[mythtv-users] Tivo Remote Frequency??
Does anyone know what frequency the Tivo remote works at? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Newbie's Hardware any problems?
I was thinking of staying away from WD cause they were noisy in my Tivo. I was reading somewhere that Maxtor had some utility that I could use to lower he RPM's when the drive was not under heavy use. I have no problems with Seagate. And as for the memory, 512 GB is the latest trend. 512 MB is Childs play. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Adeff Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 2:33 AM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie's Hardware any problems? On Friday 23 December 2005 20:05, John Andersen wrote: On 12/23/05, Dewey Smolka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All things considered I'd probably go first for WD or Seagate, second for Maxtor. I can't recommend Samsung. Well, nowdays (or very soon) Maxtor will BE Seagate... I've also had really good luck with the Ex-IBM Hitachi drives even tho there was a period where many people reported problems with them. I've never had one fail and I use them in production servers a lot. The first WD I put in this MythBox of mine was bad out of the box, and Its replacement has been solid. bathtub curve, its normal, its why I always stress test all new harddrives I have before relying on them. My friend just bought two ~200gig seagate drives for a raid 1 array in his new computer. One died early, the other going strong. I've had excellent luck with WD's so far, running 5 in various systems. no infant death syndromes luckily, and they've all been running great. Great price t'boot. I have a few older Maxtor's, one IDS'd got it RMA'd and the new one is solid, the other two have been great. Granted, one is a 18GB SCSI U160 Atlas 10K-III(man I love that drive). I've got no Seagate IDE's but I have a 70G SCSI seagate thats ~5yo thats been great, I do all my video editing off of it, and I'm getting it a sister off my friend, might have to raid them... If At all possible I like to have two drives, one for the OS, and one for Myth and the database. That way you can reformat with less hassle. I have similar, one for the OS and db, one for Myth recordings, 4 or 5 or however many I have now for archived/downloaded recordings. Use partitions for each important directory and make your life easy when doing upgrades/etc. -- steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Newbie's Hardware any problems?
Should I be worried about anything here? Case and Motherboard Shuttle SN95G5 - http://global.shuttle.com/Product/Barebone/SN95G5%20V3.asp Tuner Card - Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 - TV / video input adapter - http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr150.html TV out card GeForce FX 5500 256MB - 8x AGP w/ DVI and SVideo out - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814127131 or - http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=766633 HD Maxtor 300 GB HD - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822140166 Memory 512 GB - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145123 DVD burner - ASUS Black 16X DVD - Model #: DRW-1608P2S BK - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16827135061 or - http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/specs.aspx?EDC=868223 CPU AMD Athlon 64 3700+ / 2.2 GHz processor - http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/specs.aspx?EDC=810809 or AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 1GHz FSB 512KB L2 Cache Socket 939 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103535#DetailSpecs Rough Price before looking around is $845 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Shuttle Barebones Case SN95G5 V3 or SN25P
Anyone see any problems with either of these cases for a Myth Front-end/Backend combo install? SN95G5 http://global.shuttle.com/Product/Barebone/SN95G5%20V3.asp SN25P http://global.shuttle.com/Product/Barebone/SN25P.asp___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Choosing Linux distribution (Open SUSE 10 vs. Fedora Core 4)
On Monday 19 December 2005 10:00, Joacim J wrote: I already have a file server with Open SUSE 10 and now I will have a HTPC with MythTV. I have found Jarods excellent HOWTO regarding Fedora and MythTV. It is much more easier if I have the same Linux distribution on all machines from a admin perspective. What is the advantages/disadvantages in OpenSUSE 10 vs. Fedora Core 4? Which is best suited according to you guys? Personally I prefer suse but my advice is go with whichever you're happiest with using! I found any advantages to any one specific distro are overshadowed by not being used to it, where config files were kept, where (and what) the (distro specific) system tools were etc. There are probably more users using fedora (thanks to Jarods HOWTO) than suse but there are still plenty of happy suse users. Oh and if you don't feel like compiling from source you can use apt to install on OpenSuSE 10, just put rpm http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio/apt suse/10.0-olsen Olsen in your sources.list HTH David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Re: Need help / suggestion for building a myth box
Title: [mythtv-users] Re: Need help / suggestion for building a myth box Thanks everyone for your comments about the Music portion of Myth. However could we move on to the original question about hardware. Here are my Goals - Small Quiet system - DVD library (Main Goal) I'm tired of having my kids man handle my DVD's and CD's - DVD Burner to save shows - Replace my old stereo system with a Myth system My Direct TV Tivo sound plays through my old Dolby Pro-Logic 5.1 via a RCA connection. No sound comes out of my TV - I'd also like to use my Direct TV Tivo remote It has a switch for Satellite receiver or TV - Encode shows for my Pocket PC when I travel - Matt ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Need help / suggestion for building a myth box
Thanks for your input. I had found what looks to be a plug-in for Myth called MythTivo. I don't know much about it, and I do not hold high hopes for it. Like you suggestion I will probably just build my Myth box as a jukebox. Do you have you Tivo remote working with your Myth box? Also do you mind sharing some of your hardware specs? In addition, I am currently am using Etivo to pull shows off my DirectTivo From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Chris Ribe Sent: Tue 12/13/2005 9:44 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Need help / suggestion for building a myth box Your DirecTivo will not work as a backend. Depending on the model, you might be able to export recordings from it after extensive hacking, but there probably isn't a solution you are going to like that will work with your DirecTivo. (Full disclosure: I use a DirecTiVo for watching TV and a MythTV system for tinkering - and in the hope that it will one day work better than my DirecTivo.) Regarding MythMusic, I'll refrain from saying anything as I have nothing nice to say. If there are users out there who listen to a lot of music (as many hours/day as TV) and use MythMusic, I implore them to come forward and share their success stories. MythVideo/MythDVD are a very nice little combo for watching/ripping DVD's. From what I understand of your situation, I would recommend setting up a MythBox as a DVD player/juke while retaining the DirecTiVo for TV. On 12/13/05, Mythtv Users_Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to build a Myth system. However, I'm not sure if I can build just a front-end system. Here are my Goals - Small Quiet system - DVD / Music library (Main Goal) I'm tired of having my kid's man handle my DVD's and CD's - Encode shows for my Pocket PC when I travel - Use my Direct Tivo as my backend encoder (optional) - DVD Burner to save shows - Replace my old stereo system with a Myth system My Direct TV Tivo sound plays through my old Dolby Pro-Logic 5.1 via a RCA connection. No sound comes out of my TV - I'd also like to use my Direct TV Tivo remote It has a switch for Satellite receiver or TV Thanks in advance -Matt ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users winmail.dat___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Need to log out of console or restart X via script
On Saturday 10 December 2005 18:15, Rob Bongiovi wrote: Hi! I'm not very experienced in Linux and need some help with something. snip But, I can't figure out either without quickly getting confused. If someone could help me, I'd appreciate it. Here's what I want to do: #First kill any mythfrontend process that is running sudo killall mythfrontend #insert logout or restart X command here sudo mythfrontend -l /var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.log Firstly ISTR Jarod has a section with a 'restart' script and how to link it to your remote, base a script on that. The exact syntax depends on your distro but there is a rc script that starts (or stops X), it's called xdm (on suse anyway), call that with restart and it'll kill X and then restart it. ISTR fedora has a program/script called service which allows you to run rc scripts, suse has links from them in /sbin or /usr/sbin (for example /usr/sbin/rcxdm - /etc/init.d/xdm), other distros may have something different or nothing at all (you have to call the script directly). I'm assuming you're using fedora and going for /sbin/service (at least I _think_ it's in /sbin ;-) ) Create a little script something like: #/bin/bash sudo killall mythfrontend sudo /sbin/service xdm restart (obviously check it'll work from a ssh/console session first) If you need to load/unload things (for example if your driver is buggy) go for something like (obviously 'a-framebuffer-module' should be replaced by the module you need to reload): #/bin/bash sudo killall mythfrontend sudo /sbin/service xdm stop sudo rmmod a-framebuffer-module sudo modprobe a-framebuffer-module sudo /sbin/service xdm start Obviously you'd have to have mythfrontend start automatically and have auto login but I presume you have that already. HTH Druid ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] STAY AWAY FROM WI-FI !!!
