Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase and danish xmltv grabbing
It seems like you have not yet configured the xmltv grabber. In mythtvsetup, did you go to the console, and selected the channels you needed? There is also a danish yahoo group for xmltv and mythtv (xmltvdk and mythtvdk), where someone might be able to help if you do not get an helpfull answer here. http://dk.groups.yahoo.com/group/mythtvdk/ http://dk.groups.yahoo.com/group/xmltvdk/ /henrik On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 08:32:19 +0100, Jens Lohmann-Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I've been running mythtv before (a version 0.11 or something), and finally got around to reinstalling it on a freshly reinstalled gentoo box. After fighting with the bttv-driver, xawtv and other stuff, I am now where I can say that the box as such is capable of watching tv - just not through mythtv. Problem in a nutshell: I live in Denmark (Europe), and mythfilldatabase is acting up. Sample output: emilie root # mythfilldatabase - Start of XMLTV output - config file /root/.mythtv/Television.xmltv does not exist, run me with --configure -- End of XMLTV output -- Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file Updating icons for sourceid: 1 Failed to fetch some program info emilie root # mythfilldatabase --configure illegal option: '--configure' (use --help) emilie root # mythfilldatabase --manual ### ### Running in manual channel configuration mode. ### This will ask you questions about every channel. ### - Start of XMLTV output - config file /root/.mythtv/Television.xmltv does not exist, run me with --configure -- End of XMLTV output -- Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file Updating icons for sourceid: 1 Failed to fetch some program info emilie root # Searching the mail archives hasn't helped me (maybe wrong search criteria?). Can anyone help? (Yes, I know - running as root may not be the best idea. I am however in the process of setting up the box :-) ) Thank you in advance, /Jens ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Teletext and /or subtitles in myth
Now that i have my system working more or less OK (Pundit-R, PVR-250, PAL system in Spain, mythtv from cvs -22-01-2005 and the last ivtv driver), I would like to get the teletext show in myth. My main interest is for teletext subtitles, with here are shown in page 888 of teletext. Two questions, for anybody who can help in any way: - There is an option inside the config screens of myth, that let you use subtitles in PAL Teletext. Does anybody if this works for teletext subtitles, sent into page 888, and how to config it? As far as I know, this was only available for closed Caption subtitles, but not the ones in page 888 of teletext, but the name now seems something different. - From the ivtv driver, now I assume that vbi data is inserted into the datastream from /dev/video0 From some time ago, mythtv has been updated with some patches that let it record the vbi data into the mpeg file myth handles. So the last thing needed is to show the teletext on screen. I want to work some time on it (well not much free time, i must say), but I will appreciate any help from somebody who knows how to do it. In particular, I will appreciate any information of the different approaches I can take to show subtitles on myth (OSD, synch issues, in which module to work...) Thanks everybody for your help. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drive Question
It has been several years since I've run a laptop drive in a desktop system, and then only to see if it worked, but if its an ide drive as far as I know you simply need a special cable. Now undoutably ide drives either laptop or desktop continue to improve so I suspect a new laptop drive would be fast enough. It looks like the top mpeg2 data rate for a 250 card is around 12Mb/sec or 1.5MB/sec. Now just about any drive should handle that these days, but you run into the problem that if your are delaying live tv then it has to at least double that + deal with all the seeking. At a quck glance at laptop hard drives on newegg a fujitsu 100GB, 4200rpm notebook drive runs 193.89 and has a 12ms seek and 8MB buffer. A 300GB 5400 rpm normal hard drive ( 2MB cache) is $199. It has a 10ms seek time. (I'd tend to recommend the 8MB cache drives, but this is just for comparison.) As you can see the seek times are close, but the capacities are quite a bit different. Personally I'd think it would work given the numbers unless you using poorly compressed Rtjpeg compression or something. Is 100GB enough space for your myth recordings though? If you needed 2 drives, you'd pretty much cancel out any savings you might want.. Then again you also need to find the adaptor cable for the small drive and a way to mount it inside a desktop case. Personally I doubt its worth it, unless you absolutely need the size. I would look at the power requirements of the 3.5 drives though. 5400 rpm drives used to use less power than 7200, but I'm not sure if you can go by that anymore. You can also use rounded ide cables or Sata drives if your motherboard and linux supports it. (Getting Sata to work in linux might be additional work..) The main thing is to keep air moving in a case.. One other note about a small drive being better cooled. In order to cool correctly the drive needs to be physically mounted to the metal housing to transfer at least part of the heat that way. This would likely require a 3.5 inch to 2.5 inch metal adapter. I haven't even looked as to their availability, but I suppose you could make one. At any rate the point being, that you will likely tie up the space available whichever drive you use... If you haven't already found it there is power saving code in the linux kernel for various CPU's that run the processor's slower. (2.6 series at least.) I don't use it, but its more a matter of not taking the time to get it working. David Whyte wrote: I think the problem with most laptop drives is they are slow. They run at around 4200rpm to save power. I don't know if this would be considered slow, I think it would, but how it impacts myth, I don't know. Whytey On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 01:13:10 -0500, Maverick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I've had a myth box for a couple weeks running KnoppMyth v4r5 and have enjoyed it alot. Unfortunatly, the drive I used is getting more and more bad blocks, and now they're starting to cause kernel panics when mythbackend trys to commercial detect and watch live tv, etc. It was a bad drive to begin with, but it's what I had to build myself a proof of concept box. Of course, I fell in love w/ myth and moved all my recordings from my ReplayTV to it. DOH! Anyway... Question is: Can I buy a 2.5 Laptop IDE drive and use it in my (normal desktop) system? I've never used small HD's in non-laptop systems before, anyone have any advice, pages to read, etc? My main motive is sound, and I'm also packed into a small case, so I figure a small HD would be better cooled and much quieter. Is it worth the extra $$ for the small drive? Any experience / suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! -Kenneth ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Recording two adjacent programs not working
Earlier I reported a problem I was having with recordings of adjacent programs failing on my slave backend, but not the master backend. I discovered the source of the problem -- the ntp daemon was not running on the slave backend, and its clock had drifted. As such, the master was telling it to start recording too early, while the slave was still recording too much overage on the first show. So the slave would say go away, I am still recording real show, it's not over yet and abort the recording. Anyway, the fix is obvious -- make sure ntpd is running to keep your clocks in sync, but I thought I would post it so people could find the answer in searches. I suppose a longterm patch would be for the backend to include its idea of the date in its messages to the slaves (and vice versa) and to issue a warning if they start disagreeing by too much, effectively detecting teh clock mismatch, but I don't think this is a critical issue. It would have been more obvious if the clock had drifted the other direction as shows would be getting shorter and cut off, not longer. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MythTV.org OFFLINE or too much traffic
Hi folks :-) Are there any problems connecting to homepage of mythtv..org? Ping goes ok to dns or ip direct? What about the homepage? Maybe there's a lot of (t much) traffic for the site? Thanks for response Martin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Updated gentoo, now everything mythtv segfaults
I can't get any debug, no log messages etc... gdb tells me nothing. If I run anything myth, mythfrontend, mythbackend, mythsetup.. all segfaults. Any idea where I should start digging? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: DVD rip idea
Hi all, It can be as simple as: lsdvd cat /dev/hd? /data/dvds/name.iso Plus the mentioned adding of .iso as dvd fiel extension to xine Henk Schoneveld ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New version of MythTV (0.17)
http://www.mythtv.info is the official project Wiki which includes a lot of information and help when setting up and running a Myth box. that it is not.. Issac said he wants nothing todo with our wiki (well mainly davids i just host it). He also said he would never link to our wiki from his site. So its as unofficial as it gets :) .. tho someone with keen eyes might notice a link.. --John ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] DVD rip idea
Michael, That's excellent news. Please let us know when the HOWTO is available. Thanks, Russell Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:05:26 -0500 From: Michael J. Emswiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] DVD rip idea To: 'Discussion about mythtv' mythtv-users@mythtv.org There has been some discussion of this exact thing on the forums and after some good hints and a lot of research, I finally got it working. snip Has any thought been given to extending the DVD rip feature to include preservation of all the menus and special features? I think this could be ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drive Question
Op maandag 31 januari 2005 08:12, schreef Andy Long: I'm not really sure you would gain much in terms of quiet or a cool drive. Many laptop drives I've used - specifically Hitachi/IBM travelstar drives - are actually quite noisy. You'd get a lot more bang for your buck by buying a seagate, which are very quiet. See here for example: http://www.silentpcreview.com/section14.html Like IS the Silent PC Future 2.5-inches wide?, Toshiba MK6022GAX 5400/16mb cache Notebook Drive and Notebook HDDs: Hitachi 5K80 80G Samsung MP0402H 40G Remember the Mac Mini runs a laptop HD too, and is rated at 18dB (bad rating.. but whatever, the thing is rather silent). The bang for the buck factor is always true though.. Henk Poley ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging Problem
