[mythtv-users] Is it possible to use nuvexport on a host remote from the backend?
Is it possible to use nuvexport on a host remote from the backend? I have a more powerful machine than the backend one, which runs mythfrontend fine. However, when I try and use nuvexport I get: Loading MythTV recording info. This host not configured for myth. (No RecordFilePrefix defined for rattus in the settings table.) Needless to say nuvexport works fine on the backend. This is a bit weird as the backend mysql database does not have a RecordFilePrefix column in the settings table. BillK -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv rebooting system
I can get mythtv running fine, but after some random amount of time I will have the system reboot. I have seen very little in the logs, what I have seen I posted below. I have noticed that my cpu usage is at 30% -- with no recording going on! So can anyone help a poor soul out? Nasa Run memtest for a few hours and see if that causes any problems. Set up and run one of the cpu temp monitors and watch the cpu for overheating when running mythtv. Also try pulling and re-ordering the cards on your motherboard. Could be a bad connection or a irq conflict issue. Mythtv uses more interupts than just about any other program out there so a motherboard that does not handle them well could be the problem as well. My first board based on a via chipset just would not run without crashing. My new nvidia based board runs flawlessly for weeks. Same memory and cards, just different mb. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] First Generation Air2PC Card Requires Extended Initialization
I recently purchased first generation Air2PC cards off eBay. I knew there might be issues, but it seemed like a low-cost way to experiment with digital / HD TV and that has proven to be true. In fact, the first card worked extremely well, no issues whatsoever, so I bought a second one. The second card, however, takes much longer to initialize and lock up on its startup channel - usually several minutes as compared to less than 30 seconds for the first card I bought. Once initialized, both cards work fine. However, mythbackend gives up after 30 seconds so getting them both initialized is a problem. I found I could fix that problem by editing 'dvbchannel.h' in libmythtv, the line that reads: bool TuneTransport(dvb_channel_t channel, bool all=false, int timeout=30); Adding an extra zero to the 'timeout' parameter allows the backend to wait long enough for my slow card to achieve a lock. However, I'm curious if there is an easier way. For example, is there some way to condition the card(s) prior to starting the backend that would allow them to successfully lock up within the default 30 seconds? Also, change of subject, is there some trick to getting XvMC to actually work? When I first tried to use it on two machines, both with 0.18.1, FX5200's and the NVIDIA driver, only the Hardware MPEG checkbox was present on the Playback settings page. On both machines, when that checkbox was checked, playback and live TV would both fail with a message saying that the frontend was unable to initialize the display. After fooling around with the stuff mentioned above, including a recompile of 0.18.1, a checkbox to enable OpenGL vsync suddently appeared on the same settings page as the XvMC checkbox and now XvMC works on that machine. But I don't know why it started working and I haven't been able to duplicate the feat on my other Myth box. Bill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] whats the best graphics card for HD playback?
The truth is graphics drivers aren't there yet, for any card, for the kind of tasks we might want to do with mythtv, when it comes to HD. Raphael I couldn't disagree with you more. I paid $60 for an nVidia 6200TC, and it works like a dream. I connected DVI - HDMI, and I can do things better with it than with the TV's built-in decoder. I noticed that when I scaled the image properly, I get more of the picture through my video card than I do when the TV decodes the stream itself. And it's all digital until it gets inside the television. What more do you want? It sounds more like your TV is the problem to me. Will ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What's the minimum that I can do to view a recording from a P
My myth box is giving no sound. My first step in debugging is to see if sound is being recorded. So, if I record a few minutes of a show, how do I get it so I can view it in WMP or QuickTime on a Machine that I know has working audio? If there is not a FOOL PROOF (searching for a control group, not new points of failure) way, then I would like to post it to my pub folder and have someone DL and test it for me. Please advise. My suggestion would be to take a known working file (ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds/english.au for example), and get that to play. If you can hook something up with an 1/8th inch to RCA cable or plug directly in to PC speakers, that would be a good first step. Once you get that working, then you can move on to more advanced stuff (.asoundrc configuration, AC3 passthrough, whatever...) But first things first. Is it a system-wide issue or a MythTV issue? I would say that's the first step. Will ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] What's the minimum that I can do...
I think mplayer is probably the most flexible... 'mplayer -ao alsa filename' should do it, I think... If you want to get creative with it, feel free to screw around with the -ao option, using -ao alsa:device=hw=0.0 for example. Run 'mplayer -ao help' for more information about this option. Will ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How to boost niceness of both front and backends?
Responding to my own request. Thank you Thomas for showing me the format to use to modify the niceness of a daemon. I have gotten things running smoothly now by niceing various processes and by discovering that for some reason I set up spamassassin to run direct rather than the spamd/spamc pair. Fixed that and now even the little jitter that was present in the cnn banner is gone. Have not had a freeze in 30 minutes and have been getting lots of mail so it seems to be fixed... Better back things up now :) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How to boost niceness of both front and backends?
Title: Message Do you know if it is the recording or the playing that pauses ? You might try doing it on a recording instead of livetv...Which kind of tuner do you have ? Does it have onboard encoding ? If not, you might try with onboard encoding instead.Niels Dybdahl The cards are pvr-250's and I am running a nvidia video card with hardware decoding. CPU is on about 15% for recordings and about 30% on playback with deinterlace. I am pretty sure that I am having I/O issues due to other processes hogging the drive. I want to makeboth the frontend and backend run under "nice -n -10"or some equiv means to make its needs a priority over mail processing. I really dont want to set up another box just to handle mail. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] AC3 and/or S/PDIF (again)
Do you have volume control via myth with this method? I can get all my audio output through the spdif connector, but can not find anyway of controlling the volume via myth (this would be my preferred option as I like the on screen volume display). My amp is in a different room (as is the myth box for that matter). So I would not have any visual indication of mute or volume level if I don't do it via the on screen display. Ben No, Ben, I don't. And, as I understand it, this is impossible. Since we're just passing through a digital signal to the receiver, it's all up to the receiver to deal with it. In order to change the volume, we would need to decode the audio, sample down the volume, reencode it, then pass it on to the receiver. Maybe it's possible, but it certainly is not very efficient. And, by the way, this is all just speculation. I don't really know how it works, but my explanation made sense to me. Sorry, Will ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] HD3000 DVB Recordings - Freezes on Playback
Well, the good news is that now I am not an isolated incident of this. I am experiencing almost exactly what you are. I say almost because I haven't broken down the circumstances under which it may freeze. But, when it does happen, my experience is exactly the same as yours. My current attempt at fixing this involves changing out my video FS from reiser to ext3. I did that last night but haven't be able to test it yet. What FS are you using? I'm experiencing something similar with HDTV, but the frontend only freezes when I am in LiveTV mode and the show ends. Watching recordings works beautifully. Will ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] AC3 and/or S/PDIF (again)
How 'bout simply disabling 'use video as timebase' at run-time when passing raw AC3, regardless of what 'use video as timebase' is set to. Yeah. That's what I was trying to say (that's why I compared it to the runtime disabling of AC-3 passthrough with timestretch and why I said, [if] there's an AC-3 stream). Guess I should have used that all-important word, runtime, though. Mike I've never posted a patch to this list before, but how does this look, and, if the answer is Good, then what do I do with it? disable_timebase_for_passthru.patch Description: Binary data ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] AC3 and/or S/PDIF (again)
To both of you, when I finally broke down and used Myth's internal alsa controls, everything went smooth from there. My Audio Output Device is: ALSA:default I am using ALSA:default also... What are you doing for volume control and mixer device? And when I uncheck the AC3 passthrough box, everything is sent to the receiver fine... Just no 5.1. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] No audio (usually) - Audio buffer overflow, audio data lost!
