it make it clear that the lircd.conf file and the lircrc file must match in the NAMES of the keys. So if lircd.conf calls a button vol+ the lircrc file will not map properly into your applications if it is referred to as Volume-Up (or likely even VOL+ And of course, the lircd.conf must correctly map the transmitted codes to something.. Am I correct in thinking that irw should return the names of the keys pressed as they match up in the lircd.conf file? It was my understanding that irw was not dependant on the lircrc file. Is this a mistake I am making? Since you got that far, I presume you have the /dev stuff figured out. I had to make a rules file in /etc/udev/rules.d called 11-lirc.rules with the following line in it, so that lirc would work: KERNEL=lirc0 SYMLINK=lirc GROUP=mythtv MODE=0660 This ensures that /dev/lirc0 is created, that a symlink of /dev/lirc is created and the group and permissions are set correctly. I have 3 files in this directory: 10-wacom.rules 50-udev.rules lirc.rules I'm assuming that the lirc.rules is the one we are talking about (you mentioned 11-lirc.rules). My lirc.rules contains: KERNEL=lirc[0-9]*, NAME=lirc%n KERNEL=lirc0,SYMLINK=lirc /dev/lirc0 is being created as I can cat it and see characters produced by button presses (mode2 works etc). Any ideas? Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Play Audio/Video Backwards
Geoff Scott wrote: So I watch Lost. There's a character on Lost, Walt, who has started to talk backwards. I was wondering if Myth has a way to play the video/audio backwards so I don't have to go surf to some fan site to figure out what he said. I like being able to slow down the recording, or speed it up, but reversing it would be... well, pretty cool. I think you need to install the little known MythSatanicRitual module. Not sure if is available on ATRPMs though. ;) Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] lirc send and receive
Just a quick note to say thank you to everyone who offered help getting my lircd up and running again. In the end I was able to create a workable lircd.conf file by editing one I got from lirc.org. I replaced the codes with those reported to me for each button press by mode2. It turns out that the hardware and mode2 were working fine all along and it was the lircd.conf that was at fault. If anyone is in need of this lircd.conf I am more than happy to email it or post it up on my website (just thought I'd hold off from spamming the list with it at this stage). Now for another crack at getting a transmitter to run as well as this receiver. Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] lircd.conf
It simply means that you didn't use lircd --logfile /var/log/lircd My box is FC3 and I run this with : /sbin/service lircd start The /etc/sysconfig/lircd file had little in it apart from : # Options to lircd LIRCD_OPTIONS= Since your email I have tried various combinations of the logging argument in /etc/sysconfig/lircd but have not had any success. It always gives : unrecognized option '--logfile=/var/log/lircd' You may have used some other filename or may have completely left off the --logfile (or -L) argument or may have permissions that disallow the lircd user to create the file. Lack of a log file is never proof that something is not working (other than proof that creation of that specific log file is not working). Sounds logical. Thanks for the tip. Mike I have also tried stopping lircd with : /sbin/service lircd stop And then starting it from the command line with : /usr/sbin/lircd --logfile=/var/log/lircd This gives me an error : /usr/sbin/lircd: unrecognized option '--logfile=/var/log/lircd' Any idea why this would happen? Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] lircd.conf
Quite worrying if this config is not working - are you sure LIRC is actually working properly and creating the correct /dev devices? If you are starting LIRC as a service, try # service lircd status This reports : lircd (pid 1173) is running... I can start and stop lircd using service without it showing any sort of error. and see what it reports (I've had instances where LIRC was hanging (LIRC dead, subsystem locked message). The Hauppauge remotes use the RC5 control code set, so you should be able to use irrecord specifying the RC5 config file available from lirc.org. What exactly do you mean by 'use irrecord specifying the RC5 config file'? I've tried running irrecord to build a lircd.conf file (as reported in my post) it works after a fashion but it seems to get various things wrong (misnamed buttons etc). Finally, what type of receiver are you using (PVR or serial Rx) and what output does irw give? My receiver and remote are a PVR-350 and the black and grey (coloured buttons around the cursor keys) control which came with it. This rig has worked in the past. It is only since I was screwing around with updates etc that it stopeed working. I no longer use this remote (but do have the PVR-350), and don't have the old config to hand, but I remember the lirc.org config was fine for me (using lirc 0.7.0 a year ago). Nick Thanks for the post. Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] lircd.conf
Dave wrote: also try mode2 -d /dev/lirc/0 or mode2 -d /dev/lirc0 (or wherever your char device file is created) I believe this just dumps whatever raw data flows into that device from your remote. I tried this and it does seem to work. (my dev is /dev/lirc0). Am going to try and build an lircd.conf manually with the data that is output. irrecord seems to be a bit flaky so maybe a more primitive approach is called for. Will post back if I have any luck. Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] lircd.conf
This rig did work before I updated so I think that the hardware is OK. I've tried using irrecord and this does seem to work after a fashion but I cannot get all of the buttons to work this way. What OS are you running? I ran into a few bumps when moving to a newer kernel (udev) on gentoo. -- Travis The rig is FC3 built using Jarods guide. Straight ATRPMs and nothing fancy on the kernel. Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] lircd.conf
if mode2 works, that would seem to point at a bad lircd.conf. I personally didn't have any problem once I got mode2 to work. I believe I used a lircd.conf from jarods site although can't recall for sure. For my particular remote (the older Grey and Black one) the FC3 page on Jarod's site talks about using a file called : /usr/share/doc/ivtv-*/lircd-g.conf I believe that this is the file I originally had working but for some reason I don't have it now. If I cd to /usr/share/doc/ivtv-* I end up in /usr/share/doc/ivtv-0.4.0 but there is no lircd-g.conf there. Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] lircd.conf
I just dug out my old file (found on an old backup) for the remote which worked fine with the PVR-350 receiver and old black/grey remote: ... (conf file removed for brevity) I copied this file you sent over to /etc/lircd.conf (Used Ultraedit from my PC to make sure it got the CR's right). irw returns nothing on any button press now. Restarts of lircd with /sbin/service don't have any effect. Does lircd have a log file? I've not been able to find one so far. Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] lircd.conf
if mode2 works, that would seem to point at a bad lircd.conf. I personally didn't have any problem once I got mode2 to work. I believe I used a lircd.conf from jarods site although can't recall for sure. For my particular remote (the older Grey and Black one) the FC3 page on Jarod's site talks about using a file called : /usr/share/doc/ivtv-*/lircd-g.conf I believe that this is the file I originally had working but for some reason I don't have it now. If I cd to /usr/share/doc/ivtv-* I end up in /usr/share/doc/ivtv-0.4.0 but there is no lircd-g.conf there. Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] lircd.conf
Yes /var/log/lircd Hmmm. I do not have this file. I wonder if that means that lircd is not working after all? It seems strange that I can get some limited function with irw if I use the conf file that I record with irrecord. Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au Sydney Foxtel
For some reason my tv_grab_au is not picking up any Foxtel channels. FTA channels seem OK. I know that there has been some discussion about ninemsn doing some obfuscation lately. Has anyone else started having problems with just the Foxtel data? I grabbed the latest from http://www.immir.com/tv_grab_au but I'm wondering is I need to redo the config perhaps? Any ideas? Yeah - I do have one. Search the archives for tv_grab_au: ninemsn obfuscating data and find the solution to this problem which was posted less than 24 hours ago. ___ Understand your reason for telling me to RTFA. I had already done that prior to your post and tried various patches that were suggested. Am damned if I can get a working script though. Is there one referenceable spot where we can get hold of a valid script? Anybody out there have a ninemsn script that works or a set of steps for patching one that will work? Does anyone on the list have a workable ninemsn script that pulls Foxtel in Sydney? I would assume that this will get onto the immir site at some stage. Maybe its time I got around to learning perl. I hate this being on the receiving end of other people's work without being able to contribute. Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] lircd.conf