Chris Pinkham wrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 11:27:12AM -0500, Chris Pinkham wrote: commercials and eliminate false positives. I've got code started in my source tree to try using aspect ratio changes to help detect when commercials start and stop. There are also a few other detection ideas on my TODO to add that will help the ALL method be more accurate. long utopia commercial detection description deleted :) This is bluesky for now, but I expect something like this will happen in the future. Today, however, I will put in one suggestion that I have made before but may bear repetition. Quite often, and almost always on HDTV, commercials are in a different aspect ratio from the regular show, and if you can detect the black bars, you can have very accurate elimination. Did you even read what you quoted from my post above? :) I said I'm starting working on code to detect the aspect ratio changes. I record a few shows that are letterboxed and have been putting some thought into this lately. I also have some code that should allow the flagger to use the aspect changes detected in the decoder as well, but I don't have a sample file to test that with yet. Should have one soon. So anyway, aspect ratio detection will probably be the next thing added to ALL, since it's fairly easy to implement and is a very good indicator of the distinction between what is show and what is commercial. This will be after 0.17 though, I don't plan on adding any new detection functionality to the flagger before 0.17. (Don't want to break it and have a bunch of angry 0.17 users). :) This will be nice to use on HD shows. Most of them are widescreen and the commercials switch to SD 4:3 format. I was thinking about a way that would just watch for the framerate changes. I notice that HD content plays at 24fps and commercials switch to 29~30fps. - James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase and danish xmltv grabbing
Uh, I got this error once. This is because tv.tv2.dk (the source for data) has changed their layout recently. Your should try getting the latest xmltv, since the grabber has been updated for exactly this :) The link for the nightly snapshot is: http://snapshot.xmltv.org/ /henrik On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:01:30 +0100, Jens Lohmann-Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a bit further... Still to no avail. This is my console output. Would you like to clear all capture card settings before starting configuration? [no] Would you like to clear all program/channel settings before starting configuration? [no] 2005-01-31 10:00:17 Please wait while MythTV retrieves the list of available channels getting list of channels: Can't call method content_list on an undefined value at /usr/bin/tv_grab_dk line 558. 2005-01-31 10:00:18 tv_grab_dk --config-file '/root/.mythtv/Television.xmltv' --configure 2005-01-31 10:00:18 exited with status 65280 If this is the master backend server: Now, please run 'mythfilldatabase' to populate the database with channel information. On Monday 31 January 2005 09:05, Henrik Nielsen wrote: It seems like you have not yet configured the xmltv grabber. In mythtvsetup, did you go to the console, and selected the channels you needed? There is also a danish yahoo group for xmltv and mythtv (xmltvdk and mythtvdk), where someone might be able to help if you do not get an helpfull answer here. http://dk.groups.yahoo.com/group/mythtvdk/ http://dk.groups.yahoo.com/group/xmltvdk/ /henrik On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 08:32:19 +0100, Jens Lohmann-Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I've been running mythtv before (a version 0.11 or something), and finally got around to reinstalling it on a freshly reinstalled gentoo box. After fighting with the bttv-driver, xawtv and other stuff, I am now where I can say that the box as such is capable of watching tv - just not through mythtv. Problem in a nutshell: I live in Denmark (Europe), and mythfilldatabase is acting up. Sample output: emilie root # mythfilldatabase - Start of XMLTV output - config file /root/.mythtv/Television.xmltv does not exist, run me with --configure -- End of XMLTV output -- Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file Updating icons for sourceid: 1 Failed to fetch some program info emilie root # mythfilldatabase --configure illegal option: '--configure' (use --help) emilie root # mythfilldatabase --manual ### ### Running in manual channel configuration mode. ### This will ask you questions about every channel. ### - Start of XMLTV output - config file /root/.mythtv/Television.xmltv does not exist, run me with --configure -- End of XMLTV output -- Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file Updating icons for sourceid: 1 Failed to fetch some program info emilie root # Searching the mail archives hasn't helped me (maybe wrong search criteria?). Can anyone help? (Yes, I know - running as root may not be the best idea. I am however in the process of setting up the box :-) ) Thank you in advance, /Jens ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV.org OFFLINE or too much traffic
Was having probs earlier, but it works now. Bryan On Monday 31 January 2005 10:04, Mardin wrote: Hi folks :-) Are there any problems connecting to homepage of mythtv..org? Ping goes ok to dns or ip direct? What about the homepage? Maybe there's a lot of (t much) traffic for the site? Thanks for response Martin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV.org OFFLINE or too much traffic
Mardin wrote: Hi folks :-) Are there any problems connecting to homepage of mythtv..org? Ping goes ok to dns or ip direct? What about the homepage? Maybe there's a lot of (t much) traffic for the site? Thanks for response Martin Works fine for me. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV.org OFFLINE or too much traffic
Working fine here. --- Mardin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks :-) Are there any problems connecting to homepage of mythtv..org? Ping goes ok to dns or ip direct? What about the homepage? Maybe there's a lot of (t much) traffic for the site? Thanks for response Martin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV.org OFFLINE or too much traffic
I would think so as it's been on /. today ;) -ciaran On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:04:20 +0100, Mardin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks :-) Are there any problems connecting to homepage of mythtv..org? Ping goes ok to dns or ip direct? What about the homepage? Maybe there's a lot of (t much) traffic for the site? Thanks for response Martin ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- - Ciaran ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV.org OFFLINE or too much traffic
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:04:20 +0100, Mardin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks :-) Are there any problems connecting to homepage of mythtv..org? Ping goes ok to dns or ip direct? What about the homepage? Maybe there's a lot of (t much) traffic for the site? Thanks for response Martin I can't connect either. My guess is that the site is overloaded - combo of visitors responding to Sunday's New York Times article, the accompanying Slashdot story, and the announcement of an impending 0.17 release. Lane -- Meetup with other Myth users! http://mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MUG ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] mythmusic cvs not compiling
I am having trouble compiling mythmusic from cvs. I am getting the following: C -I/usr/local/qt-x11-free-3.3.3/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -o cddecoder.o cddecoder.cpp cddecoder.cpp: In member function `void CdDecoder::flush(bool)': cddecoder.cpp:74: error: could not convert ` (*(this-Decoder::output()-AudioOutput::_vptr.AudioOutput + 24))(this-Decoder::output(), this-CdDecoder::output_buf, samples, -1)' to `bool' cddecoder.cpp: In member function `virtual void CdDecoder::run()': cddecoder.cpp:222: error: `Drain' undeclared (first use this function) - James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV with SELinux (esp. MythWeb)
I'm using FC3 with SELinux enabled except for the httpd server which I had to disable SELinux security for in order to get Mythweb talking to MySQL successfully. On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 20:35:42 -0800 (PST), Joe Votour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It probably doesn't help you out too much now, but Jarod's FC3 document mentions that there will be problems with enabling SELinux. I'm using FC3 with SELinux disabled, and the only problem that I'm having (currently, I went through an issue with my intel8x0 not working, so I replaced it with a SoundBlaster Live) is that mythfrontend won't run SUID (apparently a known issue with newer kernels). -- Joe --- Harry Orenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyone out there with SELinux enabled on their Myth system? I am running a combined frontend/backend on FC3 with SELinux enabled (for no particular reason) using the targeted policy and had alot of problems getting MythWeb to work. I also have had problems after upgrades on some packages. I'm really just interested if anyone leaves SELinux enabled or if people just punt and turn it off. TIA! -- Harry O. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Has anyone figured out how to foreground mplayer?
On Sunday 30 January 2005 12:06, Mike Green wrote: In any event, I don't believe there's any reason why you wouldn't be able to use Xv. Maybe it was my ivtv module that does not support Xv? Unless you're using the TV-out on a PVR-350, ivtv doesn't figure into it. It's for output only; it doesn't matter if you're using an ivtv-driven card to record. -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging Problem
Adam Egger wrote: Hopefully I can have something coded and into CVS a week or two after 0.17 is out. In Germany they always repeat a few seconds (sometimes it's more than one minute) of a broadcast after the commercial break. Is it also done in US? It would be a good way to cut out commercials very accurately. Adam Is there anything in the current commercial cutting that will detect the TV-Y or other ratings that show up for a few seconds everytime the show comes back from a commercial? I am seeing more and more of these. They are in the upper left corner and last about 5 seconds. - James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New version of MythTV (0.17)
that it is not.. Issac said he wants nothing todo with our wiki (well mainly davids i just host it). He also said he would never link to our wiki from his site. So its as unofficial as it gets :) .. tho someone with keen eyes might notice a link.. Out of curiosity, why would Isaac be against the WIKI? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Has anyone figured out how to foreground mplayer?
