RE: [mythtv-users] Ready for use?

2005-07-23 Thread Marc Tousignant
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Lopeman Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 9:52 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Ready for use? Jay R. Ashworth wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 03:57:53PM

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: nuvexport fails to run anymore

2005-07-23 Thread Ben Holt
On 7/22/05, Chris Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If that's the case, then it sounds like something's wrong with ffmpeg's reading of the audio stream.. A while back I was having problems with DivX and the debian unstable ffmpeg package. Recompiling ffmpeg ensuring that the mpeg4 support was

[mythtv-users] Re: nuvexport fails to run anymore

2005-07-23 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
I did another one. terminal 1: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythvideo]$ mkdir -m 0755 /tmp/fifodir_23962/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythvideo]$ /bin/nice -n19 mythtranscode --showprogress -p autodetect -c 5 -s 2005-06-05-22-00-00 -f /tmp/fifodir_23962/ --honorcutlist 21 Waited some seconds and went to terminal

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: nuvexport fails to run anymore

2005-07-23 Thread Chris Petersen
But how do I determine wether or not something is inside these named pipes (fifos)? I did not update ffmpeg untill I noticed this problem was not going away. But I did upgrade the mythtv packages as I kept up with ATRPMS packages. Have you tried turning off denoise, like every response on this

[mythtv-users] PVR500MCE tuner #1, ivtv: i2c client addr: 0x44 not found for command

2005-07-23 Thread of my own
I am using the latest ivtv driver, tuner 0 loaded fine, works on myth, but tuner #1 gave the following error below, system is P4 1.8G running FC3, any idea? thanks. ivtv: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total) ivtv: i2c client addr: 0x44 not found for command

[mythtv-users] Re: Query for the scheduled recording

2005-07-23 Thread Paul
Hi, I am trying to write a small app that will serve as a replacement for the system's shutdown/reboot/halt but with one major difference - it will query the mythtv database to get the time of the next scheduled recording and set the BIOS wakeup time. The purpose of this app is to enable the

RE: [mythtv-users] PVR500MCE tuner #1, ivtv: i2c client addr: 0x44 not found for command

2005-07-23 Thread Marc Tousignant
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of of my own Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 5:37 AM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] PVR500MCE tuner #1,ivtv: i2c client addr: 0x44 not found for command I am using the

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB-T not working on FC4, x86_64

2005-07-23 Thread Graeme Hilton
Phill Edwards wrote: I'm having problems getting my DVB-T card to display in MythTV. It works using mplayer from the command line, but MythTV displays a black screen for about 15 seconds and produces the error messages I list at the end of this email. Has anyone experienced this? What causes

[mythtv-users] mysql database problems, really need advice

2005-07-23 Thread ffrr
I think I damaged a table (mythconverg.recordedmarkup) trying to import a .nuv file that had been exported using nuvexport. It didn't import completely, failing about line 6 in the script that nuvexport wrote, but it did import well enough for me to be able to watch it. However, I noticed

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB-T not working on FC4, x86_64

2005-07-23 Thread ffrr
Graeme Hilton wrote: So far as I can tell, mythtvsetup has worked OK. The Channel Editor is full of channels, some of which I've never heard of, so I assume it's picked them up off the transport. Warning: I am new to this too, but... Did you ask it to scan to get those channels? The

Re: [mythtv-users] Ready for use?

2005-07-23 Thread Ray Lischner
On Friday 22 July 2005 09:52 pm, Chris Lopeman wrote: Are any of you using it successfully with HDTV? Yes. I have a master and slave backend, each with an HD-3000 card. I plan on moving both cards into a single system soon. I had them separated because I was concerned about excess heat

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR500MCE tuner #1, ivtv: i2c client addr: 0x44 not found for command

2005-07-23 Thread Jim Reith
I am using the latest ivtv driver, tuner 0 loaded fine, works on myth, but tuner #1 gave the following error below, system is P4 1.8G running FC3, any idea? thanks. --- /etc/modprobe.conf alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 ivtv alias char-major-81-1

RE: [mythtv-users] mythbackend starting before ivtv is loaded?

