[mythtv-users] Recording Problems
Cyber Source wrote: Hello All, I have this EXTREMELY annoying problem. I have an Avermedia M179 card using the ivtv modules. I can record fine if I do a "cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/somevid.mpg" but when I try to record in Myth the moment it starts to record the screen goes with all straight vertical lines and no sound. If I start the mythfronted from terminal, I can see that it is bitching about invalid file handle when opening /var/lib/mythtv/blahblah... and the name of the file is really long. Any ideas on this one?? TIA! -- cybersource.us 115 Richfield Road Williamsville, New York 14221 716-553-8525 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Recording problems
Hey folks, I've been running a TV tuner card in my system for a couple years now, and have been wanting to build myself a dedicated box for mythtv for almost as long. This week I finally purchased a new SFF system specifically to be my mythbox. It's an Athlon 2500+, 1GB RAM, about 250GB of hard drive space, and I put in my aging Hauppauge WinTV PCI card (this is just a tuner card - no hardware encoding) to hold me over till I get a PVR350. I've got everything setup (I think) though there seems to be something wrong somewhere. I have two problems: 1. Livetv isn't so live - after running for a mere 5 seconds or so, the video goes slightly slow motion and falls further and further behind the audio. Like I said, the tuner card doesn't have a hardware encoder, but a 2500+ processor should be more than ample to do the job. (my CPU load hovers at about 35-40%) 2. I can't record anything. Mythfilldatabase worded like a charm, and I can look at the entire program guide. I can go through the motions of setting up a recording, but when I go to "save these settings" it doesn't seem to actually save them. Nothing shows up in "Upcoming Recordings" and nothing gets recorded. I've also tried doing a manual recording to no avail. Some other info: The tuner card works, I can watch TV using TVTime. My system (Mandrake 10, yes I tried knoppmyth, but I couldn't get the video to work using it) is completely up to date. My directory for recordings is non-standard, but is setup, and a file does get created when I do use the "watch live TV" option. I've played with the buffer sizes, but they don't have any discernible effect. Because it's basically working (albeit with problems) I'm fairly sure it's just one or two minor misconfiguration that are causing these two problems. Can anyone offer any suggestions? -Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Recording problems
Hiya, I have almost finished setting up my MythTV box and am amazed at what I can do with it already. The last remaining problem is that mythbackend keeps insisting on setting the TV norm to PAL-BG when recording a scheduled recording. Since I live in a PAL-I area, all I get is a great picture but with static as audio. I set the TV norm during start-up and have a little cron-script that checks the TV norm regularly and resets it if necessary. However, when the script resets the TV norm during a recording, I get the sound back but the picture is now only a quarter of the screen with the rest being made up of the picture present at the time when the switch occurred which is not really useful... I have searched Google and the mailing lists for a possible solution but haven't found anything. Does anyone have any suggestion bar hacking the source to force MythBackend to set the tuner to use PAL-I? I'm using Kanotix 2005-03 (kernel 2.6.11.11), mythtv 0.18.1 and a Hauppauge Primio WinTV PCI FM (with a cx8800 chipset). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Recording Problems
I've got Mythtv setup to the point that I can watch live tv (Many thanks to Jarod and Axxel for their most helpful sites), but when I schedule a recording, the playback is a black screen with no sound. The hardware: FC3 on x86_64, setup as a backend and frontend (for now), Hauppauge PVR-350 - and haven't tried video out yet. ( Once I can watch and schedule then I'll work on video out.) Recording profile set to use MPEG2-PS. Any suggestions? Thanks, Law ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
