Re: [mythtv-users] Sync rates for Sharp 32 inch LCD

[Alex Brekken]

I'm running the LC-32GA5*E* (Europe vs USA?), which has D-sub 15 VGA inputas 1280x768, using the modeline
ModeLine "1280x768" 81.135 1280 1328 1440 1688 768 770 776 802if that's of any help. The VGA input does not support 1366x768.HermanWhy wouldn't the VGA input support the full 1366x768 resolution?  Is that something specific that that TV or would that be the case for any VGA input?  The reason I ask is because I'm looking at a Samsung 40" LCD (which is also 1366x768) and was planning on using it's VGA input as I was under the assumption that that was the best route to go if the TV supports it.  

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Re: [mythtv-users] Which version of xmame is supported?

[Alex Harford]

Well I'm running the same version as you so it looks like that's my
problem.  I'll grab an older mame RPM tonight to test it out.

Thanks,
Alex

> Message: 10
> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:29:31 -0800
> From: Oliver Seiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> When I tried running xmame 0.104 with mythtv 0.18.1 (gentoo), it
> wouldn't use it. Looking at the code it appeared that it couldn't parse
> the version string properly for versions over 0.99, so I downgraded and
> it works fine. Not sure if this is still a problem in the latest code...
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[mythtv-users] Which version of xmame is supported?

[Alex Harford]

I'm trying to get mythgame working.

I've verified that it's calling the correct path by replacing that
file with a simple script:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$ cat /usr/bin/xmame
#!/bin/sh

echo $@ > /tmp/xmame.txt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$ cat /tmp/xmame.txt
-version
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$ xmame -version
xmame (x11) version 0.102 (Dec  2 2005)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$ rpm -q mythtv
mythtv-0.18.1-114.rhfc4.at

I have verified that it works by manually specifying a path to the rom
directory and playing a game.

The mythtv documentation seems to indicate that this is a supported version.
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-16.html

Any suggestions on where I can go from here?

Thanks,
Alex
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Re: [mythtv-users] lyngsat-logo channel scanner

[alex]

> > because your search algorithm doesn't match about 30% of my channels.
>
> It's a simple fuzzy match based on the name of the logo. If it 
doesn't find
> a match Hit F and try entering your own
>

>Yup! You have to do it, it's not always going to match (or even
>display a correct option).

I just wanted to say Greg have done an amazing job! I always wanted to
try fuzzy logic on something, but never had a good candidate. There
always was a simpler way. As for lyngsat and dish customers, on
lyngsat.com there are pages that list the channels by satellites, like
110,119 and 61. Here's an example
http://www.lyngsat.com/packages/dish61.html Please note that the page
references all the icons from lyngsat-logo.com. If one just needs small
icons, everything could be gathered from those pages. No need to match
call signs or anything like this. Channel numbers are there to rescue.
Now the fun part, the big logos have the same file name but different
location and extension. If one wants the logos instead of icons, all
that needs to be done is to replace /icon/ with /logo/ and change the
file extension into jpg. I wrote a small java program to verify the idea
and it worked for me. I've put it on the web here
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/abaiko/mythlyng.zip
The program needs Java 1.5 to run. mysql connector is included, just
unpack the zip into a folder on your frontend and run it something like
this:
java -jar mythlyng.jar -v
It should locate your mysql.txt file, connect to the server and list
your video sources. Once you know which source corresponds to which
satellite, run it like this:
java -jar mythlyng.jar -d dish110 -s 1
repeat for other sources if desired. Switch -b switches between icons
and logos. Logos are on by default.

SY
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Re: [mythtv-users] "Nvidia decodes H.264 in hardware"

[Alex]

On 1/11/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
any idea what they will be using? I don't know much of these things, so howwill overlays work with the newer cores?

 
The traditional overlay would handle YUV to RGB conversion, scaling, color control, and keying.  I don't have in depth knowledge of the nVidia architecture.  However I would expect most of this is now accomplished using programmable 3D functionality.  The trend is to now render in source resolutions and then scale just before output.  Microsoft has much to do with arrangement.

 
Newer cores will have less fixed function overlay support, relying on compositing with the 3D engine instead. 
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Re: [mythtv-users] "Nvidia decodes H.264 in hardware"

[Alex]

On 1/9/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Lets see if this makes it to linux, and if overlays will still work...
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/01/07/nvidia_decode_h264--Steve
 
 
Don't expect to see HW overlay(s) in 6600 and later nVidia cores. 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Why FireWire makes sense even for those without HDTV displays

[Alex Malinovich]

On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 04:41 -0800, Yeechang Lee wrote:
> Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
--snip--
> > Would I still get the true HD signal out to the TV?
> 
> As mentioned I don't have an HDTV display right now, so I don't know
> for sure, but I can tell you that the box still happily sends out
> non-HDTV signals from its rear outputs. The same channel as whatever
> the MythTV box has set the cable box to, of course.

I'll be anxiously awaiting you getting your new TV because this setup
sounds like EXACTLY what I want to do. Please let us (well, me :) ) know
as soon as you get it up and running with the new TV and any problems
you encounter along the way. In the meantime, I'm going to get on the
phone with my cable provider and see what they can tell me about the
FireWire output on my box. Thanks again for all the info.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Why FireWire makes sense even for those without HDTV displays

[Alex Malinovich]

On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 16:25 -0800, Yeechang Lee wrote:
--snip--
> Or, for that matter, all the ivtv/btvt-related questions; I'd highly
> recommend anyone in the US using cable whose provider supplies a HDTV
> box (which are all FireWire-equipped by FCC mandate) to consider
> switching to it even if it means a few more dollars a month and *even
> if you don't have an HDTV display*. FireWire cards and cables are
> under $10 each at Monoprice.com, Linux has great support for the
> Lucent chipset and others, and my FireWire setup with ATrpms' MythTV
> build was about as plug-and-play as it gets [unlike the HD5000, which
> I still haven't gotten working yet on Fedora Core 4; the directions at
> hd5000.com and elsewhere simply don't apply to my particular setup, as
> I've previously lamented here]. Yes, the one caveat is that
> copy-protected channels might not be available through it, but you
> never know, and I presume you can use your NTSC encoder card for those
> channels. I don't know for sure, having never had to deal with NTSC
> capture cards, and I'm glad for it!

I apologize in advance for my lack of knowledge regarding HDTV and
FireWire, but could you give me some more details of the setup you're
running? I've got an HD cable box and a great HDTV and I'm wanting to
set up a MythTV box to handle both my regular cable channels and my HD
channels as well. Could I use the FireWire out with channel switching
(either via an IR Blaster or serial/USB interface) to get channels from
my cable box to my MythTV box and then put out the signal via
DVI/Component to the TV? Would I still get the true HD signal out to the
TV? Thanks for any details.

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Re: [mythtv-users] ssh attack

[Alex Malinovich]

On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 23:02 -0600, Robert Kulagowski wrote:
--snip--
> 4) Edit /etc/pam.d/ssh and look for the line:
> # Standard Un*x authentication.
> @include common-auth
> 
> Put a "#" infront of @include common-auth so that it's:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] common-auth
> 
> This will restrict ssh from looking at /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow

I prefer editing /etc/ssh/sshd_config instead and setting
PasswordAuthentication to no. This ensures that when you ask the SSH
daemon to list its supported authentication methods it doesn't
mistakenly report password authentication. With the pam edit, you'll
still be prompted for a password, it will just be impossible for it to
succeed.

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[mythtv-users] RF remote suggestions

[Alex Malinovich]

Any suggestions on a good RF remote that works with Linux? I got really
spoiled with my RF remote when I had DishNetwork, and having been
limited to Comcast for the last 3 months the IR remote is killing me. So
I'm hoping to handle all of my channel flipping needs through MythTV and
have an RF remote attached so I won't have to put my feet down to change
the channel.

I'd like to find a relatively inexpensive one as well. While some of the
$700 monsters out there with full LCD displays are impressive and all,
all I care about is play, pause, ff, rw, channel +/-, and, if possible a
built-in IR transmitter to control volume on the TV. (Like the
DishNetwork remotes.)

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Re: [mythtv-users] Glitches in firewire capture from DCT-6200

[Alex Brekken]

I'm using the analog output (composite jack) on my soundcard to go
straight into my stereo receiver.  My master backend/frontend
machine is an AMD Sempron 2300.  Here's the output from mplayer::

[EMAIL PROTECTED] home]# mplayer -vo xv
1005_20051218123000_2005121813
.nuvMPlayer 1.0pre7-3.4.3 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer TeamCPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP Thoroughbred (Family: 6,Stepping: 1)Detected cache-line size is 64 bytesCPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directoryCan't init input joystickSetting up LIRC support...mplayer: could not open config files /root/.lircrc and /etc/lircrc
mplayer: No such file or directoryFailed to read LIRC config file ~/.lircrc.You will not be able to use your remote control.Playing 1005_20051218123000_2005121813.nuv.TS file format detected.DEMUX OPEN, AUDIO_ID: -1, VIDEO_ID: -1, SUBTITLE_ID: -1,
PROBING UP TO 200, PROG: 0VIDEO MPEG2(pid=2304)AUDIO A52(pid=2305) NO SUBS (yet)!  PROGRAM N. 1Opened TS demuxer, audio: 2000(pid 2305), video: 1002(pid2304)...POS=5640VIDEO:  MPEG2  528x480  (aspect 2)  
29.970 fps  5500.0 kbps (687.5kbyte/s)==Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
AC3: 2.0 (stereo)  48000 Hz  192.0 kbit/sUsing MMX optimized resamplerAUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000)Selected audio codec: [a52] afm:liba52 (AC3-liba52)==
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => localdisplay)==Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 528 x 480 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...Opening video filter: [scale]The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
VDecoder init failed :(Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoderlibmpeg2-v0.4.0bSelected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))==
Checking audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16le ->48000Hz/2ch/s16le...AF_pre: 48000Hz/2ch/s16lealsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: defaultalsa: 48000 Hz/2 channels/4 bpf/65536 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Little
EndianAO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bps)Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16le ->48000Hz/2ch/s16le...Starting playback...VDec: vo config request - 528 x 480 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.VO: [xv] 528x480 => 640x480 Planar YV12alsa-space: xrun of at least 0.128 msecs. resetting stream% ??,?% 1 0
A:12534.8 V:12534.9 A-V: -0.052 ct: -0.657 409/397  8%  1%  0.9% 15 0demux_mpg: 24000/1001fps progressive NTSC content detected, switchingframerate.A:12535.6 V:12535.6 A-V:  0.046 ct: -0.624 427/415  8%  1%  
0.9% 15 0demux_mpg: 3/1001fps NTSC content detected, switching framerate.Warning! FPS changed 23.976 -> 29.970  (-5.994000) [4]  1%  0.9% 15 0A:12536.9 V:12537.0 A-V: -0.057 ct: -0.571 469/454  8%  1%  
0.9% 15 0demux_mpg: 24000/1001fps progressive NTSC content detected, switchingframerate.
On 12/24/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Friday 23 December 2005 17:08, Alex Brekken wrote:> Playing it back through mplayer looks pretty good - I didn't see any> faults.  THEN, I actually re-named the file to overwrite an existing show> saved on my master machine.  This way I could playback the show through
> myth, to make the simulation as accurate as possible I guess.  Anyway, when> viewing the show through Myth, it DOES have the same slo-mo effect as it> does when playing it back via the slave backend.  So that completely rules
> out the network as a possible failing point.>> Weird...  As I stated before, I have no problem playing back recordings> made via my PVR-250.  One thing I did notice, the codec I'm using for
> PVR-250 recordings is DVD-special2.  I believe Firewire recordings are TS.> Could this be it??  I wouldn't think so since then everyone would probably> have the same problem.>> On 12/18/05, Steve Adeff <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > On Sunday 18 December 2005 08:31, Alex Brekken wrote:> > > Steve, I'd like to try that (copying the .nuv file over to the other
> >> > Myth> >> > > box and playing locally from it's own hard drive) but I'm not exactly> >> > sure> >> > > of the best way to do that...  Are you suggesting to add entries into
> >> > the> >> > > database, e

Re: [mythtv-users] Recording HD content from a Comcast/Dish/DTV box

[Alex Malinovich]

On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 00:19 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Alex Malinovich wrote:
> 
> >And what about encoding the video? If I get a hardware encoder can it
> >encode HD content the same way as regular content, or am I going to be
> >looking at doing software encoding for HD?
> >  
> >
> It's already encoded.  The card hands an MPEG-2 stream (encoded by the 
> broadcaster) to Myth for storage on disk.

Whoops... I feel silly... I guess that being a digital stream would mean
that HDTV is already... erm... well... digital... :)

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Re: [mythtv-users] Recording HD content from a Comcast/Dish/DTV box

[Alex Malinovich]

On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 17:49 -0800, Ian Forde wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 18:11 -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> > There are two ways to capture HDTV. 
> > 
> > 1)  OTA with an HDTV tuner card
> > 2)  via Firewire from a cable box like the Motorola DCT-6200 (IIRC).  
> > This is limited only to the channels that the cable provider provides 
> > unencrypted on the firewire port
> 
> Make that 3...
> 
> 3) Cable QAM with an HDTV tuner card to get the digital channels that
> that the cable provider provides... effectively a subset of option 1,
> but suitable for those in places where HD antennae can't be put up
> effectively...

So if I get an HDTV card like the pcHDTV-3000 and it has support for QAM
(which I believe the 3k does), I can just plug the cable into the card
and have it pick up any unencrypted HD channels? So HBO-HD probably
won't work, but Fox HD should, right? Or is there something else I'm
missing?

And what about encoding the video? If I get a hardware encoder can it
encode HD content the same way as regular content, or am I going to be
looking at doing software encoding for HD?

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[mythtv-users] Recording HD content from a Comcast/Dish/DTV box

[Alex Malinovich]

Apologies in advance if this is an often-asked question.

I'm looking at setting up a MythTV box to replace the pathetic excuse
for a PVR that Comcast provides with their HDTV tuner.

I know that there are HDTV cards out there which can receive an OTA HDTV
signal, but what about when the HDTV signal is from a cable box? Is it
possible to run the DVI or component output from the cable box into a
MythTV box, and then from the MythTV box to the TV using DVI/component?

I've been researching all things MythTV for the last two days but I
haven't found anything addressing this particular setup. I've found a
few posts mentioning that you can't run a digital cable signal straight
into a tuner card, but nothing addressing whether you can use the HD
output from the cable box as an HD input on the MythTV box.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Glitches in firewire capture from DCT-6200

[Alex Brekken]

Playing it back through mplayer looks pretty good - I didn't see any
faults.  THEN, I actually re-named the file to overwrite an
existing show saved on my master machine.  This way I could
playback the show through myth, to make the simulation as accurate as
possible I guess.  Anyway, when viewing the show through Myth, it
DOES have the same slo-mo effect as it does when playing it back via
the slave backend.  So that completely rules out the network as a
possible failing point.  

