Re: [mythtv] multicast mpeg2 as an input (iptv discussion cont.)

2005-06-15 Thread steve
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Keith Irwin wrote: > The reason that VLC dependencies are unacceptable is because VLC > includes DeCSS in it, so it cannot be legally distributed in the US. That's kind of funny as a reason to reject VLC in a comparison with mplayer! Steve __

Re: [mythtv] improving mythvideo

2005-06-15 Thread George Nassas
On 15-Jun-05, at 9:57 PM, J. Donavan Stanley wrote: For quite some time you've been able to specify "Internal" as the player for video files and avoid shelling out however the internal player has had problems. As Isaac mentioned, Mark Spieth's patch deals with the Wow, I had no idea. The onl

RE: [mythtv] channel table auto-population

2005-06-15 Thread Daniel Hall
I have same issue in Australia as well. Basically it seems that when a channel is tuned and there are any channels on that transport stream that are not in the database they get added. The problem I have with just setting these channels to invisible is that just browsing through the channels using

Re: [mythtv] improving mythvideo

2005-06-15 Thread J. Donavan Stanley
George Nassas wrote: > Hi all, I'm a happy user and minor tweaker of mythtv looking to give > back to the community and improve my knowledge of the system. > Something that has been irking me is how mythvideo shells out to an > external program to play videos so I'd like to do something in this ar

Re: [mythtv] improving mythvideo

2005-06-15 Thread J. Donavan Stanley
George Nassas wrote: > On 15-Jun-05, at 7:23 PM, Isaac Richards wrote: > >> Mark Spieth's patch (which I really, really need to look over and >> apply) for >> better seeking in non-mpeg2 files goes a long way towards this, >> actually. > > > I guess then the major missing piece is dvd navigation?

Re: [mythtv] multicast mpeg2 as an input (iptv discussion cont.)

2005-06-15 Thread Unit3
Nigel Pearson wrote: So how does the timeshift and transcoding work without mplayer/mencoder? MythTV implements its own code to do all of this. Some of the routines may have been borrowed from other open source projects, but if you compile and install MythTV, you do not need to have mplaye

[mythtv] Why was AutoExpireDefault removed from globalsettings.cpp?

2005-06-15 Thread Robert Tsai
Why was this removed from frontend setup UI? Anyone installing a brand-new myth setup will be unable to configure a default policy of autoexpire=true for new schedules. Its absence in the database means that ScheduledRecording::setDefault will choose a default value of "false". --Rob signature.

Re: [mythtv] improving mythvideo

2005-06-15 Thread George Nassas
On 15-Jun-05, at 7:23 PM, Isaac Richards wrote: Mark Spieth's patch (which I really, really need to look over and apply) for better seeking in non-mpeg2 files goes a long way towards this, actually. I guess then the major missing piece is dvd navigation? My thought there was to pull in the l

Re: [mythtv] improving mythvideo

2005-06-15 Thread Isaac Richards
On Wednesday 15 June 2005 07:17 pm, George Nassas wrote: > Hi all, I'm a happy user and minor tweaker of mythtv looking to give > back to the community and improve my knowledge of the system. Something > that has been irking me is how mythvideo shells out to an external > program to play videos so

[mythtv] improving mythvideo

2005-06-15 Thread George Nassas
Hi all, I'm a happy user and minor tweaker of mythtv looking to give back to the community and improve my knowledge of the system. Something that has been irking me is how mythvideo shells out to an external program to play videos so I'd like to do something in this area. My initial thought wa

Re: [mythtv] multicast mpeg2 as an input (iptv discussion cont.)

2005-06-15 Thread Nigel Pearson
So how does the timeshift and transcoding work without mplayer/mencoder? MythTV implements its own code to do all of this. Some of the routines may have been borrowed from other open source projects, but if you compile and install MythTV, you do not need to have mplayer on your machine.

Re: [mythtv] multicast mpeg2 as an input (iptv discussion cont.)

