from:"peter"

Tom E. Craddock Jr. wrote:
 John Sutherland wrote:
 Hi there..

 I have a linux backend, 0.18.1, and an OSX frontend..

 I've tried 3 verisons of the 0.18.1 OSX client binaries, and all 3  
 have the same behavour.. (the versions I tried at the one from  
 goof.com, and the ones from thesniperpad.com..)

 Watching TV works..
 Watching recording works, including fast forward, rewind, time  
 stretch, zoom, etc..

 But the moment I hit 'E' to enter edit mode, it freezes.. All I see  
 in the client is the frozen frame.. No keys work.. I have to forcibly  
 kill the client..

 Backend seems fine, no restarting necessary..

 I do have a linux frontend that seems able to edit without issue..

 Any ideas?

 --John
 
 
 In about a week-ish or so, once .19 is released, use the .19 binaries. 
 Its been fixed in SVN at some point, cant tell ya the revision # tho.  I 
 had the same problems (on .18.1) and once I started running/compiling 
 SVN regularly along with the nightly OSX binary builds that are posted 
 on thesniderpad.com's dloads section (which I really do appreciate) I 
 found that hitting 'E' works fine.
 
 Tom

Sweetness!

-Pete
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[mythtv-users] MythTV and Asterisk?

Is anybody running a Myth backend and Asterisk on the same box?

-Pete
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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and Asterisk?

John Biundo wrote:
 Dean Collins wrote:
 How do you handle interruptions etc?

 I thought asterisk had to be a standalone solution otherwise voice
 quality can vary?

 
 Also heard that Asterisk and X don't get along very well.
 
 I'm running both, but on seperate boxen right now.

I've heard some people swear that you must run Astersk without X or
anything else running in order to avoid problems. Others have reported
that it works fine. I rarely ever use the console of my myth box.
Occasionally I'll connect up with VNC. Myth usage is light as would
Asterisk usage.

Maybe I'll give it a whirl.

-Pete
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Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and Asterisk?

Yeah, I'd like to use a solid state box for Asterisk, but I need to have
a PCI slot for my X100P card to interface with POTS.

-Pete

Brian Wood wrote:
 On Jan 23, 2006, at 3:48 PM, Peter Loron wrote:
 
 John Biundo wrote:
 Dean Collins wrote:
 How do you handle interruptions etc?

 I thought asterisk had to be a standalone solution otherwise voice
 quality can vary?

 Also heard that Asterisk and X don't get along very well.

 I'm running both, but on seperate boxen right now.
 I've heard some people swear that you must run Astersk without X or
 anything else running in order to avoid problems. Others have reported
 that it works fine. I rarely ever use the console of my myth box.
 Occasionally I'll connect up with VNC. Myth usage is light as would
 Asterisk usage.

 Maybe I'll give it a whirl.
 
 Perhaps a bit OT,  but I play around with Linksys NSLU2 boxes, which  
 are sold as NAS appliances but, since they run Linux, can be made to  
 run most anything. I use one as a Postfix Mailserver and another as  
 an Apache web server.
 
 I've heard tell that folks are using them as Asterisk servers, but I  
 don't know much more than that. Since they retail for $90 you might  
 be interested. Would sort of make the question of a dedicated box moot.
 
 Check out:
 
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nslu2-linux/
 
 These things can run Debian, and there are  more than 5000 registered  
 users on the Yahoo group, and more than 15,000 DLs of the firmware  
 replacements.
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[mythtv-users] Silverstone Lascala 17 Case

2006-01-18 Thread peter

Hi,

I'm thinking of replacing my current FE with an HD-capable FE, and was
thinking of putting it all in Silverstone Lascala 17 case: 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811163055 .

Is anyone using one of these? And failing that, any other comments on
good, reasonably-priced cases?

-- 
Thanks,
Peter

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Re: [mythtv-users] Compiling Mythtv on an Xbox error?

2006-01-17 Thread Peter Loron

As far as I know you don't need to have all of the machines on the same
subnet. There's a file you edit (sorry, don't have access to any distcc
machine now) that has a list of available hosts. Just put the names or
IP numbers in there. No need for DNS if you use IPs.

One machine (typically the one launching the compile) acts as the
controller. The other machines need to have either the distcc daemon
running or have it set up properly in xinetd.

When you kick off make, distcc on the local machine looks at the list of
 distcc servers, and parcels out the work.

-Pete

A JM wrote:
 Yeah, I saw that thanks Pete.
 
 I assume basicaly all machines just need to be on the same subnet
 running distcc? I see it mentions On each of the servers does this
 need to be in a Sever/Client setting?
 
 Currently no DNS is being performed on my boxes only using a router for
 simple networking.
 
 AJM,
 
 
 
 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Compiling Mythtv on an Xbox error?

2006-01-16 Thread Peter Loron

http://distcc.samba.org/

-Pete

A JM wrote:
 Responding to my own thread. The answer was that gcc-3.2 and g++-3.2
 were not installed I also enabled memalign and the error disappeared
 when running ./configure.
 
 Currently the XBOX has been compiling for nearly 24 hours, this is
 insane! How much longer can it go
 
 Can I compile this on another box then move it back to the xbox? I found
 this thread with the suggestion to mount the drive but no real
 directions
 (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/103065?search_string=how%20long%20compile%20xbox;#103065
 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/103065?search_string=how%20long%20compile%20xbox;#103065)
 does anyone have any ideas?
 
 thanks,
 
 
 
 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Problems with detecting duplicate recordings due to subtle detail changes

2006-01-11 Thread Peter Dash

This is something that I've found annoying as well so I think it's a
great idea :)

These look a lot like Radio Times listings in the UK (which I'm using
as well) and I'm not sure it affects any of the other grabbers - I
know for example that while I was using the EIT listings from DVB
these subtle differences didn't exist. I went back to the Radio Times
listings for the better descriptions and categories and just live with
having to do a bit more manual pruning of the recording schedules to
weed out the duplicates that aren't picked up which is a pain.

Peter.
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Re: [mythtv-users] How to KEEP mythtv running when user exits

2006-01-10 Thread Peter Judge

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 20:03 -0500, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
 On Jan 10, 2006, at 7:50 PM, John Biundo wrote:
snip
  What am I missing?  How do other people handle this?
 
  Thanks!
 
  cheers,
  john
 
 You can have MythTV prompt you when you exit.
 Are you sure you want to exit?
 The default is NO and will send you back to the main menu.

There's also Jarod's powerbutton on/off thingy in case they get past
that. See wilsonet.com for details (it's in the extras or odds 'n' ends
section).

-- Peter

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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 250 sound troubles

2006-01-02 Thread Peter Judge

On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 05:19 -0500, Tom E. Craddock Jr. wrote:
 Hi,
 
 
 After doing a smart upgrade last week, I started to have problems with 
 my recordings.  I had issues similar to this posting 
 (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/167825?search_string=no%20sound%20pvr-250;#167825)
  
 where the OP states that the image was cropped and zoom so only the left 
 hand side was recorded, and I had no sound.  I rebooted my backend this 
 weekend and that fixed the issues with the cropping, but I still get no 
 sound on my pvr250.  I have a pvr150 in this box as well as a 2nd tuner, 
   and sound works fine on it. As I followed Jarods FC4 guide, I made 
 sure that I had moved msp3400.ko to msp3400.ko.orig and I still had no 
 sound.  Reading thru dmesg when I did that, I saw that it reported that 
 no msp3400 fw was loaded.  On a side note, this box also as a HD-3000 in 

There are a number of (fairly recent) messages on this list about the
sound issues with ivtv 4.1. Those emails recommend moving the version of
msp3400 from wherever to the kernel/../media/video directory. It's not
clear your message whether you moved the msp3400-ivtv to msp3400. You
need to do that. 

Alternatively, you can add the following line to your modprobe.conf:
alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv

This did the trick for me as opposed to moving and renaming files.

HTH,
Peter


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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 250 sound troubles

2006-01-02 Thread Peter Judge

On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 13:27 -0500, Tom E. Craddock Jr. wrote:

 
 Peter,
 
 Thanks for your time.  Yes I did try moving the msp3400-ivtv to the dir 
 you mention above, as well as at the end of my modprobe.conf, I already 
 have alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv.  I will try again to make sure that it 
 isnt it, thanks for your time.

This is probably stating the obvious, but I don't believe you should do
both.

-- Peter

 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Trouble with Install... Gave up unless help can be given. :(

2006-01-01 Thread Peter Loron

Assuming you don't want anything on the FC4 partition, you should be  
able to go into the Administrative Tools in Windows, and use the disk  
tools in the Computer item (can't remember the actual name...don't  
have a Win box handy) to blow away that partition and reformat it  
NTFS. You'll need something like Partition Magic to merge that  
partition into your existing one, if that's possible at all with your  
filesystem type.


-Pete

On Jan 1, 2006, at 8:57 PM, Aaron wrote:


Johan Venter wrote:


Aaron wrote:

QUESTION #1 -  How do I uninstall Fedora Core 4 from this  
machine so I no longer have to use GRUB and select Windows XP  
everytime I boot up?



At a Windows command prompt (Start-Run-'cmd') type fdisk /mbr  
that will install the original Windows Master Boot Record and get  
rid of GRUB.


Regards,

Johan.
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yes i thought of that, but how do i get rid of FC4?  I have it on  
its own 20gb partition

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Re: [mythtv-users] suggestion

2005-12-25 Thread Peter Schachte


A Desai wrote:


Hello all,
I was wondering if there is a way to append the saved positions we 
have right now. Is it possible to add a few memory saves when we 
save the position? So when we want to start from the saved position, 
it actually asks us if we want to start at


1. 0: 0:13
2. 0:10:11
3 1:04:20


Sounds good.

Along the same lines, what I would find useful would be for Myth to also 
remember who wants to watch a show, and who has already watched it.  So 
when you schedule a program for recording, you specify who would want to 
watch it (from a list of household members you've preconfigured).  When 
you go to delete a program, it shows you who it thinks wants to watch it 
but hasn't yet, and allows you to remove from the list rather than 
deleting outright.


Similarly, when you stop watching a show and save your position, you 
could be offered a list of household members to tag that position with.  
Then when you start watching a show, it could show you a menu of saved 
positions, with names attached, to select from, or let you start from 
the beginning.  This would be better than choosing based in time into 
the show, because who can really remember whether they were 17:28 or 
23:42 into that episode of Lost they didn't get to finish watching 3 
days ago?


The other good thing about remembering who wants to watch what is that 
if you tell it who you are when you sit down to watch TV, you could be 
presented with a list of programs *you* want to watch, with the ones 
you've watched part of at the top of the list.  Better still if you 
could tell it everyone who is in the room, and have it show you a list 
of what anyone there wants to watch, with priority given to the programs 
the most people there want to watch.


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Re: [mythtv-users] Xine issues

2005-12-20 Thread Peter Osterberg

I've changed to xv now, haven't had the time to try xvmc yet.. Maybe 
this evening...


Anyway... The jerky part of me picture disapeared when I turned on 
de-interlace but I have one more issue left. This issue is found 
regardless of which output driver I've tried so far.


I can see a shadow of the last aframe round fast moving objects. It is 
especially visible on animated dvd's. I don't see anything like this on 
my regulard dvd player. I noticed that I had turned on maximum post 
processing and turned it of completely but that didn't help.


Anyway your help did help with the jekyness and that was far worse but I 
really want to get rid of this as well.