Weird...  As I stated before, I have no problem playing back
recordings made via my PVR-250.  One thing I did notice, the codec
I'm using for PVR-250 recordings is DVD-special2.  I believe
Firewire recordings are TS.  Could this be it??  I wouldn't
think so since then everyone would probably have the same
problem.  
On 12/18/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sunday 18 December 2005 08:31, Alex Brekken wrote:> Steve, I'd like to try that (copying the .nuv file over to the other Myth> box and playing locally from it's own hard drive) but I'm not exactly sure
> of the best way to do that...  Are you suggesting to add entries into the> database, etc, and playing it within Myth, - or just manually playing it> using mplayer?just manually play it with mplayer. Lets see if the recording of the firewire
signal is working ok before we blame that. Since you don't get typical mpegbreakup my theory is your capture is working fine, its one of the steps inyour playback chain that is causing the issue.--
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Re: Nvidia dropped xv hardware scaling? WAS: (Re: [mythtv-users] Video card recommendation for 24" LCD (1920x1200))

[Alex]

On 12/19/05, Andy Leung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well that is starnge. This msg specifically statedthat 6600 no longer support xv hardware scaling:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/08/msg00205.htmlAnyone knows what's the real scope here?
 
That states the overlay has gone away.  I do know the Window Vista eliminates the overlay programming model in lieu of compositing.  Other graphics hardware will loose the overlay function in the future.
 
I don't know what the XV structure requires, but HW scaling is not limited to overlay support.  It can be in a different place in the pipe.   
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Re: [mythtv-users] Glitches in firewire capture from DCT-6200

[Alex Brekken]

Steve, I'd like to try that (copying the .nuv file over to the other
Myth box and playing locally from it's own hard drive) but I'm not
exactly sure of the best way to do that...  Are you suggesting to
add entries into the database, etc, and playing it within Myth, - or
just manually playing it using mplayer?  
On 12/18/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Saturday 17 December 2005 22:17, Alex Brekken wrote:> Sorry, no I'm not using wireless.  (not on the Myth boxes anyway)  They're> using the ethenet ports on the router.>> On 12/17/05, Brad DerManouelian <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > It does sound like network latency if you're using wireless. Try> > configuring your router to only use G, not B. That helped my network
> > issues a TON.> > On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:47 PM, Alex Brekken wrote:> >> > I suppose it's possible, although I would think I would have this problem> > all the time if it was a network thing, rather than intermittantly.  My
> > "network" consists of a D-Link 802.11G router connecting a 40 ft. run of> > cat-5 cable to my basement where the slave-backend lives.  The master> > backend/frontend box is right next to the router.
> >> > On 12/17/05, Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > > Are you having networking issues?> > >> > > On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:19 PM, Alex Brekken wrote:
> > >> > > Thanks guys, yes I changed the speed setting in mythtvsetup to 400> > > mbps.  Now, plugreport shows that the data_rate=2 and stays there.> > > However, it didn't seem to fix my display issues.
> > >  It's not a stuttering necessairly, more of a slow-down - like it's in> > > slow motion for a second or 2.  -it does this every 3 or 4 seconds.> > > "normal speed, slo-mo, normal speed, slo-mo," etc, etc.  The video
> > > itself doesn't break-up at all during this problem.It doesn't do it> > > all the time, but it can happen on any channel.  I see it both during> > > liveTV viewing as well as on pre-recorded shows.
> > > The firewire capture is happening on a slave backend box, which is an> > > older Dell pentium 3 1gHz machine.  I suppose it's possible that the> > > machine itself is to blame (issue with PCI bus?) but I don't think the
> > > hard drive is the problem.  It's a newer 7200 RPM Western Digital drive> > > with 8 mb cache.> > >> > > Any guesses?  I'd love to be able to utilize Firewire capture, since
> > > it's much more reliable now thanks to those pluctl commands - but if I> > > can't fix this video slow-mo issue than I think I'll have to ditch it.> > >> > > On 12/17/05, Steve Adeff < 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > > > What speed setting do you have set for the firewire capture device?> > > > try> > > > increasing it as Myth will change these plug values when you use
> > > > firewire as> > > > a capture device.> > > >> > > > Stevecopy the file to a local machine thats not what your normally viewing the fileon and see if you still have the issue.
Have you checked to see if your network connection is 100bT and not 10bT forsome reason?have you tried manually capping over the firewire to the local harddrive?--Steve___
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Re: [mythtv-users] Glitches in firewire capture from DCT-6200

[Alex Brekken]

Sorry, no I'm not using wireless.  (not on the Myth boxes
anyway)  They're using the ethenet ports on the router.  On 12/17/05, Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:It does sound like network latency if you're using wireless. Try
configuring your router to only use G, not B. That helped my network
issues a TON. On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:47 PM, Alex Brekken wrote:
I
suppose it's possible, although I would think I would have this problem
all the time if it was a network thing, rather than
intermittantly.  My "network" consists of a D-Link 802.11G router
connecting a 40 ft. run of cat-5 cable to my basement where the
slave-backend lives.  The master backend/frontend box is right
next to the router.   On 12/17/05, Brad DerManouelian <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you having networking issues?
On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:19 PM, Alex Brekken wrote:
Thanks guys, yes I changed the speed setting in mythtvsetup to 400
mbps.  Now, plugreport shows that the data_rate=2 and stays
there.  However, it didn't seem to fix my display issues. 
 It's not a stuttering necessairly, more of a slow-down - like
it's in slow motion for a second or 2.  -it does this every 3 or 4
seconds.  "normal speed, slo-mo, normal speed, slo-mo," etc,
etc.  The video itself doesn't break-up at all during this
problem.    It doesn't do it all the time, but it can
happen on any channel.  I see it both during liveTV viewing as
well as on pre-recorded shows. The firewire capture is happening on
a slave backend box, which is an older Dell pentium 3 1gHz
machine.  I suppose it's possible that the machine itself is to
blame (issue with PCI bus?) but I don't think the hard drive is the
problem.  It's a newer 7200 RPM Western Digital drive with 8 mb
cache.  Any guesses?  I'd love to be able to utilize
Firewire capture, since it's much more reliable now thanks to those
pluctl commands - but if I can't fix this video slow-mo issue than I
think I'll have to ditch it.    On 12/17/05, Steve Adeff <
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Re: [mythtv-users] Glitches in firewire capture from DCT-6200

[Alex Brekken]

I suppose it's possible, although I would think I would have this
problem all the time if it was a network thing, rather than
intermittantly.  My "network" consists of a D-Link 802.11G router
connecting a 40 ft. run of cat-5 cable to my basement where the
slave-backend lives.  The master backend/frontend box is right
next to the router.  
On 12/17/05, Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Are you having networking issues?On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:19 PM, Alex Brekken wrote:
Thanks
guys, yes I changed the speed setting in mythtvsetup to 400 mbps. 
Now, plugreport shows that the data_rate=2 and stays there. 
However, it didn't seem to fix my display issues.   It's not
a stuttering necessairly, more of a slow-down - like it's in slow
motion for a second or 2.  -it does this every 3 or 4
seconds.  "normal speed, slo-mo, normal speed, slo-mo," etc,
etc.  The video itself doesn't break-up at all during this
problem.    It doesn't do it all the time, but it can
happen on any channel.  I see it both during liveTV viewing as
well as on pre-recorded shows. The firewire capture is happening on
a slave backend box, which is an older Dell pentium 3 1gHz
machine.  I suppose it's possible that the machine itself is to
blame (issue with PCI bus?) but I don't think the hard drive is the
problem.  It's a newer 7200 RPM Western Digital drive with 8 mb
cache.  Any guesses?  I'd love to be able to utilize
Firewire capture, since it's much more reliable now thanks to those
pluctl commands - but if I can't fix this video slow-mo issue than I
think I'll have to ditch it.    On 12/17/05, Steve Adeff <
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Re: [mythtv-users] Glitches in firewire capture from DCT-6200

[Alex Brekken]

Thanks guys, yes I changed the speed setting in mythtvsetup to 400
mbps.  Now, plugreport shows that the data_rate=2 and stays
there.  However, it didn't seem to fix my display issues. 
 It's not a stuttering necessairly, more of a slow-down - like
it's in slow motion for a second or 2.  -it does this every 3 or 4
seconds.  "normal speed, slo-mo, normal speed, slo-mo," etc,
etc.  The video itself doesn't break-up at all during this
problem.    It doesn't do it all the time, but it can
happen on any channel.  I see it both during liveTV viewing as
well as on pre-recorded shows.
The firewire capture is happening on a slave backend box, which is an
older Dell pentium 3 1gHz machine.  I suppose it's possible that
the machine itself is to blame (issue with PCI bus?) but I don't think
the hard drive is the problem.  It's a newer 7200 RPM Western
Digital drive with 8 mb cache.

Any guesses?  I'd love to be able to utilize Firewire capture,
since it's much more reliable now thanks to those pluctl commands - but
if I can't fix this video slow-mo issue than I think I'll have to ditch
it.   
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Re: [mythtv-users] Glitches in firewire capture from DCT-6200

[Alex Brekken]

Steve, running the commands you and curtis specified:

plugctl -n 2 opcr[0].channel=63
plugctl -n 2 opcr[0].bcast_connection=1

greatly improves my firewire reliability.  However, I still find
it almost unusable due to some slowdown/stuttering in the image. 
(I also have a PVR-250 which works flawlessly)  I know it's not my
network, so I was very curious to try out the data_rate command you
listed above, thinking that it might fix this issue.  (plugctl -n
2 opcr[0].data_rate=3) 

Running this command and then plugreport shows that the data_rate
variable does get set to 3, (before it was zero), HOWEVER, as soon as I
begin to record a show or watch live TV, it immediately gets set back
to zero.  You mentioned that you run this through a cron job every
hour, although I'm finding that if I try to set the data_rate back to 3
while something is recording, it immediately freezes and stops
recording.  

Any other tricks or ideas to somehow keep this setting  at 3?  (or anything greater than zero)  On 12/16/05, David Rudder <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Are you sure this isn't a drive-speed issue?  Check hdparm -v
/dev/.  Also, make sure you have at least a 7200 RPM drive.The dct-6200 will send out an mpeg stream.  I think MythTV just copiesit to disk.  So, there's very little CPU or memory involved.
You can try running test-mpeg2 (from the libiec61883 package).  Itoutputs the raw mpeg stream from the 6200.  If it gets the samecorruption you see in myth, then you know it's not a myth issue.test-mpeg2 > 
file.mpgwait maybe 30 seconds, then hit ctrl-c.  mplayer file.mpg should displaythe file.-DaveAzmat wrote:>I've been using this script in a cron job for the last week, but I'm>still seeing glitching.  Its mostly occurring at the start of a show
>and then clears up in the middle.  Is it possible that I might need to>use a faster processor or bump up my RAM?  Right now I'm running an>Athlon XP 2400+ with 1G of RAM.  Thanks in advance for the help.
>>Azmat>>On 12/9/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:there was a thread a while back regarding this. You can search on Gossamer for
>>more info. basically you want to run this bash script. It will set the p2p or>>broadcast connection to 1 depending on what your machine will use. From what>>I've found bcast is prefered when available, which is why it comes second
>>(since its one or the other) p2p is sometimes only available and when this is>>the case its fine. data_rate doesn't need to be 3, but it increases speed if>>your using firewire for capture and not just channel changing. I have it run
>>before mythbackend starts when I run it via init.d and I've found it resets>>sometimes so I run it hourly as a cron job.oh, and the -n # is which node it is. In case you have more than one firewire
>>connection have it run for each connection as well.#!/bin/bash>>plugctl -n 2 opcr[0].channel=63>>plugctl -n 2 opcr[0].n_p2p_connections=1>>plugctl -n 2 opcr[0].bcast_connection=1
>>plugctl -n 2 opcr[0].data_rate=3-->>SteveOn Friday 09 December 2005 14:52, Azmat wrote:>>>Here's my plugreport output:
>>>Host Adapter 0>>>==>>Node 0 GUID 0xd10080357942>>>-->>>libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR
>>>libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR>>Node 1 GUID 0x4279358080357942>>>-->>>libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR>>>libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR
>>Node 2 GUID 0x000f9e103008>>>-->>>oMPR n_plugs=1, data_rate=2, bcast_channel=63>>>oPCR[0]  bcast_connection=0, n_p2p_connections=0
>>>channel=63, data_rate=0, overhead_id=0, payload=376>>>iMPR n_plugs=0, data_rate=2>>On 12/9/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:>>On Friday 09 December 2005 12:44, Azmat wrote:>Hi,>>My mythtv system is running on an AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2 GHz) with 1G
>RAM, a PVR-350 and firewire capture from my Motorola DCT-6200 cable>box.  Whenever I do firewire capture from the box through Myth, the>recording exhibits a audio/video glitching.  The picture will
>momentarily become pixelated and there will be a brief skip.  I can>tell the glitch is in the recording because when I rewind and playback>it is reproducible.  There is no pattern or regularity to the
>glitching.  Sometimes it will be at the start of the show and will>disappear in the middle, only to reappear later.  It doesn't prevent>me from recording shows, but is just become a huge annoyance that I'd
>like to take care of.  Does anyone have any idea what might be wrong?>Do you think a faster processor would help?>>Thanks in advance,
>>Azmat>>run plugreport and paste the output.--Steve
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Re: [mythtv-users] Xine issues

[Alex Brekken]

Ahh, cool.  So by using xxmc I actually am utilizing xvmc?? 
I must be, since it's definitely not falling back to Xv as I've tried
just Xv before and it's pretty choppy.  

Peter - my DVD player is just a panasonic progressive-scan unit - nothing fancy at all.  On 12/15/05, Michael T. Dean <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Alex Brekken wrote:> For anyone looking for another option, I've had pretty good luck using
> xxmc.  So far it seems to give the best picture - virutally as good as> my standalone DVD player.Xvmc doesn't work at allI'll bet XvMC is working better than you think.  ;)xxmc is "eXtended XvMC" and is the name of xine's XvMC video output
plugin that supports NVIDIA (standard) XvMC, VLD XvMC, and falls back toXv if XvMC is unavailable.  xine doesn't have an "xvmc" plugin (usingany combination of capitalization), so it doesn't recognize it as a
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Re: [mythtv-users] Xine issues

[Alex Brekken]

For anyone looking for another option, I've had pretty good luck using
xxmc.  So far it seems to give the best picture - virutally as
good as my standalone DVD player.    Xvmc doesn't work at
all, and xshm looks terrible on my setup.  Haven't tried opengl
yet though...
On 12/13/05, Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am using PVR-350's tv out. I can play using the Xv driver, but it'sjumpy with some DVDs, so I switched to xshm and never thought muchmore about it.On Dec 13, 2005, at 9:01 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Mark J. Small wrote:>>> On December 13, 2005 08:31 am, Brad DerManouelian wrote:> These work for me. -V xshm got rid of my shaky playback. --no-splash>>> and --no-logo do what they look like they do.
>> DVD:>>> xine -pfhq -V xshm --no-splash --no-logo dvd://%s>> Video:>>> xine -pfhq -V xshm --no-splash --no-logo %s>>>
>> Hmmm the xine docs claim that xshm is a lot slower than xv.  Does>> real world experience say otherwize?>> Personally I compiled my xine to use xvmc for more gforce mx>> 4000.  I don't use xvmc for mythtv yet, but it works great with
>> xine.  My P3 733 plays DVD's beautifully that way.> I would bet that Brad is using a PVR-350 for output and hasn't yet> upgraded to/installed John Harvey's X driver with Xv support.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Input changing between PVR-250 and HD3000

[Alex Brekken]

I seem to remember reading a thread a few months ago discussing an
enhancement in SVN which would make the tuners switch automatically in
a situation like this.  (preventing you from having to hit Y
manually)  On 12/3/05, Mitko Haralanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 17:39:53 -0800Brad Fuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> That doesn't seem to be the case. It would be nice, though.> You can press "y" to switch tuners.
Thanks, I already have the remote setup to switch between tuners. Ijust wanted to confirm whether it was supposed to happen on it's own ornot.--Mitko Haralanovvoidtrance at comcast dot net
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[mythtv-users] RE: Problems with DVD rip

[Alex Vishnev]

David,

Thanks for the advice. I did not know that MADAGASCAR was DRM protected. I
just thought there was a problem in how I setup DVD ripping. So the question
was really innocent, not trying to get information on how to do it. ;-).
Btw, I agree that such discussions should not be part of the list.

