[mythtv-users] Force Xv output in mythfrontend?
I've just set up a new combined front/backend (gentoo, x86 on an AMD 3500 with an nVidia graphics card via display on a CRT monitor), but the frontend seems to default to OpenGL output for video, rather than use Xv as I'd prefer (TTBOMK OGL sync is best suited for TV output, which'll be for the next frontend I do). It seems to be causing problems in deinterlacing the DVB streams no matter what deint option I use. Is there any way to force mythfrontend to output in Xv? If I compile without opengl, will I lose any functionality elsewhere in Myth (like MythMusic visualisations)? I did try googling and searching the archives, but couldn't find anything definite (esp. as it's difficult not to pull up everything about XvMC!). Thanks for any assistance S Tait ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] - Ebaying Knoppmyth
At 20:35 04/02/2005, you wrote: I came across this while browsing ebay today: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7131344272 Is this just in bad taste, or is it against the GPL to sell copies of the software? -- Travis ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users It's entirely allowed under the GPL, under the provision that you make the source code available to the purchasee. Selling CD's of such software is common to those without the benefit of high-speed internet, and you'll often see copies of the OpenCD and the like going for a few $ a pop. Although nabbing other peoples bandwidth is a bit mean... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] mythcommflag and gentoo lockups
Anyone else been getting 'orrible problems with this? For ages I was stuck on a 2.4.25 kernel, because the gentoo sources after that caused mythcommflag to hard lock my machine. I've recently upgraded to 2.6.10 and a new(er) IVTV version and the problem has returned - although now instead of hard locking, it just crashes mythbackend (which, for some reason, refuses to restart properly, requiring a reboot - but at least I can do that via SSH). All the usual logs (dmesg, /var/log/messages and mythbackend.log) don't report anything untoward and I'm at a bit of a loss to understand what's going on. For now I've just disabled commflagging on all of the advert channels. Firstly, has anyone else experienced this? There are a few mentions of it in the archive, but nothing concrete, such as this one: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/62098?search_string=commercial%20flag%20crash;#62098 Are you using gentoo-dev-sources as well? Conversely, anyone else not using gentoo or an alternate kernel source and experiencing the same thing? And does anyone else have any idea what could be causing the crashes/lockup? Might relaxing my CFLAGS (-03 -pipe) flags for Myth help? Cheers for any more info! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Universal remote recommendations...?
At 12:56 26/01/2005 +, you wrote: I'm using the Sky Navigator with built-in keyboard and it works very well. It's quite useful to bind some of the less known features (restart script etc.) to buttons on the built-in keyboard rather than them being visible all the time. I've yet to get all the keys firing and do away with the proper keyboard, but that's the intention. Note, if you've not bought one yet, I don't think they work with the Hauppauge receiver of non homebrew types like irman. Let me know if you want my lirc configs. Dan Thanks for the offer, but I've just discovered a post in the deepest darkest recesses of google that the Sky+ remotes transmit using the RC6 protocol, whereas the Hauppauge cards receive using the RC5 protocol, and are thus incompatible :( As you suggest, they'll only work with a homebrew or commercial RC6 receiver, which is a bit of a PITA TBH. When I figure out how to shoehorn building one, I might take you up on the offer ;) In the meantime I've pilfered myself the crumb-ridden half-broken remote from the front room and have been rejigging that... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb Error
At 04:33 26/01/2005 -0500, you wrote: So...I know im some kinda idiot, just not sure which kind. I just cannot get any tbn to show up in MythWeb when I go to the Recorded Programs page. I get the following *Warning* at /var/www/html/includes/mythbackend.php, line 269: copy(image_cache/1007_2005012522_2005012523.nuv.png): failed to open stream: Permission denied Ive searched thru the mailing list and made sure that any errors others have had with this arent what Im getting. Ive made sure that apache/apache is the one running the web server. Ive made a symlink in the www/html dir to the dir that holds my recorded shows, but still no go. Anyone have any tips, hints, or old posts that I missed that would be helpful? Remember apache will need write access to the *true* path the images live in. So if the symlink goes /var/www/mythweb/tvstore -> /mnt/tv you'll need to ensure it has write permissions to /mnt/tv as well as to the symlink. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] [OT] Universal remote recommendations...?
