Re: [mythtv-users] Looking for high WAF in-wall speakers!!
On 1/18/06, Richard Bronosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm also under the impression that enclosure less drivers suck. Unfortunately in this home renovation form comes before function. I'm going for the Wife Acceptance Factor. Sounds more like the whipped-factor ;) She must be able to live with SOME small-form-factor speakers, I'd say?-- Mvh. Nezar Nielsenhttp://fez.dk ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Attractive cases and cheap DVD burners
On 11/12/05, Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: attractive panel to mount an VFD behind. It's not cheap, though. A closesecond seems to be the Ahanix D.Vine 5. I've looked at a few cases by One thing to note about the D.Vine 5 is that it doesn't have enough space for a normal atx psu, so if you decide to change the included one, you have to find one that is micro atx (and since you'll want it beneath your tv, quiet as well, which can be quite hard, and those that are(ahanix' own for example) are quite expensive. Also, that case only has harddisc mount for 1 disc (there's space, however, to place some more next to the drives, but no mount) Silverstone and I just don't think they look as nice (subjective,obviously). Does anyone have any really good or bad reports about any of these cases I should take into account? A friend of mine bought a silverstone case and describes at least the lid that covers, i think it was, the optical disk-drive as being VERY plasticy and loose, thus not giving off a real quality feel. The next question I'm really uncertain about is how to choose adual-layer DVD burner which doesn't sound like a flock of migrating geese (and will fit in the cases above). Any advice here? I use one from LG(which fits fine in the D.Vine 5 case), but I think most drives are pretty silent, when you just set their speed to something low, eg. this command for closing the disk drive and setting the speed to 2x: eject -t -x 2 -- Mvh. Nezar Nielsenhttp://fez.dk ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MYSQL - editor
phpMyAdmin http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php is probably one of the most commonly used. It's as the name implies built in php, so you need to run it through your webserver.On 9/11/05, A JM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Is there an opensource MYSQL database editor that someone could recommend? I want to modify some of the descriptions on my recordings and am not great with SQL and I thought a GUI would be a great help. -- Mvh. Nezar Nielsenhttp://fez.dk ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] LCDproc and MythTV
6) Remember to make your printerport writable to the user that's running myth, I just put this in my rc.local: chmod 777 /dev/lp0-- Mvh. Nezar Nielsenhttp://fez.dk ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Invisible Myth Box
On 8/1/05, 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? Hey there, I can direct you to a link that contains links to utilies for monitoring temperatures. http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Monitoring/Temperature/ -- Mvh. Nezar Nielsen http://fez.dk ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] No sound in some recordings
I know that I didn't have the problem, when I was running myth 0.16 and ivtv 0.2rc3c. So maybe we should move back instead of forwards, with regards to ivtv. I wonder, is this perhaps only a pvr-350 thing, or are some of you having it in others as well? Could be a PAL version that isn't doing things as the later ivtv drivers expects maybe..? On 7/18/05, Juergen Sachs wrote: I updated ivtv to version 0.3.6z. But no change, some recordings are still without sound. I increased the time in the setup, until mythtv waits for a good signal, and also lowered the treshold for good signal. Also no change... It is hard to tell if it is a problem of ivtv or mythtv. Any suggestions ? Juergen I never figured out why. On 7/10/05, Juergen Sachs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Larry K., did you find a reason for this ? I tried to play the recordings on a different frontend to see if it is a problem with my settings. But I did not have a second frontend yet, and I failed setup my second PC quickly (failed dependency). I programmed a recording on a different channel before main recording starts, to see if it works in general. Since I did this, all recordings are fine. Could it be that a part in the initialisation failes on some channels, and if there is a recording on other channels first it work ? What happen if the card failes to tune to a channel in the time given in the setup (5 seconds I think). Does the recording starts anyway, but because of the misstuned channel the sound is missing ? Hope someone could help us. Juergen I too have the occasional recording with no sound. I'm on FC3 abd Myth 0.17. On 7/6/05, Juergen Sachs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo, I have some problems with my recordings using a pvr350 on suse9.3. Watching LiveTV is fine and also the sound. But sometimes the recordings did not have sound. Since LiveTV is fine, I think the basic setup is ok. I tried to watch the channel which does not have audio while recording and it is fine in LiveTV. But the recordings did not have audio. At least I did not hear any sound. Does anyone has an idear where to look first to find the problem ? My setup: Suse9.3 IVTV 0.3.2c-5 MythTV from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun Hauppauge PVR350 Thanks Juergen ___ 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 -- Mvh. Nezar Nielsen http://fez.dk ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ivtv headaches