When running mythfrontend and watching live tv, I get about a half second of sound, followed by 5-20 seconds of silence, another half second of sound, etc. Mythfrontend is print out Audio buffer overflow, audio data lost! I can play a previously recorded file after installing mythvideo, and cat /dev/video0 foo.mpg produces a video file that plays correctly with sound. Xawtv doesn't work yet, but I just installed it for the first time and doubtlessly screwed up the configuration somewhere. Erik, I'm getting the exact same type of problem. Is your output analog or digital? Is it to PC speakers or to a receiver? Everything works fine when I turn off AC3 passthrough, by the way, except (as I said before) the 5.1. I don't see the buffer overflow error, though. Maybe these two are related, maybe not. Will ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] AC3 and/or S/PDIF (again)
From: Adam Propeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] AC3 and/or S/PDIF (again) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:56:13 -0600 So if I only show /dev/dsp and /dev/adsp in my device list, does that mean I don't have Alsa support compiled in? I'm not seeing anything other than those two devices. I assumed that /dev/adsp was the ALSA device. I have to manually type in ALSA:default for audio device, and default for mixer device. (Or whatever, same as mplayer's device argument, e.g. mplayer -ao alsa:device=default == mythtv ALSA:default). Myth detected that I had ALSA automatically, and IIRC, /dev/dsp does actually map to ALSA:hw0,0. But don't quote me on that. Try aplay -L for a list of ALSA devices available on your system. Will ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Fusion Lite card and adding cable channels
I need your help. I'm on comcast and got my Fusion Lite card working. It's my second tuner card(/dev/dvb/adapter1/dvr0). I have 107 services found by atscscan tool. Now, I would like to add those channels to mythtv. However, I could not find any easy to follow article. Can someone please tell me how to add one channel and I'll do the rest. I'm so confused with those PIDS or PSIP, etc. I also read somewhere that I need to modify a table, I guess dtv_multiplex, but there is no clear instruction or example. Well, Neil, I recommend you upgrade to a subversion build. The channel scanning is very, very easy, and as far as I can tell DVB stuff is much improved. Just my two cents. IIRC, 0.18.1 has no channel scan facility. Will ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] AC3 and/or S/PDIF (again)
Everything is running into my AV Receiver, that's where my volume is controlled. I uncheck the box for internal volume controls. There was a post to the list a while back on how to send everything out over the spdif, and have your receiver decide if it's AC3 or PCM, the key was in the .asoundrc. I can't find it off hand, but a bit of a search will probably turn it up, it was probably in the last 2 weeks. Chad I came across something while browsing through the developer's mailing list... Do you have Enable video as timebase checked or unchecked? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Fusion Lite card and adding cable channels
I downloaded this morning 0.18.2 STABLE relese from cvs.mythtv.org but not the trunk version. Is the scanning facility not good on this version? Thanks Will! I have no idea, unfortunately. I do know that I have very few problems with the subversion build, fewer than I had with the stable branch. Sorry, maybe someone else knows the answer to that. Will ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] AC3 and/or S/PDIF (again)
For anyone following the thread, once Use video as timebase was disabled, everything worked perfectly. The trick was to have everything with AC3 passed through by Myth and to have everything else sampled to 48000 Hz for output via PCM. ALSA made this second part possible. Thanks for everyone's help. Will ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] AC3 and/or S/PDIF (again)
Yeah. Shouldn't video as timebase be disabled if AC-3 Passthrough is enabled and there's an AC-3 stream? (Kind of like AC-3 is disabled when the user initiates timestretch--at least until Mark finishes his AC-3 re-encode work.) Mike The only difficulty is an implementation detail. Since the settings are on different screens, the setting for Use video as timebase would have to be tri-state: Off, On, Was on but ac3 is disabled. Another 2 cents worth. If the user goes from AC3 passthrough off to on, this would disable the video as timebase. Well, if he changes his mind, it should go back to being on. However, if it was off the whole time, then changing the AC3 setting wouldn't matter. Will ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] AC3 and/or S/PDIF (again)
This is a new one for me... I am running subversion from yesterday, and I cannot for the life of me get S/PDIF to send a 5.1 signal to my receiver. Xine works fine. Mplayer works fine with Myth recordings. But Myth does strange things. When I start a program, it may stutter then go out for ten seconds then start back up for a couple of seconds. If I turn off AC3 pass through, then everything works fine, but it's only two channel sound. Any help would be most appreciated, because this is driving me insane. Thanks in advance, and I'd be more than happy to provide more information if it will help. Will Lewis ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: Burning an MPEG2 file that is too large
Hi All, I am trying to burn a MPEG2 recording exported by nuvexport, but it is too large to go on a single layer disc! I remember just the other day reading about a linux command line tool that can reduce the bitrate of a mpeg2 file. All you had to do basically was tell it what factor to reduce it by, such as '2' would halve the effective file size, '1' would be pointless and '1.2' would make it 20% smaller. The program you want is called tcrequant and its part of the mjpegtools package. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: Burning an MPEG2 file that is too large
I am trying to burn a MPEG2 recording exported by nuvexport,
but it is too large to go on a single layer disc!
Here is the script I use to shrink and burn a non-menued dvd that autoplays
a single program. Check the section on shrinking the video for a working
example.
When I run this script the video and audio have already been split into 2
files by avidemux2. The files are named aud and vid and I will let you
figure out which is which :)
--
#!/bin/bash
rm -drf mydvd
rm -f mydvd.tmp
echo Checking video size...
# Calculate the requantization factor
vsize=`ls -l ./vid | awk '{print $5}'`
vsize=`echo $vsize / 1048576 | bc`
asize=`ls -l ./aud | awk '{print $5}'`
asize=`echo $asize / 1048576 | bc`
req=`echo ($vsize + $asize) / 4350 | bc -ql`
req2=`echo $req * 1.05 | bc -ql`
if [ ${req:0:1} = . ];
then
echo Shrinking not required!!
else
echo Shrinking the video to fit the disc. Please wait...
echo Reduction Factor: $req2
echo Note: vid has been saved as vid-full
mv -f vid vid-full
nice -n 19 tcrequant -i vid-full -o vid -f $req2
fi
nice -n 19 mplex -f 8 -V -O -3016mpt -o mydvd.mpg aud vid
#rm aud
#rm vid
echo creating dvd file system
nice -n 19 dvdauthor -o mydvd -f mydvd.mpg
nice -n 19 dvdauthor -o mydvd -T
#rm -f mydvd.mpg
echo Burning DVD
nice -n 19 growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/hdd mydvd
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Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: Burning an MPEG2 file that is too large
Out of curiosity (and likely going way OT even more), why do people use avidemux? Or mpeg2cut and other such tools? I find nuvexport does a great job of creating DVD compatible files and honors the cutlist perfectly. I would have thought it would have been the best tool to base most of these scripts on, since it comes with any mythTV package. Is there something I should know about nuvexport? For me the reason is simply my comfort level. I have heard that nuvexport sometimes screws up. Dont know anything about it other than it was slw. Plus by using avidemux2 I can join several kids shows together into a 2 hour dvd that keeps the rugrats happy. I know that I could create menus and such but this is simpler and kid proof. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Myth Remote Control
What IR keyboard are you using? I've been using the Chicony KB-9820, but they are getting hard to find... Bill Kevin Kuphal wrote: Buy a one-for-all remote with a JP1 connector and a JP1 interface cable. There are various how-tos on JP1 sites related to this but you basically use that cable to connect to your Windows PC and use software to program your IR remote to send the same IR commands as your IR keyboard. While most Myth users go through LIRC with an IR remote, I have found that programming my IR remote to emulate my IR keyboard allows me to use a standard PS/2 connector and the IR receiver to bypass LIRC. This has resulted, for me, in finer control over keys as well as faster response times from the remote. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] liveTV using 100% CPU
I'm running 0.18.1 on Gentoo as well. Also on Nvidia. I recently tried upgrading to 1.0.8178 from 1.0.6629. That also brought me up to 100% CPU usage when watching pre-recorded TV, standard definition digital. I downgraded, and all my problems are solved, Mythtv wise. I only upgraded to see what difference it made, anyway. Also, it doubled my frame rate in WoW, so I'm sticking with these. On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 14:01 -0700, Brian Wood wrote: Hmm I'm running 0.18.1 on a Gentoo system, and compiling outside the portage system usually leads to trouble. I'm not sure what USE flag indicated the use of vsync, nVidia probably did it. I'm not sure which is going to be more of a pain, re-compiling MythTV or getting an older version of nVidia's drivers to work, seems the kernel API has changed and broken older video drivers. I do not understand all this mucking around with a production kernel. These guys who insist it must be up to date are the same ones who keep checking for the fdiv bug, even on Xeon and Opteron CPUs :-) In SVN's frontend settings (Playback Settings, General playback (page 1)): Enable OpenGL vertical sync for timing If it is supported by your hardware/drivers, MythTV will use OpenGL vertical syncing for video timing, reducing frame jitter. In MythTV 0.18 and 0.18.1, you have to recompile Myth without OpenGL vsync. In MythTV 0.18-fixes SVN, you have the same option as SVN. (Note that if you have one you think is 0.18.2, it's probably 0.18-fixes SVN, so it probably has the option.) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: $80 Air2PC cards (Rev 0.2?)
I bought one of these cards on ebay (now $50), but am having trouble getting it working under linux. It works in my crappy old windows machine using the vendor's software. I get a number of channels with good signal strength. My FC4 2.6.14 kernel sees the card and sets up devices in /dev/dvb/adaptor0/. MythTV sees the card and azap will attempt to tune, but I get no signal at all. I'm almost positive the station info is setup correctly -- same info works on windows and I've found the same channel info for my location on message boards. Could this be a firmware issue? Can anybody help? -Will Sheffler On 5/17/05, Blammo blammo.doh at gmail.com wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItemcategory=3761item=5195966400rd=1ssPageName=WDVW I went ahead and bought one. I'll let ya'll know how/if it works. I emailed back and forth with the vendor who agreed to take it back and refund me if it doesn't co-exist peacefully with my existing setup. Just wanted to follow this up. Vendor was extremely easy to work with, very knowlegable (you'll see why if you order one) and shipped one out the door quickyl. . Rev1 cards have a different frontend (Broadcom 3510) which has only been supported in the last 7-ish days. Once you get it compiled into the kernel, everything gets happy. Worth the money, imho. One Caveat, if you have signal strength problems now, you may not want to get one of these... they are a little weaker on the RCV side than the Gen2 cards. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] EPG freeze after playing video in xine/MythVideo
Title: Message Your window is losing focus. Try setting yourwindow manager/desktopso that the focus follows the mouse and leave the mouse in the center of the screen which is its default position. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel RischarSent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 11:01 AMTo: mythtv-users@mythtv.orgSubject: [mythtv-users] EPG freeze after playing video in xine/MythVideoI cannot figure out how these two are related (MythVideo/xine and the EPG), but here is my problem:Version: occured in 0.18.1 (from Gentoo portage) and the latest subversion sourcesReproducibility: AlwaysSteps to Reproduce:1) Start mythfrontend2) go to mythvideo and watch a video (must use xine -pfq %s command)3) Exit the movie, it does not matter how long it plays4) Switch to watching LiveTV5) bring up the program guide 6) move the selection in any directionI find that I can only move the selection once and then the EPG stops responding to my keypresses. I can still go back by pressing escape, but going into the guide again produces the same result. I can only move the selection once, but never more. The EPG works fine when I do not play a video first. I tried to search the web, and this list for any posts relating to these problems, but could not find anything. If this has been posted about before, just point me in the right direction.-- Daniel RischarComputer EngineeringCase Western Reserve University[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Can't run mythtv-setup
Dont know if this is the problem or not but did you compile into the correct directory? On my system I have to specify prefix=/usr rather than the default /usr/local. Do a find / -name libmythtv* to see where it wound up -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Simpson Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 8:44 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] Can't run mythtv-setup Finally got it compiling correctly etc. and 'make'd it and 'make install'ed it. Then I go to run mythtv-setup and get... mythtv-setup: error while loading shared libraries: libmythtv-0.18.1.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. Any assistance? Also, is there an IRC channel or anything for more 'live' support? Thanks again, Spoon ___ 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] Strange recording and playback issues after crash
I presume you completely unpowered the box, preferably by removing the power cord for 30 seconds or so. If you didn't, there's a chance some device on the motherboard got upset during the power glitch and hasn't been reset since. Other than that, I dunno, unless something was permanently damaged. Wish I could be more helpful. Bill Bruce J Keeler wrote: A few days ago, my myth system suffered a power loss. Ever since, it has been suffering from two problems. Recorded programs have chunks dropped, and lots of the following errors get logged: Jan 2 16:01:19 localhost kernel: ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW: #0 Stealing a Buffer, 2048 currently allocated List archives suggest that this is due to mythbackend not reading the data from the PVR250 fast enough, but don't suggest any reason why that would be the case, though one suggested fscking the recordings partition which I did to no avail. A SMART self-test ran without errors. A bonnie++ run seemed to indicate reasonable disk performance. When playing back programs (even programs that recorded prior to the power loss event), I get some odd behavior while skipping ahead and back. The total program time varies, sometimes by a few seconds, sometimes by outrageous amounts (e.g. something like 768:45:22 might be displayed for program length). The skip takes a second or two to complete, and the picture stutters and goes all pixelly. Pre-crash, skips were always instantaneous. Recording is via a PVR250, playback is through X on an FX5200. Hardware and software configuration has not been touched for ages. Linux mythbox 2.6.12-20050717 #3 Thu Sep 1 18:53:47 PDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux Jan 1 14:15:06 localhost kernel: ivtv: version 0.2.0 (rc3j) loading CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ stepping 00 512MB memory. Can anyone suggest what to look for here? ___ 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] Minimum hardware requirements for a Frontend
I need a frontend to mainly view Live TV and recorded shows. What would you recommend as the minimum hardware requirements for a frontend? I have a modded xbox running debian as a frontend. Does pretty much everything SD, I understand it does hd but cannot verify the fact. Total cost with hot-swap software hack = $70usd If you can find an old one used its even better as they are easier to hack than the new ones like mine. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Quick question - Do I have to kill backend before I re-run mythv-setup?
