Re: [mythtv-users] EPG Forgets Current Channel For Some Channels
Top posting rearranged. --- Rob Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second try . . . any ideas? When watching live TV, normal behavior is that when I enter the program guide, it will open with the channel I am watching selected. But, when I'm on some channels, the current channel isn't selected and the guide starts on channel 1. It's always the same channels that have this problem, but I can't figure out what they have in common. I went into mythtv-setup and deleted channel info and reconfigured it, but no change. Any ideas on how to get the EPG to always open with the current channel highlighted? Joe Votour wrote: I've seen this as well, but I suspect that it's not channel related, but rather tuner related. I have a multi-tuner system and seem to see this anytime I haven't watched something on the tuner yet. I'm not sure about that. I only have one tuner and it always happens on the same channels. It doesn't only happen the first time I watch a channel either. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Looking for show preview PNG's in themes default dir?
I am running CVS as of 6/5. For the past month or so, I have noticed the output similar to the following from mythfrontend after browsing recorded programs. Unable to find image file: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/1032_2005060611000_2005060612.nuv.png I use /usr as my prefix. These look like the file names for the preview clips you see while browsing recordings. I've always found these files in the directory with the recorded programs and the ringbuffer. Have I configured something wrong that it's looking for them in the themes area? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] EPG Forgets Current Channel For Some Channels
Second try . . . any ideas? When watching live TV, normal behavior is that when I enter the program guide, it will open with the channel I am watching selected. But, when I'm on some channels, the current channel isn't selected and the guide starts on channel 1. It's always the same channels that have this problem, but I can't figure out what they have in common. I went into mythtv-setup and deleted channel info and reconfigured it, but no change. Any ideas on how to get the EPG to always open with the current channel highlighted? Thanks, Rob ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] First Time Playing Recorded Show Always Fails
I'm running current CVS on the HEAD branch. The first time I try to watch any recording, I get a black screen for maybe 5 minutes, then I get the prompt that usually shows up after a show ends offering three choices if I want to delete or keep the episode. If I tell it to keep it and try again it plays immediately. How do I get it to play correctly on the first attempt? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] EPG Forgets Current Channel For Some Channels
When watching live TV, normal behavior is that when I enter the program guide, it will open with the channel I am watching selected. But, when I'm on some channels, the current channel isn't selected and the guide starts on channel 1. It's always the same channels that have this problem, but I can't figure out what they have in common. I went into mythtv-setup and deleted channel info and reconfigured it, but no change. Any ideas on how to get the EPG to always open with the current channel highlighted? Thanks, Rob ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Update to 0.17 corrupts PVR 250
Christopher Ruppel wrote: --- Rob Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded to 0.17 today, specifically I updated to CVS from CVS of about 5 weeks ago. The first time I started mythfrontend after the update, it started updating schema, but seemed to hang. The next time I ran it, it completed fine. After the update, I cannot watch live TV. In fact trying to do so leaves my PVR 250 in an unusable state. mythfrontend --verbose gives the following output: 2005-02-12 18:34:33.561 taking too long to be allowed to read.. 2005-02-12 18:34:38.561 taking too long to be allowed to read.. 2005-02-12 18:34:43.562 taking too long to be allowed to read.. 2005-02-12 18:34:43.562 Took more than 10 seconds to be allowed to read, aborting. Couldn't read file: rbuf://192.168.93.106:6543/mnt/mythtv/ringbuf1.nuv 2005-02-12 18:34:43.588 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2005-02-12 18:34:43.588 Decoder not alive, and trying to play.. 2005-02-12 18:35:03.594 ReadStringList timeout (quick). I can do the following just fine after a reboot or removing the ivtv module and reloading it. $ cat /dev/video0 test.mpg $ mplayer test.mpg Once I start mythfrontend and try to Watch Live TV, further attempts to capture as above fail as does watch live TV. I notice that ringbuf1.nuv only gets to about 60k in size. After mythfrontend has been started and things break, a command like mplayer /dev/video0 will stop buffering around 60k. The only changes shown by ivtvctl -a before and after I try to watch live TV are: -bitrate : 800 -bitrate_peak: 960 +bitrate : 450 +bitrate_peak: 600 ioctl: VIDIOC_G_FMT Type : Video Capture - Width : 720 + Width : 480 -Volume = 58880 +Volume = 58950 Can anyone offer suggestions as to how I can fix this? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I read a thread in the archives where I it looks like someone else had a similar problem. The fix for him was to turn of CC in the setup: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/110440?search_string=setup%20cc;#110440 -- Chris __ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com Thanks much. That was it. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Update to 0.17 corrupts PVR 250
