[mythtv-users] Mysql complains at me
So I had to powercycle the computer that runs mythtv. Luckly my filesystem is journaled (ext3 and xfs) so I didn't have to wait long, but wait, surprise for me in my mailbox: Subject: WARNING: mysqlcheck has found corrupt tables The debian packaging of mysql runs check tools on system boot. So apparently my mythtv tables may or may not be corrupt. The rest of the message just indicates that some tables weren't closed correctly, and now people are accessing them. Now I don't really want advice how to fix this, since I don't have the time or interest to fix it (and I'm getting rid of cable anyways). But I'd like to say that as a power-user who just wants to be an end user, this is a very bad experience. The one instruction for fixing it involves like 10 steps. I'm not really interested in this, I'm really interested in watching my TV, not databases. My engineering hat comes on, and says - this is intolerable. Mysql isn't really helping here, and maybe mythtv should at LEAST offer the option of using a database that doesn't need care and feeding after system crashes/hard reboots. My prime vote would be for postgresql. At this point I cannot really recommend mythtv to anything less than a power developer. Fixing corrupt mysql tables is NOT cool and not at all interesting. -ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] reformating and wondering cvs vs 18.1
I am about to reformat my box and i'm wondering which i should go with. As there hasn't been a new release in a long time should i go with the cvs release or stick with 18.1? Not sure how stable the cvs has been or what changes have been made lately. Just wonding about the status of the project. Thanks for any thoughts. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] thoughts about 2 drives 1 video storage 1 system + other
What is everyones thoughts when it comes down to partitioning drives. I have a 200 gig hd right now but am looking to reformat and i'm considering putting the video storage only on the 200 gig drive where i'll then put the system and tv buffer on a second 20~30 gig drive. Anyone see any benifits other than the increase in capacity? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PPC and MythMusic FIX (at least for mp3s)
You should submit this patch to http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac. It would be most likely to be evaluated if you could regenerate it against SVN. Also, a unified diff (diff -u or svn diff) is needed. Thanks, Kevin Will do, what I posted was more of hack than a patch. I noticed some people trying to get it working about a week back and that was the quick fix. I'll spend some time this weekend creating a appropriate patch for the submittal. I'll also try and get the other audio decoders working as well. -ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PPC and MythMusic FIX (at least for mp3s)
Pardon my Fench, but SACRE' MERDE! Thank you soo much! My entire music library is mp3, so this is a very good thing. Getting it to work for other formats is probably not far behind. I am not much of a programmer, but this is just tempting enough to try. Matt I submitted a patch which fixes ogg (tested) and flac(not tested). It is a complete diff of all the files from svn for it to compile on my mac-mini. I think settings.pro needs to be changed slightly, someone hardcoded some intel stuff in there. It also allows the endian type to be detected so it can be used on either PPC or Intel. http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/1024 I have not investigated wether or not it encodes correctly. Essentially mp3 and an occasional ogg file is all I'll ever play on it. Enjoy -Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] PPC and MythMusic FIX (at least for mp3s)
My first contribution back to the opensource community (after using Linux for
the last 11 years its about damn time).
Okay after being bugged by mythmusic on not working on a ppc I decided to sit
down and figure this thing out. Especially since there appears to be 2 other
people in the world that would love to have a mac-mini frontend to mythtv
using linux.
If you don't know the mac mini works fine with mplayer and the 1.2GHz is close
to playing 1920x1080 xvid files without too many frame drops, but it would
produce noise under mythmusic.
The problem is that libmad returns little endian audio and the powerpc is a
big endian machine. Simply compile minimad.c that comes with libmad on a ppc
machine and see that it doesn't work. You get noise.
I'm using 0.18.1 from gentoo on the mac mini. The mythmusic plugin code I
used for my fixes came from:
http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/
I used the release-0-18-fixes to compile only mythmusic.
I know vorbis file have the same problem, but I don't use them (I did test
one), so I figure there is a similar fix that can be done in that file.
The fix:
swap lines 486 487 and 493 494 of maddecoder.cpp
The diff (which is a little confusing):
486d485
*(output_buf + output_at++) = ((sample 0) 0xff);
487a487
*(output_buf + output_at++) = ((sample 0) 0xff);
493d492
*(output_buf + output_at++) = ((sample 0) 0xff);
494a494
*(output_buf + output_at++) = ((sample 0) 0xff);
Original Code:
while (samples--)
{
signed int sample;
if (output_bytes + 4096 globalBufferSize)
{
flush();
}
sample = fix_sample(16, *left++);
*(output_buf + output_at++) = ((sample 0) 0xff);
*(output_buf + output_at++) = ((sample 8) 0xff);
output_bytes += 2;
if (channels == 2)
{
sample = fix_sample(16, *right++);
*(output_buf + output_at++) = ((sample 0) 0xff);
*(output_buf + output_at++) = ((sample 8) 0xff);
output_bytes += 2;
}
}
Big Endian Code (works on PPC):
while (samples--)
{
signed int sample;
if (output_bytes + 4096 globalBufferSize)
{
flush();
}
sample = fix_sample(16, *left++);
*(output_buf + output_at++) = ((sample 8) 0xff);
*(output_buf + output_at++) = ((sample 0) 0xff);
output_bytes += 2;
if (channels == 2)
{
sample = fix_sample(16, *right++);
*(output_buf + output_at++) = ((sample 8) 0xff);
*(output_buf + output_at++) = ((sample 0) 0xff);
output_bytes += 2;
}
}
Compile and enjoy the music on the mac-mini!
--
Ryan S Oltman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.ae.uiuc.edu
Manager of System Services
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Zap2it problems
Is anyone else having problems with Zap2it? I'm getting 500 internal service error. I tried to log into labs.zap2it.com to see if I accidentally let my subscription lapse, and I'm getting page not found after entering my log in info. Someone had mentioned in November they had to rebuild myth after upgrading gcc, so I tried that, but no change. Anyone else having any issues? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Zap2it problems
On 12/28/05, MagicITX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm seeing the same thing. I would say the site is screwed up. Other pages give Oracle errors.On 12/28/05, Ryan Steffes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Is anyone else having problems with Zap2it? I'm getting 500 internal service error. I tried to log into labs.zap2it.com to see if I accidentally let my subscription lapse, and I'm getting page not found after entering my log in info. Someone had mentioned in November they had to rebuild myth after upgrading gcc, so I tried that, but no change. Anyone else having any issues? ___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I sent them an email, and they seemed to have fixed something. I'm still not getting any listings though, which makes me sad. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Samba 3 better than NFS 3 for recording over Ethernet
On 12/29/05, Greg Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jumbo frames are your friendOn Wed, 2005-12-28 at 21:29 -0800, Jonathan Tidmore wrote: On 12/28/05, Mike Frisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The tcp option may not be necessary but I haven't taken the time to benchmark between TCP and UDP. For gigabit ethernet, the nfs people recommend TCP. From the man page for nfs (5): WARNINGS Using NFS over UDP on high-speed links such as Gigabit can cause silent data corruption.Theproblemcanbetriggered at high loads, and is caused by problems in IP fragment reassembly. NFSread and writes typically transmit UDP packets of 4 Kilobytes or more, which have to be brokenupintoseveralfragmentsinordertobe sent over the Ethernet link, which limits packets to 1500 bytes bydefault. This process happens at the IP network layer and is called fragmentation. They go into greater detail about this issue.For info use 'man 5 nfs' -J ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Hmm, I wonder if this may be related to why nfs apparently locks my machine in heavy use. It started when I switched to gigabit nics and I was blaming the cards, until I realized I could do high data transfers with the computer as long as I don't use nfs. Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Using Mythtv as a non-tv recording device
using a DV cam is not an option, since the system we have currently is that we have a PTZ camera built into our ceiling that we use, and then record to a S-VHS deck. Swapping it out with a MiniDV deck would cost too much ($1000+ per deck??). I'll check into the hauppage software, since we lost the CD ages ago. ivtv sounds like a better option, as I'd rather work with a linux-based system than try to cobble together some windows scripts. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Playing dvb nuv files with vlc
Quoting ffrr [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mike Ryan wrote: Anyone out there got vlc to play dvb-t nuv files with sound. I can view the video but no sound whatsoever.. I'm running FC3 with 0.18.1 mythtv and 0.8.1 vlc Everything's fine in mplayer and xine (and myth obviously) but as vlc doesn't seem to be able to pick up the audio I'm unable to get mythtvstream to work I couldn't even get video. It was just a mess. Then somebody told me it wasn't working yet, so I stopped trying :-) May be of interest/use to this list. I finally got vlc to compile. I've documented everything here http://www.londoncrime.org/blog If I get the thing to work fully with myth file I'll document it all and post an update Cheers Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Playing dvb nuv files with vlc
Anyone out there got vlc to play dvb-t nuv files with sound. I can view the video but no sound whatsoever. I'm running FC3 with 0.18.1 mythtv and 0.8.1 vlc Everything's fine in mplayer and xine (and myth obviously) but as vlc doesn't seem to be able to pick up the audio I'm unable to get mythtvstream to work Cheers Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] strange scheduling issue
Hello, ok consider 2 shows to be running at 6:00 P.M. A and B. A is also shown at 1 A.M (7 hours later) )but B is only running once. A has a higher priority. Right now my box is just scheduling A at 6:00 and i completely miss B unless I play around with the times to get it to record both. Both of the recording schedules are set to record at any time on any channel. (trying to catch up on old epsiodes). Why is it doing this. I would expect it to schedule B at 6.PM and A at 1 AM but again it doesn't. Any comments on why? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] strange scheduling issue
perfect, thanks thats what i was looking for.On 11/14/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:56:39PM -0500, Ryan Kremser wrote: Right now my box is just scheduling A at 6:00 and i completely miss B unless I play around with the times to get it to record both.Both of the recording schedules are set to record at any time on any channel. On the front-end machine go to Utilities/Setup, Setup, TVSettings, Recording Priorities, Set Recording Priorities and enablethe Reschedule Higher Priorities check-box. If you don't, then high priority means record this show as soon aspossible no matter what else I miss.With rescheduling enabled, highpriority will only bump shows if there is no possible way to record both.--Joke reduction: Three guys walk into a bar. One of them is a wee bitstupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.___ mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Occasional hard freezes
On 11/1/05, Julian Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Steffes wrote Changing to acpi=off did not fix the problem. I'm a little concerned with whether it's really off though, it seems to turn on local apic before reading the kernel options: You will also need to clear the ECSD memory in the BIOS to make itreassign the IRQs.It's either labelled reset ECSD (or ESCD, mymemory is crap) or something like clear NVRAM.If there's nothing like that then you may need to clear the whole BIOS settings with themobo jumper.What sound card are you using in the system?SBLive cards have knownproblems.___ I will try that, I've had it running well for a couple days now by not transfering data as much as I was doing (doing all my transcoding on the backend machine). I've been in the process of backing up all my dvds onto my drive, so it's really putting a crimp in my plans to only have one machine working on them at once. The NIC is looking very suspect at the moment, which is a pity since I specifically bought this board for the onboard gigabit nic and the onboard optical s/pdif out. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Occasional hard freezes
I've tried seperating the drives onto different IDE channels, without success. I'm wondering if there's a problem with the onboard gigabit NIC itself. Does anyone have a system working properly with a MSI K7N2 Delta 2, with digital audio and gigabit nic working? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Transcode (ripping) issue
On 10/31/05, David Barkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting issue when ripping a DVD. I ripped Troy recently then watched it to see how it turned out and the words, like the movie title and credits and the story they display before the movie starts are all in another language, the title is something like TROIE, definitely not TROY like usual. Just to be clear, I'm not talking about subtitles. The language throughout the movie is english. Anyone else seen anything like this? Anyone else rip Troy with better results? Thanks David Barkman ___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I'd say you got one of the many DVD's that defaults to French for the Canadian audience. (They've got some bizarre restriction in Quebec, I think, that requires French to be promoted or something like that). It sounds like it has an alternative intro and outro (?) in French that you accidentally ripped instead. Did you rip through mtd? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] partitioning for second hard drive???
On 10/31/05, Nada De nada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am trying to increas my video storage capcity. Iattached a new hard drive.. and I would like to knowif there is an easy way to set up Fedora and partitionthe new hard drive...also once I do that.. how can I link my video partition dev/hda5 (jfs format) to thenew drive Thanks When you say set up Fedora, do you mean have Fedora recognize the drive, or that it's not installed at all? It should recognize it as soon as you boot up. I'm not sure if Fedora has a friendly tool for disk partitions, but fdisk isn't terrible if you read a little. Do you want to combine the two drives into one larger partition, or do you want to replace the partition you have with the new drive, and use your old partition for something else? If you want to combine the drives (Say, you have 50GB now on /dev/hda5 and you have 250GB on /dev/hdb and you want to have 300GB on /mnt/video) you should look into LVM, which is surprisingly easy to set up. I believe you can grow and shrink jfs. If you want to replace it, it's easier. Here are the general steps, use man for exact parameters: 1) Use fdisk to create one large primary partition on your new drive (probably /dev/hdb if it's on the same cable as your original drive) 2) Set the type of the new partion to 83 Linux 3) Write and close fdisk 4) Make the file system on the new partition: mkfs.jfs /dev/hdb1 5) Mount the file system in a temporary place: mkdir /mnt/newDriveTemp/ mount -t jfs /dev/hdb1 /mnt/newDriveTemp 6) Copy everything over (there may be better ways to do this part): cp -a /mnt/video /mnt/newDriveTemp7) Modify fstab and replace the reference to /dev/hda5 with /dev/hdb1 8) Depending on whether the file system is in use (if /dev/hda5 is your /home for example) you may need to reboot instead of just unmount /mnt/newDriveTemp and /mnt/video and mount your new partition in it's place. Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: unplugging the fan of the grafic card
On 10/31/05, Devan Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/13/05, Yann Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am planning to build a MythTV system, and would like to install aNVidia grafic card for software decoding of the recorded shows. The newer cards almost always have active coolers (with fan). Doessoftware decoding use the heat producing features of the gpu, and ifnot, can I just unplug the fan to get a silent system ? Thank'sYann FWIW I have a GeForce2 that I unplugged the fan on, but that was only because the bearings seized. Haven't had a problem over the past few years. All features will produce heat, but most generic rendering of images isn't going to be terrible for it. I don't know of anyway to underclock your video card for Linux, but if you could it'd help. If you keep relatively good airflow in your case and don't drive your card too hard with games or such, you very likely will be alright. You card will most likely not live as long as it otherwise would, but many people, like the above, haven't had any problems. I recently unplugged mine after looking at Zalman's passive coolers. I have a Zalman on my gaming machine and am very satisfied with its performance, but for me it was simple math. If my card happens to burn out, a GeForce MX4000 is $30, and so is the Zalman cooler. Obviously, if I needed more than s-video out, that could change. Your math may vary. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Occasional hard freezes
On 10/28/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ryan Steffes wrote:On 10/28/05, Julian Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Ryan Steffes wrote:I thought I had finally gotten this fixed with the kernel option
nolapic, but it happened to me again. I am experiencing hard lock upsthat seem to be related to high data throughput, but aren't consistentenough for me to track down. When it freezes, only hitting the reset
or power button fixes it.I have an MSI K7N2 Delta 2 motherboard with an AMD Barton 2500+ init. It has a nforce northbridge. I am passing the kernel acpi=no
noapic nolapic. I'm running 2.6.11-6mdk. I have one PVR 150. I havetwo hard drives, running LVM to make one video share. I'm runningivtv 0.3.9What happens is a hard lock up. It generally happens when I'm
exercising the ethernet hard.This exact same thing was happening to me too with my KT6 Delta.[snip]Can anyone give any advice on where to go from here?
