I think this is the sort of card I need as I hope to build an SFF.
There seem to be TV cards built into MX440 cards and into FX5200 cards. I
think the former are more expensive, but don't really understand the
difference and which is enough for a computer that will only be used for a
PVR
Ok, heres my list. I am building my website as I get the answers.
While it will not replace Jarold's guide (not re-typing everything),
I'm telling people to use it with his guide because mine has tons of
notes for Linux newbies and stuff, while his is aimed toward someone
with at least some
Is anyone using Xine to playback a DVD ISO from hard drive? What
command are you using? Any special scripts involved?
-Bryan
Personally I skip all that mounting as a loopback device and linking etc and
simply use:
xine dvd://filename.iso/
Therefore in MythVideo you just create a .iso
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Dan wolf wrote:
1--Should I enable at-testing and install medley-package-config?
Maybe (but probably not) and NO.
2--What does On a related note, here's the apt-get line you need to
use if you have kde-redhat enabled to get their packages to install
cleanly Mean? The
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
I am trying to get at least the tuner of the PVR-350 working on FC3. I am
using xawtv for ages on my main computer so I tried it but it dies on a
segmentation fault.
Just for the curious this is what happens:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ xawtv -noxv
No, I beleive the Click of Death came from the sound of a dead Jazz/Zip drive.
Anyway, I guess I got lucky with that IBM drive then.
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 01:58:36 -0800, David Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dan wolf wrote, On 12/30/2004 2:24 PM:
Don't buy Maxtors, they are famous for poor
Horrible? I don't know about you, but I ran only a hardware firewall
with a WINDOWS machine for at least 2 months and never got a virus.
When I finally got a software firewall, it has never detected any
attack attempts. Maybe it is because I run a very tight shop, but I
have never had a problem
Hi,
I tried to play some DVD's as that is the first thing I want my box to
well. But I could very well play 1 DVD (The muppet show) but it failed on
another (LOTR 1). All of them official DVD's.
The error details I have gathered are:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ gxine
server: trying to connect to
Hi,
I build myself a mythtv based VCR and am struggling with small skips
inplayback (both LiveTV and Recordings).
Hardware:
* Shuttle ST62K Barebone / 512MB RAM / Celeron 2.4GHz
* Terratec Cinergy 400TV
* SEAGATE ST3160023A - 160GB
(see also http://www.bb-zone.com/misc/LinuxPVR/ for
Happy (almost) New Year everyone ;-)
Trying to get my mythtv box ready for the new year
after a month of pain -
but my DVB card is causing me some major woe ...
cut
ii) The duplicate channels in the mythweb listings
seems odd, especially
when it seems that mythfilldatabase runs
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-12-31 12:15:08]
What do the prompts for Enter channel name or '.'
mean? I have randomly entered BBC1 then 0 zero
then period '.' (maybe thats Mythsetup - don't have
access at the moment)
zap2myth[1] solves many of the irritations associated with setting up
channels
I don't know if this will help, but here goes...
I have DVB-T running on a Abit IC7-G, P4 2.4C, 512Mhz Ram, 120Gb IDE HD- not a slow system by any means. When I added a SATA HD, the picture started to break up (continuous errors in the DVB TS stream). The CPU usage was at 10% so that wasn't the
Hi Clive
Sorry that you seem to be having so much problems
with your myth install.I'm not familiar with your card, as I am using a
Nova-T with the new connexant chips on FC3 and this has been working forsome
weeks now. Here are some thoughts that might help.
1. The Winfast card that you
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Axel Thimm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:04:41PM +, Tom Hughes wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have mythfrontend owned by root and set to run suid. However,
I'm experiencing a number of strange timing related problems that
may or may not be related to audio and/or video sync issues. The
main symptom is that if a recording has been playing for a while
then hitting pause tends to cause it to jump back a way before
pausing. The longer it has been playing
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:45:41 -0600, Peter Buelow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone offer a suggestion as to a way to combine two seperate drives
to manage my space? No raid, the machine is running and the first video
drive is being used for recordings. I just want to add one without a
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:45:41 -0600, Peter Buelow wrote:
Can anyone offer a suggestion as to a way to combine two seperate drives
to manage my space? No raid, the machine is running and the first video
drive is being used for recordings. I just want to add one without a
significant extra
Ssh, don't tell ok?