Alex


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[mythtv-users] Problems with DVD rip

[Alex Vishnev]

Hello,

I am running FC4 with 0.18.1 version of MythTv. I was trying to rip dvd of
Madagascar. However, every time I tried it I immediately saw the following
message scrolling repeatedly and fast on my xterm window:

fileobs.o: Ripfile wrote 0 bytes, but that's all it was asked to. Unlikely
coincidence?

The file in /var/videolib would go only to 194K and then stop. I have around
200GB more of disk space using ext3 file system under the control of LVM. If
I let the rip process continue, mtd just dies with the following error. Btw
the last couple of lines in mtd.log are just stating that the job started.
No other info is provided:

Can someone help me resolve this?

Alex
*** glibc detected *** mtd: double free or corruption (out): 0xb7a00688 ***
=== Backtrace: =
/lib/libc.so.6[0x675124]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_free+0x77)[0x67565f]
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6(_ZdlPv+0x21)[0xa3c9c9]
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6(_ZdaPv+0x1d)[0xa3ca15]
/usr/lib/qt-3.3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN11QStringData10deleteSelfEv+0x29)[0x489
3837]
mtd[0x804f80c]
=== Memory map: 
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Re: [mythtv-users] New mythtv theme

[Alex Cruz]

Really nice theme. Good work, Justin.

-alex

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Re: [mythtv-users] Performance of the HD MPEG2 decoders

[Alex Brekken]

Thanks for that info Todd.  I'm in the process of specing out a
new HD capable frontend, and the hardware I'm looking at is very
similar to yours.  My big question, though, was to confirm that an
Athlon64 can playback HD content smoothly without XvmC - and from what
you stated it looks like that answer is yes.  (I assumed it could,
but it seems like people generally have a tougher time with HD on the
AMD chips vs. Intel - at least that's my perception)  
On 11/17/05, Robert Tsai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 03:43:52PM -0800, Todd Ignasiak wrote:> I have seen several reports of performance expectations with the> various MPEG decoders, and what I am seeing is not exactly what> other people have seen, so I wanted to start a discussion here.
> Also, I thought others might be interested in the performance> numbers from a typical system (if anyone has performance info from> other CPUs, or Unichrome XvMC, please post)..>> The main unexpected issues I see are:
> - libMPEG2 uses much more CPU than the Standard decoder on my system.> (libmpeg2:80%, Standard: 50%, XvMC: 28%).   The 'help' info in the> GUI, and several posts here, say that libMPEG2 should be have lower
> CPU requirements.Perhaps this is an x86-64 issue.You're confirming what other people have reported on other 64-bitsystems (ffmpeg a.k.a. "standard" is more CPU-efficient):
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Re: [mythtv-users] Libmpeg and weird colors

[Alex Brekken]

Hmmm, and I always thought that an Athlon 3000 or higher could play
smooth HD with no Xvmc...  What's your CPU look like on the AMD
box when playing HD content?On 11/14/05, Robert Lundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Have been suprised with how well my P4M 1.6ghz laptop has been doing as
a frontend, considering its got ATI graphics, meaning no xvmc. 
Compared to my AMD athlon 3200, which plays HD choppily without xvmc,
the results have been awesome.  Why are these intel chips so much
better?

Anyway, to get the smooth(er) playback, I started using libmpeg-but the
colors are almost like a negative-people are green, pizza looked
blue.  Weird.

Is this typical behavior?  I'm thinking its reading something
strange about the colorspace.  Video is the Radeon mobility M300
PCIe in a Dell inspiron 9300, using the newest ATI proprietary driver
(released 11/11/05?).

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Re: [mythtv-users] Standard cable, QAM, PCHDTV-3000 vs Air2PC

[Alex Brekken]

Thanks Chris, I guess I was mistaking NTSC and ATSC.  Sounds like it can do what I want then.  On 11/13/05, Chris Ribe <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:OTA HD stations broadcast in ATSC all the time.  The content isn't
always high definition, but the HD3000 should capture it whether it is
480i or 720p.On 11/13/05, Alex Brekken <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Wait a minute, so let's say I have a backend machine with a PVR-250
connected to my cable service and an HD3000 hooked up to an
antenna.  Presumably I would want to set everything up so Myth
will use the HD3000 for the major networks/local channels (some of
which will broadcast HD content) and the PVR-250 to capture everything
else on cable.  However, when recording a major network show
that's NOT broadcasting in HD - then what happens?  The HD3000
just doesn't record it since it's not HD??  Please let me know if
I'm mis-understanding how this works, thanks!!

Alex

>While it is built in, currently with MythTV you can only use the card
>as either a HDTV or a NTSC card, but not both.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Standard cable, QAM, PCHDTV-3000 vs Air2PC

[Alex Brekken]

Wait a minute, so let's say I have a backend machine with a PVR-250
connected to my cable service and an HD3000 hooked up to an
antenna.  Presumably I would want to set everything up so Myth
will use the HD3000 for the major networks/local channels (some of
which will broadcast HD content) and the PVR-250 to capture everything
else on cable.  However, when recording a major network show
that's NOT broadcasting in HD - then what happens?  The HD3000
just doesn't record it since it's not HD??  Please let me know if
I'm mis-understanding how this works, thanks!!

Alex

>While it is built in, currently with MythTV you can only use the card
>as either a HDTV or a NTSC card, but not both.
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Re: [mythtv-users] smooth video

[Alex Brekken]

Marcel,  I have (had) the same choppy video problems as you. 
(and I think many people do)  For Xine I have tried the -xshm
option, and while it did smooth things out, it also caused tearing for
me on moving objects.  I then tried -xxmc instead.  This has
been the best option I've found so far - video is quite smooth (though
I haven't compared it back-to-back yet with my standalone DVD
player).  

As far as MythTV goes,  Bob deinterlacing is the only way I can
get good smooth video.  XVMC will as well, but it's fairly
unstable for me.  The only drawback to Bob is that it causes the
OSD to flicker a bit.  I can live with that, however, though I
hope someday it might get fixed.  :)  

On 11/11/05, Dennis Hand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:







 >Hi,>I'm having a small issue with getting my video to play 
smooth in both mythTV >and xine. I expect it's not directly related to 
mythTV or xine but rather >something on my system.>When I play 
TV/recordings or any file/DVD with xine I first set my X to a >framerate 
that is appropriate for the format (50Hz for PAL or 59.97 , 71.9Hz >for 
other formats). I'm using a CRT projector with RGB and V/H sync and have 
>my Nvidia FX5700 connected directly to this projector, which should be 
>optimal.>I don't see tearing so I think the Vsync is OK but do 
see very small jumps >which are well visible in fast moving 
images.>I'm using FC4 with standard kernel (latest I think) and use 
most packages from >ATrpms, except xine which I compile mostly myself 
from cvs.>Does anyone have tips 
?>Regards,>MarcelHi Marcel,I think I remember 
someone posting on this and the fix was the -V xshm option. Like 
so:
xine -pfhq -V 
xshm --no-logo --no-splash %s Good 
LuckDennis

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[mythtv-users] Audio Settings too low

[Alex Thomas]

Having  problems getting audio to come out properly.but no matter what I 
am setting the audio to in alsamixer the volume of live tv and 
recordings is low. DVD's play fine audio wise. Using onboard sound on my 
machine (it says sound card is ens1371).


Any Ideas?

Thanks

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Re: [mythtv-users] Laptop tuner card

[Alex Cruz]

On Wednesday 09 November 2005 07:51 am, Josh Burks wrote:
> On 11/8/05, Brandon Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> > I'm eyeing an old laptop to use as a MythTV box, but without PCI
> > slots, I need a PCMCIA card.  I found this one: http://
> > store.yahoo.com/saveateaglestore/mtvcbmcew.html?
> > ovchn=OTHER&ovcpn=Froogle&ovcrn=MTVCBMCEW&ovtac=CMP however I can't
> > find anything in the MythTV documentation about PCMCIA, etc.
> >
> > The laptop, just to let you all know, wouldn't be very laptop-like
> > after I'm done with it. ;-)
> >
> > Any thoughts on T.V. tuners other than PCI and USB?
>
> If you laptop has enough power, you might try a USB 2.0 PCMCIA card
> (if it doesn't have 2.0) and a Plextor ConvertX
> (http://plextor.com/english/products/TV402U.htm).
>
> Josh

 Interesting. Is that thing supported under Linux? 

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[mythtv-users] Schedule by regexp

[Alex Polite]

Hi.

I wan't to match programs to record by a regexp. How do I do that?

alex

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Re: [mythtv-users] Having problems with mythfilldatabase connecting

[Alex Thomas]

Carl Fongheiser wrote:




On 11/4/05, *Alex Thomas* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:


Grabbing data for Fri Nov 4 2005 offset 1
From : Sat Nov 5 06:00:00 2005 To : Sun Nov 6 06:00:00 2005 (UTC)
--22:40:28--
http://datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com/tvlistings/xtvdService
<http://datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com/tvlistings/xtvdService>
   => `-'
Resolving datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com... 206.18.98.160
<http://206.18.98.160>
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com|206.18.98.160|:80...
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com|206.18.98.160|:80...
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
Authorization failed.


This indicates that you are getting connected, but zap2it isn't 
authorizing you for some reason.  Either your account has timed out, 
or you didn't give mythtv the right information.


Try logging into your account at http://labs.zap2it.com -- that will 
tell you if your account has expired, and if it has, it'll offer you a 
chance to renew.


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Have fixed issue with account still getting same error.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Having problems with mythfilldatabase connecting

[Alex Thomas]

Carl Fongheiser wrote:

On 11/4/05, *Alex Thomas* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:


It is telling me I need a certificate code and their faq says that
it is
assigned by the project. I thought when I registered on the regular
zap2it that that was it.


Quoting from section 5.3 of the documentation:

If you wish to use Zap2It DataDirect, you'll need to establish a user 
account. Go to http://labs.zap2it.com <http://labs.zap2it.com/> and 
click on the "New User? Sign Up" link. Read the license terms, and if 
you agree with them click "Accept". The next screen is the 
subscription registration. In the "Certificate Code" field, enter 
*ZIYN-DQZO-SBUT*.


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I am blind.

Thank you very much

Alex
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Re: [mythtv-users] Having problems with mythfilldatabase connecting

[Alex Thomas]

Carl Fongheiser wrote:




On 11/4/05, *Alex Thomas* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:


Grabbing data for Fri Nov 4 2005 offset 1
From : Sat Nov 5 06:00:00 2005 To : Sun Nov 6 06:00:00 2005 (UTC)
--22:40:28--
http://datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com/tvlistings/xtvdService
<http://datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com/tvlistings/xtvdService>
   => `-'
Resolving datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com... 206.18.98.160
<http://206.18.98.160>
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com|206.18.98.160|:80...
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com|206.18.98.160|:80...
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
Authorization failed.


This indicates that you are getting connected, but zap2it isn't 
authorizing you for some reason.  Either your account has timed out, 
or you didn't give mythtv the right information.


Try logging into your account at http://labs.zap2it.com -- that will 
tell you if your account has expired, and if it has, it'll offer you a 
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It is telling me I need a certificate code and their faq says that it is 
assigned by the project. I thought when I registered on the regular 
zap2it that that was it.


Alex Thomas

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[mythtv-users] Having problems with mythfilldatabase connecting

[Alex Thomas]

Having problems with mythfilldatabase connecting. Get following error

--Begin Output--

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mythfilldatabase
2005-11-04 22:40:28.840 New DB connection, total: 1
2005-11-04 22:40:28.866 New DB connection, total: 2
Refreshing Tomorrow's data
2005-11-04 22:40:28.870 New DB DataDirect connection
Retrieving datadirect data...
Grabbing data for Fri Nov 4 2005 offset 1
From : Sat Nov 5 06:00:00 2005 To : Sun Nov 6 06:00:00 2005 (UTC)
--22:40:28--  
http://datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com/tvlistings/xtvdService

  => `-'
Resolving datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com... 206.18.98.160
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com|206.18.98.160|:80... 
connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com|206.18.98.160|:80... 
connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
Authorization failed.
Grab complete.  Actual data from Connection timed out.
You probably should modify the Master Server settings
in the setup program and set the proper IP address.
error resceduling id -1 in ScheduledRecording::signalChange


--End Output--

Have my outside IP set in general setup. Have the mythtv ports forwarded 
in firewall, has master backend ip set to 127.0.0.1 but this is all in 
one machine.


Any Ideas?
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Re: [mythtv-users] XP Media Center Edition Remote - Any Problems?

[Alex Thomas]

Carl Fongheiser wrote:

On 11/4/05, *Alex Thomas* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:


Setting up my first myth tv box. Picked up a WinXP MCE USB remote as I
had gotten a bttv card for a good price (nearly free). Has anyone had
any problems get this remote set up?


They work great with the lirc mceusb or mceusb2 driver.   (Most 
likely, you'll need the mceusb2 driver.)   I'm using 2 of them at the 
moment, and I have no complaints at all.


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Where can I find the mceusb2 driver? It is not in 
/usr/share/doc/lirc-0.7.2/remotes/ directory. The mceusb is in there though.


Thanks for the help

Alex
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[mythtv-users] XP Media Center Edition Remote - Any Problems?

[Alex Thomas]

Setting up my first myth tv box. Picked up a WinXP MCE USB remote as I 
had gotten a bttv card for a good price (nearly free). Has anyone had 
any problems get this remote set up?


Thanks

Alex
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[mythtv-users] MythTV newbie needs TV card recommendation

[Alex Thomas]

I have a spare machine that I am planning on using for a mythtv box. It 
is a 933mhz P3.
Does anyone have a recomendation for at TV card. Can get a good deal on 
a WinFast TV2000 XP Expert. Is this a good card or is there something 
better, (and reasonably priced)?


Thank you,

Alex
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[mythtv-users] Swedish myth list?

[Alex Polite]

Is there a specific mailing list for swedish myth users?

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Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire source and channel changer

[Alex Brekken]

Brian, I see this exact same issue - the choppy video which you
describe as a "stopping and starting" effect - on my firewire video as
well.  Everything else with my Firewire setup works well, except
this.  The thing is, I see it on standard def. TV as well as HD -
although not all the time and not on every channel.  It's very
random.  My CPU usage looks no different viewing Firewire-recorded
video than it does when I'm viewing video recorded from my
PVR-250.  (which works flawlessly, not choppy at all) 
Turning off the "use video as timebase" setting on the frontend seems
to help a bit, but not 100%.  

Just for reference, my Firewire box (DCT6200) is hooked up to a Dell P3
1Ghz, which is conifgured as a slave-backend streaming the video to my
master backend/frontend box which is in my living room.  While I
can't prove it, I don't think my network is the issue here - nor is the
harddrive.  I've sorta been assuming that maybe it's a slow PCI
bus/motherboard issue on the Dell box, but I'm not sure.  