On Sunday 30 January 2005 12:06, Mike Green wrote: In any event, I don't believe there's any reason why you wouldn't be able to use Xv. Maybe it was my ivtv module that does not support Xv? Regardless, I have yet to find an answer to the mplayer foreground question. I have persued every google link known to man, and cannot find an answer. Anyone? Would this be a more appropriate question for the developers list? One thing I forgot to mention. After launching mplayer, the remote does not effect mplayer, but if I kill mplayer manually I notice that the remote presses were acted on by mythtv. I.e. if I hit stop, mythtv starts backing out of menus back to the exit prompt... If you're not going to use LIRC (using both Myth's and MPlayer's native LIRC support), then your best option is to use a lightweight window manager like blackbox, and all of your keyboard focus problems should go away. X is quite quirky about keyboard focus when there's no window manager. -JAC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Updated gentoo, now everything mythtv segfaults
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:17:24 -0500, Jim Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't get any debug, no log messages etc... gdb tells me nothing. If I run anything myth, mythfrontend, mythbackend, mythsetup.. all segfaults. Any idea where I should start digging? The obvious question is... What did you emerge on gentoo? If you emerged something that mythtv has as a dependency, you should probably emerge mythtv again. I'm pretty new to gentoo, but you may see if the following identifies anything that needs to be updated: emerge -uDpv --newuse world Hope that helps, -- Jeff Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV.org OFFLINE or too much traffic
Mardin wrote: Hi folks :-) Are there any problems connecting to homepage of mythtv..org? Works fine as of right now. The main site may have been slashdotted for awhile. Quite a few postings in there with (mis)information all over the board. I expect there will be an influx of people trying out Myth now that it isn't so 'underground'. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Hard Drive Question
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 06:17:58AM -0500, Maverick wrote: They list drives made by Samsung as having quiet performance. Newegg has (what appears to be a newer model of) them: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-152-014depa=1 How about recommendations in the 3.5 arena, since 2.5 seems cost/performance prohibitive? I have 3 drives from that family, 160GB PATA, 160GB SATA and 80GB SATA. I have no complaints with any of them. David -- David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Playing/converting DIVX .nuv files
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 08:55:41AM -0500, Cory Papenfuss wrote: Anyone know can I play DIVX-codec .nuv files copied from a Mythbox? I haven't had any trouble with direct Hauppauge captures (MPEG2), but ones I've transcoded to DivX with commercial cuts won't play in mplayer or anything else. I'm trying to do this without the nuvexport perl scripty since the files aren't in the database anymore. I infer that you're supposed to be able to install the Xvid4 codec on Windows and the stuff will play, but I haven't actually gotten to that point myself yet. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth AssociatesThe Things I Think'87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system adminstrator. Or two. --me ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New version of MythTV (0.17)
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 08:49:20AM -0500, John Kuhn wrote: http://www.mythtv.info is the official project Wiki which includes a lot of information and help when setting up and running a Myth box. that it is not.. Issac said he wants nothing todo with our wiki (well mainly davids i just host it). He also said he would never link to our wiki from his site. So its as unofficial as it gets :) .. tho someone with keen eyes might notice a link.. Let us clarify that no, mythtv.info is *not* official in any capacity, but that yes, Isaac has in fact linked to it in the past, notably for the page which lists the upcoming features that have been added to CVS. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth AssociatesThe Things I Think'87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system adminstrator. Or two. --me ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly poor DVD playback with MII 12000?
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:43:54 +, Piers Kittel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have played a whole DVD using Xine on my Debian (unstable) MythTV box, with an EPIA Mini-ITX MII 12000 motherboard, outputting via the onboard TV out (via the PVR-350 is terrible, only plays at 2fps!) and while the DVD and subtitles all work fine, there is a slight jerk - maybe every half second, and it is only really noticeable when people are moving or the camera is panning - which gets quite annoying after a while - any ideas on how to improve this? The kernel is 2.4.28, custom compiled, using the VIA video driver supplied with XFree86: I am using an MII 12000 with Debian Sarge playing DVD's through Xine with no issues once I added the Unichrome drivers from unichrome.sf.net. The via driver included with Sarge's xfree86 was unwatchable (jerky video with mplayer, xine and myth). Check out this message for an apt repository http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=10097798 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New MythTV System help
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:43:29 -0600, Computer Operator [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip will my system support the (software encode/decode)of 2ea HD-3000s and a PVR-250/350. The equipment I bought is as follows: Intel D915PBL 800 FSB motherboard P4 550 3.4g CPU more than enough power for NTSC. i'm sure it's enough for at least one ATSC stream, but i don't know enough to tell you if it can handle two simultaneous ATSC streams. 1024m DDR2/533 memory plenty'o memory :) eVGA eGeFORCE 6600 Video (PCIe x16) 300g SATA HD - to start (room for 3 more drives) you may want to google to find out how well linux supports SATA at the moment. i don't think it's completely built in yet and may not be that reliable. please search before taking my word though. Audio is on-board Intel High Def. (7.1 I think) Plextor PX-716A double layer cd/dvd Mandrake 10.1 if you're new to linux you may want to consider KnoppMyth instead of Mandrake (assuming you're setting this box up soley for a PVR). Mandrake is a great distro and generally easy for noobs to learn on if you plan on using it as a desktop. if you have no interest in linux other than using it for a PVR then KnoppMyth comes with everything you need for Myth pre-configured. just stick in the cd, run the auto setup and walk through the configuration. 6 GMail Invites available Email me OFF-list only... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Re: Re:No tuners on two bt-878 cards?