Naw, my wife is a french teacher, and all her videos (on VHS) have
worn out. When she saw through myth (I did a keyword search for
french)
that French in Action was available, she was ecstatic. I tried
recording
the first one and got something completely different,
On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 13:01 +, Tom Hughes wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Axel Thimm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what about selinux? Did you try turning it off (selinux=0 in the
kernel command line)? If that helps then having mythtv running suid
will requires writing
Hi Team
Just so that this is available for anyone else buying an LG RZ-42PX11 in the
UK.
These are available for under £1,500 now in the UK so I think a few people
will be buying these.
I have this working in widescreen on my mythbox at its native resolution of
852X480
via an Nvidia FX5200 via
Dan Boger wrote:
Used to be able to just run mythfrontend in a window, and everything
would work. But I have just set up my machine to run X over two
monitors, and now, when I start mythfrontend, the menus are still ok (in
the 720x480 window), but when I start playback, there's wide bands of
--- Kyle Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FWIW, switching to using Bob as the deinterlacer set
in that special
control has also fixed the weird speed pulsing
problem I was having
with the new ffmpeg code. And it looks *beautiful*.
Wait... A little clarification here please...
Are you guys
Joe Barnhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Are you guys saying we need to set Bob in TWO places
to make this work?
No, just the deinterlace box.
I know about the bob setting in
the deinterlace box, but do I also name bobdeint
below in the special filters section? Is this why
1080i and 720p
Nezar Nielsen wrote:
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:45:41 -0600, Peter Buelow wrote:
Can anyone offer a suggestion as to a way to combine two seperate drives
to manage my space? No raid, the machine is running and the first video
drive is being used for recordings. I just want to add one without a
On Friday 31 December 2004 10:04 am, Joe Barnhart wrote:
--- Kyle Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FWIW, switching to using Bob as the deinterlacer set
in that special
control has also fixed the weird speed pulsing
problem I was having
with the new ffmpeg code. And it looks *beautiful*.
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 22:17:02 -0500
From: James Pifer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [mythtv-users] Choppy playback on remote frontend only - 2
sec prebuffering pause
To: MythTV mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Up to this point I've been running frontend and
On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 12:19 +0100, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -la /dev/hdc
brw--- 1 mythtv disk 22, 0 Dec 31 10:13 /dev/hdc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -la /dev/dvd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Dec 31 10:13 /dev/dvd - hdc
Unless you are running as root (which it looks
zap2myth made life very easy for getting dvb info into Myth - I used these
steps as I remember:
i) check out dvb-apps to get dvbscan and compile
ii) run dvbscan (with -n parameter) with correct UK transmitter file in
dvb-t directory - this can output the channels.conf file
iii) use the zap2myth
On Friday 31 December 2004 10:58, David Rees wrote:
Dan wolf wrote, On 12/30/2004 2:24 PM:
Don't buy Maxtors, they are famous for poor quality and unreliability.
Western Digital, too.
This is not absolutely true. I've owned 4 pcs 40GB maxtors and still own 6
pcs 80GB maxtors. They're
David Edmondson wrote:
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-12-31 12:15:08]
What do the prompts for Enter channel name or '.'
mean? I have randomly entered BBC1 then 0 zero
then period '.' (maybe thats Mythsetup - don't have
access at the moment)
zap2myth[1] solves many of the irritations associated
Am Freitag, den 31.12.2004, 00:01 + schrieb Martin Ebourne:
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 18:44 +0100, h.engemann wrote:
I found a post in this list:
-
You are better off running X on the board. Things look better than
running
the QT/Embedded version and the latest drivers probably wont
--- Kyle Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm confused as to why you're using a deinterlacer
for 1080i input on
a native 1080i set.
I'm just shotgunning anything that might make my
HDTV look more HD. 720p material in particular
looks bad on my set. The scaling is poor and produces
stair-step
Bob Wiegand wrote:
Up to this point I've been running frontend and backend on the same
machine, RH9 with a PVR350 and 250. I finally have setup another machine
to be a frontend. The playback on the new frontend pauses every 2
seconds for prebuffering in both LiveTV and recording playback, yet they
Hi all,
I confused about the configuration of video4linux and ivtv with mythtv.I am
using Atrpms as my only source.My questions are below:
1) Do I need to download and use the video4linux rpm as well as the kernel
module for video4linux ? The stock kernel appears to have this already
I'm using Xv on nVidia with 6111 driver. My modeline
is 1080i and seems to work judging by the UI (both
myth and window manager).