2005-06-15 Thread Nigel Pearson
And more importantly, MythDVD relies on DeCSS, so that's probably not the answer. Currently, MythDVD just runs an external program, and even they don't usually contain the actual DeCSS code, they just check to see if the runtime library is installed. I don't think you can really say it h

[mythtv] mythgame docs: xmame setup

2005-06-15 Thread hary wilke
I posted this on the user list and got some feedback, now i'm posting the edited version here. I'm not sure what the procedure is for submitting docs, but mythgame is sorely lacking in official documentation (It's a blank page). I tried to keep it formated like the rest of the official docs

Re: [mythtv] DVBInput starting channel

2005-06-15 Thread Nigel Pearson
Looks like checksetup.cpp assumes that start chan is an int. You could try this patch. Do'h. My bad. Thanks John(s). -- Nigel Pearson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "Now the world has gone to bed, Telstra BI&D, Sydney, Australia | Darkness won't engulf my head, Office: 8255 4222Fax: 8

Re: [mythtv] multicast mpeg2 as an input (iptv discussion cont.)

2005-06-15 Thread Unit3
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 17:53 -0400, Jeffrey Brent McBeth wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:28:55PM +0200, Torbj?rn Jansson wrote: > > Most likely not, if it was my code i woudn't like it since there shold be no > > reason to depend on external programs in this case. > > You could write an ncat re

Re: [mythtv] DVBInput starting channel

2005-06-15 Thread Bruce Markey
John Pullan wrote: ... Looks like checksetup.cpp assumes that start chan is an int. You could try this patch. It's a varchar in the DB and clearly shouldn't be assumed to be an int. Applied. Thanks. -- bjm ___ mythtv-dev mailing list mythtv-dev@myth

Re: [mythtv] multicast mpeg2 as an input (iptv discussion cont.)

2005-06-15 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:28:55PM +0200, Torbj?rn Jansson wrote: > > Most likely not, if it was my code i woudn't like it since there shold be no > reason to depend on external programs in this case. You could write an ncat replacement in QT in probably 5 lines. --

RE: [mythtv] multicast mpeg2 as an input (iptv discussion cont.)

2005-06-15 Thread Torbjörn Jansson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 16:38 -0400, Isaac Richards wrote: >> Heh, no, the reason it's unacceptable is that it would be a huge >> additional dependency that doesn't have to be there. > > That makes sense, especially if I can just use netcat, like Keith > suggested. I im

Re: [mythtv] multicast mpeg2 as an input (iptv discussion cont.)

2005-06-15 Thread Michael J. Lynch
Unit3 wrote: I'm not entirely as up on multicast as I should be, but from what I understand, you get the kernel to join the multicast group, and then listen on the multicast address and IP you would normally connect to, and packets end up just coming your way. Multicast is indeed UDP. There

Re: [mythtv] multicast mpeg2 as an input (iptv discussion cont.)

2005-06-15 Thread Unit3
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 16:38 -0400, Isaac Richards wrote: > Heh, no, the reason it's unacceptable is that it would be a huge additional > dependency that doesn't have to be there. That makes sense, especially if I can just use netcat, like Keith suggested. I imagine that netcat is small enough to

Re: [mythtv] multicast mpeg2 as an input (iptv discussion cont.)

2005-06-15 Thread Unit3
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 16:24 -0400, Isaac Richards wrote: > > Just as an aside question, is there a reason why it's ok to have an > > external dependancy on mplayer, but not on VLC? I'm not being > > judgemental or trying to question design decisions, I'm just curious as > > to what the policies are

Re: [mythtv] multicast mpeg2 as an input (iptv discussion cont.)

2005-06-15 Thread Isaac Richards
On Wednesday 15 June 2005 04:14 pm, Unit3 wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 15:36 -0400, Isaac Richards wrote: > > Wouldn't be accepted into Myth if it depended on vlc. No reason that > > couldn't be done internally. > > Just as an aside question, is there a reason why it's ok to have an > external d

Re: [mythtv] multicast mpeg2 as an input (iptv discussion cont.)