Hmm quick search on Google turned out that your card is using cx88 chip? Anyway, here is the dmesg output from another user, and the relevant portion from his /var/log/messages: http://www.linuxforum.hu/ipbmb/index.php?showtopic=11464 Here's description written by someone how s/he got it to work. It's in a foreign language, but still understandable: http://www.elitesecurity.org/tema/57878 Here's the link to said driver on the bytesex.org page: http://dl.bytesex.org/releases/video4linux/cx88-0.0.4.tar.gz Note, this is for the Leadtek Winfast card only. I have no idea about your DVB card, I am not even quite clear what type of card it is, and most likely it requires a different driver. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV in Jan 30 NY Times
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 05:47:26PM -0600, Andy Long top-posted (grr): If you want to talk about piracy, fine. Just don't put Myth in with that group. It'd be like me lumping the NYT in with the Weekly World News. What's the difference between the New York Times and the Weekly World News? The Weekly World News admits up front that it makes everything up. :-) _/_ / v \ Scott Alfter (remove the obvious to send mail) (IIGS( http://alfter.us/Top-posting! \_^_/ rm -rf /bin/ladenWhat's the most annoying thing on Usenet? pgpPTTI61XNVI.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drive Question
--- Maverick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about recommendations in the 3.5 arena, since 2.5 seems cost/performance prohibitive? Can't beat that 5-year Seagate bumper-to-bumper warranty. Plus the drives are relatively quiet and they offer up to 400G capacity. I have three 300G drives going into my HDTV backend. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New version of MythTV (0.17)
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 08:49:20AM -0500, John Kuhn wrote: http://www.mythtv.info is the official project Wiki which includes a lot of information and help when setting up and running a Myth box. that it is not.. Issac said he wants nothing todo with our wiki (well mainly davids i just host it). He also said he would never link to our wiki from his site. So its as unofficial as it gets :) .. tho someone with keen eyes might notice a link.. I really don't get this. There are no MythTV archives anywhere other than gossomer (sp?) threads. I'd love to get mythtv archives a gmane.org, but this has been tried and Issac asked them to be removed. There is no link on the site to Jarod's guide, which for me at least, is the definitive install guide. As you note, Issac doesn't seem happy there is a wiki and won't link to it. Issac, what is the deal? Can you clue us in on your decisions here? -David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drive Question
You might want take a look at http://www.quietpcusa.com/acb/showdetl.cfm?DID=8Product_ID=198CATID=1 ($63.95) Its basically a solid aluminum enclosure for your drive. You need a 5.25 slot to make it work. It works partly by being so massive that vibrations are reduced. I don't have one. I started to buy one (or something similar) after my last drive got cooked in my Silentdrive enclosure, but didn't want to spend the money on that. That was basically a plastic case with sound absorbtion material. In short it was little more than an oven, which explains why that drive got RMA'd about 10 months after I bought it. Disclaimer: I have never purchased from that site. The result was found using google. Maverick wrote: Thanks for all your replies. I agree that the cost benefits don't really make sense, but I'm willing to do it if it would make that big of a deal. It sounds like it won't... I did some searching and found this: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article29-page2.html They list drives made by Samsung as having quiet performance. Newegg has (what appears to be a newer model of) them: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-152-014depa=1 How about recommendations in the 3.5 arena, since 2.5 seems cost/performance prohibitive? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New version of MythTV (0.17)
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:56:34 -, Neil Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These are the three pages you need to keep track of what has been going on. http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/WhatsNew http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/ReleaseNotes http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/UnderDevelopment I would assume that all three pages are due for a large update within this week when 0.17 is released. You are correct, it's been more than a month since I updated. I'll be working on those in the next couple of days to get them all up to current time. I've hada rocky start to this new year but things are back under control. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
AW: [mythtv-users] tv_grab_de OR tv_grab_de_tvtoday
It seems that XMLTV builds a tv_grab_de_tvtoday, but mythtv is looking for tv_grab_de. Is there some setting with XMLTV or mythtv that I need to set to clear up this seeming discrepancy? Or, should I just symlink from tv_grab_de_tvtoday to tv_grab_de? I don't think there is a setting (at least I didn't find one). There were posts in this list (some months ago) that suggested to make a symlink as you mentioned (actually you need a symlink with the name tv_grab_de pointing to tv_grab_de_tvtoday). I guess there's nothing wrong with this strategy. Besides: tv_grab_de is the former epg grabber for German speaking channels which isn't working any more for quite some time now. Patrick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Commercial Flagging Problem
Is there anything in the current commercial cutting that will detect the TV-Y or other ratings that show up for a few seconds everytime the show comes back from a commercial? I am seeing more and more of these. They are in the upper left corner and last about 5 seconds. I added code to CVS to do this about 2 weeks ago, but it was getting too many false positives and was CPU-hungry so I commented it back out. I need to do some major tweaking on it some more before reenabling it in CVS. Expect it back in the ALL method sometime after v0.17 ships. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] New version of MythTV (0.17)
http://www.mythtv.info is the official project Wiki which includes a lot of information and help when setting up and running a Myth box. that it is not.. Issac said he wants nothing todo with our wiki (well mainly davids i just host it). He also said he would never link to our wiki from his site. So its as unofficial as it gets :) .. tho someone with keen eyes might notice a link.. --John OK i stand very much corrected, sorry for the confusion :) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New version of MythTV (0.17)
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 10:56:08AM -0500, Harry Orenstein wrote: The real question is: if Isaac posts version 0.17 on Friday or Saturday (or even early on Sunday) how many people will risk the upgrade and take the chance that they won't be able to record the Super Bowl (and all those new and innovative commercials)?;-) No, the *real* question is: is there an easy way to *invert* a cutlist? :-) That's been on my TODO list for a while. It was less than 15 lines of code. I have a patch and will commit it tonight after I test it to make sure it doesn't have any odd effects. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New version of MythTV (0.17)
David Blevins wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 08:49:20AM -0500, John Kuhn wrote: http://www.mythtv.info is the official project Wiki which includes a lot of information and help when setting up and running a Myth box. that it is not.. Issac said he wants nothing todo with our wiki (well mainly davids i just host it). He also said he would never link to our wiki from his site. So its as unofficial as it gets :) .. tho someone with keen eyes might notice a link.. I really don't get this. There are no MythTV archives anywhere other than gossomer (sp?) threads. I'd love to get mythtv archives a gmane.org, but this has been tried and Issac asked them to be removed. There is no link on the site to Jarod's guide, which for me at least, is the definitive install guide. As you note, Issac doesn't seem happy there is a wiki and won't link to it. Issac, what is the deal? Can you clue us in on your decisions here? -David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users If you read the other replies in this topic, youll see a link to past posts describing why Issac feels that way. Lets not have that discussion all over again. Tom ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV in Jan 30 NY Times
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:46:47 -0800, Scott Alfter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 05:47:26PM -0600, Andy Long top-posted (grr): If you want to talk about piracy, fine. Just don't put Myth in with that group. It'd be like me lumping the NYT in with the Weekly World News. What's the difference between the New York Times and the Weekly World News? The Weekly World News admits up front that it makes everything up. :-) Excellent point, though I still wouldn't want to defame the Weekly World News by lumping it with less honest publications like our newspaper friends in the Big Apple. :-) _/_ / v \ Scott Alfter (remove the obvious to send mail) (IIGS( http://alfter.us/Top-posting! \_^_/ rm -rf /bin/ladenWhat's the most annoying thing on Usenet? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Gopdit (QT program for cutting commercials in MPEG2 files at GOP boundaries)
Guys, I just saw this on kde-apps.org and thought it'd be perhaps useful to those of us with PVR-x50 cards. I am yet to compile and try it, but wanted to share this with others who might be looking for something simple to cut out commercials in mpeg2-ps recordings. This is the description of the program: GOPDIT (GOP accurate eDITor) is a simple program that lets you cut and merge MPEG2-PS files at GOP boundaries. It supports no other file types or operations. Its main purpose is to remove commercials from TV recordings. IvanK. http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=18985 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Playing/converting DIVX .nuv files
I tried it yesterday, but the download page on sf.net was broken. It goes today, and seems to play (albeit choppy). I'd really like to figure out a way to convert it, but nuv2avi (which I just found out about this morning) yields broken A/V sync. Argh! How fast is your windows box? high-res divx takes quite a bit of cpu power. You might also try the divx drivers instead of xvid -- supposedly they're a little faster in windows. but you'd still need dsmyth. and yes, there's a reason why the nuv file format was chosen -- it allows MUCH greater control over the frames to keep them in sync. -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly poor DVD playback with MII 12000?