Sincerely,
Peter Österberg

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

Peter - my DVD player is just a panasonic progressive-scan unit - 
nothing fancy at all. 

On 12/15/05, *Michael T. Dean*  [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Alex Brekken wrote:

 For anyone looking for another option, I've had pretty good luck
using
 xxmc.  So far it seems to give the best picture - virutally as
good as
 my standalone DVD player.Xvmc doesn't work at all

I'll bet XvMC is working better than you think.  ;)

xxmc is eXtended XvMC and is the name of xine's XvMC video output
plugin that supports NVIDIA (standard) XvMC, VLD XvMC, and falls
back to
Xv if XvMC is unavailable.  xine doesn't have an xvmc plugin (using
any combination of capitalization), so it doesn't recognize it as a
valid video output plugin.


http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/xine/xine-lib/doc/README_xxmc.html?rev=1.3

Mike
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[mythtv-users] Problems with auto deleting recordings

2005-12-20 Thread Peter Darley


Folks,
	I have my machine set up to delete recordings when there is less  
than 30G free on the drive, but it is not actually deleting things.   
This is the first time the drive has been filled up, and as far as I  
can tell it's never deleted stuff based on free space.  It deletes  
correctly through mythweb and through the frontend when I  
specifically delete.  I'm using 18.1 stable.

Anyone have any suggestions on what I should check settings wise?
Thanks,
Peter Darley
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Re: [mythtv-users] Xine issues

2005-12-15 Thread Peter Osterberg


Interresting! What brand and model are your dvdplayer? Just curious.

Sincerely

Peter Österberg


Alex Brekken wrote:
For anyone looking for another option, I've had pretty good luck using 
xxmc.  So far it seems to give the best picture - virutally as good as 
my standalone DVD player.Xvmc doesn't work at all, and xshm looks 
terrible on my setup.  Haven't tried opengl yet though...



On 12/13/05, *Brad DerManouelian* [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


I am using PVR-350's tv out. I can play using the Xv driver, but it's
jumpy with some DVDs, so I switched to xshm and never thought much
more about it.

On Dec 13, 2005, at 9:01 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:

 Mark J. Small wrote:

 On December 13, 2005 08:31 am, Brad DerManouelian wrote:

 These work for me. -V xshm got rid of my shaky playback.
--no-splash
 and --no-logo do what they look like they do.

 DVD:
 xine -pfhq -V xshm --no-splash --no-logo dvd://%s

 Video:
 xine -pfhq -V xshm --no-splash --no-logo %s

 Hmmm the xine docs claim that xshm is a lot slower than xv.  Does
 real world experience say otherwize?
 Personally I compiled my xine to use xvmc for more gforce mx
 4000.  I don't use xvmc for mythtv yet, but it works great with
 xine.  My P3 733 plays DVD's beautifully that way.


 I would bet that Brad is using a PVR-350 for output and hasn't yet
 upgraded to/installed John Harvey's X driver with Xv support.
 Other than using a device driver without Xv support, I can't
 imagine any reason for using xshm.

 Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] Sound card issue

2005-12-15 Thread Peter Osterberg


Michael T. Dean wrote:

Peter Osterberg wrote:


Michael T. Dean wrote:


Peter Osterberg wrote:

I've a on-board audiocard with both coax and optical out. I've 
never got it to work very well.


The card plays perfectly well using analog out, except from the 
audio quality...


The audio works fine for about 5-10 minutes when using digital out. 
After 5-10 minutes the sound disapears for some seconds and comes 
back again. This behavior continues until the computer is rebooted. 
I started to think that this was driver related. I have a spare 
Windows disk for this computer as well and I decided to try if it 
worked better in Windows. I have the same problem in Windows so 
that eliminates the driver theory.
Could this really be hardware related? It doesn't matter if I use 
coax or optical in either operating system.
I think that it is a bit odd to think that it should be hardware 
related since it always works for about 5-10 minutes an then won't 
work again until rebooted. The reboot part somewhat directs me to 
hardware but why 5-10 minutes. It would last for seconds if it were 
some kind of buffer problem.


My guess would be bad cable (does this happen with optical out only 
or are you saying you have both coaxial digital audio and optical 
out?) or your receiver just doesn't like the signal that the card is 
outputting.


I have both optical and coax connected to different input sources on 
the amp. I tend to not think that it is the amp since it works for 
5-10 minutes after a reboot of the computer. I also don't think the 
cables are to be blamed since I have tried both optical and coax with 
the same result, it works for some minutes...


I'll agree that it's not the cable if you've used both optical and 
coax digital connections, but I still would place my bets on the 
card/receiver interaction.  Do you have access to another card and/or 
receiver for testing?


The only solution in that case would be another soundcard. I really hope 
the Catalina card shows up soon.


You're theory sounds very possible, thank you!

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[mythtv-users] Sound card issue

I've a on-board audiocard with both coax and optical out. I've never got 
it to work very well.


The card plays perfectly well using analog out, except from the audio 
quality...


The audio works fine for about 5-10 minutes when using digital out. 
After 5-10 minutes the sound disapears for some seconds and comes back 
again. This behavior continues until the computer is rebooted. I started 
to think that this was driver related. I have a spare Windows disk for 
this computer as well and I decided to try if it worked better in 
Windows. I have the same problem in Windows so that eliminates the 
driver theory.
Could this really be hardware related? It doesn't matter if I use coax 
or optical in either operating system.
I think that it is a bit odd to think that it should be hardware related 
since it always works for about 5-10 minutes an then won't work again 
until rebooted. The reboot part somewhat directs me to hardware but why 
5-10 minutes. It would last for seconds if it were some kind of buffer 
problem.


Anyone?

PS. Please tell me if anyone knows were I can buy a Turlte Beach 
Catalina card in Sweden. Rplace replace replace =o)

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Re: [mythtv-users] Xine issues


Splendid! Thank you!

Brad DerManouelian wrote:
These work for me. -V xshm got rid of my shaky playback. --no-splash 
and --no-logo do what they look like they do.


DVD:
xine -pfhq -V xshm --no-splash --no-logo dvd://%s

Video:
xine -pfhq -V xshm --no-splash --no-logo %s


On Dec 13, 2005, at 2:59 AM, Peter Osterberg wrote:

I use XINE for playing DVD's since it has the ability to handle 
DVD-menus. It works fine but I can't get it to integrate with Myth as 
I can with Mplayer.
Mplayer starts almost instantly and doesn't show the KDE desktop 
before it starts. Anyway thats a minor problem but if anyone know 
please tell me how to stop XINE from bringing the desktop to the front.


The second problem is a bit more irritating. It seems that Xine 
doesn't decode the video fast enough. I get strange behaviors on 
fast moving scenes. On slow scenes detail is very good but it gets 
jerky in the fast ones.
I had this problem with ordinary TV in Myth before but someone 
pointed me to a setting that eliminated this problem. Are there any 
equal settings in Xine that will do the same?


Sincerely,
Peter Österberg
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Re: [mythtv-users] Xine issues


Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

On Tuesday 13 December 2005 11:28, Mark J. Small wrote:
  

On December 13, 2005 08:31 am, Brad DerManouelian wrote:


These work for me. -V xshm got rid of my shaky playback. --no-splash
and --no-logo do what they look like they do.

DVD:
xine -pfhq -V xshm --no-splash --no-logo dvd://%s

Video:
xine -pfhq -V xshm --no-splash --no-logo %s
  
Hmmm the xine docs claim that xshm is a lot slower than xv.  Does real 
world  
experience say otherwize?  



xshm will use software to scale the video for the current screen size, 
so it will tax your CPU a lot more.  Depending on how much processing 
power you have, it may stutter (or it may not, but will take up a lot 
of CPU).


Any of the hardware-accelerated scaling methods would be better (xv, 
xvmc, opengl, sdl ).  If one is shaky, try another.  At work, I have a 
Nvidia Vanta LT that doesn't like to do Xv really well, but using 
OpenGL output works just fine.
I'll try 'em all. I have a Radeon 9600 and a P4 3GHz so I guess that 
performance should be good enough. I only run 800x600 24 bit.



xshm looks like crap in my box, hopefully at least one driver will look 
better! It should work since I managed to get rid of this problem when 
watching ordinary TV.


Thanks for all the input!
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Re: [mythtv-users] Xine issues


Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

On Tuesday 13 December 2005 11:28, Mark J. Small wrote:
  

On December 13, 2005 08:31 am, Brad DerManouelian wrote:


These work for me. -V xshm got rid of my shaky playback. --no-splash
and --no-logo do what they look like they do.

DVD:
xine -pfhq -V xshm --no-splash --no-logo dvd://%s

Video:
xine -pfhq -V xshm --no-splash --no-logo %s
  
Hmmm the xine docs claim that xshm is a lot slower than xv.  Does real 
world  
experience say otherwize?  



xshm will use software to scale the video for the current screen size, 
so it will tax your CPU a lot more.  Depending on how much processing 
power you have, it may stutter (or it may not, but will take up a lot 
of CPU).


Any of the hardware-accelerated scaling methods would be better (xv, 
xvmc, opengl, sdl ).  If one is shaky, try another.  At work, I have a 
Nvidia Vanta LT that doesn't like to do Xv really well, but using 
OpenGL output works just fine.
  


I've tried 'em all now...

xv and opengl looks best but none of them are perfect. OpenGL look best 
of the two.


OpenGL uses about 8% CPU while xv only consumes 5-6% CPU.

I think I'll stick to OpenGL and check if there are any other options 
that I can play with to make it even better...


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Re: [mythtv-users] Xine issues


Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

On Tuesday 13 December 2005 11:28, Mark J. Small wrote:
  

On December 13, 2005 08:31 am, Brad DerManouelian wrote:


These work for me. -V xshm got rid of my shaky playback. --no-splash
and --no-logo do what they look like they do.

DVD:
xine -pfhq -V xshm --no-splash --no-logo dvd://%s

Video:
xine -pfhq -V xshm --no-splash --no-logo %s
  
Hmmm the xine docs claim that xshm is a lot slower than xv.  Does real 
world  
experience say otherwize?  



xshm will use software to scale the video for the current screen size, 
so it will tax your CPU a lot more.  Depending on how much processing 
power you have, it may stutter (or it may not, but will take up a lot 
of CPU).


Any of the hardware-accelerated scaling methods would be better (xv, 
xvmc, opengl, sdl ).  If one is shaky, try another.  At work, I have a 
Nvidia Vanta LT that doesn't like to do Xv really well, but using 
OpenGL output works just fine.


-JAC
  

Forgot to mention this...

The cursor that shows which menu item that is currently selected is 
not visible when using opengl. Isn't that really odd?


I am of course talking about the dvd's menu
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Re: [mythtv-users] Xine issues


Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

On Tuesday 13 December 2005 14:52, Peter Osterberg wrote:
  
  
  

Forgot to mention this...

The cursor that shows which menu item that is currently selected is 
not visible when using opengl. Isn't that really odd?


I am of course talking about the dvd's menu



I would think that the DVD menus use their own highlighting scheme, 
authored into the DVD itself.  Xine shouldn't need to put its own 
'cursor'... unless I'm misunderstanding you.


  
You did not missunderstand me. I use 101 Dalmatian as my test movie. A 
cute little paw is used to show what menu item is selected. The paw 
shows in xshm and xv but not in opengl. I think it is really strange...


By the way I found a check box for deinterlaceing that did the trick. Xv 
and deinterlace did it for me...