Isn't one of the complaints about the nVidia drivers that they don't
support interlaced modes correctly? With proper interlacing support
in the driver, you should
By far the easiest way I have found to setup LVM is with WebAdmin. It also makes it a snap to back up your mythconverg database as well. I currently have two drives with LVM partitions for a /video mount. That mount also contains the database backup. Now I can reinstall, import the
mail.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Probably along the right line.
I had a similar performance problem that was due to the system using =
software based sound
rather that the hardware based sound. Check that your sound system is =
doing the right thing
by playing some music (cd etc) and
Hi,
I was adding a new Soundcard and hosed my mythtv setup which has been
working for months now.
The wife is REALLY going to be mad, she was finally getting to like myth. :P
I think I blew out my modules.conf file and that is causing all the
problems. X no longer works and I have no network
Hi,
I keep getting this problem, which prevents me from lauching
mythfrontend. I'm using the latest cvs on gentoo amd64. (The
frustrating thing is that something changed in cvs and I was urged to
chase QT problems,days wasted, which were miraculously fixed with a
cvs update!). So, I got over
So I tried this while doing the transfer, had my box sitting on the terminal
and couldn't get any of those keys to work. The lights aren't flashing on
my keyboard, but unfortunately none of commands below seemed to have any
function.
When the machine froze up, some output automatically went to
Craig H Fry wrote:
By far the easiest way I have found to setup LVM is with WebAdmin. It also makes it a snap to back up your mythconverg database as well. I currently have two drives with LVM partitions for a /video mount. That mount also contains the database backup. Now I can reinstall,
On 12/31/2004 12:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I confused about the configuration of video4linux and ivtv with mythtv.I am
using Atrpms as my only source.My questions are below:
1) Do I need to download and use the video4linux rpm as well as the kernel module for video4linux ? The stock kernel
Ok, some progress, I can run the frontend as root. So, I set the
sticky bit chmod u+s /usr/local/bin/mythfrontend , no change. At
least I can start the thing now, as root ;-)
Pb
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 13:19:33 -0500, Paul Barrette
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I keep getting this problem,
Well here's something interesting I found - I'm wondering if this is
something a little more deeply rooted in my hardware config. I changed the
DMA mode on my hard drives to a lower setting and did the transfer again.
If I flat out disabled DMA the machine didn't crash, but if it's set to
While writing the below response, I started to wonder if there are *any*
HDTV's available with 1920x1080 pixels. More info below. Keeping it
short for those who just want to get to the point... :)
On 12/31/2004 11:55 AM, Kyle Rose wrote:
FWIW, I hate interlacing. Interlacing was a
I've been trying to get the IR remote working with MythTV for some time.
I've followed the instructions in section 22.2 of the MythTV documentation
to the letter, several times! IRW works fine and shows the proper label for
each button I press on the remote. I modified settings.pro and
Aha found it!
Thanks very much for your help :)
Cheers - Piers
Gordon Rimac wrote:
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 18:38:29 -0800, Chris Petersen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No README file in Mythweb's directory - I'm using Debian's apt-get
install mythweb
You can usually find things like that in
Tom Pruett wrote:
I've been trying to get the IR remote working with MythTV for some
time. I've followed the instructions in section 22.2 of the MythTV
documentation to the letter, several times! IRW works fine and shows
the proper label for each button I press on the remote. I modified
Nick Morrott wrote:
iv) Could anyone please let me know of any UK homebrewers who are savvy with
building ir receivers/transmitters and would consider putting one together
for me (for beer/money etc). Having got a bit carried away and having bought
a lovely Sky+ Navigator remote only to find the
Kevin,
Per the instructions, I ran:
$ cp configfiles/hauppauge-lircrc-nativelirc ~/.mythtv/lircrc
I'm using the Hauppauge PVR250 remote. Thanks for your help.
- Original Message -
From: Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Sent: Friday,
On Friday 31 December 2004 5:05 am, David Rees wrote:
Dan wolf wrote, On 12/30/2004 2:33 PM:
As far as security goes, I dont think you need to worry about that.
With Linux behind a router/firewall you are almost invincible.
Are you kidding? That's horrible advice to give.
On Mon, 27 Dec
Hi!
I've been tinkering with mythboxes for a while now, but have yet to
actually set it up to be used with a remote control. I have several
questions and will go from most important to least, just in case you get
bored and at the end, I'll give the specs of my backend to help with the
questions
Peter,
Please do write up your steps. I'd love to see them and I'm sure many
others would as well.
Thanks in advance,
Justin
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 10:37:22 -0500, Peter Judge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, LVM is out because I already use this and would have to redo the
disks.