Sure. The problem is almost certainly to do with interrupt sharing. Inmy case it was a problem with the ACPI steering assigning too manydevices the same IRQ. I ended up fixing it by disabling unnecessary
onboard hardware (eg I don't need 8 USB controllers or onboard sound),using acpi=off (is that different to your acpi=no ?) and re-positioningAccording to proc/interrupts, there shouldn't be a sharing problem. However,
I'm unsure if there is a difference between acpi=no and acpi=off. I'll tryoff and see if I can pound away on the NIC and the hard drive and see whathappens.vi /usr/src/linux-`uname -r`/Documentation/kernel-
parameters.txt/acpiacpi=
[HW,ACPI] Advanced Configuration and Power InterfaceFormat:
{ force | off | ht | strict }force
-- enable ACPI if default was offoff
-- disable ACPI if default was onnoirq
-- do not use ACPI for IRQ routinght
-- run only enough ACPI to enable Hyper Threadingstrict
--Be less tolerant of platforms thatare notstrictly
ACPI specification compliant.I think you were trying for acpi=noirq noapic nolapic.And, itwouldn't hurt to throw in a pci=noacpi for good measure.Most of the'net gets these parameters wrong, though, so I realize you saw someone
else recommend this...Note, also, that acpi=off would give you the same IRQ-related resultsas acpi=noirq (and disable the rest of ACPI, also).
Changing to acpi=off did not fix the problem. I'm a little concerned
with whether it's really off though, it seems to turn on local apic
before reading the kernel options:
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: Found and enabled local APIC!
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: Initializing CPU#0
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: Kernel command line: auto
BOOT_IMAGE=MythTV ro root=341 acpi=off noapic nolapic resume=/dev/hdb3
splash=silent
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: bootsplash: silent mode.
Later, it does say:
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbe50, last bus=2
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050211
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PnPBIOS: Disabled
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PCI: Using IRQ router default [10de/01e0] at :00:00.0
but it doesn't say anything about local apic again. How can I check that it's really disabled?
___
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Occasional hard freezes
On 10/29/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Steffes wrote: Changing to acpi=off did not fix the problem. I'm a little concerned with whether it's really off though, it seems to turn on local apic before reading the kernel options: Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: Found and enabled local APIC! Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: Initializing CPU#0 Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=MythTV ro root=341 acpi=off noapic nolapic resume=/dev/hdb3 splash=silent Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: bootsplash: silent mode. Later, it does say: Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbe50, last bus=2 Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1 Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050211 Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: ACPI: Interpreter disabled. Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PnPBIOS: Disabled Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PCI: Using IRQ router default [10de/01e0] at :00:00.0 but it doesn't say anything about local apic again.How can I check that it's really disabled?If you have a relatively nice BIOS, it will enable you to disable ACPI,LAPIC, and possibly APIC.Try that in addition to the kernel params.Mike___ mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users According to the BIOS, local apic is allegedly disabled. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Occasional hard freezes
I was experiencing what I thought were lockups whendeleting recorded programs, either through the interface or via MythWeb.Turns out it wasn't alockup (although the interface and/or Mythweb becamefrozen, and puTTY'ing in did not work).The freezewas temporary (lasting a few to several minutes) and related to deleting *large* files from my ext3filesystem.As far as I can tell, it's been remediedby switching to XFS for my program storage drive (onlyfive days of testing so far). These locks ups appear to be permanent, unless temporary can last several hours, over night and into the next morning. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Occasional hard freezes
I thought I had finally gotten this fixed with the kernel option nolapic, but it happened to me again. I am experiencing hard lock ups that seem to be related to high data throughput, but aren't consistent enough for me to track down. When it freezes, only hitting the reset or power button fixes it. I have an MSI K7N2 Delta 2 motherboard with an AMD Barton 2500+ in it. It has a nforce northbridge. I am passing the kernel acpi=no noapic nolapic. I'm running 2.6.11-6mdk. I have one PVR 150. I have two hard drives, running LVM to make one video share. I'm running ivtv 0.3.9 What happens is a hard lock up. It generally happens when I'm exercising the ethernet hard. Possibly related is that my nfs speed sucks, despite being gigabit on both sides. I'm not, however, pushing it insanely hard. An example would copying files to it while watching a movie. A recording might start and suddenly hard lock. It does not always require a recording to start however. There is no other computer on the network, and I have a D-Link gigabit router, but I still get frequent time outs. It's almost as though the hard drives are just completely swamped, but I can't find a reason why they should be. Sometimes even simple things like listing a directory can take quite a while. The file system is reiserfs, the first drive is a ST3200822A, the second is a ST3250823A. They aren't running particularly hot, and smartd isn't reporting bad errors. One of the disks had a few bad sectors that I had the tool replace with reserved sectors. Can anyone give any advice on where to go from here? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Videocard (Radeon 9800XT) Won't Render HDTV using XV
Sweet, I re-synced portage and a new version of the drivers did in fact show up. Now MythTV works with xv, but the colors are all screwed up! Oh well, I'm sure there is an easy fix for that, I just have to do a little Google-ing : ) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Videocard (Radeon 9800XT) Won't Render HDTV using XV
I have a Radeon 9800XT and Air2pc (HD5000) capture card on a Gentoo 2005.1/Athlon XP 3200+ machine. I have MythTV (0.18.1-r2) setup and running except for one major problem - I cannot see video when I watch live TV on HDTV stations. The problem is XV, which spits out X Error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) 11. I ran into the same problem with xine/mplayer and was able to fix it by compiling MPlayer with vidix (and adding -vo vidix:radeon_vid.so to video playback in MythTV), but Xine just renders a pink screen using vidix (and crashes using vidixfb) for some reason... I found that using the stock GATOS radeon driver fixes the XV problem, but mangles fluxbox's window rendering (and the mouse cursor) - this is a known problem with the 9800XT - and I don't like that solution anyway because it doesn't support OpenGL/DRM. Anyway, my question is essentally am I SOL? Is there any alternative to XV (libxvmc is hard masked in Gentoo so I'm thinking it should be best left alone, besides which I don't think it works with the fglrx drivers) in MythTV? Xine will render HDTV using the opengl plugin (albeit poorly) and mplayer uses vidix just fine, however it involved hacking libdha a bit, so I'm assuming I can get it working in Xine... Somehow... But if MyhthTV won't use the vidix plugin there is no point in trying to get it working with Xine. Any input would be greatly appreciated - TIA ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Filled Hard drive MySQL servicewillnotstart at boot.
You can verify that the file system is full with df -h / assuming /root is full and this is causing your X windows and other services not being able to write to places like /tmp. If you indeed find that the filesystem is full. you can search for large files like so. find /path -size +100k (files over 1GB or close enough). So if you believe it to be in /var find /var -size +100k . regards, Ryan On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 12:06:37PM -0400, Chris Gackstatter wrote: I did the 'df -I' I have over 5Mil inodes in one of my partitions is that excessive. If so what do I do about it? This is unclear... Is that over 5 million used, free, or total? If that's 5,000,000 free or total, don't worry about it. The number of inodes in a filesystem is the maximum number of files/directories it can hold (each file/directory uses 1 inode), so it's better to have too many than too few. If you're really trying to squeeze every last bit of space out of the drive, it might be worth trying to reduce the inode count, but it's generally not worth the effort. If it's 5,000,000 used, that's another story... You need to find where those millions of 0-byte files are and delete them. If it's on the affected partition, /var/log is a good place to start looking, as suggested earlier. After that, I'd probably check /var/tmp and the various subdirectories under /var/spool (especially any that are related to print or mail daemons), then everything else under /var before looking at anything else. -- The freedoms that we enjoy presently are the most important victories of the White Hats over the past several millennia, and it is vitally important that we don't give them up now, only because we are frightened. - Eolake Stobblehouse (http://stobblehouse.com/text/battle.html) ___ 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] Slight OT: Possibly failing disk, bad sector warnings
I just recently started playing with smartctl and discovered one of my disks seems to be having problems: Oct 5 10:52:27 mythtv smartd[13917]: Device: /dev/hdb, 4 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Oct 5 10:52:27 mythtv smartd[13917]: Device: /dev/hdb, 4 Offline uncorrectable sectors I'm trying to figure out exactly what this means. I think as far as the report goes, it means four sectors have bad blocks and the disk wants to relocate them, but hasn't yet. My question is what I need to do about it. Is it time to panic and dump the drive? It's not a particularly old drive, but I have no idea what the warrenty on it would be. I bought it OEM from newegg. If it's just a matter of relocating data, what ought I do about it? badblocks gave a dismaying list, but I don't know exactly what to do with that data. The blocks are somewhere in my LVM partition. Is this a write off the sectors kind of problem, or a pray and order a new disc kind of problem? smartctl reports overall health is still good. === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: ST3250823A Serial Number: 5ND064BR Firmware Version: 3.02 User Capacity: 250,059,350,016 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Wed Oct 5 14:41:36 2005 EDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity was completed without error. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 249) Self-test routine in progress... 90% of test remaining. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 430) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 84) minutes. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 057 052 006 Pre-fail Always - 16566 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 099 098 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 49 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 039 034 030 Pre-fail Always - 44229665938597 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1519 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 62 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 046 060 000 Old_age Always - 46 (Lifetime Min/Max 0 /23) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 057 051 000 Old_age Always - 16566 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 4 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 4 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 202 TA_Increase_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 1517 - # 2 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 1414 29360139 # 3 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 1249 29360139 # 4 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 1084 29360139 # 5 Extended offline Self-test routine in progress 90% 1519 - SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] updated parts / software list for HD Myth
Try: http://www.mythtv.info/ and http://www.gossamer-threads.com/archive/MythTV_C2/Users_F11/ And see if you can't find plenty of options already discussed. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV presentation at WSFII
Quoting Mike Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Björn Svartengren [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dewey Smolka wrote: I was a bit curious though when you mentioned businesses selling pre-built Myth systems and Myth accessories. I've seen systems for sale on ebay and such, and have seen some pretty poorly disguised Myth systems sold through dodgy web sites, but am unaware of any (legitimate) company making a real go at it. Selling and servicing Myth systems is something I've had in mind for a while, but I've been put off by a number of concerns. One of the larger problems -- program data -- has been addressed by LxM, but I'm still terrified of running into IP issues. Namely, whatever my opinion, DMCA is Federal Law here in the Land of the Free (TM), and Myth is full of potential violations. Yes, I know it's ridiculous, but there's no way (that I'm aware of, at least) to play DVDs, archive DVDs, play or achive copy-protected non-CDs, or record protected broadcast content on Linux without violating this law. In addition, because of the recent Grokster decision, a seller of Myth could potentially be held liable if someone records a TV show with a Myth and then sticks it on the internet. MythiC.TV sels a pre installed system they call Dragon, link to it here: http://mythic.tv/product_info.php?products_id=44 While much of this is specific to the US, I'm just wonderin g if you know how people are getting around this or protecting themselves from it. I have absolute confidence that Myth would win if these things were ever tried in court, but I don't have the time or money to be the test case. As you sayed most of the problems you mention are only a problem in US, many other places around the world have specific rules permitting backup copying of software/movies/music for personal use. Anyway, I didn't mean to ramble on at you, but just to congratulate you on a job well done. Cheers, Svarten Hi, Thanks for the feedback. I now have the persentation available online for download at http://www.londoncrime.org/presentation I claim no sort of copyright or any of that rubbish on any of this, so feel free to re-cycle/re-use. I'm at work at the moment, so will respond to the questions raised when I get home Cheers Mike Hi As Bjorn said, the US pre-built system can be found at: http://mythic.tv/product_info.php?products_id=44 This was also the company I had in mind when I was talking about web-sites being set up to specifically address the hardware requirements of Myth users. Slashdot ran an article in '04 about an Aussie company that was also shipping pre-built systems: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/25/240 I was obviously addressing the UK market in the presentation, and I'm not aware of anything that I use that is a legal problem, except possibly for one thing. I *think* that there may be a question of my right to copy my recordings to my PSP (for me only and no-one else). However, if this is true, then every single one of these products is also illegal: http://www.empiredirect.co.uk/content/products/list.asp?subdept=dvdhddrecorder because they allow you to shift your recordings from the hard drive to a DVD. Anyway, thanks for the positive feedback Kind Regards Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV presentation at WSFII
MM, Tivo deserted the UK market a while back to concentrate on selling out in the US, so I'm not too worried! Cheers Mike Quoting Mercury Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 10/2/05, Mike Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All Yesterday, I gave a presentation on MythTV at WSFII (World Summit on Free Information Infrastructures - http://www.okfn.org/wsfii/). Execellent, Mike! Hearing MythTV described, contrasted with Tivo, and questioned warmed the cockles of me wee little heart. If I were you, I wouldn't be giving out my address to anyone under the employ of the Tivo Company. You surely showed what a lame excuse Tivo is for a PVR. -- MM ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb Disc Usage calculation
On 9/24/05, Todd Houle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was going to pull out my 80GB drive and put in a 180 that I haveit.I don't (yet) care about losing my recorded shows so I thoughtI'd delete the recorded shows in Myth, then swap the drives.I foundthat once I deleted the recorded shows in Myth, I still had about 20GB of video still in the Myth directory! They looked like shows Ithought I deleted..Sure enough, Myth said they were gone, but therethey were...Is there a known problem where Myth doesn't delete what it thinks it does?That would account for lost disk space. -t- I started out with 150GB of disk space, but I recently increased that to 300GB.Problem is, the machine information under mythweb is still reporting the old disk limit (150), not the new limit (300).I looked throught the mysql database but was unable to find anything that suggests this number is stored in the DB. There are occasional problems with that, probably due to some sort of race condition when you delete files quickly. I've got an old script I snagged from someone that will help find those files: #!/bin/sh for i in `mysql -u mythtv --password=mythtv mythconverg -e \ 'select chanid, starttime, endtime from recorded' | perl -wne 'next if $. == 1; s/|//g; s/-//g; s/://g; @_ = split; print join( '_', $_[0], $_[1].$_[2], $_[3].$_[4]) . .nuv\n;'` \ `ls *.nuv`; do echo $i; done | sort | uniq -u | xargs du -sh | grep nuv$ It'll print a list of nuv files in the directory that aren't in the database. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Does a second frontend need a second backend too?
