Re: [mythtv-users] ATI Wonder Remote
that last answer is correct. On 11/9/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09/11/05, Folashade Adeyosoye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What am I missing, I tried following ( http://www.litwiller.net/mythtv/remote.html) these instructions but for each button that I press on the remote, it repeats 4 times. For example if I hit the 3 button I get What might I be missing?users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-usersThe remote will continually generate keycodes.However lircd shouldbe able to convert these to single commands.You could try commenting out the repeat=5 (in lircrc) line for buttons you don't want to repeat .or maybe change it to repeat=0.I think repeat=5 means that every 5th command from the remote will getsent to the application.For most keys you probably don't want arepeat at all.For those that you do (volume, skip etc) experiment with different numbers.___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] OT: MythTV Home Automation
I have heardabout Linux computer based answering machines, that will effectively give you voicemail. It seems to me that any computer can discern one touch-tonefrom another. So why can't I use specific tones to run specific commands.-(this is one of the few times I wished I had chosen computer engineering over mechanical engineering)- Surely some one has thought of this before.Thanks for the replies, and keep 'em coming. -Matwhat you need is asterisk - then program an autoattendant so regular callers your phone rings several times and then goes to voicemail - but if you press a key sequence - you get a voice menu of things you can do. then connect that to agi scripts that do the things you want. I'm not doing any home automation with mine yet. But I'm working to ward that. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: Interesting linux tidbit
On 9/6/05, WJCarpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other day I accompanied my mother to a local big box electronics store to help her purchase a sat tv system.She ended up getting a receiver with a built in DVR.I was looking at the index for the user's guide and noticed that one of the appendicies was the GNU GPL.As far as that goes - look in the install directory of Norton Antivirus - there is the GPL license also. With a note that some portions are copyright GPL. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [OT] Re: [mythtv-users] MythNotify suggestions
On 9/6/05, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:While the geek factor is admirably high, this probably wasn't a good wayto spend $100 if you really want to have CID available all the time. I bought a *talking* Caller-ID box for less than that.Not only does itannouce the incoming calls by number, it can also match certain numbersand either announce them verbally (ie: payphones say PAYPHONE instead of speaking the number) or actually pick up the phone and tell them togo away (The person you have dialed is not accepting your call.Goodbye.) which is great for telemarketers - I have it programmed to PFO any callers that block their CID.Even though I didn't build itmyself, the geek factor is still up there and the WAF is out of thisworld.And it works when the TV is off. Yes, talking caller id does sound pretty cool-MikeP.S. If I were to ever do something like that, I would surely pass it along.___ mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users If you decide to go that route take a look at * at home. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HELP Ati remote wonder on FC3
For me it just worked like a second mouse in fedora core 2 3 and 4 and then follow the instructions from the LIRC section on my remote wonder web page http://www.litwiller.net/mythtv/remote.html In Fedora core 3 and 4, I just put the /etc/modules.conf lines near the top of the modprobe.conf file I need to edit that page it looks like. I would appreciate someone makeing/contributing a better ~/.mythtv/lircrc file that uses the buttons better. On 8/17/05, Ernie Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Trout Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 5:37 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] HELP Ati remote wonder on FC3 find / -name ati_remote.ko -print then mv any of those to ~/ You'll still need the appropriate lircd.conf and .lircrc. I found it hard to get the appropriate device file created (I'm using devfs) without rebooting. Graham Thank you, seems I missed one, I was being lazy and using updatedb locate ati_remote, found 2 out of 3 kernel modules, just the current kernel I was using was listed should have realized this, after that and a reboot, I have come to another blocking point when I start now, I have /dev/lirc0 which I assume now is meaning that lirc has found my remote, but I have never setup lirc with a usb reciever, for a serial reciever I know you can test it by catting the serial port or lirc port and pressing buttons on your remote, when I start lircd -d /dev/lirc0 --nodaemon , then irw, I get no response, my lircd.conf file contains the whole lircd.conf.atiusb file, which seems to contain a code set for every version of ati remotes, do I only need to select one from the file and erase the rest? or is there something else I am missing my remote model is 523600 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users You only need the relevant section in your lircd.conf file. Also check your lircd log for clues. Make sure irw is looking at the right device.. I believe the correct syntax is irw /dev/lirc0. I don't think it looks there by default?? Good luck. ___ 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] Mythweather quit working?
Brad Benson wrote: On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 02:25:46 -0600, Matt S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone else experiencing this? When I try to launch it, it times out. When I look at the command line it complains about not being able to contact the weather.com site. When I try to manually enter the URL it lists, it won't work either. Anyone else seing this issue? Thanks! Matt ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Someone else reported this earlier today and included a patch to fix mythweather 0.17. It appears that mythweather is hardcoded to retrieve weather data from w3.weather.com and weather.com changed their DNS entries so that w3.weather.com no longer resolves. You can either apply the patch included in this conversation: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/117858 or just go through mythweather.cpp and change all occurrences of w3.weather.com to www.weather.com. After making the change you will need to recompile and reinstall mythweather for the changes to take effect. Brad ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users or if you need a very quick hack and you aren't willing to recompile a package this should work put this in cron all on one line to run once a day or so echo `host www.weather.com | cut -d -f 4` w3.weather.com /etc/hosts ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythweather quit working?
