On Tuesday 04 October 2005 08:19 pm, Benoit Beauchamp wrote:
I want to be able to watch live TV while something is recording on the
computer. I want to be able to switch channel on the tv while the computer
is still recording. Then at some point I want to watch the recorded shows
on the TV...
Yep, a cable splitter, they can be bought for a few bucks, pretty
cheaply. So then you'd have:
Cable from wall - splitter
and
splitter - Myth box
splitter - cable box
When googling on this subject, I learned that splitting a signal does
cut the strength of it (by half, if you split it in two).
Hi all,
i have read many different threads on the subject and have come back to the
same problem - i cannot get the card to work no matter what i try.
Basically dvb-t lite cards are supposed to autodetect since 2.6.9. Not a
problem mine does do that, but why doesn't it get detected when i run
Lee wrote:
There was a recent lengthy (and somewhat heated) thread in the dev list
about this. The technical reason for the delay is because the system
has to do the following things when changing a channel on Live TV:
1) Tune the channel.
2) Start encoding the feed.
3) Store the file.
4)
Bad form to reply to my own message, but for anyone else who seems to encounter this problem:
There is a program that comes with xawtv-3.xx called v4lctl where you can manaully unmute the TV tuner card's volume control with the following command:
v4lctl volume mute off
I just put it into a cron
On 05/10/05, Justin Debbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
i have read many different threads on the subject and have come back to the
same problem - i cannot get the card to work no matter what i try.
Basically dvb-t lite cards are supposed to autodetect since 2.6.9. Not a
problem mine
Hi,
Thanks for the feedback Gabriel..
The reason I put the playlist at the top is because
there is a feature not yet implemented. If you press
the number 1 key (labelled Manage Playlists) this will
make the playlist at the top drop down and utilise the
whole of the screen. This gives you an
I have this problem where (for some unknown reason), MythTV will mute my TV card's audio out periodically. This results in recordings with no audio. It's not a frontend or sound card issue. I have found it can be re-enabled by issuing a command to the v4l driver, namely, v4lctl volume mute off.
Hi all,
I have the following problem:
I receive a dvb-t stream and display it via PVR-350 on TV. On two out of 24
channels, the stream is diplayed with jitter (ZDF and ARTE for German
insiders ;-)).
When I record the stream and play it via mplayer, everything is fine.
Xawtv also works well
Regretfully it is not running. Any other thoughts?
On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 09:02 +0100, David Watkins wrote:
On 05/10/05, Justin Debbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
i have read many different threads on the subject and have come back to the
same problem - i cannot get the card to
When using a seperate back/front end for mythtv, is it possible to have
these running across a reasonable wireless connection?
I'm talking about watching an averagely encoded file. If not, could I
use an old 10baseT ethernet card, or do I have to order a new 100mbps one?
Just curious really
On 05/10/05, James Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When using a seperate back/front end for mythtv, is it possible to have
these running across a reasonable wireless connection?
I'm talking about watching an averagely encoded file. If not, could I
use an old 10baseT ethernet card, or do I
Just a heads up to ppl in South Africa using tv_grab_za
Dstv.com has changed its layout and the current script will not work. I
will be updating the script and adding a few new features as soon as I
find the time (next few days)
Regards
Chris
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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Fusion DVB-t lite card
Regretfully it is not running. Any other thoughts?
I've been following Jarod's fine HowTo to get mythtv working with my
Hauppauge WinTV-PRV 150 on FC4. I've watched and listened to captured tv
with cat and mplayer combination so I believe the card and sound are
working. Irc isn't yet but mythtv just goes to a black screen when I try
to watch
On 05/10/05, paulg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been following Jarod's fine HowTo to get mythtv working with my
Hauppauge WinTV-PRV 150 on FC4. I've watched and listened to captured tv
with cat and mplayer combination so I believe the card and sound are
working. Irc isn't yet but mythtv just
I am currently using an XBOX as my frontend. I think this is
irrelavant as I need basic remote information, but just in case anyone
is in a similar situation.
