RE: [mythtv-users] HDTV Woes
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mat Kyne Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 8:41 AM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] HDTV Woes After 5 attempts to get myth running correctly on FC3, I tried (for the 3rd time) to install Knoppmyth. I am pleased to report that after much online research, the drivers were loaded for my pcHDTV 3000, and eventually, my nVidia 5200 FX. So, after calling my wife at work and demanding that she cross her fingers, I selected the option Watch TV . . . And there it was! GLORIOUS HDTV !!! . . . . For about 2 seconds. Then it froze and crashed. :( Well I had heard that HDTV live was not all that great, So I set it to record Lost in ABC. -I had to schedule a manuel recording, because the myth guide times were off by several hours- I will ask about that in a later post.- Well, while I was watching the show on SDTV, I saw my HDD light start to blink, so I knew it was recording. Yeah! So after my wife went to bed, when I am allowed to Play with my stupid computer I tried to watch the show I recorded. --You can probably tell that this is not going to end well -- Well the picture was amazing, but the playback was choppy/jittery. If I tried to fast-forward or skip a commercial, The system would just hang. I was able to Ctrl-Alt-Esc out ant try again. Then I remembered reading Jarod's Guide (You da man!), and what he had written about giving Myth root privileges (I think it's called suedo-root). So I did that, and tried again. No real improvement, and when I tried to skip a commercial, the system crashed. I couldn't even ssh in to do a nice reboot. So my question that I lay before the all-knowing Mythtv guru's is this, What am I doing wrong. Do I just need a faster processor (I currently have a 2.4 Ghz Celeron that I bought just for this)? Or are there other things that I can try first. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks -Mat I would think that you'd have enough processor there to handle it, but if not, you're lucky: you have an nVidia 5200 which you can use XvMC with to offload some of the processing to the video cards processor. Before you try that, though, are you using the nVidia drivers or the one built-in to FC3? If you aren't, you probably want to go get the nVidia drivers either way, and then you have the XvMC option available and you might also see a small improvement in general display performance (I certainly did). Sadly, I don't know enough about knoppmyth to tell you whether the XvMC support comes compiled in or if you're going to have to do a compile yourself. Also, sadly, XvMC support is currently going through some hurdles and may not be to a level you can live with until the .18 release (or the next few days in CVS). -Todd ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] DCT-6200 w/ FireWire -- Looking for Input..
Just gave this a shot, and I get picture size invalid (0x0) in the logs before the job fails. Looking at libavcodec utils.c, there is a function that returns that error and it seems to be returning it because it is passed 0 x 0 as the width and height. Also, to the poster that posted about changing the size of the picture coming out of the DCT-6200 via firewire: I used the menu option and changed it to 480p but it is still giving me a 1920x1080 picture. It hasn't shrunk at all. -Todd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Pinkham Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 8:40 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] DCT-6200 w/ FireWire -- Looking for Input.. The resolution of the video depends on the provider, I think. For me, in the SF Bay Area using Comcast, I'm getting 1940x1400 (1080i or what is that?) which comes to between 6.3 and 7.3 Gb per hour. My hope is that sometime soon the transcoding options will allow resize for sizes greater than 720x480 so that I can transcode this to 720p. Try the attached patch. This will let you set the size greater than 720x480 on the transcoding profiles. I'm not 100% sure what the max size the encoding libraries can handle though, so you might run into limits elsewhere. Let me know how it works out and if things work OK, we can get a similar mod into CVS. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] DCT-6200 w/ FireWire -- Looking for Input..
That would follow what I'm seeing. My TV reported a different resolution after the change, but not the firewire output. It's a same, though. That would have made my life a very, very happy place -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jarod Wilson Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 12:54 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] DCT-6200 w/ FireWire -- Looking for Input.. On Thursday 31 March 2005 00:16, Todd Tidwell wrote: [...] Also, to the poster that posted about changing the size of the picture coming out of the DCT-6200 via firewire: I used the menu option and changed it to 480p but it is still giving me a 1920x1080 picture. It hasn't shrunk at all. I believe the menu option only applies to component (and possibly DVI) output. FireWire just dumps the raw mpeg2, its up to the receiving end to deal with it. Otherwise, the box would have to be transcoding the HDTV stream before outputting it. -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got a question? Read this first... http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html MythTV, Fedora Core ATrpms documentation: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archive http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] DCT-6200 w/ FireWire -- Looking for Input..
