Re: [mythtv-users] Exit and shutdown
On Thursday 15 September 2005 13:06, Jo Shields wrote: You definitely need to fiddle with C for this, as stated in an earlier reply - I made this alteration myself, as well as altering how myth handles quitting (so the power button on the remote quits/shuts down, but the exit button merely goes up by one menu entry) Agreed, the ability to shutdown needs to become an option in the code more generally. I'm going to work on nvram next but it would be good to bez able to do manual turn off already HB -- EZ-Buddie2: http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?MenuID=84LanID=0DetailID=444DetailName=Specification Celeron D @ 2.2GHz XFX FX5200 Personal Cinema Lite-on 16x DVD+-R +-RW ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Opposite focus problem with xine/MythDVD
I'm experiencing the same issue. It mostly seems to work if I use the keyboard to navigate the mythtv menus but xine opens behind mythtv whenever I use my remote for navigation. Any suggestions welcome Simon - I seem to be having the exact opposite focus problem that most have with xine and MythTV. I just installed a DVD player in my Myth box and wanted to use xine instead of mplayer. I changed the launch command, however when I choose Play DVD from Myth it launches xine but the focus remains on Myth. I've tried searching the list and Docs for a solution, but the only issues I seem to come across are the focus problems going back to Myth from xine (which I don't have). I'm using FC1 and KDE and I've tried tinkering around in KDE's Control Center, but no luck. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I've hit a mental dead end. Thanks, Derek -- a href=http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?MenuID=84LanID=0DetailID=444DetailName=Specification;EZ-Buddie2/a Celeron D @ 2.2GHz XFX FX5200 Personal Cinema Lite-on 16x DVD+-R +-RW ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Can I add short-cut keys?
On Sunday 28 August 2005 08:23, David Whyte wrote: They are called jump points. I don't know anything about them, but they are mentioned on this list heaps. Do a search to find out more... Thanks. It looks as though they are set up by mythweb. I don't understand why these are settings for a frontend only and yet mythweb seems only sensible for setting remote backend settings. Anyway, I installed the packages per the documentation but when I surf to the mythweb page nothing comes up. I don't want to become an apache expert just to set a few key bindings. Simon -- a href=http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?MenuID=84LanID=0DetailID=444DetailName=Specification;EZ-Buddie2/a Celeron D @ 2.2GHz XFX FX5200 Personal Cinema Lite-on 16x DVD+-R +-RW ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Can I add short-cut keys?
My remote has a button called DVD. I'd love for that to take me directly either to the optical disks sub-menu or ideally to activate the DVD option on that menu, no matter where I am in the menu structure originally. is that possible? Simon -- a href=http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?MenuID=84LanID=0DetailID=444DetailName=Specification;EZ-Buddie2/a Celeron D @ 2.2GHz XFX FX5200 Personal Cinema Lite-on 16x DVD+-R +-RW ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Can I play a nuv file on a non-myth computer
I have a problem that DVDs and myth recordings have jerky feedback. I'd like to check that the recordings are perfect even if playback is a problem Simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Can I play a nuv file on a non-myth computer
On Thursday 18 August 2005 08:36, Nick wrote: On 8/18/05, Sim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem that DVDs and myth recordings have jerky feedback. I'd like to check that the recordings are perfect even if playback is a problem Assuming the other computer has MPEG2 playback codecs and the nuv file comes from either DVB or was recorded by an ivtv capture card, you should be able to play them (they are essentially MPEG2 files renamed to nuv). If the file was recorded by a non-hardware card, I'm not sure you can (I've never tried with non DVB/ivtv files) unless the other system can play Nuppelvideo files. I simply want to play back recordings made on the computer in the lounge that runs mythtv (backend and frontend). I presumed they were played on that computer by mplayer or some other application but when I simply tried mplayer filename.nuv on the other linux machine that did not work. Hence my question. So the format is whatever mythtv uses when you have a winfast TV 2000 XP deluxe (software encoding I suspect). Simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] xine and mythtv
On Friday 29 July 2005 07:47, Joe Votour wrote: Are you using the new Xv driver for ivtv? If not, then the problem is that the CPU is doing all of the decoding and scaling, and thus, frame drops are expected. Xv, which is common on most video cards, and in experimental state for the PVR-350 offloads the scaling to the video card, which reduces CPU load, and helps prevent the dropped frames. (Note: I used to use a PVR-350 for video output, but now use a GeForce 5200FX. Once the Xv driver for ivtv matures a bit, I might give it a shot). Perhaps what i have been asking for ages about jerky pictures is what is being called dropped frames here. I've been thinking it might be an encoding issue and that I needed a hardware encoder even though I have a celeron 2ghz. But now I realise that I get dropped frames (a tiny pause of much less than a second every 10 - 15 seconds). I'm also seeing 50% CPU usage. I'm trying to out put through an nvidia 5200 (from XFX and with not-working video-in). I have not the faintest idea whether i am using the xv or xvmc or ... driver because I don't know how to check. But I am using a basic Mandrake 10.2 system albeit with a multimedia kernel (which enables real time threads and has helped a little but not enough) and pre-compiled mythtv from thac. What should I check and change in the kernel (hopefully nothing), mythtv (no problem to recompile if i know the flags), the nvidia (or nv) drivers, xine, mplayer, Sim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] xine and mythtv