2005-07-23 Thread Howard Cokl
--- Marc Tousignant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't that for Gentoo and not FC3? Yes you are correct. But Jim is using Gentoo per his original post (excerpt below.) if I restart the backend later, those go away and everything is fine. This wasn't always the case and I've only

Re: [mythtv-users] Query for the scheduled recording

2005-07-23 Thread George Nassas
On 22-Jul-05, at 11:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you feel like parsing some html? Myth has a self-contained web server that gives the system status on port 6544 of the backend machine, including the times of the next ten scheduled recordings. Here's an exerpt from `lynx -dump

Re: [mythtv-users] Fixing my no data problem in EPG

2005-07-23 Thread Pat Vaughan
I'm a noobie, but have you setup mythfilldatabase in cron? If so, maybe the cron job isn't working correctly. Try running mythfilldatabase from the command line and see if it populates the database. On my connection, it takes FOREVER to download the channel guide data. That it works after

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport fails to run anymore

2005-07-23 Thread Michael S. Keller
ffmpeg had critical errors: pipe:: Error while opening file $ apt-cache show ffmpeg|grep ^Version Version: 3:20050427-0sarge0.1 I get an error much like yours with this version. Version: 0.cvs20050313-2 And this version works for me. Maybe recompile or use a different version? -Michael

Re: [mythtv-users] FC3 LIRC IR Problem

2005-07-23 Thread Stephen Roebuck
Nick, Thanks for the response, here is a copy of my channel change script: #!/bin/sh REMOTE_NAME=SkyDigital for digit in $(echo $1 | sed -e 's/./ /g'); do irsend --device=/dev/lircd1 SEND_ONCE $REMOTE_NAME $digit sleep 0.4 # note, you may have to tweak the interdigit delay up a bit done irsend

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Can't get S/PDIF sound working

2005-07-23 Thread Taylor Ralph
Hey Phill, Try adding the following section to your asoundrc: pcm.!iec958 { type plug slave.pcm hw:0,4 } This makes xine work for me. -- Taylor --- Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've made some progress on this - I think! I can get some sound out of MythTV and using speaker-test

Re: [mythtv-users] Which tuner?

2005-07-23 Thread Michael T. Dean
Mark Knecht wrote: Is there any way to determine which tuner was actually used to record a program after the fact? Is any data kept in the MySQL data base about this sort of thing? I have a 250 and a 150. We seem to get a few programs with really weird colors once in a while. I wont to see

Re: [mythtv-users] DVB-T not working on FC4, x86_64

2005-07-23 Thread Graeme Hilton
ffrr wrote: Graeme Hilton wrote: So far as I can tell, mythtvsetup has worked OK. The Channel Editor is full of channels, some of which I've never heard of, so I assume it's picked them up off the transport. Warning: I am new to this too, but... Did you ask it to scan to get those

Re: [mythtv-users] APM hard drive spin down setting recommendations for backend?

2005-07-23 Thread Michael T. Dean
These might be useful... http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/stirling/computergeek/powersaving.html (I recommend reading the whole page) http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7539 http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Battery-Powered/index.html Mike ___ mythtv-users

[mythtv-users] Which version do you use?

2005-07-23 Thread Alexander Petkov
I am curious as to which Mythtv version people are curently using. I am still using 0.15.1. I started using Mythtv with the 0.7 release and became addicted (to Mythtv) ever since. For me, the 0.10 release was complete and it worked trouble-free (no green screen recordings, etc). Then I

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Can't get S/PDIF sound working

2005-07-23 Thread stanley kamithi
try this. http://xinehq.de/index.php/faq#SURROUNDSOUND ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvimport?

2005-07-23 Thread Michael T. Dean
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I set up my back end several weeks before I had a workin frontend, and at the time I only had a single hard drive (I've since moved to RAID5), so i used nuvexport to convert a lot of shows into mpegs to save space. Now that I have two working front ends I'm slowly

[mythtv-users] Re:Query for the scheduled recording

2005-07-23 Thread Alexander Petkov
= Do you feel like parsing some html? Myth has a self-contained web server that gives the system status on port 6544 of the backend machine, including the times of the next ten scheduled recordings. Here's an exerpt from `lynx -dump http://localhost:6544` : = That's what

Re: [mythtv-users] Redo Program recordedmarkup

2005-07-23 Thread Michael T. Dean
Steve Malenfant wrote: I've been fooling around my system to re-import recorded program from a messed upgrade of FC2-FC3 atrpms issues where rpm/apt-get/yum doesn't work anymore (I still don't have a workaround). So I transformed my mythfrontend machine into a myth combo. The problem is that

[mythtv-users] Re:Anyone using Arch Linux?