Title: Message In my experience you can run mythtv-setup anytime including when the backend is running but no changes will take effect until you restart the backend. For me "service mythbackend restart" works just fine on my FC2 system. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris RibeSent: Monday, January 02, 2006 10:46 AMTo: Discussion about mythtvSubject: Re: [mythtv-users] Quick question - Do I have to kill backend before I re-run mythv-setup?I've been told on the list that it is a good idea, perhaps even necessary. Hopefully someone will follow this up with more information. On 1/2/06, Kirk Grell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got just about everything running and am waitingon the satellite box to be hooked up.I need to run'mythtv-setup' one more time to setup the 'directv.pl'script to control the receiver.Do I need to shutdown the backend before I run mythtv-setup?I've looked onGoogle MythTv.org and searched the list but didn'tsee anything regarding this.Thanks,Kirk__ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about.Just $16.99/mo. or less.dsl.yahoo.com___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://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] How do I add existing avi files to mythtv's recordings?
How do I add existing avi files to mythtv's recordings? Do I need to transcode into a particular resolution etc? BillK -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How do I add existing avi files to mythtv's recordings?
Thanks, thats the hint I needed! BillK On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 02:21 +0100, Johan Kihlström wrote: tis 2006-01-03 klockan 09:02 +0800 skrev William Kenworthy: How do I add existing avi files to mythtv's recordings? Do I need to transcode into a particular resolution etc? BillK ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Any particular reason for not using MythVideo? Just drop the avi's in a designated library and tell Myth to update video library. Tada! Your avi's easily accesible from within Myth through xine or mplayer. Best regards Johan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Slight OT: Keeping your systems clean
Title: Message Having been a hardware (mainly HP/Compaq wintel servers) for quite a few years now, I've come accross this quite a bit.Whilst keeping the inside of your systems is important with the use of appropriate filters etc, you must be very careful when using compressed air andlittle hoover-type devices. Moving lots of debris and accumulated dust around the inside of a system can generate static which may well discharge when your compressed air/hoover moves the debris over things like DIMMS and voltage regulators - which will obviously damage your system. It's best to install the filters or generate a high air-pressure environment inside your system case from the word 'go'. Cleaning out a system 'just because' using hoovers and air could land you in more trouble than its worth. Another thing to keep in mind. If you are going to bepulling your cards and memory sticksor unplugging the power supply you NEED to be at a anti-static workstation workingwith a ground strap connecting theequipment to ground and you to theequipment. Yes you can getaway with it most of the time but now that its winter there is a good chance that you will do damage to your system thru static. You might not see it for a few weeks but this is the leading cause of delayed death in electronics. Its quite easy to make your own, a google will show you how. Bill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Default input on TV tuner card
I have this problem for a v4l card and alsa. I solved it by putting some lines in local.start (gentoo uses this file as the last part of the bootup sequence for user commands before starting X - other didtros do similar) /etc/conf.d/local.start ## myth related stuff _ mtd -d amixer set Master,0 77%,77% unmute echo amixer set PCM,0 77%,77% unmute echo amixer set Line,0 77%,77% mute captur echo amixer set Capture,0 10%,10% captur v4lctl -c /dev/video setinput Composite1 v4lctl -c /dev/video setnorm PAL On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 21:02 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem were after a reboot and startup of mythbackend and mythfrontend that the default input for the tuner card seems to get lost. After every reboot, when I go into Watch TV, I get snow. C which corrects the problem and tunes to Tuner 0. The weird thing is I have one capture card (Happauge PVR-250) and have already set the Default input field in mythtv-setup to Tuner 0 (because I'm running of the RCA jack of the PVR-250 card). The other weird thing is that when I go into Watch TV after the reboot, the OSD shows Tuner 0 on it and when I hit C it still shows Tuner 0 but I get the picture. I'm currenty using the KnoppMyth R5A22 distro but I've also seen the same thing when I used to run Debian etch and the current svn build. Any thoughts? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] How to customise menus
Sorry, this should be straightforward but I cant make it work! I am trying to customise my Optical Disk menu. So far, based on previous threads, I have copied /usr/share/mythtv/optical_menu.xml to the /usr/share/mythtv/themes/MythCentre directory on the backend and modified the file.(I am using MythCentre theme) But nothing changes on the frontend menus. I have restarted both backend and frontend. What am I missing? Not sure if this is the solution to your problem but what worked for me was to create a new folder named MyTheme in the themes folder and copy the entire theme you want to use to the new folder. Select your new theme from the list of available themes and apply it. Now when you make changes to the files you will see them. Not only that but your new folder will survive upgrades to the base theme. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Avermedia AVerTV GO 007 FM - No Sound in MythTV
wvl wrote: So with the help of the v4l mailinglist I got sound in tvtime by using sox to send everything from /dev/dsp2 (tvcard sound device) to /dev/dsp (regular soundcard). But now I need mythtv to record the sound instead. Usually you'd attach the line-in of your soundcard to the sound output of your tvcard, but this card shouldn't need that (I think...). Nevertheless I tried using a cable to connect the two, but however I configured the devices using kmix (soundcard: line-in muted, but on record. tvtuner sound device: no idea. tried a few things like enabling record on everything and raising the volume to max) it never worked. So does anyone have experience with a simliar setup? I'm sure my configuration should be no different to anyone else with one of these cards that expose their sound via a second sound device instead of the usual connect and record. Forgive me if I'm stating the obvious, but if you've already got the TV sound coming out of dsp2, shouldn't all you need do is specify dsp2 as the audio source for that card in mythtv-setup? In my limited experience with btaudio and snd-bt87x, getting to the point of having a functional /dev/dsp device was 99% of the work. IIRC, the only thing left to do after that point was to select the right dsp device in myth setup and make sure that device wasn't muted. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Important information concerning DataDirect's outage
interesting.. I have data for today (friday), none for tomorrow (sat) from midnight to midnight, and then data starts again at midnight sun morning. in a nutshell: saturday is blank. try mythfilldatabase --refresh-today should do today and tomorrow. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Problems installing PVR150MCE under FC2
Title: Message Ok let me throw this out there. Why not install a standard ide drive and use it to hold the os. You should be able to finda small one for next to nothing.Put all your myth stuff on the sata drives. As for the drivers you might be able to compile your own for your current kernel or you can try loading an older version that has a precompiled module. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James AyoubSent: Friday, December 30, 2005 3:49 PMTo: Discussion about mythtvSubject: [mythtv-users] Problems installing PVR150MCE under FC2I currently have a Wintv PVR150MCE card in my computer and part of the installation includes updating the kernel from 2.6.5 ti 2.6.10. The problem is that I have a SATA controller card and linux will only load under 2.6.5 with it. Under 2.6.10 or a fresh install of FC3 and FC4, the computer hangs when it trys to disable IRQ 11. Is there a way to get ivtv drivers working without going to 2.6.10??? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Remote query
That device should be easy enough to map yourself. All you need to do is open a text editor and then press buttons on the remote and see what key is printed and map those to the functions you desire. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Fox Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 6:15 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: [mythtv-users] Remote query Hi, Anyone happen to have the following remote working; [4992768.005000] input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Twinhan Tech Remote Control] on usb-:00:10.2-2 [4992768.036000] input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Twinhan Tech Remote Control] on usb-:00:10.2-2 I read somewhere since this remote acts as a USB HID device I should just use mythweb to remap the keys. Anyone have the same remote and have it working/mapped in the fashion described. If so, can you dump your sql table for these key mappings. 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
[mythtv-users] myth selecting the wrong sound channel
Ive emailed about this problem before and the help has gotten me a little way along - it seems that a number of others have the same problem without a solution we can find. On selecting a channel, it may (randomly, works sometimes, sometimes not) have sound. A press of the sound channel select (+) on a keyboard brings the sound back. Worse, this results in some recordings being blank, and some recordings losing sound half way through. I presume because a number of people have this problem, thats its old and a fix is available but I cant find it. Can someone help? BillK -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Backend Refuses to Speak to Frontend
Or would my best option just be downgrading the back-end? If I were to downgrade my back-end, would I have problems if my front-end version was newer? Thanks for all the help. The way mythtv is designed to work the backend and all the front ends should be running the same rev of the code. Minor differences should be ok as long as the communications protocol is the same between them. In the case of svn and release code together, that will not work. Running svn is always risky and is not going to get you much troubleshooting help so unless there is a strong reason to run svn code, stick with the release. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Help!! My system has crashed (maybe OT?)