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Re: [mythtv-users] Sound card issue


Steve Adeff wrote:

On Tuesday 13 December 2005 03:09, Peter Osterberg wrote:
  

I've a on-board audiocard with both coax and optical out. I've never got
it to work very well.

The card plays perfectly well using analog out, except from the audio
quality...

The audio works fine for about 5-10 minutes when using digital out.
After 5-10 minutes the sound disapears for some seconds and comes back
again. This behavior continues until the computer is rebooted. I started
to think that this was driver related. I have a spare Windows disk for
this computer as well and I decided to try if it worked better in
Windows. I have the same problem in Windows so that eliminates the
driver theory.
Could this really be hardware related? It doesn't matter if I use coax
or optical in either operating system.
I think that it is a bit odd to think that it should be hardware related
since it always works for about 5-10 minutes an then won't work again
until rebooted. The reboot part somewhat directs me to hardware but why
5-10 minutes. It would last for seconds if it were some kind of buffer
problem.

Anyone?

PS. Please tell me if anyone knows were I can buy a Turlte Beach
Catalina card in Sweden. Rplace replace replace =o)



what chipset is used for your onboard audio?
  

lspci says; Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus controller (Rev 02)

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RE: [mythtv-users] Sell Me On a Remote / IR Receiver

2005-12-13 Thread Peter Darley

Hi,
I've had really good luck with an IR keyboard and a learning remote.  
The
IR keyboard is nice to stick in a drawer for when you want to do searches
etc. with it.  Plus, since it acts as a ps/2 keyboard (usb ones are
available), there's no fussing with lirc, which I found a bit painful.
I ended up with the cheapest keyboard from Fentek, and I'm using a 
Pronto
remote that I've had for quite a while.
Thanks,
Peter Darley

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tony McDowell
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 4:14 PM
To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] Sell Me On a Remote / IR Receiver


Well, I've just about got my Myth box up and running.  I'm going for a
little bit of overkill since this box will be a media *server* as well
as the Myth controller.  It's running on a Tyan Thunder S2567 with dual
1.0GHz Tualatins.  My TV receiver is the Hauppauge PVR-350.  So far,
it's all running satisfactorily.  However, as I bought the PVR-350 on
eBay, the seller neglected to include the remote or the IR receiver.

So, I'm in the market for one. This box is a christmas gift for my wife
(her request since she'd heard so much about MythTV), so I need the IR
and remote to be (a) easy to set up for me and (b) easy to use for her.

I'm open to just about anything since it's for the Mrs.

thanks all!

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Re: [mythtv-users] Sound card issue


Michael T. Dean wrote:

Peter Osterberg wrote:

I've a on-board audiocard with both coax and optical out. I've never 
got it to work very well.


The card plays perfectly well using analog out, except from the audio 
quality...


The audio works fine for about 5-10 minutes when using digital out. 
After 5-10 minutes the sound disapears for some seconds and comes 
back again. This behavior continues until the computer is rebooted. I 
started to think that this was driver related. I have a spare Windows 
disk for this computer as well and I decided to try if it worked 
better in Windows. I have the same problem in Windows so that 
eliminates the driver theory.
Could this really be hardware related? It doesn't matter if I use 
coax or optical in either operating system.
I think that it is a bit odd to think that it should be hardware 
related since it always works for about 5-10 minutes an then won't 
work again until rebooted. The reboot part somewhat directs me to 
hardware but why 5-10 minutes. It would last for seconds if it were 
some kind of buffer problem.



My guess would be bad cable (does this happen with optical out only or 
are you saying you have both coaxial digital audio and optical out?) 
or your receiver just doesn't like the signal that the card is 
outputting.
I have both optical and coax connected to different input sources on the 
amp. I tend to not think that it is the amp since it works for 5-10 
minutes after a reboot of the computer. I also don't think the cables 
are to be blamed since I have tried both optical and coax with the same 
result, it works for some minutes...



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Re: [mythtv-users] mythbackend startup script for Debian

2005-12-12 Thread Peter Schachte

On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 09:33:19AM +0100, Marius Schrecker wrote:
  I'm having a hard time setting up a startup script on Debian unstable
 using svn from a few days ago.
 
 The sample scripts in the contrib directory of the source don't use Debian
 controls, and as mythbackend has a builtin daemon mode I'm not sure I
 should use a script based on skeleton.

Here's the script I'm using.  Works for me on Debian sid, svn 80xx.
You'll want to (as root) move it to /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend and
then (also as root) do:

update-rc.d mythtv-backend start 80 2 3 4 5 . stop 80 0 1 6 .   
mkdir -p /var/log/mythtv
chown mythtv:mythtv /var/log/mythtv
chmod 700 /var/log/mythtv

You may have to edit the script to change the value for DAEMON,
depending on where you've installed the binary.

I'm also attaching mythtv-backend.default, which you should move to
/etc/default/mythtv-backend .  You can edit it to control the way the
backend is launched.

HTH.

-- 
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#! /bin/sh
#
# mythtv-server MythTV capture and encoding backend
#
# Based on:
#
# skeleton  example file to build /etc/init.d/ scripts.
#   This file should be used to construct scripts for /etc/init.d.
#
#   Written by Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED].
#   Modified for Debian GNU/Linux
#   by Ian Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED].
#
# Version:  @(#)skeleton  1.9.1  08-Apr-2002  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/mythbackend
NAME=mythbackend
DESC=MythTV server

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

set -e

USER=mythtv
RUNDIR=/var/run/mythtv
ARGS=--daemon --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log --pidfile 
$RUNDIR/$NAME.pid
EXTRA_ARGS=
NICE=0

# Added by PDS because backend wasn't starting correctly on boot
HOME=/root
export HOME

if [ -f /etc/default/mythtv-backend ]; then
  . /etc/default/mythtv-backend
fi

ARGS=$ARGS $EXTRA_ARGS

mkdir -p $RUNDIR
chown -R $USER $RUNDIR



case $1 in
  start)
echo -n Starting $DESC: $NAME
start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile $RUNDIR/$NAME.pid \
--chuid $USER --nicelevel $NICE --exec $DAEMON -- $ARGS
echo .
;;
  stop)
echo -n Stopping $DESC: $NAME 
start-stop-daemon --stop --oknodo --pidfile $RUNDIR/$NAME.pid \
--chuid $USER --exec $DAEMON -- $ARGS
echo .
;;
  restart|force-reload)
echo -n Restarting $DESC: $NAME
start-stop-daemon --stop --oknodo --pidfile $RUNDIR/$NAME.pid \
--chuid $USER --exec $DAEMON -- $ARGS
echo .
sleep 3
start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile $RUNDIR/$NAME.pid \
--chuid $USER --nicelevel $NICE --exec $DAEMON -- $ARGS
echo .
;;
  *)
N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
# echo Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload} 2
echo Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload} 2
exit 1
;;
esac

exit 0
# User as which to run
#USER=mythtv

# Replace all arguments to mythtv-backend
#ARGS=

# Append additional arguments
#EXTRA_ARGS=--verbose

# Set priority
#NICE=-10
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Re: [mythtv-users] Touchscreen

2005-12-12 Thread Peter Osterberg


Tom Lichti wrote:

Isaac Richards wrote:

On Monday 12 December 2005 09:56, Tom Lichti wrote:
 

Peter Osterberg wrote:
   

True but that is a one way solution. I want to see music lists etc, I
want two way communication in the SAME device.

I can come up with lots of solutions. This one would be really cool
and that is why I want it.
All other HTPC projects I've seen support this. I think it is sad that
Myth lacks mouse support since Myth i superiour when it comes to
everything else.
  

Check the commits list, someone just added a patch to support mouse
gestures. Might do what you want.



Note, the patch that's in trac does _not_ work with the current UI code.

Isaac
  
Well, I did say *might* work... :) It's not of interest to me, so I 
never looked any deeper.



Looking forward to see this fully working in a near future :-)

Thanks for the tip!
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Re: [mythtv-users] Touchscreen

2005-12-12 Thread Peter Osterberg

I would love to see the notes!

Thank you!

PS. Cool box!

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Peter,

Going through my email and noticed your note. I have setup mythtv
using a touchscreen (a modified PSOne LCD with a touchscreen on the
front). Pretty easy to do and it all seems to function with mythtv.
I can give you pointers to the docs if you want. Here is a pic of it:

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It was featured in the November issue of CPU magazine
(www.computerpoweruser.com http://www.computerpoweruser.com/) -
don't know if you get this in your country. The touchscreen functions
like a mouse so I am not aware of changes required to mythtv to
support this.

Thanks,

Greg

- Original Message -
*From:* Peter Osterberg mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*To:* R. Geoffrey Newbury mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ;
Discussion about mythtv mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org
*Sent:* Thursday, December 08, 2005 11:50 PM
*Subject:* Re: [mythtv-users] Touchscreen

R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote:
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:52:30 +0100, Peter Osterberg wrote:

Jeff Simpson wrote:

I have serious thoought of buying one of those expensive

boxes with a
built in touchscreen. This is mainly because I find it
annoying to
have
to light up my projector when I only want to start a music
track. I
think it would be really cool if all the standard Myth display
could be
presented on the touchscreen and the menu could be
navigated with just
my fingertips.

If you are thinking of having multiple screens anyway, why not
just go
the console
with keyboard and mouse route? Use the projector for actually
displaying video + etc,
and use the monitor for the menu systems. It would probably cost
significantly less than
a touchscreen system, and you can still operate it with a
remote or
arrow keys very easily.

To navigate using the keyboard is of course my second option

but it
isn't quite as cool as navigating with a touch screen.

I didn't know that it was possible to tweak the Myth GUI to
oprerate on
two separate screen as you describe. Are there any HOWTO
available that
describes how to set that up?

I can see how I can manage to get xine or mplayer to display on
any
device using command line options but how do I do this with the
player
that Myth uses for displaying TV or recorded shows?

Another route would be to use a programmable remote, such as the
Phillips
Pronto, Marantz RC9500 or Sony RM-VL710 series. All of these are
programmable with macros. The Phillips and some of the Sony
RM-AV series
have touchscreens. And one of those would be much cheaper than a
full
computer box with touchscreen.

Lots of cell-phones are java enable these days too, and have
bluetooth.
You could program your cell phone as a remote...

I have a Sony-Ericsson T610 and there are at least 2 remote
programs for
it...
True but that is a one way solution. I want to see music lists etc, I
want two way communication in the SAME device.

I can come up with lots of solutions. This one would be really
cool and
that is why I want it.
All other HTPC projects I've seen support this. I think it is sad
that
Myth lacks mouse support since Myth i superiour when it comes to
everything else.
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[mythtv-users] Xine issues

2005-12-12 Thread Peter Osterberg

I use XINE for playing DVD's since it has the ability to handle 
DVD-menus. It works fine but I can't get it to integrate with Myth as I 
can with Mplayer.
Mplayer starts almost instantly and doesn't show the KDE desktop before 
it starts. Anyway thats a minor problem but if anyone know please tell 
me how to stop XINE from bringing the desktop to the front.


The second problem is a bit more irritating. It seems that Xine doesn't 
decode the video fast enough. I get strange behaviors on fast moving 
scenes. On slow scenes detail is very good but it gets jerky in the 
fast ones.
I had this problem with ordinary TV in Myth before but someone pointed 
me to a setting that eliminated this problem. Are there any equal 
settings in Xine that will do the same?


Sincerely,
Peter Österberg
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Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Start of Cut Points not Honored In Recordings.