Gah! Well, I've finally had it with trying to configure my Philips SBC RU 865. It seems it's impossible to get *all* of the buttons working at the same time in any way, shape or form which makes it entirely useless for MythTV usage without continually switching in between different modes. Shame really, as this glaring error excepted it's an utterly stellar remote. If it's in TV mode, the pause, play, ff, rew etc. buttons are disabled... if it's in VCR mode the volume and mute buttons are disabled. Argh on a stick. So, I'm in the market for a new remote to use with my PVR-250 and was wondering what opinions people here might offer. Firstly, I'm UK based, which probably cuts down an awful lot of stuff from the off (bah) and I don't really want to pay £120 for a remote, much to the annoyance of the short-back-and-smarm sales rep I clashed with on Tottenham Court Road yesterday, and nor did I want to buy a PVR setup (sigh). I knew walking into the Sony Centre was a bad idea... Most promising so far (in that it's not butt ugly and doesn't cost a fortune) is the Sky+ remote as resold by Argos in this example http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=3151&productId=122374&clickfrom=name I think there may be another version of this same remote floating about with a flip-top keypad somewhere, but that's not much of an issue for me. I couldn't find an lircd.conf for it over at lirc.org, but that's probably due to the manufacturer not being Sky, which is just as well as I'm loathe to give Rupert Murdoch any more money... ;) Since it was designed for PVR's, I'd imagine it would fit the bill nicely, and is probably the nicest looking remote I've seen recently. Any Myth users out there using this thing successfully? Care to comment? In terms of people I don't want to buy things from, Sony are right up there with Rupert Murdoch, but I've been told they make some good remotes. The selection I saw yesterday was far from inspiring (style over substance - lots of fiddly little buttons), but I know there's a few users on here who swear by Sony remotes. Other than the fact I want all the buttons to work *all the time*, separate ff/rew and left/right buttons and it doesn't look like the back end of a bus, that's pretty much all the criteria I have. I'm not averse to rolling my own lirc.conf's if need be, but I'm just looking for stuff that definitely works (with PVR-250's and Nova-T's) and people are happy with. Thanks for any suggestions! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Which Window Manager?
At 20:18 19/01/2005, you wrote: Now that we've had a nice long thread discussing distributions, let's talk about window managers. KDE and Gnome sould like *way* too much overhead for a Myth frontend. Anyone using other window managers? Lots of people here using stuff like Fluxbox and other *boxes, EvilWM, RatPoison... all of them are pretty lightweight and require the bare minimum of external libraries, if any. None of my Myth boxes have Gnome or KDE installed, and Qt is pretty much the only GUI library I have. XFCE is quite popular for people who want a lightweight WM/DE but still want a fairly good desktop for non-Myth usage; for a dedicated box, it's overkill. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb on Different WebServer? HELP!