On 9/26/05, Blammo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/26/05, Greg Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 12:48 +0100, Neil Bird wrote: You only need a backend process on machines that have tuner cards in them. If you just want to watch recordings, or watch live TV via a tuner located in another backend machine, then you don't need a local backend process.On the other hand, having a running backend process allows the machine to help transcoding and commercial flagging, which, as long as thefrontend is fast enough, can be a great thing, especially during thefall season. :)___ Is remote transcoding supposed to be working now? I've been getting errors and fails about remote transcoding being disabled and haven't cared enough to look into it. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 150-MCE won't record
My problem was that I was using a loop back address and an then a different ip address in the backend setup. Make sure when you do the setup that the ip address is the same in both spots.On 9/28/05, Michael Luich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm seeing something similar, mythtv can't seem to get a file handle. I'ts not a read write issue, the files are being created, I'm not sure what's going on but i did see a change related to this in the change log. Mik Luich [EMAIL PROTECTED] var]# ls -rl Multimedia/ total 8 drwxrwxr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Sep 28 12:15 videos drwxrwxrwx 2 root mythtv 4096 Sep 28 13:16 tv [EMAIL PROTECTED] var]# ls -rl Multimedia/tv total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root mythtv 0 Sep 28 13:16 nfslockfile.lock -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 28 13:16 1063_20050928131600.mpg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 28 13:10 1063_20050928131000.mpg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 28 13:05 1063_20050928130500.mpg [EMAIL PROTECTED] var]# [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mythbackend 2005-09-28 13:16:12.318 Using runtime prefix = /usr/local 2005-09-28 13:16:12.465 New DB connection, total: 1 Starting up as the master server. 2005-09-28 13:16:12.551 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-09-28 13:16:12.601 Channel(/dev/video0): CheckChannel failed. Please verify channel 244 in the mythtv-setup Channel Editor. 2005-09-28 13:16:12.630 New DB scheduler connection is defined, but isn't attached to a cardinput. 2005-09-28 13:16:12.643 mythbackend version: 0.19.20050712-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-09-28 13:16:12.643 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2005-09-28 13:16:12.645 New DB connection, total: 3 2005-09-28 13:16:12.668 AutoExpire: Found 1 recorders w/max rate of 72 MiB/min 2005-09-28 13:16:12.672 AutoExpire: space: 2.1 GB w/freq: 10 min 2005-09-28 13:16:14.689 Reschedule requested for id -1. 2005-09-28 13:16:15.721 Scheduled 1 items in 1.0 = 0.95 match + 0.06 place 2005-09-28 13:16:15.729 Recording starts soon, AUTO-Startup assumed 2005-09-28 13:16:15.779 Started recording Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Buck's Duel to the Death: channel 1063 on cardid 1, sourceid 1 2005-09-28 13:16:16.905 ret_pid(0) child(2820) status(0x0) 2005-09-28 13:16:17.907 ret_pid(0) child(2820) status(0x0) 2005-09-28 13:16:18.909 ret_pid(2820) child(2820) status(0x0) 2005-09-28 13:16:18.909 External Tuning program exited with no error 2005-09-28 13:16:19.180 TVRec(1): Changing from None to RecordingOnly 2005-09-28 13:16:19.260 Prog title: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 2005-09-28 13:16:19.273 TVRec(1): Waiting for recorder to start 2005-09-28 13:16:19.274 Can't enable VBI recording vbi: Invalid argument 2005-09-28 13:16:19.275 Can't enable VBI recording vbi: Invalid argument 2005-09-28 13:16:19.279 TVRec(1): Recorder started 2005-09-28 13:16:22.715 Commercial Flagging Starting for Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Buck's Duel to the Death recorded from channel 1063 at Wed Sep 28 13:16:00 2005 2005-09-28 13:16:23.087 Using runtime prefix = /usr/local 2005-09-28 13:16:23.183 New DB connection, total: 1 2005-09-28 13:16:23.222 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-09-28 13:16:23.243 Invalid file handle when opening /var/Multimedia/tv/1063_20050928131600.mpg. 4 retries remaining. 2005-09-28 13:16:23.747 Invalid file handle when opening /var/Multimedia/tv/1063_20050928131600.mpg. 3 retries remaining. 2005-09-28 13:16:24.249 Invalid file handle when opening /var/Multimedia/tv/1063_20050928131600.mpg. 2 retries remaining. 2005-09-28 13:16:24.754 Invalid file handle when opening /var/Multimedia/tv/1063_20050928131600.mpg. 1 retries remaining. select timeout 2005-09-28 13:16:25.256 Invalid file handle when opening /var/Multimedia/tv/1063_20050928131600.mpg. 0 retries remaining. 2005-09-28 13:16:25.891 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.200:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2005-09-28 13:16:25.900 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-09-28 13:16:25.901 adding: mythserver.luich as a client (events: 0) 2005-09-28 13:16:26.012 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-09-28 13:16:26.013 adding: mythserver.luich as a client (events: 1) select timeout 2005-09-28 13:16:30.037 NVP::OpenFile(): Error, file not found: /var/Multimedia/tv/1063_20050928131600.mpg 2005-09-28 13:16:30.215 Finished, 0 break(s) found. On 8/23/05, Ryan Oleston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently installed mythtv on FC3 following Jarod's guide. I can watch and pause live TV using 150-mce, but I can't record any shows. I can start the record and stop the record, but when I check the file sizes they are 0 GB. Here are my backend and frontend logs: mythbackend 2005-08-23 17:48:18.616 New DB connection, total: 1 Starting up as the master server. 2005-08-23 17:48:18.626 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-08-23 17:48:18.653 New DB connection, total: 3 2005-08-23 17:48:18.955 New DB scheduler connection 2005-08-23 17:48:18.959 mythbackend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-08-23 17:48:18.959 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2005-08-23 17:48:20.959 Reschedule requested for id -1. 2005-08-23 17
Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: Media MVP - $40 at Radio Shack - YMMV
On 9/26/05, Erik Pettersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.byopvr.com/displayarticle461.htmlMy understanding is that it is nationwide.Although the mediaMVPisn't being discontinued I get the sense that Radio Shack is making room for the forthcoming MediaMVP wireless version.Fat Wallet Thread:http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/messageview.php?catid=18threadid=518804 Although it's probably best to run the CAT5 if you can, you can use awireless gaming adapter/wireless bridge to do the same thing.Orfirmware mod a linksys wrt54g to be an uber wireless bridge for much cheaper than those xbox wireless adapters or the like. :)E.--http://forum.byopvr.com/dvr/index.php/topic,3554.0.html -- NewBYOPVR Contest (150/MVP/fusion 5 lite up for grabs) I see there's a project on sourceforge to work with the MediaMVP and MythTV. Is anyone doing that? How well does it work? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythcomflag - how do I set nice level?
On 9/23/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/22/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/22/05, Robert Tsai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 06:52:15PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks very much. I did have it set to one job, but CPU usage was medium so I've set it to low. Additionally I saw an option to start commercial flagging when recording starts. I've disabled that also, at least as a test. Probably 70% of our recording is late night stuff so commercial flagging can get done between 3AM and 7AM and probably cause no problems at all. I think your real problem was commercial flagging when recording starts (a.k.a. real-time commercial flagging). Could be. Now that I know where the setting are I can play with that a bit. You might be OK bumping CPU usage back up to medium so that commflagging can go faster. The nicing should prevent mythcommflagging from interfering with recordings. But I don't know the details of your capture cards, maybe you need more CPU for software encoding. 3GHz P4HT but currently a UMP kernel. PVR-150 PVR-250 512MB 250GB storage over NFS in another box so good networking matters. Hi Robert, Well, last night's recordings mostly failed again:8PM - 1 30 minute show - recorded fine. Recording info says 30 minutes long10PM - 2 30 minute shows. Both failed. One is 18 minutes, the other is 19 minutes.11PM - 1 30 minute show - looks good11:30PM - 2 60 minute shows - both failed - One is 22 minutes, theother is 25 minutes12:30PM - 1 60 minute show - failed. Info says 37 minutes. Looks like I've got more problems than just the settings we playedwith yesterday. However, a question - Did I need to restart thebackend server to get those changes to take effect? I didn't do that. I'll try that this morning as a test. Here's the failure messages in dmesgivtv: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW #57: Stealing a Buffer, 512 currently allocatedivtv: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW #58: Stealing a Buffer, 512 currently allocated ivtv: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW #59: Stealing a Buffer, 512 currently allocatedivtv: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW #60: Stealing a Buffer, 512 currently allocatedivtv: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW #61: Stealing a Buffer, 512 currently allocated ivtv: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW #62: Stealing a Buffer, 512 currently allocatedivtv: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW #63: Stealing a Buffer, 512 currently allocated[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ You've very likely got other problems if you are having those problems with that set up. Have you checked for things like IRQ conflicts, and made sure you are using a current IVTV that's configured correctly, made sure DMA is enable on your drives, that sort of thing? With the two PVRs, your CPU really shouldn't enter much into it as far as recording goes. Your problem is likely to be elsewhere. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] mythcomflag - how do I set nice level?
They do not appear to be.ivtv0 = 22ivtv1 = 17eth0 = 20 However ivtv1 is sharing with some part fo the chipset:dragonfly ~ # cat /proc/interrupts CPU00: 14871236IO-APIC-edgetimer1:23821IO-APIC-edgei80429:0 IO-APIC-levelacpi 12: 308115IO-APIC-edgei8042 14: 187334IO-APIC-edgeide0 15: 49IO-APIC-edgeide1 16: 485287 IO-APIC-leveluhci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb5,[EMAIL PROTECTED]::00:02.0 17:57811 IO-APIC-levelivtv1, Intel ICH5 18:109 IO-APIC-leveluhci_hcd:usb4 19:174 IO-APIC-leveluhci_hcd:usb3 20:8034881 IO-APIC-leveleth0 22:38977 IO-APIC-levelivtv0 23:4 IO-APIC-levelehci_hcd:usb1 NMI:0LOC: 14872124ERR:0MIS:0dragonfly ~ # I was having a very similiar problem, which is why I asked. For me, it wasn't just failing though it was resulting in lock ups. The solution was to turn off APIC in the BIOS and it's been hunky dory since. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation
Quoting Dewey Smolka [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If I may make a suggestion.. Make a statement or two about the freedom MythTV offers. When I was looking at building or buying a PVR, I made the decision to go with Myth primarily for the reason that I expected the recording industry lobbyists and advertisers to ruin the commercial PVRs. We're starting to see that happen, with them controlling the content in more and more ways. With Myth, I don't have to deal with any of that nonsense. I can use the system to legally time shift and archive shows I pay for with my cable TV subscription and not be treated like a criminal for it. Hear, hear. I find that one of the weakest ways to promote any FOSS system or application is on price. This is particularly true with something like MythTV, where the OS and software may not cost anything, but the hardware cost of the system is comparable to MCE, and far more than TiVo (which, IMHO, will not be around much longer despite its name and mindshare). This is not to mention the time it takes to get something like Myth up and running. The thing to tout with Myth is that it's your system, not MS's, not the cable operators, and not TiVo's, meaning it's up to you what your machine does, and there's nothing in Myth to prevent you from doing whatever you want with your media. Some talking points to consider (in no particular order): * Distributed architecture and expandability. This is one area where Myth blows everyone else away. It's a set of modular parts that can all go on one machine or spread across as many machines as the user wants. MCE extender modules are not really the same thing. * DRM. Simpy put, Myth hasn't got it now and will never have it; everyone else does, and theirs will get worse as time goes on. Most consumers are sympathetic to the idea that artists and creators need to be paid. This is why consumers pay for cable TV instead of splicing a signal from their neighbors. This is why most consumers buy/rent DVDs instead of scouring BT for cam copies. But this sympathy goes away the minute a consumer can't use paid-for content in ways they are used to. Have you bought a new copy-protected CD-that's-not-really-a-CD? MythTV and GNU/Linux can read, rip, mix and burn the audio content however you want. MS MCE cannot. Repeat this statement as often as necessary. Myth is based on the idea that content (whether broadcast or delivered on optical disc or otherwise) that you buy is yours, and you are free to time-shift, format-shift, and backup however you want (provided you do not try to redistribute your content in illegal ways -- this is not supported by MythTV, and is actively (and adamantly) discouraged by the Myth community and the developers). MS MCE is built on the idea that you have bought a license to the content, and they can redefine the license terms at any time for any reason. * DRM pt2: HD. Make sure you mention MS' plans to require DRMed display devices in future versions of MS Windows for HD playback. Basically, if you set up an HD-capable MCE system today (if that's possible) it may not work for HD in the future without a new display. I believe starting with Vista, the video signal (at least when HD) will be encrypted, and must be decrypted by your display. That $1200 LCD you just bought will be obsolete for MCE in less than two years. Don't like it? Buy another display. * Community development. MythTV is developed by people who want the same things as you or me -- things that make viewers happy. Like com flagging and transcoding, archiving to optical media, management and playback of virtually any media file, the freedom to tweak the sytstem to add functionality, and giving nobody the ability to change my system, its capabilities, or the terms under which I use it without my consent. Contrast with MCE -- developers want to keep MS happy (locking people into closed, proprietary formats); MS wants to keep content producers happy (by restricting use, preventing copying and archiving, 'expiring' recordings, having the box phone home to check up on your activities, etc); and both of them would like to be the gatekeepers for all forms of digital media. In summary: cost is not a major concern. What should be a major concern is how robust the system is, how flexible it is, how expandable it is, and how the system will grow to address the needs of its users. MythTV is without doubt the most powerful media engine on the planet and its strenth is growing at a breathtaking pace. MCE is overpriced and bloated, built on top of XP Home rather than XP Pro (meaning crippled networking and lack of solid admin tools), closed and locked down, and allows you fewer possibilities with your media than you had in the analog days. TiVo is a different category of device, since it is cheap hardware supported by excessive monthly fees, and is not really a media center because it only does TV, not home videos, not music, not pictures, and certainly not DVD archiving. TiVo
[mythtv-users] MythTV Presentation
All I recently gave a presentation on MythTV at Open Tech 2005 (http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2005/schedule/) and have now been invited to speak at the World Summit on Free Information Infrastructures which is taking place on Saturday 1st Sunday 2nd of October at Limehouse Town Hall in East London (http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=536897y=181010z=0sv=E14+7HAst=2pc=E14+7HAmapp=newmap.srfsearchp=newsearch.srf) I mention this in case anyone would like to come along and provide some moral support and help fly the flag for MythTV here in the UK. It'll only be a short presentation (10 minutes or so probably), so there's only a limited amount of high-level information I'll be able to get across. However, there's a QA session afterwards as well. Also, as you can see from the programme, there's plenty of other great interesting things to go and see as well Best Regards Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Random front end lockups