2005-12-08 Thread Peter Schachte

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 06:59:22PM -0700, Greg Grotsky wrote:
 Does anyone see this issue?  I just updated to 8166 last night and I used
 nuvexport (with cutlist option yes'ed) to export some episodes and all the cut
 starts were early.  Anyone?
 
 -Greg
 
 On 12/2/05, Greg Grotsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 I've been watching some programming info that I've recorded recently and
 I've noticed that commercial breaks START early, on movies about 40-60
 seconds early.  The weird thing is that the end of break is right where
 it's supposed to be.  I've found that shorter shows like 30 minute sitcoms
 have less of a delta from the skip point to the actual commercial break
 point (maybe 5-15 seconds).  I don't claim to know how it works but it
 seems like there's a mismatch between the recording timestamps and myth's
 time keeper.  The longer the time between a break the more time the
 commerical start point if off by, when jumping to a known spot in the
 stream it's spot-on.
 
 Just FYI: I'm using a DVB-T card with SVN myth (8101), though I'm not sure
 it matters.  Also, this happens on manual cutpoints as well as the ones
 found by the commercial flagger.  Also, this also affects my transcoded
 videos, huge bummer because I can't get a good transcode to work without
 lopping of something I wanted.

I haven't gotten nuvexport working yet, but I have noticed that when I
play back some recordings after editing commercials, the playback cuts
too early for the commercials.  Surprisingly, the commercial endpoints
seem to be correct.  I'm using svn 8042, and using a DVB-T card.  I
also seem to get strange commercial cutpoints, though I have no idea
whether that's the same problem or if the commercial flagger just has
a hard time handling Australian commercial breaks.

I wish I could help, but I have no idea what the problem is.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Touchscreen

2005-12-08 Thread Peter Osterberg


R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote:

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:52:30 +0100, Peter Osterberg wrote:

  

Jeff Simpson wrote:


I have serious thoought of buying one of those expensive boxes with a
built in touchscreen. This is mainly because I find it annoying to
have
to light up my projector when I only want to start a music track. I
think it would be really cool if all the standard Myth display
could be
presented on the touchscreen and the menu could be navigated with just
my fingertips.


If you are thinking of having multiple screens anyway, why not just go 
the console
with keyboard and mouse route? Use the projector for actually 
displaying video + etc,
and use the monitor for the menu systems. It would probably cost 
significantly less than
a touchscreen system, and you can still operate it with a remote or 
arrow keys very easily.
 
  
To navigate using the keyboard is of course my second option but it 
isn't quite as cool as navigating with a touch screen.


I didn't know that it was possible to tweak the Myth GUI to oprerate on 
two separate screen as you describe. Are there any HOWTO available that 
describes how to set that up?


I can see how I can manage to get xine or mplayer to display on any 
device using command line options but how do I do this with the player 
that Myth uses for displaying TV or recorded shows?



Another route would be to use a programmable remote, such as the Phillips
Pronto, Marantz RC9500 or Sony RM-VL710 series. All of these are
programmable with macros. The Phillips and some of the Sony RM-AV series
have touchscreens. And one of those would be much cheaper than a full
computer box with touchscreen.

Lots of cell-phones are java enable these days too, and have bluetooth.
You could program your cell phone as a remote...

I have a Sony-Ericsson T610 and there are at least 2 remote programs for
it...
True but that is a one way solution. I want to see music lists etc, I 
want two way communication in the SAME device.


I can come up with lots of solutions. This one would be really cool and 
that is why I want it.
All other HTPC projects I've seen support this. I think it is sad that 
Myth lacks mouse support since Myth i superiour when it comes to 
everything else.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Touchscreen

2005-12-08 Thread Peter Osterberg

I've looked at Pluto some months ago. It seemed very simple to setup up 
but I never managed to. I used my Myth server box for those experiments 
but the rest of the family complaind when they wanted to look at TV so I 
couldn't finnish experimenting.


Pluto look really neet!

Dean Collins wrote:
you might be interested in PlutoHome, not sure how much functionality 
you can drive from your mobiel handset though.
 
Cheers,

Dean


*From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of R. Geoffrey Newbury
*Sent:* Fri 12/2/2005 5:27 PM
*To:* Discussion about mythtv
*Subject:* Re: [mythtv-users] Touchscreen

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:52:30 +0100, Peter Osterberg wrote:

Jeff Simpson wrote:

 I have serious thoought of buying one of those expensive boxes 
with a

 built in touchscreen. This is mainly because I find it annoying to
 have
 to light up my projector when I only want to start a music track. I
 think it would be really cool if all the standard Myth display
 could be
 presented on the touchscreen and the menu could be navigated 
with just

 my fingertips.


 If you are thinking of having multiple screens anyway, why not just go
 the console
 with keyboard and mouse route? Use the projector for actually
 displaying video + etc,
 and use the monitor for the menu systems. It would probably cost
 significantly less than
 a touchscreen system, and you can still operate it with a remote or
 arrow keys very easily.
 
To navigate using the keyboard is of course my second option but it

isn't quite as cool as navigating with a touch screen.

I didn't know that it was possible to tweak the Myth GUI to oprerate on
two separate screen as you describe. Are there any HOWTO available that
describes how to set that up?

I can see how I can manage to get xine or mplayer to display on any
device using command line options but how do I do this with the player
that Myth uses for displaying TV or recorded shows?

Another route would be to use a programmable remote, such as the Phillips
Pronto, Marantz RC9500 or Sony RM-VL710 series. All of these are
programmable with macros. The Phillips and some of the Sony RM-AV series
have touchscreens. And one of those would be much cheaper than a full
computer box with touchscreen.

Lots of cell-phones are java enable these days too, and have bluetooth.
You could program your cell phone as a remote...

I have a Sony-Ericsson T610 and there are at least 2 remote programs for
it...



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Re: [mythtv-users] Touchscreen

2005-12-08 Thread Peter Osterberg


Raphael Pooser wrote:

Dean Collins wrote:

you might be interested in PlutoHome, not sure how much functionality 
you can drive from your mobiel handset though.
 
Cheers,

Dean


*From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of R. Geoffrey Newbury
*Sent:* Fri 12/2/2005 5:27 PM
*To:* Discussion about mythtv
*Subject:* Re: [mythtv-users] Touchscreen

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:52:30 +0100, Peter Osterberg wrote:

Jeff Simpson wrote:

 I have serious thoought of buying one of those expensive boxes 
with a
 built in touchscreen. This is mainly because I find it 
annoying to

 have
 to light up my projector when I only want to start a music 
track. I

 think it would be really cool if all the standard Myth display
 could be
 presented on the touchscreen and the menu could be navigated 
with just

 my fingertips.


 If you are thinking of having multiple screens anyway, why not 
just go

 the console
 with keyboard and mouse route? Use the projector for actually
 displaying video + etc,
 and use the monitor for the menu systems. It would probably cost
 significantly less than
 a touchscreen system, and you can still operate it with a remote or
 arrow keys very easily.
 To navigate using the keyboard is of course my second option but it
isn't quite as cool as navigating with a touch screen.

I didn't know that it was possible to tweak the Myth GUI to oprerate on
two separate screen as you describe. Are there any HOWTO available that
describes how to set that up?

I can see how I can manage to get xine or mplayer to display on any
device using command line options but how do I do this with the 
player

that Myth uses for displaying TV or recorded shows?

Another route would be to use a programmable remote, such as the 
Phillips

Pronto, Marantz RC9500 or Sony RM-VL710 series. All of these are
programmable with macros. The Phillips and some of the Sony RM-AV series
have touchscreens. And one of those would be much cheaper than a full
computer box with touchscreen.

Lots of cell-phones are java enable these days too, and have bluetooth.
You could program your cell phone as a remote...

I have a Sony-Ericsson T610 and there are at least 2 remote programs for
it...

Geoff
R. Geoffrey Newbury  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 
905-271-9600Mississauga,Ontario, Canada  
Facsimile:   905-271-1638


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It seems pluto needs not any phone but a symbian OS phone, which are 
not that numerous right now and generally the most expensive (not 
counting M$ smart phones).  I was considering toying with pluto but a 
symbian phone is a dealbreaker.

_

I thought that I could use my iPAQ!?
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[mythtv-users] A question about version

2005-12-03 Thread Peter Meyland









Hi there



Can anyone explain why I have mythTV version 0.18.1.20050523-1
after I do a yum update? I expected to see version 0.18.1-116. It seems like my
system will not upgrade to the newest version of MythTV, 



TIA



Peter Meyland






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Re: [mythtv-users] Silent Fan for Socket A (AthlonXP 3000)

2005-12-02 Thread Peter Loron



On Dec 1, 2005, at 10:46 PM, Bob wrote:


Jeff Simpson wrote:
I am upgrading the processor in my myth/desktop box from an  
AthlonXP 1600 to a 3000 (because it's the fastest processor my  
board can support and I was going to buy another 1600 for somebody  
else but opted to trade mine up and give them my old one instead).
I need to get a new fan because the one I have doesn't cool enough  
for a 3000. I have always gotten the Thermaltake brand and really  
like them, but I want to get something quiet. I looked for the  
Thermaltake SilentBoost A1889, and while it seems like a great +  
quiet fan, there are NO vendors that have any stock in these,  
except the ones selling it for $50 (instead of $20).
I have an order placed for one, but I expect it, like the others,  
will be cancelled when they realize they have no stock.
So my question: Anybody have other suggestions for good silent  
SocketA fans that will be happy cooling an AthlonXP 3000? I'd like  
to keep cost under $30 and preferably have the noise rating close  
to or under 20dBA. Thanks


I've got two of these
http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/4in1heatpipe/cl-p0071SonicTower/ 
cl-p0071.htm
on two Athlon XP 3200s and they're awesome, my frontend goes up to  
54C under heavy load with one 40Gb 7200RPM Hard-Drive and one slow  
spinning 120mm fan, my backend is exactly the same but plus a 200Gb  
7200RPM /myth drive and I've seen 57C as measured by the sensor on  
the MB under the chip, (I gather there is a 7~18C difference  
between that and the on-die thermistor) I'm considering taking the  
thing out of the case and mounting it on the wall at which point  
you wouldn't need a fan at all.




If the SonicTower won't work (needs the P4 style through-mobo  
mounting holes and is huge), I've had really good luck with the  
ArcticCooling Copper Silent 2TC. The Zalman 7000/7700 are highly  
regarded. Also check here for more info:


http://silentpcreview.com

-Pete
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[mythtv-users] Touchscreen


Hi,

is it possible to get Myth to detect events properly from a touchscreen?

I have serious thoought of buying one of those expensive boxes with a 
built in touchscreen. This is mainly because I find it annoying to have 
to light up my projector when I only want to start a music track. I 
think it would be really cool if all the standard Myth display could be 
presented on the touchscreen and the menu could be navigated with just 
my fingertips.


I know that there isn't any, or att least not many, mouse events that 
Myth triggers but could it be done and is that necessary to get a 
touchscreen to work?


Sincerely,
Peter Österberg
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Re: [mythtv-users] Touchscreen


Jeff Simpson wrote:


I have serious thoought of buying one of those expensive boxes with a
built in touchscreen. This is mainly because I find it annoying to
have
to light up my projector when I only want to start a music track. I
think it would be really cool if all the standard Myth display
could be
presented on the touchscreen and the menu could be navigated with just
my fingertips.


If you are thinking of having multiple screens anyway, why not just go 
the console
with keyboard and mouse route? Use the projector for actually 
displaying video + etc,
and use the monitor for the menu systems. It would probably cost 
significantly less than
a touchscreen system, and you can still operate it with a remote or 
arrow keys very easily.
 
