Re: [mythtv-users] Recording MPEG-4 to DVD
any2vob is great at turning anything other than the cat into a dvd compliant vob file, which you can then use with an authoring program like dvdstyler. http://mightylegends.zapto.org/dvd/any2vob/ It is a shell script, and it has lots of dependencies, but the results are good. The web page is not up to much, but it has a usage summary which will give you a good idea of it's abilities. On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 23:16:31 + Piers Kittel wrote: Hello, Slightly offtopic I guess, but does anyone know of a Linux based software package that'd convert MPEG-4 video for recording onto a DVD video disc - so I can play it back in any DVD recorder? Thanks very much for your help in advance! Regards - Piers ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Recording MPEG-4 to DVD
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 23:43:22 + Piers Kittel wrote: Thanks very much for your quick reply! So I encode the video into MPEG-2 following the standard resolution for PAL DVD, then use a DVD creator tool to make a DVD ISO and then burn it on DVD? Will standard MPEG-2 be OK or is there some specific version of MPEG-2 I need to encode the video into? Thanks very much again! Regards - Piers Basically you have it right, but there are always a few tricks to getting it DVD compliant. See my reply re any2vob, it will work it all out for you and even make a 5.1 audio track from the stereo in your avi ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Should a SBE/FE be running mysqld?
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 23:34:47 -0500 (EST) f-myth-users wrote: I recently noticed that my SBE/FE machine has a mysqld running. I'm guessing that there's no reason for this to be the case, since presumably the only place mysqld should be running is on the master backend, but I figured I'd check, just in case. (I also assume I should just remove its startup script from /etc/init.d and call it a day if it's not supposed to be there.) See the other replies, but don't just remove the script, use your distro's tools to make sure it stops and won't start again. Deleting it will work until your distro updates mysql and replaces the /etc/init.d script. It will also create boot error messages as the bootup scripts try to run /etc/init.d/mysql and cannot find it. for example: On gentoo: /etc/init.d/mysql stop rc-update del mysql default on fedora I would guess (from my redhat days) service mysql stop chkconfig --del mysql debian and relatives have a command update-rc.d which I don't know how to use. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] imedia Mythtv linux
Yes their support takes a number of days to get back to you. Their bibaries are i686 so are unsuitable for my i586/M9000/Ezra board. So no experience of actual use, just a wait for their support email. On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:26:03 -0500 Matt MacDonald wrote: Does anybody have any experience with imedia Mythtv linux? http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.17/it.A/id.421/.f Thanks, Matt -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Help Developing MythWeb
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:14:49 -0500 Dave Bixler wrote: Well, if you're streaming to the browser you can always use WinAmp to play the file. E ummm no!! winamp is WINamp, only works on WIN ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Connect mythtv-users list to Usenet?
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:47:29 + Justin Hornsby wrote: Why You can find mailing list postings through google, and the archive is easily searchable. We don't need another duplicate of all this do we? At least the process would only be one way... usenet is a proper mess with countless trolls and spambots... the only way around that would be to moderate every posting. Not the way forwards, if you want my opinion. Justin. I am not a member of the class powers that be, but I would be very nervous about a usenet feed. It's not so much that i object to people being able to read the list via a news reader, its more the crap that is likely to come back into the list from usenet. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] iMedia MythTV for VIA EPIA platform
Hi there I am interested in trying this. However I have a M9000 which I understand (and I may be wrong) uses i586 binaries, and i686 will fail. Your mini distro seems to be compiled for i686. Can you offer any comments before I give it a try? My reference for the i586/686 thing is here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags#Nehemiah_.28C5XL.29.2FC5P_.28Via.29 my cpuinfo is : processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : VIA C3 Ezra stepping: 9 cpu MHz : 933.063 cache size : 64 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow bogomips: 1868.49 Thanks for any input. On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:13:57 +0200 s.dragoss wrote: Mini-Box.com released the iMedia MythTV distro. Based on MythTV 0.18.x is designed to run on VIA EPIA mini-itx mainboards and Hauppauge PVR cards. Is one of the smallest out-of-the-box MythTV (0.18.1) distribution using only ~128Mb of storage. We are very interested in getting a feedback!! Thanks For more info you need to set up a complete system check the link http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.17/it.A/id.421/.f For those that want iMedia Mythtv, you can download from: http: http://resources.mini-box.com/online/iMedia%20MythTV%20Linux/imedia-2.6.7-rev4-minibox-mythtv.iso ftp: ftp://testing-mythtv:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/imedia-2.6.7-rev4-minibox-mythtv.iso -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] playslist for recorded tv?
What i am suggesting goes outside the mythtv gui, but you could make a playlist at the command line, it is just a list of the files to play in text format and one file per line. Call the file, say, kidsplaylist, and put it in the directory where mythvideo files are kept. Then set mythvideo to play that file with a custom mplayer command line that includes this: mplayer -playlist %s (and all the other mplayer options you use by default) then to play the kids playlist you go to the mythvideo interface and select kidsplaylist, and the shows will play. On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:35:31 -0500 Matt Price wrote: in the watch recordings menu, it's possible to select a recorded program, push the right button, and then select add to playlist. does anyone know a) what this playlist is? -- I've never seen it actually activated. b) whether there's some way to manipulate the playlist more directly (e.g. change the order in which shows are viewed, etc c) escape into the playlist while viewing, etc... The playlist would be very useful for me as my kids watch shows that are 12-19 minutes long -- I'dl ike to set them up with an hour of TV in such a way that I don't have to run upstairs to the TV every 10 minutes. However, I haven't been able to use the playlist in a useful way at all. And while the docs talk about playlists for mythmusic, I don't see any such discussion for straight mythtv. failing a builtin playlist generator, anyone have any ideas for command-line playlist generation? thanks, matt --- Matt Price[EMAIL PROTECTED] History Department, University of Toronto (416) 978-2094 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv-setup?
On my system it is mythsetup and is in /usr/bin (and therefore within $PATH) On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 18:13:13 -0600 Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeremiah Jester wrote: I'm at the point in my setup where i can go ahead and start the 'mythtv-setup' but am unable to locate this file anywere. My setup is debain and I've compiled from source. If I remember correctly, this file isn't installed into the path. It should be under your source directory in mythtv/programs/setup Kevin -- Looking for affordable webhosting? http://www.sitecity.net ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and PSP
I note that you had to do a ot of shagging around with ffmpeg to get the latest version. Although i don't have a PSP to test on I made a PS capable file for the hell of it a while ago. IIRC there was no problem with the current version of ffmpeg in gentoo. On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 23:33:58 + Darren Poulson wrote: On Thursday 15 December 2005 23:16, Byron Poland wrote: On 12/15/05, Darren Poulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 15 December 2005 16:33, IvanK. wrote: On Thursday 15 December 2005 09:12 pm, Darren Poulson wrote: On Thursday 15 December 2005 20:52, Jeff volckaert wrote: - snip Apache/2.0.54 (Mandriva Linux/PREFORK-13mdk) Even just http://www.22balmoralroad.net/ gets me the same error. IvanK. Yeah, sorry... bit of a screw up with the DNS records. I've recently moved web servers and some of the dns records were still pointing to the old address. Fixed the problem, might take some time to propagate. Darren. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I was getting Nothing to Print or something like that, but it seems to be working now. Yeah, it was for a time pointing to an old copy of the web pages, which didn't have that article. Just going to take a bit of time for the dns change to make its way round the 'net. I've never set up a user job before. what is the syntax input into the user job box? I'm probably going to add this to the article anyway, but here you go... In the Job Queue (Job Commands) screen, enter something like Convert to PSP in the description box, and: /home/mythtv/bin/mkpspvid.sh %DIR%/%FILE% %TITLE% into the command box, where the first part is the path to your script. Don't forget the / between %DIR% and %FILE% or the quotes round the %TITLE% You can find more info on job queues at: http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/UnderDevelopment As I said in my original email, still trying to figure out how to (if you can) set the job to run for every recording. Darren. 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 -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Moving TV shows
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:27:17 -0500 Michael Tiller wrote: I've recorded several movies. I thought I would move the .nuv (and rename to .mpg) files to my videos directory, rename them, look up there IMDB info and just store them as videos. Is there any downside or barrier to doing this? Mainly that IMDB does not distinguish episodes, so all your programme episodes become indistinguisable unless you manually add the plot details etc. An interface to tv.com or epguides.com would be nice. P.S. - Is there a way to get the normal MythTV player to run a video. I know you can put a custom command in, but what would that command be?!? -- Mike -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging - whats it all about
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:15:30 -0500 Jay R. Ashworth wrote: From the website: Basic 'live-tv' functionality. Pause/Fast Forward/Rewind live TV However, how can one FF live TV without altering space and time? =) Seriously, what am I missing here. AFAIK the only way to FF or skip commercials is with recordings. Yup; you're correct: once you've rewound live TV, there's no way to catch up again. Well in myth live tv IS recorded, to a large buffer file, and simultaneiously played back to your TV. If you pause or rewind then you will never catch up unless you skip something - but something might be ads. A more concrete example: most hour long shows tend to be between 40-45 minutes plus ads. If you start the Live TV function at 9.00 pm, then hit pause, then go make a cup of coffee/open a beer/tuck the children in/go to the bathroom/open another beer it'll be 9.15 pm. Unpause it and watch from the beginning, skipping thru all the ads, and you will have about caught up with real time by the end of the show. (I find that the ad breaks in NZ tend to be 4 minutes, so 4 pushes of the forward one minute button followed by a back 5 seconds tends to skip quite nicely thanks.) Alternatively if you may want to watch the show much later (when it may have spun off the end of the recording buffer) you can simply use the record button to record it, then watch it from the recorded shows screen - even while it is still recording - and once again skip thru the ads. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Announcement: MythTV New Zealand mailing list
I have been threatening this for a while, but now I have sorted it. There are some issues which are peculiar to a locality or country, EPG's, channel frequencies, local stations, local hardware suppliers, and community (in the lets meet for a beer sense rather than the online sense). So I figured, why not have a New Zealand mythTV mailing list. Anyway you can join here: http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/mythtvnz the mailing list address is mythtvnz at lists dot linuxnut dot co dot nz I am arranging an archive at gossamer-threads - same as the main mythtv lists. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Auto login as user and start Myth.