On 7/12/05, Fredrik Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Check that the lirc modules are not loaded. They use the IVTV module. 2) Check that the ivtv-fb module is not loaded. 3) try rmmod --force ivtv (might be dangerous, but has worked for me, whenever ivtv locks up) 4) ...profit! -- Mvh. Nezar Nielsen http://fez.dk ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] No sound in some recordings
Hey there, As far as I've been able to pinpoint this, it is in fact some kind of problem with the sound not getting properly initialized when first tuning to a channel - I can also experience this problem in live tv sometimes(when I first start it up), and all I have to do is change the channel away and then back, and then the sound is fine. On 7/10/05, Juergen Sachs wrote: Hello, Larry K., did you find a reason for this ? I tried to play the recordings on a different frontend to see if it is a problem with my settings. But I did not have a second frontend yet, and I failed setup my second PC quickly (failed dependency). I programmed a recording on a different channel before main recording starts, to see if it works in general. Since I did this, all recordings are fine. Could it be that a part in the initialisation failes on some channels, and if there is a recording on other channels first it work ? What happen if the card failes to tune to a channel in the time given in the setup (5 seconds I think). Does the recording starts anyway, but because of the misstuned channel the sound is missing ? Hope someone could help us. Juergen I too have the occasional recording with no sound. I'm on FC3 abd Myth 0.17. On 7/6/05, Juergen Sachs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo, I have some problems with my recordings using a pvr350 on suse9.3. Watching LiveTV is fine and also the sound. But sometimes the recordings did not have sound. Since LiveTV is fine, I think the basic setup is ok. I tried to watch the channel which does not have audio while recording and it is fine in LiveTV. But the recordings did not have audio. At least I did not hear any sound. Does anyone has an idear where to look first to find the problem ? My setup: Suse9.3 IVTV 0.3.2c-5 MythTV from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun Hauppauge PVR350 Thanks Juergen ___ 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 -- Mvh. Nezar Nielsen http://fez.dk ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythweb conf.php example, please
On 6/12/05, Mercury Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here is a line from the mythweb package's file, conf.php:
define('server_domain', $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] ?
$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] : $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
The above line says:
Define the constant 'server_domain' as the value of
$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] if it exists, otherwise use
$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].
It is used to form the domain for which cookies should be set, unless
you're proxying or otherwise using voodoo, you shouldn't need to
change it.
You could also just set it to the hostname you use to access your mythweb, eg:
define('server_domain', 'mythweb.yourhost.com');
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[mythtv-users] transcoding to mpeg4, but cut list is not being removed?
Hello there fellow mythoholics, I did some searching in my archives, but didn't come up with an answer for this.. In myth 0.18, when I would transcode a recording, the commercials I had marked with the cutlist, would be removed, but since 0.18 (I'm running CVS, but I believe it is also so with the release), the recording is only being transcoded, and my cutlist is not being touched - is this a deliberately changed behaviour, and is it possible to choose to use the old behaviour somehow? tia. -- Mvh. Nezar Nielsen http://fez.dk ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Character Mapping Samsung VFD
On 5/16/05, John Hannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I have an Ahanix d.vine mce601 case with VFD (samsung 2x16, parallel port). I'm trying to get the VFD working with mythtv 0.18 on fc3 but am I have the D.Vine 5 case and the VFD that comes along with that and I have almost the same settings as you, however Heartbeat=open InitialHeartbeat=on and this used to work for me (have recently set my box up again and haven't had time to set the lcd up yet) Don't know if any of these could have any impact... When you start up LCDd, are the characters OK, or is it only inside myth they are messed up? -- Mvh. Nezar Nielsen http://fez.dk ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Backend crashes when changing channels