On Friday 29 July 2005 20:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 06:57:40PM +0200, Sim wrote: Perhaps what i have been asking for ages about jerky pictures is what is being called dropped frames here. I've been thinking it might be an encoding issue and that I needed a hardware encoder even though I have a celeron 2ghz. But now I realise that I get dropped frames (a tiny pause of much less than a second every 10 - 15 seconds). I'm also seeing 50% CPU usage. Are you using the same box for both recording and playback or is it a split system that plays over a LAN? Does your audio pause at the same time? I was having short pauses every 15 seconds or so, and it turned out to be a buffering problem. I did some searching on Google and found out that the on-board network interface on my back-end machine is known to be complete crap, so I stuck in a $5 PCI network card and everything runs perfectly now. No it is a combined front/backend, and the sound does jump at the same time. (I did have problems playing music stored on another computer but various upgrades of software have sorted that out without difficulty.) Simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] TV and mythmusic jerky
Hi, I've read some reports about jerky video, but found few workable answers, but I'm hoping my extra symptoms may prompt suggestions. In addition to jerky live and recorded TV, I also get jerky music from mythmusic. By contrast, KDE TV and Amarok have no difficulties with TV and music respectively. My hardware is * Barebones: EZ-Buddie2 * Graphics: XFX FX5200 Personal Cinema * TV card: Leadtek WinFast 2000XP Deluxe * Processor: Celeron 2.26Ghz * Memory: 256Mb * Hard drive: Maxtor 80Gb * DVD: NEC DVD R/W I'm using a Mandrake 10.2 multimedia kernel and also have added rtc as a preloaded module, so I think i have everything that I could possibly have to improve performance, but the results remain poor. Simon mythfrontend 2005-06-27 20:02:30.599 New DB connection, total: 1 Total desktop width=800, height=600, numscreens=1 2005-06-27 20:02:30.701 Using screen 0, 800x600 at 0,0 2005-06-27 20:02:30.708 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-06-27 20:02:30.708 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2005-06-27 20:02:31.578 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T.) 2005-06-27 20:02:32.228 Joystick disabled. 2005-06-27 20:02:32.253 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-06-27 20:02:32.644 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin. 2005-06-27 20:02:32.815 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media handler 2005-06-27 20:02:32.817 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media handler 2005-06-27 20:02:33.866 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media handler 2005-06-27 20:02:34.334 Mediamonitor: Adding /dev/hdd 2005-06-27 20:02:34.340 Starting media monitor. 2005-06-27 20:02:34.351 Media status changed... New status is: MEDIASTAT_OPEN old status was MEDIASTAT_NOTMOUNTED 2005-06-27 20:02:39.097 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2005-06-27 20:02:39.208 Using protocol version 15 2005-06-27 20:02:42.061 Changing from None to None 2005-06-27 20:02:47.380 All Programs 2005-06-27 20:02:52.690 Using protocol version 15 2005-06-27 20:02:52.845 Disable DPMS 2005-06-27 20:02:53.065 Opening audio device 'default'. 2005-06-27 20:02:53.351 Using XV port 128 2005-06-27 20:02:53.778 Changing from None to WatchingRecording 2005-06-27 20:02:53.805 New DB connection, total: 3 2005-06-27 20:02:53.838 Using realtime priority. 2005-06-27 20:02:54.025 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait 2005-06-27 20:02:54.026 prebuffering pause 2005-06-27 20:02:54.027 WriteAudio: buffer underrun 2005-06-27 20:02:55.908 Changing from WatchingRecording to None 2005-06-27 20:02:56.009 Changing from None to None 2005-06-27 20:02:56.062 Enable DPMS ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with sound
On Friday 17 June 2005 06:31, Scott Simpson wrote: 2. When I exit mythfrontend, it still plays the sound. Is is supposed to turn off the sound on the card or the Line In? Not in my case - the docs talk about leaving line-in (or CD-in for my internallyt conected card) as the record source but muted. Simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Do I need mysql installed
on a computer that will just be a frontend? Or does it only run on the backend? Sim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV display issues
On Sunday 01 May 2005 09:43, Dave Ansell wrote: Install xvattr if necessary. Set the following command to autostart somewhere, depending on your X-window manager: xvattr -a XV_COLORKEY -v 0 Wow - thanks - worked for me with Mandrake 10.2 Sim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Starting mythtv using LIRC?