Anyway, I realize you're having other issues with FireWire but I just
thought I'd see if you were seeing this choppy video stuff on non-HD
content as well.  

>With preliminary testing (when the firewire is working), I get sort of a
>continual "stop and start" when playing back HD content as if
>*something* can't keep up.  It doesn't look to me like my CPU is being
>killed - I see it at around a load of 2-3 (which is a little higher than
>regular content), but didn't seem terrible.  And watching hard drive
>activity (which is set to use DMA) also doesn't seem bad at all...so I'm
>not sure if it's a bus or an IRQ issue or what.  I'll be happy to just
>get the firewire straightened out first and then look into this issue.

>Thanks!
>Brian
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MythKaraoke?

[Alex Cruz]

On Tuesday 25 October 2005 05:20 pm, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:29:50PM -0500, Alex Cruz wrote:
> > Actually, PyKaraoke is what I'm using on my laptop. I wrote the author in
> > hopes that he might want to create an add-in for something like this in
> > Myth. I figured it didn't hurt to try and ask. You never know
>
> I don't know that it would be all that hard; he seems to have
> engineered it as a top-half/bottom-half design: creating a new top-half
> that integrates with Myth shouldn't be *that* hard...
 

 Exactly my thought. The author wrote me earlier today indicating that he 
wasn't planning on making it into a Myth plug-in however, he felt that any of 
the Myth developers could very easily create it as a plug-in for MythMusic. 
So.if there are any developers reading this, how about helping out the 
parent of a two year old here, eh?  :-)

-alex
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MythKaraoke?

[Alex Cruz]

On Tuesday 25 October 2005 11:39 am, Justin Hornsby wrote:
> On 10/22/05, Alex Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >  Don't ask me how this came to mind but has anyone thought about the
> > possibility of creating a plugin for Karaoke inside of Myth?
>
> There's already a top-notch karaoke player for Linux called PyKaraoke:
> http://www.kibosh.org/pykaraoke/
>
> Not that getting drunk & singing loudly, out of key is my kind of thing of
> course ;-)

 Of course not ;-)

Actually, PyKaraoke is what I'm using on my laptop. I wrote the author in 
hopes that he might want to create an add-in for something like this in Myth. 
I figured it didn't hurt to try and ask. You never know


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Re: [mythtv-users] MythKaraoke?

[Alex Cruz]

On Tuesday 25 October 2005 09:37 am, Andrew Close wrote:
> On 10/22/05, Alex Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >  Don't ask me how this came to mind but has anyone thought about the
> > possibility of creating a plugin for Karaoke inside of Myth?
>
> hmm, i'm thinking that may be an itch best left unscratched... ;)

 If only it was me. My two year old LOVES karaoke. The way I see it, karaoke 
is just another version of the "Sing Alongs" that I used to watch Sunday 
nights on "The Wonderful World of Disney" back in the early 70's. Only with 
better music  :-)

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Re: [mythtv-users] HD Frontend hardware: cases for enclosed spaces

[Alex Brekken]

How far away is your frontend machine from the TV?  :)  I
assume there's some logical limit to how long your S-Video/VGA/DVI
cable can be before you lose quality (or it doesn't work at all),
right?  On 10/25/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I, personally, find the look of bewilderment on guests' faces amusingwhen I leave the room to put a DVD in the player.  Besides, if you'regoing to sit through a 90-minute movie (or 60 minutes with time stretch
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Re: [mythtv-users] Low end experiment with latest Knoppmyth

[Alex Cruz]

On Sunday 23 October 2005 07:53 am, ffrr wrote:
> Alex Cruz wrote:
> > Maybe some day when the US finally gets
> >it's s**t together, I'll try HDTV. My guess is that by 2010, it'll be
> >somewhat "standard".
>
> That's something I haven't been too sure about.   Do you have digital TV
> free to air at all?  Most of our stations are now available in digital,
> but not High Definition. Only some shows are HD and my experiments with
> it in myth, with the DVB card, show you need a fast system to cope.  My
> 2.2GHz machine can't handle 1080 res, the sound gets all stuttery.  All
> the stuff I record is Standard Definition, still way better than
> analogue TV, even if only because of the 16:9 aspect ratio of most/all
> of the newer stuff.
>
> Then there's pay tv.  Our major cable network went digital just
> recently, although, my first experience with it was via satellite (no
> cables near my place) and that was always digital.  I gave up on pay tv.
> I've had it hooked up twice, but dropped it later each time as they do
> NOT have enough new shows, especially movies, despite what their ads say
>
> :-) Too damn expensive as well.  That's one of the good things about
>
> Myth.  I am never short of something interesting to watch now, and it's
> ALL FREE.

 The FCC is requiring that all over the air broadcasts begin transmitting in 
HD by next year (2006). Like you, there are only a handful of shows and only 
several stations that are broadcasting in HD. The only station where I live 
that transmits in HD all of the time is PBS (Public Broadcasting). And from 
what I've been told by folks in the area that are doing HD, PBS has the best 
quality picture so far. 

From what I've read, you are going to need some horsepower to record in HD. 
Not to mention that if you don't have an HD capable TV, what's the point. I 
can live with standard definition for now. I'm done jumping on the cutting 
edge hardware when it comes to this tech. I did it last when DVD's first came 
out and now I have a relly expensive Toshiba player sitting in storagethat 
can't play much. Even with the firmware upgrade, it has a hard time with 
certain newer DVD's. I can wait  :-)

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Re: [mythtv-users] Low end experiment with latest Knoppmyth

[Alex Cruz]

On Sunday 23 October 2005 07:53 am, ffrr wrote:
> Alex Cruz wrote:
> > Maybe some day when the US finally gets
> >it's s**t together, I'll try HDTV. My guess is that by 2010, it'll be
> >somewhat "standard".
>
> That's something I haven't been too sure about.   Do you have digital TV
> free to air at all?  Most of our stations are now available in digital,
> but not High Definition. Only some shows are HD and my experiments with
> it in myth, with the DVB card, show you need a fast system to cope.  My
> 2.2GHz machine can't handle 1080 res, the sound gets all stuttery.  All
> the stuff I record is Standard Definition, still way better than
> analogue TV, even if only because of the 16:9 aspect ratio of most/all
> of the newer stuff.
>
> Then there's pay tv.  Our major cable network went digital just
> recently, although, my first experience with it was via satellite (no
> cables near my place) and that was always digital.  I gave up on pay tv.
> I've had it hooked up twice, but dropped it later each time as they do
> NOT have enough new shows, especially movies, despite what their ads say
>
> :-) Too damn expensive as well.  That's one of the good things about
>
> Myth.  I am never short of something interesting to watch now, and it's
> ALL FREE.

 The FCC is requiring that all over the air broadcasts begin transmitting in 
HD by next year (2006). Like you, there are only a handful of shows and only 
several stations that are broadcasting in HD. The only station where I live 
that transmits in HD all of the time is PBS (Public Broadcasting). And from 
what I've been told by folks in the area that are doing HD, PBS has the best 
quality picture so far. 

From what I've read, you are going to need some horsepower to record in HD. 
Not to mention that if you don't have an HD capable TV, what's the point. I 
can live with standard definition for now. I'm done jumping on the cutting 
edge hardware when it comes to this tech. I did it last when DVD's first came 
out and now I have a relly expensive Toshiba player sitting in storagethat 
can't play much. Even with the firmware upgrade, it has a hard time with 
certain newer DVD's. I can wait  :-)

-alex
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Re: [mythtv-users] Low end experiment with latest Knoppmyth

[Alex Cruz]

On Sunday 23 October 2005 06:44 am, ffrr wrote:
> Today I even recorded some audio from a cassette via the line in while
> it recorded an afternoon TV show. This wasn't intentional, I just forgot
> that mythbackend was running.  (and yes I can hear people saying that's
> why a separate myth machine is a good idea - I agree now too :-))

FEEL the power of the Dark Sier, I meanglad to see things are working 
for you  ;-) I always knew that a dedicated system was what I wanted...it was 
saving the $$ for one that took time. Maybe some day when the US finally gets 
it's s**t together, I'll try HDTV. My guess is that by 2010, it'll be 
somewhat "standard". 

-alex
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[mythtv-users] MythKaraoke?

[Alex Cruz]

 Don't ask me how this came to mind but has anyone thought about the 
possibility of creating a plugin for Karaoke inside of Myth? Upon searching 
this list, all references to a karaoke module are well over a year old. Doing 
a Google search, I've found 2 apps that run under Linux:

http://www.kibosh.org/pykaraoke/index.php
and
http://miageprojet.unice.fr/twiki/bin/view/Fun/JavaKarPlayer

Considering that most Myth setups are hooked up to a TV, something like this 
would be a fun add-on. Just a thought in case anyone with some coding powers 
feels like taking on a task like this. Thanks.

-alex
 
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Re: [mythtv-users] (WAS) Kaffeine (NOW) is KnoppMyth

[Alex Cruz]

On Friday 21 October 2005 09:53 pm, Andrew Close wrote:
> On 10/21/05, Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>
> > Plus, it becomes a hobby.  You can buy a piece here and there and put
> > the system together.  You don't have to always have it running to "do
> > business".
>
> a hobby?  more like an obsession! :)  unfortunetely i don't have the
> money to fund my obsession at the moment.  or maybe fortunetely...

 I second the obsession part. I am currently saving up $$ to buy a smaller, 
nicer case and yes...a much, MUCH quieter Zantec CPU cooler. After that, 
it'll be a HD upgrade to something in the 200 GB range cause there's no such 
thing as too much HD space  ;-)

-alex
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Re: [mythtv-users] (WAS) KnoppMyth (NOW) Sata problems

[Alex Cruz]

On Friday 21 October 2005 01:49 am, ffrr wrote:
>
> Anybody want to buy a few 100 GB of SATA storage (250GB WD, and 2 80GB
> Seagates)?  :-) Just joking.A new MB is almost as cheap as another
> SATA controller card (unless you buy a cheap one, and they seem to be
> early SI based often anyway).
> I could use them just for offline storage as they cause no problems just
> sitting there.  It's only when you access them that they upset the DVB.

 Does it cause problems with the DVB if you use it to store and access music, 
games, images etc?

-alex
 
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Re: [mythtv-users] (no subject)

[Alex Cruz]

 Not to sound like a jerk but have you thought about leaving it on all of the 
time? That way, you don't have to worry about boot time AND you'll be able to 
record programs at any time of the day (or night). It's what I do.

cheers back
-alex 

On Friday 21 October 2005 06:21 am, michel moalem wrote:
> hi there all
> i'm a complete linux newbie and have tried the knopmyth cd yesterday for
> the first time. I like what it offers but had some problems allready.
> However before i will start takling the problems i encountered running
> some of the options i would like to know if there is a way if running
> the mythtv box (either under this distro or another) so that it boots
> much quicker. I have tried GeeXBox as well and while it is short on many
> features compare to mythtv it is booting extremly quickly once installed
> on the HD (well quick enogh for my wife not to nag me about getting a
> dvd player instead...)
> so please any advice?
> cheers
> michel
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Re: [mythtv-users] (WAS) Kaffeine (NOW) is KnoppMyth

[Alex Cruz]

 Great news on the DVB!! Now it's looking like you're where I was about 3 
months ago which was "Do I continue using my workstation to mess with MythTV 
or do I build a dedicated unit?" I decided to build the standalong and I'm 
glad I did. Now, I'm not screwing up my workstation when I want to tweak Myth 
or test something. And now that it's no longer a hardware issue, you might 
want to just taking the plunge. My next step is to find a nicer looking case 
and to get a quieter fan for the CPU. It's amazing how noisey those damn 
little fans are :-)

-alex 

On Thursday 20 October 2005 05:53 am, ffrr wrote:
> I got to thinking, maybe I could try knoppmyth fairly painlessly.  I
> found an old 15GB IDE drive from an old computer and plugged it into my
> main machine.  I downloaded the very latest knoppmyth (just announced
> here in a message today), and quickly installed it.  I didn't get all
> the myth stuff going - like the tv guide etc, just enough to watch live TV.
>
> BTW: it allowed me to import my channels.conf, a feature which people
> here have said is not in the released mythtv version !!!
>
> Anyway, the big discovery is...  rock solid pictures.  Not one single
> damn glitch in sight, nor in the audio either :-)
>
>
> Conclusions,
> - it can't be signal strength related, so no point in buying a new card
> - can't be interrupt related - not directly anyway as nothing has
> changed in my hardware setup or BIOS
> - kernel is 2.6.13.2, so maybe a newer kernel than the 2.6.11 I have now
> might fix it (roll on Mandriva 2006 - or else I look at upgrading the
> kernel - about which I know nothing--- yet)
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Re: [mythtv-users] KnoppMyth R5A22

[Alex Cruz]

 Woohoo! Time to upgrade :-)

Thanks, Cecil!

-alex

On Wednesday 19 October 2005 11:33 pm, Cecil Watson wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Get it while it is hot!
>
> http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6497
>
> Some of the highlights:
>
> First KRP-aware release.
> * Integrated KRP logic into installation and configuration scripts.
>   * Dragon installation and configuration 99% automated.
> * Added system-independent auto-detection and configuration.
>   * More LIRC remotes auto-detected and configured.
>   * Channel icons now download automatically.
>   * MythWeather locale setting improved or autoconfigured, depending on
> your system.
> * nVidia drivers now auto-install on first boot.
> * Unified keybindings across applications.
> * Fixed ATI Remote Wonder button repeat bug.
> * MythWeb now uses basic Apache authentication by default.
> * mythtv-setup no longer runs twice.
> * MythWeb links to media work again.
> * (BETA) mplayer-resumer.pl adds resume functionality to MythVideo
> (mplayer).
> * IvyTV 0.4.0
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Cecil
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Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

[Alex Cruz]

On Wednesday 19 October 2005 05:34 pm, ffrr wrote:
> ffrr wrote:
> Sad to report, it isn't fixed.  I think it's better than it was, but
> it's the sort of thing that is variable, and time will tell over the
> next week.  However, the glitches still show up from time to time.
>
>
> My current plan of attack is to wait for the Mandriva 2006 upgrade to
> become public and try that, before going down the route of shelling out
> money on a new card.

 How about trying one of the "quickstart" distros like KnoppMyth or MythDora. 
Personally, I moved away from the Mandrake based distros a while ago. Too 
much overhead. If you're feeling up to the challenge, you can install Gentoo 
and create a truly customized Myth install. It's what I run on my laptop. 
HOURS of compiling fun  ;-)

-alex
 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv (OT)

[Alex Cruz]

 You're right. MS will do just about anything..as long as you keep paying. I 
was actually referring to their SALES reps who lure you in, get you to sign a 
contract and then disappear to leave you high and dry until your contract is 
up for renewal. Theives.