The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon: Device: /dev/hda, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/messages). You can also use the smartctl utility for further investigation. No additional email messages about this problem will be sent. Now the system boots past udev, etc as far as the graphical rotating hour glass which just sits there rotating. That error message sounds like you have had a drive failure. First thing I would try is to download and burn the drive diagnostic disk from your drive manufacturer and make sure that the drive is still good. It will likely find that one or more sectors of the drive are no longer readable. If you have only had it running for a year there is a good chance that the drive is still under warrenty. If the drive is still good then I would recommend a fresh start with a format and reload. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Using MythTV as a non-TV recording device
I'm not going to be recording TV with this at all, just programming a record button onto our AMX system and hooking it up to the computers serial port. How should I go around this? Is mythtv even the right choice? As all the others have said, mythtv is not a good choice for this app. The old sledge hammer fly swatter concept for sure. Its simple to configure a shell program to do all the video stuff. You could even set up a key or button to bring up mplayer or xine as a live video window for setting up the camera. Since its a linux system you could even lock down the box so that was the only app that could be run. Depends on how much you can trust your users and how tech savy they are. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] snd_bt87x, kernel version, lirc replacement - lessons learned
Because my daughter, who is off at college, complained bitterly about having to constantly swap VHS tapes to record her shows at school, as compared to Mything them at home, I threw together a Myth box for her out of spare parts. In the process, I found out a few things that might be useful to someone else in the future, so I'm posting them here for archival purposes. The only usable capture card I had was an old ATI TV Wonder, which has an MSP3400 chip. In the past I had successfully used that particular card with btaudio on RH9 and with snd_bt87x on FC2. This time, I could not get DMA audio to work with any recent distro. I tried FC4, Ubuntu 5.10, and FC3 with a dist-upgrade. No joy for any of them. I was about to go back to RH9 and btaudio, but I tried installing FC3 again without a dist-upgrade and that worked. So, in short, I was not able to get snd_bt87x to work with any kernel newer than 2.6.9 or so. The symptoms were simple: No /dev/dsp device was created, nor was the capture card recorded in /proc/asound/. But everything is now working fine with the default kernel installed by FC3. Second, I managed to save myself the headache of finding an IR receiver for lirc. Once upon a time I bought, but never used, a Chicony KB-9820 IR keyboard. Using that, along with a Philips six device Universal Digital DVD Learning Remote (PHDVD6ZL, $20 at Fry's) gave me a usable remote control at a tiny fraction of the effort that was required to get lirc working on my original Myth box. I can't say if that particular keyboard is still available anywhere, but it does work well. Other than that, I finally discovered a use for Windows Internet Connection Sharing, as her Internet connection is with Airimba wireless who only allow a single connection per account. That was solved with two old NIC's, an ethernet crossover cable, W2K ICS, and a bash script that retries mythfilldatabase until the connection is available. Of course, daughters being what they are, she was distressed to find out that her Myth can only record one program at a time (unlike the home box). Maybe I can pick up another TV Wonder off Ebay... Hopefully, having this note in the archive will help if someone encounters any of the same problems. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Recording Bitrates fpr PVR 350
Hallo, what are usefull settings for recording dayli episodes of cartoon with a pvr-350? u choose a bitrate form 2500-3500. good or bad idea? Personally I would record at a bit higher rate (5000-6000) and then transcode them much smaller and enjoy the quality of the recording. You might just get a hi-def tv someday and you will thank yourself. If you are just watching and deleting then whatever rate looks good is good enough. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] new myth hardware
My questions are the following: - I would like to watch live TV so I am considering getting a dual tuner card that is well supported by MythTV and has a hardware encoder/decoder. I am considering the PVR 500. Do you have comments/suggestions? A couple of other things to consider. First, unless your dish outputs two streams at the same time you are going to need 2 dish receivers. The 2nd point is controlling your receivers. I dont think that there are any dish receivers that have serial port control so you are going to need a IR blaster device or two. The big issue with remote control on dish is that they use an odd frequency (56KHz vs 48KHz) which makes things interesting. If you do some searching of the archives you will see that about the only commmercial solution that works well is a device called MyBlaster serial. I forget the url of the place that sells them but you can get the linux driver for it at myblaster.sourceforge.net That also is in the archives. I have a 2 receiver dishnetwork setup here if you want to pick my brain about it. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] I am having some audio problems.
I am having some audio problems. Sound sometimes stays muted (?) when switching to a channel. A change back and forward from another video card, or exit live TV and reenter that mode and sound is fine. This is annoying, but I can live with it. However, whats worse is that some recordings lose sound part way through. In particular, a daily news program loses sound just as the weather report starts - wierd as its hard to see something in a video signal causing the audio to switch off at this point in a recording every day! Other programs also sometimes have the same problem. There is no problem with the sound (alsa) system, and exiting the recording and after going to live TV its ok (same program, sound can go while watching the recording as its being made). I am sure I have seen others with this problem, but I cant find a cure. BillK -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Need some setup help second frontend will not play recorded shows + dvd rip problem
Error: File missing 2005-12-15 01:23:20.607 PlaybackBox::play(): Error, /video/store//1006_20051213013500_20051213023500.nuv file not found Error: File missing Error: File missing Error: File missing Not 100% sure about this one but generally you need to set up a network share on your frontend that points back to your backend machine's video directory so that the files are available locally. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Instalation problems.
-- Does anyone have MythTV installed on Ubuntu Breezy 5.10? I have been having so much trouble installing it on Ubuntu that I have tried 7 times without success that I don't know whats right, whats installed that I have been reinstalling Ubuntu every time. I have used the How-to on Ubuntu's forum, that its so incorrect that I have given up on that. http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91511highlight=mythtv Does ANYONE have a How-To that will work? I am new to Linux so a link that's is kinda designed for someone like me would be great! -- Thanks Bill -- Well Bill, if all you want to do is get mythtv running on a linux system there are several easier options. If you are bound and determined to use ubuntu you are pushing the envelope a bit so there are not as good of docs yet. The first thing I would suggest is KnoppMyth (www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html ) Pertty much turn-key. Loads linux and mythtv in one shot. The second is a great howto at (wilsonet.com/mythtv/) This is a great step by step howto that was based (last time i looked) on Fedora Core. I set mine up with this howto but have since customized mine quite a bit. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] X Bad_alloc Error
I'm experiencing an error which I cannot figure out. This is a Via SP13000 motherboard, running Fedora 4 on 2.6.14-1.1644_FC4 with mythtv svn 8205. I have xorg.conf set for 800x600 with 16 bit depth. These settings are down from 1280x1024x16 which was what I had set before things went bad. Note that there is not output, yet, to TV.. this is only monitor output. I am at a loss to understand what is causing this.. Help gratefully accepted... Geoff I cannot speak about the exact cause of your error but it sounds like a lack of resources. Since you are running a svn version its anyones guess if you have a problem or its the current version in svn. Probably the best thing to do would be to fall back to the release version until you get it working and then try upgrading. Maybe by then, the problem will be gone from svn. :) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] OT: Xine lirc
Anyone have troubles with Xine 1.1.1 and lirc? it does not work at all for me and I've tried to rebuild it but no --enable-lirc does nothing. Thanks. Not sure which version had the problem but I remember hearing that lirc support was broken in a few releases. I personally had the problem for a while last summer but not since I rebuilt this last time. Current setup is FC2 with a wilsonet based install and updated with apt-get. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] OT: Xine lirc
Anyone have troubles with Xine 1.1.1 and lirc? it does not work at all for me and I've tried to rebuild it but no --enable-lirc does nothing. Thanks. Looks like I am running 0.99.4 compiled from source. Guess I had problems with the apt-get version. Probably the very one you have now. I also remember some sort of a ixrevent work around to pass the keystrokes. You should be able to find it in the mythtv archives. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] single channel, with no guide info
I have just added a set top box input to mythtv on a v4l analog input. Good picture and sound, but I have run into an unexpected problem. Currently, I want to use manual tuning and dont want to pollute my guide database with the channel information - I want mythtv to have a single channel, with no guide info. However, without this info its difficult to record anything - is there a workaround? Ideally I would like to press R, have it start recording until I manually stop it. BillK -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Re: sorry to bother you about your xbox mythtv image
-Original Message- Go ahead and download the torrent file from the following location: http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3397792 - I was finally able to download the file and it does work. I need to figure out how you are setting up the smb mount but at least its able to play recorded tv. If anyone wants this I can put it online at a host with some bandwidth. :) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Re: sorry to bother you about your xbox mythtv image
-Original Message- Go ahead and download the torrent file from the following location: http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3397792 It looks like someone is still seeding it. If not, email me back and I will create an updated release this week. There is an update to the remote control drivers that needs to be included for 3rd party remotes to work. -Rob Anderson -- It looks likew nobody is seeding that anymore. At least nobody at the moment. Like the other person, I am currently without a usable xbox frontend os an update sounds really nice. Thanks!!! Bill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Need to prioritise cards/inputs for live tv
I have a system with a DVB-T card and the composite input of an old analog tuner card connected to a foxtel STB. How do I get the system to default to the DVB-T card for live tv? It always starts with the analog card? I also want to get the analog tuner up and running again, and ran into the same problem - it looks like this card always takes priority over the better quality DVB-T card (same channel content). From what I can see, the only priorities are to do with recording. using .18 on gentoo BillK -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Silent Fan for Socket A (AthlonXP 3000)
It doesn't meet your cost constraint, but when I was considering doing the same thing you are doing, I went with the Thermalright SI-97A. I got the 'A' model because it is also usable with socket 754 so I could keep using it when if/when I upgrade. It doesn't come with a fan, but I had a 92mm Zalman fan which was fairly quiet to begin with and then I undervolted it to 5V which made it silent. The best place to find out which fans are truly quiet is at www.silentpcreview.com. The only tricky part is that the Thermalright fan mounting clips require your fan have open corners with the mounting holes accessible from the inside. Fans with filled-in corners won't work, unless you're handy with a dremel tool. Believe it or not, I've found that the best way to get a quiet heatsink is to find out what the air-cooling overclockers are using and use a quiet fan instead of the screaming Volcanos they use. In the end, however, I did not upgrade my Athlon XP. At the time, it turned out to be cheaper (and cooler) to upgrade to a socket 754 motherboard with an Athlon or Sempron 64 CPU, so I did that instead. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Are there any xbox mythtv distros stillbeingsupported?
