Hey guys,
A friend of mine gave me a pc that has a tv capture card in it. The model is
ATI Technologies, 3D Rage Pro AGP 2X
Will this work in mythtv, linux?
Thanks,
Neil
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I've got a xecuter 3 mod chip in my xbox. I've also added 2 usb ports
to the back (which work) and have just fitted in a laptop hard drive
with a relay circuit I built to be able to switch between the hard
drives (designed so that you can't switch them while the power is on).
I want to be able
Hi,
I'm planning to start digitising my house entertainment using mythtv.
I'm based in the UK and use the Freeview DVB-T transmissions.
So do any of the commercially available PVRs come with
standards-based network interfaces? Or has anybody hacked a commercial
PVR to run myth? (like the
Daniel Howell wrote:
But there's NO /dev/dvb folder or subfolders/devices whatsoever. Now a
quick scoure of Google shows tonnes of people having this problem, so
I ran the MAKEDEV-DVB.sh script which duly creates them. But running
the dvb-util package's dvbscan, it can't open
Hi all,
I've just joined up to this mailing list and I've been playing with
MythTV now for about a month. I'm using SuSE 9.1 with a 2.4.28 kernel
(SuSE 9.1 is normally a 2.6 kernel but I had problems compiling software
- either lirc or IVTV I can't remember which) and I'm using a PVR 350
for
I'm hoping someone can help with a dvd problem I'm having.
I'm running FC2 from Jarod's guide. MTD is started (mtd -d)
prior to mythbackend and mythfrontend being started.
I don't have a dvd drive in my combined myth box. I have created
a /dev/dvd entry and a /mnt/dvd entry, then put that
Greetings,
Just got xmltv programming information flowing in, then decided to try
recording something overnight. Oddly, the backend fired off the recording on
schedule, but myth stayed on the last channel I was on interactively (TSI)
rather than switching to the recorded one (Pro7). Has anyone
Ok,
I installed Myth using the great Jarod's guide, and I have one little
issue, i can't figure out the modprobe.conf file for the ivtv drivers to
have them load at bootup. I have to manually start them and then restart
mythbackend. If I don't I have no sound. Below is my modprobe.conf
I have 6. email me if you want some.
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:26:54 -0800, Paul Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have 6 invites email me directly if you're interested...
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:51:35 -0500, cythraul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I just sent my last invite.
If it works manually, search the mythtv-users archives for rc.local.
That's what many of us had to do to get ivtv (and lircd) to load at
boot.
Andrew.
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 07:35:48 -0500, Bryan Ware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok,
I installed Myth using the great Jarod's guide, and I have
Christoffer Kjølbæk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a problem, and I have used some time in the archive, but can't
find a solution. There is a lot of posts about this, but I have tried
all the solution, without result.
snip
I can set the box to record, which work, exept that I have to set
I have 10. email me if you want one.
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 07:44:22 -0500, Jeffrey B. Murphy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have 6. email me if you want some.
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:26:54 -0800, Paul Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have 6 invites email me directly if you're interested...
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:10:56 -0500, Matt Vollmar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you run something like Mandrake, it will recognize it auto-magically,
but you may end up having to tweak it a little. Basically, you will
want to google for something like bt878 WinTV Linux modprobe.conf and
that
I used to have Core 1 as my OS, but upgraded my system so I went with
Core 3. I didn't have this issue in core 1 and didn't have it in the
rc.local file. I tried to copy the old modules.conf entries for ivtv to
the modprobe.conf file but it didn't like the add lines..
Bry
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at
Wow, this makes me glad I have gmail, b/c all these emails about gmail
end up threaded in one conversation :-)
- Jeff
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 08:38:57 -0500, Bryan Brannigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have 10. email me if you want one.
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 07:44:22 -0500, Jeffrey B. Murphy
right. :)
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 09:20:17 -0500, Jeff Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wow, this makes me glad I have gmail, b/c all these emails about gmail
end up threaded in one conversation :-)
- Jeff
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 08:38:57 -0500, Bryan Brannigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have
Can I get one?
