[mythtv] DRM VSync

2005-04-01 Thread Ivor Hewitt
I have a drm vsync question I'm currently getting myth working on a VIA CN400 unichrome-pro board... the current problem I've got is that the mythplayer is running away with itself and seems to have problems with the drm timing calculation. A log from a cn400 (@75Hz) playing back a 25fps

Re: [mythtv] DRM VSync

2005-04-01 Thread Doug Larrick
Ivor Hewitt wrote: I have a drm vsync question I'm currently getting myth working on a VIA CN400 unichrome-pro board... the current problem I've got is that the mythplayer is running away with itself and seems to have problems with the drm timing calculation. A log from a cn400 (@75Hz)

Re: [mythtv] A DVB / HDTV thank you..

2005-04-01 Thread Michael J. Lynch
Blammo wrote: Just wanted to say a big thank you to all those involved in helping make Myth a better tool, both testers and developers. For the first time, since 0.17 came out, I actually had an HD recording of Alias this week that didn't drop audio completely at some point in the recording. (most

Re: [mythtv] What is the best way to implement overlapping recordings on one channel?

2005-04-01 Thread Joshua King
Hi Glenn, On 31/3/05 6:09 PM, Glenn Moloney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have a feature (well - I call it a feature) I want to implement: Allow overlapping recordings on one tuner. I am interested in feedback on how best to implement this feacture - in a manner

Re: [mythtv] DRM VSync

2005-04-01 Thread Ivor Hewitt
Doug Larrick wrote: Ivor Hewitt wrote: This is not a Myth problem and bound to be a driver problem, but I wondered if someone who knew how the DRM calculation code worked could suggest why it would have concluded that the refresh rate matched rather than just failing. Looking at the code...

Re: [mythtv] DRM VSync

2005-04-01 Thread Ivor Hewitt
Ivor Hewitt wrote: Doug Larrick wrote: Looking at the code... refresh rate comes from the videoout method, not the vsync method. Unichrome uses XvMC, right? I can't see anything weird in Myth's computation. What does xvidtune say about your vertical sync rate? Hi Doug, I'm not at the machine at

Re: [mythtv] DRM VSync

2005-04-01 Thread Ivor Hewitt
Doug Larrick wrote: Ivor Hewitt wrote: # xvidtune -show 1280x1024 0.00 1280000 1024000 Hmmm, could that be the problem? The driver is using a synthetic modeline which isn't fully populated? That's definitely weird. At 0 MHz pixel clock, it should take an infinite

Re: [mythtv] DRM VSync

2005-04-01 Thread Doug Larrick
Ivor Hewitt wrote: Would it be more accurate for mythtv to actually time the drm sync interval to establish the refresh rate rather than use the refresh rate reported by X? or does it just use that value as a guide? Probably not. Reading what's specified to the hardware should be more

Re: [mythtv] DRM VSync

2005-04-01 Thread Ivor Hewitt
Doug Larrick wrote: Ivor Hewitt wrote: Would it be more accurate for mythtv to actually time the drm sync interval to establish the refresh rate rather than use the refresh rate reported by X? or does it just use that value as a guide? Probably not. Reading what's specified to the hardware should

[mythtv] HD Playback issues

2005-04-01 Thread Todd Tidwell
Folks, Im still having problems playing back about half of my HD content. With CVS as of last night I am closer but no where near the level we should probably be at. I realize were making significant progress and I want to let you all know how much it is appreciated. So, with CVS as

Re: [mythtv] [exp. patch] xv xvmc merge

2005-04-01 Thread Aran Cox
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 07:51:16PM -0500, Daniel Kristjansson wrote: Ok, this is a big patch. It merges the XVideo and XvMC video output implementations. I spent most of my evening last night watching 1080i programming played back on an FX5200 using XvMC on a 720p display with bob

Re: [mythtv] [exp. patch] xv xvmc merge

2005-04-01 Thread Isaac Richards
On Thursday 31 March 2005 05:21 pm, Daniel Kristjansson wrote: What happens is that MPEG has a series of frames, say: IBBBPBBBI The I frames don't depend on any other frames, but the B frames depend on an I and a P, and the P frame depends on the previous I. But once MythTV displays a frame,

Re: [mythtv] [PATCH] optionally re-record auto-expired programs

2005-04-01 Thread Joel Anderson
This is a version of a patch that I've been applying to mythtv since 0.11. It adds an option in the Mythfrontend/Setup/TV/General settings which causes the backend to delete the oldrecorded entry for any show which is auto-expired due to lack of disk space. (I don't think this effects the

Re: [mythtv] [PATCH] optionally re-record auto-expired programs

2005-04-01 Thread Joel Anderson
This is a version of a patch that I've been applying to mythtv since 0.11. It adds an option in the Mythfrontend/Setup/TV/General settings which causes the backend to delete the oldrecorded entry for any show which is auto-expired due to lack of disk space. (I don't think this effects

Re: [mythtv] [exp. patch] xv xvmc merge

2005-04-01 Thread Isaac Richards
On Friday 01 April 2005 12:21 pm, Isaac Richards wrote: On Thursday 31 March 2005 05:21 pm, Daniel Kristjansson wrote: What happens is that MPEG has a series of frames, say: IBBBPBBBI The I frames don't depend on any other frames, but the B frames depend on an I and a P, and the P frame