On Thursday 08 December 2005 15:56, Todd Houle wrote: I successfully use WiFi networking at home. It was been working great except when the microwave is on or someone is using our cordless telephone. I had it at 802.11b and it was a bit jumpy (until I lowered the quality). When I moved to 802.11g, everything was great (as long as no phone or microwave). This electric wire solution looks cool though. FWIW I can play livetv/recordings over 802.11g to my laptop *but* only reasonably reliably when I'm in the living room (which is also where the 802.11g) wireless router is. Upstairs I can connect and play but get skips/pauses. Also there must be nothing else trying to use the connection otherwise it skips. For 'normal' use (surfing, ssh, vnc, rdc etc) it's fine but personally I'd agree and avoid if you want good quality mythtv viewing. Druid. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] HDTV questions
Well seeing as HDTV looks to be coming to the UK next year ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/01/telewest_goes_live_with_hdtv/ ) and we're looking at buying a new HDTV 'ready' TV[1] (1080i) I'm planning to get HDTV playback set up on my myth box. Only problem is I don't know where to start! I'm currently running a P4 2.8GHz with 1Gb, twin Nova-T's and a 128Mb AGP Nvidia MX440 with the TV out of composite (AV) at 1024x768 and running SuSE 10.0/mythtv 18.1 Disk space is er plenty (2TB+ if need be) I've got a few questions that some of our US cousins might be able to help me with :-) 1) How is HDTV connected? Looking at the specs for the TV we're thinking of there's Composite (AV), Y/C (S-Video), ANT (RF), Component (Y/Pb/Pr) and SCART (which you don't have in the US). What type is used for HDTV (or doesn't it matter)? 2) Will the MX440 be powerful enough or will I need a newer card? 3) Am I likely to need more processing power (I've got a 3GHz P4 in another box I could swap over if need be but would I need more than that). 4) Are my existing recordings going to look awful (PAL 768x576). 5) Am I just wasting my time? Seeing as the recordings (for probably at _least_ 8 months until HDTV actually gets here) would still be in SDTV would I even notice any difference? I'm assuming that HDTV recording is going to need a HDTV compatible tuner card and even assuming they put HDTV out on the freeview channels the Nova-T's just won't cut it but I'm hoping the new box would have a firewire out or by that time there would be a UK HDTV card. Thanks Druid [1] One of these http://www.samsung.com/uk/products/television/crt/ws32z308paxxeu.asp ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Various mythtv-frontend problems
On Monday 05 December 2005 19:38, Beny Spensieri Jr wrote: I have run into the problem of mythfrontend Segmentation faulting on me. I have done some searching for this on the net, but have yet to find a solution. I am using a 64 bit Intel processor with FC4 x86_64. Full mythtv install from ATRPMs (with packages updated Dec 02/05). Let it be known that I am strictly an RPM-only person. I have no idea on compiling anything. My questions: 1) What is causing the Segmentation fault? From the looks of things you're running i686 code when it's expecting x86_64. Try either a i686 rpm of mythtv or update QT to x86_64 2) Where is the bad Huffman code? Is it simply a corrupt image? Yes, G.A.N.T. theme by any chance? themes/G.A.N.T/bkg/grey.jpeg was the culprit in my case, replaced with the original from the 18.1 download at www.mythtv.org and all was good. 3) What is causing the QT issue? Here is the output I am getting: snip /usr/lib/qt-3.3/plugins/styles/bluecurve.so: Plugin uses incompatible Qt library! expected build key x86_64 Linux g++-4.* full-config, got i686 Linux Looks pretty clear to me, its looking for the x86_64 version but found the (incompatible) i686 version. HTH David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Various mythtv-frontend problems
On Monday 05 December 2005 21:04, Beny Spensieri Jr wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My questions: 1) What is causing the Segmentation fault? From the looks of things you're running i686 code when it's expecting x86_64. Try either a i686 rpm of mythtv or update QT to x86_64 Strange that I used FC4 x86_64 DVD to install the OS. Would I really expect QT i686 to be lurking in there? Actually I think I miss-read that the wrong way round, it's the plugins that are built against i686 when they should be against x86_64 Plugin uses incompatible Qt library! expected build key x86_64 Linux g++-4.* full-config, got i686 Linux g++-4.* full-config. ie expecting to find the plugin was built under x86_64 but was actually built under i686. As somone else wrote, try removing mythdvd, MythMusic, MythGallery and MythPhone and see if that works. Then try reinstalling making sure to use x86_64 versions of the plugins, if they fail then check with the package maintainer. Of course I'm not using fedora, yum or x86_64 so what do I know. ;-) Druid ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge Nova-T PCI and LIRC
On Sunday 04 December 2005 21:58, Graeme Hilton wrote: Hi all, I've been happily using Myth (SVN checkouts every month or so) for about 4 months. My setup at the moment is as follows: Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T PCI (two of them) AMD x86_64 system Fedora Core 4 - all up to date MythTV SVN revision 8053 As a relative newbie to Linux I think I've been getting on quite well, but the one thing that is completely defeating me is connecting the Hauppauge remote control to Myth. From the outset there are five keys on the remote that translated to events on the system. I have always been able to use the four arrow keys and the OK button. However, none of the other buttons produce any effect on the system except when I do a 'cat /dev/input/event0'. Then I get something resembling line noise whenever I press a key on the remote. I've downloaded and compiled lirc version 0.7.3pre1. I configured it to use the appropriate driver for the Hauppauge TV card (i2C required) and turned on debugging. On 'make install' it created the appropriate device node in /dev : srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Dec 4 17:50 /dev/lircd Has anyone had this happen to them? Have you managed to solve the problem and get your Hauppauge remote fully working? Yep, had me confused for a short while. The IR is recognised automatically, you'll find if you *don't* use lirc it'll still work (well the up/down/ok etc) with mythfrontend. What you need to do is use it with the dev/input driver[1], setup lirc to use driver dev/input and device /dev/input/eventevent number where event number is where the events are picked up. eg mine is /dev/input/event2 , from the sound of it yours would be /dev/input/event0 FWIW I'm running twin Nova-T's in a 2.8GHz P4 and Opensuse 10.0 I've attached my lircd.conf for the Nova-T remote as well. HTH David [1] You may well have to recompile if you didn't include dev/input support ISTR I had to recompile but worth a try with the std rpms' first as that might just have been me trying different things. # Please make this file available to others # by sending it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # this config file was automatically generated # using lirc-0.7.2(devinput) on Mon Oct 31 15:29:38 2005 # # contributed by # # brand: irrecording # model no. of remote control: # devices being controlled by this remote: # begin remote name irrecording bits 16 eps30 aeps 100 one 0 0 zero0 0 pre_data_bits 16 pre_data 0x8001 gap 135848 toggle_bit 0 begin codes Go 0x0161 Power0x0074 TV 0x0179 Videos 0x0189 Music0x0188 Pictures 0x016F Guide0x016D Radio0x0181 UP 0x0067 LEFT 0x0069 OK 0x001C RIGHT0x006A DOWN 0x006C BACK/EXIT0x00AE MENU 0x008B VOLUP0x0073 VOLDOWN 0x0072 PREVCH 0x019C MUTE 0x0071 CHANUP 0x0192 CHANDOWN 0x0193 REC 0x00A7 PLAY 0x00CF STOP 0x0080 REPLAY 0x00A8 SKIP 0x00D0 REW 0x00A5 FF 0x00A3 PAUSE0x0077 10x004F 20x0050 30x0051 40x004B 50x004C 60x004D 70x0047 80x0048 90x0049 STAR 0x0184 00x0052 HASH 0x0172 RED 0x018E GREEN0x018F YELLOW 0x0190 BLUE 0x0191 end codes end remote ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] UK DVB-T - New channels
Graeme wrote: Since the recent introduction of More4 I've got a new entry in my program guide, but there's no program descriptions or titles. How do I get MythTV to pick up the info? You need to amend the mythfilldatabase setup as well as the channel setup to fill it with information, you should stick the xmltvid in both the database and the file that gets used by mythfilldatabase. In the case of More4 it's C1959.radiotimes.com (Assuming you are using tv_grab_uk_rt, use tv_grab_uk_rt --list-channels to, well list the channels :-) ). You should have a file in your ~mythtv/.mythtv (unless you run mythfilldatabase as another user in which case look in their home) directory called something.xmltv, in my case it's called Freeview.xmltv, add the line: channel C1959.radiotimes.com to the bottom of that file, then go into mythtv-setup and edit the channel and ensure that C1959.radiotimes.com is entered into the xmltvid box for that channel. Then run mythfilldatabase and jobs a good un. HTH David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Backup LVM group (kinda OT)
Steve wrote: On Monday 07 November 2005 20:55, James Oltman wrote: I am getting my hands on a slightly used DDS4 external SCSI tape drive. I am also getting about 7 tapes. snip just so you know, tape isn't a great backup medium, your better off buying a 300gig harddrive, copying everything over and then storing the harddrive in a safe place. Or even just burning everything to DVDR. Bollocks, hard drives have electrics to go wrong as _well_ as all the other problems with keeping those little magnets aligned. ;-) Trust me, I've been there, I copied 160Gb to a drive, verified it was all there, wiped the original data and then discovered the 160Gb drive had died. OTOH I was going through the archived tapes at work[1] and out of curiosity tried the oldest tape I could find that we still had a drive for[2], still worked fine. If you're worried about wearing it out again don't be, we use loads of different tapes in various tape cycles, some are years old and get used every day. There are tape libraries where there are *hundreds* of tapes and the data is constantly swapped between tapes, Should be _NO_ problem with one small PC backup/restore! In the past I've accidently booted a tape right the way across the machine room with no ill effects, try that with a hard drive (or even drop it, touch it after walking across a nylon carpet etc etc). ;-) DVDR's are better but still fragile in comparison to tapes and are _small_ in capacity. Plus if you've got the drive free tapes are _cheap_, 4ukp (7usd) for 20-40Gb, 300Gb disks are 75ukp (ish, 130usd). so worst case[3] 80% of the cost and if you _do_ get a failure you lose 7% of your storage not 100% (and chances are you'll lose _some_ files rather than everything if a tape dies). Tapes are _designed_ for backup, hard drives are designed for _temporary_ storage space. As for software I'd just look through the available packages included with your distro, SuSE for example include a backup option from yast. If all else fails: cd /video/recordings #or where ever find *.nuv -print | cpio -oc /dev/st0 read back with: cd /video/recordings cpio -ic /dev/st0 (or cpio -itc /dev/st0 to just read it back) David PS Don't rely on getting anywhere near 40Gb, that's compressed and movie files don't compress well, more like 24-26Gb I'd have thought. [1] Chucking the ones over 7 years old (we have to keep them for 7 years) [2] 1989 [3] ie no compression. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Backup LVM group (kinda OT)
Jim asked: snip There is no way to format the other partitions without wiping out the LVM group is there? Yes, not a problem, just format the partitions you want to use and leave the LVM group, copy the /etc/fstab (hard copy probably a good idea) and then (if your flavour doesn't automatically recognise it and automatically add it) re-add the relevent details to the fstab again. Don't forget to ensure that you've installed the relevent filesystem, for example ISTR fedora needs to be passed a boot option on install to use xfs (obviously possible to install later but easiest on install). FWIW All I had to do (on SuSE 10, upgrading from SuSE 9.1) was to set the mount point. HTH Druid ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Long term stability?
Robert asked : Does anyone have a backend that runs for a week or more under reasonably heavy use? By run, I mean with no manual intervention or cron jobs resetting things/etc. I still have to occasionally do a /etc/init.d/mythbackend restart although I'm not quite sure why... Yes (and the only thing that kills it is the pvr-350 locks up under fast-forward when also recording sometimes). Currently: 11:55pm up 7 days 2:35, 3 users, load average: 0.93, 0.77, 0.42 Used fairly heavily used (min 2 hours watched per day, about 3-4hours recorded per day) Not had any recording problems (touches wood franticly) AFAIR with the current setup. Uptime is only 7days atm cos I rebooted it the other week to nick the dvd drive. :-) If people do, perhaps a few could give their 1) PVR hardware PVR-350 (TV/X output) Nova-T 2) Motherboard chipset Pundit-R, dunno the chipset, 3GHz/800MHz P4 (OTT for what I'm using it for, considering downgrading to run cooler) 3) Kernel version 2.6.11-rc2-bk3-20050125153357-default (Kernel of the day, take a guess when I built it ;-) ) Under SuSE 9.1, that kernel was needed for the dvb support. 4) IVTV version. 0.3.8 5) Firmware version? ivtv-fw-dec.bin - Version 2.02.023 ivtv-fw-enc.bin - Version 2.04.211 6) System Memory 512Mb HTH David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Extending recordings while recording
I was just wondering if there was an easy way to extend a recording timeslot while recording? Example, recording something say after a football match which goes into extra time; how do you set mythtv to keep recording for longer so you get all of the (delayed) show? Thanks David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Extending recordings while recording
Nick wrote: On 11/6/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just wondering if there was an easy way to extend a recording timeslot while recording? If I'm not mistaken you can do that in the development (SVN) version. Oh well. Is there any hard way to do it then? ;-) Thanks David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Re: LCD not working with SVN Myth
Matt wrote: Nevermind, I think I figured it out. mythlcdserver was starting BEFORE LCDd did, therefore it never connected to the LCDd server. Is there anyway to make sure the init.d scripts start in a particular order? Depending on linux version either change numerical order of the links in the relevent rc?.d directory or change the # Required-Start: line within the script then use chkconfig to reorder the scripts. HTH David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Choosing a Suitable DVB-T PCI Card
Ben wrote: On 10/21/05, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a beginner in DVB-T, and I would like to buy a DVB-T PCI Card to set up a MythTV in my Linux PC. I have tried to search the archive and google for a week, but I still cannot come to a final decision about it. I would like to ask what kind of DVB-T PCI Card is suitable for the Linux kernel 2.6.13, as I found some of the articles about DVB-T Card mentioned that Not every card that's supported under Windows works under Linux. Is the list mentioned in linuxtv.org http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/PCI_devices_DVB-T; be suitable for linux use? And be able to be well supported by DVBAPI? On the other hand, I would like to ask what aspect should I put my focus on in choosing those card? I do not want to buy a wrong card as they are not cheap :P Nova-T seems as well suported as any and is fairly cheap. I'll second that, also installed automatically under SuSE 10 (kernel 2.6.13-15-smp), had to recompile lirc with the devinput driver rather than the hauppauge driver as the ir was automatically recognised and mapped to /dev/input/event2 (and the proceded to confuse the fsck out of me cos the remote worked with mythtv while lirc wasn't running ;-) ). There is no additional input though, it's freeview or nothing. HTH David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] MySQL: INNODB?