On Sunday 05 June 2005 08:23, Pete Cable wrote: On 6/4/05, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/4/05, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sim wrote: I use KDE and want to set the TV button my remote to start mythtv. Any ideas how to do this - i've tried using irxevent to pass a ctrl-t (which is the hotkey i setup in kde for mythtv) but that did not work. I use irexec to do this. Here's the relevant section from my .lircrc Thanks everyone - I've got it working rst ever perl script later :-) Simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Starting mythtv using LIRC?
I use KDE and want to set the TV button my remote to start mythtv. Any ideas how to do this - i've tried using irxevent to pass a ctrl-t (which is the hotkey i setup in kde for mythtv) but that did not work. Simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] BUG? Can't select ALSA:device for audio capture.
On Friday 06 May 2005 17:38, karsten wrote: Note: Selection in mythtv-setup. Not the audio output in mythfrontend. In mythtv-setup you can't select or type in ALSA:device for the audio capture. Where exactly do you need to select this - is it in the video-sources section somewhere? (e.g. is it where I choose /dev/dsp) Sim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What is native LIRC?
On Sunday 01 May 2005 18:41, Donavan Stanley wrote: The main advantages would be: 1. Not relying on an external program (irxevent). 2. When using irxevent, I think that only one program, the one with focus can receive the keyboard commands. When using native lirc mode, the keyboard command is directed to the correct application. Except that neither is really a downside since you already have irxevent if you have lirc. Andhow often do you want a keypress to go to something other than the main window? The advantages of NOT using native lirc are: 1. You can use any app that accepts keyboard input without having to worry about it supporting lirc. 2. You can tie scripts to remote keys. I already know that I need to be able to control xine as well as mythtv with the remote if it is to be useful. I gather from Donavan's comments that I can't have normal lirc running to control xine at the same time as mythtv native lirc to control mythtv? To control two apps you either need to hope/ensure that xine and mythtv use the same keys for the same type of activity (which they don't by default)? In addition, I need to find a trick so that my left and right button do left and right in the EPG but increase and decrease volume when watching TV (at least as long as I can find a way to make [ ] have an impact on the volume (capture) whcih they don't at present). Well, i suppose you could call it a challenge! Simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Interrupting DPMS with Lirc
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 20:42, Stuart Morgan wrote: Is it possible through some configuration or hacking to allow a Lirc remote to interrupt DPMS (a opposed to the mouse/keyboard)? If this means so that the remote can reawaken the screen, then I too would be very interested in this. I guess it must use irexec Simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Interrupting DPMS with Lirc
On Saturday 30 April 2005 19:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 19 April 2005 20:42, Stuart Morgan wrote: Is it possible through some configuration or hacking to allow a Lirc remote to interrupt DPMS (a opposed to the mouse/keyboard)? If this means so that the remote can reawaken the screen, then I too would be very interested in this. I guess it must use irexec I use native lirc support and and event does interrupt dpms. I'm not sure about irexec. I've now read a few times about native lirc support but can't find any documentation. What does this mean in practice? Sim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Jerky TV, but mandrake mm-kernel cannot play live TV
I have a fairly successful mythtv setup now. I still need to improve my remote control functionality, but it is pretty much there. But I have one major issue, and that is the jerky live TV (and recordings) and of music. I have a celeron 2.26Ghz with 256K RAM and a modern hard disk etc, and an XFX nvidia 5200 card, which should be enough. I'm using Mandrake 10.2 as I know it better, and FC3 would not boot up with everything running properly so I could not switch to a remote control and I ended up loading modules each time. With the stock 10.2 2.6.11 kernel KDETV and Amorak work fine but with mythtv I get an error message about: Realtime priority would require SUID as root. Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV Video timing method: RTC Needless to say I have SUID mythfrontend so the error message is misleading. I've tried to use the 2.6.10-mm kernel but, although I then avoid the SUID message, live TV fails and I get errors about remote encoders now working. This is true with or without the nvidia drivers. I've even tried recompiling the kernel on my own machine but still it blocks. However, I did get it to play some MP3 and I think I could still hear the little jumps anyway. I don't get these with other applications (although an earlier version of Amarok did give difficulties). The picture jumping is sufficiently disturbing to damage the viewing experience, so I need to address it. But I need some ideas to work on as i am stuck. I'm using /dev/dsp for sound on a KDE machine - i'd love to use the ARTS support i've read about but not found. Simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] What is native LIRC?