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:07:26 -0600 Robert Denier wrote: This is probably easy, but I can't think of an obvious way to automatically login as a user. From that point you need to start X and mythfrontend, but that is probably easy as long as one can figure out how to execute a script as a particular user. The overall idea is to have the system get to the point that you can use the remote automatically after you turn it on. I'm using Gentoo Linux. This shouldn't be that hard, but I just don't see an obvious starting point other than maybe figuring out the init process from inittab or maybe something like xdm that does autologins. make a shell program that changes user and then executes the program you want. su changes user su - username -c script_to_start_mythtv will do what it suggests stick it in the /etc/conf.d/local.start make sure /etc/init.d/local runs on startup. rc-update add local default -Robert Denier ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Accessing content other then tv from frontend
If you use mythweb you can access videos via the web interface. You need to setup a symlink in your mythweb directory (on my system /var/www/localhost/htdopcs/mythweb) called video_url which points to the directory where your video files are stored. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mythweb/video_url lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Jul 24 23:29 \ /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mythweb/video_url - /home/nick/media/movies Then just click on the link in your browser and the file will load across the lan and play in your player. On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 09:28:03 -0600 Kevin Kuphal wrote: Nedim Cholich wrote: Possibly a newbe question. I've just finished building my myth backend. Things seem to work fine (except I haven't put up antenna for HD3000). Before I start building fronend(s) I am testing the setup from my laptop. While both live and recorded tv works great, mythfrontend seems to want to access, videos, pictures and music from local filesystem. Is this how it's suppose to be? Am I suppose to export these files through nfs or myth can stream these like it does tv? Yes. Plugins are *frontend* plugins, not backend plugs so they run and expect to access files via the frontend file systems. The backend knows nothing about these plugins (music, pictures, videos). NFS seems to be the best choice. Also, check the settings in your various plugins to be sure they are not referencing host specific folders (like /home/mythtv) for storage of various items as storing them in the shared filesystem will make things much easier if you use multiple frontends. Kevin -- Looking for affordable webhosting? http://www.sitecity.net ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How does mythtv-setup assign the tv_grab script?
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:06:09 +1100 Ralph wrote: Why not just run setup again. You can do it to just change the grabber without doing any damage. ben Thanks, but I do have a reason for wanting to know how this can be done specifically without running setup. I could give you more details if you like, but...if there is a simple answer without having to bore you with the details!...? It must be in the database somewhere - if so you could so mysql from the command line to change it. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How does mythtv-setup assign the tv_grab script?
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:44:11 +1100 Ralph wrote: I think most of us Aussies take the 2nd option as there isn't an official tv_grab_au. So in the setup change whatever it is that calls the tv_grab_au (can't remember here it is) and just do it all as a cron job by setting up a shell script which a) runs tv_grab_au and b) runs mythfilldatabase to load the data. I can share my shell script if you like. HTH, Phill Thanks Phill - yes, if you could let me have your script, it may help. Thanks. post it here (or a link to a download) please, i am about to do the same for a new zealand grabber. nick (sick of tvnz) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV demo
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:23:07 -0800 Scott Alfter wrote: Unfortunately the last stable release is so old it no longer works with current stable Linux versions. I must be imagining that my MythTV box is running just fine with v0.18.1 (the last stable release) on Gentoo (with a reasonably-current kernel), with a PVR-350 and PVR-250 for input. Is your definition of last stable release different from what the rest of us are using? ditto (but with PVR150MCE) Interestingly the author of the article on Mythtv in the latest Linux Journal considers gentoo to be the easiest distro to get myth running on. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] The ever-popular DVD burning topic
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:07:51 -0500 Jay R. Ashworth wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 08:53:07PM +, Ben Edwards wrote: nuv2disc is the singing and dancing solution but not so easy to set up. That will deal with material already transcoded to MPEG4? google for any2vob - a piece of software that will transcode anything (the any part) to a vob file suitable for putting on a dvd. Of course with any such solution you need a lot of dependencies as there is a lot of situations to be taken into account. any2vob will even make an ac3 5.1 soundtrack for you if desired. [1] The one thing it doesn't do is make the menus and the iso - you have to find another solution for that, but there are a couple of ok front ends for dvdauthor (dvdstyler is my preference). The other thing it doesn't do is have a myth interface, you will need to log in over ssh to do it. [1] of course its not true 5.1 in that the front and back speakers have the same sound, but at least sound comes out all 6 speakers. I think the algorithm is something like: Stereo Left becomes Front Left and Rear Left Ditto for Right Combine Left Right to make Centre Combine Left Right and filter out above 150Hz to make Low Frequency channel -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv Upgrade Idea
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:10:03 + Roger McClurg wrote: My son observed how nice it would be if MythVideo and MythAudio were combined, so you could listen to music while you looked at your photographs. It sounded like a good idea to me. Does anyone else think so? Kids are perceptive like that, although I assume you mean mythgallery and mythmusic :) good idea though. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Can somebody explain how FF/REW are *supposed* to work? Is it broken with the PVR-350?
Please please please do NOT hijack threads. In other words if you want to start a new topic do NOT just reply to a list message and change the subject. The result of doing it is that your meesage appears in the middle of the thread New mythtv theme - because your message contains the header In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - and [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a message in the theme thread. This eans that when people are trying to read their mail in threaded view your message suddenly pops up in an unexpected place. Please don't do it. On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:29:28 -0800 Daniel Segel wrote: (about FF/RW) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Project Site list
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:36:28 -0500 Steve Adeff wrote: On Monday 21 November 2005 12:21, Doug Hall wrote: Is there a common web site which gives links to MythTV boxes that people have built (in-depth blogs, etc. Not just a summary of the hardware)? I'm in the process of weighing my hardware options, and would like to compare people's experiences. There isn't but there should be. One could be made on the mythtv.info site, but some people have complained about that site being slow(?) so I've hesitated to make a page for people to link to information about their setup. If noone comes up with a better idea I might just do it and see what happens... This looks like a better idea, when it is ready: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] PVR-150 - should i record mpeg2-PS or -TS?
I am given the choice between MPEG2-PS or MPEG2-TS (along with some others I clearly don't want) in Recording Profiles. Which should I choose and why? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV and EPIA Nehemiah
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:18:02 -0500 Michael Haan wrote: I'm thinking about trying it, but I want to be reasonably sure it'll work before I start buying equipment. Any reason why I couldn't build myth with HW on this linux variant (I believe it derives from gentoo, which I've used before: http://www.epios.net The gentoo wiki has a section on unichrome, I am not sure how up to date this info is, but here is what it says: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Unichrome This Howto is about installing a kernel and Xorg on a motherboard with VIA CLE266 or KM400/KN400 chipset. Support for K8M800 and PM800/CN400 is still limited. The CLE266 VIA chipsets allow hardware mpeg2 decoding of videos, thus taking the load off the CPU. At the end of this howto you should be able to play a mpeg2 file with as little as 5% CPU usage. Multiple mpeg2 steams are not supported by the hardware, so you will only get hardware decoding for one video file. The CN400 supports mpeg2 and mpeg4 decoding, but the drivers are still in heavy development to make use of the this hardware. The next version of xorg-x11 (6.9 / 7.0) should contain full support for the CL266 and, at least, partial support for the CN400 chipsets. A user on the forums has had some success getting the unichrome drivers to work without using any CVS repositories and without using software packages outside of portage. It might be advisable to view that series of posts [1] in addition to reading this HOWTO. [1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-361352.html -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Section 22.2 MythTv Documention Missing? (Hauppauge....remote...LIRC..)
Are you looking on the website or your computer? when myth was installed on my computer the following files were included: /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/index.html /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-1.html /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-10.html /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-11.html /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-12.html /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-13.html /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-14.html /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-15.html /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-16.html /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-17.html /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-18.html /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-19.html /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-2.html /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-20.html /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-21.html /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-4.html /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-5.html /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-6.html /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-7.html /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-8.html /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-9.html /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO-singlehtml.html /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1-r3/html/mythtv-HOWTO.html On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:20:54 -0800 Mark H wrote: Section 22.2 Hauppauge PVR-250 remote and MythTV's native LIRC support is no longer in the Documentation. I am not sure if other doc's have been removed too. Is it possible to add a section for archived Docs? I didn't see it moved anywhere nor is it covered in a different section. Hopefully it was moved and I just didn't see it. Can someone please put it back? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MyBlaster/Dish Network
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:28:33 -0500 Steve Adeff wrote: You should add a TRAC for inclusion in the contrib folder. Steve and you should learn to trim your posts :) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Interesting potential lightweight frontend
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:14:13 -0600 Doug Hall wrote: On 11/15/05, Josh Burks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody know anything about this? It says it runs uClinux... http://www.pcmicrostore.com/partdetail.aspx?q=p:10503269SSAID=137667 Go back to this site and read the Customer Review. :-( well its off my menu! poorly thought out if you ask me, shouldn't it be accepting streams over ethernet (wired or wireless?) of course as it runs linux, and as the review shows that you can put firmware into it, someone might free it up - reasonable networking could be acheived over usb2 or firewire adaptors. However none of that will compensate for the popping over the sepakers, or the hard drive whine penetrating the audio -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Interesting PC Frontend idea...