Thanks
Greg Robinson
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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] OT: gmail account
I have auto expire on, 1 gig threshold and check every 10 minutes. All
programs are set to auto expire. I got down to .16 gig and nothing happened.
I looked in the mythbackend.log and didn't see anything about auto expire
running.
Where else might I look?
Jeff Simpson wrote:
I have an interesting question - I'm at work and won't be back home
until Monday, however, I just thought of a program that I'd like to
record. Short of running mythfrontend from the office, is there a way
to set a program to record by editing the database?
(ps - I did try to
Mark Crutch wrote:
A few days ago there was a thread about freeing up some storage space
temporarily. One of the best suggestions I saw was to copy the larger
files to a second hard drive and set up a symlink to them.
Unfortunately I can't do that, as I run MythTV on a SFF PC which doesn't
have
Try doing the grub.conf change here. ivtv-fb now works for me in rc.local in
FC2 on bootup.
http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=345
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Check Ebay first. Generally speaking, a TV is tough to ship, which
means that only people within driving distance of the seller will be
bidding. Fewer bids - lower price. Also, it seems like there's an
awful lot of advertising for new TV's this X-mas season. If any of it
worked, money-to-burn
mielikki-ivtv wrote:
I record video with mythtv off my PVR-350. When I play it back in xine
it looks fine, but when I tell xine to take a screen shot, it comes out
squished.
Changing the settings in MythTV (Setup TV Settings Recording
Profiles MPEG Encoders Default Width Height) to be
I cannot help you, but something has definitely changed in XvMC between
CVS 2004/11/27 and CVS 2004/12/20.
I use the ATrpms on a Fedora Core 2 backend, but I am running a MiniMyth
style frontend on a Via EPIA ME6000 frontend. When I build CVS
2004/11/27, it works like a charm on my fronted.
Hello List.
Does the nVidia Personal Cinema (apparently a nVIDIA GeForce4 MX440-8X
chipset) provide any hardware encoding? Will it work well for recording in a
somewhat low horsepower PC (900 Mhz AMD Atholon)?
Thanks,
Bill
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Peter Lee wrote:
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:22:48 -0500, mielikki-ivtv
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Peter Lee wrote:
The upgrade went smoothly, except for one thing: The OSD is not
working.
I had a similar problem with the OSD and it turned out to be a
permission problem. I do a
chmod a+rw /dev/fb/2
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:30:38 -0800, Brad Templeton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 04:40:47PM -0700, mark wrote:
I have had good luck with the 5200
Great quality and fairly cheap.
The 5200 is the low end of the FX line, and reasonably powerful,
but if you just want
Hi,
I don't believe that the MX440 versions do hardware encoding of any
sort. That was the primary reason i didn't purchase one. I think the
newer chips, like the FX series, DOES have MPEG2 hardware encoding.
-bborie
Bill Sutton wrote:
Hello List.
Does the nVidia Personal Cinema (apparently a
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 10:32 -0700, Shawn Asmussen wrote:
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:30:38 -0800, Brad Templeton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 04:40:47PM -0700, mark wrote:
I have had good luck with the 5200
Great quality and fairly cheap.
The 5200 is the low end of
Check your TV Playback Settings. The last time I upgraded it changed
use Xv
controls' to enabled which caused my frontend to crash whenever I
started watching TV.
Paul Bender wrote:
I cannot help you, but something has definitely changed in XvMC between
CVS 2004/11/27 and CVS 2004/12/20.
I
I understand that you can connect a VGA computer output to the DVI input of a
TV. The connection is analogue, but I think TV-out (s-video) is too, so is
there any difference in quality? What about composite, that some video cards
also support?
