Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv DVD changer integration
Well, I haven't done anything yet, it's just my wishlist. The problem is that MythVideo just calls xine or mplayer with the appropriate filename. What is really needed is to change the disc and kick off something like LiveTV. Here's some links to a forum I found that has info on modding the 985V. Surgeon has successfully modded the 985V to add the serial port and upgraded the firmware to make it think it's a 777ES. http://www.agoraquest.com/viewtopic.php?topic=18909forum=50start=0select_page_number=1 http://www.agoraquest.com/viewtopic.php?topic=13878forum=50 Ben Norling wrote: Any information you could forward regarding the 985v upgrade would be greatly appreciated. I have the same model. That would make for some more reliable integration. In the meantime, I think that the irblaster/lirc solution would be easier to manage (at least for me). So, I'm a little unclear.. Are you using the mythvideo interface to keep the list of movies for your dvd changer? And if so, what happens when you select a movie? As for the switching of video inputs, that's what I would prefer to do as running it through the myth system would affect the quality and I will be connecting the dvd player to the tv with component cables, eventually. Thanks for the input! -Ben Norling --- Scott Kirkpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - This is the original reason I started looking at MythTV. I have a SonyDVP-CX985V 400 disc changer (I've still got my old 200 disc model thatI grew out of) and I hate the UI. I wanted a better method ofcateloging and finding my DVD's. The higher end Sony 700ES has aserial port that you can use to control it and supposedly, you getinstantaneous control, not this stupid thing where when you select aDVD, it plays all the nonsense at the beginning not allowing you tostop it and go to the menu. I was reading another list somewhere wherethey found that the internals of the 700ES was the same as the 985, infact they upgraded the 985's firmware with the version that went in the700ES and got almost all of the 700ES features. I cracked my case andI think I see where the serial port would interface to but I haven'tbeen able to Google any hardware hacks for it. When I get a chance,I'll trace the signals on that connector and see if it is the serialport. With my current setup, the DVD changer and the digitial cable receiverfeed into an A/V receiver. The problem is that I don't want to have toswitch the A/V receiver's inputs to select a DVD. I'd like to run theDVD into a PVR-150's SVIDEO input and the digital receiver into anotherSVIDEO input and let MythTV be the A/V receiver. Not only will thisallow me to not have to mess with the feeds but also allows a 2ndfront-end to access the DVD changer, making the DVD changer not a lotdifferent than the video library in MythTV (although only one FE cancontrol it at a time). I was thinking more along the lines of modifying the video database tostore the DVD location (multiple changers also?) and modify MythVideofor the new capability. This is, of course, what I'd like to do, I'mjust not sure how long it will take me to get there :) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv DVD changer integration
This is the original reason I started looking at MythTV. I have a Sony DVP-CX985V 400 disc changer (I've still got my old 200 disc model that I grew out of) and I hate the UI. I wanted a better method of cateloging and finding my DVD's. The higher end Sony 700ES has a serial port that you can use to control it and supposedly, you get instantaneous control, not this stupid thing where when you select a DVD, it plays all the nonsense at the beginning not allowing you to stop it and go to the menu. I was reading another list somewhere where they found that the internals of the 700ES was the same as the 985, in fact they upgraded the 985's firmware with the version that went in the 700ES and got almost all of the 700ES features. I cracked my case and I think I see where the serial port would interface to but I haven't been able to Google any hardware hacks for it. When I get a chance, I'll trace the signals on that connector and see if it is the serial port. With my current setup, the DVD changer and the digitial cable receiver feed into an A/V receiver. The problem is that I don't want to have to switch the A/V receiver's inputs to select a DVD. I'd like to run the DVD into a PVR-150's SVIDEO input and the digital receiver into another SVIDEO input and let MythTV be the A/V receiver. Not only will this allow me to not have to mess with the feeds but also allows a 2nd front-end to access the DVD changer, making the DVD changer not a lot different than the video library in MythTV (although only one FE can control it at a time). I was thinking more along the lines of modifying the video database to store the DVD location (multiple changers also?) and modify MythVideo for the new capability. This is, of course, what I'd like to do, I'm just not sure how long it will take me to get there :) Scott Ben Norling wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am planning to use the video section of mythtv to manage my dvd collection in my 400 disc