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:37:56 -0600 Robert Johnston wrote: That machine's around the same size as a standard internal CD-Rom drive. I didn't see any mpg2 encoding For a frontend? I'm not surprised (I think you mean MPEG DEcoding, not ENCoding). And with a Pentium M 1.5g it can decode mpeg 2/4 in software anyway. (Remembering that a 1.5G Pentium M is about the equivalnet of an ordinary Pentium 4 @ 2.5 GHz) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] How do I edit mythvideo metadata?
The mythvideo metadata editing screen does not allow you to change a whole lot of stuff like plot etc. Being able to put the imdb number in is fine for a movie, but for a downloaded tv series it is no good. I just end up with a whole lot of videos named the same, no episode numbers, no summary of the episode etc. Do I have to resort to mysql? By the way does anyone have a suggestion for a good gui for mysql? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How do I edit mythvideo metadata?
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 11:36:01 + David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09/11/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The mythvideo metadata editing screen does not allow you to change a whole lot of stuff like plot etc. Being able to put the imdb number in is fine for a movie, but for a downloaded tv series it is no good. I just end up with a whole lot of videos named the same, no episode numbers, no summary of the episode etc. Do I have to resort to mysql? By the way does anyone have a suggestion for a good gui for mysql? If you're running a web server, then phpmyadmin is pretty easy to set up and use. Your post made me think of mythweb, which seems to handle editing the plot etc. of videos! Thanks. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Media-MVP Divx? Mpeg-4
On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:18:11 -0600 Robert Kulagowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, for those of you who obviously have one, can it playback mpeg4 (divx) encoded programs? I use a cheapie bt87x card for my low-def captures, and am hoping/wondering if this will be able to play them? No, it can't. The Windows software transcodes DivX to MPEG-1 (at least that's what the box says). vlc shopuld do this. It will transcode and stream any format according to the docs. http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/streaming-howto-en.html ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Will this remote work?
http://www.globalpc.co.nz/proddetail.asp?prod=MU01345 It is a microsoft mce device. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Will this remote work?
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 21:51:02 -0500 Abre Chase [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using this remote with MythTV. To use the USB reciever, you will probably need to use Martin Blatter's modified lirc: http://blatter.com/mceusb/ Thank you On 11/7/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.globalpc.co.nz/proddetail.asp?prod=MU01345 It is a microsoft mce device. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Media MVP front end
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 22:31:30 -0600 Rusty McEacharn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can get one to NZ economically it'd have to be better than $255 in our local currency, which is about US$175 at present. shipping from the us to nz is ~us$100. seems like you could find one locally for better than ~us$145. if not, this would be a good deal if you bought two or three. i'll check local stock tommorow for you if interested. let me know. Thanks for the offer. I think after some investigation I can do better here. Still interested in why Hauppauge are dumping current stock, it usually m,eans something better will be in the shops before Xmas. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?
On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:26:17 -0500 Myth Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A little bit of time? Don't you mean alot of time compiling? I have tried Gentoo and the compiling of *everything* takes forever. I have yet to find a pre-compiled install that at least gets me going with the basic xwindows, gnome and/or KDE. I don't mind compiling some things, but even on my P4-3GhzHT, it would have taken several DAYS to compile KDE and its tools -- Have I missed something or do they have pre-compiled packages hiding somewhere?? You have missed two things: 1. the precompiled bianries available from gentoo that give you kde, gnome or (IIRC) xfce going in more or less the same time as installing the equivalent packages on any other distro. 2. kde/gnome is not needed on a myth system, overkill! save your disk space for tv programs :-) Norm ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: AW: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?
On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 11:38:05 -0500 Myth Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I exagerated the amount of time a bit :) But even over night is unacceptable to me given the 'little' performance improvement you get. The performance improvement is pretty much a myth (no pun intended). The beauty of gentoo is in it's package management and flexibility. The conventional wisdom at present seem to be that you might notice a performance improvement on very low end hardware, but on modern hardware the performance difference alone is not worth a pinch of s***. portage and the ebuild system are very lfexible and IMHO ideal for a moderately experienced linux user to build a myth box with. Its not a religious war though. It took me about half an hour to install a functional Debian (or variant) install with Gnome, etc. When I installed Gentoo on the same box, I saw little to no performance improvements. Personally, its not worth it -- If I want to use something bleeding edge, then I will compile it. Otherwise the packages put out by Debian work just fine for me. Debian also has good package management, although I don't know how well it goes on compiling with options other than the defaults provided by the debian packagers. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Media MVP front end
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 20:11:07 -0800 Peter Darley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone is interested, I could see my way to buying locally and shipping it elsewhere if I was to be paid back. If you can get one to NZ economically it'd have to be better than $255 in our local currency, which is about US$175 at present. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Media MVP front end
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 22:20:05 -0400 Greg Estabrooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, for those of you who obviously have one, can it playback mpeg4 (divx) encoded programs? I use a cheapie bt87x card for my low-def captures, and am hoping/wondering if this will be able to play them? No. It has hardware to decode mpeg1/2 video only. mpeg4 will either have to be converted to mpeg2 or you can ask one of the guys on the mvpmc list about how the efforts to design an on the fly transcoder is going. The Hauupage MVP software does asimilar transcode to mpeg2 ondemand to play non mpeg2 content. As a result of this thread and some research I am becoming interested in this thread. However I have a lot of mythvideo files which are usually Xvid/mpeg-4 or similar, and I would need them to be converted to mpeg-2 to stream them. I am looking through the vlc documentation and it seems to be able to transcode and stream in one operation. It does say it requires considerable horsepower to do this. http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch03.html presently emerging vlc on my desktop to give it a try. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Media MVP front end
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 22:20:05 -0400 Greg Estabrooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, for those of you who obviously have one, can it playback mpeg4 (divx) encoded programs? I use a cheapie bt87x card for my low-def captures, and am hoping/wondering if this will be able to play them? No. It has hardware to decode mpeg1/2 video only. mpeg4 will either have to be converted to mpeg2 or you can ask one of the guys on the mvpmc list about how the efforts to design an on the fly transcoder is going. The Hauupage MVP software does asimilar transcode to mpeg2 ondemand to play non mpeg2 content. I see that Hauppauge seem to be selling off the current version of the mvp cheap (see earlier in this thread.) prediction hat they will release a version that does hardware mpeg-4 decoding /prediction hat ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Documentation for sources.
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 17:07:59 -0500 Ted Manka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael, I was not offended one bit! Where are these lists? I looked on mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.organd it brought me to the email listsI assume that you are talking about something other than the email lists? Thanks, Ted I think the point he was trying to make was please keep the discussion on-list, ie reply to the list address, not the individual as far as satellite is concerned, you can buy DVB-S cards that work on linux and that will get you unencrypted channels off a satellite (I am talking generalisations here, don't buy one without checking that some one has got a signal off your satellite in your locality!) encrypted programs will depend on whether you can either: a. break the encryption in software on your myth tv box (which will probably not be legal), or b. get a dvb-s card that takes the little key card (looks like an ATM card) that you normally put in your set top box to allow you to look at the signal. I have no experience with this, I just know that I have seen such cards advertised. Other than these options, you can look at taking the composite video and left/right audio outputs from your set top box and feeding them into a digitiser (or tuner) card in your mythtv box. You need to set up a system where the mythtv box has an IR transmitter to change the channels on your set top box, or if you are lucky there might be a serial port on it that can be used for this. (Finding the specs for that sort of thing is annoyingly difficult, easier to go the IR route). Also you can only watch/record one channel at a time, unless you have a second set top box. I am stuck with that situation. You also need to find a epg source for your satellite tv provider - this can be tough too in some places. They know that the reason you want them is to avoid ads! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] transcoding to VLC
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:12:11 -0700 Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's pretty awesome... I'm guessing, though, that mythstreamtv requires decent horsepower for the live transcoding...? Why transcode it at all, why not just stream the video? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] NZ mailing list for myth
Does anyone know of a New Zealand myth mailing list? Would people be interested? I run a couple of small mailing lists, and could add another. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Growing channel list
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:00:05 +1300 (NZDT) Robin Gilks wrote: Greetings Had a bit of a surprise when I looked at the mythweb channel editor... It looks like every time I run mythfilldatabase I get an extra bunch of channels added. Is this because I haven't bothered adding a xmltv reference on some channels as I don't subscribe to them but my xmltv list has them? although I'm seeing channels that I have got set up correctly being duplicated as well. I think I'm up to about 800 extra (duplicated) channels now :-(( Running SVN as follows: URL: http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/mythtv Repository UUID: 7dbf422c-18fa-0310-86e9-fd20926502f2 Revision: 7535 xmltv data is fed manually using /usr/local/bin/mythfilldatabase --file 1 -1 /tmp/epg/latest.xml /usr/local/bin/mythfilldatabase --file 2 -1 /tmp/epg/latest.xml to feed my two video sources Robin, where are the latest.xml listings coming from. Using mr.geek.nz I get some strange channels added (although I don't think I am up to 800 yet!) -- Robin Gilks ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Low end experiment with latest Knoppmyth
On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 12:16:18 +1000 ffrr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to see whether a very low end machine I had kicking around, would work with a DVB card and using knoppmyth. Machine is... 533MHz Celeron nVidia TNT2 16MB video card (external VGA to composite video converter box) running at 640x480 512MB RAM slow IDE drives (a 4 GB and a 15 GB - not intending to do much recording :-)) Twinhan DVB-T 3020C Mini Ter TV card Knoppmyth R5A22 Firstly, ALL hardware works out of the box ! Only thing I 'cheated' on was to import a channels.conf file that I generated on my other machine, rather than scanning for channels during setup. Performance... well it was ALMOST fast enough. So close. Just a slight periodic pause while watching live TV. Turning off deinterlacing made it ALMOST perfect. Recording seemed to work fine, with no pauses in the video like live TV. Maybe the 15GB disk I was recording to was faster than the 4GB disk that the live ringbuffer was on. Should have tried pushing the ringbuffer onto the other disk maybe. Picture on the screen was just a bit under par. A bit blurry around the edges. Not surprising using composite out on an external video converter box. I am sure a nice newer cheap video card with svideo out would give a great picture. This experiment has been very helpful in my understanding just what type of hardware I need for a standalone myth box. Just thought I'd relate my experiences here in case it was of interest to anyone else, especially after all the great help I have received of late. Note: no glitches were apparent during the short test. I am convinced now at least that this cheap DVB card is a great choice for use with MythTV. When I get a better box, I might put a couple of them in it. As I understand it DVB is transmitted in mpeg2 format already, so there is no need to do an encoding. I doubt your setup would have acceptable performance with a framegabber. Nice to see these benchmarks posted occasionally! ___ 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] Way OT but...