I've seen many references to this and note that often it seems to involve no more than linking one's lircrc file to the mythtv directory. So what it is native lirc actually doing; what are the advantages; disadvantages; consequences etc... All of the mythtv documentation seems to skip this rather fundamental point and seems to assume you know the difference to ordinary lirc support, which I sortof have running for my Leadtek TV2000XP Deluxe remote (although I've still got to integrate something to control xine) Sim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] importing old videos
On Tue 01 Mar 2005 06:07, Tony Rein wrote: * Renaming the files with names that reflect the content. * Moving the files into my MythVideo directory. This is probably not exactly what you had in mind -- the recordings show up in the list of videos, and not in the list of recorded programs, but you can watch them. I have a few stranded nuv files from when I rebuilt the database (after messing up a change of hostname...). I can find them now as videos but I can't play them - whay should I do? Simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] 2 EPG entries for channels sharing a frequency
Hi, Many of the channels on my cable subscription are split between two channels - e.g. Nickelodeon and MTV. The ripped program data treats each channel separately even though they by definition never overlap. As a result in the EPG I end up with two rows with one or the other marked as being unknown. As I browse channels I likewise have to switch past the same program twice as it occupies two channel numbers too. Are there any ways to adjust for this in mythtv, or should I be trying to pre-process the grabbed info? Simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Remote encoder not responding. ??????
Hi, I have mythtc running on a stock mandrake 2005 installation and it just about works, except that livetv and playing MPs are both jerky (relpaying video is also jerky but that could be because they are recorded jerky). This kernel does not support real time threads (although the mythtv error message misleadingly refers to SUID issues) So I would like to switch to the multimedia kernel in the contrib section. But when I do I get no live TV at all, or at least no sound and then it crashes after 15 seconds or so. I've pasted all the messages below. I should note that KDE-TV works in both cases and the dmesg results for bttv (leadtek winfast xp2000 deluxe) are the same. What can I do Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mythfrontend 2005-04-22 18:05:53.966 New DB connection, total: 1 Total desktop width=1024, height=768, numscreens=1 2005-04-22 18:05:54.035 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0 2005-04-22 18:05:54.041 mythfrontend version: 0.18.20050409-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-04-22 18:05:54.041 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2005-04-22 18:05:54.712 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T.) 2005-04-22 18:05:55.187 Joystick disabled. mythtv: could not open config file mythtv: No such file or directory Failed to read lirc config /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc for mythtv 2005-04-22 18:05:55.406 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin. 2005-04-22 18:05:55.475 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media handler 2005-04-22 18:05:55.938 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media handler 2005-04-22 18:05:56.671 Mediamonitor: Adding /dev/hdd 2005-04-22 18:05:56.676 Starting media monitor. 2005-04-22 18:05:56.698 Media status changed... New status is: MEDIASTAT_OPEN old status was MEDIASTAT_NOTMOUNTED 2005-04-22 18:05:59.754 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-04-22 18:05:59.788 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2005-04-22 18:05:59.796 Using protocol version 15 2005-04-22 18:05:59.912 Using protocol version 15 2005-04-22 18:06:00.445 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-04-22 18:06:00.446 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-04-22 18:06:00.488 Using XV port 128 2005-04-22 18:06:00.850 Using realtime priority. 2005-04-22 18:06:00.927 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2005-04-22 18:06:00.968 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait 2005-04-22 18:06:01.314 prebuffering pause 2005-04-22 18:06:20.932 ReadStringList timeout (quick). Remote encoder not responding. 2005-04-22 18:06:20.941 WriteStringList: Bad socket 2005-04-22 18:06:20.942 ReadStringList: Bad socket Remote encoder not responding. 2005-04-22 18:06:21.062 WriteStringList: Bad socket 2005-04-22 18:06:21.063 ReadStringList: Bad socket Remote encoder not responding. 2005-04-22 18:06:21.383 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None 2005-04-22 18:06:21.397 Changing from None to None 2005-04-22 07:25:13.356 New DB connection, total: 1 Starting up as the master server. 2005-04-22 07:25:14.057 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-04-22 07:25:14.171 Channel(/dev/v4l/video0)::Open(): Can't open video device, error Permission denied 2005-04-22 07:25:14.175 Channel(/dev/v4l/video0)::Open(): Can't open video device, error Permission denied 2005-04-22 07:25:14.178 ChannelBase: Could not find input: Television on card when setting channel 1 2005-04-22 07:25:14.185 New DB scheduler connection 2005-04-22 07:25:14.205 New DB connection, total: 3 2005-04-22 07:25:14.209 mythbackend version: 0.18.20050409-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-04-22 07:25:14.228 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2005-04-22 07:25:16.212 Reschedule requested for id -1. 2005-04-22 07:25:17.430 Scheduled 4 items in 1.2 = 0.99 match + 0.22 place 2005-04-22 07:25:17.485 Seem to be woken up by USER 2005-04-22 07:26:37.106 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-04-22 07:26:37.109 adding: localhost as a client (events: 0) 2005-04-22 07:26:37.240 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-04-22 07:26:37.242 adding: localhost as a client (events: 1) 2005-04-22 07:26:37.250 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-04-22 07:26:37.252 adding: localhost as a client (events: 0) 2005-04-22 07:26:37.310 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-04-22 07:26:37.312 adding: localhost as a client (events: 0) 2005-04-22 07:26:37.319 adding: localhost as a remote ringbuffer 2005-04-22 07:26:37.331 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV VIDIOCGCHAN: Invalid argument strange error flushing buffer ... 2005-04-22 07:26:53.714 joined null string in WriteStringList 2005-04-22 07:27:15.750 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None 2005-04-22 18:02:04.261 New DB connection, total: 1 Starting up as the master server. 2005-04-22 18:02:04.481 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-04-22 18:02:04.578 Channel(/dev/v4l/video0)::Open(): Can't open video device, error Permission denied 2005-04-22 18:02:04.595 Channel(/dev/v4l/video0)::Open(): Can't open video device, error Permission denied 2005-04-22 18:02:04.598 ChannelBase: Could not find input: Television on card when setting channel 1 2005-04-22
