Re: [mythtv-users] US-Broadcast, Hauppage WinTV, Fedora Core 2
R. G. Newbury wrote: >Sounds like the database is 'corrupted' in that you have no tuning >information in it. >Sounds like you have not fully followed the instructions. The fact that >your hardware works with xawtv strongly implies that the kernel+module >side of things is set up correctly for your hardware so that the problem >is the mythtv setup. > > Yup. I'm fairly confident that my hardware + kernel is OK. >THIS IS YOUR JANUARY QUIZ. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS. > >1.Have you set up a subscription at labs.zap2it.com? > > Yes. >2.Have you set up a broadcast lineup there, using your zip code, >thus determining the local channels you can receive at your antenna >site? Note that this will list both analog and digital channels: you may >have to select one type or the other for your lineup. If your card is >analog, then including digital channels is "contra-indicated" > > Yes, but I think there are digital channels in there. I just checked my subscription; I did in fact have 10 digital channels selected... Too bad I have to wait to get home from work to see if this worked... :-) >3.Have you saved that lineup, and remembered to write down you user >name and password? (Note these are not the same as the ones for >zap2it.com alone) > > Yes. >Have you entered that lineup, including username and password in >mythtv-setup under "Video sources"? (Note that this may run >mythfilldatabase... and take a while) > > Yes. >4.Have you associated your card (entered in mythtv-setup, "Capture >Cards") with that source, by selecting that combination in >mythtv-setup, "Input Connections", using the correct description for the >physical input you are using. > > Yes. >And finally, >5.Have you run mythfilldatabase, (again) to actually download a >program schedule to your mysql database? > > Yes. > >THIS QUIZ WILL COUNT FOR 100% OF YOUR WINTER TERM MARK! > > :-) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] US-Broadcast, Hauppage WinTV, Fedora Core 2
(This is a continuation of the 'MythTV and TV' thread I started, except that it has moved more from config to debugging... so I figured I'd rename it and post detailed data again.) I am using a Hauppage WinTV card - see below - and having some problems with tuning and changing channels. The system is a Fedora Core 2 SMP box, running mythtv 0.18.1 from rpms. testing I've done: 1. xawtv works fine on the backend, I can tune in channels available in my area. 2. If I set up the backend for NTSC/US-broadcast, I get a green screen (static/no signal type.) 3. If I set up the backend for NTSC/US-cable, I can get one channel - whatever channel I program as the default/initial in the mythtv-setup. I get no sound at all. 4. If I try to change channels, the image on the front end freezes, and I get 'there was a problem with the video' and from then on, the backend will no longer transmit anything from the WinTV card. Other backend functions work fine. There are no error messages from the backend at all. I'm a bit mystified; I've looked at the code and at least the freq tables for US-bcast and US-cable are identical for channels 2-13, so I'm not sure why my system works with one and not the other. In my mind, this points to either a) database corruption, b) driver problems within mythtv, or c) flaky hardware, although the last is questionable since the card works fine with xawtv and worked fine in the system it was pulled from. Right now I am going on the assumption that I have database corruption. Could someone please point me in the right direction? I can dump the sql database, but what am I looking for? Thanks, --Yan 00:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11) Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV Series Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr+ Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR- http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and TV
Chad wrote: >>Q: Where do I put in the correct freq table for US Broadcast? >> >>--Yan >>___ >> >> > >When you run mythtv-setup on the backend, under the General option, >you come upon a screen that says: >Global Backend Setup > >In that screen there lies that option. > > Right, I put in US broadcast but it doesn't seem to be the correct one... ISTR US cable uses the same freqs for channels 2-13, and if I put in US-Cable I can in fact receive channel 9 OK. If I put in US-Broadcast I get green screen on channel 9 I am hooked up to an off-air antenna, no cable. So whatever programs the freqs for the bttv card isn't doing it right... Or something. --Yan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and TV
