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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Fast Forward not working properly with PVR-350/ivtv 0.4.0
(Raphael Pooser)
2. Re: MYTHTV & Atlantic Scientific 8300 HD-dvr (Abre Chase)
3. scheduled recordings yield occasional oddball (Don Lesniakowski)
4. Re: ATI Wonder Remote (David Watkins)
5. Stupid overscan question (Ben Dash)
6. simple overscan question (Ben Dash)
7. Question about PVR350 TVout quality (lars olsson)
8. USB on the cable box (Michael Bochynski)
9. RE: MYTHTV & Atlantic Scientific 8300 HD-dvr (Serge.Zwikker)
10. myth browser keyboard question (Ben Dash)
11. Re: HDTV digital static with DVB (Chris Trown)
12. Bad sound quality with Plextor M402U (Nathan Allen Stratton)
13. Re: Laptop tuner card (Abre Chase)
14. Re: MYTHTV & Atlantic Scientific 8300 HD-dvr (Abre Chase)
15. 0.18.1 or SVN on Etch (C. R. Oldham)
16. Re: MYTHTV & Atlantic Scientific 8300 HD-dvr (Steve Adeff)
17. Re: 0.18.1 or SVN on Etch (Stuart Auchterlonie)
18. Re: Realistic? (Steve Adeff)
19. Re: 0.18.1 or SVN on Etch (Steve Adeff)
20. Re: USB on the cable box (Erik Karlin)
21. TV out card for frontend (Devan Lippman)
22. how many streams can a single HD sustain? (Raphael Pooser)
23. Re: USB on the cable box (Michael Bochynski)
24. Re: Moving scheduled recordings to new DB / LVM2 group
failure (Cory Zerwas)
25. Re: USB on the cable box (Erik Karlin)
26. Re: Schedule by regexp ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
27. Re: XvMC with SVN revision 7738 and nvidia driver 6629
(Darius Hardy)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 11:18:58 -0500
From: Raphael Pooser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Fast Forward not working properly with
PVR-350/ivtv 0.4.0
To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users@mythtv.org>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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I have the same issue, intermittantly. Sometimes the FF, RW works
properly and sometimes it works as you described. Almost always on the
first use of the FF function I geet this problem. Using it again it
works correctly. This is just to tell you it's probably not related to
your pvr 350 or ivti, as I'm using an ATI TV wonder pro with software
encoding. Also I'm using myth .17, nowhere near svn.
Raphael
Daniel Segel wrote:
I don't know if this is a MythTV or ivtv issue. I'm running a fairly
recent svn version of MythTV (with broken Live TV that I don't use
anyway), and when I fast forward (or rewind) in a recorded program the
video moves along quickly, but the time counter moves at the normal
pace (e.g. 1 second per second) and then when I exit Fast Forward it
jumps back to the place I started at (or nearby). I *don't* have the
option to correct for reaction time enabled.
Jumping forward or backward works fine; it's only FF and REW that don't.
I'm using the PVR-350's MPEG decoder, if it matters (xv still doesn't
look quite right to me). Are they any settings I should check?
Daniel
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 11:20:40 -0500
From: Abre Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MYTHTV & Atlantic Scientific 8300 HD-dvr
To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users@mythtv.org>
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The SA8300 is not listed as a supported firewire device, but its worth
a shot. The SA3250 is supported.
There are good instructions for getting the firewire capture working here:
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php
Look for this section "FireWire capture from a supported cable box"
- Abre
On 11/9/05, Serge.Zwikker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I know that my firewire port is active. So would this be the way for me
to go if it is possible?
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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MYTHTV & Atlantic Scientific 8300 HD-dvr
I use Brighthouse/TWC in Central Florida and they disable the firewire
port on the SA 8300. This box also has very ugly output on the s-video
port for 16:9 HD channels. It puts gray boxes on the top/bottom for the
widescreen.
On 11/9/05, Serge.Zwikker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My cable guy has told me that I can use my 8300 with a firewire cable
and MYTHTV box. Is this true? If so have any of you guys seen a how
to doc. I am looking all over the web but no luck.