2005-07-23 Thread Alexander Petkov
= Anyone using Arch Linux for Myth? If so comments? = I just switched from Suse. This is the 1st week of using Mythtv on Arch Linux and so far so good. Things I like are the fast bootup and shutdown times. Mythtv (0.18.1) and dependencies are available from the

Re: [mythtv-users] Can't get S/PDIF sound working

2005-07-23 Thread Michael T. Dean
Phill Edwards wrote: I've just bought a S/PDIF header for my Gigabyte mobo and am having trouble getting any sound out of it. I've taken the Jarod's .asoundrc which in turn was taken from the DigitalSoundHowTo at http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo. Jarod said that he only had to

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Strange playback problems - no commercial skipping, random jumps

2005-07-23 Thread Michael T. Dean
Ramzy Darwish wrote: Kevin wrote: Ramzy Darwish wrote: Hello All, I tried looking for others with this problem on the list, but didn't see anything, but maybe I didn't use the right keywords, so please don't flame me if this is a common problem. snip Try checking your database

Re: [mythtv-users] nuvexport fails to run anymore

2005-07-23 Thread Chris Petersen
ok, just a word of note about this. It was finally brought to my attention that atrpms is using mjpegtools 1.6.3pre1 because 1.6.2 does not compile under the new gcc. It's likely that other distros/packagers have done the same. This version of yuvdenoise apparently does not work. When you

Re: [mythtv-users] Query for the scheduled recording

2005-07-23 Thread Mitko Haralanov
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 10:02:57 -0400 George Nassas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The same info is available in an xml format by going http://localhost:6544/xml. I did not know about this at all! I am gonna have to take a look at it. Unfortunately this leaks a bit on each call so if you use it

Re: [mythtv-users] Query for the scheduled recording

2005-07-23 Thread Mitko Haralanov
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 22:31:53 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I did go back to the source and I found a SQL query in AddNewRecords in scheduler.cpp. Honestly, the query makes my head hurt when I look at it but is that the query I should be looking at? After looking at some code, I

[mythtv-users] [OT] To: VIA EPIA M10000 users Re: Sound experiences and left channel audio?

2005-07-23 Thread John Hanauer
Hello, My question is this. For anyone with an M10k, I just got mine a few days ago. I was curious if it's normal for the M10k's to have audio only come out of the left analog channel without tweaking? I've been searching mailing lists and I guess I just can't find the right search words to

[mythtv-users] Re: nuvexport fails to run anymore

2005-07-23 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Hugo van der Kooij wrote: So I suspect mythtranscode to be the problem but would like to determine it some way by means of inspecting the results of mythtranscode. I tried without yuvdenoise and it works but the resulting files do not match my needs. However I had a short

[mythtv-users] Re: Query for the scheduled recording

2005-07-23 Thread Boleslaw Ciesielski
Mitko Haralanov wrote: After looking at some code, I managed to reconstruct the full query that AddNewRecords uses. After that I fed it to mysql and it dumped out a huge list of scheduled recordings. However, it looks to me like that list contains all possible recording, duplicates and all. I

[mythtv-users] directv help

2005-07-23 Thread Jeff \Muddy\ Waters
Just got my Directv installed yesterday and have been trying to find the IR codes for these boxes. I have my lirc setup on my gentoo box seems ok thus far but can test anything without the codes as I'm using a homebrew ir transmit to change channels for mythtv. Thanks Jeff (as posted on the

[mythtv-users] MythTV at Open Tech 2005

2005-07-23 Thread Mike Ryan
Hi Just thought everyone might be interested to know that I did a presentation this morning at Open Tech 2005 in West London. The event was recorded so will be viewable over the next couple of days, and the slides I used in the presentation will be available for download

Re: [mythtv-users] Which version do you use?

2005-07-23 Thread Josh Burks
On 7/23/05, Alexander Petkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Is there a new feature in .18 that you must have? Commercial flagging and skipping seems to get better with each release. If that is important to you, I'd say go for it. Josh ___ mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] Live Recorded TV hangs failures on amd64

2005-07-23 Thread Peter Buelow
Todd Ignasiak wrote: There is a known problem with pthreads in Debian based AMD64 systems. I have installed the patch, and I no longer get the black screen / failed live-tv viewing. Here is a link with some more info, and a MythTV patch to work around it:

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR500MCE tuner #1, ivtv: i2c client addr: 0x44 not found for command