I have 0.7.2 of lircd installed and one of the older (grey and black, coloured buttons around the central cursor) remote. This rig did work before I updated so I think that the hardware is OK. I've tried using irrecord and this does seem to work after a fashion but I cannot get all of the buttons to work this way. Would someone who has this combination working with Myth mind posting their lircd.conf file? Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] lircd.conf
I have 0.7.2 of lircd installed and one of the older (grey and black, coloured buttons around the central cursor) remote. This rig did work before I updated so I think that the hardware is OK. I've tried using irrecord and this does seem to work after a fashion but I cannot get all of the buttons to work this way. Would someone who has this combination working with Myth mind posting their lircd.conf file? Regards Marty Sorry, I should have mentioned that it is a Hauppauge PVR-350! M PS. I've tried the lircd.conf.hauppauge file that seems to come with 0.7.2 of lircd but I still get nothing out of irw using this file. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Lirc problems
On 01/11/05, Marty Ravell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I started messing with my lirc config in order to get my serial transmitter working and have somehow messed things up. Am wondering if these symptoms ring bells for anyone. If I use irrecord to build an lircd.conf file it seems to work. I can test it with irw and most buttons (not all) work. For some reason if I use the lircd.conf file suggested in Jarod's (most excellent) guide I get nothing. This same suggested lircd.conf used to work fine before I messed with things. I don't recall exactly what it was I did when I was trying to get the serial transmitter working. The box didn't start acting up until it was rebooted (much later). Any ideas where I start looking to track this down? I've had a couple of goes getting irrecord to build a new file which will work but it does not seem all that accurate. Some buttons just refuse to work (1, 5, etc) Do you have all of your remotes defined in the same /etc/lircd.conf file? I have my actual remotes, and also the definition for my transmitter in the same file. Did you generate the config for the transmitter in normal or raw mode? Nick I did have both the transmitter and receiver configs in the same lircd.conf file. Once it all went pear shaped however I reverted back to the lircd.conf file specified in Jarod's guide so I could see if I could get the standard PVR-350 remote working again. To date I have had little joy in getting this basic config back up and working. I know that the hardware is basically working since I can use irrecord to generate a new lircd.conf for the Hauppauge remote. It works for about two thirds of the buttons (and I figure could maybe be made to work for the rest with some manual tweaking). If I make a new config file like this using irrecord, put it in place in /etc and then run irw I can see some button presses. This tends to tell me that lircd is running and that the hardware is OK. Am stumped as to why the old conf file no longer works for this remote. Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Lirc problems
I started messing with my lirc config in order to get my serial transmitter working and have somehow messed things up. Am wondering if these symptoms ring bells for anyone. If I use irrecord to build an lircd.conf file it seems to work. I can test it with irw and most buttons (not all) work. For some reason if I use the lircd.conf file suggested in Jarod's (most excellent) guide I get nothing. This same suggested lircd.conf used to work fine before I messed with things. I don't recall exactly what it was I did when I was trying to get the serial transmitter working. The box didn't start acting up until it was rebooted (much later). Any ideas where I start looking to track this down? I've had a couple of goes getting irrecord to build a new file which will work but it does not seem all that accurate. Some buttons just refuse to work (1, 5, etc) Any ideas? Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Ripped DVD's to 350 HW
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to rip a DVD and then encode it in such a way that I can watch it through the hardware decoder on my PVR 350? I have played around at getting the new ivtv drivers to work but the video quality on playback has not been good enough for me to switch to using these. The system seems to be able to successfully RIP DVDs but when I try to view them in Watch Videos all I get is a brief Loading appear on the screen and then it goes back to the page showing the image, description, runtime etc. Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] mythgame and xmame
Jason, what I usually do when there's a difference between the xmame command line args and MythGame is write a wrapper script for myth to call that parses the command line and calls xmame with xmame's flavor of the day command line args. (drives me nuts the way they change that every other rev, it seems.) Thanks, -Scott Hi Scott, Would you mind sharing your scripts for those of us less able at writing them? Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Bombing on Watch TV
For some reason my frontend now hangs if I try to go to Watch TV (Live TV) when the tuner is recording something. Previously it would display a screen saying that the tuner was busy etc and give me a Cancel button. I just get a Black screen now when this happens. Any idea of what the mechanism is to trigger this screen? Could I have some sort of database issue or a lock file that is not being created or reset? Any thoughts would be appreciated. Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Channel Icons
Marty - did you end up with some good icons you'd be willing to share? Regards, Phill Hi Phil, I have indeed put together the icons I need for my basic Foxtel package. They seem to look OK. Will zip them up and put them on my website. Once done I'll post a link to the list. My home net connection is nothing fantastic but I'm guessing it will serve for those who want these graphics. Was thinking about a naming convention so that we can tie them into the tv_grab_au script perhaps. Any thoughts? Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Weird stuff
This issue may be a little off topic and is probably owing to my inexperience with Linux but I thought someone here might be able to help. Im mucking around with lirc on my working system in order to get a transmitter running to change channels on my Foxtel STB. The strange thing is that when I do the following commend: $ rpm qa lirc* Instead of getting any output I just get another $ prompt. Now I know that lirc is installed on this machine since it is currently running and receiving fine through the PVR-250s ir receiver. Any idea as to why rpm does not seem to work? Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Weird stuff
Sorry, PVR 350 or course. MWR From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marty Ravell Sent: Saturday, 10 September 2005 9:52 PM To: 'Discussion about mythtv' Subject: [mythtv-users] Weird stuff This issue may be a little off topic and is probably owing to my inexperience with Linux but I thought someone here might be able to help. Im mucking around with lirc on my working system in order to get a transmitter running to change channels on my Foxtel STB. The strange thing is that when I do the following commend: $ rpm qa lirc* Instead of getting any output I just get another $ prompt. Now I know that lirc is installed on this machine since it is currently running and receiving fine through the PVR-250s ir receiver. Any idea as to why rpm does not seem to work? Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Xdriver
I'm looking at getting the Xdriver setup to speed my 350 framebuffer with the new ivtv code. The URL I'm using is: http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php?page=XDriverHowTo My rig is FC3, P4, PVR-350, Jarod's Guide. I've got a recent version of ivtv itself compiled and working (albeit with tearing and artifacts). Now I think that I'm running xorg but I don't know where to look for the source that is mentioned in 'run xmkmf /path/to/X/sources'. Can someone point me towards where I might find this stuff? I don't even know if it is on the box yet. Do I need to pull it down with apt-get perhaps? Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] lirc in and out
I seem to recall someone talking about running lirc for input (from a PVR 350) as well as output to a transmitter (one of the several designs available on lirc.og) at the same time. This should let me control my cable box. Any idea if there where the How-To is for this one? It's really frustrating to know it is there (I started playing with it before) but to have lost the link. Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Resolution
I've been playing around with the different recording profiles in order to see if I can get a better picture in my recordings. It seems as though the three profiles created by the Myth installation are all set to 480 x 480. When I tried setting the High Quality one to PAL (768 x 576) Myth just fails at recording (when I use that particular profile). The rig is an Intel board with a P4 and PVR-350 with FC3 setup to Jarod's guide. I'm doing X over the TV-out but at present am using the hardware decoder rather than the new drivers (as I haven't worked out how to get these running properly with the newer x-driver) Are there recommended settings for the different profiles? The 480 x 480 setting gets me about 2Gig an hour which is manageable. Am willing to experiment with bigger file sizes if the quality is better. Any thoughts? Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] safely exposing mythweb to the net.
