Hi, I've been running MythTV for quite a few months now with a PVR350 and am really happy with it.
I'm in the UK and have it hooked up to my Sky digibox using www.bleb.org for the channel data (most of the channels I watch are on there) and use a red-eye serial (www.redremote.co.uk) to change channels on the Sky box (this works better than on the NTL box I used to have although the NTL box still worked OK). I use - Mandrake 10.0 on a Shuttle SK41G IVTV driver 2.0 rc3b (http://205.209.168.201/~ckennedy/ivtv/) PVR 350 firmware pvr_1.18.21.22168_inf.zip (http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php?page=FirmwareVersions&highlight=firmware) I've just figured out how to watch DVD rips through the PVR350 (this took a while!). I was always OK with the video but didn't get any audio. This was because the audio was in AC3 format and not mp2 so now I re-encode the DVD rip (vob file) using the command - ffmpeg -i $1.vob -vcodec mpeg2video -b 2500 -acodec mp2 -ab 192 -map 0.0 -map 0.1 $1.mpeg where $1 is the name of the vob file. You can play around with the quality by changing -b and -ab settings. The -map tells it which audio track to use and may need changing depending on the DVD. Maybe my bleb script would of use to someone else too ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh echo "-Remove old data.xml file if it exists..." rm -f /tmp/data.xml >nul rm -f /tmp/raw.xml >nul rm -f /tmp/log.tmp >nul echo "-Download updated listings from www.bleb.org..." wget -q -O /tmp/tvdata.zip "http://www.bleb.org/tv/data/listings?days=0..6&format=xmltv&channels=bbc1,bbc2,itv1,ch4,five,bravo,discovery,e4,men_and_motors,paramount,paramount2,scifi,sky_one,sky_one_mix,uk_gold,sky_movies1,sky_movies2,sky_movies3,sky_movies4,sky_movies5,sky_movies6,sky_movies7,sky_movies8,sky_movies9,uktv_documentary&file=zip"; >nul echo "-Uncompress.." cd /tmp unzip /tmp/tvdata.zip >nul echo "-Update MythTV.." mythfilldatabase --file 1 -1 /tmp/data.xml >nul ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maybe it's not pretty but it works OK! You need to have the channels setup in the mythconverg database first. I'm not sure of an automated way to do this since as far as I know the mythfilldatabase uk sites (including RT) don't work anymore. I also create mpeg links to my nuv files on a samba share so that I can play the files over my LAN. The script gets the program name out of the database and uses that to create the link. This is the script to do that - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/bash rm -f /home/video/mpeg-links/* x=1 y=1 for FILE in `ls /home/video/*.nuv` do part1=`echo $FILE | cut -d/ -f4 - | cut -d_ -f1 -` part2=`echo $FILE | cut -d/ -f4 - | cut -d_ -f2 -` part3=`echo $FILE | cut -d/ -f4 - | cut -d_ -f3 - | cut -d. -f1 -` filename[$x]=$FILE outfile[$x]=$part3 string="select title, subtitle, starttime from recorded where chanid=$part1 and starttime=$part2 and endtime=$part3" title[$x]=`mysql mythconverg -e "$string" --skip-column-names -B -si` files[$x]=$FILE program_title=`echo ${title[$x]} | sed 's/ /_/g' | sed 's/:/_/g'` ln -s $FILE /home/video/mpeg-links/$program_title.mpeg let x=x+1 done ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I do have one question - How does everyone else find the skip FF & RW with the PVR350. I find it not very good. Jumping forward, say 60 seconds at a time, works OK but FF & RW is very juddery especially compared to Sky+. Anyone else got it working OK? Hope this lot helps someone else - any questions just ask! Thanks to everyone else for all the usefull stuff posted here. Matt _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