-alex

On Tuesday 18 October 2005 04:11 pm, Graham Dunn wrote:
> Alex Cruz wrote:
> >[snip]
> >
> >
> >
> >The way I see it if we can maintain people, more people will join by word
> > of mouth and the project will flourish. Let's not follow MS's lead in
> > regards to "customer service". Have a good one.
>
> Actually, Microsoft has one of the best customer service departments
> I've ever used, at least in terms of support for servers. For your
> USD250, they'll do whatever it takes. I spent 11 hours on the phone
> debugging an Active Directory problem with Redmond support last week.
>
> It's astonishing that it requires an expert 11 hours to troubleshoot and
> repair an AD problem, but hey, that's good value for your money.
>
> ObMyth: Umm, I've had zero problems with my dual PVR250 / Knoppmyth
> system in the last 6 months (touch wood). Good work, guys!
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Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

[Alex Cruz]

 Sometimes things are lost in translation. I've learned this from being 
married to someone that isn't Spanish like I am. Human nature is to lash out 
when frustrated with these types of situations. The thing about this thread 
is that we were able to extract a better description of the problem in order 
to provide several possible solutions. 

The way I see it if we can maintain people, more people will join by word of 
mouth and the project will flourish. Let's not follow MS's lead in regards to 
"customer service". Have a good one.

-alex
 

On Tuesday 18 October 2005 01:16 pm, Isaac Richards wrote:
> 
>
> Why do people bother responding to this kind of crap?  If someone is being
> so ignorant as to threaten to use another software package just to get some
> attention, let them.  Seems like a good scheme to get a lot of replies, but
> I think it's pretty idiotic.
>
> Isaac
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Re: [mythtv-users] Setting deinterlacers (was Re: Picture quality, was "Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv")

[Alex Cruz]

 In that same screen, the type of Deinterlacing can be changed to Kernel, 
Bob(x2), etc. Try the different types and see which works for you.

-alex


On Tuesday 18 October 2005 09:00 am, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 10:50:08PM +1000, Laurie Odgers wrote:
> > Something to do with deinterlacing perhaps? Ive noticed that there is a
> > significant difference between linear blend and the kernel deinterlacer
> > when watching something fast paced like football, the kernel deinterlacer
> > looks much nicer
>
> How do you control this?  All I've noticed in the mythtv
> configuration (on, IIRC, mythfrontend) is 'deinterlace video on/off',
> nothing to control how it's deinterlaced.
>
> My particular situation is that I sometimes get double-images on my
> TV which make it feel choppy.  Pausing and going through it frame-by-
> frame, I'll see that the image actually is doubled, with a (e.g.) 1/3
> transparent copy of something in the old position and a 2/3
> transparent copy of it in the new position.  (This is most clearly
> visible on animated programs, of course.)  The odd thing is that
> watching avi or mpg files not created by mythtv on the TV looks fine
> and watching mythtv's recordings on a remote front end attached to an
> LCD monitor also looks fine.  It's only the combination of a myth
> recording and the TV display that has this problem.  I've tried
> setting the frontend on the TV to both deinterlace and not
> deinterlace, but it has not had any readily-visible effect on this
> problem either way.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

[Alex Cruz]

 Ah, DVB cards. There's a reason I decided to stick with the plain old 
PVR-250. Since I only have cable (I can't get Direct or Dish in my current 
location) and I've decided to wait until 2010 for HDTV to standardize (my 
theory of when the US will get it's crap together) the 250 was an obvious 
choice. Also, since I only wanted to replace my VCR, the quality is good 
enough. One thing I totally agree on, Xine is doing some pretty good stuff 
with video and TV. I always wondered why it wasn't used for TV like it is for 
DVD and Video playback. Anyway, it looks like you are certainly receiving a 
number of replies on this subject. Hopefully, something here will help. Have 
a good one.

-alex


On Tuesday 18 October 2005 06:27 am, ffrr wrote:
> Alex Cruz wrote:
> > I suppose it all depends on what you are looking for. If you want a HTPC,
> >then MythTV is one option. There's also Freevo under Linux and several
> > "free" one's under Windows.
>
> Yes I tried Freevo.  Not too bad.  Mythtv has many more features, but if
> the basics don't work then...
>
> > As for picture quality in LiveTV and recording, what I
> >am watching is acceptable for non-HD television.
>
> What is frustrating is that the picture from my DVB card is excellent,
> even in myth when it's not glitching.   Myth must be using it
> differently to Kaffeine (which uses Xine) as obviously the drivers and
> hardware are still the same.
>
> Truly, I was blaming the antenna and all sorts of things until I
> discovered Kaffeine doesn't suffer nearly as bad as myth.  Kaffeine only
> show a glitch very occasionally.  Other TV's and digital set top boxes
> in my house show virtually flawless pictures (we have a good strong
> signal), but I did hear some stories that the twinhan cards used to need
> a very strong signal, but then again I also read that the newer ones,
> like my mini ter card, are a lot better.  Anyway, if Kaffeine, on the
> same machine, can show a nice clean picture, then I think the rules out
> signal problems (or does it?).
>
> >On my system I use TV,
> >Music, Videos, DVD, Images, Games, Weather and Phone. And yes, I prefer
> > the old menu structure. Easier to navigate IMHO and the wifey prefers it 
> > ;-)
>
> Yes Myth has many nice features
>
> >Also, not wanting to compile my own due to time restrictions (try
> > explaining to a two year old why I have to compile the "TV"), I use
> > KnoppMyth as my distribution. Yes, you will still need to tweak it and
> > update a few drivers depending on your capture card but overall, it's
> > worth it and does a good job (thanks, Cecil). As for themes, I am
> > currently using a custom configuration of Myxer. Waiting for the iPod
> > theme that's been posted on here several times to see if it'll look good
> > on my set.
> >
> >As for support, I've found that between this mailing list and the
> > KnoppMyth forums, all of my questions have been answered or I've been
> > able to find them with the help of others.
>
> Well, no replies to my current problems yet, not even any explanation of
> what the advanced setting parameters for the DVB card mean.
>
> >Myth can be extremely frustrating during the install
> >and tweak time (believe me, I know). But IMHO, it's been worth it. I can
> > open a browser and schedule recordings, I can listen to my MP3 collection
> > using my stereo system instead of my laptop and headphones, being able to
> > choose which "JoJo's Circus" my kid wants to watch on the TV, etc, etc.
> > It's all in what you want to make it. And one thing no one will lie to
> > you about: what type of hardware you use in which compenent (frontend or
> > backend) makes a HUGE difference. I'm willing to help if I can. That's
> > why I read this list and post when and what I am capable of helping with.
> >
> >-alex
>
> And your input is most welcome, even a sympathetic ear can help :-)
>
> I even considered buying a cheap analog card instead of the DVB card.
> It wouldn't be wasted, even if I solve the DVB problems later, as it
> would give me an analog video in, that the DVB card does not have.  But
> the digital card is such a nice solution, if it works.  It's low on CPU,
> no capturing/converting and the audio is mutilplexed into the digital
> stream.
>
> The thing is, even if I put up with the glitching, having the frontend
> completely crash on playback of it's files is just so infuriating.  How
> can bad input data cause a program to seg fault?  Seems like a serious
> bug in there, as I said Kaffeine handles it nicely - hence my thinking a
> newer version of myth, with some of the fixes that might be in the works
> right now, would a real good thing !  
>
>
>
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Re: [mythtv-users] Starting to think I should use Kaffeine instead of Mythtv

[Alex Cruz]

 I suppose it all depends on what you are looking for. If you want a HTPC, 
then MythTV is one option. There's also Freevo under Linux and several "free" 
one's under Windows. As for picture quality in LiveTV and recording, what I 
am watching is acceptable for non-HD television. On my system I use TV, 
Music, Videos, DVD, Images, Games, Weather and Phone. And yes, I prefer the 
old menu structure. Easier to navigate IMHO and the wifey prefers it  ;-)  

Also, not wanting to compile my own due to time restrictions (try explaining 
to a two year old why I have to compile the "TV"), I use KnoppMyth as my 
distribution. Yes, you will still need to tweak it and update a few drivers 
depending on your capture card but overall, it's worth it and does a good job 
(thanks, Cecil). As for themes, I am currently using a custom configuration 
of Myxer. Waiting for the iPod theme that's been posted on here several times 
to see if it'll look good on my set.
  
As for support, I've found that between this mailing list and the KnoppMyth 
forums, all of my questions have been answered or I've been able to find them 
with the help of others. Myth can be extremely frustrating during the install 
and tweak time (believe me, I know). But IMHO, it's been worth it. I can open 
a browser and schedule recordings, I can listen to my MP3 collection using my 
stereo system instead of my laptop and headphones, being able to choose which 
"JoJo's Circus" my kid wants to watch on the TV, etc, etc. It's all in what 
you want to make it. And one thing no one will lie to you about: what type of 
hardware you use in which compenent (frontend or backend) makes a HUGE 
difference. I'm willing to help if I can. That's why I read this list and 
post when and what I am capable of helping with. 

-alex 


On Tuesday 18 October 2005 04:35 am, ffrr wrote:
> Really getting tiresome having glitchy live and recorded TV.  Kaffeine's
> picture and sound is much cleaner from the same DVB card using the same
> channels.conf file for tuning parameters.  What is myth doing differently?
>
> Also, sick of mythfrontend just quitting outright (seg fault) trying to
> play it's own bad recordings, when Kaffeine, can play the stuff recorded
> by myth, despite it's problems, without erroring out.
>
> Despite this, I keep hearing that a new version of myth isn't warranted
> yet?  What do I have to do - get an SVN version (not really a good
> option)?  None , or very few, responses to the messages and problems I
> have recently posted about.  Do I take this to mean noone really knows
> much about myth when it gets down to the gory details, so support is not
> available?
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Re: LVM *was* Re: [mythtv-users] Highest number of simultaneous streams recorded?

[Alex Brekken]

Thanks Brandon, that makes sense.  For a masterbackend server that
will probably have at most 2 clients, I don't get the feeling that
striping the drives is necessary from a performance standpoint. 
I'm still trying to decide how to tackle the redundancy/backup
issue.   I'm wondering if doing this via RAID is
overkill  Rather than introduce that complication maybe I
should just manually back the drives up every so often.  On 10/17/05, Brandon Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 03:45:16PM -0500, Alex Brekken wrote:> If one wanted redundancy only (is that RAID-0??) then I take it you would
> skip LVM entirely, correct? - IOW, are the 2 mutually exclusive or can you> use LVM with RAID? The reason I ask is because I'm starting to put together> some plans to build a master backend server (currently I have a
> frontend/backend combo) which will not only house myth and it's recordings,> but also all of my music and pictures/videos of the kids. (the latter of> which I would want the redundancy in case of a drive failure).
Raid 0 is striping for performance but no redundancy.  Any other raidlevel (2,3,4,5,10) does redundancy.  LVM basically gives you virtualpartitions on top of anything that's set as an LVM partition type via
fdisk.  Some people use LVM ontop of raid.  Someone may do raid 5 forredunancy and use LVM on top to allow them to shrink and grow virtualpartitions as they want to move space around for mount points, but still
have redunancy (Since LVM doesn't do redundancy).  The only thing likeraid LVM does is striping - but you can't resize a striped LVM partion,so LVM striping and Raid 0 are somewhat alike.--Brandon
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Re: [mythtv-users] Mozilla/Firefox search plugin for MythTV Mailing Lists now available

[Alex Cruz]

 Nice job on the search plugin, Mike. Extremely handy for trying to find that 
"fix" that I can never remember :-) Cheers!

-alex

On Sunday 16 October 2005 09:23 pm, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> I got tired of going to the Gossamer Threads MythTV page (
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv ) every time I wanted to
> search the mailing list archives, so I created a Mozilla/Firefox
> (Mycroft) search plugin for the MythTV mailing lists to give me
> "one-click" access to the archives.  You can get the plugin from:
>
> http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=mythtv&submitform=Find+search+
>plugins
>
> The icon is horrid, but I have absolutely no artistic talent.  It's
> supposed to be similar to the blue "apple peel" sphere on the old blue
> theme (but, I wimped out and did the "apple" before it got "peeled").
> OK.  OK.  Now that you're done laughing at me, go ahead and fix it up
> and replace it with a much better icon...  :)  (Feel free to send me the
> icon or update it yourself.)
>
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Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire and DCT-6200

[Alex Brekken]

Wow!!  Big improvement for me.  As I posted earlier, my
firewire reliability was only around 60% (at best).  Since running
these commands I'm batting 100% so far.  It's only been a day, but
I've tested it quite a bit and haven't had any "false starts" from
either live tv or recordings from firewire.  I also changed from
point-to-point to broadcast, and changed the speed from 400 mbps to 100
mbps as suggested.  I doubt these were the reason for the change
since I've played with those settings quite a bit before with no
improvement in reliability.  

Question:  since I have no idea what these plugctl commands really
do, I'm wondering if they need to be re-run anytime the machine is
rebooted...?  

Thanks Curtis for the great find! I know there's quite a few other
Firewire users who have the same reliability problems, so I hope they
give this a try.  
On 10/14/05, Curtis Stanford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK, I think I've found something that helps with this firewire stuff.See this message:http://www.netzwerk-aktiv.com/pub/doc/newsletters/linux1394-user/html/
2344.htmlI followed the advice in the first paragraph and typed:plugctl -n 1 opcr[0].channel=63plugctl -n 1 opcr[0].bcast_connection=1Then I set the firewire connection to broadcast, 100Mbps in mythtv-
setup.Now, the test-mpeg2 command works EVERY time (don't use the -r 1argument, just test-mpeg2). Also, mythtv "Watch TV" command worksEVERY time where before it worked maybe 50% of the time or hung.
I have yet to see if it helps with my recordings being cut short butI'll let the list know how it goes.If anyone else benefits from this, please post your results.ThanksCurtis
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[mythtv-users] Lousy video quality with standard v4l

[Alex Polite]

Hi.

I'm moving from freevo to mythtv. Mythtv's standard interface and web
interface are superior to those of freevo. Unfortunatly I can't say
the same thing for the video quality. Under freevo I used a mencoder
script to do my recordings and the quality is vastly superior to those
of myth.

One problem I'm having is that the contrast is to far to high. I get
very little detail in the dark and light areas. Reducing contrast when
viewing (by pressing G) will just make the image greyer, it doesn't
actually give me more detail.

Does anyone recognise this? Are there any filters that remedy it?

alex

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RE: [mythtv-users] /dev/lirc missing during FC4 setup

[Alex Vishnev]

Hmmm... I built lircd and lircmd from sources. The binaries are in
/usr/local/sbin on my distribution. You may have it in a different place. I
suggest searching the drive for them (i.e. find / -name lircd -print) to see
where the utilities are. The reason lircd fails when you start irw, is
because /dev/lirc can't be stat'ed or opened. In order to get the device
back, you need to make sure that lirc can open and attach to your IR device.
IR device must be plugged into the card. please do what I suggested in
modprobe and grab the output of /var/log/messages to see what messages you
get when you load the modules. Please note that the order of load is
important. You need to load lirc-dev first, followed by lirc_i2c. Assuming
everything works well and lirc modules can determine and attach to your IR
card, then you can start lircd and lircmd servers/daemons

HTH
Alex

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Rissberger
Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 10:53 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] /dev/lirc missing during FC4 setup

Alex Vishnev wrote:

>This is what I have done to fix lirc.. I am not sure why modprobe does not
>load it properly sometimes. When I boot, I go to the command line and issue
>
>modprobe lirc-dev
>modprobe lirc_i2c
>lircd
>lircmd
>
>That fixed the problem for me. It recreated the devices and link them
>properly.
>
>Alex
>
>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of coutch
>Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 6:49 PM
>To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
>Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] /dev/lirc missing during FC4 setup
>
>I'm having a very similar problem. (PVR 150 retail)
>
>Initially, following Jarod Wilson's instruction to the letter, my setup 
>is working just fine, and the remote works.
>
>/dev/lirc0 exists, and /dev/lirc points to it.  There's also /dev/lircd
>
>I can watch live tv, play music, etc ... just fine.
>
>And suddenly, while watching live TV, I go to change the channel...  The 
>remote simply stops responding.
>
>only /dev/lircd is left
>
>trying irw, it simply exits.
>
>mythbackend & mythfrontend don't echo any error messages.
>
>nothing new in /var/log/messages
>
>nothing in modprobe.conf has changed, no software was updated.
>
>reloading the modules or rebooting doesn't solve the problem. the 
>devices are simply never created ...
>
>--Coutch
>
>  
>
lircd and lircmd are not found when I attempt to run them.  I thought 
that lircd was a service.  Normally I run it by /sbin/service lircd 
restart.  It starts but will die the second I attempt to run irw.