This maybe a little O.T. but Id like to open up MythWeb to the net as well. The issue for me however is that my Myth box sits inside my Home LAN with another Linux box being my Firewall. Now I do run my personal website on the firewall and am wondering how to go about letting Myth through when there is already a webserver on the machine that is the gateway to the internet. Would it be possible perhaps to use the firewalls Apache to talk to the Myth box for MythWeb? Does the MythWeb web server need to be on the same machine as the MythTV installation? Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 question
I have a mate with an NTSC PVR-350 but who has just relocated to Australia (PAL land). Any idea if the reverse is also possible? Regards Marty -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gideon N. Guillen Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2005 8:58 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 question I have a question regarding the PVR-500. Will a PAL PVR-500 work with NTSC? I'm in a NTSC country, but I saw this PVR-500 being sold locally at a very low price. The vendor said it's the PAL model. I'm just wondering if I can use this card for NTSC signals (including cable TV). It should be a good replacement for my existing bttv card that I'm using for MythTV. -- Gideon N. Guillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take back the web! Download Firefox Today! http://getfirefox.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] MythGame
On 8/23/05, Marty Ravell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just upgraded to ivtv 0.3.7h in an attempt to get MythGame going but seem to be having some problems. XMame is installed and I can launch it from the command line (output is on X using the framebuffer of my PVR-350). Seems to run fine although the window size is small (I'm sure there is a setting somewhere I can tweak). It gets about 37 fps depending upon the game. I've gone through the Utilities/Setup - Setup - Media Settings - Game Settings and entered in all the appropriate paths. When I go to Media Library - Play Games I can see the games that I have in the ROMS directory (these are all zip files and I am assuming that I do not need to unzip them). When I try to select an actual game to play I get a brief flash of a blue Myth 'dialog box' (sometimes with the text 'Loading Game' briefly visible but NO game starts. Any ideas? Regards Marty Hi Chris, Thanks for the post and sorry for the delay in replying. Damn work gets in the way of MythTV way too often! Try running myth from a terminal window and then you can see the arguments that mygame is using to run xmame. You can then run Xmame from a command line with the same arguments to see if it loads. If it doesn't then try changing the arguments until it does. In my case I had to get rid of the '-joytype 4' option. You might also need to add the argument -noperfect-yuv to the command to get it working properly in full screen mode with the PVR-350. Good tip! I found a few options that need changing. My next big question is how does one change the options that MythTV uses for running XMame? There are a couple of obvious things in the UI which seem to link to certain options. Any idea how to do the -noperfect-yuv etc? Is there a way to specify arbitrary options to be added to the command line? I'm also using ivtv 0.3.7h and about half of my games work fine. The other half will launch fine in a small window but segfault when I try and run them full screen. I haven't investigated this too much but I'm guessing it might have something to do with the newness of XV support on the 350. Chris I only installed the ivtv stuff by grabbing the release and compiling it etc. Is this what you talk about when you mention XV? Or is there some other driver that I need to be looking into? Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Digital Foxtel Integration (Australia)
I'm trying to get this working with an analogue Foxtel at the moment. Will post again if / when it is up and running. Someone on this list was kind enough to provide me with an lirc config file that I'm going to try. Not sure if this will work with digital but maybe worth a try. I think all of us with analogue boxes are going to be forced to upgrade within twelve months so it would be interesting to know if we can get the digital stb's to work. Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] hooking Foxtel up to myth
I currently have Foxtel hooked into a PVR-350 via composite and it records beautifully. Last thing to do is get my lirc transmitter up and running so that MythTV can change the channels. My Foxtel is analogue though. Sorry, I don't do HDTV and do not know anything about your card. Will attempt to get the lirc transmitter running this weekend. Can send you config files etc should you wish. Let me get it working first. Follow Jarod's Guide and I am pretty sure you can get the rig you described working fairly easily. 400Gb should be heaps. I'd advise you to use a logical volume manager for organizing that. Regards Marty -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Saenz Sent: Thursday, 25 August 2005 3:40 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: [mythtv-users] hooking Foxtel up to myth hi all, is it possible to have Australian Foxtel going into mythtv and displayed to my tv? I have AMD 2800+ 512 Meg of RAM Fusion HDTV capture card Audigy2 100Gb Hard drive 300Gb hard drive currently my Foxtel is plugged into my TV, I would like to have everything centrally controlled by mythtv. Is this possible? Thanks ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MythGame
I've just upgraded to ivtv 0.3.7h in an attempt to get MythGame going but seem to be having some problems. XMame is installed and I can launch it from the command line (output is on X using the framebuffer of my PVR-350). Seems to run fine although the window size is small (I'm sure there is a setting somewhere I can tweak). It gets about 37 fps depending upon the game. I've gone through the Utilities/Setup - Setup - Media Settings - Game Settings and entered in all the appropriate paths. When I go to Media Library - Play Games I can see the games that I have in the ROMS directory (these are all zip files and I am assuming that I do not need to unzip them). When I try to select an actual game to play I get a brief flash of a blue Myth 'dialog box' (sometimes with the text 'Loading Game' briefly visible but NO game starts. Any ideas? Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] On screen display
