I have setup a new amd64 3200+ with debian etch (testing) as a remote
frontend. I am using the subversion trunk. In general I am getting
very strange things happening. I am using a 2.6.12 kernel.
Some of the problems include, when selecting to watch live tv, myth
will hang on a black screen,
I am seeing very similar behavior on my Ubuntu x86-64 box (I sent a
message about it yesterday).
I have around a 20% success rate for getting video when starting the
front end and going to live tv. Most of the time it just hangs in
black screen. The backend appears to be working, as I can view
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 21:04 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
Mark Cooke wrote:
Or try bob, but with a slight speed adjustment (M key then left/right
arrows during playback). I see the bouncing at standard speed playback,
but at x1.05 or x0.95, the bouncing is gone.
Are you talking about
hi all
first i wanted to thanks all the people who contributed to this project
cause it rocks ! The configuration process is rough tough and i had to
manually change the database using phpmyadmin to make it work.
xmltv hadn't any grabber for Belgium but pytvgrab got a grabber for me
Thanks for the response. I tried adding that line to my xorg.conf,
but I still get the video problems.
I can always open the ringbuf file with vlc. So, I know the data is
there, and VLC can reliably open the video output. It seems like a
communications problem between the frontend and
The FusionHDTV card comes with a USB IR receiver and remote, and
there are patches to make it work with Linux and lirc.
You can get the receiver+remote for $9 here:
https://www.digitalconnection.com/store/Product_Details.asp?ProductCode=DFREMOTE
Note: I can't say how well it works in Linux..
Ok, my first attempt at using mythtv instead of freevo, I've ran into
some problems,
launching mythfrontend works fine, even edited the menus (I dont use
the TV-cruft), when launching media files (avi etc), mplayer loads,
however all the mplayer keybindings dont work anymore. Launching
mplayer
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 08:32:28PM +1200, Dudely Smith wrote:
however all the mplayer keybindings dont work anymore. Launching
mplayer from a regular X11 session works fine.
I had the same problem. Although mplayer would start and run, all of
the keystrokes were being passed back to Myth and
On Saturday 16 July 2005 09:44, leszek wrote:
snip
I noticed that they are the channels with the lower frequencies !
I already got a little noise on these channels so maybe there is a noise
detection mechanism which trigger too fast.
what can i do ?
I don't know, but let me tell what I did :)
I am using nuvexport (using ffmpeg) to write a movie out to vcd format.
The thing is, it didn't ask me about how to split the movie, and because
it is 3 hours long, I expected to have to split it into at least 2
pieces for vcd. The output file is currently 880MB and it is still
going.
On 7/16/05, Michael Carland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Searching in gossamer, I didn't find anyone else having this type of
problem since 2004. Is anyone else seeing this? Did zap2it change the
number of days of data that they carry?
If you have data for some channels then, no, zap2it has
launching mythfrontend works fine, even edited the menus (I dont use
the TV-cruft), when launching media files (avi etc), mplayer loads,
however all the mplayer keybindings dont work anymore. Launching
Question, are you using a window manager or just launching X and mythfrontend?
This sounds
Le samedi 16 juillet 2005 à 11:01 +0200, Stef Coene a écrit :
On Saturday 16 July 2005 09:44, leszek wrote:
snip
I noticed that they are the channels with the lower frequencies !
I already got a little noise on these channels so maybe there is a noise
detection mechanism which trigger too
On Saturday 16 July 2005 13:09, leszek wrote:
the tv_grabber works well
Ok.
the frequencies are the good ones ( i took them from my provider )
http://www.coditel.be/Default.aspx?tabid=73
they are also the same as scantv of xawtv gave me
these channels display fine on xawtv and others tv
Do you enter the frequency in the channel setup ?
I don't know if you use mythweb, but it's really handy for entering channel
information.
i entered the channels using a xawtv file then i updated the database by
hand (with phpmyadmin).
i didn't know mythweb
it would have me save time
Do you have expat installed? http://expat.sourceforge.net
you could also check the makefile for xmame to see if BUILD_EXPAT=1
is uncommented. I seem to remember something about debian and expat
and this setting. I'm not familiar at all with xebian. you should
probably check the xmame
On Jul 16, 2005, at 5:51 AM, aaron wrote:
On 7/16/05, Michael Carland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Searching in gossamer, I didn't find anyone else having this type of
problem since 2004. Is anyone else seeing this? Did zap2it change the
number of days of data that they carry?
If you have
I would like to finetune a channel with mythtv.
Is there a way to finetune a channel while playing ?
if i change the finetune parameter of a channel with mythweb, when will
the change appear ?
if i change the channel and come back ? or have i to restart mythtv ??
thanks,
Leszek
I'm having trouble getting Xorg to display in Clone mode.