2005-06-15 Thread Unit3
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 16:30 -0400, Keith Irwin wrote: > If it's just a straight MPEG-2 stream over IP, that should be pretty > simple. It looks like that's what it is, with the small exception that it's over UDP multicast. Neither XINE nor Mplayer seem to handle this natively as a streaming sourc

Re: [mythtv] multicast mpeg2 as an input (iptv discussion cont.)

2005-06-15 Thread Isaac Richards
On Wednesday 15 June 2005 04:30 pm, Keith Irwin wrote: > I think that it really shouldn't be too bad. There's already a class > structure in place to handle different types of video sources. > > The reason that VLC dependencies are unacceptable is because VLC > includes DeCSS in it, so it cannot b

Re: [mythtv] multicast mpeg2 as an input (iptv discussion cont.)

2005-06-15 Thread Keith Irwin
On Wednesday, June 15, 2005, at 04:14 PM, Unit3 wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 15:36 -0400, Isaac Richards wrote: Wouldn't be accepted into Myth if it depended on vlc. No reason that couldn't be done internally. Just as an aside question, is there a reason why it's ok to have an external dep

Re: [mythtv] multicast mpeg2 as an input (iptv discussion cont.)

2005-06-15 Thread Keith Irwin
I think that it really shouldn't be too bad. There's already a class structure in place to handle different types of video sources. The reason that VLC dependencies are unacceptable is because VLC includes DeCSS in it, so it cannot be legally distributed in the US. If it's just a straight

Re: [mythtv] multicast mpeg2 as an input (iptv discussion cont.)

2005-06-15 Thread Unit3
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 15:36 -0400, Isaac Richards wrote: > Wouldn't be accepted into Myth if it depended on vlc. No reason that > couldn't > be done internally. Just as an aside question, is there a reason why it's ok to have an external dependancy on mplayer, but not on VLC? I'm not being judg

Re: [mythtv] [PATCH] Add single retry of connection to master backend

2005-06-15 Thread Allan Stirling
Isaac Richards wrote: It shouldn't ever happen, but doesn't hurt to leave it in just in case that it does. New version attached - Only the retry and renaming the obsolete comment are included. Cheers, Allan. Index: libs/libmyth/mythcontext.cpp

Re: [mythtv] multicast mpeg2 as an input (iptv discussion cont.)

2005-06-15 Thread Unit3
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 15:36 -0400, Isaac Richards wrote: > Wouldn't be accepted into Myth if it depended on vlc. No reason that > couldn't > be done internally. Fair enough, how difficult would it be to do internally then? :) ___ mythtv-dev mailing

Re: [mythtv] multicast mpeg2 as an input (iptv discussion cont.)

2005-06-15 Thread Isaac Richards
On Wednesday 15 June 2005 03:26 pm, Unit3 wrote: > I'd like to learn how tough it'll be to write a new capture source type > that'll basically just take the output from vlc and pipe it into the > existing MythTV facilities. I think that for this to be effective, you'd > have to have a channel map,

[mythtv] multicast mpeg2 as an input (iptv discussion cont.)

2005-06-15 Thread Unit3
I'm interested in continuing the discussion started in this thread: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/128820?search_string=iptv;#128820 about using direct streams from an IPTV provider as a capture source in MythTV. I've recently subscribed to a digital TV services through my DSL p

Re: [mythtv] [PATCH] Add single retry of connection to master backend

2005-06-15 Thread Isaac Richards
On Wednesday 15 June 2005 03:12 pm, Allan Stirling wrote: > Sorry - The patch maybe isn't very clear. I'd assumed that the section > marked "// this should be obsolete..." was obsolete, since it's been > around for some time and I've seen no comments asking what this strange > error in their backen

Re: [mythtv] [PATCH] Add single retry of connection to master backend

2005-06-15 Thread Allan Stirling
Isaac Richards wrote: On Wednesday 15 June 2005 10:53 am, Allan Stirling wrote: Allan Stirling wrote: If the master backend is restarted, the frontend presents an error ("The connection to the master backend server has gone away for some reason..") to the user. This is probably unnecessary, s