My Myth setup is running fabulously well. WAF is high and our TV viewing habits have been completely changed. A niggling little problem is however defying my attempts to fix. When I am watching live TV (not often now as we mainly watch recorded programs) and hit the menu button I get the seven options (Program Guide, something Browse Mode etc) of the semi-transparent menu up on the screen. Trouble is that they are positioned so that the left hand side of this menu is off the left hand side of the screen. i.e. I see ogram Giude where the Pr and half the o (of Program Guide) are to the left off the viewable area. Ive tried messing around with various settings under the Setup menu but dont seem to be able to find anything that makes any difference. The rig is using the TV Out of a PVR 350 with the drivers as per AT RPMs and Jarods guide. Do I need to be messing with modelines or something like that? I dont think that I am missing actual TV picture off to the left hand side but cannot be entirely sure. Ive tired setting and un-setting the Use GUI size for TV playback under Settings - Apearance but this doesnt seem to have any effect. Changing the GUI size itself seems to just work on the Myth GUI (Im assuming that the TV Out of the PVR is a completely separate video mode of some sort.) Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] LIRC controlling a set-top box
Ive just built a transmitter for use with LIRC (http://www.lirc.org/improved_transmitter.html) and while I guess I should post on the LIRC list I was hoping that someone out there has gone through the config of this sort of device specifically for use with MythTV. LIRC is working well with the Hauppage remote as detailed in Jarods most excellent guide and I have inserted the codes for my STB into /etc/lircd.conf. Unfortunately I get errors when trying to use irsend: #irsend SEND_ONCE stb1 1 Irsend: command failed: SEND_ONCE stb1 Irsend: hardware does not support sending stb1 is the name of the remote entry in lircd.conf. Does anyone know how to configure LIRC so that it will be able to send to one remote and still receive the Hauppage remote? I think this is doable but have not been able to find much as yet on the web detailing how the config is done. Ive attached my lircd.conf in case the problem lays there. Regards Marty # brand: Hauppauge # model no. of remote control: Grey (PVR-350) begin remote name hauppaugegrey bits 13 eps30 aeps 100 one 0 0 zero0 0 gap 20 min_repeat 4 toggle_bit 2 begin codes OFF 0x17FD GO 0x1FFB 10x17C1 20x17C2 30x17C3 40x17C4 50x1FC5 60x1FC6 70x1FC7 80x1FC8 90x1FC9 00x17C0 BACK/EXIT0x17DF MENU 0x1FCD CH+ 0x17E0 OK 0x17E5 CH- 0x17E1 VOL- 0x1FD1 VOL+ 0x17D0 RED 0x1FCB GREEN0x1FEE YELLOW 0x17F8 BLUE 0x1FE9 MUTE 0x17CF BLANK0x1FCC FULL 0x17FC REW 0x1FF2 PLAY 0x17F5 FFW 0x1FF4 RECORD 0x17F7 STOP 0x1FF6 PAUSE0x17F0 REPLAY 0x1FE4 SKIP 0x17DE end codes end remote # # brand: Foxtel PACE STB # model no. of remote control: # devices being controlled by this remote: # begin remote name stb1 flags CONST_LENGTH|RAW_CODES eps30 aeps 100 ptrail 0 repeat 0 0 duty_cycle33 gap 90985 frequency 36500 begin raw_codes name 0 411 274 164 274 164 603 164 274 164 411 164 603 164 603 164 274 164 274 164 274 164 603 164 411 164 603 164 274 164 274 164 274 164 274 164 name 1 411 274 164 274 164 603 164 274 164 411 164 603 164 603 164 274 164 274 164 274 164 603 164 411 164 603 164 274 164 274 164 274 164 411 164 name 2 411 274 164 274 164 603 164 274 164 411 164 603 164 603 164 274 164 274 164 274 164 603 164 411 164 603 164 274 164 274 164 274 164 603 164 name 3 411 274 164 274 164 603 164 274 164 411 164 603 164 603 164 274 164 274
RE: [mythtv-users] ivtv driver update
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 15:02 +1000, Marty Ravell wrote: So, in my usual foolish way of not letting good enough alone I am considering going down the route of upgrading my ivtv drivers (0.3.7b possibly). Mainly this is so I can try to get XMame up and running on my FC3, 350 rig. My current setup is straight from Jarod?s guide. So my question to the list is this. Is there a good how-to on the procedure for taking a stock ?Jarod?s Guide? machine to new ivtv drivers? I?m looking at the ivtv site and although there are some instructions on compiling up drivers from source I was wondering if there is perhaps a simpler way? I did this a few days ago. It's really quite straight forward. configure make make install. Nothing to it. I was impressed. New drivers work great. They lock up about every 10th viewing or so, but I can watch DVDs via XV, so I'm happy. So, did you follow a particular site for this or just go via the instructions in the ivtv FAQ? I'd like to understand the process fairly well so I can back-out if I manage to screw things up. Already I see that some of the paths mentioned in the FAQ are different to what is on my box. Any hints? -- Jesse Guardiani Programmer/Sys Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] ivtv driver update
Brilliant! Will have a play with this. Thank you very much for some great information. I'm thinking of putting this sort of thing (and some of my experiences to date) into some simple pages on a website. Perhaps even get it linked across with Jarod's stuff. Should I manage to get things going with your described methods would you object to them being immortalized in such a fashion? I imagine that there are a lot of people just getting into Myth via such resources as Jarod's Guide and going that extra step of trying out newer drivers is bound to be popular. Not all of us are Linux wizards (unfortunately) and I find guides really useful. Some will say that messing with drivers should be left to those who know what they are doing a little better than I but hey my view is If it ain't broke, break it, upgrade it and make it better. I end up learning heaps and as long as I have fall-back procedures I can keep the WAF high. Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Channel Icons
I'm thinking of putting some icons together for Australian TV channels as the tv_grab_au script doesn't seem to load this stuff. I will of course post the results to the list but I'd like to know what the optimal size would be (I'm going to grab them from their respective websites and reformat as necessary). I'm assuming that .png is the format of choice. Is there anything else I should bear in mind when collecting these images? At this stage I'm going to do those channels that I get Foxtel and FTA in Sydney. I don't mind keeping a repository of these if there is interest. Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Channel Icons
Send whatever you have. Who knows, they may be better than what I've got so far. I'll put these up on a webpage shortly. May look into a script to load the info into the mythconverg database as well. Doing this manually with the UI is a bit of a pain. Regards Marty -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phill Edwards Sent: Thursday, 11 August 2005 10:21 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Channel Icons I'm thinking of putting some icons together for Australian TV channels as the tv_grab_au script doesn't seem to load this stuff. I will of course post the results to the list but I'd like to know what the optimal size would be (I'm going to grab them from their respective websites and reformat as necessary). I'm assuming that .png is the format of choice. Is there anything else I should bear in mind when collecting these images? At this stage I'm going to do those channels that I get Foxtel and FTA in Sydney. I don't mind keeping a repository of these if there is interest. I'd be intrerested. Would it help if I sent you the free-to-air icons I use already, or do you already have those? Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au update v1.34