What I'm curious about is why lirc_i2c is not creating the device that 
is needed. 

When I plug the IR receiver into the 150, if I leave it halfway plugged 
in, the red IR transmitter comes on and stays on.  If I plug it all the 
way in, it turns off.  Which way should it be?

Also, I'll post by modules.conf as soon as I can.  Hopefully someone 
could point out something that I'm doing wrong.

Thanks again.

Mark

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RE: [mythtv-users] /dev/lirc missing during FC4 setup

[Alex Vishnev]

This is what I have done to fix lirc.. I am not sure why modprobe does not
load it properly sometimes. When I boot, I go to the command line and issue

modprobe lirc-dev
modprobe lirc_i2c
lircd
lircmd

That fixed the problem for me. It recreated the devices and link them
properly.

Alex

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of coutch
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 6:49 PM
To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] /dev/lirc missing during FC4 setup

I'm having a very similar problem. (PVR 150 retail)

Initially, following Jarod Wilson's instruction to the letter, my setup 
is working just fine, and the remote works.

/dev/lirc0 exists, and /dev/lirc points to it.  There's also /dev/lircd

I can watch live tv, play music, etc ... just fine.

And suddenly, while watching live TV, I go to change the channel...  The 
remote simply stops responding.

only /dev/lircd is left

trying irw, it simply exits.

mythbackend & mythfrontend don't echo any error messages.

nothing new in /var/log/messages

nothing in modprobe.conf has changed, no software was updated.

reloading the modules or rebooting doesn't solve the problem. the 
devices are simply never created ...

--Coutch

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Re: [mythtv-users] PHP error in MythWeb (SOLVED)

[Alex Cruz]

 Perhaps you should start your own search engine ;-)

Anyway, I figured it out about 10 mins after posting here. Just didn't check 
back in time to post the fix. Anyway, yes I had to install php4-mysql AND 
php4 again. Weird. Thanks again.

-alex
 

On Friday 14 October 2005 03:54 pm, Chris Petersen wrote:
> >  After installing php4-gd in KnoppMyth R5A16, I'm getting the following
> > error when trying to access MythWeb:
> >
> > Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect()
> > in /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/includes/init.php on line 54
> >
> > Any ideas how I can fix this? Thanks.
>
> google could have answered this just as easily as me...
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=Call%20to%20undefined%20function%3A%20mysql_
>connect()%20
>
> you need to install the php-mysql package for your distro (probably
> php4-mysql in your case).
>
> -Chris
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Re: LVM *was* Re: [mythtv-users] Highest number of simultaneous streams recorded?

[Alex Brekken]

If one wanted redundancy only (is that RAID-0??)  then I take it
you would skip LVM entirely, correct?  - IOW, are the 2 mutually
exclusive or can you use LVM with RAID?  The reason I ask is
because I'm starting to put together some plans to build a master
backend server (currently I have a frontend/backend combo) which will
not only house myth and it's recordings, but also all of my music and
pictures/videos of the kids.  (the latter of which I would want
the redundancy in case of a drive failure).  On 10/14/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Friday 14 October 2005 16:13, Brandon Beattie wrote:>> Before you go running off let me give you a warning.  Although LVM> supports striping, adding/removing disks, shrinking and growing fs's,> they do _not_ all work together.  If you stripe you can't add/remove
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> for performance downsides with many gig files compared to xfs and jfs).> In my experience, raid 5 is overkill for my desire to record TV shows.> Anything I want safe I backup to another computer completely.  In
> dealing with 6 drives I've found it very useful to shrink fs's at times,> and since ReiserFS (Not Reiser 4) is the only fs that supports shrinking> I use it.  Striping would be nice, but adding/removing disks I've found
> to be a much better feature.>> I've also found seagate drives to run 10%-30% faster for reading and> writing (reading and writing 100+ gig files) plus the 5yr warranty comes> in nice, since of 9 drives I've had in the last 3 years, half the Maxtor
> 200GB drives have gone bad.Thanks for the info!I'll keep all that in mind. I might just stick with a RAID 0 for my recordingdrive and leave backup to the LVM or plain filesystem or something...
I'm looking at getting WD's w/ 3yr warranty's. I've had very good luck withthem (and seagate as well) and they're about $40 less for 320gb than theseagates, which I can live with, since in 3 years time I plan on having 1TB
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[mythtv-users] PHP error in MythWeb

[Alex Cruz]

 After installing php4-gd in KnoppMyth R5A16, I'm getting the following error 
when trying to access MythWeb:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() 
in /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/includes/init.php on line 54

Any ideas how I can fix this? Thanks.

-alex
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Re: [mythtv-users] Highest number of simultaneous streams recorded?

[Alex Brekken]

Steve, is there any way to add an LVM on an up-and-running system, or
must it be done during the OS install when partitioning the disk? 
(sorry, I don't mean to hijack this thread but I figured this would be
a quick answer)  Thanks!On 10/14/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Friday 14 October 2005 10:16, Brandon Beattie wrote:>> The current limitations on number of streams has to do with what> hardware you choose to use.  This includes tuner cards, hard drives,> network cards, and CPU.  I think it would still be rather easy to get
> 10+ streams recording and 4-5 being played back (1 local, 3-4 remote)> before you see any problems.  To do this you would need either hardware> assisted analog encoders, or an HD tuner because they won't use more than
> 3% or so CPU.  To reach a 10Rec 5Play number, you would want a good> processor and memory, something 3.4Ghz or over would be fine -- If> you're not going to watch video locally though, I bet you could do all
> this with 2Ghz or less.  Disk usage is the next issue.  Using raid> 0, 5 or 10 would help in this areas you may be able to do 15 streams> total with 2-3 striped drives I would bet.  Networking will be the final
> issue.  HD streams run up to just under 20Mb/s.  As much as we wish to> get 1Gb/s speeds all the time, expecting much over 400Mb/s constant is> not always possible.  Myth struggles to play video smoothly unless it
> feels like it has room to breath and almost no packet loss.another option if you find yourself recording this much is to use LVM (logicalvolume manager). It would allow you to connect, say four 300gig drives and
use them all as one AND stripe data across them (like RAID 0). Or you coulduse 3 striped and the 4th as a parity drive in case one dies.This would most definitely give you the drive speed required to not only
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Re: [mythtv-users] Who wants to help me develop a new theme?

[Alex Cruz]

Very cool application. I'll have to try it when I get home. Thanks to both of 
you for pointing it out. Still looking forward to the iPod theme. More themes 
are always a "Good Thing" (tm). Thanks.

-alex


On Thursday 13 October 2005 12:10 pm, Dave Hofstra wrote:
> Heres the link
>  http://lisadaveh.home.comcast.net/myxer/
>  I will probably start playing with it again this winter... but it'll do
> as-is until the new UI stuff is finished.
>  Dave Hofstra
>
>  On 10/13/05, Andrew Close <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 10/13/05, Alex Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 13 October 2005 09:14 am, Andrew Close wrote:
> > > > On 10/13/05, Tim Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > Here's some screen shots of a theme i am working on. (I know! now
> >
> > that I
> >
> > > > > post some screenshots the theme will never be completed.)
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.bullshooter.com/~tward/vod3.png
> > > > > http://www.bullshooter.com/~tward/vod4.png
> > > >
> > > > Myth iPod!!! :)
> > > > i like it. not quite FrontRow, but very cool and another option for
> > > > users to play with.
> > >
> > > Very nice. While I absolutely stink at coding, I would be more than
> >
> > happy to
> >
> > > help test it since currently, I rely on no single theme. I tend to
> >
> > switch as
> >
> > > the need arises. One of the things I would ask is to make sure the EPG
> >
> > is
> >
> > > readable. For me, that's a core feature that has to look good and act
> >
> > nice.
> >
> > Alex,
> >
> > in the meantime you should check out the Myxer theme. you'll have to
> > search the archives for a link, sorry. it makes it pretty easy to
> > switch backgrounds, buttons, and other stuff to customize your
> > frontend. very cool.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Who wants to help me develop a new theme?

[Alex Cruz]

On Thursday 13 October 2005 09:14 am, Andrew Close wrote:
> On 10/13/05, Tim Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Here's some screen shots of a theme i am working on. (I know! now that I
> > post some screenshots the theme will never be completed.)
> >
> >  http://www.bullshooter.com/~tward/vod3.png
> >  http://www.bullshooter.com/~tward/vod4.png
>
> Myth iPod!!! :)
> i like it.  not quite FrontRow, but very cool and another option for
> users to play with.

 Very nice. While I absolutely stink at coding, I would be more than happy to 
help test it since currently, I rely on no single theme. I tend to switch as 
the need arises. One of the things I would ask is to make sure the EPG is 
readable. For me, that's a core feature that has to look good and act nice.

-alex
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Re: [mythtv-users] Firewire and DCT-6200

[Alex Brekken]

As another data point, I'm running 18.1 on FC3 and have been using
FireWire on a DCT-6200 for a few months now.  I've got a Belkin
FireWire card.  The main issue I have is the same that I've seen
many other Firewire users complain about, which is often times when
starting a recording (or LiveTV) it doesn't actually capture
anything.  So you get either a zero-size file, or it just times
out.  If you keep trying it will work, but I would say that
roughly 40% of the time it doesn't.  Once it DOES start capturing
it's great, but it's nowhere near reliable enough for me to use it as
anything more than as an experimental thing.  Channel-changing,
however, does work flawlessly all the time.  On 10/12/05, Big Wave Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Big Wave Dave wrote:

  
  

Was this using  Myth from src?... or running the lastest RPMs
posted on ATrpms?


I'm running the latest "stable" (non-bleeding) RPMs, and have the same
problems as Curtis. 

My FireWire card:
Kouwell Model
KW-1582V - (aka BTC 1394 PCI Card)
http://www.kouwell.com.tw/pr-m3.htm#1582v

If I recall correctly, it was listed in linux1394.org
compatibility list at the time I bought it.


Thanks,
Dave

  
  
Since it will likely be asked:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# rpm -qa | grep myth
  mythweb-0.18-67.at
  mythbrowser-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-theme-purplegalaxy-0.20031214-3.at
  myththemes-0.18-104.at
  mythtv-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
  mythweather-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-theme-MythCenter-0.17-1.at
  mythtv-theme-photo-4-6.at
  mythtv-suite-0.18.1-55.at
  mythtv-themes-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-backend-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-setup-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
  mythgame-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-theme-isthmus-0.20040804-1.at
  mythtv-theme-visor-0.16.2-5.at
  mythmusic-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythnews-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythmkmovie-1.1.4-4.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-theme-MediaCenter-0.17-4.at
  mythtv-theme-abstract-0.20040910-2.at
  mythtv-frontend-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
  mythphone-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythplugins-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythtv-theme-sleek-0.35-2.at
  libmyth-0.18.1-113.rhfc3.at
  mythvideo-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythgallery-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  mythdvd-0.18.1-112.rhfc3.at
  
DaveI should clarify that mine DOES work about 60-70% of the time.  I would obviously like to improve that though. :-)

Dave


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Re: [mythtv-users] diskless backend?

[Alex Brekken]

To be honest, I don't know if this would work, but even if it did - I'm
curious to know what the benefit would be?  When watching liveTV
you'll be doing a full roundtrip with the video-stream across your
network.  Why not just do the capturing where the disks are and
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Also, when watching live TV, does the backend read from the file andstream to the backend?  Or does it take what it is capturing and bothwrite it to the file and stream it to the frontend?  If it reads it from
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Re: [mythtv-users] FAQ

[Alex Cruz]

On Sunday 09 October 2005 02:02 am, Steve Hodge wrote:
>To avoid this problem we're giving
> X the width that would result in X calculating a dpi of 100 (which
> gives fonts of the right size for the rest of the interface).

 This was indeed the most dificult part for me in tweaking Myth to fit my TV 
(Toshiba 32" Cinema Series). It took modifying and restarting GDM a number of 
times before I felt that the interface was at a readable level. The real 
killer was getting the Program Guide to a readable point since not all themes 
use the same font size (which really erked me). Just make sure you back-up 
your XF86Config file once your happy with it in case you, let 's say, lose 
your 120 GB HD and haven't backed it up  ;-)

-alex 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Comcast being coy?

[Alex Brekken]

Agreed.  About the only claim to fame that the Comcast DVR box has
is that it will record HD.  I don't *think* any of the other
cable/satellite provided DVR's can do that.  (yet)   If you
really want a commercial DVR then go TiVo.  On 10/7/05, Brad Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 10/7/05, Marc Infield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I was also impressed that they only charge $5 more for their DVR, arethey any good? I hope not, by the time you add up what I haveinvested in parts for all my Myth learning it would end being DVRrentals for about 10 years. :)

No, the Comcast HD-DVR is crap.  My sister has one and the storage
space is severely lacking.  I don't recall off hand how many hours
it can store, but it's not much more than 10, if that.  Also, they
seem to have a serious bug in them.  If the DVR is powered off and
it is scheduled to record a show it will actually begin the recording,
but not display to the user that it is powered on and working.  If
you then hit the power button while it is recording it will turn on and
display video so you can watch TV on the second tuner.  However,
the second tuner is MUTED.  I have yet to find a way to get it to
unmute other than turning off the DVR (which kills whatever recording
was in progress) and then turning it back on.  Also, it clearly
has two tuners since you can record and watch at the same time, but I
also haven't yet been able to get it to record two shows at once. 
If there's two tuners in there I see no reason why it shouldn't be able
to record two shows if I'm not using either of the tuners to watch TV.


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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Comcast being coy?

[Alex Brekken]

No, you don't need (or want) the DVR version.  The DCT-6200 box is
what you want.  The Comcast reps definitely don't know what
they're talking about, and have no idea what Firewire is. 
However, if you have them search their knowledge base for "IEEE-1394"
(the technical name for Firewire)  they will find a blurb that
states how "they must enable the port due to a new law/regulation blah
blah blah."  Regardless, just have them send you a 6200 and you'll
be fine.  