If you're
My main interest is in the Slimserver's web interface managing my
playlists. My next step is to research playlist sharing between
MythMusic and the SlimServer I would be happy with that. If there was
some general interest in this I would be willing to contribute some
time to something
Here's my GOAL:
mythtv and HD3000 ATSC with AC3 to SPDIF selected, via digital coax to Denon
AVR-1705 receiver, then output beautiful DTS 6.1 to Klipsch speakers!
The receiver indicates a Digital signal and I hear analog music, but no mythtv
sound when AC3 to SPDIF selected.
Just found a
Just a reminder to all fellow MythTV watchers to pop the champagne when they
count down to 3, not 0, if you're watching a New Year's celebration on LiveTV.
Anyways, happy new year!
Micah
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mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Unfortunately I just bought a motherboard with only 2 PCI slots and one
serial connector-- both of which will have PVR's in them. While I can
likely add wireless networking through USB or Access Points, serial
ports are more difficult I think. Basically I plan on using the PVR-350
to
lol, good advice =)
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 16:40:50 -0500, Micah Wedemeyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just a reminder to all fellow MythTV watchers to pop the champagne when they
count down to 3, not 0, if you're watching a New Year's celebration on LiveTV.
Anyways, happy new year!
Micah
Almost every TV you will ever see is a complete rip off. You think it
takes 9 big ones to make a damn TV? Think again. In addition, all
the specs the salesmen give you are complete bullshit, and the specs
on the TV box are bullshit too. Hell, the TV I bought SAID it had a
comb filter, but then
I have compiled MythTV .16 to use XvMC by editing the settings.pro
file for my Epia M1, via CLE266 chip.
XvMC has been tested using m2player, and it works fine.
MythTV compiles OK, but when I start the frontend, I get an error:
Using XvMC version 1.1
date Using XV port 56
Unable to create
Hi,
I've searched through the past six months worth of
old messages and haven't really found a satisfactory
answer on the issue of multiple recording directories
(or at least multiple places that Watch recordings
looks for recorded files). I'd like some way of using
multiple directories for
Has anyone tried to share content between remote sites/friends running mythtv?
I would think if you can resolve the IP connectivity issues (fw's/VPN's/etc)
you could connect each of the backends together and share content.
Is this possible?
If friend X had DirectTV and friend Y and Cable
Last I checked they are pretty much all generically supported under the
stock USB driver. I used a generic cheapo one to control a LCD
character panel about a year ago using a stock 2.4.X kernel. As far as
Linux could tell it was a plain jane RS232 device at /dev/ttyS2. The
nice thing about
Has anyone tried to share content between remote sites/friends running mythtv?
I would think if you can resolve the IP connectivity issues (fw's/VPN's/etc)
you could connect each of the backends together and share content.
Is this possible?
Please read the archives before posting stuff like this.
I figured there must be a legal issue involved.
Don't you have 10Mbps connections between your friends? ;)
Thanks for the info and advice.
-John
- Original Message -
From: Chris Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users]
I'm running a CVS build from mid-Dec and I've noticed that every 15 sec's on
recorded content I get heavy pixel-ation (if that's a word).
For a while I thought it was due to a weak station - but it does this for all
recordings. And the fact it does this EVERY 15 sec's makes me think there is
Good new year to all!!
Jason Knisley wrote:
Hi,
I've searched through the past six months worth of
old messages and haven't really found a satisfactory
answer on the issue of multiple recording directories
(or at least multiple places that Watch recordings
looks for recorded files). I'd like
Ok, heres more;
6--When I type apt-get install
kernel-module-nvidia-graphics6629-$MYKERNEL it says E: Couldn't find
package kernel-module-nvidia-graphics6629
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 10:55:56 +0100 (CET), Hugo van der Kooij
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Dan wolf wrote:
1--Should
Two problems appear obvious:
1. Your drive isn't quite set correctly, just mostly.
Try adding:
hdparm -c3 /dev/hdb
You can also see if your chipset will tolerate
hdparm -u1 /dev/hdb
Not all of them will so you'll have to experiment to see if it causes
problems.
2. move drive to
Wow, its NOT legal? Pretty stong language, my friend. No TV
company is going to care about 2 of nerds sharing TV recordings at
25kb/s upload =) Plus if you are running the share over an encrypted
VPN how are they gonna know, anyway?
I just calculated I could be sued for $433,350,000 for my
96kHz 24 bit audio!?!?! Where on earth is anyone going to get that
kind of source? You sure you read the spec sheet correctly?