I'm trying to run this script on a new mythconverg (read empty) database but come up with the following errors: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mythfilldatabase 2005-08-09 18:00:04.004 New DB connection, total: 1 2005-08-09 18:00:04.010 mythfilldatabase: Listings Download Started 2005-08-09 18:00:04.011 New DB connection, total: 2 - Start of XMLTV output - 2005-08-09 18:00:04.013 New DB connection, total: 3 grabbing 7 days into /tmp/mythsKG5L0 error reading page http://tvguide.ninemsn.com.au/guide/14082005_123.asp?channel=foxtelMSID=526 015aea2c8ec870c248412d04880e6 in 5 attempts at /home/mythtv/bin/tv_grab_au line 709, line 1. -- End of XMLTV output -- Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file Updating icons for sourceid: 1 2005-08-09 18:02:04.350 New DB connection, total: 4 Updated programs: 0 Unchanged programs: 0 Failed to fetch some program info 2005-08-09 18:02:04.357 mythfilldatabase: Failed to fetch some program info [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ If I just run 'tv_grab_au' on it's own from the command line it seems to work (there is now content in /var/local/tv_grab_au/guide.xml) Am I doing something wrong? (I'm betting heavily that it is me and not the script that has a problem PEBKAC). Regards Marty -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Smith Sent: Monday, 8 August 2005 6:41 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au update v1.34 Hi all, Jon Whitear sent me some more debugging info and I tracked down the problem to some incompatible perl libraries. Updated script: http://www.immir.com/tv_grab_au Enjoy. Cheers, Michael. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Volume
Im running an lircrc file from Jarods guide but I do notice that he prefers not to use the volume control as his rig is set differently. My question to the list is this, has anyone modified this file back so that it can control the alsa master with the volume control buttons? Would love a copy if it is out there. Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] ivtv driver update
So, in my usual foolish way of not letting good enough alone I am considering going down the route of upgrading my ivtv drivers (0.3.7b possibly). Mainly this is so I can try to get XMame up and running on my FC3, 350 rig. My current setup is straight from Jarods guide. So my question to the list is this. Is there a good how-to on the procedure for taking a stock Jarods Guide machine to new ivtv drivers? Im looking at the ivtv site and although there are some instructions on compiling up drivers from source I was wondering if there is perhaps a simpler way? Is there anyway to get the new driver through apt-get and ATRPMs or do I need to bite the bullet and work things out from source? Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au / Foxtel
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jay Nawaz Sent: Tuesday, 9 August 2005 9:55 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au / Foxtel I had dreadful dramas trying to capture IR data from foxtel remote...the remote sends out multiple commands to work with different set-top boxes and it was too much for my cumbersome lirc skills. luckily someone posted the pace Satellite STB lirc.conf file and i was able to use that...got no idea where i got it from but if that's the STB you've got, i'll send it through. Ahh, so it could be that all Foxtel STB's use the one type of remote? The STB I have is a Pace STB-120 (IIRC). Would you mind sending me the config you mentioned (and an explanation of what it took to get this working on your machine)? This is unrelated but I'm currently having all sorts of problems with lircd. Don't know what I have done to upset it. I had it working nicely with my Hauppage remote a while ago but now it seems to die with 'lircd dead but subsys locked' anytime I try to run anything that uses it (irw, mythfrontend etc). Talk about frustrating. Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] tv_grab_au - mythfilldatabase
Im trying to get mythfilldatabase working with tv_grab_au. The tv_grab_au script I have (one of the recent ones posted here) is in /usr/bin and seems to run OK. At least it prints various vaguely positive things to the screen and doesnt bomb with any obvious error. mythfilldatabase also seems to complete. Trouble is that when I go into mythfrontend I dont see any program info. Any ideas on what I should be looking at to fix this? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Symptom?
I've noticed that I only have a single device showing for 'll /dev/video?'. i.e. /dev/video0 Is this normal? Jarod;s guide and various other sources seem to suggest that there should be several video devices? The system is PVR-350, P4, Intel Board, FC3, Jarod's guide. TV-out via the 350. Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] tv_grab_au / Foxtel
Im looking at the second page of Channel setup in mythtvsetup and I note that the Frequency ID column is empty. How does this normally get filled? When I try to use the Watch TV function in Myth I get a screen full of snow I am thinking that perhaps I need this Frequency ID information. My rig is connected to a Foxtel STB here in Sydney Australia. Im using the RF connection and I understand it that Foxtel sends the free-to-air signals down this as well as the actual cable channels (Although the cable channels appear on just one channel and are switched when you choose them on the remote) If anyone has this setup properly would you mind listing the frequencies of the FTA channels? (2, 7, 9, 10, SBS) Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Tuning Issues
At 09:52 AM 8/3/2005, you wrote: I have tv-out working nicely on my PVR-350. (FC3, Jarods Guide, P4, Intel board etc). My problem is that I dont seem to be able to get the tuner to work. I can create a test_capture.mpg using the command from the guide: cat /dev/video0 /tmp/test_capture.mpg When I look at the file however I just get snow. Same thing with running mplayer on the device. I can run ptune-ui and choose appropriate values (Im in Sydney Australia using PAL) but it does not seem to make any difference. Any ideas on how I can track this one down? What files should I concentrate on and/or info should I post to help narrow down the issue? You've got channels in the OSG? you have your video source set to use them? This I do not know. (Am pretty new to the whole MythTV thing). How do I tell? I am having some issues getting mythfilldatabase to work but given that I am trying these tests on the command line I figured that this probably isn't a problem (yet). Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Tuning Issues