I upgraded to 0.17 today, specifically I updated to CVS from CVS of about 5 weeks ago. The first time I started mythfrontend after the update, it started updating schema, but seemed to hang. The next time I ran it, it completed fine. After the update, I cannot watch live TV. In fact trying to do so leaves my PVR 250 in an unusable state. mythfrontend --verbose gives the following output: 2005-02-12 18:34:33.561 taking too long to be allowed to read.. 2005-02-12 18:34:38.561 taking too long to be allowed to read.. 2005-02-12 18:34:43.562 taking too long to be allowed to read.. 2005-02-12 18:34:43.562 Took more than 10 seconds to be allowed to read, aborting. Couldn't read file: rbuf://192.168.93.106:6543/mnt/mythtv/ringbuf1.nuv 2005-02-12 18:34:43.588 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2005-02-12 18:34:43.588 Decoder not alive, and trying to play.. 2005-02-12 18:35:03.594 ReadStringList timeout (quick). I can do the following just fine after a reboot or removing the ivtv module and reloading it. $ cat /dev/video0 test.mpg $ mplayer test.mpg Once I start mythfrontend and try to Watch Live TV, further attempts to capture as above fail as does watch live TV. I notice that ringbuf1.nuv only gets to about 60k in size. After mythfrontend has been started and things break, a command like mplayer /dev/video0 will stop buffering around 60k. The only changes shown by ivtvctl -a before and after I try to watch live TV are: -bitrate : 800 -bitrate_peak: 960 +bitrate : 450 +bitrate_peak: 600 ioctl: VIDIOC_G_FMT Type : Video Capture - Width : 720 + Width : 480 -Volume = 58880 +Volume = 58950 Can anyone offer suggestions as to how I can fix this? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Waited too long for decoder to pause
I'm running CVS as of 1/14 and sometimes at the end of a recording, mythfrontend hangs. I'm using XV to output using Nvidia's drivers. When I kill the mythfrontend application, I find the console has many error messages repeated: Waited too long for decoder to pause In the gossamerthreads archives the only recent thread on this indicates that it should be corrected in CVS. Is there anything I can do to fix it? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Audio Dies When Recording Starts
Rob Rosenfeld wrote: My MythTV has been running well for a while now. I'm been running CVS on 2.6.9 kernel with alsa driver 1.07. I last updated on 12/30 and System Status reports the Myth version as 0.16.20041224-1. Since the last update, once a recording starts, audio is dead on the entire system. For example, today I had a scheduled recording. I was watching a show and I clicked the [sic] go ahead and record prompt. The recording started properly, but there was no audio. Now that the recording's done, I still have no audio. It just isn't Myth, but no audio app run as any user outputs any sound. They don't report any errors. Does anyone have any ideas as to what's happening or where to start looking? Well, I got no response, but have isolated this problem further, and am more convinced it has to do with MythTV. I have rebuilt MythTV against a few ALSA (1.05, 1.06, 1.07, and 1.08) and ivtv (0.2.0-rc3 and 0.3.2) versions. I wish I could be more clear, but here's the behavior I observe. Sometimes (I can't see why it's not always since I record everything with the same settings) when I play a recording sound disappears. This can be either when I go via media library or as above, when I watch while recording. As above, sound is dead for all apps and users on my system. However, if I play a small MPEG with mplayer outside MythTV it seems to reset the sound. I am configured to use ALSA:default for sound out. Does this prod any further thoughts? I wonder if the recent sound codebase updates have done something to the init/deinit of the sound code? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: Recommendation for USB to Serial convertor
Nick Morrott wrote: Hi, In response to my problem of needing either a combined serial port based IR receiver and transmitter, or using two serial based devices simultaneously, I was wondering if any other users have had the same problem and have had success using one serial port and converting a USB port into another serial port to use two devices. I am sure this is entirely possible, but is LIRC easy to setup in this manner? and more importantly, can anyone recommend a particular brand of USB-serial convertor known to work under Linux (FC2/FCx etc) that should give me the least problems. (or do they either all work the same or not at all?) I use a USB-UIRT ( lirc patch at http://www.gemair.com/~neveld/ ) to receive and a serial MyBlaster to xmit. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Audio Dies When Recording Starts
My MythTV has been running well for a while now. I'm been running CVS on 2.6.9 kernel with alsa driver 1.07. I last updated on 12/30 and System Status reports the Myth version as 0.16.20041224-1. Since the last update, once a recording starts, audio is dead on the entire system. For example, today I had a scheduled recording. I was watching a show and I clicked the [sic] go ahead and record prompt. The recording started properly, but there was no audio. Now that the recording's done, I still have no audio. It just isn't Myth, but no audio app run as any user outputs any sound. They don't report any errors. Does anyone have any ideas as to what's happening or where to start looking? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Cavalier 2(CAV-T02) - Good HTPC Case???