Gordon, Have installed the new unichrome driver and it seems to be working, the DVD playback seems a bit better, but not 100% perfect and not quite statisfactory - watching apocalyspe now seems to have tiny little jerks but very rapid as if once every frame, and Futurama shows a very werid ghosting effect, as if I'm watching it on an old DSTN LCD screen ;) Also panning isn't perfectly smooth, jerks rapidly a little bit. Any ideas? Thanks very much for your help in advance again Cheers - Piers Gordon Rimac wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:43:54 +, Piers Kittel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have played a whole DVD using Xine on my Debian (unstable) MythTV box, with an EPIA Mini-ITX MII 12000 motherboard, outputting via the onboard TV out (via the PVR-350 is terrible, only plays at 2fps!) and while the DVD and subtitles all work fine, there is a slight jerk - maybe every half second, and it is only really noticeable when people are moving or the camera is panning - which gets quite annoying after a while - any ideas on how to improve this? The kernel is 2.4.28, custom compiled, using the VIA video driver supplied with XFree86: I am using an MII 12000 with Debian Sarge playing DVD's through Xine with no issues once I added the Unichrome drivers from unichrome.sf.net. The via driver included with Sarge's xfree86 was unwatchable (jerky video with mplayer, xine and myth). Check out this message for an apt repository http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=10097798 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Re: Re: mythstream won't stream
jebel: My primary tuner card is a pvr 350. My recordings are mostly of default quality, which first encodes as MPEG2, and then transcodes to the MPEG4 format using mythtv's built in transcoder. If I try to stream either a new recording which hasn't been transcoded, or a transcoded version of another recording, I get the garbage at input error. Your diagnosis of nuppelvideo files not working is correct. I tried streaming an avi file, and it worked very nicely. How can I get vlc, and therefore mythstreamtv, to work in my setup? Thanks ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Playing/converting DIVX .nuv files
I've been able to successfully watch Myth .nuv files on Windows using VLC. All I did was change the file extension to .mpg (I'm not sure whether or not that's necessary). On 1/31/05 4:47 PM, Chris Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In windows, you have to use the dsmyth filters. nothing in windows (or linux, for that matter) properly understands the changes that Isaac has made to the NUV file format -- regardless of what kind of video is inside of it. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Updated gentoo, now everything mythtv segfaults
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:25:17 -0600 Jeff Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:17:24 -0500, Jim Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't get any debug, no log messages etc... gdb tells me nothing. If I run anything myth, mythfrontend, mythbackend, mythsetup.. all segfaults. Any idea where I should start digging? The obvious question is... What did you emerge on gentoo? If you emerged something that mythtv has as a dependency, you should probably emerge mythtv again. I'm pretty new to gentoo, but you may see if the following identifies anything that needs to be updated: emerge -uDpv --newuse world Hope that helps, -- Jeff Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've used the -e (empty tree option) to get out of this, its an overnight job. -- Kevin Hayes ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New version of MythTV (0.17)
On Monday 31 January 2005 12:22, David Blevins wrote: There is no link on the site to Jarod's guide Actually, there is, within the official docs, on this page: http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html Unfortunately, I have not had any time whatsoever lately to either participate much on the mailing list or update my doc, so its woefully in need of some love right now... -- Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got a question? Read this first... http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html MythTV, Fedora Core ATrpms documentation: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archive http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/ pgpLgeybGKUGR.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New version of MythTV (0.17)
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:03:05AM +1000, David Whyte wrote: It may be good to have both, commercials and the programme (for some sick and twisted reason :P ). Would it be possible to strip commercials to a seperate file to the original recording? 8-) Let me *STRONGLY* second this. How difficult, architecturally, would it be to get the transcode process to split the commercials out into a separate file? Even if it had to be done behind Myth's back, in to the videos directory, for example. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth AssociatesThe Things I Think'87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system adminstrator. Or two. --me ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New version of MythTV (0.17)
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 20:47 -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:03:05AM +1000, David Whyte wrote: It may be good to have both, commercials and the programme (for some sick and twisted reason :P ). Would it be possible to strip commercials to a seperate file to the original recording? 8-) Let me *STRONGLY* second this. How difficult, architecturally, would it be to get the transcode process to split the commercials out into a separate file? Even if it had to be done behind Myth's back, in to the videos directory, for example. This is why I am still using external nuvexport with the skip-invert patch I posted previously. A friend is doing comparative advertising studies for a PhD thesis, and hence wants only the commercials. Inbuilt capability would be great! Cheers, Mark -- Mark Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New version of MythTV (0.17)
The one feature I would like to see, and I don't think it would be a big deal to include. Is to only record new shows. I brought this up before but got no response. Here is my example, yes forgive me I'm a scifi fan. Stargate SG-1 is one numerous times on the Sci-Fi channel. Since I travel every week, I have to record every instance of the show, which basically is about 8 episodes a week (16 GIG of space). If there was on option to record only first run shows, this would cut it down to only recording one show a week. Yes, I could set it up to record on Friday at a certain time, but the point is I only want to record the first run shows only. -- Jim Gifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New version of MythTV (0.17)
Stargate SG-1 is one numerous times on the Sci-Fi channel. Since I travel every week, I have to record every instance of the show, which basically is about 8 episodes a week (16 GIG of space). If there was on option to record only first run shows, this would cut it down to only recording one show a week. Yes, I could set it up to record on Friday at a certain time, but the point is I only want to record the first run shows only. If you set it to only record when the first run shows are, that is all you will get. You will get repeats that you have not captured before, but hey if its new to you... -- Email me if you want a gmail account, I have invites. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] the mysql database have not all the tables in the mythTV
szj wrote: MythTV is a greate project! Thanks for all the people contributing to it.I have just downloaded the mythtv from cvs and compiled succesefully. I use the mysql database. When I start the mythfrontend, it reports: 2005-02-01 10:42:31.482 Upgrading to schema version 1014 DB Error (Performing database upgrade): Query was: ALTER TABLE record CHANGE rank recpriority INT(10) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL; Driver error was [2/1054]: QMYSQL3: Unable to execute query Database error was: Unknown column 'rank' in 'record' If I start mythfilldatabase, it reports DB Error (loading channel sources): Query was: SELECT sourceid,name,xmltvgrabber,userid,password,lineupid FROM videosource ORDER BY sourceid; Driver error was [2/1054]: QMYSQL3: Unable to execute query Database error was: Unknown column 'password' in 'field list' So I grep all the sql files, there is no corresponding field in the sql. it doesn't create channel table, and lost some fields in relative tables as indicated above. This can happen if the process was killed once during it's upgrade or the schema upgrade got confused for some other reason. If it was only up to 1014, I assume this is a new DB and you were running the the program for the first time. In that case, you would do best to drop and create the database again and run setup. Make sure it finishes all it's updates without interruption. mysql -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg mysql drop database mythconverg; mysql create database mythconverg; $ your_src/setup/setup If you use current CVS or can wait a week or so for 0.17, new database creations start out at 1060 so it doesn't have to do all the old updates anymore. -- bjm ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New version of MythTV (0.17)
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 22:18, Jim Gifford wrote: The one feature I would like to see, and I don't think it would be a big deal to include. Is to only record new shows. I brought this up before but got no response. Here is my example, yes forgive me I'm a scifi fan. Stargate SG-1 is one numerous times on the Sci-Fi channel. Since I travel every week, I have to record every instance of the show, which basically is about 8 episodes a week (16 GIG of space). If there was on option to record only first run shows, this would cut it down to only recording one show a week. Yes, I could set it up to record on Friday at a certain time, but the point is I only want to record the first run shows only. Just go into the upcoming recordings menu and tell it which ones you've already seen. Select Never Record for the ones you've seen, and it will behave as if you've previously recorded it. This is great for picking up the few episodes that you missed the first time around. It's a bit of work at first, but once you've gone through the whole cycle, it works perfectly. Of course, the other option is to restrict your recording to weekly timeslots. For something like SG-1 that's on in two timeslots, set both to record so that it can get the second showing if there's a conflict on the first. That's not quite as good, as it doesn't adapt if the schedule changes to a different day of the week. Of course, you can always log in remotely and delete the showings you don't want to watch using mythweb. --PC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Programme aspect ratio data
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 10:58 +, Julian Edwards wrote: Mark Cooke wrote: The uk_rt listings grabber has aspect ratio information for most of the programs now: [snip] The aspect/aspect mark-up is only present for 16:9 (it seems). 4:3 broadcast programming just skips it completely. Anyone working on adding (automatic) support for this to mythtv ? Just a 'wish list' item, as pressing 'W' on playback isn't exactly hard, but it would be useful for nuvexport too. I'm pretty sure it does this already. I've got a Nova-T and a PVR-250 in my box; the Nova-T switches automatically because the source DVB material contains the WS switch but any programmes coming through the PVR-250 seem to switch also where the RT feed has got the 16/9 ratio set. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be set consistently but it is there on some at least (eg the new series of Stargate SG-1 on Sky One Tuesday nights, and Enterprise on Monday nights). Thanks for that, but my PVR350 here doesn't seem to behave that way. All the programming appears as 16:9 by default. (STB set to 'widescreen', but this appears to have little effect. Myth aspect override set to 'off') I'll investigate further. Cheers, Mark -- Mark Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New version of MythTV (0.17)
Preston Crow wrote: On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 22:18, Jim Gifford wrote: The one feature I would like to see, and I don't think it would be a big deal to include. Is to only record new shows. I brought this up before but got no response. Here is my example, yes forgive me I'm a scifi fan. Stargate SG-1 is one numerous times on the Sci-Fi channel. Since I travel every week, I have to record every instance of the show, which basically is about 8 episodes a week (16 GIG of space). If there was on option to record only first run shows, this would cut it down to only recording one show a week. Yes, I could set it up to record on Friday at a certain time, but the point is I only want to record the first run shows only. Just go into the upcoming recordings menu and tell it which ones you've already seen. Select Never Record for the ones you've seen, and it will behave as if you've previously recorded it. This is great for picking up the few episodes that you missed the first time around. It's a bit of work at first, but once you've gone through the whole cycle, it works perfectly. Of course, the other option is to restrict your recording to weekly timeslots. For something like SG-1 that's on in two timeslots, set both to record so that it can get the second showing if there's a conflict on the first. That's not quite as good, as it doesn't adapt if the schedule changes to a different day of the week. Of course, you can always log in remotely and delete the showings you don't want to watch using mythweb. --PC ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users What I was thinking is since there is an airdate in the xml listings, there could be a check done at that level instead of all the manual intervention. -- Jim Gifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: SBC DSL -- pair gains - 19,903 ft.