I may have found the problem, does this mean my video card and the recording card are sharing interrupts? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /proc/pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Class 0600: PCI device 10de:01e0 (rev 193). Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdc00 [0xdfff]. Bus 0, device 0, function 1: Class 0500: PCI device 10de:01eb (rev 193). Bus 0, device 0, function 2: Class 0500: PCI device 10de:01ee (rev 193). Bus 0, device 0, function 3: Class 0500: PCI device 10de:01ed (rev 193). Bus 0, device 0, function 4: Class 0500: PCI device 10de:01ec (rev 193). Bus 0, device 0, function 5: Class 0500: PCI device 10de:01ef (rev 193). Bus 0, device 1, function 0: Class 0601: PCI device 10de:0080 (rev 163). Bus 0, device 1, function 1: Class 0c05: PCI device 10de:0084 (rev 161). IRQ 9. Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1. I/O at 0xe400 [0xe41f]. Bus 0, device 2, function 0: Class 0c03: PCI device 10de:0087 (rev 161). IRQ 11. Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe2001000 [0xe2001fff]. Bus 0, device 2, function 1: Class 0c03: PCI device 10de:0087 (rev 161). IRQ 5. Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe2002000 [0xe2002fff]. Bus 0, device 2, function 2: Class 0c03: PCI device 10de:0088 (rev 162). IRQ 10. Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe2003000 [0xe20030ff]. Bus 0, device 4, function 0: Class 0680: PCI device 10de:008c (rev 163). IRQ 10. Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=1.Max Lat=20. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe200 [0xe2000fff]. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe007]. Bus 0, device 6, function 0: Class 0401: PCI device 10de:008a (rev 161). IRQ 9. Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=5. I/O at 0xd800 [0xd8ff]. I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc7f]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe2004000 [0xe2004fff]. Bus 0, device 8, function 0: Class 0604: PCI device 10de:008b (rev 163). Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=2. Bus 0, device 9, function 0: Class 0101: PCI device 10de:0085 (rev 163). Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1. I/O at 0xf000 [0xf00f]. Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Class 0101: PCI device 10de:008e (rev 163). IRQ 11. Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1. I/O at 0x9f0 [0x9f7]. I/O at 0xbf0 [0xbf3]. I/O at 0x970 [0x977]. I/O at 0xb70 [0xb73]. I/O at 0xd000 [0xd00f]. I/O at 0xd400 [0xd47f]. Bus 0, device 30, function 0: Class 0604: PCI device 10de:01e8 (rev 193). Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=10. Bus 2, device 8, function 0: Class 0400: PCI device :0016 (rev 1). IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=128.Max Lat=8. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd800 [0xdbff]. Bus 1, device 0, function 0: Class 0300: PCI device 10de:0281 (rev 161). IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=248. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe000 [0xe0ff]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd000 [0xd7ff]. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /proc/pci|grep multi -i [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lsp lspci lspcidrake lspgpot [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lspci lspci lspcidrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) (rev c1) 00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev c1) 00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev c1) 00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev c1) 00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev c1) 00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev c1) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0080 (rev a3) 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP2A SMBus (rev a1) 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP2A USB Controller (rev a1) 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP2A USB Controller (rev a1) 00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP2A USB Controller (rev a2) 00:04.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP2A Ethernet Controller (rev a3) 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation MCP2S AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a1) 00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP2A PCI Bridge (rev a3) 00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP2A IDE (rev a3) 00:0b.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Serial ATA Controller (rev a3) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP 8x] (rev a1) 02:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 48325963 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 15 IO-APIC-edge i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 4: 10157 IO-APIC-edge lirc_serial 5: 631642 IO-APIC-edge ohci_hcd, ivtv0, nvidia 8: 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 128306 IO-APIC-edge NVidia CK8 10: 7862601 IO-APIC-edge ehci_hcd, eth0 11: 0 IO-APIC-edge ohci_hcd, libata 12: 111
[mythtv-users] Re: Random front end lockups
Pretty sure lscpi answered that question for me, except the part about What do I do about it 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP 8x] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: CardExpert Technology: Unknown device 0404 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 5 Memory at e000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Memory at d000 (32-bit, prefetchable) Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0 02:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 8801 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5 Memory at d800 (32-bit, prefetchable) Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Increase autorepeat rate - how ?
On 9/10/05, Warpme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi *Simple question: how can I increase autorepeat rate when I use remote ?Currently, i.e when I'm going through long list of entries, I have to doall the time push-release, push-release,... button on remote for i.e.walking on list.Autorepeat rate is approx 1 cmd. per 3-4secI need 2-4 cmds per 1 sec: I simply want to press and hold button onremote - Myth should automatically scroll list...How I can do that ? --cYa, 3.14iotr/2Nie ma złych systemów operacyjnych. Może tylko brakować alkoholu !!!W takiej sytuacji dobry programista wiesza się wraz z programem ;-PHiroshima'45; Czernobyl'86; Windows'95 In your lircrc, reduce the number at repeat = IE: begin prog = mythtv button = chandown repeat = 3 config = Page Down end The first signal caught causes the next two to be ignored. If you changed it to begin prog = mythtv button = chandown repeat = 1 config = Page Down end Every signal caught would be processed, which is very likely too sensitive to use. Play with it, see what works for you. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Audio in dvd rips
This is just something confusing me that problem indicates I'm not sure how it really works. I'm in the process of ripping all my vhs and dvds so I can store them away and just use the ripped version. I'm trying to preserve the AC3 sound for playback over my newly working (and at the time of this writing, one of the ONLY parts of my system working) digital sound. What's getting me is I'm ripping a dvd and dumping the audio track as is, and the file command reports: file frameno.avi: frameno.avi: ATSC A/52 aka AC-3 aka Dolby Digital stream, 48 kHz,, complete main (CM) 3 front/2 rear, LFE on,, 384 kbit/s reserved Dolby Surround mode but once I encode the video to go with it, file reports stereo sound: file Golden_Eye_Bond.avi: dvd_vobs/GOLDEYEX1-1.avi: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 720 x 480, ~30 fps, video: XviD, audio: Dolby AC3 (stereo, 48000 Hz) I do have other avi's that report as RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 720 x 304, 25.00 fps, video: XviD, audio: Dolby AC3 (5 channels, 48000 Hz) So it's just bugging me. I don't want to rip all my dvd's wrong, and then have to go back and rip the sound different to have it sound right through the stereo. Any one know what's going on with that? Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Mandriva and PVR150 - Hardware upgrade/system reinstall results in no output
Everything I do to upgrade my MythTV machine always comes back to bite me in the butt. I upgraded my motherboard to one with on board S/PDIF out and a gigabite ethernet nic. In the process I managed to hose my linux install and had to reinstall everything. Fortunately I only hosed the /usr/ and / partitions, so all my old video is intact. However, now I can't get my PVR150 to work. It appears to load just fine, but cat /dev/video0 just does absolutely nothing. I've attached my dmesg output, and emailed the ivtv but haven't gotten a response yet. Searching for this issue seems to give a few hits of people with the same problem, but no one apparently resolving it. I'm using the recommended firmware. Using 2.6.11-6mdk kernel and I've renamed what I believe are the conflicting files: [EMAIL PROTECTED] driver]# ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/media/video/*.bak /lib/modules/2.6.11-6mdk/kernel/drivers/media/video/msp3400.ko.gz.bak /lib/modules/2.6.11-6mdk/kernel/drivers/media/video/tda9887.ko.gz.bak /lib/modules/2.6.11-6mdk/kernel/drivers/media/video/tuner.ko.gz.bak /lib/modules/2.6.11-6mdk/kernel/drivers/media/video/tveeprom.ko.gz.bak I've tried 0.3.5t, 0.3.8, and the latest svn 0.3.9 Is anyone else using this combination? Did you have to do anything special to get it to work? Hardware-wise, only the motherboard changed. I'm at the begging/bribing stage. Help! Ryan ivtv: START INIT IVTV ivtv: version 0.3.9 (development svn snapshot revision 2682) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.11-6mdk 686 gcc-3.4 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist. ivtv info: Scanning PCI bus.. ivtv info: Found card #0 ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card (iTVC16 based) ivtv info: base addr: 0xd800 ivtv info: Enabling pci device ivtv info: Attempting to enable Bus Mastering ivtv info: Bus Mastering Enabled. ivtv info: 22 (rev 1) at 02:07.0, irq: 19, latency: 64, memory: 0xd800 ivtv info: attempting ioremap at 0xd800 len 0x0080 ivtv info: attempting ioremap at 0xd900 len 0x0080 ivtv info: attempting ioremap at 0xda00 len 0x0001 ivtv info: activating i2c... ivtv i2c: i2c init ivtv i2c: setting scl and sda to 1 tda9885/6/7: chip found @ 0x86 ivtv i2c: i2c client attach ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tda9887, addr=43] tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 26552, rev = B268, serial# = 7827197 tveeprom: tuner = LG TAPE H001F MK3 (idx = 68, type = 47) tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x1000) tveeprom: audio processor = CX25843 (type = 25) tveeprom: decoder processor = CX25843 (type = 1e) ivtv i2c: i2c client attach ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom[50], addr=50] cx25840: loading /lib/modules/HcwMakoA.ROM ivtv i2c: i2c client attach ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=cx25840, addr=44] ivtv i2c: i2c client attach ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=wm8775, addr=1b] tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0 ivtv i2c: i2c client attach ivtv: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61] tuner: type set to 47 (LG NTSC (TAPE series)) by insmod option tuner: The type=n insmod option will go away soon. tuner: Please use the tuner=n option provided by tuner: tv aard core driver (bttv, saa7134, ...) instead. ivtv info: Active card count: 1. ivtv info: Loaded module tveeprom ivtv i2c: call_i2c_client ivtv i2c: skipping client 0, addr 0x43 ivtv i2c: using client 1, addr 0x50 ivtv info: NTSC tuner detected ivtv info: Loaded module tuner ivtv info: Loaded module cx25840 ivtv i2c: call_i2c_client ivtv i2c: skipping client 0, addr 0x43 ivtv i2c: skipping client 1, addr 0x50 ivtv i2c: using client 2, addr 0x44 ivtv info: Loaded module wm8775 ivtv info: Loaded module tda9887 ivtv info: Stopping VDM ivtv info: Stopping AO ivtv info: pinging (?) APU ivtv info: Stopping VPU ivtv info: Resetting Hw Blocks ivtv info: Stopping SPU ivtv info: Sleeping for 10ms ivtv info: init Encoder SDRAM pre-charge ivtv info: init Encoder SDRAM refresh to 1us ivtv info: init Decoder SDRAM pre-charge ivtv info: init Decoder SDRAM refresh to 1us ivtv info: Sleeping for 600ms (600 recommended) ivtv info: Card ready for firmware! ivtv info: Loading encoder image ivtv: loading /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin ivtv info: Sleeping for 100 ms ivtv info: Sleeping for 100 ms ivtv info: GPIO INIT ivtv info: About to search for mailboxes ivtv info: Searching for encoder mailbox ivtv info: match: 0x34567812 at 0xd8e80104. match: 1 ivtv info: match: 0x56781234 at 0xd8e80108. match: 2 ivtv info: match: 0x78123456 at 0xd8e8010c. match: 3 ivtv info: found encoder mailbox! ivtv info: Searching for decoder mailbox ivtv info: match: 0x34567812 at 0xd9700104. match: 1 ivtv info: match: 0x56781234 at 0xd9700108. match: 2 ivtv info: match: 0x78123456 at 0xd970010c. match: 3 ivtv info: found decoder mailbox! ivtv info: Getting
Re: [mythtv-users] Server Settings Recovery
On 9/15/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Right... I'm sorry... I meant MythTV, but I said TiVo... (Like Kleenex for Tissue)That should have gone: Hey, I just moved my MythTV box into my dorm with me and now that I'm hosting the backend on a network on a static IP I changed the IPaddress from 127.0.0.1 on the setup, but then it lost all of my configuration settings.Is there a way to recover these settings? Thanks! KG___ mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users For mysql : http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/grant.html Database level Database privileges apply to all objects in a given database. These privileges are stored in the mysql.db and mysql.host tables. GRANT ALL ON db_name.* and REVOKE ALL ON db_name.* grant and revoke only database privileges. EG: GRANT ALL on mythconverg TO 'mythtv'@'192.168.%' IDENTIFIED BY mythtv Also, did you update your /etc/hosts? That could fix it right up by telling it that your machine name is the same on 192.168.0.100 as 127.0.0.1 IE: 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.0.100 mythtv If neither of those fix it, try this: http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO.html#toc22.15 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mandriva and PVR150 - Hardware upgrade/system reinstall results in no output
On 9/15/05, Brian J. Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 15:32 -0400, Ryan Steffes wrote: Everything I do to upgrade my MythTV machine always comes back to bite me in the butt.I upgraded my motherboard to one with on board S/PDIF out and a gigabite ethernet nic.In the process I managed to hose my linux install and had to reinstall everything.Fortunately I only hosed the /usr/ and / partitions, so all my old video is intact. However, now I can't get my PVR150 to work.It appears to load just fine, but cat /dev/video0 just does absolutely nothing.I've attached my dmesg output, and emailed the ivtv but haven't gotten a response yet.Searching for this issue seems to give a few hits of people with the same problem, but no one apparently resolving it.I'm using the recommended firmware. Using 2.6.11-6mdk kernelWhy don't you just use Thac's (or the contrib's) mm kernel and put yourself out of the pain.b.--My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server.Brian J. Murrell Because I didn't know about it? What's the difference in Thac's kernel versus the standard one? I was running just fine off one I compiled from source a while back, same version incidentally, until I decided I really wanted digital sound, and destroyed everything else in the process. Sidenote: The digital sound in DVD's work's wonderfully. Yeah me :/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mandriva and PVR150 - Hardware upgrade/system reinstall results in no output
On 9/15/05, Brian J. Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 15:45 -0400, Ryan Steffes wrote: Because I didn't know about it?Ahhh.I just figured anyone using Mandrake and Myth used Thac's rpms(both kernel-mm and myth) What's the difference in Thac's kernel versus the standard one?It's multi-media focus.It has the lowlat patches and all that goo aswell as a number of A/V audio drivers, ivtv being one of them. I was running just fine off one I compiled from source a while back, If you like that headache.I'd sooner rpm -ivh thandownload/unpack/configure/make/make install/debug and so on.Ifsomebody has already done the work, I may as well leverage off of it.b.-- My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server.Brian J. Murrell-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux)iD8DBQBDKdQ2l3EQlGLyuXARAs++AJ9PhvQ0MnsXjjXpJwG/LhuX2BjgcwCeOjGN n3Wix/uEewkrRrkpdtw73uM==bVHM-END PGP SIGNATURE-___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I'll give his kernel-mm a shot, can't hurt anything. Otherwise, I'm going to have to start thinking of bribes! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Better think twice before choosing an FS especially for LVM
Ok, makes sense. I've used both RAID and LVM (sometimes together) I amjust more comfortable with RAID, even though it does limit some things. And yes, lets not turn this into a vi vs. emacs thread... :) Well of course not, because VI is a excellent text editor, and emacs is an OS. It wouldn't even make sense to compare them... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How to fix Movie posters on FE
On 9/14/05, A JM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the directory on the BE that holds the movie posters is hidden and in the directory '/root/.mythtv/mythvideo' how do I get the front end to read this directory? Can I create a link that the front end can read? Thanks for any help you guys can give me. AJM, Besides setting the poster directory to something shared on an NFS mount in the setup? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How to fix Movie posters on FE
On 9/14/05, A JM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I tried that but the error I see on the FE is referring to '/root/.mythtv/mythvideo' which is not what I set in the path for the posters on the FE? On 9/14/05, Ryan Steffes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/14/05, A JM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the directory on the BE that holds the movie posters is hidden and in the directory '/root/.mythtv/mythvideo' how do I get the front end to read this directory? Can I create a link that the front end can read? Thanks for any help you guys can give me. AJM, Besides setting the poster directory to something shared on an NFS mount in the setup? I'm assuming here that the backend and the frontend are on seperate machines, and that the backend and the frontend have at least one nfs share both can write to. What does it say in the setting for the movie poster location? Is location on the nfs share? Also, what user does your mythtv run as? Does it run as root? My understanding was that the frontend would be the one running the script to retrieve posters, but I could be wrong. Does the directory exists that the frontend has in the setting box? As a last resort, try creating a symlink in the place the frontend has in the setting as follows, from the backend computer, assuming that the directory /mnt/MythVideo/ is on the nfs share and can be seen by both. As root: ln -s /root/.mythtv/mythvideo /mnt/MythVideo/posters chmod a+x ~ chmod a+x ~/.mythtv/ chmod a+rwx ~/.mythtv/mythvideo chmod a+rwx /mnt/MythVideo/posters Not sure if nfs will allow you to follow the symlink like that. If you can see in the directory and see the posters now, just set /mnt/MythVideo/posters in the frontend and try it that way. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How to fix Movie posters on FE
On 9/14/05, A JM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm assuming here that the backend and the frontend are on seperate machines Correct. and that the backend and the frontend have at least one nfs share both can write to. Correct. However /root/.mythtv/mythvideo is not one of them. It has not been set up in the exports file. What does it say in the setting for the movie poster location? On both locations '/root/.mythtv/mythvideo' Is location on the nfs share? Yes, but it's a hidden directory. Also, what user does your mythtv run as? MythTv Does the directory exists that the frontend has in the setting box? I'm not sure as it's hidden andthis is an Xbox FE? What happens if you change root to mythtv, as in /home/mythtv/.mythtv/posters/ in the settings? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] best way to edit out comercials on a windows box after mythtv has recorded show and copied to windows
As per the subject, i'm looking for the best software package (better if freeware) to edit out comercials using a windows xp computer. I want to keep the files in mpeg2 so that i can burn them to dvd after, just without the comercials. I've looked around and found quite a few but all of them seem to have conflicting reviews some recomended others say to keep away. So any suggestions are welcome. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Trouble with commercial removal...