Re: [mythtv-users] Myth - nvidia - kernel woes
On Sun 17 Apr 2005 17:34, Will Dormann wrote: When I run this, it generates and installs new kernel modules for nvidia card. This leads the system to hard lock every time Im in myth and go to the watch recordings screen. Not a very useful myth box at the moment. Try changing the nvidia RenderAccel option to false in your /etc/X11/config file. I tried this and it seemed to work once, but has thereafter been no better. I get video, without sound, but after 15 seconds or so it stops and the error message seems to be remote encoder not present. Everything works with the nv driver but I need nvidia to get TV-out Any other suggestions? Sim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Volume setting has no effect
On Sunday 30 Jan 2005 18:16, Didde Brockman wrote: I'm _this_ close to having completed my system. Remote et al are now perfectly setup, but one (tiny) problem remains. When in MythTV watching live TV, changing the volume does nothing. Absolutely nothing. I have something similar with a Leadtek Win2000 Deluxe. The sound comes off the TV-card inside the computer and is connected via the audio cable that would normally plug into the CD to the motherboard. So when I use KDETV I have to use the CD mixer in KMix to change the volume. Within mythtv [ and ] do not work although turning the volume down to zero or m (mute) do work. A related issue is that KsCD does not work because it seems to expect the sound to come over the internal cable . Fortunately other apps don't seem to be so fussy - e.g. kaffeine Any advice would be great Simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Split channels
Hi, are there any suggestions on how to deal with split channels - many of the channels on my cable subscription are split between two channels - e.g. Nickelodeon and MTV. The program data is delivered per channel and then uses up two rows in the EPG with one always being unknown. That's a bit inefficient Sim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Where can i find libqt-mysql???
Where can i find the source code to compile or an rpm for Mandrake 10.2 - normally thac provides this in his packages, but he has not done any for 10.2 yet. Sim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MSI NVidia Personal Cinema FX5200
On Tuesday 22 Mar 2005 07:31, Craig Thomas wrote: I have recently purchased a MSI NVidia Personal Cinema FX5200-VT128 card, and I am hoping to use it with MythTV. I have seen a couple posts about the card, but I am slightly confused. The one post lists drivers for the card using the saa7134 chipset drivers (http://linux.bytesex.org/v4l2/drivers.html). Are these the drivers for both the card and the capture? I am going through the RedHat FC3 HOWTO at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/, and I follow it fine until I get to the Get and Install Capture Card Drivers. All he talks about is bttv and ivtv. What do I need to do at this step? Is my card based on one of those, or is the saa7134 driver the capture driver. If it is, how do I install it. Sorry, but you've wasted your money. For a personal cinema card you would need the rivatv project (rivatv.sf.net), but these do not support the new personal cinema cards and may not do for some time - you can read more of the technical difficulties in the mailing lists and on http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14 Feel free to join the line of people that are not happy about nVidia's non-support of their TV cards, but they've already got your money Sim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] soundblaster sound sync
On Friday 18 Feb 2005 23:56, Brad wrote: Leadtek winfast 2000 XP and soundblaster live. I have routed sound from tvcard to SB live via the internal audio cable. Sound is always there and out of sync by a couple of seconds I have something similar with a Leadtek winfast 2000 XP Deluxe and an on-motherboard Intel sound card, but for me the sync problem is less a second. I know I have seen something about 2 second sync problems somewhere on a website - it has something to do with buffering, but my sync problem seems to be for shorter period and I can't fibd any solution Simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] EPG data not loading from xml file
Hi, I'm trying fill the daatbase from an XML file downloaded from a Belgian website, but it is not working. My channels file reads: drop table channel; CREATE TABLE channel ( chanid int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0', channum varchar(5) NOT NULL default '', freqid varchar(5) NOT NULL default '', sourceid int(10) unsigned default NULL, callsign varchar(20) default NULL, name varchar(20) default NULL, icon varchar(255) default NULL, finetune int(11) default NULL, videofilters varchar(255) default NULL, xmltvid varchar(64) default NULL, recpriority int(10) NOT NULL default '0', contrast int(11) default '32768', brightness int(11) default '32768', colour int(11) default '32768', hue int(11) default '32768', tvformat varchar(10) NOT NULL default 'Default', commfree tinyint(4) NOT NULL default '0', visible tinyint(1) NOT NULL default '1', PRIMARY KEY (chanid) ) TYPE=MyISAM; INSERT INTO channel VALUES (1002,'2','SE14',1,'BBC2','bbc2','/home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels/BBC2.gif',0,'','bbc2',0,28000,3,31000,30500,'Default',0,1); INSERT INTO channel VALUES (1003,'3','SE8',1,'MTV','mtv','/home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels/MTV.gif',0,'','mtv',0,28000,3,31000,30500,'Default',0,1); INSERT INTO channel VALUES (1004,'4','E10',1,'TV1','tv1','/home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels/TV1.gif',0,'','tv1',0,28000,3,31000,30500,'Default',0,1); INSERT INTO channel VALUES (1005,'5','SE10',1,'CANVAS','canvas','/home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels/canvas.gif',0,'','canvas',0,28000,3,31000,30500,'Default',0,1); [...] I do mysql -u root -p mythconverg channels.sql And my program info comes in the form: channel id=raiuno icon src=http://www.teveblad.be/gfx/logos/RAIUNO.gif; /icon display-nameraiuno/display-name /channel programme start=200503110900 +0100 stop=200503111530 +0100 channel=canvas titleLentebeelden/title /programme Then I do $ mythfilldatabase --file 1 -1 nerdhero/guide.xml 2 /dev/null ### bypassing grabbers, reading directly from file Updating icons for sourceid: 1 Adjusting program database end times... 0 replacements made. Marking repeats...found 0 Unmarking repeats from grabber that fall within our new episode window...found 0 2005-03-13 21:55:09.655 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2005-03-13 21:55:09.663 Using protocol version 14 I wonder about the reference to channel=canvas but simply know nothing about sql Hoping someone can help Sim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Nooby with serious problems
On Tuesday 08 Mar 2005 22:50, Sim wrote: I have an EZ-Buddie2 SFF computer with an XFX 5200 personal cinema card (the tuner is not supported by rivatv yet so I do not use it) (there is also onboard graphihcs but disbled in bios) and a Leadtek Winfast TV 2000 XP Deluxe. This is all connected to an oldish 17 monitor. xawtv and tvtime both work fine, and lspci -v is pasted below. My XF86Config has settings in for TV-out but I don't use them, but anyway the impression is that the screen is black rather than off - sometimes the first few key presses (e.g. numlock on/off) are respected but no other resopnse is shown and even that does not happen each time. I seem to be able to ssh in, but have not found the right process to kill and I can't even use that to reboot - so I'm left with the reset button. Turned out to be a kernel problem - I upgraded to a multimedia kernel from thac and then it worked OK. Now I'll work on the database issue Sim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Nooby with serious problems
On Sunday 06 Mar 2005 22:21, Robert Denier wrote: First off you need to determine just what is crashing. I'd ignore the guide issue until you fixed that one, unless perhaps your attempts to figure out the guide have introduced the problem..? Can you run a backend on one machine and a frontend on another? The backend may have to run as root, because of the video capture, although I haven't tried it as a user. The frontend should, in general, be run as a normal user, and if it runs on a separate machine it should not be able to crash the machine that way. If it does you likely have hardware problems. (The program may crash of course.) I suggest giving a detailed hardware list of what your running on as well as your distribution of linux. Running memtest86 to check for memory errors never hurts as well. Also run 'lspci -v' from root and see what you get. Sometimes cards that share irq's do not get along well and moving them to a different slot can help, but only sometimes. At any rate there really isn't enough info to solve your crashing problem here I don't think. I have an EZ-Buddie2 SFF computer with an XFX 5200 personal cinema card (the tuner is not supported by rivatv yet so I do not use it) (there is also onboard graphihcs but disbled in bios) and a Leadtek Winfast TV 2000 XP Deluxe. This is all connected to an oldish 17 monitor. xawtv and tvtime both work fine, and lspci -v is pasted below. My XF86Config has settings in for TV-out but I don't use them, but anyway the impression is that the screen is black rather than off - sometimes the first few key presses (e.g. numlock on/off) are respected but no other resopnse is shown and even that does not happen each time. I seem to be able to ssh in, but have not found the right process to kill and I can't even use that to reboot - so I'm left with the reset button. I had a go at trying to run mythfrontend over the network at home but it could not find the database - do I need to setup some server parameters to deliver in this way? I'm using mythtv 0.17 and have never tried any other version. Let me know if there are other diagnositcs i can run. All help welcome. Simon 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02) Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 1876 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Memory at e000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Capabilities: [e4] #09 [0106] Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 3.0 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, fast devsel, latency 64 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32 Memory behind bridge: f000-f1ff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e800-efff 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 1876 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5 I/O ports at bc00 [size=32] 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 1876 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 I/O ports at b000 [size=32] 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 1876 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 I/O ports at b400 [size=32] 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 1876 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5 I/O ports at b800 [size=32] 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 1876 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 9 Memory at f410 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=32 I/O behind bridge: a000-afff Memory behind bridge: f200-f3ff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f400-f40f 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Bridge (rev 02) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) Ultra ATA 100 Storage Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems:
[mythtv-users] Setup in unsupported countries?