DVI only seems to be supported on higher-end
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 08:00 -0500, Justin Miller wrote:
Rumor has it, you folks have been able to control channel changing on the
dct6200 via the firewire port? Is there truth to this? If so, where can I
get the code/plugin/whatever?
mythtv/contrib/6200ch.c
And don't forget to read the
I orginally set up my Mythbox with the default local host IP address
and it worked fine, but my samba server would not work with my windows
machines. So i changed the name of my Mythbox to something else other
than Localhost and now my mythtv will not work. Can someone help me
with the
Wow, that subject line was a bit verbose, but anyway here's the general
problem I've only recently seen happen.
I'm running Gentoo with a 2.6.5 kernel, a slightly-custom-patched
version of ivtv-0.1.10-pre2-ck100z and 0.16 of mythtv. Everything else
is essentially common. Also, I should
Bryan Ware wrote:
I used to have Core 1 as my OS, but upgraded my system so I went with
Core 3. I didn't have this issue in core 1 and didn't have it in the
rc.local file. I tried to copy the old modules.conf entries for ivtv to
the modprobe.conf file but it didn't like the add lines..
Bry
On
Hello
all,
I've got my Myth box
running fairly smoothly now but have a question that I can't seem to find an
answer for. When watching live TV, if a scheduled recording comes on, the
frontend will lockup. I have no idea why - I've looked in the log for the
frontend and there doesn't
Kenny Votava wrote:
I orginally set up my Mythbox with the default local host IP address
and it worked fine, but my samba server would not work with my windows
machines. So i changed the name of my Mythbox to something else other
than Localhost and now my mythtv will not work. Can someone help
I briefly scanned the archives for a similar problem, but the definition
was a bit too complex, and I wasn't getting any good hits. Anyone else
hit this or have any idea what might be causing it? The log output for
mythbackend has *nothing* that I've noticed that would explain what's
Ok. I can't do much about the config in the database because it need
it to have RecodFilePrefix to be on the backend computer.
You're not making any sense. Each host that runs mythtv has its own
RecordFilePrefix setting. You could even manually set a field for the
machine you want to run
Chris Lynch wrote:
Hello all,
I've got my Myth box running fairly smoothly now but have a question
that I can't seem to find an answer for. When watching live TV, if a
scheduled recording comes on, the frontend will lockup. I have no
idea why - I've looked in the log for the frontend and
Chris Petersen wrote:
Do you just have one backend running? I've heard of mythweb causing
the backend to hang/refuse connections, requiring it to be restarted,
but not recently, and only when trying to delete shows located on a
slave backend.
I just thought of something else that I don't think
DVI is technically both, if I'm correct but its safe to assume that it
is digital. More info is available here... http://www.ddwg.org/dvi.html
Compared to s-vid or component for that matter, DVI is superior
(especially if the signal is digital and your tv has digital DVI in).
Additionally,
Ok. I can't do much about the config in the database because it need
it to have RecodFilePrefix to be on the backend computer.
You're not making any sense. Each host that runs mythtv has its own
RecordFilePrefix setting. You could even manually set a field for the
machine you want to
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 12:45:10 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wow, that subject line was a bit verbose, but anyway here's the general
problem I've only recently seen happen.
I'm running Gentoo with a 2.6.5 kernel, a slightly-custom-patched
version of ivtv-0.1.10-pre2-ck100z
What I had to do to get it working was rebuild from the source RPM provided at
ATrpms and exclude nvidia's XvMC.
rpmbuild -bb --define _without_xvmcnvidia=1 mythtv-cvs specfilename
This is not ideal as I would really love to benefit from XvMC , so if anyone
can provide a solution it would be
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Kenny Votava wrote:
| I orginally set up my Mythbox with the default local host IP address
| and it worked fine, but my samba server would not work with my windows
| machines. So i changed the name of my Mythbox to something else other
| than
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 01:15:02PM -, Mark Crutch wrote:
A few days ago there was a thread about freeing up some storage space
temporarily. One of the best suggestions I saw was to copy the larger
files to a second hard drive and set up a symlink to them.