Hello... I havemy Myth setup on FC4 and a 500 MCE tuner. For some reason I can't get any type of transcoding or commercial removal working. Whenever the commercial job ends the file is double the size of the original. Is there a good docu somewhere that explains how to remove commercials and do the transcode or can someone help me out here? I want to be able to watch the shows on Windows laptop and not from the Myth PC. (without commercials) Thanks ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] can't watch live tv, record static
Are ACLs setup correctly on /video/buffer? -- Also is your Logical volume on a remote backend? I'm setting up a FC4 system per Jarod's guide. Everything seems to go fine. But I can't watch live TV. Here are the terminal messages I get: 2005-09-09 13:21:30.242 RemoteFile::Read() failed in RingBuffer::safe_read(). Couldn't read file: rbuf://192.168.1.4:6543/video/buffer/ringbuf2.nuv 2005-09-09 13:21:30.258 LiveTV not successfully started Can someone help me out? I have an athlon XP 2500+ in a K7VTA3 board with 1 GB ram. My video directory is a LVM of 3 hard drives. I have 3 PVR-250 MCEs. I have had this up and running on FC3 in a different mb/processor config. I thought it might have been related to the onboard sound after checking out the archive, but putting in a soundblaster live didn't seem to help. Any help/ideas would be appreciated. Thanks. Dave ___ 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] Unable to connect to database
try connecting like this:
mysql -uroot -pmypassword mythconverg
leave the spaces out.
Ryan
Ok, i read section 6.2 again and this is what i get when i try
$ mysql -u root mythconverg
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using
password: NO)
so i checked this file .mysql_history and get this
# cat .mysql_history
UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('mypassword') WHERE user='root';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
So then i try this.
mysql -u root -p 'mypassword' mythconverg
and i get this.
mysql Ver 14.7 Distrib 4.1.12, for redhat-linux-gnu (i386) using readline
4.3
Copyright (C) 2002 MySQL AB
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license
Usage: mysql [OPTIONS] [database]
-?, --help Display this help and exit.
-I, --help Synonym for -?
--auto-rehash Enable automatic rehashing. One doesn't need to use
'rehash' to get table and field completion, but startup
and reconnecting may take a longer time. Disable with
--disable-auto-rehash.
-A, --no-auto-rehash
No automatic rehashing. One has to use 'rehash' to get
table and field completion. This gives a quicker start of
mysql and disables rehashing on reconnect. WARNING:
options deprecated; use --disable-auto-rehash instead.
-B, --batch Don't use history file. Disable interactive behavior.
(Enables --silent)
--character-sets-dir=name
Directory where character sets are.
--default-character-set=name
Set the default character set.
-C, --compress Use compression in server/client protocol.
-#, --debug[=#] This is a non-debug version. Catch this and exit
-D, --database=name Database to use.
--delimiter=name Delimiter to be used.
-e, --execute=name Execute command and quit. (Disables --force and history
file)
-E, --vertical Print the output of a query (rows) vertically.
-f, --force Continue even if we get an sql error.
-g, --no-named-commands
Named commands are disabled. Use \* form only, or use
named commands only in the beginning of a line ending
with a semicolon (;) Since version 10.9 the client now
starts with this option ENABLED by default! Disable with
'-G'. Long format commands still work from the first
line. WARNING: option deprecated; use
--disable-named-commands instead.
-G, --named-commands
Enable named commands. Named commands mean this program's
internal commands; see mysql help . When enabled, the
named commands can be used from any line of the query,
otherwise only from the first line, before an enter.
Disable with --disable-named-commands. This option is
disabled by default.
-i, --ignore-spaces Ignore space after function names.
--local-infile Enable/disable LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE.
-b, --no-beep Turn off beep on error.
-h, --host=name Connect to host.
-H, --html Produce HTML output.
-X, --xml Produce XML output
--line-numbers Write line numbers for errors.
-L, --skip-line-numbers
Don't write line number for errors. WARNING: -L is
deprecated, use long version of this option instead.
--no-pager Disable pager and print to stdout. See interactive help
(\h) also. WARNING: option deprecated; use
--disable-pager instead.
--no-tee Disable outfile. See interactive help (\h) also. WARNING:
option deprecated; use --disable-tee instead
-n, --unbuffered Flush buffer after each query.
--column-names Write column names in results.
-N, --skip-column-names
Don't write column names in results. WARNING: -N is
deprecated, use long version of this options instead.
-O, --set-variable=name
Change the value of a variable. Please note that this
option is deprecated; you can set variables directly with
--variable-name=value.
--sigint-ignore Ignore SIGINT (CTRL-C)
-o, --one-database Only update the default database. This is useful for
skipping updates to other database in the update log.
--pager[=name] Pager to use to display results. If you don't supply an
option the default pager is taken from your ENV variable
PAGER. Valid pagers are less, more, cat [ filename],
etc. See interactive help (\h) also. This option does not
work in batch mode.
-p, --password[=name]
Password to use when connecting to server. If password is
not given it's asked from the tty.
-P, --port=# Port number to use for connection.
--prompt=name Set the mysql prompt to this value.
--protocol=name The protocol of connection (tcp,socket,pipe,memory).
-q, --quick Don't cache result, print it row by row. This may slow
down the server if the output is suspended. Doesn't use
history file.
-r, --raw Write fields without conversion. Used with --batch.
--reconnect Reconnect if the connection is lost. Disable with
--disable-reconnect. This option is enabled by default.
-s, --silent Be more silent. Print results with a tab as separator,
each row on new line.
-S, --socket=name Socket file to use for connection.
--ssl Enable SSL for connection (automatically enabled with
other flags). Disable with --skip-ssl
Re: [mythtv-users] Non-recording master backend
On 9/7/05, Robin Gilks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings allI'd like to shift the capture card from my heavy/noisy server backend tothe frontend which is an EPIA running diskless with nfs mounts back to theserver (this avoids long cable runs).This means I'll have to run the backend code on the EPIA for the capture but I want to keep the mysql, commercial cutting and transcoding on theserver (its got 5 times the grunt after all!!).Is this possible and if so, how do I set up please? Off the top of my head, I'd say you want to set the backend up as a slave, set the IP for the current backend as master, mount your nfs properly and set up the proper directory structure, put the cards in the front end and configure them, and make sure the boxes are checked correct to not allow any transcoding or commercial cutting jobs to run on that slave. My question is why you'd want to do that? Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV is already using all available inputs
On 9/7/05, David Buttrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the last 2 days, when I try to start the mythfrontend, and watchlive tv, I get the message:MythTV is already using all available inputs for recording.I look in the recording schedule, and there is nothing scheduled. Plus, I cannot schedule anything from the program guide.Can anyone tell me what needs to be done to fix this problem?I've tried:* restarting the backend* stop the backend, rmmod ivtv, then modprobe ivtv, and then restart the backend.* rebuilding from mythtv-setupCoudl this be somekind of database permissions problem? everythingelse works, and I used the included SQL to setup the databasepermissions...Anyhelp is greatly appreciated. What does Tuner Status show in the information center? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Automatic transcoding
On 9/5/05, Moasat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My auto transcoding has been failing more often than not for the past fewmonths.As I've been swapping my master and slave backends (andreinstalling Linux on the slave-now-master), I assumed it was some setting or another that I overlooked.I've gone back through them all to make sureeverything is set the way I think they should be set but it is still failingat least half of the time.What bugs me is that there's no indication as to why it failed. I tried the manual version on the command line of a recording thatpreviously failed and it finished ok so there was no indication as to whythe autotranscode failed.Is there a command-line switch or something I can use to get more information as to why the auto transcode is failing? You could try setting your debug level in the backend to verbose (-v) and if that doesn't give you any clues, try -v all. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Reverse Commercial Skip
Any chance anyone can recommend a simple way to reverse the commercial cutlist so I can transcode out an avi of JUST commercials? I have a friend that's in a new VISA commercial feature a lady pushing a big cart full of packages. I have no idea when it airs, so my current plan is to just set it to record several hours of primetime each nice and skim all the commercials. I can turn off commercial skip, and use the jump points, but it'd be alot easier to have it transcode out the shows I don't watch anyway. Suggestions? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Reverse Commercial Skip
On 9/7/05, Brad Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/7/05, Ryan Steffes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any chance anyone can recommend a simple way to reverse the commercial cutlist so I can transcode out an avi of JUST commercials? Suggestions? http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/browser/trunk/mythtv/keys.txt Look at line 149. ___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Thanks! That's a new one on me! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] OT: Probably dumb question about digital sound out
Digital audio is digital audio, correct? As in the the sound in the source defines the number of channels, not the hardware? I'm finally getting the stereo I want (I love my wife, best birthday present ever!) with digital in and all that, but my computer doesn't have digital out. I've had some motherboard wonkiness anyway, so I was considering just replacing the motherboard and getting one with digital out and a gigabit ethernet port, such as the ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe. The motherboard advertises as 6 Channels which I assume they mean 5.1. My stereo is going to be 7.1, but the digital out on the motherboard will do just fine, right? There's not a difference on the digital side because it's a straight pass through, correct? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Transcoding DVD that myth couldn't rip
On 9/3/05, Greg Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Steffes wrote: If the program you used makes a clean dvd copy, you'll need to cat the vob files together before you can use my script.Let me know if it's helpful.Looks like exactly what I needed - I had to fix it up a bit - there were missing ;'s in the argument parsing case (no biggie, just wouldn't letme force a language) Sorry bout that, I actually added that in right before I sent it, because I figured it was something people would need if they wanted to use it. For anyone else, this is the correction to the script previously sent: 26,27c26,27 t) FORCE_TRACK=-aid=$OPTARG; l) FORCE_LANG=-alang=$OPTARG; --- t) FORCE_TRACK=-aid=$OPTARG;; l) FORCE_LANG=-alang=$OPTARG;; ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Mythweb overloads MythBackend causes lock
Often, when I go to the Recorded Programs page on Mythweb, it seems to overload the backend and cause a crash. The log isn't particularly descriptive: 2005-09-02 13:28:51.345 Unknown command: QUERY_FREESPACE 2005-09-02 13:29:18.796 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-09-02 13:29:18.802 adding: happytrout as a client (events: 0) 2005-09-02 13:29:22.234 Unknown command: QUERY_FREESPACE 2005-09-02 13:30:48.067 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.0.100:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2005-09-02 13:30:48.101 Using protocol version 17 2005-09-02 13:30:48.106 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-09-02 13:30:48.107 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0) 2005-09-02 13:32:14.339 New DB connection, total: 1 What options should I turn on to get a more useful log of what's happening when I go to that page on Mythweb? Besides setting a program name, is there a way to limit the number of enteries recorded programs returns? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Multiple video display
I was watching CNN's Situation room, and I was wondering if I could do the same thing on MythTV (watching 4 channels at once). Would I be able to do this with one box? or would I need to multiplex 4 clients together? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: stumped audio waiting for buffer to fill
On 8/29/05, Joe Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From what I am reading below it looks like your suggesting that theit's the capture audio buffer... wouldn't this be comming from thepvr-150?The only soundcard that I have setup is the SB.Do I need to setup the pvr-150 as an alsa controled audio input and if so how do I dothat?Well audio works just fine out of mythtv... and there isn't much audioto configure inside of mythtv-setup.I don't see any options in mythfrontend to set up any audio.What should I use as a guide to verifying my audio config?If it I had a similiar problem that was either caused by ivtv being incorrectly configured, or not loading properly, or something like that. The machine seemed to be crashing on the front end, but I could still log in just fine from ssh. dmesg had some revealing errors in (I'm going off month old memories, but I'm pretty sure that's what I did). Can you check your dmesg right after a crash? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 150-MCE won't record