Jesse wrote: Dan Wilga wrote: I've been running with InnoDB for the last year; IMHO more reliable in case of system crashes where MyISAM tables tend to corrupt more easily (esp. recordmarkup). I run a high-volume web site that uses MySQL for some pretty frequent tasks, and haven't had any data corruption problems. I found my problem, but I'm not sure how to fix it. Every sunday morning I shut down my MySQL database and analyze and repair all tables. This is a trick I learned from my production Sys Admin days with MySQL versions 3.23.x. Unfortunately, it looks like the Gentoo /etc/init.d/mysql doesn't shut down the database properly. So I get errors. Ugh. Oh well, INNODB won't solve that. I just need to fix the shutdown proceedure I guess. Not quite the same but I suffer every now and then (well twice anyway) with a corrupted recordedmarkup table[1], I suspect from the few times the machine has hard locked and I've had to power off[2], as a quick future fix if it happens again I added a few lines to the mysql startup script to touch a file on startup and remove it on (clean) shutdown. Then a little section to run myisamchk -f on all the *.MYI files if the flag is there on startup. Even if it has to run still takes only a second or so to run and hopefully should prevent any reoccurances of corruption. HTH David [1] Symptoms for anyone searching for a fix to their problem: No pictures in recorded programs on mythweb Skippy fast forward/rewind Unable to correctly display the clip length/total time keeps changing. No error messages as my logs have rotated too many times since the last time. [2] Not noticed until well after the event the first time and spent ages trying to work out what went wrong, noticed 3 days the second time and was able to tie it down to when the machine locked. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] OT: unplugging the fan of the grafic card
Yann asked I am planning to build a MythTV system, and would like to install a NVidia grafic card for software decoding of the recorded shows. The newer cards almost always have active coolers (with fan). Does software decoding use the heat producing features of the gpu, and if not, can I just unplug the fan to get a silent system ? A little late but wtf, fwiw my mx440's fan has died, seems to make no difference (apart from being quieter ;-) ) and not noticed any problems. Personally I'd suggest just get one with out a fan in the first place. Druid ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] 350 Tv Out vs. Nvidia 5200
Jesse wrote: Jesse Guardiani wrote: Dave wrote: On 8/23/05, Mark Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone comment on the quality comparison between the two abovementioned chipsets? Well just to add my 2p, I've had a PVR-350 running for about a year with TV/X out, I've just swapped to a nvidia Geforce4 MX440/128Mb/AGP 8x PVR-350: Advantages: Picture quality - Supposedly better[0] Hardware en/decoding - low processor usage, ideal for low spec 'silent' frontends[1] Disadvantages: It's physically fscking huge - wont for example fit in a pundit-R without case modifications Not 100% stable - crashes under ff/rew sometimes (ivtv v0.3.8/mythtv 18.1 fwiw. May be better with later versions) No games No boot msg's - If you care (I don't and have a serial console if I want boot msgs) Problems with DVD's (much better with XV support) Not pretty on bootup (pops and different colours-distorted image/last image before shutdown-kde splash-kde-mythtv), can have driver loaded earlier) No hauppauge driver support some mythtv functions don't work (vol control etc) No VGA/DVI Cost MX440 (5200 or similar should be better) Advantages: Cheap Stable nvidia driver support Games DVD'S DVI/VGA Prettier on bootup (blank screen-nvidia splash(if turned on)-suse late splash-(kde but for a split second and don't see it)-mythtv), depending on card/setup can have entire bootup from bios splash into mythtv. Easily replaceable/upgradeable hardware with _no_ config changes (new nvidia card, just pop it in, single driver means config and driver won't change) Disadvantages: Picture quality - supposedly worse[0] Uses processing power[1] Might be tricky to find a fanless one (I don't recommend it but if you're not playing taxing games you _might_ be safe to just unplug the fan, mine's died and the card works fine [and at 20-30quid for a 'upgrade' replacement I won't worry _too_ much if it dies]) FWIW IMHO unless you want a silent low powered machine or don't have an AGP slot I'd say save the pennies (or cents) and just get a cheap nvidia card. Anyone want to buy a PVR-350? Druid [0] TBH I can't see it but then again I've not got that nice a TV[2], on a BFO projector you might. [1] On a very unscientific test I got the following on playback: SuSE 9.1/2.6.11-rc2-bk3-20050125153357-default PVR-350 P4/3GHz/800Mhz (HT DISABLED) 0.0-0.7% cpu SuSE 10.0/2.6.13-15-smp MX440 P4/2.8GHz/533Mhz (HT ENABLED) 6.5-8.5% [2] Currently shopping for one though :-) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Is this a fatal error ?
I believe the command you need to run is /sbin/modprobe ivtv (I use 2xpvr-250s) The ivtv-fb is specific to the pvr-350 card with video out. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of todd Posted At: Monday, June 20, 2005 8:48 PM Posted To: MythTV-Users Conversation: [mythtv-users] Is this a fatal error ? Subject: [mythtv-users] Is this a fatal error ? OK, working on my 4th reinstall and I see from prior installs I forgot to exec this. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# /sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb FATAL: Error inserting ivtv_fb (/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.27_FC3/updates/drivers/media/video/ivtv-fb.ko): Operation not permitted [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# I am running this on a haup. pvr-250 card. can I ignore this or do we have a problem to research further. this in out of the install ivtv config section of Wilsons how to... tia ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] xperinet selling mythtv systems and violating theGPL?
Mike wrote Folks, I just ran across a review of Xperinet's home media server product in this month's sound and vision, and from the screenshots it sure looked like MythTV. So I went to their website at www.xperinet.com, and looked at their product line. As far as I can tell, it appears to be version of Myth TV, focused on DVD and CD archiving. There is no mention of MythTV. From the highly positive article in SV, it looks like they are adding features like bookmarks for chapters and other changes to Myth, but I can't find any source code on their site. Isn't this a violation of the GPL? They don't have to have the source on the website, it may be the source is on the servers/clients or supplied in CD form with them. snip Does anyone know anything about these folks? Don't they have to release source code to be GPL compliant? I don't know that much about the GPL but I thought it had to be *available* not necessarily a free download from their website (although that is what quite a few companies do). On a side note I noticed that their Taurus 2100 is a Pundit-R. David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Adding a hard drive, LVM or RAID0
Ryan wrote: On 5/19/05, Mat Mrosko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/19/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: xfs is a good choice. It is also easy to grow and handles large files ( video ) quite well. Plus, with XFS, you don't have to unmount it to grow it, or anything... and deleting multiple gig files takes only a couple seconds... I was thinking of going with xfs, but the real question here is the easiest non-destructive way to concatonate the seperate hard drives. Fwiw what I did was partition the 'new' drive, and format it lvm/xfs, I then stoped the backend, copied over the files, changed the mount points and restarted the backend. I left the 'spare' space on the original drive for future use rather than join the drives, that was rather helped by the new drive being 300Gb compared with the original 100Gb though! What I plan to do sometime is get another 300Gb drive to replace the 120Gb one, mirror the system areas and LVM the remainder into one partition. Druid ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Unable to download program guide
I have the same problem, but I also notice I can't log into their web site either. Thinking they had locked old unused accounts, I tried to create a new one and found that the new account didn't work. Real quality service there. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Scary times ahead
Gabe wrote: On 5/11/05, Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed 11 May 2005 20:33, Ross Campbell wrote: My advice: - Learn how to use vi Not wishing to start a vi related discussion however I think Vi to the Linux newbie is like a brick to a drowning man. Far better for a newbie to learn something like Emacs or even a GUI editor such as Kate before they look at vi. The gui editors I can understand.but Emacs over Vi for ease of use??? to drop my 2 cents in, just use something like nano or pico. Intuitive, straightforward and perfect for the ssh session. There really is NO REASON to need to know emacs or vi to use myth. None! Agreed but A) There is gvim which while offering all the usuall keys also has menus for everything (with what the keys are/do), so once you get the hang of the GUI version the text only version acts the same. B) There is a windows version (near identical to the linux version of gvim) C) (g)vi(m) is on just about every linux distro and unix flavour[1]. Still, personally I'd say try them all and use whatever you feel happiest with. Personally I now have a bad habit of trying vi commands in word/outloot etc :-) ^[:wq! ;-) David [1] I learnt it mainly on SINIX-Y 5.43 [2]... [2] Proper UNIX :-) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Simple power down/power up solution
Nick wrote: On 5/11/05, Barry Jett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I would share this simple solution for remotely powering up my Myth frontend box. snip This motherboard WILL NOT restart from wake-on-lan ( and I hope someone can disprove me on this). I've tried everything, but when you power down the system the ethernet will power down as well. I suspect the problem is due to the driver for the ATI 9100 on-board lan. I also tried bios tricks for setting the wake on a schedule time with no avail. My Pundit-R (uses the ATI IXP200/9100IGP chipset) does not support WOL, which is a PITA. I currently use nvram-wakeup to let it turn off and on on its own, but obviously this does not let you wake it up remotely. AOL, I use the power button on the remote which kills the frontend then the backend automatically shuts down when it's idle. I was using the wireless keyboard to turn it on (sat on a speaker behind the sofa so just reach behind and hit it ;-) ) but as I never use for anything apart from that the batteries are dying and I probably wont bother to replace them. I've been giving it some thought recently and I thought it might be possible to hack a keyboard or mouse to give a key/button press when they detect an IR signal, it would have to detect the correct button otherwise any remote would turn it on. Trouble is that the only (hardware) decoders I looked at would be so much grief/expense (for me anyway) to design/build I think I'll just walk over to the box and hit the power button. :-) David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] mythtvsetup exits after leave/delete channel screen
Todd wrote: However, my mythtvsetup exits after the screen Would you like to clear all program data and channel settings before starting configuration?... Either answer yields the same results. I've been searching the archives, but with no luck. Does anyone know if there's a way to get get past this second screen? Thanks for any help. Yes, install the themes package or remove/change all references to it in the database. snip Could not find theme: blue 2005-05-01 14:06:00.287 Switching to square mode (blue) Could not find theme: blue Couldn't find theme blue As you can see from your log it couldn't find the 'blue' so quit. Possibly it would be better if either the setup screen wasn't themed or there was an extra option added to mythtv-setup to change the theme. Druid ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] mythtvsetup exits after leave/delete channel screen
Todd wrote: I do have myththemes-0.18-103.at installed, along with several mythtv-theme*, but none that match blue. I'm not seeing a blue rpm on the atrpm mirrors either. Bummer. Looking around at my database, I haven't yet found any references to themes. You don't happen to know the table it would be in, do you? Settings, here's what I have. mysql select * from settings where value = 'Theme' or value = 'OSDTheme' ; +--+--+--+ | value| data | hostname | +--+--+--+ | OSDTheme | blueosd | linux| | OSDTheme | blueosd | pvr | | OSDTheme | blueosd | xbox | | Theme| G.A.N.T. | linux| | Theme| G.A.N.T. | pvr | | Theme| G.A.N.T. | xbox | +--+--+--+ 6 rows in set (0.00 sec) Note that I haven't yet run mythfilldatabase because I haven't been successful with the mythtvsetup. No point anyway you haven't set anything up! Druid ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Same backend bug/issue in 0.18 from 0.17: backendrunning but doesn't work!