You are correct - a check needs to be made that w3.weather.com isn't
already in the hosts file.
Max Waterman wrote:
Wouldn't this fill up your /etc/hosts file?
I'd suggest something like (using tcsh and not fully tested) :
( fgrep -v www.weather.com /etc/hosts ; host www.weather.com | awk '{
print $4, \t, $1}' ) /etc/hosts.N mv /etc/hosts.N /etc/hosts
also, it does depend on your /etc/nsswitch.conf (or /etc/resolv.conf,
netinfo, depending on your OS) using the hosts file before dns.
$ fgrep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts: files dns
Max.
Tim Litwiller wrote:
or if you need a very quick hack and you aren't willing to recompile a
package this should work
put this in cron all on one line to run once a day or so
echo `host www.weather.com | cut -d -f 4` w3.weather.com
/etc/hosts
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Re: [mythtv-users] Upgrade disaster. Thread 1: mythconverg
did you run the setup program mythtvsetup or whatever your distribution calls it - it should upgrade the database for you. If you haven't done it - that should take care of this and the possibly the other problem you posted. Martin Brown wrote: I decided to upgrade my OS from 2.4 to 2.6 and MythTV from 0.16 to 0.17. I'm hoping my system will one day work as well as it did back in the Good Ol Days... Problem 1: 0.17 mythconverg recorded table has some new columns. I want to save my previous recorded shows so had to manually add some data to each row of recorded so that I could reload the data. No doco on what to put in the new rows but they don't allow NULLs so I just stuck in 0's. Surely standard procedure for a database schema change is to either document how to migrate the data or provide a simple utility to do this? Martin Brown ___ 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] Bootsplash theme for MythTV?
Scott Rowe wrote: Sure.. it's back up.. -Scott On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:48:35 -0600, Tim Litwiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any chance you could make this available again? Scott Rowe wrote: I created a bootsplash based on the GANT theme, as well as a background for X.. Really makes it look like an STB. http://www.rowerules.com/mythtv/GANT.zip -Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aaron Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 6:13 AM To: David Collett; Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Bootsplash theme for MythTV? On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 06:55:53 -0500, aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:02:58 +1100, David Collett Does anyone know of a mythtv bootsplash theme? There is one which was posted to the list some time ago... I forget Replying to myself... I think this is what I was thinking of: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/34634?searc h_string=bootsplash;#34634 aaron Thanks ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Bootsplash theme for MythTV?
Any chance you could make this available again? Scott Rowe wrote: I created a bootsplash based on the GANT theme, as well as a background for X.. Really makes it look like an STB. http://www.rowerules.com/mythtv/GANT.zip -Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aaron Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 6:13 AM To: David Collett; Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Bootsplash theme for MythTV? On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 06:55:53 -0500, aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:02:58 +1100, David Collett Does anyone know of a mythtv bootsplash theme? There is one which was posted to the list some time ago... I forget Replying to myself... I think this is what I was thinking of: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/34634?searc h_string=bootsplash;#34634 aaron ___ 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] Release 0.17 has serious database issue with HDTV
Tom E. Craddock, Jr. wrote: Brad Templeton wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:50:38AM -0800, Joe Barnhart wrote: --- Tom E. Craddock, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Never heard of tab complete? Took me less than a minute to do what you were talking about. You aint got a minute? I probably don't understand how to use tab complete, then. I always had best results with tab complete when the filename already exists in a directory. In the case of my non-files, there are no matching file entries. Please tell me how you use tab complete to touch files in this situation. I don't know what he was talking about either. However, the easy fix in this case is to grep for the error message in the log, pull that into a file to isolate the filenames, and turn that into a shell script to touch them. This is what I mean. No files exsist for the metadata you want to delete. Youve greped the name of the file you want to touch as Brad said. Then, find a file that has a similar name, except for a few diffs. Tab complete that file, exchange it with the correct name, touch, delete. No need to type out 30 charachters. Tom ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users if he is sshing in - here is what I found to be the quickest way open mythweb right click the link to the failed recording choose copy link ssh to the mythtv cd to the recordings directory type rm then right click to paste the entire filename url into the terminal window delete the http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/mythweb part from the name and hit enter 20 seconds should do it. then crtl-d to close ssh. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] [Improving] The Current State of Myth - DVD