Hello there, I was running CVS, but it kept on crashing on me, so I thought I'd revert to 0.18, but even that is crashing, I'm using Mandrake 10.2 and the version of IVTV that comes along with that (it identifies itself as 0.2.0-rc3f so should be more than recent enough), could this crash be ivtv-related somehow? I've enabled all logging and this is what it spits out just before croaking: 2005-05-03 20:55:02.142 Channel(/dev/v4l/video0)::SwitchToInput(in 4) 2005-05-03 20:55:02.145 Channel(/dev/v4l/video0)::SwitchToInput() setting video mode to PAL 2005-05-03 20:55:02.146 scheduler: Schedule Change 2005-05-03 20:55:02.186 Channel(/dev/v4l/video0)::TuneTo(45): curList[79].freq(663250) Does anybody else have this problem / a solution for it? -- Mvh. Nezar Nielsen http://fez.dk ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Video Choppy during editing + cutlist not being removed
On 4/26/05, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... increment of time. Also, when I try and move forward in keyframes, it flickers between frames and frames constantly get stuck when you see the flicker no matter where you are in the show. A good way to test this is by selection any short measure of time, and just holding the right arrow. You'll see it's not moving smoothly through the video. Not sure when this change has taken place as I've upgraded several times since I last used the feature about a month ago. Anyone else seeing this? Yep, it's the same for me, frames getting mixed up, when moving keyframe by keyframe. Also, maybe related, when I transcode to have all the extra stuff removed, the video is properly transcoded to mpeg4, but all the stuff I've marked to be removed is still in the video, and my cutlist is still present. Of course, if I try to transcode again, it fails, giving an error about unknown codec afair. -- Mvh. Nezar Nielsen http://fez.dk ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] backend crashed with mythweb
On 4/29/05, Florin Andrei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was using mythweb for the first time. I scheduled a record via mythweb and the backend crashed immediately after scheduling it. No clue whatsoever in any log. Very weird. I cannot reproduce it. I can. Whenever I go into mythweb-program listing, just chose any program and then schedule it to be recorded, then the backend crashes immediately after the page has loaded confirming the scheduled recording. Using CVS. -- Mvh. Nezar Nielsen http://fez.dk ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What's easier to convert/decode? 720p or 1080i?
A bit on this topic, but not quite, does anyone have a fine 720p modeline for PAL ? My projector should be coming any one of these days, and as soon as it does, I want it up and running asap! ;) -- Mvh. Nezar Nielsen http://fez.dk ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New Style Hauppauge Remote
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:26:29 -0500, Ken Mink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw that Hauppauge has a new remote control for sale. According to the text on the site, it's compatible with existing boards. Has anyone purchased one yet for use with MythTV? If so, were there any problems getting it configured? It's got many more buttons and looks like it would be well worth it. I'm using a PVR-250, so obviously I'm wondering how well they play together. If this has been covered before, my apologies. http://registration.hauppauge.com/webstore/hardware.asp#remote Like Maverick, that's the remote I got with my PVR-350s(PAL) bought in december too, so looks like they're shipping it with all their cards nowadays. -- Mvh. Nezar Nielsen http://fez.dk ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv Samsung 16T202DA1E VFD
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:21:36 +0800, Nathan Manzi wrote: Hi, Has anyone got the Samsung 16T202DA1E 16x2 VFD to work with linux/myth? Don't know if it's that exact one, but I have a Samsung 16x2 VFD (with parallel port connection) working. Mine is from an Ahanix D.Vine 5 case, and I found a page stating that they recommend that exact one (http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:-qNNizP3nboJ:ahanix.com/support.html+16T202DA1E+ahanixhl=en), so I guess odds are pretty good, that it's the same one :) -- Mvh. Nezar Nielsen http://fez.dk ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Silverstone lc03v - VFD Display
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:56:25 +, Richard Holroyd wrote: Thanks Nezar, I have managed to get something up on the VFD screen now. It appears to display some jibberish - perhaps there is some kind of problem with the character set being displayed. Have you experienced this? There is also a little lag with scrolling text where the screen is not correctly updated, leaving trailing characters!? Perhaps these two problems are related!? As far as I remember, I didn't experience that at all, but it could be it's not quite the same display(=driver)? Anyways, here are the uncommented parts of my LCDd.conf, which seems to work properly: [server] Driver=HD44780 Bind=127.0.0.1 Port=13666 WaitTime=5 User=nobody ServerScreen=yes Foreground=yes #these two above should probably be turned off for production Heartbeat=open InitialHeartbeat=on Backlight=open InitialBacklight=on BacklightBrightness=255 BacklightOffBrightness=0 [HD44780] Port=0x378 ConnectionType=winamp Keypad=no Backlight=no Size=16x2 DelayBus=true Device=/dev/lp0 -- Mvh. Nezar Nielsen http://fez.dk ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Silverstone lc03v - VFD Display