Chad wrote: >When you run mythtv-setup from the backend, you should be able to set >NTSC/PAL, as well as set the Video Source to pair with your Television >input (after you setup your Video Source of course). > > OK, I've got a big chunk of the problem identified... I think the US-Broadcast freq table in my backend is hosed. I can get a channel (so far, 1 channel) on a frontend if I change the freq table to US-Cable. I get a freeze-and-fail on the front end if I try to change the channel or do anything else, requiring a backend kill and restart if I want to try TV again... The backend stays up, it just refuses to respond to any TV requests from front ends... Nothing in the mythtv logs that I haven't posted before, but this appears in my backend system log: Jan 29 18:11:24 tooth kernel: bttv0: timeout: drop=585 irq=369523/369526, risc=1da1a024, bits: HSYNC OFLOW FDSR Jan 29 18:11:24 tooth kernel: bttv0: reset, reinitialize Jan 29 18:11:24 tooth kernel: bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363). Jan 29 18:11:27 tooth kernel: bttv0: timeout: drop=612 irq=369605/369608, risc=1da22024, bits: VSYNC HSYNC OFLOW FDSR Jan 29 18:11:27 tooth kernel: bttv0: reset, reinitialize Jan 29 18:11:27 tooth kernel: bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363). Jan 29 18:12:37 tooth kernel: bttv0: timeout: drop=854 irq=373828/373831, risc=1e16d024, bits: HSYNC OFLOW FDSR Jan 29 18:12:37 tooth kernel: bttv0: reset, reinitialize Jan 29 18:12:37 tooth kernel: bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363). Jan 29 18:12:38 tooth kernel: bttv0: timeout: drop=881 irq=373865/373868, risc=1f0a2024, bits: VSYNC HSYNC OFLOW FDSR Jan 29 18:12:38 tooth kernel: bttv0: reset, reinitialize Jan 29 18:12:38 tooth kernel: bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363). Jan 29 18:15:39 tooth kernel: bttv0: timeout: drop=919 irq=381030/381034, risc=18aa907c, bits: HSYNC OFLOW FDSR Maybe someone can make sense out of that. Seems that the bttv driver is reseting the card... Q: Where do I put in the correct freq table for US Broadcast? --Yan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and TV
Chad wrote:
>{LOG SNIP}
>
>Glancing over your logs, it looks ok. What kind of signal are you
>using? analog cable TV, digital cable TV, Satellite, Rooftop
>Antenna..?
>
>
Broadcast antenna... Is it possible that MythTV is setting the card for
Composite rather than antenna in? Any way to test / log that?
>You can set both local and global settings from the frontend depending
>on what you are trying to adjust. At the top of the screen it
>generally tells you if it's global options you are changing.
>
>
I've been all through the frontend and I can't find anywhere where I
would set NTSC/PAL or anything like that...
I've tried this on both frontends now with the identical result...
--Yan
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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and TV
Yan Seiner wrote: >Michael T. Dean wrote: > > > >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Well, it says /dev/dsp isn't there, so if you can play sound in other >>applications (i.e. xine or MPlayer), then you need to change the sound >>settings in Myth (from the default sound device--"/dev/dsp"--to the one >>your system is using, like "ALSA:default"). (And change your mixer to >>"default".) >> >> >> >> >This is one of those 'DUH' solutions I had never compiled sound >support into the kernel for this particular machine. > >New kernel being built, with ALSA and bt audio as we speak. More later. > > > OK, I got my new kernel built, booted, and all that jazz. Using 2.6.15.1, with bttv and btaudio based on some archives suggesting btaudio over alsa bt87xx. I no longer get a segfault, but I still don't get a clear image on the remote. Specifically: First time around, the frontend connects, and gets a green screen with a horizontal fuzzy bar across the top, exactly as if there is no signal or wrong standard/frequency. After 15 seconds, the display freezes, and the frontend displays an error about 'something went wrong' or similar. After that the frontend can no longer connect to the backend when I click on Watch TV. The logs for the backend are attached. Basically it is getting no signal from the card. I can bring up xawtv and pull in channel 28 fine. The frontend and the backend are talking since I can pass channel information to the backend from the frontend, and I get a video image Any suggestions? Is it possible to turn on greater debugging so I can what standard/freq MythTV is setting the card for? Is it possible the frontend is setting a different standard from the backend? --Yan [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail]# /usr/bin/mythbackend -v all 2006-01-29 16:31:21.860 New DB connection, total: 1 Starting up as the master server. 