Unfortunately I can't do that,
At 12:57 PM 12/23/2004, you wrote:
Hello all,
I've got my Myth box running fairly smoothly now but have a question that
I can't seem to find an answer for. When watching live TV, if a scheduled
recording comes on, the frontend will lockup. I have no idea why - I've
looked in the log for the
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 14:24 +0100, Christoffer Kjlbk wrote:
This is the log when I change channel:
2004-12-23 13:52:32 Output filters for this channel are: ''
QDateTime::fromString: Parameter out of range
QDateTime::fromString: Parameter out of range
1
QDateTime::fromString: Parameter out
Mark Wormgoor wrote:
So do any of the commercially available PVRs come with
standards-based network interfaces? Or has anybody hacked a commercial
PVR to run myth? (like the WRT54G router runs OpenWrt)
http://www.kiss-technology.com/?p=558v=users
Every computer that runs the Backend of mythtv has it's own
RecordFilePrefix setting, any other computer can use that database, as
i do, by propertly configuring a ~/.mythtv/mysql.txt. But in this way,
i can't change the host in the database, because i still need the
backend to record locally.
Slightly OT, but I thought some people might be interested :
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/23/1715241tid=137tid=129
Max.
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no solutions. this problem has been around in one form or another for a
long time. Seems as though it afflicts a smaller percentage of users,
so it raises no real concern. I too have issues, and have seen the
synptoms move about as the code changes. To date, there is no real answer.
-dvh
But yes, I would like to see DVI working from linux. I mean I have
seen it (With a Radeon 9200se) but the drivers can't go more than 1600
wide for xvideo as of now, and the proprietary drivers are limited to
older kernels than I have, or so they say..
I haven't heard anything about ati's
The 150 uses the newer connexiant cx88 chip rather than the older
phillips one for analog capture (not encoding -- that's a different
chip) which is supposted to be better (10 bit color, and rumors of
higher resolutions)
-Nate
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 00:54:50 -0600, Neil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joakim Kolsjö wrote:
Ok. I can't do much about the config in the database because it need
it to have RecodFilePrefix to be on the backend computer.
You're not making any sense. Each host that runs mythtv has its own
RecordFilePrefix setting. You could even manually set a field for the
machine
I just got a xbox and I would like to convert this to mythtv
use. Its a very new bios, 1.6 or newer so the mechinstaller
hack wont work like it did on my old xbox (toasted by a glass
of pop). It appears that I need to buy a modchip for the
beast. I would like to keep the ability to use
Sorry if you already know this, but I just thought I'd mention that if
you're frequently having hard drives fail for non-heat related
reasons, I'd look at your power supply. Even if it has enough watts
to power the drive(s), often lower quality PSUs have much noise on the
line, and this could
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:32:19PM -0800, nate s wrote:
But yes, I would like to see DVI working from linux. I mean I have
seen it (With a Radeon 9200se) but the drivers can't go more than 1600
wide for xvideo as of now, and the proprietary drivers are limited to
older kernels than I
I have mythfrontend owned by root and set to run suid. However,
when i run it it reports:
pthread-setschedparam: Operation not permitted
Running as SUID root would allow some threads to run with realtime...
This is under Fedora Core 3, latest kernel, latest atrpm.
-rwsr-sr-x 1 root root
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have mythfrontend owned by root and set to run suid. However,
when i run it it reports:
pthread-setschedparam: Operation not permitted
Running as SUID root would allow some threads to run with realtime...
David Bosiljevac wrote:
Hi all,
Quickly, my setup is as follows:
- ivtv 0.1.9.
- AMD XP 3200+, 1 GB RAM, 1 x 120 GB IDE drive, 2 x 120 GB S-ATA drives striped
together (this is where my recording data goes)
- Myth 0.16
Getting similar here with a similar configuration (but bt848 capture
card). My
But 150 isn't supported yet on linux. :(
nate s writes:
The 150 uses the newer connexiant cx88 chip rather than the older
phillips one for analog capture (not encoding -- that's a different
chip) which is supposted to be better (10 bit color, and rumors of
higher resolutions)
-Nate
On Tue,
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:32:19PM -0800, nate s wrote:
But yes, I would like to see DVI working from linux. I mean I have
seen it (With a Radeon 9200se) but the drivers can't go more than 1600
wide for xvideo as of now, and the proprietary drivers are limited to
older kernels than I
I believe you mean de-coding
I'm not familar with the nvidia personal cinema. Is it a capture card?