2005-07-23 Thread of my own
downloaded the correct firmware and fixed the module options, still the same problem.. anymore idea? Thanks again. alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 ivtv alias char-major-81-1 ivtv options cx25480 i2c_enable=1,1 options saa7127 i2c_enable=-1,-1 ivtv: START

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR500MCE tuner #1, ivtv: i2c client addr: 0x44 not found for command

2005-07-23 Thread Jim Reith
downloaded the correct firmware and fixed the module options, still the same problem.. anymore idea? Thanks again. alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 ivtv alias char-major-81-1 ivtv options cx25480 i2c_enable=1,1 options saa7127 i2c_enable=-1,-1 HA! I see it... You have a typo

[mythtv-users] Re: Fixing my no data problem in EPG

2005-07-23 Thread Brad
Thanks for the response, Patrick. I'm using the mythfilldatabase scheduler built into MythFrontend (SettingsGeneral) - as per the documentation. If I execute mythfilldatabase from terminal, this is the output:---Your subscription expires on 07/28/2005 10:36:50 PMGrab complete.  Actual data from

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR500MCE tuner #1, ivtv: i2c client addr: 0x44 not found for command

2005-07-23 Thread of my own
fixed modprobe.conf.. same problem.. it's weird that it detected it with the typo in the first place.. On 23 Jul 2005 13:31:33 -0700, Jim Reith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: downloaded the correct firmware and fixed the module options, still the same problem.. anymore idea? Thanks again. alias

Re: [mythtv-users] Redo Program recordedmarkup

2005-07-23 Thread ffrr
Steve Malenfant wrote: Also, why is there 2 modes to save the data in the DVB capture setup? TS and PS... Is the TS saving the MPTS(whole transport) and the ps the SPTS(single program)? If that's the case than the choice of wording is wrong, cause I could think it's an actual PS (Program

[mythtv-users] Dvico DVB-t lite capture card install issues under 2.6.11-1.35_FC3

2005-07-23 Thread Justin Debbie
Hi All, Have searched through the various threads but don't seem to have come across this issue. I am very new at this(Linux and Mythtv)so any help, directions, URL's etc would be greatly appreciated. Problem: I have followed Jarrods instructions exactly as it says. My problem starts

[mythtv-users] NuppelVideo and ExportVideo cannot compile

2005-07-23 Thread Vincent Yau
Hi: I am using a bttv capture card so mythtv recordings are in NuppelVideo format. I followed instructions on how to make VCD out of my nuppelvideo and tried compiling NuppelVideo (version 0.52a) and exportvideo (version o.7e pre9). I received quite a number of compilation errors. Does

Re: [mythtv-users] Dvico DVB-t lite capture card install issues under 2.6.11-1.35_FC3

2005-07-23 Thread ffrr
Justin Debbie wrote: I also found that there is no /dev/dvb/ directory. Why is this ??? /dev/dvb is the device directory for all the DVB cards. In it should at least be a directory called adapter0, for the first card. In this directory should be something like crw-rw-rw- 1 root

[mythtv-users] pundit-r running celeron-d with high fan speed?

2005-07-23 Thread Reza Naima
I was wondering if anyone had a pundit-r running with a celeron-d? I read somplace that it will up the fan speed by 900rpm by just having the celeron rather than the pentium in there. Anyone experience this? thnx, Reza ___ mythtv-users mailing list

[mythtv-users] nuvexport of HDTV shows retains black borders

2005-07-23 Thread Steve Elzinga
Hello, I have tried a handful of tests and I do not know how to get around this problem. I have an HD3000 card captuirng OTA DTV. The resulting captured, non-widesreen shows have a black border around them and the widescreen shows have the black border on top and on bottom. When I use

Re: [mythtv-users] Dvico DVB-t lite capture card install issues under2.6.11-1.35_FC3

2005-07-23 Thread Justin Debbie
the problem is that i can't seem to get the card to load. rebuilding the card but i get a whole heap of errors telling me the file exists and i also get a fatal module error Any thoughts ? Justin - Original Message - From: ffrr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv

Re: [mythtv-users] Dvico DVB-t lite capture card install issues under2.6.11-1.35_FC3

2005-07-23 Thread ffrr
Justin Debbie wrote: the problem is that i can't seem to get the card to load. rebuilding the card but i get a whole heap of errors telling me the file exists and i also get a fatal module error Any thoughts ? Justin Unfortunately, I didn't gain much experience in this area, as

Re: [mythtv-users] Dvico DVB-t lite capture card installissues under2.6.11-1.35_FC3

2005-07-23 Thread Justin Debbie
Do you know if there is a way to use a gui to get into the kernel - i am thinking i might be able to activate it that way.. - Original Message - From: ffrr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 10:40 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Fixing my no data problem in EPG

2005-07-23 Thread chris
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 02:19:49PM -0700, Brad wrote: Data is already present for Fri Aug 5 2005, skipping Adjusting program database end times... 0 replacements made. Some of us Canadians have noticed that many of our listings only have 11 days worth of data while the rest have 14.