2006-01-29 16:31:21.877 New DB connection, total: 2 2006-01-29 16:31:21.888 Channel(/dev/video0):SetFormat(): Probed input: 0, name = Television 2006-01-29 16:31:21.888 Channel(/dev/video0):SetFormat(): Probed input: 1, name = Composite1 2006-01-29 16:31:21.888 Channel(/dev/video0):SetFormat(): Probed input: 2, name = S-Video 2006-01-29 16:31:21.888 Channel(/dev/video0):SetFormat(): Probed input: 3, name = Composite3 2006-01-29 16:31:21.891 Channel(/dev/video0)::SwitchToInput(in 0) 2006-01-29 16:31:21.894 Channel(/dev/video0)::SwitchToInput() setting video mode to NTSC 2006-01-29 16:31:21.900 New DB connection, total: 3 2006-01-29 16:31:21.903 Channel(/dev/video0):SetFormat(): Probed input: 0, name = Television 2006-01-29 16:31:21.904 Channel(/dev/video0):SetFormat(): Probed input: 1, name = Composite1 2006-01-29 16:31:21.904 Channel(/dev/video0):SetFormat(): Probed input: 2, name = S-Video 2006-01-29 16:31:21.904 Channel(/dev/video0):SetFormat(): Probed input: 3, name = Composite3 2006-01-29 16:31:21.914 Channel(/dev/video0)::TuneTo(8): curList[6].freq(181250) 2006-01-29 16:31:21.914 Channel(/dev/video0)::TuneToFrequency(2900) 2006-01-29 16:31:21.928 New DB scheduler connection 2006-01-29 16:31:21.935 JobQueue::RecoverQueue: Checking for unfinished jobs to recover. 2006-01-29 16:31:21.939 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: findJobs search bitmask 4, found 0 total jobs 2006-01-29 16:31:21.941 mythbackend version: 0.18.2.20051227-1 www.mythtv.org 2006-01-29 16:31:21.942 Enabled verbose msgs :all 2006-01-29 16:31:23.937 Reschedule requested for id -1. Query 0: /record.search = 0 AND (record.recordid = -1 OR -1 = -1) AND program.manualid = 0 AND p rogram.title = record.title 2006-01-29 16:31:24.311 |-- Start DB Query 0... 2006-01-29 16:31:24.314 |-- 0 results in 0.002398 sec. 2006-01-29 16:31:24.314 +-- Done. 2006-01-29 16:31:24.319 PruneOldRecords... 2006-01-29 16:31:24.319 AddNewRecords... 2006-01-29 16:31:24.321 |-- Start DB Query... 2006-01-29 16:31:24.345 |-- 0 results in 0.024525 sec. Processing... 2006-01-29 16:31:24.346 +-- Cleanup... 2006-01-29 16:31:24.346 Sort by time... 2006-01-29 16:31:24.346 PruneOverlaps... 2006-01-29 16:31:24.346 Sort by priority... 2006-01-29 16:31:24.346 BuildListMaps... 2006-01-29 16:31:24.346 SchedNewRecords... 2006-01-29 16:31:24.346 Scheduling: 2006-01-29 16:31:24.347 Sort retrylist... 2006-01-29 16:31:24.347 MoveHigherRecords... 2006-01-29 16:31:24.347 Retrying: 2006-01-29 16:31:24.347 ClearListMaps... 2006-01-29 16:31:24.347 Sort by time... 2006-01-29 16:31:24.347 PruneRedundants... --- print list start --- Title - SubtitleChan ChID Day Start End S C I T N Pri --- print list end --- 2006-01-29 16:31:24.347 Scheduled 0 items in 0.4 = 0.38 match + 0.03 place 2006-01-29 16:31:24.352 Seem to be woken up by USER 2006-01-29 16:31:31.942 JobQueue::ProcessQueue() started 2006-01-29 16:31:32.029
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and TV
Michael T. Dean wrote: >> >> >> >Well, it says /dev/dsp isn't there, so if you can play sound in other >applications (i.e. xine or MPlayer), then you need to change the sound >settings in Myth (from the default sound device--"/dev/dsp"--to the one >your system is using, like "ALSA:default"). (And change your mixer to >"default".) > > This is one of those 'DUH' solutions I had never compiled sound support into the kernel for this particular machine. New kernel being built, with ALSA and bt audio as we speak. More later. --Yan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and TV
Michael T. Dean wrote: >On 01/28/2006 08:44 PM, Yan Seiner wrote: > > >>I've been using MythTV successfully for about a year... >> >>But now I want to watch TV. >> >> >> > >patient man... ;) > > Well, I built MythTV as a means of keeping my kids from trashing tapes and DVDs. It works so well I want more. :-) > > >>My setup is as follows: >> >>tooth - FC2 mythtv backend, mysql server, file server, and also houses >>the WinTV card. >> >>hermes - KnoppMyth box. Mounts files via NFS >> >>I got everything set up, as per the docs. I can click on WatchTV on >>hermes, and I get a mostly green window with a bar of black and color >>fuzz at the top. This is the typical thing you see if the TV card is >>not set to the correct frequency/channel/standard. >> >>After a while, the backend says: Couldn't read data from the capture >>card in 15 seconds. Stopping. >> >>... >>2006-01-28 16:30:08.176 NVR: Error, cannot open DSP '/dev/dsp' >>open: No such device or address >> >> >> > >Fix your sound... > > OK, how do I do that? The backend sits in a room far away from the frontend. I want sound with my TV So how do I get mythtv to send the sound along with the video down the network pipe? --Yan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv rebooting system