I would like to be able to change audio channels from video playback.
I know I am supposed to add something like NEXTAUDIO (currently +
I am trying to setup a front-end (FE) to use the stored VIDEO in the /myth/video directory on the BackEnd (BE) that also has a FE. All are Knoppmyth. I had to change the player's options to use X11, but now the BE with an integrated FE can see and play the VIDEO fine. The remote FE can not.1) the
I have this problem where (for some unknown reason), MythTV will mute my TV
card's audio out periodically. This results in recordings with no audio.
It's not a frontend or sound card issue. I have found it can be re-enabled
by issuing a command to the v4l driver, namely, v4lctl volume mute
Any help or suggestions would be great - i am just about ready to pull the
last of my hair out.
Out of concern for your last few strands of hair have a look at this
and see if any of it helps. The Martin Smith link really helped me get
my DVB-T card working.
Quoting David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 05/10/05, Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Regretfully it is not running. Any other thoughts?
Not really - the only problems I had with my nova-t card were that the
autodetect loaded the wrong module (dvb-blackbird instead of dvb-cx88
IIRC)
I have found that 802.11b struggles to play back whereas 802.11a/g
(non-turbo) is fine. This is using recordings from a pvr-350 at 1Gb per
1 hour of show.
PaulOn 10/5/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 05/10/05, James Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When using a seperate back/front end
I've been trying to setup a system where slave backends will be started
and terminated on-demand. The Slave BackEnds are diskless and they
share the main video partition with the Master BackEnd over NFS.
This way i imagine that i can save the MBE from nasty ivtv hardware
crashes and such
i plug the cable coming from the wall directly to the computer and
started messing up with it. ive figured out that my cable provider
uses cable-hrc or whatever it is but for some weird reason there are
few channels that are scrambled?! doesnt look like premium channel
because i have basic
On 5/10/05 8:31 PM, Joe Harvell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you have a link describing this mod?
Try http://forums.xbox-scene.com (very comprehensive but confusing in parts)
The links here suggest UXE is the mod of the moment
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=82561
On 10/4/05, Joe Harvell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One other thing.Any advice on which distro to use?Here's a write up about how to setup Mythtv on Xebian 1.1.3 and 1.1.4. Also there's a change in the thread that hasn't been added to the write up, so you'll have to watch out for that.
I am currently using an XBOX as my frontend. I think this is
irrelavant as I need basic remote information, but just in case anyone
is in a similar situation.
I would like to be able to change audio channels from video playback.
I know I am supposed to add something like NEXTAUDIO (currently
On 10/6/05, James Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lee wrote: There was a recent lengthy (and somewhat heated) thread in the dev list about this.The technical reason for the delay is because the system has to do the following things when changing a channel on Live TV:
1) Tune the channel. 2) Start
I have to say I have always wondered this too. More from a keeping the history point of view than the channel hopping.
PaulOn 10/5/05, Fred Squires [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/6/05, James Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lee wrote: There was a recent lengthy (and somewhat heated) thread in the
I hate to ask, but I tried my hand at that already, no such luck.
When mapping the keys, is there anything in particular I need to do?
Just map the code that currently has a 0 beside it and change it to
a + if I wanted it to become a +?
Once again, I'm lacking with the general
At 10:11 PM -0400 10/4/05, bleve wrote:
I know this is probably a setting issue but could not find it. I
installed the latest Knoppmyth and when I try to change the OSD in
the settings it does not change. I can select a different OSD and
the main OSD menu color may change but the channel
Paul Wheeler wrote:
I have to say I have always wondered this too. More from a keeping the
history point of view than the channel hopping.
Paul
On 10/5/05, *Fred Squires* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/6/05, *James Hansen* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL
Finally got some picture and sound after 2 weeks of trying to get it
working, day-in-day-out.