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Big Wave Dave Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 9:30 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] DCT-6200 w/ FireWire -- Looking for Input.. On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:27:23 -0800, Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 26 March 2005 14:17, Big Wave Dave wrote: Hello all.. I just picked up a DCT6200/2005 from Comcast. I have seen that there is a channel changing script, which works over firewire. I have also seen that you can capture over the firewire, directly into MythTV. -I am looking for gotchas or tips. One gotcha that got me: I think my cable co. pushed down a firmware update at some point that caused my box to power-cycle. Upon coming back up, it had a different FireWire bus node, and thus Myth couldn't find it anymore. Missed last week's 24 and CSI:Miami because of it... :-\ Aside from that, its been rock-solid. When running ./test-mpeg2 -r 1 testing.ts it captures 0 bytes UNLESS it is on an actual HD chanel. Does this mean I can only capture HD channels over firewire? Or is this utility only useful in testing HD capture? Thanks, Dave Are Your Friends Lemmings? -- http://www.lemmingshirts.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Well, Try hitting control-c and then trying it again and again and see if you get input from the other channels. The DCT-6200s seem to go one or two wayssome of them have to use Broadcast connections which seems to mean that test-mpeg2 only works every 4th or 5th time. I'm in the bay area as well and I'm getting 2-80 and 702-722. -Todd ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] DCT-6200 w/ FireWire -- Looking for Input..
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Big Wave Dave Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 10:22 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] DCT-6200 w/ FireWire -- Looking for Input.. I just picked up a DCT6200/2005 from Comcast. I have seen that there is a channel changing script, which works over firewire. I have also seen that you can capture over the firewire, directly into MythTV. -I am looking for gotchas or tips. One gotcha that got me: I think my cable co. pushed down a firmware update at some point that caused my box to power-cycle. Upon coming back up, it had a different FireWire bus node, and thus Myth couldn't find it anymore. Missed last week's 24 and CSI:Miami because of it... :-\ Aside from that, its been rock-solid. When running ./test-mpeg2 -r 1 testing.ts it captures 0 bytes UNLESS it is on an actual HD chanel. Does this mean I can only capture HD channels over firewire? Or is this utility only useful in testing HD capture? Thanks, Dave Well, Try hitting control-c and then trying it again and again and see if you get input from the other channels. The DCT-6200s seem to go one or two wayssome of them have to use Broadcast connections which seems to mean that test-mpeg2 only works every 4th or 5th time. I'm in the bay area as well and I'm getting 2-80 and 702-722. -Todd Interesting. So is that more of a bug with the 6200, or is it a but with test-mpeg2 not being able to compensate the broadcast connection. Basically I'm trying to figure out if this is the route (using firewire) that I want to take... If I can only get 2-80 and 702-722 for now, but the mpeg2ts is going to be improving and I'll get more channels in a few months... then I'd obviously stick with firewire. However, if its an inherent and unresolvable issue, I might just go with the PVR-150MCE. Dave Are Your Friends Lemmings? -- http://www.lemmingshirts.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users [Todd Tidwell] I'd recommend buying the 150 or 500 from Hauppauge for now. The mpegts stuff is nice, but it's a bit limited right now and you could get all your channels with a 150 and play with the firewire until you get it where you want it. -Todd ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] HDTV Streaming over Wireless + Caching
Then you are incredibly lucky with your wireless. I've tried both 802.11g and 802.11a networks and I still have issues. I'm right on the skirt of having enough bandwidth to basically move 6.3 - 7.3 gigabyte files from one wireless machine to another via wireless. For me, one machine has a 60% connection and the other an 80% and that can be +/- 10% each way for either machine. While that's right on the border, its not quite enough. My hope has been that some of the transcode stuff will eventually get changed (or explained well enough to me that I can change it myself) so that I can transcode down from the huge resolutions I am forced to capture in to 720p resolutions since I can't do more than 720p on my TV anyway. That will at least get the amount of data down a bit. Meanwhile, the first poster is probably right in that it would be nice to have some sort of buffer beyond what is currently used in the frontend as a setting that could be used on a frontend by frontend basis to solve problems like this. -Todd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Art Morales Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 4:22 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Streaming over Wireless + Caching Non-HD streams nicely over 802.11g, I get dropouts sometimes, but only when I'm 2 floors from AP Art On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:10:38 -0800, Richard J. Sears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to deal with this by caching to the frontend to help this problem out...? So you hit the play button and it starts a 3 to 5 minute caching process (which should be enough) and then starts playing. Wireless is the only way for me to get