Re: [mythtv] Re: DVB summer time

2005-04-01 Thread Taylor Jacob
Quoting Sami Röppänen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Correct me if I'm wrong.. But disenabling 'use dvb card on demand' causes the dvb card(s) to run hot all the time, and that is not good for a quiet, long lasting system. At least this was the case down 0.15. Is this really the case? I haven't noticed

Re: [mythtv] DRM VSync

2005-04-01 Thread Thomas Börkel
HI! Ivor Hewitt wrote: Yay. Thanks for the tip Doug, forcing the driver to use a real modeline and we have smooth video. Magic. Is this also possible with NVidia cards? I always get: DRMVideoSync: Could not open device /dev/dri/card0 Thomas ___

Re: [mythtv] DRM VSync

2005-04-01 Thread Doug Larrick
Thomas Börkel wrote: HI! Ivor Hewitt wrote: Yay. Thanks for the tip Doug, forcing the driver to use a real modeline and we have smooth video. Magic. Is this also possible with NVidia cards? I always get: DRMVideoSync: Could not open device /dev/dri/card0 nVidia cards don't

Re: [mythtv] [PATCH] optionally re-record auto-expired programs

2005-04-01 Thread Joel Anderson
This is a version of a patch that I've been applying to mythtv since 0.11. It adds an option in the Mythfrontend/Setup/TV/General settings which causes the backend to delete the oldrecorded entry for any show which is auto-expired due to lack of disk space. (I don't think this

[mythtv] [BUG] mythfrontend does not detect the screen properly when using dual head

2005-04-01 Thread Pekka Jääskeläinen
Hi, I encountered this annoying bug with the CVS head, I entered it also into the Bugzilla (Bug 264): I have a dual head setup in which I use the screen 0 for my primary monitor, and screen 1 for output to projector (for watching TV and movies). With the current CVS head, mythfrontend cannot

[mythtv] Re: [BUG] mythfrontend does not detect the screen properly when using dual head

2005-04-01 Thread Pekka Jääskeläinen
Oh, almost forgot: The -geometry switch of mythfrontend didn't seem to work at all either :( Sorry, I was too hasty. This switch does work, and thus allows me to circumvent this bug. The real switch is --geometry, not -geometry like --help states :) -- --PJ

Re: [mythtv] Re: [BUG] mythfrontend does not detect the screen properly

2005-04-01 Thread Chris Pinkham
Oh, almost forgot: The -geometry switch of mythfrontend didn't seem to work at all either :( Sorry, I was too hasty. This switch does work, and thus allows me to circumvent this bug. The real switch is --geometry, not -geometry like --help states :) Looks like both should work:

Re: [mythtv] [PATCH] optionally re-record auto-expired programs

2005-04-01 Thread Marcel Meier
Am Freitag, 1. April 2005 21.38 schrieb Joel Anderson: This is a version of a patch that I've been applying to mythtv since 0.11. It adds an option in the Mythfrontend/Setup/TV/General settings which causes the backend to delete the oldrecorded entry for any show which is

[mythtv] [PATCH] mythmusic: autoplay of CDs

2005-04-01 Thread Herman Kuiper
Attached patch adds a setting to MythMusic, when set, will start playing an inserted audio CD automatically. Also, an option has been added to the menu (M), from which you start playing an inserted CD immediately without going through the Edit playlist screen. This latter option is mainly

Re: [mythtv] A DVB / HDTV thank you..

2005-04-01 Thread Brandon Beattie
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:23:12PM -0700, Blammo wrote: Just wanted to say a big thank you to all those involved in helping make Myth a better tool, both testers and developers. For the first time, since 0.17 came out, I actually had an HD recording of Alias this week that didn't drop audio

Re: [mythtv] [exp. patch] xv xvmc merge

2005-04-01 Thread Daniel Kristjansson
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 12:53 -0500, Isaac Richards wrote: Actually, if the release_buffer callback from libavcodec is accurate as to when it's done with the frame, it could be as simple as just refcounting the frames (2 to start, -1 when displayed, -1 when marked unused by release_buffer),

[mythtv] Freezes on 64bit when starting recordings or LiveTV

2005-04-01 Thread Greg Turnquist
Jonas, I tried applying your patch to my Debian64 system. It didn't apply and instead gave me this [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/mythtv$ patch -p1 patch.txt can't find file to patch at input line 4 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was:

[mythtv] Recording with Quota support?

2005-04-01 Thread James
Hi, I've got a myth box set up on my home server / capture box. When I set up the system I wasn't able to get an additional harddrive as I was already getting 3 for the software raid array. As a result to prevent the myth system from crashing the box, I set up a quota for the use that mythtv

Re: [mythtv] [PATCH] MythTV uClibc support

2005-04-01 Thread Andrew Mahone
On Mar 23, 2005 2:20 AM, Isaac Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't really like all the ifdefs in this - possible to factor it out so it's a bit cleaner? Isaac Sorry, I somehow didn't see the reply for a week or so. I'm not happy about the number of ifdefs, either, but I also didn't

Re: [mythtv] buttons don't press with enter key

2005-04-01 Thread Terry Barnaby
Jarod Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 30 March 2005 00:39, Juha Kuikka wrote: running CVS from a few days ago, and I've noticed for awhile now that many buttons (next, No, leave my card settings alone, etc) won't click with enter/space. Well, they change color as if they're depressed, but they don't