OK, I'll work on getting mythfilldatabase working properly. I cannot help but think that using ptune-ui and mplayer would be completely independent of what is in the MythTV database though. Am I not correct in thinking that the ptune-ui script should be setting the channel on the tuner? I choose PAL and the Australia frequency table in ptune-ui. Is that not enough? I'm not talking about even running mythfrontend yet but rather doing the testing steps as outlined in Jarod's guide: # /usr/lib/ivtv/ptune-ui.pl # mplayer -vo xv /dev/video0 Use the ptune UI to change channels, frequency tables, TV standard, etc., as necessary, until you find a working channel. . Regards Marty -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Reith Sent: Thursday, 4 August 2005 12:37 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Tuning Issues You've got channels in the OSG? you have your video source set to use them? This I do not know. (Am pretty new to the whole MythTV thing). How do I tell? I am having some issues getting mythfilldatabase to work but given that I am trying these tests on the command line I figured that this probably isn't a problem (yet). Well, you've answered your own question then. You need mythfilldatabase to set the channels up so the hardware knows what changing the channel does/means. Go concentrate on your favorite howto source for mythfilldatabase and once you get that running clean, you should be all set. You've done the hardest part, getting the 350 output working. The rest should be simple. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Tuning Issues
Contrary to other posts in this thread, I don't think that mythfilldatabase has anything to do with your problem -- that is the command to download program info. Even if you don't have any program info, you should still be able to pick up a signal. This is what I thought. The thing to do is run mythtvsetup, make sure that your capture device is set properly -- for a PVR 350 it should be the MPEG 2 card option (I think it even says PVR 250). Then make sure that the input source is set correctly. This can be confusing as the options are (IIRC) Composite 0-3, S-Video 0-3, and Tuner 0. I could never figure out why there are so many possibilities when there's only 1 composite, 1 S video, and 1 Tuner input. I think I have things setup correctly in mythtvsetup. You are correct in that the setting for a 350 is pretty obvious. I will try plugging a composite signal in this afternoon and see if I can see anything that way as a test. If you run $mythtv it will take you straight to live TV viewing and show you whatever the card is picking up. If all is well, you'll see your TV signal, regardless whether or not you've run mythfilldatabase. If I run mythtv as suggested I just get a black screen. Pressing numbers (of known channels) doesn't seem to do any good either. I can't tell you anything about specific settings in Australia, but in the US I had to edit the ivtv configuration to define a different tuner type than the default for a PVR 250 (same capture hardware as the 350). I've never had to manually input frequencies. What file in particular should I look at for this ivtv config? Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Black and White
Here's the thing. I can tell the difference between an SVideo cable and composite. The pins are not bent at either end of the SVideo cable. Am I correct in thinking that the PVR-350 outputs both Composite and SVideo at the same time (on their respective output plugs) and that there are no settings (modprobe etc) which need to be correct for both to work? Regards Marty -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cory Papenfuss Sent: Monday, 1 August 2005 8:57 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Black and White 1. Your TV input is set to compsite (try the tv settings menu) 2. Your cable is only a composite video cable, not an S-Video one. Not sure how a composite video cable can be confused with an s-vid cable, since the cable ends are different and not interchangeable. Perhaps what you meant is that the s-vid cable has been damaged and is now only a composite cable. I've seen this happen a number of times look at both ends of the s-vid cable and look for bent pins. Nine times out of ten attempting to straighten it will break it, so you're SOL. It generally happens when fumbling with a cable behind the TV. Attempting to get the little sucker in the socket, one twists it slightly and gets three of four pins in their respective sockets. Pushing it on the rest of the way bends the fourth over and kills it. Funny how it always seems to be the chroma that gets bent. Always get BW video... -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] Black and White
Title: Re: [mythtv-users] Black and White Hi Michael, Ill have a look at my config for the TVOutFormat option. Your email does however look like a setup for an nvidia card. Do you know if it is the same for a PVR-350? (Im doing everything on the tv-out of my 350) Regards Marty From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Jones Sent: Tuesday, 2 August 2005 6:32 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Black and White Martin, Check your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Should look Something like this in the device section. Section Device Identifier Videocard0 Driver nvidia VendorName Videocard vendor BoardName NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic) Option RenderAccel 1 # TV Out Setup Option TVStandard NTSC-M Option TVOutFormat SVIDEO Option ConnectedMonitor TV EndSection The critical line is: Option TVOutFormat SVIDEO This might help. - Michael From: Martin Ravell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 19:23:58 +1000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [mythtv-users] Black and White Im getting black and white out of the SVideo output on my PVR-350. The composite out is in color but I dont want to use this. The rig is FC3, ATRPMs from Jarods Guide. TV Out via the PVR-350 Is there a setting somewhere that I have set wrong (to composite for example)? If so, where can I find it? Regards Marty ___ 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] Black and White
I'm starting to think the same thing. To be honest I am not at all impressed with the breakout cable on the back of the 350. Given that it is fairly heavy it is showing a tendency to pull out. I might need to fashion some sort of bracket or clamp to hold it in place. Having pulled the whole rig down and re-assembled it on my test bench it now seems to be OK. Go figure. Regards Marty -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Johnson Sent: Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:08 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Black and White From: Martin Ravell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 19:23:58 +1000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [mythtv-users] Black and White I'm getting black and white out of the SVideo output on my PVR-350. The composite out is in color but I don't want to use this. This has always been a cabling problem on my 250. I shutdown, reseat, and reboot, and it works fine until I rearrange things again. The SVideo connectors on my card leave a lot to be desired. Since the luma and chroma are separate signals in the plug, could be that your chroma connection is bad. Regards, JJ --- Help everyone. If you can't do that, then at least be nice. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au script from this list. Anyoneelsehadproblems today?