there. What about non-HD cable channels..what is the requirement there..? Thanks On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 17:06:56 -0700 Brandon Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HD can be up to about 20Mb/s roughly then add tcp headers. The fastest real world throughput you can get with a very good signal on a 54Mb wireless a router is about 27-29Mb/s constant. (I work in this industry so trust me on this). If you start adding walls it drops quickly. Fire up a neighbors cordless phone or your own microwave and you have even less usable bandwidth. Bottom line is you're right on the border with a perfect signal to get enough bandwidth to push HD through all the time. I've spoken with several people who have tried it and they report it works for the most part but rarely can they get through a show without it pausing a few times. I haven't heard of anyone using 108Mb/s wireless routers yet to see if that help. My recommendation is don't do wireless. I think the Myth Docs say something like Don't even think about it. But if it works for you let us know how you got it to work. --Brandon On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 03:46:42PM -0800, Richard J. Sears wrote: Does anyone know the bandwidth requirement for streaming HDTV signals from the backend to a frontend..? I have a 54mb wireless connection to one area I plan on putting in a front end and want to know if I it is capable of doing that..? How about regualr 1080i DVD's and normal cable..? Thanks ** Richard J. Sears Vice President American Internet Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.adnc.com 858.576.4272 - Phone 858.427.2401 - Fax INOC-DBA - 6130 I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things . . Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like you do when nobody's watching. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- ** Richard J. Sears Vice President American Internet Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.adnc.com 858.576.4272 - Phone 858.427.2401 - Fax INOC-DBA - 6130 I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things . . Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like you do when nobody's watching. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list
RE: [mythtv-users] HDTV Streaming over Wireless + Caching
I completely misread, I apologize. Although I will admit my regular TV has a hard time some times due to interference. Hopefully soon I'll find an antenna or something to fix this. -Todd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Art Morales Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 6:26 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Streaming over Wireless + Caching Don't get me wrong, I can't watch HDTV through wireless... I can only watch non-HD as I indicated, those files are about 1-1.3 gigs an hour, so they work quite well. Art On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 17:48:44 -0800, Todd Tidwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then you are incredibly lucky with your wireless. I've tried both 802.11g and 802.11a networks and I still have issues. I'm right on the skirt of having enough bandwidth to basically move 6.3 - 7.3 gigabyte files from one wireless machine to another via wireless. For me, one machine has a 60% connection and the other an 80% and that can be +/- 10% each way for either machine. While that's right on the border, its not quite enough. My hope has been that some of the transcode stuff will eventually get changed (or explained well enough to me that I can change it myself) so that I can transcode down from the huge resolutions I am forced to capture in to 720p resolutions since I can't do more than 720p on my TV anyway. That will at least get the amount of data down a bit. Meanwhile, the first poster is probably right in that it would be nice to have some sort of buffer beyond what is currently used in the frontend as a setting that could be used on a frontend by frontend basis to solve problems like this. -Todd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Art Morales Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 4:22 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV Streaming over Wireless + Caching Non-HD streams nicely over 802.11g, I get dropouts sometimes, but only when I'm 2 floors from AP Art On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:10:38 -0800, Richard J. Sears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to deal with this by caching to the frontend to help this problem out...? So you hit the play button and it starts a 3 to 5 minute caching process (which should be enough) and then starts playing. Wireless is the only way for me to get there. What about non-HD cable channels..what is the requirement there..? Thanks On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 17:06:56 -0700 Brandon Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HD can be up to about 20Mb/s roughly then add tcp headers. The fastest real world throughput you can get with a very good signal on a 54Mb wireless a router is about 27-29Mb/s constant. (I work in this industry so trust me on this). If you start adding walls it drops quickly. Fire up a neighbors cordless phone or your own microwave and you have even less usable bandwidth. Bottom line is you're right on the border with a perfect signal to get enough bandwidth to push HD through all the time. I've spoken with several people who have tried it and they report it works for the most part but rarely can they get through a show without it pausing a few times. I haven't heard of anyone using 108Mb/s wireless routers yet to see if that help. My recommendation is don't do wireless. I think the Myth Docs say something like Don't even think about it. But if it works for you let us know how you got it to work. --Brandon On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 03:46:42PM -0800, Richard J. Sears wrote: Does anyone know the bandwidth requirement for streaming HDTV signals from the backend to a frontend..? I have a 54mb wireless connection to one area I plan on putting in a front end and want to know if I it is capable of doing that..? How about regualr 1080i DVD's and normal cable..? Thanks ** Richard J. Sears Vice President American Internet Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.adnc.com 858.576.4272 - Phone 858.427.2401 - Fax INOC-DBA - 6130 I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things . . Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like you do when nobody's watching. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- ** Richard J. Sears Vice President American Internet Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] http
RE: [mythtv-users] Playback issue with firewire captured video
You're not the only one. If you look back 1 or 2 weeks you'll notice that another gentleman and I posted with the same problem. I still haven't solved it and I've been just exporting the shows to myth video in the short-term just so I can watch them. It would be nice it we could find a solution. -Todd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Wormsley Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 7:15 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: [mythtv-users] Playback issue with firewire captured video I have a problem with playing back some captures made via firewire. It doesn't seem to matter if they are SDTV or HDTV sources, as I have had some of each. There are two symptoms, one bad, one worse. Bad: Video doesn't play, after about 5 seconds, control returns to MythTV. Worse: Crash. In both cases, the preview panel shows video in the little window for the show in question. Following is a frontend log of the crash situation. Here's the bits I am most worried about: 2005-03-07 21:51:08.034 waiting for prebuffer... 2005-03-07 21:51:08.034 prebuffer wait timed out.. Lots of these. I do get some audio stuttering when playback works. CPU is slightly underpowered, so I expect this until the new CPU gets here. 2005-03-07 21:51:09.366 Broadcasting free space avail 2005-03-07 21:51:09.387 Broadcasting free space avail Lots of these as well. No idea what they are for. 2005-03-07 21:51:09.661 nVidiaVideoSync: Could not open device /dev/nvidia0, Permission denied What should the permissions be? The device exists. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# ll /dev/nv* crw-rw 1 root root 195, 255 Mar 2 23:27 /dev/nvidia crw-rw 1 root root 195, 0 Nov 27 08:28 /dev/nvidia0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 1 Nov 27 08:28 /dev/nvidia1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 2 Nov 27 08:28 /dev/nvidia2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 3 Nov 27 08:28 /dev/nvidia3 crw-rw 1 root root 195, 255 Nov 27 08:28 /dev/nvidiactl 2005-03-07 21:51:09.661 DRMVideoSync: Could not open device /dev/dri/card0, No such file or directory Truly doesn't exist. Should it? [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# ll /dev/d* crw--- 1 root root 36, 14 Mar 2 23:24 /dev/dnrtmsg crw--- 1 mythtv root 14, 3 Mar 2 23:25 /dev/dsp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Mar 2 23:24 /dev/dvd - hdc 2005-03-07 21:51:09.662 OpenGLVideoSync: GLX extensions: GLX_ARB_multisample GLX_EXT_visual_info GLX_EXT_visual_rating GLX_EXT_import_context GLX_SGIX_fbconfig GLX_ARB_get_proc_address 2005-03-07 21:51:09.662 OpenGLVideoSync: GLX Video Sync extension not present. I have glx in my xorg.conf file: Section Module Load dbe Load extmod Load fbdevhw Load glx Load record Load freetype Load type1 # Load dri Load v4l EndSection 2005-03-07 21:51:09.663 RTCVideoSync: Could not set RTC frequency, Permission denied. What permission? Where is that set? 2005-03-07 21:51:09.663 Using audio as timebase 2005-03-07 21:51:09.663 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait No matter what I've tried, every install I've done always has USleep with busy wait. Isn't this the worst way to do timing? terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' what(): St9bad_alloc Aborted This is the crash. Any ideas? Is this related to the above issues? Thanks in advance! Jeff. - - - - - - - - - - - Full log from the crash: 2005-03-07 21:50:58.443 New DB connection, total: 1 2005-03-07 21:50:58.452 mythfrontend version: 0.17.20050223-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-03-07 21:50:58.452 Enabled verbose msgs : important general playback audio 2005-03-07 21:50:58.756 Switching to wide mode (Minimalist-wide) 2005-03-07 21:50:59.274 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-03-07 21:50:59.276 Joystick disabled. 2005-03-07 21:50:59.323 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin. 2005-03-07 21:50:59.340 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media handler 2005-03-07 21:50:59.342 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media handler 2005-03-07 21:50:59.469 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media handler 2005-03-07 21:50:59.772 Starting media monitor. 2005-03-07 21:51:03.170 All Programs 2005-03-07 21:51:05.443 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.254.15:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2005-03-07 21:51:05.448 Using protocol version 14 adding pes stream at pid 0x800 with type 2 adding pes stream at pid 0x801 with type 129 2005-03-07 21:51:08.011 AVFD 2005-03-07 21:51:08.011 AVFD: Opening Stream #0: codec id 2 2005-03-07 21:51:08.011 AVFD: Looking for decoder for 2 2005-03-07 21:51:08.011 AVFD 2005-03-07 21:51:08.011 AVFD: Opening Stream #1: codec id 86020 2005-03-07 21:51:08.011 AVFD: Looking for decoder for 86020 2005-03-07 21:51:08.012 Stream #1 (audio track #0) is an audio stream with 2 channels. 2005-03-07 21:51:08.012 Auto-selecting AC3 audio track (stream #1). 2005-03-07 21:51:08.012 Initializing audio parms from audio