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 09:43:03 -0800, DustyMugs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I don't believe that the MX440 versions do hardware encoding of any
sort. That was the primary reason i didn't
Nope, I mean encoding. The nvidia personal cinema is nvidia's answer to
ati's all in wonder series. Hasn't been around long (compared to the aiw)
AND isn't really plastered all over the place in ads and such.
But compared to the AIW series, the Personal Cinemas have pretty good
Linux support.
If you use 'nvtv' to overscan your nvidia card AND you run mythtv as a
non-root user, are you able to call nvtv from the commandline and have
it do it's work?
I've googled for answers and searched the mailing list/forums at the
nvtv site but haven't come up with anything yet to explain the
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 12:41:59 -0500, Bryan Ware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Shawn,
can you post that script?
Sure, but there's really not that much to it.
The script is below, and I use it as my .Xclients-default file. It
just starts up the window manager, and then starts up mythfrontend
You'll need to use sudo (add your myth user to the /etc/sudoers file).
Mine runs like this from a script in ~/.kde/Autostart/mythstartup
#!/bin/bash
#Overscan the TV-out
sudo /usr/sbin/nvtv -r 640,480 -s HUGE -S NTSC -t -C Convert
David
At 08:00 PM 12/23/2004, you wrote:
If you use 'nvtv' to
Unfortunately, a second tuner card does _NOT_ necessarily solve this problem.
You'd think it would
but no.
If the two programs are on the same channel, only the one tuner will be used,
the end of the first
program will be on the file for the second program. Sure, it's recorded ...
If you use 'nvtv' to overscan your nvidia card AND you run mythtv as a
non-root user, are you able to call nvtv from the commandline and have
it do it's work?
I've googled for answers and searched the mailing list/forums at the
nvtv site but haven't come up with anything yet to explain the
Should I ignore the scurrilous rumours in that Slashdot link that Max
posted, then?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=133794cid=11171168
Stroller
On Dec 24, 2004, at 12:08 am, Neil wrote:
But 150 isn't supported yet on linux. :(
nate s writes:
The 150 uses the newer connexiant cx88 chip rather
When I run this command, all the output should go to /dev/null, I believe:
$ mythfilldatabase --file 1 7 /home/mythtv/.xmltv/tvlistings.xml 21
/dev/null
However, the output goes to screen, or to mail when I run it from
cron, and that is a problem for me - I don't want mails building up.
Does
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 16:05 +1100, Phill Edwards wrote:
Am I right in thinking that overscan is when the window doesnt fill
the physical screen? I have the opposite problem where I run X at a
default of 800x600 and the windows are too big for the screen so I
have to go back to 1024x768. I
On Thursday 23 December 2004 11:31 pm, Phill Edwards wrote:
Unfortunately, a second tuner card does _NOT_ necessarily solve this
problem. You'd think it would but no.
If the two programs are on the same channel, only the one tuner will be
used, the end of the first program will be on the
When i try to watch a recorded show the preview is shown with a heavy
green tint and when i hit enter to watch it my screen goes black and
locks up the computer.
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On Dec 24, 2004, at 5:33 am, Phill Edwards wrote:
When I run this command, all the output should go to /dev/null, I
believe:
$ mythfilldatabase --file 1 7 /home/mythtv/.xmltv/tvlistings.xml 21
/dev/null
However, the output goes to screen, or to mail when I run it from
cron...
It's been a while
When i attempt to watch tv in Mythtv it just goes to a blank screen
that takes me back to the main menu. The frontend server tells me the
following : connecting to backend server: ReadStringList timeout
(quick): Unexpected response to MYTH_PROTO_VERSION: Changing from none
to none
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