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:37:29 -0600, Robert Denier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone had experience getting DSL from southwesternbell (sbc) under rather less than favorable conditions? My distance according to the phone company is 19,903ft which is 903 ft above them considering it. Cyberonic (DSL provider) thinks I'm at 15,211 and were willing to give it a try but they found pair gains that are ncompatible with DSL. (Pair gains are devices that multiplex 2 phone onto 1 pair of wires.) They said if I can get a line without them then they will try again. (snip) I moved recently and signed up for SBC DSL. Once I got the stuff, I was only able to manage 140kbs. After two tiring hours on the phone with their idiot tech support, they did something and was able to get me up to around 320kbs. Then they told me that the max I could get was 384kbs, because of distance. Not happy,nor satisfied. Well, good news was, SBC gives you 30 days to try it out. If you arn't happy, send the equipement back, and you are only out the $$ for shippinng the router and one month of DSL service. I would verify this with them, then give it a shot. Got nothing to lose. good luck. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New version of MythTV (0.17)
What I was thinking is since there is an airdate in the xml listings, there could be a check done at that level instead of all the manual intervention. I have found that information to be very unreliable for certain shows. I for one would rather rely on descriptions and delete generic dupes. -- Email me if you want a gmail account, I have invites. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New version of MythTV (0.17)
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:03:05AM +1000, David Whyte wrote: It may be good to have both, commercials and the programme (for some sick and twisted reason :P ). Would it be possible to strip commercials to a seperate file to the original recording? 8-) Let me *STRONGLY* second this. How difficult, architecturally, would it be to get the transcode process to split the commercials out into a separate file? Even if it had to be done behind Myth's back, in to the videos directory, for example. Would be simple for someone to write a script to call nuvexport twice inverting the cutlist inbetween calls to nuvexport. Or even simpler would be a command-line option to nuvexport to invert the cutlist. -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] New version of MythTV (0.17)
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 10:56:08AM -0500, Harry Orenstein wrote: The real question is: if Isaac posts version 0.17 on Friday or Saturday (or even early on Sunday) how many people will risk the upgrade and take the chance that they won't be able to record the Super Bowl (and all those new and innovative commercials)?;-) No, the *real* question is: is there an easy way to *invert* a cutlist? :-) There is in CVS, as of about 30 minutes ago. :) -- Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] AMD Issues
I've had MythTV running for over a year now, and I'm very happy with it. I finally got rid of the ugly tower box sitting beside my TV and built a new system for myth MythBox. I had been running a P4 - 1.8 GHz with two PVR-250s and a pair of 120 GB drives (JBOD'd with LVM2). For the new system, I picked up an MSI nForce board (heard good things about nForce chipsets) and an Athlon 3000+ (Barton). The new machine is using one of the old 120 GB drives plus a 200 GB SATA, again using LVM2. Compiles are definitely MUCH faster on the new machine, but Myth is taking up WAY more resources. Distro: Gentoo (optimized for athlon-xp) Myth Version: CVS 2004-Dec-11 Video Card: GeForce MX4000 On my old P4, recording two streams and watching one ran at about 50-60% cpu utilization. On the new AMD, the same thing takes 100%+. If I am watching something when there are two recordings, everything is extremely sluggish. I'm running the same Myth and IVTV code on the new one as I was on the old one (it was working, why screw with it?). I would have thought even just by CPU frequency alone (2.1 GHz opposed to 1.8 GHz) it should be close, and frequency isn't everything... Does anyone have any idea why this new (supposedly better) system behaves so much worse with Myth than the old one? The only thing I can think of is that the IO system on the nForce board is slow (maybe just the SATA?), since it seems like I'm iobound. On the positive side, the SilverStone LC03 case is really nice, and looks cool in the stereo stand. Any ideas/suggestions are appreciated... -- Matt White [EMAIL PROTECTED] College of Arts and Science University of Saskatchewan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] nvidia GeForce FX5500 card with tv out
I am looking at purchasing the eVGA nVIDIA GeForce FX5500 Video Card, 256MB DDR, 128-bit, DVI/TV-Out, 8X AGP, Model 256-A8-N313-LX card and the chipset is GeForce FX5500/270MHz would this be a good card for to use for the tv out function for mythtv? Can basically any nvidia card with tv out work well for mythtv under Debian or do some cards work better than others or is there better driver support for certain cards? I have looked on the mythv archives and seen a lot of talk about video cards but I wanted to check on this one and on nvidia in general. Jim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] About mythfilldatabase
Dear all I am enjoying MythTV on Vine linux in Japan . I have one question how to set up mythfilldatabase to set up the MythTV . There is the page of Automatic doing of mythfilldatabase on the set up pages of MythTV . And I have to write the Argument of mythfilldatabase into the blank of this page . What is the Argument of mythfilldatabase ? Please let me know how to write the Argument of mythfolldatabase specifically . Regards, ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Air2pc / Air2LAN
On Sunday 30 January 2005 02:24 pm, Brian Foddy wrote: Guess I've been behind on the Jan threads, but was surprised to learn about the air2pc option. This looks interesting, and I see from the archives some people are starting to experiment. Checking out their web site tho, I find the Air2LAN device perhaps even more interesting. According to the spec sheet, there is a Linux library available. Depending on specifics and costs, etc; I see more potential in this approach. You could have several of these, connected to a gigabit lan (the individual device is limited to 100), writing to a Lan Storage device (PC or dedicated), and a small frontend . Most of the devices are stuffed out of the way (basement, office), a small frontend, and the network. The network really becomes most of the system; with very few parts required. Depending on the device costs, this could be significantly easier and cheaper than PCI based cards. Does anyone have more info on if this approach would be viable? Brian A followup to my own note. I emailed bbti today and asked about the Air2LAN device, both cost and the Linux library. The cost is $399 ea, I'm still waiting to hear details on the library. Brian ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] AMD Issues
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:42:52 -0600, Matt White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Distro: Gentoo (optimized for athlon-xp) Myth Version: CVS 2004-Dec-11 Video Card: GeForce MX4000 On my old P4, recording two streams and watching one ran at about 50-60% cpu utilization. On the new AMD, the same thing takes 100%+. If I am watching something when there are two recordings, everything is extremely sluggish. I'm running the same Myth and IVTV code on the new one as I was on the old one (it was working, why screw with it?). I'm using gentoo on a AMD Athlon XP 2800+. One major difference is that I have a pvr-350 and a pvr-250mce, so I get the benefit of h/w decoding via the pvr-350... When recording two channels and watching a third recording, my max cpu utilization is around 10%... Try running top or sar to figure out which processes are eating up your CPU time... -- Jeff Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] About mythfilldatabase
On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:46:33 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all I am enjoying MythTV on Vine linux in Japan . I have one question how to set up mythfilldatabase to set up the MythTV . (snip) What is the Argument of mythfilldatabase ? The option to run mythfilldatabase in the settings dialogs is just one method of running mythfilldatabase. I believe most people setup a cron job for their mythtv user to run mythfilldatabase at a particular time of day. For example, here's my crontab entry for user mythtv: 30 03 * * * /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase /var/log/mythtv/mythfilldatabase.log 21 The arguments you pass to mythfilldatabase are dependent upon your guide listing source. You can get a list of the arguments by running mythfilldatabase --help. Hope that helps, -- Jeff Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Response to the NYT article (petition)
There has been a lot of uproar about the recent NYT article that comes very close to accusing MythTV users of being TV pirates. At the request of a few people on #mythtv-users, I've posted both a letter and a petition, which will be sent to the Times in a week or two (depending on how many people sign). You can find them at: http://forevermore.net/mythtv/nyt/ Please don't overload my poor DSL line. :) -Chris ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] About mythfilldatabase