As to what channels you actually get, this is something that seems to
vary from market to market.  I'm in the Twin Cities, and I get all
analog and digital channels, with the exception of the HBO's. 
(interetsingly, I used to get the HBO's but now I don't...)
On 10/7/05, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
wow, this is awesome. I was hesitant to do it because I'm always the guy thatwould end up getting a non-firewire box with no way to get a new one, orgetting a new one that still doesn't have firewire...out of curiosity, would I need the DVR version of the box or would the regular
version have firewire out? my comcast uses the motorola boxes for dvr, andfrom what I've seen for the non-dvr's as well. in fact, they look the same,maybe they are, just san-hd?would the firewire allow me to get all the channels over it or just the ones
that are sent through the lines as digital?thanks!Steve
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Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution

[Alex Brekken]

Well I'm not sure I'd call the Mini inexpensive (maybe compared to
other Mac's), but the form factor is pretty tough to beat.  Is HD
even a remote possibility on a Mini, or is it out of the
question?  I assume you can't use hardware acceleration like
XvMC  If it can't do HD, is the CPU the problem, or the vid
card?  I'm just thinking that if I wait a bit, maybe Apple will
come out with a next-gen Mini with more power.  
On 10/6/05, Jake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i remember seeing someone post somewhere, can't remember if it wasthis list or irc or what, that had built the mac mini into their tvhousing.  he had a website with pictures, i think he had some sort ofbig dlp tv but apparently that worked and i thought it was pretty cool
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[mythtv-users] /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -liec61883

[Alex Pedenko]

Anyone have any ideas where I can get this binary? I’m
trying to build 0.18.2 from svn, and the build dies with that message. Any ideas?

 

Somehow my setup has degenerated to the point where it’s
unuseable.

 






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[mythtv-users] FW: firewire help

[Alex Pedenko]

Hey all

I'm trying to work through some firewire issues. At first, I had
it setup in a p2p configuration and it worked intermittently, cutting
out every other video request (or so). I found a few threads in the
archives about boxes that show up on node 1 liking broadcast more, so I
did that and that helped a bit - now it would take a few times after a
reboot to get video, but then it was rock solid. Now I can't even get
video. When I try through test-mpeg2, it sends a feed, but if I fire up
the front end right after and try to watch tv either nothing happens
(backend shows the standard 15s timeout) or it crashes out on me with
this error

Total desktop width=1024, height=768, numscreens=1
2005-10-02 17:04:14.427 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0
2005-10-02 17:04:14.431 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1
www.mythtv.org
2005-10-02 17:04:14.432 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2005-10-02 17:04:15.070 Switching to square mode (MythCenter)
2005-10-02 17:04:15.427 New DB connection, total: 2
2005-10-02 17:04:15.430 Joystick disabled.
2005-10-02 17:04:15.484 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2005-10-02 17:04:15.506 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media
handler
2005-10-02 17:04:15.506 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media
handler
2005-10-02 17:04:15.725 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media
handler
SIP listening on IP Address 192.168.5.10:5060 NAT address 192.168.5.10
SIP: Cannot register; proxy, username or password not set
2005-10-02 17:04:17.959 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543
(try 1 of 5
)
2005-10-02 17:04:21.089 Using protocol version 15
2005-10-02 17:04:21.123 Using protocol version 15
adding pes stream at pid 0x50 with type 2
adding pes stream at pid 0x51 with type 129
2005-10-02 17:04:23.282 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2005-10-02 17:04:23.282 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2005-10-02 17:04:23.301 Using XV port 222
Text area set as scrolling, but no movement
2005-10-02 17:04:23.590 Realtime priority would require SUID as root.
2005-10-02 17:04:23.611 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-10-02 17:04:23.694 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait
2005-10-02 17:04:24.013 AvFormatDecoder: Video has changed from 0x0 to
528x480.
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
  what():  St9bad_alloc


plug report says


Node 0 GUID 0x09cb
--
libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR
libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR

Node 1 GUID 0x0014e8fffe1ec7a2
--
oMPR n_plugs=1, data_rate=2, bcast_channel=63
oPCR[0] online=1, bcast_connection=0, n_p2p_connections=0
channel=63, data_rate=0, overhead_id=0, payload=376
iMPR n_plugs=0, data_rate=2
 

It's gotten to the point where I can't get it to work at all. 

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

Thanks, 
alex

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Re: [mythtv-users] Problem installing Mythburn on Mandrake 10.1

[Alex Brekken]

For what's it worth, I get the exact same errors you do both from
mythweb as well as the command line.  I'm running on FC3. On 9/30/05, belcampo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,After a lot of reading and trying I'm unable to get things going.
From Mythweb I get:Warning at /data/mythburn/mythwebburn/mythtvburndvd_createdvd.php, line 114:fopen(mythburnconf/mythtvburnconfig.xml): failed to open stream: PermissiondeniedAs far as I understand mythburnconf is the conf subdirectory in mythburn. But
there is no .xml file. Should it be created there ? Am I missing something ?BTW the directory is perfectly writableWarning at /data/mythburn/mythwebburn/mythtvburndvd_createdvd.php, line 115:fputs(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource
Warning at /data/mythburn/mythwebburn/mythtvburndvd_createdvd.php, line 116:fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resourceFrom the commandline I get:/data/mythburn/mythtvburn.sh 'pal' '
gradient-dodgerblue.png' 'menumusic.mp2''yes' 'no' 'no' 'bar.png' 'no' 'no' 'no''2033_2005092722_20050927233000.nuv' 'nocut'MythBurn Script is running as user mythtvVideo format = palBackground image = /data/mythburn/images/backgrounds/gradient-
dodgerblue.pngBackground music = /data/mythburn/music/menumusic.mp2Make ISO image = yesBurn to DVD-R = noDelete VIDEO_TS = noHighlight image = bar.pngAnimated thumbnails = noChapter Submenus = no
Recode to AC3 = noCreating DVD at 30-09-2005 13:51Total file size of video files is 2245 MbytesMultiplexing MPEG2 video files to DVD format and applying cutlists- datestamp=30-09-2005 13:51
- datestamp=30-09-2005 13:512033_2005092722_20050927233000.nuvcommercial cut disabled, remultiplexing for DVD format onlyRe-multiplexing file /data/video/2033_2005092722_20050927233000.nuvProjectX 
0.81.7/07.04.2004 TEST PROJECT ONLY , User: mythtvquick CL usage: (Note: CL also loads the GUI components, without displaying)without options  ...to start the GUI[options] ...[]
options: -dvx1..4, -c , -o , -n , -l, -p , -i , -g-c [path]inifile  ...use that specified iniFile instead of the standard-dvx1  ...create a .d2v ProjectFile on demux
-dvx2  ...create a .d2v ProjectFile + .ac3.wav (RIFF WAVE Header)-dvx3  ...create a .d2v ProjectFile + .mpa.wav (RIFF WAVE Header)-dvx4  ...create a .d2v ProjectFile + .ac3.wav + mpa.wav (RIFF WAVE Header)
-o   ...use that specified directory for output-n   ...use that specified filename for output-p   ...use that text based file as cutpoint list-i   ...use only these (P)IDs, separated by comma ","
-g  ...display the GUI using all given CLI options-l  ...write the normal logfileuse -dvx OR -c & -o/-n/-l/-p/-i/-g or no options (for std)java.version1.5.0_01java.vendor Sun Microsystems Inc.
java.home   /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_01/jrejava.vm.version 1.5.0_01-b08java.vm.vendor  Sun Microsystems Inc.java.vm.nameJava HotSpot(TM) Client VMjava.class.vers 49.0
java.class.path /data/ProjectX_Source/src/ProjectX.jarTERMS OF CONDITIONS:(1) this is a free Java based demux utility.(2) It is intended for educational purposes only, as a non-commercial testproject.
(3) It may not be used otherwise. Most parts are only experimental.(4) released under the terms of the GNU GPL(5) there is NO WARRANTY of any kind attached to this software(6) use it at your own risk and for your own education as it was meant
use last config or standard ...-> to agree to these terms you have to start the GUI first0 additional AC3 frames loaded..ProjectX 0.81.7 (07.04.2004)=== session infos > working with collection 0
-> write output files to :./=> File 0:  /data/video/2033_2005092722_20050927233000.nuv  (2353393776bytes)=> File is DVB/MPEG-2 TS (Video/Audio/TTX PES)=> demux-> SID 0x1
-> PMT 0x10 refers to these usable streams: Video PIDs: Audio PIDs: Teletext PIDs:--> PID 0x0 (PAT) (0x0 #1)  -> ignored5092722_20050927233000.nuv--> PID 0x10 (PMT) (0xBC #2)  -> ignored
ok> PID 0x13EC has PES-ID 0xE0 (MPEG Video) (0x178 #3)ok> PID 0x13EF has PES-ID 0xBD (private stream 1) (TTX) (0x3A04 #80)ok> PID 0x13ED has PES-ID 0xC0 (MPEG Audio) (0x8F34 #196)ok> PID 0x13EE has PES-ID 0xC0 (MPEG Audio) (0x15E4C #478)
-> video basics: 720*576 @ 25fps @ 0.7031 (16:9) @ 798bps, vbvBuffer 112-> starting export of video data @ GOP#0!> dropping useless B-Frames @ GOP#0 / new Timecode 00:00:00.000-> skip sequence_end_code following GOP#23222_20050927233000.nuv
GOP#232, new format in leading sequenceheader detected:-> video basics: 720*576 @ 25fps @ 0.6735 (4:3) @ 798bps, vbvBuffer 112-> skip sequence_end_code following GOP#115232_20050927233000.nuv
GOP#11523, new format in leading sequenceheader detected:-> video basics: 720*576 @ 25fps @ 0.7031 (16:9) @ 798bps, vbvBuffer 112packs: 12505552 100% 2353393776 2033_2005092722_20050927233000.nuvvideo: fr/ct/1p/cg/og/dg  142330/1/0/11861/0/0
video length: 142330f @ 01:34:53.200avg. nom. bitrate 2651962bps (min/max: 1471600/5906000)set first sequence_head

Re: [mythtv-users] Simplifying the instalation? (everyone wants that!) - ideas for thought

[Alex Cruz]

Having used both KnoppMyth and MythDora, I can say that both of these are 
"almost there" in regards to the 3rd group. Each distribution has some 
excellent post install features but still require getting your hands dirty in 
order to get Myth wokring exactly like you want. Both have their pros and 
cons and until you try either with your hardware configuration, you won't 
know which works best for you. As with all operating systems, the real killer 
with a project like MythTV are drivers. Trying to find all of the drivers 
that work with your hardware can be frustrating (try installing XP64 
sometime) but once you get over that hump, the rest is Nirvana. 

I totally love this application and have been pushing it on my co-workers that 
have either TiVO, Replay or Windows Media Center to try out and prove that 
MythTV isn't better than what they currently have. The only grip so far have 
been with the themes (or lack there of). They really aren't easy to 
manipulate if you want to tweak them.

-alex  

On Friday 16 September 2005 01:33 am, Nick wrote:
> On 16/09/05, Buzz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What about having "recommended" or "common" configurations?
> >
> > 1) single PC - everything installed,run and stored locally.
> >
> > 2) single backend system  - backend+tuners+lirc+database+web+filesystem
> > all on one host.  "basic" frontend on other host/s (as many as desired,
> > often just one) running GUI/mythfrontend+plugins only.
> >
> > 3) minor deviations from (2) eg: lirc on frontend, (extra) tuner/s in
> > frontend,
> >
> > What other common instalations are out there?
> >
> > What about a Wizard configuration tool?... (for common configurations)
>
> Whilst I think this is probably a good idea, I have the worry that it
> will still rely on all of the many components that MythTV relies on
> being already configured and working before this wizard is run. If you
> scan through Jarod's Fedora guide, you'll see that setting up MythTV
> is a (comparatively) very small part of the HOWTO.
>
> The way I see things at the moment, I are about 3 types of typical
> user - the more 'hardcore' users who will compile everything by hand
> and not use package repos, those comfortable with Linux wanting to
> install MythTV quickly, and finally those who've never used either
> before but want to try, and will find it the most challenging. I think
> that for the first 2 groups, setting up a multi-system MythTV
> installation would be quite straightforward (aside from the odd
> hardware grumble) with documentation explaining the fundamental
> concepts, whereas the last group may be more suited to a premade
> MythTV install such as Knoppmyth or MythDora. Adding such a wizard to
> one of these installs may be useful.
>
> Nick
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[mythtv-users] Test

[Alex Cruz]

Earlier emails were being rejected.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Some confusion on "record weekly" schedules...

[Alex Brekken]

Ahhh, totally forgot about trying a custom schedule.  Thanks Bruce, that should work great!
On 9/10/05, Bruce Markey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Alex Brekken wrote:...> and Monday's episode shows a "E" next to it, which is correct.  (after> Friday's episode has been recorded then I assume the Monday episode will> show a "P" or "R", depending upon if I deleted the recording or not)
Yes, correct.> To answer some other questions from Bruce, the reason I didn't setup a> "Record All" is because SciFi also plays the "old" BattleStar Gallactica> shows which I don't want recorded.  As such, I figured the record weekly
Ah, so that's the distinction you should make rather than the timeslot...> route would be the way to go since it pinpoints a specific time-slot in> which I know the new series is being shown.   I have read the Myth docs
> on this topic, but when it discusses recording priorities it's within> the context of conflicts, which is why I raised this question as there> really was no conflict happening here.Sorry I didn't specify that the relevant info that I had in mind
and that Brad referred to is the section on "Scheduling decisions"and how it may choose a showing for one rule over a showing thatis a match for another rule.So, if you want to record any episodes from the new series and not
the old, here is what you can do. MythTV has a feature call CustomRecord to create kPowerSearch rules that allow you to specify anycriteria to match showings. You want to match just episodes from thenew series. See: 
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-11.html#ss11.8Set the rule name to "Battlestar Galactica", cut'n'paste this into thetext box:
program.seriesid = "SH710749""Test" to be sure, then click "Record" and choose "Record at any timeon any channel". This rule will only match shows from the new series
and not the old series from the '70s.If you've been keeping up with the series and only want the newepisodes within two weeks of when they are first shown, then:program.seriesid = "SH710749"
AND program.previouslyshown = 0As I test this now, I get matches for three showings of "Final Cut"this week and three showings of "Flight of the Phoenix" next weekwith no episodes of the old series or re-runs from the new series.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Some confusion on "record weekly" schedules...

[Alex Brekken]

Thanks guys, yes Brad you're right.  I tried removing both weekly
schedules, then added them both back but added the Friday schedule
first.  This corrected the problem.  Now Friday's episode
will record, and Monday's episode shows a "E" next to it, which is
correct.  (after Friday's episode has been recorded then I assume
the Monday episode will show a "P" or "R", depending upon if I deleted
the recording or not)  

The "Find and record one showing of this title each week" option would
be OK, but on the off chance that both Friday's and Monday's schedule
would play a diffferent episode, then I'd miss one.  

To answer some other questions from Bruce, the reason I didn't setup a
"Record All" is because SciFi also plays the "old" BattleStar
Gallactica shows which I don't want recorded.  As such, I figured
the record weekly route would be the way to go since it pinpoints a
specific time-slot in which I know the new series is being
shown.   I have read the Myth docs on this topic, but when it
discusses recording priorities it's within the context of conflicts,
which is why I raised this question as there really was no conflict
happening here.  

Thanks again,
On 9/9/05, Brad Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 9/8/05, Alex Brekken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Now I fully understand that Myth should only record 1 of the 2 showings
since they're the exact same episode, however I can't figure out why
it's electing to record Monday's episode instead of Friday's since
Friday is an earlier date.  There's no other recording happening
on Friday at the same time which would interfere.  (I've got dual
tuners, so that wouldn't matter anyway)  What I would expect to
see is that Myth would record Friday's episode, and skip Monday's with
an indication on Monday's schedule of "P" for "previously
recorded."  

Does this seem like a problem to anyone else, or am I just misunderstaning how the behavior is supposed to work?  