Thanks,
serge
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 11:32:07 -0500
From: Don Lesniakowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [mythtv-users] scheduled recordings yield occasional oddball
To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
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I'm running Mythtv ver 0.18.1.20050523-1 with FC4 on an Dell Intel P4.
I run a scheduled recording (Letterman) M-F and automatically transcode.
Problem is that there is almost always a recording of the five weekly that
is between 37 and 38 minutes in length versus the norm of 60 minutes. I
haven't tracked it closely enough to be sure but it seems to always be
either the Thursday or Friday show that is short.
Here is something odd (to me), Nautilus file browser lists all recorded
shows as nuv documents. If I highlight over one of these odd recordings, the
file type changes from nuv document to MPEG video. File size is 1.4GB,
normal is usually a little less, say 1.2GB. I ran this file through Avidemux
thinking that maybe I'd see the lost content but did not. However I did
check the file properties and found that the odd file is different from the
normal files.
Under Codec4cc the "short" file is MPEG while a normal recording is XVID
"short" file audio bitrate is 48000 bps/384kbps normal file is 16000
bps/128kbps
Any idea what is happening?
Thanks
Don Lesniakowski
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:35:43 +0000
From: David Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] ATI Wonder Remote
To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users@mythtv.org>
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On 09/11/05, Folashade Adeyosoye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What am I missing, I tried following
(http://www.litwiller.net/mythtv/remote.html) these
instructions but for each button that I press on the remote, it repeats 4
times. For example if I hit the "3" button I get "3333"
What might I be missing?
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The remote will continually generate keycodes. However lircd should
be able to convert these to single commands.
You could try commenting out the repeat=5 (in lircrc) line for buttons
you don't want to repeat . or maybe change it to repeat=0.
I think repeat=5 means that every 5th command from the remote will get
sent to the application. For most keys you probably don't want a
repeat at all. For those that you do (volume, skip etc) experiment
with different numbers.
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 08:36:09 -0800 (PST)
From: Ben Dash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [mythtv-users] Stupid overscan question
To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users@mythtv.org>
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Could someone please explain to me how overscan works?
I'm using the nv driver for my xBox and the top of the
displayed screen is a little narrower than the bottom,
i.e. the bottom reaches the screen edge and the top is
inset a little.
I'm thinking that I need to set some overscan settings
in xorg.conf but I'm not really clear on what those
settings should be. I think I'm supposed to use the
"TVOverScan" option but I'm not sure of the
parameters. Note that I'm currently using 640x480
NTSC currently.
Could someone please give me a couple of pointers?
Thanks!
Ben
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 08:40:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Ben Dash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [mythtv-users] simple overscan question
To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users@mythtv.org>
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Could someone please explain how overscan is
configured with the nv xorg driver?
My TV Out is slightly more narrow at the top than at
the bottom. After hunting around for keystone
correction I have decided that I probably need to do
some degree of overscan. I'm currently using 640x480
NTSC. The probably is that I'm not seeing much on the
intarweb about how to set this up and I hope that
somoene has already walked this path and can give me a
couple of pointers.
Thanks!
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 17:48:32 +0100
From: "lars olsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [mythtv-users] Question about PVR350 TVout quality
To: <mythtv-users@mythtv.org>
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Hi.
I am using the latest ivtv drivers and Xdriver together with my mythtv
box.
The PVR350 TVOut function is enabled in the "Playback settings"
For a long time I have wondered why I do have a blurred picture when
watching livetv and my recordings.
Recently I did disable the 350 tvout feature and then the picture
quality did get a lot better ( sharper picture)
Is there anybody that has a clue why I do get a worse picture when using
the 350 MPEG encoder. Shouldn't it result in better quality than the
software encoder?
Cheers,
Lars
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 11:54:29 -0500
From: Michael Bochynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [mythtv-users] USB on the cable box
To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users@mythtv.org>
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Hi,
I want to use USB port on my cable box (Scientific Atlanta 2100) for
Myth TV to change channels. According to SC2100 this port is designed to
be used for remote.