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 15:27:50 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's my GOAL:
mythtv and HD3000 ATSC with AC3 to SPDIF selected, via digital coax
I had a Maxtor die in 1 month. That sucked.
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 17:01:56 +0100, Maarten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 31 December 2004 10:58, David Rees wrote:
Dan wolf wrote, On 12/30/2004 2:24 PM:
Don't buy Maxtors, they are famous for poor quality and unreliability.
Western
Hey - get this! The latest CVS (today) seems to have fixed this issue.
Go figure.
-John
- Original Message -
From: john roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] ATSC content heavy pixel-ating every 15 sec's
Date: Fri, 31
Wow - great info on the hdparm -c3 tuning. I've made that change.
The -u (Get/set interrupt-unmask flag for the drive) is a bit scary:
Use this feature with caution: some drive/controller combinations
do not tolerate the increased I/O latencies possible when this
feature is
Sorry - I didn't mean to start a flame. :(
- Original Message -
From: Dan wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Sharing content with friends
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 17:40:04 -0800
Wow, its NOT legal? Pretty stong
I just installed a clean Mythtv 0.16 from Jarod guide on FC3.
When I try to watch tv, I get the following error appear in the
backend log and the X session is locked up. I haave to go to
another system and ssh in to kill it.
2004-12-31 21:12:10 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
NVR: v4l2:
I'm hoping someone knows how to pull this off.
I sent out an email a couple of days ago asking if anyone knew how to
get the NForce chipset (with ALSA) to play from line in. As it turns
out, I was playing... on the analog output instead of the digital
output.
Situation: I use a PVR-350 as TV
Installed 0.16 from rpm on FC3. When I click on 'Recording Schedules',
I get this error appearing in each cell of the table.
Warning at /var/www/html/mythweb/includes/sorting.php, line 42:
Invalid argument supplied for foreach()
I also see it in 'Scheduled Recordings' and 'Recorded Programs'.
On Dec 31, 2004, at 10:22 pm, Stroller wrote:
On Dec 31, 2004, at 3:37 pm, Peter Judge wrote:
Last night I converted to LVM so that I could have more space
available
for Myth. It's pretty easy to add new physical volumes once you've got
the logical volume up and running. I was planning to write
Replying to myself... sigh.
I saw earlier comments about setting the IEC958 and Analog to IEC958
options in the mixer. Both of these are set, but I still get no sound.
Does anyone know if there has been a change in the ALSA code in recent
kernel versions?
Drew
On Dec 31, 2004, at 8:48 PM, Drew
Produced in appreciation of the support and knowledge gained from linux-dvb
mythtv-users mailing lists, with the hope of helping others.
(Drafting note - yet to complete modprobe.conf section - tips appreciated!)
Paul
PS: Feedback / improvements most welcome.
PPS: Happy New Year!
--- Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While writing the below response, I started to
wonder if there are *any*
HDTV's available with 1920x1080 pixels. More info
below.
The old tech of CRT supports 1080i. I have a
Pioneer PRO-610HD set (about 3 years old) and its
native format is
Don,
Just got down to this post in the list and thought I'd shoot you
another email in case you haven't got it working yet do this...
apt-get update
apt-get remove yum
apt-get dist-upgrade
rpm -Uvh
http://atrpms.net/dist/fc3/atrpms-kickstart/atrpms-kickstart-25-1.rhfc3.at.i386.rpm
Continue
Right now I am making one with a PCHDTV 3000 card in mind.
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 22:27:56 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Produced in appreciation of the support and knowledge gained from linux-dvb
mythtv-users mailing lists, with the hope of helping others.
(Drafting note
At 10:01 PM -0600 12/31/04, Adam Blomfield wrote:
Due to recent dependency failures on yum this workaround is necessary.
Everything else in the guide should work fine.
just did an
apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade
it pulled in a bunch of new stuff including python24 and various rpm items,
MasterC writes:
1. I ran across a site today: http://irblaster.info And reading the
description truly confused me. I have several All in 1 remotes, ranging
from 8 device controls to 4. If I were to purchase these irblaster
builds, and hook it to my mythboxes serial port, would I then
You also might try applying this DTV-ringbuffer patch:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/101580
to the latest CVS.
John
Yan-Fa Li wrote:
Two problems appear obvious:
1. Your drive isn't quite set correctly, just mostly.
Try adding:
hdparm -c3 /dev/hdb
You can also see if your
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