Brian Wood wrote: >>Let me guess: toothpaste? Actually works good for a period of time >>but >>has a tendency to harden. >> >> >> >Probably K-Y Jelly. > > Well, properly used it has a tendency to make things harden as well... . ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and TV
Chris Ribe wrote: > Just to clear things up, do you have a frontend running on tooth? No front end. It's a backroom file server. No monitor or keyboard. > How is your current setup different from the one you have been using > successfully for about a year? All I've been uisng MythTV for is serving movies to 2 frontends. Now I'm trying to integrate TV feed into it. Movies are captured on a third (non-myth) workstation. --Yan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MythTV and TV
I've been using MythTV successfully for about a year... But now I want to watch TV. My setup is as follows: tooth - FC2 mythtv backend, mysql server, file server, and also houses the WinTV card. hermes - KnoppMyth box. Mounts files via NFS I got everything set up, as per the docs. I can click on WatchTV on hermes, and I get a mostly green window with a bar of black and color fuzz at the top. This is the typical thing you see if the TV card is not set to the correct frequency/channel/standard. After a while, the backend says: Couldn't read data from the capture card in 15 seconds. Stopping. That wouldn't be so bad, except that a few seconds later it segfaults (log attached at bottom of this message.) I am in the US, I have everything set to NTSC and so on. I tested the card in another box, and xawtv can pull in channels just fine. The really bad thing is that I've googled about and it seems that the solution is to manually enter the frequency tables into mySQL... Before I go that route, I figured I'd ask for advice. Any suggestions? I have a pcHDTV coming next week, but I'd really like to have this figured out by then... === [EMAIL PROTECTED] yan]# /usr/bin/mythbackend -v all 2006-01-28 16:29:45.565 New DB connection, total: 1 Starting up as the master server. 2006-01-28 16:29:45.582 New DB connection, total: 2 2006-01-28 16:29:45.595 Channel(/dev/video0):SetFormat(): Probed input: 0, name = Television 2006-01-28 16:29:45.596 Channel(/dev/video0):SetFormat(): Probed input: 1, name = Composite1 2006-01-28 16:29:45.596 Channel(/dev/video0):SetFormat(): Probed input: 2, name = S-Video 2006-01-28 16:29:45.597 Channel(/dev/video0):SetFormat(): Probed input: 3, name = Composite3 2006-01-28 16:29:45.600 Channel(/dev/video0)::SwitchToInput(in 0) 2006-01-28 16:29:45.603 Channel(/dev/video0)::SwitchToInput() setting video mode to NTSC 2006-01-28 16:29:45.609 New DB connection, total: 3 2006-01-28 16:29:45.611 Channel(/dev/video0):SetFormat(): Probed input: 0, name = Television 2006-01-28 16:29:45.612 Channel(/dev/video0):SetFormat(): Probed input: 1, name = Composite1 2006-01-28 16:29:45.612 Channel(/dev/video0):SetFormat(): Probed input: 2, name = S-Video 2006-01-28 16:29:45.613 Channel(/dev/video0):SetFormat(): Probed input: 3, name = Composite3 2006-01-28 16:29:45.621 Channel(/dev/video0)::TuneTo(7): curList[5].freq(175250) 2006-01-28 16:29:45.621 Channel(/dev/video0)::TuneToFrequency(2804) 2006-01-28 16:29:45.630 New DB scheduler connection 2006-01-28 16:29:45.635 JobQueue::RecoverQueue: Checking for unfinished jobs to recover. 2006-01-28 16:29:45.636 mythbackend version: 0.18.2.20051227-1 www.mythtv.org 2006-01-28 16:29:45.637 Enabled verbose msgs :all 2006-01-28 16:29:45.638 New DB connection, total: 4 2006-01-28 16:29:45.644 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: findJobs search bitmask 4, found 0 total jobs 2006-01-28 16:29:47.642 Reschedule requested for id -1. Query 0: /record.search = 0 AND (record.recordid = -1 OR -1 = -1) AND program.manualid = 0 AND program.title = record.title 2006-01-28 16:29:47.833 |-- Start DB Query 0... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.835 |-- 0 results in 0.002566 sec. 2006-01-28 16:29:47.836 +-- Done. 2006-01-28 16:29:47.841 PruneOldRecords... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.841 AddNewRecords... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.842 |-- Start DB Query... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.846 |-- 0 results in 0.003313 sec. Processing... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.846 +-- Cleanup... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.846 Sort by time... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.846 PruneOverlaps... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.847 Sort by priority... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.847 BuildListMaps... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.847 SchedNewRecords... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.847 Scheduling: 2006-01-28 16:29:47.847 Sort retrylist... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.847 MoveHigherRecords... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.847 Retrying: 2006-01-28 16:29:47.847 ClearListMaps... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.847 Sort by time... 2006-01-28 16:29:47.848 PruneRedundants... --- print list start --- Title - SubtitleChan ChID Day Start End S C I T N Pri --- print list end --- 2006-01-28 16:29:47.848 Scheduled 0 items in 0.2 = 0.19 match + 0.01 place 2006-01-28 16:29:47.851 Seem to be woken up by USER 2006-01-28 16:29:55.643 JobQueue::RecoverQueue: Checking for unfinished jobs to recover. 2006-01-28 16:29:55.647 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: findJobs search bitmask 4, found 0 total jobs 2006-01-28 16:29:55.648 JobQueue::ProcessQueue() started 2006-01-28 16:29:55.651 JobQueue currently set at 1 job(s) max and to run new jobs from 00:00 to 23:59 2006-01-28 16:29:55.654 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: findJobs search bitmask 4, found 0 total jobs 2006-01-28 16:30:08.032 13 ACCEPT[]:[]15 2006-01-28 16:30:08.038 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2006-01-28 16:30:08.038 adding: hermes as a client (events: 0) 2006-01-28 16:30:08.038 2 OK 2006-01-28 16:30:08.045 Getting next free recorder after : -1 2006-01-28 16:30:08.047 Checking card 1. Best card so far 1 2006-01-28 16
[mythtv-users] CD woes
I have a problem when trying to play music CDs. First off, I am using KnoppMyth... Pretty much stock; I have not made any changes except to LIRC. When I try to play a CD, most of the time mythtv crashes. Basically the GUI disappears, leaving the bare desktop still running X, and the mythtvfrontend process is consuming 99% of CPU There are no errors anywhere in any log file that I've found, and I haven't been able to figure out what player mythtv is using... When I try to rip a CD, it rips the first second or so of every track, and then ejects the CD. It does this with both CD players in the machine; an internal IDE CD/DVD player and an external firewire DVD player/burner, so I am pretty sure it's not hardware related, at least in that sense. Recorded movies and DVDs play fine using either player. Any ideas? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] nfslockfile.lock
No, the master backend does this when it starts up. How can you expect your backend to record stuff if you have the storage dir mounted read-only? Well, only the movies recorded off-line (outside of mythtv) are on that filesystem. So it makes sense to me to have it mounted read-only Anyway, it would be nice if it could be done. the backend has other filesystems available to it with write access. --Yan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] nfslockfile.lock
I have all my movies on a central server which runs mysql and the myth-backend. Sometime in the installation process, the backend decided to put a nfslockfile.lock in my movies directory. This is a minor nit, except that I want my movies to be mounted read-only, and the backend won't start if it can't access the nfslockfile.lock... 2005-11-02 08:18:22.079 mythbackend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-11-02 08:18:22.094 Enabled verbose msgs : important general /data/seiner/mythtv/movies/nfslockfile.lock: No such file or directory Unable to open lockfile! Be sure that '/data/seiner/mythtv/movies' exists and that both the directory and that file are writeable by this user. Any way to tell mythbackend to use a lock file in, say, /var/lock? --Yan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] 'detachable' mythtv clients
I've got sort of a unique situation I have a portable computer that provides the entertainment engine for the living room. When we go on trips, we take that computer with us. The old system used to run a whole bunch of python scripts to download the favorite recent movies - it kept a running average of movies watched - so you would always have your favorite 40 movies with you. (If you ever traveled with kids, you know why this is important...) Now I have a myth front end on that machine; the back end and mysql both run on the main server I don't think it would be too difficult write a script to dump favorite movies from mysql into a 'satellite' mysql running on the portable, and then run mysql and the backend on the portable if the hostname is not 'livingroom'. But before I go reinventing the wheel, I thought I'd ask if anyone has done this TIA, --Yan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DVD playing question...