My question is, if I get usb-to-serial cable, do I still have to install
lirc to change channels? Can I use only those scripts in
mythtv/contrib ?
Note that I don't need receiver configured using lirc, since I have
wireless (IR) keyboard on PS2. I've learned my remote a bunch of
keypresses, and I don't have to install anything on the OS side. :)
Michael
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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 11:58:50 -0500
From: "Serge.Zwikker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] MYTHTV & Atlantic Scientific 8300 HD-dvr
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users@mythtv.org>
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Would I still need a pvr-350 (or any pvr-card) if I am going to use
firewire?
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Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 11:21 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MYTHTV & Atlantic Scientific 8300 HD-dvr
The SA8300 is not listed as a supported firewire device, but its worth a
shot. The SA3250 is supported.
There are good instructions for getting the firewire capture working
here:
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php
Look for this section "FireWire capture from a supported cable box"
- Abre
On 11/9/05, Serge.Zwikker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I know that my firewire port is active. So would this be the way for
me to go if it is possible?
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Abre Chase
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 10:58 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MYTHTV & Atlantic Scientific 8300 HD-dvr
I use Brighthouse/TWC in Central Florida and they disable the firewire
port on the SA 8300. This box also has very ugly output on the
s-video port for 16:9 HD channels. It puts gray boxes on the
top/bottom for the widescreen.
On 11/9/05, Serge.Zwikker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My cable guy has told me that I can use my 8300 with a firewire
cable and MYTHTV box. Is this true? If so have any of you guys
seen a how to doc. I am looking all over the web but no luck.
Thanks,
serge
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Message: 10
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 08:59:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Ben Dash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [mythtv-users] myth browser keyboard question
To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users@mythtv.org>
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I have noticed that my "D" and <backspace> keys are
not working in myth browser although they work fine in
the cosole window.
Have these keys been assigned as hotkeys for something
and, if so, does anyone know if there is a way that I
can chage that?
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Message: 11
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 09:01:03 -0800
From: Chris Trown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] HDTV digital static with DVB
To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users@mythtv.org>
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Preston Crow wrote:
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 17:14 +1000, ffrr wrote:
I chased video glitches from my DVB setup for ages, and with a lot of
help from the list, I finally nailed it. It was the Si 3112 SATA
controller chip doing nasties on the PCI bus and corrupting the mpeg
stream from the DVB card.
This would correlate with your observation that it is worse with system
load, in particular disk access.
I have two hard drives. If I simply cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 to a
file on the SATA drive, I get some glitches. If I do the same to a file
on the PATA drive, I get tons of glitches. If I do it to a ram disk, I
get a perfect recording.
So it doesn't look like it's the SATA chipset doing something nasty. In
fact, the SATA drive, being on a faster bus, gives me a better recording
than the PATA drive. This makes it look more like my original theory of
being an issue that can be solved in the DVB driver. Of course, it
could be the SATA chipset or anything else on the PCI bus, but if
something were corrupting the DVB traffic, wouldn't it also corrupt
other traffic, like disk I/O?
Instead of it being a kernel buffer that is too small, perhaps it is too
slow to pull the data off of the card?
This thread has me wondering, now. I just got MythTV going and
have done some test records.
The Simpsons Halloween special recorded just fine, but it was in
SD format(Recorded from the HD channel). That same night, I tried to
record Law & Order:CI. That recording had a lot of breakups and qudio
dropouts.
The system is a 3.06GHz P4 with a HD3000 and a Rosewill Nvidia 5200FX.
My understanding is that recording DVB streams is not CPU
intensive. The card just grabs the digital data off the air and the
system writes it to disk for later manipulation/transcoding. Am I
correct? If that is true, then I am casting a suspicious eye to
problems with reception. I know that there is one channel that MythTV's
scan didn't pick up.
So I guess my question, is how can I tell if the problem I'm
seeing is trouble with recption vs. a possible system throughput issue?
Chris...