I just finished making this work in fedora here is what I needed to do edit the install.sh file with the correct paths that you have on your fedora machine. apt-get install transcode mjpegtools dvdauthor ImageMagick to get the proper versions edit the default theme files in mythweb to add the link to take you to the dvd burn web page - it worked ok in .16 but need updating for .17 when I got a successful install - I tried a small show on a dvdrw disc and watched the log file I had to find /dev/scd0 and change it to /dev/cdwriter and I had to change some paths for /usr/local/bin to /usr/bin I think it was for transcode and tcdemux this is from memory since my notes are at work - slow day today. Dave Caplinger wrote: I was inspired by the recent 'Single most frustrating thing about MythTV...' discussion (plus the fact that this is exactly what I've been spending most of my MythTV hacking time on) to try to direct some of this energy into identifying and improving the most likely candidates. Hopefully in this way those of us that are not C++ hackers can still meaningfully contribute without just whining about features we want. So anyway, here's a summary of what I've found. I'm sure it's not an all-encompasing list, so add yours to this thread if you like: Problem statement: I want to record my PVR-x50 MythTV-recorded stuff on a DVD that a regular DVD player can play. Oh, and of course I want to cut out commercials too. Possible solutions: There isn't anything yet that is reliable and foolproof. However, this one is probably the closest to fire and forget so far: mythtvburn http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2132start=330postdays=0postorder=aschighlight= It's a lot of work to read through 20+ pages of posts in that thread to figure out all of the issues. You'll wind up: o making sure you're recording in the right format and size (e.g. 720x480 MPEG2-PS for NTSC) so you don't have to transcode o getting ths cvs version o getting the options to transcode right to eliminate blue and/or upside-down thumbnails o making modifications to paths to make it work on your distro (I'm using FC2) o installing nuvexport, XVfb, avidemux2, and tons of other prereqs Last time I rebuilt my Myth box (when I moved to FC2 from Debian), I set aside a 20G /scratch partition just so I could mess with all of this stuff without putting my ability to record shows in jeopardy. It takes a lot of space to do this, so consider doing something similar. If I'm remembering all of the steps, here's what's going on behind the scenes once you kick this off: 1) Use your mythfrontend to convert the commercial skip list to a cut list (and edit it to correct for errors) 2) Use MythWeb to select the shows to burn to DVD and start the script 3) avidemux2 will index the .nuv files for those shows 4) avidemux2 will split the MPEG2-PS contents of the .nuv files into component .m2v video and .mp2 audio, using the cutlist to clip out commercials (using Xvfb to hide the gui from you) 5) lvemux will re-combine the video and audio into an (MPEG2) .mpg file 6) (repeat above for other shows going on the same DVD) 7) transcode will extract a bunch of JPEG thumbnails for the DVD menu 8) these wind up being composited together and converted to .png and back (I think) 9) the XML menu structure script is created to feed to dvdauthor 10) mplex combines the menu music you picked and the JPEG menu image into a .mpg 11) spumux combines the movie and the XML into the DVD menu 12) dvdauthor puts it all together into the DVD/VIDEO_TS dir structure 13) you can preview now with xine dvd://path/to/[DVD folder] 14) use growisofs to write the DVD folder direct to your DVD+/-R[W] without building an .iso first. As you can see, there's a lot going on, and things can fail at any of these steps. I don't trust my system to do all of this by itself yet; I'm manually doing the commercial cutting and a/v splitting because avidemux2 keeps failing on me at that point if I have it scripted, but if I do it myself it seems to work. Even so, when I get all done and preview the DVD, it seems like the audio and video get further and further out of sync over time. I wonder if all of those warnings from avidemux2 about the video being 33 ms off from the audio are adding up to create larger and larger a/v sync differences at each cutpoint? Having said all that about mythtvburn, there are other ways too: nuvexport 1) Use nuvexport's mpeg2 - mpeg2 cut option to export and commercial-cut your shows from Mythtv into standalone .mpg files. (which is using the same avidemux index, split/cut, lvemux re-combine process as above, all with Xvfb to hide the gui) 2) Use dvdstyler or something else to build a DVD menu and burn (via growisofs?) to DVD I did this and still had the increasingly out of sync over time problem (which is why I think it's avidemux2/lvemux doing this). In any case, this is a pretty manual command-line-driven process,
Re: [mythtv-users] new mythweb looks real nice!
MacNean C. Tyrrell wrote: Eric Webb wrote: On Sunday 13 February 2005 06:43 pm, Chris Petersen wrote: Just wanted to say, aside from all the other great new features of v.17, the new mythweb looks great! I love the new icons and the other imbellishments. Thank the author of mythtv's new Blue theme -- I grabbed the images from there. :) Glad to hear that people like the new look, though. Looks good and solved the PHP problems I had reported earlier. All good now. Now, if I could get someone to help me with my lack of video display, I'll be back in production... :( -E. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I've never used mythweb until just now. It is very nice. A couple questions. One, the purpose of viewing the videos is? If i click the link it says not found, could you stream it to your other computer or is it for downloading? Secondly, can it stream music? I currently don't have any music on my myth system because most of my music is in that apple mp4 format, and last i knew myth wouldn't play that type yet. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users There was a patch for mythweb .16 that let it stream audio and create playlistes. I don't know if the author of that is working on upgrading it or not. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re:MythBurn under Fedora?
Dennis Hand wrote: Hi All, I was wondering if anyone has had any sucess in getting mythBurn working under fedora. I just got a DVD burner and would like to burn Chris I've got it working on FC1 and FC2. And it works great. Head over to http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=4sid=625024b733d25d237471e6ee4cc8c8d4 and it's under MythTV BurnDVD 2. Dennis ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Do you have a patch to the install file and a download location for the dependencies that we need to install? ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