To navigate using the keyboard is of course my second option but it 
isn't quite as cool as navigating with a touch screen.


I didn't know that it was possible to tweak the Myth GUI to oprerate on 
two separate screen as you describe. Are there any HOWTO available that 
describes how to set that up?


I can see how I can manage to get xine or mplayer to display on any 
device using command line options but how do I do this with the player 
that Myth uses for displaying TV or recorded shows?


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Re: [mythtv-users] Touchscreen


Jeff Simpson wrote:


To navigate using the keyboard is of course my second option but it
isn't quite as cool as navigating with a touch screen.

I didn't know that it was possible to tweak the Myth GUI to
oprerate on
two separate screen as you describe. Are there any HOWTO available
that
describes how to set that up?

I can see how I can manage to get xine or mplayer to display on any
device using command line options but how do I do this with the
player
that Myth uses for displaying TV or recorded shows?


I think the easiest way would be to have it just clone the two 
screens. I don't believe
that there are any menu items that are useful while a video is playing 
(and myth isn't
designed for multi-tasking like that anyway, I don't believe). I know 
with my own system,
I could do something like that because the PVR-350 output can be 
selected for the player
and the frontend could be running on a normal X video card by default. 
The menu screen
would go black when the video starts on the TV and would come back 
when the video stops.


I vaguely remember there being an option that lets you not use the 
internal video player and
instead supplant it with an external command. Not sure if it was 
really there or if I just imagined

it (or if it's been deprecated).

Would it work to just clone the displays if they are running at diffrent 
resolutions? I guess that a small TFT only might have 640x480 and my 
projector now runs at 800x600 but the new one will run at 1600x1200.


I really think that it would be nice to have this feature implemented.

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Re: [mythtv-users] Touchscreen

I want to get rid of any keyboard directly connected to the device. I 
want a nice box that fits next to my amp, buttons and displays in the 
box is ok but not attached to the device. It should be ables to navigate 
almost everything from the device with the internal display and buttons. 
The wireless keyboard with built in mouse and the remot should only have 
to be used when I'm sitting relaxed in the sofa. Just like an ordinary 
DVD-player or any other device.


Isn't this the purpose of having a computer in a theatre room it is not 
supposed to look like a server room


Dewey Smolka wrote:

 If you are thinking of having multiple screens anyway, why not just go the
console
 with keyboard and mouse route?



The whole point of the touchscreen is to do away with the mouse and
keyboard. I've wanted to do this for a while but haven't got around to
it yet, plus touch screens are a bit steep.

A workable compromise to the touch screen is a USB numeric pad
controller -- you get all the navigation through the Myth menus
without the clumsy bulk of the keyboard.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Stuttering audio on live TV with SVN

2005-11-29 Thread Peter Lee

Hi, Mike.

What version of the ivtv driver are you using? I think svn now
really needs a fairly up-to-date driver. If, for example, you are
still running something like ivtv 0.1.9, then things like live tv
probably won't work well.

At least that's my experience.

Peter
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Re: [mythtv-users] Stuttering audio on live TV with SVN

2005-11-29 Thread Peter Lee

Hmm.. strange. I'm also running 0.4.0 (or maybe it is 0.4.1, I need to check).

Do recordings work OK? Is the cpu load high during live tv?
What svn version are you running? Maybe this is something
recent? I am running 8038.

Peter
On 11/29/05, Mike Frisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 03:11:30PM -0500, Peter Lee wrote:What version of the ivtv driver are you using?I think svn now reallyneeds a fairly up-to-date driver.If, for example, you are still running
something like ivtv 0.1.9, then things like live tv probably won't workwell.At least that's my experience.Thanks for the reply, Peter.I am running 0.4.0 on a 
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Re: [mythtv-users] Stuttering audio on live TV with SVN

2005-11-29 Thread Peter Lee

I just checked --- I'm also running ivtv 0.4.0. I've been
tracking svn for some time now. At some point I also had
stuttering on live tv and very high cpu load, but upgrading my ivtv to
0.4.0 fixed the problem. Unfortunately, you're already running
that version, so that isn't the problem...

Still, maybe this is worth mentioning: When I had the same problem,
before I upgraded to ivtv 0.4.0, I noticed that syslogd and klogd were
consuming all the cpu. This made recordings somewhat unreliable
and live tv hard to watch. I could kill the klogd process and
things would run better, but things were still unreliable overall.

Anyway, it sounds like your problem is a different one. I am not
on the very latest svn right now (I up to 8038), so maybe this is
something very recent?...

Peter
On 11/29/05, Mike Frisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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0.18.1installation).Do recordings work OK?Is the cpu load high during live tv?What svnversion are you running?Maybe this is something recent?I am running8038.I haven't tried recording, but I will do so tonight.
My CPU load is fairly high.Do you think that the SVN version willcause additional CPU load due to the debug binaries (assuming the SVNbuild environment builds debug by default)Stupidly, I never thought of
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Re: [mythtv-users] Touchscreen


That sounds quite interresting!

Greg Estabrooks wrote:
box is ok but not attached to the device. It should be ables to navigate 
almost everything from the device with the internal display and buttons. 



 I've got a touchscreen that I'm making into a control panel for my HT
room (assuming I ever get around to finishing the box I'm putting the 
touchscreen in). However instead of using the screen to control myth
directly I'm cloning my mythscreen to the tft which is running at a higher 
res than the myth display giving me unused area on the right and bottom

of the screen. I'm building an app to sit around the outside edge which
will house control/nav buttons,  and various status windows.

  



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Re: [mythtv-users] Rundown on Videos

2005-11-28 Thread Peter Darley



On Nov 26, 2005, at 7:15 AM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:


Thom Paine wrote:



If you want the best combination of redundancy and speed, use RAID
0+1. This will, however, only give you 600G of space, rather than  
the

900G RAID 5 gives you.




Raid 0+1 is two drives striped together (600G) and then mirrored on
the other two drives? Maybe I should get a cheap raid 5 card with  
5 or

6 SATA ports on it for better performance?

I'd forget about RAID unless you simply *cannot* lose the data on  
the drives or you are doing *true* hardware RAID since software  
RAID can be a tricky proposition.  I've gone back and forth with  
RAID and ended up not using it.  I back up my DVD rips to dual- 
layer DVDs (most rips are Divx with AC3 tracks for space) which is  
cheap and does the job.  Anything else I can lose since it's just  
TV.  Best part, I get to use all the space I paid for rather than  
losing some to RAID.


Just my 2 cents.



Folks,

	In contrast to both these points, I'd suggest Raid 5 in stead of  
Raid 0+1.  0+1 is very fast, and I use it on my DB server at work to  
good effect, but you really don't need the speed for Myth.  It's not  
really a high data rate application.


	Also, even tho the data may not be totally indespensible, it is  
worth a two or three hundred bucks to me to not have to deal with  
dieing drives.  I've had very good experiences with software raid on  
linux (I had a previous database running software raid 24/7 with  
hundreds of days of uptime), so I'd go with software raid if you have  
enough channels on your mobon and want to save some money.  Hardware  
raid is better if you can afford it.


Thanks,
Peter Darley

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[mythtv-users] New DVB problems....

2005-11-26 Thread Peter Osterberg

I got everything working yesterday but for some reasen my devices got 
lost. I don't knwo what manouver I did to make them dissapear.


I'm running Gentoo, with vanilla kernel 2.6.11.11 and Myth 0.18.1-r2.

.My card is a NOVA-CI-S

The devices might have disapeared after a reboot, not sure but I am 
certain that I don't know how to recreate them.
I've tried MAKEDEV dvb since I found some howto telling me to try that 
but it says don't know how to make device dvb.


Any suggestions?

Sincerely,
Peter Österberg



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Re: [mythtv-users] New DVB problems....

2005-11-26 Thread Peter Osterberg


Michael T. Dean wrote:

Peter Osterberg wrote:

I got everything working yesterday but for some reasen my devices got 
lost. I don't knwo what manouver I did to make them dissapear.


I'm running Gentoo, with vanilla kernel 2.6.11.11 and Myth 0.18.1-r2.

.My card is a NOVA-CI-S

The devices might have disapeared after a reboot, not sure but I am 
certain that I don't know how to recreate them.
I've tried MAKEDEV dvb since I found some howto telling me to try 
that but it says don't know how to make device dvb.


Any suggestions?


With 2.6.11, try upgrading/reinstalling udev and/or hotplug and if 
that doesn't work, Google for udev--you'll probably have to edit your 
scripts because they're not creating the devices for you.  Of course, 
that assumes that you have all the appropriate DVB kernel drivers 
installed for the current kernel (not having them would mean you don't 
get the device nodes even with a working udev/hotplug install)...


Mike
I reinstalled udev, installed hotplug and coldplug (emerge suggested 
that) but it didn't help.
The kernel modules that I have are DVB Core Support and Budget cards 
with onboard CI connector.


I have other modules as well, all that were needed to get my plain old 
WinTV PVR 350 to work. The two above are the newly installed modules for 
the satellite card.


I haven't touched the kernel or any modules since it worked so I guess 
that it shouldn't be a kernel issue.


Sincerely,
Peter Österberg
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Re: [mythtv-users] New DVB problems....

2005-11-26 Thread Peter Osterberg


Peter Osterberg wrote:

Michael T. Dean wrote:

Peter Osterberg wrote:

I got everything working yesterday but for some reasen my devices 
got lost. I don't knwo what manouver I did to make them dissapear.


I'm running Gentoo, with vanilla kernel 2.6.11.11 and Myth 0.18.1-r2.

.My card is a NOVA-CI-S

The devices might have disapeared after a reboot, not sure but I am 
certain that I don't know how to recreate them.
I've tried MAKEDEV dvb since I found some howto telling me to try 
that but it says don't know how to make device dvb.


Any suggestions?


With 2.6.11, try upgrading/reinstalling udev and/or hotplug and if 
that doesn't work, Google for udev--you'll probably have to edit your 
scripts because they're not creating the devices for you.  Of course, 
that assumes that you have all the appropriate DVB kernel drivers 
installed for the current kernel (not having them would mean you 
don't get the device nodes even with a working udev/hotplug install)...


Mike
I reinstalled udev, installed hotplug and coldplug (emerge suggested 
that) but it didn't help.
The kernel modules that I have are DVB Core Support and Budget cards 
with onboard CI connector.


I have other modules as well, all that were needed to get my plain old 
WinTV PVR 350 to work. The two above are the newly installed modules 
for the satellite card.


I haven't touched the kernel or any modules since it worked so I guess 
that it shouldn't be a kernel issue.



Also...

This is what I find when greping in my udev folder...

mythtv udev # grep -R dvb *
rules.d/50-udev.rules:# dvb devices
rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL==dvb*, PROGRAM=/etc/udev/scripts/dvb.sh 
%k, NAME=%c, GROUP=video, MODE=0660
scripts/dvb.sh:echo $1 | sed -e 
's#^dvb\([0-9]\)\.\([^0-9]*\)\([0-9]\)#dvb/adapter\1/\2\3#'


Should there be anything else/more?

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[mythtv-users] Channel scan for DVB-S

2005-11-25 Thread Peter Osterberg


Hi,

just got a new NOVA-CI-S card today and have succesfully installed it in 
my MythTV server.


I managed to get as far as to channel scanning and got stuck there.