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:45:42 +0200 Gert van der Knokke wrote: Nick Rout wrote: OK so there are threads on here about the video ipod so I thought this one is ok too. My son was recently given a little mp3 player sourced in Hong Kong. It has a little screen and can play videos as well as music. There is a sample video on the machine when you buy it, and it plays tolerably well. Trouble is i cannot figure out the file format or codecs used so that i can encode video for it. There are some programs on the accompanying CD, but they are all chinese language and for windows. The file has the suffix .mtv and running file on it simply gives the result data. mplayer, xine, ffmpeg, tcprobe all fail to recognise it. The device is branged mp4 and was made somewhere in asia. Any ideas on how to figure out how this stuff is encoded and packaged? Quote of some stuff I found with Google: The most so called china mp4 devices I'm aware of, support only variations of mtv like dmv or mpx. There is no chance at all to play native wmv or mpg without prior conversion because those devices have neither hardware nor software decoding support. The concept of the mtv format (and all derivates) is, to have an mp3 stream that carries image information that is allready in the format of the display hardware (uncompressed). A hardware mp3 decoder is already in place, the display hardware only need to point to the memory adress of the next image (simple implementation in soft- and hardware). Hope this will help... Gert Thanks Gert, that makes sense as i have seen people complain that their video files get bigger when theey convert them for use on these devices! -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Way OT but...
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:07:59 -0700 Asher Schaffer wrote: Any ideas on how to figure out how this stuff is encoded and packaged? Do you have access to any windows machine? If so you could use gspot: http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ gspot cannot figure it out either. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Capturing legacy VHS tapes
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:06:41 -0200 Manuel Lemos wrote: Well the problem is that I have not found a capture program for Linux that works with this capture card. A simpler capture program would do if it worked. MythTV is recommended by the vendor of WIS chip which is what the card uses and it works. Any other video capture tools that work (besides command line tools with no preview) would be welcome. I just wanted to make my legacy video captures less burocratic and not have to create a schedule to extract each chapter in small files that I could delete once they are moved to DVD. If MythTV cannot work like this now, I suppose it may not be so hard to improve it. That is why I wondered if a feature request could be submitted and it would be implemented soon or later. Manuel, I have a hardware mpeg encoding card (Hauppauge) and you can simply do: cat /dev/video0 file.mpeg In other words it just dumps the output of the card to a file. It works. I wonder if it would for your style of card? To capture from my analog vidcam i actually set a separate channel and video source in mythsetup, resulting in the following in the database: mysql select * from videosource - ; +--++--++---+--+--+ | sourceid | name | xmltvgrabber | userid | freqtable | lineupid | password | +--++--++---+--+--+ |1 | Sky_NZ | tv_grab_nz || default | NULL | NULL | |2 | VCR| NULL || default | NULL | NULL | +--++--++---+--+--+ 2 rows in set (0.02 sec) Sorry that is screwed as a result of the width of my email client. You also need to set up a channel. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ PHP Reviews - Reviews of PHP books and other products http://www.phpclasses.org/reviews/ Metastorage - Data object relational mapping layer generator http://www.meta-language.net/metastorage.html ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:52:09 +1000 ffrr wrote: Are you using kernel 2.6.11.x or 2.6.13.x? Yes. At least, the file in the boot directory is vmlinuz-2.6.11-6mdk. The distro I am using is Mandriva 2005LE. the correct way to find out is running uname -r -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:25:15 -0400 David wrote: Well, if you want a full-blown desktop distro, I can't recommend Fedora Core 4 highly enough. IMO it's the best platform for both Myth *and* desktop work. I've never like Mandrake/Mandriva much myself. My local lug refers to it as Mandrivel Plus with FC4 you have Jarod's most excellent HOW-TO for Myth, which is the gold-standard for how to setup a Myth box. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Way OT but...
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:22:45 -0400 Jeff Simpson wrote: On 10/19/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:07:59 -0700 Asher Schaffer wrote: Any ideas on how to figure out how this stuff is encoded and packaged? Do you have access to any windows machine? If so you could use gspot: http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ gspot cannot figure it out either. Does mplayer handle it? mplayer will usually give you some clues about the file when it plays it. negative -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:03:02 +1000 ffrr wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think sometimes people make posts like this out of frustration because they don't understand enough about the problem they see (or think they see) to ask a more intelligent question, or don't have the trouble-shooting skills to enlighten themselves. So, folks on the list have to pry meaningful information from the original poster (once the original poster finally gets someone's attention) in order to make an attempt at helping him solve his problem, or to lead him into solving it for himself. At least his post finally generated some discussion, and eventually the list gave him some ideas to try, and maybe some direction. Thank you for your understanding. I have read bits of this thread, not all of it. However I seem to recall similar problems a while back being solved by fixing the audio - ie it was an audio problem. When the audio driver/hardware couldn't keep up the system would freeze momentarily while something caught up. Sorry thats not very technical, but hopefully you get the picture. Can i suggest that you do a little trouble shooting instead of all this complaining? I am not trying to criticise you, sometimes people don't know how to help theselves. Seeing glitches in a playback is not a description a software author can diagnose without more information. Can i suggest that you run mythfrontend from an xterm with logging turned on. Watch for errors like audio overrun. If they seem to coincide with glitches in viewing take careful note. Of course mythfrontend usually runs fuull screen and obscures the xterm with the logging info. Personally I ssh in from another machine, then set DISPLAY: export DISPLAY=:0 then run mythfrontend from the command line from the other machine. The logging info appears on the machine you are sitting at, the mythfrontend complete with glitches runs on the other machine. Watch for the error messages as the glitches happen. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythPodder ... ?
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 21:26 -0700, Anthony Floyd wrote: So, after reading through the various video iPod threads, and thinking about some of the wishing that had gone on in the past about podcasts, what if some effort was put into a MythPodder module? This module could (bear with me here, I'm blue-skying): 1) Download podcasts from RSS feeds 1a) OK, it'd be nice to take some of the podcast directories (OPML anyone?) and display them for subscription as well as manually add podcasts 1b) And, we'd want to set up a download schedule, retention limit, etc (ala iPodder ?) 2) Organize said podcasts into a Manage Recordings type screen where you have a list of podcasts you've subscribed to and a sub-list of episodes of the podcast 3) Allow you to play these podcasts ala Manage Recordings but also ... 4) Allow you to select recordings/videos to be published via a (or several) RSS feeds from MythWeb 4a) After selecting the recording/video, it gets queued in the transcode daemon's list, with appropriate settings to transcode it to the video iPod format (which as far as I can tell, is limited to 480x480 mpeg-4 , 30 fps, using the available software ... I don't think we can encode to H.264 with the available libraries such as ffmpeg) 4b) After the transcode daemon is finished with it, through some clever php scripting in the MythWeb interface it'd appear as an RSS feed 5) Allow you to select music and podcasts to be presented as an RSS feed too... How much of this does mythstream already do? http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~moongies/streamtuned.html In this way you could subscribe your iPods (or PDAs, desktops, laptops, etc) to the MythWeb RSS feed, and view shows, recordings, music, and podcasts. Wouldn't that be great? Comments/thoughts? Anthony. ___ 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] Way OT but...