Damon Wanamaker wrote: Hello All, Looking for some advice on a good case to buy for migrating my Myth Backend from its current ASUS Pundit case to one with more flexible functionality. Poking around on some websites I came across the Cavalier 2 by coolermaster and it seemed to fit my requirements. http://www.coolermaster.com/index.php?LT=englishLanguage_s=2url_place=productp_serial=CAV-T02other_title=+CAV-T02+Cavalier%202 However, as we all know the most crucial thing is. It is quiet??? I know everyone hates a loud fan in the living room. This case has a proprietary power supply and therefore I would be stuck with it if its too loud. Perhaps someone out there who has one can let me know: Is the Power Supply fan loud? Are the Case fans loud? Are you happy with it? I have no experience with it,but Anandtech just reviewed it along with a few other HTPC cases: http://www.anandtech.com/casecooling/showdoc.aspx?i=2309 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] SUCCESS!! Finally got MythTV working on FC3...except remote
Matt Lane wrote: I am a newbie on Mythtv and it has been a long time on Linux. It has taken me many weeks staying up lateAnyway I was finally able to record through my s-video tonight. My question is, my remote only works if I start the mythfrontend as root which of course I don't want to do on a regular basis. Any thoughts? Are you talking about receiving signals on /dev/lirc or sending on /dev/lircd? What are the perms on your /dev/lirc*? I run lircd with the -p 666 arg to make /dev/lircd world readable. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Cable Video on Demand and MythTV
Bruce Markey wrote: Rob Rosenfeld wrote: ... the features it offers is Video on Demand. I tune to one channel and ... 1) Is there a passthrough mode where I can watch live cable input without the buffering? Run another output from the cable box directly to another input on the TV. For instance, I run s-video from STB to MythTV then coax from STB to cable on my TV. I use this mostly for comparing picture quality and characteristics but you may find this useful for interacting with the box. Well I could do this, but I was hoping for a solution that let me continue to use the higher quality s-video outputs for both purposes. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Cable Video on Demand and MythTV
Hey all, I've got my Myth install pretty stable and am looking to polish it off. I'm in the US and have digital cable. I'm using a PVR-250 and an IR blaster to capture s-video from the cable box. One of the features it offers is Video on Demand. I tune to one channel and pick from a list of movies that start when I select them. To use it I need to interact with menus on my cable box. This is difficult via Watch TV with the buffer delay. Has anyone out there got a MythTV config that deal with channels of this type? 1) Is there a passthrough mode where I can watch live cable input without the buffering? 2) Is there a way I could have Myth interpret key presses differently when on certain channels? For instance, when on 200 (HBO on Demand) the arrow keys are passed out the IR blaster to the cable box, but on 201 (HBO), they are caught by MythTV as usual? Thanks, Rob ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Just Can't Get lirc to Work :-(
David Bosiljevac wrote: Hi all, I've tried everything I can, but I just can't seem to get lirc to work for me. I do all the kernel compilations, with all the required modules, but when I run the /usr/local/bin/irw program, nothing shows up when I press buttons on the remote. I've checked to make sure the IR cable is plugged into my Hauppauge card. I've changed batteries on my remote. Still nothing. Here's the lirc entries from my /var/log/messages file: Dec 18 23:44:22 localhost kernel: lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61 Dec 18 23:44:22 localhost kernel: bttv: driver version 0.7.108 loaded Dec 18 23:44:22 localhost kernel: bttv: using 4 buffers with 2080k (8320k total) for capture Dec 18 23:44:22 localhost kernel: lirc_i2c: chip found @ 0x18 (Hauppauge IR) Dec 18 23:44:22 localhost kernel: lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin:sample_rate: 10 My lircd logfile is showing the line: Dec 18 23:46:21 krusty lircd 0.7.0: accepted new client on /dev/lircd There doesn't seem to be any errors anywhere. Am I missing something? Does anybody have any thoughts as to why I get nothing when I run irw? Thanks in advance. --db ___ Do you have the correct /etc/lircd.conf file for your remote? When I can successfully connect with irw, meaning that it doesn't return to command prompt on launching and my kernel shows it accepting a new client, but get nothing from button presses, that means I used the wrong config file. You prolly have to restart lircd after updating the config file. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