Yes, there's a fine point of Myth's scheduler that you're
missing.  When attempting to determine which showing of an episode
should be recorded, Myth looks at many factors (tuner priority,
priority for that specific recording rule, channel priority,
etc).  I'm going to assume here that you've set the same priority
for both of your recording rules.  Since the rest of the details
of those two rules are the same, then both the Friday and Monday
episodes would have the exact same priority.  When Myth sees two
showings with the same priority, it prefers the one that matches the
recording rule that was added first.  Since you set up the Monday
recordings prior to setting up the Friday recordings it's most likely
choosing the Monday recording because that rule was entered
first.  Incidentally, you might want to remove one of those
duplicate recording rules and set the other one to "Find and record one
showing of this title each week".  That would allow Myth to record
one episode each week and still choose between the Friday and Monday
showings to avoid conflicts.



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[mythtv-users] Some confusion on "record weekly" schedules...

[Alex Brekken]

Hey guys, I've got what might be an easy question regarding Myth's
handling of weekly recording schedules.  I've got a "record
weekly" schedule set up for the new Battlestar Gallactica series on
SciFi every Monday night, 10:00pm CDT.  I've had this setup for a
few weeks now, and it works great.  Today, however, I noticed that
SciFi also has a Friday night at 9:00pm showing of Battlestar, so I
setup a "record weekly" schedule for that listing as well.  I've
since discovered that the episode that shows on Monday night is a
repeat of the previous Friday night, or at least that what it looks
like so far.  Nevertheless, I opted to keep both schedules in
place, figuring that even if they are the same episode Myth will sort
that out for me and only record one.  

Looking at my schedule recordings page on Mythweb, here's what I
see:  for this Friday evening (tomorrow), Myth is NOT going to
record this episode and has a code of "L" next to the showing, which
apparently means it will "record this showing at a later time
instead."  For Monday, Myth WILL record that showing of
Battlestar. 

Now I fully understand that Myth should only record 1 of the 2 showings
since they're the exact same episode, however I can't figure out why
it's electing to record Monday's episode instead of Friday's since
Friday is an earlier date.  There's no other recording happening
on Friday at the same time which would interfere.  (I've got dual
tuners, so that wouldn't matter anyway)  What I would expect to
see is that Myth would record Friday's episode, and skip Monday's with
an indication on Monday's schedule of "P" for "previously
recorded."  

Does this seem like a problem to anyone else, or am I just misunderstaning how the behavior is supposed to work?  
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Re: [mythtv-users] Automatic transcoding

[Alex Brekken]

Any chance a recording made on the master is trying to be transcoded by
the slave? (or vice-versa)  I've got a master/slave backend setup,
and I've noticed that often my transcoding jobs fail because  the
slave tries to process a recording that was made on the master. 
Looking at the backend logs on the slave, there's a mesage that states
something to the effect that "remote" transcoding is not allowed. 
(unlike commercial flagging, which can be done on any backend
regardless of where the recording was made)  Not sure if this is
what's happening in your case, but I've seen this bug quite
often.  
On 9/7/05, Ryan Steffes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 9/5/05, Moasat <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My auto transcoding has been failing more often than not for the past fewmonths.  As I've been swapping my master and slave backends (andreinstalling Linux on the slave-now-master), I assumed it was some setting

or another that I overlooked.  I've gone back through them all to make sureeverything is set the way I think they should be set but it is still failingat least half of the time.What bugs me is that there's no indication as to why it failed.
I tried the manual version on the command line of a recording thatpreviously failed and it finished ok so there was no indication as to whythe autotranscode failed.Is there a command-line switch or something I can use to get more
information as to why the auto transcode is failing?
You could try setting your debug level in the backend to verbose (-v) and if that doesn't give you any clues, try -v all.


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[mythtv-users] Upgraded to 0.18.1, having ivtv, mythfrontend problems

[Alex Harford]

I recently upgraded my mythtv box, and I'm having a few problems.  I
went from FC3 to FC4 using yum, and then upgraded mythtv-suite to
0.18.1 by pointing yum to the ATrpms repository.

This is on a Pundit-R box that was previously working great once it
got set up, but I wanted to get the time scale feature, so I upgraded.

Here's the list:

1) IVTV volume

It wants to set the PVR-350 volume to 64845 when it starts recording a
new show, which is causing distortion because the volume is so high. 
Turning it down during playback results in quieter, but still
distorted audio.

Previously I set it in /etc/rc.local with this command:

/usr/bin/ivtvctl -y volume=58950

and things worked just fine.

Has anyone encountered this before?  I only had 1 hit for '64845 ivtv'
in google. :(



2) Realtime priority would require SUID as root.

I get a message in mythfrontend's logfile that "Realtime priority
would require SUID as root."  I set mythfrontend to be suid root with
the 'chmod u+s /usr/bin/mythfrontend' but it didn't seem to do
anything.

ls -l `which mythfrontend` results in:

-rwsr-xr-x  1 root root 1029600 Jun 27 19:00 /usr/bin/mythfrontend



3) Mythfrontend crashing

Occasionally mythfrontend will crash when pressing the Back/Exit
button, or when a show finished.  I'm not sure what logging options to
enable for this one, running 'mythfrontend --verbose general' didn't
put any useful messages in the logfile.  Any suggestions on how to
track this down would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Alex
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Re: [mythtv-users] Zap2it subscription notices ?

[Alex Cruz]

 Hmm..this sounds like there should be a way to create a pop-up in Myth say, 1 
week prior of the expiration that reminds you to go an re-register. Maybe 
using MythNotify or something like that. Just a thought.

-alex

On Wednesday 31 August 2005 11:43 am, Gabe Rubin wrote:
> I also got bit by not renewing, while I was on vacation, so I lost a
> weeks worth of programming (that and my house-sitter turned the power
> off my myth box).
>
> It would be great if there was some way other than checking the status
> to see when the sub has expired.  Perhaps putting in the listings for
> every entry, guide data expired, instead of no data.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Using MythMusic

[Alex Brekken]

>>) When I go into it it immediately starts playing tracks beginning
>> with "A". How do I stop it playing automatically?


I'd love to know the answer to this too
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Re: [mythtv-users] Transcode Mpeg2 stream from firewire to smaller Mpeg2 stream

[Alex Brekken]

Mark, I don't have a solution for you but I'm wondering what issues
you're having with the Firewire-made recordings?  I'm having issues
with playback of Firewire recordings where the video "slows down"
every couple of seconds.  It only happens on digital channels (though
not all digital channels...) and I've wondered if it's a file issue
too as these same recordings playback just fine using mplayer from a
command line.Just curious, thanks.

Alex

On 8/23/05, Mark Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  
>  
> 
> Greetings, 
> 
> I understand that when I record from my Motorola cable box via firewire that
> MythTV just records the raw mpeg2 stream and places a .nuv extension on the
> file.  Obviously these files are fairly large.  I have played with
> transcoding to rtjpeg and mpeg4 using the native options inside Myth,
> however I am not that happy with the results. 
> 
>   
> 
> I would like to run an external job to transcode the mpeg2 (.nuv) file to a
> smaller mpeg2.  I want to still keep the basic format so that it can stay as
> a .nuv file that is really just an mpeg2 file.  I know MythTV cannot do this
> natively so I am willing to use ffmpeg or transcode (or combination).  I
> don't want to use Mplayer to play once I transcode. 
> 
>   
> 
> Ffmpeg and Transcode have a billion options.  Can someone help me with the
> commands to convert an mpeg2 file to a more highly compressed mpeg2 file?  I
> can handle renaming back to .nuv or whatever is necessary as script. 
> 
>   
> 
> Thanks in advance, 
> 
> Mark Rizzo 
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[mythtv-users] re DirectTV external tuner help

[Alex Van Deusen]

Alex Van Deusen wrote: 

>I have a Sony Bat55 directv box. It is connected via a serial cable to 
>my mythbackend. The ports are enabled in bios. 
> 
>I downloaded the script from tarek "sony.pl". Then put it into 
>/usr/local/sony.pl. In mythtv-setup I set the command to reference 
>that location. 
> 
>I tried to to have myth record and change channels but it did not work. 
> 
> 
What does did not work mean? Did you get an error? What happens when 
you try the script from the command line. Does the serial port in the 
script match the one you have the receiver connected to? By default the 
script uses /dev/ttyS0. 

>I then logged in as root su, when I did setserial dev/ttyS0 it gave me 
>correct information and listed irq4, dev/ttyS1 is irq3 
> 
>It seems like it is a problem with the user not having access, but I 
>dont know how to troubleshoot. 
> 
> 
Probably not, as you set the devices to 777. There are so many other 
things it could be like: cable is wired wrong, script is not the right 
one for that receiver, is the script set to the same device you have the 
directv receiver plugged into. BTW, on some (most?) Linux distros the 
dev entries are created dynamically and the permissions may be reset 
after a reboot. So don't reboot (this isn't Winblows after all). 

>One note I am sharing IRQ's, I have 5 capture cards in the box, and 
>scsi, agp, etc.. 
> 
> 
In this case shouldn't be a problem. 

I have a different receiver (RCA DRD-435) and use a different script 
(rca_control.pl), but this link may help you: 
http://mythhd.info/directv.html 

-- 
David 

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All I used the windows program to test if the serial cable and sat b55
box are working properly.  No issues changing channels works fine.  I
went into bios and set the serial ports to use irq 4, irq 3 and then
reserved IRQ 3 and IRQ4.

I tried the Sony0.pl script but I get an error message when trying to
run it from command prompt "bad interpreter: no such file or
directory"

When I try to run the original sony.pl  I get an error (0x00)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Re: [mythtv-users] New MythDora v1.4

[Alex Cruz]

I'll let you know later tonight. Downloading it now.

On Wednesday 17 August 2005 11:58 am, John Owens wrote:
> Has anyone tested this Distro?
>
> Jim Reith wrote:
> > The very first selection in the list from plugging MythDora into
> > Google states
> >
> > http://www.pvrguide.no-ip.com/bbs/index.php?showtopic=4987
> >
> > "MythDora is a FC3/OS with MythTV-0.18.1 all on one CD."
> >
> > At 12:31 PM 8/17/2005, you wrote:
> >> On 8/17/05, *Neil Davidson* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>
> >> > wrote:
> >> > At 3:51 PM -0400 8/16/05, Dennis Hand wrote:
> >> > >The newest version of MythDora is out. It can be downloaded here
> >> > >http://g-ding.tv/?q=MythDora.
> >> > >And no Dora the Explorer puns please.
> >> >
> >> > It occurs to me that nowhere in your announcement message or
> >> > on your Web page do you actually say what MythDora *does*.
> >> > Why should I download it?
> >> >
> >> > If your goal is to get as many people to use your program as
> >> > possible, the first place to start is to summarize what it
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > is. Many useful open source programs get lost in obscurity
> >> > for the simple reason that their authors assume everyone
> >> > knows what it is.
> >> > --
> >>
> >> I agree. It took me a while of reading the like to work out is was a
> >> tailored Myth distroat least I think that's what it is :)
> >>
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[mythtv-users] need help with files for xbox.

[Alex Van Deusen]

I need to downgrade my xbox dashboard to install xebian.  Does anyone
have the following file.  Or know of a place I can download that is
not a torrent.

SlaYers_EvoX_Auto-Installer_v2.5_FINAL.exe  it is a rar file.
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[mythtv-users] noob mac osx panther frontend install

[Alex Van Deusen]

I am a total new user.  My wife has a 12" powerbook 867 mac running
panther. I have a backend setup running knoppmyth/debian.

I downloaded the mac osx panther build with all the addins from the
snyders.  I then ran it on the mac and went through the setup program.

Do I have to do anything else?
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[mythtv-users] DirectTV external tuner help

[Alex Van Deusen]

Hello I am using Debian/Knoppmyth.  I tried the forums at mysettopbox
but no answer.

I have a Sony Bat55 directv box. It is connected via a serial cable to
my mythbackend. The ports are enabled in bios.

I downloaded the script from tarek "sony.pl". Then put it into
/usr/local/sony.pl. In mythtv-setup I set the command to reference
that location.

I tried to to have myth record and change channels but it did not work. 

Checked setserial dev/ttyS0 and dev/ttyS1 from user but I got nothing. 

So I did 

chmod 755 /usr/local/sony.pl 
chmod 777 /dev/ttyS0 
chmod 777 /dev/ttyS1 

rebooted backend 

didnt work 

I then logged in as root su, when I did setserial dev/ttyS0 it gave me
correct information and listed irq4, dev/ttyS1 is irq3

It seems like it is a problem with the user not having access, but I
dont know how to troubleshoot.

One note I am sharing IRQ's, I have 5 capture cards in the box, and
scsi, agp, etc..
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Fwd: [mythtv-users] 6200 Firewire issues

[Alex Brekken]

No, I'm running FC3 installed from ATRPM's - so I'm not sure about the
version of gcc.  Let me know if I can be of any help as it sure would
be great to nail this one - currently I'd say about 20% of my
recordings done from FireWire fail for this reason.

On 7/31/05, Mike Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alex,
>
> You wrote...
>
> "terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
> what(): St9bad_alloc
> Aborted"
>
> Yes, I get that too.  Do you happen to be running Fedora Core 4 (or
> specifically, was mythfrontend
> compiled with gcc 4?
>
> The std::bad_alloc problem seems to be related to the aspect ratio
> calculated in NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp.
> I'm wondering if maybe the new compiler or runtime is treating inf/nan
> (floating point) differently...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> Alex Brekken wrote:
>
> >Gambit, just to add to your question (without offering any
> >solutions...) I just recently started using firewire via a 6200 on a
> >slave backend on my system.  While I don't experience any issues with
> >channel changing at all, I do get the same 15 second timeout that
> >you're seeing - particularly while trying to watch live TV through the
> >firewire.  Additionally, I will get some recordings that cause the
> >frontend to crash.  They're not zero-size recordings, but something
> >gets "corrupted' to some degree which causes Myth to freak out when
> >trying to view them. They give this error on the frontend logs:
> >
> >"terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
> >what(): St9bad_alloc
> >Aborted"
> >
> > Interestingly, they can be played back successfully using mplayer
> >manually.  Also, they playback just fine in the small "preview" window
> >in Myth on the recorded shows screen.   After searching the mailing
> >lists, I know I'm not alone in experiencing this either.
> >
> >Anyway, I too am searching for solutions to both of these problems as
> >I think many (most?) 6200-firewire users are experiencing them.  Does
> >anyone know if there's been any development recently on anything
> >firewire related? (or if there's anything in the pipeline?)
> >
> >On 7/29/05, Gambit Declined <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On 7/28/05, Gambit Declined <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>On 7/28/05, Mario Limonciello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Possibly the show you are trying to record has protections enabled (or
> >>>>possibly the channel).  Try a show that you know doesn't record.  Just
> >>>>use test-mpeg2 to try to manually record it into a temporary directory
> >>>>and see what happens.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>Ouch! Seperate shows are encrypted? I thought they just encrypted the 
> >>>channels.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Sorry for replying to myself, but I know it isn't seperate encrypted
> >>programs. I have
> >>been able to record the same program on the same channel. Does anyone
> >>know of a way to have the driver (er... what is this called in linux?)
> >>reset itself after each show? Maybe that'll do it.
> >>
> >>BTW: I have tried gscanbus and that doesn't work. :-p
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