Hi I live in Belgium, which is not one of the countries listed in mythtvsetup. However, there are websites that offer a sql script for the channels, their logos, and with XML rips of tv listings and cron files etc The trouble is I can't really work out what order to do it all in, and what it is safe to leave. For example in mythtvsetup I setup a cable video source but as there is no option not to have a country then I leave it on US and don't fill in anything else. Secondly, I have info about the channels being used, but the names don't match what xawtv users. What is supposed to SE8 becomes SE9, and more generally the order is rather different (blocks of channels are in order and then it goes off and does another block). I'm going to need to edit the channels.sql file but I don't know which codes to use - those with M*, H*, ... or those that xawtv uses (and then do I use the xawtv numbers or those in the literature from my cable company). Can anyone help me step-by-step through this - I'll write it all up afterwards to help followers Sim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Removing Channels from Guide
On Wednesday 23 Feb 2005 05:01, Phill Edwards wrote: I had a couple of channels that I removed from my zap2it info, and when I ran mythfilldatabase they didn't remove from my on screen guide. Is this not the right way to do that? Is there some other command I need to run to get them removed? One way to delete a channel is to do it from mythweb. I'm still setting up my myth system and chose the dutch channels first time around to see what happened. In practic, i live in Belgium and need to do some custom tweaking to load an entirely different database. So I need to delete more or less everything. Is there directory i can just delete instead? Simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Newbie: FC3 - MythTVsetup GUI issue.
On Wednesday 29 Dec 2004 21:23, Clive at Rational wrote: Aha Mythfrontend - of course a different set of setup menus :) I tried various settings of gui and screen, particularly 640x 480 which managed to change the display resolution - so I was changing something relevant, however, whatever values I put in, the buttons are either fully visible, 30% visible, 0% visible (although there and selectable) across various screens. So the problem remains. It may be small consolation to know that I have the same problem. never tried MythTV before so this is a bit of showstopper at present as I can't really see what is happening (the mouse is not very easy o use either) Sim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Where are xine and ogle for Jarod followers
These two programs seem essential to get a DVD to work, but if you follow Jarod's instructions they don't seem to become available. I should add that I took the less adventurous route here: The adventurous people out there might want to enable at-testing and install medley-package-config to get the old default sources.list that has a myriad of repositories pre-configured. The less-adventurous can skip on down to the next section. The link for synaptic is also now incorrect but easily correctable. Sim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] shuttle + 2nd video card
On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 17:49, Simon Kenyon wrote: On Saturday 08 January 2005 15:19, Sim wrote: On Friday 07 Jan 2005 11:53, spok wrote: 1. With only 1 AGP and 1 PCI slots can I still get 2 video capture (or tuner) cards and do picture in picture? The answer is yes, and I've started documenting some of the options for SFF PVRs on my web page: http://users.pandora.be/sim/linux/pvr.html you say on the web site that the tv-out on the hauppauge pvr350 does not run X that is not true Thanks - corrections made. I read about framebuffer issues a few weeks ago but must have mis-understood. Simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] shuttle + 2nd video card
On Friday 07 Jan 2005 11:53, spok wrote: 1. With only 1 AGP and 1 PCI slots can I still get 2 video capture (or tuner) cards and do picture in picture? The answer is yes, and I've started documenting some of the options for SFF PVRs on my web page: http://users.pandora.be/sim/linux/pvr.html Sim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nVidia Personal Cinema
I think this is the sort of card I need as I hope to build an SFF. There seem to be TV cards built into MX440 cards and into FX5200 cards. I think the former are more expensive, but don't really understand the difference and which is enough for a computer that will only be used for a PVR office work. I think that the Asus 9520 HT looks interesting, but don't understand why they put some smart cooling technology in the video-suite version but not in the home theatre (http://uk.asus.com/products/vga/v9520vs/overview.htm). After all the latter is bound to be used in the living room and hence be sound sensitive. Simon On Friday 24 Dec 2004 02:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope, I mean encoding. The nvidia personal cinema is nvidia's answer to ati's all in wonder series. Hasn't been around long (compared to the aiw) AND isn't really plastered all over the place in ads and such. But compared to the AIW series, the Personal Cinemas have pretty good Linux support. Lots more info can be found at http://rivatv.sf.net. For those with a shuttle or other sff pc, having a Personal Cinema is a good idea in conjunction with a pci tv capture card. This way, you can have at least 2 tuners. -bborie I believe you mean de-coding I'm not familar with the nvidia personal cinema. Is it a capture card? On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 09:43:03 -0800, DustyMugs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I don't believe that the MX440 versions do hardware encoding of any sort. That was the primary reason i didn't purchase one. I think the newer chips, like the FX series, DOES have MPEG2 hardware encoding. -bborie Bill Sutton wrote: Hello List. Does the nVidia Personal Cinema (apparently a nVIDIA GeForce4 MX440-8X chipset) provide any hardware encoding? Will it work well for recording in a somewhat low horsepower PC (900 Mhz AMD Atholon)? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Need graphics+Tuner recommendations