Also after 6-7 installs of FC4 and 10-12 installs of KnoppMyth
Well this time when following Jarod's guide, I used the stable version of
the IVTV rather than the testing that was specified. Also the
On 10/5/05, James Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When using a seperate back/front end for mythtv, is it possible to have
these running across a reasonable wireless connection?
I'm talking about watching an averagely encoded file. If not, could I
use an old 10baseT ethernet card, or do I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, I wonder if I at this time in a safe way can rename my hostname from
localhost.localdomain to my old hostname without losing my settings and my
50 recordings?
In the docs
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.15
On 9/19/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Am wondering if anyone here did anything with regards to using VLC to
stream/playback VoD streams. (using VLC's RTSP streaming)
I just started looking into this myself. The vlc documentation doesn't
seem that good in regards to
Hi,
I've been a regular here for a while now, and I just wanted to thank the
developers and contributers (especially Jarod) who have helped me get my
Myth system up and running.
It's been a difficult road, but I think I've finally got it stable.
To anyone out there looking for some quick and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
2) Don't mess with wireless! I know this will probably start some
flames, but to be honest, I never had much luck with 802.11g under
Linux. I got it to work sometimes, but it was always flakey and would
stop working randomly. Save yourself a headache and go with
I realize this is pretty much the wrong place to be posting this, but I given the popularity of Jarod's guide I expect there are a number of people here who have run into this situation...I just rebuilt my mythbox from scratch using Jarod's guide and FC4. It was alot less painful this time than my
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 09:42 am, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
2) Don't mess with wireless! I know this will probably start some
flames, but to be honest, I never had much luck with 802.11g under
Linux. I got it to work sometimes, but it was always flakey and
Just to balance things, I have 802.11g working flawlessly with my Myth
Setup. Admittedly its a wired connection from the back-end to the
wireless router, but its wireless from there to my remote frontends.
Works a treat :) [Did take an age to setup initially, especially with
encryption!]
Cheers
On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 15:59 +0100, Ciaran wrote:
Just to balance things, I have 802.11g working flawlessly with my Myth
Setup. Admittedly its a wired connection from the back-end to the
wireless router, but its wireless from there to my remote frontends.
Works a treat :) [Did take an age to
Lee Koloszyc wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2) Don't mess with wireless!
Suprisingly enough I just bought a random Dlink 802.11G Wireless USB
device at Compusa and it has worked flawlessly. Though for some
reason using Samba to copy all my MP3's from my Windows machine took
forever
Hi,
I just joined this group and I apologize early if this gets asked by
everyone who's new or if it's forbidden (please be kind, oh wise ones!), but
I'm looking for a complete set of hardware / software components that are
required and suggested for building out an HD MythTV box (if I can record
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 07:28:48AM -0700, Asher Schaffer wrote:
I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong, but AFAIK the buffer
will only be created when you have liveTV actively running on a
frontend, it you close liveTV the buffer will be gone.
That is correct. The buffer is only
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:52:27AM -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
The only time we watch live TV is when we tune to Nickelodeon for our son.
(Too many shows episodes on that channel. Not enough disk space.)
Have you considered scheduling all the various shows, but setting
them to only keep,
On 05/10/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 05/10/05, Joe Harvell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Robert:
Do you have a link describing this mod? A google search on UCE is
useless since it is commonly used to mean Unsolicited Commercial
Email. Also, what is IIRC? I guess it's one
On 10/5/05, David Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Robert might have meant UXE.In any case if you add -spam to yourGoogle search, that should remove most of the links to theUnsolicited Commercial Email stuff.Actually,
I think the latest softmod exploit is the ndure installer, which is
nice because
Apologies for the multi-mail message:
meas
Sep 5 12:15:18 nelson kernel: saa7115: decoder set picture bright=127
contrast=64 saturation=64 hue=0
Sep 5 12:15:18 nelson kernel: saa7115: decoder set picture bright=127
contrast=63 saturation=64 hue=0
Sep 5 12:15:18 nelson kernel: saa7115:
thanks for the reply Mark!