This is another newbie Q I'm sure I'm tyring to get play DVDs. I click on the DVD menu item, and mythtv plays the first track of the dvd. I don't get an option to select a different track. I'm used to using lsdvd to list the dvd contents, and then playing the longest tracks via mplayer. How do I configure this correctly to either a) read the menustructure on the dvd, or b) just give the the choice of the tracks (preferrably sorted in decreasing playtime order)? Hi Yan, You should try using Xine instead of MPlayer, Xine will give you the DVD menus, at this time I don't think MPlayer can do that. Jon Thanks Jon. I just checked my dvd settings; it does in fact call mplayer. I've never used xine; any suggestions for a command line? --Yan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] DVD playing question...
This is another newbie Q I'm sure I'm tyring to get play DVDs. I click on the DVD menu item, and mythtv plays the first track of the dvd. I don't get an option to select a different track. I'm used to using lsdvd to list the dvd contents, and then playing the longest tracks via mplayer. How do I configure this correctly to either a) read the menustructure on the dvd, or b) just give the the choice of the tracks (preferrably sorted in decreasing playtime order)? Is this standard and I'm just missing a tweak, or do I need to build a menu around parsed lsdvd output? Thanks, --Yan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] firewire tv tuner?
Is there a TV tuner that works with MythTV+firewire? I'm using an all-in-one box with no expansion slots. I have USB 1.1 and firewire available. From what I understand USB 1.1 is too slow for decent TV input, but I haven't been able to find anyone who has a firewire TV tuner --Yan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Getting MythTV to recognize existing AVIs
> I am guessing that somewhere I have to tell MythTV what title to > search for, and to explicitly tell it to populate the information > But where? > > Utilities/Setup and then Video Manager? - Well DUH :-) thanks. I said it was something basic I didn't notice the 'INFO' button. Works like a charm ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Getting MythTV to recognize existing AVIs
OK, I have MythTV pretty much set up That was easy! I have one issue - and I know I am missing something very basic. I have about a hundred movies stored as AVIs. MythTV has created the point-and-click page for them. They play just fine. But There are no icons; just squares. When I click on one, I get the information page, and it's all blank/unknown. I've checked and I can get movie data using avimanager, so the machine has connectivity to the web and to imdb. I am guessing that somewhere I have to tell MythTV what title to search for, and to explicitly tell it to populate the information But where? Thanks, --Yan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MythTV newbie
I just got MythTV installed. [NEWBIE ALERT] I've been running a player of my own that works, but it's getting a bit stale and I really don't want to rebuild it if I don't have to Here's what I have: about 100 movies or so, stored on a central server. Movies fall into 2 categories, kids and parents. Unauthenticated users don't get access to the parent movies. A bunch of games of all sorts, from Tuxracer to games in Czech and Japanese. LIRC, set up and configured. DVD-ROM. A central server running MySQL. Here's what I don't have: TV input of any kind. Right now, I've build a kiosk that brings up a browser with movie stills. Click on a still, mpalyer plays the movie. Idiot (and child) proof. Where do I need to start with MythTV to remove (really, not show) all of the TV funcionality and to display all of my movies? Is there a migraiton how-to somewhere? (Assume I'm an experienced Linux admin and programmer, but I have very little time to get MythTV up and running. I'd really like to have a polished viewer ready before the grandparents come for thanksgiving, and I will be out of town for an entire week on business before then) Thanks, --Yan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