I found out in some earlier thread that I need to have starting values 
for frequency and symbolrate to be able to start the scan.
Before I knew that I just got errors. I picked up two values used for 
Astra 28 and found out that it actually initiated the scan and got 
readings for SNR etc. Fine!
But it didn't do the trick all the way. So I guess that I'll need 
specific starting values for the satellites that I'm trying to scan..


I want to scan Sirius 1W, Thor 5E, Hotbird 13E and Astra 19E.

Could someone help me with starting values for those satellites or help 
me with a URL to look them up myself?


Thank you!

Sincerely,
Peter Österberg
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Re: [mythtv-users] Channel scan for DVB-S

2005-11-25 Thread Peter Osterberg


Thank you,

some digging did it for me and you pointed me to the right pile... =o)

Managed to find starting values for each satellite in 
/usr/shar/dvb/dvb-s/ on my gentoo system after merging linuxtv-dvb-apps


Jakob Fix wrote:

Hi,

for Astra 19 I am using the frequency for ZDF or ARD (German telly). 
Do a search for astra channels.conf to get some recent frequencies. 
For example, you may be using 11837000 (ARD) and 2750 in the scan

dialog.

HTH

On 25/11/05, Peter Osterberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  

Hi,

just got a new NOVA-CI-S card today and have succesfully installed it in
my MythTV server.

I managed to get as far as to channel scanning and got stuck there.

I found out in some earlier thread that I need to have starting values
for frequency and symbolrate to be able to start the scan.
Before I knew that I just got errors. I picked up two values used for
Astra 28 and found out that it actually initiated the scan and got
readings for SNR etc. Fine!
But it didn't do the trick all the way. So I guess that I'll need
specific starting values for the satellites that I'm trying to scan..

I want to scan Sirius 1W, Thor 5E, Hotbird 13E and Astra 19E.

Could someone help me with starting values for those satellites or help
me with a URL to look them up myself?

Thank you!



--
cheers,
Jakob.
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[mythtv-users] TivoToGo

2005-11-21 Thread Peter Lee

Hi. Just ran across the following article of possible
interest. Perhaps there are Tivo developers looking at the MythTV
feature set?...

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/personal_technology/13223039.htm

Peter

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Re: [mythtv-users] DVB sometimes quits

2005-11-21 Thread Peter Dash

I've had the same problems, but only with a card that uses this driver
(cx88_dvb module), I think it was a hauppauge WinTV Nova-T but I could
be wrong. I tried different kernel patches, versions, etc., etc. but
never got it to be properly reliable. I finally replaced it with
another card and haven't seen the problem since.
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Re: [mythtv-users] nonlinear 16:9 stretch?

2005-11-21 Thread Peter Lee

On 11/21/05, Robert Denier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 21 November 2005 02:14 pm, Cory Papenfuss wrote: Currently I use the built in stretch mode on my TV to stretch 4:3 to 16:9. It does a nonlinear stretch so the edges of the picture are
stretched more than the middle. Windows MCE has this feature too. Before I burn an evening mucking with a working X config, i'd like to know if MythTV do this also, or does it stretch the entire picture
evenly? I think I remember this thread coming up before.I really doubt that you will find anything from within the X config that will allow you to do that.Modelines are linear.Unless the specific video card driver
has a special mode for it (non that I'm aware of do), you're screwed. That should probably be done at the application (i.e. mythtv) level.I don't think anyone has done it yet.
-CoryWhy would you want this?Is there a screen shot somewhere showing whythis is useful?I'm just curious...

I'm one of the people who started a thread on this about a year and a half ago.

I have this feature on my Panasonic plasma display and *love* it.
Basically, for 4:3 content, the picture is stretched to fill the 16:9
display but the middle 50% or so of the image is not stretched
(much). Since many (most) programs have most of the action in the
middle 50% of the image, this means that the main part of the image
appears largely unadulterated, and yet the full 16:9 panorama effect is
produced.

Note that for sports, like hockey and football and especially auto
racing, I turn this feature off because those programs often do make
use of the entire image.

Now the reason I would like MythTV or Linux/nVidia to support this is
that my plasma monitor only supports this special mode in svideo or
component inputs. The vga input only supports 16:9 linear
stretch. At one time I wanted to use the vga input, and hence my
question about whether mythtv or linux might support this.

When this was discussed last year, I think people were generally saying
that this would be computationally too expensive to implement in
software, and so the matter was dropped. But I still think it is
a great feature, and that there would be value in having it
somehow. On the other hand, I've since gone with a
vga-to-component adapter, so the issue no longer applies in my
case. But if I ever buy a new 16:9 display that doesn't support
this mode, then I would of course be interested in this again.

Peter

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Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot Record VCR

2005-11-15 Thread Peter Darley



On Nov 14, 2005, at 5:47 PM, Nathan Allen Stratton wrote:


Any plans to make it easy to import a bunch of videos this way? I  
guess I

am talking about another manual record option that lets you input show
info like title, actors, descriptions, etc. I know you can do this  
today

with above and then editing mysql, but it would be nice to have a VCR
input you could just start and stop via myth and enter all the show  
info.


-Nathan


Nathan,

	Since your card does the encryption for you, you could just make  
sure that the backend doesn't have any scheduled shows, or shut down  
the backend, then just do the 'cat video0  file.mpg' trick that  
people use when testing their card setup.   So, just start the cat,  
start the play, then ^C when the video stops.


	It's not what you're asking about, but it seems like it would be the  
simplest way to me. :)


Thanks,
Peter Darley
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Re: [mythtv-users] Yet another hardware list

2005-11-13 Thread Peter Schachte

On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 04:29:23PM -0800, Jon Hoyt wrote:
 I know these sort of requests get posted a lot, but I'm looking for
 some feedback on the following list of parts to build a stand-alone
 backend with.

You should check out http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/ to see what others
have used and how they liked it.

 AMD Sempron 64 2600+ Palermo 800MHz FSB Socket 754 Processor Model
 SDA2600BXBOX - Retail $64.00

As I understand it, that part will not support cool n quiet operation.
I believe you have to go up to a 3000+ to get that.  Cool n quiet,
with the kernel's cqu frequency scaling enabled, slows the clock when
the cpu load is low, saving power and heat, and allowing your cpu fan
to slow down.  I've got an Athlon 64 3000+ and have frequency scaling
working very well.  The lowest clock speed supported seems to be 1
GHz, though.  I wish I could slow it even further for the times when
nothing's happening and the machine is just acting as a file server.

-- 
Peter Schachte  A month in the laboratory can often save an hour
[EMAIL PROTECTED]in the library.
www.cs.mu.oz.au/~schachte/  -- F. H. Westheimer 
Phone: +61 3 8344 1338  
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RE: [mythtv-users] Testing DMA with VIA chipset?

2005-11-12 Thread Peter Darley

Well, as always there are folks who know more than I. :)  Sounds like this
was bad advice.

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael T. Dean
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 8:33 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Testing DMA with VIA chipset?
KM400 is new.  KT266 is not--regardless of when it was made.

KT266 is explicitly listed on the ivtvdriver.org site as bad.
http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Troubleshooting

Mike

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Re: [mythtv-users] Testing DMA with VIA chipset?

2005-11-11 Thread Peter Darley



On Nov 11, 2005, at 2:56 AM, David wrote:


Robert Winburne wrote:


Is there any way to test DMA support? It sounds like the prob may be
intermittent??

I have read that there are problems with VIA chipsets, and would like
to know if I can test this out or if I should just give up before I
start and get a new MB.

I just bought a cheapy MB (PCCHIPS KT266A M811LU), built a fileserver
(w/ Ubuntu 5.04), and would like to turn it into a Myth backend.
Hence, my dilemma. Had I only known before I bought…

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

*If* you are using the Hauppage cards (PVR 150/250/350) then just  
say no.


You will save yourself much pain and distress.

All IMHO

David


Folks,

	I recently set up a myth backend on a computer that I had around  
that also had a VIA chipset.  I'm not sure now how to tell exaclty  
what the motherboard is without opening up the box, but when I do an  
lspci, the first line is: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies,  
Inc. VT8378 [KM400/A] Chipset Host Bridge


	Anyway, I have a PVR-500 in this box, and while I had problems  
getting it set up, none of them had to do with the motherboard; they  
were all kernel issues.


	Doing some reading on this list and through google, I get the  
impression that the problems with the VIA chipset have been fixed in  
newer bios' and that if it's a fairly new mobo, you're probably good  
to go, and if there is a problem a bios flash will probably fix it.


	So, long and short, if you have the hardware sitting around already,  
I'd go ahead and try it, and you'll probably be OK.


Also, IMHO. :)

Thanks,
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[mythtv-users] NVidia 6200, 6600 and XVideo

2005-11-10 Thread Peter Zelezny

Hi All,

I'm wondering if anyone has the whole story on the Xvideo 
issue with NVidia's 6200 or 6600[GT] cards?

I've been getting mixed messages, some say it simply will
not work:

 http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/08/msg00205.html

while others say Xv works fine for them. Can someone give
a more confident answer on this?


-Peter.
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Re: [mythtv-users] NVidia 6200, 6600 and XVideo

2005-11-10 Thread Peter Zelezny

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 00:45:47 -0500
Isaac Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Hi All,
 
  I'm wondering if anyone has the whole story on the Xvideo
  issue with NVidia's 6200 or 6600[GT] cards?
 
  I've been getting mixed messages, some say it simply will
  not work:
 
   http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/08/msg00205.html
 
  while others say Xv works fine for them. Can someone give
  a more confident answer on this?

 Works fine, as long as you don't need the overlay for anything.  Hardware 
 scaling, colorspace conversion, and display are all still present.  Just no 
 hardware overlay (which myth doesn't use).  The email you link to is wrong - 
 really, the only things that don't work are xawtv in overlay mode and 
 adjusting the picture controls.

 Isaac

Thanks for the info, that really helps. The missing overlay, does that
mean you can only use fullscreen Xv and not in a small window in the
corner? I guess I don't understand what exactly the overlay is for.

Peter.
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RE: [mythtv-users] MythDVD no ripping

2005-11-06 Thread Peter Darley

Dan,
This bit me too. What's it's meaning to say is 'Hit 0 to process 
selected',
not '0 processes selected'.  So hit the '0' key.
Thanks,
Peter Darley

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dan Brow
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 12:05 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: [mythtv-users] MythDVD no ripping


I can't rip a disc, I stick the disc in and it shows up I can select
options and the disc, but it says 0 process selected, mythtv 0.18.1 and
mythplugins 0.18.1, all deps are installed.

Dan.


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RE: [mythtv-users] Media MVP front end

2005-11-03 Thread Peter Darley

If someone is interested, I could see my way to buying locally and shipping
it elsewhere if I was to be paid back.

-Original Message-
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rusty McEacharn
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 6:27 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Media MVP front end

i think it is in-store only.  they are not listed online.
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RE: [mythtv-users] Simultaneous recordings fail spectacularly[SOLVED!]

2005-11-03 Thread Peter Darley

Folks,
Not that I can speak for the developers, but it seems clear to me that 
the
interface is designed to work well with a remote, which tend to have keys
synonymous with the arrow keys, but don't tend to have keys synonymous with
tab/shift-tab.  It also seems like a good idea to me that the interface
conventions are standard across the different parts of the system
(mythfrontend and myth-setup).
Thanks,
Peter Darley

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 8:22 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Simultaneous recordings fail
spectacularly[SOLVED!]

Personally, I agree with 99% of what you wrote.  I don't think the
arrow keys should be used AT ALL except in a populated drop-down list
(which MythTV doesn't use).  Tab and Shift-Tab are the way to go.
FWIW, I *hate* it when the right arrow moves the cursor to the field
on the left.

