Re: [mythtv-users] OT: backing up to hard drive
This is totally off topic, but it probably applies to a lot of people here who have too much data for tape backups. I support a linux file server for a client that is fed up with using tape backups and insists on setting up a back up to a hard drive. The whole package will need to be idiot proof and easy to use. I imagine many people on this list are already doing this. Questions I have... What software are you using? It seems like a simple tar or cp in a cron job would do the trick. What hardware are you using to provide hot swapable drives at a reasonable cost? USB, SCSI? How are you moving the drives offsite? It seems like just chucking a bare drive in your car everyday will drastically reduce its life span. Anybody have any experience with these http://www.high-rely.com/index.cfm?action=productsgroup=3 ? Ok, there is a really good way to do this, go look at: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ Basically you can have a rotation that only consumes the size of the data plus change over the rotation period. that's what I use: rsync. Works well and is easy. Depending on your distribution rsnapshot comes with it. Otherwise www.rsnapshot.org. If you want the ability to just switch drives, partimage is another good one. www.partimage.org ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Weird seeking problems
Mark J. Small wrote: Hi Everybody, Something weird just starting happening to me on the weekend. On Saturday I noticed that my backend had rebooted itself while recording South Park at 1:00 in the morning. Ever since then, I haven't been able to seek properly while watching recorded programs. Sometimes, when I try to skip thirty seconds, it will immediately jump about 1 second. At other time it will pause for about 5-10 seconds and then complete the 30 second skip. When it is trying to skip, the OSD in the top right corner will do an interesting thing. The total recording length will slowly change. Perhaps having an innaccurate total recording length messes with the skipping and jumping. Also, it takes several minutes to resume watching a program from a bookmark. All I get is a black screen for a long time, and suddenly the program resumes from the bookmark. I'm running mythtv 0.17 on Debian Sarge, linux 2.4.something on the backend. Any ideas? Had the same problem. The recorded markup table got corrupted. Run mysqlcheck mythconverg and fix the errors. You should be back in action quick. Preet ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Weird seeking problems
Thanks, I fixed the errors in the recorded markup table using mysqlcheck, and I also ran mythcommflag --rebuild. But I still can't seek properly. The recorded length is correct or at least consant now, but skipping only moves a couple of seconds. Anything else I can try? I found that the recording made while the table was corrupt were that way and stayed that way. Recordings before and after were fine. Unless someone else has an idea there is nothing you can do for past history. Preet ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] IR Adapter: Recommendations?
atilibusb -- Is this the Driver you're referring to?? Yes that is the one. Is there any other type of Infra_Red which adapter which will work under LIRC? I bought a Serial_IrDa adapter and it doesn't work. Don't know. I searched for one and settled on the ATI RF one. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] WAF Achieves a Positive Value !
After the show, she remarked, Hey, that TV thing is pretty handy ! This was truly my moment of glory ! Thanks to all the fine MythTV developers and of course, Isaac, for giving me this brief, (and no doubt still rare) moment of marital triumph ! I am in the same situation. What I did was set Myth to record her favourite shows. Then I waited for a day where she would miss one. I simply said no problem and burned a DVD-RW with the shows for her to watch. SHE now came back and asked if we could hook up the doo-hickey to the TV in the living room. So I am building a frontend as we speak. Thanks Mythtv and all the developers. Preet ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] IR Adapter: Recommendations?
On Fri, 2005-29-04 at 16:10 -0400, Paul Check wrote: Hi: I have a MythTV backend/frontend on one machine using the PVR-350, and have just configured a MythTV frontend on another system. My final piece on the frontend only system is to get an IR adapter. I have no clue what to buy (started with a USB adapter, but I believe it is very short range). Ideally, I'd like an adapter that would work with the original PVR-350 remote since I probably wouldn't use both systems at the same time. Any recommendations? I like my ATI remote wonder. It will work from the next room. It isn't IR however. It is RF and so you will have two remotes. The 0.7.1 version for LIRC has drivers for this remote in userspace. No Kernel Modules! Let me know if you want config on this one. Preet ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] IR Adapter: Recommendations?