Does anyone run an x64 distro or is Myth basically just for ix86 distro's?
Steve
got my new PCIXpress video card installed and my HD-3000 card installed, time
to start playing! wish me luck ;-)
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 13:51, Mark Linford wrote:
Steve:
I don't
Steve Adeff wrote:
thanks for the reply Mark!
Does anyone run an x64 distro or is Myth basically just for ix86 distro's?
I do, FC2. I had to compile most of it and not all of it worked back in
the FC2 days. I'm going to upgrade to FC4 soon. I think I'll start over
from scratch, though.
I just recently started playing with smartctl and discovered one of my disks seems to be having problems:
Oct 5 10:52:27 mythtv smartd[13917]: Device: /dev/hdb, 4 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Oct 5 10:52:27 mythtv smartd[13917]: Device: /dev/hdb, 4 Offline uncorrectable sectors
I'm
Try:
http://www.mythtv.info/
and
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/archive/MythTV_C2/Users_F11/
And see if you can't find plenty of options already discussed.
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On 10/5/05, Mark Linford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, after following Jarod's Fedora guide (excellent, btw), I've gottena rudimentary MythTV box up and running. However, I'm now at the pointwhere I want to go from my monitor out to my TV/component outs, and I'm
having a heck of a time with X
On 10/5/05, Ryan Steffes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could you go the other route and issue it as a user job after each recording?
The problem is that once the show is recorded, if the audio was muted, it's too late for me to recover from it.
If you meant for it to unmute the audio before the next
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have this problem where (for some unknown reason), MythTV will mute
my TV card's audio out periodically. This results in recordings with
no audio. It's not a frontend or sound card issue. I have found it
can be re-enabled by issuing a command to the v4l driver,
On 10/5/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I'm gunna give it a shot in Debian and see what happens. I just priced a
P4 system minus the extra parts i already have with an nice Ahanix case, so
at worst I might just put a dedicated MythTV system together.
I'm running myth builds from
I would also like to see a feature like this. It would also be beneficial when recording from other sources (without the EPG) such as a VCR which, currently, is a big enough PITA to justify avoiding completely. ;-)I was wondering if there's any way I can control one-touch record, perhaps through
Thom Sturgill wrote:
On 10/5/05, *Mark Linford* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, after following Jarod's Fedora guide (excellent, btw), I've
gotten
a rudimentary MythTV box up and running. However, I'm now at the point
where I want to go from my
In fact I messed it up because I plugged the audio from the scart into
my sound card line-in and not into the PVR audio in.
Thank you
Philippe
Michael T. Dean a écrit :
p.crassous wrote:
When viewing TV, and hit P, the image pauses but not the
sound. When recording, sound does not get
On 10/5/05, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would focus on fixing the problem rather than working around it.Areyou using ALSA or OSS for your audio output?
I'm not 100% sure. Strictly speaking, this is a remote master
backend, so the machine itself doesn't do any kind of audio
output.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/5/05, *Kevin Kuphal* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I would focus on fixing the problem rather than working around
it. Are
you using ALSA or OSS for your audio output?
I'm not 100% sure. Strictly speaking, this is a remote
Don't Panic! ivtv is really quite easy to build and install. The xdriveris more difficult, but still
doable. Is there a howto or doc anywhere that describes or guides you through the process of enabling Xv on the 350's TV-Out?Nothing to it really. Build and install the ivtv 0.3.8
and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
However, it's definitely not related to my soundcards, because when I
plug my headphones directly into the TV tuner card, I hear nothing.
Then, if I run v4lctl volume mute off, I hear sound.
In mythtv-setup Capture cards, try checking the box for Do not
adjust
Jeff Simpson wrote:
Don't Panic! ivtv is really quite easy to build and install. The
xdriver
is more difficult, but still
doable.