[mythtv-users] Problem playing back some HD content
I posted about this recently and I'm going to ask again because I'm getting more and more recordings that have the issue. I capture my HD content via the new firewire code from a DCT-6200. This works *GREAT* 90% of the time. However, some of the shows I'm getting will generate a preview clip, will play in mplayer, but cause mythfrontend to crash. I hit OK to play the recording and I see a very quick flash of the clip coming up full screen, and then mythfrontend is gone. Does anyone else experience this? Has anyone got any ideas on how to maybe go about debugging it seeing as nothing seems to be in the logs. -Todd ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Problem playing back firewire recordings
I've got an extremely odd little problem. I'm using a dct-6200 to record HDTV via the firewire code. Now, this works fantastically for most channels and it never misses a recording now. However, for some recordings I cannot play them back using MythTV. I get a preview video when I'm browsing in the recordings screen and I can play it with mplayer and other players. Everytime I try to play them with Myth, however, it segfaults the front end. Nothing appears in any of my errors logs. I'm at a wall as to how to debug this. Any thoughts? -Todd ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-500MCE
I tried your new patch (grabbed it off itvt-devel). I'm still getting static on the tuners. For me, the card shows up as video0 and video1, I'm setting video0 with ivtvctl to input 6 and video1 to input 7. I'm just not having any luck. Is there some kernel patch I need or anything else I need to do other than apply this to the ivtv snapshot and compile? -Todd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jarod Wilson Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 9:53 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-500MCE On Saturday 26 February 2005 17:19, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2005 16:28, Todd Tidwell wrote: Excellent! Which module parameters? I'll give it a shot. I'm loading the drivers by hand at the moment, for debugging purposes (I'm in the process of updating tveeprom to auto-detect the tuner type, format, etc). Kick-ass. I've now got a patch for tveeprom that reads the settings off the 500 perfectly: tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 23552, rev = D292, serial# = 7725799 tveeprom: tuner = Philips FQ1236A MK4 (idx = 92, type = 55) tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x1000) tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3410D (type = 5) -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got a question? Read this first... http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html MythTV, Fedora Core ATrpms documentation: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archive http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-500MCE
Excellent! Which module parameters? I'll give it a shot. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jarod Wilson Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 4:03 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-500MCE On Sunday 20 February 2005 16:31, Todd Tidwell wrote: Then please let me know how it turns out and I'll give mine a try too. I'm really anxious to see this going. I just posted a patch to the ivtv-dev mailing list. I'm now getting audio *and* video off both tuners on my NTSC PVR-500MCE card. Still requires a non-4kstacks kernel and a few module params that are not auto-detected, but its looking good. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jarod Wilson Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 3:36 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-500MCE On Sunday 20 February 2005 15:25, Todd Tidwell wrote: the .3.2 drivers do indeed have support for the 500, but there isn't much mention of just how preliminary the support really is. Anybody tried it? I tried it about a week ago and didn't have much luck. My tuner isn't recognized yet and as I understand it, even if it was audio wouldn't be supported yet. I believe audio is under control now. Someone *just* posted some info about the tuner on the 500 to the v4l mailing list yesterday... I'm going to see if I can't take that info and coerce mine into working either today or tomorrow... -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got a question? Read this first... http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html MythTV, Fedora Core ATrpms documentation: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archive http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-500MCE