OK so there are threads on here about the video ipod so I thought this one is ok too. My son was recently given a little mp3 player sourced in Hong Kong. It has a little screen and can play videos as well as music. There is a sample video on the machine when you buy it, and it plays tolerably well. Trouble is i cannot figure out the file format or codecs used so that i can encode video for it. There are some programs on the accompanying CD, but they are all chinese language and for windows. The file has the suffix .mtv and running file on it simply gives the result data. mplayer, xine, ffmpeg, tcprobe all fail to recognise it. The device is branged mp4 and was made somewhere in asia. Any ideas on how to figure out how this stuff is encoded and packaged? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Way OT but...
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:44:09 +0800
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Re: [mythtv-users] (Slightly OT) Multi room Multimedia playback
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:59:22 -0700 mrwester wrote: On 10/17/05, Robert Denier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious if anyone has ever heard of a good solution to say play back an audio stream in many rooms at the same time, while keeping it in sync enough so they didn't clash. I think Slimserver- http://www.slimdevices.com/ running either to squeezebox devices, (alternatively there are emulators to play the stream) will do what you're suggesting. Not 100% sure how to do from command line at server, but should be possible. You don't need the squeezebox device, just a computer with a web browser and mp3 player. And you can control it without the web browser if you are prepared to do some scripting. A yr or so ago there a few e-mails trying to generate some interest in trying to integrate slimserver into mythtv, but I've not seen anything... Ahhh well i tdidn't see that, but I think this would be prefereable to the current mythmusic arrangement. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] (Slightly OT) Multi room Multimedia playback
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:17:15 -0500 Jake wrote: On 10/17/05, Robert Denier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious if anyone has ever heard of a good solution to say play back an audio stream in many rooms at the same time, while keeping it in sync enough so they didn't clash. what you're asking for is the mfd/mfe which can do exactly what you want. can playback audio on multiple mfe's while keeping them in sync, is quite cool. OK you got me - googling mfd/mfe goves me my favourite doll - got any more info or a pointer to what you are talking about? Thanks :-) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mozilla/Firefox search plugin for MythTV Mailing Lists now available
Excellent, wee done, installed, working, who gives a monkeys about the icon! On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 22:23:09 -0400 Michael T. Dean wrote: I created a Mozilla/Firefox (Mycroft) search plugin for the MythTV mailing lists to give me one-click access to the archives. You can get the plugin from: ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Playing dvd images (iso) using xine
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:37:24 +0200 Jesper Sörensen wrote: I think you need to use dvd:/full/path/to/THOMAS_CROWN_AFFAIR_16X9.iso. (Doesn't matter if it's in the current directory). This has annoyed me in the past. why doesn't xine like relative paths? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Slightly OT bt878 pvr150 in same box??
A guy on another list today was moaning on about the pvr-150 being incapable of working in the same box as a bt878 based card as they were incompatible. Now i told him I didn't think that was right, but didn't put it too strongly as I have never actually done it myself, and a quick google didn't prove him right or wrong. is he right? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Master Server settings issues!!!!!
in the home directory of the user that runs mythfrontend, see .mythtv/mysql.txt edit its contents. PS adding exclamation points in your subject line will not guarantee faster service. , On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:50:42 +0800 Amyg wrote: You probably should modify the Master Server settings in the setup program and set the proper IP address. Who could tell me how to set it ?? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Pentium M processor caveats?
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 14:12 +1000, Paul Andreassen wrote: Hi all and sundry, I'm thinking of using a Pentium M processor but would like some user experiences with this processor. Is it worth the money? Advantages? low power consumption (obviously) huge cache I believe great performance for the clock speed (ie a pentium m 1.6G laptop is regarded as about the same perfomance as a pentium 2.6G or higher.) Linux kernel support? see make menuconfig: processor family pentium m is one of the choices. many people have been using them in laptops for a few years now. Thanks, Paul ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Naive bayes - Suggestions
You might want to look at this: http://www.nexusuk.org/projects/mythtv/mythbayes/ On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 01:34 -0700, Matt Waddell wrote: Ahoy, I have been experimenting with learning algorithms which make content suggestions to the user. The only one I have implemented so far is a naive bayes classifier, and it seems to be working pretty well... although for me it has been suggesting a few confusing things. I don't have a patch ready yet, but you can grab the branch from its repository and try it out. If anyone is interested I could write up a quick bit of text on how to use it. Its still pretty raw, but usable. The plan is to train the thing with a similar interface to the TiVo--while you are watching, and browsing through the channel guide n' such. http://linuxlab.cs.pdx.edu/~mwadd/?q=download Later, _Matt Waddell ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] EPIA M10k: TV picture adjustments - how ?
On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 13:27 +0200, ruben wrote: Hi, I have MII10k, PVR150 and 25' TV Sony Trinitron. With 1024x768, 800x600 or 720x576, picture has size approx. 24' and with 720x576Noscale, picture has size approx. 26' I can modify the modelines witch xvidtune, but a little :( Sorry for my english, Ru yes we heard you the first time. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] using TV.com to gather information..
I suggested this a while ago and got no response. I suppose you study the code to imdb.pl and make something similar. Then patch the mthvideo code to offer a tv.com search option in addition to the imdb search option. On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 21:00 +1200, Dudely Smith wrote: Like using IMDB to gather information about movies, I would like to use tv.com to gather information about episodes (episodes i've got hosted on my machine), I'm not using the PVR side of things, just downloaded episodes on the HDD. How is this done? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Invisible Myth Box
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 09:53:38 +1000 Marty Ravell wrote: 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 I've seen in the shops with the sensor on the end of a wire. My issue is more that I'd like to do this remotely since I've 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. automate it with lm-sensors. use the tools that are already about :-) 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 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? Regards Marty _ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] RE: Archiving Shows to DVD
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:04:31 -0800 (AKDT) John P. Mitchell wrote: I am now doing the following with Linux which takes far less CPU time, but does take a fair amount of I/O time. Which of course assumes you have a Linux box. 1. Demux/Cut MPEG2 content from MythTV with Java based ProjectX. You can download ProjectX from http://www.doom9.org/DigiTV/projectx.htm . This application not only has the ability to cut the MPEG (only on keyframes) without reencoding, but it appears to have fixed all of the audio sync problems for me. I have yet to tackle real long stuff but my kids two hour shows are fine. 2. Re-multiplex audio/video streams with mplex May i ask why one and two are needed? It seems all you are doing is taking it apart and putting it back together again. (I know geeks like to do that, but I always have a part left over). Seriously though is there a particular reason? perhaps you need to demux in order to cut? 3. Create DVD structures with dvdauthor if you get sick of doing that, dvdstyler is good front end, and will make the iso (with a pause to test in xine) as well. 4. Create DVD ISO with mkisofs (not sure why others are using growisofs, mkisofs works fine for me). 5. Copy DVD ISO to my Mac for burning (My Mac has the only DVD burner in the house.) I started using avidemux2 for step 1. but I had audio sync issues that I could not correct with a static audio skew. ProjectX seems to do some kind of correction, and in fact it says it is fixing frame ordering when I use it in the logs. Total time from transfer of the MPEG2 to my Linux box to a burned DVD is about 45 minutes. I even have a little shell script that takes care of most of the brain dead steps (mplex, dvdauthor, mkisofs, not the editing!). Currently with a max variable bit rate of 4.4Mbit (on my PVR-250), I get a little over two hours of content on one single layer DVD-R which plays on every settop DVD player I have tried so far (including some xboxes) with zero audio sync issues. This means three one hour episodes minus commercials on each DVD-R! Excellent! I started with the following HOW-TO and adapted as I stated above: http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/ArchiveRecordingsToDvdHowTo . If you want all the gory tech details, then I will put together an HTML based HOW-TO and post it someplace. Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Putting the Computer to sleep (low-power)
On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 12:32 -0400, Ian Trider wrote: Windows seems to read the disk whenever it gets bored, and you have to trust that Microsoft decided that disk access was really necessary. And Linux doesn't? O.o I've found that it's far more aggressive at reading the disk when it's not really necessary than Windows, making hd powerdown difficult to configure at best. google for laptop mode. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Trouble Playing Ripped DVDs
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 23:10 -0700, Michael Privett wrote: When you say movie setup page, are you referring to the Default Player field arrived at by traversing through Videos Settings-Player Settings? I can change this to ogle (or xine), but the result is still the same for me. I'm going thru the following menu sequence to try and play the movie: Media Library-Watch Videos Now I see my movies (I have it in list view). I was expecting I could highlight my movie and then hit enter to fire up the player (be it ogle, xine, mplayer, etc), but nothing happens. I have to then traverse the VIDEO_TS dir and can only get the player to start if I select a specific VOB. This doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Is there another myth module I should be using for this? OK yes of course I see what you mean. A DVD consists of a number of directories and files. If you rip it intact (as the directories and files) you get a tree structure same as on the original DVD. The problem here is that mythvideo flattens all the directories inside its base directory, so it looks like you have a whole swag of VOB and BUF etc files. It is a bit annoying. However a recent thread alerted me to the fact that you can make an iso of the DVD and then use xine to play the iso. This would mean you are dealing with one file only. Thats what i recommend doing. Thanks, Michael --- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VIDEO_TS is not a file it is a directory. in the movie stup page put in your own customised player command, you can use ogle or any damn thing you want. I believe that mplayer (the default movie player) does not have menu support for dvd's yet (or if it does I haven't found it to be intuitive to find/use) Personally I find xine to be good for whole dvd's, including the menu experience :) On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 22:01:58 -0700 (PDT) Michael Privett wrote: I'm new to mythtv, and I seem to be missing a step when it comes to playing ripped DVDs. I have ripped several DVDS to my HDD (each with its corresponding VIDEO_TS dir and files, ifo, vob, etc). Under Media Settings-Video Settings-General Settings, I've pointed myth to my DVDs. When I go to watch videos, I'm only able to select single VOB files, when I'd like to do the equivalent of ogle -u cli /public/DVDs/TopGun/VIDEO_TS. How can I setup myth so I can simply select the VIDEO_TS file to start the DVD? Is there another method that people use to play their ripped DVDs? On another note, is there a way I can jump to the program guide with a single keypress? Sorry for posting such a basic questions, but I haven't been able to locate the info I've been looking for. Thanks, Michael __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout Barrister Solicitor Christchurch Contact details at http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: SVideo0 as default input on Hauppauge PVR250.