I can get a decent display on my Plasma screen with this xorg.conf
file: http://alunt.homelinux.org/files/xorg.confPlasma
I can also get a display on my LCD monitor with this conf:
http://alunt.homelinux.org/files/xorg.confSamsung
I
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 08:58:40AM -0400, Jeff volckaert wrote:
Please post if this works for you. I have a FC4 system with 2.6.12
and an old PVR-250 card which has such a jumpy picture I can watch it.
I have been very frustrated trying various version of the IVTV driver
without success.
My
Hi: I couldn't find this info. Wondering which OS
(name and version) is recommended to run mythTV?
Thanks
Ravi
Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page
http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
It works just fine with xmame 0.97, actually. It's more likely that
That's what I get for just not looking close enough. I saw
versionchk = 83 and thought versionchk == 83
:)
Either way that requirement is gone from the latest source so eventually
this error will disappear into
A Thomson wrote:
I'm having trouble getting Xorg to display in Clone mode.
I can get a decent display on my Plasma screen with this xorg.conf
file: http://alunt.homelinux.org/files/xorg.confPlasma
I can also get a display on my LCD monitor with this conf:
Hmmm, are you meaning Linux vs Mac vs Windows? In that case I think its mostly
Linux although I hear there is a MythWin project and possibly a similar Mac
project as ports from the linux version.
If you are asking what distribution of Linux, I think there is a fairly wide
range. I and several
All of a sudden, my video on recordings I make is screwed up.
Previously-made recordings look fine and xawtv works fine, so I suspect
I have messed something up in the recording setup parameters, but I
cannot figure it out.
What happens is, the audio is fine, but the video kind of looks like
I'm running Myth 0.18 on a Gentoo box. I've successfully gotten mythweb
installed and can access the scheduling pages. However when I attempt
to click on the weather page, I get this error:
Warning at /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mythweb/weather.php, line 104:
file(): URL file-access is
Hello!
I get messages similar to this throughout my myth experience:
XMLParse::LoadTheme(): Can't open: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/blue/dvd-ui.xml
XMLParse::LoadTheme(): Using default theme file
I am not sure if it's a problem on my end, or if the theme (blue)
doesn't have this file and myth is
On 7/16/05, Greg Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All of a sudden, my video on recordings I make is screwed up.
Previously-made recordings look fine and xawtv works fine, so I suspect
I have messed something up in the recording setup parameters, but I
cannot figure it out.
What happens is,
Drew Tomlinson wrote:
I'm running Myth 0.18 on a Gentoo box. I've successfully gotten mythweb
installed and can access the scheduling pages. However when I attempt
to click on the weather page, I get this error:
Warning at /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mythweb/weather.php, line 104:
file(): URL
Hi All,
Sorry for crossposting to both lists.
I'm wondering if there is support for the new Fusion HDTV 5 card ? Its
based on LG's 5th Gen Tuner. The Lite version (without USB remote,
which I dont need) is just $99 at digital connection
Todd,
Thank you for the link, that's a good start, but not quite what i'm looking
for. I don't really need the remote control and the form that the usb dongle
takes is importsnt. I'm trying to aviod wires, you see and it interferes with
the look of my set up.
I'm thinking more along the lines
On 7/16/2005 10:36 AM Chris Petersen wrote:
Drew Tomlinson wrote:
I'm running Myth 0.18 on a Gentoo box. I've successfully gotten
mythweb installed and can access the scheduling pages. However when
I attempt to click on the weather page, I get this error:
Warning at
After compiling MythBrowser without any errors,
I restarted mythfrontend, expecting to see something
either on the first screen with Watch TV, etc., or maybe
down inside Setup.
There was no sign of MythBrowser in mythfrontend.
So, after a little trial-and-error, I exited mythfrontend
and entered
On 7/16/05, Chad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello!
I get messages similar to this throughout my myth experience:
XMLParse::LoadTheme(): Can't open: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/blue/dvd-ui.xml
XMLParse::LoadTheme(): Using default theme file
I am not sure if it's a problem on my end, or if the
http://news.com.com/Forgent+sues+cable+companies+over+DVR+patent/2100-1047_3-5788649.html
Now Forgent claims they have a patent on how to build a
computer-controlled video system that can play back video while
recording, originally intended for video conferencing.
MW
On 4/13/05, Joseph A.
Hello
Ravi Malghan wrote:
Hi: I couldn't find this info. Wondering which OS
(name and version) is recommended to run mythTV?
Thanks
Ravi
Linux. You can find more requirements here:
http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythInfo
Regards,
Cecil
Chad, thanks for responding.