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RE: [mythtv-users] Setup advice

2005-11-03 Thread Peter Darley

Michael,
Cool.  Thanks for the info!
Thanks,
Peter Darley

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 8:39 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Setup advice

Peter Darley wrote:

Michael,
   That's great, I probably just missed it.  How do you do it?
Thanks,

 From the menu listing the shows, press the menu button and choose delete.

Michael

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Re: [mythtv-users] Setup advice

2005-11-02 Thread Peter Darley



On Nov 2, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Joshua Lewis wrote:

Sorry for any silly questions. I am trying to map this out in my  
head and

i need some help please. Before I go and by the hardware

5 TVs in the house
5 Hauppauge MediaMVP at each TV
1 MythTV server in a closet/basement
5 WinTV-PVR-150MCE l.p. (or) 3-4 WinTV-PVR-500MCE in the server
Alot of drives in the server

Goal
Watch DVDs that were copied to the server, Live TV, Recorded TV,  
Slideshows

Play FM Radio, MP3s,
Basicly all of the modules
MythPhone what the heck is that.

Ease of use: A wife, three kids, and a mother in law. Need I say more.
Able to use remote with MediaMVP at each TV to navigate all  
functions. No

need for a keyboard mouse etc.

Am I cruzen for a bruzin? Or is this totaly ok. I was also hopeing for
someone to confirm that a user at the TV using the MediaTV remote can
click TV and watch the tv show that is running at that moment.  
Obviously
it is being saved to the harddrive and replayed back but to the  
user it

looks like live TV. How does MythTV handle multiple users watching
different channels at the same time?

I will only have CAT6 cable running from the server to the  
MediaMVPs. Is
that going to cuase problems for Audio or does the audio for the  
radio and

everything go through the CAT6 cable?



Joshua,

This is just my experience; other's may differ.

First, the MediaMVP will only play mpeg 1 and mpeg 2, so if  
you're encoding the dvds with mpeg4, like a sane person, you won't be  
able to play them on the mvps.


Second, I have two tuners, and when the first tuner is in use I  
can't get my mvp to play live tv from the second tuner.  It seems  
like it will only use the first tuner.  This isn't a problem for me  
since I don't care about the liveness of what I'm watching, but it is  
a limitation.


Third, the MVPs can't delete shows, so the users will have to  
pay atention to what they watch and then delete it through mythweb or  
something.  This probably doesn't pass your ease of use test.  I  
doubt that my wife would be willing to do that, for example.


The recent builds of mvpmc have a slimdevices player in them  
which work with slimserver (for playing mp3s).  This is a great  
system, and would probably work well for playing mp3s.


I really like my MVP for the little TV I have next to my  
computer, but it's really not as functional as a real frontend.


Thanks,
Peter Darley

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RE: [mythtv-users] Setup advice

2005-11-02 Thread Peter Darley

Michael,
That's great, I probably just missed it.  How do you do it?
Thanks,
Peter Darley

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 2:10 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Setup advice

Peter Darley wrote:

 Third, the MVPs can't delete shows, so the users will have to  pay 
 atention to what they watch and then delete it through mythweb or  
 something.  This probably doesn't pass your ease of use test.  I  
 doubt that my wife would be willing to do that, for example.

I can delete shows just fine from my mvp.  I have only had it for a few 
months but it has always worked.

Michael

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[mythtv-users] DVD Import

2005-10-27 Thread Peter Darley


Folks,
I have a stupid DVD Import question.  I've been searching the  
list and haven't been able to find this, even tho I'm pretty sure  
that it's been covered...
I've been importing dvds, and they all come out with a 4:3  
aspect ratio, with the black boxes top and bottom.  Is there a  
setting that I can use to tell it to import at 16:9, instead of  
letterboxed 4:3?

Thanks,
Peter Darley
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[mythtv-users] TV Playback Quality Problem


Folks,

I get consistent poor quality tv playback on my new mythtv  
frontend.  These problems are twofold.  First, the quality is just  
crummy, with horizontal lines as if it was getting poor reception off  
the air.  The second is that there are a lot of decoding glitches,  
like areas of picture not updating when they should so there is a  
distorted picture.  I can play back the same recordings on my windows  
machine, and they don't show either the general poor quality, or the  
decoding distortion, so I believe it is really a playback problem.   
Also, I can play back divx videos (such as ripped dvds) on the  
mythbox and they come out very clean and sharp.  I'm wondering where  
I should start troubleshooting this?  The video card is an on-board  
SiS that has an mpeg2 decoder.  I'm wondering if maybe it's using the  
hardware decoder which may not be the best?  If so, is there a way to  
get it to not use the onboard decoder and decode in software as it is  
with the divx?


Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Thanks,
Peter Darley
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Re: [mythtv-users] program guide font size


Asher,

I have a question about this:
My video card will only go up to 1280x1024 on tv out, but I'm  
displaying it on a 16:9 aspect tv.  Right now I have DispaySize=400  
225, which tells xine etc that the screen isn't really 4:3.


Would it work to set it to 462 260, being that 260 = 1024*2.54,  
and 462 = 260*(16/9)?  I got this because the 1024 px height is the  
'real' hight of the display, and then the width is relative to that.


Of course, it occures to me that I could just try it and see  
what happens, but I've written this now, so if someone has some  
feedback before I have a chance to try this I would appreciate it.


On Oct 25, 2005, at 9:44 AM, Asher Schaffer wrote:


On 10/25/05, James Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Okay here's a stupid question -- how do you change the size of the  
font in the
Program Guide?  in Settings-Appearance-Font Size  seems to only  
change the
font-size of the menus...   I thought it might auto-adjust if i  
changed the #
of channels and # of 30 mins timeslots to show, but even reduced  
to 2 and 2,
there's big boxes with small text in them still. (almost too small  
to read)


 James



First thing to do is make sure you are running at 100dpi.

There is some info here:
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf1473/MythFAQ.html#q23

you can also search this list for many discussions about font size.
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Re: [mythtv-users] TV Playback Quality Problem


Todd,
No, it's being deinterlaced.  I've gone through as well and  
tried all the different deinterlacing algorythms, and they didn't  
make any difference.  I also tried the, erm... libmpeg or something.   
The non-default mpeg library, which actually made things worse in  
terms of artifacts.

Thanks,
Peter Darley
On Oct 25, 2005, at 11:13 AM, MythTV wrote:


Are the horizontal lines a result of not deinterlacing the  
playback?  If you
haven't already, walk through the setup menu to TV to playback (I  
can't
remember the menu path).  One the 1st screen you can set  
deinterlacing on

and select the algorithm.

Good luck,
Todd

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Re: [mythtv-users] program guide font size


Michael,

Indeed, it has the component input that I'm using.

It's a DigiMatrix box, and someone said that it should be able  
to do 1920x1080 (1080i), but I have not been able to get this to  
work, and the refrence for Mr. Winischhoffer's SiS driver at: http:// 
www.winischhofer.at/linuxsispart1.shtml#24 seems to say that tv-out  
only goes up to 1280x1024.  I would love to hear that I'm wrong about  
this however, and any pointers toward getting a higher resolution tv  
out would be grand! :)


It does have 1280x720, so I guess I'll try that.

Thanks,
Peter Darley

On Oct 25, 2005, at 11:59 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:


Peter Darley wrote:



I have a question about this:
My video card will only go up to 1280x1024 on tv out, but I'm   
displaying it on a 16:9 aspect tv.  Right now I have  
DispaySize=400  225, which tells xine etc that the screen isn't  
really 4:3.


Would it work to set it to 462 260, being that 260 =  
1024*2.54,  and 462 = 260*(16/9)?  I got this because the 1024 px  
height is the  'real' hight of the display, and then the width is  
relative to that.




Does your 16:9 TV have any inputs besides the S-Video/Composite/ 
SCART connection you're using?  You would be much better off using  
a proper 16:9 ratio in X and using 100 DPI on both axes.


If you use anything besides 100 DPI square pixels (i.e. 100 DPI in  
both the horizontal and vertical planes), some of your graphic  
elements are likely to be misaligned.  (See my other post in the  
thread.)  I.e. the approach you're using will give you a calculated  
DPI of 70x100.  That will result in proper vertical alignment of  
text/graphics (which is probably more important than horizontal  
alignment--because of arrows next to selected items, etc.) but will  
result in horizontal alignment problems.


Mike
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Re: [mythtv-users] Resolution Issues, was: program guide font size


Michael,

I wish there was a DVI or VGA connector too.

It's worse than I thought too, as reading the faq on the  
Winischhoffer site, I find:


Q: High resolution modes such as 1024x768 and 1280x720/1280x1024 look  
quite bad in 720p/750p and 1080i mode. How come?
A: The video bridges' TV encoder is only capable of delivering 800  
real pixels of video data. This despite the fact that 720p/750p and  
1080i are supposed to be used with higher resolutions than 800 pixels  
per line. Higher resolutions than 800 will be scaled down. Not only  
is this a big disadvantage to start with, the downscaler also is a  
really bad one. Well, it's cheap hardware. At least 1024x576 doesn't  
look too bad. I mostly use 960x540 in 1080i mode and I can live very  
well with it.


Man, what a croc!  I feel like I was mislead by the marketing  
materials.  While I like the look of the box, I'm not as impressed  
with the hardware in it.


Since I don't have any hd content to display anyway, would I be  
better off with 720 x 480?  I guess I'll try that, and the 960x540  
that the faq suggests.


If I ever get any hd content I guess I'll look into VGA- 
Component conversion.


Thanks,
Peter Darley


On Oct 25, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:


Peter Darley wrote:



Indeed, it has the component input that I'm using.



Oh.  I saw TV out and was thinking NTSC/PAL and thought the  
limitation was on your card's defined sizes for modes it would  
scale to NTSC/PAL.  Since you're using component output, using a  
size much larger than 720x480/576 makes sense.


But, I was hoping there was a VGA or DVI connection available on  
the TV so you could totally circumvent the TV out circuitry.
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Re: [mythtv-users] Backend loses the database

2005-10-24 Thread Peter Osterberg


I've had this problem repetedly for about 3 weeks.

At 20:58 2005-10-21, you wrote:

On 10/21/05, Mickey Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I've had a peculiar problem pop up lately.  About once a day, my
 recorded programs listing goes away and starts reading No recorded
 programs available.  Restarting the back end gets the listing back.

 The only error I'm seeing in the log is this:

 2005-10-21 11:00:00.082 DB Error (KickDatabase):
 Query was:
 SELECT NULL;
 Driver error was [2/2006]:
 QMYSQL3: Unable to execute query
 Database error was:
 MySQL server has gone away

 Of course, the MySQL server hasn't gone away since restarting the
 backend (not the MySQL server) re-establishes that connection.

 Any ideas?

Strangely enough I had the same problem about 2h ago. Coincidence?

N.
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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works

2005-10-24 Thread Peter Darley


Todd,
I'm not really the guy to ask for general info.  In my specific  
case, the info in Jared's guide was perfect, except for the steps I  
listed below to get the first tuner working.