Re: [mythtv] [PATCH] Add single retry of connection to master backend

2005-06-15 Thread Isaac Richards
On Wednesday 15 June 2005 10:53 am, Allan Stirling wrote: > Allan Stirling wrote: > > If the master backend is restarted, the frontend presents an error ("The > > connection to the master backend server has gone away for some > > reason..") to the user. This is probably unnecessary, since a retry w

Re: [mythtv] DVBInput starting channel

2005-06-15 Thread John Patrick Poet
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, John Pullan wrote: > On 15/06/05, John Patrick Poet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Recently I went through and re-setup my DVB channel configuration. > > > > Now, when I exit from mythtv-setup, it says: > > > > ~~ > > Ca

Re: [mythtv] [PATCH] Add single retry of connection to master backend

2005-06-15 Thread Allan Stirling
Allan Stirling wrote: If the master backend is restarted, the frontend presents an error ("The connection to the master backend server has gone away for some reason..") to the user. This is probably unnecessary, since a retry will fix the situation. The only reason I see not to change this co

Re: [mythtv] [PATCH] Re: [mythtv-commits] mythtv commits (analog scan breaks build?)

2005-06-15 Thread Robert Kulagowski
Committed. ___ mythtv-dev mailing list mythtv-dev@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev

Re: [mythtv] [PATCH] Re: [mythtv-commits] mythtv commits (analog scan breaks build?)

2005-06-15 Thread John Pullan
In fact here's a patch : On 15/06/05, John Pullan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > try bunging a #inlcude at the top of analogscan.h > > On 15/06/05, Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I get this compiling cvs : > > In file included from moc_analogscan.cpp:11: > > analogscan.h:110: error: 'pthre

Re: [mythtv] Re: [mythtv-commits] mythtv commits (analog scan breaks build?)

2005-06-15 Thread John Pullan
try bunging a #inlcude at the top of analogscan.h On 15/06/05, Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get this compiling cvs : > In file included from moc_analogscan.cpp:11: > analogscan.h:110: error: 'pthread_mutex_t' is used as a type, but is not >defined as a type. > analogscan.h:112: error

Re: [mythtv] DVBInput starting channel

2005-06-15 Thread John Pullan
On 15/06/05, John Patrick Poet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Recently I went through and re-setup my DVB channel configuration. > > Now, when I exit from mythtv-setup, it says: > > ~~ > Card 1 (type DVBInput) is set to start on channel 0, whic

Re: [mythtv] DVBInput starting channel

2005-06-15 Thread Piers Kittel
I think you need to change the starting channel in mythtv-setup - go to the card section, select the cards adn there should be an entry saying "Start up channel" - select a valid startup channel that exists in the database that links to the DVB card - such as for my setup, I've got a PVR350 tun

[mythtv] OSD Games...

2005-06-15 Thread Jochen Kühner
Is it Possible to write Plugins with a OSD Game Screen and not as Extra Software... Like Tetris or similar games on some recivers, wich can be played while i watch TV ___ mythtv-dev mailing list mythtv-dev@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/

[mythtv] Questions about new UI...

2005-06-15 Thread Jochen Kühner
Is it possible with the New UI to Display Plugin SCreen within the Live TV Window, like in the DreamBox. I can listen to Music while the TV Picture is in the background... ___ mythtv-dev mailing list mythtv-dev@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailm

Re: [mythtv] MythTV DVB Subtitles Patch v0.4 released

2005-06-15 Thread Piers Kittel
Pekka, I have noted missing subs occasionally myself. Also there's still some timing issues (subs appearing too early). It should not be due to bad reception. I'll see what I can do. I do have bad reception anyway - the digital external STB connected via my PVR350 has the same problem - it's

[mythtv] Re: [mythtv-commits] mythtv commits (analog scan breaks build?)

2005-06-15 Thread Steven
I get this compiling cvs : In file included from moc_analogscan.cpp:11: analogscan.h:110: error: 'pthread_mutex_t' is used as a type, but is not defined as a type. analogscan.h:112: error: 'pthread_t' is used as a type, but is not defined as a type. analogscan.h:114: error: 'pthread_t' is us