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 11:16 -0600, Chad wrote:
It reads to me like you are describing interlacing. When I first
fired up a recording with my pchdtv 3000 interlacing stuck out like a
sore thumb. You could try passing parameters to your playback
software to
I'm having no luck at all getting my Myth to display on my HDTV. I'm using
the DVI out on my FX5200 to connect to the HDMI on my TV using a DVI-HDMI
cable. I've tried all the modelines listed by Jarrod, and many other
modelines I've found searching around the web (see xorg.conf stuff below).
I've
Jeff volckaert wrote:
On 7/15/05, Gambit Declined [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/14/05, Jeff volckaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nobody is using a PVR-250 with FC4? Is it just that not alot of
people have moved to FC4?
I have the same setup and couldn't get ivtv to modprobe. I
The card I have is an nvidia.. I'm using the testing version of the ivtv
driver.
If it's important I can probably find the exact versions.
I'd rather use the nvtv application if I can get it to work, but if I have
to xvattr might be the only way..
From: Joe Votour [EMAIL PROTECTED]
what is the software thatmythtv uses to view tv? is
it possible to run it on its own without mythtv and are there any editable
config files?
Trying to debug my tv.
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Has the topic of using the web/Internet as a video source ever been
tossed around? This would allow defining channels which are actually
streams from other network locations.
At GUADEC, for example, there were live streams of the conference. It
would've been cool to watch these under Myth.
On 7/16/05, Mercury Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After compiling MythBrowser without any errors,
I restarted mythfrontend, expecting to see something
either on the first screen with Watch TV, etc., or maybe
down inside Setup.
MythBrowser is in the Information Center. It's confiruation
On 7/15/05, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After you make the cable as described on the dtvcontrol web site, then
you need to find the proper perl script that changes channels for your
DirecTV box. For example, my box is an RCA 4th gen receiver so I tried
the RCA.pl script. No go.
On 7/16/05, antec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what is the software thatmythtv uses to view tv? is it possible to run it on
its own without mythtv and are there any editable config files?
Heh is this a trick question? This isn't freevo there's no other apps
needed to watch tv. You have
Its easy to do from mythvideo - see the recent thread on Nasa TV.
It relies on the fact that you can set up any arbitrary command to watch
a video file.
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 18:00 -0400, Mike Frisch wrote:
Has the topic of using the web/Internet as a video source ever been
tossed around?
ref:
Desktop with SuSE 9.3 and firewall active. There I have MythTV backend and
mysql. Running the frontend there works fine.
Laptop wireless (ibmx40) with SuSE 9.3 and firewall active. I installed a second
front end.
Problem If I stop the firewall in the desktop the frontend in the laptop
Finally I have running mythtv and it is working great including a second
frontend in a wireless laptop. Now I want to make dvd's to play in a dvd player
from the nuv files. What is the best path to do it?
I assume is installing mythdvd correct?
TIA
-=terry(Denver)=-
While you won't be capturing true HD, you should be capturing a
considerable better quality signal than SD via analog cable.
The res you can capture will max out a 720x480 (the max capabilities
of the PVR250), which is not HD.
A friend with non-HD satellite (Bell ExpressVu) captured an episode
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 10:37:20AM -0700, Mudit Wahal wrote:
Sorry for crossposting to both lists.
I'm wondering if there is support for the new Fusion HDTV 5 card ? Its
You should ask on linux-dvb@linuxtv.org instead.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It is very important what card you have. The nvtv
driver and are meant for older cards. Compatibility
with newer cards isn't guaranteed, due to different
TV-out chips.
I have a GeForce 5200FX, and use the xvattr fix
myself, - it works fine.
A search through the archives might give you more
I'm getting a similar error messages for the 3 mentioned plugins,
/usr/lib/mythtv/plugins/lib[name of module here].so: undefined symbol:
_ZN18ConfigurationGroup-4loadEP12SsqlDatabase
Unable to initialize plugin '[module name here]'.
Unable to run plugin '[module name here]': not intialized
I have tried using nuvexport with ffmpeg and transcode (exporting from a
DVB mpeg capture/recording), and in both cases the audio is quite out of
sync with the video when I view them in kaffeine. I even burned one to
a vcd and tried it in a standalone player, and the audio is still out of
I've been using mvpmc on my mediamvp for awhile and it seems to be
You'd have more luck addressing this to the mvpmc mailing list :)
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Recently there was a thread that went around about using x-dsl as a
lightweight mythtv frontend for the xbox. It seems that this turned out
to be a lot of effort for not a lot of reward, so I'ms looking at
alternatives.
Basically, I don't believe that xbmcmythtv is there yet as an
2. Reading the release notes for Myth 0.16 is says that OSD text can
be in colour. However I can only get shades of gray.
I think this might be because you're using XvMC. You only get grey OSD
if you are.
Regards,
Phill
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Has the topic of using the web/Internet as a video source ever been
tossed around? This would allow defining channels which are actually
streams from other network locations.