Thanks for your reply and suggestion. I thought of this before and tried running mythbackend and mythfrontend as root, and I get the same thing. Also I am able to create a test file as user mythtv in the /var/video/recordings where the recordings are supposed to be stored. At this point I'm stumped. Do you guys think it could be a mysql db issue? On 8/25/05, Jason Werpy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/23/05, Ryan Oleston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently installed mythtv on FC3 following Jarod's guide.I can watch and pause live TV using 150-mce, but I can't record any shows.I can start the record and stop the record, but when I check the file sizes they are 0 GB.Here are my backend and frontend logs:mythbackend2005-08-23 17:48:18.616 New DB connection, total: 1 Starting up as the master server.2005-08-23 17:48:18.626 New DB connection, total: 22005-08-23 17:48:18.653 New DB connection, total: 32005-08-23 17:48:18.955 New DB scheduler connection 2005-08-23 17:48:18.959 mythbackend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1 www.mythtv.org2005-08-23 17:48:18.959 Enabled verbose msgs : important general2005-08-23 17:48: 20.959 Reschedule requested for id -1.2005-08-23 17:48:20.972 Scheduled 0 items in 0.0 = 0.01 match + 0.00 place2005-08-23 17:48:20.974 Seem to be woken up by USER2005-08-23 17:49:09.668 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-08-23 17:49:09.668 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)2005-08-23 17:49:09.786 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback2005-08-23 17:49:09.786 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 1)2005-08-23 17:49: 18.173 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback2005-08-23 17:49:18.173 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)2005-08-23 17:49:18.218 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback2005-08-23 17:49:18.218 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0) 2005-08-23 17:49:18.224 adding: mythtv as a remote ringbuffer2005-08-23 17:49:18.233 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV2005-08-23 17:49:33.432 Reschedule requested for id 5.2005-08-23 17:49: 33.564 Scheduled 1 items in 0.1 = 0.12 match + 0.01 place2005-08-23 17:49:33.728 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None2005-08-23 17:49:33.809 Started recording NBC Nightly News on channel: 1005 on cardid: 1, sourceid 12005-08-23 17:49:34.189 Changing from None to RecordingOnly2005-08-23 17:49:34.337 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback2005-08-23 17:49:34.338 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0) 2005-08-23 17:49:36.935 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback2005-08-23 17:49:36.935 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)2005-08-23 17:49:37.952 Reschedule requested for id 5.2005-08-23 17:49: 37.981 Scheduled 13 items in 0.0 = 0.01 match + 0.02 place2005-08-23 17:49:39.491 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback2005-08-23 17:49:39.491 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)2005-08-23 17:49: 42.056 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback2005-08-23 17:49:42.056 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)frontend2005-08-23 17:52:42.852 Unknown state transition: 0 to 02005-08-23 17:52: 42.853 write-8 27GET_RECORDER_FROM_NUM[]:[]1:2005-08-23 17:52:42.861 write-14 21MYTH_PROTO_VERSION 15:2005-08-23 17:52:42.867 Using protocol version 152005-08-23 17:52:42.868 write-14 21ANN Playback mythtv 0:2005-08-23 17:52:42.875 write-14 33QUERY_RECORDER 1[]:[]IS_RECORDING:2005-08-23 17:52:42.882 write-14 34QUERY_RECORDER 1[]:[]GET_RECORDING: 2005-08-23 17:52:42.889 write-8 403 FILL_PROGRAM_INFO[]:[]mythtv[] :[]NBC N...2005-08-23 17:52:42.927 Invalid file handle when opening /var/video/recordings/1005_20050823175000_2005082318.nuv. 4 retries remaining.2005-08-23 17:52:43.429 Invalid file handle when opening /var/video/recordings/1005_20050823175000_2005082318.nuv.3 retries remaining.2005-08-23 17:52: 43.931 Invalid file handle when opening /var/video/recordings/1005_20050823175000_2005082318.nuv.2 retries remaining.2005-08-23 17:52:44.433 Invalid file handle when opening /var/video/recordings/1005_20050823175000_2005082318.nuv. 1 retries remaining.2005-08-23 17:52:44.935 Invalid file handle when opening /var/video/recordings/1005_20050823175000_2005082318.nuv.0 retries remaining.2005-08-23 17:52: 45.436 Unknown state transition: 0 to 0Does anybody know what the invalid file handle errors are?Has anybody else seen this problem?Thanks!Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I'm just guessing here, but does the user who starts your backendprocess have write permissions to the direcotry where your recordingsgo?I had some really wierd things happen when the permissions weren't right.My problems were actually with live tv which can besetup to a different location from the recordings, it sounds a lotlike what you are seeing.___ mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http
[mythtv-users] PAL vs NTSC for dvd rips
I was looking at some of my videos that I ripped with various tools, and I realized some of them at 25fps and some are at 23.93fps. I'm assuming this means some are PAL and some are NTSC. Does it matter? If I have no intention of burning them as video, is there any point to converting them with different fps or reripping them? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] PVR 150-MCE won't record
I have recently installed mythtv on FC3 following Jarod's guide. I can watch and pause live TV using 150-mce, but I can't record any shows. I can start the record and stop the record, but when I check the file sizes they are 0 GB. Here are my backend and frontend logs: mythbackend 2005-08-23 17:48:18.616 New DB connection, total: 1 Starting up as the master server. 2005-08-23 17:48:18.626 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-08-23 17:48:18.653 New DB connection, total: 3 2005-08-23 17:48:18.955 New DB scheduler connection 2005-08-23 17:48:18.959 mythbackend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-08-23 17:48:18.959 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2005-08-23 17:48:20.959 Reschedule requested for id -1. 2005-08-23 17:48:20.972 Scheduled 0 items in 0.0 = 0.01 match + 0.00 place 2005-08-23 17:48:20.974 Seem to be woken up by USER 2005-08-23 17:49:09.668 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-08-23 17:49:09.668 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0) 2005-08-23 17:49:09.786 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-08-23 17:49:09.786 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 1) 2005-08-23 17:49:18.173 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-08-23 17:49:18.173 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0) 2005-08-23 17:49:18.218 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-08-23 17:49:18.218 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0) 2005-08-23 17:49:18.224 adding: mythtv as a remote ringbuffer 2005-08-23 17:49:18.233 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2005-08-23 17:49:33.432 Reschedule requested for id 5. 2005-08-23 17:49:33.564 Scheduled 1 items in 0.1 = 0.12 match + 0.01 place 2005-08-23 17:49:33.728 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None 2005-08-23 17:49:33.809 Started recording NBC Nightly News on channel: 1005 on cardid: 1, sourceid 1 2005-08-23 17:49:34.189 Changing from None to RecordingOnly 2005-08-23 17:49:34.337 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-08-23 17:49:34.338 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0) 2005-08-23 17:49:36.935 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-08-23 17:49:36.935 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0) 2005-08-23 17:49:37.952 Reschedule requested for id 5. 2005-08-23 17:49:37.981 Scheduled 13 items in 0.0 = 0.01 match + 0.02 place 2005-08-23 17:49:39.491 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-08-23 17:49:39.491 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0) 2005-08-23 17:49:42.056 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-08-23 17:49:42.056 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0) frontend 2005-08-23 17:52:42.852 Unknown state transition: 0 to 0 2005-08-23 17:52:42.853 write-8 27 GET_RECORDER_FROM_NUM[]:[]1: 2005-08-23 17:52:42.861 write-14 21 MYTH_PROTO_VERSION 15: 2005-08-23 17:52:42.867 Using protocol version 15 2005-08-23 17:52:42.868 write-14 21 ANN Playback mythtv 0: 2005-08-23 17:52:42.875 write-14 33 QUERY_RECORDER 1[]:[]IS_RECORDING: 2005-08-23 17:52:42.882 write-14 34 QUERY_RECORDER 1[]:[]GET_RECORDING: 2005-08-23 17:52:42.889 write-8 403 FILL_PROGRAM_INFO[]:[]mythtv[] :[]NBC N... 2005-08-23 17:52:42.927 Invalid file handle when opening /var/video/recordings/1005_20050823175000_2005082318.nuv. 4 retries remaining. 2005-08-23 17:52:43.429 Invalid file handle when opening /var/video/recordings/1005_20050823175000_2005082318.nuv. 3 retries remaining. 2005-08-23 17:52:43.931 Invalid file handle when opening /var/video/recordings/1005_20050823175000_2005082318.nuv. 2 retries remaining. 2005-08-23 17:52:44.433 Invalid file handle when opening /var/video/recordings/1005_20050823175000_2005082318.nuv. 1 retries remaining. 2005-08-23 17:52:44.935 Invalid file handle when opening /var/video/recordings/1005_20050823175000_2005082318.nuv. 0 retries remaining. 2005-08-23 17:52:45.436 Unknown state transition: 0 to 0 Does anybody know what the invalid file handle errors are? Has anybody else seen this problem? Thanks! Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Fast Fowarding Lines in captured video?
Or direct links to the 2: http://curvins.com/myth/ffwd-lines-5MB.avihttp://curvins.com/myth/ffwd-lines-end-5MB.aviIf anyone can offer any feedback, it would be much appreciated.I have ruled out a single channel, the clip is from DragonBall Z (mybrother loves the show :) ) recorded from Cartoon Network.So it'sSpikeTV and Cartoon Network so far, I don't record much else, but itwould seem to not be a channel issue at this point. Have you tried fine tuning the channels? Are you getting any errors in dmesg from the video driver or in the backend logs? It almost looks like you are losing the channel lock. Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Watch TV works, but recording doesn't.
Did running mythfilldatabase allow you to record? I think I'm having the same problem as you.On 8/23/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Andrew Haigh wrote: Hello all, After a hellish time getting Myth working on Fedora Core 4 on a shuttle zen with a pvr-350 card (I'm definitely NOT impressed with the installation complexity!), I can now chug around the menus with the Hauppauge remote, and watch live tv. But pressing the 'record' button brings up 'Record ' on the display for a few seconds and thats it! I notice from the mythfrontend log that I get: Scheduled 0 items in 0.2 = 0.14 match + 0.01 place When I back out of Live TV, and look in (say) the Media Library)-Watch recordings, it just says there are no recordings available... What am I doing wrong?Fill your program guide using mythfilldatabase. http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-9.html#ss9.4Mike___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-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] Cables and more space...ideas?
On 8/16/05, gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Steffes wrote: Questions to ask yourself: What parts of the movie are the most important to you?The movie itself and one AC3 audio track Do you need subtitles, multiple languages? nope, neither Do you have a full multichannel stereo set up or are you willing to compress the audio?5.1 DD/DTS receiver, so keeping DD audio is a must ... don't care aboutcommentary, mult languages, etc Are you extremely sensitive to audio distortion?fairly, but the biggest thing for me is keeping 5.1 ... there just is nocomparison between a 5.1 movie vs a 2-channel rip of the same movie ... A value of 800 for the bitrate will give you results around 700MB for a full DVD depending on your audio settings.Values around 1500 give bigger files, but are very nice looking.the result i'd like to come up with is a rip of a DVD with the same video and audio quality as the source, just without the extra crap ...when myth rips a dvd to file using the perfect method, does it stripout everything except the main audio and video or are subtitles, mult languages, etc still in there?thanks!-g- >From looking at the source, it looks like a perfect rip just dumps the vob you select into a file. It should have all the audio and video information available, it largely just changes the extension from VOB and mpg. Just removing the extra audio isn't going to save you very much space. Your files are still going to be multigigabyte. You should really consider sitting down some afternoon and playing with mencoder's multipass variable bitrate settings in xvid, and seeing if you can find something acceptable smaller, otherwise, there's really no point in bothering at all. I haven't tested it myself, but this should work: tcextract -i movie.mpg -t vdr -x mpeg2 movie.m2v tcextract -i movie.mpg -a 128 -x ac3 -t vob movie.ac3 mplex -f 8 -o movie2.mpg movie.m2v movie.ac3 It's just might not be worth the effort. Of course, there could be a key detail in the DVDReading that I missed and you could end up with the exact same result as you started with. You'll have to have someone smarter than me tell you that, --Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Cables and more space...ideas?
mplayer dvd://1 -aid 128 -dumpstream -dumpfile video.mpg I thought that that would work, but I wasn't 100% positive it was okay to just change vob/mpg so I didn't mention. I use that method, without specifying tracks, to avoid certain DVD copying *ahem* problems *ahem*. Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New MythDora v1.4
Nope that's a new one. What type of install did you do, and what is the hardware configuration you're using? even some of us that were here when it was first mentioned don't always remember, either ... i kept thinking of someone's comment about Dora the Explorer ;) I have downloaded and installed MythDora 1.4, but when rebooting I get the error : Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. Is this a typical error, or a new one? :-) Cheers, Pete. ___ 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] Language on ripped dvd -- transcode -a switch
On 8/16/05, Allan Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to make sure I wasn't crazy I just ran mplayer from the command line with the following command: mplayer -ao null -vo null -v BAD\ BOYS\ II.vob and it saw what looks like to me 3 audio channels. Searching demuxer type for filename BAD BOYS II.vob ext: .vob Trying demuxer 2 based on filename extension system stream synced at 0xD (0)! == Found video stream: 0 == Found audio stream: 129 == Found audio stream: 128 MPEG Stream reached EOF ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video) MPEG-PS file format detected. Any ideas?On 8/15/05, Allan Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am confused I was just doing some reading on transcode to see why the developers chose it over mencoder and came across the flag that selects the audio track to record. Below is an example of using transcode from the command line: transcode -i /space/tng-biggoodbye/vob/004 -w 4357,250,100 -a 1 -b 128,0,0 -s 3.311 -V -f 25 -B 12,10,8 -R 1 -x vob,null -o /dev/null -y xvidcvs,null Next is a copy of the audio track that is being used: -a 1 selects audio track number 1 (starting with 0). Is it possible that it is just grabbing the wrong audio track? I am thinking no because although Ryan you said that once you rip a movie you are stuck with that audio track, when I run the vob file from the command line using mplayer I can see where it has 3 audio tracks 0, 129, and 128. I am guessing that it is choosing 129 b/c it is in front of the 128 and the -aid 128 flag would fix this but it didn't. Any ideas I refuse to give up. I was able to rip about 70% of my movie collection and I would love to get the rest without having to do it by hand and if other people are having this problem maybe we can narrow it down to help the developers on this. Are they doing much work on this part of Myth? It seems kinda stable compared to other parts. Thanks for all the help so far and anyone else chime in if you have any ideas, at this point anything is helpful. Allan I should rephrase, once you transcode, you are stuck with that audio track unless you use a format like OGG that can allow multiple tracks. The VOB file is a container that is in (I think), the MPEG2/PS codec for region 1 dvds. There are other DVD formats, however. When you rip the vob, you get all the other languages, and DVD perfect video, but you also get a 4-6GB file. You lose the languages, however, when you convert to a smaller file, and from that point on there's nothing you can do about it. ** This is the part I could be totally wrong on and am just going off observation ** It appears that the -a switch to transcode tells transcode to use the default audio track. It does not appear to be language specific. If the audio track happens to be the same language, and the language you want, you are good to go. However, there are DVDs where the default language is the director's commentary, and of course others that default to other languages. The most frustrating being those that appear to have the default language change between chapters. It is possible that that you can set -a to the language track and fix this problem. I honestly don't know. I believe that mtd.log will contain the transcode line that it ran, you could try running it manually setting -a 128 and see if that works. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Cables and more space...ideas?