Wouldn't you need an ATI card to ue this? What does it plug into? -- Paul The remote is stand-alone. The receiver plugs into USB. I have nothing else ATI on my machine and it is fine. You actually have your choice of drivers. I like the pure LIRC approach with libusb so it is all in userspace. The remote has a lot of buttons. So you can most of the myth functions on one remote and not suffer for missing a keyboard. YMMV Preet ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] recordedmarkup table corruption
I had a hard lockup on the backend. Froze the entire machine. My reiserfs file system recovered much, but left the table recordedmarkup corrupt. This meant that nuvexport would not run and spits out ... Can't open file: 'recordedmarkup.MYD'. (errno: 145) I checked /var/lib/mysql/mythconverg and it is there. So the table is corrupt. To fix this, log into mysql ... mysql -u root -p mythconverg and then check and repair the table ... check table recordedmarkup; repair table recordedmarkup; And then all should be well. I am posting this because google resulted in nothing useful. Love my myth Preet ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] recordedmarkup table corruption
Or just 'mysqlcheck mythconverg'... Ohh I like that one. Very interesting reading. I didn't realize that I had more than one table corrupted. Thanks !!! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Nvidia XvMC and PVR 250
Hi All, Nice improvements in the XvMC setup. I just have a problem that I hope you all can help me with. I have two cards in my machine. A PVR 250 and the cheap SAA7134 that started me on Myth. With XvMC enabled, I can watch V4L encoded live TV and recordings. However the PVR 250 output is not happening. The frontend stops with a Unable to initialize Video message and the following output on the console ... 2005-04-25 23:54:57.843 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2005-04-25 23:54:57.852 Using protocol version 15 2005-04-25 23:54:57.881 Using protocol version 15 2005-04-25 23:55:00.050 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-04-25 23:55:00.050 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'. Using XvMC version: 1.0 XvMC found and using IDCT surface 2005-04-25 23:55:00.066 Using XV port 178 Unable to create XvMC Context return status:11 BadAlloc 2005-04-25 23:55:14.288 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2005-04-25 23:55:14.288 Decoder not alive, and trying to play.. 2005-04-25 23:55:14.515 Changing from None to None What am I missing here? No amount of googling has resolved this. I should mention that this happens for both recordings and for live TV. There is no transcoding happening on any card. The SAA7134 is recording in RTjpeg at 480x480 and the PVR is in native MPEG2 at 720x480. Thanks! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfrontend kills LIRCD process.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/20/05, Paul Manning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently upgraded to a larger hardisk. I used ghost for linux to do a drive clone. Ever since, my LIRC has stopped working on the machine. Everything else works fine. It seems the lircd process is dying everytime the mythfrontend process fires up. I can't find anything in the logs. Any ideas? At the console (locally or remotely via ssh/telnet,) killall lircd then load lircd -n and type irw. If irw exits immediately and lircd terminates at the same time, check your syslog (/var/log/messages) for indications of your lirc is compiled to use it. I had this problem using the rpm for lirc on atrpms using lirc_serial. I went back to my cvs checkout of lirc because of it. My syslog said something about /dev/lirc not being present. Seemed like a problem with the modules Sounds like it might be udev thing too. If you are using atrpms, install lirc-devices. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV performance in 0.18
On Tue, 2005-19-04 at 11:07 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:27:02PM -0400, Preet Khalsa wrote: On Tue, 2005-19-04 at 02:55 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 03:38:53PM -0700, Big Wave Dave wrote: On 4/18/05, Brandon Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MythTV is often compiled with no support for MMX or anything more than pentium pro optimization. If you didn't enable processor specific optimization and mmx, and opengl when doing a ./configure then this could have the bad effect. I haven't noticed much if any CPU change between .17 and .18 (Granted I run out of CVS) so I'd check that first. Does anyone know how the ATRpms are compiled, in this respect? Depends on the distribution, for FC3 they are tuned for pentium4. Does this mean I should compile Myth for the x86_64 (AMD64) instead of just using the binaries? (yes I did get the x86_664 version) Oh no, sorry. The x86_64 packages are of course not optimized for pentium4, gcc would bail out if told so. Here are the typical optimization flags for x86 archs and compatibles on FC3 packages: snip You can rebuild the packages with different optflags, if you like, to see whether there is any difference. Note that on x86_64 MMX in mythtv does not compile, so you will see a considerable performance drop wrt i386. Perhaps trying the i386 packages would not be a bad idea. That is an interesting idea. Maybe that is the solution. I have been trying to avoid i386 on this machine but had to relent for OpenOffice and Firefox. My only question about this is how the nvidia drivers relate. I have the x86_64 version of the drivers and I wonder how Myth can handle that. Particularly for XvMC. Thanks Axel! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Advice re: Frontend/Backend