I'm trying to work out what integrated graphics + tuner card to buy for a system I'm trying to set up with a small form factor. I need a tuner on an AGP card so that I can use the PCI slot for a second tuner. I also want to get DVI output for my LCD screen. I've put full details of what I've learned (from scratch) on http://users.pandora.be/sim/linux/pvr.html but getting the right video card (and then finding it online in Belgium) is where I am not sure. I don't think I need much graphics power - Myth will be the only application running. I know the PVR350 has TV-out but it sounds tought to get configured, so I was erring towards a nVidia solution, as they have generally been good to Linux. But FX, MX, GFroce 2 or 4, ... leave me confused. ATI-based products also seem widely available online, but are these even supported by Linux? Sim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Do I need TV-out with a DVI TV
I understand that you can connect a VGA computer output to the DVI input of a TV. The connection is analogue, but I think TV-out (s-video) is too, so is there any difference in quality? What about composite, that some video cards also support? DVI only seems to be supported on higher-end video cards and I want to build a system based on a barebones and just rely on the onboard video.. Sim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: What happens when my cable company switches to digital?
On Tuesday 21 Dec 2004 12:23, belcampo wrote: In Holland we face the same things. Today I ordered 2 DVB-C cards with CI-modules which will do the same as 2 analogue tuners do at this moment. Haven't tried yet but are confident to get things going. I guess you are talking about this sort of thing: http://213.221.87.83/pages/products/data_nexus-ca.html ? This looks to be the way to go to be future proof but they sure cost a lot more than the PVR150s Does anyone know if Telenet are going to be using DVB-C for their digital - I know they plan to use MHP for the interactivity and MHP is a DVB standard. Is there anything else in the STB other than a DVB-C decoder - do I need one if i get the right sort of PC card. Note that they have not launched their service yet, but I suspect that Dutch experience will be relevant to my predicament Sim ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] What happens when my cable company switches to digital?
Next summer my cable company are going to switch on the digital TV and then i will need to use a STB to access the new channels. As I understand it with analogue, if I have two tuner cards i can watch and record two channels at once. But if I have a STB does that produce only one channel so that having two tuners becomes meaningless (unless I get two digital decoders - which would just make everything very messy). I know you can't tell me exactly what the Belgians will get, but what is the experience of those that already use STBs to get their cable (i think that includes most Americans?) Simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV noob
On Sunday 19 Dec 2004 12:36, William wrote: I dont have a 350 but I know the 250 does not do passthru. I doubt the 350 does either. You would have to use a rf splitter ahead of the capture card and then feed a differeent input on the tv with the split signal. This would cause you to lose the ability to pause live tv and make switching between tv and myth a more complicated situation than needed. (Read, low wife acceptance factor) I would go with a 250 and 350 as my pair of cap cards if you really want to use the 350 for output. I think they finally have the 350 out stabilized to the point that its useful. The 350 is not up to the task of playing fast games if you have any thoughts of going that route. If you are not in a huge hurry you might also want to think about waiting for the 150 support to stabilize. They are quite a bit cheaper than the 250's. OK - I understand now, and can see why people are getting excited about 150 supoprt - it would save money when you need two of them. But that prompts another question - how I do split the cable coax connection between two tuner cards - is that another rf splitter, which is not a term that I understand but my borther will? I feel as though I have not read about any of these issues on the documentation pages, which may be my opportunity to contribute in due course Sim ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV noob
On Friday 17 Dec 2004 23:01, TJ Hunter wrote: I'm thinking about getting two Hauppauge PVR-250 capture cards so that I can record (or watch) more than one channel at a time. I also need another card that has video-out, correct? What card would you all recommend for this? Do you really need two PVT-250s to watch and record at the same time - surely your TV will have a tuner as well? My newby question is therefore whether if I plug the coax cable connection into a P350 (the solution I will likely be taking), does it pass a clean feed through to the TV. If not, what sort of wiring tricks do I need to do to make sure that my TV tuner is not shunted into obscurity? Simon ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