On 8/16/05, gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Davidson wrote: How are your DVDs stored? If they are as ISOs or the raw VOB/IFO files you could try ripping out unused audio tracks, subtitles etc.what app do you use to rip out unused audio tracks, etc from just straight VOB rips?no IFO files or anything, I just have the VOBS themself.thanks,-g- Depending on your tolerance for artifacts, sound quality, and a few other issues, DVD's can be reduced dramatically by using a more efficient codec. The recent threads on DVD languages contain discussion of this. A full high quality DVD can run up to 8GB (That I've personally seen) due to using MPEG2, multiple audio tracks, subtitles, and very high bitrates. How much of that you want to retain is up to you, but most people are quite content bringing them down considerable. Questions to ask yourself: What parts of the movie are the most important to you? Do you need subtitles, multiple languages? Do you have a full multichannel stereo set up or are you willing to compress the audio? Are you extremely sensitive to audio distortion? As an experiment to help you answer some of these questions, try this: 1) Test various audio settings, using mencoder to dump out part of the audio tracks: (Note: These assume you want the english track) (Note2: I'm taking a chunk a minute or two into the movie to give a representative sample, if you know there's a portion of sound you think you'd hear the difference on, use that instead) Digital Quality AC3 audio: mplayer MOVIE.vob -aid 128 -dumpaudio -dumpfile moviesound.ac3 -ss 200 -endpos 120 Normal audio 128 kbs: mencoder -oac mp3lame -lameopts mode=2:cbr:br=128:vol=0 \ -ovc frameno -o frameno.avi MOVIE.vob -ss 200 -endpos 120 Reduced audio 96 kbs: mencoder -oac mp3lame -lameopts mode=2:cbr:br=96:vol=0 \ -ovc frameno -o frameno.avi MOVIE.vob -ss 200 -endpos 120 Compare how they sound, and then compare the sizes, to get a rough estimate of the order of magnitude each size gives you. After that, try converting the same portion of vob to the xvid codec at different bitrates, with 2 pass encoding. (Note, this command expects you to have one of those frameno.avi audio clips in the same directory) # video track (pass: 1, bitrate: XXX)nice -n 3 mencoder -sws 2 -oac copy -ovc lavc \ -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=XXX:vhq:vpass=1 \ -ffourcc XVID -ss 200 -endpos 120 MOVIE.vob -o /dev/null # video track (pass: 2, bitrate: XXX)nice -n 3 mencoder -sws 2 -oac copy -ovc lavc \ -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=XXX:vhq:vpass=2 \ -ffourcc XVID -ss 200 -endpos 120 MOVIE.vob -o movie.avi Just put in different bitrates in the XXX spot each time. Be sure to delete the divx2pass.log file after each second run. The bitrate must match for each pass, however. A value of 800 for the bitrate will give you results around 700MB for a full DVD depending on your audio settings. Values around 1500 give bigger files, but are very nice looking. I like to use this free tool to generate my mencoder command lines: http://f0rked.com/core/simplerip --Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Language on ripped dvd
On 8/14/05, dan trevino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 20:35 -0500, Allan Wilson wrote: Thanks for the link to the article to ripping manually. I am going to play with it to see if I can do it manually. Is anyone else having this problem or am I the only one? Since I am not finding that much about this problem I am leaning towards it being my system but I can't see where I have setup anything incorrectly. Thanks for the help.I had the same problem ripping one dvd (Bride and Prejudice...dont ask). Then tonight while watching (not ripping) Alexander from Myth, the 2ndDVD automagically started playing with French language.I was able todrop out and manually 'mplayer dvd:// -alang en ...' and everything was fine.After the it was over, I checked the 'Import DVD' option, and thedefault track shows up as 'en ac3 6ch', so I assume I woulda had thesame problem with that disc as well.My default play command is: 'mplayer dvd:// -fs -ao alsa -vo xv' dan The problem seems to be that transcode operates dumbly off audio tracks, and the default language can switch between chapters. For ripping, I don't know if there's anything you can really do about it. There doesn't currently seem to be any way to have mtd use mencoder, and I don't see anyway to set the language as opposed to the audio track for transcode. The only good solution I know is to run mencoder manually and specify the language you want via -alang or -aid. Also, if you use mplayer, using -alang or -aid may prevent the problem when you are just watching and not ripping. It certianly won't hurt anything to add it to your default command line, unless of course you are multilingual and don't always want to watch in the same language. (If you watch many foreign films, it wouldn't hurt to add in a -sid or -slang for subtitles either, just make sure you have a button on your remote set to turn them off!) -Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Language on ripped dvd
On 8/15/05, Allan Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all the help on this Ryan. Do you know how mtd rips a movie if it doesn't use mencoder. Has anyone run in to any documentation on how Myth rips movies in detail. Any other experiences from anyone would be helpful. Allan mtd uses transcode, with various flags depending on what you select in the menu. Oddly, it gives you the option for changing the command in settings, but there doesn't seem to be switches for other commands (such as mencode) so I'm not sure the purpose of it. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Language on ripped dvd
On 8/14/05, Allan Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried the xine option and I am still getting french and director's commentary. Any other ideas from anyone?On 8/13/05, Claude Boucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From Jarod's Tips Tricks page ( http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/tips.php):xine -pfhq --no-splash dvd://ClaudeAllan Wilson a écrit : What are you using for the xine command in the myth play movie option. Thanks Allan___mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Once it has been ripped, there's nothing you can do about it. Whatever language it transcodes into the avi file is what language you are stuck with. What you could do is re-rip the sound and dump the video to a file and recombine them. The easier solution is to rerip the DVD, being careful to select the correct audio track (en ac3 6ch most likely). If it fails again, you could do it manually with mencoder from the command line or use dvdrip. Learning the command line tools gives you a few more options with fine tuning than the built in ripper does. For a basic set of commands that ought to work in many cases, try: http://f0rked.com/core/simplerip Be sure to add the -aid 128 in the extra options box if you are having trouble with the wrong language manually as well. --Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] OT (again sorry) Home theater solutions
I'm moving into a new house, and now I'll finally be able to configure my things the way I want and wire the home for sound and video. However, I'm NOT an audiophile by any stretch. Can anyone point me toward any guides to figure out how speakers work with ampls (as in what you can use with what), as well as what wiring to plan on. Basically, home theater for dummies? Thank you, Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT (again sorry) Home theater solutions
On 8/13/05, Korey Fort [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check out http://www.howstuffworks.com search for surround sound or speakers you could also check out www.audioasylum.com Thanks, I actually read howstuffworks, and realized it still wasn't answering the questions I needed answered. I'm trying to figure out things like, how do you know whether the speakers you have can be powered by a given receiver, and what wires can be spliced with other wires (like running RCA audio/video through walls and such). Also, how do you get good sound going from computer to receiver, ie what's the best input/output solution? Thank you for the help though, I'll give that second link a shot, it may have more answers along the lines I'm looking for. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Changing Channels on Second Tunner
Just completed a rebuild of my Myth system on Fedora Core 4. I've added a PVR150 to my PVR250, and all seems to be working well. I can cat video from both cards and can even watch live-tv from both inputs in Myth. The problem is, when I switch inputs to the PVR150, changing channels doesn't work right. For example: If I start out on channel 3, I press channel up, the osd info shows channel 4, but the video feed itself is still showing channel 3. If I press up again, same thing, osd channel 5, video channel three. Eventually, after changing channels a few times, video changes to complete static. I know at first this might sound like Browse mode, but when I change the channel, I actually get the buffer pause as if it is going to change channels, but it just comes back to either the original channel, or static. Any ideas on what might be the culprit here? Tuner #0 (the 250) works fine. I can tune any channel I want, no problems. Another thing I found that is weird (this might just how it is suppose to work) is when I change inputs to Tuner #1, the OSD says 2: Tuner 0. Shouldn't it say Tuner 1? Myth is 0.18.1 from atrmps. Thanks, Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Changing Channels on Second Tunner
Another thing I found that is weird (this might just how it is suppose to work) is when I change inputs to Tuner #1, the OSD says 2: Tuner 0. Shouldn't it say Tuner 1? I can answer this part, at least. Tuner 0 refers to the tuner input connection on the card (the coax connection). Each card has a Tuner 0, Composite 0, etc. You can see this on the Input Connections screen in mythtv-setup. --Dylan Ok, that clears that up. Still can't tune channels on the 150 though. I just tried using ptune-ui.pl on a straight feed from the card to no avail. The channel doesn't do anything, even though the output from ptune says it's changing channels. At least in Myth it does SOMETHING when I try to change channels. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] OT: DVD and subtitles, recombining .sub and .idx with avi
Sorry for asking this here, but I couldn't find the answer and I figured someone would know. I'm in the process of ripping most of my dvds to avi to watch with MythVideo. I'm not sure how to handle the ones with subtitles. I've extracted the subtitles from the vob with mencoder, giving me a .sub and .idx file. I want to overlay that back into the video to encode it. The only way I can think of is to play the video with mplayer with the subtitles on and use dumpstream. Is there an easier or more proper way to do it? Thanks, Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Language on ripped dvd
On 8/12/05, Allan Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I keep getting French or Director's commentary instead of English on some of my ripped movies. When I play the dvd from the dvd drive it plays fine. I have read some other posts that recommend using the -alang en and aid 128 options and I have enabled both on my command line in the mplayer command line, but nothing seems to help. How can I trouble shoot this problem further. I tried playing the vob file with the -v option but did not see a reference to language tracks available. I see where other people are having this problem but never really see complete answers. Thanks for any help Allan ___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users When you say, from your ripped movies, do you mean from vobs or from avi's? It's necessary to use -aid 128 or -alang en during the transcoding process. If you try to do it later, and the wrong language was selected, you're stuck. -Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Max number of recordings - unexpected episode deletions
2) I have seen a few times where I have a series set to maintain 5 episodes and it has all 5. I watch one of them and delete it, then two back to back episodes of the series come on and it records both and then realizes it's over the limit then deletes the oldest of the 6. It was like when it started to record the second one it didn't realize it had already reached the limit, then later realized it was over the limit and deleted the oldest one ala complaint observation #1. Myth can be set to 'rotate content'. It has a setting to delete old and record new when the limit is reached; you may have this set. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Removable storage with MythTV
On 8/6/05, Eileen Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've just started building my Myth system and wanted to run an idea by more experienced users to make sure I'm not crazy. Here's the story: I live out in the middle of nowhere where the only TV that exists is satellite (DirecTV, in our area). I have some family moving nearby who is going to get a system, which by default comes with FOUR set-top boxes! Four is a lot of boxes for only two people, and they have graciously offered us the use of one of the extra boxes. So I got this great idea that I'd set up a Myth system at their house, program it from my house (yeah for web interface!), and record myself some TV. My plan is to have a two or three removable hard drives (actually, just some normal drives that are easy to access) and I would swap them around to record shows. So stuff would get recorded onto driveA, then at some point I'd come by and swap it with driveB. Then recording could continue on driveB and I'd take driveA home with me and watch it there. The computer at home would also have Myth, so the file types and arrangements should still work, and I'll get to play with the game emulator, too! Does this make sense? Does it seem at all feasible? From the outside, it seems pretty simple, but those are famous last words. I would love any thoughts on this plan -- tips from anyone who has done anything similar, horror stories on why I am doomed, whatever. Thanks! Eileen Based purely on what I've seen, there's potential for this to work. MythTV seems to fail fairly gracefully if the file it's looking for isn't found. On the theme I'm using (not sure if this is true for all themes), the show name appears dimmer, but not quite greyed out if the file isn't found. I'd think to make this work somewhat efficiently, all you'd need to do is to make a dump of the recorded table, at their place and restore it when you load the hard drive at your place. Then, optionally, you could tell the backend at their place to delete all the recordings. There may be a reason why this wouldn't work, but I can't think of it off hand. -Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] CD Copy protection?
The trick of the whole situation is that the only protections that even kinda work are the ones that use bad data. However, it can't be TOO bad or you wouldn't be able to play it at all, and the amount of peopel who watch movies/listen to music on their computers is too large a segment to ignore. I recently got a copy of Hitch to take with me on vacation. My plan was to rip to my external drive, with some other movies, and stick it in a bag. We can watch it on a laptop when we get there, or pipe it through the laptop to composite-in on the TV. However, the copy I got was a used movie rental and has that Sony protection with the bad sectors. Mythtv, dvd::rip, and mencoder all freaked trying to rip it. Maybe there's a way around it with those, but I don't know. What I do know is that mplayer didn't care as much about making the file a perfect rip and played it just fine. Once I realized that, it didn't take me long to do the math and just play it to a file through mplayer and create my own nice little vob. Even the best CD copy protection isn't going to stop people from connecting line-out to line-in -- old school tape recorder style. Ditto for DVDs, it's not that hard to play your DVD out to PVR in. Standard formats just can't be protected too much or they become useless, and you aren't going to sell a new standard to people who are very happy with the old standard. No one is going to be able to force everyone to change their TV, stereo equipment, computer hardware, car stereo, radios, boomboxes, dvd players, VHS players, and put special DRM chips in everything, including ALL speakers and microphones and video cameras. That's what you'd have to do to keep any copies from being made ever. No law can protect a bad business model forever. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] CD Copy protection?
