[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] 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
[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] 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
[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
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[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
[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
[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] 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 2>&1
>
>
>
> /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?
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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