On Mon, 2005-18-04 at 09:06 +0100, David wrote: Preet Khalsa wrote: 1. Run a network cable to another room. Install a normal frontend. But how will the remote work? Are there universal IR receivers that are reasonable and work with LIRC? I have been on the LIRC web site and there is only one home made unit from Germany that I can see. Try: http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/HardWare/RemoteControls/HomeMadeSerialReceiver http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/HardWare/RemoteControls Thanks for the links. I had a look at these. They all seem to come with TV cards. Since this is a frontend only, that is overkill. The wife will not accept me spending hours building my own. I do have a spare IR receiver because I have 2 tv cards in my machine. What I really want is a prebuilt receiver that plugs into serial/usb/whatever. Another option is to get a an IR keyboard and get a learning remote to map the Myth keys to the keyboard and leave it at that. That way, I can bring a keyboard on if I need to, but leave it in a drawer out of the way. I have a logitech cordless freedom, but I don't think it is IR. Thanks for the help so far. If you still have advice, it would be appreciated. I will publish final results when they are ready. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Advice re: Frontend/Backend - planned solution
Dale E. Martin wrote: What I really want is a prebuilt receiver that plugs into serial/usb/whatever. I bought one of these, it seems to work well: http://lnx.manoweb.com/lirc/?partType=sectionpartName=buy It took some time to arrive - I'm currently in Ohio and it shipped from Italy. But it works well and the price was right as they say. Well after reviewing all the comments from people, it looks like I will be running a network wire to the other room and buying an ATI Remote Wonder. It is well supported under LIRC. Eventually I will look at a wireless connection. A person in the office here has a spare 802.11b gateway and USB dongle. I just have to make sure it works with Linux. Thanks for advice folks. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] glxgears fx5200 and 7174
Will Rosecrans wrote: On 4/17/05, Preet Khalsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be happy. I am getting 200 fps on an Athlon 64 3000+ with the FX5200. I think it has something to do with my MSI K8T Neo2 F Mobo. With 2.6.11 it got worse because cpu speed throttling broke. So it stays at low freq for the cpu and gpu. Do you have the nvidia binary drivers installed, or are you using the nv drivers, or something else? If you don't have the nvidia binary drivers properly set up, then you will not get any 3D acceleration, which would explain your performance compared to the other posters. Nvidia 7174 drivers. I can't get AGPGART out of the kernel in order to use NvAGP. I know that is one of my problems. Appreciate the response. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] glxgears fx5200 and 7174
Greg Grotsky wrote: Preet, To get rid of AGPGART once and for all recompile the kernel setting it to NO. I couldn't unload mine even though I have unloadable module support and AGPGART was compiled in as a module. Recompiling without it was the only way I could get it to work. -Greg That setting will not change on the AMD64 platform. Make menuconfig and make xconfig do not allow me modularize that setting. I read somewhere it is because the mmu is on the CPU. So either Nvidia needs to make a module specific to AMD64 or AGPGART needs to improve for AMD64. I don't know which. Not a kernel hacker. On 4/18/05, Preet Khalsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nvidia 7174 drivers. I can't get AGPGART out of the kernel in order to use NvAGP. I know that is one of my problems. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: HDTV performance in 0.18
On Tue, 2005-19-04 at 02:55 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 03:38:53PM -0700, Big Wave Dave wrote: On 4/18/05, Brandon Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MythTV is often compiled with no support for MMX or anything more than pentium pro optimization. If you didn't enable processor specific optimization and mmx, and opengl when doing a ./configure then this could have the bad effect. I haven't noticed much if any CPU change between .17 and .18 (Granted I run out of CVS) so I'd check that first. Does anyone know how the ATRpms are compiled, in this respect? Depends on the distribution, for FC3 they are tuned for pentium4. Does this mean I should compile Myth for the x86_64 (AMD64) instead of just using the binaries? (yes I did get the x86_664 version) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] glxgears fx5200 and 7174