Bump! JY Wrote: Sorry I don't have a solution, but I have this exact same problem. At least it's not just me then!! snip Are you using a remote front end? I've had my remote frontend up only for the past 2 days, but so far it hasn't hung the backend yet, using the remote front-end exclusively. I'll have to run it a bit longer to see if thats a fluke or not. No, combined front/backend (although I do have other frontends) For reference my kit is Pundit-R, 3GHz/800FSB P4 512Mb RAM 120Gb IDE HD DVD-ROM 300GB SATA HD Nova-T PVR-350 Running SuSE 9.1 with a 2.6.11 kernel Does anybody have any suggestions on how to debug this problem if it persists? I'm not holding my breath. David On 4/26/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an issue with 0.18, exactly the same as I had with 0.17 where the backend stops working, it's still running but it doesn't record and wont play, The only near warning/error is by the start of a program that failed to record is: 2005-04-26 13:39:02.040 backend still changing state, waiting.. The backend is still running but it doesn't schedule or play anything. *Exactly* the same as it did on 0.17 Then the frontend times out with repeats of the following 4 lines. 2005-04-26 18:09:13.266 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.15:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2005-04-26 18:09:33.268 ReadStringList timeout (quick). 2005-04-26 18:09:33.268 Unexpected response to MYTH_PROTO_VERSION: 2005-04-26 18:09:37.894 All Programs I restarted the backend and the two programs that were meant to be recording suddenly kicked in and the frontend worked again. Any ideas please? I have no idea even where to start, I'm at the stage of setting up a cron job to check for that message and restart but that is just a bodge. Thanks David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Same backend bug/issue in 0.18 from 0.17: backendrunning but doesn't work!
JY Wrote: Sorry I don't have a solution, but I have this exact same problem. At least it's not just me then!! snip Are you using a remote front end? I've had my remote frontend up only for the past 2 days, but so far it hasn't hung the backend yet, using the remote front-end exclusively. I'll have to run it a bit longer to see if thats a fluke or not. No, combined front/backend (although I do have other frontends) For reference my kit is Pundit-R, 3GHz/800FSB P4 512Mb RAM 120Gb IDE HD DVD-ROM 300GB SATA HD Nova-T PVR-350 Running SuSE 9.1 with a 2.6.11 kernel Does anybody have any suggestions on how to debug this problem if it persists? I'm not holding my breath. David On 4/26/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an issue with 0.18, exactly the same as I had with 0.17 where the backend stops working, it's still running but it doesn't record and wont play, The only near warning/error is by the start of a program that failed to record is: 2005-04-26 13:39:02.040 backend still changing state, waiting.. The backend is still running but it doesn't schedule or play anything. *Exactly* the same as it did on 0.17 Then the frontend times out with repeats of the following 4 lines. 2005-04-26 18:09:13.266 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.15:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2005-04-26 18:09:33.268 ReadStringList timeout (quick). 2005-04-26 18:09:33.268 Unexpected response to MYTH_PROTO_VERSION: 2005-04-26 18:09:37.894 All Programs I restarted the backend and the two programs that were meant to be recording suddenly kicked in and the frontend worked again. Any ideas please? I have no idea even where to start, I'm at the stage of setting up a cron job to check for that message and restart but that is just a bodge. Thanks David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Same backend bug/issue in 0.18 from 0.17: backend running but doesn't work!
I have an issue with 0.18, exactly the same as I had with 0.17 where the backend stops working, it's still running but it doesn't record and wont play, The only near warning/error is by the start of a program that failed to record is: 2005-04-26 13:39:02.040 backend still changing state, waiting.. The backend is still running but it doesn't schedule or play anything. *Exactly* the same as it did on 0.17 Then the frontend times out with repeats of the following 4 lines. 2005-04-26 18:09:13.266 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.15:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2005-04-26 18:09:33.268 ReadStringList timeout (quick). 2005-04-26 18:09:33.268 Unexpected response to MYTH_PROTO_VERSION: 2005-04-26 18:09:37.894 All Programs I restarted the backend and the two programs that were meant to be recording suddenly kicked in and the frontend worked again. Any ideas please? I have no idea even where to start, I'm at the stage of setting up a cron job to check for that message and restart but that is just a bodge. Thanks David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Can dvb cards share program guide with regularanalog cards?
Peter wrote: I have an analog (pvr-250) and a digital (nexus-ca) card that i am trying to configure to use the same tv guide. No problem, I have a PVR-350 and Nova-T. What i am trying to achive is to be able to record with my analog card while watching tv with the digital card. Yep, again no problem. I know this would be possible if i configured one channel for each card (like discovery channel analog and discovery channel dvb for instance). But i would like to have just one discovery channel in my tv guide and let mythtv worry about selecting the right tv tuner. Yep, again no problem. Yes, i am lazy :) I have read dozens of guides but no manual/guide i have read describes how to do this/if it is possible. Has anyone got this working? If so please let me know how you made it. Easy, I have two xmltv files, one for the nova-t and one for the PVR-350 for feeding program data[1], then all you need is the details (where apropriate) of the channels to be the same and they show up the same for each source. Example: mysql select chanid, channum, sourceid, callsign, name, xmltvid from channel where callsign=BBC1; ++-+--+--+--+-+ | chanid | channum | sourceid | callsign | name | xmltvid | ++-+--+--+--+-+ | 1001 | 1 |1 | BBC1 | BBC1 | midlands.bbc1.bbc.co.uk | |101 | 1 |2 | BBC1 | BBC1 | midlands.bbc1.bbc.co.uk | ++-+--+--+--+-+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) As you can see the chanid is different (you can't have duplicates) but the channum, callsign, name and xmltvid is identical (obviouslt4 Make sure all the apropriate channels are set up like that and you should have one 'channel' with two sources. HTH David [1] You can just have the one but then you get errors about channels not existing. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Nova-T problems with 0.18
Hi, I've got some problems with DVB using a Nova-T with 0.18, I've been tending not to use the card because it had a habit of locking up the PVR-350 output. I thought I'd give it another try since there have been a number of changes to the ivtv that look like they might have cured the issues... Unfortunatly since updating to 0.18 *some* of the channels don't work properly, both video and audio skip, both on live and recordings. I'm fairly sure the card/drivers work as some channels work perfectly. Anyone got any suggestions? I was wondering if just blowing all the dvb channels and rescanning would make any difference, all the channels were scanned using 0.17 Thanks David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Compile Problems 0.18
Brett wrote What path do I use for the --dvb-path? Depends where you saved it, in my case I used: ./configure --disable-altivec --enable-dvb --dvb-path=/usr/local/src/linuxtv-dvb-1.1.1/linux/include/ --disable-distcc snip HTH David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Nova-T problems with 0.18
John wrote regarding skipping audio/video Nova-T problems on mythtv-0.18: In mythtv-setup selecting use hardware encoding seems to fix this. There is an ongoing thread about this on the dev list and selecting extract TS instead of or as well as use hardware may well help but for me this is all i have done and for now its working. Thankyou, that worked perfectly, I just turned on the use hardware encoding, didn't bother with changing the extract TS, restarted the backend and all the channels are fine now. Thanks again David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MythTV-1.0?
Out purely of curiosity I was wondering when/if v1.0 was planned? I realise perfectly well as previously said that mythtv is primarily for the developers[1] use hence the 'if' but I was just curious as to if there was a grand plan? *Not* to be confused in any way shape or form as a request or a demand for a 1.0 release date or release now or at any point in the future, purely out of curiosity so feel free to tell me to FRO. Apologies if this has been covered in depth before I couldn't find anything on the search apart from a 0.14-1.0 thread that descended into a videocard thread. Druid [1] And *lots* of thanks to them for their efforts. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Will MythTV-Xbox(Debian) pooch the rest of my xboxfunctionality?
Terry wrote: So lets get this straight, I think saved games are on partition e: correct? so if i install to that partition it won't format that partition, but if i install to f: (the big partition typically where ppl put backed up games, media, large files etc) it will format my drive? scary Basicly there are two options, save to a file or save to a partition. From what I recall it does make it pretty clear which is which. Can't remember which actual partition it is though. So it is possible to just put a link in my evox dashboard that runs the correct .xbe file to start linux? Yes, that's how I have it, you just have to edit the ini file to change it. If it's xebian then you have two cd's, one to create the linux system and one to boot if you *don't* go whole drive, just save/copy that the same way you would an app/game. Then you can link to it in the menu. Bios as mentioned is given as a choice but doesn't *need* to be installed. Druid On Apr 12, 2005 12:16 PM, Joe Votour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. If you're not careful, yes. If you select an install to the partition for saved games, then it creates a file in that partition, and runs Linux mounted via loopback. This is the safest way to go. The installer will format your HD if you tell it to put data on F: (if you have that partition). Otherwise, you should be fine. To my knowledge, it will not overwrite your BIOS, you need to do that yourself. Also, on my XBox, I was running MythTV from Avalaunch, you can run it from any launcher. You just need to tell the launcher to run the correct XBE file. 2. Can't help you here. I used the Xebian installer for MythTV. -- Joe --- Terry Yee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone, To summarize my main questions are: 1. Will MythTV-Xbox pooch the rest of my xbox functionality, i.e. will it format the drive i put it on? will it install the cromwell bios over my present bios? and if no to both of those, will it be launchable from evox or xbmc, that is does it have an .xbe to start linux? 2. Does anyone know of a good guide for a gentoo/mythtv install on xbox? ( My backend is running fedora and i'm unfamiliar with gentoo) Background: I have a modded xbox (modchip) and currently use it for gaming and media sharing with XBMC. I'd like a fully functional myth frontend and I've tried the XBMC myth python scripts but its not quite a full frontend (though very easy to install and run, kudos to that). I've researched getting a full mythfrontend on an xbox and I think I'd like to go with the MythTV-Xbox provided here http://bit.blkbk.com/, unless someone can point me to a good guide on getting mythtv installed on gentoox, or installing normal gentoo and myth on the xbox. Basically I'd like to avoid the pain of a full out linux and myth install since i don't have the time right now to deal with it. So I've searched all over the archives and google and haven't been able to find out definitively if MythTV-Xbox from http://bit.blkbk.com/ will or will not pooch the rest of my xbox functionality, i.e. will it format the drive i put it on? will it install the cromwell bios over my present bios? and if no to both of those, will it be launchable from evox or xbmc, that is does it have an .xbe to start linux? My xbox was manufactured around sept 2004 if anyone was wondering. Thanks in advance for the help. MythTV Rocks! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users __ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to find mythcommflag in 0.17
David George wrote:
If you are running a RedHat/Fedora based system (and possibly others)
the PATH is reset in /etc/init.d/functions. Look for a line near the
top that looks like this:
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
Add the following to /etc/sysconfig/mythbackend:
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
Of course there are several other solutions also.