I actually run through the mythfrontend also. The argument isn't needed as far as I can remember. Johnny Lee -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Thompson Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 9:12 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] About mythfilldatabase On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:46:33 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all I am enjoying MythTV on Vine linux in Japan . I have one question how to set up mythfilldatabase to set up the MythTV . (snip) What is the Argument of mythfilldatabase ? The option to run mythfilldatabase in the settings dialogs is just one method of running mythfilldatabase. I believe most people setup a cron job for their mythtv user to run mythfilldatabase at a particular time of day. For example, here's my crontab entry for user mythtv: 30 03 * * * /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase /var/log/mythtv/mythfilldatabase.log 21 The arguments you pass to mythfilldatabase are dependent upon your guide listing source. You can get a list of the arguments by running mythfilldatabase --help. Hope that helps, -- Jeff Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] PVR 350 TV Out
Hi, I am trouble getting video using my PVR350's TV Out. I am able to capture video and playback on my monitor but cannot see it on the TV-Out of the 350. I am using Fedora Core 2 and used Jarod's guide. I searched the archives and it seems that my symptoms are exactly like those experienced by Chris Martin on January 18 in the archives. However, he did email that he had found a solution. My case in a nutshell: I can see test pattern using $/sbin/modprobe saa7127 test_capture=1. Removing test pattern and reloading saa7127 creates a pattern of lines on my TV. After some testing, I have figured out that the lines only appear after I load ivtv-fb. I can capture, tune, and playback video through a monitor. I cannot redirect the video through the TV-Out or see anything but the pattern. Since I need to load ivtv-fb to redirect the video out, I have to load ivtv-fb Anybody got any ideas. Here's my modprobe.conf #ivtv modules setup alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 ivtv alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c install ivtv /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install; /sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_i2c Here's my var/log/message - Jan 31 22:47:46 star kernel: ivtv: START INIT IVTV Jan 31 22:47:46 star kernel: ivtv: version 0.2.0 (rc3e) loading Jan 31 22:47:46 star kernel: ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.10-1.9_FC2 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.3 Jan 31 22:47:46 star kernel: ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info Jan 31 22:47:46 star kernel: ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when Jan 31 22:47:46 star kernel: ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist. Jan 31 22:47:46 star kernel: ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 350 card Jan 31 22:47:46 star kernel: ivtv: Found an iTVC15 based chip Jan 31 22:47:46 star kernel: ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x7124 vendor: 0x8086 Jan 31 22:47:46 star kernel: ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[0],ok] Jan 31 22:47:47 star kernel: ivtv: Tuner Type 47, Tuner formats 0x1000, Radio: yes, Model 0x00ad1598, Revision 0x0001 Jan 31 22:47:47 star kernel: ivtv: NTSC tuner detected Jan 31 22:47:47 star kernel: ivtv: Radio detected Jan 31 22:47:47 star kernel: ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok] Jan 31 22:47:47 star kernel: ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7115[0],ok] Jan 31 22:47:47 star kernel: ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7127[0],ok] Jan 31 22:47:47 star kernel: ivtv: i2c attach [client=MSP3448W-A2,ok] Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040024 Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: Encoder Firmware is buggy, use version 0x02040011 Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: Decoder revision: 0x02020023 Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 350 card with 9 streams Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: Create DMA stream 0 using 256 16384 byte buffers 4194304 kbytes total Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 0 minor 0 Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: Create DMA stream 1 Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 1 minor 32 Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: Create stream 2 using 40 52224 byte buffers 2097152 kbytes total Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 2 minor 224 Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: Create DMA stream 3 using 455 4608 byte buffers 2097152 kbytes total Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 3 minor 24 Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: Create stream 4 Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 4 minor 64 Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: Create DMA stream 5 using 16 65536 byte buffers 1048576 kbytes total Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 5 minor 16 Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: Create stream 6 using 1024 2048 byte buffers 262144 kbytes total Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 6 minor 228 Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: Create stream 7 Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 7 minor 232 Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: Create DMA stream 8 Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 8 minor 48 Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: Setting Tuner 47 Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: Setting audio matrix to input 3, output 1 Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: Switching standard to NTSC. Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: ivtv_enc_thread: pid = 2927, itv = 0xe0bd31a0 Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: ivtv_dec_thread: pid = 2928, itv = 0xe0bd31a0 Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 350, card #0 Jan 31 22:47:48 star kernel: ivtv: END INIT IVTV Jan 31 22:48:17 star kernel: ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7127[0],ok] Jan 31 22:49:56 star kernel: ivtv: i2c attach
Re: [mythtv-users] About mythfilldatabase
Hellow Jeff (B (BSorry I missed to write my name . (BMy name is Masa . (B (BThank you for your reply tp my mail . (BI tried to use crontab once and did not go succesfully . (BSo I tried to use to run mythfilldatabase as another way . (B (BI will try again to use crontab drawing upon your manner . (B (BThank you again . (B (BMasa (B (B (BJeff Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (B(2005/02/01 14:12) (B (BOn Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:46:33 +0900, $B?A([EMAIL PROTECTED]<+Bp(B <[EMAIL (BPROTECTED] wrote: (B Dear all (B I am enjoying MythTV on Vine linux in Japan . (B (B I have one question how to set up mythfilldatabase to set up the (B MythTV . (B (B(snip) (B What is the "Argument of mythfilldatabase" ? (B (B (BThe option to run mythfilldatabase in the settings dialogs is just one (Bmethod of running mythfilldatabase. I believe most people setup a cron (Bjob for their mythtv user to run mythfilldatabase at a particular time (Bof day. For example, here's my crontab entry for user mythtv: (B (B30 03 * * * /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase (B/var/log/mythtv/mythfilldatabase.log 21 (B (BThe arguments you pass to mythfilldatabase are dependent upon your (Bguide listing source. You can get a list of the arguments by running (B"mythfilldatabase --help". (B (BHope that helps, (B (B-- (BJeff Thompson (B[EMAIL PROTECTED]___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] MPEG2-MPEG2 cut spinning
I had similar issues. When I got the issue I just deleted and let it rerecord then the same show worked the next time. Johnny Lee -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Caplinger Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 7:57 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MPEG2-MPEG2 cut spinning On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 18:06 +, Steve Christall wrote: ... Finding the AV Offset to use with lvemux: -21 Finding framerate: 25.000 Last Frame -319508 Indexing the file with avidemux2 Cutting out commercials with avidemux2 It just sits here spinning .. I have left it for 12 hours ... 3334 mythtv39 19 39920 10m 18m R 99.2 1.0 1156:35 avidemux2 I've had very similar problems and found that something strange was going on with the Xvfb mode. I took out the redirection of output to /dev/null on the avidemux2 calls within mpeg2cut and found that it was crashing. (I'm not sure I get why the crash doesn't just kill avidemux2 and let the mpeg2cut script try to continue anyway... it shouldn't just *hang* there forever!) Here's an excerpt from the crash I get: #0 0x02750602 in g_on_error_stack_trace () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #1 0x0808cf54 in sig_segfault_handler () #2 signal handler called #3 0x006b251c in gdk_rgb_init () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 #4 0x006b268f in gdk_rgb_find_color () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 ... In my case it was doing this on the first call, which is when it is doing the Indexing the file with avidemux2. So I had the script echo out the avidemux and lvemux command lines, and ran them by hand instead -- the gui for avidemux2 popped up, did it's work, and closed as intended. Then the same thing happened for the second avidemux2 call, so I solved the problem the same way and ran the command by hand with similar (working) results. I haven't figured out what's going wrong with Xvfb on my system; I'm still working on that. (Yes, I have it installed and have tested it with xclock; of course I can't see the invisible xclock window but at least it doesn't crash or otherwise error out when I run it.) In any case, my resulting cut MPEG2 files (originated by a PVR-350) have audio sync issues that become really noticable about 75% through, and there are blocky video glitches at one or two of the cutpoints. So it seems I'm still quite a ways off from a workable solution to having commercial-cut MPEG2 that I can burn to DVD. :-( -- Dave Caplinger ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] RAID on Fedora Core 3?