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:04:19 +, Richard Holroyd wrote: Just got a new case for my myth system - Silverstone LC03V. Does anyone else have one of these and have the VFD working? I'm trying to set this up with lcdproc to make sure it is working as it has yet to do anything. I was expecting some signs of life when powering up the machine - a flash or something - but alas nothing. Am a little concerned it's a dud... I don't really know that case, but the VFD looks like the one in my D.Vine5 case (with a cable going out and connecting to the parallelport ?) In such case, you don't have to worry about it not lighting up, mine lit up as soon as I had started LCDd, setting it up to use Driver=HD44780 and Device=/dev/lp0 -- Mvh. Nezar Nielsen http://fez.dk ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Script to check for POP3 mail and display From and Subject via mythtvosd
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 04:21:10 -0500, Maverick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll have to play with this. Sounds like it might just work out of the box, although, would probably still need to be mangled into an RSS format. As for password being plaintext, it would only be plaintext on the local machine, in that url format, you're basically just supplying the auth credentials so no prompt/login screen is required. It would still go over the net securely. Well, that's a bit of a stretch, basic http authentication works by afair base64 encoding the password, so I don't think I'd go as far as to call it securely :) -- Mvh. Nezar Nielsen http://fez.dk ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Ahanix D.Vine 5 case Blue Light
Hehe, I have that case too, and the superbright LED has been annoying me too, my approach to it was a bit more lo-tech, I was just considering putting something not quite transparent in front of it inside the case, to dim it a bit. On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:50:41 -0600, Dan Littlejohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Slightly off topic, but I figure a good group of folks might have the D.Vine 5 or Digi Cases. The blue light on the front panel that indicates that the computer is on looks like a flashlight on my machine. Don't know if it is the motherboard or what, but I was wondering if anyone had put a resistor in the circuit to dim the light. It looks like a blue flashlight is shining in my living room when the lights are out and blinds me everytime I walk by it. (it is at eye level in the rack) If noone has, I will bust out my DMM and measure the values and post back what I did to fix it. I hope that it can be dimmed and is not an LED that only allows one brightness. Just hoping someone else had already done this so I could just go get a resistor and be done with it. Dan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Mvh. Nezar Nielsen http://fez.dk ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ripping dvds of tv series (sopranos, alias, etc)
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:45:41 -0600, Peter Buelow wrote: Can anyone offer a suggestion as to a way to combine two seperate drives to manage my space? No raid, the machine is running and the first video drive is being used for recordings. I just want to add one without a significant extra amount of effort. Just make a symlink to the other mountpoint inside the first mountpoint, that should work, shouldn't it? :) -- Mvh. Nezar Nielsen http://fez.dk ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: out of disk space, but not really....
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 23:29:05 -0500, James Pifer wrote: I'm having a problem on my mythbackend box that I'm hoping someone can help me with. If I do a df the system is reporting that / is full. It's 160 gig drive and a du shows me this: ... This adds up to less than 60 gig. Any suggestions on troubleshooting this? I'm on Redhat 9. Any help is appreciated. I think it's a known problem, that sometimes the backend keeps the filehandles open, even after the file has been deleted, and if that's then case, then you need to restart the backend and your space will be restored. -- Mvh. Nezar Nielsen http://fez.dk ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] ATI and Xv
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:26:27 -0500, Tom Williams wrote: I am having a few issues with video performance, on machine, and I am wondering if I can very if the Xv support is enabled / working somehow in my installation. I have XF86 4.3.0, and when I use xawtv for example I can not view the video using the Overlay Mode, and I am wondering if that might have something to do with the choppy video I get in mythfrontend as well? I have the ATI Drivers installed from ATI.I will be testing some more tonight, but any help would be great. I have the same behaviour, what I see is if i use X's native support for multiple screens, I get no XV(running xvinfo supports this) If I however try and use the ATI driver's twinview thing, I get xv (but my settings are somehow wrong atm. so my tv displays the image all wrong so it's not usable on the tv out.. -- Mvh. Nezar Nielsen http://fez.dk ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Frequencies
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 01:23:32 +0100 (CET), Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone please tell me where MythTV stores channel frequencies or how it changes the channel? I need to change the constants so that my tuner goes to the correct frequency. Have a look at the channel table in the database, that stores frequencies and channel names, etc. -- Mvh. Nezar Nielsen http://fez.dk ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