At 22:28 13/12/2004 -0500, you wrote: Okay I have gotten a little bit farther. Although I cannot see where this is, I have checked my httpd.conf for a mysql module but I havent seen anything of the type installed on my backend or my debian box when I goto http://debian/mythweb/ I get this error now Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in /var/www/mythweb/includes/init.php on line 62 is there another apache or php module I am missing? apt-get install php4-mysql...? IIRC, just install php4 and mysql-server doesn't install the apache module to link the two (I'm only used to stable, but I imagine testing and unstable would be very similar). The postinst process should go through your apache files and ask you if you want the MySQL modules to be loaded along with apache. You might also want to apt-get install phpmyadmin. Nice web-based MySQL configurator that's sometimes nice to touch up metadata, and it should also bring down php4-mysql as a dependency. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Video sources not listed in mythtvsetup
At 22:37 13/12/2004 +0100, you wrote: I want to be able to use tv_grab_no - which is found in /usr/bin/tv_grab_no. It seems to configure fine with "tv_grab_no --configure" - but I can't select it in mythtvsetup. How can I remedy this ? Thanks in advance Sigurd Create a symlink from one of the sources that Myth does list to the tv grabber you use; ie; cd /usr/bin rm tv_grab_somewhere ln -s tv_grab_no tv_grab_somewhere Then myth will think it's using tv_grab_somewhere, but it'll actually be pointing at tv_grab_no ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DVB in the UK (EPG)
At 19:44 12/12/2004 +, you wrote: On Sunday 12 Dec 2004 18:33, Tom Hughes wrote: > > > > I don't think the visionplus one comes with a remote control. The remote > > with the nova-t is pretty good and works well with MythTV. It'd be worth > > the extra for that. > > I have other plans for a remote. Aside from anything else I want to > mount the receiver internally if I can. > I use a Sky+ remote with my mythbox. Works like a charm and includes a full size keyboard under the flap. An almost perfect design for a PVR. :-) Oooh, tasty! Does anyone know if they sell "spares"? Does it operate through LIRC, or some kinda PS/2 adapter you made from sticky backed plastic...? Edit: I've found a site selling what purports to be one http://www.thedigiboxshop.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=18, but I can't see a keyboard anywhere... ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: RAID5 ATA IDE hardware card recommendations for mythbackend machine
At 11:53 11/12/2004 +0100, you wrote: Brad Templeton wrote: Why would you want to do RAID for a backup machine? Assuming we are talking disks full of backups, you already have 2 copies of that data, so you are not in trouble if a drive fails, you just put up a new one and backup the original data again. RAID is for systems that need to be always up, that dare not be taken down to replace a drive etc. That's not true of backup servers. Partially true. I run a mirror set on some of my backup drives. Reason: I keep incremental backups (in diff form) for half a year. Doing that on a mirror pair takes care i do not lose my changes made during the past half year in case 1 disk dies. Cheers, Rudy Partially true here too. I have a server with just over a terabyte of RAID1 on a 3ware, which serves files to the two LANs we have here. It also serves as a backup to my workstation, which has about 500GB of space on it - important stuff (profiles, music, movies) are rsynced over every night. TV data for the last week is kept on the server (so that if a hard drive dies I can still watch stuff), but I don't keep a permanent archive of my TV stuff. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 250 problems
At 13:09 10/12/2004 -0500, you wrote: So...my observations are that my video card and the pvr 250 seem to have the same IRQ # and the ivtv Error -6 on initialization message. Does anyone know why I'm getting this? What is "bus mastering" and how do I "enable it"? I've seen some other post that mention the PnP settings in the BIOS. I'm not sure what my settings are right now (I'm at work), but what should they be? Should PnP OS be "yes" or "no"? Any one have any other ideas? Noel Switching the PVR-250 to another PCI slot usually solves this; most mobo manuals will tell you which PCI slots share IRQ's with each other and with onboard devices. Ideally, both your GFX card and the PVR require an IRQ each so that they can be bus masters. Devices like USB controllers and sound cards don't thrash the bus so much and are happy sharing IRQ's with each other. Failing that, you can manually assign IRQ's to devices in the BIOS. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythvideo - tvtomb
At 12:00 09/12/2004, you wrote: Ryszard wrote: Is there a utility out there that will grab series info from tv tomb and stick it in the myth database? if not, is this a utility that many people would use? I record a lot of series that i archive off host (but available to myth on a mounted FS) in a filename format something like the.west.wing.s06e07.hdtv. i think it would bepretty simple to write a paser to get this and grab some info from tvtomb on each EP. If such a util exists could someone point me to it? if it doesnt i will certainly write it for me anyways, but will publish it if people would use it. I'm guessing you're talking about tvtome.com and not tvtomb.com. I have no idea if anything like this exists yet, but I'd certainly be interested in having a play with it if you create something. One thing that's a consideration though, is there is quite a bit of text info about each episode. It might be too much to display all of it (at least for some episodes) on a TV screen through mythfrontend. But it "should" be fairly simple to link it into mythweb. Take a look at http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-633/epid-24890/ and you'll see what I mean about the amount of text. Is there a wishlist around for the next version of MythTV? Maybe a scrollable text area for episode info could be created. Craig... I'm definitely interested in a scraper for TVTome, and have even contemplated learning PERL/taking the IMDB scraper to bits to figure out how to do it - alas, have had very little spare time recently what with moving house an' all. However, I don't really envisage it as something I'd use within MythTV proper (if that's what you were getting at) - my xmltv feed (radio times) already gives me adequate information about what's showing, and hundreds of Myth users bombarding the TVT website every day would make them wise up pretty sharpish. I do however have about 400 episodes of various TV shows from my DVD rips sitting in my mythvideo repository (another box set of Futurama rendering away as we speak), and filling in the metadata by hand was such a chore that I gave up. As an aside, what do you reckon would be the best approach for the "poster" window? I know that MythVideo expects the image to be at a certain aspect ratio; should it just grab a generic $TV_SHOW_LOGO from somewhere, or render a semi-random frame from within the file itself...? ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] Mailing Lists...