This solved my problem. In Gentoo's /etc/init.d/functions.sh, around
line 749 (inside the 'if [ -z ${EBUILD} ]' block, there's a PATH set
there (the only PATH set in the whole file)). If I tack on a
/usr/local/bin, like this:
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:${PATH}
My mythcommflag now is correctly spawned from mythbackend (from how I
understand it works).
Thanks for all of your help, and I apologize if I did miss an obvious
solution to this elsewhere in the mailling list.
Thanks,
jl
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Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to find mythcommflag in 0.17
Chris Pinkham wrote: This error message means mythbackend can't find mythcommflag, so even though mythcommflag is in _your_ PATH, it evidently isn't in the PATH of the user running mythbackend or the script that is running mythbackend. No, mythcommflag (in /usr/local/bin) is in root's PATH, and root is running mythbackend. I don't see anything in my init.d script for mythbackend that would change the default root PATH available. Search for this error message on the mailing lists and you'll find several solutions. Search where? I plugged ERROR: Unable to find mythcommflag and to find mythcommflag into Google, restricted to gossamer-threads.com and also unrestricted and didn't find more than a single hit on the dev list noting some CVS commit or something. Am I misspelling something? Am I searching in the wrong area? This has been explained quite a few times on the mailing lists, so I'll let you read the explanations when you search for the error message above. Could you give me an idea of when these threads started? It was, quite a few times. :) Previously, the mythcommflag executable did not actually get called by mythbackend, mythbackend directly ran the commercial flagging code internally. This had the negative side-effect that if there were any problems in commercial flagging that might cause a segfault, etc. whether the issue was in the flagger, player, etc., then the backend would go down. In order to isolate the flagger from mythbackend, after the JobQueue was created, I modified the JobQueue to call out to mythcommflag rather than running the flagger code inside mythbackend. Sounds good to me. You can either manually delete them or you can take the ?easy? way out and go into the JobQueue page in mythfrontend's status screen and delete them from there. Select the item to delete and pick Delete from the popup menu. Oh, I didn't see a way to select those items in the Status screen. I'll have to reexamine that. Thanks for your response, I just hope someone could point me to these posts that I'm missing. Thanks, jl ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to find mythcommflag in 0.17
David George wrote: If you are running a RedHat/Fedora based system (and possibly others) the PATH is reset in /etc/init.d/functions. Look for a line near the top that looks like this: PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin I'm running Gentoo, actually, but there is a /etc/init.d/functions.sh that I've never noticed before. There is one PATH definition in there that did not have /usr/local/bin, so I put it in there. I'll see if that makes any difference. http://gossamer-threads.com/lists/engine?list=mythtv;do=search_results;search_forum=all;search_string=unable%20to%20find%20mythcommflag;search_type=ANDsb=post_time Yep, forgot to do that (but I did search gossamer-threads via Google), but most of the hits are from my own thread here. Thanks, jl ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] backend still changing state, waiting..
Forgot to mention that the machine also doesn't auto shutdown either. I posted a while ago about this but got no replies so a bump ;-) Basically every now and then mythtv-0.17 fails to record, no error messages no attempts in the logs to record, program shows as scheduled but doesn't record. The one and only message is backend still changing state, waiting.. which is exactly at the time the program should have started to record? I don't know where to start on this, any help? Please? Thanks David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] HELP! Scheduled recordings not recording.
I posted a while ago about this but got no replies so a bump ;-) Basicly every now and then mythtv-0.17 fails to record, no error messages no attempts in the logs to record, program shows as scheduled but doesn't record. The one and only message is backend still changing state, waiting.. which is exactly at the time the program should have started to record? I don't know where to start on this, any help? Please? Thanks David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MythTV-0.17 failing to record
I've got a little problem with my mythtv box that is getting me loads of grief from SWMBO, basically every now and then (it's happened three times that I've noticed so far) the box stops recording, backend is up and (apparently) working, but doesn't record (again). It also doesn't auto-shutdown and mythweb doesn't work. No errors, no (apparent) problems the programs are scheduled to record it just doesn't record. Example, it should have recorded Friends at 07:29-08:01 this morning, a peek in the backend log shows 2005-03-16 13:36:14.199 PruneOldRecords... 2005-03-16 13:36:14.257 AddNewRecords... 2005-03-16 13:36:14.334 |-- Start DB Query... 2005-03-16 13:36:14.838 |-- 264 results in 0.449266 sec. Processing... 2005-03-16 13:36:14.891 +-- Cleanup... 2005-03-16 13:36:14.892 Sort by time... 2005-03-16 13:36:14.919 PruneOverlaps... 2005-03-16 13:36:14.963 Sort by priority... 2005-03-16 13:36:14.968 BuildListMaps... 2005-03-16 13:36:14.968 SchedNewRecords... 2005-03-16 13:36:14.969 Scheduling: snip others +Friends - The One Where Ross Got H4 1004 17 07:29-08:01 1 1 1 A 1 1 snip others 2005-03-16 13:36:15.603 ClearListMaps... 2005-03-16 13:36:15.603 Sort by time... 2005-03-16 13:36:15.604 PruneRedundants... --- print list start --- Title - SubtitleChan ChID Day Start End S C I T N Pri snip others Friends - The One Where Ross Got H4 1004 17 07:29-08:01 1 1 1 A 1 1 snip others snip to 17th 2005-03-17 07:26:59.659 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: Ignore 'Flag Commercials' Job for 1005 @ 20050315175900 in Finished state. snip repeat/similar messages 2005-03-17 07:26:59.694 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: Ignore 'Flag Commercials' Job for 1005 @ 20050316175900 in Finished state. 2005-03-17 07:27:59.701 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: findJobs search bitmask 4, found 13 total jobs 2005-03-17 07:27:59.701 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: Ignore 'Flag Commercials' Job for 1004 @ 20050314072900 in Finished state. snip repeat/similar messages 2005-03-17 07:27:59.707 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: Ignore 'Flag Commercials' Job for 1005 @ 20050316175900 in Finished state. 2005-03-17 07:28:59.714 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: findJobs search bitmask 4, found 13 total jobs 2005-03-17 07:28:59.715 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: Ignore 'Flag Commercials' Job for 1004 @ 20050314072900 in Finished state. snip repeat/similar messages 2005-03-17 07:28:59.719 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: Ignore 'Flag Commercials' Job for 1001 @ 20050315193000 in Finished state. 2005-03-17 07:29:02.002 backend still changing state, waiting.. 2005-03-17 07:29:59.728 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: findJobs search bitmask 4, found 13 total jobs 2005-03-17 07:29:59.728 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: Ignore 'Flag Commercials' Job for 1004 @ 20050314072900 in Finished state. snip repeat/similar messages 2005-03-17 07:29:59.776 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: Ignore 'Flag Commercials' Job for 1005 @ 20050316175900 in Finished state. 2005-03-17 07:30:59.783 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: findJobs search bitmask 4, found 13 total jobs 2005-03-17 07:30:59.784 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: Ignore 'Flag Commercials' Job for 1004 @ 20050314072900 in Finished state. 2005-03-17 07:30:59.785 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: Ignore 'Flag Commercials' Job for 1001 @ 20050314133900 in Finished state. Nothing about trying to start recording! There are no (related) errors in the syslog (only the normal cron/ssh messages), plenty of disk space (3Gb free on the system disk and For reference this is on a Pundit-R with a pvr-350/Nova-T with tv/X out of the pvr-350 running SuSE 9.1 (2.6.11-rc2-bk3-20050125153357-default), Mythtv 0.17, ivtv: version 0.3.2 (h), mysql Ver 12.22 Distrib 4.0.18, for suse-linux (i686) Thanks Druid ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR-500 availability
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RE: [mythtv-users] Autostart frontend ONLY on manual startup?
Lane wrote: snip Right now I start up KDE, and then start myth frontend by pressing the Power button on my remote, which lircd catches and then uses to start Myth. I'm using the method described in the Tips 'n' Tricks section of Jarod's guide. What I'd like is for the frontend to start, without me having to press any buttons on the remote, iff I started the Myth box manually. I know it seems a bit lazy, but it makes sense to me that if I started the box manually, the frontend should start. Like I said before, something that I'd be planning on doing for a bit and was planning on doing this weekend, I had a rather quiet night at work so inspired by the demand I had a bit of a scripting session. :-) A little bit of sql and ksh[1] later and I have a beta that works and is undergoing testing now... Need to do a little bit more work to make it easier and to schedule restarts for cron jobs and it'll be perfect. Got to do some phoning round for my bike insurance now (*mutter*grumble*money*grabbing*lazy*bunch*of*gits*ahem) but should have something later today (well today for me anyway ;-) ) Regards Druid [1] Written on SINIX-Y[1] ksh at work then ported to bash at home ;-) [2] Proper unix :-) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] is my processor to blame? (lockups, problems with FF and REW)
Chris wrote: I run mythbackend on FC3 with a 1 GHz P3 and a pinnacle capture card, and the system is generally unstable. I generally run my front end on a 400 Mhz PII running KnoppMyth, and that system is more stable. I know this isn't terribly helpful, but I often run other apps (mostly firefox and bittorrent) while mythbackend is running, and I get a lot of system crashes. What I'm trying to say is, I don't believe FC3 is a terribly stable OS. When I first went and looked at building a mythtv system I went with what I knew[1] SuSE 9.1, got to the bit about installing IvyTV drivers and after a bit more googling came across Jarod's site. Because of the step by step instructions (and atrpms) there I installed FC2, got it working (sort of) then because of stability and sound issues[2] swapped HD's and installed FC3, got it working then got fed up of the crashes/lockups and installed SuSE 9.1 again and it was *much* better, still crashed but not as often. I traced my stability issues in the end to dodgy memory, SuSE *seemed* to crash less but TBH that might be because I prefer SuSE. Make your own mind up but personally I say go with whatever you are the most comfortable with. FWIW my SuSE 9.1 system (Pundit-R/Nova-T/PVR-350) has had *zero* crashes. *HOWEVER* what I (and at least one other) have a problem with is if you play a mpeg2 file with errors[3] through mythtv and the pvr-350 tv out you can get the screen to freeze (normally when FF/REW) with errors in the frontend log such as 2005-02-23 15:27:26.722 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-02-23 15:27:26.722 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'. 2005-02-23 15:27:26.725 Using resampler. From: 0 to 1000 Using the PVR-350 decoder/TV-out 2005-02-23 15:27:27.098 Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded 2005-02-23 15:27:27.113 Realtime priority would require SUID as root. IVTV_IOC_GET_TIMING: Input/output error ivtv rawframes descreased! did the decoder reset? IVTV_IOC_GET_TIMING: Input/output error ivtv rawframes descreased! did the decoder reset? This doesn't lock the box but needs a reboot for the frontend/X to work properly again. Druid [1] And had install disks for :-) [2] Which were stupidity issues not sound issues in the end ;-) [3] Such as for example a recording off a DVB-T/S card when the weathers crap. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] database error after upgrade
Preston wrote: I just upgraded from slightly pre-0.17 CVS code to today's CVS code, and when I try to start mythbackend, it tells me: 2005-02-23 23:51:29.651 New DB connection, total: 1 2005-02-23 23:51:29.656 Upgrading to schema version 1072 2005-02-23 23:51:29.658 DB Error (Performing database upgrade): Query was: ALTER TABLE program ADD COLUMN manualid INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT 0; Error was: Driver error was [2/1060]: QMYSQL3: Unable to execute query Database error was: Duplicate column name 'manualid' new version: 1072 2005-02-23 23:51:29.662 Couldn't upgrade database to new schema Any suggestions? Yes. First backup your database. Then remove the manualid column from the program table either by using something like webmin or remove it from the backup and restore (you may want to add the --add-drop-tables line to the mysqldump if you go down that route) I had to go through that for a few tables going from CVS to 0.17 HTH Druid ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Ok, I've got my pundit...