At GUADEC, for example, there were live streams of the conference. It
would've been cool to watch these under
Are they different versions? I have seen this trying to run (e.g)
mythvideo 0-16 with mythtv 0.18
And you might notice the answer to a similar question within the last
week on this list.
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 21:06 -0400, A JM wrote:
I'm getting a similar error messages for the 3 mentioned
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:00:48PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
Its easy to do from mythvideo - see the recent thread on Nasa TV.
It relies on the fact that you can set up any arbitrary command to watch
a video file.
But this doesn't allow me to record the stream, does it?
I'd like to setup the
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:23:12PM +1000, Phill Edwards wrote:
You could use MythStream and set up an entry for this in its
streams.res file. You don't get full screen, though.
No full screen is no good. I want these streams treated like regular
channels.
would you please STOP hijacking threads.
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 11:18 +1000, ffrr wrote:
I have tried using nuvexport with ffmpeg and transcode (exporting from a
DVB mpeg capture/recording), and in both cases the audio is quite out of
sync with the video when I view them in kaffeine. I even
I was happily running myth 0.17 with the ivtv drivers unders Debian sid
for the past few months.
Then tonight, I found I could no longer seek when streaming any of
my videos across the network. Seeking seems to work ok on the local
myth box. When I seek on my network box, it takes a really long
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 22:25 -0400, Mike Frisch wrote:
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:23:12PM +1000, Phill Edwards wrote:
You could use MythStream and set up an entry for this in its
streams.res file. You don't get full screen, though.
No full screen is no good. I want these streams treated
Nick Rout wrote:
would you please STOP hijacking threads.
Sorry, I was completely unaware that I was. I just replied to an
existing message, but changed the subject and all the text. Looks OK in
my email client, but if it causes problems for others, I'll do it
differently.
I have tried using nuvexport with ffmpeg and transcode (exporting from a
DVB mpeg capture/recording), and in both cases the audio is quite out of
sync with the video when I view them in kaffeine. I even burned one to
a vcd and tried it in a standalone player, and the audio is still out of
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 03:04:46PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
OK I see your point. There are ways to get, for example, mplayer to
record a stream to the hard drive, like:
mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile record_here.avi \
http://url.of.org/stream.avi
Coupled with cron you'd have a method of
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 11:16 -0600, Chad wrote:
You could try passing parameters to your playback
software to deinterlace
Can anyone explain exactly now I would do this? I have tried checking
deinterlace during playback but it has no effect. Old recordings still
look fine, new ones look like
I don't know how much of a solution this is, but you
might try hitting the m and n keys while playing
in kaffeine. This is supposed to adjust the
audio/video sync by an offset in xine. Of course, I'm
assuming this will work in kaffeine, which is supposed
to be based on xine, so the keys might be
Does anyone know why transcode would fail out turning Myth NUV files
into anything else? These files were copied and saved just before my
first myth hard drive bit the dust, so they aren't in the database
anymore (or on the same puter for that matter), so nuvexport and
mythtranscode might be
Eric Jensen wrote:
Eric Jensen wrote:
I have a Universal Remote Control MX-500 and am trying to get it to work
with an Irman. I hooked it up to a Windows box and get output just
fine, so the irman does support the signal from my remote. When I run
lircd and then irw or irrecord I don't
Pete Clarke wrote:
Hi there,
Almost MythTV related :-)
I am currently running Debian testing, with MythTV 0.18. Everything
works except for lirc.
I have a PVR250 with remote .. I followed the instructions for
building lirc, and it builds and installs fine.
However, when running I get
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 11:46:37PM -0500, Pete Buelow wrote:
I didn't want to come off sounding like D'uh, don't be an idiot, turn
off your tv!, so I added the disclaimer. You're right, just turn off
the TV and save the juice.
The sleep timer is a great feature for those who fall asleep in
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 01:12:34PM +1000, ffrr wrote:
would you please STOP hijacking threads.
Sorry, I was completely unaware that I was. I just replied to an
existing message, but changed the subject and all the text. Looks OK in
my email client, but if it causes problems for others, I'll
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 23:18 -0400, Mike Frisch wrote:
I just figured something like this might be useful. I'll miss the
shuttle launch (whenever it happens) and it'd be nice to have a
recording. Same goes for various other web events.
Speaking of which, when are they thinking of launching it
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 10:41:43PM -0300, Greg Estabrooks wrote:
I've been using mvpmc on my mediamvp for awhile and it seems to be
You'd have more luck addressing this to the mvpmc mailing list :)
I did:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=11638376
No bites. :(
-Tim
You might try this:
http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/ArchiveRecordingsToDvdHowTo
I had to compile all the pieces to do it, but it was not that hard. Have
made a couple of test DVDs without too much trouble. Had to shift the
audio a bit to get it synched up, but nothing real hard.
Finally I have
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