Hi Daniel, I don't mean to sound cheap but $3 per week seems a bit expensive. After all the reason we do projects like MythTV is partly to build cheap alternatives to commercial PVRs. If it were $3 per month then I think I'd jump on it in an instant. PS. I'll second the comment about Foxtel channel availability. Any plans for this content? Regards Marty -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Hall Sent: Tuesday, 2 August 2005 2:42 PM To: 'Discussion about mythtv' Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au script from this list. Anyoneelsehadproblems today? Also if you are looking for a reliable and legal XMLTV EPG service in Australia then you can also have a look at IceTV. This is a subscription based service. Details can be found at http://www.icetv.com.au/ Cheers, Daniel IceTV Support Team IceTV Pty Limited Level 2/34-36 Chandos Street, St Leonards, NSW 2065 PO Box 698, Crows Nest, NSW 1585, Sydney, Australia ph: 1300 654 803 fax: 1300 654 208 www.icetv.com.au CAUTION - This message may contain privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, disclosure, dissemination, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this message in error please notify IceTV immediately via email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or by phone at 1300 654 803. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary Wright Sent: Tuesday, 2 August 2005 2:35 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au script from this list. Anyone elsehadproblems today? Hey My mythfilldatabase seems to be spewing about pid errors today is anyone getting the same error no pids in /var/local/tv_grab_au/02082005/guide.prn no pids in /var/local/tv_grab_au/03082005/guide.prn no pids in /var/local/tv_grab_au/0WorldClient.dll?View=Main4082005/guide. prn no pids in /var/local/tv_grab_au/05082005/guide.prn no pids in /var/local/tv_grab_au/06082005/guide.prn no pids in /var/local/tv_grab_au/07082005/guide.prn no pids in /var/local/tv_grab_au/08082005/guide.prn I think the MSN may have changed something unless I am the only one getting the errors Latz Mary -Original Message- From: Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 17:38:58 +1000 Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_au script from this list. Anyone elsehadproblems today? Brad == Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brad Is the ninmsn grabber better than the d1.com.au ? If so do Brad you know where I could download it from. Also a clue on how Brad to install if time permits. It seems to be better. I frequently get reports of conflicting programs though (Melbourne), even when I run it two times in a row manually. Presumably, the first time I run it should remove any conflicting programs, and there shouldn't be any conflicts the second time I run it... So I suspect it is not perfect. However, it seems to get everything correct that I care about. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Audio Setup
Well, Ive finally gotten around to trying to finish the setup of my MythTV box. (Such a pity when work gets in the way of personal projects). This may be a silly question but I am wondering about the setup of audio in my particular rig. I have a straight combined front and back end box based on Jarods Guide with FC3, a Hauppage 350 in an Intel motherboard that has a basic sound card in it. So my question is, if the 350 has audio input and output do I use these or do I go with the motherboards onboard audio? Do I need to route the 350s audio back through the embedded audio perhaps? Can someone please explain the way that a rig based on a 350 should work? BTW. Im doing X over the 350 and this at lest seems to work OK. Havent got the tuner to work properly yet but plan to post another email to this list shortly. Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Invisible Myth Box
This might be slightly OT but I was wondering if anyone could direct me to a utility to monitor the temp of my CPU? In an effort to obtain high WAF I have relocated my amps, the cable box and a new (almost installed) MythTV box to a purpose built plywood cabinet that now lives in the crawl space under my house. It is maybe a little less convenient in some ways but I figure once the Myth box is completely setup there isnt much need to get at the thing physically. To get the IR to work (cable box as well as PVR-350) I built an Infra-red Extender kit (Jaycar KC-5209) and put the receiver in a standard wall plate on the skirting board. Kinda cool really (if I do say so myself), the idea is that the only things you see in the living room are the TV and the speakers. Ive vented the box and am about to install some fans but would like to get an idea of how hot the Myth box is running. I can VNC in to run this tool of course. No need to have something pretty integrated into the UI. Any ideas? Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Invisible Myth Box
Yep. This was the first thing I thought of as well. Great minds think alike or Fools seldom differ (take your pick) There is a cheap one Ive seen in the shops with the sensor on the end of a wire. My issue is more that Id like to do this remotely since Ive spent a whole heap of time getting rid of cables etc. If I have a way of accessing the temp on the machine I can do things like kick off a shutdown or fire an email when the temp hits a predetermined point. Regards Marty From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael.S.G. Sent: Monday, 1 August 2005 9:41 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Invisible Myth Box Not quite CPU temp (But is that really necessary?) What about a cheap outdoor temp sensor in the box? (They usualy have a fairly long lead to the sensor) (And only $10 at your local electronics shop) I have my server under a staircase, And the temp sensor sits in a little nook nicely. Whenever I go past the stairs, I can see the operating temp. Yeah, I though about building it into Myth somehow. (Actual CPU/MB temp) But I really wanted something I could check without looking at a TV/Monitor! ATB Michael. Marty Ravell wrote: This might be slightly OT but I was wondering if anyone could direct me to a utility to monitor the temp of my CPU? In an effort to obtain high WAF I have relocated my amps, the cable box and a new (almost installed) MythTV box to a purpose built plywood cabinet that now lives in the crawl space under my house. It is maybe a little less convenient in some ways but I figure once the Myth box is completely setup there isnt much need to get at the thing physically. To get the IR to work (cable box as well as PVR-350) I built an Infra-red Extender kit (Jaycar KC-5209) and put the receiver in a standard wall plate on the skirting board. Kinda cool really (if I do say so myself), the idea is that the only things you see in the living room are the TV and the speakers. Ive vented the box and am about to install some fans but would like to get an idea of how hot the Myth box is running. I can VNC in to run this tool of course. No need to have something pretty integrated into the UI. Any ideas? Regards Marty ___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] Invisible Myth Box
I thought that this could be an issue as well so I've attached a length of air-conditioning duct to the side of the cabinet and will have a fan keeping the air moving through the thing. Also needs this for heat I think. Regards Marty -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Sent: Monday, 1 August 2005 12:46 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Invisible Myth Box Marty Ravell wrote: This might be slightly OT but I was wondering if anyone could direct me to a utility to monitor the temp of my CPU? In an effort to obtain high WAF I have relocated my amps, the cable box and a new (almost installed) MythTV box to a purpose built plywood cabinet that now lives in the crawl space under my house. It is maybe a little less convenient in some ways but I figure once the Myth box is completely setup there isn't much need to get at the thing physically. To get the IR to work (cable box as well as PVR-350) I built an Infra-red Extender kit (Jaycar KC-5209) and put the receiver in a standard wall plate on the skirting board. Kinda cool really (if I do say so myself), the idea is that the only things you see in the living room are the TV and the speakers. I've vented the box and am about to install some fans but would like to get an idea of how hot the Myth box is running. I can VNC in to run this tool of course. No need to have something pretty integrated into the UI. Any ideas? Be very careful in that environment with humidity changes. You're likely to start having wierd electrical problems in a non-conditioned space unless you live in a very dry climate. Everything electrical I ever kept in my folks dirt-floor basement ended up corroded. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Pace STU-120
I have a Pace STU-120 cable box (Foxtel Australia) and I noticed that there is what looks like an RCA socket on the back labeled 'Serial Interface'. Has anyone had a go at seeing if this can be used in a MythTV rig to change channels? I'm building an IR receiver and a transmitter from the LIRC site to see if I can get it to work that way but perhaps it would be simpler to build a cable to control the thing directly. Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Surround Sound