Alberto wrote:
Finally, I have it here. I've installed debian sid, installed
another pci
ethernet card (damn, I can't configure the motherboard one)
Don't know what kernel debian sid is using but
download/install the kernel source and devel utils then:
On SuSE 9.1 with default installed kernel, directories may be different
under different distro's)
# cd /usr/src/linux/drivers/net
# cp 3c59x.c 3c59x.org.c
# vi 3c59x.c
You need to change the following
Change line 572
From
PCI_USES_IO|PCI_USES_MASTER, IS_TORNADO|HAS_NWAY|HAS_HWCKSM, 128, },
To
PCI_USES_IO|PCI_USES_MASTER, IS_TORNADO|HAS_MII|HAS_HWCKSM, 128, },
Then change line 622
From
{ 0x10B7, 0x9210, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CH_920B_EMB_WNM },
To
{ 0x10B7, 0x9202, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CH_920B_EMB_WNM },
Save then do the following
# cd /usr/src/linux
# cp arch/i386/defconfig .config
Or whatever default config you need.
# make
# make modules
# rmmod 3c59x
# mv /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.ko
/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.oldko
# cp drivers/net/3c59x.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.4-52-smp/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.ko
# depmod
# modprobe 3c59x
Setup network card as normal, later kernels just work, carefull if you have
automatic updates/patches turned on or do a update as you may need to go
through that again
Oh fwiw I'd recommend updating to the latest bios if you haven't already I
found it made a lot of difference to the sound level of the fan.
HTH
Druid
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RE: [mythtv-users] Network accessible headless PVR
Jarod wrote: On Sunday 20 February 2005 00:38, Chris Miller (Compuville) wrote: snip but SSH-ing into the box and setting up /etc/crontab with vi manually wouldn't be the end of the world. Myth's recording schedules aren't in crontab. The backend server process handles firing off recordings. I don't believe there's an (easy) cli way to schedule recordings. But that's what the frontend and mythweb are for. Ahh bugger :-( That was one question I kept meaning to ask[1], oh well back to plan B Druid [1] While it is possible mythweb isn't too usable with lynx[2] ;-) [2] Especially if your terminal settings are screwed. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-500MCE
I've got a PVR-500 as well, similar experiences - This is my weekend project. Not a heck of a lot of success so far, though - do keep me posted on how things develop for you! Noah On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 15:01:57 -0800 Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 20 February 2005 14:18, Sasha Z wrote: the .3.2 drivers do indeed have support for the 500, but there isn't much mention of just how preliminary the support really is. Anybody tried it? Yes. I've got a PVR-500MCE (NTSC). The tuner isn't yet supported. It shows up to the system as a pair of PVR-150 cards (I've also got a PVR-150MCE card, which *almost* works). -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got a question? Read this first... http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html MythTV, Fedora Core ATrpms documentation: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archive http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-500MCE
Ditto! Jarod, BTW I'm also in Redmond - your Fedora how-to is much appreciated. :-) Noah On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 16:31:59 -0800 Todd Tidwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then please let me know how it turns out and I'll give mine a try too. I'm really anxious to see this going. -Todd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jarod Wilson Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 3:36 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-500MCE On Sunday 20 February 2005 15:25, Todd Tidwell wrote: the .3.2 drivers do indeed have support for the 500, but there isn't much mention of just how preliminary the support really is. Anybody tried it? I tried it about a week ago and didn't have much luck. My tuner isn't recognized yet and as I understand it, even if it was audio wouldn't be supported yet. I believe audio is under control now. Someone *just* posted some info about the tuner on the 500 to the v4l mailing list yesterday... I'm going to see if I can't take that info and coerce mine into working either today or tomorrow... -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got a question? Read this first... http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html MythTV, Fedora Core ATrpms documentation: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archive http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] pundit-r temperatures
Patrick wrote: It's not the Pundit-R, it's the Celeron D. I had the same CPU (Celeron D 2.66 GHz), and it was hot and loud. I put it in an Antec Aria case. With the case completely open and sitting in the middle of the room, it was fairly loud. If I did anything beyond that to restrict airflow, the noise just increased from there. If I dared put the side panels of the case on, it got unbearably loud. Fwiw I have no idea of how hot mine is running (3GHz/800FSB P4) but the difference between the supplied BIOS and the latest was incredible. It went from considering watercooling it to hmmm, the laptop really is loud and can I get a quieter HD I've not managed yet to get fan/temp readings from within linux (but not _really_ tried either) but it was running at fan speed of 3500~+ (pre bios update) and 2500~ (post update) at idle while in the bios hardware monitor. For anyone that has a Pundit-R and hasn't updated the BIOS, (1002.006 I believe is the latest but it is contained within the 1002.003 download on the ASUS site) do it now :-) For anyone building a new system based on one I recommend installing Windows[1] first so to update the bios then blow it and install linux. Druid [1] -- Yes, well, I sense we may be straying down Tangent Boulevard here. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] pundit-r
Berend wrote:
Ryan wrote:
Im thinking of purchasing the pundit-r for my mbe and mfe.
It sounds
like it will be some work, but the newer hardware will work
in linux.
Plus I figure the hardware support with only get better with time.
I also have a pundit-r and yes, it was quite some work getting it to
work. The 3.12 fglrx patched driver does support this, but it took me
some time to figure out it was this driver I needed. I can send it to
you, if you need it. I also read that Xfree 4.4 supports TV
out on the
ATI card, but have no idea what the quality is. The fglrx driver does
NOT support any 3d acceleration for the 9100 IGP card, so
glrxgears will
not work or give a very poor rating at best.
The networkcard is also not supported by linux versions under
2.6.8, just as the hd controller.
Hmmm, a _slight_ correction ;-)
The network card does not work as _standard_ by linux versions under 2.6.8
What you need to do is the following (on SuSE 9.1 with default installed
kernel,
directories may be different under different distro's)
# cd /usr/src/linux/drivers/net
# cp 3c59x.c 3c59x.org.c
# vi 3c59x.c
You need to change the following
Change line 572
From
PCI_USES_IO|PCI_USES_MASTER, IS_TORNADO|HAS_NWAY|HAS_HWCKSM, 128, },
To
PCI_USES_IO|PCI_USES_MASTER, IS_TORNADO|HAS_MII|HAS_HWCKSM, 128, },
Then change line 622
From
{ 0x10B7, 0x9210, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CH_920B_EMB_WNM },
To
{ 0x10B7, 0x9202, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CH_920B_EMB_WNM },
Save then do the following
# cd /usr/src/linux
# cp arch/i386/defconfig .config
Or whatever default config you need.
# make
# make modules
# rmmod 3c59x
# mv /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.ko
/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.oldko
# cp drivers/net/3c59x.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.4-52-smp/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.ko
# depmod
# modprobe 3c59x
Then setup the network card.
Later kernels work 'out of the box'
I've got TV out from the PVR-350 (which is a *very* tight fit) so I've not
tried tv out on the onboard card.
HTH
Druid
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RE: [mythtv-users] Internal IR Receiver
Shane wrote: I wish I could say. I saw this part when I looked for Rich, but Maplins doesn't give enough in the way of details to know how it will work in your circuit. No, not even a part number so you could find a datasheet for it. Unfortunately, I don't know much about electronics supliers in the UK, but I see that Farnell (uk.farnell.com) is your equivalent to our Newark (US). And appropriate part from them would be a Vishay TSOP4838 for 74p. It's 5V, low current, easy to hook up, and filter out anything that's not around 38kHz (standard remote freq). But they'll probably kill you on shipping and handling for that order. Haha, oh yes, 20 UKP (~35USD) minimum order (and a 3UKP 'handling' charge)! RS components are trade only (although I could probably get round that), but again I suspect they have a stupid minimum order amount. Are there any other shops or supply houses in the UK? I'd be willing to take a look for you gentlemen. I *really* would like to find one, Maplin used to be quite good but have gone too mainstream and now don't stock half the components they used to. Farnell have too stupid a minumum order and RS (and all the others I've found are trade only) OTOH is there anywhere recommended that would deliver to Florida[1] for reasonable prices? TVM Druid [1] Have contacts able to do a bit of light import/export for me ;-) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Internal IR Receiver
Andy wrote: On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 09:42:28 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RS components are trade only (although I could probably get round that), but again I suspect they have a stupid minimum order amount. RS www sales aren't trade only, just their in-person collection counters are. I've ordered loads of stuff from them over the web. D'Oh!! All the times I've not ordered as I thought they were trade only and didn't sell to the public, g. Even more annoyingly I *have* a RS catalogue. No minimum order size I believe although the postal rates are more attractive if you can put together a 'larger' order:- Ha, no problems, I'll be ordering all the rest of the components at the same time anyway. For reference if anyone else wants the same part ( TSOP1738 )it is RS stock number 286-1419 and is 83p Thanks. Druid ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Multiple Backend Setup
Tony wrote: snip The master backend works. I can record shows and watch tv. I am trying to setup the slave backend and are having problems getting it working right. When I built the slave box and tried to run mythtvsetup it complained about not being able to connect to the database so I setup mysql on the slave box. Then went into mythtvsetup and told it the ip address of my master backend. Then I setup the cards as /dev/video0 and /dev/video1. Just a quick note but it is worth making sure that you can connect to the mysql database before starting $ mysql -h xxx.yyy.zzz.2 -u mythtv -pinsert database password here If you get the mysql Prompt then continue, if you can't then you've done something wrong, change things until you can! I had a bit of grief getting this bit to work but once I did as soon as I set up the card on the slave it appeared in the 'status', I then removed it and put it back in the master but that's another matter! You do *NOT* need and (I _think_) you should not have mysqld running on the slave. I go to the masterbackend and I run a mythtvsetup but I don't see the 2 cards from the slave machine listed. You won't, what you *can* do is do a mysqldump[1] and read it, the card setup is fairly near the top and easy to see how many cards (and where they are). I can watch TV on the slave but it is coming off of the card from the master backend. I can watch recorded shows on the slave also. When I go to backend status from the web frontend it tells me I only have 1 encoder. So where did I go wrong? I don't know but I _think_ you might have set up the slave as a 'secondary' master then told the *frontend* to connect to the 'primary' master IYSWIM. HTH Druid [1] Obviously you can just do a SQL query but I don't want to be blaimed for anyone loosing their database... Ok then, its simple enough, just don't blaim me if it goes pete tong... mysql select cardid,hostname from capturecard; ++--+ | cardid | hostname | ++--+ | 1 | pvr | | 2 | linux| ++--+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) This example shows a master with one card (cardid 1, in a machine named pvr), and a slave with one card (cardid 2, in a machine named linux). ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Record from the live viewing screen?