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:17:37 -0400 Mike Frisch wrote: Marco wrote: Should the Default Input on the card definition not handle this Or am I mis-interpreting the Default Input meaning?? Did you restart the backend? (I think it's necessary) On my setup, I use the composite input on my PVR-250 as the default so I know this feature works in 0.18.1. So do I with a PVR-150. . Mike. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mplayer still not in focus
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:10:27 -0500 Mike Green wrote: Ratpoison SET ME FREE :) For those who really don't see the need to run a window manager, but have the mplayer focus issue, give ratpoison a try. I tried almost every window manager and could not get any of them tweaked just right. After installing ratpoison I just added /usr/bin/ratpoison to my .xinitrc and now it all works flawlessly :) No config files, no tweaking, it menubars, titles, or borders. Best of all, using mplayer to watch external videos works without much hassle. actually I must admit that sometimes fluxbox gives me a stray titlebar when mplayer runs an external video. If I am annoyed enough by it I hit the F button twice to turn fullscreen off then on again. I will therefore try ratpoison and see what happens :) cheers, Nick Thanks guys, I appreciate the pointer. Signed, One happy camper mythtv owner. Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] EPIA M10k: TV picture adjustments - how ?
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:02:26 -0400 Richard Bronosky wrote: Can this MoBo do composite out? DVI out? I'm looking for the perfect MythTV front end. And it seems like VIA is the way to go. Got a link to share? It will do s-video out or composite video out. However if you want spdif digital audio out you cannot also have composite out, as the only composite socket switches between tv-out and spdif. You can still use s-video out though, and a convertor. Most electronics shops will stock them. http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_m_spec.jsp?motherboardId=81 for details of the m series motherboards, although the MII or the SP are probably the way to go now. Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Recorded programs in MythVideo
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 20:45 -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote: Nick Rout wrote: What is the best way to watch recorded programs from MythVideo while preserving cutlists and commercial flagging? Is it to export them with some program or is there a naming convention used with the Internal player in MythVideo that will cause it to respect cutlists? I have some Kids movies that I've recorded and I'd like to have them in the Video Gallery with the rest of our movies but with the cutlists preserved. I think if you transcode the file it will cut according to the cutlist, and you end up with the cut and advert-less transcoded file. It'll probably be transcoded to a more manageable file with a tighter codec like mpeg-4. Thanks for the suggestion. I already record in MPEG-4 (bttv capture) so is there a way to apply the cutlist without recompressing everything or should I live with the marginal loss of quality that the possible recompression will incur? Yes, as I said create an edl list. It works I just tried it. The program I already created the cut list in has the following cutlist in the database: 0-19681 108330-115380 - this means cut from frame 0 to frame 19681 and from frame 108330 to frame 115380 This is obtained from a search of the database, the cutlist field in the table recorded. The filename is 1051_20050708115800_20050708130500.nuv so I made an edl called 1051_20050708115800_20050708130500.nuv.edl containing: 0 787.2 0 4333.2 4615.2 0 This means cut from zero seconds to 787.2 seconds and from 4333.2 secs to 4615.2 secs numbers were calculated as follows: 19681/25 = 787.2 108330/25= 433.2 etc I use PAL so it is 25 frames per sec. NTSC is something weird like 29.97, but 30 should be accurate enough. then playing with mplayer 1051_20050708115800_20050708130500.nuv -edl \ 1051_20050708115800_20050708130500.nuv.edl plays with the cuts. I did this manually as a trial. It would be easy enough to script. I assume I'll have to set up a transcoding profile in Myth first before attempting this? Kevin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mplayer still not in focus
I asked this question a while back and never came across an answer. I tried everything, including all of the various -fstype switches to mplayer. Nothing would give mplayer the focus. what windowmanager are you using? I settled on fluxbox as working fine. I eventually settled for a hack that involves running mplayer in a separate X session and using chvt to switch back and forth. I created two shell scripts, one to launch the new X session, another to get rid of the blue band that appears behind mplayer when using an nvidia card. Here are my scripts. [snip] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mplayer still not in focus
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:49:48 -0500 Mike Green wrote: On Monday 25 July 2005 04:37 pm, Greg Estabrooks spammed: No windowmanager. Why do I need a windowmanager, it is a pvr :) Because the window manager helps handle which app is in focus. Many people not using a window manager run into focus issues. Even a very small lightweight windowmanager would likely fix your problem. I understand that to be the case. However, I don't want to run a window manager just to get mplayer to behave correctly. My previous setup was a dual 400MHz PII - adding a window manager to the mix added unnecessary complexity and maintenance. I squeezed it for every ounce of memory and CPU :) Yes well I would like to do the same, and agree with your sentiments. However fluxbox is pretty darned light. I also tried evilwm, which is lighter still. however I still had focus issues so I moved up to fluxbox. I understand that openbox has a similar heritage to flux, but I am not sure which is lighter. i don't propose to change something that is now working :) I certainly would have thought that most WM's are lighter than two X sessions, but I may be wrong on that. Now that I have upgraded, at some point I might add a window manager. Regardless, it seems to me that it should work correctly without one. Requiring a window manager to manage a full screen app seems sloppy. Heck, someday I would like to get rid of X completely use embedded QT. The entire X windowing system along with a window manager is overkill for a single purpose pvr/media box. Agreed, see above. -- Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mplayer still not in focus
shorn of comments this is my .xinitrc 9for the user that runs mythfrontend) [ -f $HOME/.Xdefaults ] xrdb $HOME/.Xdefaults xsetroot -solid \#400040 xsetroot -cursor_name top_left_arrow /usr/bin/fluxbox exec mythfrontend I'm not even sure now where the first 3 lines came from. It is handy to have the root window colour changed from black so you can distinguish it from a blank screen. I probably should redirect the output of the fluxbox line to /dev/null, and will do so when I get the inclination. On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:34:15 -0500 Mike Green wrote: On Monday 25 July 2005 18:37, Nick Rout wrote: I certainly would have thought that most WM's are lighter than two X sessions, but I may be wrong on that. Of course you are absolutely correct. Now I will have to figure out how to completely disable all aspects of a completely new window manager :) -- Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Trouble Playing Ripped DVDs
VIDEO_TS is not a file it is a directory. in the movie stup page put in your own customised player command, you can use ogle or any damn thing you want. I believe that mplayer (the default movie player) does not have menu support for dvd's yet (or if it does I haven't found it to be intuitive to find/use) Personally I find xine to be good for whole dvd's, including the menu experience :) On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 22:01:58 -0700 (PDT) Michael Privett wrote: I'm new to mythtv, and I seem to be missing a step when it comes to playing ripped DVDs. I have ripped several DVDS to my HDD (each with its corresponding VIDEO_TS dir and files, ifo, vob, etc). Under Media Settings-Video Settings-General Settings, I've pointed myth to my DVDs. When I go to watch videos, I'm only able to select single VOB files, when I'd like to do the equivalent of ogle -u cli /public/DVDs/TopGun/VIDEO_TS. How can I setup myth so I can simply select the VIDEO_TS file to start the DVD? Is there another method that people use to play their ripped DVDs? On another note, is there a way I can jump to the program guide with a single keypress? Sorry for posting such a basic questions, but I haven't been able to locate the info I've been looking for. Thanks, Michael __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout Barrister Solicitor Christchurch Contact details at http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-150 no audio
: 5 Name: Composite 3 Type: 0x0002 Audioset: 0x0003 Tuner : 0x Standard: 0x007F3FFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM ) Status : 0 Input : 6 Name: Tuner 0 Type: 0x0001 Audioset: 0x0003 Tuner : 0x Standard: 0x3000 ( NTSC ) Status : 0 Input : 7 Name: Tuner 1 Type: 0x0001 Audioset: 0x0003 Tuner : 0x Standard: 0x3000 ( NTSC ) Status : 0 ioctl VIDIOC_G_INPUT ok Video input = 6 ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMOUTPUT ioctl VIDIOC_G_OUTPUT failed: Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMAUDIO Input : 0 Name: Tuner Audio In Input : 1 Name: Audio Line 1 Input : 2 Name: Audio Line 2 Input : 3 Name: Audio Line 3 Input : 4 Name: Audio Line 4 ioctl VIDIOC_G_AUDIO ok Audio input = 0: Tuner Audio In ioctl VIDIOC_G_FREQUENCY ok Frequency = 3668 ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMSTD index : 0 ID : 0x3000 Name: NTSC Frame period: 1001/3 Frame lines : 525 index : 1 ID : 0x00FF Name: PAL Frame period: 1/25 Frame lines : 625 index : 2 ID : 0x007F Name: SECAM Frame period: 1/25 Frame lines : 625 ioctl VIDIOC_G_STD ok Video standard = 0x3000 ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL Brightness = 127 Contrast = 63 Saturation = 63 Hue = 0 Volume = 58744 Mute = 0 -- Nick Rout Barrister Solicitor Christchurch Contact details at http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-150 no audio
1. stop hijacking threads I would be glad to but I have no idea what that means. When you want to start a new topic do NOT just reply to another message and change the subject line. It leaves in the In-Repy_Tp header that is used for threading. 2. ivtvctl below shows you are set to the tuner audio, I'm assuming you want the line in. set it to line in. (This assumes you have a cable box which is connected to s-video or composite in.) No, the analog cable is the only connection I have to the card. I have no cable box. But that is enough to produce audio in Windows. The documentation also appears to say that the audio *should* be in the MPEG2 stream that comes off the card, assuming I read it right. sorry i misunderstood your setup. yes cat /dev/video0 test.mpeg or mplayer /dev/video0 should produce sound as well as video. --Greg -- Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Recorded programs in MythVideo