Thanks,
Peter Darley

On Oct 22, 2005, at 10:14 AM, Todd Houle wrote:

Peter - thanks for posting the info below.  I have a FC4 system  
setup about 2 weeks ago using a PVR350.  I just ordered a PVR500  
yesterday and am anxious to have the additional tuners.  I guess  
I'll need to do the following below to make it work?  What else  
will I need to do (beside the stuff in MythTV - I can handle the  
setup there)?

  thanks
 Todd




cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/media/video/
mv tuner.ko tuner.ko.bak
mv tveeprom.ko tveeprom.ko.bak
mv msp3400.ko msp3400.ko.bak
mv tda9887.ko tda9887.ko.bak

cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates/drivers/media/video
cp tuner-ivtv.ko tuner.ko
cp tveeprom-ivtv.ko tveeprom.ko

modprobe -r ivtv
depmod -a
modprobe ivtv
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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works


Folks,

I guess I'll reply to my own message...

On the ivtv-devel list I find:
With Hans Verkuil's help, which was VERY much appreciated, my  
problem turned
out to be that I was using the tuner that came with the linux  
kernel itself
rather than the one that came with ivtv-0.3.9.  Looks likely I was  
doing the
same with tveeprom as well.  Once I switched, I was able to get  
both tuners
working correctly and successfully captured mpeg using the cat /dev/ 
video?

trick.


Which seems like it could easily be my problem as well.  So, I'm  
wondering if anyone out there can give me a pointer on how to prevent  
the card from being controlled by the kernal modules, and get the  
correct modules from ivtv to load instead.  Will I have to re-compile  
the kernel to do this?


My kernel version is the latest FC3 kernel: Linux version  
2.6.12-1.1378_FC3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version  
3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2)) #1 Wed Sep 14 04:24:31 EDT 2005


Thanks for any pointers!
Peter Darley

On Oct 20, 2005, at 9:59 PM, Peter Darley wrote:


Larry,
Well, I've put my card into a windows machine and it doesn't  
appear to be broken.  BeyondTV can use both tuners.
I'll check out the ivtv list.  If you make any progress, can  
you let this list know?

Thanks,
Peter
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Larry K

Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 4:38 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works

I have the same problem, and a lengthy thread over in the ivtv- 
devel archive.  No solution yet.  I've  tried just about everything.


On 10/20/05, Peter Darley [EMAIL PROTECTED]  wrote: Folks,

I've just installed a PVR-500, and I'm having a problem.  I  
can use video1,
but I get only static on video0.  It seems like the problem is that  
it's not
actually able to change channel; I think it's tuning channel 1  
which I don't
get, since the static looks just like a tv that doesn't have an  
antenna or

cable hooked up.  It's possible that the problem is not that it's not
changing channel, so I don't want to rule anything out.

When I try to use ivtv-tune, I get:
# ivtv-tune -d/dev/video0 -c60
/dev/video0: 439.250 MHz

# ivtv-tune -d/dev/video1 -c60
/dev/video1: 439.250 MHz  (Signal Detected)

Which seems to be saying that the channel change on video0  
didn't succeed,

while the change on video1 did.

I'm hoping that there's someone else out there who has had  
similar problems
and can give me a pointer.  I'm also not rulling out that it's just  
broken.


Thanks,
Peter Darley

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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works


Danesh,

Thanks for responding to this!

Forgive my ignorance, but it looks like you're saying that if I  
recomplie ivtv, I won't need to recompile the kernel?  Or is this a  
way to get ivtv compiled into the kernel correctly?  I've never  
compiled a kernel, so I'm hoping that I won't have to... :)


Thanks again,
Peter Darley
On Oct 21, 2005, at 9:31 AM, Danesh wrote:


Hey,

I had the same problem and fixing it took
- downloading the patch from the following thread,
- applying it to ivtv source, and
- recompiling ivtv and then rebooting.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/24322? 
search_string=second%20pvr-500;#24322


Ofcourse, remember to do the above everytime you recompile your  
kernel.


Regards,
`Danesh

On 10/21/05, Peter Darley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Folks,

 I guess I'll reply to my own message...

 On the ivtv-devel list I find:


With Hans Verkuil's help, which was VERY much appreciated, my
problem turned
out to be that I was using the tuner that came with the linux
kernel itself
rather than the one that came with ivtv-0.3.9.  Looks likely I was
doing the
same with tveeprom as well.  Once I switched, I was able to get
both tuners
working correctly and successfully captured mpeg using the cat /dev/
video?
trick.



 Which seems like it could easily be my problem as well.  So, I'm
wondering if anyone out there can give me a pointer on how to prevent
the card from being controlled by the kernal modules, and get the
correct modules from ivtv to load instead.  Will I have to re-compile
the kernel to do this?

 My kernel version is the latest FC3 kernel: Linux version
2.6.12-1.1378_FC3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2)) #1 Wed Sep 14 04:24:31 EDT 2005

Thanks for any pointers!
Peter Darley

On Oct 20, 2005, at 9:59 PM, Peter Darley wrote:



Larry,
Well, I've put my card into a windows machine and it doesn't
appear to be broken.  BeyondTV can use both tuners.
I'll check out the ivtv list.  If you make any progress, can
you let this list know?
Thanks,
Peter
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Larry K
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 4:38 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works

I have the same problem, and a lengthy thread over in the ivtv-
devel archive.  No solution yet.  I've  tried just about everything.

On 10/20/05, Peter Darley [EMAIL PROTECTED]  wrote:  
Folks,


I've just installed a PVR-500, and I'm having a problem.  I
can use video1,
but I get only static on video0.  It seems like the problem is that
it's not
actually able to change channel; I think it's tuning channel 1
which I don't
get, since the static looks just like a tv that doesn't have an
antenna or
cable hooked up.  It's possible that the problem is not that it's  
not

changing channel, so I don't want to rule anything out.

When I try to use ivtv-tune, I get:
# ivtv-tune -d/dev/video0 -c60
/dev/video0: 439.250 MHz

# ivtv-tune -d/dev/video1 -c60
/dev/video1: 439.250 MHz  (Signal Detected)

Which seems to be saying that the channel change on video0
didn't succeed,
while the change on video1 did.

I'm hoping that there's someone else out there who has had
similar problems
and can give me a pointer.  I'm also not rulling out that it's just
broken.

Thanks,
Peter Darley

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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works


Folks,
First, sorry for spamming the list with all this stuff.  I feel  
like I'm getting a handle on things, but it's slow and plodding.


When I go to get the source for 0.3.9 from svn as per the  
thread, I get a message saying it's not available:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ivtv]# svn co http://ivtvdriver.org/svn/ivtv/ 
tags/0.3.9 ivtv

svn: URL 'http://ivtvdriver.org/svn/ivtv/tags/0.3.9' doesn't exist

I did get the source for 0.4.0, and it looks like the patch is  
already in there.  I also have itvt v0.4.0 from yum on the system,  
and I'm still getting the same problems.  When I do dmesg | grep  
tuner I get:

ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=60]
tuner 1-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
tveeprom: tuner = Philips FQ1236A MK4 (idx = 92, type = 57)
tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x1000)
tuner 1-0060: type set to 57 (Philips FQ1236A MK4)
ivtv1: i2c attach to card #1 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61]
tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
tveeprom: tuner = Philips FQ1236A MK4 (idx = 92, type = 57)
tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x1000)
tuner 2-0061: type set to 57 (Philips FQ1236A MK4)

The first tuner is getting ivtv i2c driver #0 at addr=60, and  
the second is gettin ivtv i2c driver #1 at addr=61, which seems to  
match the problem as layed out in the thread on ivtv-devel.


So, my current question is: is there any way to override the  
kernel module with an external one, so the kerenel module doesn't  
load, or am I to the point where my only hope is to re-compile the  
kernel with the new module, or without any ivtv module and then load  
the package one?


Thanks,
Peter Darley



On Oct 21, 2005, at 9:31 AM, Danesh wrote:


Hey,

I had the same problem and fixing it took
- downloading the patch from the following thread,
- applying it to ivtv source, and
- recompiling ivtv and then rebooting.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/24322? 
search_string=second%20pvr-500;#24322


Ofcourse, remember to do the above everytime you recompile your  
kernel.


Regards,
`Danesh

On 10/21/05, Peter Darley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Folks,

 I guess I'll reply to my own message...

 On the ivtv-devel list I find:


With Hans Verkuil's help, which was VERY much appreciated, my
problem turned
out to be that I was using the tuner that came with the linux
kernel itself
rather than the one that came with ivtv-0.3.9.  Looks likely I was
doing the
same with tveeprom as well.  Once I switched, I was able to get
both tuners
working correctly and successfully captured mpeg using the cat /dev/
video?
trick.



 Which seems like it could easily be my problem as well.  So, I'm
wondering if anyone out there can give me a pointer on how to prevent
the card from being controlled by the kernal modules, and get the
correct modules from ivtv to load instead.  Will I have to re-compile
the kernel to do this?

 My kernel version is the latest FC3 kernel: Linux version
2.6.12-1.1378_FC3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2)) #1 Wed Sep 14 04:24:31 EDT 2005

Thanks for any pointers!
Peter Darley

On Oct 20, 2005, at 9:59 PM, Peter Darley wrote:



Larry,
Well, I've put my card into a windows machine and it doesn't
appear to be broken.  BeyondTV can use both tuners.
I'll check out the ivtv list.  If you make any progress, can
you let this list know?
Thanks,
Peter
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Larry K
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 4:38 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works

I have the same problem, and a lengthy thread over in the ivtv-
devel archive.  No solution yet.  I've  tried just about everything.

On 10/20/05, Peter Darley [EMAIL PROTECTED]  wrote:  
Folks,


I've just installed a PVR-500, and I'm having a problem.  I
can use video1,
but I get only static on video0.  It seems like the problem is that
it's not
actually able to change channel; I think it's tuning channel 1
which I don't
get, since the static looks just like a tv that doesn't have an
antenna or
cable hooked up.  It's possible that the problem is not that it's  
not

changing channel, so I don't want to rule anything out.

When I try to use ivtv-tune, I get:
# ivtv-tune -d/dev/video0 -c60
/dev/video0: 439.250 MHz

# ivtv-tune -d/dev/video1 -c60
/dev/video1: 439.250 MHz  (Signal Detected)

Which seems to be saying that the channel change on video0
didn't succeed,
while the change on video1 did.

I'm hoping that there's someone else out there who has had
similar problems
and can give me a pointer.  I'm also not rulling out that it's just
broken.

Thanks,
Peter Darley

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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works


Lonnie,

Again, please pardon my ignorance. :)

I thought that the kernel was monolithic and the modules were  
all compiled into one kernel binary?  If so, what should I be renaming?


When I do a locate ivtv, I get several sets of things that don't  
look like source or docs, any of which I could potentially rename:


I get /sys/module/ivtv/ with a bunch of files and directories  
under it.


I get /usr/lib/ivtv/ivtvfwextract.pl which is certainly not a  
driver.


I get /lib/modules/ which has ivtv-fw-enc.bin and some  
other .bin files in it.


I get /lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1378_FC3/updates/drivers/media/ 
video/ with ivtv.ko and other ivtv related .ko files.  Would these be  
the kernel modules that I would rename?  I don't seem to have any  
other ivtv.ko files anywhere else on the system.


Thanks for your patience,
Peter Darley


On Oct 21, 2005, at 11:44 AM, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:


On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 11:35 -0700, Peter Darley wrote:


 So, my current question is: is there any way to override the
kernel module with an external one, so the kerenel module doesn't
load, or am I to the point where my only hope is to re-compile the
kernel with the new module, or without any ivtv module and then load
the package one?



I renamed the conflicting kernel modules, ran depmod -a, and then it
only sees the ivtv ones.

Lonnie Borntreger



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RE: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works