Matt wrote: Did I miss this somewhere? I want to be able to manually record the live show that I am watching from the live screen...even if I didn't previously schedule it. How is this done? Erm press the record button? It doesn't record all of the show it only starts when you press record, I'm not exactly sure what happens if you are for example 30min behind 'live' tv though. David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Nova-T kernel versions.
A quick question, has anyone had the 909 model Nova-T (Conexant chipset) working on older 2.6 kernels? The reason I ask is I can't get it working on 2.6.5-7.111.30 and the video4linux Make.config says that cx88_dvb wont compile on anything below 2.6.10. Currently I have everything working and stable[1] with the (updated) default suse 9.1 kernel (2.6.5-7.111.30) and I'd rather not change it unless I *have* to. OTOH if it doesn't work then it's the perfect excuse to buy a pvr-250 to replace it and build a second backend. :-) Which brings me to my second question, would a 450 PIII be suitable for a backend with a Nova-T in? Thanks Druid [1] Touch wood ;-) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Nova-T kernel versions.
Derek wrote: On Thursday 27 January 2005 19:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A quick question, has anyone had the 909 model Nova-T (Conexant chipset) working on older 2.6 kernels? The reason I ask is I can't get it working on 2.6.5-7.111.30 and the video4linux Make.config says that cx88_dvb wont compile on anything below 2.6.10. snip I have it working with the 2.6.8 kernel To get it to compile I needed to get CVS video4linux and dvb-kernel If you google for '[linux-dvb] Re: Nova-T with Conexant ' you will find the post where I described the exact procedure. Unfortunately the linux-dvb mailing list seems to be offline at present. I'll have a little look thanks. Which brings me to my second question, would a 450 PIII be suitable for a backend with a Nova-T in? As for 450PIII, I have not tried it, but do not see why it would not work. For DVB TV all the backend has to do is copy an 8MBps stream to the hard drive. I'm going to give it a try, I installed a 120Gb HD and Suse9.2 earlier today and I took the Nova-T out of the main frontend/backend[1], the trouble is that I can't afford major downtime on the main box as the g/f would not be happy! At least with a separate machine I can play with no fear of killing the entire thing, It's got 2.6.8-24-default atm but I'll see what apt comes up with and install 2.6.10 if needed. Thanks Druid [1] A lot harder than it sounds given that it's a Pundit-R and *very* tight[2] in there [2] As in I had to cut the case and both cards touch the side! ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Re: Help: getting lirc working under FC3withaHauppauge Nova-t DVB card
Nick wrote: Nick wrote: snip I'm having no luck however getting the remote control supplied with the nova-t working under lirc. Has anyone out there got the nova-t remote working with lirc under FC3 ? I tried using the (working) pvr-350's IR receiver/lirc setup to set up the nova-t remote, irrecord failed to find a gap[1] and bombed out. Rather a pity as the nova-t remote has lots more buttons on than the pvr-350's and I would have thought that two remotes from the same manufacturer would at least share the same codes but there's obviously something strange going on. Have you seen/tried the info in this (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/105786) thread about using /dev/input? I've not but I've *got* a working IR setup, it's just it wont read the nova-t remote. I'm sure that all Hauupauge remotes use the same RC5 control set (the remotes I got with the 350 and the Nova-T [conexant] are the same models ...) but perhaps different codes. When you modprobe the DVB cards drives, do you get any LIRC output? I've not tried using the nova-t's IR sensor. This is possibly not really for this list (its more a lirc problem) but nevermind. The problem is that the pcr-350's remote works *perfectly*, is all set up with lirc, works with mythtv everything, I've even got irexec setup to reboot the frontend (and restart the backend if it's down). The nova-t (909) however came with a slightly bigger remote with lots more buttons, a load of which are *perfect* for mythtv so I thought that using the nova-t remote would just be as easy as using irrecord to record the buttons and replace the pvr-350's lircrc file with the new nova-t one. Except it doesn't work and I don't know why. :-( Thanks David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Incomplete recordings
David Bosiljevac wrote: I'd love to know if anyone else has had this problem and what they've done to solve it. Take a look at my post on 2005-01-16 ~ 22:14 w/ subject: recordings dying w/ IOBOUND ... I may be having the same problem you guys are... check out your logs and see if they match what I'm talking about. jl ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Putting a toe in the CVS water
Phill Edwards wrote: 2) Do I _really_ have to obliterate the existing mythtv install (the above HOWTO says to do rpm -qa | grep myth | xargs rpm -e)? This seems a bit drastic to me. Isn't there a way of keeping the ATRPM install as a fall-back/safety net if I stuff up with CVS? Certainly. And this applies in general to computer systems and (specifically) Linux systems. Do what I do on very important systems: make a Norton Ghost-like image of your system w/ partimage (available conveniently on the bootable cd from http://www.sysresccd.org/) before you make any serious changes. Then you *always* have a perfect fallback. That's the only way to be sure, and it'll give you some nice peace of mind after it's tested and you've taken advantage of it on a restore. Good luck, jl ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Which Distribution?
Bruce wrote: SuSE 9.2 has been pretty easy to get working with my. MySQL, php, all of the prereqs are installable using Yast. Wasn't there some kind of QT lib problem with SuSE? Is that fixed with 9.2? SuSE is my distro of choice and I'm thinking about upgrading. TIA! FWIW I set up SuSE 9.1 (about a week ago) with a PVR-350[0] and mythtv (CVS-20041224), took me about 10 hours total[1] to get up and running. Only problem was it took some while to download everything and would have been *much* easier to have a apt source for mythtv. If anyone is that interested email me direct for more details. Druid [0] X out on the pvr-350's tv out. [1] Mostly download and compile time. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Which Distribution?
640 664 728 816 480 481 484 502 EndSection Section Modes Identifier Modes[1] EndSection Section Screen DefaultDepth 16 SubSection Display Depth 15 Modes 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 32 Modes 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 8 Modes 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection Device Device[0] Identifier Screen[0] Monitor Monitor[0] EndSection Section Screen SubSection Display Depth 24 FbBpp 32 Modes 720x576 EndSubSection Device Hauppauge Identifier TV Monitor PAL EndSection Section Device BoardNameGeForce4 MX440SE BusID1:0:0 Driver nv Identifier Device[0] Screen 1 VendorName NVidia EndSection Section Device BusID0:12:0 Driver ivtvdev Identifier Hauppauge Optionfbdev /dev/fb1 Screen 0 EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier Layout[all] InputDevice Keyboard[0] CoreKeyboard InputDevice Mouse[1] CorePointer Option Clone off Option Xinerama off Screen TV EndSection Section DRI Group video Mode 0660 EndSection ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Newbie needs help choosing hardware for use in the UK
Alexander Wrote: Hello. Hello :-) I had a little play with mythTV over the weekend and was very impressed. Great work guys! I was using an old Hauppaggue frame grabber and no soundcard, but it did suffice as proof of concept. I'm now ready to take the plunge and invest in some proper hardware. I've got a base PC which I think will be good enough and I plan to get a secondhand xbox to use as a frontend. snipola Living in the UK, 2 DVB cards seem to be the way forward. Am I right in thinking that they all produce MPEG2 streams so no encoding has to be done in software? Yes and no, yes in that the stream from the card is mpeg2 no in that you might want to transcode the mpeg2 stream to mpeg4 for less disk space. I've come up with a 3 card shortlist all available from www.scan.co.uk (where I'll be placing an order for some unrelated stuff later this week.) They are ... Avermedia DVB-T PCI Card £64.44 Hauppauge WinTV-Nova-T Freeview receiver PCI (909) £62.06 Vision + PCI TV Tuner - HDTV Compatible + Remote £46.06 Do all these cards definately have suitable drivers? Google is your friend ;-) I think I read somewhere that not all Nova-T's were the same. I wouldn't want to end up with an unsupported variant. Or should I just go for the cheapest? Shouldn't the outputted MPEG2 stream be identical for each card? The option to receive some of the top-up-tv channels might be good too. Has anybody got this working yet? Sorry to be of no use in the answer to this but I want to know the same, I've got my box set up working now with one pvr-350 and want to add another card, I'm planning to get another card (probably from scan!) and I _was_ at first thinking of a PVR-250 but that would only give me std terrestrial[1] so I was thinking of a DVB-T and route the set-top box via the video in on the pvr-350. I'm going to do some googling but if you do find out which one looks best please let me know! Since my MB only supports UDMA-2, I'm also thinking of buying an addon PCI ATA card. You should actually be OK, what is more likely to be a problem is that the bandwidth over the bus could cause issues. I'm guessing I won't need any soundcards in a DVB only system? Depends, if you don't want to play anything from the backend then no. Druid [1] and cable through the set-top box/video in ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Automatic startup with tv-out - solved
Mark wrote:
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 21:41:02 +0100, Sigurd Nes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
sigurdne wrote:
The X-seesion won't start because /dev/fb1 is not present at the
time it tries to start. I do all the modprobes from a
start-script
(usr/local/bin/start-ivtv) initiated from '/etc/rc.d/rc.local'
I guess what I need to do is to make sure that the
start-script is initiated
before the X-session is started. How can I accomplish this ?
Sigurd
Sollution:
1) Configure gdm to autologin with user mythtv
2) Start gdm with /usr/bin/gdm at the end of the start-script
i'm having a similar problem to this one i think.
setup:
PVR 350 w/ TV out
Behavior:
ON Startup.
Computer boots up normaly
rc.local runs but cannot complete stuff becuase /dev/fb1 is
not there X crashes. gdm does not start ...basically
autostart all is dead
I can then recover it by
manualy run rc.local again
startx
login (auto login doesn't work now)
start mythfrontend (KDE autostart didnt' work either)
A problem I came across is that sometimes the device driver modules
needed a slight pause inbetween
loading to allow the /dev char devices to be created, there are two ways
round this.