Paul Barker wrote: ... reads are fast with little overhead. ... I'm not worried about the high write times as the volumes I have on the array are mainly read. I am pretty much only going to use my arrays for reading too. I wonder if it would be advantageous to make them read-only. Just curious if you got any output in dmesg I don't know how to tell when the messages are displayed...I do see lots of (250ish) of : APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) but I don't know what that means. or /var/log/messages whilst running. Nothing at all in /var/log/messages Did you (dare) try running this on the master and slave arrays at the same time ? I just did this : cd /mnt/md1/bonnie++/ ; /usr/sbin/bonnie++ -u mwaterman bonnie++-2.txt ; cd /mnt/md2/bonnie++/ ; /usr/sbin/bonnie++ -u mwaterman bonnie++-2.txt and these are the results : /dev/md1 - 4xWD800/8/XFS --Sequential Output-- --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP 3G 21862 39 25205 7 11192 3 24639 42 40046 7 248.7 0 --Sequential Create-- Random Create -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP 16 729 13 + +++ 834 11 805 15 + +++ 557 8 /dev/md2 - 4xWD2000/8/XFS --Sequential Output-- --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP 3G 21610 38 27858 8 11986 3 23943 40 36737 7 234.2 0 --Sequential Create-- Random Create -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP 16 606 8 + +++ 590 9 610 12 + +++ 503 7 I assume 'output' is 'write' and 'input' is 'read'? I'm not sure I really understand the numbers. Strange... Previous results are below. Thoughts? Max. Max Waterman wrote: /dev/md1 is 4xWD800 PATA RAID5 master array === --Sequential Output-- --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP 3G 31272 59 34758 8 9009 3 16343 28 19788 3 265.3 1 --Sequential Create-- Random Create -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP 16 506 8 + +++ 574 7 530 10 + +++ 367 5 /dev/md2 is 4xWD2000 PATA RAID5 slave array === --Sequential Output-- --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP 3G 44201 78 43174 11 14761 6 38522 67 6 14 359.4 0 --Sequential Create-- Random Create -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP 16 1098 14 + +++ 1131 16 1118 17 + +++ 1006 15 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] GUI
Hi, I am trying to build a MythTV systembut I made an error when I installed the OS, and I'd rather not start from scratch again. The error I made was not to install the windowing system(s) (gnome, etc). I assume that I do need them. How best to install them again? I tried to 'upgrade' from the FC3 install disk, but it didn't allow me to select anything to install. Max. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Response to the NYT article (petition)
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 09:41:25PM -0800, Chris Petersen wrote: There has been a lot of uproar about the recent NYT article that comes very close to accusing MythTV users of being TV pirates. At the request of a few people on #mythtv-users, I've posted both a letter and a petition, which will be sent to the Times in a week or two (depending on how many people sign). You can find them at: http://forevermore.net/mythtv/nyt/ Please don't overload my poor DSL line. :) The article was written by two folks. One, John Markoff, is a friend of mine and I talked with him about the article. He indicated his own desire had been to cover the innovation end, but the co-author (Manly), who was the one who finished up the story, wanted to write more about the filesharing aspects of it. So if even John couldn't get the story to come out as he wanted, I don't hold a lot of hope for a letter. The letter is decent, and to the point (usually only one point ever gets through in a letter to the editor) but I've not known newspaper editors for being too sympathetic to complaints about being associated with bad things by being in the same story. But it doesn't hurt to try. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] GUI
apt-get install gnome That should get you up and running with Gnome. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Max Waterman Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 11:32 PM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: [mythtv-users] GUI Hi, I am trying to build a MythTV systembut I made an error when I installed the OS, and I'd rather not start from scratch again. The error I made was not to install the windowing system(s) (gnome, etc). I assume that I do need them. How best to install them again? I tried to 'upgrade' from the FC3 install disk, but it didn't allow me to select anything to install. Max. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] MythTV crashes in 0.16
I've had Mythfrontend crash on me several times recently (53 times in the last week and a half), and though I've found some clues I'm not really sure what the cause is. I'll try to explain everything I've noticed. Feel free to ask me any questions to find more information. From the user's perspective, Mythfrontend crashes intermittently right as a recorded program is being watched. When Mythfrontend starts up, the first program watched never causes the problem. Often, but not always, it will happen on the second program, and it rarely makes it past the third or fourth. The problem first appeared after upgrading the kernel to 2.6.10 and installing the 6629 version of the nVidia driver. It's possible that nVidia is the problem, but since it's also likely a MythTV problem, I figured I'd post here first. Anyway, here's a backtrace from GDB: #0 0xb64c0226 in _nv000833gl () from /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 #1 0xb73fa210 in _nv30gl () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 #2 0x00054007 in ?? () #3 0x42fc in ?? () #4 0xb7fbe4ac in __JCR_LIST__ () from /usr/lib/libmythtv-0.16.so.0 Please let me know if there is any other information I can provide that would be helpful. Thanks a ton. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Problems with playback using mythtv =0.16
Hello there! I'm using mythtv since 0.13 and i was very happy with it 'til the release 0.16. With that version the playback of my recordings has become extreme disruptive (both audio and video) without any sync between audio and video. The cvs-source from 30th January also has this problem (message is prebuffering pause). Another problem with the cvs-source occurs if i try to use the alsa or arts support. Compiling the support for alsa and arts in seems to work correct, but if i try to use that version, any sound configuration (even OSS, which works if compiled in solely) throws out this error: 2005-01-30 17:10:08.848 Opening audio device 'default'. ALSA lib control.c:654:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL /dev/mixer 2005-01-30 17:10:08.882 Mixer attach error -2: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden Check Mixer Name in Setup: /dev/mixer The recordings itself are correct, i tested it using mplayer. Version 0.15 produces regularly but only one or two times an hour prebuffering pauses, in which the playback misfires, and only for less than a second. That's absolutely tolerable for me, so i'm using 0.15 in the moment. My Software: mythtv, compiled on an Gentoo Linux (2004.3) using a vanilla 2.6.9 kernel and compiled with support for alsa, arts, oss, xv and opengl. I've also tried a vanilla kernel version 2.6.8.1, but without any difference. My Hardware: Tyan Tiger 2466 (2x Athlon MP 2000+) Radeon 8500LE SBLive Hauppauge WinTV Theater 2x Samsung SP1614N (160GB each) using linux software-raid for /mnt/video ... (some other hardware exists, but i think they shoudn't matter. If needed, i'll provide additional information. ) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] About mythfilldatabase
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 03:23:30PM +0900, ?$B?A?([EMAIL PROTECTED]+Bp?(B wrote: Hellow Jeff Sorry I missed to write my name . My name is Masa . Thank you for your reply tp my mail . I tried to use crontab once and did not go succesfully . So I tried to use to run mythfilldatabase as another way . I will try again to use crontab drawing upon your manner . Don't forget that your crontab file must end in a blank line and must not contain any other blank lines elsewhere. -David Thank you again . Masa Jeff Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (2005/02/01 14:12) On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:46:33 +0900, $B?A([EMAIL PROTECTED]+Bp(B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all I am enjoying MythTV on Vine linux in Japan . I have one question how to set up mythfilldatabase to set up the MythTV . (snip) What is the Argument of mythfilldatabase ? The option to run mythfilldatabase in the settings dialogs is just one method of running mythfilldatabase. I believe most people setup a cron job for their mythtv user to run mythfilldatabase at a particular time of day. For example, here's my crontab entry for user mythtv: 30 03 * * * /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase /var/log/mythtv/mythfilldatabase.log 21 The arguments you pass to mythfilldatabase are dependent upon your guide listing source. You can get a list of the arguments by running mythfilldatabase --help. Hope that helps, -- Jeff Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] About mythfilldatabase
Hellow jonny (B (BSorry I missed to write my name and excuse me to send mail to you (Bdirectly . (BMy name is Masa . (B (BI tried to run mythfilldatabase with blank Argument and (Bmythfilldatabase did not work well . (BI think that the argument is not needed too. (B (BI will try again . (B (BThanks , (B (BMasa (B (B[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (B(2005/02/01 15:14) (B (BI actually run through the mythfrontend also. The argument isn't needed as far (Bas I can remember. (B (B (B (B (B (BJohnny Lee (B (B (B-Original Message- (BFrom: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Thompson (BSent: Monday, January 31, 2005 9:12 PM (BTo: Discussion about mythtv (BSubject: Re: [mythtv-users] About mythfilldatabase (B (BOn Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:46:33 +0900, $B?A([EMAIL PROTECTED]<+Bp(B <[EMAIL (BPROTECTED] wrote: (B Dear all (B I am enjoying MythTV on Vine linux in Japan . (B (B I have one question how to set up mythfilldatabase to set up the (B MythTV . (B (B(snip) (B What is the "Argument of mythfilldatabase" ? (B (B (BThe option to run mythfilldatabase in the settings dialogs is just one (Bmethod of running mythfilldatabase. I believe most people setup a cron (Bjob for their mythtv user to run mythfilldatabase at a particular time (Bof day. For example, here's my crontab entry for user mythtv: (B (B30 03 * * * /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase (B/var/log/mythtv/mythfilldatabase.log 21 (B (BThe arguments you pass to mythfilldatabase are dependent upon your (Bguide listing source. You can get a list of the arguments by running (B"mythfilldatabase --help". (B (BHope that helps, (B (B-- (BJeff Thompson (B[EMAIL PROTECTED]___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] nvidia GeForce FX5500 card with tv out
For tv-out of SDTV, you can use a much cheaper card than that. But more to the point, I believe most versions of that card have a fan on them, which you probably don't want in an HTPC. Fans make noise, and GPU fans are small and thus noisier. In theory the FX cards have some fancier xvmc logic but I don't think that's yet exploited. It might also be in the GF4 cards though. Drivers tend to work better with the FX cards, as they test them more with the more recent cards. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I can get that card for 88 us dollars and it seems to be a good price I will look for less expensive cards but it seems the cards 20 $ less have 1/2 the memory. Jim ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