No luck. Theres too much in dmesg to really figure out much, however this did catch my eye and might help figure out what we're looking at. tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 23552, rev = D292, serial# = 7769454 It also says that on the board. Also on the board I have two conexant CX25843-23 chips and then the two mpeg CX23416-12 chips. Any thoughts? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jarod Wilson Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 5:19 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-500MCE On Saturday 26 February 2005 16:28, Todd Tidwell wrote: Excellent! Which module parameters? I'll give it a shot. I'm loading the drivers by hand at the moment, for debugging purposes (I'm in the process of updating tveeprom to auto-detect the tuner type, format, etc). # modprobe tveeprom # modprobe cx25840 no_black_magic=1 audiofmt=1 # modprobe ivtv tuner=55,55 -Original Message- From: Jarod Wilson Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 4:03 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-500MCE On Sunday 20 February 2005 16:31, Todd Tidwell wrote: Then please let me know how it turns out and I'll give mine a try too. I'm really anxious to see this going. I just posted a patch to the ivtv-dev mailing list. I'm now getting audio *and* video off both tuners on my NTSC PVR-500MCE card. Still requires a non-4kstacks kernel and a few module params that are not auto-detected, but its looking good. -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got a question? Read this first... http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html MythTV, Fedora Core ATrpms documentation: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archive http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] IR Receiver Recommendation
www.home-electro.com This is supported by LIRC and I'm using it with extremely good results. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Davidson Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 2:44 PM To: MythTV Subject: [mythtv-users] IR Receiver Recommendation Anyone have a recommendation for a good quality and unobtrusive IR receiver? I've found a company in Germany (http://www.zapway.de) that I think was linked from the LIRC site, any thoughts? In the UK, so a European distributor would be preferable. I guess I could roll my own (have soldering skills.ok, rusty soldering skills), but really I'd rather just get one that I know is going to work and be professional. thanks ___ 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] Post recording transcoding and HDTV
Oh! Excellent. I'll do that. Thanks a ton. -Todd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Donavan Stanley Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 2:52 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Post recording transcoding and HDTV On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:12:32 -0800, Todd Tidwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyway I could setup a custom job or is there some work around for this so that I could transcode the files down to something more manageable? Try current CVS (or wait till .18), this was just implemented within the past day or so. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] 0.17
I am too, except in MythMusic. Little funky there. But whoever is workin on that theme, please keep up the good work. -Todd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jarod Wilson Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 12:25 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] 0.17 On Thursday 10 February 2005 21:49, Isaac Richards wrote: The new release is up on the website now. I'm diggin' the Minimalist-wide theme. -- Jarod C. Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] ACPI causes crash/freeze?
Try adding 'acpi=no' and 'noapci' as kernel arguments in grub.conf. This fixed it for me on FC2 with my nforce-based motherboard. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Minh Duong Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 10:16 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] ACPI causes crash/freeze? After getting everything to work, I was watching liveTV for about five minutes and then the computer crashed. The computer was unresponsive to the remote, mouse, keyboard. I tried to ssh into it and couldn't even get a prompt. I rebooted and tried to play a previously recorded video. It played for about 5 minutes and it crashed again. Same behavior. I looked at /var/log/messages and didn't see anything odd right before it died. The only thing that seems odd is that linux boots acpi when I thought I had removed it. I read here http://home.comcast.net/~alf_park/mythtv.html that acpi causes ivtv to crash/freeze. I had stopped the service and removed the package, but FC2 somehow loads it. Anybody experienced this? Thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Capture Cards and DCT-6200
Folks, I just got Hi-def cable from comcast. WIth it came a Motorola DCT-6200. Now, this has a firewire port on it, component-video out, and DVI (with sound, so S?). I have found some posts on the web about using the firewire to capture via iee1394, etc, but have been able to do no more than make it change channels. So, a question for the group: Is there a linux-compatible video capture card (preferably no tuner involved) that can capture from it directly and that Myth can use? If I could find one, I'd be *SET*, ya know? Thanks for the help, -Todd___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] looking for A7N8X-E sound advice
Go here: http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo It has a great asoundrc file that has been running fantastically for me on my A7n8x deluxe for nearly 9 months. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Freer Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 5:45 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] looking for A7N8X-E sound advice Hey all: Wondering if someone could give me suggestions on how to best get the A7N8X-E Deluxe's SPDIF port working. Fresh FC3 install Would appreciate a copy of someone's .asoundrc file and any special modprobe.conf entries of note. I've been going over the alsa postings for the 810 module, but haven't found a working combination yet. Thanks a lot. JF ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