At 08:35 06/01/2005 -0700, you wrote: Most forums remember your passwords. As do mail clients... Most forums are as easy or even easier to read than threaded mode in Thunderbird (threads are not occasionaly broken). KMail can go through thirty different threads in a matter of seconds if you skim read. Web-based forums are appallingly slow to time-famine people like me; there are two I post on regularly, and looking after those is a full time job. Lists are coped with fairly automagically by my mail clients (even though I'm stuck with the mailing-list-unfriendly Eudora at work). Many inportant forums have been around for over 7 years. How much of that information is worth anything is a question to many. How many "I can't get sound threads" do we need! So... forums never get multiple identical threads, eh? Some people never use search in forums, and they never use the search on mailing lists. They can't be bothered to think. It's endemic. Another thing. Why do people respond "that is in the FAQ" instead of saying "that is already covered in the faq but here is the answer"? It takes about the same amount of time for you to answer (especially if you already know the answer) Don't waste my bandwidth same goes for "can't wait to see your patch" It makes you look like elitist snobs. And I believe you are not. You are trying to help. If people would learn to help themselves it would all be better. Well, yes. But if people gave a fully verbose (and identical) reply to every inane question that was asked, or said "I'll be painting the shed and watering the cat all next week, so someone else will have to code it, and besides FFT's are against my religion", they would a) consume alot more of your bandwidth and b) spend half their days cutting and pasting segments of the install guides. By telling people to read the FAQ or apply some of their CPP skills they *are* telling people to learn to help themselves, and by extension, others. I hate hearing email lists are easier for me. Because for me they are not easier they are a pain in the butt! Don't use it then...! The "for me" excuse doesn't cut it. Which kinda nullifies that whole argument, right...? "Person XYZ likes mailing lists. I don't. Therefore I am right!" ---now that I got that off my shoulders if gossamer threads did allow login and posting that would solve all of our problems. That would be the better for everybody solution. You can have your email and we can have forum! It would solve *your* problems. Most of us are very happy with mailing lists and much prefer them to forums. You'd miss out on the "I can't get sound" mails, and we'd miss out on the "I can't get sound" threads. There are plenty of people who like to be able to view and post messages whilst offline. There's nothing to stop you setting up your own forums, or using one of the many pre-existing PVR forums about MythTV. P.S. your computer/mail server date is horribly wrong - it's not 2005 yet! ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Epia, MythTV, and a pile of confusion
At 22:37 03/12/2004, you wrote: Jarod, Thanks for the help all this way. I think I am getting it figured out. I am a Gentoo man so I just can't let myself go back to using RH. It looks like this ebuild for xorg contains the libXvMC stuff that I need for the hardware decoding and also the unichrome drivers. It doesn't say if they are the 3d drivers or not but if they aren't I won't cry about it. I think the gentoo folks sometimes roll alot of patches from CVS into their ebuild tarballs, so I wouldn't be surprised if unichrome had made it into the "production" ebuild, although there's nothing about it in the changelog. What window manager would you recommend I use. Part of the reason I want to redo this machine is because KDE was a beast for this machine. KDE is especially a beast on gentoo, what with the usual 9 month compile time ;) I'm very happy with fluxbox, which is small, lightweight and very extensible, and if Myth is all you need it will suit you admirably. If you're willing to be more adventurous, there's even lighter weight WM's out there like ratpoison. Then you can take all the junky stuff like KDE out of your USE flags and save yourself a boatload of compiling. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: rsync, or is there a better option?