1) stick a couple of sleep statements in your rc.local, ie
modprobe ivtv
sleep 5
modprobe ivtv-fb
sleep 5
2) stick a little loop in there to check for the devices and loop until
they're there, eg
(this is the script I use)
#/bin/bash
# Name: load-ivtv
# Author : David Sharp @ 04/01/2005
# Purpose : Load ivtv driver checking for char devices before continuing
to load
# next module.
# Mod.Hist:
# 04/01/05: New script
# Functions
function wait_for_device(){
Device=${1} # device is full path name, eg /dev/fb1
Count=1
Count_Timeout=100 # number of seconds to wait before timing out
# needed as otherwise this will loop forever
# if for whatever reason the device never appears
echo -n Waiting for device ${Device} to appear.
while [ ! -c ${Device} ]
do
let Count=Count+1
sleep 1
echo -n .
if [ ${Count} = ${Count_Timeout} ]
then
echo
echo Timeout waiting for device ${Device}
sleep 1
return 1
break
fi
done
}
# Main script
modprobe ivtv
wait_for_device /dev/video0
RETVAL=$?
if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ]
then
/usr/lib/ivtv/ptune.pl -f pal-europe-west --channel 53 # tune in
channel otherwise errors in log
dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 bs=64k# output to /video16
otherwise ivtvdev/X tv out doesn't work
sleep 5
kill %1
modprobe ivtv-fb
wait_for_device /dev/fb1
fi
HTH
Druid
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RE: [mythtv-users] Has anyone configured a semi-diskless frontend?
Brad wrote: On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:11:22PM -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote: It'd sure be nice if there was a way for a mythfrontend to discover all the settings needed on a network. Something like Rendevous/ZeroConf/UPnP. Does anyone who runs KnoppMyth in this way know what all the settings are that are asked for on boot? Is it just the address of the master backend or are there more? Strictly, it's the address of the database server, which then reveals the address of the master backend and other backends. Indeed, discovery and plug and play are very useful ideas, and no doubt are on the feature list somewhere. You can't really discover SQL servers without opening up their security more than people like. So what would make sense would be for the master backend to listen for broadcast packets on a port, and respond to them with config info for frontends and other backends. From a 'proper' security point of view you don't want your database to be findable, however from a 'I'm running this on a private network with a decent firewall/no internet connection and no important information saved' point of view it would be nice to have the option. snip The most secure way to do it and still be close to ZUI is as follows. a) Client boots up. b) Master backend prompts somebody (a trusted client, or a user on the backend) saying, 1 and exactly 1 new clients have asked for access. Grant it? c) You say yes, and you can be (generally) sure you're only giving access to the machine you just brought up. Ideally the front end machine is able to store something somewhere (or have its own password as a key to data in the database) so it doesn't have to follow this procedure every time in boots. Better than that why not do it by MAC address recognition, first time a machine pops up the backend asks if you want to allow it, if you say yes that MAC/IP is stored. Next time it pops up it will go oh yes I grant access to that one. If it fails it could *then* ask for the username/password/backend IP, that would then work for dual boot machines[1]/windows machines. Regards David [1]Or any other risky machines you might not want to automatically pass the DB password to. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Front end hardware?
John wrote: Xbox is dead easy - no chip is required, just a USB cable, a USB flash key, and a specific game (depends on xbox release) - they will even do it for you at the linux xbox site. Then it is simply a case of installing xebian, and doing and apt-get to grab myth - tweak 1 file, and it works. Is XBox still usable as an Xbox for games after these tweaks? I've been wanting an XBox, but haven't had a good enough excuse. Having a front end and game console would be well worth it. Yes and no, Depending on how exactly the bios is flashed. If you go with the cromwell bios's[1] then no, if you go with some of the others then yes. It is possible to do it in one of three ways: 1) Linux box, total drive used, no xbox games possible. 2) Linux in unused partion at end of drive (8Gb drives), boot from CD (or saved xbe to bootloader), games playable 3) Linux as a 2Gb file in the save game area, boot from CD (of saved xbe to bootloader), games playable At the moment I have one set up as in case 3 with a 250Gb drive, unfortunatly as the backend is CVS and the frontend erm isn't they don't talk to each other :-( I'm trying (and failing atm[2]) to compile the cvs version for the xbox at this very moment... HTH Druid [1] Reverse engineered containing no MS source code. [2] falling over with /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqt-mt but can't find some packages via apt so wont get them either. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Mythtv (cvs and 0.16) blanks screen exiting from program guide while watching live TV on PVR-350
Whew, bit of a long subject, anyway I've got a little niggle that I'm wondering if there is a cure for. When watching live tv, when I go to the menu then view the program guide it works perfectly. If I exit the screen blanks (although audio keeps playing), pressing menu brings back the screen with the menu again, another press and it vanishes. If I press menu again the screen blanks (and sound stops) then a sec later all returns along with the channel information and the little 'whats on' info box. I've tried it on 0.16 on Fedora Core 3, 0.16 on Suse 9.1 and cvs on suse 9.1, all versions exhibit the same behaviour. All running/run on a 2.6Athlon/512Mb/120Gb with a PVR-350 with the tv out going through the pvr-350 Is there some option I've not checked/changed that would fix this or is it a minor bug[1] that I'll just have to live with until it gets fixed? Thanks Druid [1] It is not really that much of a problem, I just need to press exit,menu,menu rather than just exit ;-) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV UK scripts + PVR350 + FF and RW
Matt wrote:
snip
Maybe my bleb script would of use to someone else too ?
--
--
#!/bin/sh
echo -Remove old data.xml file if it exists...
rm -f /tmp/data.xml nul
rm -f /tmp/raw.xml nul
rm -f /tmp/log.tmp nul
echo -Download updated listings from www.bleb.org...
wget -q -O /tmp/tvdata.zip
http://www.bleb.org/tv/data/listings?days=0..6format=xmltvc
hannels=bbc1,bbc2,itv1,ch4,five,bravo,discovery,
e4,men_and_motors,paramount,paramount2,scifi,sky_one,sky_one_m
ix,uk_gold,sky_movies1,sky_movies2,sky_movies3,sky_movies4,sky
_movies5,sky_movies6,sky_movies7,sky_movies8,sky_movies9,uktv_
documentaryfile=zip
nul
echo -Uncompress..
cd /tmp
unzip /tmp/tvdata.zip nul
echo -Update MythTV..
mythfilldatabase --file 1 -1 /tmp/data.xml nul
--
--
Maybe it's not pretty but it works OK! You need to have the
channels setup in the mythconverg database first. I'm not
sure of an automated way to do this since as far as I know
the mythfilldatabase uk sites (including RT) don't work anymore.
Blimey, why don't you just do
/usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt --config-file /home/mythtv/.mythtv/Channel
Listing.xmltv | /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase --update --file 1 -1 -
Where Channel Listing.xmltv is a listing of all the channels required
(eg Terrestrial.xmltv), gives you 14days worth of listings.
I also create mpeg links to my nuv files on a samba share so
that I can play the files over my LAN.
The script gets the program name out of the database and uses
that to create the link.
This is the script to do that -
--
--
#!/bin/bash
rm -f /home/video/mpeg-links/*
x=1
y=1
for FILE in `ls /home/video/*.nuv`
do
part1=`echo $FILE | cut -d/ -f4 - | cut -d_ -f1 -`
part2=`echo $FILE | cut -d/ -f4 - | cut -d_ -f2 -`
part3=`echo $FILE | cut -d/ -f4 - | cut -d_ -f3 - | cut -d. -f1 -`
filename[$x]=$FILE
outfile[$x]=$part3
string=select title, subtitle, starttime from recorded where
chanid=$part1 and starttime=$part2 and endtime=$part3
title[$x]=`mysql mythconverg -e $string --skip-column-names
-B -si` files[$x]=$FILE program_title=`echo ${title[$x]} |
sed 's/ /_/g' | sed 's/:/_/g'` ln -s $FILE
/home/video/mpeg-links/$program_title.mpeg
let x=x+1
done
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Handy, I was just thinking about doing that and up it pops :-)
TVM
Druid
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[mythtv-users] prob. w/ backend connectivity on ep. deletes from frontend generally from mythweb
Wow, that subject line was a bit verbose, but anyway here's the general problem I've only recently seen happen. I'm running Gentoo with a 2.6.5 kernel, a slightly-custom-patched version of ivtv-0.1.10-pre2-ck100z and 0.16 of mythtv. Everything else is essentially common. Also, I should mentioned that I *think* this problem only arose recently after I added a second PVR-250 (the second one is a 975 32552 model and the first one was a (985?) 32031) to my previously smooth-running myth box. What seems to happen, perhaps every couple of days or so, but it could be triggered by who knows what, is sometimes when I'm trying to delete an episode from the main browsing screen, mythfrontend hangs for a good 30 seconds or so and then pops that window that says (paraphrasing) can't connect to mythbackend... is it running? The strange part is that mythbackend *is* running, and if I try to *play* an episode right after that, everything works fine. But if I go back and try to delete again, I get the same message. The only way I've found to fix the problem is to restart mythbackend. Then I can immediately delete the same episode. Furthermore, when the system is in that state, I'll get a similar message from the mythweb status.php page. And again, if I restart mythbackend, the status page comes up with no problem. I briefly scanned the archives for a similar problem, but the definition was a bit too complex, and I wasn't getting any good hits. Anyone else hit this or have any idea what might be causing it? The log output for mythbackend has *nothing* that I've noticed that would explain what's happening. Thanks, John Lawler ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Local Host
Kenny Votava wrote: I orginally set up my Mythbox with the default local host IP address and it worked fine, but my samba server would not work with my windows machines. So i changed the name of my Mythbox to something else other than Localhost and now my mythtv will not work. Can someone help me with the perstering problem? Might need to run through the mythtv setup program again (it's an X program that you ran to setup the capture cards and all), found in ../mythtv-0.16/setup/setup. I think in the general settings or something there's a place to define the hostname of the machine. jl ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] prob. w/ backend connectivity on ep. deletes from frontend generally from mythweb
Chris Petersen wrote: Do you just have one backend running? I've heard of mythweb causing the backend to hang/refuse connections, requiring it to be restarted, but not recently, and only when trying to delete shows located on a slave backend. I just thought of something else that I don't think you meant in your question, but that's always bugged me and I suppose *may* have some impact here. I'm using that (Debian-source, I guess) start-stop-daemon routine to kick off mythbackend on startup, and I don't know if that causes this to happen or if mythbackend does it itself, but a ton of mythbackend daemons get launched. I don't know if these all start right away, but e.g., I've got 16 separate instances of mythbackend running right now. (For the record, it's always been like this and I've never had problems before like the one I described). Do you know why there are so many daemons? I know I've seen similar behavior with packages like apache, et al, but there you have some control over how many max daemons you allow, etc. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 or RAGE II/II+ 4MB PCI VGA TVOUT NTSC
I have been following some threads about the pvr-350 (I have one) and seems there is some trouble getting to display x on the pvr-350 out on the newer tuners I'll post my dmesg info below. I'm running FC3 with the latest drivers and such from Jarods website One way or another I need to have tvout working or whats the point. Is your goal to get it working at all, or to get it working with FC3? After several days of trouble with FC3 I went back and installed FC2 and now have tv-out with my KDE desktop and mythtv working on my new PVR350 with the same tuner as you (type 47). I'm not at home now and cannot post any info because I left that system off, but if you'd like I'd be happy to reply again with the details. I could get ivtv and ivtb-fb to load under FC3, but had numerous problems with ivtv-fb crashing or messing up the console, and never did get X to display on the TV-out with it. Daniel ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