What is the best way to watch recorded programs from MythVideo while preserving cutlists and commercial flagging? Is it to export them with some program or is there a naming convention used with the Internal player in MythVideo that will cause it to respect cutlists? I have some Kids movies that I've recorded and I'd like to have them in the Video Gallery with the rest of our movies but with the cutlists preserved. I think if you transcode the file it will cut according to the cutlist, and you end up with the cut and advert-less transcoded file. It'll probably be transcoded to a more manageable file with a tighter codec like mpeg-4. However if you don't want to transcode: The internal video player in mythvideo is actually external - mplayer or whatever you configure it to be. mplayer will certainly play nuv files as created by tv recording in mplayer. it will also skip using edit decision lists: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/edl.html now mythtv seems to store it's edl's in the database as frame numbers instead of seconds, but the conversion is pretty simple (but dependent on PAL vs NTCS frame rates.) So you could pretty simply make a script to creat an mplayer edl list from the frame numbers in the database and export it to the mythvideo directory along with the nuv file. I would name it the same as the nuv file with an additional sufix of .edl and call mplayer with the normal parameters plus -edl %s.edl I haven't tried this, but might do so tonight. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up time syncronisation
Geek Stuff wrote: I've trying to set up time syncing on my Mythbox as the time seems to drifting quite badly... I've added ntpdate ntp2d.mcc.ac.uk to cron Not really the way go about it anyway. ntpdate typically gets run at startup to sync the time. After this ntpd should be run instead. It can continuously track one, or preferably more time servers. while you are right, I have found ntpd to be a bit of a pain to set up, and to not run for very obscure reasons. ntpdate via cron may not be the technically correct thing to do, but in general it works :-) As to your timezone problem, what distro. are you using? Alex ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up time syncronisation
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/GB /etc/localtime which now shows the correct local time However, Mythweb (and therefore I guess MythTV) still shows the UTC time. Obviously you downloaded your tv listings when your clock was set up wrong, sounds like you did not have your timezone set properly when you did the EPG thing. I am not sure what efect this will have... -- Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Set up name instead of ip for myth server
I was just wondeirng if anybody could tell me or point me to a how to guide on how to set up my machine with a domain. What I mean is that instead of people inside the LAN having to type in the ip of the server it would be nice if they could just type in http://mythbox/ or somethign to that extent. I know that one way to do it is by altering the hosts file but I would rather set up a dns so that all the computers use it and then it resolves outside queries using the ISP's dns. Thanks for the help. Daniel http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html or http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/search.pl?query=dns+setup+linux -- Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Myth tv ready for FC-4 ?
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 11:27:54 -0700 Todd Bailey wrote: The question remains, fc3 or fc4 for myth? If FC2 worked for you then that is the answer. personally i never go far away from gentoo. -- Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Anyone tried MPEG2 to MPEG2 transcoding?
Ooops - major stuff up here, folks :(( Many, many apologies. It turns out that I'm not transcoding to MPEG2 at all. I must have set it back to MPEG4, although I really don't remember doing that. Anyway, that's why it appears to be working. I'm really sorry about that. It is also why you are getting such good compression ratios I dare say! -- Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer
One thing that I don't think I have seen mentioned in this thread is audio. I have seen stuttering problems caused by bad audio. The audio stutters, and because the system tries to keep everything in sync the video is paused too. It looks like an overall system performance problem, but as I say it may just be the audio, To get real debugging info I suggest running mythfrontend from an x-term with the -v all parameter. This will spew a lot of debugging info back to the xterm. If you don't have the foggiest what i am talking about post back and i'll give a more detailed howto. On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 06:09:53 +0930 antec wrote: thats interresting. are you using a hardware or software capture card? - Original Message - From: Darren Coleman To: 'Discussion about mythtv' Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 5:53 AM Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer Dont know if this will help but when I had 512MB in my system (XP 2400, Shuttle SK41G, Geforce FX5200) I would get some stuttering when the feed first started, leaving Myth about 5-6 seconds behind live TV. After swapping out the memory and replacing it with 1GB (2x512) I dont get any stuttering at all and Myth stays at 1 second behind Live (which is to be expected as it has to prebuffer *something*). Might be worth trying mythbackend and mythfrontend use A LOT of memory. Daz -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of antec Sent: 19 July 2005 20:41 To: mythtv Subject: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer I am atill getting prebuffer pause even though I have done everything recommended in the documentation pages: * bought and installed a geforce card * got xwindows working with nvidia * upgraded machine to a P3-1Ghz. (not a celeron!) * checked and reconfigured all of the TV settings under mythtv. Mythtv on my system was build using fc3 and atrpms. So I compiled nothing. Am I missing something crucial here, or is this just a case of sloppy code. This project has cost me time and money to get a result that is no better than myth-shyte. After all, why would I now go and buy a p4-3.3 to watch tv, when I can just plug in my P1 and do the same thing (without buffering naturally). Unless Im blind in both eyes and delusional, I think the next step is to return to freevo aka bugvo and give mythtv the myth-skip. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.9.0/48 - Release Date: 16/07/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.9.0/48 - Release Date: 16/07/2005 -- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] IRW not connecting to LIRCD
according to ls -lag /dev | grep lirc there is only the link I created and lircd: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 12 Jul 19 18:45 lirc - /dev/ttyUSB0 srw-rw-rw- 1 root0 Jul 19 19:08 lircd is /dev/lircd what I am looking for? How can I connect it to /dev/ttyUSB0? man lircd hint - look at the --device option -- Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer
I don't even remotely understand why people are actually replying to this guy. ___ hr has ap[ologised and seen the error of his ways. We can't all be forever damned by one outburst (although you can bet google won't forget in a hurry :) -- Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythbackend on Gentoo
I can't seem to find any reason for this. Especially since the script in /etc/init.d says the backend is running fine but ps and mythfrontend tell a different story. This is the biggest bugbear I have with gentoo. The init scripts do not seem to be able to pick up when the service has died. However my backend does now startt automatically, I just cannot remmeber if I had to do anything special to make it work. -- Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Switching to mythtv
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:08:21 +1200 Pshem Kowalczyk wrote: Hi, I'm switching to mythtv from freevo. I haven't finished setting up the new box yet, but already hit a few problems. I'm using gentoo, mythtv ver 0.18.1. 1. There is no grabber for my country (New Zealand), but there is an xmltv file with programmes. But how do I enter the frequencies for every channel? 2. Mythfilldatabase --manual seems to load the programmes happily, but when I check them with mythWeb - there is nothing in the schedule. The file is available here: http://mr.geek.nz/epg/getlist.html?channels=ter I patched mythtv to allow the tv_grab_nz provided on that page to work with mythtv, and made a new ebuild - would you like them? 2. mythVideo - I'm trying to play a file from a remote windows share using the standard mplayer command, unfortunately there are spaces in the file name and mplayer tries to play every single part of the name as a file and obviously it fails. I tried to add around the %s but it didn't help. Mplayer works without any problems from command line. 3. mythWeather - everything is sweet except the forecast for the next day - even though the timezone is set properly on Monday the forecast for tomorrow is for Sunday. Three days forecast and sat map are ok. What am I doing wrong? I couldn't find answers to any of those questions in the documentation (perhaps I wasn't looking carefully enough?). kind regards pshemko ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythtv-tv database
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 02:23:28 +0930 antec wrote: I have all these unassigned channels that show up in the guide when I change channels. How do I delete unwanted channels from the database?? Also, what are the command line options for mythtv? There's a startup options box where I can pass such arguments. thanks. mythfrontend -help Invalid argument: -help Valid options are: -display X-server Create GUI on X-server, not localhost -geometry or --geometry WxHOverride window size settings --geometry WxH+X+Y Override window size and position -l or --logfile filename Writes STDERR and STDOUT messages to filename -v or --verbose debug-levelPrints more information Accepts any combination (separated by comma) of all,none,quiet,record,playback,channel, osd,file,schedule,network,commflag,audio,libav --version Version information plugin Initialize and run this plugin Environment Variables: $MYTHTVDIR Set the installation prefix $MYTHCONFDIR Set the config dir (instead of ~/.mythtv) -- Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: remote wireless frontend drops back to menu instead of just pausing