On 8/5/05, Richard Bronosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Steffes wrote: The trick of the whole situation is that the only protections that even kinda work are the ones that use bad data. However, it can't be TOO bad or you wouldn't be able to play it at all, and the amount of peopel who watch movies/listen to music on their computers is too large a segment to ignore. I recently got a copy of Hitch to take with me on vacation. My plan was to rip to my external drive, with some other movies, and stick it in a bag. We can watch it on a laptop when we get there, or pipe it through the laptop to composite-in on the TV. However, the copy I got was a used movie rental and has that Sony protection with the bad sectors. Mythtv, dvd::rip, and mencoder all freaked trying to rip it. Maybe there's a way around it with those, but I don't know. What I do know is that mplayer didn't care as much about making the file a perfect rip and played it just fine. Once I realized that, it didn't take me long to do the math and just play it to a file through mplayer and create my own nice little vob. Even the best CD copy protection isn't going to stop people from connecting line-out to line-in -- old school tape recorder style. Ditto for DVDs, it's not that hard to play your DVD out to PVR in. Standard formats just can't be protected too much or they become useless, and you aren't going to sell a new standard to people who are very happy with the old standard. No one is going to be able to force everyone to change their TV, stereo equipment, computer hardware, car stereo, radios, boomboxes, dvd players, VHS players, and put special DRM chips in everything, including ALL speakers and microphones and video cameras. That's what you'd have to do to keep any copies from being made ever. No law can protect a bad business model forever. ___mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users HDMI... all future video out will be similar to it. Shortly after HD-DVD is defacto, DVDs will no longer be made. All HD-DVD players will only output over a protected method... Analog cable too will disappear and all the new cable and satellite receivers will also use protected outputs... Then this mailing list will be discussions about the kinds of file servers, gaming boxes and home automation/video surveillance machines that people are converting their PVRs into. It's sad, but it is coming. Pessimistic? No, informed. Thank you for your time, --== R i c h a r d B r o n o s k y ==--Nearly all viruses and spyware are designed to use Microsoft internet products. Protect yourself by avoiding Internet Explorer Outlook/Outlook Express. All efforts thusfare are meeting with limited success, despite articles pushing it as the next big thing. There will just be very little change until vast majority of current products meet the end of their lifespan due to the fact they have to maintain compatability to maintain profitability. Frankly, the bulk of consumers don't care about high definition. I've seen it in all it's glory, in allegedly as good as it gets conditions, and frankly I could care less. VHS and DVD machines still cost $20 bucks, and plenty of 19 inch TV's are still being sold for $100 with good old fashion hook ups. Even more importantly, plenty of 32 inch $500 TV's are being sold without HD. That market isn't going away, so there will always be converter boxes, and you will always be able to record it. All the other talk is wishfull thinking of people who don't look at the raw economics of the situation. For a large percentage of American families, the TV is the most expensive electronic item they own. They can't just make people replace that. Maybe in other countries the numbers are different. -- Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] DVD to AVI vs NUV
It seems like every time I feel like I get a good grasp on how the bitrates and resolutions and codecs play together something comes up that confuses me. Like just about everyone, I'm trying to get the best quality for the least space, and I thought I was doing alright. My WAF doesn't tolerate graininess very well, and blockiness is a killer. I have a PVR150 that I record at 352x480 3500/ 720x480 5000/ 720x480 6000 by quality level. The HQ ones I leave alone, but the low quality ones I autotranscode to mpeg4 at 352x480 2200 with the four high quality options turned on. This seems to give good quality, with a half hour show coming in at around 700MB. Last night though, I ripped a few dvd's to take with me on a trip this weekend, and I realized that I was ripping a full 140 minute DVD to about 1GB with perfectly good quality, at only around 1000 bps VBR. If I tried to transcode my shows at that, they'd look terrible. I'm sure I'm missing a basic principle somewhere, but I can't figure out what it is. I would think changing the format would have something to do with it, from mpeg2 to mpeg4, but wouldn't that apply to the dvd as well? Double pass encoding might be part of the answer as well (I don't think myth can do that, can it?) Can someone explain this effect to me? Thanks, -- Ryan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] User Jobs setup
All I'm trying to setup some user jobs within Myth to automatically post-process a recording for playback on a PSP. However, I've had a look at the documentation and through the recent release notes and around the mythtv.info wiki without any luck. Does anyone know where I can find some information on this? Thanks in advance Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] User Jobs setup
All I found a load of stuff relating to this in the Under Development section of the Wiki: http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/UnderDevelopment In case anyone is looking for this, the available options are: %FILE% - filename of recording %DIR% - Myth Recording directory where file is located %HOSTNAME% - hostname of backed where recording was made %TITLE% %SUBTITLE% %DESCRIPTION% %CATEGORY% %RECGROUP% %CHANID% %STARTTIME% %ENDTIME% Cheers Mike Quoting Mike Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: All I'm trying to setup some user jobs within Myth to automatically post-process a recording for playback on a PSP. However, I've had a look at the documentation and through the recent release notes and around the mythtv.info wiki without any luck. Does anyone know where I can find some information on this? Thanks in advance Mike ___ 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] MythTV at Open Tech 2005
Hi Just thought everyone might be interested to know that I did a presentation this morning at Open Tech 2005 in West London. The event was recorded so will be viewable over the next couple of days, and the slides I used in the presentation will be available for download http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2005/ I was anticipating doing an in depth presentation on the features of Myth, but the organisers felt it would be more appropriate to discuss the technical side of things and how to do an implementation. (Mind you, with a 10 minute slot, that was difficult). So, don't be too upset if I didn't mention this feature or that feature. Also, in my final sum up slide I touched on the future of Myth, but did stress that I wasn't part of the development team and these were just my opinion. Anyway, it seemed to go down well, and I hope I've done my part in getting the word out about this fantastic project Cheers Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Screen grab
Thanks for that - did the job perfectly. BTW, you weren't joking about the CPU. Normal playback is around 10% - with XV turned off it was up at around 90% Cheers Mike Quoting Joseph A. Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tuesday 12 July 2005 7:33, Ashley Bostock wrote: Yep, you just need to set the NO_XV environment variable so that myth doesn't use the XV overlay. Ash. Just make sure you only run it that way for occasional screenshots... otherwise your CPU could be routinely pegged just to watch a recording, as it has to to all the scaling in software. -JAC ___ 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] MythTV Screen grab
All I'm running MythTV with the NVidia 7167 drivers installed. Can anyone suggest how I could do a screen grab? If I use the standard screen capture tools while MythTV is playing a recording, I just get a blue screen dump Thanks in advance Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Transcoding for Sony PSP with thumbnail
All I've been playing around with transcoding video for the PSP to watch on the way to work. To recap so far, to convert direct from a nuv to the MP4 file, I do the following: ffmpeg -y -i /mythtv/recordings/1084_20050703130500_20050703140500.nuv -bitexact -f psp -s 320x240 -r 29.97 -b 512 -acodec aac -ac 2 -ar 24000 -ab 32 /mythtv/video/M4V10001.MP4 What I've just been doing, is working on creating the thumbnail to go with this: mplayer -vo jpeg -frames 2 /mythtv/recordings/1084_20050703130500_20050703140500.nuv mogrify -geometry 160x120! 0001.jpg mv 0001.jpg /mythtv/video/M4V10001.THM So, when both files get copied over to the PSP, you should now get the video with a thumbnail. Quick question - does anyone know how to get mplayer to capture an image at frame 100, or something like that? Now I've just got to work on getting the title, as I current see all files called M4V10001.MP4 (or something similar), and I'd like to preserve the programme title information. Hope this is of use to somebody Cheers Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MythTV Wiki RecentChanges webpage problem
Hi Anyone knows who looks after the MythTV Wiki RecentChanges webpage? Looks like it's been hijacked by spammers or something: http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/ReleaseNotes Cheers Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Wiki RecentChanges webpage problem
All sorted now Rgds Mike Quoting Mike Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Anyone knows who looks after the MythTV Wiki RecentChanges webpage? Looks like it's been hijacked by spammers or something: http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/ReleaseNotes Cheers Mike ___ 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] Problem using ffmpeg to transcode a DVB-T recording
Nick Thanks for that. I think that may be it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ~/ffmpeg/ffmpeg -y -i /mythtv/recordings/1008_2005063020_2005063021.nuv -bitexact -f psp -s 320x240 -r 29.97 -b 512 -acodec aac -ac 2 -ar 24000 -ab 32 -map 0:0 -map 0:2 /mythtv/video/M4V10003.MP4 ffmpeg version 0.4.9-pre1, build 4756, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard configuration: --enable-faac built on Jun 17 2005 16:02:27, gcc: 3.4.3 20050227 (Red Hat 3.4.3-22.fc3) Input #0, mpeg, from '/mythtv/recordings/1008_2005063020_2005063021.nuv': Duration: 00:59:55.1, start: 1697.474022, bitrate: 2893 kb/s Stream #0.0[0x1e0]: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 704x576, 25.00 fps, 1 kb/s Stream #0.1[0x1c1]: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, mono, 64 kb/s Stream #0.2[0x1c0]: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 192 kb/s Output #0, psp, to '/mythtv/video/M4V10003.MP4': Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 320x240, 29.97 fps, q=2-31, 512 kb/s Stream #0.1: Audio: aac, 24000 Hz, stereo, 32 kb/s Stream mapping: Stream #0.0 - #0.0 Stream #0.2 - #0.1 Unfortunately, I won't know until I get home and copy it over to the PSP. Strange how this only happens for Channel 4. Cheers Mike Quoting Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think you need to be looking at the -map: option for ffmpeg, although from the documentation I can't figure out exactly how to use it. http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/ffmpeg-doc.html On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 14:28:21 +0100 Mike Ryan wrote: Hi I use ffmpeg to transcode my dvb-t recordings to watch on a PSP and I'm in the UK. Everything works fine apart from anything I record from Channel 4. For some reason, there is no sound when I play it back on the PSP. I believe the problem is that ffmpeg seems to think there's two sound channels - it's selecting the primary one. Playback on MythTV is no problem. Here's a sample of the output from ffmpeg: ffmpeg version 0.4.9-pre1, build 4756, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard configuration: --enable-faac built on Jun 17 2005 16:02:27, gcc: 3.4.3 20050227 (Red Hat 3.4.3-22.fc3) Input #0, mpeg, from '/mythtv/recordings/1008_2005063020_2005063021.nuv': Duration: 00:59:55.1, start: 1697.474022, bitrate: 2893 kb/s Stream #0.0[0x1e0]: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 704x576, 25.00 fps, 1 kb/s Stream #0.1[0x1c1]: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, mono, 64 kb/s Stream #0.2[0x1c0]: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 192 kb/s Output #0, psp, to '/mythtv/video/M4V10003.MP4': Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 320x240, 29.97 fps, q=2-31, 512 kb/s Stream #0.1: Audio: aac, 24000 Hz, stereo, 32 kb/s Stream mapping: Stream #0.0 - #0.0 Stream #0.1 - #0.1 For any other channel, the larger bitrate audio channel comes first, ie: Input #0, mpeg, from '/mythtv/recordings/1073_20050628191500_20050628195800.nuv': Duration: 00:42:54.5, start: 16393.593167, bitrate: 3053 kb/s Stream #0.0[0x1e0]: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x576, 25.00 fps, 15000 kb/s Stream #0.1[0x1c0]: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 256 kb/s Stream #0.2[0x1c1]: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, mono, 56 kb/s Any got any ideas how I either 1: Tell ffmpeg to select the second audio input channel or 2: Get myth to record with the larger audio channel first (if this makes sense) Thanks in advance for any help Regards 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
[mythtv-users] Problem using ffmpeg to transcode a DVB-T recording
Hi I use ffmpeg to transcode my dvb-t recordings to watch on a PSP and I'm in the UK. Everything works fine apart from anything I record from Channel 4. For some reason, there is no sound when I play it back on the PSP. I believe the problem is that ffmpeg seems to think there's two sound channels - it's selecting the primary one. Playback on MythTV is no problem. Here's a sample of the output from ffmpeg: ffmpeg version 0.4.9-pre1, build 4756, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard configuration: --enable-faac built on Jun 17 2005 16:02:27, gcc: 3.4.3 20050227 (Red Hat 3.4.3-22.fc3) Input #0, mpeg, from '/mythtv/recordings/1008_2005063020_2005063021.nuv': Duration: 00:59:55.1, start: 1697.474022, bitrate: 2893 kb/s Stream #0.0[0x1e0]: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 704x576, 25.00 fps, 1 kb/s Stream #0.1[0x1c1]: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, mono, 64 kb/s Stream #0.2[0x1c0]: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 192 kb/s Output #0, psp, to '/mythtv/video/M4V10003.MP4': Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 320x240, 29.97 fps, q=2-31, 512 kb/s Stream #0.1: Audio: aac, 24000 Hz, stereo, 32 kb/s Stream mapping: Stream #0.0 - #0.0 Stream #0.1 - #0.1 For any other channel, the larger bitrate audio channel comes first, ie: Input #0, mpeg, from '/mythtv/recordings/1073_20050628191500_20050628195800.nuv': Duration: 00:42:54.5, start: 16393.593167, bitrate: 3053 kb/s Stream #0.0[0x1e0]: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x576, 25.00 fps, 15000 kb/s Stream #0.1[0x1c0]: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 256 kb/s Stream #0.2[0x1c1]: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, mono, 56 kb/s Any got any ideas how I either 1: Tell ffmpeg to select the second audio input channel or 2: Get myth to record with the larger audio channel first (if this makes sense) Thanks in advance for any help Regards Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Haupauge PVR 150
On 6/29/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:02:55 -0400 Jason McLeod wrote: snip Also, make sure in the setup you have you recording profiles set to 720x480. The 150 won't work with anything else. Not true. I'm using a 150, and it scales just fine, you can record at any resolution you choose. My understanding is that the pvr-150 does not scale in hardware, meaning that if you want to record in a different resolution the cpu needs to do the work. Been fixed. It now scales. Read the IVTV list. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Really Bad performance
On 6/10/05, Cyber Source [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I took all the same hardware and just changed the mb and the cpu, from asus mb with 850mhz to gigabyte with 2400+ xp cpu, same everything else and the problem went away, and the new system had more ram, 512 vs 384. So I guess I didn't have enough cpu. Um yeah... With a dumb capture card like yours, you need atleast 1gz for low quality. With the default quality settings, it is probably more like 1.6 - 1.8gz. If you replaced your capture card with a PVR150/250/350/500, your 850mzh machine will probably work fine. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