Yes please. It would be greatly appreciated. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Holt Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 12:20 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Are there any xbox mythtv distros stillbeingsupported? On 30/11/05, William [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That distro fails when it cannot find any files at deb http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian unstable mythtv I have not been able to access this repo since 2 weeks ago. Hmm, unfortunately this would explain your problem: http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/dists/unstable/mythtv/README About 4 weeks ago I rebuilt my xebian 1.1.4 (aka debian sarge) based mythtv frontend from the source packages available at this repository. I have all of the resulting deb files and some related ones if you would like copies let me know and I can make them available: libaal-dev_1.0.4-1_i386.deb mythmusic_0.18.1-2_i386.deb mythtv-frontend_0.18.1-4_i386.deb libmyth-0.18.1-dev_0.18.1-4_i386.deb mythnews_0.18.1-2_i386.deb mythtv-themes_0.18-1_all.deb libmyth-0.18.1_0.18.1-4_i386.deb mythplugins_0.18.1-2_all.deb mythtv_0.18.1-4_all.deb modutils_2.4.27.0-3_i386.deb mythtv-backend_0.18.1-4_i386.deb mythvideo_0.18.1-2_i386.deb mplayer_1.0cvs_i386.deb mythtv-common_0.18.1-4_all.deb mythweather_0.18.1-2_i386.deb mythbrowser_0.18.1-2_i386.deb mythtv-database_0.18.1-4_all.deb mythweb_0.18.1-2_all.deb mythdvd_0.18.1-2_i386.deb mythtv-debug_0.18.1-4_i386.deb mythgallery_0.18.1-2_all.deb mythtv-doc_0.18.1-4_all.deb - Ben ___ 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] Are there any xbox mythtv distros stillbeingsupported?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Hofstra Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 5:15 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Are there any xbox mythtv distros stillbeingsupported? I also have had the xbox just sitting around because I cannot compile mythvideo or mythmusic. I have xebian, and have tried messing around with the repositories, but nothing seems to satisfy the dependancy problems. Does anyone have a working sources.list that allows compilation of 0.18.1? I would think with this being debian off-shoot we should be able to compile myth on it somehow... One of the above posters mentioned gentoox for mythtv. I was not aware they had such a thing, but upon reading the notes, you apparently need to upgrade your xbox hard drive to at least 20gb. - This is from the gentoox pro install archive. You only need 4.5gb free. The requirements for these installations is as follows: 'E' - You must have 4.5GB free on your E: drive. 'F' - You must have 4.5GB free on your F: drive and 700MB free on your E: drive. The 700MB on E: is just used during installation and is freed up after the install is complete. (i.e. it is just temporary space) 'Native' - You must have 4.5GB free on your E: drive and at least a 4.5GB F: partition. The 4.5GB on E: is just used during installation and is freed up after the install is complete. (i.e. it is just temporary space) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Dish Network and MythTV
I am thinking about switching from cable to satellite and I have a few questions. For specific reasons, I am interested in Dish Network only. Is there a tuner card that will allow me to use MythTV with Dish Network (preferred) or do I have to use the infrared port? If the latter, is there a more reliable serial port? Pretty much the only reliable way to change channels with dish is with a commercial ir blaster. With 2 of the myblaster devices and 2 receivers I have have not noticed any instances of it missing a channel change in about 3 years of use. If you want to use the myblaster device you can get the latest drivers at myblaster.sourceforge.net. I am the author of the linux drivers so feel free to ask me questions outside the list if you need help. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] vonage caller id
That's not entirely true... I can't prove this yet, because I don't have a way to sniff the packets before getting to my vonage ATA (yet), but I've found a few sources that say they can sniff the callerID info off of port 10,000. Again, I don't know. I got my vonage box about 3 months ago. So, I'm guessing it won't be port 5061. I wasn't trying to say that you can't sniff the caller ID off the newer boxes, but the stock vonagesniff.pl won't do it for you... it'll at least need some tweaking, that is if the SIP packets are the same... I have not tried this yet but I am planning to. The new boxes maintain a connection back to their server on port 1 (ten thousand). In my network setup the ATA is just another drop off the hub so I should be able to monitor traffic. Might be worth setting up a packet sniffer on that port to see whats being passed when a call comes in. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Are there any xbox mythtv distros still being supported?
I have been trying to get my xbox running the current version of mythtv and have been having lots of problems. Either I can get myth installed but not lirc (gentoox) or the software is simply missing (bit.blkbk.com). So my question is this: Whats out there that offers a seamless install of linux and mythtv? I really dont want to do all the work of patching and debugging that goes into a generic install of gentoo or fedora. Thanks! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Are there any xbox mythtv distros still beingsupported?
I use Xebian. There are debian packages available for the latest stable release. If you want to go with bleeding edge (and unstable!) svn versions then you will have to compile. Norm I thought I tried that. What is the package manager with Xebian? apt-get? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Are there any xbox mythtv distros still beingsupported?
I just got done installing mythtv on the xbox using the xebian distro. Hopefully, this will help you: http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/MythTV_on_Xebian_HOWTO Also take a look at the reference links at the bottom. That distro fails when it cannot find any files at deb http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian unstable mythtv I have not been able to access this repo since 2 weeks ago. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Monitor Opinion
It's a very highly rated monitor. See http://www.anandtech.com/displays/showdoc.aspx?i=2400. I tried to get one yesterday for $334, but the $100 coupon code had already run out. I guess I'll just keep an eye out for the next deal. Chris Ribe wrote: Call me paranoid, but that deal is too good to be true. Questions I would want answered before buying : - Is mythtv going to have a problem with the weird resolution? - How well do the internal scaler and component input work together given the weird resolution? - What is the response time really like? I've never met an LCD TV whose picture impressed me. Of course, the pricetag on that one could make up for a lot of shortcomings. On 11/29/05, *Mike Robinson* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in the process of putting together a Myth system. I've got the hardware for the combined BE/FE box picked out, but now I'm looking at monitors. This will be a smaller monitor for a bedroom. I was wondering if I should have any concerns about using this monitor: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/ProductDetail.aspx?sku=20053YRc=uscat=snpcategory_id=6198cs=04l=enmnf=694Page=productlisting.aspx http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/ProductDetail.aspx?sku=20053YRc=uscat=snpcategory_id=6198cs=04l=enmnf=694Page=productlisting.aspx It has a resolution of 1680x1050 (16:10 aspect ratio). I'll be recording OTA with two HD3000 cards. My graphics card will be an FX5200: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16814125191 Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org mailto: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 mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Weird stuttering depends on resolution
Try 720x480. Since you are using a -250 its not going to cost any cpu time but it will eat up drive space twice as fast. Depending on what you have set for your modeline that should stop the scaling thats going on when you choose odd recording resolutions. If you use a different screen resolution try setting your recording to use the same values as the visible portion of your screen or the try the max dimensions of your screen. One of them should give you good performance. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark J. Small Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 2:33 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: [mythtv-users] Weird stuttering depends on resolution Hi everybody, I was playing with my settings earlier today, and came across something odd. I have 3 Freestyle PVR-250's on a stock 0.18.1 debian system. I had been recording at 512x384/3000 for quite a while. I read in the archives that 352x480 was a better recording resolution, and would gaive me better quality. When I tried it, I found that I was getting very bad jitters. Every few seconds, the an old frame would seem to jump in to the picture. When I changed the resolution to 368x480, the jitters went away. However, when I went up to 384x480, they came back. Anyone know what is going on with that? Mark ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] 1 tuner, overlap consecutive recordings on single channel
My default settings (global start recording 12 seconds before, end recording 20 seconds late) work for most single recordings, but there's always the exception here and there. And the global modifiers are (I think) thrown out the window on a transition from show to show when recording consecutive shows. This is currently cropping up on Scifi channel, where I'm recording several episodes of Stargate SG1 that I haven't seen previously. Since they often run in mini-marathons, I wind up with the first episode truncated, and perhaps 5-10 seconds of the first episode in the second recording. There is no substitute for 2 tuners. Once you have 2 you will never go back. :) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] New HDD for Mythtv 5400 or 7200 rpm
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Borchmann Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 11:32 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: [mythtv-users] New HDD for Mythtv 5400 or 7200 rpm hallo, what hdd should i buy 5400 or 7200 rpm? anyone uses the maxtor 5a320j0 disk? 320 gb for smal money... -- Christian SPITFIRE Borchmann Either is fast enough to keep up with mythtv so its up to you. Personally I would go for the faster drive. IMHO - MAxtor drives are junk. Have had to replace 2 already. Of course, they were both covered under warrenty so its not a huge deal. I noticed both times they upgraded me to a different drive so it might be model specific. Mine were both 240gb drives from about a year ago. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] [mythtv] Modifying the D1 Home Media Centre to use a tv_grab script
Hi, A few quick points. - Myth is GPL. You should be able to get the source to the D1 version of mythfilldatabase and have a look at it. Once you have this, figuring out how to switch xmltv input back on should be relatively easy. Note, I use the term relative in the sense of it will be easier with source than without source. Depending on your mAd haxor skillz, and how much D1 changed mythfilldb, that might not be easy in any absolute sense. But, at least you'd know you're working with the right version of mythfilldb, which uses the correct database schema, etc. - I've seen some posts about setting up cron jobs to call mythfilldatabase rather than having myth call it. This seems somewhat irrelevant to me. You can set things up either way, but you need to get mythfilldatabase running and accepting XMLTV input first. I'm assuming that the HMC already calls some version of mythfilldatabase - I'd just leave that part of things alone, until you know you need to mess with it. - When you do look at the D1 version of mythfilldatabase, it might also help to look at this script: http:// www.onlinetractorparts.com.au/rohbags/xmltvau/ . That script takes data from D1 and generates XMLTV data, allowing normal myth users to use the XMLTV data. You want to do the reverse, get normal XMLTV data into D1 format. It might give you insight into how D1 store their data and help you add normal XMLTV input back into your HMC. Or it might not :) - Once you get all that working, there are other XMLTV sources than just tvguide.org.au: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/xmltv/ . Don't get me wrong, they're a great source and probably the one I'd try first (I wrote the XMLTV grabber :), but don't think they're the only source. Be well, Will :-} ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] of crontab, tv_grab, and mythfilldatabase
Some perls:
Most tv_grab_* scripts (all?) must be run as the user under which you
originally setup the config file (thats because it lives in, in my case
for the user mythtv, in the users home directory
(/home/mythtv/.mythtv/somename.xml) - did you set it up as root, if
using roots cron?