Im most of the way through a FC3, PVR350 install and was wondering about surround sound. My current HiFi rig has been delegating this task to the VCR which I plan to get rid of once MythTV is up and running. Is there such thing as an audio card which can handle Dolby decoding and give me line-outs for the surround speakers? If this is the case Ill look into buying or building a small amp to handle the surround. The VCR was nice in that it had a small builtin amplifier for surround and a pro-logic decoder. I guess worst case I could look into getting a standalone surround decoder and plug the output of the Myth box into it but if there is a solution in the form of a PC card which does this it might be nicer. Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] read error
I am getting a whole bunch of errors from mythbackend when I try to Watch TV on my new FC3 (Jarods guide), 350 system. They read : error reading from: /dev/video16 read: Operation not permitted error reading from: /dev/video16 read: Operation not permitted These errors repeat until I exit back out to the Myth menu. Any ideas? Regards Marty ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Stubborn Live TV
My new FC3 box with a 350 which I have been setting up via Jarod's guide seems to be really close to working but for some reason I cannot see live TV. I have the fb stuff in and am successfully showing X on the TV out. I've fiddled with offsets and all that and the menus look very nice and sharp. I was able to capture video off the tuner by first setting up the channel with ptune.pl and then using the command in the guide. # cat /dev/video0 /tmp/test_capture.mpg I'm using tv_grab_au and it seems to work OK. mythfilldatabase appears to load up. Can someone give me an idea of how to track this one down? I just get a blank screen when I go to Watch TV. I've been through all the setup menus (mythsetup as well as the ones in mythfrontend) I can find fiddling with whatever looks like it may help but nothing seems to work. I don't know if this is of any use but here is the output from mythfrontend: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mythfrontend 2005-03-16 14:59:24.566 mythfrontend version: 0.17.20050130-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-03-16 14:59:24.566 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2005-03-16 14:59:24.830 Switching to square mode (MythCenter) 2005-03-16 14:59:25.096 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin. 2005-03-16 14:59:25.106 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media handler 2005-03-16 14:59:25.106 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media handler 2005-03-16 14:59:25.110 Joystick disabled. 2005-03-16 14:59:25.319 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media handler Failed to bind for SIP connection 192.168.0.5 SIP listening on IP Address :5060 NAT address SIP: Cannot register; proxy, username or password not set Destroying SipFsm object 2005-03-16 14:59:46.365 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2005-03-16 14:59:46.373 Using protocol version 14 2005-03-16 14:59:46.395 Using protocol version 14 2005-03-16 14:59:47.874 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-03-16 14:59:47.874 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-03-16 14:59:47.877 Using resampler. From: 0 to 1000 Using the PVR-350 decoder/TV-out 2005-03-16 14:59:48.341 Realtime priority would require SUID as root. Writing to videodev: Operation not permitted 2005-03-16 14:59:48.361 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2005-03-16 14:59:53.541 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None 2005-03-16 14:59:53.547 Changing from None to None And here is the backend: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mythbackend Starting up as the master server. 2005-03-16 14:59:06.812 Channel(/dev/video0): CheckChannel failed. Please verify channel 3 in the setup Channel Editor. 2005-03-16 14:59:06.842 mythbackend version: 0.17.20050130-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-03-16 14:59:06.842 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2005-03-16 14:59:08.842 Reschedule requested for id -1. 2005-03-16 14:59:08.875 Scheduled 0 items in 0.0 = 0.03 match + 0.00 place 2005-03-16 14:59:08.877 Seem to be woken up by USER 2005-03-16 14:59:46.378 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-03-16 14:59:46.378 adding: localhost.localdomain as a client (events: 0) 2005-03-16 14:59:46.390 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-03-16 14:59:46.390 adding: localhost.localdomain as a client (events: 1) 2005-03-16 14:59:46.400 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-03-16 14:59:46.400 adding: localhost.localdomain as a client (events: 0) 2005-03-16 14:59:46.440 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-03-16 14:59:46.440 adding: localhost.localdomain as a client (events: 0) 2005-03-16 14:59:46.450 adding: localhost.localdomain as a remote ringbuffer 2005-03-16 14:59:46.462 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2005-03-16 14:59:53.405 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None Any help or hints would be appreciated. Are there any other logs that I should be looking at? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Stubborn Live TV
Hmmm, got a picture but it seems to be stuck on Channel 9. Perhaps I am having issues with the mechanism that defines the frequency for each channel and sends it to the card? Am thinking that perhaps I am missing a channels.conf? Is this something I need? I see a fair few posts around this file for digital TV but I am only interested in plain old analog terrestrial stuff at the moment. Regards Marty From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marty Ravell Sent: Wednesday, 16 March 2005 3:09 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] Stubborn Live TV My new FC3 box with a 350 which I have been setting up via Jarod's guide seems to be really close to working but for some reason I cannot see live TV. I have the fb stuff in and am successfully showing X on the TV out. I've fiddled with offsets and all that and the menus look very nice and sharp. I was able to capture video off the tuner by first setting up the channel with ptune.pl and then using the command in the guide. # cat /dev/video0 /tmp/test_capture.mpg I'm using tv_grab_au and it seems to work OK. mythfilldatabase appears to load up. Can someone give me an idea of how to track this one down? I just get a blank screen when I go to Watch TV. I've been through all the setup menus (mythsetup as well as the ones in mythfrontend) I can find fiddling with whatever looks like it may help but nothing seems to work. I don't know if this is of any use but here is the output from mythfrontend: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mythfrontend 2005-03-16 14:59:24.566 mythfrontend version: 0.17.20050130-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-03-16 14:59:24.566 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2005-03-16 14:59:24.830 Switching to square mode (MythCenter) 2005-03-16 14:59:25.096 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin. 2005-03-16 14:59:25.106 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media handler 2005-03-16 14:59:25.106 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media handler 2005-03-16 14:59:25.110 Joystick disabled. 2005-03-16 14:59:25.319 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media handler Failed to bind for SIP connection 192.168.0.5 SIP listening on IP Address :5060 NAT address SIP: Cannot register; proxy, username or password not set Destroying SipFsm object 2005-03-16 14:59:46.365 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2005-03-16 14:59:46.373 Using protocol version 14 2005-03-16 14:59:46.395 Using protocol version 14 2005-03-16 14:59:47.874 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-03-16 14:59:47.874 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-03-16 14:59:47.877 Using resampler. From: 0 to 1000 Using the PVR-350 decoder/TV-out 2005-03-16 14:59:48.341 Realtime priority would require SUID as root. Writing to videodev: Operation not permitted 2005-03-16 14:59:48.361 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2005-03-16 14:59:53.541 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None 2005-03-16 14:59:53.547 Changing from None to None And here is the backend: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mythbackend Starting up as the master server. 2005-03-16 14:59:06.812 Channel(/dev/video0): CheckChannel failed. Please verify channel 3 in the setup Channel Editor. 2005-03-16 14:59:06.842 mythbackend version: 0.17.20050130-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-03-16 14:59:06.842 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2005-03-16 14:59:08.842 Reschedule requested for id -1. 2005-03-16 14:59:08.875 Scheduled 0 items in 0.0 = 0.03 match + 0.00 place 2005-03-16 14:59:08.877 Seem to be woken up by USER 2005-03-16 14:59:46.378 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-03-16 14:59:46.378 adding: localhost.localdomain as a client (events: 0) 2005-03-16 14:59:46.390 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-03-16 14:59:46.390 adding: localhost.localdomain as a client (events: 1) 2005-03-16 14:59:46.400 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-03-16 14:59:46.400 adding: localhost.localdomain as a client (events: 0) 2005-03-16 14:59:46.440 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-03-16 14:59:46.440 adding: localhost.localdomain as a client (events: 0) 2005-03-16 14:59:46.450 adding: localhost.localdomain as a remote ringbuffer 2005-03-16 14:59:46.462 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2005-03-16 14:59:53.405 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None Any help or hints would be appreciated. Are there any other logs that I should be looking at? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