With glxgears at the default size, I am getting 1130 fps on a fx5200 using driver 7174 on a P4 3.2Ghz with smp kernel. Should I be happy with that number? My Radeon 9550 was getting 360 at best, and usually 120. I have seen others comparing larger numbers, but how does this demo actually compare to HD playback performance? Be happy. I am getting 200 fps on an Athlon 64 3000+ with the FX5200. I think it has something to do with my MSI K8T Neo2 F Mobo. With 2.6.11 it got worse because cpu speed throttling broke. So it stays at low freq for the cpu and gpu. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Advice re: Frontend/Backend
Hi all, I love Myth. I have now convinced the wife to join the party. So we bought an LCD TV/Monitor combo for the living room. What I need now is a way to display from the backend to a frontend in another room. I am looking for practical experiences from people. There should be no problem setting this up. The current frontend/backend combo will remain as is. Here are what I think are the possible combos. I would like your ideas on which I should go with and why. 1. Run a network cable to another room. Install a normal frontend. But how will the remote work? Are there universal IR receivers that are reasonable and work with LIRC? I have been on the LIRC web site and there is only one home made unit from Germany that I can see. 2. Go wireless for the networking. I have read that go nothing less than 'g'. This is a busy corner of a city I live in. I worry about hacking. 3. Use a MyVideo system to transfer the TV-Out of my FX5200 to the other room. The problem with this approach is that the backend is also a general purpose computer with three people using it with different IDs. At least the MyVideo will transmit the IR remote signals back to the other room. What have you all set up when you have gone client/server. Thanks all. Preet ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mac OS X version for Formac Studio TVR
Dan White wrote: I have a Formac Studio TVR (http://www.formac.com/p_bin/?cid=solutions_converters_studiodvtv) and I love it. Hardware encoding, built in TV tuner, analog to digital converter (audio and video). The problem is the PVR-ish software. It has a built in scheduler, but you have to either hand enter everything or rely on a bogus service called TitanTV (http://www.titantv.com) for programming info. I have missed several shows due to TitanTV's inaccurate schedule and I am looking for alternatives. It occurs to me that MythTV has all the pieces I need for a replacement. I am interested in the EPG and recording scheduling portions. I believe I can code the part to plug this into the actual hardware. Anyone interested ? Yes, for sure. I have one as well. It is only used to transcode Video onto a Mac. I would love to attach it to my PC and use MythTV with it. That would make it three tuners on Myth!!! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mac OS X version for Formac Studio TVR
Dan White wrote: No, you miss my intention. I do not want to hack the Studio TVR to run on another platform. I want to use the database/program guide/scheduling pieces of MythTV on my Mac to drive it. If you want the Studio TVR to run on a non-Mac, start by contacting Formac. Tried that. No help. Perhaps you could migrate Myth to OS X with the Formac driving it. Good Luck! On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Preet Khalsa wrote: Dan White wrote: I have a Formac Studio TVR (http://www.formac.com/p_bin/?cid=solutions_converters_studiodvtv) and I love it. Hardware encoding, built in TV tuner, analog to digital converter (audio and video). The problem is the PVR-ish software. It has a built in scheduler, but you have to either hand enter everything or rely on a bogus service called TitanTV (http://www.titantv.com) for programming info. I have missed several shows due to TitanTV's inaccurate schedule and I am looking for alternatives. It occurs to me that MythTV has all the pieces I need for a replacement. I am interested in the EPG and recording scheduling portions. I believe I can code the part to plug this into the actual hardware. Anyone interested ? Yes, for sure. I have one as well. It is only used to transcode Video onto a Mac. I would love to attach it to my PC and use MythTV with it. That would make it three tuners on Myth!!! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] watch analog and ditial tv on the same card?
Alan Hagge wrote: Xiaotian Hopefully it's not a dumb question, 'cause I want to know too. I've been experimenting since I got my card (about a week ago), and have had LIMITED success. Right now I'm using the dvb drivers (cx88-dvb) for ATSC and the cx8800 for NTSC. But for me, what usually happens is that if I start in ATSC mode, I can't switch to NTSC (and vice-versa). Regarding the mythtvsetup: I configured two separate tuners: a V4L2 one (NTSC) using /dev/video1 (I have a webcam on /dev/video0), and a DVB one (ATSC). Then I set up two separate antennas (one HD, one SD) with Zap2It (you have to use 2 different zip codes to set up 2 profiles, AFAIK), and tied each to its respective tuner. And you can select which format to use (and thus which tuner) on a per-channel basis (as well as having a global default which you already found). I'm using the 2.0 drivers from the pcHDTV website, FC3 and kernel 2.6.10-1.770_FC3. BTW, anyone know how to tell MythTV which tuner to use when first starting LiveTV? Mine's defaulting to my NTSC one, and I want the ATSC one. Set the priority for the ATSC card higher than the NTSC in Mythtvsetup. Cheers ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