cron uses a truncated environment: you may be trying to use some
enviromental function thats there on a normal login, but isnt in the
cron env.
BillK
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 09:53 +, Paul Graydon wrote:
I'm getting frustrated and irritated by what should, to all intents and
purposes, be a simple task.
I'm running a Gentoo box with dual DVB-T cards, and Mythtv. The aim is to
provide a simple,
reliable method for the resources staff at this college to record programs
for use in classroom and
export onto DVD.
Everything is working fine under Gentoo, I had issues with other distros for
various reasons that
seemed to me rather distro specific (e.g. circular rpm dependancies under
RHES).
Gentoo might have taken longer to initially setup, but I've had so little
hassle actually getting
it to work in comparison to the others!
The guide here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV was extremely
useful.
There is just one task that I'm struggling with. The automatic downloading
and importing of XML tv
data from the Radio Times website, using tv_grab_uk_rt. I can get neither
mythfilldatabase --
quiet nor the same variant of tv_grab_uk_rt to successfully download the
file. Following a script
I dug up from the mythtv-user archives I put the following in place in a file
called tv.sh:
{
rm -f /media/dvb.xml
date
/root/env.sh
perl /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt --config-file /root/.mythtv/RadioTimes.xmltv
--quiet /media/dvb.xml
/usr/bin/mythfilldatabase --file 2 -1 /media/dvb.xml
} /root/log.log 21
/media is the location of a separate partition for recording.
If I run this manually, i.e. ./tv.sh, it all works fine. Off it goes to the
internet, fetches the
data and imports it into the database. Same occurs with mythfilldatabase
--quiet, if I run it
manually it works.
If I run that as a crontab process, on the root users crontab, it fails to
fetch the information
from the internet and its baffling me as to why.
My initial thought was that maybe it hadn't picked up the proxy environment
variables, hence the
calling of the env.sh script which just exports the proxy variables. That
hasn't solved the
issue, and I'm beginning to pull my hair out.
Given the length of time it takes to run the tv_grab command when its called
by cron, it looks to
me like the program is timing out on its fetching of info.
The following is an output from my log.log file (imaginative name, huh!).
##
Tue Nov 22 09:36:01 GMT 2005
All data is the copyright of the Radio Times website
http://www.radiotimes.com and the use of this data is restricted to
personal use only.
could not fetch http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/channels.dat, aborting
### bypassing grabbers, reading directly from file
2005-11-22 09:39:02.734 New DB connection, total: 1
2005-11-22 09:39:02.755 New DB connection, total: 2
Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file
Updating icons for sourceid: 2
Updated programs: 0 Unchanged programs: 0
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
2005-11-22 09:39:04.454 Connecting to backend server: localhost:6543 (try 1
of 5)
2005-11-22 09:39:04.473 Using protocol version 15
##
Can anyone help me at all? Offer any perls of wisdom?
-
Paul Graydon
Network Technician
Haywards Heath College
http://www.hhc.ac.uk (01444) 456281
Joy is not in things; it is in us. Richard Wagner
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RE: [mythtv-users] Needed: Xbox compatable Lirc with support for the microsoft DVD remote
I had to patch LIRC to add USB support. The patch I used is in the Gentoo package manager (for lirc-0.7.0-r1 from memory), so you might find it via GentooX, I don't know, otherwise it can be downloaded here: I have not been able to get that patch to apply cleanly to the 0.7.0 release. It keeps bombing out when trying to create/patch the makefile.am, makefile.in and xbox_usb.c. I even tried to manually patch the files with cut and paste but it will not compile. Gives me an error about using a i686 something or other when compiling for xbox. Sorry I am not at home to recreate the error. Anyone got a pre-patched copy of lirc they can bundle up and send to me? This is the only issue left. Bill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Which card to use for connecting directly to satellite dish?
Hi, I am running PVR-350 successfully for last 2 years. Now I want to add satellite dish also to my setup. I got a dish for free and got some info about the satellites accessible from Ireland. Which card is suitable (and cheap, but this is not top most priority)? I am looking at http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/pages/prods_digital -s.html and the first three (last one is USB) are looking good. Which one should I go for? Cheers! Vijay G. It would be helpful to know where in the world you are and what satellite service(s) are you interested in. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] nonlinear 16:9 stretch?
divide it into 10 equally, or nearly equally wide vertical stripes. 1) For the stripe on the far left you could repeat each pixel 3 times. 2) For the next two stripe repeat each 2 times. 3) Then stripes four through seven are just a normal one:one mapping. 4) The next two stripes would be the same as (2). 5) The final stripe would be the same as (1) In other words the pattern for repeating pixels would be... [3,2,2,1,1,1,1,2,2,3] Dont forget that the vertical also needs to be scaled so your routine gets to be quite a bit more complicated. Not sure if some kind of a lookup table might do the trick. Divide the screen into zones and assign each zone a pair of strech values. You would need to limit the number of pixels per zone to keep it from becoming visible as a pattern. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] xboxusb lircd.conf
Now I have to write a howto so that other people can get their xboxes set up without the trouble that I had! Perfect timing. :) I am just compiling mythtv on a xbox gentoox distro now. Should be interesting. Anyways, please do write it up. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Re: Mythburn hosed my /video directory
quote- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Fechner Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 4:59 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: Mythburn hosed my /video directory OK. So that was just stupid on my part. I guess I had read that post some time ago but had forgotten about it. Well, I recorded a show as a test and used Mythburn again. When I did it, it didn't appear to have done anything. I checked my /video folder and everything was gone again. So if I'm correct then Mythburn deletes everything in the working folder everytime it runs? Is it just me or is that kind of stupid? Anyway, my second problem is that Mythweb still lists all of my former (now deleted) programs under Recorded Programs even though they don't seem to exist anywhere. They even show the thumbnail. How do I get rid of them? That's the last time I use Mythburn. end I am sure there are ways to fix it with mysql commands but one way that works is to create a file with the correct filename in your video dir and then use the normal delete function to delete everything. I think there is a thumbnail file with a matching name created for each program file so look for thumbs without programs and touch the missing files. They can be empty. BTW - Mythburn is a very complicated install on anything other than a knoppMyth system. I am not surprised it didnt work for you. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Myth 1280x720 modeline on screenplay 5000
I found this website helpful: http://www.linuxis.us/linux/media/howto/linux-htpc/video_card_configuration.html I don't know what an InFocus ScreenPlay is, but I ended up driving a 42 Grand Wega with DVI out - HDMI in. I think the VGA route would have been much simpler, though. In particular, look at the Modelines ready-to-go for native HD display section. Will From: Blastzone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] Myth 1280x720 modeline on screenplay 5000 Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 07:48:55 -0500 I've been running MythTV for about 4 months now, and I'm pretty much sold. Most of my friends are too. I picked up an InFocus ScreenPlay 5000 last night, which runs at a native rez of 1280x720. I've also got a regular 17 CRT monitor, for when I don't feel like watching TV on a 6-foot-wide screen. I'm driving both through the standard VESA output, but *could* get a DVI cable if necessary (for about $40). My myth system is running on a Pundit-R w/ ATI 9100IGP chipset on FC4. So, my question is: I need to set up a modeline to drive output at 1280x720. Has anyone set this up yet, and either has one, or can point me in a direction where I can learn more about this? 2. Since the monitor the projector have different ratios, I don't expect the CRT to take to a 1280x720 too well. Is there a tool that I can use to easily change resolutions (preferrably with a hotkey)? Thank you! ___ 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] MyBlaster/Dish Network
Steve, Once I finish updating the script I will look into having it part of the distro. Thanks, Bill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV + perlbox = voice command for mythtv?
-- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Schultz Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 5:35 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] MythTV + perlbox = voice command for mythtv? I am very interested in a voice command media PC. There is software available for Windows Media Center that can accomplish this but, I want to use mythtv. After some researching on the web, I stumbled across http://www.perlbox.org/. This appears to be a voice command system for linux! Has anyone attempted to marry the two applications together? I would be great to yell Computer, channel up to change the channel when you are too lazy to look for the remote. Any ideas or experiences that people have had would be great! -- One area I see as problematic is the feedback from your audio system. Since its an untrained system its going to respond to anything it hears that fits one of its patterns. A quick look at the docs did not seem to indicate any ability to use a audio stream as cancelation of background noise. Might be possible with an external box but that would be a project in itself. Good luck! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] MyBlaster/Dish Network
[---/usr/local/bin/change_channel.sh---] #!/bin/bash perl /usr/local/bin/MyBlaster.pl $1 Its good to see that my scripts are still getting used. I just wanted to add a note about starting the script. You do not need to call the script from with a shell. Just put: /usr/local/bin/MyBlaster.pl in the script field for that capture card. If you need to use options: /usr/local/bin/MyBlaster.pl option option Mythtv will append the channel number to the end of the string and will call the script shell itself. No need to double shell the thing. Also will give you a noticable speed increase when changing channels. PS - I should have time this winter to pull the learning mode code into the origional command set and will release an update. Check sourceforge for the latest version which is currently 1.4.1 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] nVidia and XvMC
When I try to fire up watching live TV with XvMC hardware acceleration enabled, I get an X11 BadAlloc error with my nVidia 6200 TC and XOrg 6.8.2. I'm running a subversion branch with 0.18 fixes, and my system is configured with 2 HD-3000s and the latest NVIDIA x86-64 drivers. The processor is an AMD Athlon 64 3200+, and I have 1 GB of ram in it. When I disable the XvMC acceleration, it plays back, but it's very, very choppy, and the sound gives tons of prebuffering pause errors, or something like that. xdpyinfo tells me that I have both XVideo and XVideo-MotionCompensation extensions available. Anyone have any hints or additional configuration questions to help me out? I'd appreciate it tremendously. Thanks in advance, Will ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nVidia and XvMC
Has anyone ever gotten XvMC working on a 64 bit native AMD64 machine? I was under the impression that it just didn't work yet. Greg That may very well be the case. If it is, what's the best alternative? I would guess that the next nVidia release might take care of it, but I'd rather not sit around on my hands until that happens. And what about the slowness of plain XVideo? Thanks. Will ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nVidia and XvMC
I think your machine is fast enough that you may not need XvMC... and if you don't need it you might be happier without it. I put up with XvMC only because my AthlonXP 2100 can't cut it without it. Try disabling xvmc and enabling libmpeg2 decoding. (I think it's on the same page in the playback settings.) With mpeg2 decoding you should be able to decode without chopiness, ymmv. What sort of deinterlace setting should I apply? That may be a problem as well, because if I remember correctly, the 1080i inputs are a lot worse than the 720p. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nVidia and XvMC
I sometimes use XvMC on my x86-64 system. It does work, though it has its issues. My machine is very similar to the original poster's (Athlon64 3200+, Nvidia FX5200, Nvidia 7676 drivers, Gentoo x86_64, MythTV svn 7337; HD3000, Fusion3HDTV, PVR-500). But, I can get smooth playback without XvMC running: libmpeg2=80%user / 10% idle, Standard Decoder=60%user / 30% idle, XvMC=25%user / 60% idle. However, I don't use XvMC very much, because every time an OnScreenDisplay comes up, the audio stutters until a second or two after the OSD goes off. So, every time I skip a commercial, it takes a while to smooth out. Other than that, the video decoding works very well. Thanks for your help, Todd. What version of mythtv are you using? I would assume that it's some sort of subversion pull, since the DVB HD support in 0.18.1 doesn't have the channel scan wizard... As for the OP's X11 BadAlloc error, this is a longstanding issue in the x86-64 NVidia driver. NVidia has been told about it a long time ago, but it has remained unresolved for several driver releases (ain't those closed source binary drivers great!). The workaround is to repeatedly try to start an XvMC decoder, after 20+ failures, it will eventually succeed. Then, XvMC will work until you restart X11.I use an XvMC capable mplayer app to keep trying XvMC until it succeeds. I should probably look into OSD options, to get rid of the XvMC problems.. I would gladly take a less attractive OSD in exchange for smooth playback while leaving lots of CPU available for commercial flagging or other Linux tasks. ___ 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] nVidia and XvMC
MythTV svn 7337; Okay, sorry about that... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Myth and a DEC2000
I was able to get the channel information into my database by using the 0_18_fixes branch from subversion. Take a look at http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/ for information. It will let you scan the capture card and get the information over the air. Much easier than a series of SQL and/or perl scripts, IMHO. Thanks for the suggestion anyway :) Im going to try and put the data I have in my channels.conf into the database manually when I get a chance this week. As I understand it dvb_channel and dvb_pid are now depreciated, so I need data in channel and dtv_multiplex. Anyone mind posting a mysqldump so I can have a reference to work from? On Tuesday 15 November 2005 11:13, Andrew Wilson wrote: Jeez, I didn't realise I've been playing with myth for that long. Sorry, please disregard my advice :-) ___ 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 mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nVidia and XvMC
I have gotten XvMC working on my Athlon 64 with an nVidia 6600LE.
However, it wasn't easy, basically, I do a brute force hack to beat it
into submission whenever I start up my X Session.
First, when compiling Myth, force it to compile against libXVMCNVIDIA,
I've had nothing but trouble with libXVMCW. This requires modifying the
if statement around line 1699 of configure (talking v0.18.1 here).
You might need to do ln
-s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.1 /usr/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so for this
to work properly.
Recompile MythTV, go into TV Options and select the option to use XVMC.
Playback a video and prepare to be disappointed (at least I was).
Why is this? Because it couldn't open up the video properly.
Apparently it gets some access denied issue (I'm at work so I can't get
the exact output right now). Here's what I did to fix it.
Create a two frame mpeg movie using mencoder. It's important that it
have more than one frame. Two seems to work quite well. Then, I made
sure that my version of mplayer had xvmc support with it. I had to
recompile it for that (using Ubuntu Breezy). Then, I had my startup
script for mythfrontend execute the following script:
#!/bin/sh
# bang away on XVMC until it works
ROUNDS=0
for x in $(seq 1 100); do
LINE=$(~/bin/mplayer -vo xvmc -vc ffmpeg12mc ~/bin/fix.mpg -ao
none 21 | grep End of file)
if [ x$LINE == xExiting... (End of file) ]; then
echo Took ${ROUNDS} tries to succeed
exit
fi
ROUNDS=$x
done
echo Unable to initialize xvmc
I wonder why I didn't think of that...
Where fix.mpg is the name my little two frame mpeg file. This
essentially tries to run Mplayer 100 times on the little file. The
first time it actually succeeds and plays it, it stops. The reason is
because I notice that once I actually had XVMC working, it would just
keep working for that session. Thus, by beating XVMC into submission
when I first start, I'm good for XvMC on MythTV. Usually it takes about
3 or 4 tries. Once it took 15, but that's the most. This script
automates all that, and makes it transparent.
If I have a DVD and want to extract the first couple of frames to generate a
fix.mpg, what is a simple mencoder command line to do that? That would make
life a lot easier than trudging through the mplayer man page...
Thanks very much. That's the most informative answer I've gotten all over
the internet.
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Re: [mythtv-users] nVidia and XvMC
I have gotten XvMC working on my Athlon 64 with an nVidia 6600LE.
However, it wasn't easy, basically, I do a brute force hack to beat it
into submission whenever I start up my X Session.
First, when compiling Myth, force it to compile against libXVMCNVIDIA,
I've had nothing but trouble with libXVMCW. This requires modifying the
if statement around line 1699 of configure (talking v0.18.1 here).
You might need to do ln
-s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.1 /usr/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so for this
to work properly.
Recompile MythTV, go into TV Options and select the option to use XVMC.
Playback a video and prepare to be disappointed (at least I was).
Why is this? Because it couldn't open up the video properly.
Apparently it gets some access denied issue (I'm at work so I can't get
the exact output right now). Here's what I did to fix it.
Create a two frame mpeg movie using mencoder. It's important that it
have more than one frame. Two seems to work quite well. Then, I made
sure that my version of mplayer had xvmc support with it. I had to
recompile it for that (using Ubuntu Breezy). Then, I had my startup
script for mythfrontend execute the following script:
#!/bin/sh
# bang away on XVMC until it works
ROUNDS=0
for x in $(seq 1 100); do
LINE=$(~/bin/mplayer -vo xvmc -vc ffmpeg12mc ~/bin/fix.mpg -ao
none 21 | grep End of file)
if [ x$LINE == xExiting... (End of file) ]; then
echo Took ${ROUNDS} tries to succeed
exit
fi
ROUNDS=$x
done
echo Unable to initialize xvmc
Where fix.mpg is the name my little two frame mpeg file. This
essentially tries to run Mplayer 100 times on the little file. The
first time it actually succeeds and plays it, it stops. The reason is
because I notice that once I actually had XVMC working, it would just
keep working for that session. Thus, by beating XVMC into submission
when I first start, I'm good for XvMC on MythTV. Usually it takes about
3 or 4 tries. Once it took 15, but that's the most. This script
automates all that, and makes it transparent.
That being said, XVMC is not a be all end all here. It still seems far
from perfect. Occassionally I see a frame that looks out of place, I've
been told that this is a sign that XVMC isn't working 100% properly on
my system [1]. But XVMC is working. I now have a grayscale display
that gets really choppy when the UI is up, but requires basically 0
overhead on my XOrg server instance.
This is good enough for me to watch and pause live 720p programs with no
difficulty. Overall CPU load will hover around 20% there with
ocassional I/O related hiccups. However, I still have some problems
with 1080i programs stuttering, probably I/O related issues. I think
there is something funky with my motherboard and linux support (I get
the nasty digital static on my pcHDTV card too, but HDTV from the cable
box works fine). So, if anyone knows ways to make those better, I'd
love to hear them. Otherwise I'm gonna have to buy a new motherboard,
which is a shame because this one has gazillions of bells and
whistles(the pcHDTV records just fine on my Athlon 700, that just can't
play it back).