dvd changer. I also want the myth system to control the dvd changer. Sounds neat; what DVD changer do you have? I've thought about this myself. I have a 400 disc sony dvd changer. What I planned was this: Put text files in the video section of the hard drive on the myth system containing the disc number of the movie. When the movie is selected instead of running mplayer, a program will launch which sends ir codes to the dvd player if it's a DVD movie. I do something similar. For mythvideo and mythdvd I have a small bash script that runs instead of xine/mplayer directly. It looks at the extention of the file it was passed to do different things: play a file in mplayer or xine, play a list of files, play an entire dir. You could easily do something like that and have it do "something" if it sees "some cool movie.changer" for instance. Otherwise it will launch mplayer with the name of the file. I'd also like a program that would intercept IR codes from the remote and translate them and re-send them to the DVD player so I can use the myth remote for the dvd changer. I'm not sure what codes you need to intercept/send: pause/rew/ff/left/right/up/down/select/menu/stop? Those are pretty much the codes I would want to intercept. The goal here being that you use the myth remote to control the dvd player much the same way as you would the movies played from files. All a part of the wife-proofing effort of my system. I'm sure you can do this pretty easily from what I've done with LIRC. My system includes a receiver and blaster and you could hook them together with a shell script or C program. But this brings up another question: where does the video/audio from this thing go? into a video/audio-in in the computer? (not really worth it unless you want to record it; it won't look as good) or directly into the tv and you need to have the tv switch inputs when the changer plays? (sounds more likely; but are you going to IR blast the TV to switch back and forth?) Yes, the blaster would be switching the input on a AV receiver when switching to a DVD movie versus a file movie. When you're done watching the movie, you hit the exit button on the remote (Or whatever) and the ir-blaster stops the dvd player and switches the receiver back to the myth input and exits from the "special" program. The whole goal of all of this is to have as seamless an integration as possible. By the way, what IR blaster are you using? Sounds interesting; I may want to setup the same thing. ___
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: mythtv backend on a headless fileserver
The reason I use VNC is because not every machine in my house is a Linux box. With VNC Client, I can access my Linux desktop from my Windows machines. I know you can use any browser to access a VNC server but the performance is much better with VNC Client. Now for the VNC problem. I'm running the version of VNC that comes with FC3 and here's what you need to do: 1) Enable and start vncserver in Services. 2) Change to the .vnc directory in your mythuser directory. 3) Edit the file xstartup. 4) The last line of the file probably says "twm " which will start the TWM window manager for your VNC session. Change it to "startdke " or "gnome-session " or whatever the start command is for the window manager you want to use and save the file. 5) Go back to Services and restart vncserver. Russ Dill wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:02:30 -0800, Peter Loron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, this is drifting a bit OT, but I'm going to strike while the iron is hot. I've got my backend machine set up and pretty much working, but it is going in the closet so I don't have to listen to it. I need to get VNC working. In the past when I was running FC1, I just did apt-get for TightVNC and I was all set. Starting a VNC server and connecting yielded me my complete KDE/Gnome/WhateverWM desktop. Now that I'm running FC3, TightVNC doesn't seem to be available, and when I connect using the already installed vncserver, all I get is a minimalist TWM environment. How to get a full-on desktop? I'm suspecting I need to edit one or more of the X config files, but I'm clueless. If there's a FAQ for this one, please point me to it. Why do people keep mentioning VNC? Why not just use ssh? If you want a login, just use XDMCP ___ 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] Supported capture cards w/o tuner
One of the things I'd like my MythTV system to do is replace my A/V receiver. Partly because I don't see a need for it anymore and partly to make it easier to distribute video throughout the house. What I think I need for my system: Analog cable - capture card with tuner (PVR-150 or 250) Digital cable (Motorola DCT-2000) - svideo capture card Sony 400-disc player - svideo capture card Spare svideo/composite capture card Since I can see the need for all inputs simultaneously, I need 4 capture cards but I only need 1 to have a tuner. Are there any capture cards without tuners but with MPEG-2 encoders that are supported? I'd hate to have pay extra for tuners that may not be used, although they would allow recording of multiple analog cable channels. Scott ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