At 19:58 03/12/2004, you wrote: James Pifer wrote: Since my myth box has crashed a few times, including power loss and hard lockups, I want to backup my recordings, videos, etc so I don't lose anything the next time. So I picked up a couple large hard drives and have another linux box (FC3) ready to be a network storage device. I already backup important files, such as mysql dump, so I'm just talking the large video files here. What's the best way to get all my recordings, videos, mucis, etc sent over to this box every so often, maybe once a day. I'm thinking copy anything new or changed, and remove anything deleted from the source. Changes would only be made on the storage system, either adding or removing files. Would rsync be the best way to accomplish this or is there a better option? Thanks, James Seems like if you have a LOT of movies and you record a lot every day, you will be transfering a ton of data. You may want to set up a Firewire network or actually just set up an external drive to back up to. Sending that much data over the network could take forever. I've never set up the firewire network, but my system has the eth# device. Just my 2 cents. Matt The initial transfer would indeed take forever, but remember after that you'll only be transferring the daily delta of new or altered files (the primary advantage of using rsync raher than tar or cp). Shifting 20GB a night is easily within the grasp of a 100Mb network, so long as it runs through a switch. My windows box is hampered by a software firewall (Kerio) that thrashes the CPU and limits network throughput, but even that manages 6MB/s - so it takes about an hour to transfer 20GB. Rsync will also allow you to keep temporary backups in case you accidentally hose a file. That said, the two applications listed above look like they'd be able to accomplish the same thing (and indeed might even use the rsync algorithm themselves), and look very funky indeed. But rsync is small and easy to shell script - just be sure to add trailing slashes to your directories! ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: rsync, or is there a better option?
At 18:49 03/12/2004, you wrote: Since my myth box has crashed a few times, including power loss and hard lockups, I want to backup my recordings, videos, etc so I don't lose anything the next time. So I picked up a couple large hard drives and have another linux box (FC3) ready to be a network storage device. I already backup important files, such as mysql dump, so I'm just talking the large video files here. What's the best way to get all my recordings, videos, mucis, etc sent over to this box every so often, maybe once a day. I'm thinking copy anything new or changed, and remove anything deleted from the source. Changes would only be made on the storage system, either adding or removing files. Would rsync be the best way to accomplish this or is there a better option? Thanks, James Well, I do stuff with rsync every day, and I personally think it's the best option for any copy, especially if you're going to do it regularly. Just make a bash script with the necessary mount and rsync commands, chuck it into your crontab, and you're off. I've got the same kinda thing for backing up the music and movies on my workstation to the file server. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Black screen(saver?)
The problem is DPMS, the energy saving stuff. Personally, I disabled it globally in my x.org config; Section "ServerFlags" AllowMouseOpenFail Option "NoPM" "true" Option "BlankTime" "0" Your IR control won't wake out of monitor sleep, because X doesn't recognise it as a device (i.e. it's controlled by LIRCD rather than an X device). I'm attempting to get around this so that I can use Xscreensaver to draw pretty pictures when Myth ain't in use; try adding something like this to your .lircrc begin remote = myremote button = bleep prog = irexec repeat = 0 config = xset dpms force suspend end At 17:56 03/12/2004, you wrote: (FC2 / jarod / Pundit-R / PVR350) After being idle for a while, my screen goes black, and i can revive it by shaking mouse, or pressing a key on the keyboard. _but_ pressing keys on my remote control does NOT start the TV up, but it does actually "perform the functions". What setting might i have missed here? (yes, screen saver in X is disabled). ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