Re: [mythtv-users] Dvico DVB-t lite capture card installissues under2.6.11-1.35_FC3

2005-07-23 Thread ffrr
Justin Debbie wrote: Do you know if there is a way to use a gui to get into the kernel - i am thinking i might be able to activate it that way.. I don't know. All I've read indicates that if it isn't already there and loadable as a module, then you need to rebuild the kernel (something

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Fixing my no data problem in EPG

2005-07-23 Thread Michael Carland
On Jul 23, 2005, at 7:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The obvious solution is to tell mythfilldatabase to limit itself to 10 or 11 days of listings so that there is always data available for the short-schedule channels on the first attempt. Other solutions would be to find a way to adjust

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: MythShyte One unhappy customer (John

2005-07-23 Thread Dewey Smolka
Don't sweat it, Chuck. We're mostly good people on the list, and we do know who the knuckleheads are. Thanks for sharing, and don't let one idiot get you down. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org

[mythtv-users] Mexican TV guide

2005-07-23 Thread El Buen Chubi
Since about three weeks I have working mexican tvguide. It iscoming directly from zap2it so there is no need to develop anything to have it working at mythtv (or other PVR systems) Only lists from largest cable provider at Mexico City (Cablevision) are avaible at the moment. It is needed to

[mythtv-users] Quick question about Mythtranscode and mytcutlist

2005-07-23 Thread James Alexander
I'm very sorry if this is covered somewhere in the documentation, or on this list, but I've done a couple of searches and haven't found what I'm looking for. Everything works fine. I record programs, and I have most of my programs set to transcode using one of the recording profiles through myth

[mythtv-users] RE: re: Starting over from scratch

2005-07-23 Thread Joe Marcom
Thanks to all who replied; I have learned that my PVR-250 card cannot be detected or configured by any Linux distro, on 2 different PCs; at most, I got a no TV tuner card found message from MDK 9.1. The pcHDTV-2000 card is detected as a Bt878, but I was not able to configure it in RH9 (I think

[mythtv-users] FInally have my TV Card going...

2005-07-23 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I finally have my saa7134 based PCTV Stereo going and now I have to find a way to get the channel frequencies into MythTV. I am based in New Zealand so cannot rely on any of the available tv Listings to provide me with frequncy information. What are my options to get the frequencies into MythTV

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Indoor OTA HDTV Antenna Recommendations

2005-07-23 Thread Ian Trider
On 7/20/05, Robert Kulagowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For what it's worth, HDTV signals are only broadcast on UHF so if you only want to receive HDTV, you may as well just get a UHF antenna. That's not correct. CBS in Chicago is broadcasting HDTV on VHF. My bad. I think I confused

[mythtv-users] Consecutive recordings misses the second recording pvr 250

2005-07-23 Thread Christopher Isip
I have a pvr 250 setup as my primary tuner on my myth network and it is housed in a slave backend ( I changed the card's id in mysql so it gets picked first in order to use up the slave backend local storage first). Everything works and when there are simultaneous recordings, tuner 2 and tuner 3

Re: [mythtv-users] Dvico DVB-t lite capture card install issues under2.6.11-1.35_FC3

2005-07-23 Thread jason bright
I have the Dvico Lite card working with no problems using Jarods guide and kernel 2.6.10 (I haven't had a chance to upgrade to 2.6.11 yet but I don't predict any problems.). You don't need to rebuild anything --- the kernel and packages from atrpms are good enough. My main problem was finding out

[mythtv-users] IR receiver that only does RC-5

2005-07-23 Thread Joe Votour
Hi all, I have a PVR-250 and a PVR-500 in my MythTV machine, and I'm using the PVR-250's IR receiver. Unfortunately, the jack no longer properly fits into the socket for the IR receiver (it's loose), so it doesn't work anymore. I know that there are a lot of designs for IR receivers out there,