FWIW, here's the specs on the system I'm working with:
AMD 3200+ (clocked at 2400), 1GB generic ram, MSI k8n-neo4 platinum,
400GB LVM DMA 100/133 drives (2 x 200, hdparm -tT gives a read rate of
about 50MB/s on the drive), WinTV PVR-250, XFX GeForce 6600LE 256MB,
firewire to DCT6200 comcast box, pcHDTV 3000 (which gets staticy if
there is any other substantial disk I/O at the same time, don't blame
the OC either, it barfs at 2GHz too).
--Patrick
[1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV
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Well, I just got home, recompiled mplayer (with xvmc support this time
(Oops)), and everything worked like a charm. Great picture, no breaks, 18%
CPU usage while watching recorded video. What a difference. Thanks for all
your help.
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RE: [mythtv-users] Trouble getting Fedora?
I decided to give up on KnoppMyth (for reasons discussed earlier) and try FC4 with Jaro(e?)d's guide, but I'm having a helluvatime getting an FC4 that passes the media test. I've donwloaded the discs via BitTorrent, then FTPed them from Fedora, and I'm getting discs that look good, that boot--the torrent one even installs beautifully*--but that when FC checks them, says they don't pass the media check. I just cracked I had problems with the iso images from several ftp sites the last time I made a set of disks. I ened up trying several differeent sites before getting them from a european site. Your download should pass a md5 checksum test, if not check another site. Or it could be like another poster said, slow down the recorder and dont verify the disk. Good luck! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] tv_grab_au data source list
Hi all, With the recent NineMSN issues, I thought I'd post a link to my list of Aus XMLTV data sources. Diversity is a good thing :). http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/xmltv/ And if anyone knows of others to add to the list, please let me know. Be well, Will :-} ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Converting VGA ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to component
I have an InFocus X1 projector, which in addition to handling HDTV TV formats also does VGA, up to 1024x768. Now when switching from an ordinary video source (connected via S-Video) via the home theatre amp to the computer, one has to switch both the amp the projector over to the new source. I'm currently considering the various home theatre amps that upconvert all video sources to component video. I'm thinking of connecting the PC's video via the amp in this case, and wondered if anyone had experiences with VGA-component cable convertors (I've not been able to track down a local vendor with a component-out Nvidia card). Any ideas? Stephen If your tv supports the RGB-HV format of component video you can drive the tv directly from your vga port. I use this format with my system and it works quite well. If you do a little searching around you can find the plans for it. If not you will need an adaptor. No experience there, sorry. Bill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Tivo/Yahoo deal - How convenient!
Although the Yahoo portal for your Tivo is new, this feature, with the minimum 1-hour in advance, has been around for a while at tivo.com. Slowly, the canned and subscription DVR's are listening to what people really want. But I don't understand why they won't just put a simple web interface on their own devices. MCE has a similar feature - logon to msn.com and schedule a recording, but no remote access directly to your MCE from a browser. Reasons like this are why we all love our MythTV. --- The reason for the lack of a web interface is simple. As long as you are forced to go thru a portal they are able to collect info on your viewing habbits. This info can be sold or can be used to push targeted ads to your web browser when you access their web site. Of course, I would never use a PVR that did not have the ability to completely skip commercials or one that allows the broadcaster to erase programs from my box so the lack of a web interface is not a big deal. LOL - Its gotten so bad at my house that the wife will no longer watch live tv just because the commercials are so annoying. PS - Putting a unprotected web server on the internet is just asking for trouble seeing how poor of a job most people do in keeping up with the security updates. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Gave up IR Blaster ordered MyBlaster
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Wilga Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 1:20 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Gave up IR Blaster ordered MyBlaster At 3:44 AM -0600 11/5/05, Robert Denier wrote: Something like one of national instruments digital I/O boards would likely be simple enough to program to do it, but then it is cheaper to buy the my blaster. Similarly you could develop something similar to the myblaster, but then it is again easier just to buy the MyBlaster product since the time involved, for me to do it anyway, would not be trivial.. This might be something to think of if I ever get back to working on figuring out USB chips with microcontrollers.. If nothing else it would be a good learning project.. I've worked with PIC microchips in the past. If I had time, I would work on such a device now, but unfortunately I don't. By the way, instead of having the microcontroller only understand a preset list of IR codes, which is the way the MyBlaster works, I would make it software configurable. Even a regular serial port is fast enough for this method; you don't have to use USB. Please let the list know how the MyBlaster works, when you get it. If it does, I may get one and hack it to use the opto interface I'm using now with my Dish receivers. That way I don't have to worry about interference, since it's wired link to the receiver. -- Dan Wilga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Administrator http://www.mtholyoke.edu Mount Holyoke CollegeTel: 413-538-3027 South Hadley, MA 01075Who left the cake out in the rain? The MyBlaster will do what you want very nicely. There is even beta support for learning mode. Once I have some time this winter I will release another driver update. PS the latest driver is available from sourceforge. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Absolute NEWBIE, question about Linux
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 7:33 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] Absolute NEWBIE, question about Linux Hi all. I just joined this mailing list about 2 days ago, and have been reading almost every message for tips and tricks. I am completely new to the MythTV scene and am very interested in becoming a part of the growing community. One thing that I have noticed in the If you would like a shortcut to getting both mythtv and linux up and running without too many headaches check out KnoppixMyth which boots from a live cd and will install a linux distro complete with mythtv on your hard drive. Then you can concentrate on getting things the way you want. If you screw up badly, pop in the disk and start fresh. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Is gentoo the way to go?
There seems to be a lot of gentoo users here! I have found gentoo easy enough to set up for a pure myth only box (twice, was running only one week and HW failure!) but I have built many gentoo systems previously. There are howtos for myth, lists, docs and user forums are excellent (best of any distro Ive seen). Dont let them tell you it takes forever to build a gentoo system: do a stage 3 binary install and its quite fast for the install portion - its configuration that takes a while. Nothing difficult though. Read the docs first, and follow the recommendations - one foot in front of the other - best linux learning experience there is. Stability is often far better than a binary distro, especially when fiddling by installing things. And if it breaks it can almost always be recovered unless you dd'd the whole disk! Downside: If inexperienced, and you dont follow the install instructions, things can/will go off the rails. Watch the funky LIRC install. In many cases such as some myth and dvb packages you need to go to ~x86 to get them compile. Definitely a QA problem there. Its myth, TV cards, lirc and finding out about this whole PVR phenomonen thats hard - gentoo is dead easy by comparison. BillK On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 12:36 +, Ben Edwards wrote: I have been having various problems installing MythTV. My prefered option is Ubuntu Breezy but I cant get that woring (c other email). I have also had some luck with KnoppixMyth whitch is great at getting a basic system running. However getting everything working properly is a nightmare as there are no consistent usable sources. You are not meant to do a apt-get dist-upgrade, even upgrade is problematic. I cant even get the dependencies for nuv2disc without getting into dependency hell!. I am thinking gentoo may be the answer but how stable is it and how difficult to set up (I have compiled a few kernels). Ben -- Ben Edwards - Bristol, UK, England WARNING:This email contained partisan views - dont ever accuse me of using the veneer of objectivity If you have a problem emailing me use http://www.gurtlush.org.uk/profiles.php?uid=4 (email address this email is sent from may be defunct) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] EPG in Australia?
How do you use the OzTivo guide in MythTV? The two tv_grab_au scripts I have tried so far have huge gaps, are often plain wrong and dont cover all the available channels. I realise its mostly not the scripts fault, but the source material thats the problem - but what script makes the best of whats available for Perth? BillK On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 18:30 +1000, Phill Edwards wrote: In Australia only the now and next information is sent via EIT as the stations have copyrighted the programme guide data that they use. All of the online guides are copyrighted with disclaimers specifically against any use of the data in PVR's. As far as I am aware there is only one legal way to get programme guide data in Australia and this is via us at IceTV. I don't think that's correct. The other way is to use the OzTivo guide data which does not have copyright issues. And it's free, unlike IceTV's data. Regards, Phill ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] The Race to Change the Channel
Unfortunately, I need XvMC as the processor is not quite up to the task otherwise (pegs at 100% in normal live TV, 40%-50% with XvMC). BillK On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 10:38 +0100, David Watkins wrote: On 18/10/05, W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The alternative view: in Australia (Perth) the program info is lousy, missing or plain wrong. Channel surfing is where its at (we only have a small handful of channels - not counting the dups), and the delays are a real pain, as is the OSD jitter which seems endemic, and the lockups, ... mythtv is a From what I've read, OSD jitter is more common in PAL land (where I guess you are) than under NTSC If I'm not using XvMC then I can get rid or the jitter by using 'kerneldeint' de-interlacing instead of 'Bob'. If I'm using XvMC then jitter isn't a strong enough word for what happens when the OSD comes up. The whole picure goes berserk! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] microsoft MCE remote control
Hi, I bought a microsoft MCE remote control (handset Model 1039, USB IR Bus 001 Device 013: ID 0471:0815 Philips) after seeing that Lirc is supposed to support it and mythtv. However, once I started searching for the actual way to get to work it seems to be a lot less clear than I hoped. Can someone point me to a resource to help me get this working? BillK -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] fails to match channels to program info
I am using the immir.com/tv_grab_au file to get channel information for Perth, Australia. However, I cant figure out what I need to do to attach the program information to the channels I am using. It always inserts them into the database under a duplicate xmltvid, which from what I have read should be the identifier. What fields in mysql::channels and the xml file need to match for mythfilldatabase to work? BillK -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Transcoding one recording into multiple segments
I'm not sure if this is possible, but what I want to do is record some of the various music channels/shows, and then go through and set cut-points for some of the music clips shown, so I can rip them out of the recording. I've got a setup going where I can 'remove commercials' from the recording, where it will stitch all the different music clips onto each other, one at a time. Is it possible in any way to transcode each 'segment' of an editted recording into a seperate file? I do my transcoding semi-manually for this, via mythtranscode + transcode. So what I was thinking of doing was adding an option to mythtranscode, say --segment 2 or something, which will only honor the cutlist's second pair of cutlist frames. Is there already a way of doing what I want? And if not, is there a better way of implementing it? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