Is there a howto or doc anywhere that describes or guides you
through
the process of enabling Xv on the 350's TV-Out?
On 10/3/05, David Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there anyway to change the audo channel (for multilingual programs)on the Xbox frontend? I was told that it is +/- on the frontend, but
my XBOX does not have a keyboard and I cannot find it on the menus.Any ideas?Thanks in
Nick,
I'm SOOOo happy to see the work you are doing with the MythMusic
theme. I find the old theme completely unusable -- at least in my
case. It may have been good for navigating or creating playlists for
a couple hundred songs, but my music library is over 2300 songs --
most of
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:34:21 -0400, Jeff Simpson wrote:
You might check out: http://groundstate.ca/c3mythtv
Down a ways there is a discussion about compiling the Xv, and XVmc drivers
for a VIA motherboard... But the process will be exactly the same for you
to do in gentoo, subject only to a
AFAIK mythvideo shares one table across all its clients. So your FE has
videos at /myth/share-videos and your BE/FE has them in /myth/video.
Put the NFS mount in the same place and it should work. As far as
syncing... that sounds like another issue.
Vic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying
On 10/5/05, Kevin Kuphal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It sounds like your are using ALSA then or at least the ALSA/OSSemulation.If you have the alsamixer running when a recording starts,do you see the CAPTURE input device on your recording card go mute?
My alsamixer only shows the soundcard (not the
On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 11:15 +0100, Illtud Daniel wrote:
Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
A note on the DVB subtitles, these are almost always images not
text.
Damn. Anybody know if that's the case in the UK, specifically?
I've read this is the case in most of the UK.
I can't check that
On Friday 19 August 2005 11:17 pm, Nick wrote:
On 8/19/05, Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nick wrote:
On 8/19/05, Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I have a PVR 350. Normally it's primary input is SVideo from my Dish
reciever. However, I'd like to
Ricardo Kleemann wrote:
Hi,
I'm having a problem where mythtv is mysteriously changing my amixer
settings, somehow... I'm not sure why and how it's happening, but I
have to constantly be running amixer commands in order to get the
volume set right.
So I'll set amixer the way I want it,
I am far from an expert but I have been twiddling with this myself. The first
paramater 26.625 on your mode line needs to be in the HorizSync range it is
not.
Section Monitor
Identifier Monitor0
VendorName Some Vendor
ModelName HDTV
HorizSync 31.5 - 37.9
For linux and Myth, I use xebian installed within the xbox filesystem, no
linux partitions. This is convenient because the whole distro can be copied
from one xbox to another. Perhaps this could be distributed? Only things to
edit are IP Address and host file, and you would have a working
Anyone know of a good, inexpensive fanless frontend barebones system I
get get for mythtv? Something with a bit of extra power would be good
for the HD viewing. And most importantly, something with some decently
supported hardware - I'm tired of digging through source to get various
drivers to
On 10/5/05, Robert Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/4/05, Phill Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone have advice on a good Xbox Linux distro for a Myth frontend
system?
http://bit.blkbk.com/
Also heaps in the archives on this, some from just the last few days.
ld: cannot find -lXxf86vm
can't figure out what package I'm missing?
thanks!
Steve
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 15:50, Adam Egger wrote:
On 10/5/05, Steve Adeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I'm gunna give it a shot in Debian and see what happens. I just
priced a P4 system minus the
Rob,
I'd be interested in this.
Thanks,
Peter
Darley
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One frontend I've been looking into is the Roku Photobridge HD (
http://www.rokulabs.com/products/photobridge/index.php ).
It's a media player for HDTV's. It is Linux based, and has a
hardware MPEG2 decoder onboard. They encourage open source
developement on their platform, and someone has ported
I have managed to get mythtv to change the channel via a serial cable
hooked up to the cable box, in my case a Motorola DCT2000. It runs the
changechannel.py script supplied with mythtv. But here is the rub: the
channels change super slow- like 8 seconds slow. It works, but is
unacceptably slow.
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