may i suggest running mythfrontend from a terminal with -v all to get a better grip on what is happenning? (You can put it in a log file too with -l filename) On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:25:03 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I sent this to the list a couple of weeks ago but no answers. Mostly I'm just interested in how to have my frontend not drop back to the media library screen where it makes me choose the program again. How can I get MythTV to just pause, if necessary, and wait for data when this starts happening instead of dropping out and making me go back to the menu? I had a rash of this a couple of weeks ago and again last night. Probably some sort of wireless stuff in the neighborhood, etc., kicked it off and reminded me that I'd asked this question a while back. Thanks, Mark On 6/24/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again, I'm seeing a problem here when the network gets busy, or I think that's when it happens. I'll be watching a recorded show with mythfrontend and it will suddenly drop back to the programs menu like I hit escape. This happens periodically on any machine that's running wireless to the backend server. Nothing has intentionally been done. Is there some adjustment that I can make to one end or the other to tell it to buffer more data, or to not disconnect even if transmission is lost for something like 20 seconds, etc.? I'd rather have a long pause then having to grab the remote and reselect the program. Thanks, Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: remote wireless frontend drops back to menu instead of just pausing
My findings so far (mind you I only have 802.11b at home, mainly for browsing the internet withthe lappie on my knee.) It doesn't work well as a frontend. Is there a particular reason? Is it bandwidth? latency? something else? On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:23:46 -0400 Donavan Stanley wrote: On 7/18/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think any data was truly 'damaged' as I could set up the program to play again and the failure comes at a different place. If I go to the backend machine itself, or the frontend that's in the family room but on the wired network with the backend, I never get a drop out so I assume it must be the wireless network. Any ideas? Don't use a wireless network... It doesn't work (as you've noticed). ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Switching to mythtv
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:28:24 +1200 (NZST) Robin Gilks wrote: On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:08:21 +1200 Pshem Kowalczyk wrote: Hi, I'm switching to mythtv from freevo. I haven't finished setting up the new box yet, but already hit a few problems. I'm using gentoo, mythtv ver 0.18.1. 1. There is no grabber for my country (New Zealand), but there is an xmltv file with programmes. But how do I enter the frequencies for every channel? 2. Mythfilldatabase --manual seems to load the programmes happily, but when I check them with mythWeb - there is nothing in the schedule. The file is available here: http://mr.geek.nz/epg/getlist.html?channels=ter I patched mythtv to allow the tv_grab_nz provided on that page to work with mythtv, and made a new ebuild - would you like them? -- Nick Rout I'd be interested in that as well - I'm in CHCH and having great fun with an Epia SP13000 :-)) ChCh too ! did you come to my mythtv talk at CLUG the other night? (http://clug.org.nz) -- Robin Gilks zl3rob/g8ecj Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.gilks.org ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] irw problems
irw watches /dev/lircd, which is not the same as /dev/lirc or /dev/lirc0 to have a valid /dev/lircd you need to have the daemon running. On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 23:11:42 -0400 Al Furman wrote: I am building a myth box using Jarod's guide and have been stuck getting lirc to work with the IR receiver from zapway.de. I can see signals from my remote using mode2 and when I cat /dev/lirc or /dev/lirc0. I see no signals when I run irw. There are no relevant errors in /var/log/messages or dmesg. I have tested using different remotes and lircd config files to no avail. I am going to try compiling lirc in debug mode next, but was wondering if anyone in the group had any suggestions I may be missing. Thanks -- Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Lirc Issues on FC3 w/Jarod guide
I see you are running a serial receiver. You need to make sure that the kernel hasn't loaded its own serial driver and taken over the port. try running dmesg|grep ttyS if you get something like this: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Then the kernel has your serial port. The fix is well documented in the lirc documentation. There were other suggestions in this thread too, like manually modprobing the modules you need. Have you tried this? On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:20:55 -0400 Justin Popa wrote: Anyone have any ideas? I've checked my logs and there is some lirc activity, but the service still won't start. On 7/18/05, Justin Popa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems like it's one thing after another on this machine. I set up everything down the list, and I've got it all working except for lirc. I have a serial reciever on Com 1. I have done an apt-get install mythtv-suite(for lirc-lib) as well as a apt-get install lirc-kmdl-2.6.11-1.27_FC3 apt-get install lirc. I have all rpms now installed. I also added the lines he suggests to the /etc/modules.conf. Rebooted and here's where I run into my problems. There is no lirc related module in lsmod, and when i run service lircd start, I don't get anything. No errors or notifications. I checked the messages and dmesg logs, and I am lost. Anyone have any idea on other logs I can look at? Or other things I may have done wrong? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Plug in issues?? Myth - DVD, Gallery, Game
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 08:16 -0400, A JM wrote: I looked through the archives? Do you have a link to the similar Q and maybe the resolution? I won't bother finding the link, as the solution was as I have described, different versions of mythtv cf the plugin concerned. You haven't actually said what version of mythtv and which version of the plugins you are running. Funny you mention a version issue? I restored a working 0.17 version and was going to try apt-get update only updating the F/E which worked flawlessly but the other errors starting showing up. I'm getting errors similar to the following when trying to add or remove items using apt especially mythplugins. Mythgame gives the following error - Couldn't stat source package from list ftp://ftp.neriam.net unstable/myth packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.nerim.net_debian-marillat_dists_unstable_mythtv_binary-i386_packages) - stat (2 no such file or directory) Is this still a good source? If not what is the current source I should be using? wouldn't know, I compile from source. Have you tried that ftp site in your browser of ftp client? It doesn't work for me. In fact it doesn't seem to be in dns: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ host ftp.neriam.net Host ftp.neriam.net not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) Thanks, On 7/16/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are they different versions? I have seen this trying to run (e.g) mythvideo 0-16 with mythtv 0.18 And you might notice the answer to a similar question within the last week on this list. On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 21:06 -0400, A JM wrote: I'm getting a similar error messages for the 3 mentioned plugins, /usr/lib/mythtv/plugins/lib[name of module here].so: undefined symbol: _ZN18ConfigurationGroup-4loadEP12SsqlDatabase Unable to initialize plugin '[module name here]'. Unable to run plugin '[module name here]': not intialized Anyone have any ideas? I'm running FC3 on the backend (running fine) and these errors are coming from my frontend running on an Xbox. Thanks, ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Plug in issues?? Myth - DVD, Gallery, Game
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 08:16 -0400, A JM wrote: I looked through the archives? Do you have a link to the similar Q and maybe the resolution? Funny you mention a version issue? I restored a working 0.17 version and was going to try apt-get update only updating the F/E which worked flawlessly but the other errors starting showing up. I'm getting errors similar to the following when trying to add or remove items using apt especially mythplugins. Mythgame gives the following error - Couldn't stat source package from list ftp://ftp.neriam.net unstable/myth packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.nerim.net_debian-marillat_dists_unstable_mythtv_binary-i386_packages) - stat (2 no such file or directory) Is this still a good source? If not what is the current source I should be using? update on previous message - check your sources, I suspect it should be nerim.net NOT neriam.net. what is the exact line you have in your sources file? Thanks, On 7/16/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are they different versions? I have seen this trying to run (e.g) mythvideo 0-16 with mythtv 0.18 And you might notice the answer to a similar question within the last week on this list. On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 21:06 -0400, A JM wrote: I'm getting a similar error messages for the 3 mentioned plugins, /usr/lib/mythtv/plugins/lib[name of module here].so: undefined symbol: _ZN18ConfigurationGroup-4loadEP12SsqlDatabase Unable to initialize plugin '[module name here]'. Unable to run plugin '[module name here]': not intialized Anyone have any ideas? I'm running FC3 on the backend (running fine) and these errors are coming from my frontend running on an Xbox. Thanks, ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Video streams as a channel?
Its easy to do from mythvideo - see the recent thread on Nasa TV. It relies on the fact that you can set up any arbitrary command to watch a video file. On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 18:00 -0400, Mike Frisch wrote: Has the topic of using the web/Internet as a video source ever been tossed around? This would allow defining channels which are actually streams from other network locations. At GUADEC, for example, there were live streams of the conference. It would've been cool to watch these under Myth. Same goes for Steve Jobs' keynotes, and any other conferences that have live video. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Plug in issues?? Myth - DVD, Gallery, Game
Are they different versions? I have seen this trying to run (e.g) mythvideo 0-16 with mythtv 0.18 And you might notice the answer to a similar question within the last week on this list. On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 21:06 -0400, A JM wrote: I'm getting a similar error messages for the 3 mentioned plugins, /usr/lib/mythtv/plugins/lib[name of module here].so: undefined symbol: _ZN18ConfigurationGroup-4loadEP12SsqlDatabase Unable to initialize plugin '[module name here]'. Unable to run plugin '[module name here]': not intialized Anyone have any ideas? I'm running FC3 on the backend (running fine) and these errors are coming from my frontend running on an Xbox. Thanks, ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Disappointing audio sunc problems with exported vcd mpg
would you please STOP hijacking threads. On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 11:18 +1000, ffrr wrote: I have tried using nuvexport with ffmpeg and transcode (exporting from a DVB mpeg capture/recording), and in both cases the audio is quite out of sync with the video when I view them in kaffeine. I even burned one to a vcd and tried it in a standalone player, and the audio is still out of sync. Any suggestions on what the problem might be? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
